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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-05-08

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Dear Sir:--Avalling myself of the
opportunity 0 give me TO use the
columns Of your paper In connection
with the subject OF incorporation.
will say that you report my position
The National tribune., 1903-01-01
A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

The National Tribune earnestly wishes
each of its readers the very happicst CT
Happy New Years!
May 1908 bring far more happiness and
prosperity than even 1902, with its album
dance of good things brought them.
May their fields laugh with the richest
harvests of the teeming soil. May their
business grow, their debts disappear, their
bank accounts swell. Content and Love
children and grandchildren grow up into
stalwart manhood and fair womanhood to
tune be far from them. and all who are
theirs.
May they all sit in serene happiness UNI
der their own vine and fig-:ree, Swallowed
by the Flag which they all love, and
proudly watch it day by day grow more
and more the greatest banner on earth.
The National Tribune will be with
them the coming year, as it has for the
past quarter of a century, eagerly watch
full of all that concerns them, fighting
theirs and the country's battles, rejoicing
highly over every good fortune that comes
to them or theirs, grieving with them over
every sadness, and actively helpful
wherever opportunity offers. 1t will visit
more of their homes this year than ever
before, for it is our proudest reward for
quarter of a century of hard work that
The National Tribune has yearly rooted
itself more deeply in the confidence and es-
TEEN of the very best people in the country
the veterans of the war of the rebellion,
and their children and grandchildren
even TO the third and fourth generation.
Again:
To one and all of the readers Of The
National Tribune:
A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
The National tribune., 1903-01-01

Fifteen years ago President Cleveland
vetoed general pension bill on the ground
that it was service pension bill, and
that such legislation was premature. since
it was Ii years earlier than a similar
bill had been passed for the survivors of
the Revolution, and II years earlier than
that passed for the survivors of the Mex
lean War. He said:
Hitherto such relief has been granted
to surviving soldiers few in number, ven
cradle in age, after a long lapse Of time
since their military service, and as part
ing benefaction rendered by a grateful
people"
1t will be seen that this greatest and
most determined enemy of the pension
system-a man without sympathy with
the war or the men who fought it through
to victory-fully recognized the justice Of
general service pension. He recited that
such was the unbroken policy Of the Gov
eminent ever since its formation. He
only opposed it because it was at least
Is years too soon. The pension should
some day be given to all survivors Of the
war, as grateful peoples parting bene-
faction"
That was Is years ago-a. long time in
the lives of men as prematurely aged and
| broken as were those who bore the heat
and burden Of the Nations four years Of
fierce battle.
Has not the time arrived when even
such men as Mr.. Cleveland will assent
~ fyI frxr,u Svo in han.
faction" is due?
With more than $4,000 veterans dying
every year-fully 1000 a week-the
parting benefaction' cannot come too
soon.
The country can now far better afford
to pay each of the surviving veterans $12
month than it could So month to the
survivors of the Revolution, the War of
1912, and the Mexican and Indian Wars.
II is incomparably richer than it was
when those pensions were granted, and
its Overtiowing wealth is the direct re-
suit of the extraordinary services and
sacrifices of the men on whom it is now
proposed to bestow the meager stipend Of
So week for their few remaining years
They averaged incomparably longer and
harder service than was rendered in any
previous war, and there should be no
question about granting this parting
benefaction" to them.
This will mark the end Of the vexed
pension problem.
"High-water mark" will have been
reached, and every week will end with
fully 1000 less pensioners than when it
commenced-a rate Of decrease SO rapid
as to silence all complaint on the part of
the fiercest pension grumblers.
The National tribune., 1903-01-01
NEGROES FOR THE PHILIPPINES.

