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selves with the 'reflection that the
party's attitude cannot therefore be
misunderstood. So with tariff reform,
which no one at Kansas City seems to
have thought of. This Is queer logic
The Democrats specifically readQpted
silver and 16 to 1, for the reason that
a mere reaffirmation would be con
strued a? abandonment o the Iesuc;
and they decline, or fall, to mention in
come tax or tariff reform, and say that
the omission is not to be regarded as
abandonment. These were simply for
gotten. Then they cannot be very Im
portant. But to regard them as unim
portant is to commit mental treason
against the great Chicago declaration
of independence, which is Immortal.
Silver was a vital principle in lBSfS,
therefore it must be in 1900, is the Bry-
anesque reasoning. Tariff reform and
income tax were vital issues in 1896,
and they are not In 1900, is also Bryan
osque reasoning.
PORTLAND, THURSDAY, JULY 10.
A little while ago the whole argu-
lent of the Democratic antl-lmperial-
3ts was directed toward proof that the
Filipinos are as capable of self-govern-
lent as the Cubans. The intelligence,
le patriotism and the lofty aspiration
for liberty that inspired the struggling
Cagals and other natives were touch-
igly and eloquently exploited, and the
?publican President and a Republican
ingress were anathematized for their
Ilegd purpose to refuse freedom to a
seople who ought of right to be free.
?he Democratic platform Is a cold-
jlooded abandonment of those virtuous
srofesslons. Now the Filipinos must be
pet adrift because they "endanger our
blvillzatlon." "We cannot make them
subjects "without imperiling our form
government." Because "we are not
rilling to surrender our civilization or
o convert the Republic Into an empire,"
7e must get rid of them. And we must
shake loose from our perilous relation
in our own account, and not on theirs;
secause of the great danger to our
selves, and not to them. What has be-
:ome of the noble concern of the De-
:ocracy for the Inalienable right of the
Filipino to protect life, preserve liberty
md pursue happiness in his own way?
It melts away before our superior self-
sh right to the pursuit of life, liberty
md happiness in our own way, and not
be bothered about them.
There is, to be sure, in the Kansas
Hty platform an assertion that we
lust give to the Filipinos (1) a stable
government; (T ndependence; and (3)
"protection frcu outside interference
such as has been given for nearly a
;entury to the republics of Central and
South America." But these guarantees
ire to be offered distinctly and solely
because they are to our advantage. The
slanders are to have stable government
lof their own, and independence and
protection, not because they deserve
Ithem, but because they are unfit to be-
Ecome American citizens. By the exer-
Iclse of our 'National power, and the j
j abjuration of our National authority,
we can and will give them National in
dependence and Individual liberty; but
we cannot retain National independence
and individual liberty for ourselves if
we permit these people to remain under
the American flag, and insist that our
authority shall be equal to our respon
sibility. What pitiful shuffling, what
sniveling hypocrisy!
THE PROBLEM OP CHINA.
The people of China, hardened and
even petrified In anolent custom, are
less willing to make changes in their
wuys of life than are the people of any
other land. Resistance to reform,
which they regard as mere Innovation,
is the grpund of the present outbreak
against foreigners, who are regarded
as the chief movers in the changes
which are so odious to the ancient con
servatism. All foreigners are alike
distrusted, and if the missionaries are
hated more than others, It is simply be
cause they have been more active than
others in the endeavor to Introduce new
ideas.
The Emperor was overthrown because
he had placed himself at the head of
the new movement for regeneration of
China. His edicts of reform would have
turned out of profitable sinecures thou
sands of politicians, commissioners and
various dignitaries quartered for cen
turies on the public, and would have
supplanted the rubbish which has been
the "learning" of China for thousands
of years with scientific knowledge col
lected from the experience of civilized
and enlightened men.
It might have been supposed that the
war with Japan would have taught
China the necessity of study and adop
tion of the -ways of the modern world.
It was a terrible defeat of a great na
tion by a small one; yet that small na
tion had been reclaimed but yesterday
from Its Isolation and barbarism. How
unprepared China, is to meet the forces
of the modern world should have been
taught by this encounter. Europe has
Indeed sold large quantities of arms to
China, which doubtless will be used
with considerable effect for a time; but
the spirit to organize and support war,
and the means of doing it, cannot exist
to any great extent In such a nation.
It may be regarded as possible, even
probable, that China, as a result of
these disturbances, will split into a
number of states. The empire is not
homogeneous, and there are local dif
ferences and race hatreds. Neither the
United States nor Great Britain can
desire to participate in any scramble
for Chinese territory, and it should he,
as doubtless It will be, their policy to
insist that the Independence of the Chi
neseEmplre,or of the several states into
which it may be broken up, shall be re
spected by the nations. This will be
the only assurance of avoiding diffi
culties over commercial problems.
Peace only can be kept among the other
nations by avoidance of every scheme
or suggestion of dismemberment of
China and parceling out the empire
among them.
4nd Watervllle; N. X. The total num
ber of crematories in. Europe' is 34,009,
but this large number is accounted for
by the fact that the cremation of the
unclaimed hospital dead Is made com
pulsory by the City of Paris to relieve
the crowded metropolitan cemeteries.
