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THE MOHNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1900.
EARLY SPANISH DISCOVERERS AND EXPLORERS
(Copyrfsht, IKK), by Seymour Eaton.)
He OREGONIAN'S HOME STUDY CIRCLE: DIRECTED BY PROF- SEYMOUR EATON
DISCOVERERS AND
EXPLORERS OF AMERICA
BY LYMA2JP. POWELL.
VIII.
In temperament and training the Span
ish people seemed suited, to the task of
xperaJon. For many years they had
been at war with the iloors, and In the
school of war had learned to take blows
as well as to give them. Inured to the
hardships of campaigning, they were
ready to bear their full share of the trials
of the pioneer. Their love of adventure
was now at its full and the strain of
bohcmlanism in their blood was new most
evident and most Impera'tive. To leave
home and kindred and country made
few demands upon their feelings. Most
of them could set all without a pang
and with none of the anticipatory dread
of the homesickness which under the
modern name of nostalgia did great dam
age to our soldiers in Cuba and the
Philippines. Fierce adventurers that fell
on kingdoms for their prey, the Span
lards seemed of all the European peo
ples to be Just the men to open up the
new world to settlement.
But they were never good colonizers.
TVlth them colonization was always in
the words of Swinburne, "a hideous and
Boeotian jest." "Where other nations
achieved at least a moderate success the
Spaniards never lost a chance to make an
arrant failure. Not one of their experi
ments, viewed in the larger light of his
tory, could by any warrant of Imagina
tion be called a real success. Not only did
the natives whom they found suffer griev
ously, but the mother country always in
the long run paid to the uttermost tho
hard penalty of the witless and vicious
policy she allowed her colonizers to ini
tiate and to follow, to her and their un
doing. From the very moment the lone
ly followers of De Soto sunk his weighted
remains in the midnight darkness to the
bottom of the Mississippi River the lines
Professor TV. P. Trent wrote In 169S have
been veraclously accurate:
Thine hour Is come, a stronger race
Succeeds nnd thou must fall.
Thy pride but adding to thy sad disgrace.
As wormwood unto tall.
And ret thou hast but reaped what thou hast
sown.
For In thy pride of strength
Thou didst the kingdom of the mind disown.
And so art sunk at length.
The Spaniards used not merely poor
Judgment in the solution of their coloniz
ing problem;, they used no judgment at
all. They sent out foolish, weak and
gracoless men to deal with concerns tnat
required men wise and strong and true,
nnd they gave to all the "Christian
scoundrels" they sent out carte blancne
to go where they pleased and do as
they liked. The Jamestown settlers were
over-eager for gold, but there was a
John Smith ready at the proper moment
to reduce the chaos to some order. The
Dutch wera chiefly Interested In the
economic value of the now America, but
they were not averse to work or to trade
for their reward. The pilgrim fathers, in
the well-known playful words, first foil
tiprn their knees and then upon the ab
orlglnes, but this was Just a fleck upon
tho fair fame at the settlers of New
England. The Spanish explorers had no
redeeming traits. Cruel, lazy, greedy,
they camo hither for the solitary pur
pose of discovering gold, and the gliding
of their greed with pious professions
of devotion to the cross made it tho more
nausoating. Never caring to make a
home or to found a nation, the:- were
impatient to despoil the land of all its
pold and then sail back to Spain, to be
flattered and envied by a people always
ovcrfond of the tinsel and the glitter of
this life of ours. The men who sacked
Mexico and Peru, who trampled the best
development of Indian civilization to
pieces undr tho hnrd hoofs of cruel con
quest, who worked the soft inhabitants
of the adjacent islands to death and .re
plpced them by "blnck men captured In
tho wilds of Africa, wer Just goldhunt
prs. nothing more. And Spnnlsh coloniza
tion was in consequence foredoomed to
failure.
Columbus was tho worthiest of all the
men ton 5-inln 5"nt out. and he was not
a Smnlard. Vh:ro Nunez de Uilboa,
called inaccurately Balboa by English
writers, is th most attractive of all the
unattnct4vo Spaniards who came hither.
