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PORTLAND, SATURDAT, JULT 21.
"INAXIEXABLE RIGHTS OF MAT.'
Governor Rogers, of the State of
"Washington, has sent out a new edition
of his pamphlet on "The" Inalienable
Hights of Man." "We have looked over
it with some care. Chief of these in
alienable rights we find to be the right
of the individual to be supported by the
state especially If the individual be a
trifling fellow who doesn't like to work.
This, indeed, is the basis of Bryanlsm.
J.t is the socialistic idea. It is govern
mental paternalism. It is the war of
the indolent, the unenterprising, the
worthless, on those who by intelligent
industry and constant exercise of pru-
"dence and self-denial with it, have
nanaged to acquire property. All such,
In the judgment of Governor Rogers,
are enemies of "the people." This,
moreover, is the basis of Bryan poll-
itics. It Is the underlying postulate of
Ihe Kansas City platform. It proposes,
In effect, to make the country carry its
shiftless, idle, trifling or worthless pop
ulation, and give them everything they
want, without the necessity of plan
ning, working and striving for it.
Governor Rogers tells us that "free
land is the first demand of nature."
Nobody has any right to land. The
land belongs to "the people." Private
owners are usurpers. So, in regard to
all other property. There ought to be
equal division. There is no reason why
one man should have more than an
other. The state should "fix" all alike.
The man of industry, prudence and
self-denial is not entitled to anything
more than the man of self-indulgence
and sloth. Indeed, the disposition to
work, the exertion of superior force of
mind and the application of it to the
affairs of life, are signs of a disposition
of injustice and tyranny which the
state ought to suppress. "Why, indeed,
why in the name of justice, in a coun
try where equality is or should be the
rule, is one man allowed to get the start
of another? And yet, under our sys
tem and practice, "inalienable rights"
are thus trampled under foot!
Again, if anybody is allowed to make
money in manufacturing or mercantile
pursuits, we are told that the system is
wrong and oppressive. Nobody is to
be permitted "to levy tribute upon ex
change." To admit this is to deny or
disparage another fundamental, nat
ural and inalienable right of man.
But in that state of nature to which
this oracle appeals, there is no ex
change, for there Is nothing to ex
change. In primitive times, that was
the condition at Puget Sound.
But after all. Governor Rogers
doesn't find his ideal in the primitive
conditions at Puget Sound, when the
natives had the absolute equality that
Is the basis of his system of inaliena
ble rights. His ideal republic of the
present time Is the Puyallup reserva
tion. But he doesn't see how artificial
it is. He proceeds to tell us that ad
joining the little city where he once
lived (Tacoma) there is a comparatively
small Indian reservation, containing
some thousands of acres of valuable
land. On this land each family has its
cabin. Its little field and its domestic
animals; there is a free home to every
member of the tribe, and there is ex
emption from taxation, which Boon
would pauperize them all. Governor
Rogers calls these "natural" conditions,
and he calls them ideal. These people
"are in possession of one of the great
natural rights of man, the right to free
use of the soil; a right with which na
ture, or the Creator, has endowed each
and every child born into the world,
yet now by our laws largely denied to
white citizens "
But what put the Indians in this posi
tion, and what has supported them in
it? Money wrung from the toll of the
pecple of the United States. That land
always was there, but the Indians did
not use it. The United States took
hold of it, put it in cultivation, built
houses for the occupants, supplied them
with domestic animals and with Imple
ments of agriculture, hired workmen
and overseers, established schools and
paid the cost, and even furnished the
Indians with food and clothing. This
superintendence by the United States,
at the cost of better people than the In
dians, continues. But Governor Rog
ers thinks the condition of the Indians
at Puyallup the height of felicity; and
the conclusion derivable from his argu
ment is that he wants the United States
to settle us all upon reservations. He
tells us that the condition of these In
dians is better than that of the greater
part of the people in the adjacent City
of Tacoma; and further, that "it would
appear that white families should be
at least as well provided for as are In
dians." It would be fine, no doubt; yet
there are some who would hardly be
content with the Indian reservation
system as the embodiment of the high
est results of civilization; nor does it
appear where the money would come
from to support the people of the United
States on this ideal reservation system.
Go ernor Rogers we take to be a good
representative of the socialistic idea
that has converted the Democratic
party into the Bryan party. The social
istic or communistic doctrine penetrates
the parts', through and through. The
shriek for free silver, the outcry against
property, the clamor about Imperialism,
are but signs or offshoots of the funda
mental idea,
The whole movement is
profoundly socialistic, touched here and
there, more or less deeply, with com
munism and anarchism. No intelligent
observer can misunderstand its charac
ter and tendency. No man is to have
any advantage in property or business
oyer any other man. Government is to
put all upon absolute equality. For
tunes are to be leveled. And then, of
course, there will be a return to the
conditions of primitive and savage life.
Then there will be no large taxpaylng
class who may be drawn upon for cre
ation and support of the Puyallup res
ervation scheme.
It is this hostility to private property
that everywhere animates and supports
the Bryan scheme of politics. It is a
tendency to hark back to barbarism.
The appeal for it Is addressed chiefly
to ignorant and irresponsible suffrage,
and there it finds. its main response.
