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rORTfAXP, SATURDAT, FBB. 17.
riBUC OOATBM.PT WBLIj earned.
HaK a cab load of "antis" at Bos
1 r have sent to Senator Pettigrew, of
uth Dakota, the Tillman of that
siate a letter of thanks for his "serv
1 s in behalf of the Aguinaldo rebel
ji n. Incidentally, Pettigrew Se lauded
ts the great national champion of free
f 'Thin the senate, and as the able
ad- ocate of the nee of the mails of the.
T nned States to enoourage and assist
ti public enemy.
It is' not practicable to shut off the
nouthings of Pettigrew and Mason in
i he senate, for it is not necessary.
Thre are certain evils inseparable
""torn deliberative assemblies and par
liamentary government. Though rank
At limes, they must be borne. But no
untry Is obliged to allow the use of
its mails for encouragement of its ene
i ifs to continue resistance to its au
th my and destruction of the lives of
i " soldiers. Nor is it under any obli
gation to use Its printing presses to
f after the statements of its enemies
fed-mst it statements such as those of
if AgulnaMo Junta, which misrepre
8 rt officials of the United States and
11 r acts, and which Admiral Dewey,
Ir feasor Sdturman and others have
jr nounced positively fates.
YklK-n ie entered the Philippine
lianas no one could know or say that
"v ( should stay. There was no infor
mation among ue as to conditions
there The relatione of the Spanish
g ernment to the inhabitants were
unknown. So was the character of the
it habitants, their intellectual status,
what the state or stage of their cul
ture was. their ethnological relations
i. nd tribal divisions. It seemed at first,
jrdted, that we should not take over
h islands from Spain, but restore
fN m to her upon negotiation' of peace.
I jt -we soon found such conditions ex-i-
mg as made it impossible to restore
) e islands to Spain; and on the other
ham we could not leave the inhabi
tants unilt for self -.government, to
f uggle for the mastery among them
es So that, though we did not go
tr re for territorial acquisition noth
q was further from our thought we
1 t been compelled to stay. A few
r irths after our arrival, while the ne
l lation for peace with Spain was still
1 ramp, a portion of the inhabitants
i the Island of Larson rose la insurrec
t n and attempted to expel or destroy
r soldiers. And here in the United
ates a small party, supported by a
H , oiees in congress, has been giving
t uragement to the insurgents, and
r h aid and comfort as it could, ever
f i e
There are but two countries in the
" ild -where this would be permitted
tv- United States and Great Britain.
I these countries even the abuses of
I i rt are tolerated. An intelligent
f i patriotic public opinion' is compe
t wt to deal with them; so that we
I e at times In the British parliament
i"d in the congress of the United
f- ites expressions of extreme type,
r .ken with deliberation, la juetifica-
1 n and support of the public enemy.
I ja -very rare, and then only In times
great public peril or intense na
tional agony, that such voices are si-
2 rt ed by summary proceedings. In or-
rary times Mite the present, public
. i tempt meets every requirement.
A SBRJOCS CHARGE.
Muttered complaints against the
'hods pursued by attendants In the
" ibhington asylum for the insane at
- i acoom to reduce patients to sub
j i n have for some time been heard.
I ently they have become distinctly
i a iMe. the occasion being the condl
t r of the body, after death, of Henry
I v,e. formerly a prominent politician
' Meilacootn, but latterly an Inmate of
-V- asylum. The superintendent of
V c institution, if he is wise (and in
r t nt), will court the fullest investl-
on In tats ease. His statements
fat Plate was a "difficult patient" and
V it he had "the best of care," com
I ihle of course, with his violent con
. 'ti m are good ae far as they go, but
1 ( an hardtr be maintained, under the
cumstaaoos, that they go far enough.
The should be susceptible and sub-
ted to the most positive proof.
Persons not accustomed to the oare
and restraint of the insane may rea-
nubly be supposed to know very Mt
tie about the matter. Brute force.
Ft renuously used, fe often necessary in
sealing with the more violent type of
ii aniacs Humanity, acknowledging
this Insists, however, that such force
Fh. uld not be brutally used; that there
&c limits beyond which a humane offl
ur or attendant will not go. and be
? ond which no man to justified in go-
g in controlling the Insane i asy
ums, where they are practically help
,es A maniac at large, with a gun in
h s hand, as In the case of the Clatsop
v unty rancher a few weeks ago, aad
t. maniac In the hospital, with every
i tpltance for Ms restraint without ua
i e iolence within reach, are too sep
. ate and distinct types. It follows
t t the force, or type of force, that
uld be fully justified in restraining
' t e one would be unnecessarily severe
1' the case of the other. It might, for
vample, be necessary to inflict serious
- painful injury In talcing the one
it to custodf but, being in euotsty. and
v ith only nature's weapons for aggres
ioa or dsfexiAs, it wtt warosty M-
come necessary to break a men's arm
In order to put him. to bed and strap
him down.
