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PORTX.AXI1, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11
MERELY" SEWaCTMEBfTAI, POLITICS.
All men are entitled to liberty, but it
is civic liberty, not the liberty -of sav
age freedom. Liberty fs for every peo
ple, but national freedom is not for
every people, for every people cannot
maintain civic liberty. The root of the
mistake made by such men as Senator
Hoar, in their talk about our position
In the Philippine islands, lies in their
assumption that ali men are equal in
their capacities and powers, as they
are equal or ought to be equal in their
personal and property rights; and
therefore that every creature in the
form of a human being ought to par
ticipate in government, and that every
people has the divine right to natural
independence, -whether it have actual
fitness for self-government, ior not, or
can maintain a government with jus
xice and freedom, or not. This is a
theoretical, sentimental and therefore
practically aibsurd view of human na
ture and human affairs.
Senator Hoax's criticism on Senator
Beveridge -was that the latter's speech
did not contain the words "justice,-"
"liberty," "right," "freedom." It was
sl speech of practical sense, and duty
that Senator Beveridge delivered; not
a speech of theories and platitudes.
"Wherever the American flag may be
planted, as the symbol of American au
thority and institutions, justice, liberty,
right and freedom attend it. The best
words in any vocabulary may become
words of emptiness and cant. The flag
of the United States is a better em
blem of liberty and justice than the
flag of any semi-civilized or savage
tribe of the Philippine islands Mr.
Hoar's theories" to the contrary not
withstanding. Under the flag of the United States
there will be real liberty in the Phil
ippine .islands. Under Tagal domina
tion there could, at best, be nothing
better than a semi-civilized despotism.
There may be national independence
wfthout liberty or justice for individ
uals, but not under the American flag.
If Senator Hoar will introduce a res
olution or act plainly declaring that the
Philippine islands are entitled to na
tional independence, and directing the
president towithdraw the military and
naval forces of the United States im
mediately from the islands, the coun
try will consider what he may have to
say. For this is the only alternative to
maintenance of the sovereignty of the
United States over the islands. The
proposal that we shall assure, them na
tional independence and then guaran
tee their protection against foreign en
emies, is preposterous. "We should soon
fcavo enormous indemnity hills to pay,
or be involved in a war on account of
our proteges, to which the Spanish war
would bear only such comparisons as
small things bear with great.
The w hole question is simply whether
the people of the United States desire
to keep the Philippine islands or to
abandon them. Observe that if we
keep them we are doing, no more as
to them then "weare doing as to Puerto
Hioo. The principle is; exactly the
same; the facts exaotiyctJifc same with
the only difference thafihe one place
is an island in the Atlantic, the other,
islands in the Pacific Observe further
that if, as Senator Hoar says, we hiive
bought the Filipinos a's a flock of
sheep, we bought the people of Lou
isiana and of California in th,e same
way. Your oratorical sentimentalist
pays fittle attention to actual facts.
He is guided by his emotions or palpi
tations; in his hands the greatest
words as freedom and justiee, become
as cheap as copper counters; he con
founds liberty with national independ
ence, and1 sees no difference in the ca
pacity of men of different races, of men
tjlvilizod or uncivilized, for the func
tions and responsibilities of govern
ment ariji, pqHucal life. He sees no
mistake and. contends there was no
mistake in .the indiscriminate endow
ment with jsuffrage of the negroes of
the United Stales jjust delivered from
slavery. So hfiTthinks the tribes of the
Philippine islands can erect and main
tain a government on principles con
sistent with justice and freedom. The
lessons of the world on such subjects
are no lessons to him. He has his fixed
idea, called by a great word-coiner
"eleutheromania." It is sentimental
politics gone to seed.
FOR BOYS OXLY.
Tuesday "was a proud day for a cer
tain woman to whom was born, on a
farm in Highland county, Ohio, thirty
seven years ago last October, a boy
fLat was named Albert Beveridge. The
mother is still living, and we may be
sure there is no prouder woman in the
land today than she whose son's name
is upon all lips, as the man who takes
front rank among the men of the coun
try, by reason of the great speech de
livered in the senate. His career is one
fit to be set before any boy as an ex
ample to emulate. Not that Senator
Beveridge is a great man; but his suc
cess is already far above the average,
and. he has attained it only through
making the most of his powers,
through humble opportunities, thank
fully and laboriously embraced.
Mr. Beveridge had no wealthy rela
tives to educate him or political influ
ence to help him to be supported by
government. He has never been an J
offtee-sejeker. ATSaong th senators in
the cangrcssionalT directory, no "biog
raphy" except one is as short as his.
5ts 'events are few. He was" "born on- a
farm. His father and brothers were
soldiers in the Union army. He was
married in 18S7 and elected In 1S99.
From other sources We know not only
that he made his own way, but that
early there- fell to him the support of
his widowed mother. He worked on
the farm, he sold papers on the streets.
He worked his way through school, and
he studied law as he could in the in
tervals of breadwinnfng. He made
friends, not through wealth or social
station, for he had neither, but because
he was manly and respectful, honest
and faithful. He let the saloons alone,
but he- was not a prude. He went to
church, and is still an earnest Method
ist, but without cant or ostentation.
