On account of charges of bribery and intimidation brought against certain members of the Greek cabinet, the cabinet has resigned, and King George has accepted its resignation. . . . A serious conflict has occurred between Turkish and Bulgarian forces on the Bulgarian frontier. The sultan's soldiers attempted to seize a fort on the frontier, but were repulsed. Both sides suffered losses in killed and wounded. A correspondent writing from that locality states that grave consequences can not be deferred much longer. In Macedonia matters are rapidly drifting toward open rebellion against Turkey. The people are drilling for the coming struggle, and Turkey is pouring her troops into the province, knowing that Bulgaria is upholding the Macedonians and that she will actively support the expected rising. . . . Norway and Sweden are drifting rapidly toward a clash of arms. The Norwegians have issued an order prohibiting Swedish officers from inspecting the forts of Norway or witnessing her troops drill. This brings her in direct conflict with King Oscar, who is commander of the armies of both Norway and Sweden, and thus has a right to appoint Swedish officers to military duty in Norway. That the Norwegians realize the meaning and consequence of their course is shown in the fact that they have appropriated money for military purposes which they borrowed for building railroads.
The French expedition under Marchand, which came so near involving France and England in war over the occupation of Fashoda, has arrived at the capital of Abyssinia. This expedition turned back up the Nile from Fashoda, and will return to France through the kingdom of Abyssinia. . . . France has appropriated a large sum of money for the navy, to be expended during the coming year. Her expenses for the coming year will be 47,000,000 francs more than for last year. This large expenditure is viewed with considerable alarm by political economists, who point out that French taxpayers are already “at the last gasp.” . . . During the present year England will add to her navy fifty war vessels of different types, five of which will be battle-ships of the largest size, costing over $4,000,000 each. The number will also include fourteen protected cruisers and thirty-one unprotected cruisers.
In the Philippines.
Up to March 28 the report of the Adjutant-General shows that 157 Americans have been killed in the fighting in the Philippines, and that 864 have been wounded. . . . On March 29 the Americans captured the town of Bocave, within eight miles of Malolos, and the latter town, the seat of the Filipino Government, was entered by General McArthur on March 31. Bloody battles and a running fight preceded the occupation of the place by the Americans. Much of the city was in flames or had been destroyed, and the Filipinos moving north located at San Fernando and Calumpit, where more fighting is expected soon. . . . Many of the Filipinos who had left their homes are returning, under the promise of protection from the Americans. . . . The Philippine Commission appointed by the President to assist in the pacification of the Filipinos has issued a proclamation to the inhabitants of the different islands, setting forth the purposes of the American Government in eleven articles. First, that the sovereignty of the United States must be recognized as supreme, and that those who oppose it can accomplish nothing but their own ruin; second, that the amplest liberty of self-government will be granted which is reconcilable with the obligations assumed by this government; third, that civil rights will be guaranteed and religious freedom assured; fourth, that there shall be no exploitation of the people; fifth, that honest civil service shall be instituted, employing natives as far as possible. Article 6 deals with the collection of taxes and the expenses of government; article 7, with the establishment of pure and effective courts of justice; article 8, with the construction of roads and railroads and other public works; article 9, with the development of foreign and domestic trade and the general development of the country; article 10, with the establishment of schools; and article 11, with reforms in all departments of government and all branches of the public service.
Domestic.
By order of President McKinley, Fort Stanton, N. M., has been transferred from the War Department to the Marine Hospital Corps, with the purpose of making it a hospital exclusively for consumptives. It is proposed here to conduct a series of experiments to learn if consumption can be cured, or if the progress of the disease can be stayed. . . . The U. S. transport Crook arrived in New York on March 28, with the bodies of the soldiers who died in Porto Rico, and 671 of the soldier dead from Cuba. A large portion of these will be interred in the Arlington National Cemetery on April 6. . . . The failures during the first quarter of 1899 have been in amount of liabilities $26,680,000, against $31,710,000 for the first quarter of 1898, $48,007,000 in 1897, and $57,525,000 in 1896. . . . The statement of the United States Treasury for the month of March shows a decrease in the public debt of $8,398,828. . . . Many of the vessels of the navy are being fitted out with new six-inch rapid-fire guns of high power, in the place of the slow-firing six-inch guns with which they were mostly equipped during the war with Spain. This change is due to the more effective work done by the guns of the English-built cruiser, which was purchased just before the beginning of the war. . . . The investigations of the board appointed to look into General Miles’ charges in regard to the meat furnished the army in Cuba and Porto Rico are bringing out much evidence of a serious character. Almost without exception witnesses who had eaten the meat furnished by the packing houses condemned it as a mass of unwholesome, innutritious food, and attributed to it a great deal of the sickness in the army. It seems that the charges of the commanding general are being amply substantiated.
Cuba.
