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The times., 1901-06-12
DEFECTS MERELY LOCAL.
Successful Tests of Armor Plate at
the Indian Head Grounds.

Another test was had yesterday OF
6-inch Krupp armor plate for the battle
shin Maine, which failed to withstand
the initial test last month. The result
was quite as surprising as that OF the
first test, for while the first was a failure
the second with a supposedly defective
plate for a target. proved wonderfully
successful Yesterdays test Indicated
that the defect in the plate developed
last month was local and did not extend
TO the other plates OF. the group OF Soo
tons of armor which it represented.
There is now good chance for the
Bethiehem Steel Company, which made
the armor, to receive, instead Of loss the
contract price of more than $4,000
The test was made at the Indian Head
proving grounds. In the first test two
shots de- eloped a crack and made a
bulge in the back of the armor. Three
shots were fired yesterday at the un-
injured portion, but no cracks were de-
veIoped At yelocities Of 2,0l6 feet a sec
ond. .s95 feet, and 1,760 feet the penetra-
tions were 81, 21z, and ia inches, re
spectively.
The Bethlehem Company viii furnish
another plate for test to show that the
defect in the first plate was merely local.
Should this prove successful the group Of
armor will probably be accepted.
The times., 1901-06-12

Some of these founders of the Repuohc
were less radical than others, but there
was among them a considerable con
tingent of disciples of that philosophy
which. in the eighteenth century, rea-
soned out the rights of man as existing
against any possible authority of priest
or king. They were the radicals, the
dreamers, of their day. More OF tnelf
dreams have come true than was an
ticipated, perhaps, by their contempo-
raries: but the work is not all done, and
it may be finished in a way not yet
planned. There is only one way in which
it can be finished, however, broadly
speaking: ard that is through the 10y
atty of the people of this country to
their fatherland and their flag. What
ever mistakes may drag the colors into
places where they were never meant to
be, however greed may degrade them
or commercialism barter their glory for
that which is not bread, the ideal flag
stin remains unsullied, unsold, un-
touched by time. 1t stands for justice,
truth, loyalty. progress, the realization
of all that is best in mans instincts;
and it is the business Of every good
American to see that so far as he can
effect such a result the flag shall never
float over anything unworthy of its pro-
lection.
The times., 1901-06-12
THE PRODUCTION OF COAL.
This Country breaks All Records
and Leads the World Still.

The returns just completed by the Geo
logical Survey show that all records were
broken in the production of coal in the
United States in 1900, and the United
States still leads the coal-producing coun-
tries of the world. The total output OF
coal in 1900 was 267 $4,000 short tons. an
increase over the preceding year OF 49,
100000 tons, or a little over 3 per cent
The value Of this product was 1921, ,920 600,
an increase over 1893 of 81. .S45 900. or about
I6 per cent. The value of the coal product
in 1900 (the value being free on board
cars at the mines) was equal to nearly
third of the value of the total mineral
products of the United States in 1899.
There were only three States whose coal
product in 1900 was less than that Of
1899. These were Maryland, oregon. and
Idaho The last is insignificant, having
an output of only twenty tons in 1899. with
no reported product IN 1900. Owing to a
strike which occurred in the anthracite
region of Pennsylvania, in the fail Of 1900,
the production of anthracite coal de-
creased about 100000 long tons, the prod
uct in 1900 being 509SS,9S2 long tons,
against 80, ,944.6f7 long tons in 1899. This
decrease was more than made up for by
an increase of nearly $4,000 short tons
(about 10000 long tons) in the output OF
bituminous coal in the State.
The largest increase in tonnage was
made in West Virginia. that State exceed
ing for the first time a total of 2OO09OE
tons. The next largest gain was In Ohio
where 2,605, ,1SS short tons was added to
the proouct of the previous year Inc
net gain in Pennsylvania amounted tC
2,i5o, 600 short tons. Alabama is credited
with gain of 10000 tons, or about IL per
cent.
The most notable comparative gains
were made in Arkansas, the Indian Ter
ritory, Michigan, and Utah In 1896 Michl-
| gan produced less than 10000 tons, and
| the production of that State had not aver
| aged 5000 tons per year up to that time
Since then, however. the Michigan fields
| have been actively developed, and produc-
tion has increased rapidly until it reached
| a total of $50 900 tons in 1870. gain OF
| about 80 per cent over 1899, which In
| turn was nearly double that of 1898.
Prior to 1893 Great Britain was the
| leading coal producing country OF tht
| world, but in that year the United States
| took first place. The production Of Grea
! Britain in 1900 amounted to %, 0,163 Ions
| tons, OF 252, 19O575 short tons, compareC
| with which the United States has a leac
| of 10. 800, 900 short tons. or just double tina
! of the preceding year.
The times., 1901-06-12
THE SOUTH OF TODAY,
Capabilities of the Country Told ut
the Industrial Convention.

