basis of existing laws; total estimated revenues, (Postal receipts deducted), $580,000,000; total estimated expenditures, (Postal expenditures deducted); $500,000,000.”

That is to say, if the postal expenditures of $107,000,000 be added, Mr. Gage reports a total estimated expenditure of $607,000,000 with the postal expenditure in. Mr. Atkinson's statement is that the secretary said $607,000,000 ($605,000,000 exactly), with the postal expenditures out.

The same mistake, if we shall continue to so call it, is repeated in another table on the same page; and on top of the next page (idem), Mr. Atkinson says something I would rather not describe as I believe it to be. I am unable to apply such soft words as mistake, error, or misapprehension in this instance, when, on the top of p. 12, No. 6, Mr. Atkinson says:

"In his recommendation contained in his annual report, the secretary of the treasury presented estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, of $578,081,994.86, expressing the hope that Congress would reduce the amounts asked by the several departments so as to avoid an expected deficit of $18,000,000."

I have read the secretary's report from cover to

cover, several times, in a search for such a statement by him, but I am entirely unable to discover it. The Secretary has made no such statement or anything like it in his report. On the contrary, the report of the secretary of the treasury for the fiscal year, 1900, on p. 11, says: " Fiscal year 1901-The revenues of the government for the current fiscal year are thus estimated upon the basis of existing laws: Total estimated revenues, $580,000,000; total estimated expenditures, $500,000,000, or a surplus of $80,000,000."

Mr. Atkinson, in the face of this, says that the secretary says in his report that he expects a deficit of $18,000,000 and he carefully repeats this statement on p. 14,-when, as a matter of fact, what the secretary does say is "a surplus of $80,000,000,"an error by Mr. Atkinson of $98,000,000.

I think these figures effectually dispose of the Edward Atkinson of these days as a statistician. I shall never trust another figure of his until it is proven. I had expected to find him, at least, a gentleman. Indeed, I am almost ready to join the sentiment said to have been expressed by a certain elderly gentleman in a somewhat famous reply which he is credited with having made to Mr. At

kinson. The elderly party was going home on his usual evening train, and was deep in the delights of his newspaper when Mr. Atkinson brushed in and, all aglow with enthusiasm, said, as he offered his hand a little effusively to the man behind the paper, "Ah, good evening, Mr. B, I'm delighted to see you, delighted. Have you seen my last pamphlet?" Evidently the interruption was not the most welcome thing in the world at just that place in the daily love story, for, as he took his visitor's hand, the old gentleman said, forcibly and with much emphasis, "Good God, I hope so!" I have never heard of what was said after that.

CHAPTER VII

ATKINSON'S GHASTLY DEATH

STATISTICS

DISEASES IN OUR ARMY IN THE PHILIPPINES

It would not be surprising if a man who will spend days in tabulating such financial statements as we have just examined could, if he cannot carry his point in any other way, see nothing wrong in frightening every mother in the country who had a boy out there in the Philippines. For each of those boys we sent out there was somebody's boy,-the pride of some gray-haired woman whose sight was growing dim with the years and the tears while she waited and watched for him to come back. Remember that, that each soldier is somebody's boy, and remember it while we are considering what is to follow.

I desire to show you the picture Mr. Atkinson painted and thrust up into the faces of those in the homes of these boys who went to the Philippines.

We who remember those saints we called " Mother," and can now see them in no other way, can realize what an awful thing such statements as these would have been to her if her boy had been going out there. We know that such a picture as Mr. Atkinson paints here would never leave your mother or mine, night or day, till her boy came back,-not for an instant would that picture leave her, it would lurk in the depths of every cup and sicken her as it leered out of every mirror.

On p. 9, of the Anti-Imperialist, No. 2, Mr. Atkinson says:

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There is no estimate of the necessary expense of raising every year a new force equal to about onethird of the entire force required in order to fill the annual gaps which will be caused by death and disease (by service in the Philippines). By a comparison of all the data, it becomes apparent that about one-third of the white troops stationed in tropical climates must be replaced year by year by fresh levies to make up for death or disability."

On p. 10 of the same pamphlet, he says further:

"There is no sign or hint of any pension being granted to the survivors of the Spanish war or for the support of the twenty per cent. at least, of all the troops sent out each year to the tropics who will be brought back wholly or partly disabled."