El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-18

Oh OQClo Sam d sOlOlerS COus6ntluR W
live q week or day on the German
army ration. One meal of "erbswurst"
and pumpernickel, would raise q
mutiny.
WHAT NEXT?
| DO wers are almost certain to fall out
among themselves and Uncle Sam will
cit on the bleaohers and cheer them
on. We have supplies to sell and the
more war the rest of the world INDUCES
| in, the better for US. No matter who
fights whom, they will do it-both OF
them-on Chicago pork and Minnesota
| wheat, with the assistance of Texas
b orses and mules, fed on Kansas forage
And Pennsylvanis locomotives and
Alabama rails will play their part in
the hostilities, too, likely. Wherefore
we can bear it all with Christian resia-
nation, as long as it's the other fellow.
Waldersee's intention, as at fra t
an nounced, was to travel to China
via San Francisco, SO as to arrive
head of his troops, but this schedule
has been changed. 1t was too much
of an object lesson IS to relative dis
tances. Really Germany has no busi-
ness to mix up in China-it Is too far
fr ON base for her and she is too poor
| to spend money Transporting armies.
Every regiment that goes out will
coast her half million each way
| easy, for simple transportation. She
| can't stand the racket long, but 1t is
| due her reputation to make a splurge,
| 1 suppose. AS matter of fact, En-
gland, Japan and ourselves are the
only powers near enough to do any
thing on an extensive scale. France
| a nd Germany can only get to China
by way of English speaking places.
Russia looks as If she were q neigh
Dor, but she isn't in reality. Her
Siberian railway is q mere 5000 mile
bridRe-all through traffic and no way.
1t couldn't do much If it were complete,
which 1t 10 not. At present 1t has As
pound rails laid in q hurry on green
ties, no equipment to speak of, runs
through q bar barous country and has
several breaks In it. 1t will be better
In time, no doubt, but the American
locomotive works and iron foundries
will have to turn in several years' out.
put first. Russia, however, mixes in
Chinese affairs on q different basis
from the rest of US. We want to trade
and she wants to collect taxes.
Bids for s3O,OOO.OOO worth of armor
plate for battle ships have been opened
but were all rejected and re-adverti-
| sement ordered. No Ell Paso firm was
among the bidders. Frankly, do not
believe these two facts have any neces-
| sary relation, but state them never
theless for the benefit of any whom
they may Interest.
THE TARIFF ON DRIED LIZARDS
The treasury is helping the state
department along, to make China
| wish she hadn't. One of our imports
from China is dried lizards, which
possess q reputation as a medicine
among the laundries. Heretofore they
have come in at 10 per cent advslorem
as "uuenumerAted, manufactured
articles, Mr. Dlngley having forgot
ten to provide for them specifically
but recently the San Francisco
custom house collected %
per cent Is medicinal prepara-
ton and the case was appealed here.
The importers relied on former deci-
sion of the treasury that dried horned
frogs came in at 10 per cent as q food,
but we're turned down by the board of
appraisers who held that In the prior
decision the question of medicinal
value never came up, the only point
then being whether the articles should
be clsssed as prepared meats or simply
as dead frogs. Wherefore dried lizards