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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-13
Fourteen Men Missing.

Halifax, N. S., Aug. 12-The captain
and part of the crew of the 1000
brigatine Priscilla have landed at
Cape Sable, reporting that the vessel
struck a ledge off Darlington last
night. A boat containing IA men is
missing. The Priscilla was bound
from England for New York with a
cargo of chalk.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-13
Goes to Navy Yard.

Washington, Aug. 12-Rear Admiral
Mortimer T. johnson, commandant OF
the Port Royal navy station. has been
selected to succeed Rear Admiral
Sampson as commandant Of the Bos'
ton navy yard on account of the lat
ters' iI-health.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-13
Canadian Yacht a Hummer.

Chicago, Aug. 12-In light weather
run, a long reach out and back, the
Canadian Invader today won the sec
ond of the races for the Canadian cup.
She had Cadillic beaten at every point
Of the compass and rounded the home
buoy at 2:Os p. M, six minutes ahead
OF the Michigan yacht.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-13
Treasury Balances.

Washington, Aug. 12-Today's state
ment of the treasury balances in the
general fund, exclusive of the gold
reserve, shows: Available cash bel
ance $175,71S.452; gold $103,411,S26.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-13
Left Today.

Willemstad, Curaco, Aug. 12-The
Colombian legation left Caracas to-
day.
The Washington times., 1901-11-15

portation, while he has been compelled
to pay high tariff prices for the most OF
the things he has had to buy. great
er injustice could scarcely be conceived
On the other hand. in a large portion
of Europe there is a deficiency of food
and textile farm products. BY inn
posing a general tariff on all classes OF
goods. the home markets there are pre-
served for the home producers, both on
agricultural and manufacturing lines,
while the manufacturers still have an
equal chance with their competitors in
all neutral markets. If Germany is bent
on a high tariff policy, the agrarians
have done well to see to ii that their
interests are to be fully safeguarded, so
far as such a policy can do it.
Again, the American protectionists
are strong in their condemnation of the
European policy of encouraging the
sugar beet industry by bounties. The
Chicago Inter Ocean, an uncompro-
missing Republican paper, refers to it
as an aggressive policy" SO it is, but
it is not more aggressive than our own
commercial policy, and while the results
of sugar tounties have been unfavor-
able in some respects such a method of
The Washington times., 1901-11-15
THE PHILIPPINE SCOUTS.
General Chaffee's Order Issued Re-
garding the Organization.

General Chanee has lately issued an
order concerning the organization OF the
Philippine Scouts for the remainder OF
the fiscal year ending June 80. 1852, 10
which date the provisions of the army
act passed by Congress last winter, as
we'll as the appropriation act for the
current year, are applicable on this
point
provides that all the natives of the Phil
lipine Islands who are employed in the
military service and are known generally
as native scouts" are to be reorganizea
into companies similar to the present OIL
ganization of a company of infsH,Ey.
These companies will have a strength oe
104 men, including 81 privates and @ nom
commissioned officers, musicians. etc.
Care is enjoined upon officers employed
in the reorganization so that only phys
icauy sound men be retained in the ser
vice.
One or two commissioned officers VIII
be assigned to each company. These Of
ficers will be preferably first and second
lieutenants of Philippine scouts, but when
necessary first and second lieutenants OF
the Regular Army will be assigned to
that duty The companies will be num-
bered regularly from one to fifty, and
when practicable will be designated by
the provincial name of the scouts forming
the company. The native scouts Will be
armed with Springfield rifles and supplied
with limited amount Of black powder
ammunition. The arming of the scouts
will be gradual and by selected compa
nies in departments. beginning with the
Department of Northern Luzon.
The Washington times., 1901-11-15
The New CnnaI Trenty.

