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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21
BRYAN ON CORPORATIONS.
From His Speech at Chicago.

From His Speech at Chicago.
when God made man as the climax of
creation, He looked upon His work and
said II was good, and yet when God got
through the tallest man was not much
taller than the shortest, and the strongest
man was not much stronger than the
weakest. That was Gods plan. We
looked upon His work ana said It was not
quite as good as II might be, and so we
made O fictitious man that Is in some
Instances n hundred times--a thousand
times-a million times-stronger than
God made man. CApplause) Then we
started this man-made giant out among
the God-made pygmies. Now when GOD
made man he placed limit to his exist
ence, so that If he were bad man he
could not do harm long, but when VIC
made our man-made man we raised the
limit on his age. daughter and APP
plauseO When God made man lie
breathed into him q soul and warned him
that in the next world he would be held
accountable for the deeds done in the
flesh, but when we made our man-mado
man we did not give him soul, and II
he can avoid punishment in this world
he need not worry about the hereafter
My contention is that he law that created
must retain control, and the man-made
man must be admonished every day of
his life: Remember now thy Creator
in the days of thy YOUTH" prolonged
applause)
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21
Amend the Law.

VN CONNECTION with the arrest
of Mrs. Gable for the illegal prac-
n tice of midwifery. chronicled in
yesterdays papers, certain facts
should be borne in mind. This woman
has qualified herself for the practice of
her profession by special study in a
recognized institution. When she came
to Scranton she tried to register before
che prothonotary showing her diploma,
but was informed that there was no
law in Pennsylvania providing for such
registration. subsequently she went
before the board of health and asked
to be examined as to competency but
again was met by the information that
no provision exists in this state for
such examination or for the issue of a
certificate based upon the successful
passing of prescribed test. The law
does not say that midwifery shall not
be practiced nor does it place any safe
guards or restrictions around it's prac-
tice. 1t ignores the subject.
1t is notorious that there are scores
of women in this community doing a
considerable business in the practice of
midwifery for pay, some of whom are
qualified and some of whom are not.
Those who are not qualified are a mem
ace to the community, but those who
are represent among certain classes in
our population a necessary convenience,
combining for moderate fees the func-
tions of nurse and midwife. In many
poor families the services of a physi-
clan, except in exceptional cases, rep
resent in this direction a convenience
financially out of reach. especially if in
addition to the physicians fee the SER
vices of a professional nurse should be
required. The services of a midwife in
such families are indispensable, and to
abolish utterly the practice of mid
wifery, drawing no distinction between
competents and incompetents, would
work public hardship.
As a matter of fairness it would seem
that the way to go at this matter
would be to bring pressure to bear upon
the legislature in favor of law pre-
scribng expert examination as con-
dition of the authorized practice of this
branch of the medical profession and
then laying down stringent penalty for
the practice of it without registration
Until the law is thus clearly defined
the singing of individuals out for prose
cution will bear in some eyes the ap-
pearance of persecution, whether so in
tended or not
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21
NUBs OF KNOWLEDGE.

