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- ,l THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, ' APRIL' 11, 1900. he reaoroptt nUred t the Postefaes t Portland. Oregon, a second-class matter. TELEPHONES, ' CUtorlal Room.. ..164 I Business Offlet....w REVISED SUBSCRIPTION BATES. Br Mall (postage prepalil). In Advance .lljr. wlthBunday, per month..... .... oa Daily. Sundxy excepted, per year........ T DO Sally, with Sunday, per rear ....... 00 Buaday, PT rear ............ w t Weekly, per year.....-..... " be Weekly. S months..................'" To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday exoeptea.130 ity. per week, delivered, Sunday! Ineludedjoa Toe Oregcnlan does not buy poems or atorlea Ifrom Individual!, and cannot undertake to ra- : anr manuscripts sent to It without aoJclta- klon. No stamps ahould be Inclosed 'tor thla purpose. Puget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson. kOce at lltl Facldc avenue. Tacoma. Box 8H, raooma pMtofflce. Eastern BusIdmb Office The Tribune build- nc. New Tork city: 'The Jtookery." Chicago; he S. C. Beekwlth special agency. New Tork. For sale In Sin Francisco br J. K. Cooper. 748 Market street, near the Palace hotel, and at Goldsmith Bros.. 234 Sutter street. Per sale In Chicago by the "P. a Newt Ox. KIT Dearborn street. TODAVS WEATHEH. Showers, with winds shifting to southerly. PORTLAND, -VBDM2SDAr, APRIL 11 OUIl GKCT LEADER. In another column appears the an nouncement of a great discovery. A Washington correspondent, turning his aired telescope upon the senior Senator om Oregon, pronounces that alleged statesman a great man, a leader In the front rank of the party: and, roost as tonishing of all, a pioneer In the cause bf the gold standard. This startling characterization of our senior Senator, iltherto undreamed of hdre, has also nlraculously appeared to the Republl- is of Columbia County. This simul taneous discovery of McBrlde as a star of the first magnitude In the political fcky should not escape attention. Maybe here is some mistake about It. McBrlde Is a pioneer, of the gold- standard movement that Is, he Is a aloneer of 1S97. When he was elected. In 1895, nobody could find out what his ylews were. The two or three gold sup borters he had in the Legislature said Je was for gold. The main body of his forces, silver men. said he was for sll- trer. Such eminent sllverites as Baker and Hofer came out of McBride's head quarters with Jubilant faces, and as sured you that "McBrlde was all right on silver." Mr. Sehlbrede, now a Mc- 3ride appointee in Alaska, and pro fessedly a gold man In 1895, declared that he had taken pains to assure him self that McBrlde was all right on the noney question, or he should not have voted for him. Being pressed by an Jregonlan reporter, the Senator-elect lelivered this ringing utterance: It Is evident that there Is need of reform li the financial system of the country, nnd It 1 my belief that such reform must proceed upon th lines of the last Republican National platform (the Mlnneaiolls straddle). I do not think It necessary at this time te outline a specific scheme of financial legisla tion which I would surport. I do not wish t make any expression which would limit to entire freedom of Judgment and action upon such measures as may be proposed. A more satisfactory and pertinent declaration was never made by the Jelphlc oracle. "When Mr. McBrlde got back to Washington, he became Imbued vlth the conviction that we must "do ami-thing for silver," and concocted a brilliant scheme by which we were to ehabllltate silver through mandatory clauses In the commercial treaties that re should make with foreign powers. A hard fight has indeed been made for (rears In Oregon for the gold standard. I but Senator McBrlde had no part In It. If he had any views favoring gold, he icpt them to himself. Such Influence md ability as he had were cast on the side of the Mitchell or silver wing of the party. Never until October, 1897, nearly three years after his election to the Senate, and a year after President McKlnleys election on a gold platform, did he declare himself as for the gold standard. Mr. McBrlde has also obtained and I forwarded to .Oregon testimonials from Senators as to his efficiency and great ness. There Is quite a string of them. lit Is evident that Mr. McBrlde has ex erted himself more In this effort to get "certificates" In his own behalf than he has ever done In any matter of public interest to the State of Oregon. Solici tation of testimonials In such a way I and for such a purpose (for of course the supposition that a dozen or more Senators would have written and of- Ifered such papers without solicitation would be absurd) Is about the cheap- lest of political methods resorted to bj linen of the McBrlde type and caliber. lit would have been churlish In any Isenator asked fomich a paper to re fuse It, This performance by McBrlde I Is actually more pitiful and disgusting than his traffic with the Chicago pa per's correspondent. It is only small nen who do such things. No Senator of Oregon ever before has found It necessary to solicit such testimonials land send them home. McBrlde is of the type of men who never take the lead or try to take the lead In anything of Importance, because they fear It wouldn't be "popular." Men who fight for great principles or purposes make enemies, and McBrlde always wants votes and wants ofuce. He Is a trimmer, therefore, but comes In valiantly after the tight has been won. short arc of the circle: the North not Only needed to best the South In battle, but to wear It down to a state of mili tary exhaustion. The Virginia troops were all In Lee's army: the South was cursed by no political Major-Generals, like Fremont, Dlx. Banks and Butler. The Army of the Potomac was as well disciplined as Lee's army, and In mere courage, the commonest and cheapest of all virtues, the sections were equal. The surrender of Appomattox ought to have taken place a year earlier than It did: would have taken place If the great soldiers of the South of the men tal quality of Longstreet and Lee could have had .their way, for they deemed the fight hopeless after the great battle of Chattanooga was won by Grant In November. 