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THE LIGHT ON THE SHIP.
"We ought not," says Cicero in one
of his letters to Attlcus, "we ought not
to commit the error of supposing that
our ancestors would do now, in the cir
cumstances of our time; what they did
Xn their own time, or that they would
praise us now for doing as they did
then."
Mr, Dooley. of Chicago, is not likely
to make a name that will last as long
as that of Cicero; but Mr. Dooley is a
shrewd philosopher, nevertheless, and
multitudes are reading his quaint es
says "who never read, never will read,
a line of Cicero. Mr. Dooley has been
talking about Statesman Bryan and his
habit of quoting Washington, Jefferson
and Lincoln on every occasion when
they can be "rung in." Mr. Dooley sug
gests that there has been great change
in our Xational position and outlook,
tven since Lincoln's time. So of the
statesmen of former generations, whom
Bryan so assiduously quotes, he says:
"They lamed their thrade before th
days lv open plumbln'. Tell us what
Is wanted ye'ersilf or call in a Jour
neyman who's wurrukin' card is dated
this clnthry." To this Mr. Dooley's
boon companion, Hennessy, responds:
"Well, those ol' la-ads was level-headed."
"Thrue fr ye," answers Mr. Doo
ley. "But undher th' new illctlon laws
ye can't vote,th cimitries."
This is In line with the wisdom of
Burke, who said that no fixed policy of
government could be pursued through
all circumstances, but that it was nec
essary always to adjust policy to cir
cumstances; or with' that of Lowell,
who said that "new occasions make
new duties, time makes ancient good
uncouth." "We are always to have re
gard for our ancestors; but Ave should
remember that they were concerned
with the affairs and conditions of their
own time, while we must address our
selves to the affairs and meet the cir
cumstances of our time. "Were they
acting now in our place, they could
not act as they acted then.
"What I'd like to know," continues
Mr. Do iley, "is -n hat Thomas Jefferson
knew alKHit the throubles iv ye an' me.
rlil n wurrud have I to say ag'in
Thomas lie was a good man, though
I don't know that his battin' av-rage
'd be h'sh ag'in the pltchin iv these
times."
The essence of good sense is in those
quaint expressions. "We are always to
revere our ancestors and the great
names of our history, but never should
we fall into the error of supposing that
they -would think that whatever was fit
for their, own time was fit also for
ours. The makers of our Constitution
had no thought whatever that Its Jur
isdiction would ever spread over the
continent or would even extend west
of the Alleghany Mountains. Likewise
they knew nothing of the physical
forces that since their time have been
brought in to the aid of man, cutting
short time and space and making tran
sit and transport easy and sure, to the
ends of the earth. Moreover, their
ideas of political justice were far be
hind those of our time. Many things
they tolerated we have abolished as
grave wrongs, and international Justice
now Is on infinitely better footing than
In their day.
There is a cult known In the history
of man as worship of ancestors. Some
think It the foundation of all religion.
But religion long ago passed far beyond
it So should politics. "We ought, in
deed, to have regard for the political
authority of our ancestors, for we are
the heirs of their experience, and with
out that experience we should not be
where we are. But their experience
did not cover the whole possible life
of all coming ages. "We find it neces
sary to do many things our ancestors
did not dream of, and our descendants
will find it necessary to go beyond the
limits of our experience and action.
Bach and every successive generation
must meet its own problems and solve
them. Light mayi be and must be had
from the past; "but it makes every dif
ference -whether the light be set on. the
bow of the ship or on the stem. It is
far more easy to misapply great prin
ciples by a servile and unintelligent
aanerence to their letter, than to keep
them fresh and full of vitality by ac
tion vigorous and discreet, in conform
ity -with their spirit. Herein, as in all
things, the letter killeth, but the spirit
tn&keth alive.
An Interesting reminder of the grad
ual path along which we are tending
to complete self-government Is supplied
by the present Virginia movement to
make the Judges elective by the peo
ple Instead of elective by the State
Legislature. The functions of Legis
lature "were once much more compre
hensive than they are now. They used
to choose' electors everywhere, and in
many places Judges. Now the people
elect the electors, and nearly every
waero State Judges. The idea that
complete self-government Is a natural
right of all people, to be given with
out regard to the capacity of the par
ticular people in question, is not only
Inapplicable to the Philippine Islands,
"but Is disproved oy our own Wstory.
"We elect our Presidents "by" popular
vote, against the counsel of the Fath
ers, and soon, perhaps, we shall be
electing- our Senators.
THE TRUTH HURTS.
A few plain remarks concerning Gro
ver Cleveland, offered in these col
umns the other day, have received the
handsome tribute of rage and pain from
numbers of Republican rags throughout
the Pacific States. Thus is afforded
from unexpected sources a testimony
of the truth of the assertions made.
