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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, MAI' 18, 1900.
There is not in Portland a man bet
ter fitted by native talents, business
training and acquaintance with the
city's affairs, for the office of Mayor
than Henry S. Rowe. His railroad ex
perience taught him how large affairs
need to be run, his private undertak
ings demonstrate his capacity and
have brought him into touch with the
city's business life, and his adminis
tration of the office of Fire Commis
sioner has constituted an epoch in the
city's history tha,t is notable for effl
cience and economy. Nobody can ask
for a more ideal candidate for Mayor.
Mr. Rowe is a clean man in every way,
upright, capable, sagacious. He will
bring dignity into the Mayor's office,
and he will administer Its growing pow
ers and responsibilities so as to .reflect
credit on the city. If Portland wants
the Mayor's chair filled by this sort of
a, man, the opportunity is now afforded.
A vote against Mr. Rowe is a vote
against good government and econom
ical administration.
In the history of every community
there is an era of revolt from the first
severe regime of taxpaylng. It usually
comes as the aftermath of collapsed
values and too heavy taxes. At such
times the people feel a sense of injus
tice under the burden of unnecessarily
severe taxation. The natural antipa
thy to the tax-gatherer Is reinforced
by a feeling of outrage. At such a
time they are easy prey to the schem
ing politician, who plays upon their
discontent to further ventures of his
own which at another time would be
stoutly resisted. Such a time seems
impending in the State of Oregon to
day. The recent decision of the State
Supreme Court, with its encouragement
to tax-shirkers, will lend Impetus to
the tendency. The Oregonlan foresees
this disposition now, and it sounds the
warning so that all may heed it. Leg
islation will be offered at Salem this
"Winter, and perhaps for several ses
sions, contriving fancied ease for the
taxpayer and opportunities for the tax
shirker. In the hands of cunning poli
ticians the discontent with the oppres
sive taxes, laid upon us by extravagant
and unscrupulous officialism, will be
capable of limitless mischief. The im
pulse will be withstood, If at all, only
with the greatest difficulty.
President McKlnley being a Method
ist, the Methodists think he should with
the Methodists stand. The Chicago
conference seems to be totally unable
to understand the distinction between
McKlnley as a church member and Mc
Klnley as the Nation's executive, in
that it blames him for his failure to ac
cept the Methodist Interpretation of
the anti-canteen law instead of his Attorney-General's.
The Constitution and
the laws of the country seem to make
It imperative upon the President to
seek the legal advice of his legal ad
viser on a given state question, and not
the religious and moral advice of his
church. It so happens, too, that In
this particular matter the Administra
tion has acted In accord with approved
Ideas of practical reform, and in its
attitude toward the canteen it has the
support of the great body of Army offi
cers. They know what is best for the
soldier, and they know what Is not
best. Among the latter is unrestrained
opportunity to frequent the brothels
that, under the old system, always
thrived at the boundaries of a military
reservation.
With the nomination of Towne, the
blooming ambition of Congressman
Sulzer to be Vice-President withered.
Now he is filling the hills and the vales
with his lamentations. He is quoted as
saying:
I predict unhesitatingly the greatest success
for the Republican ticket in New Tork State
that tb-a party has ever secured there. So far
as I am concerned, I am out of it. My best
friends "threw me down," and I am no longer
la sight nationally. I can be Mayor of New
Tork or Goiemor of New Tork, but I would
not accept the nomination for the Vice-Presidency
now to save the Democratic party from
defeat. Br an is beat already. Tou will see
that Croker will bo against Mm. "We will all
be, against him. This Is the end of It. before
the thing ts well begun. McKlnley is prac
tically elected, and Theodore Rooseielt Is the
master politician of New York for four years
to come. New Tork goes Republican as sure as
fate.
The Democracy has missed a valu
able opportunity to pluck the Sulzer
rose of safety from the Tammany net
tle of threatened hostility. But, all the
game, the vanity-burdened Sulzer, In
showing his own hurts, voices the real
feelings of the Eastern Democracy.
"What the Bryanltes need now In
their business is a revival of Aguinaldo
before the Kansas City convention
meets. If he could suddenly appear
with his gold whistle and his creased
khaki trousers and issue another last
ditch proclamation, accompanied by a
treacherous attack upon some outpost.
It would sufficiently demonstrate the
vigor of the Filipino republic and the
capacity of the people for self-government,
to form a foundation for a dec
laration in favor of Filipino independ
ence. Lacking that, the convention
will have to go to the other extreme
and take the position that the Tagals
are not and never will be capable of
embracing American Institutions and
conducting a just and civilized govern
ment, and that we should therefore
abandon the country, wash our hands
!f the job, and leave the savages .to
their own devices. Incidentally placing
all the great foreign Interests there,
which are now protected by us, at the
mercy of the uncivilized natives. If
Aguinaldo wants to retain his status
as a cultured and statesmanlike pa
triot, he will have to hasten out of the
wilderness.
EXPAXSIOX TUB FARMER'S FIGHT.