1S63. General Force, In the latest "Life of General Sherman." be lieves that if Jeff Davis had not re placed General Joe Johnston with Hood, General Sherman could not have cap tured Atlanta as early as September L 1864: that the war would surely have lasted another year, for Joe Johnston was the peer of Sherman In military genius, as Sherman frankly confessed. Of coiirse, Johnston would never have wasted his army In reckless assaults upon our lines before Atlanta and Nashville, and It Is safe to say that Sherman's "march to the sea" and through the Carollnas would never have been executed between November, 1864, and March, 1865, if Joe Johnston had remained In command of Atlanta. Had the war been prolonged another year, probably a temporary peace would have been made between the sec tions, for we were suffering severely from the pinch of the financial shoe when the last great campaign of April. 1S65, began. The natural reflection to day is that if both sections at the out set of the war had been armed as the Boers and British are today, the South standing on the defensive could have easily beaten off the North. Eleven millions of people armed with modern rifles and cannon, fighting on the de fensive, in such a country as the South, could never have been beaten by nine teen millions. this new realm of commercial activity lies In the trade organization whose be ginnings were made here nearly fifty years ago, and whose foundations, solidified by time, support our present organization. To destroy the great ad vantage which attaches to the Pacific States through the existence here of es tablished forces of .trade would be to throw away a prodigious advantage possibly to lose forever the position to which we are entitled In the. Pacific commercial world. Chicago and Washington, and thence go back to Cuba, where they will enter again upon their work. The plan Is a good one, thoroughly approved by the Administration, and Its effect cannot fall to be df value In Americanizing the schools of Cuba. MIDDLE PACIFIC APPOMATTOX. The surrender of Appomattox stands really .In history for the collapse of the Southern Confederacy, for the surren der of Joe Johnston's army two weeks later was forced by the disaster to Lee's army, even as the surrender of Port Hudson was the' corollary of the capture of Vlcksburg. One reason why the South up to Gettysburg beat the North Is that they were better soldiers In many respects. They were not braver men than those of the North, but they had more natural military pride and taste for war, more creature pugnacity. They fought on their own soil, save at Antletam and Gettysburg. The South was 99 per cent native-born: It had the best soldiers of our old Army, and, having no regular army. It dispersed Its educated military talent throughout Its new levies, and as a re sult made respectable soldiers of Its raw recruits more rapidly than the North. General Grant, In the Autumn of 186L In a private letter, said that the South was setting ur Its green volunteers more rapidly into soldiers than we were, and pointed out the reason we have given as the explanation. General Buell, a strict disciplinarian and drill master, admits In his history of the battle of PerryvlHe that the troops of the South In this campaign fought bet- IVEST VS. TIID COAST. The case tinder hearing by the Inter state Commerce Commission In this city yesterday Is one which has here tofore been discussed In The Orego nlan. namely, the case brought by the Business Men's League, of St. Louis. against the tvtchlson, Topeka & Santa Fe. the Southern Pacific, the O. R, & N., and other railroads in the carrying of trade between the Eastern States and the Pacific Coast, and relates to discriminating charges made by the railroads. The complaint alleges" unjust discrimination, - In that the raiiroaas make a difference between the rates for merchandise shipped In carloads and merchandise shipped In less than carloads, the latter rates being the higher. The contention Is that this ad justment of rates enables wholesale merchants at Portland, San Francisco, Seattle and other Pacific Coast ter minal points to Import goods In carload quantities, and later to distribute them from these points back throughout the states of Oregon, California and Wash ington; while, if the difference between the rate charged for carload quantities and for less than carload quantities were greatly reduced. It would enable St, Louis. Chicago, St. Paul, Omaha, Kansas City and other manufacturing states In the Middle West to supply this Coast by selling more largely to the re tall dealers direct. A second clause In the complaint as serts that rates from Interior points, like St. Louis and Chicago, to terminal points on the Pacific Coast are no lower than from New York to the same points; and It Is contended that the rates ought to be lower, because the distance In miles Is shorter. For ex ample, Pittsburg rates to Pacific Coast points should be lower than from New York, and Chicago lower than from Pittsburg; St. Louis lower than from Chicago, and so on. Carried to Its ulti mate, the contention Is that all railroad freight rates shall be measured by dis tance. It does not take much study to see that this case In its essential character Is an assault upon the Jobbing trade and the manufacturing Interests of the Pacific Coast cities on the part of the cities of the Middle Western States. It has. In fact, but one purpose, and that Is to divert the Jobbing trade from Portland, San Francisco, Seattle and other Coast points to St. Louis, Chi cago. St, Paul, and to check the growth of manufacturing industry here. The contention Is a