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PORTLAND, MOXDAY, AUGUST 20.
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RULE.
The nomination of Robert M. La Fol
Jclto for Governor by tlie Wisconsin
HepuLlicans, like the success of Roose
velt .n New York, is an encouraging
c'gn In politics. It marks a break In
tt'i a-uocratlc rale of the machine. In
hcCi c ases the party bosses try to keep
up tue appearance of having adopted
! mrd promoted the nominee, but it is a
ekkly Action. In each case it Is -well
kn:3-n that the nomination was forced
lpan an unwilling machine, and that
it ir.cans a degree of wholesome reform
In th public service of the state.
La Follette is not so independent as
Hods'-f It, however. He made a set
campaign for the nomination; Indeed,
he made three campaigns, in the first
two f whldh lie was rather uncere
ir.T.l usly turned down by the mana
gers. The present Governor, Ed Sco
11c. i, a prosperous Oconto lumberman,
was tusen four years ago, and made
so prr a record that there was a strong
:".-. ment to deny lilm the customary
eecu. d term, d it was only by the use
of all the power of the machine that
he gjt a renaminatlon In 1898. La Fol
ic to, who had been shedding much
II&Lt in dark places, continued the agi
a,in for a cleaner administration of
the t uverr.ment, and now the Republi
cans i f the state are overwhelmingly
I r L.m and the machine managers
.t 1 as gracefully as they can and
ccJm La Follette for their own.
La I-V-llette's success in Wisconsin will
rot firengthen the machinery of the
NaM al Administration. He owes
r.-rV,,ng to the forces that are allied
w. h the McKlnley crowd. He had the
p.-ir to defamt jfor JCational commit-
tri" ian HSenry C. Payne, who has so
Li ,' b 6-l Republicans of "Wisconsin
ai 1 Is closp to the present Administra
tis but did not do so, and has thuH
made that wily politician subservient
In fact, La Follette has triumphed over
all he "Washington influences in the
Btat and is In position Jo dictate
ralhrr than be dictated to. There is no
fght between La Follette ahd the 2Ic
Iiir.ley Administration, as such, but the
JibCord is between the men who have
represented and managed the Republi
can machine of the state and La Fol
lette. And now that he is ip the saddle.
It is safe to presume that he will not
break his own neck to. serve the forces
that have so long fought him. He
ne-ver was a truckling politician. His
independence and undoubted ability
were shown when he was Jn Congress.
He Is a man of force and culture, of
experience in affairs and of clean pur
pose, and It will be interesting to watch
lis career in a great state.
JUS TGLY PROm,EM FOR THE FU
TURE. Tnlted States Senator Chandler, of
Kew Hampshire, a very able lawyer,
contributes a suggestive discussion of
the question of the disfranchisement Of
negro citizens by the Southern States
to the New Tork Sun. He appeals to
"both North and South to treat the
question with candor, fairness and mu
tual forbearance as one of the gravest
National importance. He points out
that forty Representatives and forty
Presidential Electors are now based
on the colored population; that if the
Southern States are allowed to retain
the power of these votes though they
disfranchise the great part of these
negroes, the South has an unfair ad
vantage which is sure soon or late to
make irrepressible trouble. He reasons
that the South will not consent, al
though its Democrats by fundamental
law suppress the colored vote, to give
tip the representation based upon the
colored population. The South will not
agree to such a change, and without
the votes of the Southern States the
Constitution oannot be amended so as
to take away colored suffrage and pro
vide for a reduction of representation;
In other words, the lawful repeal, of the
fifteenth amendment, thus making the
fourteenth amendment applicable,
Ien if the South were willing to do
this. Senator CStandler inquires:
TKoUd not the Wock outcries for Northern
prole, tlon a ruins! the Inevitable oppressions to
Tullow JsatloMU abtuteenment or the Fifteenth
AmendTsent embroH the country more than any
reai.nrHe attempt to onfdrco the Fifteenth
Ainec.2n.cntT
Senator Chandler confesses he cannot
Bulve the problem even satisfactorily
to himself. To the Republicans who
say that the effectual enforcement of
the fifteenth amendment cannot be ac
complished, that It la of no use to try
to do the Impossible, Senator Chandler
replies:
Tet it is ImpessHfle thus to refrain and also
foretr to make poHttosi contests with ths
etlld South ao4 tt SO extra Represemattres
a-id el.vHors hae4 uvea the celered people.
Vlat, ttion, will tbeee Republicans do?
CurioutJ enough, the tactics of politics In
1900 are exactU what they were 44 years ago.
In the Frvniont canvass of iSot, -when I first
began to stwfe them The problem I: Can
the nearly setM North elect a President and
e nitjo-itj in CoABrees against the s olid South
and in addition a few Northern States upon
which tiu Demoerats will turn aH their wrap-on-
? And the case is worse now than then;
for them there wre Representatives and elec
tors based upon ew!r three-fifths of the col
ored people, now there are 8. soon to be SO,
baeed upon the whole Svo - fifths Increased
Southern polltlest power circn because the
South entered Into unsuccessful rebellion!
Senator Chandler's position, a plausi
Ue one, Is that while there is no dan
ger today that McKlnley will be de
feated because of the grandfather
clause and similar devices, neverthe
less the situation Is filled with peril to
our political peace for the future. If
the South should soon cease to be solid
ly Democratic, the danger might be
come remote, but if ever the day
comes when a political party will owe
Its victory or Its perpetuation In the
administration of the Federal Govern
ment to an electoral vote obtained
through these partial representations,
there will be very serious trouble in this
country, for no great political party
would long submit to the perpetuation
of defeat through such an arrange
ment, without serious protest.
