davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The times., 1899-08-28
STEEL-MAKING IN CANADA.
Two Great Companies Are Going
Into the Industry,

QUEBEC, Aug. 27.-Two great steel COM
panies are going into manufacturing in
Canada upon so enormous a sale that
when operations are fairly got under way
there ought to be an end of the steel fam
inc which is now delaying and paralyzing
steel shipbuiIding and similar industries in
Europe. The Whitney establishment nov
being erected at Sydney in Nova Scotia is
to be eclipsed by other works to be estab-
lished at North Sydney near by. 1t seems
that a deal has been made in Eng and to
merge the Nova Scotia Steel Company OF
Glasgow and the General Mining Associa-
ton, which latter is the oldest coal COM
pany in Cape Breton. The concern will
have a capital of S25, 900, ,oo0 principally
English money. The works at North sgd
ney will include a shipbuilding plant, a
steel rail plant. and a dock. The COM
pany OWNS enormous iron mines on Bell
Island, Newfoundland In fact, the entire
island, which is situated in Conception
Bay, consists of practically pure ore that
readily breaks into small pieces when
mined and can easily be loaded on ship
board.
In addition TO their own employment of
this ore, the company has already sold
200 coo tons of it in Europe for immediate
delivery. The syndicate of which Mr..
Whitney, OF Boston, is the head, has a
capital of SIS, ,00O,000. and few days ago
number of those interested in it, incIud-
ing General Alger. Mr.. Whitney. Senator
Cox, of Toronto. Sir William Van Horne
and Mr.. Jaggans, of Moncton. met in
Montreal for the purpose OF considering
how the project would be affected by the
present trade relations between the two
countries. Work is to be begun at once
by the construction of four hundred coke
ovens, besides blasting furnaces and steel
works and the manufacture of steel on an
extensive scale will be in progress within
eighteen months. The open hearth pro-
cess will be adopted in the making o.
steel, and this viii be followed by the
manufacture of all kinds of bridge and
other structural work
The times., 1899-08-28
INC neuc, Rrnfher.-

The rest Of the country may have for
gotten that Admiral Dewey once lived in
Vermont, but the little Green Mountain
State Is fully aware OF the fact and.
when others have finished with him, the
Admiral is 10 be welcomed by his own peo-
pie. in Montpelier, and there viii be a par
ade II is stated on good authority that 10
the whole State Of Vermont there are not
So many inhabitants as there are in Bos-
ton, so the size Of the Montpelier process
sion may be imagined. However. il VIII
make up in warmth Of welcome what II
lacks in numerical sense.
There is q complication about this cele-
bration, however, and though small. Of
course. il is nevertheless perploxing. as
some small things are There is 70 be but
one carriage. in which viii ride the Ad-
miraI and Governor Smith This has arous-
ed the ire OF some Of the acQuaintances
OF the Dewey family, who do not see why
Mr. Charles Dewey and Mr.. Edward Dewey.
brothers OF the Admiral. are not asked to
ride with him instead Of a person who IS
merely Governor OF The State and bears
the everyday name of Smith.
Al first sight II would seem that the
trouble might be dispelled by providing
two carriages. one for the Admiral and
The times., 1899-08-28

the Governor, and one for the Dewey
brothers. In spite of the small size of the
celebration there would surely be room for
two modest wheeled vehicles, and thus
glory could be distributed instead of con-
centrated. But to anyone acquainted with
the laws of precedence it will at once be
evident that this will not dispose Of the
difficulty. II is not the mere carriage for
which the advocates of Charles and Ed
ward Dewey are contending; not the right
of their candidates for glory to be trans
ported along the parade route in a We
hicle instead of on their own feet; 1t is
the principle of the thing and the principle
requires that the Governor with the ordin-
airy name of Smith should at once climb
down from his seat in the carriage and as
sist the representatives of the Dewey fam
lily to climb up.
To the unpreiudiced observer it would
seem that there are no very good argu-
ments for this thing; but then, questions
of precedence do not always depend on
argument The simple minded outsider
may ask: What have the Dewey brothers
done besides belonging to the family? Why
should they be singled out for distinction
on an occasion when all the world is laud-
ing their brother for an achievement which
inaugurated new era in the history OF
the country? The Governor by the name
of Smith has at any rate made himself
Governor. This indicates that his fellow
citizens have confidence in his ability.
What mark of such confidence has been be-
slowed on Charles and Edward Dewey?
The times., 1899-08-28
The Power of n Pull.

