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t Vfe r-r jass - THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY. 18, 1900. &h$ v&Q0xawx 'Sntared at the Postofflce at Portland, Oregon, as second-clew matter. TELEPHONES. Editorial Rooms.. ..168 Business Office... .C07 REUSED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (postage prepaid), in Advance Daily, WithSunday. per month fO S$ Drily, Sunday excepted, per year 7 50 Lal.y -with Sunday, perjear, 8 00 feunday, pe year 2 00 The Weekly, per year .. 1 50 The Weekly, 3 months K To City Subscribers Daily, per -week, delivered. Sundays excptcd.l5c Daily, per week, delivered. Sundays lncluded.20c POSTAGE RATES. United State. Canada and Mexico: '10 to 10-page paper -.lc 13 to 82-page paper , ......... ..&: Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed invariably "Editor The Oregonlan." not to the name of any Individual. letters relating to advertising, aubacrlptions or to any business matter should as-addressed simply "The Oregonlan." The Oregonlan does not buy poema or etorle trom trdlviduals. and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to It without solicita tion. No stamps should be Inclosed for this purpose. Paget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, office at 1111 Pacific avenue. Tacoma, Box 855, Tacoma postofflce. Eastern Business Office The Tribune build ing. New York City; "The Rookery," Chicago; rthe S. C. Beckwlth special agency. New York. For sale In San Francisco by J. K. Cooler. 7M Market street, near he Palace hotel, and at Goldsmith Bros., 236 Sutter strett. For sale in Chicago by the P. O. News Co.. tel" Dearborn street. , TODAY'S WEATHER. Fair and warmer; north winds. 1 1 tPOR.TI.AXD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, " There was ample warning: of the up Tlsing In China against foreigners. Ex tracts are reprinted from the North China Herald, of last February, in which this outbreak was clearly and 'fully predicted. That paper then said: "The whole country from the Yellow River to the Great Wall and beyond will be a blaze of insurrection, which will drive every foreigner out of Pekln and 'Tien Tsin, under conditions whloh it is juot difficult to foresee." A native Chl- naman sent to the same uaner a letter iwhich contained this statement: "I ' write you in all seriousness and sincer ity to inform you that there is a great scheme, having for its aim to orush all norelners in China and wrest back the territories 'leased' to them." There has ''been a prodigious importation of arms Into China, in preparation for this ef fort chiefly from Germany; and now the nations are to "go up against" the 'consequences of this greed of commerce. 1 "When the Insurrection of the Paris Commune, In 1871, against the French Republic, had possession of the capital of France, its leaders murdered the Archbishop of Paris, and shot to death in cold blood two captured Generals of the Republic These Insurgents de stroyed the Tuilerles, the column of 'the Place de Vendome, and burned a 'number of magnificent public buildings. The insurgents Included in their ranks fa large number of the National Guard. They were well armed, had an army of 80,000 men and a powerful train of ar ttillery, and were led by an experienced (professional soldier, Dombrowski. These ttnsurgents of the Commune made Paris a city of horrors for several weeks 'before Marshal MacMahon, with his Tegular soldiers, defeated them and 'regained possession of Paris. It is not 'improbable that the imperial provincial government at Pekln has been con ' fronted with a factional Insurrection of 'formidable proportions. This probable i situation Justifies the State Department and the Administration for not assum ing that a state of war exists now be tween the United States and China. "War abrogates or suspends treaties, but our armed efforts today for the protec tion of the lives of our citizens are but the legitimate exercise of one of the rights belonging to us under the treat ies which formal war would abrogate or suspend. "We are not waging war against the Chinese Government, for we have no evidence of any hostile act or intention on part of the Imperial Government we recognize and with which we made our several treaties. "We have fairly assumed that certain Insurgents have either overthrown the Chinese Govern ment or have temporarily so paralyzed it. as the insurgents of the Paris Com mune transiently did the government of France, that it cannot prevent or punish this anti-foreign crusade. The movement of our troops for the rescue or defense of our citizens is not war upon China, any more than the pur suit and capture of a Chinese piratical Junk would be. Under our treaty of 1844 with China, "the laws of our Union follow its citizens, and Its banner pro tects, even within the Chinese Empire." Our Government is only doing what It has a right to do under its treaties. Its only present purpose is to rescue and defend its own citizens, to demand a stable Chinese Government, the in tegrity of the Empire and the preserva tion of existing rights of unrestricted trade over the Pacific with 400,000,000 of people now guaranteed by treaty. In Idaho a powerful effort is being made at Pocatello to bring together the three parties on a mutual basis of fu sion. The silver parties there represent irreconcilable differences of principle and fierce antagonisms of candidates, and it might seem to the uninitiated that common ground could not be found. For example, the great issue in Idaho is Steunenberg and his success ful efforts to defeat arson, riot and murder, and restore order in the Coeur TAlenes. The fusion Populists at Sioux Falls denounced his methods and poli cies. The Kansas City convention ig nored the matter altogether; but the Democratic state convention, after a stormy fight, indorsed the Governor's action. Thus we find the Populists on one side of this paramount issue, the Democrats on the other, and the Silver Republicans anywhere so they are per mitted to remain on earth. But this reat