Word comes from the State Depart
ment that the new canal treaty with
Great Britain is so far advanced that
the negotiatOrs are likely to sign it on
behalf of the two high contracting
parties not later than next week. 1t is
said that if any changes are made, they
will be merely textual the views of the
two Governments being fully in accord
on the general proposition and its de-
tails.
We hope that the publication of the
second Hay-Pauncefote Treaty may not
infict any surprise or disappointment
such as the first one brought to the
country. MIR. Hay has been longer
home from England than he then was.
1t is certain that he more clearly under
stands American sentiment concerning
= the former British contention In con-
nection with the Clayton-Bulwer con-
vention. Probably it is also true that
King Edward Government realizes the
depth and equity OF American popular
opinion on the subject, and the desir-
ability of respecting it. We trust so. 1t
would be easy to establish an entente
between England and the United States
which would be of particular value and
Importance to the former, In respect OF
the current conditions and circum-
stances of world politics. But we do not
venture to be too sanguine. only hoping
for the best, and no embarrassing COM
plications.
1t has been our duty to criticise the
Of I,a TahY 10 h.z
of the State Department in relation TO
some matters. Perhaps 1t is due to him
to think that domestic political cOnsid-
erations have made him appear less ag-
gressively American in certain respects
and relatively TO certain negotiations
than he would have liked to show him
self. The proposed Hay -Pauncefote
Treaty which the Senate failed TO ratify
was a mistake from the viewpoint OF
rational aspirations and demands. and
the less said about the Hay-Tower
modus vivendi the better Nevertheless
We heartily sympathize with Secretary
Hays well-known desire to identify
himself in history with the international
agreement which all patriotic Ameri-
cans hope Will clear the way for the
great work of the Nicaragua Canal. If
his negotiations with the British Gov
ernment are about to accomplish that
worthily and to the good and glory of
his country, we shall not hesitate
promptly and sincerely to congratulate
him upon the fact, and to praise him
and his colaborers for their several
shares in bringing the matter TO dig
nified and satisfactory conclusion.
The Washington times., 1901-11-15
High Protection Philosophy

1t is hard to find parallel for the in
consistency of the extreme American
protectiopists. a few years ago, before
our industries had reached their pres
ent stage OF development, one Of the
great protection arguments was that
with the exception Of England all the
great European nations had adopted
that policy. True, what was called pro-
lection in Germany or France would
have been regarded as practical free
trade in America, but that made no
difference; It served as an argument
to prove that protection was a policy
at once sound and beneficial Now,
when It is proposed to raise European
tariffs TO an actual protective point. the
champions Of the policy here are indig
nant in their protests, and voluble In
argument to prove that such action
by other countries is the most absurd
kind OF statecraft. Germany raises her
tariff schedules, and every shouter for
Dingleyism sees in her action the ruin
of the German people through the rise
Of prices which viii follow. Austria
proposes concerted action by European
countries, and it is at once declared
that any discrimination against Ameri-
ca would be an unfriendly act almost
justifying us in declaring war. 1t is
really remarkable that the ethics and
the logic of the tariff question should
be SO different on opposite sides of the
Atlantic.
The objections which Republican
leaders and journals are now urging to
the proposed European reprisals simply
prove that the entire policy of high pro-
lection is primarily and intrinsically
unsound. II could never have had even
the measure of success which has at
tended It here but for the circumstance
that other countries continued TO deal
with us upon what was essentially a
free trade basis; and in any case the re-
suit is and must be the enrichment of
certain classes at the expense of others
In this respect the equality has been
greater in the United States than 1t is
likely 20 be IN Europe. Here we have
an enormous excess of agricultural prod
ucts. Consequently tariff upon those
must be sold abroad and at the world s
price level The price of the surplus
determines the price In the home mar
ket Therefore the American farmer
has been selling his exportable products
ut foreign prices, less the cost OF trans
The Washington times., 1901-11-15
Is Ii Just?
(Fgom the New York World.)

(From the New York World.)
When the war with Spain made more
revenue necessary internal taxes were
again voted. Last year, when the sur
plus became troublesome, part OF these
taxes was repealed. And now 1t is pro-
posed by the Republican leaders still fur
ther to reduce the taxes on whisky, beer,
and tobacco-vices or indulgences which
all civilized Governments make the basis
Of their revenue-and to leave untouched
the worse than war taxes on the neces-
saries of tine people, their food fuel, cloth
ing, and shelter, taxes, too which pro-
mote monopolies and permit their bene-
ficaries to sell cheaper in foreign mar
kets than 20 home consumers This would
be better than to continue taxation for a
surplus or for extravaganza. But is ii
just? is it statesmaplike? Is it safe in
a country where, after ALL the people
rule2
The Washington times., 1901-11-15
A GYPSUM TRUST PLANNED
Companies in the United states
Form Corporation