The real object is to use government as
a means of spoliation, for support of in
dolence and incapacity. It is a tend
ency which the immense power found
ed on universal suffrage gives to poli
ticians who strive for their own ad
vancement by showing the Indolent and
inefficient how they may hope for ad
vantage to themselves by voting away
the property which others have accu
mulated through Industry and labor.
This is the basis of the campaign of
the Bryan party, and Governor Rogers
helps to make It plain by his doctrine
of the Inalienable right of idleness and
inefficiency to take the fruit of patient.
I persevering and self-denying Industry.
A large part of mankind want to get
for nothing those things that are due
only to steady, prudent and self-sacrificing
labor, pursued without intermis
sion or relaxation of effort, through
the whole lifetime; and to men of this
description the party led by Bryan
makes its principal appeal. It is an at
tack not merely on wealth in Its larger
aggregations, but on every man's mod
erate savings. The man who has accu
mulated something by his industry, and
doesn't want to share It, through com
pulsory legislation, with those who
"want something for nothing," would
do well to vote against the party of
Rogers and Bryan. For what reason
has Governor Steunenberg, of Idaho,
been rejected? Because he put down
rioters, dynamiters, destroyers of prop
erty. Why the declaration against gov
ernment by injunction? Because the
injunctions complained of were a means
of preserving order, stopping riot and
preventing renewal of attack on prop
erty and destruction of life. It is tyr
anny, it seems, to Interfere with these
"inalienable rights of man."
A GALLANT SOLDIER.
Colonel Emerson H. Llscum, Ninth
United States Infantry, who fell at the
head of his regiment in the assault on
Tien Tsin, has been buried at Tong
Ku. Colonel Llscum was born in Bur
lington, "VL, in 1841; he was among the
first to answer Lincoln's call for troops
in April, 1861, and served in the ranks
of a three months' regiment at the fight
of Big Bethel, Va., in June, 1861, where
Theodore Wlnthrop was slain. He en
listed in the Twelfth United States In
fantry in February, 1S62; was wounded
at Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1S62; was
commissioned Second Lieutenant in
February, 1S63; was badly wounded at
Gettysburg, July 2, 186S. He became
Captain In the Nineteenth United States
Infantry In 1870; Major of the Twenty
second United States Infantry in 1892;
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Twenty
fourth United States Infantry in May,
1896. He accompanied the Twenty
fourth Infantry to Cuba, and was badly
wounded at San Juan Hill, July 1, 1898.
For his services he was promoted to be
Brigadier-General of Volunteers, in
August, 1898. He became Colonel of the
Ninth United States Infantry, May 16,
1899, and accompanied his regiment to
Manila. Colonel Liscum was brevetted
during the Civil War for gallantry at Be
thesda Church, Va., and before Peters
burg. The American Navy lost some minor
officers fighting the Chinese in Novem
ber, 1S56, but Colonel Llscum Is the first
American Army officer to die In battle
under the flag in China. He was an
admirable soldier; a man of excep
tional modesty, of absolute sobriety, a
man of strict honor, courtesy, human
ity, discretion and courage. With the
scars of three wounds already upon
him, he started for the Philippines, lit
tle expecting to get his death wound in
China. Colonel Llscum left a wife,
the daughter of the late General Alex
ander S. Dlven, who was an eminent
citizen of Eimira, N. Y., and Colonel of
the One Hundred and Seventh New
York Volunteers In the Civil War.
THE RETIRED LIST.
The retired list of the regular Army
Includes 7C4 officers. Of this total, there
are 327 officers who are 65 years of age
and upwards to 88. which is the age of
Brigadier-General D. H. Rucker. Four
officers are 85, two 84, two 82, three 81,
two 80, four .79, twelve 78, nine 77, six
teen 76, fourteen 75, fourteen 74, ten 73,
twenty 72, fifteen 71, twenty-six 70,
forty-one 69, thirty 63, twenty-nine 67,
thirty-three 66. and fbrty 05.
The oldest officer of the Army now
living, Brigadier-General Daniel H.
Rucker, was appointed to the Army
from civil life in 1837. He was brevet
ted for gallant and meritorious con
duct at the-battle of Buena Vista. The
next oldest officer of the Army, and the
oldest living graduate of "West Point,
is Major William Austine, of the class
of 183S, who was brevetted for gallan
try at the battles of Contreras and
Cherubusco. Among the other officers
of the retired list who are veterans of
the Mexican "War are Generals "Wilcox
and T. J. Wood; Colonels Getty, L. P.
Graham, John P. Hatch, Fitz John Por
ter, L N. Palmer, M. D. Simpson, James
Oakes, and Captain N. J. T-. Dana.
Among the surviving Mexican "War
veterans outside the regular Army are
General "William B. Franklin, of the
Union Army, who is 77, and General
James Longstreet, of the Confederate
Army, who is nearly 81. Among the
distinguished Generals of the Union
Army upon the retired list are Ll.eu-tcnant-General
Schofield, who is '69;
Generals D. E. Sickles, 77; Howard, 70;
McCook, 69; Ruger, 67; Wheaton, 67;
Forsyth, 66; Merrltt, 64; Balrd, 76; D.
S. Stanley, 72; Parke, 73: Bradley, 78;
Carr, 69; Long, 63. Colonel John Green
Is 75, and Major T. I. Eckerson is 79.
