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teORTL-AITD, WEDXESDAT, AUG. IS
PROPHET OR 3IOrXTEDAXK?
We have been looking over William
IT. Bryan's Great Book. The Oregonlan
possesses a oopy. The book was pub
lished shortly after the author's defeat
In 18. It is entitled "The First Bat
He." The title carries with it the inti
mation that though that first battle for
elxteen-to-one was lost, others were to
follow, that the struggle for the sacred
at!o and for the rescue of mankind
from the cross of gold was to continue,
end that there could be no doubt of
nal success. But now, in a speech
xt acceptance of 10,000 words, he wholly
Ignores the great question, leaves it to
be inferred that the first battle for the
eacred ratio was the last, and even
expresses impatience that wicked men
not this time are trying to press eco
nomic questions on the country.
"W find great things in the Great
EdoIc First, we quote from the speech
on accepting the Democratic nomina
tion in "the enemy's country" at New
York: 'The gold standard has been
weighed in the balance and found
wanting." (Page 321.) "They err in
eaying that we have reached the end of
?tbe evil results of a gold standard;
we have not reached the end. The in
Jury is a continuing one, and no one
can tell how long the world is to suffer
trim the attempt to make gold the
only standard money. So long as the
scramble for gold continues, prices
3nust fall, and a general fall of prices
"Is but another definition of hard times."
"A gold standard discourages enter
prise and paralyzes industry." (Page
522) "A gold standard is ruinous to
merchants and manufacturers." "Sal
aries in business occupations depend
on business conditions, and the gold
standard both lessens the amount and
threatens the permanency of those sal
aries;" (Page 323.) "The gold standard
2ias compelled the American people to
pay an increasing tribute to the credi
tor nations of the world a tribute
"wmh no one dares ta defend." (Page
TJ3G ) This last extract makes . espe-
cially funny reading just now, when
our people have just taken $30,000,000
of the new British loan, and British
newspapers complain in turn that their
country is becoming a "debtor nation,"
Qoomed to -pay "an ever-increasing trib
ute" to the tTnited States.
In his speech accepting the nomina
tion of the National Silver party at
Cleveland he repudiated with scorn
iXhe idea that a supporter of the gold
standard could be a Democrat. Ho
Bald: "I never believed that the Demo
cratic party would indorse the gold
standard, but when those who ques
tioned me were not content with the
probabilities, and abked me whether. In
the possible event of the Democratic
rixty declaring for gold, I would sup
I rt the nominee, I said, as you may
r member, that tinder no circumstances
i juld. my vote be given to a man who
would use the influence of the executive
to fasten the gold standard upon the
American people." "I believe the gold
standard Is a conspiracy against the
iuman race. I would no more join the
Tanks of those who propose to fasten
3t upon the American people than I
would enlist in an army that was
inarching to attack my home and de
stroy my family." (Page 427.)
Every rage, indeed, is sprinkled with
utterances of this character, and with
them are linked the most gloomy and
!ire predictions of disaster to follow
the confirmation of the gold standard,
tsven to the enslavement of the masses
of the people of the United States. Just
a few more excerpts, here and there:
"I believe that nothing good can come
to our people till we have turned over
-a new leaf Jn our financial policy."
"The worklngmen of the country will
3jb compelled to withdraw their savings
deposits to pay their living expenses."
"The gold standard means dearer
Snoney; dearer money means cheaper
property; cheaper property means
harder times; harder times means more
people out of work; more people out of
work means more people destitute;
snore people destitute means more peo
ple desperate; more people desperate
means more crime,
This w ill do for a climax. Mr. Bryan
has sow dropped this special line of
lugubrious prophecy, and taken an
other, equally doleful, equally vocifer
ous with th.e banalities of charlatanry,
equaEy overloaded with cheap, mem
orized declamation. But what sane
maa "believes that "imperialism threat
ens the destruction of our republican
liberty"? These are tiro Words of a
phrase-maker. It is quite beyond be
lief that a man so completely discredit
ed by his past utterances should expect
to find r audience when he takes the
sole of prophet again. The chief strug
gle of a country ruled by .general suf
frage is to rid itself of Its quacks and
mountebanks. It may not always be
bo; but so it has been thus far. Yet
2iope remains that in our country poll
tics may yet "be raised to a rational
basis. Another defeat of Bryan will
telp mightily toward this end.
If the silver question is no longer an
Issue, why did Bryan Insist .so posi
tively on its insertion in the Demo
cratic platform, and actually compel its
Insertion by threatening to refuse the
Mimlnallon unless the silver nlank -was
togertK-a? The convention did indeed
want to get away from silver. But it
dared not disobey Bryan's "imperial
istic" demand that it be put in the
platform; so it put it in, and then
sought to neutralize its. presence there
by declaring something" else the "para
mount issue." But with Bryan silver
was paramount, and "imperialism,"
which is mere buncombe, is part of the
play.
SLAVERY FOR BRITOXS.
No one can observe except in sympa
thetic grief and pain the indignation
of the British public, or at least of a
portion of it, at the patent conspiracy
entered into between Her Majesty's
Government and the American bond
holder. The ground of complaint is
sot out suggestively if not fully in the
Monday financial cable brought over
from Xondon weekly by the New York
Times and commendably sept out over
the country by the Associated Press
every Tuesday morning.
