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The evening times., 1900-10-03
CROKER ON THE PHILIPPINES.
Favors Giving Them Independence
and Then Standing by Them.


CHICAGO, Oct. 3--The Chicago Rec
ord prints today the following signed
statement by Richard Croker:
las business proposition the taking OF
the Philippines by the United States was
a great mistake. They were always an
expensive bargain to Spain. and you can
see how much better that country is get
ting along without them All the reports
from Spain say that things are picking up
over there since the government got rid
Of its colonies.
Spain not only unloaded her burden
upon us. but got US to pay her $50. .a00. 600
for revolution that has been going on
more or less for two hundred years and
is likely to continue Indefinitely. In ad-
ditfon to this $2O, 900 ,Oo0 purchase money,
We have already spent $200. .GGo, 900 or So
1 don't know the exact dgures-and have
sacrificed three or four thousand lives
that cannot be valued in money to the
people they are dear to, trying to put
down that revolution. and We are likely
to spend as much more in money and in
lives every year indefinitely Nobody
knows when the expenditures will stop.
Now. what do we get for it? The ex-
panSiOniStS say we get commercial ad-
vantages. How much? Twenty millions
year would be a big return. but what
about the S200, 100000 1 say this is not
a good business proposition TO take or
keep the Philippines.
LAS to the moral side of the question, /
think it is nothing short of murder to kill
those poor devils who think they are fight
ing for their freedom Aguinaldo and his
people fought side by side with Dewey to
rid themselves of foreign government.
When they had suffered for two hundred
years they believed they were going to
get their freedom through their own eff
forts and cur assistance And what have
they got? AS soon as Spain stepped out
another foreign government stepped in,
which they in their ignorance think is just
the same as the other They cannot dis
tinguish between the United States and
Spain. As long as they cannot run their
own government it makes little difference
to them whether it is the United States or
Spain, and I think they will fight US for
their freedom just as long as they have
been fighting Spain
I'VE went to war to assist ne Cubans to
get their freedom. And tie F'ilipinos are
doing Just what the Cubans were doing
when we went down to help them-fght-
ing for their freedom--on1y we are keep
ing them from it. as The Spaniards were
keeping the Cubans from it. That is the
situation, as I see it. and 1 think the
whole people are beginning to look at 1t
that way, too.
Il am for giving the Filipinos independ-
enee and standing by to see that no other
government attempts to oppreSS them.
Then we shall be treating them as we
should like to be treated ourselves"
The evening times., 1900-10-03
UNDER ROUSs' CARRIAGE.
Ap Aged New Yorker Knocked Down
End Killed.


NEW YORK. Oct 3.-John Carroll,
sixty years old, of 33e Fourth Avenue.
was run over and killed last evening
at Thompson Street and Washington
Square South by the carriage of Charles
Broadway Rouss. the blind millionaire
merchant.
fIr. Kouss. woman. and little boy
were in the carriage. which was driven
by Michael Lynch. Mr. Rouss' coachman-
Mr. Rouss was ON his way from the sta
BILE in Thompson Street. where his car
riase is always waiting for him at the
close of business. to his residence at
80 F. ith Avenue.
Lynch, in turning from Thompson
Street into Washington Square south,
with the intention of crossing the square
into Fifth 1syenue. did not see Carroll
until too late Carroll had been drink
ing at the Judson Memorial fountain,
and turned to cross the street directly
In front of the carriage. Lynch at
tempted to rein the horses in. but Car
roll was Knocked down by the pole OF
the carriage and then trampied under
the feet of the frightened horses.
His skull was fractured. and he re-
SclNea OtHSE iujSsttSs but
no lose consciousness until he had told
his name and address. He was carried
to the steps of the Judson Memorial
Church, and an ambulance was called
from st. Vincent's Hospital DR.. Kelly
took Carroll at once to that institution
but he died shortly after reaching there
Policeman Becker. Of the Mercer
Stree: station, reached the scene OF the
accident just as the carriage was feaY-
Ing but on learning that Mr.. Rouss had
directed the eoachman to drive to the
Mercer Street police station, he made NJ
arrest.
Lynch, at the police station, explained
80 Sergeant Aloncie the circumstances Of
the accident, and Mr. Rouss said he
would be responsible not only for his
coachman's appearance, but would be
glad to do anything he could for Car
roll, Of whose death he had not then
learned Sergeant Alencle decided that
no arrest would be necessary, and Mr..
Rouss and his coachman were allowed
to go.
The evening times., 1900-10-03
Should HaHna's Ticket Win.

