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The Washington times., 1901-09-30
Shipping Subsidies.

The intimation thrown out that Presi-
dent Roosevelt is opposed to the Han
ma Frye ship subsidy scheme, has
naturally suggested the query whether
in opposing such a measure Mr.. Roose-
welt would be proceeding counter to the
policy of the late President. The ques-
ton, therefore, of what Mr.. McKinley's
policy in all its length and breadth ac-
tually was, bids fair to become a sub
ject of much earnest debate, and there
is but little room for doubt that
we shall find Republicans widely at is
sue concerning it. Every man of prom
inence in the party who has a pet
scheme on hand. will be only too anxi-
iuus to invoke some act or utterance of
Mr.. Mckinley respecting it as an argu-
ment in its favor. while every interest
which would be jeopardized by action
along the lines of the late Presidents
recommendations, will repudiate his
policy pro tanto, without the slightest
hesitation.
But was Mr.. Mckinley in favor of
ship subsidies? If he was. he never
so expressed himself in any of his pub
lie speeches or official writings. In his
Buffalo speech, he urged the necessity
of building up our ocean marine, but
he made no mention of subsidies as a
means to that end.
The late Presidents declarations on
the subject of international trade. car
ried to their logical conclusion, pre-
clude the idea of his being in favor of
subsidies, If he intended to be consistent
with himself, which we are bound to
assume he did. The same principle upon
which he urged that we must be pre-
pared to buy from Others if we expect
ed to sell to them, requires US to give
other countries chance at the ocean
carrying trade Not that we should vol
unfairly surrender the portion which
comes to us naturally and legitimately.
No country does that, in any line of
business. But, if we have other lines
of industry that are more profitable
than ocean carrying, we should engage
in such callings, and let those carry the
goods at sea who can do no better.
That is sound economic and industrial
sense.
There is no doubt that our ocean ma
rine has been handicapped by unjust
and idiotic navigation laws, and that a
wholesome modification of those laws
would do a world Of good. A few years
ago an American navigation company
desired to give American registry to
two fine ships, built in England, and it |
required a special act of Congress to |
confer the right TO do so. The privi- |
lege was accompanied by the condition |
attached that the company should build |
two vessels Of the same class in Ameri- |
can shipyards. and the conCition was
performed by the construction Of the |
st. Louis and st. Paul These splendid |
ships, as well as the New York and |
Paris, purchased in England are being !
run regularly between New York City |
and Europe, and few Americans will |
believe that they are being run at |
loss. This proves that there are other |
ways of building no the ocean marine |
than by the payment Of bounties. and |
much better ways. too.
The Washington times., 1901-09-30

Even then the statement would be a
striking-nay. startling one, not only
to English manufacturers, but to the
American people, as well. If the Steel
Trust can make the billets and send
them from the place of manufacture,
say Pittsburg, to England. paying both
railway and ocean freights and then
deliver them at price two dollars and
half below the cost to an English
maker, it is self-evident that American
supremacy on that line is absolutely
assured. Those engaged in the English
steel trade have good cause for alarm.
But a more important question for
us to consider is how the American
people should feel about it. The answer
to this question naturally suggests it
self when we turn TO the tables of cur
rent prices and find that steel billets
are quoted in the American market at
twenty-siX dollars per ton. If, now,
they can be laid down in England at
sixteen and half dollars, it follows
ineXorably that the profit in the Uni
ted States must be at least nine dol
lars and a half per ton-a little more
than fifty-seven per cent. 1t is small
wonder that the net earnings of the
trust for the last six months are semi
dollars. What an indictment this IS
of a policy which allows huge trusts
to do business in the American market
behind a prohibitive tariff Can it be
that there is Republican in the Uni
ted States who cannot see that the pro-
lection argument utterly fails in a case
like the one under consideration?
The avowed purpose of the tariff has
been to keep foreign manufacturers
from swamping our markets with cheap
goods. That has been the Republican
cry everywhere, and at all times. Here
we have a case in which we can actu-
ally swamp the British market with
our cheap goods. and still the Ameri-
can manufacturer Of these goods insists
upon being protected by q forty or
fifty per cent tariff. This tariff enables
the trust to charge fifty-seven per cent
more than cost for steel billets, and the
percentage may be considerably higher.
Probably it is.
This is pleasant state of affairs for
Americans to contemplate. First the
tariff barrier is erected for the purpose
of preventing foreigners from compet-
ing with American steel manufacture
ers; then the Steel Trust is formed and
destroys all competition among the
Americans themselves. 1t is impossi
ble for any person who appreciates the
difference between right and wrong to
undertake the defence of such a con-
dition without a shock to his con-
science. The argument which it fur
nishes for the removal of the duties
from iron and steel is simply conclu-
sive. Such a course would not, and
could not give English producers con-
troll of the American market, but it |
would compel the trust to lower the |
price and content itself with something |
like a reasonable profit.
The Washington times., 1901-09-30
The Canadian view.
CFrom the Montreal HernIdN


