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WORLD AFFAIRS VIEWED BY OBSERVERS ABROAD
EXEMPTION OF PRIVATE
PROPERTY IN WARTIME.
ISp«cl*l by F«neh Cable to The Tribunal
{Coprricfct. lfiOO. tor Th« 111 Hi A" - ILiion 1
London, Oct 6.-The American principle of the
exemption of private .property from naval capt
tire in time of war is gaining ground in Eng
land. The Lord Chancellor and th Secretary
of the Admiralty are known to favor it out
right, and the Prime Minister is reported to be
considering the -wiedom of instructing the Brit
ish delegates to the next Hainie congress to
support it. Justice Kennedy, one of the ex
perts In admiralty practice, has advocated it
at the International Law Conference in Berlin,
end "The Manchester Guardian." which has
been alraoist alone among English Journals in
supporting it. Is greatly encouraged by the
changes wrought In official opinion. It lays
fctress upon the fact that the necessity for pro
tecting commerce is an excuse for naval arma
ments and, concludes that the adoption of the
American doctrine by the Hague congress
"will facilitate disarmament.
This argument will appeal strongly to the
Liberal government, which is making strenuous
efforts to reduce the coat of the army and navy.
There have been numerous conferences among
the officials of various departments respecting
the questions likely to arise at the Hague con
gress, and the British delegates will have a
definite policy, which has been carefully con
sidered In detaiL The American and British
delegatiores, by effective co-operation, may re
strict belligerent operations to fighting ships
•nd protect commerce under any flag against
seizure, loss or disturbance.
FASTEST ' BATTLESHIP A FLO AT.
Meanwhils war becomes costlier. The Dread
nought's trials have been conducted with secre
cy, but the results are proclaimed this morn-
Ing with a flourish of trumpets. The maximum
cpeed for a half hour was over twenty-one
knot*. The battleship was also operated satis
factorily at low and cruising speeds, and there
■was a complete absence of vibration when the
turbines were run up to full power.. The steam
trials will be completed next week by a thirty
hours" run. and probably the Dreadnought^ will
establish a record as the fastest battleship
afloat. Apparently the problem has been solved
of adjusting turbines to high and low speeds
and manoeuvring power has been soured In
both conditions. This implies economy for j
ordinary cruising, with maximum speed for an
emergency. The Dreadnought will revolution- ;
lee the world's navies. The coi'tly reconstruo- !
lion of fleets becomes compulsory, whether na
tions can or cannot afford to pay the bills.
MR. CBAMBERLAiy BETTER.
I have authentic information from Birming
ham that Mr. Chamberlain is decidedly better.
He is walking In the garden every day. sleeping
•well and mf-nding rapidly. The family are not
anxious about him. Austen Chamberlain states
that all the alarmist reports have been exagger
ations. There is tonic In the political atmos
phere for a Jaded statesman. Not only are the
Lords, as Lord Lansdowne asserted last night,
determined to revise the deliberately crude meas
ures sent to them.but the Liberals have braced
up and warned the Socialists that they must
keep within the bounds of reason. Mr. Haldane's
speech at Peebles reads like a challenge to
Keir Hardie. The Scottish Liberals are equally
defiant In offering strenuous opposition to labor
candidates who are not prepared to dissociate
themselves from deliberate attempts to wreck
the party in power. The Master of Elibank
and the Junior Lord of tha Treasury have been
outspoken in drawing a Unction between
advanced radicalism and trade union socialism.
LABOR LEADERS AT ODDS.
Kelr HarCie hp taken the f.eld against the
old band of Trade Unionists ho are not so
cialists. He wants them to receive- orders from
the labor representation committee and dispense '
•with Liberal sympathy and support. Richard
Bell has refused to submit to coercion from the
Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, and
has appealed to Derby, where he was elected to
Parliament by Liberal and labor votes. John
Wilson, elected without contest from Mid-Dur
ham, has al;-o been attacked, and a strenuous
attempt has been made to drag the miners' fed
eration into the independent labor party. James
Holmes, who was responsible for the strike lead
ing to the Tan*- Vale decision, has been recom
mended as a ]■•.:■■ candidate against the Lib
erals' in Mid-Glamorganshire. The militant
group lei by Mr. Hardie numbers thirty labor
members. They talk as glibly as Mr. Bryan
about the nationalization of the railways Of th' 3
kingdom, which have a capital of $5,000,000,000,
end assume that the dividends paid to the share
holders will be available for increased pay for
the wage earners. After the railways will come
the mines, shipyards and factories, and all other
sources of capitalized wealth, as common stock
for the masses. Twenty of the Hardl*. group of
labor members a»-e Itime trade unionists, who
have never chased socialist rainbows. Mr. Hardie
Is striving to create an independent party on
Nationalist lines without the sympathy cf either
Liberals or Tories. Momentarily he is dividing
th" labor group into two factions, setting the
trade unionists by the oars and estranging the
Kadi; ■;■>:«. Meanwhile, the boiler makers' strike is
in progress at Glasgow over tho Question of in
creased wages, without a prospect of settlement,
and there are indications of numerous labor re
volts In Wales, the Midlands and Yorkshire as
coon as the new Combination bill becomes a law.