CONVERGENT CURRENCIES.
Rudimentary conditions from which
the Canadian and the American bank
ing systems have sprung are, of
course, dissimilar. Tet, as present and
future conditions must be greatly sim
ilar, the points at which the two sys
tems diverge must be less and less, and
their correspondence must Increase. A
banking system grows along in just
about the same way that the horse rose
to his present position by slow stages.
That is, it is the natural and orderly
product of accumulated momentum act
ing upon and acted upon by fresh cir
cumstances. At one end of the equa
tion are the stored-up tendencies and
traditions coupled with the exigencies
of the moment; at the other is the sys
tem as you have it. X plus Y equals Z.
Nobody can make a banking system
out of hand.
Canada starts with free banking and
moves toward governmental oversight.
"We start with government credit and
move toward free banking. Between
the two extremes is the mean which
each will some time approximately
reach, traveling thither o'er converg
ent lines from widely sundered starting
points. It has been almost a misnomer
to speak of our bank notes as a com
mercial credit currency. They are
guaranteed by Government, which in
Its turn is secured. But by graded
steps we are approaching the place
where free banking will be the pro
gramme, within approved restrictions.
Canada took up with free banking fifty
years ago, and the laxity of regula
tion has been encroached upon with
fresh restrictions every recurring ten
years when the bank act is amended.
Those who desire to examine the mat
ter In detail as it exists today can
study it in Mr. R. M. Breckinridge's
exhaustive paper in the Quarterly
Journal of Economics for August. All
that will be attempted here is the
briefest possible summary of the
amendment of 1900.
The Canadian Government will more
closely than hitherto regulate the cur
rency of Canadian banks. The amend
ments of 1900 direct this supervision
specifically at three objects: Mainte
nance of adequate reserves; prevention
of improper note issues; management
of suspended banks. The Canadian
Bankers' Association is a public corpo
ration, whose control over the banks
of the Dominion is extensive and semi
governmental, subject 6nly to the veto
of the Treasury Board of the Domin
ion Government. It will forbid note
Issues during suspension, will designate
and control receivers of failed or sus
pended banks, atjd exercise jurisdiction
in the merger of small banks into
larger ones, a prevalent and instructive
phenomenon in Canadian finance.
Greater fullness of detail is prescribed
for statements of condition made by
directors to stockholders, the Bankers'
Association will formulate by-laws
which will be as binding on the banks
as a statute, and clearing-houses are
passed under the association's control,
in such a way that every bank in Can
ada is brought directly under supervis
ion and discipline of the bnnkers' offi
cial organization acting in conjunction
with the Treasury Board.
In Canada, it Is true, notes are Issued
against commercial assets; but the pro
cess is not the simple and unrestrained
act imagined by some of our currency
theorists. These amendments show, in
deed, that more law, not less, is the
recognized need there. We shall get a
true commercial credit currency here
in time, no doubt. But meanwhile it
may be well to remember that the Ca
nadian system we adopt, if we adopt it,
will be more subject to government In
terference than the one we have been
regarding with longing eyes. The day
wlll probably never come, in the United
States or in Canada, when government
will permit a banking currency so sci
entifically conceived that noteholders
can lose through failures. It is theo
retically demonstrable that a bank
note guaranteed by government Is Ini
quitous in point of both morals and
economy. But the Ideal condition Is
one we are likely never to reach. The
perfect currency reformer is the free
trader or prohibitionist moved over into
finance.
Perhaps .the most unprofitable form
of discussion is that which arraigns
and seeks to counteract the religious
convictions or traditions of disputants.
It becomes easy in the stress of argu
ment on vicarious atonement, the
"triune God," the value of the sacra
ments, the power of the spirit for phys
ical healing, and kindred matters of
opinion, which are held to be matters of
belief, for otherwise temperate and con
siderate people to "hate each other for
the love of God" a process as unprofit
able as un-Chrlstlan, and embodying
strife that, to say the least, is Irksome
to the public when the press becomes a
medium of an exchange of compliments.
Thinking people care little for the pre
tensions of Christian Science, so-called,
while many good people reject a"s un
just the doctrine of vicarious atone
ment, and to a yearly increasing num
ber talk about "the trinity" is mean
ingless. Tet there is no reason whv all
of these conscientious, well-meaning
people may not live in peace with one
another and with the rank and file of
orthodoxy. Friends, let us have peace.
Immortal truth needs no defense, and
error can no more than masquerade In
Its name.
Either climatic conditions of Hawaii
are not favorable to persons suffering
with tuberculous diseases, or Honolulu
has become a haven of refuge for a
pale host who at an Incurable stage
of the disease have sought it in the
vain hope of receiving benefit. The
death rate of that city has increased
so alarmingly, consumption heading
the list of causes, that the health au
thorities have taken alarm and are dis
cussing the advisability of establishing
quarantine against patients suffering
from this disease. While an extreme
measure of this kind would not meet
with public approbation, for the rea
son that very many families have had
bitter and pathetic experience with this
scourge, and so make personal appli
cation of the proposition to shut con
sumptives 4 out, reasonable people gen
erally poncede that all proper precau
tions should be taken to prevent the
dissemination of the germs of con
sumption. These precautions can be
taken either in traveling with a con
sumptive in the forlorn hope of benefit
through change of climate, or in eating
for the sufferer at home. Knowledge In
this, as in other matters, is power,, and
vigilance In this case Is its agent. The
elements In this warfare against the
spread of consumption are knowledge
and vigilance the intelligent knowing
how and the persistent doing. If these
can be'brought into play, the isolation
of thepatlent is neither necessary nor
desirable. Otherwise, it is both, and,
sooner or later, will be resorted to as a
measure of public health.
