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Newspaper Page TextTHFi MORNING OREGONIAN, BATTjnDAY. TOM 2 1900. te rssamtm Entered at the PostofSc at Portland. Oregon, as second-class matter. TELEPHONES. Editorial Rooms 106 Business Offlce....0G" REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (portage prepaid), in Advance Dally, tilth Sunday, per month W 3 Daily. Sunday excepted, per year W Daily with Sunday, per year JJ Sunday, per year 2 00 The "Weekly, per year , 1 5 The "Weekly. 3 mwuha w To City Subcrlbr ratty, per w-ek, delivered. Sundays excepted.l&c Daily, per week, delivered. Sundays InclueVd-aJc POSTAGE, RATES. United Stater, Canada and Mexico: 10 to lC-page papor - ,, 10 to 82-page paper -c Foreign rates double. Xewo or discussion intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed invarlablj "Editor The Oregonlan." not to the name of any individual. Letters relating to advertising, subscription? or to any buriness matter should be addressed simply "The Oreeonlan." Too Oregonlan does not buy poeme or stories from Adlvlduals. and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts nt to It -without solicita tion. No stamps should be Inclosed for this purpose. Puget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, office at 1111 Pacific avenue. Taooma. Box 93S, TacosuL port office. Eastern Business Office The Tribune build tag. New York City: "The Rookery," Chicago; the S. C. Beckwlth special agency, New Tork For sale In San Francisco by J. K. Cooptr. T46 Market street, near he Palace hotel, and at Goldsmith Bros., 280 Sutter strert For eale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co.. 217 Dearborn street. TODAY'S "WEATHER. Fair and warmer; northerly winds. i . , . rORTLAXD, SATURDAY, JULY 28. "IMPERIALISM." Colonel Charles Denby, an able po litical scholar and historical student, a veteran of the Civil War and a lifelong Democrat, has something to say about "Imperialism." This is a new-fangled term In our politics, invented for a par tisan emergency. We exercise author ity, Colonel Denby points out, over, seventy islands which we call "the guano Islands " "We rule them by vir tue of an act of Congress passed un der a Democratic Administration in August, 1S5G. Yet there has never been put forward the slightest pretense that the Constitution extends to these Islands. The residents there are gov erned by the act of Congress only, which is supplemented bjr laws adapt ed to their condition. Colonel, Denby proceeds to show that under title 47, sections 40S3 to 4130 of the Revised Stat utes, we have Consular Courts in China, Samoa, Corea, Maskat, Morocco, Per sia, Slam, Tonga and Zanzibar, and un til the 17th of July last year we had such courts in Japan. These courts try men "without indictment and by asses sors instead of Juries. Murder cases, fr instance, are tried and decided by the Consul and four assessors, other felonies and misdemeanors by the Con sul and two assessors. Civil cases are tried by the Consul, or, if he wishes, he may call in two assessors to aid him. So there are neither petty nor grand juries, neither informations nor indict ments. Yet these are sacred rights of the citizen. But in these Consular Courts we Ignore the Constitution. "We have steadily pursued the doctrine set p by the party of Jefferson, that "the Constitution was made only for the states." But the Bryanltes now declare that this is "Imperialism." It is a pity that this country has to contend from year to year, and especially at the quad rennial period, "with one form or another of political ignorance or political dis honesty, or both combined. It is merely a party cry the cry of a bankrupt party. Nobody believes there- Is any danger from "militarism," so called, or "imperialism." There are men detesting humbug, who will be driven to vote for McKinley, on this cry. It Is gibberish to talk of "loss of liberty," or "destruction of the ideals of the Republic," because the events of the time have carried us into a sit uation where we are required to tame a lot of semi-savages. Of course, we can turn tall. We may prove our selves poltroons and milksops. But we are not likely to do it. The scream about "militarism" and "Imperialism" makes every person of sound sense very tired. It is a partisan cry, the cry of a bankrupt party, for a political cam paign. Whether it may be good policy to hold the Philippine Islands is a mat ter fairly open to inquiry and discus Blon, on a National basis; but we shall not "drift into European despotism," "sacrifice our Republican ideals," nor "lose our liberties," if we retain them. Such stuff merely wearies those who detest the humbug cries of partisan politics. But we shall have a screech ing note on this subject from Bryan in a few days. He is a man 'who, if he doesn't despair of the Republic on one ground, will on another. That is the political stock in trade of every char latan. Four years ago it was "the crown of thorns and cross of gold." Now It is "Imperialism" and "menace of despotism." The voice of the moun tebank no doubt will ever be heard in the land. He wants office. Henoe his anxiety over the welfare or fate of. the Republic. When the Democracy came into power in 1884 for the first time after the Presidential election of 1860, it still in cluded among its conspicuous leaders a number of men o.f personal -worth and statesmanlike quality. President Cleve land was a man of force of character and moral courage, who obtained the confidence of such men as Tilden, Bay ard, Hendricks, Lamar, Endicott, Car lisle, Gresham, Olney, Phelps, Wilson, Seth Dow, Whitney, Herbert, Manning and Falrchild. Today, of this quality of Democratic statesmen not one sup ports Bryan. Why? They do not sup port him because he is utterly without the solidity of character which is essen tial to public confidence. Bryan's ablest Bupporter is ex-Governor