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IPOHTIAXD, MOXDAT, AUGUST M.
TJTE D.WGER OF WEALTH.
"Great -Wealth" Is not a danger that
threatens Oregon, or any other Pacific
Jtate. It is only through large accum-
ilatlons o wealth that Industrial and
jommerclal undertakings, these 'times.
m he carried on. "We -want more
wealth, not less; more great fortunes.
tot fewer. What these states is suffer-
ig from in fact is -want of "pluto-
:rats." Everybody here is poor. "We
,-ant rich men; the more the better.
The people of our Pacific States, we
think, are not frightened by the hob
goblin of wealth. It will be hard to
persuade them that wealth threatens
them "with ruin.
Besides, If there were more wealth,
think of the enlarged field of taxation.
: Think of the increased revenue. Think
of the great numbers -who, if there -were
more taxable property, might be added
to the public pay-roll. The man of
"wealth, no matter how great his
"wealth, has only one vote. He has
nc more voting power than the man
-who has no property, pays no taxes
at all, yet wants an office. So, from
this direction also -we reach the con
clusion that we want more wealths'
men. They who pay small taxes, or
cone, have through the ballot unlimited
power of taxation. They can make
those who have property "yield up."
They are doing It now, right along;
"but the results are poor, compared with
what they would be if we could in
veigle a lotmore of plutocrats into the
communityT The worst of it is the
plutocrat is shy. He hesitates to put
his "stuff" in sight. He travels; he
keeps at a distance; he makes lew in
vestments or none: he knows we have
unlimited power of taxation, and there
fore of virtual confiscation, in our
hands, and that we are not disinclined
t3 use it. Hence he is cautious and
wary. He just nibbles and then
sheers off. "Wouldn't it be the part of
wisdom, in us to entice and allure him,
instead of raising aToar that will sure
ly frighten him away?
The wealthy man is a good and
handy citizen to have. No community
that has universal suffrage and unlim
ited power of taxation has any reason
to be afraid of him. Only let It get
him in its clutches, and It can turn
him to good account.
We, the people, therefore are not
afraid of these rich fellows at all. But,
confound them, somehow they are
afraid of us, and they prefer to invest
their money beyond our Jurisdiction.
Here in these Northwest Pacific States
we have a field for an unlimited
amount of wealth. Nevertheless, peo
rle of the United States are taking $50,
000.000 in the new British loan. Not,
however, mind you, because they love
England, but because they know the
money will be repaid, principal and
interest, in gold, dollar for dollar,
when it becomes due. It Is this per
verse desire of people who have money
to get their money back, and moreover
not to suffer confiscation of the whole
possible Income, through taxation, that
worries us. It is cupidity like theirs,
greed like theirs, that does no credit
to human nature. But in fact we our
selves are not afraid of wealth at all,
no matter what our politicians may
say. The trouble is that wealth is
afraid of us.
XO VIRTUE EXTAXTI
There is no telling what good man
who is howling against trusts has a
trust of his own, or a share in one.
Following the disclosures as to the
Tammany ice trust comes the discov
ery that Senator Jones, of Arkansas,
chairman of the National Democratic
Committee, is a member of a corpo
ration known as the American Cotton
Company, which has a monopoly pro
tected by patents.
But while Chairman Jones, brought
to book, admits that he is a stock
holder in the corporation, and boasts
that it is exceedingly profitable, he as
serts, as all other trust magnates do,
that his company is not a trust or
monopoly. He says, however, that its
business has "developed rapidly," and
that it "guarantees to every ginner
who uses Its presses that all properly
made round lap bales shall sell for a
substantial premium above the mar
ket price of square bales." That is
to say, the American Cotton Company
lias a "cinch," through its patented
presses; it guarantees that all bales
of cotton made in them "shall sell for
a substantial premium above the mar
ket price of square bales," and the
trust has the power to maintain the
price of its presses and to prevent
others from using them, except upon
Its own terms.
This indeed Is not an unusual thing
In business; but why should a good
man like Chairman Jones, who ve
hemently opposes monopolies and
trusts in the abstract, be tied up in this
way with, one of them? It shows how
deeply the monopoly virus has pene
trated the body politic. Is there no
virtue extant?
Chairman Jones expects the Natienal
gathering of Democratic clubs to be
'immensely influential in the cause of
cood government." Much looseness of
expression is to be accorded the Kansas
City school of -statesmanship upon all
occasions, but we are certainly entitled
to fuller explanation in this case, owing
to the circumstance that heretofore no
proposal looking in the direction of
good government has ever been identi
fied either with Jones or with clubs of
the Bryanlte Democracy. Does he
mean that the clubs are going to come
out for honest money, for sense in
regard to the dependencies, for sup
pression of riots and upholding the
courts? If so, he should say so like a
man. Maybe he means that the mere
sight of these wild-eyed advocates of
scuttle, anarchy and rotten money will
drive men to vote for McKinley. "We
await particulars.
TRULY AX EXEMPLARY MODEL!
