Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1901-08-01

breakfast bacon and butter. The EGG
lish usually conceal the identity of the |
two last-named, under the brands Of |
Wiltshire and Dorset but they are |
Irish as the Treasury officials can testify. |
Nothing shoddy ever come from Ire
land. That il why balbriggan is 50
largely initiated by British and German
manufactured
Even IN army ofiicer does not dare to |
perform his sworn duty, II il happens
to be against the interest Of one Of the |
big trusts, unless he IL prepared to be |
punished therefor. This is q broad
assertion, but case has Just happened
could testify, II he were disposed 70 re-
open the Eagan mess, evidence can be
juggled with and manipulated even be-
fore the fsirest courts. II behooves
Admiral Schley and his friends to see
that no important witness shall be left
uncalled or unheard Better late than
never can be applied 10 Secretary Longs
order against Naval officers publicly
discussing this case.
An enthusiastic Irishman-Mr. w. o.
O'Leary, of Limerick-hss been surpris-
ing not Q few Westinghouse by pre-
senting some not generally known facts
about the industries of the Emerald
Isle. He said: 1T surely makes me
laugh every time hear or see in print
anything about England, the great
ship-building nation Why, the ship
builders Of Ireland can buy and sell the
ship builders Of England and Scotland
Neither the Tyne nor the Clyde, nor
the Mersey show anything equal to the
ship building concern of Harland and
Wolf at Belfast. Yet there 10 nothing
the English and Scotch are so proud of
as their ship-building. For years this
firm has held the highest place in the
world so far as tonnage launched is
concerned. The yards employ o. 20
in Washington shor ing IL to be strictly
true. The Engineer Commissioner Of
the District Of Columbia 10 always an
army officer, and. If course, all street
improvements are under his supervision.
Capt. Lansing H. Beach. who has been
Engineer Commissioner for several
years, has made himself . very popular
official by the fearless performance of
his duties and by his intelligent appre-
citation of the needs of his branch of the
local government, but he would cot
shut his eyes TO the greed of q big trust
and that trust went to the War Depart
ment and had an order issued assigning
another officer to the duties of Engineer
Commissioner of the District of Colum-
bia. At the beginning of the fiscal year
there are always some big contracts to
be given out for Asphalt paving, in
Washington. These contracts have been
monopolized for q long time by the
Asphalt trust, either in its own name OF
in the name OF dummy contractors. who
are merely ITS agents. This year there
was an outside bidder for these con.
tracts, and the bidder was well below
that of the trust or of any of its agents
Capt. Beach, as it was his sworn duty to
do, Investigated, and finding the new
. bidder responsible and able 10 perform
the contract according to specifications,
recommended that the bid be accepted
and it was. Then Gen. Francis Greene,
now one of the Asphalt Trust magnates,
who resigned from the army while con-
nected with the Engineer branch Of the
government of the District of Columbia,
to join the trust, hurried to Washing
ton and had another man put in Capt.
Beach's place.
Representative Patterson, Of Tenn,
who Is now in Washington said of the
political outlook: THE democratic
party is now looking to the future and
/ the next campaign will not be fought
on dead issues. The best evidence of
this is the Ohio state platform. Ihesrti-
ly endorse that platform because it pre-
sents to the people live issues. be-
J lieve the democratic conventions in
other states will do as the democrats in
Ohio did and adopt platforms to meet
the issues of the present instead of the
past" NIvIs.