""rlJF' " i"i;l""f
-"flgnnfoTwsry ' Jgpr i"y Y3:'i'-'iiRw,'','r v0v?Kj"'"S3f "fTjr
jpf
T 'J
THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1900.
to axefiomott
Enter1 at the Pcnfce at PfrrtSand, Oregon.
as poooaa-class matter.
TBLBPHOKBS.
rditorial Rooe....l Bwetaess (Mice.
.687
REVISED SUBSCRIPTION KATES.
Py Mall (postage prepaid). la Advance
D 17 With Sunday, per 8MBtfc...........9 8G
Daily Sunday excepted, per year...-..... 7 SO
y wKh Sunday, per year ..... 9 09
fa-it-r per rear .... 2 00
""- Weekly, per year .... ...-.... 1 SO
Te Weekly 8 months. ........- CO
T City Subscribers
Pa ly per week, delivered. Seneays exeeptefl 16c
I J. per week, delivered. Sundays teeteded.2c
Nwe or dtsaeseton Intended far penHeatien In
1 e Oregonian ebewld be addressed invariably
j -3 1 tor Tbe Oresonian," not to the same of
6 7 Individual. Letters relating to advertlstag.
e bscrlptlons er to any bugincco natter should
if addressed simply "The Oregentaa."
Tue Oregoalaa dees not bey poems er stories
'- m individuals, aad cannot undertake to re-
..-n any manuscripts seat to K wttheat twHclta
n Ko steasns efeeuM be laetosed for tils
.u-poee.
Puget Sound Bereav-Captaln A. Thompson,
clee at till Pacific avenue, T&eosuu Box 853,
- ''oiiii PostoSiee.
Eastern Bustneas Office The Tribune belld--g
New Tork city; "The Rookery." Chicago;
e k C Beckwtth special agency. New Tork.
T ! ta Sen Fraadeoo by J. K. Cooper.
46 Market street, near the Palace hotel, and
t Goldsmith Bras . SM Setter street.
, Tr ta Chicago by the P. O. News Co..
- Dearborn street.
TODAYS "WTEATHEat.-Oeeaelonal rain; to
craning temperature; wind southwest to south.
PORTXAyp, TOTWDAY, FEBRUARY 13
09SE ABOUT "BIXBTALISM."
Shan we never have done -with. bosh
about "bimetaltom"? Speeches in con
gress are still loaded -with It. Not all
who use the term, however, mean the
same thins by it. la fact, none knows
precisely what he does mean. Here is
Chandler, of New Hampshire, saying:
I "Kant the double standard. The
merita of bimetattsm are plain." But
Chandler doesn't want free coinage by
tbe United States alone, at 16 to 1, or
at any other ratio. He has steadily
spoken and voted against this proposi
tion. What he contends for is the
myth of "International bimetallism."
That is, he pursues a mirage and cries
for the moon; or perhaps It Is a rail
road to tbe planet Mars that he has
faith in.
Senators Jones, of Arkansas, and
CockreU. of Missouri, also clamor for
bimetaltsm." They say that what
they mean by btmetaltem is free coin
age of silver and gold at the mints of
the United States at 16 to 1. This na
tion is competent, they say, to formu
late its own monetary system, without
regard to any other nation or nations
which is altogether true. We can, if
v e see fit, make a law for free coinage
of silver awl gold at 16 to 1. But we
should not get btmetaltem by it. "We
should get stiver monometatism.
It is simple truth that we don't have
to ask another nation what our mon
etary system should be, or may be.
But we do have to ask the commercial
R ' rid hat tbe relative value of gotd
and silver is; and we have also to sc
cert the fact that that relative value
Is not a fixed but a fluctuating one. We
ran adopt free coinage of silver if we
rh Kse, we don't have to ask anybody.
But ve can't make silver and gold go
tope ther under any mint code, contrary
to the law of oMMneroial vaue; and
ve can't control the law of commer
cial value br any mint code. Conse
quently we oanft have bimetalism,
through free coinage at 16 to 1, or at
any other ratio.
Bimetalism is a vague, indefinite and
rr is leading expression. It is so lllu
s ry that the reality is precisely the
rl r "site of the suggestion it carries to
th Be ho do not analyse the facts that
It ng to money and are Inseparable
i m it. Words used without precise
a" a ysis often do similar mischief. A
g" at thinker aad writer, of two cen
y es ago, Robert South, said: "The
C r rality of mankind is wholly and
tely governed by words and
r vn , -v ithout nay, for the most part
if nst the knowledge men have of
1 cff" And one who wrote much
"rir ago had a remark about the
agogic politician who "scatters am-
i u us words among the vulgar."
- h is he who now talks about "bl
Ea allsm "
CURISTIAA' SCIBSVCK.
T1 collapse of Christian Science has
br n. j,rnp proltctad, but is still post-
X A So immense a fabric of faith
a 1 rractice cannot wholly be built
i: ti error or fraud: and it is fitting
t ) luire what the facts are that sup-
' this peculiar body of teachers and
ers, whose costly edifices are ris-
" c- i every great dty of the land, and
- followers are both numerous and
d
T ) things aHntt Christian Science
r real the physical exuberance of
1 ' r spirits, remedial through infec-
and the power of suggestion to in
" mental statas In a receptive per
s a i y through determination on the
I of an aggressive one. Half of
raiya physician's power in the sick
r m is due to Ms cheerful flow of
a.' mal spirits." Urerybody feels im
Tv i 1 the moment he crosses the
tlwhold He soothes alarm, he i
?I ' confidence, he jostles the hypo
cl Inac's thoughts off his own trou
"I - Many a person is a born doctor
in his aspect, and If he has no knowl
uf of the profession and falls in
v i h Christian Scientists, he becomes
a heaier."
