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Evening journal., 1902-06-25
NOT Observation-Disclosures

In discussing the political situation
in Delaware. many persons regard It as
n fight which concerns only individu-
ais. We have heard the sentiment ex-
pressed on numerous occasions that
It would not be a calamity If Addicks
should be sent to the Senate, because
he would soon find his level, and in
Iafter years we should have time and
opportunity TO rectify the mistake and
redeem ourselves OF course this po-
sltion is untenable. either in logic or in
ethics but there is another phase
which our good people ought to con-
slider
II is no longer a question of Ad-
dicks. but of Addicksism. Addicks as
an individual cannot ruin this State,
but a recognition OF Addickssm as a
principle woud bel damning. To IL
lustrate more forcibly what we mean.
II Addicks had been sent to the Sem
ate without his real character being
known and before he had built up an
organization based on rascality, and
then had developed the qualities he
has shown, we should have felt hui
inflated but not disgraced. Il would
have been regarded as an awful mis-
take such as the Republicans of Mary
land made when they sent Wellington
to the Senate. Now suppose the good
people of our neighboring State with
the record of Wellington before them,
should deliberately re-elect him, they
would win the condemnation OF all
right-thinking persons.
TINS comparison throws consider
able light on our case True, Addicks
has never enjoyed an election to any
office by our people, but he has been
in politics long enough to show his real
character and purpose. He has built
up a system that is a stencil in the
nostrils OF men. and has demonstrated
beyond peradventure his low political
ideals. and these have been wrought
into the warp and whoof OF his sys-
tenn. 1t is this that we now refuse 10
recognize. It would be equivalent to
making a deliberate choice OF that
which is rotten to the core and black
as the nethermost depth Of perditlon.
To endorse It we should say to the
world and to our posterity that having
system Of corruption, venality and
rascality before our eyes for years, wa
deliberately chose to adopt it. 1t
would not simply mean the election
Of Addicks. but an endorsement OF Ad-
dicksism.
Evening journal., 1902-06-25

that the river boats would all touch
at New Castle. bringing their freight
and passengers for Wilmington. With
proper traffic arrangements to the
heart of this city our merchants might
enjoy much of the trade that Philadel-
phia now gets. II will not lie many
years ere the Delaware and Chesa-
peake Canal will be enlarged so that
the largest ships can be aocommo-
dated. This win develop an enormous
traffic between Baltimore and the cities
TO the north New Castle is virtually
at the entrance Of this canal, and un-
der proper conditions much OF this
traffic might be captured. It will not
be long ere Wilmington will be COM
PEELED TO reach out to the deep waters
of the Delaware, il she is rot to Ian
guish. Possibly, consolidation with
New Castle is one step in the solu-
ton.
Evening journal., 1902-06-25
SOME KINDS OF POLICY

The brutal assumption of certain poll
icy sharps that officials high and low
can be made friendly by bribe, has
been rebuked In this city. and two Of
TENDERS held TO answer in court. It is
gratifying TO Wilmingtonians, since the
Testimony given at the hearing, If true,
shows that the same Difficulty was not
experienced In a neighboring city. Ow-
ing to the rascality in certain depart
ments OF our government, and TO per-
this was deemed an inviting field by
the policy men, and IL is refreshing tC
know that they made a serious mis-
calculation. The deliberate way in
which these experienced policy mer
walked into the trap shows that theil
Experience in such matters must hav,
lgenerally been very different from wha'
they encountered here, and it ma!
open the eyes Of the good people Of 1
sister municipality.
From the sums which it seems the.
were prepared to pay for protection
policy must be a profitable game. no
for the players, but for those who con
duct it, And while the playing
usually for small sums, yet the aggre
gate is very large This money come
from the poor. and, strange to sa,
there are those who deny themselvS
the necessities Of life to stake the
pittance. losing it with considerab
regularity, but continuing it with pc
T. feet devotion. All men seem to haN
the gambling instinct more or less d
s veloped, and policy offers to the pos
y 1.-THE means OF gratifying this prope
l. sity. 1t is needless to say that the ci
IS should protect these people, even as
it seeks to protect them from contagio
70 diseases; and indications that this
/ being done should be very gratifying
It is, perhaps, unfortunate that in I
b.. testimony before the magistrate III
!, the names Of so many persons We
mentioned. This is likely to ere;
- wrong impressions in certain instanc
y Doubtless there were those among I
~ number who were personally intere
De ed, but others were simply standing
nd friends whom they deemed worthy
e. confidence. If they were mistaken
'n, their loyalty, they are simply unfor
Of nate. and the public generally sho
nd understand this.
Evening journal., 1902-06-25
Their Politics

