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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-04
BAD POLICY TO OPEN
THE QUESTION NOW

1t is believed that the administra-
ton is opposed to bringing up the
negro Acknowledgement question in
congress in connection with the reap
portionment. The dispatches yester-
day gave a different impression, lead
ruiing on the question of order was an
indication of the administrations at
titude., 1t is more likely that the
speaker made his ruling according to
the requirements of parliamentary law.
and that the administration does not
stand committed to a policy of stir
ring up the matter, at least at this
time.
1t is possible, also. that Mr.. Hende--
son may have felt that to order a con-
gressional investigation was the very
pest way to get the vexed question out
of the way. 1t is quite certain that
there is no unity among the republi
cans in the demand for a reduction Of
the representation of the southern
states, while there is unity among the
opponents of the administration in
their determination that there shall
be no such reduction if they can help
it.
The question is a broad one. The
right of the states to determine who
shall exercise the suffrage has been
well established in law and custom.
There is a constitutional restriction
against abridgment of the rights of
voters. but provided the restriction Or
Acknowledgement of a part of the pop
ulation is brought about in such
way as not to infringe the letter of
the constitution, it is doubtful if any
court could be found to declare sucn
restriction or disfranchisement unlaw-
full. 1t is wrong, and it is unlawful.
to disfranchise men because they are
black, but it is lawful to disfranchise
them because they have not paid
poll tax, or because they cannot read
and write.
OF all the many schemes that have
been devised to cut out the negro or
other incompetent vote. the payment
of poll tax year or six months in
advance of election is immeasurably
the best. In this there is no discretion
in a judge, no way of cheating a man
into the franchise, as there is in the
illiteracy test. There is no hardship
worked against non property holders.
as there is in a property test. There
Is no chance for buying votes. as there
is at present. No politician would pay
the poll tax of a negro a year or Sax
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-04
STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS OF
THE TRUST.

| However mems interests. prejudices
or convictions may cause them to diff
fer upon these subjects. there are three
conclusions to be drawn from this ar
fcv OF expert opinion. in which all faii
minded men will probably be in agree
ment. They are these:
| ID In the operation of all natural
monopolies. including railways. tram
ways. water works, gas works. and
public utilities generally, the system of
| consolidated ownership and centralized
| control will gradually supersede all
others obviously because it admits of
the most perfect organization, the
highest economy in operation, and the
best public service at the least price
consistent with a fair return upon the
capital invested.
90 But in strictly manufacturing
industry. competition is still the or
der of the day. as it must continue 10
be; and that firm. big or little. which
can manufacture cheapest, sell lowest.
and conduct its business with most
skill and enterprise. is certain to sur
vive. This means also and especially
that it is the part of wisdom and fore
sight for such a firm to strengthen its
position by acquiring a controlling in
terest in closely allied firms-as Lord
ping itself to produce in it's own yards
completed battleship; and as Mr..
Carnegie has done in providing his
urn with ample supplies of the best ore
and coke. Every such move is wise
one when made to strengthen ones
position. in recognition of the fact hit
1.-The survival of the fittest" is the OBJ.
vious law of the manufacturing world.
t3) Finally. the interests Of invest
Ors, and the kindred interests of in
dustrial managers who require capital
plainly demand that these great indus
trial corporations, especially those list
ing their shares on the stock ex-
exchanges, shall be speedily required
to give their stockholders and the in
vesting pubic the benefit of that de-
gree of publicity as to their affairs
which has done so much to give sta
bility and character to the investment
shares of banking. insurance, and rail-
way comprehensive Engineering
Magazine, works Management Number
January, 1901.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-04
TO ADVERTISERS.

In order to insure proper changes in
Advertising, copy for same should
be at the business office not later
than 10 a. m.
ADVERTISING RATES.
Rates of advertising in the Daily
or Weekly HERALD will be made
known upon application at the bus
mess office. Those who prefer can
have a representative of the bus
mess department call upon them,
who will quote prices and make
contracts for space. Call telephone
No. lis.
Classified advertisements for locals, ten
(10c) cents per line for nrst in
sertion and five (5c) cents for each
additional insertion. Special rates
upon five hundred (500) or one
thousand 10000 lines Of local. to
be used in one month, will be fur
nished upon application.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-04
ANOTHER BATCH OF PORTO
RICANS COMING THROUGH
Special Precautions Will Be Taken to
Prevent Such a Disaffection as Took
Place Before.

