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v-jkw--- rrpt mKfwwst' TfwJ's,W,am,'rr? "nirw ,'rT!as'v-Tfyjw9!'r ' SeSsSyJSJjp THE MORNING OEEGONTAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1901. Entered nt the Postofflce at Portland, Oregon, as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION KATES. Br Mall (postage prepaid). In Advance Dally, with Sunday, per month... .........$ 85 Daily, Sunday excepted, per year......... 7 50 Dally, with Sunday, per year............. 9 00 Sunday, per year 2 00 The Weekly, per year......... 1 50 The Weekly, 3 months..... 5o To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered, Sundays cxcepted.l5c Dally, per week, delivered. Sundays lncludea.20c POSTAGE RATES. United States. Canada and .Mexico: 10 to 16-paco paper. ....... ...........lc 10 to 32-pago paper.... .............. .......c Foreign rates double. News or discussion intended for publication In The Orcgonlan should be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan." not to the name vt any Individual. Letters relating to advertis ing, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." Eastern Business Office 13. 4. -45. 47. 48. 49 Tribune building, New York City; 403 "The Rookery." Chicago; the S. C. Beckwith special agency. Eastern representative. For sale in San Francisco by L. E. Lee, Pal ace Hotel .news stand; Goldsmith Bros., 230 Sutter street; F. W. Pitts, 100S Market street; 3. K. Cooper Co., 740 Market street, near the Palace Hotel; Foster & Orear, Ferry news ctand. For sale In Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner. 250 So. Spring street, and Oliver & Haines, 108 So. Spring street. For sale In Chicago by -the P. O. News Co.. 217 Dearborn street. For Bale In Omaha by Barkalow Bros., 1C12 Famam street. For sale In Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co., 77 W. Second South etroet. For sale In Ogden by TV, C Kind. 204 Twenty-fifth street, and by a H. Myers. For sale in Kansas City, Mo., by Fred Hutchinson, 004 Wyandotte street. On file at Buffalo. N. Y., In the Oregon ex hibit at the exposition. For sale In Washington, D. C, by the Ebbett House news stand. For sale In Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Xendrick. 00C-9I2 Seventh srreet. TODAY'S WEATHER Increasing cloudiness and probably showers; cooler; southerly w lnds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem pcratui, 70; minimum temperature, 40; pre cipitation, none. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 PROGRESS AXD REFORM. The Rational Bankers' Association meets at an opportune time for calling the country's attention to our strong Unanclal condition and to the needs of the currency at the hands of Congress. The association now represents an ag gregate capital of some $8,000,000,000, and its membership has grown from 4391 a year ago to 5504 now. "Within this time or a little more, 486 banks have been organized under the amend ed hank act of 1900, Tvlth capital less than ?50,000 each, carrying a combined capital of $12,747,000 -while 229 hanks have been organized with ?50,000 or more capital, carrying a total capital of 523,835,000. This multiplication of bank ing facilities has been accompanied by great Increase in volume of the cur rency and in hank clearings. It la worth noting that In this pros perity the "West has been particularly fortunate. Of the new -banks, for ex ample, Texas leads with 90 banks, Iowa comes next with 53, Ohio 52, Illinois 40, Minnesota 2S, Indiana 25, Kansas 21, Nebraska 20. The latest available ex hibit of the condition of the National banks shows marked advance. In loans Chicago shows an increase of, $17,Q00, 000 from April 24 to July 15; St. Louis in the same time increased this item from 64,519,732 to $71,132,170, and Kan sas City from $30,857,203 to $34,882,090. Other "Western cities increased, and the State of Texas showed a growth of nearly $8,000,000 in this period. In Chi cago the individual deposits on April 24 amounted to $116,189,529, while on July 15 they were $127,769,072. In St Louis there was an increase of $2,000,000 in deposits during the same period, in Detroit $1,000,000, and in Cincinnati about $3,000,000. A most impressive showing is afford ed by the rise in individual deposits, thus: Sept. 7, Sept 5, July 15. 1899. 1900 1901. Chicago ....$101,564,876 $102,942,776 $127,769,072 Cincinnati.. 27,445 618 27,141,271 33,357,741 St. Louis.... S7.8S8.3H 20.S10.8C5 40.S69.963 Milwaukee.. 24.3S2.21G 24,272,048 26,929,812 Minneapolis. 1L639.221 10,507,430 10,827.929 St. Paul 12,820,912 12,673,315 13,827.833 Kansas JIry 17,363,400 19,402,265 23,890.577 San Fr'n'sco 17.U4.460 16,127,776 17.S97.5S0 The bankers, however, do not stop at felicitation, but address themselves to tasks of reform. Imperative in this line is the renewal of some 1700 bank charters which expire next year, but whose renewal was vainly asked of the Fifty-sixth Congress. Out of the 4064 banks operating under the National banking law, there are 1738 National banks whose charters will expire on various dates after July 12, 1902, and whose corporate existence cannot be extended without further action by Congress. The -original act, passed in 1863, provided that the charters of Na tional banks should extend over a period of twenty years, and on July 12, 1882, an amendment Was passed au thorizing the Controller of the Currency to extend the charters for another period of twenty years. Mr. Dawes held that the amendment passed in 1882 did not give him authority to re extend the charters of those banks ex piring after 1902, and that new legisla tion is necessary to reach them. Further banking reforms must pro ceed with deliberation, and are reason ably certain to do so, if for no other reason than the difference of opinion as to the best measures, entertained by the bankers themselves. As to the gold standard, as to refunding the bonds, as to more liberal terms under the National system, as to Impounding the greenbacks, as to protecting the reserve, it has been reasonably clear sailing, and these