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THE MORNING OREGrONIAlS, THURSDAY. 'AUGUST? 2, 1900. hs xzgomcax Entered at the PostcSce at Portland, Oregon. as aecoad-ciaz matter. TELEPHONES. Editorial Booms.. .. IOC j Business OSce..--CST REV3SKD SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Br Slatl tpctsge prepaid, la Aavanoe Dal y. with Sunday, per month $2 S3 XaHy, sundav eseepied. per year.. ..... w iaj y with. UDday, per year.. ........... 9 oo Sunday, per year .................- 2 00 The Weekly, per Jear - J ; The Weekly. S mambs " Tj City Subscribers XUly. per week, delivered. Sundays excepted-ipc Iai.y, per "eeU delivered, Sundays Includeaoc POSTAGE EATES. Cnlted rotates, Canada, and Mexico: JO to 16-page paper .... ..... ..lc 10 to 32-pag papr .......--- c Foreign rates double. Newn or dtncusstan Intended for publication In The Orgonlan efeoald b addressed Invariably Editor The Oregonian," sot to the name of any Indir'dnaL letters relating to advertising, cubscrlptiona or to any business matter should be addreef ed simply "Tlie Oregonian." The Oregonian does not buy poemo or atorieo trova lrdtvlduals, and cannot undertake to re turn any Tnatrascrlpts fwnt to It -without solicita tion. No stamps ebould lie Inclosed for this purpose. Pugot Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson. office at 1111 Pact tic avenue, Tacoma. Box S33, Tac job. ioetot3ce. Eastern Bgsine Ofllce The Tribune build ing, New Tork City; "The Rookery." Chicago; the S. C Beck with special apency. Xw Tork. For eale In San Francisco by J. K. Coop-r. 7J Market st-eet. near he Palace hotel, and at Goldsmith Bros . 236 Sutter strert. For pale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co.. 217 Dearborn street. T0PATf5 WEATHER. Fair; ollghtly warm er, northwest -islnde. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2. HIS FATAL VritTUE. Nobody -will be able to say definitely Just what Bryan has accomplished through his Insistence on 10 to 1 at Kan sas City until election day; but the ex pressions of Independent newspapers make certain one very profound effect of that determined stand. He has con vinced the country that he means what he says. He is not the man to say one thing and do another. If he says he will stand by free coinage, by free coin age he will stand. If he says a cer tain thine should be done by the Gov crrment, that is just exactly what he Rill do, to his utmost power, when he comes into the Presidency. The bearing of this discovery upon tv.e business sense of the country Is not diHlcult to make out. Many have been Inclined to view Bryan's free-silver talk as only talk, which he would speedily forgot as fol-de-rol. if he were elected, and go ahead with a sensible, business like administration. The Idea that Eryan really meant to overturn the gn'l standard If he could, they were able to scout as ridiculous in 1896, but they are not so able now. If he is a mere mountebank who, while denounc ing the cross of gold and crown of trorns, winks the other eye, and will lmp his role of fanaticism for that of clscrction when he is elected, that is ori thing. But If he is a genuine prophet and apostle, believing in what he savs and eager to get the chance to put his theories into effect, that is an entirely different thing, and a prospect, moreover, not to be regarded with equanimity. Uryan has discovered himself, there fore, as possessed by the exceedingly a dangerous quality of actual belief In tve cause he professes. His very sin cerity Is his undoing. In addition to that, the observant have marked a sin gular development In his character these four years. His self-reliance has hardened into obstinacy. From the! Iradcr he has become the autocrat. K body can dd anything with him, een the wife whose counsel he once f ught and followed. A man who Is de termined to wreck the gold standard if he can, and whom no remonstrance or entreaty can dissuade from his purpose, Is a Presidential possibility that excites alarm in many who voted for him be t re, and it is nothing strange. The man who proposes to vote for Uryan because he is honest, and be liees -what he says, would do well to reflect a little farther on the conse quences of such act. A man may be very conscientious in the conviction that 1x6 can safely shoot the rapids of Niag ara, but that does not justify you in taking passage in his canoe. Tnn KKSPONSIHILITY FOR DELAY. The announcement that the English, Americans and Japanese to the number of 30,000 men have begun their advance on Pekin ought to be true, for it is the 0' " common-sense way of making the C mnese Government show its hand. If tl.at government Is sincerely. hostile to the Insurgents, who have compelled the f trilgn Ministers to fight for their lives and oblige them still to stand on their defense, but is not strong enough to dis perse rebellion, then the Chinese Gov ernment ought to welcome the news that assistance in shape of the allied army is coming to restore order and ghe liberty to the beleaguered Minis ters. F.ir the Chinese Government to liold the Ministers as hostages and use their safety to extort peace and im munity for the insurgents is a crime against the law of nations only second in enormity to their murder. This advance will soon test the sin cerity of the Chinese Government. If its troops resist the advance of the allies to Its assistance, then the Chi nese Government is a hypocrite, since it does not sincerely mean to protect the Ministers, but means to use them for its own purposes and has only hes itated to murder them because It be lieves they are more useful alive to cftect delay in the advance of the ln v.d!us army than they would be dead. The oi.ly renl hope for the Ministers lies in their ability to hold out until relief cimb, and the quicker that relief reaches them the better. They are in no more danger if the allies begin to luhanoe today than they will be when the allies begin to advance two weeks Ir im today; they will not be in as much Ior.ger, for within two weeks the Chi nese t 111 be stronger to defend Pekin and work their will on the Ministers. The truth is that if the Ministers are rot rescued th responsibility for the failure will reet upon the refusal of Rusbla, backed by Germany and Prance, to permit Japan to send an army at once io Pekin on the receipt of the first news of the peril of the "Ministers. The Mikado's Government was eager to send such an army, and the United States and Great Britain would gladly have aocepted the offer. 