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TIIL DAILY AUuUb-jLEADEIl, SIOUX FALLS, D. WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, the farts come out "the American peo- battle, and then cut the cable. The STILL WORKING POLITICS. TREASON FOR POLITICS' pie will be unable to look an honest ,1. irtili man in the face.

Tills is certainly party antagonism and personal preju-dices against the administration to lead them into combating the interests of the nation and into Riinnnrtintr snrf i.i gieat talk from an officer of the armyigiiKh Admiral sailed over in time of war, but passing that by, and said: "Ah, I see you ha I have a Fort Atkinson surrey used three years and single harness that I will sell for $60 if taken at once. Look this up; its a snap, may we suggest that the Major specify wherein we have deceived the Filipinos, or scandalized the flag? it is eas ier to state opinions, but facts count for more. OPERATIONS FOR APPENDICITIS. An interesting discussion is just now in progress in high medical circles over the advisability of using the knife in cases of appendicitis. One school contends that a surgical operation is the only cure for a fully developed case of appendicitis, while the other it will be the more popular school takes the view that the knife is but rarely necessary and that more lives are lost than saved by operations.

Belonging to this latter school is Dr. M. O. Terry, surgeon-General of New York state who declared recently that the knife should le used but rarely. In the Medical Record, Dr.

R. T. Morris of New York city took issue with Dr. Terry and challenged him to give the record of te ncases of appendicitis which were successfully treated without surgery. Dr.

Terry has responded with ten cases and then to give gospel measure tells of ten cases more, every one of the twenty having been successfully treated for clearlv defined annendicitis. without onerations. Dr. Terrv then gces on to express the opinion-whieh is necessarily unsatisfactory that Sen- ator Taber. Warren Leland.

the Mexi- can Minister, and several other famous patients could have been saved if an op- eration had been avoided and the ca- thartic treatment adopted. He quotes Colonel Senn, Chief Surgeon of the United States volunteers as saying that of the many cases of appendicitis which came under his notice at Camp Wikoft, but one was subjected to surgical treatment. Colonel Senn agrees with Dr. Terry that we are just now suffering from an appendicitis rage, and that the sooner we get over it the more lives will be spared. A layman scarcely feeiSiVanced salary with the assurance that qualified to discuss a question which norpssariiv rpnnires technical in forma- tion to properly dispute, but it is his glorious privilege to sit in the gallery and yell and especially if he thinks he has a pre-disposition toward this fashionable but dangerous ailment.

CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST. In a letter published over his own name, Lieutenant E. E. Hawkins ot Company writes that Col. Frost is "either afraid of injuring his standing in the regular service, or tsvsitnply English Aumiiai wanted to help him, 1 1 1 I nnnt IlitA a SVa.wV l-r IUI U1UI1 unit, uuv uc uiuugm lUUl mtht ti, to Dewey have cut a ca ble," "Yes, answered Dewey.

"Which one?" asked the innoeent English Ad miral. And then Dewey, knowing for the first time there were two cables, rustled back, grappled for the second cable, and cut it. The Nachrlchten; the German papei of this city comes out this week In a brand new set of type, which gives it a very handsome appearance. While the politics of the Nachrichten are some what off color, it is an enterprising and newsy paper and the Argus-Leader wishes it all the success which this new departure would seem to Indicate. The Chicago Tribune figures that 141 persons lost their lives as the result ot our last Fourth of July celebration.

The remedy for this is not in abolishing the celebration, but in using smaller fire' crackers. It used not to be so danger ous to be patriotic. THEY TALK ABOUT US What Some of Our Exchanges Have to Say About Sioux Falls People. Aberdeen Ruralist: $S00, payable in equal installments, has been ap- propriated Dy our county board toward the construction of the new buildings for the Childrens' Home at Sioux Falls acting legal business. Lake Preston Times: T.

