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A FRENCH EDITOR IN THE PHILIPPINES. Extracts of His Interviews With All of the Leaders There. {Copywright, 1839, by Associated Press. ) New York, Jane 17.-M. Henry Tarot, special correspondent of L'Eclair and of Le Monde illustre and chief editor of Le Petite R pub lique and La Lanterne, recently re tained from the Philippine islands, 'by way of Vancouver, B C, and sailed for France today m order to report the result of bis mission to sis papers. Before sailing be was asked to furnish thc Associated Press with the impression he Sad formed in the Philippine islands, and he did so in the following terms : "My first visit was to Gen Otis. I was cordially received by the gen era! sed I asked him if he was satis fed with bis campaign aud if he hoped to promptly terminate, it " 'Yes/ be answered, 'I am satis fied with the. results, achieved and from this time on 1 hope to accom plish in the quickest manner possible the patriotic task confided to me by my government. Unhappily, I can not deny that it will take a long time. This is the season cf rains and the san becomes every day more dan gerous and more fatal than the ri es of the Filipinos Besides, it is my intention to push my troops a little farther forward and afterward to make them wait for a more favorable period. During this t:me of enforced 1 repose oar fleet will be able to con-1 tinae the operations aloDg the I coast 1 , "I thanked Gen Otis for his gracious reception and hastened to ask Presi dent Scharman for more ample infor mation. "Mr Schurman. I am happy to have the occasion of saying, is a very remarkable man of high intelligence and of profound erudition. Nobody could be more worthy of the mission which has been entrusted to him. ^Unhappily, 1 believe he is powerless to obtain satisfactory results. .. * Why, I said to him, 'baa not America established in the Philip pines the protectorate system,' like that which France has installed in Tonis and Anana ? " 'It is impossible/ replied Mr. Scharman, 'and I will tell you the reason why. At Tonis there is a bey and in Annam an emperor, and your ; protectorate is exercised over a stable government Here there is nothing of the kind. We are in the presence of regular anarchy and you cannot establish a protectorate over a government which does not exist/ " Bot I asked, *in default of a protectorate will you accord to the Filippinos the same regime as exists between Canada and great Britain, ; that is to say, a sort of autonomy, with the recognition of American sovereignty.' j " 'Yes, answered Mr. Schurman, j after a moment's reflection, 'I do not, see, so far as I am concerned any1 abjection tc the establishment cf such ! a system.' - ( ''Then Mr Schurman put some ones tions to rae He notably asked me why public opinion in France ap j peared. to be somewhat hostile toward the United States j ".This hostility.' I exclaimed Ms i is no way general. It is evident that j the Reactionaries and the Clericals of j Fraoce would feel more sympathetic! toward Spain, monarchist and Catholic j Bat. we Republican, have not ceased io hope for your triumph. Only, at i . the present time, we fear to see Amer- j ieaa democracy dragged into the wanderings of jingoism and of extreme militarism and fee there a new danger for universal peace ' "Mr. Schurman then said with a great deal of Sr m ness : 'You are wrong to bo alarmed. The United States are too muob attached to liberty to become a military nation ia tbe special secss which you attach to the term io France. The people would never tolerate it. Of this yoe can be sured.7 "Admiral Dewey received me on board the Olympia and I lost oo time io complimenting him on the victory which be bad won. "Very modestly the admiral replied that tbe greater part of thc credit was CU- to his sailors, who had behaved eo gallantly, and to hrs oSsers, ho bad seconded him so wei! '.And now. admiral,' I said, 'what co you think of the si:uit;on ?" " 'Ia the first place,' he answered, 'I have great hope in the success of the conferences which Mr. Schurman bas Dearly every day with the Filipino delegates. And in any case Aguinaldo will be obliged to submit sooner or later. He bas around bim too many generals and too few soldiers to resist us.' M 'But,' I replied, should it cot be recognized that tbe insurgents fight admirably ?" 