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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1900. Joe &Qomixxt Catered at the Pootomcc at PerUaad. Oregon, as oooooa-ctaaa matter. TELEPHONES. BdUorlai Ros....ie Btmtsesa Office... .OCT REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATBS. Br Mail (postage prosatd). la Advance Daily withSosoar. par moats. $0 85 Dail 8unday oasupted. prjear...... 7 60 Da.l with mmsar. per year S 00 Sunday per year ........ 2 00 The Weekly per year - 158 The tleekb (antki CO To City Subeertfeere Xfe-ly per week. oeltvere. Seaeays excepted.l5c Dailj . per week, aeUVerea. gays laduded.20c News or dtoeusatoa Intended for pebUcauea In Tbe Oregontan sfcouM be addressed Invariably Editor The Ore&OBJa&," set to tbe name of any lndlUduaL Letters relattag to advertising;, subscriptions or to aay buotneca matter should be aduressed simply "Tbe Oregoalan." The Orea-onlan tees mot bay poems or stories from lnd'vldiiele. and eanaot undertake to re turn any manuscripts seat to K without seuoita tion. No stamps should be iaoioeed for this purpose Pnget Sound Boreas Captain A. Thompson, offioe at 1111 Pacific avenue. Taonaa. Box 955, lacoma postoffiee. Eastern Business Ofllee The Tribune build ing New Tork dtr, "The Reekery." Chicago; tbeJ5 C Bkwt apodal ageaey, New Tork. For aaie in Saa fraaetsoo by J. K. Cooper, 6 Market street, sear tee Palace bote!, and SJ Goldsmith Bras., 3M gutter street. For sale m Chicago by tfee P. O. News Co., gl Dearborn street. TODAY S WBA.THBR.-Kalr'. besoming: cloudy and threatening rain. noatheast winds. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1 A'ISBD OF A MAN. The Salem Statesman presents an ar gument to show that Senator McBride Is a great man. It says that In making appointments to office he has looked out for the Interests of his friends. He has, indeed. He has pat them in, -wherever possible. And not only his political supporters, but members of his family. cer twenty of -whom are said to be well or fairly well provided for. Some ten or more are reported to be drawing Balaries in Alaska. McBride is great in these ittle ways of nepotism. It indi cates his caliber. But who has heard & word from him, during his five years in the senate, on any of the important affairs of the country? At what time, on -what occasion, on what subject, during these Sve years, has he spoken the voice of Oregon on any subject of importance, or indicated that Oregon had any voice to be spoken? It is mere presumption in a man of ouch caHber to seek a Beat in the sen ate of the United States. The country has large questions to deal with large questions of domestic and foreign pol icy, of trade and commerce, of interna tional relations matters of large im port to be studied and treated in the light of universal history and general experience. "What word has the coun try heard from McBride on these sub jects'' The mere suggestion of such a t hi rig in connection with "his name cauBes amusement or provokes derision. He re are the new conditions opening to Pacific commerce. Our relations with the Orient what can he know or care about them? It is a subject wholly be- end his range. Of the large questions, fthnic, political, geographical, with w hich we have been brought into con ta t through the events of the last two jfarg, no word that he has spoken sh us that he has the slightest con ception. Though the length of his term Fies him the right to speak, Oregon remains dumb on questions of highest Importance to her interests and fame. There is nothing from him about the Isuaragua canal, nothing to show the c unlry and the world that the com mercial interests of the Pacific states d:sre national attention. Or if per chance a word be spoken, the poverty cf intellect Is manifest through poor, meager speech, without range of ideas c- rower of illustration. And yet the senate of the United States is our one forum from which the word may be Tit tend to the whole country, and if the vcrd be weighty, to the whole world. Put it is said that Mr. McBride has places on committees, and therefore must be an able man. His committee platfs are those which are assigned to tin small men of the senate, among vhora he is of the smallest. He has, ironed, a oertaln kind of industry, vhuh is devoted to getting places for Ins personal supporters and members cf his family. But this fills his range. j-eat place cannot make a small man great Pigmies are pigmies still, though pohed on Alps. And pyramids arc 1 j ramids in vales. It will be a pity, indeed, if Oregon fl not improve this opportunity to send to the senate some man in place cf George W. McBride. The need of Oregon -Rill not be questioned AhARCHY IX KBXTDGKY. Goebel is dying. The deplorable thing Is tht assassination. It was Goebel vh set in motion the revolutionary proceedings, for partisan and personal cnjeHp. which have brought Kentucky t 'he threshold of anarchy and civil Tar It was Goebel who has led or dm tn these proceedings from the first, vnh unrelenting purpose. It was he v h made the law under which an elec tion in Kentucky is but a farce, since it gaf his partisans authority to set the results of election aside, upon any prt f ext. It was he who, as a next step, led a turbulent mob which intimidated tht conention of his own party and iriughl about hie own nomination for E - emor in a body where a large ma jority opposed him. He proposed xo hae himself counted in as governor IN ugh the plurality of the ballots was apairt him, and he had just about i.