Only 25 per cent of the total number of
officers upon the retired list are gradu
ates of "West Point; 12 per cent were ap
pointed from the Army, and 63 per cent
were appointed from civil life.
The gallant Ninth Infantry is prob
ably in sore straits at Tien Tsin. It
has been in sore straits before, and
came out with a record of undiminished
bravery and effectiveness, though with
sadly depleted numbers. It is pain
fully apparent that the allied troops
before Tien Tsin are greatly outnum-
bered by a well-equipped and deter
mined foe, and that the losses all along
the line will be heavy. Of these losses
it is not surprising that the Ninth has
had its full share, since it is noted for
being found, when occasion calls, "on
the rough edge of battle."
NEW ENGLAND HAS MOVED WEST.
Rural New England Is charged with
social and religious degeneracy by sev
eral New England critics. Including
Governor Rollins, of New Hampshire,
who makes a good showing of facts in
support of his position that non-church-golng
people are far more numerous in
rural New England than they were
fifty years ago. Limited to the rural
population proper as found in the small
villages, it may not be denied that
the charge of degeneracy is not easy
to refute. The present indications are
that the June census will return the
foreign-born population of New Eng
land as 1,750,000, against 600,000 foreign
born residents In 1880, and 1,100,000 foreign-born
residents in 1E90. Half of
these foreign-born residents are found
in Massachusetts. There are probably
300,000 Irish-born inhabitants in Massa
chusetts, and some 225,000 Canadians.
There are some 30,000 Germans in that
state, and an equal number In Con
necticut. There are 3000 Portuguese in
Massachusetts, and Immigrants are in
creasing. There are 100,000 Irish-born
in Connecticut, and at least 75,000 Ca
nadians in Maine. A considerable num
ber of Irish and Canadians become
farmers in New England, and the Por
tuguese become farmers, fishermen and
millhands. These newcomers of all
sorts are welcome, for they replace the
more progressive inhabitants who have
gone "West. The ambitious, vigorous
young men of New England find bet
ter opportunity for their powers in the
small towns of the West than In the big
manufacturing cities of New England,
and there is a steady flow of New Eng
land's best rural population to New
York, Ohio, Illinois, the trans-Mlssls-slppl
states and the Pacific Coast.
The competition of Western agricul
ture has caused the abandonment of a
good deal of New England farming
land in the mountain and hill towns of
Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecti
cut, What was once an old-time vil
lage center, but Is now overgrown with
forest trees, is not an exceptional sight
in the Green Mountain region. The
able farmer, when he lost his purchas
ing power, "pulled up stakes," and the
enterprising village storekeeper was
obliged to follow the example of his
customers. The steam railroad and the
trolley have wrought the destruction of
these old-time flourishing small New
England villages. The great factories
have starved out the small industries.
Out of this stagnant industrial environ
ment and social atmosphere every rest
less, aspiring New England boy hastens
to escape. He seeks employment In the
large towns and cities of his state, or
goes to work for a railroad, so that the
large towns and cities of New England
show growth while the small villages
dwindle or stand still. But the vast
majority of the vigorous, ambitious
young blood of New England goes
West; in fact, has been going West
steadily for sixty years.
Of course, the native-born and bred
New Englander who lacks the physical
energy or mental hardihood to aban
don the dnll, decaying cot where he was
born, is sure to degenerate. Under
such conditions of deserted farms and
declining villages, human deteriora
tion is sure to follow. The social at
mosphere of these small villages Is hap
pily described by Judge Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, of the Massachusetts Su
preme Court, as full of the ennui of
life rather than its sublime mystery.
Religious indifference is prevalent. The
boys are without any of the Idealism
of youth. The young men have no seri
ousness, but are Instinct with the bru
tal cynicism that is a natural growth
from an indolent and spiritless life.
These dull and weak New England de
generates, when they work at all, drop
down into the ranks of unskilled labor,
and not a few of them help to make
a startling record for crime in the rural
districts. The New England newspa
pers admit that Western Massachu
setts, New Hampshire and Maine have
much of the old Yankee stock scattered
over the hillsides that is of bad quality
run out and welcome the foreign Im
migrants as far superior to the native
idler and degenerate of the hills, for the
native degenerate of the farms is de
scribed by the Springfield Republican
as a man "without ambition, who sinks
rapidly into moral torpor and often be
comes a criminal of the most dangerous
type." The failure of the church to
reach these New England degenerates
Is well known. They are among the
most hopeless of all the heathen of
civilization. Out of this cold bog of
New England social dullness, out of
these little mountain towns, came mans
years ago a startling growth of rellg
ious cranks and charlatans; prophets
of the quality of Joseph Smith, Will
lam. Miller, Brigham Young and John
H. Noyes, the evangelist of commun
ism, which Included sexual stirpicul
ture. The best of rural New England went
west many yoars ago, and as a result
lives today in the rural life of the great
states of the Middle West. The dull or
spiritless New Englander who still
sticks to the dreary, listless environ
ment of his small mountain town is
doubtless Justly described today as de
generate; he is the dregs of a fine stock,
even as the Georgia "cracker" is the
dregs of a fine stock. The best of New
England still holds its own in her large
towns and cities, and In the small towns
of the West.