V l t men of science call the power
t supgeetiou I a province of mental
t Ju as yet but imperfectly under--
I If the various antagonistic
p h ( s of hypnotists can ever be got
1 ininate their differences and for
i i att their common conclusions, an
a epied body of truth might be reoog
nu d The use of intellectual power in
B--xMri; certain physical conditions,
J aA' nervous states, is wall aecer
tp -id and hypnotism, for example,
has its place in medical science. It
gfx-s wuhout saying, however, that this
P w er should be used. Indeed can only
bi used to Intelligent and legitimate
pu j use, b educated and trained per
ot" vho understand its relations to
tb more important and necessary
things of medical theory and practice.
It Mould be manifestly absurd to set
th ignorant of physiology aad medf
m at experimenting with these
thmps as much so as to put a novice
int a locomotive cab and tell him to
run a crowded passenger train over a
lusj track. The news of every day
tells us how disastrous these experi
jrenis are continually resulting.
Chustian Science In practice, there
fore is a fraud aad a crlmev It is
m-ither science nor Christian. There is
r i mof science in It than there is in
i be labors of the impecunious medium
who boldly gives advice as to how to
succeed In business. Its religious pre
tensions are outrageous, for it sets at
defiance the fundamental principles of
Christianity. It belongs in the cate
gory of spiritualism and theosophy,
where a few gifted and unscrupulous
charlatans are supported by an army of
deluded followers. Some way should
be found for bringing to justice every
so-called "healer." whose interference
with the sick is followed by fatal con
sequences and every parent who,
bound to the same misguided theory,
contrives his child's death through neg
lect. One of the principal sources of
the rise of these schools of "mental"
healing, or killing, has been the stub
born refusal of doctors and scien
tists to recognize and. investigate the
phenomena of hypnotism and kindred
processes.
THREE LIBERALS.
It is a significant fact that the lib
eralization of Protestant churches goes
on without perceptible Increase in the
relative strength of the liberal
churches. This is not an argument
against the reality of liberalization, but
a demonstration of the fact that the
methods of other churches have some
thing or other in them that appeals
mote successfully to popular support.
Perhaps it is greater evangelicism, per
haps Inherited momentum in both fer
vor and methods. Just what does not
matter. The main point is that the
mass of communicants retain their de
nominational affiliation regardless of
their intellectual beliefsv just as it is
the case with the various parties in
politics. The now extinct species of
silver republican used to claim for him
self a truer republicanism than that
of the gold man allied with the Money
Power; and Bryan and McLaurin are
at loggerheads as to whether expan
sion or anti-expansion is the real dem
ocratic doctrine.
Liberalization is going on in all the
denominations. Yesterday's dispatches
gave a full account of an episode in
the Methodist school of theology at
Boston university. One professor has
already been in trouble because of his
advanced teachings, and now the at
tack has beem directed at three others.
The charge against the teachers, to
which tiey plead guilty in effect, with
the inevitable disagreements over
terms and interpretation) of authority,
is that they view salvation as possible
without beMef in the divinity of Christ;
that they hold parts of the Bible to be
legendary; and the so-called Mosaic ac
count of creation as not to be received
as scientifically correct. This controversy
shows that historical criticism and
knowledge of 2sTatur6 through study of
her records in the earth and in still
living forma must be going on In the
Methodist church as elsewhere. All the
basis is here for a Briggs controversy,
though one may be avoided If tact and
discretion are called into play.
Rev. D. Reuen Thomas is a great
preacher of the Congregationalist de
nomination, and ministers to a large
and influential people at Brookline, a
suburb of Boston. In his sermon on
Martlneau, the Unitarian teacher, and
Ruskin, Dr. Thomas likened them to
David and Isaiah, and said they were
more Christian in spirit than either of
the two ancient Hebrew worthies.
"These men," he said, "had the fulfill
ment of spiritual life. They gave them
selves up. to do what appeared to them
to be God's will and way. It is faith
without self-surrender that makes men
weak." This is strange doctrine, com
pared with the narrow exclusiveness
that used to prevail In orthodox pul
pits, and perhaps there are few pulpits
in Portland from which Dr. Martlneau
would be eulogized as atrue servant
of God, and held up as a model for
spiritual attainment.
Another Illustration comes from High
Church EpIscopaJlanism. Rev. Alger
non S. Crapsey, a rector at Rochester,
K. T., is the author of a tractate in
advocacy of the idea that Christian
doctrine today needs to be restated
in such a way that it will be In accord
with the facts of the visible universe,
as ascertained by scientific investiga
tion. Mr. Crapsey holds that the day
for promulgation of belief through au
thority has gone by. A creed formu
lated by an ecclesiastical body, he says,
does not rest on its own inherent truth
fulness, but must be enforced by a
power external to itself. And men are
called upon to believe it, not necessar
ily because it is true, but because it has
been promulgated by a given authority. (
Mr. Crapsey concludes, therefore, that
the despised restatement of religious
belief In terms consistent with the ac
cepted scientific view of the universe
should be derived from individual relig
ious thinkers, and gain its acceptance
from its Inherent truth. His tractate is
a forcible presentation of the futility of
dogma to withstand scientific discov
ery. These illustrations are sufficiently in
dicate e of the widening vision of the
Protestant pulpit, regardless of denom
inational lines. The danger In all these
things is that in impairing the genu
ineness of non-essential flourishes of
doctrine we shall witness a weakening
also of basic religious and moral con
victions. Skeptics frequently imagine
that In showing the imperfections of
Scriptural texts and the Inadequacy of
the so-called Mosaic account of crea
tion they have disproved the eternal
verities of religion itself. And it must
be said that they are encouraged in
this view by the desperation with
which theologians hang on to these
very trifles of doctrine, oblivious of the
temple of truth in contemplation of the
scaffolding that has served its purpose
and is now fit for nothing but to be
torn away.