very old one, and It was argued out, and, as It was supposed, fought to a finish, very short ly after the enactment of the Interstate Commerce law, some fifteen or more years ago. It was Judge Deady, of the United States District Court for Ore gon, If we remember correctly, whose decision established the principle that differences In the conditions of ship ment due to water competition modified essentially the general principle de clared by the Interstate Commerce act. The rates of the transcontinental roads are based upon recognition of the fact of water competition between the At lantic and Pacific seaboards. The Business Men's League of St, Louis and the whole Jobbing trade of the Pacific West, which stands back of that as sociation, seeks to disregard the fact of water competition and to establish a fixed system of graded rates on all westward-bound freights, regardless of competitive conditions. Just what effect would follow the es tablishment of "this principle it is not possible to say, but unquestionably It would greatly damage. If not wholly destroy, the Jobbing trade of the Pacific Coast cities. The practical question, therefore. Is whether there would be any advantage to this Coast In turning our business away from our own dis tributing centers to the manufacturing and trading cities of the Middle West. There is, we think, but one answer to this question. We can Imagine nothing more precisely calculated to deal a fatal blow to the general Industrial and so cial welfare of the Pacific States than the success of- the St, Louis appeal. Every interest of the Pacific Coast States cries out in protest against a movement whose certain effect would be, a public Injury, and whose possi ble effect would be to destroy the busi ness vitality of our cities and reduce the Pacific States to a mere provincial district without organization of whole sale trade, almost without commerce, and with energies limited to the busi ness cf original production. The case, too. Is not without a very large National significance. The newly discovered commercial world of the Pa cific Ocean fronts upon the Pacific sea board. It Is a world in which we have every advantage of opportunity. The EXGLAXD AXXIOCS FOR HER APPO MATTOX. Monday was the thirty-fifth anni versary of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox, Men who are 60 years of age today can remember how long and patiently the friends of the Union waited for the final collapse of the Confederacy through the exhaustion of Its military re sources; they can remember the humili ation of the first year of war, which in cluded our defeat at Bull Run. a. disas ter as unexpected and as mortifying .as the successive reverses encountered by the British In South Africa, until Lord Roberts began his campaign, which re sulted In the occupation of Bloemfon teln. We who remember the agony our Nation endured the first two years of our Civil War, from Bull Run to Get tysburg, can easily understand the gloom which settled over the English public when Methuen and Buller were so bloodily repulsed. Wounded na tional pride, and the bitter memory of many brave soldiers slaughtered to no purpose, explained the depression that reigned supreme In London after But ler's successive defeats. The brilliant victory of Lord Roberts dissipated this gloom, but the recent success of the Boers In cutting off two detachments of his army seem to have produced a de gree of depression out of all proportion to so trifling a disaster. The anxiety caused In England by the renewed ac tivity of the Boers In the Orange Free State Is due to the fact that Lord Roberts has lost. Including Saturday's engagement, perhaps 2000 men killed, wounded and prison ers within ten days. It Is this revelation this disaster has made of the great difficulties under which the war must be fought to a victorious finish. There Is nothing unexpected In the ef forts of the Boers to capture detach ments of British troops by a quick dash along the line of the army's communi cations. That Is sure to occur In all wars. It was part of the tactics of the Confederates the last two' years of our Civil War, and they were even more continuously successful in their attacks upon our communications than the Boers have been upon, those of Lord Roberts. UnUl Grant sent Sheridan into the Shenandoah Valley with 40,000 men in August, 1864, the line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway was Incessantly raided by the enemy. The railway between Washington and Baltimore was cut by a sudden dash of Confederate Cavalry as late as the Summer of 1864. Tnls kind of raiding and Its absolute results In captures of men and destruction of the rolling stock of a military railway is seldom formidable enough to Inter fere seriously with the execution of a great campaign. It was not of seri ous consequence to the Union Armies, because the loss of men and rolling stock could be promptly replaced and broken communications could be re stored In a few hours. But the Eng lish situation Is not identical In South Africa. Every soldier in the English Army, save a few thousand colonial troops furnished by Cape Colony and Natal, has been brought thither by a sea voyage of some 6000 miles; all the food supplies, clothing and munitions of war have to be brought by sea; all the cavalry horses and draught ani mals, save a few African oxen, have to be brought to Africa by sea. The English public know that If Lord Rob erts could have kept the Boers on the move after his occupation of Bloemfon- teln, he would have pushed them out of the Orange Free State and been before Pretoria by the middle of May. Lord Roberts has not been able to move. He has been obliged to halt at Bloemfontcln for four weeks, and in that time Ihe Boers appear to have re covered from their demoralization suf ficiently to reoccupy practically the ter ritory from which they were driven by the advance on Bloemfonteln. The British public Is