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That paper then proceeds to denuncia tion of Portland for having built the railroad into Klickitat, "Wash., while it "neglects a full half dozen of Just such railroad propositions that He Idle and untouched on the south side of the Columbia." Let us quote further: Why doesn't Portland and her Idle capital turn to the development of Oregon? When she wants a favor she calls on Oregon, she doesn't go to Klickitat Valley for It. When she wants a special law or a special "boost" Bho appeals to the- patriotism of Oregon to aid her In her dire needs, yet If she has f 10.000,000 to spend in the developmnt of the country she goes out of the state to spend It. Thero could be built In Oregon at least one half dozen just such lines of road as the Lyle Goldendale road In Washington. The commer cial results to Portland would be as great In each Instance, beside the development of the state would add to its permanent wealth and the settlement that such enterprises would In vite would be a lasting glory to. Oregon and Portland. Now letus quit hysterical declamation and deal with facts. Portland had money with which to build the Lyle-Goldendale road. It vas an Investment within her means; and ft promises a fair re turn. It didn't cost $10,000,000, but say 51,000,000. Portland Is not a large city. It has some wealth, in proportion to its size, but not enough to undertake great enterprises. Men of Portland under took the Lyle-Goldendale railroad be cause It was within their means. But they do not think It prudent to go be yond their means by undertaking the greater things elsewhere that this cyn leal critic talks about. In Eastern Oregon there are indeed several inviting fields for capital. But they require larger capital than Port land can command. And men of Port land are doing all they can to enlist in these enterprises the capital neces sary to carry them to success. In Port land there Is as much public spirit as elsewhere; as much desire to make money as elsewhere. But men of Port land have sense enough to know what they can do and what they can't do; and. Indeed, they have had many les sons on this subject, to their loss as well as to their gain-. It doesn't follow that because a small city of limited capital can build a short railroad into a district already well settled and offering a sure though small business, it can build long lines Into a country not yet developed or but little developed and wait for returns, Large capital can do it, but small capl- tal cannot Portland Is not rich enough to do what this vast country wants done. But she is doing all she can. Seattle has not built the railroads round about her. They have been built by capital outside. PUTTING OX THE BRAKES. The New Tork Legislature has taken cognizance of the growing menace of the automobile when driven at a high rate of speed along the public highway. A law has been enacted which decrees that the horseless vehicle shall at all times give precedence to the con venlence of pedestrians or to the driver of horses. Whether In meeting or pass ing a team or a person on foot using the roadway, speed on the automobile must be reduced to eight miles an hour. This applies whether the vehicle Is being operated In the open country or on the streets of towns or cities. Furthermore any person who is riding or driving a horse or driving cattle along the pub lie roads shall have the right to bring an advancing automobile to a dead stop by raising his hand as a danger signal He may even compel the driver of the engine of the machine to stop running until he has passed It Eight miles an hour Is the maximum rate of speed permitted within half a mile of post offices or of public school buildings during the school hours of the day on days when school Is in session. The penalty for the violation of this law is a fine of ?50 for the first Infraction, and an Increased fine and imprisonment are authorized for succeeding offenses, The weak point In this law Is discern ible In the fact that It virtually places automobiles at the mercy of prejudiced or otherwise Ill-disposed persons. So many accidents of a serious nature have resulted from the reckless speed Indulged upon the public highways by a few wealthy men who have made fad of racing these machines that pub lic sentiment has been arrayed against them. In order to reach the offending operators and owners, a sweeping measure was held to be necessary for the present at least and this stringent law will no doubt meet popular indorse ment Later, after the fad has spent Itself, the -automobile will take Its place as the bicycle lias done, as a useful ma chine which can and will be operated without special menace to human life. RUSSIA IS ASIA. Whatever may be thought of the moral nature of Russian diplomacy, there Is no denying Its effectiveness. Anglo-Saxon statesmanship simply stands speechless and Inert In the pres ence of effrontery which protests that It bas no desire or thought of apples, the while It Industriously fills Its pockets from the tree. -The method of- diplom acy, however, is, after all, a negligible matter For, whether Is easier, to frame in some millions of words an admission and explanation of some act of assertion thought necessary, as Great Britain or the United States would do, or to escape all this by sim ply saying the thing Is not being done at all? Prance Is In Madagascar and Cochin China; Germany Is In Syria; we are In Cuba and the Philippines; Great Britain Is everywhere; and what method we choose of accounting for the phenomenon does not greatly mat ter. The virile races grow, the falling ones loosen their grasp; and the pro cess is awkward only to those "who set up some Idealistic and unworkable po litical dogmas, and thereby put them selves to the pain of fancied harmoniza tions. The .United States has, In fact, very little to complain of at Russia's