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POB-TLAMJ, TTjnSDAT, AEGTJST T STRICTLY TEIiliERrAJr. 3L characteristic pleca of Tellerlan 'crookedness Is this: I have urffd ever Blnce the "war began that Tre lake etoss to convince the Filipinos that r axe not going to deny them participation in their government. It is seldom Indeed that Senator Tel ler rises to the high plane of bold and sincere mendacity displayed when he said the other day that nobody had ever advocated abandonment of the Philip pines. It suits him much better to pre varicate by indirection. It is so much more statesmanlike, Bryanlstic and al together Senatorial. So he says by In direction that we propose to deny the Filipinos participation in their govern ment. That is the idea he seeks to con vey. Observe, he does not say we pro pose to deny it. He "will not even say the Filipino thinks so. He stops short of saying that we ought to convince the Filipino of his error. The positive as sertion he makes Is the extremely cau tious observation, on Its face harmless whether true or false, that ever since the war began Senator Teller has been urging so and so. He simply says he lias urged such-and-such a course. But that is not the impression he wants to make. That impression is that we are g-Ing to deny the Filipinos participa tion in their government. This latest bogy of Teller Is made of .very flimsy straw. Nobody has ever proposed to deny the Filipinos partici pation in their government. From the beginning they have had the full meas-.j ure of self-government that could in sense and reason be entrusted with them, and they will have more as soon as they can use more. The Aguln a!dists are not asking for "participa tion in their government," but for in dependence. They are not asking, ether, for participation In the United States Government, though the Aunties demand it for them, on the cogent grounds, first, that it is inescapable, and, second, that It is ruinous. The able 'anti-Imperialist" will demonstrate to you the long train of woes that are certain to follow admission of the Fili pinos to full citizenship. His assurance on that head is only equaled by his certainty that such is our logical and inevitable course. Every wise and promising thing that Teller conceives the Government should do, it has done. He fiercely arraigns the Administration for its neglect ofN what it has been constantly doing, and lmpasslonedly calls upon It for the In auguration of the identical policy It has fallowed from the first His point is as relevant and startling as If he had boldly championed the establishment of a sun in the sky or arraigned the water for running always uphill in stead of down. ELEVATIOX OP POLITICS. There are still campaign blackguards, but the breed is passing. Old methods of conducting National campaigns have been replaced in late years by newer and better ways. The day has gone when it was a sacred duty to He to help one candidate and hurt another. Among newspapers, political managers and the electorate, the tendency is towards alignment on the Issues, the great questions whose settlement affect the material Interests of the country. Personal calumniation of candidates is in disfavor. Personal bitterness marked nearly all our National campaigns from 1795 to 1SS4. "Washington escaped personal at tack In 17S9. Yorktown had settled his tlle to the Presidency, but the anti Federalists, the ancestors of the pres ent Democratic party, made several ef forts to defeat him, not, however, by personal assault. The Jefferson-Adams contest of 17FG was the most defama tory campaign In the history of Ameri can politics, unless the second struggle between the same leaders In 1S00 be accepted as its equal. Jefferson was roundly denounced as an unscrupulous demagogue, and Adams as a "kingly despot without sympathy with the peo ple, and opposed to every principle of popular government" Adams accepted defeat most ungracefully in 1S00. He deserted the Executive Mansion at mid night March 3, 1801. and left It cold and vacant for Jefferson to enter the next day, without a host to meet him at the door The Louisiana purchase, the War of 1S12, the Mexican War. the Civil War, reconstruction of the Southern States and many other questions entered into the campaign of 1S04 and subsequent contests, and provoked bitter quarrels between the champions of the candi dates. Johnson did not remain at the White House to receive General Grant but was excusable from the fact that Grant had expressed the purpose not to have Johnson accompany him. For genuine vileaess, the campaign of ISSi is paramount Both Blaine and Cleve land were the targets of flagrant scan dals. "When the Blaine scandal was submitted to Cleveland, he properly de clined to permit It to be drawn Into the fight Blaine, whose long experience in p titles should have endowed him with beter judgment promptly sent the Crvelard scandal to the Bepubllcan j National Committee, and it was ivenj publicity. The mudslinger and politi cal liar was in his glory that year. Four years later the lines were sharply drawn between protection and free trade, and there were no personalities, except a feeble echo of Maria Halpln, which General Harrison did not coun tenance. The campaign of 1832 was fought out on Its merits, and Harrison and Cleveland exchanged friendly social courtesies at the parting of the ways In 1833. In 1S96 it was gold and silver, and, though tremendous force was put into the fight by both parties, there was no abuse, and, when the result was known, Bryan generously congrat ulated McKlnley. This year the issue Is again gold and silver, though in put ting "imperialism" to the fore the Dem ocrats seem disposed to attack McKln ley personally. They will not gain a vote by abusing