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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2.
CLOUDS OX THE HORIZON.
Every patriot who understands the
direful effects bound up in the triumph
of sllverism in the United States must
regret the difficulties that seem to be
gathering in the way of President Mc
Kinley, not as the president, but as the
head of the republican party, and the
generally conceded nominee of his party
for the ensuing presidential term.
Everything that sets the republican
organization back and helps Bryan on
Is, in greater or less degree, calamitous.
Yet everything must be looked squarely
In the face. The poorest adviser is he
who underestimates difficulties and
makes the outlook appear more favor
able than it really is. It is the part of
wisdom, therefore, to examine the
ground and point out the dangers. It Is
vain to expect Bryanites to vote for
McKinley in 1HH. Some of them would
hae done so if the Tagal insurrection
had continued at its height; but it is
practically at an end. Everybody who
is not a Arm devotee of Bryanism was
torn loose from Bryan in 186, by the
supreme crisis at issue In that campaign-.
Men who voted for Bryan in
im will vote for him in MM. The trou
pe is that the republicans stand in
aanger of losing many who rallied to
the defense of the threatened gold
standard in UK. The several sources
of danger in this respect are worth con
sld ring
First The South African war will
cost Mr. McKinley a great many votgs.
It is unfortunate this te so, both for its
aid to Bryanism and for the simple
truth that McKinley is in no way re
sponsible for it. But the fact remains.
and cannot he blinked. As to the out-
ume of the war, Great Britain may be
txpected to win. As to the merits of
the controversy, much can be said on
l-oth sides, more, perhaps, on the Brit
Ibh side. As to the conduct of opera
tions, in skill and in bravery, if there
is any advantage, it rests with the
BofrB. All this has no legitimate bear
ing on political issues in this country,
1 ut the antipathy to England that per
ads Ireland and the Continent and
Americans of Irish and Continental an
cestry cannot be ignored. "We have not
ir t c rf ered in South Africa on behalf of
England, and Englishmen will bear us
no grudge. "We have not Interfered In
South Africa on behalf of the Boers,
and oery Boer sympathizer is incensed
k ith the administration at the omls
Ei'm This will swell Bryan's vote.
Second Republican disaffection may
be read in the tariff policies of the ad
ministration. Reciprocity treaties with
Prance and the Argentine, and Mr. Mc-'
Kmiej s persistent advocacy of free
trade -lth Puerto Rico, seem certain to
ff ii ti some of the sturdiest supporters
t n publican policies in the past. It is
true that woolgrowers and fruitgrowers
hae nothing to expect from Bryan's
I any in the way of protection; but
SutAanceB of this sort are just what
destroy the loyalty mixed with self-interest
that has held large numbers to
the republican party hitherto. Not
r man who has been a republican
i.f cause he trusted blindly the party's
I ledge to "protect American labor" will
t e driven from, the party by discovery
that the most voted advocate this gen
eration has given to the cause of pro-
i non is now able to write his mes
f. aM s to congress without any reference
1 1 he subject, and offers to throw down
l arrurs to French fruits, Puerto Rican
t-ugar and tobacco, Argentine wool and
tu'E Not all men thus disillusioned
and betrayed will be driven from the
ari They will simply be set free to
? tp party affiliations from other con
sid( rations. Some will go to Bryan.
Third It will not be possible in 1900
t arouse the energetic support given
at the state elections la 188S to two
things to which the present administra
tion is committed, namely, the gold
standard and retention of the Phllip
p n-s Congress will pass a gold-standard
.aw. It will undoubtedly have one
tendency to gather discussion and con
centrate an Issue about the money
-andard, but It will also afford many
dn ocrats who voted for McKinley in
s a chance to say: "The gold stand
ard is settled, and silver is dead; I will
r le against McKinley this time." And
i. regards the Philippines, many who
vsented proposals that we should sur
rrder to armed Tagals will find their
arjrer against anti-imperialism subside
hen the question is no longer one In-
. mg national dishonor, but only one
f expediency.
These are not very comfortable re
fections for the man in the "White
House Perhaps they afford one reason
M Webster Davis is hurrying to Kru
r s camp. A peaceful settlement of
'he Transvaal controversy would not
n!v adiance Mr. McKinley s ambition
' be accounted a great statesman, but
would also enable him to hold a good
i; any votes next November which he
v . otherwise lose.
The attempts to purge Honolulu of
tr plague by lire appear to have been
rm r determined than prudent, since
the resulted in a conflagration that
f. nt 7000 Chinese homeless into the
p'reets and was only extinguished by
the most heroic efforts. But for the
f e. t that it is tatnooetWe to clean up
.r5 exterminate the germs of this filth
c 'pease from Chinese quarters in any
city by ordinary processes, the appUca-
lion of the torch in thia instance would
hardly be considered justifiable. Un
der the circumstances, citizens of Hono
lulu may be congratulated that but
twelve blocks were swept clear of
buildings by the fire, while at the same
tune they are fortunate in the cer
tainty that even the rats in the Infected
district lately covered by the buildings
consumed were "stamped out."
THK
provocation of
crime:.
POLITICAI
The Kentucky assembly is correctly
described as having exercised Its con
stitutional right in deciding to unseat
Governor Taylor; nevertheless, it exer
cised this constitutional right unjustly.