hands. Her moral character is not In our keeping; and as for trade restrictions, we are at most concerned with noth ing but the restrictions imposed upon us. These are not likely to be very grievous. Russia has a very consistent .hope of winning the United States to her side In her age-long conflict with Great Britain. She has no more Idea than Germany has of helping to cement the Anglo-American understanding. It is a matter of record that Russia's Asiatic undertakings have afforded a large and profitable market for Pacific Coast products and for American manufac tures generally. It Is the most natu ral thing In the world for this arrange ment to continue. There Is no power which Russia would rather trade with than the United States. She would doubtless prefer to supply hersef as far as possible, but to ' condemn her for that does not lie In the mouth of Nation still kotowing before the shrine of protection. Russia trades with us, and will still trade with us. She understands that embargoes on lm ports retard her Siberian arid Manchu rlan development. This Is one of her defenses. It Is cogent. Russia Bays she disapproves the par tition of China. This also Is true; and the unofficial gloss on this declaration, often supplied with entire frankness by Russian officials, is that Russia disap proves the partition of China because she wants and expects it all for herself. The more solid the integrity of 3hlna. the greater the Russia of the twenty- first century. It Is unnecessary to re mind a thoughtful American that China under Russian administration would be an infinitely more lucrative field for American trade than It Is today, safer for missionaries as well as for drum mers. We know what has been done In Siberia and Manchuria; we need not regard with any tremendous alarm the extension of the same Influence over Central China. It would be not to our advantage, but decidedly otherwise, for Russia to abandon Manchuria to na tive Incompetence, unrest and anarchy. The debt of civilization to Russia In Asia is precisely on all fours with the debt of civilization to Britain In India and Egypt and to the United States In the Philippines. The American people must be brought to realize that Great Britain's and Ja pan's quarrel wltk Russia In Asia Is not our quarrel. It is true that at many points we touch with those pow ers in sympathy and common ends. The 'open door" is one of these points. But our friendship with Great Britain and Japan should not proceed to the extent of disturbing our friendship with Rus sia. The entente toward which British statesmanship Is ever urging us on Is one of those entangling alliances of which the Fathers sagely warned us. There Is no power In Europe whose en mity It Is properly ours to gain by ex cessive cultivation of Its rival. Russia Is In many respects a benevolent des potism. It does not free Its serfs, but they are not ready for freedom. The nihilist has never demonstrated his ca pacity for self-government Russia has enormous ambitions, it Is true; but" they have yet to be shown to be out of keep ing either with her tremendous ener gies or with her capacity to discharge with credit the responsibilities she as sumes. It is not In evidence that any action of Russia In Asia is prejudicial to American interests. Until then our protest Is hardly In order; and when that protest is In order, and Is made, it will hardly fail of recognition and con cession. We have nothing to gain by provoking Russia to anger, and much to lose. A MIGHTY HUMAN TIDE. The present year promises to be a record-breaker In adding to the for eign-born population of the United States. There is a marked Increase thus far In the number of Immigrants that have been disembarked at all of the principal ports of the Atlantic Coast, while Into the port of New Tork they are pouring literally by tens of thousands. At this end of the line no great de gree of disquiet Is felt on account of this enormous Increase. It Is strange that this Is true. In view of the rest lessness that pervades the labor world and the strenuous efforts that are being made to keep the worklngman's wage up to the standard of New World ideas of comfort It may be that labor leaders are too busy In the matter of wages and hours as applied to the men now In hand to take note of danger from an oversupply in the labor mar ket that, following the law of supply and demand, will Inevitably In due time force wages down. Be this as It may, the monthly In crease of our foreign-born population Is enormous, and the outward flow Is beginning to excite disquiet among Eu ropean governments. Both in Norway and Austria-Hungary the outflow of sturdy workers Is exciting some alarm, and the authorities are seriously con sidering methods to -check its volume. Norway Is not heavily populated at best, and what with a food scarcity In some of Its provinces that has bordered closely upon famine, the unsatisfactory condition of the governmental partner ship which makes Sweden and Norway one, and that one Sweden, and the en tlclng letters telling of liberty and plenty and a chance to accumulate that find their way back to the old country from the new, the desire to emigrate has taken a deep hold upon the Nor wegian people. The same Is true of the Hungarian branch of the dual monarchy. over which "Francis Joseph rules. Hun garians have for several years been crossing the ocean In great and con stantly Increasing numbers, thereby di minishing the productive force of their own land and reducing the number of men available for military service. Finland is also sending its dissatisfied and oppressed people over the sea by thousands, though the Czar will eas ily find means to stop this drain when In the view of his advisers It becomes serious. As to the others, It seems Improbable that any measures can be taken that will effectually stop the outflow of the human tide from- their