PHILADELPHIA. June u.-Delegates to
the Southern Industrial Convention which
opened here today and will continue until
Saturday, were welcomed by Governor
Stone Of Pennsylvania, Mayor Ashbridge
of Philadelphia and representatives of va
rious trade bodies Mayor Ashbridge said
the Liberty Bell would be sent to the
Charleston S. c., Exposition.
II. II. Hargrove, President of the South
ern Industrial Association, responding,
said the South's capacity to produce raw
material was almost beyond measure
ment. He continued:
ITO achieve the fullest wealth which
the Southern States are capable OF pro-
ducing l estimate that within five years
there will be needed five million additional
population and $500 900, 600 additional cap
ital for manufacturing. mineral, agricul-
tural, and forest development and railroad
building. We have everything except ad-
equate population and finance to forge us
ahead of the rest of the world. Our finan-
cial prosperity means the enhancement
of all other parts of the United States and
hence we solicit the idle capital of the
| Northeastern States to join hands with
the United States in reaping great har-
| vest Of wealth.
In the course of an address on Popular
| Education, the Power of Industrial Prog
| ress," Robert c. ogden, President of the
! Southern Educational Conference, said:
| Intelligence has a cost value, and the
intimate relation between business and
| education places the question of universal
| Southern education within the power of
| Southern business men. Keep politics out
| of educational matters. Do not condemn
advanced educational thinkers"
| Hoke Smith spoke at the evening meet
! ing on THE Resources of the South. -
| He said that it was conceded by all that
| the Eastern and Middle States were ahead
| of the South in material development.
| The cause was due to the loss of over
| forty years by the South during the past
| century from three causes-slavery, war
| and reconstruction. He did not believe
| the destiny of the South lay in manufac-
| turing cotton cloth in competition with
New England. He is opposed TO strug-
! giles between different parts of the coun-
! try.
The challenge of the South was to the
world that she would manufacture her
own cotton cloth and ship it to all parts
of the world. He spoke OF the South
| capacity to produce pig iron. quoting Car
| roll d. Wright to show that there is ar
advantage IN IaVQr OF tne SOuth III lH'
| manufacture of iron Of 50 a ton. STANDING
timber of the South, he said, is about
equal in value to that of the balance o
the Union. Twenty years ago furniture
of Southern manufacture was crude. To
day it is shipped all over the country.
The supply of coal of the South, h
said, is without limit, and water facilitie.
for shipping are unsurpassed in the world
! The South of today offers to capitalist
the greatest field for investment
The times., 1901-06-12
THE PACIFIC FRUIT TRADE.
Mr.. NaftzGcr Had No Grievance to
Tell the Commission.

A H. Naftzger. President and General
Manager of the Southern Fruit Exchange,
of Los Angeles. Cal, was a witness be-
fore the Industrial Commission yesterday
morning From the trend of Mr. Naftz-
gers testimony and the somewhat dazed
attitude of the Commission, the question
arose as to why Mr.. NaftZger had been
called from San Francisco to testify He
did not appear before the Commission
with a grievance. According to his state
ments trade conditions on the Pacific
Coast had never been better
The Southern Fruit Exchange, Mr..
Naftzger said. controlled 80 per cent of
the citrus fruit trade of the United States.
and exported large quantities of canned
and dried fruits to European and Asiatic
markets. The fruit growers composing
the exchange had been able to effect
large economies since their organization
by avoiding commission houses, obviating
middlemen, and selling, through salaried
agents. directly to wholesalers and job
bers.
The exchange, Mr.. Naftzger said. had
no agreements with the railroads in re-
gard TO freight charges, ard wanted none.
He thought Determinations by railroads
in behalf of favored shippers Were not
conducive TO a healthy condition OF trade.
The Southern Fruit Exchange, the wit
ness explained, was not trust, and made
no effort to control prices or 10 stifle CON-
petition Its sole advantage lay in that
through its system Of economies. the
] growers were able to obtain better prices
| than had been possible in the demOraliZed
| condition of the business prior to theiI
| consolidation.
The times., 1901-06-12
Dcpew md Grosvenor.