- -i. d his plan through to the end. Then hts career -was stopped by as ii nation. In this crime, abhorrent rd detestable as it is, there sometimes r . nheless Is some quality or touch n tnbution. Good men have perished 1 n assassination, but Goebel is entitled t u. place among the worst who have pt-mhed by It. It was his deliberate I urpo&e that the government of Ken tu k should be directed, not by a ma i ri: of Its dtlaens, but by his own facti m under hts own leadership. M or emer, he who now has perished at the hands of an assassin himself bore the stain of blood-guiltiness. He had ' knied his man." If tbe anarchy of which he was the ram cause could end with his own career the state of Kentucky might ci ngratulate Itself. But the conspiracy bd-P gone so far that he was scarcely r t- ssary to Its further progress. The r i ution he proposed, under the forms . " a iniqultously made for revolu ti narj objects, has gone so far that a substrute and successor may take up ti - leadership. His faction stands in ar aggressive and revolutionary atti tude from which, tt cannot back down tMkhout shame nor go forward without violence. A faction In such a situation Is almost always rul"d by Its impetuous and Incendiary spirits. Possibly no one may be found to take the place of Goe bel in audacity, cunning and resolution. If so, his state will gain by his taking off. The action taken by Governor Taylor is the response to be expected to the aggressive conspiracy led by Goebel. One revolutionary act is met by an other. Now if both parties will stop where they are, and let the result of the election stand as the voters de clared it, peace may be restored to Ken tucky, and this disgraceful episode may stand as a warning to unscrupulous personal and partisan ambition. "WHY THE BOERS HAVE WO.. President Kruger sent his famous ul timatum to Sir Alfred Mllner October 9, 1899. So ill-informed were the British authorities of the strength and re sources of the Boers that Sir George White was expected to hold Natal with 16,000 British regulars of all arms, while the extensive borderland of Cape Colony was under the protection of only 8000 troops. Sir George White had altogether six batteries of field artillery and one mountain battery, making a total of forty-two guns, while in Cape Colony there were only eighteen'guns, exclusive of garrison artillery. The Natal force was equipped with cavalry, the most useful arm of the service for Boer fighting, but in Cape Colony the Ninth Lancers were the only mounted troops on the border except small bod ies of Cape mounted police. This was all the preparation that England had made to resist the invasion of Natal and Cape Colony by the Boers. Sir George White is a very gallant soldier, for he wears the Victoria cross, but he cannot be a man of superior military talent, or with 16,000 regulars of all arms, the flower of the British army, he should have stopped easily the in vasion of Natal by an army of 20,000 Boers. But he divided his forces, was badly beaten In detail, and finally cooped up in Ladysmith, a gallant and stubborn soldier, but clearly a man of no superior military talent. The Boers had men enough success fully to invade Natal with at least 20,000 men, to invest Mafeking and Kimber ley with at least 6000 men, and also to advance across the Orange river into Cape Colony, destroying miles of rail way and sweeping up hundreds of re cruits. Sir George White's incapacity as a general resulted in the locking up of his whole army of at least 10,000 men in Ladysmith, and the occupation of the line of the Tugela river in his rear by General Joubert In other words, the Boers won the initiative in the campaign, not because the British troops were not brave men, but be cause their general was a very gallant soldier without any superior military brains in particular. The Boers won the first "blood" and the first "knock down," not because they were braver men, but because their generals had the most military brains. The stupidity of the British campaign in Natal Is evident when we remember that Natal and Cape Colony are so fat apart that In order to get from Durban, in Natal, to anywhere In Cape Colony you must embark at Durban and go by sea to East London or Port Elizabeth, and go by train to your destination. De Aar, in Cape Colony, is as far from Maritzburg as New Tork is from Ha vana. The British were so weak at the outset of the war, October 11, 1899, that they were not strong enough to seize the two railway bridges, which cross the Orange river into the Free State. This was a sad situation; and yet, if Chamberlain had forced Kruger's hand three months sooner, and put an army corps on the sea in July, Natal and the Cape would have been worse off than they are now, for Kruger was com pletely ready, and would have at once Invaded Natal, and Joubert would not have found 16,000 British regulars north of Maritzburg when he descended upon Dundee. As a matter of fact, Chamberlain was clever In getting as many men Into Natal as he did before the issue of Kruger's ultimatum. Within two months after that ulti matum over 54,000 British troops were landed at Cape Town as a reinforce ment, so that by the 1st of December General Buller had an army of 80.000 British regulars, exclusive of irregular and colonial troops, in his hand. What has' he done with them? Events have answered. He has frittered away his strength and accomplished nothing. From the standpoint of a sound, su perior military mind, he could not pos sibly expect to accomplish anything. His frontal attack at Colenso was ut terly reckless and disastrous; his re cent turning movement was absurd. He started out January 12 with a corps of some 20,000 men, which included a cav alry division of 5000 men. The infantry was about 12,000 to 15,000 strong, accom panied by forty-five guns and a heavy train of army wagons. Buller's- flank ing movement failed, of course, as every military movement of this character falls when an army corps has 5000 wag ons and is a full week in getting to its striking point General Buller cannot expect to break the communications of an intrenched enemy, at least as well armed as he is and completely surpass ing him in mobility. A DIVIDED OPPOSITION. An unaccountable opposition to the senate's refunding scheme has arisen in influential quarters at the East, and may defeat It. The term unaccounta ble is used advisedly, because all that is said against the plan only serves to prove that the utterances of its op ponents are insincere, and that what ever the reason for their opposition is, it is not the reason put forth. These objections may be divided into two classes, those pertaining to the effect on the banks, and those pertaining to the effect on the government. We un derstand: 1. From the New York Evening Post, that this is a bad bill, because it ic in the interests of the banks, and must therefore be against the interests of the people. If this argument ap peared In the Denver News, we could consider it sincere. In the Post it is simply ridiculous. 