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In his efforts to elect Bryan and Ste venson, Mr. Hanna Is going to great aengths. A few such speeches as this one at Asbury Park -prill do the busi ness. Mr. Hanna is a greatly abused man. 3Te is not at all the heavy villain many ieuppose lilm, nor the brutal and mer cenary wretch that sits for Homer Dav enport's cartoons. He has an honest, ikindly face, and a sincere, jjenerous air. He surrounds himself "with good men. To see and talk with him Is to lose anuch of the prejudice with which his career has Invested the political ob server. As between him and McKlnley it is doubtful which is the potter and which the clay. He is a shrewd busi ness man and an ordinary politician, "with a sublime faith in the superhuman Equalities of William McKlnley. Only on such hypotheses can the As "bury Park speech be explained. It dis covers a vpry credulous order of Intel Sect, a fat-witted statesmanship. What Ir. Hanna is doing in this formal "opening of the campaign," as success fully as if be set about it with delib- erationr is to drive the Gold Democrats to Bryan. If he thinks this sort of thing is going to advance the prospects of Ms protege and idol, he is far wrong. Even intelligent, self-respecting Repub licans are few who can abide abuse of Graver Cleveland much longer with equaimtty. The cRuse of the hard times of 1893 to 1S6 was not the election of Grpver Cleveland, but the silver policy of the United States, to which William Mc Klnley Jiad been an active and clam orous contributor. In 1S91 he arraigned Cleveland as a public enemy because he Jmd "discriminated against silver." Mr. Cleveland was -unmoved by these attacks upon his honest-money record, and as soon as he was inaugurated the second time it became, his duty to take stops in rectification of the mischievous silvpr policy to which cheap-money pol iticians of both parties had committed -us. This false and specious plea of Sena tor Hanna will doubtless form a (Stock argument of Republican politicians "from now until election day, and The Qregonian .embraces this early oppor tunity to disapprove it and to disavow liere and now any utterances made in "Mr. McKinley's behalf here In Oregon or elsewhere, by which comparison of conditions now and those of 1896 is "based upon the fact of Grover Cleve land's election in 1S92 and his subse quent incumbency. At this time also, once for all, it is fitting that the facts tehould be briefly set out From the moment of the passage of the Sherman silver-purchase legislation in 1S98 the withdrawal of gold from the "United States Treasury pursued an al most uninterrupted course, under the UppubHcan Administration of President Harrison and lapping over into Cleve land's. The decline of the gold reserve proceeded on this wise: Feb. SS. 18S8 51W1.245.00 M. 19B 100.S33.032 June- 80. 1SO0 100 232 405 ea ? aS? HS.072.8S5 June 30, 181 117 007 723 June . 1K2 in;32.'.07 JunoSe. 1883 05.0S5.413 Gold exports began In large volume the month the Sherman law was ap proved, and reached a total in the fiscal year of 1S91 of ?SG,3C2,654; in 1S92 of $50, 193,327; and in 1893 of $10S,6S0,S44. Un der the inescapable operation of Gresh am's law, gold went abroad just as fast us the Sherman Treasury notes were pumped into the circulation. The Sher man notes issued up to June 30, 1893, were 5147.196,227, and the net gold ex ports from June, 1890, to June. 1893,' Vere J1W.182.42S, during which time the aggregate gold In the United States Treasury declined by $133,156,991. The peril of the standard of value became apparent, and was further enhanced by the accelerated fall in silver, which fell from IS cents to CC cents, involving a blirinke of $87,006,000 in the value of the bullion holdings of our Government. The duty of the Administration in the premises was apparent. It was to secure the repeal of the Sherman law ard to obtain gold by borrowing to replenish the continuously depleted re serve. The strenuous labors of the f ur years of Mr. Cleveland's Admin istration were largely directed to these ends, which were essential to the main tenance of the gold standard of value. Yet Mr. Hanna compares things in 1900 with things ia ISflfi as a reflection upon Mr Cleveland's Administration. It is a most unjust and graceless accusa tion. We i-haH do Mr. Hanna the credit of denying to him the charaater of a cons-leoeejess demagogue. We shall suppose him an ill-Informed and devout partisan. It is rtgkt t compare 1900 with -1S96 for th purpose of showing the falsity of Bryan's accusation against the gold stands. Bet for what was. our condi tion Ju 1SH Mr. McKlnley is more to blame than Mr. Cleveland Is. What Mr Hanna was doing to preserve tle gold standard from four to seven years ngo does not appear from the record. It Is certain, however, that he was neg- 3c. ting fcUj education. If he is going u j condnqt the campaign on these lines, he "will be the most effective orator Bryan "will have In the field. 