BRYANIO CliAP-TRAP.-
The Helena Independent, an exponent
of Bryanism and a sincere admirer of
would-be "United States Senator Clark's
methods of purifying politics, makes
pitiful and even pathetic plea from day
to day in the name of the tolling masses
for the defeat of McKlnley as the one
thing necessary for the financial equal
ity of all mankind and the perpetuity
of American Institutions. The follow
ing paragraph illustrates the style and
argument employed by that organ in
its efforts to secure votes for Bryan:
"All day she had watched her baby brother
while her mother was away at work. Relieved
by her mother's return, she fell asleep at an
open window and 'fell to the pa'ement, being
instantly killed." So died little Anna Cosslo.
aed 4 years, in New York City last week.
The awful heat, the close .walls and low cell
lnga of the four little rabbit-hole rooms that
left no breathing space. FJvo children and a
mother working to eke out a miserable exist
ence. The 4-year-old dolns the work of a nurse
all day, doin? a woman's work In the playtime
of life. Yes: wages ate rising.
While recognizing the pathos of this
picture and being moved to pity for the
condition of the Cossio mother and chil
dren, one is puzzled to know what spe
cial feature of the policy of the pres
ent Administration is responsible for It.
"Imperialism," "militarism," or the re
pudiation of the doctrine of 16 to 1?
There are doubtless matter-of-fact,
commonplace people In considerable
numbers who will see in the circum
stances and incidental tragedy depicted
in the paragraph quoted the influence
of the "awful heat, the close walls, the
low ceilings and the four little rabbit
hole rooms" in which this mother and
her five children lived, not evidence
of an unwise Governmental policy,
but of human short-sightedness and
parental irresponsibility. Wages for
the class of labor that this wretched
mother and thousands like her perform,
and have performed throughout the
ages as a moans of keeping base life
afoot, -are not subject to fluctuation.
The charwoman's wages in New Tork
City have never been much beyond the
starvation point, whether the one polit
ical party or the other was in power.
They were no better in the first Cleve
land Administration, when Industrial
forces were literally taking th'e country
by storm, than in his second Adminis
tration, when labor even skilled la
borreached low tide in remuneration
and begged for employment of any kind
at any price.
In all ages of the world irresponsible
parentage has subjected helpless child
hood to conditions of misery from
which death offered the only release.
To cite examples of this kind as evi
dence that the country is in a bad
way industrially by reason of Its gov
ernmental policy, is the cheapest politi
cal clap-trap, the shallowest demagogy.
It is an Insult, moreover, to the Intelli
gence of the community and to the
sturdy cdmmon sense of its voters. Yet
this is a fair gample of the stock argu
ments by which the Democratic journalistsso-calledof
the Rocky Moun
tain States seek "to keep their states in
the Bryan column. No wonder that
Republicans have hope of carrying
even Montana with intelligent methods,
or that to this end Republican daily
newspapers have recently been started
In the three chief cities of the state
Helena, the capital and head center of
the Clark pull and push; Butte, where
Daly holds sway, and Great Falls,
where both factions claim important
following. .
Clearly, there never was a better
opening for a "campaign of education"
than is presented In Montana this Fall.
The Democratic contention, when not
puerile, as in the example above noted,
is most mischievous. This is witnessed
In its constant attempts to array the
forces of capital against those of labof,
or to use the demagogue's pet phrase,
the "poor" against the "rich." In either
phase it is utterly contemptible and
meaningless, except as It appeals to
shallow menj whose very existence is a
grievance, the notes of which, whether
socialistic, anarchistic, popullstic or
hybrid Democratic, "bray harsh dis
cordance on the air."
The Railway Age finds 135,000 miles,
or 20 per cent, of the railways of the
United States controlled by 28 compa
nies. The New York Central leads,
with 10,410 miles, and is closely fol
lowed by the Pennsylvania, with 10,392
miles. Canada has in the Canadian Pa
cific a single system of 10,018 miles.
The Southern Pacific has 9362 miles;
Chicago & Northwestern, 8463 miles;
Chicago, Burlington & Qulncy, SOOl
miles, and the Southern Railway 78S7
miles. The Louisville & Nashville,
with 5077 miles; Baltimore 6s Ohio, with
3605 miles; Seaboard Air Line, with
2540 miles; Atlantic Coast Line, with
227S miles, and Plant System, with 2140
miles, are Southern systems of note.
These figures take no account of the
larger units created by predominating
"financial influence." If this influence
could be traced, striking aggregates
would be disclosed. In the East the
Vanderbilt, Morgan and other interests
concentrate control of nearly all Im
portant roads in a few hands The
Pennsylvania's influence, for example,
extends to over 16,000 miles. Ih the
West, plans of alliance are being
worked out for nlany roads which are
to be unified. Jt haDpens that the sys
tems mentioned here as the largest are
commonly regarded as the best in man
agement and service. When plans of
operation must embrace many states
and diverse regions and conditions,
large views must be taken, and it be
comes well understood that the pros
perity of the transportation system de
pends upon the prosperity of the com
munity served, and vice versa. The
Baltimore Sun offers the pertinent re
flection, that the idea that either the
community or the railroad can flourish
by ruining the other is obsolete.