things have been done. Steps toward asset currency and abolition of the Subtreasury system will be taken, if at all, tentatively. Such reforms as we have undertaken justify hope In salutary results from further efforts in the way of scientific banking. DIVORCE,. Divorce may be a good thing or a bad, a step downward or a step up ward, a door opening into licentious sin or an escape into happy nd useful life. There Is a good deal of effrontery in the reckless way some thoughtless ones assume that "God has Joined to gether" the victims of a foolish mar riage. The author of such wicked af fairs has oftener been some scheming or indifferent parent, selling a daugh ter's soul for fhoney or a name, or throwing a son away with thanks that he is off the mind. We -all make mistakes, and the thing to do with mistakes is to rectify them if possible. Nov, a bad marriage is one of the hardest mistakes in the world to rectify. If there are children, the separation opens up to them a tainted future. If there are no children, there is an inevitable blot npon the reputation of the innocent as well as guilty. It is a grave step, to be taken only when other expedients have failed, and when the good to be obtained through it is clearly greater than the harm. The mistake about divorce is in treating It as something mysteriously and religiously apart from other prob lems of life In which considerations must be sanely weighed, and a decis ion reached from expediency. Many a woman has been released from a living death to find a higher life in a new and better union, and many a worthless wretch has been cast off into the mire he covets, free at last from the wife and children he has disgraced and whose companionship he has forfeited. A wealth of sentiment is wasted on the "divorce evil."m Some fondly Imag ine that the rakes of both sexes who form a continuous procession through the divorce courts can be made over Into exemplary citizens by the mere destruction of divorce. It is a chimeri cal doctrine. The divorce court only clothes with a pitiful semblance of re spectability a species of union that would otherwise flourish shamelessly as flagrant and open adultery. STREET-CAR ETIQUETTE. As a general rule, he who Is looking forrouble will find it. Enter a dining room In hotel or Pullman with a cross face and eye the waiter with distrust and disapproval, and your fare will be very unsatisfactory compared with that served to your neighbor who scatters smiles and cheery words about him with abandon and talks to the waiter as if he regarded him the personifica tion of all cleverness and grace. These reflections are pertinent to the letter of a sunny-tempered woman which we print elsewhere on this page. "A Satisfied Old Woman," we take it, does not approach the steps of a crowd ed street-car with an expression which says too plainly for words that she rec ognizes in every man and boy an im placable enemy and a graceless scamp from whom she expects neither cour tesy nor mercy. She shows by her looks, rather, that she expects kindness and will appreciate it. For such a woman nothing is too good, in the eyes of the average men and boys. They make room for her with all possible speed, if they do not even descend and lend her a helping hand. Once she Is inside, if the car is crowded, a seat is promptly at her disposal, whether from boy or girl, and wherever she goes she reaps an abundant harvest from the seeds of love and kindness she scatters on her way. Assuredly there is no excuse for i man to fill up the car platform when there are seats Inside, unless he Is smoking, and even then the true gentle man never makes his cigar offensive. But there are not always seats for all. Many a man is on the platform simply because he has given up his seat to some lady Inside, and he must either ride en the platform or miss the car. It suits some complainants to believe that no man should ride on a crowded car; but for him to be late at home would often cause far more discomfort and uneasiness tHere than to those he temporarily discommodes on the brief ride In transit. The Sun and Wind once had a dis pute as to which should first compel a traveler to put off his heavy cloak. The wind blew its worst, but only caused the traveler to wrap his cloak more closely about him. Then the sun 'shone out warmly and the traveler was fain to throw his cloak away. We com mend this story of Aesop to all who find themselves unable, either on street cars or off them, to force by scowl and growl the door of courtesy and kindness that opens only to the warmth of good fellowship and the light of love. DISARMING JUSTtCE. After many years of struggle and bloodshed, of private feud and public election massacre, Kentucky seems at last to be progressing toward peace. In the trial of Caleb Powers, Judge Cantrlll made and put into execution an order that every one connected With the case, including His Honor the pre siding Judge, be disarmed before being admitted into the courtroom. This or der will confine the arguments of the attorneys to the Marquis of Queensbury rules; will prevent the jurors from using anything more deadly than chairs or benches on one "another In adjusting such differences of opinion as may arise among them as to the guilt or innocence of the accused; will enable the fore man of the jury to read the verdict without first donning a suit of Harvey ized armor, and will prevent the Judge from Imposing a fine for contempt of court with a Winchester rifle. There are a number of reasons why It is unwise to allow Kentuckians to go armed into a courtroom during the trial of a criminal case involving a political fight, such, for example, as that of Caleb Powers. In the first place, ft is a difficult matter to secure twelve good men and true to act as jurors, so epidemic is political prejudice, and the shooting of one or two of them in the course of a trial really works a very serious inconvenience. Again, the kill ing of a member of the counsel for a prisoner of state gives the other side an unfair advantage and tends at the same