Governmental existence in Central
and South American republics, so
called, is a precarious and unsuccess
ful affair. Tet In the eye of Bryanism
it is good enough to be a model. The
very day that Bryan stood up at In
dianapolis to advocate the South Amer
ican status as the ideal for the Philip
pines, half a dozen American Presi
dencies were in peril, and in more than
one arms were clashing in the effort
to find out which is the government
and which the rebel. "What kind of
statesmanship, in all conscience, is it
that picks out the most ineffectual and
precarious governmental regime on the
face of the earth as a pattern for our
following in the Philippines? Just the
same, evidently, as the statesmanship
that looks at countries groaning under
the silver basis and craves it for our
portion.
independence for the Philippines and
such a protectorate as we exert in
behalf 6t Central and South America!
"Whatever the Pan-American regime is,
it is a conspicuous failure, and it is
not, moreover, a' protectorate. A lit
tle while ago one of these measly Cen
tral American republics .Insulted the
British crown, and a warship avenged
the insult with real shells aimed to hit
A little while ago one of these measly
South American republics undertook
to play horse with an Italian, and
Humbert would have collected his $100.
C00 or so at the point of a cruiser if
the republic had not pungled. How
does anybody know that we should
have gone to war with Great Britain
if she had declined to arbitrate with
Venezuela? How does anybody pro
pose to prove that our desire to keep
Europe from getting a dangerous foot
hold in this hemisphere springs from a
primary purpose of benevolence toward
the Pan-American molecules? Such at
titude as we assume toward European
designs on these continents, call it
Monroe doctrine or what you will, is
Inapplicable to Asia. If the Monroe
doctrine, as alleged, forbids us to hold
territory in Asia, how does it author
iza us to set up a protectorate there?
"We are going to have before us very
soon two plans of settling this thing in
practical operation. Porto Rico will
have good government, while the in
dependent republics around it will be
turbulent and unsettled. Porto Rico
will have the gold standard, law and
order, public schools, engineering and
sanitation, while just across the Mona
Passage Haytl and Santo Domingo
will kill their Presidents and flounder
about in hopelessly confused finances
and Industry. Cuba, It is to be feared,
will have to pass through the same
fiery furnace. Our Government idiot
ically pledged itself to retire and leave
the island in the same hopeless condi
tion the antis crave for the Philippines.
The Cubans will be in as bad a mess
as they were in with the Spanish, per
haps worse.
Talk of a protectorate such as we
exercise toward South America betrays
loose thinking of the type that reaches
after "bimetalism" through 16-to-l.
Talk of the Pan-American regime as a
model for Asia indicates the same ob
liquity of vision that sees in silver
standard countries a financial system
to be emulated.
HOME BETTER THAI? NOME.
This year ought to mark the end of
the wild mining excitements in the
Arctic region. For three years, men
of all conditions of life have flocked
pell-mell to the bleak and barren
North, only to learn that they have
pursued a phantom, and the limit of
human credulity has about been
reached. The history of Circle City,
Dawson, At'ih. Cook Inlet, Copper
Elver and Cape Nome has been the
success of the few, where there has
been success at all, and the failure
of the many. For every dollar that has
come out of the North, fully a dollar,
if not more, has been taken in. So
closely does the cost of production ap
proach the value of the gold yield that
the two very nearly balance the scales.
Present interest is centered in Cape
Nome, which was so widely advertised
last year as an extensive region of
gulch, bar, bench, beach and tundra
placers, that drew this Spring and
Summer thousands who were buoyed
with the hope of acquiring sudden
wealth or retrieving lost fortunes. The
situation of these goidseekers was
summed up In a letter published in
The Oregonian a few days ago which
said that few had struck anything
worth while. Beach mining is a com
parative failure, and costly machinery
is sinking in the sands. Time and
money, says this letter, will be required
to develop the Nome country. Neither
of these, it might be added, is at the
disposal of the poor man in a country
where the cost of living is exorbitant
ar.d the period of employment limited
by severe- climate.
Klondike, Atlin and Nome have
drawn many men from Oregon. "Why
have these goidseekers turned their
backs upon the mineral resources of
their own state to search for gold in
Alaska or the Northwest Territory?
What has enticed them from the finest
climate in the world to brave the rig
ors of the Arctic? The only answer
is the enchantment of distance. In all
other respects Oregon surpasses Nome.
Against our climate, with Its minimum
of sharp cold and deep snow, are
Nome's blizzards, freezing weather
from October to April, and typhoid
fever and pneumonia resulting from
harsh weather and lack of drainage
and water supply. Against Nome's
stunted alder and willow, which are
wholly unsuited for cabin-building and
mining, are our giant forests of fir and
yellow pine from which the largest
and most durable building and mining
timbers may be cut. Against Nome's
boggy and springy tundra, in which the
prospector sinks knee-deep, is our solid
ground, suitable alike for foot travel
and roadbuilding. Nome draws its
food supplies from points thousands of
miles away. In Oregon the mines get
their supplies from the Willamette,
Rogue River, Umpqua, Grand Ronde
and John Day Valleys, where every
agricultural product known to the tem
perate zone is grown in abundance.
Nowhere are our mines more than a
day's travel distant from a base of
supplies, and in the majority of cases
it is only a matter of a few, hours.
