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s w vf, , -r 'srJi 5fjjf ? tff .1' Mf THE MORNING OREGONIAK, SATURDAY, JUNE 9. 1900. te CStojgomoflu Entered at the Postofflce at Portland. Oregon, as seconl-class matter. TELEPHONES. Editorial Rooms.... 1C8 Business Office 57 REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Br Stall (postage prepaid). In Advance Dally, with Sunday, per month-. ...... ..--50 85 Dally. Sunday excepted, per year.......... " 30 Dally, with Sunday, per year 9 00 Sunday, per jear 2 00 The Weekly, per jear. 1 60 Th Weekly. 3 months W To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered, Sundays eepted.l5c Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday lncluded.Z0a News or discussion intended for publication In The Oregonian should be addressed Invariably "Editor The Oregonian." not to the name of any Individual, letters relating to adertls!ng. subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." The Oregon Ian does not buy poems or stories from Individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to it without solicita tion. No stamps should be Inclosed for this pur pose. Puget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, office at 1111 Pacific avenue, Tacoma. Box 955. Tacoma Postofflce. Eastern Business Offlce The Tribune building, New Tork city: "The Rookery." Chicago; the S. C Beckwith special agency. New Tork. Tor sale In San Francisco by J. K. Cooper, 743 Market street, near the Palace hotel, and at Goldsmith Bros.. 236 Sutter street. For sale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co., S17 Dearborn strret. TODAY'S WEATHER. Fair, with northwest winds. PORTLAND, SATURDAY, JUNE O, 1000 . . If Mr. Bryan should speak In the other states with the same effect as in Oregon where everybody heard him, for The Oregonlan put his Portland speech In the hands of every person in the state he would make the most ef fective canvass known in our political history. He spoke here with all the courage of his delusions, as of yore, and as skillfully as 'ever coddled all his errors of Judgment with ignorance of facts. That was a vote-getting scheme once, but is so no longer. Kb hard and fast rule can be laid down for management of our new in sular possessions. In the case of each a policy must be adopted, suited to cir cumstances and conditions. At Porto Rlco one form of treatment Is needed, at Hawaii another, and in the Philip pines not only one, but several methods of control, in accord with differing cir cumstances in different islands. To pursue any other course than this would be both to show ourselves inca pable and to Invite disaster. Since gov ernment Is a contrivance of human wis dom, adapted to human wants, the same sort of government cannot suit different peoples. The skill of the statesman is shown in the adaptation. There's one comfort: Oregon will not be troubled this Fall by orators of the Bryan Democracy from other states. "Pitchfork" Tillman, "Cyclone" Davis, "Calamity" "Weaver, et id genus omne, will not think It worth while to work their leathern lungs and raucous wind pipes in Oregon this Fall, as they have been accustomed to do. Yet perhaps they might make the Kepublican ma jority 20.000 in November, if they would try. Nearly three monthsjaf actual work under the gold-standard act seem to show that Congress underestimated rather than overestimated the value of t&e gold clause in the refunding bonds. It was hoped that a bond drawing only 2 per cent Interest would stand at or very near par, depriving It of speculat ive properties, and facilitating ready interchange of bonds and money, quickly responsive to the needs of the passing moment. Theoretical devptees of asset currency and all other oppo nents of the refunding act, on what ever grounds, affirmed that the bonds would not bring par, and they deplored the threatened spectacle of a govern ment with obligations at a discount. The sequel puts them on the wrong side and establishes the efficacy of the law. The bonds are almost stationary at a little over 103. They are higher than was expected even by their advo cates. Of all the figures suggested as an Interest rate designed to result in par quotations, 2 per cent was the low est considered. If we can't have a 2 per cent gold bond at par, then we can't have any at par. What is the reason the new bonds, drawjng only 2 per cent interest, stand at 103 premium? The reason is that they are payable In gold. And what is the pertinence of the fact? It Is to the overwhelming confusion of the body of arrant demagogues who have prevent ed us, on one excuse and another, from making our obligations payable specifi cally in gold. Millions might have been saved in Interest if the absurd conten tion for "coin" and for casting doubts upon our Intention to pay debts In full-value dollars had been abandoned. It has been put forth with hysteria and dogmatism that to make our obliga tions payable in gold would outrage the Constitution, despoil the poor for the benefit of the rich, press upon labor's brow a crown of thorns and crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. But the deed has been done. We fund the Na tional debt at 2 per cent and could fund it even lower. The Constitution Is un impaired, the condition of the people Is improved. Nobody is injured, but the whole country is benefited. Yet In spite of all this, the Bryanite party is still doing business at the old stand, holding out the same terrors, making the same frantic appeals for support and confidence. It Is no wonder the Democratic leaders despair of success at the November election. If Mr. Bryan taught that "money is the master and man the slave," as a principle of belief rather than an ap peal to discontent, the misconception would be worth clearing up. Most peo ple know, however, that money, in stead of being the master, is merely a tool of man, and one of his most ef fective tools. Success In the use of money depends upon the skill with Which the tool Is employed, and many a man who Inherits quantities of it