If. there is any particular class of
producers in the United States who
have a deeper financial interest in Ori
ental trade expansion than that of the
Pacific Coast farmer. It is not in evi
dence. This new field for commerce be
yond the Pacific has had samples of
American wares, and the demand that
has sprung up and is now in course of
development has commenced to wear
the rust from many a factory wheel
that was long unturned. Labor and
capital alike In the manufacturing cen
ters of the East will profit by the en
larged field for distribution of manu
factured products. But while thej t re
fits accruing to the manufacturer and
his employes in the East will be great
as the trade expands, they will never
equal those which await the Pacific
Coast farmer, the man who is right at
the gates of the- Orient, with an unlim
ited amount of staple commodities to
sell. Preliminary work in the line of
introducing our products to the people
of the far East has been well done, and
the groundwork for a magnificent trade
has been laid.
"What Pacific expansion means to the
farmers of the Northwest Is amply
Illustrated In the case of wheat. For
nearly a year the cereal markets at all
Pacific Ccast ports have been bumping
along on the bottom. Forced up against
the competition of the Argentine, Aus
tralia and of the Gulf and Atlantic
ports of the United States which have
a cheap rate to Liverpool, the Oregon
farmer has been compelled to take the
price the European dealer, who In a
sense is the consumer, is willing to pay.
To land this wheat where It Is available
the farmer must pay the freight on a
17,000-mile Journey round Cape Horn.
So much for the surplus that must
seek a market in Europe. Now as to
the Orient. Since the beginning of the
present cereal year, nearly eleven
months ago, there has been a steady
advance in round-the-Horn freights
and a decline In wheat. This has fig
uratively left the exporter between the
devil and the deep sea, and the mills
grinding for the Oriental trade have set
the pace throughout the season by pay
ing higher prices than the exporters
could pay. Small as the remuneration
has been for the farmer during this
year of low prices, a considerable por
tion of his wheat would have sold for
much lower prices had it not been for
the competition of the millers handling
the Oriental business. The shipments
to the Orient for the entire season of
1899-1900 promise to be slightly In ex
cess of one-third of the entire ship
ments to all ports, and the amount paid
the farmers directly for the wheat from
which this flour was manufactured Is
many thousand dollars In excess of
what the wheat would have brought
for export to Europe.
The Indirect benefits lie In the In
creased demand for other farm prod
ucts from the men engaged In the many
new mills which have come Into ex
istence since the Inception of the busi
ness. That this trade can be Increased
until the Orient absorbs all of the
wheat of the Pacific Coast Is generally
admitted by all who are familiar with
the growth of the trade. To admit of
this trade expansion bringing best re
sults In the least possible time, a most
generous foreign policy is necessary.
The short haul by steamer across the
Pacific Is now much cheaper than the
long haul around Cape Horn, and It
will be still further reduced when de
velopment of the trade and modifica
tion of obstructing laws enable steam
ers to bring return cargoes from the
Orient,
Oriental trade expansion means en
hanced prices for wheat, lumber, oats,
hops and other Pacific Coast products.
It also means cheaper grain bags,
sugar, tea, spices, matting and other
necessities. All lines of trade on the
Pacific Coast will profit by enlarge
ment of this trade, but In no other line
will Its effect be as marked as In that
of the farmer. A wider market Is
opened for his products abroad, while
Increased Industrial activity improves
the market for them at home.
WEAK POINTS IX CURRENCY ACT.
Mr. Isaac Sellgman's discovery that
under certain circumstances the "end
less chain" might be revived, notwith
standing the new regulations embodied
in the act of March 14, 1900, Is now fol
lowed by a discussion more notable and
exhaustive. In the current number of
the Quarterly Journal of Economics,
published for Harvard University, Pro
fessor F. "W. Taussig writes a very
careful study of the "gold-standard
act." He recognizes Its value and
promise, but unsparingly lays bare its
weak points.
The act's defense against raids on the
Treasury gold and safeguards for the
parity have been imperfectly contrived,
partly through slovenly workmanship
and partly through design, regard be
ing had to the feelings of silver men.
Important in this regard Is the equivo
cal attitude observed toward different
obligations. The act makes the legal
tenders and the new refunding bonds
payable in gold, and leaves all other
Interest-bearing obligations payable In
"coin." in which silver dollars are In
cluded. As Professor Taussig states,
"no respectable reason can be adduced
for treating differently the two classes
of debt." While the "ambiguity" may
never prove of serious consequence,
"Its deliberate retention as to the bonds
now outstanding does not redound to
the country's honor." The cause, of
course, was the desire to avoid offense
through too frequent substitution of
"gold" for "coin." Mr. Wolcott et id
omne genus, must be considered.