(Fr0m the Omaha WoFId-HeraId.)
If the people at this critical juncture elect the
Republican ticket, they viii say to the world
that they are content with the wrongs which
have taken place in this country. They WILL by
such action endorse the doctrine that law is be
enforced as against the poor and the middle
classes, but that those who worth millions
can with impUnity, viofate the law They will
endorse the doctrine, anu by so doing establish it
az a precedent, that the President OF the United
States can, without authority under the Consti-
tuition, govern distant peoples as he sees fit They
will also endorse an increase in the Army, osten-
sibiy for the purpose OF defending our country,
but in reality to use that very Army In subrert-
ing the liberties of the people.
The evening times., 1900-10-03
Our s.rrafned InteIIigenee.D

The London Standard" thinks it would
be an insult to the trained intelligence
of President Mckinley and Secretary OF
State Hay to suppose 1nat they sincerely
believe that the work of protecting the
lives and property of American citizens in
China has been accomplished"
So it would, but the STANDARD and the
editors of other exponents of foreign opin-
len do not appreciate the calm Indifference
of statesmen of the Mckinley and Hay
order 10 little things like the lives and
property of American citizens in China. =
They are all very we'll in their way but
are not to be weighed in the balance
against the Presidential vote Of Indiana
Illinois. Kansas, or even South Dakota
Our foreign friends fall altogether to see
the point of the Administration impolicy
in China It has caught itself foolishly in
trap. Complete evidence that the Chi
nese Government maant war, and waged
official war against Us, leaves Mr.. McKin-
ley in the position of having TO meet
Congress at it's next session with the un-
doubted sin of violating its war preroga-
tive and violating the national Consti-
tuition on his head He aFdentIy, even des-
perately, wishes and IS determined to re-
move all possible evidences of his offence
from the face of the earth before the time
comes for it to assemble
1t is no doubt hard for the President to
turn deaf ear to the protests Of the re-
Iigious element which IS stirred 10 wrath
by the torture and butchery of the Amer
lean women and children at Paoting-fu.
Shan-si. and Kiaochau. but there are two
good reasons why he should do so. One
we have limited at The other may be
found il the influence of the Russian loan
and contract syn6icates in New York,
whose managers and members are parucu-
Iarly anxious that 'Jr. Mckinley should
play the Russian game in China, and he Is
doing so with all the subserVient loyalty
that he ever displays in cases where trust
or other eapitalistic interests are arrayed
against the honor and dignity of the coun-
+rxf
The evening times., 1900-10-03
Ambassadors and the Cable.
(From dc Hartferd Courant.

In these days OF submarine cables the function
of ambassadors and ENJOYS has suffered literally
a sea change. In the old days an ambassador
represented the sovereign in person. He was
obliged to decide for himself questions which
arese daily. Frequently he bsean2e confidential
adviser Of the sovereign to whom he was acered-
tied 1t was important tAat he should be per
son OF address and pleasing manners. OF wide
knowledge OF affairs, and of boidness enough to
act promptly his own initiative IN emergen-
eies-
New, the first two qualities aiene aye necessary,
for tie AMBASSADOR need not decide anything lie
makes his cable report every evening and receives
his Instructions from lis home Government every
morning In fact he is only dignilied and high
" decorated messenger boy III his political eapac-
ity In his social .spacity he is important rs
ever: he must be pleasing and persuasive; he
must be persona grata, good talker and diner
out. But he need not be great dplomatist. He
can make re mistakes, because he acts under
daily instructions; carries out direct orders His
ability Is shewIr in his reports and his ferecasts-
bat he has -othing to decide. A little wire has
relieved him Of responsibility and transformed his
status
The evening times., 1900-10-03
THE CASE OF ALEXANDRoFP.
Young Russian Doctor Charged With
Deserving From the Variag.


