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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2S
INCREDIBLE BLINDNESS.
Why do Republican Senators and
Representatives stick and stickle as
they do on the Puerto Rico tariff bill?
The course they pursue is fatuous, be
yond precedent. Is it possible that
they have come to believe that they are
incontestably right and the -whole peo
ple -wrong-? It seems so. Here is ex
treme presumption. And yet the man
ner in -which they shift and vacillate
proves they are not sure. Our special
reports indicate that they are troubled
about their "consistency," about "the
necessity of holding the party to
gether," about the "fear of defeat of a
party measure in Congress." That is.
If a -wrong step has been taken, it is
discreditable to right it.
This view of the cause of the strange
action of the Republicans in Congress
on this question is supported by the
inquiries of the Chicago Inter Ocean.
That Journal is one of the uncompro
mising Republican newspapers of the
country. In common -with nearly the
whole body of the Republican press, it
has steadfastly opposed the Puerto
Rlcan tariff bill and Implored the Re
publicans in Congress not to pass it;
both because such act would be unjust
to Puerto Rico and Injurious if not
disastrous to the Republican party.
The editor of the Inter Ocean, in order
to satisfy himself as to the mystery of
this persistence in pushing the Puerto
Rico bill, and to obtain Information
that he might publish to people of the
West, went to Washington. There he
devoted himself to an effort "to ascer
tain what subtle and mysterious influ
ence it was, which in the face of rea
son, conscience, right and expediency
was moving Republican Representa
tives and Senators to force, if possible,
the Iniquitous Puerto Rico tariff down
the throats of the American people."
He states the result of his Inquiry.
It is simply this: A party issue has
been forced on this question, and the
cry is, "Stand by the organization!"
The bill Itself Is no longer defended
as a just or necessary or consistent
measure. "The Whole question has
been brought down to the Issue of
naked strength. Can the bill be passed?
Can the Republicans of the Senate "bo
lashed Into line, as were the Repub
licans of the House?"
But the Senate may amend the bill.
Then it must go back to the House.
Many Republican members of the
House who voted for it regret their ac
tion; but under the party whip will
they not vote for the amended bill? It
seems probable they will. For, -as the
journal we have quoted says: "In their
eyes this Congressional organization
fills the whole Armament, although it
is but a small speck on the horizon of
the great Republican party in the
United States."
Here also is the inspiration of their
fatuous complaint against the Republi
can press of the United States. These
men suppose themselves masters of the
country, and are Indignant and angry
at criticism by presa and people. Can
they suppose they are so firmly seated
in power as to be beyond danger of a
fall? It is amazing presumption.
Such treatment of our new acquisi
tions will completely nullify the policy
of expansion. Why did we take these
islands from Spain? Why did we in
sist on their cession to us? Merely to
stultify ourselves? We cannot hold
these islands on such basis; and If th,ls
is to be our policy we may as well
withdraw, withe ut more ado.
Jl'STICE FOR COLONEL BRYAN.
One familiar result of the crime of
73 was the low price of cotton. In the
wheat country the argument of Bryan
and his fellow-statesmen assured us
that we could never have higher prices
for wheat till -we had -16 to 1. In the
South they told the planter that 16 to 1
was the only thing that could give
him higher prices for cotton. We
have lived to see the error of the wheat
and silver parallel columns, and now
the South is learning the folly of de
pending on 16 to 1 to help cotton or
fearing the gold standard to injure it.
Silver is about where it was, but cot
ton is 10 cents a pound. All the prom
ises and prophecies of the silver fellows
have come to grief. We not only have
the gold standard, but we have it
harder than ever. A gold-standard law
has been enacted containing more re
formatory provisions than the most de
praved silverite ever had the temerity
to predict. Yet in spite of declaration
that under the gold standard we could
have nothing better than 5-cent cotton,
the price keeps going up. Cotton takes
the deadly gold-standard poison and
fairly seems to thrive on it.
A good deal of complaint is being
made in Democratic papers throughout
the South that Colonel Bryan contin
ues to harp on 16 to 1 in spite of this
awkward performance of cotton. Yet
in justice to the Colonel it must be said
that these papers seem rather unrea
sonable than otherwise. Colonel Bryan
is the avowed only available candidate
for the Democratic nomination this
year. What would his critics have?
They certainly can't expect him to
change front on the money question, or
even through silence discredit the sol
emn warnings and admonitions he so
assiduously repeated in 1896. If the
crime of '73 still cries unavenged to
heaven; if the gold standard is still a
crown of thorns for labor and a cross
of gold on which it is proposed to cru
cify mankind; if 16 to 1 is the only thing
that can save us from financial ruin
and industrial slavery, what else can
the Colonel do but cry aloud and spare
not?
On the other hand, if these things
look funny now in the light of experi
ence, can any one reasonably expect the
only self-confessed candidate to keep
silent about them and thus give his
opponents the chance to say that Bryan
was wrong in 1896 and may possibly
be wrong in 1900? Obviously not. Take
it any way you will, the Colonel must
still stand for 16 to 1. It is Just as true
as it was then. There is the same ne
cessity for "bimetallsm," independent,
international, or any other kind, that
there was then. There is, in fact, even
more, if anything, because the gold
standard has been fastened on us
harder than ever and the financial ruin
and industrial slavery the gold stand
ard has already achieved for England,
France and Germany promise to be
extended to Japan, India and perhaps
even China.
