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t h e EVEHDTQ FOSTi ~ W B #'-iFOiK;; m w m m : ‘S sSSSSS iS^SiaSHS AAVaMirtar *0 6«nt« »nd upwartf* Mf^K Sphadnlaaent on re^uaat AdrartlM- BiWitf wait b* In liand by 10:10 X. m ;, anleaa •|«and tor ibt laat, aecoad, and tbird. apd enaoclal pafca. whan they may b« recalved uar, Ul-l:M P. M., on all day* except Saturday.. Saturday. »i»0 A, *1. and 12:10 f. U. reepeotiv.- * tHB BVENISfG POST, tecefl* and lons-dlrtance Telepbone Cbrtlandt U. MaU^^rlptloB* ahoaW be addrewted to the lUMh-oaoe,- cor. Broadway and Fulton St xavertieomenta may be left at any A. D. T. Humtnger or Foetal Teleirapb office, wbtre WWwUl be taken at publliber-a rate.. I^andon office and readlns-room. Trat*l»ar Bttlldlnia, Tralalgar Square, W. 0, The I.on. don Office U at the dlepoeal ot all. Amerloani -mo public BhoUld not be misled into believing that the remarkable stater iieiy’a Evening Tost su luo iumre policy ot the Cltlrens' Unlo: is In any . way representative of tt Union's views or even of its Centn Qity Committee’s, of which Mr, Cuttln I* Chairman, As th? existing CenI £y Committee ci y next, and a reorganized otte, „,._sed of delegates elected by the dis- ...ct organizations and at large, is then' to take Its place, it would be impossible for Mr- Cutting to speak for anybody at this time,* even'If he desired to. .Tie position vvhich Mr, Cutting has held is ■one which calls, however, for ti^t, dlplo- ■ macy, and good Judgment, and these aualtties were not displayed ‘When* he rmt forth the offending statement. The main objeht for which the Citizens’ Union stands is the political redemption of the city. This IS the crying need of the hour—the turning out of the rascals wbo now make Its once fair name a byword and a shame. When Mr. Cut ting infroducbii ‘into this situation .the Queatlon of \municipal ownership of pub lic utlliUes and municipal initiative in ' social betterments,’' he not only befogs the issue, but also harms the cause. He may or may not he correct in heliev- Ing- that these changes will result in increased civic responBlbillty, pride, and patriotism. The immediate result of his ................................ away from unless it Is dear- ting forth his own views alone. We re gret the issuing of the oftendlng docu ment ail the more because no one la New York city has its regeneration more at heart than ilr. Cutting, and m we know of has been so liberal of statement the Union many advance Into state esT kind of a menace. \ ly understood that Mr. and money to that ei Mr.. Andrew Carnegie made some re marks at the Thanksgiving meeting ot the Monteflore Home which were ap propriate to the day and the which ought to be pondered b who give money for public purposes of every kind. Although Ifls one of the commonplaces of sociology that the alm and object of private charity should be to help the poor to help themselv this principle still needs to be hammi ed into the heads of men who gi money for the ends of philanthropy. Sa Afr, Carnegie: philanthropist Is generally a man-v has more .money than good sense. Money Is frequently given by men without thought. Blmply to ease their conscience. Money giv en IB that way nine times out of ten does i good. There la no Use of helping anybody i a Jadder unless he docs some of the cllml ing himself. As long as you ‘boost’ the mt ■wlil stay up, hut as soon as you let go 1 , falls, and the last state of that man Is wor than the first\ He added that he wished to have inscrib ed on his tombstone not the sums that he had hfnmelf given for public uses, hut the sums he had induced others to give. We hear much babbling in tl days about the rich growing richer, the poor growing poorer—a phi which is sometimes used as a ct substitute for thoughtful Investigation, but oftener as a demagogue’s contriv ance for getting votes. The trnth , that some of the rich are getting rlci and others are not. Some of the pi Taking the avefage in our own land—the rich and the poor and the well-to-do the great majority are progrei wards easier conditions in life. As long as there are Inetiualltles, however, there will he discontent, and this may grow to be dangerous. The way to meet and Overcome the danger is to help the poor to help themselves, and to show them by practical and continuing examples not merely that a few rich men are making great gifts to libraries, reading- rooms. and hospitals, and hem< m agad poor, hut that the wMJ-t©mo elaBaet are joim together Jn the aftort and are contributing according to their abllltlea, Mr. Carnegie and t>r. Peer, aouM ot Chicago i(to take, two out of many who might be named) have adopt ed the right principle ot making gifts conditional upon other people glviug, al- iso. Not only is the total eum thus In creased, but, what Is still more Impbr- t&at, the social fabric is made firmer by threads of gold woven through'Its tex- ar pepartment’8 Division o in charge « .. ....... ..... p „ saloons In A this it appears 1 and June 30, cenSed saloons was reduced from