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The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-15
PROHIBITION UNION.
W. L. Humbert Advises Factions to
Get Together.

The Nationalist state central commit
tee, one of the branches of the prohibi-
tion party, has issued the following:
To the Voting Public:
In 1896 the Nationalist party in Kan
sas supported Bently and Southgate for
president and vice president. The pro-
hibition party in nominating w. A. Pef-
fer, a silverite, for governor in 1898,
practically abandoned the gold stand
ard While the Nationalist committee
did not officially indOrse this candidacy,
as did the Libertyites and Union Re
form, vet they individually approved it
and did not consider it wise to detract
therefrom. However, as there is now
practically no differences among the
prohibition forces Of the state, we take
pleasure in proposing unity and mar
mOny of action under the name of Law
and Order to hold the balance of pow
er at the ballot box and where neither
old party puts out proper candidates.
pledged to the especial enforcement of
the Kansas prOhibitOry law then let IN
dependent ones of known principles and
50 pledged be nominated and voted for,
as was j. F. White, for sheriff of Shaw
nee county. This policy was doubtless
fOreShadOWed in the fOllOWlnS
I1eaVenwOrth, Kan, Oct. 25.-MOnt
Williams of LeavenwOrth county, chief
prophet of the Prohibition party in
Kansas, believes that his party is max
ing its last stand this fall QS98) and
that it Will die after the NOVemb Der
election, and in 1900 be born again. This
rejuvenated force will not have an eye
single to the destruction of the drink
demon alone, but will contain all the
moral reforms that have struggled
vainly for recognition in the old par
ties. and in 1900 will sweep the state
Kansas City Daily Star.
IeavenwOrth Daily Times: Mont
Williams and NJ. n. Butler, propose to
continue their work and a strong com
mittee OF volunteer workers Will be or
ganized to every part of the state to be
reached direct by mail. Mr.. Butler
has had perhaps the widest newspaper
interview of any man in the state
When seen by a reporter he said; our
bureau will gather up and disseminate
Information. And while special atten-
tion will be given to the prohibitory
laws, other questions viii be dealt with
and receive proper attention.
To this end and as nucleus for agt-
tation and education, we commend the
declaration of principles so widely dis
seminated by the Law and Order Bu-
reau. This remarkable platform is com
prehensive and worthy the careful con-
SideratiOn of every patriotic vote On
the whole, it is bound to create senti-
ment that will crystalize into action and
organization. 1t has already reached
over 5000 people in Shawnee county at
the lowest estimate. A call will prob
ably soon be issued for union Of reform
forces along this line. The discussion is
! already state wide.
NJ. y. Butler has been requested to
act as secretary for the Nationalist
committee until our next regular meet
ing and will be in the field throughout
the state in the interest Of the Law
and Order movement. Let all who are
interested, address him or the under
signed at Topeka
W. L HUMBERT.
Chairman Kansas Nationalist Com
Tnittee.
| December sth, 1899.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-15
HER MISTAKEN PRIDE.

IN. Y. Cor. Baltimore American
The neighbors saw the worn body
and haggard. death-marked face Of
John Williams. and wondered. day by
day when the end would come. They
saw his wife lead him frim their dingy
little rooms in the tenement at No 433
Hicks street Brooklyn, to the street
for a gasp of fresh air, and return to
take a few mOuthfuls of such food as a
dying man could swallow
Then, for a week, the cOnsumptive
and his wife were lost in view The
neighbors said that the Williamses had
probably changed their home for poor
er quarters, if such change were pos
sible- The dreadful pathos of it all was
unknown until the poor woman stopped
Policeman O'Connen on his beat yes
terday afternoon. and said: He is
deadi He is deadY'
Who is dead2'' the policeman asked
Why, 1t is John. she answered, in a
dazed way. John. my husband" Then
The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-15
HOLIDAY RATES


Between points west of Missouri river
within two hundred miles of selling sta
tickets at one fare for the round trip
on December %, "a, 25 80 and 81. 1899
and January L 1900. Final limit January
2. 1900. Through tickets from points
west of Missouri river to local points
east of Missouri river whose distance
apart shall not exceed the two hundred
miles limit will be sold for the sum of
the one fare and one fare and one-third
respectively. For tickets, folders and
other information apply to T. L. King,
Agent, Topeka, Kan.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-15
a Witohoraft School in Paris

