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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-05
JEWS TO LEAVE RoUMANIA.
Trials Under Which the Race suffer
In That Country.
Urom The Chicago Record }


So keen is the sense of impression
weighing upon the Jewish inhabitants of
aoumania who number some 269. coo. that
there Is at present manifest among them
a feyerish desire to leave the country.
Pilgrim bands are starting 10 Anatolia. to
Cyprus. to the United States, and to Can
ada. Their grievance is that neither birth
in the country nor military service nor
the treaty rights OF the Berlin congress OF
1873 have won for the Jews the right to
be regarded in law as Roumanians.
There are no laws in Roumanla specifi-
cally directed against the Jews, but the
ROumanian constitution infiicts numerous
disabilities on aliens. AS nearly all the
Jews are so termed, these restrictions are
in full force against them. They are so
severely applied that the Roumanian Jews.
seeing no hope at home are directing
their thoughts TO emigration on a large
scale
In spite OF article A OF the treaty of
Berlin, which demands that in Roumanla
the difference of religious creeds and con-
fessions shall not be alleged against any
person as ground for exclusion or inca
pacity in matters relating to the enjoyment
of civil and political rights the Jews are
really excluded by the working of the nat
uraliZation law. the conditions of which are
so onerous as TO make 1t impossible for any
but mere fraction of Roumanian Jews to
become citizens OF their native land. Dur
ing the last twenty years less than 100
Jews. members OF some twenty or thirty
families. have succeeded in winning the
right. and even in such cases naturaliZa-
ton is only personal, not including their
children.
Another of the disabilities under which
the Roumanian Jews labor is the denial Of
free education. There are now in Rou-
mania 90. OG0 Jewish children who by right
are eligible for the schools. Less than
5000 are admitted even on payment Of
fees. from which all Roumanians are ex-
empt Jewish voluntary schools have been
founded in many parts of Roumania but
by every possible device the Jewish schools
have been hamperod. For instance, the
Jewish voluntary communal tax or meat,
the gabella, is the sole means by which
the synagogue can raise funds for eduCa-
tional and charitable undertakings. The
ROumanian Government, on the plea that
the Jewish method OF slaughiering animals
for food is not humane, is now suppressing
the gabella. thus robbing the Jews of the
only source on which to draw for their
schools and their charities.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-05
NO REDUCTION ON POWDER.
strong Probability of a Strike I'm the
Anthracite Region.

WILKESBARRE, Pa, Sept. 4-The
hopes of the United Mine Workers for a
concession by the Delaware and Hud-
son Coal Company in the price OF powder
today proved to be unfounded. 1t was
stated on Saturday that the company
would post notices today reducing the
price from $2.15 a keg TO the S1.50 de-
manded by the miners. Mcny of the men
believed this would be the beginning of
the end of the operators opposition. and
that other companies would do likewise.
But not single notice was posted at any
OF the collieries, and tonight when the
officials were seen they said they had
heard of no such Intention on the part Of
the company. They said they were sure
the company would do as 1t has done, re-
fuse to recognize the United Mine Work
ers in any way.
The operators have but four more DAYS
in which to grant the demands of the
miners or suffer the strike which the
union threatens. AS yet, however, no
move is apparent on the part of any of
the big companies. the small companies
or the individual operator to make
a single concession. Not one has done
SO as far as can be ascertained, and
"HiiS INC oihtiaiS w nut CdIS " lain
much about the conditions. they. one and
all. when pressed for statement of
their views. say:
We will not recognize the United
Mine Workers because the men with
whom they want us to discuss grievances
are outsiders, and have no personal in
terest in the questions at issue. We are
and always have been quite willing to
treat with our own men and adjust a fair
grievance"
This briefly, is the operators side of
the case and that they, one and all, mean
to stand firmly to their convictions. grows
more apparent every day. There is little
doubt that the limit set by the miners
for reply to their demands will find
them Just rs firm as now. The miners
are also determined and there seems no
way OF avoiding the strike.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-05
OCEAN FREIGHTS AND COAL.
No Further Advance in Rates Eek.
pectcd Mt Once.

NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-Relative to a
cable despatch announcing that on account
of tie high price Of coal the Liverpool
Steamship Owners Association had agreed
on a general advance in freight rates,
owing TO the increased cost of coal, J. H.
Thomas, acting manager Of the Atlantic
Transport Line, said today that there was
little prospect of any immediate change, as
these rates had already been very greatly
advanced. 1T is rot an overestimate to
say that they have gone up 80 per cent in
the last three months" he added. Not
all of this advance. of course, can be at
tributed to the high price of coal abroad.
The withdrawal OF many steamships for
transport service. and the unusual demand
for tonnage, have at least as much to do
with it.
Our experience has been that II is not
profitable as some have asserted. to carry
American coal to England for use on the
return voyage. Our ships always carry
full cargoes on the eastward trip, and it
would not pay to displace this more waltz
able cargo by filling up the ship with coal.
Moreover. If we have it carried on other
vessels, it must be remembered that the
high freight rates apply to coal as well
7hillings per ton are add-a to its cost on
that account
"A tramp steamer took a cargo If coal
to England not long ago. but as I have
not heard of the experiment being re-
peated, / do not think 1t could hive teen
profitable. At the Mediterranean ports the
case is different. In spite of the freight
charges Of q to % 1-2 shillings par ton,
American coal can be delivered at Mar
cAi fnr hOf ha VI,
lish, or even a little less. number of
tramp steamers have therefore been char
tered to carry coal from Philadelphia TO
the Mediterranean.
whether or not it will ever be pos
sible for this country under normal con-
dtions to build up an export coal trade
with Europe is still an open question.
The coal supply of England is still album
dant. The present trouble is that strikes
have made it extremely difficult to get
the product from the mines to the coal
ports. When the difficulty is over, it
seems inevitable to me that England will
agan undersell this countrys coal in the
Mediterranean. When you compare the
short distance between Liverpool and
Marseilles with a transatlantic trip, it
can hardly be disputed that only abnor-
NAL conditions have created Americas
present export trade in coal The future
may bring new conditions, of course. 1t
VIII not be necessary to build new col
Tiers, even II the foreign demand keeps
on. The larger tramp steamers are as
well fitted for collier service as though
built especially for that purpose.
At the Cunard Line an officer said that
the Steamship Owners Association
would find that it was far easier to pass
a resolution than to obtain the increase
in the price of freight.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-05
Partisan Histories.

The Richmond Dispatch" exults over
the fact that the Grand Army Of the Re-
public cannot force Northern histories
into Southern schools. This Is apropos Of
recent resolutions passed hy that body on
the subject of Southern sebaol histories.
1t goes without saying that Ia teaching
history above all things. the partisan
spirit should be eliminated; and it is also
a fact, equally well known. but most IN
subject partisan spirit has most often
been shown. Sometimes it is called pa
triotism. and sometimes It is simple ig-
noranee. There is little of both ia the
average history used in Northern schools.
Il is likewise true that both qualities are
to be found in the Southern" school his
tories. This is an undesirable state of
things.
1t is not wise. for example, to. call the
Confederate officers either rebels" or
traitors" because they were neither.
Neither is it exactly judicious to teach
Southern children that the Northerner was
all wrong and the Southerner all right. be-
another war at some time or other The
whole matter should be looked upon. so
far as possible with absolute impartiaIity.
1t seems to be generally agreed that the
best men on both sides of the line. until
money-making and sectional prejudice en-
tered into the discussion, believed slavery
to be an evil which would eventually be
eradicated That il was finally disposed OF
through a great war was simply an unfor-
tunate consequence of various incidents
which, all things considered, could hardly
have been avoided. The best plan seems
to be to return to the attitude of the early
years of the Republic, when the best eie-
ments Of the population, all over the coun.
try, were TO certain extent united. II is
possible that If a convention of educators
from all the States could be called for the
discussion Of this one matter of histories,
some one book might be agreed upon, or
written to order, which would tell the
exact truth as revealed by the most re-
liable historians; and then this book should
supersede all partisan histories, in the in
terests OF truth patriotism, and common
eense. But as 20 the charge that the Grand
Army, or any other element in the North
ern population wants to force the
Southern States TO accept Northern his
tories of partisan character that is abb
surd The North is not lying awake OF
nights 10 find out ways to insult and hu-
initiate the South. nor would it be in the
least gratiiied TO know thai Southern chill
dren were being taught falls hoods. It Is,
perhaps. unwise that Northern age rcies
have established so many schools through
out the South, where Northern teachers
have gone, with all their home prejudices.
and created a spirit of antagonism; but it
is possibly better that this should have
been done than that the two sections
should remain entirely separate. imbiblng
distorted and incorrect hearsay accounts OF
each others character. That was at the
! bottom of some of the Understandings
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-05
Circulation Statement.
CnrI schurz and Secretary Gage.

