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BUNCOED DEMOCRATS
We now have the assurance not only
President elect McKinley but also
Mark A Hanna and Thomas G
2latt and other less great and con
spicuous Republican leaders that a
change in the tariff is the thing that
the people decided at the last election
and that more protection to the
monopolies engaged in manufacturing
enterprises is what the incoming ad-
ministration is bound to devote itself
to
Strange as it may seem to those few
Democrats who helped the Republican
party to achieve victory in November
the financial question was not an issue
then and there is consequently no ne
cessity for even discussing it now Mr
Hanna who had something to say un
doubtedly about sound mouey is
sure of that and Thomas Collier Via it
who certainly did do a good deal of
talking about the paramount import
ance of the gold standard during the
campaign have both come out Hal
footed within the past weeic in favor
of suppressing all reference for our
years to come to anything but higher
duties on imports and bigger appro
priations to enrich contractors
Even the blindest of the so called
gold Democrats must see now that
they have been buncoed by their
late allies The appointment of Ly
man J Gage as Secretary of the Treas
ury is even corroborative of that for
this eminent Chicago national banker
is on record as being very weak on the
money question from their standpoint
mid is therefore not likely to do any
thing more than obey the orders that
inay be given to him by the men who
want protection at the espouse of
the people
The Reicn of the Bankers
We have had government by various
classes of people AVe have had gov
ernment by farmers and there were
those who objected to it We have had
government by lawyers and still oth
ers objected We are now in the midst
of a reign of bankers and inoney lend
ers We may say that the power and
ascendency of this particular class is
now at its height
The President elect ignoring the
statesmen in public life and listening
only to the seductions offered by the
money centers has given to the presi
dent of the First National Bank of
Chicago Lyman J Gage the office of
Secretary of the Treasury He quits
the back parlor of his board of direc
tors to assume the seat of chief finan
cial officer of the American govern
ment in the Cabinet at the White
House
At Albany in the State Senate in
spite of the newspaper announcement
that he had ceased his opposition Sen
ator Grady fought to the end the vi
cious principle of exempting from tax
ation our State bonds a bill giving
State money away to bondholders The
bill passed by just a constitutional ma
jority There is likely it is said to
be but one bid accepted for the bonds
about to be put on the market and it is
for the interest and advantage of those
who will stand behind the purchase
that this exemption of the bonds from
taxation has been arranged It is a
bankers bill appropriate enough in a
government of bankers by bankers
and for bankers
Here in New York City Ave have a
banker for Mayor and our taxes are
ten millions more than when we had
Mayors of other professions We have
just parted from a banker Governor
who lost his office as Governor by be
coming a candidate for President and
during his administration our State
which had just emerged from debt
was plunged into fresh debt again On
every side the illustrious profession of
money lending crops out and asserts
itself It looks as though it were time
To call a halt New York News
Dodsinjr the Tariff
The tariff dodger according to the
evidence of many New York merchants
has a conspicuous following in the
many thousands of Americans who are
in the habit of taking occasional trips
to the old world
At a recent meeting of the large dry-
nrrvrwlo r1rilnio linlrl in Vnw Vnrlr if W13
stated that at least o0000000 worth
of dutiable goods get into this country
every year through the connivance of
returning tourists
A recent decision of the United
States Supreme Court has largely aid
ed -this evil All wearing apparel be
longing to the owner it has decided can
come in free of duty But there is no
line to decide just how many garments
or dresses the returning tourist should
have
The result is that one dress maker
can return with forty dresses and bill
all of them as her wearing apparel or
a man can fill ten trunks or more with
clothing and declare all of it is for per
gonal use
So notorious has become this smug
gling that one of the merchants at the
meeting said a rich man recently boast
ed to him that the clothing and other
effects which he brought home after his
usual summer tour and smuggled
through the custom house more than
paid for the traveling expenses of him
self and his family
When such large quantities of goods
come in free of duty it is not fair to the
merchants who import goods and must
sell them at a fair price plus the duty
