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-" gxp5 . t5i?!SS '. -5- vCr Tf 6 THE MORNING- OBEGONIAN, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1900. he r0amem atred at the Fostofllee at Portland, Oregon, as second-class matter. TELEPHONES. i-dttorfal Rooms.... 1 GO Business Ofllee....CQ7 REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Br Ma.l (portage prepaid). In Advance Jauy, nuhJaunday. per month .....?u to pUy, Sunday excepted, per year.......... 1 M a iy, with feundav. rcr vear ..... 0 00 iunday, per ear 00 ne weeKiy, pr year i tie "Weekly. 3 manths ... BO I To City Subscribers- pally, per week, delivered, Sundays exeepted.l5c fauy. per week, dem-ered. Sundays wciuaea.suc POSTAGE RATES. i United States, Canada and Mexico: xo jtj-page paper .....ic to 32-page TMtner Ec Foreign rates double. , News or discussion Intended for publication In ae Orcgonlan should be addressed Invariably Mltor The Oregcnlan," not to the name of Iny individual. Letters relating to advertising. inscriptions or to any business matter should addressed simply "The Oregonlan." The Oregonlan does not buy poems or stories om IrdlvIduaK and cannot undertake to re- any manuscripts sent to It without olldta- ilon. No stamps should be Inclosed for this purpose. I Puget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, ItSce at 1111 Pacific avenue, Tacoroa. Box 855, Pacoma postofnee. Eastern Business Office The Tribune bulld- t. New Tork City: "The Rookery." Chicago; se S, C Beckwtth special agency, New Tork. For aale In San Francisco by J. K. Cooper, 48 Market street, near he Palace hotel, and tt Goldsmith Bros., 233 Sutter strett. For sale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co., tlT Dearborn street. TODAY'S WEATHER. Fair and wanner: fcorthwest winds. ORTLAND, KXlIDAY, JULY 27, 1000. SURVIVAL OP SUPERSTITIONS. The vague terror that pervades Chris tendom in contemplation of the Chinese sutbrealc, and revealed n fantastic feartoons and grewsome forebodings, re- linda ts that superstition still stalks ibroad, proof against centuries of spir itual development and scientific discov ery. So persistently do the instincts of primitive man survive, that they doml- late and terrify the stoutest heart and le most cultivated intellect. Race prejudice, -with its concomitant rears, is the most constant and the most ireasoning thing- in the world. Na ture or experience has Implanted in the consciousness of every sentient thing m aversion to the strange and the un- lown. The explorer feels it equally ith the untutored savage he greets on the unknown shore. Primarily a pro tection against danger, it lingers as a superfluous and inconvenient relic long if ter its usefulness has departed. Upon lis foundation is race prejudice built ap. The Jew, who cannot understand the cruel hatred of anti-Semitism. founded on ignorance of his identity ith the rest of mankind, looks with le same unreasoning1 and malignant fear upon the Catholic. The symbols ind ceremonies of unfamiliar religions seem to us as mummeries Inspired of the devil and freighted with some mys terious but potent charm of eviL The same dread the Puritan felt for the Javalier, the Crusader for the infidel ?urk, the Aztec for the white-faced Spaniards, survives today in the attl- lde of the French to the Jew, of the ignorant American to the Catholic, and )f the average Caucasian to the "Yel low Peril." The idea that unfamiliar races are constituted differently from ourselves las a manifest origin, as has been sug rested, but It is thoroughly disproved lot only by study of present popula tions, but by research into the hiBtory )f early man. The preponderance of testimony goes to show that all men ire descended from a single pair. We ire all distantly related, and are bun- lies of not greatly differing emotions, lotives and capacities. Shakespeare nits into .the mouth of Shylock an ex cellent commentary on this popular Idread of different races one for the gother. Not that Shakespeare thought ithe Jew was like the Anglo-Saxon. He shared the public sentiment of his time, and the unlovely character of Shylock shows how he catered to that senti ment. But his dramatic power led him into a defense of the outcast race far exceeding his town conception of the Struth, just as Michael Angelo's genius fenabled him. in Emerson's fine but Ihackneyed phrase, to build "better than he knew." But the truth embodied in iShylock's argument that we are all lallke needato be dwelt upon by thlnk- 11ns persons until race prejudice and race fear are alike things of the past. There is no peril in China other than would be involved in collision with an equal number of Europeans or Ameri cans, of the same manual and mental capacity and the same status of de velopment. Most of the uncanny attri butes ascrlbedfb the Chinese are such as we share in equal degree. They are desperately brave in battle, fierce In revenge, Imitative in employment, and so are we. They love their own. they view change askance, and so do we. Tes, but they distrust foreigners. This is Indeed a pretty plea to be put up fcy us who have our Know-Nothlngs and our A. P. A., our Anglophoblsts and our Celtophoblsts, our ravings about labor from foreign shores, our negro lynchlngs, our Chinese massa cres. War with China will be the same problem as war with any other power. Europe has drilled her soldiers and filled her arsenals. If not actually offi cered her battalions. There Is no eco nomic danger from China other than that confronted by any advanced peo ple moving In commercial lines upon a backward people. Europe feared that development of colonies here might up set her industries through cheap lands and abounding fertility; but today our custom sustains the life of millions of her people. The more China grows and prospers, the more goods she will buy of us, the more efficient force she will be in supply of creature comforts at les sened cost. Superstition no longer sits visibly upon the throne of civilization, but 4n a thousand ways It still