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The times., 1899-08-16
Rints to- arr. Root.
From the Philadelphia Times.l

(Frem the Philadelphia Tfmes-l
Secretary Root must first restore dignity, har-
mony, and deccncy in military circles in Wash
inston Miles should be cesnrnander-in-Chiei or
deposed because he is untitled for it, and above
all, Adjutant General Corlin should be relsgated
to his proper position chief clerk of the
military department. Military jealousies and
wrangles and war specuations must end, and an
ample force with competent commander hur-
ried to Manila.
In addition TO the failure OF Secretary Root as
Secretary of War If the conflict with the Fill
pinos shall be continued into next year, Presi-
dent Mckinley can no more hope TO make a
second campaign for the Presidency with the
Filipino war on his hand than he could hope to
stop the tropical cyclone that is now waltzing
around somewhere out in the The war
must be ended before Congress shall meet at
the latest before the year; and unless Ssere-
tary Root can see his way clear to accomplish
it he would do well 10 resign as War Minister
at once and confess himself unequal to the task
rather than wait to prove himself a failure.
The times., 1899-08-16
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST IS. 1899.
The Crisis in France.

II Paris was not in a state OF open revo-
luton yesterday. the conditions were not
far from it. Guerin and about forty Of his
co-conspirstors were still barricaded in
the Anti-Semitic Leagues headquarters.
and defying the authorities to arrest them.
a large section OF the Partisan mob was
evidently favorable 10 their course. for the
streets around were all day blockaded with
crowds shouting "Vlve Guerin," and "a
has les JUifs." It was altogether singu-
lar spectacle-this brazen armed challenge
10 the Government in its capital.
Bat the gauntlet viii not rest long On
the ground. A new warrant has been is
sued for Guerin, charging him with trea-
son, and that renders him an outlaw, who
can be arrested at any time, whereas war
rants For ordinary political offences cannot
be served between sundown and daylight.
We presume. therefore. that by the time
this edition goes to press, General Gallifet
viii have the anti-semites out of that
house. or under its ruins
There are many strange things happen
fag in France just now. Night before last
there were anniversary gatherings bota
Of Bonapartists ana Of OTleanists. At each
GueTin was toasted and Dreyfus and his
friends denounced In the country through
which Labori's assRilant escaped, it is
learned that the peasants were all anti
Dreyfuzards, and the same seems true of
the soldiers who were pursuing the mis-
creant- All these things go TO show how
completely the Republic is standing over
the crater Of q volcano. ard what strong
probability exists that the country may
be involved in a bloody civil war at any
rnoment
The times., 1899-08-16
An Act to Be AppIauded.


Even President Mckinley, who has always been
more or a politician than soldier, must have
the credit of doing something to curb pension ex-
travsgance. His appointment of Henry Clay
Evans, Of Tennessee, Pension Commissioner
was one of his most sagaeious public acts. Mr..
Evans, though a Southerner, was Union soldier
and thorough going Republican. He has proved
himself something mora courageous and con-
scientious public official. BY his scrupulous care
for the public interest he has earned the good
will of the country and the enmity of the pension
attorneys and the army of undeservers who seek
to be pensioners under loose administration OF
the pension laws. Notwithstanding the howl
raised in consequence, Pension Commissioner
Evans has succeeded in measurably checking
fraudulent advances to cut down payments
and slightly to decrease the number OF names on
the rolls corresponding in a measure to the an.
nualiy increasing death rate. So far the President
has sustained him.
The times., 1899-08-16
The Retirement ofReed.

