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Circulation Statement.
Roberts fn Pretoria.

Lord Roberts yesterday redeemed his
promise TO the Guards. and, under Pole
Carew. they marched into Pretoria ahead
of the rest of the army. The Boer Capital
Is nov in possession OF the British, and the
war-considered as war in military sense
is about at an end. The commander-ln-cntei
has not yet completed his task. but it Is
rapidly nearing completion. Within a lew
days it will probably be discovered that
some of his columns. of late but vaguely
or not at all accounted for, will snow
themselves in the rear of the Lydenburg
hills. and then the last position OF the
bursbers will be carried, with or without
a battle.
From the day that Lord Roberts took
active command in the field at Magars-
fontefn the situation in South Africa took
on a new complexion. Cronie had learned
to despise the bulldog tactics OF Methuen,
and could not believe>that any British Oh
Ger would employ others. He discovered
his mistake to his sorrow. 1t is true that
Roberts has had the advantage of vastly
superior force; but il must be admitted
that he has used it with shrewd and COM
prehensive intelligence. We shall be sur
prised if the events of the ensuing week
or ten days do not add new lustre TO his
achievements
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A Public Pensions Fund.

Jobn w. Keller, Commissioner OF the
Department of Public Charities in New
York thinks that there should be pubic
fund from which the man or woman VINO
has arrived at a certain age and has al
WAYS been self-supporting should be al
,owea enough money to keep him from
want.
Many peopls will rail at this as a no
tion calculated to pauperize the public.
But when one comes to think II over, per-
hans It is not SC much more demoralizing
than the present system, after all. The
establishment OF the fund described by
Mr.. Keller would provide for many worthy
men and women who have spent their en-
tire lives in working for others and pre-
venting their relatives from being a
charge on the public. In doing this they
have used up the money which they might
otherwise have saved TO provide for their
old age.
The problem of how TO take care Of
ones self during the ten. twenty, or even
thirty years when one is unable TO work
is rather a serious one to most poor peo-
p,e. Suppose the average workingman
gets two or three dollars day. and GU.
of this is obliged to support himself, his
wife, two or three children, and probably
one or more of his own or his wife's aged
relatives. The only way in which he car
save anything for his old age is TO taxi
the money out Of what he might otherwise
give In charity. or use for the increasing
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The 81. Louis Expedition.

We think that the thanks of the country
are due to the House of Representatives
for its action in accepting the Senate
amendment to the Sunday Civil Appro-
priation bill, appropriating hVe million
dollars in aid Of the st. Louis Centennial
EXPOSITION in celebration Of the LOUISIANA
purchase. We do not remember any pre-
ious proposition asking for governmental
ssistance TO any fair as free from grounds
II objection as this one. In the hrst
place. the object lesson which VIII be pre-
scented al St. Louis in 1903 Will be worth
all IL is likely TO cost. In the presentation
of the resources and the agricultural, In
dus,rial. commercial, and financial achieve
ments of the great Empire which Jeher-
son;an expansion added to the Union, the
people OF this as well as Of other coun-
tries will have an opportunity to study the
subject OF national expansion graphically.
and TO realize what the first step of the
United States in that direction has brought
ABOUT In material and other results.
secondly. the promoters of the patrio-
tic enterprise only ask that the national
aid shall become available after the city
~ ST. Louis and the State of Missouri
have raised. paid into the exposition treas
ury and actually expended for the legiu-
mate expenses of the undertaking, the sum
a eleven million dollars So, there is not
conceivable chance that the General Gov
eminent will be exploited for the benefit
Of local interests.
The whole country will be benefited by
this Exposition, II not in an immediate re-
turn in money, then by the moral force OF
the lesson. But, by and large the impetus
which the fair will give to the commerce
OF the great Purchase States and Terri
tories. with other parts OF the American
empire. will ensure rich returns Oh the
investment.
We ere at a loss to understand why
Sneaker Henderson should have displayed
the animosity he has to the st. Louis Es-
positioa. He comes from Commonwealth
which, but for the Louisiana Purchase,
might have been today hostile French or
Spanish dependency. The people Ct his
State arc vitality interested In the display
of Iowa's prosperity and greatness. which
will be leading, as II will be pleasing
feature OF the work. Yet, for some reason
which his colleagues do not seem to I'M
derstand. and which certainly amazes the
asnnfry n hrGA he - seq az To use The
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vast power of his Office to obstruct and
thwart the scheme That he has been I'M
successful in his opposition. where in like
circumstances his predecessor would nave
been invincible. is. perhaps, good reason
why Mr. Henderson ought to indulge IN
careful and honest introspection. To many
thousands of people outside of political
life. the ease and CELEBRITY with which his
antagonissn was brushed aside will appear
as convincing evidence that he is not the
dictator of the House of Representatives
in the sense that Thomas 3. Reed vas. and
that possibly his political understandings
are not big enough to fill the cowhide
shoes of that forceful one who has retired
to the ease of private life, much to the
satisfaction of all Americans who believe
In preserving the institution Of an indie
pendent National Legislature.
Mr. Henderson has appeared to make the
defeat of the Louisiana Purchase fair aid
the test Of his power to dominate or i'm
pede legislation. He has failed, and Us no
longer feared. Hereafter 1t will probably
be seen that he will have to take his Or
ders from the general party manager in
another place. and execute them with
loyalty and humility, or discover that ne
is general without an army. and states
man without a following. He will place
himself about right in his own concet II
he will reflect that there are not many
Reeds, and that. 1t would be moderation to
say that 1t takes seventeen hundred ahd
twenty eight Hendersons to equal just one.
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HAwA1rs LABOR PROBLEM.
Probable Exclusion of Japanes
Makes Planters Look Elsewhere.

