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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-08-09
Wednesday, August 8, 1899.

BEING thwarted in his ardent desire to
have an insane asylum all to himself IN
Anoka, Brother Pease of the Anoka I'm
ion is splitting Ere against Gov. Lind.
Be calm Bro. Pease, any asylum will DO.
even ST.. Peter will open his doors for
YOU.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-08-09
Grand Street Parade at o'clock P. N. by the
Fire Department, Capt. Burg s Battery and thu
Second Regiment Band.

The very latest games and amusements
provided for.
If you appreciate the services of your
Volunteer Fire Laddies turn out and at
tend their first annual picnic.
Everybody is invited to have hot
time with the boys.
The COMMITTEE.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-08-09

The enormous enthusiasm and patrl-
otism for the Hanna Mckinley policy
shops has manifested itself by the VOL
untary offer of 10000 men, to serve as Of
fcers in our army. While recruiting Of
fees have been established in every part
of the country, it seems impossible, up
to the present time at least, to raise an
army of 10000 men, privates, to do SER
vice in the Philippines. The 10000 as
pirants for commissions in the regular
army would hesitate or directly refuse
to enlist as privates at pay of $15 per
month, but they are willing to sacrifice
themselves at $500 to $500 per year
and the shoulder straps. Strange, isn't
it, out OF population of 100000 not
even paltry 1900 patriots can be in
duced to subdue a free race.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-08-09

ADMIRAL Sampson has unmasked him.
self by a suit begun by him in the SUI
preme court last week. Sampson shows
plainly that he is after the prize money
due Admiral Schley for his participation
in the naval battle in Santiago harbor.
By wrenching the laurels of that ia
NOUS victory from Admiral schley, the
subordinate Sampson expected to gain
round sum, something like $4,000 as
commander-in in chief of the flying quad
ron. It has since been proven that
Sampson was far away from the scene
of battle, when Schley annihllated Ger
vera's fleet, but Sampson, the favorite OF
the administration still insists upon his
reward. He will get it, - in the neck.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-08-09

second year. Il falls over so, 000, 900.
short Of doing as predicted this year,
and exceeds the product of the Wilson
act in its last year by only SIC, O0O, 900.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-08-09

In slapping your revenue stamp upon
that check or express package. don't
swear at the government. Remember
you are dong your duty in order that
ex-Commissary Gen. Eagan needn't sui
fer. His wages must be paid. r.:
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-08-09

Isn't 1t truly refreshing to read in re-
publican newspapers that now since
Alger is out of the cabinet it is expected
that Gen. Miles will be permitted to re-
sumo the proper duties of his office !?
Also that the president has suggested to
his new secretary that he give due con-
sideration to the views and recommen-
dations of Gen. Miles2 And pray why
didn't the president suggest as much to
Alger2 And, why didn't he insist that
Miles, the highest military officer in the
land, be not only permitted to resume
the proper duties of his Office, but re-
CURED to do 50? And yet there are
those who insist it was Alger's fault
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-16
FRENCH AS COLONlZERS.

The French are daring and industri-
Gus explorers. AS colonizers they are
failures. They fight among themselves
at home. When they settle a colony
they soon begin to oppose the mother
country.
once they were in possession of
great tracts of North America. But
the colonies We're overrun with busting
Anglo Saxons, who built homes and
studied the markets while the French
man was asserting his authority and
making a show.
And so the colonizing work of
France in Africa has been practically
an unbroken succession of failures.
She has owned Algeria for half a cen
tury. but although this dependency is
only a days journey from France, the
latter has never yet been able to make
it self-supporting. This is true, also,
Of French Guinea. Dahomey and the
French Congo, although acquisition Of
these colonies is of more recent date
than that of Algeria. 1t has been the
same in the case of Madagascar.
The home government has been
obliged to vote heavy subsidies from
time to time to exc out the colonial
revenues. Instead of encouraging the
savages to help him, the Frenchman
would drive them with drawn sword.
Rather. than teach the native how to
work, the Frenchman expects him to
work, anyhow. When the best results
are not obtained, officials are not
changed. Additional ones are sent. In
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-16