One passage In Mrs. Conger's letter
to a friend In Des Moines should secure
attention from all who take malicious
pleasure in the observation that mis
sionaries from China hither would be
-quite as much in order as missionaries
to China hence. She says:
We see very much In our servants to respect,
admire and even love. They are so patient,
faithful, attentive, thoughtful and kind. The
qualities of character they manifest surprise
me. Heathens? In some ways, and so are we
alL
This frank utterance. Intended for no
eye but the recipient's, discovers the
character of the typical missionary in
a way whioh should disarm malevo
lence and set out In bold relief the bar
barism sometimes extolled as the equal
or the superior of Christianity. This
devoted woman, who, looking on her
Chinese servants and seeing the good
in them, learned "to respect, admire
and even love," who bore voluntary
tribute to their "patience, kindness and
fidelity," whose catholic spirit ex
claimed, "If they are heathens, s'o are
we all" Is probably filling a dishon
ored grave in Pekin, her frail body
fiendishly maltreated and dismembered
by the heathen hordes she loved and
sought to help. For her faith and con
secration to the truth as she saw it she
has suffered martyrdom, and passed
Into that blessed company of those who
have for conscience sake been stoned
and sawn asunder and slain with the
edge of the sword. Of whom the world
was not worthy.
It is to be earnestly hoped that Eu
gene V. Debs will develop the moral
courage to resist overtures made to him
to cancel his entry in the Presidential
race. Such withdrawal would leave
only eight starters, as follows:
For President. For Vice-President.
REPUBLICANS:
William McKlnley. Theodore Roosevelt,
of Ohio. of New Tork.
DEMOCRATS:
Wm. J. Bryan,
of Nebraska,
.Adlai E. Stevenson,
of Illinois.
P0FUL1ST8:
Wm. J. Bryan,
of Nebraska.
Charles A. Towns,
of Minnesota.
MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD POPULISTS:
Wharton Barker, Ignatius Donnelly,
of Pennsylvania. of Minnesota.
PROHIBITIONISTS:
John G. Woolley,
of Illinois.
Henry B. Metcalf,
of Rhode Island.
SOCIALIST LABOR:
Job Harriman, . Max 8. Hayes,
of California.
of Ohio.
SOCIALISTS:
Valentine Remmlll,
of Pennsylvania.
DB LEON
Joseph F. Malloney,
of Massachusetts.
UNITED CHRISTIANS:
Dr. S. C Swallow, John G. Woolley,
of Pennsylvania, of Illinois.
Besides, if Debs declares out, what
will become of hiB running mate, Job
Harriman, of California, the Social
Democrats' entry for Vice-President?
If the Republican National Committee
is correctly quoted In Its decision to
send Roosevelt to the West, it has
taken the advice of some one of dis
cernment. Here is a device for injec
tion of life into an otherwise dull cam
paign. Let Roosevelt, Lodge and Lit
tlefield come West, and let Wolcott,
Lafe Young and Governor Geer, of
Oregon, go East. They will get audi
ences who could not be attracted by
the old familiar names. And let the
Democrats do likewise. What a fine
campaign the Bryan people could put
up In the West with .fifteen or twenty
speeches each from Hill, Daniel, Grady
and George Fred Williams I And how
it would stir up Democratic enthusiasm
for Towne and Thomas, Steve White
and Dockery to go down the line for
Bryan and Stevenson through New
York, Pennsylvania and New Englandl
These strictly bi-partisan suggestions
are offered gratis, and with due regard
to the temperature of the season. If
we must have a campaign, why not
have a diverting one?
Official announcement of yearly gifts
and endowments was part of the pro
gramme of many of the higher Institu
tions of learning at the commencement
exercises last month. These gifts were
bestowed this year with a liberal hand,
both upon Eastern and Western insti
tutions, the latter, if anything, faring
the better of the two. Of the former,
Brown University, in Providence, R. I.,
announced at the reunion of its alumni
that through the generosity of Mr.
Rockefeller and its alumni and the en
terprise of its president, It would enter
upon its inext year's work richer by a
round million dollars than before. This
Is significant, In view of the fact that
during the incumbency of E. Benjamin
Andrews as Its president the endow
ments of the institution grew Smaller
and smaller each year, showing that
financial fallacies and economical va
garies are not meat upon which educa
tional institutions feed In these practi
cal, common-sense days. - -
The Seattle Time3 says It has Inside
Information that the census of its city
will show the population to be about
85,000. We have no certain information
yet as to the census of Portland. But
we know there are 20,489 school children
in Portland, and 14,507 In Seattle. Also,
that the registered vote of Portland is
16,300; that of Seattle 10,940. If, there
fore, on her ratio of voters and school
population Seattle has a total popula
tion of 85,000, Portland, on the like ra
tio, should have a population of fully
125,000. However, Portland has not
nearly so many. We think the return
will be under 95,000. But If the return
for Seattle should be 85,000, there will
be "stuffing" In it to the extent of at
least 20,000. Her school census, just
returned, and her registration of voters
for the present year, make It Impossible
that her aotual population should ex
ceed 65,000. '
An anonymous friend and well wisher
sends in the following request:
Dear Sir: After diligent perusel of your
paper I am In dout whether you would advise
mo to vote for McKlnley or Bryan. You speak
of the coming of election day and lnterroate
that a man might as well take to the woods
on Nov. S. Is this the most dennate advise
you have to offer?