Senator Morgan, Of Alabama, is one of
the Southern Senators that we rather ad
mire, and approve Of what he says far
more frequently than any of his colleagues
south of Mason and Dixon's line, but his
plan which he has been arguing before the
President, Secretary Root and Governor
Taft, of colonizing the South N negroes
in the Philippines seems in the highest
degree chimerical. He wants great steam
ships to carry them, and to give each of
them 20 acres upon his settlement in the
Islands. Speaking of this he says:
=. "The principal reason for my attitude
in the Senate toward retaining the Philip
pine Islands was my belief that those
islands would afford a home for the ne
groes. When / first came to Congress l
introduced q resolution to recognize the
Congo Free State as an Independent ma
ton, merely to afford the negroes of this
country a place to which they might emil
crate when their numbers increased to an
extent that would make emigration neces-
sary. The resolution passed the Senate
and House and the colonization Of the ne
gro in the Congo was well under way
when the United States acquired the Phil
ippines.
1.-The acquisition Of that territory opens
up new and vastly superior country for
them. The land is richer, the climate bet
ter suited to them, and there they would
still be under the Flag. l took the matter
up with Secretary Root, and wrote to
Governor General Taft for information
and ideas on the plan Of colonizing negroes
there. Both were favorably impressed,
and all the movement needs 10 q starter"
Probably no one knows better than Sen
ator Morgan that, little love as the South
erners have for the negro. any proposition
looking to their removal and the diminu-
ton Of the labor supply Of that section,
will. as soon as it threatens to become
practical, meet with the bitterest opposi-
tion. We have seen this many times
when immigration agents. trying to secure
labor for Northern railroads, or for the
cotton fields OF Arkansas, Louisiana and
The National tribune., 1903-01-01

SOME EDITORS are alarmed lest by al
towing the Venezuelan matter to be sub
mitted to The Hague we suffer some re
striction of the Monroe Doctrine. This
fear is groundless. In agreeing to The
Hague plan, we expressly stipulated that
the Monroe Doctrine, nor any other fea-
ture Of domestic policy should be consid-
cred proper subject for arbitration. The
Monroe Doctrine has never been consid-
cred international law, and we do not de-
sire that it shall be. 1t is something per-
sonal to ourselves, which we must define
and maintain, and which no other Nation
or combination Of Nations can pass upon.
They have no more right to judgment
upon it than upon our Presidential sys-
tenn, or the manner in which we make and
execute our laws. These are all purely
domestic matters.
The National tribune., 1903-01-01
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE WASHINGTON c. THURSDAY JANUARY 1908