The need of a voice crying in the
wilderness for silver was never greater
than it is today. If the Colonel's voice
doesn't fall him, he ought to be elected
by the same tremendous majority he
got in 1896.
THE RUTLAND BANK SCANDAL.
This Is a remarkable story that
comes from Rutland, VL, of the con
tinued peculation of a National 'bank
cashier, running through years, and in
volving at discovery nearly $150,000. In
view of the new currency reform bill,
and its liberal provisions for the Na
tional banks, the episode deserves, as it
will receive, considerable attention from
the public.
Cashier Mussey's operations show the
inability of laws to make a man hon
est, however stringently they are de
vised, unless their provisions for in
spection and supervision are strictly
adhered to. This scandal and catas
trophe will show the cashier's infamy;
but the responsibility is not his alone.
It falls upon the directors of the bank
and upon the National Bank Examiner.
The sequel may show that part of the
responsibility should be traced farther
back, to the President who appointed
an unfit man to office, and the United
States Senators who vouched for him.
For all we know, the Bank Examiner
who was deceived by the cashier may
be a counterpart of Archie Johnson, '
the financial expert of the Forks of the
Santiam, whom President McKlnley
has Just made a Bank Examiner at the
behest of Senator McBride.
The laws are specific and rigid
enough to prevent crimes of this kind
if they are properly administered. A
National bank must not lend more
than one-tenth of Its capital to one
person, corporation or firm, directly or
indirectly, nor lend money on the secur
ity of its own shares unless taken as
security for a debt previously contract
ed in good faith. No bank can become
Indebted to an amount exceeding Its
unimpaired capital, except for circu
lating notes, deposits, drafts against its
own funds and dividends due to its own
shareholders. No bank can hypothe
cate its own notes. No bank can per
mit any part of its capital to be with
drawn. In addition to the provisions
for examining and making public the
accounts of the banks, it is required
that shareholders be liable for the debts
of the bank to an amount equal to the
par value of their shares, in addition
to the amount Invested therein. Pro
visions as to winding up the bank's
business are also carefully drawn, so
as to protect the depositors in all possi
ble ways. If the bank directors and
the National Bank Examiners had- done
their duty In this Rutland case, the
cashier's malfeasance could never naVe
reached a point where restitution would
have involved any serious strain on the
shareholders. The bank's capital stock
paid in is $100,000, and its loans and dis
counts between $300,000 and $400,000.
The dispatches put its present de
posits at $351,000; so that with ordi
nary circumspection no such amount
as $145,000 could possibly be extracted
from the bank's funds without detec
tion. It is not likely that over $30,000
in actual cash is ever on hand in the
bank for any length of time.
The main point, however, is that of
all the National bank notes issued by
this Rutland bank and scattered in the
circulation everywhere throughout the
country, not a dollar will be lost to its
holders. The notes are secured by Gov
ernment bonds on deposit at Washing
ton. The new currency law will add
"more money" to the circulation, but
It will be this kind of "money," as good
as gold, secured by Government bonds,
and sure of maintenance at the gold
standard.
Why doesn't the Senate, in which
there is a strong Republican majority,
confirm W. D. Bynum, nominated by
the President to.be one of the General
Appraisers of the Customs? His fit
ness for the place is unquestioned.
Democrats are incensed against him
because he, a gold-standard Democrat,
refused to support Bryan, and exerted
a powerful Influence in Indiana against
the free-coinage 'craze and the Chicago
platform. His nomination to an im
portant office was a very proper recog
nition by the President of the gold
standard Democrats of the country,
who have received scant consideration
all round. Yet the Republicans of the
Senate refuse or neglect -to confirm
him, because they seem to think him an
Interloper. Senators want to dictate
such appointments, and Bynum is no
Senator's factotum or protege. This
same feeling of jealousy of gold Dem
ocrats, on the part of narrow Republi
cans, is witnessed everywhere. It is
reported in the organization of the work
of our political campaign, now at hand.
It may be just as well for various parts
of Oregon, where the party cuckoos ob
ject to any recognition of these former
Democrats, to remember that as there
were not votes enough to beat Bryan in
Oregon, in 1896, without this class of
men, so this year there will not be;
and men are not likely to act heartily
with a party that refuses them fellow
ship. In dealing with the rioters and mur
derers of Coeur d'Alene, Governor
Steunenberg proved himself a strong
and courageous man; and he gains ad
ditional credit by bis unequivocal and
emphatic avowal of his own sole re
sponsibility for the proceedings taken
to bring the criminals to justice. The
effort of the Lentz-Sulzer committee at
Washington to make capital for Bryan
Ism out of this affair is one of the most
discreditable of recent demagogic en
deavors. Opposition to maintenance of
order, to protection of property and to
punishment of mobs that blow -up
mines, destroy factories and railroad
depots and hold up the traffic of the
country, is a cardinal tenet of Bryan
ism. On this basis men like Lents and
Sulzer denounce a brave executive like
Governor Steunenberg. Yet Steunen
berg was himself elected as a Populist,
but, having official responsibility to
meet, he met it as he ought; and he
gains the applause of the country by a
firm avowal of his responsibility and
open defense of the necessity and
righteousness of his action.
