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Ufl® INffIUtIHTED
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The New Governor of San Juan Takes
the Oath.
THE PEOPLE WERE ENTHUSIASTIC.
..
The Infantry and Naval Banda Parad
ed the Streets Playing National
Airs.
San. Juan, by Cable.—The inaugura
tion of Oh as. Herbert Allen, former as
sistant secreary of he United States
navy, as the first civil governor of the
Island of Porto Rico took place Tuea
' day. The ceremony was most impres
sive. Governor Allen made the inau
gural address.
There could have been no more beau
tiful day to usher in Porto Rico’s new
governor. The streets were thronged
with people. The day’s exercises open
ed sunrise with serenades by the bands
of the Eleventh Infantry, the Fifth
Cavalry and the Porto Rican Regiment
The city bands also played the island
and United Stated national airs before
the executive mansion and on the prin
cipal plazas as well as while marchipg
through the streets. The enthusiasm
of the people was greater than expect
ed, in spite of the publication in The
Diario, the organ of the Federal party,
a letter from Julio Henna, of New
York, suggesting that the people re
main indoors and refrain from taking
part in the auguration, “thereby si
lently protesting and showing the Am
erican government that Porto Rico is
dissatisfied.’’ The speech of General
Davis, the retiring Governor General,
in part, is as follows:
"The duty has been involved upon
me by order of the President, to this
day transfer to the Governor of Porto
Rico the charge assigned to me. This
charge involved the grave responsibil
ity of administering the government of
a million beings, which has been in my
keeping for nearly a year. Without
the cordial support of the inhabitants,
it would have been impossible for me
or others to perform this task without
constituting and maintaining the rule
of a despot, the very thought of which
is abhorrent to every American. Mil
itary control, of the civil affairs w r as
began with the landing of the army in
July, 1898, and which included the
whole island in October, is today
brought to a conclusion. The Porto
Ricans have eagerly longed for this
day, the dawn of anew political and
industrial life, while the military gov
ernor has anxiously awaited the mo
ment when he could place in the hands
of the duty-constituted civil authorities
these responsibilities w*hicb have been
devolved upon him.
"The transfer of the sovereignty of
Porto Rico was ratified in April 1899,
and it Is proper to note as a coinci
dence that a year later exactly, the
final step was taken in the organiza
tion of a civil government. The prin
cipal executive officers will be the 47
provided by Congress. At least 40 of
these will be citizens of Porto Rico.
The appointment of the other seven
rests with the President. The whole
of the judiciary may also, in the dis
cretion of the President and Governor,
be Porto Ricans. The laws familiar
to you will continue in force except as
they may be modified by military or
ders. Such modifications from my or
ders will never be promulgated until
they have received careful considera
tion and have been endorsed by dis
tinguished natives learned in the laws
and institutions of the country and
familiar with its social and industrial
conditions.
“The law's provide a basis for indus
try, trade and commerce, which war
rants the belief that the dark clouds
of misery and want which have shad
owed the past and present will soon
roll away. By these laws every pound
of sugar will find a purchaser at 50
per cent, greater price, tobacco will be
doubled in value and coffee will be
protected. You are offered absolutely
free trade the moment your ability is
shown to support the government.
Your laws, religious and private
rights are all preserved and laws can
only change by the w of the local
legislature. No island in any sea has
a fairer future of peace, happiness and
prosperity. The privations and misety
of the past will soon be replaced by
happiness and plenty."
Then followed a prayer by the priest
invoking the Almighty’s guidance and
protection, and praying that the
event would usher in the dawn of a
brighter future.
Governor Aden took the oath of of
fice at 10:30 a. m.. under a flag can
opy at the executive mansion. Among
those present were Rear Admiral Far
quhar, commander-tin-chief of the
North Atlantic station: Capt. Brown.
