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SANTA CRUZ EVENING SENTINEL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1900. WHY TAXES ARE HIGH. General Lew takes up the cudgels for the Sultan, declaring he i Put plenty of meaning into your ads, but never a suggestion of meanness. VENTNG SENTINEL PUBLISHED BT Dascaa McPberson Cbas. W.

Waldron PROPRIETORS. Cor. PaclQc Av. aud Locust St. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.

One week (In advance) 10 cts this country is one of the most alarm-One month (by mail or 25 cts ing features in our national develop- One year 3 00 mcnt, and he fee Is after a five years' practical study of the question, that, The "Evening Sentinel" contains unless some radical check Is put upon three times more reading matter than this increase, it is bound to prove dis-any other 25-cent daily issued on the astrous, both industrially and socially, IVcific Coast. to the American people. Beginning with national expenditures, Mr. Rob farmers in States are (planting nut trees along with their peaches, pears and apples and are utilizing the hillsides, where nothing else will grow, for nut orchards. That is a practice worthy of emulation by farmers of all sections, for the move invariably proves to be a paying investment.

We have a good deal of waste land in this counUy hills of unprofitable sprouts and rocky ledges which can never be cultivated. There is a fortune for future generations if the sires of today would replace underbrush with hickory and walnut. The latter wood is in great demand and even the stumps and roots of the tree are utilized. By planting such trees wealth will be silently growing while one sleeps. F.

A. Hihn informed us some time ago that he intended to set out trees on land from which trees had been removed. No one in this country has done more for the negro than that able representative of his race, Booker T. Washington. He knows the merits and defects of his people and has done much to disillusionize the public with reference to the Afro-American.

He purposes elevating his race through industrial education, and at a large meeting in Madison Square N. the other evening, over which he presided, he called attention to the necessity of free kindergartens for his race. He readily sees that this school takes the child early and develops the mind without any apparent demand upon intellectual forces. It educates the hand, the foot, the entire body, al- though the pupil receives no hint of "being at school." It takes the exuberant forces of childhood and, by means entirely agreeable to the child himself, directs them into wholesome development. It teaches to do and, through doing, to know.

The fact that so able a man and teacher as Mr. Washington sees the value of kindergartens is a tribute of praise which must have its weight In all thoughtful minds. Maine Republicans never do any-' thing by halves, as they have great and wise leadership. It is quite likely the n.ace they have set will be followed by the country. First, they are favor of William McKinley.

That can be said of the party generally. They are glad that the gold standard has been newly surrounded with the sanc- tions and safeguards of public law. We see it stated that nearly all the Northern ouncan Mcpherson. Editor. ADVERTISING RATES.

Legal and Political. Square (ten lines or less) first In eruon tu Cach subsequent insertion 1 00 THE POWDER WORKS. During its entire existence the Powder Works had only four Superintendents prior to the appointment of Robt. Robinson. Mr.

Old held the position first and was followed by Mr. Willard, Mr. Johnson and Col. Peyton, 'lhe Fowder Works were founded in 1SCI. Up to that time Eastern manufacturers, intent upon gain, and without inter- est in the then new mining region, had parceled out the California trade and combined in charging high prices.

sometimes as high as $13 per keg, and that, too, for powder impaired in strength by a six months' sea voyage. It having become evident that this monopoly retarded the development of lhe mines and nnhiic im. provements, some gentlemen identified with the State united, under the lead cf Capt. John H. Baird of San Fran cisco to erect a powder plant upon our own soil, to be operated in the Inter- est of California.

Such was the origin of the California Powder Works. The plaeing of the Santa Cruz powder on the market rescued California from the grasp of Eastern manufacturers, prac- iically driving them out from every Held within reach from Alaska to Mexico; from the ocean to the Rocky Mountains. The vast mineral wealth of the State became more freely devel- oped. Great aid was given to railroad construction, for the powder was large- 2y used for blasting purposes. The in- crease of the plant from time to time in order to accommodate the demand is a matter of local history.

The committee of the Grand 'Army t)f the Republic, consisting of Com- mander-in-Chief A. I). Shaw and Gen ral Daniel E. Sickles, which is en- deavoring to secure national legislation looking to the creation of a court of pension appeals, has submitted the pro- This is the season to do road wbrk. The heavy rains are over and the ground is easily worked.