2. From the New York Tribune, that this is a bad bill, because the banks are opposed to It. The Post says they want it, the Tribune says they are down on it. As easy and natural an expla nation of the situation as any Is that there is an unexplained desire to beat the bill, and each paper clutches at the declaration which it thinks will best support Its argument. Now as to the effect on the govern ment, we understand: 1. From the Philadelphia Press, that this is a bad jblll, because the bonds would go so high as to make them tin- available for bank circulation and leave them on the government's hands un sold. The Press says they would reach 112, and perhaps 117. 2. From the New York Tribune, that this is a bad bill, because the bonds will not bring p-.r. To quote: "The peril, not only for the country, but for congressmen also, it may be urged with all frankness, lies in the probability that bonds bearing only 2 per cent In terest may not command par in the market." What Wall street's objection to the refunding bill Is, we do not know. It may be that It hates to see a 2 per cent Interest rate established. It may be that it looks coldly upon a measure that will write an honorable chapter in American finance 'to the credit of an Ohio president and a Chicago secretary of the treasury. It may be that it fears the new bonds would defeat the cher ished scheme of an asset currency. We do not know. We only express the wish that, out of respect to the compara tively advanced state of mental de velopment reached by the species homo, such gauzy arguments might be re placed with something approaching intelligence NOT REPEAL, BUT AMENDMENT. The national bankruptcy act has been in effect since July, 1S98, but no pro ceedings were had under it until four months later. An experience of fifteen months with a law affecting an im mense diversity of interests and touch ing almost every relation of business life has been hardly sufficient to de velop all the perfections and imperfec tions of the act, Two points are well established: 1. A national bankruptcy law Is a national necessity. 2. The present act is deficient in im portant respects. It Is far more satisfactory than the bankruptcy law of 1867. It Is not so good as the Oregon assignment law which It superseded, but Is a great im provement upon the old assignment 1? vb of Washington and Idaho. The present law is defective In sev eral of Its administrative features. It lacks in adequate definition of what constitutes insolvency. In a round about way it declares a person to be insolvent whenever his property shall not, after a fair valuation, be sufficient to pay his debts. This causes confu sion as to what constitutes a fair valu ation, and raises a multitude of techni calities. Lawyers prefer the old-time definition, that a person is insolvent when he Is unable, in the ordinary course of his business, to meet matur ing obligations. Another objection is that the number of acts of bankruptcy is not sufficient The act names five situations, which may be classed in two general divisions (1) conveyance of property with Intent to defraud creditors; (2) permitting, when insol vent, any individual creditor to obtain preference through legal proceedings. The act of 1867 was more definite on this point It enumerated as acts of bankruptcy: (1) Leaving the state with Intent to defraud creditors; (2) being absent, to remain away with intent tot defraud; (3) hiding to avoid service' touching any demand provable in bank ruptcy; (4) concealing or removing property to prevent Its attachment by legal process; (5) fraudulently to stop payment on an obligation. These feat ures would strengthen the present act if incorporated into it Flight to de fraud creditors is a cause for arrest under Oregon laws. A grave defect lies in the few grounds for objection to the discharge of a bankrupt The act names two grounds and they are full of loopholes. There were seventeen grounds for objection in the law of 1867, and one of them was that concealment of books, papers and documents by the bankrupt, no matter what the intent, was a bar to dis charge. The present law does not offer this protection -against dishonesty. It forces creditors to prove that the act of concealment of financial condition and destruction or concealment of records to have been done with fraudulent in tent and in contemplation of bank ruptcy. And a limit should be set to exemp tions. Congress cannot abrogate or modify state law regarding exemp tions, but It can limit the bank rupt's exemption to a specified amount, say $400 worth of personal property and a $1000 homestead. If an Insolvent does not desire discharge from his debts on this basis, he has the alternative of staying out of the bank ruptcy court and making private set tlement with his creditors. By no rule of equity is he entitled to discharge from debt in a United States court and at the same time be permitted to save a good lump of his property under state exemption. "He who seeks equity must do equity" is a familiar maxim. Strength would be added to the law by a provision giving the court jurlsdic tlonaover the property of an insolvent in a state other than the one in which the proceeding is held. This would avoid the apparent necessity for ancil lary proceedings, which are cumber some and costly. Nobody was sanguine enough to think that a perfect bankruptcy law could be made at one enactment. Therefore, it