THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1900.
NOT FOR EXPANSION
Judge Taft, of Philippine Com
mission, States His Views
AT A COMPLIMENTARY DINNER
Dmt the Spnnl&U War Brougrh Us Re
sponsibilities Tliat Cannot Be
Shirked.
CINCINNATI, March 5. The compll
mentayr dinner given tonight at the
Queen City Club to Judge William H.
latt, the recently appointed president of
the .Philippine Commission, by his friends
and neighbors, was unique in Its elegance
and In its good-will. The hundred sub
stantial citizens who took this method of
bidding farewell to their friend included
the representative men of Cincinnati.
.ILK. Ingalls, president of the Big Four
Railroad Company, presided as toastmas
ter. After speaking in a happy vein of
Judge Taft and his great mission, he In
troduced Judge William R. Day, ex-Secretary
of State, who responded to the
sentiment, "The Spanish - American
Treaty." In the course of his address he
eald:
"No man In this day of rapid changes
can define a policy which shall control
and limit the action of any great govern
ment In the world. It Is our duty to
deal with each problem as It arises. When
the United States had, by every consti
tutional guarantee, acquired title to the
Philippines Islands, it was the duty of
the President of the United States to use
the army and navy to restore peace and
order and to repel the attacks of the mis
guided people, who, even before the treaty
was ratified, had attacked with arms the
soldiers of the United States. Now, since
that Insurrection seems practically ended,
the United States enters upon the crown
ing duty of giving to these people a just,
stable and free government."
Judge Day dwelt upon the very difficult
task set before the new commission, and
in conclusion spoke In highest praise of
the honor and ability of Judge Taft.
Judge Day's speech was heartily ap
plauded. He was followed by Governor
Nash.
The next speaker. Judge Judson Har
mon, who was Attorney-General under
the last Cleveland Admlnlstratlo'n, and
tvhose association with Judge Taft at
the Cincinnati bar has been contempo
raneous, created a sensation In his open
ing sentence, though It was understood
the company had not been chosen with
the view of political harmony. Judge
Harmon in part said:
"If you had met to approve the general
course of the Government with respect
to the Philippines, I should not be here.
For a hundred years we contented our
selves with words of sympathy for peo
ples struggling, as wo once struggled, for
freedom and Independence. Here, for the
first time, an opportunity came to help In
such a struggle without breaking our
settled policy. We joined ranks with the
native patriots against the common
enemy. Whether any one made or was
authorized to make protests to them Is of
no consequence. Our history and prin
ciples are of perpetual promise; and no
one will deny that when the Filipinos
joined forces with us they believed that
success would mean the fulfillment of their
hpes. . . .
"When wo camo to terms of peace It
was our duty to put an end to the claims
of Spain. As to all territory except a
few square miles, these were the barest
of pretensions, but Spain's need and oth
ers' greed might make a speculative as
set of them, to the injury of our allies.
This was the only possible Justification
2 or the .direction or our commissioners to
purchase these claims, and we naturally
expected some declaration of trust. So did
our allies. But It soon turned out that
instead of buying off the king of Spain,
the Government bought him out and pro
posed to realize on the Investment. Our
only real war followed a war which a
word would have avoided if our Govern
ment had been willing to say It, and
whose victories aroused no gladness in
our people like those over Spain. The
government got absolutely nothing by the
treaty with Spain, except color of title to
a small part of the territory and conse
quent color of right to make war on the
inhabitants, without action of Congress.
Whatever it now holds (save what It got
by treaty with the sultan of Sulu), It
has acquired by conquest from, them and
not otherwise, and it Is still engaged in
perfecting and extending such conauest.
We now hear the usual plea of the doers
or the doubtful thing the deed Is done.
it Is too late to discuss IL . . .
"It is never too late to retract a mls
sipp, to right or undo a wrong. If the
people ffaall decide that no nation Is good
enough to rule another nation without the
other nation's consent; if they shall re
member what it cost us to cast out the
heresy that the great principles of liberty
did not apply to black men. and shall re
fuse to re-embrace it as to brown ones;
if they shall conclude that this country
cannot long exist part vassal and part
free, as they found It could not exist part
slave and1 part free; then there will be no
difficulty In doing what we ought to have
done In the beginning leave the Filipinos
to manage their own affairs, and serve
notice on the world that they are under
our protection."
Judge Harmon declared that the ques
tion would never be settled until it was
settled right. In the meantime, ho said,
it was the duty of the United States to
provide a government for the islands.
While the President's right to make reg
ulations In tjie nature of laws is doubtful,
Judge Harmon said his right and duty to
provide agencies for enforcing the laws
are clear.
The silence which marked the opening
remarks by Judge Harmon was intense.
At length, when applause broke out, it
was followed by a remark In the room,
"Just four of you." But when Judge Har
mon declared the duty of the Government
to be the establishment of a protectorate
over the islands, the applause was con
tinued. He produced .undisguised surprise
when he hinted that one of the best quali
fications of Judge Taft for this mission
was the fact that he was not an expan
sionist. Judge Taft. who followed, spoke for
about an hour, devoting much time to his
associates of the Cincinnati bar. the Cin
cinnati University and municipal and
state politics, and with feeling words of
thanks for the tributes of his rrfends.