Professor Taussig also analyzes the
Senate's amended form of the treat
ment for greenbacks, which became
law. The origin of this part of the bill
was Mr. McKInley's sensible and
straightforward and conclusive sugges
tion that United States notes once re
deemed in gold should not again be
paid out except for gold. This would
make of the notes purely gold certlfi
catej. and this was the House enact
ment. But under pressure of the Sen
ate a compromise was reached. When
the United States notes are redeemed
they are to be exchanged for gold If the
Treasury has It, and this gold Is to be
put Into a "reserve fund." In ordinary
times, "when revenues simply balance
expenditures." says Professor Taussig,
"the operation must cause the re
deemed notes to be returned to circu
lation with but a short Interval of tem
porary housing In the 'general fund.' "
Next the redeemed notes, may be ex
changed for gold If any one wants gold
for them, and then, of course, they go
directly into circulation. Lastly, under
the provisions of the act of March, 1SG2,
the redeemed notes may be used by
the Secretary of the Treasury to "pur
chase" coin "at such, rates and upon
such terms as he may deem most ad
vantageous." Buying gold with notes
for the purpose of redeeming the notes
In gold "suggests an ostrich-like pro
cess ofj dodging." It Is only when the
gold in the reserve fund has fallen be
low $100,000,000 that the Secretary can
sell bonds to replenish It, and then he
must do so. But the gold he gets for
the bonds is to be turned Into the gen
eral fund and then turned from there
into the reserve fund in exchange for
redeemed notes, and these notes cannot
be used to "meet deficiencies in the
revenue."
Ambiguous and circuitous provisions
of this sort are disconcerting, to say A
the least. Yet when all's said and
done, probably few acts so comprehen
sive have been passed by Congress
without an equal or greater number of
similar imperfections.' The bill as
passed far exceeded all reasonable ex
pectations entertained prior to the as
sembling of Congress. It will have to
be amended In divers particulars, no
doubt. But the act Itself is the one In
dispensable preliminary to the perfec
tion of our currency system in its
minor details.
MAN WANTS MUCH HERE BELOW.
This Is going to be a hilarious cam
paign. The Citizens happy family of
legislative candidates started the gay
ety by signing a "round-robin" of prin
ciples, designed to keep the public
amused and entertained while they
burglarized the Senatorshlp; and now
comes the Socialist Labor platform
with an original package of declara
tions that runs the whole gamut of
campaign music The Citizens simply
provided a burlesque; the Socialists do
more. They give a picturesque pano
rama of the unsatisfied and uneappeas
able appetites of the submerged tenth.
They want a great deal here below,
and they want it for nothing. The In
ventory of their demands looks some
thing like this:
Free baths.
Free medical attendance
Fuel at cost.
Municipal ownership of public utilities.
Employment for everybody at $3 per day.
Forfeiture of all public franchises.
A new city charter.
Division of profits from public utilities.
Referendum, Initiative and ImperaUve man
date. Comfortable houses for workers, rented at
cost.
Repeal of tramp and vagrancy ordinances.
Free text books,
Free meals, ( . , . .
Free clothing, f For school children.
Free car rides, J
We have hunted In vain through this
thrilling code of demands for a plank
calling In clarion tones for free beer,
but It cannot be found. The conclusion
Is inevitable that the universal want
has been supplied thorugh the generos
ity of some true friend of labor who
happens also to be a candidate for of
fice, or that the platform committee
was recreant to Its sacred trust, and
left it out. It may be conjectured, too,
that the free-bath plank Is merely
thrown In for full measure. What the
true Labor-Socialist needs In that di
rection is not opportunity, but inclina
tion. The public cannot supply that.
That no injustice may be done these
yearning patriots by an inadequate and
Imperfect summary, made by howso
ever friendly a hand, a sample sen
tence or two from their eloquent re
capitulation of human miseries is ap
pended: Whereas, The capitalist class robs the worker
of the wealth he creates and denies him the
opportunity of employing himself, and then
brutally Imprisons him for being unemployed;
Resolved, That In the name of the working
classes we protest against this outrage inflicted
on us by the "respectable" criminals who rulo
us, and wo demand the Immediate repeal of all
tramp and vagrancy ordinances, and the enact
ment of an ordinance guaranteeing the employ
ment of all unemploed workers by the city at
$3 per day of eight hours.
This gentle protest against the crim
inal wealthy would upon careful reflec
tion seem to be going Just a trifle too
far, so that It will defeat Its own ob
ject. It may be understood and cheer
fully conceded that any person who has
suffered the horrors of the chain gang
act has the right to assemble with other
martyrs and petition for a change. But
a true and righteous Interpretation of
the present laws would make It Include
the idle and Indolent rich, and cause
them to suffer the pains and penalties
of the ordinances aimed at the do
nothing class. Now, If the state could
be made to supply work for the unem
ployed, they naturally would be exempt
from the operations of the law; and It
could bo so enforced as to make sad
havoc among the present oppressors of
the non-working poor. This is a valu
able point which the statesmen among
the Labor-Socialists have undoubtedly
overlooked.
The platform, properly construed. Is
not a demand for work. It is a mere
assertion of the right of every person
to work at public expense, which car
ries with It the inalienable right of
every public employe to loaf at public
expense. That Is much preferable to
loafing at one's own expense.
A WELL-ORDERED MOVEMENT.
The contention for early closing In
retail business, now being vigorously
urged In this city, commends itself for
its Justice and fairness. There Is no
reason why people may not do their
buying during the hours between 8
o'clock A M. and 6 P. M. Custom Is
the sole arbiter in this matters and
merchants of all grades, being in the
business arena for profit, have hesi
tated to enter what may be called the
reform field by taking a stand against
it. While It is a fact that. If all pro
prietors would stand together and
promptly close the doors of their stores
and shops at C o'clock, none would lose
by the action, and the public would
soon adjust Itself to the new order of
things. It Is also a fact that it Is diffi
cult to make all see the matter In this
light and govern their business accord
ingly. The orderly and Insistent methods
pursued by the Retail Clerks' Associ
ation in support of their demands com
mend themselves to the community.
