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,as cod On q knowledge of their fitness and


an interest in their work.
There was, too, less of that disqu'etins
;aono. an the outside to which We are
smhiected. On the one hand We were given
to understand that education must De prac
ticaI. practical, practical. The cry was a
curse. and it is not helped by the senti-
mentalism of a later day which Is equally
misleading. Munsterberg's diagnosis IS ap-
solutely perfect. With our elective courses
we have the specialization of the advanced
universities creeping downward into the
schools. With our learning made run
we have the kindergarten method creeping
IN I'm the one case the liberal education
of the school is replaced by professional
education; in the other case the liberal edu-
cation is replaced by liberal play" Thus
we are squeezing out the liberal educa-
ton in the attempt to harmonic ,tS TWO am am
the mercenary spirit of our time, and the
other fits its spirit of selfish en5oy , MT 30
s.ntinent are steadily destroying discipline
We are saying to our boys There Is ,m mo
as the professors father asked, where will
they be at night!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-04
E,xe-Year Sentence Impoxed.

Edward S. Havens, indicted for forgery
in connection with securing $50 from the
local firm of Neitzey & Ballenger the Goth
of last April. today. in Criminal Court No.
1, withdrew his plea Of not guilty and
pleaded guilty. Justice Clabaugh sentenced
the defendant to Imprisonment in the West
Virginia pententiary at Moundsvtlie for
five years.
The court was informed that Ravens had
served terms of Imprisonment in the Phiia-
defphia penitentiary and at another insti-
tuition for similar offenses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-04
Responsibility for Damaged stores.

A board of survey has been appointed to
meet at the Army building. New York city.
to examine into and fix the responsibility
for the damaged condition of certain sub
sistence stores received at the New York
depot from Santiago and Nuevttas, Cuba.
and from transports Mcclellan and Kill
patrick.
The detail for the board Is Captain Alexis
r. Paxton, 18th Infantry; LIST Lieutenant
Thomas R. Harker. 18th Infantry; I'd Lieu.
tenant Kurtz Eppley. 18th Infantry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-04

San Ho-za and San Wan Mojave and
Vallejo. two towns in California, the latter
opposite Mare Island, the naval station on
the Pacific coast, are pronounced 'Mo-ha-
We and 'Val-la-ho.' respectively.
IF you want to have fun with a man.
ask him to pronounce Saskatchewan quick
ly. 1t Is not very long, but it is a tongue
tangler while 1t lasts. 1t is the name Of a
province of northwest Canada"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-04

Peter McDuffy. the laborer who fell from
a scafrold at 18th and K streets northwest
about week ago, died at the Emergency
Hospital Saturday night His skull was
fractured. Coroner Carr gave certificate
Of accidental death in the case.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23
IMPERIALISM DEFINED.
Entirely at Variance with the True
Principles OF Freedom and
Fairness.

Ii definitions in the dictionaries will
not aid much the platform adopted at
Kansas City may. 1t is understood
that Mr.. Bryan had something to say
about the construction of the plat
form. We may presume, therefore,
that Mr.. Bryan means about what the
platform means by the word imperial
ISM The second paragraph of the
platform reads:
1--WE declare again that all governments
Instituted among men derive their just
powers from the consent of the governed; 4;
that any government not based on the
consent of the governed is a tyranny, and
that to impose upon any people a gov
ernment of force is to substitute the
methods of imperialism for those of a
republic"
This declaration seems to convey
pretty clear idea of what the trainers
of the platform mean by imperial
ism" and we may safely assume that
what they mean Mr.. Bryan means.
The idea is more fully conveyed, per-
haps, by the words quoted than it
would be by a formal definition.
Essentially, imperialism is arbitrary
power exercised over people without
their consent. 1t is the power that the
British government asserts in many
places, though in general it exercises
the power with such moderation that
the people over whom it is asserted are
practically self-governing. AT bottom
it is a fiat denial of the right of self
government.
1t is entirely immaterial whether the
power to govern without the consent
of the governed is asserted by person
called an emperor or by person called
a president or by parliament or by
congress.
The material thing is the assump-
tion of supremacy sovereignty
by some person or NUMBER OF persons
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23
ANOTHER SCANDAL.
Ahother instance of Republican
Rottenness In Public
Office.