It was most appropriate from any
standpoint other than Mr.. Mckinney
that Mr.. Depew, the joey Bagstock OF
the Senate. and Mr.. Charles H. Gros-
yenor. the Simon Tappertit of the
House, should have conceived and
launched the third term scheme just at
this time. Foolish as they are at all
times of the year, the silly season af-
fords these statesmen unusual oppor-
tunities for the display Of that hatulent
imbeciIity which is so characteristic OF
them.
Depew we take to be the greatest
nuisance ever known in American poll
ties. In comparison with him the Pet
tigrews. the Watsons, the Tillmans, the
Parkhursts. and the Roosevelts Of our
own day sink into insignificance. Not
for a single day does he let the news
papers alone. and there is no subject
from trade depression in England to
the last spat between Vanderbilt babies
upon which he has not an opinion
ready TO hand at the service Of the
first reporter who answers his telephonic
call. No man OF woman Of any promi-
nence can escape his cloying friend
ship. and no enterprise Of moment is
ever projected without his unasked ad-
vice and approval He knew Grant
he knew" Blaine, Conkling, Garfield,
and Harrison better than they knew
themselves, and his policy was their
policy always. Now he knows" Nc
Kinley. ana speaks for him, and the
poor gentleman in the White House
cannot help himself.
Grosvenor is just such another, but
his field is limited. With every desire
to equal Depew in his nauseous out
put he has not been able so far to
/ do more than oHtpoint Manley OF
! Maine. The third term movement gave
4 him a chance, but even then he was
/ late. and his cargo Of slush was not
+ dumped until Depew had occupied the
+ field for three days.
Taking the official vote of the last
1 election as a guide, Mr.. Mckinley has
7.2O6.677 devoted friends in America
/ not counting Arizonians, New Mezli-
! cans, Oklahomians, Alaskans, Hawaii
ans. Porto Ricans. and Filipinos taxed
and Indians not taxed, but so far as
the public knows there are only three
upon whom he can rely in an emer-
/ gency-Marcus A. Hanna, Charles H
! Grosvenor. and Chauncey Mitchell De
The times., 1901-06-12
DESTRUCTION OF THE MAINE.
Spanish Trenty Claims Commission
May Probe the Matter.

1t is the belief of more than one mem
ber of the Spanish Treaty Claims Com
mission that that tribunal will be Obliged
TO Teinvestigate the question of VINO was
responsible for the destruction CT the
United States battleship Maine, in Ha-
vana Harbor, on February 10, 1893. rms
question is involved in a number OF claims
filed with the Commission. alleging dam
ages for loss Of life and personal injuries
in that disaster The Administration
through Assistant Attorney General WI
liam h. Fuller, Will undoubtedly contest
the jurisdiction of the Commission IN the
Maine cases on the ground that the mat
ter has finally been disposed of by the
findings of another tribunal and subse-
Quent Congressional action, and by the
terms of the Treaty of Peace with Spain.
1t is not believed that the arguments OF
the Government will prevail with the
Commission. The tribunal is disposed to
extend every latitude possible to claim
ants, and petitions having a shadow OF
justification for the alleged damages VIII
have thorough consideration. 1t is argued
that the status of the Maine cases Is
similar to that of any other claims against
Spain, and that the question Of respon-
sbility, as in all Of the claims, is mat
ter for investigation. This is the posi-
ton which it is anticipated that the Com
mission will assume.
In the event Of a review of the causes
which led to the destruction of the Maine,
it is hoped that light may be thrown on
the cause OF the disaster. There have
been many statements made since the
former Investigations. and many witness
cs. then unavailable are now willing to
give testimony in regard to the e&pios-
ion.
1t has been suggested that the Admins
tration would be deeply averse to any
further review of the Maine disaster. IN
the joint resolution declaring war with
Spain, and in the message of the Presl-
dent dated April II, which instigated It's
passage the following language appears;
as one of the causes of the coliilct;
THE destruction of United States BAT
tIeship with 266 of it's officers and crew,
while on a friendly visit in the harDor OF
| Havana"
Should a further investigation of the
Maine disaster elicit the fact that the
destruction Of the Maine was not TO De
/ placed to the account of Spain, or was
caused by an internal explosion, the Al
ministratiOn would be placed IN the EN-,
| barrassing position of having deGIdIgI
/ war for cause that did not exist. ShouIu
| the contrary be proved. and the GlaiIl
| that Spain was responsible be proved the
| situation would by no means be haut
more pleasant.
The times., 1901-06-12
A VISIT TO INDIAN SCHOOLS.
Miss Reel Completes an Official Tour
of the ReserNations.