is not surprising that defects have cropped out Judicious patchwork will Impiove the act and make it what it was intended to be a protection to the country's business interests. Bacon cries out against expansion without complete extension of our po litical system to all acquisitions. What is his warrant for assuming that acqui sition of territory Is inherently com mensurate with extension of statehood? There is none. The acquisition of terri tory is one thing, and each individual accession will be accepted or rejected on its own merits. The administrative machine adapted to these acquisi tions Is quite another thing, and will vary with differing circumstances, and this must also be determined on its merits. We are trying to do this with Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, etc The chief obstacle encountered in the task is the effort of obstructionists to insist that the only course to be pur sued is an impossible course. The weather record for February, covering a period of twenty-eight years, on file in the signal office in this city, does not confirm the hope that winter is over. While memory recalls vanished Februarys the balmy airs of which coaxed meadow larks into bursts of melody and set the brown wren to gathering sticks for her bulky nest; brought peach trees into bloom and dust upon the highways; sent the gar dener out with his seeds and lured the jubilant housewife Into spring house cleaning; turned the imprisoned feet of the country boy out to grass, and made school work drudgery to- even the most studious. It also recalls other Februarys which, through the rec ords of the weather bureau, tell of snow and low temperature, cloudy days and rain, and sharp, biting' frosts. Of course, whatever is is right when it comes to Oregon weather, and, though some types are preferable to others, wise people take what comes, even If it be the east wind, without wasting their energies in complaining. The most gen erally reliable weather prognosti cator at this season of the year is he who, after the manner of the weather wise almanac that hung over bis grandfather's mantelpiece sagely dis tributes his mild warning impartially over the months of February and March, saying, "Look out for stormy weather about this time." The Oriental liner Goodwin was ashore all day yesterday just outside of Tacoma's harbor limits, and within a mile or two of where the Sir Kobert Fernie contracted her 150,000 salvage claim by narrowly escaping destruc tion. The scene of the grounding Is also quite near where the British ship Andelana became a total wreck, four-' teen men losing their lives at the time, and about half a mile away the re mains of the fine steamer Kingston are lying at the bottom of the bay. The damage to the Goodwin has not yet been fully determined, but the vessel is undoubtedly severely strained, and the expense of lightering her and the attendant delays will be heavy. The agitation over the relations be tween the treasury and the banks seems to demonstrate one thing pretty effectually, and that is that Secretary Gage used such powers as were legally vested in him to avert a panic in De cember. This is well enough as far as it goes, but he need not expect that to recommend him to the democratic party. What! Save the country from a panic that would show the evils of the gold standard? And on the eve of a presidential election? Surely, the man who does this need look for noth ing but vituperation and wrath from the apostles of 16 to 1. When Wall street began jumping on the refunding scheme, The Oregonlan noted the exceptional defense It was given by the Bankers' Magazine, and expressed the fear that In time Mr. Rhodes would Join the rest in opposi tion. It Is nothing but just to record, therefore, that the fear was unfounded. The latest issue of the magazine com mends the plan, and again asserts that under it "the government will effect a saving of annual interest, and at the same time the bonds will usually be within reach of the banks as a basis for circulation." As to begging, there must be one rule for all alike, and that rule is that there shall be none on the streets. Indis criminate begging and indiscriminate almsgiving cannot be tolerated, either for the good of the beggar or for the good of society. One man cannot be exempted while others are punished. Because a man is able to hire lawyers and pay fines is no mitigation of his offense, but an aggravation. The exceedingly valuable article on the Panama .canal in yesterday's paper, reprinted from the London Times, seems to proceed on one erronedus as sumption. This is that tlje Clayton Bulwer treaty applies to the Nicaragua canal only. The treaty, as a matter of fact, expressly provides that its terms apply to a canal at Tehuantepec, Pan ama, or elsewhere. Mr. Bacon undertakes to say that the only way colonies can be kept loyal to an empire is through the menace of a standing army. This may be believed to be the utterance of a man of sense and truthfulness by all who know noth ing whatever of the attitude of British colonies in the present South African war. Anti-British sentiments in congress increase in direct proportion to the dif ficulties of the British situation in South Africa. This is one of the fruits of fail ure. Nobody has much sympathy to waste on the unsuccessful. It's a hard world. Bacon says that an Imperial republic is, in the nature of things, impossible Rome never lived then, or Venice, or the Netherlands, or France. Upon Just such manufactured testimony is the brief for anti-imperialism based. THE QUESTION OF THE FRANCHISE Captain Mahan's Vieiv of the Real Cause of the War. Captain A. H. Mahan In New York Times. Great Britain did not demand the fran chise for the Ultlanders. Sir Alfred Mil ner, her representative at the Bloemfon teln conference last June, admitted 1m plcitly that the franchise was a matter of the Internal affairs of the Transvaal, control of which Great Britain had form ally renounced. He said only that, in