'f?fO rVDIGN'ITIES' FOItSPOTHt Thef United States will endeavor to maintain, its self-respect 'and take nt share in unseemly vengeance upon Chi nese rulers or in partition of the em pire. But it ought to be understood very clearly that we do this out of self interest, and not for any obligations we are under to the Chinese Government. Sudh obligation as we are under there is to the Chinese people, not the Chi nese Government, which has utterly forfeited all right to exist as a gov ernment, or to be tolerated on the earth with .any greater consideration than we -would show a hyena or a rattle snake. We hear a great deal about-the rights of China and our duty toward China. As a strong power and a Christian Na tion (loosely speaking), .we are under high obligation to bear in mind and ad vance as we can the welfare of the Chinese people. But the welfare of the .Chinese people does not necessar ily mean their continued bondage to the Manchu dynasty and the worse oppres sion and. xobbery of provincial author ities. To maintain the Empress upon the, throne Is simply to condemn the benighted and unhappy millions of ChiSa to a state of partial slavery, in which they are plundered at will by unscrupulous officials, maimed, dis membered, tortured or decapitated for trivial, or Invented offenses, without Justice or reason. A Chinaman in China ought to be able to pursue his life, liberty and happiness without cruel and rapacious persecution by those whom chance has set over him. He deserves. the same Interest in his wel fare the civilized world feels for the Armenian vlct4m of the Turk and the American people felt for the unhappy Cubans. BTe is entitled to. pay no more taxes than those the government Itself receives, without contributing to the enrichment of corrupt tax-gatherers. He is entitled to be free .'from spoliation or personal assaults so long as he lives in a decent, orderly way. He is enti tled to latitude .of religious belief and to the peaceable possession of his home and property. These are ends that may "well govern the forces of civilization In their deliberations, at Pekin. We must think of the Chinese people, not of the Chinese royal familj. "No indignities to the. Emperor and Empress," is the demand of the Vice roys. And why, pray? At their door has been unmistakably laid the respon sibility for the outrages upon inoffen sive white men, women and children in various parts of tile empire. Where was the Chinese aversion to "Indigni ites" when Baron von .Ketteler was as sailed' in the streets and brutally mur dered while on his peaceful way to at tend a prearranged conference? Where was the Chinese aversion to "Indigni ties" when Christian missionaries were besieged and starved, tortured and burned, hacked to pieces and subjected to every outrage upon their feelings and their persons? Where was the Chinese aversion to "indignities" when innocent infants were by wholesale put to the edge of the sword, and tender, devoted European and American women were stripped naked", outraged, impaled on stakes and obscenely mu tilated amid the shouts of a ribald mul titude? Uoub,tless we shall maintain at Pekin the polite fiction that the Manchu. dy nasty Is a government, and that Its members are human beings, entitled as such to the respect and, consideration of their fellow-creatures. Doubtless we shall courteously blink the fact that no degradation is too low, no punishment too severe, no' annihilation too com prehensive, for justice to mete out to these vipers and wild beasts in human form who have slain, tortured, starved and outraged as long as they could safely do so, and now crouch and cry for mercy on account of aversion to "indignities." But if we do. It will be that on our own behalf we shall avoid descending to their worse than brute level, that we may sleep more soundly nights, by reason of forbearance where no forbearance Is due, and .of mercy where no mercy was shown. These precious Viceroys, ' black-hearted and red-handed as they are yellow-faced, may not have their lying. tongues torn out by the roots and their false hearts set up to 'steam on their palace gates, but that is because of no consideration due them. It is only because we shall scorn, to soil our hands with their car casses, and because we have more con genial tasks in doing a little something to rescue the poor, downtrodden mil lions of China from their .bloody and thieving taskmasters. GERMAN ItESPOXSiniLITY J.V CHINA. " The National Review, a mouthpiece of the Salisbury Cabinet, declares that the development of Japan, which it calls "The England of the .Far East," Into a first-class power is unreservedly welcome to the overwhelming mass of Englishmen, who, so far from desiring to exclude Japan from Northern China,, hold that there is plenty of room for both Russia and Japan in that region, and that the ultimate possession of Corea Is absolutely .necessary to Japah If she is to remain a great power. The Mikado's Government was prepared from the early part of June to land in China a well-equipped army of from 50,000 to 60,000 men, which would have reached Pekin by the end of June or the beginning of July, in ample time not only .to have delivered the Legations. but .to have crushed the murderous anti-foreign plot of the Empress Dow ager in its first inception. England was ready at this time to place .both Its financial credit and Its sea power at thl service of Japan in event of her dis patching two army corps to Pekin, and England urged Germany to persuade Russia not to object to the proposed action of Japan. But tri'e National Re view says X.he German Government behaved with characteristic meanness, and exploited the episode by represent ing England as Intriguing against Rus sia." It Is reported by the National Review that a secxet agreement was signed fast year between Germany and Russia making the former power a nrere Jackal to the Russian lion so far as Chinese afcfalrs are concerned. It cannot lae truthfully denied that the German Emperor has so far be haved very stupidly In the whole af fair. His public language has-been full of bombast. He blocked "the accept ance of" the offer of Japan, and Ws piratical appropriation of Kiao Chou Is the root of the whole- trouble, as Presi dent George B, Smyth, of the Anglo Chinese College at Foo Chow, clearly sets forth In his article on "Causes of Anti-Foreign Feeling in Chfnh," printed j in the August number cf the North American Review. Dr. Smyth writes: "Enraged at the Injustice thus perpe trated, seeing in the missionaries and the Germans the causes of -the coun- . try's humiliation, and in the conduct of the