obstacle to harmony at Pocaiello is apparent, not real. The decision will rest with the conference committees, which are appointed to apportion the offices and care little about platform declarations. Fusion is a device of party bosses to capture the offices. When there is a quarrel over spoils, xuslon is In grave danger. A statement that principle cuts no figure in the negotiation for fusion needs some qualification. It may be made to cut a great figure. At Bllens bnrg, in 189S, the three silver parties met in an effort to Join hands for the campaign. There was the usual fierce struggle over the apportionment of of fices. The Democrats demanded a Con gressman and a Supreme Judge. The Populists agreed to give them, provided the Democrats would indorse single tax in their platform. They agreed. Thus was a .question of principle traf ficked away; for an office. The Demo-' crats spld themselves to the support of an odious scheme of land confiscation. The terms of the bargain were widely advertised throughout the state, and had much to do in bringing fusion and fusion-Jobbers in contempt so general that It accomplished their defeat. THE GREAT CIliaiB IV CHINA. The course of affairs in China will probably play an Important part in our politics this year. For it may be taken for granted that the party of negation and opposition will take a stand against the participation of our country In the military operations undertaken in China by the civilized nations for suc cor, if possible, of their people in peril there, if any yet live, or, if all have perished, as now seems most probable, for punishment of the most atrocious crime of modern times. The Kansas City platform calls this participation by our country in the Just crusade of outraged civilization against the sav ages in China who have murdered the representatives of our own and other governments and all our citi zens within reach, as a scheme of "land-grabbing in Asia," To this position men are brought by their own fanatical cry of "anti-Imperial ism." The simple logic of this protest Is that the official representatives of our country in China may be slaughtered, American missionaries and other citi zens tortured and murdered, American investors robbed and ruined in viola tion of treaties; and yet we must do nothing, because action would be "mili tarism" and "imperialism." "We are not going into any "land-grabbing scheme in Asia." We do not want a "slice" of China. We could do noth ing with it, and shall not cumber our selves with it. It is "doubtful, indeed, whether the nations of Europe really desire or would undertake the partition of China among themselves. From the experience they are getting they are likely to learn what an undertaking it would be, and to hold back from It. But the civilized world has a duty there. Vindication of civilization re quires it. The crime, indeed, is inexpi able; and yet it must be punished. The only redress Is so to break China on the wheel as to render repetition of this terrible crime impossible. One even feels that when the Emperor of Germany talks of "revenge" the expres sion has its Justification; for this is a crime that has no parallel. It is a de fiance by a corrupt nation, petrified in Its ancient infamies, to the whole mod ern world. The purpose is to make China a forbidden land, governed on traditional and theocratic lines. By wholesale murder the old Isolation is to be restored, the ideas and reforms of modern times excluded and this vast anachronism perpetuated. At whatever cost, the civilized world will now break down the antique system capable of such crimes, though it be supported by one-third of the human race. In the current number of the North American Review, Charles Johnston, of the Bengal civil Bervlce (retired), who for many years studied Oriental prob lems and had peculiar facilities for the work, gives an account of the origin and growth of these difficulties in China. The late Emperor, he says, was a sincere reformer. He realized that China not only was not going forward, but actually backward. He took in the lesson and consequences of the defeat by Japan, and saw that China must seek regeneration through the progres sive arts, He proposed to substitute for the useless antiquities of China the more pra'ctlcai inquiry into engineer ing, chemistry, military and naval sci ence, mechanical arts, electrical discov ery, etc He would have a unlverslty at Pekln modeled after the best In Eu rope; schools of technology were to be set up; teachers educated In Japan were to instruct in the lower schools, of which there was to be a system of pri maries and intermediaries. New naval schools he decreed should be estab lished; a school of agriculture was to be founded in every province; the study of agricultural machinery and use of farm Implements was to be promoted, and modern methods of .tilling the soli were to be Inquired into scientifically, and as far as applicable adopted throughout the empire. The establish ment of great manufactories was part of the scheme, so as to give employ ment to the teeming thousands and thus reduce the miseries of famine. More than all this, he began a reform of the Judicial system, and the blotting out of the bribery shame, which hangs over Chinese courts. A new medical college was founded in Pekin to Intro duce scientific in place of superstitious and traditional methods of healing, and to Instruct Chinese surgeons how to treat the wounded. Against all this there was popular re volt, led, of course, by violent dema gogues, who laid hold of "everything to stir the prejudices of the Ignorant classes. Against nothing perhaps did their wrath exhale more violently than medical reform, for it struck directly at the faith belief of a large and pow erful class of "healers," as well as at the profits of their superstitious quack ery. Then the entire bureaucracy took alarm and began to inflame the popu lace; for the beneficiaries of the fossil ized system everywhere saw their occu pations would soon be gone. The agi tation rapidly led