time to create dissatisfaction. And further, when the shooting be comes general, much damage Is wrought by bullets which find marks their send ers little meant, and cause really un necessary fatality among the innocent bystanders, who never thought of draw ing their own weapons or of harming a single juror, attorney or Judge. Judge Cantrlll has been severely crit icised for -many of the rulings he has made in previous' trials, but in his de termination to prevent bloodshed in the course of this trial and his willingness to forego even his own high privilege of carrying a six-shooter with which to decide points too fine to be analyzed, he will have the support not only of all good citizens of Kentucky, but of friends-of human kind all lover the world. "WELCOME, SIR HENRY! The news of the arrival of Sir Henry Irving andt Miss Ellen Terry in New York Monday should be welcome to theater-goers all over the United States, for, although it is not likely that their tour will extend farther West than Chi cago, the Influence of their-presence cannot fail to make Itself felt through out the land. Irving has never played for or sought popularity. He has a standard of act ing, an end toward which he is con stantly striving, and, win or lose, he never lowers It That he has succeeded more often than he has failed finan cially, of course, for he has always been an artistic success is a compliment tr the intelligence of ' theater-goers, and more particularly to those of America, for Irving has found the United States always ready to make up the losses he has sustained in England. He Is to play "Corlolaiius" on his present tour, and there can be little doubt that he will present it as it has never been presented before. The play, while rich in possibilities for a great actor, has been little attempted of late, and It will be vastly better known to the theater going public after Its forthcoming in troduction. Of' the company which Is to support Sir Henry, Miss Terry is already as widely known as the star himself, and it is safe to say that the other mem bers . are all players with whom the reading of Shakespeare may safely be Intrusted. The production will be one long to be remembered, and the impetus it will give to the demand 'for Shakes pearean drama, as well as the high standard which will be set for Ameri can actors and managers, will extend its benefits far beyond those who are privileged to witness it. A PROBLEM IN POLITICAL CORRUP TION. Philadelphia recently triedvto borrow $9,000,000 at 3 per cent and got $5000, while Baltimore can borrow for less than 3 per cent. .An anonymous con tributor to the current number of the Atlantic Monthly recites this fact, and explains It by saying that Pennsylvania, is the most corrupt state in the Union, so cprrupt that the state's financial credit Is impaired. The explanation of the existing political debauchery of Penn sylvania is not furnished by a prepon-. derance of foreign-born and bred papu lation, for Massachusetts, with her native-born in numerical minority, is the best-governed commonwealth in the Union, while Pennsylvania, with her native-born In large majority, is fairly painted with political corruption from scalp to sole. Pennsylvania, and Massa chusetts are both Republican states, both great manufacturing states, which have always been clamorous for a pro tective tariff. Here the resemblance seems tq end, for while it Is Impossible to elect a man of known corrupt meth ods in politics to the United States Senate or any other high, respopsible public office In Massachusetts. It Is verv difficult to elect anybody save a politi cal trader and trafficker in votes to a high public office In Pennsylvania. United Senator Hoar is an old man whose earthly possessions do not ex ceed the value of $50,000; he is opposed to the Philippine policy of his party; he was elected to the Senate In 1877 without spending a dollar or bargain ing for votes; he has since been four times re-elected without any effort on his part. Today, at 75 years of age, he could not be beaten for re-election by the use of money or bargaining for votes. It has always been so In Mas sachusetts. Men known to be of cor rupt political practice have never been successful In the pursuit of public hon ors. In the list of the political leaders of Massachusetts you will find some men, like Daniel Webster and George Ashmun, who were at .times too con vivial for their best good, but there are no Camerons and Quays in the list of the political leaders of Massachusetts. The explanation of this difference in the record of Massachusetts and Pennsyl vania, as given by this Pennsylvania critic of the Keystone State, is found in a moral deficiency in the mass of vot ers. Every man has his price under Quay, as he did under Walpole in Eng land. Repeaters can be bought cheap ly and voted in carloads from Balti more, but for the vote of a member of the Legislature at a critical pinch as high as $37,000 has been paid. Respectable business men and church officials are persuaded to lend the dig nity of their names to a Quay, meeting by reduced assessments on their prop erty or by the gift of a franchise to their company, while a socially ambi tious ",new rich" man is bought by the appointment of his son as under-sec-retary to a foreign legation. A popular clergyman of Philadelphia made a pub lic speech for a notorious bill pending before the Legislature. The clergyman had once been In the ranks of the re formers, but Quay found out that he wanted $50,000 for a hospital of which he was president, so Quay's engineers offered to put the hospital In the ap propriation bill for $50,000 if the distin guished clergyman would give their scandalous bill the benefit of his moral support. The' deal was made. The clergyman made a public speech for the rotten bill and got his appropriation. He would not have sola his vote or his Influence for his personal profit, but he would sell it for his hospital. Quay knew his man, his price, and bought him as truly as if he had paid him a dollar as an imported