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PORTLARD, SATURDAY", JUNE 30
It is doubtful whether the census of
'the present year will show much In
crease of the rural population "of the
,'tjnlted States. In many of the older
'states some reduction of the rural pop
ulation may, indeed, be expected. But
;the urban population in each will show
increase; and It is probable that four
t fifths of the entire gain of the past ten
years will be found in the towns and
cities.
4This Is a consequence of the vast di
"verslflcation of manufacturing lndus
'try, and at the same time a cause of
jit Means are found of gaining llvell
'hood through employment in industries
naturally concentrating in towns and
(cities; and the immense extent and di
versity of this employment, In circles
ever widening, is the secret of that
growth of our urban population which
no one in former times could have fore
seen. "We have now three cities of over a
million people, and three or four more
that approach three-quarters of a mil
lion each. No other nation presents
such a record. England has but tme
city of over one million. Russia possi
bly has two. France, Germany and
Austria have but one each. China, in
deed, may have three or four, but in
China the multitude counts for little,
and such a population is scarcely worth
enumeration. Toklo, Japan, may have
one million.
Most of our smaller cities will show
growth proportional with the larger
ones; some of them even greater. Of
secondary cities, Boston and Plttc'aurg
will not appear In the census asj'arge
as they are in fact, for their great sub
urbs and environs are really PvJt-of
lemselvcr, Boston, were its bound
aries extended, as those of many other
cities have been, would approach 4the
.million mark. Besides Pittsburg, ,1-ur
greAt towns, Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Buffalo and San Francisco, will show
yearly 400,000 each, and Detroit, "Wash
ington and Milwaukee will stand near
the 200,000 line. New Orleans. Jersey
City, Kansas City, Louisville, Newark
and Minneapolis may each exceed 200,
000; and of cities of 100,000, the list will
be long. In 1S90 there were In the
United States 124 cities having a popu
lation exceeding 25,000 each, and 840
cities and towns having a population
exceeding 4000 each. The number of
these last will now exceed 1000.
"We had twenty-eight cities contain
ing 100,000 inhabitants or more each in
1890, and we shall find this year at
least ten more. In 1S90, 29 per cent of
our population lived in cities of 8000 or
snore, against 4 per cent at the begin
ning of the century, and 12 per cent at
the middle of it. "We shall now find 35
per cent, perhaps more. "Urban popu
lation is now growing rapidly in sev
eral of our Southern States. Hereto
fore, four-fifths of it has been found in
the North and so rapid is the growth
of Northern cities that this proportion
may still be found to continue.
Except in the newer states, no great
Increase of our rural population Is
henceforth to be expected. Indeed, the
tendency in such states as Ohio, Indi
ana and Illinois is rather toward Its
reduction. In many places the farms
are becoming larger. Small holders are
Belling out their lands, and the towns
and cities, with their diversified indus
tries, swallow up the population. This
will go on, till manufacturing indus
try shall be pushed to its limit, which
no one now can foretell.
It might easily fall out that the Dem
ocrats will gain the next House of Rep
resentatives, even "if they lose the Pres
idency. The Republican majority is
now thirteen. In the previous Con
gress It was fifty-five. KIghteen of the
thirty-four New Tork Represent
atives are Democrats, although the
total Republican majority In the state
for Congressmen was in 1S9S something
like 13,000. If that state goes Demo
cratic this Fall, or if McKlnley car
ries It by only a small majority
either of which Is likely the chances
of losing several more Republicans are
excellent. Thei e are various other close
districts throughout the "United States
that the Republicans now hold, and
may at any time be deprived of. If
the country goes Republican on the
general issue, the tendency will be to
help win the House, and this is the one
favorable feature of the situation. A
divided Congress would not disturb the
gold standard, under a Republican Ad
ministration; but It would make trou
ble over the legislation proposed for
our dependencies, and in all the many
questions growing out of expansion. On
the other hand, there would be no more
Porto Rican tariff bills, nor ship sub
sidy bills.
Argentine wheat shipments for the
current week have again exceeded
J00,000 bushels. In the face of these ng-
fresLand despite the persistent efforts of
4owoperators In Chicago, the price
n. gain of nearly 2 cents yes-
Divested of all speculative and
tnr-
-th
bottom, with prices below the normal
figure. Meanwhile all other commodi
ties have moved upward, and it Is in a
measure an unnatural condition of
trade for this great cereal to loiter be
hind the other staples which have
scored such heavy advances. The ad
vance of a week ago was too rapid, and
the reaction early this week was the
natural relapse following acute and un
healthy excitement; but It Is not at all
improbable that the inherent strength
of the position of the cereal will again
be asserted and a steady market at
good prices result.
PERVERSION OP THE TRUTH.
The indictment of the Army canteen,
and the denunciation of the Adminis
tration for Its continuance, by the Pro
hibition National platform, is not only
instinct with gross Ignorance, but de
liberate 'perversion of the truth and
suppression of the full facts. The fram
ers of the platform either know noth
ing of the purpose or character of the
canteen, or choose to misrepresent Its
functions and its results.