Probable Exclusion of Japanese
Makes Planters Look Elsewhere.
HONOLULU. May 29-(Via San Francis
CO, June 5).-The Hawaiian sugar plant
ers will hold a convention here on June
to make arrangements for labor supply
under the new territorial laws. The pros
pect of legislation barring out the Japan
csc and the troubles with the Japs have
led leading planters to cast about for some
substitute for the present laboring class
One plan will be to import laborers from
Porto Rico. AS this island is now part
Of the United States there will be no bar
to the free Importation OF its people to
Hawaii. 1t is argued that they are used
to sugar culture, and that, as they have
suffered from the recent hurricane, they
will be quick to take advantage Of an OF
portunity to get regular work at good
wages. Everyone except the planters is
opposed to importing Porto Ricans, as it IS
argue they will increase the race problem
as only the lowest class would come.
All arrangements have been made for
transferring the various government de-
partments to American control What wo--
ries many wholesale merchants is the ta.>
that will be placed ON the large quantity
of American liquor in Hawaiian bonded
warehouses The question is whether this
will be treated by the Treasury Depart
ment as foreign merchandise. with duty
of s225 per gallon, or Is American mer-
chandise, with the internal revenue tax
unpaid and withdrawable on payment OF
s1.l0 per gallon. 1t is intimated from
Washington that the higher duty will be
cd
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We are compelled to note with intense
interest that in the Senate yesterday MT.
Pet,irrew of South Dakota, Senator who
has never impressed us as man Of even
ordinary ability, very cleverly awaited MIN
self OF an opportunity in the closing Gays
Of the session to get before the Senate aid
the country in official form some OF the
recorded facts concerning the strangely
mysterious methods by which the Hon.
Marcus A. Hanna secured his seat. Mr..
Pettigrew read from the report OF the
legislative committee which investigated,
or tried to investigate, the bribery charges
against the Ohio statesman, and did mol
omit to mention the connection OF ex-De'
tec,ive Rathbone with the matter. 1t may
be said by way of parenthesis that the
work of the committee in question had
comparatively unimrortant results, at
Rathbone, who would have been considerec
a star witness for the prosecution, de-
camped and remained outside OF the juris-
diction of the State until the enquiry was
concluded.
1t is not exactly a nice commentary upon
the courage or chivalry OF Democratic Sem
ators who sa- calmly by when Senator
Clark of Montana was in process OF beng
excluded and ostracised, for the employ
ment of electioneering methods which
would appear pure and heavenly compared
with those resorted to at Columbus, that
they left the duty of just castigation 10
gentleman without a party, and win hit
general credit IN the country. Senator Pet
tigrew has managed to do them and the
American people distinct service. in fix
ing the status of Hanna definitely in the
public mind, and in the pages OF the Con
rressional Record" 1t remained to him TO
say what others in situation of more
commanding influence should have said
long ago. namely, that the most unfit per-
son to hold seat in the Senate through
out its entire history has been and Is the
Hon. Marcus A. Hanna.
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SAVED THE CITY $4,000, 900.
Decision in IL Suit Brought Against
New York.