repeater from Baltimore. Every public Institution de pendent on state appropriates; every man of large public business interests, is blackmailed and bulldozed into sup port of the machine. In the rural districts individual vote buying is justified as "the custom and habit of the' place." in communities na tive American two centuries back. Well-to-do farmers count on $5" twice a year for their families' vote just as certainly as they depend on the sale of their wheat and hogs. The local lead ers of the Democratic party are enough of them In the pay of Quay to sway the party to his advantage when he needs help. The truth seems to be that in Pennsylvania, from top to bottom of soclet3 the voters place material Interest above civic duty; the masses sell votes and influence for cash; while the educated directly or indirectly sell themselves for favor, for office, for hospital appropriations. The conclusion of this Pennsylvania, critic is that the domination for so many years of such trading politicians and tricksters as Quay and his able teacher, Simon Cam eron, means sluggish moral vitality, a low moral thermometer. "Eight-ninths of the papers in Phila delphia preach reform publicly, while eight-ninths of the people practice the other thing privately." Only cne paper In the city supports the machine, the other eight daily worship at the politi cal reform altar. The explanation of Philadelphia, of Pennsylvania, offered is that she is the enthusiastic and lit eral disciple of Franklin's worldly wis dom, the essence of whose maxims was expressed by Iago when he said, "Put money in thy purse." This Pennsyl vania critic offers as a historic reason for the difference between the political morality of Pennsylvania and Massa chusetts the fact that the early Quaker founders of Pennsylvania lacked the spirit of the Puritan fathers to hold their 6tate steadily to the moorings of civic decency. The Quakers, in their toleration, allowed the control of the colony to pass into evil hands, and there It has always remained. Whatever may be the reason. It Is true that the great State of Pennsylvania and Its great .city, Philadelphia, have had a comparatively inglorious history meas ured by age, wealth and opportunity. The Atlantic critic compares his city to a fireside grandfather who sleeps twenty hours a day and nods four. It is pleasing to know that the ef forts of fools to console and pamper Czolgosz In prison by sending him fruits, flowers and tender messages, as well as the efforts of cranks to heap maledictions upon him, have been thwarted by a wise prison system that has not allowed these tokens, either dt sympathy or hate, to reach the con demned man. It Is difficult to regard with decent forbearance, and impossi ble to, regard with respect, those of the first class. We are told" that a major ity of these are Christian Scientists-so-called but that statement Is absurd, since It Is the boast of these people that they do not deal with material things. In fact, they boldly declare that there Is nothing material; that matter is a false conception, so to speak, of the carnal mind. Hence, of course, there are no flowers and fruits. The latter class, the cranks who pursue, or would pursue, the wretch to his cell with curses, represent the other extreme of folly. Between the two stand the great mass, whose mental equipoise, disturbed by the great shock of the President's assassination, was restored by the prompt course of justice in deal ing with the assassin, and who are glad to commit him to the realm of silence without either sympathy or anathema. The New York Independent, a journal that can hardly be taken to task for hostility to missionary effort, takes the following philosophical and Christian view of the capture and proposed ran som of Miss Stone: ' The capture Of a millionaire's son by villains, or of a missionary woman, for ransom, under threat of death, is a terrible thins; but It is one of tho risks of life. The slaughter of scores of missionaries and others In China was a terrible thing, but it, too, was one of the risks of the service. Before these lines, aru read wo may know whether Miss Stono la killed by her abductors, but if she dies, It Is honcrablo martyrdom The monstrous ransom demanded may be paid by living friends, but we honestly doubt the wisdom of It, and we observe that the American board, Which has tho safety of a multitude of other men and women in its charge, makes no appeal for such subscriptions. One of the risks of life, the life she had chosen, resulted disastrously to Miss Stone. "Honorable martyrdom" If she dies will be written against her name in the archives of the American Turkish missions, even as it has been written against the names of a legion of men and women who have taken the risk before her and perished. Sweden has a magnificent water power running to waste in the falls and rapids of the rivers that drain the rug ged surface of the kingdom. This power It Is proposed to utilize at an early day in running the railroads of the coun try by electricity. One of the foremost engineers of Sweden has prepared an estimate of power required to operate all the Swedish roads, comprising about 7500 miles. This he calculates at 32,000" horsepower, which he says could read ily be secured. Ills plan contemplates the erection of twelve central stations of 3000 horsepower each, distributed over the country. The cost would be about 40,000,000 Swedish crowns (about $10,000,000), which outlay, en account of the decreased cost of operating ex penses, weiuld be a profitable invest ment. Swedish customs, while slow to move on lower levels, respond quickly on higher lines to the demands of prog ress. Hence it would not be strange were Sweden the first country to su persede steam by electricity in moving railway, trains. King Leopold of Belgium, Who will soon visit the United States, is a brother of the hapless Carlotta who for a brief .period wore the troubled title of "Empress of Mexico," and who for many years has held mimic court in a madhouse In her brother's