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of Dewey and Schey The one is re-
turning from the scene OF his triumphs
in Manila because the department. neg
lected to give him the vessels which he
asked for to complete the work, and the
other is tyrannically deprived of the
honors and privileges to which he is
entitled, while one who basely Strove
to dishonor him Is masquerading in his
plumes.
This may not trouble the conscience
of the department, as is limited in the
above dispatch, but day is coming
when 1T may disturb its serenity. Com
gress meets in December That body
is directly accountable to the people,
and the latter, when an avenue IS open
ed for the expression of their wishes.
will be more yociferous than they have
yet been. 1t is not a matter to be set
tied by the arbitrary whim of a secre-
tary, nor yet by a packed board of
naval officers, a cast-iron mutual adj
miration society which cannot see be-
yond the narrow bounds OF its own
self-complacency.
The treatment of these distinguished
officers by the navy department IN
wolves the patriotism and honor of the
nation. Hitherto there has been no in
stance in the country where the price
less services of an officer made him
conspicuous target for persecution by
one of the great administrative
branches of the government, and the
effort to thrust another in his place and
bestow on him fraudulent honors is
without precedent so far as we are
aware, in any enlightened country. 1t
is a stain on the nations good name,
which the people are powerless to re-
sent until congress meets. The manner
in which the navy department has
dealt with the matter takes 1t out OF
the personal catagory and makes 1t
burning public question. 1t is no longer
Schley's deserts, but the peoples shame
which congress will be asked to consid-
er, and by the time that body has dis
pose of the incident Secretary Long will
probably imagine that there is skele-
ton of some dimensions in the navy de-
partment's closet
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q far our colonial policy has not
~ not been bowling success any,
where; particularly not in Porto
Faco. The trouble seems to be that we
have attempted to Amercanize the ma
tives too fast. An attempt has been
made to force them to drop their habits
and customs, which are centuries old,
and adopt off-hand our habits and GUS
toms, to which they are strangers. At
meeting in the city of New York the
other day in behalf of the women and
children of Porto Rico, Mrs. Guy v
Henry, the wife of the former governor
general of the island. General Henry
painted dark picture of the condition
of the women of the island. It seems
that the women before the war were
largely self-supporting at honorable
trades. They used to make the uni
forms for the Spanish soldiers, and the
widows and orphans were the recip-
tents of pensions. Lotteries were plen-
tiful and many of the old women made
a good living by selling lottery tickets,
perfectly legitimate business under
lLe AIltl regime, UnueP American Oc-
cupation all that has been changed.
Old conditions were swept away and
new conditions, further than a military
occupancy, have not supplanted them.
Wherever changes have been made il
has been forced change from the old
island or Spanish customs to American
custom. Mrs. Henry found after few
days residence in San Juan that the
condition of the women and children
was wretched They came to her with
lank figures and appealing looks and
she received pathetic letters from the
women of the middle classes asking her
to assist them to support themselves.
At the same meeting at which mis-
wife spoke. General Guy Henry declar-
ed that the only way in which we can
govern this people lis the way of affec-
ton, not force" They are different
from us in tastes; they wish to become
Americans, but they do not want to be-
come Americanized-" II General Henry
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the dead mans writings involved less
defense Of his own views than an at
tack on the views of others.
That Is the trouble with the school
or agnostics, as they are called, or at
least with the Ingersoll school of agnos-
ties. They proclaim liberation and do
not show it. They preach liberalism
and neither exhibit it nor practice it.
Admit a man has right to be an
agnostic, and not to be attacked be-
cause he Is one; a man also has Fight
to be Christian, and not to be at
tackled for being one. Doubt or dis
belief of immortality is permissible,
however unfortunate. Scorn of belief
in 1t Is supplementary and petty.
The exploitation of ones doubts Is dra-
matte, though in bad taste: assault
upon the faith of others, with intent
to impair or to destroy it, is poor bust
ness, as poor as the medication of
moral chaos.
Nor in any parade or claim of the
domestic virtues of an agnostic an aid
or an extenuation of his agnostioism.
Men of belief are good fathers, hus-
bands, brothers and friends, but they
do not claim credit for their creed, be-
cause of their character or because of
their conduct. One is glad that Inger-
SOILS friends deny that he ever said
he did not believe in God. They say
that he only said: II don't know"
1t is as difficult not to believe in God
as it is to believe in effects without
cause. The human mind, in point of
fact, is incapable of not believing in
God, whether it thinks it is capable
or not.
But this is discursive. The cheer
less obsequies of Tuesday merely
commend every funeral occasion in
which love and sorrow find food in
faith and in which tears become crys-
tails under the radiance OF resurrection
light
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BACK FROM CALIFORNIA.
Prosecutin gait orney Duffy Tells of Con
ditions in the Golden State.


