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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-16

The plank in the platform Of z. II. vooIey.
chairman of the Hudson County Republican
Committee, which says that party harmony is
10 be preferred to personal gain II is safe say
unanimously meets the views Of the RepubH
cans Of Hudson County.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-16
NEW-JERSEY NEWS.

What are known as "New-Jersey's travelling
libraries" already very popular although
they have been making their peregrinations a
short time. The object is TO have the Libraries
placed in parts Of the State that destitute
Of the advantages which the books afford and
this object is being carried out. To do II fully.
however the State Library Commission will
probably recommend additional appropria-
ton Of $1,000 the means now al command
are inadequate TO meet the requests of several
Of the villages and towns that have made appli-
cation for the libraries tt is thought by those
in a position TO know that there are few ways
in which a reasonable amount Of the public
money could be better employed
The age-herald., 1900-05-08
FROM AMONG THE TREES"

William Cullen Bryant. Ye have no history, I cannot know Who when the hillside trees were hewn
 away, Haply two centuries since, bade spare this
 oak, Low-bent and long, the fount that from
 his roots Slips through bed of crosses toward the
 bay l know not who, but thank him that he
 left The tree to flourish where the acorn fell. And join these later days to that far time While yet the Indian hunter drew the bow In the dim woods, and the white woodman
 first Opened these fields to sunshine, turned the
 soil And strewed the wheat An unremember
 ed Past Broods, like presence, mid the long gray
 boughs Of this old tree, which has outliyed SO long The fitting generations of mankind Ye have no history. ask in vain Who planted on the slope this lofty group UT ancient pear trees that with springtime
 burst Into such breadth of bloom One hears . Where the uick lightning scored it's trunk
 yet still It feels the breath of spring. and every
 May Is wite with blossoms Who it was that
 laid Their infant roots in earth, and tenderly Cherished the delicate sprays, l ask in Yet bless the unknown hand to which I
 owe This annual festival of bees, these songs Of birds within their leafy screen, these
 shouts of joy from children gathering up the fruit Shaken in August from the willing boughs. Ye that my hand had planted, or have
 spared, Beside the way, or in the orchard-ground. Or in the open meadow, ye whose boughs With every summer spread a wider shade, Whose herd in coming years shall lie at Beneath your noontide shelter? Who shall pluck Your ripened fruit? Who grave, as was the wont Of simple pastoral ages, on the drind Of my smooth beeches some beloved name? Idly ask; yet may the eyes that look Upon you, in your later, nobler growth, Look also on nobler age than ours; An age when, in the eternal strife between Evil and Good, the Power of Good shall
 win grander mastery; when kings no more Shall summon millions from the blow to
 learn The trade of slaughter, and of populous
 realms Make camps of war; when in our younger
 land The hand of ruffian Violence that now Is insolently raised to smite, shall fall Unnerved before the calm rebuke of Law, And Fraud his sly confederate, shrink, in
 shame, Back to his covert. and forego his prey.
The age-herald., 1900-05-08
THE OILY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AlAsAMA
Little PortuaaI Was Once Great.

Commerce once enabled Portugal, con taining not more than million people, to construct an empire stretching from the Persian gulf to the east coast of Africa, and all along it to the Cape of Good Hope, and up the west coast until semi-circle of oyer fifteen thousand miles had been es- tablished. Those were the dream days of the country on the Bay of Biscay; but those days did not long tarry. The con- quests of the Portuguese navigators and traders soon passed in good part into stronger hands, and England became the chief beneficiary.
 Strips of territory and islands here and there remain as silent witnesses of the grandeur of the days of Daz and De Gama- On the east coast of Africa all has passed from Portugals possessoins except Delagoa bay, and the territory it represents, and, strangely enough, Portugal is now the ally of her despoiler. British troops are march ing across Portuguese East Africa into Rhodesia, and British officials watch every ship and every movement at Delagoa bay.
 Boer success would not, however, help Portugal and Portugal knows it She knows that the Boers would not long hesitate to seize all that is left to her in East Africa if they could throw off British domination. So Portugal helps England, expecting that England will hereafter respect her rights. Her sea empire has passed away, but she finds the fragments valuable, and she nat urally desires to hold them. and she is quite correct in assuming that her best ally in this land-grabbing age is England.
The age-herald., 1900-05-08
SOUTHERN TABOR PROBLEM