Com'.ng to the topic of the Philippines,
he said in part:
"Tho commission is not organized. Its
members have never conferred together,
I speak, therefore, for myself alone. Like
Judge Harmon, and unlike Chairman In
galJs, I am not now and never have been
an expansionist. I have always hoped
that the Jurisdiction of our Nation would
not extend beyond territory between the
two' oceans. We have not solved all the.
problems of popular Government so per
fectly as to justify our voluntarily seeking
more difficult ones abroad. With refer
ence to Judge Harmon, I do not think in
this instance that we have voluntarily
sought them. Circumstances beyond our
control, the sequel of the Spanish war,
have thrust on us responsibility for the
future government of the Philippines. The
proposition is vigorously denied by high
minded and conscientious men, and some
with a fury of superlative and epithet
that Is hardly consistent with a judicial
attitude or an impartial consideration of
the question. My conviction is that the
calm Investigation of the future historian
into all tho conditions- existing at the time
of taking each step toward the present
situation In the Philippines will lead him
to conclude that President McKinley and
his administration selected in each crisis
tho only alternative which a due regard
to our Natlona and international obliga
tions would permit."
iudgc Taft was frequently interrupted
with applause. At the close of Ms ad
dress the entire assembly arose and
Joined In cheers for the distinguished 1
guest of the evening.
The presentation of a handsome silver
loving cup to Judge Taft closed the exer
cises, and the guests departed alter sing
ing "America."
SENATORIAL ELECTIONS.
Most Interesting: Contests Are la the
Silver States.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. There Is much
Interest in the coming senatorial elections,
and nearly every man- whose term will
expire next March ls of course a candi
date. In many instances it Is only a ques
tion of the man's desire to return to suc-
ceeed himself. But there are some very in
teresting complications. There are 27
Senators who have to run the gauntlet of
election. Martin of Virginia. Gear of
Iowa, McLaurln of Mississippi, and Black
burn of Kentucky, have already been
elected. In Nebraska there are two Sena
tors to be elected by the coming Legis
latures, one to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Hayward, and the other to
succeed Thurston. Thurston himself Is no't
a candidate, but George D. Melklejohn,
Assistant Secretary of War, Is a candi
date, and Representative Mercer of that
State is also in the field on the KepuD
llcan side. Allen will be a candidate on
the Fusion ticket, and Bryan for the
other place, if he ls not elected to the
presidency.
The most Interesting contests of course
are in the silver States, where Shoup,
Carter and Wolcott are battling for re
election. All are candidates and will make
the fight, and probably If their party
should win will be successful. Senators
Baker, of Kansas, and Warren, of Wyom
ing, will also have considerable of a fight
getting back. An Interesting case is that
of Senator Hoar, who Is a candidate to
succeed himself, and who opposes the
Republican policies, with the exception
of tho money and tariff questions. The
probabilities are, though, that on ac
count of his long service, and the fact
that New England rarely 'changes able
Senators, he will be returned without very
much opposition.
Of the opposition senators, an interest
ing fight centers around Morgan of Ala
bama, "who ls being opposed by Governor
Johnson, and both sides claim success.
Morgan's pronounced opposition to his
party on many Issues relating to expan
sion and the annexation of Hawaii and
the Philippines, and other great national
Issues, has brought down a great deal of
opposition to him. But his opponent has
catered to the negro vote, and that is
sufficient in that State to defeat him.
Turley of Tennessee will be opposed by
Governor McMillan, of that State. Mc
Millan is one of those men who have
contracted the habit of running for the
Senate and always being defeated, and
the probabilities are that Turley will be
re-elected. Caffery will probably be sup
planted by a Silver Democrat. One of the
most interesting features of the fight will
be the effort that anti-expansionists. Sil
ver Republicans and Populists, and all
sorts and conditions of general cussed
noss are making to return Pettlgrew of
South Dakota. Governor Llnd, who was
in Washington some time ago, says that
Pettlgrew will be re-elected In that State,
but Llnd probably knows very little about
IL Another interesting fight is that be
ing made by Butler to return as a Popu
list from North Carolina. It is already
admitted, though, that he is going to join
the Republicans In the hope of getting
back. Bailey of Texas Is fichtJnc: for
tho seat occupied by Chilton, and the
chances are about even.
It ls not known whether Chandler Is
going to make another effort to be re
elected. His health is none the best, and
his break with the party on the silver
question has made It very doubtful wheth
er he could be re-elected. His friends say
that if he should go out and make an
earnest canvass Jie would be able to win.
but It ls doubtful if he will even make
tho race.
Besides those mentioned above, among
the Republicans who are almost certain to
be re-elected are: Elklns of West Vir
ginia, Fry of Maine. McMillan of Michi
gan, Nelson of Minnesota, Sewell of New
Jersey, Wetmore of Rhode Island. Dem
ocrats who are considered certain to be
returned are: Bacon of Georgia, Berry of
Arkansas, and Tillman of South Carolina.
Elklns. Republican, may have something
of a hard fight In his state. It Is general
ly believed that Cullom. Republican, will
be elected In Illinois, although the situa
tion is somewhat mixed. No one can tell
what the result will be in Delaware, and
If the Democrats win. It ls more than like
ly that somebody else, than Kenney will
be sent to the Senate.