Pursuing what Is In reality a campaign
of education, this association appeals
to the public through temperate speech
to note the reasonableness of the re
form that it champions, and by means
of a carefully worded statement print
ed on cards that are freely circulated,
to do its buying beforethc hour of 6
o'clock P. M. The position of the as
sociation Is plainly stated; its demands
are reasonable, and Its plea to the pub
lic is strong without being aggressive.
If successful, as the movement cer
tainly promises to be. It will be
through the generous co-operation of
the .public with the manifest desire
of employers to confine retail trade to
regulation business hours and thu3
permit men and women who have put
in nine full hours at their work to Join
the hosts of labor In other lines that
go home at G o'clock, with the privi
lege of spending the evening In rest,
recreation or amusement, gathering
strength and purpose for the duties of
the following day. To the extent that
willing service is more valuable than
half-hearted service, the shortened day
that is asked will be more valuable to
the employer than the overtime day
so long exacted of retail clerks. There
Is a willing service that makes the em
plqyer's Interests its own, and a half
hearted service that grudges its effort
and works only In anticipation of pay
day. Employers who stand together to
secure the former may truly be said
to be wise in their day and generation.
Pillsbury, the American chess cham
pion, recently performed at Philadel
phia the astonishing feat of play
ing blindfolded twenty simultaneous
games. He won fourteen, drew five
and lost four. During progress of the
games, he went to lunch and appar
ently dismissed the whole complicated
contest from his mind; and at the close
of play he remembered perfectly the
whole course of each game, and cor
rected several errors made by the re
corders. The average human mind
stands aghast at this prodigious mne
monic marvel. It seems to be the chess
record. It Involved constant mental
grasp of the changing locations of 640
bits of wood, and the exercise of varied
skill In opposing the attacks of every
Individual opponent. Mark Twain, In
his "Life on the Mississippi," seriously
advances the claim that the old river
pilots for the 1200 miles from St. Louis
to New Orleans had the most remarka
ble memories In the world, as they had
to have always at command a mental
photograph of the precise character of
every foot of water, and every Inch of
adjacent bank, and the most minute
details of all the physical characteris
tics of the long journey, both by day
and night, changing every season, and
In every kind of weather. But a per
son with ordinary power of memory
might become a good pilot. It is large
ly a question of drill and training In a
special occupation. The average brain
could never have been trained to
do what Pillsbury has Just done. It Is
beyond the power of the ordinary
chess-player to play one game blind
folded. Twenty games are the achieve
ment of a mental freak, whose special
aptitudes have been enormously overdeveloped.
There are those who claim to see the
beginning of the end of the Boer war.
Whether yet in sight or not, the end
must come in due time, as England
wills; the terms will be those of last
ing peace, not of a patched-up policy
of half conciliation and half defiance,
which the slightest friction -Till de
stroy. The estimate of a speedy cessa
tion of hostilities Is based In the fact
that the Boer army now numbers not
more than 35,000 men, widely scattered
In small commands. It Is considered
doubtful whether they can concentrate
for the defense of one place more than
22,000 men, and this would leave them
without reserves. The British Army
In the field numbers about 190,000 men.
Of this number, 40,000 are engaged In
the present forward movement, with
reinforcements that can readily be
drawn upon. There Is but little doubt
that the burghers are tired of a war
that promises nothing but defeat, and
that, notwithstanding the fierce spirit
with which they entered the conflict,
they will. In the main, be glad to ac
cept peace, protection and promise of
prosperity under British rule.
It seems necessary to correct a very
common and natural error as to the
meaning of the word "candidate." It
Is from the Latin word "candidatus,"
meaning "white-robed," because of the
custom of aspirants for office In ancient
Rome arraying themselves In white
togas, possibly as Indicative of the pur
ity of their motives. It Is plain, there
fore, that the general Impression here,
doubtless Inspired by the conduct of
a number of professional office-seekers,
that the word signifies one who
is candid, truthful, frank and honest
Is erroneous.
Builders and all craftsmen connected
with the building trade are at work,
with a prospect of being busy all Sum
mer and Fall. Wages have advanced
In most of the trades, and In some
hours have been shortened. This Is
prosperity in Its most diversified and
substantial form the type of prosper
ity that makes sensible men rejoice In
the gold standard which underlies It
and pay little heed to lG-to-1 rantlngs
of -candidates for office, Presidential or
otherwise.
Mr. J. G. Mack needs no other rec
ommendation to voters than that. If
chosen County Commissioner, he will
give to the county's affairs the same
careful attention he has given to his
own business and which has made him
a prosperous merchant.
If Steyn needs any points on the
rapid removals of capitals, he might
get them from Aguinaldo, If the Fili
pino sprinter can be located.
If they could all be elected, Multno
mah would have no ground of com
plaint about the smallness of her rep
resentation In the Legislature.
As to the Socialist Labor platform,
tho real wonder is that with all its de
mands it did not also Include one for
reduction of taxes.
