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News or discussion Intended Tor publication In The Oregonlan should be addremed lnvarlablr "Editor The Oregonlan." not to the name of nr IndlvlduaL Letter relating to advertising, subscriptions or to anr butlnesa matter should be addressed ilmplr "The Oregonlan." Puret Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson. effice at 1111 Pacific avenue. Tacoma. Box SCO, Tacoma poetoffloe. Eastern Business ORlce The Tribune build. Ing. New York dtr: 'The Rookery." Chicago; the S. a Beckwlth special agency. New York. For sale In San Francisco br 3. K. Cooper. Ted Market street, near the Palace hotel, and at Goldsmith Bros.. 236 Sutter street. For sale la Chlcsaa br the P. O. News Co S17 Dearborn street. TODATS WEATHER. Fair, with frosts In arlr morning; warnvr during atternoon and night; northwest winds. POKTXAXD, FltlDAY, APRIL 27, 1000. IS THE SECOND DISTRICT. Btate Senator "William Smith, of Ba ker County, is about to take the field as the candidate of the Fusion party of Oregon for Congress In the Second Dis trict. He will devote considerable at ktention to the voters of Portland and Ivlclnlty, and In another column will be found his own presentation of the ounds on which he asks his election. To Invite the attention of every voter the Second District to Mr. Smith's declaration of principles. It shows aoro faithfully than any assertion of The Oregonlan could do that socialism Is the backbone of the Fusion cause. chiefly expressed through free coinage of silver, and that the hope of tho Fu sion forces lies in appeal to all possi ble elements of discontent by arraign ment of the gold standard as responsi ble for all our ills. This Is the issue of 183G over again, except that the pre tense of loyalty to historic Democracy Is thrown off and the appeal to social ism and discontent is more undis guised. The idea that, free coinage Is our lope and the gold standard our undoing runs through everything that Mr. Smith says. Take it out, and there is nothing left. His chief prescription for the trust disease is abandonment of the gold standard; his objection to the Phil ippines Is that expansion proposes to elevate the dollar above the man. So in his discussion of the money question. tree silver positive and gold standard negative are behind every specification of detail. The past four years have given us more money and prosperity, but free coinage would have given us still more money and yet greater pros perity. The more legal tender specie we have the more property Is worth. the higher wages rise, the greater the opportunities of employment. The sil ver dollar Is as good as the gold dollar If so be It have the Government fiat behind It. The silver dollar Is better than a bank note, because the bank note Is based on security while the silver" coin Js supported solely by the Government flat. An American system Is better than a system' intimately con nected with that of Europe, and this can only be had through free coinage and the silver basis. The man who proposes to add base money to the cir culation Is superior to the man who points out the weakness of the currency and suggests reform. The gold stand ard Is for the creditor and the rich, the sliver standard is for the debtor and the poor. This hasty resume will show how clearly is to be derived from Mr. Smith's declarations the straight issue between free coinage and the gold standard. Of that general Issue we shall speak a little later. First, let us clear up a few specific misapprehen sions. Under free coinage, Mr. Smith Bays, the value of the dollar would not have declined anysmore than It has un der the gold standard. This is woful defiance of truth. Under free coinage all our currency but gold would have sunk to the bullion value of a silver dol lar, and perhaps some forms of paper even lower. Our silver dollar now Is worth for Its coin about 46 cents. But tinder the gold standard every dollar has been kept at Its full nominal gold value. Mr. Smith airily assumes that the increase in money has caused good times, and that the dollar has declined In value. These are pure assumptions. not susceptible of proof or even of prob able demonstration. It Is not the vol ume of the currency, but guarantee of Its stability, that produces confidence, encourages investment and provides employment. From 18S9 to 1S92 there was poured Into the circulation some thing like $300,000,000 of various kinds of currency, mostly sliver, but the se quel was the panic of 1893. There was money enough, but Its value was im paired through excessive Infiltration of overvalued silver. The increase In the circulation the past four years has been mostly In gold, supplying ample basis for the paper and sliver additions that have been made under the distinct and avowed purpose of the Government to maintain all its currency at a gold val uation. This security or guarantee would have been lacking In the case of free coinage of silver. The record of 1S90 to 1S93 would have been repeated, but Infinitely worse. "Why has the civilized world left the silver standard and the always Impos sible double standard for the gold standard? "Why Is the half -civilized world striving today to reach the gold standard? Can It be accident? Carr It be that all these peoples England. Germany, France, the United States. Holland, Canada, firmly on the gold standard; Russia. Japan, India, Austria-Hungary, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, struggling to It at different stages of ascent, and other countries hoping for the day when they can do the same can it be that all these are misguided and that In time our United States Fusionlsts will khow them the error of a stable money and the wisdom of a debased and fluctuat ing money? If we can believe this miracle, we