THE RUNNING RACES.
Yesterday's "Winners at Oakland and
New Orleans.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 5. The weath
er was showery at Oakland, and the track
heavy. The results were:
Five and a half furlongs Isallna won,
Pldalla second, Louise Hayman third;
time, 1:10.
Futurity course, selling Boundlee won,
Clarando second, Orion third; time, 1:124.
Half mile Lucidia won, Combermere
second. Carilee third; time. 0:504
One mile, selling Scotch Plain won, Sll
vertone second. Perseus third; time, 1:43.
Mile and a sixteenth, selling Horton
won, Bishop Reed second, Morlnet third;
time. 1:49...
Six furlongs, selling Ben Ledl won. Cor
morant second, Pomplno third; time, 1:514.
Races at Xevr Orleans.'
NEW ORLEANS, March 5. The results
of the races were:
Six furlongs, selling Lomond won, Wed
ding Guest finished second, but was dis
qualified; Azua second, Tildee third; time,
1:15.
Seven furlongs Cherry Head won, Tobe
Paine second, J. E. Cline third; time
1:274.
Mile and an eighth, selling Donna Rita
won, Jimp second, Pat Garrett third;
time. 1:564.
Mile and a half, handicap Sidney Lucas
won. Strangest second, Kyrat third; time,.
2:44$i.
Mile, selling Sea .Knight won. Loyalty
second. Miss Ross third; time, 1:414.
Six and a half furlongs Lady Callahan
won, Maggie Davis second, Tyran third;
time, 1:22.
Ten-Round Draw.
DENVER, March 5. Walter Nolan, of
Chicago, and Billy Lewis, of Denver,
fought a 10-round draw before the Olym
pic Athletic Club here tonight.
A Bicycle Revival Year.
Leslie's Weekly.
Manufacturers of bicycles predict that
lDOO Is to be the greatest year for their
business that this country has ever seen,
and they base their predictions on the size
of the orders already received. The West
especially Is sending In b'g orders. Good
roads In the prairie districts and tho pros
perity of the farms account for It. While
the well-paved cities of the East and West
are pretty well supplied with machines,
countless farm lands In tho agricultural
regions of tho West and South are having
their first experience with the bicycle, and
this development of the trade bids fair to
reach enormous proportions In 1SO0. A
well-known bicycle expert figures that for
every mile of good road constructed a sale
of from 10 to 20 bicycles In its vicinity can
be expected.
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Loyal In Spite of the Incubus. .
Kansas City Journal.
Nevertheless and notwithstanding, Kan
sas City will give her vote to the nominees
of the Philadelphia convention.
4 a .i
Headache Makes Yoh DiUI.
Drive It away with Wright's Paragon
Eleadache and Neuralgia Cure. Druggists.
THE COUPLING BROKE
BAD
COLLISION BETWEEN
FREIGHT TRAINS.
TWO
Tvrenty Stoclcroen and Trainmen In
jured Miners' "Train Hun Into
by a-Freight.
CHICAGO, March 5. Twenty stockmen
and railroad employes -were Injured -in a
freight collision today between two Illi
nois Central freight trains near Broad
view, a few miles out of Chicago. The
Injured are:
Joseph HoDbs, Marcus, la., may die;
Frank I. McCall, brakeman, Freepbrt, 111.,
may die; E. E. Arwell, Manchester; J.
B. Counsell, Dyeravllle, la., lefc thigh
fractured; Edward Taeger, Prlngahara,
la., scalp wound and left arm fractured;
Charles Peters, Mattock, la., head cut,
arm and legs bruised; H. B. Emerson,
Manchester, la., scalp wound and right
hand "broken; J. J. Collins, conductor, face
and head cut; J. A. Clark, Elmhurst,
111., nose broken, head severely cut; J.
H. Dunne, Marcus, la., left shoulder and
knee dislocated; W. R. Spear, brakeman,
Dubuque, la., ankle broken,, head cut;
Joseph Bernard. Anton, la., right wrist
broken, scalp wound; S. M. Wlxlel. scalp
wounds and both legs bruised; H. O,
Booth, Sioux Falls, S. D., left foot frac
tured and head cut; Peter J. Badle, Mat
tox, la., feet broken and head and back
bruised; G. B. Slater, Sioux Falls. S. D.,
hands and feet cut; J. W. Bryant, Cleg
horn, la., left leg cut and right arm
broken; W. E. Brazell, Ottawa, la.,
bruised about head and body; Thomas
McMahon, Qulncy, la., three ribs of left
side "broken; E. A. Wilkinson, Qulncy, la.,
hip dislocated and chest and back bruised.
The two trains had been running about
a mile apart. While climbing a long
grade a coupling-pin In the middle of the
head train broke. The rear section start
ed down the back grade. It struck the
engine of the on-coming freight train.
Both trains were on the way to Chicago
from Western Iowa, and were made up
mostly of loaded stock cars with a caboose
and passenger coach for the stockmen. All
the passengers were asleep In the day
coach. The occupants of the caboose and
coach were thrown violently from their
seats to the floor of the cars. The ca
boose telescoped the coach, pinning a num
ber of the unfortunate passengers In the
debris.