Is so clumsy In its use as to lose it all. Its accumulation by the skillful and dissipation by the unskillful are con tinuous processes, enabling the poor to ytise and the rich To fall. If our Bryan ites could get their Ideas of money cor rected, they would lose some of their ridiculous proposals. Money Is as much an implement of service as carts or railroad cars. We want no more carts and railroad cars than are required to do the carrying business of the coun try, and we want no more money than is necessary to do the exchange busi ness of the country. Man is the master and money is the slave: only some men are more skillful in its use than others. Mr. Bryan, for example, is reported to have acquired quite a deft power of ac cumulation within the past four years. It is to be hoped that he realizes that his virtue necessarily declines in exact ratio to the increase of his bank account. BR.YAXISX SELF-REVEALED. The new Bryanlsm is laid bare with commendable frankness In the North American Review for June, by no less an authority than Bryan himself. Here Is his Oregon campaign speech shorn of Illustrations and hardened Into crystallized doctrine. Here we have, as we had In the looser rhetoric of the hustings, the product of Bryanlsm reached through four years of evolu tion. Once a hodge-podge of discon nected tenets. Its parts are correlated, systematized, Integrated. A system has grown up, a central thought runs through all. On this backbone of doc trine everything else is hung, from it everything else radiates, to it every thing else comes back. Nobody can say of Brj'an this year that there is no method In his madness. He has a well considered, "consistent appeal, and he makes It with adroitness. What is the central thought of Bry anlsm in 1900? It is simply this, that "Money is the master and man the slave." In this magazine article Bryan treats of three things money, trusts and expansion; but he only uses them as different garments In which to deck out the skeleton of socialism. The trouble with the money, the trouble with the trusts, the trouble with ex pansion, is that the dollar is elevated above the man, and we must drag it down. From his first sentence to his last his appeal is to The Man That Has Not to follow him to the attack of The Man That Has. '"The Issue presented in the campaign of 1900 is the issue be tween plutocracy and democracy. All the questions under discussion will, in their last analysis, disclose the conflict between the dollar and the man." Equally striking is the demonstration in singleness of socialistic aim afforded by the things Mr. Brj'an Ignores. He af fixessilentbut Impressive emphaslsupon his one contention by very exclusion of every other consideration. There is not a. word in this article about ref ormation, of our monetary system by want is right and jnst, or regaln tion of the trusts by what is right and Jast, or treatment of the de pendencies by Trhat is right and just, or correction of tariff abuses by Trhat is right and jnst. He RESTS HIS CASE UPON THE ANTIPATHY OP THE MAX TO THE DOLLAR, THE AX TIPATHY Or THE PROPERTYLESS TO PROPERTY. Thus is raised aloft In the land the black standard of war on property. It is the spirit that menaces established order all over Europe today. It is the spirit that gave Paris its commune. Homestead its horrors, Chicago Its riots. It may not seem formidable to day, but formidable it may easily be come the next time that panic strikes us and hunger and want take the place of prosperity and employment. What will the answer of the Ameri can people be to this appeal of wanton menace to the savings of the living and dead? We do not attempt to say. We only say that there is no excuse now for Intelligent men to profess Inability to see the truth. The real character of the new Bryanlsm stands confessed in this utterance of its founder. A man has free choice as to his course. But he can no longer pretend that Bryan Is not the champion of socialism In Its worst form, and that he has deliber ately elected to discard every weapon but appeal to the basest of political passions. THE GERMAX MEAT BILL. The German meat bill, as passed by the Reichstag by a vote of 163 to 123, is a direct blow at the American packing Industry. If it Is approved by the Bundesrath, it will remain to be seen what measures, if any, can be taken by the United States to parry the thrust or retaliate, commercially speaking, for its infliction. It was .passed under the plea of regard for the public health a plea so specious that it deceives nobody as to the real Intent of the measure. Its absurdity is made plain by the statement that the Imperial court has for some years consumed over 1500 three- or four-pound cans of American ox tongues annually. By the terms of the bill fresh meat may come in whole, or, in certain cases, in half carcasses, and prepared meat only when It Is proved Innocuous. This latter restriction is held to be prohibi tory in the case of consignments of salt meat under four kilograms In weight. These restrictions are to remain In force until the close of the year 1903, when the whole matter will be either re-regulated by fresh legislation or continued on the present basis. The real significance of this action is wide of the claim made for It in the interpBt of the public health. American meats, especially canned corned beef and some of the pork products, are very popular with a large class of con sumers in Germany, and German meats have suffered. The contest in the Reichstag was between the landed no bility on the one hand and the repre sentatives of the laboring classes on the other, the government seeking a com promise between the two equally stub born elements, The estates are devot ed to a considerable extent to stock raising, and the agrarians find their revenues menaced by the enterprise of American packers. The element of self-defense thus enters Into the contest for them. The question Is one the scope of which is too wide to be de cided even for a few years In the in terests of one class. Hence it may be well supposed that It will be open in some form continuously for years. 