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Show TREASON OR LOYALTY THE "PATRIOTISM OF BONOMONGERS. THE tions, and thus make its credit stronger, why should the governments credit suffer by the issue of $200,000,000 la treasury potest POINTS FROM THE PRES9. Anti-Cabi- n Polltleaitroa Ar AU fur lloatl Ihiw Dow Till Uaku llond Ihbim Patriotic m Plan to Anti-W- ar Euteir Cabo. Under the headline, Treason In the Senate, the Chicago Tribune makes a ferocious assault upon the senators who opposed the bond proposition of the war revenue bill. The Tribune refers to these senators as traitors, and says: "The real object of these senators is to paralyze the country when actually at war; to deny the administration money with which to pay, clothe, feed and transport its soldiers and sailors; to ruin the credit of the United States abroad and make it Impossible for it to borrow at any time; to deprive it of financial standing among the great nations .of the earth; and to cause a financial and industrial panic so destructive and so in its consequences that for a time the people would almost forget the country was at war. This is treason. It is copperheadism aggravated by imbecility. The worst enemies of the United States will begin their campaign in the senate against their own country Sn a few days. The domestic allies of the Spaniards will open up their fire In the rear and on both flanks of our army and navy, and will stick at nothing to carry out their treasonable enterprises unless an indignant country serves on them notice in unmistakable terms that they must abandon their Infamous policy at least until the war Is over. Every senator who vigorously opposes a bond issue was an equally vigorous champion of Cuban independence, an equally vigorous champion of the proposition that the honor of this nation must be sustained. During the contest over the Cuban resolutions the Chicago Tribune referred to these senators as patriots. By what process, says the. Omaha have they so suddenly been transformed into traitors? The senators who led the fight against Cuban Independence, who insisted that the United States must be humbled before Spain these senators are leading the fight in favor of a bond Issue. While the Cuban resolutions were being considered the Chicago Tribune denounced these senators as being untrue to their country. By what process have they suddenly been transformed to patriots? The charge that the purpose of the bimetallists in the senate is to deprive the administration of money with which to prosecute the war does not conform to the action of these bimetallists when, by unanimous vote, they appropriated the enormous sum of $50,000,000 to be used by William McKinley at bis own discretion and in his own way. In order to prepare this nation for war. It is significant that Hanna, Elkins, senHale and the other ators, and Retd, boutelle and other representatives, are most conspicuous In the championship of the bond issue. These men, more than any others, are responsible for the destruction of the battleship Maine, and responsible for the necessity of this nation engaging in war with Spain. They bear this responsibility because they persistently opposed and prevented the granting of belligerent rights to the Cubans, a proposition that would long ago have resulted in complete triumph for the Cuban people. These men opposed Cuban belligerency, opposed the recognition of Cuban independence and opposed action on the part of the United States to maintain Its honor, for the reason that Wall ''street was opposed to such proceedings. Now that the war is on, Wall street is anxious to make the best of It, and demands the bond issue. With characteristic loyalty to the money power, Hanna, Elkins and Reed advocate a bond issue for the same reason that they opposed the Cubans. The men who oppose the bond issue are actuated by a determination to guard the domestic Interests of the people of the United States as carefully as they sought to guard the international welfare of that people. The Chicago Tribune will have difficulty in convincing its readers that Hanna, Elkins, Hale and other senators whom loss than two weeks ago the Tribune denounced as untrue to their country the Tribune will have dlffloulty in convincing its readers that these men have suddenly become patriots, while the loyal men who have opposed them have suddenly become World-Heral- d, pro-Spaai- sh pro-Spani- sh traitors. The treasury reports show that the available cash balance in the treasury is more than $111,000,000, of which It would seem from this that the government is not in Immediate danger of having its cash balance depleted, but if danger exists there are ample remedies outside of a bond issue. The coinage of the seigniorage as Mr. Bailey suggested would do It. If the government could issue say $100,000 MO in obliga $180,000,000 is gold reserve. latsre-baarl- ag Representative Loud he regrets war. He does not it half as much as California i c.cts Loud. Sacramento Bee. The bankers recently assembled made this gUring stalemtnt: In this country there is 1 1. COO, 000,000 and that they have loaned to the people or, in other words, have loaned and are collecting interest on which they do not possess. Pleasanton (Kan.) Herald. $5,000,-000,00- 0, A bill Introduced in congress last week by Mr. Rldgoly of Kansas would grant to an industrial colony some of the advantages allowed by law to the national banks. It is very certain to never become a law, while congress is composed of bankers and lawyers. Chicago' Express. If the Cubans are free and independ- ent, as the resolutions of congress declare, they are in a far better condition than the people of the United States. Son Francisco Star. There is no denying the fact that the single tax Bcheme is gaining wide favor with the people. The plan might not drive all poverty from the world, but it would put it in the power of the masses to avoid most of it The man who has access to the land need not go hungry. The monopoly of land and the attendant extortions of the landlords are no doubt doing much to keep the multitude poor. Sacramento News. llllf BYMEMS OF KITES consensus A first-claprivateering equipment is rather an expensive affair in the first place, and there are so many risks to be run and auch danger