CHURCH COXGREBB SESSION.
The session of the Church Congress has been
unusually weighty, the best feature being the
Inaugural address of Bishop Carlisle, with the
leading motive that the Anglican Church must
be both primitive and progressive, not renounc
ing tradition but preferring truth. W. Temple,
eon of the late Archbishop, read a sensible paper
In favor of undenominational education In state
schools. Lord Halifax's assertion that the prin
ciples of the Reformation were things to be
repented of with tears and In ashes startled
even the highest churchmen, it brought out
from the aggressive evangelical, Prebendary
Webb Peploe, the retort that Lord Halifax's
position was elsewhere if he owed no allegiance
to the principles of the Reformed Church in
England/
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HOLIDAY LAW TO BE EN
FORCED IX PARIS.
" [Social by F«n<* Cible to The Tribune.]
[CBfvfftjht V*> 6. ■* T! 16 Tribune Association. 1
Peris, Oct. C— M. Clemenceau has decld-.l to
apply with the utmost rigor the new law of
one holiday a week for all workingmen, saying
that this is the only way to find out whether
the law is gcod or bad. and let the public decide.
The Immediate consequence of this rigid appli
cation will be that Parisians will have to eat
stale bread next Monday, if not every succeed
ing Monday. The journeyman bakers have re
solved not to furnish the extra quantity of
loaves which would have enabled everybody to
eat new bread on Monday, nor will they strike,
as the last time they refused to work at their
ovens they were unsuccessful. The masters de
clare they will close their establishments next
Monday, although 800 out of 1.726 agree to
continue business as heretofore. Most of the
bakers of Paris have sent out circulars inform
ing the/r customers that no business will be
transacted on Monday*. In future orders should
be given on Saturday, or else bread should be
fetched away on Sunday. Serious trouble Is
possible on Monday, and the troops in the Parts
environs have orders to be in readiness to act
at a moment's notice, and the army bakeries are
prepared if necessary to supply Paris with
bread in case of a general strike of the Paris
bakers.
SEPARATION' LAW 7V BRITTATTT.
M. Ciemenceau, Mlnlst-r of the Interior, re
turned on Thursday evening from hl« trip
through Brittany, where he made speeches and
talked freely with his political opponent* In the
very strongholds of clerical reaction concerning
the Separation !atv. M. Cleraenceau Is in ex
cellent health and spirits and highly pleased
with the way in which the hotheaded Bretons
listened to him when he pointed out to them
that the Roman Catholic Church was nowhere
so prosperous as in the T'nited States, where,
thr- Minister paid, "the Church is content with
exactly the same rights anff status as it will
enjoy in France under the Separation law." M.
Clemenceau told the Bretons that th^re was no
reason why their Church should not be stronger
than ever under the new law; that "twenty
seven millions of francs still figure In the budget
for the benefit of the Roman Church, and the
•oyal transmission of the property of the Church
to the public worship associations is assured
unless the spirit of rebellion and civil war
which the Church has displayed since the for
mality of the inventories again shows Itself. The
Papacy, co uncompromising toward the liberal
French Republic, submits obediently to the Ger
man Empire (*o rigorous and authoritative to
Protestantism), which wishes to become the pro
tector of Islam and of Papacy." M. Clemeneeau
called the attention of the Bretons to the inter
ference of tho Vatican In the domestic politics
of Spain and to the alleged aid given by Pius X
to the Carl Ist pretender to the throne of Alfonso.
He concluded by eaylng that the present govern
ment would reepect all religious convictions with
absolute Impartiality and tolerance, but would
never permit foreign Interference nor an im
perium In imperlo In Prance. M. Cifimenceau's
remarks have been translated into Celtic and
scattered broadcast throughout Brittany. Tha
Question of Church and State continues to ex
clude all other subjects and is tha only topic
discussed by the leading papers.
LECTURERS AND TOPICS.
The French schools and colleges began this
week theic regular courses. Mme. Pierre Curie
started her Monday lectures at the Borbonne
on radio-activity, taking the popular Investiga
tions of her late husband and herself concern
ing radium aa her subject. Parla students are
also looking forward v.lth interest to the com
ing lectures of Dr. A. C. Coolldge, of Harvard,
at the Sorbonne, on the United States as a
world power, and the faculty of the University
of Paris has expr^ss^d to James H. Hyde its
satisfaction with his choice of Anatole le Bras
and Vlcomte Georges d'Avenel as French lect
urers for the winter season in the United B
for t!.e federation of the French Alliance and of
the Cercle Franr;ais at Harvard University.
Mean-while Lafayette College, under the dlrec
l Mile. Alice Kuhn, has opened its lecture
rooms, and among the subjects selected are
women in French history and litera
ture. Notre I>am<» Cathedral, the Louvre, old
Par* streets, etc The lecturers include Andre
Michel, curator of the Louvre Museum; Funck
' Hallays, Henri Chantavolne,
Laurent Tailhade and others.