There are all kinds of ways of get
ting on to the worldv . A man ean get
wealth or power, as Croker and Gor
man have done, at the expense of "his
own conscience and the loss of the re7
spect of mankind. But the price is too
.high. The..succeS9 of Mr. Beveridge,
who lias raised himself 'from poverty
to eminence by honorable methpds,, vis
at once a rebuke to demagogues like
Bryan, who say a poor man has "no
show" in this country, and also a re
proach to those who, like Croker, ad
vertise to the youth of the country that
the way to honor and wealth is through
trickery and corruption. Every career
like Jthat of Senator Beveridge should
be stamped upon the minds of Ameri
can boys so that its lessons will never
be forgotten.
THE MISTAKES OP WOLSELEY.
Every severe war is a deadly image
breaker. Popular idols perish by its
iconoclastic hand. Sometimes the vic
tim is a veteran who has done good
work in his day but has become senilej
through age and the luxurious inactiv
ity of a long peace; sometimes he is a
man whose military scholarship and
nrnfpfinTnil loafTir-nn. tmottIoT is fc--1.
J ceptionaHy strong political and social
Influence, have rapidly promoted him
to supreme command over sterling
men "who have learned the profession
on the battle-field. Our civil war soon
disposed of General Scott, an able sol
dier In his prime, but unequal at 73 to the
military responsibilities of supreme
command. Our civil war also shattered
military idols like McCIellan, men of
personal gallantry, of sound military
scholarship, but unequal to the extraor
dinary energy, resolution and moral
courage which are demanded of a gen
eral upon the battle-field. General Mc
CIellan was in bed at 8:30 the morning
of the battle of Antietam, when Gen
eral Sumner, commanding the Second
army corps, reported to himJ:or orders.
General Hooker -had -been' in severe ac
tion since 8 o'clock with the First
corps, and McCIellan was still in bed.
That kind of soldier may be a great
scholar, or military critic, but he is not
likely to make a great military execu
tive on the battle-field. Two years of
hard fighting, from January, 1862, to
January, 1864, also shattered a good
many military idols of the Burnslde
and Hooker quality, who lacked Mc
CIellan, military scholarship and were
quite as destitute of moral courage and
energy in the field.
The searching sternness of the South
African war is rapidly pricking the
bubble of military reputation that has
been represented for many years by
Lord "Wolseley, the commander-in-chief
of the British army. The London Mail,
which has a million subscribers, does
not hesitate to hold Lord "Wolseley re
sponsible for the blunder of sending an
army of foot soldiers to face an army
of mounted men, unaccompanied by
large bodies of cavalry. "We are glad
that this General Wolseley has lived
long enough for his country to find him
out. "Wolseley is a good Illustration of
the old adage that "kissing is won not
by merit, but by favor." He is 67 years
old, the same as Lord Koberts, and
yet while everybody knows that Lord
Roberts won his honors by forty years
of service in India, including his his
toric march from Cabul to Candahar,
few well-informed men could tell today
why Lord "Wolseley rather than Lord
Boberts is at the head of the English
army. This man Wolseley served as a
subaltern officer in the Burmese war,
at Sebastopol, on the staff during the
Indian mutiny of 1S57, and the Chinese
war of 1860; quelled the first half-breed
rebellion of Kiel in Manitoba, captured
and burned Coomassle, the capital of
Ashantee, a warlike nation of negroes
on the west coast of Africa, At Tel-el-Keblr
in 1SS2 he put to flight an army
of Arab! Pasha's cowardly Egyptians.
He undertook to relieve Khartoum, but
was so slow that he failed of his ob
ject He never commanded to exceed
10,000 white soldiers in action; he never
as commander fought a battle against
white civilized soldiers in his life, and
yet this military snob had the impu
dence and ignorance to write this in
his published books:
Military students in Europe do not pay much
attention to the battles of the American war be
cause battles conducted by undisciplined and
hastily raisrf soldiers have no Interest for the
military student of nations with great regular
armies-hIghly4ralned-to-the-4ervlce and art of
war.
General Sherman, an educated sol
dier, who had .successfully commanded
an army of 100,000 men, sharply called
Wolseley down for this assertion. A j
very high English authority, Colonel
Chesney, contradicted General Wolse
ley, and said that there was no such
training for soldiers as fighting; that
our four years of war had made our
soldiers the equal of any in the world;
that the actual fighting in our civil war
was far more stubborn, as shown by
the per cent of loss, than in the
Franco-German war. This same Gen
eral Wolseley, in his published letters,
always insultingly spoke of "Mr."
Grant and- "General" Lee and "Gen
eral" Jackson. While this man Wolse
ley sneered at "Mr. Grant," he did not
hesitate in his wisdom to tell General
Lee" that he "blundered" in not attack
ing Burnslde the next day after his dis
astrous repulse before he could recross
the river. General Longstreet, in his
"Military Memoirs," shows that Lee
acted wisely. The Federals had at least
50,000 men who had not been severely
engaged; they had a very large and
splendid artillery which from the hills
completely covered the ground over
which Lee would have had to advance,
and he would have been only less reck
less than Burnside, had he left his de
fenses on Ihe. heights for the plain and
attacked 'us standing on the defense.