That Cleveland saved the gold stand
ard, that McKInley was once a silver
shouter, that Hanna made an unjust
and impolitic attack on Mr. Cleveland's
Administration, are things calculated
to displease "the typical Republican office-seeker
and office-holder. The truer
they are, the fiercer his wrath. So in
this case be is beside himself.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the
chief sufferer. It is angry because In
the table of gold exports the years
succeeding 1893 were omitted. 'It says
that Cleveland and the Wilson tariff,
not the silver legislation, caused the
gold exports, and then, seeking a. rea
son In its own consciousness for the
publication of facts in The Oregonlan,
charges its editor with seeking revenge
because of having been "snubbed" by
Mr. Hanna. The editor of The Orego
nlan has not the honor of Mr. Hanna's
acquaintance, has never sought that
or any other favor at his hands, and
does not know of any within his be
stowal that should be desired. He is
not obliged either to use a newspaper
to buy political honors, or to buy a
newspaper to advance his political
schemes. There are those, evidently,
who can and do pursue each of these
ends with equal and exact futility.
Gold exports and panic did not, un
fortunately, end with the repeal in
1S93 of the silver-purchase law of 1S90.
They went on under their momentum,
with some abatement, till Bryan was
beaten and the "bimetalism" folly was
decisively rebuked. Economic move
ments like this are not arrested In a
day. They bear resemblance to the
tides of Puget Sound, which are still
flowing in good and strong at Olym
pla hours after they have come to
rest at flood in the broad waters of
the outmost straits.
As to the "Wilson law, It shall not
be saddled with more than Its just bur
den of opprobrium. It helped make
deficits, but it did not drive the gold
abroad. The deficit was not wholly
due to the Wilson law, for It began
long before the law was even framed.
It took its rise in the hard times sil
ver had brought upon us. The peo
ple could not buy. Imports fell from
$866,000,000 in 1893 to $654,000,000 in 1894.
In what way does the impartial and
independent Seattle Institution Imag
ine the "Wilson law to have caused
gold exports? Does it not know that
excesses of Government disbursements
over receipts can and will remain In
this country, unless driven out by
monetary causes? Does it not know
that our gold left us under pressure
of European sales of American securi
ties, made at a sacrifice by their hold
ers, who feared the standard of value
was In peril? Gold, though paid out
of the Treasury, would not have gone
out of the country but for the greater
cause of the deterioration of our cur
rency. What caused the panic of 1S93 and
the gold exports of 1893-6? The dilu
tion of the currency with Treasury
notes and the operation of the end
less chain. Cheaper currency drove
out the dearer. The menace to the
standard of value sent home our se
curities with demand for gold in their
place. The blow at confidence shat
tered credit, arrested investment,
stopped consumption. Capital with
drew from productive enterprise, labor
sat idle in hunger and discontent. It
would have been worse but for Grover
Cleveland, who Is now reviled by creat
ures who are not worthy to unloose
the latchet of his shoe.
The State of "Washington was made
Populist by 12,000 plurality in 1892,
largely through the nonsense masquer
ading as thought in the columns of the
Post-Intelligencer. If anything can
make it Populist again, it is the same
cause. That is the only reason why
such recrudescence of Idiocy is to be
regretted.
A BIT OP HISTORY.
Secretary Hay's dignified and able
administration has carved a new place
for the United States in the world of
diplomacy. To many persons this is
occasion for no little satisfaction, but
to the antls it Is gall and wormwood.
They have an answer ready. It is that
Mr. Hay is sacrificing American ter
ritory In Alaska to British greed.
Doubtless he does this out of the black
heart of a traitor, for the Kansas City
platform specifically warns us of the
"ill-concealed Republican alliance with
England."
The facts, parenthetically, may be set
out to be that Hay is not in secret al
liance with Great Britain at all, nei
ther is he sacrificing American terri
tory in Alaska. Bryan even is report
ed to have said in his Indianapolis
speech that "even this Administration
does not find any trouble or difficulty
in hauling down the flag in Alaska."
r But the fact is that our Government
has not conceded a single Inch of the
territory we claim to the British. In
order to keep the peace between the
conflicting Canadian and American
authorities, both claiming the right to.
rule the roost there, the two govern
ments agreed upon a temporary and
provisional arrangement, or modus Vi
vendi, under which the American Gov
ernment exercises jurisdiction over
nearly the whole of the territory in dis
pute, the Canadians being left in tem
porary control of less than one-tenth
part of it until the differences between
the powers are Anally adjusted. This
-was done to avoid conflicts which
might have involved both nations in
war. But our Government has not
yielded, and will not yield, an iota
of its claims to every foot of the ter
ritory. But the point we wanted to make
was that the Democratic party ought
to approach the subject of our North
western boundaries with a great deal
of caution, because the matter is one
on which it has a record. Observe how
exceeding thin and brittle are the walls
of the Democracy's glass boundary
house. It went into the campaign of
1SU with the battle-cry, "Fifty-four-forty
or fight" It was a pledge that.
If redeemed, would have given British
Columbia to the United States. Polk
was elected, but in what manner the
Democratic party of that day guarded
our boundaries and shook defiance In
the face of Great Britain is best told
In the words of a poet of the time:
The lion growled and shook his tall.
And James K. Polk began to quail;
"Give me," he cried, "to forty-nine.
The rest shall surely all bo thlne."-However-much
poetry there is In this
utterance, there is more truth. It Is the
simple historic fact. Does the Democ
racy argue itself a blind guide, that it
so strains at a gnat, having swallowed
a camel?