up to the popular fury at whose consequences the world now stands aghast. But the isolation of China will now be broken up, as a direct consequence of the atrocious and horrible proceedings employed to per petuate it. TJXDEtt THE DOMAIN OP AGRICUL TURE. Eastern Oregon, a quarter of a cen tury ago the stockman'B paradise, Is coming more than ever under the do minion of agriculture. To citizens of the Willamette Valley the few who remain of the ox-team era who drove their Jaded teams across what seemed the interminable wastes of the then Middle Oregon Territory, the vast areas of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Wasco Counties, and who have not since vis ited that section, the term Eastern Ore gon is a synonym of desolation. In point of fact, those wide areas arid but for the streams of living water that kept green the willows upon their banks, and unproductive but for bunch grass and wild sage that covered them have become in recent years confis cate to civilization. Not to 'the civili zation that houses lonely women and half-wild children In cabins far apart, while men roam the ranges looking af ter stock, returning at longer or shorter Intervals to their homes, but to the civ ilization of which agriculture is the main stay, and myriads of peaceful homes are the Joint product. It is a civilization to which the schoolhouse is auxiliary, to which churches, minister and of whloh organized society is the fair and substantial result Civilization advanced upon this sec tion of the state both from the East and the West It ' advanced slowly for many years, because of the unsolved Indian problem, which held it in check. But it advanced, nevertheless, and its vanguard finally secured a substantial footing as stockmen and herders. The whole country became a range for stock, and was held in common by men in the stock business unfenced and unclaimed except as community pas ture land. Finally some enterprising rancher scattered a few bushels of wheat In the dust of his corral one Autumn, and lo, next year a bountiful harvest was returned to him. Agricul ture had taken its first step, and pils was followed by strides so rapid that In a few years at harvest time The land was a hum with sounds Of men and of reapers, as sickles keen Swept Into the drowsy-beaded wheat With clatter and rush and Jocund song; While wide as a. sea-green yellow and brown The grain fields endlessly rolled along. Then, by the aid of irrigation, came fruit and hops; and latest of all, intelli gent experiment has shown that these soils, once scheduled as arid, may be made to produce cotton and corn, to bacco and flax, sugar beets and vegeta bles. Condensed energy and applied intelligence have wrought this change and opened a vast empire to agricul ture. Stockmen of the old open range policy have been forced out; but stock raising is still a vast industry reduced to system. Sheep, we are told, have no friends in vast sections over which they once roamed. This, for obvious reasons, is true, but sheep husbandry, modified to meet the new conditions of grain fields and orchards and cultivated meadows, thrives, nevertheless, and will continue; but not at the expense of other and equally important Interests. War has been made upon range horses until their number has been lessened by thousands within a few years, but horseraislng with a definite purpose thrives with abundant promise. There Is no "desert land" in the old-time meaning of that term. In areas that are in reach of mountain streams by irriga tion. Sparsely settled still, this Inland Empire is populous as comp'ared with its condition a decade ago, and Its de velopment as an agricultural region will be rapid In coming years. Everything points to this. Transportation compa nies are factors in this development; mining Is a factor, and the American home-possessing Instinct eagerly on the alert Is the moBt potent factor of alL TO PLEASE THE VISITOR. Strangers who come to Portland are as a rule surprised to find that It Is a beautiful city. They have no Idea that nature has done so much and man so- little In a situation altogether lovely. They do not understand why their 1m presslons have been that the outward aspects of Portland are commonplace; and they complain that no one had been at pains to inform them of the agree able facts. Perhaps It Is the inherent modesty of our people that restrains them from blowing their own horn; per haps it is indifference to the opinions of visitors (though we know better); or perhaps it is all due to a common be lief that our remarkable local attrac tions are good things to see and tiresome things to hear about Whatever the reason, it sis undoubtedly true that the pictorial show Portland offers all com ers is far ahead of all the advertise ment It has had. It Is not wise to be content with our own happy surroundings. Even scenery may be tarnished by the touch of civil ization in a high state of development Just now the town Is in need of a vig orous burnishing, to get ready for the street fair and carnival to be held here In September. We shall then have thou sands of visitors, and, If we are to pre pare them for the customary surprise about our fine scenic endowment, and if we are to show them that we appre ciate it and are using It to some advan tage, we must clean and repair our streets, trim our shade trees, fix up our sidewalks, and remove many unsightly things from public view. The streets in many places, and particularly in the business center, are In very bad condi tion. Some of them have holes so large as to wreck any vehicle unfortunato enough to run into them.. Our trees are the crowning glory of street and lawn. But many of them have been neglected so much as to pre sent a wild and woolly appearance. The branches are often so low that It Is difficult to walk along without hav ing to stoop In order to pass un der. And wild grass Is allowed to grow in too many places. It looks untidy and uncouth, and causes an observer invol untarily to look around for cows he ex pects to find running