Wolseley glorified "Stonewall" Jackson
as the great military genius of the Con
federacy, when the truth was that
Jackson's eccentricity or incapacity,
call it what you will, as Longstreet
Clearly shows, cost Lee complete vic
tory over McCIellan at Gaines' Mill, and
especially. a.t Glendale, June 30, 1862,
when Jackson's .failure to take the
right road 'saved -, McClellan's army,
which otherwise- would have heen cut
"in twoy'Lee and "destroyed in detail.
And this is the kind cf British mili
tary snob who is at the head 'of the
English army, and is getting found out
as a military student and critic and
closet soldier as distinguished- from, a
great general. He, laughed at pu?
American volunteers in the eiyil war
when today his boasted British' regit
lars retire under less per eenfc-'.of loss
than our raw volunteers endured o.n
both sides at Bull Bun. Tw.elve pei
cent were "lost In killed and wounded
at Bull Run, -green troops, before the
Northern iines broke, while Methuens
"regulars" at Magersfonteln only lost
S per cent before they lost all appetita
for further advance.
IS A
CORRUPT OLIGARCHY A RE.
I public?
The attempt of the anti-expansloh)
pull-back democracy to persuade the
American people that an edict to extir
pate cannibalism should be preceded
by "the consent of the governed," thai
is, by t the assent of the eaters rather
than by the protest of those doomed to
be eaten, is calculated to amuse sane
and intelligent folk. The mass of the
American people are not disposed tobe
f poled so far- by a phrase as to remit
the government of the Philippines to
the rule of a class cf half-civillaed pi
rates, who to this day eut the throats
in cold hlood of all Intelligent Filipino
Insurgents who have made submission
to our government. From the Philip
pine point of view, assent to the doc
trine of "the consent of the governed"
when it implies the permission of
piracy and the organization of a preda
tory community, whose ship of state
would be a pirate Malay proa,- Is ab
surd enough, but is it more absurd than
this ridiculous' apotheosis of the Boers
as a republican or democratic form of
free government resisting the suprem
acy of what Senator Mason, of Illinois,
and kindred spirits call "British tyr
anny''? We publish elsewhere a letter
to the New York Times from a very
able and eminent New York lawyer,
Thomas G. Shearman, which recites
the facts about the governing Boers
of the Transvaal, whichprove them to
be, what The Oregonlan has always
named them, not republics at all in our
American or English understanding of
the word, but mere obsolete medieval
oligarchies, like the Italian states of
Venice, Genoa and Florence in the
middle ages.
Paul Kruger and his political clan
are no more fighting the battle of equal
political rights and privileges- of repub
lican democratic liberty than were the
Medici, the despots of Florence, when
they . warced ?agafnst Pisa or Rome;,
than wasjthfi fepu'6licio'f' Venice 'when
it fought that of Genoa for commercial
reasons. Paul Kruger, .with his whole
Boer "republic" is nothing but a sur
vival of obsolete, brutal, political medi
evalism, and is a perfect medieval
tyrant and a despot who holds both
Courts and the legislature firmly by the
collar, subject to his ultimate decision
The pro-Boer democracy, like the pro
Philippine democracy, are really fooled,
or pretend to be fooled, Ty -mere
phrases.
The facts set forth with lawyer-like
conciseness and logical precision by Mr.
Shearman show plainly that Kruger
and his personal and political clan are
a band of corrupt creatures, who are
naturally making the fight of their
lives to save their stake, which Is im
mense, in the perpetuity of their oligar
chy. The taxes levied by the Trans
vaal government since Kruger and his
clan invited the presence of foreigners,
sold them their lands at enormous
prices, exceed $20,000,000, nine-tenths of
which" are collected from these foreign
settlers. Half of these enormous taxes
have been expended in making prep
aration for war, and half have been
divided among Kruger and his clan.
Kruger gets $35,000 a year salary, and
has received enormous sums through
legislative bonuses on various pre
texts. His son-in-law and private
secretary lives in a $250,000 house;
every , Boer, official Js jtjy hisawn con
fession bribed , by -the- Boer" railway
company. The 50,000 -foreigners vho
built Johannesburg are denied any mu
nicipal privileges whatever. There is
no free press, and all the courts aie
under the thumb of Kruger. who can
overrule their action. No business can
be done in Pretoria except by bribing
Kruger's family and. political and social
clan.
A RULE TO WORK ONE WAY.
We are just through reading the pro
tests of California against giving
French fruitgrowers access to our mar
kets. ."Let them not interfere with us,"
we can hear them saying; "let them
sell to their own. people, and let tariffs
be placed .so high as to keep their
wares out." It is with something like a
shock, therefore, that we come across
this dispatch, which appeared in yes
terday's papers:' ' " "
San Francesco, Jan. 0, Commissioner Kasion.
the .negotiator of reciprocity treaties between
the United States, and foreign countries, will
soon receive a petition, in which the fruit
canners of the state and dealers In California
canned goods unite. Jn asking him, In negoti
ating treaties with foreign countries, to give
due consideration to the necessity for Increas
ing the exports of California canned fruit,
which the petition declares can only be done by
material reductions In the tariff placed on said
goods by foreign countries. Many signatures to
the petition were obtained today In this city.