1t is well known that the present
head of the treasury bureau of sta
tIstlcs is preparing the campaign
textbook of the republican party
such a scanda1ous Disregard of the
proper duties and dignity of that bu-
reau has never before been shown
There have been charges made of par
tisan use in the past, but these
charges have never been proved to
such an extent as to affect the cor
rectness of the returns issued by the
bureau. There have been issued, un-
der official sanction, interpretations
of commercial and industrial returns,
tavorlng a particular policy or meas
ure. and when Charles Foster
was secretary of the treasury the
head of the bureau permitted vio-
lently protectionist interview to be
circulated as a treasury document
although it was well known at the
time that the matter had been pre-
pared by another hand. Such exhi-
bitions of improper political activity
by the bureau have been rare, how
CNCI, anu nave never Id1IeQ TO DT1nS
down criticism on those who were re-
sponsible.
Secretary Gage must bear the full
responsibility of causing the present
scandal. He removed a man of expe-
rience to make room for a political
hack, whose only qualification was his
service during the campaign in run
ming literary bureau" for the re-
publicans. From the beginning this
partisan has used the bureau for par
tisan purposes, and he is now occu-
pied in preparing the campaign hand
book. Such a function is as remote
from those proper to the collection
of commercial statistics as they
would be from the conduct of
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23

over other persons whose consent is
not given and who are not consulted.
It is the utter negation of the Amer
lean doctrine that sovereignty resides
in the people and not in others assum-
ing by divine right or the right of mere
might an authority above that of the
people.
This is the imperialism which has
been set up in Washington over dis
tant peoples. 1t is an imperialism
which the American people cannot per-
nit to be exercised in their name over
other peoples of the earth without
incurring great risk that it will soon
be exercised over themselves.
To quote once more from the plat
form:
1--WE assert that no nation can long en-
dure half republic and half empire, ana
we warn the American people that i'm
perialism abroad will lead quickly and
inevitably to despotisnl at home"
Substantially the same thing was
said by Abraham Lincoln but it is not
the mere dictum of any man or body
of men. 1t is an eternal truth rooted
clear down at the bottom OF human
nature.
He who accepts the principle of des-
potism is a fit subject of despotism.
Men may laugh at that, but let them
remember that some things are re-
garded with tolerance to-day which
would have been rejected with indig-
nation and horror hardly mere than
two years ago.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23
THE DANGER OF PLUTOCRACY.
Warning Voice of History Should BE
Heard and Heeded-Concen-
tratiOn of Wealth.

Surely the rapid development OF
plutocracy during the last few years
will arouse the people to the dangers
which threaten our republic. The
warning voice of history cannot long.
er be disregarded. No nation has ever
Travelled so far, in the same space OF
time, from democracy to plutocracy
as has this nation during the last ter
years. Foreign influence, says the Ma.
tional Watchman, described by Wash
ington as zone of the most baneful
foes of republican government" has
been felt as never before. Fortunes
have been made more suddenly than
ever before. Wealth has been concen.
trated in the hands of few more rap
ital eXerts an influence over govern.
ment more potent than ever before.
Money is more freely used than ever
before to corrupt elections. What il
to be the end? Can any thoughtfu
person believe that these conditions
promise well for a republic?
Instead of regarding the recent as
sault upon constitutional government
the attempted overthrow of Amer.
lean principles-as matter of des
tiny, we may rather consider it as the
last plague, the shaving of the first.
born, which will end, the bondage OF
the American people, and bring de-
liverance from the Pharaohs who are
enthroning Mammon and debasing
mankind.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23
The Currency Question.
ssssssssssssssa sassssssssssssassasss