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Southern writers and speakers have nev- CT ceased to predict that if the negro were not held down by some stern measures akin to slavery he would revert to saw agery and drive all the white people from the southern states. Some of the prospec- tive speakers at next weeks conference at Montgomery, in Alabama, still view the matter from this standpoint. Since eman- cipation, however, the southern states have increased rapidly in prosperity and general gro population has nearly doubled. The south is opposed to any scheme for whole sale deportation of the negroes because it needs their labor, and this has become more true than ever since the spread of factories and cotton mills in the south. Laying aside sentimentalities, it appears that the negro problem is largely a labor problem. There are now some indications of movement to organize the blacks into labor unions, and if this should ever fake place the south would be face to face with genuine problem" Up to the present the negroes have remained outside of all labor unions and have accordingly contin- ued to work cheaply. If they should now be induced to organize unions on an exten- sive scale and to initiate the white unions in their wage demands, there would be a state of affairs considerably more serious than any attending the purely imaginary ''reversion to savagery." It is rather cu- rious that the Montgomery race problem conference appears to have no reference to this question on it's programme of sub- jects for discussion.
The age-herald., 1900-05-08

United States, and they cannot be other wise. The republican jugglers know what is coming, but as the supreme court will adjourn in June they hope a decision in the supreme court against the trust and poodle scheme of taxation can be post poned until they are able to levy the cam paign assessments they have bargained for.
 In the meanwhile our straw-hatted vice. roy is in a queer predieament. He has about as much law behind him an opera bouffe ruler possesses, and his rule will lead to a wide variety of complications that it will take years to untangle. But the re- publican party is not so much to blame. The trusts and tariff benehcaries own 1t, and it was powerless against their de- mands. The decision of Judge Lochren hits them between the eyes, and the hope is freely expressed taht Ortiz will bring a quick appeal to the supreme court.
The age-herald., 1900-05-08
Porto Rico is a Part of America.

A military court in Porto Rico sentenced one Rafael Ortiz to death on account of murder which was commuted to term in the penitentiary, and the war department sent him to the prison at Saltwater, Mime sota, to serve the sentence. Ortiz secured counsel in Minnesota, and asked for his liberty on the ground that he had not had such a trial as the constitution guarantees to all In other words, he claimed that Porto Rico was part of the United States.
 The case came before Judge Lochren of the United States district court of Minrie- sota who is jurist well known and highly respected in the northwest. Judge Lochren remanded Ortiz to prison, the ground that the Paris treaty had not been ratified when the case arose: and then he went on to say that after the ratification the con- stltution extended at once of it's own force -ex propio vigore-to Porto Rico.
 This decision does in fact declare that the fifteen per cent tax is unconstitutional, for if Porto Rico is a part of the United States its customs must be those of the
The age-herald., 1900-05-08
DID NOT GET A VOTE

Washington Correspondent of the Savan-
 nah News.
 Of all the men who have recently sus- tained defeat because of their desertion of the party organization the case of Sem ator Caffery of Louisiana is the worst There has been elected to the Louisiana legislature not single man ws.o will vote for Caffery's return to the senate.
 Ever since the Louisiana senator pre- sided over the gold standard meeting at Indianapolis, the democrats of Louisiana have had 1t in for him. Tn the campaign which has just closed, and which resisted in ali overwhelming victory for the reg ular ticket, Senator Caffery-s son headed the boiling ticket, and the senator him. self went through the state saying aif the hard things he knew how about the reg ular democrats. The result was, however an Overwhelming defeat for the Caffery family.
 One by one the democrats who left the party organization in 1896 have been weed ed out of congress. Lindsey and Caffery are the last, and the successor to each has been named.
The age-herald., 1900-05-08
Richard Waqner's Invention.

