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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20

1t is a rather remarkable condition
of affairs that our shipbuilding firms
have to import iron and steel from
Scotland. .Ir~sur dispatches yesterday
it was stated that the New York Ship
building Company at Camden, n. J.,
had ordered $4,000 tons of manufac-
tured iron and steel from the Lam
cashire Iron Company, Scotland. be-
cause home companies were unable to
fill its order.
The demand for iron and steel pro-
ducts in this country must be extra
ordinary. Under the circumstances it
is easily understood why it is that
there IS such phenomenal prosperity in
the iron and steel industry. But the
profits of the industry being so great
why is it that new iron and steel
plants are not being established?
Surely birmingham could double and
quadruple her output of iron and steel
products if the capital for new iron
and steel plants We're forthcoming.
And why is it that it isn't forthcom-
ing? Clearly there is an immense
profit in the manufacture of all kinds
of iron and steel products. The profits
of the United States Steel Corporation
are simply immense. They cannot
very we'll help to be. Raw material is
cheaper in this country than in Scot
land, and yet the Lancashire Company
can sell iron and steel products to
,.,xy
at prices which. in all probability. are
about the same as those demanded by
our manufacturers of iron and steel
products when the freight and tariff
taxes are taken into account.
If our shipbuilding firms are to COM
to be able to purchase iron and steel
shipbuilding materials as cheaply as
they can be purchased by English
shipbuilders. And there ought to be a
good profit in iron and steel for our
manufacturers at prices obtained for
these articles by English and Scotch
manufacturers. If they cannot manu-
feature as cheaply as English and
Scotch manufacturers can they ought
to he able to explain why it is that
they are selling their products in the
European markets in competition with
the European manufacturers of iron
and steel products.
AS a matter of fact our manufac-
turers are making enormous profits.
Their profits are so great that they
are not in need of the protection which
the tariff gives them.
This is a matter which Congress
should look into at once. If the people
are being robbed practically by our
iron and steel manufacturers, and the
order given to the company. in Scot
land seems to indicate that they are,
Congress ought not to hesitate a mo-
ment, when it reconvenes in December
to reduce the tariff on iron and steel
products.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
CURRENT COMMENT,

The Washington Post Ind.) says:
I'VE are not the least bit committed
to the notion that Mr. Hanna will at
tempt to do unpleasant things to Gen.
Leonard Wood because of the latter's
part in prosecuting the persons ac-
cused of the Cuban postal frauds. We
have not lost sight of the fact that
Let we'll enough alone is Mr.. Han
mas pet motto.''
The New York World (Dem.) says:
within the Dingley duty of 20 per
cent. on farm machinery the American
market is controlled by American
makers. Our factories, the biggest in
the world. have combined to exact the
last penny of tribute at home while
marketing their surplus abroad at
lower rates. Already we sell more
than 16.000,0 900 worth of farm machin-
cry per year in other commissioners
than million dollars worth each to
Great Britain, Russia. France. Ger
many and Argentina, about a million In
Australasia and smaller quantities
elsewhere. The American farmer
pays the tariff: the foreign buyer of
farm machinery gets the benefit of
the only competition it leaves posi-
ble."
The Baltimore Sun Dem says: "It
may be. as alleged, that Mr.. Morgan
has not sailed for the United States
with any intention of interfering in
the controversy between the miners
and the operators. But when he lands
in New York this week and realizes
what the situation is. he may find it
to his interest to take position which
viii conform TO the wishes and expec-
tations of the public. The dispatches
state that Senator Quay of Pennsyl-
vania, is exerting his influence with
the view Of ending the strike. All ac-
cessions 10 the ranks OF the peace
makers viii be welcomed. II Is also
inumated that the administration has
decided TO exercise its influence in be-
half Of an amicable adjustment. An
earnest effort 20 bring about a settle
ment will scarcely fail 10 be crowned
with success. with business men
statesmen and millions Of consumers
urging an adjustment substantial prog
ress toward an early and satisfactory
settlement should be made"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
ONE CAUSE OF RAILROAD TRUSTS.