Altgeld, of Il linois, a man of considerable intellectual force, but a rank state socialist. Out side of Altgeld we find nobody among the conspicuous supporters of Bryan that has any claim to public esteem, George Frederick Williams, of Massa chusetts, was originally a Gold Demo crat, -who supported the repeal of the go-called Sherman aot of July, 189Q, dur ing the extra session of 1893. Disap pointed in his ambition withinthe ranks of the Gold Democracy, Williams mounted the Democratic horse with the silver mane and tail in 1896, believing that Bryan would be a winner. Will iams is a man of liberal education, but without any reputation for superior ability in his profession. After Will iams, Bryan's chief advisers include ex-Governor Stone, of Missouri, who represents the financial lunacies of the late Richard P. Bland; United States Senator Tillman, of South Carolina; General Weaver, of Iowa, an old-time greenbacker. David B. Bjill, of New York, is a man of intellectual force, but he is utterly without principle, a man of crooked mind and so utterly unscru pulous in his methods in the field of practical politics that he has been com pared to Aaron Burr. These are the kind of men from which Bryan would choose his advisers in event of his elec tion. Not one of them unites ability and character; not one of them can be described as a man of conservative temper. Win' TIIIS TACITUIUttTYt We desire to call thus publicly and personally upon Colonel Bob Miller, of Oregon City and Jacksonville, and Dr. Milt Miller, of Kansas City and Leb anon, and upon any and all other Mil lers, Hares, Bennetts, Coopers, Youngs, and Sllverltes of whatever name or sobriquet, for an explanation of their studied neglect of the sacred cause of 16 to 1. Through the operation of some unex plained law of mundane activity, the occupation of writing letters to the newspapers varies periodically in vio lence, like the recurrence of the tides or the revolution of a planet, or, to speak accurately, like the comets and meteors whose courses are Involved in consider able obscurltj'. It Is impossible to fore tell or explain the periodic waxing and waning of the communication habit. We only know that the movement rises and falls in undulations, none the- less certain and plain because their causes He in - Impenetrable mystery. If one man Is moved to write a letter to his family paper, you can be sure that hun dreds of thlnk-talks all over the country are agitated at the same moment. As to letters to the editor, It is either a feast or a famine. An incidental phe nomenon is the extension of the rule to newspaper offices themselves; for when one writer is skirmishing all over the office and about town and through the exchanges for a topic, everybody else on the force is sure to find his mind a complete blank. Here is one of the In teresting problems that await the com ing astrologer. Just now the correspondent Is in a state of active eruption. The columns of The Oregonlan are studded with let ters, and Its mails are heavy with com munications. Within two short days the voice of the people has been lifted up on such themes as these: Socialism. Bank currency. "Freezing" cavoa. ' The fruit crop. The Senatorial campaign. ' Greedy corporations. The German vote, Rotation In office. Mormon ism. pro and con. Regulation of gambling. Christian Science obstetrics. Treatment of pawnbrokers. China's military development. The Cape Nome tragedy. Shipping wheat East by rati. Observe that In all this wide range of subjects no mention has been made of 16 to 1. Four years ago The Oregonlan was besieged with letters from 16-to-1-ers. They encumbered its columns, overflowed its generous waste-basket, weighted down the malls, obstructed travel through the editorial rooms, and engulfed the office cat in a sea of sta tionery. But today how changed! Free coinage is dishonored by cold neglect in the house ot its professed champions, with none so poor to do it reverence. Four years ago The Oregonlan had to decline to publish many a letter In favor of free coinage. A state of war existed, and dangerous articles were treated as contraband. But the danger of free silver has so subsided that the censorship has been abandoned. We are now printing all the communications submitted in favor of 16 to 1, and de nunciatory of the crime of '73. That is, we are printing none at all, because none is offered. The golden silence of our silver states men on the subject of free and unlim ited coinage of sliver at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth is becoming oppressive and positively painful. Will not some of the brethren kindly offer a word of counsel, or prayer, or meditation, or at least take up a collection? WATCHERS BY THE POOL. The latest news from South Africa is that the Boers will continue their resist ance until November, trusting In the election of Bryan to Insure interference on their behalf on the part of the United States. It is very good of the Boers to put such supreme confidence in the American people, especially In suoh a comparative ineffectual and hopeless minority of theni; but they are not alone in their faith and trust. Whole families of lost and losing causes are waiting for the same event. Let us look at a few of the most conspicuous. "WAITING FOR BRYAN'S ELECTION. Armed Interference of the United States in South Africa. Delivery of our Luxon army to Agulnaldo. Scuttle In tho Philippines. Scuttle in China. Scuttle In Cuba. Restoration of sliver. Abandonment of the geld standard. Destruction ot National banks. Destruction of property. Promotion of free riot. Suppression of the Supreme Court. Disbandment Of tho Army. The silver basis. Unlimited flat currency. These various causes are impersonal only, and do not appeal to the sympa thy as do the trusting hearts bound up in some of them. Not only .the har assed Boers, but the