Quartz is universally regarded as the
especial undertaking of capital. Tour
prospector, particularly the one sus
ceptible to the influence of a stam
pede, says airily that quartz develop
ment is not the poor man's task, but he
swallows without a wink stories of mar
velous finds in an Icebound country,
and away he goes to gather his share
of the treasure. Notwithstanding this,
three facts are prominent: Neither
Klondike nor Nome has been proved to
be the poor man's, country; the ma
jority of mining claims in Oregon are
held by poor men: the money required
to develop a placer claim in Nome
would, if Invested in a quartz claim
In Oregon, produce something of value.
Men who recognize these truths and
profit by them are making Oregon a
mining state. Each year witnesses in
crease of capital and production, and
addition to equipment. Either Bo
hemia district or the Cracker Creek
lode, developed to its full extent, can
produce aa much gold In one year as
the Arctic country has yielded in any
year since its discovery. Oregon peo
ple who wish to invest in mines should
give preference to Oregon properties
and not send their money away to dis
tant lands. The surest return is from
the home Investment.
A PIONEER, CIVIL SERVICE RE
FORMER. Among recent deaths Is that of Ex
Governor J. D. Cox, of Ohio. He was
born in Canada of American parents In
182S, was graduated at Oberlln College
in 1851, was a prominent lawyer of
Warren, O., and a State Senator at the
outbreak of the Civil War. We was
appointed Brigadier-General of Volun
teers In May, 1S61. He greatly distin
guished himself In the battle of Antie
tam, in command of the Ninth Army
Corps, which devolved upon him when
General Reno was killed at South
Mountain, and for his work in this
campaign was made a Major-General
of Volunteers. He commanded a di
vision of the Twenty-third Army Corps
in Sherman's Atlanta campaign, com
manded the Twenty-third Army Corps
at the battles of Franklin and Nash
ville, and commanded a division under
General Schofleld in the operations that
resulted in the capture of Wilmington
and Klnston, N. C, In February and
March, 1865.
General Cox was a very able soldier,
of solid mental quality which obtained
for him the military confidence and
warm personal esteem of such educated
soldiers as Sherman, Schofleld and
Thomas. Of the war he became an
historian in his excellent monographs
on "Atlanta," "The March to the Sea,"
"The Battle of Franklin," and was
easily the highest authority with refer
ence to the events and strategy of the
Civil War, of which he wrote with re
markable vigor of thought and expres
sion. He presided at the National con
vention which nominated Grant for
President In 186S, and was Secretary
of the Interior In 1869-70, and served a
term in Congress from 1877 to 1879. He
practiced law in Cincinnati for a num
ber of years, became president of the
Wabash Railroad, and was afterwards
president of the Cincinnati University
and dean of the law school.
In politics General Cox was an "In
dependent" Republican, who placed the
Interior Department, of his own motion
and long before any civil service regu
lations had been enacted, on a merit
basis no dismissals only for incompe
tency, no appointments except after
examination. He forbade his clerks to
pay political assessments, and Simon
Cameron and "Zach" Chandler led a
powerful movement to oust the inde
pendent Secretary, who in October, re
ceiving no support from President
Grant, resigned, following Secretary
E. R. Hoar, who had already been
forced out of the Caabinet. Secretary
Cox was denounced by the "stalwart"
press of that day for his "sickly sen
timentality" in taking the civil service
out of politics, as well as for his ac
tion in the McGarrahan claim, in
which, on advice of Attorney-General
Hoar, he refused to suspend proceed
ings in view of possible Congressional
action in favor of the pretender, al
though the request was made by the
chairman of the House Judiciary Com
mittee. General Cox was a supporter of
Greeley in 1S72 for President, and from
that day was always an "Independent"
Republican. He had a dread of negro
suffrage, and approved of the down
fall of carpet-bag rule under President
Hayes, but generally supported the
National ticket of his 'party. He was
early and late an Inflexible advocate
of the rigid enforcement of 'the civil
service law, and an open enemy of its
evasion.
The pretense that the spectacle of a
prize-fight helps to make a people pug
nacious, courageous and instinct with
virtues of warlike hardihood Is absurd.
On 'the contrary, the, training and the
spectacle of combats of this sort, while
they cultivate brutality, do not culti
vate the kind of courage that is essen
tial to furnish military valor s.nd spirit.
The prize-fighter is an exceptionally
stalwart man, who can easily get beef
and bread In America for honest Indus
try, but prefers to prostitute his noble
body to an utterly non-industrial, non
productive, lawless calling, to a life
whose sole fame is its burning shame,
base purpose and brutalizing -education
and example. For a strong man to
get beef and bread through the sale of
the sanctity of his exceptionally fine
body is as shameful as it would be
for a nobly organized woman, easlly
capable of upright self-support, to sell
her charms in open market. Boiled
down to his lowest terms, a prize-fighter
is a creature that has dived to the low
est depth of human nature. His type
and temperament corresponds to that
of a woman who under no temptation
of poverty, no stress of public scandal,
nevertheless because of sheer Indolence
and love of lawless social freedom and
low company voluntarily prefers the
life of a harlot to that of a decent, in
dustrious woman. This Is your prize
fighter. He would dive lower than he
does if there was a lower level of phys-
leal and moral degradation io reach.
He sells his body so far as there is
any market for its abuse.