Mr. George H. Daniels, general pas
senger agent of the Ne.w Tork Central,
has sent The Oregonlan marked copies
of the New York Times and the New
Tork Evening Sun, containing his de
partment's advertisement. It includes
mention in big type, as attraction of
interest, "The North Pacific Coast"
This is very well In its way, and it Is
gratifying to fcno that Mry Darliete'
recent trip out .here has borne fruit.
But If we may be forgiven, for looking
this particular gift-horse in the mouth,
"The North Pacific Coast' is a pretty
indefinite and barren sort of announce
ment. What we should really like to
see Is an advertisement of Mount Hood,
or the Cascade Springs, or Meacham or
Foley Springs, On some such generous
way as the Southern Pacific booms
Monterey or the Northern Pacific booms
the Tellowstone. Some day Mount
Hood will be one of the world's great
est Summer resorts. It is worth con
siderable space m Eastern advertising
columns.
The Oregonlan has already referred
to the fact that the relief of the Lega
tions at Pekln recalled the famous re
lief of the British Residency in Luck
now, in the Indian Mutiny of 1857. The
first siege of Lucknow began July 1,
when the Residency contained about
1700 men,, women and children, includ
ing a British regiment, the Thirty-second
Foot. The first relief, under Gen
erals Havelock and Outram, entered
the Residency September 25, 1857, after
the garrison had been under1 Are eighty
seven days. Havelock brought too few
men With him to rescue the garrison,
and the second relief did not arrive
until November 14, and the garrison
was not rescued until November 22.
This movement was made, not to cap
ture Lucknow, but to rescue the be
sieged residents. Lucknow was not
captured until March, 1858.
All classes in Montana will unite to
welcome Governor Roosevelt to the
state where he is scheduled to arrive
early in September. Not that he is the
noted "rough rider" of San Juan Hill
fame, though Montanahs appreciate his
valor on that occasion; or that he
is candidate for Vice-President, though
Republicans who are going to make a
hot canvass for the National Republi
can ticket in the state expect much
help from his presence and speeches,
but chiefly because in the earlier years
of Montana Roosevelt was a resident
rancher of one of its beautiful valleys
and a hunter of great game in its
mighty mountains. In other words,
''Teddy" was for a time "one of them,"
and with great good-fellowship they
will meet him and listen to what he has
to say upon National Issues.
We are favored with a long complaint
from a dissatisfied church-goer who lis
tened yesterday to a sermon on church
debts which failed to interest him.
Keenly as we regret his annoyance, we
fail to s6e how a column letter in the
paper will recoup him for his lost time
and damaged feelings. Probably the
preacher was trying to cajole his con
gregation Into paying what It honestly
owes. If so, he could hartily be bet
ter employed. At any rate, if he did
not do so, we should hear complaints
about how lightly the preachers regard
the financial obligations of their
charges. The preacher who pleases ail
his hearers has yet to be born, along
with the newspaper that can satisfy all
Its readers. In One case as in the other,
the most unwelcome service is fre
quently the most needed.
Since June 30, 1899, there has been a
considerable increasi of the number of
National banks, under the act of March
14, 1900. In June, 1899, there were 3583
National banks, with $604,865,327 of cap
ital and $228,870,310 of notes In circula
tion. In June last the number of such
banks was 3858, with Capital of ?631,10S,
095 and circulation of $294,948,930. Since
June 11 last there have been 111 Na
tional banks organized, 18 of which are
private or state banks which have taken
National charters. Many of the new
banks have the minimum capital of
$25,000. It would take 400 such banks
to make a total capitalization of $10,
000,000. Gorman has announced that he will
take no part in the campaign, and
thirty or more Democratic newspapers
of Minnesota have come out against
Bryan. These are straws favoring Mc
Klnley's chances. They indicate that
Maryland may pdssibly go Republican,
and that the German farmers of the
Northwest are not as scared over "mili
tarism" as has been supposed. Inci
dents of this sort may be given exag
gerated importance, usually are, in
fact, by Republican papers, but it Is
probably safe to regard them as trust
worthy signs of the trend of opinion
away from Bryan.
Goebellsm still stalks abroad unpun
ished; but that is no reason why Goe
bel's murderers, if they can be found
and convicted, should not be given the
fUll penalty bt the law. Kentucky has
done Itself credit In the orderly conduct
of the Powers trial, and In the verdict
and sentence upon the evidence. Half
Its duty is done. There remains to
abolish the iniquitous law which was
the source of the whole trouble.
Ex-United States Senator Boutwell,
statesman of very eccentric opinions for
a long time. As long ago as October
31, 1871, Wendell Phillips, in an ad
dress before the Labor party of Mas
sachusetts, quoted Secretary Boutwell
With saying that "fifty years hence the
idea that a man could own land and
leave it t6 his children will be 'ridicu
lous." IMPRESARIO OF STATESMEN.
He la Imcltjr in Soma Selections,
.That'll a Fact.
Baltimore American.
If for nothing else. President McKlnley
deserves to live In his'tory as one" of the
Nation's greatest Executives because of
the number of truly great men he has dis
covered and brought to toe front It has
been a common thing of late years to
hear much lamenting over the decadent
standard of our statesmanship, and men
have sighed for the uprearing of a line of
public servants capable of favorable com
parison With the giants of the country's
youth.
