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TBE MOROTNG OBEGOMAN, MONDAY, - SEPTEMBER 3, 1900. ! $' . foe 3011101 Catered ct the Poatofflc at Portland. Oregon, tz second-class matter. TELEPHONES. Editorial Rooms.... 100 Business Office... .067 TtEVISKD SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (postage prepaid), tn Advance Bally, vrith Sunday. per month.... $0 85 S Sunday excepted, per year " 59 Dauy, -with fcunday. per year Sunday, per year .......... 2 00 Tba Weekly, per year - - 52 32 Weekly, a months.. .. To City Subscribers ,. ,.. Bally, per w eek, delivered. Sunday excepted.l&3 Sally, per week, delivered. Sundajs lncluded-SWo POSTAGE RATES. United Statts. Canada and Mexico: SO to 16-pago paper .....lo 10 to 32-page paper .....2o Foreign rates double. News or dlncuszlon Intended for publication la The Oregonlan ahould ba addressed Invariably "Editor The Oregontan," not to the name of any individual. Letters relating to advertlsmg. Bubseriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." The Orogonlan does rot buy poema cr stories from Individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to It -without solicita tion. No stamp should be 'inclosed for thU purpose. Puget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson. efBe at in j Pacific awnue. Tacoma. Box 835, Taootna postcfSce. Eastern Business Offlce The Tribune build ing, 2Cew Tork City; "The Rookery." Chicago; the S. C Beckwlth special agency. New Tork. For sale In San Francisco by J, K. Cooper. 76 Market street, near the Palace hotel, and Goldsmith Bros.. 236 Sutter rtrett. For ale In Chicago by tha P. O. Xvm Co., C17 Dearborn street. TODAT'S WEATHER Pair, cooler: north- crly winds. p POI&FI.AXB, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 STRETCH OP THE MONROE DOC TRINE. Is the Monroe doctrine to be extended to the Eastern Hemisphere? If we take tip the Bryan scheme of a protectorate over the Philippine Islands, this is what it will come to only it will go further, for we have assumed no pro tectorate over any American state. The Kansas City platform demands 'an immediate declaration of the Na tion's purpose to give the Filipinos, first, a stable form of government; sec- jond, independence": and, assuming that it may be possible for him to be j elected President, Mr. Bryan hastens to say that, "If elected." he will im mediately carry into effect his platform j demand by convening Congress in extra I 'Cession, and recommend that It pro ceed forthwith to give the Filipinos In dependence, a stable form of govern ment, and then mark the proposition "protect the Filipinos from outside in terference while they work out their destiny." Coming right to the point, let it be asked where we get the right to "give" the Filipinos a stable form of govern ment, or any form of government? This is Imperialism, at the very out Bet What form of government? Are they to have no choice, but take what we may "give" them? Are we to in sist on something in the name or sem blance of a republic, and cut them out of their independent right to have an oligarchical or monarchical govern ment, if they want either? "We never have been able to enforce the Monroe doctrine in the "Western Hemisphere; Indeed, never have wanted to do it. We drove the French out of Mexico, but it was our own Interest re -consulted. "We did not want a pow erful and dangerous neighbor. Our "protection" of Mexico was exempli fied a few years earlier, when we forced & war upon her and took by conquest one-half her territory. The Democratic programme as to the Philippines would make us endless trouble. A protectorate would require the maintenance of a military and naval force there; and that would be "militarism" and "imperialism," If those words mean anything. The gov ernment which we are to "give" the Filipinos would have to be maintained "by the Army and Navy of the United States, not only against foreigners who might have cause of action against that government, but against insurgents dis puting its authority or revolutionists attempting to overthrow it. No gov ernment that we might "give" the Ta gals in Iuxon could control the whole of the "vast island system, nor even I the other tribes, in Luzon alone. Be sides, it would hardly be a pleasant thing to spend the blood of our soldiers ior the Tagal flag. No government we loould "give" the Aguinaldists could es cape trouble with foreign nations or j Internal war. It would be an absurd liana deplorable position for the United f -States. We can establish our familiar terri- jitorial system over the islands, as soon fas resistance ceases. This is a system I of liberty, as we know by the experl- i-ence of 100 years not of imperialism. I oppression and slavery. It is the short, I simple and easy way. As Senator i'Xmite Nelson, of Minnesota, replying Sto Charles Towne on Saturday, said: "The programme of the Republican I .party is just, plain and safe, and far less burdensome and problematical. In brief, it is this: Suppress the insur rection as rapidly as possible, then es tablish a stable government, giving the Filipinos as great a degree of self-gov-I eminent as they are capable of exercls ingr and enjoying." Here is the essence lof common sense. UinJERXTnfG PURPOSES. The Bryan argument for the cam paign is that if we retain the Philip pine Islands we shall "oppress" the people, "enslave" them, forget all the spirit and tendency of our history, and lend by hanging liberty in chains at nome. Is there any man so narrow, so shal low, bo muddled by partisan feeling, as to believe this, or so wanting in con science and sincerity as to pretend to believe it? Possibly there may be for I possibility as to human opinion and fnuman action is great. But it is inconceivable that any con- EBldarable number of persons should 1 vote for Bryan on this basis. Men in f tending to vote for him may have I other