THERE WILL BE NO EXECUTIONS.
Rudyard Kipling, In a recent letter to
the London Times, urges that England
should follow up her military suppres
sion of the Boer war with a few state
trials and executions for treason, such
as followed the suppression of the Ca
nadian rebellion of 1837. This stupid
recommendation illustrates how a man
of literary genius may be utterly des
titute of political common sense. There
is not the slightest cause for appre
hension that England will act affirma
tively on this lunatic counsel of Kip
ling. It is true that Great Britain in
1803 executed Robert Emmet for trea
son, but Robert Emmet was something
responsible for stimulating a rising of
the mob inDublln, which resulted in
the cold-blooded murder of Judge Kll
warden, and Robert Emmet was the
last Irish rebel that was executed for a
political crime. Hindoo rebels were ex
ecuted In the mutiny of 1857, but they
were military mutineers, whose hands
were stained with the blood of
helpless English women and chil
dren; who had murdered their ven
erable commanding officers on pa
rade. It is true that there were some
executions for "treason" early in the
century in South Africa, but nearly a
century has elapsed since that date,
when the law and practice under it in
all Europe for political offenses was in
line with the inhuman code of capital
punishment for theft and forgery.
Even in the case of the Canadian co
lonial Insurrection of 1837, after the
executions -which followed the sharp
but short-lived fighting between the
British, troops and Sir John Colborne
and the rebels, the.pollcy of Lord Dur
ham, who was sent out from England
to pacify Canada, was humane and lib
eral. Canada was granted home rule,
and within a few years all the really
able and influential fugitive leaders of
the rebellion, like Paplneau, were per
mitted to return to Canada.
There Is.no nation in Europe that has
been so humane in its punishment of
purely political crimes within the last
fifty years as Great Britain. Compare
the humanity of France under Louis
Napoleon; the humanity of Austria
toward the Hungarians; the humanity
of Russia toward the Poles; the hu
manity of Spain toward Cuba, and it
will be confessed that Great Britain
has been comparatively lenient In her
punishment of political offenses. As
late as 1871 the French Republic under
Thiers executed the rebels of the Com
mune ruthlessly after battle, and de
ported them by hundreds- to the convict
camps of Cayenne and New Caledonia.
There is not the slightest doubt that
Great Britain will be as statesmanlike
in her humanity after victory aa the
United States was after the Civil War.
Indeed, the action and proclamation of
Lord Roberts thus far show plainly
that he has been Instructed by his
Government to lose no opportunity for
conciliation of the people of the Orange
Free State. The absence of bitterness
between the combatants when they
meet in hospital or in captivity, or
under flag of truce, is significant. The
counsels of Kipling were probably
prompted by his Intercourse with some
colonials who have lost property or suf
fered some personal indignity at the
hands of some of the Boers under their
temporary occupation of North Cape
Colony and Natal. But this is to be ex
pected in all wars. ,
It was natural for Thad Stevens to
feel an increased bitterness toward the
Confederacy after General Early had
burned his Iron works in the Gettys
burg campaign, and lesser men than
Stevens were always bitter over losses
suffered by war in border states, like
Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. But
there is not the slightest evidence that
the British Government has any in
tention to square its future policy
toward the South African Republics in
line with colonial prejudice voiced by
Rudyard Kipling. It is not surprising
that Kipling should be the author of
such stupid counsels, for while no peo
ple were more prompt than our own to
recognize his genius, or treat him with
courtesy, of no people has Kipling writ
ten more bitter, unjust and shameful
abuEe than he has of the United States.
No English author since the appear
ance of Dickens' "American Notes" in
1843 has been so unfair as Kipling. His
bitter abuse of America and his bar
barous counsels to Great Britain serve
to Illustrate the fact that a man may
have genuine literary genius and yet be
a very small-souled, mean-tempered,
contemptible man, of vast Intellectual
limitations. He is not the first man of
genius who is a cad. and he probably
will not be the last.
By telegraph four or five days ago
we had the statement that a receiver
had been appointed for the great pub
lishing house of D. Appleton & Co., but
there were no particulars as to the fail
ure. These are now supplied. Coming
so soon after the failure of Harper &
Brothers this announcement has awak
ened much Interest throughout the coun
try, and It created a real sensation in
New York, where it is the general be
lief that the failure is a direct and im
mediate consequence of the collapse of
the Harpers, though the two houses
had little connection, save In a friendly
way. But since the mishap to the Har
pers the banks have been close with
publishing houses, and the Appletons
therefore were unable to obtain money,
as usual, for their current obligations.
The house had been accustomed to bor
row from $100,000 to $300,000 at a time,
to tide over short periods when its own
capital was locked up in publication of
books, but after the failure of the
Harpers the financiers were no longer
so ready to supply money to the Apple
tons. The firm found itself with a tre
mendous business on hand, but unable
to borrow money though it never had
failed in a single obligation. Its lia
bilities are set down at $3,604,000, with
excess of assets amounting to $2,446,
000; but there were bills payable to the
amount of $1,140,000, yet no source from
which an immediate supply of money
could be drawn. Of the bills receivable,
a very large sum nearly $1,000,000 was
on the installment-contract plan, and
therefore, not immediately available.