Fire broke out Immediately, and the in
jured were In great danger of roasting
alive. By hard work on the part of the
uninjured passengers and the train crew,
all were removed in safety. The cars,
were almost totally consumed. The
wounded were loaded Into an empty box
car and taken to Broad View, where they
were given medical attention by the one
physician of the village, and the women
of the neighborhood, and later were
brought to Chicago and placed In the Illi
nois Central Hospital.
MIXERS' TRAIN "WRECKED.
Two Men Killed and Forty Severely
"Wounded.
BRAZIL, Ind.. March 5. A miners'
train, carrying 4C0 workmen employed at
the mines north of hero to their home In
this city, was run Into by a local freight
train on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
at 6 o'clock this evening, and the ca
boose and two cars were shattered. Mel
vln Easter and Charles Cropey -were In
stantly killed, and more than 40 persons
were reverely wounded, several of whom
will die.
Among the Injured are: Thomas Bar
rowman, "both legs broken; John Dickson,
back broken; Thomas Davis, both arms
broken: John Little, arm broken.
The wreck occurred in a deep cut in
the center of a short curve. The rail
road company sent a special train and
brought the wounded to this city. All
the vehicles obtainable at the livery sta
bles and carriages from private homes
were secured to take the men to their
respective homes. Hundreds of women
gathered at the depot and grasped their
maimed and bleeding husbands and broth
ers In their arms when they were carried
from the train.
$ Killed at n Crossing:.
CHICAGO. March 5. William H. Ferry,
owner ol the Lake Forest Polo Grounds,
was Instantly killed last night while
crossing the tracks of the Northwestern
Railroad at the Lake Forest depot. Mr.
Ferry was waiting for the Chicago train
when the accident happened. Mr. Ferry
also owned a large ranch in California,
which he visited at Intervals. He was
for many years a real estate dealer In
Chicagp, although he had not maintained
offices here for some time. Mr. Ferry's
father presented Ferry Hall to Lake For
est University. He was at one time owner
of large blocks of stock In the Chicago
& Northwestern Railroad.
SOLAR ENERGY.
The Sun's Power In the Mineral and
Vegetable Kingdoms.
PORTLAND, Feb. 26. (To the Editor.)
In a far-off time our earth was doubt
less a glowing star, which shone as bril
liantly as do now the sun and the fixed
stars. But In process of time It cooled
from a gaseous to a liquid form, in obe
then assumed a spherical form. In obe
dience to the same law which rounds a
drop of dew. Its atmosphere comprised
not only the gases that compose our pres
ent atmosphere, but all the oxygen and
carbon now locked up In rocks and coal
measures of tho earth;. also vast quanti
ties of mineral matter vapor'zed by fierce
heat, and. In the form of superheated
steam, all the water which now fills tho
ocean. The air, thus dense with moisture
and metallic vapor, rested on an ocean of
fire. Ages passed, and the earth cooling
as its heat became changed to other forms
of force, began to show on its surface
patches of solid substance like the films
that first appear on the cooling of molten
iron. This was constantly rent asunder
by eruptions from the molten mass be
neath. Torrents of liquid lava poured
forth In a fiery flood over the solid crust
furrowed with enormous clefts and cracks.
As the earth continued to4 cool, a time ar
rived when the heat was not sufficient to
support the waters In the form of vapor.
The steam was precipitated boiling hot
upon the heated earth. Revaporized, it
ascended, only to be condensed and return
as rain. The human mind can only imag
ine that scenic description by looking Into
a 200-ton smelter under a full blast and
seeing the lashing Into a fury, a perfect
tempest, a roaring geyser, the red flame
of fire shooting forth from the yawning
chasm, and fragments of molten rock,
with clouds of ashes, are borne aloft; In
cessant flashes of l'ght evoked by the
vast chemical changes which are taking
place In that seething caldron. A scene
like this can only picture to the mind
what our earth once was the power of
those mighty energies there In action, and
seeing the elements rushing Into combina
tion. The crust of our globe consists al
most wholly of burnt material. Our gran
ites, sandstone, and lime rocks are the
cinders of that great primeval fire, and
the atmosphere of oxygen the residue left
after the general conflagration left be
cause there was nothing more to burn,
and whatever of combustible material,
wood, coal, sulphur or metal, now exist
ing on the surface of the earth has been
recovered from the wreck of that first
conflagration by the action of the sun's
rays.
One-half of all known material consists
of oxygen, and of tho surface of the
earth. Combination with oxygen Is the
only state of rest. In the process of vege
table growth, the sun's rays have the
power of freeing from their combination
hydrogen and carbon atoms, and from
these aro formed the numberless' sub-
stances of which both the vegetable and
animal organism consists. From these
materials, nature has -made her coal beds,
and supplies her petroleum wells, and out
of these materials man has been able to
separate the useful metals from their
ores. Amid all these varied phenomena
the one element which reappears In all
ls energy, and oxygen the principal. A
careful analysis of the conditions will
show, that it ls just as truly the sun's en
ergy which parts the iron and copper
from- its combination in the ore. as it ls
the solar powe'r which parts the .carbon
from the carbonic dioxide In the leaf.
The combustibles are for the most part
compounds of few elements, carbon, hy
drogen, sulphur and phosphorus, including
the elementary substances themselves.