Under the Goebel election law the gen
eral assembly elects a board of three
eleotion commissioners, a majority of
whom may legally act. This board was
composed of democrats; it was clothed
with the power to appoint three elec
tion commissioners in each county, and
to remove them at will. These county
boards, composed of party workers, are
charged with the duty of appointing in
each election precinct two judges, one
clerk and one sheriff, and two of these
officers shall be of "one political party"
and two of the other, but the selection
of the judges of one political party is
committed to the representatives bf the
other. The county commissioners, or a
majority of them, canvass the returns
from the precincts and issue certificates
of election.
The state board canvasses these cer
tificates and issues its certificates to the
officers it finds elected, but under the
constitution the general assembly must
decide In contests concerning the elec
tion of governor or lieutenant-governor.
Under the law the party in power in
the general assembly is given every
advantage, for it selects all election
commissioners from its own ranks, se
lects such judges as it chooses to repre
sent the other party, and it controls the
final decision. But in spite of all these
advantages enjoyed by the democrats,
the certificates of the county boards
showed that the candidate of the re
publican party was elected governor,
and the state board awarded him the
office. The republicans hold that Tay
lor, In spite of the complete democratic
control of the electoral machinery, was
found by the democratic state board to
be elected; that he holds the office le
gally and rightfully; and declare that
the decision of the assembly against
him is a deliberate act of fraud.
This was the situation of affairs and
the mood of public feeling just before
Goebel was shot. A condition not
nearly so outrageous came near caus
ing an outbreak of armed violence
more than twenty years ago, in conse
quence of a quarrel over the election of
governor by the so-called "Garcelon"
legislature of Maine. Moderate coun
sels and the presence and firmness of
General Joshua B. Chamberlain pre
vailed over the counsels of political pas
sion, and an attempt at revolution was
strangled in its birth. But Kentucky
is not Maine, and whether Goebel 'lives
or dies there will be political and per
sonal reprisals for many years to come.
It would have been far wiser to sub
mit peacefully to Goebel's "constitu
tional" act of usurpation than to have
resorted to assassination, for the mur
der of Goebel will not restore Governor
Taylor to his rights, and is nothing but
an act of passionate political vlndlc
tlveness. But such a condition of af
fairs is but the natural outcome of po
litical crimes among a hot-blooded peo
ple, who in many sections of the state
are habitually lawless.
Political and family feuds have for
years desolated many of the mountain
counties of East Kentucky. Tom Bu
ford, of the famous Buford family,
some twenty years ago shot the judge
of the court dead because he decided
a civil suit against him. In some coun
ties it is not easy to hold a peaceful
term of court; it is almost impossible
to secure a jury, or elect a sheriff that
does not belong to one side or the other
of a family feud. In a state of such
mixed composition, armed resistance to
law is always to be feared. A land of
moonshine whisky and illiterate moun
taineers handy with the gun is a land
always fertile in lynch law, blood feuds
and general social turbulence. For this
reason William Goebel, an intelligent
man of education and ability, knew
that he was playing with fire when he
deliberately contrived a machine to
steal the governorship of Kentucky,
and if he has exploded a powder maga
zine and perished because he is "hoist
by his own petard," his fate ought to
be a warning to equally bold, bad men
who stake their lives on their success
in playing the game of politics with
loaded dice. Lawless people, when they
find out that they have been robbed
through marked cards or loaded dice,
are dangerously likely to kill the card
sharp.
THE DOCUMENT FROM TARIAC.
Senator Pettigrew, the wild man from
South Dakota, was properly checked in
his purpose of having a lot of Aguln
aldo stuff read in the senate. It was a
long document, produced by Agulnaldo
at Tarlac, some time before the Ameri
can troops arrived at that temporary
"capital" of his "republic" The mani
festo has the rhetorical flourish of the
style of the semi-civilized man, of
warm imagination and bombastic
speech. It is a document, therefore,
sure to be admired by the Pettigrew
mind. Take this apostrophe for a sam
ple: Oht beloved land of the Philippines! Thy
riches and thy beauty are the cause that such
overwhelming misfortune oppresses thy chil
dren Thou hast aroused the ambition of the
imperialists and expansionists of North Amer
ica, who have burled their talons In thy en
trails. Beloved mother, dearest mother, here
we stand to defend thy liberty to the death!
"We desire not war, on the contrary, we wish
for peace, but an honorable peace, which does
not drive the color to thy cheek nor cover thy
forehead with the blush of ehame. And we
ewear and promise thee, that America, with
her riches and power, can perhaps annihilate
us, bringing death unto us all, but make us
slaves ne er!
