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EXFORCED "CONSENT."
There is nothing -wrong about "impe
Irlalism." On the contrary, there is
everything In it that is right It is
the rule of those who are fittest to rule,
and therefore who ought to rule. Ask
the Democrats of ICorth Carolina, who
have just thrown the negro -out. There
is government without the consent of
the. governed. Mr. Bryan will never
"Utter a word of disapproval. Any doc
trine that is good enough for North
Carolina, for Mississippi, for Louisiana
and the whole group of our free'intel
ligent and highly developed Southern
States should be good enough tfor the
Philippine Islands.
"Consent of the governed" is merely
n sentimental theory never was any
thing else, never can be. Now and then
the world has a touch of this theory or
vagary, as our country had when it
gave the suffrage to the negro; but
this sort of thing, after a while, al
ways corrects itself.
The Filipinos are no more fit far less
51t to he entrusted with political re
sponsibility than the negroes of our
Southern States, whom Mr. Bryan's
party, with his full approval, has cut
ff from participation in government.
There is not a person on earth who does
aot know that our eight millions of ne
groes are far better qualified for polit
ical functions than the eight millions
of Filipinos.
Hence, though our Democratic breth
ren are shrieking about "imperialism,"
It is not probable their feelings will be
much hurt, in fact, if the "niggers" of
the Philippines get the same treatment
Which they accord to the "niggers" of
2Corth Carolina and the Southern States
generally. It is not that the glorious
doctrine of "consent of the governed"
is Imperiled that worries our "anil"
brethren. They smile at their own fic
tions. But they are in need of a party
cry.
In point of fact, the "consent" of all
of us Is enforced.
JAPAN'S WHEAT AND FLOUR PROB
L.RM. The prospective competition of the
iTapanese in the Oriental flour trade is
attracting some attention, not alone on
this Coast, where all of the business
has been handled, but farther east,
where the millers have been looking
with longing eyes on this rich field for
trade. Japan imported about 500,000
bushels of wheat from the Pacific Coast
last season, the bulk of it going from
Portland. The lowest price at which
flour for the Orient was ever cleared
from tih port was ?2 50 per barrel.
The Ja Pke ground a 50,000-bushel lot
of Walla "Walla wheat that was shipped
from Portland, and report thafthe cost
after making allowance for duties,
freight, etc., was equivalent to $2 30 per
"barrel The samples sent back to Port
land show the Hour to be fully equal
tu that made in this country
Twenty cents'per barrel profit Is am
ple for the thrifty Japanese millers, and
at first glance these figures apparently
have a very serious meaning for Pa
cific Coast mills. There are certain
factors In connection with them, how
ever, which place a d.fferent light on
the matter, and show that the success
or failure of the new Industry may de
pend almost wholly on the tariff. The
duty on American flour in Japan Is
about 34 cents per barrel. The .duty on
wheat is bet S per cent ad valorem. On
the amount of wheat required to pro
duce a barrel of flour at the price at
winch the particular lot in question was
cleared, the duty would amount to but
12 cents. This left a protective tariff
of 22 cents per barrel, net, a figure
which, other conditions belng equal,
puts the Japanese at a disadvantage
should the Japanese Government with
draw its aid.
The prosptcts for a withdrawal of this
aid are not remote, for Japan is ex
perimenting in other directions besides
TOanufacturinf, one of her hobbles at
Xhe present time being wheatgrowing.
But little wheat is produced in Japan
as yet. but the amount is sufficient to
,cut off the imports of American flour
'for three or four months after harvest,
imd the government is experimenting
wi'h a view to determining whether it
.Will nrft prove more profitable to grow
whi arthaa it is to grow rice. If ti-,e
cereal Ijhould prove more remunerative
than rice, the Japanese wheatgrower
would object to thte competition ol
American wheat, and insist on the same
protective tariST-gainst.s.wheat that is
now made against flour. The question
then to be determined would be whether
th millers should have the protection
or whether it should be extended to the
farmers.
There aregther obstacles In the way
of 'he cheap-labor of the far East as
an actle competitor with America, iir
the production of flour made from
American wheat. Bran, shorts and
middlings have a commercial value,
less than half that of flour, and yet the
trans-Padilc freight rate Is exactly the
same on both the raw and the manu
factured article. The Japan miller is
thus forced to pay full freight on the
offal" from wheat, which, owliur to
tr limited amount of livestock in- the t
Ork it, is not worth as much propor- j
tionately in Japan as It is In this coun
try, where there is always a big de
mand for feed.
Cheap labor means much in any man
ufacturing enterprise, and there Is, of
course, a possibility that the "Yankees
of the Orient" may in time capture a
large proportion of the mining trade
of the big and rapidly developing field
across the Pacific. As yet, however, the
venture has hardly progressed far
enough beyond the experimental stage
to cause much uneasiness among Pa
cific Coast millers or affect the value of
milling property.
ENEMIES TJXMASKED.
In the news of the day, nothing is
more edifying than the declaration of
principles Issued by the newly formed
National organization of metal-workers
of the United States. This is the first
principle:
The laboring class must emancipate Itself
from alt Influences of Its enemy, tho propri
etary class. It must orcanlze locally, nation
ally and internationally for the purpose of set
ting the power of the organized masses against
tho power of capitalism, and It must see that
it Is represented in the different branches of
the local, state and National administrative
governments.
