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| Portrait of James H. Mulligan. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Monday, August 17, 1896.
ILL-GOVERNED SAMOA.
Report Showing Conditions On the Islands.
THE KING A MERE FIGUREHEAD.
The
Present Triangular Treaty Distinctly a Failure—The King Surrounded by Foreign Red
Tape and Cannot Even Get His Salary Promptly.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—Consul General James H. Mulligan of Apia, Samoa, has made a voluminous report to the state department
on the condition of the islands. A portion of the report is devoted to a review
of the government of the islands by the United States, Great Britain and
Germany under the Berlin treaty. This treaty, Mr. Mulligan concludes, was a
mistake, and to maintain it is to persist in a mistake. "The present
status," he says, "is an injustice to the people of the United States
and a grave wrong to those of Samoa. If it be said that the treaty, so far as
it concerns Samoa, has made matters no worse, it can be claimed with equal
truth that it has failed to make them better in any particular. The admission
of either postulate is to confess failure."
As to the present government of Samoa he
says: "A recognized and reigning king is dependent for his support on the voluntary
contributions—the charity, in fact—of that portion of his family or tribe who
adhere to him, while foreign officers of his government enjoy salaries from his
revenues far in excess of the value of services performed. When a pittance of his
nominal salary, long in arrears, is dealt out to him it comes through the hands
of a foreign official, who exercises his pleasure to pay or withhold; his
lawful wife is in no sense queen, nor more entitled to consideration than the
half-clad women who file back and forth along the beaches. A straggling
village, within and part of the kingdom, levies import and export duties on
every dollar's worth of merchandise brought into or shipped out of the kingdom,
lending out revenues to the kingdom barely enough to pay the most meager
expenses and the salaries of foreign officials.
All the machinery of government—perhaps it
is not too much to say of several governments—is in active operation within the
precincts of this little town. The guns of great men-of-war, year in and year
out, frown ominously upon the shore in support of the government and the law which
does not exist within their effective range; and yet an offender within half a
dozen miles of the seat of so many authorities defies the processes of the
court and rebuffs the power of the invalided government.
In the midst of all, white clad messengers
of crown and consul flit to and fro along the blazing beach, the bearer of
imposing envelopes in which are covered the stately communications which round
out the measures of time in this kindergarten of diplomacy.
In the meantime no clearing is made, no
plantation extended. The country, which at best, under its many disadvantages,
needs all the stimulus of peace, all the security that government can assure,
visibly languishes.
There is no immigration, influx of capital, or
suggestion of enterprise. All wait for that undefined something—that change
which is to come; wait as they have waited for 30 years; wait for the
abrogation of the treaty, as they and their fathers waited for its
coming."
Only a small part of the islands, he says,
is under control of this government. Back from
the shore and the town, the people do as they please.
The treaty made by three governments for the
government of a third, is not considered a success. The different forms of governments
which ought to be brought together have been irreconcilable. There is too much
friction. It is said that before any step can be taken the three
representatives must unite; then oftentimes references must be made to powers
on the other side of the globe. There is a diversity of opinion, a conflict of
interests, and a clash of rights.
Government
Maps Issued.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—The big general maps of
the United States issued by the general land office for this year have just
been issued. The result of the work of engraving and printing is one of the
most complete and finely executed sets yet issued by the government. The
feature is the division of the country into sections marking the various
cessions and purchases from other governments.
The tracts covered in the original 13 colonies
and the Gadsden purchase, the Texas
annexation, the cessions of Louisiana, Alaska, Mexico and Florida are clearly
set out for the first time. Commissioner Lamoreaux is the originator of the
idea. Only a limited number of maps have
been issued and a large saving over previous years is made in the contract
price of 62 cents each to the government.
College
Student Drowned.
ITHACA, N. Y., Aug. 17.—A drowning accident
has occurred on Lake Cayuga near Sheldrake. A party of college students aboard
a houseboat were being towed beside a number of canal boats. Fred Mead and
Richard Hudson put off from the houseboat and rowed toward the tug to tell the
captain to drop their boat at Glenwood. The rowboat was drawn beneath a canal
boat and upset. Mead was drowned, but Hudson managed to swim out of danger.
