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New-York tribune., 1900-04-01
SURPLUS REVENUE AND FRANCHISES.

The statement attributed to Secretary Gage
that the present revenue laws yield large sur
plus which can be safely reduced will now be
used with the utmost avidity by the same people
who were not long ago constantly asserting that
the Republican revenue laws would yield only
deficit. That particular form Of accusation was
so recently made in nearly every Democratic
journal or meeting that it will be painful and
trying intellectual feat for readers and hearers
to grasp the facts now admitted. But for such
mental acrobatics those have TO be in constant
training who choose to follow the party of oppo-
sition in these days. The truth will now be de-
clared with zest only because 1t will form the
basis of partisan charge that revision of reve
nue. laws is refused for unworthy reasons. But
the naked truth Is that any revision at present
would be extremely venturesome, since it is i'm
possible as yet to determine what will be the
legal rela tons between the United States and its
possessions. a decision of Congress has
been sought for several months and may soon
be reached on a single point only, while multi
tudes of other questions affecting the revenue
have yet to be considered by that body. Mean
while, on that point well others, nothing
but decision Of the Supreme Court can furnish
n safe basis for action which may greatly
change the revenues Of the Nation.
In this light the statement attributed to Secre-
tary Gage might seem premature were ii not
presumable that he qualified 1t by conditions
which are neglected in current reports. If 1t
were clear that the United States could continue
to raise revenue it has done for the expense
OF government in the new possessions, and II 1T
were clear that peace restored In the Philippines
and maintained in Cuba would permit reduction
OF expenditures for the Army and Navy, the
surplus might be reduced by $60,000.0 600 or more.
In nine months the excess OF receipts over
penditures has been nearly $50 100000 Consid-
cradle expenditures are yet to come under the
new banking law, nor is it possible as yet to de-
termine how large these may be within the next
fiscal year. Neither can il be determined with
even approximate certainty what expenditures
may be found necessary in restoring and main
tanning order In the new possessions. How far
the funds now collected under military orders
will suffice for the needs of the Government In
new possessions Is still uncertain. AS 1t is evil
IDENTITY not possible for Congress TO reach safe
conclusion on these questions within the short
time remaining for action at this session, 1t is
altogether probable that Congress will hold 1t
wise to defer efforts to adjust the TO the
needs Of the Government under new conditions
New-York tribune., 1900-04-01
THE SAILING OF THE MAINE.

From Canon Rawnsley's Ballads of the War
Hail! all hail to the Mainei
Is Ii she who sank to her tomb
With death and war in her womb
She for whose loss and whose pain
The great West fought against Spain?
With life for the Motherland.
Love from the Brotherland,
10, from the deeps has she risen again7
Ocean harken and heed
Give your silence and your calm.
So more swift with her balm
And healing for all who need,
The Maine to their succor shall speed
With help from the Brotherland
Hope for the Motherland
Blessing and JOY by her mercfful deed.
God give her all day,
God give her stars all the night
God give her mariners might
Never the engines stay,
Nor the captain slack OF his way,
The thanks OF the Motherland
Health from the Brotheriand
These are her passengers bound for the Ray
Ay as a mother her son
Hides In her heart evermore
Prays a he sails from the shore
So praying that none
Ever forget this deed done.
Love Of the Brotherland,
Life for the Motherand
Now shall the nations hencefoywsrd bs one
New-York tribune., 1900-04-01
be an unfailing source OF pleasure and profit

Eastern churches which find II slow work to
rent their pews to advantage may take lesson
from Beloit. Wis, where Roman Catholic Father
NJ. l. Ward Of ST. Thomas's Church. has re-
Gently instituted method Of persuasion. not
fruit bearing as yet but of possible future fer
tity. assuring paying tenants for all the sit
tings as soon they are offered He informed
his parshioners that II the seats were not taken
by a certain day they would all be closed. and
was good as his word. mailing them up solidly
with boards. leaving open only those OF lessees
who had made good their tenancy by coming
down with the rent beforehand. 1t Is possible
that the expedient might not work everywhere
and 1t is not yet certain that It Will do IN
Beloit, but its energy and originality invite no.
tice, even IL they do not commend the example
to imitation. Father Wards theory of the re-
lations of shepherd and flock Is evidently found
ed on the principle that so far as the details of
shearing concerned the shepherd Is there to
run the business and is going to run 1t In his
own way. even II the recalcitrancy Of his flock
constrains him to nail up the sheepfold
New-York tribune., 1900-04-01

