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THE MOEKESTG OEEGONIAN, TUESDAY, &UGUST 14, 1900.
EXPLORERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI
(Copyright. 1900, by Seymour Eaton.)
THE OREGONIAN'S HOME STUDY CIRCLE: DIRECTED B PROF. SEYMOUR EATON
DISCOVERERS AND EX
PLORERS OF NORTH AMERICA
IX.
The achievements of Cortez and Plzar
ro In conquering the wealthy kingdoms
of Mexico and Peru stimulitcd the am
bition and cupidity of Spaniards and
turned attention to the unexplored re
gions north of the Gu!f. "What more
likely than that a third golden harvest
in that quarter awaited the clutch of a
strong and daring hand? Hernando de
Soto marked these Imaginary riches for
his prey. He had accompanied Pizarro to
Peru, and on returning to Spain organ
ized an expedition to repeat Pizarro's
work in the vast region then known as
Florida.
Men of rink and full of the spirit of
adventure were eager to join his stand-
ZX .v. I , t a aZ ,w - iTi ,Z
ard, eo that he had no difficulty in col-
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letting "a. band as gallant ana well ap-
pointed, as eager in purpose and au-
dicious in hope as ever trod the shores
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of the JCew "World." They landed 620
strong at Tampa Bay. Florida in 1E39.
"We know, of course, what awaited them.
their golden dreams. But how could they
know it beforehand? They waudered
about in the present States of Florida,
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi until
In the third year in 1541 they reached a
great river, "almost half a league wide,
deep, rapid and constantly rolling down
trees and driftwood on its turbid cur
Tent." It was the Mississippi, the Father
of "Waters, now seen for the first time
by white men. They crossed the river at
the lowest Chickisaw bluff and continued
their wanderings on the other side until
It was evident to all that their enterprise
was a complete failure. Then they re
turned to the river, and De Soto, his
proud spirit completely "broken, suc-
cuxudcu 10 ins xnisiurLuues uuu uieu. iu j
keep his body from the Indians his com
panions sunk it at midnight in the river.
There was now no thought in any mind j
but that of escape from the terrible wil- (
derness. Eventually the survivors, only
one-half the original number, half-clad,
sickly and starving, made their way down
the river and reached a Spanish settle
ment After Ie Soto's ill-starred expedition
the great river remained unvlsltcd by ,
white men for 132 years, and the fact
of its discovery had well-nigh faded out
of memory. Distorted accounts of it from
the Indians reached the French in Can-
ada, awakening curiosity and suggesting
a new trade route to the ocean, though
whether it would lead to the Atlantic or i
Pacific was long a matter of conjecture.
The prevailing opinion for a while was
that It emptied into the Vermillion Sea
namely, the Gulf of California.
"When Frontenac became Governor of
Canada in 1672 he commissioned Louis Jol
iet and Jacques Marquette to discover and
explore the river. Jollet was a young '
man 27 years of age, who had been edu
cated for the priesthood, but had chosen j
Instead the life of a fur trader. His com-
panion. Marquette, was 35 years old, and
had already made his niark as a zealous
Jesuit missionary.
May 17. 1673, the two leaders, with five
men, started on their adventurous jour
ney from the Straits of Machilllmacklnac.
In their two birch-bark canoes they coast
ed along the northern shore of Lake Mich
igan and down on the west to the head
of Green Bay. There they entered and
went up the Fox River, crossed Lake
"Winnebago, then followed the river be
yond through endless growths of wild
rice, from which the frightened wild fowl
rose in great flocks. With the help of
Indian guides they passed from the Fox
River to the "Wisconsin, upon which they
launched their canoes, not knowing
whether their destination was the Gulf
of Mexico or the Pacific. June 17 they
saw before them the broad current of
the Mississippi, and, reaching it, turned
their canoes southward, "'with a great
joy which I cannot express," wrote Mar
quette. For several days they paddled on with
out seeing the faintest trace of human
habitation. At length, on the 25th, they
found a well-trodden path on the west
bank, leading from the river inland.