Cremation is recognized as a Christian
mode of burial by ministers of many
Protestant denominations, including
Bishop Potter, Dr. Ralnsf ord. Dr. Hunt
ington and Bishop Iayvrence, . of the
Episcopal Church. Doctrlnally, the
Catholic Church does not oppose cre
mation, and practically it admits of it
in cases of necessity, such as those of
war or pestilence, when a large num
ber of decaying bodies may become a
danger to the public health unless they
are destroyed. More women have ex
pressed In life the desire to be cremated
after death since the incineration of
the late Frances E. Willard than ever
before. The nationality showing the
greatest preference for cremation In
New Tork Is the German, who, In pro
portion to their number, outrank all
others four to one. and this ratio Is
much the same in other American
orematorles.
CREMATION.
Observe that an essential feature of
the Democratic anti-expansion policy
la to afford to the Filipinos the same
protection that we have given Central
and South America, That Is to say, we
are to extend the Monroe Doctrine to
Via Oi-lont "Rn Tpn flnrt tVint tVio "Rf-
publlcan party is roundly denounced
'because it opposes the spirit of the Mon
roe Doctrine in its avowed policy to
hold sovereignty over territory and
large numbers of people in the Eastern
! hemisphere. There is a contradiction
! here that no amount of effort to draw
j a distinction between "sovereignty" and
"protection" can explain away. If the
assumption of sovereignty over the
Islands is in opposition to the spirit of
the Monroe Doctrine, protection from
outside Interference is violative both of
its spirit and Its very letter, which is
to preserve the American status quo
lor the entire American continent, and
"Which serves to Isolate America from
the rest of the world in the sense that
it keeps all European nations out. This
Is the Democratic Interpretation of the
Monroe Doctrine, found In the very
platform which proposes to do for the
Philippine Islands, what Is now being
done for South and Central America.
We protect the American continent
from European aggression because It is
the American continent; we refuse to
protect European or Asiatic countries
because they are not on the American
continent.
We scan the Kansas City plat
form in vain for a single sympa-J
thetlc word for the Filipinos. Nothing
is said about Agulnaldo being the
Asiatic George Washington. There is
simply a contemptuous denial of the
Filipino right and fitness to be Amer
ican citizens. The Declaration of In
dependence is bounded on the north by
the aurora borealis; on the south by the
Monroe Doctrine; on the east by the
Gulf stream; and on the west by the
first breakers of the Pacific. It has
no latitude; hut It is confined within
very dpfinite limits of longitude. It Is
Intended, in brief, to cover the United
States alone, with a quasi extension to
the north and south poles; but It must
not cross the Atlantic nor the Pacific.
The Democratic theory Is that we have
no National duty except our duty to
ourselves; no International obligation to
do anything for anybody but ourselves.
The Quigging of the Democratic plat
firm is exoitmg some comment, and
some chagrin among those most
concerned. The income-tax plank,
shaped under the master hand of
Bryan himself, is said by several mem
bers of the platform committee to have
been proposed, agreed upon and or
dered to be inserted; but it was lost
somewhere in the shuffle between the
full committee and the subcommittee
named to prepare the draft of the docu
ment The comprehensive Chicago
p'atform, which includes income tax,
-was luckily reaffirmed, and the Demo
cratic leaders aro comforting them
A recently published communication
from Rev. Dr. Eliot called public at
tention to the subject of cremation. The
most recent statistics show that the
rapid reduction of the dead tp ashes by
means of fire is taken to more kindly
by Americans than any other people.
More voluntary orders from families
are received In New York City to cre
mate their dead than In any other city
in the world. The explanation of this
fact is found in the superior practical
ity of our people. Our common sense
teaches us that from a purely sanitary
point of view the weight of argument Is
all with the advocates of cremation.
The sentimental, superstitious plea for
earth burial was completely disposed
of' by Lord Shaftesbury when he said:
"If these so-called religious objections
to cremation are sound, what becomes
of your blessed saints and martyrs?"
There is, of course, no answer to this.
If the ashes of the blessed saints and
martyrs of both the Protestant and
Catholic churches, who were burned be
cause of their faith, or because of their
lack of faith, can be reassembled and
rematerialized on the resurrection
morn, why cannot the ashes of those
cremated after death, who may have
been saints In life or may have been
sinners, be also reassembled and re
materialized at the sound of the last
trumpet calling the quick and the dead
for the last judgment?
The answer of Lord Shaftesbury is
conclusive, whether we believe or dis
believe in the resurrection of the body.
If we do believe in it, we cannot fairly
assume that the Christian saints and
martyrs lose their chance of resurrec
tion through their heroic sacrifice for
the faith; and if we do not believe In
It, we certainly need not object to cre
mation. All the great nations of an
tlaultv resorted to cremation save
Egypt, Judaea and China, and In times
of the plague the Jews burned their
dead. In days when means of transpor
tation were comparatively slow and la
borious, when wars were frequent and
the slaughter very great, the quickest
and most effective way to protect the
public health against the Infection of a
multitude of decaying bodies was to
burn them, and this explains the faot
that in ancient times cremation was the
rule among the highest civilizations,
like those of Greece and Rome. The lit
toral law of Italy for many years has
doomed the bodies of persons who have
perished at sea and been cast up by
the waves upon the shore to cremation,
and It was under this law that the
body of the poet Shelley, drowned in
the Bay of Spezzla in 1822, was cre
mated by his friends, Lord Byron,
Leigh Hunt and Trelawney. In 1876
only twenty-five bodies were voluntarily
offered for cremation In this country,
but last year 1700 bodies were reduced
to ashes" by fire In the United States.
