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PORTLAND, THURSDAY, MAY IT.
The rule under which the School
Board denies access to pupils on the
part of solicitors for various schemes
is highly commendable, and should be
rigidly enforced. But the reason why
there are wise exceptions to all rules
Is that a rule is only a means to an
end, and when Its enforcement hinders
rather than advances that end, the sa
gacious administrator holds it in abey
ance. An exception to the rule in ques
tion may very well be made in the case
of the application for employment of
the children in sale of monument but
tons to the small number of half the
number of pupils in each room. There
Is no compulsion, such act on tho part
of the children will be optional with
them and their parents. In the produc
tion of good citizens, at which the
schools are aiming, practical patriotism
is a prominent element. In childhood
is the best time to learn that tho man
who enlists under his country's flag in
time of danger Is a hero and his grave
a sacred place that should be held in
reverence and honor. To oppose this
project with the admirable rule adopted
for exclusion of extraneous matters
Xrom the attention of the pupils Is sim
ply to exalt the letter of the law above
Us spirit.
The legal basis of objection to Clark
will doubtless lie in the view that the
Legislature failed to elect; hence the
appointment falls under the ban estab
lished in the Corbett and Quay cases.
A fraudulent act is no act, and its per
formance leaves everything as If It had
not occurred. Having failed to choose
a Senator, then fore, the Montana Leg
islature has the Lisk still to perform.
The Supreme Court of the State of
Washington has served notice on out
side capital that It Is again safe to
venture within the confines of that
state. Sibson & Kerr, a Portland firm,
advanced a large amount of money on
warehouse property in that state, tak
ing a mortgage on the warehouse sys
"ti as 'security. Their money being
fully due, they attempted to foreclose.
Resistance was offered, and the case
came before a Populist Judge in Whit
man County. A referee was agreed on,
and after weeks of research and the
expenditure of considerable money, the
referee decided in favor of the Port
land firm. The Judge, who is quite fa
mous in a small way as a producer of
Populist literature and the author of
unsound decisions, promptly overruled
the referee's findings, and compelled
the Portlanders to put up bonds of over
?20,000 In order to carry it to a higher
court. That court, In session at Olym
pla Tuesday, administered a proper re
buke to Populist methods of legal pro
cedure by reversing the lower court's
decision and instructing that judgment
bo entered in accordance with the ref
eree's findings. It is not every firm
that is dragged Into legal troubles that
can furnish a good bond for $200,000.
Had the Portlanders been unable to do
so, the decision of the Populist Judge
would have meant financial ruin to
them, Just as it would to many a man
In a similar predicament who might
happen to be the victim of such a
biased and peculiar interpretation of
the law. Justice has been done the
Portland investors by the Supreme
Court, but they will never be recom
pensed for the Injustice they suffered
at the hands of the "Whitman County
Judge, who floated Into office on the
Populist wave which overspread Wash
ington a few years ago.
The optimistic, editor of the Walla
Walla Statesman writes homo from a
brief sojourn in Oregon that If the
Democrats had put "a full state and
county ticket in the field, their success
would have been beyond peradven
ture." The inference is that he thinks
the Fusion ticket will land somewhere
in the rear of peradventure. This still
leaves us in doubt as to how near
peradventure Is to the goal. It would
be galling to the worthy Fuslonlsts to
get so far as that and still be out of
sight of the offices.
In beginning an editorial on the al
leged decadence of the Republican
party, the Roseburg Review somewhat
ungrammatically yet truthfully states:
v Tlmo was when the affairs of Government, as
administered by Republicans, was largely for
the Interests of the people, and was given their
honest support.
This is rather a tardy admission of
the virtues of the Republican party.
How comes It that, when the party was
administering affairs in the interests
of the people, the Review was oppos
ing It as bitterly as it does today?
wis the Review against the people
then, or is It simply "forninst the Gov
ernmlnt, regardlis"?
If Dr. Daly's extreme sense of cour
tesy to Congressman Tongue compels
him to stay off the stump, it would
seem that the same delicacy would re
quire him to stay at his Lake County
home during the campaign. It makes
no difference to Mr. Tongue whether
his opponent proclaims his merits
along the highways or goes sliding
around through alleys and back yards
In order to reach the Congressional
goal.
It Is not probable that wherever the
free rural postal delivery system has
been established the people will ever
consent to its abandonment. The ex
perimental routes In Oregon have given,
such general satisfaction and so accus
tomed the rnral districts where they
are operated to the conveniences of
household delivery of mail, that the
people would now rather pay for the
cost of the service than have it dis
continued. It will not be many years
before the gray uniform of the post
man will be a familiar sight on every
traveled road In the United States.
REFORM, AND BOGUS REFORMERS.
The "Citizens" Legislative ticket. In
that ridiculous platform, containing a
pretentious declaration of bogus prin
ciples, explicitly ab'solves itself from
"previous party affiliations," although
the several signatories mildly declare
that they do not thereby change "our
individual views on the great National
issues of the day." So, then, there are
great National Issues? But these can
didates profess to think so little of
them, and of their relation to them, if
they are elected, that they proceed in
this modest fashion:
We conceive that our election or our own de
feat at the polls will In no sense affect the de
cision of those Issues by the American people,
but that, on the other hand. If we arc elected,
we can aid In securing to the citizens of this
country local legislation that will afford relief
from existing evils.