Ne man not specially endowed with
the kindlier graces of nature patience,
pity and mercy whereby the harsher
elements necessary to control for their
own good of the utterly Irresponsible
may be held In due subordination,
should be placed in charge of the in
sane. Of all the sins for which our po
litical system has to answer and theii
name is legion' that of giving the su
perlntendency of the insane of a state
to the politician with the strongest
"puH," regardless of his fitness or un
fitness for the trust, may well be con
sidered the most atrocious. While it Is
a discredit to our civilization that this
is so often done, it is a credit to our
humanity that the power placed hap
hazard In hands suitable or unsuitable
Is so seldom abused. It is the sacred
duty of every community to insist that
any serious charge Involving the com
fort, life and limb of a patient in an
Insane asylum, against his keepers, be
honestly, fully and without prejudice
investigated. The opportunities for
abuse in the disordered realm of insan
ity are so wide, and the tyranny of
power Is so ingrained in human nature,
that no complaint substantiated by the
bruised body and broken bones of a
dead maniac should be "hushed up"
for personal and political reasons.
A BITLESTOXH, BIG AATJ TAIX.
Thursday's vote on the gold reform
bill was the crisis of the session. Then
only was reaped the harvest sown in
1S6. The action of the house on its
own bill was a matter of no moment.
That is, It was a matter of course. The
house has been sane and honest on the
money question since 1892, and even in
1899 it forced the senate to recede from
its free-coinage amendment to the
Sherman act. The action of the con
ference to be ratified soon is also al
ready discounted as a foregone con
clusion. But the rub has been in the
senate. There, where dignity, honor
and wisdom are paraded, financial
heresy and dishonor have reigned su
preme. There, from time immemorial,
has been the citadel of currency de
basement. Except for the spasmodic
act of virtue forced upon it by the panic
of 1888, there has been no time In the
past twenty years when the senate, on
the money question would average up
to the intelligence of statesmanship in
Japan, Turkey, Chile or India.
But the battle, at length, has been
won. The Influences that lontr atro
gave us an honest-money house, at
length give us an honest-money sen
ate. It takes time to retire hold-over
senators In state legislatures, and the
six-year term of the United States sen
ate operates to keep men in office long
after their people know of their unfit
ness. So that the senate, which on
January 28, 1898, voted for the dishon
est and barbarous Teller silver reso
lution, 47 to 32, now votes for the gold
standard and currency reform, 46 to 29.
It is a momentous, a far-reaching, an
epoch-making victory. It is worth
while to scrutinize the changes in the
vote and see the effect silver has bad
on our politics.
"When the democratic party took up
silver It had undisputed control in all
departments of the government. It
had the president and vice-president.
The senate stood 47 democrats and pop
ulists to 38 republicans. The houBe
stood 229 democrats and populists to 127
republicans. The party had stood by
Its doctrine of tariff reform, civil serv
ice reform and honest money till it had
triumphed. In the election of 1892 it
saw the country register at last its ap
proval of lower duties and abandon
ment of protection, for the tariff was
the only issue. The only cloud on Its
sky was the nauseating realization that
the man it hed elected to the presi
dency was an honest man and for hon
est money. In the hour of triumph it
turned its back upon the issue that
had carried it to success, and upon the
man who alone had led It to victory
since Buchanan defeated Fremont, in
1866. Impressed with its strong posi
tion on the tariff, and with the ster
ling quality of Grover Cleveland, It
could see nothing better to do than to
cast off both. The country approved
Its view of the tariff it would take tip
something else. Cleveland was for gold
It must at all hazards take up silver.
The result appears in Thursday's
vote. Silver has driven democrats out
of the senate. Such brainy men as
Hill, Vilas, Palmer, Gray, Voorhees,
Gorman, Faulkner, Carlisle, have been
driven out and republicans are In their
seats. On the democratic side of Thurs
day's vote there is not a single repre
sentative from:
Maine Pennej Ivanla Wisconsin
Vermont Maryland Minnesota
Massachusetts West Virginia low a
Connecticut Ohio North Dakota
Rhode Island Jn liana California
Ne-w York Illinois Oregon
New Jersey Michigan
And there Is one vote on the republi
can side from:
Louisiana Nebr&eka "Waohington
Montana Colorado North Carolina
Wyoming Kentucky Idaho
Of the forty-live states of the
Union, there nre only ten -with, rno
democrats in. the senate. In XSUli
there vrere nineteen. Silver has
done it.
The changes from the vote of 189S to
the vote of 1900 have one other in
structive lesson. There are six men
who voted for the Teller silver resolu
tion who now vote for the gold reform
bill. They are:
Carter
Clark
Lla&say
Fritehard
Ehoup
"SVolcott
Jfot one man who voted for sold
in 1SOS voted for silver In 1000.
So there's an end of sllverism. All
there is to do now is to carry out the
corpse and fumigate the premises,
"Wtoen Bard of California gets to
"Washington, there will be another vote
for gold. Silver will never again hold
up Its head In the senate as it has done
for twenty years past, hold up tariff
bills, raise a club to strike down strug
gling India, browbeat timid presidents
and send "Wildmans to diplomatic
posts. The senate of the United States
has been redeemed. A man may be
long to it now and feel that as to his
rectitude and sanity the burden of
proof rests upon his accusers.
BRYAMTB IXSttCERrTV.
"Replying to Piatt," runs the Asso
ciated Press report of the final debate
on the gold-standard bill, Teller said
"the sliver people were willing to make
this campaign on the silver question,
and if the American people declared
for a gold standard, he should be ready
to accept the verdict."
All of which would be Interesting If
true, but there is no reason to believe
Teller told the truth or had any Inten
tion of telling the truth.
This was the talk in lSSfi. The Bryan-
it9 Sf&RtejHo eq before tbe people on
the money question, and then abide
by the verdict. "Well, they got a ver
dict, and how did they abide by it?
