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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-08-17

a A0"St"Pvs
The Freedom, prints an editorial
under the above heading. Capt. A.
E. Page, Of Fort Wayne. Indiana
writes to bis brother and enclosed IN
bis letter this article from The Free
dom. The writer Of this letter said;
1--WE charge murder and treason
against those men at home who en-
courage the Filipinos by pretending
that our people would haul down Old
Glory"
This article from The Freedom,
Capt. Page says, expresses the unani'
nous sentiment Of the soldiers in
Manila.
When these soldiers get home from |
Manila the men Of this country who
gave comfort to the Tagals will sing
mighty low.
We commend careful reading OF
the article to the Dickinson Populists
and Demo.Pops who ten days ago met
in convention and solemnly declared
their condemnation Of the course
OF this American government in the
Philippines. Here is the article from
The Freedom:
"Would that an Anthony might
arise today, who could take the man
pled and mutilated bodies Of our SOL
diers from the battlefelds Of linus
and hold them up to the American
people!
"Out in the jungles Of Luzon the
brave boys Of the 9Th army corps are
planting Old Glory where freedoms
flag meier waved before; out on the
hills and plains Of Luzon the lie
blood OF American soldiers Is GRIM
soning the tropic sands, and at home
are men swapping and snarling at
the government, and with words and
actions assisting In the murder OF
more soldiers.
"Gaze on those lowly FORMS Gaze
on those mutilated bodies! Who has
assisted these devllsP Who has given
aid and comfort to these wild men OF
the iorestp Who In the judgment
day will stand hear the awful words,
Where is thy brotherP'
GAN the crew that in ignorance or
prejudice are hampering the govern
ment and aiding in the slaughter Of
volunteers and regulars should be SET
! up before the American nation to-
gether with the banner-draped biel
Of the soldier dead, mutilated by saw
agery and barbarism. Then in thun
der tones might be heard the voice o
Columbia:
"'You call yourselves men. Amer
leans! You walk upright among thu
sons Of earth! Look at these forms
The blood of these mangled bodle
0 went out for the hag-the old flag o
'76.
"You, by your insane acts hav
. strengthened our foes;y you have givel
comfort to the enemy
people Of America, is it no
enough that the flag is at the battl
frontP Is it not enough that preciou
blood feeds the insatiate sandsp Is
not enough that the bugle sounds tn
advance and the line in blue an
. brown rushes to the shock OF war;
"In Gods name, let us rally roun
| the flag and plant it victorious o
. every serried peak Of Luzon; sham
on him who cries halt; shame o
him who would trail the starry bar
0 ner in the dust
: 1.-THE war in Luzon must 60 on;
u was brought on by the overbearin
. natives, and there is only one cours
under heaven to pursue. The sovel
eighty Of the United States must b
J acknowledged in the archipelago b
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-08-17

The Jersey Lily has at the age OF
40 welded a youth Of 20. Gay old
Girl
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-02
SOME INSTRUMENTATION.

It is evident that there is very strong
sentiment in the country against the pol
icy of the President in respect to the Phil
ippines. The rude treatment received by
Mr.. NIurat Hastead in a church in Gin
cinnati on Thursday night, an account of
which appeared in our dispatches yester-
day shows that Mr.. Halstead was lectur-
ing on the Philippines, and being a Repub-
lican, he very naturally upheld the Phil
ippine policy of the administration. There
was considerable opposition manifested to
some of the things he said. For instance,
some one in the audience said that noth>
ing would make him happier than to hear
that Gen. Otis and his entire army had
been driven into the sea by Aguinaldo.
Mr.. Halstead declared that the American
who entertained such sentiments was a
traitor. A very considerable part of the
audience moved towards the platform on
which Mr.. Halstead stood with the evil
dent intention of assaultng him. There
would have been a very lively disturbance
in that church If some of the cooler heads
in the audience had not interfered 90 pre-
vent an unseemly scene. The incident
shows, however, that there is by no means
a unanimous sentiment in the country in
favor of the Presidents Philippine policy.
And the fact must not be overlooked that
this incident occurred in the Presidents
own state. It is reasonable to expect that
the Presidents Philippine policy would
meet with as little opposition in that state
as in any other-in fact, with less oppos-
ton. If the Presidents Philippine policy
is opposed so bitterly in Ohio, is it not
probable that the feeling against it in
other states is even more bitter?
The President seems to think that his
Philippine policy is becoming more pop
ular daily with the people. This belief is
based doubtless on what his political as
sociates tell him. II he will take another
Western trip, however he will find tina.
the people are not as enthusiastic in sup
port of his policy to hold the Philippines
permanently as hey were in support Of
the policy of taking the islands from the
Spaniards.
1t is probable that the reason the Presi-
dent spoke as plainly as he did in re-
spect TO the Philippines in his speeches at
Ocean Grove and Pittsburg, was that he
saw that public sentiment in regard to
them had begun to run against his
policy 1t will take a great many more
of his speeches and all that the other eo-
quent takers of the Republican party can
say to prevent pubic sentiment from run
ming against his policy. It would not be
surprising if he already feels that he blum
dered when he directed our commissioners
at Paris to demand the islands from
Spain
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-02
PERSONAL.