at large. Boards in walks that are loose or rotten are too numerous. It makes an unpleasant impression on any person to have a board fly up and hit him. He prefers to carry away as a reminder of our progress and cultivation something be sides a large black-and-blue brulEc. Piles of cordwood, too, are all right In their place, but their place Is not In the streets; nor Is it necessary for any housekeeper to leave an accumulation of sawdust outside his fence. Just to show all passers that he bos got in his Win ter's wood. Most Important of all, when the street fair and carnival is held, Is a cordial welcome for visitors. Let everybody be given the "glad hand." Portland Is al ways glad to see people from other places; but it Is not enough simply to be glad. Liet everybody show that he Is pleased to see everybody else. Let the stranger and the wayfarer be taken In and made to feel at home; and then we may be sure that the street fair will be a great success. The other day ex-Champion John I Sullivan was brought before a Police Judge in New Tork City on charge of having assaulted, during a drinking bout his barkeeper, Sullivan was len iently treated, and, as he walked out many bystanders murmured admir ingly, "If John didn't drink, there Is no man who ever walked had any busi ness with him." This Is unmitigated moral rot If "John" was a sober man today, and always had been a sober man, it would not obscure the fact that he was always a man of brutish and ruffianly Instincts, as any man must be who sells his body to be abused for money. A prize-fighter is a lawbreaker, a non-productive person of demoraliz ing example and revolting profession, A sober pickpocket burglar, or high wayman, is a foe of law, order and social safety, and so In a less degree js a sober prize-fighter. The worst thing about "John" 13 that he has been a prize-fighter and would be willing to be a prize-fighter tomorrow If he had any hope of being able to train down to a condition that would give any chance to win "big money." The intemper ance of "John" hurts nobody but "him self, while the spectacle of his success as a prize-fighter injured society and helped to nurture the brutal side of public sentiment, which is always be hind lawless violence. It is rot to argue that save for his intemperance, "John" would be a rather amiable, gentle and useful member of society, for his in temperance is but a contingent or coin cident vice to the base, brutalizing business of prize-fighting. To be a so ber prize-fighter is to be a worse and more dangerous and more demoraliz ing member of society than it would be to be a drunken tailor or shoemaker. It Is not good to be intemperate, but to plead that it is worse for a man to be Intemperate than it is to be a pugilist Is a doctrine that smacks of profes sional temperance demagogy. Between this time and January, 1907, France proposes to spend $95,367,200 in increasing her navy. The scheme Is an elaborate one ,and its details show care ful financiering. It proposes the con struction of six 14,865-ton battle-ships, five 12,600-ton cruisers, twenty-eight 305-ton torpedo-boat destroyers, and an unstated number of submarine torpedo boats. For the construction of the lat ter, $13,000,000 has been set aside. It Is noteworthy in thl3 connection that the French navy Is the first to possess submarine boats that are able, under certain conditions, to discharge success fully the torpedoes with which they are charged against armored vessels, either at anchor or in motion. It Is evident from the course of naval construction entered upon that before the close of the first decade of the new century France will be able to hold her own at sea against her possible enemies, unless. Indeed, human ingenuity, charged anew with the forces of destruction, has not by that time invented some missile or machine before which the great bat-tie-ships of modern navies are as pow erless as were the old wooden frigates, Congress and Cumberland, before the first lron-cladB evolved from the stress and fury of the Civil War. The Nome argonauts were warned times without number not to go; but they must go and find It all out for themselves. All the conditions that make life there all but intolerable were discounted from the first except the smallpox epidemic, and that is the le gitimate result of the sanitary chaos Into which the camp has been thrown by the sudden influx of thousands of people. Nothing worse has happened than might have reasonably been ex pected. The presence of General Ran dall assures military control; and mili tary control implies intelligent and ef fective regulation of the camp's sani tation and rigorous precautionary meth ods to stop the spread of the epidemic It may be hoped that General Randall Will be able soon to conquer the situa tion. The first of what promises to be a tremendous crop of damage suits, grow ing out of the street-car accident In Tacoma on July 4, has been filed. The loss of 'forty-three lives, the injury more or less seriously of a large num ber of persons, and the unqualified cen sure of the street railway company by the Coroner's Jury, all point to numer ous appeals to the courts for such re dress as is possible in the case. The railway company was culpable, no doubt But what of the city authorities who allowed this enormous risk to hu man life to be taken, not once and op the occasion of the fearful happening, but every day and as many times a day as the time schedule over that por tion of the track was made? There is clearly a divided responsibility here. The toad Jumps at the touch of the spear of Ithurlel. The Lewlston Trib une has counted the number of articles on the. editorial page of The Oregonlan, of a recent issue, and says the name of Bryan appeared In seventeen of them. That the Lawlston paper should have made this count indicates what it thinks of The Oregonlan, not what It thinks of Bryan. There Is no other paper of whose articles It has made such count and study. A paper that Is studied as the Lewlston editor says he studies The