Since the incineration of the first dead
body in this country, over 10,000 have
been slmllarlj disposed of. At the
crematory at Fresh Pond, N. T., 3208
bodies have been voluntarily offered for
cremation since 1885, when it was built.
There are twenty-five crematories today
In the United States, disposed of among
the following cities: Washington, Pa.;
New York, San Franolsco, Boston, St.
Louis, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Buf
falo, Los Angeles, Detroit, Lancaster,
Q. Pittsburg, Baltimore, Troy,' Daven-
port, la.; Swinburne Island, Chicago,
THE FUTPRE OP HOPS.
The Oregon Hopgrowera' Association
Is considering another proposition for
elevating prices beyond the limits reg
ulated by the natural law of supply and
demand. The association met with a
fair measure of success at this business
last season, but, unfortunately, before
they could unload many of their hops
at the Increased prices caused by the
withdrawal of 30,000 to 40,000 bales from
the world's supply, the growers of Cal
ifornia, Washington and New York, had
forestalled them. The latter growers
sold their hops when they were ready
for market, and supplied the demand at
prices slightly higher than they would
have received, had It not been for the
withdrawal of the Oregon hops from
the market. In this respect the Oregon
association may be said to have met
with success, even though the "other
fellow" reaped the benefits thereof. As
to the Oregon growers, pome of them
kept out of the pool, and sold early at
fair prices, while a large number who
stayed In shaved the outer covering of
mold from their unsold stock tpward
the end of the season and sold at prices
ranging from 3 and 4 cents per pound
down to $1 a bale, a commission of one
half cent per pound being deducted to
defray the expenses of the assoclatlpn.
The latest proposition set before the
grower, and said to have the Indorse
ment of the practically defunct associ
ation, is from a San Franolsco Arm
which Is anxious to finance the coming
crop. This firm desires the co-operation
of 75 per cent of the growers of
Oregon, Washington and California,
and. If the latter will agree to reduce
their yards 25 per cent, and plcK only
the strictly flrst-olass hops from the re
mainder. It will enter into a contract to
pay them 15 cents a pound for the
product. The courts have held that
any agreement having for ItB object
a restriction of the production of a com
modity for the avowed purpose of im
proving the price cannot be enforced.
Taking this view of the proposition, it
seems to be a "heads-I-vrin, talls-you-lGse"
scheme.
It has only been a year or two since
oholce hops sold as high as 20 cents per
pound In Oregon,' and there Is no good
reason why such a condition of affairs
should not prevail again. If the price
should go up to old-time figures, the
San Francisco Arm can be depended on
to make good Its agreement. If it de
clines to 10 oents per pound, there is
apparently nothing to Drevent the "re
striction of trade" decision making the
oontract null and void. There are other
reasons where the Oregon hopgrower
Is taking decidedly the worst of a long
chance. The hop crop is a tender one
to handle, and a few days of rainy
weather at picking time can practically
wipe it out of existence. Should an ex
tended area in England, or the big hop
districts of New York, be thus affected
at picking time this season, the Oregon
hopgrower would see prices soar up to
big figures; but by the terms of his con
tract he would be prevented from pick
ing one-fourth of his crop, or any of It
that was npt strictly first-class. ThQ
New Yorkers reaped a handsome profit
on their hops last year on account of
the removal from market of the Oregon
crop, and with last year's experience
for guidance, they will probably in
crease their acreage this year suffi
ciently to make up for any reduction
that may be made In the Oregon crop.
The business of hopgrowlng In Oregon
has not been very profitable In recent
years, but it Is a business whereju the
profits cannot be Inoreased by the cre
ation of unnatural trade conditions. If
a grower cannot produce hops at a
profit except by the creation of these
artlfiolal conditions, he should use his
land for the production of a crop In
which the element of chance is less pro-nounqed.
of faot, the contest has developed Into
a kind of guerrilla warfare, engineered
by able and experienced campaigners
who have the Immense advantage over
the British Generals of being thorough
ly familiar with the country In which
they are operating, Dewet, south of
the Orange River, and Botha, to the
north, have thus far successfully eluded
with their commands the utmost ef
forts of General Roberts, so to Invest
them as to leave them no rational al
ternative except surrender.
Of this type of warfare we haye had
and are still having experience In the
Philippines, for which we have paid
dearly, the end of the liquidation being
not yet in sight. For like experience
the Spaniards paid heavily In blood
and treasure through many years In
Cuba, and no one can tell how Jong this
"fight and hide" policy will continue In
the mountain fastnesses of South Af
rica. Neither Steyn nor Kruger con
templates unconditional surrender as a
possible ending of the struggle. Stub
born sons of generations of stubborn
aires, they see but one result of the gon
fllct and that, the one to their liking.
This determlnatlpn to hold out to the
last extremity has not, we may well
believe, been weakened by the news
which has, of course, reached them of
the Chinese cataclysm. Hence, though
British supremacy, Including the extin
guishment of the South African Repub
lics, Is Inevitable, the end cannot be
said to be yet In sight,
During the first half of the present
year, according to the Railroad Gazette
(New York), the railway mileage built
in the United States was spmethlpg
over 2000 miles. During the last half of
the year the mileage is always greater.