PHILADELPHIA, Oct. S.-The interest
ing argument in the case of Leo Alexan-
drofi, involving the que ion whet. ar he
may carry out his dec .red intent 9a of
becoming an American citizen or n be
delivered to the Russian authorities as
deserter from the cruiser Variag, was re-
sumed yesterday before Judges Dallas,
Gray, and Bradford, In the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals
Aiexandroff and a number of his men
and Eomen=fTfends were again in court
yesterday, all intentIy listening to the ad-
dresses OF the lawyers. Some OF Alexan-
droHs friends, both male and female, are
doctors in the Medicai ChirurgicaI Hospit-
al, where, it is said, Alexandroff is also
now employed.
HIS counsel urged as important questions
In the case whether the Variag at the time
of Alexandroff's desc stion was a Russian
ship of war and whether he was a member
of her crew. This is in connection with
the assertion that the United States by
It's treaty with Russia, merely intended
to assist Russian ships to recover their
crews when. being in a port of the United
States. the crews desert, and it does not
provide for the return of deserters from
the Russian Navy. The contract between
Russia and the Cramp Company, 1t was
submitted, only shows that the company
are contractors to build and sell a ship,
and that during the building thereof the
Russian Government is to have certain
rights for its protection, tad it does not
show that the company is the agent for
the Russian Government
After dwelling on various other points.
It was urged that Alexandroff was uElaw
fully and without warrant Of law il the
custody Of the keeper of the county pris-
on that ne was never a member Of the
crew of the Variag: that there is no crew:
that there is Russian ship of war or
public vessel Of that name; that he was
not deserter from the Russian ship in
the sense intended by the treaty, and hence
there Is NJ warrant for his confinement;
that because this was not a Russian ship
CT war, it has no exemption from the local
Jurisdictions under the general law; that
il it had such an exemption, the Russian
Government could not avail itself thereof
after placing itself in the position of a
suitor in a United States court. invoking
the Interference Of the local authorities. %
and therefore the decision of the court be-
low should be sustained.
After Attorney Bernard Harris had fin
ished his address in bshalf of Alexandroff
Samuel Dickson. of counsel for the appel
lants. and looking after the interest of the
Cramp Company, made the closing argu-
ment. The court reserved its decision.
The evening times., 1900-10-03

(Fronl the PhlIadeIphla ReeoFd.)
And pray, if the Constitution do not follow the
flag, what does the flag symbolic when the Con-
stitution stops, and the flag advances alone2 Not
the Republic; for the Constitution is the bond
and seal of the Republic-tear off the Constitution
and the Republic with its flag, sinks into frag-
ments. Not certainly the Government; for the
Government is but the Constitution executed.
The flag is only the emblem OF the Government as
the Government is only the embodiment of the
Constitution The flag is the sign; the Ionstitu-
ton is the thing signif1ed Let us have done with
the reasonable folly Of trying 10 sever them.
The flag without the Constitution--what would
it be2 The phantom flag OF a phantom Re-
nnblict
The evening times., 1900-10-03
COUNCIL MEMBERS ARRESTED.
Compelled to Attend a Meeting and
Vote 81 Bond Issue

NEW YORK. Oct. 3-CouncTImen Davia
L. Van Nostrand and Bernard C. Murray
were arrested yesterday by the sergeant
alarms OF the council. and compelled To
attend meeting Of that body and vote for
bond issues, in obedience to an order OF
the Supreme Court
President Guggenheimer was confined ts
his house by an attack Of infiarnmatorv-
rheumatism and Vice Chairman Oakley
presided. After routine business had been
disposed Of there were read orders to show
cause why mandamuses should not be is
sued by the Supreme Court to compel the
council TO authorize the issue of S52I. .626. %
IN bonds for park at 111th Street and the
East River. and bonds to the amount of
81 o45, ,424-62 for the park al Pitt and Sher,
III Streets a motion was made that the
resolution authorizing the issues be adopt.
ed
twenty members only were present. and
the matter rested for the tiile being Some
other business was transacted and the or
deTs were read second time A canvass
showed that not enough members were
present to authorize the bond issues, and
the chairman then directed the sergeant
alarms to arrest the absentees. Council
man Murray was soon found and brought
III under arrest He was protesting against
what he said was an outrage Business
was suspended while the search fer eoun-
ciluen went on.
Assistant SergeaGt-at-Arms Owens soon
after brought in Councilman Van Nostrand.
At sight OF his brother councilman under
arrest, Mr. Murray again burst out indig-
hantIy- He said an effort was being made
TO degrade them The required number
then being present, the bond issue was
quickly authorized.
Councilman McGarry offered a resolution
providing for the removal of the Dewey
arch. 1t was adopted without opposition.
The evening times., 1900-10-03
Iron Hand of Hi Lung Chang.
From Harper's Weekly.

