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Estd. 1889.
Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma, Thursday, July 19, 1900.
Vol. 11, No. 30
STRENGTH
OF CHINA
GIVEN BY A WRITER UPON
THE CHINESE TROUBLES.
Who Gives some Facts
Regarding the Condition and
Fighting Qualities of her
Vast Army.
The Chinese army is numerically
vast and [imposing. First of all, there
are the "Eight Banners,” containing
some 300,000 men, mainly Jdecend-
ants of the Mantchoo fighters and con-
querors, the entire force subdivided
i„*j three groups of Mantchoos, Mon-
gols and Chinese. With them the pro-
fession of war is hereditary, and from
' their ranks are drawn the "Tigers” and
he imperial guird. while pe.-'iaps 41,-
000 are scattered in garrison along the
Manchurian frontier.
The great national army, called the
“Ying Bing” or trhe “Green Flags” is
also known as the “Five Camps, be-
gause split into five distinct parts, fur-
ther subdivided into 18 corps, one for
each province, at the orders of the gov-
ernor general or vicery. On paper,
this army has a strength of 600,000
men, with about one-thfcd available in
time of war. But only a small portion
is armed with modern weapons and
has an up-to-date organization.
Added to these are the “mercenary
troops” which can be called out if need-
ed, and the Mongolian cavalry, to the
number of about 200,000 nominal, but
not more than 20,000 actual. The total
figures show a land army of about 300,-
000 men on a piece footing and of up-
ward of 1,000,000 men on a war basis.
But, as a whole, the army is ineffective
according to Lord Beresford, who has
made a study of it, lacking cohesion,
unity and discipline, and chiefly armed
with weapons long since obsolete.
The drill is hardly more than a mere
physical exercise; there is no adequate
equipment of medical service, trans-
port or commissariat.
There is no coherent body of men en-
titled to the name of an army, the en-
tire force is so divided into separate
groups or camps scattered throughout
tne various provinces. The finest corps
is that known as the Tien-tsin contin-
gent, the pet of Li Hung Chang, which
is equipped with repeating riflles,
Krupp guns and all modern accesso-
ries, besides having had the benefit of
superior drill, and (at least on paper)
better pay-about $4 per month,against
less than half that amount received by
soldiers of the Banner army.
It has been declared that the Tartar
soldier never surrenders, even in the
face of absolute and overwhelming de-
feat; that he will kill his wife and
children and burn himself alive in his
home, leaving nothing but a heap of
ashes for the victors. It is a capital
offense for a Chinese soldier or officer
to fail in any important mission in-
trusted to him, so that if an officer,
outside of his salary and awards, is
sure1 of one thing offiicallf from im-
perial sources it is promotion or de-
capitation.
In conclusion, while the Chinese
army appears most formidable at a
superficial glance, still, as has been
shown above, its organic weakness
more than compensates for its vast
numerical superiority over the allied
army of invasion. But if it is conjoin-
ed to the millions of an enraged popu-
lace there will be danger in the mere
massing of the multitudes, which will
dash upon the invaders like ocean
waves against a rock.
A Southern Democratic'Kick.
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal,
which has stood for four years for a
new Democracy, makes un awful face
in trying to swallow the Kansas City
platform. It concedes that Bryan be-
ing a foregone conclusion, 16 to 1 was
inevitable. That paper says that Bry-
an must be a great man for no great
man in America could stund in his Ne-
braska home at the end of a telephone
wire and dictate a platform to the
leaders of a national convention, and
that the attempt to minimize the fi-
nancial position by transposing it be-
hind a lush of verbiage fools no one,
for it is Bryan’s platform, and free sil-
ver is its shibboleth. When that influ-
ential southern Democratic organ
comes to the expansion and imperial-
ism plank of the platform it braces up
with the courage of its own convic-
tions. It says of the plank opposing
the retention of the Philippines on the
: grounds that the people of those is-
| lands are forever incapable of becom-
ing American citizens:
"This is the weak spot in the nlat-
form. The program with regard t> the
islands suggested in the platform i*
U;opian and Quixotic and impossible
of accomplishment. We have con-
tended for the retention of the Philip-
pines, bu6 we recognize the right, of
the national Democracy to differ with
us on that subject, and we realize ful*j
that it is a* open question, about
which a difference of opinion is legiti-
mate and inevitable. The pronounce-
ment of the Kansas City convention
has not changed our opinion and will
not change it. But the sdbject has
nothing but an acidemic interest for
us. The Philippines are our posses-
sions, and there is no more like’il.o >d
that, after payiug for them, we will
turn them loose than there is that the
planet Saturn will discard its rings.”
DON’T SUIT CLEMENS,
The Socialist Leader of Kansas
not Satisfied with the Dem-
ocratic Platform-
-Eagle.
Callahan Wants Joint Debate.
