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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-11
vru.voPK AyD NATIONAL COMMERCE..

NFW.YOPK AND NATIONAL CONnERCE.
rho renort Of the Chamber Of Commerce for
the wear ending June 30. 1895, which is about 10
he published will be at once m inspiring anu III
alarming document To the United States as Il
whole it will be inspiring in high degree siilce
If will show-what has already been haue
known-that in that year the foreign commerce
Of the country was greater than III any preceu-
inc year TO all interested in the welfare oi
Vnw-York il will be diSquicting and even alarhi-
ing. since it Will show that the commerce Oh
This mort is declining both actually ana rela'l'c-
" 70 the commerce of the whole country lIlS
latter. too. is Il fact hitherto made known, III
these columns and elsewhere Perhaps the
figures which will appear in the Chamber OF
Commerce report will aid in arouslng Oinclal
and popular interest in a subject which is III
ir,nortonce paramount to almost all others that
concern this city and state.
Tho foreign commerce of the whole country In
the last fiscal year amounted in value 10 the co
lossal sum of 50. OG9.3G3, 069 That was an IN
crease of $50. 7S2 $40 over that of The preceding
wear which had been TO that time the greatest
OH record On the other hand the foreign com
MERGE of the port Of New-lork in the same year
Amounted 10 only S9969j54l6. That was an
enormous sum in itself. But 1t was SD 'o6
less than that of the preceding year. and less
than that of any Of five Of the preceding seven
wears. In brief while the commerce OF the Ma
ton is increa sing. that Of this port is dccreas-
ing NETWORKS decrease last year being actually
greater than the whole Nations Increase III
each Of five of the last six years the commerce
of Ncw-Yorl has shown an actual decline OF
from ~ 15OOOO 10 3.OOO00O And whereas
ten years ago New-York's share of the Nation
commerce was nearly 30 per cent, it was last
vcar oulv trihe over AZ per cent.
Nov. all This. as we have said. is an old story.
We have presented the facts from time TO time
in these columns for years. An old story too. is
that of the manifest causes of the decline. With
only one Of its two sea gates in use, and that
the less direct and commOdlOuS one and II so
shallow and involved that no large ship can
mass i'm or out without danger of fouing: with
the great canal system after seventy-hve years
sill incomplete and neglected and abused. with
Inadequate dock facilities. extortionate charges
all other operations made as cumbersome. slow,
laborious and costly as possible II would be
miraculous If the commerce of New-York We're
not declining II is all an old story. But It is
only the dull ear of drowsy man" that is
ycxcd by a twice-tod tale. Are we TO assume
that the spirit of New-York Is drowsy and its
ear dull that il is only veXed by the telling Of
that which is to this imperial metropolis mat
ter OF life or death
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-11
PERSONAL.
what mixed

The will OF the late Adophe Roy Of Montreal
provides that sl00C 900 shall be given either 20 the
educational work being carried by the 81. Jean
Baptiste Society I'm connection with tho Monument
Rationale In whole or I'm part. or to the founding
of any public scnoo provided the object be popu-
lar education, the decision as to the application
Of the bequest being left entirely in the hands OF
the testamentary executors who are appointed
trustees for the disposal of such beques
NJ NJ Shoemaker Of Cincinnati has just re-
turned from a trip around the world. He was in
Manila from January to January %. and Iunched
with Admiral Dewey. He says that the Admiral
rarely appears land. spending nearly al his time
aboard his flagship at Cavite He Is unassum-
Ing and talks little about his victory, apparently
thinking that he did nothing more than his duty
In appearance he Is much better looking than MS
pictures would Indicate.
The main library Of Johns Hopkins University
will soon be increased by about three thousand vol
umes, given by the late John W. Mccoy. The
lowering lectures this spring will be given by Pro-
fessOr William y. Clarke OF Colgate University
Mrs S f. Scott. who has just died in Chicago
had been a resident CT that city since 1876 The
Scots were one Of the leading families in the early
Wentworth, the first Mayor of Chicago. Mrs Scott
remembered the building Of the first permanent
business blocks along State-st and could ten m
terestng anecdotes about old Fort Dearborn ana
It's transformation into the city OF Chicago.
Edward Gray. the principal Of the Davenport
School Of Fall River. Mass, who has Just dIed
was one of the oldest and st-knOwn educators in
Massachusetts,, having taught continuously ior
hfty-seven years
The German Emperor and Empress have received
a pressing invitation to visit the United states
from an aged couple at Louisville who on the
pont OF celebrating their golden wedding. The OLD
man at one time superintendent OF the springs
az Wesbaden. and knew Emperor william very
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-11
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-11

determined citizens. and the pulpits Will be
occupied by clergymen who have already SHOWN
that they are engaged heart and soul IN 'his
humane crusade. We nave no doubt that many
of Them will improve possibly final oppor
tunity TO extend and Intensity the opposition
which they have done much TO arouse ana or
ganizc II they call for another and more I'M
pressivc movement on the capital there VIII ne
no failure 10 respond.
Whatever the motives and calculations OF
politicians and machines may he, now Is just
the time TO push things. However much none!
the corporations may be eager to spend 'hey
can be beaten and their defeat recorded on
Monday night
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-11

