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The Washington times., 1902-12-08
DISTRICT BASKETBALL
AND BASEBALL LEAGUES
Standing Of Teams and Assignment of
Officials.

EoloWluE the Gus tom or past vec IS
the District Amateur Basketball and In
door Baseball Leagues will suspend
their respective schedules on December
Il to be taken up again on January 2.
The employment Of so many Of the
players at night during the holiday sea-
son Is the cause OF this action.
InteTcity Games.
During the time the schedules are
suspended the Y. NJ c. a. and Car
rolls Will play some Of their games
scheduled with out-of-town teams. The
first Of these games is with the "AIl
Stars baseball team. Of Baltimore. in
the local association gymnasium on De-
cember 20. and the next is with West
Branch y. VI. C. A. basketball team on
December "a. also in the local gymna-
stun.
The Corcorans and CAROLS have out
of-town games scheduled. bur these
will be played after Christmas.
The Corcorsns will play Lafayette
College here on December Z6: the Y.
N. c. A.. Of Baltimore. viii be played
here on January q. and in Baltimore
February H.
The Corcorans are arranging to play
a series Of games with the Holy
Name" team as soon as the players Of
the latter are registered The City
Postofnce team may also have games
with District league teams II it regis
ters its plavarg
The league baseball game scheduled
for December 13 for the Corcorans aud
Y. NJ c. A. viii be played February IS.
Tne Corcorans and Y. VI. c. A. show
ed their real strength last week by
defeating the Cumberland Y. NJ c. A.
basketball team. champion OF Maryland.
IN decisive manner
The visitors played a strong. fast
game. but were clean in every depart
ment Of the sport. Their blocking" Of
forwards and their aggressive work was
also clever. The character Of their work
should be a good model for some Of our
local teams TO follow.
The Washington times., 1902-12-08
Standing Of the teams:
Cameo Dor


High games-New YOrks. 9O9; Wash
ingtvn, SOS
High individual scOres-Lord. 243: Kill
patrick, 222; Miller. 209. O'COnnOr. 20S.
The Washington times., 1902-12-08
MATTERS OF INTEREST
TO LOCAL BOWLERS
Standing of Teams and H.
diVidual Totals.

The veteran. as well as the new local
bowling leagues. set new figures last
week. both for team and individual roll
ing.
The Carroll Institute team OF the Dis
triot League rolled up a total OF 2,77S
pins in the set with the Business Mems
Club. Spiess rolled an average Of 204
and German had a single string OF 245.
the latter two are the best scored in
this league
IN the Departmental League, Lord, Of
the Bureau team. made a new local rec
ord for all leagues by rolling up an
average OF 213, while Williams, OF the
Census. topped Bunn's high single OF 247
by scoring a 256 single.
Lord now leads the departmental
bowlers with an average Of 1S6 for "A
games, with Bum next. 1s3.
The Bureau team has a comfortable
lead IL the Leagues standing with .7g1
as against .7OS for the Interior. in second
place. the Commissioners dropping 90
third with .665.
In the Bank Clerks League. the Sec
ond National Bank has worked itself up
70 first with .79l, and the Safe Deposit.
which held the lead so long, Is second
with 761.
Harrison. Of the Riggs Bank, stin
leads the Bankers with I73 average. and
Clay Barclay. Of the Second National,
is close up with 10. The bowling in this
League shows a decided improvement
right along and the averages compare
fav'rably with the other new organiza-
tions.
The our-and-a-half Street team still
holds first place in the Railway Relief
Association League with 1913. and the
Officers" are in second place with .75O.
having risen from fourth place since the
week before, and the Clerks" have
dropped from second to fourth.
Whitney is high average man WIN
l65.ii, and Brown is next with 1892,
Holt. who was in third place. hes drop
ped to fourth with 1897.
New Yorks Still Lead.
The Plate Printers League shows no
change since the week before except thai
Philadelphia is now third with .466 in
tie with St. Louis. having risen from
fifth place. New York leads with .S33.
and Washington is next with 800.
Land has increased his average from
l72 TO 176 in FIRST place. and stanton has
exchanged with Helmerichs for second
place with 16S.
Next week nearly all the strong teams
meet In the various leagues and some
changes in standing may be expected all
around.
Departmental League.
The Washington times., 1902-12-08
rlebraska Second.