fleeing Tagals, the unhappy Btrlkers who are restrained of their liberty to riot and pillage by courts and posses, look forward with hope and longing to the ides of Novem ber. Trusting souls that believe the day Is coming when those who have shall be compelled to divide up with those who have not; others who confi dently plan for the time when no man shall own a carriage or woman a sun burst so long as any one else is hun gry; every one who feels, as Bryan puts it, that be has not had quite "his share" of prosperity all these are Vraltlng pa tiently for the Boy Orator's election to come along and work their deliverance and their Joy. This is only their par ticular form of castles in the air archi tecture in which all men are industri ously engaged. It is a pity that such baseless opes are assisted and encour aged by those who know that no elec tion and no h.w could possibly realize their dreams General James H. Wilson, who has been ordered to report to Major-Gen-eral Chaffee for duty with the Ameri can relief column in China, Is a gradu ate of West Point of the class of I860, and a distinguished officer of the Civil War, in which he rose to the rank of Major-General of Volunteers. General Wilson commanded a division of cav alry under Sheridan in the campaign from the Wilderness to Petersburg, and organized, and commanded 15,000 cav alry, which in April, 1855, captured and destroyed all the Confederate arsenals, Forrest's forces, captured and de stroyed all the Confederate arsenals, foundries and supply depots In Ala bama and Georgia. General Chaffee, to whom General Wilson reports, was a private soldier in 1861, and came out of the Civil War a First Lieutenant of the Sixth United States Cavalry, and yet today be is the commanding officer of a West Point graduate "who was a corps commander of 15,000 men thlrty flve years ago. General Wilson applied for assignment to duty in China, a ser vice for which he Is perhaps better fitted than any other American Army officer, owing to his familiarity with the topography of the country. As the head of a party surveying for a railroad concession he spent some months in the section where the Boxer troubles pre vail. His- orders direct him to proceed at once to San Franclsoo for transpor tation to Taku. He will be assigned to command one of the brigades of the American force. THE JfATIONAL GUARDS. Brigadier-General Thomas M. Ander son, United States Army, in the current number of the Journal of the Military Service Institution, makes a brief pre sentation of his views as to the char acter and service of the National Guards that were under his com mand In the Philippines, which In cluded the First California, the Second Oregon, the First Nebraska, the North and South Dakotas, the First Montana, the Thirteenth Minnesota, the First Idaho, the Tenth Pennsylvania, the Wyoming Battalion, the California Heavy Artillery, one battalion of the Tennessee Regiment, two Utah batter ies and the Astor Battery. -They all brought a lot of needless Impedimenta, of heavy tentage, cumbersome mess chests and over-allowance of officers' baggage. They were short of shoes, underclothing and company books and blanks. At Honolulu It was found that the men of one regiment had only the underclothing on their backs. On the sea voyage the volunteer officers were studying strategy and grand tactics while they knew little of military paper work. The company commanders were relatively better than the field officers, who seem to have been selected by the Governors of states from political con siderations or to conciliate local Inter ests. Veterans of the Civil War would have made much better field officers than those appointed. There were some very competent men among the field officers, but they were hampered through their dread to do anything that might not please their Governors. One very fine regiment had a very worthless set of staff officers. The Colonel knew It, but had not the nerve to get rid of tliem for fear the Governor might not like It In the judgment of General Anderson, a serious trouble with the National Guard system Is that It does not send a fair proportion of its best men to the front, 30 per cent being a large propor tion of a state Guard company to vol unteer. In Oregon, If we remember correctly, the percentage was even less than this. The organizations were In sufficiently trained In extended order drill and long-range target practice. At thebeglnnlng of a campaign a Na tional Guard regiment has some ad vantages over a new volunteer organi zation. They are at first better drilled and provided, and the officers and men know each other. But it soon becomes apparent that the "militia regiment is under stronger home pull. The men are more often homesick and anxious to get back. The promotions and appoint ments are more frequently Influenced by local considerations. As the result of his experience. General Anderson has come to regard the State Guards as a school of arms rather than as a possible reserve, although he believes that the State Guards of our seaooast states might form an effective heavy artillery, reserve. The conclusion reached by General Anderson Is just The Government would have been better and more eco nomically served had it accepted the service of no National Guards, but en listed all Its men as United States' Vol unteers, such as were obtained under the provisions of the act of March 2, 1899. The twenty-five regiments of United States Volunteers, whose organ ization under this act was authorized by the President In July, August and September, 1899, for service In the Phil ippines, were well officered. The Colo nels were all veteran officers of the reg ular Array; the Lieutenant-Colonels and Majors Included a number of volunteer officers who had a record of creditable service in the field. The Captains and Lieutenants were also appointed on their record