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The law Is not enforced at St. Douls
because the Governor and authorities
of the state of Missouri are devoted
Bryanites, and expect to find political
strength In coddling rioters and de
stroyers of property. If peace -and or
der are to be preserved and person and
property protected in Missouri, the
state might as well be given over to
tha "imperialists" at once.
Some of the Democratic oracles of
the Eastern states think the Bepubli
cans did not win much of a victory in
Oregon. The registered vote of the
state was a little in excess of 100,000;
j "the vote cast was about 84,000, and the
Republican, plurality on members of
"Congress was Just about 12,000, . .That
1s a. nluralltv of 1000 for every 7000
Totes. "What would our bf ethren call
"much of a victory"? As compared
with the vote of 1896, when the Republi
cans had but 2000 plurality in Oregon,
Bryan would be beaten on the vote of
the United States by S.600,000. while it
may not be so big as that in fact, it
will be big enough to end Bryan and
Bryanlsm.
Dr. Andrew C Smith, State Senator
elect, says he wants to pass through the
legislature an act to forbid all persons
who are not competent or qualified to
practice medicine and surgery. That
would be excellent. If there were any
sure way of finding out by legal inqui
sition who are competent and qualified.
Boss Bryan is trying to hold himself
down till after the Kansas City Con
vention. He believes he has the game
well set up for the nomination; and no
doubt he has. He was very active,
however, so long as it appeared that
Dewey might 'be in his way. But his
recent speeches certainly have not
helped his cause, further than the help
they may render him in getting the
domination again. Beyond question he
lost ground heavily by his recent
speechmaklng tour of the Pacific states.
But he voices as no other man can, or
at least does, the muddled mental con
dition of the Democracy in its present
low estate, intellectually the lowest in
its history. Its cynical leaders of the
Croker stamp believe that the people
acquiesce In their belief that the end of
party organization is to give the pa
tronage to the organizers. Not being
honest themselves, these leaders can
not realize that the vast majority of
the people are honest and wish well to
their country, even when they follow
methods that events demonstrate to be
mistakes. The leaders believe that
charlatan finance that does not deceive
them will deceive the masses and will
satisfy the longing so many have to get
something for nothing. Mr. Bryan Is
the most conspicuous if not the ablest
expounder of a scheme of finance which
appeals to a great delusion, which,
however, is now happily much less
prevalent than formerly.
The Mississippi mob that lynched the
two negroes took no chances. The vic
tims may not have been guilty? "but
that was immaterial. A handsomely
framed resolution of regrets will be
ample compensation for the families of
the dead "niggers."
The Klondike clean-up for this year
is said to be ?18,lfe)00. Last year It
was estimated at $12,000,000 to $15,000.
000, and the year before at $6,000,000 to
$8,000,000. Doubtless these large figures
are much exaggerated, but, whatever
the facts, it is not -to be gainsaid that
the production is heavyenough to swell
materially the world's gold supply. It
is doubtless a. fact, too, that while the
population of Dawson and its adjacent
creeks Is decreasing, the gold output is
growing larger year by year. The Klon
dike city has now not more than 5000
-people, where at the height of the boom
there were more than 15,000. This was
the natural and Inevitable result. It Is
stated that 52S0 men were employed on
560 claims last "Winter, and the pros
pects are that the numbers will grow
smaller. The reason is that scientific
methods of mining, with machinery as
an agent, have taken the place of the
pick and the shoveL The steam thawer
has replaced the old wood fire; the
steam holster the windlass operated by
sweat power. when the placers are
worked out, the surviving Klondikers
will have to move on, unless quartz is
meanwhile found. The Nome placers
, are even a greater puzzle than the Yu
kon fields originally were. Except for
the beaches, the prospects appear to be
that the deposits are confined to Nome,
Snake and one or twp other streams.
fhe tundra may and it may not yield
profitably. Last year there came from
Cape Nome from S2.COO.000 to $3,000,000.
jThe beach will not last forever, and
will probably be exhausted this year.
It is more than doubtful If any exten
sive operations can be successfully ton
ducted on the adjacent ocean bottom.
But we shall know more about It all
this Fall. So will the 30,000 or 40,000
;old-mad excursionists who have
Frushed pell-mell into the north.
When a foolish young woman leaves
ler happy home and elopes with a hot-
leaded young man, the affair Is looked
ipon as highly romantic, and the rash
reng people are In for much public ap
plause. The parents are sure to be rep
eated for their contumacy, and have
take the general censure as best they
Nine times out of ten maybe
times out of ten their course is in-
spired by a wise and considerate judg
ment, and an anxious desire for the
welfare of their daughter. Parents who
have daughters expect (hem in due time
to marry; and they want them to marry
well. They are not going to object
w hen the man and the hour come; they
are quite likely to do it before, as they
should. The Idaho young woman who
ran away with a too-ardent lover Is 19
years old. She wasn't old enough to
marry without her parents' consent,
but she was old enough to know better.
COSTIV SUPERFLUITIES.