This Is paltry shuffling, pitiful and
hypocritical misstatement of the real
purposes for which these eighteen Leg
islative candidates were nominated.
They were all named with specific ref
erence to their attitude on one ques
tion that has a pivotal bearing on great
National Issues, and that Is the United
States Senatorshlp; and, furthermore,
they were selected as the result of a
direct bargain between the leaders and
bosses of various parties that had as
its basis the succession to Senator Mc
Bride and of Senator Simon, two years
hence. There was no other important
consideration; there is no other com
mon tie but the joint interest of all to
defeat the regular Republican nomi
nees, eighteen of whom shall have a
voice in the naming of one Senator,
and five In the naming of two. And
because five Republicans are to be
hold-overs, the fire of both Mitchell
McBrlde factionists and their Demo
cratic allies is especially aimed at
them.
Declaring openly that the main pur
pose for which they hope to be elected
is of no consequence, and that they,
and therefore the people they repre
sent, have no real concern in National
issues or the National destiny, this as
sociated happy family of candidates
declares that It stands for reform. By
Inference we are to suppose that the
Republican candidates do not. Through
some obvious oversight they neglected
to say so. They demand primary re
form, tax reform, and charter reform.
We had charter reform a year ago to
correct some of the abuses and put be
yond the chance of repetition tho out
rages Imposed on this unfortunate city
by a Democratic Mayor. The record
o the Republican Legislative candi
dates who are up for re-eiection ought
to satisfy even these virtuous and dis
interested friends of the taxpayer that
there are other advocates of tax reform
besides themselves. As to primary re
form well, there's a difference of hon
est opinion about the proposed Bing
ham law. There is none about the de
sirability and genuine need of a prac
tical primary election law, and a Re
publican Legislature is quite as likely
to give it as a Democratic.
More likely, if the past Is a criterion
for judgment. Let the public cast its
eye at the notable record of the last
Legislature a Republican Legislature.
It enacted a registration law. It en
acted a new apportionment law
against determined opposition largely
Populist and Democratic by which
Multnomah gets seventeen members of
the Legislature and two joint members.
If this law had not been enacted
through systematic endeavor of the Re
publican majority, Multnomah would
have failed to secure even an approxi
mation of her undeniable deserts, and
the Democratlc-"Citizens" machine
would be striving to elect only twelve,
and not eighteen, members. The new
charter provides for the funding of our
bonded debt at a lower rate of interest,
and for the abolition and reduction of
salaries. The District Attorney for
Multnomah was put on salary, and in
famous, liigh-handed extortion of the
taxpayers of this city and county,
practiced for years by a leading light
in the forces supporting the "Citizens"
ticket, and upheld largely by the Mc-Brlde-Mitchell
"push," was at last
ended. Are these things In the line of
practical, substantial reform, genuinely
beneficial to the public, or are they
not?
The Republican Legislative ticket Is
pledged to the support of all Judicious
measures of retrenchment and reform.
If , elected, the Legislators will keep
their pledges. That Is the usual prac
tice of Republicans, who stand for real
reform, and not the bogus article.
CEXTEXMAL OF LOUISIANA PUR
CHASE. ThQ proposal to hold in St. Louis In
1903 a celebration in commemoration
of the centennial of the Louisiana pur
chase is before a special committee of
Congress in the shape of a measure
asking an appropriation from the Na
tional Treasury of $5,000,000 for that
purpose. Accompanying the proposi
tion Is the stipulation that the money
is to be expended under the direction
of the Secretary of the Treasury, and
that no part of It shall be available
until after the people of St. Louis and
Missouri shall have raised and expend
ed for the purpose designated $10,000,
003. The Louisiana purchase was one
of tho most notable and fortunate
events In our history. It was expan
sion of the most extended character
and the most approved type. By it
parts of Alabama and Mississippi, the
whole of the present States of Louis
iana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Ne
braska and the Daltotas, Minnesota
west of the Mississippi; nearly all of
Kansas; the whole of Indian Territory,
and parts of Wyoming, Colorado and
Montana lying east of the Rocky
Mountains came under the jurisdiction
of the United States. Some authori
ties hold that the French rights to
which we succeeded under the pur
chase gave us dominion extending to
the Pacific Our -title to what was
known as the Oregon country has,
however, been deduced from other
sourced, and Its inclusion within tht
territory of the Louisiana purchase is
disputed, if not disproved.
This great empire, including half of
the United States, then peopled only by
Indians, but now the homes of millions
of loyal citizens, was bought for the
sum,of $15,000,000. Whether as a saga
clous stroke of finance, the peaceful
acquisition of empire, or a piece of far-
sighted statesmanship that shut a Eu
ropean power out of our vast interior,
the Louisiana purchase was a National
event, the centennial of which may well
be celebrated In an Imposing manner.
Congress may not see fit to appropriate
the sum asked, or any other sum for
this purpose. But It Is safe to say
that St. Louis, having started the ball
rolling, will compass the means where
by a celebration of a magnitude com
mensurate with .the Importance of the
event will be held.
OUR CHANCE AT TURKEY.
