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3PaRTIiA3TO, TUKSDAY, SEPT. , 1900.
THE FIRST ELECTIONS.
The first of the elections since the
issues of the Presidential campaign
"were made up will be held today. "Ver
mont takes the start, to be followed by
Maine next Monday. The usual Repub
lican pluralities In "Vermont have run
from 15,000 to 29,000. In 1896 the un
precedented plurality of 38,871 appeared,
due chiefly to the unusual absence of
Democrats from the polls. The follow
ing table will show the movements of
the vote of Vermont in recent elections:
Plu-
Rep. Deai. rallty.
1S9S ...... 8S.555 H.GSO 23,809
1898 53,423 14,855 88,571
1684 42.003 14,142 2S.521
1802 37,392 10,325 21.C07
1890 33.402 19,200 14.10S
18S3 4S.C22 10,527 2S.083
Pour years ago the Republicans made
a very active campaign in Vermont
This year they liave done little, and
their vote will not be so large as it
was in 1S9G, while many Democrats
who did not vote that year will prob
ably come out now. A plurality of
25,000 may perhaps be expected.
In Maine, in 189G, conditions were
similar to those in Vermont. Many
thousands of Democrats did not vote,
and not a few of those who did appear
at the polls threw in their votes with
the Republicans. The following table
covers the vote of the state since 1888:
Plu
Rop. Dem, rallty.
1808 54.200 9,407 24,700
1830 80,405 34,088 45,777
1S04 09,599 30,021 38,578
1892 02,023 48,044 14.97U
1890 04.214 45.331 18,883
18S8 73,734 50,481 23,233
These figures are the vote for Gov--ernor
in 1890, 1894 and 1898, and for
President in other years. The plurali
ties, it will be seen, have run from 15,
000 to 45,000 the latter in the excep
tional year of 1896. In 1880 the state
"was carried against the Republicans in
September, yet Garfield won it in No
vember. Should the pluralities in these two
states fall to low figures now, the Re
publican National Committee would see
the necessity of bestirring itself and
making an effort So far this year it
has seemed not to suppose there was
any need of organizing and pushing a
vigorous campaign.
CAJUVTVAL TAIilC
The man who declares that Portland
is a dead old place, with no enterprise,
should take to the woods today, and
stay, till the Carnival is over. They say
that this is the best-arranged street
fair ever prepared. The buildings and
exhibits speak, for themselves, the pre
cautions against fire are thorough, the
crowds will be here this morning. It
is a goad time for the croaker to make
himself scarce. If he has the price, let
him buy a ticket to Lower Alblna or
Slab town, where he can enjoy hiB mo
rose reflections without casting gloom
over the general gayety.
Portland, naving got a first-class
move on itself, extends a hearty greet
ing to its guests from everywhere, and
bids them welcome. Ask all the ques
tions you want to, and if any one gives
a surly answer, report him to the Car
nival headquarters in The Oregonlan
building. If anybody is guilty of ex
tortion, report him to Mr. Bowers, at
the Portland Hotel, and the offender
will be made an example of. Don't let
your sightseeing end with the Carni
val. See the new Federal building, at
Seventh and Davis. See th City Hall
and the Public Library and the High
School. Climb up The Oregonlan's
tower, get the view from Portland
Heights and Willamette Heights, in
spect th City Park, see the Thompson'
fountain near the Courthouse, and ex
amine the Historical Society's exhibit
in the City HalL Any hour between 8
and 4V is a good time to sea The Ore
gonlan's typesetting machines in op
eration, and tho presses are running
inx the basement at 3:15 and 3:45 P. M.
and about 4 A. M. The busiest retail
districts are Third street between Oak
and Yamhill, Sixth between Washing
ton and Mprrison, and Washington and
Morrison between Park and the river.
The most attractive residence districts
are Nob Hill, from Washington to Love
joy between Eighteenth and Twenty
first; Johnson's Hill, just below the City
Park, south of Washington street; the
section between Tenth and Thirtieth,
Clay and Montgomery, and, on the East
Side, Holladay's addition. There are
theatrical engagements this week at
the Marquam and the Metropolitan
Theaters. There will be races at Irv
ington, and on Thursday and Friday
the circus. If time suffices, much pleas
Tire can be extracted from a row on
the river, a ride to Oregon City by boat
or trolley, a visit to Vancouver Bar
jracks, or a stroll up many of the can
yons between the hills west of town.
Those who have never been aboard an
ocean vessel should spend an hour on
one of the foreign ships now in port
'Those who obtain permission from the
proper sources for an expedition of this
sort will find the seafaring man the
most nospltable creature on earth, and
will be suret of a pleasant hour.
The Street Carnival ought to be the
beginning of more activity and greater
enterprise in Portland. Social ties and
friendly acquaintance go a great ways
In the making: of a city. Don't talk
shop to visitors, but make a good Im
pression that -Kill pave tho way for
business some other time.