The superfluous character of the
Philadelphia convention is a topic
worthy the serious attention of all our
deep-browed arithmeticians and high
souled reformers. Mr. Hanna's Na
tional function could be discharged so
much more cheaply and easily. Let
him simply check off the contesting
delegations that are to be thrown out,
declare McKlnley renominated, signify
the choice of the party for Vice-President,
promulgate a platform, and the
thing is done. Instead of this simple
and Inexpensive process, what do we
behold? Some thousands of persons,
more or less usefully employed and put
ting by so much a month for the rainy
day, are preparing for descent upon the
staid and perspiring City of Philadel
phia. They will jar the quiet of that
respectable place, they will make a
great deal of noise, overheat their blood
and lower the per capita in all other
places. It is a waste of money and
many other things not to be lightly re
garded. Yet there is. evidently and un
fortunately, no chance of averting It.
The fiction of popular government must
be kept up.
The fact is that McKlnley's nomina
tion goes through by default because
nobody has known exactly what to do
to prevent it. The feeling among Ore
gon Republicans is that the thing is all
cut and dried. They wish that their
delegates could do something to reflect
the convictions of this state, but they
expect no such opportunity to arise,
and they look forward resignedly to
giving the ticket a perfunctory support
this Fall. The brains of the party
throughout the country have long re
alized the weakness of Mr. McKlnley as
a statesman, but no opening for con
certed action has been disclosed. It
has been necessary, also, to reckon
with the popular impression that Mc
Klnley is a synonym for the conduct
and the results of the war with Spain,
though a more egregious misapprehen
sion never existed. Through sheer
force of circumstances McKlnley has
become the exponent of principles and
policies to which his contributions have
been feeble opposition at first and lag
gard compliance afterward. He op
posed the war, he opposed annexation
of the Philippines, he prevented the
Army from possessing itself of Luzon
before Insurrection grew formidable.
Yet after all that has been done had
forced Itself upon him through events
and through public sentiment, he has
come boldly to the front and shouted
"Victory!" like the militia officers in
"The Milk white Flag." In the battle
for the gold standard and expansion,
our amiable and picturesque President
is, on a large scale, a true Colonel of
the Ransom Guards.
Mr. Bryan appears to better advan
tage. He has taken his ground, cut out
his own Issues and defended himself
against all comers. Sullivan never
maintained the heavy-weight cham
pionship with more bravery and open
house welcome to all comers than
Bryan has shown in his, retention of
the Candidate Belt. There is no Hanna
in his lexicon. He Is the whole thing,
and everybody who had doubts on the
subject, whether Gorman In Maryland,
Harrison In Chicago, Croker and Hill
in New York, or McLean In Ohio, has
undergone a speedy restoration to the
Bryanlte orthodoxy. This makes the
Kansas City affair an economic and
nervous waste equally with the Phila
delphia event, and the more reprehen
sible by reason of the more Intense heat
at the Missouri city and the increased
cost to the majority of the participants.
Of the two affairs, therefore, the Kan
sas City function is the more Irrele
vant and Inexcusable, and should for
feit from Bryan the support of every
thinker who revels in statistical calcu
lations and every reformer who seri
ously seeks to Impress his own saintlike
character upon the body politic. It is
bad enough to be called to Philadelphia
to go through meaningless motions al
ready foreknown and predestinated.
But to be dragged to Kansas City in
July to perform violent exertions as
Bryan pulls the string this is an in
dignity to be resented in November by
even' man who loves comfort and de
corum. .
"OLD OREGON" AND ITS ICIXG.
Eva Emery Dye, of Oregon City, has
given us in her book, "McLoughlin and
Old Oregon," a chronicle that supplies
many a missing link between history
and tradition, weaving throughout in
cidents touched and colored by fancy,
of that near and yet far-away time in
which "our yet young state was
younger yet." Fifty years, sixty years,
seventy-five years what are these in
the chronicles of the ages? Yet within
this relatively brief space of lime a
miracle has been wrought in the Pacific
Northwest the ever-recurring miracle
of growth. It Is difficult to realize the
scope of this miracle, so gradually has
it been unfolded and so naturally. Yet,
spanning, with the aid of this chroni
cle presented by Mrs. Dye, the dim
vistas that already stretch between the
"Old Oregon" and the New," we find
ourselves literally transported in fancy
backward from a state of civilization
to that of savagery; from the peaceful
fields of agriculture to the hunter's wild
domain; from the fixed homes of civili
zation to the moving tents of wander
ing tribes; the -quietude of peace and
the bounty of plenty to the unrest of
the pioneer era, and its scant provision
for comfort.
The time of which Mrs. Dye writes is
at once eloquent with romance and
instinct with reality. The incidents
which she has woven together or,
more properly speaking, arranged with
regard to their bearing upon each other
and upon events strictly historical can
scarcely be of less interest to Orego
nlans of the present day than to the
relatively few who are honored by the
name of "pioneer." In the chronicle of
the regal though solitary state in which
Dr. McLoughlin lived at, old Fort Van
couver; of his supremacy in control of
the business of the Hudson's Bay Com
pany; of his power over the Indians
and the finality of his decisions upon all
matters which, as chief factor of his
company, came before him for adjudi
cation, is proot of his right to the title
"King of the Columbia,"
Loyal to the Interests of the great
corporation that placed and held him at
the head of a large and enormously lu
crative business, the profits of which
were drawn from the unbroken wilder
ness. Dr. McLoughlin was still a hu
mane and generous friend to the invad
ing settlers who encroached in yearly
increasing numbers upon his domain.
