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PORTI,AD, FRIDAY, JIXY 13, 1000.
Whatever is. Is wrong. This antithe
sis of a familiar though unsafe senti
ment of minor poets Is the key to Bry
anlsm, precipitate at length down
through the solution of ante-convention,
convention and aftermath. Find
out what is going on, and there you
have the sum of human villainies. Find
out how things are managed, and you
discover at once the concentrate of
error. Are we suppressing Insurrection
in the Philippines? Then the insur
gents are right and should triumph
over us. Is Great Britain asserting her
sovereignty in South Africa? Then our
sympathy Is due the Boers. Has the
evolution of money, through various
stages, selected gold as the best and
safest standard? Then let us cry for
a return to some earlier status. Does
business development turn more and
more to bank currency and less and
less to Government notes? Then here,
we may be sure, Is an invention of the
Evil One, and an insidious assault upon
our liberties. Expansion is well enough,
that is, all kinds of expansion excent
such as Is in present process. As to
the dependencies, as to Cuba, as to
corporations, as to the Nicaragua Ca
nal, as to the Army, as to fpenslons,
as to taxes, as to anything else not
specifically enumerated, the existing
order Is to be arraigned and its antag
onistic policies or principle is to be
made the subject of panegyric and
promises.
What shall we say then? Is it that
Bryanlsm contemplates a world of
beneficent but perverted Impulses,
which it desires to reform to their orig
inal bent? Such a conclusion is greatly
to be desired, in view of the large sec
tion of our common humanity who pro
fess the Bryan tenets. Racial self-respect
demands the most creditable in
terpretation susceptible within the
facts. But if our examination be can
did, we shall discover that the revolt of
Bryanlsm is not against devices of
falsehood and artifice, but against the
very processes of Nature herself. "What
so potently moves the Bryanite to rage
or grief is, that the fit should survive,
th6 strong should rule, the efficient
should have, the nerveless should have
not. There is no incentive to human
endeavor but the assurance of ability
to retain and enjoy its results, a dictum
understood sufficiently well by the De
mocracy in its quest for political spoils,
but contravened in its fundamental
conception of Issues. If a man works,
he must be assured of the proceeds of
his labor, secure from riotous loot,
from depreciation through dishonest
money, from robbery under the form of
legal tender or coinage law. There is
no use in painful acquisition of
strength and fitness, if government is
to take a 'man's earnings or savings
and turn them over to the fellow who
is satisfied to remain weak and unfit.
There is no use in being a worker, if
government is going to make you di
vide with the drone. There is no use
In saving and Investing, if government
declines to protect your property and
seeks to impair the terms of Its value.
This determination of the individual to
enjoy the fruits of his labor is as much
a process of Nature as lsthe precession
of the equinoxes or the periodicity of
the tides. Upon it, however, Bryanlsm
declares war, and that is its Insurance
policy of defeat Laborious contriv
ance of attractive phrases is quite
aside from the purpose.
That Is to say, Bryanlsm, reduced to
its lowest terms, is an attitude of mind.
It is an attitude hostile to the logic of
history, the conclusions of experienpe
and the chart which Nature has laid
down as guide and stimulus ,to human
endeavor. Since the activity of this
our planet became embodied in the hu
man species Instead or In rocks and
reptiles, natural selection has been
busy In the field of society. The cast
of characters and the paraphernalia
enshrined in geology and paleontology
have been 'crowded off the stage by
business and politics. But the plot Is
the same. Struggle produces the strong
and the acute, and to these are com
mitted the task of evolution. They
seize upon the most effective tools rep
resentative government, the gold stand
ard, electric transmission and trans
portation, magazine rifles, open forma
tion, smokeless powder, the horseless
carriage, the bank check, the steel wall,
the tiled floor, the dally paper, the
trades-union for labor, the corporation
for capital. There is no place lor the
Imperfect tool but the iunk-shon no
use for the outdated currency but to
be supplanted, no destiny for the peo
ple that has been tried and found
wanting but to get out of the way for
those that can learn and do. This is
Nature's method, and it is something
of a tragedy that so earnest and vocal
a body as our Bryanites put themselves
stubbornly across its path. In protest
ing against the rule of the strong, the
self-protection of property, the self
support of the Individual and society,
the survival of the fit, they announce
themselves in opposition not so much
to human choices, as to the imperial
mandate of cosmogony Itself. What
ever is, may be wrong. But the order
of the universe will not be changed.
The casuists may find pleasure in ex
ploring the ettiics of the case; but for
conventional nurcoses we mav as well
call the plan right, the existing order
Just, and let it go at that. Mr. Bryan
can take his exceptions and apply for
an appeal.
"OPEN THE COUXTRY."
The letter of Mr. A. B. Hammond
to the Portland Board of Trade, pub
lished . yesterday, presents matters
worth careful consideration. The key
of the letter Is this: "Throw open the
country. xnis can be done only
through railway transportation. While
the railways which Mr. Hammond
controls are not yet a great fac
tor, they may become such, through
extension; but extension can be ob
tained only through outlets, by connec
tion with other roads. In the Coast re
gion, and in the Cascade Mountain
region, there are great resources in
timber, but they are unavailable, with
out access to markets, and the rail
roads refuse the arrangements through
which, alone, the timber of these new
districts can reach the markets that
await it.