People of melancholc temperament
rarely have deep blue eyes.
The richest acre of land in the world Is
that near Lionsar, in Thibet, on which
grows the sacred tree of Thibet.
The worlds births amount to 26,799, 900
every year, 1OO,S00 every day, 42O0 every
hour, 20 every minute, and one and frac-
tion every second.
Half a million dollars in first class SO
curities would not represent the fortune
made by the man who first thought of
copper-tips to childrens shoes.
In the course Of day a person breathes
about $500 gallons of air, weighing "a
pounds about six times the average
amount of food and drink consumed
In the year 1900 the approximate area Of
the British Empire was 2Ol2lS2 square
miles, including all its continental and IN
sular possessions, and the population Of
the Empire was 21,4l7,000. OF this area
200, 900 square miles was in India, with a
population of 100000. In 1899 the ap-
proximate area of the Empire had grown
to 1885, Cos square miles, and the popu-
lation to 14,4100 900. The area of the
possessions of the Empire in Asia is 1,I94,-
216 square miles; in North America, 36lS,-
$50 square miles, and in Australia 3,110, 80
square miles. The population of the
United Kingdom itself is only O,2OO,00O
The Oceanic is the largest vessel ever
built. Her Dimensions are 704 feet long,
seventy-two feet beam and sixty-eight
feet depth with draught, light, of twenty
two feet and loaded, thirty-one and one
half feet. She registers 1900 tons. Her
engines were designed TO develop 1900
horsepower. Her coal capacity is about
5000 tons. She consumes about 500 tons
of coal daily. The ship has two tunnels,
each Of twcnty-feet diameter and eighty
feet above the fire graves. Her passengers
accommodation is for 62i cabin and 1000
steeraCe and she carries q crew of 45O
men. The Oceanic's displacement is 10000
tons. Compared with the Great Eastern,
the greatest ship ever built before her.
she is twenty-four feet longer and with a
horsepower over $1,000 greater. The
Great Eastern, which was built on the
Thames in 1859. measured ESQ feet long,
eighty-three feet beam and had draught
of thirty feet She registered 1900 tons
and her engines developed 1850 horse
power The North German Lloyd flyer
Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse. the next
largest in size, built two years ago, Gas
feet long, sixty-five feet beam and twen-
| ty-six feet draught. She registers 14,OH
tons and has 1000 horsepower.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21
Good Paw for Good Work.

" v pom HIS return to Washing
ton, Secretary Cantwell of
the National Association of
Letter Carriers announced
that the association would urge upon
congress at the approaching session
the passage of a bill, as recommended
by the Scranton convention, to increase
the annual compensation of letter car
riers to 81 200 in place of the $1,000 may
imum at present in vogue. He furth-
er expressed his belief that such a
measure would receive a majority vote
in congress and be signed by the pres
ident, as on its merits it should.
This proposition has now been in
public discussion long enough to en-
able a fair judgmentto be made. Sim
plified, the contention is that for the
special ability required, the present
rate of pay, compared with the wages
paid by the government in other
branches OF the civil service, is made
quate. In the departments at Wash
ington many of the most ordinary
clerks, for purely routine and perfume
tory work involving no special knowl-
edge and no responsibility, are paid
more than $1,000 a year and are not
subject to the rigid rules surrounding
the labors of the letter carriers. The
latter under existing regulations, a'e
necessarily a highly intelligent and a
proficient trained class of men, the
truth of which was strikingly estab-
lished during their convention in
Scranton. Ability is required of them
which. in other vocations. on the av-
erage wins a higher compensation; and
payment of the increase sought would
not be favoritism but justice.
There is. however. another reason in
support of their demand. 1t Is a pub
lie obligation of the government in it's
relation to labor to set an example Of
intelligent liberali.y. The governmeni
should illustrate to other employers
that payment of generous wages is not
inconsistent with sound business prin-
ciples. by so doing it tends to main
tain "A high level OF wages and with il
n high grade of civilization among its
citizens. There is a special need #
this example at this time. when great
economic changes are impending, in
volving the temptation among private
employers to bring about cheapened
production at the expense Of the men
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21
DEWEY.

All the birds are singing
Dewey"
All the bells are ringing
Dewey"
All the pines are signing
Dewey"
Babes at breasts are crying
Dewey
Dewey, Dewey, Dewey!"
dewey" on the mountain,
Dewey on the plain,
dewey" in the creaking cart
And the rushing train;
dewey in the market place,
Dewey" on the wall.
Dewey in the Westinghouse
And the council hall;
Dewey" in the hospital,
Where impatient Death
Hears men whisper Dewey's name
With their dying breath.
All the valleys echo~
Dewey"
High upon your deck, o
Dewey,
Can you hear the waves repeating
What your country's heart is beating
dewey, Dewey Dewey?"
dewey" in the palace,
Dewey" in the cot
dewey" where the children romp
On the corner lot;
"Dewey" where true lovers meet,
Dewey" up and down
All the quiet country lanes,
Through the sleepy town;
dewey" in the maidens prayer
When she kneels at night,
dewey, Dewey" for the black,
Dewey" for the white,
All the birds are singing
Dewey"
All the bells are ringing
Dewey"
Stars above are cleaning
Dewey"
Winds in rushes signing
Dewey"
Eagles proudly screaming
Dewey"
All the world is crying
Dewey
Dewey, Dewey, Dewey"
$. L, Kiser. in Times-Herald.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21