1 SIUKIGIPAXi REKEDIES.
Anybody can tell you that the city
charter is all wrong. But the remedies
are as varied as the complainants. It
is plain that if you want to destroy the
exlBtlng order you must have some
thing to take Its place. The man who
is in, real estate, but not in business,
approves the blanket license. He would
approve of it if It were made heavy
enough to do away with all taxes on
land. The man who Is in business but
not In real estate thinks that land
should bear the tax, but that it Is mon
strous to tax industry. All taxes are a
burden on investment a clog on enter
prise. We can't escape them, and the
only way to make them light is to keep
governmental expense down to the min
imum. We encounter this same divergence
on the subject of charter amehdment.
Every man has his peculiar crotchet
We printed a letter the other day from
Senator-elect Hunt He is sure every
thing that is, is wrong. But be will
find it hard to gain general acceptance
for bis remedies. Thus, he wants all
elections at the same time and place,
a scheme that will not please reform
ers who are for separating municipal
from National elections in the interest
of pure local government He proposes
to purify politics by striking out the
civil service protection for policemen.
He wants to put .the jail in the third
story of the City Hall. He wants po
licemen changed on their beats at
least once a month, and wants them
to kill every unlicensed dog they meet
On the spot He wants the harbor
master turned in to the police depart
ment He wants the general taxpayer
to stand the expense of repairs to im
proved streets. Property-owners should
choose the inspectors of their own im
provements. All the boards that are
in should be put out, but a new, board
should be created to hear complaints
against officers and remove the offend
ers at their pleasure.
Our old friend, ex-Governor and ex
Mayor "X" has also aired his views
at some length. He agrees perfectly
with Senator Hunt that everything is
all wrong. But as to remedies, he dif
fers. Mr. Hunt's idea is to have every
office emanate from and be directly re
sponsible to the people (except for his
board that Is to remove officials at will),
but "X" is for one-man power. He
would have the Mayor appoint, subject
to his own removal, one Water Com
missioner, one Harbor Commissioner,
one Police and Health Commissioner,
one Fire Commissioner, and one Street
and Park Commissioner.
In another column is the remedy of
a third contributor. "S" agrees thor
oughly with Mr. Hunt and "X" that
everything is all wrong, but his rem
edy is different from either of the oth
ers. He will solve it all with munici
pal ownership. Buy the street rail
roads, he says, and all will be well.
He forgets what a burden of debt will
be laid upon the taxpayer in addition
to the water" and bridge debts. He ig
nores the fact that the railroads will
deteriorate under the care of office
-holders. He takes for granted that the
roads will pay, whereas In fact they
have frequently had to default In in
terest or withhold wages, and all but
one have passed through a receiver's
"hands. He ignores the menace of a
great addition to the spoils of political
activity. He is blind to the injustice
of compelling the general taxpayer to
support an investment for the benefit
of the comparatively few who ride on
street-cars. The man would have been
right in one respect if he had said that
these valuable franchises, not only of
street railways, but of telephones, gas
and electric lights, should not have
been given "to the corporations without
some adequate return, like a tax on
gross earnings. In that respect the
city's interests have been sacrificed and
a considerable resultant evil is the cre
ation of socialistic sentiments such as
are voiced by "S" in his letter.
Remedies are sometimes worse than
the diseases they offer to cure. Whether
that is true in the cases here cited, let
us not attempt to say. Let us insist
only on this, that these peculiar the
ories are sure to fall, because, while
they please their individual author, they
can't expect support from people enough
to push them through. Startling plans
of municipal reform are apt to turn out
like the church universal once founded
by a great thinker who detected the
weak points In all existing denomina
tions. It consisted of himself, his wife
and his hired man.
The London Express renews its report
that Russia is to seek a loan, of about
$150,000,000 in this country, but the re
port is now accompanied by the ad
ditional detail that it is expected to
get the money from the Insurance com
panies. It will not then, be a purely
financial transaction. The New Tork
Journal of Commerce, which ought to
.know, says it will be somewhat In the
nature of a ".hold-up," or, more polite
ly, the licensing of companies to do
business in Russia. Last year Russia
tried the experiment on a small scale
of Inducing an American life-insurance
company to Invest several millions in
Russian bonds as a condition of its
doing, or extending, business in the
empire. The precise terms have never
been disclosed. Russia follows a uni
versal practice in requiring insurance
companies doing business in its juris
diction tp keep a certain amount of
their assets also within Its jurisdiction,
but $150,000,000 Is a pretty large amount
for American insurance companies to
put into Russian securities as an as
surance that they will not default on
Russian claims.
Ex-United States Senator Boutwell
cites the case of China as part of the
imperial tendencies of this Government
A man of ability and experience, it is
astonishing that Mr. Boutwell should
not see that the dangers of so-called
imperialism are quite distinct from the
right and duty of this Government to
protect Americans in life and property
in China. If there had never been any
war with Spain, if there had never
been any war in Luzon, our Govern
ment would have been obliged, as a
matter of National honor and human
ity, and in vindication of Its treaty
rights, to rescue our -Minister and other
American citizens in Pekin from peril,
and yet Mr. Boutwell is so Infatuated
with his anti-imperialistic man of straw
that he declares that "when we entered
the Philippines we were the chief oc
casion of the revolution In China." Mr.
