ROMANTIC STORY OF THE WAR
Incidents of Years Ago That Made Consul
Hanna and Capt. Kulate Firm Friends.
Of the thousands of American cltl- j
zens whose pity went out to the brave
officers of Ccrvera’s squadron in their
hours of anguish und depression dur
ing the weekB of their captivity on
Yankee soil, very few knew of the
‘'arly incidents of a romantic story
between Capt. Eulate and a loyal
American citizen, which the war with
Spain later brought to a close.
It was in 1892 that the story really
begins, Venezuela was in a revolu
tionary tumult. A dictator, Mendoza,
bad seized the government a few
months before and installed himself in
power at Caracas, the Inland capital.
The war had grown very serious by
September. His troops clamored for
pay. That was a circumstance the
dictator had not provided for. The
treasury had been depleted long be
fore, so there was no money to be had
in that quarter. Gen. Escheverra wan
Mendoza’s principal supporter. It oc
curred to him that the quickest way
to get money was to take It by force
from whomsoever had it. 80 he ar
rested elghty-flve of tlie wealthiest
people of I^a Guayra, the seaport and
commercial metropolis of Venezuela.
The prisoners were mostly merchants
of foreign birth, but the really serious
part of the affair was the fact that
seventeen foreign consuls were in
cluded in tho arrest—the consuls of
Husain, France, Belgium, Hawaii and
local authorities shut off the dispatch.
Then he tried to get word to Wash
ington, but the censor refused to
send it.
"Phil” Hanna was fighting mad.
Eseheverra's troops were lounging in
front of the fortress when the consul
strode up and demanded the release
of the prisoners. Escheverru replied
that it was impossible unless the ran
soms were paid.
"If you don't let them out,” eald
Hanna, "I will land troops and take
charge of them myself.”
Escheverra only shrugged his
shoulders. It was a bluff and he
knew it. An inspiration came to
Mr. Hanna as he turned away, en
raged at his powerlesu condition. He
would ask Eulate to land him some
marines. The lieutenant looked at
the consul a moment and exclaimed:
"You are my dear friend. I will
blow up the prison if you say so.”
True to his word, he trained his
guns on the fortress, and gave it a
blank volley. The fort replied by run
ning out one gun and firing it. The
shot struck the bows and glanced off.
It was Eulate's turn to get ungry now.
Putting on his full uniform and taking
his staff and a detail of men he went
ashore. Consul Hanna marched up to
Esclieverra once more ajid pulled out
his watch.
"I’ll give you Just twenty minutes,”
the Almirante Oquendo. The Vizcaya
come to anchor, its great 13-inch guns
trained on the American consulate.
Amid the blare of trumpets and the
shouts of the populace the fleet's com
mander came ashore. He paid the cus
tomary official visit to the Spanish
military commander, and in the
course of the conversation asked:
"Who represents the Yankees here?''
"Philip C. Hanna," was the reply.
"My friend!” Capt. Eulatc turned
pale. Hastening back to the fleet he
changed the position of the Vizcaya.
Then he penned a note of invitation,
requesting the pleasure of Consul
Hanna’s presence at dinner aboard the
flagship. The consul, who had In the
intervening time been married to a
charming Iowa girl, responded on be
half of himself and wife. The meet
ing was a dramatic one, war being
then a certainty, and, in fact, only a
few days off, and great was the aston
ishment of the Spanish town and the
Spanish fleet to witness the triumph
of friendship over circumstances.
While the ships were yet In the
bay the consul was ordered to leave
San Juan and take refuge In the Dan
ish Island of St. Thomas, less than a
hundred miles uway.
Mrs. Eulate remained In San Juan
when her husband sailed away to Join
Cervera. Then came a report that
Capt. Eulate was killed. In the midst
of excitement Consul Hanna did not
forget. He telegraphed to Washing
ton to ascertain whether the captain
waa dead or alive. He got word that
the Vizcaya had gone down and that
Eulate was a prisoner of war. He sent
all the facts to Mrs. Eulate and she
wrote him a charming letter of
CAPT. EULATE OF THE VIZCAYA—BRAVE SPANISH OFFICER WHO DID THE UNITED STATES A GOOD
• TURN SEVEN YEARS AGO.
nearly every 1-atin country. A Hat
was kept of the names of the pris
oners and of the amount of money ex
pect’d from each before he could he
liberated.