President Roosevelt has already set his
hand to the plow. He has signalized his
return to Washington by sounding his
political friends on the subject of reci-
procity, hoping thereby to ascertain what
progress Mr.. Mckinley had made with
long to reveal the difficulty of the task
that confronts him if he wishes to make
good his dramatic promise to carry out
Mr. McKinley's policy. Reciprocity. the
protcCtionists say, is the handmaiden of
protection. Protection is good. but trade
also is good The part of reciprocity is
to bring in trade that does the country
good, the part of protection to keep out
trade that does the country harm. The
two work together so nicely that anyone
with a trace of political idealism in him
must see the beauty of the relation. 1t is
only when a working basis is sought for
that the prospect loses its charm. When
Mr. Roosevelt looks for working basis
he finds one Senator who is opposed to
some minor provision in a treaty with
Germany, another who reads ruin in some
minor passage of a treaty with France,
a third who would cut off his right hand
rather than allow Canadians in certain
lines of trade to have access to the Amer
lean market a fourth who would like TO
trade with the West Indies were 1t not for
sugar and tobacco, and so all down the
list As one protectionist Senator puts it,
the Dingley tariff specifies many imposts,
and every one of the imposts was cOnsid-
cred necessary for some branch of Ameri-
can trade Let in, If you like, all trade
that will not injure American industry,
but do not touch the Dingley tariff.
The Washington times., 1901-09-30
VITAL STATISTICS OF HAVANA.
Remarkable Health Reca. DIS Made
Under the New Authorities

"A statement concerning the vital statis-
tics Of the city of Havana for the month
Of August, 1901, has been compiled from
official reports on file in the Division of
lnsular Affairs of the War Department
The report contains many Interesting
facts
The number of deaths, $50, is consid-
erably less than has occurred in any Au-
gust since 1889. The least number pre-
yiously was $50. in the year 1900; the
greatest, 1878. occurred in 1898; the aver
age is 902. The comparison with July.
1901, when there were 537 deaths, is also
very favorable. The rate per ,OOO for Au-
gust was 222i and compares favorably
with many leading cities of the civilized
world. For the week ending August 3
Birmingham. England. with a population
of 523.eS4. had 25l deaths, death rate of
.. Leeds, with a population of 43O, ,4s9,
had PA deaths. a rate of 296. LIVERPOOL
with population of 6S6332, had 39s deaths.
a rate of 3O.2 New York, with 1885,. .51T
population. had for the week ending july
II lisa deaths. rate of 243 PhiladeI-
phia, with 1.293, ,696 population had for the
week ending July 15 66s deaths, rate of
z6s. Baltimore. with 541 600 population.
had for the month of July 1850 deaths,
rate of 2S
Not single case of smallpox has oc-
CURED since July. 1900, and this even
though no quarantine is in force against
New Orleans or New York, in each of
which cities smallpox exists rather exten-
sively
The conditions as to yellow fever be-
come more and more encouraging as the
months pass. The smallest number of
deaths from this disease occurring in this
month since 1889 was Is in 1899; the great
est was 262 in 1886; the average is 81 This
August only two deaths have occurred
\ still better showing is made however
IN taking the five months beginning April
!, at which time yellow fever in Havana
begins. The least number of dcaths in
these five months was In 1899 when there
were Is; the greatest number was 603 in
1897; the average is 226 In the present
year during these five months only three
deaths have occurred from this disease
This is so much better than anything that
has occurred before that the authorities
feel convinced that it is due entirely to
the methods of disinfection adopted
namely. thorough destruction of infected
mosquitoes in the neighborhood of the To-
Gus of infection.
1t is hoped that this year there will be
no epidemic of yellow fever. In former
years by the LIST of September this disease
was at its height, and as it has practically
been kept out up to the LIST of September
there seems to be no reason why the same
methods should not have an equally good
result during the present month.
The Washington times., 1901-09-30
American and English steel.