dominions. He will be the first of his house to set foot upon American soil since his un happy sister left It in the vain hope of securing succor for her husband the brave Austrian Archduke to whom France attempted to give empire in the New World. King Leopold comes upon a quest of peace, desiring to Improve the commercial relations between his kingdom and the United States, and to see the world beyond the European line. A hive of human industry In which there are no drones, but in which the workers labor ill content, Belgium and her industrial conditions should profit by the visit of her ruler to a land where labor is king, not serf; our Na tion will upon its part give Leopold a welcome becoming his station and his mission. What a pity the subsidy bill couldn't have been passed last session! Then the shipbuilding boom could have been pointed to with pride as its result. Yesterday's street-car accident was due to carelessness of the car men; and they will continue to be careless until some of them are well punished. THIS IS DIFFERENT May Be Something Depends on the "Woman Herself. POF.TLAND, Oct. 16. (To the Editor.) I have been a frequent patron of the street-cars for the last 10 years, and have yet for the first tlmo to board a car when the men or boys did not move for mo to pass, and they will frequently descend the steps and give me the entire way. In a few instances, a gentleman extended his hand to assist me In alight ing, saying, "Allow me, madam." But allusion has been made to women who "spread themselves," and occupy the seat of two. I also have seen this a few times. But more frequently, the con trary; as, for Instance, last Sunday I entered a crowded car, when a pretty girl arose and in a sweet way offered me her seat, which I gladly accepted. Two others offered their seats to an old gentleman. But a word for the con ductors. I find them a very gentlemanly set. Have received nothing but polite ness from them; for which I am thank ful. So subscribe myself, A SATISFIED "OLD WOMAN." Help Alone tle 1003 Fair. Oregon Poultry Journal. We are to have In Portland in 1905 the largest exposition ever held west of the Rocky Mountains. This will be a gigantic effort to publish to the "world the re sources of this great Northwest, and to commemorate the great expedition that gave to the United States this great coun try. The Oregon Poultry Journal believes, and Its mannjrement will do all in its power to accomplish the result, that the breeders of fancy poultry should unite in the greatest effort of their Uvea and put up a poultry show that will not only be an everlasting credit to themselves, but will alsoVmnke the eyes of the Eastern breeders open with astonishment. To this show we should invite, and make the invi tation so pressing that it would be im possible to decline, the American Poultry Association, to hold Its annual meeting. THE HONEST VITUPERATOR. Springfield Republican. After all the talk about political vi tuperation, it may be that the vitupera tion will continue just the sime. When people get passionate they say things; and when they say things in a passion they think they are saying nothing more than the gospel truth. No one can ade quately dlfciiss tho question of; vitupera tion without taking psychology Into ac count. Vituperation comes from a state of mind; the vituperator often believes, for the moment at least, all that hi says, or Implies, concerning the "vltuperatee." Thomas Jefferson was, perhaps, one of the most vituperated public men in our history. Our -New England clergy de clared that he wanted to burn the Bibles and destroy all the pulpits, and they be lieved it. The celebrated poem read at the meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa So ciety at Dartmouth College in lb03 la a classic example of the art. Of Jefferson the versifier wrote: Cimmerian goblins brooded o'er the hour When here a wild projector rose to power; Dolusive schemes distend whose plodding brain. Whose philosophic robe debaucheries stain. He, weak In rule, unskilled in moral lore, In practice Infidel, in spirit poor; Despised in person and debased In mind, At once the cure and pity of mankind. Reviles the God his countrymen dore. Kenned in insult! There w saw him shed Theatric sorrow o'er the mighty dead! Oh, then, then. Heaven's Indignant slumbers slept; The shade was wounded and the virtues wept. The poet then took a shot at Mr. Gal latin in these lines: , Columbians! See a foreign child of vice. Vile leech 6f state, whose virtue's avarice. Sedition nursed and taught In faction's school, With front of triple brass, your treasure rule. The Phi Beta Kappa Society voted its "cordial thanks" to the poet "for his Ingenious and sentimental verses," and Senator Hoar afew years ago wrote that the verses accurately expressed the pre vailing' sentiment of the day at Dart mouth and Harvard. The author of the lines and his responsive hearers felt that Jefferson and Gallatin were merely get ting their deserts. Doubtless they sin cerely believed that the' poet had under stated the case. When the old English lady screamed with terror at a funeral upon hearing that Mr. Gladstone was there, her emo tion was genuine. She honestly believed everything that was bad about the Lib eral leader. It was unsafe to be in the same Church with him. Those who said he was in the pay of the Jesuits doubt less felt that he really was, even If they could not prove it. When Mr. Lecky said he could see a kind of satanic gleam in Mr. Gladstone's eye that spoke volumes as to the man's inner nature, he had no Idea he was deceiving himself. Mr. Lecky was only seeing a physical Gladstone made to correspond to his idea of Glad stone. Probably Mr. Lecky could not help seeing something suspicious in the eye of the statesman, since he honest ly regarded his Irish policy as a most atrocious piece of chicane and dema gogism. In our own country, in recent times, there have been many instances of vitu peration, or Insult to public men, which can only be explained on the hypothesis that the vituperator