New YORK.
NEW YORK, June 5.-A decision was
handed down by the Appellate Division OF
the Supreme Court, Second Department,
this morning, which will save the city
nominalIy s., OOO, but according to the
statement OF Assistant Corporation Coun-
sci Luke u. Stapleton, in reality IS, 100000.
1t was in the suit of the town of Hemp
stead against the city OF New York,
brought under the provisions of the So
called Wallace act that became law on
April %, 1898.
The law provided that in case any cor
poration or municipality should divert
fresh water streams of any county which
formerly had been navigable the corpora
ton or municipality was to be compelled
to dredge the fresh water stream to the
depth Of three feet up to the limit OF tide
water. and that in case that was not done
the township suffering by such diversion OF
water was to receive $50 day damages
The town of Hampstead sought to re-
cover damages for lis days for the di-
version OF the waters from the East
Meadow Brook and from the Freeport
Brook. A referee found for the town Of
Hampstead and gave judgment for s., 900
II the Judgment had been sustained. then
the city of New York could have been
mulcted in $50 a day and could have been
enjoined from using the water from such
str. ans, unless the city dredged all the
fresh water streams in Queens and Suf-
folk Counties. This would have involved
an expenditure of about So goo COO
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WEST POINT EXAMINATIONS.
A Massachusetts Cadet Probably This
Years Honor Man.

WEST POINT, n. Y, June 1.-THE ex-
aminations which have been in progress
are about half complete. Today the first
class was examined orally in ordnance and
gunnery and engineering. the second class
in chemistry and the fourth class in
French. 1t is generally conceded that
George b. Pillsbury. appointed from
Lowell. Mass. will graduate at the head OF
his class with Edward VI. Adams, fro,.f
the same State, a close follower. One
unfortunate young man has fallen by the
way side, having been found deficient In
discipline. He is James W. De Vail,
fourth class man. appointed from Louis
lana.
The board of visitors had before them
this morning Colonel Hahn, the comman-
dant of cadets. and listened to the recon-
mendations and suggestions he made for
the betferment Of the academy.
The exercises this afternoon were Of
very interesting character. They consist
ed first in a drill OF mountain battery
under command of Lieutenant Lassiter.
The next feature was ar exhibition drill
OF light battery Of six 6-inch guns under
command of Captain Adams.
The most interesting event of all the
military exercises. that Of a sham battle.
will take place tomorrow afternoon IN
which infantry and artillery will partiei-
pate. including mountain and machine
guns
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GENERAL WOODS VACATION.
Takes a Trip for Recreation to North
Coast of Cuba.

HAVANA, June 5.-Governor General
Wood leaves tonight for Cardenas Rene
dos, and Sagua, on the north coast. trav-
cling on the transport ingalls,. He has
never visited these towns. He is making
the trip for recreation. He needs rest.
having been working day and night for
long time. He will return in two days.
Captain Pitcher, the head Of the secret
police, has stirred UP more trouble by
ordering Chief of Police Cardenas to have
all the inspectors and captains forced to
learn English on pain of dismissal. The
chief declines to transmit the order TO
the officers He has instead sent it to
the ayun,amiento That b ody wants TO
know whether Chief Cardenas or Captain
Pitcher is running the police. 1t has sus-
taiEed the chief in his refusal to transmit
the order and has decided to refer the
matter to General Wood
The newspapers are naturally offended
at Captain Pitchers attempt to coerce the
officials into learning English and say that
it takes away any desire to learn that
language. 1t is looked upon as an unwar-
rantable interference. 1t is admitted that
it would be a good thing if all the officers
spoke English, but to be ordered to learn
it in order to keep ones position sInacks
too much of militarism.
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Candidates Compared.
From the Omaha World Herald J