view of the many complaints of injustice made by British subjects there resident, and concerning which Great Britain had to make representations as she would in like conditions to the United States It was suggested that an extension of the franchise would of Itself constitute a rem edy which would silence most complaints, and bo remove causes of friction between the two countries. Kruger objected that as the ultianaers mucn exceeaea tne Boers in number a significant fact little regarded by American sympathizers with so-called republics the granting of suf frage to all would swamp the older in habitants. This Mllner at once admitted was too much to be expected; he said only that some representation, a possibility of returning one-fourth of the principal house the first volksraad, which prac tically controls legislation would enable them to make their voices heard on the floor of the representation of the state, and to Influence legislation, which It is needless to say they could not have con trolled with such a proportion. Under the pressure of the situation, the Transvaal government proposed eventual ly tq submit to the legislature terms of franchise similar to those indicated by Mllner,, but with the offer they coupled conditions irrelevant to franchise, which the British government refused to accept; whereupon the offer was withdrawn. It appears, therefore, that the willingness to allow a reasonable representation to the population which produced nineteen twentleths of the revenue, did not exist. Independent of external urgency, such as that exercised by Great Britain on behalf of the Ultlanders, most of whom were her subjects, but among them many citizens of other nationalities, none of whom, of course, were willing to renounce their na tive citizenship so long as they could not simultaneously with Its relinquishment, obtain the privileges of Transvaal citi zens, which under the law they could not Persons who will look carefully into this matter will find that the Boers doubtless are In their own opinion fighting to pre serve their own liberty, but they hav" been brought Into this dilemma because national liberty was in Mr. Kruger's mind Inseparably associated with the right of a dominant minority, sole possessors of po litical power In other words, an oligarchy to opppress a majority, to tax It heav ily, and to refuse It representation. The cause of the Ultlanders Is in principle identical with that of the American rev olutionists. 0 COST OP SUBSIDIES. Examination of tlie Way the Pro posed Schedules Would Work Ont. New Tork Evening Post The magnitude of the fraud sought to be perpetrated on the taxpayers of the United States by the shipping subsidy bill can be best understood by making a com parison of the sums actually appropriated by Great Britain, for example, and those proposed by the Hanna-Payne bill. By reference to recent reports of the British postmaster-general and the admiralty rec ords, It will be found that the ships to which subvention was paid by the British admiralty as reserve merchant cruisers during the past year were as follows: Himalaya, P. & O. Co 3,375 Australia, P. & O. Co., 3,3T'S Victoria, P. & O. Co...' 2,138 Arcandla. P. & O. Co 2,433 Campania, Cunard Co 7,500 Lucanla. Cunard Co , 7,600 Teutonic, White Star Co 7,205 Majestic "White Star Co 7.3M To these may be added the three steam ers of the Canadian Pacific Railroad Com pany: Empress of India, Empress of China, Em press of Japan (for the three) 7,313 Aggregate for the 11 steamers ..48,600 For these payments' the admiralty have the first call on the ships, at much lower rates than they would have to pay if the boats were chartered in times of emer gency, and they have also the first call on other ships belonging to these com panies for which no subvention is paid. In consideration of this payment, the Bhlps were constructed under admiralty survey, and fitted with gundecks and the necessary adjuncts io enable them to be readily utilized as armed cruisers m case of need, the subvention being paid, not only for the privilege of a call upon the lines for the boats so subsidized, but as compensation for the additional expense In construction, and for the additional weight and bulk which they are obliged to carry in the shape of gundecks and other fittings. In addition to this subvention, according to the 44th report of the postmaster-general of Great Britain, the total amount paid for the carriage of malls from the United Kingdom to New York during the year ending March 31, 1S98, was. 107,694, or say about $500,000, which, add ed to the amount paid for subvention, would aggregate a sum total of about $750,000. In the Hanna-Payne bill provision is made for the payment of subsidy to American-owned steamers under the British and Belgian flags, which Is estimated to amount In the aggregate to over $653,000 annually. It is also an open secret that various foreign residents doing business in New York have filed notices within the prescribed time, which will enable them to comply with the stipulations of the bill In securing subsidy payments on a still greater amount of tonnage now In course of construction, to be put Into the Ameri can trade later. Thus the estimated $9,000,000 for subsidy appropriation Is like ly to be fully used, the lion's share going to the International Navigation Company and other owners of vessels which are foreign built, though possibly under the American flag, while the Pacific Mail, Ward Line, and other coastwise lines, strictly Americas, will divide among them What Is left by their more greedy claim ants for the public money. If this Hanna Payne bill, as has been so frequently an nounced, is for the purpose of reviving shipbuilding interests in this country and the building up of an American merchant marine, why not confine the payment of the subsidy to strictly American-built ships? Now let us inquire what would have been the subsidy payments under the Hanna-Payne bill for the fiscal year 1897, if it had been in force at that time. Fol lowing the actual course of every ship during that year, the amount paid from the treasury would have been the follow ing: International Navigation Co. (un der American flag) $1,303,331 57 International Navigation. Co. (un der British and Belgian flags).... 