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IEthics of Spending

The popular notion that the wasteful extravagance of the rich Is a goodthing for the community because Itputs money Into circulation and thatthe spendthrift thus becomes a publicbenefactor Is combated by Rev Wash ¬

ington Gladden who says in a paperan Tho Ethics of Luxurious Expendi ¬

ture that spending money is settingpeople at work and that the spenderalways chooses what kind of work thepeople who receive his money shallemployed about If that work Is beIthe community Is benflted but Ifjurious the more money he putsIrcuatlon the greater the damage toI

the community He who spends moneyBecomes a consumer of

and of services and commoditiesIspendthrift is to a greatsumer of services If the services forwhich his money calls are those Ip the I

rendering of which men and womenare ennobled he Is a public benefactorbut If they are those by which menand women are corrupted and de-graded he is u malefactor The moneythat goes Into circulation through thodebauching of men and women hadbetter be kept out of circulationIt Is not the most common thing for aman to co suddenly down from milllonairlsm to beggary without inflict ¬

log some serious moral injury on otherpeople In the process If he has spenta million dollars on reckless and sen ¬

sual Indulgences he has done a vastamount of harm to the boon compan ¬

ions he has gathered about him and tothe multitude he has employed wlUhis money to minister to his appe ¬

tites and follies One million of dol ¬

lays put where it will do the mot

misIrhlefThe conditions of the case have in ¬

deed evolved a peculiar sort of one I

manpower in public affairs and havedrawn Into political life a familiartype of the masterful man Such isthe party boss who enjoys power anda certain measure of distinction Themechanism of government says awriter in Atlantic is so unwleldly thatthose who are within cannot controlit henco there has developed the bosswho manages the apparatus from with ¬

out This cannot be done without skillshrewdness enterprise and other suchqualities needed for any career of lead ¬

ershlp But it calls also for methodsdistasteful to straightforward andhlgh minded men Your boss is indeednot always so black as he Is paintedthere are political machinists entitledto our respect But the role Is afterall an underhand one a circumventingof the avowed plan and Intent of thegeneral will It attracts the unscrupulous and even the wellintentionedman who essays li finds himself almostInevitably impelled to fight the devilwith fire Not Infrequently a man I

who has achieved success as a leaderof industry turns to political activityHo then usually becomes the manipulator and master of the party machinefollowing almost of necessity the fa ¬

mlllar methods of Intrigue bargainomco mongering bribery The ableman of tbo higher type is not drawnto such doings while on the other bandthe competition In the unsavory workhas a demoralizing effect on those whostrive for political power

fVAtnington was crossing the Dela ¬

ware He stood Better sit downs sirsuggested an Aide Sit down I re¬

sponded lustily the Father of IllsCountry And pray what sort of apicture would that mako Blushingunder the rebuke the aide resolved tomonkey BO more with art

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Whereas when Iho Salvation skybegan Its work it was pelted witbnaud

and woeae now Gen Booth aa > hetours about Great Britain in his autocar Is pelted with fivepound notes

An English scientist asserts that astouch dust as can be placed on apoint yields DO ftswer than 3000 PinIonies of living terms The majority-of tbtwo germs arc representative otdisease What chance have we1

Upto date cookery Is now said tohave a bad effect on the complexionThe averagd man would like more toJcaow how it affects the digestion

STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE

What Has Become of the Iowa IdeA

and Its Twin Free Trade withCanada

Where has Its twin brother free tradewith Canada gone toT Whore Is ourold friend the tariff is the mother of

trusts Ta Only a short tlmo ago thesefootlight favorites occupied the flrstrow In the chorus Tho Iowa farmcwas told that If the DIngley tariff wasnot revised and revamped and reducethere would be no demand for his products abroad and tho octopus would gethim Ho was assured says the DesMoines Capital that unless we allowethe Canadian farmer to lug his stulacross the border into Iowa withoutpaying his duty the Canadians woulget so mad that they wouldnt buyyearImina pet theories and how true theywere Is shown by the fact that oursales to foreign countries IncludlnCanada are constantly increasing andthat our exports of agricultural products during the present fiscal year havebeen greater than during any similarperiod in our history But what hasbecome of these vagaries upon whIchthe governor staked a state campalgiand his reputation as a statesmanNothing is heard of them any moreThey are not in the mouths of the Democratic press even dear as they wereto their hearts a couplo of years agoWhat has become of them t