A friend to immigrants, he was, in the
interests of his company, an enemy to
Immigration. More sagacious than Dr.
Whitman In hl estimate of the Indian
nature, he saw the necessity of mak
ing these people fear him, and his long
administration of his company's affairs
among them is unstained by a single
act of double dealing or cruelty. As a
representative of "one-man power," a
rule so distinctly un-American that it
could not long be maintained upon
American soil, the venerable and ven
erated "King .of the Columbia" was in
his day a striking figure that has left
a strong impress upon the history of
Oregon and quaintly embellished its
traditions.
Dignified, courtly, dominating, per
haps arrogant, it was Inevitable that he
should arouse antagonisms. But cal
umny, through the receding years, the
gentle majesty of his face, framed In
snowy hair, looks down, disarming crit
icism, while the record of his kindly
deeds and of his unswerving devotion
to duty under peculiarly trying circum
stances, as read in the light of an un
derstanding that can only come with
years, exalts the memory of Dr. John
McLoughlin as a brave. Just and loyal
man. Mrs. Dye has brought out these
traits In his character through the re
cital of well-authenticated tales of his
life and rule on the Columbia, paying
incidentally well-deserved tribute to the
missionary and the pioneer spirit that
invaded and unwittingly contested with
him. the occupancy and ultimately the
ownership of the wide and beautiful
domain "where rolls the Oregon." Her
contribution to the literature bearing
upon a romantic era in our history is
one in which fact and fancy blend
pleasantly, and her book no doubt will
be widely Tead.
A MASTER OP THE ART OP "WAR.
The censorship which was enforced
during Lord Roberts great advance
from Bloemfonteln to Pretoria left the
public in the dark as to the military
details of this great campaign, and we
are only now coming Into possession of
the full story of the flanking opera
tion by which victors' wras gained with
out bloodshed and the Boer retreat
forced from the carefully Intrenched
approaches to Kroonstad and along the
Rhenoster River. Forty days ago Lord
Roberts' base was at Bloemfonteln, but
today he Is at Pretoria, his objective
He has marched 260 miles, has moved
an army of over 50,000 men, has re
lieved Mafeklng, and has occupied Pre
toria without fighting a single general
action or losing as many men as were
wasted In any one of the six Important
engagements fought to no purpose by
Methuen and Buller. He succeeded
splendidly, first because he believed
with "Wellington that the fundamental
necessity of successful warfare Is a
well-organized and mobile army trans
port. He reorganized through Lord
Kitchener the entire quartermaster and
commissariat service of his army, and
made It so mobile that It successfully
kept his army In food during Its march
of over 200 miles on both sides of the
railroad.
The second condition of rapid success
was determined by Lord Roberts when
he organized at Bloemfonteln a force of
11,000 mounted Infantry, with batteries
of horse artillery attached. This force
of mounted infantry, under "Major-General
Ian Hamilton, has been the effect
ive factor of Lord Roberts great ad
vance, which began on May 3 from
Brandfort. He had under his main
P command a force of about 25,000 men.
His left flank was protected by a bri
gade under General Methuen, at
Boshof, The Boer main force was at
Kroonstad, but it had extended its line
so that it was covering the entire rail
road down to the Vet River, a force of
20,000 men disposed along a front of
twenty miles. There were Free State
Boers at Flcksburg and Senekal, 3000
before Mafeklng, and probably 10,000
before Buller, in Natal. Lord Roberts,
under these circumstances, began his
advance. His main force outnumbered
the enemy three to one. He had 10,000
mounted Infantry on his right, and a
cavalry division of 11,000 under General
French operating principally on his left.
The organization and tactics of Lord
Roberts' army rocall those employed by
General Sheridan In "his famous Shen
andoah Valley campaign of Septem
ber and October, 1864, when Sheridan
moved against Early with 25,000 Infan
try and 12,000 mounted men, the mount
ed men being divided and used for
flanking operations on the right and
left of the armv, exactly as Roberts
has done In his campaign.
General Hamilton moved rapidly
north, occupied Winburg, pushed for
ward so as to threaten Bethlehem,
while General French's cavalry had
made a rapid movement and seized
Winburg Station, on the railroad oppo
site Winburg. While the Boer forces
were thus threatened on both flanks,
Roberts rapidly marched his main
force of Infantry up the railroad, the
Boers retreated to Kroonstad, but, find
ing their two lines of retreat threat
ened by General Hamilton's mounted
men moving up on the right and Gen
eral French's cavalry moving up on the
left, they abandoned Kroonstad and
retreated to Johannesburg. Lord Rob
erts stopped at Kroonstad only long
enough to post two strong brigades to
protect his communications and his
right rear from attack, and the last
week of May resumed his advance.
General French's cavalry and General
Hamilton's mounted Infantry were both
brought forward to the left of the rail
road line, pushed forward on Johannes
burg, and, operating to the east, forced
a retreat, while Lord Roberts' main
body seized Germlston and then Johan
nesburg, and by the same tactics ob
tained occupation of Pretoria.