But Agulnaldo didn't bother much
about "defense of liberty to the death,"
of which he talked so stoutly. He
cleared out, no only from Tarlac, but
from every other place where the
Americans appeared, without making
any fight at all. He is -a ve.ry cheap
rhetorical poltroon, and a lying one be
sides: for among other things in his
manifesto he uttered this:
The admiral received me in his saloon, and
after the first exchange of courtesies, I asked
him whether all the telegrams which he had
seat to ilr. Pratt, the consul at Singapore, in
regard to me were authentic; he answered me in
the affirmative, and added that the United
States had come to the Philippines to protect
the natives and to liberate them from the yoke
of Spain. He said, besides, that America was
rieh in land and money, and had no need of
eotoBiea, finally assuring me that there would
not be any doubt with regard to the recogni
tion of the Philippine Independence on the part
of the United States.
whether I could arouse the people against the
Spaniards and effect a quick campaign. I
answered him that the events would show what
could be done, etc
Dewey's absolute denial of this state
ment was furnished in a letter that ap
peared in yesterday's telegraphic re
ports. Senator Lodge's protest against
the reading in the senate of Aguinaldo's
"inventions and lies" was altogether
proper. But when Senator Sewell de
clared Pettigrew's conduct in- this busi
ness that of a traitor, he ought to have
gone further and moved the immediate
expulsion of the traitor from the sen
ate. Agulnaldo writes that Dewey "as
sured him there would not be any
doubt with regard to recognition of
Philippine independence on the part of
the United States." Dewey writes: "I
never promised, directly or Indirectly,
independence to the Philippines.
Agulnaldo never alluded to the word
'independence' in any conversation with
me or my officers." Pettigrew prefers
to believe Agulnaldo, which is natural;
for the Agulnaldan spirit is much alive
in him, as in some other big-mouthed
"antis."
EXTEND THE JETTY.
According to Washington advices, a
considerable sum of money is available
for river and harbor work in this vi
cinity at the present time. The Colum
bia river below Tongue point has avail
able $111,550, the Columbia and Wil
lamette below Portland $140,924, while
$220,360 can be used on the river at
Three-Mlle rapids and In the construc
tion of a boat railway. Unfortunately,
the project for which there is the great
est immediate need of a liberal appro
priation is not mentioned. A forty-foot
channel is needed at the mouth of the
Columbia, and no time should be lost in
securing It. When the jetty, which has
already done such effective work at the
mouth of the Columbia, was finished,
the total cost proved to be over $1,500,
000 less than the original estimate. In
effect this left over $1,500,000 to which
the mouth of the Columbia was enti
tled, but as the jetty when completed
gave such satisfactory results that fur
ther work at the time seemed unneces
sary, the money which would have
been forthcoming had it been needed
remained in the treasury.
The increasing commerce of the river
and the larger class of vessels coming
here call for a deeper channel at the
mouth of the river than was thought
necessary when the old jetty was built.
Accordingly, "no time should be lost in
securing enough money to continue the
jetty to a point where the waters of
the big river will be so confined as to
scour out a forty-foot channel at low
water. The fact that the old jetty was
built at a cost fully 50 per cent under
the estimate shows that better results
can be secured for the money used at
this point than at any other point
where the government has made sim
ilar improvements. Every dollar in
vested in improving the river from its
jnouth to the headwaters of the Colum
bia, proper, and of all its numerous
tributaries, will return handsome divi
dends on the Investment. The water
ways of the country are the great regu
lators of freight charges, and are the
highways on which products of the
farm, forest and field can reach the
markets at the smallest possible cost.
Mention was made a few days ago of
the traffic on the Long Tom river, a
small stream tributary to the Upper
Willamette. The government spent a
few hundred dollars on this stream last
fall and summer, and by removing a
few snags and straightening out some
of the bends, placed the river in such a
condition that steamers went up as far
as Monroe and brought out several
hundred tons of wheat, flour and other
produce. Not only on the Long Tom,
but on the Yamhill, Lewis, Lake, Clats
kanle, and a number of other small
rivers in this vicinity, is government
aid of direct benefit to the farmers
along these streams. In many cases
all of the profits of production would be
lost in getting the products of the farm
to market, were it not for these natural
highways, which nearly always return
handsome dividends for the money
spent in improvements. The good work
of the government at the mouth of the
Columbia within the past dbzen years
has resulted in reducing charter rates
fully $1 50 per ton-.
Until the entrance of the river was
deepened, there was a differential of
$2 50 per ton between Portland and
San Francisco, and every year a great
many thousand tons of wheat was sent
to the Bay city from Portland to be
loaded on ships and thence sent to Eu
rope. Now the two ports are on prac
tically the same basis, the only differ
ence being that of distance and a sur
plus of cargo tonnage at San Francisco.
Government work has thus added $1 50
per ton to all of the products exported
by sea from Oregon. The work done
on the Long Tom and similar streams
has added proportionately to the value
of the products raised along these
streams, and it is safe to say that
the direct benefits arising from appro
priations for the improvement of in
ternal waterways are greater than can
be shown in any other branch of gov
ernment expenditure. No corporation
can ever secure an exclusive franchise
for the operation of steamers on a
river, and if a navigable stream is kept
in proper shape there will always be
enough competition among boatmen to
enable the farmer to get his freight
to market at the lowest possible cost,
thus insuring him the greatest possi
ble profit on his labor.
THE B1AJNDERS OF THE BOERS.
