EXCITEMENT IN HAWAII AND RICH MEN IN CONGRESS

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, April 30, 1897.

EXCITEMENT IN HAWAII.

Trouble Predicted Between That Island and Japan.

REP0RT NOT BELIEVED HERE.

United States Cruiser Philadelphia Will Protect Our Citizens In Case of an Outbreak—President Dole Refuses to Allow Immigrants to Land.

   SAN FRANCISCO, April 30.—The steamer Doric, which sailed from Honolulu April 8, brings advices that Hawaiians are excited over the presence of the Philadelphia. The advices say that it is certain Admiral Beardslee has not come to Honolulu clothed with executive power to execute a special mission for his government.

   Hawaiians believe the president is about to consummate annexation.

   It is believed the cruiser Philadelphia was sent at the request of present Minister Mills to protect United States citizens and property in case of trouble with the Japanese government over the refusal of President Dole to permit Japanese immigrants to land here.

JAPAN AROUSED.

Hawaiian Government Refuses to Permit Japanese Immigrants to Land.

   SAN FRANCISCO, April 30.—According to advices by steamer, the Japanese government is aroused over the refusal of the Hawaiian government to permit Shinshon Marou immigrants to land there and has ordered warships to Honolulu to enforce what the Japanese immigrants consider their rights.

   The foreign office instructed Hiogo Kensho at Kobe on the 9th inst. to stop departure of immigrants for the islands at once.

   Grave complications have arisen, according to Japan official newspapers, over the action of the United States government in sending the Philadelphia to Honolulu.

No Complications Will Follow.

   WASHINGTON, April 30.—The officials of the Japanese legation in this city express themselves in positive terms as having no fear of international complications between Japan and Hawaii, or the United States, growing out of the differences of the first two countries on the immigration question.

   They belittle the possibility of war over complications that may arise and attribute such talk to the jingo newspapers which are disposed, they say, to make great ado over matter that can readily be adjusted by diplomacy, and concerning which there is no warrant for the predictions that trouble is likely to follow.

New Receiving Basin.

   WASHINGTON, April 30.—The navy department has just completed its plan for the creation of a great receiving basin at the League island navy yard, and as proposals for the dredging are to issue very soon, the work, it is expected, will be well under way by July 1. The basin is intended to be used for the safe keeping of ships out of commission and those laid up as part of the new reserve, and congress has appropriated $100,000 toward the construction. In addition to that sum the bureau of yards and docks has $27,000 to its credit for dredging purposes. The total sum will suffice for the construction of the original basin.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

   ◘ The usual news comes by way of Havana that the Spanish troops have met a large body of insurgents and defeated them with great slaughter. According to Spanish dispatches, there has not been a fight in Cuba since the war began in which the revolutionists came off best.

   ◘ It seems that Spaniards in Puerto Rico have again dared to employ the infernal componte torture for the purpose of sending insurgents in that island out of the world. Only one inspired by the fiend could devise a system of beating helpless, bound prisoners to death by a series of clubbings several days apart, giving the victim time to recover somewhat in the interval. Hoop iron generally is used to administer the finishing blows.

   ◘ Oklahoma is the right name for the state which is to be made by putting Indian and Oklahoma territories together into one commonwealth. Oklahoma is a brave old Indian name. It is musical to hear and pleasant to speak.

New York State Assemblyman Theodore Roosevelt.

RICH MEN IN CONGRESS.

The Public Career of Theodore Roosevelt.

SENATOR LODGE'S TRAINING.

Congressman Sprague and His Enormous Wealth—Popular Prejudice Against Rich Men In Public Life—Just Dues to the Worthy—Notable Examples.