A man of any military experience and
intelligence will note with admiration
that throughout this whole operation
Lord Roberts risked no action, made no
assault, has not allowed himself to be
diverted from his main purpose. He
has always been able through hlB mo
bile infantry force promptly to support
his mounted force moving against the
enemy's communications, and thus al
ways enforce a retreat without engag
ing in battle. With these tactics In the
first ten days of May he dislodged the
Boers from Kroonstad, and in the next
ten days he made the strongly in
trenched line oil the Rhenoster River
untenable, and In the last ten days "has
closed around and captured Johannes
burg and Pretoria. He has thus proved
himself the ablest living master of the
art of war. To command an army of
50,000 men with success In war is the
severest test that a man can be sub
jected to in the practical affairs of life,
for it requires brains of a very rare
quality. The single problem of moving
a large army with no enemy in reach
Heeds for its. solution a brain equal to
that of a great railroad, executive.
Grant, when he crossed the Rapldan,
had to bridge and cross an unfordable
river with an army of 100,000 men, 20,
000 horses, 220 cannon and 4000 army
wagons, and do it promptly enough to
gain ground enough on the other side
from which safely to deliver battle. A
General, like Lord Roberts, who can do
this, has a brain of high, superior order,
even if his battle the next day is not a
victory.
Discussing the "remarkable propa
ganda work being done by the Prohibi
tion party in Oregon," our old friend,
the New Voice, reaches the most sapi
ent conclusion that the failure of pro'
hlbltlon in Maine, "so far as it has any
existence at all, arises, grows out of,
is caused by, has its existence In, the
perjury. and malfeasance of Republi
can officials in that state." Here is the
core of the trouble with any legislative
act of prohibition. The officials will
not enforce it, and they could not if
they would. There is no point in the
fact that in Maine they are Republi
can officials, if they are. They are offi
cers chosen from the average run of
citizens And their politics has little or
nothing to do with their character or
their efficiency. It Is nonsense to say
that a Policeman or a Constable or a
Justice df the Peace chosen from the
Prohibition party is certain to be hon
est, to know his duty, and to do It. A
Prohibitionist, as such, is no better
than anybody else; or. If he is more
honest, he is less practical. That is the
reason he is a Prohibitionist.
The trolley-car collision that occurred
in the suburbs of Providence, R. L,
Sunday, was one of those distinctly
preventable disasters which could only
result from reckless disobedience of
schedule orders. That any car con
ductor would take the risk Involved In
the attempt to make another switch In
advance of a car coming toward him by
rapid running around curves and
through deep cuts, passes the compre
hension of sane people. It has often
been said that rapid transit has thrown
Intemperate men out of the ranks of
this particular Industry. While true In
a general sense, a disaster by which
two densely packed trolley-cars were
telescoped through flagrant disregard
of the time schedule must mean that
there was an exception in this instance
to a well-established rule briefly stat
ed, that the conductor was drunk.
Whatever the cause, the effects were
appalling, and it is not too much to
hope that the responsible-Irresponsible
who caused the collision will be prop
erly punished.
Statistics of the extent and resources
of Oregon forests now being compiled
by A. J. Johnson, forestry agent of the
United States Geological Survey, will
be of much more than local Interest.
Numerous agents of Western lumber
companies have visited the state within
the past few years to spy out the tim
ber, and many large tracts have been
secured at less than their present value,
taken In connection with the Increasing
lumber demand. Returns to these com
panies on the investment will be Isxge,
and yet larger, as the supply continues
to diminish in Wisconsin and other
lumber.states of the Middle Northwest.
Information upon our- forest area and
possibilities of lumber output should
be valuable as furnishing accurate data
by which prices of timber on the basis
of supply and demand could be gauged.
The aggregate in area, quality and va
riety will, however, no doubt be so
enormous as to make economy In sell
ing or cutting a matter for future con
sideration rather than present concern.
The New York Democracy denounced
the trusts. Just the same. But they did
not mean nice, genteel, cool, Summer
trusts, like the ice trust. Nor yet polit
ical trusts, like the Tammany trust;
nor even the great Bryan trust. What
they did mean Is those wicked trusts
that resist Democratic attempts to
break through to the Inside.
Oom Paul on the dead run before the
advancing British does not make the
noble and picturesque figure the ad
mirers of the sturdy old hero might
wish. The British those who were un
captured did not get close enough to
find out whether the rear view of that
plug hat was the same as the front.
Ex-Congres3man W. D. Bynum Is a
Gold Democrat. He was named by the
President as Democratic member of the
New York Board of Customs Apprais
ers. The Senate rejected the nomina
tion. Thus we have an official declara
tion that a Gold Democrat Is not a
Democrat.
Portland theater audiences are neither
more polite nor less polite than audi
ences elsewhere. How would it do for
hypercritical critics who are not satis
fled with their manners to punish the
theatrical management by staying
away?
Mr. Bryan is quoted as saying the
voters of Oregon did not "understand
the Issues." He Is most cordially in
vited to come out again this Fall and
use his wonderful powers to convince
them of the error of their ways.
Mr. Clark's popularity In Butte has
not diminished In the course of events.
Butte knows a great and noble figure
when it sees him. The Butte estimate
of the proper figure is about $50,000,000.
Mr. McLean's absence from Kansas
City will enable him to avoid awk
ward questions as to the genesis and
present whereabouts of the late Dewey
boom.