'Certaioiy yet,' answered the admiral, 'and I render them full justice co that point. They fight well, but they are children, incapable of military tactics. Aguinaldo during the war with Spaio, was not cur ally, as bas beeo claimed. We never made a treaty of alliance with him, and we never promised bim aoythiog.' "2L8 I was not willing to take too maoh cf the admiral's time, I retired. "Oos eveniog I visited Florentino Serres, predict t of f rr PMi gtoe committee of Manila. Torres was a magistrate ceder Spanish role, and is a very intelligent maa, He said : 'The position of ibe Phiiipptoe com mission is a very difficult one. We are doing what we can to bring, about pacification, bat when we shall have found a solution of the question with Mr. Schurcaao it will be necessary to I cause Aguinaldo to accept it, and there j will be a great difficulty.' *' .Why do yoa fear the opposition of j Aguinaldo ? ts he an ambitious maa V " 'No, but he bas illusions. He hopes for the intervention of the great European powers, as in Crete, and he ev o counts on the cooperation of Japan.* 4 4 4 And you, sir ; for what do you hope V. V 'Ol as (or myseif, I hope that war wili soon be finished, for it is raining as. We, landed proprietors, would accept a government similar to that of Canada. We io no way wish for the departure of the Americans, for in that case oar fortaoes would be swept away.' . Why so,' I asked, with astonish ment. 'Because, assure yon, it is not only a question of Aguinaldo and bis troops, ot a nationalist movement, bat, above ail, of a socialist and revolution ary movement, created by the insurrec tion. The lower class of people and many of the chiefs are military social ists.' *4I afterward had interviews succes sively with several inflaentiai Filipinos, notably with Gregorio Araneto, the first minister of justice of the govern ment of Aguinaldo. They ail confirm ed the statement of Torres. .'Araneto showed himself irritated at the policy of the United States toward the Filipinos. "My personal impressions are : I was strack with the fine presence of your soldiers They are big men, strong, suple and agile, who bear testimony to the beauty of the American race. Bat, unhappily, I know that, precisely on account of their physical strength, they experience great difficulties io enduring the climate of the Philippine islands * Beside this, the American troops have, io my opinion, rations which are too heating. "Your soldiers fight with great bravery, but it 13 impossible not to remark the laok of discipline among the volunteers. Tbs latter conduct themselves well under fire, but they pay little attention to obedience to their ohiefs. In spite of thc energetic orders of these chiefs, there has been regreta ble pillaging. "Also at times the volunteers have committed acts of really grave lack of discipline. During one of the expedi tious of Gen. Lawton against Santa Cms some of the volunteers threw their ri es in the river and refused to go forward. '-it seems to be incontestable that for this conquest cf the interior 100,000 men will not be too many. We know in France what the system of 'little parcels1 has cose. It is as example which the United States would do weil not to follow." MAYOR OF ATLANTA FLAYED IN PULPIT Dr. Broughton Wields a Vig orous and Merciless Lash. Atlanta, June 18 -In a sensational sermon tonight Dr. L G. Broughton, pastor of the Baptist tabernacle, called upon the city council to impeach James G. Woodward, mayor of Atlanta. Dr. Broughton said the chief executive was a "confessed gambier, a libertine, a got and a dis grace to the city " At these words the audience of about 2,000 people, cheered In the coarse of his remarks Dr. Broughton said : "When the mayor W88 a member of an important com mittee to go to Washington on the matter of federal prison site, he was drunk most of the time, and there were other things that occurred in connection with bim that I hesitate to mention from the pulpit. He should be impeached at once. If the members of the city council do not impeach bim, 1 shall take steps myself No such man has a right to j be mayor of this city. The Ritualion is indecent and disgraceful " When asked after the sermon why he moved against Mayor Woodward I Dr- Broughton said : "I have given j this matter much consideration and I i believe I have taken a step in thc ! right direction I know what I am ! talking about The actions of the j present mayor of Atlanta since he ha3 heid office are a disgrace to the city and thc people this man ropre i sent. Mayor Woodard was informed of j Dr Broughton^ remarks late tonight. The executive 8*id : "I regard the statements of Dr Broughton as ridic ulous I a6k the public to suspend judgement." ??i t ~ - Shanghai, June 18 -A telegram re ceived by the North China Daily News reports that rioters killed Rev H. S. Phillips, Mrs Phillips, a lady friend j and three native converts whiie they I w^re trying to make their escape from ! Kien Yang. CUBAN OIL cures Cuts, Burns, Bruises, Rheuma tism and Sores. Price, 25 cts. Sold by Haghaon-Ligoa Co. THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION. Som9 Startling Testimony Has Been Taken. Washington, Jaoe 17-The indus trial commission today heard a state ment from L M. Lockwood an oil producer, of Z