District-Attornny Gardiner told tho Court the
other day that Carlyle Harris was not allowed
to examine the Grand Jury minutes Of his in
dictment. and insisted that his word was good
I'm spite Of contrary assertions. The court rec
ords however, show that Harris did see the
minutes. It Is charitable to suppose that Mr..
Gardiner misinformed the Court just because
he didn't know any better.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-11

The contention Of Yale and Harvard that
New London is the best place for their boat race
would be rather weakened by a decison'to go
elsewhere in case ew-London does not come
down handsomely for their expenses.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-11
He found time to review the 69th Regiment o"
Ite return from Alabama.

Assemblyman Egan has introduced a Dill 10
forbid the employment Of allen labor IN tnis
state. Every person Of foreign birth must snow
his naturalization papers to get joD' MI
E,gans name suggests the inquiry how, II MS
bill had been a law few years ago. his an
cestors would have made living In this coun-
try for the first years after their arrival
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-11

Agoncillo IL n clever fellow. He has picked up
the American demogogue's catchwords about
trusts. and uses them with the air Of one to the
manner born.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-11

There seems to he some trouble In France over
the Importation OF cottonseed oil from America.
If that American product should be excluded
from the French market II could no longer be
shipped back to us pure olive oil. And that
we'll in that event cur feelings would he some
what mixed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-11
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Dus,nres Noiltcs.

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Roll Top Desks and Office Furniture
Great Variety Il STYLE and Price.
T. G. sELLEw,
40. III Fulton St
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-11

Why do not the police close up tho notorious
dives which tempt the girls Of the tencments to
sin and suicide?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-11

1t would have been no more than fitting for
our Mayor 70 take the trouble 10 receive the
9th Regiment on it's return from Porto Rico.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-11

Mr. Croker is against the four-track grab. is
he' Curious that his man Grady didn't know
about IT,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21
Miss NELLIE CARROLL.
More Than Quarter Of the Century
Spent i'm War.

Before the representatives of the
nations gather at The Hague to dis
cuss the Cars program for securing
universal peace, it might lead to
quicker and more beneficial results
if each one would impress upon his
mind some great facts in history
that may be recited in few words.
In the last ninety eight years Tur-
key has had thirty-eight years of
war; Spain, thirty-one; France,
twenty-seven; Russia, twenty -four !;
Italy, twenty-three; England, TWEEN
ty-one; Austria, seventeen; Holland,
fourteen Germany thirteen Prussia,
singly, twelve; Sweden, ten; Portu-
gal, ten; and Denmark, nine.
Thus Europe alone, in the present
century, has seen war spread over
the enormous period of 249 years,
collectively, or more than one
quarter of the relative duration of
peace. Much of this fearful work is
chargeable to the ambition and ex-
ample of a single man.
| The United States has had about
! thirty-seven years of war in this
period-ten with foreign countries,
four between the States, and twenty
three with native Indians Saturday
Evening Post.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21

Now that the war with Spain is
over, the people are beginning to
talk out loud against the tyrannical
abuse being exercised by the Presi-
dent in keeping the volunteer army
in compulsory service. A public
meeting of the mothers and fathers
and friends Of the members of the
First Tennessee Regiment was held
in Nashville this week, and resolu-
tions were adopted expressing the
opinion that "the legal existence of
the First Tennessee Regiment of
Volunteers has been ended with the
accomplishment Of all the purposes
for which they were called, and
they should be mustered out of SER
vice." and appointing a committee
'to wait on our Honorable Governor
and invite suggestions as to the best
methods to persue in endeavors to
bring about desired ends" The
meeting was timely and to the point,
and we are glad to see that some of
the mothers and fathers and friends
of the First Tennessee are aroused to
the point of action. Our boys in the
Philippines are more prisoners OF
war, than volunteer soldiers.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21

MIR. MCKINLEY has said that "the
Philippine Islands came into our
possession by an accident" In the
first place thew have not yet come
into our possession. We are fighting
for the possession of them, and day
by day the issue grows moro doubt
full. But the way the accident
referred to happened, was this; our
peace commissioners demanded
these islands of Spain, at the fixed
price of twenty million dollars.
Spain objected strongly and fused
furiously about it, but our commits
sioners were firm in their demand
until Spain yielded. And this is
what Mr.. Mckinley calls IAN acct.
dent"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21
Do YOU Wish TO LOOK WELL?
RAINBOW LAND.
From the valley of morn where tear
drODS hing