honestly believed what he said of the "vltuperatee." Henry Watterson no one can doubt, was sin cere when he compared Henry George with "the bloody Marat. Rev. Dr. Park hurst, always sincere, was never more honest than when, in his pulpit In 1S96, he spoke of Mr. Bryan as "the crowned hero and the worshiped deity of the anarchists of the Northwest." Probably ho one In late years has had to "catch It" more than Bryan. The author of "Newyorkltls" relates that when he took Mr. Bryan to a wealthy church in New York one Sunday he was handed a note by an official of the parish, which said: "There are photographers outside on the street. Get Mr. B. away from the church before they snap-shot him, for we don't want the church in the same picture with him." The feeling therein expressed was perfectly sincere. The only wonder is that Mr. Bryan should have been allowed to enter the church at all. No better Illustration of the absolute sincerity of the user of strong language against political opponents could bo found than President Roosevelt. In a speech in Chicago in 1S96 he said: "For Mr. Bryan we can feel the contemptuous pity al ways felt for the small man unexpectedly thrust into a big place." Then he drew a picture of Mr. Bryan and Mr. Altgeld: "The one is unscrupulous from vanity, the 8ther from calculation. The one plans wholesale repudiation with a light heart and bubbling eloquence, because he lacks intelligence and Is intoxicated by hope of power; the other would connive at wholesale murder, and would justify it by elaborate and cunhing sophistry for reasons known only to his own tortuous soul..". Again last year Mr. Roosevelt said in his St. Paul speech: "The (the Demo crats) stand for lawlessness and disorder, for dishonesty and dishonor, for license and disaster at home and cowardly shrinking from duty abroad." Mr. Roose velt, of course, firmly believed that Mr. Bryan was "contemptible," that Mr. Alt geld "would Connive at wholesale mur der," that the Democrats stood for all he said they did- Whe'ther he believes it now or not. no one would undertake to say, but when he spoke those harsh words, he undoubtedly felt that they were literally true.' What Is known as vituperation, there fore, will always be difficult to eliminate from human discussion over issues which cut deeply athwart men's interests and opinions so long as tho honest vituper ator survive?. Nothing la easier than to believe evil of an opponent, honestly to believe it. And when one honestly be lieves a thing it is natural, in a country where free speech prevails, to express the belief in vigorous language. Evidently people must be careful about their be liefs, as well as moderate in their speech. "White Republicans in the South. Springfield Republican. An incident of political significance equal to President Roosevelt's nomination of the Alabama Democrat, Governor Jones, to a Federal Judgeship, was the simultaneous act of Mr. Hanna In ap pointing District Attorney John G. Capers, of South Carolina, to the vacancy from that state on the Republican National Committee. N Mr. Capers until now has kept up his connection with the Demo cratic party, although as a Cleveland Democrat he bolted the party's Presiden tial nominations in 1893 and 1900. When Senator McLaurln secured for Mr. Capers a nomination as United States District Attorney for South Carolina last Winter, Mr .Capers was presumed to be at least as much of a Democrat as the Senator himself, but the disguise is now fully discarded, and, by becoming a Republican National Committeeman, Mr. Capers stands forth as a Republican In official standing. It may be remarked in passing that this performance must tend to drive Senator McLaurin himself Into the Repub lican fold, where he obviously belongs. - Senator Williamson's Candidacy. Dalles Chronicle. Senator Williamson has considerable strength for anything he may ask of the Republicans of Eastern Oregon, but the Chronicle has the highest authority In the world for saying that he is not a candi date for Governor, and never was for a moment. If this is any comfort to our friend9 "west of the mountains, to the gubernatorial candidates over In Pendle ton or elsewhere, they are welcome to it, and they may rest assured the informa tion is reliable. What the future may have in store for Senator Williamson the Chronicle knows not; but that his East ern Oregon friends will demand his recog nition we are well assured, and the Chronicle tvIH be with them In this de mand, heart and soul. NO S IGN OF NEGRO DYING OUT. Springfield Republican. The Census Office has given out the bare statement that the colored element in 1900 forms only 1L5S per cent of the total population. This proportion compares with 11.93 per cent in 1S90, 13.13 per cent in 18S0, 14.13 per cent in 1S60 and 19 per cent in 1S10. The figures 'are being accepted in some Southern and other newspapers as proving that the race problem Is in the way of solving lteelf through the gradual disappearance of the negro from natural causes. Nothing of the kind Is of course shown. What does appear, and what would neces sarily appear, Is that the colored race 13 steadily falling into a lower and lower minority of the whole population of the country, but this is a matter quite apart from the question whether the negro race, considered by Itself, is losing ground. The colored race gains nothing from immi gration, while the white race gains very largely, and henco the falling percentage of the colored in the total population. The Southern States are much less affected by immigration than the Northern, and in the South, accordingly, we find the col ored race constituting nearly or about as large a proportion of the whole popula tion as ever In recent years. This Is made apparent from the following, giving the percentage of colored to the total population of each Southern State except Virginia and West Virginia, the returns from which have not as yet been pub lished: 1900. 1S90. 1SS0. Alabama 45.3 44.S 47.5 Arkansas 2S.0 27.4 26.2 Florida 43.7 42.o 4..0 Georgia ...-. 