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MEANS TO EXDS.
The Republican party represents defi
nite purposes. It is for the sold stand
ard and for expansion: and It opposes
the financial follies and the socialistic
anarchistic scheme adopted four years
ago by the Democratic party and still
held by it.
If men. believe In the great purposes
for which the Republican party stands,
they should vote for Republicans.
There Is no other way to support or
promote those purposes. If they do not
want the purposes for which the Demo
cratic party stands, under its modern
leadership, to succeed, they should vote
directly against that party, especially
against its candidates for political of
fices. There is nothing rational in pro
fessing a fear of the Democratic party,
a dislike of its tendencies, and yet
hugger-muggering In "fusion" with It.
The way to sustain the gold standard
and sound finance, to uphold expansion
and to keep A check on the dangerous
tendencies of the Democratic party,
which the industry and business of the
country so much dread, is to vote with
the Republican party that is. to vote
for Its candidates. Rational men can
not expect results unless they use the
means necessary to obtain them.
TIIC AXE LAID AT THD HOOT.
Thomas G. Shearman, of New York,
has published a letter on trusts which
is a very notable performance. He
goes to the very root of the matter
when he says that restriction in one
form or another is the actual basis of
trusts: yet all legislation aimed at
trusts is founded on this same Idea of
restriction, and therefore is without ef
fect. This is the way he puts it:
iOne restriction Is piled upon another by leg
islation, and still a. third upon both: and In
this ar It Is somehow hoped that liberty will
be established by multiplying restraints upon
liberty. The commerce and trade of the coun
try are tied up with chalm by the truit mo
nopolies; and then Congress and the Leglsla
tures seek to nulUfy the effect of these chains
by chaining the chains. It Is seriously pro
posed to restore free competition by prohibit
ing trust combinations from entering Into com
petition. Laws have been passed for the
avowed purpose of preventing combinations
which control two-thirds of the production of
any article from selling their goods In compe
tition with the producers of the remaining
third. It Is no cause for wonder that all the
so-called anti-trust laws have resulted In Ig
nominious failure, and that the number of trust
combinations never Increased so rapidly as
since tnese laws were enacted.
It is admitted that errors and evils
are attendant upon liberty: but. as Ma
caulay said, the remedy for these er
rors and evils is more liberty. So Mr.
Shearman says the remedy for monop
oly is the opening and freeing of the
currents obstructed by monopoly. "We
quote again:
It Is simply absurd to make any effort to pro
hibit or to regulate trust! and combinations,
while their causes are left untouched. If tho
American people shrink from competition with
other nations of the earth, and deem them
selves Justified In preventing such competition
by force, they have no moral right to com
plain If American capitalists take advantage of
the laws which prevent foreign competition to
make them Instruments to prevent domestic
competition also. Neither have Americans, who
believe In preventing competition by force, any
moral right to complain of capitalists who pre
vent domestic competition by fraud. The one
is Just as moral, or Immoral, as the other.
From this Mr. Shearman points out
that the one great source of American
monopolies though not the sole one
is our protective tariff system. Through
such combinations as the steel trust,
the sugar trust, the .copper trust, the
wire trust, the paper trust, and many
more, with their arbitrary methods and
unconscionable profits, this truth Is
borne in on the mind of the country
with a force never known before. "The
remedy," says Shearman, "and the only
remedy, for the evils of domestic mo
nopolies is the repeal of all laws which
pretend to give to any man, rich or
poor, protection against natural com
petition, any artificial monopoly of nat
ural resources, or any advantage which
is not thrown open, on equal terms, to
all human beings."
XAVIGATIOX LAWS FOR HAWAII.
The extension of the American navi
gation laws to Hawaii would leave
the ocean transportation business of the
entire Pacific Coast with those islands
at the mercy of four men. Over 75 per
cent of the tonnage in this trade under
the American flag Is controlled by C. P.
Huntington, Senator Perkins, John D.
Spreckels and W. H. Mlghell. The re
mainder of the tonnage is In small sail
ing vessels, which are out of date except
for small business Tn slow freight. The
protection extended to the American
vessels will le fully appreciated by the
four men mentioned, but what of the
2.000,000 producers on the Pacific Coast,
who must pay the freight? It is very
nice to be patriotic and drive every flag
out of our ports except the Stars and
Stripes, but will it increase our facili
ties for reaching the markets of our
new possessions?
Another point which may not be ap
preciated by, the producers of Oregon
and "Washington is that the four men
in control are all Callfornlans, and their
heaviest interests He In the state to the
south of us. A farmer with wheat
lands lying contiguous to competing
lines of railroad, each ready and anx
ious to haul his nrodurt to ranrlint
would seriously object to a state or fed- I
eral law which would drive one of these
lines out of business and leave him at
the mercy of the other. The exclusion
of all competition in transportation be
tween the Pacific Coast, Hawaii and
the Philippines (the latter must event
ually have the same laws as Hawaii)
is fully as unjust for the producers,
as it would be to prohibit their shipping
their products by any land transporta
tion line they might select.
Some time it will dawn on the great
American public that we are more in
terested in getting our vast stores of
agricultural and other products to the
world's markets by the cheapest possi
ble method ihan in making a handful of
shipowners enormously rich by special
dispensations to which they are less en
titled than is the producer who is the
actual creator of wealth.
