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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-12-26
CUT PRICE SALE.

Thursday, Dec. Goth to Tues
day night, Dec. 3lst, we shall
sell all of our Ladies', Misses,
and Children's Coats, Capes,
Suits, Skirts, Shirt Waists and
Furs, at reductions as per descrip-
ton and quotations in this adver-
tisement.
LADIES' SUITS.
Mostly black but all good,
$3.50 Suits, now $3.50
$500 Suits, now $1,000
$1,000 Suits, now $3.50
$3.50 Suits, now 1896
FUR COATS.
Several Electric Seal Goats, re-
duced from
$4,000 to 24.50
$500 to 27.50
Fur collars and Muns almost
gone, will sell at very low prices.
PLUSH CAPES.
Good plush, fur all around col
lar and down front, reduced from
$1,000 to $7,95
$3.50 to 1896
$500 to 1896
CHILDREN'S COATS.
Long and short coats in all
colors and sizes. New this season
Long coats reduced from
$3.50 to $500
$50 to $5.95
$500 to 1915
$5.95 to 2.75
LADIES' LONG COATS.
The newest garments in our
store, but they must leave us at
once.
Black and Tan Kersey, AZ in.
coat, reduced from $3.50 to 1875
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-12-26

There are several cases Of measles
n Pine township.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-12-26
DRESS SKIRTS.

DRESS SKIRTS.
New garments at prices to sell
this week,
$3.50 Skirts 1896
$500 Skirts 1896
$3.50 Skirts 1915
CLOTH CAPES.
Navy, Castor and red capes,
extra long, good cloth, well lined,
reduced from $500 to $1,000.
GOLF CAPES.
$50 Capes now 1896
5000 Capes now 1896
$500 Capes 3.95
PLUSH CAPES.
Good plush, fur collar and
front edge.
$3.50 now 1896
$1,000 now 1896
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03

deep at the highest point. BY increasing
this cut ninety feet more, the canal can
be put on tide water level which can
never be accomplished with the Near
aguan route
The cost of the Nicaraguan route as
estimated by the commission Will be
$2O0. $40, 900; to complete the Panama route
$142,Si2,579. 1t will be seen that, accord
ing to the judgment of the commission,
assuming that the two canals would be
of equal value when completed, the
work already done on the Panama route
is worth about s5S,OO0.o 600 At the time
the commission reported. Nov. 80, 1890,
it was thought that no diplomatic OBJ
stacle lay in the way of the Nicaraguan
route
On the other hand, the concession to
the Panama company expires in 1866,
and was so limited in it's terms that it
could not be mortgaged or sold to any
foreign power. 1t will be remembered
that NJ Hutin, the president of the Pan
anna company, refused to place price
on the property, but was willing to
accept the United States as a stockholder
in the enterprise. The reasons for this
coyness was the assumption that the
Colombian government could, under the
terms of the concession. abrogate it upon
the appearance Of the first negotiations
to transfer to another power. The
Colombian government is now willing to
allow the United States to acquire the
canal. 1t is reported that the Morgan
syndicate will offer s4O,O0O,0OO for the
concession and the improvements up to
date, and take the place Of the stock
holders of the present company.
Should this deal be accomplished, it
would quiet forever the ghost of the
Nicarag guam scheme. Two isthmian
canals would be Of no benefit to COM
merce, and would serve only to bankrupt
one another. The fact that the Panama
route was the most feasible, and that
the completion of the canal was a Ger
IdlIly dl SOIne Iuluie Jay, were inc
chief forces that contributed to the de-.
feat of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, the
ratification of which meant the building
of another canal through Nicaragua
It is presumed that Mr. Morgan and his
associates have ascertained the probable
amount Of traffic which the new water
route viii attract, otherwise they would
not doing it wholly to benefit the world
at large.
The British government will find that
it is the financial combinations with
which it must open up diplomatic rela-
lions if it wished to maintain it's version
of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03
That Text Book RiII.

