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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, JULY G, lOOO.
The speeches at Kansas City and the
platform adopted show that the Demo
cratic organization is quite as radical
and socialistic as it was in 1S96, or
even more so. Such a party cannot
command the support of the careful
and conservative men of the country.
The way to reaffirm is to reaffirm.
But the problem the "conservative" De
mocracy was trying to solve was, how
to reaffirm without reaffirming. It
was willing that the party should be
for silver and for all the socialistic and
reactionary doctrines of the Chicago
platform, but It was trying to devise
some way to persuade and deceive a
part of the public that it is not. In
the West, where there Is supposedly
loud demand fr silver, the crowd was
to be assured that reaffirmation means
reaffirmation; in the East, that reaffir
mation does not mean reaffirmation.
This policy of dishonest and cowardly
evasion has been defeated by the fatu
ous course of Bryan himself and his
various instrumentalities working upon
the convention.
Bryan Is a platform in himself, be
cause Bryan is Bryanlsm. It Is not
possible to dissociate him from the
quack doctrines he has been espousing
from one end of the country to the
other in the last four years. Bryan on
a mild platform would not be a con
vincing figure. He would gain little
where he is distrusted because he Is
Bryan; he would lose where he Is trust
ed because he would thus not be Bryan.
Democratic politicians have been un
fortunate for two score years In select
ing platform imperials. Only twice
since I860 have they built a structure
that would bear the strain of a cam
paignIn 184 and 1892. This year the
party rejects again its only successful
builders, and turns to' joiners who use
the beachwood that has washed ashore
since the last storm.
"We are afraid our Democratic breth
ren are hard to please. Here Is the
Chicago Chronicle, declaiming against
"militarism," but upbraiding the Ad
ministration because of its alleged lack
of vigor In sending military forces to
China.
A singular parallel exists between
the "Vlce-Presldentlal situation at Phil
adelphia and Kansas City. Piatt had
the Republican delegation in his pocket,
as Croker has the Democratic. Piatt
wanted to get Roosevelt out of the
way, but Roosevelt did not want to be
put out of the way. . Croker hates and
fears Hill, and has offered him the
united support of his delegates for Vice
President Hill beards the tiger In his
den, accuses him of trying to side
track him, exposes and opposes the
whole scheme. Piatt's delegation de
clared for Woodruff, meaning at the
proper time to swing to Roosevelt
Croker's delegation puts up the dummy
Kellard, and will gladly complete
Hill's humiliation by making him stand
as a. candidate on a platform violently
in conflict with his principles and ut
terly repugnant to him in its vital as
pects. The great body of the Demo
cratic party outside of New Tork City
is for Hill, precisely as the Republican
party was for Roosevelt Sympathy for
Hill's courageous but hopeless fight
against Croker, made acute by the
ruthless substitution of the creature
"Van Wyck on the platform committee;
and recognition of the fact that he is
trying to save the Democracy from
itself, are at the basis of the uproarious
clamor for Hill.
Hill as a hero and martyr may seem
startling, but It is a spectacle not alto
gether novel. As the acknowledged
state leader of hls party in 1894,
he was forced to take the Guberna
torial nomination. Defeat was certain,
and it Involved loss of prestige and
power. But take It he did, and he
made a fine flght against overwhelm
ing odds, being beaten by more than
150,000 votes. He managed to keep his
hold on the machine until 1896, when he
deliberately abandoned It It was at a
time, too, when he was about to retire.
from the Senate, where he had attained
a position of dignity and influence. The
Nation had come to regard Hill as a
somewhat larger figure than as a con
triving politician and astute boss; and
he knew that he had gained in stature
and public regard. So he sacrificed
much when he stepped out and al
lowed Croker to step In.
It is to be said for Charley Towne
that he proposed to get that Demo
oratlc nomination if he could. But It
looks as if a man who was a Republi
can up to 1SS6. a Bryan Republican
up to May, 1900, and a Populist up to
July 4 of the same year, is not a good
enough Democrat even for the Demo
cratic party. Towne's philanthropic
act in making a gift of himself to the
Democratic party for value received
Is apparently not appreciated.
The tail wags the dog in the Demo
cratic party. Here are Hawaii, Okla
homa, Indian Territory, Arizona, and
New Mexico being thrown into the
balances against Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
New York, and Pennsylvania, and de-
termlnlng the course of the convention
on the sliver question. Not one of
these territories has a vote; not one
would be a factor If it had. But so it
is with Bryan. He Is strong where It
does him little good to be strong; weak
where it is tatal for him to be weak.
THE FALSE ALAItM.
The Kansas City platform Is a piece
of flamboyant rhetoric The tone of it
Is shrleky and hysterical. The writers
laid themselves out to make It intense.
Of all the efforts of platform-makers to
"view with alarm," this easily carries
the palm. It is a piece of fustian, pa
thetically stuffed with the plaints of
gasping and dying liberty. The shriek
was in high key four years ago; when
mankind was to be crucified under a
crown of thorns upon a cross of gold;
but the rhetoric Is even warmer now,
and the magniloquence Is even more
magniloquent now. And what Is it all
about? The sovereignty of the United
States must be withdrawn from the
Philippines and from Porto Rico, pr
Liberty Is dead!