A bankrupt and a rebel, he crossed tho
Jean Ponce de Leon,
ocean in 1501 to repair his fortunes by
pood luck. To escape imprisonment for
debt in Kaytl he took passage concealed
in a cask in an out-bound vessel, and
when the vessel was wrecked off Daricn
ho led a revolt against the captain. En
clsco. who had spared his life, deposed
Encisco and made himself by the force
of an unscrupulous character commander
of the company. One day while on a
foracing expedition not far from the
present town of Colon, an Indian chief,
observing the greed of the Snanlards.
told them of a vast ocean to the west
ward where gold was as plentiful as
pebbles on the shore. Hero was at last
Jean Ponce de Leon.
the chance for Vasco Nunez to repair
his wasted fortune, retrieve his ruined
roputiulon and atone for his great trea
son. Sptember, IBIS, ho left Darien with
noarly 3M men, bloodhounds and Indian
guides. Ho fought his way with need
less cruelty through tribes of hostile In
dians, "hewing them in pieces as the
"butchers doc flesh in the shambles" or
giving them over to the dogs, which tore
them limb from limb "as if thev were
wild boirs or Hr-rics." On September
25 he found himself on the crest of the
Cordlilems, not far from the line of the
present Panama Railroad, while at the
base glittered for many a milo a waste
of unknown waters which Vasco Nu
nez. alb4t ho fell upon his knee in awe.
could not have dreamed was the largest
occur on the globe. Wading out Into the
water to hi waKt. he took possession
of It in the name of Spain and called it
Mar del Sur, or South Sea. to distinguish
it from the Mar del Norte, as the
SpnirAs termed the Caribbean. Vasco
Nunoc nuide several voyages along the
P&eHIc Coat snd fell a victim to the
fears and Jealousies of a rival, the Gov
ernor of Darien. who had him beheaded
in 1T.
Around the name of Juan Ponce de Leon
there Is the halo of a rich rominee. Of
noble pedigree, a companion of Columbus
on Ms secftnd voyace. a rather f-mons
soldier f fortune already pact the hev
dy of his youth, and growing old and
Wase. Pence de Leon added to Spanish
lovo for gold an insatiate desire to h
voHniT enough to extract from gold its full
dT.yht In Ms earlier dy he h-d heord
of course, the Oriental stories of a foun-
tain where the oldest might renew his
youth. Possibly he had read the spuri
ous letter of old Prester John, who vowed
he could commend the fountain, because
he had tried it once himself. When word
came to Ponce de Leon In Porto Itlco
that the long-sought fountain was now j
at last located, tht Indians said It could
be found on an island called BIminI, j
northward of Hispianola, he could scarce-1
ly wait the coming of King Ferdinand's
consent for him to hasten off to have his
bath. "Wealthy enough to bear the whole
expense, he tot sail on his pathetic voy
age with three caravels In March. 1513.
and, disembarking at the Bahamas, the j
aged cavalier and his companions tried
every lake, stream, rivulet and spring,
and then in disappointment hastened on
their way, to make their real landfall,
not Easter morning, as some historians
say, but six days later, April 2, near the
site of St. Augustine. He tarried long
enough to name tho country Florida, to
find the story of the fountain all a
myth, to cruise awhile among the neigh
boring islands, and then at last to re-
FERXAXDO
turn to Porto Rico, still white-haired !
and wrinkled and a little Older. In 1521 j
he came out once again to found a col- '
ony, but his landing was disputed by the
Indians, and he received a wound in tho
thigh from an arrow, which sent him to
Cuba, there to die a death of prolonged
suffering.
A yet more formidable and if possible
more disastrous attempt to take posses
sion of the countrj- was made in 152S
by Panphllo de Narvaz. Appointed to
succeed Cortez, the conquerer of Mex
ico, he landed on the coast of Florida
in the Spring of 1K5, and fired by Pin
eda's mention of gold ornaments on the
Mississippi Indians, he hurried inland as
fast as he could go to find an Indian
town as full of gold and precious stones
as those which welcomed Plzarro in
Peru. With the characteristic stupidity
of his infamous predecessors, he relied
upon the sword to conquer a country
which might have been secured by kind
ness. Thfr first batch of Indian captives
was flung to bloodhounds, though upon
the chief the kinder torment was inflicted,
of an amputated nose. The Indian ar
rows, the dlrmal swamps, the tangled
forests, the smothering heat, the fever
breeding climate, the scarcity of food,
turned them back at last, and the sur
vivors reached the Gulf, near the mouth
of the Mississippi the most of them to
perish in the fierce "northers," still a
menace to the sailors on the mighty
Gulf.