latter, especially, the beginning of an attempt by the foreigners to seize ,the province, and, finally, the whole empire, the Boxers began the series of crimes which have since made thera In famous, preached a' patriotic, anti Christian, anti-foreign propaganda, and I resolved to drive from the country the intruders, and all thaf they repre sented." THE BUBDEX OF MIU CHOICER. The rise of Controller Coler to emi nence and influence in New York has Imposed upon Mr. Richard Croker1 a burden of some weight and pain. Yet, as in other emergencies of his exem plary career, the task Is. one to which Mr. Croker cheerfully addresses his re fined intellect and self-sacrificing soul of public spirit and civic honor. When .Mr. Coler was elected to the Controller's office, he" vas compara tively unknown. But the man of both brains and honest purpose is not likely to xemain long In Important place lp. New York City without having promi nence thrust upon him. Tammany rule does not brook opposition to its plans of aggrandizement and discipline, and if a man will stand fast for a righteous principle, the only possible result is a commotion of the first magnitude. It soon .became vapparent that Mr. 'Coler had a mind of his own, and that it was a good mind and just. He wanted an honest and economical gov ernment. Exposure .of the Ramapo in famy was largely his work. To his honesty, firmness and acute discern ment Mr. Cole'r adds the further quality of being respectable. He has a class. in Sunday school, and not long ago he. read a paper at a convention of Epis copal churches. The young. Controller's course,. in short, has been such asto endear him to citizens of both par(ies throughout the state, and Piatt and Croker .are obliged to face the dismal possibility of a Governor whom neither ot them will control. The artistic sense of Mr. Croker was quick to discern the incongruity of a high Democratic official with character, intelligence and respectability. Noth ing could be more distasteful to Tam many Hall, nothing could he more dis sonant with the philosophy of the Ne braska sage, at whose feet Mr. Croker herds the suppliant knee in reverence and for guidance. In all that Mr. Cole is he recognizes all that a Bryan and Croker Democrat should not be. Nor is Mr. Croker the man to shirk the pa triot's responsibility. He will put Coler down or know the reason why. He will put up such a candidate for Governor that Piatt can beat him with a ma chine candidate. Croker will have" the city, Piatt the state, and McKlnley and Roosevelt the state's electoral vote. In this way will both Croker and Piatt demonstrate anew that high devo tion to civic ideals which has enthroned them ineradicably In the hearts of the peorle of the Empire State. Let us not be too severe upon these estimable po tentates, ruling through the consent of the governed. They are the product of their environment. That Is why Mr. Coler, as a New York statesman, looks so funny. The pretext of the English war on China In 1857 was the Incident of the Arrow, a lorcha, which, while flying the British flag, was seized by a war junk on the plea that her crew were breaking some Chinese law. The Brit ish flag was hauled down and stamped upon, and Yeh, the Viceroy of "Canton, defended the act on the ground that the lorcha had no right to be flying theflag at the time. The British Government made this act a cause for war, whose real purpose was to. force China to ad mit foreign Legations into Pekin. The co-operaiton of France, Russia and the United States was invited, but only the French and. English took part in the hostilities. Their warships bom barded and captured Cantbn, and Yeh, the offending Viceroy, was seized and sent as a prisoner to Calcutta. The al lied fleet captured the Taku forts, and treaties by which foreign Ministers were permitted to reside in Pekin were signed at Tien Tsln. When in 1859 the allies returned to get their treaties rati fied, they found the Taku forts rebuilt, and their attempt to force a passage was repulsed with heavy loss. The American Commodore Tatnall, though nominally neutral, rendered help to the British during the action, exclaiming: "Blood is thicker than water!" The following year, 1860, the allies captured the Taku forts and Tien Tsin and marched to Pekin- No forcible entry, was at that time made into the city by the allies. It was occupied peace fully by agreement until the ratification of the treaties. NThe Chinese G'overn ment paid heavy pecuniary Indemnity and opened a number of 'additional ports to trade. The present antl-for-elgn outbreak at Pekin had for one of its objects the violent cancellation oi all the concessions -extorted by the allies In 1860. Had It not been for the capture of the Taku forts and Tien Tsln, It is probable that the, foreigners would all' have been expelled from Pe kin and all the treaty ports would have been closed to the world. The Pekin Government intended to regain all the ground lost in I860. The Pekin Government needs a very severe lesson in punishment. Mr. Stubbs, " who spoke against the Nicaragua Canal at Chicago Tuesday night, has evidently been inadequately reported In the account of his remarks, for as they stand they are simply ri diculous. He undertakes to show that the canal w'ould destroy our carrying trade, and the argument he offers In proof Is simply that we have no carry ing trade to Jose. This Is a. very faith ful representation of anti-canal arguT. ments as they run, but not at all what we have the right to expect from a man of Mr. Stubbs' accomplishments and discernment. It is depressing, at any rate, to find him disposed to carry on the campaign against the canal which was so industriously an'd unsparingly pursued by Mr. Huntington. It Is bare ly possible the people will some day grow tired of