The estimate for the entire year is be
tween 6000 and 6000 miles. In the' new
building for the six months of this year,
Texas leads with 164 miles. Then fol
low Iowa, with 150 miles; Mississippi,
119; Georgia, 117; California, 104; Penn
sylvania, 103; South Carolina, 102; Okla
homa, 7S; Minnesota, 77, and Arkansas,
62 mles, A statement Is presented from
Edwardi Atkinson, the well-known stat
istician, in which t Js estimated that
not less than 100,000 miles; of railway
tcHI be built In the Urrfted States dur
ing the next fifteen years,, a heavy fac
tor in the total qelnr in the South and
Southwest He further ndds that, as
every mile of line requires about 100
tons of iron and steel, this would mean
10,000,000 tons for new railroad lines
alone. Renewals, repairs, architectural
work, etc., are not included In these
figures. This means something very
Important in the development of the
country, as well as to the Iron and steel
Interests. It would make a yearly av
erage of more than 6000 miles, not un
reasonable when It is remembered that
there have been years when double
that amount was ' built
hol& on the people than scerneit IJkoly
when he made his entrance Into National
politics four years ago"; and, while hold
ing that "the balance of probability tends
to the election of McKlnley and Roose
velt" It frankly admits that "It will be A CAMPAIGN
nn Anrv victorv. and tho battle this year
.iti Vi nn tf th nTpjiteat ever known I Eastern
in the history of the country." Such con
cessions of the opposition strength In the
section where the contest is to be de
cided must npt be disregarded,
THE KANSAS CTTY CHOICE.
Jnt Hovr JO to 1 Weakens Bryon'i
Chance of Elect! OHi
Chicago Times-Herald.
Since Bryan, with the aid of Croker
and Van Wyck, has succeeded In making
New York one of the "Impossible states"
for the Democracy In November, It will
puzzle the most leather-lunged ehouter
for 16 to 1 to locate the 224 electoral
votes necessary to elec$ him President.
Giving him every vote counted for him
In 1833, with tho eight each from Kansas
and Maryland, he would only have 102
votes, or 33 short of the promised land.
But Bryan Is not going to hold all the
Western States he carried In 1S0S. He will
not get tho accidental singleton in Cali
fornia. Tho four votes of Washington
are as good as lost to him already. The
sam Is true of South Dakota's four and
Wyoming's three.
Bryan carried Kansas by 12,289. W. J.
Bailey, Republican, was elected Con-gressman-at-large
from Kansas In No
vember, 189S, by 16.S29 plurality over
Botkln. Fuslonlst, and a clear majority
of 14,239 over all, and the Republicans
elected six out of seven district Congress
men by majorities running as high as
7715. only one falling short of a majority.
So wjth sunshine pouring prosperity Into
Kansas by the crlbful and patriotism ex
uding from every pore, there is not much
more chance of Bryan's carrying the
state this' year than Cleveland had In
18S8, when Harrison had a plurality of
0,159.
And what of sun-kissed, wind-swept
Nebraska? State pride and" discontent
gave it to Bryan in 1S9C But Nebraska
has elected a Republican legislature
since then. Today state. pride will have
to battle with state patriotism, and the
sun of prosperity hap put the clouds of
discontent to flight Bryan will have to
fight for Nebraska.
Tho same opportunity whien tne .De
mocracy had to court success in New
York has been thrown away Jn Maryland
by the sneclnc declaration for silver.
Summed up in tabular form the result
of the Demogratlc convention in Kansas
City may be approximated in the fol
lowing table of electoral votes:
Republican EHectors-
Gallfornla SINew York ........ 36
Connecticut 6 North Dakota .... 3
Delaware ,... 81 Ohio ,..,.,..' 23
owners. ' Probably the champions of
democracy against plutocracy do not In
tend, to attack civilization, -but' some of
them are In very queer company.
OF DECEPTION.
Aannred That
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Croker' has beat his tomahawk Info an
ice pick and his wigwam into a refrigerator.
Illinois SS
Indiana 15
Iowa .,,..., ,i 13
Kansas
"Maine ..,
Maryland
Massachusetts ..
Michigan
J Minnesota ....,
rvew Hampshire
isew Jersey
OreR-on 4
Pennsylvania .... 32
Rhode Island ..... 4
South Dakota .... 4
Vermont
Washington ,,,... 4
Went Vlrsrinla ... 6
14Wlsconsin 12
Wyoming ..,.t 4
,.HS1
101 Total
Democratic Eloctors
Alabama ,...,..., 11 Montana .,...,,..., 3
Owing to the reckless and primitive
way In which the trees that furnish
the gutta-percha of commerce have
been treated in Sumatra and Borneo,
from whence the principal output has
come, the supply Is almost exhausted.
A book ha? just been published In Ger
many calling attention to this matter,
and citing that these trees flourish In
but a few places. These statements are
recited by Consul Hughes, of Coburg,
who points especially to the fact that
gutta-percha may be produced profit
ably and cheaply .in the Philippines,
When once the war cjouds have cleared
away from our Insular possessions In
the farther Pacific, we shall begin, to
find out their true. vaue. In the mean
time, this statement, with its sugges
tions of vast profit in the commercial
world, may well set sundry enterpris
ing American citizens to thinking, as it
will In all probability later set them to
planting caoutchouc trees In Luzon.