The Descendant of His Ancestors elected
TO office on the platform ITO He'll with Re
form" And now he denounces "monstrousy
unjust the accusation that he has psrsistently
discouraged efforts at reform. Is IT that he
wishes to repudate the platform which he him
self made?
New-York tribune., 1900-04-01

The Oxford Cambridge boat races are usually
well contested and close. The one rowed YES
terday on the contrary, was a procession and
Cambridge might easily have by a much
larger margin But. while both universities
had misfortunes to contend with, by far the
larger share OF the i'll luck fell to Oxford and
the vanquished Is entitled to be pitied
rather than despised.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-01

There is no sufficient reason for apprehendin-
that the attempt TO revive Governor Roosevelt's
Vice Presidential boom will make the Hon
Timothy 4. Woodruff nervous. Even IL we sup
pose that In the contingency which some per-
are desirous OF creating he would not nj
once become a strong candidate for promotion
the process Of growing up with the country
whleh he has lately found 20 asrseabls would
New-York tribune., 1900-04-01

II the success Of the Kearsarge's two story
turrets shall be fully confirmed, the United
States will have added another important I'M
provement to the science of marine warfare.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-01

March didn't go out precisely like a lamb but
nevertheless its final manifestations might have
been a good deal more vicious than they were
New-York tribune., 1900-04-01

Happily for New York. the two Birds in public
office not Of feather and don't flock to.
gether
New-York tribune., 1900-04-01

on the following day. IN the same church 80
occur the wedding OF Miss Edith Morton, daus~
OF Mr. and Mrs. Levi p. Morton. TO Nllna..
Eustis. Their engagement was announSSssG &C., with
short time ago. Miss Morton was N PAN AL
her mother and sister last week They "-'
for New-YOrk before long.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-01

Dulness was the order Of the week so far a,
other forms OF entertaining were concernsa
There were the usual meetings OF the Badmfnto,
skating and bowling clubs. also OF the varton.
sewing classes that which works for the sick IN
Bellevue Hospital meeting at the home OF Ms
Leary, No Fffth-ave-, where its members were
treated TO some music by Miss Booker HeinrieS
Meyn and Bruno HUM. Mrs Walter Rutherflr5
Of No. IA MadisOn-ave. entertained the rnemoer.
Of the Knickerbocker Whist Club
New-York tribune., 1900-04-01

Miss Elinor Vernon Boynton. daughter 0' 90,
John II. Boynton. VIII be married 70 T.nsna
sail Iahens son OF Mr. and Mrs. Alfred T. Ir.st
ar noon on the same day IN Trinity Chapel ~,
Twenty y-hfth-st- near Broadway, Ihe olu, 81
will have her sister. Miss Boynton as TsSodors
honor win be given away by her IoI.,eeajas LOUIS
y Roynton There will be orideSthassusr man
E Iahens will attend his brother as ySs BRIDE
Charles Edward BOyntOn. a brother % ~ rshers.
and Arthur Sruart Walcott will be two OF lsSsr tny H.
The vicar OF the chapel the Rev ~, mich vii %
Vibbert will conduct the ceremony w. the hons
suDnlemanted BY a wedding breakfast az n-st
~ the hriles mother at No. $50 West i"e-
The engagement is announced OK - ,,,a CLARK.
aauuhter OF MIR. and Mrs. George ia" .s-he.s =
OF Sa. wss, Thirty -ssvsnth-sI. =
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-03
Rural Free Delivery.

s"The credit of rural free delivery be-
longs almost exclusively to the McKin-
lev administration, said Hon. Perry ).
Heath, First Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral. "A movement to broaden the free
delivery of the mails was begun by
Postmaster General Wanamaker under
the administration of Gen. Harrison. 1t
took the form of village free delivery.
and extended, as an experiment, the
plan or delivering mails by carriers.
as existing in cities of 10000 popula-
ton or $4,000 gross postal receipts. to
forty or fifty selected villages or less
population and smaller postal receipts.
The experiment was success as far
as 1t went, but the succeeding Demo
cratic administration, fearing its effect
In poularizing Republican principles
and disseminating Republican litera-
ture, ordered it dropped.
1T was Republican administration
that conceived and executed the idea
of Frightening the home of the farm
er, educating his children. increasing
the value of his land. compelling the
Improvement Of his roads, and giving
him ready access to Q market for ms
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-03
Free Trade Trusts.