From this week's letter it appears
that London is furious at the action of
the British Treasury in shutting the
door in the face of home Investors
while it made a deal with certain citi
zens of the United States through which
American gold was to be drawn across
the Atlantic in aid of the Imperial
Treasury and the Old Lady of Thread
needle street.
And well may London rave. For
here we see duplicated, mutatis mu
tandis, an act of national perfidy that
lias long engaged the putative minds
of peripatetic and phantomlferous
statesmen on this side the water and
incurred their most powerful impreca
tions. Great Britain is glad to get this
gold. She is glad even to adopt meas
ures designed to prevent withdrawal of
British gold from British trade and
exchanges, and to force the shipment
of gold from the United States to re
lieve the London exigency, even at the
cost of chagrin among London specu
lators. Thin is because they don't know the
startling and stupendous body of
Bryanite truth. Their eyes are holden
that they should not see the foreign
bondholder and money-changer in his
true guise; their ears are stopped that
they should not hear the groans of the
British masses even now being cruci
fied upon a cross of gold. If tho Brit
ish Government will take a day off and
read Coin's Financial School or ex
plore tho truths of financial history as
they are embedded in Bryan's brain
or in Croker's disinterested philosophy,
it will see that the process of borrowing
American gold when you are hard up
and glad to get it, is in reality a dam
nable conspiracy on the part of the
American lender to enthrall the British
freemen with perpetual bonds and
slavery.
How little does the British Treasury
think, when smiling satlsfledly at the
prospect of $30,000,000 in double eagles
coming over, to London, that the Amer
ican lender, instead of trying to get a
safe and profitable investment for his
savings, is in fact contemplating the
British freeman, and dreaming in
ghoulish glee of the hour when he shall
compel Great Britain to take the gold
standard and give up all hope of a
Chinese or Mexican currency!
The depravity of human nature for
bids us to doubt that when these obli
gations! are due and payable, the con
scienceless American bondholder will
expect to be paid In real money. There
is no ground for hope that by that
time the Bryanite system of finance
will have gained such vogue in Lon
don that the debtor British nation will
offer to pay the bonds in silver at its
free-coinage value, or In costless cur
rency of Irredeemable -and illimitable
greenbacks.
JAPAN THE ULTIMATE VICTOR.
The anti-foreign uprising in Pekln
has illuminated many hitherto dark
places of international rivalries for
commercial Influence and territorial ac
quisition in the Pacific provinces of
China and in Corea. Russia's reputa
tion has suffered the most by this ex
posure, and Japan has obtained the
most benefit. ."When the Pekin outbreak
began it was at first ascribed" to the
intrigues of Russia, and to that power
was attributed conspiracy with the
Empress Dowager to open a way for
Russian intervention and an independ
ent march to Pekln of the Czar's
troops. The course of events soon
showed that not only was Russia as
completely surprised by the anti-foreign
uprising as was Sir Robert Hart,
who ought to have been able to appre
hend and announce it if any one could;
but Russia was so utterly unprepared
for the outbreak that she proves to
have no considerable number of troops
concentrated in Eastern Siberia and
Manchuria. Instead of having 110,000
men in Manchuria, the total Russian
force in the far East is but 52,652, of
which number 45,000 were in tho Amur
district, as completely non-available
for aggressive mpvement against Pekln
as our Army of 60,000 men in the Phil
ippines. Furthermore, the Japanese report
that the Russian troops in Eastern Si
beria and Manchuria are of poor ma
terial. There were but 7288 Russian
soldiers at Port Arthur, and from that
small force the Russian contingent for
the advance on Pekln has been drawn.
The allied army at the battle of Pelt
Sang comprised but 14,000 men, of
whom but 4000 were Russian and
French, so that the Russian force is
less than 4000 in this campaign. Of
course, Russia would not be represent
ed by so small a military contingent if
she could have helped it, for nothing
but the weakness of Russia, caught un
prepared, has compelled the allies to
allow Japan to secure all the influence
and prestige that accrues naturally to
her preponderant miljtary contingent.
Japan has thus far furnished two
thirds of the whole army moving on
Pekin, and she has a regular disciplined
armj; of 175,000 men from which she
can easily multiply her present
strength In China Ions before any for
eign troops can arrive from Germany,
France, Russia, or even from Durban.
The perfection of the Japanese mili
tary organization and; discipline Is the
admiration of all their Christian com
rades. The troops of the Mikado have
thus far borne the brunt of the fight
ing, and when Pekin is occupied Japan
will inevitably be in a position to de
cide upon the settlement which the
powers will make with China, for she
will be in a position to veto by her
preponderant military weight any un
acceptable terms of peace. Japan will
stand with the United States against
partition and in support of the integrity
and nationality of China. As the larg
est military factor In the relief expedi
tion, Japan will be the ultimate vic
tor; for she will be able to enforce her
demands concerning Corea. The China
outbreak has increased the influence of
Japan at the asoejjse, QUQ22I3 The
strength of Japan has been demon
strated, and the comparative, weakness
of Russia on the Asiatic Pacific exposed.
A CLOSE: PARALLEL.
The Manila dispatches present a re
markable parallel between the situation
there today and the situation in this
country in 1854. A force la in arms
against the Government and a great
political party declares in its favor to
the extent of voting the war of sup
pression a failure and demanding its
cessation. The effect Is the same
stimulus of the flagging rebellion. The
country's answer must be the same
rebuke of the copperhead and asser
tion of the National dignity. The end
will be the same collapse of the rebel
Hop, and discomfiture of Its. home allies.