IT IS TIME TO ACT. '
The fundamental principle in trade is
'cost- All commodities are sold to the
consumer on the basis of a percentage
of profit added to the landed cost of
the goods to the last distributing
tradesman. This is true of foreign
goods imported into this country, and
it is true of American goods exported
to foreign lands. High freights increase
landed cost, and so do excessive duties.
Import or export. "Imposts, if too
heavy' says Blackstone, "are a check
and cramp upon trade, and especially
when the value of the commodity bears
little or no proportion to the quantity
of the duty Imposed. . . . There is
also another ill consequence attending
high imposts on merchandise not fre
quently considered but Indisputably
certain: that the earlier any tax Is laid
on a commodity, the heavier it falls on
the consumer in the end; for every
trader through whose hands it passes
must have a profit, not only upon the
raw material and his own labor and
time in preparing It, but upon the very
tax which he advances to the govern
ment." Taxes, surtaxes, consumption taxes,
harbor taxes, specific duties, ad valorem
duties, arbitrary and disproportionate
valuations, and everything in the na
ture of an Impost which the Govern
ment can exact upon the authority of
the barbarous Spanish tariff, are a
"check and cramp" upon our trade in
the Philippines. These Government ex
actions, added to original cost in the
United States, freights and the margin
of profit upon landed cost, put the re
tail prices of American goods beyond
the reach of the great mass of the Fili
pino people. They are the ones who
will make trade profitable, for their de
mands are large and varied. But they
cannot take our fruits, butter, cheese,
flour, crackers, paper, pickles and other
products upon the terms we are com
pelled to make. These are excessive,
prohibitory. The Government is to
blame for this unsatisfactory condition
of affairs, not the exporter In the
United States, nor the distributer In the
Philippines. The tradesman at Manila,
Ho Ho, Cebu, Legaspi, Apparri and Jolo
must have a profit on every item of
expense that attends the purchase of
American goods. Otherwise, he loses
the use and interest of the money he so
advances.
The foreign commerce of the. Pacific
Coast needs a stimulus or a tonic in the
Way of wider markets. Excepting the
spurts in 1597, 1S98 and 1S39, it has been
but little more than stationary since
1893. Our foreign commerce for the
year ended June 30, 1839, was $105,080,
422, an increase of less than 11 per cent.
In the same time the foreign oitnmirw
of the remainder of the country In
creased J25i.452.590, or over 16 per cent.
We lost over $22,000,000 last year, while
the rest of the country gained nearly
JIOO.000,000. The following figures show
the relation of Pacific Coast trade to
that Of the rest Of thA mnnlnr and tho
toiai 01 xoreign trade:
. .- -. nest of
. Pacific Coast. country. Total.
ISM... W.417.473 X1.C20.O18.W3 11.714.000.11(1
JSHi A5'"'? M47.54S.004 1.524.1M.S5U
l.&30.rH,130
1.0S2.331.fll2
1.815. 723.DO,
1.S47.M1 nvi
ISSfl... 04.01)2.833 l,S07,iaS.779
1K97... 104.fi27.2J4 1.711.(10.5.004
1RM... 127.392.818 1.720. 139. 1M
1899... 105.OS0.422 I.S10.001.3C9
1.024.171.791
The Philippines, anfl In tnr nil a.!..
are tributary to the Pacific Coast, and
are Its legitimate and natural fields of
commercial exploitation. But it is not
likely that we shall get much of the
trade at the outset The railroads are
giving the Middle West shippers the
same rates to the Orient that obtanl
from the Middle West to Pacific Coast
terminals. These rates, granted to
meet competition from Europe via the
Suez Canal, give the Middle West ex
porter all the advantages he would
have If he made the Pacific Coast his
base of operations and rob us of the
rights which are ours by geographical
location. We are thus excluded from
the Asiatic field so far as the handling
of. Middle West products is concerned,
as the goods will not stand the water
rate In addition to the transcontinental
tariff to our terminals. But there Is a
market across the Pacific for our flour,
preserves, dried fruits, butter, cheese,
lumber, bacon and other products which
we do not have to buy from the Middle
West. Export of these commodities to
the Philippines is checked and cramped
by excessive and Inexcusable duties. A
reduction of between 50 and 76 per cent
in these charges would give the Pacific
Coast a foothold for Its products in the
Philippines and divert to these shores
an enormous amount of trade now go
ing to Europe. It should be made at
once.
negroes ix Tim transvaal.
No intelligent man of veracity con
siders the Transvaal "a sister repub
lic." to use the pro-Boer designation of
Paul Krugcr's oligarchy. The quality
of the Transvaal Government is Illus
trated by this dictum of the Transvaal
law:
The people shall not permit any equality of
colored persons with white Inhabitants, neither
In the church nor In the state.
The laws of tho Transvaal prohibit
a native from owning realty, refuse him
marriage by civil or ecclesiastical, proc
ess, and close the courts to him in
any civil action against a white man.
In the Boer courts the testimony of a
negro has no weight by the side of a
white man. while in civil claims he has
no recourse or redress. The only mar
riage he is permitted to practice is that
under his tribal regulations. His pres
ence Is forbidden on the slrfpwnlir nn
he is obliged to wear a badge Indicat
ing his servile origin and consequent
legal defenselessness.