AMBRWAVB IV HOLLAND.
There are a number of American tourists just
now in Holland. Among them are Mr. and Mrs.
Stewart Schenck, Mr. and Mrs. H. Jones, Mr.
and Mrs. George Bentley, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Cromer, Mr. and Mr?. J. C. Lonp, Mr. and Mrs.
A. B. Colvin, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Burnett. Mr.
and Mrs. James Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. Louis
; and Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Denny.
■ t Salso Maggiore and
the Italian lakes are Mrs. Robert McCormlck,
or ar.d Mrs. Clark, both enjoying first rate
and amused at the recent fantastic
stories of their motor car accident; Mrs. Ingra
ham, Miss Ingraham and James Gordon Bennett.
C. I. B.
Hunt at the Leicester Galleries establishes a
: of lifelong consistency to the early aims
of the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, yet discloses
Stations of th^ painter's art. There Is
: • ) without intensity of feeling:, and
: without unity of compo
sition or harmony of color. • \
Four novelties at the Birmingham festival—*
Sir Edward Elsar's "Klng-dom"; Granviile ]::in
tock*s ''Ornar Kh.ivyam"; Holbrooke's ingenious
Betting for Poe's "Bella," and Percy Pitt's "Sln
fonletta" — will be repeated in course of the win
ter in Londoni The autumn opera season has
■ 1 sluggishly at rarden. •
The abandonment of the Duke of Ruther-
Iffidland 1 'I'm:!! ham Hall, has
brought lils vahiabls library into the p.uction
11 contains a perfect copy of the Third
Polio Shakespeare, but nothing so rare as
Shakespeare's "1 Pilgrlme," which has
bean bought by an American collector for
PERSONAL VOTES.
The American Ambassador Is returning from
fiootland. J. ft. Carter, secretary of tho em
bassy. will sail on Wednesday for America with
his wife and daughter for a short holiday.
J. J. Shannon is starting to-day for America
to paint another series of portraits In course of
the winter.
Moncure T>. Conway was at Waterloo this
morning:, taking the train for the American
liner. Mr. and Mrs. Ft. Clalr McKelway are
passengers on the same ship, after a delightful
journey In Scotland. I
Mrs. Baylies has been the guest of the Duchess
of Bosburghe at Floors Castle, and hundred!
of Americans have been enjoying the fine weath
er In Scotland.
There has bean talk among the Americans in
London hotels about subscribing for a memorial
window in the church where Sir Edward Chl
chestcr, Admiral Dewey'a friend at Manila Is
burUA . I. N. F.
Are you in favor of yellow politics? Then
don't register to-morrow, when thota who do
favor cl?an politics will do so. Failure to reg
ister earl/ often means failure to vote.
NEW- YORK DAITJY TRIBUNE. gUWDAT. OCTOBER 7. 1006.
CROWD IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AT HAVANA.
At tte last Joint session of the extraordinary meeting' of the Cuban Congress, convened on September
28 by President Palms, to accept hi a resignation.
CUBANS SHOW DISTRUST
Many Rebels Refuse to Disarm —
Marines Make Arrests.
Hatuey, Puerto Principe, Oct. 6.— An attempt
to-day to disarm four hundred Insurgents com
r-.anded by Brigadier-General Reynoso resulted
In a refusal to give up their arms -while the
government volunteers retained theirs. The
work of the disarmament commission In this
district Is fruitless.
Santa Clara, Oct. B.— The members of the
disarmament commission In this city have re
ceived in three days only 150 rifles from about
three thousand disbanding Insurgents, who
have scattered according to their own volition.
General Hernandez, of tne commission, has tel
egraphed to Brigadier-General Funeton that a^
long as the government volunteers are allowed
to retain their arms tho task of disarming the
revolutionists in Santa Clara province will
hardly be possible.
Havana, Oct. 0. — A detachment of two hun
dred Insurgents to-day rode Into the Caridad
suburb of the city of Puerto Principe, waving
machetes. Twenty American marines from thft
detachment on duty at Puerto Principe went
to Caridad, dispersed the insurgents and ar
rested thirty-nine of them. General Caballero,
the Insurgent loader, with one hundred men
thereupon proceeded to the headquarters of the
commander of the marines and demanded the
release of the captured insurgents. Instead of
: g them the Americans disarmed Cabal
lero and all of his followers who could be
oaugh:. Thereupon Caballero promised that all
the tnsurgenta under his command would dis
arm.
It 1b now evident that the rebel forces cannot
be disarmed until the volunteers organized by
the Cuban go\ eminent have been paid off, dis
armed and disbanded. This is the position taken
by various rebel commajida scattered through
the island. Th* disposition of the provisional
government is to yield to this demand. The
volunteers would have been mustered out of
service sooner if it had not been necessary to
have Borne force. In addition to the police, for
the purpose of the towns. It Is real
ized, however, that in many sections the pres
ence of volunteers and the militia Is irritating
to the surrendering- rebels. The conduct of the
volunteers toward their* late opponents is not
always exemplary, and what seems most needed
is the presence of a sufficient force of United
States soldiers and marines to garrison every
town so thoroughly that the volunteers can be
succeeded by well disciplined American soldiers.