The Oregonian regrets the publication
in its telegraphic columns yesterday
of a letter from its Washington cor
respondent depicting the Democratic
overtures to the German vote and em
bodying palpable overtures to the
Germans to vote for McKinley. The
Oregonian has no desire to dictate to
the Germans their choice of President,
and it knows that such a desire, if it
were entertained, would be vain of
execution. Numbers of Germans will
vote for McKinley on the financial and
law-and-order issues, and numbers of j
them will vote for Bryan on the
"militarism" issue. That is their af
fair, and it is only to be hoped they
will do as their consciences dictate.
As, for -desperate efforts of the Demo
crats to capture the German vote, the
Republicans are making efforts just as
desperate and just as unscrupulous. It
is an unseemly scramble, as senseless
&3 it is unseemly, in. which The Ore
gonian would fain have no $)art.
The Vancouver (Wash.) Register
Democrat states the paramount issue
thus:
Four years ago the paramount issue- of the.
Presidential campaign was the question what
sort of dollars wo should have. This year the
paramount economic issue Is the question who
shall own whatever dollars there are, and In
cidentally ourselves alone with them.
This strikes us as very much to the
point. We have had four years of
McKinley, and know he can't give us
these dollars. Perhaps Bryan can.
Count this newspaper, therefore, and
all who work with it and for it, in com
pany with those who have dollars few
or none, and who want to "own what
ever dollars there are." But the great
question is how we are to get these
dollars without working for them
which is a slow, vile and servile pro
cess. We shall hope to have light on
this subject from- the spokesman of
the Bryan party, before November.
The Portland plan of handling gam
bling places Is to be tried at Kansas
City. The newspapers of that city an
nounce that the Mayor and Chief of
Police have decided that it is impossi
ble to prevent the playing of draw and
stud poker in rooms adjoining hotels.
They have decided therefore to permit
the violations of- the law to continue,
although they will draw the line at faro
and crap shooting. The licensing is to
be done by a system of fines. Once a
month the keepers of all poker-rooms
will be arrested and brought before the
Police Justices and fined $30 each. No
attempt will be made to seize the para
phernalia of the gambling-rooms. The
same protest that was made under sim
ilar circumstances at Portland has been
raised in Kansas City, and it will be
interesting to see what the outcome is.
General Joe Wheeler says at Chicago
that we are now a great world power.
Likely he says it Just to make the
Aunties jump. You can get a rise from
them any time by saying that the
United States is now a great world
power. They resent it as a personal in
sult. We were a great world power
long ago, they say, at any and all
times except in the administration of
William McKinley. The world-prominence
into which the events of two
years have thrown us is too plain and
impressive a phenomenon for the antis
not to deny it. The plainer a truth,
the more necessary is their exception to
It. The more impracticable a plan, the
more Imperative their duty to espouse
it.
Determination to set foot in Pekin
should be tempered with reflection that
Chinese repugnance to the impending
forcible entry is natural. See what bit
terness crops out today in France at
the recollection of German troops
marching along the Champs Elysee!
Perhaps it was a dim foreboding of
such a day as this that Induced Bis
marck to advise against extreme hu
miliation of the French. If he had
had his way, Paris would not have
been entered In 1871, and these pro
tests against Waldersee would not now
be heard. The power that sympathizes
with China's desire to save Pekin from
devastation may some day reap Its
reward.
The Portland policeman who com
plains that while he is commanded to
arrest scorchers, the Mayor or magis
trate sets them free with friendly coun
sel, needs to brush up his philosophy.
It is an axiom of astute polity that
favors should Invariably proceed from
the head of power, but punishment and
all things disagreeable always through
subordinates. "Send Mr. Smith to me,"
says the Owner to the Foreman, "I
wish to compliment him upon his fidel
ity and notify him of an advance of
salary. As for Mr. Jones, you will
see him and give him his discharge."
This principle is well set out in the
pages of Aristotle.
The Nebraska State Journal Justly
remarks- that all talk of Mr. Bryan
and his personal following about im
perialism, being the "paramount Issue"
in the coming campaign is lost wind
in the presence of the facts. "When
the Kansas City convention offered to
make it the paramount issue by rele
gating sixteen-to-wun regardless to
the shade of a general indorsement of
the Chicago platform, Mr. Bryan at
once declared that he would not ac
cept a nomination unless a new and
distinct declaration of that fundamen
tal principle was made."
Though "Imperialism," a silly word
In America, is declared to be the para
mount issue, would not the success of
Bryan and his party tend to revivify
sixteen-to-one fallacies, instead of
stamping them out? And, when it
comes to imperialism, so-called, we
find that Bryan urged the ratification
of the treaty through which we took
Porto Rico and the Philippines, and
that Bryan's North Carolina supporters
pay little attention to the Declaration
of Independence, with its affirmation of
the principles of self-government and
consent of the governed.
The howl of "imperialism" is raised
as a political expedient, In order to
Induce men to forget the crazy silver
scheme of four years ago. But the
howl about imperialism is as irrational
as the howl was for silver, only it is
not so dangerous. It is a pity we have
a political party that must always play
the fool.
An Historic Parallel.
Kansas City Star, Ind.