A Houston, Tex dispatch says that
FIVE hundred tickets were sold in that
city for Chicago on Saturday afternoon
last at prices ranging all the way from
IS to 80 cents. In fact one brokers Of
fered to give box of cigars to every
purchaser of a ticket for 80 cents. There
was a rate war between the roads lead
ing from Houston to Chicago. So fierce
was 1t that transportation 20 a city
nearly 1000 miles distant was prac-
tically given away.
Those who study the railroad situa-
ton have no difficulty in seeing why 1t
is that the railroads are being formed
into great systems but the mass of
the people do not understand II, and
insist that mergers shall be prevented,
because they think they mean monop-
olies and higher transportation rates.
OF course mergers mean that the
highest rates possible will be charged,
but the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion and State Railroad Commissions
are supposed to see to it that the rates
are reasonable. 1t is evident that I'M
less railroads are permitted to pool
their earnings, or to protect themselves
in some other way against ruinous
competition, the roads will become
merged without any effort in that d.
rection by their owners. The weaker
ones will pass into the hands of recelv-
ers and be sold, the stronger ones be-
coming the purchasers.
AS a rule it is the weaker road that
begins rate cutting. 1t seeks to draw
business from its stronger competitor,
and the only way it can do that is to
lower it's rates. OF course the stronger
road discovers at once what is being
done, and then the rate war begins.
Rate wars are of no benefit to the
public. AS rule they are a distinct
disadvantage, because they demcralize
business. Business requires stable
rates. Such rates are impossible where
there is fierce competition. Congress
has refused to permit the roads to pool
their earnings, and there has not aris-
en- any one big enough to suggest
way by which railroads can maintain
rates while engaged in fierce COMPETE
| ton.
The Houston incident is an exagger-
ated example of what is taking place
pretty nearly all the time between
roads which are competing with each
other. 1t Is not to be wondered g that
all sorts of, means are adopted to main
tain rates-that roads are merged and
trusts formed.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
BRIGHT BITS.

He was practical, and had been
making love on that basis. She was
little that way herself. Can you
COOKE" he inquired.
Can you supply everything to be
cooked? 2" she replied. 1t was a
match.-Tit- Bits.
Mrs. Greene: You didn't say a
word to your husband, after all. You
said you'd speak to him when YOU
saw him at breakfast
Mrs. Brown: But l didn't see him
at breakfast. He was hidden behind
his morning paper, as usual.-Boston
Transcript.
"A Protest-"Mary!" Mrs Newcomer
called down to the servant, Mrs.
Reuben Eek is crossing the road, and
l believe she's coming here Run out
and turn that doormat upside down."
Which one, ma'am?"
THE one at the front door that has
Welcome on it, "-Philadelphia Press.
Really a "Skribbles
is writing a new novel, in which the
hero and heroine are deaf and dumb. -
explains the mutual friend.
How queer!" comments the other
mutual friend.
"Oh, l don't know. He says it's a
great convenience. When he gets tired
of inventing conversations for them
he just has them hold hands for the
rest of the chapter, while he writes
about the scenery or the weather.
Judge.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
Personal.

The lord lieutenancy of Ireland, for
applicant, has been given to another
and he is now seeking the appointment
of governor general of the common
wealth of Australia, post that is go
ing begging because of the low salary
attached and the enormous expense In
volved in the discharge of it's social
requirements.
-Arditi, the composer, now so years
old, is living at Brighton, England,
happy in the loving companionship of
his wife, son and daughter. Signor Ar
diti has conducted grand opera in all
the principal cities of Europe and
America. In London alone he assisted
in the first production of twenty-seVen
different works. He has been a lifelong
friend and coworker of Verdi.
Lord Elgin, chairman of the Brit
ish war inquiry committee, was in 1894
viceroy of India. He did not wish the
office, but was persuaded by Lord
Roseberry to accept it. Though a COM
paratively untried man, he had great
point in his favor, in the fact that his
father had been viceroy before him
and in the result he thoroughly justi-
fled the confidence of Lord Rosebery
and others.
Senator Pettus, of Alabama, has
been visiting friends in Mobile, and, al
though he was 81 years old last month,
the Register declares that, venerable
in age, but yet youth in strength and
feeling, he is good for many years of
further service, and his people will,
with practical unanimity, continue him
in office" Mr.. Pettus is probably the
oldest man who ever sought a seat in
the Senate, as he was rs when he en-
tered the lists as a contestant for his
present seat in 1896.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
"I'm Going 10, Anyway.v