1 But Japan could not send such an army without consent of all the treaty pow ers, and Russia required explicit as surances regarding the Mikado's de signs. Russia Jttetly feared that if a Japanese army had rescued the Lega tions from massacre, the treaty powers eouid not Justly have withheld from the iilkado as recompense the concession cf the right to control and colonize Ccrea. Russia's opposition was nat- j uraL but it should not have been re spected by Germany and Frances for it conflicted with their paramount duty to rescue the Legations threatened with murder at Pekin. This resistance of Russia, backed "by Germany and France, has thus far prevented an advance until perhaps it is too late to be successful in Its pri mary purpose, the rescue of the Minis ters. The report Is most welcome that Great Britain and the United States have at last cut the knot of Iftrigue and decided to push for Pekin at once. OUIt GREAT 3IIL1TAR.Y NEED. It Is to be hoped that the record of the valuable experience obtained by our Government and Its Army during the war with Spain and its consequent, the war in the Philippines, may bear-1 fruit in legislation that will correct our deficiencies. The frank, full story of our experience is just beginning to be told by veteran Army officers, whose mouths were necessarily sealed during the season of active warfare. The pub lished statements of these veteran offi cers of the regular Army who served in the field during the Santiago cam paign are exceedingly valuable because they have been prepared by educated, scientific soldiers, graduates of West Point, who have seen twenty-five years of military service, but. best of all, they are non-political testimony; for they are written by professional sol diers who have never been politicians and never expect to be, who are above the hope of party reward or the fear of party punlshmnt. Captain Blocksom, of the Sixth United States Cavalry, au thor of the article "War Lessons for Laymen," contributed to the Journal of Military Service Institution, Is a grad uate of West Point who has been in the Array since 1877. He was brevetted Major for gallantry in action against the Indians at Ash Creek, Arizona, May 7, 1SS0, so thai he is no holiday soldier. Captain Blocksom's conclusions are summed up in the word "preparation," a word that cannot be too often repeat ed In the ear of Congress, which is re sponsible for the presence or absence of efficiency in the condition of our land and naval forces. This sagacious soldier sees clearly that we are likely to Increase rather than decrease our points of contact with the outside world, bringing with them Increased responsibility in the care of new possessions and largely extended commerce. He sees that with out seeking it we shall be obliged to guard against trouble with foreign na tions. His prediction Is proceeding to fulfillment in our sudden call for troops to protect our citizens and our com mercial rights under treaty in China, and to do this promptly and effectively we are embarrassed today by our lack of preparation In peace for possible war. There was much confusion and delay in organization at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, and during its whole life, due chiefly to lack of trans portation and supply and deficiency of trained officers, staff and line, for a largely Increased force. All these things had their origin In defective Con gressional legislation. That body never seemed able .to appreciate the sound ness of Wellington's epigram, which has been ignorantly attributed to that thrasonical soldier. General Fremont, that "war is chiefly a matter of trans portation and supply; that is, that an army with the most effective system of transportation and supply, other things being equal, is superior in discipline, morale and physical effectiveness to a poorly equipped enemy, outmarches it and outmaneuvers it, and as a conse quence wins the decisive battle, if one is necessary." To the superiority of his transporta tion and supply Wellington attributed his ability to reach and storm Ciudad' Kodrigo and Badajoz before the arrival of the French army of relief under Marshal Soult. Some of our regular Army recruits had never fired a ball cartridge or received complete uniforms when they landed at Santiago, nearly two months after declaration of war. We were deficient In mounted cavalry, field guns and smokeless powder and other munitions of war, but were fortu nate in the number and character of troops opposed. In the marine trans port service the errors, discomforts and abuses which prevailed would never have existed had the navigation of all transports been turned over to the Navy Department, as was done by Gen eral Scott when he landed his army at Vera Cruz. The volunteers, through their military ignorance, inexperience, lack of equipment and knowledge of field sanitation, suffered where the reg ulars only felt discomfort Their arms were of obsolete pattern, so that they could never have been effective against a foe armed wUh modern weapons, even if they had been well drilled and disci plined. A Chief Quartermaster of one of the Southern camps of rendezvous, himself aprlvate and an officer of volun teers during the Civil War, summed up the situation exactly when he said: "It was the same old mob we had In 1861. They didn't even know how to cook beans. They made requisitions for clothing on stationery blanks, and damned the Quartermaster for not issu ing them." For the future the easy and obvious remedy for the inefficiency of the sup ply department is found in a permanent surplus of war material sufficient lor an increase of 130,000 men. The regular Army staff, especially in the supply department, must be increased in order to handle properly both troops and sunnlies when new armies are raised. I rr.