In the Coast counties there are many
other resources which await develop
ment that can be had only through
railroad extension. There is much
land fit for agriculture, and as the tim
ber shall be cut away its area will be
greatly enlarged. Coal exists in many
places. There are great opportunities
for the dairy business. In the Cas
cade Mountains, east of the middle por
tion of the Willamette Valley, there Is
timber enough to fill all Eastern Ore
gon, Idaho, and states further east.
But, as Mr. Hammond observes, these
things cannot be undertaken without
assurance of railway co-operation. Rail
way managers as a rule do not want to
afford any facilities to lines not in their
own "system." But in this way the
growth of a country is often retarded,
and the obstructive railroads cut them
selves out of much business.
What Oregon wants is development.
It devolves on -the '.ailroads to open
the country and give Industry a chance.
There is much country that could and
would be opened In a short time, if
co-operatlen In transport were secured.
Many sections of the state would profit
by it, and Portland as the chief busi
ness center would profit also. It is for
these reasons and on this basis that
The Oregonlan adverts to the letter
that it published yesterday.
BEST HONORED IN THE BREACH.
Yesterday was the anniversary of the
battle of the Boyne, fought and won
by William in, of England, over the
Irish army of his father-in-law, James
II, July 12, 1GS0. The bitter quarrel of
race and religion which has raged be
tween Ireland and England for more
than 200 years dates from this conquest
of Ireland by William III. The treaty
of Umerlck, which closed the conflict,
pledged the same rights of toleration
to the Catholics of Ireland that had
been granted them by Charles II, but
it was brokt-n, and a brutal antl
Cathollc code enacted. This code,
denounced by Burke, by Fox, by
every great Englishman of the reign
of George HI, died hard, and
the anti-Catholic prejudice still sur
vives In the fact that even today
the Viceroy of Ireland must be a
Protestant, despite the fact that three
fifths of the Irish people are of the Ro
man Catholic faith.
This ancient quarrel of race and re
ligion survives in the brutal celebra
tion of the anniversary of the battle of
the Boyne by the Orangemen in Ire
land and elsewhere. The Irish Protes
tants have persistently and offensively
celebrated the battle of the Boyne for
210 years, although no more reason ex
ists for it than for celebrating in Eng
land Cromwell's "crowning mercy" of
victor over the Scotch under Charles
II at Worcester. This annual celebra
tion of the Protestant victory at the
battle of the Boyne is responsible for
half the prejudice and passion left in
the Irish question. England does not
celebrate the Hanoverian victory won
over the Highland Jacobites at Cullo
den, and in the United States neither
the North nor the South annually cele
brates the victories that either may
have won in the Civil War.
The Queen's recent visit to Ireland
woijld bear fruit in permanent good
effect if the Ulster Orangemen would
hereafter pass this anniversary in si
lence. The Protestant Queen made a
graceful and timely concession to the
sensibilities of her Irish Catholic sub
jects when she ordered that her Irish
regiments be permitted to wear the
shamrock in their hats on St. Patrick's
day, and on that day, in grateful recog
nition of the remarkable valor of the
Irish soldiers before Colenso and Lady
smith, all London fairly blossomed with
green flags and everybody wore the
shamrock. Surely, the example of the
courtesy of their Protestant Queen
ought not to be lost on the Orangemen
of Ulster. It Is sheer brutal bigotry to
continue to celebrate the triumph of
"Boyne Water" in the presence of a
people to whom it is melancholy tradi
tion of defeat in ancient quarrel of race
and religion; a defeat which paved the
way for the enactment of a terrible
anti-Catholic code which lasted 185
years, and under which a Catholic had
almost no rights that a Protestant was
bound to respect.
PROM THE BOY'S VIEWPOINT.
A youth of 17 years, a sturdy, hard
working lad from ranch life in "Uma
tilla County, is under arrest in Pen
dleton upon complaint of his father
for horse-stealing. Upon being taken
into custody, he inquired of the
Sheriff the nature of the cnarge against
him, and, upon being told, he asked
the officer if a father had a right to
take away from a boy property he had
earned, adding that he had worked
faithfully and earned the horses, or a
part of them, at least, and supposed
that he was taking his own lawful
property from the horse pasture. Of
course, there can be but one answer,
from a legal standpoint, to this boy's
question, but, granting that he has told
the truth, is there not a story of lnjus
ticely plainly discernible between the
lines of his statement? The horses be
longed to the father by law, though
acquired, jointly at least, by the labor
of his minor son at home; but what of
the lack of. parental magnanimity, not
to say justice, that would withhold
from a hard-working lad some recogni
tion of his endeavor in allowing him at
least one horse of his own from the
number he had helped to earn? And
what of a father who, falling thus to
encourage his son in legitimate accu
mulation from the honest proceeds of
his labor, would, when the latter prd
ceeds unwisely to take what he thinks
is his own, put him in Jeopardy of the
penitentiary by causing his arrest on a
criminal charge?