From the Los Angeles Herald.
When you've set your head to do it,
When your judgment says you're
right,
When your conscience gives it's sane
ton,
Then pitch in with all your right.
Don't let anything prevent you,
Though the odds seem big and strCng;
Every obstacle must vanish
AS the swift days roll along
II you set your jaw and say:
We'll, I'm going to- anyway"
What's this life that we are living.
But mighty hurdle race?
Every obstacle encoudt :t-al
Makes you quick an up your pace.
Till, with mighty DO Ind ri .nI2hant,
Gu come safely TO the goal
Ypu had toiled for yon had longed To-: j..
In the center of your SOUL
WLC1 you set your law tc say:
We'll, I'm going to, anyway"
While the whole world loves a lover
Yet it loves a winner best:
Loves the man who. till he conquer,
Stops not cen for sleep or rest.
Oft he may be worn and haggard.
Often he may weary be,
Yet the Ion heart within him.
Has been firm as rock since he
Set ms quiet Jaw to say.
Well, I'm going to, anyway"
o the loose-hung jaws encountered
In the course OF but a dayl
O the lives devoid of purpose.
That we End along the wayi
They the weaklings are who know not
What strong faith and viii may do.
Know not that the worlds a servant
To the man who's game and true
Aud who sets his jaw 10 say:
We'll, I'm going %. anyway
S. W. Gillian.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
Difficulty In Concluding.

Serious things make me want TO
laugh sometimes" remarked a genial
elderly clergyman, according to tho
Detroit Free Press, land 1 simply can
not help the feeling, although, of
course, l restrain the manifestation.
Travelling in the country, many years
ago, l was belated and had to ask to
stay all night at lowly farm house.
Not wanting to impose any restraint
on the good people, and wishing to
be one of them in the truest sense. l
refrained from mentioning that l was
a clergyman.
After our good homely supper, the
mother, daughter and 19-years -old bow
grew sleepy almost Immediately, and
l suggested that we go to bed early.
as was tired myself. The good wo-
man had previously explained that
her husband had gone away for sew
eral days to see his mother, who was
sick. My proposal to retire was we'll
received; and the good woman said:
Stranger, we're kind o. pious out
here in tn country, an we allus hev
prayers fore we go to bed. Sonny,
as yer paw amt here, l reckon you IL
hev ter lead in prayer"
we all knelt, and that boy really
made most surprising prayer. 1t
was so simple, so fervent and direct
that it went to my heart But he
didn't stop; he prayed, and prayed, and
prayed, saying over and over again
the earnest supplications which had so
impressed me. Finally his mother
murmured in an undertone:
Sonny amt y prayed purity nigh
long enough?'
The boys aswer was as startling to
me as his uncommon gift in prayer
had been.
Nav he said, I'm jes ev'y bit as
tired as you are, but don't know
how ter wind tn blamed thing up -
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20

One of the most famous of the 'lost"
gold mines of the West is that known
as Lost Cabin, in Wyoming. For more
than twenty-five years prospectors
have been searching for it. II was dis
covered in 1869 by two miners named
Gorham and Arbach. 1t was in an in
accessible place, on the face of "a lift
During several years they took out
valuable nuggets, but were finally kill
ed by Indians and their secret was lost
For eight or ten years two prospectors
of the name of Burris and Sutton nave
been among those searching for the
deposit. Recently they discovered It. IN
"a narrow, vine-covered crevice in the
face OF a precipice sixty miles from
the town OF Buffalo. Wyo. A few feet
inside the crevice they found ch.seled
the names Of the original 5iscoy=rers
The deposit is said 20 be far richer
than has heretofore been supoos ID. one
% the men dug out $40 worth OF pure
Foid nlih pen-knife Ia |eW min
ntss There has been "a great rash Of
proagecto1 ~ the find
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20