- it.u n i. i i.i I itie iiciu oiuccrs ul uiuiueeib auuuiu. Hancchow 04.S9S be regulars and men of experience injwenchow o.ois order to fit this splendid raw material J w-'"':'" " 174,3 as rapidly as possible for war. This) Amor ..."."!...."." 147,'09G method of selection Is sure to give a i jwatw 4Al .... , .. .. joochow il,2i0 much better general average than thelsamshul 21.2S1 usual one of selection through political Kongmoon 6,792 . . . . . I Kumchuk 1.13 or personal muuence. war is ousmess, and tried employes should be placed In the new positions of trust and responsi bility, with the raw material at the bot tom. Congress should make liberal ap propriations for furnishing the National Guard with modern arms and equip ments and facilities for annual field service with the regulars. The Boers spent millions of money in war ma terial. Their senior officers, line and staff, were men of experience and sci entific ability. But their rank and file were no better than a hundred thousand or more sharpshooters who would an swer the first call to arms In this coun try, and, "unlike the Boers, we have the reserve power to back them up." Three industries are given by the New York Evening Telegram as typi cal of the saving effected by the substi tution of machine for hand labor. Forty years ago one man took 750 hours to perforate 150,000 bank checks, for which he was paid $150. Now the same work Is done by machinery, six men being employed an aggregate of nine hours and fifteen minutes. They get about j double the wages per hour, yet the labor cost is only $3, Instead of $150. Seventy years ago, using quills and ruler to rule paper, it took 4800 hours to do work, that is now done by ma chines in two and three-quarters hours. The band workers got $1 a day, while the operator of the machine is paid $3 50 a day. The labor cost of producing a given quantity is 85 cents, as compared with J400 in the old way. Machinery now makes 100 pairs of men's cheap grade shoes in 154 hours, as compared with 1436 hours by hand, the labor cost being $400 by hand and $35 by ma chinery. Instead of one man being employed to do everything in the manu facture of women's shoes, it now takes 140, each doing an entirely different op eration on the machines. What re quired thirteen hours of labor forty years ago is now done in an hour. The third example is in breadmaking. One thbusand pounds of dough for biscuits is rolled, cut and prepared for baking in three hours and fifty-four minutes, as against fifty-four hours by hand. These Instances are typical of a hundred-other industries in which time and labor have been saved by machinery, while the market has been broadened, prices of the product cheapened and wages advanced. AS PURE READING MATTER. The Oregonlan's friend and protege, Hon. Milt Miller, of Lebanon, offers some reflections for which we gladly make room in another column. Through constant and liberal advertisement, In the form of politicaL communications, The Oregonian has succeeded in raising Mr. Miller to the proud position of Democratic National Committeeman for Oregon. Its success in this undertaking is almost equal to the achievement of raising Colonel Bob Miller to the Ore gon City land office and John P. Robert son to numerous political honors, and measurably offsets the signal failure of the labored efforts exerted in an adver tising way for H. B. Nicholas and E. R. Skipworth. In his present contribution, Mr. Miller Is conspicuously himself. That Is, he swashes around in grandiloquent and almost sacrilegious waves of rhetoric on an entirely different subject from the one he is professing to tackle. There Is a whole diameter of difference between "the coining of gold and silver at the ratio of 1C to 1" and the sacred doctrine of free coinage at that ratio. All that Mr. Miller says, therefore, has no rele vancy. The question is not in the ratio, but in the quantity; not in the dollar's size, but Its numbers. If the Nation's coinage programme were in fact as Mr. Miller describes It, a lG-to-1 policy, there would be no point at all in the Demo cratic howls against the accursed gold standard and the crime against silver. Equally vain Is Mr. Miller's effort to prove the equity of additions to our silver burden from the fact that McKln ley and Wolcott and other Republicans have co-operated in the action. It makes very little difference to The Ore gonian what Republicans are for silver or what Democrats are for gold. The facts as to money and coinage are pretty well established and reasonably well understood. The silvern leanings of Republican politicians are the plain est of past and present phenomena. The Oregonian has often pointed them out with disapproval, and It must respect fully decline now to be held responsi ble for them. In conclusion, the observation offered! a few days ago is hereby renewed and emphasized: "The golden silence of our silver statesmen on the subject of free and unlimited coinage of silver 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 posi tively painful." Mr. Miller has only in tensified the oppressiveness and pain of the silence. The sacred cause of free coinage is outraged by his studied refusal to mention it, even by implica tion. Perhaps It is significant that the anti foreign feeling in China became acute soon after the publication of the returns of the imperial customs revenue for the first quarter January to March of the current year, showing an increase of 1,000,000 taels as compared with the cor responding period in 1899, which in its turn showed an increase of 500,000 taels as against the corresponding quarter in 189S. Such increases might have been expected to open the eyes of the Chinese Government to the advantages of foreign trade. Shanghai alone con tributed nearly the whole of this year's increase, the total collected there being 2,273,760 taels, as against 1,362,434 taels during the first quarter of 1899. Tien Tsin, with a total of 119.7S8 taels for the first three months of 1900, showed an increase of 91,705 taels, while the returns from New Chwang this year were nil, as against 34.0S1 taels for the first quar ter of 1899, the explanation being ap parently that the season opened earlier last year owing to the earlier break-up of the ice. The following table shows the yield from each of the treaty ports for the period in question in the current and two preceding years, amounts be ing expressed in halkwan taels: Port. 1900. New Chwang Nil Tien Tsin 110.7SS Che Foo 10S.544 Klao Chou 13,362 Chungking 83.GS2 Ichang 154,323 Shasl ............. 