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Afluilrul i chlesi Letter
Admiral Schleys letter to the Navy
Department explaining his request
for an expression from Admiral Howl
son respecting the accuracy or other
wise of the language ascribed to the
latter in the Boston llecord inter
view will be very convincing to the
country although it Is Improbable that
It will have any effect upon Hackett
and Crovninshield Admiral Echley as
serts that he had no desire to make a
preliminary challenge for cause and
that it was to avoid possible rectyrse to
such action that he requested the Ce
partment to lay before Admiral Howi
son the statements that he is alleged to
have made and thus give him the op
portunity to take such action as his
sense of the propriety of the occasion
might suggest
Admiral Schley also calls attention to
the fact that Admiral Howisons state
ment to the department was that he
had madeno public utterance relating
to this subject and submits that pri
vate utterances would equally affect
Howisons qualification to sit on the
court The right is on the side of Ad
miral Schley as It has been from the
outset but he will get no concession
from his enemies persecutors and slan
derers on that account The American
people are the power that will set him
right
Interference nnil Intervention
The proclamation of Marroquin the
dictator of Cclombia practically declar
ing war against Venezuela and author
izing his department governors to ex
propriate property to levy forced
loans anrt to conduct hostile operations
each In his own Jurisdiction at once
renders acute the question of American
duty in the premises There is not a
Fcintllla of doubt that the Administra
tion has the inclination to intervene In
the quarrel between Colombia and Ven
ezuela fomented by the former in the
interests of the reactionary rebel An
drade whose affection for the Asphalt
Trust is so notorious There may how
ever be some doubt that such actlpn
will be ventured upon A difference ex
ists between desire and ability under
the law and In view of public opinion
European papers refer sarcastically
to the exhumation by American diplo
matists of a treaty dating from 1816
with Colombia by the terms of which
this country is empowered to preserve
open traffic across the Isthmus of Pan
ama when Colombia Is unable to and
undertakes to guarantee the sovereign
ty of that State upon the isthmus The
authority to be sure is rather ancient
but since the de facto Government of
Colombia and the United States stand
by it the convention cannot be con
sidered as lapsed So we may admit
that the United States would be within
Its rights In landing a force on the isth
mus to hold Colon Panama the Pana
ma Hallway and the contiguous terri
tory for the dictator Marroquin until
such time as he should be overthrown
and a republic established Then both
rule and practice would demand recog
nition of the new Government
American interests which it is pop
ularly believed the Administration has
In viev In supporting the dictatorship
of Marroquin against the Colombian
constitutional party now in arms
against his usurpation and also In fa
voring what Is known as the Asphalt
Andrade insurrection against General
Castro and the Liberal Government of
Venezuela are apt to involve our au
thorities in a dilemma By straining a
point it is possible thfft once on the
shore of the isthmus the Administra
tion might upon the request of Marro
quin use Its land and naval forces to
put down the patriots who are strug
gling to overthrow him without violat
ing the settled principles of internation
al law On this subject Dr Woolsey a
leading American authority says
4tSo Sute ii autliorized to render assistance
to provinces or cuouie which are in revolt
against the establlxhed Government On
the other hand there 1 nothing in the law of
nations vhich fortml one nation to render as
sistance to the established Government if its
assistance is invoked though this is most un
usual unless there are peculiar interest to lie
erred The rule of non interference in
the affairs of other States is an estahlinhcd prin
ciple Whatever be the Interference It
can be justified only as an extreme measure and
on one of the two follow np grounds
First That it is demanded by self-preservation
Second That some extraordinary state
of thires is brought about by the crime of a
Covernunnl saainsl its subject
If the Administration Is to be gov
erned by the principles and rules of in
ternational law it will be deduced from
the foregoing that while it might help
Marroquin to crush the spirit of liberty
and constitutionalism in Colombia It
would be estopped from carrying Its In
terference to the length of aiding and
abetting the Asphalt Andrade rebels in
Venezuela against their Government
We may pass by the dicta of Woolsey
and other great text writers on the
question of the Justification of inter
ference or intervention It 1b not con
ceivable that such considerations would
weigh a grain In the balance of our
Isthmian or South American policy On
the other hand the interests of Euro
pean Powers in the theatre of threat
ened interference might exert an impor
tant influence upon our policy and ac
tion If it be competent for us to Join
with the dictator Marroquin in sup
pressing Colombian freedom strictly
of courte for the purpose of protecting
American interests and property what
Is to prevent Germany England or
France or all three from Intel fering to
save their subjects or citizens engaged
In peaceful pursuits in Colombia from
being ruined by forced loans and ex
propriations exacted by his governors
or from being impressed into his army
Certainly the Monroe Doctrine could
not be Invoked against such Interfer
ence That great utterance of a great
resident did not contain anything
was not formed for the Dronacatlon of
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THE TIMES WASinNGTONsIgUNDAY AUGUST 25 1901
plicnble to such a case His message of tried and which In any event could
1S23 which covered the doctrine wholly only succeed by overturning existing
simply declared That we should con- I conditions In utter disregard of vested
sider any attempt on their part of the
allied Powers to extend their system
to any part of this hemisphere as dan