CParis Cor. of the Pan Mall Gazette
a school of very curious order is to
be opened in Paris today. Its founders
offer to initiate whoever is possessed of
the necessary dose of patience, and per
haps of credulity. into the mysteries of
occultism, into the arcana of black
magic There are persons. they opine,
even in these latter and sceptical days.
who would like TO follow in the foot
steps of a Paracelsus or Trismegistus,
and for the benefit of these inquiring
souls they have started a complete
course of sorcery and witchcraft. of as
trology and the other hermetic
The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-15

and had only strength before he closed
his eyes to brain a. dog that intruded on
his dying agOnies.
Reanier is a tall man, but beside the
victim of his skill and courage he is a
pygmy. The skin of the big lion has been
tanned and now hangs gorgeous dec
oration on the wall of Reanier's office in
CapitOla- There are more lions in these
regions for the man who dareS.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-15

made stone blind by stings near the
eye. The Arctic foothill mosquito is
without doubt the most terrible insect
pest in the world
The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-15
Bird Friends Of a Boston Policeman.

IF'rom the Boston Evening Record.
On short street leading from wash
ingtOn street every noon there is little
occurrence in which a policeman figures
and which attracts the attention Of many
paSSerSby. The officer comes there to
ring in a duty call and then gets some
peanuts from a nearby stand and begins
to whistle. In moment dozens Of pig
cons begin circling around him. and he
shells the peanuts: holds out his hand.
and the pigeons light his arm and
hand and eat as many peanuts as they
can get. One brown one is particularly
tame and greedy, and will eat a pint Of
them, the officer says Many people come
there every noon to watch the little show.
Never judge an actors salary by the
size Of his name on the programme. He
may be the financial hacker of the
show.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-13

when acquired, Il may be taken into the Union
by the Constitution as II now STANDS, wiz III. Iii
come a. question Of expedency. tnnk !, w.
ne safer not to permit the enlargement OF tho
Union but by amendment OF the Constitut'o"'
II appears, then, that even Jefferson. with all
his doubts, was questioning merely whether
new States could be made, not whether no couiu
acquire and govern subject territory; and to
Justify taking them into the Union and to guard
against future abuse by less conscientious men,
which was his bugbear, he wanted an amend
ment But his followers among the strictest OF
tho strict construction theorists would not agree
Macon. Nicholson and Rodney, John Taylor OF
Caroline. whose Virginia Resolutions OF lIsS
etr,ck rho keynote of the war against loose con-
struction and large Federal powers; Brecken-
ridge the champion of the contemporary Ken
tucky Resolutions: John Randolph and Wilson
Cary Nicholas all held that annexation was con-
stitutional, even for the purpose Of forming new
States, and the Federalsts agreed with them
except on the point Of Statehood.
Jefferson, whose name Is a symbol Tor the
theory of restricted Federal powers and Gala
tin. who spent his life trying to build an IDEAL
Republic. free from the wars, debts and despot-
isms he had seen In Europe. were not AFRAID Oh
the word subjects and found In the very res
ervatIons of the Constitution that full sover-
eighty against which Senator Hoar protests In
the name OF constitutional liberty and human
rights. Isn't 1t painting the lily to advocate
government Of less powers than these old theo-
rists of democracy found In the CONSTITUTION
whose grants they were always trying TO MN
imize and strictly construe? III there IL any
balance of constitutionalty in favor OF either
annexation for territory or for Statehood ~ not
Senator Hoar on the wrong side, as the Jener-
sonians admitted in urging that Statehood was
not accomplished by the treaty? State-making
IL purely a function Of Congress. All annexa'
tions nv treaty have been annexations OF terri
tory. The function Of the treaty making power
is to take In subject territory, and OF the legs'
latlve power to make States OF It or not, In lts
discretion We may have opinions as to whether
n territory will become State or not. ana we
may even promise to make 1t State in the fut-
ure "a Jefferson did, but the opinion or the
nrom,se does not alter the constitutional fact
that territory acquired by treaty must be SUD-
iect territory. II such acquisition is constltu-
tional with one expectation as to future DISPOSE
tion II Is constitutional with another. The le-
gal,ty Of the act does not vary according as
people think territory may never be fit for
Statehood or fear that 1t may be. If the Con-
stitution sanctions one acquisition more than
another. the weight Of its authority is not for n
treaty which presumes to anticipate future
States, but rather for a treaty Ike the present.
which frankly brings us territory and does not
contemplate its incorporation into the Union.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-13
PROTECTION STILL NEEDED.

