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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-27

predicated. so that, under International
control. the Chinese could be guaranteed
against further loss of territory, and the
''liken.'' or provincial customs taxes, on
all commodities abolished. it is considered
certain by Count Okuma and other COM
petent authorities that trade between the
coast andSehe interior would revive and
attain enormous proportions within a short
time; thass enabling the Government to
establish fiscal basis on which perhaps
an indemnity capital equal to the
present debt could be financed.
But this happy condition pfesupposes
territorial unselhshness on, the Tart
of the European powers and willingness
CT the provincial mandarins to give up
their chief source of income. which is the
imposition of the ''liken'' upon everything
merchantable entering their Jurisdictions.
To look for either manifestation would be
to indulge in dream of Utopia.
The situation. then, narrows down to
this. that unless the grab game can be
prevented the United States stands to lose
the value of every dollars worth of prop
erty belonging TO its citizens. or its re-
! ligious organizations. that has been de-
stroyed since the imperial Government at
Pekin first melted the Boxer movement.
After the other allies had compensated
themselves with Manehuria. Laio Tung,
Shantung. the island of Hanai, and SO on,
We could, of course, negotiate with what
was left of the yellow squeezed lemon for
cash Indemnity; but We would never get
it, for we could not attempt to collect it
vi ct arms without invading the coast
possessions of Russis Germany. Great
Britain. Italy. or France to reach the soil
of reconstructed China.
The foregoing will serve to show that
the diplomatic task before the Administra
ton is an uncomfortable one, and that the
commercial interests of the Standard Oil
Company, the -four milling trust, and the
New England Cotton Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION, which the Administration is
bound to protect because they will compel
it to, are in grave jeopardy. All of them.
and many other manufacturers and deal
ers besides, have large claims against
China for property destroyed. Perhaps the
best thing they could do would be TO
charge them off as bad debts and be done
with it.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-27
The pinner Pail Argument.

The full dinner pail catchword has
been considerably used by Republican
organs for campaign purposes, and it has
net as agreeable sound in the ears of
those who carry the said pals as might
be supposed. 1t naturally suggests the
reflections; why should any man who is
willing TO work not have a full dinner
pail? and. moreover is that all he is sup
posed to mead?
The reasons for conditions which create
empty dinner pals. or none at ALL are too
intimately connected with trusts for the
advocates of those institutions to say
much about them. Where a trust has put
up The price of sugar. or ice, or -four. or
some other necessary CT luxury, the work
ingman must naturally de less Of these
articles. unless he can earn higher wages,
which ne generally cannot. by reason Of
the change in business conditions. More
over. when a trust buys plant and closes
it, there are apt to be many worl1men
in that vicinity who have not enough to
eat. Again. when all branches of an in
dustry are consolidated under one man
agement. there is practically but one en-
ployer for the skilled workmen and he
must take what that employer is willing
10 give. or do without work. Should the
capitalist take it into his head TO increase
his profits by cutting down wages. or dis
missing part of the force. the working
man has to reduce his table expenses.
II the people who have suffered in this
way once begin to think that the empti-
ness OF their dinner pals means cham
payne supper for some rich man, their
reflections viii not be profitable for vest
ed interests when the returns begin to
come in. No: it is not wise for Republic
can organs or campaign orators. speaking
In behalf of trusts. to touch often on the
dinner pail question.
The second half of this question is also
a matter which the workingman, for the
good of the capitalist, should not think
too much about In this country there
has. almost from the first, been a oonvic-
ton that a full dinner pail was not all
that the laborer had a right To want.
There sim remains the fragment OF con-
viction that he has a right to want a col
iege education if he likes. Failing that,
he certainly IS entitled to desire good
clothes. home of his own. books pic
lures. and as many of the comforts OF life
as he can honestly buy and appreciate.
The more of these things he can have
the better It is for the national Lease,
that is the old fashioned idea of it. The
idea has come out In rather grotesque
form someiimes-plush furniture. silver
plated ice pitchers. cabinet organs. and
imitation lace curtains being brought into
homes where the rudiments of real edu-
cation were missing-but the motive ~as
iaudable. after all. 1t is better for a mau
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-27
CHURCH WINS IT'S FIGHT.
Two Italian Societies barred From
HumDert Memorial Services.

NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 26.-The trouble
reported at Louisville. KY. about the re-
ligious ceremonies over the death of king
Humbert and the rumored refusal of the
bishop TO allow these ceremonies ID be
held has aroused much interest here, for
the same trouble arose at New Orleans,
but was settled by the Italian soc cites
withdrawing. No objection was Iaisei
against q mass for King Humbeit, nor any
objection to the parade OF the Italian So
cieties save two.
There are some twenty Italian societi-s
in this city, who arranged the funeral
ceremonies. The Bishop objected to two
Church. and declared that they could not
be allowed 10 enter the cathedral wearing
their regalia; but no objection was raised
to the eighteen other societies. The two
societies insisted upon participating in the
ceremonies. and proposed that the relig Gus
features of the celebration be dispensed
with and that King Humbert be given
civic funeral.
The Italian societies that are on g1od
terms with the Church refused to consent
to this. and il looked for a while as though
there would be two ceremonies. or posi-
bly, none at all. Finally, after much s.
Gus sion a compromise was reached by
which IL was agreed that the members of
these Italian socitAss TO which the Church
objected should attend the funeral cere-
monies as citizens only, and without their
regalia.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-27
PROSPERITY IN ECUADOR.
Minister sampson Discusses the New
Treaty with America.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25.-Gen. .rcil-
bald J. Sampson. American Mlniker 10
Ecuador. arrived today on the Cosmos
Line steamer Tanis. He will go TO his
nome in Phoenix. Ariz.. for a short rest.
de says Ecuador is peaceful and prosper
GUS His nest important work has been
tne negotiation OF reciprocity treaty be-
tween Ecuador and the Cnfted States
which viii be OF great benefit 10 this
country. especially to California ss II will
Increase largely the consumpts1a of cur
Hour and wines. Flour, owing to tire
heavy tariff and lack of transportation. is
now % cents per pound In Ecuador The
treaty is before the Ecuador Congress,
and when it Is ratified II Will be submitted
TO our Congress for approval.
An American syndicate is building
railroad from Guayaqul to Quito. which
viii be completed in two and a half years.
It will be 500 miles long. and sixty miles
have already been constructed 1t will
cost $4,000. 0oO. When the TanIs was al
San Diego a despatch was received saying
the vessel might be impressed by the
German Government for carrying supplies
to China. but the captain thinks be will
be allowed to return
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-27
LUMBER INTERESTS SUFFER.
Millions of Logs Held by the Penn
syivania Drought.

MAHAFFEY, Pa. Aug. 26. While
wealthy Williamsport lumbermen are sad
ly calculating what they might have made
ing for chance - earn their living. the
cause of it all lies piled up by the millions
of feet in the Susquehanna River near
this place
Never in the memory Of the oldest log
ging men along the West Branch has such
a condition of affairs existed as that
caused by the two years drought. Over
$50. Ge0.00o feet of logs destined for the
Williamspor1 mills lie piled up between
Remove and this place, in and along the
banks Of the West Branch. The great
drive Of last year was sent as far as Re-
novo, and from that place for two miles
above there are 70000.000 feet of uncut
lumber.
One mile below Mahaffey Flynn's great
drive Of last spring lies piled up ten feet
deep for a distance of over a mile. There
are stored over 100. 900, 600 feet of logs
waiting for enough water to be foated in
the Linden pocket booms near Williams
port.
Frank Flynn, the nephew of the An
thony Flynn, who for years has driven all
the big drives down the West Branch. suc-
ceeded his uncle in these big operations
oh tne la-tei uSdtu yedi aso- M L"S
over 100 men along the river waiting foi'
the rains that do not come. to exert all
efforts to send the logs toward the VIII
Transport mills. The arks in which th;
men live are now located at MeGee's, two
miles up the river from here. where the
rear end OF the drive has scattered thou
sands of feet Of logs: while above McGee's,
near Burnside, James Axes timber RATS.
sixteen in number and containing over
5000 cubic yards, are landed high and
dry.
There is DOW only one hope among The
drivers and that is that the fall freshets
may be heavy enough to float the logs
toward Williamsport. Today net a sin
gle sawmill is in operation in the timber
city, and up here, where it takes a five
foot rise to accomplish successful drive.
the logs lie in millions upon millions Of
fee
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-27
PATENT on PERPETUAL MOTION
Dover Mechanic stiu Keeps His In
venticn Secret