Mead
lived at Auburn and was a student at Colgate college. He was drowned in 460
feet of water, and there is but little hope of recovering the body.
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| Morgan silver dollar. |
Just as
Advertised.
When free silver demagogues have advised
farmers with past due mortgages to vote for free silver coinage, that they
might pay off their mortgages in 50 cents dollars, business men have suggested
that a foreclosure of these mortgages would be made before the country could
get on a silver basis, and the farmers would be turned out of doors. It would
only be self protection for the holder of a mortgage to get his pay when he
could get it in gold. Rather than be paid in silver he might better take the
property at a gold valuation and sell it again for its value in silver, should
the silver standard become the money standard of the country. That such would
be the course of holders of mortgages is daily becoming more evident.
The Agricultural Insurance company of
Watertown, for example, has issued a letter to its mortgagors intimating that if
free silver should win it would be necessary to foreclose the mortgages at a
great sacrifice to both the mortgagors and itself. The Agricultural Insurance
company has loaned vast sums of money on real estate, a large bulk of the
security being on farming lands. Many of the mortgages were issued when the
land was nearly twice as valuable as it is now. If the company should foreclose
all of its mortgages to-day they would probably be unable to realize over 75
per cent of their face value, but 75 cents in gold is as good as 150 cents in
depreciated silver.
ANTI-SILVER
LITERATURE.
Facts
and Figures for Workingmen's Perusal.
The literary bureau at Republican headquarters
in Chicago has issued a
"Financial
Calendar," which is expected to work wonders among the foreign-born voters.
The calendar is prefaced with the words:
"The following financial calendar of
the last quarter of a century shows what the intelligent natives of the world have
done with silver during that period:
"1871—Germany adopted a gold standard.
"1873—Belgium suspended standard silver
coinage.
"1873—Holland suspended silver coinage.
"1873—Denmark adopted a gold standard.
"1873—Germany demonetized silver coinage.
"1873—Norway adopted a gold standard.
"1873—Sweden adopted a gold standard.
"1874—Latin Union (France, Italy, Belgium,
Greece and Switzerland) limited their silver coinage.
"1875—Suspension of silver coinage in Italy.
"1875—Switzerland declined to coin her
quota of silver under the Latin Union.
"1875—Suspension of silver coinage on account
of Dutch colonies.
"1876—France suspended the coinage of
silver.
"1877—Finland adopted the gold standard.
"1878—Spain suspended the free coinage of
silver.
"1878—The Latin Union (France, Italy, Belgium,
Greece and Switzerland) suspended the coinage of silver, except subsidiary
coins.
"1879—Austria-Hungary suspended free
coinage of silver.
"1885—Egypt adopted a gold standard.
"1890—Roumania adopted a gold standard.
"1891—Tunis adopted a gold standard.
"1892—Austria-Hungary adopted a gold
standard.
"1893—Mints of India closed to the free
coinage of silver.
"1893—Russia decided to coin
100,000,000 gold roubles.
"1895—Chili adopted the gold standard.
"1896—Costa Rica adopted a gold standard.
"1877, 1888, 1802—Three international
conferences held to try to re-establish the use of silver were unsuccessful.
"Meantime the United States increased its
full legal tender silver fifty fold in the face of a 50 per cent fall in its
value, until its credit and financial standing could endure the strain no
longer, and it was obliged also, reluctantly, to suspend free silver coinage.
"What would happen if the United States
were to resume and open wide the doors of the mints to the discarded silver of
the world? It does not require much of a
financier to answer that."
A
SERIOUS CHARGE.
Frank La
Fortune has a Difficulty With the Davis Family.
On Saturday evening Frank La Fortune of
Marathon was arrested on Snyder hill near Messengerville by Constable Van Vost
of Marathon on a warrant sworn out by Mrs. Cora Davis of Marathon on the charge
of assault. He was taken to the lock up in Marathon where he spent the Sunday.
This afternoon at 1 o'clock he was to be taken before Justice of the Peace John
Sears at Messengerville for examination. It was the plan that bail having been
fixed at this time the examination would probably be adjourned to Aug. 25 when
both sides would have retained counsel and procured their witnesses.