Until the towns are thus gurrlsoned. it Is not
believed that pacification will be complete.
MAGOOX STARTS SOUTH.
Will Have All the Poxcer in Cuba
That General Wood Had,
Washington, Oct. 6.— Governor Charles E. Ma
goon, who, with General Bell, Mrs. Taft and
Mrs. Ba'-on, left Washington to-day for Havana,
will exercise in Cuba all the power which -was
vested in General Leonard Wood when he ruled
Cuba under the title of military governor. Gov
ernor Magoon will be known as th© provisional
governor, but his authority will be plenary and
he will be subject only t<> the orders of the
President and Secretary of War.
Cuba \\ ill have the semblance of an autono
mous government and the [Jolted States -will
continue to bo renresent'-d in Havana by an
American minister and the consuls will continue
at their posts. It is officially stated that there
has ! • on and will be no subversion of the Cuban
constitution. By Incorporating the Pi.-itr amend
ment Into the constitution Cuba provided for just
such an emergency, and consequently. It is said,
the republic is still to be governed by constitu
ti'inal means und by machinery such as Is pro
vided In any community when martial law is
necessary.
THE SUMNEB AT HAVANA.
Transport, with Nine Hundred Men,
Reaches Cuban Capital.
Havana, Oct. The first contingent of
United States troops arrived here late to-night
on board the transport Sumner. The ship will
X'> to the Havana Central Wharf early to
morrow morning and thence the nine hundred
soldier* with their eauipment will be trans
ported by streetcars to Camp Columbia under
the direction of Quartermaster Major Baker.
There thf-y will camp In tents until th« prep
aration, of the barracks Is completed. Colonel
Cowles reports an uneventful trip.
ADMIRAL NEBOGATOFF ON TRIAL.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 6.— The trial of Rear Admiral
NebOgatofir, tho captains d::.1 part of tile crews O f
t-.i« Third Baltic Squadron, on the charge of » ur .
rendering to tho Japanese without righting, ut tho
battle of the Boa of Japan, began «t Cronatadt to.
o*.y before a special court . martial^ . ■
BIG CRUISES LAUNCHED
The North Carolina Takes the Water
at Newport Xex'cs.
Newport News. Va., Oct. The new and power
ful armored cruder North Carolina was success
fully launched at 1122% o'clock this morning from
the yards of her builders, the Newport News Ship
building and Drydock Company, In the presence
of ten thousand persons. Miss Rebekah Williams
Glenn, daughter of Governor R. B. Glenn of North
Carolina, named the vessel. Governor Glean was
present with his staff and an etoort of prominent
North Carolinians.
The launching was attended by Rear Admiral
Berry, a large number of naval officers and sev
eral of the officers of the Italian cruiser Flero*»
mo sea. The «h!pyard force of clx thousand men
had a holiday. The signal that all was ready was
given by Calvin B. Orcutt, president of the New
port News Shipbuilding Company. Simultaneously
with the first movement of the ship Miss Glenn,
standing beside her father, Governor Glenn, cast
thn bottle of wine against the receding bow. Th*
cruiser struck the water at considerable speed and
amid great applause.
The North Carolina Is advanced about 58 per cent
toward completion, further than any oth«r armor
dad at the time of launching. There was do hitch,
no accident or unpleasant Incident to mar the day's
programme. v
Immediately following the launching there was a
dinner at the Hotel Warwick to Miss Glenn and
the launching party.
Governor Glenn ?nd his party started on their
return for Raleigh to-night.
[From The TTT&une Bureau.]
Washington, Oct. ft.— The North Carolina, so
named at her launching to-day by Miss Rebecca
Glenn, daughter of the Governor of the Tar Heel
State, is one of the most powerful, and will be
one of the fastest, fighting ships in the United
States She is the sister ship of the Montana, cow
building at the same yard, and the two vessels
have hitherto been borne on the naval list as
"Armored Cruisers Nos. 1! and 18."
The plans called for vessels of the following
dimensions and characteristics:
Length on water line, 602 feet; length over all.
504 feet &A Inches; breath (extreme), 73 feet 10^
Inches; depth amidships (moulded), *i feet 2^j Inches;
draft, full load (mean), 27 feet % inch; displacement
(fully loaded), 15.950.58 tons; displacement on trial,
1i.500 tons: draft on trial, 25 feet; total coal ca
pacity, iooo tons; coal on trial. 108 tons; maximum
speed (average of four hours* run), 23 knots max
imum Indicated horsepower, main engines (esti
mated). 23.000.
