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TAXING CORPORATIONS
The House of Representatives under
the rule of Speaker Reed the Despot
no longer debates public questions It
has sunken into a dull and placid con
dition such as might be expected to
prevail in a Council of State held by a
Sultan or a Pasha or some such Ori
ental lord and master and it does what
It Is ordered to do -with scarcely a
grumble The activity and verbosity
of the Spnate somewhat compensates
fo the vacuity- of the House and it is
in the former chamber that the war
revenue measure has had the only dis
cussion preceding its enactment and
the only disclosure to the public of its
purpose and nature
-There are still some Senators who
really appear to desire to know what
-the people want and to do it They
find that their coiu tltuents are willing
and glad to contribute to the expense
of carrying on hostilities provided that
falrnessinuds equity are observed in ex
acting the necessary contributions
That the war should be energetically
conducted all agree but that its cost
should be borne by all equally is a rea
sonable demand That those upon
whom great favors have already been
bestowed should contribute of their
abundance is only just and right The
present generation has devoted itself
to creating corporations and bestowing
upon them exclusive privileges- and
that these should now escape their
share of dues in a time of public
ger would not be just nor wise The
debates in the Senate have taken a
wide range The advocates of incor
porated capital have held the floor and
uttered every excuse and every appeal
in their power They were met by the
arguments of the champions of justice
and honest dealing and political divi
sions have been formed and lines
drawn which will survive the present
financial exigency
There is one class of corporations
and only one in which the great mass
of producers in this country bave a
deep interest We refer to the savings
banks the depositaries of The savings
of the industrious poor They alone
have a right to demand that their pain
fully earned hoards shall not be depre
dated upon All other corporations be
long to the class of well-to-do and
should pay their share New York
News
Bimetallism
The sold standard is wrong Why is
ft wrong What Avas the occasion
which brought us to experience its re
sults For two thousand years man
kind lino tieil bath gold and silver as
final money ultimate money founda
tion money basic money
These are some of the terms that are
employed to designate that money
which is final payment and never has
to be redeemed which when it
changes hands in consideration of ser
rlce or property ends the transaction
It is itself a payment and upon it may
be ired and is reared the structures
of representative money of paper
Money that has to be redeemed in it
and of credit which also like repre
entalive money is stated in dollars
and for which in the last analysis ijal
dollars must respond
That is ultimate money And I say
for over two thousand years the world
bo used both gold and silver Why the
exigencies of the gold standard to day
have compelled its advocates to do
what They have invented a new mo
rality for one thing the doctrine of
which is lhat the creditor has a perfect
moral right lo take a 200 cent dollar
from the debtor but that the debtor is
a most reprehensive villain and moral
outcast if l e objects to it And they
havcalso invented a uew political econ
omy t
Is tlier0 any thing difficult about that
And yet jy our friends of the gold stand
ard say that is not a sound principle
they say in the New York newspa
pers in effect that there Is no distinguishable-relation
between the amount
of money aml the course of prices a
most marvelous discovery if true
Psay tlielnstinct of mankind was al
ways to the contrary the experience
of mankind was always to the
gold and silver were
coming in streams from the mines
mankind in all the past ages of its his
tory found that it was a good thing
for society they found tna t
the waste places they found that it ex
tended civilization that it encouraged
every kind of investment that it de
veloped and strengthened the great
producing classes
They found that it was always co
extensive and concomitant with in
creased prosperity and that on the
contrary when the production of the
mines fell off the opposite effects were
realized--Charles A Towne
Cost of War V
War is expensive But it is only fajr
to say that the conquered nation will
have to pay the bills Spain has a dis
mal outlook Fated to meet defeat the
dons will not only be forced to pay
their own war debt but that of the
United States as well Down in Ma
nila Bay lie the hulks of 5000000
worth of Spanish ships and thats only
the first installment of the debt which
Spain will have to meet as a reprisal
for the cowardly destruction of the bat
tleship Maine
For the first week in May the ex
penses of this Government were 3
565000 as against SG5000 fox thecor