.It may take one nation to make a.
war, but It takes two to end it, as the
British have found.
Are You Sure About This, Neighbor?
New York Journal of Commerce.
The election in Oregon has National In
terest so far as ex-Senator Mitchell was
concerned In it. A few years ago Mr.
Mitchell carried on a campaign for the
election of members of the Legislature,
who would re-elect him to the Senate, on
a platform of blmetalism, with a strong
leaning toward free silver coinage. He
was not successful. Some of the Populist
candidates were elected, and the con
fusion in the Legislature was so great
that that body never organized, and Mr.
Mitchell was not re-elected. Mr. Corbett
was appointed by. the Governor, but cot
seated, and the state was short lta repre
sentation in the Senate. A couple of years
later the RepubHcanB adopted a frank
sound-money platform, and carried the
state by a comfortable majority, proving
that even as e matter of political expedi
ency cheap money was unprofitable In
Oregon. Now Mr. Mitchell has been
carrying on another campaign, with the
Idea of getting back to the Senate- He
was working against the regular party
organization, and hao been decisively
beaten. Mr. Mitchell's Influence having
been exerted against sound money for
years, his second defeat will be accepted
in the greater part of the country with
out dissatisfaction.
THE COEUH. D'ALEXE DEMAGOGY.
Hew It Came; to aesht, and tie
Reason "Why.
"Washington telegram to Brooklyn Eagle, Dem.
It was a rather remarkable coinci
dence that the majority and minority re
ports of the House committee on military
affairs on Coeur d'Alene riots should have
been presented to the House on the same
day on which the Idaho State Democratic
Convention met. For Ave months that
committee by instigation of Lentz, or
Ohio, has wrestled with this case, hear
ing evidence some of the time and ora
tory moat of the time, and attempting
to settle the matter according to parti
san standpoints. No real attempt to get
at the facts. Independently of their bear
ing on National politics, was made by the
committee. Lentz and his associates de
clared that the ordering out of soldiers
at Wardner was a scheme of the million
arre mineowners, aided by the Republi
can plutocrats, to massacre the people.
But there was a big flaw In Lentzs In
dictment. Governor Steunenberg, of Ida
ho, Is a Democrat, a Bryan man, in
dorsed by the Populists. How In the
world to hit him without hitting his party
must have bothered Lentz. His only hope
was that when he got the Governor and
his other state officers on the stand they
would lay the blame on the soldiers. Gen
eral Merrlam and, lastly and chiefly, the
President. But Steunenberg did no such
thing. Ho calmly shouldered the whole re
sponsibility, and since he did so Lentz's
case has collapsed. And on the day on
which Lentz brought in hl3 report, scor
ing fie President and the Governor, the
Idaho Democrats stool soHdJy by Steunen
berg except In the county where rioters
held eway. Thus the Republicans will
get all tho political capital which this
case affords to any party. It will be
noticed that Mr. Bryan has carefully
avoided Idaho, and never refers to this
case in his speeches. This Is because
Senator Teller, who owns one of the
threatened mines, and ex-Senator Fred
Dubois, who also has Interests there,
warned him that the Issue was "loaded"
end to let it alone.
Cost of Sending Troops to the Phil
ippines. A complete statement of the coat of the
transportation of troops to and from the
Philippines since May 1, 1SSS, has been
prepared by the transportation bureau of
the Quartermaster-Generars Department
of the Army. The statement makes a
comparison between the cost of the trans
port service and the cost of transporting
troops and supplies by commercial steam
ers. Colonel Bird, chief of the transporta
tion division, explains In the report that
It Is much cheaper to transport by Gov
ernment steamers, and gives figures show
ing a remarkable difference In the cost
of such service. The" statement says:
The records show that there has been expend
ed for tho transportation to and from the Phil
ippine Islands of troops, recruits and civilians
on military business and such supplies and
equipments as these troops carried with them,
by rail to ports of embarkation. 12,173.847 53:
this for cash service only, all land-giant and
bond-aided railroad charges being deducted.
There has been expended In cosh from May 1,
189S, to date, for railroad transportation, on
public animals and freight or supplies of all
kinds shipped for Army use, the sum of $35b,
840 10.
The expenditures Incurred for the transporta.
tlon by sea of the officers, men, animals and
supplies to the Philippine Islands and from
those Islands to the United States, since May
1, 160S, have been as follows:
At San Francisco $U.1H.320 24
At Seattle l.lSU.OJ 00
At Portland OtfcvKM 00
Total $12,M1.D00 24
At New York ? 2.75.iaI 21
Grand total S15.C37.00C 15
There has been paid out. for passage through
the Suez Canal of United States transports with
troops on account of tolls, fares, etc, the sum
of 5S1.001 18.
Increase of Farm Tenancy.
New York Journal of Commerce.
Of course Mr. Bryan Is not correct on
any economic question, but one mistake
that he makes In his article In the North
American Review Is worth correcting be
cause It Is plausible, and It Is often made.