Fernando de Soto had been with Cor
dova at Nicaragua, and had had a hand
in the conquest of Peru. Made Governor
of Cuba in 1337, he offered at his own
expense to redeem the unkept promise
of Narvnez, and was authorized by his
sovereign to conquer and to occupy the
land embraced within the patent of his
predecessor. In May of 1539 he anchored
at Tampa, within sight of the spot where
11 years before Narvaez had set out on
his Ill-starred expedition. Though Do
Soto had roundly blamed Pizarro for his
horrid treatment of the Inca. and though
he knew full well the baneful conse
quences of the foolish, faithless policy
of Narvaez toward the natives, De Soto
proved just as silly and as cruel. No
Indignity was too fiendish for him to
try upon hapless men and women who
fell Into his clutches, and in consequence
he had to fight his way, inch by inch,
across the country, though the hostile
Creeks, no mean antagonists even for the
armored and firearmed Spaniards. Before
relentless hostility the Spaniards slowly
melted away, and, after a desperate fight
In the Autumn of 1541. near the site of
Mobile, where De Soto lost 170 of his
men, the end seemed near, even to the
most sanguine and most sanguinary. On
to the Mississippi they pushed, barely
escaping annihilation in a furious engage
ment with the Chlckasaws. The eldorado
of their fancy still eluded them, though
they must have penetrated far beyond
the Mississippi. Wounded in battle, weak
ened by suffering and disease, disheart
ened by his failure to find gold and his
Inability to found a colony. De Soto at
last orders the building of two brlgan
tlnes, in which his party may float down
the Mississippi and from Its mouth make
back to Cuba. The work was hardly un
der way when the commander died of
fever. May 21, 1542, and was buried in the
Mississippi, lest the Indians should wan
tonly desecrate the grave, A year later
the few survivors of a cause forever and
deservedly lost made their way to the
Mexican coast and sent the doleful news
of their undoing to Havana.
After this the colonizing of the New
World languished for a while. The Span
lards had nothing to show for all their
pains except the lasting pain of mortify
ing failure. Instead of gold they had
nothing but experience, by which neither
then nor in their recent government of
Cuba have they ever profited. For the
life of them they could see no good rea
son for holding Florida, and when in the
Autumn of 1361 Philip II announced that
he would encourage no further attempts
to colonize the country every one was
glad to have an end of unsuccessful ef
forts to find gold where there was no
gold, and to deal with natives who could
gle a good account of themselves.
Philadelphia!
The Chinese anil Missionaries.
Poultney Blcelow in North American Review.
The public misrepresentations cf the
spirit and alms of the Christian religion
and cf tho objects which animate Chris
tion missionaries In their work are almost
incredible. I have before me a specimen
of the posters which are from time to j
time exhibited throughout the country
with a view to bring indignation and con
tempt upon the foreigner. It represents
our Savior in the shape of a hog. He is
being worshiped by two "foreign devils."
the one marked "teacher." the other "dis
ciple." These two are branded with the
most Insulting epithets known t the Chi
nese vocabulary, notably those lndlca ing
lack of sexual virtue. One Inscription
reads. yThls is the beast which the for-
elgn devils follow. The bog's skin and
"bristles are still upon him." Down ths
left-hand side of the picture and In tho
middle of the poster are inscriptions which
are absolutely too otssene for publication.
JESTER'S BEST LAWYER.
Father Time Worked in Ills Behalf
and Successfully.
Chicago Tribune.
One of the most remarkable criminal
trials in history has Just como to an
end at Now London, Mo. Old Alexander
Jester has been acquitted on the charge
of murder, and the mystery, which for
nearly 30 years has surrounded the fate
of young Gilbert Gates is still unsolved.
In the case Is Involved nearly every pos
sible element of sensational interest.
On January 23. 1S7L Gilbert Gates, a
mere boy, dirappenred while traveling
In a mover's wagon through Missouri in
company with Jester. Jester was ar
rested and locked up in jail In Mexico,
Mo. Aided by other prisoners, he dug
a tunnel and escaped. "With his escape
the curtain drops on the first act of the
tragedy. The next 29 years are a. blank.