In recent address before the Cham
Der of Commerce Of Newport, England.
Mr.. Joseph Lawrence made a statement
to the effect that he had been told by
Mr.. Schwab that the American Steel
Trust could deliver steel billets in Eng
land at sixteen dollars and fifty cents
per ton, whereas the lowest price at
which English manufacturers could
make them was nineteen dollars. This,
according 10 "Bradstreets," is a most
striking statement bearing upon Ameri-
can ascendency in the steel trade. So
it IL striking In more ways than one.
If Mr.. Schwab stated that the trust
could deliver the billets at the price
named. it is fair 10 suppose that there
would be come profit in the transac-
tion. because as a broad generality, it
may be said that there would be no
motive in delivering the billets In Eng
land or anywhere else at cost
II is possible, though, that Mr.
Schwab was referring to actual cost.
The Washington times., 1901-09-30
EXPLORED CANADA's WILDS.
Experiences OF II. =. Bryant and
Walter ID. Wilcox.


PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29.-Henry S.
Bryant. the explorer. has just returned
from; the wilds OF the Canadian Rockies.
near Banff. on the borderiand betwe. n
British Columbia and Alberta 4 report
OF his trip and work will be made 10 the
Geographical Society OF Philadelphia.
Though Mr.. Bryant made an effort to
reach the top of Mount Assiniboine. this
was mere Incident of the trip the main
4 OBJECT of which was the exploring and
mapping OF a large tract of land about
-.oVO square miles in extent never before
visited by white men. Mr. Bryant's as
sociate In the work was Walter d. VIII
cox. of Washington. d. C. a wealthy
amateur. a Yale man. who is a surveyor
and photographer. and who goes in for
exploration as a pastime Wilcox and
Bryant took with them two Swiss Alpine
guides and three camp hands.
The tract visited by the two explorers
is a rough, mountainous country, with
deep and steep valleys. gorges and ravines
and lofty peaks. The party started in
soon after the middle of July. but diver
sion was made for the ascent of AssinI-
boine on its south side a feat never be-
fore attempted. The season was too ear
ly for mountain climbing and the ex-
lasted two days and a half. The snow,
moreover. did not hold to the older ICY
faced snow, but lay a loOse mantle so.
that it rushed down the slopes in ava
lanchss. And It was only by taking to
the shelter of rocks that the climbers es-
capped grave peril and made any headway
at all.
The ascent was persisted in. however.
though tle two explorers only had one
Swiss guide With them The other.
skilled mountaineer. and versed in all the
science of his craft far ii is known
in Switzerland. had never gotten com
plete grasp of the problem presented by
the famous American bucking broncho.
The consequence was that in trying to
ride one of the ponies he was bucked or
and was incapacitated from taking part
in the climb. staying with the camp hands
at the foot of the height AS it was. with
only one guide, and with avalanches con-
tnually at hand the thTes plucky climb
ers made II 900 OF Assiniboines 900 feet
by July 2S. but could not reach the top on
account of the snow.
After this the explorers dismissed their
guides and took up the serious work OF
exploration, visiting the head waters OF
the Palliser and Elk Rivers and mapping
out a great deal of wild country near the
backbone of the Continental divide.
The Washington times., 1901-09-30
A Fugitive From Justice.