Bishop Blank Judge Chuinos. of the
Supreme Court, and the members of
that court. Governor General Davis,
the appointees of yesterday.all the for
eign consuls, the families of Governors
Davis and Aden and army and navy
officers and 30 prominent citizens. No
soldiers were in sight. The chief jus
tice administered the oath nledama
the new Governor “to support and
defend the constitution of the t nite-,1
States.”
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
The South.
Charlotte, N. C., 'has invited the
President to attend the celebration of
the Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde
pendence on May 20.
Railroad ttaffic in the Brazos Val
ley, Texas, Is again being delayed by
floods.
The Woodside Cotton Mills, to work
10,000 spindles and 250 operatives,
will be located at Gainesville, Ga.
The Charlotte Supply Cos., which
does the largest textile business of
any house in the South, has passed
into the hands of Northern capitalists,
R. M. Eddy, S. C. Clark, J. Goff and R.
B. Goff, of Warren, R. 1., and C. H.
Child, of Providence, a Rhode Island
company organized twelve years ago,
handling all kinds of supplies for fac
tory. mills, etc., the largest business
in its line in the country. It iis sta
ted the business is worth considera
bly over SIOO,OOO.
In an address on Stonewall Jackson
before the Baltimore Chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy, last
Friday, Gen. H. Kyd Douglass referr
ed to the alleged Barbara Frietchie in
cident as related by Whittier as fol
lows: “,Sucrh an incident never oc
curred. I was with Gen. Jackson du
ring the march through Fredericks
burg, Md. He rode in an ambulance
on account of a fall from, his horse
some time previous. An old 1 woman
named Barbara Frietchie did livethere
about 1862. She died three months af
ter we passed through Frederickburg,
at the age of 96 years. Gen. Jackson
never passed her house, for I wad
with him the whole time. Moreover'
Barbara Frietchie could not have seen!
him if she had tried, for he was in anj
ambulance. The whole story is a piece
of fiction.”
The North.
Fifty Catholic priests sailed on the
Trave from New York Saturday td
make a pilgrimage to Rome.
Edward Blair, former County Treas
urer’s clerk, has been arrested at Chi
cago, 111., charged with falsifying tax
records.
The charges against Publishing
Agent Dr. Jennings, of the Methodist
Book Concern, at Chicago, 111., have
been dismissed.
“Miss Murphy,” the hippopotamus
at Central Park, New York, has be
come the mother of the fourth “hippo”
born in tihe park.
Burglars cracked the Bank of Coul
terville, 111., owned by J. S. A. Nis
bett, and stole $50,000.
The steamer City of Rio de Janeiro,
from Oriental ports, has arrived at
San Francisco, Cal.
The Sixth Massachusetts District
Republican Convention indorsed John
D. Dong for Vice President.
The Ecumenical Conference on For
eign Missions continued its sessions
in New York city.
Manifold blessings came to Farmer
Milton Mellott, of Pennsylvania, a
couple of nights ago. His wife pre
sented him with lusty twins. In the
morning when he went to the barn he
found that one of his best cows, du
ring the night, had given birth to twin
calves, and in the sheep peif he dis
covered that a ewe had twin lambs.
A peculiarity of the occurrence is
that one of each sex made up the
three pairs.
Farmer E* R. Rolfe, of Pine Hill, N.
Y., was killed by a vicious stallion,
which bit him and stamped on him
with his forefeet.
Mildred Preston, an astrologist, has
been arrested on a charge of fraudu
lently securing SBOO from Miss Ethel
Quimby, a young society woman of
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Foreign.
The Marquis of Dome, the new
Duke of Argyll, will benefit but little
he acquiring the late Duke-s incum
bered estates.
Mrs. Jno. Jacob Astor has arrived
at the Dangham hoted, Paris, taking
the suite formerly occupied by ex-
President Harrison.
Germany has found last year the
most prosperous in her history, and
her surplus over the -estimates will be
about $15,000,000.