William was a Democrat
Drat my buttonsl Think Of that
In these days of great content,
Progress and enlightenment,
Stickin' TO the Bryan wing,
Down every sort Of thing
ICeptin licker-nOt on that
Cause he was a Democrat.
9sySzI&
Tommy was an Addicksite;
Used TO holler day and night
For the Boss who had the cash
IGovernment might go to smash;
Keeping right along / guess
IGloating on his oneryness,
Long as he was fixed UP right
Tommy was an Addicksite
Sc -r 'lyTsrt.s sN,aayr -HsrFHEgsTs
Bob was temperance through and
through;
That was all that Robert knew;
Got as lonesome as could be,
Cause he had no company.
AT election time he wrote;
/" Tain't no use for me to vote"
Still he always will insist
Hos a Prohibitionist.
John was a Republican,
Pretty decent sort of man.
Always paid the debts he owed,
Always reaped cause he had sowed.
Progress was the word he loved,
And his life the doctrine proved,
Always lived an hsnest man.
Just a plain Republican.
Jim want nothing; had no views,
Had no time to read the news.
Sort o. set astride the fence,
Trusting all to Providence
When you talked You didn't see
Jim object, nor yet agree;
Never knOwed where Jim was at
Just sort OF Poll McNatt.
Bill Parsons.
Evening journal., 1902-06-25

diate profts-for they admit and boast
that IL would not do so. No; their OPP
position is inspired by a greedy design
for enormous future gains, 10 be had
through a veritable rape of the island
of Cuba. They propose, these sugar
monopolists do, TO withhold conces-
sions from Cuba until the island is
ruined-until plantations and reiiner-
les are abandoned and their owners
bankrupt. Then they will purchase
all such properties at the meiest frac-
iion of their real value. Finally, they
will in one way or another drag Cuba
into this Union as a State; for they ex-
Dect that the ruined Cubans will either
be glad to accept annexation as their
only hope for industrial salvation or
will revolt again, as they did against
Spanish commercial oppression. and
thus compel the United States to go in
forcibly and take control of the island.
Evening journal., 1902-06-25
CONSOLIDATION

Having had a little time to think
over the project of consolidating New
Castle with Wilmington. the people Of
both cities have discovered reasons
both for and against it. We have not
heard any serious objections. however.
IL would add slightly to our popula-
tion, bringing us up to the so 900 mark
and in these days when cities are en-
larging their boundaries, this may be
regarded as a consideration. One OBJ
server is Of the opinion that New Cas-
to offers us the best opportunity o.
reaching the deep water of the Della
ware. There is a harbor capable o
accommodating any amount Of ship
ping and deep water extends to tn
wharves. Besides this, it is alway
practically free from ice. But possess
ing these advantages. as IL undoubted
ly does. it is hard to see Why it ha
not been further utilized. Perhaps
is due in part to the fact that the tw
great railroads running through Wi
mington do not touch New Castle.
OF course. TO bring that town viii
in the corporate limits Of WilmingtC
would be a benefit to property and i
dustries there. and in all probabili
the country intervening would be bu
UP; and probably, too. there would
developed a considerable freight al
passenger traffic. 1t has been su
gested that following consolidate
numerous schemes to the advantage
all might be worked out 1t is s.
Evening journal., 1902-06-25
NEW WsPAPER OPINION
The TagaIog Insurgents
From the New York sun.