1VOMEX IX THE HARVEST FIELDS. Last year, owing largely to the keen competition between mining and agri cultural Industries, Western and North western farmers had great difficulty in getting men to care for their crops, and the same problem seems likely to con front them again this Summer. Owing, It is said, to the threatened repetition of last year's experience In this, line, the applications of women at the em ployment agencies in Illinois and some other states of the Middle West for outdoor labor have lately been very numerous. The applicants are foreign ers, who have been accustomed In their native land to work In the fields, and who prefer such labor to the ordinary routine of cooking, dishwashing, milk ing, etc., which, when performed ac cording to American Ideas, are greatly multiplied during the harvest season. Peasant women perform much of the field labor In Austria-Hungary. Ger many and other European countries, and are stout-limbed and broad-chested, from which fact some persons dis posed to be cynical or to form conclu sions without due consideration of rela te e conditions and circumstances Infer that American women would be phys ically stronger were they to "work out of doors." It is not necessary to refer to the fallacies that attend this opinion. Suf fice it to say that American women, from climatic and other causes, are of a type distinctly different from the fe male yeomanry of Europe, Just as American homes are different from those of the European peasantry. A woman simply cannot become a field worker and be the keeper of an Ameri can home, with the infinite details which levy constant tribute upon time, strength and womanly device. House work does not go well with labor of any other kind, as many a fagged-out woman knows who has tried to make labor of the wage-earning class aux iliary to It. The hurried appointments and rank discomforts of a home aban doned during the wage-earning hours by its mistress day after day naturally follow the operations of an Industrial system that sends farmer women out Into the fields to labor. The spectacle of women planting, cultivating and harvesting the crops Is one decidedly repugnant to the average American, even If it Is not pursued to Its logical sequence in neglected, disordered, unat tractive homes. It is safe to say upon this score, without taking into account the fact that the physical strength of American women Is wholly unequal to the per formance of field labor, that If such work Is performed In the United States to any considerable extent by women, the workers will be of the more un womanly class of foreign immigrants. who are not home-makers, in the civil ized Interpretation of that term. While Americans may not. In the progress of events, be able to hold strictly to their Ideals of womanhood as Interpreted by woman in her protected state, It will (and may it) be long before the specta cle presented by women, tolling with bared arms and bent bodies In the har vest fields of the country, their babes asleep or crying in the fence corners and the older children running riot over the disordered houses called homes, is viewed without pity that is strongly akin to disgust. THE PRESIDENT'S STRUCTURAL WEAKNESS. President McKlnley's structural weakness was never more in evidence than In his nomination of John R. Ha zel, the representative of the Piatt ma chine in Buffalo, to the place of Fed eral Judge In the newly created dis trict of Western New York. Hazel, while a professional politician of un usual ability and personal force, is only nominally a lawyer, for he has ap peared only four times In the courts. Federal, state and local, In the last ten years. The Judgeship is In a newly constituted court, and the chief reason for Its establishment is the necessity of securing more attention to the many admiralty cases than is possible in the present condition of the Federal courts in the cities along the Great Lakes. But Mr. Hazel knows nothing of ad miralty law, and this fact was called to the President's attention. Hazel's appointment was strongly protested against by Secretary Root, one of the leaders of the bar of the Empire State, and by Attorney-General Griggs. The Bar Association of New York City by an almost unanimous vote has pro nounced Hazel to be unfit for the office of Judge of the United States District Court, on the ground that for the past ten years he has been so much en grossed in politics that "he has been lit tle known to either the courts or the bar In connection with the practice of the law"; and that "his deserts are po litical rather than legal, and his selec tion a reward of political service." The kind of Jobbing politician that Hazel represents Is set forth by his con nection with the sale to the Govern ment two years ago of a yacht owned by a Democratic politician. Ex-Congressman Mahany, of Buffalo, a fellow Republican, says the yacht cost the owner only 545,000, and through the in fluence of Hazel brought JS0.O00 from the Government, of Which Hazel told him (Mahany) that "his rake-off was ?5000, and he was sorry he did not ask for more, for he believed he could have got It." Mahany having reproached him with having used his political "pull" to sell a yacht to the Govern ment for an exorbitant price, Hazel laughed and said that "I took an ex treme view of the matter; that he was In business, etc." When the President was Informed, of the eminent unfitness of Hazel for a seat on the Federal Judiciary, he begged Senator Depew to withdraw his support of Hazel, to relieve him "of a great embarrassment," but, Mr. Depew declining to take that course, the Pres ident loaded the responsibility for the nomination upon the Senate, where it now rests. That is, the President, knowing all the facts, shirked his own duty and leaves Its discharge to the Senate. Grant, If you please, that the President had at first reason to think Hazel a fit man to be made a Judge; It may not fairly be denied that when he found out the