filled again with anxi ety because they fear that the Boers will be able to prolong the war for a number of months to come. They see that Lord Roberts' mounted men are neither as well led nor as rapidly moved as are the Boer horsemen, and they fear that a long, wasting warfare Is before them. The British public are anxious, too, because they know that England cannot give Roberts another arnly like the one he has at present. He must do his work up with this army or It will not be done at all, for in send ing some 200,000 men to South Africa Great Britain has probably made her supreme effort. Of course, out of near ly 40,000,000 of people Great Britain could raise a great army of volunteers in circumstances of dire emergency, but It is safe to say that the 200,000 men sent by England to South Africa are expected to be equal to the conquest of the South African Republics, and for this reason the English public are nat urally impatient at any increased pros pect of long, dragging war, with the possible risk of the army becoming crippled by sickness or exhausted by the attrition of war. Doubtless re cruiting enough can be done in Eng land to restore somewhat the depleted ranks of her best regiments of regulars, but Great Britain, like the United States, has no permanent system of military conscription through which she can promptly put a great army Into the field. For these reasons, the Brit ish public are naturally anxious that the Appomattox to their war in South Africa come by midsummer. As soon as Lord Roberts reached Bloemfonteln he had a right to expect that every thing his army needed was already In store at Cape Town or Port Elizabeth, If It was already In store. Lord Rob erts must be able to take the offensive today, since his cavalry Is reported as remounted. THE VIRTUE OF PROMPTXBM. Tardiness In pupils of the public schools is the one thing for which no excuse is taken and no explanation Is allowed. Reprimand and the disgrace due to an idler, a careless or an Irre sponsible person, is vJsited'upon 'the pu pil who comes panting in too late for ranks, or. breathless with exertion. drops into his seat half a minute late. The extreme to which this censure has been carried has not Infrequently subjected sensitive children to that worse torture of childhood, public be rating before their mates, followed by practical ostracism from their Immedi ate associates in the schoolroom. Through fear of this penalty many chil dren, upon finding that the minute or half minute late was inevitable, have slunk out of sight and put In the half day In truancy, preferring an lnexcused absence to the briefest loss of time through tardiness. These are matters of common knowledge, and so generally has the necessity of promptness in the schools been accepted by their patrons and the School Board that these things have been acquiesced In for years, as representing the least of two evils. It Is manifest that what cannot be excused but Is visited with dreaded penalty In pupils cannot be overlooked In teachers without serious infraction of Justice, which children are taught to consider the basis of all discipline. Yet teachers, in greater or less numbers, come before the School Board at every meeting asking to be excused for tardi ness, alleging unavoidable delay, through having missed a street-car, or from some Interruption in traffic facili ties, and it Is remembered that several years ago one teacher came panting to school an hour late with the plea that the "clock had stopped in the night. Director Thompson is quite right In de claring that excuse for tardiness in teachers will not find favor with him when based upon street-car delays. It is the duty of teachers so to situate themselves tliis being always possible that they can. If necessary or desira ble, reach their school buildings on tlm by walking. To put the matter on its simplest basis, teachers generally will bring steadier nerves and more cheer ful and serene tempers to their work from a brisk walk of from fifteen min utes to half an hour in the open air than if they had spent ten or twenty minutes on the street-car after having perhaps chafed and waited for Its com ing half that length of time in con stantly growing impatience. There Is altogether too much of the Idea prevalent that schools are kept up for the purpose of giving a certain number of worthy young women em ployment In a ladylike vocation, and that the school management in detail should conform more or less exclusively to the convenience of teachers. The arrangement of the High School hours Is perhaps the most striking and famil iar example of this fact. But there are others, and among them may be found the multitude of excuses for tardiness on account of teachers indulging their preference for living in a certain part of the city, remote from the buildings In which they teach. It is eminent! proper to give teachers notice through refusal to excuse them what Is inex cusable In pupils, that they must so situate themselves as to be able to. control this matter of being on time to their work, or take the consequences. The public schools are maintained at great expense by the taxpayers for the benefit of the rising generation, and there Is no instruction 6a the whole so salutary as that furnished by a good example conscientiously, maintained In regard to matters of conduct and dis cipline, among which may well be reck oned the staple virtue of promptness. doubtless exert a favorable effect on the anti-Quay. campaign. If the Senate, musters up courage to unseat Clark, it will likely muster the courage to re ject the Pennsylvania claimant. Two object-lessons of this sort, taken In con nection with the rejection of Roberts by thei. House, ought to prove epoch making deterrents of legislative ini Care in the selections of candidates for the judiciary is a matter of highest Importance. Here Is a function which should not be subjected to the ordinary combinations of