A Democratic campaign orator of no
less note than George Fred Williams, ot
Massachusetts, has made bold proclama
tion from the stump that the Filipinos
are now fighting in the hope that the
Democrats will he successful in Novem
ber At Buffalo he characterized the op
erations of the United States soldiery in
the Philippines as "murderous."
In Kansas City pamphlets have ap
peared In aid of the Democratic causs
which were issued by the Filipino central
committee, and which call upon Ameri
cans" to stop the "unspeakable horror" of
the war in the Philippines.
That such protests should be made
against the authority of the United States
In a part of its domain which it holds
by the triple right of conquest, of pur
chase and treaty enactment, is. Indeed,
remarkable. That it should be defended
as an issue by one of the great "parties
of the Nation appears inconceivable.
Once before, in the history of the Re
public, the Democratic party aligned it
self with the enemies of the American
flag. Everybody ought to remember how
it all turned out. though the Democrats
seem to have utterly forgotten the heavy
penalty which their party paid for sym
pathizing with disunion.
The Filipinos who are still fighting are
insurgents, pure and simple. If they are
depending on aid and comfort from the
United States they are leaning on a staff
as frail and uncertain as that on which
the rebels of Confederate States trusted
InlS&-GI.
BRYAN WILL UPSET IT.
He Means What He Says About the
Gold Standard.
"Walter Wellman In Chicago Times-Herald.
"Mr. Bryan, if you are Inaugurated aa
President next March, will you urge the
Congress to repeal the gold standard
law and pass an act providing for the
free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16
to 1?"
"I certainly will," replied Mr. Bryan.
"In such an event, will It be your pur
poso to use all your Influence and power
to secure the passage of such a law?"
"Certainly. The Democratic platform
means what it says, and if we win you
may bo sure I shall not be the first to
abandon that platform. On the contrary,
it will be my duty and my purpose to
uphold it to the very letter."
"But Mr. Bryan," said his caller,
"would It not be sufficient to pass a law
restoring bimetalism, 'the money of the
Constitution, ' at the commercial ratio,
whatever that may be at the time? Res
toration of the principle of bimetalism
at a natural and workable ratio might
not be Injurious to the business and
prosperity of the country, while statu
tory compulsion of the unnatural ratio
of 16 to 1 would mean shock, revolution,
disaster. Do you mean to say that If
elected President you will insist upon
restoration both of the principle and of
the old ratio?"
"Yes, I do," said Mr. Bryan, "we
have promised the country that and we
must stand by It The ratio of 16 to J.
has become a part of the battle for bi
metalism. It. is a principle in itself, and
we cannot abandon It, either before or
after the election, without abandoning
the cause bodily. This we cannot and
will not do."
"Mr. Bryan," persisted the caller, "do
you not think the Democracy ,vould have
been much stronger if it had never de
clared for a ratio, but had simply de
manded a return to the principles of bi
metalism, to the 'money of the Consti
tution'? Do you not believe that many
thousands of men would indorse that but
will not indorse a given ratio which has
been wiped out of the field of practica
bility by natural causes?"
, "No," was the emphatic answer of Mr.
jBryan. "It was necessary to have a ratio
in order to have a battle. In no other
way could the forces of bimetalism have
been brought and held together. With
out agreement upon a ratio with some
of 'us declaring for one ratio and some
for another we never could have made
any progress at all. We had to take a
stand upon a ratio, and the ratio we
stood for has become a part ot the battle
for monetary reform, as vital as the
principle itself. We must and will con
tinue to stand for It."
"Then you do not believe the vital
thing is bimetalism that the electors
should vote to restore the principle and
that the technical question of the ratio
should be left to the experts?"
"No, I do not. If we could have started
that way perhaps It would have been bet
ter. But, as I have already said, we had
to have a ratio in order to make the
battle, and the ratio we adopted has
Itself become a part of the doctrine."
CONSENT OP THE GOVERNED.
It Wns Denied nt Hour the Phrnse
Wn Coined, and Ever Since.
Letter in New York Times.
The phrase in the Declaration of In
dependence which asserts that "Gov
ernments derive their just powers from
the consent of the governed," and which
has been incorporated into the Bryan
ese platform, has never in a single In
stance been practically accepted by the
Government of the United States. On
the contrary, on every possible occasion
this Government has repudiated by its
acts this cardinal point in our Magna
Charta. In fact, at the very moment It
was being penned, an army was strag
gling back from Canada, having been
sent by the colonies to compel the
people there, against their will, to join
with us in opposition to. the mother
country. Possibly the failure of this ex
pedition may have susgested the maxim
in question, hut, if so, the lesson was
forgotten on the first occasion that
arose. This was at the time of the
Louisiana purchase, when the Govern
ment ruthlessly extended its "just pow
ers" over the "governed," notwithstand
ing the weeping dissent of the unhappy
Creoles.
In 1S20 Florida was purchased, and
without obtaining, or even asking, the
consent of the inhabitants, it was coolly
converted into American territory.
Tho Mexican War afforded the next
opportunity to display our devotion to this
fundamental principle of government,
and, accordingly, we annexed, willy nllly,
a horde of "greasers," whose descend
ants even now hold aloof from the hated
"gringos."
