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| Emilio Aguinaldo. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, April 20, 1901.
AGUINALDO FOR PEACE.
Urges Filipinos to Embrace American Sovereignty.
PEOPLE HAVE DECIDED FOR IT.
Says There Has Been Enough Blood, Enough Tears and Enough Desolation and Talks Like a Patriot of the Glorious Banner of the United States.
MANILA, April 20.—The following is Aguinaldo's address to the Filipino people, made public last evening:
"I believe I am not in error in presuming that the unhappy fate to which my adverse fortune has led me is not a surprise to those who have been familiar with the progress of the war. The lessons taught with a full meaning, and which have recently come to my knowledge, suggest with irresistible force that a complete termination of hostilities and lasting peace are not only desirable, but absolutely essential to the welfare of the Philippine islands.
"The Filipinos have never been dismayed at their weakness, nor faltered in following the path pointed out by their fortitude and courage. The time has come, however, in which they find their advance along this path to be impeded by an irresistible force which, while it restrains them, yet enlightens their minds and opens to them another course, presenting them the cause of peace. This cause has been joyfully embraced by the majority of my fellow countrymen who have already united around the glorious sovereign banner of the United States. In this banner they repose their trust and believe that under its protection the Filipino people will attain all those promised liberties which they are beginning to enjoy. The country has declared unmistakably in favor of peace. So be it. There has been enough blood, enough tears and enough desolation. This wish cannot be ignored by the men still in arms if they are animated by a desire to serve our noble people which has thus clearly manifested its will. So do I respect this will, now that it is known to me.
"After, mature deliberation I resolutely proclaim to the world that I cannot refuse to heed the voice of a people longing for peace, nor the lamentations of thousands of families yearning to see their dear ones enjoying the liberty and I the promised generosity of the great American nation.
"By acknowledging and accepting the sovereignty of the United States throughout the Philippine archipelago, as I now do, and without any reservation whatsoever, I believe that I am serving thee, my beloved country. May happiness be thine."
To signalize this important step in the pacification of the country General MacArthur orders the release on swearing allegiance to the United States of 1,000 insurgent prisoners.
JAPAN TO REFORM CHINA.
Said That She Will Endeavor to Overthrow the Manchu Dynasty.
LONDON. April 20.—"There are very strong indications," says the Shanghai correspondent of the Morning Post, "that the Japanese government proposes to put itself at the head of the reform movement in China in order to overthrow the Manchu dynasty, which it considers bound hand and foot by Russia."
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| Pan-American Exposition, 1901. |
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| Richard P. Hobson. |
HOBSON'S "SPECIAL DUTY."
Will Have Charge of Naval Exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition.
WASHINGTON, April 20.—The arrangements for the exhibits of the state, war and navy departments at the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo are now practically complete, and these three departments have but little more preparation to make before the opening of the big fair on the 1st of May.
The navy department's exhibit promises well on account of a number of new features connected with it. Probably the most interesting will be the presence at Buffalo during the exposition of Naval Constructor Richard Pearson Hobson, who recently was ordered to the bureau of construction and repair for "special duty."
Secretary Long has authorized the use of a company of marines, fully equipped, who will set up a camp at the south end of the big government building. Secretary Root has also agreed to send a company of coast artillery—about 60 men—who will set up a camp near the marines and give daily exhibition drills.
The exhibit of the state department has been shipped and is now on the ground. Colonel Michael, chief clerk of the state department, who is at head of the government commission at the fair, will leave Washington Monday for Buffalo. All the bureaus of the department will be represented in some manner and there will be several prominent features. Full length portraits of the president and vice president and the great seal of the United States in oils also will occupy conspicuous places. There also will be portraits of each of the secretaries of state and various valuable presents that have been bestowed on the United States by foreign nations likewise will be on exhibition.