There are some persons who call themselves
Protectionists and suppose they have ialr
knowledge OF the tariff question who are say
ing in these days that the protective system has
rerformed its functions. ceased TO be necessary
and IS no longer regarded by the people Win
the same interest as before. because they have
found themselves able to reach out into foreign
markets. The one thing certain about such per-
sons Is that they are not Protectionists ana
know little Of the principles upon which hepuD'
Iican tariffs have been framed. They are al
most as blind as the Free Traders who used 10
SAT- that Protection had entirely failed because
n had not advanced prices OF manufactured
products The purpose Of the protective system
was and il 10 build up home Industries 80 far
that home competition will insure lower prices
for consumers-so far that the producing ca
nacity can only be fully and most probably en-
nloved by reaching out into foreign markets.
and thus compelling the producers by self
est 10 keep prices low for domestic consumers,
even when they are able TO command the home
market How well that work has been per-
formed IN the more important branches OF the
iron industry all men now know even those who
cannot comprehend that II has been the conse-
ouence and was the object Of the policy which
stimulates home industry
But ignorance is shown by those who imagine
that all protective industries have attained a
similar position OF strength. Exports OF wooilen
goods, for example, practically do not exist.
The wool-grower Is still subjected TO competition
from abroad. even In clothing wool. The boot
and shoe industry one of the most important.
exported to all foreign countries less than
81. coo. 900 worth In ten months ending with DC
tober. The cotton manufacture In some grades
has not yet learned TO compete with foreign
PRODUCERS The linen manufacture as yet can
hardly be said 10 exist. The imports Of silk
goods have been reduced but are yet at the rate
Of SOS. OOO. 900 yearly in value. The glove manu-
facfure has still 10 meet a competition OF about
$1,000 600 yearly and there are other Industries
for which Protection has not yet performed Its
full service.
The fact that such magnificent results have
been attained in the iron industry makes II the
more obviously foolish 10 stop the good work 1t
Is doing for other Industries In which progress Is
necessarily slower. IL anybody believes that
the employees OF woollen or glove works would
like 70 have them shut UP again by withdrawal
Of Protection he shows n singular ignorance OF
popular feeling Nor could men In non-pro-
tected industries by the hundred be induced tn
take away the helpful influence which has built
ND for their labor or products n vastly greater
demand by encouraging the development OF pro-
fected industries. There Is not the least evil
dence Of such a change Of feeling, nor are the
plain people 50 lacking In logic or common-sense
a 70 desire the abandonment Of Natonaipoi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-13
inv because Il has proved itself beneficent'
.A..,.t IT, rooA work IL not half done

irv because ft has proved itself Denencen''
though it, good work is not half done.
Tho assertion that the tariff has done nothing
for workingmen because wages OF some nave
declined since the Dingley law was enacted Is
only another piece Of ignorance The test most
important of all TO the workingmen IL whether
n great proportion Of them are idle. as they
were under the Democratic tariff, or employed
a. they are now But It would puzzle anybody
to name a single industry, great or small. IN
which wages have been generally reduced
Men who never want to learn unwelcome truths
take careful notice Of every reduction ut this or
that Isolated shop. owing TO special reasons
and usually to the fact that wages had peeh
higher there than at other competing works In
the same business, but completely ignore the
advances which have been made affecting rar
greater number Of hands. The truth Ia that the
only Investigations yet made OF that matter
show an advance considerable In the aggregate,
though not extending as yet to all kinds OF
labor But such disclosures are CONTEMPORARY
set aside as worthless, because not covering all
industries or all works in any industry, by the
same men who quote as sufficient information
for them the fact that in q few isolated works
Of which they have heard wages have been re-
duced Such Is the reasoning power OF Free
Traders.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-13
MIR. ROOT AGAIN PREsIDENT
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE UNrox
LEAGUE CLUB.