H. Perry of Sioux Falls was here Wednesday rust ling real estate sales. Brule Index: Mrs. Ella E. Gray of Sioux Falls, but who will be remember ed as a former teacher in the Kimball schools, writes the Index that she Is prospering in her profession finely, that she has been engaged for another year iQ the gioux Fas schools at an ad an advance will follow each year to certain limit, bhe has also been ap pointed to take charge of the primary work in Minnehaha County institute this summer.

Scotland Citizen-Republican: Sheriff Eads passed through here yesterday morning with three men whom he was taking to the penitentiary at Sioux Falls. Two of them, Emanuel Bucholz and Henry Quoteer, plead guilty to the charge of burglary and were sentenced to a year and a half each, and Samuel Kagrice plead guilty to adultery and was given two years. George Brace of Sioux Falls stopped in town Monday night while on his way to Douglas county where he owns a large of land. Deputy United States Marshal Ludlow of Sioux Falls was in our city Tuesday. STATE SCHOOL FUNDS Clerk of the Chicago School Board Con fesses a Shortage of Many Thousands.

Chicago, July lS.William A. R. Gra ham, ex-school agent, clerk and secre tary of the board of education, is a self- confessed defaulter in the sum of 5C0. Positive proof of the shorta was discovered today together with letter left by Mr. Graham euthoriziuz the conveyance of all his property for the purpose of liquidating his shortage The ex-secretary has left the city and agents for his bondmen, tne National Surety company, of New York, and the City Trust and Safety; Deposit compa ny, of Philadelphia, who are each his surety for $50,000, are now endeavoring to find him.

In connection with his position with the board he acted as school agent and handled all the moneys of that uody, amounting to thousands of dollars annually. On June 17 County Superintendent Auber T. Bright gave Mr. Graham his check for $50,000, which the rules of the board required should be deposited with the city treasurer, upon whom all vouchers are drawn in payment of the bills against the school board. Instead of depositing this check with the city Mr.

Graham took it to the Chicago National Bank and deposited it to his account as school agent. On the 26th of June Mr. Graham drew his check for $15,000 on the Chicago National bank and deposited it with the city treasurer to the cerdit of the state dividends. The balance of the $50,000 he kept for his own use. At the last meeting of the board Mr.

Graham failed of re-election as secretary. President Harris, of the school board, soon after this informed Mr. Graham that it would be necessary to have the books examined by an expert merely as a business proposition. Mr. Graham objected to this and said he did not want them examined.

This confirmed the suspicions which President Harris has entertained for some time as to the condition of Graham's accounts, and he ordered an expert accountant to examine the accounts of the board. Today the shortage was developed. The amount of property to be turned over by Graham will not amount te over $10,000. It is supposed that stock speculation was the cause of Graham's downfall, e.a it is known he was operating on it quite heavily. It is thought Graham is now on his way South American countries.

to some The village board of Carthage recently held a special meeting to consider applications for permits to sell liquor. It was decided to reject the applications, and the board announces that no licenses to sell liquor will be granted. The Lincoln County court house at Canton is being enlarged and otherwise improved. trying to hold our boys as long as he'amount it is not to be wondered at that the relatives and friends of the members of the South Dakota regiment are growing inpatient at the delay in returning that regiment to their native land. The boys hove been long absent and have been in great peril, which has made weeks seem like months, and months like years.

Now that the fighting la over for them and their places are to be taken by regular troops the boys them- and their relatives in this coun try are naturally impatient at every de lay which postpones the re-union. The worry of friends in South Dakota is the- greater because the rainy season is now on, and the health of many of the beys is more or less affected by it, nence it is most natural that there should be more or less of complaint at every delay, even when delay is tin avoidable, for the separation has been made longer by the imminence of death and disease and the great distancs which has separated the boys from their friends. But it is not the relatives who are doing the shouting about it. This re mains for a lot of fellows who see in the delay a chance to play a little politics, and you may be sure that they are playing it for all and rather more than it is worth. The number on the sick list is printed, under triumphant headlines and in glaring type in order the more to alarm the friends of the soldiers and to increase their anxiety and suffering.