The Prince of Wales admits that he
is one of Dondon’s “slum landlords,”
but says he can’t break his long-term
leases of tenements.
Emperor William of Germany, Kins
Humbert of Italy and the Shah of Per
sia will witness a great naval parade
in the Solent in July.
An American debutante who will be
presented at court at Queen Victoria’s
May drawing room is Miss Winans,
the only daughter of millionaire Wal
ter Winans.
Cardinal Richard, of Paris, will ap
peal to the Pope against the edict cf
the exposition management forbid
ding the Cardinal to enter the grounds
to bless the Catholic mission pavil
lions.
The Queen intimatedl her intention
to present a piece of plate to the Cor
poration of Dublin as a memento of
her visit.
Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland,
wishes an article by Dr. Kinjpur on
the South African crisis to be distrib
uted in America.
TRENTON, GA., MAY 3, U)00.
WILL CONSOLIDATE
Plans for (he Combining of All the
Seaboard’s Lines.
STORMS AND FLOODS IN TEXAS.
"he City of Waco Swept by a Furious
Tornado, Leaving Death and De
struction in Its Wake.
Betersburg. Va., Special.—A meeting
■>f the stockholders of the Seaboard Air
Line railroad was held here Saturday
for the purpose of electing the officers
*nd directors for the ensuing year.
The Seaboard Air line Railway repre
sents the sonsolidation of about twen
ty railroad companies, some 2,500 miles
af track from Washington to the gulf,
and is now an accomplished fact.
Tiie officers elected were:
Mr. John Sherwood Secretary, and
John H. Siharp Treasurer, with the fol
lowing board of directors: Messrs. 3.
Davies Warfield (President of the Con
tinental Trust Company, Baltimore,)
Robert C. Davidson (President of Bal
timore Trust and Guarantee Company),
John Skelton Williams, Jas. H. Dooley,
Richmond, Va.; Wm. A. Marburg, Bal
timore, Wm. F. Oochran New York, J.
William Middledorf Baltimore, and C.
Sidney Shepherd, New Haven, N. Y.
These gentlemen also compose the
managing committee of the Greater
Seaboard Air Line organization nuder
the agreement of January sth, 1900,
and worked out the details of the con
solidation, they are also the voting
trustees of the stock for a period of ten
years. There will be a meeting of the
new board during the coming week at
which other officers of the company
will be elected. Judge E. J. D. Cross,
of the firm of .Ikrwan, Cross & Bond,
Baltimore, the attorneys for the man
aging committee and of counsel for
the new road, was present at the meet
ing of the stockholders. The mort
gage to secure the issue of the $62,500,-
000 bonds of the road was filed April
17, the Coaitinent Trust Company, Bal
timore, being trustee under tihe some.
The bonds are now being engraved as
are also the certificates for the $25,-
000,000 preferred and the $27,500,000
common stock of the new corporation
represented by voting trust certificates
Su the Flood’s (iiasp.
Galveston, Tex., Special. Many
streets here are flooded from curb to
curb owing to the tremendous rains
Friday night. A hail storm later shat
tered many windows and wreewed
greenhouses. The whole State is wa
ter-soaked. Three boys were caught
in Thursday night’s storm, while row
ing in Galveston bay and are believed
to have been drowned. Another storm
to last two days is at noon predicted
by the government weather bureau.
The water at Sealey is now up to the
highest point reported in the great
flood of last July.
Dallas. Tex., Special.—The floods
show no signs of receding. On the
contrary, most of the Texas rivers are
rising. At Fort Worth telegram at 10
a. m. said the Trinity river had over
flowed. ding much damage. The peo
ple are alarmed for the safety of the
water works, which are seriously
threatened. 'A nine-foot rise is sweep
ing down from the head waters of the
Trinit}'. This will cause a big overflow
in the vicinity of Dallas and Fort
Worth. A bulletin from Waco at
10:30 o’clock said the list of dead there
would reach ten to fifteen persons.