With one breath we demand of con
gress to throw away the reciprocity
treaty with France because it encour
ages trade in fruits, and" with the next
we implore Kasson to go ahead with
more such treaties. There is no room
for error or inadvertence or hurried
calculation in this matter. The pur
pose is deliberate. Pile on the duties'
on. fruit from Europe, but cajole Eu
rope into taking down their duties on
fruits from us.
This is not an inspiriting or a very
statesmanlike view of international
trade. Through sliarp practice it might
for a time be made to prevail. But the
destructive tariff, as an engine of com
mercial war, is rapidly becoming obso
lete. Upon the United States has de
scended the mantle of champion of the
Open Door. We have left behind stand
points from which we .have been wont
to view the promotion of, commerce.
Old things have passed away, and, be
hold, all things have become new.
The announcement of the deathat
Salem a few days ago of a worthy
pioneer woman, known in the early
days in the familiar manner character
istic of country neighborhoods as "Mrs.
Sam Allen," will recall to many men
and women, old or growing old, kindly
and even tender memories of a farm
house on the Ablqua, in Marlon coun
ty, where openhanded , hospitality was.
dispensed to wayfarers for many years..'
And not. alone wayfarers, but the en
tire settlement for many miles around
shared. upon" '"meeting days1' the mas
ter and mistress being stanch Cumber
land Presbyterians of their day and
generation the generous hospitality of
the farmhouse, and went their way
stronger spiritually, no doubi, in that
the riee'ds of the "perishing body" had
been supplied. The faded face shown
in The Oxegonian yesterday as a por
trait of.this.generous house-mother and
devout ehurchwoman- ot a past genera
'tion Tibtds, it may be' said, but little
resemblance to the cheery face so
widely known in pioneer times, but In
its lines a character sketch of kindli
ness and endeavor may be traced
which needs no elaboration to those
whose memories run back to the "early
days." We are.aecustomed. to say:
The light of a brighter era.
Shines on the frontier line,
Yet It isadoubtful If any era wilL or can
be brighter with the light of true hos
pitality arid neighborliness than that
f 0 which this woman, whose passing is
herein noted, belonged.
Secretary Gage has done wisely, if
his special report to congress is cor
rectly epitomized by the dispatches, in
explaining the points raised without
going into the general subject of the
sub-treasury system and its bearings
on currency conditions. The currency
experts are theoretically unanswerable
in' their contention that absorption of
large stims from the circulation embar
rasses business, and the corollary is
unassailable that this diminution of
currency supply outs a responsibility of
remedy In some shape on the govern
ment. Yet a comprehensive system of
deposit of government funds in banks
is'not to be undertaken with the non
chalance assumed by students of the
oretical finance or bankers anxious for
government deposits. It is well enough
to remember what Director of the Mint
Boberts said the other day:
No. possible supply of money can prevent
stock-exchange panics or -periods of monetary
stringency, because speculation and rising- prices
will .absorb any possible increase until the pres
sure for ready cash la just as great upon the
new plane as It -was unon the old. The cry
for more money Is as- unappeasable as the de
mand for more wealth. A nw supply, Instead
of salisfyihg the demand, stimulateo It.
As for the accumulation, of funds in
the treasury, that is the highest sort of
wisdom, in view of the unknown cost
of the war upon which' we entered
twenty-one months ago'. Many of those
who complain of the surplus now
would have been merciless in their crit
icism and unbounded in their wrath if
our preparations in a financial way had
proved inadequate.
One. thing which greatly hinders Brit
ish movements in. South Africa is the
rainy season. The earth everywhere is
saturated witn water and in many
places very soft, rendering movement
of wagon trains and artillery difficult;
and streams that carry little or no
water in the dry season are now raging
torrents. In the dry season the Tugela
river runs nearly dry. It is nov a for
midable stream, and passage of it Is
easily obstructed with modem rifles
and artillery. The country is hilly and
open, much resembling wide stretches
of our own interior. There are some
stunted trees, but no forests and very
little brushwood. The country, with
range of modern arms and opportunity
of extended view, is admirably suited
to. defensive operations in war.
Judge O'Day complains that a. few
men have got all the money nowadays,
and nobody else can get any. We
think the judge in error. Money can
be got by working for It, the same as
ever. There, for example, is the useful
occupation of cutting cordwood. Cord
wood is wanted, and as good price can
be had now for cutting cordwood as
could be had in those halcyon days
thirty years ago. There Is plenty of
money to be had, as of yore, by work
ing for it; but it comes a little slow to
those of us who want to play at states
manship for it.