dominates our lives. The man who hoots at the Im maculate Conception will not, perhaps, pass under a ladder or take ship on Fri day. The good housewife who greets the new moon over either shoulder with equanimity feels uneasy when an awk ward guest spills salt upon the table or hreaks a mirror. Many a man who has escaped the thralldom of the Mosaic in- j junction, "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," is sure there is a mysteri ous curse on money made with gam- j hilng or liquor-selling, and knows that a little more rain falls on the fields of the just than on those of the unjust. We con over approvingly the happy hits of our "intuitions" and assidu ously forget their mistakes. We lnvol- urtarily look for the "third murder" or "hird suicide," and when the vibra tions of the surf or pine trees set our ear-drums going we profess to believe that Nature is at the transmitter of her great telephone with us distinctly In mind. When we have put these things away with other childish things, we shall get a glimpse at length of what is really meant by the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. PERU OX THE GOLD STANDARD. The Peruvians, evidently, do not know a bad thing when they see it. The blight Inflicted upon the United States by the accursed gold standard pos sesses no power to move them. In vain for them has the crime of '73 spread its gloom and Iniquity over this smiling land, with the dread "apprecia tion of gold," '"fall in prices of com modities," increase of debt among our people, prostration of Industry, im poverishment of the masses, and in general the financial system which "has locked fast the prosperity of an Indus trial people in the paralysis of hard times." Peru must see all this, yet It blindly rushes on to Its doom. It has no more regard for Its own welfare than Great Britain has, or Germany, or France, or Russia, or Austria-Hungary, or Japan, or India, or Brazil, or Chile, or 'Ecuador. With the evils of the single gold standard before It in plain view, even with partial experi ence of its own, it takes the gold stand ard for Its portion, and announces the fact with every appearance of pride. Deluded beings! Have they never read the Chicago and Kansas City platforms, heard the Boy Orator, or attended "Coin's Financial School"? The dispatches say that Peru has successfully established the gold stand ard, and consequently Is now able to maintain concurrently Its new gold libra, equal to the English pound ster ling, and its historic silver sol. Now the sol Is the Peruvian expression for the equivalent, so common In South America, of the 5-franc piece of the Latin Union, containing 385.8 grains of silver 900 thousandths fine. The bullion value of the sol today therefore Is, ap proximately, 48 cents. But the Peru vian Government determined to make the silver sol circulate at one-tenth the value of the gold libra. The commer cial ratio is 34.45, but the mint ratio is 31 to 1. Along with this, of course, goes the necessary limitation upon the coin age of silver sols. The task of main taining coins at 31 to 1 which are in trinsically worth but 34.45 to 1 is, of course, not to be compared with the burden assumed by the United States In maintaining its silver at 16 to L Still, it Is an undertaking of some mag nitude, and Peru is to be congratulated upon the success of its venture. The sol Is now worth ,60 cents always and everywhere In the republic Invoices mean just their face from month to month, and the value of wages, taxes, savings and Investments Is unimpaired by fluctuations in the currency. This greatly desired condition marks the final achievement of a measure Jnltl ated In 1897. It has taken over three years for the gold-standard programme to be made effective. It Is easy to slump to the silver basis, but to get back on the gold basis Is difficult and tedious, and the fact should be a warn ing to our American silverltes, who seem, unfortunately, blind both to facts and to reason. KO CAPACITY TO GOVERN. Who are the Filipinos for whom the Bryan platform demands stable govern ment, independence and protection from outside Interference? Nine principal tribes inhabit the islands, one or all of which would be the government were a government set up among them. One and all, they are unfit ror the exercise of sovereign functions. They have no comprehension of organization -on a large scale, and no ability to construct a political fabric that would stand the test of modern civilization. To give them independence would precipitate a war for tribal ascendency which would never end. One month the Tagalogs would be the governing tribe, the next month the Moros, the next month the Igorrotes. The ins would oppress the outs with barbarous cruelty, and the outs would be constantly plotting against the Ins. The Filipino tribes have no character istics that commend them. They are, according to John Foreman, who has traveled extensively among them, so averse to social order that they can be ruled only by coercion or demonstration of force. The Aetas, or Negritos, sup posed to be the first Inhabitants, are spiritless and cowardly. They would not deliberately face white men In equal numbers with warlike intentions, although they would, perhaps, spend a quiverful of arrows from behind a tree at a retreating foe. The Gaddanes are warlike, aggressive and cruel. It Is the custom of young men about to marry to vie with each other In presenting to the fathers of their -fiancees, as proof of their manliness and courage, all the scalps they are able to take from their enemies. The Itavls are not so fierce as their neighbors, the Gaddanes. In dolent, thieving and bloodthirsty, the Igorrotes cannot be forced or persuaded to embrace the Western system of civili zation. Murders are common among them, and If a member of one family Is killed, the family avenges Itself, lex tallonls, on one of the murderer's kins men. The habits of the Igorrote-Chl-nese are much the same as those of the pure Igorrotes, but with the fierce na ture of the