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The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-13
Overdue Ship Safe.

Victoria, B. C.. Dec. 12.-Local ship ping men have received dispatches stat ing that the lumber bark, Prince Albert. 221 days from Vancouver for Queens town, had been spoken a short distance from her destination.
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CContinued on Page Five.)
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Washington, Dec. ,l2.-The forecast for Alabama fol- lows: Rain and cclder Fri day. Saturday, fair and colder; fresh easterly winds. becoming northwesterly.
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| American bar may think as TO the lin
itation of Congressional powers and au-
! thority by the Constitution. The high
! est judicial tribunal in the land has de-
| creed in effect that American citizenship
| of right only appertains to native born
! or naturalized persons domiciled with
in the boundaries and under the juris-
I diction of one OF the constituent States
! of the Union; and that denizens of
American Territories. including the
District of Columbia, are naturally
without citizen rights of any sort and
can only acquire them by the free grace
of Congress.
If the Constitution of the United
States were construed today as it would
| be were Chief Justice Fuller and Asso-
ciate Justices Harlan, Brewer. and
Peckham a majority of the Supreme
Court, and as glorious John Marshall
would interpret it if he were alive and
again on the bench, the fact that the
fathers of the Constitution intended it
! to be supreme over and restrictive of
Congress and every other of its crea-
lures would not be in controversy. Then
the people of Porto Rico and of the
great Territories on the mainland would
be recognized as citizens of the United
States. AS it is they are not. Our
brethren of Porto Rico will have to ex-
ercise the patience that the denational-
lied populations of the District ard of
Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma. and
Alaska are called upon to exhibit, and
bide their time until the day shall come
! when the institutions established by our
Revolutionary forefathers will be re-es-
tablished, and when no branch of the
Government will dare to hold itself in
dependent of and superior to the funda
mental law from which it derives its be-
ing and IT'S authority.
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The Dird. arc ReconciIed.

After some years of hard feeling the
Eagle and the Turkey are good friends
again, and viii straightway proceed to
shake claws across the Armenian
Claims chasm, or rather the place where
it once was, because It has been filled
up by pouring into it ninety-five thou
sand good dollars.
On yesterday the State Department
received from Mr. Leishman, our Min
lister at Constantinople, a message stat
ing that the Turkish Government had
paid over to him the sum OF ninety-five
thousand dollars in full satisfaction of
our claims against it growing out OF ,he
destruction of the American missionary
college at Harpoot, injuries received by
Armenians who had been naturalized in
this country. and the murder of an
American bicyclist who was touring
Abdul Hamid's dominions for a maga-
zine.
Thus. by way of novelty. one diplo-
matte incident is closed 10 the satisfac-
ton and credit of our Foreign Office,
and we are glad Of t. The missionary
societies win believe in Mr.. Mckinley
more than ever now, and the Moslem
Star and Crescent viii be more popular
embIems in the United States than they
have been for long time.
Now that the matter has been finally
disposed of and the money is safe. we
can afford to extend our sympathy to
the Sultan, in view Of the trouble he is
likely 10 experience in consequence of
establishing such a precedent as the
payment of a foreign claim. He has
pitiIess but hitherto helpless creditors
in most if not all European money cen
tres. They viii be tempted TO assume.
and will try to convince their Govern
ments. that if the Sublime Porte can
settle for cash with the United States.
it ought 70 be made 10 do as well by
England, Germany, France, Austria.
Italy, Holland. and Belgium. 1t is per-
haps but fair to say for the amiable
sovereign who holds down the alleged
throne of the Prophet that he might
have handed out the American mission
airy money years before he did, but for
a natural fear that so unusual a pro-
ceeding might excite hopes in the
breasts of his Old World duns which it
woulG be difficult to crush However.
he has taken the risk and done, for him.
fairly well by us. Hence he is entitled
to all the thanks and praise which a
good though tardy action may be re
garded as earning. Abdul Hamid' s new
Minister 20 the United States, his Ex-
cellency Chekib Bey, win find smoother
sailing in his mission than several of his
predecessors have. as a result of his
masters action in the matter above re
ferred 10.
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The DnPIooN Cnse.