reasons, for which this is a cover. The real effort for Bryan has its foun dation in, socialistic purposes, in hostil ity to private property, In desire and jjiope that somehow individualism in ifcuslness may be overthrown, and, as socialists put It, that "government shall I take charge of all the means of pro- I ductlon and distribution for the public welfare," Associated with this effort is an an- Isrchistlc faction, not very largo, but i Slaving a good deal of strength in the fcities, and powerful enough perhaps to I turn some states to Bryan. Bryanlsm at bottom is a socialistic lovement against property and an an- ifcrchistio movement against order. It bow trying' to use a cry about "im perialism" as its main weapon, as four years ago It tried the cry of "free silver." THE PARMER'S PUNERAIi. The trouble with the crimp evil is that the real sufferer from extortion never turns a hand to help himself. This real sufferer is the grower of grain. Every dollar that Larry Bul Hvan makes above a fair figure for his services is certain Ultimately to reduce the proceeds of some farmer's crop. The farmer stands for It; there fore we have no permanent remedies, only makeshifts from time .to time which are upset soon in the inter est of some one or other of the Con tracting parties. Everybody but the farmer has his remedy. Thefeaptain or agent charges the expense up to his owners. The owner has the alternative to send his ship to some cheaper port The grain broker figures the cost of getting the wheat to Liverpool, Including his own margin, and gives the farmer the dif ference. Undue charges for finding seamen, therefore, eventually come out of the price that can be realized for grain, just exactly as superfluous pi lotage charges do, or lighterage, or ex cessive ship brokers' commissions, or .heavy terminal railroad charges, or exorbitant freights from the Interior. "What can the farmer do? For one thing, he can demand intelligent serv ice from the men he sends to the Leg islature. We ought to have a Legis lative Inquiry into the whole matter of charges on grain cargoes at the Port of Portland. We ought to have a commission charged with supervision of all these matters and empowered to invoke severe penalties for infrac tions of law. Ships coming into the Columbia River have many advantages as compared with other ports, but Im portant reductions are possible and ought to be mode. It Is to the Inter ests of the entire grain-producing com munity hereabouts that every port dis bursement of a foreign vessel should be inspected by authority with p'ower to protect the absent owner, not only from pilots, dishonest captains, Irre sponsible sailors and boarding-house men, but from extortion lurking under whatever guise. As It Is, we have a varied outfit of predatory interests, each seeking to obscure its own activ ity by howling about some'other graft no worse than 'its own. As It is, if we except such unselfish labors as are made by men like H. B. M. Consul Laidlaw, nobody is working for the Interests of theport, but everybody to keep others from making anything off the ship, so there will be more left for himself. What this country needs Is a cheap port at Portland, with ample and cheap facilities at every move the ship makes from the mouth of the river to the Portland dock and back again to the sea, and with ample and cheap facili ties at every move the grain makes from its native field till it strikes the hold of the vessel. It Is folly to spend money to dredge away sandbars and let shrewd men rob the ship in other ways of all it saves in lighterage. We ought to have these things run by a govern ing body of competent and Yubllc-splr-lted citizens, and the state ought to stand the expense of it. The building up of a cheap and busy port here is an object of concern to every man doing business in the state. It is a public obligation. FOR PORTIiANDERS ONLY. Portland has never been the cynosure of so many eyes as will look at us the ensuing days of the street carni val. Easterners we have had with us on various occasions, but the carnival guests are to be our friends and neigh bors from six .Pacific States, from Brit ish Columbia, and probably not a few from Montana, Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. However leniently they will look at us, it will be nevertheless with the critic's eye. We have made pre tensions here. We had auspicious set tlement, we have great natural advan tages, we have had time to do some thing. For forty years we have been talking about our great future, posing as the metropolis of everything within reach, disparaging our rivals. What have we done? That Is, what will the keen eye of the visitor see? When the discerning person puts eyes for the first time on Portland, it Is to be overwhelmed with the city's possi bilities. He is charmed by the climate, enraptured of the scenery, profoundly impressed with the geographic situa tion, and dazed at the potentiality of the surrounding region's varied and ex haustless resources. There Is room here for a sightly city of 2,000,000 peo ple. There is a fresh-water harbor, convenient alike to grain fields and ocean. There is an enormous water power, sufficient for all needs for a long time to come. There is mineral wealth of almost every description, fertile soil in vast expanses, unsurpassed range and climate for stock, great tracts of most valuable timber. Rivers teem with the best fish in the world, wool grows long and fine, hops run to extra quality, beets to sugar, flax to fiber. There Is every facility for manufactures and trade, there is endless variety of fish and game for the hunter, and for the hour of rest and pleasure there are long white beaches, groves and water falls, lofty peaks and mysterious gla ciers. Man, too, has done a great deal for Portland. He has bridged the streams, harnessed the waterfalls, covered the