shores. The tollers of the Continent have come to look to the United States as a land where dreams of a humble competence can be realized. Beyond the surety that this gives our free Institutions are perhaps not specially attractive to them, since at best their Ideas concern- Ing-them are vague and little under stood. But In the face of the settled conviction, that they can acquire what in their poverty seems Wealth by the labor of their hands In this country. It will be difficult for any of the more tolerant governments to prevent Its subjects from quitting its borders-wlth the purpose of becoming American citi zens. This mighty human tide Is In-it self a strong testimonial to our pros perity, and Incidentally to the fact that to us still affords an enormous market for unskilled labor. There Is yet a vast amount of drudgery In this country which our skilled American mechanic does not have to do because he can do something better. EDWARD AT THE VATICAN. King Edward of England Is a man of high Intelligence and sound common sense, and can afford to laugh at the protest of the Protestant Alliance and the London Church Association against his visit to the pope. To an educated Englishman the pope Is representative of a line of sovereigns that binds the ancient to the modern world. Every Englishman that knows the history of his country knows that England was first completely converted to Christian ity by missionaries sent from Rome in 597. England was the first land that was converted directly by the apostles of the Church of Rome, and looked up with reverence to the pope as Britain never had to the Roman Caesars. It is true that there were Chrlstiaus In Eng land under the Roman occupation of Britain, which ended in 410 A. D., but the Christianity brought to Britain by the Roman converts was not widely diffused. The Invading Danes and Sax ons wno succeeded to tome were so largely heathen that the conquest of the Britons was a heathen conquest, so that It was 6S1 A. D. before Eng land became entirely Christian. The English Church was organized be tween 688 and C80, and from this time forward England was a reverential ad herent and supporter of the Roman .pontiff until the reign of Henry VHI in the sixteenth century. Nicholas Brakespear, an Englishman horn and bred, became pope in the twelfth century under the name of Adrian II. Under this pope, the only Hingnsnman who ever occupied the papal chair, began the famous struggle between the papacy and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa of Germany. The strength of the Influence of the papacy in England is shown by the fact that Henry II, one of the very ablest war riors and statesmen of his day, was beaten by Becket in his famous quarrel with that Imperious prelate, and when Becket was murdered Henry made the most abject submission to Rome and disavowed all responsibility for or sym pathy with this great crime. King John, the son of Henry, described by Green as a very able and subtle man. was completely beaten In his attempt to defy the authority of the pope, for Stephen Langton, the head of the Eng llsh clergy, was supported by the pope in his resistance to the Inhuman des potism of King John. From the day of King John In the thirteenth century to that of Henry VIII in the sixteenth, a period of over 300 years, Rome had no more devout and steadfast supporter than the Eng llsh people. Henry was a despot of unusual mental force and physical courage, but it Is safe to say that the majority of the people of England were at heart papists during his reign Henry was an English Catholic, who declared himself to be pope of the Eng lish Church; he burned those who were Lutheran Protestants as heretics, and he burned those who refused to accept him as the spiritual head of the Catho lie Church in England and continued to treat the spiritual authority of the pope as supreme. Henry applied to the pope to nullify his marriage with Kath arlne of Aragon on the ground that marriage with a brother's wife was pro hiblted by the Word of God. The pope refused to grant his request, and Henry declared himself pope of England. Be cause Sir Thomas More refused to take an oath to a revolutionary measure in vesting him with the supreme leader ship of the church, Henry judicially murdered that noble-minded statesman. More had been on very Intimate terms with the King; he had done all that could possibly be required of him as subject; he was willing to swear to the succession, but not to the King's supremacy over the church; he Would have murdered Cardinal Pole ' If he could have lured him back to England, but he did judicially murder the car dinal's aged mother and his nearest relatives. Cardinal Pole, whom Henry would have murdered, was the best and the last of the Roman Catholic archbishops of Canterbury, which he became by the deserved favor of Queen Mary, Henry's devout Roman Catholic daughter. Henry dissolved the monasteries be cause he wanted to confiscate their property. This act caused a great re bellion against the King on the part of the Roman Catholics In the North of England. Even under the reign of Elizabeth one-third of the population was Roman Catholic, and It Is believed that Elizabeth herself supported the Protestant party rather through polit ical policy than through any higher mo tive, for those nearest to her said that the Queen In her heart was more of a Roman Catholic than a Protestant Certainly she did not spare the Purl tans or any other dissenters from the Anglican Church. The first cousin of Elizabeth, heir to her throne, Mary, Queen of Scots, was a Roman Catholic, but Elizabeth did not hound her to death because of her religion, but be cause she was a political incendiary In her Influence as an aspirant to the English throne. Charles I married a Roman Catholic for a Queen, Charles II died a Roman Catholic, and James H was the last Roman Catholic sovereign of