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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

This exhibit ought to be intensely inter
esting to the veterans, for the magnificent
comparison the United States makes with
the rest of the world is largely their work
Today the United States has nearly the
smallest debt per capita of any of tho
great Nations, and next to Germany and
Japan the smallest per capita interest
charge.
France has more than 10 times as
much debt per capita as we. and more than
II times the interest charge. Great Brit
ain has five times the debt, and six times
/ the interest.
! When the war of the rebellion ended the
public debt OF the United States was
s., 7756, 431 ,J71, or $7S.25 per capita; and
the interest charge was $f.29 per capita.
That is, taking an average family of i've,
! it represented an indebtedness of $391. -
for every family in the country, and an
annual tax to pay interest of $21.45 upon
every family in the country.
1t was really one-half greater than this,
for one-third of the country was PROSTATE
and impoverished, and for many years
during the hardest and most trying years
bore hardly any of the terrible burden
of taxation.
The 100000 young men who were dis
charged from the Union army in 1860 took
the burden of this enormous Indebtedness
upon their own broad shoulders. They
formed the backbone, the thews and sin
ews Of the wealth-producers of the 10000
UOO loyal people of the country, who really
paid the interest and principal. They en-
dured more searching and drastic taxa
ton than had ever been known before in
history. No despot would have dared
levy the impositions that these freemen i'm
posed upon themselves. They accepted this
as patriotic duty, precisely as they had
fought for the country in the field They
must make sacrifices at home, just as they
had made in camp. Everything that they
had, made, or could get was mercilessly
taxed. Taxation began in the morning on
the matches with which they lighted the
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08
AIRING THE NAVY DEPARTMENT

There seems to be a good prospect that
the Navy Department, which has always
been much more of a close corporation
than any other in the Government, will
receive a pretty thorough overhauling. The
people generally regard the Navy Depart
ment as great deal Of mystery, only to
be understood by thcse having special
training. Every body feels more or less
competent to judge of and criticize the
operations of the State, War, Interior,
Treasury, Justice, Postofiice, and Interior
Departments, but the Navy Department
has been left entirely in the hands of a
little ring of old Admirals, who have done
pretty much as they pleased, without ques-
ton or interference. 1t is true that Secre-
taries and Assistant Secretaries are regu-
larry appointed from civil life, but they
know nothing whatever of their duties
when they enter upon them, and they only
last about two years, which is not sufiici-
ent to give them more than an inkling
Of the inwardneSs of things. So they
usually devote themselves to the fascinat-
ing social duties Of Washington, sign such
papers as are presented to them, and let
one clique or another run the Department
its own sweet way. Hardly within the
memory Of man has there been a Secretary
who attempted to really run the Navy De
partment as a man would bank or a fac
tor? of which he was the head. Probably
the man who made the most effort to do
this was w. L. Chandler, of New Hamp-
shire, who had been long enough in public
life to understand official ways, who has a
tireless activity, and keen desire TO know
things for himself. Naturally, lie incurred
the displeasure OF number of naval mag
mates, with whom he intcrfered, but
Chandler rather likes that sort of thing.
He is never 50 happy as when he is polk
ing up somebody. ReaI-AdmiraI Robley
ID. Evans" Fighting BOb"-published a
book recently, a Sailors Log" in which
he hauled his former superior officer over
the Goals pretty severely. This is just nuts
for Chandler, who has not had a real
scrap since he left the Senate, and though
he is now only private citizen, he is pro-
Icceding to make things very lively for the
Rear Admiral He demands a court-mar-
tial, and it looks as if he could not be re-
fused.
Taken in connection with the Schley In
quiry, we are likely to have a much-needed
airing Of the Navy Departments man
agement.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

ENGLAND is going to give Lord Roberts
$500, 900, over and above his pay and al
lowances, for his management OF the little
war in South Africa. In the same pro-
portion to the size of the job, this country
would have had to give Gen. Grant about
$1O0,0O0,000. Then Kitchener, Butler,
French ct al, will have to have similar
grants" Yet some ignorant editors will
try to compare our pension expenditures
with those of Great Britain. These grants
will not show at ali in the pension list
being outright gifts As we have often
said, the European war-rewards mainly
so to the high officers, the rank and file
getting but meager share.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

BOOKER Washington says that his
greatest labor has been TO make the
negroes understand that work is not n
burden but a privilege, and that an educa-
ton does not contemplate being able to
live without work, but an opportunity to
work harder and more effectively. Many
young men and women have come to his
school and acted as if their hearts were
broken when they were required the first
thing to go out and make brick, or take a
place in the laundry. But in spite of these
the attendance on the school has grown
rapidly and continuously. There are
plenty of negroes who want to learn how
to work. if some do not.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