If candor is wanted the answer Isthat having lost a fleeting and purelyfactitious popularity the Issues pressedwith such vigor only a few months agoby the governor and his suppliant following have been thrown Into the discard For the purposes of this campain they would not do at all Thefirst great essential In the oftlce huntersequipment is an alarm gong Two yearsago it was the tariff and the trustswhich were impoverishing the peopleespecially those of Iowa Now it Is thrailroads which are grinding us allespecially the plain people under theiron huel of oppression

The creation of new issues to farprejudice and arouse animosity is notaltogether an enviable task The sIn-

cere reformer sUcks to his text IKdoes not desert a cause In which he hAsenlisted simply because it receiveS tsetback If he is really sincere he staywith It The reformer who is simply nralarmist for what there Is in It for himself and Ills crowd is not an inspiringfigure After awhile the people get tiredof being alarmed They weary of theshouting and the clamor They refusedto see the sword of Damocles or feelthe iron hand of oppression about theirnecks In other words they are ontothe curves of the terrorists They seethrough their little game Just as theydId through the freetradewlthCanadnscheme two years ago and refuse towear the blinders

He that pltleth another remembercth himself ays the Spanish proverbThis allconsuming anxiety for the sal ¬

vation of the state Is too transparent aproposition even for common peoplewhom It Is hoped to play for suckersThis Is going to J> e a poor year for thatkind of fishingITHERE IS A DIFFERENCE

merican Labor Fares Much BetterThan Where Free Trade

Prevails

detyJngsted when we had n Democratic tariffwith Its free raw material provisIonrom 1893 to 1897 rehearse the old

old story that the tariff Is a tax onthe consumer

They forget says the Trenton Gaette that the tariff tax is paid In10 small degree by foreign sales tithis country below the foreign pricepint as the steel trust sells cheaper InEngland than In America They for-get that domestic competition is sokeen that except when trust consplrailes arise as they arise in free trade

countries ar well as in protectionistCountries the Americas consumer gets

heap wealth For example when weWere forced to buy all our tin platebroad we were at the mercy of aforeign trust In a free trade country

We put a duty on foreign tin plateand within a remarkably short timeAmerican tin plate works were com-peting with one another and giving uiour tin plate at a far lower price thanhad previously been maintained

Now when trust conspiracies entertho field and artificially boost theprice of any article whether in Eng-land or In America we of the UnitedStates can remedy conspiracy not bydegradIng the standard of American

wages as we did under the last Demo-cratic tariff but by taking the Ftoose

nit clew of enforcing the law againstrtistf conspiracy

To give force to this argument letIt be noted that American labor waslever BO prosperous as toddy that

he only danger to our industries liesIn conspiracies such as those of lifeniurance wholly detached from thearlff lease and other trusts where theranchlse Is perverted Today there

fs a crisis In free trade Englandvhere the beautiful free raw materialirid free cook material prevails

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notedthatthecnt will be suddenppearance of a great coldness all over-

lie country was coincident with themergence of AltonB Parker from hl-lhoJeN Y Mall

OThe larmers Should rememberhat Cummins wants to put the rall6adK out of business and trifle with

the tariff In true Democratic styleThey should remember too that boththe railroads and tariff are directJy responsible Jqr theprosperltywhichthe farmer enjoys WI shall not Jell

he goose that lays the olden eggedar Fails Gazette

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y SIR OLIVER LODGE

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During a recent visit to France I was impressedby the psychical or metaphysical activity that is

displayed by the leading men of that country andby the development of some of the phenomena inthe direction of the more elusive physical concomi ¬

tants such as movements without contact andluminous appearances Some people seem tb an ¬

ticipate that in this country also these occurrencesare going shortly to attract more public attention

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than usual If this anticipation turns out correct then there is a se-

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which may certainly be expected namely a temporary recru ¬

descence of superstItionsuperstition of both kinds the negativekind which refuses to examine but dogmatically denies the possibilityof everything to which they are not accustomed and the equally ob ¬

jectionable positive superstition which while accepting the truth of

the phenomena sees jn them the operations of evil spirits and thelawless extravagance of supernature It is or should be almost aplatitude to say that the whole idea of the supernatural whateverthat might mean is to be avoided in dealing with these things whichought to be regarded simply as proeternormal or perhaps supernor ¬

mal or at any rate unusual What is really wanted in the presence ofthese exceptional and puzzling occurrences is in the literal sense ofthe word skepticismthat is to say stringent examination and in ¬

quiry Dogmatism at the present stage whether of the positive or ofthe negative variety is useless Hasty acceptance is as much to bedeprecated as hasty rejection Private information may accelerate theprogress of individuals but the general advance to knowledge mustbe gradual Premature belief without knowledge is found to be the