Hutchinson Leader.
A worse measure could not well be de-
vised than the so-called Reeves text
book bill recently introduced in the leg
islature The bill provides for a uniform
system of text books for the state, to
be selected by a commission appointed
by the governor The bill is being push
ed by the Pioneer Press company and
the McGill-Warner Publishing company,
who expect to profit by such an arrange
ment, of course. Minnesota has fa1 ex-
perience with a uniform system of text
books under the old Merrill contract,
when class of text books were IN use
that were disgrace to an enlightened
community, and we want no more OF 1t.
The best text books to be had in the
world are none too good for Minnesota
children, and we want to be at liberty to
buy where we can buy the best. The.
bill is simply a scheme to give the
Pioneer Press company and the McGilI-
Warner company fat publishing con-
tract at the expense of the excellence
of our public schools Eli Warner, who
is q member of one Of these publishing
concerns, is one of the notorious ad-
visors of Gov. Van SAINT.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03
A POSER FOR MARK HANNA

The annual report of the Hamburg
American Steamship company just is
sued, is poser for Marcus A. Hanna
and other promoters of an American
ship subsidy
The report shows that this steamship
ing the year 1900 the handsome sum of
Sc, 900 net. An increase over the net
earnings Of the previous year of $1,5O0,0O0
These are round numbers approximately
correct. Thus without subsidy of any
Kind this independent line Of steam
ers has earned, as a straight business
enterprise, 10 per cent on its entire cap
itallzation.
This is not only proof absolute that
steamship companies can make money as
ordinary business concerns, but it IS
severe comment upon our navigation
laws. The friends of the recent subsi-
dy steal boldly declared that American
shipping could not succeed in competi-
ton with foreigners because it cost more
to build and equip steamships in this
country than in Europe. If that be true
why did not the last congress repeal
the present navigation laws which for
bids the purchase of vessels in fore gn
markets? The neutrality-suspicious. line
has ships made in every part of the
world where the particular ship could
10 -
mistaken that place now is the United
States. Indeed Mr.. ]. J. Hill stated in
Chicago last fall that he had been able
to secure the lowest price for the con-
struction of his Pacific fleet in America
!. If that be so, and there is additional evil
dance of the fact in the recent iron and
steel combination, the protection of the
American shipbuilding interest is a farce
that should come to an end at once Not
because it can do any harm now, but
because SO long as it is a statutory enti-
ty it is a continual reminder of an at
tempt at commercial suicide.
No intelligent person doubts that if the
American investor could have gone into
| the open market of the world and pur-
chased ships where he could have secur-
ed them the cheapest the American flag
would now be floating over a large pro-
portion of the worlds merchant marine.
VIII these object lessons have any eff
feet upon the hide-bound protectionists?
Such demonstrations have never in the
past had any influence on him: he has
never been affected by logic or facts
| and it is reasonable to suppose he never
will be- Within the last week congress-
men have been heard to object to the
annexation of Cuba because it would re-
duce the price of sugar one-half and
interfere with our cane and beet sugar
industries. The absurdity Of this posi-
ton can be appreciated when it Is re-
membered that last year the United st ties
consumed 2.219.G0o tons of sugar cnly
257,G00 tons of which was produced in
the United States. To save the profit
en- 25700O tons of domestic sugar to the
| producer, the protectionist would cornpel
| the people to pay double for nearly 2.OO1.-
600 tons. This is political economy ac-
| cording to the men who Worship at the
shrine of protection.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03
WILL HELP BOOM ST. Paul
BODIES DECIDE TO COOPER
ATE IN FUTURE
JOINT COMMITTEE FORMED
Chamber OF Commerce, Jobbers'
Union, Commercial Club and
Northwestern Manufacture
ers' Associations Unite.