Callahan is now trying for more no-
toriety by challenging D. T. Flynn to
joint debate. At Kingfisher when
Bryan and Stevenson were nominated,
the local fusionists had a ratification
meeting. Callahan was the principal
speaker and according to the King-
fisher Free Perss, outside of his refer-
ences to Flynn and the free homes leg-
islation it as on usual fault finding
lines. He was not disposed to give
Flynn much credit, free homes, or any-
thing else. He claims that the Repub-
licans had defeated the measure when
he was in congress. He challenged
Flynn to meet him anywhere and un-
dertake to answer the charges he made
against him. He said, so far as that
mule matter was concerned, if Mr.
Flynn would meet him and he failed
to convince the audience that he
(Flynn) was an imposter they might
lead the mule up and hitch him to
that post (pointing to one). During
hi* speech there was not much ap-
plause, but a homesteader from Day
county, who has always voted the Pop-
| ulist ticket, sang out:
“Hurrah for Flynn, the poor man’s
friend!”
Mr. Callahan accepted the challenge
and said Flynn was not the poor man’s
friend.
The Democrats of Milwaukee have
nominated Peck’s Bad Boy for Con-
gress. Representative Lentz was a
sufficiency in that particular line.
Oklahoma Tax Assessment.
The territorial board of equalization
has completed the work of passing up-
on the tax assessments for 1900 as re-
turned by the county clerks. The to-
tal valuation of the the territory is
$49,338,610, an increase of more than
$5,000,000 over last year. The board
made the following tax levy for the
year: For general territorial tax, 8
mills on the dollar; support of normal
school at Edmund, 5 mills; support of
I normal school at Alva, 5 mills; sup-
port of University of Oklahoma at Nor-
man, 5 mills; support of Oklahoma
Agricultural and Mechanical college at
Stillwater, 1 mill; support of Colored
Agricultural and Mechanical college
at Langston, 1 mill; support of deaf
and dumb school at Guthrie, 4 mills;
for board of education fund, 55 mills.
In valuation of taxable property,
Logan county, in which Guthrie is lo-
cated, heads the list with $4,432,980.
Oklahoma and Grant counties are the
only counties to show a decrease
G. C. demons, the socialist leader of
Kansas and socialist candidate for gov-
ernor ridicules the Democratic nation-
al platform on the Philippine question.
"The Democratic platform fully in-
dorses McKinley’s course in the Phil-
ippines when it proposes ;that we es
tabliih a stable government there and
protect the islands against all other
nations.” said he Saturday. “How are
we to establish a stable government
without first thrashing the armed
bands that try to drive us away? How
are you to stay in a house and put the
furniture to rights when a man is try-
ing to throw you through the window,
unless you first Kck him into a peace-
ful state of mind?
"If the Philippines are not United
States territory, what business is it of
ours whether they have a stable gov-
ernment, or any at all? They are on
the other side of the earth, and perpet-
ual civil strife there could do us no
harm. We never worried over tlie sta-
bility of the government of the Philip-
pine islands in all the years before
that morning Dewey proceeded to do
business in Manila bay. Why should
we worry now, if the islands rare not
ours? I am afraid the Democrats are
trying to get us into trouble by induc-
ing us to meddle with private nffairs
of other folks.
"Again, if the islands are not ours,
but belong to the Filipinos, why should
we propose to protect them against all
other nations? Has not Germany or
Russia just as much right to protect
them against us as we have to protect
them against Germany or Russia?
“And if the Filipinos own the coun-
try themselves, ought we not, in com-
mon decency, to wait till they ask us
to protect them? Perhaps they might
prefer some other protector, and it is
exclusively their affair.
“And how are we to establish stable
government and.then become and re-
main protectors? Are we to use moral
suasion alone? If Germany should
conclude to send an army to the Phil-
ippines, what are we to do? Surely
Mr. Bryan would not have us resort to
hated ‘militarism’ to repel the invad-
ers! Perish the‘imperialistic’thought.
If the islands are part of our territory,
what is a president to do with a rebel-
lion there agaiust the authority of the
United States? Wbat could any presi-
dent do but precisely what McKinley
has been doing-put down the rebel-
lion first, reserving all questions of ul-
timate disposition possible.
“The Democratic position is utterly
inconsistent if we do not own the is-
lands ; is a brazen proposal that we
shall abdicate our sovereigty if we do
own them. McKinley’s course has
been logical, at least. He has assumed
that the islands are American territory
He has assumed that Aguinaldo is a
Jefferson Davis, and McKinley has
been dealing with him as Lincoln dealt
with the head of the Southern Confed-
eracy—has been treating him as a
rebel. Vanlandingham liked Lincoln
no better than Hoar and some others
seem to like McKinley. Bryan should
have adhered to his first position—im-
mediate withdrawal of our forces from
the Philippines. That was a*; least
logical. But to deny our right to the
islands and still propose that we shall
exercise a'protectorate over them
what logic is there in this? The actual
truth is, that, whether McKinley or
Bryan be the next president, precisely
the same course will be pursued to-
ward the Filipinos, for Bryan’s position
pledges him to McKinley’s course.