Leaving their men behind, the two lead
ers followed the path for several miles,
until they reached an Indian village on
the banks of a stream which might have
been the Des Moines. Here they were
hospitably received. "Frenchmen, how
bright the sun shines when you come to
visit us," said the chief, holding up his
hands as If to shield his eyes. Marquette,
who knew several Indian languages, had
no difficulty In addressing them. The
chief replied In flattering terms, assur
ing them that "their presence added
flavor to his tobacco, made the river
more calm, the sky more serene and the
earth more beautiful." A feast followed,
in which a large dog, killed and cooked
for the occasion, was a prominent dish.
On the following morning the hospitable
Indians COO in number escorted their
white guests to their canoes and bade
them farewell.
Slowly they drifted down the river.
"When nearly opposite the present site of
Alton their superstitious fears and an
tipathies were aroused at the sight of
two hideous monsters painted on the
rocks by the Indians as representations
of their gods. Many years later, long
after the effigies had disappeared, came
the money-worshiping white man and put
in the place of the Indian deities a huge
advertisement of "plantation bitters."
Presently a real danger appeared as "a
torrent of yellow mud rushed furiously
athwart, the calm current of the Missis
sippi, boiling, surging, and sweeping In
its course logs, branches and uprooted
trees." It was the Missouri, and on Its
turbid flood the light canoes were tossed
la an alarming way, for Marquette wrote:
"I never saw anything more terrific"
But they escaped injury and floated
down, past the site of St Louis, then,
of courfee, an unbroken wilderness, and
past the mouth of the Ohio, the "Beau
tiful River" of the French. Northern
trees began to give place to the straight
stems and feathery plumes of cane
brakea, and the heat of the sun be
came each day more difficult to endure.
"Wihen near the mouth of the Arkansas
Jtivex they decided to retrace their
course- Nothing would be gained by fol
lowing: the Mississippi farther, for they
now knew that it emptied into the Gulf
of Mexico. So on the 17th of July they
turned their canoes northward and began
their long and weary Journey homeward.
They followed the Mississippi until they
reached the mouth of the Illinois, went
up that river some distance, then with
Indian guides crossed the country to Lake
Michigan, and, coasting along its shore,
reached Green Bay. at the close of Sep
tember. They had been gone about four
months, and had paddled their canoes
somewhat more than 2TO0 miles.
"Wo now come to a great name in the
history of American exploration. Rene
Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, was
born in 1C43 of a wealthy merchant fam
ily of Rouen. In 1060 he came to Canada
to seek hts fortune and, in the course of
the next 12 yeary engaged in business
as a fur trader, and traveled extensively
in the wilderness south of Lakes Ontario
and Erie He thus became acquainted
with the natural resources of that region,
and determined to find an outlet for it
by way of the Mls4sslppl Rlvor. As a
base of operations he secured from the
King a grant of Fort Frontenac, at the
entrance to the St Lawrence River,
whore Kingston now stands. He alst j
wrrurT"u ine service! oi iwo men wme
names often recur in accounts of tho
explorations that period. One of these
was Henri de Tonty. who now attached
himself to La Salle and served him v
after with the utmost JMoMty. The other
was Fsttoer Louis Hennepin, a Reoolle:
friar extremely fond of adventure, who.
after a short connection with La Sailed
was destined to secure fame by his in
dependent explorations.
At the beginning of 1679, La Salle was
ready -to start for the Mississippi, so he,
with Tonty and Hennepin and a party ot
20 crossed over from Fort Ftdntenac to
the Niagara River. Here his first care
was to ostaolish a fortified station near
the mouth of the river, and next to build
a ship above the falls In which to navi
gate the upper lakes. The place chosen
for the shipyard was at the mouth ol
Cayuga Creek, on the American side, near
tt,; prescat village of La Salle.
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When
ton:
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. dhant fl;et to centuries lat-r at
the future port of Buffalo. The little
craft was named the Griffin. On Au
gust 7, when all was ready, La Salle and
his company went on board, the
"Tc Deum" was sung, five small cannon
i P'PPed off a brave salute, and the adven-
T . ,,,wv
f turous voyage was commenced.. A
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Hlng cam as the Grittta plowed the
virgin waves of Lake Erie, where sail
was never seen before." In due time
3Iarqncttc'n 3Iap of the 3tInsIaKlppl.
they reached Mlchilllmaklnac, where the
French had a well-known trading station.