The Imperial treasury of Turkey Is
always empty because of the great
number of highly paid officials In Con
stantinople. The Grand Vizier draws
a salary four times as large as that of
Lord Cromer In Egypt, twice as large
as that of Lord Salisbury. By the lat
est official returns there are no less
than forty-four Marshals in the Turk
ish Army. There are also forty-six
Viziers with the rank and pay of Mar
shal, and eighty members of the Coun
cil of State as many as in France and
Germany put together. Military offi
cers, moreover, invade the diplomatic
corps, and receive, in addition to their
army pay, the stipend of Minister, or
Ambassador. The trained diplomats
do not complain when they are crowd
ed out of office by the soldiers because
they are then granted larger salaries
than when in active service.
In case our Government should de
cide to proceed to collect the claim due
from Turkey and acknowledged by the
Sultan, a correspondent of the New
Tork Sun observes that an "American
squadron might take possession of the
Island of Lemnos, off the mouth of the
Dardanelles, and declare a blockade,
in or out, against every vessel under
the Ottoman flag, merchant or war ma
rine. If that did not produce Immedi
ate results, which I believe it would,
then there is the Island of Rhodes, the
custom-house of which should in a
short time furnish the amount of the
Indemnity." This is all very plausible,
but suppose Turkey, secretly backed
by some great European power, should
treat this proceeding as an act of war;
it would be very bad for the mission
aries, both at present and in the future.
President Angell, of Ann Arbor Col
legtf, our ex-MInlster to Turkey, In his
recent address points out that it would
be utterly fatal to the future work and
Influence of our American missionaries
to resort to warlike force. The mo
ment that It was known that our Gov
ernment had resorted to military force
to collect the damages awarded the
missionaries, the spiritual Influence of
the missionaries would receive a shock
from which It would not soon recover.
In other words, If we should collect the
missionary damages by threat of resort
to military force, the missionaries
would get their money, but their occu
pation in Turkey for tho future would
be gone. They would probably have to
get out and stay out.
BRYAN'S POSSIBLE CAINS.
McKInley was elected President in
189C by a majority of 95 electoral votes,
receiving 271 against 17C for Bryan.
General Grosvenor, of Ohio, now pre
dicts the re-election of the President
by an electoral college majority of at
least 73, and possibly 90. General Gros
venor concedes to Bryan the vote of
Maryland (S) and Kentucky (13), two
states which gave McKInley 20 votes
in 1S9C, which would increase Bryan's
vote to 197. General Grosvenor takes
away from the Bryan column South
Dakota (4 votes), Washington (4 votes),
Wyoming (3 votes) and the one Cali
fornia vote which went to McKInley;
that is, a total of 12 votes to be sub
tracted from the 197, leaving Bryan a
vote of 185, and making McKInley a
majority of 77. General Grosvenor
classes Kansas, which gave Bryan 10
votes, as doubtful, and Delaware also,
which gave McKInley 3 votes." If Mc
KInley should carry Kansas and lose
Delaware, his electoral college major
ity would be 91 receiving 269 votes to
17S for Bryan.
General Grosvenor seems to feel no
apprehension of Republican defeat In
New York. Indiana, Michigan, Rllnols
or Wisconsin. With a united party,
New York Is Democratic, but with
Bryan it Is doubtless Republican. But
In Indiana, which gave McKInley but
18,000 plurality In 1S96, Bryan has a
good fighting chance. Ohio is doubt
less safely Republican, but if Gover
nor Plngree supports Bryan, the Demo
cratic ticket in Michigan would have a
fighting chance of success. The German
vote can turn the scale in Wisconsin,
but It is an honest-money vote, and,
while against " "imperialism," would
probably refuse to vote for Bryan. In
Illinois Bryan has a fighting chance, for
It was carried by Cleveland In 1S92 and
the Republican party has been greatly
weakened by Governor Tanner's ad
ministration and the factional fights
growing cut of it. Labor disturbances
in Chicago have come to unsettle the
situation, even as the Buffalo car strike
and the Homestead trouble helped
Cleveland to victor in 1S92. It may
not be fairly denied that Bryan has a
fighting chance in Illinois.
Portland will extend its annual wel
come to the good cheer of its abound
ing hospitality to the pioneers next
month.
Those against whose familiar names not yet
The fatal asterisk of death Is sat
will recall names that have been
added to the memorial list within the
past year, representing friends and
neighbors who have walked close to
them in the vanished years, and with
pulses quickened by the memory they
will draw closer together for the brief
period of the annual reunion. The
pathos of these meetings Is to some
extent overcome by kind nature in the
gladness and good cheer that attends
them. It may be hoped that every
state-builder man or woman Who Is
physically able to make the journey
from his or her home to Portland dur
ing the midweek of June will join the
fast-thinning ranks of the pioneers at
that time in Jubilant memory of the
days when the "Oregon country" was a
beautiful wilderness, and later when
the State of Oregon was but a name
in the Eastern civilization from which
the sturdy foundation stones of a Pa
cific Coast civilization were drawn.
