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.