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The times., 1899-08-25
FRIDAY. AUGUST IS. 1883.
A Defiance of Public Sentiment.

As IL is plain enough that for one reason
or another. the Administration is detsrmin-
ed to protect Captain Carter and prevent
his more than nominal punishment. we do
not need to quarrel with the conclusion
which Attorney General Griggs has an
nouncsd-
He says that he viii not attempt 10 reach
q decision until after the conyict's chief
counsel Wayne MacYeagh, has a chance to
get back from Europe and make an argu-
ment before him We are glad that Griggs
is SO frank and exposes the hand of the
conspiracy 10 defeat justice and disgrace
the Army so clearly.
He may think that his pronunciamento
VIII still public outcry, and satisfy the
country that as long as this foul scandal is
under his extra legal control and eontem-
plation nothing more viii be said on the
subject. II this is his idea il is wrong.
To bsgin with. the Interference of Griggs
in the Carter affair is ultra wires, without
precedent, indecent, and outrageous. He
has as much business to pass upon the
record as George r.. Edmunds had, and
no more. The case Is as properly refera-
bse 70 the Secretary OF the Treasury, whose
Golfers were robbed. or 10 the Postmaster
General on the ground that Carter is a
male. as 10 the Attorney General, who has
not the slightest right in law or custom TO
NEEDLE with IT. He is not the legal ad-
wiser Of the Commander-in-Chie on ques-
tons Of military Jurisprudence. The latter
is compelled by every consideration of JUS
tice and propriety TO look TO the Judge
Advocate General in such matters
In other words. Griggs. in connection With
the Garter case. is nothing more than
private attorney. He has no possible au-
thority TO hand down a decision" He is
only subtsrfuge resorted TO by those who
would shield convicted friend of the
Administration. 10 shield him from the just
consequences Of his crimes
The times., 1899-08-25
The Revelation,

From the indianapolis News)
No event OF this year, 1898. that has been so
pregnant with events, is clearer or more momen-
tous than Americas discovery of herself. With
out intention, and to large degree without
preparation, events have forced US to become a
world power. page Of our history was
turned when we resolved TO call Spain to ac-
count. In a few hours at Manila the guns of
Dewey awoke this nation to new destiny and
evoked for it new responsibilities. Amid all the
revelation that this entailed, the most valuable
perhaps is that which showed US that our mission
in the world and our achievement in it are as
part of the great Anglo-Saxon race; that in our
way, or rather in the way of that destiny that
shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we viii, -
are constrained to bring liberty-the Anglo
Saxon idea OF liberty, peace and order-which
means self government, and individual develop
ment-elsewhere in the earth than at home
The times., 1899-08-25
Scientific punixhn,enf.

There is a certain crime-the one that
leads to most lynchings-a which a
family newspaper naturally dislikes to
speak in plain terms. Yet it is becoming
too prevalent altogether to ignore. We are
reminded of the necessity to call some at
tention TO it by the arrest, yesterday, of a
person charged with its perpetration.
Here in Washington there is not the
slightest doubt that the law will always
be allowed to take its course. Over the
Montgomery county line it would probably
be different, and this fact almost ineites
good people in the District of Columbia to
wish that, if such offences must be, they
might occur within the jurisdiction of
Maryland and not that of the General Gov
ernment.
The only excuse for such a sentiment is
that, under our criminal code, the punish
ment is not severe enough as a deterrent to
the crime
The times., 1899-08-25
The Trnnsvaaps Riches.
(Frcm the Minneapolis Tribune.)


The wonderful richness of the Transvaal renders
the exclusive policy OF the Beers simply impossi-
BILE. General Joubert says, plaintivey, that if
gold hadn't been discovered in his country his
people would have been let alone, and this is
probably true. But gold discovered there,
and the Beers themselves did not manifest much
disposition % develop the mines. Enterprising
''Uitlandcr.'' in, and still coming, and
it will be impossible to keep them out SO long as
there are vast fortunes in precious metals and
stones TO tempt them. Engineers have already
measured by means of diamond drills gold de-
post within a few miles Of Johannesburg amount
iig to mere than three thousand millions of dol
lars Aside from that, according TO Mr. Daniel
Belief, who writes to a French paper the Trans
vaal has iron, cobalt, copper, argentiferous lead
ores in abundance, diamonds, and important coal
measures in convenient proximity for TIE work
ing Of the metals
The times., 1899-08-25
The Dreyfus Trial.