McKlnley, nor will the Republicans gain a vote by abusing Bryan. It Is not a question of men, but of issues. These are expansion and gold, and there will be no obscuration of them. Talking to the point is the thing that will gain the votes. Honesty and fairness are best in poli tics. The campaign liar and black guard has been driven out of the news paper offices, and he Is worse than use less to campaign managers. The high est compliment that can be paid to The Oregonlan Is that It is impartial In the publication of Republican and Dem ocratic news, reserving to Itself, of course, the privilege of Independent edi torial discussion. It published Bryan's attack on It last April, and has time and again pointed out in its editorial and news columns the strength and weakness of both Bryan and McKlnley. It gives as much space to Altgeld's .speech as to the speech of Roosevelt, to which Aligeld replied. This fairness and honesty in the contests for offices is a healthy and progressive sign, for It betokens th.e approach of the time when we shall have greater falrtiess and more honesty In the Administration of the offices. In this respect, at least, neither newspapers nor people are any longer the politician's plaything. Alf EXTRA SESSION UNNECESSARY. Senator Teller's demand for the im mediate assembling of Congress is su perfluous. There Is no need at present for the calling of an extra session. The Constitution confers on the President all the powers necessary to protect American citizens at home and abroad. The law also gives him the right to borrow money in an emergency without consulting Congress. The present po sition of our Government is that, how ever much fighting there might be, there should be no formal declaration of war until the official complicity of the Chinese Government has been clearly proven. This policy has been acquiesced In by the other powers, none of which has declared war yet against China, but all of which continue to work together for the restoration of or der and responsible government at Pekln. If the Chinese Government, being re established In the control of peace and order, should reject our claims to in demnity or refuse us satisfaction for the Indignities imposed upon our Le gation, and other American citizens res ident in China, or if a new government should be established in China holding an attitude of hostility to us, it would be time enough to consider the calling of an extra session to declare war against China. But at the present time this Government is not at war with China, any more than we were at war with the United States of Colombia in 1SS5, when President Cleveland main tained by armed force for weeks on the Isthmus of Panama the rights guaran teed us by treaty with that govern ment President McKlnley has the constitu tional power to maintain treaty rights in China, and to protect the lives of our citizens there. Such an emergency op eration as sending troops to Pekin to protect our Legation Is not "war" In the sense contemplated by the Constitution when it vested in Congress the war-declaring power. The French chastised the hostile "Black Flags" of Chinese Tonquln without declaring war against China by sending passports to the Chinese Ambassador, thus terminating diplomatic relations with the Imperial Government Because we have been so careful to keep within our treaty rights, even to refusing to bombard the Taku forts, the Viceroys of several of the great provinces of China have been nominally friendly to Americans within their jurisdiction, and nominally re spectful of our treaty rights. But If war shquld be declared and the Chi nese Minister given his passports, the treaty rights which we are now trying to enforce and safeguard would be ab rogated or suspended, for war usually abrogates treaties between the belliger ents. Our Government has from the first stood strictly upon its treaty rights Instead of needlessly risking their loss through a declaration of war against China, and today we are only co-operating with England, Russia, Germany, Japan and other nations in helping to put down a local insurrection In one or two provinces of the empire. An extra session of Congress Is both unnecessary and undesirable until a formal declaration of war seems neces sary through some clear change In the situation. Our Government deserves and obtains the warmest praise for Its determination to postpone and If possi ble avert the formal recognition of a state of war with China In general, but its determination would be defeated If an extra session were called before such action is demanded by a crisis In the affairs of China that does not yet exist There Is no popular demand for an ex tra session, and both Congress and the people are opposed to one at the present time If It can be avoided. It surely would be used by the Democrats for demagogic purposes; they would delay action, and if the President did any thing while Congress was In session and without authority, the democracy would cry "usurpation." Of all the powers of the world, the United States, thanks to the wisdom of Admiral Kempff and Secretary Hay, is in the best position to avoid a general war with the Chinese Empire. The United States has never acquired or sought to acquire a foot of Chinese soil. From the start of the present trouble it has disavowed any intention of seek ing territorial Indemnity for wrongs wrought upon our citizens by Chinese. It has distinctly declared In favor of preserving the unity of the Chinese Em pire. Had an extra session been need lessly summoned, its outcome probably would have been a premature declara tion of war, the loss of treaty rights without a single compensating circum stance In the new situation as com pared with the present No extra ses sion is