nomination was unfit to be made, he should have demanded that Senators Piatt and Depew agree upon another candidate. This Is what Grant did more than once: what Har rison would surely have done. The President shirked his responsibility be cause of his structural weakness, which leads him, when choosing a Judge, to rely, not upon the Judgment of two eminent lawyers, Secretary Root and Attorney-General Griggs, of his Cabi net, but upon the Judgment of the Sen ators of the state, who are neither of them able lawyers, while both of them are machine politicians. He acted in accordance with his invariable practice of turning the, power of appointment over to the Senators, thus seeking to shirk responsibility for the shame of his qwn acts. This Is not the first time that the record of President McKInley compares very unfavorably with that of President Harrison In the matter of appointments to the Federal bench. No Important Judicial nomination by Pres ident Harrison was ever met by any protest from the bar of California, Ore gon or New York. If certain reports are to be taken at their face value, the Navy personnel bill that amalgamated the line and staff corps Is working so badly that Its prompt amendment In some respects Is" necessary to maintain the efficiency of the Navy. Under this measure Naval engineering as a distinct branch was virtually done away with, officers be ing required to take their turn on deck and in the engine-room. It is asserted that six different vessels have lately suffered serious damage to their ma chinery, the inference being that these accidents are largely attributable to the inexperience of officers intrusted with tho charge of the engines. It may be assumed that the machinery of the modern warship Is too costly, and Its possibilities of destruction too great, for It to be safely given to the care of men not thoroughly trained In Its man agement. Harmony between officers on shipboard is desirable, but it is manifest, if the foregoing assumption Is correct, that too heavy a price can be paid for it, The Army and Navy Register is good natured enougb to notice a criticism of a Seattle newspaper for certain statements it had made relatives to the Port Orchard drydock. They wore sub stantially that the Puget Sound sta tion was so far north that the men were not able to work much more than Ave hours out of the twenty-four, thus seriously delaying the completion of any Job. The Seattle critic complains bitterly that a semi-official Government Journal should be blind and dumb to the beauties and glories of the Puget Sound Winter climate, and punctures its bubble of "complacent ignorance" by the following poetic statement of the unpoetic facts: Not the first thin skin of Ice hu coated the gutters or popds. Not a fleck of rnov has whitened the ground. Gnus has grown grcea on all the lawns, and roses have bloomed in the open air In the gardens of the clt)', and are till In bloom. Quite beautiful and doubtless quite truthful, but not complete. There ought to have been added a tribute to Seattle's Inspiring ozone, when the tide Is out from the mudflats, and where every prospect pleases and only man is vile. But the Register continues serene under its great load of Inappreclatlon and official denseness, and offers the following as an offset to the Seattle poetry: The dockyard Is too far from the main sources of transportation, tho great base of supplies and the convenient market of labor. It would be a severe criticism to aay that the Puget Sound station is on the Pacific Coast what Port Royal is on the Atlantic, but Puget Sound will for many years be nothing more than a relief fltfttlon. Work which Is sent there -will be mostly for the sake of the es tablishment, although, of course, certain ves sels must necessarily be taken to Puget Sound to be docked. It Is not conveniently situated, and even the local defenders of the jilace must acknowledge that a pood deal of extra erpenJO Will be entailed on the Government If Naval work on the Paclflo were done exclusively at Puget Sound. The Investigations into the doings of the Ice trust In New York haye been productive of unpleasant reading for Tammany. It is charged, among other things, that Mayor Van Wyck ac quired 400,000 shares of stock, of a par value of ?40Q,000, on his mere promis sory note, with the understanding that payment was to be made exclusively from the dividends. The upright Mayor, it is intimated, rendered value received by vetoing certain bills adversely af fecHng the trust's hold on certain river docks. It appears that the stock list of the corporation Included the names of such patriots and friends of the poor as Richard Croker, John F. Carroll, Thomas F. Gllroy, and other leading lights of Tammany. The trust was In the habit of creating artificial ice fam ines by deliberately permitting vast stores In one Instance 350,000 acres to go to waste. No one who has seen or read something of the crowded tene ments of New York, and the absolute' necessity for use of great quantities of ice, can fail to understand the wicked inhumanity that Inspired a raise in prices of this commodity. The nickels and pennies were literally extorted from the suffering poor in order to fill the coffers of, an unfeeling corporation, whlchhad a stand-in with Tammany. And yet these same people go to the polls year after year and vote to con tinue this monstrosity In power. Colonel Charles A. Woodruff, Assist ant Commissary-General of Subsist ence, United States Army, has been or dered to the Philippines. Colonel Wood ruff served in the ranks of the Army of the Potomac until Cold Harbor, where he was severely wounded. He was graduated from West Point In 1871; was three times wounded at the battle of Big Hole Mquntaln, August 6, 1S77. Colonel Woodruff was Com missary of Subsistence' on the staff of the late General John Gibbon when he commanded the Department of the Co lumbia, from 1885 to 1890, and has many warm friends In Portland. Colonel Woodruff's most recent service has been as Commissary-General at Gover