of capture and demolition that the chances are as about fifty to one that the offender would be brought up with a round turn, tripped of the munitions and rasigna of warfare and popped Into prison, there to ruminate on the vicissitudes of human affairs and the changes that have taken place alnce the days when Captain Kidd made his record and when thousands of bold and adventurous spirits manned ships, cracked skulls, cut off heads, meanwhllo lustily shouting the old song, Full many a year, a pirate hold, I've sailed the Spanss Communication from war ship to warship will soon be as easy as carrybetween two ing on a conversation military poets on land, and by the same electrical means, the telephone. The English naval authorities have Just tested with great success a suggested novelty in the way of cummunl-catlo- n at sea which promises to render obsolete the present methods of signaling. Commander R. G. O. Tupper of the Royal Navy experimented with a kite The kite used wag of the telephone. regulation sort, except that it was minus a tail. It was six feet long and three feet wide at the broadest point. In place of the tall the kite carried two Unea, one of which was retained on board the Daring, the instructional torpedo boat destroyer, from which the experiments were conducted. With the wind between the two lines referred to it was found that the kite waa so easily managed that it was no trick at all to drop letters or oven a hawaer into another ship, and In this way establish communication. a kite under these circumstances would he a matter of extreme difficulty, but kite flying under the latest methods has become a science. What used to be a schoolboy's sport has cow become a subject of study by professional men, and it seems quite likely that before long even greater , results will be obtains dthan has ever been the case at Fortamouth. As a means of signaling, the kite is firmly believed, not only by naval officers, but those of the army, to he fraught with great Importance when the future is considered. It is, of course, very much easier for a signal to be seen that is elevated to a considerable height than one which may float at the top of the mainmast, or be waved from the summit of a hill. Add to these facts this latest development, the kite aa a telephone wire carrier, and the Indications of a limitless future are plain. Experiments with kites at Governors island in New York harbor have conclusively proven that it Is possible to send up a camera from Inside the lines 3 COL CUT of one army the camera being at. Following this experiment came one tached to a kite and take sn accurate with a wire. The end of the wire photograph of the intrenchments or powhich the kite bore away from the sition of the enemy thereby, and to ship was dropped upon the deck of H. learn In fairly accurate fashion of their M. S. Dauntless, where it wag secured number. On several occasions this by the electrician of the ship and at- year in New York photographs have tached to a telephone apparatus in been taken of parades in this fashion, t" ay It costs $900,000 a year to run Kansas City. That is just about the profit of the Metropolitan Street railroad. If the city owned and operated the street ear system as it should, the property of the city would be free of taxation, or the rates 'could be reduced to one or two cents. But the very wise people up there prefer to eleet servants of the Metropolitan and other corporations and pay extra for it. Appeal to Reason. ish main. A Spanish privateer must be extremely well posted In these days to successfully carry out his nefarious enIIo will need not only a terprise. email arsenal at his belt, but a certified bill of lading to give him information as to the articles he seeks, and whether they are American or belonging to some other tribe or nation. Of the enormous amount of foreign goods brought to this country but a mere trifle comes In American bottoms. For example: In January, out of a total value of Imports of $50,825,721, American bottoms carried only $3,711,-59- 3, and out of exports valued at only $5,155,544 in value were taken out under the American flag. The figures for February tell the same story, for out of a total Importation of $53,113,736, American ships brought only $9,270,058, and of exportations of $93,317,202, omly $4,442,327 was under our flag. Of the exports in February carried in American bottoms only were to Europe and Asia, and the imports so carried from those continents were valued at $4,339,184. The European and Asiatic countries with whom the largost trade was carried on under the American flag are France, the United Kingdom, China and British East Indies and Japan. $106,-753,5- 24, Our waters are full of foreign craft that find It to their advantage to bring sorts of wares to our shores and take hack such articles as their trade demands. The trade with Cuba has been something enormous. Of course, this is largely cut off. In 1892, Cuban Imports and exports were valued at nearly $100,000,000. In 1896, the trade had dropped off about the present year's business shows a still further reduction. This Cuban trade was largely done with American vessels. Of course, everything American being now barred, recourse must . be had to foreign handling for whatever we may receive from Cuba during the continuance of the war. In all one-hal- Reader, have you ever stopped to consider the fact that, while it Is dally becoming easier to produce the necessaries of life, it Is becoming more and more difficult for the workingmen to secure them? New York Commonwealth. The Republicans In congress If Spain, in her puny wrath, permits that unbusinesslike and unjust form of warfare known as privateering, the of opinion among the powPhotographs Can Be Taken of an Enemys Works While ers la that she will get altogether the worst of the bargain. the Kite is Suspended, The South has everything to be proud of as an agricultural center; as an industrial and manufacturing mart we have developed the hog in man. We work white children longer hours than we did negroes before the war. The white wage slave in the cotton district of the South la worked longer hours, has less comforts, fewer necessaries, inferior medical attention, and is compelled to work oftener under physical disability than