If our correspondent is situated so he
can, we urge him to employ election
daj in Eome neighboring grammar
school and form a speaking acquaint
ance with the English language.
It is not the business of government
to protect men against the consequences
of their own rashness and folly. It
may be due to humanity that measures
be taken to rescue men who were fool
ish enough to go without necessary
equipment to Cape Nome; but there 4s
no ground for appeal in their behalf as
matter of right. If government is to
adopt the policy of protecting people
against their own Improvidence, it will
have business enough.
The fact that Minister Conger sent a
cipher dispatch at some date undeter
mined, conveying information that he
and other foreign representatives were
in extreme peril, is not of the highest
Importance. The question is not
whether he was alive June 20 or July
6, but is he alive now?
Minister Wu's dispatch says "the
State Department's telegram has been
handed to Minister Conger." If this
can be done, why cannot other infor
mation be adduced? Why is the date
missing from Conger's telegram?
Observe that Conger speaks of being
under fire from "Chinese troops." He
doesn't say Boxers or Insurgents, and
he knows the significance of words.
Added particulars of Boxer atrocities
lead to the belief that they must have
been recruited partly from the ranks
of Hoboken tugboat captains.
Mrs. Bryan in Politics.
St Louis Globe-Democrat:
Lincoln, Neb. The Bryan of 1D00 Is not
exactly the Bryan of 1S96. An evolution
has taken place. It is in the direction of
more Bryan. The ego has grown.
"Mrs. Bryan has got the strongest say
so of any woman I over saw," Chairman
Jones, of the National committee, had oc
casion to remark to tome of his feliow
commltteemen four years ago. The com
mittee had found it Impossible to manage
the candidate, The only person- who
seemed to do- so was Mrs. Bryan. She
dictated the retirement of Gorman from
the head of the committee. Mr. Bryan
consulted her on the plans of the cam
paign, and deferred to her intuitions.
When Mrs. Bryan said one thing, and
tho National committee another, the for
mer "went" with Bryan.
Mrs. Bryan's personality is till impres
sive, but not eo much so as it was four
years ago. And it may be added that the
National committee cuts an even lea
conspicuous figure than it did then. Four
years ago Mrs. Bryan was almost as
much a part of the campaign as Mr.
Bryan. She went everywhere with him.
"She was always at his elbow to give
him tho right hunch," to quote one of
the coterie of Bryan men at Lincoln.
Mrs. Bryan participates in the porch
and parlor conferences. Mr. Bryan
listens to her views. But all of those
around him say that while no change
has taken place in the mutual confidence.
Mr. Bryan no longer depends upon Mrs.
Bryan for Judgment and guidance, ao he
did. They add that Mr. Bryan has grown
and broadened a great deal. "Grown,
yes; broadened, no!" Bryan has grown.
He soys "1" with more emphasis than in
1ES3.
A SICKENING DOSE.
Ho-rr an Arkansas Democratic Organ
Takes Its Medicine.
Pine Bluff (Ark.) Prcee-Eagle.
Bryan has again proved himself a big
ger man than tho Democratic party by
forcing a. specific 16-to-l-free-silver-or-bust
plank in the platform adopted at
Kaasaa City. This was done against the
advice and best judgment of nearly all
the prominent party leaders from all sec
tions of tho country: but they finally
bowed their beads- and bent their wills
to that of the eminent Nebroskan, who
threatened over a long-distance telephone
not to accept the nomination unices the
platform was constructed to suit him.
This, meant that he would run on the
platforms of tho Populists and Free-Silver
Republicans and defeat any other
man the National Democracy might name
as Its candldatq for the Presidency. The
"bhiff," whether sincere or otherwise,
had its desired effect, and the leaders of
the great party of Jefferson smothered
their convictions and Inserted a plank in
the platform which they know from the
experience of the past will alienate the
Eastern and Middle Western States from
tho party, without one of more of which
thero is not tho slightest hope of Demo
cratic success at the polls in November
next.
The plank in tho platform that calls for
Independence for the Filipino?, a sub
ject race, confessedly unfitted for self
government, while this Government shall
undertake to protect them from foreign
invasion, ia by no means the least of the
inconsistencies and absurdities of the
Bryan dictated platform, and: will never
receive the support and sanction of a. ma
jority of the American people.
But we should not forget that it is Mr.
Bryan who is again running for President
of the UnHed States, and that, as in 1896,
he is not obliged or beholden to the De
mocracy alone for the privilege. We aro
only one of a thxee-cornerd political alli
ance of that distinguished gentleman's
formation for his own uses and purposes;
and as he controls absolutely and unequi
vocally three-thlrdB of the etock in said
political alliance, it Is perhaps meet and
proper that he should dictate all the
platforms and conduct the triple-headed
crusade against a sound currency and
the bugbear of imperialism as his own
sweet v.ill and fancy Iteteth.