respondiug week last year Nearly
3000000 of this should be charged Yq
the account of Sain It makes little
difference whether the dons can raise
the money to pay the war indemnity to
the United States or not The Philip
pines and Porto Rico are good for it
and will be held by this country as se
curity for the debt People who are
exercised over the amount of money
which the war is costing this country
should be comforted If that were all
the loss to be expected there would be
little to worry over but there are lives
that will have to be offered and for
those there is no indemnity Nothing
but the gratitude of a nation for their
brave sacrifice can be given to the
dead
Taxation Heresy
Heresy In taxation is worrying the
administration newspapers and they
are much exercised for fear corpora
tions and plutocrats may be forced to
help pay the expenses of the war
Whenever the Democrats in the Senate
propose to make the Standard Oil Com
pany pay a small per cent of its un
earned millions to aid the Government
under which it thrives and thieves the
administration press shrieks a protest
against this heresy in taxation
That the Democratic finance com
mittee ofthe Senate is a bold bad band
of robbers is shown by -an esteemed
Chicago contemporary which with a
fine display of- -sympathy -for the op
pressed and down trodden trusts ex
claims They would fix upon the peo
ple an income tax an inheritance tax
and a tax on corporations
Such propositions as this are indeed
monstrous Thlnlof fixing upon the
people that terrible injustice of an in
come tax Reflect for a moment how
Rockefeller and Yanderbilt and J Pier
pont Morgan would suffer if such an
oppressive measure should be passed
The people who have incomes over
10000 a year would eally suffer for
the necessities of life if an income tax
should be leyjed
By all means tax the laborer who
earns a dollar a day Tax his beer and
his tobacco Let him understand that
this is a Republican war and he
must pay for it But tax Rockefeller
and men of his cIjlss Nver And
then to tax inheritances Isnt that
dreadful To make a man pay a small
part of thousands Or hundreds of thou
sands of dollars that he receives with
out labor as a gift NeVer
But corporations also are threatened
bv these heretical Democrats The
Standard Oil Company the sugar trust
the nail trust in a word all the trusts
with their combined capital of two
thousand million dollars cannot afford
to pay taxes and the esteemed Chicago
conteuvDorary is nuite ricflit in crylnsr
out in horror against such a suggestion
Sons of Senators
Sons of Senators sons of million
aires sons of political bosses have been
given commissions in the army until
the matter has become a public scan
dal These civilians know nothing
about war and many of them know
little about anything except golf aoid
pink teas but President McKinley has
chosen to slight experienced army offi
cers and confer honor upon ignoram
uses Why Politics
That these young men are intensely
ignorant of what they are expected to
do is shown by the following story told
of one of them by a correspondent of
the New York World- One of these
gilded youths went to an old officer in
the regular army a few days since and
begged for a consultation with refer
ence to the duties of his office He is
reported to have said Can I have
five minutes of your time while you tell
me how to perform all of the duties of
my new office in a satisfactory man
ner A smile of amusement and deri
sion curled around the officers mouth
when he replied Young man I have
been in the United States array thirty
five years and I dont know how to per
form my own duties satisfactorily
So far the members of the House have
not been allowed to play in this little
game of military appointments It has
been a friendly gambol for Senators
beginning with Tice President IJobart
and running all along down the list
But now that more volunteers are call
ed perhaps the Representatives may
get a chance to chip in and saddle some
of their greenhorns on the Govern
ment Old soldiers have been thrust
aside to make room for senatorial
Xoioo uuui iii y 4XJ Uliu Lilt V
will doubtless continue to be thrust
tside as long as there are nephews and
second cousins of Congressmen out o
a job
Push AheadFufl Steam
Cows used to throw trains off the
track because the engineers in a panic
blew down brakes and equalized
chances In these latter days asserts
an Eastern writer -a Whole herd of
cows could not harm a train If a
thousand were to get in the way of a
locomotive the engineer would pull her
wide open arid go scootijig through
When theKCaptain of theParis sought
to reassure his passengers on the last
trip from England hesaidr with much
nonchalance Under full headway the
Paris can cut Spanish
warships That was a slight exagger
ation of course buf -experience has
proved more than 6ucGilIat -safety in
a collision at sea depends on the speed
of the moving body- A steamer of 10-
000 tons displacement traveling twenty