"Well, they abided by that verdict just
as the drunkard keeps bis temperance
pledge; just as Scarpia kept his prom
ise to La Tosca; just as Menendez kept
his word to the poor Florida Hugue
nots; just as "Weyler redeemed his
promises to the Cubans; just as Aguln
aldo remained loyal to Spain after he
had got his $400,000; just as Richard
kept his plighted vows to Anne.
Oh, yes, Teller is anxious to abide
by the verdict, but he and all the sil
ver crowd can't do it without assist
ance. Such aid as their feeble "will
power requires will doubtless be cheer
fully supplied by a few million voters
next November. People who can't keep
good resolutions sometimes have to be
helped by removing temptation out of
their way.
AY BREAKING FOB. THE! BRITISH.
For the first time in four months of
war, it begins to look as If the dark
ness of unbroken defeat is at last to
lift from the English campaign in
South Africa. For four months the
original main object of the campaign,
the military conquest of the Orange
Free State and the Transvaal, has been
sacrificed to the relief of Ladysmlth.
It is true that the relief of Klmberley,
first reported, Is now said to be only an
assurance that Klmberley will be in
every respect free from enemies In a
very short time. But If French has
been able to reach Klmberley with
from 6000 to 8000 men, Klmberley Is no
longer In a state of siege, and since
Lord Roberts telegraphs from Jacobs
dal, hitherto General Cronje's ad
vance base of supplies, it is very clear
that Cronje has been forced to change
his military lines.
Lord Roberts' plan of operations be
gan to develop itself at the same time
with General Butler's third movement
against the Boer forces on the Tugela.
It will be observed that General Buller
began to withdraw his forces across the
Tugela the night of February 7. Con
temporaneously with General Buller's
third attack on the intrenched enemy
on the Tugela, General Hector Mac
donald was executing his movement on
Koodersberg drift and Kopple's dam,
which, fifteen miles west of Modder
River camp, commands the wagon
road from Klmberley to Hopetown, on
the Orange river, and Douglas, on the
Vaal river. General Macdonald's move
ment indicated a renewal of the at
tempt to reach Kimberley, and he was
doubtless thrown out to secure Infor
mation for the main force of Lord Rob
erts, whose movement is evidently a
combined operation from Colenso to
Magersfontein.
This movement is a converging one
into the Orange Free State from all
sides, Introducing a large force like a
wedge between the Boers in Natal and
those on the western1 border of the Free
State. It promises to be successful in
forcing the Boers to let go of Kimber
ley entirely, and must force them ulti
mately to evacuate Stormberg and
Colesberg to escape being cut off from
the line of their retreat to the north.
General Roberts' main force will natur
ally move on the RIet valley, at whose
head Bloemfonteln lies. There cannot
be less than 15,000 mounted troops and
40,000 infantry, with about 132 guns,
In the various columns that have con
verged on. the Orange Free State under
Generals Roberts, Methuen, French and
Gatacre. Boer troops for the defense
of Bloemfonteln will necessarily be
drawn in large numbers from General
Joubert's army, on the Tugela, Gen
eral Joubert can hold the passes from
Natal Into the Orange Free State and
the Transvaal with a comparatively
small force, but he will doubtless ba
compelled to abandon the siege of
Ladysmlth. He cannot send a strong
reinforcement to the Orange Free
State without weakening his lines on
the Tugela so greatly that General
Buller, who has at least 25,000 effect
ives, allowing for all his losses, will ba
able to give the hand to Sir George
"White in Ladysmlth.
If General Joubert should make a
final desperate effort to storm Lady
smlth, he would probably fall of his
purpose In face of General Buller, who,
by constant activity, could probably
keep General Joubert's army too fully
occupied to spare a farce strong
enough to storm Ladysmlth and guard
the passes through the Drakensberg
mountains, too. If Lord Roberts suc
ceeds, the Boers will have to let go of
Ladysmlth and Natal and go to the
rescue of the Orange Free State. The
two republics must stand or fall to
gether; they burnt their bridges be
hind them when they declared war, and
it looks as if Lord Roberts' hammer
would find a weak link in their chain of
military defense somewhere between
the Orange River line and that of the
Tugela, in Natal. As early as the 10th
Inst, the Boer, agent in Brussels said
that Buller's last movement was a mere
"bluff" to divert attention from a com
bined movement of Lord Roberts
forces against Bloemfonteln. Lord
Roberts has not surprised the Boers,
and did not expect to surprise them; he
only expected to threaten them so
strongly and stiffly at all vital points
along the line from Ladysmlth to Kim
berley that they would be obliged to
let go at some point or lose all.
The legislature of South Carolina
has been very busy this winter with
highly important social questions. The
results, however, show that It has been
employed in "busy idleness," since
nothing has been accomplished in the
several gallant sorties made by reform
ers against social customs. Among
other things, an attempt was made to
prohibit the employment of children
under 12 years old in cotton mills. It
was held that mothers, and not legis
lators, were the ones to look after the
welfare of their children ,and could be
trusted to do so. Perhaps they can In
South Carolina, but the pinched faces
and stunted bodies of children In man
ufacturing towns in other sections long
ago fully demonstrated the inability of
mothers to control child-labor In the In
terests of their offspring. A bill length
ening the school term and another com
pelling education to a certain extent
were defeated. This defeat is held to
be in favor of the cotton goods Indus
try, as was also the failure of the en
deavor to raise the school age. A plan
for the protection of employes against
accidents was approved by the senate.