of service in the regular and volunteer armies. Vacancies oc curring In these regiments were filled by promotion of enlisted men upon rec ommendation of the Colonels. .Better volunteer regiments never were organ ized. In our war with Spain very few ot the regiments of National Guards won any distinction, and some of them behaved in a most disgraceful manner. The best military system to secure well-officered regiments would be to In crease the standing Army to 100,000 men, and In event of war requiring a large additional military forcet to raise United States Volunteers and appoint their field officers from the ranks of veteran regular Army officers of excel lent professional standing. Give a reg iment thorough soldiers for field offi cers, and military pride in their com mand will insure efficient organization and leadership. National Guards are seldom well officered, because the long est political pole knocks down the per simmon. The man who has the b'est po litical "pull" is made Colonel, and the man with the best social "pull" with the men is elected a company officer. Were all the legally qualified voters to vote in North Carolina, and were their votes to be counted, the Republicans would have a majority and the amend ment to the constitution which disfran chises negroes would be rejected. This amendment will deprive 80,000 to 100,000 negroes of the right of suffrage. The whites are determined that the negroes shall not vote against the amendment, for large gangs of white men, clad in red shirts and fully armed, are parading up and down the state "urging white supremacy," thus placing the negroes under duress and forcing them under the forms of law to allow themselves to be disfranchised. Governor Russell ad vises the negroes to submit, lest -worse befall them. Mob rule, is clearly not confined to North China. We print on this page today an arti cle from the Walla Walla Union, which should have the attention of our com mercial community, not only that it may be understood Just what they are thinking about in the Interior, but be cause there is a grain of wholesome truth In the Union's commentary. There Is some chaff In Its wheat as, for ex ample, when It blames the grain-buyer for effect of high ocean freights upon the price of wheat or attributes the large stock held over by cunning farm ers to a scarcity of rolling stock, or when it attempts to discredit the enter prise of river Improvement But the central thought that a great opportu nity for maritime activity Is awaiting Investors here is pertinent and sound. A fleet of sailing vessels plying be tween Portland and Europe could make big money now in carriage of grain. Here is a chance for enterprise to make money faster than in starting banks or shaving notes. If we must apportion censure for all non-existent blessings, why not Jump on the capital of Portland that studiously Ignores this open door of maritime greatness? Nothing In current Journalism Is more exasperating than the way In which the New York World Is support ing Bryan. At the end of a long wail against imperialism it observes that a man will vote for McKinley out of mo tives of self-interest rather than be guided by abstract principles of justice to the Filipino. A rampant denuncia tion of militarism descends to the anti climax that no man of sense can stand 16 to 1; and here it Is ending a review of our foreign commerce with the as sertion that prosperity contributes an element to the election "not to be de spised by wise men." If this Is the sort of support the World Is going to give the sacred cause of Bryan and Steven son, otherwise the tolling masses. It would far better come out openly for McKinley, imperialism, plutocracy and all cognate Infamies. An open enemy Is not half so dangerous as a knocker within the ranks. The British legation compound in Pekln Is about five acres In extent sur rounded by a wall ten feet In height It Is as good a place for defense as was the residency In which the British In Lucknow sought protection in the In dian mutiny of 1857. In this residency, composed of a group of buildings, 1700 English people endured siege from July 1 until the first relief came under Have lock, September 26, nearly three months. The residency In Lucknow was exposed Just as the British legation compound Is at Pekln; It was commanded by high buildings, and yet it held out The Chi nese have artillery, it Is true, but'from all accounts available the Tien Tsln practice Is not matched at Pekln either In equipment or service. Elsewhere Is a letter on the new gam bling arrangement, from Dr. E. P. Hill, of the First Presbyterian Church. It should be said, perhaps, that Dr. Hill's letter was written on the 20th, on first receipt of the news, and the letter was delayed In transmission to The Orego nlan through no fault of sender or re cipient Dr. Hill wrote promptly and vigorously, as he always does. There Is no mistaking hl3 meaning. As the controversy Is one In which The Ore gonlan is neutral, and Is also one of present pertinence, we should like to see some defender of the system try his hand on the doctor's objections, only cautioning all combatants to bear In mind the nature of the season and keep cool. The Democratic utterances on the Chinese question are a little too hazy as yet for certain knowledge "whether the Administration should be con demned as too vigorous in Its procedure or as not 'vigorous enough. The only thing we can be sure of now is that it Is altogether wrong. When Tillman, Altgeld, Sulzer and other deep-browed and leathern-lunged statesmen get their bearings, we shall see at length whether President McKinley Is ruth lessly hurling our poor boys in blue upon another errand of conscienceless conquest or has sacrificed the honor of the Nation by supinely sitting by while our Ministers and missionaries are mur dered. Until war Is declared by us