WHILE exceedingly gratifying to our
National PRIDE there is something almost
startling in the assertion in the circular
sent out by the ''Worshipful Mayor" of
Winchester, England, soliciting subscrip-
tions to the monument to King Alfred,
that he was the great forerunner of
Washington and Lincoln" The Anglo
Saxon race may be said to have fairly
started with King Alfred, 1000 years ago,
and it comes to us quite unexpectedly, to
say the least, to have the English frank
Iy admit, in this way, that the greatest
men the race has produced in all those 10
centuries are Washington and Lincoln.
The English have certainly developed
host of very great men in that time, and
one naturally thinks of Oliver Cromwell
as the greatest of them. But with all his
elevation of character, and genius for
grand craftsmanship, Cromwell failed to
approach the symmetrical perfection of
highest manhood displayed by Washing
ton and Lincoln. For Briton, the ''WOr-
shipful Mayor of Winchester" has had
extraordinarily clear insight to recognize
this.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08
Personal.

Representative w. p. Brownlow denies
the report that he and Evans have made
up. fs --.s..s - 4
Maj. James A. Raney, formerly Of New
burg, N. Y, veteran of the Mexican
and civil wars, died in Philadelphia July
80 He served as Major Of the 10th
n. Y.
The veterans of Elmira, N. Y, are ex-
cited over the reappointment of Comrade
NJ. III. Conkling as Postmaster. He has
made an excellent official, and has the
the people, but there are young politicians
who covet the place.
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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08
SUPERIORITY OF OUR ARMY.

During thf dshate on the army reor-
ganization bill in the House of Lords,
Lord Wolseley. the former Commander
in-Chief of n the9 Forces. declared the
United States army was the finest of its
size in the jwofId He said its super
iority was due to good wages.-London
Telegram.
Much obliged for "the noble lords
good opinion, to be sure. He has seen
Americans fight, for he was a guest at
Gen. Lees headquarters, when the Army
of the Potomac, was making the terrific
Wilderness Campaign.
Undoubtedly good wages have much to
do with the effectiveness of our army, for
it would be a costly mistake to pauperize
our soldiers, but there must be still greater
credit given to that American breeding
and training which has made American
mechanics, farmers, and factory people
the best in the world. 1t is the American
way to do everything better than other
people, and soldering is no exception.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

THE stories of brutal murders and rob
berries inflicted upon inoffensive Filipinos
by scoundrelly insurrectos, claiming to be
making war, are very effective answers
to the Auntics all over the country. The
islands have always been infested with
bands of men who are hereditary pirates,
murderers and robbers. Humanity de-
manded that some people undertake their
extirpation. The Spaniards could not,
and were themselves so bad that the ma
tive ladrones did not suffer much by the
comparison. American rule means hui
! mainly, justice and peace, though num-
Der of bad men may have to be shot to
secure these.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

THIS is the season when man puts
IN a good deal of time sitting around and
watching the clouds, and it may give him
some additional interest TO know what
the Toronto Observatory has found the
highest clouds to be at an altitude of H..
ooO meters, or nearly seven miles, and
move at the rate of 149 miles an hour. The
cumulous clouds, which lie nearer the
earth, are about a mile above the earth in
Summer, and less than that in Winter,
and move at about the rate of 10 miles
an hour.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

fire; the coffee they drank at breakfast.
the sugar they put in it, the clothes they
and their families had donned, the paper
they read, all were heavily taxed, and the
tax-gatherer followed the whole family
through every step during the day. He
followed the man to his shop or his fields,
and taxed him for the privilege of work
ing at his vocation. The oil in the lamp
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08
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NdnQ ~
ID Shorty
On the March TO the Sea
After Lively Trip On the Sound the Boys
Reach the Ship.

Pete" said ST, sharply, your chief
business in life now is to look out for that
ship. Keep your eye peeled as you never
did before in all your life. We want to
make Decline for her. As she is NOV
ing all the time, we want to point n good
ways ahead of her. Do you see anything
OF her now?'
Il did see her, a minute ago, but that
black cloud come up and hid her.
We'll. she's out there, not very far
from where she was them" said Shorty.
Watch for her like hungry hawk. Them
gimblet eyes of yours are quick enough
to bore into any mischief. Make 'em do
good work, now. Don't be gawking
around for whales, and leviathans and
calathumpians. We can find them some
other time. That ships our business just
now"
This was certainly great deal to e1-
pect from a boy on saltwater for the first
time in his life, and amid such wonders
of the deep" as abounded in Ossabaw
Sound.
The wind had died down. the waves
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