nor's Island, New York Harbor. He was a member of the famous court martial that convicted Captain O. M. Carter of enormous embezzlements of public money. Geographer Henry Gannett, of the United States Geological Survey, has prepared an interesting and accurate map of the State of Washington, show ing 'in colors the areas bearing mer chantable timber and thpse from which the timber . has been burned or cut. This map is to accompany the twenti eth annual report of the Geological Sur vey, and It will be a valuable addition to the record on a subject of great In terest and Importance. There Is no more need of a National Republican Convention than there was of a Republican County Convention in Multnomah. It is completely "set up" In advance by the bosses, who may as wll publish their edict without the trouble of holding a convention or of making any clumsy attempt to disguise the bosslsm. Democrntlc Guff on Trauts. New York Evening Post It was a happy circumstance that a spokesman for Tammany In Congress should have to deliver the regulation Tammany speech against trusts at the very time when Tammany officials are undergoing exposure of their share In the most odious combination from which New York City has ever suffered. The connection of Mayor Van Wyck with the Ice trust, if It shall be legally estab lished, may have consequences more im portant than anybody thought of at first. In that case section 1533 of the city char ter should plainly apply, which forbids any officer of the municipal corporation to become interested Jn any contract for tho sale pf any article to the city, and makes conviction of tho offense work a forfelturo of office. The attempted pass age by the Republicans In the House of a resolution for a Constitutional amend ment which nobody expects; ever to see adopted may not "put the Democrats In a hole," but Tammany has certainly done Its best to render it Impossible for any Dem ocratic stump-speakpr In this part of the country to say a word on the trust issue. Her Idea of a Trained. Kane. Washington Post A little artist friend of mine on F street has a very black cook named Lily, who Is a treasure. She has a wonderful way with a steak or an omelet, and she has a great many wise views on general subjects. Tho methods of modern hos pital nursing were the burden of her song one recent morning. "Laws, Miss Sophie," said she, "I ain't got no use for these yere trained nurses. They- Jest worries the patient an' don't do no good. -They got the foollshest ways Indeed they has, I've seen 'em. I know -how they does. They taker a thing thai looks like a goose quill and puts it in a sick pusson's mouth and what you think for?- Why. Jest to find out whether he's got a good or a bad temper. They takes his temper all the time, and the more sick he is the oftener they takes It. .My father! Jest as if It made a bit of differ ence when you'a goin' to die anyway what kind of a temper you has. It's too late then for a sick pusson to git another temper. No, Indeed, I certainly ain't sot no use for these yere trained nurses." THE SORROWS OF 'ATKINS OX. Facts 1h the Philippines Seem to Add to Their FoiffSRBcy. Chicago Times-Herald. The expression, "Only eo many lives were lost," never has an acceptable sound, and yet It is legitimate and necessary In reckoning the cost of war. When we pass judgment on the sacrifice our standard is not the standard of peace. We must com pare war with war, and In this way we are led to say that our fatalities In the Philippines were only 77 officers and 1774 men from July 31, 1S93, to May 24, 1900. The British killed have numbered as many in two or three of the South. African battles during a contest of seven months, while one of the great battles of our Ite bellion furnished a greater death list than years of this Filipino fighting could pro duce. If we must have war at all wo can not expect it on mora lenient terms. The figures are furnished by Secretary Root In response to a Senatorial inquiry, and they are accompanied by an effective answer to the charge that tho climate of tho Philippines is reducing our soldiers to a desperate condition mentally and physically. This charge has been made in an entirely reckless manner by Pettlgrew & Co., but it has some support from at least one medical officer, who reported that the men were becoming demoralized through tho depletion of their systems. Strength and memory were going to gether, the mind grew confused so that the victim was utterly unfit for service, and insanity and suicide were, of course, the natural outcome. But, after giving the number of the Insane soldiers and of those who have committed suicide. Secre tary Root says: Whereby It appears that tho number of la sane cases and the number of suicides have not been Increased by sen Ice In the Philippines, but remain substantially the same number per thousand as In the period of peace prior to the war with Spain. This is another sensation spoiled and a new chapter added to the1 sorrows of Atkinson. Honey Power and Toiling: Masses. New York Commercial Advertiser. "Plutocracy" Is the keynote of Bryan's North American Review article, written apparently before he took that self-denying resolution of silence till after the Na tional conventions. The Republican party is the .enemy of the toiling masses because It established the gold standard. This thesis occupies nearly half the article. It cannot be trusted to regulate the trusts because all the trust magnates are Repub licans, even those who were Democrats In the last campaign. Here Is the way he sets the sharp tooth of Ingratitude Into the Democratic plutocrats of New York and other Eastern states who are doing all they can to forward his ambition to run for the Presidency again: The Democratic party Is better able to under take this -work now that It was a few years ego, because all tho trust magnates hare left the party. The Republican party Is less able than eer before to make a successful war against the trusts, because It numbers among Its membership all the trust magnates it ever