sending to Congress en thusiastic advocates of the Nicaragua Canal, who promote its welfare, when they get there by interviewing Mr. Huntington or -somebody else and qui etly securing the postponement of con struction without ostensibly abating their interest In and devotion to the cause. It is barely passible that this sort of thing will grow monotonous enm a flnv nirf fVtA nUA. Y.n.. .a themselves Jn ftis systematic f&eMpn will be exposed and retired. In that day the Southern Pacific and similarly situated roads will not have so many creatures in official life. Then, and probably not till then, will the canal be built. There Is ajways an advantage in seeing the enemy in the open. It Is refreshing to find a temperance advocate talking sense in the way that .Francis Murphy talks It when he says that the powerful sobering agencies of modern civilization lie In the inexorable demands of business life. On these lines there is work for temperance lec turers, and lots of it. If you can show a young man how small is the oppor tunity and how humble Is the station assigned to the intemperate worker in present-day industry, you have done him a real service, compared with which aH (the theatrical appeals and intemperate denunciation, popular in the past generation, do nqt deserve to be mentioned. How young a man can be at 60 Mr. Murphy shows by hl ca pacity to live and learn and his ready perception of the spirit of industrial progress. There is always room for the teacher who keeps step with' the march of events and the changing needs of the time. The Tefqrmer's battle Is half "won when he realizes that not by law, but by personal regeneration, Is the life of the community to be elovated. , Canada is preparing for a general election. The Canadian House of Com mons Is composed of 213 members, who are elected under the several provin cial franchises in accordance with the Federal act passed In 1898. The Sen ate is composed of eighty members, who aro appointed fofr life by the crown on the nomination of the Governor-in-Council. A great variety of franchises will prevail in the different provinces at the next general election. In British Columbia, Manitoba and Prince Ed ward Island, -manhood suffrage obtains. In Ontario there Is a mixed system, but the one-man-one-vote principle is en forced. In Quebec there are property and income franchises; and an elector can vote lnv a multiplicity of constitu encies. In Pr'nce Edward Island there is no voter's list, but voters register and vote at the same time at the poll ing booths. - A political event of interest is the formal. and spirited espousal of the Mc Klnley and Roosevelt ticket by Senator Stewart, of Nevada. t It would be curi ous if his course should result in car rying this hitherto overwhelmingly Populist state for the Republican ticket in November. Yet the result is not un likely. Even in 1898 a great change had come over the spirit of Nevada's dream. McKlnley got only .1938 votes in 1890 to Bryan's 8400; yet in 189S the vote on Governor stood: Republican, 354S; Dem ocratic, 2060; Silver, 3570; People's, 833. The Rocky Mountain .States are doing very well at present, and may be reluc tant for "a change." Perhaps old Bill has been taking soundings. It is easy to get money now for al-' most any promising project. The Ore gonlan would like to see railroads not only up and down the Columblg. River, but all through Eastern Oregon and across the coast counties and out to Mount Hood and the 'Nehalem coal fields, and into the St. Helens mining districts. Plenty of railroads and low rates will -bring people, and people will bring more railroads and more develop ment. Everybody that Is trying to open up the country, bring in settlers and develop our resources ought to be encouraged. Everybody that gets in the way of progress ought to be pushed gently but firmly aside. Captain Henry J. Rellly, Fifth United States Artillery, who was killed at Pe kin on the 15th Inst., enlisted in the Army in September, 1864; was promot ed from Sergeant to Second Lieuten ant In December, 1866; was made pFlrst Lieutenant .in September, 1868, and became Captain In 1894. "He was a graduate of the artillery school in 1875. Ho is the second commissioned officer of the regular Army to meet his death in battle In China. Conger to .stay at Pekin and negoti ate? Hal Who would take his place on the stump? Permit a real live hero to abide quietly in China when he can be brought home and carted around the country to raise cheers about Repub lican platforms? Not If Mr. Hanna knows himself. ' Dolllver has his reward for with drawing from the Vice-Presidential race. And he is better off. A Senator is a prince among Vice-Presidents. The new Senator, moreover, -will strengthen the Senate' where It is weakest. He car say something. It will be a fitting rebuke to the in capacity of New York's police force if Alfred Alklns, the young British negro. Is able to collect damages from the city. The riot Itself Is a logical outgrowth of Tammany's contempt of law. FREE 'SILVER AND SAVINGS. Is It Wlsve to Talce Chances on Im pairing? the Value? New York Tribune. Nearly ono-third of the inhabitants of the State ot New York have deposits in savings banks. There are 120 of these in stitutions in tihe state, and their books showed 2,036,017 open accounts on July 1 last. Of course, a small proportion of de positors in this enormous number have accounts in more than one banK, but their number is not large. The main fact re mains that probably 2,000,000 individual small depositors wage-earners, widows and children in only one -state of the Union ha'o scrimped and saved and put aside their savings against a' rainy day, until now the total figures up to the snug sum of JS22.0S1.590. This Is an increase of 103,168 in the number of depositors