Igorrote is blended the cun ning and astuteness of the Mongol. The Tlnguianes live In cabins on posts or trees sixty and seventy feet from the ground. They have resisted every ef fort to convert them to Christianity. Audacious, ready to promise everything and do nothing, vindictive and highly suspicious of a stranger's intentions are the Moros. They disdain work as de grading and fit only for slaves, and warfare Is to them the most honora ble of callings. The Tagalogs and Vlsayas are Indolent No dependence can be placed upon their word. They feign friendship, but have no loyalty and no sentiment, honor or magnanim ity. They are cruel to a fallen foe. There is nothing In which they delight more than in pillage, destruction and bloodshed, and once they become the masters of the situation in an affray there is no limit to their greed and sav age cruelty. They have no Idea of or ganization on a large scale, and a suc cessful uprising is not possible If con fined to the pure Indigenous population. These are the Indolent scamps, thieves and cut-throats for, whom Democracy has uttered its great wall about imperialism. Without 'ascertaining whether they are fitted for government, it rashly condemns "the false and un American position of crushing with mil itary force the efforts of our former allies to achieve liberty and self-government" To give them the independ ence Bryan demands, we should have to summon the Negrito from his cover behind the tree, the Gaddane from his head-hunting, the igorrote from his butchery, the TIngulane from his roost, the Moro from his warfare and the Tagalog and the Vlsayo from their pil lage, gather them into a hall and tell them to go ahead and draft their con stitution. Who among them wquld be their John Adams, their Thomas Jef ferson? Who would preside over their deliberations with the dignity of a John Hancock? Who would be their George Washington to take the leadership of the young nation and guard lt3 destinies while the confederacy was acquiring strength? Where in the Philippines are the people who can make a sovereignty that will take its station among the na tions of the world? The lives and prop erty of the Filipino people will be best protected by the United States; and no argument the Bryanltes can make will induce this country to relinquish its title or repudiate the obligation it owes at international law. WEAKNESS OP THIRD PARTIES. The Gold Democrats have decided not to put out a separate ticket, and prob ably they are wise. Our political his tory does not offer them much encour agement In 1844 the "Liberty party," which supported James G. Blrney for President polled 62,300 votes, and de feated -Henry Clay, the Whig candidate for President the loss of the anti-slavery Whig vote giving New Tork State to Polk, the .Democratic candidate. In 1848 the Free Soil or "Barnburner" party, which supported Martin Van Buren for President polled 291,263 votes and defeated Lewis Cass, the Demo cratic candidate for President, the loss of the Free Soil Democratic vote giving New York State to Taylor, the Whig candidate. In 1S52 John P. Hale, the Free Soil candidate, polled but 156,000 votes for President In 1856 Millard Fillmore, the third-ticket candidate, polled S74.55S votes, and probably de feated Fremont for President who oth erwise would have carried Pennsyl vania and Indiana. In 1660 Lincoln probably owed his election to the di vision of the antiTRepublican vote among Douglas, Breckinridge and Bell. It will be seen from these facts that before the Civil War the thlrdparty movement generally resulted In public mischief rather than benefit to the cause of its engineers. Thus in 1844 the "Liberty" party, by refusing to vote for Henry Clay, who, although a slave holder, was opposed to extension of slavery, elected Polk, a bitter pro-slavery man,' a champion of the annexa tion of Texas, under whose administra tion the Mexican War was fought, and a fresh debate over slavery began that ended in the Inflammatory compromise measures of 1850. The anti-slavery third-ticket party of 1844 surely was hoist by its own petard when it elected Polk President rather than Henry Clay. In 1848 the third-party ticket was framed for the purpose of wreaking po litical revenge upon the South, which had beaten Van Buren for renomlna tlon both In 1S44 and 1848, and had General Taylor lived out his term of office, the sincere ."Free Sollers," who supported Van Buren, would have had some reason for congratulation, for, up to Taylor's death, the "Seward" anti slavery Whigs were dominant at the White House rather than the "Web ster" Whigs, whose leader had de nounced Taylor's nomination as "unfit to be made." The anti-slavery ( Whigs among those who threw" away their votes on Fillmore in 1856 only to elect Buchanan, the candidate of the pro slavery Democracy, surely found no cause for congratulation. The 590,000 "Webster" Whigs who voted for Bell and Everett In 1860 failed of their pur pose, which was to defeat Lincoln and "save the Union," as they expressed It Lincoln could only have been defeated by union and concentration of all the votes opposed to the Republican party platform upon either Douglas or Breck inridge. The division of Its enemies in I860 gave victory to the Republican party in 1860. Since 1860 the Influence of third-party movements has been insignificant In 1872 the nomination of Horace Greeley by the Democrats caused so bitter re sentment that a bolting convention held at Louisville nominated in opposition Charles O'Conor, on the ground that the Democracy had been "betrayed into a false creed and a false leadership." Out of a total of 6,466,165 votes, Mr. O'Conor received only 29,408. In 1876 the Greenbackers nominated at Indian apolis Peter Cooper for President who polled only 81,740 votes of the total of 8,412,733 cast In 1SS0, James B. Weaver, the Greenback candidate for President, received 307,306 votes out of a total poll of 9,207,406. In 1884 the Populist party cast only 133,825 votes out of a total of 10,044,985, and in 