political traffic. Two Judges .are to be chosen for the circuit bench in Multnomah County. Judge Sears and Judge George have per formed the duties of these positions well. They should be renominated; and, renominated, they will be re elected. No personal, special or pri vate Interest should be permitted to have weight In this Important busi ness. The Judges In whom the people have confidence should not be changed. guess It takes .more than a big speech to acquire Influence In the United States Sen ate." The Senator from Oregon Is of quiet, industrious methods; he Is popular with his fellow-Senators on both sides of yio chamber: his counsel Is often sought because of his good Judgment and his help because of his activity and prestige. He la a Senator who "gets things done," and is a credit to the state which tent him here. i WHAT IS A DEMOCRAT Representative Tongue's renomlna tlon is not only the result of success ful political tactics, but it is a recog nition of his increasing usefulness as a Representative and enlarged powers as a public man. His service In Con gress has educated and broadened him to a very noticeable degree. There Is no sign that Mr. Tongue will be astray on any great Issue to be contended for by the Republican party. His cam paign before the, people will be an ardu ous one, but The Oregonlan hopes to see him elected. Sound money and ex pansion will have no votes to spare in the Fifty-seventh Congress. Two columns of Senatorial eulogies of Senator McBrlde, printed in the Sa lem Statesman, seem to be a trifle pre mature. The event calling f6r obitu aries does not occur till March, 1901. The Republican party will come round all right on the Puerto Rican and Philippine tariff business pres ently. It Is within 15 per cent of It now. arrmiDE a great leader. He Has Induced a, Newspaper Corre spondent at Washing-ton to Give 111m This Great Send-Off Astonishing- That His Lamp Should Shine So Dimly at Home. Chicago Times-Herald. WASHINGTON, April 2.-In February. 1896, upon the eve of the great Presidential struggle of that year, a 1)111 providing for the free coinage of silver came to a vote In the United States Senate. There were then IS Senators from the Faclno Coast and Rocky Mountain states, and of these 17 voted for free coinage. Only one, George. W. McBrlde, of Oregon, voted against It. The great disparity between the number of votes for silver and the one vote against It from that section of the country caused many Republicans to regret their party had admitted so many new states and created so many new Sen ators In the far West. Senator McBrlde, however, knowing well his people, and looking far ahead with prophetic eye. pre dicted a great change In the near fu ture. "Wait a little," he said, "and you shall have votes enough for sound money from the Pacific Coast and the Rocky Mountains." Four years later, February 15, 1900, a bill establishing the gold standard came to a vote In the Senate. Forty-six votes were cast for It and 29 against It. The ma jority was 17. Of the 46 affirmative votes. eight were cast by Senators from the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast states. 'and one Senator from that region was paired for the bllL Thus arose the Inter esting circumstance and strange fulfill ment of a prophesy that but for these nine favorable votes the gold bill could not have passed. Had they been cast on the negative side the bill would have been lost, by a majority of one. The manner in which the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain states developed support for gold in four years may bo graphically stated thus: A Court Decision That Sheds So Uffht Upon the Question. Chicago Times-Herald. A good many attempts to define "De mocracy," as applied to one of the two leading political parties, have been made since 1896. It Is easy enough to define "Democracy" as applied In a general way to our republican form of government. In that sense we are all democrats. But when It comes to party alignment In 1300. what Is a Democrat? Is there any Demo cratic party? It is quite obvious that definitions oi "Democracy" from all those who voted for Cleveland the first time would now present great diversity of views and opin ion. For two or three year9 Mr. Bryan mad an eloquent and earnest plea for Democrats to return to "the Democracy of Jefferson." But the advent of war problems and the Issue of "expansion" have seemingly cause Mr. Bryan to tem porarily lose all Interest In the "Democ racy of Jefferson" for Jefferson's namo Is linked with the ""Louisiana purchase." the most notable "expansion" act In our history In fact, Jefferson might be called the Father of Expansion." It is plainly manifest, therefore, that the Democracy of Jefferson Is not suited to the purposes of the Bryan Democracy today. The Irlquols Club, the famous Demo cratic club of Chicago, Is also wrestling with this question. In a paper read be fore the club the other evening, Mr. Moritz Rosenthal advocated that the club return "to the first principles of Democ racy, among which, he said, were aDso lute acquiescence In the Judgment of the majority". Under this definition only those who voted for Bryan in 1895 were Democrats, for It cannot be denied that the Bryanltes were greatly In the ma jority. It Is clear that "the first principles or Democracy" will not adequately meet the campaign necessities of 1900. One of the members of the Iriquls Club said: "The trouble In the Iriquls Club Is that we don't know whether we are Democrats or Republicans." In other words, new Na tional Issues have come forward since the last campaign, calling for definite enun ciations of belief that will be lncorporatea In a National platform. The question Is. Will the Democrat who repudiates that platform cease to be a Democrat? In this connection the decision of a Federal Judge at Sioux Falls, South Da kota, Is an Interesting contribution to the controversy over the party