gerous to our peace and safety and
again that we could not view any In
terposition for the purpose of oppress
ing Goernments on this sid of the
Atlantic whose independence we had
acknowledged or controlling in any
manner their destinies by any Euro
pean Tower In any other light than as
a manifestation of an unfriendly dispo
sition toward the United States
Where do we And in the language of the
Doctrine ground for forbidding other
nations to protect their people In South
America with tteir own means
It seems to be plain that If we can In
tel f pre in Venezuela for Instance in
behalf of the Asphalt Trust Germany
can do the same thing on the excuse
that the German commercial houses at
Laguayra and Maracaibo are In dan
ger of outrage at the hands of An
drades and Pietris rebels It is a poor
rule that will not work both ways
The FiiHalntr of ropiillxm
When we consider that only a few
years ago the Peoples Party polled
about a million and a half votes and
actually claimed a little later a mem
bership of two millions the most of
which was In the Mississippi valley we
are not quite certain whether we should
be startled or only amused at the re
ports of the Populist convention Just
held in Iowa The delegates in attend
ance are said to have numbered about
tw enty and this in one of the formerly
strong and enthusiastic centres of Pop
ulism There can be no doubt that the
Peoples Party lias about run Its course
and that It Is no longer a political factor
to be reckoned with seriously save in
those localities where it may chance to
hold the balance of power between the
two great parties
The rise and fall of political organiza
tions is not a new thing in American
history The Federal party although
containing many of the greatest intel
lects of the country went out of exist
ence as a result of Its opposition to the
second war with England The Whig
party was disrupted and destroyed by
the slavery question The Free Soil
and Abolition parties were absorbed
Into the Republican organization The
causes w hich have virtually put an end
to PoDulIsm are just as obvious al
though not quite so simple The party
rights Civilization Itself has been a
matter of slow growth and develop
ment and political reform which Is
part and parcel of civilization must
also make headway by slow and easy
stages Populism failed to recognize
these patent truths As a result the
Peoples Party has ceased to be a sub
stantial political force soon it will be
nothing but a memory
Mind HenlerH Arrmtcil
The arrest of certain so called mind
healers In Florida upon the charge of
fiaudulently using the malls Is some
thing to be heartily commended by all
good citizens These people were using
the malls for the dissemination of their
advertisements guaranteeing cures for
all sorts of diseases and even nt a dis
tance from the healers by mental
treatment alone
This fraud is so barefaced in its
character and withal so dangerous to
life and health that it is difficult to
speak of It with any patience It has
been suggested that people who can be
deceived by anything so preposterous
have not themselves a mental con
stitution which makes them very val
uable members of society That how
ever is not quite a fair view to take of
it No human mind is absolutely per
fect and there are many persons of fair
average intelligence in most respects
whose credulity has been played upon
by the persuasive sophistries of profes
sional sharpers We cannot stop to
measure closely the Intellectual calibre
of the victims of these frauds If they
are mentally weak there Is all the more
reason why they should be protected
Unfortunately too when people become
infatuated with the mind cure fad they
are not only willing to risk their own
health and lives but those of others as
well In all too many cases the lives of
little children and persons ill to the
point of utter helplessness are put in
jeopardy To suppress such a fraud the
law should be invoked to the utmost
limit
Freedom of thought and action should
never be allowed to the point of en
dangering life Nor should much time
be wasted in argument over it When
a person is afflicted with some hideous
disease an ailment which all the world
can see is real substantial and ma
terial and some other person will assert
that he or she can cure the disease by
simply thinking about it from a dis
tance of a thousand miles if necessary
ls Perfectly clear that argument Is
some one clearly marked and easily
I prlnclpl Its creed was not Is wanted If one really
tinguished
sentially a conglomerate consisting of
many economic fads and fancies almost
every one of which was a direct attack
upon existing economic and social con
ditions Some of the contentions of the
Populists were theoretically correct
but with the exception of the free silver
proposition- not one of them had ever
been put Into practical operation and
the Populistic doctrine as a whole was
nothing less than revolutionary As a
rule the Populist was a mere theorist
who lost sight of the great truth that
abstract theories ot government must
In large measure yield to established
conditions
Such a creed was alarming to the con
servative thought of the country and
many who fully appreciated the need
of reform were repelled by the radical
character of the proposed Populistic
remedies The doctrines of the party
appealed chiefly to most visionary and
erratic classes and naturally it became
tliepolitlcal home of every unbalanced
and cranky reformer in the country
There were it Is true some able men
In the party but It Is also true that its
doctrines in their entirety were never
accepted by the best and highest intelli
gence of the country
The most conservative feature of the
Populist creed and the only one which
had stood the test of practical ex
perience was the demand for free sil
ver coinage and this was the one for
which the average Populist cared the
least He really wanted no coinage at
all His desire was for a great volume
of paper money and he merely accept
ed the silver coinage proposition be
cause he thought it better to increase
the money volume In that way than not
to Increase it at all There are many
very able men who believe that the
world will ultimately gravitate to a
scientific paper money system regu
lated as to quantity by certain fixed