The brave young Boer, David
Stephen Du PIooy, who escaped from a
British prison camp on one of the Ber-
muda islands, and found his way to the
United States on the steamer Trinidad
as stowaway. has been released from
detention at Ellis Island in New York
Harbor through the Intervention of a
sympathetic American. and is now at
large with his feet firmly planted on the
soil of the United States, under the pro-
lection of its flag. The gentleman who
came 10 his aid promises to give him
congenial work on a Western ranch,
and we have no doubt that the poor fell
low is devoutly thankful for his deliv-
erance.
1t appears hat the British Govern
ment, up TO the time of Du Plooy's re-
lease yesterday, had made no applica-
ton for his return, and that fact left
the immigration authorities free to deal
with him as an ordinary stowaway.
Whether this happened by accident or
design does not signify. The refugee is
safe from molestation by any foreign
prince, potentate, or power, and may
proceed to become an American citizen
as fast as he cares 10. That is the i'm
portant point in the matter. His splen-
did courage and nerve deserved the sue
cess which has attended his efforts to
achieve liberty.
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.i1culation Statement.
A Hint From AIanchurin.

A PeI1in despatch yesterday threw an
interesting side light upon the status OF
affairs in Manchuria. 1t stated that the
Russians are rapidly completing their
railway line through the province, and
expect to retain fifty thousand troops
on the ground for its protection. The
important part Of the story, however, is
contained in the report that Ii Hung
Chang proposes TO withdraw all Chinese
troops from Manchuria, which means.
of course, that Russia is to be left in
complete and unchallenged occupation
and control of the country. As it is in
Tested with Chinese and Manchu Tartar
brigands. there is little room for doubt
that the ST. Petersburg Government
will find ample excuse for maintaining
a large military force, additional TO the
railway guards, for the ostensible pur-
pose of guaranteeing order. but perhaps
not without some idea of having an
army handy in case Japan should take
it into her head to cut up rough, after
the withdrawal of the German. British,
French, and other foreign cOntingents
from China.
The willy old Earl Ii has again played
into the hands Of Russia, as he has been
doing on every possible occasion for the
past fifteen years At least il looks that
way. and. if we are not mistaken. this
latest development will not be taken TO
kindly at Tokyo. Japan. although hard
" prepared for war with d first-class
Power. nevertheless is determined 10
take all the chances should the Bear put
her paw upon Seoul or Masampho. As
TO Russia, nobody need doubt her inten-
ton to make the Laoting peninsula and
Korea AIuscovite at the earliest oppor-
tunity. Unrestricted possession of
AIanchuria viii vastly promote such an
object. and when the time shall come
to try conclusions with Japan it VIII be
found that all the Russian forces need
ed for the purpose viii be conveniently
at hand. But for England's hopeless
preoccupation in South Africa, it is not
to be doubted that the absorption Of
Manchuria by Russia would excite a
storm and protest in the United King
dom which hardly any Ministry would
care to encounter. As il is, the British
people, like their governing class. un-
derstand well enough the humilating
position in which the Empire is placed.
but their hands are tied by the Beers,
and there is nothing for them to do but
grin and bear whatever comes along.
As we frequently have remarked before,
Russia appears to be the only party to
the invasion OF China which has come
out of the embroglio with profit.
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OHIO nnd the subsldy Grnb.

The Democrats of Ohio ought to win
on the subsidy issue alone. True, the
Republican platform does not say sub
sidy inrso many words, but i, means
subsidy just the same. The plank pro-
vidiug for the fostering Of our shipping
interests was undoubtedly directly in
spired by Mr.. Hanna, and if he were to
be privately asked what it means his
reply would be subsidy"
The plank is much more definite than
was the one in the last national plat
form of the Republican party, and We
all know how Mr.. Hanna interpreted
that plank. The only reputation he
ever made upon the floor of the Senate
was in advocacy of this measure, which
meant a draft upon the Treasury of not
less than one hundred and twenty
millions of dollars (and how much more
ultimately nobody knows). for the sub
sidizing of a few already wealthy COM
panies If the Republicans carry Ohio
Mr.. Hanna will point TO that plank Of
the platform in connection with his own
record as an unqualified endorsement Of
the subsidy grab.
If the measure should ever become a
law, Ohio viii be benefited about as
much as it would be by an expenditure
of an equal amount for the development
Of the beet sugar industry on the Arctic
coast of Alaska. There never was less
excuse for the advocacy of such d
measure than there is now, when with
out it the shipbuilding industry is show
ing greater vigor and growth than it
has for many years in the past. The
hundreds of thousands Of tons of ship
ping now being annually constructed
would not be built if it were not known
that the vessels can be sailed at a
profit. If these ships can be built with
out subsidies, more can. Whether the
shipping business is prosperous or not,
there is no reason why every other in
dustry in the country should be taxed
to sustain it. If the people Of Ohio do
not so decide, it can only be because
their partisan zeal is stronger than
their objection TO being plundered.
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The status Of Porto Rieans.

