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After all, what difference whether the
Democratic party make a new declara
tion for free coinage of silver, at 16 to
1, or reaffirm the old one? Reaffirma
tion of the platform of 1896 la approval
again of '76 to L" which was the lead
ing feature of that platform. "We de
mand the free and unlimited coinage of
Doth silver and gold at the present
legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting
ror tne aid of -consent of any other na
tion," was the -declaration of that plat
form, where Is the "conservatism" In
"simple reaffirmation"? It Is the same
old thing, and Just as far from "con-
! servatlsm" as If written anew.
The Salt Lake Tribune, which ar
dently supported Bryan four years
ago. and was the most earnest and ef
fective advocate of the free coinage of
silver amontr the newsDaners of the
TTnitpd SfntPfi nnw atva fVinf airam
have carried the "silver question" far
and away beyond discussion, and that
the interest formerly taken In It nnnnnt
now be revived. "No one," It says, "is
discussing silver in Utah now. The
silver miners even are not concerned
about it Not $13 could be raised to try
to reawaken interest in the subject.
Men know that it is as useless now as
It would be to try to dam the Missis
sippi in a Spring flood." The Tribune
holds that the time to "do something
for silver" has passed, perhaps forever.
Good judges are of the opinion that it
will be very hard for Bryan to carry
Utah or Idaho.
Croker is now in the steady eomnnnv
!of Bryan. He was at great cams last
year to show that the Tammany tub
stood upon its own bottom, and gave
la mighty banauet in New York, at
J which Bryan was not present, but ex-
justice van Wyck was, with his anti
trust speech. But Croker has made a
discovery, and it is that he is very
Bmall potatoes as a National boss. As
he can do nothing against Bryan, he is
for him. Croker's attitude toward Na
tional affairs is exactly what it is
toward state matters, and it is always
an inquiry as to what there is in it for
Croker. There is a certain drollery In
bis cool turning down of Hill as a mem
ber of the platform committee because
he is against the silver plank. A year
ago Croker was against Bryan, against
silver, and for expansion. But he
changed his mind with ereat alacrity
when he found out that he could not
hold Ud in the Democratic nartv
against Bryan.
"We are to infer from the controversy
(between Hill and Croker, and advance-
Sment of van Wyck as member of the
platform committee, that the New Tork
Democracy is for silver. But when did
I Van Wyck become a silver man? De
spite his notorious connection with the
Ice trust, "Van Wyck is at Kansas City
as the especial promoter of the fight
on trusts. He has a ten-plank platform
devoted almost wholly to discussion of
economic questions and declaring
among other things for
"the equitable restraint of mammoth trusts
which destroy competition, restricting the fields
of employment and individual effort making
is a Nation of servants." ,
This covers a most laudable purpose
land all good citizens ought to join in
fany honest endeavor to bring about the
preform. But reform ought to begin at
Ihome. Why do not Croker and "Van
iWyck first go after the ice trust?
The tumultuous demonstration for
ill in the convention was not so much
for Hill as it was a protest against
broker. The New Tork boss is a .sore
Bpot In the side of the Democracy: the
ice trust is as salt to its hurts. Tet the
)emocratlc party tolerates Croker and
Is "Van Wycks, and gets alone with
them as best it may, for the sufficient
reason that it cannot get along without
lem.
In, two messages President McKInley
urged the necessity of a trans-
Pacific cable, and especially of a cable
the Hawaiian Islands. The Senate
showed a willingness to make a begin-
ing, by passing a measure making
foOOO.OOO available for a cable to Hono
lulu; but In the House the bill was
olocked by order of Speaker Hender
son, and referred to the committee on
interstate and foreign commerce, which
id already reported favorably a bill
providing for the- payment of a large
subBidy to a private company for
renty years. There are those who, if
ley can prevent It, will never permit
jy public work to be executed with
out some scheme in connection with it
for enrichment of private persons
through subsidies out of the public
Creasury.
Joseph Nimmo. Jr.. has Issued an-
sther lot of pamphlets against the Nic-
ragua CanaL If Mr. Nimmo would
lake the plain and simple statement
aat the transcontinental railroads in
rhose employment he is, do not want
le canal built, he would save him
self the trouble of all this Invention of
Jctitlous reasons against it
The Philadelphia Press. Adm'lnlstra-
lon organ. Is still complalninsr bitterly
ibout the Qulgging of the platform. It
leclares that a "confidence game of this
ind can be played but once," and that
"the candidate who has to stand on
that platform should he consulted In
Its make-up." But a candidate does
not -have to stand on any platform. If
he does not like it, let -him get off. It
is the business of a party to declare
principles that suit Itself. When it
tries to- suit somebody else, It Is likely
to get Into trouble, as it did at Phila
delphia. -
"THE FIGHT AGAINST WEALTH."
Mr. Bryan, in his letter to the New
Tork World, says: "I do not care to
hold office unless It would enable me
to do something for these people (those
who made the Chicago platform) in
their fight against wealth." Tet there
are those who consider wealth prop
erty a good thing, a legitimate thing.
There are those, too, who think prop
erty entitled to influence and considera
tion in government. One of the ends
of government , has always been
thought to be the protection and con
servation of property, and every person
who knows anything knows that with
out property wealth there could be no
organized society nnd no civilization.