rules but If such a system Is ever
adopted it can only be done by almost
insensible degrees the paper gradually
creeping in and crowding out the coin
The worlds business thought is not
highly educated in economics but it is
Intelligent enough to fear sudden
changes of a sweeping character the
full effect of which no -man can know
with certainty The basic error of Pop
ulism lay in Its failure properly to esti
mate the force of this feeling and It
appealed mainly to those of visionary
chaiacterand those who had nothing to
lose
But Populism Is not to be judged too
harshly In a measure it was born of
conditions Abuses of a grave charac
ter had crept Into the policy of the Re
publican party and Jlke the Granger
movement Populism wan in the nature
of a revolt -against those abuses It
attained Its greatest strength In the
Mississippi Valley where the people felt
the pressure most Depression hung
heavily over the land find among the
agricultural classes the burden was al
most too great to be borne It was the
most natural thing In the world for
them to seek relief and to go to ex
tremes In doing so The most of these
people were intelligent but not care
fully educated They reached out blind
ly for relief and grasped at everything
that seemed to promise It They read
just enough of political economy to get
a glimmering of abstract truth but
their education was not sufficient to en
able them to apply the truth intelligent
ly to concrete and long established con
ditions No party thus constituted can
ever become a dominating force in such
a country as this
In this connection It Is proper to re
mark that in not moro than one or two
instances have the Populist leaders
elected to high station been anything
above mediocrity in point of ability
The most of them have been below that
grade and some of them have been ob
jects of ridicule even with their own
party associates Nor is it altogether
out of place to observe that many of the
noisiest the fussiest the crankiest and
least consequential of the lot are now
snugly buck into the bosom of the Re
publican party
But our main purpose ls merely to
note the passing of Populism and brief
ly point to the cause It is simply im
possible for any party to succeed In this
country upon the basis of abstract
theories which might fail utterly If
thinks that he possesses such power
there may be no way of compelling him
to change his mind but whenever pos
sible he should be prevented from act
ing upon it In such manner as to put
the life of another person In peril This
Is a matter which concerns all mankind
and everycommunlty owes it to Itself
to use every endeavor for the suppres
sion of such a fraud It Is to be hoped
that there may be no defects in the
proofs in these cases that the convic
tions may be prompt and the punish
ment equally so
A Itepnlillcnn Triumph
The New York World pertinently1
remarks that while the new German
tariff will be a tremendous blow at our
foreign trade it ls nevertheless a great
triumph for the Republican party This
is very true and we are reminded by it
that a few years ago the Republican
leaders in defending their own tariff
pointed exultingly to the fact that Ger
many had also adopted -a protective
policy They overlooked though the
wide difference between a tariff that ls
slightly protective and one that Is to all
intents and purposes prohibitory They
also overlooked or conveniently forgot
to mention the circumstance that if
every nation of the earth had such a
law as either the McKinley or the Ding
ley tariff it would virtually put an end
to all foreign trade and shut up every
countrys business within Its own bor
ders
The Republican idea has been that we
could close our markets to foreign goods
and still sell our own Just the sameln
foreign markets This never was true
In the full sense for the exclusion of
foreign goods always tended to limit
our own sales abroad But now a point
has been reached In the worlds indus
trial affairs at which foreign nations
can no longer tolerate a Jug handled
trade and Germany proposes to pay the
Republican party the high compliment
of Introducing DIngleyism into that
country The Republicans are welcome
to all the glory they can get out of this
action by Germany although the re
sultant injury to the country is to be
deeply deplored
The Prenst Afrent
The work of advertising new books
and other things is one in which as
everybody knows there is likely to be a
certain amount of humbug for some
business men have not yet realized that
the best thing for business ls to make
moderute statements and live up to
them But it does seem as if the liter
ary press agent were a little moro
audacious at the present day than ever
before In history Things have come to
such a pass that pome publishers ad
vance notices cannot by any known
system of discounting be made to tell
the truth
Every historical novel is ndvertised
as the finest yet written Every rural
love story is the book of the year
Some firms have such confiding trust In
the public that they publish half a
dozen novels of various sorts for each
of which they claim that it Is the book
of the year and introduce as many
new writers each of whom ls the com
ing novelist
But there really ought to be a limit
to this sort of thing especially in the
caEe of respectable firms Publishers
whose names are known to the public
ought to take care not to pVaise too
highly books which are manifestly not
worth the time it takes to write the no
tices For example a recent novel is
heralded as an enthralling love story
clever brilliantly written and a real
istic picture of Washington life The
reader takes it up with expectations
The Washington novel of enthralling
Interest has not yet appeared though
the social and political life of the Cap
ital has been more or less cleverly
handled by various writers This par
ticular author being a correspondent of
experience may be expected to know
how to handle it
Before th reader has gone very far
in the story he discovers a young lady
with an Ideal meditating on her lovers
and the uuthor observes
The men who uanted to make her their wife
did not realize that ideal
The picture brought before the mind
fiusre esls a sort of reversed MnrmnnlRm
the social relations of the Capital are