Going ashore to the bark chapel of the
Ottawa village. La Salle, in his mantle
of scarlet and gold, knelt at the altar
and gave thanks for his safe voyage.
He was now beset with anxieties on
account of the dishonesty and treach
ery of fur traders in his employ. Troubles"
like these, and more serious harassment
from jealous rivals and hostile creditors,
he was often called upon to endure, for
he was stern and cold, and usually faileu
in attaching to himself men of his own
race. He was, however, remarkably
gifted in winning the admiration and de
votion of the Indians, whom he knew
exactly how to manage. To straighten
out his affairs he now decided to send
the Griffin back to Niagara with a val
uable load of furs to be forwarded to
Fort Frontenac She set sail on the
ISth of September, and was never heard
from again. A storm arose soon after
she started, and In that she probably
foundered.
La Salle and Hennepin and a party of
14 men resumed their journey in four
canoes. They paddled down the western
side of Lake Michigan, encountering
great hardships from lack of food and
stormy weather. Reaching the southern
end of the lake, they rounded it and
went up the eastern side to the River
Saint Joseph, which they entered the
1st of November. Here they were joined
by Tonty, who had been sent with a de
tachment down the eastern side of the
lake.
On the 3d of November the party, now
increased to 23, started in eight canoes
up the Saint Joseph River to a point
near the present site of South Bend.
After some delay In finding the way, they
carried their canoes over the' portage of
Ave miles and launched them again on
tho Kankakee, one of the headwaters of
Robert C. D. La Salle.
the Illinois River. The stream floated
them "through a voiceless, lifeless soli
tude of dreary oak barrens or boundless
marshes overgrown with reeds." After a
few days they passed through a wide
prairie "strewn with the carcasses and
bleached skulls of Innumerable buffalo."
At the place where the present village ot
Utica (in La Salle County) stands they
passed through a large Indian town.
Hennepin counted 4C0 lodges. In shape
like the arched tops of emigrant wagons,
and intended to hold six or eight fam
ilies apiece. But all was silent as tho
grave. The Indians were off on their
"Winter hunt Lower down the river they
found the Indians who tried to dissuade
them from going farther, telling them
great stories about the dangers, natural
and supernatural, that lay before them.
Terrified by what they heard, six of La
Salle's men, including two of his bct
carpenters, deserted. This was a serious
blow. It showed La Salle that he could
not depend upon his men.
Note This study, by Dr. C. H. Smith,
of Yale Fnlverslty, will be concluded or.
Tuesday next
Hanchcr "Who A'eed TVater.
The Dalles Chroniclo.
The "Wapinitia ranchers are making an
other effort to get water for Irrigation
and domestic purposes on the flat A
meeting will be held tonight at Victor,
at which it Is expected provision will be
made for a preliminary survey that will
decide the feasibility of bringing water
on the flat from "White River. The
ranchers have been singularly unfortun
ate In all previous efforts. Enough
money has been spent In digging ditches
to have rolved the water problem. If
the money had been spent judiciously.
"Whet Is known as the McCoy ditch Is
in tie position of the doj in the manger.
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McCoy ' cannot, or will not, complete it,
and the ranchers cannot force Its comple
tion nor obtain possession, of it without
a law suit. An adequate supply of water
on the "Wapinitia flat will make a para
dise out of some of the finest agricultural
districts in "Wasco County.
FORESTRY AS A PROFESSION
Universities and the Government
Enconraglnff the Study.
The young man who Is starting out to
j make a place for himself today has the
j wimiiti; iu eiiier one neia wnicn. dui. a
few years ago In this country, was prac
tically unknown, says the New Tork Sun.
1 It Is a field In which he can assure him
self of a respectable and permanent live
! llhood without the "taint of commprclal
' ism," In which he may enjoy the dignity
and freedom of a profession without tho
rigorous routine of medicine or the dry-
as-dust work of the law. In It he can
j combine the pleasures and profits of city
life with the joys of life In the field, he
j can keep his Drain from rusting and at
j the same time acquire the ruggedness of
, an aboriginal. Most Important of all. he
j can enter upon a work which will be in
, torcstlng, pleasant and healthful and at
i the same time one Important enough to
' make him respect It and willing to give
to It the best that is In him. Thl3 field
which has but very recently taken hold
on the public Interest, is the profession
of forestry.