7G2 Yochow 25 Hankow 320.523 KluMang 140,545 Wuhu 23D.583 Nankin 35.09S Chtnklang iS,5-31 1809. 1S98. 34.031 Nil 91.705 57,077 150,075 09,633 Nil Nil 82,530 76,653 120.051 110,810 251 504 Nil Nil 230.973 236.770 1S4.401 126.871 221,627 01,570 Nil Nil 221.405 190,080 1.302.434 1.311,737 17.774 25,693 170.S43 174.770 70.275 38.503 7.914 7.405 Nil Nil 203,102 103.401 170,421 108,331 393.921 300,050 56,851 40,447 22,500 3,157 6.304 4,201 1.207 7,829 449,014 439.027 51,244 34.277 3S.63S 42.000 Soochow Shanghai 2,STJ.TW 10,00 1 Nlngro ISo.CsO canton 465.032 Klungchow 40,i4S Pakhol 2C.G40 Total 5.395.032 4,325,297 3,843,290 The Manchester Guardian, which sup plies the figures, adds that the chief portion of the increase occurred under the head of import duty, the proportion, of the increase under this head alone being upwards of 75 per cent; export duty, tonnage dues, coast-trade duty and transit dues also Increased, but decreases were shown under opium duty) and llkln. The distance from Tien Tsin to Pekin is about eighty miles. All the natural difficulties of the march must be well known to the officers of both the Eng lish and French troops, for it is part of their military history that an Anglo French army of 5500 men made this march in I860. In that expedition the English and French engineers built an excellent military road, which is today fallen Into complete wretchedness, for it has never been kept in repair since the departure of Its foreign construct ors. The Pel Ho River is a shallow stream, but it cannot be altogether worthless .for transportation "purposes when its obstructions are removed. In the past, Invading armies have been able to obtain food somehow, even when cut off from the base of their supplies. In the Tal ping rebellion and in the Japan-China war it was found repeat edly hostile troops could easily buy all the supplies they wanted from unpatri otic and mercenary natives. The na tive food supplies Include rice, dates, fruits and vegetables of all sorts In abundance. There is a great deal of game about Pekin and Tien Tsin. The climate is not severe in Winter, and is as healthful as that of New Tork City. The worst month of the year, ordinar-1 ily, is the present, when rains are al most constant; but this difficulty is minimized this year by the drought. Winter begins as early as November 1, but the little snow that falls evaporates quickly without melting, and leaves the ground about Pekin in fine condition for the movements of horsemen. The rail road from Tien Tsin to Pekin is de stroyed for much of the way, but if Lord Roberts can rebuild a military railway rapidly in South Africa, it can not be Impossible to do it In China, for the roadbed remains. The eighty miles between Tien Tsin and Pekin, even in a roadless country, and in bad weather, ought not to be a very difficult task for English and American regulars, unless they find the Chinese troops more for midable than they have hitherto proved in the open field. The guarding of communications would not require more than 10,000 men, if a secondary base thirty miles from Tien Tsin is estab lished. The announcement that the cotton mills at Biddeford, Me., have been com pelled by the Chinese trouble to curtail their production of cotton manufac tures, about one-half of which goes to China, is a practical illustration of the importance of American commercial interests In that country. One-half of the foreign goods sold in New Chwang are sent from the United States. The sale of American products In Che Foo is over $2,000,000 a year, exceeding the entire value of our exports to some thirty countries. Tien Tsin is one of the three largest Inlets for the cotton cloths and kerosene that form the bulk of our export trade with China. About one-half of all the cotton goods we sell abroad goes to China, which purchased last year over $10,000,000 worth of our sheetings, drills, jeans and other grades. They are landed at Shanghai, and 90 per cent of the goods are forwarded at once to Che Foo, Tien Tsin and New Chwang, for the Nofth China markets. A little over 6 per cent are sold in cities up the Tangtse River, and the remainder are consumed in Shanghai and its vicinity. American cottons are used not only for clothing, but also for sails for thousands of boats on the canals and rivers. The Chinese dress in coarse cotton fabrics, which they make at home, but they like our coarse cotton grades because they are cheap, heavy and durable. Our exports to the three large ports most seriously affect ed by the revolt amounted to over $8,000,000 in 1897, and it is estimated that they took at least five-sixths of our exports' last year, amounting to over $12,000,000. Within less than a year, that is, on July 1, 1901, the present Army of about 100,000, men will be reduced by opera tion of law to about 27,000 men, for the law reduces the regular Army from 65, 000 to 27,000 ?t the same time that it abolishes the volunteer Army. The ne cessity which causes the employment of 100,000 men today will still remain with us, for, even if the situation should be relaxed in the Philippines, it is likely to be far worse before It is better in China. As soon as Congress meets in December it ought to enlarge the regu lar Army to 100,000 men. This would enable the additional regiments of reg ular troops to be recruited more or less In the Philippines largely from the present volunteers. The regular troops, unless provision be