polyandrous that he suggests a tableau
of half a dozen men- kneeling in a circle
around a young idy asking her to become
f
come their wife
Again we find thefhero t the crisis
of his life exclaiming
I am clad the moon is full tonisht From
rhlldhood I have been passionately fond of the
moon i
He is not talking to the heroine but
to his Intimate friend and both gentle
men are members of the United States
Senate If that is the way in which
Senators converse in their leisure mo
ments the world has been misinformed
This novel Is presented as a graphic
picture of Washington society but one
would not like to explain some of its
Implications to an innocent German
who might read It In the honest en
deavor to become familiar with our
social system
Of course there are not many novels
which pass the Inspection of any pub
lisher which are written quite In the
peculiar style of this one for the speci
men of English first quoted is a fair
example of the authors use of words
Sentences like this are frequent
The country admired his courage and honesty
and gave him their confidence
As for split infinitives they are scat
tered about in all directions
It Is not to be expected of course
that every novel of the season should be
the product of genius or even that it
should be worth reading but it really
ought not to be described as a work of
art unless the author knows how to
write English
The sixth week of the steel strike ended
without any immediate indication of set
tlement In Insisting upon the strikes at
Jollet and Bellaire Wisconsin at which
places the Amalgamated men were under
regular contract with their employers
President Shaffer threw away the scab
bard as far as the Steel Trust is con
cerned for It definitely refuses to deal
with an organization which refuses to
hold to its agreements Again the final
refusal of the South Chicago workers to
go out has been a depressing influence at
strike headquarters Nextwcek it ls
promised that the combination will start
a number of its plants and then trouble
may come On the whole the last seven
days seem to have been unfavorable to
the strikers and a great many people in
Pittsburg are quoted as expressing the
believe that the bottom has fallen out of
the movement and that it will find its
end before a great while longer
The Republicans of Virginia are In trou
ble because they have nominated a man
for the lieutenant governorship who is
too young to hold the office They need
not worry themselves much about that
He will probably Tie old enough by the
time he is clectcdjrtHe certainly is old
enough now to run that Is to say to do
all the running thatiany Republican can
didate can In the Old Dominion To an
outsider the youthof Mr Blair seems not
to be a very sertoils matter It is In fact
one of the smallest of the troubles that
confront the Virginia Republicans
The figures showing- the gains In Phil
ippine trade are gratifying and all things
considered satisfactory There can be no
doubt that within a reasonable time the
Islands- will be a valuable commercial as
set valuable not only because of their own
immediate traaenuiior tneir geographi
cal position with reference to the great
Aslatld There Is ivery -little
point In comparingthe trade with our ex
penses in restoring peace That expense
has already been incurred and If the Isl
ands are treated as American territory
the annual cost of holding them should
constantly diminish Probably It will
soon be less than the actual revenues col
lected at Manila But much depends upon
the Administrations policy If a course
Is pursued which rrikes it necessary
permanently to maintain a large army
there the cost will continue heavy and
the commercial value of the islands will
be greatly impaired
Nobody dislikes being dunned any worse
than does Abdul Hamid Sultan or Tur
key and as a rule he Is dear to the plead
ings or the threats of the dun But when
he Is menaced with war with a Power
like France at the same time that Rus
sian troops and gunboats are swarming
on his coast frontier he knows enough to
back down and settle That Is what he
appears to have done in the French quay
affair at Constantinople and we fancy
that normal relations between the coun
tries will be re established by tomorrow
Hoey collector ot customs at Nogales
on the Mexican line has been arrested
charged with the wholesale passage of
Chineso immigrants Into the United
States nt from fifty to two hundred dol
lars a head Hoey be It observed Is from
Munciclnd where Neely and others
live when at home There seems to be
something in the atmosphere or Muncle
that produces itch of the palm and tln
eers
PERSONAL
The Peabody Mass Historical Society
will erect a monument in that town to
the memory of John Proctor who was
executed for witchcraft in 1692
It ls reported that the Bishopric of Dur
ham made vacant by the death of Bishop
Westcott will be offered to Dr Welldon
Bishop of Calcutta He was once head
master of Harrow
Some Austrlans living In Geneva con
ceived the project of placing a memorial
tablet in the Qual du Leman where the
Empress Elizabeth was assassinated The
authorities however refused their per
mission on the ground that It would be
improper to commemorate the deed of a
madman and help to preserve his name
In place of the tablet It Is now pro
posed to erect a chapel in honor of the
Empress
The -people of Amesbury Mass have
started a movement for the erection of
a monument to he memory of the poet
Whlttler who llfedin their town for fifty
years and did much of his best work
there j
The present l tne thirteenth summer
that Emperor WHHam has spent In part
in Norway the fjords of which are an
ideal place for Ijls yacht
The Cretan LcgiIature has voted a
monthly pension of- fifty drachmas to
Giorgio Berovlch Bey the last Turkish
Governor of thclslnnd At the outbreak
of the revolution this official took ship
for Italy rather than remain and enforce
the severe repressive measures that he
was commanded to put Into play Ever
since he has been living In poverty In
Venice
The will of the late Henry E Bowers
of Brookllne Mass makes residuary be
quests to the Eliza Huntington Memorial
Hospital In Norwich Conn In memory
of his parents to the Norwich Free Acad
emy and to the Otis Library also of
Norwich
Helen Gladstone daughter of the great