In the Dreyfus court-martiaI nothing
new has transpired. save some further
achievements OF Maitre Lzbori in the way
of making the prosecution ridiculous He
has jammed Mercier and the other head
quarters conspirators into the corner a
little tighter, and rendered the case against
Captain Dreyfus a triie more ridiculous
than il was a day before Otherwise, there
is nothing in yesterdays session Upon
which to found any fresh comment.
The trial drags along as the court-mar-
tial and the STAFF perjurers intend it shall,
hoping against hope that something will
turn up to pull them out OF the hole OF
defeat and ridicule which they occupy, to
the disgust Of the civilized world. Only
one thing seems TO develop clearly, and
that is. that. IL Captain Dreyfus is not
murdered first and speedily, he will have
TO be acquitted. In the latter event, the
galleys VIII yawn for Mercier, Roget,
BoisdefTre, and Gonse.
The times., 1899-08-25
Germany,s Political Crisis.


The Prussian Ministry, which has unanimously
agreed TO resign, should not be eonfOunded with
the German Imperial Cabinet. The latter is
distinct body, answerable to the King Of PT's-
sia in his capacity as German Kaiser, and re-
sponsibIe to him only for the acts Of the Inpe-
rial Reichstag Nevertheless the relations between
the Prussian and the Imperial Cabinet are very
close Two members of the former are also meE-
bers OF the latter-Prince Won Hohenlohe being
President OF the Prussian Council Of Ministers
Gas have been aII of his predecessors in that Of
fee since the foundation Of the Empirel and also
Imperial Chancellor. while the Prussian Secre-
tary of the Interior. Count Posad0wsky Wehner.
is also the chief Of the Imperial Home Office and
Vice Chancellor. Moreover. there IS no Imperial
Minister Of War. the obligation to steer army
bills through the ReiehSsag falling the Chief
Of the Prls5ian War Office. The resignation Of
the Prussian Ministry viii, therefore. involve
reconstruction Of the German Imperial Cabinet.
and the administrative crisis in Prussia will neces-
sarily bring a ministerial crisis in the En-
piFe at large aud compel the appointment Of
new Chancellor
The times., 1899-08-25
Throwing Up Their Hats.
(FIom the Boston Globe.)

NfIUIH INC bustOH uIUUe.I
great many politicians breathed easier yes
terday afternoon. At last it definitely known
that Hon. Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, had for
warded to Governor Powers his formal resigna-
tion as Representative, to date from September 4
next 1.-The czsr has abdica tedl'' exclaimed more
than one jubilant politician. The Henderson
boom had made il practically certain that new
man would sit in the Speakers chair, but Tom
Reed was recognized power, whether or not
he welded the gavel. The prospect that he might
retain his desk and take leading part in the
proceedings Of the next Congress may have been
viewed with complacency by Demo-
cratic Congressman, in view OF the Maine mans
known antagonism to the policy Of the Admins
tration regarding the Philippines, but most Re-
publican legislators shivered at the possibilities
Of the situation should Reed determine to stick
The times., 1899-08-25

All hail to the benevolent assinilative-
ness of the diplomacy of Bates. The Sui
tan of Suiu has signed the compact that
viii make him the faithful subject and ally
of William the Good All religions will be
respected in his tributary dominions. Nor
mon elders viii be allowed to preach with
out the risk of tar and feathers. Firearms
will be barred in Sulu; and, the natives
being Mussulmans, they viii not require
frewater. Abdul Hanna will fly the Stars
and Stripes from the masthead of his
harem and become just as good an Ameri-
can citizen as could be scared up in Salt
Lake City
The times., 1899-08-25
Germany in the TransvaaI.

II is stated that two hundred Germans in
johannesburg have offered to volunteer for
service in the Boar army, provided they
are allowed to form separate corps. As
these people are subjects of the Kaiser
Empire. their action is totally inexcusable
under International law, and, if not de-
nounced by the Government at Berlin,
would furnish the British Cabinet with a
grievance that might easily become casus
beIli. in the absence of a denunciation
which would render the persons implicated
simply outlaws.
We can hardly credit the story, yet there
have been indications that the Germans
in the Rand have been rather inclined to
help the hurghers than the people with
whom their material interests would seem
TO be identiied. If they are acting upon
their own initiative, it will be easy for the
German Government to disavow response
bility If they are not, there may be a
very serious complication in the South Afri-
can situation. the consequences of which
it would be impossible to foresee.
The times., 1899-08-25
In Pcrsnectiye.