Readers of The Times viii have no
ticed in our morning edition of yester-
day an interesting statement by Mr..
Frederico Degetau. Commissioner Resi-
dent Of Porto Rico, presenting the Porto
Rican view of the political relations of
the island people to the Government Of
the United States. Mr.. Degetau, as win
have been noticed, is firm in his convic-
ton that the inhabitants of Porto Rico
are legally citizens Of the United States,
under the terms of the Treaty OF Paris
and the Foraker bill. He says:
Il contend now, As I contcnded in nv ad-
dresses 10 the people Of Porto Rico when / was
a candidate for the Office Of commissioner to the
United STATES that the inhabitants Of the Island
OF Porto Rico are citizens of the United States
! maintain that wc were made 50 by the Foraker
act taken in conjunction with the declarations
and stipulations Of the Treaty OF Paris
In Article IN Of the Treaty Of Paris the
United States and Spain fixed the political status
and rights Of the inhabitants Of the territories
ccded by Spain Il the United states. considering
them in two classes-the natives Of the peninsula
Of Spain and the natives Of the territories ccded
b. the hust paragraph they stipulated that the
natives Of Spain who resided in the territories
coded by spain could preserve their allegiance 10
the Crown Of Spain and fixed the form and
method Of their doing 80. They were given a
ton Of the treaty in which they could preserve
their allegiance hy making q proper declaration
Of their intention to remain subjects Of SPAIN
il was then further stipulated that in default OF
such declaration they shall DE held 10 have
r.Rounced II gthe allegiance 10 the Crown Of
Spain) and 20 have adopted the nationality OF
the territory in which they MAJ reside. In the
case Of Porto Rico, the nationality which they
adopted is the American Porto Rico having been
held By the supreme Court TO be a territory Of
the United States, az distinguished from the
nationality Of Cuba"
There can be no question that Mr.
Degetau is right In his contention that
the people OF Porto Rico are citizens Of
the United States in the same sense
that. before the meaning of the Consti-
tuition was changed by the recent de-
cision of Mr.. Justice Brown in the in
sular cases, residents Of the District of
Columbia. Arizona. New Mexico. and
Oklahoma We're citizens. As a matter
OF academic discussion we may grant
all his premises and accept all his con-
clusions. and yet for practical purposes
the matter viii rest just where il does
now. Under the Supreme Court de-
cision It matters not the value Of d
farthing what the best minds of the
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secretnr, Wilson's Kennedy.