Liberal lias become warden of the
Womans University Settlement in South
ward London and will soon leave Cam
bridge to live in that dreary slum
J 0 Dykman Justice of the Supreme
Court of New York ls lying seriously 111
at his home in White Plains He has
been ill all summer nnd it Is supposed
that the excitement attendant upon grant
ing the stay in the Captain Diamond case
has aggravated the disease
There- are seventeen communities of
Shakers In the United States The Amana
Society has 1800 souls and the Harmony
Society of Economy Ohio hs but nine
resident members left The Zoarltes and
the iiusKin coiony of Georgia have both
D -
Does the author wish to insinuate that I recently disbanded
FOREIGN TOPICS
Attempts of foreigners to write English
are always laughable to the English
speaker The laughter of foreigners is re
served for the grave efforts of the Saxon
to harangue the Gaul in his native
tongue or to endeavor to do In Rome as
the Romans do ecn in the matter of
choice Italian It is an Italian appar
ently who ls responsible for a bold foray
into English speech What was essayed
was an advertisement In English of a
new route up Vesuvius and here is the
result
The excurtlonlsts who whish to ascempt
Vesuvius by Pompey are beged to ndrcsse
themselves to the well Known 011100 B
Fiorenza the only whom is autorised by
the gouvernement The price fors the ex
cursion is of 15 frcsnd they receive car
riage horse guide and free passage
through the new roud and not 21 frcs as
the otther people ask for
N B The excurtlonlsts are beged to
pay no attention to such neonle whom
presents as agents of Fiorenzas Office on
travelling from Naples to Pompey Be
cause the realy one are provided of a
white can with the InscrlDtion B Fiorenza
guide of Vesuvius
Spanish papers In opposition to the pres
ent Ministry do not view with satisfaction
the prospect of an entente cordiale with
England which has been under discussion
for some time These Journals strongly
resented certain recent intimations or the
semi official press that a plan was on
foot fpr a more equitable ngreement be
tween Spain and Great Britain than the
one now existing and that what made
such an agreement of particular weight
at this time was not so much the excite
ment growing out of the Gibraltar defence
question as the fact that Portugals cor
dial relations with Great Britain placed
Spain at a great disadvantage The mat
ter of an Anglo Spanish entente cordiale
has been led up to very quietly and may
mean nothing after all but a means to re
store tranquillity in regard to England
but the opposition press sees in such a
policy the certain humiliation of Spain
The Imparclal of Madrid notes a
change in the demeanor of English states
men toward Spain It says that a great
and significant difference exists between
the references of Lord Salisbury and Mr
Chamberlain to Spain at the time of her
misfortunes and the manner in which
she has been spoken of In recent debates
It considers that the fact that Spain has
shown herself solvent nrter the enormous
burdens which her disasters placed upon
her and that she is overcoming her In
ternal difficulties proves her vitality
It declares that public opinion in England
Is becoming convinced that Spains neu
trality ls more advantageous than Spains
enmity and that the supposition that
Spain ls more or less forcibly allied with
France is disappearing though slowly
A well known Journalist writes In a
Parisian paper the following amusing and
Intimate particulars regarding the
laundry arrangements of the Comedle
Francaise
One of our morning contemporaries
he sayg announced some time ago that
the Comcdle Francaise was going to
cease washing the linen of the artistes
employed as a number of abuses had been
discovered This statement is incorrect
The linen of the comedlens and come
diennes of the Maison de Moliere has al
ways been washed at the expense of the
theatre This costs only 500 francs or COT
francs per month The administration of
of the Rue Richelieu In fact does things
handsomely Not only does it furnish
their linen to the men of the troupe and
undertake the washing of it is this a
want of confidence in the cleanliness of
the habits of the pensionnalres but it
also furnishes the lady artistes with their
petticoats snoes stockings and false
hair
The men who earn less than 300 francs
per month have the right to have their
clothes supplied by the theatre None of
those gentlemen has ever abused this gen
erous regulation by ordering an excessive
number of stylish suits As the bills
nevertheless became too high M Clarette
Informed the committee that he would
nave to taice a decision in the matter
The actors at the Comedie Francaise aro
much more favored than the actresses in
other theatres
Two worthy wives mutually sued each
other for what they called libel before the
Paris Correctional Chamber Plaintiff No
1 being asked to state her case said it
all came about owing to a parrot The
bird had a vicious disposition and its
mistress the defendant egged it on to
be even worse than It wa3 by nature The
plaintiff could not put her head out of
the window without the bird shouting op
probrious epithets at her and generally
libeling her character Before deciding
this case the Judge said he would hear the
other whereupon the second matron
stated that what she had to complain of
was her neighbors dog It had been
taught to bark at her whenever she went
out and bo maliciously clever was the
animal that at the instigation of Its mis
tress it actually threw stones at her win
dow panes by tossing them up with It
paws By ths time the people in cour
were convulsed with laughter but the
Judge remained serious In commenting
upon the two cases he pointed out that
neither action had been correctly de
scribed as a suit for libel Then he ren
dered his decision which was worthy of
a Solomon One of the plaintiffs he said
should have prosecuted the dog the other
should have cited the parrot Both ac
tions having been wrongly instituted he
should therefore dismiss them both
The act of union between Sweden and
Norway provides that the King shall
spend part of the year In Norway This
time has usually been limited A change
in this respect is now contemplated and
it is proposed constitutionally to compel
