The Topeka Daily Capital from Topeka, Kansas • Page 9

PART SECOND. PAGES TO 12. TOPE KA, KAN. SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1897. FAMOUSDELAGOABAY EHPEROR AND POPE.

66o ut Th yos necessity Demands We Sacrifice Our Summer Gtock, Without Reserve or Choice Regardless of Cost. Fall Stock Crowding Us for Room Room Clust Co Had. WORK TOMORROW AND EVERY DAY DURING SUMMER CLEAN SWEEP SALE! against the party of the Prussian squirearchy, hurling this threat at it: "You can not pass here." What almost the whole nation fears la the subjection of thought and liberty to the absolutism of the official and the drill sergeant, the break with the traditions of high civilization and liberal federalism, the enthronement of the Prussian system and of the rule of sic volo. sic Jubeo. The Kaiser has waited too long to get the upper hand of the people.

The nation has put on the toga vlr lis; it can no longer be led back to the barracks or to the office desk. If Prussia has in the past won the supremacy over the other lands of Germany, It is because she put herself at the head of the idea of unity and because she had become the most enlightening center of knowledge. Today the Kaiser seems to wish to make of her a center of reaction, a kingdom of militarism. That Is too much. He may stretch out his arm against the modern world, he can not overcome It.

But, if in spite of these serious reasons. William II, should persist in his Caligula dreams, Europe would see a strange sight. That Germany, which claimed to have succeeded the Latin races in directing the universe, would suddenly become the Paraguay of absolutism, of monarchy in the style of Louis XIV. Every oife would watch with deep interest the duel of a people with its There is no need of pointing out the consequences, easily guessed, of such a struggle for the division of influence over the world. If, on the contrary, the reaction yields, it is lost; it would be the last flash in the conflagration of all conservative policies.

The Kaiser's authority would receive a fatal wound. Three times already he has drawn back before the non servlam of the people. This time, on account of the extent and the greatness of the stake, he would lose the last remnant of the prestige which in the eye of the the nations demands respect, esteem and obedience. It would be Charles without the or-donnances. Just as, if he carries out his design to the end.

he may be Charles with the ordonnances and exile. The United States will see the meaning of this dramatic episode in its Intellectual, political, international and religious lights. Rome, whatever happens Is freed from a moral danger. With the end of the hidden collaboration of certain Catholic groups with the Prussian state, the Papal lines of action will no longer meet, either In the United States or In other Important parts of the globe, with the barriers, which a human will strove to raise against the present mission of the Papacy and of Catholicism. Erasmus said of the Prussians of his time: "There is always something foolish in whatever proceeds from the Lutheran." We will say that on the contrary "there Is always something dangerous in whatever comes from the Prussian." The fact Is demonstrated, let us no longer deceive ourselves with delusions.

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Refunded, i fiiiAttAl Colonel McMurdo's operations were at first hampered by rumors of a scheme of the Portuguese and Transvaal governments to build, parallel with and close to his line, not a railroad, but a "tramway," which, while not violating the concession in terms, would do so in fact, and largely destroy the value or his grants. He at first formed a Portuguese company for building the road and exploiting his concession-, with" a capital of $2,500,000. The rumors about the tramway prevented a success of this company, however, and its shares -were presently transferred to an English concern known as "The Delagoa Bay and East Africa Railway Company, Limited." in March. this company issued bonds to the amount of $2,000,000. and subsequently Increased them to $3,730,000.

Work on the construction of the railroad was then passed under the direction of Sir Thomas Tancred, and by November, 18S7, the road was completed to the Transvaal frontier. Then, to the consternation of everybody concerned, the Portuguese government declared that it must build some distance further on, and that it must be thus extended and completely finished within eight months from that date. Against this the company vigorously protested, but at the same time undertook the additional work. Tha eight montlrs in question comprised, however, the whole of the rainy season, and during five of those months It was Impossible to do any work. The expiration of the eight months, therefore, found the supplementary portion of the road not quite finished.

Thereupon, at the end of June, 1SS9, the Portuguese government revoked the concession and confiscated the entire railroad property, which tl has ever since managed for its own benefit. About this time Col. McMurdo died. But his rights were taken up by both the British and American governments. Several British warships were sent to Delagoa bay.

and Portugal was warned that she would be held strictly responsible for any Injury or loss to British subjects. The United States government also made some vigorous representations on behalf of Col. McMurdo's heirs and other American investors. After some months of diplomatic fencing it was agreed by the three governments concerned that the whole matter should be submitted to arbitration. The Swiss government was called upon to act as arbitrator, and It appointed, in September, 1S90, three of its most eminent Jurists to constitute the tribunal.