The metal-workers are nothing If not
specific, and their doctrine is so defi
nite that nothing remains but to reflect
briefly upon Its application where logic
necessarily extends It
In the first place, we have to consider
the means to their designated end. The
enemy of labor, that is, owners, must
be brought low, and the power of cap
italism must be destroyed. Only two
ways are open; we must reach the pro
prietary class through their persons or
else through their property. They can
be removed with the secret dagger or
the mysterious poison. Yet this would
hardly reach the seat of the evil, for
our laws, unfortunately, do not permit
the seizure of estates by first comers
after a rich man's assassination. The
snake would be scotched, not killed, and
the heirs would be 'morally certain to
pursue the capitalist function Indefi
nitely. The effective way is to strike at
once at the capitalist's property. "Ways
must be found to shut up department
stores, mines and factories, to destroy
railroads, street-car lines, steamships,
livestock and farms, and all other visi
ble objects in which the capital of the
country pursues the laboring classes
with the vindictive effort to provide
them work. It is obvious that as long
as we have proprietors we 4 shall have
workmen, and that as long as we have
capital it must employ help to carry on
Its enterprises.
If the laboring classes are to be fully
aroused to the bitter enmity naturally
existent between the employer and the
employe, It will be futile for the capital
ist longer to conceal his deadly designs
on the laborer. His hand will be forced.
He will be compelled to do his fight
ing in the open. No one who knows
the American capitalist's enterprise and
determination will be surprised to see
him organize his campaign against his
former co-laborer, the workman, in the
most circumspect and forcible manner
possible. No longer under the neces
sity of disguising his flagitious purpose,
he will not rest till he has left "in all
the land not a weaver for his looms, an
electrician for his dynamos, an operator
for his wires, an engineer for his trains,
a printer for his newspaper. When
Rockefeller has put all his workmen to
rest in boiling oil, and Carnegie has
stuffed his red-hot furnaces full of
miners and operatives, and Arthur Sew
all has cast all his shipwrights and
seamen into the deepest part of the At
lantic, and Depew has sealed up all the
New York Central's men in the tunnels
on Manhattan Island, then will those
kings of industry be ableurestrlcted to
pursue the ambitions they have set be
fore them.
The frank and open manner in which
the metal-workers address the country
establishes the presumption that they
are fair-minded men, and will cheer
fully accord to capital the same de
structive policy toward its adversaries
which they claim for themselves. Un
der the operation of the two opposing
campaigps, we shall soon see labor and
capital annihilate each other. What
there is left of society will speedily
gravitate to that idyllic state of primi
tive Oregon, when the inhabitants of
these hills and valleys occupied them
selves in hunting grasshoppers for food.
3IR. STEVENSON'S BAD TASTE.
A nonpartisan welcome such as was
tendered Hon. Adlai Stevenson upon his
return from Minnesota to Bloomington
would seem to deserve recognition at
his hands devoid of partisan attack.
But if the expectation was entertained,
it was foredoomed to disappointment.
Though the ex-Vice-President is ac
counted a man of taste and of excep
tional finesse in concealing positive
conviction on any subject, in this case
he so far forgot the proprieties as to
launch an unmistakable rebuke at one
of the great parties whose members
were partaking in this nonpartisan
welcome.
What does Mr. Stevenson mean by
referring, in his Bloomington speech of
acknowledgment, to "the Influx and
growth of an element whose principle
in action is the destruction of the safe
guards of law"? He certainly cannot
be ignorant that in that sentence he
antagonized a large and Increasing ele
ment in the Democratic party. He lives
In Illinois, and was alive in 1S94. He
had special reason to remember the
part Grover Cleveland took in suppress
ing efforts made at Chicago for "de
struction of the safeguards of law" In
that very year, and the savage assaults
made upon Cleveland then and ever
since by numbers of determined voters,
without whose votes Bryan and Steven
son cannot possibly be elected. He
ought to.know, If he does not, that John
W. Daniel, a Senator from Virginia,
who lauded Cleveland for that action
in 1S34, stood up at Chicago to denounce
him for that action in 1S96. He will
probably be told, if he has hitherto
been Ignorant of it, that the men who
are bent on "destruction of the safe
guards of law," so that riotous strik
ers may destroy property, and with
violence restrain nonunion men from
working, without fear of peace officers
or courts, even to the extent, if neces
sary, of packing the Supreme Court
that such men will swing the electoral
vote of Illinois to Bryan and Stevenson,
if It is swung that way.
The Honorable Adlai is a great man.
He "has onceheld the high and empty
office to, which he now aspires, and
through his own impressive personality
contributed greater attenuation to the
Troid of its vacuum, and through his
own native force and-exhaustive attain
ments added something to the negative
character of its usefulness and the
abysmal depths of Its oblivion AH .his
must be confessed to his unique and
distinguished credit. "But he violated
all his own precedents and humiliated
the Infatuated admirers of his strenu
ous life when, he jumped on a non
partisan gathering at Bloomington with
a remark almost Republican in its
gleam of Intelligence. Kindly forbear,
Adlai, 'to have another idea. It vio
lates the proprieties.