made for increasing their number and extending the term of the war strength of the Army, will not long be sufficient to replace the vol unteers in the Phllpplnes. The present situation ought never to have existed, and our prospective embarrassment was predicted by the intelligent Repub lican leaders in Congress when the Democrats and Populists Joined hands to create it. Bressi, the murderer of King Hum bert, has a brother, a loyal officer in the Italian Army, who denounces the crime as the most cowardly act of the cen tury. The situation of this loyal soldier recalls that of the actor, Edwin Booth, who was an ardent Union man and a personal admirer of Lincoln, whom his brother, Wilkes Booth, slew. Edwin Booth was so overcome with the dismal notoriety imposed upon him by his brother's crime that he at once can celed all his engagements and retired from the stage for a considerable in terval of time. We cannot afford today to reduce the regular Army from its present strength of 65,000. With the China trouble be fore us, that number will not be suffi cient for future needs. We need sur plus war material and experienced of ficers "for volunteers when war comes. Without them in the next war, we shall be worse off than In our conflict over Cuba, for our opponents will not be as weak numerically and as ill prepared as the Spaniards or as wild shots as the Filipinos. Porto Rlco coins are to be exchanged for American money and the gold standard rigidly enforced. It is strange the-Kansas City gathering failed to ar raign the Administration for this un speakable outrage on a trusting people. Alas, that a fluctuating and debased currency will know Porto Rlco no more forever! A touch of genuine heroism was re vealed in the suicide of the Italian anarchist, who took his life because he was unable to keep his oath to kill King Humbert There shone fidelity worthy of a nobler cause. POSITIVELY ENTHUSIASTIC. No Half-Hearted Support About This Utterance. New York Times. A Teader of the Times in a letter com menting upon the position of this journal In the Presidential contest, says: "You are opposed to a third ticket, and advo cate voting for what you call the lesser of two evils." The Times' politics are not of that half hearted and uncomfortable kind. It sees one evil, not two, In the situation that confronts the American people. Bryanism Is the evil, the danger, the thing to be beaten back by the votes of all men who are Jealous of their country's honor and solicitous for its welfare. We do not support Mr. McKinley and Roosevelt as a choice of evils, and we have never said so. We support them heartily and with satisfaction for the good there is in them and the positive merit of the cause they represent. For one thing, they represent the gold stand ard in our .currency. It is duty and a pleasure to support that. They represent and are a part of the forces that have brought this Nation to a new and higher place among the peoples of the earth. The sound growth and expansion of the couijtry are the objeects of their policy. They believe firmly that we should per form, not shirk, our obligations in the new possessions. There Isan unfinished work which we feel Is safest in the hands of Mr. McKlnley. A group of new and great questions is in process of solution by him. They have been deeply studied by him and thoso about him. His views, his Intentions, and his policy are known. His conduct of public affairs has given the people confidence in his wisdom ana his judgment. We are convinced that they have no purpose to dismiss him and summon the unsteady Nebraskan to com plete his difficult and delicate tasks. benator Hoar puts It right. "The elec tion of Mr. Bryan means dishonor to the American people." That Is the evil to be eschewed. It is not a question of choice, but of avoidance. BITTER- AGAINST BUYANIS3I. Some Scathing Sentences That Will Be Hard to Explain A-wny- New York Evening Post. Mr. Bryan's main support comes from the Southern States, and we know very well what is the feeling among the peo ple there about the policy of holding an inferior race In subjection. They openly announce the doctrine of the supremacy of the white race in this country, and whatever may be thought of Mr. Bryan's sincerity, no one can pretend to believe that the Southern Democrats are sincere in whatever declarations they make con cerning the abandonment of the doctrine of white supremacy In the Philippines. They are willing to advocate it as polit ically expedient, but It Is Idle to maintain that they really believe in it. Neverthe less, these men, fresh from depriving the negroes of the rights which were sup posed to be gained for them at a terrible expense of blood and ruin, are the men with whom Mn, Bryan is intimate. What would have been thought of his; sincerity on the silver question if he had daily consorted with the CleYelands and Car llsles and Falrchilds and Cockrans and all those who were actively engaged in es tablishing the gold standard? What would be thought of It? Why, the same that many people think of the sin cerity of his devotion to the fundamental principles of human liberty, when they see him on the friendliest terms with tho men who have openly subverted these principles without a word of remonstrance or protest on hJs part. We do not question the sincerity of tho30 who maintain that Mr. Bryan is a sincere reformer. But what reform they expect him to accomplish, knowing who are his chief supporters and most trusted lieutenants, we do not understand. For our own part, we can entertain no deep conviction of tho sincerity of a reformer whose bosom friend is ex-Governor Alt geld, the man who would not lift a finger to suppress the frightful rioting at Chi cago, but foamed at the mouth with Im potent rage when President Cleveland put down the anarchy which had come to threaten the peace of the whole country. We do not anticipate sincere action in favor of purifying our politics from a man who graciously receives Mr. Croker and the gang who have made the Demo cratic party in New York a stench in the nostrils