need have no hesitation in Bending Mr. Smith to Congress. Other wise, otherwise. It Is being bruited around the streets that the Republican State Senatorial I ticket is made up wholly of Canadians. The story, made Its first appearance some days ago, and has survived -with a tenacity that discloses a systematic purpose behind It. What If It were true? But It Is not true. It Is Just one-fourth true. Mr. Bates was born In Iowa, Mr. Farrell In Ireland, Mr. Ross In Scotland, and Mr. Mackay In Canada. All are good American citi zens. It has been directly asserted by no one that they are not; but It Is merely Insinuated that, coming from Canada, they might be Influenced to strike some deadly blow at our Ameri can Institutions. Of such is the cheap kind of weapons used against the Re publican ticket. A VICTIM OJf THE AITAR. The once grand historic Democratic party has slain and offered up another of its noblest sons on the altar of sll verism. A man cast in the mould of Benton and Jackson, Seward and Stan ton, has been sacrificed to this new Moloch of Socialism. The man is Sena tor CafTery, of Louisiana. When this sliver craze took possession of the Dem ocratic party. The Oregonlan foretold Its effect upon the party In elimination of its best men. The prediction has been fulfilled. The brains and con science of the party have been driven out and Its charlatans and demagogues enthroned. What has happened to Cleveland, Vilas, Olney. Morton, Bragg. Buckner, Palmer, Bynum, Carlisle, Russell, Lindsay, Gray, has now hap pened to CafTery. the noblest of them alL He refused to bow down to the silver idol, and the anathema fell. The place In the Senate of the United States whero he has honored his country, his state and his party Is taken from him and will be given to some one whose scruples will not dlEcommode him In swearing allegiance to financial dis honor and civic turpitude. The deep damnation of his taking off Is a crime fit to be expiated by no less penalty than the perpetual death and oblivion of the party that has perpetrated it. As this map, letting go his public ca reer but holding unspotted his convic tions and unsullied his reputation, re tires to private life, he bequeaths to the youth of this country a princely heri tage In these noble words: I profess not to be controlled In rar polit ical conduct br partr edicts when not squaring with the creed of the partr. Of that I must be the supreme Judgo. Xf my course does not meet with the approval of znr political peers and associates. It is theirs to condemn, mine to endure. Fur the rancorous diatribes of those who echo the words of a political master or boss I have nothing but contempt. For the censure of the Just and Intelligent I have the greatest deference and consideration, but yet, fellow-cltlzens, while I suffer their condemna tion, I cannot accept their Judgment for mine. The insignia of office with which the people mj- only masters have clothed me, I gladlr 'T at their feet. Mar they find some worthlet public servant than I to administer the pub lic trust which I will soon lay down, and will lnglr lay down. In the bosom of mr family. In the society where I was born and reared, X look for the peaceful closing of a life which, though not conspicuous for glorious deed or more glorious thought, may yet not be without some lesson for good to those who come after roe. It is worthy of Burke, In sentiment and In language. 'Its crowning merit Is in its solid basis In the man's record. When his party left the ground of hon est money for base appeals to class hatred and the discontent of the broken, he had the manhood to stand out alone. When even Gray and Lind say wavered In defense of the gold standard. CafTery stood firm. When his state demanded his voice and vote for a protective tariff on sugar, he refused to yield his convictions, and held the historic position of his party in favor of free trade. It is a record to which his children's children may point with reverence and pride, it Is an example for the youth of every time. What is the Democratic party of to day thinking of that it brands high courage and fidelity like this as a crime and hounds their possessor out of his country's service Into the oblivion of private life? Have these men no sons that, reckless of their future, they put a stigma upon faith and honor and pre pare a crown for the craven and the base? Have they no daughters whom they might wish Imbued with some what of the fiber that gave to history and to humantiy the Spartan mother and the matron of old Rome? And If there are men so Intent on present gain and heedless of their example to pos terity, must we despair also of the masses? There is no redress for these wrongs, there Is no bulwark against these Insidious assaults, unless from the Instinct and conviction of virtue and probity lying latent in the common people. The appeal lies to the universal conscience, and with this question, as with every moral question of our poll tics for the money question at bottom Is a moral question, and the reward of fidelity Is at bottom a moral question and the day when that appeal td the National conscience falls on unrespon sive hearts will be the hour of our de cline and fall. COMPAIIISOX OP WHEAT smr- 3IEXTS. Tho news that the Northern Pacific would build wheat warehouses at Ta coma is quite pleasing to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Ordinarily anything that was proposed for Tacoma was about as pleasing to the Post-Intelligencer as a red rag Is to an Infuriated bulL The exception In the present case Is duo to the fact that the Post-Intelligencer, by a singular course of rea soning, sees In the building of these warehouses the commercial downfall of Portland. Ever since the Post-Intelll-gencer has been edited by a lightweight Spokane