1S8S the Labor party polled 148,105 votes out of a total of 11, 380,860. In 1892 the Populists cast only 1,041,029 out of the total of 12,059,352. In 1896 the Palmer and Buckner ticket polled only 132,870 votes out of a total of 13.875,653 cast In 1SS4 there were prob ably Prohibitionists enough of Repub lican antecedents among those who voted for St. John for President In New York State to have given its electoral vote to Blaine and elected him Presi dent These Republican Prohibitionists -defeated Blaine, who was an abstemi ous man and never openly hostile to Prohibition legislation in Maine, and elected Cleveland, whose personal prac tice and public opinions were antago nistic to the temperance gospel of St John. So In this case the Prohibition ists were influential in placing the very man in the White House who above all others treated them and their creed with undisguised public and private contempt The insignificant Influence of all the third-party tickets since 1872, except in the Instance of the Populists In 1892, is made manifest hut it was absorbed by the Democracy in 1896, and the Gold Democratic third ticket was but feebly supported. Bryan today has the full Populist support, and if the Gold Dem ocrats had put out a third ticket it would have obtained very small sup port The American people are, as a rule, too practical to vote for third tickets. The men who are sincerely anxious to defeat McKinley will vote for Bryan, and those who really dread Bryan's election will vote for McKin ley. Lord Roberts, whose main army has remained In a state of Inaction since the occupation of Pretoria, the first week of June, Is again in motion against the Boers, and driving them back to Lydenburg. This delay of some seven weeks has been due to the lack of proper footwear for his Infantry. The Lydenburg district is the last citadel of the Transvaal. Its center is at Ohrigstad, about thirty miles north of Lydenburg, where there are a series of volcanic fortifications, interminable kopjes extending for miles. Inside these natural defenses Is a beautiful and fertile valley about seventy-five miles square, protected on "the east by the Draken3berg and on the north and east by the broad and deep Ollphant's River, with Forts Ollphant and Weber. From the south the valley narrows to Lydenburg, the only gate, the trans port station for which Is at Nelsprlnt on the railway from Pretoria to Dela goa Bay. The force Inside this natural citadel would be safe so long as ammu nition and food lasted; but the British can stop these by obtaining possession of KoomaOpoort, where the Delagoa Bay Railroad crosses the Portuguese frontier. The moment the army of Lord Roberts seizes the railroad bridge at this point and occupies the railway the "Boer resistance muBt end with the ex haustion of their ammunition. The united forceB of Lord Roberts and Sir Redvers Buller cannot be less than 75, 000 men, exclusive of nearly 20,000 cav alry and mounted riflemen. With such a force, the last railway line of sup ply left to the Boers must soon be In possession of Lord Roberts, and In that event the Boer for will be In his "earth" with the mouth stopped up. It win only remain -then to dig or starve out the fox. The home of the bubonic plague is in Central Asia, When it keeps 'well at home, the civilized world knows nothing about it so remote Is Its noisome habitat from the ranks oi cleanly disposed people, and It is but natural to suppose that it no longer exist&. It Is only when opportunity favors its migratory tend encies that this mistake Is discovered. This opportunity crept into commerce about six years ago, and the seaport cities of China and India became very generally affected with the scourge. An eager traveler. It has found its way to almost every habitable part of the earth since then, though the batteries of sanitary science have effectually pre vented it from gaining a foothold out side of what may be termed Its native haunts. The scare In San Francisco two or three months ago proved to be nothing more serious than a scare with its accompanying effects upon trade, while Honolulu, becoming Infested a year ago, the quarters In which it found lodgment were literally purified by Are and the disease was practically stamped out Pre-eminently a filth disease, the bubonic plague feeds upon rata and other unclean things, human beings In cluded, who live in noisome holes and dark, fetid alleys. Its enemies are the open air, sunshine and cleanliness. Not difficult to control where It Is possible to enforce strict sanitary rules, It liter ally defies remedial agencies amid jllthy surroundings. Soap and water are the great clvlllzers; light and air the deadly foea of dlBease-breeding germs. The application of these agencies to the ig norant hordes who reek In their own vileness in the purlieus of Chinese and Indian cities, 'is next to impossible. A noted citizen of Oregon, Erasmus D. Shattuck, died yesterday. He came to Oregon forty-seven years ago. He was a man of classical education, and was a teacher first In an academy at Oregon City and then at Forest Grove. From this humble beginning he came to eminence; was a member of the Legislature of the Territory of Oregon, and a member of the convention that framed the constitution of the state. Then he became a noted lawyer, in as sociation with David Logan, and then a Judge. He was a man of independ ent mind and scholarly attainments, little disposed to follow fashion In thinking or action, and therefore deemed at times eccentric; but he al ways was fecognlzed as a man of per fect honesty In his Intentions and in tegrity in his actions, and his industry and his talents made him an important figure in the history of Oregon. His name will live In the annals of our state. In 1898, the year of American occupa tion of Havana, the death rate from yellow fever In that city was eighty-five per thousand. By the end of 1899, so persistent were the measures for cleari lng the city applied, the rate had been lowered to twenty-seven per thousand. Four