DOVER. Del. Aug. 26.-Emmit Clark.
the Dover mechanic, who claims to have
discovered perpetual motion. and 10 have a
clock and a watch running without the
necessity of winding has obtained pat
ent on his invention.
Clark vigorously denies that be is run
ming his clock by set of springs and as
serts that there is ret a spring in his in
vention. and none in'the clock except those
necessary to turn the hands. A Boston
firm has offered Clark 1900 for his pat
ent O. F. Meyers. a New York clock
maker. has agreed to pay him handsome
sum upon proof that the invention will
do all he represents. Philadelphia firm
has volunteered to furnish the necessary
capital and manufacture l. e patent on
equal shares after it is allowed to test the
invention
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to have even absurd aspirations toward
the beautiful than TO be content with
mere squalid. sordid ug!iness.
If any advance in our civilization is
going to reduce our workingmen to the
condition OF proletariat, with no further
wish than to eat sleep. and work, the
general vote OF the intelligent and edu-
Gated as well as the ignorant, will be that
civilization had better not advance. The
intelligent classes are quite as solicitous
as the workingman can be that he should
be something mora than an animal, and
they have made the strongest protest
against the incoming of low class of i'm
migrants who are hardly above the brute
creation. The sentiment in this country
is generally in favor of an intelligent,
ambitious, and well-paid working class.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-27

tflon the NuisaGo Kttpid.J
Just as i foretaste of the dreadful. >, ings that
civilization may have in store for them. the at
tention Of the Chinese Is called to the psopo-
sition % the German savant who wants to util-
ize the wall OF Pekin for a trolley line. This
is cn'y the beginning. With the foreign devil
and 49, electrical cart profaring the sacred city,
soaring the respectable ghosts of dead China
men in mixing up the FCng shui, but a short
time will eiapse before some other Caucasian
will appear en- the scene to establish steam
railway on the great wall OF China. There viii
be elevators in the pogodas, electric light COM
panies will want TO wire all the temples and the
click of the typewriter will resound in the i'm
perial palace The Forbidden City itself may be
plastered with franchises. With the prospect
OF a Son Of Heaven Heat, Light, and Power Com
pany operating in the royal palace. the foreign
devil before he gets through may lay his ruthless
hands on the very jess houses and convert them
into ice cream parlors
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-27
RoosereIt's Offensive Apology.

Prcm Inc Peoria Herald Transcript
Ii Theodore Roosevelt. reforner. soldier, Gov
ernor OF a State, and nominee OF OF the two
great parties foT tic high office OF Vice Presi-
dent Of this Republic has lowered himself in
the estimation Of large majority of his fellow
citizens by his St Paul Speech there Is every
reason to believe he has done how much greater
has been his fall in their esteem since his ex-
PLANTATION OF that diatrihe has been made public.
nan who, under pretenee vi apology for
WORDS OF his which have given offence 10 Others,
makes statements which only deepen that offence,
is either guilty of i deliberate intention to in
suit or he Is person Of a low order OF intelli-
gence.
1t Is 10y no means descending TO the standard
Of common and abusive speech set by Mr.. Rooze-
veil himself in hi campaign Oratory. but merely
a plain statement OF fact, 10 say that the Re.
publ nominee f1r Vice President by his So
called apology which he made ar the request Of
the better element of his own party has shown
himself TO he either a coward or a fool
1t is only 4 coward who would stab and wound
under the pretenee of apologizingI
1t is only fool who would dream that such
an explanation he offered could fiil to meet
with bitter resentment from every m,mher of the
Democratic party.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-27

Hanna organs have claimed that the
Gathmann gun in which Hanna's brother
is interested. at its test at Bethlehem. Pa.
On Friday. did more than the tests re-
quired. What it really did do was 10 fire
a solid shot into a clay bank at short
range. What It claims ability to do is to
fire shelf loaded with high explosive,
the propulsive power being charge OF
gunpowder. Ordnance officers do not gen
orally believe it can do this with efficiency
or safety. The real tests will be made at
Sandy Hook, where the gun has been sent
for trial. The last piece OF this patent to
be tried was fired at Indian Head in to97,
when the gun blew out its breach and
wrecked itself
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-27
BY CANOE TO WASHINGTON.
Chief of Prnobs.ot Indians Coming
to See the President.