The letters submitted to Congress by
Secretary Root in defense of the can
teen comprised the testimony of such
officers as General Miles, General Mer
rltt. General Brooke, the three senior
officers of the Army, and more than 1000
other officers, mostly company com
manders of the Army and non-commissioned
officers. The Adjutant-General
of the Army pointed out clearly the
Immediate effect of closing the canteen,
which was originally established and
has since been maintained as a tem
perance institution. Before Its estab
lishment every garrison post had in its
proximity the lowest groggerles, dance
halls and houses of 111 repute. Practi
cal experience has shown the renewal
of their existence would be the certain
result of closing the canteen. The ene
mies of the canteen in their fanaticism
are really acting In partnership with
the aggressive saloon interests. Against
the theories of a small clump of pro
hibition cranks is opposed the opinions
of the vast majority of the commis
sioned and non-commissioned officers of
the Army, and the opinions of their
wives.
In the letters submitted to Congress
by the "War Department, 908 officers
and non-commissioned officers out of
1000 say that the canteen has improved
the discipline of the Army; 739 that it
has decreased desertions; 825 that It has
lessened the number of trials by courts
martial for petty offenses; 906 that it
has lessened drunkenness; and 908 that
the selling of beer at the posts pre
vents men from going outside to pro
cure whisky and other strong intoxi
cants. Captain E. L. Munson, Assist
ant Surgeon of the Army, reports that
the percentage of cases of hospital
treatment tor alcoholism and Its direct
results, "which for the ten years pre
ceding the introduction of the canteen
system averaged C4.2S per thousand, de
creased during the ten years following
the Introduction of the canteen to 44,
46. 44. 44, 41, 37, 34, 32, 31, 30; that cases
of delirium tremens have been reduced
31.3 per cent; that the cases of Insan
ity due to intoxicants have been re
duced to 31.7 per cent." The canteen Is
separate u:om the other features of the
post exchange, and is not open on Sun
days. Soldiers are not allowed to take
beer to their quarters, or any other
part of the post The practice of "treat
ing" is forbidden. Soldiers are not em
ployed as "bartenders." Gambling Is
forbidden. The exchange is conducted
by tVe t diers own money, and is a
co-operative institution, conducive to
good order and the morale of the men.
It is a well-regulated club for the sol
diers, which does not cost the Govern
ment a single cent which protects men
from drunkenness and licentiousness,
increases the efficiency of the Army
and adds to the contentment of a sol
dier's life. To abolish the canteen
would be a blow to sobriety and de
cency in the Army.
The New York Evening Post a very
able and implacable opponent of Presi
dent McKlnley, defends him from criti
cism in the matter of the Army can
teen, saying that he properly asked his
Attorney-General to construe the law,
and that he had no other alternative
but to accept his construction or get a
new Attorney-General.
IAFIUX OF JAPANESE.
It is said that the Japanese Govern
ment regards with high disfavor the
enormous emigration from that country
to the United States, and is taking
rigorous measures to restrict Its vol
ume. "Whatever may be the attitude
and action of Japan, it is certain that
many people In this country regard
so great an Influx of non-assimilative
population as undesirable, and think it
is time to place the little brown men
on the same footing as the Chinese. No
bar exists here today against the Jap
anese except the alien contract law and
the usual quarantine regulations, and
their rigid enforcement has done little
to stem the tide. Japan Itself some
years ago enacted a law designed to
discourage emigration by requiring
that each subject secure a passport,
which would be granted only on con
dition that he provide two sureties
"that the applicant will not become a
public charge or fall Into distress for
three years." The result was the or
ganization of twelve companies to pro
vide sureties and transportation. The
companies had their agents all through
Japan. No Individual could secure a
passport except after months of effort
But the companies were able to do It
in a few days. The bars were thus let
down, emigration enormously stimu
lated, and the Japanese population In
the United States and Canada Increased
by thousands each month. In April
last more than 6000 Asiatics, a lanre
part being from Japan, landed at Vic
toria alone. It is officially estimated
that 90 per cent of the Japanese who go
to Canada eventually reach the United
States. A considerable part of the Chi
nese also evade the exclusion law and
come in. British Columbia has no pro
hibition again any alien but the bur
den of Chinese Immigration has been
so heavy that the authorities have im
posed an onerous poll tax, and other
wise sought to reduce the coolie popu
lation. They have in some measure
succeeded, at the expense of the United
States.
One transcontinental railway com
pany, it is said, has been a most active
promoter of Japanese immigration. It
has replaced Its white section hands
-with brown laborers and so Indeed
have other rallrci
Jhe Japanese are
industrious,
ifnl, tractable
and efficient
targe railroads
seerrrv.
oaj)
les valuable foi
ln.ple. the Grei
Northc
arrange!
sha, thm
traffic in Japanese laborers might be
made profitable to b6th the railroad
and steamship companies.
It is not clear how any effective rem
edy can be provided to prevent the ln
pouring of Japanese without the aid of
Japan or without violation of the treaty
of 1894. which gives the people of that
country free Ingress Into America. It
is probable that Japan might consent
to modification of the treaty, in view of
its well-known desire to keep Japan
for the Japanese, and the Japanese in
Japan. Or It may, as reported, take In
dependent action that would be effica
cious. PROSPERITY NOT A MYTH.