These were acceptable to the three governments, and on June 10, 1891, the representatives of Great Britain, the United States and Portugal formally signed the writ of submission. Arbitration proceeded deliberately. Not until February 1, 1892, was the court organized. The claims of the Delagoa Bay company, demanding compensation to the amount of $7,250,000, were laid before the court in March, 1892, and soon after the claims of Mrs. McMurdo were added for nearly $1,500,000 more.

Nine months later the Portuguese government filed its answer. Rejoinder and sub-rejoinder followed, and not until November, 1894, were the written pleadings finally closed. Since that date similar deliberation has been observed although the British and American governments have used all proper means to hasten decision. Many of the points Involved were purely technical, and in order to deal with them Intelligently the court decided, just a year ago, to appoint an expert commission of engineers to assist It. This commission dispatched one of its number, Mr.

NIcolle, to Delagoa bay in November last to examine the entire route and report upon it. He returned from his errand a few weeks ago. and has now made his report to the tribunal. It Is expected that a date will soon be set for a final hearing. The American claimants will be represented by Messrs.

Robert Ingersoll and John Trehane of the United States and Mr. Wyss of Switzerland; the British claimants by Messrs. E. M. Un-derdown, Q.

and Malcolm Mcllwraith of England and Charles Bolceau of Switzerland, and the Portuguese government by four eminent Swiss lawyers. The decision of this tribunal will fix beyond dispute the ownership of this railroad with Its monopoly for 99 years of the shortest route to the sea from what is probably the richest mineral region in the world. Competent engineers thoroughly acquainted with that country and with the whole subject estimate the concession to be worth at present more than which is several times the entire claim made against Portugal. It may be added that the Transvaal end of the line Is now completed as far as Pretoria. As to ownership of Delagoa bay Itself.

Great Britain has thus far acquiesced in the decision of the French president. It is interesting to recall, however, that in June, 1873, the British government proposed to that of Portugal a mutual agreement to the effect that whichever way that award might be given "the power in whose favor the award is made will not entertain any proposal for the acquisition of the territory by any other power until the defeated claimant shall have had an opportunity of making a reasonable for the acquisition of that territory, either by purchase or for some other consideration." To this the Portuguese government agreed. As the case stands, therefore. Portugal is the owner of Delagoa bay. but Is bound not to transfer it to the possession of any other power without giving Great Britain the first opporunity to acquire It.

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At the time of the Jameson raid, or a little after. Germany sent two warships thither. Since then Great Britain tta sent a fleet. There have been rumors that Germany was about to seize the bay, and also that Great Britain was; that the Transvaal government had secured by purchase a controlling interest there, and that Great Britain had done the same. In not one of these tales is there probably the slightest truth.

But they have served to attract much attention' to that much-coveted bay. which forms the nearest port and only practical means of Ingress and egress of the richest gold mining region in the world. What is true, moreover, is that the long pending dispute over the Delagoa bay railroad. In which the United States is deeply interested, is at the point of final settlement. It Is now before the arbitration tribunal in Switzerland, and a decision is expected during the present year, upon which the ownership of fortunes "beyond the dreams of avarice" will depend.

The history of Delagoa bay, says the New York Tribune, dates back to the time of the hero of the Luslad. It Is now more than 3C0 years since Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese explorer, discovered it and made a landing at the place now known as Lorenzo Marques, Just at the north of the mouth of the river called by the Portuguese the "Espiritu Sancto," but more generally known as the English river. No serious attempt was made by the Portuguese to colonize or to control that region, although they claimed ownership of It by the right of discovery. In the eighteenth century the Dutch, who then owned Cape Colony, declined to recognize the Portuguese ownership, and established a fort and trading station of their own on the south side of the English river. Just opposite Lorenzo Marques.

To this the Portuguese made no objection. The Dutch post was not long maintained, however, and down to the early part of the present century that whole, region was still in a state of primeval savagery. After the Napoleonic wars the Dutch possesions In South Africa passed into the hands of the British, and the latter, observing the neglected condition of Delagoa bay, sent an expedition thither. The bay was for the first time carefully purveyed, and treaties were made with the native chiefs in that neighborhood by which they ceded their respective territories absolutely to Great Britain. After concluding these treaties, the British commander.

Captain Owen, sailed for Madagascar. During his absence a British schooner from Cape Town entered the southern part of the bay, which was the part of it over which Captain Owen had established British The Portuguese authorities at Lorenzo Marques promptjy seized it and condemned It to be sold. "Before it was sold, however, Captain Owen returned. He at once showed to the Portuguese authorities the treaties he had concluded, and warned them that British authority must be respected. The Portuguese yielded and released the schooner.