valleys with railroads, the cities with cable and trolley lines, the rivers with steamers, brought water from Mount Hood, built great hospitals, attractive parks, mammoth stores, sightly public edifices and spacious dwellings. No body will complain of these lines of endeavor. Few cities of its size can compare with Portland in hotels, street car facilities, telephone service, beau tiful parks, business structures, shop ping t emporiums, library, High School and City Hall, suburban retreats, or solidity and charm of social life. The beginnings are here of a great city, and in the main they have been made with care and in the right spirit. We have not erred on the side of reckless anticipation of the future. We are charged with being slow, but we havt -not been, sold out to Eastern mort gagees. We have had dizzy ambitions -sometimes In the architectural line, but today the buildings are all occupied. The trouble is. we are too small. There are not enough of us. But we must be content with slow growth. If any have entertained hopes of filling up Oregon in a Summer with an immi gration coup d'etat, the dream must long be over. A noteworthy progress is visible on everything here since ten years ago. The city has spread out in every direction, thickened up In its older parts, enlarged its quarters, Im proved its dwellings, smoothed its streetc. The carnival visitor will go away contented and pleased If only he is treated well. The city Itself is good enough. Its buildings and Its business will give a good Impression. The main thing is the hospitable mood. Each gracious 'word and act may prove bread cast upon the waters. Many a man has gone Into business in Minne apolis or Kansas City because the peo ple made it pleasant for him. The Portland man's duty the next twelve days is to act the gentleman, so that every visitor, when he goes away, will feel like saying: "I like the way they do things in Portland. I like the way they treat you. That town is all right!" NO DANGER OF IMPERIALISM. It Is not feared by those who are fa miliar with the genius of Teutonic po litical life and civilization that America will be seduced to imperialism. The bugbear which antls conjure up, of em pire and of abject peoples trodden un der the hoofs of militarism, Is meant only for a temporary scare. The people of America and Englarid, who have preserved the spirit of the northern races of Europe, are not and will not be Imperialists, because it is not in their natures to be imperialists. The nations of the East and of the Mediterranean were imperialists be cause it was in their natures to be im perialists. Their experience knew no other way of governing their acquisi tions. They expanded for the "con scious purpose of peace and for the un conscious purpose of broadening their life. Their plan of government abroad had to be Imperialistic because they knew no other. Their plan of government at home had to be Impe rialistic, because In their centralized system there could be no local organ ization except in the shape of an Im perial agency. The result was sup pression of theilndlvidual, for the indi vidual was of no consideration in gov ernment Another important result for present observation was the destruction and eradication of ethnical differences in the components of the state, for it was not known how to incorporate dissimi lar Ingredients into one composition. The modern world deals more know ingly with these difficulties, and the Teutonic spirit of individual liberty is accountable for the transformation. We know how to combine different compo nents into one system without impe rialism. The mere example of Rome does not threaten us with Imperialism. We have evolved a principle of rep resentation and a precept of individ ualism, which have solved a difficulty that other people could not solve. The British Empire is not imperialistic. Transmutation of the United States from the old order will not end In Im perialism. Nations have learned ex pansion, and the separate lesson of im perialism. Women of the foreign Legations resi dent at Belgrade are scandalized, it is said, at the late marriage of King Al exander of Bulgaria -to a young woman who had for several years enjoyed the doubtful distinction of being that dis solute monarch's favorite, and refuse to recognize the. new Queen. The folly of attempting to regulate the morals of the Bulgarian court by expressing virtuous indignation at its Irregulari ties should be apparent to all. The young woman but now the Klng'B mistress, he has made his wife. She Is certainly no worse than the King, to whom all pay homage. The punctili ous foreign dames who attempt to frown Queen Draga down should re joice, rather, If they feel called upoa to take note of the matter at all, that a shameless liaison has ended in mar riage. The virtues that boast their intolerance of social sins serve to grat ify the spirit of self-rlghteouBness in their possessor rather than to purify the social atmosphere, whether exer cised in a home community or a for eign court. Perhaps after this spasm of indignation has passed, these good women will recognize the fact that Queen Draga holds the whip hand at court, and, furthermore, that she is not a more flagrant sinner than the King, whom, no doubt, they all delight to honor, and who certainly Is none the worse because of his marriage to his fascinating fellow-sinner. The Washington fusion forces have a plank in their platform as follows: Wo still bellMe In the Declaration of Inde pendence, and therefore hold It aloft In prefer ence to the lmperlalletlc policy of the Repub lican party. They also have this plank: We witness -with shame and humiliation tho cowardly and inconsistent action of tho pres ent Republican Administration in hauling down tho American flat: that for a third of a century has floated in honor and unchallenged over the Porcupine mining1 