It disturbs the standard of values and
the Ways and Means Committee which
is now wrestling with the tariff should
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take notice of the evil and resolve to
end it
Unfortunately the people who ar
foremost in this work of tariff dodging
are those who can well afford to pay
duty But while the smuggling is rec
ognized those guilty of it look upon it
more as shrewdness than as a crime
The fact that they are cheating Uncle
Sam and incidentally all the people in
the United States is overlooked Ihila
delphia Item
An Old Republican Trick
The manner in which the Repubi
cans will try to stave off action indefin
itely on the financial question and
give them further opportunities to fool
the people is indicated in the bill pass
ed by the Senate authorizing the Presi
dent to appoint delegates to any inter
national money conference that may
be called or to call one himself if he
thinks it judicious to do so
This means of course the expendi
ture of another nice sum for salaries
for a number of eminent and high
priced lawyers and financiers for doing
over again what has been done thrice
before without securing any practical
results The last of these conferences
was held in Brussels only four years
ago If the Republicans were sincere
in their professed faith of internation
ad bimetallism even they would not
put forward this old worn out scheme
of talking the matter all over again
from the beginning They would in
stead formulate some positive plan
and act on it
The Republicans in this Congress
and those who will be in the next as
well as those who will compose the Mc
Kinley administration have no idea
of accomplishing anything through an
other such conference as that which
was called in the last months of Ben
jamin Harrisons occupancy of the
White House They have resolved on
a do nothing policy but they want to
deceive the public if possible into the
belief that they are really trying to
help silver by sending junketing dele
gates abroad once more to take part
in useless palavers
Empty Phrases
Henry Watterson says that if the
rich manufacturer can go to Congress
and demand legislation in the interest
of his business so can the poor agricul
turist so can the poor mechanic and
it is here where the evils of anarchism
took their start and have their fortifica
tion
The foregoing is just about as full of
meaning as the general run of Watter
sonian pronunciamentos That is to
say it is an empty phrase without any
meaning in it at all Why and how
would the evil of anarchism take a
start from or find root in letting the
poor agriculturist or the mechanic ex
ercise the right of petition
It occurs to us that a plea to lawma
kers for the enactment of law would
have an effeet decidedly opposed to
anarchy Anarchy knows no law and
respects none A petitioner by his very
conduct manifests a regard for consti
tuted authority The Kentucky editor
is rather clever at putting words to
gether but analjzed his utterances
are mere palaver with no more body to
them than Swiss wine and they are
quite as innocuous Chicago Dispatch
The Question in a Nutshell
The New York World which aspires
to be a money lender and goldbug or
gan asserts that the greenback ques
tion simply is that it is foolish to keep
on issuing promises to pay something
which you may have to buy at a pre
mium
Oh no that is not the question at an
as the people understand it It is that
the governmcJt owes the people so
many hundreds of millions of dollars
which the people lent the government
to carry on the civil war of the sixties
that the government by issuing green
backs saves paying interest on all
these millions while the greenbacks
serve as money currency for the peo
ple and that it would be foolish indeed
to stop issuing these greenbacks with
out interest and to issue instead bonds
on which government and people both
would have to pay interest to money
lenders and goldbugs That is the
question in a nutshell
Gov Alccrs Record
The Chicago Chronicle in an article
upon Cabiuetmaking So Far says
The appointment of Alger for Secretary
of War is unfortunate He was not a
brilliant soldier in the war He has a
military record that is not clear and
which is alleged to have been misrep
resented in the sketch of his life fur
nished by himself to the war histories
It has been charged also that the cam
paign of the war generals previous to
the late election for which he furnished
his private car and was said to have
paid all the expenses was in the na
ture of a financial fraud It is stated
by William E Curtis the well known
correspondent that Alger presented to
the Republican National Committee a
bill of 47000 as the expenses of this
crusade and that after some stormy dis
putes the bill was allowed and he re
ceived the money This should have
extinguished his claims for a cabinet
appointment
Generous