needed until war becomes inevi table, but the sure way to make war Inevitable would he to call an extra session, with its usual current of inflam matory talk on the part of Congres sional blatherskites playing to the galleries. TO "REHABILITATE" THE STATE FAIR. Professor Withycombe, vice-director of the State Agricultural College at Cor vallls, has made a pertinent and timely plea for the state fair. This plea Is based upon logical grounds, and should appeal especially to the farmers of the "Willamette Valley, without whose loyal support and united, effort it wiil be im possible to "rehabilitate the state fair." The term "rehabilitate," as used in this connection, calls to mind what may be termed the "other years" of this insti tution, far-away years, as measured by the rapid shifting of events, yet years that still live in the memory of many who participated In its festivities and shared its triumphs. Of late years, as is well known, the garments of useful ness and friendly competition; of simple pleasures and friendly reunion, have fallen away from the annual fair, leav ing a sort of "store show" In pavilions as the exhibit, and events upon the race course as the chief attractions. In distinctly later years, it Is true, much meritorious effort has been shown in some of the departments, looking to a revival of the old-time Interest there in. This was particularly noticeable in the poultry and in some lines of the stock exhibit last Fall, but If the fair Is to be, as Professor Wlthycombe says, "not only a tangible evidence of sub stantial progress In the various lines of husbandry, but one of the very best mediums for attracting and causing de sirable emigrants to settle among us," this rehabilitation must extend to the farm, orchard and garden In detail; to the wool industry, the timber and the mineral exhibits, and to all lines summed up In the term "diversified agriculture." Tills has been an "off season," so to speak, with Oregon farmers in many respects. From a combination of Cir cumstances, well known and not neces sary to enumerate In detail, the wheat yield is not likely, in the Willamette Valley to be up to the standard, .either in quality or quantity; late frosts min imized the yield In certain kinds ol fruit and an army of worms has moved relentlessly over some sections, cutting a wide swath in vegetation. Yet in the face of all this there is abound ing plenty throughout the state, and In no branch of agriculture will it be found difficult to secure splendid speci men products for exhibition. The mam moth squash has long been a feature of Oregon fairs. In other years It was flanked by sturdy battalions of roast ing ears, and a magnificent showing of turnips, rutabagas, cabbages, potatoes and beets. This year, without abating any of Its former train, it may rejoice In the presence of stately flax stalks and fine flax fiber; of golden hops, loose and baled for commerce. The old-fashioned timothy, veteran stand-by that it is, may keep company with alfalfa and clover and grasses of rampant growth, while grains and fruit, specimen woods and gorgeous flowers, may be readily grouped into such a showing as will delight alike the eyes of old Oregonians faithful to pioneer traditions of Nature's largess in this favored land, and new comers skeptical before in -regard to the possibilities of Oregon agriculture. The state fair to be held at Salem next month will be just what the farm ers, the stockmen and the artisans of the state make it. If It is given over to the sporting fraternity, it will mani festly be the fault of those who should push the agricultural features of the exhibit to the fore and maintain them there by their excellence. The races are all right as a side show and a source of support to the premium list. That they have long held first place at the state fair is the fault of farmers, stockmen and artisans, who have held aloof and given the owners of fast horses not only a clear field (to that they were and are entitled), but an ex clusive field. There are good reasons why a state agricultural fair may be of great benefit to the Interests of the state along wider lines than those embraoed in farming. These reasons Professor Wlthycombe stated succinctly in his communication. There are also grave reasons why it may be a public menace to morals and a useless parasite upon public bounty. These reasons are given in the history of state fairs In some former years, the record of which was not only that of utter uselessness, in dustrially and agriculturally consid ered, but of positive viciousness from a moral point of view. This dark and dreary page of Its history, It may be hoped, will not be repeated. Certainly all good citizens may well join Profes sor Wlthycombe In the desire that the State Board of Agriculture may be suc cessful in the laudable effort that it Is making to rehabilitate our state fair in Its former garb of usefulness and seemly attractions, adding such feat ures as the growth In the state and the development of Its mineral and timber resources has so bountifully furnished. CULPABLE NEGLECT. One of the pleas offered by the Pat erson anarchists should not pass with out more attention. The female orator of the other night put It on this ground: We are not considered human by Americans. We do not starve, but there Is a worse death than starvation. It Is neglect. Here we have the unique spectacle of people complaining of the Government because It lets them alone. Here Is a little pillow of comfort for several large and representative groups of our popu lation, none of whom have ever viewed Governmental interference as a thing to be thankful for or to be pined for If withdrawn. Here are our department stores, groaning under a license of $500 a quarter; the