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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-26

The situation In Spain reminds us Of
the famous hunger strikes Of the
Russian prison. When tyranny under
the car goes beyond endurance. the
prisoners by common agreement refuse
to eat. Even Russian tyranny il APP
palled at the thought Of forcing all the
inmates of a prison to perish by starva-
tion. and the hunger strike generally
succeeds in securing the modification Of
intolerable rules. The taxpayers Of
Spain are adopting similar system.
They find no relief or reform Of gov
eminent abuses. The old system pre-
walls, the old burden OF taxation re-
mains. They have ceased to pay dues
to the state. II the authorities descend
upon them. they can only levy upon
goods For these no market is found,
and presently they deteriorate. leaving
the public treasury no richer. This
policy is the last refuge OF political de-
spair. The discouraging feature is that
the people have lost faith In their own
capacity to organize a government and
their hope Of any Improvement from
within. 1t would have been happy
circumstance for Spain II, the monarchy
could have shared the fate Of its colon
les that passed under American rule
But we may thank our lucky stars that
we have not added to our problems that
Of attempting to purify and revivify a
decaying race ana political system
that is in the last stages of putrescence.
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The Names Dead.

Pathetic indeed is the arrival Of the
Texas with the dead Of the Maine at
Hampton Roads. On Christmas eve the
sister ship to the vessel that was de-
troyed in the harbor of Havana returns
with ensign at half mast, under COM
mand Of Sigsbee, and restores to their
native land the bodies of those first VIC
tins OF a tragedy that brought on. war.
In this season of peace and good will.
America turns sorrowfully to the VIC
tins OF the Maine, and will render to
them the enduring honors accorded to
those who have persisted in their coun-
try's cause; and as Pericles comforted
the Athenians by saying at is sweet
to die for ones country" the leading
men OF the nation VIII gather in Ar
lington to pay a tribute to the dead.
The great heart Of the nation in this
memorial OF the countrys bereavement
throbs In sympathy with those citizens
whose loss Is personal, and the entire
people feel that congress, in appropriate
ing $4,000 to secure the removal OF the
Names dead, did only what was due to
the memory of men who died martyrs.
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The large number Of communications
received but not available for publica-
ton seems to require that we remind
the writer's of letters to the Post-Intelli-
gencer OF the conditions to be observed.
Our columns are open to statements OF
fact or careful discussion of topics Of
general public interest. They are not
to be used for the carrying on of per-
sonal controversies. Our readers do
not in the least care what Mr.. A. thinks
at Mr.. b. as a letter writer or dispu-
tant, nor whether Mr.. B. approves Of
the logic or literary style Of Mr.. A.
They do not wish to be troubled with
mere denunciation Of men or measures;
with epithets or defamation. Many
letters are excluded from our columns
daily because they violate these obvious
ly necessary conditions The column
Of the people is absolutely free to all
people who have something to say, and
say It briefly and courteously. No let
tiers will appear in it whose tenor is
personal rather than public. The Post
Intelligencer is generous with its space,
but the public must use and not abuse
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defamation appears. II the United
states government were to order .

defamation appears. II the United
states government were to order .
draft tomorrow for military service In
the Philippines, and the lot should fall
upon Mr.. De Almond he would realize
how faint are the claims Of any midi
vidual under the sun 70 the freedom Of
the savage unless " renouuces for 4
all the gains OF cfvilisation. Even then
he would md other savages whose
views Of liberty and the pursuit OF hap
piness confiicted with his own. stout
" contending that ne had no right to
live It an and enforcing their opinion
with war club.
The United States Is sovereign In the
Philippines. It's authority rests upon
all the different titles that the world
holds valid. The rights Of the inhabi-
tants. like those Of our own citizens.
are such as can be granted with safety.
We desire for every man, white Of
brown, the largest liberty that he can
exercise wisely. What that IL we say.
also for white and brown. Not every
man can even vote IN tbs United States.
What shall be the government Of the
Filipinos. and what the steps by which
we are to lead them to higher civili-
zation ana a larger liberty it IL for Us
to determine. The question Is practical.
not abstract. Our ultimate purpose is
to help them to govern themselves. It
il only hindered, perhaps there Is no
other intention than to hinder It, by
quoting the axioms of Rousseau or
Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson.
impracticable as they are; BY insisting
that the high privileges for which T.
took men centuries to At themselves
must be bestowed forthwith upon q
race that cannot vet even comprehend
them. The course OF the Democratic
party is that Of clergyman who should
insist upon sending nothing but even
ing suits. physical laboratory fittings
and editions Of Herbert Spencer in his
missionary boxes to the heather.
Democracy has always lacked a sense
Of humor
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MEN WHO DIE FOR ENGLAND.