Complaints ore frequent that bova
will not, as they grow to manhood, stay
upon the farm. That they are not con
tent to follow the vocation in which,
they were reared, but, possessed of a
restless 'and even a reckless spirit, fare
forth' into the world at an early age to
find something better. Deplore this as
we may, there is a reason for it, which
in many instances at least is not far
to seek. The farmer's and the ranch
er's boy is too often treated as a neces
sary part of the farm machinery a
useful adjunct to the stock range and
nothing more. At the plow or in the
saddle during all the years of his boy
hood, he approaches manhood with a
feeling of discontent drilled into him
by the monotony of his life and the
total lack of all appreciation or recom
pense, present or prospective, for his
endeavor. His father wonders that the
boy is not satisfied (as his mother ap
pears to' be) with "victuals and clothes";
upbraids him for his discontent with
out in the least -attempting to discern
or abate the cause, and wrathfully
turns him out, or, in common parlance,
"drives him oft" when at length open
defiance of parental authority succeeds
weeks of sullen obedience and years of
hard worlc
In a majority of instances fathers
who have trouble with their growing
boys and tall to keep them on the farm
after they are 16 or 17 years old, do not
Intend to be unjust or unkind. Hard
driven themselves in a majority of
cases, perhaps they do not take time
to reflect that the boys need encour
agement, and as they approach man
hood in some show of recompense for
their labor. The result Is but natural.
Tho discouraged, discontented, restless
boy leaves the farm, most likely to hla
own detriment in morals and stability
and to his father's wrath and discom
fiture, each having a standing though
not clearly defined grievance at the
other.
Nothing is clearer than that an arbi
trary exercise of parental authority
cannot be depended upon to keep the
boy upon the farm. Of all growing
animals, he requires the most judicious
handling. It Is worth while to reflect
that the boy with "a horse of his own"
finds no temptation to "take one" that
belongs tp his father; that when al
lowed reasonable privileges of attend
ing the circus, the county fair, the
Fourth of July celebration in his near
est town, and the district school In the
Winter, he is much more likely to ba
contented In following the plow, than If
he Is held down to the system which
forbids these things as useless, extrav
agant and a waste of time. Boy nature
Ib human nature, and no human being,
until hope and ambition are dead
within him, submits tamely to being
placed on the machine basis in the
world of work. There may be two
sides to the Pendleton case.
AVARICE AND INHUMANITY.
One hundred and sixty-eight bodies
recovered from the ships, river and bay
is the latest total of the death roll of
the Hoboken dock fire. Doubtless a
considerable number of these lives
could have been saved but for the In
humanity of the tugboat men, who
wantonly neglected to save life in their
anxiety to secure salvage. The tug
boat men retort that the steamship
.men were miscreants in not having
done their best to save their own crew's.
It is clear that during the conflagra
tion there were exhibitions of brutality
and Inhumanity on the part of some
who were able to have been life-savers.
But this Is always the case. Human
selfishness and human heroism are
both exhibited In such' times of sudden
and terrible disaster. The authentic
stories of heroism at sea or on land the
world loves to remember and recall; the
shameful stories equally authentic of
brutal selfishness and cowardice the
world hastens to forget, because they
are hostile to our faith in the noble
capacities of human nature.
Men of the type of Whittler's Skip
per Ireson, who left a ship to founder
when he could have saved the crew,
are probably not altogether poetic pic
tures, for before the days of the multi
plication of lighthouses there were a
class of men, known as "wreckers,"
who lured ships by false lights upon
the rocks In order to plunder the cargo
and rob the bodies of the dead. Avar
Ice Is one of the primitive passions of
humanity, and asserts Itself not seldom
on occasions when there is deep need
for humanity, If not heroic self-sacrifice.
It was only a few years ago that
the native-born and bred Inhabitants
of Long Island refused to permit the
unfortunate cabin passengers of the
stranded steamship Normannla to land
on state property at Fire Island until
they were forced to do so by the mili
tary authority of the state sent thither
by Governor Flower. These Long
Islanders refused to allow even the in
firm and ill women and children to be
landed, refused food and shelter to the
wretched passengers. This was not a
mob composed of clamdlggers, fisher
men and oyster dredgers panic-stricken
by stupid fears about cholera, for the
mob Included among Its leaders a num
ber of men of Intelligence, lawyers and
doctors, who were not afraid of the
cholera, for the released cabin passen
gers were Just as healthy as the mob
that despltefully used them. It was a
mob seeking to prevent the occupation
of Fire Island by the state to the possi
ble injury of the "business" and prop
erty of the town of Isllp; It was the
American hog running frantically to
and fro on the shores of Long Island,
just as It was the French hog that pre
dominated at the time of the charity
bazaar fire in Paris and the wreck of
the Bourgogne,
There have been steamboat disasters
on Long Island Sound where strong
men tore life preservers from the per
sons of women and children for their
own protection. The popular Impres
sion that men of English speech never
exhibit such brutality Is a mistake.