The property damage in Waco will ex
ceed $150,000. The telegraph lines of
both companies are gone south of Wa
co, isolating more,than one-half of the
State. Railroad movements are sus
pended sotith of Dallas on almost every
line in the State. The loss by flood
and hurricane since Friday morning
is estimated to reach three to five mil
lion dollars, including damage to rail
roads In immense in Hill, McDennan,
Williamson, Bell, Colorado, Bastrop
and adjoining counties. Tihe telegraph
companies have large forces of linemen
out trying to ma“ke repairs. The few
reports received for the southern and
central Texas state that great destruc.
tion has occurred.
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Prisoners Dying Rapidly.
Dondo®, By Cable.—-A dispatch to
the Daily News from Pretoria dated
Monday, says that forty-seven British
prisoner have died in six weeks. Two
hundred of them are sick with fever
and dysentery at Waterval. The dis
patches add tha-t Erasmus De Kierk
has been sentenced to two years’ im
prisonment at hard labor for guiding
the British at Petrusburg and Bloem
fontein.
Naval Orders.
Wash:m@oon, D. C., Special.—Orders
were sent Saturday by ca;pi e to the
Mrchias at San Juan, Porto Rico, Lo
proceed to Chiriqui Bay and Port Di
raon. She is to take the place in car
ing for American interest in that sec
tion of the cruiser Detroit, which sail
ed Thursday for Key West. The Phil
adelphia on the west coast of Central
America, has dropped down to Punta
Arenas, Costa Rica, close to the Co
lumbian boundary so that on the whole
there is now ample maval protection
for the American intese.ste in Colum
bia, so far as concerned the revolu
tionary movement la the north of that
country
Z'EMOCRATIC.
A GAME LAW.
Passed by the House—The Boer War
In the Senate,
SENATE.
One Hundred and Fifth Day.—Al
most the entire day was devoted to
the consideration of the right of Na
than B. Soott, of West Virginia, to re
tain his seat in the Senate. Mr. Pet
tus. Alabama, who alone of the mem
bers of the committee on privileges
and elections is opposed to the claim
of Mr. Scott to a seat, made an elabor
ate argument to sustain his views. Mr.
Morgan, Alabama, spoke in favor of
his colleague’s contention. Mr. McCo
mas, Maryland, Mr. Turley, Tennessee,
Mr. Chandler, New Hampshire, Mr,
Teller, Colorado, and Mr. Allen, Ne
braska, addressed the Senate in sup
port of the resolution declaring Mr.
Scott entitled to ‘his seat. The case
went over without action.
One Hundred and Sixth Day.— r l ne
Senate voted upon the resolution de
claring Nathan B. Scott to be entitled
to his seat in the Senate from West
Virginia. The number of votes in the
negative was only 3. Mr. Chandler
gave notice that he would call up the
case of Senator Clark, of Montana, on
Wednesday of next week, but inti
mated that he would not press con
sideration until the Senators could
have time to reau the testimony in the
ease. Mr. Money, of Mississippi, by
unanimous consent, railed up a bill to
amend an act to provide for the col
lection of abandoned property and the
prevention of frauds in insurrection
ary districts wiithin the United States.
One hundredth and seventh day.—
The following bills were passed: For
the establishment, control, operation
and maintenance of the northern
branch of the National Home for Dis
abled Volunteer Soldiers at Hot
Springs in South Dakota, and appro
priating $150,000 for the purpose.
Requiring that the dam across
Rainy Lake river, Minnesota, be com
menced within three years and com
pleted within five years from May, 4,
189S.
Appropriating $2,400 to be paid cer
tain persons for improvements relin
quished to the United States for the
use of Nez Perce Indians.
To authorize Commander J. M. Mil
ler, United State Navy; Surgeon 0. D.