It Is strange that men should imagine
they could alarm the country with this
ridiculous and sorry stuff. Yet this Is
denominated the "paramount issue."
Why? Because the men who made
this platform know In their hearts
that the platform of 1806 Is ab
surd, yet they are under the ne
cessity of repeating it, and therefore
they want to put something before It,
in order to diminish the grossness of
their self-stultification in reaffirming
it. Liberty is not in danger; our sys
tem of government Is not in peril
through "imperialism," nor any other
figment This country is entirely com
petent to hold the Philippine Islands,
Porto Rico and Hawaii, and to extend
to them the advantages of free govern
ment, without loss of a Jot or tittle of
its own vigorous freedom; and Ameri
cans who don't know this are lacking
in that element of faith that gpod citi
zenship requires.
The proposal Is, first, that we "give
the Philippine Islands a stable govern
ment; second, Independence; third, pro
tection from outside interference, such
as has been given to South American
Republics." The objections are these:
We cannot give them a stable govern
ment unless we remain there to main
tain it, and therefore we cannot grant
them Independence. Again, if we grant
them independence and undertake to
protect them against outside Interfer
ence, which they will surely provoke
through their own folly and violence,
we shall have the most serious Job of
"militarism" which we have yet Under
taken. Moreover, we are not protect
ing the South American Republics from
outside interference, and If they should
provoke war with foreign powers they
would have to take the consequences.
We could Abandon the Philippine
Islands, but we are not going to leave
them to themselves and engage to fight
their battles against the world.
For the rest, the platform has a lot of
gallimaufry about trusts presented as a
party question, as If no Democrats were
wicked enough to be conneoted with
them. The gentlemen of the ice trust
voted for this without a blush. Then
the Chicago platform of 1896 is reaf
firmed, with special repetition of the
demand for free coinage of silver at 16
to 1. The whole makes the Issues clear
enough; for, though there are acts of
the Republican party which are open, to
.criticism, yet on the whole the issue is
rplaln between a policy that stands for
safety at home and honor abroad, and
a policy or programme that threatens
our domestic prosperity, would forfeit
our obligations and opportunities in our
new possessions, aid lower us In the
estimation of the world.
WE MUST PLAY OUR PART.
In the speech at Emporia, Kan., Gov
ernor Roosevelt said:
The nag is there (In the Philippines) and It
won't come down. Do you respect most the man
who goes through life seeing if he can't have
an easy time, or the man who sees his werlc
and does It? ... We must play our part
among the great nations of the world, and we
must settle It whether we shall play that part
well or 111.
This Nation was bullded by men who
saw their duty and did It when the do
ing counted for something. If Samuel
and John Adams and John Hancock
had been cowards or pullbacks, or little
Americans, when George HI was at
tempting to tighten the royal bonds
about the colonies, we should have had
no United States of America. The
King's order of August, 1772, that there
after the Massachusetts Judges holding
office during his pleasure should receive
their salaries from the crown, and not
from the colony, hastened the crisis
with the mother country that had long
been Impending. The people of Massa
chusetts were furious, and Samuel Ad
ams took a step which contributed
more than anything yet done towards
ocganlzlng the opposition to England In
the colonies. The royal authorities In
Massachusetts offering no explanation
for the encroachment upon the local
self-government of the people, Samuel
Adams, acting upon the recommenda
tion of Jonathan Mayhew to James Otis
in 1766, moved at the October town
meeting in Boston the appointment of a
committee of correspondence, "to con
sist of twenty-pne persons, to state the
rights of the colonists, and of this prov
ince in particular, as men and Chris
tians and as subjects, and to communi
cate and publish the same to the sev
eral towns and to the world as the
sense of this town, with the infringe
ments and violations thereof that have
been, or from time to time may be,
made."
Samuel Adams' town committees of
correspondence grew into inter-colonial
committees for the defense of the lib
erties of the colonies, and the Inter-colonial
committees into the Continental
Congress and the .American Nation.
The town committees, first regarded
with scorn by the royal authorities la
Massachusetts, rapidly acquired the
force and strength that made them ob
jects of apprehension to George III and
his Ministers. "The system of corre
spondence," says John Fiske, " did In
deed grow into a mighty tree; for it
was nothing less than the beginning of
the American Union." In the upbuild
ing of the Republic the Democratic
party was, when in its prime, a far
reaching and powerful factor. While
it remained true to the principles and
teachings of Jefferson, it stood for a
larger and greater America. It looked
beyond the Mississippi to the Rockies
and from the Rookies to the Pacific. It
saw and accomplished the annexation
of Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Cali
fornia. It would have gone to war with
Great Britain over Oregon as it sought
war with Mexico over Texas. It would
have risked a conflict with Spain for
Cuba. It was for territorial extension
while there was a foot of ground to bo
gained for the slave power or a single
unit to be added to the horde of human
chattels. It turned away from expan
sion when the Civil War hurled King
Cotton from the throne. Were the
slave-owner as strongly Intrenched in
National politics today as he was in
1860, Cuba would be accepted as a gift
from the Almighty: and as for the
Philippines, with the vast population
they offer for slave labor, the Democ
racy would not be deprived of them
even at the cost of secession.