district of Alaska. The Declaration of Independence Is invoked against expansion; however, not against expansion once upon a time gone by, but against expansion now. If so-called militarism and imperialism ever began, it was when Alaska was annexed, because that territory was not contiguous. True, it was almost contiguous with Puget Sound, but what extenuating circumstances could have then existed, when Seattle was not taken into consideration? The reason we should not haul down our flag from any part of Alaska is that it has floated there thirty-three years.. Well! well! This Is Interesting. So the whole dis agreement on expansion has narrowed down, not to a question of principle or of pertinence of the Declaration of In dependence, but to a question of time. Our flag has floated over Manila only two years. Let It stay thirty-one years nqpre, and then maybe he who attempts to haul it down will suffer "shame and humiliation." Although Waldersee will be titled Commander-in-Chief of the allied forces, it is not likely that he will have complete command over the united army. Each division will have in structions from home, whereby it will pursue an independent course In cer tain contingencies. It is not impossible for these contingencies to r arise, be cause the powers, In their sensitiveness of Individual Interests, will not readily join in an action which they think will contribute to the advantage of rivals. France or Russia probably will not be disposed to extend Germany's or England's influence, nor will England be a tool for 'any nation. The cere mony of referring Waldersee's orders' to the home governments 4s very likely to be enacted at Important Junctures. In view of this fact, the bellicose ut terances of William will neither pro mote co-operation nor help out Walder- .see. It Is clearly to be perceived that Waldersee will be under the first com mand of the Emperor, who Will not tol erate ignoratlon of his advices by his own. General. Therefore. If Waldersee Is to have absolute command, the Kai ser virtually will direct his movements. France and Russia, and even England, may not look on with satisfaction. Al ready events have come about which render the position of 'Commander-ln-Chlef rather one of pomp than of authority. We are told by Bryan that If the Bacon resolution had passed tind had been acted upon by the President, "not one drop of blood would have been shed In the Philippine Islands." But how about the blood that was shed before the Bacon resolution was Introduced? How about the treachery Qf the Fili pinos who tried to drive 'the Americans into the sea? Was that the right way for Aguinaldo to get what he wanted? From January 4 to February 6 the Senate debated ratification of the treaty. February 5 Aguinaldo assailed the Americans. Then it was clear that ingrates who did not appreciate the good offices of the United States in freeing them from thralldom, and who even had tried to murder their bene factors, did not deserve thp Senate's scruples. Therefore the treaty was ratified. Perhaps Mr. Bryan himself wa3 shocked by the conduct of his wards, because he thereupon surren dered opposition to the trealy, and. as he says, consented to its adoption. The Bacon resolution, introduced after the ratification, was rejected for the same reason that the treaty was ratified, and for the extra reason that the Filipinos had no claim to the pledges it con tained. Bryan assumes that the Filipinos, under the sovereignty of the United States, will not have liberty. This slan der upon the United States Is approved by his party. But what would Bryan do"? He says he would "give the Fili pinos a stable government." But by what right would he establish a gov ernment for them? His principles re quire that the Filipinos be abandoned wholly to themselves, without hin drance or dictation, and that no one assume to "set up" any. kind of "gov ernment" for them. The South has had a wonderful growth since 1890, for of recent years it has been building mills and spinning its cotton, that used to be sent to other states to be manufactured. Its 1,282,'000 spindles of 1890 have grown to be 5,816, 000, or more than a third of the number running In the rest of the country. Twenty new mills are now building in Georgia alone. The value of Southern manufactures produced during the last year exceeds $1,500,000,000. Thus far the Bryanites have had a free field for their "campaign" through out the country. Is any effort to be made for the Administration and the Republican party? It is but two months till the election, and scarcely a word has been heard from the Repub lican side. Perhaps no effort Is deemed necessary. And yet a mistake might be made there. Bryan says he consented to ratifica tion of the Spanish treaty simply be cause het wanted to eliminate Spain from ourllst of troubles. But could he not see that he was augmenting our troubles, instead of diminishing them? Or did he want something to talk about later? If the Democrats had fought their battle on Lincoln's principles forty years ago, they would have won. From the number of receptions Wal dersee Is getting, it would seem he Is going by the longest route. The next step in suppression of the Philippine Insurrection will be to sup press Bryan. Mr. Towne says, ''Lincoln Is a Demo crat this year." Is It right to mock the dead? Emperor William is almost as blood thirsty as the Boxers. THE SABIE BRYAN. His Protest That He Does Not Object to Accumulation of Wealth. New York Sun. The unchanged and essential character of Bryanlsm Is shown in these words, spoken by Bryan at Manhattan, Kan., August 24: I do, not object to tho honest accumulation of wealth. I want a aoernment that gives every poor man the hppo of belnr rich some day, a Government that gives to tho rich man assur ance that his children will be protected it they ever becomo poor What I object to Is a