The real cause of the failure is attrib
uted to this method of doing business
though it is asserted that the assets- are
perfectly good, yet too slow to enable
the house to meet Its. maturities. The.
house began in 1825, in connection with
a dry goods business, which its founder,
Daniel Appletonr had started in Boston.
It was first established in New York
in 1830.
An "open Winter" is pleasant while
it is in progress, but it has its draw
backs. Here, for example, comes the
strawberry man, far in advance of the
sjeason, predicting a shortage in the
strawberry crop, because, owing to the
open Winter, the plants have bloomed
continuously, thus becoming too weak
to perfect fruit; while the rose fancier
Is abroad with sprays and other de
vices to rid his rose bushes, of the
green aphis that literally swarm the
tender shoots, remarking sadly, "We
had no weather cold enough to kill the
pestiferous things." The tent caterpil
lar will be heard from later on, and
tho festive cut-worm, with his abnor
mal appetite for cabbage and tomato
plants and other green stuff, and the
snails and what not. But we did have
a glorious Winter. Let us not forget
that, nor fail to remind ourselves that
Insect pests flourish unless persistently
fought every Spring and far into the
Summer. These creatures are among
the camp followers of civilization, of
cultivation. And while the Oregon that
knew them not is gorgeous, so to speak.
In the memory of big red apples, worm
less and without blemish; pears that
the most fastidious could eat In the
dark without fear of biting Into some
thing not quite toothsome; plums
plucked from trees whose foliage was
green and clean, and luscious wild
strawberries of unfailing yield,- we
would scarcely return to that period,
with Its isolation, for the sake of Im
munity from pests that have resulted
from its banishment.
Those Republican members of Con
gross who wish to assert the protective
principle, as they call it, against
Puerto Rico, seem utterly dumbfounded
at the popular protest that has arisen
and continues to rise In Increasing vol
ume from every section of the country.
They fume about the newspapers, to
which they attribute all the trouble.
They are wrong, first, in supposing that
the newspapers control the people, for
they merely reflect and register the
universal sentiment of the people, and
they are wrong also when they wait
in hope that the people will "come to
their senses" in a short time and rally
for protection. Protection never had
much excuse, and what Httlo it ever
had has failed now that our once Infant
industries have become giant trusts.
The Puerto Rico episode is not a sud
den revulsion of feeling. It is a mere
accidental bringing out of convictions
to which the people have long been
arriving. The blow at Puerto Rico has
struck out the spark, but the fuel for
the flame has been accumulating these
many years. The American people will
never rally to the defense of the Pro
tected Interests against justice to the
dependencies. The sooner our Republi
can Congressmen realize this fact the
better for them.
Harvard professors have undertaken
a work for posterity the value of which
can only be dimly conjectured. Each
one Is writing a diary of his daily life
during the present month of March,
these records to be sealed up and re
main unopened in the college archives
for sixty years. It is believed that a
detailed account of the work, the stud
ies, the amusements, the personal and
official interests of any group of edu
cated men of a former generation would
be of interest and value at the .present
time, and In this view the task is un
dertaken for the benefit of Harvard
professors who will come after the writ
ers. The task Is one from which the
professors can hardly expect to derive
either profit or satisfaction, hence it
may be considered a work of self-abnegation.
The- writers are debarred by
a pledge of secrecy, exacted in the in
terest of sincerity, from the pleasure
of reading each other's diaries, so that
It will be reserved for a future genera
tion to know what the Harvard pro
fessors of March, 1900, thought of one
another.
Mr. Sulzer, Representative in Con
gress from New York, Insists that the
United States ought to tell Great Brit
ain that the war she is making on the
Boers must cease right now. The order
would be obeyed at once, Mr. Sulzer
thinks; but if it were not, he would
have the United States declare Itself
the ally and champion of the Boer3,
strike at the corrupt and effete mon
archy of Great Britain, and humble It
in the dust. Mr. Sulzer seems to think
we could sweep the British Navy off
the seas in a month or so, land a naval
brigade at London and dictate peace.
Then we should not only compel the
British to recognize the Independence
of the Boer States, but should free both
Ireland and Scotland from the English
yoke. Mr. Sulzer evidently thinks it
high time this great country, of ours
was doing a little something for free
dom. Field Marshal Sir Donald Martin
Stewart, whose death in his' 77th year
is reported, was a distinguished soldier.
He was commander-in-chief of the
English Army during the famous Af
ghan campaign, in which Lord Roberts
made his famous march to Candahar,
and was distinguished for valor and
good conduct during the Indian mutiny.
He was at one time Commander-in-Chief
of the forces In India, and at the
time of his death was a member of the
Indian Council and Governor of Chel
sea Military Hospital.
It is estimated that it would cost
about $100;000 to turn "Old Ironsides"
into' an- excellent training-ship, and as
it would cost even more to build a new
one, sentiment and economy unite, in
the proposal to rebuild the old ship and
restore her in this capacity to the serv
iceable list of the Navy. There is a
bill before Congress looking to that end
which has apparently a good prospect
of passing.