WHO GOT THE "BASE" IiAKDSr
Administration of Oregon school lands :
has so often been found open to criti
cism that many are disposed to con
demn It out of hand ana to accept as
true any reflections upon it. The tech
nical routine of the State Land Office
is understood by comparatively" few
persons, and the mystery with which
so many invest it is popularly believed
to contain unlimited opportunities for
fraud. The unquestioned abuses of past
years make it easy t'o revive suspicion,
now. Mri J. P. Robertson's presenta
tion of the case from his point of view
has brought a pretty full explanation
from the clerk of the State Land Board,
who makes clear the fact that the land
searching public is prone to expect too
much of the State Land Office to exv
pect service which, while pleasant
enough to receive, would subject the
state to great expense for prlyate gain
if it were to be granted. And, of course,
it will be perceived that the state must
be impartial to its citizens. .
If the state should dig up valuable
information for the frontier rancher
who might desire to add to his home
stead, it should also perform the serv
ice for the land-jobbing syndicate. The
syndicate would apply for and receive
and act upon this valuable information
first, because that would be Its busi
ness. As the state does not ascertain
the character or location of public land
that may become base for lieu selec
tions, all citizens are -left on an equal
footing for getting that information for
themselves. Those who have such in
formation may sell it, if they can find
purchasers. Those who have it not, but
want it, may either go into the field
and get it for themselves or buy it
from those who have It to sell. Thus
the relation of a base-hunter to the
State Land Board is similar to that of
an abstractor to the County Recorder.
The Recorder has in his custody much
of the data from which land titles are
ascertained, but it is not his business -indeed,
it is not at all practicable for
him to trace transfers or give certifi
cates of title to whomsoever shall apply.
The abstractor does this after making
the necessary search. Anybody may
have access tc the records lfhe ctioose
to search them for himself.
A material point is not cleared up
yet, however. It is rather broadly in
timated that the bases obtained by
Land Agent Davenport were disposed
of to a syndicate or to private citizens
having close affiliations with the Lartd
Office, and that this Is the reason the
state board has no bases at its dis
posal. Mr. Davenport was a state of
ficial, the state paid him for his serv
ice in straightening out school-land
matters, and his list of available bases
was, of course, state, property, to be
used for the benefit of the school fund.
If that list was disposed of in the in
terest of a private syndicate, which
thereby secured- power to extort money
from citizens who might want state
land, it was worse than unwise. Here
would be flagrant example of the abuse
that the clerk of the Land Board now
professes to discountenance the infor
mation gained by the state at public
expense turned to benefit a private syn
dicate of speculators.
There has never been a public sale
of those bases, and It is at least perti
nent to Inquire what became of the
large number that Land Agent Daven
port obtained for the state. In other
words, are the people who are now sell
ing school-land bases selling what they
went out into the field and discovered,
or selling what the state paid for dis
covering and turned over to them for, a
song to speculate with? Light upon
this point might go a long way toward
dissipating the suspicion that the Stale
Land Office is the center of a series of
concentric rings existing by official
favor and for private gain.
HAVE THEY SEEN A LIGHT?
It is a perverse and cruel fate that
sends the North Carolina episode along
just at this inopportune time to harass
the councils of the antis. Some of them
with a remnant of logic or dimly sur
viving sense of humor may be induced
to see the point. The New York Even
ing Post, the ablest of the cult, cannot
escape the obvious relevance the un
dertaking bears to the Philippine -situation
and to the demand for -"consent
of the governed." It says:
The most curious feature of this campaign
is the fact that it arouses scarcely any pro
test from the Republican party of the North.
That party is now committed to the policy
of letting "the superior race" rule "the in
ferior" abroad, allowing It only such privileges
as may seem prudent and wise. If this Is the
right rule In the Philippines, who shall say
that it Is wrong in North Carolina?
Of course, with this proposition es
tablished, there is no escape from the
converse that if it is right in North
Carolina it is right in the Philippines.
Hence the peril of the position held by
all Southern spouters for the "consent
of the governed." Nor does the Post
shrink from the application. Here Is a
body-blow at the Kansas City school:
A touch of grotesqueness is added to the
picture by the fact that it is the North Caro
linians and South Carolinians and Alisslsslp
pians and I.ouislanians and their fellow-sympathizers
in tho disfranchisement of the blacks
at the South who are ostensibly defenders of
the political rights of the Filipinos. The his
tory of American politics hardly presents a
picture of greater impudence than that of Sen
ator Tillman, fresh from his boasts of the
'way in which his party had bulldozed the
blacks of South Carolina, proclaiming the no
ble sentiments of the Kansas City platform in
favor of Justice for another inferior race on
the other side of the globe.
If the Southern antis will only make
themselves conspicuous and noisy
enough In their two irreconcilable
activities, they will In a short time dis
cover themselves to have driven such
papers as the Evening Post over to
the camp of the enemy. It is difficult.
In the excitement of a campaign, for
the Bryanltes to keep from being seen
and heard. Once the mugwump gets
close to them, his reason revolts and his
taste is offended. The crowd of blath
erskites that drove independents from
Bryan in 1S9G are swarming about him
yet. In an Intellectual sense their so
ciety is just as repellant now as It was
then.