It failed, however, m the house, carry
ing with It the distinction of being the
sole salutary labor movement which
secured any favorable recognition from
the legislators. South Carolina is rela
tively new in meeting labor problems
and conditions. It cannot be expected
that she will learn from the experience
of New England and other old manu-
yaoturlns districts. She will learn from
her own, howefer, In due time, that
commercial and Industrial Interests
that are furthered through a levy
upon ignorance and child-life are too
costly to cultivate, and that their re
turns will operate against the prosper
ity and peace of the commonwealth.
It looks now as if the British would
be able to carry the war from Kimber
ley very rapidly towards the east and
north, through the Orange Free State
and on into the Transvaal. Lord Rob
erts has effectually turned the Boer
positions, held so long around Klmber
ley, and is sending the federal troop3
skurrying and whirling out of the coun
try. The fighting is not heavy, but the
results are very important. Kimberley
Is relieved, and the British forces are
in position to follow up their enemies,
with equal chances in the fighting.
There will be rapid penetration of the
Boer states by British columns, and If
Ladysmlth can hold out yet for a little
time, the pressure of British forces
towards the heart of the Boer country
will recall the Boers from their posi
tion in Northern Natal, for defense of
their own country. The tide at last
has turned, and the second stage of the
war has fairly begun.
The wheat fields of the state are very
generally blanketed by snow, and the
plants will therefore not be Injured by
the prevailing low temperature. Fruit
buds are, of course, exposed to the bit
ing blasts, but it is believed that they
have not advanced far enough to ba
injured, though fears are expressed, in
some localities, that the ascending sap
was caught and congealed, as in last
February, thus dealing the fruit crop
a blow "below the belt," from which It
will be slow to recover. This at best
can only be a surmise at the present
stage of development, the probability
being that relatively slight damage will
result. But, alas for the early roses,
the precocious daffodils and the ven
turesome wall flowers! They have
certainly been "nipped in the budr," and
will scarcely recover from the setback
in time to participate in the ceremonies
of Memorial day.
The most notable evidence we have
yet seen that the British army has
found It necessary to make radical
change of tactics and methods, dress
and equipage, Is supplied in a recent
letter by Frederick Villers, a noted war
correspondent. He writes:
Troops are all dressed In monotonous color
the tone of the landscape. There Is no apparent
distinctive rank, tot the respective grades are
ripped from the shoulder straps; officers carry
rifles and bayonets, frcra general to corporal,
and the Highlanders -wear a khaki apron to hide
the target of the kilt; the lances of the troopers
are colored the same hue, cannon are painted
khaki, and even the war correspondenta hae
been compelled tor dye their piebald or gray
horses with Condy'a fluid to avoid the vigilant
e e of the Boer sniper.
Here is good sense, though the lesson
has been learned at severe cost. It is
a lesson that will be minded by every
army hereafter.
Count Castellane, known In this coun
try as the husband of Anna Gould,
having for a brief space astonished
New York with the cut of his clothes
and the toploftiness of his manners,
has sailed again for France, first deign
ing to express himself satisfied -with
the status of his share of the Gould
estate, and promising to come again..
He is going home to fight a duel with
De Rodays, the editor of Figaro, he
says, and his serene promise to return
indicates the slight danger to which the
French duel exposes the valiant knights
who engage In it. As a Frenchman,
Castellane is well enough; but as the
French husband of am American heir
ess, he excites little admiration in the
country where his fortune was accu
mulated. The labor troubles In the Slocan min
ing district, British Columbia, have
been settled on a basis of eight hours'
pay for eight hours' work, and the
strike that has prevailed on a demand
of a full day's pay for eight hours'
work is practically ended. The walk
ing delegate who has for some time
been camped In that district may now
strike his tent and steal away. The
men will pay the bills in loss of wages
and the mineowners In loss of profits
on their Investment during the period
of enforced idleness caused by the
strike.
Macrum promises to make a good deal
of trouble, first and last, for the ad
ministration. It is well. The more the
better. Only so can presidents learn to
require other qualifications for the dip
lomatic service than political influence.
Mr. J. H. Fisk says "a smelter means
much more for Portland than is gen
erally supposed." The statement is a
plain and positive one, and, more than
that, Mr. Fisk gives figures that prove
its truth.
Active steps are making to prevent
the further spread of smallpox in Lane
county. This means that the disease
will be speedily stamped out, since it
can only thrive upon ignorance and
neglect.
Young Mr. Macrum's bumptiousness
and callowness admirably fit him for a
demigod of the idolatrous antis. And
there is evidence that they recognize
the fact and are preparing their in
cense. A Long-Predicted Collapse.
New York Times.
Every little while the business managers
of the organization known by the doubly
false name of "Christian Science" give
out for publication a mass of statistics
nominally showing that the number of
their well, we will be polite- for once and
call them followers. Is steadily and rap
Idly Increasing, For all we know the -data
thus presented In regard to new churches
built and thp size of their congregations
are accurate, lamentably accurate. Never
theless, these statlctlcs, like everything
else connected with the pseudo-science, are
deceptive, and the fact is that Eddyism is
already showing the signs of swift decay. It
still spreads in an ever-widening circle,
and therefore more people, probably, are
agitated by it today than yesterday, but
complete calm is already establishing itself
at the original center of commotion, and
that, too, la extending fast. Nobody who
has paid careful attention to the matter
can have failed to note the large number
of persons, formerly affiliated more or less
closely and enthusiastically with the cult,
who have now abandoned It altogether, or
whose interest Is cooling. The proselytes
continue to multiply and for the time be
ing they more than make up for the back
sliders, but the process in operation can
have only one end. The "scientists" raise
a single big crop almost everywhere, but
the same land never produces twice, and
famine follows quickly after the feast.