There is a class oz people-and they
are not all women. either-who cannot
be convinced that whatever an author
writes isn't photographed. says the
New York Tribune. If a man writes
a love sonnet, he must be in love,
theory which, if carefully applied to
some of our poets, would prove that
they out-Solomon Solomon. Such per-
sons are rather Vexing. for one is sure
they would never read Shakespeare's
sonnets if they didn't believe there
was a woman involved, and they sim
ply glory in the fact that poor little
David Copperheld is said to be the
boy Dickens himself. To all such this
story may have interest.
1t is about a fable by George AIDE,
the postmaster of slang. The fable
tells of two men, the one who wouldn't
learn botany. but got out and Dug for
the Rocks. or something of that sort;
the other who said, Nay. nay, a Gull
tured mind is the real thing; I'll go
through college and then be It," or
something of that sort. Anyway the
first, who had 'bloodshot hands"
Chat quotation is exact), got out and
rustled for the cash so effectively that
by the time the second was earning
$50 week as a professor, and was
still only an A. NJ, he came to the
same college with $50 900 he had for
gotten to take out of his pocket when
he changed his pants" (the professor
doubtless wore trousers), saw a new
gymnasium was needed, gave the $50
900 and was made a Pho. The laugh
seemed to be on number two.
Now, according to James O'Donnell
Bennett, who is well enough known in
theatrical circles, being now connected
with the business end of Miss Mar
loves productions, George AIDE him
self might stand for number one in
some way, and Bennett and several
more for number two.
You see" said Bennett, before AIDE
was famous, when he was just a news
paper man with the rest, a lot of us
used to have quarters in Chicago
where we retired at night, when the
days grind was over, and studiously
set about improving our minds. But
AIDE wouldn't join US. While we were
reading the sixty-seventh volume of
the Life of Johnson he would be
down in all sorts of joints, setting up
cheap variety actors and the like to
beer and ham sandwiches
George we would tell him, YOU
are not doing right by yourself You
should study and improve your mind.
not waste your spare time in cheap
and riotous living. Come with US; win
culture, not slang
But AIDE kept on setting up the beer
ana learning slang. We cut the
leaves in the sixty-eighth volume of
Boswell. And now-and. now. we
have minds more or less improved. but
AIDE draws a salary of $500 a week
and goes to the Waldorf! There's your
fable, to the life"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
INDEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Special Notices-Furnaces etc,
Cornwen & Chapman; Dinner Bill of
Fare, Union Depot Restaurant; Hoff-
mans Studio To Be Open Thursday;
Notice to the Public. James K. P.
Carr. Clerk, s. c., C. c., Ga; The
Coolest Spot, Hotel Tybee.
How Little il Costs to Cook With
Gas-Mutual Gas Light Company.
The South End in Full Blast-Music.
Dancing. Bathing.
Aug. O.-Get It At Rowlinskfs.
Auction Sale-Trustees Sale of Hard
ware. Crockery, ETC., John E. Schwaz.
Trustee
High Glass" vaudeville-At the Ca
sino.
We've Got Them, skirts-Foye &
Eckstein.
Now TO the Point-via Morning
News on Seaboard Air Line Tonight.
Suits for IS. 40-B. H. Levy & Bro.
Force Food.
Beers-Pabst Beer, A. B. c. Beers.
ship Company.
Washing Powder-Pearline.
Special Rates-At Harris Lithia
Springs Hotel.
Uneeda Biscuit-National Biscuit
Company.
Mothers Friend: McMunn's
Elixir of Opium: Stuart's Gin and Blu
chu; Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Pills;
Cascaretsi Cuucura; DR.. Hathaway
Company.
Cheap Column Advertisements
Help Wanted: Employment Wanted
For Sale: For Rent; Lost; Personal;
Miscellaneous.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20