The Democratic National platform
will be promulgated at Kansas City
next week, with the Old threadbare
screech for 16 to 1 and an expression
condemnatory of what Bryan terms
sacrificing the blood of the country to
train commercial supremacy. This
much for the leading issues, money
and expansion. If Colonel Bryan's
speeches in the Northwest last Spring
are reflected In the platform, there will
most likely be a declaration that the
prosperity of the country Is not genu
ine, and that the people cannot be truly
prosperous unless their pockets are
filled with silver dollars.
Bryan's panacea for our economic
Ills In 1896 was silver. Accept 16 to
1 and the United States will have all
the money it needs. Accept the gold
standard and there will be further com
mercial contraction, for there is not
gold enough In the world to warrant
making it the unit of value. The coun
try went for gold, and let us see what
has been the result In these Pacific
States:
On December 17, 1896, six weeks after
Bryan had been defeated, individual
deposits In the National banks of Ore
gon, "Washington and Idaho were $17,
294,269 CO, a decrease of over $8,000,000
since December, 1892. This was the
period when money was still in hiding.
having been driven to cover by the fear
of Bryantte success. With the return
of confidence, our deposits rapidly ac
cumulated, and on April 26, 1900, the
date of the last report to the Controller
of the Currency, they amounted In
Oregon, "Washington and Idaho to $34,
897,104 56. This total has been exceeded
but once since National banking waB
begun in the Northwest December 2,
1899 when the deposits were $33,243,
374 19. Six weeks after Bryan's de
feat In 1896, our loans and discounts
were $14,410,762 51; April 26, 1900, they
were $20,438,943 84.
Since the overthrow of Bryanlsm
nearly four years ago, the Individual
deposits of the National banks of Ore
gon, Washington and Idaho have in
creased over $17,500,000, and the loans
and discounts over $6,000,000. Between
December 17, 1896. and April 26, 1900,
the Individual deposits of the National
banks of all the Pacific Coast States
and territories Oregon, "Washington,
California, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Ari
zona and Alaska have Increased from
$37,888,660 87 to $75.269,6S3 76. and loans
and discounts from $34,958,478 11 to
$55,184,733 44. Here we have abundance
of money and enlarged use of it In
business. Is this prosperity or Is it a
myth? Are we dreaming when the
money we require is passed to us by
the banker, Instead of being told, as we
were in 1896, that Bryanlsm had ren
dered the financial world panicky and
made loans hazardous?
We of the Pacific States were the first
to be affected by the financial crisis of
the early '90s, and the last to feel the
new prosperity. Between the "crime of
1873," the silver coinage clause of 1890
and the visitation of Bryanlsm, we have
had enough disaster to last us until
well Into the twentieth century. The
gold standard, promised In 1896, and
enacted into law, has lifted us out of
the depression Into which the silver
heresy had cast us, and established us
upon a firm basis. Our financial posi
tion, so sensitive to flurries ten years
ago, Is now so strong that, though the
Boer war caused stringency In England,
Canada and parts of America, we were
not affected one Jot or tittle. Not
dollar was withdrawn from the banks
nor a loan called in to meet demands
from the East or from abroad. All
over the Pacific Coast the stock of
money Is large, and It Is finding Its way
as rapidly as conditions permit Into new
enterprises, or Is being used to enlarge
old ones. In Oregon we see It going
Into mines, creameries, public and pri
vate improvements, manufactures and
business. In Eastern Oregon money
will be available, If there Is no dis
turbance of conditions, for railroad ex
tension and irrigation works that will
develop a semi-arid region capable of
sustaining a population of 1,000,000 and
make it tributary to Portland. Every
where the people are prosperous and
contented, and enjoying the best times
they have ever known. They don't
want 16 to 1. They don't want Bryan,
nor his crown of thorns, nor his cross
of gold. They do not want the Nation
bound so that It cannot participate in
the trade to be opened up In the Orient
They don't want the Chicago platform,
nor any edition of It And they don't
want the present Democratic party.
The Prohibition party also "views
with alarm" the demoralising personal
habits of the President It has mads
the shocking discovery that he Is a
wlne-blbber and a wine-server. There
is pretty good Scriptural authority for
wine-drinking, aii it Is quite likely
that the President deems himself Jus
tified in taking 'it for his stomach's
sake, Just as his amiable critics re
fuse to take it for their consciences'
sake. There ae people in this world
who are happiest when they are most
unhappy, and the Prohibitionists are
among themcBut they will never be
wholly satisfied until they make every
body else unhappy. If this Inquisition
into the manners and customs of a Pres
ident Is carried to Its logical result
we may sown find the Prohibition party
dragging Into the campaign the un
christian f fact that he smokes, or
chews tobacco, or falls to say his
prayers, or goes to the theater, or plays
a frienoly game of eucher, or drives
fast hoies.
T2iecrease of more than 30 per cent
in tl?e number of convicts in the Ore
gon Penitentiary speaks volumes to
the credit of the state. In the boom
daw about 1890 the State Prison and
t$jf County Jails were crowded with
ofJinders against society. Hard times
2I not increase crime, but haa a con-
ary effect and the new prosperity
jat has come to the country does not
facourage adventurers and the criminal
classey. Oregon has advanced through
ontier and boom stages of devl-
Int and has become a settled
rly community. IndtiStry hs
il speculation, and the
thrive upon unstable social conditions
has been greatly restricted. However
the theories of sociologists as to the
relation of crime to hard times may be
disturbed, the fact remains that crime
in Oregon was at high tide when every
thing was "on the boom," and that the
readjustment of the panic and the suc
ceeding years of self-reliant Industry
and frugality have worked a whole
some transformation In the social at
mosphere, as well as business condi
tlonsin the state.