Mrs. Davis is the wife of Noah Davis, who
lives three miles west of Marathon on his farm. According to her story she,
with two children, was at home Saturday afternoon, her husband having come to
Cortland to consult a physician. Frank La Fortuue, her husband's hired man,
came to the house about 4 o'clock and assaulted her, but she escaped. Upon the
return of Mr. Davis she took the milk to the factory, as he was feeling too ill
to go. In her absence Mr. Davis and La Fortune had some further difficulty and
their stories differ in regard to it. Mr. Davis claims that La Fortune struck
him over the head with a stool in the barn and the latter claims that Davis
took him by the throat and choked him while threatening to whip him and a fight
between the two followed.
Mrs. Davis states that she did not tell her
husband of her trouble with the hired man until she returned from taking the
milk to the factory, as Mr. Davis seemed so unwell when he got home from Cortland
that she was unwilling to trouble him. After she got back from the factory and
learned of the difficulty between her husband and La Fortune, she started at
once for Marathon and swore out the warrant.
The facts in the case will probably all come
out at the examination.
A TWELVE INNINGS' GAME.
CORTLAND
WINS FROM AUBURN BY THE SCORE OF 12 TO 11.
Both
Teams Battle for Victory. Donnelley Pounded for Seventeen Hits. O'Garra Pitches
a Fine Game. It Was a Great Exhibition, and the Excitement and Enthusiasm Was
Intense.
They came, they saw, and went away conquered.
Mark Baldwin brought his Auburn baseball aggregation to Cortland Saturday with
the expectation of defeating the Cortland team. They thought they would have a
walk over. They did not believe that Cortland could play ball. At home at
Auburn they had talked lightly of the "little games" over in Cortland
and they came over here for fun and found it, but it was of a different
character from any that they had anticipated, for the score at the end of twelve
innings stood 12 to 11 in Cortland's favor.
O'Garra was in the box for the home team and
proved as effective at the last as at the first. He has great speed and
controls the ball well. Lovelock caught an errorless game. Kinney played well at
first and McGraw covered second and adjacent territory in good form. Third base
was well guarded by McMillan.
In the first inning Haulihan muffed Dorsey's
easy fly, allowing Kanaley to score, but made up for the error when he came to
bat by sending the ball far over center field for three bases. His work during
the remainder of the game was beyond criticism. Welch played a fine game in
left field, catching everything coming his way. Ketchum in center caught four
difficult flies and in the twelfth inning made a long left field hit for three
bases, making the third by a fine long slide. Buckley played the game in right
as it should be played, although few balls were batted his way. His work with
the bat was also good.
Haulihan, McGraw, Lovelock, Buckley and
McMillan led in batting. O'Garra made the winning run in the twelfth by making
a long hit over center for a home run.
For the Auburns Keanan led in both batting
and fielding. He made three-base hits in both the third and sixth and in the
twelfth sent the ball away over the high board fence back of the race track and
of course made a home run. This is the
first time the ball has been sent over the fence this season.
The game was marked with good team work by
both sides from first to last. The Cortlands were in the lead up to the sixth
inning when the visitors tied the score. At the end of eight innings the score
was 7 to 9 in favor of the Auburns. It looked
as though Cortland was beaten, but it was not to be. The home team tied the
score in the ninth and at this the crowd went fairly wild with enthusiasm. They
cheered and cheered and cheered.
The tenth inning was passed without a score
for either side. Both pitchers, O'Garra and Donnelley, worked like beavers. The
eleventh inning was a repetition of the tenth.
In the twelfth Kanaley's base hit and
Keanan's home run brought in two scores for Auburn. Cortland came to bat needing
three scores to win the game. Buckley flied out to Dorsey. Ketchum hit for
three bases. McMillan hit to right short and secured first on a bad error by
Garvey, while Ketchum scored. McMillan stole second. Welch flied to Keanan and
then O'Garra made his home run scoring McMillan and the game was Cortland's
with only two men out. It was certainly a great game, the best ever seen in
Cortland and the attendance of 800 shows that there is lots of baseball
enthusiasm in Cortland and that it is steadily increasing. The story of the game
is contained in the following summary:
No Games
This Week.