"Believing that the pension roll
shotild"bea"roll ol (honor and a sym
bol of fidelity to the nation-,' the vet
erans of Sedgwick post, G. A. R., at
Salem, protest earnestly against the
passage of Senator Cullom's bill to
"make- deserters from the Union army
eligible to pensions. Their resolution
does credit to their sense and patriot
ism. ., Senator Hoar says he believes Aguin
aldo Is "honest and patriotic." He is
the same honest and patriotic gentle
man who, before the Americans came,
had sold out to Spain for something
like half a million dollars and left the
country. Senator Hoar is a man of ex
cellent intentions, but his dpflnitiosS'of
honesty and patriotism need revision:
General Butter during the civil war
refused to surrender escaped negro
slaves because they were "contraband
of war;" that is,-4the slaves were as
much property of-the enemy open to
military appropriation and confiscation
as Confederate horses, mules or can-
non
' ' -i
There are democrats who want more
expansion. Here Is the New York
Journal insisting that the United
States ought to buy the Danish West
Indies. The price, it says, is a matter
of no real importance.
J. J. Hill is heavily interested In
steamship lines. Yet he has the cour
age to denounce the subsidy scheme as
"a national scandal and disgrace." It
is a testimony that should have weight
with thinking men.
' A QUESTION OF FACT.
Tesnpe'r mxH Touchiness Will Wot De
cide the Delasoa Affair.
New York Times.
If Great Britain has made a mistake, or
a series of mistakes, she is able ana
doubtless willing to pay for them. We
have seen no evidence of any Irritation on
this side, except such as was obviousry
worked up for the occasion. That is not
apparently true of Germany. The some
what hysterical remarks of the German
press Irresistibly recall a remark of Stev
enson's about the behavior of the Germans
In Samoa: "Touchy themselves, they react
all history In the light of personal ar
fronts." Given this state of mind, and it
is, not wonderful that the German press
should see, in the attempt of Great" Brit
ain to keep recruits and arms and ammu
nition out of the Transvaal, nothing but
a deep-laid plot to Insult and humiliate
Germany. The German government has
shown Itself superior to nonsense o this
kind. But one of the misfortunes of tne
situation is that just now the German
government has a reason for not discour
aging It, In the urgency of its own desire
for an increase of the navy. The govern
ment, in willing to have Its own purpose
advanced by argumento never so flimsy.
And; of- course, it has not escaped the- at
tention of the German government that
the .seizure of. German steamers in or just I
but of Dslagoa bay is used by the German (
press as such an argument. If Germany
only had more ships In Delagoa bay, say
the German publicists, such insults couia
not be offered to her. A strong German
squadron In Delagoa, bay, whatever else
it might be, would not be a peacemaker.
There Was & strong German squadron In
Manila bay last year, and It proved to be
sjroply a very effeptlve irrnant. An
equally strong squadron, under the com
mand: of officers no better instructed in
international law or International man-
L nersr would not prevent -the British front
exercising what they belieyed to b$ their
belligerent rights; but it would add to tne
exerclso of them an enormous amount or
superfluous friction.
' " i n O i
A DIPLOMATIC VICTORY.
E'er Which Secretary Hay Deserves
His Country's TlianUs.
New York Times.
That Is really a remarkable diplomatic
achievement which the state department
modestly records. It announces that in
answer to our application for equal priv
ileges of trade In any possessions, spheres
of influence, or claims that may be
gained or made by European powers In
China, all the powers concerned have re
turned favorable answers except Italy.
Italy's concern Is comparatively slight, but
her consent also Is expected.
We do not know how Mr. Hay has
managed this. ' We seemed to be giving
away our whole case when we refused to
takcany part In the British effort for the
open door Jn jChlna, ,and when, our stat
department .actually "gave out" the
amazing and palpable untruth that our
commercial interests were not Involved In
the struggle between Russia and England
in Peking. Of course, we were bound to
Lglve to all others what we had given
Spain in the Philippines by our treaty of
peace. In any case the potential trade of
the Philippines is a mere trifle comparea
with the potential trade of China. So
that it seemed that we had no "quod pro
qup" to offer.
As for Russia, the commerce of Man
churia by eea is not likely to concern her
as a carreer, but only as an owner. It
is only if sea-borne commerce should
threaten to oust her land-borne products
from the "hinterland" that any Russian
interests would seem to be threatened.
As for Great Britain and. Japan, they
were already fully committed to the prin
ciple of the- open door. It was only tne
interference of Germany, France and Rus
sia that prevented Japan from applying it
to China at the close of her victorious war.
And as for France and Germany, It seema
that they have been, converted to the Brit
ish theory of colonization, against that
which they have held and acted upon hith
erto, and have determined to take a leal
out of the book of the most successful
colonising power the world has ever
known. According to this principle, tnb
owner, partitloner or claimant of a piecb
of foreign territory merely puts himself
to the trouble and expense of policing it,
and for his reward takes such a share ot
the proceeds of its trade as he can get m
free competition. This is a doctrine wnich
the German government can afford to ac
cept, and has come near to showing its
readiness for accepting. But that France
will accept It, even after her four centuries
of failure of making the other theory pay,
is a real surprise. It may be that she
expects "compensations elsewhere," say
in commercial treaties. This, of course,
the administration cannot grant. It may
have promised to use its good offices to
ward getting it granted.
In any case, it is a signal public serv
ice that Mr. Hay has performed. Hand
icapped as he was, he has won a diplo
matic victory, and has succeeded in re
pairing the huge blunder of his prede
cessor, which seemed irreparable. He
deserves the congratulations and thanks
of his countrymen.