A. A. Gates, of West Chicago, father
of the missing boy, spent much money In
looking for his son and in trying to get
some trace of Jester, but his eilorts were
DE SOTO.
useless. Finally he gave up tho attempt.
John W. Gates was the elder brother
of young Gilbert. One aay, sitting in his
hotel in New York, 29 years after his
brother had vaninhed from tho knowledge
of the world, he casually picked up a
newspaper. His eye happened to fall
upon a little Item telegraphed from an
Obscure village in Oklahoma Territory.
It related that an old, white-haired man,
locked up In Jail as the result of a land
dispute under the name of W. II. Hill,
had been positively identified as Alex
ander Jester. Almo3t before ho had re
covered from the shock a. 'letter came
from a woman cnlling herself the, half
sister of Alexander Jester. She de
clared that for nearly CO years she had
concealed the knowiedge of her brother's
crime; tint her conscience would allow
her to conceal it no longer, and that she
wished to give him up to Justice.
The Gates family, hoping to get at
last the solution of the long mystery,
procured the arrest of Jester. He was
brought back for trial to the country
through which, 30 years before, he and
young Gilbert Gates had driven on their
way to the golden West. Detectives
swarmed about Middle Grove, Mo., and
traced every step taken by Jester on his
long overland journey in 1S71. They fol
lowed him into the far Southwest and
brought every detail of his life for 25
years under the microscope. The search
for witnesses extended over almost as
many states and territories as years havo
elapsed since the alleged crime was
committed. Eminent attorneys were em
ployed to prosecute the case, and the
trial began. Never, perhaps, in the hls
xory of Jurisprudence has such a won
derful exhibition of memory been given
as that displayed on the stand and under
oath by many of the witnesses. Old men
and women testified to the most minute
details as to the acts arid whereabouts
of Jester In January, 1871, fixing with
positive exactness such facts as the
date and even the time of day when Jes
ter, for instance, asked for a drink of
water or stopped his wagons at a cross
roads store. People to whom such feats
of memory seem Impossible should re
member, however, before condemning the
witnesses as untruthful, that people In
the rural districts have fow exciting
things to interest them, and, consequent
ly, remember wfth vividness facts which
city residents would soon forget. Again,
it is a common experience that old peo
ple often retain in memory occurrences
of their early life long after more re
cent events have been forgotten. At any
rate, witnesses were found who wove
about old man Jester a web of circum
stantial evidence. "
But after hearing all the evidence and
listening to the speeches of the eminent
criminal lawyers, the jury, seven mem
bers of which were born after the al
leged crime was committed, found him
"not guilty" on the third ballot. The ver
dict Is not a surprising one. On the
contrary, it would have been an astonlsh
inig thing if so old a man had beeen
found guilty so many years after his al
leged crime was committed. Time is
tho one fixed and unalterable factor Jn
all human affairs, and a crime which
has been a mystery f nearly 30 years
is not likely under any circumstances
ever to be punisned.
Hardwoods of Great Value,
Medford Mail.
The hardwoods of Southern Oregon are
rapidly coming into notoriety. They
should be preserved with the utmost care
for manufacturing purposes. Hardwood
on the Coast will be as valuable as walnut
In the Middle Western States. We re
member when fine walnut trees, three or
four feet In diameter, which would have
made the finest quality of furniture, were
cut down and made into rails; and. we
have lived to see this timber so scarce
and valuable that the stumps of these
fine trees have been dug up and sold at
fabulous prices to meet the demand for
this valuable wood. The value of all
grades and varieties of hardwood, 'suit
able for manufacturing purposes, should
be understood now before it has been ex
hausted Jn waste or used for purposes
where less valuable woods would answer
as well. Every Important resource sus
ceptible of exhaustion through waste or
inadvertance. should be carefullv hus
banded to meet a future demand which is
certain to come.
Member of the Church Militant.
Medford Mall. ,
There was a rough meeting house up'at
Talent last Sunday evening. Evangelist
Goddard was holding services, and. as we
are told, during his remarks made romc
assertions to which James Forsythe, a
Southern Pacific painter, took exceptions.