Oregonlan has no reason to complain. And there are many who study The. Oregonlan as closely as he does. That accounts for the fact that Bryanlsm has no standing In the states of the Pacific Northwest Dr. Charlton T. Lewis, a 'vice-president of the "Antl-Imperlallst League." says that "Imperialism" is not the su preme issue, despite the declaration of the Kansas City platform. The su preme Issue, he says, lies In the char acter of the Bryan party, pf which he presents this estimate: Tho like of the Bryan party has not been seen since the days of the Mountain In 1793 -and tho Paris Commune of 1871, Bryan stands for the samo tblnrrs that the French Revolu tion stood for. He s not & political leader; he Is a revolutionist: and tho crowd that he leads has no respect for law, no respect for our Na tional Institution, no respect for social order. Instead of Improving in four years, I think that the Democracy has decidedly retrogressed; the leadership of the Kansas City Convention was on a much lower plane, it that wero pos sible, than that of 1800. The new meat Inspection bill passed by the German Reichstag is known In Germany as the "law to raise the price of meat" That it may not succeed, with the alternative of depriving" the working classes of meat entirely, the flesh of dogs and horses Is being used by the German people to a greater ex tent than ever before as an article of food. The law, so far from protecting the consumer against poor or impure meat increases its consumption. Amer ican meat is excluded, however, which was the special object of the law, and if Germans eat beef at all they must pay the high price which is the result of shutting out competition. We shall withdraw from Cuba ere long, for we pledged ourselves to do so. The Democrats in Congress forced this pledge, not because they didn't want to hold Cuba for the acquisition of Cuba was a leading "object of the Democratic party for a half-century but because they wanted to force the Republican party into a wrong and false position. So we shall get out of Cuba; but the time will come when we shall be forced Into war for Cuba again. In all probability Cuba will drift Into a monarohy, and will make connections and alliances that will menace us, and the work of conquest will have to be done again; A body of teachers from the schools of Cuba have been paying a visit to Boston. It was urged that their pres ence be solicited as a feature at a pro hibition meeting. To this proposal President Eliot of Harvard, made the following Judicious reply: I cannot think: that the Cuba teachers would take any Interest in regard to total absti nence; they have no tmdency to drink to ex cess, and cannot understand it In others. The vice against which you contend Is not prac ticed among them; our people have much to earn from them en that subject, but they can get nothing but a warning from us. To a delegation of which W. A. Clark, of Montana, was a member, Mr. Bryan spoke of the Republican party as "the party of wealth." This was audacious. since no Republican ever has bid so high for official place' as this same Mr. Clark. Mr. Bryan also said: "I don't believe the Republican party will carry a single state." So much for the Bryan Judgment In all the Northern States but a sin gle Democratic newspaper, so far as we know, that opposed Bryan in 1895 Is supporting him nor. This sole excep tion Is the Chicago Chronicle. This Journal, moreover, repudiates the six-teen-one fallacy, says It Is obsolete, outdated, and not an issue at all. Of course, the Chinese in this coun try are in no danger. We have our own Boxers and sand-lotters, but we keep enough of them In jail to -prevent them doing real harm. Most persons who went to Nome after gold are not likely to get it; but they are offered unusually fine facilities for acquiring the smallpox THE ISSUE AND THE PRESS. Remarks by a Leading Democratic Journal of. New England. Manchester (N. H.) Union, Dem. Time enough has now elapsed since the adjournment of the convention at Kansas City for those who participated in the demonstration there to settle down to a sober study of the situation. The framers of the platform there adopted mado the attempt to put forward Im perialism as the foremost Issue of the impending campaign. They declared It to be "paramount" and gave It special prominence in the order of subjects treat ed; but no one who has access to any considerable number of Democratic news papers can fail to have observed how futile the attempt has been. These newspapers have not been In the least deceived. They know, and their readers know, that the one Issue which Mr. Bryan Insisted upon was that of the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Whatever else was put In the platform, that Issue must be there, and. it did not matter whether it was placed at tho beginning, near the end, or in the mlddlo of the platform, because it was so clearly the one overshadowing Issue In Mr, Bryan's mind that nothing else in the platform could obscure, it This was po clearly and fully under stood that carcely a Democratic news paper which opposed Mr. Bryan's elec tion four years ago has now come to his support Assa rule, they are stoutly op posed to the colonial policy of the Repub lican administration; they recognize the perils which beset the course of imperial ism; they see In a reduction of tariff duties upon many articles of consumption the surest method of dealing with the trust evil; they are Democratic in prin ciple today, as they have always been, but they will not follow Mr. Bryan, tho candidate of the Populists, the candidate 'of the Silver Republicans, and 'the candidate of the Silver Democrats, upon a platform In which silver Is the one issue distinctively insisted upon. The Hartford Times, for more than 70 years a stanch and able exponent of the Democracy of the fathers, has been look ing over its exchanges, and finds that in all the State of Connecticut only one newspaper has placed Bryan's name at the head of Its editorial columns, and that newspaper is the