I nature superstition and is more damaging to the cause of enlight-

enment

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and progress than any amount even of dogmatic skepticismseverely damaging though that is too Better let things remain inthe hands of an initiated sect or priesthood than submit them to theintemperate judgmcrif the unbalanced and the illeducated on eitherside It is not mere belief or disbelief that they should strive to se¬

cure but straightforward opcnmindcdncss and an altitude of soundand healthy common sense

But the way to achieve this stage toward progress is not to as ¬

sume at one leap the capricious and the miraculous on the contraryit is to follow the general trend of scientific thought and procedure tomake the usual hypothesis of the uniformity of nature and of the su-

premacy

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iof the reign of law to assume the intelligibility and harmony

of the universe and to endeavor to bind new knowledge of every kindon to the old links by rational theory and working hypothesis

To accept facts without evidence is manifestly injudicious but toreject facts with evidence is equally though not so dangerously un ¬

wise Choice is not an open question it can not be altogether def-

erred Life is apt to demand from them belief one way or anotherI They may believe yes or they may believe no one belief U no

more scientific than the otherEnlarged views of the universe enlarged that is far beyond the

conception of the middle ageare already common property and the

still further widenings and higher perceptions which are already loom ¬

ing in the future if ever made generally accessible in a sane and sobermanner must surely awaken in man some sense of his hope or destinyeven on this planet must arouse in him some effort toward the attainment of so bright an ideal and thus must lead him into the outerprecincts of the temple of religion

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By HON GEORGE A SCHOF1ELDi Senator In Mimchuittti Legislature

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To answer yourquestion one must firstconsider another ques¬

tion and that is Whatis meant ba legislativelobby Webster de ¬

fines lobbying as fol ¬

lows To address orsolicit members ofalegislative body in the

lobby or elsewhere away from the house with a view to influence theirvotes Whether or not lobbying is a necessity or whether the influ ¬

ence of the lobby is for good or for evil must of course dependupon-

the motive which governs the lobbyistIf men enter the lobby with the full intention and with the ability

to place facts and arguments before the members of the legislaturewhich are intended to and which will help the members to come to a

decision on pending matters and such arguments and decisions arc forthe interests of the people no one will attempt to deny that that classof lobbying is to be commended If such arguments can best be pre-sented when the matters are before legislative bodies it would seem

that in these cases at least what is termed lobbying is necessary for it

stands to reason that in order to get the best laws it is necessary tohave all the facts and arguments presented

If on the other hand by lobbying is meant the offering of money

or other considerations calculated to be of benefit not to the people as

a whole but to the member of the legislature who has a vote one

must come at once to the opinion that lobbying is not only not neces ¬

sary but that it should be driven not only from the halls of legislation

but should be throttled at an earlier stage when it seems to exert an

influence in the nomination and election ofmen who are practicallypledged to be tools of the lobbyist

While recognizing that there is an evil lobby as well as a good

one it seems to me that on the whole the right of the people to lobby

or to seek to influence the votes of their representatives is a necessity

I would not like to see the representatives of labor of morality of tem ¬

perance and of many otter laudable objects denied the right to cScrt

their influence for the causes they favor It seems to me that the right

to advocate good measures must not be denied and as a consequence

the opportunity for the corrupt lobbying cannot be wholly wiped outIn regard to the question What are the limits to the legitimate

uses of a legislative lobby it seems to me that there can be but one

answer and that is that a lobbyist hasUthe right to do right Anyother use of the privilege is wrong Just what can be done to bring

I about a condition of affairs under which he will not be1 allowed to do

anything else I cannot say but it seems to me that a long step would

be taken in the right direction if the voters would insist on candidates

and public officials who cannot be influenced to do wrong Elect menwho still give those who place their trust imtheni a squire deal and theHobby question will be settled without JurtheHcgisIation