'.mere are cowardly brutes among all
nations; and there is quite as much
difference in human nature on sea as
on land. Sir Philip Sidney was in his
unselfish heroism no more a peculiar
growth in England than Chevalier Bay
ard was in France. Self-preservation
is nature's first Impulse, and that
scenes of brutal Inhumanity during
sudden and terrible disasters are not
always the rule rather than the excep
tion is due to discipline and author
ity, the same agent which prevents
cowardice becoming the rule rather
than the exception In battle. No man
can tell how he would behave In battle
until he has been there, and no man
can tell how he would act In a wreck
until he is face to face with such an
awful scene of fear and frenzy In a
burning or a sinking ship. At such an
hour the unexpected sometimes hap
pens. The strongest behave like whim
pering children, and the weakest ex
hibit heroic fortitude. It Is easy to
pass Judgment after a disaster, but the
number of those who behave with hu
manity and courage in face of swift
coming death at sea or on land are
probably very few. excent whr Iron
discipline, military or naval, has been
habitually enforced. Had It not been
for the veteran English soldiers von
board the Grosvenor Castle, that wreck
would not probably be today a name
for heroism.
The proceeding which the Portland
exporters are about to begin against
the United States Government for the
recovery of duties collected upon their
shipments to the Philippine Islands Is
founded upon reasoning that the Con
stitution extends from its own force to
the Philippines, and that the islands,
being part of the public domain, inter
change of products should be free from
tariff charges. In the Ortiz habeas
corpus case, Judge Lochren, of Minne
sota, held that Porto Rico became
American territory by virtue of the ex
tension of the Constitution over it As
the Philippines were acquired, by the
same treaty, the ruling applies to them
as well as to Porto Rico. Judge Town
send, of New Tork, ruled recently that
Porto Rico Is still a foreign country in
the sense of the tariff law. In the case
before Judge Townsend, the sole Con
stitutional question was, "May our Gov
ernment by treaty accept the title of
and sovereignty over territory and at
the same time preserve Its status as
foreign territory so far as internal rela
tions to us are concerned?" Judge
Townsend confessed that the prece
dents leave this vital question unan
swered. Whether or not the Philip
pines and Porto Rico are foreign terri
tory for tariff purposes or American
territory for all purposes, It Is not dis
puted that Congress has the power to
apply the remedy. A simple act mak
ing all the ports of the Philippines and
Porto Rico domestic ports would put
the National tariff law Into effect, give
free trade between the islands and this
country, and all duties, Imposts and ex
cises would be uniform throughout the
United States within the Intention of
the Constitution.
Telegraphic advices this morning
note the launching on the Clyde of a
12,000-ton steamer for the Red-Star line,
to ply between New Tork and Antwerp.
The "Red Star Line" Is the name un
der which the American Line operates
steamships" under the British flag. If
the Payne-Hanna-Frye bill becomes a
law, the American owners of this big
Red Star liner can place her under the
American flag and receive an enormous
subsidy for operating her. Three other
steamers of the same- size as the Vader
land, which was launched yesterday,
are In course of construction for the
same line. They will all be 18-knot
boats, and thus earn a big subsidy. If
the subsidy bill passes in its present
shape, the "American Line," with Its
foreign offshoots, will receive fully one
third of the $9,000,000 per year which
will be granted by the bill.
The retort of the missionaries that
the Chinese hate our flour-as cordially
as they do our religion contains food
for thought. It will not do to say in
rebuttal that the flour is good and the
religion a matter of taste, for nothing is
absolute In this world. Let us make
a temporary ruling that the American
miller be required to show cause why
he should not be punished equally with
the missionary for urging Mb wares
upon the heathen, and perhaps evi
dence of a determinative character may
be forthcoming. It is well enough to
remember that In apportioning blame
for bad luck, each one accused will be
sura to have a defense ready, if it Is
only a counter-charge.
Justice Brown's Joy at the prospect of
writing an opinion on an appeal from
the courts of Hawaii, and his hope to
see the day when the same relationship
will exist for the Philippines, is the
expression of a sound-hearted Ameri
can, who believes in his country. It
comports with Dewey's exclamation
when he saw the flag run up on Ma
nila's walls "There it is, and there, I
hope, It will remain forever!" There
Is a lesson in such sturdy utterances
for those timid souls who deplore the
tyranny of which America Is symbolic,
and pity the poor wretches to whom
the flag is carrying American Institu
tions. It Is a matter of history that tho only Urns
that Illinois ever cast its electoral vote for a.
Democratic candidate for President, Adlai
Stevenson was on the ticket for the second
place Roseburg Review.
It Is also a matter of history that
the man on the ticket in first place was
Grover Cleveland a conspicuous gold
man on a sound-money platform. It is
likewise history that when Bryan was
in first place on the ticket Illinois threw
an enormous majority for the Republi
cans. Adlai will have abundant time
to think these things over in the chill
November days.
"Imperialism," if we may credit East
ern Democratic journals, has struck;
the Democratic party very hard. The
New Tork World complains that it was
the vote of Hawaii that forced specific
reaffirmation of silver on the party.
The World says':
It was the rota of the Hawaiian delegate
that carried the 10-to-l plank In committee.
It xn& be that this one Hawaiian vote will
cause disaster to Bryan and triumph to the
forces of Imperialism, militarism and monop
oly next fall.