The administration of President McKln
ley haB demonstrated to the world that
we are still rich in the possession of
brainy men, and has proved that the only
thine necessary to their participation in
the public affairs or the Nation is the
presence of a man competent to discover
and bring them to the fore. It was Mc
Klnley who discovered William R. Day,
a man who, in the course 6t & brief ca
reer, rose from the obscllrlty of d Circuit
Judge to take rank as one of the foremost
statesmen and diplomatists 0 the century-
It was he who met the trained and
wily diplomats of Spain and so success
fully conducted the Paris peace nsgotia
tlons. Frederick W. Holls, an obscure
Brooklyn lawyer, went by President Jlc
Klnley's orders to The Hague Peace Con
ference as one of this country's represen
tatives, and in a short time won such a
commanding position In that body as to
secure the most generous ericomlums
from the world's greatest diplomatists.
John Hay was prominent in public affairs,
but without rank as a statesman until
President McKlnley made him Secretary
of State Ellhu Rcot had made & reputa
tion as a lawyer, but was practically un
known to the Nation before" ho was made J
Secretary of War. Together these two
Sectaries ' have hand ed the Chinese
problem, and while the diplomatists of
the Old World tinkered away at It these
novices were doing things. With no
knowledge of the intricacies of diplomacy,
they grappled with the wily Chinese.
It was they who put the imprisoned En
voys in communication with thtir respec
tive governments, and the thing3 .they
have done in a diplomatic way have
brought China to her knees, a supplicant
for peace and mercy.
The achievements of these four men
are worthy of favorable comparison with
anything accomplished by Webster, Cal
houn or Clay. It Is a relief to all Amer
ica to knoW that her citizenship contains
men Of such commanding genius in state
Craft With them making the history of
the present In such a manner that greater
luster is shed upon, the American name
wherever heard. It would be well to cease
lamenting over a decaying statesmanship
nd turn to thanking the man who. In
less than three years, has discovered and
brought to the front four of the most
conspicuous and accomplished statesmen
and diplomats of modern times.
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CULTURE RUN TO SEED.
Criticism of a Critic and Then Com
ment on the Critieiiier.
New York Evening Post.
An Academy critic who has fallen foul
of a number of Poet-Lore writes of the
collision in no gentle spirit, having suf
fered, as he deems, in mind, if not "in
body and estate, from the "literary tall
talk" of the Boston review. "It Is with
the quarterly arrival of Poet-Lore from
Boston," he says, "that we feel how
many rungs of the ladder of Culture we
have yet to climb. Our only doubt is
whether any one can be so cultured as
the readers of Poet-Lore seem to be.
There Is here no mingling of the cup."
The ladles who expound the messages
of Browning and Meredltn, respectively,
excite the critic's wrath, particularly the
lnventress of an "lnerrant" Meredith. -
The eulogist of Mr. Meredith seems to think
ahe will Cain the ear of tho reader by saying
that genius "In lis formed philosophical
theories may err, but not in its perceptions of
life" and that therefore "in hi3 inspired rep
resentations of lifo and character, coming not
from thought alone, but from his whole na
ture, Meredith cannot err." Like the cuckoo,
the Eostonlan critic selects an author in which
to find, or dejiosit, a gospel; and once the se
lection is made the poor man has no peace.
He is not even allowed to err.
The critic exhausts his vials of wrath
on a conference on "Present-Uay Poets,"
as follows:
Thejast item in our "Folk-Lore" (sic)
is a veritable tit-bit It is a- kind of ex
amination parifcr in "Present-Day Poets,"
in which some very solemn questions are
propounded by the editors. We give be
low a few of these questions, and the an
swers which we have framed from the
residue of our Intellect:
Is Mrs Louise Chandler Moulton too nar
rowly restricted to emotional theme3 and emo
tional means of expression for bounteous poetic
cheer, or is the perfect alliance of her emo
tional range and workmanship tho very source
of her lyric excellence!
We give it up.
Does Mr. Thomas Bailey Aldrich escape the
usual penalty for laying emphasis on deli
cacy of finish so that the result is satisfying
in its happy precision? Or does he seem cold
and elaborately superficial? Does he, so to
Bpeak, carve cherry-stones oftener than ho en
graves cameos?
We don't know. Does it, "zo to speak,"
matter twopehce?
Is Miss Louise Imogen Qulney's scholas
ticism too dominant in her work? Does she
lack human warmth? Or are her restraint nnd
good taste the index of deeper feeling? Does
her cultured thought and chaste concentrated
power of expression lift her above the ranks
of the minor poets?
Perhaps they "does." We will leave It
open.
Does Miss Hannah Parker Kimball's por
traiture of Judas Iscarlot reveal a capacity for
dramatically creating development in charac
ter? Aro her lyrics too grave, or is It their es
pecial blend Of high Seriousness and Intel
lectual insight with unforced expression, which
gives them unusual richness?
We 'Should say that the blend named
would give unusual richness to any hu
man; composition; but, there, we are tired.
From the tone of the Academy article,
We judge that literary clubs do not rage
In Erigland as with Us, while on the
whole matter the defense of the prayer
meeting by a clergyman with a sense of
humor is pertinent: "The prayer meeting
is sometimes good for everybody," he
said, "and it Is always good for those
who speak In meeting." Poet-Lore may
have uses which Its English critic does
not divine.
HERE IT IS AGAIN.
If Yon Haven't Rend This Before,
Read Now nnd Reflect.
Senator Hoar's Worcester Interview.
When Colonel Bryan says that If he Is
elected he will call an extra session at
once and propose to Congress to give
up the Philippines to their own people
he must know very well that this talk
is the idlest and most ridiculous nonsense.
