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The 5ch!ey Case A correspondent of the New
In a. Nut Shell. York Journal puta the Samp-
e on-Schlcy case in a nut shell
"when he says:
1. Sampson's admirers claim that he was tho
victor, while lie (Sampson) was never in the fir
ing line (which was ahsolutely true).
' 2. Schley's admirers say that he won the hat
tie, heing there all the time ana rollowing the
enemy.. Now, as we are in possession of tiie facts,
let the public decide between the two.
1. Is Sampson a hero because he was not
there?
2. Is Schley a coward because he was there
and won?
Watered 5tock The industrial commission has
to the Amount of recently completed some in
$300,000,000. tcresting figures relating to
the United States Steel Cor
poration, otherwise known as the steel trust.
Tho commission's inveetigations confirm the
popular suspicion that this trust has in its stock
a vast amount "of water. The commission
claims that nearly one-third of the entire capi
tal of this trust is water. It will be remem
hered that Mr. Schwab, president of tho trust,
testified that in the organization of the trust
the property was under valued rather than
over valued. The commission declares that
this claim is-without basis and that the amount
of watered stock in the trust will reaclfthe'sum
of $300,000,000. '
The .Czar of Russia has given
.uq a little lesson . iu religious
liberty. Recently M. Pobed
onostoff, the procurator of the
Russian-Polish synod, called upon the czar and
complained that some of the students of the
university did not entertain religious views in
harmony with those of the czar. A St. Peters
burg dispatch, referring to this visit, says:
"The czar told him to mind his own business.
Ho did not think that justice is to be meted out
to the orthodox alone. A little earlier Pobedono
Btoit had proposed to the czar that in the blank
application for army officers seeking promotion a
column be added in which the officer should state
his religion. The czar ordered him brought into
his presence, and excitedly told him he did not
cure a brass farthing what religion his officers
professed; what he wanted was loyal, able servants."
Edward H.' Curtis is the son
of a bank cashier living at
Southington, Connecticut.
Young Curtis loved a working
girl, and against the objections of L'c iristo
cratic father insisted upon marrying the girl of
his choice. Young Curtis held a responsible
position in his father's bank, and as soon as
his parent made known his serious objections
to hiB new daughter-in-law the son promptly
resigned his position in the bank and obtained
a place as motorman on a trolley line. .He as
serts that he does not care to be under further
obligations to a parent who will not recognize
his son's wife.
Evidently there is good metal in this young
man. If the father himself has any brains
worthy of mention he will in time come to ap
preciate the sterling qualities of his determined
A Lesson In
.Religious,'.,,.
Liberty
A Terrible
"Crime" in Connecticut.
The Commoner.
offspring. The only objection to the bride
was that she had been a working girl. A
more unjust and absurd criticism could not bo
conceived in this intelligent age.
"A Shameless A New York millionaire who
Wicked Will." recently died, designated his
- mistress as one of his chief
legatees. In fact, the mistress in this million
aire's will was placed on a plane with the mil
lionaire's widow. In a newspaper interview
tlie widow publicly resented the act of her late
husband in associating the name of a pure wife
with that of an impure woman. Commenting
upon this indignant protest, the New York
World hits the nail on the head when it says:
"All rightly constituted minds that retain a
prejudice in favor of family ties, respectability and
correct living will be. inclined to share tho widow's
view that a will which puts a man's mistress on
the same plane with his blameless wife, and gives
to the foimer the home that is most closely asso
ciated with the iamily name and traditions, ia
'a shameless, wicked will.'
"The sort of 'honor' that is affected by 'men
of the world' might lead a rich voluptuary to
deal generously with his woman 'friend;' but
surely a finer instinct would induce him to make
the settlement, privately, and.. not glass her openly
with his family in a will. Why is it that 'a good
fellow' ameng men is so often a brute in his dcal
ings with women?" r ,
Protesting
Against Tariff.