658,701 44 Oceanic Steamship Co 117,380 37 Paclnc Coast Steamship Co. and Oregon Improvement Co 1.200 12 Atlantic & Caribbean Steamship Co 113 132 28 Pacific Mail Steamship Co". '.".'.'.'.'. '. 213isS7 80 United States & Cuba MaU Co S00.C01 97 C. H Mallory&Co 7,256 87 H. B. Plant Steamship Co 12,665 32 W. P. Clyde & Co 25,069 83 Southern Pacific Co 21,898 57 Charles W. Hogan 8,438 10 T. Hogan & Son 11,225 74 Alfred C Bedford 31,300 13 Ij. & N. Railroad Co 381 00 Saginaw Steamship Co. .... 1,497 00 Pacific Steel Barge Co 9,502 8S Progresso Steamship Co 480 13 International Steamboat Co 409 R3 Boston Towboat Co 1,254 43 Total $2,809,225 10 In addition to this, the following extra subsidies would have been earned: International Naviga tion. Co. under American flag $1,220,612 20 Under British and Bel gian flags 480,763 64-$l,707.2S0 84 Oceanic Steamship Co 117,300 37 Pacific Coast Steamship Co. and Oregon Improvement Co. 20,066 76 Atlantic & Caribbean Steamship Co. 04,04? 00 Pacific Mall Steamship Co 05 281 38 C. H. Mallory & Co 2,262 33 Total $2,036,024 74 This makes a total of nearly $5.000,0qp. against about $750,000 paid by Great Brit ain for like purposes. An Interview ap peared In the morning papers, a few days ago, In which the president of tho Inter national Navigation Company was made to say that the mall contracts which now give the International Navigation Com pany in the neighborhood of $1,000,000 per annum do not compensate for the extra expense Involved In sailing under the American flag. Such statements may de ceive the average member of congress, but cannot deceive merchants who are familiar with the subject We are in formed that the subsidy which would be earned by the International Navigation Company under the proposed bill would In Itself amount yearly to more than the gross earnings that can be made by either of the largest steamship companies now employed In the trade between England and America from tho earnings of their regular business. It Is an open secret at Washington that a combination has been formed between the Hanna-Payne subsidy and the Nicara gua canal. Senator Hanna had agreed to await the report of the Isthmian canal commission, and the president hod ac cordingly recommended delay on the canal bill for that purpose, but there has been a sudden change In both quarters. Mr. Hanna has put his name to the report for Immediate action on the canal bill, and he thinks that he has secured a sufficient number of votes for the shipping subsidy bill. It may be so, but it is not yet cer tain. The debate in the senate Is yet to take- place, and It Is scarcely credible that the bill should fall to be exposed In its true character as a brazen scheme for filling private pockets at the expense of the people. 0 r ' Rnakin at His Best. The noonday sun came slanting down the rocky slopes of Xo. Klccla, and their masses of entangled and tall foliage, whose autumnal tints were mixed with the wet verdure of a thousand evergreens, were penetrated with it as with rain. I cannot call it color it was conflagration. Purple and crimson and scarlet like the curtains of God's tabernacle, the re joicing trees sank into the valley in showers of light, every separate leaf quivering with buoy ant and burning life, each, as It turned to re flect or to transmit the sunbeam, first a torch and then an emerald. Far up into the re cesses of the valley, the green vistas arched like the hollows of mighty waves of some crystalline sea with the arbutus flowers dashed along their flanks for foam, and sliver flakes if orange spray tossed Into the air around .hem, breaking over the gray Walls of rock jito a thousand separate stars, fading and kindling alternately as the weak wind lifted and let them fall. Every glade of grass burned Ike the golden floor of heaves, opealag In sd len gleams as tbe foliage broke and etesed ibove it as sheet lightning opens ta a ejead it sunset: the motionless masses of dark reek dark, though flushed with scarlet Mohen cast ing their quiet ebadows across Its restless ra diance, the fountain underneath them filling Ms marble hollow with blue mist and fitful sound; and over all the hhiMUkMbous bars of amber and rose, the sacred Cleade that have no dark ness and only exist to Illumine, were seen In fathomless Intervals between the solemn and orbed repose ef the steae plaes passteg to lose themselves In the last, while bttadiag tester of the measureless Use where tbe Campagna melt ed Into the blaze of the sea. Tell me who is llkest this; Poussln or Turner? a A HOPELESS CANDIDATE. Can a Man- Who Talks XAUe This Ex pect to Be President? t New Tork Commercial Advertiser. Mr. Bryan was undar visible restraint while he remained in this city, out of con sideration, doubtless, for the feelings of those hard-money democrats like Edward M. Shepard who, are trying to convince themselves that he is not a totally unfit person to put at the head of the govern ment of the first republic In the world; but as soon as he left the city limits he gave hla tongue free rein, and the revela tion wa3 well calculated to startle all per sons of sound mind who have been en deavoring to take a favorable view of his mental and moral qualifications. H.s speeches in Jersey City and at various places In Connecticut show him to be not merely a free silverlte, but a cheap and rather silly charlatan, who persistently in sults the intelligence of bis audience by "talking down" to them. Same critic said to Disraeli once that a certain English politician had no taste. "Oh, yes, ha his," was the reply; "he has a great deal of. taste, but all of it 13 bad." Think of a man, who is displaying his own qualifica tions for the presidency, assuming thit such utterances