with China, private citizens have the right to manufacture and sell arms to whom soever they please, and a declaration of war against China by any other coun try would not stop us from selling arms to either or both belligerents, although we could not fit out warlike expedi tions or ships against either of them. Arms and ammunition, being contra band of war, would be liable to seizure on the ocean, but the finding of them could not be Imputed as guilt or as a breach of neutrality on part of the country where they were manufactured. Sufficient evidence of crooked work has been disclosed in the Schmeer case to startle every true believer In pure elections. No pains should be spared to sift the matter to the bottom, and if a crime against the ballot has been com mitted, to bring the perpetrators to con dign punishment Is there not a duty here for the officers of the law? Are the civil courts the only place where Justice Is to be sought for correction of errors of this sort? Bryan is "willing that everybody who has his rightful share of prosperity should vote the Republican ticket Well, If reports of Bryan's earnings and Investments the past four years are true, and if he Is an honest man. his vote Is safe for McKJnley and Roose velt If we are to have self-government and consent of the governed the real thing, no imitation how many govern ments shall we have to set up in the Philippines one for every tribe that isn't contented under a central author ity? Only one thing kept the Democrats of today from being expansionists like Jefferson, Benton and Douglas. That is that the Republican party was in power and they had to take the oppo site position. The Boers expect President Bryan to Interfere In their behalf. This would be militarism with a vengeance. The Triumph of Democracy. Chicago Times-Herald. Yes! We live In a great country a glorious countryt free from the tar nished trappings of a decayed aristoc racy, and where serfdom Is unknown. We are all born free and equal, some of us even more so. The man who eats pie with his knife may have a line-fence fight with ono who uses a finger bowl, even when no body Is looking, and has a pedigree 20 generations long that came from no bargain counter. The waiter whom we gladden with a 10-cent tip today may be teaching Greek to our sons next week; the boy who brings our groceries tomorrow may blackball us when we seek admission to the club a few years hence. What a noble heritage is ours I We support no throne In front of which to make the humble genuflection not a solitary genuflect! The man who drove the Ice wagon through our alley a week ago may be running for the highest office In the lapd today, or at least be mentioned as a member of some notification commit tee "before the campaign ends. Let us exult! Let us glory in the sublimity of our institutions! GRAIN FOR. EXPORT. Chance for Portland to Bnlld nnd Operate Sailing Vcaael. Walla Walla Union. The Portland Chamber of Commerce has taken upon Itsolf to advise the people of the Inlind Empire how to facilitate the transportation of the prod ucts of the Columbia River basin to tho seaboard. It has sent out all over the state a circular letter advocating the opening of the Columbia River to traf fic, stitlng it would then contror tho freight rates of nearly the whole coun try. The circular refers principally to the dalles, and urges co-operation in securing the opening of tho river to navigation. The Portland Chamber of Commerce is putting the cart before the horse. It Is an old story to the people of this region. They are certainly not Indiffer ent to the advantages of canals, but they are far more vitally Interested in the removal of the grain from the coast when it once gets there. There are ample facilities furnished by the rail ways for conveying the product to the seaboard, but the grain fleets in the Columblx River nnd in Puget Sound have for a number of years been totally Inadequate, as evidenced by tho fact that 5,000,000 bushels of the crop for the fiscal year ending June 30 is still un marketed. Tho people of the Inland Empire, therefore, commend the attention of the members of the Portland Chamber of Commerce to this phase of the subject and venture to suggest if It will devote more attention to disseminating Infor mation regarding the volume ot the crop to be moved and the number of ships required to move It they will accom plish more for the people of this pro ductive region than by reviving the agitation for canals and locks. If our seaboard cities expect to attain their hoped-for position as great com mercial shipping points and to deserve the patronage of this section of tho country, they will make It their busi ness to sec that a sufficient number of ships to carry the grain away from the ports are provided. As matters now stand the grain commission men and the flouring mill men are able to make their own price, and this condition of affairs will continue until the conges tion is relieved. Three hundred thousand people living In Washington, Oregon and Idaho are Interested in this question, and expect relief in one way or tho other, and they are already demanding of, the transcontinental railway lines a rate which will 'enable them to market their product at Duluth. It is true that the railways have put down rates some, but with a further reduction the prod uct will go East instead of to the West Three Trusts for Bryan. New Tork Sun. If there is a single trust for Bryan, name It. Kansas City Times. No trust has declared for any candi date, so far as we are aware, but the three made particularly prominent through their stock being held by emi nent politicians are Bryanite. There is the 'Ice Trust represented by the Hon. Augustus Van Wyck, of New York delegate-at-large to the Kansas City convention and member of the committee on platform. There Is the round cotton-bale trust represented