''N '"bo'Ob ihoti kC'Ao
From the New York sun.
The report Of Major-General
Wheaton, commander since November
OF the American forces in the northern
Philippine Islands. shows exactly what
the insurrection there is The anti
imperialdsts have invented a patent
idea Filipino patriot striking for his
altar and his fires. and fighting he
lroically for freedom and independence
General Wheaton found a lot of brig
ands and guerrillas. carrying on a
system OF blackmail and robbery, en-
forced by assassinations. Such was
the character OF the insurgents in the
provinces OF Batangas, Cavite, Laguna
and Tayabas, all provinces of the Ia
golas, the tribe from which most of
the insurgents chiefs have come.
These rebels are really bad ones
robbers. an old nuisance of the islands
They levied toll in every village. every
district They took toll from the farm
er, a 1.-THE of his produce They took
toll at bridge and market. Every
marriage put money in their pockets
Every householder had to pay them
rent Every native employe of the
divide his wages with them. They
squeezed a per capita tax out of every
body They licensed cockpits and gam
bling houses. They backmailed the
Chinese outrageously. They had their
tariff exactions. regular and irregu-
lar They fleeced, pillaged and confis-
Gated to the top of their bent Resist
ance was death. To be friendly to the
Americans. to serve them in any way
without paying a fat fine to the insur-
gents was crime punished with death.
In General Wheatons word: "Ilhe
insurrectionary leaders and chiefs of
guerrillas from their hiding places in
The mountains and forests within the
territorial limits OF the Third Brigade,
completed a system of taxation, con-
tribution and confscation which gave
them complete control. their execution
ers in the vicinity of every pueblo and
barriO enforcing their mandates with
the dagger, or by hurying alive, when
they found it convenient, those natives
who We're lacking in obedience to their
demands"
These robbers and murdercrs are the
noble patriots for whom the bowels
of anti-imperialists yearn. These
blackmailers and assassins are the ten
der lambs whom Senator Carmack and
Senator Dubois and Senator Patterson
have been shielding from the Ameri-
can atrocities"
Evening journal., 1902-06-25
-FOUR MORE GRADUATES
Dupont School Awarded Diplomas at Ex.
treiSNS Last Evening

Professor Francis H. Green, of West
Chester. delivered the address to the
graduates Of the Alexis l. DUPONT
School at the schools commencement
exercises last evening. The class
numbered four pupils, all girls.
The exercises were very entertaining.
The Tancopanicum Musical Club fur
nished the music. the feature of this
program being the rendition OF the
original march, Mother April" COM
posed by Alfred l. DUPONT. The ora
tions we're: Musical Notes. by Anna
May Evans; "The Land Of Fruits and
Flowers" by Martha Beatrice Long;
Some Wonders Wrought by Erosion" I"
by Florence Hall Matchett and Henry
W. Longfellow Our Favorite Poet, by
Mabel Adelaide Krause. Prizes were
awarded by A. r. Spaid, the school
principal.
Evening journal., 1902-06-25
LOCUSTS INHABIT ONLY IN SPOTS
THE WOODS OF THIS COUNTY