The British blunders in the opening
of the Transvaal campaign were so
notable that public attention has been
withdrawn from the blunders of the
Boers, who neglected to avail them
selves of the advantage given them by
Kruger's ultimatum as promptly on the
Orange river as they did In Natal. Why
the Boers did not instantly descend
upon Orange River station and capture
the great railroad bridge at Hopetown
and capture De Aar Junction is inex
plicable. The Hopetown bridge over
the Orange river the 1st of November
and as late as the 10th of that .month
was held by 500 men of the Lancashire
regiment, while De Aar Junction, with
$5,000,000 worth of provisions, had a
garrison of less than 2000 men, with
only one piece of serviceable artillery.
It would have been very easy work for
the Boers to cut off De Aar or Orange
River station, as they did at Colesberg.
but they missed the opportunity, and
the British line of communication by
rail from Cape Town to De Aar and on
to Orange river is practically secure.
The original scheme for invading the
republic was as follows: Sir George
White, with 16,000 British regulars, ex
clusive of the Natal colonial force, was
H then asm mlto hold Natal; Mafekliig ana Kiraher-
ley were considered more or less im
pregnable, and so the army corps, with
its cavalry, was to advance on the
Free State in three divisions, from Cape
Town, Port Elizabeth and East London.
From each of these ports there is a
railway line running In a northerly di
rection, and the three converge upon
Naauwpoort,some sixty-odd miles from
Norval's Pont, where the railway
crosses the Orange river into the Free
State. Here, at Naauwpoort Junction,
the three divisions were to unite and
advance on Bloemfpntein, passing
through Colesberg and crossing the
river at Norval's Pont. This movement
would have drawn off the Free State
Boers from Natal and Klmberley. The
relief of Ladysmlth and Klmberley
would thus have been accomplished;
the fall of Bloemfonteln would have
meant the surrender of the Free State,
and General Buller would then have
been free to march on Pretoria by
way of Kroonstadt and Vlljoen's Drift,
keeping the railway with him all the
way. It is clear that if the Boers had
not blundered as badly as the British
they would have captured Hopetown
bridge and De Aar Junction, with its
enormous supplies.
While occupied largely with the mili
tary situation and plans for improving
it, Lord Roberts is devoting much at
tention to the work of fostering the loy
alty of the British subjects in Cape
Colony. Finding In the British authori
ties a disposition to treat the rebel
lious Boers of the Colony with the full
rigor warranted by military law, he
has taken measures to mitigate this
rigor by the most liberal construction
of existing laws wherever it is prudent
to display such generosity. He has
also issued the most stringent regula
tions for the guidance of officers In
command of expeditions marching
through disaffected territory, to the end
that unnecessary and avoidable hard
ship may not be inflicted upon the non
resistant class. All supplies for the
army are to be paid for in cash; only
in the most extreme cases, and when
the Boers absolutely refuse to furnish
food and forage, are supplies to be
seized by main force, and even then
the farmers are to be credited with the
supplies so seized, with a view to future
payment by the imperial government.
This policy of the commander-in-chief
is formed with the purpose of removing
to the greatest possible extent the re
sentment of the Boers when the British
empire in Soiith Africa Includes within
its limits the South African republics.
The effort commends Itself not only for
its far-sightedness, but for Its human
ity. It is well to remember that after
peace is conquered the problem of gov
erning the people lately in arms in their
own and the nation's Interest is yet to
be solved, and he is a wise military
commander who takes this fact into
consideration to the full extent that
military necessity permits during the
season of actual warfare that precedes
victory.
Bryan lamented in his Boston speech
Tuesday night that the- republican
party had changed its principles since
the days of Lincoln. What the boy
statesman meant to say was that Mc
Kinley is more lenient with copper
heads than Lincoln was. In civil war
times the nation was troubled by a
number of traitors, of whom one "Val
landigham, of the same political faith
as Bryan, was the most conspicuous.
When "Vallandigham became too noisy,
he was sent, by Lincoln's order, Into
the Confederate lines, where he be
longed. In answer to the denuncia
tions of Governor Seymour, of New
York, and others, that the punishment
of Vallandigham was "dishonorable
despotism," Lincoln wrote this noble
sentiment, which applies to the Philip
pines today with the same force that it
applied to the South thirty-seven years
ago:
Long experience has shown that armies can
not be maintained unless desertion shaU be
punished by the severe penalty of death. The
case requires, and the law and the constitution
sanction this punishment. Must I shoot a simple-minded
soldier who deserts, while I must
not touch a hair of the wily agitator who In
duces him to desert? This Is none the less in
jurious when effected by getting ?. father, or
brother, or friends Into a public meeting, and
there working upon his feelings till he la per
suaded to write the soldier boy that he Is fight
ing in a bad cause for a wicked administration
of a contemptible government, too weak to ar
rest and punish him If he shall desert. I thfnk
that, In such a case, to eilence the agitator and
save the boy Is not only constitutional, but
withal a great mercy.
Bryan, Hoar and Bacon are commit
ting the same offense today that Val
landigham had committed when Gen
eral Burnslde arrested him.
It is officially announced that, at the
coming session of the Canadian parlia
ment, 'the government will propose the
expenditure of several million dollars in
deepening the canals to a depth of
eighteen feet and making other im
provements in the navigation of the
provinces. The object Is to hold the
enormous grain trade of the Great
Lakes, and to pass it down and out
through the St. Lawrence river and
gulf Instead of letting it go through the
United States. Most of the grain is
grown on the American side of the line,
and would naturally go to market over
United States soil, if the needed facili
ties were provided. Commerce, how
ever, being a moBt unpatriotic element,
will go where profitable and easy ways
are made for it, regardless of senti
ment This is a lesson which our na
tion must learn, and it cannot put itself
under tutelage in this line too quickly
for its own good.