When Senator George L. Turner of
Washington, lost his fortune few years
ago there came to his law office some min
ers from British Columbia, who wanted
some papers drawn up AS they seemed
poor, Mr.. Turner refused to accept a fee,
whereupon they insisted that he accept
stock in their claims. The claims turned
out well and made them all, including Mr..
Turner, millionaires.
The late Baroness Nathaniel de Roth
schNd of Paris, has bequeathed to the
Museum of the Louvre Greuze's La
Laitiere" which has been valued at $780,
600, twelve pictures by the Italian "prim-
itives" including a valuable Botticelli. and
twenty water color drawings by Jacque-
mart. The Carnavalet and Cluny Mu-
scum have also received important be-
quests.
The Rev. Peter Macqueen, who has
been saying things about Gen. Otis since
his return from the Philippines, declares
that the Eagau canned roast beef found
its way to the firing lines at Manila He
says: I'm the Philippines the men can
not eat it. The cans actually explode
Filipino prisoners of war were confined
in the Spanish dungeons, old and damp
and fed on canned beef. 1t was not long
until they began dying of beri-beri Four
or five died each day until $50 out of 500
were dead
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-02
The Value of Advertising.

The death of the late Menier, manufac-
turer of the celebrated chocolate which
bears his name, recalls an incident which
shows the value of advertising. says
German paper
About forty or fifty years ago. this firm,
already the most prominent one of all
chocolate factories in France, met with a
serious problem which threatened it with
financial ruin.
The entire stock of manufactured choc-
olate, stored in it's various distributing
depots, and representing a value far above
100000 francs, showed a white deposit on
IT'S surface, and made it unsaleable.
Every effort was made 10 remove the
evil by remelting the chocolate but in
vain, as the remelted mass showed streaks
OF white, and after a few days the chOco-
late was again covered with a white de-
post. The firm was helpless and saw it.
self hopelessly bankrupt, unless some rem
edy was found TO correct the misfortune
In his despair the manufacturer said
that he was willing to pay any sum to
the one that would suggest a remedy to
avert the calamity. Then, one of the
clerks, a very young man. stepped up 10
him, saying: Mr. Menier, l can not re-
move the white deposit, but if you will
pay me 5000 francs, l will offer a remedy
that may help US over the difficulty, and
as matter OF course. you need not pay
until the remedy has proven a success"
The manufacturer. like a drowning per-
son catching at a straw, accepted the
proposition, though he placed very little
confidence in the young mans ability.
Repairing to Menier's private Office they
had a long consultation, the result of
which was that on the following day all
the advertisements which offered Menier's
chocolate as the best in the world had
the following additional lines: "Menier's
chocolate is the only chocolate in the
world which turns white while in stock"
This, of course, was looked upon by the
public as a superior mark of the excellent
quality of Meniers chocolate, and its
sales increased more rapidly than ever
before. The house was saved. and The
young clerk received his justly earned 25,-
600 francs.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-02
THE NEGRO IN THE NORTH.