The plea of Mr. Clark, of Montana,
In which he vaunted his integrity,
treated with fine scorn the charge or
assumption that he had purchased the
seat which he claimed in the United
States Senate, and declared it to be his
highest purpose in life to leave an un
tarnished name to his children, as It
would seem, touched the hearts of his
colleagues In that body and caused
them to crowd around him for the priv
ilege of grasping his honest hand. Gov
ernor Smith, as he hurried home by
lightning express to undo If possible
the mischief wrought by his Lieutenant-Governor,
through collusion with
tho Clark element In Montana, In his
absence, will probably read the touch
ing address of Mr. Clark without shar
ing the admiration of the Senators.
The purpose of so palpable a political
trick boldly played cannot be mistaken
though baptized in tears. One part of
the venal crew that schemes and plans
in the political centers of Montana may
rejoice and the other faction gnash its
teeth In rage over the coup made pos
sible by the brief absence of the Gov
ernor from the state, but to suppose
that any citizen of Montana is deceived
by Its pretense of honor and sincerity
is to impugn his intelligence, and in
deed to discount his common sense.
The moral sense of a community must
be cleared rather than obscured by so
audacious an attempt to blind it with
sophistry.
The standing army of Great Britain
Is very small compared with those of
Continental Europe, but, despite that
fact, that power has sent 200,000 men
to South Africa 6000 miles by sea, with
out stripping the home country of Its
defense. It is said that neither France
nor Germany could send so large a
force abroad without dislocating and
impairing the efficiency of the home
defense. Nor have cither France or
Germany the splendid troopships to
send that number of men, even if they
could spare them. Count Sternberg, of
Austria, who has Just returned from
service in the Boer army, says that
there is no Continental power which
could have armed and sent so many
troops such a great distance from home
as England has dispatched to South Af
rica, The action of England is a reas
suring object-lesson to the United
States. The sea protects us as it does
England from invasion, and we can get
along, as England does, without a huge
standing army, and can depend, as
England does, on the people for a large
volunteer force to rally around the nu
cleus of our comparatively small stand
ing army, and, like England, our latent
military resources are immense.
Tho needs of the Madison-Street
bridge seem to be insatiable. After
throwing enough good money after bad
to build a new and substantial bridge,
the taxpayers will be called upon to
put up for a structure that will stand
the pressure of travel required of a
bridge across the river at that point.
The new patch on the old .garment de
stroys what It was intended to
strengthen, whether the article sub
jected to this process is a bridge or a
pair of trousers. Tho economy that
continues to apply patches to a struc
ture never too strong Is at best of
doubtful character, though in this case
it Is held to be a matter of necessity.
So long as time shall last there will
always be plausible reasons for not
passing a Nicaragua Canal bill at that
particular time offered by the enemies
of the measure, whenever It comes up
for consideration, and the bill will
never be passed until its friends utterly
ignore all reasons urged for delay and
Insist upon immediate construction of
the canal. It is one of the things the
people of the United States want, and
something they will never have until
they demand it and hold all those who
advance plausible reasons for delay as
its enemies and treat them accordingly.
'Lieutenant-Governor Dannels is now
a Democrat. He Isn't much of a Dem
ocrat, because there Isn't much of Dan
nels; but he's sufficient to go to the
Spokane convention, whoop it up for
silver, denounce the trusts, view im
perialism with alarm, and declare for
Bryan and Lewis. Perhaps this serv
ice In behalf of the downtrodden peo
ple will be enough to yield another
nomination for Dannelst but probably
not. Lightning never strikes the same
mushroom twice, for obvious reasons.
"I was not born in the County As
sessor's office, and I do not expect to
die there," remarked Candidate Mc
Donell at a Republican meeting the
other night. Aptly put. No person
ought to have a life cinch on office.
When he begins to think he has, it Is
high time to turn him out.
Spain would like to sell the guns on
the fortifications of Havana to the
United States, asking for them the nice
little sum of 52,000,000. If any other
power had taken possession of Cuba
through the fortunes of war, the guns
would have gone along with the forts
as a matter of course. '
Governor Smith Is eloquently mourn
ful over the great wrong done during
his absence from Montana. He fears
he cannot undo it by returning. Too
bad. In Montana the bad men always
go wrong, and In great financial crises
the good men go away.
Naturally, that Republican County
Convention In Montana voted down the
resolution to censure the Republican
member of the Legislature who voted
for Clark. Put yourself In his place, is
the platform of the wise and thrifty
Montana Republicans.
Clark's feat of prestidigitation,
whereby he seeks to transpose in
stantly a Senatorial rotten egg Into a
sound one, will give us an opportunity
to see whether the Senate detects the
same old odor in the new shell.
Reports generally throughout the
state are to the effect that fruit will be
plentiful but not abundant. This is
much more discouraging to consumers
than to producers.
New Pension Lnir.
Brooklyn Times.
Congress has just passed a pension bill,
which, although it w.ll add, according to
the estimate of Commissioner Evans, of
the Pension Bureau, a yearly addition of
at least $2,000,0)3, seems to be an en
tirely worthy one. That It had merit is
proved by the passage of the bill with
out the usual party division, several Dem
ocrats voting for It. It had already passed
the Senate, and now only needs executive
approval to become a law.