That Mr. Bryan to a consistent and per
sistent man his own enemies will admit;
we have the word of tho Memphis Commercial-Appeal
that ho is a great, intense
and good man, and that he is a much-deluded
man wo need no more certain evi
dence titan his own recent assertion that
he will carry all tho Eastern and North
ern States, not even conceding rock
ribbed Republican Vermont to McKln
ley. But he Is Democracy's candidate for
tho Presidency, and as such we hoist hln
name alongside that of that sterling time
tested Democrat. Adlai E. Stevenson, of
Illinois, m the hope that Time, the torofo
bulkter and leveler of all things terres
trial, may look with a kindly eye upon
the weaknesses and errors of the pusil
lanimous alleged leaders of the once
proud and all-powerful Democratic party,
and in tho end rescue them from the
slough of Populism and despond into
which they were plunged by a meaning
less metaphor a borrowed figure of
speech at Chicago one blood-heating,
brain-beclouding, oventful July day four
years ago.
Tribute to Minister Conger.
Des Moines Register.
Major Conger was a perfect type of
American manhood, and a better man
never lived. Fifty-seven years have
passed since the day he was born in
Galesburg. 111., and they havo been busy
and useful years. He was in Lombard
University when the Civil War broke out,
and went from there to the front, where
he served throughout the war with great
credit. After the war he began the prac
tice of law in Galesburg, but In 1S70 he
came to Iowa and bought a farm near
Dexter. His public career began in that
county, where he held a number of offi
ces, among them Treasurer. In 1SS1 he
was elected Treasurer of State, and held
that office for two terms. In 1885 Major
Conger was sent to Congress, and ho
represented this district for three terms.
In 1831 Mr. Conger was appointed Min
ister to Brazil, and he served our country
there until removed by President Cleve
land. Mr. Conger then returned to Des
Moines and engaged in business, among
other things organizing tho Co-operative
Bank of Iowa. When President McKln
ley took his chair, Mr. Conger was reap
pointed Minister to Brazil, and remained
thero until President McKlnley tendered
the appointment of Minister to Pekin,
which he accepted at the President's re
quest, and he has since rendered conspic
uously able service at that post. That
he has served faithfully and well every
one who knew the man can testify, and
when he went down before the sword In
that last brave stand, when the ammuni
tion was gone, his list thoughts were of
the Stars and Stripes and his duty. He
enlisted in tho Civil War at the age of
10, fought his way to a Majorshlp, and
has 'now died at his post of duty serving
his country. Blessed be the memory of
such men as Major Conger.
Don Dickinson's Prophecy.
St, Paul Pioneer Press.
Among the many leading Democrats
who repudiate Bryan is Don M. Dick
inson, who was Postmaster-General under
Cleveland. In a recent lntervlow he said
he entirely agreed with A. 'S. Hewitt, of
New York, who had stated that he would
not voto for Bryan for any office un
der the National Government, no matter
what platform he stood on. He was, ho
said, one of those who sought to secure
the elimination of the coinage clause from
the Democratic platform, believing that
that would defeat the nomination of
Bryan. The movement was successful In
point of numbers, but failed for lack
of skillful leadership In the convention.
"I now predict," he said, "that Bryan
will not get within 2.000.000 as many
votes as he did In 1S96." Speaking of
Adlai Stevenson, he said that ho had
never been a Gold Democrat, but was
originally a Greenbacker. Stevenson was
his assistant while Postmaster-General
But he was silent on the money lssuo
until the Chicago convention In 1S96. when
he was a candidate for renomlnatlon and
came out for free silver.
Southern Iron Exports.
New Tork Commercial.
It Is only five years since the first for
eign shipment of Iron was made from
Birmingham, Ala. This was a shipment
of 250 tons only, and was, of course, pure
ly experimental. Birmingham's iron ex
port Is now as high as 50,000 tons a week.
Let It be remembered, too, that the man
who made the initial shipment to Europe
was a Southerner. Northern energy has
done a good deal for Birmingham's iron
industry, but it hasn't dono everything.
THE ANSWER OF CIVILIZATION."
Chicago Tribune.
The long period of agonizing suspense
is at an end. There can be no doubt now
that the white men, women and children,
numbering nearly 500 soldiers, missionar
ies, members of foreign Legations and
their families who were in Pekin are
dead. There is room for hope, however,
that the women and children met death
at the hands of those who loved them,
while the men fell fighting like gallant
I gentlemen, and no one fell alive into the
nanas oi tne uninese to expire unaer
those tortures which their savage In
genuity loves to inflict.
This is not the first time, since Eng
lishmen were thrust into the black hole
at Calcutta, that white men have been
the victims of Asiatic savagery. There
was the Indian mutiny. At Cawnpore
aboul 1000 died. Never before, however,
has a blow been struck which has 'af
fected so many nations and united the
powers of tho earth in a new Asiatic
crusade.
But there is a day of reckoning In store.
Among those powers whose Ministers
have been murdered at PeKin there are
some Portugal is one of them which are
not strong enough to do much toward
punishing those who have wronged them.
There ere other powers which are strong
and will not hesitate to use their
strength. This country, Russia, Great
Britain, France and Japan will not tako
their hands from the plow until this
Chinese question has been settled. To
every contest between the powers of
civilization and those of seml-clvlllzatlon
there can be but one end the victory
of the former. To secure that victory In
tho case of China, patience, harmonious
action on the part of the powers, and
many soldiers will be required. They will
be forthcoming. Nor will the United
States, whose citizens, soldiers and civil
ians have been so foully done to death,
be found lacking at this urgent hour.