Texas. have been driven out Of Georgia,
South Carolina and elsewhere. The South
needs labor vary badly every where, and
has never been able to secure the white
labor that has come SO abundantly into the
North. Undoubtedly the presence of the
negro has had much to do with this. but
never since the day the Jews left Egypt
has there been any successful deportation
of the labor of the country in mass. 1t
is simply fantaslical to think of taking
great numbers of negroes 10 the Philip
pines and properly settling them there.
The negroes were brought into this coun-
try. small shipload at a time. and DIS
tiibutcd where they were needed. AS we
develop the Philippines, there will be
many negroes taken there by the Ameri-
can eNploiter of the sugar, tobacco, min
ing. and other Industries. and in the course
of time large proportion of the popula-
ton will be American negroes and their
descendants
But to attempt to do this in wholesale
way by the Government, with the Co.
ernment responsible for the well-being of
the negroes after they have been deported.
is visionary to the last degree. A little
patience, and the negro problem will solve
itself.
The building of the Panama Canal will
take many thousand negroes. In the next
decade or so, Americans will be prescott
ing many enterprises in South America,
for all of which the American negro is
a much better laborer than any other that
can be found in these countries. There is
no doubt that these projects will drain
off large portion of the Southern negro
population, and their places will be taken
by white labor from the North.
The National tribune., 1903-01-01
OUR LOSSES MORE THAN EsaLAND.s.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: VIII you
please decide a question through the col
umns of The National Tribune? l saw a
statement in your paper some time ago,
that we lost more men in the civil war
than England had lost in all her battles
since she became a Nation. The state
ment was doubted, and it was agreed to
leave it to you. Am 1 right? Can you
give the approximate figures ?-CHAs. l.
CURTIS, Westfeld, Mass.
You are entirely right. We had more
men killed on the field of battle than Eng
land has lost in the 500 years that she has
been Nation, during which time she has
been engaged in continual wars and
fought every civilized Nation on earth.
The National Tribune has repeatedly
made this assertion, which cannot be sue
cessfully contradicted, and has been sup
ported by the testimony of many eminent
students Of history. There are two rea-
sons for this. In the first place our war
was the first instance in which whole
people has gone to war. Up until quite
recently wars have everywhere been
fought by distinctly military class, which
has been quite small with reference to the
whole people. Great organized armies
are thing of comparatively recent origin.
For many centuries all the fighting was
done by small number of Knights, clad
in complete armor, who pnked at each
other with long poles which they called
lances. Usually the worst thing that hap
pened to man was to get poked off his
horse, be taken prisoner. and compelled to
pay ransom. Then when these were sue
ceeded by organized armies. as we now IN
derstand them, these were relatively small
to the number of the people. The next
consideration is that in most of the wars
In which England has been engaged she
has had very small contingent on any
field. Generally she has fought by sub
sidizing other armies. For example, in
her greatest battle, that of Waterloo, of
which we have heard interminably, she
did not have to exceed $4,000 Englishmen.
Irishmen and Scotchmen on the field. The
biggest army she ever had prior to the late
South African war, was In the Spanish
Peninsula, where she had at one time 60,
600 men, but very many Of these were
Poles, Saxons, Hanoverians, etc. Her
share in the Crimean war was not so great
as our Vicksburg campaign. By far the
larger part OF her wars were about the
magnitude Of our Indian campaigns
Such thing as putting 100000 men.
the actual sons Of the country. into the
field for continuous, bloody fighting for
four years, was something undreemed of
before our war. 1t dwarfs all previous
wars into insignifcance.
Official figures show that we lost 1885,
600 men actually killed on the field Of bat
tie, which far exceeds that Of England's
since the days Of the Conqueror, even In
Guiding the losses in the late South Afri-
can war.
The National tribune., 1903-01-01
CHANGING INAUGURAL DAY.

1t is very difficult, and should be so, to
amend the Constitution of the United
States, for Cur organic laws should be as
near n model of stability as possible. Yet
there ought to be little difficulty about the
adoption of an amendment changing the
date Of the Presidential Inauguration.
The very worst weather in the year in
Washington generally comes in March, and
it frequently seems that the worst that
March can do is reserved for the 4th of
the month, when it happens that that is
The date for the change of Administra-
cries can recall not mo-e than one or two
really pleasant Inaugural Days. Most Of
them have seemed as if the elements had
chosen that day for their housekeeping,
and were as disagreeable as they could be.
Among the propositions now before Con-
gress for such Constitutional Amend
ment is one by Senator Hoar, which has
already passed the Senate and seems to be
meeting with the most favor. 1t provides
for extending the term of President Roose-
welt from March 4. 1905. to the last
Thursday Of April, 1905, and thereafter
making the last Thursday in April in
every fourth year the regular Inaugural
ton Day. 1t also provides that the term
Of the 5Sth Congress, and all future Con-
crosses should be extended to the last
Thursday in Apsil, in every odd year, the
term of each new Congress to begin on the
same day. This has the advantage OF
giving another month to the last session
Of every Congress, which Is desirable
since the present arrangement makes the
session entirely too short for the neces-
sary business Of Congress.
As everybody seems willing, and the
Legislatures Of most of the States will
meet this Winter, there would seem no
trouble in securing the adoption Of the
amendment by the necessary three-fourths
Of the States. il the House will promptly
concur with the Senate in laying it before
the Legislatures. The matter is Of most
moment to the people Of the United
States, all of whom have a strong desire
to visit Washington on Inauguration Day.
Hundreds of thousands actually do every
Inauguration Day, and generally suffer
very great discomfort from the inclemency
Of the weather. Could they come here the
last of April. they would be fascinated by
the beauty of their National Capital.
which then looks its best, with all the
public grounds and reservations radiant
with the bloom Of the early Spring.
The National tribune., 1903-01-01