vessel like a hot knifeathrough butter
escaping withoufc a scratch Kansas
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If you would flifithiscnt attempt
to use the wins of your imagination
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TRIP OF THE OREGON
RECORD BREAKING CRUISE OF
THE PACIFIC BORN WARSHIP
Journey Eqnal to More than Half the
Distance Around the Earth Beset
by Grave Dangers but Was Always
Beady for Trouble
First to Hound the Horn
When the Oregon started on her un
paralleled cruise of 13000 miles and
steamed through the Golden Gate fir
ing her salute of good by to the flag
that floats over the Presidio on March
19 Capt Charles E Clark and his crew
were as much in ignorance of her ulti
mate destination as the rest of the
world Captain Clark was told to make
Callao his first stopping place The
big vessel with its tremendous load of
guns and protecting turrets ran into
a heavy sea before it had got out of
sight of Californias promontories
The captains orders did not provide
for a returm The ships prow had
been headefl for the coast of Peru and
the course was never changed in spite
of protracted bad weather While
many tons of steel were pounding on
the Pacific the men who direct the
game of war and use the warships as
so many pieces at chess were debating
what disposition should be made of the
redoubtable floating battery To
Fighting Bob Evans was left the dis
position of the big ship Dewey with
the Olympia can lick the entire Span
ish Asiatic squadron was Evans esti
mate and the destination of1 the Ore
gon was settled
Great anxiety was felt for the pride
of the navy when April 1 came and
she had not been sighted off the coast
of Peru as expected but on April 8 the
bold lines of the battleship were de
scribed off Callao SheTiad fought a
long battle with the elements but had
come out victorious withouta mark
The Oregon coaled at Callao and there
Captain Clark received a sealed packet
containing his orders When the ship
had headed about and steered into the
open sea Captain Clark- communicated
the story of the Maines report and Its
reception by the American people to
his men in addition to the route of
their excursion around Cape Horn
Officers and crew exercised the great
est precaution when war With Spain
promised to become the sequel to the
Maine disaster The ship was given a
coat of iron gray and her searchlight
swept the horizon for hostile sails The
CAPT CLARK OF THE OREGON
progress of the vessel southward after
leaving Callao was attended by great
danger owing to storms and for that
reason the Oregon coaled in the Straits
of Magellan instead of attempting to
enter the harbor of Valparaiso When
the joint resolution of Congress de
clared the Cuban people should be free
and that Spanish sovereignty was at
an end on the Western continent Cap
tain Clark was only twenty four hours
behind schedule time The Oregon was
the first warship in history to round
that storm swept point
the Atlantic Ocean she was Joined by
the gunboat Marietta which had left
San Diego several days after the Ore
gon Together they steamed northward-
Captain Clark and the com
mander of the Marietta learned of the
events that had transpired while they
were speeding from the Straits of Ma
gellan War had been declared April
25 and the crews of both boats set up
a mighty cheer when they received the
news of the capture of Spanish vessels
off the coast of Cuba
Spains crack torpedo boat the Tem
erario made a bluff at the Oregon but
immediately slunk away into the Bay
of Montevideo and hid behind a penin
sular when she got within observation
distance of Uncle Sams mighty sea
fighter The least inclination of the
Temerarlo to disrespect the friendly
character of the harbor would have
resulted in the sinking of the Spaniard
under five tons of steel projectiles Into
the waters of the bay Two days after
the American vessels arrived at Rio de
Janeiro the Temararlo arrived Bra
zilian officials however were active
and said they would prevent any clash
between the representatives of the two
governments News of the magnifi
cent victory of Ctewe ys fleet reached
the Americans In Rio de Janeiro With
in the harbor of Brazils capital the Or
egon and Marietta were joined byithe
dynamite cruiser Buffalo recently pur
chased from that government
Orders came from the Navy Depart
ment to proceed and the fleet of three
vessels steamed out of the harbor of
Rio de Janeiro May 4 They were in
structed to stop at every cable port en
route and receive instructions
Oregon Built in the West
All the material for the construction
and armament of the Oregon came
from the far Western States The iron
mines o California Oregon Washing
ton Nevada Colorado and New Mex
ico supplied the crude metal which was
afterward converted into steel for the
hull great strips of armor and ponder
ous castings for the guns The big bat
tleship was built by the Union Iron
Works San Francisco On her trial
trip an average of 1679 knots was