The decadence of the Democratic
party has not left the country without
men able to rise to the new situations
created by war and commercial devel
opment The Republican party has
them in Roosevelt, Fairbanks, Bever
ldge, and a host of others. The Demo
cratic party has them, too, but they are
the light under the Bryan bushel. The
mastery of Bryan has enslaved the
party to 16 to 1 and contraction, but it
does not reach a large body in which
the tradition of National growth is still
alive and which looks to Jefferson for
its Democracy, and not to Bryan. This
element will join with the Republicans
in the Fall In the endeavor to over-
throw the boy statesman who is seek
ing to obstruct the Republic's march to
station as a world power. Democrats
of the progressive school and Repub
licans alike have the gauge of the man
who goes through life seeking an easy
time as well as of him whose purpose
Is to make hard times for others.
THE FATE OF THE MINISTERS.
The assumption that the official rep
resentatives at Pekln of foreign nations
have all been murdered is likely to be
confirmed by events, but their situation
Is not altogether hopeless. Prince Tuan,
the leader of the revolt, Is a man of in
telligence enough to know that to kill
the Minister of another state Is among
savage and civilized people considered
an unpardonable offense that always
leads to war. The assassination of the
German Minister might be explained as
a sudden and uncontrollable act of mob
violence, but no palliating excuses
could be pleaded for the deliberate
murder of the remaining foreign repre
sentatives after capture through mili
tary assault. Unless Prince Tuan is,
prepared to defy the worst that the
united foreign powers can inflict upon
him in retributive punishment, it is
quite possible if not probable that he
will spare no exertions to preserve the
foreign Ministers from violence. As
hostages for his own ultimate 3afety,
those foreign Ministers would be in
valuable captives, but as dead men
they plead through all the mouths of
their wounds for the defeat and ex
emplary punishment of the responsible
leader of their murderers. On the
whole, it Is not yet certain that the last
extremity of personal violence has been
done to the official representatives of
foreign nations at Pekln.
Prince Tuan very likely has mur
dered the Emperor, for his own son Is
the legitimate heir to the throne, and
he doubtless has disposed of that" rest
less old female usurper, the Dowager
Empress. But a man of his intelligence
will not needlessly commit an act of un
forgivable violence upon the persons
of foreign Envoys and resident Minis
ters, for he knows it would be mad
ness, even if all China was at his back,
to wage war against the rest of the
world. But all China is not at his back.
Out of the eighteen provinces, only four
In the northern part of China are In a
state of Insurrection, whose purpose is
the expulsion of the foreigner. This
insurrection, while most formidable,
only affects about a fifth of the area
and about a quarter of the population
of China. The remaining fourteen
provinces are still at peace, and their
Viceroys seem disposed to use their
utmost energies to preserve the peace
and maintain order.
Under these circumstances, Prince
Tuan will not naturally be ' disposed
to commit an act which would bring
upon him and his revolted four prov
inces the vengeance of the civilized
world. The murder of the foreign. Min
isters would Isolate him from any prob
able support by the rest of China.
DECLINE OF THE CAMFMEETING.
1 The old-fashioned carapmeetlng has
been transformed into the peaceful
Summer school in nearly all the most
enlightened states of the Union, and
this change is a subject for public con
gratulation. Jjlysterla no longer mas
querades in the robes of religion. The
repulsive spectacle, common a genera
tion ago, of nervous women shrieking
themselves into a state greatly resem
bling alcoholic coma or trance no longer
attracts a mob of vulgar, coarse, irrev
erent visitors to the campmeetlng. The
terrors and the torments of a literal hell
are no longer dwelt upon by orators
distinguished for animal vigor rather
than spiritual sweetness and light
The campmeetlng in its original
shape remains In many parts of the
country, so far as the mere form of
proceedings Is concerned; but in its ex
ecution it has become greatly spiritual
ized and removed from the Indecorum
and extravagance that was universal
forty years ago. The ancient camp
meetlng, In its rudest, crudest form of
vociferous, boisterous, ranting revival,
has gone out of fashion at the North,
but Is still popular with the tropical
hearts and minds of the "poor' whites
and blacks at the South.
It may be necessary to anlmallze re
ligion to touch the barbaric level of
human nature, but the sooner religion
Is seriously approached, and sanely,
reverently and soberly taught, the bet
ter for the cause of religion and mor
ality. The Methodists have outgrown
the old campmeetlng, and they have
therefore transformed it into proceed
ings not less religious and devout, but
far more serious and spiritualizing in
th'elr permanent, lasting effect upon the
participants. The Methodists were
never more prosperous, more devout
and upright, more earnest In every good
work, than they are today. They have
lost nothing In permanent power for
religious work by their radical refor
mation of the old-time campmeetlng,
where religion, so-called, was fairly
dragged in the ditch until its name was
mud.
The Summer schools of the various
assemblies are giving the people a far
better religious moral and social cul
ture than they ever obtained during the
frantic campmeetlng's years of most
productive life. Bishop Vincent, of the
Methodist Church, is a power of the
first order of beneficent influence,
whether he speaks at a denominational
Summer school or a secular Chautau
qua assembly; and this Is as it should
be. Men who are fit to be leaders in
the pulpit and the church ought to be
full enough of every-day humanity In
thought and speech so that the clergy
man can always on call become a wel
come non-sectarian lay preacher to his
fellow men on secular occasions.