(From the Charleston News and Courier)
In our Carter case we seem to have something
of 4 Dreyfus affairof our own. Not because
Captain Carter is in danger of receiving punish
meat which he does net merit, but because he
has furnished occasion for national scandal
II powerful clique has been formed in France
to persecute innocent man. in this country
there would at least appear to be an influential
combination bent Npon protecting a guilty one
The public is ignorant of the source and OF the
personnel of Captain Carriers pull" but that
he has Of much financial or many political
horsepower IS apparent beyond a perldyenture.
In the public mind there is not scfntiIIa OF
doubt regarding Captain Carter's guilt. The
eourt-martial by which he was condemned lad
no secret dossier. The evidence was given in
open sessions and was damning The sentence
was harsh, but just. Executive mitigation of its
details would have excited neither comment nor
opposition, but the persistent evasion of its pro-
visions, c0untenanced, if not abetted by Presi-
dent Mckinley, has excited national Indignation
A Congressional investigation is now talked of
and Captain Carter and his ''pull'' promise to
cut a considerable figure in the next general
election
The times., 1899-08-28
Glrrisonisns.
(From the Hartford courant,

CFrom the Hartford Courant)
The present Mr.. Garrison wrote faci'ely
and acridly before Aguinaldo was heard
OF, and he does so now. His pen ha5 not
lost its cunning, nor its corrosiyeness.
The discourse read by him yesterday to
the universal pacificators at Mystic proves
that. Passages in it suggest Wendell
Phillips; the embroidery OF quotations is
Sumnerian. But what chance is there fo-
sober, rational argument with a man who
says that the Tagals now in arms are
simply following the precepts OF Jefferson
and Lincoln" that our soldiers are ''en-
gagged in the massacre OF al unoffending
nation" that George Dewey ought to have
resigned from the navy in protest of the
Philippine betrayal" that John D. Long
ought to have resigned from the Cabinet,
that Theodore Roosevelt is "a belated
Goth" that Lyman Abbott has ''gi del
with pious phrases the national crime.
and that President Mckinley will scoa
have his house tumbling about his ears.
however exemplary a husband. neighbor
or Methodist he may be-" As well try to
argue with Malay running amuck
The times., 1899-08-28
TRADE WITH THE ISLANDS.
Exports 10 Cuba. Porto Rico, and tn
Philippines.

Exports from the United States 70 Cuba.
Porto Rico. Hawaii. and the Philippines
were. according to a statement just pre-
pared by the Treasury Bureau OF Statistics.
larger in the fiscal year Just ended than IN
commerce with those islands. Even the
reciprocity years. 1882, 1898. and 1894. in
which the exports from the United States
to Cuba and Porto Rico we're greatly In
creased. do not show as large a grand total
as does 1898 with all Of the disadvantages
OF war conditions which prevailed IN Cuba.
Porto Rico. and the Philippines during a
part OF the year To Cuba. the total ex-
port Tor the year does not reach the large
figures of the two full fiscal years 1893
and lss4, IN which the reciprocity treaty
with SPAN was in operation. and 20 Porto
Rico the total export OF 1895 was slightly
less than that OF 1892. during three- -S0urths
OF which the reciprocity treaty was in
operation. or 1894, in all OF which II
operated
To Porto Rico the total exports Of the
hseai year 1899 are nearly % per cent IN
excess OF the average annual export dur
ing the preceding decade: 20 Cuba. they
are nearly 80 per cent greater than the
average during the preceding decade. TO
Hawaii, they are more than twice as muca.
times as much as the average annual ex-
ports during the preceding decade. These
figures, it is proper TO add. do not include
the expectations to the islands in question
by the Government. either for use OF its
troops CT In aid of the temporarily desti-
tute. While the total imports into the
United States from these islands IS not as
large as in earlier years OF the decade. this
IS due solely to the fact that they did not
nave the supplies for expectation. this be-
ing especially true of Cuba. whose sugar
plantations and works were so largely de-
stroyed during the war with Spain. That
our Imports from these islands are rapidly
increasing, however. is shown by the fact
that those from Cuba in the year 1898
were 66 per cent greater than in 1895:
those from Porto Rico. nearly so PEE cent
greater than those OF the fiscal year 1895
and those from the Philippines nearly 20
per cent in excess OF those OF last year.
while those from Hawaii show a slight
gain over last year and an increase OF 80
per cent over the fiscal year 1897.
The times., 1899-08-28
An Inevitable Conflict.
fFrom the Boston Journal.l