Bridgeport Fanner. Such conspicuously Influential Democratic newspapers as the Hartford Times and the New Haven Register would have nothing of Bryanlsm In 1S93, and they will have nothing of It now. Much the same situation exists in all the Eastern States, in tho great states of the Middle West and even In the South. That great body of strong. Influential Democratic news papers which mado Bryan's election im possible four years ago, stands as firm today as it stood then. The men who shared in the enthusiasm at Kansas City have gone home to their several states to find this situation confronting them; and it is sheer folly to underestimate Its significance, These newspapers are not less Influential than they were four yoars ago; they have not lost prestige or patronage by refusing to teach that 50 cents might constitute an honest dollar, or to urge that whether It was honest or not it should be a dollar anyway. In this connection it may bo proper for the Union to make some, passing refer ence to tho course which has been forced upon it by the existing situation. It Is not pleasant to occupy a position of dis sent but experience has proved that it is not intolerable. It Is well to recall the fact that the original name of this newspaper was the Union Democrat It had its birth at a time when not all Dornocrats wero for the union of the states; it disagreed, at the very beginning, with a considerable element In Its party, but it survived and prospered. It is unnecessary, and would be most unkind to ask what has become of the faction which represented the other extreme of tho Democratic party In that now half forgotten time. It is not a new thing for the Union to find Itself compelled to dlfTer with those whom It would gladly count among its friends if it could do so without sacrifice of what It believes to be right The Men. Bryan "Would Put In Hl Cabinet. Chicago Tribune. Senator Lodge asks a pertinent ques tion when he asks where Bryan, If elect ed, will get a Cabinet Mr. Bryan is bigger than, his party. He will not if elected, be controlled by the advice of the men who have been the leaders of the Democratic party in picking out his "constitutional advisers." Mr. Cleveland was as unwilling to take advice as Mr. Bryan would be, if President But Mr. Cleveland called into Wa Cabinet such men as Gresham, Olney and Carlisle. Mr. Bryan would not select men of equal ability and character. Senator Lodge says: "Look over the roll of the Kansas City convention and point out to me a Secretary of State whom you would be willing to Intrust with the settlement of these Chinese questions. Run your eye over the list again and tell me where, among the Altgelds and the Sulzera, you will find a Secretary of the Treasury, Look at the Sioux Falls collection and tell me whether you want Pettlgrew In the Navy Department and Allen at the head of the War Department They have all got to be recognized. These are prac tical questions." These aro, Indeed, the men whom Mr. Bryan would choose to aid him In adminlstoring the affairs of the Nation. In the Altgelds and the Al iens he would recognize "kindred spirits. There Is no form of political or economic; lunacy with which he Is afflicted with which they are not afflicted also. Tho Gov ernment, It lntrusttd to men of this stamp, would bo carried on In a fashion Indicating that the people of the United States did not have "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind." Its foreign pol icy would be shifty and cowardly. Its domestic policy would be turbulent and destructive. It certainly would not dream of suppressing anarchy In China, for it would be busy encouraging anarchy at home. Campaign Jasnefl. Boston Herald, Ind. The New Tork Evening Post In dis cussing what the Issues of thl3 cam paign are to be, calls to mind tho history of four years ago. It brings Into recol lection that everything was arranged at tho Republican convention of 1SS5 on the basis of the tariff as paramount, and yet the tariff went quickly out of sight com paratively speaking, and tho currency question took Its place. ThlB extent In substitution can hardly be repeated, how ever, on the-Democratie side. The trouble Is in the rigidity of Mr. Bryan. Mc Klnley, as the Republican candidate, was a plastic personality. He did not begin the campaign as sound ion the currency by any means, but It was understood that there would be little difficulty in adapting him to that attitude; at all events, he was much preferable to Mr. Bryan here. But at present the person ality of Mr. Bryan stands out as for bidding any hope that his odious views on the currency can be subordinated to anything in his administration of the Presidency. He rose Into public notice as a defender of free silver coinage; he Insists upon that heresy now; he must stand as Its Indexible advocate to the end. The danger that ho is to this coun try In that position cannot possibly be put out of sight a . A VfEW OF EXPANSION. The Republic Is Pence and Liberty, suid Always- Will Be. Brooklyn Eagle, Ind. Dem. The Eagle's belief In expansion is based upon considerations as profound as re ligion and as earnest as patriotism. Into our hands as a trust the Philippines fell. Their acquisition by any other country would have meant a war destructive of the balances of peace in the two conti nents. Our National character is so moral, our habitual policy so peaceful, that the world recognizes our acquisitions of the Philippines and of the Spanish West Indies as a factor for Justice and tranquillity on the earth. Not a trans formation of our character, but an exten sion of our energies and a multiplica tion of our responsibilities, became inev itable. We are In.a transition state from much to more, from largo to larger. The distance was not of our own making or measuring. It was ordered by the power that laid the foundations of this country, but has not yet revealed tho limits of Its work. Neither the end of duty nor tho end of development has come merely be cause great demands have been laid upon both. Within the