CHICAGO. Nov. Accompanies in
business of mining gypsum in the Uni
States are to be merged into a trust
the result of series OF conferences he.
at the Auditorium Hotel. Chicago n q.
are 10 be at the head of the new con-
Germ, which is to be known as the United
States Gypsum Company.
Papers of incorporation are to be ned
at Springfield within the next few da,
The trust is to be capitalized at 100000.
and the majority of the thirty-four gyp-
sum companies have already fallen into
line with the plans Of the promoters J.
is understood the outside capital Is to
be contributed by John W. Gates and
John Lambert.
The organizers of the trust give as the
primary cause of the consolidation the
competition which the plaster companies
of Canada are making in the UAiteo
States. A meeting of the advisory board
OF directors will be held in Chicago mex
Tuesday and officers will be elected. \
call TO that effect was received today
by the various companies.
The Washington times., 1901-11-15

forcing an industry is really less objec-
When bounty is paid directly to the
producer, it applies merely to the home
product, and does not affect the price
either of that or of the imported article.
But when a tariff is imposed, it applies
directly to the imported article raising
its price, and enabling the home pro-
ducer to charge the same
But the objections to the policy do not
stop here. The special interests of the
protected classes have been allowed
completely to subvert true American
principles in our new possessions, and
1t is even now standing in the way of
legitimate national expansion. There
has never been an argument made
against treating the Philippines as an
integral part of the United States that
does not rest upon the Fundamental
idea of excluding Philippine products
from competition with those of the con-
tinental portion of our domain. The
same consideration will be invoked
against reciprocity with Cuba, and ulti-
mately against the annexation of the
island. A few thousand sugar plant
ers in Louisiana will bring all their
( power Of resistance to bear against the
annexation of any more sugar produc-
ing territory, which, If it can be made
to succeed, VIII effectually bar our
progress to the South. The sugar beet
growers and many of the tobacco plant
ers may take the same position.
The whole high tariff policy is thor
oughly selfish and hidebound. As a
rule, its direct beneficiaries would sacri-
flee the highest grandeur of the nation
upon the altar of their own individual
or corporate interests. Here we have a
further exemplification of the inconsist-
ency-or the dishonesty, perhaps-of the
basic tariff argument. That has always
been that we must make the country
self supporting on all OF the more inn
portant lines, so as to be independent of
other nations. But the moment it is
proposed to annex new territory, the
protected interests take alarm and
oppose 1t upon the ground that it pro-
duces something which VIII compete
with what they produce. If that argu-
ment is TO prevail, we haze reached the
end of our territorial growth. and in
some important particulars the country
can never be entirely seif-sustaining
and independent.
1t is not to be expected that a policy
which is designed to advance special in
terests at the expense of all others Will
be sustained by reasonable and consist
ent augmentation, but 1t is a little
surprising that there are so many APP
parently intelligent people suffering
from the policy who are unable to de-
tect the sophistry and vice Of the phi
losophy upon which ii rests.
The Washington times., 1901-11-15
NO CIVIL TRIAL FOR CARTER.
Marion Erwin Intimates Review of
Case to BE ImpossIbIe