had. and in addition to them It has all the Democratic party formerly had. Then all that list of stockholders in tho American Ice Company which was "too long to read" yesterday are Republicans. It will interest Mr. Croker to learn how many of his lieutenants have gone over to the enemy. Finally, expansion is a plutocratic policy, because it promises ex tension of American trade and larger mar kets for the product of American Industry. Nothing but calamity such as' followed Bryan's defeat In 1S96 can follow such National Iniquity as this. Pledtre the Party. San Diego Union. The Nicaragua Canal Is a National en terprise, not a political Issue. It is advo cated by people of all parties. Neverthe less, the surest method of getting it built would be to pledge the Republican party In that behalf. The platform adopted at St. Louis four years ago merely says: "The Nicaragua Canal should be built, owned and operated by tho United States." This declaration was good enough so far as It went. Had it gone farther and ex plicitly promised action at the earliest pos sible moment, canal legislation would per haps now be an accomplished fact. Re publicans who advocate the building of the waterway should Insist that the conven tion about to meet at Philadelphia declare Itself In no uncertain tones In this matter. Suppose, for Instance, the platform should say: We realize that the Nicaragua Canal Is a necessity aljke for commerce and National de fense. The Republican party pledges Itself, If again placed In control of the Government, to enact, at the earliest possible day, the neces sary legislation for building such canal, which shall be controlled and operated by the United States. The Republican party keeps Its promises. It takes pride In going before the people with a record of pledges carried out to the letter. The Insertion of a plank, such as that,given above, in the platform of the convention about to be held at Philadel phia, would mean an end of juggling with this canal question. It would make the speedy construction of the waterway a certainty. One of Rennn's Criticisms. Ernest Renan, tho fomotA author of "The Life of Jesus." was a newspaper reporter at the Paris exposition of 1S35, and In his reports heaped ridicule upon it. He denounced expositions as the height of frivolity, tending toward de generacy, and blamed the women for them all. He said: There Is no doubt whatever that at the pres ent time feminine Instincts occupy more space In tho general physiognomy of the world than they did formerly. The world Is more ex clusively preoccupied Just now with frivolities that formerly were looked upon as the exclus ive property of women. Instead of asking men for great achievements, bold enterprises and heroic labors, the women ask them for riches only, to satisfy a vulsar taste. The general movement of the world has put Itself at the service of the Instincts of women, not those splendid Instincts through which they display, more clearly than men can, perhaps, the divine Ideal of our nature, but the lower Instincts which form the least noble portion of her vo cation. Ho-tv "Sot to Handle Strikes. St. "Paul Pioneer Press. The present strike has this discouraging feature: that it shows a vastly Increased readiness on the part of the strikers and their adherents to resort to the use of firearms and other Instruments of death. In 23 years the spirit of lawlessness has developed by degrees into a spirit of mur der. The St. Louis strike now counts, we believe, as the results of about a month's shooting, on both sides, 10 persons killed and about 70 wounded. This is without reckoning many persons hit by bullets, or otherwise injured, who have made their way to their homes without the knowl edge of the police. Had the militia been promptly called out when the first mobs appeared or had the police been so han dled at the outset as to convince the strik ers that violent interference with the run ning of the cars would be prevented at all hazards, order would almost certainly have been restored In a day or two. prob ably with very few, if any, killed and wounded. Thrifty Mr. Krager. New York Tribune. Among the mine owners are many Boers. Mr. Kruger himself Is one ot the most bloated of the "bloated millionaires." be ing one of the three or four largest In dividual owners of gold mine stocks. Hence the mines were not blown up. GOSSIP OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL WASHINGTON, June 5. One of the ed itors of the Washington Star, Mr. T. W. Noyes, recently made an extended tour through the Philippine Islands, and spent much time in Manila, and upon returning to this city, has contributed a number of articles to the general fund of valuablo Information about that aetropolls. In pre dicting the future of Manila, as It appeals to him, he brings out many interesting facts about Manila as it. is, and as It will be when improved by American brain and brawn. He points out that one of the great prob lems to be solved is that of drainage for Manila, as the town Itself lies practically at sea level, and it now without any gen eral sewerage system. The city has an ex ceptionally good water supply, taking It3 water from the San Mateo River, the pumping station being eight miles outside the walled city. Through the benevolenco of the founder of this system, the city la bountifully supplied with hydrants, and there is an abundance of free water on even hand. But few citizens are required to pay a water tax. Cleanliness is the first end sought by our officers, who are renovating Manila. The rough streets are to be replaced by smooth pavements, and as the rough surfaces die appear, modes of conveyance are expected to Improve. The old and broken-down horse-cars and shabby vehicles will grad ually give way to properly equipped cabs, carriages, rikishas, bicycles and even automobiles. But aside from convenience and comfort, clean streets are- necessary for sanitary reasons, and It is predicted that when they are once placed in good condition, much of the plague and dread diseases