He knows he could not expect either
House of Congress to do this thing until
the people of the Philippine islands hive
abandoned their opposition and haVe re
established an orderly government under
our protection.
He khows that if there should be a
Democratic majority in the House of Bep
sentatlves equal to his wildest hopes,
and if the Republican majority in the
Senate should be reduced or wiped out
altogether, there are still earnest and
pledged Imperialists enough in the Demo
cratic party to prevent any such action.
No, tho anti-imperialism of Mr. Bryan
and that of his party are but a mask
it is a mask to cover the things they have
had most at heart from the beginning,
It is a mask to cover their purpose to
establish the free coinage of silver, a
mask to cover their purpose to bring in
free trade, a mask to cover their pur
pose to overthrow the banking system,
a mask to cover an attack upon the Su
preme Court and a purpose to reorganize
it if they can get the opportunity.
UP TO TIIiliMAN.
Will He Kindly Aply the Kansas
City Rebuke to North Carolina t
New Tork Times.
Alabama's population in 1S90 was 1,513,
017. There were, upon the common cal
culation of one yoter in five, 302,203 voters
in that state In 1S96. Alabama gave to
all candidates for President 193,653 votes,
Bryan receiving 130,307. Louisiana's pop
ulation Ih 1SS0 was 1,118,5S7. The state was
entitled in 1S9G to at least 223,000 votes.
It cast 102,046, and Bryan had 77,000 of
these. Mississippi had 1,289,600 population
in 1&0, and presumably 257,920 males of
voting age. In 1S96 there were cast for
President in Mississippi 70,545 votes, Brydu
getting G3.859. North Carolina was report
ed in 1890. in the census of that year, as
haxing 1.617,947 population. The state cast
331,210 votes in the Presidential contest
of 1&6. or a little more than the reason
able ratio for 1890., South Carolina, with
a reported population In 1690 of 1,151,149,
and with not less than 230,000 voters, cast
for all Candidates in 1E96, 68,907 votes, and
GS.79S of them-went to Mr. Tillman's man
Bryan.
What became of the 600,000 votes that
appear to have been missing from the
election returns of Alabama, Louisiana,
Mississippi and South Carolina? Were
these 600,000 Voters to be governed, in
case Mr. Bryan was chosen or defeated,
without their consent, thus subjecting
them to the "tyranny," referred to by
the Democratic platform? Have "thoso
missing voters been since found and re
quired to give their Consent to the elec
tion of Representatives of Congress, in
order that they should not be taxed with
out National representation fairly Se
cured: or has their consent been ob
tained to ticvr restrictions of the suf
frage? Has there been shown any tend-
ency In any of those states to exchange
"the tnenthods of imperialism for those
of a republic"?
How have Alabama. Louisiana. Mis
sissippi, North -Carolina, and South Caro
lina qualified themselves to reproach the
Administration for Imperialism? Have
not three of those states formally and
completely and the two others by pro
gressive steps undertaken to deprive some
600,000 of "the governed" of the opportun
ity to give or withhold that consent guar
anteed as a Tight according to the Demo
cratic application of the Declaration of
Independence, and secured by the Consti
tution? Why waste hypocritical platform sen
timent on the people of Porto Rico be
cause they have "a government without
their consent and taxation without rep
resentation" when 600.000 voters In four
states, all Democratic states, are de
prived of tho right to consent, and about
1,000,000 altogether, if we consider Vir
ginia, Georgia, Florida, and Tenessee, are
in Hke manner subjected to "tyranny"?
Mr. Tillman's platform also declares its
opposition to "militarism," for the rea
son that "It means conquest abroad and
intimidation ahd oppression at home. It
means the standing army that has al
ways been fatal to free institutions."
What apology does Senator Tillman offer
to the standing aYmy of 1.000.000 voters dis
franchised in Southern States? Were "in
timidation and oppression at home" prac
ticed to bring about this result, peculiar
only to one section of the country? Does
not the condition of these silenced voters
"appeal with peculiar force to our justice
and magnanimity"?
Bryan Crowds, as In 1SOO.
Chattanooga Times.
Associated Press dispatch:
Between 2500 and 3000 people assembled at
the Burlincton station at 7:30 o'clock tonight
to see W. J. Bryan and his party pass through
en route to tho formal notification meeting at
Indianapolis. A cheer went up as the train
rolled in. and Mr. Bryan stepped out on the
rear platform.
This announcement has an old, familiar
sound, and carries us back to the glorious
days of 1896, when the people also
thronged to that rear platform, and It ap
peared as if the whole world was for
Bryan. In 1S93, It was free silver, 16 to
1, that caught the crowds; this time the
start is made with not the faintest refer
ence to the Issues. Nevertheless the inci
dent Is significant of what is coming, just
the same as it was in 1S96.
General "Wood's "Worlc in Cnbn.
Boston Transcript.
General Wood appears to believe in
starting right, and his sword appears to
be capable of severing Gordian knots.
When he found that a new sewerage sys
tem for Havana could not be put Into
operation without an issue of city bonds,
and that these could not be Issued under
the old charter, he immediately drew up
a new charter, which will be put into
operation by simple fiat. Some time ago
a company proposed to put Into opera
tion a system of municipal improvements
In Havana, issuing bond3 for about four
times the cost of the construction. Gen
eral Wood's new charter will foreste.ll
American speculators who have patrioti
cally proposed to reap a harvest for them
selves out of the needs of the cities of
Cuba.
The Secret Never Divnlgred.
Chicago Chronicle.