The open letter of the Hon Carl
Schurz to Secretary Gage, exposing the
insincerity of the latter's declaration
that the election of Mr.. Bryan would
result in putting the country immediately
upon silver basis. has created alarm
in the Republican camp. The position of
the writer as one of the leaders of the
gold bolt to Mckinley liz 1896. his known
influence over the German American
element in the country. and the inherent
strength of his argument, all combine to
make his utterance on this occasion
dangerous to the party OF the trusts and
monopoiies.
1t. is said that nh. Gage intends to
publish a rejoinder. We hope that he
may do so. When the present Secretary
of the Treasury INDUCES in public con-
troyersy we are happy in knowing that he
never fails to hurt the cause he cham
pions. If he attempts to answer what is
unanswerable, he is welcome to what
ever he may gain by the operation as
far as The Times is concerned.
For example, it would be useless for him
TO deny that, if the present currency law
was not so framed as to prevent execu-
tive interference with the gold standard,
then the fact is the fault of politicians in
Congress, like Marcus A. Hanna, who
could have left such loophole in their
gold legislation only and solely for the
purpose of creating the very scare that
Mr.. Gage is now trying to work up. The
remedy is in the hands of the Admins
tration, and there is not a doubt that it
will secure what additional safeguards
10 gold it may decide TO ask from a sub
seryient majority in Congress next win
ter
But. according to statement pub
lished yesterday, Mr.. Gage takes the in
tensely amusing position that in the
event of Mr.. Bryan's election. which
nominally would carry with it an en-
dersement CT the sixteen to one plank of
the Democratic platform of 1896, a Re
publican Congress would hesitate to act
in contrayention of the viii of the peo-
pie as expressed at the polls. We can
relieve him Nof any possible uneasiness
on that score. The Administration and the
Congressional majorities which did Lot
hesitate to commit direct and fragrant
violation of the Constitution at the com
mand of the trusts. will never balk at
the few words of extra legislation neces-
s2ry to put a finishing touch on the
solar plexus 10 any chance an anti-trust
and anti-monometallist President might
otherwise have to NEEDLE with the single
gold standard
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-05
DIR. HurnnrdO.