by the Hon. James K. Jones, of Arkansas, chairman of the National Democratic committee. Lastly, and beyond comparison with any other trust In the whole Industrial circuit, is the trust that publishes the "copyrighted" edition or the "The Mes sages and Papers" ot the United States Presidents, represented by the Hon. James D. RIchardsort, of Tennessee, leader of the Democratic party in the House of Representatives and chairman of the Democratic National Convention at Kansas City. The Richardson mon opoly Is a common swindle. Doafflas on Expansion. Chicago Tribune. Stephen A Douglas, In his Joint debate with Abraham Lincoln, at Freeport, III., on June 17, 1S5S, expressed his views on the question of expansion in a manner which should engage the attention of Democrats, and which Is worth special consideration at this time. The Little Giant, whose Democracy no one will ques tion, told his hearers It was Idle to assert that this country had territory enough. It had sufficient at that time, but this Is a growing nation. "It swarms as often as a hive of bees, and as new swarms arc turned out each year, there must be htves In which they can gather and make their honey." "I tell you," said Mr. Douglas, with emphasis, "Increase and multiply and expand Is the law of this Nation's existence. You cannot limit this great Republic by mere boundary lines, saying, 'Thus far shslt thou go and no further.' " In closing this part of his speech ha said: "Just so far as our Interests re quire additional territory, In the north, In the south, or on the Islands of the ocean, I am for It" And were the Little Giant alive today he would be for expansion and condemn Bryanlsm. The bogy of militar ism would not affright that great West ern Democrat A Record-Breaking- Commerce. New Tork World (Dem.), July 21. The official figures of the foreign com merce of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30 are Impressive. For the first time the total rises above the $2,000,000,000 mark the record-breaking fig ures being $2,244,193,541 This exceeds tha total trade of last year by 16 2-3 per cent or 3a),OO0.000. This increase was about evenly divided between exports and Imports the gain In tho former being $167,000,000 and In the latter $152,000,000. The largest and most notable gain In exports was In manufac tures, nearly $103,000,000 and still we main tain the highest "protective" tariff against competitors whom we beat on their own ground! Such a trade means prosperity, quite generally enough diffused to prove a fac tor In the election not to be despised by wise men. Belief Behind Bryan Money. New Orleans Picayune. Seated at a little round-top tablo In the St. Charles Hotel cafe, yesterday af ternoon at 1 o'clock. Judge A. S. Hen ning, of San Francisco, gave odds of 2 to 1 and bet the Hon. Jpseph Green, of New York. $10,000 to $4500 that William Mc Kinley would be the next President of the United States. Judge Green, upon being Interviewed, sold: "We arts taking In a little McKinley money at fairly good odds, but I fear thoy are going to drop on the 3 to 1 shot which was started. I have no doubt as to the result of this campaign. "Of the McKinley states at the last election wo feel sure of seven of them fpr Bryan. They are Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, and Kentucky. Their returns will make 142 votes In the electoral college, a suffi cient number to elect Bryan in addition to the states already sure for him." SIR ROBERT HART- Miss E. R. Scidmore, In her recent book, "China, the Long-Llved Empire," has this to say about Bir Robert Hart: The moat remarkable zsan la China, the ablest diplomat In Pekln. that benevolent des pot, the "L O.," as he la known In English speech all over the far East, or Sir Robert Hart, the Inspector-General, the organizer, ar biter, and many-sided Director ot the Imperial Marltlmo Customs service. ... Re has never offended Chinese conservatism and preju dices, while steadily Inserting- the thin edge of some wedge of progrces and reform. ... The Chinese appreciate him . . . and have heaped rewards and honors upon him with out stint Every government In Europe has decorated him. ... Chinese withes for his long life are sincere, for after him may come the deluge, the break-up, but not while he lives. It Is supposed that Sir Robert Hart has perished with tho general mass of for eigners at Pekln; yet possibly hl3 long proved devotion to the Interests of the Chinese people may have protected him. For nearly a half century ho has lived In China, winning for his ability and honesty the respect not only of foreign governments but ot the Chinese. Slowly but surely he has helped on In many cases directed the reforms In the admin istrative service In China. He has, been the wonder among diplomats. His career Is unique In the history of tho century. Robert Hart was born not many miles from Belfast In Portadown, County Ar magh. Ireland, In 1835. As a youth of 19, Just out of Queen's College, Belfast,' ho went to China in 1854 In a subordinate place In the English Consular service. It was the very year in which the Chinese Government, after much pressure from American, English and other foreign merchants in Shanghai, consented to es tablish, with outside aid, a customs or ganization for the regular collecting of lawful duties on exports and imports. The organization was essential to the rev enue of the empire. Next to a good military system. It was the great need. For seven" years Hart was in tho Con sular service years during which the open-door policy was rapidly advancing and he won the confidence of the Chi nese Government He was under SO when he was appointed Inspector-General of the Chinese Customs by the Chinese Board of Foreign Affairs (the Tsung II Yamun). He held office in an organiza tion of the Chinese Governmont as much a national institution as the customs de partment