Although the private secretary of the
Hon. Thomas B. Reed is posing as an ac-
tive aspirant for the Congressional shoes
Of his master. the opinion grows that the
latter does not intend to retire from public
life. but viii be found on the floor of the
House next winter prepared to head the
small but active faction of Filipinos, or
ganized under the auspices of the junta
in Boston to oppose the American policy
Of expansion, and by that means to embar-
rass the Administration. There may be
nothing in this. but so many people who
ought to know think otherwise that per-
haps the idea will do for working hy-
pothesis.
If it be Mr.. Reeds intention to resume
his legislative duties it behooyes the Presi-
dent to avoid in future the mistakes he
has made in his past Philippine policy and
methods With the former Speaker in the
forum, able to raise that painful sawmill
voice, and explode that caustic wit, it
would be unfortunate to have anything in
the way of Otises or Denbys around loose
in Manila to attract his ponderous atten-
tfon. Perhaps, in case the rebellion should
be put down before the meeting of Con-
gress, the late autocrat of its popular
branch might not think it worth while TO
sit out the session; but we can hardly be-
lieve he would resign with such a tempt
ing outlook as the present conditions in
Luzon must present to an ambitious and
vindictive mind like his.
Mr. Mckinley is booked for enough trou-
be in any case, we are afraid. In the
Senate, Aguinaldo will be loudly if not
wei represented by Hoar. Hale, yelling
ton, and Mason. The House has been the
Tagal leaders weak point One of its most
distinguished members is on the way to
fight him with cavalry, and hundred 9TH
ers would start on similar missions had
they the chance. Unless Reed should de-
eide 10 champion the cause, the body bids
fair to be a lonesome one for its purposes
But, with his big AID fierce personality in
ths breach, nobody knows what the Fill
pino Junta might not be able to accomplish.
Aside from irst-clsss Congressional tai
ent the Junta is getting into ex-
cellsnt fighting shape. 1t has Andrew Car
negie to write checks for it; Atkinson to
grind ont politico-pathetic tracts. Ewing
Winslow 10 denounce planetary policy
Carl Schurz to fling fine and lofty scorn, al
space rates, and Eoar to furnish seniIe
piatitudes on a ruptured Constitution, and
a Declaration OF Independence dying of
Appendicitis All that is needed, in addi-
ton. is Reed. Can he show himself laggard
whsn TIE horn of his comrades blows the
signal for combat? His insurance salary
VIII go ON just the same, whether he is
in Congress or not, and the people who pay
It probably suspect that he can better earn
his wage on the floor of the House than
on TIRE floor of the sixteenth story of
Wall Street slzyscraper
The times., 1899-08-16
Jevy-Baiter Fantasies.

(From the New York Commercial Advertiser)
The Anti-Semitic League of France is making
spectacular and delightful finish to a worthless
existence It's president and the infamous ex-
mayor Of Algiers are fortified in their Paris
house, and with forty faithful followers. seltzar
water and petroleum they defy degenerate Paris
to cut them off from water and gas. One re-
members joyfully that the latest vice in Paris is
said to be petroleum drinking so that they will
not lack Tor stirnulants. thoroughly modern
siege this IS; for reporters are admitted daily
to take down the fine oraterieal frenzies into
which The brave defenders fall at a moment 5
notice. ,.hie the police enter only over the
usual dead bodies. But the police seem TO have
a disincliration for dead bodies, and are con-
tent to watch outside for a chance to nab the
president fer whatever in Paris corresponds to
drunk and disorderly. And from the neighboring
housetops the people cheer the fight; for it is a
fine diversion for the dog days.
The times., 1899-08-16
Dossier and Hordereau.

tFrom the Baltimore Sum-
One need not be surprised If one effect OF the
worldwide discussion Of the Dreyfus case should
be to enrich the English language by the addition
Of two very convenient words. Already the words
"bordereau' and "doss;er' are used as if they
were English AID not French, so much is the
advantage appreciated OF being able to express
by single appropriate word what would other
wise require dozen. Thus ''bordereau,'' derived
by the great French photographer Littre from the
word '.bord," one Of whose meanings is Margin
is defined note explanatory and in detail
article by article, or, we might say, item by
item, which exactly describes the paper forged
by Esterhazy, purporting TO be a list of docu-
ments furnished by Dreyfus TO attache of the
German Embassy. By the high authority
the word ''dossier' is defined to be stiff wrap
per or envelope containing the papers concern
ing a particular affair." or all the documents re-
lating to an individual
The times., 1899-08-16
AN ATTEMPT TO BLAcKMAIL
Sew York Officials Alleged to Have
Approached a Contractor.