Clark resigns, and is reappointed the
same day. Montana is a state where
one gets quick action for his money.
It Is a quiet day when a few more
new candidates fall to bob up.
Salisbury's Faux Pas.
New Tork Times.
Lord Salisbury's speecfi before the Prim
rose League was more injurious than his
speech at the reassembling of Parliament,
Inasmuch as It was entirely gratuitous.
The gratuitousness and the mlschievous
ness of It have been promptly and gen
erally recognized in England, and by the
organs of his own party. His choice of
an occasion for his remarks about the
Irish Is simply Inexplicable. The Irish
soldiers have fought well, as they have
always fought under whatever flag. Their
service to the Empire has been so con
spicuous and so conspicuously gallant as
to Induce the Queen, at great persona!
inconvenience, and some personal risk, to
cross the Channel, in her extreme age, to
thank the Irish people. Apparently her
Prime Minister did not approve of her go
ing. At any rate he seizes the occasion
of her return to liken the Irish to the
Boers and to say that the war in which
the Irish troops have distinguished them
selves on the British side shows the folly
of satisfying the national aspirations of
Ireland. The assumption that any Irish
government which represented the peopla
of Ireland would be a "disloyal" govern
ment may or may not bo jostlfted. But
what shall be said of the statesman who
takes this occasion to make It, when homo
rule is not even a living Issue In British
politics? Obviously one of the things to
be said about him is that he has lost his
political tact. And what Is left of the
statesmanship of Lord Salisbury when his
political tact has been subtracted?
AMERICANS ON TRIAL.
Bishop Potter's Testimony to Cour
age and Conscientiousness.
New Tork Tribune.
Bishop Potter, unfailing In self-sacrifice,
renders a greater service to his country
than to himself in hla treatment of the
Philippine question. It will be peculiarly
gratifying to all Americans, and espe
cially to those who hold fast the highest
ideals of American development, to have
such testimony as that of Bishop Potter
regarding the grand behavior of the sol
diers who uphold the flag and represent
American manhood In these far-off Islands".
When such statements ae the following
are made by a witness of such exal'ed
character and after thorough Investigation
the country may well feel pride In Us
sons who are facing exceptional trials and
temptations for the National honor and
welfare:
There Is no finer typo physically in the world
than our men in the Philippines. Nothing
could be more creditable than their behavior to
women In the streets, and ths impression they
nake upon a stranger Is that they are self-restraining,
self-respecting, loyal sons of the Re
public. I believe It can be demonstrated that the rec
ord of the Army In regard to temperance Is of a
thoroughly creditable character. I saw a great
many soldiers under a great many conditions
and in a great many relations, but I did not
see one of them anywhere of whom I had In
the slightest degree to be ashamed.
The strong feeling of Bishop Potter
against acquisition of the Philippine
Islands gives added force, if that were
possible, to his testimony regarding the
behavior of the soldiers there. With such
a predisposition It Is beyond question that
he would have seen, Investigated and
conscientiously reported all evidence that
the character and manhood of the soldiers
were undergoing deterioration In their un
wonted conditions, if that were the fact.
Moreover, his answer about his own be
lief as to the retention of the inlands
has Its peculiar merit. If his son should
say: "I am thinking of marrying a Cre
ole woman with seven small children,"
he would reply, "My son, you are an
ass." But if his son had already made
such a marriage he would treat him as
a father should. Tho final verdict comes
In the w.ords: "I should count it a Na
tional mortification if today we should
retreat from responsibilities because we
find them difficult. ... It Js for you
and me to administer the trust whtch has
come to us for the well being of a people
in whose interests It is being administered
and the widening of those great Ideas for
which our Republic stands."
With such worthy and manly words be
fore us. It is not well to be captious and
to complain that the Irresistible necessity
was as clearly visible at the outset as It
Is now. All the outcry about the reten
tion of the Islands and the suppression
of Insurrection here has come since It be
came an absolutely unavoidable necpstty
for the United States to take possession
of the islands, to restore order in them
and to undertake the task of establishing
good government there. It was all as
perfectly well known to those who were
willing to open their eyes before Agui
naldo's forces had fired a single shot as
It Is now. Every man convicts himself of
willful Ignorance and criminal prejudice
who falls to recognize the fact that the
Tagal Insurrection was the one to which
it would have been impossible for the
United States to yield or to turn over the
destinies of millions who had foe it no
other feeling than hatred and fear. Before
It began, before any American troops
were landed, full responsibility for the
future of the Philippine Islands had been
placed upon the United States by a high
er decree than any that congresses of
nations could frame. Events not desired
nor foreseen, but when they came wholly
irrevocable, had Imposed upon this Na
tion a duty which It would have been
infamous to shirk.
Scott and Dogrs.
Gentleman's Magazine.
Dogs play a really Important role In
Scott's works, and no two are alike, but
all are worthy of the love with which
their artist evidently regarded them. His
lines to the dog who for three months
guarded the remains of his master, who
had perished on Helvellyn, are not Indeed
equal to Wordsworth's poem on the same
subject; but one portion of them seem3
worthy of quotation:
How long didst thou think that his silence was
slumber;
"When the wind waved his garment, how oft
didst thou start?
How many long days and long weeks didst
thou number.