as these will convince the people of his merits: I have seen Republicans going up and down the land, telling what God wants. If God knew them as well as I do he wouldn't dare to tell them what he wanted. I am satisfied that when God gets ready to reveal his will to the American people he will choose some one other than Mark Hanna to reveal It. Until God sends us angels from above to conduct monopolies, no monopoly wilt be safe. What we've seen of the men who run them makes us think that they came from below. Solomon has e. proverb: "A prudent man foreseeth the evil and hldeth himself, but the simple pass on and are punished." That is too long. I've redrawn. It so that it reads. "The wise man gets an Idea in his head, the foolish man gets It in the neck." There are three defenses of our policy ta the Philippines. They are these: Financial, or there's money In It; religious, or God's in It; political, or we're in It. It's philanthropy and 6 per cent philanthropy chloroforms the con queror's conscience, while 5 per cent picks1 the conquered's pocket. People ask me to drop free silver. It wouldn't break If I did. It's bigger than any man. I n-ver made a speech where It Is proper to allude to politics without speaking of silver. It is an insult to the Intelligence .of the American people to say that a man of this caliber Is a dangerous candidate for the presidency. Whatever following his vulgar and blasphemous utterances may secure for him In any part of the country, they are certain to unite against him the intelligence and character of all parts, and especially in the states of .he East and great Middle West, thus making his deTeat overwhelming. 6 Oom Paul Compared With Tweed. Thomas G. Shearman in New York Times. The following extracts are taken from published reports of proceedings in the Boer legislature, known as the raad: "July, 1889 His honor, Oom Paul, accepts a loan of $35,000 from the state funds at 2 per cent Interest." The current rate was then about 6 per cent "May 24, 1802. Resolved, That a dam be constructed on the president's farm, at a cost of K22,G00, at the expense- of the treasury. "The public works department reports that the road across the president's farm, estimated to cost $7500, had actually cost $25,000. Mr. Meyer stated that this road was of absolutely no use to any one but the owner of the farm." "June 15 Complaint made that of 12 tracts of land given by the government to a oertaln church. It had been deprived of four, which had been handed over to the president's church; and that two of these had been transferred by that church to the president himself." The raad resolved that the president was all right. "Aug. 2. Two years previously an official re port of a raad committee had stated that of $700,000 spent on the etreets of Pretoria, vouch ers for $110,000 were mlss'ng." The president stated that nothing was wrong; the raad was entirely satisfied, and refused to make any In vestigation. "Aug. 3. Government land near Johannes burg, having: been sold to certain private Indi viduals, at a nominal figure, many thousands of pounds below the market value, the presi dent -offered no other explanation than that "speculation, when fairly conducted, was Jus tifiable." Oom Paul Is reported by his own advo cates to be worth $25,000,000. Where did he get it? Hl3 son-in-law and secretary, Eloff, Is worth millions. He lives in a $250,000 house. How did he get It?- He was proved in a Boer court to have taken bribes, a3 were 20 more of Oom Paul's close henchmen, What was the authority, in 1870, for be lieving that William M. Tweed was a 'sordid old reprobate"? Not half as good as there Is today about Oom Pj.j1. a Rnskln on War. "Crown of Wild Olives," Lecture HI. When I tell you that war Is the founda tion of all the arts, I mean also that it is the foundation of all the high virtues and faculties of men. It Is very strange to me to discover this, and very dreadful but I saw it to be quite an undeniable fact ... I found, in brief, that all great na tions learnt their truth of word and strength of thought In war, that they were nourished In war and wasted by peace, taught by war and deceived by peace, trained by war and betrayed by peace; in a word, that they were horn In war and expired in peace. o Proof From "Holy "Writ." "The Lord hateth. a scold" is a line of Holy Writ which The Oresonlan might well profit by. Albany Herald. It may be doubted whether the Lord hates a scold so much as he bates the poor, malevolent igrioramus who attrib utes the coinage of his own dull brain to "Holy Writ" But this literary achieve ment Is about on a level with the intelli gence of tho professional pap-sucker. 3 In Proper Form, Chicago Tribune. The society editor who was acting tem porarily as news editor worked over in this style a dispatch pertaining to a bat tle: "General Walker announces the engage ment of Colonel Thompson with a con siderable force of the enemy yesterday aft ernoon. Colonel Thompson will be at homo within the enemy's lines until ax changed." I B Rarely Successful. Philadelphia Record. "I suppose you're a skillful watch maker?" "Yes, Indeed! Everybody who gets me to mend his watch is sure to come back again and again." o Unrequited. Chlcag? Post "He says he is wedded to art" "That reminds me of an old novel." "What's the title?" " Married, but Not Mated.' " o At Present Prices. Detroit Journal. Economy is the road to wealth. It is not passable to automobiles, as yet we understand NOT km COMMENT. What we seed those days is stosaga tanks for aunohtna. Buller Is not a Mttter. whatever essd may he said of Ma. It te extremely usancassory just aew for an BogflsbsMK ts xoctts "Lest Wo Forget" CasteUaae may have not atmto any mosey la seeutettoas but oM Mite are about as aacyoootvo as husk log the- Steele market Anyway, Buller etui sesjd hs regrste to Oom Paul If he can't mt ottmor hi Pre toria next Christmas. Be 1b goad at re gretting. St Paul Is obliges: to dtopeewe wMh her great oelebrattett