maintained and 11111 horsepower was
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On the Looicbiitfor TroUjbfe
Captain Clark was wajngdhy calfle
of the dangers tliatjay in hi path and
answered that he was ready o engage
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developed 2111 in excess ql the con
tract
In size the Oregon is only surpassed
by one ship in the navy the Iowa
knots an hour goes thyoughran ordinary rtne entire Spanish fleet if his superiors The j displacement ofthe Pacific born
so desired A of the inonsteifis 102S8tons The excess
joint resolution- were sent him for the weight of the lojya comes from her
enfertainmenof hislmenr together hfch decks which are supposed to
with a tipatffeclnrntibii 6f war her more seaworthy -When the
and actuarriostiiiesWiJilld on was constructed she was in-
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never thinking of a record breaking
cruise equal to more than hall the dis
tance around the earths surface The
Oregon Js supplied with bunkers that
give her a coal capacity- of V94 tons
This enables her to steam 4500 miles
without recoallng The Oregons com
plement of men numbers 473 Her
armor Is divided as follows Belt 18
THE BATTLESHIP OREGON
inches deck 2 Inches barbettes 17
inches turrets 15 inches casements
G inches The main battery of the Ore
gon consists of four 13 lnch eight 8
inch and four slow fire 6 inch guns
This outfit is not surpassed by any bat
tleship in the world The supplement
ary rapid fire battery consists of twen
ty G pounders six 1 pounders four
Gatlings two field guns and three tor
pedo tubes
Ancient Methods of Signaling-
The fabulous honor of being tho fivot
inventor of the art of signaling is be
stowed by certain classical writers up
on the ingenious Palamedee This hero
may have introduced improvements in
detail but it is certain that long be
fore the time of the Trojan war the
Egyptians and Assyrians If not the
Chinese and other nations of remote
antiquity of whom monumental rec
ords alone remain to us had developed
regular methods rof signaling by fire
ismoko Gags otc
The great wall built by the Chinese
ages ago and 1500 miles long is stud
ded with towers Between these sig
nals were interchanged when troops
had to be collected in order to resist at
tack at any point threatened by the
Tartars or outer barbarians By
Maj Boucheraedcr and others it has
been considered that the huge tower of
Babel was erected for similar as well
as for a number of different purposes
That is to say for the signaling not
necessarily of any particular words or
sentences but of expected events Im
perial decrees military orders and oth
er matters intended to be understood
through conventional signals whether
of lights flags semaphores or other de
vices by all the motley hoot of nation
alities and languages of which the
Chaldean empire was composed Corn
hill
The Lion of St Mark
The great lion of St Mark is about
to be restored to the doges ancient pal
aces in Venice This was the lion
erected by Andrea Gritti who became
doge in 1523 arid who in the fifteen
years of his rulerestorfed to his ciij
all the possessions she held before the
league of Oambrai Gritti died iri 1538
having won a threefold glory as pa
triot soldier and statesman He left
behind him- as his monument the fa
mous hi gh reHef v figure of the lion
which adorned the middle gallery of
the doges palace on its best side The
lion stood at a height of twenty three
meters from the ground its paw on the
open gospel and the doge kneeling in
prayer by its side and where it remain
ed nntltbe break up of the oligarchy
and te vandalism of democratic Ven
ice swept fife away In May 1895 the
Italian ministry of fine arts undertook
the workofJis restoration and out of
a large number of competing sculptors
Signqr urbano Botasso was chosen to
give Sielion back to Venice His work
a majestic Hon and the doge in his
robes of state kneeling by its sidq is
now complete and will adorn the an
cient palace of the doges in a few
weeks Philadelphia Bulletin
Worlds Great Cities -
According to the latest authority on
population the great cities of theworld
are in the order of their size as tfftl
lows London with a population of
4231431 New York Greater 3200-
000 Paris 2447957 BerUn 1677351
Canton 1600000 Vienna r3G4i548
Tokio Japan 1214113 Philadelphia
1142653 Chicago 1099850 Bt Peters-
burg 1035439 and
Very Shocking Drama
Aint that new drama simply n3
gusting
Aint it The idea of that big hand
some villain getting that dear little
heroine into that dark room and then
not even attempting to kiss her
Puck -
What has become of the
boy who bad his nose held and took
crvico Iicr designers t ccstor oil
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PAY OF YANKEE SAILORS
Both Men and Officers Are Well Taken
Core of by the Government
The admiral ot the navy Is its high
est paid official His salary 13 13000
a year all the time with commutation
