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The Commoner.
MA'Y 22, 1903.
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ing. a -wireless telegraph service be
tween San Francisco and the Faral
lono islands, thirty miles from San
Francisco. The servico 'will supple
ment the cable between these- points,
which was broken recently and is.
now in course of repair.
A dispatch from New York undo.
date of May 14 says: A national fed
... eration of employers, it is expected,
will be one of the consequences of the
movement begun by employers of la
bor in the building trades to organ
ize for protection and aggressive pur
poses against the labor unions.
. A dispatch from Washington, dated
May 13, says: The war department
has received mail advices from Manila
that Miss Floy Gilmoro has been ap
pointed assistant attorney general for
the government in the Philippine is?
ands. She is the first woman ap
pointed to such an important local
position. She went to the Philippines
as a stenographer and gained her
present position by good work in tin
office of the attorney general.
General Nelson A. Miles has writ
ten a fetter to the Army and Navy
Journal declaring his position in re
gard to the report he recently mad
charging officers in the Philippines
with -cruelties. General Miles says
he was instructed to go to the Phil
ippines and investigate conditions
there, paying special attention to the
"instruction, discipline and supplies of
the army." He reiterates the chargea
made in his report, but says that the
soldiers did not act in these matters
except in obedience of orders Issued
by their superior officers.
Christopher H. Payne has been ap
pointed United States consul at St.
Thomas. He is a colored man who
has taken an active part In West Vir
ginia politics and has been In the In
ternal revenue service. The informal
transfer of Henry A. Johnson of the
District of Columbia from Venice to
Valencia has been announced.
On May 15 Governor Mickey of Ne
braska made public the charge that
he had been offered bribes of ?1,000
each for four state positions. The
governor has not made public the
names of the men who offered the
bribes.
Former State Senator F. L. Busch
went before Circuit Attorney Folk at
St. Louis on May 15 and made a con
fession of his connection with corrupt
deals extending over- a period of eight
years. Mr. Busch confessed that he
has been receiving a, salary from the
railroad lobby for taking care of all
..railroad legislation.
A Reaction Setting In.
General Miles' put a crimp in tha
war department stories that there are
no atrocities to be credited- to the
Philippines. It appears to have been
a good thing, as a bureau of informa
tion medium at least, to have per
mitted General Miles to encircle the
globe. The commanding general of
the army, who is, however, command
ing in name only, kept his eyes open
while in the Philippines, and he saw
things. His report, extracts from
which were published in the Sentinel
Monday, indicates that strenuous ac
tion is needed to regulate the juris
diction of the army officer and soldier
in the Philippines. Such atrocities
as are reported by General Miles as
undoubtedly having occurred are a
disgrace to any nation, especially to
one that professes to bo the advance
agent of civilization as does the
United States. Knoxville Sentinel.
The Sentinel expresses sentiments
"Which" are well nigh universal among
the democratic and independent pa
pers of the country. The thick and
thin republican organs and certain al
lied democratic journals which, hav
ing caught the Imperialistic mania,
out-Herod Herod in their advocacy of
it, are, of course, abusing Miles as
they do everybody elso who jostles
their fetich. Among the mildly im
perialistic papers there is a marked
reaction against the disposition shown
some time ago to regard every criti
cism of military atrocity in the Phil
ippines as an attack on the honor of
the army.
Americans are not like the French
who believe that no member of th3
army can do wrong. God save us from
the day when the military will be ex
alted above the civil authority in this
country, for that day will mark the
beginning of the end of our free in
stitutions. We hold it an absolute
essential of popular government that
the, misdeeds of civil officers shall bo
held up to public knowledge and de
nunciation. How much more neces
sary that the military should be sub
ject to the same treatment. Wo give
all due honor to our army and navy
and most of them are entitled to all
honor but there is nothing sacred
about them, and if there were they
would be all the more honored by the
punishment of unworthy companions
in arms.
The country is to be congratulated
that it has come back to a saner atti
tude regarding its military forces.
Even imperialists can now see that
the men who have been honestly seek
ing to expose the perpetrators of tha
Philippine atrocities are not traitors,
but the best friends of the true soldiers
and the American people. Memphis
News.
Information Wanted
Information Is wanted concerning
the whereabouts of Ed Hilmer. His
mother left him at Stromsburg, Neb.,
some ten or eleven years ago. Ad
dress J. G. Andressen, Higginsvllle,
Mo.
Mrs. Phillip Coons, of Visalla, Cal.,
is anxious to learn the address of a
long lost niece. When last heard of
the niece was living in either Nebras
ka or Colorado.
If there is a married woman among
Commoner readers whose maiden
name was Shofstall, she is requested
to write to Mrs. Kate Coons, Visalla,
Cal.