Some tangible evidence that opposi
tion to the refunding scheme has spe
cial private purposes behind it has
hitherto been lacking. This is now sup
plied by the labored effort of the United
States Investor to show that special
private Interests are behind its advo
cacy. "Stop, thief!" is a useful cry
when It discovers the pickpocket.
WATS OF OUR POLITICIANS.
Sound Protest Against Drawing on
the Affairs of Other Countries.
Kansas City Star, Ind.
In the midst of the hurrah at the close
of the Spanish war the prediction was
made that men would walk up and down
the land denouncing 'the acquisition of the
Philippines as a crime. Nine men out of
ten laughed at this prophecy as ridicu
lous, but it really came to pass, In tbe
course of tbe democratic search for Is
sues. The opposition to expansion failed
to prove popular and has tended to make
democratic success appear more hopeless
than ever. Meantime the Boer war came
along and enterprising democrats at once
began to utilize It as an issue.
It is this condition which Captain Ma
han refers to in advising his countrymen
to avoid controversies over the Boer war,
(and then takes occasion, to. say that in
his opinion, the British are in the right.
"Don't make sweeping statements," says
the naval strategist, "which draw retalia
tions in kind, because it won't do to draw
American party lines on the affairs of
other countries. Any other course than
the one adopted," continues the sage
strategist, "would have been Incompatible
with the honor of Great Britain." Thus
he illustrates. In his own words, how im
possible it is to avoid disputing about
the Boer war when there la organized
effort to boom the controversy.
Indeed, the organized effort has suc
ceeded in starting -the ball rolling, and
It really shows some promise of causing
a division in America resembling the
definition of political lines in regard to
France preceding the war of 1812. If the
war in South Africa drags along there
will be a. strong effort to insert in the
democratic platform a plank demanding.
at least, the friendly efforts of the United
States in favor of the Boers.' If Mc
Kinley fears that the democrats can
make a strong point on this plank those
who know his character have reason to
believe that he will communicate to
Great Britain a proposal to end the
war -with arbitration. On the other hand,
if the Boers are beaten the new issue be
ing nourished by the democratic politic
ians will come to naught.
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16 TO 1 CAN'T WIN.
Bryan Ursred to Drop Silver for Antl
Iniperlnliszu. Baltimore Sun, dem.
One fundamental error Mr. Bryan seems
unfortunately to have fallen into. He
seems to think in fact, he does not hesi
tate to say that in 1896 the only persons
In favor of the gold standard in the United
States were the comparative handful Who
voted the Palmer and Buckner ticket.
All the rest of the people he claims to have
been in favor of bimetalbsm or the double
standard. "In 1896," he said, "6,500,000
voters voted for independent bimetallism
at the ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for
the aid of anybody, and 7,000,000 voted for
a ticket pledged to International bimetal
Ism; 13,500,000 voted for tbe double stand
ard as against the gold standard, and only
132,000 supported the ouly ticket that ever
stood for a gold standard in the United
States." Nothing could be more mis
leading or Illusory than such a deduction
from the figures of the last election, and
we regret to find Mr. Bryan the victim of
such an extraordinary piece of self-delusion.
Mr. Bryan is utterly mistaken when he
measures the entire strength of the gold
I or sound-money vote by the vote cast for
Palmer and Buckner. Many more sound-
money democrats voted for McKinley,
waiving for the occasion their rooted op
position to republicanism In order to defeat
the candidate of what Mr. Bryan now calls
"independent blmetalism." This is shown
conclusively by the change in the popular
and electoral vote in the states of Cali
fornia, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Ken
tucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York,
West Virginia all states which voted for
Cleveland in 1S92 and for McKinley in 1S95.
It would be as idle to say that all the
democrats who voted for McKinley In 1S96
appro ved or swallowed the St. Louis plat
form in its entirety as to claim that they
were all of them "International bimetal
ists," only differing from, those democrats
who voted for Bryan In that the latter fa
vored "independent blmetalism" without
waiting for the aid of anybody, while the
former were equally in favor of blmetal
ism, provided it could have the support of
an International agreement. Mr. Bryan's
notion that in 1896 there were only 132,000
persons in the United States who favored
a single standard, and that the gold stand
ard, while there were 13,500,000 who be
lieved in and voted for a double standard
is, to put it mildly, the most extraordinary
delusion of which we ever knew a man of
Mr. - Bryan's undoubted cleverness to be
the victim.
The Chicago platform undoubtedly de
clared ostensibly in favor of blmetalism,
while It really meant. If it meant anything,
ellver monometalism, which was the only
possible result of the free coinage of sil
ver at the ratio of 1'6 to 1. The republi
can or St Louis platform made a great
affectation of a desire to promote the
cause of international blmetalism, prob
ably with a full consciousness on the part
of its astute framers that "International
blmetalism" was a mere wlll-o'-the-wisp,
a matter of moonshine, as the commission
which Mr. McKinley sent to Europe to
sound foreign governments upon the sub
ject speedily found out Since then we
have heard nothing more of "International
blmetalism," and the president and con
gress elected by the party of 7,000,000 inter
national blmetalists are about to put upon
the statute-book a law declaring for a
single, and, that the gold standard of val
ue. What shameless Inconsistency, crle3
Mr. Bryan, thus to forget or Ignore the
declaration in their own platform In 1S96!