Following close upon this, we dis
patched an army to Utah to persuade
the reluctant Mormons to come under
our wing; and they came. But the
maxim received its crowning demonstra
tion when, at the expense of GQ0.CO0 lives
and $6,000,OCO,000, we obtained the con
sent of the Confederate States to accept
the blessing of being governed by us.
Almost while this was going on we did
a little by-stroke of business, In accord
ance with our practice, by taking In
Alaska, with as much regard for the
consent of the people as that of the
seals.
all means, let us now, in aeterence
to tho Kansas City platform, square our
practice with our profession, and, giving
up this wicked course of expansion, let us
betake ourselves to debasing the cur
rency, packing the Supreme Court and
preparing a reign of anarchy. North
Carolina has already taken the initiative
in showing tenderness for outlying peo
ples in preference to her own. and evi
dently is ripe for the balance of tho
Democratic programme. Let her burn
her tar barrels of rejoicing now and rest
In contentment until November, when
wo shall see how far the rest of tne
country is in sympathy with her senti
ments. A. H. B.
Elberon, N. J.
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Stoppage of Japanese Immigration.
Chicago Tribune.
The Japanese Government has Issued an
order prohibiting the emigration of labor
ers to the UUnlted States and Canada.
This comes on the heels of one restrict
ing that emigration considerably. This
action will be a great relief to the Cana
dian and British authorities and also to
those ot this country. About a year
ago the Japanese began coming to British
Columbia in such numbers as to alarm
the people, who called on the Dominion
authorities to take steps, by the imposing
of a head tax or In some other way,
to stop this inflow. This could not be
done without the assent of the British
Government, which neither wished to dis
oblige the Canadians nor to agree to a
violation of the treaties with Japan. The
arrival of so many Japanese in the Pa
cific Coast States was beginning to work
on the feelings of their people. There
was danger of a demand on Congress
for a Japanese exclusion law. Naturally
the enactment of such a measure would
make It hard to keep on friendly terms
with Japan, whose government would
not relish the putting of Japanese on the
same level with Chinese. That govern
ment has ben considerate in its action.
It has shown a desire that the present
friendly relations with the United States
and Canada shall suffer no change. It Is
possible, also, that at this uncertain mo
ment, when it is Impossible to tell what
fighting Japan may have to do with China
or Russia, It is deemed best not to let
too many able-bodied Japanese go so far
away from home that they will be un
available for military duty. Bui when
there is no such special demand for men
some outlet will have to be found for
tho surplus population of Japan. That Is
one reason why the Japanese Government
Is so anxious to get Corea. The Island
empire is overcrowded with people. If
they cannot come to America they must
settle in Asia or the islands ot.the Pacific
Bryan a Vote-Chaser.
New Tork Tribune.
Evidently Bryan .has seen a great light
since the early days of July, when he was
tugging frantically at the wires of tho
Kansas City convention to make unequiv
ocal the Fourth of July declaration
against the gold standard. Then no dodg
ing of the beloved silver idea could bo
permitted. Now no open acknowledgment
of the issue can be allowed. It appears,
after all, that the Nebraska phrasemaker,
tho alleged founder of the new Demo
popracy, is no leader. The posing of four
years was just posing; nothing more. At
last the veil Is torn aside by his nearest
and closest friends and the real man se
vealed as a vote-chaser, pure and simple.
For they are hastening, almost ImlecenN
ly, to assure the country that Bryan
made free silver his leading text In 1S96
because the Chicago convention, "had de
clared that subject to be paramount to
all others," while in 1500 he is prepared
to Ignore the great principles of consti
tutional government involved in the
"crime of 1873," "government by injunc
tion," and the failure of the Income tax
raid, because the Kansas City conven
tion discovered that "Imperialism;" what
ever it may mean, was the most available
"bogy man" for present campaign pur
poses. m
An "Impoverished Plea."
Brooklyn Eagle, Ind. Dem.
The proposition is that because honest'
money has been protected by legislation
a dishonest money candidate shall be
placed in power. Not many stranger ar
guments than this have ever figured in a
political campaign. Even this impover
ished plea must be qualified. A distin
guished authority says that in spite of the
gold standard legislation we have n-i
means for maintaining the standard that
we did not have before the act was
passed and that if there was possible
danger before the same danger still ex
ists. So, as It is anything but clear that
Bryan could do no harm, the plea is
worthless. So, the sorry contention that
Bryan should be supported because he
would be powerless must be thrown out
of court.
Quay Said to Be Beaten.
According to the calculations of the
Philadelphia Press, Mr. Quay will not be
chosen to represent Pennsylvania in the
Senate ot the United States. Nor can
he name his successor. The primaries
for the nomination of candidates for tho
Legislature have been held in more than
tnree-fourths of the districts of the state,
and the Quay representation hay been re
duced from 82 to 52. while the anti-Quay
Republicans increase from 33 to 62. The
Democrats in the next House will num
ber 64. their present number being 63.
Mr. Quay, therefore, will be supported by
a minority only of his own party; and
it seems highly improbable that he can
succeed by a fusion with the Democrats.
Nevertheless, he will not give up the
struggle until his successor Is actually
elected, and his opponents need not yet
think the victory won.