The speedy voyage of "the Geo. "W.
Elder to Cape Nome and return shows
that Portland's facilities for handling
Alaska traffic are not inferior to the
advantages of any other point The
Elder sailed May 26; she arrives back
June 29, an interval of 34 days. The
difficulties of navigation in Behrlng Sea
were met with Judgment and prudence;
her cargo was discharged with excep
tional dispatch; no accident of any kind
marred the voyage; everything went
well, and all were satisfied. It is cred
itable alike to the steamship company
and to this business community that the
first stage of this new and important
transportation enterprise has been suc
cessfully passed. Portland can guaran
tee safety, dispatch, convenience and
comfort to passengers for Nome; but it
cannot assure them fortunes when they
get there. Conditions are not roseate.
A vast throng of people is there. They
will for the present find employment i
they want it, at good wages; but "as the
expense of living Is very high, not many
can save a great deal. After the first
activity in building, and the artificial
boom In mining and real estate values,
prices will fall. The majority will have
in some way to do for themselves, or
come back. Many will return; many
will stay; a few will get rich.
The Vice-Presidential boom of Jim
Ham Lewis has been blazing Its crim
son trail through Montana, and the
delegation from that state will Join the
happy throng of persons from the far
"West, whose duty and pleasure H will
be to support the modest ambitions of
the "Washington statesman at Kansas
City. The Anaconda Standard says
liewls Is a "good man for the place,"
and the Standard has quite a reputa
tion for Its ability to pick out good
men In a state where good men get to
the front rapidly. Colonel iewls him
self was last heard from at Butte,
where he is quoted as giving a some
what discouraging interview as to his
chances, paying he "did not think there
was likelihood of the nomination com
ing West" The statesman's well
known diffidence and conspicuous habit
of self-depreciation are doubtless re
sponsible for this premature surren
der. Let him cheer up. His chances
are Just as good as they ever were.
The picture of John G. Woolley, Pro
hibition candidate for President, rep
resents a rather consumptive-looking
young man In a deeply meditative
attitude. There Is nothing suggestive
of the leader or the statesman in hl3
face or pose certainly nothing of the
ruler. He Is doubtless, however, an
Ideal man to lead an ideal movement
to defeat, and since the Prohibition
contingent Is well satisfied with his
nomination, other people should be.
He Is a. man of exemplary character
and upright life, and his tilt at politics
in leading a forlorn hope in a Presi
dential campaign will leave him neither
the worse nor the better.
The percentage of desertions, which
for many years prior to the introduc
tion of the Army canteen averaged
from 10 to 11 per cent has since Its
establishment decreased to 7.7, 5.7, 6.3,
3.6, 5.3, 3.4, 2.9; while the average num
ber of trials and convictions for
drunkenness and conditions originating
therefrom for the six yeare preceding
the canteen, which was 372.5, decreased
during the following six years to 160.6.
Delegate Nlckell says many Demo
crats favor Mr. Towne for the Vice
Presidency because he is the choice of
the Populists and Silver Republicans.
There are Democrats and Democrats.
Over In Washington some Democrats
favor Rogers for Governor because he
Is not the choice of the Populists and
Sliver Republicans.
The proceedings of the Prohibition
convention weie marked by great en
thusiasm; so at Philadelphia; and so,
no doubt at Kansas City. No political
party In this country is disposed to
deny the right of free and unlimited
shouting before election.
Bishop Cranston denies that he advo
cated making Christians of Chinese at
the point of the sword. The Methodist
Boxer certainly would be a startling
novelty In the great work of civilizing
and Christianizing China.
Vlc-PresIdentlal Candidate Towne
has been lecturing on a "Tour Through
Europe." In a month or so he may be
able to furnish some valuable rem
iniscences on a Vice-Presidential nomi
nation he didn't get
If we are to have bicycle paths, let
the bicyclists pay for them. Those per
sons who resist the tax expect not only
to ride and pay nothing, but to let those
who walk pay everything.
After Plngree, Bliss. No wonder the
Saginaw man with the happy name got
away with the Michigan nomination.
Mr. Bryan stays at Lincoln and
presses the button; Kansas City wll
do the rest
RnnnlBB Away With the Gold.
Pall Mall Gazette.
Lourenzo Marques All arrivals here
from Pretoria describe the fear which
prevailed In Government circles preceding
the debacle, when the President fled from
the Transvaal capital. Before the Brit
ish secured Johannesburg the Boers had
removed all foodstuffs and almost every
thing of value.
Among the passengers in the Bundes
rath for Europe was Mrs. Reltz and the
family of the Transvaal Stato Secretary.
In obedience to a telegram from Pretoria
the Bundesrath was detained here for
fully 10 hours to await the arrival of a
special train. Attached to the train was
a saloon car in which Mrs. Reltz and
family traveled. Mrs. Reltz was quickly
identified, despite the fact that she cer
tainly did not court observation and kept
the blinds of her saloon Jclosely drawn.