England, for after- the Revolution of 1688, through the act of settlement, It be- came impossible for a Roman Catholic ) to become Hgal sovereign of England. For nearly a thousand years of her history England, was a devoted adher ent of the papacy; the great Admiral Howard of Effingham, who defeated the Spanish armada, was a Roman Catho lic, but a loyal subject and soldier of Protestant Queen Elizabeth.' Surely King Edward, as an Intelligent, well read Englishman, need make no apol ogy for his visit to Rome or for-shis rev erential call upon the venerable states man of the Vatican. - The fact that Miss Ware Is wanted as Federal prisoner for frauds as Com missioner seems to be against the popu lar view that women, as a rule, are more honest than men In financial mat ters. If it be true that women In busi ness are more honest than, men, It Is probably only because of their com parative Inexperience and lack of knowledge of "the ways that are dark and the tricks that are vain" In the game of practical life. Human nature the same In both sexes when they are exposed to Identical environment for the same length of time. It Is only a few years ago that a woman who was bookkeeper for a firm of brokers In Boston robbed her employers by "doc toring" her books, and then shot her self when an unexpected sale of the firm's business subjected her accounts to an unlooked-for Inspection. The woman In this case used the money she stole in stock-gambling, Just as men frequently do, and shot herself to avoid facing exposure, as masculine em bezzlers do. Women, when they be come as common In business circles as men, and "learn the "ropes," will show no better record of Integrity in finan cial trusts than men. They cannot be expected to do otherwise, for human nature is the same In both sexes, except so far as the Inferior physical strength of a woman may affect her actions and modify her tastes. But in the matter of business Integrity a woman is not more trustworthy than a man when she has been subjected to the same environ ment, obtains the same experience. dwells in the same atmosphere. The history of crime shows that when women dwell In the same environment as men they are quite as prone to criminal acts; it is only when women are sheltered that they behave any bet ter than men. Deshelter women, desex women, and they will behave neither better nor worse than men. The great disaster at Frank, In the Canadian Province of Alberta, Is now described as due to a huge landslide. and such It undoubtedly Is. A similar landslide took place August 28, 1826, In the White Mountains near Conway, N. H. The whole side of the mountain, during a fearful rain storm, rushed down Into the valley In the night and killed Samuel Willey and his brother, with their wives and children. They were In flight from the house when overtaken by the avalanche. The house from which the inmates fled escaped all Injury and was an object of curiosity to mountain tourists for many years. This remarkable disaster was so unusual that it Is recounted in full detail by Thomas Starr King In his "White Hills." It was made the sublect of a. poem, written, we think, by Thomas W. Parsons, a Boston poet translator of Dante's "Inferno." Similar landslides i have occurred in the mountains of Colo rado, and many such mountain land slides have happened In Europe. They generally follow long-continued rain storms or aro the work of subterranean ' streams. Such landslides are not due to volcanic action, and a gas explosion is not necessary to their solution. It is believed that the Immigration into the United States during the cur rent year will exceed that of any for mer one. The promise now is a total of 800,000' or more. But some say that there Is now. In comparison with for mer times, a larger "undesirable ele ment" But this country wants work ers, and most of those now coming ex pect to live by work. In this they no doubt are unlike some of the rest of our people; but are they "undesirable," and why? From italy more now are coming than from any other country. But Italy Is the mother of nearly every thing of valite in the modern world. And some noted Italians have appeared on the stage of modern history. There was one Christopher Columbus, for ex ample, whose part in the pioneer Im migration of 1492 has never been reck oned to his discredit; and. there was Na poleon Bonaparte. A few others might be named, as Galileo, Dante, Raphael, xasso, savour ana Aiazzmi. U'rom a country that produces men like these It perhaps would not be rash still to expect something. The death In this city of William Bajdwln, a convict who, far gone in consumption, was recently the recipi ent of executive pardon in order that he might die at home, recalls aruevent with which, a few months ago, his name was connected and for his share in which this man was serving a sentence of two years in the penitentiary. But for its possible lesson to young men who think fistic encounters a test of manly courage it might be well to for get an event wnicn cost tne lire oi a sturdy lad, was .a scandal to the city, put the taxpayers of the county to heavy expense and sent a father and his young son to the penitentiary. As it is, however, it may be well to re member It It Is said that the original draft of the Declaration of Independence has become so faded that It will no more be exhibited to the light Then, If it is to be kept la darkness and nobody Is to see It more. It will not be very valu able even as a historical relic How ever, It will not perish from the earth, since copies of it, somewhat numerous. are In existence. It is probable the canal treaty will fall In the Colombian Senate. The members of that august body will prob ably never be able to agree on division among themselves of the $10,000,000 to be paid for the concession by the United States. The visit of Commander Booth Tucker, of the American Salvation