Mr. Sage of New York adjures young men in this wise: "Always live as far below your receipts as you can." Turkey expresses a willingness to pay our claims just as she does those of othernations. She never pays them. There are 40,000,000 hogs -of the four-footed kind in the United States. The other kind has not yet been classified and enumerated, but they are to be found in every community in the Nation.

The season is soon to open In Santa Cruz, and we hope it will not be said of us as it is said of the hotel people of Florida. A visitor there ruefully remarked that he had been sent to Florida for change and rest, but the landlord got nearly all his change, and the waiters got the rest. With the understanding that Major McLaughlin desires to retire from the Chairmanship of the Republican State Central Committee, the Tulare Register nominates Dr. Pardee of Oakland as a worthy successor. Such selection would, as the Register says, "be a do-served promotion and the party machinery would be headed by a sincere, capable and high minded gentleman." Senator Flint, of San Benito is another man who would prove a popular leader.

His worthy father once represented Santa Cruz as a State Senator. The Westminster Gazette likens the British camjpaign to "the fruitless series of campaigns in which the large, disciplined armies of Spain sought to crush the Cuban insurrection," adding: "Of course our troops far excel in valor and discipline the conscript armies of Spain, and the climate is in our favor, but our enemies equally excel the ragged levies of the Cuban in surgents." That is a pretty fair statement. It certainly gives little consolation to the British heart. Spain could not whip the Cubans. Under similar conditions, and in view of recent defeats, it is again pertinent to ask, can the British whip the Boers he-fore the nations get impatient ana interfere? WOULD GIVE BOYS A CHANCE.

WASHINGTON. Senator Perkins believes boys at naval training schools should be given a chance to enter Annapolis Naval Academy. In order to afford them an opportunity for such training Senator Perkins has given notice of a proposed amendment to the naval appropriation bill authorizing the President to appoint to the naval academy each year six apprentices at naval training schools, three from the Atlantic and three from the Pacific Coast schools, on the recommendation of the commandants, subject to the regular mental and physical examinations. v-' Bin i- a rr PRESCRIPTION MAKES (Mftih MOTHER 63? nmm and U. am, i IT DOES NOT CONTAIN ALCOHOL, WHISKY, OPIUM, COCAINE or other Intoxicant or Narcotic.

A TRIE TEMPERANCE MEDICINE I vca i In the current number of the Popular Science Monthly is a review of a series of reports made by the Hon. Jaaies H. Roberts, who for the five years from January 1, 1894, to January 1, was comptroller of the State of New York. I Mr. Roberts is of the opinion that the i growth of public taxation and debt in erts has pointed out that duringthe decade from 1820 to 1830 these were on the basis of $1 07 per capita.

Up to the outbreak of our Civil War they did not much exceed $2 per capita; from 1S91 to 1897 they were between and $7 per capita, and in 1899 21 per capita; that is to say, the cost of the National Government has recently been from seven to eight times more than it was seventy or eighty years ago. And yet no one would preteri to say, great as the increase in human productivity and wealth has been, that the average income of each American is seven or eight times larger than that of his grandfather. In the State of New J01 the Ppr capita expenditure in 1830 was in 18G. in KM.M 15; in 1897, $4 95. In 18G0 the direct taxes for Stote, county, town and city Purposes in New York were $,4 90 Per caPita! in 189.

20; in 1896, 10 43 that is-'an increase in thirty-six 'ears of 213 Per ceilt- We ai'e all the time Peking for new methods to raise money' higher tax larSer loan llmits' which mercly mean that we are plundering the present and mort- gaging the future. It is most important to call a halt upon ourselves and consider statistics such as we have given. The highest functiou' exercised by government is that of taxation- antl the most danger- 0lls when abnsea'- Scarcely a revolu- tion can be mentioned that can not be traced directly or indirectly to the arbitrary laying of taxes or their ex- eesslve amount. Our national taxation ls not burdensome at present, and is not severely felt in bad times, even if we do make appropriations. What makes the aggregate burden of taxa- tion 80 great is the increasing debts of ciUes for the most Part- am1 nexl to thera eounty and State indebtedness, In a eounty like ours the debt stiould not increase, but diminish.