In the guard's van of this train were
two huge safes, screwed to the floor and
guarded by armed Hollanders. The train
was taken to the extreme end of tho
Portuguese pier and 36 boxes of bar gc4d
were lowered into a Portuguese Gevera
ment launch, which then, steam a A direct
for the Bundesrath. Tie Roitx family.
tth their domestic servants, wont on
d the mall steamer later. It has
ascertained that the.e wns oar gold
boxes to the vUue oc 159.010,
providing against possible eventualities.
The. passengers by the Henog con
sisted chleSy of Jews from the Trans
vaal. The Herzog also took seventeen
parcels of bar gold.
m
"WHO'S AFRAID OF CROKER?
Wr Does the Decraey Cower
Under His Laiat
New York Times.
Where did Richard Croker get his right
and title to apply the rod of discipline
to any Tammany back for ice trust Indis
cretions? He is not only In the mess
himself, but It was really he that got
the others In. Who was It that taught
them by precept and example to look out
for their own pockets all the time? In
stead of cowering in guilty terror before
the returned chief, awaiting the dreaded
blow, they might better fall upon him
and take vengeance upon the author of
their undoing.
Take the case of the Van Wyck broth
ers. Before Croker took them in hand
to make their political and personal for
tunes they were respectable citizens of
whom no one spoke ill. They had both
served creditably upon the bench before
Croker made Robert Mayor of New
York and Augustus the Democratic can
didate for Governor. Up to that time
they enjoyed the legitimate expectation
of leading quiet unnoticed, respectable
lives, and of leaving to their children or
other kin the heritage of a stainless
name.
The Mayoralty was the ruin of Robert.
His conduct in the office has been such
that nobody outside the circle of his po
litical cronies speaks well ot nim or
thinks well of him. In fact, the public
entertains a highly unfavorable opinion
of him. He can never regain what he
has lost He was done for even before
the ice trust scandal revealed the ugly
facts of his relation to that corrupt and
predatory enterprise.
Augustus got through his unsuccessful
Governorship canvass comfortably
enough, though ho suffered by the gen
eral conviction that a stronger man and
one mora remote from Croker would have
won the fight But now, as the author of
a celebrated anti-trust speech and a del-egate-at-large
on an anti-trust platform
to an anti-truBt National convention, yet
a large stockholder of record In the Ico
trust owning so many shares that no
body understands how he got them or
how he was able to pay for them, Au
gustus Van Wyck 13 about the most
ridiculous and pitiful figure In American
politics. Truly, Croker has done an ill
service for the Van Wycks.
Then there Is CarrolL Nobody ever
paid any attention to Carroll so long as
he was an underling, living on an under
ling's pay In the small offices he could
pick up. But now he has Indeed come to
a bad eminence. Men think of Carroll
very much as they would think of a pi
rate or any other public enemy. They
look upon him as a good man to get rid
of, the quicker the better. He has come
to this entirely through Croker, who
put him ahead and made him his deputy.
And now they say that Croker Is going
to punish the Mayor and Carroll for bo
lng mixed up In the Ice trust scandal!
The Athenians made Socrates drink
a cup of hemlock because, among other
things, he was charged with being a
corrupter of youth. Hemlock Is no longer
administered, but birch has not gone out
of fashion. If ever a back seemed really
to clamor for the switch it is the back
of Richard Croker as it presents itself
to the victims of his evil and debasing
example.
We mean morally, pf course. The ac
tual switching of Croker by Carroll and
the two Van Wycks would edify the
town, but the Times counsels, no breach
of the peace. They ought to give him a
tongue-lashing at the club, denounce him
before the reporters, and get Tammany
to throw him out of the chieftaincy.
Bryan and. Expansion.
Oakland (Cal.) Enquirer.
It Is difficult to understand where Mr.
Bryan expects to come in on the anti
expansion issue this year. There are
doubtless millions of voters who regret
expansion, but most of them regard it
as an accomplished fact which cannot be
disturbed; they also perceive that Mr.
Bryan was almost as much a factor in
expansion as was Mr. McKlnley, since
he advised the Democrats In the Senate
to vote for the treaty with Spain by
which the Philippines became American
territory, and therefore they fall to see
how Mr. Bryan represents any principle
different from President McKlnley in this
matter. In the hour when the great ques
tion was to be decided Bryan was an
expansionist and that fact cannot be
rubbed out by all the efforts he may now
put forth to make himself appsar the
champion of anti-expansionist principles.
The truth is that in this matter Bryin
has represented no clearly defined princi
ple and has pursued no consistent course.
He has been evasive and disingenuous
fearful of Incurring unpopularity If he
proposed expansion and yet anxious to
gather to his support all the aatl-oxpan-
slonlst voters. He does not occuuy strong
ground and cannot win.
MacArtlmr 1 Sensible.
Chicago News.
Considering the fact that It coats the
British $100 a head to send mules to South
Africa, General Arthur MacArthur is sen
sible In offering to buy the Filipinos' guns
at 30 Spanish dollars each. A Mauser
even in the hands of a Filipino is worth
several mules.
Nothing? to Hovrl Aboat.
Los Angeles Times.