the King to spend the same length of
time in Norway as in Sweden say one
two or three years at a time in each
country It is believed that this measure
if ndnnted will render the monarchy
more popular with the Norwegians who
are longing to see the throne of King
Haakon and King Sverne raised again on
the soil of Norn ay and at the same time
demonstrate to the world at large that
the two kingdoms are on n footing of per
fect equality within the union
The street railways of Finland are to be
furnished with material and rolling stock
of Russian manufacture In conformity with
the law passed for abolishing the puicly
Finnish railway lines and making them
a part of the imperial Russian railway
svstem The new Neva bridge will cost
6CU00O0 rubles 13090000 and one seventh
of this sum ls to be furnished by Finland
Private fjonichlro Ono belonged to the
Japanese engineering corps sent to China
last year He ls the hero who risking his
own life blew open the Chang yang gate
the destruction of which led to the fall
of Pekin When he came home recently
to his native town Okayama the folks
there wanted to hold a grand banquet in
his honor but Irivaic ejno was very nrm
in refusing all such demonstrations pro
testing that he would prove false to the
reai spirit of patriotism with which he had
always served his country If he were vain
enough to allow himself to be lionized for
the lnsigniucam part no nati lateen in mc
attack
The question of whether or not Ameri
can boot and shoe shops are to be opened
In Vienna threatens to assume interna
tional proportions
The Viennese boot and shoe makers hav
ing appealed to the government to pro
hibit the Invasion of American competi
tors today received a reply to the effect
that the authorities decline to interfere
So soon as the decision of the Govern
ment became known representatives of
the American firm Messrs liarthmann
who are waiting In Vienna concluded
their arrangements for taking suitable
shops sixteen in number
Herr BItzn President of the Boot and
Shoe Makers League told a representa
tive of the Fremdenblatt that the
American Invasion means utter ruin for
thousands of Austrian shoemakers
American manufacturers can make
shoes send them across the Atlantic ray
duty on them and sell them In Vienna at
4 shllllrgs a pair less than th Viennese
shoemakers can possibly supply thPin tor
Herr Bltza declared that If Messrs
Birthmann opened shops In Vienna there
would lie trouble because the Viennese
shoemakers driven to desperation are
fully determined to employ violence
against the Amerclan Invaders
Representatives of Messrs Harthmann
say that they will place themselves under
the protection of the American Legation
CANADAS POPULATION
Many Canadians will recall how disap
pointing were the census returns of ISM
but it must be confessed that the returns
of ths year arc little less so Although
some portions of the western territories
have not yet sent in their exact popula
tion the results will not probably be va
ried much The total figures are given at
533SSS3 showing an Increase during the
decade of 505G14 souls or slightly less
than 10H per cent On the face of it this
Is a less rapid Increase than during the
last decade when it was 1162 per cent
and a much less rapid Increase than the
decade from 1ST1 to 1SS1 when It was 1731
per cent Of the maritime provinces
Prince Edward Island has not done much
better than old Ireland as her popula
tion has actually decreased by 5320 souls
or just about the 5 per cent of Ireland
Considering the great mineral and forest
resources of Nova Scotia that province
has done little better Most counties ex
cept those In the Cape Breton district
show a decrease while the total Increase
ls but 3720 or less than 2 per cent Ihls
Is less of an absolute Increase than dur
ing decade 18S1 1S91 The old city of Hall
fax has nt last touched the lOnou mark
but only shows an Increase of 2JD odd
New Brunswick has done the best of the
three maritime provinces as It shows a
growth rrom 321263 to 331003 or moro
than 3 per cent St John the chief city
has added about 1500 and has now al
most exactly the same number of people
as Halifax the former having 40711 and
the latter 10757 Sheso two cities have al
ways been great rivals not only for Gov
ernment favors but In all matters per
taining to transportation and ocean ser
vice Halifax has more wealth but St
John has more snap and enterprise The
chief Increases In New Brunswick will be
found In the northern counties which are
largely settled by people of French ex
traction
As for Ontario and Quebec it cannot be
said that they have added much glory to
their past records Quebec does the better
of the two not only absolutely but In per
centage Her increase is given at 132439
or a little over 9 oer cent This is about
the same rate as she recorded during the
lasi uecaue untario nas grown Dut o3657
or about 2Vi per cent This ls the poorest
record In the census history of Ontario
The natural Increase of these two prov
inces alone should at least have been It
per cent what the native Increase was In
the United States from 1SS0 to 1600
The province of Manitoba shows an In
crease of 93953 more absolutely than
all the maritime provinces and Ontario
put together The Dercentaire of ernwth
is slightly over 61 per cent about the same
as Its neighbor North Dakota The city
of Winnipeg has about doubled Its
lauun anu is unquestionaDiy tne great
industrial and financial centre of the
Western country The Northwest Terri
tories have grown from 66799 to 143000 or
more than 108 per cent British Columbia
however bids fair to be the banner prov
ince In all around development She has
Increased her population from 93176 to
Montreal Is of course the Industrial as
well as the commercial metropolis of the
Dominion She gives a very good account
of herself by an Increase of 46645 and
now stands at 2C6S26 Next comes To
ronto with a growth of 26751 and a toial
figure of 207971 Quebec shows a moder
ate Increase of 5744 but Ottawa the capi
tal has grown the most of any city In
Ontario She now stands at 59902 with
an Increase to her credit of A wn
to be expected Sydney has grown faster
than any other city in Canada unless it
be the newborn Dawson From a little
hamlet of 2127 in 1S91 Sydney haa become