ieoople Penn , in op position to the S andord Oil Trust. Mr. Lockwood deciard that this com pany bad driven the independent re finers into bankruptcy and servitude, and he denounced the course pursued in severe terms. He held the railroads especially respocsible fer tb 3 oondition of affairs. Goiog baok to 1872 he referred at length to a contraot made by the trunk lines of Pennsylvania with the South Improvement Company. Under this contract, be said, the. freight rates on eil were doubled and one-half thc amount collected was paid baok as a rebate; not only this, but the con tract company received a like rebate on the shipments of ail other companies. This contraot, he declared, had been 6ectetly oontinued by the railroads with the Standard Oil Company. He quoted A. J. Cassett, the new president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, as testifying before the Inter-Stato railway commission to the effect that while the open rate to the public was 1 90 per barrel, the rate to the Standard Com pany was 80 cents. Further investiga tion, said Mr. Lockwood, had developed the fact that the railroad companies actually received only 35 cents. This condition of affairs had resulted for a time, according to the witness, io giv ing the Standard Company a profit of 400 per cent, while the- independent refineries were being rapidly driven into bankruptcy. Mr. Lockwood was free in the use of epithets, characteriz ing both the oil company and the rail road officials as highwaymen and bri gands. "If you have got to be robbeo," he exclaimed, -'it does not matter much whether you are held np by Dick Tur pin with a pistol or by John Rockefeller with a railroa'd, it is robbery all the same." He said that men who had carefully analyzed the testimony taken before the Hepburn committee esti mated that io sixteen months' time the five trunk lines of Pennsylvania had paid the Standard Company gil,000, 000 in rebates. The railroad compa nies had, he said, completely ignored the orders of the State cemmissioo to cease their discrimination in favor of the Standard Company, resorting then to the system cf false billing. Speaking of the remedy for the evil Mr. Lookwood said it was public ownership cf the railroads, and it was not to bs found in the courts. The courts were too slow and expensive. He considered ail the railroads of the country 88 practically one gigantic trust, and asserted that they were io control of our politics, contribute mil liaos to elect legislators, senators and judgeo, and to punish those not willing to do their bidding. The afternoon session was character ized by the development of differences among the members of the commission as to the character of testimony that should be admitted Mr. Lockwood made the statement that Judge Albert Haighr, of the New York court of appeals, had bern elevated to his ! pr tent position by tee cop-orations j ihrcugh the use of a corruption fu d, because of his aotioo in what is known as the Matthews case-a proceeding of th*1 railroad combination against the independent refiners He afterwards said that while convinced the facts were as he bad stated, be had noe aotually seen the fund, therefore, the statement was an inference. At this point Mr. Farquhar, of the commission, protested against the char acter of the testimony, saying that Judge Haigh t was bis next door neighbor aod one of the purest meo be bad ever known. He had never before heard an imputation upon his character. Mr. Lookwood said that be also knew Judge Haight, and that he had been surprised at the apparent developments. The issue had been raised in the campaign, and he had understood that he had ran behind his ticket. After a few general remarks by other members of the commission as to the advisability of striking out the entire statement, Congressman Belle made a vigorous protest against the demand to eliminate any of the testimony It wa cot, he said, in thc province of che com mission to tell a witness what he must say. He said be bad noticed that some members ct tbs commission were very sensitive wheo Fcmetuiog was said j which did not entirely fal! in with their j predilections. Former Congressman Philips presid ing, held that the testimony was compe tent. In bis statement before the commis siou ye3te:day President C. E. Dowe, president of the Travellers' Association, submitted figures to show that thc organization of the trusts had resulted in throwing 35,000 salesmen oat of employment, and io reducing the salaries of 25,000 more He esti ' mated that the annual loss to the sales men on account of loss of employment and reductions aggregated 0*0,000, 000 ; to the hotels 28,000,000, and to the railroads 27,000,000, because of thc loss of patronage. New York, June 17-A match was arranged this afternoon for a twenty five round bout between Jim Jeffries aud Tom Sharkey, to take place on October 23 before the club offering the largest purse. A Notorious Woman Murdered in Habana. j Fred Krause, Former Lieu tenant of Volunteers, Has j Been Arrested. Habana, June 18.