The Democratic demand for the
United States to keep out of China and
let the heathen rage encounters art ob
stacle In the South, whose cotton trade
Is gravely damaged by the Boxer ac
tivity. If it were not for business the
South is trying to do, the gospel of iso
lation and pusillanimity might have
free course there and be glorified.
President Burt, of the Union Pacific,
heads the list of directors newly elected
by the Occidental & Oriental Steam
ship Company, at San Francisco. And
yet some people wonder why we don't
have more trans-Pacific steamers at
Portland.
Oregon's financial condition is worthy
these days of prosneritr. The state is
out of debt and has $1,040,000 In thej
treasury.
Mr. McKinley's acceptance is hardly
worth remark. He is saving himself
for the formal tetter.
The Kansas City Platform.
Boston Herald, Ind.
Taking the platform as a whole. It Is
apparent that Bryan has made no effort
to conciliate the support of the conserv
ative forces of the Nation which were
hostile to him four years ago. He prac
tically says to them what "Williams open
ly says to the Gold Democrats: We
don't want your support; get out of our
party. The effect of this will be to force
such men In self-defence to take action
that will favor tho re-election of Mc
Klnley, although they may be opposed
to him in the point which the platform
strives to make of primary Importance.
In short, the Democratic platform, by
its attacks of various kinds on all sound
financial interests, will confirm and force
the devotion of men who have property
at stake tp the Republican party And
appearances indicate that Bryan is us
.anxious to bring about this condition as
Hanna unquestionably id. The ultimate
aim of Bryan and his party may be to
bring about more equal and harmonious
conditions between the different classes
of society. The tendency of his present
policy Is to promote and widen existing
hostile prejudices.
REPUDIATION OF BRYAN.
Remarks by a. Leading: Democratic
Paper of New England.
Tho Manchester (N. t H.) Union, the
principal Democratic Journal of thattate.
rejects the Bryan platform and ticket.
We make these extracts from an extended
article:
Mr. Bryan has splendid courage, and we ad
mire him for It. Bat we cannot admire him
for anything else. Bis utter ignorance of the
A B C of finance Is apparent, and Indeed Is
pushed on your attention. And after all It Is
not splendid courage to Insist at the risk of
your political death and that of your friends
and supporters that two Is the equal of one
and con be made so by Federal statute; It is
titter, hopeless, crasy Ignorance to say and do
such a thing, and man -who trill sacrifice
everything for such a proposition Is not a
hero, but an ass. And a convention -which
joins, such a man In such a statement Invites
and merits utter and hopeless defeat, no mat
ter whether it be Democratic, Populist or
what. Sixteen ounces of silver are not -worth
one ounce of sold, and no Federal law can
make them so. even If Mr. Bryan and his
friends keep on declaring till the crack of doom
that It can.
But his apolosMs and the apologists of the
Kansas City platform. Indeed the platform
Itself states that 10 to 1 Is not "the paramount
Issue," that Imperialism Is the paramount
issue. Paramount Issues do not become so, or
cease to be so by any statements or any or
der of precedence In any platform, but by the
way in which the convention considering that
platform deals with them. One can learn from
reading the proceedings of the eiiventlon what
was the "paramount issue." There was no
time spent, no work and effort by the resolu
tions committee put Into tho discussion of the
imperialism port of the platform. It was all
used en the sliver part. On that plank and
on that solely the committee debated and
fought for more than 24 hours. TbaWwas the
plank which Mr. Bryan insisted must be In
the platform If be was to be 'tho candidate.
Without it he would not take the. nomination.
It the proceedings of the convention do not
make free sliver the "paramount Issue" there
can be none.
After such & defeat as he will surely re
ceive, and with him and his friends thus thor
oughly discredited, there may be some hope of
reviving the party; as It stands now nothing
can be done. For these reasons and with these
hopes we utterly and enUrely repudiate the
platform and its candidates, and we hopo and
believe they will be beaten by an overwhelm
ing vote.
Nations Rlne and Fnll.
The Oregonlan says: "Besides, all great re
publics hae had colonies. The Roman Repub
lic was the greatest colonial power of the an
cient world." Tho Roman Republic perished
from the face of the earth nearly 2000 years
ago. The very fact that It perished, rather
than survived, indicates that there were some
things about the Roman Republic that the
American Republic ought not to copyj that Is,
If there Is a desire for the American Republic
cot to perish. Corvallls Times.
No nation can exist forever. Every na
tion will perish. He has a very limited
vision who supposes that anything on
this earth can be everlasting? Walt 2000
years. In the life of men and of nations
everything Is subject to change. Nations
have their entrances and their exits, the
same as Individuals; and our country
can be no exception. And the country
that shuts itself up will die of stagnation
more quickly than the one that pushes
its way in the world will wear Itself out
What Is it that makes England great?
Her effort in the outer world. Great In
extent as our own country Is, if we shut
ourselves up at home we shall stagnate
and rot. "Without vent or room for ener
gies, wo should become after a while a
kind of copy of China, which has always
dwelt In her own self-sufficiency and
never has been troubled with colonies.
"What Bryan. Would Do.
Now York Times, Ind. Dem.