The state department has been informed by Minister Hunter at Guatemala that he has received notice from the minister of foreign affairs of Honduras that a decree had been issued on the 28th ulto appointing the following officials from that republic to the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo: Francisco Altschul, commissioner general; Sergio Lusky, secretary.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
◘ The disquiet everywhere felt in Europe finds remarkable expression in the investment by European sovereigns in America of surplus wealth, which they may need in case of a revolution depriving them of their crowns and kingdoms. Emperor William of Germany has invested over $3,000,000 in the Atchison and Topeka, the Illinois Central, the Louisville and Nashville, the Santa Fe and the Union and Southern Pacific railways. His imperial mother, the Empress Augusta Victoria, has $500,000 in shares in the same companies, while Russian princes have invested about $1,000,000 more. The returns from these investments amount to about 5 per cent. The czar of Russia himself holds over $5,000,000 worth of shares in the Pennsylvania railroad, the Northern Pacific, the Canadian Pacific, the New, York Central and the New Jersey Central, which yield him $500,000 annually. The late Queen Victoria was known to have placed large sums in America, and the same is true of Pope Leo XIII. The kings of Italy, Greece, Denmark and Belgium all figure in American share holding lists, as do also the sultan of Turkey and the shah of Persia. So it would seem that the believers in the ''divine right of kings" put a rather substantial faith in the stability of government by the people, at least in so far as this republic is concerned.
◘ A phonograph with ragtime music has been sent to the Persian court. This ought to have a civilizing and soothing effect on the shah and his associates.
◘ The sultan of Turkey and his ministers have been severely shaken up by an earthquake. That disturbance will seem slight to the one they will experience if Abdul Hamid doesn't pay Uncle Sam's long overdue claim pretty soon.
TESTIMONY DENIED.
J. H. Mourin Thinks Bert Lamb Must Have Forgotten.
In the testimony of Bert Lamb before Coroner Santee in the Gordinier inquest the witness testified that last Sunday morning he arose about 5:30 o'clock and went over to the Messenger House and got a drink. Proprietor J. H. Mourin denies that statement absolutely. He says that at that hour no one was up at the hotel but himself and there was no one but himself there to get him a drink if he got one, and he knows that he did not furnish it to him. He knows that no one else did either, and the bar was closed all day, and the barroom locked, and Lamb could not have gotten anything there. He thinks Lamb must have been mixed up as to his day or place when he gave testimony.
WHO IS MR. COLLINS?
One Collins Shot the Frogs and Then Another Collins Ate Them.
Harold Collins is surpassingly fond of frogs' legs. From one spring he looks forward to the next spring when he can secure more. Wednesday he went out with his rifle and shot three dozen. He took them to the Candy Kitchen and asked to have them cooked and said he would be in at about 6:15 that night and enjoy them for supper. Mr. Rood received them and directed one of the waitresses to serve them that night to "Mr. Collins" when he should come for them.
Harold isn't in the habit of supping at the Candy Kitchen; he went there on this occasion because he knew they understood cooking frogs' legs to a nicety. All that afternoon his mouth kept watering at the prospect of the frogs. But he was detained and was a little late in getting to supper.
There is, however, another "Mr. Collins" who is a regular boarder at the Candy Kitchen. He was formerly the only "Mr. Collins" known to the waitresses at this restaurant. They know another one now, but they didn't at 6:15 o'clock Wednesday night, and when he came to supper he was most agreeably surprised by having promptly placed before him a most appetizing display of frogs' legs daintily cooked and splendidly served. He thought the Candy Kitchen was doing a little extra that night, but didn't know or inquire how it came about. He was perfectly satisfied to devote himself to the frogs and to ask no questions for conscience sake.