Madagascar the functionarieS far out
number the civil population. and they
are making themselves beloved of
none. The law allows one month S
forced labor, but the officials are en-
forcing as much as six months, so the
laborers have taken to the bush, and
private employers cannot get hands to
work for them. The taxes are OPP
pressive, and in some cases downright
foolish, while trade is languishing in
consequence. The old protective idea,
which is being abandoned in this coun-
try by its former champions, is en-
forced in Madagascar. The French
have imposed differential duty which
gives French manufactures an advan-
tage of about 80 per cent. French
goods are charged per cent, and Eng
lish goods so per cent of their value.
The coasting schooners employed by
the large firms to supply their branch
trading stations have to come under
the French flag, and other nationalities
are becoming disguised and discour-
aged, and are withdrawing their cap
ieeAi. IL Is the CioSSu oooi sA's'
France adopts everywhere. 1t is the
policy of selfishness.
What is of much greater Importance,
thousands of French soldiers have per-
ished at the hands of native sayages,
or from fever, in order that France
might gain a foothold in these I'M
profitable regions. Enlightened ma
tions have little respect for power
whose colonial enterprises show no
better results.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-16
FIELD ARTILLERY NEEDS.

The navy is in excellent shape. The
army needs new head Of the war de-
partment. There has been too much
Jealousy in the former and too much
politics in the latter but on the whole
the United States is in fair fighting
trim.
Where the army is weakest on the
field is not in infantry, nor in cavalry,
but in artillery. The recent war shows
that cavalry is not depended upon as
once it was, for cavalrymen were all
turned into foot soldiers, in Cuba, as
we'll as in the Philippines.
The strengthening needed is in the
field artillery. What could have been
done at Manila without the aid of the
batteries? The last charge up the Pasis
river in a, gunboat was made effective
by the guns on board. This country is
far behind continental powers in the
possession of up-to-date pieces. Eng
land, too, is somewhat backward, and
so incessant OF late has been the
demand of British artillerists for i'm
proved weapons that the British wal
office has been forced into ordering the
designing of rapid-fire pieces. 1t is a
matter that ought to be attended to as
being of greater Importance than any
otheq. phase of the reorganization of the
army. There should be more batteries
and better guns.
The French. probably, possess the best
field artillery in EuroD0 tOday France
learned a lesson on this score as a re-
suit of the Franco-Prussian war, for in
no particular were the Germans SO
markedly superior as in field artillery.
1t was the German field artillery which
decided the fate Of more than one ac-
tion in that memorable campaign. The
field artillery of the regular army OF
the United States consists at present OF
but fourteen batteries The peace al
lowance is four guns to battery. The
war allowance is six guns.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-16

cesssons, leaving no necessity for inter
vening coneessionaires or companies.
Nicaragua is neither. frank nor friend
ly to this government, so the operations
there will require the services of a
skillful diplomatist. 1t is probable that
President Mckinley will appoint a spe-
cial envoy to visit Managua for this
purpose.
Owing to the fact that the
Panama route was included in
the compromise amendment, it
viii be possible to make much
better terms. After the treaty has been
secured the engineers of the Walker
commission will make some additions
to their survey, which was completed
last spring, to get more details and
make their position stronger.
There have already been nine surveys
by the government and citizens Of the
United States, SO that the route is very
familiar to them. The first was made
under the direction of a, syndicate COM
posed of Commodore Vanderbilt, Mar
shall Q. Roberts and other famous CAPT
talists half a century ago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-16
WORK in NICARAGUA.