Marion Erwin. special assistant to the
Attorney General, has returned from Chi
cago, where he brought about last week
some new developments in the civil pro-
ceedings against ex-Capt. o. NJ. Carter.
Mr.. Erwin is here to assist in the pres
entation of the Governments side of the
habeas corpus appeal in the Green-Gay-
nor removal case, which will come up for
argument In day or two before the Uni
ted States Supreme Court. This case In
wolves the recovery of funds which, II is
charged. were fraudently converted by
cx-Captain Carter, while in charge OF rfv-
er and harbor improvements in Georgia
THE statement sent out from Chicago a
few days ago to the effect that Carter was
to have a new trial and a chance of
yindication in the civil courts said Mr..
Erwin. because he had voluntarily
agreed to surrender to the receiver in the
Governments suit the s70O,00o of invest
ments. into which the Government claims
the funds entrusted to Carter had been
fraudently diverted, is absurd No agree
ment of counsel said Mr.. Erwin, could
set aside the verdict of a court-martial,
after review and approval by the Presi-
dent of the United States.
The Government has traced and tied
up in the hands of receivers, on bills filed
in Georgia. West Virginia, New Jersey.
and New York, about $4,000 OF the in
vestments, consisting mainly of unregis-
tered railroad securities. into which Car
ter had diverted the funds entrusted to
him as disbursiug officer. None Of this. "
Mr.. Erwin said. has been voluntarily
surrendered"
Referring to the alleged agreement with
Carter, Mr.. Erwin said:
There is absolutely no agreement to
bring Carter out of the penitentiary or to
give him new trial or any other chance
OF Vindication than what he already pos
seSseS. OF course. as a matter of law he
has the right to claim the property in con-
troverSy IS his own and to defend the
claim, and incidentally to try to disprove
the charge that the property was obtained
by defrauding the Government, but the
proof of the fraud is a burden which the
Government cheerfully assumed in this
case, when it filed these suits, and the &C.
suits so far have not been dispiriting.
1t has borne that burden successfully
twice already-once in the court-martial
and once in the removal proceedings
against the contractors in New York.
The recent recovery of the diverted
funds in the actual possession of his reia-
does not appear, at least to one on the
opposing side of the controversy, to pre-
sent for him any marked improvement in
the situation. We know that large part
of the funds diverted have been already
diSsipated, and the object of the Govern
ment has been to get possession of the
remaining assets as rapidly as possible.
The Washington times., 1901-11-15
Hurrying to the Front.
(From the Indianapolis Newsl

IFTOu INt IIIuIdHaVVIIs NeWs.I
The friends of protection for The sake
of protection are gallantly rallying to the
support of the Dingley tariff. Mr.. Payne
of New York, Mr.. Steele of Indiana, and
Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio are convinced
that there should be no tariff tinkering'
They are doing their best to convince the
President of the unwisdom of modifying
system which imposes heavy burdens
and grievous to be borne on the Ameri-
can people and which takes from their
pockets every year millions OF dollars
which the Government does not need And
then the Secretary of the Treasury is
forced to go into the market every once
in a while and buy bonds at premium
in order to keep the money in circulation
money which should never have been
taken from circulation.
The Washington times., 1901-11-15
Cardinals Hat Costly.
fFron lid Bits.l

The red hat of a Cardinal costs him
more money than Kings pay for any eX-
cept their very best crowns. Before ac-
cepting it the grateful prelate must make
offerings to the Propaganda and to his
titular church at Rome, and pay fees to
a long list of officials, ranging from
cheniberlains of the Vatican down to
cooks and sweepers and the soldiers OF
the Swiss Guard. Indeed the new Cardf-
nal has 10 pay fees at every step from the
moment of his creation to the occasion
of his receiving the red hat in public con-
sistory, and when all is over and done
finds himself out of pocket 10 the extent
of $500 pounds at least.
The Washington times., 1901-11-15
The MAKING of Newspnperr.