OLD TOWN, Me-. Aug 26-Big Thun
der. the chief OF the Penobscot tribe Of
Indians. has decided upon September 10 as
the date h. will start from Old Town in
a canoe to go to Washington to see Presi-
dent Mckinley. He Will be accompanied
by Peter Nicoiai. who is probably the best
known member OF the Perohscot tribe out
side of the chief.
During the summer Big Thunder las
been in rather poor health ard there were
grave doubts about his being able to make
the trip, but as the time advances toward
autumn he is feeling better. The big
birch canoe in which the trip will be made
IS completed and is on exhibition on Indian
Island. The canoe was built by Lewis
Pealsock. about the only Indian on the
island who can make frst-cIass birch
canoe.
There is not nail In the craft. a wooden
plug being used where 1t was necessary,
although the bark is held together prin-
cipally by sewing Many of the light
house keepers in the path that will be
taken by the canoeists have written to
Big Thunder extending an invitation to
step with them on the way, and the invi-
tations will be accepted as far as possible.
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HEAT STILES YOUNG COTTON.
Haii-Natured BoiIs BURST Open. and
the Lint Ruined.

COLUMBIA, S. C.. Aug. a6.-The heat
and drought of the past seventeen days
have done great damage to crops in South
Carolina. During that period the least
maximum temperature recorded Was 90
degrees. The average temperature was
101 degrees in the shade.
The heaviest loss falls on cotton Plant
ers. Allowing a falling off of 10 per cent
on an average yield, the loss viii be l00. coo
bales, or s4.500,05 The loss on other
crops Will make the total $1,000, O00.
Cotton fields are as white as they gen
orally are in September. More than half
the open hollis are unmatured, having been
burst open by the heat. The lint is with
out value. Many Of the plants are dying
Nothing can save the farmers from the
loss sustained, but rains viii start the
cotton plants to blossoming again and late
frosts would permit the new boIls formed
to mature.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-27

Delaware has two Republiclr State tiokets in
the ield-thc Addicks ticket and the regular
ticket There are only one or two nominations
in common, and Tie probability Of theii coming
nearer together is not strong. Addicks held his
convention first He considers himself t--he thu
regular Republican party OF Delaware now since
his faction was admitted 10y Hanna to the Ma
tional Convention and Addicks himself was made
Delaware's member OF the National Committee.
Perhaps he is the regular party, but his claim
Is not admitted by those who have so long
braveiy and honorIbly opposed the earpetbagger
and his aspiration to go 10 the Senate When
Addicks gets there it will be necessary for Sena-
tor Hosr to write another magazine article to
make people believe that the Senate is as re-
spectacle and honorable body it ever was.
From Bayard to Addicks is a great descent, and
the people of the country will pity Delaware and
pity the Senate when this magnate OF monopoly
gas gets his ambition gratihed.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-27

At last the Pingree mystery is mys-
terry no longer! That unique statesman
announces that he Will not desert the
trust and monopoly fold greatly as he
finds it infected. In a signed statement he
declares that for the sole reason that he
has always voted the Republican ticket he
will do SO this time. His own chaste Ian
guage is: so l VIII hold my nose. vote
for Mckinley, and hope for the best!''
Here is another chance for Hanna to
splurge over one who went not astray. al
though widely reported to have done so.
But We do not fancy that the Pingree
confession OF faith Will be exploited from
machine headquarters to any alarming ex-
tent
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-27
POLITICAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.
Hanna on the Hunt.-rhe Hon. Ma