The story of Richard Wagner and the Emusic of the future has been so often told, and Wagner's opera reform and the evolution of his dramatico-musical art have been SO exhaustiveY discussed from time to time by eminent musicians that the Aee-Herald will not now attempt to give a detailed account of Wagner's processes of differentiation from his predecessors or essay anything like full explanation of the great masters methods. But as much this week. it may be worth while to point out two of the salient characteristics of this school.
 In the first place Richard Wagner main tained that opera, in order to hold its own in art, must have a libretto of high liter ary excellence and that beyond and above opera must come the music drama, found- ed on legendary and mythological subjects and having to do with weird and poetic characters. He also insisted that the music, as we'll as the stage setting, of either opera, or the form of composition which he himself originated-nusic drama-must go far toward heightening the romantic effect of the plot and lines. There must be departure from the old Italian school, for Italian opera was devoid, as a rule. of literary merit. Its Hbretto was often worse than mediocre. And musically Italian opera was often weak, being songs strung together without orderly arrangement or counterpoint.
 Weber recognized the limitations and de-
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feets of Italian opera and set about to re- form the music stage. He was the fore runner of Wagner. but it remained for the more constructive mind and the riper scholarship and the bolder genius to de- velop the idea if reform and evolve the music drama which was to take its place ct the head of all departments of compost ton. So much for the general scope of Wagner's work
 But if a musician were asked to name only one, and that one the most striking, invention of Wagner he would unhesita- lively say it was the "leit-motive"; in ner's music abounds in leit-motiyes. There is leit-motive for nearly every character
 to come upon the stage A cultured musi- elan, knowing tone color and understand ing orchestration. could. by listening to the leit-motives, without having seen a Nag- merriam performance, come very near an tieipating or forming in imagination ex- actly Wagner's histrionic figures and the part tnaL eacn HBure was eo ptty' ENehS musician listens for the leit-motives. But how is the layman-the person who has no technical knowledge of music-to come in and get the benefit of all this leit-motive scheme? The answer is, the layman, if he be musically inclined, while missing a great deal of the beauty and genius of the masters production at first hearing, gets a general understanding of 1t, without | knowing just how and by constant hear 1 ing, learns to follow the work with some what the same interest and delight as the educated musician. Many de- voices of music who do not read notes but who have listened with intelligence and with a receptive heart, find themselves able to pick out the composers themes and counter-t themes and follow the why's and wherefores of his modnlations, almost as well as those who read the score.
 At first the opponents of Wagner were numerous and violent. but few anti-Wag- nerites are found today. Masters who have come to the front since "Tannhauser' was written have been strongly influenced by Wagner. Some of them have adopted the leit-motive. In future it will be the rule.
 Constant hearing is the thing, for certain it is, high art in music improves on ac- quaintance just as is the case with good verse and good wine.
The age-herald., 1900-05-08
Onnosition is Merely Windwork.

Admiral Dewey or Judge Van Wyck or some other amiable and optimistic fellow citizen may consider himself rival of William J. Bryan in the Kansas City convention, but thus far the figures do not uphold the contention. By giving Admiral Dewey the entire strength of the opposi- ton the poll to date stands: Bryan, 224; Dewey, 0. Nine states, Massachusetts, Ne braska. North Carolina, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah and Alabama; one territory, New Mexico. and theDistrict of Columbia, have acted, and all are solid in support of MT Bryan.
 And the poll will continue to stand in just about this proportion. There may hereafter be a delegation or two that will go to the convention without instructions, but it is very safe to assume that no del- egation will go there instructed against Mir. Bryan. And it is also safe to assume that no delegation will in Kansas City vote against him.
 Some of the delegations mentioned in the foregoing table were selected after Dewey had announced that he would be an op- ponent of MT Bryan at Kansas City. That announcement has not changed public sen- timent in the democratic party, and Bryan delegations will continue to be selected without any reference to it. The democra- cy demands at this time a standard bear CT that the trusts and monopolies which o,,1 they have the fullest confidence that MT Bryan is the man they desire. They will force his nomination, and the Washington and New York scheming cannot change with the honored name of the hero of Ma nila.
 The republicans are not nearly so well pleased with the prospect of MT. Bryan's nomination as they thought they would be. They begin to fear a popular uprising against the party that created and fos- ters the trusts; and MT. Hanna openly an- nounces that "the price of victory will behigher this year than it was in 1896. What percentage he has added to the as- sessment upon the trusts is not stated, but he intends, it is plain, to squeeze out a sum beyond the unprecedented assessment of 1886.
 This may however be the peoples year, as 1896 was the moneybags year When the people really want a president devoted to the interests of the many, the few with all their money made under and by virtue of a robber tariff, will have to stand aside
The age-herald., 1900-05-08
Territory of Jefferson.