CONSTRUCTIVE VS. DESTRUCTIVE
GENIUS.
The estimates of our exchanges East
and "West of the late Collis P. Huntlng
tpn are notably just in one respect,
viz., they agree in placing Huntington
far above the rank of Gould and place
him where he belongs, in the higher
rank of Vanderbllt, as a man of vast
constructive genius, while Gould, who
probably accumulated a larger fortune,
was nothing but a land pirate, a rail
way brigand of destructive genius.
Thla notable difference between Hunt
ington and Gould is exactly the differ
ence that was always recognized be
tween Vanderbllt and Gould, and recog
nition of this same difference between
Huntington and Gould is made by jour
nals like the New Tork Evening Post,
which is never the champion of rail
way wrecking or land piracy of any
sork Gould was nothing but a curse
to his country. He had no more right
to be named, for a moment with such
men as Vanderbllt, Huntington or other
Napoleonic men of business affairs than
a great bandit has to be named with
a great banker or trader; than a great
pirate has to be named as identical
with a great shipbuilder and merchant
captain. The Vanderbilt-Huntlngton
type of railroad man does not stand for
philanthropy, for business never spells
benevolence by Intent, but it stands for
legitimate captains of industry, with a
positive genius for construction and
combination. It is as true of Hunting
ton as it was of Vanderbllt that what
ever he touched started to its feet He
took properties that were worthless
and made them valuable. He did this
thrqugh economy, system, industry, en
ergy, combination, through the legiti
mate methods of generalship in busi
ness. There was not a philanthropic
hair in Vanderbilt's head; there was
not an altruistic note in his hard
philosophy of life; neither was there
in the mental or moral composition of
Napoleon; and yet Vanderbllt was one
of the greatest benefactors of the peo
ple that this country ever produced,
because through his genius for combi
nation, applied to the great trunk lines
of transportation, Vanderbllt placed
the consumers and producers of Da
kota in quick reach of the consumers
and producers of New Tork City.
The Populists who ignQrantly curse
the memory of Vanderbllt for the crime
of being a rich man can well afford to
rise up and call him blessed, for to his
genius they owe the fact that both food
products are cheaper to the New Tork
City wageworker, and manufactured
goods are cheaper to the Dakota con
sumer, than they) would have been for
many years, had not Vanderbllt lived.
What is true of Vanderbllt Is quite as
true of Huntington, who was quite as
able a man as Vanderbllt in native en
dowments, and, measured by his abso
lute accomplishments, a man of more
Napoleonic genius as a great captain
of Industry, for he was a greater gen
eral In the legitimate warfare of busi
ness, trade and transportation. He
made every waste place and barren en
terprise he touched blossom like the
rose. He was not a philanthropist, for
philanthropy never spells business, but
he was an honest merchant captain;
never a pirate on sea or land, never a
miserable wrecker displaying false
lights from the shore to lure good ships
Into the breakers and dash them to ruin
on the rocks so that he might rob the
wreck and plunder the drowned bodies
of better men than himself.
While Huntington was all his days a
blessing to the development of legiti
mate American business and enterprise,
the Gould type of business wrecker and
robber is a curse. The Vanderbilts and
Huntingtons stand for fertilizing rain,
breeze and sunlight while the Gould
type stand for a blight, a bandit, a
wrecker, a pirate, a moral mildew, a
sirocco whose hot breath scorched and
made a desert of every bit of blooming,
promising business territory and en
terprise over which it ever blew. Gould
was a weasel who spent his lifetime
locating henroosts by day and deci
mating them by night He had the
moral nature of a bandit, a poacher
and a pirate; he did not construct or
nourish or multiply honest enterprises;
he simply discovered what other men
had created, and robbed them of their
accumulations; he was a master human
fox that depopulates the, thrifty farm
er's henyards; he was a human eagle
that fixed hia talons into every great
enterprise in this country, and whether
14 was Erie, Wabash or Union Pacific,
he generally picked his bird clean of
meat down to the bone, so long as he
had health and strength enough to con
tinue his predatory flight a
The difference between two men who
both die worth a good many millions is
often very great, and this difference is
defined by this post-mortem judgment
of the press of the country through
that of Collis P. Huntington. This
judgment delivered deliberately after
this great captain of Industry was
buried, is that he advanced remarkably
by his genius the material prosperity
of his country, and nowhere will this
Judgment be more warmly confirmed
than upon the Pacific Coast, whose pio
neers crossed the country to Oregon
and California with ox or mule teams,
taking six months for the Journey, and
sometimes adding their bleaching bones
to those of the buffalo to "blaze" the
way across the continent That in
June, 1S69, it became possible to make
the journey across the, plains in six
days instead of six months, was due
largely to Gollis P. Huntington and his
associates of the Central Pacific Rail
road Company.
Some little time ago The Oregonlan
called upon Mr. Bryan to vote for Mc
KInley on the ground that he concedes
to the Republicans every man that has
had his due share of prosperity. "We
find the Chicago Tribune taking up
the same demand, basing- it upon Mr.