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Thero Is no longer a shadow of doubt
that the worst has happened and that all
the foreign legations at Pekin have been
destroyed and their inmates massacred.
Including the Ministers and their wives
and children and many other foreigners
who have taken refuge there have been
murdered by the Chinese troops, under
the lead of Prince Tuan. with what cir
cumstances of diabolical cruelty will per
haps be never known. Such veiled and
guarded utterances of the Chinese of
ficials as have reached the coast cities
no longer seek to conceal the horrible
fact, but, are attempts to escape the con
sequences by throwing the responsibility
upon Prince Tuan, who is represented to
have seized the reins of power a3 the
head of the revolutionary Boxer move
ment for tho extermination of the for
eigners. "The extremity of a force ls.the nucleus
of a reaction." The bursting out of the
long pent-up floods of the Chinese hatred
of foreigners, with its tragic consumma
tion in the massacre of the Legatloners
at Pekin. will. It is not to be doubted,
prove the beginning of a new era for
China. By that act she has invoked and
made inevitable the invasion of her long
cherished seclusion by the armed forces
of modern civilization, to be followed by
the far more powerful commercial forces,
which will work the awakening of her
people from their centuries of slumber
and their conquest to the domain of
modern civilization.
Chicago Times-Herald.
Thero can be no longer doubt that the
Chinese Empire and no band of lawless
Boxers is behind the vague horror that is
mercifully hidden from Christian eyes In
the shambles of Pekin. They were royal
Chinese troops that beat back Admiral
Seymour and his motley little army of
rescuers. They are regular Chinese sol
dierstaught if not actually led by the
German drillmasters, who since the Jap
anese war havo been converting a Chi
nese mob into a modern army that are
attacking Tien Tain. It is no Boxer horde,
armed with the miscellaneous weapons
of outlaws, that Is handling the Mausers
and Maxims and Krupp guns with such
deadly effect upon the allied forces.
No; It is China, with her imperial le
gions drawn from a teeming population
that raises the yellow flag dripping with
the blood of betrayed innocence and de
fies a horror-stricken world.
History presents no such spectacle, pro
vides no parallel to which the statesmen
and leaders of Christendom can appeal
for guidance. The British experience in
India comes the nearest In the elements
of brutal force and superstitious race
hatred. But the British had the skeleton
of military organization and sovereignty
in India by which they rallied and con
quered. All Christendom has no footing
in tho Chinese Empire and no common
policy to direct Us campaign of retribu
tion and atonement.
That Christendom will find means to
avenge the massacre of her innocents, the
torture of her wounded defenders, tho
mutilation of her dead, the fanatical de
fiance of the common code of National
honor and security, we do not for a mo
ment doubt. China has taken up tho
sword and the torch, and In fire and blood
will China bo taught that there Is a
power in civilization that rests on some
thing besides myriads of subjects and tho
fatalism of bloodthirsty rulers.
Des Moines Register.
It is tho most appalling spectacle of
tho century, and there have been few
worse In all history. The great massa
cres of history are recorded as follows:
In B. C. 331 Alexander put 8000 Tyrlans to
tho sword and crucified 2000 for not surrender
ing: Tyre. ,,,..
Marlus, the Roman General, slaughtered
200,000 Teutons and Ambrones near Alx In B.
C. 102.
Octavlanus Caesar ordered the death of 300
Roman Senators to the manes of Julius Caesar
in B, C 40.
Jews to the number of 1.100.000 were mas
sacred in tho fall of Jerusalem. A. D. 70.
Casslus. the Roman General, put to death
200.000 Inhabitants of Selucla In A. D. 103.
The "Sicilian Vespers" massacre In 12C0.
when over 8000 French were murdered at
Palermo.
JSt Bartholomew's massacre commenced on
the evening of the festival at Paris In 1752.
Seventy thousand Huguenots were murdered
by secret orders from Charles IX, at the In
stigation of his mother. Catherine de Medicls.
Massacre of MacDonalds at Glencoe, Scot
land. In 1G02, for not surrendering to King
William.
Twelve thousand Chinese put to death at
Batavla In October, 1740, under pretext of In
surrection. Twenty-four thousand native Christians re
ported murdered In Cochin, China, and 22.000
In Annam. in 18S5.
Native Christians la Armenia, numbering
from 00,000 to 40,000, according to various re
ports, killed by Kurds or Turkish soldiers In
1803.
The whole Christian world has heard
the dying cries of the tortured and
butchered Christian men. women and
children in Pekin, and China will now bo
called upon to answer. Her life may bo
tho penalty.
NOTE AND COMMENT
It isn't so hot as it might be.
The work of the peace conference still
goes merrily on in China.
Bryan's voice is still for war so stlll-ln,
fact that nobody can hear It.
Now that sports are dull, why not get
up a few lively thermometer races?
A little more weather like this will
draw out tho oldest inhabitant in largo
numbers.
If China wants to make a good showing
on her census, she had better take it.
Immediately.
With half the world already engaged ln
war. the Kentucky Democrats are "pull--lng
off a convention.
"When on some distant future day
Some scientist shall turn the clay,
To learn of prehistoric man.
He'll find that Eryan also ran. :
It Is reported that the Kansas corn
crop Is in danger, and Mr. Bryan is
beginning to breathe easily onco more.