   WASHINGTON, April 30.—[Special.]—We are having in Washington nowadays several notable examples of what rich men can do in the public service when they set about it in the right way. Readers of these dispatches will remember that the writer has often advocated the paying of larger salaries to our government officials. For many of the more important offices, especially the administrative offices here at the national capital, it is sometimes difficult to get men of first class ability. Men who are ambitious and pushing and who have not as yet made their fortunes are unwilling to devote their energies to the public service for salaries which afford only a bare subsistence, or even less. Since the inauguration of President McKinley a dozen or perhaps a score of important appointments have been declined by men who felt they could not afford the honor.

   There are two classes of rich men who go into public life. One of these types we are quite too familiar with. They are men who literally buy their way into office for the honor of the thing. They may have had no preliminary training or education fitting them for public life. After getting into office they are really adventurers, make believers, quack statesmen. They think much more of advertising themselves, of parading their names, of cheap glory to be won out of social conquests, than they do of the interests of the public or performance of their duties. With this class of rich men in politics it is impossible to have any sympathy.

Theodore Roosevelt.

   The other class are men who, possessing independent means, deliberately choose a public career and prepare themselves conscientiously for it. They are willing to work their way up, not depending upon money alone for their advancement. Having reached posts of influence and responsibility, they endeavor to do their duty. As a type of this sort I may mention Theodore Roosevelt. When a very young man, he set out for a public career. Having education, independent means, health, mental vigor and ability, he dedicated all these to the service of the people. He was content first to go to the New York legislature, where he soon made his influence felt in behalf of good government. He was a reformer from the start, and he has been a reformer ever since.

   Most young men of his family and wealth advantages choose less laborious careers. They prefer travel, idleness, pleasure. It was not so with Mr. Roosevelt. After shaking up the rotten municipal government of the metropolis for a few years he came to Washington as a member of the civil service commission. Here he had a wider field of labor and usefulness. Here he made a national reputation. Then he went to New York again as a member of the metropolitan police commission, and there he made another record as a reformer. Now Mr. Roosevelt is again back in Washington, this time as assistant secretary of the navy.

   Mr. Roosevelt is a "demon for work." He is one of the most patriotic and unselfish of men. His constant aim is the faithful discharge of his duties, the rendering of genuine service to the cause of good government. To see him work and plan and write and talk for the good movements in which he becomes interested is refreshing in these days of idleness and superficiality among the young men who chance to be blessed with fortunes.

Senator Lodge.

   Another comparatively young man worthy of mention in this category is

Henry Cabot Lodge, the junior senator from Massachusetts. Mr. Lodge, like Mr. Roosevelt, is of an aristocratic family and inherited wealth. He, too, chose a public career, and began at the bottom. He received his preliminary training in the Massachusetts legislature. Then he came to congress and was soon able to take a high place there. Now he is in the senate, where he is one of the most influential and able members. Mr. Lodge is an earnest student, a hard worker. In the preparation of the immigration bill and in securing its passage through congress he put in an amount of energy and ability that would have won him, if devoted to the interests of some big client in an important law case, a fee many times a year's senatorial salary. When the Cuban and Spanish question became critical, Mr. Lodge traveled in Europe for the express purpose of fitting himself for intelligent handling of it as a senator and member of the committee on foreign relations. This type of rich men in public life wins our admiration, even if we cannot always agree with their views upon public questions.

   Another rich New Englander who has lately come to congress is destined to make his mark. Charles F. Sprague of Brookline, Mass., is the richest man in congress. His fortune is said to amount to $15,000,000 or $20,000,000. Mr. Sprague, who is now 40, concluded when a very young man that he would like to be of some service to the people. He not only graduated from Harvard, but took up the study of law, realizing that the man who does not possess a knowledge of the law is under a handicap in public life.

Congressman Sprague's Rise.

   Instead of trying to force his way into an office of great honor, as many a rich men might have done, Mr. Sprague was content to serve in the Boston city council, in the state house of representatives, as a member of the park commission, as a state senator. In the last named body he was chairman of the committee on metropolitan affairs, having to do with the city of Boston. In this way Mr. Sprague has equipped himself for a public career of great usefulness. He is an authority upon public works, municipal administration, all legislation pertaining to business or executive matters. There is a need for just such men in public life, whether it is in city councils, state legislatures or congress—men who have the training and character, devotion to public good, and who have by the fortunate chance of being possessed of independent means been raised above the danger of speculative investment or other selfish entanglements.