status of those Democrats who refused to support Brjan. Objection was made to the Grand Jury on the contention that both Jury commis sioners -were Republicans, whereas the law required that they should be of op posite political faith, one of tne commis sioners was appointed as a Democrat, but It was urged that he was a Republi can because he voted for McKInley. The Juden ruled that suDDort of Bryan and the Chicago platform was not a test of Democracy, and the Democrat who , de clined to vote for Bryan was still a Democrat. But of course a Federal Judge Is not au thority on party matters. For the pur poses of carrying out the Jury law of South Dakota the decision of the Judge at Sioux Falls was eminently sensible. But It has no weight with the Bryan Democ racy. They will claim that no man Is a Democrat who does not support the Bryan platform that will be promulgated at Kansas City July 4 next. i s NOTE AND COMMENT. Dewey la evidently stopping for break fast. It doesn't look as If Buller would evert be able to celebrate the Fourth of July In Pretoria. Perhaps the reason the Democrats ee lected Kansas City Is because she had convention halls to burn. General Otis, at his own suggestion (after the proper and gracious manner of the Government In such cases). Is coming home. His service In the Phil ippines, if not always dominated by wisdom from the standpoint of critical and Independent observation, has, nevertheless, been conscientious and fearless, as becomes a military leader. Responsibilities and contingencies not contemplated in any school of technical training found General Otis in his Philippine field of duty. He has been criticised sharply for his strict adher ence to military forms In the discharge of his duties, among those whom Kip ling aptly styles Our new-caught sullen peoples; Halt devil and halt child. It having been urged that military commanders may reasonably be ex pected to observe in such cases first of all the practical rules of common sense. Whether this criticism of his manage ment In the Philippines Is unjust or not, it Is manifestly to the advantage of all concerned for General Otis to give place In command at Manila to another. It Is not a question as to whether he has or has not done as well as he could; It is the general, and In deed the official, belief that as man differently constituted could do bettec There is reason to believe that General MacArthur can and will make accept able changes in the regime as Military Governor of the Islands. The retire ment of General Otis and the succes sion of General MacArthur therefore give general satisfaction. Whatever may have been the shortcomings of General Otis, he has been, a loyal, faith ful officer, and has earned a rest. ter than his own. Tho South had the Interior lines, the jmaln hope of American domination in Professor Frye, who has been for somo time engaged in reorganizing the public schools of Cuba, returned to New York on the transport Sedgwick a few days ago to arrange for a trip for 1000 Cuban teachers to this country In the coming Summer. The Govern ment will furnish transports for the trip, and the teachers will spend six weeks at Harvard, where they will have their headquarters. After a course of study in the line mapped out bjPro fessor Frye as contributory to their Under the Horton law, recently re pealed by the New York Legislature, that state became the scene of pugil istic contests which were practically unrestrained, and which drew the most vicious elements of society together from all over the country. The repeal of this law Is a moral victory, not only for New York, but for the country gen erally. Governor Roosevelt Is credited with having centered and applied the Influence that brought this repeal about, and, though political moralists, If this contradiction of terms may be permitted, will voice a regret that it was compassed through measures of party politics, the country generally w.lll accept the result without bewail ing the incentives to continued official power by which it was brought about. Unanimous rejection of Senator Clark by the Senate committee on privileges and elections will come as a surprise to the country, though the result has long been discounted by the best-Informed Washington observers. It Is certain to be followed by his rejection ...,v..i.. ... t.A r.,4M AA,irflt IrtTinl hv ftif Sprint itself. This admirable 1 field, the teachers will visit New Tork, stand tor honest government wtU Lsewnd philippic upon the floor: "Well. FOR COLD IN 183C One vote .Oregon FOR GOLD IN 1000. . Two votes Oreron One vole California One. vote ..... ..... Colorado One vote Washington One vote Idaho One vote ........... Montana Two votes Wyoming Tho Senator who pioneered this remark able movement In the far West Is now. properly enough, one of. the leaders of his party. His courage In standing alone four years ago has not only brought a goodly number of recruits to his side, but it has, aided by his strong qualities as a man and as a Senator, given him a high place In the councils of his party. Without osten tation, without self-seeking, without bril liant speech-making or any factitious art of attracting attention. Senator McBrlde has advanced to the very front rank on the Republican side of the chamber. Few men In five years of service have risen to such prominence or attained position In which they could be of no much service to their constituents. The Senatorial cam paign Is now on In his state, and Re publican Senators without exception are glad to hear that thero Is little or no doubt of his re-election. Mr. McBride's place in his party's coun cils Is best shown by the fact that he is a member of the Republican "committee on order of business." This Is known as the "steering committee." and Its func tion Is to arrange the party policy on the floor of the Senate In so far as this can be done without calling a caucus to dis pose of disputed questions. The members