GARRETT p. SERvIss explains the hot
Summer by saying that the sun is body
Of far intenser heat than we can conceive.
A thick cloud OF yapor envelopes the sun,
and prevents all but a portion of this heat
from reaching the earth Sometimes this
cloudy vail becomes thinner, and allows
much more heat to reach us than at other
times. If it were to disappear. and we re
ceiyed the full force of the suns heat this.
earth would Immediately disappear in
Yapor
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

FoR the first time in the history of
Hnbana the water in the harbor is SO pure
that fish can live in it, and the incorrigible
politicians can now sit on the docks and
haul in an occasional tarpon or mud-cat,
while wailing over the evils of American
ascendancy.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

WHO says that our new possessions are
not rapidly becoming Americanized? Al
ready the portrait Of the Delegate from
Hawaii appears in the advertisement OF
a patent medicine which cured him or
something or other. This viii be stuck
UP in a thousand Kanaka shacks, and
probably have incense burnt before it, as
a new American hoo-doo that will bring
all sorts of good things, if hattered into
the proper hunor
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

KING EDWARD has found that some Of
the largest jewels in the British crown are
paste The Nation made the same lament
able discovery when the South African
war broke out, about number of their
boosted soldiers. 1t seems that the Kings
scapegrace Sreat-unele and predecessor
George IY-did something in the way of
grand larceny, among his own pecadilloes,
and when he was particularly hard up,
which lie generally was, would crib a
crown jewel, sell it, and replace it with
q paste imitation. In this country we send
bank officials, who do about the same
thing to the penitentiary.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

TIE tone Of the Cuban newspapers
shows that remarkable change is tax
ing place in public sentiment there. They
are realizing that, for good or i'll, Cuba
IS no longer part of the effcte Spanish
system, but is permanently Incorporated
into the great, active American common
wealth, and must share its progressive
spirit. They cannot even lag as far be-
hind as Mexico and the South American
countries. They must learn American
ways, and think American thoughts La
Realidad" expresses this most forcibly:
Our intellectual culture has been one
sided and impractical. We delight in the
speculative and theoretical; and they love
positive and practical knowledge. The
useful is their aim; ours, the beautiful
if not the SNOWY. We talk-they act;
they live close to Nature; we try to keep
away from it. Above all, they have a
clear notion of time and its value, and
We seem TO have vague conception of it.
Adaptation is our only protection"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08
CISCO TO MEET RETURNING SOLDIERS.
PENSION COMMISSIONER AFTER THEM.

CISCO TO MEET RETURNING SOLDIERS.
PENSION COMMISSIONER AFTER THEM.
Washington, May 9.-Large numbers
Of pension attorneys have been flocking
to San Francisco for the purpose of way
laying the returning volunteers and in
creasing the rolls of the Pension Bureau.
TO prevent INSCRIPTIONS work among
them, Pension Commissioner Evans has
instituted a rigid system of surveillance.
AS a consequence Of reports already
received by the Bureau, number OF dis
barment cases are likely to come up. In
San Francisco the returned soldiers are
harassed by these pension attorneys and
their agents to such an extent that they
are frequently followed on trains on their
way East.
This is one of the paragraphs sent out
by Evans to prejudice the public against
pensions and pensioners generally.
few facts will show how little truth
there is in it. Up to June 30, 1900, there
had been but So inYalids and S73 widows
placed on the pension roll for all the fight
ing done by the whole army and navy
since the Spanish war began. Pension at
torneys are not fools and they are not
spending time and money on such meager
picking as this.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

GERMANY's new tariff imposes tax Of
s. marks a ton on wheat This is about
30 cents busheI They talk about the
hoggishness of manufacturers. What sort
OF an appetite for Protection have the
German landowners? This is a tax, too.
that the consumers must pay. Every
bread-eater must pay about twice as much
for his loaf.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

REAR Admiral Kimberly has asked to
be relieved from the Schley Court ON the
ground that he has heart trouble. Some of
the testimony promised threatens to be
dangerous to any one who can not bear
to be startled
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

ONE in every IS of the college students
In the United States is found to be suffer
ing more or less with curvature Of the
spine. Which is 1.-THE look of wisdom
daun1
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

4 BOY has gone around the world in
60 days Is hours 30 minutes and Y 40
seconds. And he was a messenger boy,
too. This century begins with wonders
greater than those of the last.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08
AFIELD WITH CRoCKER'S BRIGADE.
By David nj. Strain, Co. B. 18th Iowa

By David NJ. Strain, Co. B. 18th Iowa.
This is n simple narrative of the every
day doings of this famous brigade, which
was composed of some of the best fight
ing regiments in the magnificent Army of
the TENNESSEE.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

JUDGED by the police arrests for drunk
enness Chicago is much more intemper-
ate city than New York, and Boston the
worst in the United States, with San
Francisco coming next, Chicago third and
New Orleans fourth.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

IT is estimated that the carriage bill Of
Boston is S1O,OO0,OOO a year. What a
field this means in the whole United
States for the automobile, which should
be made to do all manner of carting.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08
Reunion of Gen. Harrison.s Brigade.