Another batch of Porto Ricans is
to be brought through Ii Paso in a
short time.
The emigration labor agents hope
to have better luck this time. Most of
their last consignment of colonists de-
serted them at San Francisco and gave
them no end of trouble all along the
road across the continent. They
raised the cry that they were being
kidnapped and the state department
took steps to rescue them.
A New Orleans dispatch says: On
January 4, the steamship Arcadia OF
the New Orleans-Porto Rican line, will
arrive here with 400 Porto Ricans,
bound for the Hawaiian Islands. OF
that number 200 will be men, 100 wo-
men and 100 children OF different ages
y. Wollers, representing the Hawa-
ian Sugar Planters association, ar
rived here today from San Francisco
In view of the variegated trouble over
the other cargo of Porto Ricans these
Will be watched with great diligence.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-04
THE COUNCIL AND THE
TELEPHONE FRANCHISE.

The city council cannot afford to b,
placed in the position of PERSISTENT,
shielding and protecting such a mo
nopoly as the Bell telephone company
1t is we'll the new franchise wa:
granted. Opinions differ as to the
character of the service rendered b.
| the old company. A great deal de
ponds on the manners of the man who
uses the telephone. If a man adopts 6
quick and courteous manner, but does
not allow his Impotence or anger to
get away with his sense, and if h
speaks distinctly and says what HI
wants, he generally gets it, and GER
tainly any specific complaints are at
tended to. But on the other hand. in
the matter of rates. the reputation OF
the Bell company is so we'll known thai
1T hardly needs to be referred to. The
Bell people will Fever voluntarily re-
duce rates, and once reduced, they will
raise them again as soon as possible.
Competition in such public service is
necessary in the absence of properly
guarded franchises and government
control, and competition is the only
protection the public has against ex-
tortion. 1t is no argument to say
that the company has been running
its business at a loss until recently"
as we so often hear it said. That is
no particular concern of the city, now
that the plant is paying, even il 1t
was formerly true. And the city has
done enough in giving away its valu-
able franchise without assuming to
protect a monopoly, in a manner that
is never adopted toward any ordinary
business. 1t would be as logical for
the city council to pass an ordinance
prohibiting the establishment of an
other hardware store or another foun-
dry on the grounds that the field was
already sufficiently covered, as it
would be for the council to refuse
point blank to grant a franchise to
new telephone company.
But there is one thing that should
be most rigidly enforced, and that. is
effective regulations about setting
poles and stringing wires. 1t is ap-
palling to think of the horrible con-
dition San Antonio street and other
thoroughfares will be in il another
line of poles is permitted to be set
along the curb. There should be some
provision for compelling more than
one company to use the same pole.
wherever practicable, and the city
council should hold the underground
project over the companies as a threat
all the time, if there should be any
The poles might be set in
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-04

months in advance of election, ana
the forgery of tax receipts and regis
tration certificates could easily be de-
tected and severely punished. The re-
suit of such a scheme would be such
publication of the suffrage as has
never been known.
The Herald believes in a restricted
suffrage 1t believes in DISTINGUISHING
every man who cannot or will not pay
poll tax, year or six months in adj
vance of election, since no man who
does not value his vote that highly is
fit to vote. 1t believes in limiting the
participation in government to compe
tent persons who have some direct in
terest in having good government 1t
believes in the poll tax as the most
democratic test and the freest from
Objectionable features and opportuni-
ties to cheat.
But The Herald does not believe in
giving a state with one million corr
petent voters and one million disfran-
chised ignoramuses, the same repre-
sentation in the national congress as
the state with two million competent
voters. This effectually reduces the
representation from the latter state, if
judged by all the standards of life OUT
side of politics.
If it could be brought about, the
fairest meL..od or determining the rep
resentation from the various states
would be to base the apportionment in
the national congress on the vote cast
for president. This method would en-
courage the polling or a heavy vote.
would increase the interest of the good
citizens in elections, and would serve |
as a check against extreme disfran-
chisement measures. 1t would also
give the states of the west a better |
show than they now get.
But as a practical course of action
for the present moment. nothing can
negro disfranchisement in the southern
states. 1t is highly doubtful if a reap
bill based on general re
luction of representation throughout
he south could possibly pass.
The discussion would inevitably en-
gender strife. and would more than
likely weaken the hold the republican
,arty already has on the south. More
'ver. the Acknowledgement of the ig-
lorant, shiftless. corrupt negroes of
he south, and their elimination as
'olitical factor, is the best thing that
ould happen for the republican party.
is the general belief that the repub- s
lean party would today be dominant
n most of the southern states if the
arty had not become so tied up with
he negro as to array all native south +
rners against it, on grounds of race c
rejudice, instead of for it, on grounds 1
personal and state welfare. as they
-ould naturally be otherwise.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-04