of this committee are: benators Allison, Hale, Aldrlch. Cullom. Wolcott. Sewall. Spooner, McBrlde and Hanna. It Is not only an honor to be on this committee service upon It gives power and prestige not only to the member but to the state which he represents. Thero is an executive committee of the Republican Congressional Committee, the duties of this executive committee being to take charge of the campaign for elec tion of Republican candidates for Con gress. It Is a Joint committee of Senators and Representatives, composed of leading members of the two Jlouses, and Mr. Mc Brlde Is the only member from the far West. Mr. McBride's standing as a Senator is perhaps best shown by his committee as signments. No man can be of great serv ice to his state In cither House of Con gress without good committee connections, for these not only make hb rank among his colleagues but give him the Influence which enables him to secure practical re sults. Though a comparatively young Senator, Mr. McBrlde Is chairman of the committee on coast defense and a member of the following committees: Public lands, lnteroceanlc canals, commerce, forest pre serves and Indian depredations. All these are committees of peculiar importance to the section of country which Mr. McBrlde represents. When the new committee on the Philip pine Islands was made up there was great competition among Senators for places up on It, as It was generally recognized as one of the greatest committees of the Senate, scarcely second In Importance to the foreign relations committee. With two exceptions all the Republican members ot this committee are veterans, such as Alli son. Hale. Lodge, Proctor and Davis. The two younger Senators are Beverldge of In diana and McBrlde of Oregon, the former owlnc his selection to the special personal study he had made of the Philippine Islaids. Senator McBrlde rarely makes a speech. He long ago learned tho lesson which was but recently acquired by another and very eloquent Senator, who admitted after his Unscrupulous Papers Taken In. Boston Transcript, The editor of II Progresso Italo-Amerl-cano. New York, played a merry Jest on his esteemed contemporaries last Sun day by printing what purported to be a dls natch from Rome announcing that the Re public had been established In Italy and that King Humbert had fled. On Monday two metropolitan Journals printed "spe cials" frcm Rome to the same effect, with such brilliant variations as an encyclo pedlac Ignorance of Italian affairs sug gested. The editor of 11 Progresso now chortles In his Joy, calls "April fool" at his esteemed contemporaries and says things even more galling about "faked" dispatches. The story about King Hum bert running away at the first outbreak ought to have been sufficient to stamp the dispatch as spurious. He Is not one of the kind that runs away early or easily. In deed, whatever else may be his faults, cowardice Is not one of them. A brave nna exnerlenced soldier. Krng Humbert Is the only monarch in Europe who has vr fceen wounded In action. At i,usioi- za he was severely wounded In the heat of the battle In which he ana nis Drotner, tho late Amadeus, bore themselves not only like brave men, but accomplished of ficers. King iiumoen anu mc iuus ui Saxony are the only crowned heads in Eu rope that have proved themselves more tpnn parade-ground soldiers. IS! Bishop Potter's Two Views. If you ask me what today Is an honorable alternative, l answeri that a Kraclous PtotI dence. as I believe, has Just now stven it to uu in an ever-meznoruDic achievement consum mated last Jnlr at The Hague. To submit to an International court. representing the best wisdom ot the best peoples, the question of the best disposition and future administra- Tho Question as to whether we shall keep the Philippine Islands Is now purely an acad emic one. Practically. the matter Is settled. We shall keep tho-Islands now because there U no way to get rid ot them. Discussion, then. as to the dslrablllty ot taking this action Is purely academic, as I said. Conditions have changed we can't do now wnat u mignt Now that "Sapho" had been exonerated. It might as well be taken off the boards In every city but Philadelphia. A great and growing conviction Comes over us more and mors That Dewey's a whale on the ocean. And a sucker when he's on shore. And so the Millionaires" Club has black balled Clark, In spite of his magnificent qualifications for membership. . That dukedom Roberta was going to get Is tied up, pending the cessation of reports with regret from the TfansvaaJ, . Now doth the raany-mlllloned Clark: Wax most exceeding sick. To think that all that money went To buy a plain gold brick. The vote in the Senate against Clark augurs so badly for Quay that the Penn sylvania, boas must consider it a great bore. If they had broken open Webster Davis? throat Instead of his mall, the fcountry might have been spared considerable af fliction, Cleveland kept good-natured under two campaigns of abuse, but when they ac cused him of Intending to vote tor Bryan ho got good and mad. Admiral Dewey's attention is called to the wisdom of a very ancient poem, which runs as foUows: Needles and pins. Needles and pins. When a man's married Ills trouble begins. The chaplain question In the Army andi Navy receives wholesome ventilation by Rev. Dr. J. M. Buckley, in the New York Christian Advocate. President McKInley has told the doctor that he was much dis tressed over the kind of ministers that are. so often recommended for chaplaincies by the Methodists and other Protestant bod ies. Great carelessness Is shown In this matter. The interesting fact Is stated by Dr. Buckley that the one church which -Invariably exercises care to put forward strong men for this priestly office Is tho Roman Catholic. '' The recent v's'X of Bryan to Portland reminded one of h's friends of a remark the boy oratir made In Washington ona time when the Portland man met him there: "The people