politician there has been a strange distortion of the truth in nearly every topic nanaiea in Its editorial col umns. Ignorance, of course, has some thing to do with this peculiar method of Journalism, but petty Jealousy seems to have called forth this last outburst. "The wheat shipping business Is leav ing Portland, and Is leaving It to stay," says the Post-Intelligencer. "We have left only the competition of San Fran cisco to overcome, and the same facts show that is yielding. But Portland Is no longer In the race. With her it must be from this time forward only a strug gle for survival on any terms." It is consoling to know that even some kind of "terms" are to be granted Portland by the gracious oracle on the Sound. Now that we are out of the race, we may be excused if we refer to the last score-card, to show the position we held at the finish regarding wheat ship ments, this being the subject under discussion. The last monthly statement of the Bureau of Statistics, giving March wheat shipments, showed Portland to be In third place, with 731,591 bushels of wheat; San Francisco, which Is "yielding." coming first on the list, with New Tork second. Puget Sound comes seventh on the list, with 363,717 bush- els. or less than half the amount shipped by Portland. For the nine months ending March 31, 1900, Portland is In fifth place, with 7.013.S31 bushels. compared with Puget Sound's ninth place on the list, with 2,554,402 bushels of wheat. For the same period last year, Portland was In sixth place, with 8,663,460 bushels, compared to Puget Sound's eighth place on the list, with 4.691.895 bushels. The new warehouses "of enormous capacity," which the Northern Pacific is to build, are for Messrs. Balfour, Guthrie & Co., G. W. McNear. and Kerr, Glfford & Co. The first-men tioned firm "owns" warehouses in this city nearly as large as the entire three that are to be built by the railroad com pany at Tacoma. G. W. McNear "owns" a warehouse In this city with a greater capacity than that which the company Is building in Tacoma. Kerr, Glfford & Co. have long leases on docks In this city, with a greater capacity than any two of the warehouses now building In Tacoma. The Mutual Ware house Company, of this city, has Just completed a warehouse with a greater floor capacity than any two of the new warehouses to be built on the Sound. The Pacific Coast Elevator Company, of this city, has more warehouse space than any other firm In the Northwest, and by the time the new-crop wheat Is ready to move, there will be big addi tions to at least three of the ware houses already constructed. Looking over the field, with only facts to be considered, it would seem that Portland will still have some equipment with which to continue the "struggle for survival." CRAS'TS BIIITIIDAY. Today we celebrate the birthday of our greatest soldier. Grant's fame, like that of Lincoln, steadily grows with the lapse of time. There Is no longer any "mystery" about his rise to the rank of the foremost In the armies of the Union. Historical examination of his career has dissipated much of that stu pid skepticism which refuses to credit a great soldier's success to brains, but prefers to call it bulldog luck. No Union General ever owed so little to social and political Influence at the start. No soldier's success was ever due moro to upright and downright hard fighting and less to luck than Grant's rise to supreme command. General Lee never failed to rebuke those who attempted to belittle Grant as nothing but a brave, resolute, stolid, stubborn soldier, who won by force of mere pluck, luck and pugnacity. Gen eral Longstreet. the right arm of Lee, rates Grant as easily the greatest of the Union commanders. The official correspondence of Grant with Lincoln and Grant's private correspondence during the Civil War make It clear that before battle no General more carefully studied the essence of the art of war In the sense in which Napoleon defined It to be the "art of separating to subsist and concentrating to fight," The Vlcks burg campaign Is as fine and brilliant an illustration of this supreme knowl edge of the art of war as history has known since Napoleon's Italian cam paigns of 1796-97. Men of intelligence and candor today confess that Grant was not only a great soldier, but that he man!fed a broad and statesmanlike grasp of all Impor tant public questions that were pre sented to, his administration for solu tion. The Geneva arbitration, the veto of the inflation bill and of the equal ization of bounties bill were an honor to Grant's administration, and it was manifested In our war with Spain that Grant was right In his view that we needed naval and coaling stations In the West Indies, and in his perception of the vast importance of the Nica ragua Canal. We can see that he was right in urging moderate and respect ful enforcement of our anti-Chinese policy with punctilious regard for the sanctity of treaties until they were ab rogated; that Is, he urged us to treat China as courteously as we would Ger many or France, pointing out that some day China would have an enormous trade to give to the world, and that It was not sound policy to be unjust or rude in dealing with a punctilious Asiatic government, which was grow ing wiser. If not stronger, every day. Indifference to Grant's advice has made American influence at Peking, where once It was supreme, far Inferior to that of Great Britain or Russia. The inquiry is. sometimes made why it is that men who knew Grant In his youthful service In Oregon are Incred ulous when they hear him spoken of as a man of superior parts. The explana tion is simple enough when we remem ber that no man or woman of genius for doing those noble things that are always difficult ever lived who was not completely misunderstood and misrep resented