After basking in the balmy breezes of
tae citrus belt and otherwise enjoying the
alleged glorious climate of California for
three weeks, Prosecuting Attorney John
H. Duffy returned home yesterday. The
greater portion of his time was spent in
Sacramento where his mother resides, but
he also visited the south, going to Los
Angeles, San Diego and elsewhere, and
he later shed the light of his countenance
on Grass Valley and other mining towns.
Southern California Is extremely dull
just now" said he last evening, but there
is considerable business activity in the
central and northern part of the state,
and times there are improving. The de-
preston in the southern part of the state
is brought about by the fact that there
have been two dry seasons, resulting IN
a loss of crops Everywhere there one
hears complaint of hard times. Were II
not for the educational and other conven-
items and the regular tourist travel, l do
no. know what they would have done this
summer. A number of farmers are leav-
ing. going north.
I'm the northern part of the state
things are much brighter. The fruit crop
Is an enormous one, and signs of return
ing prosperity are abundant. In Nevada
county there is renewed interest In min
inE At Grass Valley, for instance, Mac
kay the bonanza king, has renewed work
on large mining property that has lain
idle for Is years. A large number of men
ara being employed in 1t. Near Reading
in Shasta county. there Is a considerable
mining excitement, the result of rich cop
per discoveries
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try so hampered as to give to the cities
of the American seacoast a practical
monopoly of the trade of the Yukon
1t is admitted that the terms of the
treaty that defines the boundary be-
tween Alaska and British Columbia are
not as clear and definite as they might
be. But nobody cared about geographic
cal accuracy as long as there was moth
ing worth contending for; for more
than seventy years Great Britain ac-
quiesced in an Interpretation, first by
Russia and then by the United States,
which left all the estuaries of the coast
from the point where the fifty-sixth
parallel of latitude intersects the Port
land canal to a point where line ten
marine leagues from the coasts inter-
sects the 141st parallel of longitude,
to the claimants under the Russian
title. That is to say, the territory
which Canada claims now was consid-
cred by Canada herself up to a year or
so ago to be United States ground. 1t
was Canadian jealousy and Canadian
rapacity that started the dispute in
the first place.
1t will be remembered that attempts
at an agreement for arbitration have
been made in the past. and that the
failure has been due to inability of the
two governments to settle upon an ar
bitrator. AS the dispute is essentially
one of the construction of the treaty of
1926 as to the method by which the
boundary line shall be determined the
matter would seem to be on its face
one eminently suited to arbitration.
Canada's claim is that our government
insisted upon having a Mexican or
South American arbitrator and thereby
caused the negotiations for arbitration
to fail. AS to the joint high commits
sion, each government claims that the
other is insisting in advance upon con-
cessions which really cover the whole
case at issue.
The basis of agreement now proposed
is to grant to England free port in
Alaska in consideration of which favor
she is to reHnquish all her claims upon
Alaskan territory. The free port will
continue to be an American port in all
essentials our flag will fly there and
our troops garrison the place just the
same. England, however, will have the
right to hand goods without supervision
of our customs officers, SO that her
freights for the Klondike will pay no
duty for crossing the strip that We own.
Such concession of a free port to Eng
land would be unique in history. Eng
land has a way Of getting free ports in
China and Africa-she simply goes and
helps herself. But her use Of a port in
Alaska would be simply a matter Of
friendly sufferance on our part.
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MONDAY, JULY 81, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.
Press Censors, Past and Present.
Z IMPERIALISM and press censorship