in any Western country, but for the fact that foreigners were employed. Responsible to the board, he had under him 13 commissioners, and those In turn looked after many clerks, tldewalters and other subordinates of va rious nationalities. It was hoped that In time the necessity of employing fdrelgn ers would disappear. Hart in his new position was alive to the Importance of improving the whole system of Chinese administration. By 1S85 he had become the benevolent and much-trusted despot Then he was offered by the English Gov ernment Its highest diplomatic honor, an Ambassadorship. He refused this. He ac cepted the Directorship of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs. He held that office a month ago. This bare outllno of his career gives a hint of his power with the Chinese. Like other Englishmen in the foreign ser vice, he mastered the language of the people with whom his lot was cast It 13 said that he dressed like them even be fore ho was made a Mandarin. His an cestorsfather, grandfather and great grandfatherwere ennobled by the Gov ernment And he was frequently called upon to aid In adjusting diplomatic snarls. He was the leader in social life among the foreign legations. Everyone Chinese or foreigner knew him. Professor Pum pelly recorded Mr." Hart's klndnesess to him early In the '60s. Anson Burlin same. In a speech In New York City in 1S0S, said: The present Government of China has ad vanced steadily along the path of progress . . . guided largely by a modest and able man Mr. Hart, the Inspector-General "of "Cus toms, at the head of the foreign employes of China. This Is the Director of the Imperial Maritime Customs, Irishman by birth, representative of the English Govern ment, Chlneso Mandarin. Refusing an Ambassadorship, he preferred to live and work in Pekln. Living or dead, his place in the history of China Is secure. Hovr Ottendorfer "Supports" Bryan. Hearst's New York Journal (Dem.). July 21. Mr. Oswald Ottendorfer, the able editor of the Staats-Zeltung, has undertaken. In a recent interview, to define the atti tude of the so-called "German-American" vote. Mr. Ottendorfer says that he Is dis gusted with both parties, that he cannot support McKinley, and that "the suicidal action of the Democrats at Kansas City" prevents him from supporting Bryan. To the question whether he would have sup ported Bryan If 1C to 1 had been left out of tho platform, he responds: Yes, and In my opinion Bryan would have had a splendid chance of being elected. It was foolish for him to Insist upon the reaffirmation of the Chlcaro platform In language that will continue to frighten voters away from him. If tho free-silver platform had been eliminated at Kansas City the great mass of German-American voters would have renewed their allegi ance to the Democratic party. They would have bolted to him from the Republican party. t Practical Politics: Colonel Gaynor, a leading Tammany man, and a prominent citizen of New York, tells the New York Herald that the 40,000 office-holders and employes under Tammany In New York wilL be expected to contribute on the average $100 a head to the campaign fund to carry the State of New York for Mr. Bryan. That Is to say, Tammany will collect and expend tha handsome sum of $4,000,000 to elect the 16-to-l candidate, the man who would not consent to nomination except upon a lS-to-1 plank. If a Republican organiza tion should announce Its intention to col lect half us much by enforced contribu tions, what a howl would go up from tho Democratic camp, to be sure. Yet every vital Interest ot New York wquld be in jured by the triumph of 16 to 1, and Tam many knows that to be true. But what caro tho Tammany leaders as long nj they have a foot In the feeding trough? a The Sword at the Gate. Baltimore American. Oh, red with Are, And hot with Ire Is tha sword at Pekln gate. And It chants a song: "I will "right the wrong." But the sword Is swung too lata. Lion and Eagle and Bear stand by, A-watch at the Dragon's cave. Lion and Eagle and Bear all cry: "Our children we've come to save." The Dragon writhes In his awful rage. And his sides with anger nwell. His fangs, all sharp for the coming feast Are bright with the glint of hell. Lion and Eagle and Bear, and all, A-halt at the cave's dark mouth'. One claims the North to him must fall. Another would have the South. Another would bravely assail the Beast ' Could he have tho treasures best. And one would for plunder control the East And one would have all the West. Another would none of the Dragon's land. And none of tho .Dragon's gold. Another would have what the fir3t had claimed Or nothing at all he'd hold. And the children wept, and' the children called. Till the Dragon stijltd their cries. Then Lion and Eagle and Bear, appalled, Left off from their talk of prise. And out from the cave reared the Dragon's head. And he roared with his burning breath: "Lot Under my claws lie your ehlldren dead. Come, battle mo now to my death." Oh, red with flame. And hot with shame, la the sword at Pekln gate. And It chants the song Ot avenging wrong. But the sword Is swung too late. N0TE AND COMMENT. LI Is apparently tho Chinese word for news. That little bill againstr-the Sultan seemx to bo lost In tho shu(Ue. The papers report great activity In the South. This Is particularly true of New Orleans. . "Every dog has his day," observed th half-starved canine, "and this appears to bo my hollow day." Altgeld says Bryan Is the greatest, man , In the civilized world. Altgeld Is for getting himself again. William J. will slide out smoothly. ' When the people throw him down. He can lay some blame on Adlal And some of It on Towne. Senator Clark, of Montana, Is author ity for the surprising statement that the Daly papers in that state are all weakly. They have been having more duels in France. Some ono will get hurt over there some day if