cause of Cuban freedom.
THE EV‘ENING GAZETTE
NTEEED AT THE PosT OFFICE _IN NOBWALK
As A NEwspArEa.
. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS
_ DAILY. one year. $3; six months. $1.75: three
_ months. $1.00; one month, 30c.
WEEKLY. one year. in Padvance. Shoo; six
months. 60c.: three months. 35c.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1897.
The Stamford Daily Advocate. ,
Yesterday the Stamford Daily Ad
vocate entered upon its sixth year of
life. It is one of the brightest, clean-
est and most enterprising of our Con-
necticut exchanges and the GAZETTE,
whose weekly edition up to a half cen-
tury ago used to cover the entire south-
western end Of the state with its cucu-
lation, most heartily congratulates ‘the
Advocate upon its unmistakable evi-
dences of substantial thrit't and pros- '
perity. Here’s our It“? neighbor and
our heart is in it.
_._
p F ore st Fires.
Reports from ‘the timbered regions
indicate that the season of forest fires is
already here. These conflagrations oc-
cur usually in the spring and fall and
seem to be as widespread and serious
now as they were years ago. The first
warm sunshine that begins to dry out
the heaps of fallen leaves gives the op-
portunity for the outbreak, and the
past week has produced exactly the
right kind of weather for the fires.
The small branches that have been
cut from the trees and never removed
add rich fuel to the flames and acres of
forests are usually burned before the
fire is extinguished. After the flames
have gained headway, comparatively
little can be done to check their pro-
gress and the only practical way to
prevent the great destruction is toldis-
cover the incipient blaze. Watchinlness
on the part of the farmers and woods-
:lnen w1llaccomplish much, and every
one living near an extended wood
should have means and appliances con-
stantly at hand during this season of
the year, for extinguishing a blaze as
soon as it is discovered. A systematic
effort to remove all dead underbrush
and tree branches, would help much in
, thework of preventing forest fires.
. vTfl—«-
Prosperlty Advan cing.
One of the hopeful signs of the times
is the large increase in the circulation
of money in °the United States, as
shown bythe cfiicialstatement from the
Treasury Department issued on the
first instant. At that date there were
3140,371,231.more money in circulation
in the country than the circulation of
April 1, 1896.
The increased circulation of gold coin
is nearly $100,000,000, and its increase I
was over $800,000 during the, month of
March, while theincrease in silver cer-
tificates was $4,700,000, and the increase
of national bank notes was $3,189,000.
The total amount of money and bul-
lion of all kinds in this country on the
first of April last, was $2,381,232,458, of
which $712,231,764, were in the Treas-
ury, leaving $1,669,000,694 as the total
amount in actual circulation, as against
81,528,029,463 on the first of April, 1896.
The increase of over $140,000,000 of
money in circulation during the last
year, most of which increase has oc-
curred during the last few months, is a.
clear indication of the steady difiusion
oi money into industrial, commercial
and trade circles,and that means a slow
but steady advance toward general
prosperlty.
The Fate of Rivera.
It Weyler and the Spanish author-
ities could have their way there is little
denial: that General Ruis Rivera would
be speedily condemned by drumhead
court-martial and shot, as hasbeen the
fate of many brave patriots 1n 'Cuba
since the rebellion began, but the civil-
ized nations of the world will be likely
to draw the line against Spanish bar-
barism it the purpose to visit summary
venge .. T, - sh? . ..e exbib
ited. -..1ze1. '~. 913‘, and es-
pecially . .e civiliz .11 ot .. United
States, should for one moment submit
to any such fiendish violati on of the:
laws of civilized warfare. _
General Rivera has committed no
other offense than that of unselfish and
continuously sacrificing devotion to the
He is no ad-
venturer, no soldier of fortune. 116' is
,“‘v:'%“.3~=gcholar, apoet and a warrior. Be-
lore he .had reached the noontide of
life heleft his books and his law ofiice,
' in Spain, and tar ten years fought the
hopeless battle against Cuba’s oppres-
grouud spotted in delft blue, and is neat-
sors.
missibn of Cuba to promises of reform
which were never fulfilled, General
Rivera laid aside his sword and made
his home in Costa Rica. When the
present rebellion began he was among
the first to enter the field along with
Gomez and Moceo, and when Maceo
tell he had, by his skill and courage as
a soldier, won the position of third in
command in the Cuban army. Thus a
"soldier who fought solely for the liber;
ty of his fellows and not yet fifty years
of age, now lies in a Spanish dungeon
with the brutal tyrants of Spain daily
clamoring for his blood.
It the Spanish authorities in Cuba
shall condemn and execute General
Rivera it should be regarded by every '
civilized nation of the world. and espec-
ially by the government of the United
States, as an act of such fiendish in-
humanity as to require the promptest
and most aggresswe interferencepto
halt the barbarism 0f Spain in Cuba.
If our government were to submit to
the execution of Rivera, whose life as
citizen and soldier has been blameless
beyond his devotion to the cause of
human liberty, it would be an inefface-
able stain upon the escutcheon of the
Republic, and it is reasonably safe to
assume that neither the execution of
R1vera nor his banishment to penal ser'
vitude that is worse than death, could
be submitted to under any circum-
stances by the United States.
Granting' that we have no right under
the neutrality lawsof nations to inter:
pose in a. contest between Cuban pat-
riots and their Spanish oppressors, it is .
not only the right, but the imperious
duty of this government, with its close
relations to the Island of Cuba and
standing as it does as the beacon light
of liberal and enlightened government,
to halt the savagery of the barbarians
against those who meet them in open
conflict and compel the acceptance of ‘
the war of civilized warfare. The exe-
cution or banishment to penal servitude
of General Rivera could not but be
the signal of intervention by the United
States against the fiendish brutality of
Spanish authority in Cuba, and if Spain
and her butchers in Cuba have a vestige
of wisdom remaining they will treat
Rivera as a prisoner of war, as be de-
serves, and thus command to somelex-'
tent the respect of the civilized nations
of the earth. The murder or banish-
ment to death of General Rivera would
be the beginning of the speedy end of
When the war closed by the sub-
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This exceedingly attractive model is
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plaits, while the fronts are becomingly
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Made. the Followingldains in thelYear l896:
From the increased Surplus the usual increase of divide d
policy-holders will be paid' In l891, making the Twentv-Fitth Bldgilld:
Annual Increase of Dividends to the insured, and a record unparalleled
Increase in Income,
$ t ,057,8 l 6.28.
, Increase in Assets,
$ I .997, 234-, 42.
Increase in Surplus
ta,
$|98,8l6,8l.
Increase in New- Life Buéiness,
$ t 598,668.00.
lucrease inLife Insurance in Force,
$5,608,680.00. '
Increase in Accident Insurance in Force,
$2 I ,736.500.00
Increase in Accident Premiums,
$ t 75,085.72—or 62 per cent.
Increase in New Life Insurance Written in Connecticut,
' $31 0,642.00. '
. Increase in total Life Insurance .in Connecticut.
$472, 56900.
in the history of lite' Insurance.
Notwithstanding the material' Increase of new business on which
she expense in Life Insurat"-“~e' I“. ehie‘lv incurred, the ratio of expense to
‘mpany, excluding the Accident
, 3.. “id is 23 or cent. le
than the average expense ot the ten leading“p.1rely muiu'id” companizi
illcbmg
for the Year l895.
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Their figures for 1896 have not been published. .
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E. E. HALLOCK, General Agent, 5 Hubinger Bld’g._, New Haven.
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