Secretary Wilson, Of the Department
Of Agriculture. is being made the sub
feet of much not very ill-=empered sa-
tire because of his recent utterances
upon economic and industrial topics.
Not long ago the Secretary declared
that the United States would soon be
producing all the agricultural staples
that it now buys in other countries.
He is also reported as expressing the
opinion that the growth of beet sugar
in the United States viii soon kill the
Sugar Trust.
II may be true that with its great ter
ritorial area and almost infinite variety
Of soil and climate the United States
VIII ultimately raise upon its own soil
many things which it now imports; but
If this should come to pass and at the
same time our manufactures should
develop TO such a point that we could
supply all of our own wants on those
lines, ii is obvious that our import trade
would be at an end. Without stopping
10 argue whether this would or would
not be a good thing, we may just re-
mark in passing that it would not be
desirable If we set any store upon our
export trade. A Chinaman Will some
times carry a basket suspended at one
end of pole. ana balanced by stone
al the other, but international trade is
not and cannot be conducted in any
such way. The average Republican
statesman actually seems to think that
we can utterly blast and destroy the
business of other countries and at the
same time sell them more ana more
goods-a commercial inpossibllity.
But what we want to speak Of more
particularly at this time is the manner
in which Mr.. Wilson is going to have
the Sugar Trust disposed OF. The growth
OF sugar beets is what viii do it, accord
ing to his notion. The easy manner in
which a certain brand OF Republican
statecraft turns the destruction of the
trusts over to nature is one of the in
teresting features Of the political sltua-
ton. Mark Hanna does not propose
anything OF that kind. He asserts
broadly that the trusts are good for the
country and ought not to be either de-
stroyed or curbed. But those who are
lacking in the courage that character
ICES MIR. Hanna. or who, perhaps. have
not the direct personal interest in the
trusts that he has. while admitting that
the trusts are evils, almost invariably
seek some excuse for not attempting 10
hold them in check They are either
afraid that the small producers and
wage-earners Will get hurt, or they are
very confident that in some way nature
viii furnish remedy.
Some claim that the trusts viii in the
end fan Of their own weight. while Mr.
Wilson, speaking with reference to the
Sugar Trust. sees salvation for the peo-
pie in the development OF the sugar beet
industry. Whether he really means it,
or Is on!y stacking the cards for a sugar
bounty. Of course we Ga not pretend to
know. But we do know that the Sugar
TFust already has practical monopoly
OF the beet sugar produced. through the
ownership u the mills in which il is
manufactured. IN truth, the larger the
sugar beet industry becomes the bigger
viii be the trust. Nature is d powerful
scent IN many ways. but thus far the
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trusts have been able to promote their
own interests by giving an oblique turn
to natures laws.
To give the trusts every unfair artifi-
cial advantage and then leave them to
be regulated by unaided nature may be,
and doubtless is, good Republican poll
tics, but it is mighty poor political
economy To leave the trusts to the
regulation of nature is simply to give
them full swing, and refuse 10 employ
the intelligence with which nature has
endowed US. Upon the same principle
a community infested with brigands
should make no attempt to crush them.
but should leave them undisturbed in
the prosecution of their pious work
upon the theory that nature will apply
a remedy without human aid.
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sickIes vs.. Evans.

To THE EDITOR OF THE TINES: y n ?
per cent of the privates in both military
and civil life being readers Of The Times.
ask space to resent the assumption OF
General SickIes in assuming The guardian
ship over the legitimate military private.
When I say legitimate, 1 refer to the man
who enlisted in 1851. 1862. or 1868 without
bounty or other pecuniary inducement.
The writer having made a canvass of an
even hundred legitimate privates not one
of whom is in the Government service.
fails TO find one solitary man who uphOlds
General Sickles in his assumption of guar
dianship on the pension question. The
schemes of Napoleon III and his English
ally undoubtedly contemplated Anglo
French Intervention ils 1855, claiming our
inability to crush the rebellion. To dem
onstrate the falsity of this claim, Presi-
dent Lincoln at once called for 10000 men
for ninety days. These men received from
500 to 1900 bounty, and but fraction
of them ever crossed the Potomac River.
Add to this III. 600 deserters who were. af-
ter the war replaced upon the rolls. then
add 5000 bounty paid recruits enlisted
during the winter of 1S64-65, and we have
4G2, 000 men who We're all clamoring for
pensions from the date of their muster
out until June p. 1890. Up TO that date
no man was eligible to n pension unless
he could show that alleged disability had
its origin in the service. and that was
hard TO show while in State camps eating
pie and pudding.
Under the political legislation of June
p, 1880. any man who served ninety days
and could show physical inc8pacity (irom
any ciuse) became eligible to q pension
of from s. to Sl2 per month: and they are
the men whose claims are being held up
today. They are the men who are com
planning. They are the men VINO seek
General SiclSles' guardianship and are de-
ceiVing him under the name of the Grand
Army of the Republic. Why is it th1t
the wei known eN-sOldiers' organization.
where two years Of actual service constj-
tutes the requisite qualification for mem
bership. are ne- complaining? No; the r.
gtttmate eX-soidier OF 1851 1852 and 1858
IS not complaining. He can obtain and
is obtaining all that is due him and with-
out delay. Another dependent pension
bill. with another experience of 1873 and
the taxpayer will demand a decrease in
expenses and when that time comes It
viii be "a Bill Morrison cut and the legiu-
mate eX-soldier of 1851 lS52, and ls63 viii
he the greatest sufferer.
Keep Evans where he IS
VETERAN OF 81
WASHINGTON. July 10 1901
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A FEW MORE YEARS.