Information from the Philippines is
of "increased insurgent activity, ex
plained in this pregnant sentence:
NEWSPAPERS CONTAINING THE
NATIONAL BEMOCRATIC PLAT
FORM HAVE ARRIVED. THE REF
ERENCE THEREIN TO THE PHILIP
FINE INDEPENDENCE AND TO
A PROTECTORATE TEND TO
STRENGTHEN THE EXTREME ANTI
AMERICAN ELEMENT IN ITS IN
CREASING ATTITUDE OF DELAY
AND OBSTRUCTION. IT IS BE
LIEVED THAT RADICAL STEPS FOR
A SETTLEMENT HERE "WILL BE IM
POSSIBLE BEFORE THE ELECTION.
Democratic opposition 'to the war in
the Philippines Is distinctly embodied
in the Kansas City platform, which
has reached Manila, and insurgent con
fidence will be further strengthened
when Bryan's speech of acceptance
comes along. In it occurs this mean
ing paragraph:
If elected, I shall convene Congress in ex
traordinary session as soon as I am inaugu
rated, and recommend an immediate declara
tion of the Nation's purpose; first, to establish
a stable form of government In the Philippine
Islands, Just as we arc now establishing a
6 table form of government in Cuba; second, to
give independence to the Filipinos, Just as -we
have promised to glvo Independence to the.
Cubans; third, to protect the Filipinos from
outside interference while they work out their
destiny, Just as we have protrted the repub
lics of Central and South America, and are,
by the Monroe doctrine, pledged to protect
Cuba. ,
What will be the effect of this utter,
ance upon the Tagal bandits? Plain as
words can say k Its message to them is
to persevere. Its injunction upon them
is to keep on fighting, and if they can
last till November' Bryan will help
them. This Is precisely what the Dem
ocratic party did in 1864. It voted the
war a failure, and encouraged the
South to redoubled efforts. The elec
tion of Lincoln precipitated the col
lapse of the Confederacy, and the election
of McKiniey in November must do the
same thing for the Tagal rebellion.
The practical results of the Kansas
City convention srt far are) a few more
American soldiers picked off at their
posts, a few more gallant bands of in
trepid boys in blue ambushed and
slain, a few more towns burned, friend
ly natives and treasure piled a little
higher. Pretense of patriotism under
such actual performance as this is ex
ceedingly malapropos. But we shall
hear much of It until November 7. And
In 1904 something else will be uproar
iously substituted as "the paramount
Issue."
TOE GREAT HUNTINGTON.
In the field he had chosen for the
exercise of his great talents, Mr. Collis
P. Huntington was supreme. His power
in transportation circles, and especial
ly in the relationship transportation
enterprise sustains to government, was
something no man ever attained before
and no man, perhaps, ever will attain
again. His career is another of those
monumental rebukes to the assertion
of charlatans that thero is no show In
this country for a poor man. Hunting
ton was born a poor Connecticut coun
try boy. All that his father could give
him was a brief primary schooling,
and, at an early age, his "time." He
earned $81 the first year of self-support,
His wages included his board and
clothes, so that of the $84 he saved
every cent. On his way to California
he was delayed with others three
months waiting for a north-bound
steamer; but while others merely walt
edl and used up their substance in be
ing 'comfortable, he lived abstemiously,
he worked and traded bo as to increase
his capital from $1200 to $5000. All that
he acquired in wealth and power he
owed simply and solely to his own ex
ertions. Iron will, patient accumulation
and retention ol useful information
and application to sagacious plans and
prudent safeguards.
It Is impossible to speak of Mr. Hunt
ington's career, great in achievement
and inspiring in example asj it was in
many ways of patient industry, strenu
ous endeavor and bold enunciation of
the practical views of life and society
he held, without reflecting in regret
upon the stupendous power he exerted
in a political way for the benefit of
the vast private interests with which
he was identified. No man so influ
enced Congress in questionable ways,
whatever be thought of the justice of
the ends he sought. But if we are
sincere we must recognize that the
principal in 'these offenses is tho cor
rupt official and the corporation Is the
accessory. The average man will pre
fer to carry on his business In a lawful
and honorable way If he is let alone.
The original source of railroad corrup
tion is to be found in unscrupulous
blackmailers who have sworn to do
their duty to the state. With honest
men elected to office, all that is un
lovely in the public career of C. P.
Huntington could never be. The first
move of the corporation in politics Is
self-protection. The next step, to self
aggrandizement, is easy. Huntington,
no less than Shakespeare or Lincoln,
la the product of the life of his time.
It is clear that the army of the al
lies since their arrival at Yang Tsun
have advanced on Pekln by the wagon
road and the river, the same route pur
sued by the army of the allies In 1860.
Had the allies, when they reached Pe
kin In October, 1S60, proceeded to de
stroy it, they would have irreparably
damaged the Manchu dynasty in the
eyes of its subjects. They were ad
vised to do so, but it was deemed
Inexpedient at the time to throw China
into anarchy or promote the triumph
of the Tal Ping rebels. So the allies,
after looting and burning the Summer
palace on the slope of the hills, about
eight miles out of the city, consented
to an arrangement whereby the sol
diers of England and France were per
mitted to march Into the capital, but
were to pay for the provisions they
might need and to retire quietly after
the ratification of the treaties. The
course of the allies of today when they
enter Pekin will naturally be marked
by more severity, for in the Interest of
&ure grogs&ajtf foreign kegujlons
they must insist upon the sternest pun
ishment of all guilty members of the
government, and their willing confed
erates. This done and ample pecuniary
damages exacted tor Insults and 'In
juries Inflicted, the powers will prob
ably put the progressive party in China,
in power by placing? in supreme author
ity a sovereign of their nomination and
choice, whether he be of the Manchu
reigning family or descended from the
Ming family.