of the tropics will disappear, and Manila will, for a low-lying city, be a comparatively healthful place of, residence. While Manila -will always be warm, the. suburbs and surrounding country abound In hills and mountains, lakes and streams, where the climate is always cool and healthful, and many desirable locations for health resorts are to be found in the high er altitudes. A 20-mile ride in any direc tion from Manila will give any required temperature, and any desired mixture of sea and mountain air. The surrounding country also abounas in scenic beauty. The town of Majajay, with the waterfall of Botocan, 600 feet high and 0 feet wide, is not the least of these. To the south of the city Is tb smoking volcano of Taal, and scattered over tho Island of Luzon are numerous other volcanoes, some reaenlng the height of 10,000 feet. In Luzon alone there are supposed to be an abundance of desirable localities for sanitariums, the capabilities of which are yet unknown. One of the crying needs of Manila today is a modern, well-equipped and well man aged American Hotel. A strong National bank Is also essential If Americans are to reap the full benefits of trade with and in the islands. Alomr with these, are classed the Improvement in the schools, and the establishment, or rather the extension ot public libraries. 'Mr. Noyes says he paid especial atten tion to the matter of drunkenness among the natives of Manila and the American soldiers there, and says the reports ot this evil reaching America have been greatly exaggerated. He does not deny Its existence, but says there is much les's Intemperance among both natives and Americans than he had been led to sup pose. In fact, says he, there Is leas evi dence of drunkenness in Manila than in many of our own cities. "The American traveling In Asia 13 proud of our army in the Philippines." says he, "and gratified at the high re gard In which It ts almost universally held for courage, dash and .effective ness." Concluding, he remarks: "Manila will grow in w ealth, population and in commercial importance, not merely In proportion to the development of the Philippines, but corresponding to the In crease of American trade in the Pacific, and especially with China, for which, it will naturally be the distributing point. With the opening of an Isthmian canal un der American control, with the laying of necessary American cables in the Pacific, with the creation of an American mer chant marine and with the sincere appli cation of the principles of the merit sys tem to our foreign consular and diplo matic service, and especially to the deli cate task of governing the Philippines, the desired result of American supremacy in Pacific trade will be attained, and Ma nila will wrest the commercial scepter from the strongest and most prosperous of her competitors among Asiatic cities." Partinl to the Ladles. Shortly before the adjournment of Con gress, Senator McBride came to the front with a bill which provides that no women employed In the Government departments, outside of charwomen, shall receive less than ?0 a month. While there was no possibility' of the bill passing at this ses sion, It yet gave rise to considerable talk. As a matter of fact this- bill would affect very few of the regular clerks In the de partments, as most of them receive sal aries above this amount, and many of them double that amount. While the bill has not been discussed, it -is generally supposed that It is Intended to reach the vast number of temporary and unclassified employes of the Government. As a mat ter of fact, the vast majority of the clerks In the census bureau receive but $50 a month, and this bill, if passed, -would have raised the women clerks to $C0, a discrimination against the men do ing the same amount of work! and having the same hours. Then, too. In several of the departments at this time there are large number of unclassified clerks whose salaries are small, but who may be re tained on the rolls anywhere from one to three or four years. And as many ot them are receiving less than ?G0 a month, they also would benefit by such a law. The worst feature of the bill is that it is a discrimination against the male clerks. There Is no reason why a woman should receive a higher salary for a certain class of work than a man who performs exactly the same duties. There Is Htttle danger of the bill ever passing, and while it is a generous offer to the ladles, and stamps the Senator as their friend, it yet falls to meet with favor among the friends of the male clerks, to whom a salary" Is as much as to the ladles. The McBride 3IethoiI. From a Washington letter. The following letter has been sent to United States Senators In Washington: "Room 8. Postal Building, Washington, May 29. Mjy Dear Sir: For the Informa tion of the readers of the Statesman, pub lished at Salem. Or.. I respectfully request you to favor me with an expression of your views, either by letter or In an In terview, concerning the ability, standing, efficiency and Influence In the United States Senate of Hon. George W. McBride, senior Senator from Oregon, now a can didate for re-election. An early answer will be regarded as a favor by the States man and its many readers. "H." C. BURSLEY, "Correspondent." It Is probable that this letter will soon be followed by a number of Interviews from United States Senators, showing how the senior Senator from Oregon is the only man that can properly represent Oregon In the United States Senate. It Is well understood In Wa-shlngton that the man whose name is signed to fhls appeal to Senators Is representing one of Mc Bride'a appointees, who holds a position under the Government at a very good salary. A Dubloni Recommendation. A kind-hearted clergyman was lately compelled to dismiss a gardener who used to purloin his fruit and vegetables. For the sake of his wife and family he gave him a letter of recommendation, and this is how he worded It: "I hereby certify that A B. has been my gardener for over two years, and that during that time he got more out