The evangelist stepped out of the pulpit
and proceeded to eject Forsythe from the
church, which act was accomplished after
a second effort. The evangelist's collar
was torn off and his puter garments
otherwise disarranged. A warrant was
sworn out by T. J. Ecll, charging For
sythe with disturbing a religious meeting.
He pleaded guilty and was fined $10 and
costs, amounting in all to $15 30, which
was paid.
M'KINLEY IS IHE BOSS
AD HAXXA.IS OXLT AS CLAT IX
THE POTTER'S HANDS.
An Entertaining: Stnd-r of McIClnley
and Bryan by a Man "Who
Observes Keenly.
l is sometimes said that Mr. McICln
ley Is an opportunist, saj-3 a writer in
tho New York Sunday Herald. He is.
Opportunism is the essence of American
business success. Given honesty, loyal
ty, industry, untiring energy the ground
work common to all Industrial or politi
cal organizations and no other princi
ples arc needed by the modern school.
Everything else Is Improvised as required
by the developments of the day, and the
emergencies of the hour. Put Mr. Bryan
.at the head of a big concern and he
would endeavor to run it by means of
preconceived notions. It would be all
theor;-. There would be hard and fast
rules. He would try to operate upon
men by means of principles borrowed
from the fathers. Mr. McIClnley, the
true executive, counterpart of all modern
Industrial administration, operates upon
men directly through understanding of
human nature.
McKinloy's one basic principle led him,
immediately after his inauguration in
1SS7, to call Congress to special ression
for the purpose of enacting a new tariff
law. There his instinct and his luck ran
parallel. His Idea was to give the coun
try prosperity. Now, prorperlty was com
ing of itself; coming slowly but surely
in response to laws Infinitely higher and
greater than acts of Congress. But Mc
IClnley got his new tariff law upon the
'statute books Just In time to secure the
credit for all the good times that fol
lowed. Apart from this one act, all the remain
der of McKinley's administration has
been opportunicm of the simplest and
most obvious sort practical, sensible,
buslners opportunism meeting problems
after they have developed and not before.
-drliting carefully with complications till
they can be thoroughly understood, tak
ing advantage of events rather than try
ing to force, or create them. McKinley
never set out to be an explorer or dis
coverer. He sails alor.tr with the fail
wind, but steers constantly and well and
has one of the best weather eyes ever
seen upon the political waters. He runs
Into port with the tide, but no mariner
ever watched light more alertly than ho
or was more skillful In avoiding shoal
or breal-.er.
McKinley's habitual opportunism, hla
practice of waiting to see how the wind
blows, has given the careless observer
the impression that this is a sign of
weakness, of timidity, of lack of char
acter.. It is nothing of the sort. Oppor
tunism is Mr. McKinley's principle, it is
his strength, It is his salvation. He be
lives in it, he wonshlps at Its shrine. He
goes upon the theory that the best op
portunist Is the most successful In the
race. The results Indicate that he is
right.
In 1896 William McIClnley did not know
whether he was a gold man or a silver
man. The question had never been
brought forward in an acute way. Hith
erto he had escaped all searching in
quiry by announcing himself a bimetal
ist the convenient compromise, which
meant nothing and was employed by so
many persons. But in 1S93 his party was
meeting in National convention at St,
Louis and threatening to take a new
departure by putting the word "gold"
into its platform. Did Mr. McKlnley fa
vor it? He did not know. He was wait
ing to seo what the party itself wanted.
He was for whatever the party was for.