The National Waits Magazine" Lon
don publication issued by DR.. Bernardo.
the famous philanthropist. gives some
interesting facts regarding the poor of
that city, and the city's way of dealing
with them. II may not be generally
known in this country that Dr. Bernardo
has for many years made 1t his business
10 rescue and care for the children of
pauper or criminal parents, and find
homes for them. The good which he has
done in this line IS almost incalculable
During the past year over three thousand
children, according 10 the report given
in this magazine. were admitted 10 the
homes in various parts of England, which
he has helped to found.
II should be understood that the Bar
nardo system does not include taking chill
dren away from parents who wish to sup
port them. II only involves caring for
little waits who have no parents, whose
guardians have deserted them, or who
are ill-treated by the relatives with whom
they are living. In the great English
cities there are always enough of such
unfortunates 20 keep the hands OF the
of six and eight years old, or even
younger, have been sent out to beg on the
streets, and this is a habit of life SO
utterly demoralizing TO a child's charae-
ter that in itself it. fully justifies the
municipal authorities in taking the little
one from its parents. The city, for its
own good, cannot afford TO allow people
to train their children to beg or to steal
There are also children who belong to
nobody, waits OF the London slums, who
exist only by TIE charity OF the community
in some form. Without some organized
effort to provide for these infants they
must either be left 20 die OF starvation or
subsist on food precariously secured by
begging or stealing. 1t seems as If tho
municipality might as well make provision
for the proper care and training OF all OF
them, since this would. in the end, cost
less than allowing them to struggle up into
On unframed and often sickly maturity.
One Of the arguments most often used
against organized provision for such
fouDdlings is that Il lessons the sense OF
responsibility felt by pauper parents. but
the chances are that most of these paren a
have rot much sense of responsibility at
best. When people are willing TO allow
their children 10 drift about without proper
care. shelter. or food, rather than work TO
support them. the chances are that they
have not SO much self-respect that IL can
h. hurt By having these children placed
in public institution where they can be
properly taken care Of. There, at any rate
they are kept from absorbing all the vice
ard evil habits of the gutter population,
and they grow up with fairly strong bodies
and fairly clean souls.
The particular advantage of DR.. Barnar-
dos system, however, is that he does not
aim to support children until they are
srown up. or 10 keep them any longer
than necessary in the homes" which he
has organized. The plan pursued involves
the finding Of places for these children in
private families where they will be we'll
treated. as soon as possible. They are thus
saved from the experience Of growing up
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-05
PLEASED WITH THE CUBANs.
Governor General wood Discusses
Ill. Recent Trim.

HAVANA Sept. AT a meeting of the
secretaries today Governor General Wood
spoke of his trip around the island and
the good impression which the people and
state OF country had made on him He
announced that IL was his intention 10
shortly visit Pinar Del Rio and the Isle OF
Pines.
Senior Gener the new Secretary OF JUS
tice. spoke Of general reforms In the law
OF procedure, and the substitution Of prop
er records for the present system oral
trials. At present there is no record kept
of trials or OF the evidence given by wits
nesseg
During the absence OF General Wood.
Manuel Sanguilly. director or the institute.
ordered that the Dominican friars be shut
out OF that part OF the university build
Ing, which they had occupied for three
hundred years. He claimed that although
the Spanish Government had seized only a
part OF the university building neverthe-
less all the building including the part left
to the Dominicans. was, by right. Govern
ment property. He caused the doors to be
shut on the friars without any legal for
meisty. General Wood has ordered that
the friars be Immediately reinstated, and
says that If the university has any legal
claim upon their quarters 1t will have 10
prove 1t In the courts.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-05
CANNOT BE CHECKED.
Christianity Moves I'm Spite of the
Chinese Outbreak.
Frou the Saturday Evening Post)

prom the Saturday Evening Post)
II anyone thinks hat this outbreak will
stop or even hale the growth of Christian
iiy he IL very much mistaken. Look for
4 moment at the wonderful figures of nine
teen centuries The number of converts on
the Day OF Penlecost was only 5000; at the
end OF the drst century 1t reached only
100000. Fen at the close OF the tenth
centur. = were only 10000, Geo Chris
tians in the world. Come a little further.
to the days OF Luther in the fifteenth CEN
fury, and We find only 100, 900 900. But be-
gin with 1900, and for every year of this
century We Rave IN increase of over Z,000,-
600. until today there are in the world
nearly coo 551cJl Christians. Seventy
y ars ago the Bible Was read in only fifty
langa1sss arid di7ise-s today there are
go
A. tho height OF her greatness Imperial
Rome ruled 100. 600 people Today
Christian natiou5 govern 500, 600, 900 people.
IT, whole spirit OF mode n law and order
and Progress is IN The srowth of Chris
tiaElty. and neither life nor money nor
distance nor zone IS an obstacle to its
sttaiy md Inevitable conquest of the en-
tire world. Never was i. more vigorous
thug today.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-05
SPEED IN THE NAVY.
Wnrships That Hold Their Own With
Atlantic Liners.
(From Casters Magazine.