If Aguinaldo had ever done as the Sui
tan of Sulu has now done and acknowl-
edged American sovereignty there would
have been no war. Aguinaldo was given
the opportunity. He refused it. Neither
Dewey nor Otis nor Wildman nor Williams
nor the Archbishop OF Manila could bring
the headstrong Tagal chief to terms. He
was intoxicated by those childish imagfn-
ings of power and splendor which broke
forth in his gold key-and- whistle pronun-
eiamentot He misunderstood the American
patience; he mistook it for cowardiee. He
underestimate the American power and
determination and overestimate his own.
There is not one loyal supporter of the
National Administration who would not
have been glad if the war in Luzon could
have been avoided. President McKinley's
instructions to General Otis were to pre-
vent clash at all hazards and to trust
everything TO diplomacy. This injunction
was carried so far as to provoke the de-
rision of the Tagalog soldiers and to ex-
asperate the American soldiers into a hot
contempt for what seemed to be the peace
at-any price tactics of their commander.
The truth is that the war with Aguin-
aldo came because It had to come He
himself finally declared it; his men began
it; his proclamation of no quarter for any
American OF any age or either sex attest
not only the ferocity but the deliberatfon
of his purpose. That is an inevitable con-
fiict which Is now going on in Luzon-as
inevitable as the war for the deliVerance
of Cuba
The times., 1899-08-28
Action Rearfred.

(From the Cincinnati Enquirer.l
There has been good deal of talk about
the Republican managers holding their na-
tionai convention early next year and get
ting in their denuneiation OF trusts before
the Democrats do. Il is the judgment OF
the Enquirer that the Democrats should
not be in the least annoyed by the date Of
the Republican convention Whether the
Hanna resolution be for or against trusts
it viii not be looked on with favor By the
people The Chicago Tribune warns the
Republican politicians that the trust ques-
ton is a dangerous one for them to play
with, FOR it is going to be the question out
of which the Democrats viii Try 70 make
the Illinois Republican wants his party to
do something against trusts before the
election is held, 10 show the people that il
is in earnest" That's the talk There viii
be a session of Congress before the Presi-
dential esectiOn-even before the nOmina-
tiOns are made Unless something is done
by the Congress and President before the
election resolutions on trusts viii be as
empty as a graduating essay The people
VIII not accept sentiment and doctrine
when the opportunity to perform has been
neglected. There will. though. be no action
by Congress on anything important except
the appropriation bills. The public money
will be spent lavishly- As TO legislation
on trusts, tariff, revenue, and finance, the
Administration is afraid TO open up the
questions Things are scandalOus enough
now. There viii be carnival Of scandal
if these subjects are rakad over.
The times., 1899-08-28
CUBA sELF-sUPPoRTING.
An Interesting Statement of the
! Islands Financial Condition.

The War Department gave out yesterday
for publication an unusually interesting
statement of the financial condition of the
Island of Cuba The statement is i'm
portant because ii shows that under the
economical and intelligent management of
the United States Government the re-
eefpts of the island from January 1
to June so of the current year, exceed the
expenditures by the very handsome sum
of 81, 4S0, ,02L92. This will, doubtless, prove
surprise to the uninfoTmed, as in some
quarters the suspicion has existed that
Cuba, under the military occupation OF
the United States, was not self sustaining
During the period named. the receipts
from all sources were Sc, ,9S2, ,01020; dis
bursements. $500 9SS.2S- In this eOnnec-
tion ii may be interesting TO know in what
been disbursed. To begin with, 81, IL .614. 20
was expended in sanitation; s505. .263. .06 in
the erection and Improvement of barracks
and quarters; S443, ,563.19 in the establish
ment, atc., of the rural guard and admin
istration: $3.50. .12 on public works. har-
bors and forts: sea. Ss1.27 in charities and
hospitals; S242, 1861 for civil government;
s723, 2S1-SS on municipalities; SSS.9+4-03 in
aid to the destitute; Si2. 205.90 in quaran-
tine matters. Total $444S, ,924 26.
Scarcely less important and interesting
than the above is the statement for July.
This shows that the customs collections in
the entire island for July alone were
81 .2e1 .5S7. SO; internal revenue collections,
s56, 351. SO; postal collections SIS, eco; mis-
ceIlaneOus collections. S55, 1851. Grand
total of receipts for the month, 81, ,339,-
32423; disbursements. STOPS, ,S77.5S.
The times., 1899-08-28
English Purchases in Cuba.