The navle3 can't use any of their
boarders in tho interior of China, but
they seem to have plenty of rumors In
active operation.
I Tho chances are that General Joe
Wheeler will mistake the last trump for
a call to arms, and apply for a commis
sion at the front,
"What are the wild waves saying?" ,i
She asked, as they sat on the logs.
"I cannot tell," replied the youth.
"But they're saying. If they speak the truth.
That tho hotel men are hogs."
Huge Daub is the name of a candidate,
for Presidential Elector in Missouri. It
is not known how much of a figure ho
will cut on the official canvass.
Eleven Justices of the Peace in St.
Louis, fastened upon the city by a Dem
ocratic law, ask from the municipal treas
ury $3197 70 for street-car fares In a sin
gle year. In other words, each Justice
spent SO cents In car fare every day in
the year.
The Kansas prison binding twine plant
Is contesting with the binding twine
trust for the trade of the state. Warden.
Tomllnson says that the penitentiary
plant will save the farmers of Kansas
at least SXO.OOO this year, and every year
as long as the state plant Is maintained.
That Is twice as much as the plant cost.
Strange we never miss the Winter when tho
blizzard howls outdoors.
Strange we never miss the Springtime when tha
rain unceasing pours.
Strange we never miss the Summer when tho
nun Is hot o'erhead.
Strange we never miss the Autumn when the
woods are turning red;
Though we think and think about It. still it
strikes us very queer
We never miss a single thing as long as It la
here.
The Mnrtyr.s of Pekin.
S. E. Klser In Chicago Tlme-Herald.
The little one looks In her mother's eyes
While the wild mob howls without;
"Oh. why do they starve us?" the llttto one
cries,
"And what Is the trouble about?
What have we done, that they seek us today,
Vowing to capture and torture and slay
And why do the nations let us wait
In hunger and danger and doubt?
"And why do we hide?" the child demands,
"And what have the guards to fear.
Since thej that besiege are but savage bands.
Armed with the bow and spear
Slnee they that defend us have deadly guns;
Why do they flee from the clamoring ones
Why do they close and bar the gates
Why are we starving here?"
"We ha-e sold them guns." tho mother repUe,r
"Of the best that we have In store. "
And our agents are seeking to civilize
And teach them and sell'them more,
Fer ever where Civilization goes
She hurries to arm and equip her foes
With the engines of war she builds
In the shops where her fires roar."
"And why do the nations heslt-ie?"
The child exclaims aghast;
"Why must we suffer and starve and wait,
Anl when shall the siege be past? ,
Havo not the powers been made aware
Of the fato we fear and the woes we share,
And will they not send their ships
With conquering hosts, at last?"
"At last! ah. yes!" the mother sighs,
"They will come to avert the wrong
They will como when the last defender Uaa
Defiled by the savage throng!
But ere they com thoy must take the map
And mark for Briton and Russ and Jap
And Gaul and German the zone
That to each shall, at last, belong!"
On the walls hangs many a martyr's head.
Waiting the reckoning day!
Wlwre they fell the ground Is accursed and
red.
And tho stains will not wear away!
From the reeking ditches In which they 11
The bones of women and children cry
For the vengeance the nations owe
The debt that the world must jay.
The Well-Rend Mnldcn.
Baltimore American.
Oh. yes. she read the papers;
In fact, she had the blues
Whenever It so happened
She could not learn the news.
And warn't It Just awful
That Ladysmlth affair?
The hat was not becoming;
In fact, not fit to wear.
Dear me! It was Just painful
Tho news that -a:ne each day.
Why, Just to think' Tho prices
Are going up. tl-y say.
She thought war "as a horror
Humanity's dlsr .
Why. It had ral. no prices
On every kind lice!
And politics? ft loved It.
She thought It just too sweet.
She hoped none of the tickets
Would ever meet defeat.
She doted on the papers
That told of each dispute.
And. oh. the campaign buttons
She thought they wero so cute.
And had she read this morning
Tho terrible report
That told of a great slaughter
Around tho Chinese court?
Great slaughter? Yes, she read it
Sho had read It through and through
It said that Bargalnseller
Cut prices square In two.
Oh. yes, she read the papers.
Dear me! Sho always did.
She loved the foreign letters
From Paris and Madrid.
Indeed, It was Important
That she should take the while
To read them, and keep posted
Upon each change of style.
Population of District of Columbia.
Tho Census Bureau gives the percent
age of increase of the population of tho
District of Columbia during the last'
decade as 20.93 per cent. This does not
compare favorably with the gain for the
preceding" decade, which was 29.7 per cent.
This percentage was larger than that for
the United States, which was 24.86 per
cent. If the proportionate increase in the
District of Columbia still exceeds that
In the country at large, as was the case
between 1S70 and 1SS0 and 1SS0 and 1S90.
then the larger estimates of the popula
tion of the United States will prove to
be Incorrect. A gain of 20.9S per cent over
1890 will give a present population of
only 75,270.000. The District has, however,
at this time but 27S.217 inhabitants, or not
much over one-third of 1 per cent of tho
total population of the country. It is
not safe to base conclusions regarding
the United States on the result In the
District of Columbia, which has no im
portant manufacturing Industries, and
which attracts only an Insignificant frac
tion of the large foreign immigration.
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