Hero I am asked, what ls combustion,
and what Is the process? I answer, It Is
two atoms of oxygen picking up one atoiq
of carbon or other substance and carry
ing It off. In other words. It Is a mode
of motion, the conveyance of a substance
from a warmer medium to a colder one.
The energy ls displayed by the Intensity
of Its motion, and this Is the theory of the
hot-air blast of the smelter. By the aid of
tho blower It sucks from the stock the
unconsumed smoke and gas, conveys it
through the tuyeres to the body of the
furnace, where It Is consumed by burn
ing It over and over again with oxygen,
divesting the theat of all its poisonous
vapors. Take, If you please, a lump of
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I " T?t ? I"?,
sulphur. Ignite it, and when It ls Just
in a jar of oxygen. It at once burns up
with great brilliancy. Take now a simi
lar lump of sulphur, set It on fire, wait
until It ls burning well, and then plunge
It Into a jar of nitrous oxide. It at once
goes out, and why should it? There is
more than twice as much oxygen In the
nitrous oxide as In the air. The reason.
Is the oxygen atoms are bound to the
atom of nitrogen by a certain force, which
the sulphur at this temperature ls unable
to overcome. But just heat the sulphur to
a higher temperature, like the hot-air
blast of a smelter; it at once bursts Into
great brilliancy, and burns in the com
pound as well as In the jar of oxygen
gas. The nitrogen In the atmosphere ls
Inert, and when the atmosphere Is heated
to a high temperature the oxygen works
alone, and would burn the Iron and other
metals like chaff did they not sink below
the melted elag, and this Is the theory of
the pyritlc smelter. There Is. nothing new
about this process. The application ls
old, and ls used In many of the Iron
smelters to obtain a greater heat.
We measure heat by the temperature, by
a thermometer, but we must be careful not
to confound temperature, which Is a con
dition, with quantity of heat, which, like
any other mode of energy which ls meas
ured in heat units. Is caloric. We take
pure water as the standard, and the
amount of heat required to raise the tem
perature of one grain of water from zero
to one degree centigrado we call a unit, a
calorie, and the number of units or calories
aro found bymultlplylng the weight of
water in grains by the number of centi
grado degrees, -which expresses the rise
of temperature. We have now a stand
ard with which we can compare the quan
tities of heat required to raise the temper
ature of any substance one degree, and
these quantities are what we call the
specific heat. Most of our Iron ores are
the oxides carrying 30 per cent of oxygen
to 70 per cent of metallic Iron, and under
the heat of 2SO0 deg. Fahrenheit the oxy
gen combines with carbon of the fuel,
forming carbon dioxide, and sets the Iron
free. J. H. FISK.
The Man "With the Hoe Speaks.
C Boa Dougherty, in New York Sun.
Say I
Tou Mister Poet.
From the far and wide,
"What are you glvln' us?
What's this you're a-joyln'T
And what do you mean
With all this far-flune
Talk
About the weight of centuries (
tjpoii' my back? ""
"What d'ye take me for
Atlao?
Tm not doln' the hull thing
Alone;
There are others.
True,
I don't purty much
In my sabots
And my Jeans,
And the slant o my brow
Is not the latest Grecian
Cut.
But the sweat upon it
Comes frcra honest toll
In the noil.
I commune with God
As others who have
Trod
Upon the boscm
"Where nature keeps
The wheel a-goin'.
And thank Him
Dally for the bread
And the recompenso
Of Hvln'.
In His world. '
Whore the trumpet calls
Of mornln'
Salute my ears.
And the bees In the clover.
And the breath of the
Dawn.
And the whlsperln breeze.
And Mary Jane
And the kids
Make me feel
Like
Trjin to be worthy
Of my inheritance.
There are times
But what's the use a-sayla
Anything about that?
If I'd a ben
A Village Hampden,
Or a Millet.
Like the farm
Laborer '
Of Gruchy, who patnted me,
I might o pulled out o this;
But what'd become
Of the farm.
And the srowln' things.
And who'd a sow'd
And reaped,-
And, brought forth
The staff of life
For the other half?
The world's blind greed.
And the tongue .
Of censure
Fill not my heart
With menace;
And I don't see
The universe
A-tremblln'.
It's true I clipped
A cog once.
And was a Populist
But the corn's a-growln'.
And I'm back In
The fold of my fathers,
A thlnkln lets of beln'
Plundered, profaned
And disinherited
Ey the lords and rulers
Of the land.
And the barons, an
The plutocrats.
They ain't a-worrltin' me
For a mlnlt.
Though slightly stoop-shouldered
From bendln' over the dod-
Gasted hoe,
I can still raise
My face to the sun, -
Straighten up my shape.
And feel the blessed
Joy of Hvln',
And the happiness that
God wills
To all HU creatures
Here bslow.
When I am
A handful of forgotten dust,
The future can reckon
With me as it will.
You take care
It don't trwat you.
o
Expansion.
Chicago Times-Herald.
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WHAT THE FIGURES SHOW
REPORT ON OUR TRADE WITH ORI
ENTAL NATIONS.