until the silent aspiration of the man or woman found an opportu nity for achievement. This Is true of Cromwell, of Napoleon and of Grant, Nobody, as a rule, who knew them pre dicted any superiority for them until they achieved distinction, because gen ius Is a secret until the hour of its op portunity and action has arrived. Grant In Oregon in the old days was a simple subordinate officer rising to a mediocre occasion. He had no field of display, he could not make bricks without straw. But his genius always had its own secret, and kept it until it was extorted by the attrition and stress of great events, the stimulus of great opportunities. Every superior man or woman always keeps something In reserve that father, moth er, brother, sister, husband and lover never know and even seldom suspect until the hour of eruption and action arrives. They never rise above the oc casion, as cheap charlatan natures al ways do, but they rise with the occa sion and are always level with the great Impulse of their age and oppor tunity. Nobody knows all his wife, sis ter or betrothed can do, although he may know absolutely all that they have done, and so no man who knew Grant In peace without opportunity could pos sibly know the secret of his genius for war. Talent can be measured, for Its work rests largely on conscious effort to do what It can, to scheme and strive for the opportunity that leads to the peak of fame. But genius Is serene, not straining, because It is unconscious of its own reach and clutch and com pass until It Is face to face with unex pected opportunity and responsibility, under whose fierce light genius then does what it must. Genius has its se cret, and reveals It through action, whilo talent instinct with ambition helps Itself through assertion. Talent has said many memorable things, but only men of genius do things which make states, maintain states or pre serve them. To men of genius for war peace brings no peculiar message, so Grant, obscure at 39, is no more the paradox of history than Cromwell at over 40. If Charles I had not forced a revolution; If Napoleon had not found a revolution to his hand and Grant a great Civil War for National life, these men would have remained obscure, be cause war, not peace, was their hour of supreme opportunity. The secret of genius eludes explanation and defies reproduction as completely as the sheen on the lip of the cardinal flower defies the brush of the greatest artist, no matter how true his eye for color or how deft his hand. Three years ago the Austrian Govern ment forced the Turks to pay an in demnity for an Austrian subject who had been maltreated In Mersina, Asia Minor. Austria informed the Sultan that if her demands were not com plied with by a near day named, she would bombard the town. Immediate ly the money was paid and the Aus trian battle-ship sailed away. The Vi enna press now warns the Sultan that If he withstands Just claims of the United States he need look for no sym pathy or ad from Europe. The Vienna press may be right, but the United States is not Austria, and the Sultan knows It. Austria Is a member of the Drelbund, and stands very close to the Emperor of Germany, who Is exceed ingly Influential with the Sultan. Aus tria is near Turkey, while the United States is very remote by comparison. The Sultan cannot afford to trifle with the powers of Europe, but If he thought the powers of Europe would not Inter fere, he might not be unwilling to trifle with the United States. Building goes steadily on, with good prospect of increasing activity during the season. It is attended, of course, by demands for shorter hours and in creased wages from carpenters and other artisans, and by an increase in the price of lumber and other building materials. But that It grows indicates plainly the energy that is behind It, the returning confidence of Investors and the brightening hopes of home-builders. In a word. It is an Index to a pros perity much wider and deeper than that which attends a limited class of en deavor, saying plainly, as In so many words. The wageworker has at last emerged from the gloom of Industrial and financial depression, and is shar ing a prosperity which Bryanlsm can not discount or past reverses shadow. The Atlln exclusion law was a stupid and harmful piece of legislation. It was enacted by the British Columbia Legislature, in the expectation that It would drive all the trade with Atlln Into the Canadian channels, and also In retaliation for our narrow American policy as to discovery and ownership of mines. The effects of the law were to expel American placer miners from Atlln, retard development of that Important district, and all but ruin Its trade. Disallowance of the provincial statute by the Ottawa Government means that the shortsightedness and utter folly of the exclusion policy is admitted. The people of Kansas City are mak ing preparations for the Democratic National Convention on a basis of 100, 000 visitors during the four days of Its sitting, and on the expenditure by the guests of an average of 530 apiece dur ing the period. This estimate, If veri fied, will give a substantial return of 33.000,000 upon an Investment of J100, 000, which the 61ty made to secure the convention. The difficulties In the way of bestowing 100,000 visitors upon a pop ulation of 200,000 are yet, however, largely to be reckoned with. Incidentally to the growth of senti ment for popular election of Senators, a note should be made that the South ern plan of primary elections for choos ing party nominees has been extended to two more states. In Alabama and Texas Senators have Just been chosen In this way. Democratic primaries in Ala bama selected Morgan and in Texas selected Bailey. The spread of this useful device is also interesting in view of Mr. Bingham's