of the community. Wo do not look for sincere endeavors to lessen tho influence of the "money power" in our Government from the man who admits Mr. Clark, of Montana, to a position of influence in his party. We do not know that it is true that Mr. Clark will give a million dollars to help Mr. Bryan's cause. But we feel quite sure that if Mr. Clark pays his money, he will not pay it for nothing, and we do not expect Mr. Bryan to insist on his expulsion from the Senate when he next applies for admission. No better test of a reformer's sincerity can be found than the company he keeps; and Mr. Bryan does not appear to us to stand that test, "AN ORGY OF MONOPOLY." Manila Paper Enumerates Baleful Influences That Still Linger. Manila Freedom, June 2S. The atmosphere of the Philippines is running riot with monopolies and ghosts of monopolies. In, some detail yester day's Manila Freedom gave an Insight into the influences which have the com merce and welfare of this archipelago by the throat. When the prospective busi ness man arrives here, he finds that a monopoly has the exclusive right to trans fer his baggage. When he attempts to get his merchandise ashore, he finds that he must submit to the exactions of the old Spanish monopoly known as "arrestre and conduction," which has the exclusive privilege of toting his goods to the Cus-tom-House at whatever charge their nibs wish to make. When he gets thirsty the immigrant finds that he must pay a peseta for a glass of beer because of the alleged mo nopoly of the San Miguel brewery, which is protected by a tariff of $5 50 a barrel on beer. When he wishes to ride on the tramway another monopoly must be dealt with. The street-car monopoly collects the fare, starts on its Journey across the city one day and gets there the next. If his business requires him to travel in the interior, he must patronize the rail way monopoly or walk. He finds that, to some extent, the Amer icans have continued the old Spanish mo nopoly of collecting the taxes. If he wishes to engage in agricultural pursuits, he finds that the holy friars have a monopoly on most of the land lit for cultivation. He finds that the mar riage monopoly has but Just been wrest ed from these same worthies. He finds that when he dies he must pay a coffin tax of $5 or go without a coffin. He finds that the friars have a monop oly of the immigration business to heav en, and also pilot personally conducted tours to hell. He reads in the newspapers that com panies are being formed in the States for the purpose of securing new monopolies in these islands. It seems that everybody is after every graft that is left. These monopolies, these grafts, these concessions, these privileges and pulls have already reduced these Islands to al most a sucked orange. There is almost no limit to the natural resources of these magnificent islands, but monopoly sits at the doorway of each, demanding tribute, exacting fees, filching an unedrned in crement, plundering that which honest people have earned by sweat and brawn. Thanks to the American occupation, a young man can now marry his sweetheart without being mulcted with a heavy fine like a convicted criminal. If the marriage monopoly can be dumped Into the sea, why cannot some of the others be cast Into outer darkness. It Is very likely that, upon investigation, several of these other monopolies will be found to be bogus, as in the case of the one claimed by the San Miguel brewery, the character of which was uncovered re cently by this paper. Instead of considering the establishment of more monopolies by these scheming sharks in the States, it Is high time that ateps were taken to dispose of some of those which already throttle honest com petition in tha islands and bind the peo- pie to the chariot wheels, of "concession." Let us pull out these rails thrust into the wheels of commercial progress. Let every man have an equal chance to breathe the air, to drink the water, to fish In the boundless sea, to work the nat ural resources of the soil and maintain the heritage of God to the human fam ily. Let us not sell our birthright for a mess of pottage and then permit ourselves to be gouged out of the price. Monopoly is a fat loafer which sits by the gateway of industry and exacts a fee from every man who wishes to earn his living. If we see any such sheep-killing "critters" prowling about lm the Philip pines, let us ride them out of town on. a rail. Let us drum out of the country such as are already fattening on our resources without giving any return. The bee has sense enough to jab its stingers Into the drone up to the hilt. It is a sorry day If the people of the Phil ippines have not as much sagacity as the bee. 1 MR. HEWITT'S IDEAS. A Hard-Headed Man Who Tates in the Situation Thoroughly. New York Journal of Commerce. Ma Hewitt has stated with great clear ness that what is called anti-imperialism cannot be regarded as a leading issue in this National campaign because the result of the election, which, whatever it may be, can have no effect upon our external relations for a considerable period. "If Mr. Bryan should be elected tomorrow," he said in an interview, "it would be impossible for the United States to with draw from the Philippines because of treaty obligations,- and It will take three or four years to settle that question, so that the success of the Democratic party could not alter tho policy of the govern ment In the East." Mr. Bryan, then, would find himself unable to destroy our influence in tho Orient, and no friend of his has ventured to say that he would or could abandon the Philippines. His election would bo merely the expression of a sentiment hos tile to the policy the United States has been pursuing, which has been characterv ized by a fan-sighted comprehension of the greater and more lasting Interests of this Nation. This might allay the appre hensions of the advocates of American Interests In tho Pacific and on Its shores; but, on the other hand. It shows that the self-styled anti-imperialists would be im potent to accomplish what they desire even if