The martyred President had not been
dead two weeks before his assassin was
tried, convicted. and sentenced. The
murderer of Governor Goebei, of Ken
lucky and his accomplices are still
missing. The alleged chief of that as
sassination conspiracy is a fugitive
from justice in Indiana, protected by
its Governor in plain violation and de-
fiance of the Federal Constitution
which provides Cart. ~, Section p
that:
"a perEon charged in any State with treason.
felony or other crime who shall fec from Justice
and be found in another State shall on DER and
Of the executive authority Of the State .om
which he fed, be delivered up, 10 be removed TO
the State having jurisdiction of the crime"
Nothing could be more explicit in de-
fining the duty of a Governor In
relation to fugitives from justice
found within his jurisdiction, and Ian
guage could not be framed to make the
The Washington times., 1901-09-30
A Good Suggestion.

From the Baltimore Herald.)
The suggestion of Brig Gen. John VI.
Wilson that a Mckinley memorial arch be
Incorporated in the design Of the proposed
bridge over the Potomac at Washington
is a very meritorious one. This location
of a monument to the deceased President
will have a sentimental as well as prac-
teal advantage.
At the gateway to the Old Dominion
State. where so many traditions of South
ern chivalry have had their centre and
origin, is an eminently fitting site for a
memorial to a statesman who. according
to a distinguished Southern gentleman.
has done more to bridge the chasm ana
smooth the breach between the North
and South than had any other living
man"
The practical advantage of the site Is
that a monument erected here will not be
in an out-of-the-way place. 1t will be
passed and repassed by hundreds in the
course of ordinary travel. as wei, as by
those who journey thither for the especial
purpose of seeing it.
1t is to be hoped that the plans for n
Mckinley memorial will not miscarry, as
have recent plans for memorials to other
distinguished citizens. and in the further
ance of those plans the suggestion of
General Wilson is certainly worthy Of Sc
riOuS consideration.
The Washington times., 1901-09-30

| duty of surrendering such fugitives
more mandatory. 1t is so mandatory
indeed that Governor cannot refuse
to perform it without violating his cath
to s1r,oort the Constitution of the
United States. And yet to this time
the present Governor Of Indiana and
his predecessor in Office have refused
to give up the fugitive Taylor, who IS
under indictment as accessory before
the fact to the assassination ofFioVer-
nor Goebel, and he has been living at
ease and practising law in the Hoosier
capital for the past year ant half,
secure in the belief that the fact of his
having been a Republican leader, as
well as a leader of mountain. banditu.
in Kentucky. would forever seftre him
immunity from arrest and trial while
the party he had served should have
control of any State to which ne could
escape
The barefaced manner in which TINS
creature was protected by his political
associates was a scandal and shame
to the country. l. amounted to a prop
osition that it was no crime to lhsu-
gate and to plot the murder of Demo-
crat tive executive, for that is what the
charge against Taylor involves. When
the matter was in strong agitation
throughout the country, and this per
son had but recently escaped to In
diana, we ventured to warn Republican
leaders who were active in behalf Of
his protection that in even tolerating
such a denial of justice. and such de-
fiance of the fundamental law of the
land, they were contributing TO the
establishment of a dangerous and in
famous precedent. 1t was as PLAIN
then as it now is that If a Republican
Governor had been shot by the orders
or connivance of a Democratic rival
the latter could not have found hole
or corner in the United States in which
to hide himself from justice, and there
would not have been a State Governor,
Republican or Democrat, to protect
him. The Republican Governors would
have Joined the hunt from political mo-
tives, and the Democratic Governors
would have done likewise, because of
their respect for the Constitution and
for their oaths to support it.
We offer these few remarks. apro-
pos of a Few effort reported IN our
news columns yesterday. to secure the
extradition from Indiana of the fugi-
tive from justice, Taylor. On Satur-
day officers with requisition papers
from Governor Beckham, of Kentucky,
were in conference with Governor Dur
bin, of Indiana, and the latter was
strongly urged to relieve himself and
his State of the odium of harborinG
a person charged with participation in
one of the most cold blooded and hide
Gus crimes in American history. We do
not know what the result may be- That
will depend upon whether justice and
a high mandatory duty. have more
weight with Governor Durbin than
party politics.
The Washington times., 1901-09-30
TAKES THE ANTITRUST SIDE.
Orrin w. Potter Says Great Corpora
fions Iniure Iabor