the United States. That this means the
ultimate redemption of silver dollars
and certificates in gold is undoubted;
the secretary now must maintain the
parity of the silver dollar and of all
other forms of money precisely as he
has for years maintained the legal
tender notes at parity with gold, by
exchange of gold on demand
The republican party has sown the
seeds of financial folly, and the whirl.
wind of business ruin will be the in.
eyitable harvest. l may be deemed
pessimist when | say that in my iudg.
ment the reaction from the gold stand.
ard, with the demands for an increase
of legal tender money to meet the ne.
cessities of the people, will be not only
flood of fiat money, but possibly
flood of bloodshed before the question
is finally determined. Pray God that
my apprehensions be groundless. Yet
it seems to me that one of two things
must from the very nature of things
come to pass in the not remote future
There will be irretrievable industrial
slavery; or the acute antagonism (from
disastrous changes in the level OF
prices) between capital and labor will
precipitate, throughout Europe and
America scenes which characterized
the history of France little more than
a hundred years ago.
That awful cataclysm came through
the rejection by the rulers of France
of the honest principles of money for
the necessities of the people. It's in.
ception was the adoption of the golc
standard in 1859 under Louis XIV.
when the ratio was suddenly raised
from 1874 to 1910, followed by the
abandonment of silver as redemption
money; and later by the abandonment
of gold as well, to follow the delusions
of John Law. VIII it be necessary foI
this great republic to tread the thorny
path of the Bourbons ?-L. M. Garrett
in Money.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23
CAT LEADS DOUBLE LIFE.
Philadelphia Feline Has Two HOmcs
and Is Well Fed at Beth
of Them.

Even a cat may lead double life.
There is feline who divides his favors
between two families living in Phila
delphia, and his tickle disposition has
caused a serious rupture in their erst-
while friendly relations, says the Phila-
delphia Times. One morning he walked
into the back yard of one of the prem
ises and proceeded to make himself at
home. The cook fed him and named
him Jim, and soon he became an ac-
knowledged member of the household.
One day last week while Jim was af-
fectionately rubbing against the legs of
the master of the house in the back
yard he heard a voice from the adjoin-
ing yard calling: Here, Moses! Here,
Mosesl" Jim pricked up his ears.
Then a woman's head appeared over the
fence. and the owner of it suggested
that Moses be sent home at once.
'That isn't Moses; that's Jim,' said the
man. He is no Jim; he is Moses. re-
torted the woman across the fence.
"Come home, Moses, and get your
cream The cat clambered over the
fence. Here, jim! Here. JIM" called
the man. At this juncture the cooks
of the two families appeared on the
scene, and Jim's cook expressed her
opinion of the Moses cats cook. 1t
turned out that the cat with the aliases
took breakfast at seven, dinner at one
and supper at six in the house where
he was known as Jim, and breakfast at
eight, lunch at two and dinner at seven
next door, where he was known as
Moses
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

If the republican congress post
pones the reduction of the war tax.
the people will not postpone the re-
duction of the republican vote in COLI
gress.-Albany Argus.
If the republican party sue
ceeds in fastening the imperialistiG
doctrine up on the American people
the Declaration of Independence and
the Fourth of July will become n
farce.-W. j. Bryan.
Mr.. Bryan is as frank as the plat
form itself in his expressions upon this
dominant issue of to-day. He recog-
nizes that Imperialism overshadOWs
every other question in which the peo-
pie have concern and threatens the kfe
of the nation.-St. Louis Republic.
On the question of imperialism
and the trusts the country is against
the republican party, and if the demo-
Gratis do not so far oblige their op-
ponents as to push these problems
into the background Mr.. Mckinley
is likely to be Brooklyn Cit
izen.
4
ticket, amid the cheers which greeted
it in Philadelphia has witnessed its
only day of enthusiasm, and from now
on must fall into that mediocrity Of
estimation which attaches to the in
sufficient and the ungling-Atlanta
Constitution.
1t is remarkable circumstance
that in the midst of all our boasted
prosperity this year so far has sown
more strikes and shut-downs than for
many corresponding periods past
Mckinley prosperity is too hoggish-
it won't distribute itself enough
Houston Post.
The republican party demanded
that the constitution be amended be-
grappled with. On the other hand
the party made no scruples of violat-
ing the constitution for the benefit
of the trusts in the Porto IIco ques-
tion.-Peoria Herald-Transcript.
When he was nominated four
years ago people said it was because
of his great speech. They regard him
dS an etCClueub brought dDOul ny NGlI-
turned phrases. There is no such
feeling now. There is realization
born of four years life in the most
keenly lighted public view, that the
man is welded to the cause of put
ting the man above the dollar-of re-
storing fundamental American prin-
ciplcs. And that is all anybody wants
in any ne.-Indianapolis Sentinel.
Senator Hanna is credited with
an intention to send McKinley's pub
lished speeches to Gov. Roosevelt.
This is deplorable. In that volume
Gov. Roosevelt will discover that Pres
ident Mckinley has been unable to
state clearly a principle of the cur
rency question. He will discover also
that President Mckinley is voluble in
commonplace. That is a dangerous
example to commend to so young q
politician as Roosevelt. - chicago
Chronicle.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23
The Humpbacked Taxpayer.