Bryan's address to the bimetalists of
the United States, written by him as
soon as the adverse result of the elec
tion of 1S96 was definitely known, in
which he said: "The Republican can
didate has been heralded as the ad
vance agent of prosperity. If his poli
cies bring real prosperity to the Amer
ican people, those who opposed him
will share In that prosperity." The
Tribune suggests that if the assessed
valuation of Mr. Bryan's property at
Lincoln can be trusted, he, like other
Democrats and like Republicans, has
profited by those good times. In 1S96
hl3 assessment was $270. In 1897 it rose
to $1485. The assessment for this year
is $4450. Thus it appears that in four
years his possessions have increased
sixteen-fold. If all men in the United
States h.ad done as well as that, the
country -would be gorged with wealth.
In reality Mr. Bryan has had an un
duly large percentage of prosperity.
Other men may have wasted their
share of McKInley prosperity in riot
ous living. Not so Mr. Bryan. He has
been more provident, and has laid up,
treasures in Lincoln. Neb. So the
Tribune concludes he ought not to say
too many harsh words about a gold
standard prosperity, which has put
money in his purse, as it has in that of
the humblest toiler.
NO WITHDRAWAL YET.
The news from China makes it whol
ly unlikely that our Government will
at once withdraw its troops from Pe
kin, as General Chaffee has been re
ported to recommend. If there is any
Chinese Government today, nobody ap
pears to know Where it is. Without
any responsible native government at
Pekin, none of the powers can decent
ly withdraw from the city. The late
Chinese Government is either in hid
ing or in flight a. fact that is good as
surance of its guilty complicity in the
anti-foreigner outbreak and the assault
upon the Legations. There is no rea
sonable doubt that the Empress was
herself personally responsible for the
attack on the Legations. It is certain
that all branches of the Chinese army
the Manchu bannermen, the Imperial
Chinese troops commanded by Yung
Lu, the Kansu troops led by Tung Fu
Slang, and the provincial troops were
all engaged in the assault upon the
Legations or in resistance to the re
lief column. This summary expresses
the unanimous convictions, of all the
foreign envoys, and,, because it is true,
the Empress and all her confederates
have taken to flight or are in hiding.
Under these circumstances, a com
plete reorganization must take place
at Pekin. A new imperial administra
tion must be formed, a new government
selected, from which the Empress and
all her guilty confederates will be ex
cluded. Until this is accomplished, the
troops of the powers cannot be with
drawn. It may not be necessary to
Increase the American contingent, but
it will be impossible to withdraw it
-until there is assurance of a respon
sible native government at Pekin. We
cannot retreat now without evading in
ternational responsibilities or periling
National interests. The United States
troops will remain in China until the
work of recqnstruction is accomplished,
and they will not be withdrawn prob
ably until the troops of the other pow
ers are withdrawn. Our soldiers will
remain in China until there Is a cen
tral responsible government, both will
ing and able to make Pekin a safe
place of residence for foreign ambassa
dors. There is no evidence at present
that any of the powers desires anything
more than this of China, and there is
no probability that any of the powers
will withdraw their troops from Pekin
until such assurance is made doubly
sure.
Russia does not want any war with
China, nor any partition of .China,
for she has already obtained the right
of way for her railway through Man
churia, and desires nothing so much
as a peaceful opportunity to complete
It. To protect her own frontier for the
future, Russia would doubtless be glad
to own the right bank of the Amoor
River, but she can afford to wait for
this, and will be sure to get it peace
fully, as the whole of Manchuria is
rapidly becoming Russianized. War
with China Russia does not want; nor
the partition of China. If any respon
sible Chinese Government could be
found to treat with her, Russia would
today ba as anxious for peace as Great
Britain, for Russia sees perfectly well
that In order to circumvent Japan in
the future It is for her interest to make
peace with China and preserve the em
pire from partition. In fact, it is for
the interest of" all the powers to do
this, but in order to do it they must
And a responsible native government in
China, or create one and maintain it
in authority.
There is more money in banks than
ever before; but the Bryan orators in
quire: "What is the good of money in
banks? The people who need money
can't get It" But its owners the de
positors can get it when they want it
This, however, to the Bryanite ob
jector, is no answer. He doesn't want
the owner to have it The man who
has money in bank is a plutocrat, and
an enemy of liberty and of his coun
try. The shiftless and the worthless
and the indolent, the hobo and the
Coxey army man, represent our truest
citizenship. If you find a man who has
monoy in bank, spot him for a traitor.
Bryanism is the apotheosis of Jack
Cade citizenship and politics.
It is an Interesting coincidence that
Long Beach, Long Island, is passing
through the same experience lately un
dergone at Long Beach, "Wash. This
is the prospective acquisition of its local
properties by a great railroad. It is the
Pennsylvania Company .that is after
Long Beach, Long Island. Perhaps it
is fair to argue that seaside resorts
offer a promising source of Increased
revenue to near-by railroad lines. It
is true also that most railroads are
looking about with some anxiety as to
what they can do profitably with their
money. If good times continue, there
is certain to be large expenditure In
Summer travel, both East and West
Ex-Minister Denby, whose powerful
contribution to Republican campaign
literature was printed yesterday, and
will exert great influence against Bry
an's specious pretenses, has always
been a Democrat, and was given the
Chinese mission by President Cleve
land. It was his knowledge of Orien
tal affairs that induced President Mc
KInley to put him, Democrat though
ho was, on the Philippine Commission.