Boutwell was a radical supporter of
Lincoln's war policy on the floor of
Congress from 1S61 to 1865, but he
never was affrighted then by the im-
pending shadow of imperialism or mili
tarism, when there were over 1,000,000
men in arms. When that 1,000,000 of
Union bayonets was no longer a mili
tary necessity for the preservation of
the Union, it was quietly disbanded and
dissolved, without any attempt to use
it. for the subversion of the Govern
ment, and last week in Chicago the
aged remnantbut 35,000 strong of
that Army of 1,000,000 -bayonets of 1865
marched the streets of Chicago amid
the plaudits of their fellow-countrymen.
That Grand Army parade ought to have
recalled Mr. Boutwell back tocommon
sense and taught him the absurdity of
naming- imperialism and militarism as
the impending dangers of this Republic.
OTJR STAKE IN CHINA.
Our Secretary of State has already
said that the policy of the-Unlted States
is to safeguard for the world the prin
ciple of equal and Impartial trade with
all parts of the Chinese Empire; that
"the United States is opposed to the
partition of China, and asserts that it
has the right to a voice In the settle
ment of China's future." Brooke Ad
ams contributes a very able and strik
ing article to the September Atlantic
on "Russia's Interest In China," in
which he arrays a valuable mass of
historical facts and figures to show that
the United States is responsible for the
present deep anxiety of the powers of
Europe to develop the dormant re
sources of China. The argument of Mr.
Adams, boiled down to its briefest ex
pression, -is that the United States has
stimulated cheap manufacturing, min
ing and transportation, until we have
commanded the European market and
created an enormous balance of trade
In our favor, with the result that Eu
rope is steadily sinking into economic
inferiority, an inferiority especially
marked in minerals. "For the first
time in human experience the United
States this year leads In the produc
tion of the precious metals, copper, iron
and coal, and this year also for the
first time the world has done Its bank
ing! to the west, and not to the east of
the Atlantic." The precious metals
failed Europe long ago, copper followed,
and now iron and coal have reached a
price which threatens to hamper com
petition. Under such circumstances,
Mr. Adams points out, Europe Is threat
ened with, ruin if it fails to provide
itself with new resources as cheap and
abundant as those of America.
The existence of such undeveloped re
sources in Eastern and Central China
has incited the powers of Europe to
wring successive concessions from
China. Europe means ultimately to
seize the mineral deposits of Shan SI
and Honan, and "he who can develop
these immense beds of iron and coal
by means of Chinese labor may well
hope to defy all rivals." This is the
statement of facts and the obvious ar
gument from the facts set forth by
Mr. Adams, and brings him to the
startling but plausible conclusion that
on the decision of the fate of China
"may perhaps hinge the economic su
premacy of the next century." Mr.
Adams next inquires what power of
Europe will play the leading part in
the future of Asia. He does not think
it will be Great Britain, because the
Boer War has demonstrated that she
Is unequal to assuming heavier burdens
than those she now bears. Great Brit
ain in 1899, for the first time since
Waterloo, has been compelled to halt,
while Russia has overflowed Into Per
sia, has obtained lodgment in Corea,
and Germany has secured most advan
tageous lodgment on the coast of the
Province of Shan Tung. England seem
ingly is not willing to risk a war to
stop the progress of Russian and Ger
man occupation of the most valuable
regions of China, and under these cir
cumstances, -Mr. Adams points out,
America must assume the place once
held by England, if she would prevent
"the successful organization of a hos
tile Industrial system on the shores of
the Pacific, based on Chinese labor,
nourished by European capital and sup
plied by the Inexhaustible resources of
the Valley of the Ho Hang Ho."
Mr. Adams does not believe that Rus
sia can possibly accomplish the pur
poses of her ambition alone, and he Is
confident that the United States can
not afford to allow the aid that Rus
sia will need to be drawn exclusively
from Europe. Russia is financially ut
terly unequal to her ambition. She has
borrowed the savings of Fiance until
she can borrow no more. She Is build
ing her Trans-Siberian Railway in a
very shabby manner, at a cost of 10,
000 rubles more the versp than a French
syndicate in 1891 offered to build it for.
It is a costly and inferior railway, be
cause it is the product "of a primitive
society, which generates a defective
civil service." Official bribery, corrup
tion and peculation are the cancer of
the Russian governmental administra
tion. Russia must either undergo a so
cial reorganization that will put her
upon a cheaper administrative basis,
or she must obtain fresh property
which she can mortgage, and she can
only obtain it by expansion. Russia
has nothing left to mortgage, and for
this reason she wants the mineral
wealth of Shan Si. If Russia could
absorb Shan SI, she would have the
richest prize, In the development of its
mineral deposits, of modern times. The
conclusion of Mr. Adams is that the
United States has nothing to gain by
Russian absorption of the northern
provinces of China; that the United
States is now mistress of the situation;
that an Industrial movement in the Val
leys of the Ho Hang Ho and the Yang
tse could only tend to her embarrass
ment; that the best thing that could
happen for the United States would be
for China to remain as she is; that the
United States cannot afford to allow
the future development of China to be
wholly controlled by others. If Rus
sia should absorb Shan SI, she cannot
organize it alone, for she has neither
the genius nor the capital, but must
mortgage the property. Russia Is not
equal to the work, and Japan, both
from a financial and an administrative
point of view, is, Mr. Adams thinks, as
unequal as Russia to handle such a
task. The English energies are already
overtaxed, but with Germany for an
ally, the Russians and Germans could
dominate Northern China and a strain
of a very serious nature be put upon
America, The final conclusion of Mr.