months later It was only about twenty-two per thousand. This 'rate maintained means a saving of nearly 10,000 lives a year In Havana alone, while It furnishes valuable insurance against the Introduction of the fever into the United States. The work ha3 cost heavily In money and effort, but much less In either than It has cost upon several occasions to stamp out yellow fever Introduced in Southern cities from Havana. London's opinion that only through actual advance on Pekln can definitive information of conditions there be Qb alned Is one that has haunted the ob servant mind for weeks. Whether it Is that the Imperial power cannot convey the Information or will not, the prospect of willingness and ability combined grows dally slimmer. Hoodlums who assail Inoffensive Chi namen on the streets are no better than the Boxers we rail against They only serve to show how near to the surface of the civilized are the brute Instincts and the brute passions. Some men were made in the intellectual image of hyenas. Cut rates to the seaside have one beneficial effect, and that Is in stimu lation of a tremendous volume of travel. It Is a very costly experiment for the transportation companies, but perhaps in the long run it will yield returns as an advertisement China has been at rest for a thousand years, and her sluggishness gave cause of ceaseless annoyance. In Central and South American republics they get up a revolution twice a month, and still we are not satisfied. i The true handicap of the flshwheels In their fight for life against the gill netters is easily explained. They have no votes. J. J. Hill and W. J. Bryan. J. J. Hill is & big man. but Mr. Bryan is nearer a friend and representative of the peo ple's interests than Mr. Hill and his St. Paul Globe. Pendleton East Oregonlan. This Is a Populist estimate of men. Mr. Hill is one of the greatest creators of modem industry. He employs many thousands of men; he has created many thousands of miles of railway; it is no exaggerated remark that he has created states, and jnado conditions under which hundreds of thousands of people live in prosperity. Mr. Bryan Is a professional agitator. Ho works with his mouth. He lives off the labor of others and does nothing whatever to furnish labor with employment or opportunity. But, of course, a man like Bryan suits the can tankerous Populist mind batter Jhan a man like HUL "Birds of a feather," etc By the way, Mr. Hill is not tho owner of the St Paul Globe, which by the way further is an original Democratic paper that repudiated Bryan in 1S96, and now repudiates him strain. SENSIBLE TEMPERANCE. The Ontloolc Welcomes a Return to Sane Methods. Outlook, July 2L The Outlook welcomes as indications of a return to sane methods of dealing with the temperance question two recent sig nificant events. At a .session of the Young People's Union, of the TJnlversallst church, a prohibition resolution was voted down on the ground that it violated the legitimate liberty of the Individual. Hlth orto in ecclesiastical conventions, those who have not believed In such resolutions have been too apt to keep silence, allow tho resolution to be carried without ob jection, and then disregard it as quletly as they had acquiesced in it We are glad to seo this indication that men who be lieve In temperance, and do not believe that prohibition is the best method of promoting temperance. are beginning to get tho courage of their convictions, and to show themselves willing to avow their bellof. Analogous to this action of the Unlver sallst Young People is a recent address delivered before a number of soldiers at Fort Meyer, Va., by the Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, the well-known Presbyterian clergyman of Washington, D. C, on tho question of the canteen. We quote the report of his remarks, from the New York Times: I am a trustee of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, but speak now as an individual, as the society is not allowed to In terfere 'with anything pertaining to Govern mental regulations. Ko doubt some members of the society are opposed to the canteen and some arc In favor of it. I believe the canteen is a promoter of temperance, and. while it dones not promote total abstinence, it Is a treat Improvement over previous conditions. I do not think tho canteen Is perfect and I think I could Improve upon it. It has Improved the conditions of the soldier, morally and material ly. Under existing conditions at Army posts, I believe the canteen is a. good thins and a great benefit to soldiers. Almost simultaneously with this address 13 published In Leslie's Weekly an article on the canteen question by an ex-member of the Cabinet. He defends the legal opin ion of the Attorney-General that the act of 1S29 does not abolish the canteen, but simply prohibits the detailing of officers and soldiers to do the selling and the maintenance of separate establishments within the posts by private enterprise; he shows that the Attorney-General might bo incorrect In this judgment and yet not bo justly subject to the censure which tho "temperance wild men," a3 Dr. Cros by once felicitously called them, have heaped upon him: "Courts frequently de cide cases erroneously and their decisions are reversed by Appellate Courts." He believes that the Attorney-General's de cision Is not only presumptively good law, since "no judge or member of the bar, of reputation, has come forward to challenge Its correctness," but Is good morals also. He says, very truly: "It Is probable that a majority of the people of the country. Including almost every officer of the regular and volunteer Army, believe that the entire abolition of the canteen features of the post exchanges would be a direct blow at the cause of temperance." We call theso utterances Indications of return ti sane methods of dealing with the temperance question, not because we think all opposition to the canteen or all advocacy of prohibition is Insane, but because the spirit which con demns all advocacy of the canteen