In order TO promote unity of action,
and to generally advance the interests
OF the city, meeting was held yester-
day morning in the Chamber of Com
merce building, at which the presidents
OF the Commercial club. Jobbers' union,
Northwestern Manufacturers associa-
ton and the Chamber of Commerce were
present. After discussion it was decided
that it was advisable to appoint a gen.
eral committee to take care of such mat
tiers OF general interest as each BODY IN
It's individual capacity may undertake In
behalf of the city. Each president nom
mated committee and each is ex-otticio
member of the general permanent COM
mittee.
The personnel of the permanent COM
m1ttee is as follows: Jobbers' union, A.
H. I.indeke, C. P Noyes, R. A. Kirk, ].
F. Kelly, Jesse A. Gregg; Chamber Of
Commerce, w. P Clough. Ambrose
Tighe. w. A. Scott, L. S. Cushing; Com
mercial club, j. Caulfeld, E. Vanish.
Condo Hamlin, c. w. Hornick, K.
Schifmann; Northwestern Manufacture
ers' association, G. w. Bonn, ]. P. Crib
ben, H c. Drake, G. F. Kuhlen, A. K.
Pruden. The presidents who are ex-officio
members are: j. w. Cooper, Jobbers-
union; w. r. Dorr, Chamber of Conn
merce: H. A. Boardman. Commercials
club; J. S. Johnston, Northwestern Man
ufacturers' association.
The above general committee met yes
terday afternoon and organized Otf1cers
were appointed as follows: j. w. Cooper,
chairman; E. w. Peet, vice chairman:
Benjamin F. Beardsley, secretary. It
was agreed to meet at times to be desig-
mated by the chairman, when matters or
general interest to the city will be dis
cussed.
The committee defined the scope of its
duties as being ito advance the general
commercial and industrial interests OF
the city, and to promote unity of action
on the part of the respective bodies rep
resented on this committee"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03

our exports of typewriters approach 81
100000 year, and of sewing machines
$S,OOO,OOO. In short. the exports reach
every staple line of iron and steel product
and so to every important market on the
globe. showing that the experimental
stage has passed and that the tariff for
iron and steel protection has outgrown
either necessity oFslssfulness.
Iron lies at the folHdation of all indus
try. Modern manufacturing, modern ag-
riculture, modern shipping by land and
sea, modern construction in all lines, rest
on iron. In an age of machinery and of
iron and steel construction. it is funda-
mental that this aniYersal metal should
be at the command Of the producer at the
most economical outlay, and that the
market supply should be reliable and
steady and the price Beyond the control
of artificial and earbftrary fuctuation.
The tariff which enables a trust to levy
a far higher price upon the iron and
steel used in the industries Of our own
country than abroad is a menace to
national development 1t is license
upon wholesale robbery It is an anom-
ally which should be abated by prompt
and thorough going legislation.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03
FREE IRON AND STEEL.

Inc commercial world was interested
the other day to hear from prominent
British authority how American iron
and steel products, now controlled by
the Millionaire steel trust, were sold so
much cheaper in Great Britain than in
the United States. This announcement
is not news; it is an old story. But it's
confirmation by a member of the British
parliament and cabinet gave it an Off
cial recognition that approaches conclu-
siveness. Such testimony ought to reach
far in forwarding the passage of Con-
gresham Babcocks proposed bill to place
iron and steel products on the free list.
Certainly no defense can be made of a
protective tariff which enables a billion
dollar octopus to collect two prices from
the people of its own country for the
same article that it sells at one price
to foreign markets
Yesterdays statistics of iron and steel
exports show conclusively the ability of
American iron and steel industries to
hold their own in foreign markets; and if
our iron and steel industry can overcome
foreign competition abroad it most sure
ly can take care of itself at home. and a.
protective tariff for that industry is
superfiuous farce
Look at the figures on the growth of
our iron and steel exports The govern
riJ
for the eight months ending with Febru-
airy. Comparison for the same Period
ending with February, 1891, ten years ago.
shows an increase to the enormous ex-
tent of 300 per cent. The totals Were
SIS, 3S4 for the eight months ending
with February, 1891. and over four times
ending with February, 1901. The fact
stands that the United States. or rather
the United States Steel company, which
practically represents the whole exporting
ca, Canada, Latin America, and the
islands of the sea over $12O, 100000 worth
CT iron and steel productions per an
num- This is nearly double the value
of our annual wheat exports and nearly
equals the value of our wheat and flour
exports combined. 1t Is practically
double the value of our exports of min
eraI oil. In short, our iron and steel
exports now rank next in value to
hreadstuffs and cotton, and we have be-
come the greatest producer and expert
err of iron and steel among nations.
In looking over the detained figures for
the past eight months with comparisons
with the like period ten years ago.
we find that exports of builders
hardware have grown from 81 1853 s4S
to S6,05S.126, an increase of about
five fold. Exports of electrical ma
chinery have grown from PRACTICAL
nothing to $3.777 .67G and steel rails from
500, Geo to &C. SS9,079. From almost nothing
exports of steel billets have grown to
over s3,000,o00. steel bars to S2,6 ,S13,
and structural iron and steel to
s.. 296, psf. Wire exports have multi
Piled FIVE times. wire nails almost ten
times, locomotives over 200 per cent,
printing presses over 800 per cent; while
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03
Giving Legal Advice.