-The local pa peps today devote considerable epace to the murder of the notorious Min nie Ross, who was killed with the blunt end cf a hatchet after being choked, and was found dead early yesterday. It was first report ed that a well known army officer was involved, but the uniform found in the room of Fred Krause, now in custody on charge of being the mur derer, is undoubtedly one formerly worn by him. Krause was at one time a lieutenant of the Florida vol unteers. He is said to be a member of a wealthy Tampa family. Thus far there is but little evidence against him. Many believe, from the nature of the crime, that it was com milled by a woman. One theory is that the blow with the hatchet was not immediately fatal, and that the victim was then choked to death Robbery cou|d scarcely have been the motive, for the poiice found 2, 500 in the murdered woman's room and a quantity of valuable jewelry on her dressing table. The Status of Dogs. Colombia, June 17.-The dog, "the yellow dog," if you please, or any sort of a dog, is on top again. Thc Suprema Court of South Caralina is on his side. The Supreujc Court holds that a dog has vaine and can be stolen and that tho old comen law is out cf dato and the modern dog is entitled to legal protection, and if you steal a dog you cao be 6eut to prison. The case was started io Newberry, where a negro oamad Lagford was charged with steal ing a dog, dog house, etc. The Circuit Judge held, acoording to the common law, that a dog was not the subject of larceny and quashed the indictment. Now the Supreme Court unanimously holds that the common law does cot apply here ; that it is wrong not to value a dog simply because he is not edible, and that it 9 not a whim or caprice to keep a dog. The Court defends the dog for devotion and attachment, and contends that it is entirely a punishable crime to steal a dog, aod that the stealing of a dog may be punished if the facts warrant and the indictment be properly drawn. The Cirent Cont is reversed on the dog demurrer. A SERIOUS MATTER. Thousands Working on Gov ernment Contracts Threat en to Strike. Baltimore, June IS -Tero thcusacd employes cf marins department, Mary land Steel company, held a meeting today and determined to strike at the i end of seven days if their dsmands for j a nine hour dsy and weekly payments were not acceded to by the corspany. Committees were appoiLted to present the ultimatum to tho head-:? of the various departments tomTrcw morning. A strike at Sparrows Point at this time would be a serious matter. Five thousand men are employed by the company, and a tie up of one depart meet would doubtless soon affect the other braoohes. The company DOW has under consideration three torpedo boat destroyers for the navy, a steamer for the New York and New Havea Steam boat company, two oceao-goio col liers, a 136 foot tug and a /steel dry doffk. Wilmington, N. C , June 17.-Ari Bryan, a negro, one of the obnoxious eaog banished from Wilmington hst November, returned a few days ago. Tonight a crowd cf about forty or fifty citizens went to his residence to warn him to leave, but Bryan was apprised of their coming and could not bs fcuod. It is supposed he has left town. Santiago de Uah?., Jone 17 -A strong party of bandits raided Guamo, j a small towo northwest, of Manzmiiio I on Thursday last. A detachment of ! gendarmerie arrived on the ccet:e and I attacked the f;ut!atvs but v.ere repulsed, j Seven of toe guards were killed and I several woocded. Tho bandits then j withdrew io thc direction of Tunas, j with a platoon of cavalry io purruit. --co- . -U ? I The correspondent of the Asaoci I ated Press learns on reliable authority j that negotiations are really pending j between Spain and Germany for the j cession of the West African island I of Fernando Po and some other im portant Spanish colonies. The nego tiations are at such a stage that mutual secrecy is insisted upon It is learned ibat the Canaries are aieo within these negotiations Spain asks a big price, however, much higher than Germany*is willing to pay. - QS CUBAN OIL cures Cuts. Burns. Bruises, Rheuma tism and Sores. Pri e, 25 cts. Sold bj KugbeoQ-Ligoo CJ. SURPRISED HER HUSBAND. Why the Yoting Wife Spent an After noon In His Office. Young Mrs. Smith, who lives down on Prairie avenue, is very fond of her husband and also very jealous of him. Mr. Smith knows this and enjoys it im mensely. Before the Smiths were mar ried he used to know a Minneapolis girl who visited his sister in Chicago. Mrs. Smith knew her very well too. The Min neapolis girl came down not long ago, and Mrs. Smith called on