The Cortland baseball team play [sic] no
games at home this week. They left this morning on a trip in charge of Thomas
H. Dowd. They play at Norwich to-day and to-morrow, Oxford Wednesday, Sidney
Thursday and Bainbridge Friday.
Three games are expected here next week, but
Manager Duffey has not yet definitely settled what teams will be here. The
Cuban Giants will play here one day in the week following.
First M.
E. Church.
The pulpit was supplied on Sunday morning by
Rev. W. H. Pearce, D. D., of Wilkesbarre,
Pa., who preached from John xiii:34, "A new commandment I give unto you,
that you love one another."
The congregation was apparently not
disturbed by the heat so interested were all in hearing the "old, old
story" so full of beauty and power and so well adapted to the every day
needs of suffering humanity. The sermon was an inspiration to those who were
fortunate enough to be present.
The special music for the occasion was highly
satisfactory.
At the close of the sermon Mr. H. M. Kellogg
asked the people to come forward after the benediction and leave their pledges
for supplies to furnish the fresh air camp at Freeville for the second day this
season, the first day having been provided for a few weeks ago. The response
was ready and the amount quickly raised.
Cash pledges may be paid to H.M. Kellogg or
George W. Edgcomb. Provisions should be left at the store of Harris &
Moore, Friday afternoon or before 10 o'clock Saturday morning, Aug. 22.
An interesting session of the Sunday-school
was held. The primary department was nearly full. Mr. Doolittle, the chorister,
was again at his post, having returned on Saturday, and remarks by Dr. Pearce
before the school were features worthy of favorable comment.
"The Reproofs of Christ to Judas, the Betrayer"
was the topic of the Epworth league meeting. Miss May Morgan was the leader.
The seventh union service was held in the
evening. Rev. J. L. Robertson presided. Prayer was offered by Rev. A. Chapman.
A most timely and excellent sermon was preached by Rev. George R. Garretson of
Jersey City. Passages from the Psalms as follows were chosen for the triple
text. "Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still."
"I commune with mine own heart; and my spirit made diligent search."
"When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night
watches."
All joined heartily in singing the closing
hymn "Blest be the Tie that Binds." The prayer-meeting held previous
to the morning service was a profitable hour. Fifteen or more of the official
board were present.
Three class meetings will be held on Tuesday
night.
The prayer-meeting on Thursday night will be
led by Mr. R. J. Lucas.
A Sunday-school teachers' prayer-meeting
will be held next Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock.
BREVITIES.
—The Wesson-Nivison bicycle works started up
this morning after being closed for two weeks for the summer vacation and
inventory.
—New advertisements to-day are—F. E.
Brogden, celery bitters, page 7; A. S.
Burgess, gentlemen's fine suits, page 7; Warren, Tanner & Co., fall dress
goods, page 8.
—The Bryan and Sewall bi-metallic league
will meet in the Martin building Wednesday night, when it is expected that a
permanent organization will be formed.
—The park drew a large crowd Saturday night.
The Keystone colored quartet of Ithaca gave a fine vocal concert and the
Cortland City band gave its usual excellent concert.
—The police were called to Fitz-ave. Saturday
to quell a disturbance caused by an altercation between a resident of that
street and his wife. Quiet was restored and no arrests were made.
—The friends of Memorial chapel are all invited
to attend a basket picnic at Elysium
park Aug. 19. Teams will call at the chapel at 9 o'clock in the morning.
—The large high framework which supports the
water tanks at the Hitchcock Manufacturing Co., which supply the sprinkler system,
is being lowered one section, the upper one being removed as some of its
timbers are decaying and were considered unsafe.
—Four more judgments have been filed in the
county clerk's office against The H. M. Whitney company. Saturday two were
filed in favor of The National bank amounting to $16,056.10, and one in favor
of the First National bank for $1,222.37. This morning one was filed by the
Cortland Wagon Co. for $1,976.19.
—Michael Dobbins was sentenced to ninety
days in Onondaga penitentiary this morning by Police Justice Mellon for public
intoxication. Dobbins was released from a five days' sojourn at the county jail
Thursday on the same charge but got full Saturday night which resulted in his
being taken to the penitentiary this morning by Chief Linderman.
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