Government that protects a few men In their robbery of the masses, and then denounces everybody ae nn anarchist that does not llko to be robbed. This Is the false gospel which Bryan and all his minor apostles of discontent have preached for the last four years. It seems to be their theory that a majority of Americans are fools, and loafers and Incompetents. Fools to believe that they aro being robbed by a few men in a coun try where except in Mr. Bryan's South ern States the majority rules; loafers and incompetents too busy or weak to hold their own in a country of equal opportunities. A foreigner hearing this flapdoodle about the robbery of the masses would Imagine that most of the American people were serfs, ground down by feudal lords. This is a country from which farmers go to the -Paris Exposition, and in which skilled laborers get their J3 50 or a day. This Is a country which contains more well-to-do, well-educated, well-housed, well-fed, well-dreased people than any other in the world; and in which every poor man has the hope of becoming rich, not by means of the Government, as Mr. Bryan says in his socialist manner, but by" means of his own exertions. It is useless, and its sounds hypocritical, for Mr. Bryan to protest that he does not object to the honest accumulation of wealth. Every word of his In this vein Is a word against wealth. There can be no -other result from language of this kind, and seemingly no other pur pose in it. than to inflame the ignorant, the unfortunate, the Incapable and the poor with envy and hatred of the rich. Nobody calls anybody that "does not like to be robbed" an anarchist. But what name shall be given to him who calls tho Government of the United States "a Gov ernment that protects a few men in their robbery of the masses." ' Is he an Anarchist or an Ass, or both? The Humbusr of "Imperialism." Salt Lake Tribune. The Springfield Republican Is one of tho papers that believes In expansion, but does not believe In imperialism, and it describes expansion as "tho taking in of additional territory under the Con stitution, with the consent of the people thereof." The Republican in the old days seemed te- bo an .honest Journal. Xf It means anything by ihe above, it means that the way tho Philippines seifi -Ohr talned was different from the way that California, for instance, was obtained. Did President Polk precede the conquest of California by asking the people to vote whether they would like to come under the flag and the Constitution or not? Did Mr. Monroe consult with the people of Florida before ho purchased Florida? Did Mr. Jefferson spend very much time in Canvassing the sentiment of Louisiana to find out tho disposition of the people before he purchased It? The exigencies of the present campaign seem to make every Democratic orator and Democratic newspaper strive to make apparently fair statements on the face of things, but at the same time to carry with It an Infer ence which Is absolutely false, - NO ENTANGLING ALLIANCE. ' Well-Kjicmn Catholic Priest Com mends MoKinley's Foreign Policy. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Rev. Thomas H. Malone, of Denver, writes 'from London his information and opinion on the relations between the United States and Great Britain. The let ter Is the more significant because four years ago Father Malone's sympathies were strongly with the free-s'lver cause, and his Influence was cast on the side of Bryan. For some time this widely known priest has been abroad, and his facilities for judging of what are the actual relations between the two govern ments have been exceptionally good. The letter Is addressed to Mr. R. C. Kerens, the Missouri member of the Republican National Committee, Father Malone writes! ' "Mr. McKInley's attitude during the present crisis In China must be sorely disappointing to such men as Hon. Bourke Cockran and others who have a special object In making It appear that the President has really, if not nomi nally, entered Into an alliance with Eng land. "Mr. Cockran and those who think with him are well aware that If the popular mind can be led to believe Mr. McKInley's Administration Is committed to th6 for tunes of England the Irish and Germans of this country would resent his attitude to the extent of throwing their votes against him at the polls. "But In considering this question one should be actuated by higher motives than partisan advantage, for the welfare of our country, regardless of party, must depend upon ,the patriotic Impulses of the people. "I. too, would resent any alliance be tween Uhe United States and England, but I would equally recent the charge that such an alliance exists until It shall have been proven beyond the peradven ture of a doubt. Now what are the facts in the case as demonstrated by recent de velopments? The Chinese troubles which, at the present writing, are in a most acute. stage, furnish the key to the posi tion of the United States Government in so far at least as any alleged alliance with England is concerned. Mr. Hay's note to the powers sets forth clearly the President's policy, and looking at it from thi3 side of the ocean I con fess that It seems to disarm 'the critics who for the past year have been profli gate in charging undue sympathy for England on the part of our Government. "From the English point of view this policy, It Is frankly admitted here in London, has been keenly disappointing. It was assuredly the desire and lntentlcn of the British Government to so use the United States and Japan as to conserve ,lts own Interest at home and abroad. This would readily have been done by throwing these two countries between China and Russia so as to thwart and weaken the latter, and thus gain a time ly advantage over the allied powers. "Indeed, I speak advisedly when I say that It was confidently hoped that Mr. McKlnley, In consideration of England's