and of t$S3,63S,313 over the deposits of a year ago, and or more than $200,000,000 over l96, when the shadow of Bryanlsm and free silver was hanging over the- country. The interest paid on these savings last year was $30,3SS,274, an Increase in one year of $1,503,101. How do these 2,000,000 depositors like tho Idea of having their savings of nearly $1,000,000,000 cut to $500,000,000 to satisfy the ignorant theories and selfish 'demagogy of a lot of fanatical agitators -and self-seeking politicians? The election of Bryan and a Congress of his followers would accomplish that result almost In the twinkling of an eye. The Kansas Clty platform demands the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 by the United States, "without the aid or consent of any other nation." This the Bryanites call bimetalisro, but both reason and the experience of thousands of years show that it would bo silver monb metajlsm. Silver monometalism means a standard of value based on the bullion value of silver, and that In turn means dollars of Just half the value of our pres ent dollars, which aro based on the bul lion value of" gold. In the Now England Sates there are even more savings bank depositors than In Ne-iy York, "while scattered over the who!ocountry are millions in addition: To every on of them, as Well ar to every wage-earner, every producer of any combs directly and pointedly hornet "Shall 1 I. by my voice or my Influence or my vott, aid or abet the olectlon of William Jennings Bryan?" True. Bryan and hia managers are busily exuding ink. like the octopus, to hide their movements and fool their victims. But It 4s equally true that the Kansas City platform declares for free silver and that Bryan believes In free silver; and a vlotory won by him would be a victory for free silver, no matter how confiding the voter's trust that ho wa3 not voting for free silver. wot HE I.OVED .HIM. J ' Uuntlngton'n Fondness for Crabbe Seems Unexplained. Chicago Chrpnlcle. A newspaper" correspondent says that the late Collls P. Huntington was fond of the old-fashioned poets, including Goldsmith, Cowper; Samuel Johnson, and other writers of 'the 18th century. He also relished Coleridge, Keats and Henry Kirk White, early 19th century poels. But his especial delight was Crabbe, a copy of whose poems he kept in his desk for daily and hourly perusal when he had temporary leisure from the immediate cares and demands of business. . Thl& is a curious phase of the deceased multimillionaire's character. It was un derstood that he gave a considerable por tion of his wealth and Income for political uses, to employ lobby Influences in Con gress and td maintain his proprietorship of the California Lecislature. To own a Legislature which dispensed his franchises was. no more to hlra than it was for the London blacking manufacturer to "keep a poet," of which he boasted; he did not have to pay by tho line for his rhymed advertisements, like his weaker rivals. But no jone suspected Huntington of a fondness for the most humane school ot poetryn our language. , Old'Dr. Samuel Johnson was a elcomy and scetlc philosopher in poetry- He told how slowlyNrises worth by poverty depressed. His ode on "The Vanity of Human Wishes" is a labored wall over the common unhapplness of mankind. "Protracted life," he exclaimed In melo dious lines, "Is but protracted woe." Ho described national wars, the laureled he rocs of which bequeathed to posterity un ending burdens : And mortgaged states their grandsires wreaths regret. From age to age In everlasting debt. -Johnson was soured by his early life of poverty and want. To this fact may be attributed his powerful satires on the rich who live only to Increase their gains. As years came along with extravagant wealth, says the satirist, unnumbered maladies lay siege to life, and the fear of losses aggravates every pain of the glided Invalid. At last he was no pleasure ex cept In computing wealth, He Unlocks his gold an,d counts It till he dies. It Is singular that Oliver Goldsmith, the sweetest, most genial, most unselfish and mo3t improvident of political man kind, should be a chosen favorite of Hunt ington, who was a grasping money-getter, ruthless in his financial methods, crush ing unfortunate rivals beneath tho jugger naut of his progress to the highest sum mit of wealth and power. Goldsmlth'sald that the land where wealth accumulates and men decay is vc prey to hastening evils. His hero, a country parson, he portrays as A man to all the country dear And passing rich on forty pounds a year. Forty pounds Is about $200, or something like Huntington's income for each half day of his later life. Goldsmith's rural preacher with his small income was rich ly benevolent. He never asked closely about the claims of tramps to whom he furnished sustenance. He did not scan their faults or merits. His pity1 gave ere charity began. There might have been much, however, in Crabbe's poetry which a hermit mill ionaire would enjoy. Crabbe bas a sln-d gle agreeable character In his voluminous poems a noble peasant named Isaac Ashford, who felt! humanely andwho warmly loved- He smiled when others were Joyful, had tears for the afflicted and distressed; he refused to boy present good by pledging future ill. Shame knew him not; he dreaded no disgrace; no envy Stung him; no jealousy distressed him. At length he found, when seventy years were run. His strength departed and his labors done When, save his honest fame, ho kept no more, But lost his wife and saw his children poor. But this is the only lovable character described .In Crabbe's poems. All else Is a plcturo of gloom. With microscopic mi nuteness he described desolate deathbed. scenes in me noveis oi poverty ana .want. Hazlltt calls him. a sophistical misanthrope la, verse and says that he Is a "sickly, a' querulous, a uniformly dissatisfied poet." adding: He sings the country and sings It In pitiful tones. He chooses the subject only to take tho charm out of it to dispel the illusion, the glory and the dream which had hovered over It In golden verse from Theocritus to Cowper. . . . He gives discolored paintings of life; describes helpless, repining unprofitable, unedlfylng distress. Was this "the characteristic of Crabbe which inspired the sympathy of the great financier and capitalist? What fun could he find in reading habitually, hour by hour, accounts of the worse scenes which poetry can describe as the habitual. Inev itable lot and destiny of poverty? It Is a strange and not an attractive study in an unusual exhibition of human nature. A PCiZIiER, FOR BRYAN. Where Is His Constitutional Author ity for Ills Programmes r Chicago Tribune. The two great political parties differ not merely as to the proper Philippine policy but also as to the Constitutional status Of the new Insular acquisitions of the United States. Most Republicans contend that? Porto Rico and the Philippines are outside the Constitution, that they aro "property" of the United States Which Congress has power "to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations concerning." The Democrats, on the oth er hand, say In their platform that "the Constitution follows the flag." If it fol lows the flag to Porto Rico, as they ex pressly say It does, then it must follow the fiag to the Philippines also and they BiU3t be now an integral part of the United. States. This .the Democrats do not say in so many words, but it is a necessary sequence of their general prop osition that "the Constitution follows the mag." If it follows it eastward it must follow it westward. The Supreme Court will have to decide In the near futurewhlch party Is In the right- The Washington Post kindly calls Mr. Bryan's attention to the fact that a decision adverse to the Democratic con tention will make it easy for him to carry out his" Philippine policy If Congress ap proves of It, while the acceptance by the court of the Democratic contention will raise grave doubts as to the power of Congress and the President to surrender tho Philippines to a Filipino or to any other government. It Is evident that if the court agrees with the Republicans a f Democratic Congress and President can turn over the Philippines to Agulnaldo it they see fit, but, as the Post says: "Where in the Constitution Is there any authority, expressed or Implied, for the surrender by our Government of sover eignty over the Philippines if they are Under the Constitution and an integral part of tho Unlted'States? If we, can dis pose of ono Integral part, why not of an other? Granting the right to abandon sovereignty and give up territory that is as fully covered by the Constitution as any part of our Constitutional domain, where does that right end?"" There i3 no such authority In the Consti tution. Tho broadest Interpreter of that instrument never has endeavored to find such authority there. The United States has given UP territory to which it believed r it had a good title, but that jwas only in tne case ot a controversy, over a currccs boundary line. Never ha the United States surenilered an Integral part ot its territory to which it had that clear, un disputed title It has to the Philippines. A precedent would have been made if tho Federal Government bad given Its consent to the withdrawal from the Union of the seceding states and the establish ment by them of a government of their own. Tho loyal states would not allow that precedent to be made. Where, then, could Mr. Bcyan and a Democratic- Con gress find authority to let the Filipinos go In peace and be Independent if the Supreme Court should decide that they are citizens of the United States and their territory an integral part of the United States? It wouldvbe well for Mr. Bryan to say in his letter of acceptance how he pro poses to carry out his Philippine policy If tho Supreme Court accepts the Demo cratic theories as to the Constitutional status of those islands and whether he will welcome a decision that the Repub lican thcorias are sound, because he will then be the better able to carry out his policy. BBVASf PRATSES CONTENT5TETVT, Wnich Flatly Contradicts His Wnole Political Career. Chicago Times-Herald. A writer in the August issue of Success says: -, One day while converslnr vrlth 7HHam J. Bryan I asfced httn whntha considered ths sreateet word in the English lontruugo. "Conr tentment." ho said, beforo I could catch a. breath. "This world is rull of discontented men. Even som of the rich are not con tented. The man who has contentment has the best gold that is to bo secured in life." Here Is another clear case of conviction out of one's own mouth, Mr. Bryan is tho high- priest of the discontented. Un, dor the beneficent Influence of a Repub lican Administration he has increased his worldly possessions more than 3137 per cent, yet he is not contented. His pigs are thriving and hia corn grows to a height of more than nine feet, as we Judge from his photograph, but these things do not content him. His crops of wheat, hay and oats have all been excel-, lent this year, but they have not served to content him. He ha3 been phptograplud as the man with the hoe; he has had his picture taken while milking the cow and weaning the calf and shearing the pet lamb, and still he Is full of discontent. He has found out how to get along with out working for a living; how to travel year In and year out at the expense of other people, and how tp keep on accu mulating wealth while professing that the laying up of money is criminal and sinful, but these achievements have not made him a contented man. Mr. Bryan says contentment Is the greatest word In the English