The Are loss of the United States and
Canada for the month of July, as com
piled by the New York Journal of Com
merce, shows a, total of $13,609,100. A
comparison of the losses by months
during the first seven months of 1900
with the same period of 1898 and 1899
is glyen in the following table:
1S38. 18S9. 1800.
January ...$ 0,412,500 $10,718,000 $ H.7B3.300
February 12.629,300 18.4C9.00O 15,427,000
March 7.815,200 11.483.000 13.310.200
April 8,211,000 0.213.000 25.727,000
May 11,072,200 0,091,000 15,700,400
Juno 9.20Q.S00 0,714.850 21.281.000
July ,.-.... 8,829,750 11,426.400 13,608,100
Totals ...?aT.ieC,S00 $77,128,150 $116,806,000
In July there were 191 fires of a
greater destructlveness each than $10,-
000. They may be classified as below:
8 10,000 to $ 20,000 6S
20,000 to 30,000 "41
30,000 to 60.000 20
50.000 to 75,000 10
75,000 to 100,000 ..
100,000 to 200,000 - 20
200.000 to 1,350,000 8
Total ilOl
The principal losses were these:
Miles City, Mont, wool warehouse....? 250,000
Constable Hoofc. N. J., oil works 1.350,000
Prescott. Art., busjnesa part of tqwn 1,000,000
Dunamulr. Cal.. Summer hotel 200,000
St. Paul, Minn, storage warehouse.... 740,000
Buffalo, N. T., grain elevator 750,000
Chicago. Ill, colo-atorago warehouse.. 225,000
Brocjcvlllo, Ont., Iroir'foundry a00,000
With the exception of February,
every month so far this year stiows a
heavier loss than "the, same month in
1898 and 1899. The fire loss is rapidly
increasing, and to an extent which
should attract public attention. Much
is heard about the pension list, but in
Its heaviest year It amounted to $139,
000,000. Now that the license committee Is en
deavoring to raise funds to defray the
expenses of the various departments of
the city government, It would be a
proper thing for them to restore the' tax
on doga to the figures from which It
was reduced a few years ago. Dogs
have no place in a city, and are gen
erally a nuisance to everybody except
their owners. It is understood that the
reduction referred to was brought
about by several Councllmen who
owned yellow dogs, with a view to en
couraging the keeping of dogs and
thereby increasing the amount of tax
to be colleoted on them. The scheme
has proved a failure, as the city Is
overrun; with curs of every degree, and
but few of them wear license tags. In
looking into this matter the license
committee might consider the propriety
of a sliding scale in taxing dogs, or
some will be complaining that it is
unjust to have to pay as much on a
fice as on a huge mastiff or St. Ber
nard. A tax that will effectually lessen
the number of dogs in the city is much
to be desired.
The first important office to which
Adlai Stevenson was nominated was
that of Presidential Elector in Illinois
In 1864, on the McClellan and Pendle
ton ticket, on the platform declaring
the war a failure and demanding Its
Immediate cessation and the with
drawal of Union troops from the field.
He was elected to Congress as a
Greenbacker In 1874; was defeated for
re-election in 1876; was again elected
to Congress as a Greenbacker in 1878,
arid was beaten for re-election in 1880
and 1882.
Announcement of a 5 per cent divi
dend on the common stock of the Rio
Grande Western, in addition to the
dividend paid last Fall on tho com
pany's preferred stock, testifies to the
continued prosperity of the road.
Taken In connection with the Denver
& Rio Grande, this scenic and mine
serving line's record shows that people
have money for sight-seeing and that
the gold standard is not so ruinous a
thing fou silver men as1 they imagined.
"With Mr. Huntington's death will col
lapse many an ambitious scheme for
further election of United States Sena
tors on the basis of subservience to
railroads in exchange for heavy contri
butions. The fountain has been one
from which thousands have flowed Into
many a state for use in primaries, con
ventions and Legislatures. But it is
dried upi now, and the effect upon cer
tain of our Oregon politicians is ob
vious. The American people never have
greatly admired a white-feather party.
They who, on this Philippine question,
attempt to mask cowardice under the
name of patriotism, may find them
selves mistaken; and they "certainly
will, unless the spirit of the country
has greatly changed since 1864, when
a political party came before the coun
try with a "surrender" platform, in a
crisis of war.
Wellington's support of Bryan is now
offset by Billy Mason, who comes out
for McKiniey. The opposition of either
is worth more to the Republican cause
than their assistance, among thinking
persons, but, unfortunately, the other
sort have votes and need to be reached.
It is not at once apparent why the
Pekin Government should resume Its
attack upon the Legations, except their
object be the seizure of the envoys for
the puiyose of expelling them from
the capital.
Bryan's Reference to Weaver,
St Paul Pioneer Press.