While the interoceanic waterway
failed to receive any material encour-
age7nent in the last congress, the senti-
1nent of both houses, as we'll as that of
the general public, was in favor of its
construction.
Between the present time and the as
senbling of the next congress the. work
of revising all surveys and picking out
the best route to be followed viii doubt
less be carried on by the old canal COM
mission.
Admiral Walker has already devoted
considerable time to an examination of
the ground. And while he favors the
Central American project it is under
stood that the claims of Panama will
receive due attention
The compromise clause in the river
and harbor bin is broad enough to adj
init of a construction favorable to the
canal 1t is believed that the govern
ment is committed to it, although the
growing deficit and the inadequate rev.
enues made it impossible to authorize
the construction OF the canad to begin
at once.
The Maritime Canal company and Mr.
Cragin's syndicate will be sent to the
court of claims TO settle the equities in
volved in the rights and privileges of
their concessions, as no intermediate
corporations are longer thought neces-
sary.
Merely as a measure of precauton, to
guard against possible future contin-
gencies, negotiations should be opened
up, in the meantime, with Great Brit
ain for q modification Of the Clayton
Bulwer treaty. There should be no
question as to the rights of the United
States TO build and control the water
way. Our government will assume the
responsibility Of preserving peace along
the line of the canal and protecting
shipping while in transit: the neutral
ity Of the canal viii be recognized, and
we win agree not to discriminate in IA
yor of any nation in the way of tolls or
transportation facilities, 1t may be
said that such a treaty is already
agreed upon. and there is some reason
for thinking that the text has already
been prepared for signature. But it
ought to be signed, sealed and delivered
before work is started. There is no
time like the present in securing the
friendly services and cooperation of
Great Britain.
The United States should also nego-
tate with the governments of Nicara-
qua ard Costa RIGA for all needed con-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-16
WHERE PRATT BELONGS.

Without regard to party ties, the
respectable men and women of this
city are united in the hope that the
present chief of police viii be retired
70 private life. His presence at the
head of the force has been accompanied
by dissensions among the men under
him, by the use of the force for politi-
cal purposes, by incessant litigation
and useless expense to the taxpayers.
Policemen and detectives. paid by the
city, have been utilized to collect in
formation for the furtherance of pri-
waite grudges. In the most fragrant in
stance according to their own evil
dence, these officers of the law planned
TO aid a man in the commission of a
serious crime. And their chief approved
the plan.
After telling how the game was out
lined, how a peep-hole was arranged in
the room to which he meant to decoy
his victim, Representative Law testi-
fed as follows as to his talk with
Chief Pratt on the night before his
famous Montana sensation" was
sprung:
Can you tell Sus anything that Chief
Pratt said that evening?
Yes. sir
What?
i can tell about the first thing that he
said to me: he said that he had been en-
deavoring to get a case of this kind; IN
fact he had got wind of one, but that he
had failed to work it out. or that the Eel
low backed down
Mcclure didn't bite?
No. he didn't say McCune didn't bite.
Well. the fellow failed to work it?
Somebody didn't have nerve enough to
What else did he say that you can tell
us? =,
the matter that / did.
You had already made up your MIND TO
do that hadn't you?
Provided ! could get his assistance;
You were urging him; you wanted MS
assistance?
l didn't urge him in any way whatever.
The evidence, on its face, furnishes
all the proof that is needed of Pratt
unftness for any office in the police de-
partment. Instead Of seeking to enforce
law. he was trying to encourage the
commission of a crime. According TO
Law. the chief said that he had been
endeavoring to get a case of this kind,
but the fellow backed down.
With such a precedent as a basis of
operations. how long would any mans
character be safe from "a case of this
kind" with Pratt in charge of the po-
lice force, if it pleased him to conceive
another such plan?
Mayor Clark and the. council probably
know public sentiment on the subject,
and If they regard it. Pratt will retire
ia nrivate life. where he belongs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-16
CHINESE IN THE PHILIPPINE s.