efforts for direct primary .nominations in Oregon. Admiral Dewey has left off talking on political matters and gone to writ ing political letters. Thus far all that he has said since shying his hat Into the political ring falls far short in wis dom and directness of his simple. straightforward declaration while standing on the bridge of the Olympla in Manila Bay and again In New York harbor: "I am not a politician; I am perfectly satisfied to live and die a sim ple sailor, who has tried to do his duty." Mr. Sewall's arguments for shipping subsidies resolve themselves after all Into the two original and only: 1. There Is so much money In the business that we must cease to allow foreigners to do It all. 2. There Is so little money In It that It can't live without Government aid. If maritime enterprise Is profitable, why should Government support It? If it Is a losing proposition, why rush Into it? Over in Washington they now speak of them as the "forces opposed to the Republican party." Here Is confession that the essence of political action with the ex-Fuslonlsts is mere negation of Republican principles. They stand for opposition to what the Republican party proposes, and nothing else. They are the Inert log across the track of progress. Survivors of the good government movement and the Democrats are said to be hustling up a platform for the Legislative nominees to stand upon. It will be guaranteed to not offend the most fastidious taste. The New York Journal has now un dertaken to revise the Westminster creed. The yellow church will not ex actly fill a long-felt want. Colonel Bryan will be highly Inter ested to observe that Senator Morgan heads the Alabama delegation to Kan sas City. No threat of Quay to knife Hanna will frighten a wholly disinterested public. Registration and Illegal Voting;. The Oregonlan prints In big black type at the head of lta editorial columns the announcement that GOOQ vpters In Multnomah County have not registered. Possibly a good many Portland voters have not registered, but The Oregonlan no doubt bases its calculations upon the past vote of the county, when there waa a lot of repeaters and Illegal voters. Under the regis tration law there will be none of this, and th vote of Multnomah County will probably fall short a couple of thousand. The Dalles Moun taineer. Walt until after the election and see If the vote of Multnomah County is not larger In proportion to 'that of 183S and 1S96 than that of most or all the other counties of the state. While some illegal votes doubtless have, been cast In Mult nomah, the proportion has not been larger than In other counties. Tho vote of this year, under the registration law. will bear this out. s MAINE'S rltOUIDITIOX FAIICE. Portland's Leading; Paper Says the People Are Tired of It. Portland (Me.) Press. Thero were Indications in the City Coun cil last night that the people of Portland are beginning to get very tired of paying the bills of the farcical proceis known as suppressing the liquor traffic .iney have certainly been long-suffering and slow to anger. Tear after year they have con tributed large sums to the Sheriff's office for the purpose of shutting up the rum shops, and the rum shops are as numerous and wide open today as ever. Two men are constantly employed at a liberal per diem and fees, whose sole duty It is to shut up the rum shops, yet. unless appear ances are misleading, the rum shops in crease rather than diminish m numbers. As the law Is now, it offers a constant and powerful temptation to keep the rum shops open. Every rum shop shut up means a loss of opportunity for fees, for no seizures can be made in closed shops, and every new rum shop opened means gain of opportunity for fees. ne fees are Just as large for seizing a sprinkler of beer and a bottle of whisky as for seizing a hogshead of liquor, and It Involves much less trouble to carry off the sprlnkler'than the hogshead, beside having less tendency to shut up the shop, and thereby put an end to an opportunity for getting fu ture fees. If the lawmakers had set to work to devise a scheme for encouraging the officers of the law to keep the rum shops open, they could not have concocted a better one than the so-called Sheriff en forcement act. The remedy, and the only remedy, la the one provided In the order submitted to the Council lost night the cutting off the fees, for it Is useless to expect. In the present condition of public sentiment, a. thorough and radical enforce ment of the prohibitory law, such as the statute calls for. The present Sheriffs are not sinners above others. They are simply following tne precedents of the last 10. If not 25, years. Perhaps they think that the custom wnlcn they aro following has been In vogue so long as to have the force of law. If nothing can be done to break up tho custom then leas reward should be given for following It. A Model American Citizen. San Francisco Chronicle, The intelligence that Yale College has received $150,000 for the founding of a school of forestry, the donors being Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Plnchot. of New York City, and their sons. Glfford Plnchot, of Yale 'SS. and Amos R. E. Plnchot, of Yale '93. carries with it personal significance to all who know Glfford Plnchot as the head of the division of forestry of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, and real ize that It Is his own pleasure that this considerable portion of an estate In which he has a direct Interest Is devoted to this noble purpose. There must have been temptation to Glfford Plnchot in that life of ease and luxury open to one capable of extracting much from leisure and travel. But he be held tho forests of his country foiling be fore the woodman's ax. and melting away before shecphorders' fires, and saw the path