Bryan gives General JC B. Weaver, of
Iowa, tho credit for first proposing an
amendment to the Constitution to pro
vide for the election of United States
Senators by the people. Mr. Bryan cites
the progress which the proposed reform
has made, in the 18 years since Mr. Weav
er's proposal, as evidence of the "irre
sistible force of a good Idea." But, as
is shown by the New York Times, not
only was the idea suggested in the con
vention which framed the Constitution 113
years ago, but it was received on almost
innumerable occasions long before Weav
er was heard of; notably by Congress
man Storrs, of New York, in 1S26; by
Andrew Johnson, while In Congress, and
by a long list of other Representatives
and Senators, whose names are given
and whose proposals are printed in the
Congressional Globe and Record. The
last incident Is valuable only as show
ing Mr. Bryan's noticeable failure to
qualify himself by historical reading for
the' position to which he aspires. It
corresponds with the superficial charac
ter of his mental furnishings throughout
Compare his puttings forth with those
of Lincoln, to whom American history
was a household word and an inspira
tion; with those of Benjamin Harrison,
to -whom it has ever been the armory
of the scholar, the statesman and the
Datrtoii "dill tfrpqq Ci "BttWa ilcKlnley,
always accurate, reverential and uplift
ins and the difference Is so marked as
to draw the attention of the most care
less observer. Bryan poses as a states
man without having studied that primer
ot American statescraft, American history.
CAN'T BE IGNORED.
What WonW President Bryan Do
About the Gold Standard!
New York Times,
In pursuance of the trick and pretense
that Imperialism is the paramount issue
pf the campaign, Mr, Bryan devotes his
long speech exclusively to that topic In
order that the voters of the country may
know what to expect of him he an
nounces a definite programme of ac
tion: If elected I shall coavena Congress la ex
traordinary session its soon as I am Inaugu
rated, and recommend an immediate declara
tion of the Nation's purpose first, to establish
a stable form of government In the Philippine
Islands, just as we are now establishing a
stable form of government In the Island of
Cuba; second, to give Independence to the Fil
ipinos. Just as we have promised to give Inde
pendence tP the Cubans; third, to protect he
Filipinos from outside Interference while they
work out their destiny. Just aa wa have pro
tected tho republics ot Central and South
America, and are, hy tha Monroe doctrine.
pledged to protect Cuba.
That will do very well for the Impe
rialism Issue, but what the voters want
to know from you, Mr. Bryan, Is wheth
er you would recommend to that ex
traordinary session of Congress tho re
peal of the act of March 14, 1900, estab
lishing the gold standard, and the enact
ment of a law opening the United States
mints to the free coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to 1? You may utter twenty
times ten thousand 'wvrds about the tur
pitude of our attempt to maintain civil
'order in the Philippines, and you "proba
bly will before the campaign Is half over,
but you will not meet the just expecta
tlons of the American people until yon
tell them whether you still hold and in
tend to put In practice your well-known
opinion that the free coinage of silver
will cure every commercial ill caused by
the crime of 1S73. and make us a happy
and prosperous people. In your speech
at Madison Square Garden on August 12,
1S9G, you said:
Wo contend that fres and unlimited coinage
by tha United States alone will raise the bul
lion value of silver to its coinage value, and
thus make silver bullion worth $1 20 per
ounce In gold throughout the world. This
proposition Is In keeping with natural laws.
Do you still believe and maintain that
the opening of the mints to free coin
age, Instead of flooding the countrj with
a debased and unstable currency of sil
ver and paper, would raise the price o
sliver all over the world to its coinage
value? And If you are elected President
do you Intend to try the experiment?
In the Madison Square Garden speech
you advocated tja payment of Govern
ment bonds in silver:
The right of the debtor to choose the coin in
which payment shall be made extends to ob
ligations from the Government as well as to
contracts between Individuals. . . . It Is
Impossible to Justify the policy which makes
the Interests of the one person who holds tbe
obligations superior to the rights of the many
who must be taxed to pay It.
Again, In your speech at Buffalo on
August 27 you said:
My friends, there Is no way of taking the
Government out ot the dutches of those who
have 'been bleeding It except for the Govern
ment to resume Its legal rights and use Its
silver or Its gold wherever It pleases whenever
It has a dollar to pay.
In the opinion of the great majority of
the American people, Mr. Bryan, an hon
est debt due from a solvent debtor should
be paid In full. Four years ago you con
tended that all debts, public and private,
should be made, at the option of tho
debtor, payable in coin demonstrably
worth one-half its face value. That is
repudiation. If you are elected President
do you intend to instruct your Secretary
of the Treasury to repudiate any part of
the just debts of the Government?
Mr. Richardson's English.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
What is an "unfortuitous condltion"
Congressman Richardson Informed Mr.
Bryan in that port of his notification
speech which he was able to deliver be-r
fore the crowd requested him to "cut it
short" and "shut It off," that his first
contest for the Presidency was "made
against stupendous odds, In the face of
a hostile press and with unhappy division
in your ranks"; and then ho added: "I
congratulato you and the country that
all these unfortuitous conditions do not
confront you today." Did the erudite
Richardson reach out his mental hand
for "unpropltlous" and get hold of "un
fortuitous" by mistake? If he did, how
did the mistake escape his eye In reading
tho proof sheets of his address when
they were laid before him preliminary to
being sent to the press of tho country?
We may bo in error, but it is our im
pression that Mr. Richardson has coined
a word quite unbeknownst to himself.