Ere he faded before thee, the friend of thy
heart?
And oh. was it meet that, no requiem read o'er
him.
No mother to weep and no friend to deplore
him.
And thou, little guardian, alono stretched be
fore him.
Unhonored. the pilgrim from life should de
part? Here speaks at least a lover of dogs, if
ho does not speak at his best; but it Is
in the novels that Scott's most wonderful
dog characters are found. We shall all
remember Wasp, the little terrier In "Guy
Mannerlng" Wasp, who, as Bertram is
crossing the lonely waste, leads him to
the spot where DInmont Is struggling with
tho robbers, and who acted "gloriously
during the skirmish, annoying the heels
of the enemy and repeatedly .effecting a
moment's diversion In his master's favor."
"De'il, but your dog's weel entered wl
the vermin now, sir," Is Dandle's delight
ed exclamation, and when Charlie's Hope
Is approached, the famous Peppers and
Mustards, that race of dogs whose name
of Dandle Dinmont was Scott's creation,
and which will be connected through all
time with his work, appear tumultuously
on the scene. Wasp, too, keeps reappear
ing throughout the story. Some of us can
hardly read the account of Bertram's de
jection In the prison, broken in upon by
the sound of a dog's feet pattering up
the stairs In great haste, to find his mas
terin tribulation or in success, neither
mattered to Wasp without a thrill.
A. Pertinent Suggestion.
Salt Lake Tribune.
There Js a steady stream of gold flow
ing from New Tork to England and the
Continent The Springfield Republican
says:
It Is estimated that New Torw financial Insti
tutions have lately made loans on sterling ex
change to the amount of $40,000,000. This Is
in the nature of a postponement, for a consid
eration, of the collection of that amount of
money from Europe, due to the United States
In settlement of trade balances.
In the same connection the Philadelphia
Record says:
Gold Is going out of the country once more;
but not to pay Indebtedness or as a result of
panic We are lending it to the other fellows
on better terms than we can In the home mar
ket. Is Is not possible that the gold Is sent to
meet the expenses of Americans in Eurape?
There must be 100,000 of them over there
this year. They are probably spending
an average of $1000 each. That meana
flOO.OOO.OOO. Formerly their letters of cred
it were carried and the foreign bankers
waited until the American wheat and
cotton crops began to arrive for their
pay. But there Is financial congestion in
all tho foreign capitals, and Europe may
not be In a condition to carry the drafts.
The Americans abroad are rich, a great
exposition is one; they are extravagant,
3o it strange that money la going away?
THE RACE PROBLEM CONFERENCE
The South is facing the race problem
with courage. Intelligence, patience and
commendable tolerance. It realizes that
it Is almost altogether a Southern ques
tion, to be settled by Southerners In a
spirit of broad humanity and large pa
triotism. It is not probable that the peo
ple below the old Mason and Dixon line
will, In this generation, cease to regard
the negro as a servant and an inferior,
and also as a dependant; and It is not too
much to say that the racial differences
between black and white will forever pre
vent their coming together on terms of
social equality. This is, indeed, an in
curable condition, always recognized In
the. South, and now generally admitted
in the North. What, then, shall be done
for the colored race? What will tend to re
move the Increasing causes of friction
with tho whites a condition that, if per
mitted to continue, must undoubtedly re
sult In the complete break-down of the
whole social structure of the South? The
moral education. Intellectual improvement
and manual training of the negro is a
recognized vehicle for his advancement,
and something Is being done along those
tines; but, on the whole, not much. The
liberated race numbered 4.000,000 or 5.000,000
at the close of the. war, and It Is so- pro
lific that the total has arisen to about
9,000,000. There are a few Industrial
schools, as at Tuskegee. Alabama, and
many ordinary public schools, but they
do not reach the great mass, -which Is left
In a Btate of growing ignorance .and de
plorable irresponsibility. The en
franchisement of the black all Southern
people unite in declaring a political and
social blunder, 'demoralizing to the colored
people, dangerous and unjust to the white,
and not many Northerners are now pre
pared to contest their view.
A formal Conference for Consideration
of, the Race Problem has just had a three
.days' session at Montgomery, Alabama.
It was a veritable gathering of the best
thinkers In the educational and religious
world, and of puhHc men from various
states. It was open to white and black
alike- No attempt was made to incor
porate the Judgment of the conference in
formal resolutions. Wide range was given
to the discussion, and it was approached
from every point of view. The speakers,
with one or two exciptlons, were South
erners, and were therefore competent and
authoritative. But, singularly enough,
thoy were wide apart as to remedies, ex
cept that all agreed tho fifteenth amend
ment should be repealed. Deportation was
advocated, and education, and separation,
Lynchlngs and lynch-law were considered,
and It was admitted that the very sever
ity of the legal penalties death had
much to do . with the disregard by tho
whites of the regular machinery of law.
It would be impossible to make any ade
quate summary of the addresses. It will
be interesting to make a few extracts:
Hon. Alfred Waddell, of North Carolina,
discussed "How Ought Negro Suffrage to
Be Limited?" Newspaper reports say he
was loudly appTauded by the great audi
ence. Here was a sample utterance:
Unrestricted negro suffrage In the Southern
States. If the right be fully and freely ex
ercised, means the most ignorant, corrupt and
evil government ever known in a free country.