they keep up tho practice. The advice "keep cool and don't wor ry." is all right In Its place, but It Is adding insult to injury to give it to a man who is going to be hanged. The City of Boston sometime ago ad vertised a loan of $1,632,000 to run from 30 to 40 years, at 3 per cent, but Ia3t week when the bids were to be opened there were no bids to open. As Boston has a. very large and rapidly Increasing debt bond-dealers expressed no surprise at this, saying the offered rate was too low. They would accept Boston 3 per cent bonds only at a discount. Illiteracy prevails to an appalling ex tent at the South among the negroes, and. even among the whites It far exceeds tho average In the Northern state. The av erage illiteracy among the native whlto population of 10 years of age and over In the six New England states and the three states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania was only 2.31 in 1S90, and among the colored population it was 2L71. In the U states of the old Southern Con federacy the Illiteracy among the natiVo whites and the negroes was: . , , White. Colored Alabama IS. 44 69.0S Arkansas 16.56 53.65". Florida 11.33 50.5s Georgia 16.51 67.2T Louisiana : 20.33 72.14 Mississippi 11.92 60.91 North Carolina 23.10 CO SI South Carolina . 1S.11 C4.07 Tennessee 17.9S 54.22 Texas 8:2S 52.50 Virginia 13.9S 57.10. The New London (Conn.) Day calls pub lic attention to the fact that "the State of Connecticut does not send the members of Its National Guard annually to Niantic for a week's grand drunk." and declares that "In these days of war it should be understood that the State Guard Is sup ported for business, not for fun, and that the annual encampment Is for a like pur pose. No one questions the right of these warriors to drink as much as they please when off duty, whatever the results. If all or any part of them desire to gather as citizens anywhere they please for a week or more of beautiful drunkenness, they have the right to do so. But lt them do It under their ow,n authority, and at their own expense. It Is certainly to be hoped that the showing at Niantic will be better this year than formerly. If not, the Connecticut National Guard is .likely to hear something drop before it meets there again." The Russian army In Eastern Siberia and Manchuria at the beginning of the year comprised 41 battalions of infantry; 29 sotnias of cavalry and Cossacks; eight field, two mountan and two howitzer bat teries; two Cossack batteries; six com panies of fortress artillery; six companies of sappers and engineers; six railway companies, one telegraph section and ono coast torpedo company. This force was distributed all over the country from Port Arthur and Vladlvostock to the Amur and Lake Baikal. In addition, there were many thousands of troops that wero sent round from Russia by sea, and an un known quantity that have been arriving by the Siberian railway. The recent mo bilization in Eastern Siberia and the re inforcements pouring In from European Russia by rail should soon bring the force that Is already moving toward the Great Wall and the coast up to quite 200.000. If not more. The principal strategic points In Manchuria are already occupied In greater or lesser force. .' PLEASANTRIES OF rAUAGItAPHERS Some women deify, while other defy fash Ion, the former having an ."1" for that sort of thing. Detroit Journal. 'They say Miss Singleton Is a transmlgra tlonlst." "Yes!" "She thinks she must once have been the wicked flea whom no man pur suethl" Life. "My mother-in-law has gone to the mount Ins." "You look pleased." "Yes: she'll have to admit that she has found something she can't walk cv er." Indianapolis Journal. Fair Painter I hope you don't mind my sketching in your field? Farmer Lord, no mis sle! You keep tht birds off tho peas better'n a ordinary scarecrow. Tit-Bits. "Grafter must hive turned over a now leaf. He tells me he's working night and day." "Yes, that's the firm he's wl.th now." "What?" "Knight & Day." Philadelphia Press. Rank Infidelity. Divorce Lawyrr You say you want to sue your husband for dlvorco on the ground of infidelity? Woman Yats. sah. De mlsabul Infldul say he doan believe da whale evah swallered Jonah, or de animals went Into de ark. or nuffln'. Judge. At a Disadvantage. "David was a good fighter." said the professional pugilist, "but ho had some hard luck." "You mean tho David who slew Goliath?" "Yes. He could have made a mint o money out o that fight If moving pictures had only been invented then." Washington Star. Preparatory. Ethel Mamma, don't you think women should know how to cook so that they may be able to look after their husband's di gestion when they marry? Mamma Certainly, dear. Ethel Mayn't I go to the kitchen then and practice making butter scotch? Brooklyn Llfo. The Boxers. II. F. Rodney. Tho pagan Boxers, clad In silk. Who sip distilled Formosa Oolong. Combine with that Celestial bilk. Whose reign we hope will not be too loag. But we'll prescribe for their vagaries A. dose of guns, not missionaries. The Feejces thought their menus rare And did not long for pork nor mullet If they could but corral a share Of missionary In their gullet. They ate and sniffed the sweet aroma And lay back In a state of coma. Although their savage eyeballs bulged At genus homo steaks Barbarians! 'Tis long since they have thus indulged Because per force they're vegetarians. But, Boxers, habit seldom varies. You mince and murder missionaries. Net wrath but hunger then Inspired Thoso gourmands who an arm or leg ata. They ate what they themselves required, Xor wantonly cut up a legate. But chowders are not "necessaries" Composed of foreign missionaries! In spite of lies or LI Hung Chan?. The eagle soon will get its beak in, With rat-tat-tat and martial clang Of Yankees on the walls ot Peklnt They'll flnd;these latest emissaries More business-like than missionaries.