Secretary Root, In event of a Chinese
war of large dimensions, could not send
more troops from Luzon, for General
MacArthur says that he cannot spare
them. About half of our 64,000 troops
In the Philippines must be brought back
to this country and mustered, out by
July 1, 1901. To withdraw them and
replace them with regulars will take
some six months. The withdrawal
must begin In November. When Con
gress assembles It ought to Increase the
regular Army to Ipp.OOO men and abolish
the volunteer system, which, as It ex
ists at present, Is both expensive and
cumbrous. The enlargement of the reg
ular Army Is the least expensive way of
solving the question of how to make
55,000 men do the work of 100,000.
Ten thousand American soldiers are
few enough to protect American sub
jects from murder and rapine by many
million Chinese; but they are probably
great enough to excite renewed alarm
In the neighborhood of Lincoln, Neb.,
about "militarism." The "militarism"
that sends our soldiers thousands of
miles qut of our country to save the
U,fes of our citizens cannot be very
dangerous to our domestlp tranquillity.
Nevada 3
North Carolina .. 11
South Carolina .. 9
Tennessee 12
Texas .... ,....,.. 15
Virginia 12
Arkansas 8
Colorado 4
Florida 4
Georgia 13
Kentucky ..., 13
Louisiana 8
MtaKtasinnl 9
Aiispoun .,...,;, ii Total ioi
Doubtful Electors
Idaho 3JNebraska 8
Utah 3
Total 14
Total votes In Electoral College., 447
Necessary to a chpice , , ,..,..224
Thus It will bo perceived the Demo
cratic party by flaunting Us banner of re
pudiation with Its frantic device of "16
to 1" In the face of sound money Dem
ocrats, sound money antl-lmperlallsts,
sound money mugwumps, sound money
reformers, sound money Germans, sound
money Scandinavians and sound money
Americans of every race, creed and com
plexion, has abandoned every hope of
electing Bryan.
When the permanent honor of the coun
try Is attacked at home the American
people arfe not to be distracted by a
popgun Are upon Us temporary policy
abroad. They will settle with the scotch
ed snake of free silver first and then they
will shake whatever there may be of peril
or Imperialism out of the island policy
of the United States.
Democrats
"Silver Is Dead."
New York Tribune.
Certain things havo to bo noticed and
kept well In mind during the whole of
the singular campaign which is begin
ning. The attitude and purpose of the
Democratic party on the whole financial
Issue are meant to deceive. It has, In
deed, declared once for all what It in
tends in its lfi-to-1 plank, and in the em
phatic declaration of Mr. Bryan that In
every relation or bearing to the monetary
problem the party stands Just where it
did in 1SS6. Now, the very object of mak
ing this declaration thus flatly and once
for all at the start Is that there is afford
ed a better ohance to deceive the public
mind on that subject If the party now
proceeds to Ignore such a declaration en
tirely, after It has first made answer that
it Js compelled to adhere, to Its position
In 1S6, and then goes on to pick up men
In this state or that who will dp all they
can for Bryan, although on the money
question thoy profess to be Gold Demo
crats or the soundest of sound-money
men. the countenance and favor of such
citizens will cheat great multitudes into
the belief that the silver question is real
ly dead and that on live and practical
questions sound-money men have nothing
to fear.
It must be remembered from the start
that this systematic deception will win
for free silver a great many voters who
do not belong to that side. Every day
men of standing and Influence, who pre
sumably do not want to cheat their neigh
bors, aro found saying that "the silver
Issue Is dead" as a sufficient reason for
giving to Bryan a countenance they
would otherwise refuse. Yet these men
must be perfectly aware that the support
of the Democratic Presidential ticket car
ries forward toward success Congres
sional and Senatorial candidates In va
rious states who are for free-silver coin
age; that the election of a majority on
that side is possible In either or both
houses, and that it is the more likely be
cause many sound-money men feel a de
sire to treat the issue as no longer alive.
With such a majority, Mr. Bryan would
pot let a single day pass that could be
caved In putting through and sanctioning
bv his siimature a free-coinage act
With this sustained effort to derraua
voters about foreign matters there is a
third issue which Mr. Bryan uses with
tho characteristic recklessness of the
demagogue eager to patch votes by It if
he can, and indifferent to the incalculable
harm which may result from weakening
the sovereignty of law. Mr. Bryan has
been making it clear that his appeal this
year to the anarchist element Is In every
respect a? reckless and ddngerous as It
was in 1S96. One might then nave sup
posed that the whirl and excitement of a
convention which Mr. Bryan captured by
a man-el of oratorical effectiveness did
pot leave Bryan himself and his best as
sociates cool enough to realize the full
Import of declarations about government
by Injunction and by the courts. Long
before that campaign ended he came to
understand the matter thoroughly, how
ever, and has put the same desperate and
rfeadlv atmeal Into his plan for this year,
with deliberate Intent to use It to the ut
most for the free-silver Interest. If he
can only excite a few thousand men to
set themselves against the law in some
states, no matter on what pretext, and
then can command their votes against
the President, who cannot fall to execute
the laws, that might turn tho scale and
bring monetary revolution, even though
not one of the law-resisting voters favored
free silver. From beginning to end the
Democratic policy this year is one of de
ception, and its exposure will require not
a little frank and earnest work.
The boy who -13 the last to take a
bath at home Is the first to run away to
go swimming.
STIIX STRUGGLING "WITH BOERS.