SPEAKER FAVORS THE CANAL.
Speaker Henderson's attitude toward
the Nicaragua canal has been the sub
ject of some speculation in various
newspapers; but a letter written by
him last summer will clear up the
doubt. Captain Robert Williams, of
Vancouver, Wash., wrote to Represent
ative Henderson, on June 4, 1S99, a let
ter of hearty sympathy with hi9 con
test for the speakership, and gave him
this statement of "measures of par
ticular interest to the whole Pacific
coast":
The construction of the Nicaragua canal is
most universally and urgently desired, and I
feel thoroughly assured that any candidate for
speaker who will oppose or manifest any un
friendliness for that measure will not get the
votes of the Pacific coast lTLinbera.
Another living issue, emphatically supported
br the patriotic people of this coast, is that the
government eftiall permanently retain the Phil
ippine islands. We have, I believe, come into
peoooasion of them bj the economy of God in
directing- our navy aad army to So there and
wrest that unfortunate and misgoverned country
fieas tbe tyranny of Spanish rule Our country
will, m due time, when the people of the Phil
ippines snail have submitted to the lawful au
thorltv at this government. ci e them as liberal
a government as can be formed, eultaWe to their
condition, and when that Is demonstrated to
them by their lmproted condition and pros
perity, they will Mess the day that Admiral
Dewey sailed into Manila bay and defeated the
fleet of tbelr tyrannical Spanish rulers.
Mr. Henderson declined to declare his
position on the Philippines, merely say
ing, In his letter of" reply, dated at
Dubuque, June 10, 1899, that on this
matter "no one should "commit himself
to policies in advance of the ordef for
action and of all tbe light possible to be
derived." But on the other topic he
was not reticent, and made this state
ment of his views:
I hae been in favor of the NIcaraguan canal.
to connect the two oceans, for years, and hope
to e It accomplished.
The speaker Is in position to give
cordial support to the accomplishment
of his hope. In one particular, at least,
the country is likely to be a great
gainer through the exchange of Reed
for Henderson.
CANADA'S CONTINGENT.
Throughout British Columbia the
rough riders, assembling and depart
ing for the South African war, are
welcomed and speeded with glad ac
claim by a loyal people. Local pride
In these troops is not misplaced, for the
mounted troops given by Canada in aid
of England in the Boer war are better
stuff for the work before them than
any "crack" regiment of cavalry in the
British regular army. One regiment of
mounted riflemen, 742 strong, with four
Maxim guns, three batteries of field
artillery, 522 strong, with eighteen Im
pounder, breech-loading, quick-firing
guns, or In all 1264 men, with 1175
horses and twenty-two guns, made up
the second Canadian contingent that
embarked for South Africa the third
week of January. Officers and men
are dressed in khaki costume, and1 all
the artillery has been painted to match.
These contingents of mounted riflemen
and artillery represent the flower of
Canadian manhoodv They are the
picked men of the Canadian militia of
35,000 men. The mounted rifles sent by
Canada to the Cape consist largely of
Northwest mounted policemen, who
have seen varied service as scouts,
constables, plain-rangers, etc., in the
performance of the many duties falling
to the lot of a mounted policeman.
Their duties Tiave compelled them to
be cavalrymen and riflemen by turns,
and a better training could not be de
vised for a man who has to fight on the
veldt of South Africa from the saddle
In the open or on his feet behind a
kopje.
The Canadian mounted police of the
Northwest is an ideal soldier to fight
the Boers. It includes a splendid class
of stalwart Canadians, who have
roughed it in the lumber camps, can
bridge a swamp or build rapidly a "cor
duroy" road. Lord Strathcona (Sir
Donald A. Smith, Canadian high com
missioner to London) is raising and
equipping at his own expense a com
pany of rough riders, which will consist
of some 400 cavalrymen, and: British
Columbia is sending 100 men, all ex
pense to be borne by the province.
Canada's contribution; of 2700 men to
the British army in South Africa is
likely to furnish the model for the im
perial army that will ultimately con
quer the Boers. Absurd statements
have been made that the French popu
lation of Canada did not support Pre
mier Laurier in his cordial support of
Great Britain in the Transvaal war.
In. Quebec the church has repudiated
the disloyal utterances of certain jour
nals, and the French-Canadian peasant
of Quebec province cheers the parading
troops at every opportunity.
The enthusiastic voluntary response
of all Great Britain's Important colo
nies to the call for troops is a com
plete answer to the stupid "shibbo
leth" of the Clan-na-Gael party in the
British parliament that "England's
difficulty is Ireland's opportunity."
That sentiment is what loses the Irish
home rule party the sympathy of its
best friends, for while thousands of
intelligent Americans would Welcome
the home rule for Ireland that pre
vails between the states and the gen
eral government in America, no intelli
gent American would wish Great Brit
ain's politically beneficent civilization
whether in India, Africa or Ireland to
perish from the earth.