There was something very pathetic in
a statement made by the late Governor
Pingree in his last moments of conscious
ness after he was Informed that his re-
covery was impossible. He said that he
was willing to sign a contract with the
Almighty" to pass away quietly at the
end of two years if his life and faculties
could be preserved for that time. II have
so much to do. he said. II was reported
that the late Senator G. K. Davis made a
similar remark on his death bed. He de-
clared that if he could have five years
more of life he would offer solution of
all foreign questions which he believed
would be final, especially the insular ques-
TONS Chicago Chronicle
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GENERAL wooDFoRD's ERROR.

One of the strange revelations of the
Spanish war despatches-which, by the
way. the Administration press continues
to be in mortal terror OF publishing-is the
official view that was held by our Gov
ernment respecting the number of the
Cubans who had perished during the
course of the insurrection. 1t was gravely
maintained that 500 600 lives had been lost.
General Woodford, for example, made
the statement in Spain that. when the war
in Cuba broke out there was a population
of about 1.600000- To-day, from the
best information I have been able to get,
there are not 1,00Q0G0 living souls on the
island" The sufficient comment on this
is made by the census of Cuba taken by
the United States. Minister WoOdfOrd
today was March 9, 1895. On October 10,
1899 Colonel Sanger certified that the total
population of Cuba was 1,5I2, 79I.-New
York Evening Post.
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Representatives of the Morgan steel
combination and of the Amalgamated As
sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
will meet in Pittsburg this morning ard
endeavor to reach an agreement satisfac
tory to both sides. and so avert the threat
ened colossal strike of steel and tin work
ingmen. Both parties appear anxious for
peace, and it is probable that in such cir
cumstances they will be able to effect it.
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a DEADLY OCTOPUS.

\ company formed for the purpose of
acquiring, owning, constructing. and op-
Grating in all harbors. canals. and ship
railways and having the right 10 op-
crate in any and all and every part Of the
canals and ship railways of Tehuantepec.
Honduras. Nicaragua Chirriqui. Panama.
Nendinso, Darien. Atrdto Truando. Nen-
points within the boundaries of the coun-
tries named has been Incorporated in
New Jersey.
And its capital stock is ou-y S2000.-Bos-
ton Globe
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THE AMERICAN TITLE.

Somebody has suggested that Ameri-
cans ought to have titles, as people do
in countries where there are orders OF mo-
hility He has evidently not been a close
observer of our customs. An American
be known as Hon bv merely ruu-
ming Tor justice OK the peace hicdgo
Kccord-Heraid.
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UNUSUAL.

The White Ribboners are at it again.
ana have decided that If barrels of ice
water are placed on the army posts It Will
not be necessary Tor the troops To go to
the environing villages and buy whisky
1t never was necessary. People do not
do what is necessary They do what is
usual And an oycrweeuiug fuRdncss of
soldiers for ice water is unusual.-Brooil-
lvn Eagle
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In nnrI,crt Nc,r Jer,er.
(Fra.s dc piffsbur- DisDatrhl

IFTa.9 tT1 IITIsIUT- UIs0dII1-I
Bridsetop- y j.. June si.-Ails- earl W. New
combe. 5i Cetarvil-. received letter today from
1irs. Stecman. who with her family were sup
posed 20 have been drowned in Delaware Bay on
sunday. june lj The letter stated that they
had been vashel ashore between Port Penn and
Woodland Bcacls with no house in sight and Moth
ins 90 eat The letter was mailed hy man
they met on the beach. She said she wrote the
note and peg It in the bottle aeyer expecting
10 - >lurl aEain.
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Unpleasant reports again are coming
from China. 1t is persistenty reported at
Pekin and Tientsin that a large force Of
Allied Villagers" under which name the
Boxers now masquerade. has fought and
defeated an equal body Of Chinese regu-
lars south of Paoting-fu, and that the
revolutionary spirit is spreading rapidly
and dangerously throughout he provinces
of Chilli and Shansi Should these stories
be corroborated, it would appear certain
that another anti-forcigu outbreak must
occur after the withdrawal of the foreign
forces. The Chinese are represented as
elated over the prospect that the Western
soldiers with whom they know they can
not cope, will soon be gone. and do not
hesitate to boast of what they expect to
do afterward. 1t is seriously to be feared
that the Chinese question, far from being
near solution, is only entering upon it's
first stages