her. A few days before the Minneapolis girl went back she called on Mrs. Smith, and they had an enjoyable quarter of an hour thinking things about one another and talking about Mansfield. When the Minneapolis girl rose to go, she said sweetly, "Oh, by the way. I want to see Charlie before I go back, and I think I may jus" drop into his office this afternoon. " "Oh. do; Charlie will be delighted,' returned Mrs. Smith. The door had hardly closed on the guest before Mrs. Smith executed a sort of war dance. She dressed as fast as she could, put on her bonnet and announced her intention of going down to Mr. Smith's office. Her grandmother remonstrated in vain. Mrs. Smith is only 18, and she is jeal ous. "I thought I'd spend the afternoon with you, ' ' she announced to the aston ished Charlie as she swept into the office. "But, my dear"- he began, when Mrs. Smith ensconced herself at the side of his desk and intimated that the most violent arguments wonld not move her. She sat there all the after noon The Minneapolis girl enjoyed herself shopping, and forgot to call in to tell Charlie goedby. Mrs. Smith broke down and confessed as soon as she got home, and her foolish young husband told her to go down next day and bny herself the prettiest hat she could find -Chicago Inter Ocean Fog In Photography. One serious and afc the same time un suspected source of fog iu photography is often due to the fact that the black ing has slightly worn off the lens mount and there is a reflection which results in a loss cf brilliancy in the negative. Constant use and endless cleaning cf tho lens in time wear tbs blacking off, and this should be attend ed to and all metal parts kept well blacked. Where lenses are mounted in aluminium still more caro is necessary in this respect, as, wherever in such cases the blacking wears off, white light instead of yellow light is reflected into I the lens. Sometimes diaphragms of the iris pattern are greatly at fault in this re spect. By reason of its construction the leaves or vanes in this diaphragm are in constant friction while being set, and thus become polished and reflective, for which reason some photographers avoid having iris diaphragms in their lenses, notwithstanding their convenience. A careful examination of the apparatus will insure safety in this matter. Stops of the ordinary pattern become in time little better than bare metal, especially at the edges cf the aperture. The Platform Woman. ' 'The platform woman never has been a credit to. but ever a blot upon, Amer ican womanhood. I make this emphatic statement from a personal knowledge of the homes which these women leave behind when they go to their meet ings. " writes Edward Bok in The La dies' Home Journal. "I have seen the rooms of their homes left in wild disorder; I have seen their servants sitting in idleness with work on every hand to do ; I have seen the children neglected and left to their own devices; I have heard husband speak in derision of the motives of their wives. No woman in a happy American home can ever afford to listen to these parasites of her sex. "Fortunately, the platform woman's influence is steadily on the wane. She was never a power. She was never even picturesque. Her worst injury was wrought upon certain weak women who for the time she deluded. But even with them she was soon regarded with wonder rather than with interest ; with suspicion rather than with confiderce. The disappearance of tho platform wo man is a case of a blot being blotted out." Snccesslvc Steps In Saccess. The ambitious amateur went to see the experienced theatrical manager. "I want to be a star actress, " she said. "What do you advise me to do?" "H'm-have you ever had an affair cf the heart?" he asked. "Well. " she simpered, "two or throe young fellows are breaking their hearts about me. " "That won't juite do. Go and get i your own heart broken, ' ' he said, 4 'and then come again. " She had heard something like this j before, and che went *iway with her j chin in the air r s * . . j A year later, however, she returned. "Wi-ll. "she said, choking down a sob. "I have come back to yon-heari ! broken, i mumed one of those young men. He treatod me shamefully and I has deserted mei" "Ah. that is something like, "said ; the manager, rubbing his hands togeth er ' ' We are get < mg on. Only one thing more is necessary, my dear young wo man-get your divorce, and then we shall want you. "-Chicago Tribune. Landmarks. Every town has a liar or two, a smart Aleck, some pretty girl.?, more loafers than it needs, a woman or two that tattles, an old fogy that the town would be belter off without, men whe stand on tho street corners and make I remarks about the women, a man who laughs an idiotic laugh every time he says anything, seores of men with the caboose of their trousers worn smooth as glass and men who can tell you I abor t the weather and how to run other j people's business, but who have made j a dismal failure of their own.