46.7 46.7 4..0 Kentucky 13.3 14.4 16.o Louisiana 47.2 49.9 51.a Mlssteelppl 5S.6 ai.6 oLo North Carolina 33.3 34.7 3i.9 South Carolina 53.4 59.S 60.. Tennessee 23.8 24.4 26.1 Texas 24.0 21.3 24.7 Comparing 1900 with 1890 the proportion of colored to all actually increased In Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi and Texas, or -In five of the 11 states; while in Georgia there was no change. Comparing 1900 with 1SS0, the dark pro portion increased only in Arkansas and Mississippi, while about holding its own in Texas and Georgia. But we are bound to take into consid eration an Important fact or two that in terstate migration of whites tends to fa vor the South, while the Southern negro population loses materially In migrations to the North and the West. This latter movement, while not great, is still large enough to affect considerably" the negro proportion of the whole Southern popula tion. The census essayists of 1SS0, making bold to compare the natural negro increase with that of the white, plus lmmigra tionr ventured the assertion that the col ored race is not keeping the pace or, in other words. Is in process of slow extinc tion. And it was said that as manufac turing industry spreads In the South and encroaches upon agriculture as an occu pation, this tendency in the colored race would be quickened. AH of which may in deed prove to be true. But there Is no present and certain indication of it never theless. The decade just past has been one of great manufacturing growth In the South, and it has also been one of a considerable movement of colored work men from the South Into the coal-mining and other unskilled employments of the Central West. Still we see that the col ored proportion of the whole population increased In more Southern States during this decade than between 1SS0 and 1S90. There is strong reason to believe that the race problem Is not open to settlement on easy grounds of natural negro extinc tion, as many good people would like to believe. What Judfse William Said. Call's Report. Deputy Georse B7. Williams, of Oregon, opposed the proposed canon, directing his batteries principally against the fourth section. "The question before us," he said, "Is not whether the laws of the state are right or wrong, but the precise question we have to consider and decide is what Is the best course for the church to pur sue with reference to persons after they have heen divorced? Is It better for th& church to proscribe and prosecute and drive away such persons, or is it better for the church to extend to them the hand of friendship, to treat them with con sideration and kindness, and try to make better men and women of them? I am aware that there are great abuses under the existing divorce laws of the country. but those abuses are arguments to be addressed to the law-making power of the country. They have nothing to do with the question before this convention. "I have had considerable to do with the administration of the law for more than 50 years as Judge and practitioner, and the result of my experience is that In a great majority of cases applications for divorce are made by women, who seek to be released from worthless, drunken and criminal husbands, who have been left abandoned, sometimes with children on their hands, and generally In poverty. I ask any man In this convention If he can give any good, sound, practical reason why a woman who is divorced under such circumstances if she ilnds a man who Is willing to marry her, who will make her a good husband and her childrn a good father and will provide support and com fort for her and them, why she should not have a right to marry that man, and why an Episcopal clergyman should not have the right to perform the ceremony. This legislation on our part will have no more effect in deterring people from getting divorce than the pope's bull had against the comet. When people seek divorce they do not stop to consider whether they Wi.i be recognized by the Episcopal church. They know very well that if the Episcopal church will not recognize them all the other churches of the country will. Therefore it Ms trying to do something that is impracticable. It ls 'straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel.' " The Trust and the Saprar Beet. Springfield Republican. It is not so muc hagainst the produc tion of the 3Ugar beet in the United States that the sugar trust has declared war, as against the refining of domestic beet sugar by companies Independent of the trust. This Is the object of the trust cut In sugar for Missouri Valley points from a little over 5 to 3 cents a pound the ruin of the independent beet sugar refiners. Such an exercise of power on the part of tho monopoly Is wholly char acteristic of trust operations generally, and so outrageous as to merit the notice of public authority. Incidentally, It Is said, the trust wishes to give the people an object lesson of what free raw sugar would mean to them. James H. Post, of tho National Sugar Refining Company, Is quoted as follows: "The price of 3& cents a pound for granulated sugar Illustrates to the coun try what would happen with free raw sugar from Cuba that Is, the consumers would secure their granulated sugar at 3 Instead of 5 cents under the present tariff, a saving of 2 cents a pound, or the equivalent of about 51 50 or ?2 for each inhabitant of the United States. The total duties collected from sugar amount to about $50,000,000 per year, and the in creased cost to the people of the United States on account of this duty is about $35,000,000 additional. This $35,000,000 is distributed to planters in Louisiana, Hawaii and Porto Rico, and to domestic beet-growers. The latter only supply about 850,000 tons of the 2,400,000 tons consumed In the United States." This may accordingly be regarded as a part of the trust's campaign for free trade with Cuba, but if the Western beet sugar interest possesses th einfluence in Congress shown at the time of the Porto Rico legislation, the effect of the present maneuver would more likely be the re tention of the raw sugar duties and the removal of those on the refined product. NOTE AND COMMENT. . Seville is getting a name for itself as the Kansas of Spain. Czolgosz's days are numbered,, and the number Is'gratifylngly small. There are liars, d n liars,. Shanghai correspondents and court of inquiry wit nesses. General Miles is not going to reply to Alger's book. The book was all the re venge he needed. The British have' 200,000 men and 250 guns in South Africa. That ought to hold the Boers for awhile. It will cost the Empress Dowager $9,000. 