Mrs. Emma H. Nye, of Wythesville,
Va., is anxious to learn the where
abouts of her son, known among west
ern railroad men as Victor H. Nye.
The last his mother heard of him was
in 1893, when ho was in Kansas City.
The American Marine.
Under the above title William W.
Bates, late United States commissioner
of navigation and formerly manager
of the Inland Lloyd's Itegister, as well
as the author of "Rules for Construc
tion and Classification of Vessels,"
has recently given to the public,
through Houghton, Mifflin & Co., New
York, publishers, a very thorough and
comprehensive arcument in favor of
the rehabilitation of the American
marine. He discusses among other
things the nation's interest in a ma
rine, the economy of doing our own
shipping, the encouragement of mari
time pursuits, naval arts as they re
late to national progress, American
and British navigation laws com
pared, the evolution of British marl
time power, early shipping policy of
the United States and its declension,
the effect of war and free trade upon
the merchant marine, tariff legislation
as it effects our shipping, the free im
portation of ships, the unity of in
terest in shipbuilding and ship own
ing, true economy in ship owning;
durability of British and American
built ships, tho effect of foreign ma
rino on insurance, sailing ship per
formance, Pacific coast commerce and
navigation, tho marine insurance bus
iness in tho United States and as con
ducted in foreign countries, Imper
fection of our tonnage tax system,
tho load-lino question, tho cost and
economy of shipping, tho bureau of
navigation of the treasury drtnnrt-
I ment. the tonnasro bill and cstimntna
ffir liminHna Irnnannrfoitnn nnitn
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protection ana rreo trade, and tho
methods of protecting shipping.
As will bo seen, the book covers tho
entire field and together with tho sta
tistics which it contains, furnishes a
fund of valuablo information for any
student of this Important subject
A Fearless Reformer.
President Roosevelt is certainly a
fearless reformer. Yesterday ho at
tacked one of our darling sins when
ne asked To have the cards of visitors
torn down from tho big trees, of Cali
fornia. With a rude hand he has"
slammed in tho faces of millions of
our worthy citizens their only door
of hope of fame." Tho few thousand
Americans whoso names appear in
"Who's Who" may sit secure, like
tho gods on Olympus, unshaken by tho
concussion; but what of the Bub
merged nine-tenths? For years they
have been sticking their cards on the
big trees, hacking their initials on
every accessible piece of wood within
two miles of Niagara Falls, and toll
ing up Mount Washington with stone
chisels and mallets, thrilled by visions
of a glorious immortality. Those hon
est people cannot go traveling about
the country in special trains; they
are not entertained by governors and
aldermen; they are not asked to de
liver addresses on the tariff, tho stren-
uous life, tho race suicide; they can
not oven write histories of the west.
Cut off from these simple, but exhilar
ating methods of Impressing their
personality upon tho world, they turn
in desperation to the big trees and
to the bald rocky crown of Mount
Washington. If President Roosevelt
himself were in their place he would
not meekly content himself with
rearing a patriarchal family and then
joining the choir invisible. Such a
craven surrender to fate cannot be
expected of men with iron in their
blood. New York Evening Post.
Have Also Given V Taft.
A treasonable statistician figures
out that tho Philippines havo cost us
tho lives of 5,000 soldiers and $300,
000,000 during tho last five years and
havo brought us nothing but trou
ble Well, oven so hasn't tho flag
"stayed put" and isn't that tho -chief
end fcf man? Chicago Chronicle.
Strange Thing Are Done In Jersey.
In criticising the action of tho pub
lic authorities of Passaic In granting
a license to sell Intoxicants in a build
ing wherein tho worship of God is
regularly carried on, the valued Al
bany Press - Knickerbocker - Express
declares that "you can get anything
they havo got In New Jersey if you
have the price, from the incorpora
tion of a trust to a license to run a
saloon in a building where religious
services are held."
Tho story goes (and it is likely to
bo told in court) that a Passaic man
who happened to be solicitor for a
brewery in which some of the coun
cilmen of the city are interested ap
plied for a liquor license to open a
saloon in the same building in which
the services of St Stephens Hungar
ian Catholic church are held, and the
council granted it Within two hun
dred feet of this building is a Greek
church. The law provides that no
saloon shall be conducted within three
hundred feet of a church, but the
councilmen paid no attention to the
law. Tho church -neonle nronose to
carry the matter to the courts.
The indignant Albany editor re
marks (and who can disagree with
him?) that tho Jersey mosquito is not
the only pest in that state. Citizen
ship there has nearly reached its low
est level, and we sometimes wonder
why the mosquitoes do not emigrate
lea masse,-Providence Telegram.
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