The original Boer trek began because
Great Britain insisted on the emanci
pation or the negro. The Boers were
enraced at the navmpnt nf wrfc-it fv...
considered too small a compensation for
their slaves, compared with the sum
paid the West India planters, but this
fact Will command small srainithv
from tin Amprlnnn fnr thv UnaM ,...
luckv to hnvpthnlr nmnerlv rlc-fetc In I
slave labor considered at all by Great J
Britain, for In our Civil War such rights
were all Ignored for loyal and disloyal
alike when the hotir of emancipation
arrived.
Prevented by treaty from continuing
slavery in the Transvaal, the Boers
enacted the laws we have recited, in
order to compel the subjection of the
blacks. In further satisfaction of their
Immoral indifference to the welfare of
their former slaves, the Boer Govern
ment has permitted an unlimited sup
ply of liquor in a country where every
other white administration makes every
possible effort to suppress the sale of
liquor to the negro.
the quay case.
j.ne speecn or senator Burrows, deliv
ered on the 12th inst, against the seat-
ing or senator Quay, is described by the
jrnuaaeipma iress as proving to a
demonstration that the TTnltpfl RfnteV
Constitution does not authorize tbe-j
Governor of a state to appoint a Sena
tor to fill a vacancy that begins during
the session of the Legislature.
-" -w .v.i;i Oliutto tlllk tile ikjrzik-
ato in 1794, when nearly one-fourth of
its memDersnip Had participated in
framing the Constitution, refused to ad
mit a Governor's appointee at the be
ginning of a term, on the ground that
the Legislature only could name a Sen
ator for such a vacancy. He shows
that the Senate, since its organization,
has refused to admit to a seat in that
body a Governor's appointee to a va
cancy which began while the Legisla
ture was in session; he recites the pre
cedent in the Corbett case, when the
Senate, hv n rftto nf rui tn -10 ,eA.
vurutii, appoiniea alter me legis
lature of Oregon had tried to elect, but
had never fully organized. In this case?
both Senators Quay and Penroso voted
against, seating Corbett, whose title
was stronger than that of Quay, who
now, in face of his own vote. Insists
that the Senate shall reverse the un
broken precedent of a hundred years
for his benefit.
. Senator Burrows denounces with se
verity the action of the Governor of
Pennsylvania, who. In disregard of the
mandate of the Constitution of his
state, refused to call the Legislature
together to elect a Senator. Mr. Bur
rows believes that if the doctrine con
tended for by Quay Is adopted, the elec
tion of Senators by the people, which
nas oeen asked for by thirty-four State
Legislatures and recently by the over
whelming vote of the House of Rep
resentatives, will soon become an en
acted fact. The resolution of the
House, adopted by a vote of 240 to 15,
takes away the election of Senators
from the Legislature in all cases, and
directs that the people shall vote for
United States Senator. Such amend
ment would probably be refused by the
present Senate, which Includes a num
ber of Senators who owe their seats to
the present system and are not sure of
their ability to retain them under a
popular election.
If the Senate en the 24th Inst votes
to seat Quay, it will vote against the
precedents established by Itself; It will
enable a minority of Quay men in the
next Pennsylvania Legislature to hold
up the election, unless the Democrats
should vote for a Republican, which Is
unlikely. Governor Stone, who Is a
mere creature of Quay, would reap
point him and the Senate would again be
compelled to recognize an unconstitu
tional appointment Senator Burrows
set forth this aspect of the situation
with great force when he said:
If the Governor may fill any vacancy he flnda
existing when the Legislature Is In recess, lu
the approaching election In Pennsylvania It
will not be necessary for Mr. Quay to carry a
majority of the Legislature, but only to secure
a sufficient number of adherenU to prevent an
election and force an adjournment. Governor
Stone can again disregard the mandate of his
own constitution, refuse to call a session of
the Legislature, and again Issue his commis
sion to Senator Quay.
It Is gratifying If Representative
Needham. of California, has begun to
stir up the War Department to the ini
quity of the present tariff rates and
regulations In force in the Philippines,
even if he Is somewhat late in taking
hold of the work the Portland Cham
ber of Commerce and tho Oregon dele
gation In Congress have been pushing
for the past six months. Not only he,
but all other representatives of the
Pacific Coast should move in this mat
ter vigorously. If they will only do
this, no objection will be made to each
and all claiming to be the pioneers in
the matter and makinir much of It vlih
their constituents. The Philippine tariff
is. like many other thlnes hnndtori iv
the military, senseless from a commer-"
clal standpoint and is very Iniurlaua to
American trade with the islands, as
well as to the business Interests of the
archipelago generally. Conditions com
mercially are worse in Manila today
than they were at any time under
Spanish rule. This Is due almost solely
to military government which takes no
note whatever of commercial interests.
There must' be a change before business
in the islands can be placed on a proper
basis, and before our merchants can
develop'the trade with the Philippines
inai proper conditions would encour
age. If our Oregon movement can be
aided by the representatives of other
states, a little political glory is a cheap
price to pay. It is gratifying, there
fore, to learn that Mr Npnrthnm hm
reason to believe that his efforts will
prove successful.