The "stable form of government" which
is to be "given" to the Filipinos must
be framed and devised by the Govern
ment of the United States. It cannot
be left to the islanders, because It would
not only not bo stable in that case, but
it would not be a government. In any
event, the Bryanites begin by asserting
the right of the United States to determine
the whole question. If Mr. Bryan were
at this moment President of the Repub
lic, with a Congress, as subservient to
him as the Kansas City convention was,
he could not apply this policy without
doing practically Just what Mr. McKlnley
Is doing.
A Pertinent Illustration.
Now York World. Dem.
To read the first 1500 words of Mr.
Bryan's platform is to get Into a fine,
ruddy glow of enthusiasm for such manly
frank advocacy of American ideas and
IdealSL But Just as this healthful and
Invigorating glow is at its ruddiest comes
the sudden dash of the prostrating Arctic
cold douche of '18 to L"
This sudden lapse from the highest san
ity recalls the old story of the visitor
to the insane ansylum. The guido charm
ed him with his wit, sense, judgment
and intelligence, then threw him into con
oternatlon by suddenl observing In a matter-of-fact
way, "I, as you doubtless
know, am Alexander the Great."
A Populist Convention.
Mary B. Lease, the Woman Populist, in tho
"World.
Not since the palmy days of the great
showman, P. T. Barnum, has such a
colossal aggregation of political hybrids,
trick riders, reform clowns and equine
performers held forth in an American
city. The great show (Kansas City con
vention) is really a combination of sev
eral smaller shows, all contained under
the big Democratic tent that ha's Jeffer
son and expansion at the entrance and
Bryan and anti-expansion at the exit.
MEN AND "WOMEN.
There are conflicting accounts about Jean
de Resske's voice. Some think his voice Is'
gone, but the singer himself attributes his
weakness to throat trouble, and is confident
that with rest and Judicious treatment his
powers wlU be the same as ever.
Hayward. the professional cricketer of the
Surrey Club, succeeded in making over 1000
runs In May, tho first month of the cricketing
season. The feat has been accomplished but
once before, by Dr. W. O. Grace, in 1S95.
Hayward's score Is 1074 runs In 13 Innings, an
average of 07.63.
There are more school gardens in Bavaria
and Oldenburg than in any other part of Ger
many. In Prussia there are none, although
there are a few public schools In which arbor
iculture is taught. A school for the cultiva
tion for vegetables was established for young
people who were past school age In Bavaria.
Germany, some years ago.
Another figure of the palmy days of Na
poleon HI has been removed by tho death of
M. Claude Boujat. the chief of the Imperial
cuisine. At the Tulleries. Saint Cloud, and
Compiegne the Chevalier Boujat, who was de
scribed by Soyer as the king of all cooks, fol
lowed the great French traditions. Boujat
himself cared for nothing but boiled fresh beef,
with a little rock salt, or a slice of very un
derdone grilled or roast meat. The Emperor
loaded him with presents, and his latter years
were spent In wealthy retirement at Vltry.
Slg. Constantino Maes, the Italian arch
aeologist, has submitted to his government a
memorial In which he affirms that 3000 bronze
tablets, constituting the records of ancient
Rome from its foundation to the time of Ves
pasian, are burled in the marsh at Oatia, near
Rome. He says that the tablets were carried
to Osda after having been rescued from the
fire which destroyed tho capital in the year
69 A. D. Slg. Maes wants the Italian Govern
ment to- drain the marsh in order to recover
theso Invaluable records, and a commission
wllPbe appointed to investigate tho matter.
INDEPENDENT REJECTION OF BRYAN
Hartford Time.
The great majority of Democrats in the
country never did accept the 16-to-l hum
bug, and never will accept it. J.t is logical,
of course, for Bryan to Insist on his quook
doctrine about silver, but it is also suicidal.
Philadelphia Record.
The contention over the silver plank
has demonstrated clearly that the break
In the Democratic party that existed when
Bryan was nominated In 1SS6 still contin
ues and still makes it Impossible to main
tain tho position of 1SS5 and elect the
Democratic candidate.
Philadelphia IdRer.
If the country were now In the throes of
a financial panic, Mr. Bryan would be
swift to appreciate the situation as a
verification of his perfervid campaign
oratory of 1896. It Is but fair to recall
tho fact that the country is enjoying a
remarkable era of prosperity on the eve
of another Presidential campaign, not
withstanding the rejection of Mr. Bryan's
silver heresy. An extraordinarily high
degree of National prosperity has been
coincidental with the preservation of tho
gold standard. The two stand in the re
lation of cause and effect. Mr. Bryan
has been once rejected by the electorate
as an unsafe counseldr and guide. Noth
ing has occurred since in the trend of
business to create confidence In his silver
nostrum.
Ifeiv Yorlc. Even in ff Post.
Under no circumstances will tho Post
Bupport Bryan for President. . . .
Bryan showed in the last campaign that
he Is permeated with all sorts of Popu
llBtlc vagarisms. He is not the man
to be relied upon as President. The
platform he now stands upon Is a well
written document, but writing it down
that imperialism is the paramount issue
In this campaign does not make It so.