The War Department is inferentially blamed for this as if it could have prevented sickness had it been disposed to do so. The President is berated, and villified, and billings- gated, because the South Dakota have not already sailed, and this in apparent oblivion of the fact that General Otis, who is in command of the cam paign, does not dare to reduce his force beyond a certain minimum limit, and that the places of the volunteers must be rilled, and that the new recruits must be given certain training before they can effectually fill the places of the volunteers: In apparent oblivion also of the fact that the interest of the administration is to get the volunteers home as speedily as it can possibly and safely be done, and that the wishes of President McKinley and or the relatives are identical in this respect. There may be some few narrow partisans who will believe that President McKinley has picked out the South Da kota regiment for persecution, and that he is keeping our boys there when they could just as well have been sent home, and doing it at expense to the government, and to the irritation of the boys and the deep anxiety of their friends, but with such partisans it is not worth while to argue. Life is too short to waste time with such people. No well- balanced and honest man believes it, or can be made to believe it, no matter how msny adjectives, or how much big black type are used in promulgating the idea.

It is too bad that so sacred a thing as the love of a mother for her or of a father for his son, should be dragged in the mire of political contention and be made the foundation for vote-getting. We think but little of the man who would try to so prostitute sacred and lofty sentiments. Now that the South Dakota regiment is through fighting, everybody is anxious for them to be brought home as soon as it cau be done. The boys themselves arc anxious, the relatives are anxious, and the Administration at Washington are anxious. Justice demands, however, that the regiments be sent home in the order of their departure for the field of hostilities, and safety demands that the volunteers be sent away no more rapidly than the new recruits arrive.

Good sense also requires that the home-coming transports be not over-crowded, for the soldiers who come are not in as good physical condition as those who go, and it will not do to carry so many back on a given transport as are taken out. The folly of over-crowding transports with soldiers wearied by a hard campaign was shown at the close of hostilities in Cuba. To the prent3 and relatives of the boys the Argus-Leader need not say that they will have to exercise the virtue of patience for a few more weeks until the boys arrive. To the coldblooded politicians who are using this incident for political effect, the Argus-Leader would suggest that long before there is any voting to be done, the warfare in the Philippines will be over, and that their brutal attempt to win votes out of a situation which could not be avoided will be remembered long after the present anxieties are forgotten, and the present impatience soothd by th boys' rturn. NO CENSORSHIP THERE.

There ia no press censorship at Washington. The War Department has instructions from the President himself to give to the public all the news received except that which must be kept quiet from military necessity. And these instruct tions have been complied with. If there is a 'too rigid censorship in the Philippines, General Otis is responsible for it. A MOUTHY MAJOR.

Major R. C. Warne, of the South Dakota regiment, says we have treated the Filipinos "more false than they were ever treat- Lng wlth the enemieB of the united A-V" A A V. CRITICISING OTIS The Harsh Criticisms While Having Some Foundation Appear to be Extreme. Chicago Tribune; James Creelmat), the correspondent of the New York' Journal, left Manila in the spring after the operations at Malolos and Santa Cruz.

He is now at London, whence he telegraphs a sharp critclsm of General Otis, who is in command of the military forces' in the Philippines. According to him that General is en utter failure and unless he is removed and a competent man put in hia place the Philippine campaign will be a failure, Creelman asserts that General Otis is "a fussy old man," who "immerses himself in petty details of municipal affairs and custom-house cases." who is fit to command a regiment but Las none of the. qualifications of the commander of an army. It is alleged that he wasted by his dilatoriness a good part of the dry season, and that Ad miral Dewey, convinced of his incom petency to deal with the complicated question presenting themselves, telegraphed to tne President to send a com mission of men skilled in statesmanship and diplomacy to Manila. It may be that there Is some truth In these allegations.