Unlike the question Of second honors
In the East. that Of the West is settled
dccisively. for Nebraska holds the tTi-
State championship and is entitled 10
second place. having won eight games
and was not scored on at all and is the
only team In the country enjoying that
remarkable distinction.
Nebraska defeated Minnesota by a
close score and this should be enough
10 send the honor OF being second IN the
West 10 the former school After Min
nesota comes Chicago. The maroon
team started out poorly this season, but
finished well. and. by defeating Illinois
and Wisconsin. Is entitled to what honor
there Is in fourth place. Northwestern
is nowhere this season. Missouri Is
probably the bes team In the State. with
Kirkayille dispudng the title OF chain
pion.
Washington University broke into fast
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
A PLEA FOR GEN. SMITH.
1t Would BE a Just and Popular Thing
to Reinstate Him.

Washington Post.
1t seems to us that Gen. Jacob H. Smith
should be reinstated in the active list.
He is a plain soldier man., who has given
his whole life to the service, and whose
only idea, from the first. is to find the
enemy and smash EN-" That may not
be the theory of supermodern warriors,
but it is the theory on which our great
captains nave proceeded, from U. 5.
Grant down. and it is particularly well
adapted to the purposes of real war. Gen.
eral Smith has been retired before his time
through a misrepresentation, We feel sure
but it is not too late to undo the injus-
tice and restore him to a position which
he has honored most conspicuously.
We have no wish to go over the case
again. It's salient features are already
sufficiently familiar to the country. What
we suggest is that Gen. Jacob III. Smith
be put back upon the active list and left
there TO take his turn In orderly and nom
orable retirement. His conduct since he
returned from the Philippines has been
admirable in every way. 1t has been as
admirable, in fact. as was his conduct In
~carnation Of war. He did his duty--did IT
cheerfully and thoroughly. IL there was
anything wrong about the wal itself, GER
tainly that was no fault of his. He did
" nldhC IIO val 01 oiOIotO AhN AsiNo
upon which it was to be prosecuted He
had his orders and he obeyed them to the
best of his ability. Returning, after long
and arduous service, he was met at San
Francisco by the announcement of his I'M
timely transfer to the retired list. With
every right to expect reward and COM
mendation, he received, instead, only re-
proof and degradation. He has set up no
complaint, however. He has organized no
political cabal to agitate his grievances,
nor yet posed as a martyr to catch the
popular eye. He has, on the contrary,
conducted himself with a simple and self
contained dignity which entities him to
all praise. We doubt whether, among all
the generals who have won fame and re-
ceived reward in connection with the
Philippines, there is any who really de-
serves more sympathy n admiration
than General Smith.
The President could do nothing more
just or gracious than the act we have
suggested. Under any circumstances
General Smith would not have more than
about a year of active service, but at
least he is entitled to that, If loyalty, de-
votion, and courage entitle an officer to
ANYTHING.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27

One Presidential disqualification
That the Kentuckian Has.

Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Washington Star has been analyz-
ing the election returns and believes II
has discovered but one man who can be
nominated by the Democratic party In
1904 with any degree of consistency. Sen
ator German is ruled out Of the race be-
cause of his protectionist sympathies; Hill.
Bryan, Tom johnson and Pattison are
under recently formed snowdrifts: Cleve-
land has had his day; elney is not consid-
cred worthy Of mention, and Governor
Stone, of Missouri. has not grown to the
commanding stature required of a presi-
Dental candidate. 1t is evident. also. that
the Star has not yet heard of the incipient
boom for Representative Williams. of Car
mi, ILL.,. the Egyptian statesman who has a
local following that Is inspired by an en-
thusiasm which bids fair to spread TO
adjoining counties.
Having examined the list OF possible can
didates very carefully, the Star has reached
the decision hat Col. Henry Watterson
alone is eligible for the nomination. Being
an independent paper. the Star has sought
to find some man who represents in the
manner of personal convictions the prfn-
ciples which the Democratic party is ex-
pected to stand for in 1904. The record
Colonel Watterson has made at national
conventions of the party, the protests he
has filed against the heresies incorpor-
ated into national platforms and the loyalty
with which he has supported party candi-
dates even when his advice was spurned
and his wishes ignored, all combine to make
his position in the Democratic party as
unique as 1t is creditable.
Neither the Star nor the Sentinel Is In a
position 10 expect that It's advice will be
taken seriously by Democrats. but there
can be no harm in pointing out the fact
that the Star has omitted one important
matter that will prove to be a serious ham
candidate for the presidential nomination
on the Democratic ticket. There is reason
to believe that no man who has borne arms
against the government Of the United
States Will ever become the chief executive
of this Nation. Granted that Colonel Wat
Confederate army; that he may have
thought the rebellion an ~ill-advised move
ment; that he became a rebel soldier mere
ly because his associates and public senti-
ment in the State where he lived were
Overwhelmingly disloyal; that he has re-
was a mistake n that the victory
achieved by the North was a righteous
one-granting all these, the fact remains
that he raised his hand against the Union.
He may now be as loyal-he is, in fact-as
any citizen of the most loyal State. He
members of his party. Sectional lines have
been obliterated and the campaign orator
may repeat, There is now no North and
no South, but one united country" But
even the Democratic party would hesitate
before it would nominate for the presidency
a man who had fought in the Confederate
army. The Star must go farther afield to
find an eligible candidate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27

graduate of Harvard. HI is an English
man and was educated In France, but chose
to take his degree in America. 1t was ne
VINO started the agitation which resulted
in making Niagara Falls a state reserva-
ton. He is a liberal and has represented
South Wolverhampton in Parliament Tor
two years, but is best known as an author
ity on the affairs of Asia and the far East.
Lord Kitchener's prominence has re-
called an old story told of him after the
Egyptian campaign. During the brief Pc
riod in which society tried to lionize him.
without much success, a young dandy APP
preached him with a handkerchief on
which he begged Kitchener to write his
name. Your sisters, l suppose? COM
mented the general, as he surveyed the
swered the young gentleman. All, COM
mented the man from Khartum. "what Is
your taste in ~hairpins?"
Augusta Victoria, German Empress,
Queen of Prussia. is forty-four years old.
The Empress is four months older lhan
her august consort, whom she married In
1881. and to whom she has borne six prom
Using sons and a charming little princess,
now ten years old, who bears the names
Of her two most famous ancestresses,
Queen Victoria and Queen Louise. The
Empress is the daughter of that Duke or
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to whom
it was expected that the conquered duchies
would be given after the Danish war OF
1864. Fate and Bismarck. however. wlIled
otherwise, and the duke died a year before
his daughters exalted marriage. The En-
press is a descendant of a half-sister OF
Queen Victoria, and is niece OF Prince
Christian. She has the reputation OF being
a model German wife and mother.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
A Point Used by Mrs. Eddy.

New York Mail and Express.
The recent command issued by Mrs. Eddy
to Christian Science healers not to treat
contagious or infectious diseases does not
quite meet the difficulty presented by such
cases as that at White Plains. The trouble
is hat the principle involved In the Chris
tian Science practice does not admit OF the
study on the part OF the healers of the con-
ditions which would enable them TO judge
whether an ailment Is contagious or not.
Ii Is to the interest of the general COM
munity that the sick shall be so guarded
and looked after that no contagious or In
fictitious disease shall escape observation
and determination, and by its escape be
given a chance TO spread. Yet how can inn
munity against contagion be secured
through practitioners who do not pretend
TO be qualified by study TO discriminate.
for instance. between diphtheria and tonsi-
litis, or between typhoid fever and pneu-
monia? And how can n practitioner dag
nosticate disease who does not believe
there is any such thing as disease?
The admission on the part OF the leader
OF the Christian Scientists that the public
has a right to a skilled determination OF the
nature OF an affection. whatever IL may
be, seems 20 involve a fitness on the part
of heaters 10 Judge. That means that they
must be qualified practitioners And no.
body asks any more than thai.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27