of duty opening before him. which he chose, throwing himself with heart and soul Into the work of staying this de struction and educating a people to the Importance of Intelligent forest conserva tion, an education to which this newly founded school will contribute valuable aid. Forester Plnchot Is no bureau official He has tolled over mountains and rowed along rivers, shared the bunks of lumber, mon's camps and slept In his blankets with no roof but the sky. and he Is today the best-Informed man In the country In his chosen province. He was the first to crystallize sentiment Into action against wanton forest destruction In California, and to engage Government aid. The work to which he has given himself is one which admits of no possibilities of great ad vancement, but It distinguishes him among all American citizens, and blazes a path for ambitious young American manhood in which it is to be hoped there may bo moro followers the way of serv ice. Good Riddance to Dad Rubbish. New York Evening Post. Senator Wellington, of Maryland, an nounces that ho can no longer support the Republican party. He has been op. posed all along to the acquisition of the Philippines, and cannot endorse the po licy of the President regarding those Isl ands. He was also opposed to the Im position of a tariff on Porto Rico. Re cognizing the attitude of the Government toward our new possessions as the most Important issue in our politics, he re tires from membership in the Republi can National Committee, and. indeed, from all affiliation with the party, so long as It Is committed to what he con siders the wrong course. The action Is of little Importance outsldo Maryland, and oven In his own stato Mr, Welling, ton has frittered away most of his for mer influence by the bitterness of his factional opposition to an element In the Republican party which has opposed him. He recently, lnauugea in an uumum wrath against ex-Govornor Lowndes, tha leader of that element, which showed a pettiness of mind quite unworthy of a United States Senator, i i Europe TirlnsT of Sugar Bounties. There are additional signs that Europe is growing weary of the absurd practice of paling bounties on sugar exports. Ger many and Austria were quite ready to abandon the policy at the Brussels con ference a couple of years ago. and the smaller producer were ready t0 foll?w them but France and Russia prevented .i-i nrtinn belne taken. There has recently been a conference on this subject in Vienna, due to the Initiative of France, which desires an International agreement to prevent the Increase of bounties. This Is illogical; all the reaeocs for ant bounty are reasons for increasing the bounty: no country has an advantage over another unless it pays more bounty, and if no country to to have an advantage over others all might as well stop paylna bounties and leave eugar exports to tht Influence of ordinary commercial forces. The proposals of France were not entirely satisfactory to Germany and Austria, and the matter Is etlll under discussion; but It is significant that one of the two nations that prevented an agreement at Brussels Is now trying to hring about an agree ment. s The Two Lendlnir. Questions. Nebraska State Journal. The Fusionlsts and the Republicans of Oregon have locked horns In their plat forms over two things, money and the Philippines. The Fusionlsts want free coinage, while the Republicans favor the gold standard. Tho Fusionlsts speak for Independent of the Philippines, the Re publicans for retaining the Island as American territory. The rtsult In Oregon, therefore, can be, accu rately told in advance if the voters ex press themselves squarely on these plat forms. The people of the Pacific Coast States will Join with the people of the Na tion at large In supporting the gold stand ard, and will refuse to Join In any move ment that will certainly add to the difficul ties connected with erecting a stable gov ernment in the new island possessions. Chicago Hospitality. Springfield Republican. The fact that Admiral Dewey Is an old salt may explain that charming feature of the programme for his entertainment In Chicago which provides for a cruise down the big drainage ditch. Some visitor may still prefer a visit to the stockyards to see a eteer slaughtered, but a sail down thesewer is the very latest manlfeet tlon of Chicago hosrjltalltr. ABSENCE OF DISCRIMINATION. When the Porto Rico tariff bill waa Intro duced Mr. Tongue waa against It, but be heart- ened to the threats of the protected greed of the country and changed his coat and voted for It. When It waa pending The Oregonlan un hesitatingly Informed him he could not be elected If he voted for It. That paper further declared that It Congress passed that bill It would be tho worst form of Imperialism that our National Legislature could Impose upon that Island. Well, Congress passed the btlL and now The Oregonlan congratulates the Re publican convention for renominating Mr. Tongue. Such Is the politics of tha Repub lican leaders of today. Albany Democrat. This Is merely a single Incident going to show how careless a reader and how loose a thinker the average Demo-Populist ed itor Is. There may be no intention to misrepresent, but there is no discrimina tion, no analysis, no accuracy of obser vation or statement. The Porto Rico bill In Its final form was very different from the bill in its original form. While the Or egonlan did not approve the bill even in Its final form, yet It admitted that amend ments had made the bill much less ob jectionable. But It never said that Mr. Tongue could not be elected If he voted for IL Here is Just wbat.lt said: Representative Tongue la reported as saying that ho Is more and more convinced that Forta Rico ought not to be admitted to free commer cial Intercourse with the United