CHICAGO. Sept. 29.-Orrin w. Potter.
the Chicago millionaire and former
President of the Illinois Steel Company.
has declared against trusts. Mr.. Potter
does not call himself a Socialist but his
views on the relations of capitalists and
wage-workers border on Socialism.
Mr.. Potter's two daughters. Gertrude
Potter Daniels and Margaret Horton Pot
ter, are known as. the authors of several
books. and in some Of these productions
the Socialistic spirit has been given such
prominence as to arouse comment amonS
those who know of the wealth and social
position Of the family Mr. Potter said:
1 resigned as President of the Illinois
Steel Company when it entered a trust
Trusts are inimicaI to the rights of the
labe ring man.
cannot consistently hold a position
whish would force me to put into execu-
ton measures of which my conscience
cannot approve.
our system OF taxation is Internal
What people are given to calling the
middle and lower classes know this and
they are getting ripe for a revolution.
They will not continue to live under such
a system. l am only taxed $500 for my
house. 1t is wrong and should be taxed
more.
1 was In New York recently. and while
walking along Broadway l had to stop
moment at the corner of Twenty-third
street to allow a carriage to pass. 1t was
me carriage drawn by pair of spIen-
uid horses. liveriod coachman drove
and liveried foOtman was in attend
ance. The carriage was open. Upon the
rear seat sat becapped French maid
| pom the seat beside her. sitting upon its
haunches, was blanketed dog That dog
was being driven out for an airing. And
ship. '9
While 1 stopped 1 looked beyond the
carriage and saw a workingman carry
ing baby accompanied by his wife,
staining on the crossing. They were fac
InS me ana their progress had been
checked ike mine by the passing of the
carriage. The workingman was clean. but
threadbare. He looked hungry and his
WBe looked worn. The babe looked strong
ana we'll In the three faces was the
stcry OF the sacrifice for the sake of the
little one.
saw that workingman look at the
Splendid equipage that was passing. He
looked at the cJachman the footman the
maid. and lastly, the dog. | saw some
tnlng come into that mans eyes and [
saw his lips grow firm. / knew what il
Was that was looking out of his eyes and
| say that If the look had been put into
spoken words they would have found an
echo In my heart.
l have taken the word of fifty men.
10000 wage workers with
1ut word of writing to bind them to
what they had agreed. and was as well
'atlsiled with their word as | would have
)een with the word of the fifty foremost
business men of Chicago"
The Washington times., 1901-09-30
Pretty Poor Evidence.

tFrOm the Chicago Chroniclc)
Lieutenant Commander l.. c. Heilner.
navigating officer Of the Texas during the
Santiago fight, was witness before the
Schley Court and testified that the Texas
ran within 100 ar $50 yards of the Brook
lyn while the latter was making me ia
nous loop" He was shown the official
chart of the battle prepared by board
of officers. exhibiting the position of all
the vessels ut various stages of the hght.
From this chart it appeared that the
Texas never was within COO yards. or more
than q third of a mile of the Brooklyn.
He still swore that his guess was correct
and that the official chart was wrong. He
said that he did not estimate the distance
at the time. but had made up his mind
since in thinking it over that the vessels
were no. over 100 yards or possibly $50
yards apart.
That is the kind of testimony against
Schley to gather which the Navy Depart
meut clique have raked the country from
Halifax to breakfast. Ii will not be like
ly to mislead the Court as to the facts to
be determined.
The Washington times., 1901-09-30
No Alteration Needed.
(From the Philadelphia Reeord.)

(From The PhiIadeIphia Record.l
There is no need to alter the Constitu-
tion or in any wise further abridge the
hospitality or the freedom, Of the people
OF the United States in dealing with an
archism. There are a hundred reasons for
keeping anarchists out of the country
where there was one for the exclusion Of
the Chinese. The anarchist lands with
the declared intention of pulling down the
house wherein he finds shelter and pro-
lection. The aim of the law should be to
find him out and keep him out. If he get
into the country undetected he should be
deported when discovered. But there Is
no need to change the Constitution in or
der to rid ourselves of these degenerates.
To do that would be practically to adnt
that a social oGtcast with a pistol in his
hand may compel change in the form
of the Government