The overland telegraph lines connecting Havana with Santiago were completed by the American Signal Corps on April 2. The corps has completed over 200 miles of telegraph lines in sixty days, thus placing the commanding general in communication with every important command in the island. . . . A committee appointed by the Cuban Assembly visited Washington March 28, to secure an increase in the amount of money to be paid by this country to the Cuban soldiers before they are disbanded. The committee met with no success, and has returned. There was prospect that the $3,000,000 already shipped to Cuba would be returned to Washington, on account of the refusal of the Cuban Assembly to hand to General Brooke the muster rolls of the Cuban army. . . . Secretary of War Alger, who has recently gone to Cuba, has countermanded the order of General Brooke extending the time for the payment of mortgages in Cuba. This action of the War Secretary is believed to have been in the interests of unscrupulous money lenders who had bought up large numbers of mortgages on Cuban property, and will now greatly increase their riches, at the expense of the poor inhabitants of Cuba. . . . The latest news from Cuba is to the effect that the Cuban Assembly has dissolved, after authorizing its secretary to hand to General Brooke the muster rolls of the army.
Casualties and Calamities.
The steamer Stella, plying between Southampton, England, and the island of Guernsey, was wrecked on the rocks in the channel on March 30. A part of her passengers and crew were rescued, but it is believed that eighty persons were drowned. . . . The total number of bodies of victims found in the ruins of the Windsor Hotel, New York, is forty-five, and several persons are still missing. . . . The bodies of five persons were found in the ruins of the Armour Curled Hair and Felt Works, at Chicago, which was burned on March 27. Three others are believed to have perished. . . . A fight occurred between American men-of-war’s men and native boatmen at Kingston, Jamaica, on March 28, in which two Americans and eight natives were killed and a number seriously injured. . . . The hull of the steamer Portland, which foundered in the gale of November 26 soon after leaving Boston, has been found by fishermen. The vessel went down about twenty-two miles northeast of Boston light. . . . Steamers from the Orient bring news of the massacre of twenty-nine Japanese farmers by aborigines at Byomatsu, Japan. . . . Ten persons were drowned in the foundering of the steamer Chikat on the bar near Eureka, Cal., on the morning of April 4.
New Trusts.
Articles of incorporation were filed in New Jersey on April 1, by the Republic Steel and Iron Company, with a capital of $55,000,000. . . . The United Fruit Company was formed at Trenton, N. J., on March 30, with a capital of $20,000,000, which is authorized to do general business as merchants, planters, and farmers, and to grow, manufacture, and produce merchandise and property of all kinds. . . . A combination has been perfected of the manufacturers and merchants of bar iron, with a capital of $55,000,000. . . . The American Tobacco Company, a trust of Newark, N. J., has increased its capital stock from $35,000,000 to $70,000,000. . . . A woolen trust has been formed to take control of all the woolen mills in the country. . . . The amount of capital formed into trusts in the State of New Jersey during the month of March amounts to $1,111,750,000. . . . A smelting trust, with a capital of $65,000,000, was organized at Trenton, N. J., on April 4. . . . Articles of incorporation of the Continental Oil Company were filed at Trenton, N. J., on April 4. Its capitalization is $6,000,000.
Samoa.
Advices in regard to the situation in the Samoan Islands are conflicting and unsatisfactory. The natives are restive on account partially of the lack of harmony on the part of the representatives of the three powers holding the protectorate over those islands. Affairs culminated soon after the arrival of the United States cruiser Philadelphia in the bombardment of the native villages along shore by the American cruiser and two British cruisers. The German cruiser took no part in the action, but the German consul threw his influence against that of the British and Americans. According to the last advices the followers of Mataafa were still refusing to yield to the authority of the Americans and British. It is not thought that there will be any international complications over the matter. Germany has proposed a council of three, one from each of the nations represented there, to look into the matter and settle the difficulty, and her proposition has been accepted by England and America.
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The Delirious Scramble for Gold
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The most conspicuous item in regard to the news concerning trusts, as recorded in our "News and Notes" (page 14) of this issue, is the astounding fact that during the month of March alone $1,111,750,000 were incorporated into these combines in the one State of New Jersey. If the men who are forming these colossal aggregations of capital would stop their work and spend six weeks in a careful study of the history of the declining years of Rome, also the conditions that led up to the French Revolution, their faces would turn white, and their hearts almost stand still at the thought of what they are doing. But they are intoxicated with the idea of grasping gold. Nothing seems to arrest their attention, or cause them to realize the awful condition into which they are driving the world. They are conspicuously acting their part in bringing about that time of trouble foretold by the prophets such as never was since there was a nation. It will be fatal—yes, eternally fatal—to be found engaged in that awful strife. God has deliverance for every one; but it is not found anywhere in connection with this delirious scramble that is breaking up the tranquillity of the whole world.