That was an imposing array of
British warships in the Solent in hon
or of the Kings coronation. AS a ma
rine picture it was impressive to look
upon-'twenty battleships, twenty-six
cruisers. seventeen torpedo boats, two
destroyers and ten training ships But
how much of real efficiency, actual
lighting power, did the fleet repre-
scent? Sir William Cloves. a British
naval expert, is quoted as saying that
the jority of the ships were mere
dummies, too feeble to fight and too
slow to run away" Sir Charles Dixie
says that, with a single exception,
none of the ships carried guns or shells
equal to those of other countries.
Some of the ships, indeed, were armed
with old muzzleloaders. In the fleet
was one new vessel. just off the stocks:
a fine and powerful craft But prac-
tically every one OF the other heavy
vessels was equipped with poor boil
ers and poor armament. Lord Charles
BeresfOrd some months ago severely
criticised the British navy, along pre-
cisely similar lines. for which he was
censured. Herr Meyer OF Germany
only recently declared that Ia every
thing but numbers Butaln's navy was
inferior 10 that Of any other great
Power.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20
cHAFFEE GIVEN FREE HAND.

1t has been apparent ever since we
have been in the Philippines that there
would have to be a fight to the finish
in his dispatches to the War De-
partment more than once. that they
must be taught. a lesson. Apparently
he said it with much emphasis in his
dispatch to the department on Mon
day. Anyway. on the advice of the
department the President has direct
ed Gen. Chaffee to use his discretion,
be given a sound thrashing if he thinks
the time is opportune for a campaign
against them.
The Moros are treacherous and in
every way Enthusiastically. OF the in
habitants of the Philippines they are
about the only race that is distinctly
hostile to the rule of the United States.
They have promised several times
through their chiefs TO keep the peace
and obey the laws. They have not
kept their promise. On the contrary,
they take every opportunity to muir
der our soldiers. They do not attack
them openly. They crawl upon them
in the night and murder them and
they shoot them from ambush. They
don't appreciate kindness.
They were meyer conquered by the
Spaniards. In fact, the Spaniards did
not undertake to control them. They
paid them so much a year TO refrain
l. l. e. -,
say the United States will do nothing
of that kind.
Gen. Chaffee is in Mindanao. near
the scene of the trouble, and now that
he has received permission TO begin
hostilities it is probable that he will
give the Moros taste of what real
war is. He will give no such order
as that for which Gen. Jake Smith
was retired before reaching the re-
firing age, but the country of the
Moros will show the effects of war
unless they speedily repent and Zoe
come peaceable and peace-loving peo-
pie.
There is no doubt that the Presi-
dent hesitated a long while before be-
ginning active operations against the
Moros. He hoped they would conclude
to accept the situation and maintain
the peace. He has been forced to the
conclusion, however, that there will
never be peace in all the Philippines
until the Moros have been thoroughly
conquered. Ever since the announce
ment that the war in the islands was
practically over there have been com
ing by cable every day or two reports
of murderous attacks upon our SOL
diers by treacherous Moros. Patience
has ceased to be virtue in dealing
with these people. 1t is evident that
the only way to make an impression
on them is to show them that the
United States have the power to en-
force their authority and intend to
use it.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20

Representative Spencer Blackburn, of
the Eighth North Carolina congress
sional district, is playing COR n dual
stake in the next election. In Wash
ington he met and fell in love with a
beautiful young woman, and she prom
ised 10 make him the happiest man on
earth provided he succeeded in secur-
ing his reelection; now, therefore, Mr..
Blackburn is hustling as he never did
before. Unfortunately for MIN. how
ever, he is a Republican, and the Dem
ocrats have determined to send up a
fun delegation Of ten congressman next
time.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20

Miss Lolita Greenup, of Kentucky,
who made a reputation some months
ago by her violin playing as an aid to
her fathers congressional campaign in
the First district of that state, IS short
ly going to Europe to finish her must
cal education. She has confi1ed to her
friends that she has refused or ig-
nored $50 offers of marriage since the
beginning of her fathers campaign.
She says she is in love with her music,
in which she purposes to fit herself for
a professional career.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-20

A rather odd-looking Republican
state convention will assemble at Bir-
mingham, Ala, on Sept. 16. 1t is said
the number of black faces in it will
be very small-the smallest in the his
tory of Republicanism in the state. The
reason is that only qualified voters
under the new constitution are to be
permitted to have any part in the con-
ventions proceedings, and there are
not a great many negroes in Alabama
who are so qpalifed.