Has it occurred to you that the sew
enteen- -year-old locust is not to be
found everywhere in the State? Brand
dywine Springs Park has it, but the
woods half a mile distant know it not
It is in south Brandywine Park, but
not in the north park. It is in West
Eighth Street Park, but not in Kirk
wood Park. ON the East Side of the
city, and why it is not there is known
only TO the locust itself.
Nowhere are the locusts more nu-
merous than at Brandywine Springs.
Day and night their music resounds
there-a music sonorous and deep and
melancholy. Draw a resin-coated
string through a hole in a tin can and
You will have sound familiar to this
music.
Take walk over the wooded up
lands, and on the ground you will SCI
THAT the earth is punctured as by the
lferrules OF a million walking sticks
They are the passages whence th'
locusts have lately emerged from theil
subterTanean nests Under fruit anl
) birch trees the holes are thickest
Il All around these holes lie shells il
/, millions, the amber-colored, transpar
ent shells that the locusts discarded oi
the development Of their wings. Th'
shells are like chaff, lide dead leaves
the wind blows them here and there
r gardeners gather them up and hau
p them away in wheelbarTows; at nigh
y bonfires are made Of them.
!. Now look at the fences, The under
brush, the tree trunks, and in hun
= dreds, you may see the locusts climbin
Is lup. up. up Sometimes they cover
tree trunk completely, so chat 70
e could nowhere lay a finger tip withot
At tltouching a little, black, absorbed Il
70 lcust hurrying from the earth level
y lperilous with wagon wheels and men
= fleet, to safe regions above.
s. Up in tho trees they are quiescen
he laffiXed 20 twigs and TO leaves. N
T. males flutter through the air. With
ly buzz-buzz. they blunder into your fac
OF They drop heavily TO the ground al
q, die amongst their own discarded shell
- Their odor is faint, sweet, sickenin
u When you come out of an infest
Id thicket there are a half-dozon locus
on your shoulders and back, and yo
Evening journal., 1902-06-25
The Rape of Cuba
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
Let there be no Misunderstanding
concerning Cuba. If the United States
is going to- sacrifice it's honor upon the
altar of sordid greed, let il at least do
so with eyes wide open, and with a
fun iealization of the present purport
and the future menace of its act There
should be hereafter no whimpeiing
that we didn't know it was loaded. "
The signs of the times are so plain that
the veliest stark. staring fool of a way
farer can have no excuse for not read
ing and understanding thcm. This,
then. is the condition which confronts
us:
The United States stands morally
pledged by Presidential declaration
and by Congressional enactment, to
grant liberal commercial concessions
to Cuba Such concessions are abso-
lutely necessary to the industrial pros
perity and to the political tranquility
Of Cuba. The granting of them. de-
sired by the President, by the majority
of Congress and by the overwhelming
majority of the American people, is
forbidden by a stubborn and factious
minority in Congress, acting presum-
ably at the behest Of, and certainly IN
the interest of. the allied Sugar Trust
and Beet Sugar ring. These selfish al.
lies oppose the granting of such con
cessions not because it would injur'
their business and lessen their imme
Evening journal., 1902-06-25