It appeara the present law provides that
honorably discharged soldiers or eailors,
incapacitated for manual labor, shall re
ceive a pension of not more .an $12 a
month end not less than $S. The Com
missioner of Pensions ruled that, where a
pensioner was suffering from two or more
Infirmities, he was to receive the pension
which his most esrlous ailment would en
title him to. The act just passed pro
vides that the ratings for all disabilities
shall be aggregated, and that the pens.on
er shall receive thle aggregate allowance,
but not to exceed $12 per month.
Widows are also benefited, as by the old
law a widow having no means of support
except by manual labor received a month
ly pension of fS.- This was construed by
the Pension Commissioner that where th
income of a widow from sources outside
of her dally labor was greater than. the.
amount of the pension allowed, sbo was
to receive no pension. The. new law will
allow the pension to widows having an in
come of less than $230 a year.
The new law is the result "of the efforts
of the Grand Army of the Republic, and
seems to be entirely Just in Its provisions.
A DEMOCRATIC SAINT.
Suck Has Lincoln Become in the Lat
ter Days.
Denver Republican.
"And thus the whirligig of Time brings
rin his revenges." The Democratic orators
and editors of the country are dally mani-
festing an Increasing dlsposl Ion to can-
Ionize Abraham Lincoln, and If they keep
on wesholl not be surplsed to find In the
near future that they have placed him side
by side with Thomas Jefferson and And
rew Jackson, the patron saints of the
party.
To bo sure, the chief use they now
make of the great emancipator's memory
is as an awful contrast to the record of
living Republican leaders. "Lincoln wou d
not have done this," and "Lincoln would
not have done that," is the burden of
their lay. but If they continue, we susp?ct
that they will soon be praising Lincoln on J
, .,., " .v. .ict nr.
uw una a-.-uuuk uo uitc ui iiic n;jfc
best of American statesmen.
And yet, when Lincoln was in the fiesh j
and In the white House, these same Dem
ocratic editors and orators who now pro
fess to adore his memory., could find no
language strong enough to express their
hatred of the man and their abhorrence of
the party that made him Prcs.dent. Manj
of them strove for four years wi h arm3
to destroy the Union In order to get rldof
him, while others wandered about In what
TTAnrv TVnttprsnn tho rthr inv n!e-
turesquely described as "the bogs and fogs j
of Copperheadlsm." raising a barbaric i
yawp incessantly against tho great "rail
splitter." No President hss ever been more malig
nantly assailed and misrepresented by the
opposition than Lincoln was during his
public career, and If ho were alive today
and at the head of the party which he
did so much to create, we have no doubt
that the abuse poured down, upon his de
voted head by the Democratic leaders
who now vie with Republicans In sound ng
his praises would be as malignant as ever.
Tho truth is that, in the opinion of most
Democratic editors and orators, the only
good Republican is a dead Republican.
Like Lincoln, Sumner, Seward and Gar
field, and scores of other Republican lead
ers who have passed over to the silent ma
jority, are often mentioned nowadays
with commendation In contrast with their
successors In the leadership of their party,
by the mouthpieces of the opposition, who
never failed to misrepresent and condemn
their every utterance and action while liv
ing, and it Is most probable that a future
generation of Democratic critics will pur
sue a like course In dealing with the mem
ory of some of their foremost opponents
of the present time.
Fortunately, the Intelligent people of this
country have a pretty clear understand
ing of the tricks of politicians, and also
have their own way of reaching conclu
sions regarding the relative merits and de
merits of parties and public men. Lin
coln's devotion to duty and patriotic
statesmanship were recognized and sus
tained by a large majority of hi fellow
citizens throughout the troublesome period
of his public career, despite the savago
onslaughts upon his character and acts
by some of tho opposition leaders who
now profess to worship his memory, and
we believe that every President who serves
tho people faithfully and capably will be
similarly honored, no matter how bitterly
he may be assailed by the orators and or
gans of the opposition.
THE MISSING $400,000,000.
Prosperity Has Put Some of It in
the People's Pockets.
Boston Herald.
That Is a very shallow mare's nest for
which the Treasury officials are search
ing high and low in regard to the mys
terious disappearance of $400,000,000 gold.
"We made," says Secretary Gage, "a
search of the country lately to find what
sort of a gold balance could be struck.
It required only a crude calculation to
show that there should be In the Treas
ury, the Subtreasuries and tho banks of
tho country $1,000,000,000 of gold. We were
somewhat astonfshed to find that $400,000,
000 In gold has disappeared." If Mr. Gage
could look into the pockets of the people
he would find the bulk of the missing
coin. Does he imagine that all the gold
in the country is held by tho Treasury
and the banks, and can be brought into
sight by an examination? Does he think
that this could be done in England or in
France or In Germany? If he cherishes
such an idea, he Is greatly mistaken.
According to the latest Treasury state
ment of circulation, the gold in the coun
try amounted to $1,043,625,117 on May 1.
against $1,034,203,613 on April 1 and $1,025,
825,162 on March L We will take the March
return for analysis, because the abstract
of the reports of the National banks, aa
made up on February 13 last, enables us
to give the amount of gold held by these
Institutions at a date fairly near to March
L The calculation results as follows:
Gold in tho United States on
March 1, 1S0O $l,025,82o,162
Gold belonging to
the Government... $232,225,336
Gold In tho National
banks 289,351,232 521.603,568
Leaving gold outside of the
Treasury and the National
banks $ 504.21S.594
From this $504,000,000 Is to be deducted
all the gold held by state banks and sav
ings banks and trust companies, as well
as by private bankers, life Insurance com
panies and other large holders. We have
no means of reaching even an approxi
mate estimate for this aggregate, but If
we put it at $100,000,000 there would remain
$400,000,000 for tho gold held in the pockets
of the people.