Adams Is that Americans must accept
the Chinese question as the great prob
lem of the future a problem from
which there is no escape.
If Lincoln had been other than he
was, the Democrats would either have
thought more of him forty years ago
or less of him now. If he had not been
at all, they would be suffering Iremen-
peclally since they called him an Impe- j
rlalist in 1660 In a scratch, Jefferson
wou)d do fairly ell for general pur
poses; because' he wrote the Declara
tion of Independence; but for particu
lar purposes ne would do poorly, be
cause he Initiated expansion and start
ed us on the road to ruin.
Here are the census figures for the
twelve leading cities of the United
States, in the order of their present
size:
Inc. over Pero't
Popuhition. 1800. age.
New York 3,437.202 994,611 S5.33
Chicago 1,608,575 598.725 54.44
Philadelphia 1,293,007 240.733 23.57
St. Louis 075,238 123,408 27.33
Boston 580.892 112,415 25.07
Baltimore 008,945 74.000 17.15
Cleveland 381.708 120,415 48.07
Buffalo 352,210 00,555 35.7T
San Francisco 842.782, 43.785 14.64
Cincinnati 325,002 28,094 0.77
Pittsburg 821.010 82.000 S4.7S
New Orleans :. 2ST.104 45,005 18.02
Cincinnati shows least growth. The
proportional gain of San Francisco Is
next smallest; and Baltimore and New
Orleans follow in the line of slowest
growth. Pittsburg does not show in
the table for all she is worth; for Al
legheny City and other environs are
actual parts of her, though not in her
municipality. The actual population at
Pittsburg, within an area less than that
of Cincinnati or San Francisco, Is more
than 500,000. It Is said that we shall
not have the census returns of any
state until all cities of 30,000 and over
shall have been reported.
If a man really wanted to give capital
advice that should promote the general
welfare, he would probably urge It to
be just, or even generous, In Its treat
ment of labor. He would hardly advise
Itto put on the screws a little more
severely. And If he really wanted to
give labor advice that would promote
the general welfare, he would probably
urge It to be careful to do Its full duty,
render service for Its hire, live and let
live. He would hardly advise it to be
more obstreperous. He would counsel
friendliness, not renewed warfare, on
each side. But If he wanted to stir up
strife and foment class prejudice, he
would pursue an opposite course. That
is, he would offer for Labor day the
same sentiment Bryan offers:
Let each one inquire whether tho man who
tolls enjoys a fair sharo of tho proceeds of his
labor, and if not. let him apply a remedy.
Mr. Woolley thinks to demonstrate
the Prohibitionist principle when he
says he "admired any party that could
organize church members and liquor
sellers to support the same ticket." He
might just as. well have said he admires
any party that can induce Baptists and
Episcopalians to vote the same ticket,
or that can get equal support from car
penters and plumbers, Germans and
Irish, Christian Scientists and material
ists. Many liquor-sellers are church
members.
Yesterday the county and city offices
were all closed, and the officials were
taking a holiday, because it was Labor
day; but workmen were busy every
where, and even the employes of the
street-cleaning department were at
work. xWere It not for Labor day, there
would hardly be a ray of sunshine in
the life of the overworked politician
and office-holder.
Do take off the gates at Sixth street
those placards that read, "Not to be
opened only In case of Are." Do show
to the country people that there Is a
little grammar In Portland. For gram
mar also has Its place in human inter
ests. Every exhibit will be better If its
grammar Is good. Even electric light
will be better with It than without It.
And while you are correcting the
grammar of the placards on the gates,
how would It do to suppress that hideous-
noise, in the guise of music, on
Sixth street, between Alder and Wash
ington? The arrival of a British squadron in
an Eastern harbor would look like rati
fication of the British-American alli
ance, If It were not for our desertion
of England at Pekln.
If the antis -had waited to see what
the Administration would do before
they Condemned It for imperialism in
China, they would have missed a good
chance to talk.
It's six of one to the English wheat
buyer, but not half a dozen of the other
to the Oregon wheatgrower, whether
wheat brings a discounted silver price
or not.
It Is better to protect ourselves
against the Filipinos by the McKinley
method than to protect the Filipinos
against the world by Bryan's.
Roosevelt at Chicago yesterday made
a speech well suited to a non-polltlcal
occasion. Bryan made his usual politico-partisan
speech.
It's a good thing for Tammany that
election comes off In cool November,
else more voters would' remember the
Ice trust.
What Ib He Kicking; About?
New York Sun.