President Mckinley has occupied the
white house a little more than three
years. For the same period of time the
government has been run by the mil
lionaire plutocrats of the white house.
syndicate. The humpbacked fax-pay-
er-brother o the man with the hoe
can now take stock and ascertain his
condition. Three years of McKinleyism
have given this patient man with the
hump Il government that costs about
day; more than $40,OO0.0o a week; al
most $50 600, 900 mon tn; in the neigh
borhood of 50 900, 900, 900 a year-and
yet the patient man with eyes like an
OK is not wholly satisfied!-N. Y. Yer
dict
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23
SAILORS AILMENTS.
England and Germany Have Insti-
tutes for the Benefit of
Sick Marines.

Liverpool and London have for some
time supported establishments that
are specially devoted to promoting
the health of seamen and to studying
and treating the diseases to which
mariners are peculiarly liable, says
the New York Sun. Germany has now
followed this excellent example and
has established the Hamburg insti-
tute for the study of nautical hygiene.
The many changes that the past 30
years have wrought in the worlds
marine have tended to improve the
physical well-being of the sailor, but
at the same time have afflicted him
with a new crop of ailments. The
food of seamen has been greatly i'm
proved. The rapid transition from
sails to steam has largely increased
trade with tropical countries because
the swift vessels of to-day can carry
tropical fruit and other products that
could not stand slow transportation
in the warm latitudes. Hence sailors
are much more afflicted now than for
merly with diseases of tropical origin.
The almost universal substitution of
steel for wood in the construction of
vessels, and the consequent changes
in the nature of work on shipbOard
have had their effect in changing the
nature of the accidents to members
of the crew.
MANY of the old-time diseases, such
as scurvy, night blindness, the So
called ship anemia, and chronic all
ments of the digestive organs, if not
yet quite extinct, have become rare.
A series of new diseases has taken
their place and are now having the
attention of the medical faculty. In
order to deal with these diseases such
as malaria, beri-beri, blackwater
fever and other tropical disorders,
special hospitals are needed at the
large ports.
This is the reason for the establish
ment of the institutes at London and
Liverpool and for the new institution
at Hamburg. Among the many feat
ures outlined for the Hamburg insti-
tute is a course of study on the symp-
toms and treatment of malaria and
other tropical diseases and on tropical
physiology and hygiene. This course
will extend over several months, and
the students will number many ply
sicians engaged in practice at all the
seaports of Germany. The investiga-
tions by Prof. Koch of tropical dis
eases did much to bring about the de-
cision of the German government TO
establish the Hamburg institute.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23
Nc Evasion :.

Upon all phases of all the questions
involved in the issue OF Imperialism the
democratic platform is clear, straight
forward, admirable. There is no eva
sion, no juggling. After reading these
vigorous vet moderate and sane utter
ances no one can have the slightest
doubt either as to the principles laid
down CT as to how the democratic
party interprets those principles into
policies. The evils are defined and
the remedies of justice, liberty and
American fair-dcaling are proposed
explicitly and fearlessly. Upon the
other great issue, monopoly, the plat
form is again clear, straightforward,
admirable. Instead OF incoherent raw
ings and indefinite promises, there is
sanity of statement, avoidance Of con-
fusion between corrupt and legiti-
mate uses Of capital and demand for
real reforms-for publicity, for the
constitutional extension Of law, and
above all for the ending Of monopoly
fostering tariffs. - Cincinnati En-
quirer.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23
Not Like Lincoln.

The Hannaites expect to fool few
republicans by making them belive the
party of to-day is the legitimate sue
cessor of the party of Lincoln. But
they do not expect the number that can
be thus deceived to be very large, and
they do not expect that men who are
base enough to knowingly cast their
votes to perpetuate the power of
trusts o plunder the American people
to do so without demanding portion
of the plunder for themselves. Hence
they realize that they must buy large
portion of the votes that the ticket will
receiXe=Nationa Wntchman
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23
Tbeir Burning GIaSses.