Mr. McKinley is strongly enough for
the gold standard now. Of course, he
is. The path is plain. It' is unmistak
able. And if any one harks back to the
doubtful days of 90 when It was the toss
of a copper whether It should be gold or
a straddle, let him not say that hesitan
cy on McKinley's part was a sign of
weakness. Ndt so. In his philosophy
and his philosophy, mind you, Is practi
cal and success-bringing, that bit of
cautious waiting, oar to ""ground, that
renunciation rather than assumption of
responsibility was strength, strength of
the highest order. Mr. McKinley lays
no claim to being a great leader, a pion
eer. He is content to go as fast as the
world goes, and he cautiously tries p
avoid going a whit faster. This Is the
natural adaptlblllty of a man whd knows
almost noting of books, excepting the
Bible and the Congressional Record, but
who mingles more with men, reads them
more assiduously, draws more out of
them, than any other personage of his
times. . . . The enemies of Mr. Mc
Kinley are fond of saying "he has kept
his ear so close to the ground that ho
has worn that member off close up to his
head." But this is only a bit of witti
cism. Mr. McIClnley believes in keeping
his car to the ground. That is his meth
od. Understand this, and you have the
keynote to his character. He does not
believe there is anything reprehensible
in it. To the contrary, he belivcs it his
duty. He has faith that nine times out
of 10 the people are right in their sober
Judgment; that it is safe to follow them;
that the vox popull Is the voice of wis
dom. He has no shame in being an op
portunisthe only wants to be the best
opportunist in the business
From whatever point of view we study
McKinley we find him pursuing this fa
vorite method. He aims to bo no An
drew Jackson, as Grovcr Cleveland. The
world is not to him an oyster, to be
opened as he likes with the sharp end
of his firmly held Instrument of power.
It Is, rather, a complex, growing, devel
oping thing, subject to certain of na
ture's laws as to climate, atmosphere,
soil and water, and it Is his business to
watch and nourish and guard It, and
when it finally blooms, be It prickly cac
tus or sweet rose, it is his and he is
with it, and in control of It, and, as
chief gardener, he so trains It that it
may inure to his glory and renown.
If we seek a better keynote to the Mc
Kinley character than any we have as
yet employed, perhaps wo shall find It In
saying that he Is an adept in the art of
benevolent selfishness. His Is the policy
and tho practice which endeavors to
make everything work out for tho com
mon good and his own special benefit.
So great is his skill that even close ob
servers often lose sight of the man and
h'.s personal motive in the splendor of
the well disposed ensemble. He is even
content to play the game so adroitly
that men think him weak and vacillat
ing. There is a prevalent belief that he
laoks strength of purpose and Is easily
led by others: that he wobbles and yields
too much to be entitled to a niche in the
gallery of real fame.
This is an error. It is a natural error,
due to the cleverness -with which the
game of benevolent selfishness istplayed.
Judged from a little distance William
McKinley is thought the most generous
and self-sacrificing of men. He is all
urbanity, all milk or human kindness, all
surrender and compromise. His speech Is
soft, his glove of velvet. So smooth and
unctious arc alt his moods and methods
that small wonder the steel of selfish
ness and persistency, of Iron will and
indomitable purpose to reach the result
aimed at, is overlooked.
... In the estimation of the ill-informed
public the character of McKinley
has been wholly subordinate to that of
Hanna. The child who asked if McKin
ley .would still be President were Hanna
to die is famous. But this, too, is a
myth. It may surprise a goodly number
of people to learn that Instead of Hanna
eclipsing McKinley. It Is Hanna who Is
as clay in the hands of the Presidential
potter. Hanna is at heart the sincerer,
milder man, no matter what manners
Indicate. Hanna loves McKinley; McKin
ley uses Hanna. Wholly contrary to a
general belief, it is not the chairman
of the Republican National committee
who Is thestronger-willed, the more sel
fish, dominant,
Bryan.
Discontent needs nothing so much as
a voice. Nothing but a voice can direct
and lead it. A voice s ready to fall
down and worship. Unconsciously, to it
self, the organized discontent of the
Democratic party at Chicago in 1S96 wa3
seeking a voice which should summon
to its side all the unorganised discontent
of the masses. Suddenly the voice ap
peared. It came as a potent phrase
maker from the prairies. With Its "cross
of gold and crown of thorns" It stood
wit outstretched hands and tho scepter
was placed in them. The voice was
Bryan. From that day to this the party
has remained true to Its Instincts, and
has made no serious effort to rid itself
of the leadership of the soothsayer. It
has recognized the eternal . fitness of
things by keeping as Its lmperator the
utterer of epigrams, by preserving the
dictatorship of the discontented in the
hinds of the chief declalmer. . . .
"We Democrats are a different people
from the Republicans," said Mr. Dock
cry, a former Congressman from Mis
souri, and the next Governor of that
state, at Kansas City. "The Republi
cans have discipline. They arc organized
on business lines. The leaders say how
many addresses shall be made, and who
shall make them, and that's all there
is of It, But when we Democrats get
together ovcry one of us thinks it his
duty to ma!:e a speech, and all the rest
of us think it our duty to stand around
and help him." Of this party Mr. Bryan
Is tho fitting and well-chosen louder, Mr.