General Otis may not be in all respects the man for the place. It is certain that the late campaign conducted by him has not accomplished much except to show that the American soldiers can drive the Tagals before them with great ease. "The backbone of the rebellion" not appear to have been broken by the operations of the last few months. The Americans 6eem to have occupied towns only in order to evacuate them. As they move out the insurgents move in.

General 0ti3 does not 6eem to hold much more territory than he did lssf February. All this may not be his fault, however, but the fault of circumstances. The President and the War department must know quite as much about General Otis' merits and demerits as Mr. Creelman. The fact that he has not been recalled is evidence that he is not the incompetent the correspondent claims he is.

Mr. Creelman has a personal grievance. The military censor at Manila struck out of his dispatches matter which "the American people had a right to know," and when an appeal was taken to General Otis he sustained the censor, saying according to Mr. Creelman, that "any man who writes anything about this campaign contrary to my wishes will be expelled from the Philippines." This may have so jarred on Mr. Creelman's feelings as to make it impossible for him to criticise General Otis dispassionately.

It must be admitted that General Otis has not had enough troops. Of those he did have some were so raw that he deemed it unwise to use them, and had to rely almost exclusively on the volunteers. He had no cavalry, wheras had he been well supplied with that arm of the service he could have accomplished much more with less loss. He has had men enough to make military promenades and rout the Filipinos wherever he met them, but not enough to enable him to garrison the places captured and keep opeo communications with Manila. When active operations are resumed after the rainy season is over there will doubtless be men enough available to hold what is won and satisfy the Filipinos that the American 8re there to stay.

The inhabitants of the various towns occupied by the Americans will not break with the insurgents until they are convinced that that occupation is permanent and that they are not to be abandoned to Aguinaldo. As for General Otis, he has had the experience of one campaign. He has learned considerable about the country, its people, and their methods of carrying on war. He may have been over-sanguine last spring, but he is cured now of any illusions he may have had them about the immediate crushing-out of the insurrection with a few men. It may not be easy, therefore, to find a better man for the place.

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Louis, July 19. The following special to the Globe Democrat is received from a well known diplomat at New York: There is a point, difficult to define, at which political opposition to the party in office becomes something very much akin to treason. This is particularly the case when the gov ernment is on the eve of hostilities, or has a full-fledged war upon its hands, and no words are adequate to denounce the disloyalty and lack of patriotism of such a course. As one oehind the scenes during the difficulties of Great Britain with Egypt irom the time just previous to the de position of Khedive Ismail, until i couple of years before the sudeu death fhis son Tewfik, I had both at Cairo and in London plenty of opportunity of observing the extent to which the course of the British Government and of its representatives in Egypt was handicapped and obstructed by the political opposition at Westminister. Whenever the English Cabinet made some demand upon either Egypt herself or upon some of the foreign powers on the subect of the Land of the Nile, the parties upon whom the de mand was made were invariably en couraged to resist it by the opposition in Parliament on the banks of the Thames.

Before complying with the behests of the British diplomatic representative at Cairo, the Khedive and the Egyptian Ministers would invariably delay until they had time to consult the opposition party in London, and tha latter, with the object of embarrassing tht administration, frequently encouraged them to resist. Khedive and Ismail and his two successors have each of them maintained resident secret agents in London for the purpose of remaining in touch with the leaders of the opposition, and only the late Lord Vivian, Sir Edward Malet and Lord Cromer could give any idea of the degree to which they have been thwarted in this manner. It is doubtful whether Khedive Ismail would have ever dared to embark uponthe course which led to his deposition had he not been encouraged by English friends and cronies such as the late DukB of Sutherland, old Sir George Elliott, Sir Samuel Baker and others, to repect the demands of Lord Vivian and of Sir Rivers Wilson. In the same way Arabi Pasha would never have dreamt of inaugurating the movement which led to an anti-Christian rebel lion, to the sacking and bombarding of Alexandria and to the British occupation of the Land of the Nile, had it not been for the counsel of such men as Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Sir W'illiam Greg ory, Wilfrid Blunt and others, who as sured him that under no circumstances would the Gladstone Cabinet of the day be permitted either by its supporters or by its Tory opponents to fulfill its threats of resorting to arms for the purpose of securing compliance with its demands. If I recall these Egyptian experienc es it is with the obect of pointing out the extraordinary harm which is being done at the present moment in this country by the so-called anti-expansionists, and in England by the so-called "Little Englanders." These is no doubt that President Kruger and the Transvaal would have yielded long ago to the demands of the Salisbury administration, as represented by Sir Alfred Milner, had it not been for the encouragement which the Boer authorities receive from the Liberals in England and from the Schreiner Cabinet at the Cape of Good Hope.