Vermont has had a prohibitory liquor law
for more than forty years. yet so much
opposition has arisen that the Legislature
now In session has submitted a local option
bill to the people. If it is approved by a
majority of the voters in the special cleo
ton in January the bill will become a law
and the prohibitory law be repealed. If
otherwise the prohibitory law will remain
on the statute books, even if it is not en-
forced. Vermont is the State which re-
tains. more largely than any other, a ma
tive population, and it has no city with a
population exceeding 10000. In all the
country towns the people desire prohibit
ton and will nave it, and will enforce 1T
under the local option law. In cities and
larger towns the law is a lead letter be-
cause public opinion will not sustain its
enforcement. In their platform the Re-
publicans made the change to local option
an issue. The vote in January will be
watched with interest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27

learn from American workingmen is proba-
bly, a good way to educate them. but bring
ing them up to the American standard of
skill and production will be slow work.
On another point Mr.. Mosely spoke inter-
estingly. He aid he was convinced that
the protective tariff had been a great bless
ing to this country. He said that as an
Englishman he believed that moderate free
trade was best for his country, but IF I
were an American / should let well enough
alone and should oppose any tinkering with
the tariff" ASKED for his views regarding
trusts, he said: IT regard your trusts as
the greatest industrial blessing you have.
If there are evil trusts. you will find they
will curb themselves"
These views are interesting because they
come from an intelligent foreigner who
makes no concealment of the fact that he
is trying to promote the commercial pros
perity and supremacy of his own country.
Thousands Of intelligent Americans who
are convinced hat protection is the true
policy for this country would freely admit
that 1t might not be the best policy for
England, though IT is being advocated by
an increasing number of Englishmen. 1t Is
quite a concession for an English free
trader to admit that protection has been of
immense benefit to this country and to say
that IL he were an American he should
favor IL.
No person is obliged to accept Mr.. Nose
ly's views regarding trusts. but one must
admit that he is not swayed by partisan
considerations. When ne says that he re-
CARDS trusts as the greatest Industrial
blessing this country enjoys, he evidently
refers to their effectiveness as business
machines and to their results in the way
of reducing the cost of production and dis
tribution. These facts must enter into any
intelligent conclusion on the subject.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
A c ISSUE.

An article in the New Orleans Times
Democrat, opposing reciprocity with Cuba,
recalls the statement of General Hancock
in 1880 that ''the tariff is a local ISSUE"
Many people laughed loudly and derisively
when the gallant soldier expressed this
opinion because they regarded it as abb
surd. Those who ave watched the attitude
of the people toward tariffs must have
discovered that General Hancock expressed
a truth. He could not have more clearly
stated the fact that many people are free
traders until their own products are men,
aced by a free list. Here is the Times
Democrat. 1t will advocate a tariff for
courage to put 1t in their next platform.
1t lifts up a fervent voice for tariff reform
until the sugar schedule Is under discus
sion, when it becomes the most positive
advocate Of local protection. 1t will tell US
that the sugar-producing interest of Lou
isiana will be ruined with a lower protec-
tive duty than the present, which is about
100 per cent. ad valorem. 1t says in effect:
Put all the m~onopolies, iron, wooden
goods, glass, earthenware. upon the free list
in conformity to the gospel of free trade,
but we must have a 100 per cent. duty on
sugar to enable us to survive" OF course,
the Times-Democrat is hostile to a cut In
the 100 per cent. duties in favor of Cuba.
1t was clearly with the hostile element in
Congress during the last session, and it
.z--z ia z.t1o,& zo4sfco4so- ~rLox
it regards as the fresh complications which
may block the ratification of a Cuban
treaty.
Unfortunately the Times-Democrat is not
alone in this general devotion to free
trade modified by local protection. All over
the country men who are interested In spe-
cial manufacturing industries are free trad
ers until it comes to them, when they will
give the reasons why their industry should
be made a special exception. So when Mr..
the free-trade Democrats on general prin-
ciples sprang up in every par. Of the coun-
try demanding free trade in general but a
high duty for the protection of their own
industry. The Democrats in the Southern
coal and iron States demanded a duty on
coal and iron ores. Democrats in Indiana
in the ~glass-making industry implored their
senator's to stand between them and ruin.
Democrats in the local tile-making industry
implored protection for themselves. In
brief, the Democrats In the different in
dustries made a protective party which
forced the adoption of the German portion
of the Democratic tariff of 1894. Thus did
fine theories fall before the demands of
the practical. The real f~ree-trader is the
man who has no direct interest in any of
the great industries of the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
SENATORSHIPS.
Little Evidence to Support Charges
Made by Demagogues.
a Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
Another of those eccentric and spasmodic
waves of anti-millionaire senatorialism is
just now smashing over the country. Last
Sunday several leading New York. Boston
and Philadelphia divines, by a kind of tele-
pathic concert Of ideas, jumped on the
United States Senate as the center of grav-
ity for men who have discovered gold
mines, silver mines. copper ranges, figured
as railway owners n managers-or done
anything else that has enabled them to
use the shibboleth millions and find IL
the open sesame to the Senate hambe
How far this sort of talk misses the truth
may be judged from the fact that, with the
full list of the Senate before us, we cannot
mark more than seventeen of the eighty
eight as men who have ever been reputed to
belong in the list of American m~illionaires.
And We greatly suspect that about seven
of that seventeen are ov~erestimated. for,
as a good old Georgia lady was wont TO say
of reputed rich men: 1T Is never safe TO
measure a snake until 1t is deadI" Many
an appraised millionaire's estate after his
death has been found a long way within
six figures.
1t is very certain. at any rate, that these
clerical and otherwise pessimistic people
could do better for public opinion than to
poison ii with these extravagant charges
and to infame 1t u~nreasonably against the
higher house of our national legislature
Indeed. they might vastly help toward the
interests of purity in politics by preaching
to the influential people of their congrega-
tions that the presence of men in the
United States Senate suspected OF buying
their seats in that body is an Indictment of
the indifference Of their own class to the
details of operative politics.
The statement that men buy their way
into the Senate involves the cooperative
fact that the people are themselves either
foolish or corrupt enough TO elect to the
state legislatures men who are so brutaIly
rascally as to sell the States noblest offices
to the highest bidder.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27