Doubtless It is his actual knowledge of
the facts in the case also that forbids
him to support Bryan.
The Legislature should appoint a
committee hls Winter to investigate
thoroughly the whole matter of base
lands, and give it power to send for
persons and papers. Let us have an
investigation for once that has some
purpose besides whitewashing.
Amoy Is a Chinese treaty port of
about 100,000 people, situated In the
Province of Foo Kien. If the Japanese
have landed troops in this city, they
have done so for the purpose of pro
tecting their own citizens from a pos
sible uprising of the mob, for the same
reason that England has landed 3000
soldiers at Shanghai. The great Jap
anese Island of Formosa lies off the
coast of the Province of Foo Kien.
T. JEFFERSON, IMPERIALIST.
The Earliest, Boldest and Rankest
of Them All.
New York Sun.
He was the third President of the United
States and his name was Thomas Jeffer
son. Mr. Bryan has heard of him.
When the opportunity came to him to
acquire for this Republic the vast Louisi
ana territory by purchase from France,
Jefferson simply went ahead and did the
job. He was restrained by no subleties
of Constitutional Interpretation. He did
not bother his head about "the consent of
the governed," although his own pen had
written that phrase into the Declaration
of Independence. He did the job. He
governed a certain considerable number of
people without their consent, and he there
by did his duty to countless generations
of Americans then and now unborn.
An amazingly frank, avowal of Jeffer
son's own consciousness of what he was
doing, or, rather, what he thought he
was doing, is contained in a confidential
letter which the Father of Democracy
wrote at the time to John Breckinridge,
of Virginia. Breckinridge was one of the
United States Senators from Virginia. He
afterward became Attorney-General in
Jefferson's Cabinet He, too, was a very
Calvin among strict constructionists.
The greatest of expansionists and bold
est of imperialistic strikers when the Iron
is hot wrote thus to John Breckinridge
in August, 1S03:
"The Constitution has made no provision
for our holding foreign territory, still less
for incorporating foreign nations into our
Union. The Executive in seizing the fugi
tive occurrence (Louisiana purchase)
which so much advances the good of their
country, have done an act beyond the
Constitution. The Legislature in casting
behind them metaphysical subtleties, and
risking themselves like faithful servants,
must ratify and pay for it, and throw
themselves on their country for doing for
them unauthorized, what we know they
would have done for themselves had they
been In a situation to do it It Is the
case of a guardian, investing the money
of his ward in purchasing an Important
adjacent territory; and saying to him
when of age, I did this for your good; I
protend to no right to bind you; you may
disavow me, and I must get out of the
scrape as I can. I thought it my duty to
risk myself for you. But we shall not
be disavowed by the Nation, and their act
of indemnity will confirm and not weaken
the Constitution by more strongly mark
ing out its linjs."
Mr. Bryan, we say, has heard of the
perpetrator of thi3 splendid and extra
Constitutional masterpiece of imperialism
and Executive usurpation.
More Policemen Than Soldiers.
Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Bryan says the withdrawal from
the ranks of the producers of 100,000 men
to make soldiers of them will be hard
on those who remain producers. It will
mean, ho says, longer hours, harder work,
and greater sacrifices for the toilers. It
Is singular that Mr. Bryan does not urge
earnestly the mustering out of service of
the policemen of the different American
cities. There are more men employed as
policemen in this country than there are
as soldiers. The former, like the latter,
are drawn from the ranks of the producers.
Those men who remain at work have to
toll the harder in order that these police
men may be fed, clothed, and 'housed.
Why does not Mr. Bryan recommend that
the policemen be converted into producers,
so that other producers may have shorter
hours and easier work? The American
soldiers are but National policemen. It is
their duty to keep the peace where ordi
nary policemen cannot or are not allowed
to do it The regulars were called here
in 1894 to suppress that Debs riot the
Chicago policemen should have put down.
The services of city policemen are nec
essary. So are those of National police
men. They both protect the producers
and thus give an equivalent for the contri
butions which the latter make toward
their support. The Kansas farmers are
no more ready to disband the army to
escape their share of the burden of its
support than the Topeka taxpayera are
to dismiss their policemen.
Some Close Parallels.
Salt Lake Tribune.
New Mexico and Arizona were ac
quired precisely as tho Philippines were
and that was 53 years ago. The people
there have Governors and Secretaries ap
pointed by the President of the United
Sttes. Again, no citizen of those Terri
tories can vote for Presidential electors,
and their Delegates in Congress have
no vote. Again, they are receiving no
more protection than the people of Luzon
would now have been receiving, except
for tho rebellion of one of the tribes over
there. Again, the Government put
down old Geronlmo, 'who put up a mag
nificent fight for independence and who
took the ground that "a government
without the consent of the governed was
tyranny." And he was a fighter, too. Ha
did not ask anything of his tribe that he
was not willing to take a hand In himselr.