Consul Halstead, of Birmingham, re-
ports to the State Department the pro-
posed formation Of q worsted spinners'
trust in free trade England, with cap
ital of $8,597, 900, and involving the
consolidation of 100 different firms.
Mr.. Scott Ling, of Manchester, who
presided, explained that it was pro-
posed to buy out firms on the basis OF
allowing nothing for goodwill of con-
Germs which show only . per cent.
profit. All profit beyond 5 per cent.
would be multiplied seven and half
times, and that amount allowed for
goodwill. On such a basis he calcu-
lated they could show ~ to per cent.
for ordinary shareholders.
A resolution in favor of combination
was unanimously passed, and the fol-
lowing committee appointed to devise
a scheme; Mr.. Ickeringill, of Keigh-
ley; Mr.. James Drummond, of Brad
ford; Mr.. Alfred Haley, of Wakefield;
Mr.. A. Anderton, of Check-heaton; Mr..
J. Hoylc, of Halifax; Mr.. Smithies, Of
Elland; and Mr. III. Whitehead, Of
Bradford.
Another combine reported by Consul
Halstead was that Of two well-known
steamship companies trading to the
Cape of Good Houe. The object of the
amalgamation is to provide for the
more efficient working of the South
African trade and for the carrying out
of the joint mail contract which the
companies have made with the Cape
Government for ten years from Octo-
berneXt.
1t is proposed that the shares Of the
united company shall be G10, instead of
f2O shares, and the shareholders of the
Union Company will receive for their
paid-up capital an allotment of an
equal nominal amount Of fully paid-up
shares of the Union Castle Company,
and in addition will receive f6 13s. 4d
per share, payable in per cent. de-
benture stock. The nominal capital Of
the combine is $1O,OOO,OOO. No protec-
tive tariff is held responsible for these
two trusts.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-03

So per cent. go for losses and 35 per
cent. for expenses, leaving profit Of 10
per cent, but this proportion for cost of
doing business, large as it is, was far
outrun in 1899. Figures recently pub
lished show that the loss rate ran very
little short of SO per cent, and that
while the expense ratio fell little be-
low the average, namely, 1888 per
cent, the total cost entailed upon the
insurance companies exceeded 1875 per
cent. Out of 1853 companies doing bus
mess in New York State the net excess
of loss and expenses over premiums
exceeded $5,OOO,OOO. Moreover, this
unsatisfactory result followed upon an
other year in which the losses had al
ready been high. Phis is very seri-
Gus matter, not only for the insurance
companies, but for business men
throughout the country. The present
disastrous conditions undoubtedly mean
considerably higher rates, and, in addi-
ton, are likely to put a stop temporar-
lily, at least, to the rate cutting which
has been carried on so freely in the
past. The entire subject is receiving
very careful consideration on the part
Of the insurance companies.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-03
Expansion and Business.

Consul General Haywood has sent to
the State Department the returns Of
Hawaiian trade for 1899. They show
total exports and imports of $41, 7OO.-
GOO, of which the United States secured
no less than ST. 100000 of trade, leay-
ing only S4,2oO,00o divided among all
other countries.
A list of forty articles, all of which
are of American manufacture or pro-
duction, shows an increase in impor-
tations amounting to So, PCT $3.50, as COM
pared with 1898 The revenue from i'm
port duties in 1900 was $500, 900 in ex-
cess OF that OF 1893. This is a large
gain when it is considered that almost
all goods imported from the United
States are admitted there free Of duty.
During the month OF December, 1899,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-03
AUTOMOBILE PATROL WAGON

cles. In the case of an autolnopnt
bulance, for instance, it is capap'I
greater sustained speed than u \
vehicle, and when the destlhalIVD|
reached no care has to be pau "
steaming horse, so that botli 81,
and driver can devote Their al'eH"i
to the injured person. Accldeh'S "
balances are of frequent occul'sl
owing to their speed and theil ~
way, but electric vehicles can V'
ped in their length. Every seeoH"
Importance to an injured peFs0n
speed and ease Of riding VIII unuV
edly soon make them a great l"'
among hospital authorities AH
feature of interest is the io"ei w
maintenance. An ambulance ID
ly idle twenty or more hou''
the twenty-four, and this gives n
time for charging the batteries
is no time lost in hitchlng up ~"
stable may be in the hospi''' r
without the dangers or staoic w.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-03
The Cost of n GROWER.