It meaiu more than this, for there can be no
society where It prevails.
That does not sound as If the speaker
was moderate or Impartial; but he was
the exception.
John Temple Graves, of Atlanta, an
swered a question framed by a negro, a
professor in the Huntsvllle School:
"Will the white man permit tlje negro to
haie an equal part In the industrial, political,
social and dill advantages of the United
States? This, as I understand it. Is tho prob
lem." This question, asked by Professor Coundl,
as the deliberate representative of his people.
Is the core of the race question. I adopt It as
my own, and I ask that question here today.
The answer to It is In every white man's
heart, even If It does not lie openly on every
white man's lips. It may be expressed In
diplomacy; It may be veiled in Indirection; It
may be softened in philanthropy; it may be
guarded in politic utterance, and oftenest of all
It Is retrained byultra-conservatism and per
sonal timidity. But whereier the answer to
this vital question comes, stripped of verbiage
and indirection, it rings like a martial bugle
In the single sj liable "No!"
Ex-Governor William A McCorkle, of
West Virginia, took the opposite view. He
said:
I assert that the Constitutional exercise of
the right ot franchise is the vital and under
lying principle of the life of this free people,
and that the. Infraction ot this prindple la
surely attended with ultimate ruin to our ay
tem ot republican government.
Hon. Alexander C. King, of Atlanta,
had for his top'c "Punishment of Crimes
Against Women." He summed up the ar
gument against lynching as f of lows:
First It utterly discredits the courts and th
laws. It Implies either that the laws are In
adequate or that the courts cannot be relied on
to enforce them.
Second It distracts attention from the crime,
by directing attention to the lawlessness of
the punishment. It creates a certain sympa
pathy for the victim of Judge Lynch even
among those who abhor the crime and the
criminal. Among the members of his own race
there are but few who do not regard the
lynched rapist as a victim, and not a felon, and
who do not forget his offense in the menace to
their race. -
Third It brutalizes the white community
wMch Indulges In it.
Fourth It stirs up race antagonism even
with the law-abiding.
Fifth It breaks down every safeguard against
confounding the innocent with the guilty, and
imperils the luckless victim of circumstances,
or of tho mistake ot a terrified woman and an
Infuriated mob.
The reasons for lynching are:
First The delay of legal punishment.
Second The protection of the victim of the
assault from the ordeal of the witness' chair.
The address that was received with
greatest favor was delivered by Bourke
fcockran, the orator of New Tork. It was
described as an eloquent and masterly
presentation of the problem:
Mr. Cockran's leading point was that the
fllfteenth amendment to the Federal Constitu
tion should be repealed. He pronounced It a
dead letter, nullified by public opinion, a de
caying limb that should be lopped off for the
greater vitality of the living free. He insisted
that the Constitutional status of the negro
should be made to fit his actual status. He
argued that this should be done for the benefit
of the negro as much as that of the white
people. He lauded the South for Its magnifi
cent work in educating the negro, and de
clared it the duty of the Federal Government
to as3ist the States In preparing the negro for
dtlzenshlp. He pointed out that the only path
whereby the negro can reach political and
social right Is that had by the white people for
hundreds of ears by development of the Indl
lidual unit through honorable labor. He In
sisted that every county In the South should
have a Tuskegeo school.
Other speakers were Dr. J. L- M. Curry,
agent of the Peabody and Slater funds,
Washington, D. C; Dr. Julius D. Dreher.
president of Roanoke College, Virginia;
Very Rev. J. R- Slattery, of Baltimore;
Hon. Clifton R. Breckenridge, of Arkan
sas, ex-ambassador to Russia; Dr. Paul
B. Barringer, chairman of the faculty of
the University of Virginia; Dr. Hollis R.
Frissell, principal of Hampton Institute,
Virginia; Rev. W. A Guerny, of Tennes
see; Professor W. T. Willson, of
Washington, D. C; Mr. Herbert Welch,
of the Indian Bureau, and many others.
The conference was presided over by
Hon. Hilary A Herbert, ex-Secretary of
the Navy.
i . K0TE AND COMMENT.
Too many running mates sometime
spoil a campaign.
Tho independent candidate is not very
Independent of the heelers.,
The walking delegate is always the first
to run when a strike becomes a riot.
It is strange that the Cuban postal
swindle was "not stamped out before.
Lord Roberts Is said to be afraid ot
cats. And yet ho Is fighting for so much
pe.
Some one has invented a cigar-shaped
engine. Of course. It will draw very
easily.
Perhaps it we marked down that bill
to 599,000, the Sultan would begin to think
about paying it.
Confidence was restored too emphati
cally four years ago to fall 111 again at
the sight of Bryan.
Twenty thousand million eggs were laid
last year. And still a good many hana
actors kept the boards all season.'
The Mayor of Atlanta has promised that
he will never get drunk any more. But it
must ha remembered that Mayor Storey
is electioneering.
If Senator Clark does not want to leave
his children a tarnished name, he would
better get his Legislature to call them,
something else.
