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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.
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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?
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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.
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