Men of religious Instincts are just as
I fruitful in good lives and good works
today as. when they became hysterical I
unuer uuwco.it.uj, nervuu3 excuemuui
and called the departure of their reason
by the misnomer of religious posses
sion. The motorman of the wrecked Ta
coma car escaped with his life. He
olalms that he stopped at the top of the
hill, and that the car, being very heav
ily laden, in going down grade attained
great momentum. He reversed the cur
rent and blew out the fuse. The brakes
were applied, but were Impotent. Pas
sengers say the motorman did not stop
at the hilltop, and that he several times
seemed to gain and lose control of
the car. Furthermore, the Intimate
that he was Intoxicated. Accept
ing either version as correct, it Is
evident that the 'fundamental trouble
was in the street-car equipment and
the construction of the road. Given, a
large car, with over 100 passengers; a
steep grade, with a sharp turn at bot
tom leading to a bridge over a deep
ravine, and nothing stood between the
people aboard and certain destruction
but the brake, and the reverse current,
with a more or less steady motorman
to apply them. What did happen might
have happened on any other trip. There
might have been a weak brake, a
drunken motorman, an imperfect mo
tor, and yet all would have gone well
but for the fatal curve on the brink
of a deep gulch.
An Idaho correspondent writes an en
couraging word to the Springfield Re
publican about Oregon, saying:
The antl-lroperlailsts of the East need not
be particularly cast down at the result of the
Oregon election, It la notorious that the Ore
gon Dmocracy has long been in a demoralized
condition and without capable leadership. Then,
too, the commercial hopes and ambitions of
the business and capitalistic class as regard
the expansion, of their Oriental trade have a
peculiar influence upon the popular view of the
Philippine question, hero on the Pacific Coast
an Influence which can only be successfully
oombatted by a. long and thorough campaign
of education.
This Pacific Coast antl-imperlallst
he must be lonesome mak'es quite a
noble effort to extract sunbeams from
cucumbers. Never mind a little thing
like defeat, he says. It amounts to
nothing. People out here are moved
by base considerations of self-interest,
and want a greater Nation and a
larger commerce because they think it
is commercially a good thing. Your
true antl-imperlallst has no such sor
did motives; and to show that he is not
concerned about his own welfare or
anybody else's, he will vote for Bryan,
calamity and repudiation.
In all the records of victory that san
itary science and Its basic principle,
clearrtlness, have scored- over Ignorance
and filth Ins thxj last dozen years, non-e
stands out more boldly than that which
tells of the stamping out, practically
speaking, of yellow, fever In Havana.
During all its previous history the
Cuban city was the hotbed of this
scourge. Its byways reeking with tire
flltfc of the ages, now drenched by
tropical rains and now steaming and
festering under the- rays of the trop
ical sun, Havana h&a now been; scraped
and sluiced and renovated under the
American' protectorate, and the breeding-places
of disease literally abol
ished, in lesa than two years. Sani
tary rule la arbitrary In proportion to
the obstacles that It encounters. It
met many In Havana, and they were
overcome by arbitrary methods. A a
result, yellow fever Is no longer ac
cepted there aa a necessary evil inci
dent 'to climatic conditions, but a dis
tinctly preventable disease, of which,
in its epidemic form, civilization- should
bo ashamed.
A sympathetic plank for the Boxers
ought to have found Its way Into the
Kansas City platform. Are not the
yellow men resisting the aggressions
of the imperialists who menace the
doad-ripe civilization of the Celestials?
Is no kindly word to be spoken for
Prince Tuan, In hl3 virtuous work of
slaughtering the Ministers from the
West? Are not the noble heathen to
be sustained against their Christian
oppressors? Shall sympathy be re
stricted to Coeur d'Alene dynamiters
and Filipino bandits? "Perish the
thought! Let Sulzer and Lentz -be
heard In condemnation of the powers
and in exaltation of the dragon.
Senator Shoup returned to Idaho on
the 3d Inst, and "was given an ova
tion as he stepped from the platform
at Boise." Signs multiply that Idaho
will be redeemed from Bryanlsm in No
vember, and that Senator Shoup has
fair chance of re-election. He has
shown much shrewdness in his politi
cal career, and apparently will weather
the silver storm that swept bumptious
Fred Dubois to merited disaster.
A, ludicrous incident of the ludicrous
session of the ludicrous Monetary
League at Kansas City was "Coin"
Harvey's query whether General
Warner "understood the history of
free coinage." Almost every page of
Harvey's "books" bears testimony to
his own ignorance of the history of
money and mankind's experience
with it
Imperialism Is said by the platform
to be the paramount issue. What be
comes of Bryan's declaration that there
is a trinity, of paramount Issues, of
which the two others are trusts and
money? But he will stand on the plat
form with one leg if he cannot with
three.
Everybody knows how the awful Ta
coma accident might have been avoid
ed; but nobody applied a remedy In
time. Knowledge without forethought
Is unavailing and useless.
The silver issue is subordinated, but
the Silver Republicans will continue to
be the fifth .wheel to the Democratic
ice wagon.