The Union League Club held It's annual ma.
irg iast evening in its home. At Fifth-ave ssx
Thirty-ninth-st There q large ATTENDING.
OF members and as usual there a fine c.,.
lection OF paintings by living American arts,s
ON view IN the clubhouse. The reports ~ Va
officers showed thit the membership OF the club
was full and the financial condition % the cluA
satisfactory Eiihu Root. The president Of "A.
club. made n speech congretustng the club
unon the recognition which had been given IA
nromInent members mentioning the appoint.
.nents OF General Horace Porter az Ambe ssads,
10 France OF Andrew D. White as Minister u
Germany. a-d of Joseph II. Choate as Arnbas-
rador 10 England, the election OF Colonel Thee
dore Roosevelt az Governor OF the State. and Tie
election OF chauncey NJ DeSew as United States
Senator. which had been decided by the action
OF the Republican cauoas at Albany. The ~
election OF Mr. Root followed nj the annual
election the following ticket being elected win.
out opposition:
pr.sident-ELIIIU ROOT.
DRY THEopoRE ROOSEVELT. WAGER swAYNI
and o. ~ st. JOHN ROOrA
srcrrtary-GEoRGE $. TERRY.
Tr.asur-r-wrLriAM O. WHITE
Executive, Committee Cclsss Of ieoil-sAMrEL "
pAincID bhyIp = boMs ana PgNSE
HAWKINS
Commits. on Admissions .sIss. e 1901. -sIGounxr!
W FAY JOSEPH "a. STERLING ". kockHiiL
POTTS. JOHN PROCTOR CLARKE and JAWS BESr
DICT
To nil vacancy ,clsss = IsaaD--HENRi G. WARD
To NJ. vacancy tclss. 81 isoc'-rRASk v B'RToS
Committee on Library ard Publications class ~ ieDi-
SAMUEL A. GOIDsCHMIDT. MARSHALL " NAL
IORY and GILBERT f.. !oNES.
commit,. On Ar-rHoMAs Clarke ALFRED
y NJ Pt'RDY. JOSEPH r stout, HENRi
MLANE HOWARD & SMITH. DAVIS BARNES sN
f. CLIFFORD POTTER
Committee on Political Rsform--CEPHAs bRAINERo.
JAMES a. BLANCHARD: CHARLES HA ,tlTK =
r. HISsDALE, THOMAS l. JAMES NATHANIEL 4
PRENTrss EDWARD MlTcnELL MILAN ~, ~
John 8 WISE. EDWARD y. BROWN and JsTvs A
B covLES.
Auditing Commitiee-vALrER A. FEASE. ANDREW
MIiI.e and WILLIAM T. CORNELL
The following new members AZ the club ~srs
elected last evening: Virgil G. Bogue. OF Brook
lyn Robert C. ogden. Of Broadway and Tenth.
st: Emory S. Lyon. No . wallst: John a
DeshIer. Columbus. Ohio: John I. Brookman
No. a. Exchange Place: Philip Walter Henry.
No. ii broadway. and John Ninton Dahlsren.
No. 300 Fourth-ave.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-13
PERSONAL.

"Once every year or two" says Tne fn'h-
delphia Press" the attention OF the country 10
called to the condition Of the Lincoln Monu"."'
at Springfield III. 1t is being done nov" Win '"'
added information that the structure IL VI suo"
diIapdated state that II is Impossible 10 repair w.
and that the only thing to be done Is 10 pun II
doxn entirely and rebuild II from foundation 10
ton stone II IL almost thirty-four years since 'n
assassination OF Abraham Lincoln. and u IL ''.''
over twenty-four years since the dedicauon VI '"o
monument which marks his resting-pace III Spins
field. This ought 10 have been time enough 10
rear over his coffin memorial whtcn d"ne The
plans for the monument now standing; o, ratnes
falling 10 pieces. were inadequa'e' eve" '''' ""
been honestly carried out
One day some years ago a carpenter presented
himself to the late Dr. Jenner, OF London, VINO re-
marked that his disease had made great progress
and he should have seen him sooner. i've been
waiting to see you three years. sir" was tn, the
Jenner' Couldn't you AFFORD to conner, ooh. yes
answered the carpenter but couia no ov Ssou,a
gold guinea piece anywhere anu nea'u '' "
take nothing less.
For thirteen years differences Of opinion have ex-
listed between Bishop spaldins EpIscopaD' OF
Denver. and Dean II. Martyr Hart; OF ,nat Guy :
and ministerial council II 10 oe nero ~ o. I.r ,''
on January 81 TO pass on the questions AT ISSUE
H. O. Armour. OF this city. has given land In
West Seattle worth 10000 TO Whitworth College
Presbyterian institution OF Sumner. Wash
Walter Rothschild. the eldest son OF Lord Hoths-
child OF Trng Park. now thirty years old, and the
successor in Parliament OF Baron Ferdinand de
Rothschld recently dead, Is keenly Interested ID
zoology. He has written extensively on this sub
ject, among his publications being work on the
avifauna of Laysan He is Joint editor OF the
"Novitates Zoologice." which II published at the
Geological Museum at Tring. where he has carried
out In his fathers park some interesting expert
ments In the acclimaton OF foreign animals. IN
Guiding the &c BRA and the kangaroo. He was edu-
Gated at Bonn and at Magdalene College, Cam
bridge He Is not married.
Ex-senator F. T. Dubois, OF Idaho. Is about to be
married 10 Miss Edna NJ Whited, OF Doan. B. d.
and is building for his future home In Blacktoot
the most costly house In the State. Mr.. Dubois Is
one of the largest cattle-owners In the West
On account Of i-health. Governor scoheid OF
Wisconsin Is to spend few weeks In California
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-13
A FOURTH TERN FOR SENATOR HAWLEY.