In illustrating the devastating effects of
the gold standard, he says "home-owning
decreased and tenancy Increased among
the consumers." Tenancy appears from
the last two censuses to be decidedly on
the Increase in this country, but It is not
the result of growing poverty -among the
farmers; it Is tho result of the Increasing
price of land, one of the common roarK
of prosperity. Tenancy does not grow by
the change of the same individual from
an owner Into a tenant: the farmer does
not sell his farm and then hire It. Ten
ancy Increases because farm land be
comes too expensive for a man of small
capital to buy, or because the owner can
get rent for It and live In town on the
rent without working. In the 'West vast
numbers of farmers acquired land many
years ago for little or nothing from the
Government and the land-grant railroads.
They were owners because the land was
cheap. They are now getting old and re
tiring from active work, and their farms
are worth $20 or $40 an acre, and there
being no more cheap lands the young men
or Immigrants who are looking for farms
hire these farms instead of buying. Thus
the owning farmer Is replaced by the
tenant farmer because the former has ac
quired a competence, not because he has
become poor. This process has been go
ing on so extensively In Nebraska that
Mr. Bryan's unconsciousness of It shows
how poor air observer he Is.
Beethoven Wns Absorbed.
Cleveland Leader.
There Is still living In Vienna an old
lady by name Frau Grebner In her 81st
year, who sang In the chorus at the first
performance of Beethoven's "Choral
Symphony." The great occasion has sunk
deep In her memory, and she tells how
the master musician came and stood
among the performers In the hope that
some of the melody emanating from nis
brain might rench his ears. He followed
closely with a full score, but on the cessa
tion of tho music he still continued to turn
the leaves till a friend tapped him on the
shoulder and pointed his attention to the
applauding audience.
Oom Paul's Ride.
Baltimore American.
Up from the south at the break of day.
Bringing Pretoria fresh dismay.
A burgher In fright from the kopjes trekked.
And jelled: "Dey are coming! Look oudt! I
egspect
Ve are beated," or words to that frightened
effect.
Then Kruger called Engineer Hans Vlnder-
pane.
And said: "Put der saddle on my special
train."
And louder still, from the peaks and knobs
Thundered the cannon of fierce "Little Bobs,"
While Buller. ahead of his brave set of men.
Rushed on till he came to a, rler, and then
He crossed It, and crossed it, and crossed It
again.
But Kruger still thought of the war at his
back.
As swiftly his train trekked Its way o'er the
track.
For there Is a road from Pretorl-a,
A wonderful road for a quick getaway.
And thus, when they whistled for Waterboval,
For joy whistled also the whiskered Oom Paul,
Hoping the engine would not chance to stall.
For Roberts was shooting and, shouting "Hoo
ray." But Kruger was quite a good distance away.
At last the train stopped, with a Jolt and a
Jar.
The engineer muttered. "Dey gaa't shoodt dl3
far."
And Oom Paul asserted: "Tou aee,I was
rlghdt.
Hnmanlty staggers In Enklandt tonight.
For efferybody In Londton lss tlghdt."
And that is the tale of the ride of Oom Paul
The day that he sprinted past Waterboval.
HOT SHOT AT THE ICE TRUST.
The exposures of the Ice trust in New
York aro of consequence to the National
Democracy. The American Ice Company,
which controls the supply of many East
ern cities, sought special favors and priv
ileges from leading New York officials,
and, when it obtained them, deliberately
set out to limit production, stiftle com
petition and advance the price 100 per cent
The cold-blooded methods of the great
corporation caused an Investigation by the
New York Times, and it made the start
ling discovery that among Its shareholders
were Mayor Van Wyck, Augustus Van
Wyck, his brother; Richard Croker, John
F. Carroll, the Tammany leader: Corpo
ration Counsel Whalen, several Dock Com
missioners and a long list of public offi
cials. The disclosures made a great sen
sation, and led to Judicial proceedings
against the Ice trust. The Mayor Is
threatened with impeachment, and tho
City Controller has formally moved to
cancel a valuable contract the Ice trust
obtained from the dock department and
to supply various city departments.
Last Saturday Mayor Van Wyck waa
haled Into court to explain his con
nection with a concern holding a contract
with the city. Tho statutes formally
forbld anv officer of the corporation of
New York City from becoming directly or
indirectly Interested In the performance
of any contract or business, or the sale of
any article for which payment Is to bo
made from the city treasury. The
Mayor's testimony was practical confes
sion. Ho admitted that he had dealt large
ly In Ice stocks, and had borrowed much
money for that purpose from the Garfield
National Bank, whose officers are trust
officers. But he claimed to know nothing
of the business of the corporation, and
was surorlsed to learn that It had a
monopoly of the ice business of the city.
He never knew that It had any dock
leases. Tho Mayor's dlslngenuousness
would seem to be something appalling
when tho fact Is recalled that he vetoed
an act aimed at the dock privileges of
the trust. It was not known when he be
came Mayor that he was possessed of
any large resources, and yet he professes
to bo able to engage In a trancaotlon In
volving something like $500,000 without In
quiry Into the business of the company
whose stock he buys and sells in great
quantities.
If the accusations against Mayor Van
Wyck aro sustained, then It will undoubt
edly appear that the Mayor weighed the
chances of a successful career In the same
balance that he weighed the opportunity
suddenly to gain a fortune of nearly
$300,000 without Involving himself In any
pecuniary liability. He took the chances,
and must abide by tho consequences. The
consequences may be a forfeiture of of
fice, dkrolssal in disgrace from his high
post, punishment by fine or imprisonment
for misdemeanor, and, of course, farewell
to his judicial dream; for he expected to
become e. Justice of the Supreme Court
after his term as Mayor had expired, and
was. In fact, promised a nomination for
that office when he agreed to res'gn his
post as Judge of the City Court to he-
come a candidate for Mayor.