Again we have a mongrel fusion un
der the thin guise of a "citizens"
ticket Of course, no one misunder
stands the purposes behind the open
combination between the Democrats
and the sorehead Republicans on the
Legislature. The Democrats are will
ing to pay any price to achieve office,
and the disgruntled McBrlde-Mitchell
faction proposes at all hazards to de
feat the Republican nominees. Mult
nomah has near a fifth of ninety mem
bers in the Legislature, and it might
easily happen, if success were to crown
this precious arrangement that a Dem
ocratic United States Senator would be
sent to Washington by a Democratic
Oregon Legislature. That Is matter of
no concern to the Mitchell-McBrlde
operators. Their tactics are now, as
they always have been, to knife any
Republican ticket that happens not to
be adorned by their particular brand.
Bryan Is putting a physical strain
upon himself that, in spite of his splen
did equipment In this regard, is telling
upon him In a marked degree. The
strain under which Horace Greeley
sunk in his desperate campaign for the
Presidency was largely of the mental
type. His physical constitution, never
very robust was not levied upon by
strenuous efforts to make the people
hear his voice. His was a condition in
which the blade was too sharp for the
scabbard: Bryan's Is one in which the I
scabbard Is .being literally worn out by I
friction with the world. Like other
men of originally great physical pow
ers, .he refuses to see, or at least to
acknowledge, that his strength is fall
ing, but this fact was noticeable in a
marked degree in the Interim between
his speeches while on his Western tcur.
It is a pity to see animal vigor suffi
cient to carry a man along useful lines
of endeavor that come within the scope
of his Intellectual powers to a health
ful old age literally beaten to death by
the flail of political ambition la early
manhood. Candidate Bryan will prob
ably not realize his mistake until, as
the preachers of a former era were
want to say, "it is everlastingly
too
1M.
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X
Great Britain Is not responsible for
jlhe famine in India, but has done much,
and Is still doing much, to mitigate it
(India is a very large country, contain
ing nearly three hundred millions of
people. Internal transportation Is yet
Inadequate; for though the English
have built 20,000 miles of railway In the
country, vast regions are yet without
railways, and transport of supplies for
such multitudes, even when supplies
can be had. Is a stupendous problem.
Before the English went to India, fam
ines were more frequent than now, and
much more destructive. Failure of
rain, with consequent failure of crops,
is the cause of these calamities. In
time but It will take a long time yet
English enterprise and effort will re
duce the consequences to minimum con
ditions, but can never wholly avert
them. Nothing is more unjust than
abuse of Great Britain for the famine
in India. It is English civilization
alone that has provided such partial
melioration of these recurrent dis
tresses as wc now find In comparison
kwlth the unrelieved horrors of former
centurles.
The usual shrinkage which Is shown
by actual appraisement of millionaires'
estates Is witnessed In the legal valua
tion of the properties of the late Cor
nelius Vanderbllt This estate, sup
posed to have been worth at least $125,
000.000 at the time of Mr. Vanderbilt's
death, last September, Is now sched
uled at $60,000,000. This is not poverty
for tho heirs, but it falls far short of
the vast riches supposed to be their
portion. The truth is that after a few
millions have, been reached and passed
in the process of accumulation, all es
timates of personal wealth are esti
mates merely, and are much more
likely to exceed actual valuation than
to fall below It
A "citizens" ticket has been put forth
for the Legislature from Multnomah
County. It stands on no platform. It
represents no principle. It was repu
diated by the Democratic convention
as a Democratic ticket It has the in
dorsement only of those Republicans
who happen to have their names there
on. It Is a disowned hybrid, set adrift
In a perplexing state of orphanage that
excites no sympathetic effort on the
part of any party, or recognized politi
cal organization, to claim it as Its own.
It takes no prophet to foretell Its fate.
The dozen or fifteen persons who call
themselves the "Good Government"
party must feel that they have a great
weight on their shoulders. There is,
however, an impression that this body
of estimable persons, whom one or two
umbrellas would cover, do not monopo
lize all desire of good government
among us. Really, there must be some
others who have an Interest in good
government equal to their own.
Last evening's banquet to Mr. Will
iam Mackintosh was a merited tribute
by Portland's bankers to a man whose
h.eavy loss to this city becomes great
gain to San Francisco. His business
abilities and attractive personal quali
ties combine o leave a vacancy in
financial and social circles that cannot
easily be filled, and the banquet testi
fies to the appreciation in which he has
here been held.
We have heard much lately about the
Legislative ticket the Democratic party
for this county proposed to Indorse.
Now it has been given to a waiting
world. It is a "citizens" ticket, which
the Democrats "ratified" but did not
"nominate." Oh, what rare discrimi
nation! General Klllfeather may be
gone, but his illustrious example. In a
most noble and elegant choice of words,
lives after him.
Our "reformers" complain that the
Republican ticket for the county and
city was "set up by a few men." But
what of their own ticket? It is a prod
uct of pure dicker, in which less than
a dozen participated. It was "set up"
from top to bottom, and then carried
to the "convention' and put through.
As an "anti-ring" performance, it is
great
Would it not be well for the Indian
War Veterans to make some provision
for the celebration by their descend
ants of the passage of their pension
bill, otherwise there might be no one
alive to take note of the event when It
occurs?
Anti-Trust LeRUlntlon.
Chicago Record.