Simple Mr. Bryan, one Is rather tempted
to exclaim, to suppose that 13,500,000, or
7,000,000, or 6,500,000 of Americans ever be
lieved In the possibility of a double stand
ard of value as one would sayr two yard
sticks of unequal length, or two peck
measures of unequal capacity, to buy and
sell by at the same time in the same mar
ket! Mr. Bryan's speech only makes it all
the plainer that the contest in 1900 will not
be like to the contest in 1896, in
that the issues will be different. Not
even Mr. Bryan's eloquence can arouse
popular interest again in tho question of
free silver coinaffe. much less in the old
threadbare debate over blmetalism and.
monometalism. It will not be the battle
of the standards or if it should be the
democracy will be found fighting not un
der the banner of tho silver barons or the
silver cranks, but under the flag of the
constitution, which stands for "equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none," and for the cause of human free
dom and the right of self-government
throughout the world In Asia, Africa and
the remotest islands of the sea, as well
as in republican America. Under that
glorious banner the democracy may yet
win, but not under the flag of a school of
political enthusiasts, Inscribed "16 to 1,
if we die for it," or words to that effect.
As Mr. Bryan remarked in his speech at
Music hall, free silver coinage has been
dead and burled a good many times, but
it still keep3 bobbing up. He might well
have added, however, that this year the
silver specter should stand aside and. give
room to the ghost of Caesar.
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Carlyle on Tamerlane.
PORTLAND, Feb. 1. (To the Editor.)
In reading the Interesting article In this
morning's Oregonian, on the tomb of
Tamerlane, I was reminded of the men
tion of the great warrior in one of Car
lyle's essays, which may be deemed worth
reprinting. Speaking of the uncertainty in
estimating present things and men, and
the fact that the wisest for the most part
judge like the simplest, and expect that
what strongly affects our own generation
will stronerly affect those to follow, he
says:
"When Tamerlane had finished building his
pyramid of seventy thousand human skulls,
and was seen standing at the gate of Damas
cus, glittering In ateel, with hl battle-ax on
his shoulder, till hla fierce hoots filed out to
new victories and new carnage, the pale on
looker might have fancied that nature was in
her death throes, for havoc and despair had
taken possession of the earth, the sun of man
hood eeemed" setting In seas of blood. Tet it
might be that on that very gala day of Tamer
lang a little boy was playing ninepins on the
streets of Metz. whose history was more Im
portant to men than that of twenty Tamerlanes.
The Tartar Kahn. with his shaggy demons of
tho wilderness, passed away like a whirlwind,
to be forgotten forever; and that German ar
tisan has wrought a benefit which Is yet im
measurably tpandlng Itself and will continueto
expand Itself through all countries and all
times. "What are the conquests and expeditions
of the whole corporation of captains from
Walter the penniless to Napoleon Bonaparte
comparedjw41lL.thxUYa'Dle types of Johanne's
iSat? V
ANTTQPAKLAH,
THE OREGONIAN'S ANNDAU
A Great State.
Wilmington (Del.) News.
The synopsis of the address by Dr.
Joseph S. Walton, printed in the Morn
ing News yesterday, gave a brief recital
of the settlement of Oregon, one of the
great states In the far West A recent
number of The Portland (Or.) Oregonian,
an edition of CO pages, received a few days
ago, gives a careful review of the history
of that state, and presents some figures
as showing the wonderful development
of that commonwealth, admitted to the
sisterhood of states in 1SS8.
The population of Oregon, is now esti
mated at 425.000, while Portland aloae is
fast reaching a population of 100,000. Tho
area of the state is 96,000 square miles,
being the sixth In that reapeet; three ter
ritories are larger. There Is thus much
room for .expansion, and in time the state
will become a powerful empire In Itself.
According to The Oregonian, the business
of the state last year reached propor
tions of an enormous value. Some of the
figures given are: Farms, ranges, dairies
and orchards, $45,550,737; lumber, $6,223,
250; manufactured products, $56,100,600;
yield of gold. $3,286,000; silver, $198,140;
coal $264,163; fisheries, $2,443,155; which is a
pretty fair showing for a state that has
been built up hi a wilderness, and which
still has many thousands of square miles
yet to conquer.
The Oregonian says that the only un
satisfactory condition is the slow growth
of manufacturing Industries, the result
of sending raw material Bast to be made
up and shipped back to the consumers.
In due time that mistake will be reme
died, just as It Is being remedied in the
South. It took the people of the-South a
long time to discover that it would pay to
make up their cotton into goods on the
spot, and to convert its iron Into pigs and
commercial Iron and steel. But they have
learned that trick, and the saving of
freight on the raw material is an impor
tant factor in tho price of goods put upon
the market.
Oregon did very well last year In the
matter of manufactured goods, yet It can
do even better and it will In due time.