clothing houses, grum bling at increased assessment on stocks, the peddler ordered by a policeman to move on, the sot disturbed in his slum bers in the gutter. All these people will open their eyes on receiving the intel ligence that Government is expected to meddle with them and is censurable if it neglects them. Perhaps the Paterson outfit ought to be assured that the Government Is In a fair way to rouse Itself from its leth argy In their regard. They have, in truth, been too long neglected. There are numerous prison cells and scaffolds throughout the country which they would most- fittingly and beneficently ornament These are places they would greatly prefer, doubtless, to neglect which they say Is worse than starva tion. The Government should hear their prayer and ameliorate their con dition by shutting off their food supply. The army of the allies now advancing on Pekln cannot be less than 40,000 to 45,000 strong. Of these, the Japanese number about 25,000, the Rusj-Jujs about 10,000, while the Americans and Brit ish troops must together make up at least 6000 men. The Ninth and Four teenth United States Infantry must have together an effective force of 1500 men; the British troops from Hong Kong and the reinforcements already landed from India are not less than 5000 strong. This was the force ten days ago, but since that date more troops have arrived, and another brigade has been ordered from India of 6000 men. The, bardest fighting will be encoun tered in the first general engagement If the Chinese troops fight behind in trenchmnts, as they did at Tien Tsln, they will doubtless flght well, as all troops do that are well armed and bravely officered. The history of war shows that Turks, Indians, negroes, Spaniards, Boers, all flght well behind Intrenched lines against the bravest and best troops, but the test of the Chinese quality will come when they are forced to flght In the open. The allies lost se verely at Tien Tsln because they un derrated the Chinese as to their, arms and their ability to shoot straight, and it is fair to assume that they will not make this mistake In their present ad vance. The loss in the battle reported this morning is 1200 killed and wounded, or a little more than 8 per cent of the attacking force, which is estimated at 16,000 men. This loss is about as se vere as the British suffered when Gen eral Methuen charged the Intrenched lines of the Boers at Modder River and Magersfonteln. The distance by road or rail from Tien Tsln to Pekin Is about eighty miles, which could be covered, by an army meeting no serious opposition in a -week. In September, 1S60, the allied British and French armies marched from Tien TEin on Pekin, fighting two battles, at Chang Kal Wan, thirty-five miles north of Tien Tsln, September 18, and at Pa LI Kao, thirty-five miles fur ther on, and about twelve miles from Pekln. The time occupied in march ing and fighting from Tien Tsln to Pekln on that occasion was about three weeks, but at that time - there was neither railway nor wagon road of any description. The river Pel Ho from Tien Tsln to Tung Chau, twelve miles east of Pekln, Is navigable for vessels drawing very little water, and the road from Tung Chau to the capital is a paved stone causeway. In 1860 the al lies had nearly all their transporting done for them by native carts and boats. Six nations are now pounding away on China the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Russia and Japan. There are six commanders, all no doubt very able men. China may be able to defeat six able commanders more easily than she could meet one poor one, in command of the whole force. When Bonaparte was told by the Directory that the command in Italy must be shared by a colleague, he offered his resignation. "I may be a poor sort of General," he said, "but one poor General is better than two good ones." He was left alone in the command. The Chinese Government is still play ing its game of duplicity. It gave out, August 2, that the foreign Ministers had been notified that they might com municate freely with their respective governments. But it hasn't permitted a word from them. to come through. For the last two months there has been Incessant lying on the part of Ah Sin. China's treatment of the Legations makes her the world's outlaw. No re liance is to be placed on the word of any Chinese, and Li Hung Chang is as little to be trusted as any. It will be In order, so long as our Democratic brethren pursue their cant about "Imperialism," to remind them, without ceasing, that what is good enough for the negroes of the United States Is jood enough for the Filipinos. The latter, as a whole, are far less fit ted for participation in government. "Where is McKinley's prosperity?" is a question asked by the Baker Demo crat, in a political artic.e. In another article (not political) the same paper says: "There Is not an idle man in Baker County who wants to work." The Declaration of Independence was not circulated as a Democratic docu ment In the North Carolina campaign, and no Democratic orator there waxed eloquent in denouncing government without consent of the governed. WHAT BRYAN CAN DO. And the Effect of That Potentiality on the Business Mind. New York Times. As we have frequently shown, and the statement is nowhere contradicted. It would bo within the strict legal authority of Mr. Bryan's Secretary of the Treasury immediately to begin the payment of in terest on tho bonds and the payment of the principal as it becomes due, la silver. That Is beyond all doubt what Mr. B-yan can do to put the country on a silver ba sis if he Is elected. Whether he would do it is an op:n qufst'on. It has been said that there will be only a relatively small amount of free silver dollars in the Treasury, and