The forestry of today is interested in
ti . protection of trees, but It has for
its chief end the utilization of mature
trees to obtain their maximum commer
cial value, and the maintenance of for
ests for the purposes of Income-earning
investments. Indirectly, the preservation
of the trees Is included, because to get
lumber you must first have your trees,
but the essential object ahead of the
modern forester Is the acquirement of
wealth where there was heretofore waste,
and such assistance of Nature that she
, may do her work with the maximum
, amount of effectiveness. The work be
' fore the modern forester,, then, Is the
J study of the conditions of forest growth,
j of the peculiarities of various trees and
the ways of best assisting their growth
; and most effectually destroying their en
i emies. The forester must therefore have
i the knowledge of a scientist combined
with that of a business man; he must
know how to make forests grow and at
the same time understand thev dangers
I to navigation, water supply and public
l health Involved In cutting them down.
Mineralogy, geology, zoology, mathemat
ics, physics and chemistry are as useful
ro him as a knowledge of the laws of
taxation, economics and trade.
i To make a Fuccess of forestry as a pro
fession, a young man should expect to
spend about three years In preparation.
The first year should be given to the
study of botany, surveying, political
economy, law, and to some extent mathe
matics, chemistry, physics and geology.
In short, a course should be taken In a
regular school of forestry, Buch as two of
the universities now provide. Most col-
i lege graduates would, of course, have al
ready prepared themselves In such sub
jects. The second year should be de-
voted to the study of forestry under
the guidance of a veteran forester, and
f experience relatively comparable to that
which a young medical student gets in
a clinic or hospital. The third year should
j be spent In lumber camps and lumber
, mills, with, If possible, a trip abroad,
where the sllvicultural principles of Ger-
many or France may be studied. The
I United States Department of Agriculture
offers to a few well qualified men just
the sort of experience that Is suggested
for tne second year. A certain number
of men who have been properly recom
mended are now taken out Into the field
each Summer and paid a salary of $25 a
month, In addition to their expenses while
in the field.
Some 2T.2 applications for these appoint
ments were received this year by the di
vision of forestry, most of them from
the more important colleges. From Yale
ana Harvard alone 100 were received,
while 77 more were scattered over differ
ent parts of the Atlantic States. Of the
remainder 16 are from California, where
several students from Berkeley and Le-
, land Stanford had appointments last Sum
mer, and a somewhat larger number from
the states of the Middle "West In which
forests exist. A few were from the tree
less region. In all, 61 applicants have
been appointed and are now beginning
work. They are divided up among the
field experts who are making investiga
tions and forest surveys as follows: In
the State of "Washington, 7; In Califor
nia, 13; in the Black Hills, 9; In the Mid
dle "West, 5; In Arkansas. 10; in the Ap
palachian region, 2; in the Adlrondacks,
15.
Equipped with the usual camping para
phernalia expected, when a party Is going
to "rough it" these young men are taken
out among the forests of Oregon, or the
red woods of California, or wherever the
squad to which they happen to belong Is
assigned, and they spend the Summer In
collecting the measurements of trees and
making surveys, from which the fores
ters of the division can. next Winter,
draw conclusions and tabulate results.
As the students work In squads under a
trained forester, they are found to pick
up a pretty good notion of the signifi
cance of what thny are doing and the
way in which a foreEter does his work.
One of the subjects most thoroughly In
vestigated by these bands of amateurs Is
the effect' of forest fires on tho forests.
Glfford Plnchot. forester of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, In a recent number
of the Forester, writing of opportunities
open to the young forester, says, "he may
reasonably look for paying employment
either from private owners of forest land,
such as great coVnpanles, or wealthy lum
bermen from states such as New York or
Pennsylvania or from the Governmsnt,
either In the General Land Office, where
the National forest reserves are adm'nls
terd, In the geological survey, where they
are mapped and described, or In the divis
ion of forestry, to which the general prog
ress of the science and art of forestry Is
assigned, together with all technical forest
work, and in which the Interests of the
vast area of private forest lands are con
sidered. At present the pay of the for
esters Is on about the same plane as that
cf the instructors and prof stors In a uni
versity." .