Maugre all Mr. Bryan's efforts in his
"fight against wealth," the people of
Oregon would like to Bee increase of
wealth In their state; and those of Mr.
Bryan's state are contending for the
same thing. Even Mr. Bryan Is not
insensible to the advantages of wealth,
and he is known to be raking together
a good deal of it
The right to own, control and protect
property has In all ages been regarded
as equal and often superior to the right
to defend one's life. This has been rec
ognized In the written and unwritten
laws of all nations and tribes, In every
stage of human history. The notion
that government can be divorced from
property is preposterous; and whenever
there Is attempt to put it In practice,
it becomes monstrous. The love of
property and the desire to accumulate
and control it is, next to the love of
life, the strongest of all motives which
sway the great mass of mankind; and
Mr. Bryan himself does not appear to
be superior to It
Applying these principles to the mat
ter now specially under discussion. It
may be said that men havo a right to
object to being stripped of their prop
erty by debasement of the measure of
value and medium of exchange, by de
struction wrought by mobs and riot
ers, and by confiscatory taxation all
of which is encouraged or threatened
by Bran politics.
There are things better than wealth;
but wealth is Indispensable to every
thing else. Not that a man is made
better by possession of wealthy but the
community is made better by it, and no
civilization can exist without It There
are the rich, it is true; people who can
not decline the responsibility which
that title Involves. There are the poor,
It is also true, and perhaps more true.
But between the two extremes how
many degrees! How many thousands,
how many millions, of persons would
you have to range in these two bands,
according as the boundary line would
find its place below or above them!
How many circumstances, besides,
would have to be taken Into account,
irrespective of pecuniary calculations!
The robust workman is rich in compari
son with the weak and sickly one. The
same man will be twenty times rich
and poor in the same day in compari
son with others, or as he shall have
successively had to do with persons
richer or poorer than himself; he will
have had to experience by turns, unless
morally raised above such feelings,
both the gnawings of envy and the
pleasing consciousness of an admitted
superiority. What is observable is the
fact that It is usually or always from
this Intermediate class that the eignal
for murmurs proceeds. The Door, the
truly poor, are- infinitely les uisposed
to look above their heads than the
greater number of those who, to say
the least, are rich in comparison of
them. For one man whom people see
or think they see placed above them on
this sliding scale they forget that there
are hundreds below; or if they remem
ber it, it is only that they may league
themselves with them, taking care,
however, not to share with them.
Declamation against luxury is com
mon, and display of worldly vanities
ever has been a theme of moral satire;
but to condemn luxury in general is
to condemn those who live by It, (o
augment the numbers of the poor, and
to cause them to receive as alms
what they might have received as
wages. The demands of luxury
ought not to make men and
women forgetful of those who are
needy; but the best and most moral of
almB is work. Have you wherewithal
to employ in useful labor any portion of
the working hands of the country?
Then do. that; but you will always do
better, far better, by employing these
hands to supply luxuries than by feed
ing them while half employed or doing
nothing at all.
It has been said, and still It Is some
times said, that it is absurd and cruel
to wear jewels, diamonds, a single one
of which would feed ten families a
whole year. But it is not the diamond
itself would feed these families; It
Is the proceeds got by selling it Thus
there would, always need to be a pur
chaser; there must ever be some one
subject to the reproach of wearing on
his finger as much bread as would feed
fifty of his brethren. If nobody chooses
to incur the guilt of such cruelty, why
then the diamond becomes a mere peb
ble, equal! useless to the poor and to
the rich. See then to what end this
"fight against wealth" leads. The price
of a fine carriage Is divided among
three hundred different workmen. Is
not wealth engaged in good and pa
triotic work when It employs them?
Wealth has Its moral obligations, and
it Isthe universal testimony of those
writers who have given time and tal
ents to a survey of the moral and in
tellectual progress of the world In re
cent times, that a growing sense of
this responsibility, as compared with
conditions formerly. Is very generally
apparent. Politicians have no moral
right to make a "fight against wealth,"
for it Is a good thing In the world; and
really they are not sincere. They are
appealing to low motives and base pas
sions, for political advantage.
Democratic platform-makers should
note the statement of the Director of
the Mint, which from conclusive data
points out that the world's gold pro
duction for the calendar year of J889
can hardly fall short of $400,000,000. In
1896, when Mr. Bryan, with the 16-to-l
cry upqn his lips, ran for the Presi
dency, the world's gold yield was $202,
000,000. It has since increased more
than 50 per cent, and, if Director Rob
erts is correct In his estimate, it will
soon reach 100 per cent The chief
basis cf he demand for the unlimited
coinage of silver was the theory that
the gold supply was inadequate to af-
ford a solid or sufficient foundation for
our currency. This was a far cry at
the time. Since then It has been re
futed, not by argument alone, though
this has been sufficiently conclusive,
but by events. It is no wonder that in
telligent Democrats In all the great
centers of trade and industry are be
seechingthelr party leaders to drop 16
to 1 as a hopelessly outdated Issue, or
that a powerful contingent holding to
this view was among the Urst on the
ground at Kansas City.
LA PAYETTE.