Proftng by past experiences, the ad-
ministration does not intend to build
hopes on Aguinaldo's alleged overturas
for peace until these materialize in
black and white. In the meantime, the
war will go without pause or hindrance
until American sovereignty is recog-
nized and established
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21

whom they employ. 1t Is the doctrine
of the Republican party that the cheap
wage makes the cheap man and that
the truest econo ny is the aymcnt Of
the liberal wage which elicits the most
faithful and the most efficient service.
In no way can this latter proposition
be so effectually demonstrated as by
making walking examples of Uncle
Sans letter carriers.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21
The One Thing Needed.

'1E RESULTS of the Chicago
trust conference are thus
n summarized by the Times.
Herald: The trusts are here
to stay; they are the products of an
industrial evolution as inexorabIe no
the law of gravitation; they are pri-
marily formed to reduce the cost Of
production: the public will get its
share of the benefits of this reduced
cost If the trusts are properly regu-
lated by law; the most practicable and
acceptable scheme of regulation that
has been offered is federal control"
To be effective. federal control must
in the first place have behind il the in
telligently directed force of a powerful
and well matured public opinion; and
secondly it must in turn be admins
tered intelligently and honestly, not Cor
vote catching purposes primarily but
In a sincere desire to promote the
greatest good of the greatest number.
The public cannot trust mouthy agi-
tators to frame laws regulating busi-
ness enterprises, for the UNMARRIED ex-
lOudest demagogue is the quickest man
20 sell out to the moneyed interest
which offers his price. Men of honesty,
men Of business experience, men above
the reach of the boodler and the
schemer, are needed for the framing
of legislation both with regard to the
trusts and with reference to other sub
jects affecting the general welfare
Until men of this kind can be elected
to office and kept there during effic-
iency, the less interference there is
with business by the bowling type Of
/ curbstone statesmen the better il will
! be for the public at large. This whole
matter Is simply another phase of the
| Roosevelt doctrine that what we need
! in our public life is not bFilliancy nor
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21


Concerning the last item in the esti-
mate we should imagine that it is too
modest by far. If we assume that
only 100000 outsiders go to New York
during one Of the three days of the
Dewey celebration-there are likely 10
be 100000 of them--it is absurd to
imagine that the expenditures of these
visitors would average only so cents
apiece. Ten times that sum would be
moderate enough, considering the fancy
prices which will prevail, and that
would mean 50, 5OO0 900 in one item alone
Ten millions would be nearer the prob
able limit.
The following birds eye view Of
what is expected to happen during this
historic welcome will be useful for
reference:
Forty governors of states will be pres
ent.
One thousand vessels will be in the har-
Dor.
The parade of ships will be seven miles
long.
Thirty-flve thousand soldiers will be in
the land parade
The land parade will take five hours to
pass the reviewing stand.
The start will be made at l p. m. from
Grants tomb and the last man will pass
Washington Square at 10 p. IN.
Five thousand policemen will have no
sleep from Thursday till Sunday.
One hundred steamers will bring excur-
sionists to New York from Maine to Geor-
gia.
Every railroad will run special trains.
One hundred thousand American flags
will be displayed.
Fleets of eighteen lighters will descend
the two rivers simultaneously, letting off
voleys of fireworks and bombs.
The plans for the chidren's part in
the welcome are interesting. These
little songsters will be stationed on two
stands, one at Seventy street
and one at City Hall park. Those sta
| toned at the former stand, to the num-
| Der of 1900. will be arranged to form
| the word Dewey" in dark blue letters,
| nearly fifteen feet high, on a white
| ground. The costumes Of blue and
white will be provided by the city.
"The Star Spangled Banner" "Ameri-
ca" Columbia, the Gem of the ocean,"
Land Of Greatness, Home of Glory"
See, the Conquering Hero Comes"
Flag of the Brave and Free" and
"Welcome Song to Dewey" the latter
to the air of the Hawaiian national
hymn, will be rendered. "See, the
Conquering Hero Comes" will be sung
as Admiral Dewey approaches the
stand, while all the marching bands
stop playing. The arrangement of the
children at City Hall park has not been
finally decided upon, but there will be
1000 of them.
AS one enthusiastic writer for the
press puts it, mo ancient emperor
bringing with him the treasures and
slaves from some great conquest ever
saw such sights as will greet George
Dewey and his comrades when he
steams into New York harbor on the
war ship Olympia" But there is con.
ISOLATION in the reflection that Dewey
thoroughly deserves it.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21