This is mostly true of States, and surely of the nation at large. We have paid two-thirds of the immense debt of the -ivu war ana practically our satate ls out of debt in both cases Interest charges are saved. In addition to de- crease of oounty indebtedness the great taxes are of the city and borough kind. These swell the ag- water" we are sacrificing every materl-1 al opportunity that might flow to us from abroad, but which is enriching towns where the taxes are low and the consumer pays for his water, milk and syrup. Admiral uewey sajs mat ttiere is no truth in the report that he has with-' Bay will not prove weak now unless the Presidency has driven him clean daft never knew him to break a promise.

He never made one, but always talks around it THE REASON, NOT ADVERTISING. Ed. Argonaut: If, with poor and high-priced hotels, with almost no natural beauties, and with few attractions save those made by man, Florida can attract scores of thousands of visitors within her borders every year, what could1 not California do? There is no season limit in California the season is twelve months long. There is no vain search for climate in California you can get any kind you want in about twenty-four hours. You can even go from San Francisco in July with fog-horns blowing, raw winds blowing, and the thermometer at fifty, and in forty minutes cross the bay to Ross Valley, in Marin County, where there is bright sunshine and the thermometer at seventy-five.

You can get the warm, dry air of the inland cities near the desert, like San Bernardino, the warm, humid air of the sea-board cities near the desert, like San Diego, or the cold, dry air of the high Sierra. You can find every kind of scenery, from the lofty peaks that soar up to the sky around Yosemite, to the limitless leagues of level land in our great interior valleys. You can find mighty rivers rolling placidly to the sea like the Sacramento, and impetuous torrents that hurl themselves over rockv beds and rapids, like the Klamath and the Pitt Rivers. You can find almost every kind of fish that swims, from the fresh-water black-bass and trout to the gigantic Jew-fish of the Pacific, fit rival to Florida's Tarpon. You can find almost every kind of bird that flies, from a canvas-back duck to a black swan.

You can find deer and 'Own Dear and black bear, and if you fQfnar eugh you may find a grizzly niiu uc Dllljf lUill. JUU 1UUUU II 1111. You can find mountain lakes like Ta-hoe one of the most beautiful in the world, to which no Swiss lake is a peer. You can find forests of pine and redwood and the giant sequoias, beside which the scrubby pine forests of Florida seem like a child's toy tin trees. In short, the seeker for health, for sport, or for climate can find more of it in California than almost anywhere in the world, and why any one should go to Florida when he can go to California is a mystery.

But the solution of the mystery is that Florida is advertised and California is not. The Florida hotel companies, steamship companies, ana railway companies deluge the whole country east of the Missouri with advertising matter handsomely printed and illustrated. Yet in all the Eastern periodicals I see but two advertisements of California, one from the Southern Pacific and the other from the Santa Fe. The men at the head of these great corporations care little for passenger business. The money is made in freights.

Hence the is all the advertising California is get ting. Yet if she does not care to advertise her own advantages, I do not see why the railway companies should care to do it for her. JEROME A. HART. St.

Augustine, March, 1900. PARIS IN FRANCE. Scribner's. Pari3 has always been France. All the great movements of the country have been centered' here, whether political, religious, social, literary or artistic; so that any attempt to trace the history of the city launches one immediately into the study of the nation, while an effort to master the history of the French people sends one to Paris.

One realizes this particularly when he comes to study the lives of her great men and women. They may-have been born in the south or east, or north or west, but to rise to the first rank they were obliged to seek the capital. It was there they sought instruction, formed relations, beean their careers, played their parts. A TRAMP'S QUEER SUIT. 1Q Idaho a unique suit for damages nas been filed by a tramp against the Oregon Line.

The hobo recites that he was stealing a ride, being located on the brake rods underneath a car; that he sustained the injuries received owing entirely to the fact that servants of the corporation knew he was there without right and did not put him oft', as was their duty, and lhaC their gross negligence he tne injuries for which he ciaims aamages. uwing to the peculiar claim the attorneys of the road are deeply interested in the case. NSW TO DA LOST, ON MISSION HILL, A BLACK fur boa. Finder will be suitably rewarded by leaving same at this office. ap25-2t FOUND, A GOLD-HEADED UM-brella.

Owner may have same by calling on Byrne proving property and paying for this ad. ap25-2t FOR SALE-FINE DARK BAY mare, 7 years old. good traveler, gentle. Also 3 wagon with 2 seats and t0P- Harness. $1,000 to loan.