The calamity-howler never had fo hard
a Job on his hands during a campaign as
he will have this year of grace. He w'll
simply have to howl for someth'ng lo
howl about
Startling: Chancre.
Oakland (Cal. ) Enquirer.
The platform Issue at Kansas City will
bo not whether silver shall be the prin
cipal feature, but whether It shall be men
tioned at all a startling chango sjnee
1896.
J1ES AKD "WOJIEJf.
The centenary of the birth of Lieutenant
Wachorn. the pioneer of tho overland route- to
India, will be celebrated by a dinner In Lon
don. Lord Leven. Governor of the Bank ot Ens
land, has been appointed Lord High Commis
sioner to th General Assembly of tho Church
of Scotland tor the fourth time.
Professor Vambrey, the celebrated authority
on Oriental subjects, has received an invita
tion from the Sultan Abdul Hamid to pay a
visit to Constantinople.
General Benjamin F. Tracy and Thomas C
Piatt icere boys together. Tracy was a fanner
lad and Piatt started la business in Oswcso,
K. Y., as a drur clerk. They have been inti
mately associated ever since.
Consressmaa Ketcham, of New Tork, who
has Just been renominated for tho sixteenth
time. Is a little deaf. The other day rome one
suggested that this must bo a drawback.
"Youas man," replied General Ketcham, "I
hear a great deal more than I want to."
Count Leo Tolstoi is greatly helped la his
literary work by his two daughters. Tatjana
and Mareha- "However great I may be as a
novelist." he said, recently, "I am much
greater as a letter-writer and proofreader, be
cause in these things my children are so great
an aMlstanc to me."
Rev. Stephen Gladstone, rector of Hawarden,
was asked by & deputation of the villagers to
permit the church bells to bo rung when the
news of the relief of Mafeklng arrived. His
answer was that he could not consent to that
being done until peace- was proclaimed. There
was much Indignation among the residents, at
his refusal. The rector, however, offered special
thanksgiving services on the following Sunday.
Dr. Posxt who fought a. duel with Dr. Devil
lers recently, l not only one of the most brll
llaat surguone Of the French capital, but prom
inent la its bet society, and also la politics
as . Senator. He was bora at Brgerac. Dor
doffne, on October 3, 1B4G. At an early age he
woa recognlUon ta the jnedlealx " as a
coHtrlbutor to varioa leamv -vjl0?i Ue
?t a member of the AcaaJliMotne
QUIGG VS. GROSVENOR.
How "Were Tieic Plemlcs Left Oat of
the PlatformT
New York Post Ind. Dera.
What Is in the Republican platform
we all know, or can know, by reading it.
What was kept out of it we are Just bo
ginning to learn- First is a plank on
expansion in these words:
"We reassert the principle, which was
the watchword of the Republican party In
its first great battle, of which Abraham
Lincoln was the illustrious champion, and
on which he was elected President that
Congress has full legislative power over
territory belonging to the United States,
subject only to the fundamental safe
guards of liberty, justice and personal
rights."
General Grosvenor says that this plank
was agreed upon first by President Mc
Klnley, and afterwards by the sub-committee
on the platform, but that it "was
drivelled out by a driveller from New
York, who had charge of that branch of
the work." Mr. Lemuel E. Qulgg ad
mits that he was the secrotary of the
sub-committee on platform, but he denies
flatly that he did anything else than
carry out the orders of tho committee.
He denies that anything was put Into or
taken out of the platform surreptitiously,
or without due consideration by the com
mittee. He gives a detailed account of
what transpired In the committee in ref
erence to this particular plank. Here he
has the great advantage over Grosvenor
that he knows what took place in the
committee-room, while Grosvenor can
only conjecture.
Quigg"s statement Is Intrinsically and
manifestly correct since no Individual
member could alter the platform, of hl3
own motion, without instant detection and
exposure, and perpetual Infamy after
ward. Qulgg says that the platform, com
mittee considered it unwise to adopt the
Grosvenor-McKinley plank, because the
question Involved In It was pending in
the Supreme Court, and it might be em
barrassing to tho party If a decision
should be rendered contrary to the plat
form. This shows how much more power
ful In ipaklng a party platform is the
man who has the last hack at It than
the President of the United States or a
member of Congress, who is not on tho
committee. The man who has this power
and uses It for wise ends can smile when
called a drlller by rival statesmen and
platform-makers. It should be explained,
however, that no such plank as that
which General Grosvenor quotes was In
the platform on which Abraham Lincoln
was elected President, and that the Re
publican party had no such watchword
In its first great battle, or In any battle.
The platform of 1SG0 said: "The new
dogma that the Constitution, of its own
force, carries slavery Into any or all of
the territories of the .United States is
a dangerous political heresy," eta,
which is quite a different thing from the
Grosvenor-McKinley paragraph.
Grosvenor complains of the loss of an
other paragraph one relating to steam
ship subsidies or rather, he complains
that a paragraph which "had passed tho
scrutiny of the leaders of the party" was
emasculated after It left their hands. The
following "ringing sentiment" he says,
was almost entirely left out:
"Our National defence and Naval effi
ciency require merchant auxiliaries as a
nursery for skilled officers and trained
seamen. For the restoration of merchant
marine, which was our early glory on tho
seas, we advocate such legislation as will
enable American ships to again carry our
foreign commerce."