Chairman Reeder has declined the in
vitation of Chairman Killing to a joint
debate of the state candidates on state
issues. The newspapers of the state
are doing all the joint debating that
there is any need for.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21

1t is a lamentable fact that the fall
ure of the Delaware peach crop joke is
no longer Joke. 1t is a stern reality.
with no comforting thought save in
visions of stewed prunes and dried
nppln snuce.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21

Agreeable information comes from,
washington that General Miles and
General CorbIn have composed their
differences and decided hereafter TO
give their whole time and attention "a
the public service. Let us hope that
this is no Joke
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21

The Northeastern Pennsylvania space
writer's for metropolitan journals have
at last been "scooped." A two-headed
rattlesnake has been reported from
Nashville.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21

It was. Of course, an American who
telegraphed to Dreyfus Immediately
after his pardon, offering 100000 for
the manuscript Of his side Of the case,
to be published in book form.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
State.

Justice of the Supreme Court-J. HAY
BROWN of Lancaster.
Judge of the Superior Court-JOSIAH r.
ADAMS, Of Philadelphia.
State urer-LIEUTENANT coll
ONEL JAMES f. BARNETT, of
Washington.
Election day. Nov T.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21

In his war upon Richard Croker,
John c. Sheehan has won first blood,
but 1t is a long way to the finish.
Men like Croker do not give up at
the first reverse.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21

The exports to Cuba in the fiscal year
1899 were $1S,615, 7O4, against $12SO766l
in 1895; to Porto Rico, $2,635,S41 in 1899,
against S1,s9S, ,545 in 1895; to Hawaii,
$9,3O5,47O in 1899, against $S,72S,O57 in
1895, and to the Philippines, $4O4,171 in
1899, against $119,255 in 1895. Expan-
sion has just begun.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21

The long silence of Date Mundi may
be an indication that he has been sup
piled with one of Ed Atkinson's pamph-
let's.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21

Before New York gets through with
Admiral Dewey he will probably have
more decorations than a convention
delegate.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21

When the time to surrender actually
arrived, Patriot Guerin seems to have
been as docile as a guinea pig.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21

1t begins to look like a Schley boy
colt down in Maryland.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21
The Welcome to Dewey.

" Y NEXAMPLED prodigality is
characterizing the prepara-
~ tions in New York for the
reception of Admiral Dewey.
A current estimate of the expenditures
for the occasion puts the total at al
most a million dollars, apportioned
fbi,S.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21

The wife of welknown contractor and builder in town of
Northern New Hampshire has for several suffered from gall
and the time of the of these she experienced
such intense pain that would generally her take her bed
and remain there sometimes from twentyour fortegh hours
She had taken Rpan abues for stomach trouble and surprised
TO that abue taken the time of approaching
with the gall essened the pain As time and she
learned apply them she found surprising relief and
her husband lately said "lf had been for Rpan Iabues
DO not believe she would be alive to-day He careful indeed
to it that the supply of Tabues allowed to run low
When this testimonial the lady, taken down from her
reported sayings she said the she could regarding was that
did
immediate Tabu Her husband said
he had manufacture the
anything that will take their place.
dbym %
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21

audaeity so much as common honesty
and common sense.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21
3 Specials
Grey Blankets