Mr. Bryan begins to make speeches at
8:30 A. M., and of his making speeches
there is no end; andfthls is a pretty big
piece of one which he spoke in Omaha
the other day. Will you kindly have the
patience to listen to it:
I have my idea of what civilization should
mean. Some people say that we Democrats
are enemies of property. It Is not true. I have
a home. I hope I may some time hare a bet
ter one. I would that every head of a family
had a home, and tho better the home the hap
pier I would be. I want property to be the
reward of Industry, and I want every citizen
to be secure In the enjoyment of the proceeds
of his toll. I do not envy tho rich. I am not
desirous of pulling them down. I want a civ
ilization that makes every poor man hope to be
better off, and relieves the rich man of tho
fear that hiB children will be trampled on If
thoy over become poor. I want a civilization
that embraces within Its benoflts every de-,
serving member or society. I do ijot want a
civilization that will prevent a man from rid
ing In a carriage, but I want a civilization
that gives hopes to the driver of the carriage
as well as the man who rides In it. I want a
civilization that gives hope to the girl that
works In the kitchen as well as to tho one who
sits lp the parlor. I wont a civilization that
makes llfo worth living to every human being.
That is the kind of country the United
States is. Mr. Bryan has described it al
most exactly. If everybody has not a
home, everybody has an opportunity to
have one. The driver of the carriage
may live to be driven in his own. The
kitchen maid may be the wife of a Pres
ident. Every1 citizen Is secure in the pro
ceeds of his toil, except in so far as he
may be perturbed by fears of Mr. Bryan's
income tax, corporation baiting and trust
harrying. Every poor man does hope to
be rich, although he will never become
so by means at Mr. Bryan's two-dollar-for-ono
thlmblerlg.
What is Mr. Bryan .kicking about? Clv
illzatlon In the United States is substan
tially as he says it Bhould be. He ought
to move to make the election of Mr. Mc
Kinley unanimous.
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NINE TIMES SB SPAKE.
But He RefHsed to Answer Pointed
Questions on Silver.
Special dispatch to tho Boston Herald.
LINCOLN. Neb., Aug. 23. William J.
Bryan refuses to be drawn out on tho
silver question. He insists that imperial
ism is the paramount Issue, and declines
to discuss any of the features of silver
except in his own way and at his own
convenience.
Mr. Bryan had ample opportunity this
evening to satisfy public curiosity as to
his position on tho .silver question, but
he would not grasp the opportunity to
furnish enlightenment When Mr. Bryan
was seen he was at leisure in his home.
He had time to think, and the ques
tions were plain. But his replies to them
were unvaried. Here are the questions
asked Mr. Bryan and hetje is his per
sonal reply:
"When the Democratic convention was
held you declared that the free coinage
of silver was as vital an issue as it was
four years ago, and Insisted upon the 16-to-1
plank going with the platform. Is
that your conviction today?"
Mr. Bryan I will discuss public ques
tions In my own way and In my own time.
"If elected, would you exert your
power to secure free coinage of silver in
this country, regardless of what other
nations might do 7"
Mr. Bryan I will discuss public ques
tions in my own way and in my own time.
"Secretary Gage points out that the
President could at any time order the
Secretary of the Treasury to make pay
ment in silver for current disbursements
of the Government and of all of the pub
lic debt that Is payable In 'coin' that is
to say, on practically all the bonds, ex
cept the comparatively small amount of
refunding 2 per cents Issued within the
last few months. If elected, would you
make such payments In silver?"
"I will discuss public questions in my
own way and in my own time."
' "Would not Buch action create distrust,
and result in payments into the Treasury
being made in silver and its proper rep
resentatives?" "I will discuss public questions In my
own way and In my own time."
"With the Treasury then getting its
revenuo in silver and making all Its pay
ments In silver, would not the Govern
ment be practically on a silver basis?"
Mr. Bryan I will discuss public ques
tions In my own way and In my own time.
"Do you consider this de'slrable?"
Mr. Bryan I will discuss public ques
tions In my own way and In my own time.
"Would not such a situation lead to
just such a movement as precipitated
the panic of 1893, when holders of green
backs, which are by law redeemable In
gold, hastened to present them for re
demption, thus draining the Treasury of
Its store of yellow metal and compelling
the Government to Issue new bonds to
replenish the reserve?"
Mr. Bryan I will discuss public ques
tions In my own way and In my own time.
"The same causes will always produce
the same effects. Several years ago the
run on the Treasury for gold and fear
that the country might go on a silver
basis produced distrust, hoarding of gold,
contraction of credits and the greatest
panic the country had ever known. Have
you any reason to believe that your elec
tion, pledged to make payment in sliver
and unsettle the standard, would not pro
duce an even worse panic than the last?"
Mr. Bryan I will discuss public ques
tions in my own way and in my own time.
After Mr. Bryan had been interviewed
with the foregoing results, he was asked:
"Will you not give some decisive an
swer to any one of these questions?"
"I will discuss public questions In my
own way and In my own time," he re
peated. "Can I say you decline to be Inter
viewed as an answer to all the queries?"
was asked.
"I have said all I wish to on the sub
ject," he said. "The one reply answers
for all."