When James M. Simmons shot his
wife's paramour to death at Walla
Walla on Friday night, he is reported
to have exclaimed to her, T ought to
kill you, too This language was natu
ral, for no woman who was not utterly
base In her whole nature would con
tinue to live with her husband and be
tray him. She could leaVe him before
site could stoop so low as to live a life
of lying and treason with him until its
stillness was broken by the sound of
the- pistol that killed her guilty confed
erate. Whence remember that a good
woman's frown is sufficient to keep
the most reckless man at proper dis
tance, it does seem as If arbitration
by the pistol would be more just if it
included the woman among the vic
tims of the avenger's hand. Ito such
cases the married woman frequently
takes the inltiatiye in the intrigue, and,
so iar from "being, "seduced," she is not
seldom the seducer. In practice, how
ever, the married woman, no matter
how aggressively wanton she may have
been Jn the use of her blandishments,
generally escapes, ajl harm at the aven
ger's hands. The Coroner's jury in this
case has exonerated the husband.
Whether it would have done so if he
had-slain his wife as well as the in
truder may be questioned.
To the man with blue glasses on, 'the
entire visible universe appears clad In
that soft and pensive hue. The- Spring
field Republican, anti and.Bellamlstlc,
recalling the demonstrations of joy at
Kansas City over the "antl-imperlal-ist'-'
plank, says:
It was recognized by the newspaper men In
Kansas City that antl-lmperiallsm .had carried
the day there. Some of the Eastern corres
pondents -wore,, surprized at tho enthusiasm
shewn out West for the Americanism of the
fathers. They bad not looked for--Such fervor
and resolution, in view of the apparently
greater acquiescence of the East in the new
conditions that, had been- brought "about undor
President McKlnley. "Does this 'betoken a
popular tidal wave?" was a question fre
quently asked.
Now, the fact is that the newspaper
men recognized no such thing, though
the Prepuhlican does. A man will see
what' he is looking for. The shouts
were at fancied deliverance from the
damning odium of 16 to 1. That was
why the Democrats, from East and
"West, fell on the neck of- tne "antl"
plank. "Does this betoken a popular
tidal wave?" would be about as im
possible question for a hardened re
porter to ask as can be readily imag
ined. A man very soon learns not to
judge November elections by partisan
shouts at either great convention.
They are a curious people those of
Kansas City. The town is stirred up
from cienter to circumference over the
site which has been selected for the
new Federal building in that city. The
site selected by the agent of the Treas
ury Department is in a remote quar
ter, inconvenient to the people and to
business men. The hustling Kansas
Citians, however, have declined to sub
mit quietly to this wrong, and they are
raising a hullabaloo which is calculated
to make the Treasury Department come
to its senses? What the result will be
nobody knows, and may be allowed
to take care of Itself. We merely bring
the matter up to contrast this obstrep
erous Missouri town's procedure with
the model humility and self-restraint
of Portland, which submitted as grace
fully to location of its Federal build
ing a mile or so from the Postofnce and
a mile and a half or thereabouts from
theCity Hall, asut does to denial of
transports and the action of railroads
In playing football with its freight and
passenger traffic.
The Chinese have an arsenal near
Shanghai which was started thirty
years ago under the direction of for
eigners, and has been under,, their di
rection ever since. It employs some 2500
men, and is equipped for the manufac
ture of small arms, rapid-fire guns and
artillery up to 12-inch bore. Guns
weighing fifty tqns each have been built
there since 1890, and for years there
has been a large and steady output of
various sizes of arms. This stream has
flowed up into the interior of the coun
try, where it has disappeared. Nobody
knows what has become of it, but the.
civilized world begins to suspect today
that the large quantities of war ma
terial turned out annually for many
years past at the Shanghai arsenal has
been used to arm China to a degree
never suspected by the powers while
Ihey were trying to agree upon a date
for holding a post-mortem over the dead
body of the Celestial Empire.
Mr. Stevenson views with alarm the
spectacle of "population pressing upon
the means of subsistence." He must
be at the other end of the telescope
from the Oregon and Washington farm
er, who sees, or thinks he sees, pretty
heavy stocks looming up everywhere,
while last year's crop is largely un
sold, waiting for a rise. There is a
shortage in India, to be sure, but the
people there seem to be inopportunely
possessed of disinclination or inability
to buy. The pressure most noticeable
to the farmer in these parts is "means
of subsistence," pressing not only upon
the population, but upon the grain
markets. When Adlai is elected he can
make a hit out here by reversing the
pressure and putting the Malthusian
theory into practical operation.
Some time ago a news item was
printed in "The Oregonian, purporting
to give an account of bunco operations
on the Oregon Short Line, and intimat
ing that, the conductors of the road
were in collusion with the confidence
men. On inquiry the assertion relative
to the conductors, improbable on its
face, develops to be -groundless. We
cheerfully offer this correction, and re
gret the injustice of the original publi
cation. The children of school age in'Oregon
this year number 133,181. In 1890 they
numbered 99,543. The increase is 33.63S.
Taking this increase as an indication of
present population, we should expect
the census of the United States, soon
to be publlshed, to show 'a population
in Oregon of 428,000 a gain of 115,000
in ten years.
Taking the census returns already
completed as a guide, the Indications
are that the total population of the
United States is between 75,000,000 and
78,000,000.
Bootless Clash oC Rival Interests.