a substantial town of 9903 with more
than a fourfold Incrpnu In tho ewe
Vancouver has grown from 13709 to 26196
Victoria from 16841 to 20S21 and Calgary
wis jumpeu irom isb to 12142 As the
Kent nf pmnln mnve Trotna nl thaa
young cities and towns will continue to
grow anu nourish
There ls another feature nhntit
this census The number of families has
Increased relatively much faster than the
number of people The former shows a
growth of 121673 which at five persons to
u womci can ior a general In
crease In the population of 603365 This
however is more than 100000 in excess of
the census returiis This Is Rnerlnllv ni
of Ontario where the Increase of families
is recorded as 3701 and that of the whole
population but 53Gj7 The number of
dwellings In the entire country hasJn
creased by 129l6 apd It Is clear thatf ihe
people are becoming better housed
POLITICAL COMMENT
The order summoning the Schley Court
of Enquiry to sit In the gunners work
shop will doubtless be protested against
by Admiral Sampsons friends on the
ground that one of the guns might acci
dentally go off while the admiral Is there
which of course would be contrary to
kit precedents in his case made and
Chicago Journal
Tiif laws of the United States provide
fo a fine not exceeding J5O0O and
rn1 ament not exceeding one year for
person entering into a contract trust
nblnatlcn or conspiracy in restraint of
t ade yet Mr Rockefeller and Mr Mor
gan go and come as freely as the most
unoffending citizens and they are not
paying out an thing In fines St Louis
Post Dispatch
The business of pension brokerage in
Washlngtrn Is one of the largest and most
profitable of American industries The
persons so engaged exert a powerful in
fluence not only upon Congress itself and
upon officials but upon the fortunes of
politicians generally throughout the Unit
ed States Chicago Chronicle
Since the Navy Department was so
prompt In censuring Rear Admiral Evans
for the strictures up n Secretary Chand
ler which he embodied in his book It Is
a little strange that something in the
way of a mild reproof at least has not
been sent to Mr Maelnv thn inhnrrnno
historian who charred ScMpv on
ardlce San Francisco Call
All indications point to a desnerate
move in favor of Federal ship subsidies
wnen tne next Congress shall have as
sembled for its long session There Is
an increased American ownership of
steam vessels present and prospective
Interested In the projected raid upon the
Treasury and there is also a well settled
belief that If subsidy shall fail then It
will fall for good Philadelphia Record
Four river gunboats built In Elizabeth
port for the Russian Government have
Just been finished yet our millionaire
shipbuilders will soon resume begging
Congress for a
to enable them to build ships for America
New York World
Evidently General Sickles has decided to
postpone the discharge of Commissioner
of Pensions Evans Baltimore Herald
Attorney General Knox wants it gen
erally understood that he has no more
than a houlng acquaintance with the
trusts Chicago News
The American Goernment is so busy
these days persecuting the men who
whipped the Spaniards three years ago In
the Interests of Cuban freedom that there
is no time to bring to Justice the men who
looted the Cuban postal department Pe
oria iieraiu
What U an American Well he Is a
good many things these times He may
be a Porto Rican negro or a Hawaiian
Chinaman or an Alaskan Indian The
proud boast I Am an American needs
some additional explanation nowadays
Boston Herald
If all other charges fail Mr Longs
Navy Department might be able to con
vict Admiral Schley of provoking hostili
ties with Spain The Spanish fleet rushed
out of Santiago for the purpose of es
caping nnd it would have succeeded but
for Schleys Interference Baltimore
World
It Is evident that on- naval officers can
refrain from talking when th voice of
authority commands them to refrain
Up to the present time too they appear
to have refrained from alluding to Sec
retary Long as an Insect Cleveland
Plain Dealer
The Lodon Standard remarks that
there will be a European coalition against
the United States If thtre Is further op
position to legitimate expansion in South
America But It li only to the Illegiti
mate expansion that Lnclo Sam objects
and if Europe doesnt like his programme
ihp sooner it straddles Its coalition the
sooner will Its understanding be taw
proved Cincinnati Commercial
LONDON NEWS AND GOSSIP
LONDON Aug 24 A rumor running
through the half empty political clubs at f
tributes to Mr Joseph Chamberlain the
Colonial Secretary a desire to induce they
eatinet to dissolve Parliament as soon aaf
Lord Kitchener s surrender proclamation
has brought about the expected close of
the war In South Africa The rumor cri
tolnly suggests pretty closely the conclu i
slon to which the last session might welt
bring an astute politician like Mr Charm
berlaln The Tory party Is obviously stale
A general election would tone it up it
taken on the issue of a settlement lri
South Africa andwould find the Liberals
at divided as at any time during the war
Slorcover Mr Chamberlain might find i
such an election the most taking oppor i
tunlty to revise and recast his provincial
councils Idea of Parnells day otherwlss
home rule all around thus at one stroke
diverting the Irishmen from that excess
Ive attention to Parliamentary duties
which haa brought the House of Commoru
to paralysis giving Scotsmen and Welsh
men the long-asked-for local aolf imvorn
ment relieving the Commons from petti i
provincial ousmess and by opening i v
way ior representatives from Canada
Australia and South Africa give a start
to the federalization of the British Em
pire
Mr Chamberlains imperial zollverein
scheme fell fiat The colonies would not
accept free trade within the Empire A
better fate might attend some such Par
liamentary federation scheme which Is
Just the kind of scheme to attract Mr
Chamberlain Here however we are In
the land of pure political conjecture
Londoners or such of them as remain
are this week thrown right Into the silly
season and but for the diversion which
Abdul Hamid considerately provided in
the near East there would be little else
to read In the papers than the usual silly
season topics This year these topics in