WOSFEN ON THE SCHOOL BOARD.
While not detracting anything from the
candidacy of either of the worthy citi
zens who have been named to succeed
Mr. Strowbridge upon the school board,
subject to the indorsement of the tax
payers, The Oregonlan may say that
the suggestion of the retiring member
in regard to the selection of a thor
oughly competent woman to succeed
him, and again another to succeed Mr.
Warren next year, Is a good one. The
efficiency of women upon educational
boards has been fully proven in other
cities, and, indeed, in our own state,
Women have served from time to time
as school directors with great energy
and acceptability. So far In this city
the experiment, if such it may be called
in the face of the facts above noted,
has not been tried, owing possibly to
the disinclination of women to run the
gauntlet of opposition which would be
marshaled by small minds against a
woman's candidacy.
Citizens of Portland, or perhaps we
should say those who in the main have
run the educational machine in this
city, have been slow to accord to
women the honors to which, by virtue
of the value of their services in the
schools, they have been entitled. It Is
true that we had at one time a woman
for city superintendent of schools; it is
true also that, notwithstanding the fact
that the standard of excellence through
method and discipline in the schools
was greatly advanced during her ad
ministration, the position was made
so uncomfortable for her that, rather
than camp constantly upon the firing
line and skirmish continually with op
ponents of small caliber, whom she
was compelled to meet, she withdrew
from the contest and accepted a posi
tion of honor and responsibility in an
educational institution in the Middle
Northwest, where her capabilities and
energy as an instructor and manager
are appreciated.
It is true also that women have from
time to time filled the position of prin
cipal in the several schools of tbe city.
Perhaps the less said the better for the
credit of school boards, past and pres
ent, in coniection with the fact that
the last one of these has been displaced
in some instances by mildly incompe
tent men, chosen seemingly (to use a
military phrase) for their mobility in
action.
All this has not been done in a cor
ner. For years the school politics of
this city were manipulated by one of
the most crafty of small-bore educa
tional politicians in his own interest,
primarily, and as auxiliary thereto, in
lthe interests of a great SCboolbook corn-
pany. Women were insignificant factors
in "his educational maneuvers; their
generalship was not to be permitted
under the regime he inaugurated and
maintained for many years, and by
persistence, craft, upon one pretext or
another, and often arbitrarily, he suc
ceeded in reducing them to the ranks,
greatly (in some instances) to the det
riment of the field service.
It was because of thi3 strife and
through the bitterness that it engen
dered, that women who were ap
proached upon the matter at different
times firmly declined to serve upon
the school board. In plain terms, they
did not consider "the game worth the
candle," and, though this narrow, vi
tuperative opposition to women in the
higher grades of school work has to
some extent passed away, or at least
has been minimized by the removal of
the small-bore school politician to an
other scene, the disinclination of women
to have their names brought forward as
candidates for service on the school
board remains1 a heritage of the dis
gust and injustice of the events of his
reign.
It Is doubtful, therefore, whether a
suitable candidate could be secured at
this time to enter the lists as successor
to Mr, Strowbridge. Next year, possi
bly, if men and women taxpayers who
have the true educaional interests of
the community at heart, bestir them
selves early in this matter, a suitable
woman may be found to succeed Mr.
Warren as school director, and the ful
fillment of the desire of Mr. Strow
bridge and of many other intelligent
citizens who believe that two out of
the five members of the board should
be women, will begin. To say that
Portland will stand still indefinitely In
this matter while other cities' and pro
gressive rural communities all over the
land are recognizing and availing them
selves of women's work as organizers
and managers In educational lines, is
to Impugn the intelligence and exalt
the prejudice of her' citizens. The
function of women on the school board
would not be so much that of atten
tion to the business of the district, the
construction of its schoolhouses and the
management of its finances, as in con
sideration of the employment of teach
ers, much the larger number of whom
are women.
England may be forced to resort to
the militia ballot law, an old-time
measure of conscription. The opera
tion of the statute was suspended in
1829, and when the militia was organ
ized, in 1852, recruitment by volunteer
ing was substituted, but the original
statute remains, and it may again be
enforced. Under it all male persons
between 18 and 30 years of age are
made liable to the service, and when
militia are called for, double the quota
is drawn by ballot, ,to make room for
those able to show exemptions and to
allow for other disqualifications. For
Instance, the requisite height is fixed
at 5 feet 2 Inches. Substitutes are al
lowed, and there are many exempt
classes. The suspension of the ballot
was due to a provision that if the
quota is filled up by volunteering, no
ballot shall be used. If, however, as
seems to be the case at present, the
possibilities of securing sufficient vol
unteers are exhausted, the enforcement
of the compulsory service of the stat
ute is within the power of the gov
ernment.
It is said that Boers appear in "un
expected numbers" wherever the Brit
ish make a sortie or a reconnoissance.