fMPERIALISM and press censorship
go hand in hand. The boss impe-
rialist of the century, Napoleon, was
also the boss censor. Napoleon was a
master of the art of sitting the press
and compelling 1t to delude the people.
He not only suppressed the truth but
he caused the newspapers to dissent
nate false news. He was constantly
coaching his minister of police in the
work of press censorship, and the Bos-
ton Herald reproduces a few of his
many orders on the subject. To NJ.
Fouche, then minister of police, he
wrote from Finkenstein, on April q,
1907:
You must have a great fuss made
especially in the departmental newspa-
pers in Brittany, the Vendee, Pied
mont and Belgium-over the persecu-
ton of the Irish Catholics by the An
glican church. For this purpose you
must collect every incident, so as to
paint the persecution in the most vivid
make secret arrangements with GER
tain bishops, so that when the articles
have produced an impression, prayers
may be offered for the cessation of the
persecution of the Irish Catholics by
the Anglican church. But the govern
ment must proceed very delicately in
the matter, and must make use of the
newspapers without any suspicion of
its object to get about. The editors of
the Journal de TEmpire would serve
the purpose well"
1t will be seen that Napoleon used
the press to inspire the pulpit to touch
the people on, their sensitive religious
point, and thus make the people be-
lieve that Napoleon was doing the
work of religion. Again to M. Fouche
the emperor wrote from Bayonne:
1.-The Journal de rEmpire still goes
on badly. What business has 1t to in
sert Mr. Canning's speech in the Co
penhagen intelligence? Had the editor
that speech before him? Ought he to
have inserted it without knowing that
it suited me? That young man is
either an ill-disposed person or a fool;
tell him SO from me. If he does not
change his ways / shall change the
editor
The Boston Herald prints a quantity
of such extracts, but the two We have
quoted are a fair sample of them all
Imperialism demands press censor
ship and "a blind faith in the tran.
scendent wisdom of the directing pow.
err" If General Otis had a hundredtt
part of Napoleons ability in the field
people would regard his censorship oi
the newspaper mems correspondence
more leniently. AS it is, they set him
down as a fussy old granny, excellent.
ly qualified to keep cat or two and
govern the inmates and affairs of q
hen-house.
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The Alaskan Boundary Row.
n , EITHER in the New York nor in
M England Is a war over the Alas
kan boundary dispute admitted

kan boundary dispute admitted
to be a serious possibility. Had the
controversy occurred five years ago,
things would have been different. We
all remember the chip-o n-the-shoulder
attitude both nations assumed when
Cleveland took his stand on the
Venezuelan boundary question. Now
the talk of war is confined TO few hot
heads in Canada. The threats of Sir
Charles Upper and Mr. Laurier are
only a laughing stock-a theme for
jocular comment on both sides the
water
The real cause of the intensity of
feeling to be found in Canada over the
subject is the fact that ninety per cent.
of the miners in the Canadian Yukon
are citizens of the United States. This
country is getting all the gold and is
deriving all the benefits. AS the eXas-
perated Sir Charles put it, the Cana
dians ARE in the position of having the
most magnificent gold territory that has
in late years been discovered exploited
by a majority of the citizens of the
United States, to the exclusion of
British subjects. And even that is not
the worst. AS matters stand, We have
all the avenues of trade into that coun-
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II NOVEL labor situation is that
presented by the Pingree &
Smith shoe mandatory at De-
troit The name of Pingree renders it
of additional interest, The employees
struck The strike was failure. They
have returned back to work, having
abandoned the hope of securing the
concessions they asked for. The nov
ebty OF the case lies in this, that while
lhey nave returned to work, they are
the open and ayowed enemies of the
firm that employs them. They propose
to boycott the work of their own hands
and to ask all organized labor to do the
same Carried ITO Its logical conclusion
This procedure would close up the fac
tory; or at least reduce the concerns
sales to "a point where it would be COM
PEELED to reduce the number of its en-
ployes But II the policy of the en-
ployes is illogical, SO would seem to be
the course of the firm in taking back
the employees, knowing them to be COM
mrtted to such policy, Pingree &
Smith evidently regard the talk of the
employees as mere bluff and buster
The future will determine. Meanwhile
the Detroit Tribune remarks 'if both
are satisfied, the community, which is
chiefly interested in seeing both it's cap
ital and it's labor profitably engaged,
has little cause for complaint" Mean
while, too. it may be observed, Pingree
& Ayers senatorial factory has a
world of trouble on its hands.
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Boys as Strikers.
~ HE American boy is figuring this
summer as striker. The Amer