attitude during the Spanish-American War, would readily acquiesce In Lord Salisbury's well-laid plans for action In China and allow our Government to be pushed to the front and thus shield the British Government In an hour of trying need. Had the President consented to commit the United States to a policy of joint action with the powers, England would have been highly elated, for In that case we would soon find ourselves In open opposition to Russln, and, while nominal ly protecting American lives and Interest, we. would in reality be fighting the bat tles of the British Empire. "But Mr. McKInley's more prudent course, as outline In Mr. Hay's notes, has not been received with cordial good will in England, whose position may be In ferred from a paragraph in the Globe, which expresses amazement that the United States will suffer the whole cam paign to be abortive In order to gratify what It Is pleased to call 'the cold and calculating designs of Russia. "One feels from the atmosphere that the United States Government Is in no mood for an alliance of any kind with England. That 'Barkis Is wlllln' ' on this side of the ocean, there Is no shadow of doubt. "Hence, looking at the President's pol icy from the point of view afforded In England, I am convinced that he meant what he said at the dinner of the Ohio Society In New York, when he affirmed that his policy was to avoid entangling alliances, as well ai hostility to any oth er nation. And I am, moreover, convinced that the British Empire is receiving nei ther encouragement nor sympathy at this time from the Government at Washing ton." .i i He Dodercs the Question. New Tork Herald. "Say Mr. Bryan declines to be Inter viewed on that subject." This Is the re ply made by the Democratic candidate, when asked last night by a Herald cor respondent at Lincoln, Neb., whether, If elected, he would make payment In sti ver on all the Government bonds that, on tholr face, call for "coin." Secretary Gage, In the Interview printed on Sunday, stated that If Mr. Bryan were elected he could order his Secretary of the Treasury to make payments In silver on all such bonds, and for all current dis bursements of the Government. This, he said, would lead to all the revenues being paid only In sliver, and the Government would be on a sliver basis. As every body knows, Mr. Bryan four years ago declared that If elected he would get rid of the gold standard as soon as possible, and this year ho insisted upon the 16-to-1 plank going Into tho Democratic platform. When asked by the Herald correspondent last night to declare his intentions he dodged the question. a ' ' Tho Secret of Thrift, Heppner Times. It 13 predicted by some papers that tho present census promises to make a worse showing than the last one in rela tion to the number of people who have practically nothing. Now, we. feel that such an utterance, without advising such people as to the way to enable them to get something, has a tinge of treason in it. Tho proper thing to do, It one wishes to possess property. Is to become practical In their living, that Is, to live" under their Income, and stop carousing, gambling and a 'hundred other useless and demor alizing acts which take their substance without giving them any benefit. Then, If they are Industrious, they will be able to accumulate something, and not till then. The Kaiser as a. Preacher. London Spectator. Borne passages from a sermon delivered by the German Emperor on his yacht have been published here, and even In their translated form excite admiration and surprise by their real If high-pitched eloquence. The Germans, however, are not surprised. They say their Emperor Lis a rTMUlng rI7Tftf nr-- "SriilVfrSJJ the merits. and some of the defects of the oratorical temperament. The merits are that he looks at things In a large way, that he thinks out everything that he notices at all, and that he sincerely desires to carry his audience with him a great guarantee that he will not be tyrannical. The de fects are that the picturesque attracts him too much, that when, telling sentences arise In his mind he must utter them, and that when he is in a mood to speak bis power of speech carries him away. That seems to English observers sound criti cism, but needs the addition which was true also of Mr. Gladstone that In all business which he understands the Em peror Is a master of detail. His precau tions for his troops In this Chinese cam paign extend to the minutest particulars. He displayed, too. extraordinary persever ance and knowledge of his countrymen in the way In which he pushed through his naval bill. If Bryan Should Be Elected. Chicago Inter Ocean. Mr. Bryan has told us some of the things he would do if elected President. He would uso his whole power to repeal the gold-standard law and to pass a free silver act. Ho would repudiate the Paris treaty and risk war with Europe to "pro tect" a Malay "republic." He would haul down the United States flag In the Phil ippines and abandon the peaceful natives to Agulnaldo's cutthroats. But, aside from those avowed purposes, what tendency would Mr. Bryan show In practical administration? Whom would he appoint, for example, to the Supreme bench In the probable event of vacancies during his term? He might be expected to gtye the first vacant place to John P. Altgeld. If Chief Justice Fuirer's seat should be the first to be filled, then Mr. Bryan would present to this Nation Chief Justice Altgeld. Mr. Altgeld's denial of the power of the Federal executive and courts to put down insurrection has been cordially accepted by Mr. Bryan. Mr. Altgeld's peculiar the ories of governmental functions have been voiced In Mr. Bryan's speeches. Mr. Altgeld's desire, expressed In the Chicago platform, to reorganize the Supreme Court on "state rights ' and socialistic lines Is echoed In Mr. Bryan's speeches now as It was four years