as ad vocacy of Intemperance and counts every opponent of prohibition as an enemy of temperance Is decidedly lacking in sanity; and the spirit which submits to such mis representations and Is silent ,for fear of them, Is lacking In that courage which Is Itself a characteristic of the highest moral sanity. When common sense and courage are mated In opposition to Intem perance, there will be a reasonable hope of more practical methods and more rapid progress than In the past These utter ances are Indications of such a union. THE AMERICAN INVASION. A Fair Participant Describes the Trip as a Regmlar Whirl. An American girl writing to a London paper of the Invasion of Europe by United States tourists describes their ad vent in England In this wise: "We come by all ships that run, from tho stately Oceanic to the dicky cattle carrier which lands us after 10 days of odoriferous passage. Some oi us who have been 'In It' In Wall street travel on the promenade deck for ?500 each; some go second class, and very good it is, too, and many of us come with one of those specially conducted tours which defy de scription. You pay your money and they give you no choice. You get packed Into the ship, and, like the man In state's prison, you become a number. At Liver pool or Southampton they herd you into the railroad train, which is perhaps tho most Interesting Item In the trip; bo cause it is- so funny. Then they rattle you through London in long brakes, souse you through St. Paul's Cathedral, and hardly give you time to scratch your name on the gravestone of Oliver Gold smith before you find yourself at Kenll worth and Stratford and Canterbury and the Peak of Derbyshire and Edinburgh, and then you are hurled across the Chan nel to France and through the Exposition like a rush of mad dogs, so that when you recover consciousness you find your self again in New York, with a policeman grabbing you by the collar and telling you to "Move on, there; don't block up the sidewalk!' " A Striking; Description. Among the effects of tho late G. M. Steevens. the well-known journalist who perished in South Africa, wero six unpub lished articles, reoentfy received from Ladysmlth. They Include, "War and Mud' (an account of his arrival at Lady smlth); "Tho Fight That Failed" (Lom bard's Kop); "The Investment," "The Thirty Light Horsemen," "The Conies Are a Feeble Folk" and "The Raid on Gun Hill' The first of theso articles ap peared recently In the London Dally Mail, and contained the following char acteristic passage on his first impres slons of Ladysmlth: Through the rain-blubbered window I saw a soppy-sanded platform and littla red-roofed sta tion buildings streaked with water and mud. A few skimpy trees hung their leaves Hmply "When I got out they wera tumbling the lug gage into sallow puddles. My skin was stale with the sleep you take in your clothes, and tho air of dawn clung darkly to it like wet linen. Ladysmlth good Lord! . . . As I slid and staggered up a bank and round a corner, thero appeared half a doze.n -Indian camp followers sopping khaki putties and wringing turbans, shrunken with cold, ambling miserably through tho mire, skating vaguely over the slime with bowed backs and dead toes and Angers. Gloom, drip, shiver, mud and this was Ladysmlth and this was glorious war! AnBlophoblsta on the Move. New York Evening Post The last of the "Blaine Irishmen" has gone over to Bryan, without even a part ing tear from the Tribune. Patrick Ford and the Hon. Patrick Egan simply can not resist the "superb" Democratic plat form, and have cast in their lot with the Nebraska revller of the hated Saxon. They are perfectly consistent It Is the Republican party that has changed, not they. When they and their kind were cbddled and honored by the Republicans in 1SS4 and 1SSS, the Tribune and the other party oracles were accusing Cleveland and the Democrats of being tools of England, Just as Bryan now taunts McKinley with his "Ill-concealed" British alliance. In other words, the Blaine Irishmen went then, as they go now, with the loudest threats and the most voluble promises of a quarrel. Blaine boasted of being able to make good, by these Irish recruits, the dfifeetlQA Qt CODJEClCnCO Republics pq ho could not Btomach his candidacy. Now they have gone over to a demagogue who can outblare even Blaine, and In their places the Republican party is welcoming men like Mr. Falrchlld, whom It attacked for English truokllng. It Is a pretty com plete change of partners; and In the dis gust which the Republicans now feel for their late allies, they have a good meas ure of their own disgrace In ever having stooped to base arts to win such support Saved by Social Prestige. Harper's Weekly. One of the most telling proofs of the Influence of smart society on British ad ministration is the fact that nowadays only the humbler ranks of the service are blamed. Resignations of Ministers or highly placed public servants by reason of incapacity are never heard of. The mere idea of impeaching an Incapable Minister or punishing a stupid but highly placed public servant Is never entertained. There is far less public spirit today than in 1S0G, when the First Lord of the Ad miralty was arraigned by Impeachment Today Impeachment is as obsolete as trial for witchcraft, though It still remains the only means of bringing to book in capable Ministers. After Admiral Byng, In 17S7, was shot on his quarterdeck in Portsmouth Harbor, the naval service took the hint and became efficient. To day nobody is hanged, Impeached, pun ished or even blamed. They are pro tected by the Invisible but potent shield of society, A few weeks ago the Queen's new yacht, which has been built at an enor mous cost suddenly turned turtle In dock. It was found that a mistake hud beeD made In the design. The designer was an eminent personage, and accord ingly the First Lord of the Admiralty came down to the House of Commons and expressed a sympathy with the offi cial in question .so profound that but for the fact that he Is In society one would