Mr.. Talbert, of South Carolina, is
making a speciality Of growing at pen
sion legislation. At recent session
devoted to the consideration Of pension
legislation this gentleman objected to
each bill as it was called and offered
argument in support Of his suspicion.
Mr.. Sibley, of Pennsylvania, the gen
tleman who so recently severed his re-
lations with the Democratic party,
called attention to the fact that it cost
the Government 81 an hour for the
House to sit, and that Mr.. Talbert had
consumed enough time in his objec-
lions to pay all the claims passed at
that session. But Mr.. Talbert evident
ly thinks he has pension hating con-
stituency.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-03
The Imperial Eagle.

The Imperial eagle, the largest of the
species known, flies to height of from
10000 feet to $4,000 feet. 1t is a ma
tive of South America, and its habitat
is among the lofty mountains of that
country It's power of flying to high
attitudes is only exceeded by the con-
dor of the Andes, which is said to have
attained the height Of six miles. or
within one mile of the greatest height
ever attained by balloon. The eagle
sails in the air at heights ranging from
three to five miles, and, when seen to
soar upwards by an observer ON the
earth's surface, disappears from sight
in about three minutes.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-03

Arbor Day is the only holiday which
speaks for tie future; all others cele-
brate the past. Yet even Arbor Day
begins to have past. Eighteen years
ago, during the first forestry congress
in this country, the children Of Cincin-
natl marched to Eden Park and plant
ed a young tree for each President.
Washington would be prouder Of his
Cincinnati oak than of his mythical
cherry tree; and Jackson would find
his hickory harder to break down than
was the United States Bank.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-03

In July, 1904, total deposits in all the
banks of Ohio amounted to $44, 62S, O24
Just five years later, on June 30, $780,
they amounted to $SO,969,5S3. The in
crease was S36,341, 559-or more than
so per cent.
In July, 1894, there were 142, 900 per-
sons who had deposits in the banks of
Ohio At the end of June, 1899, there
were 226,964 depositors. Within five
years the number of people who had
money to put away in the banks had
increased by S4,S65-a gain of GO per
cent
Notwithstanding this very large adj
dition to the number Of money savers
in Ohio, which would alone account for
most of the $36,000O0O additional in
deposits, the figures of Comptroller
Dawes show that the average amount
to the credit of each depositor in the
State of Ohio had increased by SAB
from 1914 in 1894 up to 1857 in 1889.
1t is perfectly safe to say that Repub-
lican prosperity under the administers
ton of the Ohio President, William
Mckinley, has reached the pockets Of
the people in his own State.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-03
+ho largest amount 81 Imports ever re-

tho largest amount 81 imports ever re-
corded for one month in Honolulu was
received. Sixteen foreign steamers ana
forty-eight sailing vessels arrived IN
port with cargoes. This does not IN
clude the large number OF Unlteo
States transports that entered the mar
Dor bringing stock and quartermaster
supplies. There were forty general car
goes amounting to a total OF 4o,UUU
tons; eleven cargoes of coal, the totai
being %, $50 tons; and thirteen vesseis
brought i'm lumber with q total OF
9.19S.52O feet. The acquisition OF these
islands by the United States mas given
an impetus to Honolulu that has at
tracted the commercial interest OF the
world. The carrying and shipping 10
this port has grown with such rapidlty
that the increase of trade in December,
1899, compared with DecemberoI 1880
is something phenomenal.
Figures of the Bureau of Statistlcs
of the Treasury Department show that
exports from the United States 70 the
Hawaiian Islands have more than dou-
bled since 1897, and were $4,ooO,ooo
larger in 1890 than in 1898. This shows
the benefits to American producers ana
manufacturers of our expansion pollcy
through Hawaiian annexation. export
figures from the United States TO the
Hawaiian Islands in the last three cal
endar years were as follows:
1907 1898. 1890
S5.47S,224 $6,S27, S4S $11 ,305,oS1
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-03