Armament— battery: Four 10- Inch breech
loading rifles, sixteen 6-lnch breechloadlng rifles
and four n-inch submerged torpedo tubes. Sec
ondary battery: Twenty-two 8-inch rapid fire guns,
twelve 8-pounder semi-automatlo rapid fire guns,
two SO-collbre automatic guns and two 3-inch field
grins. '
The hull Is of steel throughout. It Is protected
by a water-line belt of armor about 17 feet 3
Inches In height amidships, extending from the pro
tective deck to the gun deck port Bills, being
stepped down at the ends; of a uniform thickness
of 6 Inches throughout the machinery and maga
zine space and 3 Inches forward and abaft this.
The upper side armor is disposed in the wake of
the 6-inch battery and Is 5 Inches thick throughout
Nickel BteeL two Inches thick, is disposed in wake
of the 3-inch battery.
Athwaxtship armor of 6-lnoh uniform thickness
THE ARMORED CRUISER NORTH CAROLINA.
Launched at Newport News yesterday.
t? ®3Li from the Protective to the main dock.
aJt . eh barbetf »'s extend from the protective
7. n Vt* VJV J 'i'c'Y 1 ? ve '*•* »*»»• U»« main <leek and
consist of 8-inch armor in front and 4-inch at the
Th i^.T and 6 ,''» armor above the gun deck.
The £ ,eh, eh turrets have front plates 9 inches thick.
rear Plats* Bin ie ? thick, std« Dlatea 7 inches thick
and top Plates fc inches thlck - 'Hie conning tower
Sennl ?« " th - lc . k snd5 nd has a door 6 lnohe * thlck:
frrhH oW sf' ° lnches thick. An armored tube. 36
oonn^n~^ dlam r ter £. cx tojida from the baas of the
conning tower to the protective deck
lU'mif^ cs h w nd sUt<ll rooms are so "arrarsed that
?..SiLi »V half v th total suPPly of ammunition la
Vpi 1 1 ** a i' h en ?. of th * ship. Th « ammunition
hnwti H.;L a . I } d ' m * lle »' roan Is conveyed by eloctrio
;; ™ M| from tha ammunition rooms or am.
mi id if S9ag<;:i to the li " 1 ks °» which It id rd
.^- n T . h « turret guns have separate turret am
;-_. ; .:t.-n hoists, operated by electrio power, leading
lini \i handling rooms to the turrets. The hand
ung rooms are Isolated from the turrets.
trr>V^« " 'rJ oniplet6 - will 1.0 furnished by the
government. 'V ''-"!, a guns will be mounted In
ftrni », n two el *ctrlcally controlled, balanced, clllp
on« l *" rrets. on lho contra, line, one forward and
BTeef ' eac " Wlth an arc of tire of about 270 do-
B 1 COS,
in^^o«!, xtoen &-lnch guns will be mounted, four In
"."K ndent casemates on the main deck, the re
mainder In vbroa<ll!iv broa<ll!i ' 1 on the gun deck, those on the
£ in d ? lh be lnd ny,. Indies of armor, each gun
V'lntr isolated by splinter bulkheads of Dick I steel
l,?£ one 1 to two '"Chen thick, and the casemate
Fr , £ on th ? main deck - behind rive Inches of armor
m rront i th two Inches of nickel steel for pro
tection in the rear. Th»-re will be four of the 6-Inch
Kiuis et :he ends of the battery, arranged to fire
ngnt ahead or right astern, respeotively. other
a inch guns to hav«s the usual broadside train.
Tfte 3-Inch guns will be mounted, six In fonsonn
on t..,. nun deck, six In broadside on th« gun deck
an<i ten In broadside on tho main deck. Bponson
and other protection of the 8-inch battery on the
main and gun deck* will be two Inch nickel steel.
FRENCH CHARGE SUSTAINED.
Paris. Oct. 6.— The action "'-' M. de Silloc, tho
charge d'affaires of France at Havana. In raising
tho question with Governor Tan of th.? payment of
iu.vH,-,, suHtatnod by i-^ench citizens as a result of
ii»«. rebellion, while taken on his own Initiative, is
regarded li^re aa belns sanctioned by the govern-
Jueut r.r.il in a proper precautionary measure for
th* protectioa of iTrenOa interest^ .
MDSTCBASGE, SAYS BILL
Railroad Man Sec* Danger in Reck
less Development.
Chicago, Oct. *-^Jame3 J. H!ll was the principal
■peaker to-night at a dinner given at the Auditori
um Hotel by the Chicago Commercial Association.
His theme was '"The Der»!«pm<»nt of the Korth
west." David R. Forgan. president of the associa
tion, presided, and fiir Thomas Upton was one of
the chief guests.
Mr. Hill said. In part:
These, briefly, are the certainties of the next
fifty years, supported by facts ascertained beyond
possibility ot error. By the middle of this century
our population will be more than 300.000.000. W here
are these people to find profitable occupation? How
are they to obtain the necessities of life? The
question la already pressing upon great cities .Ike
Chicago, where immigration concentrates. But
these newcomers cannot be excluded. Labor was
never as scarce, w&zes were never as high as at
th» present day. We cannot atop the inflow or
check the natural increase. We must determine.
however, upon a national economy different from
the present, when our population is approaching
three times what it was in 19». Striking, as has
been found the contrast between ISSO and 1900. that
between the present and IS6»> will reveal more seri
ous features.