New York Times.
There is woe out in Oregon because
this year's take of salmon on the Co
lumbia "River has been extremely small,
and an industry until recently bringing to
tho state an annual income of something
like $3,000,000 is apparently about to be
reduced to next to nothing. This is, of
course, a deplorable situation, but not
a bit of sympathy Is deserved by the
people who will suffer most from its Im
mediate consequences, and who are there
fore mourning about it most loudly. For
it was several seasons ago that the pack
era and canners were warned by the
decreasing supply of fish that thej were
drawing upon tho supply faster than Na
ture was replenishing it, and 'though they
did do a little something la the way of
artificial propagation, it was not suf
ficiently scientific to b successful, and
Chief reliance was placed on multiplying
the number of trans and nets. The inev
itable result of this was to hasten the
process of extermination, and now the
end, for a while at least, is in plain sight
The record is one of mingled greed and
stupidity, and were It not that the whole
country must be deprived of a desirable
food, the monetary losses confronting the
owners of the great plants along the
river could be regarded with perfect com
posure by everybody else. The fishing
companies have at last awakened to the
necessity of protecting their Interests by
protecting the fish, but none of them
seems to know just what to do, and ac
tion of any effective sort is made dif
ficult by the fact that the establishments
on the lower reaches of the river and
those nearer the headwaters are at odds,
each insisting that the restrictive meas
ures all admit to be necessary be taken
in the territory of the other.
COMPROMISING ENDOWMENTS.
Eeaaonring SIsm of Independence
"When Gifts Are Scrutinised.
Chicago Tribune.
Whatever one's position on the merits
of the question, there is something mor
ally reassuring in the fact that' the ac-.
ceptance of Mr. Rockefeller's $100.0X)wgIft
to Wellesley College at its recent com
mencement was challenged by a portion
of tho.faculty. Of course, no such issue
would be expected, for example, at Chi
cago University, since questions of that
sort were settled In respect to that in
stitution at the start. Wellesley, how
ever, especially In view of Its pronounced
moral tone, is a college where a question
as to the origin of endowments would
seem quite natural, and the fact that it
was raised though apparently without
hindering the final acceptance of the gift
is a wholesome reminder that the gela
tion between endowments on the one
hand and -moral standards and Intellec
tual liberty on the other is by no means
ignored at that center.
That there is such a relation that the
acceptance of particular endowments
tend$ to accredit their origin and that
there is a natural tendency from them
toward constraint upon beneficiaries Is,
of course, not to be denied. It is equally
undeniable, however, that educational in
stitutions evince no marked disposition to
discriminate concerning the moral history
of benefactions. Some college presidents
there certainly are who would refrain on
moral grounds from asking aid in cer
tain quarters, but it would perhaps be
difficult to name ope such Institution of
which It could with confidence be as
serted that the tender of a handsome
gift, from whatever source, would be de
clined as "tainted money."
Indeed, as the matter is looked at
squarely, it becomes clear that the
"taint" of money is a matter of degree,
and while the degree might fn some cases
seem to Individuals as It did to some of
the faculty at Welleslev to prohibit ac
ceptance by a "Christian" educational
Institution, there seems to be little
ground for expecting the actual finan
cial managers of such institutions to
adopt any advanced standards on this
subject.
The meaning of thte fact is plain and
important. It is that the danger of subt'.e
constraint upon intellectual and moral
freedom in such institutions must be
met and disposed of by those charged
with the preservation of such freedom. It
means that an additional responsibility Is
cast upon the faculty and likewise the
students to maintain that liberty of
thoucht which is fundamental to the idea
of all knowledge, is essential to trained
intellectual integrity, and Is supposed to
have its peculiar home In educational pre
cincts. That nothing caa excuse the
failure to meet this responsibility under
ordinary circumstances Is not more true
than that In connection with the multi
plied endowments which wealth Is today
bestowing upon educational institutions
thero is imposed an extraordinary obli
gation in this direction.
WnERE BRYAN MUST GAIX.
He Has a Flsntins Chance, and May
Possibly Make It.
New York Evening Post.
Conceding Bryan all of the 16 South
ern States and the half dozen in tho
Rocky Mountain region, he would have
ITS electoral votes, while he needs 224 for
a majority. These must be secured be
tween Pennsylvania and Colorado. The
Nebraskan's best chance is in his own
state, the indications now being that its
eight electoral votes may again go to
him, swelling the total to 1S6, and leav
ing him still 38 short. Both of the Da
kotas are fighting ground, with four
votes in the lower and three in the north
ern, giving Bryan 193 if he should carry
both. Thirty-one electoral votes must then be
secured from the group of states, which
Includes Ohio (with 23 electoral votes),
Indiana (15), Illinois (24). Michigan x14),
Wisconsin (12), Minnesota (9), Iowa (1J)
and Kansas (10). The most promising
field for Bryanlte work is found in In
diana and Kansas. Iowa seems as sure
for McKlnley .as New Hampshire, and
only the most sanguine Bryanlte? can
see as yet any signs which warrant a
belief that the great McKlnley plurali
ties of 1E96 in Michigan ((over 56,000),
Wisconsin (nearly 103.0CO), Minnesota
(over 53,000) and Illinois (over 142,003)
can be overcome this year.