Pullman the man who cost the State
of Illinois thousands of dollars gives a
paltry 300 to the poor of Chicago And
the next move he makes will probably
be to reduce salaries in order to make
up the donation World Herald
The second move came next day
HOW THE PE0PLELI7E
DROWSY EXISTENCE OF THE
CITIZENS OF HAVANA
Military Display the Only Change in
the Conditions Surrounding the
Place Coffeei Siesta Promenades
and Ball Fights Go On as Usual
Few Indications of War
While Cuba as a whole has been ter
rifically and completely changed by the
violent upheavals of war its chief city
still sits on the shores of the northern sea
sunlit and odorous Havana too has un
dergone changes says the Xew York Her
ald but the changes are not those of fire
and sword and famine It has become de
cidedly more military than a few years
ago but this is all Its cafes formerly
haunted by well dressed crowds of civil
ian Cubans and Spaniards now clank
with spurs and sabers and ring with brim
stone gossip of trochas of battles and red
routs where the men who formerly sat
cheek by jowl in the restaurants have met
in deadly conflict
Havana is full of marching soldiers that
signify nothing but harmless dress pa
rades relief detachments and the like
The civil guards still form on the Prado
and sweep down between the trees to the
tune of a lively Spanish quickstep with
rifles at all sorts of angles and their
hats cocked over their eyes in a
style that would be considered aggressive
in any other country
But the real life of the city moves on
steadily and quietly just as it will con
tinue to move until the day of judgment
unless stricken by some mighty cataclysm
Across the blue waters of the bay the low
white houses of Casa Blanca sleep under
the shelter of the bushy hill Farther
away beyond the tile roofed sugar houses
that are empty and deserted now and on
the high mesa of the palm dotted prairie
hill are the sleepy houses of Regia and
farther still the village of Guanabocoa
where the insurgents have made things
lively during the past month
But outside of the bodies of moving
troops you could not discover a sign of
war in Havanas front with a microscope
The lovely land conveys no hint of the
savage and bloody exterior The mule
teers still perambulate the lonely roads
with their enormous pack saddles croon
ing to their sun dreaming animals while
hammering them townward with their
ragged heels
Venga Moolah Arrica Moolah But
Moolah wise from experience only lays
his long ears back in dogged resentment
and plods on in sleepy comfort
In Havana proper while business is
comparatively stagnant there is still
enough to give the usual air of slow and
easy life to the streets The narrow
thoroughfares are swarming with low
topped carriages beasts of burden jost
ling drivers and negro women with such
huge panniers on their heads that the
mind tries in vain to grasp the effect of
such a burden on the Caucasian brain
Some of these panniers are filled with
bread Others contain fruit and vegeta
bles Visitors have seen an Havana ne
gro woman walking along the streets with
l basket upon her head the size of a bu
reau and smoking a cigar which for gen
eral size and black suggestions of nico
tine has never been equaled They are
physical wonders these tropic negresses
The morning life of Havana is brisk
Then everything looks dewy and fresh and
bright and whatever odors there may be
have not yet risen Odors are late risers
in Havana although it may be truthfully
observed that many of them never go to
sleep at all In the morning come the
peddlers with their strange wares and
shrill cries Here and there half dozens
of asses may be seen waddling along with
full udders of milk They are attended
by a ragged owner who milks into a
measure whatever you may choose to buy
This is a decidedly comfortable way of
running a milk route and you are sure of
setting the pure article
Said to Be Wholesome
This asses milk is said to be very whole
some too There is no tuberculosis about
a jackass except in his heels On one oc
casion the writer saw one of these lowly
and intelligent beasts kick a yellow dog
over the counter of a casa de cambio or
money changers and knock down 1S7
in gold coins that were stacked in the rear
Only one stack was left standing and it
BELIGIOUS PROCiSSSIO IX HAVANA
was generally regarded as a spare But
the jackass didnt care much about it He
simply closed his eyes and kept on think
ing long eared thoughts
All Havana breakfasts on black coffee
and oranges Somehow Americans always
found this poor fare for a matutinal Anglo-Saxon
stomach The oranges are the
best in the world but the coffee has the
strength of a porous plaster After cof
fee at 9 oclock comes a period of com-
parative activity for Cubans They hus
tle about and attend to their marketing
and other necessary duties They go shop
ping in little peseta carriages drawn by