to'155, Including hotels and rCstaurt The cause of this was a large Incr in the cost of licenses, and it Is talnly gratifying to hear that this s reason and the fear of the loss of t privileges made the bar-rooms mort derly and salpon-keepera more car In complying with the law. There are none the lesp ,many ,.persons who are of the opinion that 155 saloons are still far too large a number for a. city as full of troops as Is Manila, U their health and welfare are to be considered, as well as their relations to the natly to -whom drunkenness Is an Inexcusa— vice. Sonie of the disadvantages of the American saloon in the tropics are set forth in the San Jiian, Porto Jllco, os of November 10, from which It lears that the casualties in \Sam” were Americans except two pollcei who had their heads smashed and whose leg was broken by a bullet. Mur derer and murdered were Americans, Owens’s saloon the fight was large enough to constitute a State, but It Is obvious that the Indian Tl'erritory ought to constitute a part of the new commonwealth. .Opposition to this plan will come not so much from Oklahoma as from the Indian Te'rrP tory, where there is natural jealousy gilded btlement that has Of \ tory, where there is of the flourishing se grown up almost ovortjlgl cjint lot of the five Nations. There is a feeling, too, that the more prosperous Territory must profit most by the union. Such considerations, however, should weigh little with the Indian Territory against the anomalous condition in which it now finds itself. Since the Cur- abolished the old tribal gov- au Territory, which truth that \if you^ftsr oa^ way ; will have to face squalor, brutality, imanlty. Of course, that is the ea- 01 war of all its 5, in fact,, the doom f ot a dally personal Interest In their em- materjal of the ahlphuHillng art. I pioyeea' comfort end welfere.\ we are actually sending Steel to Ei s Just a century since fiohert from furnaces Mtuated on thehar*lde oth< manager of . the New hauark of the Alleghanles. Mr. Lopsr touch with advancing civilization. As a expense, and last resort, he has had to assert humani- in which his _ ____ gan his work, factory operatives w« to work at six and quit, at seven later, and their food Was so poor a scant that they seldom grew to. fui: Btature-they were, we are told, 'Tow li stature, with slender limbs, playint badly and ungracefully,\ and wete gen erally aflllcted with spinal flexures, rais ed chests, and other physical deforml- n refused to employ pauper tartan motives as an excuse for his love of fighting. Don’t cry, “Eemember the MalneJ\ he Says, but think of the noble crusade in the cause of humanity the condition of his employees by re ducing the hours of work, sweeping the! streets of New Lanark at the company's •ovlng the dwBlllngB lived, \When he be* the condition great reservation ruled by appointive Officers. Such a condition of things is not only humiliating^ hut also practi cally inconvenient, and there is little doubt that the Indians will wefcome Statehood on almost any terms. It should be said, too,, that any apparent disadvautago to the Indian Territory in the proposed ’ union will be slight you are-going to avenge Majuba, hut merely to establish Justice and equality and rescue the Outlanders In South Af rica. Smoking farms and villages, slaugh tered natives,; the hitter cry of homeless widows and orphans, invincible hate in the bosoms of the people which, was to .be blessed by contact with our higher • Christian civilization^—that is the aWful comment of the fact upon the Jingo’s theory. He will not be able to make his hypocritical pretences again. During the embargo lable to employ his m. owing to the high verthelesB, h< ling, as it has been, said, towards the age when Jingoism will, be.drbpped .as mce had determl ® and cruel a make us hop Owens’s and W, H. Beers’s places previous night were one killed and seven, wounded. Ail the participants between Infantrym'en actual details < artllferymen. going to press, the Eetos \considerably the worse” for li quor, It would he unfair to assume that such occurrences are daily ones Jn either Manila or San Juan. But in view the feeling of contempt and disgust both EJlIplnos and Porto Ricans for unkards of any nationality, such hap- nings attain a serious character, and ,r military authorities in Manila .11 be more than Justified If they take jps to prevent similar demonstrations the benefit , of a higher civilization by largely reducing the existing rum- That pipe galleries ought to-ba ffon- tructed along the route of the !rapid- transit line in this city, for the proper accommodation of the various lines of bat have been laid in helter-skel- shion at different times, is too for discussion. The public had led that such galleries were dell-, nitely arranged for In the scheme for^ the construction of the ■ubway, s and' ended, however, three weeks ago, upon the protest ot Contractor Mc Donald. And the Rapid-Transit Sub in what we going on In South Africa, China, and the Philippines. The