The Monthly Bulletin of the
Fidelity and Casualty Com
pany, speaking of the present
tariff, says:
"Such a condition cannot continue. It makes
our people bondmen in a kind of industrial slav
eiy. It deprives them of the right to buy in tho
world's markets. It robs the many to enrich a
few. It is wrong from an economic standpoint.
Jt is wrong morally. The government has the right
to impose tariffs for purposes of revenue or to
subserve the general interest. It has no right
to maintain a tariff which yields no revenue, which
serves the general interests not at all, but does
severely burden the consuming public. That is
nothing more nor less than the promotion and
protection of robbery.
"AH this is pertinent to the plate glass situa
tion. The prices of the trust are beyond the cost
of importing glass plus .the duties. We are sub
jected to threats that we' will be attacked in our
business if we buy imported goods. Is a trust
that makes such threats wise? The people of this
country at large are greater than tho little sec
tion of them that manufactures plate glass. We
suspect that we can rest content in the idea that
our plate glass friends are capable of understand
ing this simple proposition."
"The Host Dls- It develops that Edward S.
lingulshed Living Maclay, the author of the
American His- "History of the United States
torian. Navy," in which work Ad
miral Schley was outrageously
assailed, was formerly an editorial writer on
the New York Sun, a newspaper that has ac
customed itself to abusing the hero of San
tiago bay. Mr. Maclay's book has, by order
of Secretary Long, been excluded from the
text books used at the naval .academy at An
napolis. In that book Maclay referred to Admiral
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Schley1 as "A Micawhor Admiral." lie charged
that Schley "exhibited either a timidity
amounting to absoluto cowardice or a prevari
cation of facts that wore absolute falsehoods."
lie alleged that Admiral Schley "turned in
caitiff flight from the danger spot toward which
duty, honor and tho whole American people
were most earnestly urging him." He said that
Schley's warship furnished "the most shameful
spectacle of deliberately turning tail and run
ning away."
The New York Sun in order to bolster up
Mr. Maclay refers to him as "the most distin
guished living American historian. " It is strango
that a man designated as "tho most distin
guished living American historian" would find
it necessary to resort to the lowest form of
abuse in dealing with an historical character.
Men distinguished as historians are presumed
to state facts and to state them in such a way
as to impress upon tho reader tho impartiality
of the writer. But this "most distinguished
living American historian" shows that he is a
'partisan of the partisans; and tho observer is
justified in tho suspicion that if Mr. Maclay
does not entertain personal malice toward Ad
miral Schley, other men who did have that
malice havo engaged him as the medium for
foul slanders.
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A Novel Posi- It seems. tthat this "most dis
tion for a Great tinguished historian" is a clerk
Historian. in the Brooklyn navy yard. It
is strange that this navy yard
clerk has discovered cowardice and general un
worthiness in a man whom the American peo
ple, regardless of political prejudice, delight to
honor. It is strange that in spite of the per
sistent efforts to discredit the important part
Admiral Schley played in the Santiago battle,
the American people have come quite generally
to make, him the hero of that battle. It will
be interesting to observe what disposition the
administration will make of this navy yard
clerk, otherwise known .as "the most distin
guished living American historian." As a his
torian he was discredited, not so much by tho
ban placed by the secretary of the navy upon
his works, as by the character of those works.
As a clerk in the navy yards he should be dis
placed because of his outrageous assaults upon
a man who has been tho patient victim of tho
most remarkable series of attacks recorded in
American history. It is not at all likely that
this "most distinguished living American his
torian" is at all dependent upon his salary as
clerk. It may rather be suspected that his em
ployment as clerk in the navy yards was merely
a cover whereby he could carry out the work
mapped out for him. From tho beginning the
attacks upon Admiral Schley have been wholly
discreditable. From the beginning nothing lias
developed to the discredit of Admiral Schley.
He has been extremely patient under the most
bitter attacks. The American people will keep
a very close eye upon the Sampson-Schley
affair, and they will not lose sight of the dis
position made by the administration of the
"most distinguished living American historian."
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