David B. Hill continues to be a Dem
ocrat, with a few qualifications.
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Richard Cro leer's Epigram.
Baltimore American.
Mr. Richard Croker, since his return
from Europe, has been saying a great deal
about Bryan's certainty of election and
very Httlo about his and Tammany's con
nection with the Infamous Ice trust He
has also given his valuable opinion on
the subject of expansion, and Is credited
with a few words which have been pro
nounced an epigram by his admirers. It
Is his definition of antl-lmperlallsm which
has given him fame as an eplgrammlst
"Ho called this antl-lmperlallsm. "Opposi
tion to the fashion of shooting down
everybody who doesn't speak English."
There Is surely a certain smartness of
speech about these words, a smartness
with which the boss of Tammany Hall
has never been credited before, but the
extravagance of expression makes them
comparatively pointless. This Govern
ment Is not engaged In shooting down
non-English-speaking people to any
alarming extent It is not killing Cu-
ban or Pprto JRicans or Hawaiian, and
the few misguided Filipinos who are,
meeting death from American bullets can
have all the peaco they want by Just ask
ing for it
A FORECAST OF BRYAN'S 'CABINET.
With Hon. Richard Crolcsr Properly
In Chief Position.
Chicago Times-Herald.
At the risk of being a trfle premature
the Times-Herald is moved by ,ihe per
nicious activity of certain Democrats In,
Kansas City to apportion among them
the Cabinet positions under Bryan, which
are the spoils for which they are spoiling.
Should Bryan be elected, as -we are as
sured by 18 to 1 sliver soothsayers and
clairvoyants he will be, and if he would
avoid the charge of being the monument
al lngrate of hi3 ago, he will surround
himself with the following Cabinet:
Secretary of State Richard Croker,
New York.
Secretary of the Treasury James K.
Jones, Arkansas.
Secretary of the Navy B. B. Tillman,
South Carolina.
Secretary of the Army George Fred
Williams, Massachusetts.
Postmaster-General W. Sulzer, New
York.
Secretary of the Interior "Jim Ham"
Lewis, Washington.
Attorney-General-J. P. AUgeld. Illinois.
We have to" apologize for the omission
of several living statesmen like J. J.
Lentz and "Messages and Papers" Rich
ardson and several dead ducks like Sen
ators Gorman and Peffer. But a glance
at the above assortment and allotment
taken In connection with the reports
from Kansas City will convince the Im
partial reader that we have made the
seven offices go as far as William Jen
nings Bryan will be able to.
There may be some disposition to de
mur at the selection of the Hon. Richard
Croker for Secretary of State, and we
have no doubt that It would tie more to
his liking to finger the key to the vaults
that last week contained the following
trust fqnds:
Division of redemption,,... ......5150,000,000
Gold coin 223,632,179
Silver dollars , ..., 41S.454.O0O
Silver dollars of 1S10 6,603,813
Silver bullion of 1S00 C3.926.197
United States notes 3,830,000
General fund, cash, bullion, etc.. 223,057,600
But the Hon. Richard Croker long ago
discovered that thoro was a better way
of working for his "pocket all the time"
than holding an office with legal respon
sibility. It is possible, however, that the
Hon. Richard Croker might prefer to
succeed Mr. Choate as Minister to Eng
land in order to be near the betting
stalls. But wherever he is mere can be
no disputing his rights to any place in
the gift of William Jennings Bryan when
he comes to distribute the accumulations
of National prosperity among those who
gave him a leg up.
Should Mr. Croker decide to run this
Republic from his "island throne" at
TattersaU's, London, ex-Governor Alt
geld might be advanced to tne Depart
ment of Stato and John Jacob Lentz, of
Ohio, could fill his place as Attorney-General
with bellowlngs that would afflrlght
a wondering world.
Taken altogether, the possibilities for
National excitement Involved in the elec
tion of Mr. Bryan and the selection of
such a representative Cabinet sh6uld
move the American people with what
Grover Cleveland styled "ghoulish glee."
Increased Export,
New York Journal of Commerce.
The increased export of manufactured
goods continues to excite astonishment In
spite of the fact that copper Ingots and
refined mineral oil are counted as manu
factures, and the Increase In these two
Items aa a large part of the whole. The
export of manufactured goods In five
months of each of the past three years"
has been as follows:
January-May, 1800 J194.454.S43
January-May, 1899 , 150,238,275
January-May, 1833 125.2S6.1U
Two years ago we were exporting man
ufactures at the rate of J25.000.0CO a
month; last year the rate was $30,000,000.
and this year It Is almost 339,000,000, As
compared with last year there has been a
large increase in the value of copper in
gots and refined oil exported. The fol
lowing are the figures for five months of
this year and last with and without cop
per and oil;
1S00. 1S99.
All manufactures 5194.464,843 5150,238,275
Copper and oil 66.318,652 33,678,255
Other manufactures.5139,146.191 $116,560,020
The Increase in copper and oil was
something over 522,000,000, and In all
other maufactured goods something over
522,000,000. The Increase In general manu
factured articles was about 19 per cent
Marked Difference.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Word comes from the West that tho
farmers of Kansas and ebraska are un
able to procure hands to do their Sum
mer and Fall work. The explanation Is
that the men who formerly did this work
have gone to the towns to work In the
factories and mills. It Is barely possible
that the extent of the dearth has been
somewhat exaggerated, but oven that does
not alter the political significance of the
news, n the souphouse days prices were
so low and the purchasing power of the
people so feeble that in many localities
the crOps were 'allowed to rot In the field.