Thirty pairs Grey Wool
Blankets, 1914 size, worth
$2.25. Special sale price. .Sl.69
Thirty pairs Fine Grey
Wool Bladkets, real value
$3.50. Special sale price. $3.50
Thirty pairs Extra Fine
IG-4 Grey Blankets, well
worth S. SC. Special sale
price. $3.50
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-22

He received, in the country, less votes
by thousands than were cast for the
prohibition candidates. The returns
gave him, for instance, one vote in Col
orado, twenty-one in Utah, none in
Montana, about 800 in Delaware, SIT in
Wisconsin, 5000 in total of more than
a million in Illinois, although at that
time he represented that state in the
federal senate.
Palmers candidacy was a mockery.
A few weeks after the election, when
he returned to Washington. to close up
his senate term and his career in poll
tics, it was noticed that the members
of neither side of the senate received
him cordially. Since that time, till just
now, Palmer has been in obscurity. He
is the subject of a newspaper para
graph which started in Chicago and
which says that Palmer is old, not able
to practice law any more, and that his
friends are asking Senator Cullom to
secure the passage of a bill which will
award this champion of sound money"
a pension of one hundred dollars a
month
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-22
Miller's Troops Landed.

New York, Jan. 21.-A special to the
World from Washington says: General
Miller's, expedition has landed on Gut
maras island, three miles from Iloilo,
without opposition. General Otis cables
from Manila. The landing was necessary
because of the crowded condition of the
troops on the transports Experience has
proved that soldiers lose spirits and fight
Ing qualities when confined long on board
ship, SO the war department asked Cen
eral Otis to ascertain If it were possible
for General Miller to land his expedition
near 1loilo. He cabled that it was anG
then instructed to order landing.
1t was deemed inavisable to advise the
expedition to return to Manila without
having landed, because it was feared the
natives of Luzon would think the Fill
pinos at 1loilo had repulsed the Aineri-
cans. The presidents policy of pacitica-
ton will be continued and no attempt to
land at 1loilo will be made at present.
The island on which the men have land
ed is healthy and has an abundance of
water
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-22
The German View.

Berlin, Jan. 21.-The correspondent of
the associated press here had a conversa-
ton with a high official of the German
foreign office. DR.. Hammann, who said
the report just received from Samoa dis
tributes the blame for errors there pref
ty evenly. However, the German foreign
office does, not understand why Chief
Justice Chambers annuled Mataafa' $
election. DIR. Hammann says DR.. Raffel,
the German municipal president, acted
Illegally in breaking into the court house,
that Germany adheres strictly to the
terms of the Berlin treaty, and that
whatever Illegal excuses Germany may
have committed we shall disavow" The
German government takes the whole mat
ter calmly and those in charge of affairs
expect a settlement of the whole business
will be speedily arranged by negotiations
between Washington, Berlin and Lon
don.
Further particulars regarding the trou-
Bile at Samoa received later in the day
show that during the fighting an armed
detachment from the British warship
Porpoise occupied the house of Chief JUS
tice Chambers, half mile outside of
Apia, and that another detachment occu-
pied the London mission station, on the
beach, where Malietoa Tanus and his
party had sought refuge. Tamasese and
his party sought shelter under the guns
OF the Porpoise. The fugitives We're COM
PEELED to surrender their arms and the
rest of Malietoa Tanus' party were cap
tured by the Mataafaites on the peninsula
of Mulinu, near Apia. Mataafa did not
take part in the fighting and the German
warship in those waters held aloof from
the trouble
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Not Needed at Present.

Helen. ,asso sssss ' .'es the the
Anaconda Standard to say
that the Lewis and Clarke representa-
tives who turned their vote over to Mr..
Clark, yesterday, were bribed."
No, that is not necessary. The indie
pendent is evidently too anxious We
leave that charge to be brought
against these Lewis and Clarke men by
the Independent, which itself conveys
an inference that will do for present
purposes. Even if it is gin order" for
the Standard to make the accusation,
we are willing to let the case stand
on the Independents own insinuation
regarding these Lewis and Clarke men,
Up to date the men in question rest
under no suspicion whatever, as far as
we know, except the one which the III
dependent hints and evidently wants
the Standard to take up.