MEN AND WOMEN.
A French physician. Dr. Hervleux. has made
Investigations which Indicate that flies spread
smallpox.
Tho KInc of Sweden and Norway has con
ferred tho Grand Cordon of the Northern Star
on Professor P. Max Muller.
Sir Georffe White, of Ladysmlth fame, now
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gibral
tar, will be promoted to tho rank of General
In October next.
Prlnco Tuan (pronounced Twan), who has
been reported as dead, poisoned, Insane, and
again as absolute ruler of Pekln, Is the first
cousin of Kwang Su, tho Emperor, and father
of Po Chlng, tho heir-apparent to the Chlneso
throne.
Charlotte Bronte's husband, tho Rev. Arthur
B. Nichols, Is now over 80 years of ago, and
spends much of his time In attending to his
land business at Banagher, Ireland. Though
married again, he always observes the anni
versaries of his first wife's birth and death.
Much to the surprise of everybody who knows
ex-Empress Eugenie, She has just lent to her
nephow, Prlnco Victor Bonaparte, and to his
actress Wlfo her favorite castle of Arenenberg,
on tho shoros of Lake Constance. The castle
was so much beloved by the Ill-fated hopo of
the Napoleonic dynasty, Prince Louis, killed
in Zululand, that ho preferred It to any other
spot In the world.
Lieutenant Robert Edwin Peary, whoso two
years' silence In tho Arctic is beginning to
create comment, Is now on his fifth expedition
to the frozen north. He sailed from Greenland
July 7, 1898. The last message he sent to civil
ization was dated August 13, 1898, and read:
"So far all my plans havo been successfully
carried out." When Peary sailed on his present
voyage he not even attempted to conceal the
fact that he was bound for the north pale. The
daring, explorer Is a native of Cresson, Pa.,
and Is now In his 45th year.
Long: After.
Mary Rlddell Corloy In Boston Transcript.
A poor street organ on the pavements brown,
A tiny monkey in his tinseled gown.
And far aloft. In swaying, rhythmic tlmo,
Tfp to tho window, where I sit and sew,
The pulsing waits notes swinging to and tro.
Like fairy bells, ring out their mystic chimb.
And far away, o'er fairest land and sea,
On waves of sound they lift and carry me
To where tho Jasmine flowers wero sweet one
night;
And roaes bent, nor lightest petal stirred.
And stars leant low to hear a whispered word
That filled tho world with love's supremost
light.
Somewhere, eomewhoro the snowy Jasmine
blows,
And in and out, each vagrant, Bcented roso
Still climbs tho lattloo at its own sweet will;
And still the stars may shlno on smiling eyes,
Tho samo old stars, from out tho self-samo
skies
Though love Is old yet earth has lovers still.
.But evermoro shall stars look down In vain
For feet that passed and never came again.
And listen vainly for tho music fled;
Though starry Jasmine yield Its perfume rare,
And roses nestle close In Bunny hair,
My life is lived, my love of loves Is dead.
Tho haunting music dies adown the street.
The merry children flee with nimble feet,
I take my dainty bit of work again;
But over filmy web of broidcred white
And trembling hands, onco .full, now empty
quite,
Th& tearuroni fall llko 8fcow?r3 of bitter rain.
"TEID THE FACTS."
WaHa Walla Union.
The Oregonlan publishes Mr. Mellen's letter
to tho Walla Walla Commercial Club, and with
characteristic lack of fairness proceeds to say
that tho Commercial Club founded its plea for
lower rates on misleading and incorrect figures
regarding the tonnago situation on the coast,
and editorially says, "Thero are vessels enough
to carry away the crop." As a matter of fact,
tho petition referred to contained no Gxures
regarding tho tonnage In sight or en route fcr
tho present year. Tho club did state that the
groin fleet for the past two years had been
notoriously lnadcquato, a statement verified by
tho fact that from 0,000,000 to 7,000,000 bush
els wero carried over.
Tho petition also stated that the grain fleet
en route for tho present year la apparently
smaller than for tho preccdlns year. In sup
port of this statement, that the grain crop Is
larger, tho Union again quotes from the Chi
cago Trade Bulletin of August 13: "The Port
land Oregonlan estimates tho wheat crop of
Oregon at 40,000,000 bushels, and tho quan
tity of wheat carried over at 7,000.000." It
will bo noted In passlnrr that The Oregonlan.
with Its accustomed modesty, claims tho wheat
crop of the entire North Pacific as Oregon's.
Tho total- number of vessels clearing from
Pugot Sound and the Columbia River In the
last year carrying grain Is 133, and carrying
in all 22,493,000 bushel3. To carry away the
47,000,000, which, according to tho Oregonlan,
says aro now on hand In the Pacific North
west. It will require not less than twice as
many ships. Yet the Portland paper has tho
temerity to assert that there are vessels
enough to carry away the crop, an assertion
that It knows Is absolutely without foundation.
It proceeds to lecture the farmers on tho
"hold-your-wheat" policy, "which has prevent
ed exporters securing ships early In tho year,
when they can bo obtained at low rates,"
which Interpreted means that the farmer Is a
very unreasonable and obstinate creature in
refusing to accept whatever prlco tho exporter
and mlllowner see fit to offer.