There were two men In Ln Ouayra.
however, upon whom Eecheverra had
not reckoned. One waa n tall, slender
young American. He waa Philip Han
na. an Iowa man. the American con
sul at the port. The other man who
waa destined to Interfere waa a lieu
tenant of the Spanish navy, a dark
vlaaged, taciturn man. who had taken
a liking to the Iowa boy. and whose
vessel was lying In tbe harbor. Thla
ve>#el, tbe Jorge Juan, waa about the
slae of tbe little Concord of the Amen
i an navy. The two men had been ac
quainted about two mouths. I.leut.
Kulate fur *u< h was the Spaniard a
name vteltlng the be Iwlur quarters
at the consulate for a smoke and a j
rhat, and Consul llanna going aboard |
the Uny warship whenever It came In
from the coast survey duty. There
waa no war anrwhere, eacept In Veoe
inela Spain *t« friendly t.» ih*
t'nlled State# and Indifferent In the
•wtuluttonary quarrel# of Crespo and
M*nd«gn.
l>ae nooning In Septeathur. the day
o( the whotsanie arrsata Consul llan
an received a note from the prison
tailing hint there waa an Amertvaa
Imbed up n wua whu had been
naturalised The consul waa alone
||e tried to telegraph Minister fftrugg*
*t (**•«»•* So* Imiiu Us*< hot the
i
lie said, ‘to let those people out. We’ll
stay here till you do It.” The twenty
minuteo were Just up as (Jen. Esche
verra turned sullenly and unlocked
the door of the Jail. The elghty-flvo
prisoners lost no time In getting out.
"if It ever comes tuy turn, lieuten
ant." said Mr. llanna, to do you a
favor, you can count on me.”
Little did either man think of the
consequences of the affair. The Vene
inelan dictator, balked of hi* prey by
a despleed American and a reckless
neutral Spaniard, complained to Ma
drid and to Waahlngton of the breach
of International law. Washington
only took trivial nolle* of the mat
ter. writing to llanna for an eiplana
llou and then to Mendoaa. telling him
he had only g> l what be d«*erv*4. or
lea* Madrid l u>k a different view of
it. Euiale was stripped of his rank
and out in the guard house to anal!
>oun ■ martial things would hev*
gone bard with Him If Madrid bad but 1
eooa received the thanks of saven
teen governments for the timely gid of
Rotate
Mr llanna. aa In duty bounl bad
request'd lb« consul* to writ* bom* j
about It nltb lbs result mat Ike met
iurlal dpaatah govenment nficiala re
leased ibeir men and promoted him to
tba ram mend of ike Havana naval
depot, with the rank af vaptaia.
line Aa* day la Aptil l*»a when
Mta two aaUoae net* oa the verge ,.f j
•tar tba harbor of Han Juan da Pwrio (
M' » wsa entered bt tba Vt*«eve and
i
thanks. He also sent letters from Mr*.
Kulate to her husband through the
statu department. Before leaving San
Juan Mrs. Kulnte commended several
local friemla and relatives to the
American protection. sa>lng that this
war had given her an exalted Idea of
American manhood.
Meteor fall*.
Philadelphia Inquirer: The narrow
escape of the Norwegian steamship
Oeorge Duniol* front be-lng sunk at aea
by a meteor which exploded In her
couree while she was bound from Phil
adelphia for Jamaica was related by
members of the crew when the steamer
tied up at the West India fruit com
paay's wharves ('apt Jantofl states
that on the night of Oct It), the vet
set's position being about latitude M
north sad longitude Ti ll west, the
meteor, which wss only seen n few
•Hunts before It came near, exploded
within a few sards of the vessel, seal
tsrtag Its (ragmeats in nil direction*
The explosion was due he believes
to the hot subsume suddslly coming
In roatml with the water During the
entlrw night the luminous trails of
other meteors could he seen tn their
downward dement The crew ut the
vessel were blinded hy the trail of
intense light whlsh followed the me
tnuf stsn after It had disappeared
father rimes srithn ladles tea the'
h« In forever »«w«r.
I
INDUSTRIAL CENSUS.
RECORD OF THE SECOND YEAR
OF PROTECTION.
The Hr.tnrallon of That Pollrjr Ha. Ite
• ultiil In an lurrea.e or .1V.90 IVr
Cent In Wi>g;e* Pulil ituil 10.411 l’er
Cent In the ltnie of Wugca.