LAST week there died in Washington
comrade every year of whose long life was
full of goodness to those around him.
Capt William Gibson, Past Commander
of the Department of the Potomac, &. A.
r., was gentie-hearted, kindly-natured
man, courageous to the death in every
thing that involved principle. He was
living in Baltimore when the war broke
out, and an inflinching Union man. He
raised company for the Purnell Legion,
and commanded it throughout the war.
He was deeply interested in the G. A. R.,
the Masons and the Odd Fellows, and at
tanned high rank in all Of the Orders.
For many years he was the head of
large printing establishment Gibson Bros.
in Washington.
The National tribune., 1903-01-01
REQUISITES FOR STATEHOOD.

The minority Of the Senate Committee
plea for the passage Of the Omnibus Bill,
which would admit Oklahoma, New Mexi-
CO and Arizona as States:
1.-THE Constitution provides that new
States may be admitted by the Con-
gress into this Union Practically
this provision presents the question
Of admission of new States TO the
discretion and judgment of Congress. But
in the light Of history as to the meaning
and intention of this clause, the question
arises, Is Congress justified in refusing ad-
mission to Territory which in its popula-
ton, wealth. and institutions has fully
complied with that republican form of
Is Congress justified by the Constitution
in keeping Territory without representa-
ton and subject to the authority of the
United States Government unless upon
grounds which the Constitution makes an
objection to its admission? A republican
form Of Government is the only require
ment which the Constitution makes. And
the discretion as to admission which the
Constitution reposes in Congress has refer
ence to other matters than the form Of
Goyernment-to population, wealth, and
Congress should bar, by party objections,
admission when population, wealth and
institutions were the same as in the case
Of other States"
Leaving out of the question the appli-
cation Of this to the Territories named,
and not considering for tho moment their
particular fitness for Statehood, this would
seem very dangerous doctrine. This
Government is made up of States, and too
great care cannot be exercised in the ad-
mission of members to the governing body.
Congress must and should have the right
at all times to reject a Territory for any
| reason which 1t may deem sufficient to
render it unworthy of Statehood. 1t did
this in the case of Utah, which was kept
out for many years because Of Mormon
ism, and not allowed admission until ii
had thoroughly purged itself of polygamy.
1t should be held that Statehood, like citi-
zenship and the elective franchise, is not
right but privilege. No people must
ever demand admission into the Union of
States as q something which actually be-
longs to them. 1t is favor which we
grant them because we may think them
worthy Of associating with us in the Gov
eminent Of the country. Such doctrine
as the minority lays down might plague
us infinitely in the future, with regard
to Porto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines
Each Of these has population, wealth AMI
industries much greater than was the rule
in the States which have already been
The National tribune., 1903-01-01

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is thoroughly
right in refusing to become an arbitrator
in the Venezuelan dispute. The proper
tribunal for the matter is that which has
been established at The Hague, and the
part of our country is simply to stand
aloof and see that no injustice is done by
strong bullies to weak American nations.
We do not propose to save them from any
just chastisement, nor will we become in
any way responsible for their debts or a
proper settlement of their liabilities.
The National tribune., 1903-01-01

You've reasoned quite right, my young
General" said 81, scanning the line of
brush, which the boys pointed out. and
which indicated the course of n sluggish
creek through the sandy waste. you'll
be a man long before your mother. That
crick must strike the river about 10 or II
miles from here. As far as I can see,
there's no ford. II looks like deep crick.
not easy to cross, and as far as l can see
now there's no ford between here and the
river that We can get across at them, or
they at u.s."
That's unlucky for somebody. and I
don't think it's u.s. remarked Shorty.
They've no business in this region, and
We ought to run 'em out. Helloo; that
houses got a red stripe, too. Couldn'tve
stretched that flag or that woman over
this whole neck of woods"
WED better strike ahead as rapidly as
we can, and get between that party and
the river" unused 81. ats our business
The National tribune., 1903-01-01
STANDARD on PENSIONS.