that he would hardly start in to. pay the interest In silver solely to produce the panic that would surely fol low. Possibly not. But ho Is a man of apparently strong and even fanatical convictions. He stubbornly refused to omit the explicit redec'aration for free silver from his platform, though all his shrewdest advisers urged that It would bo expedient so to do. He will dominate his own admlnlstiatlon, if el;ctsd. and shape Its policy. It would be a bold man who undertook to say that he would, for the sake of expediency, refrain from es tablishing at once by a single act that equality between silver and gold at 16 to 1 which he believes to be not merely best but eternally right It will be said that the law of last March establishes the gold standard, and that little or no harm can be done unless that law can be repealed, and that this will be prevented by the Republican ma jority in the Senate and by the Demo crats who will act with them. Unfortu nately, the gold standard was not estab lished by the law of March U. It was only, In the words of Mr. McKlnley, "re affirmed and strengthened." Had the House bill been passtd, the gold standard would have been firmly established, and could not have been evaded without re peal. But It was not passed. It provided that gold should be the standard of pay ment for the public debt The Senate re jected that It provided that silver dol lars might be exchanged for gold If nec essary to maintain all kinds of money at par with gold. The Senate rejected that. Then the Senate Inserted a special decla ration, that nothing In the law shcu'd be construed as impairing the legal-tender quality of the standard silver dollars. So it will be seen that not only is the gold standard not clearly and absolutely estab lished by this law, but that the Senate deliberately refused the provisions that would so have established it Here, then, is th situation. By law the Interest and principal of the bonds of the United States rov be nald in silver dol lars worth by weight only EO cents. Mr. Bryan is pledged formally and by his deepest convictions to secure and promote the equality of silver with gold In, law and In practice, and to promote the un limited coinage of silver without refer ence to its' market value or the policy of other nations. Is it worth while to Incur tfce obvious and great risks involved -in his election? For. plainly, the risks can not be measured by a calculation of what specific action he would take or try to take. The mere fact that a man so fully and honastly comml t d to the policy of reducing the currency of the country to a silver basis had s r u-ed the Pre lacmcy would upsett e all business calculations, would spread doubt ard uncertainty through the count-y and through the world wherever we trade, and wculd In a'l human probibillty bring on a disas trous rcactlm, the cost of which cannot be estimated. We do not for a moment believe that the American people will be guilty of such monstrous fol y. . . i t FROM PROPHET GROSYENORt The Wealc Point in the Republican Colmnn Is Mnryland. Chicago Times-Herald. In the campaign, of 1893 Congressman Charles H. Grosvenor, of Ohio, earned the reputation of the great political pre dictor. Before the meeting of the St Louis convention he issued bulletins at stated periods giving a resume of the delegates as elected, with their cholco for President These early indicated tho nomination of McKinliy. and the event in he convention, coincided with Gen eral Grosvenor's predictions. His subse quent forecast of the division of ths electoral vote clinched his fame as a forecaster. General Grosvenor has now issued his first official forecast of the resu t of the election next November, which is as follows: CERTAINLY REPUBLICAN. California 0' New York .38 Connecticut 61 North Dakota 3 Delawsre 3 Illinois 24 Ohio ., 23 Orccon 4 Pennsylvania 32 Rhode Island 4 South Dakota 4 Verpjont . 4 NVashlnton 4 Indiana 15 Ion-a 13 Kansas 10 Maine 0 aiaryiana Massachusetts 1C West Virginia iJ Mlchiran HI Wisconsin 1-: Minnesota 9 New Hampshire 41 Total .27S New Jersey 1Q CERTAINLY DEMOCRATIC. Alabama 11 Arkansas 8 Florida 4 North Carolina 11 South Carolina 9 Tennessee 12 Texa3 15 Virginia 12 Total 132 Georgia 13 Louisiana 8 Mississippi 0 Missouri 17 Nevada 3 To these certainly Demcc atlc rtates General Grosvenor adds tho 10 votos of Colorado, Idaho and Montana, brinsinr Bryan's total up to 142 and leaving tre 27 votes of Kentucky, Nebraska. U ah and Wyoming In the doubtful column. From these doubtful states he thinks McKlnley will get 14 votes to 13 for Bryan, thus leaving his final approxima tion McKlnl-y 202, Bryan 1 5 General Grosvenor nckrowled-es thtt the only wetk link in ths Republl an chain of states Is Marylard. But tho trend of the campaign seems to weaken Democratic chances of carrying Mary land without strengthening thei- hopes of making a breach in the Republican stronghold In the Central West 3Irs. Eddy Can't Possibly Be Sick. Commenting on the ever-rcCurrlng and as o'ten d;nled rumcr that tho hstid of the Christian Science sect Is either dying or dead, and that it 13 a mysterious un dTstudy of wrom the faithful are per mitted to cttch occasional distant pllmpse?, the P'Ml delp'-ia Medical Jour nal makes a very interesting rolnt. "As thce impostors," it says, "claim not to believe in disease, they, Of course woul I not hesitate to deny its insistence in M's. Eddy, even though she were at tho Inst pasp This would be a caiulsty of which they wculd be quite canable; therefor', their testimony on the subject would be most untrustworthy." It Is certainly well to rem'mnor that, whfn c-nsldcrln-' toe statements of Mrs Eddy'-, followrrs in rc dftrd to her physical condition. Of cou'e they must assert teat s-e is In Llromln: health. To admit anythi-g else 13 to con fess the utter emptiness of all her pre tensions and to relegate her doctrines to the rubfcish heap, where so many Iden tical delusions to use a charitable word arc already decaying. The Medical Jour nal's article concludes: "The health of this woman Is, of course, not a matter of public conce'rn, except as she and her fol lowers have chosen to make it a test for the validity of her foolish doctrines. In the order of nature she will some day die, and then, porhaps, her cult will grad ually die out; but even this is by no means certain, for this country is such a hetbed for crude, half-baked doctrinaires that possibly some orie will be found to perpetuato the scheme of the defunct but rt'll immortal prlsstess of p-eudo-rcliglous quackery." Austin's ExaperntinB Persistence. "Quousque Tandem?" is the sugges tive caption which Mr. Archer has chosen for an article in the August Critic in which ho frees his mind rather ener getically regarding the present poet laureate. Is it not time, he asks, that some one should gently but ilrmly remonstrate with Mr. Alfred Austin, author of "MafcUtng" and other verses, whose indiscreet utterances in the newspapers are becoming' a National scandal? 1 have an uneasy sense of cowardice in advert ing to this matter. It is poor sport, certainly, to attack a friendless and defenseless man, who Is only too assiduously doing his best in that station of life to which malicious fate and a cynical Prime Minister have calld him. But it is in no snortive humor that I ap proach the subject. If ridicule- and parody, if elbos and Jeers, could bring homo to Mr. Austin tho pathetic absurdity of his position, he would long aso have learned to minimize it by a resolute silence. Fortunately for him self, unfortunately for his country, a sense of humor has been denied him. Praised by hone, derided by all, he pipes on Imperturb ably. It Is this very doggedness, in Itself sublime, which makes the Nation ridiculous. Wherefore, I ask: How lonff are we fated to grin and bear It? "What German-Americans Think. Now York Staats Zeltung. While German-Americans dread "Im perialism" more than anything else, they have an idea that It will take years to Inculcate Imperialistic notions of our Government They also think that the rabid expansionists will not dare to go too far. But with free silver it is dif ferent. German-Americans always feel uneasy when the financial question Is before the country. They are a saving people, and the uncertainty of the value of their savings Is bound to agitate them. They insist upon a dollar of any kind of money being worth' 100 cents no mora and no less. In fact while they may know that free sliver is dead for at least some years to come, they fear that as long as one of the great parties stands on record as indorsing 16 to 1 It gives rise to an uncertainty about our cur rency, and business of all kinds 13 bound to suffer. The Author of Today. Chicago Inter Ocean. Business activity has revolutionized both publisher and author. The popular writer of today is not found in a garret, unless he premedltatedly seek It for se clusion and quiet; he dines at his club, and not off the proverbial crust. He Is a somewhat skilled machine, with a gift for turning out a ware that glitters. He reflects the past or peer? Into the future with equal facility. It is true that his fame may be transitory, but hl3 emolu ments are immediate, and It may be said for him that if he does not r.cqulre the historic prominence of Oliver Goldsmith neither does ho acquire creditors. Ho does not write ywhen tho mood moves him, but when tho publisher demands copy, and in this production he is assist ed by his highly capable corps of sten ographers. And. although Dickens and Thackery were fairly prolific and indus trious, the strictly modern methods of book-writing and book-making, to say nothing of book-distributing, are amaz ing beside the methods prevailing In their days. It remains for the 20th century to prove that authorship Is not an, art, but a branch of business. "Imperialism" in the South. New York Evening-Post ("Antl"). The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph is candid enough to declare that It is the purpose of the South, to govern the negro, tho Indian, the Kanaka and the Filipino "outside of the Constitution." which means that those races are to be gov erned as subjects, and not as members of the American commonwealth. There is a certain degree of consistency In this declaration, although it is in deadly con flict with the Kansas City platform, on which the South is supposed to have taken its stand In, the present campaign. The colored people have been disfran chised In most of the Southern States, and the same work is now going on in North Carolina with ferocity. It Is quite consistent for those who take part In It to apply the same principles to the Ha waiian and the Philippine Islands, but under such circumstances the Bryan campaign in the South Is a campaign of hypocrisy. Sapience and Jndcnnen. Providence Journal, Senator Jones, who Is conducting tho campaign of the paramount Bryan, Is incensed because there are persons sapient enough to see that, even If the Nebraskan should be elected to the office of Commander-in-Chief of the Army, he could not at once withdraw our armed force from tho Philippines. Tho Senator argues th! way in rejjard to the recall or our soldiers: Why not? Thev were orderrd to tho Philip pines. Why can't thoy be ordered back? They wero taken in boats. Why can't they be brought back in boats? There's statesmanship, with a big S. If Bryan Is chosen President, he should continue to pin his faith to Jones. A man who can settle tho Philippine question so eacily would adorn the Cab inet Why