AS TO THE JOLO AFFAIR I

Facts Which Give the Lie to theAntiImperial Wind-

Jammers¬

Whoever originated the maxim tothe erect that it is well to bo surono is right before going ahead putforth an apt and forceful saying Thepoint of it says the Troy TUnesshould be appreciated by certain hastycritics who have gone ahead not onlywithout being sure they were rightbut at such a pace as to make It veryawkward for them to retrace their Isteps when it should be shown thatthey were altogether wrong Andwrong they surely have been Fordays the columns of the nntllmportal press have teemed with norrifled comments upon tho massacreof Moros by American troops In therecent fight in Jolo one of the Philip-pIne Islands

What were the facts A desperateand murderous band of outlaws thaterror of the country and of peace-able people who sought to carry ontheir vocations held a mountain fast¬

neaR from which it was their practiceto descend upon the adjacent terri-tory

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Every means had been employedto Induce them to abandon their ban-

dit life but In vain and it was foundnecessary to employ sterner measuresThe work was dono by the Americanforces with characteristic thorough ¬

ness The outlaws wero overpoweredIn their fortress and so thoroughlypunished that tbo country will be freefrom their Intimidation and the peopie may now settle down to tho pursuits of peace In tho battle the solHere conducted themselves with hUe

inanity as well u bravery The briefofficial reports told the story just asthe fight occurred But some sensa ¬

tional correspondents at Manila hun-dreds

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of miles from the scene of act-

ion added a lot of details suppliedby their Imagination to the erect thattho troops had killed women and chil ¬

dren as well as the men who foughtwith tho fanaticism and savagerycharacteristic of their kind

Gen Wood who was in commandin Jolo cables that there has been

snce In any cable from Min ¬

dannoSt the killing of women andchildren showing that what hasbeen said In the news dispatchesfrom Manila has been Invented andadded there Those who have tohastily assumed that American soldiers would needlessly kill a helplees foe even one so Implacable as anoutlaw Mere and that they lruUerlm ¬

inately butchered women and chil ¬

dren may take shame to themselvesIf they are capable of feeling such acemotion

TO DEFRAUD THE REVENUE

Administrative Act Provides Ma ¬

chinery to Prevent GreedyRoguery

When the New York Times dlscusses the tariff It becomes positivelybrilliant It remarked a few days agoapropos of the discriminating Gormantariff which It predicted would mostcertainly be enforced against thoUnited States teat we made trade withGermany unnecessarily hard by ouradministration of the customs laws Itsays that tho administrative act shouldbe changed because tho Merchants as ¬

sociation of Now York urges certainchanges That those are reasonableit assorts clearly appears from theIndisputable fact that the present reg¬

I ulatlons are unreasonable That is tosay remarks the Ban Francisco Chron ¬

icle they are unreasonable becauseI New York merchants who have a per-t

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sonal and pecuniary Interest in havingthorn changed say they are But therest of tho country which believes Infair play does not sympathize withthe attitude of the New York Import-ers who would cheerfully avail them ¬

selves of tho disposition shown by German exporters to defraud the revenueby systematic undervaluation The ad ¬

ministrative act provides the ma-

chinery¬

I to prevent roguery of thiskind and tho American people Insiston keeping It In motion What theNew York Importers really deslro Uan unobstructed opportunity to de¬

fraud the revenue but they wontget It

OPINIONS OF EDITORS

7Tho party to stick to Is tho onethat makes gooll8t Louis GlobeDemocrat

1 Judge Parker still thinks well oftho Democratic party Ho has a mostforgiving spirit Washington Star

crNor has the railroad rate regula ¬

tion bill tho slightest tendency to re ¬

duce tho number of varieties of Demo ¬

crats Indianapolis News ladcTJudge Parker has been down to

Mississippi to deliver an address onDemocracy before tho legislature of

that state Now will the Mltnlsslpplansengage Mr Bryan to tell them aboutthe other brand Troy Times

cTJudge Alton B Parker Is con¬

vinced that the president Is seeking athird term The people for good andsufficient reasons are convinced thatthe judge is not the man to preventhim from getting ItWashIngton Post

crTbe opponents of protection whoinvented tho charge that the Dlngleytariff would put a chinese wall aboutthe country aro respectfully advisedthat the foreign trade of the UnitedStates hu more than doubled since theact went Into effect Ban FranciscoChronicle