   So, you see, there are rich men and rich men in polities. Let us give the good kind their just dues. WALTER WELLMAN.

GRADE CROSSING BILL.

A Bill Which Will Probably be Signed—Believed  Will Save Many Lives.

(Bureau of The STANDARD.)

   ALBANY, April 30.—The Wilcox grade crossing bill, prepared for the state railroad commission and introduced in the senate by Senator Benjamin M. Wilcox of Auburn, which passed the legislature and is now in the hands of the governor among the thirty-day bills is one of the most important measures of the year affecting as it does every city, town and village through which a railroad is run. By its provisions all steam railroads hereafter constructed must be carried across streets and highways either above or below grade. In the construction of new roads the road must pay the entire expense of laying its bed and the walls along the tracks, the state and villages or towns paying the expenses of the approaches and the bridge work over the railroad tracks. By the bill also no highway in the future shall be laid across railroad tracks, but must be placed over or below unless with the permission of the railroad commission. In such cases the expenses are to be borne fifty per cent by the road, and twenty-five per cent each by the state and village or town.

   The effect of this bill will be gradually to eliminate all crossings at grade which will be accomplished in about ten years. When it is considered that about 100 persons are killed in the state annually at grade crossings the necessity of this new bill is at once understood. There is no doubt but that Governor Black will sign the bill and thus enact it into law. C. N. A.

LOST HER BALANCE.

Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Marshall Fall Into Little York Lake.

   Dr. and Mrs. O. A. Houghton and Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Marshall took a trip to Little York yesterday afternoon. The four were out on the lake in two boats. Mrs. Marshall had been rowing in the boat in which she and Mr. Marshall were riding, but became tired and they attempted to change seats. Mrs. Marshall stepped on a round stick in the bottom of the boat, lost her balance, fell against her husband and pushed him overboard, and she herself fell into the water after him. The boat was then but a few rods from the dock.

   Dr. and Mrs. Houghton were near by and rowed at once to the assistance of their friends. Two men working on the dock also rushed out into the water, but their aid was not needed. Mrs. Marshall was for a little time quite overcome with nervous excitement, and remained at the Raymond House till this morning. Dr. Spaulding went up last night and attended her, and she is now all right again.

DIRECTORS ELECT OFFICERS.

Henry A. Dickinson, President of the Baseball Association.

   The directors of the Cortland Baseball association met at the office of T. H.

Dowd last night and elected the following officers:

   President—Henry A. Dickinson.

   Vice-President—James Dougherty.

   Secretary—Edwin Duffey.

   Treasurer—G. J. Maycumber.

   The control of the grounds, advertising of games and the gate receipts, which are to be turned over to the treasurer, was placed in the hands of the following committee: O. C. Smith, T. H. Dowd, W. E. Wood, James Dougherty.

   Edwin Duffey, T. H. Dowd, F. D. Smith, and F. M. Miller were appointed a committee to prepare rules and regulations of the government of the association, to have entire charge of the engaging of players and to arrange a schedule of games.

BREVITIES.

   —Triplets born in the household of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hard of Carnegie, Pa., last week, have been named McKinley, Hobart and Hanna.

   —The ladies of the W. C. T. U. hold a parlor meeting with Mrs. T. E. Dye at 24 Union-st. this evening. An interesting literary program will be presented.

   —Among the things agitated is a bicycle path from Moravia to Locke and

Groton; and then how long before Cortland and Ithaca would be in it?—Moravia Register.

   —It is announced that the summer schedule on the Lehigh Valley will go into effect on May 10; work on the new time table has already commenced.—Ithaca Journal.

   —William J. Nash is building another story on his block at the corner of Pomeroy and Elm-sts., which will have five sleeping rooms, making eleven in all, in compliance with the Raines law amendments.