By reaffirming the financial plank In the
1S96 platform, word for word, the Demo
crats have thrown away the electoral
votes of all the East. Moreover, they
have placed the Gold Democrats all over
the country in a position where they are
disabled from supporting Bryan. They
have by this policy cast away most of
the help that might have come to them
If they had not again threatened to over
turn the standard of value.
Neir Yorlc Time.
Tho outcome of the convention is that
Bryan, grown bolder, more reckless and
revolutionary, recanting none of his sub
versive principles, standing for every
thing that he stood for in 1S96, and more
openly and conspicuously appealing to the
unsteady elements of the population, is
once again before the country as a candi
date for the Presidency; and the single
vital, the only significant, plank of his
platform Is the old rejected but still
dangerous and false doctrine of the free
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, a
doctrine that by hi3 command Is stated in
its extreme form. The wise way to
measure the dangers of Bryanlsm is by
Its nature and purposes, not by his
chances of election. Wo are confident
that he will be defeated. But the elect
ors who desire his defeat must bear them
selves as though they feared his election.
That Is the only safe way in any cam
paign. It Is a policy of obligation in this
campaign.
New Yorlc Journal of Commerce.
We are unable to recall any currency
folly which was not Indorsed at Kansas
City. The ratio of IS to 1, which was not
left to implication by the platform, means
one of two things that the Government
can determine the value of coins of gold
and silver In each other, which has been
abundantly refuted In our history, and
that of all other nations, was rejected by
Mr. Jefferson and explicitly denied by
Andrew Jackson's Secretary of the Treas
ury, or that a reduction of one-half in the
monetary unit would be a good thing,
which is a piece of dishonesty on its face,
contrary to reason and exploded by the
financial disasters precipitated in 1S33,
which were caused by the mere apprehen
sion of what Mr. Bryan promises. Be
sides sllverlsm there Is undoubtedly in
the platform a threat of fiat money, or
unlimited issues of irredeemable paper
money, and several of the convention ora
tors gave utterance to the extremest form
of currency Idiocy, the Idea that the most
desirable currency Is that which will not
circulate at a distance from home. 'This,
is not expressed in the platform, but it Is
implied, and individual expression was
given to It, No person who has the most
elementary knowledge of the nature and
uses of money can suppose that currency
is all tho better for It because somebody
will "not accept it and give merchandise
for it. This folly about money that stays
at home leaves no room for doubt that the
whole cheap money system of thought
Is tho product of Ignorance, aggravated
In somo cases, wo fear, by weak Ideas on
the subject of honesty.
' Baltimore San.
It Is Idle to deny that there are voters
who are not Inclined to take any risks,
and while Mr. Bryan might have secured
their support upon a conservative plat
form, It Is to be feared that they will
accept his challenge, as In 1S96, and oppose
his election to the bitter end. Mr. Bryan
had it In his power to secure the support
of that large element in his party which
ho alienated four years ago, but ho has
been unwilling to make any of the con
cessions which ordinary prudence and po
litical sagacity should have dictated with
out abandonment of principle. Apparently
he has been more concerned about his
own "vindication" than reuniting and
solidifying the party. That he has suc
ceeded in dominating the Kansas City
convention as no Democratic convention
was even dominated before by one man
may be convincing proof of his power
over the party as at present constituted.
As the dictator of the policies and can
didates of the National Democracy, he
la without a rival, but the dictator is not
always acceptable to the American people,
and Mr. Bryan's "vindication" may prove
the most costly blunder In hl3 political
career. Like the charge at Balaklava, "it
Is magnificent, but It is not war." Boss
ism is not liked In this section In a Na
tional leader any more than It Is tolerat
ed In state and city bosses. The voters
of the East cannot contemplate with ap
proval any attempt to coerce them, and
Mr. Bryan will be lucky if he loses no
votes by the autocratic attitude which
he has assumed in regard to the sliver
plank of the Kansas City platform. As
ex-Senator Hill very aptly observed:
"Just as I am opposed to imperialism
in a nation, so I am opposed to it in an
individual. This is imperialism of the
worst type." Mr. Bryan would do well to
reflect upon Mr. Hill's remark. It em
bodies the views of no Inconsiderable
number of Democrats In the East who
are not disposed to swap King Dog for
King Stork.
" NOTE' AND COMMENT.
Price Tuan Is almost as much of a
dictator as Bryan.
Mr. William Waldorf Astor, It appears,
was too English for tho English.
It 13 nearly time for the British Gen
erals In China to begin reporting with re
gret. Seasiders will find good light house
keeping rooms at North Beach and Tilla
mook rock.
Tho Boer war Is reported- to be near
its end. but the correspondent neglected
to say which end.
Perhaps the real reason Bryan didn't
go to Kansas City was because he didn't
want to pose as a rich man.
. Bryan will remain at home till the closo
of the campaign, and thereafter, unless
he gets a job on tho lecture platform.
It will come hard after tho wreck of
the Kansas City platform to be able to
get only 47 cents on tho dollar for the
silver plank.
If deserters from political parties were
shot the Democratic party would haye to
purchase an expensive equipment of rapid-fire
guns this year.
The situation in China is bad enough,
goodness knows; but let us be thankful
that it has not yet moved Alfred Austin
to commit any more poetry.
