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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-23
TOOK THE WATER CURE
Former Lieut.. James Tells
His Experiences.
HAD NO BAD EFFECT
HE WAS A PRISONER AT THE
TIME.
Filipinos Administered It to His Com.
panions Also - No One
Was Injured.
HAD NO BAD EFFECT

Los ANGELES. Cal, April 23.-Charles
E. James, formerly first lieutenant of the
36th Regiment, United States Volunteers.
who is now a resident of Los Angeles. is
quoted as having said that the present agi-
tation against the use of the water cure"
in the Philippines is due to reports which
magnify the cruelty of the operation.
Il have taken the water cure and know
what it is, since it was administered by the
Fnipinos," said Lieutenant James Il have
seen ii administered to several hundred ma
tives and know its effects. Let me state
that 1 never knew of the water cure kill
ing victim. When the statement is made
that the subject is given water until his
lungs are filled II is an untruth Any one
of common sense knows that a man would
strangle to death in a very short space of
time in such circumstances
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-23
Took the Cure Himself.

My own experience took place in June,
1900. Captain Jack Robert, a son of Gen.
eral Robert; a private Of the name of GAL
lion and myself were scouting just north OF
Biacanabato Pass, out from San Miguel,
when a force under General Treson sur
rounded U.S.. We were taken into the moun-
tairs and forced TO march three days with
out food. We made from eighteen to twen-
ty-two miles day. This starvation was
carried out with the intention of forcing us
to divulge army news. 1t did not succeed,
however. At the end of that time We were
introduced to the water cure which by
natives is called 'tubig'
Regarding the effects of the cure l will
state that the distention of the stomach and
the accompanying pain is all there is to it,
1 strangled once, but one quick cough ended
1t The cure is not pleasant, but | would
rather take 1t than receive beating NV
could notice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-23
Presidential Nominations.

The President today sent the following
nominations to the Senate:
Indian inspector-John e. Edwards. Mon
tana.
Indian agents-s. G. Reynolds. Grow
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
PROTESTING TOO U

st. Louis Globe-Democrat: Several
generals who served in the revolu-
tionary forces in Cuba have sent to
Washington a document claiming that
the Cubans are almost starving on
account Of bad economic conditions,
and asking at the hands of the United
States that Cuba "be allowed to live
Cuba is a fertile island, and as frost
is unknown anywhere within it's
boundaries, the raising of food goes
on continuously. There is plenty of
room for the population of 1900, 900.
No public debt exists. When Spain
relinquished sovereignty the island
vas freed from a debt charge of So
$4,000 -year Cuba supported the
Spanish troops. We pay our w
army bills. The remarkably success
full sanitary improvement of the is
land has been paid for without special
taxation. Attendance at the public
schools has been INCREASED fourfold
and nearly 5000 teachers are employ
ed. The postal system has been mod
ernized. Sufficient revenue is pro-
duced by a moderate tariff and a large
sum Of money will remain in the treas
ury when we retire.
In a short time, under these favor
able conditions. Cuba will be under it's
own flag and shaping economic condi-
tons through it's own distinct legis-
lative ana executive action. If it were
true that the Cubans are starving and
pleading with us for a chance to live.
the claim that the island is able to
sustain a government of it's own under
any circumstances would have to be
questioned. But emotional eXtrava-
gance of language is not unknown
among certain Cuban leaders. Nothing
more than ordinary perception is re-
quired to see that Cuba can never
realize its greatest possibilities until
it is part of the territory of the United
States. 1t prefers a separate govern
ment and the road is open. AS a dis
tinct republic it may get along better
than many persons believe, but after
all that has been freely done for it.
the talk of impeding starvation and
ruin can. only be excused on the
ground that it is a mis%conception.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
DlSOWNED AT HOME.

Charleston News and Courier: Re-
spect for his (Tillman's) office, for the
place, for the good cause he had es-
poused and ordinary regard for him.
self, should have restrained him from
actual resort to personal violence.
Had he knocked McLaurin down, that
would not have proved that McLaur-
ms charge of falsehood against him
Laurin's insult was so gross that it
could be wiped out only by a personal
encounter, it would have been more
dignified had he sought satisfaction
for the affront after the senate had
adjourned.
The conduct of Senator McLaurin
was utterly without excuse. His
language in the senate was al insult
to that body and a disgrace to himself.
He must have known that it would
make a sensation" at least, if it did
not result in a resort to violence, and
common respect for himself and for
his state and for the senate should
have influenced him not to give oc-
casion of offense. 1t would be better
for the state and for public d]ecenc?
if the country could be spared the
humiliation Of being represented by
men who cannot control themselves,
No punishment that the senate could
inflict upon the senators woull be toe
severe for their outrageous conduct
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
battle of Santiago. The president, in