(From the st. Louis Globe -Delnocrat)
The successes which are being gained by the
rebels in the Dominican Republic make the out
look rather black for the Government of that
country. 1t is rot at all improbable that the
rebels may ultimately be victorious The outside
world, nevertheless, is not evincing any profound
interest in the rebellion. Uprisings are so fire.
quent in the Latin-American region south Of
Mexico that the rest of the world has ceased
getting excited over them. The situation in this
particular island. however. gives a sort OF fore
taste of what would be likely to happen in Cuba
if the United States should withdraw its troops A
more destructive conflict than any which ever
occurred during Spain's occupation would prob
ably take place within short time after the
American soldiers got out OF the island. If they
should leave it, This is one of the reasons why
a large majority of the Cubans will vote for an
nexation when the day comes for the people OF
the island to make a choice OF their future gov
ernment
The times., 1899-08-25
Shadows In France.
CFrom the Hartford courant.)

(trom the Hartford Courant.)
French republicanism shades of very swiftly
into radicalism, and radicalism into socialism,
and socialism into red anarchy with its motto:
Neither God nor MASTER" Once let the great
French middle class, with money in the bank,
and hope of adding to it, become fully con-
vinced that the present government cannot be
relied upon to hold down the dangerous classes,
TO keep Montmartre and Bellviile out OF the bou-
leyards, and the end OF the prgent government win
not be far off 1t was a conviction Of that kind
in the bourgeois mind in 1851 which made easy
the coup d'etat of Louis Napoleon, as Walter
Bagehot pointed out in his Paris letters at the
time. $50 many and so great elements of con-
wnlsion exist here he wrote in the last of them
February 10, 1852, THAT it viii be clearly nee
essary that a strong, vigorous, anti-barricade ex
ecutive should, at whatever risk and cost, be es-
tablished and maintained"
The times., 1899-08-25

The miseries of Porto Rico are under
stood to have engaged the attention of
President Mckinley and his advisers at
Lake Chsmplain, and it is said that a
decision was reached not to extend any as
sistance in the way OF moderating Ding
ley tariff oppression. The trouble appears
10 be that any executive action in the way
OF relief would offend the Eastern combi-
nations interested in keeping Porto Rican
products out of the American market, no
matter at what cost TO our unfortunate
islanders. So the Administration, on cam
paign contribution grounds, thinks it better
politics to let the Porto Ricans suffer, and
relegate the whole subject TO Congress
where the trusts and monopolies will have
full opportunity to get in their work, al
though that course will be much more
expensive than if they could settle the mat
ter without legislation.
The times., 1899-08-25
CAMDEN TO RE-ENTER POLITICS
To Start Newspaper and Try Again
for the Senate.

Parkersburg. w. Va. Aug. 24.-The
Morning Press a Democratic daily
which will begin publication here next
week Is said to be backed by former Sen
ator j. N Camden and Henry S. Wilson.
The report is that MIR. Camden intends to
re-enter politics, and will give Elkins a
fight for his seat in the Senate during the
next campaign. and that Mr.. Wilson. who
dead-locked the last Democratic Congress
sional convention in the district and was
beaten for the nomination by George l.
Neal, will again try for the nomination.
Senator Camden will turn over the man
agement of the West Virginia and Pitts
burg Railroad to the Baltimore and Ohio
Company on September l. and is said TO be
arranging TO dispose of the Monogah line
TO the same company. When the Monogah
deal is closed he will be entirely out of
the railroad business, of which he has beea
the principal promoter in West Virginia.
He will retain his coal properties, to whi n
he is making large additions.
The times., 1899-08-25
john Brown and the secretary

A story in the New York papers yes
terday stated that the President and Gov
ernor Roosevelt had been Invited 10 at
tend the ceremonies at Mount Elba, N Y.
incidental to the reinterment Of the bodies
OF seven OF the Harper's Ferry raiders by
the side OF their old chieftaIn, John Brown.
While We cannot believe that either Mr..
Mckinley or Mr.. Roosevelt would or could
with propriety accept such an invitation,
there is no reason why the people in
charge OF the function should not ask them
10 give IL the prestige OF their presence.
II they feel so inclined. II is quite an
other matter TO be told that Secretary Root
has ordered detail from the Twenty-sIxth
Infantry 10 fire a salute over the graves.
and we distinctly decline to believe anv
such nonsense.
Without the least desire to resurrect the
rancOr that preceded or grew out of the
John Brown outbreak. we must say that
IL would be ridiculous folly and down
right outrage for any person connected
With this or any other Administration TO
accord Official notice to commeInorations
OF the kind referred to-
Whatever may be individual ideas as TO
the motives which actuated Brown and
his companions in assaulting the arsenal
al HarDer's Ferry. arfning negro slaves
in the vicinity. committing a breach of
the peace. and killing several persons who
had never done harm TO their assailants,
In the eyes OF the Law. which every decent
citizen Is bound 10 respect. the old man OF
ossawotonie and his followers we're Just
common everyday rioters and murderers
The excited sentiment OF one section of
the country In part sympafhized with their
defiance OF good order and the Government
The times., 1899-08-25
SERIOUS RUSSIAN FAILURE.
Grave Fears Aroused by the suspen-
sion of NJ. Vonderwefss.