When tho Government sent soldiers there
to savo tho settlers from his scalplng-
knife, it was not charged with a design
to steal away the liberties of tho people
of this country, because at that time
there were no lunatics hungry enough for
office to invent and gravely put forth
an idea at once so silly and so menda
cious. Are murderous savages in Luzon
entitled to more consideration than our
own native-born fighters? Is it a more
holy fight to cut throats among the
palms of the tropical than in the sage
brush of the arid belt?
The Nebraska Census.
Nebraska State Journal.
The official announcement of the census
returns from Omaha will cause disap
pointment in Nebraska. A reduction in
the population of one city from 110,452 in
1890 to 102.655 in 1900 does not hold out
much promiso that tho state will show an
increase for the decade. It Is notorious
that the padding done at Omaha was
duplicated in a number of other cities.
Lincoln was probably inflated In about
the same proportion, and will not com
plain if the census doe3 not show more
than 40,000 people. Nebraska City, Beat
rice, Hastings and the remainder of tho
"third cities" will show about tho same
percentage of decline. Possibly the small
cities and towns and country districts
were not upholstered to any marked de
gree 10 years ago, but it Is not likely that
they will be able to show enough growth
to offset the decline In the cities and the
shift of population in the western coun
ties following the abandonment of the
old style of farming and the return to
the reign of cattle and grass.
Can Yon Say Tsoonsr-le-YnhmenT
London Answers.
Chinese names are not difficult to pro
nounce if a few simple rules are remem
bered. A always about as a in far; e al
ways approximately as e in they; 1 very
like i In machine or pin; and u always as
the u of rule. Every syllable has an In
dependent value in pronunciation. As
for consonants, they are pronounced ex
actly as written. These three rules will
secure as correct pronunclatiop of Chi
nese names ,zs can be secured without
oral instruction.
For example, under tho first rule, ono
would say tah-koo for Taku. not take
you, as one may frequently hear the
word pronounced; lee-hoong-shahng for
U Hung- Chang, not lie-hung-chang; pen
king for Peking, not peek-in; shahng.
hah-ee for Shanghai, not shang-high,
tsoons-le-yahmen for tsung-11-yamen. not
tsung-lle-yahraen, and so on. Under the
second rule Tien-Tsin Is pronounced
teeyen-tsin. accenting the yen syllable;
not teen-tsin. Yunnan-fu is yoonahn-foo,
ynan-fyu. In like manner all the words
arc pronounced with syllabic distinct,
ness and with uniform vowel sound. Un
der the third rule, the province name,
Szechuan is sounded not zekuan. but.
nearly as zeh-choo-ahn. touching the
choo very lightly; Llau-tong peninsula
is U-hoo-tons;
Coal in Algeria.
London Daily Mail.
Coal has recently been discovered In va
rious, parts of Algeria, as well as several
seams of lignite, and although the quality
cannot be compared to "Welsh, it certainly
is not inferior to some Scotch coals, which
are imported here in large quantities for
use in the Interior. Accordingly, if it can
be extracted in sufficiently large quanti
ties, there is no doubt that most of the
works, etc., which at present use Scotch
coal, will In future exclusively patronize
the Algerian mines, as It can naturally
bo supplied at a much lower figure.
The greatest disadvantages that Alge
rian mlneowners have to contend with is
the difficulty of transport, but several
lines are shortly to be commenced, which
will open up the country and result In
a great many mines being worked which
at present are lyinff Idle.
Labor Is very cheap, as hordes of Moor3
and Kabyles wander all over the country
in search of work; and, as a rule, water
is plentiful. Algeria has certainly a
great future before It as a mineral-producing
country; and If the. colonists and
capitalists would only recognize the fact
that it would pay them much better to
invest their capital In the country than
in French securities Algeria would soon
rise to the position of a paying colony,
which it certainly is not at present
"Consent of the Governed" In the
Sonth.
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, Dem.
It is all sweet and nice enough to in
dulge on Fourth of July occasions in
the generalities about the "consent of
tho governed," about "inalienable
rights," about the quality of all men at
birth, and so forth, just as our forefath
ers did who owned slaves and who rob
bed the Indians of their land, but it is
another matter when you try to apply it
to the negro, the Indian, the Kanaka,
and the Filipino. "We of the South are
contending for our own, and we are go
ing to have it The negro has nothing
that we want that was not taken from
us by force and given to him. He has
no land, no birthright no heritage noth
ing but a right to help govern which was
given wrongfully to him. "When we take
the ballot from him, we leave him in a
far better condition that he found him
self when he came among us as a result
of Yankee thrift and speculation.
Campaign Rnhhlah.
New Bedford Standard.
Both the great parties are running lit
erary bureaus, and we suspect that In
some cases the stuff that they prepare
finds favors with editors who are either
over-worked or over-easy. But most of
it is sad rot, and whichever side win
will have no occasion to thank its liter,
ary staff for the result. The newspape
men who are in the practical business
of newspaper making are in a far better
position to know what the reading- public
needs in the way of political reading mat
ter and advice than these men who are
saturated with the atmosphere- of a polit
ical headquarters. Still, the operation
gives some worthy and needy young men
a good Job for the season.