In these computations we have allowed
Bryan Maryland, which seems today far
more likely to go again for McKlnley;
North Dakota and Wyoming, where Mc
Klnley apparently stands now a little
the better chance: and Kentucky, West
Virginia and Delaware, all which are by
no means sure for the opposition. What
ever Bryan loses among these six states,
which are given him for good measure,
must be made up from the central group
of states; and it certainly would be a
rare piece of good luck If he should get
them all.
It Is hardly possible to figure out a
majority in the electoral college for Bry
an, unless one has almost as much faith
as the candidate himself, who will "not
concede them (the Republicans) a state
this year, not even Vermont." The prob
abilities at the opening of the campaign
seem largely In favor of McKlnley s
success. Yet the Republican managers
would lose the election if they should
regard It as a sure thing. They will
have to make a hard fight to carry In
diana again, about which the local lead
ers of the party have all this year pri
vately admitted the gravest apprehen
sions, and to secure Kansas, which is
politically the most untrustworthy of
states In its region. Nor will It do to
put down even Ohio as sure, remem
bering how it "wabbled" so unexpectedly
in 1S92 that Cleveland won one of its
electoral votes.
Qualms of Conscience.
The London Speaker.
We wish it were possible to face the
stupendous problem that confronts Eu
rope at this moment without some bitter
heart-searching. But it is well to re
member Burke's great maxim, that in
dealing with any political event we must
not allow the causes to be swallowed uu
In their-cmsequences. Let us go back J
40 years to the time when English com
merce first thought to exploit the riches
of China, and remind ourselves how Lord
Palmerston determined to force the Chi
nese to eat opium, not for their own
good, but for the benefit of the Indian
taxpayer; how at the bayonet's "point we
forced an iniquitous traffic 'upon a re
luctant government; how we carried fire
and sword to Pekln, and finally impressed
by the most odious means upon the Chi
nese mandaxlnate the doctrine of the open
ports. That was but the beginning; the
policy which triumphed with tho treaty of
Tien Tsin is the same policy of greed
and violence by which every concession
to one power or another has been wrung
from the ruling caste pf China, Close ob
servers believe that the Immediate,
though not the only, cause of the Boxer
rising was the seizure of Kiao Chou by
tho German Emperor. Could that act of
piracy, so sudden, sensational and undis
guised, which gave the signal for a fresh
series of depredations to all the powets
Interested, have failed to nrnuso sit Inst-
even the sluggish and dissipated patriot- j
ism of the Chinese? We. will not speak
of the morality of these aggressions.
Survey them from the standpoint ot com
mon sense, and imagine, the unwisdom of
a policy which assumed that a nation of
400,000.000 could be made Indefinitely the
buffet of Western covetousnes3 without
retaliating! And this inability of the
statesmen and diplomatists to conceive
the contingency of a National reaction,
in which the unpopular Manchu dynasty
might see its opportunity to regain pres
tige, appears to have continued until the
Boxer movement had taken the most for
midable proportions: and even later,
within a few weeks of the events which
are all In our thoughts, the men respon
sible for European policy in the far East
seem to have been as far from appreciat
ing the perils of the situation in Pekin as
that poor young Englishman, whose let
ter written two months ago and pub
lished the other day in the Times, is so
touching in its carelessness. Its cheerful
and spirited expectation of a. little excite
mentnot without a spice of danger In.
the Chinese capitall
Principle And Practice.
Spokane Chronicle.
"We declare again that all governments in
stituted amene men derive their Just powers
from the consent ot the governed.
That's good reading, isn't it? Comes
from the latest Democratic platform, you
know. Fine sentiment grand. One can't
help Indorsing it. Let's read some moret
"That tho government not based upon the
consent of the coverned is a tyranny; and
that to Impose upon any ptople a government
of force- la to substitute the methods of Im
perialism for those of a republic"
It's eloquent inspiring. And one feels
such a thrill when, after reading this
noble declaration by the Democratic
party, he picks up the paper and read3
news like this:
RALEIGH, N. C Aug. 2. "White supre
macy!" has been the battle cry of the Demo
crats throughout the long and bitter campaign
just closed in North Carolina, the result of
which will be evidenced by the casting of bal
lots today. Conservative estimates made by
the Democrats place the majority for tho con
stitutional amendment, which will practically
disfranchise tho negro, at 40,000.
a '
Burying; the Fifteenth Amendment.
Boston Herald, Ind. Dem.
If there were anywhere any doubt that
the purpose of the campaign in Xorth
Carolina for an amendment to the state
Constitution means nullification of tho
15th amendment of the Constitution of
the United States, this declaration of for
mer United States Senator Mark Ransom
ought to be conclusive: "I spoke at
Elam Springs, in Northampton County,
near my home, one day last week. I
told the audience there that the proposed
amendment to the state Constitution
would take the negro out of politics m
North Carolina forever. I said that it
would bury in the dust the 15th amendment."
Wickedness of Campaign Funds.
Philadelphia Press.
Since Clark, of Montana, has paid over
to Croker and his gang, who are run
ning the Bryan campaign, the sum of
?100,000, it Is about time for Chairman
Jones to raise a shriek as to tho general
wickedness of the opposition in raising
a campaign fund. Clark believes in set
tling for favors with business prompt
ness. If Clark gives $100,000. what will
Croker give in the name of Tammany,
which this year leads the van of tho
Democracy? Such a privilege calls for
a generous return, and New" Yorkers
should prepare to be held up.