The second Van Wyck, late Democratic
candidate for Governor of New York,
finds his good name and his political fu
ture involved In these disclosures. Augus
tus Van Wyck Is on record as declaring
the great mieelon of the Democratic party
Is to defeat tho trusts. One of the moat
carefully prepared and logically presented
addresses upon the trust evil was deliv
ered by this Van Wyck a few months ago
at the Croker banquet. It was an address
which was expected to be of great serv
ice as a campaign document. But who
will now dare offer It to any citizen to
persuade him of the wickedness of trusts,
when Van Wyck himself has been ex
posed as being the owner of nearly $250,000
worth of stock In this meanest of trusts?
Yet Augustus Van Wyck has Just been
sent as delegate with Richard Croker to
Kansas City.
The New York Democracy feels keenly
the Ice denouement and realizes that It
la greatly embarrassed and Its chances
of victory this Fall removed farther than
ever. The following extract from the New
York Times report of tho state conven
tion la significant:
The roll-call was the signal for the be
ginning of a long round of cheers, inter
spersed with cries of derision for men
whose names have appeared In connection
with the affairs of the Ice Trust :. V hen
the name of Augustus Van Wyck was
reached In the call of Kings County, there
were Jeers and hlfses all over the house.
Mr. Van "Wyck was not present, and one
of his critics in the balconylnqulred his
whereabouts, by asking, "Where Is tne
Ice man?" , .
The name of controller coier, wuu a
also absent, was warmly cheered, and tne
call progressed rapidly without Incident
until New York County was reached. One
of the first names that attracted attention
was that of Mayor Van Wyck, who ap-
S eared on the roll as a delegate from the
)th assembly district. Although the clerk
was reading very rapidly, the crowd rec
ognized the Mayor's name, and a storm
of hisses and hoots broke forth.
A spectator suggested that the conven
tion "put the Mayor on the Ice." much to
the amusement of many of the up-state
delegates. The Tammany delegates, how
ever, rose to the occasion and-began ap
plauding the Mayor vociferously.
When the name of John P. Carroll,
heading the 29th district (and acting chief
of Tammany) was read, the New York
and Kings County delegates took time by
the forelock, and almost succeeded In
drowning out the hisses of the onlookers.
The convention summoned up courage to
say in its platform that the trusts are
monstrous evils and to add:
The Democratic party pledges itself,
that. If Intrusted with power In either
the State or Nation, It will devote Its
best energies to the relief of the people
from these oppressive monopolies.
Ice In New York Is a necessity. Rich and
poor must have It, the first as a con
venience and comfort, the last as a neces
sity. Yet this great corporation, through
its hold on the Tammany officials, pro
posed to profit by the very needs of the
public. It allowed hundreds of thousands
of tons to melt to limit the supply. It
made competition difficult and even Im
possible. The cost of production and de
livery In New York was about 17 cents
per 100 pounds. The price for some time
had been SO cents. 'When Immunity from
troublesome official meddlery had appar
ently been secured, the price was jumped
to 60 cents, on the ground that the supply
was short.
Most Radical Care.
Collier's Weekly
A South African farmer who had lost
some cows by the cattle plague was fully
persuaded that he had himself been at
tacked by the epidemic. Forthwith he
hurried off and consulted his medical man,
who tried to laugh him out of the absurd
notion, but to no purpose.
The farmer then went to an old, well
known practitioner, who, being a bit of
a wag and seeing how matters stood, en
tered minutely into the details of the
case, expressed his concurrence with the.
patient's views, and told him he could
cure hlm.
The doctor thereupon wrote a prescrip
tion, sealed It up, and told the farmer to
go to a druggist in the next town.
The farmer lost no time in going with
the prescription, but was somewhat star
tled when the druggist showed him tho
formula, which ran thus:
"This man has the cattle plague. Take
"him into the back yard and shoot him,
according to law."
That cured him.
NOTE AND COMMENT. V
Oregon showed which way the wind
blew. r--
A
Even tho ice trust Is afraid of goIngiupT
against a frost.
Neely carried the stamp collecting fad
Just a little too far.
No referee has yet appeared who has tha
nerve to call time on the Boxers.
Now the war Is over, perhaps Kipling
will have time to write a little poetry.
Congress has adjourned, and will be
followed In November by William Jen-'
nlngs Bryan.
Senator Clark has returned to Montana,
and the gold rrlck market there Is per
ceptibly stronger.
St. Douls seems to be doing what she
can to take up the work of the peace
conference where Agulnaldo and Kruger
left it off.
Judge You are charged with stealing
sheet music.
Prisoner Well, a man ought to have a
right to take the air, your honor.
Judge Possibly, but you win get the
bars for it.