You don't go into forestry, therefore, to
get rich. For him, however, who loves
the out-of-doors, who prefers the wealth
of cheerfulness and health to that of glid
ed strenuoslty, who does his work not so
much for what it brings htm as for the
fun of doing it forestry as a profession
offers compensations most worthy of con
sideration. Olympic Games for Amerlcn.
Boston Globe.
It Is good news that there Is a pros
pect that the famous Olympic games will
be contended for In 1901 on American soil.
In no country In the world, not even In
historic Greece herself, was greater la
terest shown In the revival of the ancient
games at Athens than in the United
States. According to the original sched
ules Paris was to have the games this
year, England those of four years hence,
and America's opportunity was booked
for 1X6. but if the arrangement can so
far be changed as to permit of this coun
try being favored In 1001 a multitude of
American lovers of manly sports will re
joice and be exceedingly glad.
Jules of the Illest.
Indianapolis Press.
The most enjoyable Summer climate Is,
all In all. perhaps that of the lofty
plateau know nai Newera Ellla ("tho
King's Highlands"), on the Island of Cey
lon. Cool sea breezes spring up an hour
or two "after sunrise and keep the tem
perature below 75 dejrrees Fahrenheit all
the day long, while the neighborhood or
the equator prevents frosts, even at an
altitude of C0O0 feet Formosa has simi
lar highland regions, and was perhaps
rivaled by the Island of Maderia before
magnificent hill forests. j
BRYAN'S STAGELY REPLY
ESTIMATE AXD ANALYSIS BT A
DE3IOCRATIC JOURNAL.
Here Is a Loner Editorial, But No
body Can Do Better Than, to
ltend It.
Brooklyn Eacle. Ind. Dem.
The crystallization of good, taste Into
k custom or habit has led candidates for
President and for Vice-President to be
notified in their homes. The theory has
been that their fellow-cltlzens have
sought them out, as citizens, to tell them
that they have been selected for high
civic trusts, for causes and on principles
which are respectfully submitted. Both
propriety and impresslveness have com
mended the occurrence of these notifica
tions at the homes of candidates, where
friendship and hospitality could be shown
without the evidence of effort, and where
neither the effect nor the intention of
spectacularity or sensation could be
charged. This has been the rule of botn
the great parties In the past, and we do
not recall that it was broken before
today.
Today it was broken. Our news reports
tell how and where. The Democratic
candidates, Messrs. Bryan and Stevenson,
were not notified at their homes, though,
we are glad to say, they have pleasant
and happy homes, but were summoned
to the capital city of a state In which
neither lives, and In that city were taken
to a public park, to enable their notifica
tions to wear as tawdry, as theatrical and
a3 flamboyant a character as could be
predicated of a proceeding that has here
tofore been honqred by at least the sem
blance, if not by the reality, of privacy
and domesticity. The Thespian strain will
not cease. The dramatic spot will not
wash out of the hand. There was no per
formance, continuous or otherwise, In all
the English-speaking world, on this Wed
nesday, to equal that In Indianapolis to
day; which should not have been a per
formance at all. It Is not trivial to note
this. The Popullstlc impress is on the
new and Btrange Democracy. Its pro
ceedings, quite aside from the principles
involved, are fatefully stamped with hls
trlonlsm and with the resultant loss ot
dignity. As this will mortify Americans
of cultivation and simplicity and as It
will expose our Nation to the criticism
of the culture, which collectively may
be called the good manners of the world,
the occasion at Indianapolis must be re
garded to be as unfortunate In Its Incl
dpnt nnd In Its accessories as It was
unusual in its character.
Passing to another time consideration,
if any need be given, to what was said
to the candidates or to what was said by
the harmless Mr. Stevenson, the people
will immediately and mainly regard the
prose-poem of Mr. Bryan, which Is print
ed in the columns of this Issue of the
Eagle. "With tho English of the prose
poem no fault can be found, when the
deficient training, the want of humor
and the somber and solemn egotism of
tho candidate are, as they should be,
charitably regarded. The errors are
those Inseparable from the limitations of
the man. Schools and colleges in part
exist for the purpose of correcting those
errors. But although this gentleman,
born to circumstances of ease and by
fortune or Providence made immune
from the hardships of life, has been ex
posed to the educational influences of
learned Institutions, the errors Inherent
In his style have not been 'overcome. Nor
Is that so serious a matter, after all. The
result Is only what Is satirized, but not
described, when It is called, "fine writ
ing." For that there are cures in the
ridicule of classmates, in the scorn of
professors and In the missionary func
tion of blue pencils. But the classmates
availed not, the professors have been for.
gotten and the blue pencils have not been
Invoked. Consequently, we have Bryan
Ism In language as well as Bryanlsm In
politics, and the two are as alike as con
tiguous links of a continuous sausage.