Failure of the Appleton House.
Chicago Tribune.
Everybody who knows and values good
books will regret to learn of the failure
of D: Appleton Sz Co., the New York pub
lishers. The fact that the liabilities are
$1,100,000 Indicates that the difficulties of
the Arm have been serious. The Apple
tons have published books of all kinds,
but have devoted themselves most exten
sively to schoolbooks and scientific works.
During the last year they undertook to
Issue a remarkable series of "Twentieth
Century Text Books," consisting of over
100 volumes, covering the whole field of
modern .education. The books were be
ing written by the foremost educational
specialists in the country, and have been
under tho general editorship of Dr. A F.
Nightingale and Professor Charles H.
Thurber. of Chicago. It is not Improbable
that this large enterprise was partly re
sponsible for tho financial difficulties of
the firm. The project Is a fair example of
the high class of works issued by this
house, and the firm's reverses, whatever
their cause, cannot fail to produce univer
sal regret- The failure is the more surpris
ing because the Appletons are the publish
ers of "David Harum," the sales of which
have run Into the hundreds of thousands
Coming co closely upon the similar re
verses of Harper & Bros, and the disas
trous fire of the Llpplncott Company, the
Appleton failure impresses one with the
idea that the publishing business is having
more than its just share of trouble.
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EXIT KING LEARY.
A Remarkable Ruler Who Should
Have a Larger Career.
Chicago Tribune.
A dispatch from Washington announces
that TJetitpnnnt-rJoTnmandpr Sehroeder has
been selected to succeed Captain Leary aa
JNavai Governor of the Island of Guam, u.
S., and that he will sail from San Fran
cisco about the middle of May, arriving
at his far-away destination before July
next. It Is gratifying to learn that Cap
tain Leary will be relieved at his own re
quest and not because of dissatisfaction,
with the administration of his office.
The new Governor will find Guam la
spick and span order when he arrives, and
the Guamltes will undoubtedly meet him
at the wharf with the same enthusiastic
demonstrations of loyalty they have con
tinuously -displayed under the salubrious
and spectacular administration of Captain
Leary. Instead of a lazy, good-for-nothing,
drunken lot of reprobates, such as
they were before Captain Leary presented
them with the blessings and privileges
of civilization, he will find them clad in
their right minds and fairly reveling in
the dollghts of Industry. He will have
an easy task in the exercise of sovereign
ty, for Captain Leary has well prepared
tho way. He has established a firm
and generous paternal government to
which the Guamltes are attached, though
they do not hold office, attend primaries,
sit in conventions, secure contracts or
loot the public treasury. This soems to
bo an Ideal political condition. Ethically
also. Captain Leary has been eminently
successful. He has broken up peonage and
emancipated the slaves. He has done
away with polygamy and concubinage, and
the Guamltes appear to be relieved now
that they have to support but one wife,
legally married in American fashion. In
some mysterious way, unknown to the
W. C. T. U. and the Prohibitionists, he
has cured them of drunkenness. He has
made them pay their debts, an obligation
which has been loosely regarded In the
past. He has even persuaded them to
come forward cheerfully and pay their
taxes, an operation which Is not per
formed cheerfully In the mother country,
if the United States can be regarded as
the mother of Guam. Industrially he has
revolutionized the Island, for every Guam
ite is now a man behind a hoe, with a
donkey, a pig, and poultry among his be
longings. Socially he has Instilled In them
a love for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas,
Washington's Birthday, Lincoln's Birth
day, Labor Day, Moving Day, Easter,
Fourth of July and all the other days
which their loving Uncle Sam observes as
holidays. Artistically he has taught them
to patronize his circulating library, and
every home, however, humble, resounds
with the strains of pianolas, organettes
and hurdy-Kurdies, with which they havo
been generously provided by the Naval
Department.
Lieutenant-Commander Schroeder may
well congratulate himself upon the para
dise to which he has been assigned, 'but
in the meantime the services of Captain
Leary should not be forgotten. Without
troops or munitions of war or physical
force he has succeeded In making Guam
as happy, contented and loyal as any one
of the old American States. Cuba is still
an unsettled problem. Puerto Rico is un
happy. The Philippines are an uncertain
factor. Sulu is still cursed with polygamy
and slavery. Guam alone of all our posses
sions Is happy and contented, thanks to
Captain Leary. His administration haa
been purely personal. He has had no sug
gestions from the Naval department,
which has not known what he was do
ing until it was done. As the most orig
inal and successful administrator of all
Americans at the present time, Guam will
sincerely mourn his departure. Why
should he not have a public reception
when he arrives home?
SANCTIFIED SACRILEGE.
That's "What Some of Sheldon's Work
Comes to.
New York Tribune.
Tho Rev. Mr. Sheldon, who has been
running a newspaper in Kansas "as
Christ would do It," thus with admirable
humility of spirit ppsing as the journalist
peer of the Almighty, is understood to
have extended his dfvine authority to all
departments of the establishment. Edi
torials were written, news was edited, ex
changes were clipped, cartoons were mado
and circulation statements drawn up,
all "as Christ would have dono It." A
similarly divine censorship was exercised
over the advertising columns. An adver
tisement of " a $30 suit of clothing for
$10" was barred out,, apparently on the
ground that the Saviour of mankind
would not approve of bargain sales; and
one of a certain "make of corsets was ex
cluded on like grounds. It is fair to as
sume, then, that the advertisements
which were admitted to the columns of
the paper were such as, In the Rev. Mr.