Practically speaking, our public lands are all oc
cupied. The irrigation of '.and by the general gov
ernment will do something, but all present plans
w.ll furnish land for less than fifteen hundred thou
sand small farms of forty acres each, or for a
population of seven million or eight million people..
Our other natural resources have been exploited
with a lavish hand. Our exports, of which we love
to boast, consist mostly of the products nt the soil.
Our Iron and coal supplies will o«£in to show eign3
of exhaustion before fifty years have passed. The
former, at the present rate of increasing produc
tion, will be greatly reduced. Our forests are rap-
Idly "S: our vast supply of mineral oil flows to
the ends of the earth. "We cannot continue to sup
ply the whole world and recruit our own resources
by the methods of trad? that now obtain, because
the minerals stored in the ground do not re-create
themselves. Once used they are gone forever. We
shall, with the** coming millions to provide for. be
thrown back upon the soil, the only resource of
mankind that is capable of infinite renewal. Upon
the cultivation of the soil depends the future of man
kind and the nature and stability of its Institu
tions.
In some things we are poing backward. The soil
of the country i 3 being impoverished by careless
treatment Forests are cut down that the »un may
bake it, and the floods scour it into the ocean. It
has been cropped with the same grain year after
year, until its productive power has deteriorated.
The census returns show an actual decrease in
farm values in a large number of states. It is easily
demonstrable that a reform of methods of cultiva
tion would double the agricultural products and
adJ from J0.000.0.0.000 to to. -•'•.<" ••! to the national
wealth, while the resort to small farms and the
adoption of the Intensive cultivation would give
an eaual Increment.
The costliest error will be in a clinging to the
delusion that we are to continue to increase our
exports and to live- upon the profits of the foreign
market. The time is coming when we shall need
our wheat crop for home ron3umption and «e«d:
when our mines will not yield, except at increased
cost, the iron and coal required to manufacture
commodities consumed at home, and when the
cheap labor of the Orient, whose wage 9we cannot
hope to meet, equipped with our machinery, will
vanquish all competitors. To a return to agri
culture, to a Jealous care of our land resources, we
must come without delay, If we are to escape dis
aster.
Next In importance to the soil comes transporta
tion. Already the growth of our commerce between
the Mississippi River and the Atlantic Coast nnd3
itself delayed and hampered for want of additional
lines and terminal facilities. And throughout the
whole country there Is a rising call for more tracks.
more engines, more cars. But money invested In
railways expects a fair return, and it also expects
the same measure of protection that la accorded
other property.
The enormous pressure of masses of people seem
to crush out the nope and enersr and prosperity of
a larire proportion of them, and the great problem
of modern progress, after all. Is how to deal with
the tendency— bow to prevent the forces of advanc
ing social evolution from being destructive as well
as creative. This is the problem of the nation, and
it Is, in a special sense, the problem of the North
west.
AGREED OX CHURCH LAW.
French Cabinet Meets— Parliament
To Be Convened.
Paris. Oct. 8. — A meeting of the Cabinet took
place at RambouUlet to-day for discussion of the
religious and other questions on which decisions
are necessary before the reassembling' of parlia
ment. The morning 1 session \raa entirely devoted
to tho budgret.
At the afternoon session the manner of apply
ing the Church and State Separation law was
examined and a decision was taken to execute
it "Integrally." The actual measures proposed
were not told, It being simply announced that a
definite decision had been arrived at. The
Cabinet then adjourned until Tuesday.
The Cabinet also considered the situation In
regard to the Franco-Spanish commercial treaty,
the appointment of an Ambassador of France at
Toklo and other diplomatic changes, and It was
decided to convoke parliament in extraordinary
session as soon as the budget Is ready.
•MISS REBECCA GTLETM,
Bcocsor of &• Vorth Caredis*.
CAVALRY CHAHGES SPANISH MOB.
Valencia, ripain. Oct. 6.— Antl-derical manifesta
tions were renewed here last night In front of the
residence of the Archbishop and the house of tha
Jesuits. The police were powerless to cope with the
rioters and ware forced to aummon a detachment
Of cavalry. The troops Buec«*ded In clearing ths
streets only after they had charged the crowds.
THIRTEEN YEARS.
Cnlurkr -Number for Dakota Woman.
The question whether the number "18" Is
really more unlucky than any other number has
never been entirely settled in every one's mind.
A So. Dak. woman, after thirteen years of
misery from drinking coffee, found a way to
break the "unlucky spelL" She writes:
"For thirteen years I have been a nervous
wreck from drinking coffe*. My liver, stomach
heart— ln fact, my whole system being actually
poisoned by it.
"Last year I was confined to my bed for »lx
.months. Finally It dawned on me that cofr*e
caused the rouble. Then I began using Postum
instead of ordinary coffee, but with little faith
as my mind was in such a condition that I
hardly knew what to do next.
"Extreme nervousness and falling eyesight
caused me to lose all courage. In about two
weeks after I quit coffee and began to use
Po?tuin I was nble to read and my head felt
c!car. lam improving all tho time, and I.will be
a stror*s;, well H-ornan yet.