battle of Santiago. The president, in
passing final Judgment upon the mat
ter, decides that he was not in com
mand and did none of the acts of a
commander. Admiral Dewey has de-
clared that Schley was in absolute
command" Third-To prove that
schley behaved like a coward during
the battle. The court of inquiry and
the president agree in finding that,
with the exception of the loop, his
conduct during the fight vas beyond
criticism. AS to the loop, it was made
on Captain Cooks order; it did not
cause the Brooklyn to lose her posi-
ton as the nearest ship to the enemy,
where she did and received the most
damage, and there are good reasons
for believing it was a wise maneuver.
The president cherishes the hope
that his decision will end the contro-
versy. If a controversy car be ended
by showing that it was begun in false
hood and continued in calumny, the
president has indeed brought this N
to it's conclusion.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
~UNFOUNDED

Our own Wheeler is not the only
one who is d%ispleased at the courtes-
les we are showing Prince Henry.
Johnnie Bull has taken umbrage at
she same thing and his newspapers
are running over with articles p
4ive of the old gentleman's dis
pleasure.
Frederick Greenwood. a well known
English writer on political subjects,
has an article in the Pail Mall Ga
zette in which he takes occasion to
give utterance to the chagrin he de-
clares all England feels at the effu-
siveness of u welcome of Heinrich
and GU apparent short memory in re-
gard to the friendship OF England dur
ing the Spanish-American Val. Just
as by degrees the English were get
ting prouder and prouder of the good
Il they had contrived for us. he
says, we up and shower kindnesses
and courtesies upon a representative
OF the one power above all others that
was u~nfriendly to us when we needed
friends the most. Forgetting our OBJ
legations to England, we go into hys-
terics and embrace the German and
clasp him to our breast with the
warmth of a long lost brother.
But, after all, says Mr.. Greenwood.
the incident which seems to worry
him SO much may not be without it's
good consequences. "The reception of
Prince Henry" continues he, ''may
bring us solid benefits. We do not
all know how to value yet the first
correction of the kith and kin illu.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
CASE OF

A decided difference of opinion
seem to exist between the president
and Senator Tillman as to the latter's
relations to the senate. The former
believes that he is in contempt, while
the c%yclopean wielder of the pitchfork
denies the charge. but admits that he
has been guilty of a breach of the
rules and privileges CT that body, moth
ing more. AS he also admits that he
can be expelled for his action of last
Saturday the South Carolinan is evil
IDENTIFY inclined to strain things for
the mere sake of effect. While it
is true that the senate is a legislative
and not a judicial body, it has it's rules
for the government of it's members
and these rules Tillman violated when
he made an assault on his colleague
and to that extent stands practically
if not technically in contempt Of that
body. HIS own admissions show a
realization on his part of the serious
ness of the offense charged against
him. Contempt usually carries no
more severe penalty than a fine or i'm
p~risonment. Expulsion from court is
a punishment never imposed upon a
man guilty of contempt, hence Till
mans admission that the senate can
expel him must be taken as evidence
that he regards his offensce in a more
serious. light than he would were he
guilty of simple contempt.
Tillman's attempt to slur the presi-
dent will fail, even with those of his
own party. To have permitted him to
be a guest at the dinner to Prince
Henry as the representative of the
body he has disgraced would have been
an insult to every member of the SEN
ate. not to say anything of the affront
It would have been to the distinguish
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28

ial delegate from Germany, for the
two nations are upon friendly terms
and it is desirable that these relations
should continue. There are Ameri-
can like the BLACKBOARD Tillman,
who with his colleague whom he had
attacked with the charge of corrup-
ton, INDUCED in a pugilistic collision
in the sacred precincts of the senate
chamber on Saturday, who are sorely
grieved because Of the official recog-
milton by the administration of the
coming of the Prince of Prussia.
There are Americans, like Wheeler of
Kentucky, who make absurd spec
tacles of themselves by exploring the
vocabulary of slangwhangery to find
contemptuous epithets to throw at
the president, the prince and our COM
missioners toxthe coronation of the
King of England. These men are
stupid enough in their "anti-imperial-
ISM to favor the breaking off of all
diplomatic relations with monarchies
and autocracies. They are advocates
of a policy which would isolate us, in
lure our trade abroad and remand us
the category of unprogressive nations.
Meantime, the prince will be appro-
J. priately welcomed. Americans, what
ever they may protest, dearly love to
see royalty. When the Prince of
Wales was in this country in the six
ties, even Americans who declared
that they would not walk across the
street to see him. nearly broke their
necks to see him, and the girls who
didn't get a chance to dance with the
prince, felt like retiring from society.
The young man. will. no doubt, II
Joy himself. He will learn much, if he
opens the eyes of his understanding,
and he will, no doubt. take back with
him some knowledge which will make
his imperial brother more anxious
than ever to still the excuses of reich
stag agrarian abuse of our country,
which, however, we don't take very
deeply to heart. since we have the
stuff which Germany wants and does
not produce at home, and which she
must have. The prince and his en-
tourage, while here, will probably re-
wise the old German song and sing it
america, America. uber allies" 1t
would be a nice little bit of interna.
tional comfy for them to do this.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
PRINCE HENRY.

