The National tribune., 1903-09-10

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Prof. Atkinson, who was the first Com
missioner of Education of the Philippines
and who recently returned to the United
States. says that English was introduced
in the schools of the archipelago because
the Filipinos demanded it. Frederick
Nash. writing from Manila, says tina
whereas two years ago there We're onl!
about 200 native teachers capable of Civ
ing instruction in the English language
there are 1000 at the present time.
The recent Infringing OUT process il
Wall street. which stopped so many
monkey -matinees and swell husking bees
at Newport, had its reflex influence II
Washington bucket-shops, which inspired
a local rhymster thus:
We have sung of the horseless carriage
And exc of the noiseless gun;
Ger the poleless ways through distance
The wireless messages run.
France has her bloodless duels,
England her heirless earls-
Alas! that we have to add it
We still have some titleless girls.
IT'S an age of many inventions,
They've given us keyless clocks,
The thingless things are endless
We even have waterless stocks.
A Washington visitor from Indian Ter
ritory complains of the treatment melted
out to the Civilized tribes" of that coun-
try by the Government. He says that
more than 100000 children in the Terri
tory are growing up in ignorance for lack
Of a common-school system, and in the abb
sence of proper instruction are taking
Belle Starr, Calamity Jane, Bill Dalton,
Sam Bass, Cherokee Bill and Jesse James
as their models in life. There are no hos
pitfalls for the sick; no asylums for the de-
mented or similar institutions. He then
goes on to say: I'm Porto Rico, Cuba, and
the Philippines, where aliens, Serfs, pau
pers and the scum of the earth dwell, pro-
vision has been made for unfOrtunates of
every kind; the insane are put away where
they can do no harm to themselves or
their families and neighbors. The land
owners are the aristOcracy and not the beg
CARS, as in Indian Territory. Here, in the
heart of the United States, more than half
a million people, apparently forgotten by
God and man, struggle against conditions
which are a shame to civilized Nation;
but the cry for legislation to cure our ills
goes unheeded. Worst of all, it is the cry
of Americans to Americans. Our Govern
ment takes heed Of the wall of the Asiatic
serf, the Spanish peon, or the mongrel
from the lava beds of Martinique, while
the pitiable plight of white men and wo-
men is unnoticed."
Official reports to the various Govern
ment Departments constantly call to mind
the marvellous development of the country
beyond the Mississippi, and especially of
the rich and populous Commonwealth of
the Pacific Coast since 1861. California
had been State for 10 years, but it was
little more than a collection of mining
camps and gambling dens. 1t was with
out railways of Importance within its own
borders, and was cut off from the great
East by mountain ranges and perilous arid
plains. Oregon had been a State but two
years when the civil war broke out, Min
nesota but three, and Kansas had just
been admitted. Nebraska, Washington,
the two Dakotas, Colorado, Nevada, Mon
tana, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah, 10 new
States covering what was then trackless
waste have since been added to the Union
Several trunk lines of railway now link the
two oceans; populous cities, prosperous in
1nstries, rich farms without number dot
the expanse over which herds of buffalo
then ronmed, and on which savage tribes
fought for supremacy.
Half continent has been given to civ
ilization, and the wilderness has been
to furnish an abiding place
for millions Of thrifty, prosperous citi-
zens since the grizzled warriors donned
the blue. The old soldiers may justly point
with pride to these evidences of the value
Of their services. The Union they fought
for was worth saving, and because they
saved it it has in 40 years expanded into
the greatest and most prosperous Nation
On the globe. Not only that, but a vast
amount of the progress and development
noted have been the direct result of the
labor of the veteran soldiers themselves.
After the war they moved to the far
West by tens of thousands, and during
ong years of productive industry and pa
triotic citizenship have largely helped to
they are, and have stamped an indellible
impress for good Ola ali their future.
Secretary Shaw has a plan for increas-
ng the Federal deposits in the National
banks by about $40 ZOO, 900 in case the
money market should require aid from the
Government. The law authorizes the Sec
'etary of the Treasury to deposit Govern
nent receipts with National bank depos-
tories with the restriction that customs
lues shall be conveyed into the Treasury
proper. The funds deposited in the banks,
therefore, are internal revenue receipts.
Mr.. Shaw has not positively decided TO
Increase the Federal deposits in National
banks, but he is willing to do so il the
money situation requires it. At present
he situation is, he believes, much better
han it was one year ago, but he realizes
that the demands Of the crop-moving
season may, within the next few weeks,
require larger amount of money in circu-
alton.
That the sessions Of the coming Con-
yress will be devoted to much discussion
IF the tariff and trust questions will not
be doubted. 1t is, therefore, important
that the people should search for facts and
figures regarding the conditions of indus
try, the tendency of wages and prices and
everything that can be secured in the way
Of satisfactory information which shall
throw light upon the present concentration
Of capital and its probable effect upon the
industrial world. 1t is fortunate for the
people that in several branches of the
Federal Government there has been COL
lected an array of facts and figures which
will be serviceable in reaching q solution
of the problem.
The Secretary Of the Navy has decided
that for all purposes affecting the Navy
the Spanish War ended Dec. 10, 1898, the
date of the signing of the Treaty of Peace.