Ell Paso is glad to be assured. n
told in The Herald yesterday, by prom
inent officials of the Southern Pacific
that before long that road will have
a respectable depot. 1t is to be hoped
that the plans of the company contem-
plate a structure that will become a
union station. and that the other ROADS
needs better terminal -a.....ies for the
railroads. in place of the miserable
shacks that now do service as depots.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-04
Clean up the city.

Carnival heat is getting hotter.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-04

The report that Lii Hung Chang is
paralyzed and that his health is SER
iously impaired means that the big
gest Chinaman of them all will prob
patton in Chinese public affairs. Lii
may be willy as ne has often been ac-
cused of being: but there is no doubt
he is a big man. Grant was not SLOW
to acknowledge him as one of the big
gest men of his day.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-04

Grover Cleveland suggests as tit
ting reform for me twentieth century
that the president be elected by less
clumsy method than the electoral col
lege. that the term of Office be length
ened. and that the president be con-
sidered ineligible to reelection. Be
ing twice an ex-president Cleveland
can speak on the subject of frightening
the term without having selfish mo-
tives imputed to him.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-04
BrinEinx Up Children.

"Do you know much about the train
ing of children?"
DO IY' returned the fond father.
"Well. you bet / do. know a whole
lot. and il children weren't so contrary
and unappreciative I'd have the best
trained bunch in the neighborhood."
Chicago Post.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-04

The idea of buying the Danish West
indies is not new although some peo-
pie have just heard of it. Thirty years
ago Secretary of State Seward COM
pleted a treaty with Denmark secur-
ing the islands, but the senate re-
fused to ratify it and it fell through
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-04

the alleys.
Here is a case where the peoples
interests must be protected, and there
will be all sorts of protests if the new
telephone company tries to set another
line of poles where there are far too
many already.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-04

The board of health as at present
constituted is an able body of men, and
it is to be hoped that no breach will
occur between them and the city coun-
Gil
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-04
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New-York tribune., 1901-06-16

IT goes without saying that these will not be
dull The delegations of students from Harvard,
Princeton, Trinity and Wesleyan. who Will be
guests OF the undergraduates, will also march in
the procession. dressed in appropriate college
costumes and colors
on Tuesday night the undergraduates will
give an open air performance on the campus
that will be unique in Yale annals An amphi-
theatre capable OF seating six thousand persons
viii be erected this summer on the present sites
OF Old North and the Treasury which buildings
will before then be torn down and a stage will
be constructed at one end. The Yale Dramatic
Association Will have charge of the performance
which Will be in pantOmime, and will represent
various notable events or epochs in Yale's his
tory Most OF these will be- serious. and will
represent such themes the founding Of the
college, the passage Of General Washington
through this city in l1IJ. the call 10 arms by
Captain Benedict Arnold and the rally by Yale
students. an old bread and butter riot" an
old flremen's fight modern fence rush an old
time football game, and the like. After the per
formance there will be an hour two Of singing
on the new fence Every evening during the
week the campus and town will be Illuminated
by electric lights and fireworks.
The only athletic event that will be in the pro
gramme will be football game, TO be played
between the Yale varsity and team from a
small college Tuesday afternoon and be
tween the varsity and a picked eleven Of grad
uate players on the same afternoon. This latter
event will be noteworthy it VIII bring to-
gether for the first time an all star veteran Yale
team.
From a musical and artistic standpoint the bi-
centennial bids fair TO be most remarkable Be
sides the presentation OF Professor Parkers ia
nous "Hora NoVissima." by the Gounod So
ciety, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play
at a special concert In the Hyperion. and will
otherwise assist in the celebration Professor
Jepson viii also give organ recital in Batteu
The student body will take large part IN the
musical programme. Besides leading the campus
singing Tuesday evening the undergraduates
will furnish the music for Commemoration Day
In the Hyperion. led by Professor Sanford. An
art exhibition in the Art School will be an in
teresting feature An attempt is being made TO
collect all Of the known paintings by John
Trumbull and Samuel +. B. Morse. and these
with modern works by Yale artists. viii form
an interesting part Of the exhibition. The lit
erary exhibitions and publications viii also he
an important part Of the weeks programme. 1t
is proposed TO collect all Of the historical memo
rabilia that Yale possesses for the edlcation OF
the visitors. One part Of this will be peculiarly
interesting-the collection OF all the textbooks
used al Yale since the year 17O1 when the
New-York tribune., 1901-06-16