language and adopts discontent as his profession. Truly, as his admirers say, he Is a wonderful man. Also, consider his use of the word gold. "The man who has contentment has the best gold that is to be secured in life." Why this silence as to silver? Why didn't Bryan say "the best silver In life, with out waiting for tho aid or consent of any other nation"? Twice in one paragraph he has bespattered his own teaching. Does Mr. Bryan think he has passed that point In his career where It is necessary for him to pretend to be consistent? Perils of Bridsre TVTiIit. LiouIsv...e Courier-Journal. Tho fearful consequences of such a game aire apparent at once to anybody familiar with cards and women. It is this latter element that is likely to make bridge whist so much more formidable than stud poker. Fully half. If not more. of the whist playera are women. Now, any man of observation knows that the most serious proposition that the gam bler at cards ever "goes up against" Is a woman holding the opposing hand and the less she 'knows about cards and the game the more devastation she is like ly to do. Given therefore, a game which combines tho uncertainties ot cards, the uncertainties of women and tho uncer tainties of tho certainties of the exposed hand, and tho veteran card player would better lock himself In a safety vault or take the benefit of the bankrupt law at once, rather than sit him down to such a pastime. Let the pulpit continue Its thunders against bridge whist. We de serve some protection from the pulpit. If we can't get it from tho police.. AH for Self-Government. New York Sun. Bverj' expression of our Government concerning the Philippines has proved, and its conduct toward them has dem onstratetl throughout, that its single pur pose Is to extend to those Islands a full measure of self-government whenever they shall exhibit their desire and fit ness for it. Every American knows that tho Agulnaldlst Insurrection has not now and never has had any Justification In any Intention or policy of our govern ment to deny or abridge the liberties of the Filipinos, but that the American purpose Is rathe to give them freedom for the first time. So far from denying them self-government, the government Is proffering It to them under the pro tecting authority of the United States, without which they would speedily fall a prey to foreign greed; and the Aguln aldlst faction Is fighting against the lib erties of the Filipinos and not for them, as all the world knows. o 1 . fit Is Remembered. Baltimore American, (we cannot forget. The Issues of 1S96 art the Issues of 1900. differing only In the fact that other evils were added for this year. The candidates of 1SS6 are tho candidates of 1900, and tho dishonor able purpose and intention of the Demo cracy of today is the same as it was four years ago. Andrwhat Is more to the point, the demand jpr Bryan's de feat, arising from exSftly the same causes. Is more emphatic now than then, for. If defeated nowU neither candidate nor principles will ever again cast their baneful Influences oveyAmerlcan politics. Let us not forget. I . MEN AJfD WOMEX. P. R. D. Jenness, the Amerlcal electrical ex pert. Is mentioned by the Paris papers a3 a candidate for honors from the French Acad emy of Sciences. General Gatacre, by his! genial good nature and the utter absence of nn thins: like griev ance monsrering, has, since his return to Ens- nd. won the cood will of everybody. The hardest thins he has been heard to say of Lord Roberts is. "I think he will, perhaps, one day come to see and to say that he Judged ma too hastily." Herr LJebermann. a. Hebrew ofllcer with the German forces in China, has Just rediscovered the tribe of Hebrews native to China, who were first found centuries ago. They constitute a small and dwindling community at Kaif engnu, the capital of the Province of Honau, where the hleh priests calculate their people have been settled for 2000 years. Tlie latest medical radical. Dr. Charles B. Page, created quite a. sensation at the -Washington convention of doctors by coming to the defense of the microbe. He held that a healthy body generates Its own germicides, and that the- microbe In such a body stands about as good a chance of dolne mischief "as a mouse In a tlffht room surrounded by a dozen hun gry cats." Mrs. Laura A. Alderman owns the largest orchard In South Dakota. According to VT. U. Irwin. Chief of yie Division of Pomology of the Department of Agriculture In "Washington, Mrs. Alderman has, near Turley, Turner Coun ty, 150 acres. In which are 8000 trees,, two acres being given over to plums. Besides the trees there are 1000 currant bushes. I0OO goose berry bushes, 500 grapevines and three acres of strawberries. The death Is announced of Ben Cant, the premier roserrower of England. In 1890 his Arm carried off the six great trophies open to all England. When Mr. Cant saw or heard of a new rose he spared no expense to obtain It. Perhaps his greatest "hit" was made In 1S33, when ho secured three roses which have- never been excelled, viz., Glolre do Dijon. Jujes Margotttn and General Jacqueminot. During a long life be had won 20S0 Oliver cupsr pieces of plate and first prUes. NOTE ASD COMMENT. The Census Bureau has not yet decided to class PortkmdV scow dwellers anions thoclty's floating population. Tsze Hsi An ha3 caused more trouble in the Chinese palace than Sally Aral ever made in an American kitchen. Oh. poor and hapless census man. Throughout this wide, whie land The citizens are alVagtng that You've Ul ta beat tho band. Ten year3 from aow you'll savo yourself An awful lot of trouble If you'll so- loaded to your -work And seo and count us daubte. Charles Francis Adams announcesthat he Intends to vote for McKmley. Ha would like to see a strong opposition House elected- as a check