century now closing the best achievements for nations and by men are those to the credit of the United States. To the century, in the vestibule of which we stand, the Nation will carry the heritage received from the fathors. Our sons will take it from our hands, and the hands and the inheritance will both be clean. The Republic has nearly always been peace and has always been liberty, and will always be. That can be bad for none and bad nowhere. Its excesses are self-correcting, by regulated law. Let us not fear tho future, but let us go on to further duty, in tho conviction that, as the Intelligence and virtue of the people have sufficed In the past, they will suf fice In tho future over all obstacles, seen or unseen. Our country Is too strong for failure and too fine for fear. Our people are magnanimous, even toward those of their number who wish the Na tion ill and its enemies- well. A nation which has falsified their dire predictions and dispensed, for cause, with their serv ices, has never lost the pace or missed the step of progress and of right That pace It will nevor lose, and it will al ways keep. Tbe Paramount Issnc. New Tork Evening Post. Thero Is one Issue which Towna and Stevenson, and all the Populists, the Silver Republicans, and the Bryan Demo crats agree in placing first As tho Kan sas City nominee for Vice-President put it in his remarks upon reaching Lincoln the other day, they are all "Bryan men." In other words. It is that extraordinary compound which everybody recognizes as Bryanlsm that constitutes the dividing line and becomes the Issue of the cam paign. This Includes 18 to 1, but free coinage Is only one element in It It means also an assault upon the Judicial system of the general Government and license to rioters and anarchists In cases when the United States authorities ought to Intervene, as at Chicago, In 1894- It Involves the domination at Washington of a reckless Executive, without any re straint upon his impetuosity from his motley supporters, who have driven pru dence and conservatism from their ranks. This is the paramount issue. Thin Is "Within the Ball' Eye. New Tork World, Dem, Is thero not a sardonic humor, a pre posterous paradox In politics, in the fact that tho Democratic party risks its very 1'fe, and puts In peril the integ rity of our free Institutions, upon an issue not desired by Democrats, not In volved In this election, but forced upon It to please a small and contemptible faction of Silver Republicans? The Democratic party is to be attacked by Republicans as revolutionary and dan gerous upon an issue thrust into its platform to catch Republican votes. This Is, Indeed, one of the grim ironies of fate. Mr. .Bryan has assdmed the weightiest responsibility every borne by a Presi dential candidate. Bryan's Debt to Expansion. Philadelphia Record, Dem. There Is one argument for expansion that should have its weight with Mr. Bryan. He had made it known to the Democratic leaders at Kansas City that he would not accept a nomination unless "16 to 1" should be approved In the plat form; and "16 to 1" only got into the platform by the casting vote of the dele gate from Hawaii. Without that dele gate the necessary Bryan plank would have been rejected by the committee on resolutions. Without expansion there would have been no Hawaiian delegate ergo, without Hawaii no Bryan candi dacy. s The Real Issues. Brooklyn Eagle, Ind. Dem. Honest money 13 a universal Interest and the platform Is against honest money and Is therefore condemned by universal Interest Law and order comprise a uni versal Interest, and tho platform, being for the freedom of riot and the im munity of rioters from Federal law, 13 against another universal Interest and will be condemned on that account . ' MEN AND WOMEN. The Rev. William T. Hobart, one of. tho leading missionaries In Tien Tsin, China, Is a Methodist, and first went to China In 1SS4. He Is regarded as having & wonderful Influence Over the natives, but once said the anti-Christian element would sooner or later malce armed protest Mrs. Mary Church TerrlU, of Washington. D. C, la among the most enlightened colored women of tho United States. She is a gradu ate of Oberlln, and is a trustee of the public schools of Washington. She has studied abroad in Paris. Berlin and Xausanne. and was once offered a position in Oberlln College. Major Llewellyn, of the Rough Rtdera, was recently operated upon for appendicitis, and the surgeons discovered two big bullets white they were carving him. When he revived from the anesthetics they showed them to their pa tient who calmly observed: "There ore two more In there aomewhero; did you see any thing of thenar The widowed Duchess of Wellington Is one of the most Interesting and attractive women in England. Evelyn, Dochess of Wellington, is etUl a comparatively young woman, being in her -15th year, and she enjoys the rather un usual distinction of being several years younger than her sister-in-law. Lady Artiur Wellesley, who Is now the reigning Duchess. It la reported in Boston from a foreign, source that tho famous pink which the Boston banker Thomas W. Lawson, bought for 530,000 and named the Mrs. Thomas W. Law son pink, after his wife, bos been sold again. The latest purchaser, the report says, )s no less a personage than the Khedive of Egypt. now sojourning in London, who made the pur chase through an agent. The price he is sup posed to have paid la not Included In the story. A Bulgarian Journalist named Sangoff re cently wroto an article in a Sofia paper on the subject of the relaUon of the nose to char acter. After discussing the various shapes, he enmo to tbe conclusion that persons with long noses are often bad characters. The publla prosecutor regarded this as a cose of lea majeste, because Prince Ferdinand has a- long nose. Sangoff was arrested,, tried. and. sen tenced to three days' imprisonment. j NOTE AND COMMENT. T Who enters the open door in China leaves hope behind. Pekln Is In a fair way to be known as the St. Louis' of China. Aguinaldo has