McKinley 13 such a perfect typo of the
business and executive spirit of the
American people that he may be said to
be a personification of it In our public
life. Mr. Bryan as perfectly represents
the elements of protest, of dissent, of
discontent, of dreams of higher and bet
ter things not definitely dchned, or well
understood, but which have a good and
virtuous sound when translated, into
well-rounded rhetorical periods. . . .
But It will not do for anyone to assume
that Mr. Bryan, because an Idealist and
an egotist, is without the will power and
forco of character which arc. requisite
to a succcrsul management of the Na
tion's altalrs. That would be a great
mistake, a deception of one's self. There
is a widespread impression, especially In
the East, that the Democratic candidate
for President is shallow, demagogic; a
mere dreamer, whosa dreams fail to co
ordinate, and whose lack cf stamina
would make his administration at Wash
ington a rudderless, water-logged dere
lict, full of surprises and dangers. I
know Mr. Bryr.n well, and I am sure
this Is a gross misconception of his char
acter, Mr. Bryan is in earnest! He be
lieves what he says. Ho really and truly
thinks the gold standard a great evil In
the world, the Imperialistic tendencies of
the Republican party a menace to the '
Republic. These are with him more than
matters of the mouth they are from the
heart. He may be a dreamer, but he"
dreams honestly and without the aid of
self-administered narcotics. ...
His faith is not in practical politics, in
the old methods which William C. Whit
ney, Arthur P. Gorman and Marcus A.
Hanna know so much of. When Mr.
Bryan rays his trust Is in the people he
means it. He is not merely saying things
for the sound of them. That Is his creed.
In tliis day and generation it seems sad
ly old-fashioned and prosaic, but with
Mr. Bryan It is eminently practical and
modern. It is the only politics he knows.
His conception of manipulation is to get ,
the people together in nn open space
where there is a hill or rostrum at ono
side of it, and there to appear and make
appeal to them by word of mouth. If the
politicians of Kansas City had not suc
cumbed to this dictatorial Idealist's lrade
as to the platform, do you know what
wo should have seen? One of the most
dramatic incidents ever witnessed in a
National convention. Mr. Bryan speed
ing to Kansas City by special train,
rushing to the hall, raising his hand
and his voice over tho multitude, ap
pealing from leaders and generals and
heads of masses to the private In the
ranks. Ho would not have appealed In
vain. There never was a great man in
politics who was not bigger than his
party. Mr. Bryan know this. He had
made himself his party's voice, but he
yearned for something more. He was Its
nominal physical leader. But that was
not enough. He wished to be Its moral
master. The opportunity came when the
head men led him up in the mountain.
He seized it. He compelled them to set
the stamp of their approval upon him
when he ran counter to their wishes.
This is more than leadership It Is abso
lutism, but absolutism for principle's
sake. It is heroism, because it may be
renunciation of the Presidency. . . .
Bryan has made himself a man before
the eyes of his countrymen. He has re
sisted and won. That it was hi3 purpose
deliberately and strikingly to place him
self in contrast with Mr. McKinley there
can be no doubt. He had seer the countrj-
tending to the conclusion that his
rival was as clay in the handu of Potter
Hanna; a trimmer and wobbler; a man
without moorings to any other bank than
that of self-interest; ono who would shift
and turn and run this way or that to be
President again. It was not Mr. Bryan's
business to stop to Inquire whether this
estimate of McKinley was wrong or right.
All he wanted to know was that the
estimate had place in men's minds. His
task was to put himself in contrast with
that figure, of his rival, to make people
say unto themselves and to one another:
"Here at last Is the man we long have
sought; one who bends not the knee,
whose moral backbone is of solid stuff;
ono who may be wrong in some things,
but who Is right in character and
strength."
It is the fashion in some parts of the
country to look upon Mr. Bryan as a dan
gerous radical of revolutionary tenden
cies. But many of his friends complain
of him that he is not radical enough.
They would like him to favor government
ownership, but he refuses. They talk to
him of the initiative and referendum. He
waves them aside. Instead of being a
Populist with Democratic leanings, Mr.