Soon there will be no new ground to take
up, and then no more will be heard of this
particular set of cultivators. Mrs. Eddy
has made the fatal error of becoming
ridiculous. She prospered on denunciation.
J but success intoxicated her and she lost
her shrewdness. Now her pretensions are
too absurd for the endurance of any ex
cept those financially Interested In the de
fense of her theories, and her book agents
must go further and further afield with
every week that passes. Tbl3 Is a matter
of small consequence to "Mother," for
she had and utilized many years for her
own enrichment. The situation, however,
must be extremely painful to those belatea
exploiters of credulity who are endeavoring
to duplicate her achievements.
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THE OUTLOOK FOB, COTTON.
Very Hopeful in Product and Manu
factures. Baltimore Sun.
The New York World states that a
South Carolina cotton mill la Importing
from Egypt all the cotton It consumes,
In order to manufacture yarn of a qual
ity that cannot be made out of the Ameri
can product. Not many years ago most
of the cotton of South Carolina was
either exported or was manufactured In
Northern mills. Today the Palmetto state
manufactures two-thirds of the cotton
produced in the state, and if the present
rate or progress continues, will soon
manufacture It all, and more besides.
The development of cotton manufactur
ing In the South has just begun. Not only
will Southern mills compete with those of
New England for the domestic market,
but in time they may compete In the mar
kets of the world with the British and
Continental manufacturers. Hundreds of
thousands of bales of raw cotton pro
duced in the South and exported to Great
Britain and the Continent might be manu
factured at home and sent abroad in the
shape of cotton cloth. In 1S9S the United
States exported raw cotton to the amount
of $230,000,000, approximately. The exports
of manufactured cotton were valued at
$17,000,000. Our exports of manufactured
cotton were less than V per cent of the
exports of the raw staple. Under new con
ditions, with the multiplication of mills
and the introduction of Improved machin
ery, the South may In good time Invade
the markets now supplied by the mills of
Great Britain.
The cotton crop of the United States in
1897-98 was 10,897,857 bales, of which Amer
ican mills consumed 3,443,581 bales. The
crop for 1S99-1900 will probably not be as
large as In the preceding year. The Egyp
tian crop for 1899-1900 is estimated at
1,200,000 bales, and the Indian crop at
1,090,000 bales. The shortage In the Egyp
tian and Indian crop Is estimated at 794.100
bales. The increased consumption for 1S99
1900 Is estimated at 600,000 bales. The
world's consumption for 1899-1900 is esti
mated as follows: Continent of Europe,
4,SS8,000 bales; Great Britain, 3,588,000;
Northern states of 'United States, 2,496,000;
Southern states, 1,560 000; other countries,
1,924,000; total, 14,456,000 bales. Assuming
that the American crop Is no larger than
some estimates. 8 929,000 bales, there will
be an apparent shortage of about 700,000
bales, If all visible supplies are exhausted.
This, however, Is not regarded as likely to
occur.
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Bad Logic of Senator Hoar.
Chicago Tribune.
In a long article In the latest issue of
Collier's Weekly, Senator Hoar sets forth
anew his oft-repeated adjuration to give
the Philippine arohlpelago to Aguinaido.
The senator complains that the "imperial
ists" will not listen to his logic. "We tell
them," he says, "that there is a people in
Luzon, and that this people have achieved
their independence. The senator's gram
mar is as badly mixed as his logic, and
the faulty nature pf both arises from the
same cause. Senator Hoar calls upon the
United States to treat the Filipinos the
same as the Cubans, and in order to do
so he must assume that the Filipinos axe
a united nation, while everybody knows
they are composed of many diverse and
antagonistic tribes. If it were a matter
of turning over the Islands to the most
persistent Insurgents, the archipelago
should be given, not to Aguinaldo and his
Tagals, but to the wild natives of Min
danao, who hate the Tagals, and who
held the Spaniards at bay for 200 years
without Intermission. The Massachusetts
I senator says that the Tagals had achieved
their independence before the treaty of
Paris was signed, and that "Spain had
neither right nor power over Luzon when
she undertook to sell it." Does Senator
Hoar doubt for a moment that Spain
would have sent its Cuban army to Ma
nila as soon as It had lost Cuba, and that
the Spanish flag would today be upheld In
Luzon by the methods of Weyler? Spain
would no more have surrendered Luzon
to the Tagals than it did Minadanao to
the Moros, though It might have kept
the island In turmoil for years until some
European nation Intervened to stop the
disorder, as we did In Cuba. The sen
ator's assertions of Tagal Independence
and of Spanish loss of sovereignty are
alike Incorrect, and the conclusions based
upon these assertions are necessarily fal
lacious. ... o
Just Another Peftigre-w.
Chicago Times-Herald.