States. This means that In his opinion our new Insular possessions should be held under a system of Imperial government, and not be permitted to participate to full extent In the advantages of connection with tho sovereign country. The Oregonlan will tell Mr. Tongue that he cannot bo re-elected on this Issue. But Mr. Tongue does not say that Porto Rico ought not to be admitted to free commercial Intercourse with tho United States. On the contrary, in his letter pub lished In The Oregonlan last Wednesday, he says it ought to be and will be; for the bill as passed, imposing only a small duty, has but a short time to run. and Is but a temporary expedient, and the permanent policy Is to be "unrestricted commercial Intercourse, absolute free trade, between the people of Porto Rico and tho people of the United States." Of the original bill, Mr. Tongue says. In his recent letter: The principal objection made by The Orego nlan. or at least the one that appealed most strongly to me, was the fact that such bill appeared to be the Inauguration of a policy of attempting to protect ourselves from the prod ucts of Porto Rico, and establishing trade bar riers between us and them, seemingly perpet ual. With this objection I was in earnest ac cord. But its removal was secured by mem bers of the House, whose Ideas were similar to my own. In a quiet way, at a conference of the Republican members. The bill as first re ported by the committee was entitled "A bill to regulate the trade of Porto Rico and for other purposes." Tho operation of the bill was unlimited as to time. Certainly, upon Its face, and especlally'ln the light of the Informa tion we then possessed, the bill seemed to have no other object, except that of offering restric tions upon trade and endeavoring to protect certain Interests from competition with the products of Porto Rico. When It was pointed out that something like this was necessary, not for protection, but in order to provide tem porary revenue to support the Government In Porto Rico until other mtans could be devised, we urged upon tho ways and means committee to so change the bill that Its purpose should be apparent upon lta face, and that It could not by any possible means be tortured Into a precedent never Intended to be established. This waa readily complied with, the title of tho act was changed, a preamble was added to It showing tha reasons for the passage of the bill, and a fifth secUon added, limiting Its oper ation for two years. ... This chauged the whole character of the bill, and removed every vestige of It that could be construed Into any precedent for any purpose outside of the Constitutional question Involved. I do not. however, understand that The Oregonlan ob jects to the bill on Constitutional grounds. On Its face the purpose of the original bill was to "protect" the United States against the products of Porto Rico; and It was admitted further that a larger object was to make a precedent for the Philip pine Islands. Against this policy, which was the root of The Orcgonian's ob jections. It spoke earnestly and as strong ly as It could. Renunciation of this pur pose and this policy has removed the weightier part of the objection. The Ore gonlan would have preferred. Indeed, that full commercial freedom had been estab lished at once; but full commercial free dom is in sight, and the effort that has been made by the press of the country In this Porto Rican matter will bear fruit when we come to legislation for the Phlllpplno Islands. Kipling'" Xew Poem. We welcome to our hearts tonight Our kinsmen from afar. Brothers In an empire's fight And comrades of our war. For Auld Lang Syne, my lads. And the lights of Auld Lang Synet Wo drink our cup of fellowship To the fights of Auld, Lang Syne. The shamrock, thistle, leek and rose. With heath and wattle twine. And maple from Canadian snows. For the sake of Auld Lang Syne. For Auld Lang Syne take hands From London to the line! Good luck to those that tolled with us Since the days of Auld Lang Synel Again to all wo hold most dear In life we left behind. The wives we wooed, the bairns wo kissed. And tho loves of Auld Lang Syne. For surely you have your sweetheart. And surely I have mine: We toast her name in silence here And the girls of Auld Lang Syne. And last to him. the little man. Who led our fighting line From Kabul on to Kandahar In the days of Auld Lang Syne, For Auld Lang Syne and Bobs. Our chief of Auld Lang Syne! We're here to do his work again As we did In Auld Lang Synel Spring. Chicago Tribune. "O. Spring!" walled the poet. "You shameless thlngt See you how Winter lingers! Curl your taper fingers In his gray hair As he sits there. The beggarly Ioutt And Jerk a handful outt And If this. moves him not." continued the wretched Spring poet, tearing his own hair. "From the spot. For heaven's sako A hatpin take. A hatpin long and slim. And Jab It Into him!" Chicago Times-Herald. Men are working with the wireless telegraph. The horseless carriage buzzes through thi street: We may live to look upon the cowless calf. The chiropodist may give us toeless feet. We have looked upon the henless little chick. We can hear the voiceless maiden try to sing; Men have ceased to gaze In awe at strawless brick. And now we're up against the Sprlngless Spring. s The Young Woman Ksmed Mae. Indianapolis Press. There was a young woman named Mae Or, rather, she spelled It that wae But her pa she called "paw," And her ma she called "maw." And In other wars, waa such a Jael NOTE AND COMMENT March came In like a lamb, but April Is going out like a polar bear. Cleveland has not yet announced that he ever wanted to vote for Dewey. A St. Louis negro lately laughed him self to death. He was not reading Punch. Our Minister In Turkey has handed tha Sultan a note, and he expects