The Standard Oil Company has an
nounced general pension plan for the
benefit of its employees, which will prob
ably be type for ether large corporations
to follow. 1t has, many good features
which are new, among which is a provi-
sion TO the effect that all employees who
have reached the hge of GA and been %
years in the service of the company, may
retire on oue-half pay for one year, after
which the regular pension is to be paid
them. The regular pension is to be one
fourth of the salary which the employee
was receiving at the time of his retire
ment, and will be paid to all who have
been in the service of the company for p
years and reach the age of Go. This plan
is suggestive of the duty Of the United
States Government, and points distinctly
to the humanity and justice Of Service
Pension to all survivors of the war of the
rebellion. Every one Of these is now in
the neighborhood of 60, and their con.
structive age, owing to the hardships and
strains of their service, must now make
all of them older than the age limit
adopted by the Standard Oil Company.
The National tribune., 1903-01-01

TIE Dowager Empress of China and
the Emperor have entertained Gen. Miles
at luncheon. The honor was rather on
them. for they had thus an opportunity
of meeting a commanding officer who has
seen and taken part in more hard fight
ing than any other commanding officer IN
the world. Also aar who is above all
an American. and as fine type OF the
soldier as the world can show.
The National tribune., 1903-01-01

The Boys Form the Acquaintance OF q fa-
NOUS North Carolina Secret Society.
While stripping itself of the 10000 and
more caters who devoured supplies. filled
the roads and clogged movements. but
could neither fight nor work, the army
was otherwise very busy. The Engineers,
with great gangs of negroes and details
of soldiers, were engaged in destroying the
immense armory which the rebels had
built up on the basis of the old United
States Arsenal at Fayetteville, by the ad-
dition of the machinery they had brought
away from Harper's Ferry and what
they could manage to run in from Eng
land.
The arsenal covered 55 acres, with its
buildings, workshops and magazines. 1t
had fine water-pOwer, nearness to rich
coal and iron deposits, with free commupi-
cation with the seaboard, and thus unsur-
The National tribune., 1903-01-01
Office: 800 Pennsylvania Avenue n. w.

SECRETARY Roof has ordered the res
toration of the old light-blue facinss OF
the infantry uniforms instead OF the
white, which some ill-advised improver
substituted for the time-honored color.
The white for Sergeants' chevrons and
stripes was always nuisance, as it sclled
So eaSily
The National tribune., 1903-01-01

admitted to the Union. II Congress is TO
look no further tS6an the census statistics
it could not refuse them admittance. and
yet to give them an equal share with the
other States in The government Of the
country would be utterly rcpugnant to ev-
ery nat,iotic man
The National tribune., 1903-01-01

vENEzUELANs are thorough degener-
ates. With a foreign enemy assaulting
their forts and in possession of their soil,
they are still carrying on a bloody domes-
tic revolution
The National tribune., 1903-01-01
LET Us HAVE A SERVICE PENSION BILL.

A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-04-09

the Queen WAS crowned, could well re-
member it. Her remains were taken to
Londonderry for iuterment
The annual March meeting Of the
Piusfied Village Corporation VA held
in Union hall, ,aturday, the 18th inst.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year. Clerk, L. L. Libby;
assessors, A. Il. Burse, D. NJ. Parks, o.
5. Haskell; treasurer, L. l.. LIBBY; audi
tor, .. II. Drake; collector, y. z Corey.
The compensation for collecting taxes
is per cent and the collector is requir-
ed to settle with the corporation by the
18th day of March 1904. The following
amounts of money were raised: For
lighting streets, 1920; for night watch
man, $3.50; for fire department, 800;
for corporation charges, $4,000. An
articles in the war; ant asking that a
sum of money be raised to establish
fire alarm system furnished a topic for
considerable discussion. 1t was finally
voted to instruct the assessors to inyes-
tigate thoroughly the system and report
at a special meeting to be called by
them or at the next annual meeting.