Testerday, in Paris, the statue tif
La Fayette, the gift of the- school chil
dren of America, was presented to the
French Nation In presence of President
Loubet and the United States Ambas
sador. General Horace Pqrtr. The
French press speak with surprise that
America has thus honored the cnemory
of La Fayette. Tne people of the
United States remember that La Fay
ette, refused permlss'onby his King to
join the cause of the struggling colo
nies, chartered a vessel with his own
money and reached this country before
France became our ally He spent his
great wealth in. our cause. He was
wounded at Brandywlne. He was the
devoted and trusted friend of Washing
ton. ' He was a very gal ant soldier,
about equal to the command of a bri
gade. He was a very henesb, truthful
man, entirely devoted to liberty as we
understand It; but he was not enough
of a soldier nor a statesman to ride
successfully and rule the storm of the
French Revolution; and7 to save his
head from the Jacobins, he was obliged
to flee from the camp of his own army
and take refuge in that of the AUstrl
ans, who held him a prisoner .in the
fortress of Olmutz for several years,
until the victory of the French arms
under Napoleon released him.
As a republican. La Fayette refused
to accept a command under Napoleon,
and remained in retirement until after
Waterloo and the return of the Bour
bons. He visited this country in 1S2.
and remained until 1825, making a tour
of the Union as far as Burlington, "Vt,
where he laid the corner-stone of the
University of Vermont, whose park to
day includes a fine statue or La Fay
ette. He was Influential after the rev
olution of 1830 in persuading the French
people to choose his old companion In
arms, Louis Philippe, King in place of
the fugitive Charles X. La Fayette
lived to be a very old man. He had
the frame and stature of a big grena
dier. He was a good man, an unselfish
and lifelong friend of human freedom;
but the best work of his life was his
youthful service in the American Army
under Washington. The rest of his po
litical and military career was so gen
erally a failure that Carlyle, in his
"French Revolution," contemptuously
calls him a "Sir Charles Grandlsort
Cromwell," meaning that he was pos
sessed of more superficial dignity of
manner than military or political ca
pacity. ' "THE YELLOW PKUIL."
Some years ago a cartoonist, who, It
seems, wielded his pencil with wider
purpose than to catch the whim of the
hour and portray it in exaggerated
pose, pictured the nations of Europe
upon elevation, fully armad and gazing
anxiously, while they withheld their
fire, at a dark cloud gathering In the
East and slowly overspreading the
land. This cartoon he called '"The Tel
low Peril." If caught the public eye
for a brief moment, and was dlsmlseed
from the public thought as an exag
geration. Events, however, seem to in
dicate a reality in this peril, since be
fore it civilization Is held In check at
the gates of the "Forbidden City" while
the nations of the world, including our
own, are preparing to force these gates
and rescue each its own from the dead
ly clutch of aggressive superstition and
Ignorance. In other words, civilization
Is arming under compulsion against
the bigotry and prejudice that control
an empire vast In extent and whose in
habitants may well be likened unto the
sand of the seashore.
The end Is not In sight The begin
ning, indeed, though foretold by events,
was so sudden In its onset that such
meager forces as civilization had at
hand with which to meet It were
quickly beaten back, or lire still held
In check, while around them the "yel
low peril" surges with dally Increas
ing volume. It may safely be predicted
that civilization will win In the end, so
far at least as to protect her agents
In pushing 'trade and commerce into
the ports and eventually into the in
terior of the Chinese Empire. With
this end in view, the prows of the
world's great navies are turned toward
Chinese waters, and soldiers are being
sent or will be sent to reinforce the
marines that have already been
launched against this "yellow peril,"
only to be enveloped in its shadows.
Trade is the b'reath of life to nations.
It cannot be restricted by arbitrary
decree nor cut off, except temporarily,
by violence. The last year of the cen
tury sees the world armed and in bat
tle array the yellow men against the
white in the bootless endeavor to
throttle It
Suddenly as this question seemed to
be sprung, it has yet been long in gath
ering force and volume In China. The
same spirit now In revolt, backed by,
myriads of yellow men In and around
Pekin, has made Itself manifest num
berless times. It is easily recalled that
In 1895 a 'serious revolt against the
missionaries by the Vegetarians result
ed in the massacre of a large number
of overzealous men and women. en
gaged in the work of trying to Chris
tianize Chinamen against their will.
J. Courtney Hlxon, now First Lieuten
ant of the Thirty-second Infantry,
United States Volunteers, stationed, -at.
Manila, was at that tims Consul at
Fuchan, under the Cleveland Adminis
tration. He worked with a will to
bring to justice the leaders of this mas
sacre, among whom were professing
native Christians and Mandarins al
ways hostile to missionary effort He
was so successful that three months
after the massacre was reported he had
them beheaded. Lieutenant Hlxon is
one who realizes the constant menace
of the "yellow peril." He believes, and
so expressed himself at that time five
years ago that a formidable element in
this peril was the attempt to preach to
the Chinese a religion other than-that
which has been theirs for ages. He
predicted that, unless our lnls?lonarIes
were recalled and forbidden by our
Government to enter China, the result
would be a war which would entail
great loss of life and heavy moneyed
expense to the United States. He
backed this opinion by the fact as dis
closed by his Intercourse with the Chi
nese, that no religionists on earth are
more devoted to their creed than they,
and that any amount of labor with a
vlew to their conversion is lost In the
expressive language of his report now
on file. In the State Department he
says:
One hundred thousand missionaries sent to
China would amount to nothing, and thesa
missionaries might as well preach to the rock
of Mount Lebanon cr establish grist mills and
export to grind out converted Chinese.