London. Aug 24.-The Leader today
publishes a despatch from it's st. Peters
burg correspondent saying that the sus-
pension of NJ. Vonderweiss. millionaire
of that city, has produced depressing ef-
feet on the bourse and in financial circles
His capital was estimated TO have been be-
tween fifty and sixty million rubles from
81, coo, 900 to $50 800, ,000), but after his
debts are paid he will hardly have left six
million rubles CSC, ,000, ,000) His fortune was
largely sunk in group of undertakings,
each one supporting the other. He re-
garded one Of the most extensive systems
of railroads in Russia as his own, and he
was connected with this road and with
number OF steamers plying on the Volga
and the Caspian Sea, a machine factory.
an insurance company. cement factory,
and number OF smaller concerns among
other interests.
1t is thought that the failure is likely to
ruin many other large houses, including
that of a Moscow capitalist named Mamou-
toff, who has suspended for p. .0o0, 900 ru-
bles (s12, 900 ,0O0).
The times., 1899-08-25
CALLS 1T SPITEWoRK.
A Candidate for Reeds Seat I'm Con-
zress Sues for SIunder

Biddeford, Me, Aug. 24-WiIIiam A.
Roberts. a Democratic aspirant for Thomas
B. Reeds seat in Congress, figured today
in the dual role of defendant in action for
embezzlement and plaintiff in a S., 900
slander suit against his aecuser. George A.
GuptiiI of Portland The hearing on the
criminal charge was held in the municipal
court room. The writ served In the civil
suit is retuTnable ar the September term
of Supreme Court. Both actions are an
outgrowth of Mr. Roberts attempt to re-
viye the Biddeford DAILY Times a free
silver organ. which he ran over two years
ago. Mr.. GuptiIl loaned him $500 and
took a mortgage on the plant Last April
Roberts and Guptill began TO organize
corporation and started the newspaper.
The process Of incorporation was never
completed, and Mr.. GuptiIl. as treasurer.
finds himself personally responsible for the
outstanding bills His complaint is that
he gave Roberts $50 to defray all expenses
OF Incorporation, and that the money was
never expended for that purpose Mr.
Roberts admitted the receipt OF the check
but declared that no restrictions were
pIacd on the use OF its proceeds He says
the action was brought just at this time
to spoil his Congressional chances.
The times., 1899-08-25
An unfenrea snectre.

(From the Kansas City Star.)
Militarisrn is word with an impressive sound.
1t has become popular and there are persons who
have used it so often that they believe the
United States is really and truly threatened by
it. They seesthe people trodden under foot by
the iron foot of arrogant and cruel military
caste There is militarism in all countries which
have conscript armies, but there is none in Eng
land and there never and never will be any
in the United States. In 1S65-66 the United
States had one million soldiers under arms. No
militarisin came of this enormous rmy-far vaster
than any European standing army of today. II
an army of one million men, among a population
Of twenty nilhons,s did not produce militarism,
how can an army Of 100000. among seventy-fye
millions ride roughshod the people?
The times., 1899-08-25

So Sampson, the mule man of MatanZas.
is not 10 go to sea and welcome the great
Admiral on his return TO American waters,
1t is well. There would be sense and pro-
priety in delegating such a task to the
victor of Santiago; but, of course, the Navy
ring would never hear of that. Except in
the single case OF Dewey, the Navy Depart
ment is engaged in giving the credit of the
service during the Spanish war 10 people
who never saw it. The worst record an
officer can have, if he wants a good sea
command, is one which shows him to have
been actually in fight against Cervera, and
not behind the eastern horizon with the
contemplate Sampson
The times., 1899-08-25
The TreaeIe i'm the Treason.