Army, to this city Was all too brief The sojourn of a few days of this prac tical soldier of the cross would have been enjoyed by hundreds of our peo- Ple- - - Stealing a Wkol Orchard. Medford Enquirer. The cheek of the Hood River apple grower is proverbial, but when they Issue a descriptive pamphlet and appropriate & Jackson County orchard scene as one In Hood River it certainly Is going too far. Hood River apples and orchards do not beght to compare-1 with those of' the Rogue River Valley and no one knewB It better than the Hood RIveritee. CHATEAUBRIAND 0JT TALLEYRAND New York Sua. Chateaubriand's pa Is dipped la gall when he writes of Talleyrand. Ia the course of his long life he had seen aach that was vila and base, but he seems never to have met with any one for whom he conceived bo much contempt and de testation as he conceived for the ex-! Bishop of AutunN Soon after the latters I death, which occurred oa May 17, 1S38, the author of these memoirs' writes of him as follows: "To analyse mlautely a life as corrupt as that of M. de La Fayette was healthy, one would have to face a distaste which I am Incapable of overcom ing. Men of sores resemble prostitutes carcases. They have been so much eaten away by the ulcers that they are of no Use In the dl3sectlng-room." Agalni "M. de Talleyrand betrayed all governments, and, I repeat, raised or overthrew none. He had no real superiority in the sincere acceptance Of those two words. A fry of trite prosperities, so common In aristo cratic life, does not take a man two feet beyond the grave. The evil which Is not worked with a terrible explosion, the evil parsimoniously exerted by the slave for the master's benefit is no more than turpi tude. Vice, the pander of crime, enters Into domestic service. Suppose M. do Talleyrand, a pleblan, poor, obscure, hav ing, besides his immorality, nothing save his incontestable drawing-room wit;4 we should certainly never have heard speak of him. Take away from M. de Talley rand the debased great lord, the married priest, the degraded bishop: what remains to him? His reputation and his successes have depended on that treble depravity." Elsewhere we are told that "incapable of writing a single sentence unaided, M de Talleyrand made men work competent ly under him; when, by dint of eraslons and alterations, his secretary had suc ceeded In drafting his dispatches to his liking, he copied them out with hla own hand. I have heard him read from the memoirs which ho began a few pleasing details about his youth. As he varied In his tastes, detesting tomorrow what he loved yesterday, if those memoirs exist In their entirety, which I doubt and If he ha3 preserved the opposite versions, it is probable that his Judgments on the same fact, and especially on the same man, will contradict each other outrage ously. I do not bellee In the story that the manuscripts have been deposit ed In England. The order which, they pretend, has" been given to publish them not before 40 years hence seems to me 1 a piece of posthumous Jugglery." What, then, did Talleyrand amount to? According to Chateaubriand, who had known him long and well, he was unable to keep up a serious conversation. The third time that he opened his lips his Ideas evaporated. His life was a per petual deception. Knowing what he lacked In respect of knowledge and brains, ha shunned everybody who was likely to detect him. His constant study was not to allow his measure to be taken. He withdrew Into silence at seasonable times, during which he inwardly worded some effective phrase. Inspired by a pamphlet of the morning or a conversa tion of the evening. In a word, a sham. How. then, did it happen that a man essentially empty imposed on anybody? Chateaubriand answers: "A great man ner, which came from hie birth, a strict observance of the niceties, a cold and disdainful air, contributed to keep up the illusion that surrounded the Prince de Benevente. His manners exercised an empire over second-rate people, and the men of the new society to whom the so ciety of the old days was unknown. Form erly one met persons at every turn whose ways resembled M. de Talleyrand'sJ and one took no notice of them; but, almost alone In the field In the midst of demo cratic customs, he appeared a phenome non; in order to submit to the yoke of his forms. It suited self-love to ascribe to the Minister's wit the ascendency exercised by his breeding." It was common 70 years ago, as it is still, to hear people say of Talleyrand that, while ho was doubtless a very im moral, ho was also a very able man. Chateaubriand denies that he possessed any remarkable ability. Talleyrand, he says, was no political Warwick. His arm lacked the strength that lays low ana raises thrones. He was not even a de mon. Beyond certain negotiations, at the bottom of which he was clever enough to place his personal Interests in the foreground, there was nothing to be ex pected of Talleyrand. "He kept up a few habits and a few maxims for the use of the sycophants and worthless fellows of his Intimate circle. His toilet in public copied after that of a Minister in Vienna, was a triumph in diplomacy. He boasted of never being In a hurry: He used to say that time Is our enemy, and that we must kill it; by this he reckoned to be occupied for only a few moments. As, however. In the last result of M. de Tal leyrand did not succeed in transforming his idleness Into a masterpiece, It Is prob able that he was mistaken In talking of the necessity of getting rid of time: we triumph over time only by creating Im mortal things; with works that have no future, with frivolous distractions, we do not kill It we waste It The Next Platform. San Francisco Call. The combination of Bryan and Hearst Is positively the greatest Democratic show now on the road. More than that they seem to have the only active organ ization and are likely to capture the Na tlonal convention