The extent to which American labor
has gained in employment and In
wages in the past four years, by rea
son of the restoration of industrial
activity in place of the dullness, de
pression and enforced idleness of the
desolate period following the free-trade
experiment at tariff making in 1894
cannot, for obvious reasons, he acou
lately stated in figures. It la impossi
ble for any but government agencies to
cover the ground with anything like
completeness. Employers of labor do
not, as a rule, take kindly to inquiries
as to facts concerning wages, gross
bum of output, etc. Hence an unoffi
dal poll of the Industrial situation Is
certain to be attended with difficulties.
The American Tariff Protective league,
always exceptionally successful in this
Held, has Just completed Its Industrial
census for the month of March, 1899,
using that month as the basis of com
parison with March. 1895, the former
being nineteen months after the enact
ment of the Dlngley tailff, while the
latter was seven month.' after the en
actment of the Wilson tariff of 1S94.
In the ease of the earlier period the
country had considerably longer than
seven months In which to settle down
to an average level of results and con
ditions, for the reason that the period
of well-defined stagnation really began
very soon ufter the election of Grover
Cleveland in November, 1892. Counting
the time during which domestic produ
cers were engaged In reducing their
scale of operations In anticipation of
free-trade tariff times, together with
the seven months of actual experience
under a free-trade tariff, we have a to
tal period of time practically the same
as the nineteen months between Aug.
1, 1897, and April 1, 1899.
It Is, however, to be borne In mind
that our returns for March, 1899, flat
tering and significant though they be,
fall considerably short of adequately
expressing the real progress made in
nineteen months of practical protec
tion. Everybody knows that u very
important advance in the wage rate of
the whole country has gone into effect
since the close of March, 1899, our cen
sus month. Therefore our census fails
to present the full facts of increased
prosperity among American wage
earners. We show that, compared with
March, 1895, there was in the 1,957 es
tablishments reporting a gain of 75,751
in the number of hands employed, or
a gain of 39.56 per cent for March,
1899; that there was a gain on the
gross sum of wages paid of f3,461,
235.58, this being 54.09 per cent more
than in March, 1895; and that while in
March, 1895, the average rate of wages
per capita for the month was $33.36,
the average rate per capita in March,
1899, had increased to $36.86, being a
gain of 10.49 per cent. Had this census
been extended so as to include the
months of April and May, 1899, the
months In which the heaviest and most
general advances in wages occurred,
the percentage of increase in the per
capita wage rate would undoubtedly
have been above 15 per cent.
The figures In condensed form are as
follows.
Number of reports received, cover
ing March. 1895, and March, 1899, 1,957.
Number of hands employed:
March, 1895 .191,732ft
March, 1899 .267,486ft
Gain for March, 1899, 39.56 per cent.
Amount of wages paid:
March, 1895 .$6,398,044.53
March, 1899. 9,859,280.38
Gain for March. 1899, 54.09 per cent.
Average wages per capita:
March, 1895 .$33.36
March, 1899 . 3G.S6
Gain for March, 1S99, 10.49 per cent.
Such is the story of protection and
prosperity as afTecting the Amctian
wage-earner. It Is u story which should
bring joy to the heart of every Am r
ican cltisen.
STATING FACTS.
Ilove I'reielileut MiHInlr; Niinininrlret
I slating rru>|>rruua t'OMelll lone.
Among the s|n <ial Rifts of President
McKinley that of effective verbal
ftatement In cone 1m form Im especially
notable. Few men have ever said In
so small a number of words more that
was Important, and that the country
wanted to know, than was said by our
chief executive in hUt speech at the
banquet of the Commercial club in
Chicago, Oct, tu, iv.ty The president
had something good tu say, and this ia
bow he aaid It:
* I congratulate you, gentlemen, upon
the growth and advancement of your
city and the evidence* of prosperity
everywhere observable, Nothing lot
piceeed me mure in looking into the
faces of the great multitude on the
streets yesterday than the smiling,
happy fate* of the people, That was
evidence lu me of your real aad sub
stantia! prosperity. It m#*ai the
steady employment good wag**, happy
honsea aad these are always I ad ta
pes*# id* (<> h1 <«i government and to
the happiness of the people
-We hav« had a wonderful Indue
trial development In Ike last two yaar*
Our week shop* never were tu busy.
our trad* at home was never mi large
aad our foreign trade exceeds that af
any Ilk* period in all owe history In
the year ItN •• bought abroad up
ward of tMi'MWMd worth of gouda
sad In the tame year sold abroad
• I ItT ewueue giving a balance of trad*
In *ur favor of |U* Md egg.