The Oregonian is one of the best papers
on the Pacific coast, and its special edi
tion of 60 pages Indicates that the state
Is not lacking In enterprising newspaper
makers. The Oregonian Is doing much for
the state, and Portland has occasion to
be proud of Its metropolitan newspaper.
"Queen of the West."
Jefferson City (Mo.) Journal.
Oregon Is destined to be the "quean of
the "West," as Is plainly evidenced by the
energy and enthusiasm displayed by her
leading newspaper, The Oregonian, pub
lished at Portland. A copy of its annual
number has reached the Journal office.
It Is a splendid piece of work, showing a
high degree of skill mechanically and edi
torially, containing 60 pages, including a
beautifully illustrated supplement, seven
columns In width, and showing the ad
vantages offered by Oregon In an Interest
ing manner. The Oregonian Is sound po
litically, and predicts great things for Us
state In the 'future, the last year seeing
it more prosperous than ever before.
Highly Creditable.
Saginaw (Mich.) Courier-Herald.
The Portland Oregonian celebrated the
advent of the last year In the 19th century
by issuing an edition, setting forth the
wonderful resources of Portland and its
surroundings. One feature of the edition
is over 500 illustrations of vlew3 In and
about Portland, all printed on the finest
quality of enameled book paper, the views
being half-tone and very handsomely
grouped. The edition is highly creditable
to The Oregonian, and a valuable presen
tation of the marvelous resources of that
highly favored region, of which The Ore
gonian Is an able and enterprising rep
resentative. A Mammoth Issue,
Galveston (Texas) News.
The News acknowledges receipt of a
copy of the special annual edition of The
Portland Oregonian. This Is a mammoth
Issue, containing 36 pages full of Interest
ing matter on the growth and prosperity
of the state of Oregon. Besides the paper
proper, there is a handsome supplement,
got up In pamphlet form, and containing
over 500 Illustrations, all printed on the
finest quality of enameled book paper.
These views embrace all the noted scenic
attractions of Oregon, and they cover
every Important Industry of the Pacific
Northwest.
A Prosperous Year.
Allentown 0?a.) leader.
The Portland Oregonian, always an ex
cellent newspaper, issued on New Tear's
day a special and handsomely Illustrated
number of 60 pages, containing a large
amount of statistical and historical mat
ter, proving very satisfactorily that the
year just closed was the most prosperous
in the history of Oregon.
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Without Retard to Expense.
Detroit Journal.
The king assembles the royal architects.
"Build me a temple," he commands, "so
costly that no smoker will ever be told
he might have owned it had he left to
bacco alone!"
Ah, this wa3 aiming high, Indeedl But
when was true art ever known to falter?
Colonel Brynn'g Clothes.
New York Sun.
As If the hoodoo on Colonel Bryan were
not suflSciently dark already, he comes to
this town with opals, the most ill-boding
of stones, studding his capacious shirt
bosom. The colonel Is a fair actor, but
he needs a dresser.
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Sot Equal to the Situation.
Indianapolis Journal.
Professor (feelingly) When I first began
teaching music the wolf was often at my
door.
Listener (unfeelingly) Gracious I Why
didn't you pound the piano then as you
do now?
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Obscure Martyrs.
Edwin Arnold.
They have no place In storied page,
JJor rest In marble phrlne;
They are past and gone with a perished age,
They died and made no eign.
But work that shall find lta wages yet.
And deeds that their God did not forgets
Done for their love divine1
These were the mourners, and these shall be
The crowns of their immortality.
Oh, seek them not where sleep the dead,
Te shall not find their trace;
No graven stone is at their head.
No green grass hides their fae:
But sad and unseen Is their silent grave
It may be the sand of & deep sea wave.
Or a lonely desert place:
For they needed no prayers and no mourning
bell
They were tombed In true hearts that knew
them wolL
The7 healed sick hearts till theirs were broken,
And dried sad eyes till theirs lost sight;
"We shall know at last by a certain token
How they fought and felt in the fight.
Salt tears of sorrow un beheld,
Passionate cries uaebronicled.
And pilent strifes for the right;
Arat els 'shall court them and earth shall sigh
j that sheJef t tec ptft-rtlMrea-tchattle ami ot&
N0TI AB eOMSWIST.
Keateoky has
government.
two governors
and bo
There is a ttrait t traMocowmooo, eves
a the Itettod gftates stta
Backward, tarn baaHwawt l. 1 yswrSlgfe.
The Boers smb fetKMlaecl to ak &
Ladysmlth garrJsoR tako watec wJHy
nlHy. Time was wfem Now
not stand tor Bryan. :
AgutBaMtaea sta tkw.
BMgJaad wohKI
mt it has bees
"Bobs' han't bee hoard trow yet bi
he oaaaet be axpoctoa do mma tMS ho
has a chases to consult with JOsHagW
As yet none of thorn greatest nations oa
earth has sees 8t to send in a fealtengo
to the wlnaer of the Transvaal contest;
He wao bred I oM Kentucky,
Where the m and noeket feriTa,'
Aad he tMaka he's nigfety taeky
That he fett the state aive.
Weather prophets have not heretofore
been considered anashitoly erlsatoar hut
one of them is likely to he shadowed
today.