Amnesty Failed. New York Times. Why should the people in and around Manila be Interested in amnesty, except to lot It alon. to steer clear of It en tirely? They know very well that a mis take In that matter would be costly. If they should too precipitately swear alle giance to the United States, give up sym nathlzlner with Its Filipino enemies, nnd announce themselves as of the American party before it was entirely certain that the American forces were to remim and tbo American authorltyto be established, they would run a srave risk of getting their throats cut by Apulnaldo. They itnir!tand that, and for that reason ex hibit no present eagerness for amnesty. In Illinois. Chicago Tribune. The Democratic candidate for Governor is a sensible, level-hpaded man, who knows that neither of the two grim specters of Issues raised hv th Kansas Cltv platform deserves a thought It Is hnrd for him. therefore, to srrnw hvterl cal over those issues, as some other Dem ocrats do. He must have smiled Inwardly when he said at Peoria that in the event of Brvan's election "the Declaration of Independence will again be be brought out from the charter oak, whero the people have rcverentlv concealed It until the -orm of Imperialism shall have passed over." MEN AJ.D WOME7T. MonMcnor Kavier. the Roman Cathollo bishop of Pekln, hold, bv virtue of a decree of tho Empercr, the local rank of mandarin of the grade enual to that of tho Governor of a province. Alexander Berger, of Lincoln, Neb., has of fered to build a public library building for Burlington. WW., to cost ?r000. Burlington Is Mr Borger's birthplace, and the library build ing Is to be a memorial to his wife. Mltsuzlro Harada. of Japan, Who Is studying tho cotton Industry in this country, tells the New Orleans Times-Democrat that Lafcadlo Hoarn. now professor of English literature in Kobe University, is "the best-liked American scholar In Japan." The Rev. William Patterson, who has Just accepted tho call to be one of tho pastors of Bethany Presbyterian Church, in Philadelphia, leaves In his former church. In Toronto, the largest Christian Endeavor Society in the world. It numbers over 5000. Our Minister to Brazil, Charles Page Bryan, must hcreattsr believe in the theory that "there Is a destiny which Shapes our ends." Ho ardently deired the Chinese mission, and, indeed, he has been nominated for that honor, and the transference was a keen disappoint ment to him. In New Tork tho Trinity Church corporation is having the dates corrected on the tomb of the widow of Alexander Hamilton. It is sup posed that in rechlsellng the Inscription lately the stonecutter unknowingly made the year of birth read 1737 instead of 1757. and the year of death 1834 Instead of 1854. Queen Victoria, it would seem, is a collector of old manuscripts referring to Windsor and the neighborhood. Frank Murray, the Leices ter bookseller, has Just sold such a manu script to Her Majesty for $125, It Is nearly 300 years old, and Is altogether a quaintly set out page In the records of Windsor. Tho man uscript turned up in a, casual way. M. Massenet has left Paris without awaiting the lOOdth performance of "Le Cld " Ho has bought an estate which belonged to tho painter, Berne-Bcllecour, at the other aide of the For est of Fontalnebleau. It is an old chateau. one tower of which dates from the time of Francois I. Three facades of It aro In ruins, but one of the porches has preserved all tho grace of the Renaissance period. Tho Mormons have at present 1C23 young men employed as missionaries in America and Europe. Their greatest successes are In tho slums of large cltle3, where the miserably poor hear gladly the Mormon cospei of thrift In this world and etsmal blessedness In the next. The leaders are jubilant over the 22,000 new converts rained for their church the last year, and prophesy that within a few yars they shall control the entire West, and the western provinces of Canada. The Dancing of Sister Ca'llne. Frank L. Stanton In Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. Br'er William play da fiddle Sister Ca'lina hoppln' light. En do room a-gwlna 'roun' mo, ez I swing her lef an' right. All up en down de hall; "Swing co'nersl" is de call; "Bless God. Cat Sister Ca'llne is outdancln' cr 'cm alii" D flo' wur des a-creakin' en da frosty win ders shake. En de ol' folks sorter fidget at de music what wo make; En betwlx' 'em dars a scuffle Fer ter dance de double shuffle. Sister Ca'llne gwine 'roun wld de flounces en do ruffle. "Sister Ca'llne Sister Ca'llne, ain't you danc- ln' mighty much? I mighty 'frald de preacher gwine ter ta'n you out de chu'chl" But I tu'n en see de preacher De solium gospill teacher A-swlngin' Sister Ca'lina ever time dat ha could reach her! "Sister Ca'llne I is tired, en de fiddle tired, too! Can't atop untell de preacher take en marry me en you?" But de preacher kick de stubble F'um his shoes, en swing 'em double: "I ain't gwine marry any folks dls ain't no time fer trouble!" But w'en we gwine hom'ords 'bout do break in' er de day I see de preacher huggln Sister Ca'llne all da way! En hit sho' did take my breaf Des lay me on de she'f. When he Mow: "She bop so lively, I'll des marry her myse'fl" ' NOTE AND COMMENT. Perhaps the news from China Is toe true to bo good. The Boxers will be out more than 10 seconds when the flght is done. It will not be very heard to prove wblcH Is the Boxer party in Kentucky. This Is the kind of weather when wa need our calendars to tell us that is Isn't April. "They'll find, that Bryan also ran, Sings some new campaign bard But if ho ran at all they'll find It wasn't very hard. You will notice that the people who are) kicking about the rain are the samo who were growling about tho heat ktaft week. "I die that Luzon may