The Union has stated heretofore that It does
not agree with the 40,000,000-bushel estimate
of Tho Oregonlan for the State of Oregon, or
even the three states. The crop probably Is
about 30,000,000 In Washington. Idaho and Ore
gon, and up to dato The Oregonlan has fur
nished no evidence, nor has Mr. Mellen. that
tho rraln floet en route to arrive during the
last half of the year Is at all adequate to move
this crop, to say nothing of tho 7.0C0.000 car
ried over. Thero has been no misstatement
of facts by the WaHa Walla Commercial
Club, and up to date neither the. railroad pres
idents nor the newspapers In tho sleepy sea
port towns that invite consignments of grain
without providing sufficient shipping facili
ties havo met the argument for relief as pre
sented In the petition to Mr. Mcllcn.
The Oregonlan denies the right of the farmer
to hold his wheat until his Judgment which is
probably as good as that of the agricultural
editor of The Oregonlan on this subject tells
him It Is tlmo to sell, a prlvllese which 13
claimed by every property-owner, and advises
him to buy options In tho Chicago Board of
Trade, a proposition which would strike most
people as childish and ab3urd.
In conclusion, tho Union would say that,
whatever misrepresentation of facts and figures
have entered Into this controversy. It has been
supplied by Mr. Mellen and hl3 ally, Tho Ore
gonlan. The Walla Walla Commercial Club fath
ered some misleading and incorrect
statements regarding tonnage supplies,
etc., through Ignorance of the subject
The Oregonlan called attention to this
fact as a weakening feature of their ap
peal for low rates to the East, and print
ed figures the accuracy of which could be
verified by every farmer in the country,
showing that the amount of grain tonnage
headed for Portland and Puget Sound on
the date of the petition was the largest
on record for a similar period. In the
conclusion that a carry-over of 6,000,000
to 7,000,000 bushels is a verification of the
club's statement that the grain fleet has
been totally Inadequate for the past two
years, the Union has certainly developed
marvelous powers of reasoning. The ed
itor of tho Union knows, or he should
know, that within a radius of forty miles
of Walla Walla there are thousands of
bushels of wheat for which the farmers
refused SO cents and even SO cents per
bushel some time ago. This wheat Is a
portion of that carry-over that is men
tioned, and of course, by the Union's
brilliant line of reasoning, the farmers
who refused 90 cents when tonnage was
plentiful would sell for 50 cents If there
was adequate tonnage now. Ships were
provided for that 90-cent wheat and, fol
lowing the advice of the Union, the farm
ers would not sell; and at a heavy loss
ships were rechartered for lumber, held
over with expensive demurrage charges
for another crop, or diverted to other
ports, the exporter's losses In either case
being sufficiently heavy to prevent -him
again loading up with tonnage. The
farmer had the exporter at his mercy In
1897 and 1S93. and ho cinched him to the
limit, but in, so doing he also frightened
the exporters so that they have since fol
lowed a less generous policy in securing
ships, which has been expensive to tho
farmer and In the long run will prove
more costly than it would have been for
him to let go of his wheat when tho
exporter had cheap ships. The Oregonlan
does not deny the right of the farmer to
hold his wheat as long as ho is so in
clined. The mon who are paying taxes,
storage and Insurance on tho wheat for
Which they refused 90 cents per bushel
have a perfect right to keep on doing
so. They will always find bankers in
Walla Walla who can spare enough
money from their newspaper ventures to
make liberal advances at high Interest
rates on their wheat
They should not expect however, that
exporters will continue to provide ton
nage for that wheat which they will not
sell year after year. The 7,000,COO-bushel
carry-over could all havo been moved
last year at 50 cents per bushel to the
farmer, for Instead of there not being
tonnage enough to handle It, stiff bidding
was necessary in many cases to secure
enough of the wheat to fill the ships that
came to hand. The deliberate misrepre
sentation of the Union Is shown In the ex
tract reprinted from the Chicago Trade
Bulletin. The Oregonlan never estimated
the wheat crop of Oregon at 40,000,003
bushels. Why quote from the Chicago
Trade Bulletin? Why not quote from The
Oregonlan? It will probably surprise the
Union to learn that every bushel of wheat
that Is grown In the Pacific Northwest is
not Intended for export, and that tonnage
is never provide for 7,000,000 to 8.000.COO
which is used for seed and home con
sumption, or for the 5 COO.COO bushels which
Is ground into flour for transportation to
the Orient by the regular linen;. There
will be ships enough In the tonnage
market to handle tho wheat, but high
prices will be paid, for the simple reason,
that freights are high all over the world.
and the action of the farmers in previ
ous years has prevented exporters from
securing as much cheap tonnage as they
would have taken had there been any
assurance of the farmer selling when the
crop was ready to market Misrepresen
tation doe3 no cause gcod, and the Union
Is not hclplig that of the fanner by
garbling and distorting facts with which
the farmer should be familiar.
Growth of Pacific Const Cities.
St Louis Globe-Democrat.