To eliminate this clement from the
"yellow peril' -will not be easy, but if It
becomes necessary in order to protect
Dur trade interests from frequent in
terruption, our citizens in Chjna from
the ferocious onslaught of fanatics in
arms in defense of their creed, and ur
Government from a vast responsibil
ity and needless embarrassment. It will
be done.
Thorough research and careful esti
mates enable the Boston Herald to
conclude that, at the present rate ot
consumption, the lumber supply of the
United States Is likely to bo exhausted
In twenty-five years. The amount of
lumber now used per year Is 5,000,000;
000 cubic feet for making paper while
three times that amount Is burned In
stoves, fireplaces and furnaces, and the I
use or wooa ror fencing and for rail
road ties Is increasing. The forest
products annually consumed In the
United States are estimated to he
worth $1,000,000,000 nearjy twice the
value of the butput of alt. the mines,'
quarries, petroleum w.ells and other
mineral products of the Country, except
coal. The estimate, based on the year
1895, was that, while- timber was being
cut in Europe at the rate of 20,000,000
feet a month, it was being cut in the.
United States at two and one-half times
as great a rate. In Europe reforesta
tion is carried on more thoroughly and
on a more scientific basis than an this
continent, -
The Tacoma accident is a dreadful
affair. No similar casualty in the Pa
cific Northwest ever cost so many lives,
except the tnimcar disaster on Point
Ellice bridge, Victoria, on May 25, 1896.
Sixty persons were then drowned or
crushed to death. At Tacoma the death
roll may reach fifty. "Portland has
suffered two shocking street 'railway
"accidents, one at Madison-street bridge
and the other On East Morrison street;
hut the fatalities both times were less
than ten. At Victoria a rotten bridge
was the cause of the disaster; In Port
land an open bridge draw on a foggy
morning, in the one instance, and In
the other a broken axle, causing the.
car to leave the track at a Jog Jn the
road, and to be. precipitated from a
bridge into the water. In Tacoma a
steep grade, a sharp turn in the road
leading over a high bridge, and Idas" of
control of the car, were responsible for
the tragedy.
In an Interview given to the St Louis
Globe-Democrat Justice Brewer, of the
United States Supreme Court, said:
I do not understand that wo have any treaty
rights to Bend troops to China, but -vre have.
a Constitutional right to protect our citizens.
AU nations have a right to protect their own
citizens -within the limits of a foreign nation
and to do everything necessary to procure
that protection.
At international law every natlon'lias
a Tight to have Its Interests protected
and Its Just claims enforced. The
United States Is justified not only In
employing military force to protect Its
subjects in China, but It may demand
indemnity and enforce its payment
Ex-Mayor Hewitt, of New Tork. a
Gold Democrat, has announced his un
compromising rejection of William J.
Bryan, with' or without 16 to 1, for the
reason that he "utterly falls to com
prehend the nature of this Govern
ment" Charles S. Schwab, President
Cleveland's Secretary of the Treasury;
Gustav H. Schwab and Spencer Trask
have been Interviewed by the Evening
Post, and they.take substantially the
same ground. It would' appear that
the Bryan howl of antl-lmperlaflsm had
not yet stampeded the Gold Democrats.
In China there are three times as
many Roman Catholic Christians as
there are of all Protestant denomina
tions taken together. The Catholics
have 1,000,000 adherents, and thirty
bishoprics, while no one estimates the.
number of Protestant adherents -at over
200,000. But the Roman Catholic Church
began its work In China hundreds of
years before the Protestajnis began
theirs long, lrfdeed, before the Protes
tant movement known as the Reforma
tion. France has 14.05 soldiers per 1000 of
population, Germany 11.05, Italy 7.01,
Turkey 7.0L Austria-Hungary 6.07, Rus
sia 6.0L Great Britain 5,06, and the
United States 0.S6. We have 65,000 men
in service. Our increase over 25,000 ia
only temporary, and the la-fl authoriz
ing it will expire July -1, 1901. The
danger from a great standing army ia
only a bugaboo after all.
A new mortgage of 13,000,000 on the
City & Suburban Railway property is
for the purpose of replacing $1,250,000
of 6 per cent bonds with 30-year -4 per
cent bonds. These will readily be
taken at par. The remaining bonds,
aggregating $1,760,000, will be held for
future development of the City & Sub
urban system.
In view of Boodler Clark's recent
offer to give $1,000,000 to the Democratic
campaign fund, the Kansas City con
vention was too polite to question the
entire regularity of his delegation's cre
dentials. The Democracy warns the country
against entangling alliances with any
other nation. Who is there to warn tha
Democracy against entangling alli
ances with any other political party.
It may be hoped that Emperor Will
iam's purposes to subdue the Chinese
uprising may not end, as usual, in a
large amount of warlike talk 'and a
small amount of warlike action.
Jim Ham Lewis has at least been
"mentioned" for VIoe-Presldent; but
mainly by Lewis.
Platfprms and Candidates.