small and sturdy Cuban horses But
young and pretty Cuban girls do not go
shopping unaccompanied In fact they
never go out on the streets alone Thej
are always accompanied by a forbidding
relative with a machete a yard long
All the courtine of Cuban sweethearts
is done through perpendicular iron win
dow bars three inches apart This is pret
ty hard lines on anybody accustomed to
the delights of a solitary parlor low gas
jets and a rocking chair built wide enough
for two In fact the Cuban youths have
a rather hard time of it The writer has
seen more than one of them come into the
cafes with the red marks of the iron win
dow bars along his face But just now
the boys are all away to the wars and the
maids have no sweethearts
They Make Siesta
About noontime the average Cuban be
comes too strong to work He must have
A CAFE IN HAVANA
his siesta and the world may wag on as
it will while he takes it Each member
of an establishment has his own particu
lar spot in which to take a nap and it is
a very rude thing for another to pre empt
it The writer always knew where to find
the barkeeper of one particular cafe when
he wanted a rabo de gallo at siesta
time He would reach over the bar and
prod vigorously around among the empty
bottles and buckets until he struck a pro
test Then he had him Here Chico
Get up and attend to business
Si hombre Si Que dice Oh dos
mil cientos
Then he would fish out an old lottery
ticket of which he had been dreaming
OBISPO THE PRINCIPAL BUSINESS STREET IN HAYANA
lay his head on the counter and go to sleep
again leaving the cafe in charge of his 6-year-old
daughter who ran about the
place in a state of unblushing and Eve
like nudity
Siesta time lasts anywhere from noon to
3 oclock Then Havana yawns stretches
itself and resumes business where it left
off a few hours before Even the beg
gars who have also had their siesta be
gin to show signs of almost hnman intel
ligence They creep out from their vari
ous lairs and begin languidly to ply their
trade The blind girl who put her own
eyes out in a fit of pique starts on her
sunlit journey in tow of her brother The
man with the horrible leprous foot bare
and terrifying stretches himself out in
the shade of a deserted building on the
Prado like a huge and offensive spider
Many of these beggars are manufac
tured to order in Spain or the Canary isl
ands and they are certainly champions
in their classes There is one old fellow
ragged and with a yellow withered face
like a boiled onion gray whiskered pursy
and pop eyed who walks about the
streets And yet he used to be one of
Havanas most wealthy and prominent
merchants He lost all his money through
drink and morphine and at present has
just sense enough to beg for more He
has a staring strabismic eye which he
winks broadcast and a dicebox laugh He
is a Havana landmark
In the Evening
In the evenings the church bells begin to
ring They do not ring with the slow
measured cadence heard in Northern
climes but whang away as if hit with a
hammer And such is really the case
Two men climb up into the belfries and
pound away for dear life until the ethics
of Cuban bell ringing are fulfilled
After nightfall begins the most attrac
tive features of Havana life to a foreign
er The parks are filled with a strolling
chattering crowd The Cuban girls and
their mammas while hooded in their man
tillas are dressed in the lightest and fluf
fiest of pink blue and white frocks The
bands play the seats are filled with spec
tators officers mashers and plantation
owners and the scene is full of life and
movement Ten cents plata is the price
for a seat on one of these benches and
the revenue is supposed to go to the mu
nicipal authorities It is doubtful how
ever if a tithe of it ever finds its way
into the nublic coffers There are three
collectors and they never overlook any
thing that any man could discover There
are no tickets to punch no cash registers
or bells to ring It seemed to me to be
one gigantic game of grab
Over in the Inglaterra and the neighbor
ing resorts the cafes are full of Spanish
officers laughing drinking talking and
smoking their endless cigarettes When
ever an American makes his appearance
they scowl and make remarks that are
very audible even if not understood
Every well regulated Cuban is afraid of
the moon There is no kind of lunacy
that is not attributed either directly or
indirectly to the effects of moonlight
Mothers teach their children to avoid its
rays as they would the smallpox There
is so much difference in the temperature
of the Cuban sunlight and shadow that
the sensitive constitutions of a
icate people feel the chiiige dreadfully
In the first place the atmosphere Is ever
surcharged with moisture that boils end
steams in the sun and grows cool in the
shade like the air at the bottom of a well
Then up comes the moon with her attend
ant fogs and gets all the glory of breed