Washington, Representative Overstreet,
of Indiana, of the Judiciary committee, will
present a bill intended to set the Re
publican party right before tho people in
regard to the trusts. Ttiict measure has
been framed with great core, and goes as
far as the Constitution will Justify in
regulating and restricting trusts, monop
olies, corporations, copartnerships. Joint
stock companies and other combinations
of capital which seek to evade competi
tion. The bill compels all combinations
of capital engaged In commerce between
tho states to publish periodically, like
the National banks, sworn statements of
their capital earnings, expenses, profits,
dividends and other details of their busi
ness. In addition to this bill, it Is proposed
to report a resolution to be submitted to
the Legislatures of the several states In
tho form of a Constitutional amendment,
extending the Jurisdiction of Congress over
all combinations to monopolize trade or
commerce.
It is Intended to have the House of Rep
resentative pass this bill and resolution
at tho present ssJon, for the purpose of
making a record upon which the Republi
can party can go before the people.
9 1
Tvocr Presidents.
Poultncy BIgelow. writing In the Inde
pendent, sizes up Undo Paul as "a single-minded,
courageous, gruff. Illiterate
cattle-driver, with the soul .of a Cromwell
nnd the education of a red Indian." Con
versing with Undo Paul Is like conversing
with "a shepherd out of the seventeenth
century." be tells us. but Steyn's talk Lt
tho talk of "a trained lawyer and a prac
tical statesman." This Is rather Interest
ing and we quote further:
President Stern Is one of the best all-round
types of manhood It has been my fortune to
meet. Ho has a calm, penetrating eye 'full of
human Interest, and at the sans time sui
rtatlre of latent Are. ... Bteyn seemed to
me about six feet high, with broad shoulders
slightly drooping; not the stoop that comes
from desk work, but rather from carrying a
run after ram. I hare met many Americans
who reminded me of Steyn deliberate men and
shrewd Indifferent to mere display, yet careful
as to their personal appearance. Everything
about Steyn and hla bouse spoke of cleanli
ness, tidiness good taste. Everything about
Krugcr's house suggested slovenly housekeep
ing If not dirty personal habits. . . . Steyn
Is politically a clean man at the head of a
clean community. Kruger Is chief of a state
where much corrupUon In high places exists,
and where his own name Is not always spared.
Nowhere In South Africa did I hear Steyn's
name mentioned save in terms o the highest
"
respect.
1
A,
Altrnlstlo Socialist Experiment.
X S Ttnltlmora Sun.
Tnmton N. J. An experiment in altru-
uat by men who are perhaps tho most
qualified in America to put into practi
cal application this theory Is to be made
at Belle Mead. Somerset County, 20 miles
above this place.
Three hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars will be Invested In the scheme, which
Is to be developed by Dr. W. H. Tolman
and the Rev. Dr. Joslah- Strong, of the
Social Service League of New Tork. who
have been lecturing on social and Indus
trial co-operation all over the United
States tor two years.
The place selected Is the farm of 1200
acres which became celebrated for Its
equipment under the generous patronage of
the late United States Senator John R
McPherson and which was lately the prop
erty of Charles Howell Cook, who Is now
a member of the State Ttfbe,rculosls Com
mission. It. is located on the lice of the
Philadelphia and Reading road.
The plan Is patterned after that of the
Knupp Manufacturing Company, at Essen,
Germany, except that the colony will bo
made up of many and smaller Industries.
Factories will be built on the best archi
tectural and sanlti-ry plans. The homes of
the employes will contain the greatest
comforts that can be applied to small
habitations. All the employes will have
a chance to speedily become owners of
their homes.
There. will be public baths and a. li
brary, and prizes for the best gardens and
neatest homes. Every scheme known to
sociologists for the betterment of the con
ditions of the working people will "be pre
sented under the supervision of Dr. Tol
man and Dr. Strong. The work of devel
opment will begin at once.
Extension of Parole System.
Chicago Tribune.
Governor Shaw put In practice In Iowa
tho parole system, of which he Is an ad
vocate, by setting free a life convict at
Anamosa. This Innovation cannot fall to
be successful in operation in Iowa, as It
has been in Indiana and In Illinois. The
chaplain of the Indiana State Prison said
a few days ago that the parole law in
that state has been responsible tor the
reform of many prisoners. The Illinois law
has been eminently successful also, fulfill
ing the expectations of those who had it
placed upon the statute books. The re
port of the Illinois Board of Pardons
showed that In the Summer of 1S97 there
were 19 per cent of the prisoners who were
old offenders, while In the Summer of ISM
there were less than 9 per cent In Illi
nois the law has rid the state of the
class of men whose sole occupation when
not In prison Is to prey upon society. The
paroles are not granted indiscriminately.
The prisoner must serve sentence of a
year before his petition for paro Is con
sldcred, and then he Is Interrogated upon
his past life, while the opinions of tho
Jurors who heard his case and the District
Attorney who tried hlra are considered.
The rule Is to compel the service of a year
In prison for each preceding term of im
prisonment, and hence criminals nvold
Illinois, preferring a state where they will
not be thus treated. Experience both In
Illinois and Indiana has shown that few
of the paroled prisoners lapse into their
former ways, while many of them have
reformed and become good citizens.
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Possible Split In Presbrterfnnlsm.