Miss Estene Reel. Superintendent of In
dian Schools. returned to her desk yester-
day morning at the Bureau of Indian At
fairs. after a trip Of several months in the
Southwest. where she has been visiting
and inspecting the schools on the various
reservations.
In Oklahoma Territory, where a con-
siderable portion of her time was passed.
Miss Reel rode across country from
school to school, and OH one occasion had
a thrilling adventure which nearly cost
her her life. While crossing a ford at
one of the swollen streams her horses got
beyond their depth, and Miss Reel was
swept of into the current.
She managed, however, after being car
ried a considerable distance. to grasp
some overhanging shrubbery and was
presently rescued from her very perilous
situation. Miss Reel was none the worse
for The experience, and returns to Wash
ine,tOn in excellent health.
The times., 1901-06-12
a STORY OF FRAUD TOLD.
Surgeon EVeIch Relates How officers
Permitted nIesaI Commerce.

MANILA June u.-There was a sensa-
ton yesterday in the court-martial of
Capt Michael Spellman, Lieut.. Delbert
r. Jones, and Surgeon Dudley W. Welch,
of the Forty-third Volunteer Infantry, in
southern Leyte, on charges Of trading in
permits to ship hemp from closed ports.
Surgeon Dudley Welch turned states
evidence and gave testimony incriminat-
ing Captain Spellman and Lieutenant
Jones. who will probably receive terms Of
Imprisonment Welch, who appears to
have been tool Of the others, has re-
turned 81 coo, his share of the spoils, to
the Government.
The evidence disclosed that the value
of the hemp cleared from Maasin was
about $780, 900 in the last six months. The
officers Indicted levied half a peso on
each picul of rice entering insurgent ter
ritory, while steamers. schooners, and
bancas trading with closed ports in Malt
bog Bay paid from 80 to 500 pesos, ac-
cording to their tonnage. Spellman was
formerly a major in the Sixty-ninth New
York Regiment and q New York Harbor
Commissioner.
The presidente Of Maasin and go-be-
tween, who is connected with a Spanish
firm, have also been arrested.
The times., 1901-06-12

Iican party has filed Europe with bit
terness, and il is not improbable that
strong efforts will be made TO repay US
in kind. The Russian sugar incident is
strongly suggestive of what we may eX-
pect in the way of retaliation.
Not only are our tariff laws designed
10 exclude foreign goods from the
American market, but they are also en-
abIing US to invade foreign markets in
such manner as to injure the producers
lhere with little if any advantage to
ourselves. That is to say, the great
American combines are and have been
cutting prices in the foreign markets
while recouping their loss of profits
there by raising the prices to the Amer
lean consumer. This has been stouty
denied by the Republican leaders, but it
is charged directly by foreign manu-
facturers, and recently trust represen-
tatives have openly admitted that it is
true
SeIf-preservation is just as natural
law with nations as with individuals.
and we need not be surprised if our IN
dustrial competitors take steps to pro
tect themselves. We cannot expect
them to furnish a free market for our
goods while their products are almost
entirely denied admission to the United
States. But. whatever is done will, in
all probability, be by the different
countries acting separately, for theiI
! own conflicting interests and antipa-
/ thies will scarcely admit of anything
| like a general combination against us.
The times., 1901-06-12
cHINAMAN IN A DILEMMA.
Strangers Are Friendly, But His own
Countrymcn Are Not.