ing rheumatism colds fevers and con
sumption Keep out of the moonlight
is a Cuban mothers first maxim
Have Bull Fitrhts Now
During the first year of the present war
there were no bull fights in Havana They
are being indulged in again however and
are as thoroughly enjoyed as in ante-bellum
days There is one feature of these
bull fights that is seldom dwelt upon by
chroniclers of Spanish customs
It is the bull for the people After
the matadors have properly slaughtered
their bulls an animal is brought in for the
pastime of the spectators Its horns are
sawed off until their ends are about an
inch and a half in diameter enough to
prevent it injuring anybody seriously
Then a gold piece is fastened to the end
of one of its horns and the public is givenj
an opportunity to take it off And howl
the spectators rush to the fray The
writer saw a dozen sailors jump into the
ring and fairly hack tke bull to death be-
fore it had time to find out where it wast
It was slashed with machetes until its
hide would not have held pumpkins It
fought as well as it knew how and on
one occasion caught its most daring per j
secutor and tossed him a beautiful somer
sault over the ring fence Not until the
bull had fallen did the sailors get the gold
piece
Altogether however Havana cannot be
called a beautiful place It looms above
the sea like a gaunt white coral reef
ridged about a blue pool of a bay which
it clutches in its rocky arms like a sap
phire The houses small and plain and
white stand in long rows like the tombs
of the dead and it takes an Anglo Saxon
some time to get rid of this graveyard
feeling
Carpets are unknown in Havana hotels
The writer came across one once and was
tempted to throw it into the street it
looked so stuffy and out of place The
smooth marble stones which are univer
sal are very cool and grateful to the feet
in this hot climate With stone floors and
broad windows without glass the Cuban
sleeping apartments are well adapted to
the climate
And the sunsets are dreams of loveli
ness The western sky at times is one
vast rose colored ocean flecked with small
crimson cloudships that sail placidly
along fading gradually from orange to
saffron and from saffron to purple and
from purple to black The writer has
stood on the punta and watched the sun
go down behind the western gulf Twen
ty minutes later it was night and the
lamps were glimmering along the Prado
Why He Was Defeated
Hanibal Hamlin the war Vice
President possessed a keen wit and a
merry fun loving nature The follow
ing anecdote found In the Lives of
Twelve Illustrious Men is one which
Mr Hamlin took great pleasure In nar
rating It generally happens as in this
case that when a man amuses himself
at the expense of another the punish
ment follows closely upon the offense
When Hamlin was Speaker of the
Maine House of Representatives away
back in the forties there was in that
body a certain gentleman of faultless
attire pleasing manners good address
and some reputation But he had one
foible his hair was very thin and he
was highly sensitive in regard to it
To hide his approaching baldness he
had a habit of carefully stroking with
bandoline or other preparation each
particular hair in Its place One day
while in the chair as Speaker Mr Ham
lin in the innocence of a good and joke
loving nature sent for this gentleman
and looking fixedly at his smooth anf
polished pate said with a chuckle
Blank old fellow I just wanted to
tell you that youve got one of the hairs
of your head crossed over the other
You Insult me sir you insult me
replied the member with unexpected
and altogether unnecessary Indigna
tion and then refusing to listen either
to reason or explanation he left the
Speakers desk and returned to his seat
When Mr Hamlin became a candi
date for the United States Senate this
gentleman was a member of the upper
house of the Maine Legislature Al
though a member of the same party
and only one more vote was needed to
secure Mr Hamlins election he posi
tively refused to vote for the man by
whom he believed he had been insulted
He was defeated for a seat in tha
Senate by a hair But when the nex
vacancy occurred he was elected
Blouse Bodices
A blouse bodice of black velvet cov
ered back and front with a lattice trim
ming of gold cord and turquoise beads
set in at intervals so that there Is a
bead at each crossing is very effective
with a wide corselet belt of black sat-
in a black satin collar and plaint
sleeves of wlvet with a small puff at
the top
EPUCATIOXALCOLIIM
NOTES ABOUT SCHOOLS AND
THEIR MANAGEMENT
No Competent Teacher Can Decry the
Careful Study and f horoiich Teach
ing of the Principles of KnIinh
Grammar
The Study of English
We clip the following paragraph from
an educational paper
Parsing analysis diagraming and
text book syntax are weak legs for cor
rect daily English to stand upon They
are except the Tast good in their way