MEN" AXD WOMS??.
Russell Sage will probably go abroad this
month to spend some time at the Paris Ex
position. Dora E. Yates, of the University College,
Liverpool, has Just received her M- A. degree
at that place, and Is the first Jewess to gain
that honor In England.
George Lynch, who represented the London
Illustrated News in the Boer War, and who
Is a well-known war artist and correspondent,
is on his way to China.
Admiral George C. Remey, who commands
the United States fleet In Chlneie waters, re
cently contributed 500 to the endowment
fund of the Institute College, of Burlington,
la., of which he is a graduate.
Prince Ching. the Chinese General, who has
been so friendly to foreigners, was for some
time Lord Chanlberialn of tho court, and was
President of the Tsung 11 Tamun in 1S0S, when
Lord Charles Beresford visited it
Colonel Emerson H. Liscum, who was killed
In China recently, was stationed at Fort
Keogh, Mont., in the early '00s, and whllo
there arrested the Montana contingent of
Coxey's army, several thousand strong.
Ex-Vico-President Adlai E. Stevenson is very
fond of the theater at its best, and while in
Chicago, during Sir Henry Irving's last season
there, hfe declined all other invitations In order
to be present at almost every performance.
There was unveiled at La Testa de Buch,
Francesithe other day a statue of Dr. Jean
Harncau, the obscure medical practitioner who.
In 1S30, published a study on viruses in which
he partly anticipated the discoveries of Pas
teur. Professor Charles Eliot Norton, Ruskln'a
literary executor, says that Ruskin left his
manuscripts and notes in perfect order, as if
ho expected death. He had destroyad such
manuscripts as he did not wish to hae
printed.
Governor Roosevelt, in stopping over between
trains in Chicago the other day, found time
to slip out to a bookstore and buy a large
package of books. He always takes several
with him. when traveling, and read3 con
stantly whllo on the train. '
The Rajah of Kapurthala, the Sikh chief
who i3 about to visit London. Is very popular
with the English. Ho is an athlete and a war
rior, and Jiis territory in the Punjab brings
him 10,000 per annum. His family were
loyal to the British during the mutiny.
Rev. Francis Xavier Dutton, who, after the
consecration of Rev. Dr. Moeller as Roman
Catholic bishop of Columbus, -will become
chancellor of the diocese of Cincinnati, was
born in Utica. N. T., in 1S30. He studied
philosophy at Nancy, France, and theology in
Paris, Romo and New Tork. He was or
dained in 1863.
Joseph Flory, the Republican candidate for
the Governorship of Missouri, 13 conducting a
most novel campaign among the railroad men.
He has secured a railway velocipede, on which
he has been traveling all about the freight
yards of St. Louis and other cities In Mis
souri, getting personally acquainted with the
workers. He is in his shirt sleeves most of the
time, and la a most democratic and approach
able man, making fricrds wherever he goes.
Wild Oatn.
(A. picture of Mr. Bryan, eagerly examining
his oat crop, has just been printed, and it is
announced emphatically that the photograph
was a snap shot, "absolutely without posing,
Mr. Bryan being unconscious at the time.")
Young Wllium of Nebraaky strayed
From out his humble cot
In modest cowhide boots arrayed
To wado around his lot.
Tho hens all clucked in merry glee.
The pigeons cooed with bliss;
As Willie nubbed his chin, says he,
"There ain't no life like this."
Tho little calf came trotting up
And ate from out hl3 hand.
And Joyously the brindle pup
Raced in at his command.
And, wiping off his ma3stve brow.
He sighed with grief profound.
"I'd better go and see as now
Them oats is comln round."
In one far corner still and mute
Those oats in bunches zrew
The little rift within the lute.
The cloud in skies of blue.
And he, poor man. had watched them there
Through four long, weary years.
And tended them with loving care, ,
And water them with tears.
"Dear me, such cats," says Wllium J.,
"I'm sure was never seen.
With all my care and kindness they
Are draggled out- and green.
By gum," he say3, " that durned Novem-
Ber ain't so fur away.
Them oats of mine will run to stem
Afore the harvest day." J. R. R. J
iNGTE'AND COMMENT.
The Chinese Army is flghtins savagely
with the Boxers on the same side.
There seems to bo a good opening for
an industrious hangman at Walla Walla.
A man who looks for a leak in a gas
plpa with a lighted match always finds
It.
The Filipinos may come and the Box
ers may go, but the Boers fight on for
ever. Li Hung Chang Is such a crafty states
man that he refuses to confirm the report
of his own suicide.
When St. Louis views New Orleans
with alarm sho feels justified In pointing
with pride to herself,
The Dakota cyclone steps in to fill ra
any dull, sickening pauses thero may bo
in the midst of war's alarms.
"The trouble with this campaign." said
the honest tiller ot the soil, "is that
there's too many of these hero para
mount issues in It."
Richard Croker says there- are no op
portunities for young men in this coun
try. Bryan will likely take tho same
view this Fall, November 9.
The Sioux Indians want to go over
and fight the Boxers. No one will ever
be able to hear the cannon If these two
bands of savages ever get together.