R. Patton, d., GIG Van Buren,; Alexander
Connell. R. 6lS Jackson.
31st-VeInon c. Robinson, r., 1890 West
Seventh; Charles Mcintyre. D., SOC
Franklin; Horace S. Allen, d., GIL
Franklin; William r. Linton, R., 1910
West Seventh.
S2d-William Robinson, R., SO7 Broome:
Mark 4. Shaw, d., 225 Connell; Harry A.,
Fritz, D., 1925 West Fourth; Harry Will
helm r., 236 Rodney.
3Sd-Samuel w. Burnite, r. 10 South
Clayton; Edward Thompson. r.. 1924
West Fifth; R. c. McMullin, D., 235 Rod
ney.
S4th-ThOmas c. Appleby, r., 1905 Ian
caster avenue; Thomas Smith, r., 1875
West Fifth; William Kyle, d., 1908 West
Second; Frank e. Taylor, R., ZIG Lincoln.
S5th-Robert T. McClelland, R., 432
South Harrison; Elmer Booth, R., 1928
Linden; Timothy Maloney, D., 1913 Oak;
Chandler Walker, r., 426 South Harri-
son.
seth-wilbur Dill, R., sOs Maryland
avenue; John Shoemaker, R., 217 Stroud;
William Green. D., S11 Brown; Harry
Green, r., S19 Anchorage.
37th-Joseph A. Howard, R., 312 Fifth
avenue; Frank Broman, R., 100 Sixth
avenue; William T. Conner, D., 22S Sixth
avenue; George Russell, r., 2O9 Sixth ave-
nue..
7Oth-Robert A. Taylor, r., 1926 Chest
nut; William f. Connolly, D., Lancaster
avenue and Jackson; Joseph Pochadick
D., Reed and Jackson; George W. Moore
R., 303 South Jackson.
71st-Franklin II. Cotton, R., 100 Harri-
son; Thomas Landy, D., 1918 West Sec
ond; James O'Neill. D., Ill Harrison;
Frank c. Davidson, R., 2SO,Franklin.
72d-Elmer E. Kirk, r., 80 Franklin;
William o. Lynch, r., sos Franklin; Harry
d. Kohlerman, D., SO6 Franklin; Clarence
Pyle, R., 40 Harrison. tr
73d-Andrew Kent, r., 613 Lincoln; An
tonic Giammattoe r., 1712 West Eighth;
Alexis Hart, D., Seventh and Rodney;
Leslie G. Dayett, R., 500 Clayton.
74th-Frank FOulk. R., 1903 Lancaster
avenue; Fred. Samworth, D.. 1904 Laneas-
ter avenue; William Lynch, D., Seventh
and Broome; Edward NJ. Eigle, r.. 1901
Linden.
75th-william Ratledge, r., 215 Haw-
ley; Arthur w. Briley, r., POS Woodlawn
avenue; II. J. Hinderer. D., 2O3 Wood
lawn avenue; Hiram Griffith, R., Second
and Rodney.
Evening journal., 1902-06-25

trouser legs are yellow with locust
dust and with broken wings and with
she'll fragments.
Born IN 1885
The locusts that are now infesting
Delaware were born in 1SS5-born, like
buds, upon the branches Of trees. Their
mothers died to give them life They
fell Eighty, like thistledOwn from the
trees to the ground after birth and bur
rowed their way down under the soil.
They were little, soft, white worms,
with horny beaks, resembling no more
the locusts Of this year than lion re
lsembles a giraffe. They built them
selves subterranean nests, or chambers,
against rootlets. whence they might
draw nourishment. and here, in utter
darkness. in utter solitude. quiescent,
limp. they lay for seventeen years.
A week or two ago instinct awoke
them. They turned, they burst open
their little nests, and, impelled by the
strange power Of instinct, all those mil.
Ions and billions Of small hermits be-
gan to bore their way upward to the
sunshine TO the soft June air, and u
the trees heavy with foliage. In mil
lions they emerged, big, palhd, brittle.
shelled, blind worms. Their shells spill
open down the back. and they cam'
up out OF the back of these yellowish
3 transparent shells, no longer worms
but locusts.
Live Only Few Weeks
Not full-fedged locusts, though; no
the brittle. black. well-winged insect
Of today, but pale. soft, helpless, stupe
E fed cratures-creatures as flaccid as
= lsoft-shell crab Their wings were fold
ed. as a fan is folded, over their head:
a They stood still. Slowly they hard
Il ened: slowly their shells took on color
t their wings unfolded into long vans
> their eyes became scarlet; in an hou
5, fully developed. they moved. Up ol
8 of harms way they went, into the she
tering trees. And there the males san
t. the deep. melancholy music with whiC
Ie the New Castle county woods are st
a resounding, while on the twigs tine f
e. males laid their eggs The locust's Ii
% lis brief: 1t is from three to five weel
s. long; and soon, therefore. they will a
& be dead. They lie in the earth 4
ID seventeen years. and the life for wthi'
IS they are SO long preparing does n
1T last a month.
Evening journal., 1902-06-25
WEDNESDAY. JUNE %. 1902
"a CLouD OVER ENGLAND