Hanna on the Huat.-Tbe Hon. Mark
Hanna spent Saturday in Philadelphia in
| conference with some of the biggest bank
ers and manufacturers in that city.
ostensibly the object Of his, visit to the
| City o: Brotherlv Love was to .alk over
! the campaign and see what can be done to
stir the people from their apathy" This.
at any rate. is what was announced by
the Hanna organs. The conference was
held at the Office OF the Hon. w. W. Gibbs.
who next to Cornelius n. Bliss, is the
biggest producer" on Mr.. Hanna's list.
Gibbs is a member of Mr. Hanna's Advis-
DRY Committee and was put on that COM
mittee solely because Of his ability as
producer, just as Cornelius n. Bliss
was reelected treasurer of the National
Committee. 1t Is evident that Mr.. Han
mas visit to PHILADELPHIA indicates that
Mr.. Gibbs is not producing as he was
expected to do. The truth is that at the
beginning of the campaign the bankers
and manufacturers of Philadelphia gave
Mr.. Hanna plainly to understand that they
were not going to come up this year as
they have been doing for Republican ma
tional tickets for thirty years. Both in
terests at last have obtained about all
the legislation they care for-that is. I'M
less it is possible to secure from the Re-
publican managers a greater monopoly
than the national banks already enjoy
and also to secure bounties for certain
manufacturing interests in addition to the
high tariff protection afforded by the
Dingley bill But it is not believed even
Mr.. Hanna and Mr.. Mckinley would favor
these propositions. Hence, it is plain
that Mr. Hanna has no definite promise
10 make TO the Philadelphians For that
reason he cannot hope to get in that city
nearly as much money as he obtained
there in 1896. or as has been obtained
there by other campaign managers in the
past. In point Of fact, the members of the
Manufacturers Club-Phiiadelphia rich
est and most influential business organ
Internationally decided months ago
not to contribute heavily to the Mckinley
campaign fund this year. II was within
the inner recesses of this club that the
greater portion OF fiat frying has been
done for Republican campaigns for many
years past, and at last the interests repre-
sented by the membership OF the club no
longer need the fayors at Washington
which heretofore they have sought. Mr..
Gibbs is Sid not TO be particularly influ-
entail among the manufacturers of Phila-
delphia as among the bankers, and it is
considered possible that he may be able
to stir up some interest for Mr.. McKin-
ley among the bankers by making them
believe that in some mysterious way taa
entire fabric of gold recommendation erect
cd by the last session of Congress will be
Immediately destroyed the very moment
The returns show that Mr.. Bryan aas been
elected
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-27
French and English IdenIs.

A writer in the current number OF
"Scribner's" discusses the question-not
| a new one-whether Anglo-Saxon princi-
piles are better than those of France. The
Englishman calls the Frenchman shame
less, and the latter retorts by clubbing the
former a hypocrite. The question. seems
to be just this: Since perfection is not
attainable by humanity. is it better to
make ones principles agree with one S
practice or have high principles and say
nothing about defects in practice:
Unquestionably. there is no particular
merit in faith without works. but the
condition of having neither saith nor
works is hardly preferable. The dan
ger of Phariseeism is in assuming that
principle is practice, and purpose attain
ment- The danger OF a community which
has no principle at all is that it is not
likely to land anywhere.
There is one point which should be noted
in this connection. however. 1t is that a
great part of the work Of the human race
is the training OF the next generation.
However the present age may fail of at
tanning its ideal. there is a possibility
that the next may come nearer to it. Is
there not. therefore, aSGanger in destroy
ing the ideal frankly and openly? Is it
not best to let the young imagination
shape for itself as high STANDARD as 1t
will. explaining meanwhile, in a general
way, that everybody Is imperfect?
To be sure, the French young girl is kept
absolutely ignorant of evil till she is
married. the implication apparently being
that II she knows theJe is such a thing
she VIII grow wicked. This implication is
in itself rather horrifying 70 the Anglo
Saxon mind. The American plan of rain
ing girls seems to be rather to allow them
to read everything and know everything
which comes naturally in their way, but
teach them net to connect ong-doing
with themselves. They are to know. not
evil alone. but good and evil-just enough
of the latter to enable them to reject ii
instinctively as disagreeable thing, in
stead of being curious about it, And the
training Of American boys is often not so
very different
Thus one finds, occasionally, young
college man who has retained certain high
boyish ideals which are absolutely opposed
to the cynieism OF the man about town;
and there are many women who, while
knowing life thoroughly, have added to
purity of mind, breadth of view. and can
deal with sin in common sense way,
without either combining it or behaving
with Pharisaical loftiness.