next year. In order to know what the platform is to be. in ad dition to the sacred creed of 1S96 and 1D00, it is only necessary to read Mr. Bryan's speeches and Mr. Hearst s lettera. After emphasizing the Socialist doctrines af firmed In the last two campaigns, the platform will run something like this: Whereas. Grorer Cleveland deserves to be d: therefore. Resolved, That Grover Cleveland be d d. Resolved. That all the trusts in which Mr. Hearst Is net Interested are speculative, and therefore bad. Resolved. That the copper trust Is not a spec ulative trust. Resolved, That the National Democratic par ty favors, department stores, and will trade at no other. Resolved. That there are only five Democratic dally papers In the United. States, and that three of theee belong to Mr. Hearst. Resolved. That Mr. Hearst Is requested to always sign his name William Randolph Hearst and that It Is the opinion ot the party that he .should s6metlme mention himself In his three-fifths of the Democratic dailies of the country. Reiolved, That Mr. Bryan and Mr. Hearst bo requested not to permit gold Democrats In the party, as the silver Democrats wish to sleep nights, and not sit up to watch pick pockets. Resolved, That we are in favor of that old Jefferzonian Democratic principle, department stores, as we said before, and of William Randolph Hearst as the heroic champion of that time-tested, tried and honored doctrine of the oartT. Resolved, That Grover Cleveland be .The President and the Tariff. New Orleans Times-Democrat Had anything bee j needed to demon strate that the Republican party lacks both the courage and the capacity -wisely to revise the tariff, plentiful proof would have been furnished by the speeches touching economic conditions that have recently been made oy tne President, to state that Mr. Roosevelt has receded from the position taken by Mr. McKlnley in the address he delivered at Buffalo a few hours before the assassin s bullet was fired, and that he has abandoned the van tagc-ground upon which he himself stood in the address made at Pittsburg. July 4 of last year. Is to criticize temperately tho President's singularly inconsistent atti tude. By tho speeches made on this West ern tour Mr. Roosevelt has exposed him self to the charge that he is not only lacking in mental stability but Is lacking also In nice ethical discrimination. He has invited the public to regard him as a somewhat Janue-faced statesman- one who. In one section of the Union, sup- orts the cause of tariff reform, and, In another section of the Union, sustains with. a. certain blind.. devotion the .sys tem of cruelly prohibitive custosu duties. CUSHMAN'S VIEWS OF XL York Tribune. L. What Captain Jarvis told about balmy Alaska and Its agricultural possibilities In i"uu"0 inun'-KJ.j . i speech by Representative Cushman last accept as gospel but It Is In reality no more glowing than the picture of Cush man painted. The Western statesman, however, is unfortunately a wit and "his remarks were not treated seriously or printed at the time. He Inveighed against poets who write about the Muir glacier and the beauties of floating icebergs, but say nothing about agriculture. "Every alleged poet, no exclaimed, that never irot further north In his life than Poughkeepsle, N. T.. has worn the table of snyonyms, into a frazzle describ ing Alaska. Here Is & select sample: Now tar ho sweeps -where scarce a. Summer smiles: On Bering's rocks or Greenland's naked Isles: Cold on hit midnight watch the hreexes mow. From wastes that, slumber in eternal snow; And waft across the waves tumultuous roar. The wolfs long howl on Unalaaka's shore. "That" continued Mr. Cushman, "Is what one poet wrote about Alaska. There Is enough frozen metaphor in that one stanza to blight the bloom of the tropical zone: Now, as a matter of fact which may sur prise most people, at Sitka, tho capital of Alaska, it never gets cold enough to freeze lco In tho winter, so that the resi dents of that portion of Alaska are obliged to ship manufactured Ice from the United States to supply their wants dur ing the Summer! There was an Alaskan prospector who had put In two Winters under the shadow of the Arctic circle. He made some money and came out to tho states to have a good time during the winter. He was a (treat curiosity. Peo- ple wondered how a human being could j live in tne intense coia oi mat iar iiutm. He started for New Tork City. He had got along very well With the weather in Alaska, but when he started across the northern end of tho United States In Jan- nnrv he discovered, in a climatic sense. that ho was getting the business end of the real thing. He was cold when he got j to St Paul; he was colder still when the" hrooT from the lake struck him at Cni- cago; and at Buffalo, N. "ST.. they found him frozen to death stiff as an alpenstlck b-i- the stove in the smoking car. Renresentatlve Payne, of New Tork. nskd Ironically If It was not unkind to bring an inhabitant of Alaska to sucn a cold country as ours. "It would bo all right if he did not have to come through New Tork State," responded Mr. Cush man. "But he would have to travel across the State of Washington," retort oA Mr. Pavne. "The State of Washing ton!" exclaimed the Puget Sound states man. "Why. sir. that Is the banana belt j of the American contlnenti Oat of Touch With Civilization. Washington Post. Mr. A. W. Gumaer, who for ten years has been a nilErim in strange lands, a milde. a scout and a United States cus toms officer. Is a Washington visitor. TTnor th direction of the War Depart ment in 1SS8. Mr. Gumaer was tho guide and surveyor of the all-American route from Valdez to Eagle City, Alaska, when tho country was an unknown wiiaerness, where no white man had ever set foot "Our party," said Mr. Gumaer, "was out of all touch with civilization from February to November, during which time the Spanish-American War was