Men who die for England
Never die in vain.
Dying conquerors, dying masters,
Dying firm mid fierce disasters,
Englands every son
Dying, duty done.
Gives the life she lent him back again.
Men who die for England
Never die in vain.
Rushing seas they rode victorious,
Conquering seas have made them glorious,
Where in marshalled rank
Down to death they sank,
Met in order stern. the roaring main.
Proud for pride of England
Died and not in vain.
Fell our modest once forsaken--
Ay, betrayed--the soul unshaken!
Dead. he spoke a word;
Sleeping, waking heard.
Till we reared an empire for his fame.
Peace. to Gordon! England
Mourned him not in vain.
Jungle, desert, heights and valleys
Know the dwindling square that rallies
Steady, back to back
Fronts the yelling pack;
Wild Shanghai knows the grim refrain
Sung ere men of England
Fell above their slain
Sons of Vikings! old the story,
Desperate odds and death-fght CORY.
Over all your graves
Late or soon there waves
Proud the flag We held us high from stain
Floats the flag of England,
Fought for not In vain.
Beacon fires are ye whose ashes
Fade YET forth their splendor flashes.
Answers height on height,
Bright and yet more bright;
Answers all your England, hill and plain
Men who die for England
Do not die in vain.
Prince and laborer, clerk and yeoman,
One we rise to front the foeman.
Who can dare forget
Now tp pay his debt?
Give what England gave to her again.
Men who die for England
Have not died in vain.
Margaret l. Woods, in the London, Eng,
Spectator.
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Change In Pilot Laws.

Congressman DAILY, Of New York. Will
soon introduce in the house of repre-
sentatives bill intended to abolish the
present pilotage system, transferring the
business from state to Federal authoriS
ty. The wonder is that the overhauling
of pilot laws was not undertaken years
ago. A lot of nusty regulations are
now in force which should have been
done away with long ago, for laws
which might have been required in the
early days of shipping are no longer
necessity and might be repealed greatly
to the benefit of commerce.
There was a time when the services
Of pilots were more generally and i'm
peratIvely needed than at present.
When shippers made the same port but
once in a long series of years. when
charts were imperfect, when the ton
mage of the world was largely sail and
not steam the pilot had to be relied
upon for safe guidance into a harbor.
Of the freight and passenger carrying
trade has been turned over to steam
ships which ply the same routes year
after year and make frequent trips.
Charts are elaborate, accurate and up
to date and often the modern master
mariner has no more need for a pilot
while making a harbor than he has for
a battery Of howitzers to protect him
self against pirates in the Narrows.
For years pilots have been able,
through laws drawn in their favor. to
force their services upon mariners who
did not require them. Through the old
rule of paying full dues when the pilot
was taken aboard and half dues when
his services were refused, the shipping
Of the world has been taxed mercilessly
and often wholly without warrant. The
safety Of passengers and the protection
Of marine underwriters may at one time
have demanded that pilots be employed,
but the ship master OF today is so well
acquainted with the coasts and harbors
he fre1uents and SO well equipped
through experience for making port,
that the services of licensed pilot are
quite superfiuous.
Hundreds of captains have been on
regular foreign and coast runs for years
and are as competent to take vessel
in and out of port as any pilot 1t Is
an unnecessary exaction to demand that
vessels under the command OF such men
shall be compelled to take pilots or pay
port pilotage in case the pilots services
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oil Tnn WAY 40 rHE CAPE.
seiens nj CanaAa's First Families
Cheerfu1ly Scrub Decks.


Correspondence Montreal Star.
Az might be expected. regiment
brought into being under the circurn-
stances Of this one II very much different
from the average British regiment In Its
composition. The rank and file OF the
Canadian contingent are In no sense OF the
word OF the regular Tommy Atkins
type. Instead. there are among the pri-
Yates young fellows In almost every sta
ton In life, and not,a few Interesting cir
cumstances have come to my notice in that
connection since we left Quebec. Side by
side with the men who have earned their
bread by the sweat Of their brows arc
young fellows who have been reared in
the lap OF luxury, and yet they occupy the
same hunks, eat the same coarse food, and
do the same heavy mental work which
falls TO the lot Of all soldiers in the ranks.
And yet there is no complaining For
instance. on the upper deck the other day
i noticed detail scrubblng down the
decks In their bare feet. with their
trousers rolled up TO their knees, and
armed with scrub brushes. they were
scrubbing away for dear life. The detail
was from the Montreal and Quebec COM
panies, and among them noticed Percy
Rae, q son Of the late Jackson Rae, OF
Montreal, and large shareholder In the
Allan Company, and who probably has
an interest in the ship. the dirty decks Of
which he was scrubbing down like an or
binary seaman. A little further on. In the
same detail, came across G. Wolferstan
Thomas, son OF r. Wolferstan Thomas,
general manager Of the Nelson's bank.
Montreal Another was Norman Barclay,
the captain Of the Montreal football
team. and a son OF Rev. DR.. Barclay, pas
tor OF st. Paurs Presbyterian church. 1t
is the same enthusiasm which induced
young fellows like these to leave their
comfortable homes and to endure the dis
comforts and hard, uncongenial work In
cident to the life Of the common soldier
that has made the Royal Canadian regi-
ment one OF the brightest and most prom
sIng regiments that was ever enrolled
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DISCRIMINATING Criminals.

