The National tribune., 1903-09-03
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accordance with this decision Postmaster.
| General Payne issued an order which Will
in future deprive the Commissioners OF the
District the franking privilege.
The Lambs Club. Of Philadelphia, their
wives and daughters, numbering about
175, came to Washington on sightsee-
! ing tour. a few days since. This is an
orga niza ton of civil war veterans, whose
speciality is good time. The visitors
were met at the depot by committee OF
Phil Sheridan Post, G. A. II. To the
strains of patriotic airs, played by tner
own band. the visitors marched up fenn-
sylvana avenue to the Metropolitan no
tel. The unique features of the parade
were a small brass cannon, drawn by
several veterans, and pure white lamb
which was held captive by two little girls
dressed in white. The lamb was bedecked
with ribbons and other decorations, repre-
senting the National colors.
It was given out at the Nebraska Popu
list Convention held last week. where
complete fusion was effected with the
Democrats. and verified by a close person
al friend of Bryan, that the two Popullst
National Committees had already agreed
between themselves to call the next Ma
tional Nominating Convention of the fop-
ulists ahead of the conventions OF the
other two parties, so that the Popuilst
ticket would be first in the field next year
He gave the impression most decidedly
that Towne was Bryan's personal prefer
ence. and that if the Bryan following
found itself outnumbered in the Demo
cratic Convention, it would join with the
Populists in nominating Towne as the
third candidate.
The Ohio Democratic Convention, which
nominated Tom" johnson for Governor,
resolved as follows: I'VE hereby renew
our allegiance to the Democratic Party OF
the Nation. and again avow our devotion
to the principles of its last National pat
form. We according condemn coloniallsm;;
repudiate government by injunction, ana
oppose financial monopoly. together with
every other lesalized monopoly and legal
lied privilege Adhering to these princi-
pies of the Kansas City platform. we re-
peat our condemnation of all efforts to
renounce or ignore them"
Another bit of canal gossip attributes
Colombia's disapproval of the Hay-Her-
ran treaty to the Vaccinations of German.
English and French interests, and finds
proof of it in the publication in Washing
ton several months ago Of an article said
to have been inspired by Senator Morgan
predicting the result. The article was
based on letters telling the Senator of
powerful international anti-canal lobby
which would be organized in BoSota as
soon as the treaty was framed.
The grounds of opposition were various.
The Germans were jealous of our infiu-
ence in Latin American affairs which
would follow the construction of the canal;
the Frenchmen hoped to force sale OF
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figure, and the English members were
partly acting for English holders of trans
continental railway securities and partl!
for other interests. The story may be.
safely classed as doubtful.
Foreign potentates retire for their eter
nal rest with an eclat and magniiicence
which puts to shame the most OstentatlouS
displays for deceased American notables.
Sarcophagi for Gar Alexander ii. and
his wife Maria AlexandrOwna are nearly
ready. after being in the workmens hands
for - years The Cars sarcophagus is
cut out of an enormous block of green Jas
per from Siberia: the Czarina's from a
block of pink rhodonite from the Ural
| Mountains.
| The news comes through diplomatic
sources that. after more than three years
of preparation and effort, and the expend-
iture of more than $4,000, the plan for the
excavation of Ur OF the Chaldees and
other places in Babylonia by American ex-
plorers has been abandoned, because the
Turkish Government will not grant per-
mission 10 American citizens to do the
work. The failure of the project. owing to
! inability to procure authorization for
Americans to carry on this work, while
men of other nationalities have been per
mitted to excavate, has been disappoint-
ment to its organizers, but after having
been baffled for three years, they conclud-
ed that their only course was to Withdraw
from the enterprise altogether.
Census Bulletins testify that the South
has for the first time in the history of the
Nation shown a greater percentage of in
crease in population than the North in the
decade ended in 1900. The bulletin shows
that the population Of the Nation in
creased during the decade POI per cent,
or 13.O46.SG1 persons, or more than double
the average percentage of increase in Eu-
ropean countries. OF this marked gain
in population the South shows nearly
double the percentage Of the North, the
South and Southwest, west of the Mis-
sissippi River, recording the greatest gain.
Pleas for the reinstatement Of the Army
"canteen" abolished by Congress several
years ago. begin to come to the War De-
partment in ANIMAL reports of military
commanders. Gen. Frederick ID. Grant,
commanding in Texas, is specially urgent
and emphatic. NO argument" says Gen.
Grant. ''can be too earnest for the re-
establishment of the canteen. Aside from
other recreation features of garrison life,
the can.een, which is the enlisted soldier
cluhroom. is a protected circle into which
no vice or degradation can intrude. There
the soldier is guaranteed certain privileges,
which so long as they are not abused,
prove a bnlwark against the temptations
and dangers that now surround almost
every post in the Army. and especially bor-
der and remote posts To close the doors
Of thc soldiers garrison club and send him
out into the hants Of iniquity and vice
run by mortal vultures who, degraded
themselves, set up no standard of NOR
atty, but, breaking down all barriers of
restraint, invite and induce soldiers to
join in all sorts of depravity and infamy
is wrong to the soldier as well as wrong
. to the community i'll which the soldier is
located"
The spectators who have "corneref
cotton and sent the price of the staple to
, extravagant nights. thereby compelling
!, many mills here and abroad to shut their
doors and to throw tens of thousands OF
wage-earners out of employment, are an
, grily denOuncng Secretary Wilson, of the