"I have fooled more than one person with a
delicious cup of Postum. Mrs. S. wanted to
know where I bought my fine coffee. I told her
my grocer had it. and when she found out It
was Postum she has used It ever since, and her
nerves are l>uil ling up tine.
"My brain la strong, my nerves steady, my
appetite good, and. best of all. I enjoy such
sound pleasant sleep." Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek. Mich. Get the llttlo book in
pkgr "Tho Hood to Wellville." "There's a r«i
#oa."
The Financial World.
Assuredly this Is the dividend era, Atesajß.
la the latest of our great companies lncrcaaghi
disbursements to shareholders. Its rate ■*.
vances from 4t05 per cent. "With net ob«m
perverseness. speculative Wall Street has ltyj" <s .j
with disfavor upon this action. Not stopssag •»
consider that Atehlson Is earning more ta&a
three times 5 per cent, and hence disburses >«,
than one-third of Us yearly surplus, heavy short
sales of the stock were made b«i*auae. firing
some gratuitous predictions of a 8 per «ss
dividend had been mad*. Had the 6 tmx,
declaration come these ram* profess***,
would undoubtedly have criticised It aa -:
! conservative: but when the actual conssnratrr,
action became public the cry of "disaspcfct
ment" was raised. The market result Is ■ tun
temporary decline In the value o" Atchlscs.
And almost at the same time there was sssbbsl
of Canadian Pacific because it saw -.: •<> ?•.?»
Its shareholders an extra. 1 per cent out of '.ana
| sale proms. These two incidents '.;. :»va:e tie
I artificiality of "Wall Street's sentiment. Oa ti»
one hand. there is crlt!cl«n of -'-iriltTisss «
j the part of companies who do no* expand Jirt.
dend3 — the other hand, -.--• Is crttlelsra cf
those who do declare new or advanced dlvliindi!
Th© Wail Street pessimist has his gibes aai
sneers always ready, no matter what happeaa
Dividend distribution within safa Use* U the
i Ju*t . right of tho stockholder. The Amerteia
policy for many years has devoted earnics* to
the physical upbuilding of railroads— ta this
! opposed to th* English poMcy. which distribute,
I earnings as they come Into the treasury. Th»
| wisdom of the American pol!cy fc? r.or ;ma
i strated. Our road 3 have bee- br^'vi?it -rp to »
high standard of efficiency, enaclfcig ta«a ta
handle an enormous growth of -r-i^ 1 .-. V.I ears
good results for tluir owners. Frees - •» en—
at least until present good tlrr.es *han hav^
I passed away— there will be continuance cf thee*
I dividends and of increased dividends Those
i which have already been declared ar- =rsre Im
portant as precursors of tho»» which wt"l esoM
1 than they are as present accomplishment*. They
blaze the way.
The rounding out of the so-called "ore 4saP
between the United States Steel Corpcratia an&
Great Northern Li a gigantic Strati ta-jrarf new
achievement. Wall Street has busied itself wtt!x
tittle-tattle concerning th!s gTeat H 'latSon.
. buying or selllnsr stccks as gossip led thii way
: or the other, while meantime the serious and
important financiers In charge of the -tartar
have been bringing it to completion ta nflsiTj
manner.
The accomplishment opens up new tmsta
; dous development. Transfer of the esstrol of
these great ore fields from railroad ssrsasiw
to the Steel Corporation means th.it *M| wKI
! be operated directly by those who irmwtVtaf
raw product Into the finished article — fctvefcrti?
I great saving by economic operations. And It
; is one of those deals where each party to the
transaction actually benefits. .Under the idnto-
Istratlin of the Steel Corporation more ore wfll
be used and more tonnage created for the rail
roads than could be possible under railway con
trol of the ore nelr^;. All this points to ■ reasst
business, to Increased prosperity and to '3»
creased dividends for all concerned.
As regards the Steel Corporation, this Is per
haps the most "brilliant stroke it has ever na<*%.
Beneficial results mat show Immediately. Tin
corporation obtains that which it has Ion? ***-
control of the steel business frora alpoa
to omega. As concerns Steel securities, It puts
the ~ per cent dividend on the preferred stock
beyond the peradventure of doubt. It opens up
earning possibilities to the common stock -which
can scarcely be exaggerated. It la well known that
upon present earnings basis the common stock
could receive 4 or ."> per cent without any impair
ment of surplus strensth. while with the added
earning possibilities that now appear it can ba bat
a question of time— perhaps no long niue l!? 8 "
the common stock will surpass On preferred *»
a dividend payer. Out-of-date critics deplore
tho vast volume of Steel securities. Such crM
cism Is unsound. Value can met/ be ."''--T
tested by earning power— and by this test taa
Steel stocks, . particularly the comrsoa. are tits
cheapest of the cheap.
As to the character of the deal which has
been so Industriously misrepresented In Wan
Street— ridiculous story lately current chart*
ing personal hostile relations between H. H.