Minneapolis Journal: The young
and bumptious defendant Of bluff old
Water Fritz, otherwise Frederick II.
of Prussia, arrived in New York yes
terday, and the boom of guns and the
shcutings of welcome from a multitude
of Threats broke the Sabbath stiffness
and sent the Fourth Commandment
out of sight and out of mind for a sea-
son.
Prince Henry of Prussia stands for
the persistent militarism which Wafer
Fritz introduced into the center Of
Europe in the eighteenth century
and which has struck successfully at
every fighting power in Europe. ard
which, finally, through a quick re-
venge upon France for the ~excesses
of the Napoleonic ambition of the
Uncle and Nephew. made Prussia
flower into the great German empire.
which has done more to maintain the
peace of Europe than any other cause.
The sovereigns of the house of Hohen-
z%ollern, nine in number. have not been
possessors Of much surplus wealth n
til the empire was brewed by Bis
mack out of Prussian material. The
Emperor William and Prince Henry
command the Injuries of the world,
thanks to Bismarck, who was rudely
dismissed from the chancellorship by
William. These gentlemen would as
tonish Water Fritz by their attire, for
the old hero loved to go about with
dirty military boots IN, wearing a
rusty cooked hat and s~nuff-impreg-
mated, ancient military coat. But
times have changed with the Hohen-
zollerns. The representative of mil
itary despotism is sent by the emperor
to witness in his stead the launching
of his American-built yacht, to be
christened by an American maiden,
the. daughter of the president of the
greatest republic of all history, which
is still the breeding place of free in
situations. Notwithstanding all the pre-
dictions of Europe, and. n~otwithstand-
ing the exploitation, in the name of
liberty. at home. of the most vicious
vagaries which themselves would I'M
dermine the foundations of our sys-
TEN.
Yet the greatest power Of the new
world may properly greet the imper-
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28

In some of the states nearly 80 per
cen of the land is still public. The
storage of water by which more of
this land may be reclaimed and set
tie is a simple business measure on
the part of the government for en-
HANGING the value of it's own proper
ty."
Another authority, Prof. Elwood
Mead, takes a similar view. He says
that irrigation works must be built
rivalling in magnitude and cost those
along the Ganges and the Nile and
that this will not be done until there
has been legislation by congress-. The
arid states cannot do it because they
have not the means and private capt.
tai will not because experience has
shown that costly private works to re-
claim public lands are not profitable"
-"Only congress-" say Prof. Mead, "as
the custodian of the public domain.
can provide the conditions indispensa-
BILE to satisfactory progress Such
testimony must strengthen opinion in
favor of the policy Of Matchmaking
the work of irrigation. which is mani
testify beyond the of the
states, to say nothing Of other difficult
ties involved in the problem. Being a
work of national scope and import
ance it should be prosecuted by the
general government in a broad and
liberal way, rather than in the man
ner contemplated by the H%ansbrough-
Newlands bill, which it is expected
will come up for consideration in the
senate this week. =
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
THE suPERFLUoUs HOUSE.

Boston Herald: The national house
of representatives has reached the
acme of consistency in effacing itself
as regards debate in passing the wal
tax repeal bill without a word Of dis
cussion. Here is a more formal ac-
ceptance of the position to which it
has been brought as one branch of
the American congress than We have
before encountered AS we remarked
the other day, it has come to be under
stood that, all important measures
of legislation are framed and put into
the condition of their final passage
by the senate; but up to this action
of Monday the house made some sem
blance of a claim to be considered a
part of the legislative portion of the
government. It's members e to
have said on Monday as regards the
war tax measure: "We are ready to
have no hand in it's settlement. The
senate is to attend to the work Of
legislation in this respect. We should
not in any event be allowed to give
more than a few hours to it's consider
alton. Why, therefore. give any time?
Let us frankly acknowledge at the out
set Jul unimportant helplessness."
The members appear to have seen the
reasonableness of this, and to have
accepted the situation.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1902.
MASON ON.