Chicago Tribune.
That public which is best Informed about
religious matters would not bo surprised
to seo the Presbyterian Church in tho
United States of America the exact title
of the Presbyterian Church North split
Into two denominations, and organize two
General Assemblies. The separation may
not come nt the approaching General As
sembly. 'Whether separation comes at this
time or not depends on the strength of
tho great middle element In tho denomi
nation. Radicals on both sides are talk
ing of it almost as if It were already here.
Some of the commissioners to the St.
Louis meeting next month have been
elected during the last 10 days on this
Issue. Of course the cause Is doctrinal.
The Rev. Dr. Ilillia went to the root of
the matter when he attacked the West
minster Confession. Revision of that docu
ment Is being clamored for by both par
ties; by the conservatives in order to
drive tho liberals out of the denomination
or Into acceptance of tho confession: and
by the liberals In order to bring Pres
byterlanlsm into what they call agree
ment with modern research and scholar
ship. Everybody says revision of the con
fession must come. All agree that
changes are desirable. And ir revision
docs como practically all the advanced
men on both sides say It will split the
denomination. There Is a largo middle
grade membership, neither liberal nor
conservative, nnd found In the smaller
presbyteries. This membership may save
disaster.
"Dishonor With Ilefent.,,
Under this title, the Portland Dispatch,
a weekly Democratic paper. Just before
the "fusion" convention was held, printed
remarks that follow. The protest ngalnst
tho alliance was not heeded, and thec
remarks therefore may bo taken as having
the nature of prophecy:
The "steering committee," which appears to
have trouble In finding the kind of material It
wants for the Legislative ticket, will do well
to consider the fact that when the voter Is led
up to two RepuMIcan troughs on the day of
election he has the great American privilege
to drink out of the one that seems the most
clean or not drink at all. It the attempt now
befng made la carried out to deliver the Legis
lative ticket to the Mitchell Republicans, this
committee" will find that as many Demo
crats will vote for the other Republican fac
tion. This Is the rankest kind of dishonest pol
itics, and. It carried out. will result In a dis
graceful defeat. No "committee" has the
power to bind the Democratic voter to such a
contract. If Mitchell and his followers want to
defeat the Republicans, they can do It only by
noting for honest and unpledged Democrats.
No Democrat with any self-respect or common
honesty will agree to any compact that deliv
ers his manhood and reputation into the keep
ing of any Republican faction. In all sincer
ity, and for the honor of the party, we warn
these managers not to enter Into any alliance
that Is simply a defeat and disgrace in tho
end. A Democratic ticket may be defeated,
but It will not have the disgrace of a dis
honest alliance and bargain attached to Its de
feat. The Hub's Finest,
Chicago Tribune.
Stranger I notice there are several po
licemen' gathered at that corner and con
versing In an exdted manner. What is
the trouble?
Hostonlan When I passed them just now
they were wrangling over the pronuncia
tion of the word "intuition."
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Inducement Removed.
Judge.
Mrs. Newcomb (to little Willie) I'm
afraid you must "be sick, dear, you make
so little noise.
Willie No. mamma; Its "cause grandma
and Aunt Ruth aren't here to hear me.
Profitable Collins-.
Chicago Record.
The young man who Is looklne for a
calling In life may have noticed that
selling gas companies Is fairly profitable
business if one can get steady work at
WHAT THE "CITIZENS" TICKET IS
The "citizens" legislative ticket for Mult
nomah County Is a most remarkable fusion
of Democrats of all complexions. Repub
licans of no complexion, and ex-Populists.
It is the last run of sorehead shad. It
marks tho final desperate stagger of tho
Mitchell and McBride clique to avoid com
plete dissolution of the powerful machina
that once held the Republican party of
this city and state by the throat The
Democrats, who realized that alone they
had absolutely no chance of success, were
willing to make a deal with sorehead Re
publicans, represented by Boss Ballou. and
the fragments of the McBride faction,
whose aims Ballou was furthering, to de
feat the regular Republican ticket This
very singular slate, made up In large part
of little-known persons, is the result
Tho chief target at which the allied
forces are to direct their efforts Is the
state Senatorial ticket. To that end the
Democrats yielded to the demands of
Boss Ballou for two or three
out of four nominations; and It
Is notablo that even the fourth
was a Democrat whose fealty to
silver and Bryan Is questionable. The
quartet Is: D. P. Thompson. Silver Re
publican, whom Mr. Montag describes as
"as good a Bryanlte as I am," whose name
was used without his consent, and who
has announced that he wtU not stand; J.
E. Hunt Police Commissioner, a Republi
can, who poses as the special champion
of tho dty's virtue, and who has a some
what sensational' record along that line;
Dr. Andrew C Smith said by some per
sons to be a Republican, by others a Dem
ocrat a physician of large practice, who
has projected himself for unknown rea
sons Into unaccustomed company; nnd
R. D. Inman, whilom Gold Democrat, who
wa9 chastened by tbe refusal of his party
to give him the mayoraly nomination, and
who once denounced the unveiling of a
picture of Bryan at a Democratic banquet
a3 "an Insult to himself and his friends."