Norton, United States Navy; and Ed
win V. Morgan, formerly secretary of
the Savoan commission and now sec
retary of the legation of the United
States at. Seoul, Corea, to accept pres
ents tendered them by the Emperor of
Germany. **
One hundred and Eighth Day.—
Again the question of expressing sym
pathy for the Boers was thrust upon
Senate. This time it came up in a mo
tion to proceed to the consideration of
the resolution iatroducedjby Mr. Petti
grew, of South Dakota, which was be
fore the Senate last Saturday. The
motion was defeated, 2% to 30. Late in
the session the Senate, after a brief
discussion, agreed to the conference re
port on the joint resolution relating to
the administration of civil affairs in
Porto Rico and providing for the ap
pointment of temporary officers for
the island .. No progress was made
with the Alaskan civil code bill.
One Hundred and Nineth Day.—After
more than two months the Alaskan civ
il code bill was passed by the Senate.
The amendment relating to the alien
location of mining claims has delayed
the passage of the measure for several
weeks, and at times has engendered a
deal of feeling in debate. Mr. Carter,
therefore, today withdrew the amend
ment and all other points in dispute
and a few minutes later the bill was
passed. It provides a full civil code of
procedure for the district of Alaska.
HOUSE.
One Hundred and Fifth Day.—After
four days of discussion the House com
pleted the consideration of the Postof
fice appropriation bill and passed it.
The attempt to strike out the $196,000
for special mail facilities from New
York to New Orleans and from Kan
sas City to Newton. Kansas, met the
fate it has ever since the appropria
tion was placed in the bill in 1893. No
one demanded a separate vote upon the
amendment striking out the pneumat
ic tube provision, and the House by a
large majority, stood by the amend
ment to give extra compensation to
letter carriers for work in excess ol
forty-eight hours a week, although tha
carriers were said by Mr. Cummings?
New York, to be opposed to it. The
bill to increase the salary of the Direc
tor of the Census to $7,500 and the saD
aries of supervisors of census by two
per cent, of the amount received by
their enumerators was passed. The
final conference report on the Hawa
iian government bill was presented,
but not acted upon, owing to the ab
sence of a quorum.
One Hundred and Sixth Day.—The
House broke all records by passing si
private pension bills. Among them
was one granting S4O a month tc the
widow of the late Col. Jhon M. Stot
zenoei-g, on rue r irst weDraska, who
was killed in the Philippines. The con
ference report on the Hawaiian gov
ernment bill was adopted, 118 to 114,
and the bill now goes to the Presi
dent. Saturday, May 19. was set aside
for receiving the statute of U. S. Grant,
nreseuted to the government.
One Hundred and Nineth Day.—. For
the first time during the 50 years ol
agitation of the project for the con
struction of an inter-oceanic canal, the
House of Representatives entered upon
the consideration of a measure to ac
tually authorize the building of a ca
nal. Many times propositions bearing
upon the subject have been before the
House, but this was the first time pos
itive action can be predicted.
IN COEUR D’ALENE.
A BLOODY PICTURE OF REPUB
LICAN MILITARISM.
Over Eleven Hundred Persons Held
Without Process of Law and at the
Points oi* liayonets Compelled to Sub
mit to Vile Abase of Soldlsrs.
Since February 19 of this year the
committee on military affairs of the
lower house of congress has conducted
an investigation of the troubles in the
Coeur d’Alene mining district of
northern Idaho, which began May 3,
1899, and 'continue to the present
time. From the testimony brought
out in this investigation and from the
statements of reliable eye witnesses
who have not yet testified, the fol
lowing information has been obtained:
The Coeur d’Alene mining district of
Idaho is one of the greatest lead and
silver producing districts in the world.
It employs upwards of 3,000 miners.
All the great mining industries of the
district have paid a uniform rate of
wages to their employes except the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan Company, em
ploying about 400 miners at Wardner.