One of the latest evidences of the fact
that the Northern white man will quickly
put up the bars against the black when he
becomes numerous enough TO be annoying
is to be seen in New York The color
line has been drawn in one of the schools
there, and the courts has upheld the draw
ing of it. So long as there were only a
few negroes in the school district I'm aues-
ton, an open door school policy was ad-
hered to. There was no objection raised
TO the attendance of a few black children.
upon the school frequented by white chill
dren. But gradually the black population
grew larger, and a short time ago the
white patrons of the school reached the
conclusion that it was time to put a stop
to the mixing of the races in the school
room.
In this connection it is interesting to
learn from the columns of the New York
Tribune which has made an investigation
of the matter, that the black population of
New York is increasing rapidly, and in
greater proportion than the white popula-
ton. In the city at large-that is in
Greater New York-the proportion of pop
ulation is about one negro to ffty-nine
whites, while in the borough Of Queens the
proportion is about one black to forty
whites. 1t is in the latter borough that the
color line has recently been drawn in the
schools. One to forty is a ratio which the
New York whites cannot stand in the
schools And yet they affect to think that
the Southern white people, living in sec
lions where often the races are nearly
equal in numbers and sometimes the
blacks preponderate, should meet and
treat the negroes upon perfectly equal
terms, without regard to race!
The Tribune notes that there is a large
movement of negroes from the South to
New York. Many of them stop in New
York city proper, but most of them go to
Brooklyn 10 live. In the latter place there
has been an increase of 10 per cent. in col
ored population within few years. and in
Brooklyn there has grown UP a very
strong antipathy on the part of the
whites to living in the same block or in
the same neighborhood with negroes. In
many instances, indeed, in the case of fam
lily feuds, the negro has been used as a
ing that he could not possibly inflict more
humiliation and injury upon his enemy
than by sending a negro family TO live
near him. In this respect the negro has
10 some degree superseded the spite
fence" in Brooklyn. There is now before
the public a controversy between DR..
Heatly of Brooklyn and the people of
Wading River Long Islond in which the
doctor threatens TO take revenge upon the
whole town by planting a negro colony
near il. in retaliation for the closing of
road which the doctor was accustomed to
drive over.
1t is a matter of congratulation that ne
groes are emigrating to the North in
large enough 10 attract attention.
It would be a good thing for all sections
of the country if several millions of them
were to go North and West The South
can spare them, and their presence in the
North and West would teach the people
of those sections many valuable lessons re-
specting the race problem.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-02

Now, gentlemen" said the summer
hotel proprietor, Il want to ask every man
who saw the sea-serpent to step up and
have drink" The reporter counted four
teen.-Puck.
Not Quite Out of Date.-"It is deplora-
Bile that walking is becoming a lost art"
Lost art? It's mighty good way of get
ting home when your bicycle breaks
down."-Chicago Tribune.
--Overproduction-"The is one thing at
least, that the trusts have cheapened."
said the man with the weared air What
is it?' roared the man with the tangled
hair. Talk indianapolis journal
The Great Transgression.-''H Here is the
account of some train-robbers being lynch
ed in Missouri. Must be a fake" mo,
somebody had started the report that the
gang was Incorporated under the laws of
New Jersey. Detroit Journal.
"A Clever observation-disclosures
about your trick wheelmen! You should
see Underthum.
Hoamboddy-Clever, is he?
Henpeck-I should say so! Why, he can
guide his baby carriage through the worst
kind of a crowd without touching the ham
die bar.-Catholic Standard and Times.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-02
MORE BRAIN POWER NEEDED.