At tie present time Ii Hung Chang is the Vice
roy o. the two provinces, Kwangtung and Kwang-
ST. Although old that he is unable 10 walk
un1ssisted he has still shown himself here to he
the Grand Old Man Of China, he has been
called in much less than a year he has made
The country about Canton and the Pearl River
has been noted for its bad characters He mas
diminished the number by deeapitation and
strangulation at the rate of about fifty a month
1t Is said that recently he received an order from,
the throne to iberate all prisoners waiting trial,
and that he obeyed, but caught them again as
they were set free. and in different parts OF the
city executed 1s7 in one day
The evening times., 1900-10-03
FATAL OIL CAN EXPLOSION.
L Child Burned to Death and It's
Mother Dying

CHARLESTON, ". Va. Oct. 3.-While
starting fire in a cook stove at her home
on CIendenning Street yesterday Mrs. Har-
ry BlaiseI used oil and in an instant the
can exploded and burned her frightfully.
Hardly fragment OF clothing was left
on her. In her agonr the woman tu7nned
from window IN the second sorry of the
building, and when she fell on the ground
she screamed for her child. The infant
IS six months old, and when help reached
the room where the explosion took place
it was found in flames. So great were
the chile's injuries that nothing could be
done for Il by the physicians, and it died
few hours later, after great suffering
The building, tWo-story frame tenement,
was saved. The stove was blown to
pieces. The husband was absent at work
when the accident happened Mrs. BlafseI
is not expected to live
The evening times., 1900-10-03

Nj. Bryan's declaration that the Chair
man of the House Military Committee Is
the head of lumber syndicate now ex-
plotting the valuable timber OF the PHIL
ippines, is important but not strange.
There are other exploiters and lOoters as
soeiatet with him or with the Admins
tration, and they can be counted upon to a
man 20 ''view with alarm" the least sug-
gestion looking to the resignation of our
sovereignty in the archipelago.
The evening times., 1900-10-03
A MYSTERIOUS WARNING.
Letter to Ingalls, From 81 Friend Who
Had Been Dead u Year.


(From the St Louis GIobe-Demoerat-)
The death of John J. ingalls, recalls a
remarkable incident in his Lie which he
related 10 d small company Of friends in
this city recently, and which has never
been published. He had been TO Il big pic
mic at RedfieId, in this county. and was
coming home on the train when a party
sitting together In the coach among whom
was the Rev. g T Durboraw, then pastor
of the First Methodist Church here, be-
gan discussing the wisdom OF Providence
in taking from life a noble young Chris
tfan lady of this city, Mr.. ingalls, eoa-
fessed his inability to comprehend the
divine mind. He related the facts OF the
death of a promising young boy in the
streets of Atchison. The boy was caught
under a street car and ground to death
while playing ball in the street, and the
distinguished Senator asked why, if God
had seen At TO take the child's life, he
found it necessary to cause him to be SO
horribly mutflated.
Then he told a strange story. He had
just received letter from a friend who
had been dead quite a year. The letter
puTported to have been addressed IN
heaven and was of confidential perso-a al
character, expressing great happiness on
the part of the deceased friend II knew
that friends handwriting as well as | know
my own" said Mr.: ingalls,, <tand if this
letter was not written Dy my IFieEd- WhCSe
funeral I attended q year ago. it was the
nest perfect counterfeit [ ever saw The
signature was his. In it he p-cpkesisd my
death at a certain time and place. Nov,
of course, there. could have 1esn nothing
in this apparently. supernatural incident,
but 1 confess that ] am experiencing some
anxiety in regard to it. l always confde
everything to my. wife, but you may be-
lieve I never told her of that letter" The
friends of Mr.. ingalls, to whom he related
this strange circumstance never lealned
the details of the prophecy, but they are
somewhat curious to know how near it
came to being correct.
The evening times., 1900-10-03
Hawaiians Dignity New words.

E. D. Preston. OF the Coast and Geodetie Sur
yey, who has recently studied the languages of
Hawaii. calls attention to a remarkable peeu-
liarity in which that language shows a sharp
contrast to Others Usually when a foreign word
is adopted into language it is debased in its
meaning Thus, Saloon" meaning a drinking
place, comes the French salon. a paror;
and the Spanish word hablar, to talk, is trans
formed by the French into word signfying
babbler and liar Many similar examples
found in European languages. But IN Hawaii the
opposite rule prevails, and words that have been
adopsed from the tongues of white men have
than they did in the original language.
The evening times., 1900-10-03
Undergoing II Worry.