So much for the citizens senatorial ticket
which the Democracy has "Indorsed and
ratified." AH the nominees are well
known. Tho gentlemen who aspire to the
lower bouse for the most part need an
Introduction to tbe public:
Lewis II. Tarpley Is a Mitchell Republi
can and a law partner of Judge ODoy. He
recently made a futile attempt to get into
tho Republican band wagon, and failed.
George W. Holcomb Is president of the
Oregon Packing Company, with pro
nounced or radical ideas on social ques
tions. He Is now a Democrat
D. M. Watson, of Watson Bros., restau
rant on Fourth street. Democrat
Frank A. Heltkcmper, secretary G.
Heltkemper Company, Jewelry, Morrison
street; quite a young man, with no po
litical experience; Democrat.
Otto Schuman, marble works. Third and
Taylor; grand past sachem of the Red
Men: Democrat; says he never attended
a political convention and has no partic
ular Inter.est in politics.
John Drlscoll, butcher, Burnsldo street;
Democrat.
J. J. Shipley, of Powell & Shipley, com
mission men at Front and Jefferson, twice
candidate for Councilman; once on Popu
list ticket, and once on fusion In '93.
H. A. Smith, timber-land agent
C w; Nottingham. Nottingham & Co.,
commission, foot of Washington; says he
Is for gold standard, and for McKlnley
Administration, and will be a Republican
In every respect If he goes on the ticket
M. E. Thompson, real estate agent,
Stark street; Mitchell Republican.
George XL Orton, printer;, candidate for
State Printer In 1SS0 on Union ticket;
apparently now a Democrat
A. J. Knott a well-known citizen; Demo
crat Alexander Sweek, who had tho regu
lar Democratic nomination for Joint Sen
ator for Multnomah. Washington and Co
lumbia, is also embraced in the names
selected by the Democratic con.
ventlon for ratification, but not
for nomination; and so was J. T. Mllner,
politician, for Representative for Mult
nomah and Clackamas.
The whole scheme for the naming of all
theso gentlemen was laid bare at the
Democratic convention. It proved a delib
erate surrender to fusion, which the
Democracy of this county had once mani
fested symptoms of a righteous purpose
to tako a stand against For instance,
Sanderson Reed, who a few days since
publicly declared that "fusion Is a rotten
thing," warmly supported the deal. He
was about tbe only member of the con
vention who pretended to look upon It as
a ticket of the Democracy, which the
young gentleman has recently re-cmbraccd
with such a touching display of youthful
ardor. C K. Henry made bold to Inquire
what platform the nominees were stand
ing on, and, when ho found out that they
represented no platfornt. and espoused no
principles, he Jumped at the curious con
clusion that they must be regarded as
Democrats. The convention was candidly
Informed that If the candidates were re
quired to bo nominated as Democrats, and
therefore to accept the Democratic plat
form, the so-called Republicans would de
cline. Clarno, Welch, Powers, Worth. Ad
ams. Flcgel, Gatcns, O'Day, Burke, all
made It clear that It was called a citizens
ticket becauso It was not a Democratic
ticket, and It was ratified and indorsed
on the distinct understanding that it was
not a Democratic ticket
Under these queer auspices tho "citi
zens" child was born in a Democratic
convention. It would be more accurato
to say that the accouchement occurred In
Democratic headquarters upstairs, at Boss
Ballou' s meeting of citizens, and that the
Democratic party in convention assembled
assisted In the subsequent ceremonies. The
so-called citizens meeting was made up In
largo part of delegates to the Democratic
convention, who resolved themselves Into
plain citizens for tho purpose of that meet
ing only. Then they resumed their func
tlora as partisans, and as Democrats "rati,
lied and Indorsed" what they had done as
citizens.
The "citizens" legislative nominations
stand on no platform. They represent no
principles of any sort They are bound
by no pledges to the public or to any
party. Whether they have made promises
to any faction of any party, or represent
any particular political Interest, must be
Judged from the peculiar circumstances
of their nomination. They are not mem
bers of tho Good Government Association,
and ore not on that account obliged to
promote the high purposes for which It
stands, or, rather, onco stood. Nor were
they nominated by the Good Government
Assodatlon, and they cannot be regarded
as In any proper sense as tho candidates
of that organization. They were named
by Boss Ballou, working In his own sub
terranean ways to revive tho dying cause
of McBtido and Mitchell; by O'Day,
Burke. Montag. Pecry and White, who
variously represent themselves and the
Democratic party. And the fusion deal
was railroaded through the Democratlo
convention.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Spirit mediums are not always account
able for their trans-actions.
Dewey will never again stand on so popv.
ular platform -as the bridge of the U. S. S.
Olympla.
The success of the bench show Indicates)
that the public is not unwilling to let its
money go to the dogs.
It may be. safe to make fun of Dewey,
but politicians will soon learn that it Is
not safe to Uo about him.
Bryan says his health Is good. He must
havo recuperated wonderfully from tha
effect of the Dewey announcement
Where there is so much smoke, thera
must be some fire, said the employe in
tho weather office when he lost his Job
for puffing a cigarette.
Perhaps McKlnley Is making this bluff
at Turkey in order to get the country
into a war, and eend Dewey and Miles
safely away to the front
Probably Governor Taylor Is to bo
charged with complicity in the Goebel
murder because he Is the only man ia
the state who hasn't been.