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Moody No Faith Curlst.
Medical Record.
Mr. Dwight L. Moody, who died last
week, offered a gratifying contrast to
many of his cloth, especially revivalists,
In his appreciation of regular m'ediclhe
and hls antipathy to quacks. In speak
ing of a prominent Christian Scientist,
or faith healer, or what-not, In Chicago,
whose offenses against humanity and com
mon sense- are many and notorious, he
praised medicine as the noblest of profes
sions, after that of the min stry. "Never
yet," he said, "in all my years of work
have I called upon an able doctor, telling
him of the sickness and need of some poor
friendless person, that he did not at once
go to the rescue, without money and with
out price. Some of the noblest men I ever
knew have gone out as medical mission
aries, devoting their lives to doing good
with the skill and healing medicines the
Lord has conferred upon them." "These
are the men," he continued, "who are
called devils by the 'faith healers,' " but
he prayed God to forgive those guilty ot
such slander. "God heals," he said,
"through doctors and through medicine.
Do not be carried away through ravings
of fanaticism. We have a new 'ism' In
America about every year 'beware ot the
'isms'! What would I do if I fell sick?
Get the best doctor In Chicago, trust to
him and trust to the Lord to work through
him. The doctors have done wonders as
their knowledge has grown; they have re
duced the dangers of death from diseases
that once slew all they touched; and the
dociois, If God helps them, will yet find
a way to stop the ravages of oth'er ter
rors." o
Blessedness of Kipling's Modesty.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
The best thing about Kipling is that
ho can't speak. He tried to the other day
in the schoolroom at Rottingdean before
the members of the Navy League. Firit
he grew red, then ghastly pale, and he
dumped out his words Irks a load of coal,
with his eyes fixed qn a lantern at tha
back of the room. Then after five fidgety
minutes, he shot out of the door, as the
reporters said, "as if somebody had yelled,
'The Toof's giving away.' " He will never
make one of those author-orators, bless
his heart EIe will never be reading from
his own works with minutely explanatory
gestures and with pumped up tremolo for
the pathetic parts.
He will never be turn
ing up in small towns and telling crowds
of poky provincials how he came to be
what he now is. His voice will never
be heard at alumni dinners quavering over
the possibilities and the dangers of young
manhood, and urging it upward, ever up
ward. He will not be called upon on all
occasions for an oratorical Indorsement of
Virtue, and of the righteousness of doing
right. The kindly niggardliness of natiire
'has gagged and stiffened him and gftnen
him gooseficsh and a snow-white liver
for all this sort of thing. It has bottled
him up with his own talent In order that
he may not prove fiat when the cork is
drawn. And the world will be the gainer
thereby.
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Fayins for Their Presumption.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
If a reported interview with General
Kitchener is authentic, he goes to South
Africa with an appreciation of the difficul
ties before him. He attributes the British
defeats to tha ignorant impatience of the
jingoes, who insisted that "the Boers were
only half-civilized and could be easily de
feated by troops only half prepared for
war." He thinks that with an avoidance
of the mistakes already made, it may re
quire a year's hard campaign to end the
war. There can be no doubt that Kitchen
er, if allowed his own discretion, will make
thorough work of anything he attempts.
He never strikes till he is ready, and when
he is ready h's army is a3 complete a
fighting machine as can be made of hu
man flesh and blcod.
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Yellow War on Business.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The contemptible attacks being made
upon Secretary Gage by the yellow jour
nals of New York are a repetition of the
similar disgraceful assaults upon Secretary
Carlisle. Mr. Gage is following the ex
ample of his predecessor and ignoring tho
vicloti3 raglngs. Every man In New York
knows how t6 appreciate these slanders,
but there are some hysterical people and
newspapers in the back districts for whose j
benefit Mr. Gage should teach a few met
ropolitan editors a lesson. It is a passing
shame that the secretary of the treasury
cannot devise a simple plan for restoring
to the market a portion of the money it
needlessly takes away without being ac
cused of prostituting his great office for
private gain. It Is a heavy load of slander
that secretaries of the treasury must
reckon with the emoluments of their high
post.
NO CASE AT LAW.
Quay's Claim Ruled Out on - More
Than One Account.
Chicago Times-Herald.
The most hopeful sign of tho new year
in politics is the realization on the part
of the friends of Quay that he cannot bo
quietly railroaded into the United States
senato because ho is a "good fellow" or a
"good republican."
This Is the achievement of public senti
ment. The supporters of tho ex-senator
are at bay. In tho expressive language of
the prize ring, they are "sparring for
wind." Those who have committed tho
amazing folly of declaring that they
would vote to seat Quay now find them
selves forced to defend the indicted boss.
That la a hard task for an honest man.
Those who vote for him now fully realize
that the people will demand an. explana
tion. Senators who vote to stultify them-cp-Tvtpc
hv ovRi-tn-rnintr all DFecedents.
merely for partisan considerations, must
face an angry constituency at home and
an outraged public sentiment throughout
the Union.