Sheldon's opinion, Christ would approve.
With that assurance In view we feel em
boldened to quote from Mr. Sheldon's pa
per, from among advertisements of "Sun
flower Pants." "Infallible Skirt Rule,"
etc., the following:
Stir the Subsoil Deep
To let in the rains, that refresh the
earth. Otherwise a large portion of mois
ture graciously sent by our Heavenly
Father 13 wasted by running off from the
surface.
s Subsoil Plow accomplishes the
stirring as we believe would please JESUS,
who said let nothing be lost.
Also, s Improved Potato Digger,
designed to work well, even In unfavor
able conditions of soil, which Induces good
words Instead of bad words, by which wo
desire to honor JESUS.
PLOW WORKS,
TOPEKA, KANSAS.
Such Is, we are to assume, the Rev. Mr.
Sheldon's idea of an advertisement "as
Christ would write It." Blank's plow
plows as Christ would plow. Blank's potato
digger digs potatoes as Christ would dig
them. Shall we not presently have corn
plasters for curing corns as Christ would
cure them, and sanitary plumbing such as
"would please Jesus"?
To every man of healthful decent mind,
not to say of religious disposition, the
objurgations of an angry truck driver
must seem pure and reverent by the side
of this revolting, studied sacrilege parad
ed In the name of Jesus the Christ by this
"Rev." Mr. Sheldon. A subsoil plow that
works, "as we bejleve would please Jesus."
Faugh! It reeks of the Black Mass, and
calls for spiritual civet to sweeten the
imagination.
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Bryan's Platform.
Mr. Bryan, does not cut a creditable' fig
ure In what Is looked upon as the opening
gun of his coming campaign. Baltimore
News.
Mr. Bryan's new platform proves only
that, having once been knocked down by
a EOlar-DlCXUS blOW. Mr. Tlrvnn fa rnvrtr
preparing for a repetition of the knock
down experience .rnuadelphla Inquirer.
To those Eastern Democrats who had
hoped their brethren of the West were
ready for compromise in the interests of
harmony the Nebraska platform affords
scant comfort Minneapolis Times.
Taking this Nebraska platform as the
forerunner of the National Democratic
declaration of principles in this year 1300,
tho Republicans of the Nation will accept
the Issue with satisfaction. Cedar Raplda
Republican.
No doubt the Democratic editors who
have been hoping that the gold-standard
law enacted by Congress would relegate
the money question to the background will
be sorely disappointed by Colonel Bryan's
determination to mako the free colnago of i
silver the leading issue. Ohio State Jour
nal.
Mr. Bryan may bo permitted to pose up
on it during the campaign without pro
test from the Eastern Democrats, who aro
out of plumb with the currency planks, or
from the Southern and Western Demo
crats, who are not in. line with Its anti
expansion utterances.-SIoux City Journal.
While he builds a long platform of clap
trap inconsistencies ostensibly to draw
their attention from the main Issue, yet
back of it all and paramount above 'all
is free silver. The only hope left for
men who believe In sound money Is to Ig
nore the whole platform. Davenport Re
publican. The Nebraska platform and speech make
It evident that the antl-lmperiallst Issuo
will attract little attention In tho com
ing campaign. The Democrats have 'dis
covered that there are no votes In it. The
Democratic platform, to be adopted at
Kansas City will contain plenty of gen
eralizations on the subject, but few as
sertions Philadelphia Press-.
The Nebraska Democracy, speaking for
Mr. Bryan, declare in favor of turning the
Government into a paper mill for the issue
of unlimited and Irredeemable paper mon
ey. It sounds almost like a defi to public
opinion that just as the people are felici
tating themselves on the passage of a law
that will put a stop to "the endlefs chain"
and make it possible to keep gold in tho
Treasury and In the country, the Nebras
ka Democracy, in a platform revised by
Mr. Bryan, should demand a new unlim
ited Issue of greenbacks. Indianapolis
Journal.
Views on Sheldon's Paper.
Lay of the model Christian dally at To
peka: "If I was so soon to be done for,
pray what was I ever begun for." Minne
apolis Times.
Tho Rev. Mr. Sheldon should bear In
mind the fact that Jesus never made a
contract with a lecture bureau. Washing
ton Post.
The sum of the whole matter Is, that
Mr. Sheldon published not so much a re
ligious daily as a Sheldon dally. It was
saturated with his personal peculiarities
and fads. Minneapolis Tribune.
About the only thing that has come out
of tho Sheldon conduct of a dally paper
is to start a batch of cranks along the
some almost blasphemous line. Macomb
Journal.
The stockholders In the Topeka Capital
Company are now fighting among them
selves and the "devil" appears to have
succeeded the Rev. Mr. Sheldon as editor-1
ln-chlef. Janesvllle Gazette.
Brother Sheldon's great Christian daily
appears to havo fallen into the hands of
the money-changers. It Is quite easy to
gues3 what Jesus would have done un
der such circumstances. Washington Post.