| The Industrious residents of the Phil
| ippines, as is the case in Hawaii, are
| the Chinese. There are full-blood and
| half-breed Cinnamon all over those
eastern archipeiagoes. And there will
| be a veritable tide of Chinese immigra-
| ton set in when the present disturb
ances are settled.
For a century the Chinese have
sought for opportunities to emigrate
from their over-populated country
without finding any promising ones. 1t
is true that thousands of the lower
| classes have left their country under
contracts to do labor of the hardest
kind, and under desperate conditions,
but never to find homes. This does not
mean that multitudes Of the Chinese
have not found dwelling places in many
lands, where they have been stranded,
or into which they have worked their
way.
While nearly all nations have opened
their doors to Chinese trade, they have
not extended a welcome to the people
themselves. They have met with re-
buff wherever they sought business
chances The United States has been
about the most lenient With them Of
! any nation. Another thing has oper-
ated against their branching out; their
own government and people were very
averse to emigration, but both have
changed during the last quarter of a
century, and now they need only pro-
] lection to bring them in great numbers
to any country that will receive them.
They are good farmers and gardeners,
and understand all the products OF the
! latitude of the Philippines. Without
encroaching upon the present popula-
ton they would reproduce in Luzon
and Mindanao, the fertile provinces of
Ho-nan and KWaag-tung, which have
been the wonder of travellers who have
penetrated China
Chinese industry, especially in out
door pursuits, is about the only kind
one can find in oriental tropics, any
how. They should not be barred from
those islands even if they are retained
by the United States. Upon Chinese
industry and thrift, protected and gov
erned by some power of civilization, de-
ponds the reclamation of the devas-
tated and neglected archipelago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-16
WIVES OF THE DIPLOMATS.

Official women are not SO popular, or
rather they are not so common in other
countries as. they are in the United
States.
This is especially noticeable in the
diplomatic corps at Washington. There
are no ladies at the German, French
or Italian embassies, nor at the lega-
tons of Holland, Sweden and Norway,
Guatemala, Austria Hungary, Switzer-
land, Denmark, Ecuador, Peru, Japan,
Turkey, Nicaragua or Belgium, al
though Nine. Lichtervelde, the wife of
the Belgian minister, is there the great
er part of the season.
In the recognition of women to do the
honors of various occasions the Anglo
Saxons show another similarity of ideas.
The British ambassador has a wife and
four daughters and the Russian am
bassador has a daughter, who made
her first appearance in society last
winter
Spanish American diplomats are
nearly all accompanied by their fami-
lies. The women are attractive and
popular. Miss Andrade, who presides
at the Venezuelan legation, the Wis
countess de Santo Thyrso, wife of the
Portuguese minister, and Sonora Me-
rou, wife of the Argentine minister, are
among the most beautiful women in
Washington. Sonora Assis Brazil, wife
of the Brazilian minister, 6. bride spend
ing her first winter in Washington is
very attractive woman. Sonora Moria
Vicuna, the wife of the Chilean min
lister, is also stranger at the capital
Sonora Calvo, wife of the Costa Rican
minister, and Sonora Godoy, wife of
the charge of Mexico, have lived in
America a good many years and are
thoroughly acquainted. while Sonora
Rengifo, wife of the Colombian minis
ter, is a native of Washington. These,
with the wives of Haitian, Korean and
Chinese ministers, are the only ladies
in the diplomatic corps.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-16
TRADE WITH CANADA.