Sonrce of Cnbnn Scandal.
Boston Herald.
It Is proper to point out to President
McKInley that this disgrace is a direct
consequence of the reinstitutlon of the
spoils system of appointments In the
postoffice department. The responslblll
Ity rests directly upon the administration
of that department. In his annual report
the Secretary of War committed himself
to the opinion that "It Is necessary," in
cases where Americana are employed In
the civil 'service in the new possessions,
that "a system of civil service examina
tion should be provided." It was pre
sumed that he meant what Postmaster
General Smith, with the suspicion of a
sneer, designates "an academic examina
tion." The President has suffered the
postoffice department to appoint men on
the personal knowledge of politicians.
The President's deposition, at the insti
gation of politicians, who hate reform,
and crave the control of all minor offices
as perquisites for personal and partisan
services, to relax the stringency of civil
service rules, we have regarded as un
fotunate and dangerous, more now than
before we had undertaken the government
of peoples less vigilant to discover and
resent corrupt practices than our citizens
at home, and. perhaps, more tolerant of
corruption, because they have been
trained to expect and endure it.
Brynnlsm Is MeKUnley's Hope.
Naw York Evening Post.
Indiana has swung from Republicanism
to Democracy and back again with perfect
regularity for 30 years, and It would be
the turn of the Democrats to carry It this
time. The opposition have great advan
tages In the widespread feeling of disgust
toward McKInley on the part of thousands
who voted for him In 1S9C, and In the pro
found dissatisfaction with the imperialistic
policy of the Administration, especially as
exemplified In the Porto Rico legislation.
Other conditions equally favor the Dem
ocratic party if the party only were In ISO)
what It was In 1S32. But Bryanism over
shadows the prospect for the opposition,
and gives the Republicans a hopefulness
that they would not otherwise feel.
THE SITUATION IN IDAHO.
The Republican party In Idaho Is more
nearly united than it has been for years.
The Silver RepubLcans have largely re
turned to the fold and have been received
without criticism and with cordiality. A
Silver Republican, ex-Attorney-General
Parsons, was chairman of the State Re
publican Convention at Lewlston last
week, and' another was sent as delegate
to the Philadelphia convention. The Re
publicans have been a minority party for
so long that they realize the only way to
win is to receive recruits from the fuslon
lsts, and therefore no mourners bench Is
provided for repentant Silver Republicans;
it Is enough that they agree to support
the principles and candidates of the
party.
The confidence of Republican leaders
that they will carry the state this Fall
Is considerable. Evidence of the growing
strength and general harmony of the party
Is found In the multitude of candidates
for places on the state ticket, and In the
violent dissensions among the fuslonlsts
growing out of Governor Steunenberg's
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course in the Coeur dAlene troubles. In
1S96 the vote for Pres.dent was: Bryan.
23,132. and McKInley, CC24, a plurality of
1G.S63. A remarkable change occurred
In two years, for in 1S9S the Democratic
candidate for Governor received 19,407; Re
publican. 13.734: and Populist. 5371. There
' was no fusion with the Populists by the
I Democrats and Silver Republicans. It
will be seen that the Republ.can vote more
I than doubled, and that the combined silver
vote showed but slight increase. In 1S3C
not a single county in the state went for
McKInley. InlS33, the Important counties
of Ada. in which is located Boise; 'Latah,
containing the Important town of Mos
cow, and Nez Perces, of which the county
seat is Lewlston, gave substantial Re
publican majorities. In 1S9S, W. B. Hey
burn, a brilliant speaker and a fine law
yer, accepted the Republican nomination
for Congress against Edgar Wilson, Fu
slonlst, and was defeated by -4500 votes.
The notable feature of the campaign of
1S3S was Heyburn's powerful and convinc
ing exposition of tho money question, and
his bold arraignment of the free-silver fal
lacyan attitude that required high cour
age In a silver state like Idaho. It was
Heyburn's missionary work that prepared
the soil for unreserved Republican ac
ceptance of the attitude of the party on
National issues in 1S00. Judge Heyburn is
now said to be a candidate for United
States Senator against Senator Shoup.
The record of the latter was Indorsed by
the recent Lewlston convention, and the
Shoup partisans are now claiming that it
was tantamount to a declaration for his
re-election. But this appears to be a
somewhat extravagant assertion, charac
terized by the Boise Statesman as fol
lows:
It Is customary for a convention to express
approval of the records of falthfut representa
tives belonging- to the party holding the conven
tion. It would be gross Ingratitude on the part
of the Republicans of this state not to express
appreciation of the work done by Senator
Shoup. He deserves every resolution adopted
in the state, and the Republicans would have
acted an unworthy part If they had failed to
extend such recognition. But this action of
tho convention Is not a nomination of tho Sen
ator for re-election.