How It Has Increased In" Recent
Years and "Wnat It Promises
lor the Future.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S. The commerce
committee of the Senate, in one of its
reports Intended to build up our trade
with China and the Orient, quoted at
length from a statement of Mr. George
F. Page, an American of large business
experience In Oriental countries, who has
just returned from China, where he spent
a year studying the commercial and indus
trial conditions of that Empire In con
nection with the sale of a large variety
of American products. The following quo
tations from that statement are given
below:
"The tendency among the importing
merchants ls to favor Americans, first,
because they have come within the past
two years to believe In the ability of the
American people to do the business; sec
ond, because they like Americans, who
practice a less cavalier manner In dealing
with these people than ls customary with
those from some other nations; and third,
because, as they say. America ls not seek
ing for any portion of China in a possible
partition, nor even a 'sphere of Influence'
if tho empire maintains Its integrity.
"China's foreign commerce is alreauy
considerable and growing rapidly. The
following statement ls compiled from the
latest published complete official statistics:
"The total value of the exports of do
mestic produce (merchandise only) from
China in United States gold dollars was:
In 1S6S 5 97.6S5,0:O
In 1S77 9S.4C9.0CO
In 1SS7 101.416.S94
In 1S97 127.531.0C0
"In 1S97 tho average export per capita
was 32 cents.
"The total value of merchandise Imports
Into China for the same period, calculated
In the same manner, was:
In 1EC8 W&SOT
Tn 1K77 11.CGS.0C0
In 1SS7 123.424.173
In 1S97 I.. 15S.207.000
"In 1S97 the average Imports per capita
were 40 cents.
"From the same statistical source It ap
pears that of the $153,207,000 the British
Empire furnished 7S.7 per cent (SISJ.d,
7S0); and tho United States furnished 6 1-7
per cent (9,703.435). Of this last sum
62 1-3 per cent was plain gray and white
cotton cloth, 2S per cent was petroleum
products, and only 9 1-6 per cent was gen
eral merchandise, or a little less in value
than 51,000.000.
"If, now, we credit the British Empire
with all the opium shipped Into China, this
item amounts to:
Opium J21.762.7S0
Plain gray and white cotton cloth 16,SS7,i
Fancy cotton cloth Jj';?,
Cotton yarns xSA';
General merchandise 59,&J0,ii3
"That Is to eay, in 1S97, the last year for
which we have at hand complete and de
tailed official statistics, the British Empire
furnished China 12 5-6 times as many good3.
In the total, as did the United States;
and eliminating from the calculation
opium, cotton cloth, cotton yarns and
netrnlpum nrcducts. the British Empire
supplied of all the rest 60 times as much
as wo did. And yet we are nearer in
geographical location to China than any
other country except Japan, until Russia
completes her Siberian Railway, unless
Hong Kong be considered an export sta
tion of the British Empire. Even then the
Philippines will give us an export station
substantially equivalent to iiong ivong.
to say nothing of the vast resources of
those Islands sot against the barren rock
on which" Hong Kcng la located.
"There is something wrong, or this great
disparity In the commerce of the two na
tions with China could not exist. Nor is
this all. In 1S97 xhe exports from Japan
to China exceeded those of tho United
States by more than SO per cent; and our
Imports from China during that year were
43 1-3 per cent greater than our exports to
that country.
"The extent of our shipping In Chinese
-waters is a significant item. During the
same year (1S97) we had 333 vessels, with
a total tonnage of 270,000 tons, out of a
total, of all kinds, of 44.500 vessels, and an
aggregate tonnage of 34,000,000, or about
three-fourths of 1 per cent of the whole.
"We will now come to later dates, for
thero aro some official statistics that are
not complete In detail, and are published
In a limited way, 'subject to revision.'
From such statistics It appears that the
total value of our exports to China in
1S9S were 5U.962.S28. a gain over 1S97 of
23 1-3 per cent scant. Instead of 40 per cent,
as stated recently by some of the news
papers, their error being due to an Incor
rect valuation of the Haikwan tael, which
was worth JO 7S in 1S97 and $0 697 in 1S9S.
This gain of scant 23 1-3 per cent is a little
less than the average of the last five years
In 1S93 our exports to China were ?3.49S.
450, and the gain from that year to 1S9S.
inclusive, averaged 234 per cent per year.
During 1S9S the exports from Japan to
China Increased t61,S71 99 more than those
from the United States.
"During the 10 months ending October 31,
3SS9, our gain In total exports to China
over those of the corresponding months of
18SS were 19 1-3 per cent scant. Our
imports from China for the same term
increased 33 1-3 per cent; and our exports
to the various Islands called Oceania 'n
creased a little mere tnan 49.9 per cent.
Of our total exports to China during tho
last 10 months named, the Increase in
cotton cloth over the sales for the samo
10 months of 1S97 was J2.4S4.295, a gain of
42 per cent, showing that petroleum prod
ucts and "general merchandise" fell off
J443.003.
"It Is impossible to give the exact fig
ures in the China soles of petroleum prod
ucts, as they are combined with thoso in
other Eastern countries. In all of which
they aggregate an increase over the same
term of 1S9S of a little more than 52 per
cent. It is. therefore, apparent that the
falling off In 'general merchandise' 13 in
excess of J500.000. There ls surely some
thing wrong or these figures would be im
possible. "The wrong la not far to find. It in
twofold: First. Ignorance, and second, mis
management. The American manufactur
ers and merchants are greatly lacking in
their knowledge of tho men with whom
and the conditions with which they have
to deal: and until the needed Information
Is acquired the columns of figures must
continue to show atrainst us. Among the
mistakes that result from Ignorance are
tho sending of goods that. In kind or in
some defect of manufacture, are not suit
able to that market. There are also im
proper methods of packing and wrong
shipping. . . .