"▼at# mesa* mur* labor at hams i
more money at home, more earnings at
home. Our products' are carried on
every sea and find a market in all the
ports of the world. In 1888 the Japa
nese government took from us 8.80 per
cent of Its total imports, and in 1898
14.57 per cent. We are the greatest
producers of pig iron, and our manu
factures of Iron and steel exceed those
of any other country. We raise three
fourths of the cotton of the world.
"The growth of the railway systems
of the United States Is phenomenal.
From 30 miles in 1S30 we have gone to
182,COO In 1897.
"Our internal commerce has even ex
ceeded the growth of our outward com
merce. Our railroad transportation
lines never were so crowded, while our
builders of cars and engines are una
ble to fill the pressing orders made nec
essary by the increased traffic.
"We have everything, gentlemen, to
congratulate ourselves over as to the
present condition of the country. I am
told by business men everywhere that
the business of the country now rests
upon a substantial basis and that you
are really only making what there 1«
a market for, and as long as you do
that, of course, you arc doing a safe
business, and our markets are going
to inigpase,’’ (Applause.)
Can any one Imagine drover Cleve
land talking that way two yearn and
a half after his second Inauguration as
president of the United States? His
habit of speech, always ponderous and
platitudinous, and often very dull, was
against him In the first place. Then,
too, he never had the help of the splen
did facts which inspire the utterances
of his more eloquent successor In the
presidential office. The facts were all
against Mr. Cleveland. They were facts
of depression, gloom, discouragement,
disaster; the facts of free-trade tariff
times. Now the facts are Republican,
protection facts, McKinley facts. There
is a mighty big difference between the
facts of four years ago and the facts
of to-day.
11 t of All Ilontcs.
VROTECTiOAll
fWL.R«AP.
Went and Kant.
More than one would-be prophet has
predicted that In the near future there
would be an Impassable chasm be
tween the interti ts of the east and
those of the west. These prophets of
calamity are In a fair way of being
quickly and completely discredited.
The east and west have stood together
in past years on the common ground of
their recognition of the necessity of a
protective tariff for the advancement
of their respective Interests. There
have been times when it seemed ns
though the west might drift away from
that belief, or at least give it secondary
place, but that time has gone by. The
east and west will stand together in
the future, as they have in the past, on
a plaform securely based on the policy
of protection.
The Industrial and political union of
the two sections is already being fore
shadowed in the statements made by
those who are accustomed to watch the
trend of affairs. The head of a large
trust company in Chicago puts it as
follows:
"A feeling has developed in the west
beyond what generally is realized that
while western railroads aro prosper
ing, making earnings beyond all past
example, the securities of them are
pretty good Investments for western
people themselves, and 1 have recently
been very greatly surprised by the
fashion which seems to have developed
In western communities to put surplus
moneys Into stocks like Northern Pa
dfle, I'niou Pacific and Southern Pa
cific. In this new venture of the gran
ger going into partnership with Wall
street there are a good many possibil
ities w hich the political economist can
afford to give consideration to."
The west has found prosperity In
t>ro‘ectloti, and this tendency to Irveat
its surplus money tu stocks la a pretty
good Indication that It will stand by
the east Is maintaining the policy
which has brought prosperity to east
and west alike.
Haw Is Have I'srsMsssi l‘ras|w«ll)>.
With the vast amount of raw mate
rial that our fielda. forests and tames
produce, there Is no reason why this
should not soon become the great man
ufacturing nation of the world. If we
could keep meddlers like Hryaa and
kta kind from Interfering with our
program At Ike present rate of ,s
erenee In manufacturing It can only
ha a few year# before all our food
products will be required at home. The
Kngitek market will then no longer af
! feel Ike price of our wheat or corn,
Ike ehail eend to market the crop* uf
iron, wood and other materials that aa
| lure has keen piling we here fur ten
t i>iee In the shape of highly intakeJ
products, and nU Ike proit on It will
M» ears We snail then have perma
nent proe parity unless we weakly
give ike management of our affaire
ever to those a ho wink to make soma
foolish egpertmentn with Hem.'- r*
»ma (Weak | l egg an
SHOULD SPEAK OUT.
Democrats I’rged to Follow the Example
of Messrs, (.race and Crimmins.
