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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