rom the oflaHi
Men are turning from Mckinley to Bryan be.
cause they know that where one is weak the
other is strong They believe Mr.. Bryan to be
a sincere and honest man, and they think that
a strong will and determination accompanies his
sincerity and honesty. Therefore, they will
ing TO trust him, many of them in spite of the
fact that on one question they disagree. with
him. They have been told by Republican organs
that the money question is not one OF principle,
but rather one of policy. Long ago they learned
that our institutions, our form OF government,
are based upon wcll-defned principles, and they
know that the destruction OF these principles
means the ultimate destruction of our Govern
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of his childrens intelligence and useful
ness. If he saves nothing he must even
tualIy become burden on those children.
1t is said that this state of things, in
connection with the fact that old men are
not wanted in most of the trades, has
caused the workinsmen OF New York to
marry much younger than they naturally
would. They give as a reason that they
must have some one to take care of them
after they pass middle life. and that 1t is
desirable that man of forty should have
sons old enough to work for him. This
condition OF affairs is obviously an evil,
for all statistics show that when the
working people of a country do not marry
until they have reached the age Of dis
erection their children are stronger phys
ically and mentally than the offspring OF
immature fathers and mothers. Would 1t
not be wise, then, to establish such
provision for the old age of honest, in
dustrious men and women that they need
not spend all their lives in the haunting
fear of poverty and dependence? Is 1t
fair to herd such people as these in with
Migrants and degenerates who never
sought anything better than mere brutal
existence?
Again, under the present conditions, the
workingman who tries to save enough TO
keep himself and his wife comfortably dur
ing the last years Of their lives must do 1t
by crushing out every atom of kindness
and generosity in his nature. Too many
such men begrudge their aged parents sup
port; they claim their children's labor;
they refuse their wives the commonest
comforts Of woman's existence, and their
children grow up in a hard, loveless, un-
happy home, where money is the sole topic
of conversation. Would 1t not be better
for the State, as well as the family, to re-
move the haunting cause Of such over
anxiety?
There are a great many fairly well-to-dn
people who would be glad to spend good
percentage of their income in helping
others il they could know that they would
never be actually dependent themselves II
they could be assured Of living income,
even a very small one. in case OF accident,
sickness, or helpless old age, they would
spend their money freely to help others
become independent and content them
selves with the knowledge that they were
helping on the work of the world. But
nobody wants to go to the poorhouse. and
the dread of passing ones old age in a
state of humiliating dependence. in the
company of uncongenial and wretched out
casts, has made more than one well-to- do
person harden his heart against the i'm
pulses of generosity It'll he became prac-
ticaliy a miser. The pension plan has been
tried in New Zealand but that is small
place. Whether it would work in this coun-
try or not nobody can tell unless the ex-
pertinent is actually made.
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THE AsToR TAX SUIT.
lime 1. Fixed a. the Date for the
Trial,

NEW YORK, June 5.-Justice Andrews.
NJ the Supreme Court today, upon the ap-
n,icatiou of counsel for W. w. Aston, fixed
lime u as the date for the trial OF the
action brought by Mr. Aston against the
tax commissioners
In 1899 Mr.. Astor was taxed for personal
taxes upon an assessed valuation of 81
600 600 Subsequently he protested, as
serting that he was not citizen OF this
country. and had no personal property
here. Mr. Aston said that he had become
n resident of England and was exempt
from personal taxation in this country.
He secured writ of certiorari in the
Supreme Court to compel review OF the
action of the commissioners. Some time
later Corporation Counsel Whaler fled
a return to the writ. in which he set forth
that the assessed valuation was the same
as that upon which Mr. Astor had paid
taxes in 1895, 1896. and 1897. AT that time.
said Mr.. Whalen, Mr.. Astor wac ;sgai
resident OF this country.
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The polished successor of equally good
Ohio men like Corwin, Thurman, and
Chase, on the floor of the Senate. speaks
elegantly of Senatorial election In Co
lumbus, in which he was interested, as "a
pretty lively scrap" but does not think
that such fact, or reference to it, in
choice bruiser English, is any blot np-n
his bright escutcheon. Naturally, he does
not like 20 hear the record OF his campaign
read on the floor, and will be less pleased
when he peruses 1t in the Congressional
Record" but he is still confident that
the country always approves Of the man
who can pay the freight
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The latest story from Indianapolis
is that the fugitive from justice, Taylor.
will go to the Philadelphia Convention.
under the armed escort of the Indiana Re-
publican delegation. AS an object lesson
we could not ask anything better. But 1t
would be as well TO make an immunity
deal with Colonel Quay and Governor
Stone in advance. Otherwise there might
be an episode in the convention, not down
on the programme II would be embarrass-
ing, for instance, If Taylor were to be ar
rested and handcuffed in the hall. and
turned over to the Kentucky detectives
for extradition to the scene of his alleged
crime.
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No More Cnrpetbngsers.
lr1om the 81. Louis RernbIie.l