THE American boy is figuring this
summer as striker. The Amer
can boy is always a striker to
some eXtent-4as often as he thinks his
strike will succeed he strikes the old
man, If he have one, for anywhere from
nickel to dollar. But of late he has
been striking after the most approved
manner of adults. The messenger boys
of Cincinnati, Pittsburg, New York and
some other cities have struck for higher
wages, fewer hours and the abolish
ment of split tricks" The eastern
messenger boy wants SIS month on
the basis of an eight hour day, and at
this distance it seems that he ought to
get it. AS to split tricks" the mes
senger boy has us there-we are not
sure that We could tell a split trick
from "a Goldfish ball. But if the messen-
ger boy says the split trick ought to
go, we are inclined to agree with him
on general principles. The messenger
boy has been accused of lassitude and
languor, of cultivating an adagio move
ment, of progressing to his destination
with the speed of a funeral procession.
But in the long run he seldom fails to
get there and deliver the message. He
are that better wages and shorter hours
would stimulate him to greater velocity.
Perhaps there is not much merit in his
strike, but the mere fact that he is
boy contending with grown men gains
him the sympathy and support of the
public,
Then there are the striking newsboys
of New York City. They are striking
against the Evening Journal and the
Evening World. They want to compel
the managers of those newspapers to
reduce the price from six cents to five
ish war the latter price prevailed. The
first the newspapers knew about the
trouble was when a committee of boys
called at the offices and demanded that
the desired concession be made. This
was refused, and the hostiities began
at once.
1t appears that Park Row and Frank
fort street were soon lined with a howl
ing mob of boys, who Immediately at
tackled any newsboy they found selling
either the World or Journal. After
tearing up his papers and giving him a
licking they left him a convert to the
cause and moved on to practice the
same tactics on other offenders. This
work has been kept up, according to the
Fourth Estate, until nearly every
one of the boys engaged in selling pa
pers has Joined the strikers. 1t is inn
possible for a citizen to buy a copy of
either of the boycotted papers on the
street, except, directly in front of the
Pulitzer building, where the police
guard several full-grown men, who
have taken the newsboys' places.
Crowds of newsboys hang around them
and whenever a citizen attempts to buy
World or journal he is asked not to
buy the 'scab' sheets, as they call
them. Business men generally favor
the cause of the newsboys, and make
no attempt to purchase the offending
papers. The result is that the Sun,
News and Telegram have a boom in
circulation. Every newsboy equips
himself with big bundles of these pa
pers and sells them as they never sold
hafnra
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SPEAKING OF SKELETONS.
There Seems TO BE One or Two In seere-
tary Longs Closet.