His grip upon tho English language
seems tentative In various other pas
sages of his speech. He told Mr. Bryan
that when, in the previous contest, "par
tisan rancor ran high, occasionally
coarser things" were said of him, and
then added: "But you were perhaps
stronger for them," Why "perhaps"?
He told him also that he and his party
have this year been characterized as
"dishonest and lawless at home and as
cowards abroad," but he felt sure, Rich
ardson did, that "it will stop at this,, or,
at leasts If such hyperbolic flowers' of
speech are used at all, it will b in rare
Instances, and only then by some one
whose coarse manners before the public
are equaled only by the roughness of
his riding habit" There Is nothing
"unfortuitous" about the phrase "hyper
bolic flowers" in that passage. Its use
there was purely fortuitous.
Gold Democrats Against Bryan.
General John Gill, ono of the best
known and highly respected Democrats
of Maryland, follows the lead of General
Palmer and declares his Intention of vot
ing for McKiniey. He says that Bryan
at tho head of Populism menaces the
best interests of a safe government, that
he is unalterably opposed to him and all
that he represents and he asks:
How can sound-money Democrats and reputa
ble citizens join in supporting this Popullstic
candidate? It seems to me that the practical
question of this campaign and the question
which every good citlsen should ask himself Is:
Will the success of th Democratic party this
Fall and what Mr. Bryan stands for be for the
best Interests of the country? If the party
were successful, would Bryan. Altgeld, Till
man, Debs and a host of Populists at the
helm be to the advantage of the party itself?
Is It well, under the circumstances, for the
party to win In this election? I unhesitatingly
answer ho.
That Is undoubtedly the position of the
great body of the Gold Democrats ot
1896. Hero and there one is found who
tries to convince himself that Bryan is
not the same man with the same follow
ing that he had four years ago, but he
is the exception, and even ha Is not
likely to be found voting for Bryan when
election day comes.
The "Happy Coincidence."
New York Journal of Commerce.
The coincidence that the convention
which nominated Mr. Bryan met on the
National birthday seemed to Mr. Rich
ardson, who informed Mr. Bryan of his
nomination, a happy augury, As the
day was carefully selected by the Na
tional committee, and as any National
committee was at liberty to select that
day, no one but an Infatuated Bryanite
could derive much inspiration from the
date on which that extraordinary collec
tion of persons got together In Kansas
City. That tho convention was the
"most Intensely American 'convention
that ever came together" is a statement
that recalls the savage remark of Dr.
Johnson, that patriotism was the last
refuge of scoundrels. It is tbe propen
sity of, -fflQUsh- and .ignorant a&d tera- I
tlonal Americans to characterize their
folly, their ignorance and their irration
ality as Americanism. Slrverism Is cer
tainly being dropped by other nations
pretty fast, but we see no indications
that the majority of the American peo
ple ore going to adopt it That "the Re
public Is in peril may possibly be be
lieved by some persons, because there is
no belief so foolish that believers of it
cannot be found, even in the centers of
light and civilisation; but very few even
of the politicians who think the phrase
a good one for political use this season
havo the least Idea that it is true.
HIS CROOKED MIND.
Excessive Disregard ot Truth on
Three Main Topics.
. New York Evening Post
We find In the opening of Mr. Bryan's
Indianapolis speech an ad-captandum ap
peal more refined and guarded than the
one of four years ago, but of the same
general scope and tendency. He says
that the Republican party is dominated
by influences which constantly tend to
elevate pecuniary considerations and Ig
nore human rights, as though the Dem
ocratic party were measurably free from
influences of this kind. If thero is any
place where money counts for more
than It does in Tammany Hall, or where
its use is more brazen and flaunting, wa
have yet to hear of it If there is any
region where human rights are mora
systematically violated and trampled on
than In the Southern States, where the
Democratic party finds the bulk of its
strength today, we should like to have
It pointed out Evidence to show how
the Republican party tends to elevate
wealth and Ignore Juiman rights Is
pointed out in detail by Mr. Bryan. He
instances their preference for the gold
standard and their attempts to "give the
National banks control of the Nation's
paper money," their attempt to beguile
themselves with the delusion that there
are good and bad trusts, etc.
In all this there is a color of truth, but
the suggestions and inferences are essen
tially false. The motives which prompt
Republicans (and many Democrats) to
favor the gold stanrard and the National
bank notes in preference to Government
paper are quits apart from any thought
of aiding rich people to make more
money or of robbing the poor, and this
Mr. Bryan know3 Very welL He is not
such a dolt as to be Ignorant of this
fact As to trusts, any one desiring
to tell the truth would say that the
responsibility for them does not attach
to any party, that however bad they may
be, they ore an outgrowth of modern
conditions of trade and are without po
litical bios except as the Democrats have
made rather noisier attacks upon them,
and have thus caused them to lean rather
toward the Republicans.