From the valley of morn where tear
drops hung
From glittering bow of promise sprung;
So near it was plain to the dullest sight,
So distant no hand could reach it quite
And over the hills and far away
1t stretched where the heights un trod-
den lay;
But Fancy, truer of eye than Truth,
Could see Rainbow Land from Plains of
Truth.
There was gold uncounted in that fair
land,
There were shining laurels and honors
There was love undying and friendship
true,
Over the mountains bright and blue.
But rough and hard was the upward
climb
On the treacherous slope of the Hills OF
Time;
The laurels we saw from the plain be
low
We missed ere we reached the line Of
snow,
And the gold for which we greedily
wrought,
If we found at all, it was dearly bought
Few are the eyes that are blest to find
The road to the land where all are blind
Where the happiest one is he who lives
Alone for the happiness he gives,
And the only poor is the wretch whose
aims
Go begging in vain for needy palms.
God set its bounds by his realm above
For Rainbow Land is the land of love.
JAMES JEFFERY ROCHE, in Boston
Pilot
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21

EX-GOVERNOR PETER TURNKEY
made the best suggestion, looking
towards actual reform, that has ever
been made yet, when he proposed to
reduce the number of legislators to
one Senator from each Congress
sional district, and one Representa-
tive from each county. The bust
ness could then be transacted more
eXpeditiously as we'll as more intel.
ligently. 1t would be we'll to incor.
porate this suggestion into the mex
Democratic platform.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21

THE diplomatic relations between
the United States and Spain, are
now entirely restored by the APP
pointment by President Mckinley
of Mr.. Bellamy Storer as minister to
the Court of Madrid. Mr.. Storer
had three very strong points in the
eyes of the President First, he is a
Ohio man; SECOND, his wife is a
Catholic, and third, they twain are
are worth ten million dollars.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21
In Australia.

The Rev. Mr.. Dawson had an
awkward experience of bush life the
other Sunday. During divine SER
vice at Runnymede, Victoria, a
voice in solemn tones pealed forth,
"DO not move, Mr.. DAWSON; there's
a snake at your elbow" The minis.
ter glanced around and shuddered,
for quite close was a large tiger
snake, quietly coiled up. One OF
the congregation seized a walking.
stick, and, after some confusion
among those present, succeeded in
despatching the reptile.-Melbourne
Australasian.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21

WE hope Columbia will not lei
the opportunity pass of securing the
Cumberland Presbyterian Orphans
Home. The argument of the case
has virtually been closed, and now
if ever prompt and final action must
be taken. The Presbytery meets in
May, and the general committee
have been called on for their fnal
report; and Columbia must, with.
out further delay, send in it's guar.
antee of $4,000, or yield to other
communities who are willing AND
anxious to do so. 1t seems strange
that in the territory included in the
offer, this sum has not been forth
coming long ago.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21
SANCTUM SENTIMENTS.

1t will require an army of sixty
thousand men to hold the Philip
pines. The annual mortality among
this number through being killed in
battle and dying of wounds or dis
ease will amount to at least five
thousand, and One-half of all who
serve one year in that unhealthy
climate will become eligible to the
pension roll. These are some of the
fruits of Hanna's McKinleyism.-
Democracy.
With three wives and the prospect
of a congressional contest on his
hands, Representative Roberts, of
Utah, may be said to have trouble TO
burn. - Memphis Commercially
peal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21
HIS LIFE WAS SAVED.

Mr.. j. +. Lilly, a prominent citizen OF
Hannibal, Mo-, lately had a wonderful
deliverance from a frightful death. In
telling of il he says: 81 was taken with
typhoid fever that ran into pneumonia
My lungs became hardened. was SO
weak / couldn't even sit up in bed
Nothing helped me. | expected to soon
die of consumption, when heard Of DR.
Kings New Discovery. One bottle gave
great relief. / continued TO use il, and
now | am well and strong. can't saw
too much in its praise" This mary,
ellOus medicine Is the surest and quick
est cure in the world for all throat and
lung trouble. Regular size sc and 81
Trial bottle free at Woodbridge & Irvine's
drug store. Every bottle guaranteed.
june3 ~ 90
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21
GENERAL NEWS.