The loss of this paragraph is not
charged upon Quigg. The loser of It Is
not yet Identified, but we can Imagine
that he might be looked for in the States
of Indiana, Iowa or Minnesota. It 13 pos
sible that he detected the ring of a bad
coin In the ringing sentiment and laid it
aside for that reason. There are many
ways to account for its disappearance,
but the most natural one Is that the real
leaders of the party ad hoc were not the
men whom Grosvenor had In mind when
he said that his resolution bad passed
their scrutiny. Such mistakes have teen
made before.
The Omitted Plank.
Springfield Republican.
General Grosvenor, of Ohio, has many
sympathizers in his indignation over the
omission from the Philadelphia platform
ot a plank reaffirming the position taken
by Congress and the President concern
ing the power of the National Legislature
to govern territories outside of the Con
stitution. The New York Sun affirms
that: "Republicans here and there are
noting with amazement that borders on
disgust the total, uncompromising, abso
lute silence of the Philadelphia platform
on one of the principal articles ot Re
publican faith." It seems, however, that
a plank of the desired character wa3
prepared by a number of prominent Re
publicans In Washington and submitted
to the committee on resolutions In the
convention.
General Grosvenor hotly charges that
this plank was omitted from the platform
"unfairly and surreptitiously." and he
fixes unon Lemuel Ely Qulgg. of New
York, the secretary of the suo-committee .
on resolutions, as having been the wicked
prestidigltateur. The General's burning
words were:
This plank, straightforward, intelligent and
written in good English, agreed upon first by
the President himself, and afterward by the
sub-committee, was driveled out by a driveler
from New York who had charge of that branch
of the work.
No one, of course, will believe such an
accusation, but the making of it by the
Impassioned Grosvenor reveals the Inten
sity of his disappointment over the fail
ure of the platform to indorse the Porto
Rican legislation and the Constitutional
theory under which he and his party as
sociates acted.
Qulgg gives a straightforward, reason
able explanation of the matter.
Qulgg's Grent Condescension.
New York Tribune.
Lemuel B. Quigg's denial which does
not deny the Important feature of Gen
eral Charles H. Grosvenor's accusation
about the suppression from the platform
of a plank declaring the Republican doc
trine of the power of Congress over ter
ritory Is bo grotesquely egotistical and
self-sufficient that the first Impulse Is to
pass It by as an ordinary specimen of
Qulggery. But the colossal Impudence of
this young man's explanation of the great
reasons ot state which led him in the reg
ular performance of his duties as plat
form reviser to blue pencil the work of in
significant and inexperienced men like Sen
ator Foraker. General Grosvenor. the mem
bers of the President's Cabinet, and even
thePresidenthimself, excites wonder when
time Is allowed for It to sink Into the
consciousness. He says he did not "un
fairly and surreptitiously," a3 General
Grosvenor charges, cut out this plank
from the platform. But he considered
that the plank "was much too long and
too much resembled a political essay."
He thought It "neither advisable nor
necessary" to make a declaration on the
question. A3 an act of condescension
In writing the platform he employed the
language of Senator Foraker, so far as
It was consistent with true statesman
ship, and he is sure that in whatever he
did he had tho support, of the sub-com
mittee and everytnmg was regular.
,
A Rare Piece of Folly.
New York Sun.
Of the truth of General Grosvenor's
charge that there was trickery In regard
to the platform we know nothing. That
there was folly Is manifest to everybody
who reads the document even carelessly.
That any man or men, however, entrust
ed with the handling of the platform In
its last stages of revision, should have
assumed the responsibility of overruling
the President the Republican majorities
in both houses of Congress, the presiding
officers of the convention and the party
at large throughout the "Union, edit
ing out a plait and necessary btttement
of a fund3Jpc.V,al and vital article of Re
publican thw" an& P1Icr ls m?3t t0
Improbable Kb? believed withoufurther
NOTE AND COMMENT. -I,
How 'dovyou like the weather
There is no doubt that Agulnaldo also
ran, whenever the enemy came bis way.
- '
When country gentlemen come to New
York now the con men sell them Ice
bricks.
Fortunately the Chinese vote 13 not
large enough to affect the Administra
tion's policy.
Now do the Prohibitionists
Put up a great rood man
To lead them through a dry'campalgn ,
And. be an also ran.
If they were not Prohibitionists. ,we
might suspect that their excltemeritjwaa
duo to sometning stronger than senu
ment. If Kansas City's climate keeps up its
general average of the Fourth there will
be a general rush among the candidates
for the cold outside.
If Secretary Hay wants to make peace
with China he must not come 'to fight
but come to Wu. That Is pretty bad.
but we can do worse.
The famous "white wings" of New
York City, the streetsweepers introduced
by Colonel Waring, are doomed. A big
machine Is to take their places, and the
streets are to be cleaned by hand no
more. These machines, called "parparts."
are run by compressed air, and not only
nweep the street but they sprinkle it and
In bad Winter weftther they gather up all
the snow and slush. The machine sweeps
the streets under all conditions and does
the work of an army ot men.