This is evidence that the status of hu
man society depicted by Olive
Schreiner, wherein it Is the province of
women to produce soldiers, cultivate
their fields, attend to stock and dress
the meats, and the province of men and
boys to fight, has not been outgrown
by these people. The greatness of a
state, based upon the fecundity of its
women and the brawn of its men, may
endure for a time, but to believe It to
be a permanent condition is to account
human progress a myth and civilization
a dream. Of greatness reckoned upon
this basis, the North American Indians
possessed their full share, and the stub
bornness with which they held their
ground protracted the tribal history
of these people through four centuries
of strife, with defeat as its logical se
quence. The purpose of General Roberts is to
oust the Boers from Stormberg, push
them back across the Orange river at
Aliwal North and Bethulie. If a strong
movement should be made from the
Modder river or from some of the sta
tions between it and the Orange river
into the Free State, the Free State
forces would have to retreat without
delay to the north, lest their retreat be
cut off. General French holds today a
large force of Boers in check at Coles
berg. Colesberg is an open town, four
miles west of Colesberg Junction, on
the railway from Naauwpoort to
Bloemfontein. General French's head
quarters is at RenBberg, south of Coles
berg. In addition to the political perils
which threaten civil institutions in
Kentucky, the state is confronted by
the danger of a widespread epidemic
of smallpox. The disease is already
prevalent in thirty-five counties, in
some of which a large number of the
Inhabitants have been stricken and a
much greater number exposed. The
state board of health is entirely with
out funds to fight the pestilence, doz
ens of local health officers are resign
ing, and practically nothing Is being
done to check the spread of the disease.
The condlton in this respect Is as dis
graceful to Kentucky as Is the political
situation at Frankfort.
The transport Slam, the hold of
which proved- a charnel-house for 311
out of a cargo of 330 mules on her
outward passage to Manila, several
months ago, has returned to San Fran
cisco. The experience of this vessel
as, with her living freight, shrieking
and moaning as only frightened, suffer
ing animals can, she outrode two ty
phoons in the Pacific, was simply ter
rific. One cannot wonder in review
ing the accounts of the voyage that
the captain resigned his position upon
reaching Manila, thus necessitating the
detention of the vessel in port until a
commander for her return voyage tcould
be procured from Australia,
Major-General Butler, who com
manded the British troops at the Cape
in 189S, Instead of strengthening the
Natal garrisons, as was proposed by
Sir Alfred Mllner, spoke of the sug
gestion as "ridiculous from a military
point of view, 'in case' a policy of war
had been decided upon," and urged
rather that "if war broke out the first
j thing necessary would be to withdraw
the garrisons in a hurry" as the only 1
way to avoid having them "looked up
by the Boers.", This Is the man whose
counsel seems to have been contempt
uously disregarded, but now is to be
sought with some solicitude.
Hoke Smith, the Georgia democrat
who was in President Cleveland's cab
inet, but nevertheless cast his fortunes
with the Bryanites in 1896, puts the
blame for the Kentucky situation
where it belongs. Hfe says: "When we
come to look at the state of semi-revo-lution
that exists in Kentucky, we can
not escape the conclusion that Goebel
and his confederates are responsible
for it." The death of Goebel does not
alter the fact that it was his conspiracy
against the people's right to majority
rule that has brought Kentucky to
shame.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Kentucky has her troubles, but Bryan is
in New York. .
Pitchfork Tillman should be kept away
from Secretary Hay.
Now that all the votes In Kentucky have
been counted, the election board can pro
ceed to count the governors.
There Is not so" much in a name as one
,l
might believe. For example, "In Ola Ken
tucky" is not a war drama.
. Richard Harding Davis has gone to
South Africa. He will now be able to tell
what he saw with his own Is.
It is singular how much more plainly a
man hears his country's call when It comes
In form of a captain's commission.
The trusts have given us the horseless
carriage, and they now seem about to
bring about a state of carriageless babies.
Editor Laura E. Jones, of the Drain
Watchman, declares that the hardest
branch of learning'grows on & birch tree.
A new passenger locomotive can make
105 miles an hour. Here is just the pres
ent for Senator Hoar to make to Aguin
aldo. People who know enough to come in out
of the rain never, get credit for their sa
gacity when there Is no rain to come In
out of.
The Boers are doing their share to as
sist the press censor in South Africa
They kill two or three war correspondents
every day.
Several hundred diamond-cutting mills
are reported to be Idle on account of the
Isolation of KImberley. Modern business
has become a complex matter, touching
every continent and country.
The mantle of Sir Boyle Roche has de
scended upon M. de Blowltz. In a recent
Issue of the London Times he achieved a
bull which rivals the famous "Sir, 1 smell
a rat; I see it in the air; but I will nip it
in the bud." A passage from the Llberte
prompted M. de Blowltz to this surprising
piece of natural history: "I quote this
because the Liberte is one of the most
amphibious journals that, waiting to see
which way the wind blows, sometimes un
expectedly turn the scale."
Paris has a hotel for working girls
founded by a wealthy woman at the cost
of 1,000,000 francs, and it is the home of
the Amicltia Club, with 30 rooms for shop
girls and a good and cheap restaurant, to
which any working woman may have ac
cess. Each of the members pays a small
sum toward a fund used in the common
interest of the association, which keeps
up lectures and educational classes and
otherwise provides for the entertainment
and instruction of the members. The club
house is a restored mansion 200 years old,
near what was once the hotel of Mme. de
Sevlgne, now the Musee Carnanlet, In the
Rue de Pare Royale.
Every three months in the province of
Smolensk, Russia, husbands and wives are
chosen by the chance drawing of a lottery
ticket. The tickets cost one ruble (60
cents) each. There is only one prize to
be drawn, and it consists of the entire
sum yielded by the sale of the tickets,
amounting to 5000 rubles ($3000), together
with a woman described as being of no
ble blood. The tickets are sold only to
men, and the lucky winner of the prize
will have to marry the damsel If he takes
the 5000 rubles. If, however, he be already
married he Is at liberty to turn over the
money and the woman to any friend whom
he may wish to put in for such a good
thing. If the winner shouid be willing to
marry, but is not found to be to the dam
sel's taste, then they are to be excused
from matrimony and permitted to divide
the rubles.