New York, Aug. 15.-Two Tammany Of
hcers, high in the city government. are au-
thority for the statement that a member OF
the council from the borough Of Brooklyn
ana Two aldermen from the same borough
nave made attempts TO blackman at least
one man having contract with the city
ana TWO asphalt paving companies which
expect to obtain valuable contracts when
the coo worth OF bonds for repavins.
now held up in the council. are authorized
Against one OF the three members of the
municipal assembly the evidence, il is al
legged, is morally conclusive, but cor
roboratiye details necessary to make
conviction on a criminal charge is
admitted to be lacking Effort is being
made 10 procure this evidence. When il
is obtained. il is said, the man viii be ar
rested on criminal charge, and his prose-
cution VIII be pushed.
Not until the time comes when legal
steps may be taken with the assurance OF
success viii the city officials who are in
possession of the facts in the case make
known the names of the men accused.
The contractor who was approached was
John Pierce, who was the contractor for
the new hall of records The details Of
the alleged attempt to blackmal him are
withheld
Great difficulty has been found in get
to extort money from the asphalt compan-
les. But enough is said to have been
learned to convince certain high city Of
heials that they Will be able in time to
get evidence that will lead to the convic-
ton OF at least one man. They say that
it is known that representatives OF certain
companies have been approached by a
man who convinced them that he was the
agent of a certain number of councilmen
who had power 10 prevent the passage of
any bond resolution.
This man informed the representatives
OF the asphalt companies II they would
raise a fund OF S2e0, eco to be distributed
''in the right place." there would not be
any difficulty about the passage OF the re-
pavement bond issue
The companies, il is stated refused to
consider such an offer. Thinking that the
price had been set too high. the alleged
representative OF the city officials gradu-
ally reduced to $4,000. Then. the COM
panies saying that they could not pay this
the sum was cut in half, and final ofTer
to accept 100000 was made. On the re-
fusal again of the companies the repre-
sentative OF the legislators went away.
The times., 1899-08-16
An Argument for .nue,ptIon

(Frorn the Chicago Times-Herald)
Some OF the benefit, through the lessening Of
the deaths from yellow fever, which American
occupation Ct Cuba has produced can already be
seen. The deaths in Cuba from that malady this
year thus far have been remarkably few, while,
practically speaking, the scourge has been kept
out OF the United States The only way in which
yellow fever could be shut out from this country
would be by the American occupation of Cuba
That island either under Spanish rule or under
a government Of its own, would be breeding
place for this rnalady, and no precautions at the
gulf ports and those Of the South Atlantic would
avail to keep it out of this country. Here is one
OF the arguments for annexation which will ap-
peal to Cubans and Americans alike. The ac-
quisitien OF Porto Rico and Cuba will bring to
all concerned more benefits than either the people
of those islands or those Of the United States
commonly SUPPOSE.
The times., 1899-08-16
BURIED IN PoTTER's FIELD.
Mrs stemniier Not Notified OF Her
Husbands Death.

New York, Aug. 15.-Her husband dead
and buried week before she knew il.
Mrs. William stenmler. of 1245 Park
Avenue. IS IN an agony OF apprehension
today lest the body sent TO her in sealed
coffin from potter's field may not be his
The casket cannot be opened. for that Is
against the law.
Stemmler. who was seveDty-ffvs years
old. died at the City Hospital on Black
wells Island a week ago Although they
had been requested TO notify the wife. II
her husband should die so that he might
have proper burial, the hospital rhysi-
clans disseeted the body and sent ft to
potter's field.
Mrs. Stemmler tainted when told OF the
death and disposition OF her husband
When she reminded one of the officials OF
her request TO be notified he told her that
it was none of his business TO send notices
TO relatives. Afterwards he said be had
sent her postal card. She never received
IT,
She finally secured a disinterment per-
nit and a easket containing what is sup
posed to be the body of her husband was
brought 20 the nsorgue
The times., 1899-08-16
The Negro in the No-th.

(FroH. the Houston POst.l
To pick up 100000 people on one continent
and set them down for permanent residence on
another continent, thousands Of miles away, is
a ''Utoplan'' dream But IL IS pointed out by
the New Orleans Pieayune'' that this vesed
problem may settle Itself soon in a manner
not now suspected. except by fevs who have
been studying statistics furnished by recent cen
s,ses
The discovery is that the negro IS constantly
distributing himself. more and mere year by
yeeaF, the other sections af the United States
and gradually tightening the burden on the South.
The ''PicaEuHe' notes that already there Is a
movement Of the negroes nOrthward, and although
It IS Tar from attaining the eonSpicnousness and
proportions Of race migration. it has not faied
10 cause less Of ziotous disturbance and
bloody violence wherever the negroes have an
peaFed in considerable numbers Within the
last few years there have been serious and hlso.sy
troubles in Illinois, Indiana. Kansas. and other
Northern States over the bringing into them Of
negroes to work in the coal Mines
The times., 1899-08-16
World Mnn Makers