ago. It therefore would be not only possible but probable that Mr. Bryan, as Presi dent, would name Mr. Altgeld for the Su preme Court. In fact, such an appoint ment would be little else than a matter of course a mere evidence of personal and political consistency. That Is the material point at Issue. Bryanlsm as n. Whole Is the Issne. New Tork Evening Post, Ind. It is already clear that Bryan's speech on Thursday, accepting the Populist nom ination, must result In convincing the country that the real issue of his cam paign Is Bryanlsmas a whole, and not any one question, new or old, which he may seek to make prominent. A man with the reputation for sturdy convictions which Grover Cleveland enjoyed, and un fettered by any record on other issues, might have entered the field this year as an opponent of the Administration on the sole question of imperialism and forced a division of the voters between himself and McKlnley on those lines. But this is impossible to one whose record is that of a shifty politician In the past, and whose attitude at the present time is that of a man anxious to show himself enough of a Populist to prevent the desertion of his allies In that party, and yet trying to make sound-money men helleve that he really does not take so much stock In financial quackery as he pretends to do. It Is the composite now so well recognized as Bryanlsm which Is the real Issue of the Democratlc-Popullst-Sllver-Republlcan campaign. Chicago and Other Cities. The census returns suggest the double comparison Indicated by the following tables: ieoo iseo. Baltimore 58.f57 212,415 St. Louis 575,2 8 I'M? Nw Orleans 2S701 168 67o Cincinnati 325.502 161,044 Totals 1.69ff,801 702.910 Chicago 1,698 575 10J,2bO It will be seen that forty years ago Chicago was much the smallest of the five cities. Now her popuplatlon exceeds that of the other four. BogTX This and Bocry Thnt. 1 believe wo shall win now. But whether we win or not. we have besun a warfare agraln3t the rold standard, which shall continue until the sold standard Is driven from our shores back to Eneland. Mr. Bryan on a. more hope ful occasion. Oh, It's bogy this and bogy that, and bogy go away! But It's rah for Mister Silver when tho Pop. gets gay. New Tork Press. MEN AND WOMEN. Lord Salisbury recently characterized Hiram Maxim, the runmaker. as "tho man who has prevented more men from dylns of old ago than any other person that ever lived." General Zebulon Tork. who died a few days ago, was a general officer In the Confederate Army, thouch born In Maine. The -nar ruined him. It Is said his losses occasioned by the war amounted to $3,000,000. Harriet Williams Brand, who died recently In Brooklyn In her 02d year, had the rare good fortune to see representatives of nine genera tions of her family, extending- from her great-BToat-jrrandfather to her great-great-grandson. General Richard H. O'Grady Haly. the new Commander-in-Chief of tho British troops In Canada, won tho distinguished order service In the Egyptian expedition of 1882. when he was one of the flshtlner officers In the Second Tork and the Lancashire Regiments. Beatrice Harraden, while trying to regain lost health on her California ranch, has taken up carpentry, and has become skilled In the usa of the saw and plane. She has become abo proficient as an orchardlat. and In other work upon her rrounds. More than 200,000 copies of "To Have and to Hold" have now been sold, and tho demand for the book continues. If the dramatization of the work proves successful, the story will doubtless hnvo a fresh boom. The writing of tho stage version has been intrusted to Ernest Baddinirton, dramatic critic of tho Brooklyn Eagle. General Greoly, of the Signal Service, has re ceived word from the Philippines that commu nication has been established between tho Islands of Cebu and Behu by means of actey leno gas and heliograph. The bright light produced by tho gas la reflected by mirrors. Just &3 the sunlight Is used In ordinary hello graphing. As Johnny Views It. Baltimore American. Ma's a vegetarlun. Pa's a falth-cur-lst. Uncle John, he says he's an Antl-lmperyull3t. Sister Sue's a Wagner crank, Brother Bill plays golf. Gran'pa tells'us what he takes Fer to euro his cough. Cousin Jen writes poetry Tell us iv hat she's wrote Aunt Lavlna always claims WImmen ought to vote. Z go out In the .back yard Soon as they commence. Mo 'en my dos's tht only ones What'a cot any sensd Tou Just ought to be aroma' When the family Has reunions. Tou'd have fua When they started gee! Fa. ho'd tell 'em how they ain't No pain, sure's you're born. Uncle SI he'd ast him If Ho ever had a. corn. Sister Sue. sho raves of "themes," Cousin Jen, she'll auote. Gran'pa breaks In now an' ,then; "Naow, this he'ps the throat." Aunt Lavlna she an ma Has it fast an' hot. Me, 'en my dos the only ones c- Enjoys the'raelvea that's what. NOTE AND COMMENT. The managers of the street fair are per fectly -willing to sayr "After us, tho. deluge." Kentucky won a prize at Paris for her whisky. Her politics was not on official exhibition. Bryan J3 at least consistent in hi3 op-j position to militarism. His war record' proves that. , Croker advises other people to go Into ' politics, and the other people get even by advising Croker to go out. He thousht the shirt waist-fad possessed Of many lasting charms. For ha'd been long -without a coat That Is, a coat of arms. New Tork girls are going to saw wood; at a church festival. They have made no agreement, however, to do what proverbially accompanies that operation. Czar Nicholas has just placed an order with an American packing-house for 6, 000,000 pounds of beef. As he did not purchase It through ex-Secretary Alger It Is safe to say that It Is for his own troops, and not for the Chinese. f "A Stranger" asks The Oregonlan to In form him how much cash exemption Is allowed a bankrupt In this state. Bank