1t is not right to overlook our inter
ests nearer home in reaching out fol
commercial opportunities, even to the
uttermost parts of the earth.
There is door to an adjoining room
which might be opened. There is q
trade in Canada we ought to cultivate
1t is better market for the United
States than all the tropics, and this is
not written III disparagement of their
golden promise, either.
But common sense should be consult
ed in this as in every other economic
question. In seeking for foreign mar
kets it is necessary to bear in mind, il
the effort is to be of industrial value.
that we can sell only to those who want
what we produce, and, other things be-
ing equal, the higher the range of civil
lization the larger is the demand for all
classes of manufactured wares.
There is trade on our own continent
worthy of our national consideration
But of all the countries of the western
hemisphere the most valuable to deal
with is the Dominion of Canada We
sold last year to the people of that
country, for their own consumption
nearly $4,000, 900 of our products, or on
per capita basis about $3.50 for every
man, woman and child.
This may not seem such an enormous
amount on the face of it, but in order to
appreciate what it implies it is neces-
sary to compare this demand for our
wares with that which has existed in
the countries of the American CONT
nent to the south OF US. Our entire
sales in South America were approx
mately on the basis Of one dollar per
capita, so that it may fairly be said
that we disposed of more American
products to the five millions of people
living in the Dominion of Canada than
we sold to all of the inhabitants of
South and Central America.
There are reasons for these condi
tions> Canada is inhabited by a high
ly civilized people, who have numerous
wants and relatively large means. More
than this, their tastes are closely in ac-
cord with ours, hence the goods which
we manufacture for ourselves are those
which they find best suited to their own
needs And they do not begin to sup
ply their own demands, especially of
manufactured articles. Then here is the
place to cut an open door" \ great
conservative trade cannot be developed
among a people of few wants and small
means
The joint high commission which sig
nally failed to accomplish anything in
this direction, was called together in
the hope that the present administers
ton had become anxious enough for
trade expansion to practice it on our
next door neighbors, but the work of
the commission in this direction threat
ems to be materially curtailed, if it is
not thwarted by the opposition of a
few special interests. 1t was the in
iuence Of special interests that framed
the present tariff law, and those. are
the interests that would lock the door
to commercial intercourse with Can
ada while building up fortunes on con-
cessions obtained in other parts of the
world, or in trading where the differ
ence between selling prices on the home
market and those on the foreign mar
ket are not so noticeable.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-16
ADJUSTMENTS.

One of the most pleasing operas Of
the engagement was given by the Grau
company last night While "Falka''
affords but little opportunity for solo
work. the airs are catchy and pleasing,
and the ensemble work unusually eff
fective The plot, dealing with the girl
in boys clothes, and vice versa, is
very funny, and Mr.. Davies in skirts
succeeded in making himself exceed
ingly comical to the audience, although
the admirers of this excellent tenor
found the sight rather homogeneous.
Miss Harrington in boys clothes looked
stunning and sustained her lyric por-
ton WELL Miss Darlington had little
to do, but introduced a very pretty
solo, Mr.. Young as Tancred, the
scope for his comic tendencies. Mr..
Frederick was imposing in appearance,
and toyed with a German dialect. The
two gypsies were done by Miss Myers
and Mr.. Langlois, who were good in
the action required by the parts. Stan
ley Fetch was the bright, particular
star of the evening, and the audience
seemed never to get enough of his top
ical songs. He is well able to hold his
own among comedians of comic opera,
and has made a big hit in Salt Lake.
"Fallla' will be repeated tonight.
A large audience is expected at the
Methodist church tonight, the occasion
being the appearance of Mr.. Arthur
Looming, monologist. A very interest
ing programme has been arranged,
with a variety of selections, from
Shakespeare to Richard Harding Da-
Wis. Mr.. Loining comes with the high
est endorsements of the press, and the
affair will certainly be worth while.
% @ @
The following from the New York
Herald of last Saturday will be inter
esting to Miss Bateman's friends in
this city:
Miss Victory Bateman, an actress,
who was taken to a sanitarium at
Stamford, Conn.,, two months ago suf
fering from acute mania, the result of
overStudy, has almost completely re-
covered, and the physician in charge
of the institution thinks there is no
reason why she should not resume her
stage work at an early date
The Wonder Millinery company will
give grand spring opening reception,
commencing or Wednesday, March 10.
20 West First South street, Mccormick
block.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-16
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
Yesterdays Record at the Local Of.
fee of Lne Weather Bureau.

Salt Lake City. Utah, March Is, 1899
Maximum temperature % degrees min
imum temperature, "a degrees; mean tenn
Derature, 43 degrees which is / degree
above the normal; accumulated deficiency
OF temperature since 1st of month de-
greeS; accumulated excess of temDera-
ture since jan. l, 81 degrees, Total pre-
cinitation from 6 D. m to u. M. trace:
accumulated excess of precipitation since
1st of the month, 81 inch: accumulated
excess OF precipitation since Jan. 1, Isl
inches.
LOCAL FORECAST
The following is the local forecast Of
the weather for today: Snow; stationary
temperature. i. ii. MURDOCH,
Section Director. Weather Bureau.