There died recently the only man who
knew the name of a mysterious benefac
tor of tho United States In time of peril.
It Was Lucius E. Chittenden, Registrar
of the Treasury under Lincoln, who died.
During the Rebellion Minister Adams, in
London, heard of the Lairds fitting out
two ironclads for the Confederates. He
tried to have their putting to sea stopped.
But the British Government wouldn't do
this unless Adams put up $5,000,000 in gold
to offset possible damages. Adams
couldn't raise the money, but a man
called and offered the money without se
curity. He was made to take $10,000,000 in
United States bonds, however. The man's
namo was never divulged.
The Bryan Party's Usefulness.
Rockford Independent.
The Democracy is always hanging back
on the skirts of progress, opposing new
departures when the Republicans first
strike them out and then getting into
line and condemning them, and then
again opposing the still newer advances
of the Republicans. We suppose they are
of some use as an opposition party, but
they are sadly out of place as an execu
tive One.
"When Bryan Goes to Carolina.
Clallam Courier.
North Carolina has entered on a period
of "government without consent of the
governed," and the little fiction that "the
Constitution followa the flag" don't go in
the Tarheel state. When the great Demo
cratic joss goes Into that state he had
better leave both the flag and Constitu
tion at home. Neither one 13 respected.
3IEN AND "WOMEN.
Mrs. Thomas C. Piatt, the wife of the New
York Senator, gives a great deal of her time
to study. Two yeara ago she took up French,
and 13 now proilcient in that language.
Major - General Joseph "Wheeler has been
asked to deliver next "Winter a course of lec
tures on the great battles of the world be
fore the department of history of the Univer
sity of Chicago.
All Ferrou Bey, the Turkish Minister to this
country. Is a regular member of the "Washing
ton Fencing Club, of Which Count Casslnl. tho
Russian Ambnssador, is president, and is ono
of lts"be3t swordsmen.
John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil mag
nate, was interviewed the other day on vaca
tions in the abstract. "The only way for a.
rich man to enjoy one," ho faid, "is for him
to forget completoly that he Is rich."
Secretary Hay figures as a leading Ameri
can man of letters In a recently published
London interview with the English poet. Swin
burne, in which Mr. Swinburne speaks of him
as hnvlng great originality in bis verse and a
distinctive American note.
Sir Richard "Webster, the new Engllih Mas
ter of Rolls In succession to Sir Nathaniel
Lindsay, was bom In 1&42, and Is the second
tort of Thomas "Webster, the famous lawyer.
He Is a Charterhouse alumnus, and has been
Attorney-General three times.
There Is A legend about the Senate chamber
that General Hawley, for 10 or 12 minutes. In
a speoch once spoke 223 words a minute. The
average speed of Senators in speeches does not
reach 110 words, and in dictating letters rarely
reaches 100 words.
General Miles braved the heat of New York
recently to pay a visit to his daughter, whose
husband Is quartered at Governor's Island,
and to see the arrival of several boatloads of
immigrants. On such occasions he always
dresses in citizens' clothes, with a straw hat,
dark suit and a flowing tie.
The Glad Girl on the Wire.
Chicago telephone girls must hereafter an
swer calls cheerfully. They must use the ris
ing Inflection and do so in musical tones when
they ask a customer what number he wants;
they must let their voices inoicate that they
are glad the bell was rung, and they must by
means of happy little outbursts give every ono
who uses the "wire to understand that they
wish him well.
"When the sky Is gray above you
And when no one seems to love you,
"When all the world, in fact, is dark and drear;
"When people hurry b you
And when troubles come to try you.
There still are happy words that you may hear.
"Whether gleeful birds are singing.
"Whether Joyous bells are ringing.
Or whether zloom has settled over alL
Sho must greet you gayly, gladly.
Never spitefully or sadly
Always with a cheerful accent when you, call.
She has ceased to be emphatic.
She has ceased to be dogmatic.
She has ceased to bid us chase ourselves away.
But In soft, sweet tones that thrill us
And wllh happy feelings fill us,
Sho answers when- the bell is rung today.
Oh. why sit sighing sadly
When affairs are going badly
And you stem to near some terrifying fate?'
Drop your dime down in the slot and
Ring up Maud or Grace or JDot and
Bo encouraced let her cheer you while you I
iv ait, Chicago Ttmes-HsraiO. J
NOTE' AND COMMENT..
Open letters, this Presidential year, ap
pear to be confined to the pugilists.
It took a march to Pekln to teach tho.
world what Bret Harte told it SO years
ago.
The Supremo Court of North Carolina
has sustained a decision rendered la
Burke County imposing a fine of $1000 on
a railway company for having given an
annual pass to a doorkeeper of the Legis
lature in. 1S97.
A resident of Wichita, Kan., who is no-re
at Cape Nome, recently wrote a- letter to
a relative at home, from which the fol
lowing is an extract: "Here lies tho
rolling sea; towering above that are tha
Ice-green mountains, and towering abova
tha mountains is the price of grub."
Many regiments in the British Army
have nicknames of which they are ex
ceedingly proud. This 13 not the caso
with tho Eighteenth Hussars, now in
service in South Africa, which ha3 been,
nicknamed "Kruger's Own" because such
a. large number of Its men were capturedt
by the Boers.
At Grant City, Mo., the other day f
man beat his wife and was arrested on
a warrant sworn out by hec He waa
sentenced to the rock pile, and tho next
morning the people were astonished to
see the wife patiently holding an Umbrella,
over her Spouse as he hammered away;
at the rock.