of my garden than any man I ever employed." NOTE AND COMMENT. Stand up and be counted. "" " la the rain holding off, as usual, for tha Fourth of July? k '- Let us be thankful that we have no American laureate. The Boxers have undertaken the pas' tltion of China with a -vengeance. Even as cold-blooded a rascal as Neely couldn't make, a stamp swindle stick. The number of applications on file for missions In China is not so large as It was a few days ago. Now doth Ihe winning candidate In vain attempt to please The many men who want a chance To be his deputies. We are beginning to forget that Dewey was a candidate, but we have not for gotten that he was a hero. The present House of Representative desires not only to make the laws of IU country, but also to sing Its songsi. Bryan still persists In his long silence. He Is growing to the size of a man who is greater than he who taketh a city. The situation in Missouri Is so serious as almost to make necessary the recall of the mules that have been sent to South Africa. The eagle has fully recovered from the cold with which he was suffering early In the Spring, and will scream at the old stand July 4. In Winter when tho chill winds blow. "Wo wish there wasn't any snow. But ere the Summer heat's begun "We wish there wasn't any sun. It is well known that In England the social dead line Is drawn on the retail trader, whose wife cannot enter royal presence, no matter how large the busi ness may be. Byron's birthplace, 24 Holies-street, Lon don, has been marked by a memorial bronze. It Is In bas-relief and Is a good representation of the noble poet In pro file, after what is described as a family portrait at Newstead Abbey. A citizen whoso llttlo boy was bitten by a huge mastiff dog some time ago to ne gotiating for the purchase of the big Hon connected with the "Quo Vadls?" Com pany. He saw this fine animal run his paw out of a cage a few days ago and rip the scalp off a big bulldog ea slickly and quickly as a man would peel a banana, and now he is determined to have that lion at any price. He thlnka that the Hon will grow fat on bulldogs, mastiffs and great fat St. Bernards, and his attention will be particularly directed against the nuisances of dogs which run alongside street cars and bark by the mile, to the delight of their owners- and the disgust of all the other passengers, whose tympana are cracked or burst with this head-tspllt-tlng noise. If the Hon is valued ot a very high rate, there are plenty who will chip In to help make up the price. In the Saturday Evening Post a good story Is told of how a few years ago a reckless, careless, but brilliant Scotch Journalist got a position on the London Dally Telegraph. For some escapades In Edinburgh he had lost his place on a paper there. He announced to his friends that he was going to London to seek his fortune. They celebrated bis departure for several nights running, so when the young man turned up in London, one morn ing he felt rather limp and discouraged. He had scarcely a penny in his pocket, bo, although he felt himself not at his best mentally, he went oft at once. to Fleet street and asked the editor of the Tele graph for work. "What can you dor asked the editor. And the applicant, feel ing he must make a tremendous bid, re plied, "Anything." "Anything?" "Yes. Anything." "Very1 well, I think probably you're the man we want. I will leave you alone for a half hour, when I will come back, and you must have an article ready." "On what?" asked the Scotchman. "On 'anything, " answered the editor. For five minutes the young man sat despairing. He didn't seem, to have even the ghost of an Idea in his head. Finally an impudent inspiration came. Around the rooms were files of the Telegraph. He pulled one out, about eight years old, and hurriedly turning the leaves came to an article by George Augustus Sola on Lon don streets. Seizing copy paper and a pen he raced the clock and jammed the file back into its place only a minute before the grave editor returned. This gentle man looked over the article which the Edinburgh man had "just dashed off" and said: "I think I can find a place for you, sir. You seem to catch our style." The Unbidden Gaestvu E. Wetherold In New England Magazine. I made a feast In my banquet hall; The guests were choice and few; There was Success with, his splendid eyes. And Health with his ruddy hue; And thero was Joy with her radiant cmlle, And Love with her lily breast; And I said, we five will eat and drink There shall be no other guest. I set flvo plates upon the board. With fairest fruits o'erspread; When suddenly a sixth appeared. Heaped high with bitter bread. I set five glasses on the board. And poured In. them the wlno; - When suddenly a sixth appeared. Filled full of tears and brine. I placed Ave wreaths upon the board, . Rose-tinted like Juno morns; When suddenly a sixth appeared, Enwrought with naked thorns. Then gay we sat in tha banquet ball, With merry laugh and Jest; While at my side unsmiling stood The uninvited guest. Oh, lightly, lightly flowed the talk. And laughter rang again; Tet louder sounded in my heart The speechfulnesa of Pain. The Love-Stricfcetx Lobster. Baltimore American. Tho Lobster and the Lady-crab Were slating side by side. The Lobster asked the Lady-crab . If she would be his bride. , If she would be his bonny bride So happy they -would be, A-honeymoonlng all around ' Tho ever-sighing sea. The Lady-crab, she murmured soft: ' "It's sudden, don't you know. And, though I hate to cause you pain. My answer must be 'Xo.' My answer must be "No,' " she said, "Because you backward go. Instead of walking gracefully In side steps. Yes. it's 'No " The Lobster fairly boiled -vlth rage, When he heard -what she said. In fact, he boiled to such extent His color turned to red. Ho sneered and cried: "Tour sldewlsc gait Is not so swell as mine. So here my pathway must diverge. Right-angled unto thine." L'EXVOL Oh. Reader, do not think this Is A. fable of the heart. 'Twas not the first time Cupid pierce? A Lobster with his dart. u