been dead a long time. Maybe he has gone to a place he likes. Alfred Austin writes almost poor enough verse to make a success of popular songs. Webster Davis has left the Republican party, and for onco the party Is glad to be left Now a sausage trust has been organ ized. The trusts, it appears, are going to the dogs. Dewey was right when he said he thought the Republicans would nominate McKinley. Bryan has not yet written his letter of acceptance, but it is generally believed that he will accept The rule of a grandmother in China Is not such as to Inspire us with any yearn ing for auntlo rule at home. LI Hung Chang Intends his son to go to an American college. He probably hopes that the young man's experiences as a freshman will fit him to endure the tor tures of the Boxers without a qualm. The Prince de Jcdnville. the third eon of Louie Philippe, the last King of France, died June 17, aged S2. In 1S40 he, in com mand of the frigate La Belle Poule,, con veyed the body of Napoleon from St Helena to France. He, afterward visited the United States In tho same veesel. In 1S43 he married the sister of the Emperor of Brazil. He commanded the French fleet which bombarded Tangiers In 184. and when the Civil War broke out In the United tSates he embarked for New Tork, taking with him his son, the Due de Pon thlevre, who entered as a cadet the American Naval School, which was then located at Newport At the same tbno ho was accompanied by his nephews, the Comte de Paris and the Due de Chartres. These gentlemen received military com missions In the American Army, and were members of the staff of General MoClel lan during the Peninsular campaign. The Prince accompanied General McCIellan during his- campaign, and on his return to France wrote a history of the cam paign of the Army of the Potomac Tlubble come fo Boxee man, Tlubble come fo' ole Tsl An. LI Hung Chang he heap begin. Start stop fltura down Pekln. LI Hung Chang long tlmo lay low. Him no Ukee Pekln go. Him say: "What fo me get kill? What man yellow Jacket fill?" Boxeo man he all time fight Evly day an evly night. Million Boxee man get dead. Still ho fltum, lite ahead. LI him eay: "No llkee that Boxee man all same torn cat, Fltum till him heap much sick, No can sabee when get lick." "Maybe by on" by come on Fltum down here In Canton, Old Li Hung him get dead would. Kl Tit heap too much no good!" So LI Hung him muchee thtnk. Heap much smokum, heap much dllnk. No can catchum much good plan Foolum bloody Boxee man. By an by him shakum head. Say: "No muchee like get dead. But me no can playum game Maybe dead get, allee same." --.., "So I llkee slttUm In. ' 5J Takum almy down Pekin; " Cottum head off Pllnco Tu-an. -' DHvum out bad Boxee man." Li Hung Chang him go on way. Maybe get Pekln today, , Heap will hangum ol Tal An. Heap will chasum Boxeo moo, Evly time bod tlubble come, King him all same deaf an' dumb, No can healum men get dead. Too much 'Hold him loosum head. But when too much tlubble come. Shootum cannon, hlttum dlum, Evly thing go bang, bang, bang! Then King callum LI Hung Chang. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHER9 Easily Found. Jamaon Do you believe that the office seeks the man? SIrason I do; and nine times out of ten It finds him In a saloon. Puck. The Author I wish I had time enough to write a good book. His Friend Why not take itT "Can't afford to. I am too busy writing successful ones." Life. "Tho doctor who makes a practice of telling fcla men patients that they work their brains too hard, and his women patients that noth ing but their will keeps them up, Is bound to Bueceed." Detroit Freo Press. The Cornted Philosopher. "The great su periority of Money over Man," said tha Corn fed Philosopher, "lies In the fact that, while money talks, it but seldom gives itself away In the performance thereof." Indianapolis Press. Ill-Tlmed. Now, at lost, the Briton found time to voice a scientific truth or two. "la the clear atmosphere of South Africa." he ob served, "things are farther away than they look to be." "My finish, for Instance," snick ered the Boer, who has fled to the rocks. De troit Journal. "go they are going to live In New Tork?' "Tea. They are cosily housed in a fiat and as happy as honeymoon people ought to be." "And neither Is the least Jealous?" "Not the least. To tell you the truth, their flat Is so small that I doubt if there Is even room for suspicion." Washington Star. "What was the trouble at that house whoro the complaint came from yesterday?" asked the superintendent of the gas company. "Noth ing muoh," replied the Inspector. "I found a centipede in one of the pipes." "Ah! on extra hundred feet. See that they're charged for that." Philadelphia Press. "Hnnr Baltimore American. THERE! are statesmen quite loquacious who discourse in accents graclohs on the questions that are agitating people's minds these days, but the strongest con versations on political equations are tho ones where Richard Crokcr opens wlda his mouth and says; "Huhl" IF an earnest Interviewer tnes to pin him with the skewer of a question that would make the sage of Tammany express hit opinion on a measure, then Oom Rich ard takes great pleasure In .remarking, as if he'd forgotten words like ''No' or 'yes," "Huhr WHEN he's asked with much politeness to ex plain the sturdy tightness of his grip upon the many shares of ice trust stock, he glares. Then ho speaks deliberately, with an aspect very stately, and he says in tones that show you how extremely much be cares: "Huhl" IF some mlschief-maklng bloke or other per son says to Croker that tho people often wonder where he fills his pocketfiook, then the chief will smile quite dimly, while his eyes will twinkle grimly, and. his eloquent reply will be in keeping with the look: "Huhl" SOME sweet day tho earnest voters, and th heelers ana the floatera will grow -weary of the crumbs that Croker lets fall la their way, and they'll turn him down se renely, but effectively arid cleanly, and when Richard asks the reason, they will calmly smile and say: "Huhl"