(From the Kansas CITY Star.)
The map makers of the world in the past CEN
tury have been England Russia, Germany, and
the United States At the opening of the CEN
tury France aspired to rearrange the map of Eu-
rope, but was obliged to relinquish that design
and her acquired possessions The other powers
have taken the first places. The flag Of Great
Britain has adyahccd in all lands and all waters
Russia has spread like cloud over northern and
central Asia, and now threatens further advances
in China. Germany has risen TO first place in
Europe, and plants her colonies in Africa and
asia, and the United States carries its dominions
by purchase far to the north and west that the
sun goes not down upon its domain. and by CON
quest becomes successor to the kingdom OF Spain
in the West and East Indies
Thus the map of the world has changed in the
last hundred years. 1t has been story OF expan-
sion and of consolidation. Those who have dis
covered have retained. Those who constructed
and improved have entered into the fruit of their
labors. 1t has been survival OF the strongest,
and doubtless the fttest
The times., 1899-08-16
Lynching Coteries.
(From the Kansas City s,ar.)

trFOli the ban>dS lily -Sar
The Government at Rome, having investigated
the lynching of Italian subjects in Louisiana,
CARDS the affair as atrocious, being nothing less
than the murder by mob OF three men who
had nothing to do with the killing in which
two other men, who were also lynched, partici-
pated. 1t is not impossible that the facts were
as stated by the Italian Government. Il Is also
probable that it makes difference to the
lynchers if they are true The mobs which figure
frequently in the columns of American news
papers are not, as they often represented,
temporary, but necessary, substitutes for courts
Of justice. They are merely brutal aggregations.
crazy to kill somebody, innocent guilty and
never in any case express any regret or suggest
any sort OF reparat;on when they have sacrificed
an innocent person. The modern lynching parties
do not bear any resemblance to the vigilance
committee OF San Francisco, which amounted
TO judicial tribunal They are as a rule bent
shedding blood The country is exposed to
deep disgrace from their existence. and may, in
addition, be called upon to pay exemplary dam
ages
The times., 1899-08-16
Van wyck in the south

ttFom the Savannah News
There IS a good deal Of talk enlanating from
Saratoga IN respect 70 Judge Van WICK Is
Presidential candidate In the dispatches from
that famous resort it IS announced that 5000 900
copies oi his speeel, against trusts. delivered
at the Jeifersonian dinner under TamIslany's au-
spices, are to DC scattered over the country
aad il IS declared that he is Just as well known
and just popular in the SOath IS he is in
New YoFk. His speech against trusts i a mcder-
ately good, but mt wonderful pgatlaetion.
Ii his friends depending upon his popular
iiy in thte South to pull him through they are
likely 10 suffer great disappointment It is
true that he has some distant connection with
the South, but not enough to justify his friends
in saying that he is wonderfully popular in tins
part Of the country. lie Is known in the south
Just as thousands Of other nsn who have figured
in public kne~n. namely. through tbs aews-
papers.
The times., 1899-08-16
BRYAN TALKS IN IOWA.
He Delivers Addresses ON the Issues
OF the Coming Campaign.

Des Moines. Ia. Aug. l5.--At four diff
ferent meetings today. William jennings
Bryan approved the course adopted BY the
Iowa Democrats in planning the campaign
this fan. In an address to the county chair
man he said:
The Chicago platform was written for
all time and the Democratic party IS not
under obligation 10 relterate its details bur
as new issues arise We VIII have 20 turn
our attention to them. take them into the
FAMILY and fight on them without aDolO-
sizlng for any former fight we have made
Later, before the State central committee.
with whom be had conference concern
ing the platform. which will be adopted
tomorrow. he repeated this statement. Civ
ing his approval to a money plank which
contains a simple endorsement OF the Chi
eago platform without giving attention to
the question Of ratio
In two addresses delivered before large
audiences tonight he gave special atten-
ton 10 trusts and expansion. declaring that
these issues are OF the utmost Importance
before the American people
The times., 1899-08-16

meeting of the Philippine Peace Commis-
sion which is to be held in Washington,
when Dewey. Denby, and the sehoolmas-
ters reach here. We think that the idea is
an excellent one. The Commission could
hardly be considered complete without
Otis. and its reminiscent and advisory
work might be strung out until the begin
ming of the next rainy season, while the
intervening campaign could be fought and
won by genuine general like Miles or
Lawton
Whether that plan is the one which will
be adopted or not, we have entire conf
dence that the Secretary of War viii dis
cover some way TO assign an officer to the
chief command in the Philippines who will
be acceptable to the Army and the whole
American people.
The times., 1899-08-16
croker's Change of Front.
(From the BROOKLYN Eaplel