-North i port News. Trusts All Powerful. So Thinks the Governor of Washington. They Cannot be Checked. St. Louis, Mo., Juce 19.-A special to The Republic from Austin, Tex , says : Gov. Sayers received a "letter from Gov Rogers of Washington dec!ioic2 to attend the anti-trust con vention at St. Louis. He presents his reasons as follows : "In reply to your invitation, allow me to say that it will be impossible for me to attend. It bas occurred to me in this connection that maoy people are advocating State control of trusts with io* rity, thinking in this way to pass through the next national campaign with safety to themselves feel ing sure that whatever State legislation may be enacted which will really curb the power of trusts will eventually he declared unconstitutional by the United States supreme court. With those who tbus aid .for that purpose advocate State legislation regarding trust3 I caa have no sympathy, and I am bound to believe, too, that legislative actio which seeks to control ths*formatio and management of trusts will prove ineffectual. "Io the firs'; place, the word ,trust1 is misleading when applied to a great many industrial com binations now threatening the prosperity of the people ; many in stances of eo-called trusts are merely larger corporations. "It has occurred to me that corpora stion will be deolared to possess a vested and constitutional right to buy and seil "Clearly, it seems to me, corpora tions as well as natural persons, have a right to buy, and hence a right to sell, whatever is offered for sale io the market. If a sufficient weight of capital be employed, a corporation or a natural person bas the ability and the constitutional right to seli all of a certain prodact offered for sale, and this unquestionably will operate to fix the price at which such product will in future be sold. We can see that, as in the case of that parent of trusts, . he Standard Oil Company, the power to buy and seli possessed by that com pany is entirely sufficient to regulate the price at which oil will be sold. The Standard Oil Company thus gets the power to drive out of business all competitors, and in this way to establish the price for which their product must be sold. "I am at a i C FS to see, too, bow the natural and fundamental right of either natural or corporate persons to bey and sell can be interfered with by legal enactment under our cocsttutioo. For this reason I can see no remedy for the trust evil save public ownership. This new question of the trusts is really the very old one of capital versus labor, or, stated differently, the attempt of .Le almighty dollar to entire supremacy in tbe affairs of men. There is in all this an irrepressible conflict which will not down at the bidding cf any State legislature." In addition to this letter, the govern or received brief letters from the governors cf Oregon ard Pennsylvania endorsing the anti-trust convention and promising to be in attendance. Russia Bays War Material. Washington, June 19.-The Rus sian government is reported in official circles here to be negotiating with American establishments for an enor mous quantity of war material. A statement is made that Russia wishes to order a hundred rapid fire field batteries A rough estimate places the value of the Russian order at eight million dollars. -.JU - BOER'S PLAN OP CAM PAIGN. London June 19 -The St. James Gazette publishes what it claims is exclusive information concerning the plan of the Boer campaign drawn up by General Joubert and approved by President Kruger. The plan includes the invasion of Cape Colony by the Boers, the capture of Capetown and Kimberly and the destruction of the Deber diamond mines. London, Jone 20.-The Capetown correspondent of the Daily Maii says : "The government has forwarded a battery cf heavy gens to K:mberl?v for the defense of the diamond fields. There is great activity in the Cape imperial command, and munitions of war aro being sect northward in large quantities Pittsburg, Kas , June IS.-The striking union coal miners appear to have temporarily stepped the importa tion of southern negroes by the mine operators. Tho hearing of the injunc tion cases brought by tho strikers to prevent the importation of miners from other States has been postponed until June 24 The miners set up that the negroes are criminals and affected with contagious disease?, and that their coming would be a menace to the health of the community, good order ind public health. - - I ? L'-- ll. The statements published to the effect that Admiral Sampson was ill acd would retire from the command of thi* North Atlantic fquadron have been authoritatively denied by an officer of his staff.