There Is cause for more than ordinary salts
faction in the fact that after lively contest
Senator Hawley has been nominated az his own
successor by the Republican majority OF the Con-
necticut Legislature, and will begin his fourth
term in the United States Senate on March a.
There IS ample evidence in the proceedings and
result Of the caucus that the choice reflects the
general feeling of the State that ii cannot afford
TO relnuush the services of the veteran states
man who has represented Connecticut with so
much credit TO his fellow-ctlZens and himself
in the upper branch of Congress for eighteen
years. The campaign for the Senatorship was
hard fought and toward the close developed
some manifestations Of bitterness, but II Is not
probable that any considerable number Of per-
sons will long continue 10 regret the final sue
cess OF General Hawley. His experience. knowl-
edge and influence have been especially useful
TO the country during the momentous year that
has Just ended, and with the many grave ques-
tons which survive the cessation OF hostillties
few members Of either house are so competent
to deal.
Having these considerations in mind. The
Tribune so long ago as last September expressed
the opinion that Connecticut would wisely con-
cude to keep Senator Hawley In the seat which
he had filed with constantly increasing honor
to himself and advantage TO the country. and in
a recent reference 10 the contest we said that
nothing had occurred in the interval TO make
that result appear improbable. We had no sus-
picion that any OF our Connecticut brethren
would consider this an unmannerly Intrusion
into their affairs. but few OF them strangely
chose to take that view Of the matter. for rea-
sons best known 10 themselves, though not ut
terly obscure to others. In two three cases.
moreover. they not only resented our good Of
fees. but were rash enough TO assert that our
knowledge Of the situation was extremely de-
fective and advised us to keep still for the sake
OF our own reputation. Though not seriously
disturbed by this imputaton of ignorance we
were not disposed 10 impart unnecessary heat
20 the conflict while 1t was in progress by re-
torting in kind. Now. however that all is over
but the shouting We do not mind saying that IL
some OF our Nutmeg contemporaries including
The Bridgeport Standard" The Meriden Rec.
ord" and 1.-THE Norwich Bulletin will give
their days and nights to a study of The Tribune
they may In time obtain a pretty fair insight
into public sentiment and the operation OF po-
litcal forces in Connecticut. Meanwhile, we
trust they may shake of their dependency and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-13

ACADEMY or DESiGN-Exhibition-
ACADEMY OF MUsic-s:lo-sportine LIE
AMERICAN THEATRE-e-6:i1-Loheugr
BlJOu NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. KIP
CARNEGIE HAl1-2-Concsrt
CAsfNO--S-La Belle Helene.
DALY's NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Ssns-oSis 49,. r,r..
EDEN MusEE-wax Works ornnd Coneeft ans >"'-
matoxrGDh
EMPIRE TIIEATRE-s:20-Phroeo. nax
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE-e:l0--A hunsves y 49,
FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE-e-A ""''-"
GARDEN TIEATRE--s:Is-Ths Christian
cARRICK NOTWITHSTANDING 49,. .~.c,o -
GRAND CENTRAL PAI-AcE-Afernoon ana s'sn'"S
en- IN npEnA uousE-s-Havs You Seen smith
HARLEM OPERA HOUSE.; 2o.Ihe mnii f,tf'e Host
IRVING; PLACE THEATRE-s1S-Wniam Ien:
YEITHs--Noon 10 II D. m.-Con'nuous p per- ps.ls
xXIcKERBocKER TIEATREnc' lo-N"'"s 49,
WoeTFR a RfALs-e-vaudeville A., wall.
f.YcT-irM TriFATRE--s ;so--Trelawny OF the Wens
MANSON SQUARE THFATRE-s;So-on ann on
METROPOLITAN OPERA HoCsEIs-pon t S.U, "' from
MURRAY HILL. THEATRE-s:lo--N r'e"'
PAsToR.s-12ao to Ii-continuous Pefform,shce'
eHW T JiCK,s NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
WAiIAck S-s15-The TermaSant
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-13

Belgium has already appropriated FUNDS TOT
transforming Brussels. thirty miles iniand' INTO
a seaport for Transatlantic steamers. Now u 10
proposed TO open a canal at least twenty iee'
deep from Brussels TO Charleroi. thirty n''es
further inland. at a cost OF So'W"'V"' an'
thus make the latter city accessible oy d" CO.'S.
ing craft and Rhine steamers. AND Sew-i"N
Is It still 10 suffer from shallow haroor' AZ
unsafe sea gate and inadequate waterways IN
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