clude The Decay of Domesticity la
the World Growing Better or Worse
and The Abuse of Drink
The statement that Lord Rosebery has
Joined the Board of the Great Northern
Railway Company of England lends new
point and Interest to a discussion pro
voked by the persistent decline of the
revenue earning power of English rail
ways Not only does the decrease of 34
per cent shown for the first half of lMl In
goods live stock and mineral receipts of
twenty English and Welsh companies con
tinue but the decline progresses rapidly
July and August compare very badly with
the same periods last year This decline
of railway receipts ls almost invariably
the first symptom of a wave of trade de
pression such as now seems to be begin
ning to pass over Germany British ship
owners predict that next year will be bad
and the year after very bad If these
premonitions are verified bad times are
before the British railways and already
the directors are coming in for searching
criticism One representative comment
may be quoted Says the Westminster
Gazette
We can none el us shut our eyes to the
fact that our railway service has ceased
to hold the lead even in Europe while it
is by common acknowledgment far behind
the enterprise and energy of America
The Investor suffers the public suffers
from the present state of affairs- The
remedy Is not as some directors appear i
to think to take it out of the public but
On the contrary to give the public
cheaper better and quicker service
whether for goods or passengers than
has been enjoyed during recent years
Here are abundant opportunities for
practical statesmanship If Lord Rosebery
really means business
Hall Calne and his astute publishers are
trying hard to create another diversion
iy throwing 100000 copies of Jils new
novel The Eternal City before a read
ing public which Is for the most part
scattered far from home at seaside and
on heather and moors It Is bold to at
tempt to break away from the belief that
August Is an absolutely dead month in
me wonu or books It seems to have
come somewhat as a surprise to the re
viewers that Hall Calne could treat such
a subject as a political social and ec
clesiastical one with some dignity and sin
cerity and one goes so far as to saythat
if the book is a great popular success
English novelists can take courage and
give the public of their very best assured
of appreciation for their conscience and
art
An event of infinitely greater intrinsic
literary importance though far less
noised abroad is of course the Pan
Celtic Congress In Dublin The only
lion not represented seemed to be Eng
land It remaining doubtful whether in
Cornwall they still speak the ancient
Celtic language Whatever one may think
of the practical value of this effort to
preserve and foster the Celtic language
there ls no denying the picturesque quali
ties of this gathering of Poles Bretons
Highlanders Manxmen Welshmen Irish
men and the rest with their embroidered
robes kilts and tartans and attendant
pipes and harpers W B Teats the poet
evoked enthusiasm by declaring that this
language movement had created a revo
lution which would yet shake Govern
ments while the congress resolved to
bring united Welsh Irish Hffehlandjind
Manx pressure upon England to secure
bi lingual education in the schools of the
Celtic parts of the kingdom Wales has
certainly shown the possibilities of such
Celtic pressure for a report read at the
congress asserted that all the most pro
gressive school boards of South Wales
nnd a majority of the boards of North
Wales are now making due allowance
for Welsh In the time tables
Those who assert that Thackeray Is a
dead force in English literature should
note that the Macmlllans Intend to pub
lish this autumn the first of a
uniform edition of Thackerays works at
2s 6d per volume They will be published
monthly Another leading firm only re
cently completed an elaborate new edi
tion with biographical notes by Thack
erays daughter Mrs Ritchie
GERMAN DIXGUSTISM
The United States have had many and
great victories In Europe of late in which
all our people could justly claim a share
victories for American energy and skill
But now comes a victory the whole credit
of which belongs beyond dispute to the
Republican party
Mr Mason our Consul General at Ber
lin sends the schedules of the proposed
German tarifT law As he points out It Is
modeled upon the Dingleylaw being sim
ply an adaptation of that expression of
the high tariff creed to German needs and
conditions Its schedules place practically
prohibitive duties upon American food
products and almost prohibitive duties
upon American manufactures It proposes
to save Germans from the curse nf for
eign goods at low prices just as Mr Mc
Kinley Mr Hanna and the campaign
contributors have saved us from that
curse
It will be a melancholy day for Ger
many when these schedules go Into effect
and make life harder for everyGerman
except the small classes who will reap
rich benefits DIngleyism has been en
durable in thl country because of our
abounding resources In Germany it will
be calamitous New York World
3111 HACKCTTS TRIAL
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Hack
ett who Is rattling around In the depart
ment In tne absence of Secretary Long
is not miking the impression of a large
man but of one whd has got In a place
for which he Isa misfit Doubtless he
means well but he doesnt know He has
succeeded in making him elf unpopular in
as 3hort a time as any man holding a
high office ever did He will bo glad when
the Secretary returns So will the coun
try Mr Hackett has not recommended
himself for promotion if a vacancy should
occur Except as an Acting Secretary
serving in that capacity only for a brief
hf vnnM ijm iifitiTitntl
irrliaps the Invincible suaviter In modo
of the Sce ietary has made the place a
hard one for another to occupy but
Uiere are men we are confident who
eould occupy it without provoking the
feeling Mr ilacke tt has succeeded In
arousing It ls said that he has found
the post of Assistant Secrttary unconge
nial and will soon retire from It One of
the prime qualifications ofa public officer
ls an ability to bear criticism with equa
nlmlty Mr Hackett does not possess it
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