this ysac Boaauao she can out no lee. Hot oscatval would thrive on a f rest. Wlmam Waldorf Aster aright prevo 'how thorough an JsgHshman. he fe by fighting for hie adeptod eoustry. He won't however. Bryan's liberties with heir writ may seem to him to be highly humorous, but they have not made any unfathomable impression on bis auditors. Now that Ageellto3 occupation as an envoy is gone, he can come over here and book Agulnaldo for a series of leotures on the art of retreat Chicago is so busy throwing bouquets at herself aver that drainage oaaal that she overlooks tbe cabbages sad things that are being heaved at her from St Louis. Those who are aMve today win see the beginning of a February ta a year divisi ble by 4 which has only 38 days. Few persons living have seen tma happen, and few now living will see It again, for It occurs only In the last year of a oentury. and not then If the number ef the century is divisible by m At the end of the next century in the year 3W there will be a leap year and 29 days la February, as usual, because 2000 is divisible by 4410. Through the act of an inscrutable Provi dence, the earth dees not snake Its revo lution around the sun in a certain num ber of days, and whoa 3CS days were al lowedfor a year, the year was 11 minutes and 14 seconds too long. This soon got things out of whack, as tbe overtime amounted to a day hi MS years. Finally, to put things to rights, it was arranged to add one day to February, the shortest month, every four years, and as thte over did the thing by three days ta 40 years, it was ordered by Pope Gregory teat this additional day be omitted on. an the cen tenary years except those which are mul tiples of 400. Thus ! was a leap year, and 2Q0 will be a leap year. This came so near putting things straight that the time unaccounted for does not amount to a day la 19, years, wWch makes no difference, as there win be a now date to reckon from by that time. It took a lot of calculation to figure out this arrange ment, which might all have been avoid ed if Pope Gregory had Juat thought to order that the earth complete its journey round the sun In an equal number of days, instead of requiring odd minutes and sec onds to do it ta. While those now living are favored by seeing the 3h day omitted from February ta a year the uumber of whksh is divisible by 4, which adds one day to their lives, those who ttve tm the end of the next century will be more highly favored by seotag the aenteoary year a leap year. This wttl be someihtag for them to remember, but thoy wl have the same old trouble about when the eea- tury ends. m Memorial Service. The Academy. This is what I saw ta St Paul's eathe dral on Tuesday afternoon, at the me morial service for those who have fallen in the war: The fog hung over the city. The ehureh yard was thronged. The steps of the ca thedral were hidden by a dense, black mass, moving up, up. I joined them and slowly was carried In. Then what did I see? Choir, band, preacher, silent seated congregation? No' I saw only the great dim north aisle, stretching before me like some vast avenue. The tlrae-stained pil lars streamed upward Into dimness the fog and the gathering darkness mingled, illumined here and there by a bare jet of flaring gas. To the left hung tbe tattered colors of some one who fell in the Crimea, and through the fog loomed their mute monuments. In the aisle, the public, all in black, were wedged together, motion less, absorbed, fading beyond into the fog. All stood silent, listening. I had expected to hear Chopin's 'Marebe Fu nebre," but it so happened that when I entered, the cathedral echoed to the sad melody of a simple hymn that carried baek and touched old chords. "Brief life is here our portion" sang the choir, and as the verses slowly followed one another rising mysteriously from lips we could not see, one by one citizens took up the refrain, each singing it quietly to himself. each with his own thoughts, for we were mourners. The effect was almost unbear able, and many stole away. As I went down tbe steps two soldiers were passing by. Bach carried an outfit parcel. Their brown puttee-swathed legs peeped from beneath their long cloaks, and lower gleamed their spurs. So It was. There, in the cathedral. Grief and the past; here, in the street, grit and future the ways of war. iii' Hlnda Arrogance. Chambers's Journal. I was having my lesson in Hindustani from my high-caste munshl, whom I em ployed on first arriving in India, who di lated with great bitterness on the arro gance of Europeans. Presently, wishing to give some orders to my low-easte sweeper about my dogs, I asked the munshl to interpret for me, and, among other fhina-fl. to hand the sweeoer two rupees, and to give ray directions as to certain purchases. Instead of placing the money in the man's hand, the munshl threw it on the ground, and the sweeper milip cnntantMllv zatharad tin th eo BS. saluted respectfully, and withdrew. I asked the munsnl now it was tnat he, who resented tbe arrogance of Europeans so mueh, was so insulting hi his behavior to tbe poor sweeper; and he explained that the latter quite understood their re spective positions, and did not expeet a high-caste man to run any risk ef touch ing him. well knowing the penalty of fine and troublesome purification which would he thereby entailed. The Celonlzisgr Powers. Chicago Record. Within the last 18 yearn 3,831,329 square miles have been added to the colonial em pires of the great cokmtetng powers. The total, not Including Kgypt nor the Soudan, k as follows- Great Britain, 3,987,313; France, 2,96,538; Germany, 1.MMTO; Rus sia, 306,381; United States, MMM; Nether lands, 123,877, Portugal, 96,906; Spate, 79, 911. a A Bad Field. Phfladetphta Press. Asket Back home again, oh? What was the matter, too healthy for you out there? Doctor Exactly. There was ossy oae case of sickness ta the town the whole time I was there. Asket And I suppose some other dbaier had that? Doctor No, I had it It was bomeeiek-p&aa.