New Tork Post
It was partly because the Republicans
were holding their sides with laughter
at the anguished perplexity of Democrats
over tho Kansas City platform, that they
fell unawares into their own platform
pickle at Philadelphia. Talk about Bryan
having to stand on a platform he does
not Ukel Why, McKInley is going to
do the samo thing. Here is the Phila
delphia Press, which speaks by tho (post
al) . card, declaring that the platform
which the committee so ruthlessly emas
culated and rewrote had been "closely
scanned by the President and given his
approval." "It was the pjatform Mc
KInley wanted to stand on." But it waa
incontinently Jerked from under him "by
the platform committee. This perform
ance was a "confidence game," is the ex
ceeding bitter cry of Postmaster-General
Smith. As he himself was the proud au
thor of the perious which the Philadel
phia censors clipped, there may be Just
a. suspicion here of the spretoo injuria
formae. Tet there can be no doubt that
he and Grosvenor tell the truth when
they say that the "candidate was con
sulted in the make-up" of the platform
on which he was to "stand;" and that
then this "make-up" was cruelly washed
off in the Republican green-room. The
remedy which the Press and other out
raged Republican newspapers promise
for this platform outrage Is rather mora
comic than the original calamity ot hav
ing McKInley overruled. He, is to over
rule the convention. "President McKIn
ley," sternly announces his Postmaster
General, "will embody the real, platform
in his letter of acceptance."
GOLD am? AND MR. BRYAN.
ADram S. Hewitt Would Sot Corapro
silxc With Him.,,
New Tork Post
The attitude of uncompromising rejec
tion of William J. Bryan, "with or with
out 16 to V expressed yesterday In his
newspaper by ex-Secretary of Agriculture
J. Sterling Morton, is also tho attitude
of one of the eminent Eastern Gpld Dem
ocrats. Abram S. Hewitt Mr. Hewitt Is
opposed to Mr. Bryan for the reason that
the latter utterly faliea to comprehend
the nature of this Government
A man who denounced as "government
by Injunction" tho performance by the
judiciary of theduty Imposed upon It by
the Constitutional law of the land; who
denounced the Supremo Court, the bul
wark of liberty, and order; who sought
to overthrow the judiciary of the country,
was a man too limited in understanding
and too violent in impulse to bo Intrusted
with the great office of President
The American conception of government
had been liberty regulated by law; tho
Bryan notion was, despotism regulated
by anarchy.
As to Mr. Bryan's acceptability on the
score of his -hostility to imperialism, Mr.
Hewitt was of the opinion that in reality
there was no issue in this country be
tween imperialism and anti-Imperialism.
To this effect he had Just been writing to
a friend in England. It was simply a
case of "having tho wolf by the ear and
not being able to let go." He would .like
some one to show us how to let go. He
would gladly see such a solution. But
it appeared entirely impracticable, if not
impossible.
He did not believe that the Adminis
tration had desired the Philippines, or had
conscientiously entered upon a course of
empire, but that It Had been gradually
forced Into its present situation by cur
rents of events which could neither be
foreseen nor resisted. In similar fash
ion, without desire or purpose, we wero
sustaining part In an armed conflict In
China, tho outcome of which no mortal
could foresee. Only, It was clear that
the powers must establish there a stable
government and It was quite within the
probabilities that tho United States
would be compelled to bear an active
share In its maintenance. Without in
voking imperialism, the United States,
however, reluctantly, might bo drawn Into
It by world movements, which ev.er pro
duced most unexpected results, for none
could keep this country within hard and
fast linos.
As to Bryan's anti-trust platform, the
trust too, was a necessary combination
and development the remedy for whose
evils he had In 1S90 pointed out In the
following words: "Publicity, inspection
and discussion are the great safeguards
which the public can apply In order to
correct abuses and avoid conflicts and
disastrous losses."
Joseph C. Hendrix, president of the Na
tional Bank of Commerce, and J. Edward
Simmons, president ot the Fourth Nat
ional Bank, both of whom were promi
nent in tho Gold Democracy movement of
four years ago, declined to express any
opinions In advance of the action of the
Democratic convention.
A Perfervld Orrttor.
Bourke Cockran Is a born orator, an
involuntary exile from Tammany Hall,
not a great lawyer, not a statesman, by
heredity an Anglophobe, and at present
a- darling of the, "anti-lmporlollsts." His
eloquent tongue Is hung very loosely,
and sometimes wags very foolishly. His
talk at Tale, the other day, about the
probable or at any rate possible annexa
tion of Canada, Mexico and South
America earns him a sharp rebuke from
the New Tork Times.- That paper re
marks: His -words, translated, as they surely will be,
for use in tho newspapers of Spanish Amer
ica, cannot but increase tho distrust with
which the United States and Its assumed am
bitions are regarded by too many of their
readers. Of course, the distrust is absurdly
unwarranted, and Mr. Cockran knows as well
as anybody elea that Mexico is as tala from
American aggression as England or Germany,
but the feeling is as real as it Is absurd, and
It Is a very serious drawback to the exten
sion ot American commerce to, and the preser
vation of friendly relations with, the countries
where It exists. That unscrupulous and self
seeking politicians in those countries should be
always warning their followers against our
plots is natural enough, but it is a- different
matter that Mr. Cockran, with no other ob
vious purpose than to embarrass the defenders
of Inevitable and legitimate expansion, should
refer to the annexation of Canada and the
rest of the two Americas in tha way he did.