About fifteen minutes later in came another "Mr. Collins" with his mouth all ready for frogs. It is still ready for them, but the frogs were not ready for his mouth then and are not ready now. He was seated at another table and asked for frogs. The waitresses were sure that no plague of frogs had come over the Kitchen that every one should have frogs. The frogs were only for "Mr. Collins." But he was "Mr. Collins." Oh, no, that was "Mr. Collins" over there at the other table eating frogs. And then "Mr. Collins" looked at "Mr. Collins" and at the last fragment of frogs as it was disappearing, and then "Mr. Collins" No. 2 went and got his gun and resolved that one of these days he would go out and shoot some more frogs and when he got them he would reload his gun and stay by the frogs and maintain the fact that he was the only "Mr. Collins" in the universe until he had the satisfaction of eating them.
Harold has gotten over the first pangs of disappointment and is now ready to tell the story as a joke on himself so that he will vouch for its authenticity. But whenever he hears the name Collins mentioned he looks all around to see whether it is himself or the other one.
FORMERLY RESIDED IN GROTON.
Phineas Merrick Blodgett—Had Voted for Eighteen Presidents of United States.
The Chicago Record-Herald of April 17 contains the following notice of the death of Phineas Merrick Blodgett, a cousin of Franklin B. Blodgett, father of A. D. Blodgett of Cortland. Deceased was born in Groton and formerly lived in the west part of this county as well as in Dryden and Ithaca before going to Chicago:
Phineas Merrick Blodgett, who had the remarkable record of having voted for eighteen presidents of the United States, and who was one of the organizers and charter members of the old Tippecanoe club died, aged 91 years, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. P. Hart, 145 Ashland boulevard, Monday night. He was taken ill last election day, but left his bed to go to the polls and cast his ballot.
Mr. Blodgett was of marked individuality and character, and felt that every man should discharge his whole duty of citizenship. His father, Admatha Blodgett, was a soldier in the American revolution, and was with Washington when he crossed the Delaware, and fought in several historical engagements. Phineas M. Blodgett published a neat souvenir concerning his father, and some years ago erected a handsome monument to his memory at Groton, N. Y.
Mr. Blodgett was born at Groton, N. Y., in 1809. He took a great interest in public affairs and when Benjamin Harrison ran for president the first time he was a leader in organizing the old Tippecanoe club. He was well known as a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. For the last twenty years he has resided in Chicago and was a member of the Third Presbyterian church. The body will be accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. J. P. Hart, to Groton, N. Y., to-morrow where it will be laid by the side of his wife and parents.
SEEKING NEW QUARTERS
For the Next Meeting of the County Board of Supervisors.
The committee on county buildings from the board of supervisors, consisting of Messrs, J. W. Patrick, F. A. Phelps and A. H. Bennett, met at the supervisors' rooms this afternoon and discussed matters in relation to the repair of a stone wall that protects the basement windows in the county clerk building, and also the repair of the brick wall at the rear of the same building that has bulged out through a leakage in the roof, allowing the water to soak into the wall.
The matter of securing larger rooms for the use of the supervisors is also being considered by the committee. The members say that the rooms are entirely too small for the board since the addition of six members at the time the city charter was accepted, giving the city that number of extra members. The committee is on the outlook for suitable quarters to locate the board during the next session. These rooms, the committee states, must be located not higher than a second story.
SCHOOLS ARE OVERCROWDED.
Every Room Has Too Many Pupils to Secure the Best Results.
To the Editor of The Standard:
SIR—It appears that the board of education of this city of Cortland is not the only one in the state complaining of the inadequacy of its public school facilities and congested condition of its buildings. New York City seems to be confronted with the same difficulty. Hon. Miles M. O'Brien, president of the board of education, in a recent interview said:
"I wish the time were at hand when we could limit the number of pupils in the class room to forty-five. No teacher can do justice to sixty children. The individuality of the teacher is lost in the large classes, and the best results cannot possibly follow. Under the circumstances teachers must do the best they can. But one of the ideals in our school that I look forward to is the classroom where the number of pupils will not be too large to prevent teachers with individuality from impressing it on each and every child. We need more of that individual care for the backward pupils."