A movement, which no doubt will re
ceive the support of newspaper men all
over the country, was recently started at
the meeting of the Internal League o
PresB Cfubs. This is the organization of
the International League of Press Clubs
Benevolent Association. In Jersey City,
where articles of Incorporation were pre
pared and executed, a tract of land lo
cated at New Orange, N. J., was turned
over to the association, and it was de
cided to commence in the near future the
erection of a $20,000 home for aged and in
digent newspaper men. The following of
ficers of the Benevolent Association wero
elected:
President-John M. Carter, Jr., Baltimore, Md.
Secretary C. Frank Rice, Boston.
Treasurer-James S. McCartney, Philadelphia.
Directors Thomas J. Keenan, Jr.. Pittsburg;
Dr. John Frledrich, New York; Edward W.
Hazewell, Boston; J. M Leveque, New Orleans;
George H. Rowe, Brooklyn; George H. Hoff
man, Philadelphia; George "W. Peck, Milwau
kee, WU ; A. aDonnell Hayward, Baltimore;
Cynthia Westover, Alden, N. T.; O. H. Cham
berlln, Manchester, N. H.; P. J. Hanway, Nev
Tork, and W. C. Ruch, Philadelphia.
Hi ,
Tit for Tat.
Boston Transcript
Certain papers of this country have been
clamoring for the Intercession of the
United States In the Transvaal war, and
a Boston contemporary Insists that Presi
dent McKinley should give a "tip" to
Queen "Vlctotria to step the war. It says:
The slaughter in South Africa can be stopped
any time that the administration at Washlngtjn
decides to have It. The minute President Mc
Kinley notifies Queen Victoria, that this coun
try wishes the bloodshed to cease, the British
ministry will be changed, a new set of men
put in power, the Independence of the Boers
already a fact will be admitted, and men. of
the ?ime blood and the same religion will stop
murdering each other. Certainly this country
wants It done. The safety of Great Britain as
a great power requires It. Nothing but the od
stinacy of a few people, holding ofllce, prevents
It. It will make Mr. McKinley the strongest
man In this country and Insure his re-election,
as well as save the lives of thousands of hon
orable men. "What la the occult force which
causes the delay?
Now what would be the attitude of the
American people were the London papers
to print an article like this:
The eltughter in the Philippines can be
stopped any time that the British government
decides to. hae it. The minute Queen Victoria
notifies President McKinley that this country
wishes the bloodshed to cease, the American
cabinet Will be changed, a new set of men put
In power, the Independence of the Filipinos al
ready a fact will be admitted, and men will
stop murdering each other. Certainly this coun
try wants it done. The safety of the United
States as a great power requires it. Nothing but
the obstlnary of a few people holding office pre
enttf It. It will make Lord Salisbury tlw
strongest man in the country, and insure his
party remaining in office, as well as save the
lives tf thousands of honorable men. What Is
the occult force wh!h caJKs the delay?
a ' '
The Rape of the Dependencies.
Chicago Times-Herald.
A satisfactory local tariff will never be
devised at Washington for Puerto Rico or
the Philippines. This is absolutely certain,
because it will be passed not for the geod
of the natives er of tbe United States,
but for the advantage of various interests
in this country. As well protect Califor
nia against Florida because they both raise
oranges, or Virginia against North Caro
lina, because they both raise and manufac
ture tobacco.
9
MAJORITY RULE AT STAKE.
Plain Statement ot the Situation In
Kentuclcy.
Brooklyn Eagle, ind. dem.
By a law in Kentucky, a state central
board appointed county election boards,
and county election boards appointed elec
tion officers at polling places. That con
stituted the machinery of election of which
registration! and the use of the Australian
ballot system were features!
The first count of .the votes was by local
officers. Their returns were passed on by
county boards. The returns were further
passed on by the state board, of which
all three members were democrats. There
Is no doubt that W. S. Taylor and John
W. Marshall, republican candidates for
governor and lieutenant-governor, received
many thousand moro votes than their dem
ocratic competitors. The democratic local
boards and county boards and the demo
cratic state board cast out all the repub
lican votes which, by any possible pretax,
they could rejeot. But when all that vas
done, the final announcement had to be
as follows:
, VOTE FOR GOVERNOR,
w. S. Taylor, rep iw.ap
William Goebel, dem 191.8C8
Brown, lnd. -dem 12,140
Taylor's plurality 2,371.
VOTE FOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
John Marshall, rep - 183,81
J. C. W. Beckham, dem 181.3a
Marshall's majority 2.51
Under that, Messrs. Taylor and Marshall
took office on the 12th of last Decemfae-,
and have been officiating ever since. They
were elected by the people. Any reversal
of the people's vote3, either by courtB or
by the legislature has in It the moral qual
ity of any other robbery, and any taking
of their offices by others has in it the moral
quality of any other theft.
In the constitution of Kentucky Is the
clause: "Contested elections for governor
and lieutenant-governor shall be deter
mined by both houses of the general as
sembly (tho legislature), according to such
regulations as may be established by law."