(From the New York Commercial Advcrtiser
The fact that English synGieates are buyng
iron mines in Cuba and that English money IS
pouring in there more rapidly than American is
sure TO set some people thinSins on wrong lines
In the first place, there IS more English money
lying idle and willing to take lower rate Of
profit II has to go out OF its narrow field at
houie, and confidence in our protectorate of Cuba
has tempted It to investment there. But the inn
meuse home field for Investment of American
money still offers opportunities more tempting;
than anywhere else 1t is not that are neg
Letting Cuba, but that can make better use
of money here. For that matter. English capital
continues to pour into this country plenti-
f..lly as ever. There is more of it here than
in all the rest of the world outside Great Bri-
tain
The times., 1899-08-28
Children,s Reading.
Ice the UnirersaIist Leadsr.

ttrom the tnfYerSall5t Le1derl
What IS TO be given the children to reaf
is still an important question to all 70
whom the care of children is eOnhde9
There has been a marked change N the
character OF books designed for young
readers The modern book Is more life
like the characters are taken from the
towns and cities, the streets and highways,
Of this old world OF ours. The boys and
girls of heavenly birth. Of celestial chap
acter with angels wings, have been har--
ished from the literature of today. There
is danger. possibly, of too radical a reac-
tion. We may go too far from the heavenly.
too far toward the earthly. This seems TO
be the opinion. at least. of a number OF
guardians of Sunday school libraries In
several instances, one Of them in our own
denomination, certain books By Kipling
have been placed under the ban " any
one draws from life. IL is Kipling. and some
OF his characters would not be chosen by
careful parents as associates for their chill
dren- a high name in literary circles can
not always serve as a passport TO the
libraries OF our Sunday schools.
The times., 1899-08-28
cANAD8'swEsT INDIAN TRADE.
Much of III Coming to This Country
Trinfdnd n Cnse In Point.

QUEBEC, aug. 27.--Canada's trade with
the West Indian Islands is decreasing in
much the same proportion as that between
the United States and the West Indies is
increasing Especially is this true of -four
fhe people Of Trinidad much prefer, ac-
| cording to the trade reports received at
ottawa, the blended spring and fall wheat
hour sent from the United States TO the
straight flour manufactured in Canada. But
there are also good tariff reasons for the
Improvement of the American trade at the
expense or the Canadian in the British
West Indies. Notwithstanding the Can
adam preferential tariff, it is still more ad-
Vantageous for the West Indies to take
advantage of the American countervail-
ing duties in exporting their sugar. Fin
ally the entry of the island of Trinidad
into reciprocal relations with the United
States has dissipated the last hope of
canada for regaining her lost trade.
The manner in which Trinidad came to
be included in the reciprocity treaty that
was signed in Washington by the British
Minister on July IA last, is thus described
by the Canadian agent on the island In
official dispatches TO Ottawa:
Trinidad, which up to a recent date
had declined. through its executive to
enter into negotiations for reciprocity with
the United States, made up its mind al
most at the last moment. The change in
policy here, (Port-of-Spain), came about
when the cable informed us that the dele
gates to Washington from Barbados and
British Guiana had received terms far more
favorable to these colonies than might have
been expected from the conditions indi-
Gated in the convention upon which the
negotiations were based. Mr.. De Jonge,
the delegate from Demerara, in passing
through here on July II, met the Chamber
OF Commerce, and expressed establishment
that this colony had not joined in the
treaty. AS result of the conference with
Mr. De Jonge the Chamber passed and for
warded to the Government a strong reso-
luton urging the Secretary of State to ac-
cept on behalf of Trinidad the same terms
as concluded for British Guiana, if inde-
pendent negotiations were no longer prac
ticable. unanimous resolution to the
same effect was subsequently carried by
the Legislative Council and communicated
to Mr.. Chamberlain, by whom negotiations
were reopened, and the treaty was already
signed before the arrival at Washington
of the special delegate appointed to proceed
there
The times., 1899-08-28
Growth of presbyterianism.
CFrom the Presbyterian.)