II is earnestly to be hoped that the significance
Of the facts developed in the Havana scandal
will not be lost on the Administration a reform
in methods Of administration is urgently de.
mardfd The reform is almost beyond question
ne inn,rat,ycIy needed in Porto Rico and thu,
phillirincs as in Cuba The Carpelhag regime
now unfortunately established in these ''depen-
denotes should he terminated without further
delay. The imperalists have been too abrupt
in the lootiEg 0i their prizes OF war 1t is bad
POLITICS. If Eothing else, on their part-t may
So revolt the American people as to materially
shorten the life Of the imperialist idea in what
was once an honest and liberty loving country
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AS we ventured to predict yesterday, the
situation in China is growing hourly worse.
The Government of the Empress Dowaser
has thrown off the mask and openly es-
pouses the cause of the Boxers" 1t is to
be feared that the legations at Pekin and
their inmates are in serious danger. There
is but little present doubt that the armei
intervention of the civilized powers will be
necessary within very few days to pre-
vent absolute anarchy.
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Sacrificing MIR. Long.
(from the Boston Globe.)

Already the Republican party has accustomed
itself to a sort y. Capitalization OF offices in
one Western State, for the President, the Chair.
man OF the National Committee. and among
other high officials the late director OF Posts in
Cuba are Orleans The selection OF IN OHIO man
Tor Vice Presidential. candidate would not be
viewed with alarm except by the Constitution.
But what is the Constitution between friends?
Some fearful emergency must have arisen 10
cause the West Ia wish TO hog the whole
ticket and unless the Postmaster General is mis-
taken. Massachusetts Republicans will he ordered
TO sacrifice a iavoFi'e son whom she considers
worthy even of the highest office in the gift Of
the nation.
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To south Carolina sola'.

CHATTANOOGA, June 5.-Gov saor Nc
Sweeny, of South Carolina. and tbs Park
Commission from that State spent the day
at Chickamauga Park in a drenchins rain,
and settled upon a site fer monument TO
be erected to the memory Of her S Id
who fought there. 1t will be er cted of tie
north end Of the famous Dyer Fed
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cal courage and this is a quality in which lay
lor is conspicuoGsiy d. icient- 1t would be il the
nature of an anomaly for any party in Kentucky
TO 20 INTO 4 campaiSn under the banner OF
~ state AS j. TAYLOR. The Republicans will
hay, to shake Taylor Of. lie has made much
trouble ior t..,m in various WAYS. and the climax
4 il all is found in his running away iiom a
tate in which h. Is asking 10 be Governor.
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becoming Chronic.


The War Department places the responsibility
for r,c,nth discovered reeu!ations with public
funds in Manila On had bookkeeping Bad
jouktcrriac has hctOms chronic complaint with
,bis Alninistrati ton II Eevuils in tn philiD.
pines. is epidemic in Cuha. raging in Porto Rico.
and las made its appearance IN 'hr colonial ac-
counts OF the Washington post. NEE; Inc people
may TAX, a notion thl, IN. 10 lhs'i.. beth honest
and ,onuetuit hu0&hctp rs