II. A. Taylor. Assistant Secretary Of
the Treasury. received a dispatch from
the Collector Of the Port of San Fran
cisco yesterday affirming the correctness
of the admission papers of Su Shin Chin,
who is detained at San Francisco and
prevented from landing at the instance
OF Minister WI. on the charge Of being
an impostor. The papers permit him to
enter the United States as traveller.
At the same time the Chinese Consul
General at San Francisco has notified
Mr.. Taylor that the papers Of Su Shin
Chin are not in order. The Chinese rep
resentative there claims that he should
not be allowed to land, that he should
be arrested and deported, that he came
to this country for the purpose OF col
Letting funds whereWith to prosecute a
campaign in China to restore the En-
peror to power and to undo the Empress,
and that he is an impostor and danger
Gus character.
Mr.. Taylor in view OF these contradic-
tory statements, has advised the Chinese
Consul General at San Francisco to sub
nit to the Collector Of Customs at that
port all the evidence he holds against
The landing of Su Shin Chin for the pur-
pose of transmission to the immigration
authorities in this city for ultimate
action
The times., 1901-06-12
Flag Day.

Friday. the fourteenth Of June, is the
anniversary Of the birth of the flag,
and it is to be hoped that in all parts
of the country, and especially in Wash
ington the occasion viii be fittingly
celebrated. On the fourteenth Of June
l777. Congress enacted that the flag OF
the thirteen United States be thirteen
stripes. alternate red and white; that
the union be thirteen stars, white, in a
bIue field. This IS the first Flag Day
Of the twentieth century, and during the
neriod short. as the life Of nations is
counted. since the adoption Of the Stars
and Stripes as the American flag,
changes undreamed Of by It's sponsors
have taken place. Ii waves today over
lands that were not even discovered
when the thirteen stars first shone in
thei, blue field; and though the bars Of
red and white still serve as a reminder
If The thirteen small colonies which
were the nucleus Of the America of to-
dav the number Of stars mas 50 in
creased that there IS serious reason to
wonder where another can be crowded
in.
al
! the true meaning Of the flag. 1t has
| often been said by some faction dis
| satisfied with the existing American
| Government Of its day that the Stars
| and Stripes have no longer any mean
/ ing. that it is time for them, the dis
satisfied ones, to choose some other
aag. since to them the star -spangled
hammer" no longer assures what they
believe 10 be life, liberty, and the pur-
sutt Of happiness. With all due re-
| snect Ia honest convictions, 1t may yet
be said that this is not wise con-
| clusion. The country needs its dis
contented people, needs continual diff
ference of opinion. earnest seeking af-
ter better things, sincere, indignant
and forcible protest against wrong
doing. The people reduced to a mush
of agreement speedily deteriorate. Let
those who are not cOntented with the
present Significance Of the flag. there
fore. not forsake H. but hold TO the
ideal which the fathers Of the Republic
had. and strive, as they strove, to
make it mean all that it should TO a
country of freemen, governing them
selves intelligently.
To be loyal to the flag is not neces-
sarily to endorse all that its present
custodians happen to DO. II the Gov
eminent Of the United states is for the
moment rapacious. corrupt and unwise
the true patriot viii not forsake his
country or his flag on that account The
Stars and Stripes meant much TO the
men who chose them for the symbol OF
a new born world power. These men
conceived Of a land in which justice
should be done 90 all alike: in which
the Government should be free from
, foreign interference, and the PEOPLE
from foreign oppression and intrusion
in which those who. under n:onarchica
rule. were forbidden to rise above GER
z tair caste should have liberty TO rise
TO f.ny place for which they were fitted
The times., 1901-06-12
CONDITIONS AT PAGo-PAeo.
The Natives Reported to BE Con-
tented Under American Rule.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 11.-Commander
B. F. Tilley, Governor OF the Samoan pos
sessions Of the United States, arrived to-
day from Pago-PagO. He is on leave and
after two days stay will go to Washing
ton TO make his report and see his fam
iIy Commander Tilley declared the ma
tives were docile and contented. He said:
Under American stimulus the product
Of our possessions ought to double within
u year or two. The area of plantation is
increasing. Copra is the principal prod
uct, although the cocoa and tobacco crops
are worth notice. An evidence of the do
ciIity of the natives is the fact that re-
Gently they raised a tax levy Of $500,
paid in copra. to defray the cost of the
native part of the Government.
Il don't think the commerce of the ISL
ands will ever amount to a great deal.
The chief value of the island to this coun-
try is the great harbor. which is protect
ed against hurricanes and can easily be
made secure against an enemy. Congress
has passed an appropriation to enable us
to enlarge the coal storage capacity TO
10 900 tons. The Iowa. when fun, carries
only / 200 tons so 10000 tons is enough to
coal a fleet The Germans have no har-
bor at Apia. German Samoa is doing well
undcr Governor Solf, a broad-minded