Long before the beginning of the
troubles this company paid from 50
cents to one dollar per day less than
was paid in any other part of the dis
trict. It persistently maintained a
non-union force, refused to recognize
organized labor, and in this particular
openly violated the statutes of Idaho,
which make it a penal offense for em
ployers to discriminate against organ
ized labor in the employment or dis
charge of employes.
Early* in April, 1899, the great in
crease in the price of lead and silver
induced the employes of this company
to demand an increase of wages equiv
alent to the current rate paid in the
district. Other mine operators, as well
as miners, joined in the plea to unify
the conditions, realizing that such uni
fication would have a good effect upon
the industries and would insure the
entire district against turbulent condi
tions characteristic of labor troubles;
but the Bunker Hill Company stub
bornly refused to grant the requested
increase or even confer with the com
mittee’s representatives. Simultane
ously with the demand for an increase
of wages in the Bunker Hill mine, or
very soon thereafter, a large number
of the employes of t!ie mine joined the
miners’ union, and when the company
flatly refused to grant any concession
its employes struck. The company for
years prior to this time had made it
a practice to discharge any person in
its employ as soon as it discovered
that he belonged to a union or other
labor organizations, and on or about
April 26 the company was required by
the exigencies of conditions to grant
an increase in wages nearly equal to
the union rates; but much to the sur
prise of every one it refused to ’ re
employ any of its ‘old faithful em
ployes who had joined the miners’
union. This action on the part of the
company exasperated the working peo
ple in the entire district, and matters
from that time grew from bad to
worse, the company flatly refusing to
arbitrate the differences.
On April 29 an armed mob was
formed at the adjacent mines at Mul
len, Gem and Burke, which, accom
panied by a large number of curiosity
seekers, took possession of a train of
cars, procured a large quantity of
dynamite and made an attack on the
Bunker Hill concentrator. The mill
was blown to atoms, and in the riot
two men were killed. How or by
whom this riot was organized has re
mained a matter of speculation. It
has been charged to the miners' union,
but no evidence has ever been offered
to sustain this accusation. The min
ers themselves were (indignant over
this outrage, and citizens generally of
fered their services to aid in appre
hending and punishing the rioters.
Frank Stcunenberg, governor of
Idaho, daclared the entire county
(Shoshone) to be in a state of insur
rection and rebellion, declared the dis
trict under martial law, suspended the
habeas corpus act, called on the presi
dent for United States troops, and pro
ceeded to redress the grievances of the
mine operators.
A drag net Ms thrown over the
•county and tj/ people were arrested
by communities, and to the present
time nearly 1,100 persons have suf
fered imprisonment, ranging in time
from ten daj's to ten months. All were
arrested without warrant, criminal
charge, indictment or examination.
The people arrested were imprisoned
first in a large barn with a mud floor,
and the stories told of their sufferings
are almost beyond belief. Miners com
ing from the mines, their clothing
urated with water, were not allowed
to dry themselves, but were crowded
into the barn, or bull pen, compelled
to sleep on the dirt floor without bed
ding and with Insufficient food. Dater
a regular prison was built, which be
came the historical bull pen. It w*a
a large building built around an, open
court, constructed roughly of green
lumber flnd*pithout windows The
roof leaked-and the’ cold winds of
night blew through the cracks between
the boards
The soldiers furnished by the presi
dent were negroes, and, if the sworn
evidence of good citizens can be be
{ lit ed, their conduct was not only of-
fensive but brutal towards their pris
oners. The language they used In ad
dressing them was too profane and
filthy to be repeated* and their.threats
to shoot and stab were constant and
emphatically uttered.
An order was issued forbidding men
from working in the district without
procuring a permit from the gcvernor.
Men were arrested for working® on
their own claims, and even profession
al men were forbidden to practice their
grofessinns without tu s governor's
Tno sheriff of the county
and a majority of%ie members of the
county board were imprisoned, and
many of the best citizens of the coun
ty, in no way associated with the out
rages, were arrested by the negro
soldiers without excuse or warrant and
driven at the point of the bayonet
into the bull pen, there to remain un
til the military officers saw fit to re
lease them.