In the comparative summary OF the Pres
byterian Church one finds much of encour-
agement, but also one item which should
awaken anxiety. 1t is the decline from
year to year. for the last five years. of the
number added on examination and certif-
cate. We are not receiving on profession
as many as we are dropping from the roll.
How long could this continue without dis
astrous result? The decline is not in one
presbytery or city, but a general falling
off in the whole Church. Souls are within
reach and need to be converted and added
to the Church. More are within reach
than ever before. and we never had such
facilities for reaching them. But we nave
not drawn them to Christ and into the
Church. Young people are growing up out
of the profession of religion, and older
people are becoming more confirmed in
carelessness and unbelief. There has not
been such growth in the Church as there
should be with all the advantages we have
had
The times., 1899-08-28
Race Problems i'm the South.

Fortunately the race troubles at Darien,
in Georgia, appear to have quieted down,
and to judge from the tone of yesterdays
news the prospect OF further bIoodshed has
been greatly minimized. The negro who
murdered Deputy Sheriff Townsend sur
rendered himself to the militia and was
safely landed in Jail. Others implicated
in the killing viii have to be delivered.
in order to prevent a renewal Of the move
ment against the blacks, but the chances
are that the danger of a collision between
is over for the present, as far as the
Brunswick district is concerned
AS readers of The Times are aware. the
race problem is taking on an ugly aspect
in places other than Georgia. The situa-
ton in the former black belt of Louisi-
ana and Texas is acute and serious
Throughout region almost as large as
the State of New York, covering parts OF
both Commemorative, the negroes have
been steadily driven out of the country
into the larger towns, particularly New Or
leans In this part of the Union the OBJ
lection to them on the part of the whites
appears to be principally economic. They
are willing TO work in the logging camps.
sawmiIls. and other industrial plants of
the area at wages which the white natives
and immigrants viii not accept, and the
latter are determined TO expel them.
The extent TO which this policy has been
carried out already. it is said, viii appear
surprisingly in the county and municipal
enumerations in the next Census. For ex-
ample, it is predicted that the city of New
Orleans will show larger coiored pop
ulation, actually and proportionally, than
ever before in its history, and the added
competition of the new refugee negro ele-
ment with the unskflled and half-skilled
white workingmen Of the community is
regarded as certain to create local friction
and difficulties which the municipal gov
ernment may find it a hard task to pro-
vide against or control.
When the only kind OF manual labor to
be had in the Southwest was furnished by
the negro he was unmolested, except in
connection with political matters, and was
considered a necessity. OF late years, the
influx of Italians and other unskilled ele-
ments has displaced him TO some extent.
In a general way he has owned the labor
market in the end, being content with pay
and conditions of life intoIerable to even
the poorest class of whites. The latter
have undertaken 10 apply General Buffers
proposed remedy-the separation Of the
races-though not in the peaceful or
equitable manner suggested by the soldier
statesman. The results may be satisfac-
tory to those who have produced them;
but they certainly are otherwise from the
viewpoint of the communities which have
been compelled to receive the overflow of
the country districts. Looking over the
whole field Of disturbance, which, in one
way or another, includes all the Southern
StaIes OF maximum negro population, one
cannot avoid the conclusion that the race
problem has at length become imminently
serious, If not graTely discouraging.
The times., 1899-08-28
EvoLUTIoNs ON THE PACIFIC.
The New Squadron of warships Now
organizing at san Francisco.

The New Squadron of warships Now
organizing at san Francisco.
The cruiser Newark is due to arrive at
San Francisco within a week The cruiser
Marblehead. which. like the Newark. came
around into the Pacific by the Straits OF
Magellan. is expected also to reach San
Francisco shortly. Both these vesss,s will
probably need some slight repairs. and it
is the intention of the Department 10 as
sign them, upon the conclusion OF this
work. TO a squadron OF evolution TO be
formed for exercises in the Pacific The
other vessels in the squadron VIII be the
cruiser Philadelphia and battleship Iowa
Rear Admiral Kautz, commander-in-ehief
OF the Pacific naval station, viii cOmmani
the squadron, and the Philadelphia viii BE-
maintained as his flagship The squadron
viii probably spend the late fau and win
ter in evolutiouS on the southern coast OF
California, and il is not unlikely that they
viii go as far as Honolulu. There has
never been squadron of evolution IN the
Pacific, and the Navy Department IS anx-
ious 10 have the four vessels Begin their
tactical exercises as sOOu as possible.