And the product Is "splendid" In the
opinion of those who are not good judges,
and "uplifting" by the testimony of those
who swim In their emotions and think
the air is Nthe sea and their Impulses
wings and "patriotic" In the estimate of
thoso who know Just enough of the
fathers to parrot their phrases and Ignore
the application of them, and whose
Idea of duty Is the cnsmallment of their
country, the arrest of its spirit, the trail
ing of its flag, the reversal of its course
and the resurrection and galvanization,
into a seeming life, of all the burled
heresies with which sanity, prosperity,
reflection, self-interest and benign prog
ress parted company, without regret and,
as was hoped, forever, long, long, dec
ades ago.
But of what value to the country Is
sheer writing, good or ill. If it be put
forth for things that will Injure the coun
try? And what could Injure the coun
try more than the free and unlimited
coinage of sliver, which this prose-poem
supports? What could Injure It more
than the substitution of limitless issues
of greenbacks for the well-based, ever
certain, ever - solvent and everywhere
equally valqablo National bank notes, re
posing on the bonds of the Government,
which. In turn, are secured by the power,
tho principles, the purpose, the character
and the possessions of the people? Yet
to Turkish paper and to Mexican finance
this over - wrought and over - rated ex
horter of Populism, behind the mask of
an Illegitimate Democracy, would call the
Nation back. As well try to force a full
grown chicken into the primordial egg
or a stately oak Into the original acorn.
Nations grow. Men advance. Peoples
move forward, but the Bryantic embodi
ment x simply marks time In the circle
of its own egotism and impressively
treads out once more the rejected husks
of a dead past. When the reality of
the things that are is placed in contrast
with the shallow trappings of misappre
hended quotations from departed states
men, with which this prose-poem Is
trigged out then the pretentious hollow
ness of the Indianapolis performance Is
exhibited to view. Why. this unteachable
and unconscious actor sustains no more
relation to the Jefferson, to the Lincoln,
to the Clay, to the Webster and to the
Franklin from whom he borrows wrested
sentences and the strutting and stri
dent subordinates of the stage sustain
to the imaginary Dukes, the apocryphal
Kings and the mythical gods whom they
would impersonate in property robes and
in memorized speech.
When acting is oratory, Mr. Bryan will
be an orator. When bad acting is great
oratory, he will be a great orator. When
staglness is statesmanship, he will be a
statesman. When cant and rant and roar
and fustian take the place of sober
themes, with sober men, and when lime
light and tin thunder outclass the sun In
the sky and the elemental forces of the
storm, then will Populism be Democracy,
and then will America conduct Its af
fairs through tho hands of Presidents
that should be medically restrained and
of lawmakers that should meet In asy
lums for the Insane.
As foretold, the prose-poem mistakes
prolixity for Immortality. Its author
was determined It should live forever,
and apparently sought to put the end of
It Into eternity. If length were strength,
long would be strong. This is the long
est acceptance address that was ever
made. Not fortunate the editors, to be
commiserated the proofreaders, that
have to read It through! It Is a wall, a
defense, an attempted Indictment, a con
fident, prescription and then the inevit
able peroration.
The wail is the regret that men know
more now than they did awhile ago.
Knbw that gold Is honesty. Know that
free silver is repudiation. Know that
in the paramountcy of National law are j
the safety of the present and the se
curity of the future. Know that the ap
prehensions of militarism In America is
as absurd as the search for daisies at
either pole. These are the matters which
concern the wall and may 'concern the
waller, but need concern no one else.