Not long ago Senator Lodge read a let
ter from Admiral Dewey which flatly con
tradicted certain statements that had been
made concernins the writer by Senator
Pettigrew. Wednesday it was Senator
Depew's turn to perform a similar ser
vice for Professor Schurman. Pettigrew
had said of the professor that he had
tried to bribe the Filipino insurgents and
failed. "They would not take gold for
peace." In his letter to Depew Schurman
says: "Had this preposterous statement
been made anywhere else I should not
have paid any attention to it; but as It
has been made In tho senate of the United
States I desire to say to you that It la
absolutely without foundation."
We can readily understand how Pettl
grew's ofilcial position should make his
deviations from the truth particularly an
noying to those who are misrepresented
by them, but he is becoming more harm
less every day through the very persist
ence with which he prevaricates. It ap
pears that he "till reiterates his charges
against Admiral Dewey and Professor
Schurman. Their denials have not af
fected him In ever so slight a degree. Yet
It is evident, first, that they are men
whose veracity cannot be questioned, and,
second, that they speak with fujl knowl
edge of their own acts, while Pettigrew
13 merely trying to fortify his theories
with stuff he has picked up second hand
from Aguinaldo and others.
At the present rate It will not be long
before the fact that he makes a state
ment will be sufficient to establish Its neg
ative. And in time perhaps senatorial
courtesy may take to saving Itself In the
heat of debate by calling any old whopper
a Pettigrew.
Gloryine; in Their Shame.
New York Times.
Among the reasons given by the amiable
Richard Franklin Pettigrew, the senator
from South Dakota or is he from the Al
caldia Mayor de la Pampanga? Jn sup
port of his demand that a certain docu
ment which may or may not have been
written by his revered friend, Aguinaldo,
should be printed at the expense of the
United States government, there was one
reason of a very peculiar nature. "The
great journals of the country," he said bit
terly, "are not open to the publication of
the facts regarding this subject," and a
moment later he put the same Idea In an
other form "the great newspapers are
supporting the policy of the administra
tion, and we are driven to this course In
order to get the facts to the people through
the mails." Just what the senator means
by "great" newspapers It Is a bit hard to
tell. Perhaps the Springfield Republican
could cast eome light on that question,
provided, of course. It Is not too much an
noyed by Mr. Pettlgrew's decidedly un
grateful and rather cruel denial of the
pleasant adjective to Itself. One may safe
ly assume, however, that the senator In
tended to charge all the really Influential
organs of publicity In the United States
with having agreed to support the admin
istration's foreign policy through thick and
thin, and to exclude from their columns
all news, no matter how Important or In
teresting, that would tend to weaken that
policy In popular esteem. Wc are not un-
1 charitable enough to suppose that Senator
Pettigrew seriously believes any such
thing, but he certainly talks as if he did.
and that Is very surprising. It seems to us
that he Is utterly mistaken as to the effect
which his remarks will produce on the
people. They will simply laugh at the
"conspiracy of silence" Idea, but they wttl
be made extremely thoughtful by hte ex
plicit admission that anti-expansion, so
called, has no newspaper advocacy worth
taking Into aeoount. Such unanimity la
sJgniflcent of much In a laad where a geed
cause never yet lacked good advocates and
a lot of them.
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True as Gospel.
New York Tribune.
From the career of that other BagUsh-
man lately seed, Mr. G. W. Steeveas, the
war correspondent, cut off on the field of
duty In his 30th year, there Is a lesson
to be drawn which writers of every class
might well ponder. "He did his work as
correspondent so brilliantly," sold Lord
Kitchener, "and he never gave the slight
est trouble." In other words, he labored
under endless restrictions the sirdar being
a past master In the art of censorship
but was always wllHng, and did work the
brilliancy of which is acknowledged on
all sides. He proved once more that re
strictions mean nothing to the maR who
has the gift to do his work well. One of
the commonest complaints among medi
ocre writers Is that they would do splen
did work If they only had the chance; If
they were allowed by their editors to
say Just what they wanted to say; If they
could be as" "artistic" as they ohose. de
spite Mrs. Grundy; If they were not asked
to waste their time on Journalistic bread
winning, but were subsidized by a fond
public while they did "creative" work; If,
In short, everything were to be done fer
them that means coddling and considera
tion. The competent writer asks for ne
coddllner. He does not even kick against
the pricks when heavy restrictions are laid
upon him. He simply buckles to his work
with the more effort and enthusiasm. He
plays not only the part of the writer, but
the part of a man. Lord Kitchener's trib
ute to Mr. Steeevens is, in a way, that
lamented writer's best epitaph.
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Gubernatorial Salaries.
Chicago Tribune.
The Iowa house passed a bill raising the
salary of the governor to $8000 a year, and
adding to it house rent and other allow
ances equivalent to ?11G0 additional. The
governor now receives J3000 a year. The
action of the Iowa legislature for it is
regarded as certain that the bill will be
come a law Is in accord with the drift
In these days towards higher salaries for
officials. Six governors- now receive more
than $6100 annually. The governors of
New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania
get $10,000 each, Ohio pays Mr. Nash $5000,
and the same amount goes to W. Murray
Crane of Massachusetts for guarding the
sacred codfish. Kentucky will pay $8600
to either Mr. Taylor or Mr. Beckham, as
may be determined later, and no one can
deny that the governor of the Blue Grass
state has responsibilities In these days that
are well -north the salary, even though
there Is such keen competition for the
place. California and Illinois pay their
chief magistrates each $8000. The lowest
salary paid anywhere Is In Oregon and
Vermont, each of which states pays $1500
a year, which Is $1100 a year less than la
paid the territorial governors and $2600
less than is received by Governor Rein
hold Sadler, of Nevada, a man who Is sure
ly not overworked.