When we hear the expression, "ho
died a thousand deaths," we know that
the person referred to must have fallen
into the hands of war correspondents.
By the time the other powers get
ready to start from Pekln they will meet
Chaffee and the British coming back
With the Chinese Government as pris
oners of war.
They took seats together in the car on
their wry home from the beech, and
shortly afterwards struck up an acquaint
ance. Thiv both happened to be new
comers. One boy said he was from Kan
sas, ani the other boy was formerly of
Denver. Being on a railroad train, thMr
conversation naturally reverted to pre
vious travels and exploits, and they
proved to be cheerful liars of the first
magnitude.
Whatever one oald was accepted by tho
other as gospel, and with this degreo of
confidence between them, the stories soon
grew in proportion until it developed into
a contest as to which was tho master ot
the game.
The Colorado boy was modest at first,
and satisfied ltimself with having been
every place the Kansas kid had been,
but this sort of thing got to be tame,
after a while, so Colorado commenced
telling yarns about boulders miles In
height, and followed with a tale about
running past a huge mountain which top
pled over on to the track just as the
last car of the train had safely passed.
This, he contended, was certainly the
moat hair-breadth escape en record. Kan
sas, not to be outdone, told of going
through a vast expanse of prairie fire,
during which the engineer's eyebrows
were scorched and all of the cars ren
dered a3 tropical as bake ovens.
The Colorado youth switched off on to
grades which he said were appalling m
his country, and such tunnels 70 mlle3
long and trestles 1000 feet high.
The Kansas kid appeared to be a trifle
bewildered for a second or two, but he
soon recovered his equilibrium and re
lated a tall one about being buried in a
train in a snowsllde in the Rockies for
two weeks, and explained how they dug
air holes and an entrance to the rear car
so as to get in provisions. To amuse
themselves, they got up a minstrel show,
and held prayer meetings in the cars
and church on Sunday. The Colorado boy
inquired where the provisions camo
from, but the Kansas kid had forgotten,
it was so long ago.
Tho Colorado boy then moved down
South, and related how a traia ho was
on narrowjy escaped being swallowed,
by an earthquake in New Mexico. Kan
sas retaliated by shifting the scene to
South America, having forgotten that ha
had previously stated that he had never
been outside of the United States. His.
companion, however, did not question his.
veracity, and Kansas proceeded to detail
his wonderful experiences during a ride
over tho Andes Mountains, and was go
ing it strong about herds of all sorts;
of wild animals, monkeys, alligators and
enormous reptiles seen en route, when,
tho train pulled Into the Union depot, and;
the boys were taken in tow by their
mothers.
Imperialism in Tforth Carolina.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Our Democratic brethren cheer for
Bryan and "consent of the governed" In.
the Philippines, but think little of th.it
Jeffersonian principle In North Carolina.
Why does not Mr. Bryan hasten to the
oldl North State and point1, oirt'To' ins
Red Shirt follower3"'tlfeif imperialistic:
error?
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAFHERS
Another Passe Attraction "Just heard fron
my family. They were at the Paris fair last
week." "Eh! The Paris fair! Is that stilt
going on?" Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Lengthy. She "How many years have we.
been acquainted?" He "I don't know exact
lya great many." She "I feel already as ir
I had known -you two or three days at the
seashore." Harper's Bazar.
A Question. Ethel "Mamma, why is th
wife of a Lord called 'Lady?' Mamma
"Because that is her title." Ethel "But can't
people see that she's a lady without being:
told so?" Brooklyn Life.
His Usual Trip. "What is meant by a Sabbath-day's
journey?" asked the Sunday school
teacher. "From our house to grandpapa's and
back," replied Freddie FosUIck. who knew
where hl3 family took dinner every Sunday.
Chicago New3.
More Reason to Exterminate Him. Watts
"Still, you mu3t concede that tho Chinaman
minds his own business only." Potts ' OC
course. He is notorious for that. It is only
another evidence of hia lack of real human
ity." Indianapolis Press.
Cheering Him Up. Mr. Newlywed "I saw
your old lover on the street today, looking aw
fully blue." Mrs. Newlywed "I hope you
tried to cheer him up." Mr Newlywed "Oh,
yes. I showed him my buttonless shirt and
that new tie you bought me." Judge.
His Time Would Come. Rupert "You speak
slightingly of my affection now. but do tima
will come when you will laud me to de
skies." Angellne "An when'lt dat be?" Ru
pert "When you marry some poor slob and
begin giving him a earache about de fancy
guys you might have married 1 you hadn't
been so foolish." Puck.
Margins.
Er Robert J. Burdette.
"My dreams so fair that used to be.
The promises or youth's bright cltme.
So- changed, alas! come back to me
Sweet memories of that hopeful tlmo
Before I learned, with doubt oppressed.
There are no birds in next year's nest
The seed I sowed In fragrant Spring
The Summer's sun to vivify
With his warm kisses, ripening
To soklen harvest by and by.
Got causht by drouth, like all the rest
There are no birds in next year's nest.
The stock I bought at eighty-nine
Broke down next day to twenty-eight;
Some squatters Jumped my silver mine.
My own convention smashed my a la to;
No more in futures I'll Invest
There are no birds In next year's nest,