have Imagined him to be innocent Democratic Decadence. Boston Herald, Ind. The New York Evening Post ha3 an impressive article contrasting the states men In the Democratic party who ob tained prominence under Cleveland's ad ministration and those who we may ex pect from It should Bryan be elected. Per haps a more striking example of this could hardly be afforded than Is found In Mas sachusetts, where Richard Olney Is the representative man In this one Instance, and George Fred Williams in the other. But the Post furnishes plenty of other reminders. It cites, as Cleveland's reli ance for support in his Administration, such men as Thomas F. Bayard, John G. Carlisle, Allen G. Thurman, L. Q. C. La mar, Daniel Manning, William C. Endl cott, Walter Q. Gresham and William E. Russell. It would be cruel to cataloguo the antitheses to those upon whom Mr. Bryan must depend to support his Admin istration in the Cabinet and out of It Germany's Commercial Conquest. Chicago Times-Herald. Germany's method of ""conquering mar kets" Is due primarily to the "floating ex positions" sent to all parts of the world. A syndicate of merchants chnrters a steamer, loads her with goods carefully selected for foreign buyers, sends her from port to port, in accordance with a schedule prepared with characteristic German attention to detail. Representa tives of the firms are sent ashore at the various cities. Each man speaks the language of the country fluently: he studies the needs of the population; ho distributes samples and Intelligently com piled catalogues, and take3 orders for goods; In a word, he does everything In his power to further the interests, not only of his firm, but of German com merce as well. The Chinese Idea of Patriotism. London Daily Mail. There Is no patriotism in China. This was strikingly exemplified in the late war, when, on the occasion of the capture of the northern squndron, one of the ships belonging to the Shanghai fleet happened to be Included. The captain of her at once went to see the Japanese Admiral and demanded that he and his ship should be allowed to go free. "For," he said. "I don't belong to this fleet" The point of view that his was a Chinese ship and that his country was at war with Japan did not seem to appeal to him In any way. Ottendorfer's "Support" of Bryan. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Oswald Ottendorfer. of New York, the leading German editor of the United States, says: "I am disgusted with both parties, both candidates and both plat forms. I cannot support McKinley, and the suicidal action of the Democrats at Kansas City prevents me from supporting Bryan." MEN AND WOMEN. . Koland Heed will present Sydney Rosenfeld's play, "A Modern Crusoe," in Boston on the opening of his season. At an Impromptu Sunday dinner lately given by Lady Charles Beresford. ono of tho guests was Ethel Barrymore. 'William J. Moxlcy, who aspires to be the next Republican machine candidate for the Mayoralty qf Chicago, is widely known as a maker of Imitation butter. Colonel Frank O. Lowden, who Is mentioned as a successor in the Senate to Senator Cullom, Is 39 years old, and began 'teaching school at 13, by which means he paid his way through the Iowa State University. Berlin papers record tho finding of a hitherto unknown Humboldt correspondence. There are about 200 of the great scientist's letters, writ ten from Berlin and Potsdam, between 1830 and 1840. and full of confidential Information about the court and political, military and scientific notabilities. i The King of Sweden has a high regard for Queen Victoria. A London paper prints the following extract from his notebook: "As the King of Sweden. I am a happy and honored man: but so highly and lovingly do I respect the sovereign of England that I could come down from my position of King and serve happily, without any feeling of regret, the Queen of England as a British subject." The Boxer to the Pro-Boer. London Punch. ("I would sooner be a Chinese Boxer than a British Jingo." Remark attributed to Sir Wil frid Lawson.) Silent so ldng? Doe3 none of you proposo To prove aloud how excellent our case 13? "Where, then. Is Little England? "Where are those "Who bold a standing brief for alien races? Why couches Honest John beneath the rose? Why do the Liberal Forwards hldo their faces? Chivalry lies asleep: Oblivion rocks her; If she discerns no beauty In a Boxer. A nation "rightly struggling to bo free" That rose in holy wrath and dared to measure Its strength against the foes of Liberty Who came and battened on Its burled treasure-Concessionaires who traffic over sea. Or speculate at homo in bloated leisure Behold our pure and single-eyed desire! What moro could Labouchero himself require? Kindly compare us with your brother Boer. Did we not both contrive to drug suspicion. They with their franchise, we our "open door," While steadily compiling ammunition? Did not Intelligence Departments snore While Teutons taught us warlike erudition? And who devised, for each, this little plant? They had an Uncle Well, wo had an Aunt! These various points, with others I could name. Suggest an incidental similarity; Our "China for the Chinese." as an aim. Seems to Imply a more essential parity; But there's a stronger plea by which we claim Some of your well-known sympathetic char ity; If hate of England makes the Boer your kin, Then ope your hearts and let us also in! Silent so long? Nay, heart! A human cry! Lawson, thla is indeed a pleasant shock, sir! This crystal utterance spouting clear and high. Like soda water from a weary rock, sir! "Sooner than be a British Jingo, I Would far. far rather be a heathen Boxer!" Well done, dear friend! 