The mills and factories were idle, also.
The present need is not entirely to the
liking of the farmers, but they at least
have the satisfaction of knowing that If
tho McKlnley Administration is allowed
to continue its policy they will be able to
dispose at a fair price of such of their
crops as they may be able to gather.
The Kansaii City Platform.
Canyon (Idaho) Echo.
Those planks that the Democrats are
trying to put into the platform down
thero at Kansas City don't Jibe. They
hav6 laid around in the sun and rain for
four years till they ore warped like a Cot
tonwood. That 16 to 1 Just won't stay
down. Bryan gets onto one end and the
other flleB up. Then, too, the expansion
plank Is shaky and a stumbler all over
tho West and a good share of the East
And the trust plank well, nobody can
trust that Again, the new plank ordered
from China has not arrived yet and so
a hole will be left In the structure about
tho size that It is liable to be, but which
end to or which side up It will be laid,
no one seems to know. It will oppose
something. Just the same, when It gets
in.
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For Antifi' Consideration.
Los Angeles (Cal.) Time's.
By the way, while we aro chatting over
this expansion business, there Is one ques
tion which our Democratic brethren may
find pertinent and Interesting, as well as
rather hard to answer: Did Uncle Sam
ever make a purchase and lose money
on It? Or. to put it In another form,
would our Democratic friends, having the
good of their country at heart be willing
today to give up territory embraced In
the Mexican purchase, the Louisiana pur
chase, or even the Alaska purchase, which
at the time caused such an excruciating
wall 7
As to 15-Ccnt- Hops.
Salem Statesman.
The proposition of one of the biggest
hop dealing firms In the country to-pay
15 cents a pound for the Oregon product
this Fall, in case the acreage picked In
California, Washington and Oregon Is re
duced 25 per cent, will lead many growers
to think hops are worth about 15 cents
a pound anyway, and make them hold
for that price. We sincerely hope they
may get it or oven a higher figure.
Need of Anti-Imperialists.
New York Mall and Express.
The antl-lmperiallats are In some danger
of committing an irreparable error. What
they treed Is not a party, but a kinder
garten; not a platform, but a rattle. Thus
equipped and located, they might in time
grow up with the country.
GOSSIP OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL f
WASHINGTON, July 5. Washington
generally has no sympathy with the
withdrawal policy In China; but is rather
determined that this opportunity for pun
ishing those guilty of the Pekln horrors
and later the opening of entire China to
trade and development shall not be lost
Withdrawal Is, in fact scorned, and the
opinion prevails that China shall no long
er remain barred to civilization. She can
not TlBe alone, but by the united efforts
of the powers she can be raised. High
officials here are only too anxious to as
sist in first punishing the Pekln crimi
nals for their dastardly acts and then
placing China commercially and intel
lectually where she belongs, but where
unaided she cannot mount
Nevada and Silver.
Reliable advices have been received In
Washington that Nevada will this year
cast her vote for the Republican ticket
and send a Republican member to the
next House of Representatives. This
statement is made by -one familiar with
conditions In Nevada, who says silver is
losing its hold in that state.
Politics in Minnesota. '
According to recent reports that Teach
Washington, Minnesota will make a fine
showing In the Fall election, and stand
out prominently in the Republican ranks.
It is claimed that the state will return
all of Its present Congressmen, ajl Repub
licans, and will elect a Republican Gov
ernor to succeed Governor Llnd, the pres
ent incumbent, a Fuslonlst Llnd Is
without doubt one of the most personally
popular men In the state, and this fact
was very material in securing his election
two yoira ago. But another feature that
assisted him was that his Republican op
ponent was personally unpopular, and
could not begin to command the entire
Republican vote of the state. Minnesota
Is normally Republican by about 60,000
majority, and the Republicans of the
stite think that with a popular candidate
for Governor they will carry the state
from start to finish. There Is a hard
flght to be made on Representative Page
Morris, who comes from the district from
which Charley Towne, the Populist Vlce
Prosldentlal nominee, halls, and where he
had a very small majority two years
ago, being elected by 22,194 votes to 21,731
given Towne. The fact of Towne's mix
up In the National campaign, however,
will withdraw his strength from his Con
gressional district and give Morris a
clear road to re-election.
Our New Army.
"Our frlendH, the Democrats, are try
ing," said General Charles Dick, secre
tary of the Republican National Commlt
tee, recently, "to make everybody believe
that the Gorman vote this year will go
to the Democratic party, but there Is not
the slightest likelihood of this being the
case.
"In 1896 tho Germans voted for President
McKlnley. They are strong believers
In the advantages of a gold standard of
currency. This the Repuollcar party has
given them. They know thut should
the Democratic candidate for Pre-"dn: be
elected, which, of course, woull mean
Democratic control of Congresi, then the
gold-standard law would be repealed and
free coinage of 'silver will be foisted upon
the country. The Germans do not waut
this. They are probably the most level
headed European people who come to
live here. They know that they 'are
better here, can make and nave more
money than they did In the Fatherland,
and they are not ap ople who are led
away by flights of the imagination.