Another report 13 to the effect that Mr.
Sheldon's experiment was really for the
purpose, unknown to the minister, of
preaching socialism In Kansas In a way
that would disrupt the Populist party
there. Philadelphia Times.
If the Rev. Mr. Sheldon had an
nounced frarfkly that his substitute for the
Sunday morning paper wag to be a sheet
with no reading matter except passages
from the Bible, how many copies would he
have received orders for? Council Bluff
Nonpareil.
Now It Is said there is a division among
the directors of tho company which owns
the newspaper that was conducted by the
Rev. Mr. Sheldon on experimental lines
for a week. Such sensationalism never
pa3 In the long run. Cleveland Leader.
Should the Topeka paper be changed to
what Its amateur editor calls a "Chris
tian Daily," It might, in the course of
time, work up to the moral level of the
best existing newspapers, provided the
stockholders are endowed with great finan
cial perseverance, St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Folly and Its Fruit.
Boston Herald (Ind.i.
In the Nebraska State Democratic Con
vention resolutions, which unmlstabably
bear the mark of the hand of Mr. Bryan
In their composition, there is promptness
in taking advantage of a weak point In
the latest currency bill. The resolutions
say that the Republicans have admitted
the gold standard to ho unsatlsfactcry
"by attempting to revive the delusive hope
of international bimetallsm." This most
foolish sop to the free silver Cerberus thus
early bears Its fruits. It Is tho keynote,
undoubtedly to the kind of campaign the
free-silver Democrats Intend to make. We
are moved to ask what good did thl3 con
cession do the Republicans. No person of
Intelligence was deceived by it. It meant
nothing at all, practically speaking, and
this was well understood in Republican
quarters. If there was any hope of gain In
it, this was sought In an attempt to de
ceive certain people on the free-silver side.
There was dishonesty In so acting, and,
like much other dishonesty, it did not pay.
It put a handle in the hands of the Bryan
ltes, without affording anything like a
corresponding advantage to the Republi
can party.
England's Financial Resources.
New York Tribune.
The offer of $1,677,500,000 in subscriptions
to the British war loan Is the most im
pressive display of "sinews of war" that
the world has ever seen. That stupendous
sum Is larger than the entire public debt
of the United States, and more than
half the public debt of the United King
dom. The offer of it will doubtless havo
a somewhat depressing effect upon the
Boers. It may also have a restraining
influence upon the anti-British ardor of
some other nations, whose finance minis
ters have to go abroad for loans. An
army of a million and a half is a big
factor in a war. But a fund of. a billion
and a half is also to be taken seriously
into account.
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"Brave Old KruRert"
Hartford Courant.
President Kruger said to a New York
Herald correspondent at Pretoria: "I
have 200 blood relatives fighting, and
would rather see them all perish than vleld
to England's unholy aggression." bom
Paul has evidently studied Artemas Ward,
whoso willingness to sacrifice all his wife's
relations on the altar of liberty has be
come proverbial. Perhaps the blood rel
atives do not share the President's will
ingness to make martyrs of them.
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The Rank Examiner of the Forks.
Salem Journal.
A great deal of criticism has been shed
on Mr. Johnson, but he only did what
so many others do went to the Legisla
ture to pull out a plum for himself. It
would be really refreshing to see a Legis
lature elected once to do business for
the people instead of lining their own
pockets and letting the public interests
go to tho demnltion bowwows.
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Lentz Is a Democrat.
Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.).
Ohio Lentz says that Agulnaldo Is "one
of the world's heroes." It could probably
be proved by Agulnaldo that Lentz Is one
of America's statesmen.
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Lenten Sacrifice.
Chicago Record.
The world and Desh, till forty days go by,
I must renounce; I shall myself deny
All luxury and pomp and vanity,
For this la Lent.
For mo no more ten-cent cigars shall burn
All such extravagances I shall spurn;
A humble corncob pipe shall serve my turn
This present Lent.
I shall give up my dally street-car ride
And -walk Instead, to mortify my prldo.
Ten cents a. day thus saved I'll lay aside
Right straight through Lent.
My last Spring's suit I quit Intend to -wear.
But worse Inflictions still I'll have to bear.
So that for that I do not really cars
One copper cent.
No little suppers following the show.
With toothsome lobsters and Ie nzz Clicquot
You bet I've got to po a llftle slow.
For this Is Lent.
For this Is Lent, and I know shortly that
My wife will strike me for an Easter hat.
It's either strict retrenchment or & spat.
That's evident.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Bryan will be here for an hour today
That is long enough.
I3 Senator Hoar tho angel behind that
show that excited the Filipinos nearlr to
insurrection?
About two more of those "wearing-of
the green" effusions will put Kipling Into
the Austin class.
Now Kipling Is advocating hangings in
South Africa. He must be getting short
of material for copy.
South America could hardly havo any
more revolutions on hand if she had. Just
had a peace conference.
Senator Peffer would better keep out
of England till Oom Paul has been dis
posed of satisfactorily.
Now that Bryan Is coming, the Demo
crats are trying to raise the wind. Somo
people are always determined to paint tha
Illy.