The distractions in China have re
cently so completely relegated the
struggle in South Africa to the past
that It was with the surprise of a, sud
den awakening that news of a severe
reverse to the British arms at the hands
of the Boers under General Botha was
received a few days ago; and wjjen this
was followed later on by a report that
the burghers, 10,000 strong, were mass
ing around Pretoria, with evident in
tent to recapture that city, the fact that
the war In South Africa was practically
still a living issue at once became
gravely apparent
While there Is not and cannot be any
doubt as to the final ending of the
struggle between Briton and Boer, it Is
plain that the forces of the latter have
not yet been reduced to submission or
even to inactivity. These recent dem
onstrations, and especially the success
that attended the, sortie of General Bo
tha from the mountainous country
northeast of the capital, show that the
Boers have not yet lost their fighting
spirit or become convinced of the fu
tility of further resistance. It is not
possible to conceive that their leadera
aro so devoid of Intelligence as to con
tinue this fight upon the basis of
strength against strength, or rather of
weakness against strength, In the field.
It is mpre likely that, fully cognizant
of the new anxiety that has engaged
the attention of England and threatens
to engage her soldiers in a field far
distant from the Transvaal, they are
holding out against time In the hope
that events will intervene to seoure for
them favorable terms of settlement
General Roberts position Is clearly a
most trying one. Enthusiasm that fol
lowed his early achievement has died
out In England, and the government
seems to be waiting In serenity for him
to submit a report of the unconditional
surrender ofxthe Boer forces, on the
hypothesis that with their capitals
taken, their ablest General in exile and
their presidents In hiding, there Is
nothing left for him to do. As a matter
By seating the rioters from Shoshone
County, the enemies of Governor Steun
enberg, of Idaho, have beaten him for
renomlnatlon. This so completely Iden
tifies the Denio-Popo party of Idaho
with anarchy, riot dynamite and mur
der, that there can be no such thing as
mistaking the general Issue in that
state.
Of course we shall not carry on the
war against the Chinese In a vengeful
spirit But "war is war, and to go to
war Is to kill. If the Chinese think we
are not going to have an eye for an eye
and a tooth for a tooth and a life for a
life, our task may be harder.
Anyway, the Idaho Fuslonlsts cannot
undo what Steunenberg did for law.
and order and the good name of Idaho.
But they can do much to show that
Steunenberg did It as a patriotic Amer
ican executive, and not as a Democrat
Competition drove the .wall paper
trust out of business. But the object
of a trust Js to kill off qompetltlon.
Which goes to show that even the trust
is a mean adversary for economic law.
Blectton Not Alreauy Decided.
New York Evening Post
Republican newspapers In the Middle
West do not accept the cheerful view of
some organs In this part of the country
that the election Is already decided, and
Bryan's defeat assured, on the contrary,
one finds plenty of warnings that it
would be a fatal mistake to act upon tho
theory that all Is plain sailing. In In
diana, for example, the Indianapolis Jour
nal, the chief newspaper of the party,
deprecates the suggestion of a Pittsburg
journal that tho Bryan ticket is "fore
doomed to defeat" and the implication
that a strenuous campaign is not neces
sary. "An active campaign.'' It says, "is
necessary In Indiana before every elec
tion. It 1 necessary this year." In Iowa,
the Keokuk Gate City, edited by a Re
publican member of tho last Congress,
admits that the Kansas City ticket Is a
strong one; it considers Bryan more to
be dreaded now than in 1S96, because he
has "lasted longer and kept a stronger
BUGBEAR OF THE MOSEY POWER.
Difficult to Tell What Will Become
of the Trntii.
New York Journal of Commerce.
It Is stated with great confidence that
the pending question before the American
people Is that of plutocracy against
democracy. The statement sounds Im
posing; it Is Impossible to extract from It
any meaning that is not at once refuted
by the facts of every-day life, which all
see, and which the most moderate com
prehensions can understand. Some of
the cheap-money men mean by It that
money has more purchasing power than
at Borne former time, and therefore a man
who has money has more power. This is
comprehensible, but is not true in the
sense that a man has .more power over
other men: It Is only more power to ac
quire material things, And. the same
statement about plutocracy and democ
racy Is rmdo by men who aro perfectly
round on the currency question, who do
pot confound money, meaning currency,
with money meaning wealth, and who
know very well that money does not give
Its holder a greater power over other men
than formerly.
'Most of the people who use this
formula of plutocracy probably have
some idea about the potency of money
with law, or courts, or social Institutions.
There is a llttlo truth and a good deal of
error here, and what is true is due to
weaknesses of human nature and Is pot
In any comprehensive sense amenable to
jaw, and nearly all the Implied compari
sons between the present and the past are
fallacious. Probably every sufferer from
the vision of plutocracy would at once
rofer to" the so-called trusts If asked to
specify some outward manifestation of
the evil he dreaded. These combinations
are too recent to warrant confident pre
dictions about them, to their favor or
thoJr disparagement But we know that
very few have lasted long, that one of the
oldest is about to dissolve, that one of
the largest Is a revival of a combination
which was formed four or five years ago
and did not last two years, that another
of great apparent power has Just passed
a dividend on Its common stock, and
some have paid nothing on their common
stock; that the financing of these organl-
rations in their formative period, and
subsequently to keep them supplied with,
working capital, has been growing more
difficult and the ability of most of them
to go through a period of declining sales
and falling prices, when there Is not
enough business to go around, Is a matter
of considerable doubt
The general facts of the present po-'"-
are that the compensation of all human
labor, from the man with the hoe to the
college professor or the practitioner in
medicine or law, has Increased decidedly
within a generation, while the cost of
supplying nearly every want has been de
creased, so that the reward of labot,
physical and Intellectual, has Increase.