squalid and ignoble warfare in which the lead ens of Christendom are now is enough to remove the last gleam of romance, the last Illusion, the last bit of glamour from what is at best revival of young harbarldus has pic- It, Is a sort of glorified football arms, the applauding world, the. in- \ To date boldly ^ nd then all is over; gallant foes greet aeh other, and heroes return home to all if the stern truth did not gl Md knocks from time to time. m. Its pitiful dl ts in the last wi it will'be conteint to le with other ob- price of cotton; n ued to pay them their full wages, established schools for their childr 00 , made-hi's phllant 5 per cent., but a over and abpve that, in four years, of £160,000 (»800,000). Many of Owen’s were later adopted in'English tlslatlon. I S ™ Jtation, and that they may I generally adopted. Many of th« the host sort of phllanthropy, :^Svrii aSargoS'n toe barbarous tl irily a brute and 'rushing Int deliberately leaping into the abyss. \When you begin a v‘ar^ you cannot tell how It will humani inlng a,nd all the Way t that war Js simply organized misery; that It is the death of the finer feelings; and that. In the bitter end, it means Just what we now see in South Africa and the Philippines. For our part, we are glad, if wars lat they should show them- 1 ' = ' ; by toe ten of the contract, and ought sisted upon. It is clai which the Commissioners to demand was provision for such • warring on women and children, to > burning and ravaging and looting, to starving opponents who elude pursuit find will not surrender. This is what betterment of industrial . : . . CONDITIONS. In the November Bulletin of the De partment of Labor, Mr. Victor H. 01m- stead sets forth. In detail the practical of “welfare Institutions.” I been initiated by eniployers for toe betterment of the social conditions of their em- terprlses already 111 successful it have, proved to he good business investments, promoting not only the welfare an<l jntentment of the workman, but his idnstrlal eflBcienoy as well, and conse- iiently the income of his employer. More than' a score of these enterprises re described at length by Mr. 01m- ,oad, ranging from definite profit-shar ing agreements to the general cultiva tion of cordial relations with employees. We lay no claim to having done any- ilng from a charitable motive,” writes ae employer; \toe whole aim has. been to strive toward an. Ideal of Justice. ut the place—none at all, indeed, ept the necessary direction.\ ' This ipany began by organizing excur- m for employees, arranging foV stings and open-alr concerts on Sun days, conducting ethical ^classes for- the discussion of hrotherhod<?, .patriotism, the wage question, and various jihases of the social problem. They have In stituted insurance funds against sick- d accidents, extended a week’s i with pay to every workman, srtened the working day to a ir-week basis. The result . ts Ithropy pay i net profit reforms were later adopted in' factory legislation. The baTe'faots of the industrial revo lution early In this century “consti tute,” writes Prof. N. P, Gilman, \the ig men that the greed of gain may consuming power, needing all the I of philanthropy and legislation to keep It within hounds of humanity.” Gwen In his day met opposition at every point in his humanitarian measures, His partners had no'faith in his ''vis ionary schemes'’ of education and phi- iropy, and even the workmen and lewlves at first resisted hla Innova- SanlzatlouE fell, the eniployei ............. __ot Jf fhe Alleghanles. Mr. Lopsr polnta out also that those shipbulldeiis are .even now appropriating to tocma.elves the sub, sidy as a part pf their own profits, by charging lor new ships not merely the nd a fair profit, but toe sum on the buyers will be able to earn !fr If the subsidy bill passes. 'Wby 1 they not do sd? They have more orders for ships than they can fill. Why should they not pocket all that the sub sidy act will enable them tq charger boons and BMADINO. Hougfiton, ■ Mifflin & Co.,' falling In somewhat tar.dlly with' the prevailing mode of condensed Wography, now issue the first three numbers of the \Riverside Biographi cal Series”—Andrew Jackson, by W. 0. Brown; James B. Ea'da, by Louis'Bow; and • Franklin, by P. E; Morp.' The Jen typography, have each a phb- portralt as frontispiece,, and ,dls- Beareh of the picturesque or un- p i s f p s p ; aiM sIssg fSMs = z Ins toe Influence .of too organization. This antagonism is manifested more particularly against mlscellaAeous prof- U-sharlng, Insurance, and benefit schemes, Which bind the employee to his employer. That they have been gen erally beneficial cannot he doubted. The law holds toe employer llab Juries and accidents to his within the shop, but cannot to assume Indefinite responsibilities for their social betterment outside: It is gratifying to note the evidence given in such an account as ,Mr. Olmstead’s that these outside responsibilities, which cannot he Imposed, are heing willingly assumed by empjpyers.. udlan