According to Mr.. Andre, Belgian Consul
at Manila, the mass of even the Tagal
tribe now in rebellion, do not want inde-
pendence, but they are dragooned into
fighting by Aguinaldo and a few leaders,
who desire the kind of independence"
which would enable them TO establish a
despotism over their own and al the other
tribes in the archipelago.
Their attractive Atkinsonian, Boston
junta conception of liberty is exemplihed
in the conduct of Aguinaldo when he be-
headed prominent Filipino who attempt
ed to plead with him to make peace with
the United States. 1t was illustrated again
in his massacre of the natives at Candaba
who had their throats cut for decently
treating the American officers and soldiers
who took and abandoned that place.
The opinion of foreign officials and mer-
chants resident in Luzon is that not one
half of one per cent of the island People
want this country to abandon its soYer-
eighty, or its scheme of civilization The
other ninety-nine and half hundredths
would consider ii fate worse than death
TO be turned over to the slavery and
butchery which would be their lot under
the rule of the leading Malay mutineers.
But what do Atkinson, Hoar, George
Fred Williams, Eliot Norton, Schurz, AM
the late Grover Cleveland care for small
thing like that TIE development of the
Philippine Islands is obnoxious to them
and their hidden associates for the same
reason that they opposed Hawaiian annex
alton. They do not want any addition TO
the free sugar producing territory of the
Union. Eliminate the factor of sugar from
the equation, and we should hear little
long distance Tagal philanthropy from the
New England treason mill
The times., 1899-08-25
Passing Symbols.

From The Memphis Scimetar.)
The man who walks along the city's streets
cannot fail to notice the passing of the old-style
initiative sign. Years ago there was a symbol for
every trade, and it not necessary to scan the
signboards closely to tell the business which was
carried on in that particular establishment Keys
hung over the sidewalk to tell OF the locksmith
inside, guns similarly poised spoke Of gunmakers
wooden Indians stood in stolid indifference in
front of cigar stands, and carved boot WAS
ready 10 make or repair footgear- So it was
with dozen other trades. Now only the boot
maker has retained the custom, and even he is
fast abandoning it, The day of the symbolic sign
is passing.
The times., 1899-08-25
THE PRUss1AN CABINET CRISIS.
designations Not Accepted - Reor-
ganixation Likely Later.

Berlin. Aug. 24.-Your correspondent
here learns that Emperor William has Ie-
fused to accept the Prussian Cabinets res
ignation- Later. however. a partial reor-
ganization of the ministry will be made.
The position of DR.. Won MIGUEL the Vice
President OF the Council OF Ministers and
Prussian Minister of Finance. is as strong
as ever. and this shows the improbability
of dissolution.
The Emperor. despite the recent events
which greatly affect his estimation of the
Conservative members of the Cabinet, is
unwilling to have complete rupture with
the Conservatives. The political alliance
which the Freisinnige leaders and press
offers him seems to be unacceptable.
Another session of the Prussian Crown
Council will be held tomorrow, at which
the wish of Prince Hohenlohe the Impe-
rial Chancellor, for a dissolution wi be
discussed. 1t Is regarded as doubtful that
Prince Hohenlohe will make this matter
Cabinet question.
The times., 1899-08-25
GiraTes Becoming Rare.

(From the New York Evening Post9
In British Central Africa, although it was
supposed that giTaffes were 70 be found along the
Loangwa River. authentic information had
been obtained until recently, when giraffe was
shot by a European prespector in the Marimba
district, and its skin sent to army officer,
who has now shipped it to the British Museum.
The existence of the giraffe in MaEimbo is con-
sdered remarkable. the area in which they are
found being very limited. and the number Of ami
mails seems 10 be very small. When the in
question was shot, a herd OF about thirty five
was seen. The nearest distance north Of Nlarimba
in which giraffes are known to exist is north
of Marcres, while on the south, Matabeleiand is
the nearest giraffe country.
The times., 1899-08-25
Mining Under the Sea.
From the New York Evening Post. }

(From the New YORK Evening Post-1
In England as is well known the resources
Of the mining engineer often taxed To their
utmost in the endeayor 70 work coal and iron
mines or a paying basis The latest instance Of
this Is Afforded at the HodbsTrow iron mines in
Cumberland, where it is proposed to build a large
embanknent, to keep the sea out OF the work
ings OF the mines Ten years ago wall was bsIi
costing more than SG0o. 900; but the proposed
work will go much furthur out in the water. and
VIII be $3.50 yards (3-5 miles) IN length. encios-
ing large tract of land. under which the iron
mines viii be worked The ore here il a rich
one. and we'll worth the enormous outlay OF
money required. il has been proved 70 exist
in vast quantities. The estimated cost Of the
new wosa IS $z,500.0o0.