The First Brigade, Third Division,
Twentieth Army Corps. that was formerly
commanded by Ex-President Harrison, will
hold Reunion In Court Room No. 2, Cleve-
land. o., Tuesday evening, Sept. 10-R. NJ
Smock, President, room Is, State House, In
dlanapolls. Ind.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08
THE NATIONAL INDEBTEDNESS OF
THE WORLD,

The following interesting table-com-
piled by o. p. Austin, Chief of the United
States Bureau of Statistics, for the North
American Review-of the Indebtedness of
the different countries of the world, and
the burden of the same upon their people,
will repay careful study:
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

THE Missouri River has cut a strip FIVE
miles wide off Kansas, and shunted ii over
into Missouri. This probably accounts for
the recent marked increase in intellectual
activity in Missouri.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

THE Germans are determined that their
people shall ride the heavy and roughly
made bicycles of their country. They have
placed a duty of $50 marks-S39. J0-On
American bicycles.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

STEADILY is New England floating into
the dim azure of the past. One can even
fish on Sunday in Massachusetts now
without violating the law. Cotton Mather
seems TO be as dead as Sesostris.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

THE appetite for fresh, rich British
blood, which the Maryland musketoes ac-
quired So years ago, when Gen. Ross
soldiers were manuyering around Wash
ington and Baltimore, seems to have been
transmitted to their descendants. Last
week a swarm Of them went out 90 miles
TO sea to meet an English ship, and drain
the veins of her crew.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

EVERY day we are expecting to hear
a laundering protest from Milwaukee,
against the Wisconsin being christened
with anything but light beer.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

THE exports of the United States last
year exceeded the imports by $664, 000,0 900.
But the thing will be evened up when
we get the figures as to the money taken
to Europe by the American tourists.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

ILLINOIS is trying to make out that she
has the biggest cave in the world. What
spite has Illinois got against Kentucky
Isn't beating her as a whisky maker
enough?
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

THE census shows nearly two men to
one woman in Kansas. From the amount
of talking done out there the country was
prepared for quite a different showing.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

THE Government pays each cadet at
West Point 500 year. And yet he
won't he GOOD
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

Now we are to have tea trust But
30 one will ever trust the o'clock affairs
with his reputation or his domestic happi-
ness.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-08

Continued on fifth page.)
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Total

Total 124s71:O4
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-11-15
MAY RESTORE
CONTROL BY
THE. M|[|TARY
Army and Navy Men
Urge President to
Such Course.
Governor Taft's Authority
Likely to Be Again
Subordinated.
It Is Claimed That Civil Rule Will
Not Be Successful in the Philip
pines Until Ali Islands Are
Pacified.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, n.
W., WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.-If the
President adopts the views of many
prominent military and naval officers
who have recently returned from the
Philippines he will restore the military to
complete governmental control, to the ex-
clusion of Governor Taft's authority.
, It would not be surprising should it de-
velop that this is one of the matters to
which the President has been giving spe
cial attention III his recent conversations
with prominent members of Congress. II
is his purpose to carefully discuss the
Philippine situation in his annual mes
sage to Congress, and before framing this
feature he desires to get all the light upon
it that he can. The President under
stands the view of military men tina.
while the rebellion in the Philippines is
no longer organized outbreaks and unrest
may be expected for years. and until the
islands have been pacified 1t is useless to
attempt to establish civil government. He
is now waiting to receive the report OF
Governor Taft and his associates, who
form the Philippine Commission. This
report was started en,its way to the
United States, but the transport bringing
it sustained an accident and was COM
PEELED to put into Nagasak for repairs.
Another transport was sent to Nagasaki
to receive the report, but she was unfor-
tunate in having a breakdown on leaving
Nagasaki, and the quartermaster on
board deemed it necessary to return. The
Hancock has gone to Nagasaki to get the
report, and it is hoped she will bring it
safely to San Francisco.
Senators Lodge and Spooner were in
consultation with the President yesterday
and again to-day, and it is understood the
Philippines situation was discussed. 1t is
the general impression, despite the views
of the military, that the President will
not, for the present at least, abandon the
plan for civil government which McKin-
| ley inaugurated.