As a matter of fact, there is no defense
for Quay. No man who votes to seat
him can justify the act by any honest
argument. He has no legal claim what
ever upon a seat In the United States sen
ate. No man ever presented more spu
rious credentials for admission to that
body.
Waiving all questions of precedent and
conceding the right of the senators to
stultify themselves by voting against
their convictions as recorded In the past,
will the supporters of Quay violate the
plain mandate of the law as expressed
in both the state and federal constitu
tions? The federal constitution provides
that a governor may make "a temporary
appointment" to fill a vacancy which,
happens "during the recess of the legisla
ture." The senatorial vacancy in Penn
sylvania did not happen "during a re
cess." The vacancy arose March 4, 1S99,
by the expiration of the term of Matthew
S. Quay, and a republican legislature re
fused through 79 ballots to re-elect Quay.
But the constitution of Pennsylvania
makes express provision for filling a sen
atorial vacancy It says:
"In case of a vacancy In the office of
United States senator from, this com
monwealth in a recess, the governor shall
convene the two houses by proclamation
in notice not exceeding GO days, to fill the
same."
So that even if the vacancy had oc-.
curred "during a recess" the action of
Governor Stone In appointing Quaywas
illegal and Indefensible. The clause in
the federal constitution which vests gov
ernors with discretionary authority to fill
senatorial recess vacancies applies only
where a state constitution has failed to
make express provision for such an emer
gency. The amazing impudence of Quay In ask
ing the senate to violate law and prece
dent to give him a seat in that body on
such credentials should receive prompt
and fitting rebuke. The time is propitious
for this stroke for clean politics and good
government.
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Ought to Be Passed.
Chicago Tribune.
Senator Beveridge's resolution is a clear
cut declaration that the United States in
tends to keep the Philippines that it does
not at this time contemplate tne possi
Wlltv of ever elvlmr them up. All who
favor the abandonment of the Philippines,
either at once or In the near future, will
vote against this resolution. AH who be
lieve In American expansion win vote
for it. That resolution will be adopted.
It will be taken by the president as tha
expression of the will of congress that
he -shall continue the work of pacifying
the Philippines and preparing them for
whatever kind of government congress
may at a later day deem It wise to es
tablish. With the adoption of that reso
lution the moribund "anti-imperialist"
issue will be heard of no more.
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Interesting1 tor Carnesie.
New York Press, rep.
Mr. Carnegie's published determination
not to give 350,000 to the republican party
would have been worth at least 500.000 in
votes to the party In question in the year
1S92 the year when Mr. Carnegie made the
largest single "personal contribution" in
political history to a party's defeat. It is
still worth a good deal to git rid of him,
though his renunciations and denuncia
tions do not command the bouncing pre
miums ot the year of his unfortunate, if
misleading, exhibition as the typical "vul
gar accident of a protective tariff."
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A Triangular Town.
Indianapolis Sentinel.
The newly founded town of Triangle,
Tex., promises to be unique. It Is laid
out In the form of an equilateral triangle;
its lots are triangular in shape and the
ground plan of each of the 23 houses
which have thus far been erected there
is three-cornered. The three principal
streets are named Equilateral, Scalene
and Isosceles, and the residents have even
carried their curious idea into the local
government, which consists of a so-called
triangular council, having threa members.
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Modern Girl.
Indianapolis Press.
"Harold," said the dear girl, "am I the
only girl?"
'Harold groaned involuntarily.
"Am I the only girl you ever told sho
was the only girl you ever told she was
the only girl you loved.?"
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Carries It Too Far.
Chicago Times-Herald.
"My daughter has a great ear for mu
sic" "Well, that wouldn't be so bad If she
didn't think she had a voice for it too."
The Unanswered Ietter.
Chicago Record.
"How did your correspondence end with
Miss Jimp?"
"I wrote to her, and she couldn't thlnR
of anything to say In reply."
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Unseasonable Remark.
Yonkers Statesman.
Mr. Crlmsonbeak It's ridiculous to sup
pose that all dogs are growlers.
Mrs. Crlmsonbeak And just as absurd to
think that ail the growlers are dogs.
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Rhyjne for Small People.
S. E. KIser in Chicago Tlmeg-Herald.
LORDLY MAN AND LOWLY MULE.
Man is the greatest work of God,
The oxen are his slaesf
He lures tha lightning- from the cloud,
And harnesses the waves.
To him alone a. soul Is given,
And he receives at birth
The glorious hope of joy In heaven
"When he is done with earth.
Man is sublime, the homely mule
Is made ot poorer stuff:
But mules, quit drinking, aa a. rule.
When they have had enough.
MAX THE GODLIKE, GOAT THE MEAN.
The goat is not regarded as
A noble beast, and It
Hag pever won distinction for
An undue share of wit.
Compare the homely goat with man:
How Godlike does he standr
How pitiful tha beast becomes
And how absurdly planned I
i
Yet, while we look upon the goat
Aa neither fair nor wise.
It doesn't live by taking pills
Instead of ezerclse. ;
NOTE AND COMMENT-
Clothes speak louder than words some
times. The question now Is, How are we go
ing to pronounce '00?
The man who is the first to wish for
snow will bo the last to shovel off h
r walk.