"This cry of imperialism wearies me
anyhow. It has been during her
imperialism that Englbnd has become
in all but form a republic. At the be-
ginning of her dominion in India, not
even business men could vote in Eng-
land. In lgeT.’iDisraeli, the most im-
perialistic of British prime ministers,
gave workingmen the suffrage.”
The Delicious
Fragrance
from a hot
Royal Baking
Powder biscuit
whets the
appetite. The
taste of such
a biscuit—
sweet, creamy,
delicate and
crispy—is a joy
to the most
fastidious.
TJOYAL Baking
JV Powder improves
the tlavor and
adds to the healthful-
ness of all risen flour-
foods. It renders the
biscuit, bread and cake
more digestible and
nutritious.
Royal Baking Pow-
der makes hot breads
wholesome. Food
raised with Royal will
not distress persons of
delicate or enfeebled
digestion, though eaten
warm and tresh.
Imitation baking powders almost invariably con-
tain alum. Alum makes the food unwholesome.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM ST., NEY/ YORK.)
KILLING NEAR PERKINS.
Two Farmers Settle Their Dif-
ferences With a Shot Gun-
Another killing has been credited up
to l’ayne county during the past week.
This time it is a farmer who was killed
and another farmer who did the kill-
ing.
The history of theirdifferences which
led up to the killing may be summed
l up as follows:
V. H. Albright is a farmer 69 years
and for the past ten years has been a
resident of this county livingon a farm
he owns near Perkins. He has for for-
ty years been a member of the metho-
dist church and has always been con-
sidered a good citizen.
VV. G. Tribble is a farmer who came
into this county last spring having for-
merly lived at Enid. He has a wife
and seven children, the oldest being
just about grown
Lust spring Tribble leased a portion
of Albright’s farm and since the 10th
of March has been living on the place.
Since that time some diflerence has
arisen between the landlord and tenant
and they have had two or three stormy
scenes but fortunately no breaches of
tHelpeace were made until last Satur-
day morning. One of the circum-
stances which led up to the trouble
then was the bringing or a dog by one
of Tribble’s girls over to the ^lbright
home when she came over after a pail
of water. The dog did some damage
in the yard which raised the ire of the
elder Albright. He spoke to the girl
in very uncomplimentary terms about
bringing a dog with her. Upon going
home she told her parents what had
happened when they both started over
to Albright’s house to upbraid him fo*-
talking as hd did to the little girl. ,
Up to this point it seems that the j
stories of all the parties agree but j
there is consideradle variance in the ;
stories as to just what happened after
they arrived at Albright’s house.
The dead man’s family and friends j
declare that he did nothing to cause a
breech of the peace, and that Albright
I was the aggressor all the way through.
They also insist that when Tribble saw
that there was danger of serious
trouble, he started to leave the place
asqui ’y as pofsible. On other hand'
Albright pi yin* the' the shooting was
done in self de’’-*ii*e end iliet he was
justified in the act,
Ctipl. R. 4. I."W ry a ml C. B. Oms
are retained by the defense. Mr. Low-
ry is absent in Cold water, Kansas, on
a law suit and while Mr. Case would
not make a state’tnent of the theory or
evidence of the defense, he expresses
the utmost confidence in the cause of
their client.
The coroner’s jury after hearing the
testimony at the inquest returned |*
verdict charging V. II. Albright wifk
murder.
Watte Works Bonds Delivered
Last Tuesday the finishing touch <
the waterworks bonds for this city
were put upon them and they weae
forwarded to the Western National
Bank of New York for collection, the
agreement with M. L. Turner the pur-
chaser that they be sent there for de-
livery. As soon as the purchase price
which now amounts to a little over
$36,000 is paid they are to be turned
over and the money placed to the
credit of the city. Than the work on
our waterworks system will begin ia
earnest and it is to be hoped that tfse
plant will be in working order some
time this fall.
Sunday School Convention-
At a meeting held in Stillwater, G.
T., at a call of the Territorial organiz-
ation of the International Undenomi-
nated Sunday School union of the min-
isters and others of Stillwater, the fol-
lowing named ware appointed a com-
mittee on organization: D. J. 1L
Wood, of the M. E. Church, Rev. Wil-
liams of the Christian church and Mr.
Beatt of the M. E. South Church.
Therefore, we, the committee on or-
ganization, Request a delegation from
each Sudsy School in the county, to
come with banner, ons sorg, one de
clamation or essay on the line of our
work, on Aug. 11, 1900 at 10 a. m at
Stillwater. As soon as you can, write
a card to the undersigned, giving naaae
or number of song and the name of
the one who is to declaim from your
school. Bring your baskets well filled-
We ask the cooperation of all in thw
work. Yours for the Reunion,
D. J. M. WOOD,
Chairman
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Neerman, C. F. The Stillwater Gazette. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 19, 1900, newspaper, July 19, 1900; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1077077/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.