fought. We knew nothing of the con flict until we reached Forty-Mile River, 60 miles below Dawson juity. "riir nartv consisted ot nve men- Lieutenant P. G. Lowe. U. S. A: Stephen Birch, surveyor; two army packers, my self, 11 pack horses and tnree Durroe, which we took as an experiment. They only lasted 100 miles, when tney were abandoned. The Montana pack ponies were the only ones that could stand the strain even in Summer time. In Winter only reindeer and dogs can endure tne cold. Our cxnedltlon had to cross the vaidez glacier, an extremely hazardous under taking on account or tne numerous crevasses and fissures of from four to ten feet In width. To get over them we used snow bridges roped together, as they do In Switzerland. Many people nave since lost their lives In following this perilous trail, but since then a route has? been found by Captain Abercromble around the glacier and no more lives need to be sac rificed. "Within two years a railroad will pen etrate the new gold fields at Tanana, that are Just now causing a sensation among hunters of the precious metal. Valdez. with the most beautiful harbor In the world, and surrounded with moun tains E000 feet high, will be the future capital of Alaska. The territory haa a future splendid beyond the Imagination of its most enthusiastic citizens, and In dollars and cents will give greater re turns than any territory ever owned or ever to be possessed by the United States." He Saw Byron. Atlanta Constitution. An Atlanta man recently purchased for a round sum a volume of the second canto of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" John MUrray edition bearing this In scription, under date of 1S34: "It is ten years today since Byron died. As a boy I once saw him alighting from a carriage before Holland House, and ran home to tell my mother. He was accompanied by a fat little gentleman- probably Tom Moore. . But there was no mistaking Byron! J. E. Bill and Joe. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Come, dear old comrade, you and I Will steal an hour from days gone by The shining days when life was new, And all was bright with morning dew. The lusty days of long ago. When you were Bill and I was Joe. Tour name may flaunt a titled trail. Proud a- a cockerel's rainbow tall. And mine as brief appendix wear As Tarn O'Shanter's luckless mare; Today, old friend, remember still That I atn Joe and you are Bill. You've won the great world's envied prize. And grand you look In people's eyes. With HON. and LL. D.. In big, braVe letter, fair to see Your flat c-ld fellow! Off they got How are you. Bill? How are you. Joe? You've worn tho Judge's ermine robe; You've taught your name to half the globe; You've sung mankind a deathless strain; You've made the dead past live again; The world may call you what It will. But you and I are Joe and Bill. The chaffing young folks stare and say, -- See those old buffers, bent and gray. They talk like fellows In their teens; Mad, poor old boys! That's what It means And shake their heads; they little know The throbbing hearts of. Bill and Joe How Bill forgets his hour of pride. While Joe sits smiling at his side; How Joe, In spite of time's disguise. Finds the old schoolmate In his eyes Those calm, stern eyes that melt and fill. As Joe looks fondly up at DHL Ah I pensive scholar, what Is fame? A fitful tongue of leaping name; A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust. That lUts a pinch of mortal dust; A few swift years, and who can show Which duet was- BUI, and which was Joe? The weary Idol takes his stand. Holds out his- bruised and aching hand. While gaping thousands come and gc Hqw vain it seems, this empty showl Till all at once his pulses thrill: Tls poor old Joe's "God' bless you. Bill!" And shall we breathe In happier spheres The names .that pleased our mortal ears, In some sweet lull of harp and song. For earta-born spirits none too long. Just whispering of the world below. Where this was Bill and that was Joe? No matter; while our home Is here. No sounding name Is half so dear: Whea fades at length our lingering day. Who cares what pompous tombstones say? ilea oa the hearts that love us still, Hlo Jaeet Joe. Hie Jacet Bill. j tx -tnA twuT1i raa supernumeraries match 4o5t in vain, xnev cannnn ou of thft trian nnn nro Ush language from his pleasure. As little wantor. sometimes set to ring a bell birds from the cherry tree, gust janitors of the tongue peare spoke discharge their culverlns and basilisks at any wretched, rash. Intrud ing fool of a word or construction that likes them not What good man does not venera.te their industry and iheir zeal? Knowing that they are watching on the tower, the rest of us can pull our red-cotton nightcaps over our noddles and lie down to pleasant dreams. We are no heroic language-savers, no Indomitable Puritans of theparts. of speech. Let U3 be-glad that there are sterner and more seir-sacrlflclng spirits. One such spirit speaks these lines: To the Editor of the Sun Sir: Glanclmr cas ually through a volume of Macaulay's essays, I noticed that he shows a peculiar fondness for the word "but," with which he very frequently begins a sentence, and not infreauently Dara- graph. In his essay on Machlavelll this use of the word recurs so often that I called the at tention of a friend, to It. and the opinion was expressed that it was not good style. A dis cussion arose as to the merit of Its us In be ginning a sentence or paragraph, and it waa decided to call your attention to the matter and request that the Sun discuss "but" In the connecuon above referred to. CHARLES KEENEST. New Tork, April 23. Somewhere on the shores of Acheron or in the Limbo of Grammarians a wretched, ragged old pedant still mumbling hla de clensions and suffering from conjunctl- vitis, regrets the hour when he emitted uuw uis muumeu convolutions tne aogma that "a sentence must not begin with a