Call at 114 Windham E. S. C. ap25-lw They are not pining and wailing for meagre advertising appropriation giv-internatioual bimetallism. The microbe Passenger departments.

This jpiksed measure to some of the most negate. It is true that retrenchment eminent jurists of the country, and it and economy are necessary every place, has been endorsed by them. The com- in state and nation, but it is patent to mittee has also conferred with the every one that is largely city taxes President on the subject. "The legal and expenditures which require authorities and others who have Primary attention. In a measure the examined the bill," said General Shaw, city rules the land- ana when it learns "are of opinion that the measure, if it to rule itself and govern economically Lecomes law, will justify itself by se-! the Statfc and nation will soon follow curing disinterested and promptadjudi- uit- The titv of Santa Cruz can never cation of pension claims.

The proposed greatly prosper till its taxes are court would be composed of men of materially reduced, and it is the height learning and dignity, aud would not, of absurdity to talk of factories locat-like the present Board of Pension Ap- lnS here while our full rates are reals, be appointed by those persons anything like $4 05 on the hundred Ironi whose rulings appeals are taken. dollars. For the specious plea of "free of "anti-imperialism" isn't bothering them a bit. They are for holding on to "our outlying for suppressing the Tagal guerrillas in Luzon; for giving the people of all thes new dependencies a chance to make the best of themselves under enlightened laws and just goverment. That is the gist of Maine Republicanism and sounds like a keynote.

Maine'has sent her big men back to Congress again and has even nominated Captain Bou-telle in hope he will recover. This is generous and credit to Maine. Upon the whole, that Commonwealth 13 always a good example. A LITTLE FUSS ABOUT FEATHERS S. F.

Bulletin. Senator Hoar recently made a speech in support of his bill making It a crime to use the plumage of birds as iiumuiug iui uais. a lew uajs inter the forewoman of a large flower and feather factory replied to Senator Hoar's speech, and her knowledge of the details of the business must have proved somewhat disconcerting to the learned Massachusetts Senator. The forewoman said: "As a matter of fact, manufactured feathers are made from the plumage of edible birds and fowl that is to say, when birds and fowl, such as pigeons, chickens, turkeys, geese, pheasants. have been killed for eating pur ses their plumage is plucked and ade up by deft hands into the hand- poses some ornaments that adorn the head gear of women." It is this matter of fact which the forewoman was familiar with, and 'which the Senator was not, that gave her the better of the argument.

Tur-keys, gtese. pheasants, chickens and other fowl are killed because highly civilized men and women have developed a taste for their flesh, and no one objects to the killing. The forewoman writes that she has worked at the fancy feather trade fifteen years and has never used a songbird. She savS there are 5.0'0 women in New York who would be deprived of employment if Senator Hoar's bill should become a law. 'Sentinpl" C1 Subscribe for the The best paper.

The proposed court would soon be able to simplify the matters of appeals by codifying its decisions, and could make rivommendations to Congress as to further legislation, if any were need- cd." General Shaw has just returned from a trip through thirteen Southern States. He found the old sectional feeling about wiped out. I 1 drawn from the Presidential race. It In answer to numerous inquiries i is reported that he expects to receive; State Superintendent Kirk has offl-' the nomination of the Sound Money cially informed the boards of trustees branch of the Democratic Party. It is throughout the State that in his opin- also said that he is busv writing an ad- ion re-rcgistration is essential in order1 dross t0 the PubHo on the subJct of to vote at any school election.

As tne Soutn African War, and It Is in-Flections for school trustees will be tiniatcd that he proposes to make as a held in every district on the first Fri- 1art of his Platform an expression of day in June, it is important that all sympathy for the Boers. If he did such voters should be registered within the a thing as that would prove that he next four weeks. bas little sense as a diplomat or poli- i tician, and that he has not the slight- est appreciation of the delicacy of the The San Francisco Wave declares situation. But this latter supposition that the California exhibit at the Paris we do not accept that he will discuss Exposition is a farce and a waste of the African War. hero who proved the money appropriated.

The Com-' himself so great a diplomat in Manila I mission are paying $10,000 rental for elegant quarters miles away from the exposition buildings. I.