Buffalo Gazette.
Somebody has proposed law that any
person, not a lawyer, volunteering adj
vice on legal matters, be punished. This
might be a good law. And if it made
punishable the giving gratis of legal adj
vice by lawyers especially where unask-
ed, and made it a crime punishable by a
long term in the penitentiary for lawyers
who give wrong advice. or cite laws out
of date, or that are misleading, and who
purposely seek to breed discord among
people, or mislead justices. juries, vii
lage councils and others, it would in
some cases be blessing to communities,
and up to date. reliable, intelligent attor-
neys would have much better chance
and be of far more value In their re-
spective places of residence
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03
INEVITABLE RESULTS.

The authorities at Manila who deport-
ed young Rice because he dared to
urge that there was fraud existing in the
administration of the customs, will no
doubt be greatly surprised at the story
lately published concerning the existence
of wholesale frauds In the commissary
department. AS the authorities at Wash
ington profess themselves absolutely
ignorant Of any such state of affairs
as is revealed in numerous arrests of
civilians ard soldiers alike. it may be
questioned whether the current publica-
tons viii not prove dangerous to The
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03

safety Of the military situation, and
whether the representatives of the
Associated Press have not render ed
themselves liable to deportation on ac-
count of their offending.
AS a minor accompaniment of the
story we have the information that one
of the federal postal officials at Porto
Rico has been arrested and is held as a
defaulter. Military rule is not of course
in existence in as active form in Ponce
| cordingly, the danger from allowing the
knowledge of official defalcation to come
to the public is not quite so serious in it's
effects upon the military situation. But
the fact that the Porto Rican alleged
defalcation is made public will no doubt
occasion some considerable degree Of
concern to the directors of the military
situation on the island in the Pacific.
Whatever the facts prove to be with
reference to the huge robberies and
frauds reported from Manila, it is plain
to be seen from the partial knowledge
which is contained in the published
dispatches, that the watchfulness of an
intelligent press is not wholly unneeded
and that the transactions which have
just been revealed must have been in
progress for months under the very
noses of those in control. +
o,,o,,ol.
despite an admirably administered CEN
sorship, to show one of the great dangers
which must attend our effort to ad-
minister the affairs of a people wholly
alien to our own in thought and action.
The condition of our national civil serv-
ice, as well as the standard Of public
now in absolute control of affairs at
Washington, renders it inevitable that
scandals of the most revolving kind are
sure to be made public in connection
with the management of the new pos
sessions unless the most rigid scrutiny
is exercised To stamp a man as a
cause he insisted that frauds were IN
existence in Manila, as was done toward
Editor Rice, must be regarded in the
light of the exposure just made, as little
less than naked tyranny
It is being made plain that there is
strong influence at Washington and
Manila which seeks the proloneation of
the present trouble in the Philippines. it
is not difficult to understand who they
are or why they do not want things
brought to a close Aguinaldo's capture
is nothing to them. AS long as there
are a hundred bolo men at large there
is instruction enough IN progress to
suit their ends. Countless shiploads Of
provisions and munitions of war, repre-
senting contracts that carry millions or
dollars are incidents which may not be
dispensed with lightly in the estimation
of this gentry
It would be well for the national purse.
as well as for the national honor if we
could even now get out of the Philip
pines But since We are there, and likely
to remain, it behooves the American peo-
pie to see to it that the extravaganza
and robbery which is begotten of cor
rupt politics and of the maintenance of a
military establishment are brought to
an end as soon as possible
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03
TO HOLD RUMMAGE SALE.
Home for the FriendIess Will Re
p1enish Its Golfers.