Ten Greatest Americnn Railroads.
A table showing the mileage controlled
by the principal railroad companies of
this country In July, 19C0, has been com
piled by the Railway Age. The 10 larg
est systems are as follows:
New York Central ....10,410
Pennsylvania iX'5?-
Canadian Pacific a2'2i
Southern Pacific g.302
Chicago & Northwestern 8.463
Chicago, Burlington & Qutncy 8.001
Southorn Railway- I'SSi
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe T.880
Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul 6,437
Union Pacific 5.GS4
The Pennsylvania Railroad is the larg
est system in the country under one
namo. It is shown that 23 railroad
companies control a total mileage of
147,061.
Slncrular History of a Word.
New Tork Tribune.
The word "soldier" has an interesting
history. "Shilling." in Low Latin. Is
"solldus," whence comes "soldum,"
"wages." The man who fights for "sol
dum" is a "soldier." In Wickllffe's New
Testament (Luke ill, 14), John the Baptist
bids the soldiers to "be apayed with your
sowdls" ("be content with your wages"),
"sowdis" being the North Country ren
dering of "soldls." like "owd" from "old."
The Troth, No Doubt.
When the late Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
visited. America as a young man, a
Canadian guide pointedly remarked to
him: "I had the honor. Your Highness, to
show your royal brother, the Prince of
Wales, over the same path, and he pre
sented me with this magnificent gold
watch." "Ah, indeed," answered Prince
Alfred, "that's more than he ever did
for me."
MEN AND WOMEN.
Luclnda Taylor, who was once one of the
slaves of Henry Clay, has been sent to tho
City Infirmary of Cincinnati.
Prince Chin?, the Chinese General, who has
been ao friendly to foreixners, was for some"
time Lord. Chamberlain ot the court, and was
President of tha Tsune II Tamun In 1308.
when Lord Charles Beresfora visited it.
James S. Barker, of Missouri. 13 tha sole
survivor of the expedition of 184T for the re
lief of General Zachary Taylor in the City of
Mexico. Ho rode on horseback from Missouri
to Austin. Tex., to enlist In Colonel Hayes
regiment.
Sir Thomas Mcllwraith, whose death was
recently reported, was Premier of Queensland.
Australia, In the early 'SOs, and wneu he heard
of the German designs for annexing New
Guinea, he threw red tapo to the winds and
seized It for England.
Lieutenant J. P. V. Grldley, son of the Com
mander of Dewey's flagship, the Olympia. at
Manila, and the youngest officer in the United
States Marine Corps, will not be able to go to
China, as he tried very hard to dq. because
he is 111 at the Marine Hospital. Boston, suf
fering from internal Injuries received whilo
bravely fighting tho recent flre at the- Boston
navy-yard.
' John Howard Bryant, a brother of the poet.
William Cujlen Bryant, has Just celebrated
the 03d anniversary of his birth at his home in
Princeton, 111. Ho moved from tho family
home In Cumminston. Mas., when 24 years
old, and has lived ever since at Prlncton,
where he has some reputation as a poet. He
is now the only surviving member of the fam
ily made famous by his brother.
Charles M. Schwab, the president of the
Carnegie Steel Company. Is about to found a
trade school for boys In the neighborhood ot
Pittsburg. He will pay the salaries of all the
teachers and provide a library. There will be
courses on general mechanical line3. besides
thorough training in shop work. Like Mr.
Carnegie. Mr. Schwab proposes to make his
gifts during his lifetimo, so that he may di
rect more satisfactorily the expenditure of his
money.
The Contented Cow.
K. K. Munktttrick in Puck.
The placid beeve, to contemplation wed.
Moves lazily along the sunny slope;
Unanchored by a. galling chain or rope.
She swings her tall of soft Venetian red.
Until she knocks the hungry horsefly head
Over-heels, and unannoyed, proceeds to mope
And munch the mead, or suddenly to lope
Around the green, by fairy fancy fed.
And kick her hinder members high, Joy
fraught, Ne'er fondly recking that within a time.
As brief as that which scoops our scads
and scoots.
Her lotus dream will crumble Into naught.
E'en while her shell shall rise to heights
sublime.
In stews, roasts, buttons, gelatins and
boots.
K0TE AND COMMENT..
War may come and war may xo. but
tha correspondent lies on forever.
What- a pity we can't put this weather!
I In storage and. sell it to Chicago. New
Tork. et al.!
The Chinese .Emperor must be-speadtag.
most of his time those days signing
iblack edicts.
The tax roll furnishes a case of halti
and half In which Alexander Porter and.-)
L Adam Beer are Joint owners ot a tot.
If Bryan could change his speech aa
often 83 he changes his mind he would
jset more of a reptuation for originality. '
The Democrats have not paused In their
mad applause of Thomas Brackett Reed
to notice that he ha3 not made any Bryan,
speeches. .
Thus far none of the innocent bystand
ers at the Powers trial have been con
victed, but they iwere taking lonir
.chances.
Bmperor William says that the, arm ot
the Kaiser reaches to the remotest parts
of the world. He might havo said tha
same of his mouth.
LI Hung Chang- says he has got a little.
list of political offenders who never will
be missed," and the sooner ho makes It
stiHmore little the.'bctter it will be for
him.