The Japanese Government through ar
agent has Just made very large purchases
of shoes, cloth and Iron for the Japaneso
Army In St. Louis. Mo. Said tha agentr
"Our men will wear American shoes and
boots Into China and when they reach.
Pekln will hang American shirts on that
wall3 to dry."
Ex-United States Senator Boutwell, of?
Massachusetts, who was the leading or
ator at the Indianapolis reunion of all
the "auntiesi" in the country, is only S3
years of age, but his views inspire tha
suspicion that ho is a good deal older
man, a3 they are Identical with those vo
ciferated by Joslah Qulncy, of Boston, ooj
the floor of Congress 83 yeare ago in op
position to the admission of Louisiana.
The action of Russia In taking posses
sion of New Chwang prompted Great
Britain to land troops at Shanghai. Japan,
is Indignant justly at the action of Rus
sia, but France stands by Russia, and
Germany Is expected to be dissatisfied
with the action of Great Britain. If Rus
sia continues her clutch on New Chwang,
it will not be surprising if a war broke
out between Russia and Japan, backed
by Great Britain.
Two cadets were sentenced to dismissal
tho other day from West Point Cadet
Keyes was convicted of "having beea
under the influence of liquor," and Cadet
Higbee was convicted of having made a.
false official statement, made with In
tent to deceive. President McKlnley has
mitigated the sentence of Cadet Keyes to
suspension from the military academy
school pay until June. 1901, but confirms
the sentence of dismissal in the case of
Higbee.
Colonel Claude Chinn, of Kentucky, Is
charged with a shortage of J10.920 In his
accounts as County Cleric He says: "I
may bo short: I cannot tell." Colonel
Claude Chinn Is a Goebelite fire-eater, a.
crack shot, a sport, a friend of Senator
Joo Blackburn. His present situation
recalls the famous Colonel Yell, of TTell
vllle, Ark., of whom It was said by his
eulogist: "Colonel Yell may have beenv
a defaulter to the state, but, neverthe
less, wo believe that his heart always
beat warmly for his native land."
He stood on the twilight threshold.
A golden-haired boy of three.
Then said, with hands outstretched In pleadlns.
Papa, will you walk with me?
How the parent heart leaped at the summons.
Overflowing with fondness and Joy.
"With a prayer that such love and confiding
No harshness should ever destroy!
Looking down the long years of tho future,
"When the tempter has entered the fold.
"When the world spreads Its pleasures allurlnj
And tho home, perhqps, seems dull and old
Looking down to these years of tho future.
How the parent heart trembles to-iseo
The day of Its own eager pleading.
My boy, will you walk with mo?
Every day has Its threshold of duty,
"When we stand In the door of a Choice!
Every morning its warring Impulses,
Every nightfall its sentencing-voice.
And tho parent-heart listens In sllenca
For the tender, importunate plea.
The call from tho Anget of Goodness,
Earth-child will you walk with me? t
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHED
"The devil Is In tho weather," says an ex
change. That being the case, hell is getting tod
closo to be comfortable Atlanta Constitution.
"It Is said that Oom Paul 13 trying to maka.
terms for himself " "Later on he will mak
terms for the lecture bureaus and tha maga
zine editors." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A woman who will not forgive a man for
forgetting her will almost love him for striv
ing to forget her. for she knows that in this IX
the essence of remembrance. Life.
A Correction. ""We haven't any cults in Chi
cago, as far as I know," said the Chicago girl,
ingenuously. "Nonsense!" reptled tho Boston
girl. "Chicago is a cult unto herself." Puck.
"I've got tho best of the ould railway com-
pany for once In me lolfe." "How la that.
Pat?" "I've sot a return ticket to London,
ard (in a whisper) I ain't coming back."-
Tit-Bits.
"What you gits out'n yoh talents 'pends on
how you uses "em." said Uncle Ehen. "Many
a time a man's gif s o' talkln' deesn' 'com
pllsh nothln' cep to make hlsse'f an' a lot
o' yuthuh men folk3 late foh supper." "Wash
ington Star.
From Minnesota. "A New Jersey minlsta
argues that women should keep their hats oa
in church because St. Paul favored it." "Then
you can bet your life that every woman la
Minneapolis will go bareheaded!" Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Partly Qualified. ""What Is his occupation?"
asked the warden of tho penitentiary, referring
to the latest arrival. "He hasn't any regular
occupation," raid the subordinate. "Ho Is
nothing but a ward heeler " "All right." re
joined the warden, "put him in the shoemak
Ing department." Chicago Tribune.
A Maniac "He admitted to me" the un
impeachable witness spoke with an evident re
luctance, which made his testimony all th
more convincing, "that his 3-year-old son was
no brlchter than anybody else's kid." And
then two stal-nart minions Of the law grabbed
tho defendant and held him fast, while th
gray-haired Judge made out his commitment
to the asylum. Harper's Bazar.
Off With the Old Loire.
(By "W J B .)
Farewell, old love a long farewell.
I loved you more than tongue could teiV
But you must go.
Because you know
I've yielded to another's spell.
"Imperialism" rhythmic word
The rlpplngest I've ever heard
Must take your place.
I'll miss your face.
But your successor is a "bird.
Farewell, free silver we are done;
Your raee. I'm sad to say, i3 run.
'Tls said, but oh!
Your ratio
To my new love is "naught-to-one."
I know I said, "though all bo lost.
I'd cling to you at any cost."
But. don't yon know.
That did not "go."
Because I bad my fingers crossed?
Baltimore Ancriauu