"An effort Is being made to bring the
Germans into the Democratic lino by
scaring them with the bugaboo of Im
perialism, which, it Is claimed, would
compel a large increase In our military
forces. Many of them Wave come here
to escape the strict military laws that
are In force In Germany, and naturally
they would not favor anything tending
In the same direction in this country. I
am glad this subject has developed thus
early In the campaign, because the Gtr
mans will have time to read and study
what the actual conditions are as o our
military forces, comparing them with
their Fatherland.
"Germany has over 52,000,000 people. Its
standing army Is 600.000 men, an avorag e
of 11 soldiers to every 1000 people. The
United States is 76,000,000, and a standing
army of 65.000 men, which Is equlvalj.it
to .86 of 1 soldier to every 100) of o'jr
population. While Germany ha3 nearly
11 soldiers rooro per 1000 of her people
than we have, there cannot be the slight
est chance of the effect of Imperialism
being experienced In this country.
Fiffhtlnir Forces Compared.
"Tho following table 9hows the leading
countries of the world, with their popula
tion, their standing army, and the num
ber of soldiers each country has per
1000 of Its people:
CO
so
13
C
a
COUNTRY.
S3
31
France
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Russian Empire.,
Turkey
Great Britain ....
Italy : ,
United States ....
33,500.000
52,300.000
41.800.000
560.000114.05
600.000,11.(55
230.000
6.07
6.01
129.300,000
700.000
240.000
210.000
33,600.000
7.01
5.C6
7.01
.56
3S.000.000
Z3.7W.UW
210,000
76,000.000
Tbo.WU
Peace footing. War footing.
"France has 14 soldiers to even 1C0O of
Its population; Germany more than 11;
Austria-Hungary and Russia more than
6 each; Turkey and Italy each more than
7; Great Britain more than 54. while the
United States has less than 1 soldier per
1000 of Its population. There can surely
be no chance of the military strength of
the United States ever being Increased to
tho proportion that exists in European
countries.
"As a city grows in size and extends its
area, the first thing for which the citizens
living there ask Is more police protection.
Our country Is like a large city, and the
bigger it grows the better it should be
protected. But tho United States has
been growing and growing year after
year, and Its population has doubled since
the Civil War, while our standing arm
has been kept nominally at 25,000 men year
after year. Even our present increase
above 25,000 men 13 but temporary, as the
law authorizing it expires on July X 1901.
Just a year from now.
"As a matter of fact, this country has
not been affording sufficient protection to
its citizens in proportion to their Increase.
If our German friends will study the mat
ter in this light, they will see that we are
as far removed from mllltntlsm and im
perialism as wo were 50 years ago."
MEN AND WOMEN.
A Judge of Fort Scott Kan., granted a di
vorce to a dissatisfied woman, but aroused her
ire by forbidding her to marry the same day.
But she took the new man promptly tho day
after.
' The proper pronunciation of Governor Roose
velt's surname, on the authority of the Bough
Rider himself, la Ros-e-velt, In three sylla
bles, with the accent on the first tho o sound
being long-.
On the ivory fan of the Baroness Ceder
itroeum (Adellna Pattl).wh!ch Is filled With the
autographs of famous persons, Queen Maria
Christina has written: "To a Spaniard from
ber Queen, who Is proud to count her anions
her subjects."
The Marquis of Northampton expresses the
opinion that tho religious education of the
Boers has been imperfect as all their quota
tions are from the Old Testament At a meet
ing of the Society for tho Spread of the Gos
pel at Saris Barton ho said that after the war
it would be the duty of the Church of Eng
land to spread the gospel among them.
Abbas Hllma n, the young Khedive of
Egypt, has recently had a now spacious Sum
mer palace erected on the shores of tho Med
iterranean, near Alexandria. The palace built
by his father has become too small to accom
modate the Khedive's numerous retinue, as be
never travels without the escort of a small
army of officers, officials and attendants, num-
J bering more than 200.
, NOTE AND COMMENT. ;
The 16-to-l plank Is put in the platform
on edge.
The situation in Pekln Is the same old
Chinese puzzle.
Prince Tuan would be a good man to
have around In dog days.
The bear now not only walks like a
man, but talks like a brother. ,
"There's no place like home," is not one
of Governor Taylor's favorite songs.
"After me Is the deluge," ought to bt
a favorite expression of the Third ox
July.
Admiral Kempff should be Instructed to
make his dispatches more definite and
certain.
When the moon Is full and tho start
are out all night, the earth may be ex
cused for being a little soaked.
A rainmaker who Is after a reputation
should advertise that he will demonstrat
his skill on next Fourth of July.
Minister Wu has been talking of tht
breaking up of China. The Inference Is,
of course, that he has been lecturing on
tho servant girl question.
The Birmingham (Ala.) Trades Council
has removed the color line, and will here
after receive negro delegates from local
unions which may have them.
With Mayor Van Wyck at the Kansas
City convention the climate may be made
endurable. Of course, he will furnish the
delegates with Ice. and Bryan will cut it.