tFrom Inc LoulsVlIIe Iourler-J0uTnaI(
IN spite OF assertions t, the contrary, it is
obvious that the Republicans are a good deal
annoyed by the vigor with which the issue of
imperialism is pursued. That they are losing
votes by it cannot be denied, in the face OF ths
TACT that former Republicans of more or less
prominence are from time to time making public
announcement of their intention to vote the Dem
ocrstic ticket account of the Republican posi-
tien and record on that question.
The evening times., 1900-10-03

Political news from Illinois continues to
make that State look extremely bilious
for the Republicans. Their campaign
managers coneede the loss of several seats
in Congress. due to the German American
revolt against Imperialism in certain dis
tricts. The truth appears to be that be-
tween the German-Ameriean md the la
bor vote, Illinois is admittedly more than
a doubtful proposition to Mr.. Hanna.
The evening times., 1900-10-03

The Trust in OhIo. yelI-knoWn
Washingtonian who has just returned
from an extended visit to friends at
Cleveland and other points in that sec
tion of Ohio brings back the most en-
couraging Democratic news. The cir
cumstance that this gentleman is a sup
porter of Mr. Mckinley gives to his OBJ
servations a value which perhaps they
would not have If he were a supporter of
Mr.. Bryan. He states that the trust is
sue is cutting big figure in the Ohio
campaign, and that this question is par
ticularlY annoying to the Republicans at
Cleveland, Ashtabula, and other manu-
featuring centres in that vicinity. At
Ashtabula-a town where Mr.. Hanna's
personal interests are large-the return
ed Washingtonian declares he met doz-
ems of old time Republicans vino are
going to vote for MIR. Bryan on the trust
issue. The candidacy for Congress of
Golden Rule Jones, ne says ap-
parently has had nothing to do
in changing these votes The
sole factor is the hard experience the
people of Ashtabula, Cleveland and neigh
boring communities are having with the
trusts. 1t is noted that in some lines of
industry wage-earners are being paid
more than they received four years ago
but their wages don't secure for them as
many OF the material comforts as they had
under the former wage scale. The far
mers also complain that while the prices
of their products range d little higher
than they did four years ago OF year
ago. still the exchange value of their pro-
duets is not as great as it was. In other
words, though a bushel of wheat brings
more in the market today than it did be-
fore Mr., MeKingley was elected, the
money obtained for the wheat doesn't go
nearly as far as it went before he be-
came President. The voters are rapidly
getting to understand that this anomalous
condition is due to the operations of the
trusts, and they are holding the RepubIi-
can party responsible.
The evening times., 1900-10-03

It is edifying to note that the Repub
1fcans claim a chance to carry Kentucky
for Mckinley. We are at a loss to know
what this may mean, except that perhaps
there are enough of the Goebel assasSina-
tion conspirators still at large to re
move" the normal Democratic majority.
The evening times., 1900-10-03
4 Difficult Patient.

(From the Meggendorfer Blaetter)
II thought the doctor had forbidden you TO
drink beer
Yes, but he doesn't know met I won't allow
anybody to order me around. and If anybody for
bids me doing anything I'll do it to defy hir.''
The evening times., 1900-10-03
Got the Infornafion She wanted.
From the Salt Lake Tribune.)

: I
At recent pink tea given by lady il this
city, very dienifed young lady and Ut3h
batteTyman happened to be seated at the same
table
The conversation Jagged for moment and the
young lady said: '"Tel me, what is the difference
in dress between the women in Manila and those
in Honolulu? understand that the in
Honolulu wear Wrappers
THAT is the difference" replied the young
volunteer. 1The ladies IN Manila DON'T
The evening times., 1900-10-03
About the Size of IT.

CFrom the Chicago News.)
RushemI haven't any for ioafers
GIshem-0h, they all right in their way.
Rushem-There's where yen wrong. They
ire always right in somebody else's way
The evening times., 1900-10-03
Living Up to His Word.


Official Member-Nr. Spudlong you remember
You promised to try TO make your contribution
fer the support of the pastor little heavier
this year than last?
Mr.. Spudlong-I haven't forgotten it. 1 am
pay ing 1t IN gold this year.
The evening times., 1900-10-03

Interest continues undated in the trial
of Henry Youtsey at Georgetown. Ken
lucky. Preliminary skirrnishing of coun-
sci being concluded. it is expected that
the prisoner will be called upon today to
plead to the Indictment charging him
with completely in the murder of the late
Governor Goebel. Youtseys wife belongs
to a prominent and affiuent Kentucky
family, and it is surmised that It's ;nflu-
ence has been used to induce him to save
his neck by a full confession, which is
expected to disclose the real instigators
OF the crime