Sir Herbert Maxwell seems to occupy
a unique place in Parliament. Probably
he Is tho only member of the House of
Commons who can claim to be descended
from an ancestor of precisely the same
name as himself, who sat In Parliament
over 600 years ago. His forbear. Sir Her
bert Maxwell of Carlaverock, sat In tho
Parliament of Scone, 12S3-S4, and agreed
to accept Margaret of Norway as his
sovereign In the event of the death of
Alexander HI, and he was also a mem
ber of the Parliament ot 12S3-S0.
The old Church of St Mary, Soho, is
emerging from a strange series of vicis
situdes. It was built In 1677 by a Greek
archbishop. From the Greeks" It came
successively Into possession of the Huge
nots and Paedo-Baptists. and ultimately
became a chapel-of-ease to St Ann's,
Soho. Latterly It has been In a state of
semi-ruin, but no wbrighter days are
opening. The foundation-stone will be
laid of a new house to replace a portion
of the building condemned as dangerous
by the London County Council two years
ago.
Francis Doucp, & famous antiquary,
who died in 1834, bequeathed a box to
the British Museum trustees, stipulating
that it should not be opened until 1900.
At a recent meeting of the trustees the
box was solemnly unsealed and unlocked
by the curator of the Museum, when it
was found to contain nothing -but old
fragments of paper, torn book covers
and other rubbish, together with a note
from Douce. The missive said that in
tho writer's opinion, it would be wasting
any more valuable or Interesting objects
to leave them to persons of the average
intelligence and taste of the British
Museum trustees.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
Early Ambition. "Oh! mah goodness!" ex
claimed little Abo Lincoln Snow, "I wtsht I.
wu2 lalk da little boy in dls hyar storybook."
"WhufferT' asked his mother. "Kase hit sea
he went to bed wlf de chickens." Philadelphia
Press.
No Money In It. "I am In favor of tho elec
tion of United States Senators by popular
vote," he announced emphatically. The Mon-
tana legislator looked at htm. suspiciously.
"What grudge have you against usr he asked.
Chicago Evening Post.
A Deep Interest. He That little brother ot
yours Is mlghtv inquisitive. Last night hehad
the nerve to ask me if X hadn't proposed to
you yet. She Oh, you mustn't mind "Willie.
He has my Interest so much at heart. Judge.
And Fool the Flies. "I wish," said the In
fant Prodigy, "that I was a self-made man,
like "Uncle Henry." "Why?" asked the Person
Tho ls always playing second fiddle In the con
versational orchestra. "Because I would have
15ft my head bald, too. It ls too much troubla
to comb It." Baltimore American.
Pert but Pertinent. Doxed-looklng Gentle
man (enterlnsr a bookstore) Young woman,
what kind of a store ls this? Young Woman
(tartly) It's a feed store. Dazed - looking
Gentleman (getting aroused) A feed store!
What do you feed? Young "Woman We feed
bookworms. Chicago Record.
Little Willie Say, pa, what does cleave
mean? Pa It means to units or stick together.
Little Willie Then if the butcher cleaves a
bono, docs he stick it together, pa? Pa
Why er X guess It does mean to eepar&tol aO
son. Little Willie And when a man separates
from Ma wife, does he cleave to her, pa? Pa
Younp man, it's time yoa were la bed. Chi
cago News.
Looking: Backward.
Indianapolis Press.
Oh, those happy days of Summer, when the
harvest sun shone hot,
A flow of mem'ry takes me back, a captive to
the spot
"Where I spent the years ot childhood; and
thoso dreamy Summers long
Were written on my boyish mind a glad, un
measured song.
How I viewed the old brick schcolhouse with a
'frown of hate and scorn.
As rd strap ray books together on a sunny
April morn;
And how I moped and languished as a caged
bird repines.
When the soft, warm air came teasing through
the honeysuckle vines.
How we used to hail vacation, when the
prison doors were closed.
And geography and rlthmetlc" upon the shclt
reposed;
When time was but a fancy, and the data a
banished name.
And all the days but Sunday were to boyish
minds the same.
I can seo the grassy path that led me up and
down the creek.
When the noonday sun would find me where
the shadows lingered thick.
With no'er a care but comfort and ne r a
pain but ease.
With strands of uncombed hair that swept my
forehead in the breese.
Xcan hear the little rapids where they Joined
the swimming pool:
I see my face reflected in the water dark and
cool:
And my fancy hears the splashing of my boy
hood's kindred folk
As wo plunged into the water 'neath the over-
hanging oak.
We fcrew each little eddy of the water for aai
near, i i
Evrv little glancing ripple wferft the sun
beams, falllnc sheer
Out of heaven's fleecy cloudland'Wjith a laugh
ing, dancing look.
Seemed to bathe their heate'arheads In the
bosom of the brook.
Oh. the many days I squriiered with &
clumsy hook and line '
Ho and down the little strfs-ilet where the
sllversides would shine
And I'd watch my hook llilecce. till the
Summer sun was low
And my footsteps led mrBmeward through
the paths I used t
Oh, for one brief day
I! but to be a
boy again.
Just to feel the free
I of a Summer's'
day as then.
With a heart in tunef
Ire, a mind that
knew n care.
And an aimless de
th world at1
e
fche
M "ReltziBi with a view of
evidence,
Aaywhc
Tokobas
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