The proposed change of the name of the
 Indian Territory to that of the Territory of
 Jefferson is widely approved Jefferson
 deserves on account of many services com
 memoration in the name of future state, as Washington has been honored, and as perhaps Lincoln will be when Canada is annexed.
 The Indian Territory is a part of the T great Louisiana purchase by which Jeffer- son doubled the size of the country, and laid the foundations of it's grea tness and uhequal1ed prosperity. Certainly one dis trict in the vast purchase should bear the name of the man who made it.
 The St. Louis Globe-Democrat thinks the fact that Jefferson was the originator of the idea of placing the Indians in vast reservation west of the Mississippi river should entitle his memory to the proposed honor In the act of 1894, in which the Louisiana purchase was divided between the territory of Orleans and dis trct of Louisiana, the president was au- thorized to negotiate with "any Indians owning lands on the east side of the Mis- sissippi river, and residing thereon, for an exchange of lands, the property of the United States, on the west side of the Mis- sissippi, in case said tribes should remove and settle thereon" This was the begin ming of the removal of Indians to the In- dian Territory. Under this far-sighted pol icy of Jefferson the Choctaws were induced to remove from Alabama, and many other tribes did likewise. Jefferson signed the act in 1894, and in this act was the germ of the Indian policy that has been follow ed ever since. In this act was the germ of the Indian Territory which was created in General Jackson's presidential term It seems very fitting therefore that the ter rftory which Jefferson acquired by pur- chase and which he populated in theory at least should bear his name, and it is very probable that it will.
The age-herald., 1900-05-08
THE sENATE's TURN NOW

From the New York Journal
 The project that has enlisted the interest of two generations of Americans took long step forward yesterday when the house passed the Hepburn Nicaragua canal bill by the splendid vote of 225 to 35. The near approach to unanimity with which this ae- ton was taken reflects the solidarity of the American people and cannot fail to have a marked effect upon foreign powers.
 It is intimated that there is an under standing that the measure is to go to sleep in the senate until after the election. Let us warn MT. Mckinley and the republican party that this will not be safe. With two thirds republican majority in the sen- ate the people will know where to place the responsibility for any jugglery.
 It is said that the administration objects to this bill because it is inconsistent with the Claytdh-BuIwer treaty. Then let 1t get the Clayton-Bulwer treaty out of the way The president is responsible for whatever life there may be in that outgrown con- vention, and if he has revived its obsolete
The age-herald., 1900-05-08
THE BiLL1oNaIKE HAS ARRIVED

From the St. Louis Post-Dispateh.
 The Standard Oil company has declared a quarterly dividend of s1o share, payable June 15. This makes a total of 80 a share placed to the credit of stockholders since January 1, 1900.
 MT John D. Rockefeller owns $31,000, 900 of the Standard Oil stock His share in the dividend will be S. 100000 which will make his profits s12 400, 900 since January 1. Add ing to this the profits in his holdings of stock in subsidiary companies, MT. Rocke- feller's income this year is estimated at s75 eO0000. At 5 per cent this represents a capitalof $1,5Oa,oO0.Oo The billionaire has arrived
 The enormous power of such vast wealth is scarcely conceivable. John D. Rockefel- Ter with his associates in his various sym dicates wields a. power which may be greater than government itself
 Kings and princes have in times past ruled as absolute monarchs,. but it is doubtful if they ever enjoyed the domin- ion over their subjects possessed by the man or men who can command the wealth of this republic.
 Power once resided in political will. Now it is in economic advantage, which is rap idly passing into the hands of a very few. Government by and for billiouaires is ona of the. dangers which threaten American nhertax
The age-herald., 1900-05-08
TO SCARE THE SULTAN
Fighting Machines to Visit Him In Event of
 Refusal

