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Push it Along.
One Question Admiral Schley's son says that
for Schley's when the court of inquiry
Examiner. meets ho would like the priv- .,
ilege of asking Admiral Samp
son just one question. The question would ho
this: "If the hattle of Santiago had resulted
in defeat, to whom would the hlamo have "been
attached?"
There is hut one answer to -this the "blame
would have rested upon the shoulders of
Admiral Schley exactly where the credit and
the honor of that great victory "belongs.
It Will Not Be It will he rememhercd that
Surprising. Nceloy, the man who partici
pated in the Cuban postal
frauds, "boasted that he would never he pun
ished. The newspaper dispatches now tell us
that the prohahilities are that Necley will go
free. It is explained that the difficulties in
securing witnesses, the slowness of Cuban
courts and other inconveniences suggest the
advisahility of permitting this influential official
to escape punishment. It will not he surpris
ing if Mr. Neeley does escape the penalty for
his crime.
A movement is on foot-to abol
ish the lock step at the various
penitentiaries of the country.
This so-called lock . step is a prison gait which
men, after leaving the prison, find it difficult '
to break. It is well that an effort is made to
abolish this hated gait. When men leave a
prison, having paid to society, tho.penalty which
society demands, they should be free from any
impediments or obstacle to an honored place
in society. If we insist upon men being good,
if wo urge bad men to reform, it is our duty to
help, rather than hinder reformation, and any
thing that tends to humiliate a man anxiously
seeking reformation places serious obstacles in
Jis path. j.
Artificial Dr. Qgden Dormus of New
Cool Weather. York has recently asked a
question that must have oc
curred to a great many people during the heat
ed term. Dr. Dormus asked "If they can cool
dead hogs in Chicago, why not live bulls and
bears in the New York Stock Exchange?"
It is strange that when the ingenuity of man
has devised so many conveniences for the com
fort of humanity, it haB failed to provide a
cooling process for the heated season. Dr. Dor
mus insists that it is entirely practical to cool
residences, clubs, hotels, public offices and hos
pitals by the same process of artificial frigidity ,
in large cities at much less expense than it costs
to heat them in winter. His plan is the arti
ficial process which has been in use for 30 years
in abattoirs and breweries.
It cannot be doubted that a suggestion sim
iliar to the one made by this New York physi-.
cian will in time be acted upon.
In his canvass for re-election
to the "United States Senate,
Mr. MasQn of Illinois is em-
s harassed by the frequent refer
ences which his opponents inake to Mr. Mason's
speeches on the question of imperialism. Those
Stand By
Your Guns
Mr. Mason.
The Commoner.
speeches were the best delivered by the elo
quent senator from Illinois. They contained
truth when they were uttered and they contain
no less of unanswerable truth to-day. It is to
ho hoped that Mr. Mason will not apologize
for those splendid speeches. And yet there are
indications that Mr. Mason would be willing to
to have his anti-imperialism speeches stricken
from the record.
Better stand by your guns, Mr. Mason, One
.of your speeches protesting against the admin
istration's policy of imperialism is better than.
a dozen .terms in the United States Senate
under conditions where your real convictions
must be sacrificed.
Increased Profit J. Pierpont Morgan's First Na
In National tional Bnk of New York re-
Banking. cently increased its capital
stock from $500,000 to $10,
000,000 after it had declared a cash dividend
variously estimated between $3,000,000 and
$5,000,000. Assuming that "the dividend dis
bursed amounted to $5,000,000, this would mean
that this bank had distributed dividends equal
to 1000 per cent on its former capital stock.
It is stated that this institutipn has paid divi
dends regularly at the rate of J0Q per cent, a
year. Aside from this the surplus of this bank
has been increased from $4,J7 50,000 to $10,000
000. After the large dividend referred- to had
been disbursed the surplus and undivided
profits of this institution amounted on July 4th
to $10,102,766.73. This waB $1,352,221 in ex
cess of the amount the bank reported on July
15th in its statement to the comptroller of the
currency.
In reply to a statement that in
the battle of Santiago Bay "the
Brooklyn inflicted 58 per cent
of the damage done the Span
ish ships, and received 54 per cent of the in
juries sustained by the blockading squadron,
Admiral Sampson says that these figures "may
be perfectly true, but they are unimpor
tant." It would soem that when a man has been
criticised as Admiral Schley has been criticised,
when he has been charged with cowardice,
when it has been alleged that his flagship turn
ed in caitiff flight from the battle it is of the
utmost importance that the flagship from which
Schley commanded the American vessels in
flicted 58 per cent of the damage done the
enemy's ships and received 54 per cent of the
injuries done the American vessels.
It may also be of some importance that the
only man killed on the Americau side in the
battle of Santiago Bay was the man who was
sho't down at the very feet of Admiral Schley.
Newspaper dispatches an
nounce that the administration
has concluded that it is im
portant that this government
retain possession and control of Morro Castle
in Havana. It ie explained that this action is
taken "in order that Cuba may be assisted in de
fending herself against outside interference, and
that the United States may thus have a guaran-
"Flgurcs that
are Not
Important."
What Right
Have We to
florro Castle.
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tee against failure of the Cuban government to
carry out its pledges. Commenting upon thii
tho Indianapolis News says:
"Of course, it is Idle to talk of an independent
Cuba with tho fortress commanding Its capital
in tho hands of a foreign power. The control of
that fortress by Americans would be as gravo a
menace to Cuban independence as the British pos
session of Castle William in Now York harbor
would bo to American independence."
Upon what ground can this government
claim a right to possession of Morro Castle?
If tho people of Cuba arc and of right ought
to be, free and independent, then they ought
to bo free and independent enough to control
their. own forts, and if they are not free enough
to control their own forts they will not have
enough independence to make a practical and
effective experiment in building a now govern
ment. A Strange fles- RCv. Herman D. Van Brock
sajjc to Lovers huizen, clerical representative
of Liberty. 0f the South African Republic
in tho United States, recently
arrived in Baltimore. After describing tho
terrible damage that had been done in the South
African republics Mr. Van Broekhuizcn said:
"When I left President Kruger in Holland and
asked him for a message to the" people of tho
United States, he said:
'"JJust tell them thGy are helping to murder
us.; . .,,...,.
"He referred to the shipment of supplies to
tho British."
This is the first instance in history where a
message of this character has been sent to the
United States by a people struggling for '.a
republican form of government.
Is it not about time for the American peo
ple' to begin to consider in all sincerity and con
science the character of their attitude toward
tho bravo republicans of South Africa?
Is it not humiliating to have such a mes
sage as thi3 come from President Kruger to
tho American people, particularly when we
know that tho indictment is true?
Good Work The Salvation Army, once re
in the garded in some quarters as a
Salvation Army, noisy nuisance, has now come
to be accepted as a very im
portant feature of city life. Where once these
red-coated soldiers were spurned and ridiculed
they are now treated with the utmost respect.
The police officers of our cities very generally
testify to the practical good done in the slums
by the Salvation Army while the managers of
charity organizations agree that no force is
more effective and more practical in its charity
work than the Salvation Army. The Salvation
Army has been in existence 35 years. Its flag
is now flying in forty-seven different countries.
There arc 7,200 different societies and 54,000
officers. Its periodicals are printed in 30 differ
ent languages and 50,000,000 copies annually
are printed of Salvation Army publications.
Last year 4,000,000 people word provided with
beds, 6,000,000 people were given meals and
work provided for 36,189 men. In a recent
statement General Bdoth Said that as illustrat
ing the class of people the army reached, in one
of their London homes they had five men who
had among, them served terms in prison aggre
gating 270 years.
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