The weakest part of Mr. Bryan's speech
Is that In which he defends his attitude
and action on tho treaty with Spain. He
says that he favored the ratification of
the treaty in order to "end the war, re
lease the volunteers, remove the excuse
for war expenditures, and then give the
Filipinos the independence which might
be forced from Spain by a new treatv "
He goes on to explain how much better
it would bo for the American people to
rise up gloriously and bestow Independ
ence on the Filipinos than to put It In
the treaty by an amendment and thus
extort it from Spain. This has a hollow
sound when we contemplate It by the
light of subsequent events. Mr. Brvan
had his way in the matter of ratification.
yet war aid not end, the troops were
not released, war expenditures contin
ued and multiplied, and all these things
were shown to be Inevitable by Mr. Bry
an's fellow Democrats who occupied seat3
in the Senate at that time. If the things
that Mr. Bryan yearned for as the re
sult of ratification had come to pas3,
there would have been no occasion for
Mr. Bryan's speech at Indianapolis at
all, and we shall never be quite satisfied
that it was not a part of his plans to
Jcaep this Issue alive for political usa
No Stagnation In Kansas Politic.
The new boss In Kansas politics is Mrs
Annie L. Dlggs. She Is a Populist: sho
Is State Librarian, and she it was who
"held up" the fusion convention the other
day and made it put a Populist candidate
on the ticket for Associate Justice. And
this, notwithstanding there is no woman
suffrage in Kansas. The Paoll Spirit
records the business In this style:
There was a three-ring political mepagerio
and circus at Fort Scott last Tuesday and
Wednesday tvlth one Annla Dlggs. in swallow
fork attire, as ringmaster. She was "it," and
a holy show ot herself and tha wholo thing she
made. Democrats who hadn't carried a bucket
of water or an armful of wood for their wives
at home Jn years gone, carries her trail, petti
coat and all, while tha Populists swept and
carpeted the path in front of her and the Silver
Republicans bore her fan and smelling salts.
Hint to a Trnst-Crnsher.
Richmond Times, Dem.
We have no quarrel with Chairman
Jone3 for being interested in a success
ful enterprise. He has a perfect right
to be, and he is in great luck to havo
stock in a company that is progressing
and making money. But when he pock
ets his profits he ought to "draw it a
little milder" upon the other fellows who
are also making money in successful
corporations.
MEN AND WOMEN.
Though in his 73d year. Jules Verne Is at
work on a new book of travel.
Edmond Rostand has lately been receiving
rojalties on"Cyrano da Bergerac" and "IAig
lon" averaging $500 a night
Henry G. Blasdel, the first Governor of Ne
vada, has just died in Oakland, CVtl. Ho was
75 years old, and first went West In 1850.
Tbe Prince of Wales has been presented by a
British offlccr with the sword which General
Cronje wore during the early part of tha Boer
war.
Sylvia Dunham, of Southington, Conn., cele
brated her 100th birthday last week. Her
father, Rodney Langdon, was a Captain in the
Revolution.
"Pierre Lot!," or Captain Vlaud, of the
French Navy (for that Is his real name), sailed
from Franco for China on Saturday last. He
Is Flag Captain to Admiral Pottler.
Rear -Admiral Hlchborn, after graduating
from the Boston High School, became a ship
wright's apprentice, and has worked his way,
step by step, to hla present position.
A 72-year-old recruit has passed the doctors
examination for the Imperial Yeomanry. He
had served 2S years In the Black Watch, the
Gordons and other Highland regiments, and
has six sons serving In the army, four of them
at the front In South Africa.
Walter Crana has designed a tablet to desig
nate tha house in Chelsea where the painter
Turner died. It was during his residence there
that Turner took the namo of Booth, which
belonged to his landlady. The old salts who
haunted Chelsea used to call him "the Ad
miral." on account of his blue coat and brass
buttons and his ruffled beaver hat. while the
small boys, less Impressed, dubTbed him Puggy
Booth. Steps have been taken to preserve this
quaint old cottage, which stands in. Cheyne
walk.
When the Critic Went Away,
Chicago Times-Herald.
Oh, he criticised his country
And the way affairs were run;
He upbraided thoeo in office
For tho bad things they had done;
He swung his arms, declaring
That the ship of state was doomed.
And ha tore his hair and fretted
And he clawed the air and fumed.
"We are going down and backward."
He announced In wrathful tones;
"We are robbed and we are plundered,
Wa are starved to skin and bones!
We have lost our noble birthright
We are only tolling slaves.
Weak and meek and mean and trembling,
Going down to shameful graves!
Then he sailed away to Europe.
Where he heard a scoffer say:
"What a spectacle your country
Is before the world today!
How misgoverned, how besotted!
What a wretched, ruined land"
Whereupon tha noble Yankee
Ijg$dJUSL.Ull ha-CBiilOa-'J Btaudl
N0TB AND eOMMESr.
Tho official yamun at Lincoln will be
reopened in a few days. Colonel Bryan
Is homeward bound.
"Victor Emmanuel is the smallest sov
ereign In Europe in stature, but he pro
poses to be every inch a King.
An Illinois young man fainted when th
County Clerk refused him a marriage li
cense on account of the youth of hist
fiancee.
If the Seattle idea In. mathematics ob
tained in the census, tho population of
the United States would run into tho
hundreds, of millions.
The German vote, in some of tho prin
cipal states Is: Illinois, 132.400: Ohio.
161.400; Wisconsin, 150,000; Michigan. 76,000;
Minnesota, 66,800; Indiana, 64.200,
With Oom Paul of tho dynamite trust,
the Tammany ice trust and tha Clark:
Senatorial trust all helping. Bryan ought
to run llko a scared wolf this year.
An old-time visitor to the Seaside House,
who was down there a few days ago, says
no one who goes there now Is likely to
Imagine that ho is the only pebblo on tho
beach.
This is LI Hung Chang's last chance.