The defense is Mr. Bryan's would-be-
justlficatlon of his support of the ratifi
cation of the treaty with his opposition
to the fruits the ratification brought and
the duties It Imposed. The defense is
not even ingenious or ingenuous. The
man tries to explain away the one ex
ertlon of his Influence for which he
should not apologise and Vrhlch stands
to his credit along with his enlistment
In the army. Alas, he would put even
upon his patriotism the stamp of par
tisanship and would thus do more Injury
to himself than his opponents could pos
sibly inflict!
The indictment Involves Mr. Bryan's
series of objections to what our Govern
ment Is doing or omitting to do In Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines. As to
them the President is executing the laws
of Nations, the promises of Congress, the
obligation to maintain order and the
duty to put down rebe.llon. Nothing he
has done could have been omitted by
him and nothing of It could tomorrow be
undone, by Mr. Bryan, were he President
The American people require their Presi
dents to do exactly what Lincoln did and
what Washington did and McKlnley Is
doing either with territories at peace pr
against insurgents In them, exactly what
Bryan will have to do, should he ever
become the chief magistrate of this peo
ple. The prescription is for the assemblage
ot Congress to tell the Filipinos that, If
they will stop fighting, we will stop
and that. If they will forgive us. we will
give to them, first, a government of our
making for them, then their control of
that government of our own making and.
finally, our protection of them, against
the world. In any success or failure which
they show In controlling the government
of our creation, which we will present
to thom. We are content to give this
prescription, divested of its Incongruous
rhetoric, its interminable verbiage and ltd
danclng-dervlsh egotism, to the plain
thinking of plain men. The President is
already laying the foundations of Ameri
canism In the Philippines. The Nation Is
pledged to accord to the people there as
large a measure of local freedom and lo
cal control as by obedience, order and
decency they show they can appreciate
and usp Pending that our soldiers are
stamping out the members of a gucr
rlllaism, which are all that remain of
what was once a conflagration of rebel
lion. With the soldier goes the school
master, with both the law-maker, and
over all the flag, that Is safely as far as
the light of events there permits us to
go. The future of policy there will de
pend upon the Indestructible love of
Americans for liberty, order and justice.
The Bryan programme would sacrifice all
that has been done, would reverse all
that has been projected, would vindicate
the Tagal murderers In their every deed
and would condemn everything which has
occurred there under the authority of
the Nation, from the time of the en
trance of Dewey Into the harbor to that
of the effort of Taft and his colleagues
to plant civilization In the East, under
the auspices of the freest country on the
globe. Better far for us to protect order
and liberty there, In our own name, for
our own good, and for the good of the
Filipinos and the world than to make
the murderers and the poisoners of our
troops the Instruments of our purposes
and plans.
What kernels of policy can be found
amid the mountainous chaff of this prose
egotism, can well be put to plain men in
plain contrast with what the patriots of
this country propose and mean to-carry
out
Bryanlsm is free silver. McKinleylsm
Is the gold standard. Between them
choice can be mfide. Free silver means
destroyed enterprise, arrested prosperity,
the reduction of labor and of Its wcgs
and the repudiation of obligations by
more than one-half ol their value. Tne"
gold standard means the prevention o
all that and the preservation and Increase
of present prosperities. Choice there
should not be difficult
Bryanlsm means Illimitable greenbacks,
which are promises to pay wi:h the pay
ment left out. McKinleylsm means hon
est money, solvent everywhere, discount
ed nowhere, doubted nowhere and Issued
everywhere in the country in response to
the volume of need for circulation.
Choice there should not be difficult
Bryanlsm means the Incoming of Porto
Rlcans into the Senate and House, and
into our citizenship, with all their unfit
ness, with all their superstition and with
all their moral and Intellectual juvenility
or barbarism. It means the relapse of
Cuba to an anarchy, In which the worpt
would be on top and the best at the bot
tom. McKinleylsm means the ordered
government of Porto Rico and the prog
ressive Americanization of Cuba. Choice
there should also be easy.
Bryanlsm means the estimate of Dewey
and Otis, of MacArthur and Taft, of
Schurman and Denby as wrong-doers and
of Agulnaldo and his murder-gang as
right-doers in the Philippines, without
surrender and apology to them and our
"protection" ot them against the world.
McKinleylsm means the reduction of
these mongrel rascals to order and their
lifelong sentence to undergo the benefits
of good government at our hands, which
hold In the Philippines the keys of powr,
of civilization and of destiny in the East.
Choice there should not be hard.