Arkansas will have a new $1,000.
600 capitol building.
Gen. Lew Wallace has consented
to have ben Hur" dramatized.
One hundred soldiers are under
arrest at San Francisco, charged
with burning down a saloon.
Orders have been issued directing
the gunboat Nashville" to go mp
the Mississippi river as far as ST.
Louis.
The Government has contracted
with a Kansas City, Mo-, packing
house for 100000 pounds of best
export dressed beef for United
States troops in the Philippines.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21

THE Middle Tennessee Baptist
Sunday-school Convention is in ses-
sion at the Baptist Church in
this city and the public will enjoy, if
they will attend, their interesting
services. We extend the visitors a
cordial welcome to our city and our
homes; and hope they will find CO.
lumbia so agreeable that they will
be constrained to prolong their stay.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21

GEN. SKATER says, "the Filipino
is a suspicious fellow, and can't see
the good intention of this govern
ment, and it may be necessary to
kill half the population of the is
lands in order that the remaining
half may be civilized and christian
lied" The Catholics had just as
well say to the Christian, or the
Christian to the Catholic, or the
Jew to the Mohammedan, you must
embrace our civilization and belief,
or we will kill half of you, civiliza-
ton demanding it..
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21

ALL that Columbia needs to
double its size in the next few years
is an organized effort to boom the
phosphate business in this county
To send abroad every day the buy.
ing and selling and digging and
shipping, and to inform the world
that fortunes are made in a day
would bring thousands of people and
millions of dollars to this God
blessed section of ours.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21
r. D. LANDER. Editor.

WHEN you come to think and
reason about it, is it not strange that
so many favors are shown to cor
porotions and capitalists, who
"work not, neither do they toll. "and
that the "bread-winners" of the
country are made to carry an un
prOportionate burden of taxation?
Our law makers, State and National,
seem to be possessed with the idea
that if they can foster and protect
the furnaces and factories, the
trusts and combines and monopolies,
the corporate wealth of the country,
that that will bring prosperity to all.
They seem to forget that from the
country comes all their wealth pro-
ducing material, and that but for the
labor and sweat of the farmer, every
fire in every furnace would die out,
and weeds and briers and grass take
the streets of all the cities of the
land. We are told that whatever is
to the interest of one class or one
business is to the interest of all.
That is not true. We are told that
the city and the country, the cor
poration and the individual, are
mutually dependent, the one upon
the other. And that is only partial
ly true. The city is absolutely de-
pendent upon the country, for its
life and existence; the country could,
in rough sort of way, get along
even comfortably, without the city.
The corporation could not live at all
without the existence it draws from
the individual; while the individual
could live and flourish and fatten
without any corporate aid or COM
bined wealth in the world. What
for instance, would become of the
millionaires and mighty folks of New
York City, If a wall should be built
around that city, and never another
article of food or fuel or dress ma
terial sent in from the outside?
How would they keep from starving
and freezing? What would their
boarded millions be worth to them?
On the other hand, take like area
of territory in Middle Tennessee
now devoted to farming purposes
and enclose it with wall, aud send
never an article of any kind or de-
scription within, and what would
become of its people? AS a matter
of fact, so far as the actual neces.
stiles of life are concerned, ey
would fare UNNECESSARILY better
than tenth of the citizens of New
York do even now. They would
have better food and more of it
they would have fuel for fire, ano
better clothes to wear, purer air and
more comfortable houses. They
would in every sense be better of
than one tenth of the people of the
cities now are. SO they are not sc
awfully and terribly and fearfully
dependent upon the capitalistic
crowd after all; and yet under the
laws, the man who owns the lano
and tills the soil is made to pay the
taxes, while the protected classes
hide their personally in bank vaults
and enjoy the fruits of other peoples
labor. 1t is unconstitutional
don'tcher know, to tax their in
comes.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21
COLUMBIA ARSENAL, TENN,

COLUMBIA AIRS EMAIL, TENN,
y March 30, lS99.-Sealed proposals
in triplicate, for furnishing fuel, for
age, straw, drayage between Arsenal
and points of delivering outside Ar
senal grounds, at this post during
fiscal year commencing July l, 1899,
will be received here until ~ O'Clock,
NJ, April 20, 1899, and then opened.
L. ;. reserves right to reject or ac-
cept any and all proposals or any
part thereof. Information furnished
on application. Envelopes contain
ing bids will be endorsed: 'Propo-
sails for Fuel, Forage and Straw.
Drayage,' addressed, Major JOHN
+. GREER, q. NJ. Ait
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21

THE phosphate finds in Maury
County has made this the Klondike
OF the South. And all We need to
have rush second only to the Klon-
dixie, is the proper, constant and per-
sistent advertisement of our re-
sources abroad. There ought to be
purse raised and an organized
effort made for that purpose.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21

Now the latest is that we must
send ten thousand soldiers to sub
due the rebellion in Samoa. What
subduing nation we are, to-be-
sure. Why not all of US beat
our plowshares into swords and our
pruning hooks into spears, and be-
come a nation of professional war
riors.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-21
Mrs. Georges Trial.

The trial of Mrs. George, who is
charged with the murder of Mrs.
McKinley's brother, Geo. D. Sex
ton, has been on at Canton, o., the
past week, and some very damag-
ing evidence has been introduced by
the prosecution. 1t is understood
that Mrs. Georges attorneys will
plead insanity.