Today the festive gcouadheg
Will sport wpe the plats.
Usttl he sees Ma shadow,
Thea he'H ge bafc agate.
-
The pen stay he mightier than tho
sword, bttt the military, eaeerts havea't
displayed any more aftlMlj than the gen
erate, up to date.
Hew ean so grave and reverend a states
man as Senator Hoar profess friendship
and admiration for such a fast young
man as Agulnaldo?
General Butler, kaowx to fame
As Scrapping 94. from Sarefphigvttto,
The mention of whose faaraome aame
Af&iete oppooento wHh a MM,
You stand a ehastee win t yet.
So don't regret, so doa't regret.
The taawUt and the shouting sweU,
The eaptatns to tho rear depart;
It's very clear that war le h I
(As Calvin Utsht K) fcem the startl
But Jeet remember that: we got
lead tired et that word, regret."
A statement pubttehed a few days since
in regard to customs duties to tho amount
of several thousand dollars being paid at
the custom-bonee here by Chinese mer
chants, la silver dollars, has resulted la
several inquiries being received. Many
people, it appears, have an Idea, that eas
terns duties most be paid In gold. This m
not the eaee, as silver deli&rs er silver
certificates are received for customs du
ties In any amount Other stiver ooins,
however, are only taken to the value of
$10.
The winter has been so saHd all ever
the country that groundhogs have not
hibernated, as usual, and oonooquen try
now that the 3d of February has arrived
it wlH not be pooolMo for this useful
weather prognoetloator to "eeme out"
and look for his shadow. The benefit of
this sagacity in deciding what tbe weather
Is to be for the next atec weeks Is there
fore lost to tbe country, and the public
will have to fall back on the weather
bureau men and the Immortal oldest in
habitants. Perhaps those may got out of
their holes today, and. by noticing wheth
er they cast a shadow or not, supply tbe
place of the ground hog In regulating; the
weather.
$
The suburb of Bredfctyrthew fcoeecaoed'
from the calling list of tramps. This Is
partly because this district abounds ia
dogs, which. In defiance of tradition and.
proverb, combine barking and biting, and
partly because hand-outs have been de
nied all comers. While It is humiliating
thus to be slighted by members of the
only leisure class of which this free and
unlimited country can boast, the situa
tion is not without redeeming features.
It will sot now be necessary to nail
down pies as soon as they are put out to
cool, or string doughnuts on wire cables
and anchor them to the pantry window.
Women left atone need not fear that they
will be frightened into hysterica by tho
spectacle of a strange man eating with
a knife in their kitchen, and the vicinity
will be safe for policemen both day end
night It is almost a temptation tor other
parts of the eity to deny themeeivea tho
peace that abldeth only where dogs are
not. In order to provide for themselves
these blessings. '
A Favorite of Providence.
Atlanta Constitution.
"Hit do 'pear lak Providence is on, my
side," said the colored brother. Teu
know I toe' sty lef arm In do saw mill
las year?"
"Yes "
"Wall, I got $M damage tor dat; en fo
I'd half spent de money, 'long comes ds
railroad and cut off William's leg, en I
got so much money fer dat I ain't done
oountin' it yit! If Providence des stan'a
by me, en dey keeps on a-hackm' at us,
we'll soon be llvin' in a painted house wld
two brick cWmblys!"
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Appreciation.
Columbus (Ohio) State JouraaL
"I tell you," exclaimed the sMm indi
vidual, "that water Is heaven's greatest
gift to man."
"Are you a prehlWtlonist?" aeked a
bystander, taking htm cordlamy by tho
hand.
"No, sir," was the contemptuous reply.
"I sell milk."
m
"Frightened hy Neglect.
Washington SHnr.
"Your enemies don't seem te abueo.you
as they used te." said one nolttnlan.
"Yes," answered tbe other. "It's a very
bad sign. It shows they are no fonger
afraid of me."
That Hopeful Keelln.
Atlanta Censtitutleo.
We're sorter feettn' lwpeim we the year maTo
Will sing to all creation m a huttansfcinwog;
That the ettlee win grow Wesgw. a where tee
valleys sleep
There'll be harvest" fior the hungry m sowen
sheaves to reep.
Wtfr sorter feettV hepotnt that the aarknen
of the way .
"Will blossom to the heautar the sweet, un-
eteoded day;
That the rrew wMl he steglnf the whuto In
music Mew.
An' tbe violets iriN he sweater he the Jama'
of the
We're sorter feetta' hopetnt .vye Mhew the light
is there;
Fer an the weary winter men's a Mcdfs sen
in the air;
There'e tov asr Mght aMinV oaah aufeyX feel
the dew;
Benin' she aloudo aar hfctW bright etan aa
Then glory haHehtMl Lord Mml the sun an? rata.
An' crowd the hmw MRtees, an Mees tho
fate, as yfetnf
We're gets' en tegeehw the dswheift ears ahr
past;
An' who keen fer the weather K It brings a
Bght at but?
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The Ionjg Road.
Of these who have the "mag roatf ' traveled e'er,
Tfet one wilt bring tho news It, oa"o
Thau, tee- must start on tfr-mln tfaev depart
Witfcaat regret then sheet retnen so mere.
Omar Xnajrynm tflernert.
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