There has been another fist fight in
tho French Chamber of Deputies. French
sports need not blow in their coin on tha
prlzering, when they get so many first
class mills for nothing in the legislative
halls.
There were three lines around the moon
last night, which together with the pres
ence in the heavens of the bear and tha
lion, to say nothing of the procession
of the equinoxes, clearly proves tho
whereabouts of tho shade of the late P.
T. Barnum.
A hound was bought In Missouri and
shipped in a closed express car to a ranch
In Kansas. In a day or two it was miss
ing. Investigation proved that it had
gone back to its Missouri home, over a
distance of 500 miles, on a road entirely
unknown to the dog.
The shad's a pretty toothsome fish, fur thera
that's got all day
To separate him from his bones, which grows
most every way;
The smolt'll do fur breakfast. It you like to
eat him whole.
An' then there's halibut an cod, an soft an
mushy sole.
But if we hadn't none of them we'd do quits
well without.
If only we could get a taste o' speckled mount
ain trout.
It's gettln' so that salmon's scarce, an' cost a
lot at that.
An any way It's kind o' rich an Just a bit
too fat:
The herrln Is all right at times, when yon can
git It fresh.
An sturgeon Is good eatln If you dry an
smoke the flesh;
But still there ain't no kind o fish we hanker
much about.
Since this here law has made It so they's no
more speckled trout.
It soon '11 git so carp '11 be the only flsa we'll
git.
An" we'll be glad to pay our coin fur them an
suckers ylt.
Or else fill up on mackerel an' other fish in
brine;
An' epicures that's got good Jobs might Jest as
well resign.
Fur, like a Dutchman when he's got no beer
on' sour kraut.
Is how we feel now we can git no more good
speckled trout.
A Portland woman who spent tho
Fourth at a town in Idaho tells a good
story about a runaway "merry-go-round."
This was one of the kind operated by
a horse, which walked around a ring in
the center. The concern was very largely
patronized on the Fourth, and the pro
prietor desiring to make hay while ths
sun was shining, worked his horse so
hard that the animal gave out. A fresh
one not accustomed to the business was
procured In a hurry, and a load having
got aboard, the machine was started.
The new horse was rather restive, and
when somo one dropped a lighted bunch
of firecrackers behind him, he ran away.
It was up-hill work for him for a time,
but he soon got up speed on the machine.
and, as the motion increased, the swans,
giraffes, horses and other "conveyances"
suspended around the outer ' circle be
gan to swing outward, impelled by cen
trifugal force, till it was with difficulty
the ridera could stick to their mounts.
They commenced shrieking, and the mora
they yelled the faster the horso ran and
the higher and swifter they flew. Thero
was great excitement for a time, but
finally some kind of a purchase was
brought to bear, which was too much for
the horse, and he and the machine were
brought to a stop. The woman who tells
the story says she never had a swifter
or more exciting ride in her life, except
once, and that was when she came down
over the cascades of the Columbia in a
steamboat.
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PliEASASTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
The Advertising Trait. "That actress eyes
are llko diamonds." "Oh, no; she wouldn't
want to lose them." Philadelphia Bulletin.
"Dear Prince." cabled Croker to Wales as
Hill went down In the fracas, "t have taken
another kopje." Philadelphia North American.
His Opinion. The Teacher But all trees do
not bear fruit. In what way are the others
useful 7 Pupil They're good to climb. Puck.
Rather Different. Mrs. Sportlelgh When you
went hunting. Philip, what did you pay the
guide? Sportlelgh (absently) Do you mean for
wage3 or game? Harper's Bazar.
"1 can't see," said the shoe clerk, "why a
Scotchman should say 'hae' for 'have.' " "It
is his economical disposition. He saves a V
every time ho does so," said the Cheerful
Idiot. Indianapolis Press.
Towne HIcult has conceived a horrible Idea
Browne What is it? An infernal machine?
Towne It's infernal, sure enough. He pro
poses to set some of Browning's poems to Wag
ner's music Philadelphia Press.
The two men had talked for a time in the
train. "Are you going to hear Barklns lecture
tonight?" said one. "Tes," returned the
other. "Take my advice and don't. I hear
that he Is an awful bore." "I must go," said
the other. "I'm Barklns." Tlt-Blts.
The New War Play. Hamphat Engaged yet
for next season? Futlltcs Tes. I go out with
a rood company in a new war drama. Ham
phat Comedy part? Futlltes Double up. I
play tha comic corporal in the first act and
chairman of the investigating commission la
tho last. Philadelphia Press.
The Price.
Chicago Times-Herald.
He did his duty day by day.
Ho wronged no one, but tolled away.
With love for all mankind.
He saved a little now and then.
He worshiped God and trusted mon.
And sighed not nor repined.
He struck It rich by chanco one day.
And threw the tools he'd used away.
And friends flocked round him theni
But one thing that he had before
That gave him Joy Is hii no more,
He's lost bis faith In men.'
Ho looks upon all men today
As wolves who'd steal his wealth away.
Who'd cheat him. If they could!
What say you? Are his heas of gold
Worth, what ho gave the faith of oM,
In human brotherhood?