At the some time profits and Interest
havo declined, and the man or woman
who lives on investments is in far less
favorable position than 50 years ago.
The statute books of the Nation and the
states do not look as if capital had got
much the better of labor in the shaping
of legislation, and the charge that the
laws of the country are made by the
"money power" is much easier said than
substantiated. The political freedom of
the Individual citizen may be greatly
abridged by the political combinations
palled party organizations, but they are
not much affected by commercial compe
tition. The success of the trusts has been
very moderate, both in the suppression of
competition and in the control of prices.
AH civilization rests in great measure
Upon property, the means of accumulat
ing it its safety from legislator r- w
as from burglars, and Its control by its
The- Tratn Abont ainnlla Saloon.
Army and Navy Journal,
We predicted Just what has come to
pass. When the volunteer ohaplaln. Rev.
Mr. Wells, on his return, was made re
sponsible by the papers for tho statement
that one of the results of American occu
pation has been an increase of saloons
ironi tour to more than 400, we venturea
to prophesy that local corroboration
would be decidedly lacking. The Manila
Freedom of April 21 thus disposes of Chap
lain Wells' statement: "We have taken
some pains to investigate this charge, and
have to say that It Is false in every sense.
When the flag was first planted In Manila
there were between 4C00 and 50CO grocery
shacks, kept by Chinos and Filipino, and
every one of them sold liquors, a native
product, which did more to All graves
than disease and bullets. They were not
saloons, but grog-shops, Insidious hell
holes, and many soimers Decame vicnm
of them. Vino and other native drinks
could be purchased for 1 cent a drink,
American money, and 10 cents was a suf
ficient sum for a common drunk, and a
penny or two more a bacchanalian revel.
"Governor-General Otis had this prob
lem to solve during the early days of oc
cupation, and he was happily successful
In closing most of the Chlno and native
shades. A license system was established
and the American saloon took the place
of the native saloon. With their estab
lishment the death and insane rates have
been less, and the greatest good to the
greatest number has thus been subserved.
Instead of over 40C0 places where liquors
wore sold, we now have less than 400,
and the quality of tho stuff 13 vastly bet
ter and the quantity less. Insidious ef
fects of vino and native gin soon alarmed
physicians and surgeons, and an order
was issued to seize and destroy all of said
products found. This practically elimi
nated their manufacture, and to get them
Is as difficult as it Is to get liquors in the
veriest prohibition town of Kansas. Hall
the reform!"
There is a variety "about the news from
China that would make a kaleldescop,
green with envy.
The little, buzzing-, busy be
la worth his weight in sold,
It those who keep blm are content
To have and not to hold.
Cyclone Davis is in Chicago, carrying
wind to the Windy City. Davis never
did have much tact.
Beneath the apple tree the youth
Now through tha daytime camps.
Bat spends the long: and weary nights
All doubled up with cramps.
Having not died for several days, it
may be taken for granted that the Em
press Dowager is regaining her health.
The number of ministers of the gospel'
who feel called to preach religion to tho
benighted Mongolian Is falling rapidly off.
Tho climate of Chicago will not be
healthful for census takers If the popu
lation of that city does not reach the
2,000,000 mark.
Mr. Watterson may be a follower and
not a leader, but, like the average wild
gander, he continues to honk after he
drops to the toll of the procession.
The way Oom Paul keeps on fighting
when England has important business for
her. army in other fields shows how ut
terly lacking in consideration he is.
Prince Ching, who is reported to havo
organized resistance to Prince Tuan, tho
Boxers, and the disloyal soldiery, and to
bo exerting himself to protect the for
eign legations and all Europeans in Pekin,
Is the uncle of tho Emperor, and was tho
head of the Tsung II Yamun until de
posed in favor of Prince Tuan. He is a
very intelligent and forceful man, who
fully comprehonded the consequence to
the Integrity and independence of tho
empire of the destruction of legations and
the .massacre of accredited representa
tives, with the women and children of
their families. Yung Lm, the former
Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial
army, who has been reported as co-operating
with Prlnco Ching, Is a man of tho
same type.
A short time ngo a citizen bought a
popular novel, and having been much
pleased with It. when he had finished it.
gave it to a friend, to have and to hold.
The recipient read the book and en
joyed It so much that ho wished threo
of his friends, whose offices were in the
same room, to enjoy the same pleasure.
Ho therefore loaned them the book to
be read in succession. The first read
the book and placed it on the desk of
the second and it disappeared. After a
few days, the book not having been re
turned, the second party bought a copy,
and tho third party secured it at tho
Library, by a fluke. As the second party
was going home with the copy he had
bought he called at his grocer's and was
told that he had left a book there tho
last time ho was In. This proved to b&
the missing book which he supposed,
some one had taken off his desk. This
book he returned to the owner, who un
dertook to take It home. He had many
places to call at before ho. went home,
and In all of them ho laid down the.
book and. either his attention was called
to It as he was going out, or remem
bered to go back for it Finally timo
grew short and as he had to rush his
calls at several places, he placed the
enchanted book In the tall-pocket of his
coat preferring to risk an interview with
his better half on the subject of torn,
pockets to losing the book. He had vis
ited threo places, when he noticed that
he no longer had the book. He rushed,
back over his trail, and at each of those
places was assured that he had no book
when he called there. He knew that ho
had had a book, but could not remember
where he had left It and started to
hark back on his trail still further, but
as he was crossing the street he had
to spring aside to escape being run over
by a car and something banged against
his leg and recalled to his alleged mind
the fact that he had put the book in his
pocket.