While they were reading the Declara
tion of Independence to the Manila school
children. It would not have been inap
propriate to read the riot act to tho in
surgents. J. C. Monaghan, ex-Consul at Mannheim
and Chemnitz, who has been appointed
professor of commerce In the new school
of commerce established by the Wiscon
sin State University, began work In a
cotton mill at Salem, Mass., when only
8 years old. He attended night schools
and after many reverses managed to
work hl3 way through Brown University.
Louis Blanc, the manager of the estab
lishment at Monte Carlo, has asked the
Parisian chess player, Arnous de Riviere,
to undertake the management of an in
ternational chess tournament to bo
played In Monte Carlo in December next.
From 10.000 to 15,000 francs will be given
In prizes. All the leading chess masters.
Lasker, Plllsbury, Showalter, Marshall,
Janowskl, Marco, Schlechter, Tschlgorin,
Melses and others have already promised
to take part In the tournament
Governor Roosevelt, in his letter of
thanks to ex-Confederate General Thomas
L. Rosser, of "Virginia, for hl3 promise of
political support, says:
"I am half Southerner myself. My
mother was a Georgian, and of my two
uncles one was an Admiral In tho Con
federate service, and the other was a
midshipman who fired the last gun from
the Alabama before she went down.
Probably over half my regiment was com
posed of the sons of Confederates."
The policemen of Pekln are, or at least
were, armed chiefly with small drums,
which they beat loudly In order. It Is pre
sumed, to let burglars know that they
aro coming. All night long the watch
men beat, their way around the streets,
and as a natural consequence arasald
to make few arrestB. The pigeons of
Pekln have each a light whistle tied to
their tail3, which give forth a loud sound
as they fly. The blind also use drum3 to
announce their coming and warn other
people to get out of their way.,.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
"I'vo a song here that I think will do." "Is
there any sense In it?" "Not a particle." "Is
there any tune in it?" "Not a morsel."
"Leave It. if it answers your description, It
will turn out a gold mine." lit Bits.
A Rash Observation. Cassldy (meeting Mr.
and Mrs. Casey) Ah, Pat I Thot baby Is a
perfect picture av ye. Casey Shut up, ye fulet
Somebody left it on our front steps and 01' m
taking It to the police station. Judge.
The Parvenu Again. "That WIgglewee girl
s telling around that her grandfather moved
In the best society." "Exactly. And ho also
moved out the best society. He had one of the
best trucks In his native village." Indianapo
lis Press.
Where Creative Ability Balked. "You look
worried, Stubbs; Isn't your historical novel
selling well? "Oh, yes; the book's all right
but I've got stuck on this magazine article ex
plaining how I came to write it." Chicago
Record.
"Well, good-bye, Mr. Green. It was so nice
of you to come. It does father such a lot of
good to have some one to talk to." "I was
delighted to come, Miss Brown, but I'm
afraid I'm not much of a conversationalist."
"My dear Mr. Green, don't let that trouble
you. Father's ideal listener 1b an absolute
Idiot, with no conversation whatever, and I
know bo has enjoyed himself tremendously to
nights'Punch. A Place Unusurped. "Well," said Mrs.
Slrlus Barker, with characteristic cynicism,
"I'm glad they draw the lino In this feminine
determination to usurp the place of man in
modern civilization." "What do you meant"
"I note that there is no movement afoot te.
have tho wives stay in town during the 8un
mer and earn money so as to send their hus
bands to the seashore." Washington Star.
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The Plumber's Dream.
Josh Wink in Baltimore American.
THE plumber dreamed, and to him it seemed
that a future great was his. For h
thought that he was gay In Parse, whera
ho mado coin with a whizz.
HE sndred full deep in bis happy sleep, and bt
slumbered fair and well; for his pleasant
trance was that thero In Franco ha was
running a hotel.
IT was full of guests, and all their requests
were the sort that cost them dear. And
ho sighed: "Kind Fates! Exposition ratea
are tho rates that give mo cheer."
HE chnrged them all in figures tall, for theii
food, and room, and light and he made
them pay for the sun by day and the
twinkling stars at night.
THEIR bills were long and tho rates were
strong, from champagne down to beer.
His dream was sweet and he'd oft re
peat: "Ten francs for the atmosphere."
EVERT breeze that blew he would charge for,
too, and then, when tho air was still, he
would murmur: "Thanks one calm, 2
francs," and he''d add It to the bill.
IN the dream he rolled on yellow gold and
bank notes heaping high; and said to
himself, as he viewed the pelf: "What a
lucky dog am I."
BUT a shudder passed o'er his frame at last
for a man came stalking in, and his voice
was gruff and his manner rough, and hi
wore a wicked grin.
AND by his side was a man fierce-eyed, and
another with the two. and tho trio said,
as he bowed his head: "You tho land
lord? Howdydo?"
THEN spake the first In a voice accursed:
"I have hero your bill for cpaL" And the
second said: "By my grisly head I Pra
the Iceman, for my toll."
'TWAS then tho third by him was heard, and
ho shivered with a chill: "You may keep
your health, but I'll take your wealth,
for I have your plumbing billl"
THEN the plumber woke, and aloud he spoke:
"I am glad that such dreams come. For
it teaches me. if I'd wealthy bo, I should
stay at horaa and plumb."
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