A New York minister recently argued
before his congregation in favor of the
theory that the criminal classes should
be exterminated with chloroform, just
as the worthless in the lower animal and
vegetable Kingdoms are destroyed. This
il not a new doctrine. 1t forms part
of the scheme included in penology, and
it has been tried before, although not
by the same means.
The plan proposed is nothing more
than an extension of capital punish
ment to other crimes than murder. 1t
would be doing the reverend gentle
man an injustice to suppose for a mo-
ment that he would have the chloro-
form applied by any other authority
than that Of duly constituted court.
He would not leave 1t to the jailor or
the warden or even the chaplain to
determine whether the subject were
sufficiently worthless" to be extermi-
mated. The minister in this case
has no practical appreciation Of
the full meaning of his own Ian
guage. Possibly every man who heard
his sermon agreed with him; nearly
all who read what he says will no
doubt consider him to be right. Theo-
retically he is not very far wrong, be-
cause society processes to regard the
murderer as the most worthless of
criminals, and exterminates him, not
by chloroform, but by electricity or the
hangman's rope. All Others 1T regards
as not being entirely worthless, but
having expiated an offense by submits
sion to punishment as worthy of one
more trial.
1t would be a happy state of affairs
II the criminal classes could be exter-
minated either by chloroform or moral
reform. The question must first be
determined what the criminal class is.
The crime of murder is now regarded
as the most heinous, but it was not
so long ago that sheep stealing in Scot
land and horse stealing in Texas were
regarded as far more deserving of ex-
IRENE punishment. Indeed, under some
conditions failure to acknowledge a
king as the vicegerent of God on earth
was regarded as being SO wicked as
to deserve slow roasting to death.
Another difficulty in the classification
proposed by the minister is that man
may commit terrible crime and yet
be a fairly decent man In other respects.
On the other hand, man may never
do anything worse than be guilty of
petty larceny or disorderly conduct.
and still be apparently worthless.
There are poor wretches who never
committed crime, but whose whole life
is a misdemeanor. to whom chloroforn
would be happy relief just as 1t
would be to half-starved, homeless,
NANCY cur. They are guilty of an even
greater wrong to society than remain
ing alive; they leave a progeny no bet
ter than themselves, which adds to
the misery Of life and the burdens OF
organized communities
Yet the millennium will never CONT
about by the proposed method of elm
ination. Nature Is busily at work kill
ing off the decadent. The offspring of
the vicious become less patent in each
,,,,.aaairo ganara fior until n d;ar n,,.
But while this physiological process is
serving to free the world of the worth
less 1t is the business of the minister
to aid nature to perpetuate a desirable
species by helping to raise the stand
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Pr0flt I'm Dairyfng.
Spokane Spokesman-Revfew.

That, taking all things into consider
ation--the milder winters. the productive
wealth of the soil. and the higher prices
paid here for milk and butter, with the
assurance Of the development Of the min
Ing resources and the lumber industry.
the demand for the Alaskan trade. the
growth Of our cities. and the demand for
the ships and steamers sailing In and out
Of Puget sound and the Columbia river
dairying can be made to pay in this state,
and will be made profitable.
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Matters must be getting serious when
a man as sober as w. T. Stead has a
vision of $4,000 Frenchmen overrunning
London and the defenders of the throne
thousands Of miles away fighting
South African farmer.
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Democracy the Party Of Accident.
Rockford ENTERPRISE.

Poor Bryan! Like the Democracy. he is
always bewailng the condition of some
body. and especially the Republican act
of progi ession Who ever heard of De-
mocracy doing anything to advance the
condition of the country? They plant
their feet and back on any proposition
that Will advance the interests of the peo-
pie. When they get into power it is sim
ply an accident.
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Perhaps as important fact as any
other which ought to be brought to the
attention of congress is that only 0 per
cent. Of our foreign trade is carried in
American bottoms
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There is a rush of English peers to
enlist for service in South Africa. This
is not surprising. They have seldom
been found wanting when the interests
Of the nation were endangered. And 1t
is safe to say they will be far more
useful at the front than in the house
of lords.
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government Helpins the Farmers.