President Kruger and his fellow countrymen recall the fact that they owe the restoration of their independence to a Glad-stonian Liberal administration, and naturally turn today a willing ear to the utterances of the Liberal press and Liberal politicians, to the effect that under no circumstances would Great Rritain he willing to go to war witn the Transvaal for the sake of the Uit landers, who are declared both by the Liberals in Great Britain and by the Cape Cabinet to be totally unworthy of sympathy and to have no cause for complaint. President Kruger has been led to believe that the Liberal party in England is a great deal stronger and more powerful than it really is, and that if he can only manage to hold out a little longer it will soon be restored to office and imediately withdraw the demands which have been presented in the namB of England at Pretoria. That is the secret of his resistance. It is possible that the war witn bpain might have been averted haa not tne e-nvemment at Madrid. been misled by tho nHprane.es of certain members of thP Senate and Congress who were led by their hostility to the McKinley administration into expressions of so much sympathy for the Spaniards that the lattpr became convinced mat tne threats of war would never be carried into effect.

it is the same at present witn tne Phllinnine insurrection. All who have lately returned from the far Orient are unanimous in declaring that Aguinaldo and his rebels would have given up tne struggle long ago had it not been for the encouragement which they have received in the past and are still obtaining today from Senator Hoar and his fellow anti-expansionists. The latter and their organs of the press convey the assurance to Aguinaldo that the sympathy of a large and powerful por tion of the American peopie is wim me Filipinos in their rebellion; that at least a maoritv of the United States is in favor of granting full independence to the Filipinos and of an American withdrawal from the islands, and that providing the rebels can continue the struggle long enough, the champions ot their cause in this country will in course of time obtain control of the direction of affairs and concede to the Filipinos the independence for which the yare now fighting. Capt. Dyer of the Baltimore; ex-United States Minister Barrett.

General Harrison Oti3 and others who have lately been on the very scene of the nostuuies, are perfectly right when they urge that hundreds of American lives and millions of American dollars might have been saved had it not been for the Unpatriot ic iittfinnr.ea rtf itltcp YUlli ipip Tlfl 311(1 1 newspaper writers who permit mere J. KEATING 103 Thillips Ave. 8. Mlmieliaba Building Sioux Falls, S. D.

DAILY ARGUS -LEADER TOMLINSON DAY Editors and Pkoprietoh This Data In 19. 1S2J Augustine TsurMile. tx-emiionir of Mexico, was exifiiti'il; born 173. Iturbi.li bffrau his caroiT us ii most viiliar.t ami loyal soldier In the armies of tins king of Kpaln ami helped put down numerous Insurrections by a rigorous hand. Finally he con Dorothea dived a plan tf tmle- Dix.

rpiiik'nfp and did not stop until tho yoke of Pphln was cast off forever. 1R4.V-Great lire In New York city; loss, J10.RD.000. 18S7 Dorothea Lynde Dix, eminent philanthropist, died In Trenton; born In Worcester, N.i5. 18SS Rev. Edward l'nyson Roe, the popular American novelist, died at Corn-wall-on-the-Hudson; born JS96 General Joshua K.

Siegfried, a Federal veteran, died at Pottsville; born 1S32- REPUBLICAN TICKET. Supreme Court Judges. DIGHTON CORSON. H. G.