The November Atlantic contains an
article by Charles E Grinnell, which
some Of its readers should peruse with
earnest If not prayerful attention. 1t
affords information on the making of
newspapers, and a few paragraphs are
devoted to that part of the public which
habitually. and without very much re-
Election or reason, criticises the press.
The remarks of Mr.. Grinnell on this
subject are causuc and appropriate.
Here are some Of them:
The average critic Of the newspapers doos
not own stock in any newspaper, aud does not
know the cost Of getting the news. The chances
that he has consciously met a reporter.
Yet most OF what he knows from reading out
side Of his own business or profesSiont has been
taught him by the newspapers. They show him
every day that the world 10 not what he want.
it 10 be, and it is hard for him to learn their
lessons, and especially hard TO make allow ances
for their faults. He may be lazy-thcy are in
dustrious for him; he may be stupid-t.ey are
intelligent for him; he may he timid-they a:e
bold for him; yet he damns the newspapers.
When reporter. working day and night, throws
the ardOr Of youth or the pity Of age into tragic
scenes from court where everyone with q heart
in teaTs. he damns the newspapers. When
an editorial-whch he hunts for before break
fast in order TO know what TO think immedi-
haustive, he damns the newspapers. His espe-
cial condemnation is bestowed upon what he
calls the vulgar publicity Of the newspapers.
when he reads enouS.i papers, or extends his
reading beyond his newspapers and his business,
or. better still tries TO prevent some injustice,
he may learn that vulgar publicity Is often a
safeguard Of Justice. Good taste and the modest
reserve of private life TOO often tempt the critic
to shrink from open fight with oppression.
One Of the arts Of the leading criminals among
politicians is to scare of tie private citizen by
warning him that evil communications corrupt
good manners. But public spirit is much more
robust and efficient when coupled with a familiar
knowledge Of the vulgar world"
Again. he says:
~ pet fancy Of the average critir of news
papers is that they have TO resort to horrors TO
hl up their columns; but a great newspaper Is
constantly cutting down its material and small
one- are constantly declining communications
The test OF space is, How much does
the majority wsntg The tests Of what shall be
told, and how plainly IL shall be put are the
standards commonly observed as 10 what can be
said aloud to roomful OF grown persons who
really wish 10 know what has happened" +"
This is good common sense, and 1t is
10 be hoped that the person who is in
the habit OF saying, with an air Of care
less superiority, "oh, you can't believe
anything you see In the newspapers'
win read and reflect upon 1t. The plain
fact OF the case is that as a rule such
people are not only careless but ignor-
The Washington times., 1901-11-15
HIS Own Messnre.
CFrom the Chicago Tribune.) }

ttTOm The Chicago TTibune,)
Undoubtedly the President desires to
acquaint himself thoroughly with the
Views of prominent Republican Senators
and Representatives concerning questions
which are likely to be considered by Con-
gress. II is to be expected that his views
as to what it will be advisable for him
to say in his message-a state paper
which the public is waiting for with
much interest-wll be affected somewhat
by these interviews with men who are
to take an active part in the work of
legislation. But the President is not so
easily conyertcu to the opinions Of others
as some of the correspondents assume
h is
The Washington times., 1901-11-15

he then puts his version of the affair
| into few lines of type. He is careful
| to tell the truth, as nearly as he can,
| because he knows that there VIII be
trouble if anything willfully incorrect
appesrs in the paper. However. he has
| to use his own Judgment about the
| trustworthiness of the sources of ilis in
formation, and being human. he cannot
always judge With g osolute correctness
Sometimes one or another of the per
sons most concerned lies about 1t. or
forgets what he on she has said. Any
body who has ever lived in gossip
ing neighborhpod knows into what
snarl a perfectly plain statement can
get after two or three well-meanine
and opinionated persons have tried
their hands at 1t. The difference be-
tween neighborhood gossip and news
paper report Is that the reporter puts
a moose around his neck by writing
down his version TO be printed, and is
consequently much more careful than
the irresponsible person who circuiates
story by word of mouth. The pub
licity of the newspaper which can be
called to account is certainly less like
ly to be mischievous than the publicity
of bar-room gossips and sewing socie-
ties. But it is in these very information
bureaus that the newspapers are most
zealously criticised.
1t may be said AS conclusion of the
whole matter that newspaper is made
up of two elements-the news and pub
lie opinion. 1t must print, to certain
extent what its readers want to know,
because that is its business. If small
minority of them are interested In some
particular subject some news on that
subject will be printed; If the majority
are interested in another matter, space
will be given to that; but the paper
must be, and is, largely taken up with
things which everybody wants to know.
1t is not possible to crowd out any of
these in order to please minority; 1t is
not fair to the subscribers to do SO.
While every great newspaper is, in
measure, the creation of some few men
who put into it their brains, hearts, and
souls, they have no more right to exploit
their own views in its columns to the
injury of the subscribers than they
would have to disappoint the public in
any other business matter. The fact
that the influence of the newspapers Is
probably greater now than during any
other year in their history proves that,
in the main, this form of distributing
information is satisfactory to the peo-
pie. and that the very persons who criu-
else the way in which the newspaper IS
conducted would be helpless if it were
conducted on any other basis. AS it is,
they get a great deal of information
even if some of it does not suit them;
if it were not for the newspapers they
would get practically none.