Bryanlsm means the Ignorance, the un
rest the dishonesty, the delusion, the In
sanity and the disorder of the coun'ry
under a dreaming roarer or a roaring
dreamer. McKinleylsm means judicious
radicalism, progressive conservatism, the
maintenance of honesty, of tranquillity
and of security for our people here and
for our people abroad and the measure
ment of the Nation to the duties of the
marvelous times Into which Providence
has conducted the Republic.
Choice there should not be d'fflcult and
the vaudeville event at Indianapolis to
day, with all Its garish and repulsive ac
cessories, should make the right choice
not only easy, but mandatory and beyond
doubt.
"PEACHES" SOUGHT HIS OWN
Story of a Fox Terrier, the Sin of
"Whose Life Win Peaches.
New York Sun.
Saventh-avcnue saloon-keeper, who is
tho owner of a fox terrier, which was
given to him recently, was delighted at
first to be the owner of so well bred an
animal, but more recently he has begun
to think that ho -has been the victim of
a joke. The dog's name Is Peaches, and
when tho saloon-keeper first heard it
he remarked that It was a queer name.
It wasn't very long before the new owner
discovered why the dog was called
Peaches. He was busy In his place when
an Italian who keeps a frultstand across
the street came In excitedly and said that
the dog had just made off down the street
with a half-filled small fancy basket of
peaches. The saloon-keeper thought it
a Joke at first and told the Italian to
try It on some one else, but when tho
latter began to swear and demand pay
ment he said he would see about it
The dog turned up in due season, but
as this did not help matters any, the
saloon-keeper decided to watch for him.
self. He took the dog out and purposely
walked past the fruit vender's stand sev
eral times, but the animal never even
looked In that direction. The owner paid
the bill the Italian presented for the al
leged stolen basket, but with some re
luctance, for he still had some faith, in
the dog's honesty.
Almost a week went by, and the saloon
keeper was .beginning to think .that the
Italian had swindled him when his at
tention was attracted by a crowd of boys
playing around the door of his place with
the dog. He went to the door to watch
the fun, and Just reached there In time
to see his own little boy pick up the
dog and start across the street In the
direction of the frultstand. He was go
ing to ask where he was going at first
but he kept quiet Straight for the stand
went his son, with the dog under his
arm, and, looking stealthily around to
make sure that the Italian was not In
sight the little fellow placed the dog right
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Lydia E. Pinkhatn's Vegetable Compound
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other medioinoa its
friends ar everywhere
and they sre constantly
writing thankful letters
which appear in this
pspora
if you are puzzled write
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vice Her address is
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women to health
in front of the stand and quickly rejoined
the other boys to await developments.
Neither the boys nor the silent witness
behind the saloon door had long to wait,
for Peaches made a quick jump at a
big hand of bananas, grabbed it by the
stem and ran to the boys, who took the
fruit and went off down the street, fol
lowed by Peaches wagging his tall and
carrying himself as If he had just per
formed his best trick. When the banana
were all gone the boy and the dog re
turned home, and In the explanations
that followed the saloon-keeper learned
that the son of his friend who" gave him
the dog had told the saloon-keeper's son
what Peaches could do In the way of
picking fruit and tho way to go about It
It wasn't long after this occurred that
the Italian was over to the store with
a bill for the bananas, which was paid
this time without objection. All the boys
In the neighborhood are now familiar
with the story, and they steal fruit right
and left, but as Boon as tho Italian
misses It he comes over to the saloon
keeper and demands payment, blaming it
on the dog.
"I'm paying for fruit for the whole
neighborhood," says the saloon-keeper,
"and If the Italian doesn't move away
or something happens to put a stop to
this, I'll have to send Peaches back
where he came from. I think that dog
should live in the country."
It Is n. Wonder,
Indianapolis News, Ind.
We assert that no nation can lonsr endure
half-republic and half-empire, and wo warn
the American peosle that Imperialism abroad
will lead culckly and Inevitably to despotism
at home.
So says the convention that nominated
Mr. Bryan as Its candidate for the Pres
idency. Many people are now wonder
ing whether "the despotlsnf at home"
has already come In the shape of the
North Carolina amendment, and. If so.
whether it Is the product- of "Imperialism
abroad."
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