Nevertheless Senator Shoup appears to
have the great advantage over his oppo
nent. The last Idaho legislature, which
elected Heltfeld, and turned down the Ir
repressible Fred Dubois, had 37 Demo
Pops, 12 Silver Republicans and 21 Repub
licans. Tho former, therefore, had a
clean majority of four over all, or, Joined
with the 10 Silver Republicans, a majority
over the Republicans of 2S. Since the
Silver Republicans have practically dis
appeared, the Republicans count reliantly
on making gains In that special direction,
and they feel reasonably well assured that
the enormous general change In sentiment,
growing out of expansion, prosperity and
loss of Interest In silver, will further com
plete the conversion of the Legislature,
as well as the state. That they are Justi
fied In feeling hopeful may be judged by
the example of Washington. In the Leg
islature of 1897 the Peoples party had 84
members; republicans, 23; in the Legisla
ture of 1S99 there was a complete reversal,
the Republicans having 85, and the oppo
sition 27. A landslide brought it all
about. Why not a similar event in Idaho?
Governor Steunenberg is a candidate for
Senator. It is said by some that he will
endeavor to be re-elcted Governor, and
from thence step Into the Senatorshlp.
But, In any avent. It Is known that he Is
after Shoup's seat. He will be opposed
by Fred Dubois, who hopes to take ad
vantage of the Democratic division over
the Governor's stand In the Coeur d'Aleno
troubles and secure a Democratic indorse
ment. The three silver state conventions
meet, at Pocatello, July 17, and an effort
will be made to bring the question before
them. Dubois has the moral support of
Senator Heltfeld, who Is a Populist Sulzer,
and who Introduced the resolution at the
Sioux Falls convention condemning the
Governor. But Steunenberg has warm
partisans In his own party, who uphold
law and order, and denounce anarchy.
For example, the Lewlston Tribune, the
other day supported him In a column ed
itorial, saying, among other things:
The next Governor of Idaho Is going to be
a law-and-order man. The party that Is going
to furnish the next Governor Is the party that
stands for law and order and has demonstrated
Its ability to maintain peace and security by
lt3 Incumbency of the Government. The Demo
cratic party has taken such a stand and dem
onstrated its ability to maintain that stand.
As long as the Democratic party of Idaho
stays where It Is now that is, jthat it will ex
ecute tho laws, preserve the peace and punish
the guilty It cannot be beaten at the polls.
The only way It can be beaten In Idaho Is to
Jugsle with its principles and barter the re
spect and confidence of the citizens of all par
ties and creeds to curry favor with a treacher
ous element that Is as noisy as it Is small.
Tho Issue In Idaho will be largely Steun
enberg's forcible repression of anarchy
and his firm backing up of the military
authorities at Wardner. The anti-Steun-enbergltes
make the loudest clamor over
the permits Issued by the military author
ities authorizing-miners to go to work,
and tho fact that hundreds of men were
kept In the Wardner bullpen without trial
for months. They do not dare uphold the
criminal methods of the lawless and furi
ous band, who thought the most effective
way to redress their alleged grievances
was by dynamite.
A Parallel.
New York Tribune.
It comes clearly to mind that for years
before the Suez Canal was constructed
eminent authorities the world over were
decrying the folly of such an undertaking,
and demonstrating mathematically, log
ically and by quantitative and qualitative
analysis the absolute impossibility of its
ever beginning to pay anything like Inter
est on the cost of construction. In brief,
they talked, argued and declaimed for all
the world as the Interested opponents of
the Nicaragua Canal have been doing and
are today doing. And when Frederick
Greenwood put Disraeli up to buying the
Khedive's shares of canal sto;k for the
British Government, there was even at
that date plenty to deplore such pouring
of the British taxpayers' money into a rat
hole; just as the men now lament the
financial ruin that would overtake the Na
tion if the Government should undertake
the construction of the Nicaragua. Canal
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Mayor Storey is not a candidate fer
Vice-President.
We must have lost a month somewhere.
This Is surely April.
Financial item from Turkey: Money to
scarce and collections are, slow.
Is this candidacy of Mark Twain's seri
ous, or was Mrs. Clemens only Joking?
St. Louis and Chicago are calling ead
other the abiding place of strikes aad
riot.
That appointment of Clark's is likely to
turn out a disappointment before he gU
through with it.
Storey's friends oughtn't to worry about
him so much. He'll bo Mayor as coa
as Bryan is President.
Horace Greeley did not set a limit at tfee
Pacific Ocean when he said: "Go Wt,
young man, go West."
Why should candidates feel uneasy when
any heeler in the North End will guarantee
to elect them for $100.
Ex-President Harrison Is beginning to
take Interest In golf. He has evidently gt
tired of being the Ice man.
This thing of having Aguinaldo for .
running mate for Bryan Is absurd. Ha
who runs should be able to read.
The Kansas City convention could nt
find Web Davis. Gracious! Had the del
egates no ears? Couldn't he be heard?
Tom Jordan Is also running. Wo have
h!a own word for it, sounding .through
the highways and byways. Otherwise, w
shouldn't have believed it.
If It were not for the dally telegraphic
assurance that the game "is going ahead
In the East, people out here would be In
clined to classify baseball among the loat
arts.
"Which, our language Is plain,
And we wish to remark;
That for things that are vain.
And for ways that are daric, -
A man In Montana's a daisy.