Hereditary Opposition.
PORTLAND. Aug. Z7. CTo the Editor.)
In reading Mr. O'Nell's article, in which
he blames the last two years Adminis
tration for tho St Louis and Akron riots.
I would simply state that it Is a well
established fact that at least 90 per cent
of the perpetrators of these outrages have
sprung from the loins of men who have
an inherited hatred of every form of gov
ernment, and it would be a good thing
for all true Americana to try and ascer
tain what creed and nationality can pro
duce such monsters. TOMMY ATKINS
Small Capital for Business.
New York Mail and Express.
If you remind a Bryanite that the
country Is more prosperous than ever
before, he just tells you, "The republic Is
in danger"; If you point out to him
that the crops are enormous and money
plentiful, ho shouts "Imperialism!" and
if you remark that the people are busy
and contented, he screams "Militarism!"
The green Parrot of Bryanism has the
smallest vocabulary that was ever In
troduced into a political campaign.
No New Thins In Hunan History.
La Grande Journal.
Tho Democrats now extol Lincoln for
the very things for which their fathers
blasphemed him. '
MEN AND "WOMEN.
The London papers report that Richard. Lo
Galllenne, the poet, is again to visit this
country next Winter on a lecturing- tour.
Judge Orosscup, of Chicago, has announced
his Intention of contributing: largely towards a.
new bulldlnr to he used as a law school by
the Northwestern University.
That Queen Victoria Is a faithful patron of
Irish laco and linen Is well known. Her liking
for the linen Is so enthusiastic that no cotton
is permitted to ba used In any of the royal
residences. Even the simplest kitchen cloth
must bo made of Irish flax.
Could P. Dlctz, of Omaha, and the late C.
P. Huntington began regular business together
In 1845, when the latter had saved $1500 from
his earnlnzs as a peddler. Huntington was
then a man of wonderful strength, and would
often lift into a wason a barrel of salt
weighing 300 pounds.
Frederick Macilonnlea, the Brooklyn sculp
tor, who will be awarded the cold medal of
honor at the Paris Exposition, gained that
prize by the exhibition of seven pieces: The
famous "Bacchante," "Sir Henry Vane."
"Shakespeare," "Yonus and Adonis," two
groups of horses, a marine and an army group.
It is related of the late C. P. Huntington
that a younr man onco called on him to sell
some much-needed rails at ?"" a- ton. Mr.
Huntlnston said he had rails to sell himself,
amused the caller by a half-hour's chat and
got him to sell at ?C0 a ton, with a six months'
note for pay. Then before tho man left Mr.
Huntington discounted the note for 0 per cent
and paid tba cash.
On the Xilnka.
Philander Johnson in the Smart Set
Sho is surprising fair, and so
I linger still her face to see.
And oft I sigh, for well I know
She dreams of golf and not of me.
I seek to babble and be gay;
Her eyo from mine no rapture drinks;
I cannot lure her thoughts away;
Her mind is ever on the links.
I brought a book; 'twas leathern bound;
I'd ever sighted It before;
Its pages yellow, yet profound,
"Wero filled with zoologlc lore.
"What creature, pray, do you like best?"
Quoth I. (My voice to pathos sinks.)
She smiles and sas. "More than the rest.
I think I should prefer the lynx."
An hour we wandered through the grove;
I said thaf I'd her caddie be
If she would but consent to rove
A little while that way with me.
The birds sing loud. "What birds!" I cry.
"Are sweetest to your ears?" The minx
"Without a pause gives mo reply.
"My favorite birds are bob-o-Hnks."
And then I turned to literature.
My heart awoke to cynic glee,
For on that topic was sure
Her thought by mine must guided be.
''What books most please your gentle taste?"
Her steadfast eye she never winks.
I'm vanquished.. I retire in haste.
She simply answers, "Maeterlinck'.'
.NOTE AND COMMECT.
Bryan does not object to expansion of
his vote in 1S3S.
The shirt-waist man has had his day,
Tho. overcoat man will scon hold swot.
That terrific old siren at Inman, Paul
sen & Co.'s mill is tho Bryan of1 them alL
Kansas has a potato field 40 miles long.
This year's harvest from It will coma
close to 4C00 carloads. An average crop
is 200 bushels an acre.
Another detachment of foreign marines
has just landed at Shanghai, and the re-port-monsers
there can now go to Just
the right people to tell their tales.
A beauty specialist is recommending her
patients to eat a finely grated carrot be
fore breakfast each morning to improve.
the complexion. And they grow soma
carrots down in Yamhill County.
The only three buffaloes left la tho
Cheyenne River herd arrived at the Chi
cago stockyards last week, being shipped
from Pierre, S. D. The animals will bo
sold on the open market at the yards
and the competition for them Is expected
to be sharp. The Cheyenne River herd
wa3 one of the largest in the West years
ago. The survivors were taken to Pierre,
where an attempt was made to breed
buffalo on a cattle ranch. It was unsuc
cessful. London physicians have been investi
gating the alleged deadlines, of tho red
sock, when accompanied by extremely
hot weather. Several persons have died,
owing to affections of the feet supposed
to have been brought on by the absorp
tion of dye through the pores of tha
skin. It was finally decided, however,
that the sock dye is harmless and tnat
the deaths must have resulted from soma
other cause. Hence, red footwear is still
popular In London.