the Government were placed in their hands. , But while the election of Mr. Brya would not lead Immediately to tho sacri fice of our colgne of vantage in the Orient, or- to the realization of the con tracted views of a few gentlemen In Bos ton and a more limited number in some other centers of thought, it would be powerful enough in ruining business. Mr. Hewitt is quite correct in saying that the election of Mr. Bryan would result in t widespread calamity and business revul sion, even though the Senate were Re publican. But a Republican Senate is not necessarily a sound money Senate. In January, 1S91, the Senate passed a silver coinage bill, though the Republicans had the control of the body. The sound money majority of last March contained two Democrats who will not be Senators after March 4 next, and seven Republicans who are bimetallsts, or live in states where free coinage sentiment predominates. Tho opponents of a progressive Na tional policy cannot accomplish what they desire, but they can accomplish what those of them who live In the East rightly believe would be calamitous, the substitution of the silver for the gold standard. No peraon can analyze tha composition of the United States Senate and believe that it will defend the 3lngle gold standard aften March 4 next if the silverites shall have elected the President ana tne House of Representatives. If an Issue is a question whose answer depends upon the result of the election, the only conspicuous Issue is silverism! There is no doubt about what the Bryan Ites will do with tho currency If they get the power, while as to the Philippines and China, Mr. Hewitt well says that they can accomplish nothing for three or four years, and Mr. Bryan's friend. ex-Governor Stone, admits that he does not know what Mr. Bryan would do if he were President today. Braver- Pnt to the Test. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In order to show that the public con fidence In his bravery has not been mis placed, Governor Roosevelt has consent ed to make a number of speeches in Kentucky. Foregone Conclusion. Washington Post Mr. Towne continues to toy with tho ropes of his parachute, but ho will como down In due time. MEN ANt WOMEN. The German Emperor possesses In all 111 residences. . Governor Thomas, of Colorado. spend3 his vacations In the mountains of hl3 home state, where he amuses himself by high climbing and long walking tours. Mayor Colonna. of Rome, has begun a cru sade, against expectoration. Tho sign, "E vle tato da sputare," Is now put up In all taverns and tobacco shops. Mrs. Amelia Folsom Young, one of the wives of Brlgham Young, made her first journey to Utah 45 years ago largely by iagon, and 13 now at work upon a lolumo of memoirs of early Mormon times. Dr. Charles H. Latimer, of St. Elizabeth's Asylum, Washington, has been commissioned by the Government to go to the Philippines to study and report upon the rumored effect of the. climate of tboso Islands upon tha Occi dental brain. Lleutenant-General Sir Arthur Power Palmer, K. C. B., who Is spoken of as the now Commander-in-Chief in India, Is over six feet In height, and is broad in proportion. He Is of a powerful phBlaue, and is extremely popular with the troops, especially the Sikhs. , Tho Archduke Francis Ferdinand 13 one of the crack shots of Europe. He prefers to shoot with smokeless powder, and handles his weapon very rapidly and with an extremely accurate aim. The Austrian heir presumptive is re cently credited with having killed over 480 head of game in an hour and a half. The Ninth Regiment, which is fighting In China, has on Its roster one who is probably the richest officer in the Army. Second Lieu tenant Robert S. Clarke. Mr. Olarke 13 a grandson and one of the principal heirs of the late Alfred Corning Clarke, and hi3 wealth Is estimated at several millions. Ho Is still In his very early twenties, and is a graduate of Yale University. He receHed his commission In the Army about a year ago, and has been making a. good record for himself In the Philippines. BACHELOR HYPOCHONDRIA. Absence makes the heart grow fonder of ab sence. When a girl has a real nice timo she says she enjoys herself; which Js universally true. The compensating attribute of a female whose tongue whangs with a tang la that she is usually a pretty good cook. Some girls dead next to themselves actually do go In bathing when their best beau visits the beach. Others do not. If some women could be convinced they are not beautiful there would be less beauty in the world. Whenever a girl has a quiet wedding she mokes up for it with an inscrutable lot of fuss and noise. More and more Is love getting to be labor lost, crilefly because It'3 becoming such hard work. Wonder If there ever wa3 a female who would not stare If not stared at? Count no man unlucky till you know whether he has left a termagant widow. As soon as a girl gets engaged, embroidery work has served its purpose and she quits It. Heavy rest the burdens of the world on the woman who Is always hunting them, yet never finds them. Some women who get tremendously tired of themselves wax exceedingly wroth when any body else presumes to do the same thing. Every woman Is sure she has a mission in the world. Sho has, but Is never satisfied With it JJAMBY PAMBY. .A'OTE.AflD COMMENT. . , I ! . The Boxers have" evidently "been feed ing on edible hornets' nests. Tho sun has evidently taken a few days off to escape from the heat. 4 There seems to be some doubt about tho authenticity- of the news from China. Mr. Bryan, is evidently not a believer la tho adage, "Leastsaid soonest mended.' They ought to send Buller to China and give him a chance to resurrect his repu tation. We begin to suspect that some of tha announcements of FiHplno victory cam via Shanghai. Editor William R. Hearst ought to start a paper in Sfcanghai. He could get tflo kind of Journalists he wants on the spot. The fisherman now takes his rod To some ocoi. shady delt. And finds that, though the trout aro shy. The ants are biting well. LI Hung Chang can make mora prom ises than a Summer