Rogers and J. Pierpont Morgan— that can be
best determined by tho high standing cf t2i
men who have been the negotiators. ■.nclutHn*
Elbert H. Gary. James J. Hill. J. Plexor.: Ms>
gan George W. Perkins. George F. Baker, H.
H. Rogers. John S. Kennedy and Willie 3. Jaz:M.
In all the protracted conferences necessiry to
agreement these gentlem. i have met each ether
in the friendliest spirit and with but rr.<* slnC-»
object— to achieve for their constituents the cert
results possible. Splendidly is American trcs
teeehlp again exemplified.
Under the leadership of the steel 3 the who!»
industrial group 13 certain to become croniisenr.
The Southern and other outside steel products
companies must feel sympathetic impetus, a*
also must such properties as Cast Iron Pipe aaa
Railway Steel Springs, In each at which lan*
net Increased earnings show. And in the sanw
class Is Vulcan Detinning. which is becoming %in
expanding manufacturing property of :?-rge as
sured profits. The preferred stock at barely
above *0 is a tempting investment opporrun.tr.
That It can be bought at its present level issoe
due to lack of ir.si i* appreciation. The neces
sity of the settlement of no less than ito»
estates which were large holders otymvn^
Detinning has kept the stock i" ? "' tfTe -. ,/rri
operation 13 now at an end. It is MIM that »•
of the most important auxiliary company i o.
the United States Steel Corporation has **"*?
a large interest in Vulcan Dftinnlng arivi can
have representation in the directorate.
And In the railroad world, as In the industrial
world, there are multiplied evidences of crowd-
Ing prosperity. Earnings reported for A "^ st
and September are simply Phenomenal. The^a
conditions favor the completion «&£**« *$£
long pending, and wMcn are f^j]f »^
shadowed by capital ****** Sw 2 b^s
Central and St. Paul. The wtoe P^ar,^^
pursued of secmteS authorization of capyal tar
P b :'
be effected, the companies involved t AU ha . eta
their treasuries lssunb!,- stock which can, b»
realized upon In ordinary way without d£uro
tn< the money market. These^ are th e da s
giants in finance— only pettiness tas r.tg-.i
their achievement. «^.~>v>v
What impends in the Gould 'tocks-n^^
Missouri Pacific and St LouU Southwestern-
Will soon show grattfyingly-
A curious market feature is tks ■•■*"■ of Dw
tillers Securities by the professional element en
the story that insiders In that corporation con
template the organization cf an independent
company to manufacture new product? rtmW
free alcohol bin takes effect. If any c^rpcratloa
has been managed with regard to the "**"»£•
stockholders Distillers Securities is such a one.
Samuel M. Rtce and his associates took ho>3 <X
a bankrupt company and with xea.lo.i3 devotion
built it up to prosperity. For four years stock
holders have been receiving dividend ,of ,1.£2
cent p«r annum, whl.h have Just been r*ass«
to 5 per cent. Complaint concerning the man
agement of this company would Wmm sertJ
comic.
Upon the curb activity and buoyancy con
tinue to break records, mining properties bete*
bought by wholesale for the public's account.
Some mining stocks are selling at four and •«•
times their par value, and taken by
who seem to bo wholly careless of *
other than their own confidence that a «*«- *
boom is on. Mary stocks of prorsd meri. *££
not yet substantially proceeded mw • me.
though such issue* <tacludln ff r»pwj«ntac^» e«
ampfes like Nevada-Utah. Old Hunarediji
Mitchell) are likely at any moment to beco.-»
conspicuously strong.
Important developments are at hand In ft*
affairs of the rMIIH Subway. A* ha* hitherto
b^n pointed out in this review, • - *** m
for investment profit in this property are ex
ceptional extremely. But it has be «« f *3s
that the millionaire interests m wa^J*™!;
been opposed to any such stock market ad*as^
as would fairly reflect intrirulc h Tf o gt
deal of power being required •t«tae»tao3s-'
public appreciation of "avoidably dl^ose^d .
velostmenta. Meantime there has «*a r^.y
progress to th« point wheit. now the •>*•"
completed, actually operatbiff. with I«^» P«g"
ent and prospective in large volume. J* s
now be learned Is that through the WWH^
quietude there are accomplishments wh.cn F-
Chicago Subway mm- where It not °~/^E
control the handling of freight within the bu^
ness district of the city. but. ■"^*j2*?2tsflia
control th« supply of electric lUhU heat w
pdw«T throughout th ■ same di^trtct. and : »»g
a similar comprehensive system of C V IC ? , ..3
and refrigeration, and. In addition. ho£tt*Wg
nance in Chicago's telephone situation. >\ hat .\~^
can signify Js beyond ready calculaii^-^.^
sentlng accomplishment worthy the <"ff rtrt3 , K *^
the capital invested by such Interests as »ay*»
represented by Kuhn. L»>eb & Co -_. . _ -,A
And any investor who now buva Chlcaso -£
way stocl! ought within this next V. ar »^rA«T'*
rich profit. H. AI.U> *w^