conjunction." The poor old fellow knows better now and admits that he had no call to make the law or try to stop the tides of speech with his doddering fingers. Man was not made for conjunctions, but con junctions were made for man. If the old boy had read his Bible more and his Grammar less, he would not now be sad dened by the recollection of passages like tnese: But I will corns to you shortly If tha Lord will. But tho heavens and tho earth, which ara now, by the same word are kept In store, re served unto fire against the day of judgment and 'perdition of ungodly men. But the end of all things Is at hand; bs to therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye. But sanctify the Lord God In your hearts. But the Word of the -Lord endureth forever. But us no huts! Macaulay had prece dent enough. The notion that It is not "good style" to stick your conjunction at the front of your sentence is ot mocn shlne all compact Still we have no wish or right to command other men's con junctions. Let everybody put his con junctions where he thinks they will do the most good; and be blessed to 'em! Neither Bryan nor Cleveland. Henry L. West In. tho Forum. "Under no consideration," says Mr. Bryan, "would I again go Into the field. I am a plain worker in the Democratic ranks, and am content to remain as such." Mr. Bryan is therefore not to be consid ered a candidate; but those who, at the same time, attempt to discount Mr. Bry an's influence, and who regard him as no longer a factor In politics, are in my Judg ment sadly mistaken. In the two cam paigns wherein he sought the election to the Presidency, Mr. Bryan received the votes of over 6.000,000 people. Granting that a very large proportion of this sup port went to him because he was the party candidate, it must nevertheless be admitted that he had a personal following, attracted to him because of his abiUty. honesty and courage. If this personal strength amounted to only one-third of his entire vote, there would still be 2,000,000 people behind him; and any man who com mands that number of votes In this coun try is a factor to be seriously consid ered. Mr. Bryan may be out of the Pres idential race, but he is not out of the Democratic party, and he is not out .of politics. To be elected, the next Demo cratic candidate must receive Mr. Bryan's indorsement I do not mean that the can didate must subscribe to all of Mr. Bryan's views, nor do I think that Mr. Bryan will lay down this ultimatum. It would be a strange situation if, after so many Democrats who disagreed with Mr. Bryan followed him loyally to the polls, he should refuse to support with equal devotion a man who might not be equally radical with him on every public question. The nomination of Grover Cleveland would excite the hostility, not alone of Mr. Bryan and his following, but of thousands of Democrats who do not regard tnem selves as among Mr. Bryan's adherents. Mr. Cleveland, in order to be elected, would have to receive enough Republican votes and, In fact more than enough Re publican -votes to compensate for the Democratic votes wnicn. ne wouiu lau to command. I believe that he would not be able to secure this Republican support,. and therefore that his nomination would Invite defeat The next Presidential nom inee of the -democratic party must have behind him a. united and not a divided army. Mr. Cleveland cannot lead tnis solid phalanx. Independent Voters la Cities. Boston Herald. The support of a strictly municipal party must be by Independent voters, citi zens who, for the attainment of definite municipal ends, will,' If need be, break away In municipal elections irom ma National parties; The hope of the cities. nnrt in a. large measure or tne .nation. lies in the institution of such means of Integrity and honor In municipal anairs. One qualification of a stanch and useful municipal party. Is that It shall have the grit to condemn those who falsely pro fess to be Its friends. PLEVASAXTIUES OF PARAGRAPHERS, Bill-Clothes don't make a man. Jill No; but they often make a guy. Yonkers States man. "Why did your union fire Its walkln dele gate?" "Aw, he asked rer & raise sieaa ot ae- naandln' it." Judge. what Is your objection to him, papa?" "Why. the feUow can't make enough money to support you." "ui neuaer can job. Life. ' "a vou going to church?" they asked. "No," she answered regretfully; ."it's too rainy to wear my new gown. vuibhsu mu Post. His Habitual Reticence. Reporter (In vesti bule) Is It true that Mr. Gotrox haa Just died? Butler (cautiously) It is; but he has nothing to say for publication. Fuck. Stout LadjTpn t you think It Is a beauurux thing to seeSjmng girl growing into woman hood? Old Lfi- Yes, my dear; so many of them smd to want to grow into manhood. Detroit Free Press. Maud Wasn't it vulgar for the Swlngletons to print that long list ot wedding presents when their daughter was married I Irene Horribly. There wasn't a. thing In the list that coat over flO. Chicago Tribune. Mrs. Chatterton Bridget that pitcher you broke this morning belonged to my great grandmother. Bridget (relieved) Well, Ol'm glad or thot Sore, Ol was afroia it was some thln' yez had Just bought lately. Puck. "I'll take the biggest piece you've got please," said Willie to the hostess, who had asked him to have some cake. "Why, Willie" exclaimed his mother, In dismay. "Wei!, ma. you told me not to ask for a scond piece." Philadelphia Press. "My gracious, dear." said the Chicago bride groom, you were awiu:iy nervous uunus ico ceremony." "Yes, it's my nature," repuea. the fair Chicago bride. "1 suppose m De just as fccrvous the next time." Philadelphia. Press. Might Have Been Expressed Differently. H I hope you are better today. I thought you were "hot looking well when I was at your house yesterday. She I- had rather a baC headache; but It passed off soca after yott left. Punch. if Jr; ' are flVVtho so au-thawShakes-