The "MentlonlnB" of Croker.
New Tork Times.
The Tammany Boss showed, when
he first came ashore, how hugely
ho was pleased by being "men
tioned" for the committee on resolutions
of the Democratic Convention. Na -wonder.
Because the mention betokens, on
the part of the mentloner, an assumption
that the mentioned can read and write,
not merely to tha extent of painfully
signing his name with his tongue out,
which" it is belie,ved almost any member
of the general committee Is up to, but
Just sitting down and dashing off on pa
per what he has to say. This latter ac
complishment 1b not so common In the
organization, and is viewed there with a
certain suspicion, and even deemed In
consistent with leadership. "Scivit scri
bere, non potult dictare," as Sylla Is
said to have said and as Croker might
say, or, as Dclmour might translate It
into language understanded of the
Boys: "He's a good scollard, but he ain't
no Boss." To be "mentioned" for a mem
ber of the committee on resolutions at
a National Convention is tho Tammany
equivalent of the degree of LL, D. No
wonder the Boss was pleased. We are
all of us pleased by receiving distinctions-
Irrelevant to our faculties.
Men's I,asy Paatlmes In China.
New Tork Tribune.
Outdoor amusements for men in China
are few and not popular. They fly kites,
carry birds on perches" and throw seeds
high in the air for them to catch, or row
boats in a lazy fashion on the lagoons or
rivers. They pitch coppers, fight crickets
or quail, juggle balls and play games with
jackstrawB and snapstlcks.' Aotive, man
ly sports are not in keeping with the no
tions of dignity of the' Chinese, and If
they wore they could not be indulged in
because of the inconvenience of dress.
Instead of rowing, ball, tennis or golf,
young men prove their muscle by lifting
beams with heavy stones at each end, like
huge dumb-bells, or play shuttlecock, us
ing the thick soles of their shoes as the
battledore.
There are few bearded men in China.
Mon who have grandchildren may wear a
mustache, and many take advantage of
the privilege, and are called "old hair
men." The foreigners with mustaches,
when they came to China, excited much
curiosity, and the- unusual sight justified
them in asking the ages of the bearded
men.
Not a
"Temperance" Platform.
Hartford Courant
Men capable of applauding such a
brew of silly falsehood and slang
whanging vituperation may bo total ab
stainers from "rum," but tho virtue of
temperance Is not In them. The apos
tolic injunction, "Be sober-minded," has
no place in their thoughts and no influ
ence upon what they call their politics.
They do sot even know what it means.
CHINESE VIEWS OP FOREIGNERS.
Taeir Minds Inflamed by Continued
MIsreprenentatlon.
It is the testimony ot all travelers that
the Chinese are not only profoundly ignor
ant of the world beyond China, but this
Ignorance is cultivated by the educated,
class for the distinct purpose of preserv
ing their isolation from that world, and
making it Impossible for foreigners to'
overrun the ancient empire.
The labors of the missionaries are par
ticularly obnoxious to the Chinese, and
unfortunately these labors are not always
carried on with tact or discretion. Natur
ally it is consldeed especlarlly desirable
to make the Christian religion distaste
ful to the mass of the people; and this
seems to be the chief aim of a book which
has been circulated widely In China, and
of which a translation has been recently
published by the missionaries at Tung
Chow. Its contents are sufficiently de
scribed by Dr. Henry Llddell in the cur
rent issue- of the Independent They are
"scurrilous and Indecent" but their truth
Is not questioned by the Chinese. Tet this
book, of whjch 800,000 copies have been
taken by one person alone for gratuitous
distribution, is, in the opinion of the
translators, "a remarkably truthful repre
sentation of the animus of the ruling and
literary classes of China toward foreign
ers." This gives it no small measure of
Importance. "Wo believe, also," they add,
"that It has been largely Instrumental In
giving rise to tho vile and slanderous
stories concerning foreign residents and
native Christians which have recently
spread throughout China; and that it
sheds important light on the means by
which the. massacre at Tien Tsin was
brought about No mere description,
however full, could possibly convey any
adequate Idea of Its vlleness and deadly
animosity."
The writers of this precious volume
class all Christian peoples together. To
them Russians and Americans, Germans
and Englishmen, are one. The book Is
full of exaggerations and obscenities, all
having the practical aim of associating
the foreigner with all that is lowest and
most repulsive. Those who read the book,
the translators say, will believe it In thl3
fact lies its power for mischief. Several
extracts are given in the Independent.
Christians, it is gravely asserted, "make
use of occult and devilish arts and be
witch the Ignorant by magical arts and
incantations, so they joyfully enter the
sect . . . When a person enters this re
ligion the teacher gives him four ounces
of silver and a pUL WHen ho has taken
this pill his whole mind Is confused and
darkened, so that ho destroys his an
cestral tablets and only worships an Im
age of a naked child which points one
finger toward heaven and another to
ward earth." And again:
They constantly practice, killing men to sac
rifice to Jesus, in praying for happiness. . . .
When a principal man dies, the7 offer 1000
men as a sacrifice. To procure victims, they
catch foreigners and traders coming into their
borders, and if these aro not sufficient they
seize travelers, so that no one dares to go
to market alone, for fear of being carried oft.