Senator Mason of Illinois is making
a strong bid for popularity with those
who go in for the strenuous in life and
believe that success in that direction
can be best achieved when the physi-
cal condition of the votaries of the
Rooseveltian cult is at it's highest
stage of attainment. He has introduce
ed a bill for the establishment of a de-
partment of physical culture and
creating a new cabinet officer to be
known as the secretary OF physical
culture. The purpose of the bill is
declared to be Ito promote the
of physical culture and the individual
improvement of the human race
Elaborate provisions are made in the
measure for the creation of half holi.
days for labor, for public parks, for
public Fairgrounds, public fountains,
baths, %laundries, theatres and other
adjuncts. But what, may strike some
men as the best feature of the bill is
the provision for the appointment OF
commissioners from each state at a
salary of $4,000 a year.
1t must be very apparent that Mr..
Mason is a man Of more than ordinary
perspicacity and shrewdness. He'has
caught on to the trend of matters.
His farseeing powers have enabled
him to forestall the future. The years
he has put in. as a member of the SEN
ate have qualified him for discounting
the time to ome No doubt when he
framed his bill his minds eye show
ed him the possibility of such occur
rences as that of last Saturday and
his prescience gave him a "hunch'
that the time for submission of the
bill had come. Brain and power of az
preston are no longer to be consider
ed as requisites for successful partici.
patton in debates in the highest law
making body of the world. Muscle
and the knowledge when to lead for
an opponents jaw, and the skill to
parry such leads from the other fel.
low are what is wanted during these
parlous times.
Go to with your high flown sen
fences and nicely rounded periods
Give us the man who can land a
knockout blow, who knows how tc
reach the solar pleXus Of his sena
torial opponent and we do not care
with what graces of oratory and pow
er of logic the other man may be en-
dowed. Our money will always be
found on the n with the strong righ1
arm and the stiffness of foot.
Let Mr.. Mason's bill become a law
at once and give the place of first sec
rotary of physical culture to Mr.. Till
mar and make Mr.. McLaurin the frs
commissioner from South Carolina.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
THE IRRIGATION PROBLEM.

Omaha Bee: A valuable contribu-
ton to the discussion Of the irrigation
problem is made by Lieutenant
Colonel C%hittenden of the United
States army, in an article on govern
men construction of reservoirs. He
estimates that the total annual supply
Of water in that portion of the arid
regions which is capable of irrigation
will sustain agriculture en- about TO-
100000 acres, or possibly 100, 900, 900
acres, an area which, on the basis of
the density of population in the more,
highly cultivated sections of Europe.
will under successful irrigation main
tain as great a population as that of
the entire United States in 1900.
Regarding the conservation of this
water supply, by a comprehensive re-
servoir system, Colonel Chittenden
asks by what agency the work can be
best accomplished and says: GAS be-
tween the two broad divisions of pub
lie and private agencies, the question
is not difficult to answer. Neither
private individuals nor corporations
can ever be relied upon to do this
work as it should be done. In the first
place, their will not ordinar-
lily be sufficient. In the second, the
immediate purpose for which a COM
pany or individual might build a res
ervoir will very rarely be such as to
develop the full capacity of the site"
He urges that the government can
profitably and properly undertake
works of this character which would
be ruinous to an individual. AS to
the states constructing reservoirs, he
points out that their present resources
preclude most of them from undertake
ing works of. this character. 1T must
not be forgotten, either" says Colonel
Chittenden, that the government is
the principal land owner n the west.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
HONESTLY PUT.

The Glendive Review takes occa-
sion to republish an article from one
of it's exchanges in which plea is
made for patronizing home merchants
and dealers on the ground that they
help to build up the community AMI
contribute to the welfare and pros
perity of it's people. After endorsing
the article in question to it's fullest
the Review assumes. to give a little
advice to the merchants, advice to
which The Gazette and every other
newspaper published in a small COM
munity heartily subscribes. 1t says:
THE above is true. Build up home
industries. Let the merchant follow
it, too, and not send away to st. Paul,
Minneapolis or some other city for
work that can be done at home. Let
him remember that he is violating
it when he sends away for his print
ing. When it m to building up a
town he will find the printers in the
lead of him. Did the merchant give
away but one-half as much of his
wares in the interest of the city or
county as the printer he would go
broke. If a merchant is justified in
sending away for his bill heads, state
ments, letter heads, ETC., because he
thinks he can save a few cents per
thousand by it, he should be the last
person on earth to kick at the others
for following his precept.'
Glendive evidently has merchants
of the same kind as are to be found
in other towns along the Northern
essary to go beyond the limits of
Montana, either.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-28
PRESIDENT AND scHLEY.

New York Times: This conspiracy
against Schley has had three leading
objects: First-To prove that on his
way to Santiago and before the bat
tie Schley was guilty of reprehensible
conduct as charged. This charge was
met and destroyed by the promotion
of Schley. The president gives no at
tention to it.. Second-To prove that
Sampson was in command during the