1t is becoming evident that if the laws
which 1t is proposed to enact against
trusts in the different states are to be
effective, they will have to be framed by
men of more ability than those who have
been engaged in that sort of work. Many
of the states have antitrust statutes,
and in most of them these laws have been
shown to be so defective as to be little
protection 10 the people.
1t has not been many weeks since the
courts of Arkansas declared that the anti
trust law in that state which had been
passed with euch manifestations of APP
prevail was unconstitutional. On Wednes-
day a Louisville Judge declared the anti
trust law of Kentucky was so defective
that combinations to control the prices
of food products could not be punished
under it. The cases in which the decision
was rendered were against the wholesale
grocers who. it was alleged, had combin-
ed to put up the prices Of tea, sugar, cot
fee and such articles. If the cases had
gone to the jury it is pretty certain that
the defendants would have been convict
ed, and would have been fined anywhere
from $500 to $1,000
With many powerful influences in favor
of, and working for, trusts, it is a quite
difficult matter to make effective laws
against them. And even when sound laws
against them are made It is not easy to
enforce them.
There is no doubt that trusts are hurt
full to the welfare of the masses of the
L.
prices of articles they produce but they
are throwing thousands of men and wo-
men out of employment. But some
of the most eminent men of the country,
and not few of the ablest thinkers, take
the position that there is no way in
which trusts can be legally suppressed.
1t is said that Mr.. Carlisle, one of the
most distinguished speakers the House
ever had, and who conducted the treasury
department of the government with great
ability under Mr. Cleveand's administra-
ton. takes the ground that the movement
in the direction of trusts is irresistible
and cannot be overcome, except by So
cial and Industrial revolution. In his
address before the American Bar Asso-
citation at Buffalo the other day ex-Sena>
tor Henderson took the position that there
was no occasion for alarm on account
of trusts, that they were heabhful de-
velopment of modern civilization, and that
because some of them oppressed the peo-
pie all of them were not to be condemned
II is apparent that the trusts have their
friends, but their friends as a general
thing are those who are interested in
them. Naturally such friends cannot see
any harm in them If trusts are permit
ted 10 continue their opera tons, however
the result will be that before very many
years the people will be divided into two
great classes, the very rich and the very
poor.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-02
The PianO Detective.

did you ever hear of piano detec-
tive?'
The city hall detective scratched his
to admit that he had never heard of such
an individual, says the Cincinnati En-
quirer
"Well, there are dozen or more of them
in Philadelphia, and they make good mon
ey, too.
Their work is simple. You see, a great
many piano firms sell instruments on the
installment plan. That is, the purchaser
pays say $50 down on $500 or 5000 in
strument and agrees to make good the re-
mainder at so much a month. BY far the
greater number of such purchasers are a S
honest as the day Is long, but once in a
while a man comes along whose little
scheme is to move out the piano a day or
two after it is delivered and sell it for a
couple of hundred.
1T is the business of the piano detective
to circumvent this sort of thing AS a
rule, some suspicious movement on the
part of the would-be defrauder of the
piano dealer causes him to be placed under
suspicion. The dealer can't step in and
take his instrument away under the con-
tract and the only thing he can do is to
watch it. Here is where the piano detec-
tive comes in. He hovers around the house
in which the suspected purchaser lives
night and day, watching any attempt to
make way with the piano. Usually three
or four weeks are long enough TO settle
the question one way or another. If the
piano buyer is crooked he is practically
certain to make some sort of a move
before the expiration of that time If he
doesn't it is pretty safe presumption that
the suspicion is groundless and the piano
detective is called off by his employer
with no one but himself and two or three
others the wiser. But the precaution is
a necessary one
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-02
.Kid Cnssin, Awful.

It is always the women who do these
good things, says Jacob A. Riis in the
September Atlantic. They are the law
and the gospel to the boy, both in one.
1t is the mother heart. 1 suppose. and
there is nothing better in all the world.
l am reminded of the conversion of the
kid" by one who was in a very real
sense the mother of a social settlement
uptown, in the latitude of Battle Row.
The Kid was driftwoOd. He had been cast
off by drunken father and mother and
lived on what he could scrape out of the
ash barrels, and an occasional dime for
kindling wood which he sold from a
wheelbarrow, when the gang found and
adopted him. My friend adopted the gang
in her turn, and civilized il by slow
stages. Easter Sunday came when she
was to redeem her promise to take the
boys to witness the services in a neigh
boring church. where the liturgy was es-
pecially impressive. It found the biggest
part of the gang at her door-a minority,
it was announced, were out stealing pota-
toes, hence were eXcusa ble--in state of
high indignation.
1.-THE Kids been cussin' awful" ex-
planned the leader. The Kid" showed
in the turbulent distance, red-eyed and
ragged.
But why?" asked my friend, in amaze
ment.
Cause he cant go to church,
1t appeared that the gang had shut him
out, with a sense of what was due to
the occasion, because of his rags. Re
stored to grace, and choking down remi-
niscent sobs, the Kid sat through the Eas-
ter service, surrounded by the twenty
seven proper" members of the gang. Civ
ilization had achieved a victory. and no
doubt my friend remembered it in her
prayers with thanksgiving. The manner
Of l1d Do L.
own ways, even in its acceptance of means
Of praoa
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-02
IN LINE For BRYAN.