"Yes, it was most singular Incl
dent. Inc spectacles of that great
mass of school children focused
themselves in the giaring sun on the
breast of the admiral. In 50 seconds
two of his badges melted. and his
coat began to smoke. Before they
could drag him away and call for the
fire department, his buttons had fused
together and his sword nilt was warp
ing out of shape!"
"Where did you say this hap
pened?"
I'm Boston, of ourse."-Cleveland
Plain Dealer
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23
Filtered Water vs.. Typhoid Fever.

Filtered Water VS.. Typhoid Fever.
The filtration of the water supply of
cities by means of sand filter beds or
mechanical contrivances has rapidly
advanced in this country during the
past ten years, but it is far more gem
eral in Great Britain than here. Mr..
Allen HaZen, an authority on sanitary
engineering, AYERS that the fact s'fully
established that the death rate from
typhoid fever is materially lowered by
the filtration of the water supply In
Great Britain cities containing an ag-
gregate population of more than TO-
100000 people use sand filtered Wa 81
supply, and the result, it is claimed,
is shown in LondOn's freedom from
typhoid. In this country cnly one-tenth
of the towns and cities have filtered
water.-Youth's Companion.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23
How the Standard Is Maintained.

Experience proves that when by
law we have two standard dollars-sil-
yer and gold-the one which is cheap
er in the market eXpels the other from
circulation, so that single standard
results in practice. In 1857, for exam
pie, the gold dollar drove out the sill
yer dollar because at that time the gold
dollar as bullion was worth 100 cents
and the silver dollar was worth as bull
lion 104 cents The silver dollars were
exported to be melted, the exporter
getting a profit of four cents a dollar
No silver dollars remained in circula-
ton. But now that the bullion in sill
yer dollar is worth little over As cents,
that dollar. if made standard and adj
mitted to "free and unlimited coinage,
would eXpel the gold dollar from cir
culation. People always pass off"
their worst enemy first--Baltimor
Sun
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23
ADOLPH PATTERSON.
Prominent republicans. VIII

Prominent republicans. who
heretofore were trusted and believed
by men of all parties to be devoted to
a republican form of government and
individual liberty. have been stam-
peded and carried away by cant about
manifest destiny" and "a world pow
er" They are ready TO surrender the
rcpub!:e. The democratic party must
save it-Aansas City Times.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23
Ono Trin.

Cyrus-Crawfoot's wife is too kasty.
Silas-In what way?
Cyrus-Why, Crawfoot sent her fter
the doctor, and she stepped to price
tombstones On the way.-Cbi"ago
Daily News.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23

THE republicans are somewhat
alarmed over the political situation in
Wisconsin, caused by what one of
their leading papers calls "the ON
nous silence among the Germans"
The imperiaIist plunge of the admin
istration does not rest easily on the
German mind The "silence" Of the
Germans is declared to resemble the
situation at the outset of the cam
paign over the Bennett school law of
some years ago, which drove the Ger
mans in a body ever to the democrats
and carried the state against the re-
cans.-Pittsburgh Post.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23
His Only Love,

McJigger What's the book you're
reading?
Thingumbob-It's the story of the
only man the author ever loved.
''Ah. its by a woman, ch?''
NO; by q man. It's his autobiog-
raphv. indianapolis Press.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23
To the Juvenile Mind.

paw said Tommy, u don't see why
they call it Turkish BATH"
''Why not?"
"Because all the Turks I've ever sesS
looked as if they never took baths<-
all."-Chicago Tribune.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23
His observation.

The Maid-Do you believe that suf-
fering and severe trials purify the char
acter:
The Bachelor-Certainly. I've heard
of several cases where men were re-
formed by marrying.-Chicago Daily
News
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-23
"THE DOLLAR BEFORE The MAN."

church, and the knowledge that this
hack is engaged in the task is suffi-
cient to bring into discredit his activity
in statistics of trade as issued by the
treasury. Since Mr.. Austin has been
in Office he has not added a single fea-
ture to the tables as formerly issued,
save that of throwing discredit on the
whole by his evident intention to
make himsen useful to his party
The worst feature of it is that the
tables are discredited abroad as well
as at home, and it is not strange that
so little regard is paid by statisticians
of Europe to the work now done un-
der our government.-N. Y. Post.