It is considered honorable to have many wives.
The principal man Is allowed 3000.
In England, they have the art of cutting out
paper men and horses, and by burning charms
and repeating incantations transforming them
into real men and horses. They may, how
ever, be dissolved by beating a gong, or by
discharging large guns at them. They may
also be dissolved by spouting Arater over them.
These extracts are enough to Indi
cate tho character of the book. It3 Im
portance, as has been said, lies In the
fact that It has been circulated every
where through China, and Implicitly ac
cepted as the truth. Thus the Chinese are
inflamed against foreigners, not only be
cause they prefer Isolation, but also be
because they believe that degradation will
follow Intercourse with them. Thoy also
believe that the missionaries are Influ
enced by selfish motives, and that their
religion is but a cloak for designs against
the Integrity of the empire. It Is unfor
tunate that circumstances should occa
sionally seem to justify this suspicion.
The present crisis is the natural result
of the feeling which such a book must
arouse: and Its gravity can hardly be
overestimated.
Chinese Citlea.
Tien Tsin is the most important city
of northern China, being located at the
head of the Gulf of Pe Chi LI and but SO
miles from- Pekin, with which It is con
nected by water and a railway line.
Another completed railway line runs
northeasterly to Shan Hal Kwan, and a
railway Is projected southward from this
point to connect Tien Tsin with Shang
hai. Its population Is about 1,000.000. and
its imports were In 1897 more than 53,
000,000 haikwan taels, having nearly dou
bled In the last decade. During 1893
American drills, American sheeting, and
American kerosene especially Increased
In the Imports of Tien Tsin. Tien Tsin
ranks in commercial importance with
Shanghai and Canton, and by Its geo
graphical position Is the point of accu
mulation and distribution of all mer
chandise destined for the United States
or intended for consumption in tho north
ern provinces of China. Che Foo is an
important treaty port located on the Gulf
of Pe Chi LI nearer to the British port
of We Hal Wei than to Tien Tsin.
There is a constant and growing demand
for American goods at that point New
Chwang, a city of but 60,000, Is of special
Importance to the United States as a
treaty port because of the demand for
American cottons, oil and American man
ufactures generally with tho Province
of Shlngklng, of which New Chwang
at the extreme north of the Gulf of Pe
Chi LI Is the treaty port The proposed
Russian railway lino, which is projected
through Manchuria and the Province of
Shlngklng to Port Arthur, passes near
New Ohwang and I3 to be connected by
a short line. Another, a British line, will
connect New Chwang with Shan Hal
Kwan, which 13 already In railway con
nection with Pekin. The importation of
American kerosene at this port was 528,
000 gallons in 1S06, and in 1S98 it rose to
2,011,000 gallons.
MEN AVtJi WOMEJT.
Edwin Conger, American Minister to China,
knows the Oriental character as thoroughly as
any diplomat In ths Bast. and. unlike most,
he speaks several Chinese dialects.
Dr. Henri Dunaat who did so much to hu
manize war. Is living almost penniless In the
Hosplco of Heidcn, in Appenzell, Switzerland.
He was instrumental in founding tho Red
Cross Society.
Major-Gencral French is a short, thick-sot
man, who always stands with his feet and legs
well apart, and sits hunched upon his saddle.
A vlsw of his back suggests General Grant.
Like Grant, too, h shows no concern for ex
ternals. Tho sons of the Infanta Eulalle and her
recreant husband, Don Antonio d' Orleans, re
spectively 12 and 14 years of ago, will con
tinue to live In England till their educations
are completed and they are old enough to
enter the military college at Madrid.
Charlotte Bronte'n husband, the Rev. Arthur
Bell Nlcholls, now an octogenarian, lives the
quietest ot country lives at Banagher, County
Kings, Ireland. Ho Issa strongly built ro
bust old gentleman, who is wonderfully acUvo
for his years, and locally very popular. His
second wife Is a most estimable lady, who re
veres the memory of tho novelist Jus,t as fondly
as her husband.
The Board of Regents of the University ot
Kansas broke away from precedent the other
day, and elected Miss Eugenie Galloo to the
chair of French, made vacant by tho resigna
tion of Professor A. G. Canfleld. Miss Galloo
Is ths first woman to occupy & full professor
ship at the Institution since preparatory work
was abolished. Miss Alma D. Delande Xieduc,
of Chicago University, a New Orleans girl,
was elected to succeed Miss Galloo as assist-ant
H
The burnt child fears the firecracker.
AbdulHamld's cough doesn't seem to,
be loosening any.
Too election will prove that the term.
SSUyJS&f t Is, - Plunder. .
WafiwHH'vtnan with money to bet that
1Vo(hey7Wiil carry Kentucky.
TUift "Riifers iff not HtatMrnm rvr ttirnr
woubOTftKing with alarm.
end ot last night's Bhow
big chunk of the cheese.
The ww correspondents are now emi
grating from St Louis and heading for
China.
David B. Hill says he is a Democrat
He is still careless of his reputation for
veracity.
It 13 not surprising that the Chinese
have a mental slant They see things
with that kind of eyes.
Conventions all are past and gone.
With all their hopes and fears.
And many thousand candidates
Must wait for four more years.
A good many hard things have been
said about Queen Elizabeth; but she was
really a diamond In the ruff.