Oregon's governor revives in fees fully
$3000 more than the constitutional salary.
The statlsclans ought to find this out
after a while.
Christian Science and the Bar.
PORTLAND, Feb. 15. (To the Editors
Permit me to offer a word of approval of
Mr. W. M. Gregory's brief for the Chris
tian Scientists In today's Issue of your
paper. His defense of so-called faith cures
by attacking physicians 2s very fetch
ing and the points he raises against them
have often occurred to me. By way of Il
lustration, however, I have always been
most Impressed with the hellowness of
"professional pretensions, through contem
plation of the bar. Medicine, we all know,
is not always synonymous with healing,
but no more so Is law synonymous with
justice. How many scoundrels walk the
earth today unrestrictedly In pursuit of
fresh victims, because some unscrupulous
lawyer has saved them, from condign pun
ishment? How many broken homes might
have been kept Intact, how many reputa
tions untarnished, how many ruined men
still In possession of dwelling and busi
ness, If lawyers consulted had proved
themselves men Instead of scamps? I offer
these reflections In support of Mr. Greg
ory's contention that bad doctors prove
the right of Christian Scient'sts to kill
the sick with their Ignorance and cupid
ity, and I submit they are equally rele
vant. PHOHBE.
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The "Old" Democratic Troth.
Jacksonville Times-Union, dem.
Mr. Bryan says he holds to the silver
Issue as paramount because he will not
rest while a few "English bankers "rule
70,000,000 Americans." If he believes this,
he Is about 10 years behind the day we
have paid up our debt to those bankers,
and New York will soon be the financial
capital of Christendom instead of London.
We now sell more than we buy from Eu
rope, and she Is sending our mortgages
and bonds home to pay for her bread and
bacon soon she will be offering us mort
gages on her railways and asking us to
discount her government 3 per cents.
Mr, Bryan should look Into these matters
while he Is lecturing to financiers In the
enemy's country. Massachusetts and all
republicandom now asks for "open ports,"
which Is but the cant phrase for free trade,
and converts for democracy should ba
gained rapidly In the effete East, just be
ginning to see the star of her salvation
shining overhead In the serene blue, to
which our staesmen have so long di
rected the eyes kept down on the mlra
of earth's foul ways. Truth Is mighty and
is prevailing the old democratic truth.
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He Meant All Right.
Harlem Life.
Miss Fisher I really don't think I shall
take part again In theatricals. I always
feel as though I were making a fool of
myself.
Pilklns (who always says the wrong
thing) Oh, everybody thinks that.
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In Thorough Subjection.
Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Meeker, who had gone to the front
door to answer the postman's ring, put his
head inside the door of the room where
his wife was sitting.
"It's a letter for me, my dear," he said.
"Shall I open Jt?"
Unsatisfactory Retaraa.
Yonkers Statesman.
Bill Were you at the prizefight?
Jill Yes.
"Who got the worst of It?"
"The fellows who paid the highest price
for seats."
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Thy Will Be Done.
John Hay.
Not In dumb resignation e
We lift our hands on higrh; ' r
Not like the nerveless fatalist
Content to trust and die. - ;
Our faith springs Hke the eagla
Who soars to meet the sua,
And ories exulting unto Thee,
O Lord! Thy will be dead v
When tyrant feet are- tramping
Upon the commonweal.
Thou dost not bid us bend aad writhe
Beneath the Iron heel.
In Thy same we assort our right.
By sword or tongue or ea;
And e'en the headsman's ax may flash
Thy message uate men.
Thy will! It bids the weak be etrang.
It bids the strong be Jueti
No Up te fawn, bo hand te beg.
No brow to seek tae dust.
Wherever man oppresses man
Beneath Thy liberal ami,
O Lord, be there Thine arm m4e bare,
Thy graotote will be donel
NOTE A0 C0MM13CT,
Wanted. A oblosak. Adssettf geneval
puhHe, Portlaad, Oc
Cecil Rhodes ewes Bobs- a geM
headed case, er a silk hai, a ?
least.
If Bryan really ywusaB got htte she
enemy's eeeafcry, be" settsc to tbe
3QHCLl&
A skater who Is Bff J wt always
feels awkward aad omsarroooq wastt tbe
ice Is broken.
All Bagtaad has been SeeMaer ac Xfa&-
berley, aad wsX rejotse te Mam M
French has reaebed K.
Theatrical raas&gess b aeed ef avMgM-nlag-ohaage
epeelalty will do weltHo ea-
sult February weasber.
Now that FlHotae barbarity- has bees
brought heme te MacoaahMootta, eb
the legislature of that state wMt soaoa
slder Hs vote ef aonidome hi Hoar.
Theugfe 1Mb Traasva&l
Is a fright te uaowetaed,
I have got se I oaa read. It
(To myself) to beat tbe bass:
But Mere is ee tktag that has fleered ne,
For I ea.aSwl out far sura
If the Beer 1s te the Xagar
Or tbe Laager's to the Beer.
NetUe Dickey, ef Staatee, Del., has- jost
returned to bar borne, after leading tbe life
of a tramp for several years. During
that tune she ebeoped weed fer a Hy
ing, slept la1 empty boxcars awl lived la
cheap lodging-houses, ibe vMted tbe
principal eltiea, m tbe Uarted States, and
te now willlRg to abawden her rovtas ate
and settle te. Btaatea.