The conditions as briefly outlined by President O'Brien have in substance often been the subject of discussion of our board, and a similar state of affairs, and not a personal or high school scheme, is what has impelled us to ask for better accommodations. Every room in our school buildings is overcrowded and every teacher has a larger quota of pupils than she ought to have or past experiences warrant. A hall in the Central school building has just been fitted up and a special teacher employed to teach a class of about twenty scholars, for whom no sittings could be obtained in the ward schools. The compulsory school law compels us to provide accommodations and tuition for all children of school age and if we do not furnish them voluntarily the state will do it for us at our expense.
The subjoined editorial comment by Harper's Weekly upon Mr. O'Brien's recent statements is timely, and the high authority from which it emanates, most worthy of perusal and consideration:
Mr. O'Brien has placed his finger upon one of the sore spots of our public-education system. Entirely apart from hygienic questions involved, the overcrowding of classes is a menace to efficient public school work. Under existing conditions, not alone in this city, but throughout the country, the tendency of public school work has been rather to suppress than to encourage individuality, not only in teacher, but in pupil. Magnificent as the work is in its results, it cannot successfully combat the charge that the finished product is machine rather than hand made. There is a mechanical stamp about it all that is not quite a hall mark, and if the time is ever to come when a certificate from our public schools is to be a guarantee of the fitness of the graduate in so far as instruction can fit him to assume the duties and responsibilities of the larger life, it must come through a contraction rather than through an expansion of classes. Mr. O'Brien sets the minimum at forty-five, and experience seems to have shown that this is proper, but even if it were smaller no harm could come of it, and much good might result. Of course the bright boy or girl, with health and energy and a liking for information, will get ahead, but the lad who is dull at school not infrequently has in him potential qualities lying dormant which need only the quickening impulse of individual effort on his behalf to be awakened into a realization.
It might not be a bad idea for our public school authorities, who have been sufficiently observant and experienced to speak with knowledge on the subject, to consider what is the exact minimum of the number of pupils in the class whose developing minds may be reached and stimulated and made useful to the community at large by the effort of the teacher of average equipment for the work in hand. What is worth doing at all is worth doing well—a "trite remark" which, in this particular connection, has unusual significance. If our public schools turn out thousands of half-instructed children every year, they are not accomplishing the work for which the public pays, and to that extent are doing harm rather than good.
In view of existing circumstances the members of the board of education of this city, as public servants, in demanding relief, are simply trying to do their sworn duty, and as a member of that body, I sincerely hope that no pessimistic obstacle will be thrown in their path. G. J. MAGER.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—F. E. Brogden, Candies, page 6.
—There will be a rehearsal of the Baptist Oratorio society at the church to-morrow at 4 o'clock. All members are requested to be present.
—A regular meeting of the Science club will be held at the Hatch library this evening at 8 o'clock. The speaker will be Mr. N. H. Gillette, and the subject "The Sun." Dr. F. J. Cheney will review the paper of Rev. Robert Clements presented two weeks ago.
—Mrs. George P. Hollenbeck informally entertained about twenty-five ladies this afternoon at a thimble bee given in honor of Mrs. Henry Winnett of Toronto who is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Robert Clements. A very pleasant social season was spent and delicious refreshments were served.
—A subscriber of The STANDARD would like some information as to the origin, history and meaning of the word Tioughnioga, the name of the river. It is of course an Indian name, but from what tribe of Indians does it come and what does it mean. The columns of The STANDARD are open for an answer.
White Mice Incorporated.
ALBANY, April 20.—The benevolent order of White Mice of America with principal offices in New York city, filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state yesterday. The order proposes to voluntarily aid and assist ladies of the theatrical profession, playing minor parts, in case of sickness and distress in any other emergency. The directors are: Annie E. Black, Margaret V. Donelson, Maud Harlow, Frances Rockefeller King and Mabel Taylor of New York city.
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