From the New York Journal.
 Washington.-These battleships and cris- CTS will form the fleet to compel Turkey to pay the missionaries claim of 800, 900 if the sultan refuses to comply with the terms of the ultimatum from the United tsates:
 The Kearsarge, the finest battleship in the world.
 The Kentucky, her sister ship, which will be ready in fifteen days.
 The Massachusetts, which will be in re- pair in ten days.
 The Indiana, which will leave New York tomorrow for League Island.
 The New York ,armored erusier at San Juan.
 The Texas, second-lass battleship at San Juan.
 The Detroit unprotected cruiser, on the way to Key West from the south.
 The Machias, on the way to Port Limon.
 The Albany, protected cruiser, now ready at Newcastle England.
 The Chicago, under Admiral Schley, at Para.
 The Montgomery, now with Admiral Schley
 The Wilmington, also on the South Att Iantic station, with Schley.
 According to the opinion of the naviga- ton bureau officials this fleet, whether commanded by Schley, Sampson or Far quhar, would be moblized for the Mediter- ranean and would destroy or capture the Turkish fleet in the first engagement.
 Turkeys available fleet is nine battle ships, only one of which is first-elass and inferior to the Indiana; one second-class, outclassed by the Texas, and seven third class battleships, all of which could be handled by the Kearsarge, the Kentucky and the New York.
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restrictions let him enjoy the pleasure of getting himself out of his serape.
 The y-Pauncefote treaty is before the senate. Let Secretary Hay negotiate an amendment to it in line with the one pro- posed by Senator Davis and transmit it for ratification If he cannot do that-if our dear friends, the English. insist on holding their pistols at our heads-let us give formal notice that the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is abrogated, and let both countries revert to a state of nature in Central America. We need no treaties in that quarter except with Nicaragua and Costa Riea.
The age-herald., 1900-05-08

From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Every time widower gets new suit half the women he knows roll up their eyes.
 A woman can Hever propose as artistical- ly as a man because she is always n too big a hurry.
 When a girl tries to hold a mans eyes she is generally doing it so he won't mo- tice her freckles or something
 The average man loves his wife most when she is alway visiting and least when they are house cleaning.
 A man can always make his wife proud to death of him by referring to the hired girl as the maid before company.
The age-herald., 1900-05-08
AFRICAN ROYALTIES HAT

From the Providence Journal
 '"The plug hat is essentially comic.' Thus the Talker of the Day, philosophic author for whose opinions all must have the most profound respect; but if he means by the plug hat silk hat or topper of the latest mode, he is sadly astray. There is not comedy, but morality and dignity, in the headgear which statesmen are proud to own, and which African royalty adopts even in advance of trousers or other ap- pliances of western civilization.
The age-herald., 1900-05-08

If Roberts keeps up his present gait those who are counting on resolution of sympathy at Kansas City in July will be more than day too late for the occasion.
The age-herald., 1900-05-08

An Englishman Norman by name, who wears six pairs of pants" day, has ar rived in Washington. This record quite eclipses all known facts in the story of Tim Woodruff's weskets, or ex-President Arthur's sartorial achievements
The age-herald., 1900-05-08

Swallow is the presidential candidate of the United Christian party. He is the same Swallow who proposed to carry Pennsylvania, but did not.
The age-herald., 1900-05-08

The admiral keeps away from Kansas City He has an opinion of that town, but in tho meanwhile he is enjoying himself very we'll
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General Otis says Aguinaldo is in Isa- bella province, which presumably is a part of our island of Luzon.
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MT. Web. Davis, straight from Potgei- the terms of his engagement to Dom Paul.
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The spoilsman casts his eyes towards the colonies with no fear of the Lochren flank movement in his mnd
The age-herald., 1900-05-08

Secure season tickets and seats in thu music festival today.
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Aguinaldo's official denial of his timely demise is expected daily.