upon tho Im perialist Administration, but not going so far as to refuse to vote supplies tor the prosecution of the war in tha Philip pines to a successful close. Twas & beautiful soma to Dlay. TslAn, Twos a whole lot of fan. to bo It, As lonjr as it coma your way. TslAn. And eierythlnc dropped In your mlt. But noar the clan of the- Baser man Is hopelessly out of tho some. And you. Tat An, are an "also ran." For such say old ffirl such !s fame. Westward the star of empire- continue to wheel its course, and is now on its, second "lap." Tho saying. "Go West, young man. go West" after halting on the Pacific Coast for soma time, has gone, across the Pacific and has been changed to "Go West, old woman, go West," and in obedience to It the Empress Dowaget ot China is going west in search of a mew capital. Bill TomWns. on a Summer's day. Raked tho meadows sweet with hay. Hia lean but .manly form was clad. In such scant-raiment oa ha had. Consisting: of a cotton shirt And overalls venteered with, dirt. Bill Tomklna dressed that way, IVwct. Eecauso the weather was, so hot. And lo, hia homely country plan la followed by the shirt-waist man. It has been observed that old men Uka, tomake themselves older than they really are. A man who has reached tho 75 marU will stretch it to 0 years if he can. and a man who has passed SO soon gets to 80 or 100 yars old, if given half a chance. Several months ago an alleged centenar ian died at the poor farm, whom ac quaintances? afterwards .said was not much over SO years of age. The latest case reported" Is that of a man 5)9 years old actively engaged in mining in Doug laa County, blasting, drilling apd wheel ing rock, at which labor he has been en gaged for tho past four years. This beats the man 75 years old who was 'able to saw up cordwood for a living. According to the system known as that of "standard thre," by which all railroad schedules and local tlmo usually Is reg ulated, the United' States is divided into four geographical divisions or sections. The first section CEastern) includes all territory between tho Atlantic Coast and an Irregular line down from Detroit to Charleston, S. C, tho latter being its most Southern point. The second (Cen tral) section Includes all the territory between tho last-named line and an Ir regular 7ine from Blsmarclr N. D., to the north of tho Rio Grande. The third (Mountain) section includes all territory between tha last-named lineand the west ern borders of Idaho, Utah and Arizona. Tho fourth (Pacific) section covers tho rest of the country to the I&clfic Coast Standard time Is uniform Inside of ea"h of these sections, and the time of each section differs from that next to It by ex actly one hour. PLEASAXTRIES OF PARAGRaPHERS In Idaho. She I think. If I ever kllWd a. man. hia face would haunt me as Ion? as I lived. He Well, even so. ma'am. I'd rather have him haunt me than have- to start la hauntln' him. Puck. "I wonder why seme people are down on tho theater?" "Well, f suppose It's because there are so few good plays' that the regular theater goers are bound to. go to the bad." Philadel phia Evening Bulletin. "Seen better days.vof course?' sarcastically asked tha lady of the skillets. "Oh. yes," said Dtiraat Dawson, checsfully. "but I've also seed wuss one''. Sometimes I hit a' house on wash day.' IndlanaFoHs-Press. Tess Were there any marrying men down at the shore? Jesa Tes. It was awful aggra vating Tess Aggravating? Jess Tea; there were four ministers and two Justices of tha Peace there.." Philadelphia. Press. His Blank Despair. "Sneaking of tho races, woan't It the two-mile dah free-for-all that Blnks lost all his money oruT' "Yes. Whyr "Nothing, only I remember he used about a two-mile dash In expressing" himself after H was over." Chicago Tribune. Campaign Arguments. Tho Democrat Did you" notlco that the steamer M. A- Hanna went ashoraa few days ago? There's an omen for jou! The Republican Omen, nothing! It mere ly showed that the M. A. Hanna wanted th earth. Indlanapoll3 Press. Beaker Tlpplns has a peculiar memory. It It so capricious, you know. Holl Is Capricious T In what way? Beaker Well, you see, he never forgets that I am one of the fellows he bor rows from, but he Inevitably falls to remem ber to Include me among those whom he pays. Boston Transcript. ' m ' Concerning: "Wnlilersee's Command. UNCLE SA1T TO KAISER WILLIAM. Tour majesty, herewith accept My cordial unity With you. in placing in command Your owrrCount Waldersee; A soldier, brave as ever led The soldiers of his land; A Genoral, fit In every way To take supreme command. "UNCLE SAM TO HIS OWN PEOPLE. Say, friends and fellow citizens, I've Just sent word to Bill That Waldersee as Allied Eoas Will suit us fit to kill. I've given him a lively graft, A kind ot pipey dream. About the Count and how welllflxed He Is to be supreme. He'll have command of all our troops. But all the others, too; And all the allies must obey And do as he says Uo. But don't let that bother you. myrriends. He's not so darned supreme In running things out there to suit Himself, as It would seem . Of course th Kaiser thlnk3 he Is. And maybe he does, teo. But that's no sign, as you will see. When I explain to you. The fact Is. gents, we rule the roost. I mean Americans. And though Count Waldle Is oa deck He doesn't shape his plans. Because, by Zuck3t he's got a wife. A lady, too. ot birth; And was there ever married man Who wholly owned the earth? I guess not; and that wife ot his Was born la Yankee land. And though he wears the euleta She's In supreme command. In other words, while it might seem The Ccrmana are on top, Th really truly fact Is that The Yankees have the drep. Which shews you. fellow citizens. That fl a diplomat. And soldier, too, your Undo Sam Knows Just where he Is at. w. J. L, in NawTork Sua, T