of Oregon," said Bry an, "are the best listeners I ever spoke to. but the trouble with them Is that they do not vote the same way they listen." A story of the same kind Is contained in Carl Schurz" life ot Henry Clay, page 270. Alexander H S eptuna wiote to his brother of a meeting of the Colonization Society, which was he!d In the hall of the Housi of Representatives, January, 1S45. describing ". ow the house and galleries were ciammcd and Jammed before o'clock; how he had to scheme and strug gle to get In through a side door, how Clay appeared atout 7 o'clock and could hardly force his way In; how the vast meeting wou d cheer him again and again, at the top of their -voices; hiw they would not let anbody speak before him; how whole acres of people had to go away without getting In at all, and how Shep perd of North Carolina, being more Whig glsh than Claysh, r.marlced rather snap pishly that Htnry Clay could get more men to run after him and hear him speak and fewer men to vote for him than any man in America." i Ten-Cent Cotton and Silver. Baltimore Sun, Dem. It Is not meant for an unklndness to say that 10-cent cotton demolishes the best argument Mr. Bryan ever had for silver Inflation. Planters of cotton can now see. that cheap silver does not necessarily mean low-priced cotton, but that cotton, like grain and other things, rises and fall3 under the law of supply and demand. Popocrats told us that we should never again get above 5-cent cotton so long as we had the gold standard. The hand that "struck down" silver struck down tho honest farmer, and the only hope of the latter was to remonetlze silver. Yet here 1 rntton olne skyward, while silver stilt lies prostrate and the gold standard bill has been passed by Congress. The gold bugs seem to be having their way, but. nevertheless, cotton goes up. The fact Is that cotton, grain and silver go high or low according to supply and demand. Now that the cotton supply is small and the prospective demand is large, price nat urally advance. When grain was scarce, not long ago. It went above a dollar a bushel, notwithstanding the low price of silver. Experience since ISM has shown clearly that there Is absolutely no con n,.i,vn vtween the Drlce of commodities and the price of silver. Oceans of rhetoric have been poured out by the sllverite ora tors to prove such a connection, but facta refuted them. Some apology Is now dua from tho orators to the voters whom they misled In 1S95. c Hon of the Phlllpplneshave been desltable to may be to aamit iiuiruo nu wijs ,,:, u. UillLI Ul MAUIM HO, ISIsnop Potter, ilarcn 19, 1900. as a nation we arc not Infallible: but then surely a great nation can afford to leave that claim to the somewhat Pickwickian malnlen ance of It at present afforded under alien skies and remote and un American traui- tlons. Ulshop Potter, Oct. 11. 1SW. a Cheered uy the Information. Chicago Times-Herald. Rev. Mr. Goodman Are ou aware, sir, that you are on the downward path? Soakley Shay, zat so? Thash good. I wash 'frald mebby I might be on the way to get sent up." S 111 Adaptability. Chicago News. "I thought you intended raising chickens on your suburban placet "So I did. but as It la frequently under water I raise ducks instead. . Minimum. Detroit Journal. "Give ye JM fer the hoss. Rube." "Nope. Kin git JGO fer him havln him killed by the cars." in - Carpe Diem. S. 32. Klser In Chicago Times-Herald. O, you who hear men cheer today And laui the deeds ycu've done. Enjoy your triumph while you may. It's course will soon be run; Though roses In profusion lie Wherever you have passed. Tour Joys will soon take wings and fly. For glory ages fast! The man we praised a year ago What was his name? Ah. well. No matter he's forgotten, so In silence let him dwell! A year from now what singer, saraj Or hero of today Will figure on the printed page With honor wtio can say? A man may sink a ship or fleet. Defying fear and death. And gather glory 'that la sweet. And lose It In a breath! A man may charm awhile, but he'o Endowed with gifts sublime And cheered in heaven who can pleaso The people all the time, Skyrockets nnd Coif. Yonkers Statesman. First Caddy Do you know what tils business reminds me of? Second Caddy No; what? First CaddSkj rockets on the Fourth of July. Second Caddy How so? First Caddy Why. don't we have to lootc out for the sticks? i s The Peacemaker. Lue Vernon In Leslie's Weekly. Two soldiers, lying as they fell Upon the reddened clay In daytime foes: at night In peaco Breathing their lives away. Brave heart had stirred each manly breaat. Fate only made them foes. And lying, dying, side by side, A softened feeling rose. "Our time is short." one faint voice said; "Today we've done our b On different sides. What matters now! Tomorrow we're at rest. Life lies behind: I might not care For only my own saae. But far away are .other hearts That this day's work will break. "Among old Hampchlre's pleasant fields There pray for roe tonight A woman and a little girl With hair like golden light" And at that thought broke forth at last The cry of anguish wild That would no longer be repressed. "Oh. God. my wife and child'.' "And," said the other dying man, "AcrcJ the sandy plain There natch and wait for me loved ones I'll never see again. A little girl, with dark, bright eyes Each day waits at the. door; The father's step, the father's klas. Will never meet her more. Today we sought each other's lives; Death levels all that now. . For soon before- God's mercy seat Together we shall bow. Forgive each other while we may: Life's but a weary game. And. right or wrong, the morning sun Will find us dead, tho same." Ths dying Hpo the pardon breathe. . The dying hands entwine: The last ray dlea and over all The stars from heaven shine. The little girl with golden hair. And one with dark eyes bright. On Hampshire's fields and sandy plain Were fatherless that night. : v aH- .i Li ,:l- j.y,-g J &.$Ji v -j.iiij e re- "r