This was In 1823, and for half a century thereafter nobody ventured to dispute Great Britain's ownership of the southern half of Delagoa bay. That territory was continuously treated as British. But in 1S71 the Portuguese again seized a British ship this time hailing from Natal. Mr. Gladstone was then prime minister, and Lord Kimberly was colonial secretary.

Had they firmly maintained the title of Great Britain to property that had been Indisputably British for 30 years. Portugal would have yielded promptly, as before, and there would have been no further dispute about Delagoa bay. Instead, they hesitated and paltered, and finally agreed to submit the case to arbitration, without appeal. The president of the French republic was named as the sole arbitrator. M.

Thiers was at that time president, but was soon after succeeded by Marshal MacMahon. Tlxe latter decided In favor of Portugal and against Great Britain, and the latter acquiesced in the decision, although the equity of it has never been admitted. It was not long after that time that the secret cause of Portugal's aggressive attitude was revealed. The Portuguese governor at Lorenzo Marques had heard rumors, and by thorough investigation had confirmed them, that gold in large quantities was to be found throughout the Transvaal Republic.withln 100 or 150 mile of Delagca bay. Of this he made certain before a single hint of It had reached English ears.

He knew that Delagoa bay was the natural outlet for the enormous trade that would soon be developed In that region. He therefore reckoned It worth while to play a desperate game for securing to Portugal sole possession of the bay. In this, thanks to his audacity aid to the weakness and blundering of the British government of the day. he succeeded. Portugal has now, therefore, undisputed possession of the entire bay and its two islands.

Marshal MacMahon's decision did not end the controversies in that quarter, however. It was soon seen to be desirable that a railroad should be constructed from the bay to the heart of the Transvaal Republic. In December, 1S75. the Transvaal entered into an agreement with Portugal for the construction of such a road. If Portugal would have a road built from the bay to the Transvaal frontier, a distance of about 55 miles, the Transvaal would continue it from that point to Fretorla.

or "up to a center of production which should insure the traffic of the line and the development of international commerce." Eight years later, in December. the Portuguese government granted to an American citizen. Colonel Edward McMurdo. a charter for the building of a railroad from Lorenzo Marques to the Transvaal frontier. A concession was granted to him for the operation of the railroad for S3 years, during which Portugal agreed not to allow the construction of any other railroad for a distance of 70 miles on either side of his line.

That concession gave him a practical monopoly cf the inland trade from Delagoa bay, and In consideration of the enormous value of that monopoly he asked for no subsidy or other aid from the Portuguese government. He. however, received various land and, otter grants of enormoua value. Leo XIII's View of Break With German Catholics. Th Centre Join the Revolt Aealnat Pro-ian Absolution) End of a Most Harmful Alliance.

Rome dispatch in New York Sun. When for the first time the German Kaiser descended the Alps, in Imitation of the Emperors of the Middle Afces, and went to visit the "House of the Seer." Leo XlfL, after sinking his clear and piercing gaze into the enigmatic soul of the sovereign, dictated the conversation to his confidant. Mgr. Boccali, saying to him with a sigh: "That young man Inspires no confidence in me. He had when he entered my presence the sardonic rictus." This first impression continued.

The second visit of William II. modified, but did not efface it. Leo XIII. can read men's souls. He believes In vocation, in the predestined fate of men.

He has never founded any hopes on collaboration vith the young sovereign. When Bismarck fell from the heights of power he felt that he was losing a part of his Influence in the world. The reactionary crisis of which Germany Is the agitated scene therefore interests In the highest degree the "White Man." From the time when the Im-perator-Hex, as the descendant of the Hohenzollerns likes to style himself, became false to his first ideal by turning the point of his sword against democracy after having tried for a moment to dominate It and to bind It to his Insolent fortune, there has been a silent struggle between the direction taken by German policy and the leading ideas of the Roman Pontificate. The social, Democratic, Republican tendencies of the Holy Father seem to the Kaiser to be forces that would excite modern society and help the popular development of humanity. The directions to adhere to the French republic, the strong partiality of the Pope for the United States, were in hfs mind a menace to the Imperial hegemony through the natural reflex action of the "adhesion" in France on the current of European rivalry.