From the Baltimore American
1t is given out from Washington that
Secretary Long will take his vacation
this week, with the satisfaction Of
knowing that the navy department has
no skeletons in its closet to interrupt
his enjoyment. This is obviously a fling
at the war department, which has sew
eral hideous affairs in its closet, but
Mr. Root can be relied upon to get rid
rid of these CHASTITY things in short
order, while the navy department, by
trying to conceal them, is simply piling
up trouble for the future. 1t is diff
cult to imagine that much satisfaction
can exist in the department when the
entire country is sounding the praises
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Secretary Root makes the thirteenth
cabinet officer for the seven offices pro-
vided for in Mr.. McKinley's official
family, but he can't possibly bring the
unhappy family any more Ill luck than
did his predecessor.
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Current Comment.
RevoIvers Are Good Enough.

From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Whenever a new ticket is placed in the
field in Kentucky everybody wants to
know at once whether it Is armed with
Mausers or Krag-Jorgensens.
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had used the word "Puritanized" his
meaning would have been clearer You
can't change the character of Porto
Rican in a day, or a week, or a year.
You can't change it by any mandate,
decree or arbitrary process whatsoever.
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AGNOSTlCISM'S INTOLERANCE.
1t breaches Liberalism and Neither Ex-
hibits Nor Practices 1t.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
The funeral services over the ashes
of Robert C. Ingersoll were dramatic,
but cherries. Doubt is an unfilling
diet. Faith is food for the soul. Criti-
cism of these services would be out of
order but for the fact that they were
obtruded on the public, and for the
other fact that the selection made from
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Sort of Minor Part.

From the Pittsburg Times.
John Bull has served notice on the Ca
nucks that they had better sing small on
their fighting talk
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The country would esteem It great
favor If Vice President Hobart would
take Adjutant General Corbin aside
and reason with him as effectually as
he did with General Alger
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If Detroit has extended an invitation
to President Mckinley TO attend her
Alger dinner, the news has been care
fully concealed from the associated
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They are indicting people in New
York for burning soft coal, because
the SCOT permeates the atmosphere and
makes it disagreeable The defend
ants will doubtless own to the soft i'm
parchment.
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He Ought To.
From the New Y

From the New York Press
The new postmaster in Lafayette, Ind,
is Willie Work. 1t depends on the man
and the requirements of his position.
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For the Tail Finders.
KANSAS CitY journal.

From the Kansas City Journal.
Late reports indicate that the Cleveland
street cars are still making a few more
runs than the Cleveland ball team.
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He Can Climb Ono, if Necessar

From the Denver Post.
When General Joe Wheeler reaches the
Philippines we may know how the situa-
ton looks to a man up a tree.
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The Standard has branch offices at
Butte. Missoula and Great Falls, where
advertising rates will be furnished on ap-
plication
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The mediums that are in communica-
ton with the spirit of Colonel Inger-
soil have omitted to apprise the world
of the colonels opinion of the eli
70
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England would be greatly obliged to
America if she would kindly regard the
imprisonment of Mrs Maybrick as
closed incident.
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New York U-.ce-4s Tribune Building.
Chicago Office-469 The Rookery.
The S. C. Beckwith Special Agency
Eastern Representatives.
Washington Bureau-1.4l5 G st.. N. w.
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All general business letters and CORE
spondence should be addressed to the
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Anaconda. Mont.
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A Logical Sequences"

From the Kansas City Times.
A London scientist believes that Adam
was colored man. Then, of course, the
apple was a chicken.
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who's the Lucky Man?

From the Baltimore American.
General Anderson says the nations best
statesmen should be sent to Manila to
help Otis. Who will it be? Don't all speak
at once!
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There is a general disposition to re-
gard The Hague peace conference as
a brilliant and spectacular flash in the
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"Pity IT'S. IT'S True"

From the Baltimore Herald
The epidemic of lockjaw in New York
and other cities does not include the
prizefighters.
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Detroits reception to General Alger
is calculated to give Senator Mcmillan
that nervous feeling.
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Helena retains the tennis champion
ship of the state. There is no use try
ing to beat Helena at her own game.