Arlington Enterprise.
The farmers OF the several states are APP
preciating their agricultural experiment
station work more and more. This work
should be extended to Hawaii Porto Rico
and the Philippine islands. so that they may
he enabled TO supply the United States with
tropical products, our importations OF which
amount to over $1,000 annualiy
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More Capitals Than Csenerals.

Port Townsend Leader.
American generals can eat Christmas
dinner in all Aguinaldo's capitals If there
are enough generals to go around.
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Republicans Make a Good start

Vancouver. WASH. Independent.
The Republicans of the house have set
about their business in a spirit Of unity
which is good omen for the effective dis
patch of the public business.
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The larger editions and increased circula-
lions OF the London papers resulting from
the South African war, has made a scarcity
in white paper that threatens famine and
promises to extend to this country. Some
Of the London journals are now using twice
as much paper as they we're before the war.
despite the scarcity and careful censoring
AZ thn war paWS
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Nothing Succeeds Like succe...

Clallam County Courier.
No matter how much the British praise
their officers. the moment they suffer a
reverse praise turns to blame with the
suddenness of an April storm.
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OFFICES.
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Pullman Heralt


But the Beers are standing in the way Of
civilization. are fighting for principles op-
posed to religious and political liberty, and
their ultimate overthrow is only question
of time.
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No Excuse for Delay.


Decency and common sense demand that
the Roberts case be considered on its mer-
its and decided at once. Further delay is
unnecessarily demagogic and expensive.
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Precedent Again.t Quay.


WHHtCUIII bIdUt.
A senate true to it's past rulings on iden-
teal cases can not seat him without stand
ing in the shadow Of great permanent
wrong.
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Preventive Of Damage suits
Spokane Chronicle.

Spokane Chronicle
The enforcement of the Sidewalk clean
ing law is not matter of sentimental
is a matter of dollars TO the city.
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Uncle Sam a Creditor Nation

SolNlifs ACCOMMODATIONS.
Apparently We are to become u creditor
nation. II that be true the logical stand
ard for us Is the gold standard.
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MIR. Hoss's Handicap.

Vancouver, Wash, Columbian
Mr.. Hogg Is a~littie too heavy, both in
name and flesh. to make the run a. q
candidate for vice president.
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Are the rilipino Horses,

Ortlng OTHCIe.
Where now Is the pet theory of some
Americans that the Filipino forces are SC
many heroes fighting for the liberty O
their country!
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Criticism of Mr.. Choate.

1t occurs to us that our ambassador to
England is talking too much post-prandial
nonsense. and needs a firm. II tender. REIN
up.
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win ne n Record breaker.

Port Angeles Trfbune-Tfnfes.
The rush to Cape Nome and Cape York
in the spring promises to be the most phe-
nomenal movement of gold hunters that has
ever occurred in this country.
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MaryxyiIle Globe

MarySVfiIe GIobe.
The Beers are not savages, neither arc
they fools. and they fight Hike men willing
to perish for their principles.
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Gunpowder Too Good for Them.
Yakima Republic.

The laws of the Popu.ist legislature OF
1897 have been pretty thoroughly shot to
pieces by the courts.
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A GUARANTEE.

The Post : IntelliGencer hereby
guarantees Its advertisers . bona
side paid ejaculation, Daily, weekly
and sunday, double that Of any
other newspaper Published I'm the
state Of Washfnwton. Advertising
contracts WIN be made subject 10
this guarantee.
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THIRD AVENUE THEATER. IRE
member the Maine
sRATTLn, TUESDAY, DnCEMBRR 20.
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MACAULEY COMES BACK.
Much Wanted Duluth Hookkeeper I
Now Under Arrest.

Much Wanted Duluth Isookkeeper Is
Now Under Arrest.
DULUTH, July 5.-Malcolm Macauley,
formerly bo%okkeeper in the American
Exchange bank of this city, has re-
turned from Scotland, where he had
been with his bride. Macauley's ac-
counts at the bank were discovered
short while he was in the hospital here
recovering from appendicitis.
He was permitted to leave the city,
after having been detained until his
books were all checked over. He went
to Toronto and married Miss Kathleen
Burrows, a trained nurse, formerly of
Duluth. They went to New York,
London and Scotland, and at nearly
every point they touched Macauley is
said to have beaten somebody by means
Of bogus drafts or checks.
He recently returned with his bride,
told a plausible story to a Chicago
banker and obtained a position there.
He arrived here voluntarily and was
put under arrest to answer a charge of
grand larceny.