"We need to acquire a complete knowl
edge. In detail, of the demands, condi
tions and tho possibilities of our trade in
that Empire. There Is so much at stake
that this knowlegc cannot be too compre
hensive; the danger lies in superficial
ity. . . .
"The conditions and the times are ripe
ust now for this work. The old order
han ceosed. Whatever come; to the Chi
nese Government, the neople are entering
upon a new career. The transformation
may be slow, but it -will be realized. One
needs only to note the progress made dur
ing the last decade to be convinced of this.
Durlrg that time 10 milrs of railroad have
extended to S50, and 3500 miles more are
prospected. A single mill or shop with
forflcrn machinery hns multiplied a hun
dredfold in Shanghai alone. Ten thou
sand mllea of inland waterways have been
opened to universal steam navigation. In
stead of one .-"tore carrving American
canned gcodc. thv may be counted hy
"cores and probnbly hy hundred?. One
line of steamers from America, consisting
of Door boats, hns become faur lines of
modem verbis: and. as .coon as they can
be bul1t. two i-'t'-amers lanrrr than any
1.iv aiiuub ur .itj j.n;i'-t- will U jJUL linw
commission. Electric lights and electric
CONSUMPTION
PREVENTED,
NOT CURED
THE GREATEST BENEFACTION OF SCIENCE CHECKS
DISEASE BEFORE IT REACHES THE LONGS.
Doctor Copeland Again Urges the Truth of His Theory, the Only
Sound Theory in Lung Disease, the Theory Proved a Thou
sand Times, and Again a Thousand in His Practice, That
the Only Proper Course, the Only Rational Course,
the Only Scientific Course in the Treatment
of Consumption Is to Cure the
Catarrhal Stages.
So much Interest has been aroused by
the series of articles by Dr. Copeland on
the relation of catarrh to consumption
that he has, in the following talk, ex-
plained what his experience has taught ?
him In all the years of nis practice con- to tho lungs. Those people, even after
corning catarrh and consumption. Dr. they have developed consumption, and find
Copeland says I tnat the" stl11 take cold easily and havo
"The great trouble that I find ls to ex- exaggerated catarrhal symptoms often
plain to the people so they will under- ! try to persuade themselves that they ara
stand the importance of taking care of , nlx suffering from catarrh, and that their
their breathing apparatus, which is un- "83 not affected,
doubtedly the most Important part of the. .. rtlDF FHD rnNIIMDTiniM
body. While man may live quite a time Nt V,UKC TUK UJNaumrM IUN
without food and without water, he dies J "j haVe spent as much time as any doc
In a very few minutes when robbed of air. i tor that I know of in investigating all tha
and If he does not get air in sufficient ' so-called cures of consumption. I find,
quantity and of proper quality, he will after 20 years of Investigation, that thero
suffer and linger along until he develops
an incurable disease, from which he will
die. It ls very hard to show the people
how simple, common catarrh, which Is so
prevalent, ls a forerunner of such senou3
consequences as bronchitis and consump
tion. GREAT RISK TAKEN
"I would like to appeal directly to every
thinking person In the world with a posi
tive fact, namely, that each one I ad
dress I want to consider that he Is run
ning a gauntlet that la an extremely risky
one when he allows himself to remain un-
cured from any form of bronchial or
catarrhal lung disease, for no matter who
you may be, you stand one chance out of
seven of dying of consumption. In other
words, every seventh person in the United
States gets consumption and dies from It.
A great many more people than one out of
seven get consumption, but some of them,
by change of climate and by proper doc
toring, get cured. I should think that
o9eaeeo9
e e
O The cost of treatment at tho 0
Conelaiid Medical Institute for
any chronic ailment or malady
ls at the rate of
$5 Per Month.
This fee incluiles all medi
cines and the constant and
vrntchful care ol all patient
to a final care.
ooaooeeeoeeeoeeoaoaoseeeet)
fully one person out of every five develops
consumption, while statistics prove beyond
question that one out of seven dies from It.
"In a climate like ours, people are sub
ject to diseases of the breathing apparatuo,
and tho greatest number of those so affect
ed begin with catarrh of the nose and
throat, which, after a time, extends Into
other parts.
DANGER FROM CATARRH
"There aro some persons, and Indeed a
number of them, who have an Immunity
from consumption, but It will be found on
close Investigation that such persona do
not contract colds easily and do not devel
op catarrh from the colds. Every person
who has catarrh ls carrying around with
him a disease that Is liable at my time to
allow the development of consumption.
"In some persons the strength and vital
ity of youth allow them to prevent the
advancement of catarrh Into the lungs,
and while they may be annoyed with nasal
or threat catarrh during the early part of
their life, they suffer no serious consti
tutional disease as the result of It. But
even such persons, when they grow old,
find they aro beginning to cough, and the
cough la always very bad during the win
ter, and gradually gets worse as they grow
older and weaker, until at last It carries
them away.