With the exception of torpedo boats and
a few small pleasure craft, the American
built Russian cruiser Varh & is today the
fastest vessel afoat having recently gone
through a seven and a half hours trail
run at speed of from 23.6 TO 23.7 knots.
or 27.14 to 27.I5 miles an hour The best
hourly transatlantic record, which now Is
held by the Hamburg American line
steamship Deutschland. is 20 knots. or
26.45 miles. and this affords a very sug
gestive standard for comparison.
The United States triple-screw cruiser
Minneapolis about six years ago developed
slightly more than % knots during her
contract trials. but. as in the cases of most
naval vessels. it was not expected that this
would be demanded hour after hour in n
run of several days, and 1t was not until
the succeeding year. 1895. that pract cal
demonstration was given for the first time
that a naval vessel could actually hold e.
own with one OF the crack Atlantic liners.
This was afforded by the United ats
cruiser Columbia In her phenomenal run
from the Needles. near Southampton. to
Sandy Hook Lightship, off the American
shore, in few minutes less than seven
days. or TO be exact. in days % hours
and 40 minutes. the average speed for the
whole trip being 1854 knots. or 213 m les
an hour. The Columbia at the time was
practically FacinS against the steaMc Au-
susta Victoria, of the Hamburg Ams:i an
line. Making proper allowance FOR the f
ference in the length Of the two rou IS. the
Augusta Victoria having sailed from Chez
bourg, the same rate of speed was MAIN
tanned by beth ships.
Since that time high-rate long-distGn
runs of war vessels have been rep atsd %
that the impression has At last been VI d
out that modern warships were simply
boxes full of delicate and complex NJ
ehinery scarcely fitted for the hard knocks
which they were really intended TO Al
stand But among all tae swift cruisers
and battleships, the Variag's 23.1 knots
give her today first place
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-05
Our First Foreign Issue.

(Fron the Peoria Herald-Transcript)
Tie political campaign which will be fought
out toward the end OF The last wear of the cen
fury will be notable in the history Of tie
United States. Heretofore the issues have been
largely domestic, but this year the main issue
affects our foreign policy. The question at issue
il shall we continue to attend to our own bJ;s-
ness as fathers have done, or shall We at
tempt 10 take hand in shaping the desinies
OF other and weaker p. oples? This is the real
question before the American psop!e, let the news
papers and campaign orators say what they
NAV.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-05

CFrom the New York Press.)
The simple truth is that there are in New
York 50 large a number of Republicans who viii
not vote for Plat candidates or have anything
to do with Plattism that a Plat nomination
spells individual defeat and party disaster. Yet
Piat4isn, either infatuated with its idea OF
dummy candidates or because it actually pre-
fers the election OF Tammany men to the election
OF Republicans who do not believe in and will
not tolerate bossism, will not heed the wa nings
of the last three years
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-05

in the midst OF herd OF other little peo-
pie, an unnatural and generally unfavor-
able condition of things Ii was never in
tended that children should be brought up
in regiments. On the other hand. neither
was it intended that they should be re-
garded as encumbrances and burdens,
dragged about through all sorts of filth.
maltreated, abused. and instructed in evil
living till they become precociously clever
criminals. OF the two. the former evil is
much to be preferred. but by the Barnar-
do system both are avoided. and, more
over, the cost of supporting the homes"
is greatly reduced
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-05
TO STOP BUYING SPOT COTTON
English spinBers May Declare
Against the American Product.

LONDON. Sept. AIN connection with
the scarcity of cotton. the Federation of
Cotton Spinners. of Manchester. has de-
cided to invite the Lancashire cotton
spinners to attend conference on Sep
TENDER T. when a resolution will be sub
mitted declaring in favor OF disseminating
the purchase of American cotton on the
spot. The effect OF the adoption of such
a resolution would be to bring the trade
to a standstill for several weeks