And he spells his name William A. Clark.
We do not care to appear too anxious
about It, but it Is proper to call attention
to the unaccountable fact that Potato
Pingree'a regular monthly bolt of tho
Republican party is several days overdue.
A Republican convention meets. It in
dorses McKInley, and so Instructs its del
egates. It adjourns. A Democratic con
vention meets. It indorses Bryan, and so
Instructs Its delegates. It adjourns. Fu
ture historians muet record that the year
1900 marks the supreme achievements of
political monotony and party docility.
Forty-five states have nothing to do but
"point with pride" or "view with alarm."
Melancholy campaign days are ahead of
us.
Dr. Samuel Dixon, the president of the
Pennsylvania Academy of Natural Scien
ces, in Philadelphia, has a large aquarium
containing goldfish and marine creatures
which he Is In the habit of feeding every
mornlng. During the "Winter he wore
dark-colored clothing, and as soon as ha
approached the glass tank all the fish
came to the surface of the water looking
for crumbs. Changing his clothes to
light-colored fabrics the 1st of May, the
fish faik-d to recognize him, and went
without food for two days. At last, how
ever, they began to recognize his face as
he approached the aquarium, and rose to
the surface for their .food from his hands.
His friends; who know the tenderness of
his heart, assert that he had ordered an
extra black serge suit to please the fish,
when they gave in and allowed him to ap
pear in gray.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
Worse Yet. Mrs Flatter (reading) "A bed
of quicksand Is tho moat treacherous and
deadly thing on earth." Mr. Flatter Guess
the chump who wrote that never saw our fold
ing bed! Puck.
Iron-like. 'There is a suit, my friendt." said
the dealer, "that will wear like Iron." "1
guess that feller was no liar," said tho victim,
two weeks after. "The dash-blnged suit is
rusty already." Indianapolis Press.
In a meeting at the St. George's Catholta
Club In London last week a young Irishman
declared that the Irish were "a grand race,
and it risted wl thlm to see that tho nobla
traditions were handed down to the fower
fathers." St. James's Gazette.
His View of It. "I should think a. man
would feel very proud to sit In tho United
States Senate." said the enthusiastic young
woman, "Tho mere fact that he Is there is aa
assurance of his superiority." "Oh, I don't
know," answered Senator Sorghum. "It ain't
as exclusive as it might be. Every once In a
while somebody gets In who Isn't so very rich."
Washington Star.
Rapid Development. "You are In business in
Montana?" asked the passenger In the skull
cap. "Yes," said the passenger In the smoking
lacket. "Is business good out there?" "YesL
f In the last two years our plant ha3 Increased in
size more than 1000 per cent." "Great Scott!
What was the size of your plant originally?"
"It consisted of a pair of Belgian rabbits."
Chicago Tribune.
Her Plaintive Wail. A bicycle had Just ar
rived at the house one bicycle, and there wers
two little girls. They were to share It be
tween them, but each one was of tho opinion
that she would want to ride it continuously
from breakfast until supper. They will know
better later. However, It was a novel toy to
them, and they stood looking at it admiringly.
Finally the elder spoke. "Don't you wish,
Ella," she said In a wistful way, "that you
were an only child?" Chicago Evening Post.
England's Trnst.
Baltimore American.
("Wo cannot trust Ireland." Lord Salisbury.)
"Ye cannot throat ould Olreland?" Thin Goa
save England's fame,
Fr dlvll th" list av wounded an kilt that has
no Olrlsh name,
Caseys. McFaddens an" Emmets, flghtln. b&-
gob3, where they're slnt;
Dugans an' Burkes an' Kellys enough t Oil
up a rlglmint.
Flannlgans. Dooleys. O'Briens; Sweeneys, wld
peat on their clogs;
Sheas, wld a face lolke th' ould sod's map;
Murphys right out av th bogs;
Folghtln an' chasln an cheerln', an shwear-
ln betolmes. th' rogues;
Slngln your "Rule Britannia" In richest av
tarrler brogues.
Ye thrust a boonch fr"m Galway, an many a
Tyrone lad
Laid down his lolfe fr ye. Little enough but
all th't th' poor b'y had.
Many a mother's heart In Cork, In Sllgo an
County Clare
Is bruk Tr th' b'ys ye thrnsted ye buried him,
somewhere.
There's w'avers huts In Antrim th't has a si
lent loom,
Th w'aver's gone, fr England called she had
t have more room.
There's Olrlsh bones on Asia's hills theyr
wholte an dhry an grim.
"Yo cannot thrust In Olreland?" Plaze God.
did ye thrust in thlm?
"Ye cannot thrust ould Olreland?" Me La-ard,
ye thrust her mln
Ye're thrustin' thlm In Roberta raid t go
throo thick an' thin;
Ye thrust th't th' 01ri3b, as usual, wld glad
ness will be kilt: '
Ye've faith th't th' blood av th" Olrlsh most
freely, will be split.
Ye're waltln an hopln' an watchln' ye'res
longin frm sun t' sun
T hear some news av th' gallant deeds th
Olrlsh b'ys have done.
They're shtarvin, folghtln' an dyln', there la
th' Thransvaal dust.
"Ye cannot thrust ould Olreland?" No? Tola
phwat is this ye thrust?"
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