but writing and speaking English must
be learned by practice
We had thought that this hobby had
been ridden to death some time ago
but now and then it seems to indulge
in an expiring kick The man who
writes the paragraph evidently knows
little about teaching and less about En
glish grammar Any successful teach
er of English will not undervalue either
analysis or exercises in syntax as aids
to scholarship or mental development
but the schoolmaster who grinds
through recitations for the mere pur
pose of getting through the work will
be apt to slur these exercises and con
demn them A grist mill will be quite
as effective in grinding grain to powder
as are ones teeth But the process of
education like the process of eating in
cludes something more than grinding a
recitation through The teacher who
doesnt understand the further process
es of digestion and assimilation doesni
understand his business and he is apt
to cry out against anything that does
not show its value in a so called practi
cal light Writing and speaking En
glish must be learned by practice
Very true but when two thirds of the
childs waking hours are spent in the
company of those who do not profess
to understand the best English the
practice is more likely to be detrimental
than otherwise Or does the writer
mean that the teacher shall distribue
himself to the pla3grounds and the
homes of the pupils that he may be
omnipresent to regulate the practice of
which he speaks Practice must be reg
ulated How shall it be regulated
How shall the child know wheii his is
correct Indeed we doubt if he would
be safe oven in the hands of one who
insists that parsing analysis diagram
ing and text book syntax are weak
legs to stand on Candidly we should
be afraid to put a child of ours in the
hands of a teacher who held such opin
ions for we really have never met a
teacher who understood grammar or
the the teaching of it that talked in
that way From careful observation
we have come to the conclusion that the
men who decry the careful study and
thorough teaching of the principles of
English grammar are sounding the cry
of Stop thief while they lead the
chase Honestly does any one- know
of men and women who are thoroughly
versed in correct English usages both
theoretical and practical who decry
the teaching of the principles governing
that usago Educational News
Suggestions for a School Cabinet
The following suggestions may be
helpful in arranging a cabinet of curi
osities and materials for busy work in
a primary grade The objects should
be collected mainly from the immedi
ate vicinity and the children should be
encouraged to help in furnishing them
They should possess additional Interest
to the children from having been
studied in object and language lessons
Where the pupils are made to feel
that the cabinet is really theirs the
visitor will be astonished to find with
what interest andpride they show their
collection and dilate on the peculiarities
of the objects The children should
classify from the first and should learn
to recognize the objects know their
names and a few facts concerning
them The cabinet may consist of five
shelves arranged as follows
Top shelf Animal kingdom In
sects mounted Bixds and mammals
stuffed Other specimens preserved in
alcohol e g the frog in different
stages Animal products Blue wood
silk coral shells etc
Second shelf Vegetable kingdom
Vegetable products of the vicinity
grain flowers fruit nuts etc Manu
factured vegetable products Linen
cotton wicker work wooden objects
etc
Third shelf Mineral kingdom
Stones and pebbles of the vicinity iron
gold ore flints arrow heads etc
Fourth shelf Objects illustrative of
form measurements and color manu
factured by children when possible
First and second kindergarten gifts
clay forms etc
Fifth shelf Objects used in number
work and reading splints script etc
Primary Teachers Manual
School Management
Children will aH shout if you shout
On the- other hand if you determine
never to raise your voice whenyou give
a command they will be compelled to
listen to you and to this end to subju
gate their own voices habitually and
to carry on aH their work in quietness
The moral effect of this on the charac
ter of the pupil is not insignificant A
noisy school is one in which a great
opportunity of civilizing and softening
the manners is habitually lost And a
school whose work is always done on a
low tone is one in which not only is the
teacher healthier and better able to
economize the resources of his own life
but as a place of moral discipline it Is
far more effective Fitchs lectures
Useful Birds
Parrots are put to a practical use m
Germany They have been introduced
into the railway stations and trained to
call out the name while the train stands
there and thus save people the troubles
of making inquiries i
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