the negro was before the war. Augusta (Qa.) Round Table. to-d- PRIVATEERING. f; The best authorities are of the opinion that if Spain undertakes to Blft out goods Intended for the American trade, from the great bulk of commercial products, she will find that she has a greater Job than she bargained for. had better do all their talking now, as there will not be enough of them in the next congress to demand the aye and nay vote. Phoenix Gazette. Horn Torture. The idea of putting spectacles on a horse to make him lift his feet higher than he otherwise would, because the glasses make him think he is nearer the ground than he is, may be quite agreeable to those who think that the Creator made a mistake in giving the horse a tall; but every person who possesses the humanity without which no one should be allowed to deal with animals and who has the common sense to see what is right will regard the proposition with disgust If the man wants only a "high stepper let him buy the coach horse, which is bred for the purpose, and not try to make a coacher out of a cart horse. Similarly, if he wants a horse that carries his head high, let him buy one of the breed that does so by nature, Instead of one that has to be strapped up till his neck aches. But as to the tall, we believe that the law now recognizes the use of that appendage as the horse's only defense against the torture of flies, mosquitoes and gnats and makes docking a penal offense hereafter, as it ought to be. Brooklyn Citizen. Domestic trade, that Is, the coast trade, she cannet possibly Interfere with. In the event of any attempt to do so, all articles can be put upon the railways. In January, 1898, merchandise actually handled by railroad cars and land vehicles amounted to nearly TELEPHONING BY MEANS OF KITES BETWEEN SHIPS. $6,000,000. The other end, which had waiting. remained aboard the Daring, was also1 attached to a telephone, and as sqon as the task was completed the two shipa were in perfect communication. The kite remained suspended, secured by two lines, for more than four hours, during which the communication between the Daring and the Dauntless was uninterrupted. The achievement is only evidence cf what electricians of the navy, of both England and the United States, have long held to be possible. They have declared that there was no reason wny communication of this sort should not be established between ships a few hundred feet apart, if the weather were at all pleasant Of course, in a gale It would be impracticable. The experiment that waa made by the officers of the Daring and the Dauntless had another valuable result A QuoIm Jlngn. How in the world did you get elect-e- d It showed that It la possible to arIt was range for a new ayatem of sigaala from probate Judge, Slckler? easy. I just took the stump, made' ana ship to another that would be war speeches and said that? this coun- -' greatly superior to any flag system try could whip anything under the which eould be conceived. If the teleblue dome of heaven. The other fel-- 1 phone wire can be arranged in tills low talked good government and fit- -' manner, there le no reason why teleness for office." Detroit Free Prws. graphic communication can not ba made in a similar fashion. In this an operator aboard the flagship case Aa Kye Ofuan The war is a good thing If K sim-pl- y could carry oa a conversation with his aboard one of the fleet serves to break the governzneetel The admirals orwithout ' difficulty. influence of such men as Mark rn. ders eenld be easily transmitted from There can be nothing worse far time to time, and eftea avoid what Is country than to have its gevernaamtal boat service. institutions under the tooted ad men new emaidered necessary It might be theught the the flying ef of bis brand feltew-operat- . or and with the very best possible results. To suggest that this could be done fifteen months ago would have There Is lust as provoked derision. much reason for not regarding the telephonic kite flying experiment with credulity as there would have been for decrying the other. The results of the English experiment, even though they have juBt become known, have already created no little talk In United States naval circles. ter was The transportation by wa- over $5,000,-00- 0. something The shipments were made by land to Mexico and by way of the Canadian Pacific railroad. It would be the work of a very short time in cam privateering became annoying to transfer to foreign shipping whatever goods Americans de- sired to handle. It Is, therefore, easy to see that Spain Is reckoning without her host, and in the event of her becoming particularly insistent or saucy and Interfering with foreign vessels, Knra Day to Com she would be quite likely to receive a In Spain the people take no note of rebuke that would, to say the least, time, not even from Its loss. Every- convey a lasting Impression. thing is to be done manana, tomorrow. A wealthy Englishman, who had long Furti Abuut Satisfactory ex-lived in Spain, had a lawsuit. He knowcause hie and in pleaded person, psay 0f a message to the ing the customs of the country, won fwffi corPoratons franchise 1 him three his case. The victory its cable cut The and woked days of trouble and expense, so that when the Judge congratulated him on if corporations have been decided his success, he replied: Yes, thafederal judiciary to be contracts and, all right; hut it has cost me three d- re endowed wlth sanctity. Hence, the and time is money. I am a busy would have hesitated, we not company and them three days are lost for in some of its federal to Oh, you English! answerepose, appealing judge; "you are always layliaes for an injunction restraining the cuttime la money. How are yoi of the cable. For our part we are very your three day. back? i wm iff Taka them out of next weelad it has not occurred to the Spaniards to there art plenty more day jpply to a federal judge for an injunction reA - new aa ms is straining Admiral Sampson from interfering My wife got ms Into with the sanctity of their coal contracts. The "Ho scraps this moralag. beieabouts seem to be entering Was using: my razor to sha,-- Spaniards w pmU.--NTor Sr jcurual ,nto a good many contracts for coal, the sanctity of which is presumably beyond question. . Twentieth Century, New York. |