One after another the Democratic state
conventions are declaring for the free coin
age OF silver and Mr.. Bryan What lit
tie opposition to Mr.. Bryan there was a
few weeks ago has practically disappeared.
Mr.. Croker, on his arrival from Europe
recently, surprised his friends by coming
out for Mr.. Bryan, and Senator Morgan.
~Who has had a good deal TO say against
the advisabillty of nominating Mr.. Bryan,
has ceased mis- opposition 10 him and is
now quoted as being in favor Of his nom
ination. The Van Wyck boom is a thing
Of the past, and little or nothing is heard
of Mr. Germans candidacy. The nomi-
nation Of Mr. Goebel in Kentucky and Mr..
Mclean in Ohio for Governor in their
respective states, is regarded as being in
the interest of Mr.. Bryan. The way
things are going the Democratic national
convention next year will have nothing 10
do but make a platform that is already
agreed upon and ratfy the nomination of
Mr.. Bryan, who is no doubt the choice Of
the great majority of the Democrats.
Little, if any confidence is to be placed
in the stories which are being circulated
to the effect that there is a conspiracy
among some of the strongest of the Dem
ocratc leaders to prevent the nomination
of Mr.. Bryan. A Cincinnati dispatch to
the Philadelphia Ledger contains the state
ment that the nomination of Mr.. Mclean
for Governor is a part of a plot to pre-
vent the nomination Of Mr. Bryan 1t IS
asserted that there are quite a number of
the prominent leaders in the plot, among
them being Mr.. Mclean of Ohio, Mr.. GOe-
bel of Kentucky. Mayor Harrison of Chi
cago and Mr.. Croker of New York.
The basis of this story seems to be the
supposed hostility of Mr.. Mclean TO Mr.
Bryan. 1t is pointed out that Mr.. Nc
Lean was a candidate for the nomination
for Vice President in 1896 on the ticket
with Mr.. Bryan, and that he stood very
good chance of getting it-that he would
have got 1t, in all probability, If Mr.
Bryan had not opposed him. It is as
sumed that it is Mr. McLeans purpose TO
get control of the machinery Of the DEM
ocratic party of Ohio and secure delega-
ton from that state TO the national con-
vention that will be hostile to Mr.. Bryan.
II is safe to say that there is nothing
in this story. If Mr.. Goebel, for instance
were in a plot 10 defeat the nomination
of Mr. Bryan, he would not invite him TO
make speeches for him in Kentucky, If it
were the purpose of Mr.. Mclean to try
to bring about the defeat of Mr.. Bryan's
efforts TO get the nomination he would not
be a candidate on a platform which in
dorses Mr.. Bryan for the presidential nom
ination.
Many such stories will be put in circu-
lation by the enemies of Mr.. Bryan before
the meeting of the national convention, but
unless a very great change takes place in
the views of the Democratic voters he will
be chosen standard bearer of the party
with scarcely an effort on his part.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-02
THE MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY, September 2 1899.

Mr.. Grullon, a representative in New
York of the San DOMINICAN revOlutionists,
is responsible for the statement that the
revolution sis an effort of the white men
to wrest the control OF the government
from the coored clement" Negro rule
has been supreme in San Domingo for
many years. The late President Heureux
was a negro, Figuereo who succeeded him
is a negro, and all of the officeholders
throughout the country are negroes. Ne
gro rule might have been tolerated." says
Mr. Grullon, "had not the negroes under
taken TO drive the white men out. By
oppression, conhscauon, Imprisonment,
murder, and what not, they have tried to
make the island a place white men could
not live in" The reports are to the ef-
feet that the revolution has been sue
cessful, in which event Jiminez the white
man will probably go in and form his
white government But how long will 1t
be before there is another revolution? The
blacks are largely in the majority in San
Domingo. Having controlled the govern
ment for a long time, it is hardly likely
that they will rest content TO see it in the
hands of white men,