   —W. J. Perkins of the City drug store has just received two showcases of the Porter Farley make, and placed them in his store. One is a glass cigar case, six feet long and the other is a nine foot counter and display case.

   —New display advertisements to-day are—D. McCarthy & Co., Ladies' Suits, page 7: T. F. Bristol, Only a Hat, page 6; I. Whiteson. Winding Up Sale, page 4; Bingham Bros. & Miller, Clothing, page 7; Palmer & Co., It's All Right, page 4.

   —There is a crowd of about fifty boys at the doors of the clothing store of Bingham Bros. & Miller waiting for the throwing out of the large number of baseballs at 4 o'clock. The crowd is rapidly increasing and each boy hopes to get a ball.

   —The Groton News, aged nineteen weeks, has yielded up the ghost.

   Man's a vapor

   Full of woes;

   Starts a paper,

   Up he goes.—Ithaca Journal.

   —Mr. W. R. George of the George Junior Republic will give an address in the Congregational church to-night at 7:30 o'clock. Mr. George's many Cortland friends will be glad of this opportunity to meet him again and hear him speak on "Mission Work in New York City." Everybody is most cordially invited.

   —The Cornell-Princeton baseball game occurs to-morrow afternoon at Ithaca. A number of Cortland people are planning to attend, as the Lehigh Valley offers half fare rates and the train service is excellent. The Ithaca Journal says that Roland Reed, who plays in Auburn to-night and in Cortland to-morrow night, will come here by way of Ithaca so as to take in the game in the afternoon.

   —The Groton Journal mentions as follows two new teachers who have been engaged for its school for next year, both of whom are well known here in Cortland: "Miss Rose A. Hubbard, who has been the preceptress of the Dryden Union school for several years, will have charge of the teachers' training class; Miss Olive Parker of Cortland, a teacher of experience, who will graduate from the Cortland Normal school in June, will have the senior intermediate."

McGRAWVILLE.

Crisp Local Happenings at the Corset City.

   Ex-Secretary of War D. S. Lamont and daughter Bessie are guests of his mother Mrs. J. B. Lamont.

   The funeral of John Warwick, who formerly lived on the farm now occupied by Frank Miller, will be held Saturday morning at 11 o'clock at his late residence in Cortland.

   David Griffin of Fleming Hill is in town. He has sold his interest in the hotel in that place and will move with his family to this place next week.

   John Manzer of Lafayette is visiting his mother Mrs. E. B. Goodell.

   The reunion of the One Eighty-fifth Regt., N. Y. S. Vols., will be held on June 16 in the state armory in Syracuse.

   Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Kinney of Cortland were in town to-day (Friday) looking after the family residence.

   Mrs. D. S. Ayres is home from Syracuse for over Sunday.

   Earl D. Landers was in Binghamton on business Thursday.

   E. Haviland Cowles has accepted a position in the printing office of the McGraw Corset Co.

   The operetta given by the "Merry Milkmaids" assisted by the jolly farmer boys on Thursday evening was witnessed by a large and appreciative audience. More than 125 reserved seats were sold and the rest of the hall was well filled. Some excellent movements were executed by the farmer boys, which reminded your reporter of Waterloo. Every one did his part to perfection and the singing and music won the highest praise from all. Where all did so well it would be impossible in this space to particularize and we can only say go and hear them on Saturday evening, May 1, when the performance will be repeated by special request. A large number from out of town were present and a number of seats have already been disposed of to outsiders for the next performance. Among those from out of town were County Clerk and Mrs. E. C. Palmer, Floyd Smith, Dr. J. Horton Cowan, B. W. Rood, T. N. Hollister, Walter Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dunn, Misses Carrie Beckwith and Anna Martin of Cortland and Mrs. D. H. Stone of Homer. Tickets for sale at the People's Cash Trading Co.'s or A. P. McGraw will be pleased to arrange for outside parties.