Home for the FriendIess Will Re-
p1enish Its Golfers.
The managing board of the Home for
the Friendless met yesterday at the home
on Collins street Miss McClung was ap-
pointed visitor for April The board de-
cided to hold a rummage sale soon for
the benefit Of the home, and it requests
all it's friends to reserve those articles
which recent housecleanings have shown
are not needed. in order that they may
be converted into money at the sale. The
home has twenty-five inmates.
The board of managers of the day
nursery held it's April meeting yesterday
in Relief hail. Mrs. Jewett presided.
Miss White, the matron, reported that
297 children had been cared for during
March. Three new members have been
added to the board, Mrs. Newell H
Clapp, Mrs. George Nelson and Mrs.
Hopewell Clarke. The treasury was en-
riched SS7 by the recent Oriental rug lee
ture. Mrs. Edward Judson and Mrs. John
Swinborne were appointed visitors for
April.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03

Two tons of American flags are to be
sent to the Philippines, to help inspire
patriotism. Here in Minnesota the flag
is indeed an inspiring sight, as it repre-
sents the constitution. with its guaran-
tees of rights and liberties, but in the
Philippines it merely represents the auto
cratic authority of McKinley's satraps
whose power is exactly the same that it
would be if they had been sent there by
the czar of Russia or the sultan Of Tur-
key Is there any inspiration in that?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03
TO EXAMINE NEW TEACHERS
Graduates of Training school Want
Positions In City.

The board of school inspectors will hold
a meeting at 7:45 this evening in the
New York Life building.
Assistant Superintendent Bond Is now
giving examinations to thirty graduates
of the Teachers Training school. They
wish to secure certificates to teach in
inations will undoubtedly get positions in
this CITY when the next term COM
mences. for about thirty-five new teachers
will be needed about that time. The city
will then have three new schools, one
with sixteen rooms and the other two
with eight
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03
Little Japan,s Nerve.
.,o,,r Sentinel.

LIE Sueur Sentinel
Little Japan is the only nation in the
East that has the nerve to brace up
to Russia and demand that she take
her covetous hands off China. Japan
ought to have the support of the powers.
We all remember how Russia deprived
her of the just results of her victory
over China a few years ago, and Russia
has not conquered any part of China
herself She has only managed, while
backed up by the rest Of the world, to
over-run a part Of the Chinese empire
which she now proposes to keep and
hold.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03

the Instruction is over the greater
problem of government confronts US 1t
is to be solved by our using the natural
leaders of the Filipinos in high office and
giving the different peoples all self-gov-
eminent, municipal and provincial, OF
which they are capable. as well as rep
resentation in the general government at
Manila, which must, however, be Kept
under American control"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03

Russia seems to stand today where
America stood half century ago, on
the threshold of an industrial prosperity
and development which must soon awe
the world by it's rapid and stupendous
growth" says writer in the Engineer
ing Magazine. That is, no doubt, where
she would stand if she had the intelli-
gence and the liberal institutions which
the United States possessed half a cen
tury ago. Russia will have to get out
of the mire of ignorance and oppression
before she can hope to make very rapid
progress. She has the natural resources
and that is about all.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03
STATE PRESS COMMENT.
Case of Do or Die.

Graceville Enterprise.
We hope Representative Jacobson can
substantiate the charges of bribery he
has brought against several members of
the legislature, but we have doubts as
to his ability to do it. Unless the Lac
qui Parle man can accomplish the task
he is politically dead and buried.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03

The Cubans have had Nelly and Rath-
bone in their hands for months. yet the
trial OF those two defaulters has not
progressed a single step. In the matter
of delaying the law, the Cubans are evil
IDENTIFY up to the highest requirements
governnle nt.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-03

1t is predicted that the Cuban con-
stitutional convention will accept the
Plat amendments, 1t seems the Cubans
have been given to understand that they
will either accept the amendments or do
without even the ssemblance of an indie
pendent government, and they have wise
ly, though regretfnlly, decided that half
loaf is better than no bread"