for rations and quarters The salaries
of the other officers are arranged on a
sliding scale 1n three divisions at
sea on shore duty and on leave
Thus a vice admiral who is at spa gets
9000 a yearlf assigned to shore duty
he draws 8000 and If put on the
bench waiting orders he gets only
6000 the difference between the two
pxtremes being about 33 1 3 per cent
Tht pay scale of the others is as fol
lows
Sea
Rear adniiral3v - 6000
Commodores 5000
Captains 4500
ConnmjnderB 3500
Lieutenant commanders 3000
Lieutenants 2000
Masters 2000
Ensigns 1400
Midshipmen 1000
CaHet midshipmen 500
Mates 900
Paymasters 2S00
Surgeons 2800
Chaplains 2S00
First asst engineers 2000
Second nwi9t engineers 1700
Boatswains 1200
Gunners 1200
Carpenters 1200
Shore
5000
4000
3500
3000
2GC0
2200
1700
1200
S00
500
700
2 iOO
2400
2300
lS0O
1400
000
000
000
In nearly every grade there is an in
crease in pay for every five years of
service Take the case of a paymas
ter for iastance who starts with a
minimum salary of 2S0O a year for
ski duty and he can by subsequent
terms of service work himself up to
4200 a year There will be no in
crease in -Tank unless there is a regular
promotion the extra pay is a reward
by the government or rather an in
ducement for experienced officers to re
main infthe service
t The pay of a common sailor lands
man isiiis official name is 21 a month
and from this there is a gradual in
crease for--ordinary and able sea
tnon up t6 30 a month
Soldiers Traveling Then and Now
When soldiers in the service of the
0
United States are traveling their com
fort -is pretty well looked after says
F F Horner general passenger agent
of the Nickel Plate
The government requires the rail
road company to provide sleeping cars
for the officers and also for the privates
if it is possible to procure the cars The
Ilcslmcnt which left
falo was carried in tourist cars three
men to a section two occupying the
lower berth and one the upper Of
course if men are to be carried in very
large numbers on short notice such ar
rangements would be impossible but
even then we would have to provide
them with ordinary day coached The
volunteers who answer the present call
will be carried in tourist cars if their
journey lasts through a night Other
wise they will jroln day coaches I
dont think that any other couritry on
earth looks after its soldiers so well
When I was soldiering we considered
a freight car perfectly satisfactory We
generally had to walk Eeing packed
into a freight car on a hot summer day
was rather uncomfortable and the
men usually secured ventilation by
knocking holes in the sides of the car
with the butts of their rifles When the
officers remonstrated the boys would
rxy that they were just making loop
holes to shoot the Johnnies Buffa
lo Commercial
Three Stars ICxtra
A voluble fakir was selling slk star
pangied banners at th 13th street en
trance to the Treasury Dspartxnent the
other afternoon His line of talk was
ingenious
Look a bere fellers said he
theres forty eight stars on this flag
Forty eight ndnd you Ill bet a Ma
tanzas mule that you cant find another
Old Glory in this country that has got
forty eight stars on it Those that you
buy in the stores has only got forty five
stars one foT each State But this here
flag o mine has been built for the oc
casion Its got threa extra stars add
ed for the three new States Sfrain
Cuba and Phlllppineland See If
you dortt get one of em you aint in the
push Youll bave to paint three more
stars on the flag youve already got
and you cant Inake a neat job of it
You might as well baveone o them old
flags with thirteen stars on it as a forty-five-star
Hag in these days Get next
Get in the push Get Into the bag star
spangled handicap with three starters
added They aint no long shots either
The fakir did business on that basis
too Washington Star
A Good Roads Court
A Maryland judge has decided that a
town ordinance prohibiting the riding
of wheels on sidewalks when the
i streets are impassable is not effective
The rider -who was arrested turned on
the sidewalk to avoid- an exceptionally
bad -place in the roadway and al-
though he rpde a distance of only twenty-five
feet on forbidden ground a war-
rant was Issued The evidence showed
I that a wheci could not be pushed
through the mudhole and the court in
I dismissing the case ruled that under
I such condrtioris riders and drivers
were justifieipn trespassing on private
property It fs possible that the hfghei
courts may not sustain m liberal a rul
ing but its reversal will not -deprive
the judge of the lower court of his rep
utation for common sense
Russian Stoves
The stove is rhe principle furniture ot
a Russian cottage It fills a third ol
the interior of the principal room beins
built of brick and plaster flat on the
top During the day it is used for cook
ing and drying clothes and at night ii
is theramily Jbed on which all the in
mates sleep in a heap pell mell
The art of bunco steering requires
more than ordinary talent