lice patron wagon. The first yehj
of this kind that have been built
shown in the accompanying illus
tons which are reproduced from
Scientific American. The town
Akron, Ohio, claims the distinction
having constructed the first auiO|
bile patrol wagon, while the ambuh|
will run on the streets of New I'd
having been built for st. VinceI
Hospital of that city. Both vehil
are propelled by electricity, the
rent in each case being supplied
storage batteries. The patrol wal
has an accumulation Of forty cellsl
means of which Il maximum speed
twenty miles an hour can be attai u
while in the ambulance the curren|
supplied by fortyfour cells, VII
give a maximum speed of thira
miles an hour The cost of the
bulance is not given but that Of /
patrol wagon was about $4,000,
There are many reasons why
chanical power is better than By
power for the propulsion Of such
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-03
crons by carving the United states

crops by carrying the United STATES
mails to him on his farm.
"Since the 4th Of March, 1897, nearly
100. 600 rural homes in all parts OF the
limited States have been brought into
close touch with the rest of the Worid
nv n daily visit of the rural postman.
.srhe initiation of some form OF Tree
delivery which should reach the here
tofore isolated rural communities, was
forced upon the last administrator III
it's closing year by Congress, responsive
to the wishes of the people. Forty-Iour
rural experiments were reluctantly
started, some of them in communities
which neither asked nor appreciated
the service. 1t was difficult to ma
such localities, but some were found,
and the service was started there, ap-
parently with the purpose OF bringing
rural free delivery into disrepute and
demonstrating it's impracticability.
..It is possible this result might have
been achieved in time, but under the
yiyifying influence of Il Republican pos
tal policy, rural free delivery at once
sprung into vigorous life. The appro-
priations were increased by Congress
from $4,000 the first year to $l5O,OOO
the second year, and $45OOOO the third
wear On the I'd of April 1900, close
upon 1000 rural routes had been estab-
lished, some of them serving as many
as twelve or fifteen hundred people
daily, the average being $50 persons to
Il routes Not one State which has asked
for the service has been left unrepre-
scented. The good work is still going
on. Nothing short Of revolution can
now check it,
'"Thrce years experience has shown
that the rural free delivery service is
not inordinately expensive. 1t costs
very little more than the old colonial
style of postal service, which it super
sedes, and it invariably brings a large
and compensating increase in the
amount of the mail matter handled, and
consequently in the amount of postal
receipts turned into the treasury. But
even il it does cost more than the obso-
lete old plan, are not the farmers en-
titled to some Of the benefits of the
government which they help so liberal
ly to support by their taxation?
"The country can we'll afford to con-
tinue and extend a system which
and contributes so largely to the men
tai, moral and material advancement
of the plain people,"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-03

The objections so vigorously put in
several cities to such plays as THE
Degenerates" ''ZaZa' and ''Sapho," and
the absolute ban put upon them in
many others, has revived the old con-
troversy as to whether newspaper de-
nunciation, or even public prohibition,
does not act as mere advertisement
and consequently do more harm than
good. Those who hold to the former
opinion point to the well-knoWn fact
that mere mention of certain immoral
features in play OF book attracts
many. readers or theater-goers. This
has been shown by the number of thou
sands Of Daudet's salacious story sold
since the prosecution of Miss Neither
sole in New York for acting it upon the
stage. On the other hand, it may be
denunciation or municipal prosecution
is not the protection of the class of
prurient-minded people who would be
led by such criticism to see the book or
play. These are people whose moral
standards have already been wrecked
such criticism does do is to place a
ban upon book or play, and thereby
prevent parents from allowing imma-
ture sons and daughters to read the
book or see the play. This stigma also
makes the play or book unpopular with
the people whose moral standards
would not be shocked by it, and they
are therefore more careful about being
seen at the play or to talk about hav-
ing read the book. Thus, in time, even
a class which no immoral play or book
could seriously harm, from the fact
that their standards are already so low,
are brought into line against such dis
regard Of the conventional, at least, as
is shown by the immoral playwright
or novelist. These considerations show
that balance is in favor of press and
pulpit condemnation as aids in setting
up a standard of morality too often
lowered in the specious plea, so fire.
Quently advanced, that condemnation
acts only as an advertisement for vice.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-03
A Republican Challenge.

The party which is trying to belittle
the administration because few
Sulus in our Eastern possessions are
the owners of slaves must have a short
memory On the slavery question the
Republican party is ready to challenge
comparison with the Democrats, and
not make any undue reference to either
Abraham Lincoln or the emancipation
proclamation.