'twas very nobly saldl Ajod may Coafuslua' itcas you on. the heaal NOTE AND COMSIENT. . This Boxer contest seems to have de veloped into a finish fight. There are no more standing armies. They are all on the march. The Chinese Government has a partner like Mr. Jorklns in the Boxers. If no news is good news, the dispatches from Pekin are highly reassuring. Candidate Woolley denies that he is leading a forlorn hope. Has he with drawn? Uncle Paul Kruger Is .still at the old stand, and seems to be dolng a pretty fair business. Equipped with horseless carriages, We should not be surprised If troops with expedition now Aro automoblllzed. r The Gold Democrats seem to have con cluded that they might not elect a Presidential ticket If they nominated one. ' Man wants but little here below. His needs aro very small. But things are averaged, pretty well. For woman wants It all. Now Orleans, evidently Jealous of the fame of St Louis and Pekln, Is coming to the front as a center of war news. If LI Hung Chang is practicing that branch of diplomacy known as relating fairy tales, he Is likely to be sorry for It one of these days. Colonel Samuel 8. Sumner, Sixth United States Cavalry has 'been relieved, at hi3 own request, from duty In London as mil itary attache. In order that he may Join his regiment, which is now on the Pa cific en route to Tien Tsin, China. Colo nel Sumner was for several years sta tioned at Vancouver Barracks, and has many friends In Portland. According to Major A. E. C. Marshall, a British officer, the fighting troops of Chi na are classed as follows: Manchurlaa field force, 50.000: Monchurian irregulars, 20,000; fighting braves, 125.C00; and Chien Chun, or disciplined troops. 10.000. The reserves under arms he- described as: Pe kln field force, 13,000; banner troops In Pekln. 75,000, banner troops In provinces. 95,000; and the Luh-YIng or green stand ard regiments, 506.000. The militia reserves could not be calculated, but each Viceroy has a certain number of more or less trained troops under his personal control for local service. The armament of the Infantry Is for the most part the Mauser rifle, and the artillery has a large num ber and great variety of weapons, com prising ordinary breech-loaders, quick firers and machine guns. The cavalry Is the least effective portion of the Chinese Army. Only one man In a hundred. on a farm Is wuth a cent; What's the use to spile a farmer, jest to xnaka a President? Now there's Bryan, down to Lincoln, doln' most uncommon well, Raisin' garden truck an slch like where he- once was raisin' . Windmills whlrlln in his rnedder when ths neighbors' never run. From his stoop he keep, "em goln. speakln" on 10 to 1. Folks that buys their produce of him has to pay their money fust. Fur the farm's so Democratic that itfs strictly i anti-trust; Slttln on his porch young William Is tho pic ture of content, What's the use to spile hls-'fannm' Jest to make a President? There is silver dollars growin' on his 4S-cent trees, l An beneath 'em drones tho hummin" of the Presidential bees; William sits an listens to 'em, with his hard set face relaxed. Never thinks the man that keeps 'em may be, Jest the one that's waxed. Momln's he will dig fur hours whera tho beet Is gruwln' red, Notln with great satisfaction every one of 'tm is dead. Fur dead beets repudiation very patly repre sent. Who would spile so great a farmer, jest to make a President? Every plant around the garden's tightly tied. up with a band. So there's not tho slightest danger any of 'em. can expand: All the cows down In the medder wears en- clrclln of their horn5. Rosebush halos. which, examined, proves to ba a crown o' thorns. And at sunset, when the lambkins all come strealtln to the fold. On the neck of each an" every, you will sea o cross o' gold. Only one man In Nebraska's got a farm that's wuth a cent, Wbat'B the uso to spile this genius, Jest to make a President? m PLEASANTRIES OF PAUAGRAPHERS Paying the Freight. Johnny Paw. when a man expresses an opinion, can he collect ex press charges on it? Paw He can If ho la ft lawjer. Baltimore American. The Phlladelphlan Isn't the mud on this street a trifle deep?" Chlcagoan (proudly) Deep? It Is the deepest mud on any paved street In the world! Indlnnapolls Press. Invalid (to sympathizing caller) My dear. I have lost nearly all my hair. Literal Child I know where It Is, mamma; I saw It in your dressing-table drawer. Harper's Bazar. "Papa," said Benny Beechwood, "what is th highest position In the army?" "The com mand of the balloon brigade." replied Mr. Beechwood promptly. Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. Chestnuts. "No, mamma." we replied, "wo shall not pull your chestnuts out of the fire!" "Then I shan't laugh at another one ot(your ambassador's chestnuts!" exclaimed Britain hotly. Detroit Journal. , "De man dat's dissatisfied an shows it by workln'," said Uncle Eben, "kin be credited wW hones ambition; but de man dat shows it by talkln' aln" nuffin but a plain kicker." Washington Star. His Chlrography. "Isn't the armless wonder original?" "In what?" "Why. when he gave ma his autograph, he wanted to know if I didn't think he wrote a handsome foot." Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Taking the Census. Jones Great Scott! has that man ben In an explosion or a railroad wreck? Brown Neither. He's a census enu merator who showed up a smaller population in his town than It had 10 years ago. Detroit Free Pres3. t " The Able Speaker. Washington Star. Of all the tantalizing things by which wo aro beset The man who makes an "able" speech, ho Is the toughest yet. The people stand and whisper, "Be as quiet as you can; Tou mustn't Interrupt him. He's a very able man." And the boys get tired and wriggle, And the girls all want to glggK And I lose 'his chain of logic and go drifting Into doubt. And my head in rhythm nodding With hli cadences goes plodding. While I wonder what the mischief he 13 hol lering about. It really must be a most depressing mental strain Far a man to have an "able" reputation to sustain; And know he dare not daUy with an anecdote or two To keep us all from wlshlnghe would hurry and get through. And Just when I am dozing, And in comfort am proposing To yield my own opinions to this wondrous able chap. His monotone he changes And through wild crescendos ranges In a series of explosions, just to Jar' my littlt