Judging from past experience, the less
news London gets from South Africa, tho
luckier she is.
People who pay dues to the Kennel Club
realize, of course, that their money is go
ing to the dogs.
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"Truth answers every purpose of life."
Ladles' Home Journal. Perhaps; but
not every question.
The climate of South Africa is not
rigorous, but there Is plenty of slaying
over there most of the time.
The latest advertising scheme of variety
actresses, that of having themselves
shot, does not promise to become popular.
A whole shipload of Missouri mules
has been sent to General Buller, yet all
the kicking thus far has been done by
the London press.
Strangers In Oregon suppose, natur
ally enough, that Tongue point is right
in the mouth of the Columbia and be
tween tho teeth of every gale that blows
there.
Having made JiO.OCO out of his book, and
nothing but questionable glory out of his
war services, Bryan can now appreciate
the adage to the effect that the pen 13
mightier than the sword.
General Yule, the officer who led the
British retreat from Glencoe and Dundee
to Ladysmlth after General Symon's
death, has gone insane- and Is now In
England. Mortification, combined with
Illness, unhinged his mind.
There Is no race question at the moment
In- Jackson, Miss. Alderman Smith Rob
ertson, colored, died a day or two ago.
and the white mayor and aldermen will
act as pall-bearers at the funeral. It Is
a tribute never before paid to a negro
there.
An up-country paper pnnts a "special
dispatch," telling- how Cecil Rhodes, "pre
mier of Cape Colony," succeeded In "ef
fecting an escape from Ladysmlth on
horsebackTSajeRhdjeacTe pK
"inler, and how he reached beleaguered
Ladysmlth from beleaguered Klmberley,
the "special' does not state.
"This Is the 20th cent" began an Ari
zona man. "I was about to remark," ho
resumed, when he recovered conscious
ness In the hospital the next day, "that
this was the 20th centipede I had seen
yesterday." Moral: Vlien a man Uve3
In Arizona, don't place his intelligence on
a par with that of Emperor William until
you can maka out a case against him.
All the Hohenzollern princes born 3lnfe
1722 have slept In a curious old cradle of
carved oak. On tho four sides Is carved
the text: "He hath given his angel3
charge over thee, to keep thee In all
his ways." The emperor regards thi3 old
heirloom somewhat In the light of a
"luck" of the Hohanzollera. race, and all
his children have on after tho'Othar been
cradled in Jr.
The people of Beveridge. Kan., thought
it would be a graceful thing to invite
Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, to lectu'a
In the town. But their invitation brought
the following reply:
"I beg to say that it 13 not my pre3en
or ultimate Intention to enter the lecture
field. Thanking you for your suggestion.
I am, very respectfully,
"ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE."
Hon. J. J. Howser, the new mayor of
Medford, was the dudish young popu
list representative of Jackson who with
stood tho blandishments of the rump
house managers in the attempted leg's
latlve session of 1S9T, once was reported,
after due deliberation, to have returned a
trifle of $2000 that found its way to hs
room from a statesman's ppcket3. En
joying the honors of the mayoralty, ho
doubtless feels that virtue orings its re
ward. In Lane county, all roads seem not to
lead to Eugene, if one may judge by tho
Register's suggestion that "arc light3 be
erected on Skinner's butte, to serve a3
beacon lights to the whole surrounding
country on dark nights." It would be,
apparently, a sort of lighthouse in the
plain, to warn the masters of prairie
schooners against the olllows of the val
ley, or perhaps the breakora that always
beat about the foundations of a 3tate
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The Gray Mother-
(TO AN, OLD GAEUC ATK.)
The colonial volunteers proceeded to the front
Public Press.
Lo. how they com& to rat.
Long through the nigbt I call them.
Ah. how they turn to me.
East and south my children scatter.
North and west the world they wander.
Yet they come back to me,
Came with their brave hearts beatlnff.
Longing to die for me.
Me, the gray. old. weary mother.
Throned amid te northern waterifc
Whera they have died for me.
Died with their aongs around m
Girding my shores for me.
Narrow was my dwelling for them.
Hemes they bullded o'er the ocean.
Yet they leave all for me.
Hearing their mother calling.
Bringing their Uve3 for me.
Far from south seae swiftly salllnjr.
Out from under stars I know not.
Come they to fight for me.
Eon3 of the sons I nurtured.
God keep them, safe for me.
Long as their fathers saved ma,
Died for me among the heather..
Now they come back to me.
Come. In. their children's children. ,
Brave of the brave for me.
In the wilds and waves they slumber.
Deep they alumber in the deserts.
Rise they from graves to me.
Graves where they lay forgotten,
Shades of the brave for me.
Yet my soul is veiled In sadness,
Fcr I see them fall and perish.
Strewing the hlllg for me.
Claiming the world in dying.
Boaght with their blood for me.
Hear the gray, old northern mother.
Blessing now her dying; children.
God keep ye safe for me,
Christ watch ye la your sleeping,
"Where ye have died for me.
And when God's own slogan sund6h.
All the dead world's dust awaking,
Ah, will ye look for me?
Bravely we'll stand together,
I and ray sons with me.
L. McLean "Watt la London Spectator.
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