Tbe boedte erops
Ae thlalc as baas.
Or deHar atgaa on M. A. Haeeart
And every at
Hatf ctetfgk te It
Blew, boaster. Maw.
Blew tot yaw aatot kt ttytas
Te land a otnaasMawr's J
By buying, bertee. beyfeg.
The f ollewlsg Is roercduaod se tbe ver
dict of a eereser's jury ompoand ef
negroes, published HMwy yeans age-: "We
de unerslgned, having been aseteted &
coroner's jury ob dtegset, te sit a de body
ob de nlggar Sam. Price, sew dead and
gone afore us, nab beea settia' en de body
ob de nigger aforesaid, did, on de sight ob
de fusteeath ob Febvuay, cesse to bia
death by falllR frees beMge eb de
riber into said rlber, where be wee subee-
comely drowaded, aad aJterwacde washed
to de shore, where we seese be frees
to def."
A few days age tbe JBmeoria. (Kan.)
Gazette printed this barlooqwo "a
which might appear hi tbe Rev. Mr. Shel
don's Chrtetiaa dally:
"Wanted A Christian mam wants money
to Invest. Will guarantee m per cent
per month. No ebaaee to lose, as every
thing wHl be maaagaft by Uarfeuane.
Address Brother Bolton, this oface."
The editor bad ne Idea that anybody
would take R seriously, but a widow saw
It and answered It. A reporter called on
her, and found that she actually had Jt909
to lend to a good Christian, wbe must
have a cerUfleate frost bte aaeaer that
he attends eburch aad arayer ateettsg
regularly. She asked so other seeurKy.
I corae f rem devpi Bear CNaaha, ,
I make a- sedftaa . . t
Aad traval gay a asi. dews.
The Misesipel v&tfca.
I chatter. oeaar wlge,
Along the araeked riven
Far mee may eome awl men may ge.
But I talk as forever.
I make a few pottte Mesarks.
-When passing- threes Mtesowrt
The robber kings hi HthMts
I lash with awful fery.
I skate aarsse to aM ICeataak,
Te see my frfead. the uifcualj
And teH the J&je m Tsnaooooo
That trusts are aM tefesnal.
I talk and talk and talk aad talk.
With here aad there a 8uaanyt
Bat. theugh I rest awhile that day,
I'm talking early Mandayt
Tilt last to Jersey state I ge
"Wlthi resetote endoaver
The tyrant trusts to overthrew.
White I talk ob ferever.
The admirers of Daniel Webster, and
there are many of them yet, notwithstand
ing Whittler's lament for Icbabod, will
rejoice that the bUl, approved by Secre
tary Long, Governor RoUtns, ef New
Hampshire; Senator Hear and Ledge, and
by all the Massachusetts representatives
in congress, will shortly be mtredueed la
the legislature of that state, tbe object
of which Is to have the whole of tbe Web
ster estate at Marsbfield taken, by pur
chase o1 otherwise, by tbe harbor and
land commissioners, aad maintained for
ever as a publle perk and memorial to
the great New England rater and states
man. It was at Marsbneld Webstar spent
many of his happiest aad bis last days,
and to the adjacent Pilgrim graveyard
he lies burled. Tbe eeeameawealth should
own the Webster homestead aad ras-a-taln
it as a place ef pilgrimage aad aa
enduring memorial ef the gteat New
Englander's fame.
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The Soagr UnsHBgr.
Mary Haaord Far la CMesge Past.
There Is many a lovely sang aasuag
In the hearts ef mere today.
Like tho wearying strings of a bre HsetruB
And the trill eC a luting lay,
-Whleh a happjr maMea has chanted there
But te end Is a thrilling prayer.
The song of a morning of iey Mght.
A-qrver with golden dew;
The song of a forest dark aad height.
And the gladsome oall to yew
Of myriad robins earottag altar
To bring you the math sheer.
Bat the song Is kwt aa the ear aanande
With its darkening cans la ImGl
And each of Its balefal nhaaawo laaes
Te the poet Hs haprioa See,
Till the evaaiag hoar Is meatKd. eased.
And Its winged hopes are aeadt
Ah. sense of the people la haakea hearts.
And what ean your mocoaaa be?
Teur gyms ota aie nuaawoa la meey parts;
Aad Jangled year mole ay;
Tu drop as nm tears la a aop dawn well;
Each, tear of its moaning fan.
Bat each pale man hi die anriiaaang Mae,
Sack woman aad falattag' ahtM
Holds fast te Ma heart thwugh me day's de
cline Te the ebhetng ox mania wtfct.
Whkh. oehoiag sttil la the seal's sack aeH,
C3JS HGVQIT MB SA6MMI WHb
Do yoa thtek that the muela la ever last
So broken aad seartated thapot
That she song aaa ba matted out fsaaa Ms fiuat
And prismed. aa wmtulh meat
That the reels agate oaa ripple aadswtag
On the Joy of the morning's wtegl
Ah, 91' Thott eanet bwttd of ear arohoo tors
The perfecteet rounded ring.
And oat of oar symfcote aad mi'thwa worn
Together can Mad aad ttmg
A srmaaony's geMea aad aerate ahum,
A ladder of silver seeff
So sweet, te the fast mat the worm mart Jam
J Find e'oa heaven? pathway iaac