One of the prisoners attempted to
escape by making a tunnel, and, being
discovered, he and all the other pris
oners In the pen were kept on bread
and water, for nine , days; he for at
tempting to escape, and the others for
not notifying the guards that such an
attempt would be made, Even per
sons arrested after* the was
discovered received the same punish
ment.
No one was tried, but when the bull
pen was full those whom the military
thought had been sufficiently punished
were released in order to make room
for new prisoners, and sometimes a
man was arreited a sicond time, his
first Imprisonment not being sufficient
to satisfy the wishes of those in au
thority. Gradually the number of
prisoners decreased until all were re
leased, yet no man can today tell on
what charge he was arrested or for
what he was punished except to grati
fy a whim of the, governor, the tjf
venge of the Bunker Hill Company Or
the malice of the negro soldiers.
Gov. Steupenberg has never bffn
able to explain satisfactorily why he
called for Untied States tToops or why
he ordered' these wholesale arrests or
why he forbade men from working
without a permit. The civil power
was at all. tfmfts able to control the
situation; the courts were competent
to punish all v'ib'latioiis “of And
competent to enforce theft decree#.
The ease is one of the most remark
able in the history of the country, and
the report of the committee investi
gating it will tell a story that people
will find difficult to believe.
>■ $ V
A SOUPHOUSE.
Compared with thef present-condition
of ihe Puerto Ricans, their future fate
<3ausefe a shudder to come over every
American citizen, and that shudder
bodes ill to MdKinleyism and its at
tendant benevolent assimilation! Thl
addition of a colonial territory
to our home*pauper is
something unpleasant to contemplate
except to an utter imperialist. Thirty
thousand women and children, says
the last**report, are fn such a condition
of nakedness usually attributed to the
uewl| born. So naked, indeed, %re
the children ¥ starving for -stood and
education that,, the modest, pedagogue
through shamb. Can not permit them
to attend their schoolhouses.
Mr. Charles M. Pepper, correspond
ent of the New York Herald, furnishe*
that journal with the most moarnf#
statistics of the miserable condition of
that once happy island. Their pitiful,
poverty-stricken misery would bt&g
sadnessto the heart of everything Jut
an Oxnard sugar beet. “Trade stagfla
tion. is widespread. TherWis IlttieHe*.
gitimate trading and few goods an
being brought into the island exc4 V
such as are sent to relieve the starj
ing. “This condition has been existing
tor months,’’ says Mr, pepper, ar.H
the poor and the laboring classes a mk
in a state of destitution.'
The KansusCity Times summarifl®
the situation as “idleness and
lization for the unemployed poor anH
bankruptcy for the mercantile and injf
dustrialclasses. Had the president
had any backbone and followed
olain, duty Puerto Rico today would
have been a beehive of industry and j
the abode of prosperous activities in- I
stead of a souphouse and the Breeding I
place of disaffection and hop-Jesansse
that the Republican party’s obedience
to trust magnates has made it,"
: 0 ' ’ W 8.....
The Contttntlon Never Yield*.
Judge Cooley, a life long Republican,
in his work on Constitutional Lnw- a
recogf. 1 authority in every .court,cf
the United States, says;.
“The Constitution never yields to
treaty or enactment. Tt ' neither
changes with time, nor does iL in
theory,’ bend to the force of fire uoh
.stances. It ma&be amended
to its own peffeisslofi; but while it
stands it is a law for rulafe and peo
ple, equally in war and in peace, and
covers with the'shield of its protection
all classes of men. at all times and
under all circumstances*" IW JEBMn}
pies cannot therefore be set asfowTh
order to meet the supposed necessi
ties of great crises. “No doctrine in
volving more pernicious consequences
was ever invented by the, wit of man
than that any of its provisions can
be suspended during any of the great
exigencies of government.”
NO. 7.