C7Gov Folk takes the stump to talkabout the robber tariff If there Isthing that he knows less about thanany other It is tariff It Is the makingof Missouri in a business sense yetthe governor reviles protcctlotu A gooddistrict attorney Is not always a states ¬

man of tans Buffalo News

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NEW HAND AT BELLOWSI

1 WarTime Incident Concerning aFaithful Nurse and a Tip ¬

pling Doctorr

Two soldiers In hospital were talkingquietly

I say Jim theres a new handat thonBellows In this shop we never hail I

things BO nice beforeThats sotho old un Is a captain

I tell you she drills themWhen she fust came an I heard herdrcssln down the nusses I thought wedtrot a tartar butbless horn when slutowes to the sick uns shes ten mothIrs rolled IntooneeTills Is the first time anything hasp r 1

tasted good wince I came In hero sigheda weak skeleton of a man on the next ycouch The new matron stood very litrHo upon ceremony she expressed heropinion upon persons us unhesitatinglyas upon things She rebuked the assistant surgeons when they neglected theirproper duties and became such a thornIn their sides that they determined tooust her One morning the surgeon Incharge was sleeping off his drunkennessafter a spree of tho night before AtII oclock when ho did come the mairon confronted him with a few terri ¬

ble sentencesAll thcKo Hick men left without at ¬

tendance or food that you might Indulgea brutal appetite she said with coW

emphasisAfiis over a very little mat ¬

torsaid the Mirgean angrily knowmy own IMI IHOMI and I shant tolerateyour meddllut

1 know my business tooH said thematron and your shall find that out

Within a week came a now matronwith an order from headquarter super ¬

seding the other Mm Bissell saw Outthe woman teamed both sensible andkindly so ithesald quietly

I wish you would withhold this matter till the afternoon

Certainty madam if It will make sdifference to you

Mrs BlMMll Immediately put OB herbonnet and shawl and started far theWhite house where alto made one of1C or SO people waiting A doorkeeperstood at the first door en the right Mshe entered She approached him andasked

Is the president taraYes maam Let rao have youreardplease

Within half an hour she was admittedTho room was large and ftirnUhed JIMa country lawyers office At a gmStliaise table freer the window sat a sanglean roan running hU handstiff Week pair stroeJc through wtU1IRay

Well maam What tan I do foryour

You can do nothing for me the MI a s

respettfHllr bttt you an do a good deal f4I

for the soldierShe briefly narrated her experience

to which tie president listened alien ¬

tively1 wish Mr President thatyou would

Iud tho chief inedleal director here t >

look Into this matter with his own eyeand not take his opinions front drunkenunderlings who while soldiery slotdown In battle ern lingering and dyingbefore him ts lying beastly drunk Gall

then would turn out ot charge those whorebuke him

Madam I will give you a note to thedoctor and do you go and talk withhim Just as you have talked to me I

He vat dowu and took an unglated vlqItlng wrote with a pencil Dr

Pease hear this womans statemeat and make Inquiry In person nUll

If Ills true put her back and pray forAbrahntuLln = t20 more eucU womencoiniThere you go yourself If anything

turns up and dont go right you come tome again

Armed with this the matron sootlfound the medical duet It requiredbut little time to satisfy him Shewnreinstated the eMlstrntsutgeofl wUnidismissed the service and great feetMl upon all who MIl to do with AgateyBtMoll National Advocate 11

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TEMPERANCE NOTES

Putting shutdown the throat takesthe stuff out of the pocketDr II W Wilt > of tho bureau of

chemistry declines to retract KUnagerUon that 86 per cent of all taver the bars of the United StatesVtyadulterated 1 1

The use of strong drink produces morIdle 1ees crime dlnease want miseryjLondon

Tile Chicago HecordHerala1 Jsrespony

Bible for the statement that th followlug idgn hmiRB over the door of a saloon

Ore Drinks of all kind A JiIsIf the saloons of this country should allbe wiped from the face of the earthlna plnglc day the question Is asked fiWellschool They would surely sing l t11ufGod from whom nil blessings flow

Want Canteen Abolished In apanJMartthnl Oyama haa been petitioned by

lIon Turo Ando to adopt the AmericanIIslen and abolish tho canteen In theJapanese army It appears that theregulctlons of the sale of liquor to Jaant eo soldiers Is not sufficiently strlotito do away with the many grave tILtnaturally growing out of such salt