rupts are allowed the same exemptions as are allowed judgment debtors under, the law of this state. The only provis ion for what might be called "cash ex emption" is that a man with a family Is allowed to retain one month's wages or so much thereof as may Do necessary to support his family for a month. As a, general thing ready cash does not cut, much of a figure in the assets of bank rupts. A farmer was met a day or two ago coming out of a hardware store with sev eral curious articles, some looking llko the ma?k3 worn by tho catchers In base ball, others armed with long spikes, and one something like the machines used for cutting plug tobacco into chunks, and also an Iron pan with a long chain at tached. "What on earth is that farmer going to do with all those baseball masks and other contraptions?" was asked of the hardware dealer. "Those wire masks and spiked arrangements are 'calf wean ers,' " was the reply. And then ho pre sented samples for Inspection. The wlra masks were arranged so that when fas tened to a calf's head the animal could eat grass, but when he attempted to help himself to the nourishment he had been accustomed to the screen dropped over his mouth, and prevented him from get ting hold of the teat. The spiked things were intended to serve the same purpose, as when the calf ornamented with one of them attempted to suck, the spikes wounded the old cow and made her kick and run off. The cutting Instrument was a machine for dehorning cattle, and was capable of slicing off a horn as easily as one could cut a pickle in two with a knife. This dehorning Is much in favor with some cattle-raisers, but has not come into general use yet. It prevents vicious cattle from fighting among themselves or from "hooking" "other people." The iron pin and chain were for picketing out a horse, and as the. chain 13 connected with the pin by a swivel and has several other swivels In It, It Is much safer than a picket rope. It'3 getting so nowadays that a farmer needs a wholo hardware store to run his business. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGR.APHEB9 "Madge, what did Maud say when aho callod?" "To tell the truth, sho had on such, a IoeIy pink shirt waist that I didn't hear a. word sho said." Chicago Record. A Study In Servants. "Remember." said Senator Sorghum, Impressively, "that a high official lo merely a. servant of the public" "Tes," answered Miss Cayenne;, "but some of them are of the kind of servants who go homo every night and carry a big market-basket with them." Washington Star. Too Personal. Aunt Hannah (anxiously Does yo s'pose. honey, dat census man gwlnft ter ax enny berry pussonal questyuns? Undo Ben I dun'no. But I's made up mah mind dat wen he comes to de chicken questyuns, do olo man's gwlne to be mighty close-mouthed. eC he gits fined foh contem't ob co't. Harper's Ba zar. History's Notorious Fault. "I must Insist," declared Diana, who was the acknowledged leader of tho Olympian Woman's Suffrage) party, "that the purity of the ballot would bo conaerved by allowing us to vote." "Non sense," protested Mercury, leader of tho op position, you wouldn't bo able to control tho Muse of History; she'B a natural-born re peater." Philadelphia Press. He Died. The scorcher had collided with a trolley-car. Four hours later, when his patient regained consciousness, the doctor remarked, seriously: "I'm afraid It'll go hard with you. old man." "Tell me the worst, doctor," feobly murmured the battered man; "I am brave) enough to hear It." "Tour spine la Injured so, said the doctor, firmly, "that hereafter you will bo forced to ride with upturned handle bars." With a pitlfuf moan the poor scorcher again lapsed Into Insensibility. Brooklyn Life. Editor and Poet. "I am afraid," said thpoet to the editor, "that you don't exactly grasp the depth of the Ideas expressed In my blank verse." "Perhaps not." said the editor. "Thoy may be beyond my mental reach." "I think you wrone yourself," said tha poet kindly. "Let roo test the point. Here Is a Una at ran dom: 'She swiftly passed him down tho silent way, and In her path a subtle porfuma lin gered.' Thore. that doesn't seem confused to you. does it?" "Not at all." repHd tho edi tor briskly, "that's easy. Tou aro simply try ing to say that a gasoline automobllo went down the plkol" Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Absent Man in Bine. S. E. KIser. In Chicago Times-Herald. I watch the brave old men in blue go march ing by. today Tho thousand? tried, the thousands Una. th lame, the bent, the gray; I hear the surging peoplo cheer, 1 sea tho ban ners fly. And down thort In tha ranks somewhere aro heroes marching by Who fought -with him at.Malvern Hill and with him stormed the lines At Fair Oaks and at Catnes Mill and bloody Seven Pines. I watch the brave old men go by, I hear tha people cheering; I flea tho banners waving high, I sea tho ntseda careering; I hear the loud defiant blare, I hear tha brava old song And down thero In tho rank3 somewhere with those who march along Aro men v. hose names I used to hear r caroa had como to me Whose daring mado mc wonder whaa I at upon his knee. Tho brave old men aro trudging past, tha bands are playing loud. Tha brave old lines are thinning- fast and many a head Is bowed; Tha host Is marchlns in review, tha air Is rent with cheers. But. oh, there's one bravo man In blue who neither ses nor hears. And down there In the ranks somewhero aro dear old heroes still Who cheered with him at Gettysburg and ' fought at Malvern Hill. I seo the bravo old lines of blue, I hear tho people crying Hurrahs for men and leaders, too; I seo tha banners flying. But down there. In tho ranks somewhere. among those brave old. men. Are messmates of a soldier who will naer march again! I sea the waving hats, I hear the trumpet a thrilling blare I, too, could cheer as others cheer If he wor marching thero 1