A dentist named Evans has died leaving
$4,000,000. He was associated with royalty,
and he evidently worked his professional
pull to the Queen'3 taste-
Dr. Sheldon Is going to tackle the serv-ant-girl
problem; but he will find he can't
run tho servant girl as anybody used to
run her, because nobody ever did.
The House of Representatives yester
day disposed of four of the 617 pages of
the Alaska bill. At that rate they will
get through with it about the time all
the gold has been dug out of Alaska and
it Is no longer in need of any laws.
A man who has been operating aee curb
stone broker In potatoes on Front street
all last Fall and "Winter Is winding up hla
business and getting ready to .start for
Nome. He was all over Alaska last Sum
mer, and after securing a claim at Nome,
returned here to deal In potatoes all Win
ter. He is now going back to Nome to
work his claim all Summer, and Intends
to return here by the time the potato crop
is ready for market. He says the two
lines of business fadge first rate, as the
potato trade is done here Just in time to
start for Nome, and the mining season
ends there just in time for him tc get here
when the shipment of potatoes begins.
Ho looks for a big clean-up at Nome this
Summer and a big crop of potatoes to ba
harvested here next Fall, and will endeav
or to catch the nimble dollar "a comla
and a gwlne."
The English sparrows have, as Is usual
with them, pre-empted the hoods of tho
arc lights around town, and are busily
engaged in constructing homes therein.
Experience teaches these little fellow noth
ing apparently, although they are so
thoroughly equipped by instinct that they
defy all efforts to exterminate them.
Every year they fill the hoods of the lights
with their nests, and every year the trim
mers who care for the lamps .eject thcra
ruthlessly, as the nests Interfere with the
working of the lights, and would be too
hot to rear a brood In, even If they were
allowed to be brought to completion. The
sparrows perch on the wires near by and
use strong language. In an endeavor to ex
press their opinion of the trimmers, but
It sometimes takes a third or fourth evic
tion to convince them that they must go
somewhere else to set up their Lares and
Penates.
I'm a good and great reformer.
And my name Is James E. Hunt
I regard all forms of evil
As a personal affront.
The police board of the dty, ,
Of which I am chairman now.
Will not let me run the gamblers.
But I'll run them anyhow.
Though I haven't quite the couragf
Their attention to compel,
I will sick the preachers on them,
"Who will giie them merry wdl;
I would like to show the people.
Ere my term In office ends.
That I've purified the city.
But I can't offend my friends.
I would also like the ofilce
That I'm out and after now.
And I'd get it, you can wager.
If I only Just knew how.
But a good and great reformer, i
Such as all know me to be,,
Stands no show to get elected.
So I'm out of it, you see.
I'm a good and great reformer.
And my name is James E. Hunt;
Tou may think I'll get elected.
Bat I'll tell you that I won't.
A Confederate veteran Is thus quoted
in the New-Orleans Times-Democrat: "I
don't take much stock in the theory that
the superior tactics of the Boers have been
due to their foreign officers, r The strategy
by which they have outwitted the British
time and again during the present cam
paign is not book strategy at all. It is
the kind of cunning that is developed by
frontiersmen and pioneers, who learn It
from the savages whom they are com
pelled to fight for existence. In the Revo
lution a good many ot our leaders, includ
ing Washington himself, were adepts in
that variety of warfare, and they routed
the enemy more than once by tactics that
upset everything laid down by the authori
ties. It seems to me that the entire his
tory of the Boer campaign shows the
handiwork of the hunter and trapper
rather than the modern scientific soldier,
and whatever credit attaches to their suc
cesses belongs to the Boers themselves."
PLEASANTRIES OP PARAGRAPHERS
Charity. "I ask you for bread," moaned tha
Indigent Person, reproachfully, "and you found
me a free library." Detroit Journal.
Not at All. "The ties that bind." remarked
Hawkins, "are not the neckties a fellow's best
girl buys him." Philadelphia North American.
Purely Imaginary. "James Lane Allen baa
written a Kentucky noiel called The Reign of
Law.' " "That's all right; a novel Is a work
of fiction, isn't it?" Chicago Record.
"That's Mllyun's daughter." said the Cltl
man pointing to a young girl in an extremely
decollete gown; "she's Just coming out."
"Gosh! I should say she's out far enough al
ready." exclaimed the visitor from the coun
try. Philadelphia Record.
In the Nursery. Edith I have named my
dolly "Dotty Dimples." Ethel But what a
name for her to carry through life when sha
grows up and has six or eight children! Pa
rents should think of these things! Puck.
What He Was Doing. "What, minding the
baby!" said the Northside. a3 he entered Man
chester's home and found his friend agitating
the cradle. "Tes," replied Manchester, "Tva
got down to bedrock." Pittsburg Chronlcla
Telegraph.
L'Enfant Terrible. Little MUlicent, the In
fant proidgy. daughter of Montmorency Mug
ger, the eminent comedian, had partaken co
piously ot a light lunch -of green apples.
Shortly afterwards she remarked to her papa:
"I feel Just like a store window." "Why?"
asked papa. In the tone of one who carries on
a conversation for the purpose of supplying
cue3 to the ochestra. "Because I have such a
large pain In my sash." This Joke will bo
tried on an. audience Is Washington early next
season. Baltimore North American.
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