There were not enough men elected by the
people to the legislative to reverse the
votes of the people on governor and lieutenant-governor,
but a number of elected
members were turned out and a corre
sponding number of defeated contestants
were seated in their places to pack the
tribunal, for the purpose of reversing the
will of the people. They claim to have
reversed it. The republicans claim that
the reversal was not effected even by
law, and that If It had been it would
be morally indefensible and would justify
revolution against it.
Something called an "adjustment" has
been reached by some course called a
"conference" between representatives ot
both sides In Kentucky. If the result of
this be the overthrow of majority rule,
it will bo disastrous and disgraceful to
Kentucky and to the republic. That is
for Kentuckians to pettle, but it should
not be for New Yorkers to justify, for n y
purpose or on any pretext, the overthrow
of majority rule In Kentucky or anywhere
else. Those who, for reasons of congenital
pusillanimity or of hatred of republicanism,
whether it be elected or not, consent to
praise or fail to protest against the over
throw of . majority rule, are heaping a
record of shame for themselves and their
posterity.
The facts, as we have given them, will
be found in no democratic organ. They
would be found In no republican organ,
were they the reverse of what they are,
so as to make against that party. Inde
pendent papers can alone be trusted to
give them In full and with right motives.
They reduce the rhodomontade of Henry
Watterson and other apologists for gov
ernment by violence in Kentucky to roar
ing rot. As for Goebel, who killed San
ford, he was probably shot by some aveng
ing friend of Sanford's, not a few of whom
have been on hl3 trail for years, and
some one of whom very likely found a
dramatic pleasure in exterminating him,
at the apparent climax of his plan to get
by fraud what the people had refused to
him by vote.
i t t
Starvation Stories Disproved.
New York Journal of Commerce.
The census of Cuba raises a doubt as to
the accuracy of the estimates of the mor
tality due to the administration of Gen
erel Weyler. It seemed to be prtty well
established by concurrent testimony that
300,000 or 400,000 people' perished among the
reconcentrados. The Insurrection lasted
three years and must have caused a great
deal of mortality in the country districts
before the reconcentrado order. It was
confidently stated a couple of years ago
that the population had decreased from a
million and a half to less than a million
and a quarter But now the census shows
that the population Is more than a
million and a half, and Is within fifty or
sixty thousand of what it was in 18ST,
nine years after the close of the lo-years"
war, and eight years before the last insur
rection. During those eight years the pop
ulation may have grown very rapidly, but
none of the writers on Cuba supposed it
did, for no estimate of the population In
1895 very much exceeded a million and a
half, If General Sanger's enumerators
have found 1,572,840 people in Cuba the loss
of life under the last three years of Span
ish rule has been much exaggerated.
a a i
My Old Kentucky Home.
Denver Post.
The sun shines bright on my old- Kentucky
home.
The voters are boozy and gay;
Tho re Is ripe and the bourbon, to In bloom,
And the shotgun makes music all the day.
The stone Jug rises to kles the waiting mouth.
And the upturned eyes gladly play
On the soft blue skies of the sunny, sunny
South.
In n-y old Kentucliy home far away.
Put on a shirt of mall beneath year Sunday
ccat,
"Wear an armor plate undtr your vest.
That's the safest way when the nigger goes ta
vote.
And the white man. la there to protest.
Oh, there's gay old times when election comes
around.
There's music to liven the day;
The sexton's spade stabs the Dark and Bloody
Ground,
In my old; Kentuaky home far away.
The black smoke pours from the chimney of tha
still.
The fragrance of corn taints the breeze,
It rises up until the tears of angels spill.
And the man 'n the moort has ta sneeze,
Tre red Juice shines in the bottle on the shelf.
The sunbeams around it at play.
When your throat gets dry pull the cork and
help yourself.
In n y old Kentucky heme far away.
The feud man hides in a comer of the fence.
And waits for a snot at his foe;
That foeman's soul goes a-kitlng to the hence,
To the land where they don't sIovel snow!
The coroner comes to Investigate the death.
And Jags up comfortably gay.
And the vordlct says that he died from, want of
breath
In my old; Kentucky home far away.
"Weep no more, my lady,
Weep no more today.
For things have changed in my old Kentucky
borne,
In my old Kentucky home far away.
GOSSflP OF THB jrATFUSt Al CAPITAL
.WASHINGTON,. Feb. VL The Hay
Pauneefote treaty te envatopad 1 a fog.
No one seenw tt be able ft say what will
become- of K. When fmrt seat to the sen
ate, predictions were freely made, some
declaring It would be defeated and othera
that it would be adopted. This was be
cause all sorts of optaMma could be ob
tained from senators who are wmnMy sup
posed ta have some knowledge of what
the senate would do. Their opinions vary
from day to day, aad but one tangible
faats seems to stand oat with prominence
new; and that is, that the bl for the
construction of the canal has bean sndan
gered, If not postponed' for this session
of congress. That atoms to be the most
serious of all situations. The treaty will
lead to extended debate, possibly It will
be amended. In that event, time must
elapse before the acceptance of Great
Britain and the ratification can be .ex-
ehange. Under these conditions, congress
would wait with tbe canal WU, and otheff
measures would Intervene.
Considerable opposition devetopes on the
republican side because It is faared that
the treaty gives tbe opposition more cam
paign material, by affording them an op
portunity to allege that grant concessions)
have been made to England, aad the
canal is built for Sngitsh commerce. Tbe
position of many republican papers could
be cited In support ot this contention. So
there la not only tbe question of doubt
on the merits of the treaty, but politics
also enter Into the matter, which cfcHMls
everything still more.