In another column will be found an article entitled, "Waiting for the Signal." We notice it because it is a general question, and the book referred to is a typical book of a large class, with the important points more emphasized, the salient points more prominent. We believe that there are honest, earnest, just men of wealth, who long to do right. We believe there are many labor leaders and socialists who are longing to know the truth. To both classes and to all we say, "Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils;" go not down to Egypt for help; look to the Lord God, the Creator and the Redeemer. His Word, which has infallibly predicted, is mighty to save.
"MISSIONARIES BARRED."
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We call attention to the article under this caption in the "Missions" department of this paper. It is hard for men who have been reared and educated under a Church-and-State form of government to understand the principles of religious liberty. It is especially difficult for men who have been educated in that feature of such government which calls them to the task of enforcing its principles by military means. There is no doubt that General Kitchener is right in the sense of not allowing the Mohammedans to be unduly interfered with in the exercise of their religion. The Catholics and Protestants whose work had been cut short by the insurrection were probably about to return in the spirit of temporal victors, expecting Mohammedanism to be put down by military force; and to nip such an idea in the bud would be perfectly proper. But to forbid legitimate missionary work, or to set up a specifically Mohammedan government, would be going to the other extreme. One of the hardest things for men to learn, and which the enemy of souls is straining every nerve to keep them from learning, is that the legitimate sphere of civil government is in the domain of natural rights; that the only service it can properly and efficiently render is in the regulation of temporal affairs. The true principle of civil government is set forth in the Declaration of Independence. The domain of religion is in the heart, which no man can know, and therefore can not regulate. "The Lord trieth the hearts." Prov. 17:3. "I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings." Jer. 17:10. The true missionary never will give any government any trouble; he never will interfere with any man's right to enjoy any other religion he may choose. He never will ask any special privileges of the government that will give him advantage over any person or class of persons.
The true missionary of Christ has faith in the Word of Christ, and all the power he asks is the power of that Word. The ambassador of Christ persuades men (2 Cor. 5:11) and beseeches them to be reconciled to God (verse 20), not to the civil government. He never seeks to compel reconciliation. John 12:47; Rev. 22:17. The power and influence of all the governments of earth can not add one feather's weight to the power of God's Word. And the missionary or the religious cause that looks to the civil law for support simply leans on a human crutch.
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The Joy of Christ’s Coming
The sublime thought should not be crowded from our minds that we are even now living in the time when the coming of Christ is right at hand. And, O, the joy of that supreme moment!
The Signs Editor in New York
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On his return from the General Conference at South Lancaster, Mass., the editor of the Signs stopped over in New York State to visit friends. A report in the Indicator notes that he preached three times at Pierpont, March 18 and 19. It is expected that he will arrive home on the 12th inst., the day that this paper goes to press.
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The Perils of Corporate Investments
THE eagerness with which men in these latter days grasp after anything that promises big financial returns, especially in corporate investments, is something marvelous. We need only to cite the late craze, in which it was proposed to extract gold from sea water. And so shrewdly was the matter handled that nearly two million dollars was actually paid into the corporation, only to have the manager coolly pocket the million dollars, and leave the country. The papers lately recorded the fact that two of the principal factors in the late National Cordage Company have gone into bankruptcy, with "liabilities, twelve million dollars; assets, nothing." And this only calls to mind painful memories of the vast number of innocent investors who were ruined in the collapse of that wonderful trust. But the curious part of all this is that corporate methods are such that those who are responsible for these gigantic swindles are rarely brought to justice; while the smallest theft, even of a loaf of bread to save life, is severely punished. "Justice standeth afar off; . . . and equity can not enter."—Review and Herald.
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Are Adventists Trying to Scare People?
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A correspondent suggests that "you Adventists are trying to scare the people into your church by telling them that the world is coming to an end." Our friend is greatly mistaken. We find that the people are already scared because of the troubles and calamities that are manifestly filling the whole earth, and we are seeking to soothe and comfort them by telling them the glorious truth that Jesus, the Friend of sinners, is about to return to earth, to destroy all the evil, and to give life and immortality to as many as will receive Him. If the thought that Jesus is coming scares you, it is because there is something wrong with you.
Religious Liberty in Austria
The contest for religious liberty in Austria is still going on. A recent case in the highest court was decided against the Evangelical party, and some of the officials are already making use of this decision to insist that children must receive the religious instruction of the church in which their parents were born. This decision will bear hard upon those who have formerly been Romanists, but have become Protestants. A memorial has been sent to the emperor, testifying to the loyalty of the members of the free churches, and calling his attention to the restrictions put upon their liberty.
The Bible Society’s Great Work
In the last eighty-three years the American Bible Society alone has distributed 64,000,000 Scriptures. They would load a freight train ten miles long, and if opened and placed side by side would reach nearly half way round the globe. This good work must be pushed forward until a copy of the Bible is in every home in the world. It is the one Book that tells the meaning of the great social and political problems of to-day.