Mark Twain and Dewey, as well as e
few thousand Vice-Presidential candi
dates, still remain unnomlnated.
Down by the sounding sea.
Where the Summer maiden fares.
Is not tho place for you and me,
Unless we're millionaires.
Toung men who heard the Chinese
bands last night are not likely to enlist
in the army to fight the Boxers.
We can't all go to the Paris exposition,
but the seaside hotel-keepers are prepared
to reduce our capital almost a3 speedily.
The Kentucky Legislature Is going to
amend the Goebel election law. It IS
pretty raw as It stands, but not sufficient
ly so for enlightened Kentucky.
Boston has already opened Its free pub
lic baths, and will keep them open until
after Labor day. The bath trustees asked
the city authorities for 5106,000 for the
proper maintenance of the baths, and
got only $70,000. They decided that Sum
mer bathing Is the greater public neces
sity, and will spend most of the money
for that making no attempt to keep open
the Winter baths.
It was a Judge In New Jersey a few
months ago, who declared that tho life of
a child, killed by a trolley car, was not
worth more than a dollar. In contrast
with that estimate a Jury In the New
Tork Supreme Court the other day award
ed $20,000 damages to a 6-year-old boy
$vho was partly paralyzed as a conse
quence of being run over by a brewery
wagon. Children seem to be worth more
In New Tork than In New Jersey, at least
in the courts.
The Pan-African Congress, to be held
in London in July, will assemble dele
gates not only from all the civilized dis
tricts of Africa, but from both Americas,
the West Indies and perhaps a represent
ative or two from the sparse and scat
tered negro population of Australasia. It
will, in fact, take in negro representation
all around the globe, and give the black
man a new notion of his Importance and
of his social and industrial progress
wherever hi3 surrounding circumstances
are favorable, " ""
Wo ain't a-cartn" how tho scrap in China
winds up now,
We kind o' think we'll pull out whole wa
mcatly do, somehow.
We're satisfied to take our chanco along with
all the rest,
A-trustln that the whole blame thing" 11 pan
out fur the best.
We're happy now as we can be slnco them
press fellers wroto
The news that our old battle-ship, the Oregon'a
afloat.
We've watched her since she left the ways be
cause we liked her name.
We've felt a-burnin' Int'rest in her subse
quentlal fame; .
An when she traveled 'round the Horn and
got In at tho fight.
"We said, "Wo knowed it all the time, tho
Oregon's all right."
An now we know sho won't be lost, our best
an' biggest boat.
We're Just a-thankln' heaven 'cause the Ore
gon's aflcat.
When wa first heard she'd struck that rock
you might a bought the stato
So low that it would been worth while fur
them that speckalate;
Our Jaws was hangln at half-mast; our hearts
was In our boots;
Tho devil an old Neptune seemed agin us In
cahoots.
An' If you think we've got too gay. Just kind
o' mako a note
That wo have got a good excuse the Oregon'a
afloat.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
Not Restricted. "That gentleman who Is
being Introduced to Miss Btnks Is a free think
er." "Which Is he. a bachelor or a wldowert"
Brooklyn Life.
At tho Summer Resort. May Dull, Isn't ltT
Belle Awfully! Wo haven't a thing to do ex
cept to explain to one another why we are not
In Paris. 'Puck.
"What did Freddy say when you caught him
coming out of tho pantrj' with his Hand3
stained red?" "He told the truth by saying
that he had Jammed his fingers." Philadel
phia Evening Bulletin.
Mrs. D'Avnoo (at front window) Officer!
Policemen Tes, ma'am. What's wrong, ma'
am? Mrs. D'Avnoo Nothing's wrong; but I
wish you'd step into the kitchen and tell the
cook not to burn the meat, as she did last
night. I'm afraid to. New York Weekly.
Corroborative. "I am Inclined to think there
is some foundation for the rumor that the
X.. T. &. Z. Railway Is about to b consoli
dated with the A., B. & C." "Has anything
turned up to confirm ltT" "Tes. The presi
dents of both roads say there Is absolutely
nothing In the story." Chicago Tribune.
A Life of Excitement, City Cousin But
don't you find It dreadfully dull? Country
Cousin Dull? The Idea! Why, there's the Ep
worth League one evening; and class meeting,
another; and prayer meeting always on
Wednesdays; and tho Dorcas meeting, and
the other means of grace. There's almost al
ways something exciting going on after sup
per. Brooklyn Life.
A Southern Salute.
Atlanta Constitution.
Teddy, Teddy,
Are you ready v
For tho hop! hep! hep!
Will you keep tho soldiers steady
Aa they step! step! step! t
Will you tell 'em what the war
In tha Philippines was for?
Mako tho campaign, cannon roar
In the morning!
Teddy, Teddy,
Are you ready?
Tell the Captains all to shout!
Keep the campaign barrel steady "
As the soldiers face about
Tell 'em how you rode it rough "
O'er the Spanish wild and tough;
Give 'em Spanish war enough '
In the morning.
Teddy, Teddy!
Answer "Ready!"
We're depending on you strong;
Ton must koop tha old ship steady
As the billows roll along;
'Spite of license and of law
Glvo 'em beef and tullets raw;
You're tho card that's goln to draw
la tho morales!
NOTE AND COMMENT.