The startling news that came IRON
London yesterday is a lesson OF thu
mutability OF human affairs. John
Jones may plan to go on a picnic OF
King Edward may arrange 10 be crown
ed. but anyone OF a thousand things
may intervene The microbes of dis
ease respect a king no more than they
do peasant. and John Jones is nc
more liable to a mortal attack than Is
his Majesty. AT a time when all possi-
Bile emphasis was being given TO rank
and birth, then comes common dis
ease which levels the King as a hui
man being and puts him ON a plane
with all flesh. What now is the be-
ieweled crown? What matters it wheth-
er my Lord Somebody precedes some
body else? All these distinctions ap-
pear so trivial before the common but
awful experience of physical suffering
with it's possible result
And yet it would be improper to sud
denly conclude that the people of Eng
land and their sovereign are justly re-
buked for their display and pageantry.
To them the King stands as the en-
bodiment Of Britain's greatness and
glory. In him they behold their ira
ditions. and he represents their aspira-
tons. And since symbolism is such an
important feature of all government,
we have no quarrel with a people
when they choose a crown and a
sceptre, instead Of plain citizen taken
from the ranks Of the people. The
great nation is disappointed and filled
with foreboding. We care little for the
titled ones who have lost the opportu-
nifty TO show their trappings and to
revel In display. but for the feelings of
the English people we have all SYM
pathy.
Only recently they lost their aged
and revered Queen, and any indications
OF another possible fatality must dis
turb them greatly. The desire to make
of this coronation an event memorable
In history was not confined to the
King. The mass OF Englishmen were
pleased with the prospect OF great ma
tional holiday, in which the glorles OF
England should blaze forth for the ad-
miration Of The world. Alas instead
the embassies are coming home, the
courtiers are putting off their tnsel
and all are watching outside a chamber
where the King lies stricken; and al
are praying for his safe delivemnoe.
Evening journal., 1902-06-25
A GREAT PIECE OF RAILROAD
WORK

With the completion OF work on the
western division. the Chicago, Bur-
nngton and Quincy Railway Company
will have practically a new double
track main line through the State Of
Iowa. For several years an enormous
work has been going on and millions
OF dollars have been expended in re-
ducing grades. taking out curves,
building double track and putting in
new steel bridges.
Evening journal., 1902-06-25

Homicide in lower Delaware is grow
ing startlingly common. Milford has
a case. and Viola another. Frequently
a wave OF crime sweeps over a section
without any apparent reason. Il may
happen because so many offenders have
escaped punishment, or it may be at
tributabe TO no particular cause. But
from the experience Of the past decade
anyone may argue that in committing
murder he has a good many chances OF
escaping the gallows.
Evening journal., 1902-06-25
CAUGHT AT RANDOM

Cremation is not permitted in Ba-
varia.
A celebrated physician asserts that
the additional height and weight Of
Britons and Americans in the last hale
century are chiefly due to the IN
creased consumption Of sugar.
Massos. Sweden. has woman's fire
department, $50 strong.
An act to provide for a commission
to investigate the nature and value of
vaccination. antitoxine, scropathy and
other alleged prophylactics will be in
troduced into the next session Of the
New York Legislature.
The average daily output of the New
York State pulp mills is 1000 tons, o,
nearly half the total American produc
tion.
II is estimated that more than ;
million pineapples are used every yea
in this country by confecuoners an,
candy makers.
Evening journal., 1902-06-25

A superintendent or foreman in
charge Of department can materially
increase his income without in any
way interfering with his regular duties.
Address Opportunity, Evening Journal
Evening journal., 1902-06-25
If You Wish to Build
a Home, ". Can Assist You.

Don't pay for a landlords house,
but pay for a home which will be
your own.
Ifyou have partly enough money
we will loan you the balance.
The amount you are paying in
rent will pay the interest and pay
1.-THE loan.
If you have no money, open a
savings account, and you will soon
have enough so that we can loan
you the balance with which to
build.
If you have money TO loan our
full paid stock pays 6 per cent
per annum.
Evening journal., 1902-06-25

Massos. Sweden. has a woman's fir,
department, $50 strong.