000 to travel from Slnan Fu to Pekin. It Is up to J. P. Morgan to get jealous. The Wisconsin farmer who bought the Chicago Masonic temple for $460 prob ably needed it to pile his gold bricks in. The site of Nebuchadnezzar's palace has been discovered. The lawn must be badly In need of cutting by this time. If W. K. Vanderbilt had to work out his automobile fines he would break enough rock to build a bridge across tho Atlantic. The New Yorf: yacht club refuses to race Sir Thomas Upton again net year. Hero is just the chance Thomas W. Lawson Is Iooklcsr for. Mr. Kipling is going to sell his Vermont home. People who believed he would pre sent it to his brother-in-law are doomed to disappointment. The work of the pnragrapher on the Commoner sheds a light on tho foundry in which the epigrams used in its edltora speeches were cast. Professor Triggs has not yet made any criticism as to the lack of literary merit in the service used at the wedding of the son of John D. Rockefeller. At any rate, none of the oftlcers who 'participated In the battle of Santiago can complain of opportunity to use their just-after-the-battle photographs. If George III hadn't got gay the Duko of Cornwall and York might have fourd just as hysterical a reception In. New York and Washington as he lt getting i Canada. When M. Santos-Dumont was a little boy he must have had a thorough school ing in that bit of literature which says: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." The Savannah City Council honors the President and its own city by resolving that "It would be a great pleasure and privilege for the people of Savannah to have the honor of entertaining the Presi dent in this city, the home of his ma ternal ancestors, and to show their ap preciation of his kind feelings toward the South as well as of his manly character and his public service and his devotion to principle and duty." The facsimile of a curved bar of gold found by Professor Petrie at the roal tombs of Abydos. Inscribed with the namo of Aha, identified as another name for Mena. tho first dynastic King of Egypt, has been received by the Rev. Dr. Will iam Copley Wlnslow, of Boston, chief of ficial of the Egyptian exploration fund for the United States, and. placed by him for the society In the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where It is mounted upon black marble, through the director. Gen eral Lorlng. It Is unique, and the pur pose of it is entirely unguessed as yet. Near the top la a hole (was the bar an ornament?), at the lower end Is a close cross-hatching, and the same is on tho under side near the upper end. The hiero glyphic work of about 4750 B. C. Is quite clear to the naked eye. The weight of the bar Is 216 grains, and it Is about nvo Inches long. A most Interesting circum stance connected with this venerable relic, certainly to Chlcagoans, Is the fact that the committee in London voted to pre sent the original bar to 'the museum in their city. 0 PLEASANTRIES OF PAIIAGRAFHEUS Looked Ahead. He If you didn't lovo nw, why did you marry me? She Because you were the only man I cared to bo divorced from. Brooklyn Life. Faith In Him. Towne Do I understand you to say that Spender's caso was really a faith cure? Browne Yes. You seo the doctor and the druggist both trusted him. Philadelphia. Press. A Poser E'3te Mamma, were you ever a child? Mamma Certainly, dear. All human beings were once children. Elsie Really? "Well, who took care of the babies then? Philadelphia Press. An Eternal Vow. Edith I suppose ho swore to you "till the earth grows old and tho stars Brow cold." and all that? Ethel Oh, longer. He swore ti luc mfr till that Chinese indem nity wai paid. Judge. Mistress Did you tell the lady I was out? Servant Girl Yes, ma'am. Mistreeo Did she seem to have any doubt about it? Servant girl No, ma'am; she sald she knew you wasn't. Glasgow Times! Fay How do you like my new gown? May It'3 very pretty. "Do you really think so?" "Yes, Indeed: I was Just crazy to get ona like It when they came into fashion two years ago." Philadelphia Record. "Mamma, how can you ask mo to marry him when ho has no social position?" "But, my dear, he tells me he has made a million." "But even with, that, it will take him a year to get into society." Life. Her Mother Lsaw him kiss you I I am ter ribly shocked. X did not for a moment imagine he would dare take such a liberty. Herself Nor did I. ma. In fact. I bet him a pair of gloves he daren't! TIt-EIts. Deuth. of a Child. (Tho late Drt Thomas William Parsons In tho Century Magazine.) Long waiting, watching for the day To patience brlngeth peace; "When my child sighed his life away I felt but his release And mine own trouble seamed afar, Like something long ago! I looked up to Night's ruling star. And felt a now life glow. Deep In my heart a certain hope That faintly beamed before As 'twere the Angel come to ope. And not to close, tho door. Thero Is a grief that slowly grows In storm, through tears, to calm; Such sorrows blossom late; the ros Of Autumn breaches most balm. 1 know what death Is now a friend, Though oft In hostile guise; God's messenger, whose lessons lend New glory to tho skies. Antnmn DIssntNfnctlon. "Washington Star. Oh, some wants snow An' some wants rain, "What- ebber dey gits. Dey'U shore complain. Some wants sunshine An' some wants shade, Dar's boun to be klckln. I's afraid. Some wants frost An' some wants heat; Happiness Can't be complete. I takes what cornea De bes' I can. I's glad I ain't De weather man.