It Is reported that all the gun and am
munition factories in the country are
working overtime. They are probably
stocking up for the Kentucky election.
Toung Lady I want to get one of thosa
bull-dogs that are so fashionable now.
Fander Tes. ma'am. I think we can
suit you.
Toung Lady Well, It er must bo a
bull-dog.
Fancier Why, of course.
Toung Lady Er that Is to say, I er
don't want a er cow dog.
Let dogs delight
To bark and bite.
For God hath made them so;
They have a right
To scrap and light.
For that's their way, you know.
Their owners, though.
All ought to know
It Isn't very wise
Half mad to ko.
Because the show
Could give their dogs no prize.
"There goes a man." said Mr. Sherlock
Holmes, "who Is completely under petti
coat government "Of course, you know
something about the man?" suggested tho
interested Interlocutor. "Never saw him
before In my life," replied the great de
tective. "It Is all a part of my art. Per
haps you saw him kick that dog Just a
moment ago? Well, he spoke In an angry
manner to th.e newsboy at the corner. Tha
inevitable Inference Is that his wife Is a
little bit of a woman, and that he is afraid
to death of her." Boston Transcript
One of the strange Infelicities which aro
sometimes found on gravestones In ancient
churchyards seems to have been perpe
trated In the Inscription on the tablet In
memory of the late Rev. Dr. John Hall,
which has been placed In the Flf th-Avenuo
Presbyterian Church, In New Tork. After
giving the name and mortuary record o
Dr. Hall, the Inscription says:
For forty-nine years
A Presbyterian Minister.
Pastor pf this Church
From Nov. 3. 1S07. to Sept. 17. 1S3S.
There remalneth therefore a rest
to the peopTe of God."
Living happily in Roxbury. one of tha
suburbs of Boston, is Charles Fallen Ad
ams, whoe "Leedlo Yawcob Strauss" is
one of the imperishable characters in the
humorous, literature of America, says tho
Saturday Evening Post. This month that
Is tb say, on April a he will celebrate his
ESth birthday. He was In the Civil War,
and was wounded and taken prisoner at
Gettysburg. His pen has lost none of Its
fadllty. The other day a letter was sent
to Mr. Adams on a business matter, and
it was by mistake addressed to Charles
Fallen Adams. Very promptly came the
following:
"In Adam's fall
We sinned all."
Not only Sirs but Madams; -
Though this be true. , -.
'Tls wrong for you
To call me Fallen Adams.
CHARLES FOLLEV ADAMS.
Major-General Sir Herbert Charles
Chermslde. who succeeds to General Gat
acre's command In South Africa, is a very
distinguished officer. He was born In
1S50. educated at Eton, and entered tho
Royal Engineer Corps In 1S6S. gradually
proceeding to tho rank of Colonel by
1SS7. In ' 1S77 ho was military attache
with the Turks in the Russo-Turklsh
War. and In the following year ho as
sisted In tho delimitation of the Turkish
frontiers. He served with the Esyptian
expedition of 1SS2. and later In tho Sou
dan and Suaklm expeditions. From 1SS4
to 1SS6 ho was Governor-General of tha
Red Sea Littoral. From 1SSS to 1SS3 ha
was British Consul in Kurdistan, and
from 1SS3 to 1S3S he was British Military
Attache In Constantinople. In 1SS7 ho
was appointed British Military Commis
sioner and Commander In Crete.
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The Grace for Llclit.
From "Songs of the Glens of Antrim." Molna
O'Neill.
When we wero little chllder we had a quarat
wee house.
Away up tn the heather by tho head o
Rrabla burn;
The hares we'd seo them scootln" an' wc'tX
hear the crowia' grouse.
An' when we'd all bo In at night ye'd not get
room to turn.
Tha youngest two She'd put to bed. their faces
to the wall.
An' the lave of us could sit aroun. just any
where we might;
Herself -ud take the rush-dip an light It for
us all.
An "God be thanked!" sho would say "now
we have a light."
Then we be to quet the laughln on' pushln oa
the floor.
An' think on One who called us to come and
be forgiven;
Himself "ud put his pipo down, an say the
good word more.
"May the Lamb o' God lead us all to tho
Light o' Heaven!"
There's a wheen things that used to he an'
now has had their day.
Tho nine Glens of Antrim can show yo many
a sight;
But not the quare wee house where we lived
up Brabla way.
Nor a child In all the nine Glens that knows
tho grace for light.
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The Prayer of tlio Women.
Mabel Beatrice Carlisle In Chambers's Journal.
God of Eternity I shadows aro stealing
Over the Homes of the near and the far;
ITen as we kneel at Thy footstool appealing.
Haste Thou the end of the sorrows of war!
Wisdom hath whispered. "The Ufa of the na
tion Is thereby revived, and In unity held";
But U it enough? Oh. God of Creation.
Speak! and the shadows of war are dispelled.
Far on the lono veldt our loved. In their dream
ing. Are calling us vainly, as Heaven drnwetft
nigh.
Creator of Motherhood! grant us a meeting.
That, calm as the cradled, they peacefully
die.
Though for "the good." or tho "future en
nobling," Humanity, stricken, cries, "God. let It
cease"
Hurl Thou the war clouds. In pity, asunder.
And stanch tts hssxt-Hawias-.witii Qad-glTca
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