One of the crowd who witnessed the
performance of Adgie and her Hong at
Mount Tabor last nlgbt exclaimed In dis
gust when he saw the lion-tamer take her
head out of the mouth of one of 'the great
brutes: "Rats! She didn't hold it there
more than a quarter of a minute." Ho
didn't pay anything to see the show, but
he was not to be deprived of his great
American right to kick. This chap un
doubtedly would have kept his swn head
in the lion's mouth half an hourdf he had
a chance, that is, If he hadn't got scared
too quick.
I
Dealers in fireworks and noise producers
have made unusually extensive prepara
tions for tho proper celebration of tho
glorious Fourth. Firecrackers in vast
quantities have been provided in all sizes
from that of half a Japanese match up
to that of a quicksilver flask. A lyddite
shell la a joke compared to one of tho
last-mentioned crackers, and if the city
Is well bombarded with them, on the
Fourth, only the most flexible buildings
will be left standing. Then there are cases
called mines and batteries, some of them
as large as coal oil cans, the damage
which will be caused by the -explosion of
which no man can calculate beforehand,
and the calculation of it afterward will
be a tough problem for Insurance adjust
ers. When, however, it comes down to
the celebration of the Fourth, everything
goes, and the more noise, the merrier the
public will be. When the Boers immigrate
to this country they may be able, from
their experience In the late wars, to give
some pointers In regard to- noise-producing
explosives, put at present the Asiatics are
in the lead in this respect.
Some people carry pontics Into buslne3,
but It la seldom that it is allowed to
Interfere In the purchase of fish. A case
of this kind occurred Saturday where a
man was buying some gold fish to stock a
glass globe. The clerk at the market
dipped into a tank of these fish and. after
some trouble, succeeded hi bringing out a
fine fish, gold all over- Ait the next scoop
he brought out one half gold and half sil
ver, which the purchaser rejected as a
mongrel. At the next scoop up came a -fish
the color of silver all over.
"Do you call that a goldnflsh?" inquired
the disgusted customer.
"Certainly," was the reply, it is just like
the others except the color.
"Well, I am no free silver man," said
the purchaser, "and I would .not take that
fish if you would give It to me. I am a
gold standard man and I want gold fish
which are the color of gold, and no other."
He had his way and went off with fish of
the color admired by the plratte captains
we used to read of In Sylvanus Cobbs' nov
els, who insisted on being sunk in their
ocean graves, with "the red gold" of their
own winning. (See "The Red Avenger"
and "The Black Avenger.")
PLEASANTRIES OF PAItAGICAPnURS
George I wonder why Ethel calls me her
chrysanthemum? Binks She may have discov
ered the fact that you haven't a cent. Harlem
Life.
"Youngling Is going to marry tho "Widow
Henpeck." "Why, she's twice as old as he is."
"Oh. well, he'll age fast enough afterthe wed
ding." Brooklyn Life.
One of the Heirs. "Yes, It is true-that he
has sued her for half of her Inheritance." "On
what grounds?" "He says she promised to be
a sister to him when he proposed to her last
Winter." Chicago Evening Post-
Indlsputable. Miss Summit "What a lot of
old china Miss Spindle has I And she says It
was handed down In her family, illss Pallsado
Then it Is Just a3 I expected. "What Is It?"
"That her ancestors never kept servants'
Harper's Bazar. " -'" 3io( T "
Temperate. "Was the deceased a drinking
man?" asked the attorney. "Well, sor. no,"
replied Pat: "he war not, barrln a pint or two
av beer at the meals an' a nip o the owld
stuff bechune times fer his stomach's sake."
Philadelphia Jforth American.
Getting On. "How are you getting on with
your photography T' "Well," answered tho
young man with brown finger tips, "I'm doln
better. The snap-shot portrait I took of Mr.
Cunnudgo must have been recognizable." "You
are sure of that?" "Perfctly, for as soon as
Curmudge saw it he said he could whip tha
man who made that picture." Washington
Star.
Woman's Wiles. "Madam," said the gentle
manly census agent. "I am sorry to say that
the law will not permit me to register you as
being 20 years of age. Instead of 33, as you
request." "But." said the lady, "what Is the
difference? The law simply directs you to put
It down, does it not7" Whereupon she smiled
sweetly, and the census man became so con
fused that he "put it down" to 18, that being
the difference. Baltimore American.
Swinburne's "War Poem.
The London Saturday Relew prints a twelve
stanza poem by Algernon C. Swinburne. The
seenth stanza reads:
And now the quickening tide
That brings back power and prlda
To faith and loe.
Whose ensign 13 thy name.
Bears down the recreant He
That doomed thy name to die.
Sons of friends and foes,
' Behold thy star the same
As when It stood In heaven a sun
And Europe saw no glory left
In her sky save one.
The ninth stanza Is as follows:
We loose not on these knaves ' i
Ourscourge-tormented sla es;
We held tho hand that fain
Had risen to smito
The torturer fast.
The tenth stanza reads:
All murderous fraud that lurka
In hearts where hll's craft works j
Fought, crawled and slew la darkness.
And yet we- gave not back
What righteous doom would give.
The eleventh stanza follows:
Xo faUe white flag that fawns
On faith till murder dawns
Elood red from hell.
i
Black treason's heart of hate
Left over shame's foul brand
Seared on an English hand.
And jet our pride -vouchsafes '
Them grace too great " jr
For other pride to dream of scorn 5 "n
Strikes retribution silent a :'?" j
Tho stars at morn.