Two thousand pianos have been sold in
Kansas this year, and it is safe to say
that none of them will be used to ao-
1 company singers of Democratic campaign
songs.
Pitchfork Tillman describes himself aa
a statesman. In doing so he displays
great originality, as no one else weuW
ever havo thought of describing him that
way.
Archbishop Corrigan, of New York City,
was the guest of a garden party recently
given by Queen Victoria. The invitation,
came to him through the courtesy and
Interest which our Ambassador to the
Court of St. James has shown toward, the
archbishop. Mr. Choate was delighted
to suggest that tho Archbishop be among
the Invited guests.
The commission, headed by Judge Taft.
it is announced, has organized a civil
government for the Philippines, to go Into
operation on the 1st of September. Tho
commission will be the Legislature of the
islands, and it must also be the executive
and the judiciary. It may appoint Judges,
but they will necessarily be su
bordinate to tho commission, and will be
removable at its pleasure. The laws
which it ordains will be inforced by our
troops.
Mrs. Frances Meyer, of Illinois, haa
some comprehensive political views. She
wants to run for Governor, and she soys:
"I belong to no party, yet in me and my
principles are centered all the best ele
ments of the five great parties in .our
country. I would be an independent Go v
ernor, but by principle I am a Republican
and Democrat of tho highest grade." This
recalls Mark Twain's announcement oC
himself a3 a Presidential candidate cm a
platform favoring protection and 'frao
trade, the gold standard and free sil
ver, and morality and qualified immoral
ity. A German officer who has been instruct
ing the Chinese writes to a Berlfcn paper
that they learn the ordinary drill as
quickly as Europeans, and became good,
marksmen. And he gives soma striking
examples of close work at T00O yards with,
a Krupp. He regards the war with Japan
as no test whatever of the military qual
ity of the Chinese, who, he says, will
fight well under a leader whom they can
trust. As to the marksmanship of the
Chinese with rifles, Lieutenant-Colonel Da
St. Paul Seltz says In the Westminster
Gazette that they shoot well up to 700
yards, but beyond that, for some reason,
their aim becomes erratic.
"I shall stay at home this Summerj" Mr.
Bryan said last week,
"I will stay at home this Bummer, and tho
other chaps can speak.
I may roast expansion now and then, to show
how much I know.
But I'll not begin to travel like I did four years
ago."
"I shall moke a lot of speeches.' Colonel
Bryan said today.
"I Bhall make tho sovereign voters see tho Is
sues ail my way.
I shall be at homo but little, and shall travel
very far.
And talk right oft the platform of mj private
palace car,
Pve eet a. scorching pace, and I must keep It
up, yoa know.
I shall do a lot more speaking- than I did four
years ago."
The Rev. W. J. Holley, of Christ Episco
pal Church, surprised hs congregation aa
a recent Sunday by taking a decided stand
against women appearing at church serv
ices without appropriate head covering.
Tho doctor remarked upon the prevailing
fad of young men and women appearing
in public bareheaded, and said this waa a
matter for their own Judgment. But
when they came to church he believed
the women should cover their heads. This,
he said, was in accord with St. Paul,
who. In I Corinthians xi:5, 6, says: "Every
woman that prayeth or prophesleth with
her head uncovered dlshonoreth her head,
for that Is even all one as If she were
shaven. For if the woman be not cov
ered, let her also be shorn or shaven;
but if It be a shame for a woman to fee
shorn or shaven, let her be covered." Dr.
Holley said he did not wish to see the
women dishonor themselves as implied by
the great apostle.
PliEASANTTlIES OF PARAGKAPHERS
"Why do you consider him to be an artMlo
liar? Did you ever catch htm In a lis?" "No;
but appearances are against him." "Hor
so?" "I know that he llva for two or three
years at Shanghai." Chicago Post.
The Boston Boy of course Little Girl Oh.
goody! I know something I sha'n't tell." Har
old Meredith Bean Quite likely; we all acquire
knowledge that we are prone to keep con
cealed in the confines of tne mind." Judge.
An Angel. "Do you thinK I will have any
difficulty in learing to float. George?" she
asked. "No, Indeed." he replied, enthusias
tically. "Why with a little practice, I'm
sure you could fly." Philadelphia North Amer
ican. A Boy's Appetite. "Aw," said the boy. "I
don't see why you won't let me eat as much!
on Sunday as on the otter days of the week."!
"My only objection." said the dyipeptlc and
unsympathetic father, "Is that you want to
eat aa much on Sunday as on all the other
six." Indianapolis Press.
Giving Her a Chance. Mrs. Hojaek (read
ing) "The new British postal regulation per
mit a foreign letter to be of any weight, pro
vided it Is not over two feet long by one foot
wide and two Inches thick." Mr Hojack
That ought to give room for th postscript
to a woman's letter." Harper's Bazar
He Felt It Keenly. Elderly Spinster (horri
fied) Little boy. aren't you ashamed to go In
bathing in such, a public place with such a.
bathing-suit as. that on? Small Boy Yea'm;
but me mother make me wear It. I'll take It
off, thouzli. If you'll promise not to say any
thing to her about It. Leslie's Weekly.