The socialistic and Democratic teachings of the Papacy seemed to him to be the moral organs of respiration of Democracy, creating a new atmosphere in which the rise of the people would take place as though It were a natural phenomenon. Now. the Kaiser had keer a perception of the projectile force of the moral Ideas which the Papacy has in its holy care to misunderstand the influence of directions from Rome on the ebb and flow of human affairs. He formed a shrewd plan. To make friends with, the Centre, to which he gave guarantees by appointing Prince von Hohenlohe to the highest position in the empire: to maintain points of contact with all religious forces which throughout the world were opposing th democratic evolution of the Papacy; to make use of German Catholicism In order to turn back the popular current and to fight a decisive battle, against democracy; to Check thus the general mover-ment of Christianity in the direction of eoclal studies and popular refprms; such was the hidden thought of the young Emperor and King.

We have seen in consequence the Centre allying itself to the work of reaction, to the policy of quleta non movere. While the sovereign followed the counsels of Baron vor Stumm, the "King of the and sent out to the socialistic pastors the Imperious command, "Hajide wcg" (hands off), several Catholic ami church groups ordered the Centre to halt in the presence of the socialistic- agnu Ian movement and to lend the most effective assistance to the con-tse-rvative operations. At thy Dortmund Congress the Fathers Joseph of the Centre, the political leaders of CatholichTn. struck out from the program of studies end of action every democratic command. Catholic Journals have been seen falling In with the, refractory parties of France, of America and of other countries, to silently tear down a breach in the work of Leo XIII and denouncing democratic Ideas as the allies of socialists and demagogues.

It is thup, to cite one marked example, that the Kolner Volkszeitung and the Center have contributed powerfully to cast discredit upon American Catholicism. We have looked upon the strange spectacle of cardinals, bishops and eminent Catholic personages acting in unison with Protestant Germany to check the course of the Papacy. They were tacit conspirators if not conferedates officially bound to each other. The ecclesiastical counsellors said to the Kaiser: "It is not by direct struggle that we shall get the better of France republicanism and of the democratic instructions of the Holy See, but by usins? both currents, by the sympathetic union with the Center and the conservative parties." Well, the present crisis marks the pitiable failure of this Intrigue. The Center, notwithstanding Its ardent longing, has been unable to follow the Kaiser as far as the borders of absolutist reaction.

By Its vote on the bill against free associations and that on the of the fleet it has marked the limits of Its alliance. It was bringing about the division of responsibility between the sovereign, yearning for glory and the rule of absolute authority, and the religious party, whoso foundation rests on the soul of the people. It quivered Instinctively In sympathy with the whole empire when the Kaiser made manifest his design to hand Germany over to the greet! of the Junkerthum and to the domination of the Prussian military bureaucracy. The crisis was a violent one; it marked distinctly the break with the Center. Like the Liberals, the Progress party.

the Social Democrats, and the South Germans, it has regained its independence and refused to enter the path of reaction. From the Papal and Catholic point of view this brealt has important bearings. Just as the Latin Catholics have broken the bonds which bound them to the royalists, legitimists, and conservatives, the German Center can not. without loss of dignity, join Its fate to that of the mystic, absolutist Kaiser. It Is not for me to Inquire at the present time whether William 31.

will pursue his idea to the very end or whether, as he has done thrice already, he will lower the majesty of his iron crown before the uprising of che people. I believe he will draw back. Free Germany, middle class Germany. Intellectual, political, and social Germany, the Germany that works, even the Germany that serves the King, while holding its own opinions on the methods of government, the whole UUon tut risen with terrible unanimity PATTERNS, MODELS GEAR CUTTINC BRASS WORK. CALL OX Bel! Phone 192.

"Tike IPiece hung, and the day but just begun All women who have i Lovers Scriipulonaly Obey Their Tom for Near a Third of a Century. A bright example In constancy and filial devotion Is afforded in the experience of a couple recently wedded in Liberty township, Indiana, the newly married pair being Mr. and Mrs. Henry Foreman, who reside on their. 400-acre farm near Green-town.

In point of age both bride and and groom have passed the half-century mark. Though lovers from early childhood and betrothed from youth, the marriage was deferred until now, the engagement covering a period of thirty years, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Young Foreman had a- stepmother, to whom he was greatly attached and to whom he solemnly pledged support during-her lifetime, promising not to marry while she remained alive. Contrary to expectations, the Invalid and dependent stepmother lived until a year or more ago.

During the long wait of nearly a third of a century the lovers scrupulously observed their vows, toiling on through the years without a thought of disregarding the pledges given the stepmother or breaking faith in any manner whatever. They grew gray, lived frugally, saved their earnings and patiently bided their time. When death removed the barrier the lovers had accumulated means to buy the largest farm In the township. The minister first engaged to perform the marriage ceremony died of old age many years ago. and a divine of a new generation officiated at the long delayed wedding.

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