If his diplomacy shall fall this time, thee
official gazette of Pekln will be overflow
ing with news of the loss of the peacock:
feather, the yellow jacket and perhaps
of the porous plaster.
Ignoration of IS to 1 is contagious among
tho sliver leaders this year. Bryan
snubbed It. Coin Harvey lectured on "Re
ligion of Politics" for an hour and a halt
at Virginia, 111., the other day, and, he
never once mentioned 16 to 1.
A restaurant-keeper at the beach who
gives a dance once a week acts as his
own "spieler." One of his favorite re
marks is: "Walk right In, boys. The.
floor manager knows his business and will
give you all the 'knock-downs you want
In view of the number of protests and
complaints In regard to the blanket-license
ordinance presented to the license
committee at Its meeting yesterday, they
must feel thankful that they passed the
ordinance before they advertised to re
ceive objections to It
W. S. Stratton, who recently sold his
Independence mine at Cripple Creek for
510,000,000. gave $25,000 to the Democratic
campaign fund in 1SS6, and was one of
Bryan's most enthusiastic supporters.
This year he says he will give more than
$25,000 to the Republican campaign fund,
and will support McKiniey,
It Is noted that never before have so
many party leaders begun a campaign
suffering more or Ies3 from physical ali
ment. Senator Piatt has one broken rib;
Senator Scott has two broken ribs. rap
Idly mending;, "Joe" Manley has a
sprained ankle, and Senator Hanna's ten
dency to gout compels him to use a cone.
But all these party captains agree that
there is about them not a trace of po
litical disability.
Queen Victoria Is said to have a knowl
edge of every detail not only of the va
rious houses, but also ot the parks and
gardens connected with the many royal
palaces, which Is wonderful. Within a
very few hours of the court arriving at
Osborne the Queen makes a tour of
those gardens which are close to the
bouses, her first visit generally being paid
to the lovely myrtle planted by the Prince
Consort in 1S5S from a sprig taken from
the Empress Frederick's wedding nose
gay. The sprig flourished, and Is now a
fine bush, and during the last 40 years It
has supplied Innumerable pieces ot myr
tle for the embellishment of royal bridal
bouquets.
Mrs. R. Corbln, an aged woman, blind
and penniless, has pitched her tent In
the desert around the Gran Qulvira ruins,
1D0 miles south of Santa Fe. to look for
the Spanish treasure which legend says la
burled there. Water is brought to her by
shepherd'boys from a long distance. Sho
has cord strings attached to her tent
and fastened to stakes so as to enable
her, notwithstanding her blindness, to
roam about tho ruins, using the strings
as guides to retrace her steps to the
tent. Nevertheless, sho was found tha
other day out on the desert lost and
mystified as to her location. She had a
bottle of water, a saw and a pistol, and
said that she was on her way to Colo
rado Springs to raise $1200 among friends
to further prosecute her work of finding
the treasure of Gran Qulvira.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
A Hero. Edith The roan I marry must be a
hero of the gridiron. Ethel Ha will be; If
there is any cooking done he'll have to do It
Judge. "Yes, sir; he's de chainpeentgftrappe.r of dla
ward." "Why doesn't be go-to echodll" "Oh,
his mother thinks he's too delicate." Harper
Bazar.
Eternal Remorse. "Any news from local
seats of war?" "Yes; Kentucky. 8t. Louis
and New Orleans all send word they are very
much ashamed of each other." Indianapolis
Journal.
He Helped Him Out "And your stepfathet
told you to get out into the world and earn
your own living? He should have given you a
helping hand " "He gave me a helping foot"
Cleveland Plalndealer.
Horace Uncle George. I see a good deal In
the papers about roof gardens. What are roof
gardens. Uncle George? Uncle George They
are places. 'J believe, whera young gentlemen
sow wild oats. Boston Transcript
And He Mada a Sweeping Bow. "I know that
a great many people do not like my business."
eald tho chimney sweep; "but It soots me."
After due acknowledgment of the courteous
smiles of his audience, he went up the flue.
Baltimore American.
Tha Old Jealousy. "Just home from London,
eh?" "Yes." replied the Western man; "I
took In everything worth seeln' la the town."
"How did St Paul's Cathedral Impress your
"Didn't go near It. I'm a Minneapolis man.
myself." Philadelphia Press.
Mendacity as an Art. "So that young China
man Is studylnr here to perfect himself as a
court official In his own country." "Exactly,"
answered the professor. "What works is ha
reading now?" "Baron Munchausen. Marcc
Polo and the European Summer resort circu
lars." Washington Star.
The Very Good Old Dnya.
Baltimore Ameriean.
Oh, for the daj s when shirts or mall
Were quite tha proper thing.
When every time you took a step
You heard your armor ring;
When you could not remove your coat
Without a monkey wrnch.
And fools who slapped you on the back
With pala their flats -nould clench.
Hi. for the days of Iron "pants."
(Or trousers, aa you please).
When they were quite too well put up
To bag much at tha knees;
When you felt sure within your plates.
Your bucklers and your grieves
And when the dogs would b'lte your legs
You chuckled in your sleeves.
Ho. for tha time of iron hats.
And Iron gloves as well.
When by the pound you bought your garb
Those good days, truth to tell.
When by tha aid ot rivets big
You fastened on your duds.
And s'pender buttons did sot drop
With sad and solemn thuds.