FULLER. DICK HANEY. And now who is abusing the South Dakota troops? After they get the Fourth of July abolished, the aunties would do well to abolish Dewey. That Hobson bug, like the smoke nuisance, has got so far west as Sioux City, but Bonesteel is still to be heard from. The Sioux City Journal says: "No one can know it all." But of course there are exceptions.

There is Mr. Bryan, for instance. Governor Lee has broken out again in a new place. It is increasingly evi dent that the Governor has decided to retire from politics at the end of his present term. The manager of the local telephone would do well to post up a copy of the old sign in a far western church: "Don't shoot at the organist he is do-, ing 'the best he can." Former Congressman Stone of Kentucky, and the Democratic candidate for Governor are threatening to fight a duel to further advertise the harmony which prevails in the party in the blue grass state.

A soda water fountain in New York exploded the other day, and fatally injured one man. Now if some ice cream parlor will blow up, the summer season will be robbed of half its horrors for the impecunious young swain. And now it appears that there is a dispute as to whether Bryan was or was not cheered as he drove up the streets of Sioux Falls. If one really cares to know, why not Interview some of those who were on the streets at the time? The "charge" against Senator Gal-linger is that he passed the hat in the last campaign. On the strength of this serious allegation, over-pious reformers throw up their hands in holy horror, but practical politicians wink the other eye.

About a year ago, we were informed by the local leader of a great party that land in South Dakota was constantly decreasing in price. It would be awkward for him to repeat tht statement now. Land values are going up stead ily. If you don't believe it, try to buy a farm at the 1S96 price then lis ten for the laugh which will roll out. For six months the Pop press has been exhausting its billingsgate in denunciation of the Republican papers which last winter printed letters complaining of Colonel Frost.

They have declared with uninterrupted abuse that those papers were assaulting our brave soldiers in the field. Now Senator Pet- tigrew is having printed letters which charge Colonel Frost with being a "contemptible cur" and other choice things. Who is abusing our brave can, against their direct wishes." This is interesting, in view of the denunciation which is being made of the War Department and General Otis because he has not sent the boys home, and is especially so because Col. Frost is the pet of Governor Lee. MAJ.

WARNE ON COL. FROST. Major R. C. has written a somewhat surprising letter to Senator Pettigrew.

We have already called attention to the Major's denunciation of his own country by declaring that, our treatment of the Filipinos has been more false than treatment accorded them by the Spaniards which is certainly a surprising thing for an officer to say of his own country in time of war. But this is not the startling thing about Major Warne's letter. The Major comes out in the bitterest and most scathing denunciation of Colonel Frost, who was selected Colonel of the regiment because he was a pet of Governor Lee, and whose choice was praised by every Populist paper in the state. Of Colonel Frost, Major Warne says: "He is a low contemptible cur looking only for his own interests." He would gladly sacrifice every man in the regiment for a few dollars in his pocket, or a little glory for Frost." "He has no interest in our state, has no in terest in our men except to use both for his own selfish advancement." Colonel Frost Is accused of holding up applications for discharge, of refusing to forward them to the proper authorities, of calling his subordinate officers "cowards" because they allowed their men to make such requests, and cowards because they allowed their men to go on the sick list. This is quite an indictment for one Populist to make of another.

Perhaps it would have been better all around if Governor Lee had swallowed his personal epite and had appointed an old South Dakotan soldier like Colonel Sheafe to be leader of the South Dakota boys. and the Bryan calls Aguinaldo the George Washington of the Orient, and Murat Halstead speaks of him as "that little whelp" with any appropriate adjective where the dash appears. Between these two views there is much opportunity for talk. A FRIENDLY ADMIRAL. As showing the friendliness or the English to the Americans in the Manila bay, this amusing and, it is thought true story ia told, reaching us through the columns of the Lawrence (Kas.) Journal: Here is a mighty good story and probably a true one that Capt.

Coghlan told at the Winfield meeting: Dewey tailed into Manila harbor, fought his I 11 tl a In le tl at troops now? jtd by. the Spanish" and that when all.