Tho New York chorus girls are going to
have a masquerade. Most of them will
probably appear in the effectual disguise
of Youth.
Congressmen will learn a good deal more
about public sentiment on the Puerto
Rlcan question election day than they ap
pear to now.
Mr. Hanna should be reminded that
while the Puerto Ricans have no voters,
thoy have a good many friends in the Re
publican party.
Boston is thinking of prohibiting the
ringing of church bells. She will prob
ably have no objection to their melliflu
ous tlntlnabulatlon.
A well-dressed young fellow about town
has invented a scheme for "shooting
snipes." or picking up cigar-stubs, that
beara the merit, at least, of originality.
In the back part of the heel of his left
shoe, between the layers of sole leather,
he has Inserted a pin. point outward. The
other day a gentleman threw down a half
burned cigar in front of the Perkins Ho
tel. The snipe-shooting fiend was ob
served to step quickly forward. He plant
ed the pin-point squarely Into the clgar
etub, lifted his heel In the most natural
sort of a way, deftly removed the prize,
inserted it between his tcoth and went oft
down the street, smoking calmly. Who
ever heard of such a thing before?
Fancy vests of the loudest patterns and
most gorgeous hues are quite the stylo
row. Few who wear them Imagine that
such vests were ever in fashion before,
but such Is the case. One of the prettiest
vests of the kind seen, a fine check,
formed of a thread of red and a thread
of black. Is worn by a man whose wifa
crocheted it for him. She took the pat
tern from a vest crocheted by another
woman for her husband 26 years ago, and
which Is still as good as new. About 23
or 00 years ago vests of black velvet
and satin were fashionable for plain peo
ple, and plaid velvets of vivid colors and
others with colored spots or sprigs of
flowers were used by people of fashion.
The present style of fancy vests Is only
the renewal of an old fashion.
Considerable unfavorable comment ha3
been made on the fact that during the
public funeral of Oregon Volunteers, on
Sunday, the bell of only one church Trin
ity was tolled while the procession was
passing, and also that very few persons
on the streets uncovered while the remains
were passing. The fact that the very
proper custom which Is common In Euro
pean cities and many other places of un
covering while a funeral procession is
passing Is not in vogue here, explains one
of the things complained of, and the same
will probably apply to the tolling of church
bells. There was only one other church
on the line of march, beside Trinity. Pub
lic funerals have been of rare occurrence
here, and probably the usages in connec
tion with such affairs, will bo better ob
served In the future, although there aro
objectionable features in the -matter of
persons remaining uncovered for any
length of time on such days as Sunday
was.
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Potter and Manila.
Providence Journal.
The bishop's trip has converted him ab
solutely to the American side. He will bo
denounced by the little band of Agul
naldlans remaining, but thoughtful per
sons will appreciate that our cause must
be Just if close-range view can- convinco
such a violent "anti" as Bishop Potter
was of his Ill-founded opinions,
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Don't Be Too Good.
Philadelphia Press.
Jimmy Wat yer been so good fur desa
days?
Willie Why, me birthday comes nex
week.
Jimmy Well, say, I wouldn't be too
good, If I wuz you, or mebbe they won't
give yer nothln' but a Bible fur a present-'
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Retort.
Indianapolis Pressv
The Tailor You said you would settlo
that bill at the expiration of a month, and
here over six weeks have passed.
The Customer Yes. and If you will think
you will remember you told me you would
have the suit done In a week. It took you
three.
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Dlsngrreenble Companion.
Syracuse Herald.
The Kicker I hate him I
Friend Why?
The Kicker He always agrees with me,
and never gives me a chance to argue.
Legacies.
London Dally Chronicle.
The dog Is yours; and so's the photo frames.
Them pictures wot I cut. and my new box.
Tho pack of cards, the dominoes, an games.
The knlttin needles, an the knitted socks.
An all, except the Utters and the ring
You'll find them all together tied with
string.
My public clothln' that goes back to stores
My kltil sell by auction on the square;
An' other fellers will be "formln' fours"
' An "markin' flme" in boots I used to wear.
They're welcome: but you won't forget to
send
The ring and all the letters to my friend?
Tho pain ain't near so bad as wot It were
The day they dragged me from the limber
wheels;
Ain't I a wreck! for God's sake, don't tell er;
Say It was fever peaceful In the ills;
An write about the wreaths, the "Jack,"
and the band.
An send a bit of hair you understand?
The ring oh. no, the doctor lets me talk,
I ain't a tlrln "cept a funny light.
An Just a feelln that I'd like to walk a
To where it seems to flicker in. the night.
Better for me to 50 with aching 'ead
Than go in trouble with my say unsaid.
The ring It ain't long since she sent It back;
I never meant no 'arm. God only knows.
But things I can't tell now looked very black.
And she believed the others I suppose.
I'm sorry for 'er now that cursed wheel!
You see, she Is a woman, an' she'll feel.
The dog Is yours, I told you that before.
The spurs you'll find 'em in my private kit.
Tho letters, an the ring, an. nothln more
An hair It's foolish but a little bit.
"Our Father Lord, how strange! Ifs all
rl sir.
The lett an th rlqg an' hair for er!
Modder River, Feb. 10. Edgar Wallac.