by the fact that the expense OF the exploration,
which have been carried for the last four years
has been provided for in large part by the gener
Gus contributions OF two who became inter
estsd In the work. Old Indian sites Staten
Island. on Long Island. in Pelham Park. near
Westchcster. and at Croton have been explored.
and c4nsiderab BILE material has been gathered from
terry vessels. stone implements bone implements
pipes and various other objects of native work and
arrow points and ornaments made OF brass OBJ
tanned in the early contact with white settlers
we'll a number of Indian skeletons and the
dog have been obtained. Numerous village sites.
shell heaps. rock shelters and earth embankments
have been described. photographed and located on
a map.
prepare a map showing the various Indian towns.
camp sites and burial places and far pos
=, Another purpose Is 20 bring together the domes-
tic utensils; the weapons. implements and orna-
region and to make models of rock shelters
earthw9rEs; in fact, 20 present as full a history
the time Of the coming OF the white race.
be expinred withoTf feisv sn ranidiy U sr ibev b
tns DESTROYED by settlement or by cultivation OF
permission has bee. obtained TO explore but in a
year or two this land will be used for residential
archaeological research will be l(st '''''''''
The income at the disposal of tne trustees of the
museum is appropriated for other purposes and
they they must depend on those specially interested In
hs q m local % I W9Gk for the to garry d IL Sn FIm t}
contribution will help. This work must be done by
three Iaborers 10 do the heavy digging II must be
done carefully witL trowel and brush to remove
graphs and sketches of the objects in place must
Sites Explored As fi story @ as possible Of the
life and customs Of the Indians whose former
Instructive exhibition in the museum illustrative
of the old Indian life in New-York may be pre-
Contributions may be sent 70 j. H. Winser, as
sists4t treasurer OF the American Museum Of Nat
nam, curator OF anthropolosy.
New-York tribune., 1901-06-16

in their stocks. and the manufacturer, will be
rushed until noon the much celebrated day.
There not many novelties in the way of
pyrotechncs for the coming celebration One rea-
son is that this is considered off year by the
manufacturers owing the Presidential election
last year The skilled men in the fireworks fscto-
ries have not been entirely idle. however, and many
or the features which came for last years ex-
citing Fourth have been greatly improved One
hrm has designed a pasteboard gunhost with a
small lrecracker for its funnel The cracker Is so
placed as 10 blow the unfortunate boat bits and
thereby cause added happiness TO youthful cele-
hrators Another firm has turned out searchlight
rockets which will throw out brilliant light
when exploded in the air Another novelty Is called
the jewel FAM" which has a fire fountain in the
centre and two tubes of varousy colored stars on
either side. There the same old frecrackers
torpedoes. sky rockets. Roman candles and pin-
wheels which have delighted the popuace ever
since the glorious Fourth was made different from
other days
Very few of the green boxes in which Chinese
fireworks packed are to be seen thi, wear and
IN speaking of the falling off in use of goods
mace m IN china Park Place maker said yesterday
1T was not many years ago that PekinS China
men were revered by children all the country
because they made the delight giving tirecracker.
Now the children must thank honest laborers who
Xs the year round not thirty miles from this city.
we get very little in the fireworks line from China
11o-day' except the smaller sizes of frecrackers.
canns IDs tne only articles Of the kind which We
the heavy duty imposed by the government does
U.s. We also get what Is
known the Mandarin cracker. These come in
punches punches or strings hgying from ffty-two to nifty
thousand crackers The larger ones usually
suspended from telegraph pole and give a series
OF noisy explosions lasting five or ten minutes
AS soon as the Fourth's celebration is over the
fireworks factories will begin turn out goods for
the Christmas celebrations in the South Individual
workmen will begin experiments of various sorts
Tor the Fourth of 1892. New combinations of Ifght
powders will be studied. For several years the
manufacturers have given much attention TO safe
~ appliances for the beneht those who dscharx.
fireworks and while the chances of accident are
sreatiy Iessened there Will probably be the usual
round of accidents in connection with the celebra-