Territory, Lted. , He Is a lull-bli would guess him to I --- H. C. Prick hns purchased and pre sented to the Kingsley Homo Association of Pittsburgh a valuable estate occupied for many years by the late Major B. A. Montooth of that city. • --- sefior Don Fernando do Gauchalla. •who succeeds Sefior Luis Pas ap the Bolivian Minister to this country, began his dlplo- t surrender. ' ! Kitchener's ol question will he j 0,000, upon which interest i ount of hundreds of thousai lars would have to be paid during , the next fifty years by toe contractor | end the company behind him. The Gommlssloners are understood to have to have agreed to release the contractor from obligation to complete the work plan originally outlined. nuded of foi >rk, better workmen, better ir citizens.”' In conclusion, 3 pleased to know that lid dollars and cents.” money expei il, educatlom At that time the republic Acre had already ceased to exist, flight, and its territory had been claimed by Bolivia. Nothing could b tpr illustrate how Imperfect our kno ledge of things South American nialns, than the fact that we shor of the rise of a new State only s i , ' :o this country, began his dlplo- B of Bolivian 'or Foreign Affairs for two terms. in was excessive to slums, libraries, and the great capitalists of Acre simply i Industrial, manual- ganlzed their half-breed employees Into latever may b m by the .Commis sion, one thing Is perfectly present opportunity for securing a ra tional solution ot the underground pipe problem must not be neglected The tructlon. of the subway gives a ice to obtain galleries running h and south for miles through the est parts of the city which will ac- modate all of The various sorts ot 3en laid in to . „ __ JS, and will ei of them to he got at readily when they overhauling at any time in the e. As things are now, toe streets constantly torn .up in order , i S “ . might be avoit t fail to enjoy tl vantage. If it Is not right Mr. McDonald to do the necessary work as part of toe construction of toe tlou with his operations, and provision should be made for proper payment ot the cost. The Board of Public Im- toorlty in the premises. Public senti ment should insist that the matter shall not be left wtoere it is now. express violation of toe laws formulated at the Hague iherts hL said. Sir Alfred Mil hish^r Do Wet, however, declare,'just as Agul- s. that guerrilla fighting is r.\ ' whtoh^must^have filled the kind '=vtH;E=“ ~ as the English delegates at The Hague ghts Of patriotic guerrillas. It was n English delegate who offered, the Jllowing amendment to the declaration concerning the laws of war: lecture courses. Industrial, manual- hroughrough K\ . . . s ~ •5 i vTll and inc than returned in good National Cash Register Com- llfe, from December, >9. th August, irance of a Bolivian pany of Dayton, Ohio, is of This company maintains a cottage as ‘headquarters for toe social, mtellec- tnal, and moral life of its employees,\ providing light, heat, and Janitor's ser vices, and furnishings. This cottage is occupied by a deaconess and her as sistant, employed kindergarten and quently, we are told, as many i teen meetings of clubs and committees are held here in the course of bathrooms, a dlnli room, a restlng-room wit and a reading-room for ;s employees, and offers tion.” The advantages of these \wel fare institutions'' are well summed up by one of the officials of the company as the signal for the dowLall snaries and bandits” (Sir Redvers Bul- ir’s words) to deal with as recently Mr. G. Weaw Lopn ot PWl.delpW: subsidy-hunters are doing a good b; were such a meritorious act when per formed on shipboard that it ought not to go unrecognized and unrewarded., Mr. Loper touches up this precious scheme ' C l i l i P = ~ cord’built In 1703 by^Chrtstoterot- NEWSPAPER -WAIFg. tory of Oklahoma would soon press claim to Statehood; it has been gen erally recognized, toop that the future of the newest Territory is bound up v.dth that of the adjoining Indian Ter ritory. That this identity of interest is fully recognized by toe parties chiefly Joint convention of toe two Territories, at which the question of separate i united appeal for Statehood will 1 considered, Oklahoma has alreiidy Mr. John Morley sent to the London Times a faithful narrative he had re ceived of the burning of a Boer, farm near M'inburg by English troops, in volving aa It did the turning out of a refined and educated woman and her aged mother, homeless and resourcele.sp. on the veldt. B«t Mr. Morley declines to get e.xcited about this. He^ays that it is merely “an ordinary Incident of rlua.\ H«* m 7 to l i r l 'o 1 SpoiM.tfon tioue about humanity, pity, aUd toe like'*? Mr Money simply reminds toe readers of the pathSttc story he gives • ~ H ==5 ' « W 1 result In more Intelligent la m m m a Mol M Ml'chumborlaln, the Commis- trontery to tell Us that our shlpbulldt help from the Treasury because' the prin cipal element of cost in their trade la Steel— as though we could not ■ with foreigners in producing * n