live." cried!, Agulnaldo. "and," he added, "that she may live to a ripe old age, I do It very frequently." She bought some Summer nevete. Ami skimmed them o'r in haste. But omul that though "light readins.' They left a dark, brown taste. Imprisoned in the dusty town. "We cry, O gentle rain, oemo down! And at the beaeh they sigh and pine. Because they want the sun to shtae. In town we get what they beseooh; Our prayers are answered at the beaeh. Cincinnati's population Is given by th1 census officials as 325",02, an Increase from 236.903 in 30. This will probably be a great disappointment to that elty. It represents a gain for the decade of 2S,S!M, or less than 10 per cent against art Increase between 1SS0 and 1S0O of 4l,7i8, oc over- IS- per cent. Six of the more prominent Gold Demo crats In Buffalo Franklin D. Locke, George S. Field, Spencer Clinton. Harrtf D. Wllllnms, Frank M. Loomls, and Ans Iey Wilcox have declared agatnst Bryan, tho Express of that city reports, and some of them have announced their pur pose to vote for MoKlnley. General Pingloo. who recently surren dered his command of some rlOCO Boers to General Hnnter, was the commander off the force that captured General French's rearguard and convoy on his advance to Klmberley at Deklels Dxlft. on the Hlet River, and was afterward court-martialed for not having followed him up and re inforced General Cronje. Instead, he went away to Bloemfontein with tho captured wagons and stores, where they were af terward retaken by tho British. Ho waa sentenced to a heawy punishment but was subsequently pardoned and restore to command. Nothing much has of Mate been heard of J. M. Barrle. or "Jlmmle" Barrle, aa he Is called by his friends. Jlmmle is aj noiseloss sort of a character, taciturn and unable to stand the" glare of much-advertised life, and he likes, after the fashion of Scotsmen, to "gang his aln gait" Ho is rather partial, however, to a gamo Of cricket, and to aee the popular novelist ploying is a sight for he gods. So far as batting Is concerned, Jlmmle might aa well not be on tho ground, as far as his sldo is concerned. In the press vs. authors cricket match, an annual event at Lord's, after a press bowler had got rid of Barrle with tho first ball bowled, the Journalist, who know not James, asked, "Who's that?" "That's James M. Barrio." was the re ply. The bowler rubbed hi3- hands anI said: "I'd like to carry him around in my cricket bag to bat against me In every match. I'd have a glorious average and he wouldn't be heavy to carry, either." PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGItAPnEIia His Fate. Penner What has become ot Sourgall, the critic? Author He wrote a boot and was found out. Llfo. At Times A Tour wifa dresses plainly, doesn't she? B Well. I'va seen her consider ably ruffled. Philadelphia. Bulletin. A Grammatical Form. "Will you love ma then as now?" "You evidently think my Iov for you Is in tense?" Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Some men," remarked Uncle Eben, "haa Jcs' enough activity in 'em to keep 'em f'um, beln" any good fob. hltchln -posts." Washing ton Star. Not Surprising. Clara Arthur says he finds it hard to tear himself away -when ho calls on me. Mamie I'm not surprised. He lives la Brooklyn. Harlem. Life. Up to Date. I suppoie your business is in creasing daily?" remarked a lost soul to Charon. "Oh, dear no!" laughed tho ferry man; "raoit people prefer the bridgo cars.' Brooklyn Life. "This youth," announced Charon, "was on lnsrata." Tha Imp smiled diabolically. "Ha will bo in-grate very soon." Then the furnace opened and the pokers rattled. Philadelphia Becord. in A Word for the Moment. Julia Ward Howe in tho Boston . Transcrlpt Art-angel Guldo hangR?pon jnyrfwall. A movlnr picture ot tho Tempter's fall. Michael, bright champion of the heavenly host Treads under foot the loader of the lost. Busklned with light, with faultless weapon armed. He stands above the prostrate foo. unharmed The groveling wretch no counter-blow essays. Pinned down to earth, in impotent amaze. This vision, oft encountered, seems to say: The brute on earth shall never mora hold sway; While, glorious a3 a. seraph from tho skies. Freedom makes good her deathless victor! IT. The legendary flght grows pala Before me. as I hear the wall Of men on noble errand sent. And held with murderous Intent By frantic legions they essay To stifle Europe in Cathay. My Journey shows each pallid face. True lovers, locked in last embrace; Parents who to their bosoms strain Tho babes they guard, but guard la vain. And as I kneel In prayer. I cry: Father! send rescue from on high! The ways of human help are barred; Bo thou. O Lord! their watch and warfll Alas! alas! their doom is sealed! No source of succor Is revealed. But still, beyond the bounds of sense, Prevalleth God's omnipotence. This seraph messenger may come. E'en to that flend-beleagured home. And unto those who perish give A crown denied to those that live. Ruler of all to each bravo heart The Joy of martyrdom impart! Upon thy "scroll of deathless famo Write them with those who overcame? Who. folded la the blessed lleht Of Christian faith and Christian right Unto the bitter end aboae. Sealed in tho armory of God. Teddy at San Jnnn. Chicago Times-Herald. They tell us Teddy didn't flght (They were here at home); They say he crawled in out of sight (They were here at home); They say he flunked, as cowards will. Instead of charging up the hill; They say he played tho craven still They were here at home! They say he quailed before tho foa (They were here at home): They say he squawked ot course, they kaovt (They were hre at hom0: They say he threw his sword away When Soanlsn bullets flew that day Why should wo creation what they say? (They were cere at nomay