NO IMMUNITY FOR THE OLD
"It used to bo thought that only young
people and people of middle age developed
consumption, but It has been found of late
years, that there are just as many old peo
ple who suffer from consumption as there
are young people-, and that old people suf
fer from that form of consumption almost
exclusively that results from catarrh.
Two-thirds of the people who live past tho
60th year In this climate die from consump
tion that started with catarrh during the
early part of their lives.
"It Is like this: Youth can resist much;
good corsiiiutions can resist much, but
In the latter end of man's existence his
fires burn lower, his youth Is gone, his
vitality Is gradually sapped and disease is
allowed to extend Into his vital parts.
"As I have said before, catarrh -In the
cars havo Invaded the land. English is
taught In the schools. The foreigner Is
no longer a derided man, but may travel
anywhere on business or pleasure.
"We need the Chinese trade. We shall
nnofl If Ai-an mrtr-ft It fViA rnmlnc fPfirft
when our factories and workshops shall
produce In still larger excess of our homo
demands. Within the very near future it
will be decided what nations are to have
their share of the commerce of one-quarter
of the -world's population. Our part
will not come to us unsought, but" It will
come In large measure. If we go after
It properly and promptly."
"What MSsrht Have Been.
Chicago Record.
It Is strange now to recall that, as a
girl, the late mother of the German Em
press was exceedingly anxious to marry
Napoleon III. Indeed, the marriage was
nearly arranged, but Queen Victoria and
Prince Albert strongly disapproved of the
proposed alliance, and their opposition
carried the day. Had Princess Adelaide,
of Hohenlohe, become Empress of the
French, the whole face of Europe would
almost certainly have been different.
B
Not Affected by Extreme Cold.
New Tork Sun.
Professor Dewar and other scientific
men have been testing the power of ex
treme cold on 'the microbes of typhoid
fever, diphtheria, cholera and other dls-
The Safest and
U
O
The RICHNESS of APENTA WATER in natural saline aperients
renders it the most valuable and safest laxative and purgative.
form of catarrhal consumption ls not tho
only form of consumption, but the history
of nearly every case of consumption Is
the history of catarrh that has extended
from the nose to the throat, from tho
throat to the br0nchlal tubes, and thence
js n0 reliable cure for consumption, nor
do I believe
euro found.
thero ever will be such a
THE PROPER COURSE
"The proper course In dealing with con
sumption is to prevent it. I know that
these people who are careful of their
breathing apparatus, who have their ca
tarrh cured, rarely. If ever, develop con
sumption, so I wish it thoroughly under
stood that I do not claim to cure consump
tion, but I am on record as saying that
it is my aim. and has been for years past,
to rid people of the disense that co often
prepares the way for consumption, namely,
catarrh, and that In doing this I am satis
fied that In the majority of cases, at least,
I am able to prevent consumption."
HOME TREATMENT.
To hot of anfterera cveryrrheTO
Doctor Copeland addresses to one and
all the follotTlne list of Questions to
enable those who live at a dlstanca
to understand the nature of thell
affliction.
"Is your nose stopped up?"
"Do you sleep with mouth wlda
open?"
"Is there pain in front of head?"
"Is your throat dry or sore?"
"Havo you a bad tasto In tha
morning?"
"Do you cough?"
"Do you cough worse at night?"
"Is your tonguo coated?"
"Is your appetite failing?"
"Is there pain after eating?"
"Are you light-headed?"
"When you get up suddenly aro
you dizzy?"
"Do you have hot flashes?"
"Do you have liver marks?"
"Do your kidneys trouble you?"
"Do vou havn imln In back or
( under shoulder-blades?"
"Do you wake up tired and out of
sorts 7"
"Are you losing flesh?"
"Is your strength falling?"
INFORMATION OP NEW HOME
TREATMENT SENT FREE ON
APPIilCATION.
CONSULTATION FREE.
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OFFICE HOURS From O A. M. to 131
M.t from 1 to 5 P. M.
EVENINGS Tuesdays and Fridays.
StTNDAYS i'rom 10 A. M. to 12 M.
eases. The temperature of liquid air 190
degrees centrlgrade, had no effect on
bacteria subjected to It for 20 hours. The
light-giving bacteria lost their luminosity
In the cold, but recovered it on being
thawed out. The experiments will bo con-
' tinued with liquid hydrogen.
DnrrtstoTOis at Sea.
New Castlo (Eng.) Chronicle.
Duststorms at soa are not now by any
means a rare occurrence, several having,
been reported recently. Captain Night
Ingall, of tho steamer Coolgardle, which
arrived at Sydney the other day from Mel
bourne, stated that early one morning tha
decks were found to be covered with a
chocolate-colored dust, which continued
to fall until about noon. A remarkable
part of the occurrence was that tho "wind
was blowing from seaward the whole time.
There ls a possibility that these dust
storms are In some way connected with
seismic disturbances.
Amply Proven.
St. Louis Republic.
Poor Ruddy Kipling, so ferociously at
tacked by Mario Corelli, doubtless believes
more firmly than ever that "the law that
sways my lady's ways is mysterious to
me."
Thero are now In Sing Sing prison Ave
men under sentence of death. Mollneux
w,ill make the sixth.
Most Reliable
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