One of the St. Louis papers says tnat
during a lire at Hawk Point. Mo., a
rather corpulent woman stood upon a
barrgl for the purpose of throwing soma
water upon the burning roof of a one
story addition to her house, when the top
of the barrel caved in. It was Impossi
ble to drag the woman out of the barrel,
and her husband finally rolled her down
the street to a blacksmith shop and had
the iron bands around the barrel cut
away so that she could be released.
All the principal cities of the Chinese
Empire have telegraph service. An ar
rangement was made with the Russian
telegraph authorities in 1S93 by which,
communication was established between
Pekin and Europe. The apparatus and
methods used in telegraphing in China
are of the most primitive description,
says the Scientific American. The Chinese)
have no alphabet, but each word ha3 a
sign. In order to telegraph them, each
sign has to be numbered and the number
sent by wire. The receiving clerk refers
to hl3 tables and translates the number
into the Chinese signs. The tables re
semble logarithm tables, the signs being
printed in vertical columns and each col
umn containing 20 signs, and as there ara
10 columns there 200 signs to the page.
There are 49 pages to the complete book,
consequently there are 9S00 numbered
signs. Each square contains a sign for
a word. The sender must write his mes
snge in Chinese on a blank form; this is
then converted into numbers and they
are telegraphed. The average length of
the words is four letters, but the words
frequently run to 10 or 12 letters.
ICinjr Hmnhert'K Interest In Science.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Professor W. E. Ayrton tells an inter
esting Incident of his visit to the Volta
celebration at Como last September, which
illustrates tho keen personal Interest tha
late Italian King took In science. "Ono
very hot day the King arrived with tha
Queen and the Duke of Naples by train
from their palace at Monza. near Milan.
First they made an official Inspection of
the galleries and machinery In the silk
and electricity exhibition, then they vis
ited the exhibition of sacred art, and
after lunch they opened the electrical
congress, held to celebrate the Volta cen
tenary. There was no more regal open
ing, occupying a fraction of an hour,
for a solid afternoon's work wni done,
which Included51 listening to a lecture on
Volta and his pile, in which his tforte
was described at length and even dis
cussed from the modern standpoint of tho
Ionic theory of voltaic action. Finally tho
King had several foreigners presented
to him. and he chatted to us about tha
things in which we were interested. . .
Those of us who saw King Humbert only
at Como last year feel that it It not
merely a King but a friend who has now
been killed. '
The Neatest Torrn In the World.
Boston Transcript.
Broek. in Holland. Is far-famed as the
"neatest town In the world " This town
Is so fastidious that until a few years ago
horses were not allowed In Its streets, for
reasons of clcanllne, and the entlra
town is as scrupulously kept as a man-of-war.
It Is a village of 2700 Inhabitants,
the main Industry of which is the making
of Edam cheeses.
PLEASANTRIES OF PAItAGRAFHERS
A Serious Powwow "Hush, not so loudi
We're havinz a conference of tho powers."
"Eh! Who in conferring'" "My wife, my
mother-tn-law and the cook." Cleveland Plata
Dealer.
"That old fellow comlnr was carried from
the railroad accident all smashed up. and t
wouldn't even acknowledge he was hurt. Must
be a Christian Scientist." "No; president of
the road "Life.
No Good for a Frost "When I told her I
had something laid by for a rainy day. I
thought I would win her." "And you didn't"
"No; what I'd laid by for rain was no pro
tection from frost." Chicago Evening Post.
An. Attraction. McJ!ggrNeer met Mad
ame Capllla, eh? A" I there's a woman of
whom it may truly be said, "her face is her
fortune." Thlngumbub Professional beauty,
eh' McJIgger No. she's a bearded lady Phil
adelphia Press.
"Bulls" are not confined to Ireland. At a
meeting of Stirling Parish Council the other
night the following extract was read from the
minutes: "It was reported that the nutritious
diet allowed was not benefiting this patient,
as it was not given to him." The minute was
passed in solemn silence. Glasgow Herald.
Produced Weariness. "I don't see any sensa
in these collecting fads, said Mr. Wooph.
"Nor I." agreed Mr Gooph. "Why. some of
these fellows seem to make a, regular passion
of It. They make mo tired!" And he gawd
out of the window, and glared at the rent col
lector, who had Just left. Baltimore AmaricaB-
The Poorent Man In the Worlt
Chicago Times-Herald.
He has millions on millions piled
And tens of millions more;
He has millions in ship3 and milla
And other millions in ore;
But he never bounds
When the dinner bell sounds.
And he looks on a meal as a bora.
Ha never sleeps while the sun
Creeps over the eastern hills;
He tosses and waits for the dawn.
And thinks of his mines and his mills.
And always he feels
Disgust for his meals.
Which are largely composed of pills.
He has millions on millions plied.
But the days of his youth are fled.
And he runs from a good, square meal
As though 'twere a thing to dread
He must live just so.
And to envied, but oh.
What things writhe around on bis bedt