Bryan is a Democrat with a love for Ppp
ullst votes. Mr. Bryan possesses remark
able ability as a hypnotist. Nearly all
tho men who. fall within his Influence are
completely charmed by him. This is not
confined to those who agree with him
upon the Issues of the day, but often
extends to those who go to argue with
him. During the agitation about tho
Democratic silver plank a number of
prominent party men called on Mr.
Bryan to coax him over to the conserva
tive side. Almost invariably Mr. Bryan
and they were, in harmony at the close
of the Interview, but it was not Mr.
Bryan who had yielded. The one notable
exception to this rule was David B. Hill.
Mr. Bryan is a fatalist. He believes he
is to be President of the United States
before he dies. He is so confident of
it that he does not permit himself to be
worried by doubts and fears. If it does
not come In 19C0, it will como in 1904, and
if not In 1901 then In 1903; for Mr. Bryan
has not the slightest notion of stepping
aside from Democratic leadership even
if defeated next November. The Demo-
crats who want to defeat Mr. Bryan this
year In order that their party may get
rid of him once for all are reckoning
without the knowledge or co-operation of
Mr. Bryan.
Hoiv Her Deafness Was Cored.
Detroit Free Press.
"My wife has had her curiosity ap
peased in a way that will satisfy her for
some time," said tho newly-married
man. "It was my idea to make our
wedding trip as quiet as possible and do
away as much as we could with the an
noyance that usually attends wedding
couples. But the woman said that she
was proud of being a bride, and that she
wanted to hear the comments that the
people would make. With this end In
view, rhe hit upon the crazy notion of
playing deaf and dumb and going through
a lot of monkey shines with our fingers
to carry out the scheme. She reasoned
that this would cause people to talk In
our presence and thus we would be able
to hear what they said.
"I opposed the idiotic idea from the
start, but what I said cut no figure, and
I had to consent to the plan. Our first
chance to try the scheme occurred in
a railway station where We were waiting
for a. train. My wife commenced her
TJbat ordinary irea&masl
falls to relieve painful
periods
They know Lydla Ea Pink"
hasn's Vegetable Gom
pour.tS will and does and
has, naore than any other
medicine
Every woman knows
about Rlrsm Pinkhana's
medicine
Every woman knows
seme woman Mrs Pink"
ham has cured
But nine women csit of
ten pzst eff getting this re
liable remedy until their
health is nearly wrecked
sy experiments or neg
leotl
Then they write to Mrs
Pinkham and she cures
them, hist of course it
takes icszger to do so
Don't delay getting help if
you are sick
She has helped a million
women Why not you 9
pantomime, and I had to carry it out,
feeling like a fool while I was doing it.
She wobbled her fingers and I wobbled
mlno. and we soon had every one staring
.at us. There were two women seated
back of us, and the comments she de
sired so much to hear soon-came.
" 'It's a newly married couple, said
one. 'The poor things are deaf and
dumb. Isn't it awful?'
" 'What do you suppose he saw in
her?' asked the other. 'Sho Is posltlvely
homely.
" 'And I believe her hair is bleached
said the first woman.
" 'And her hat Is out of date.' was the
next startler.
" 'Looks like an old one made over,
was the reply.
" 'Her dress wrinkles in the back,' said
the first.
" 'She's 35 if she's a day, and she looks
as if she had a frightful temper,' put In
one of them.
"Right there my wife found her tongue,
and her remarks to those two Women left
no doubt about her having that important
article that women are supposed to ex
orcise so freely."
Ennrene Sleeps Brownsville Hnatlea.
Eugene Register.
Everyone realizes that in the near fu
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district will be a matter vitally import
ant to Eugene. Everyone knows that thi3
trade is now menaced by the town of
Brownsville; that there is only one possi
ble way in which it can be retained to
Eugene, and that that way Is to improve
the Blue River road. These are facts.
And yet, after 10 days of soliciting, G.
W. Griffin and C. M. Young are able to re
port a subscription aggregating only SSC0.
It is no wonder that the committee Is
discouraged, nor is It surprising that
the mining men of the district hall with
delierht the announcement that the actual
work of grading has b;gun on the Browns
ville road. Tomorrow the committee will
make a final effort. They believe that
?2000 must be subscribed In Eugene. If
they meet with no success tomorrow, the
matter will be dropped.
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