Mr.. Croker went away an expansionist. He
comes back, he says, an snti-expansionist 1t will
only be necessary for him to change back, to be-
come once more an expansionist. He can easily
do that for he says that his latest change was
due entirely to political and not 70 national or
patriotic reasons. This admission is contained in
his statement that "the war is being conducted
by the Republican party and for the Republican
party, and should, therefore, be opposed by Dem
ocrats.' The war is being conducted by the
United States on The American side, and against
the United States on the Filipino side and it in
wolves not Repu5licanism, but nationality. op-
position to the national cause should not be as
sumed by the Democratic party. to please Mr..
Croker or anyone else. His attitude is 80 short
sighted, because so partisan that one may expect
him to change it. 1t is indefensible, narrow.
and, if followed by the party, should BE- fatal to
the party.
The times., 1899-08-16
A BIG COOPERATIVE SCHEME.
brotherhood Company Incorporated
MT Columbus TO Build Cities.


Toledo. Ohio. August 15.-The Brother
hood Company. Incorporated today at Co
lumbas. has been organized for the pur-
pose of placing in operation the greatest
cooperative scheme ever attempted in the
country. Among those who are mentioned
IN the list OF ineorpOrators are Mayor Jones.
OF this city, and J. A. Johnson. a million
aire. of the State Of Washington
The Brotherhood proposes 70 distribute
stock over the country in small amounts.
the investors being fully protected By co.
operative life insurance The plan includes
great amount of educational work. and
1t Is proposed 10 DO much in the way OF
building cities and placing cooperative
farming communities
In every place where the sentiment has
developed the projectors propose building
one OF these colonies, and II viii be extend
ed as the finances admit The first OF
these colonies viii be established on the
shores Of Lake Erie, near this city. and il
IS understood that more than half the
money required has been pledged By the
people OF Toledo. Along the lines OF edIu-
cation there are many plans for co-opera-
tive schools which the projectors have not
fully wrought out
The times., 1899-08-16
The EVIL OF the Trust.

Trusts in respect good deal like
other institutions-good or evil, according as
they are directed. A trust that would reduce
tine cost of the necessaries of life to the working
would be blessing TO the country, and
every trust may do this if it chooses The trou-
bic is that the average trust, after having re-
duced the cost of the article to ITSELF by cutting
out the mddleman, adds the saving TO its own
account and holds the price where it was And
that is what makes the trust an octopus
The times., 1899-08-16
Conflicting south African New.

The South African situation seems to be
more in the Air than ever. Yesterdays
advlces were. on the whole. not en-
couraging. One despatch from Johannes
burg. via London, asserted that President
Kruger had yielded and would accept Mr..
Chamberlain's proposal for joint en-
quiry into the workings of the franchise
act provided the independence OF the
Transvaal should not, thereby. be i'm
pugned. But 1t will be noticed that this
story comes from the headquarters of the
Outlanders, where there is a natural de-
sire TO believe that the Beers will accept
the British uftimatum without fighting.
The weight of evidence seems TO be In
the other scale. The threatened amend
ment to the Transvaai constitution. COM
The times., 1899-08-16
MOTHER TEEoPHILA HoNoRED
Many CONGRATULATIONS Received On
uor Sa.-or+xa r.4 NTH I...


Her Seventy-first Birthday.
Baltimore, Md, Aug. 15--Fifty years
ago in this city four novices OF the Catho-
lie Order of Notre Dame took their per-
petual VOWS. Only one of the four is row
living, and she is Mother Theophila, known
in the world as Miss Crescentia Baur She
has not only survived to celebrate her
golden jubilee, but has risen to the posi-
tion of Mother Superioress OF the Order
in Maryland, and is today at the College
of Notre Dame on Charles Street, founded
and brought to its present eminence dur
ing her administration. the recipient of
numerous congratulations upon the COM
pletion of her SEVENTEEN year and OF her
fftiath year OF conservation.
There were present at the mass 141
sisters of the order from Rochester, N.
Y. New York City, Fort Lee, n. J., An
napolis, Hagerstown. Westminster, Ca
tonsville and Carroll. Among others in
yited was Cardinal Gibbons, but his abb
sence from the State on his annual vaea-
tion prevented his attendance. He sent
congratulatory letter.