girl, and he stands about as good a chance of keeping any of them. Tho partition of China evidently extends between the troops of the powers and Pekin. And there doesn't seem to be any open door in it. Thirty-nine Filipino pot-shooters wero killed the other day for the murder oc one American soldier. No wonder Bryan, objects to expansion at this ratio. Mark.Hanna'3 boomed tho price of grata (A low down ruso to pull for -votes). And farmers now do not complain At what they get for wheat and oat3; But Bryaa know3 a thing or two To make old Marcus Hanna squirm; Ho'3 made the farmers once mora bluo By sending them tho army worm. Anent the reported shifting of Tension Commissioner Evans to the PostofQce De partment, tho Philadelphia Times (Ind.) thus comments: "The people are mora than willing to pay generous pensions to the veterans of our Army, but they aro not willing that an organized gang of pension thieves shall assert themselves aa greater than the Government Itself, and compel even the President of the United States to dismiss a Pension Commissioner for the single offense of faithfully dis charging his duties." The plank in the Prohibition party plat form, recently adopted, referring to tha Army canteen, has aroused some contro versy. .The Prohibitionists stated that the Army canteen was abolished by Presi dent Haye3 when he was in office, but Z. S. Buckler, of Washington, to determine the matter, wrote to tho Secretary of War for Information on the subject. la reply he received a letter from W. S. Coursey, Mr. Root's private secretary, a3 follows: "The Secretary of War directs me to in form you that the Army canteen, so called, was not In existence at that pe riod, nor for many years afterwards, and that liquors and such articles as wero not furnished by the Government wero sold to officers and enlisted men by peopla who were known as 'post traders.' "An order was Issued, by direction ofr President Hayes, February 22. 1SSL. pro hibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors at military posts and stations, but this order referred to brandy, whisky, gin, rum, and other liquors containing a large percemage of alcohol, and not to light wines, cider, beer, or ale, the. sale of which has never been prohibited on mili tary reservations; and it is to the sale of these, with the exception of ale, that tho present canteen section of tho post ex change Is restricted." PLEASANTRIES OP PARAGRAPHERS Hoax What made tho elevator fall? Joax Tho elevator man, took a, drop too much. Phil adelphia Record. Jlnk3 I don't bellevo Dante's description of the Infemo Is correct. Winks Why not? Jinks Not one oMhe shades said to any other shade, "Is it hot enough for you?" New York Weekly. Inferred. Mrs. Hatterson I don'Jt know what I shall do. My husband has been so discontent ed lately over his meals at home. Mrs. Catter son Why, I didn't know you were without a. cook. Detroit Free Press. Self-interest, She Tho author evidently be lieves In the principle of the greatest good to the greatest number; you agree with him? Ha Oh. yes; only I believe the greatest number Is number one. Brooklyn Life. Mother (angrily) Did I see you playinir pitch and tos3 with that llttlo Dougall boy? Tommy Yes. ma. Mother Well, don't do it again. Do you hear me? Tommy Yes. ma. I won't do It no more. He hasn't a ha'penny left. Glasgow Evening Times. Wit Enough. First Bookkeeper That Jinks is the wittiest man la the ofllcet Second Book keeperI never heard him say a. bright thing! First Bookkeeper No, but he's got wit enough to laugh heartily every time the boss tells that stale old chestnutty Joke of his! Puck. Absoluto Faith. "Have you faith in yoin theory about Mars being Inhabited?" Inquired the skeptic "I should say I have faith In ltl" answered the man with the telescope. "Why, that theory Is good for $50 a thousand words every timo I choose to write an article on It." Washington Star. His Rowing Experience. A Pittsburg physi cian who thought of taking hl3 colored servant with him on a projected fishing trip. Interro gated him a3 to his acquaintance with aquat ics. After a few preliminary questions, ha asked : "Have you ever rowed, JamesT "Only on tho cyahs, sah." Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. The Man of Gold. Patrick F. Durkan In Scranton Truth. How poor are tho rich In their vain display If wealth has no higher aim. How little Is lost when they pass away To tho dust from whence they came; Their graves may be decked with tha scalp tor's art. Their virtues Inscribed In stone. But grief w ill not enter the poor man's heart. Their kindred will weep alone. What to the Is thli world. O man of gold. Its rank or Its social ties. When thou art as pulseless, as muta and cold As the clay that o'er thee lies! What, too, aro tha mortgage, bonds and loans That made thee a mortal proud. When thy fingers, bereft of precious stones. Are hidden beneath a. shroud? Look around while yet there is light and sea What Is It that needs thy aid. A people who struggle for liberty. The ruin a tyrant has made. The widows and orphans of war's wild relga, Tho sick and wounded, too. Shall thoy to thee, mortal, appeal In vain. When thou hast a. work to do? A work to do, nay, a mission li. thine. To solace, to aid. and cheer. For, art thou not counseled by word divine To remember the poor are here? Is It not well for thee, mortal, to know In tho light of tranquil days What comfort and plea-sure -thou canst bestow With wealth in a thousand way's? Book? for the multitude food for tho mind. Knowledge that lifts and refines. Help for the feebl, the homeless and blind. These are humanity's lines. Art true and beautiful, too. to adorn The landscapo, tha park and hall. That all may rejoice, for genius la born To labor and shine- for all. Then give of thy treasures, O man of gold. Bestow with a wllliag hand While wealth Is yet thine, and thou wilt be hold A work that will ever stand: Walt not till death lays its hand on thy brow. Let not thy gifts be delayed. Give, man of gold, of thy plentltude now. Ere the needy are past thy aid.