The report that a company has been or
ganized In Middletown, o., to manufacture
paper from cornstalks and that it has con-
tracted for a plant which will cost $4,000
is a matter of no little Importance, since
the proposition to maxi paper of that ma
terial is quite as reasonable as was that
made years ago that print paper could be
made of wood pulp. 1t took a long time to
learn to make paper Of wood. and the
learning cost those who embarked in the
enterprise hundreds of thousands of dol
lars. In many States where much paper is
consumed there is now very little material
for making 1t, but If the cornstalk can be
utilized these States will have an annual
supply of raw material.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-27
THE CUBAN SITUATION.

The attitude Of the Cubans toward the
gratifying only to that small number of
persons who would prevent closer CONNER
cial relations with the island simply to
advance the interests Of the limited beet
sugar trust. A year ago Cuba was anxious
for a reciprocal treaty. but now the leaders
prospect for an advance in the price of
sugar and the hostile influences Of COM
~petitors for Cuba's trade in Europe have
led Cubans to believe they can get along
without our assistance. They seem to
forget all that the United States has done
for them in relieving them from the
thralldom of Spain and in setting them
up in the business of self-government
with good credit and no debts. All these
things and more the Cuban leaders seem
when we set them up in self-government
we compelled them to put a clause in their
Constitution that they should not borrow
money or confer favors upon foreign ma
tons without our consent, and then came
away. They remember that when Cuba's
industries were paralyzed they asked US
for help by giving their products the
preference over those of other nations. and
we refused. Consequently, they are sullen
and profess not to regard us as friends.
Secretary Hay and the Cuban minister
in Washington have agreed upon a treaty
which President Palma will not submit
to the Cuban Congress because he knows
that it would be rejected. Because the
Cuban Congress is embittered by our re-
fusal or neglect to give Cuba reciprocity
when 1t was most needed. that Congress has
refused 70 carry out the provisions of their
Constitution required by the United States
under the Plat amendment. taking the
ground that such provisions are not bind
ing upon Cuba until a treaty shall have
been negotiated with the United States,
which the present congress is In no hurry
TO consider. General Bliss, who was the
popular collector of customs at Havana,
Is in Cuba trying to bring the Cubans to
a state OF reasonableness. 1t is reported
that he has made little progress. Presi-
dent Palma and his Cabinet are disposed