"Crokcr'd Flop."
Brooklyn Eagle.
"I believe in expansion," said Mr.' Cro
ker at the beginning of last year. "Are
not our people as powerful. Intelligent and
as patriotic as those of England?" he
asked. "Why not give our young men a
chance to develop our new possessions?"
he also asked. The number of young men
In this country has not diminished since
that time, nor has there been any falling
off In Intelligence and patriotism. How
ever, Croker convictions are notoriously
subject to change. Some of them would
ppeet the equanimity of the most placid
chameleon on tho continent
MEX AND WOMEX.
Queen Victoria, has purchased for $125 a. man
uscript over 300 years old, which gtvea a. his
tory of Windsor Castle and the neighborhood.
The Emperor of Germany confided to a friend
recently tho fact that he was becoming weak
jn his sword practice, and that he had decided
to take dally lessons In. fencing.
Rev. C. .A- Bartol. who has heen pastor ot
the old West. Church, Boston, for over CO years,
celebrated his 87th birthday a Bhort while ago.
He Is the oldest living aJumnus of the Harvard
Divinity School.
Jerry Simpson saved the most of his. salary
whlla he was serving In Congress, Invested It In
land and cattle, and lias becdme wealthy.'
When he went to Congress he had not a dollar
Jn his pocket. He had to borrow the money he ,
paid for his ticket to Washington. .Now he Is
rated at $40.000 one of the richest men In
Barber County.
Plerro Lorlllard's houseboat Caiman, which
was burned In Florida waters a. short time
ago, was the most elaborate boat of the sort
Jn this country, and the less Is estimated at
nearly $100,000. Mr. Irfjrillard's boat was
equipped with Its own motive power, and so
arranged that It could tow. a floating stable
and carriage-house, thereby permitting the
owner to uso his own horses when he wished
to land.
In England the Ascot rate meeting, ended In
a blaze of triumph for the Amerloan Jockeys.
The total value of the 17 events seoured by tho
flvo American 'jockeys during the week Is $ 119,
700. while the IS races landed by the English
Jockeys were worth enjy SG5.40O. Tod Sloan
had 18 mounts, and won sU, He was second
la tour, third in four and unplaced la four.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPIIERS
A Time-Saver. Parke Tour wife tells me
you have Just bought her a new wheel. Iane
Yes. She can now run home from the soil
links "and see tho children occasionally. De
troit Free Press.
The VIew-Polnt.-Flrst Rabbit That town
boy has been around here nearly a week and
'never once tried to kill us. Second Rabbit
Te: he seems to be devoid of all human at
tributes. Indianapolis Press.
One of Them. "A Chicago man has gained
th power of speech by trying to commit sul
oldV remarked Mrs. Beeohwo-a. "That must
be one of the klll-or-curo remedies," added
Mr Beechwood. Pittsburg Chronicle - Tele
graph.
An Excuse. "She has been divorced three
times," said the Boardwalk sosslp. "But,"
remonstrated the Chicago lady who had not
caught the drift of the ' conversation, "per
haps she did not marry until lata la lite."
Philadelphia North American.
Rare, Indeed. Art Dealer Here's something
fine. It's "Tho Battle of Waterloo." by Van
Dyke. Markley Is It. really? I thought Van
Dyke died before th battle ocurred. Art Deal
erBrsc he did. But er you see. this Is
one of his posthumous paintings. Philadelphia
Press.
Ah Artistic Debt "The theater owe3 a great
deal to the Shakespearean drama," said tha
girl with the dark glasses and tho pensive ex
pression. "Yes," answered the young man
with wide ears; "some of the best burlesques
I ever saw were on 'Hamlet' and 'Romeo and
Juliet.' "Washington Star.
The trembling Boxer knelt before Id Hung
Chang and strove to explain matters. "I must
have lost my head. I see no other reason why
I engaged In the uprising. O Son of the
Blue Sky," he walled. "You are a trifle off In
your grammar," Interposed LI. "You should
cay. ! will have lost my head.' " And the ex.
cautioner stepped forward at the proper signal.
Baltimore American.
EVOLUTION.
"I Am Great and Vou Are Small" or,
the Survival of the Fittest.
A sparrow swinging on a branch
Once caught a passing fly.
"Oh. let me live!" the Insect prayed.
With trembling, pietous cry.
"No," said the sparrow, "you must fall.
For I am great and yeu are small."
The bird had scarce begun his feast
Before a hawk came by. 5- "
The game was caught. "Pray let me llvel -Was
now the sparrow's cry.
"No," said the captor, "you must fall,
For I am great and you are small."
An eagle saw the rogue and swooped
Upon him from on high. ,
"Pray let me live! Why would you kill
So small a bird as I?"
"Oh," said the eagle, "you must fall.
For I am great and you are small."
But while he ate the hunter came;.
He let his arrow fly.
"Tyrant," tho eagle, shrieked, "you hava
No right to make me die!"
"Ah," said the hunter, "you must fall,
Fr I am great and you are small."
Translated frem tho German in Fresby
terian Standard, Charlotte, N. C.