one In re turnfor $100,000. As the Sick Man of Europe. Abdul Hamld is remarkably Insensible to tha rare merits of the gold cure. The recent achievements of the Em press Dowager of China are not likely ta strengthen Mrs. Dewey's candidacy. The fact that General Joe Wheeler l talking of getting married odds another Presidential possibility to tho situation. Tou arc a lobster," said the Inebriate youth to the policeman. And when tha policeman pinched him, be hod nothing to say. Will the weather please come forward And Inform us like a man Why It acts so like the devil And Tom Walker, If It cant The Democrats are not eating so many dollar dinners now. They can afford better fare as a result of a Republican adminls. t ration. The fateful "13" is responsible for the untimely death of the general conference committee of Civic Societies of New Brunswick, N. J. The committee was an outgrowth of the local reception extended the New Brunswick volunteers for tho Spanish-American war on their return home. Organization was effected Febru ary 13, 1SS9, by-13 members. The first re port of the treasurer showed the assets to have been 13 13, and the treasury at the dissolution of the committee contained 13 and a few cents. Lack of Interest and paucity of public celebrations made the commltteo decide to disband, and on Fri day, April 13, 13 members unanimously adopted a resolution terminating the offi cial existence of the committee. The Ohio Supreme Court has decided that the antl-lynchlng law, passed by tha Legislature of that state In 1S36. Is valid. The suit In which the decision was given was brought by the heirs of "Click" Mitchell, a colored man, who was lynched at Urbana for assaulting a white woman In 1S37. Tho law provides that the heirs of a person lynched can sue tho county In which the lynching takes place and re cover damages to the extent of $5000. Click" Mitchell's heirs have been press ing the claim since his lynching. A lower court declared the law unconstitutional. and the case was carried to the Supreme Court. When a negro In South Carolina was arrested a few days back for criminal assault, the crowd around harkened to the appeal of a Justice of the Peace and permitted the culprit to be taken to Jail to await trial under due process of law. South Carolina has a law which renders liable for money damages to the heirs of a victim any county in which a lynching occurs. THE INDEPENDENT'S PLATFORM. We are out for every office that at present Is la sight. Though we haven't any platform, wa are strictly In the fight; W are running Independent, tor the public weal depends On our getting there, according to our many thousand friends; Still we feel a little backward in the matter. for all that, For to tell the truth we cannot say exactly where we're at. On the question of free stiver we have not ex pressed our views. For we haven't got them settled In a shape that's fit to use. For the Senate soma good fellow who's a win ner ought to do. But at present we must pass it, for we do not know Just who; No Republican can get It. we don't want a Democrat. And In fact we cannot tell you Just exactly where we're at. There's a lot Of legislation that the people badly need. But precisely what's Its nature, that's the place where wo are treed; Once we had somo grand Ideas on the things we ought to do. And we'd tell you all about them It we thought we really knew. But when studying the matter till we thought we had It pat. All we found was that we didn't know exactly where we'ro at. Well. It doesn't make much dlffrence what the oRlce-seeker thinks. So he passes 'round Havanas and Is good at buying drinks; If he takes the stump and hollers like a drum mer on a Jag. With a classical allusion to the great and glorious Sag; That Is where we shine like diamonds, you can bet your life on that. And perhaps we'll get there, even It we don't know where we're ati ' Edward Marshall, a correspondent for a New York paper, who was on the firing line with Roosevelt's Rough Riders dur ing the terrible battle of June 24, was shot through the spine and, although paralyzed, he Is on the road to recovery. After lying on the field for several hours, ho was found In the tall grass and re moved by tender hands to the field hos pital. A part of his little story in his own words Is as follows: "Thero Is one Incident of the day which shines out In my memory above all others dow as I lie In a New York hospital writ ing. It occurred at the field hospital. About a dozen of us were lying there. A continual chorus of moans rose through tho tree branches overhead. The surgeon, with hands and bared arms dripping, and clothes literally saturated with blood, was straining every nerve to prepare the wounded for the Journey down to Slboney. Behind me lay Captain McCltntock. with his lower leg bones literally ground to powder. He bore his pain as gallantly as ho led his men. and that is saying much. I think Major Brodte was also there. It was a doleful group. Amputa tion and death stared Us members In their gloomy faces. Suddenly a voice started, softly: My country, 'tis of thee. Sweet land of liberty. Of thee I sing. Other voices took It up: Land where my fathers died. Land of the Pilgrims' pride Tho quivering, quavering chorus, punc tuated by groans and made spasmodic by pain, trembled up from that little group of wounded Americans in the midst of the Cuban solitude the pluckiest, most heart felt song that human beings ever sang. There was one voice that did not quite keep up with the others. It was so weak that I did not hear It until all the rest had finished with the line. Let Freedom ring. Then, halting, struggling, faint, it re peated, .slowly: Land of the Pilgrims' pride. Let Freedom The last word was & woeful cry. Ona more son had died as died the fathers. - .!. - .-