Instead of the canal bill following tna
financial bill, In the senate, some other
measure will now crowd it out. It Is con
sidered useless to pass the canal bill until
the treaty is disposed of. because It is said
the president would not sign it, believing
the Claytoa-Bulwer treaty la in full ffeot.
Portland Exposition.
Representative Tongue, after reeding tha
recent editorial in Tbe Oregonlan, con
demning his suggestion that Portland hold
an exposition in MM, made the following
statement in his own defense:
"I have not and do not contemplate
introducing a bill to secure an appropria
tion for such an exposition, and have
made no effort in that direction further
than to suggest the question for the con
sideration of the Portland Cbaaaber of
Commerce, and offering to take what
steps I could in that direction if the lead
ing business men of Portland thought it
advisable to do so. An appropriation for
the purpose would have no effect upon
the appropriation for rivers and harbors.
This class of appropriations comes from
a different committee, and has been dis
tributed in different sections of the United
States. I recognise, as much as any one,
the overshadowing importance of Improv
ing the water navigation from Portland to
the sea to a sufficient depth to accommo
date the largest vessels now or likely to
be afloat. On that question tbe Oregon
delegation is a unit, and each member
will spare no pains to accomplish the de
sired result."
It is true that Mr. Tongue's position on
the river and harbor committee will be
very beneficial to the state when river and
harbor bills are framed and passed, and
to replace him by a new member from the
first district would be to relinquish that
advantage whkh tbe state now holds.
Democratic National Chairmanship.
The democrats are hi doubt as to whom
they shall select for chairman of their na
tional committee. Jones will probably go
out on aeeount of health. Stone, of Mis
souri, is not wanted. Several other possi
bilities have been made, the latest being
McLean. He is put forward by those who
want some one with money to conduct the
campaign who will make good all de
ficiencies. An effort was made when Bryan was
in Washington to get some expression of
opinion from hlra as re whom he would
like for his running-mate on the ticket,
but he gave no Indication whatever. He
evidently hopes, with ntanr others, ta and
some more valuable man tha has set been
mentioned. The popunst demand for Sul
zer, of New York, has given that freakish
individual a prominence for the democrat
populist nomination.
There is a general feelmg that the ad
ministration republicans have about deter
mined that Cornelius Bliss, of New York,
Is the most available man for McKlnley'a
running-mate.
Classification of Lamls.
The commissioner of the general land
office has submitted to congress an esti
mate of an appropriation of )el,4ee to com
plete the examination and classification
of certain lands wltbm the limits of the
land grant and Indemnity land grant to
the Northern Pacific Bailroad Company.
The land lies in the Helena and Missoula
land districts of Montana, and the Coeur
d'Alene district of Idaho, and is to be
examined with special reference to its
mineral or nonmineral character. Forty
thousand dollars of this amount is for
compensation of 12 commissioners, $10,000
for holding hearings, and $MW for stenog
raphers. The land to be examined is di
vided up as follows:
In the Coeur d'Alene district S 0W
In the Missoula district 352J5
In the Helena district 1.5W.O0O
AVolcott's Campaign Speech.
The speech of Senator Wolcott, deliv
ered today, is clearly Intended as the be
ginning of his effort to seek re-election.
Recognizing the fact that Colorado is com
mitted, to the silver question, he knows ha
must throw a sop to silver men In order
to stand any show of being returned. Very
few people believe that Wolcott has any
convictions on the money question, but
understand that this speech is his last
chance of securing a re-election.
Chandler's speech is not yet understood
by anybody, because nobody seems to un
derstand just what Chandler intends to do.
Salem Public BhIIuIbs.
Representative Tongue has been urging
the treasury department to hasten work
and advertise for proposals for the con
struction of the Salem public building. The
supervising architect has roughly outlined
the building, and final plans are now be
ing completed. The building called for
is to be three stories, mainly of stone,
with brisk and terra cotta trimmings. Such
a building will require an aaoitionai ap
propriation of Jtt.OOO. but it is not antlc
pated that there will be any trouble to
securing this amount, as most every other
building authorized by the last congress is
now demandlBg a proportionate iaoreased
appropriation.
Improvements at Lemhi.
Senator Shoup today offered an amend
ment to the Indian bill appropriating $1).
000 for the construction of a new school
house, with a girls' dormitory aW slttirg
room attached, at the Lemhi agency,
Idaho.
Ohio's Delegates to CenveHtlsB.
According to the present arrangement.
Senator Hauna is not to be one ot the dde
eates for Ohio to the republican national
convention but the four will be Foraier,
Governor Nash, Representative Wck tad
Colonel Herriek.
Artificial Fruit Coloring.
Chicago Tribune.
Various fruits are colored oa the surface
or in their substance to sutt the fancv of
purchasers In France. For example, straw
berries that are unripe are given a red
color by means of a fuchslne preparation;
ordinary oranges of poor quality are aade
to pass for blood oranges by hrjsetlng
rocelline into their pulp: and n
rendered of a fine orange color by iMect
teg a solution of tropoelrae, and i1
same time aromatized with aa r Uncial
melon essence.
o I
A Portable SearehHsht.
Chicago Chronicle.
A French officer has Invented aaaocety
lene searchlight which can be called by
one man. and which will mumtnsie every
thing within a distance of Mi yanls. It is
expected to be of great use m marching
for the wounded after a battH and In.
bridge-building at night.
I