Following the excellent example of
William R. Grace, a lite-long Demo
crat and free-trader, who lately made
public avowal of his recantation of
Cobdenite doctrines and his full adhe
sion to the policy of protection, John
D. Crimmins, a New York Democrat
of marked prominence in his party,
and withal a business man of excep
tional activity and ecope, makes
known his conviction (hat in its blind
devotion to Rryanism the Democratic
party menaces the best interests of
the country. In an interview printed
in the New York Sun of Oct. 14, 1899,
Mr. Crimmins said, concerning the in
dorsement of William J. Bryan at tho
recent meeting of the New York state
Democratic committee:
“We hear a lot of talk about the
government’s willingness to help tho
money market, but in my Judgment
the labor, business and financial
phases of the political situation aro
far more important just now.
“The indorsement of Bryan by the
Democratic organization is a distinct
menace to the labor and manufactur
ing interests. la>t the workingmen
pause for a moment to consider past
embarrassment and present prosperity.
They have, during the past few years,
been better paid, have worked shorter
hours, their wages in many instances
have been advanced voluntarily, and
this, too, by the very corporations
which have been condemned by Croker
and Bryan.
“I know whereof I speak when I say
that the workingmen will repent bit
terly If they now listen to the old
sophistries and go to the polls and in
dorse them by voting for Bryan. 1
feel that when they reason a little they
will reject false doctrine. To block
the prosperity of the country by strik
ing at its financial and commercial
foundation is little short of criminal,
and I believe that the workmen of
today will not be led Into any trap
by the politicians. Indifference may
be injurious to us, for an indorsement
of Bryanism at the polls of New York
would be an injury to the best inter
ests of the city, and, reflectively, to
the state and nation.”
The inun who utters this Impressive
warning to workingmen and business
men is a large employer of labor, a
man of wealth and influence. Non*
knows better than he the dire conse
quences to the country's welfare that
would follow the success of William
J. Bryan at the polls in the next pres
idential campaign. Other Democrats
of prominence and influence know this
equally with Messrs. William R. Graco
and John D. Crimmins. Why should
they not tell the people of the United
States what they know? Business
Democrats who are in a position to
correctly gauge the effects of Demo
cratic success under the Bryan banner
ought to be heard from more generally.
They should speak out.
More Ilian Keeping Kven.
Despite the predictions of the Demo
crats a few years ago the government
revenue thus far during the present fis
cal year has exceeded the government
expense. No wonder the opponents of
the Republican party and of the policy
of protection turn from the question of
tariff and begin howling about thi
trusts. They deceived the people In
1896 with their lies, and now in an ef
fort to divert the public mind from
those lies they howl about something
else. At the end of the first quarter of
the fiscal year a surplus of $2,000,000
Is shown. The government revenue for
the three months has been $17,000,000
more than what It was during the
same period of last year, and the ex
penditures have fallen oft $45,000,000.
The customs are yielding from $600,600
to $1,000,000 a day, and internal reve
nue nets $1,000,000 each day, both
showing an aggregate gain over the(
same period of last year of $5,000,000.
The war department is spending an av
erage of $12,500,000 each month, while
the monthly expense of our navy is
$5,000,000; we are carrying on a war
on the other side of the world, where
we are taking care of a great army of
American soldiers as no nation has
ever cared for its soldiers before; wo
are adding battleships, cruisers and
torpedo-boats to the navy in a manner
that Is attracting the attention of nil
nations, and yet we show a cash bal
ance and surplus for the past three
months, the first quarter of the new
fiscal yeur. More and more each day
is the proof furnished that the protect
ive tariff that bears the name of the
late Mr. Dlugley, one of the greatest
and brainiest statesmen America ever
produced, Is fully capable of providing
for all the expenses of our government
In times of peace, and mure and uiora
each day is It being demonstrated that
the ttrances of this country were
never in better hands.—Des Moines
(Iowa) Mints Register.
They bated fee Depeeeelee.
In m review of the lumber traffic It la
■bow a that Arhanaaa leads a.I the
southern atatea both In amount cut and
In distribution When the Wllaou tjor
man tariff waa la operation no atnta
led la lumber production all were be
bind, mill# were airspeeded and em
ployee Idle, and It In n fact of record
that the entire Arhanaaa delegation la
congress voted for the tariff ahlch
closed the mills, bankrupted many s|
the will ••autre end aval thousands o|
laboring men not to linmp Utile
Much tAth I Mepobilcnn.
van* ia a»niua
If. an sooted ia Chicago. RN per
hundred in the highest price paid for
live ateere ia geptemher eia«e laat it
wowld seem the producer and not the
heel trust m getting the keaegt at the
prevailing high prteem * at Urate
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