San Francisco, In the last 10 years,
made a gain In population of 43,7So, or
14.64 per cent making the total 342.7S2. It
Is a fair rate of Increase, yet the growth
of the cities of the Pacific Coast within
tho next decade is likely to bo the largest
in their history.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
O rrcat and honored Pluvtus, wo'vo heard
that you're the chap
That stands besldo tho reservoir, and operate
tho tap.
And tf It's true, we beg that you win not feoi
called upon
To exercise your function till tho fair has
cumo and gone.
Of course, we shall appreciate some moisture
by and by.
But too much of It now. you know, will knocU
the fair sky high.
Don't think. O mighty potentate, that Ore
gon's a state
Where water's looked upon aa good alono to
irrigate;
Wo like to bathe In It at times, and drink It
now and then.
But when you start to pour It out you novel .
call "Say when."
And so we fear that when you send below th
first wee drop
You'll get to talking politics, and may forget
to stop.
It hasn't been so easy as you may perhaps
suppose
To get up aU'thls carnival, and if tho old
thing goes
We'll let j'ou gaza upon a great and most to
splendent sight.
And be convinced, as mortals are. that Port
land Is all right.
But. like tho men of Old Kentuck. the fall
can't stand the wet.
And so we trust that you will not turn on th
tap Just yet.
Keep your hands on your pockets It you
get Into a crowd today.
The National convention of deaf-mute
Is always still In session.
Fltzsimmons could have retired wlt&
better taste some months earlier In th,
game.
Some growing city now has a chanct
to achieve distinction by not demanding
a recount.
Croker's assertion that a young man
should go Into politics is taken asi per
sonal to W. J. Bryan.
The Republican party can never forget
what It owes to Bryan for removing
Webster Davis and Potato Plngree.
Don't think If you see an elk toda?
whose trousers bag at the knees that ha
got them that way praying for rain.
Count von Waldersee may have as hard
a job finding any allies In China as thu
allies are now having In finding tho
Dowager Empress.
In the morning call mo early, say about half
past three.
For It will bo my busy day, I'll need tho tlmo.
you see.
For I'll havo to spend tho morning looking at
the things I'll wear.
For I'm to bo Queen of the falr mother. I'm
to be Queen of the fair.
The progress of work on the buildings'
for the street fair, and the arrival of
several cages of lions and other animals,
have furnished a continuous entertain
ment for the boys for the past week or
two, and now that the fences surround
ing all the sights are approaching a fin
ish, and signs of "no admittance" and
"keep out" are displayed in different
places, the boys are looking a3 sorrowful
as Adam did when the gate of Eden
slammed behind him, and his season tick
et had run out The lions are a great
attraction to the boys, and If greedy looks
and slavering Jaws go for anything, the
boys, especially the plump ones, have at
tractions for the lions. The most Inter
esting thing, however, in the. Midway
Plalsance to all boholders Is a big black
monkey, all legs, arms and tall, which
excites the envy of the boys by ths
facility with which he ascends and de
scends a pole. His caudal appendage is
the most pliable and useful of his
"limbs." While using his hands and feet
In getting up the polo, his prehensile tall
can reach up hl3 back over his head and
grasp the pole, and ho can hang sus
pended by It to rest or hunt for flea 3.
Such a spectacle 13 enough to make any
one deeply regret that in the evolutionary
shuffle connected with the development of
the human from the ape, man lost his
most useful member. Every boy who
watched that monkey perform would
havo given all his old clothes for Buch a
tall a3 he sports.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGKAPHEU3
Tho Pace. "Misfortune always travels fast.
"That's right; tho more rapid tho pace a follow
goes tho quicker It overtakes him." Philadel
phia Record.
Precis Speech. Brown Do you over talk in
your sleep? Town Not that I know of. X havo
sometimes talked in other people's sleep. Bos
ton Transcript.
On tho Links. "You ought to bo ashamed to
swear so dreadfully at tho caddy. Ho is tho
minister's little boy." "Ifa all right. Hla
father believes In Infant damnation." Life.
Opportunity Provided. "It's no wonder those
Japoneao troops cover themselves with glory.'
"What do you mean?" "Why. tho other for
eign commanders are polite enough to let them
do all tho dangerous work." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Nice Diplomacy. He I am tho bearer of a.
charmed life. Sho (sarcastically) Indeed!
What great dangers havo you over escaped?
He None. But I have looked Into your eyoa
and heard tho sound of your voice. Chicago
Times-Herald.
To Send Away. "WeU, that caps the cll
maxl" "What's that?" "Cook says thos
folks In that little house on tho corner camo
over while wo were gona and had their pho
tographs taken sitting on our veranda." In
dianapolis Journal.
After Vacation. Its purposo was to gently
intimate that two weeks' vacation was hardly
long enough, hoping to reap the benefit of tho
suggestion. "Tw weeks." he sold, "give a man
Just sufficient tlmo to learn hdw to loaf."
"I've noticed it," replied his employer curtly,
and all tho rest of the afternoon tho young
man devotod himself to tho most realistic
imitation of work that ho had glvon stneo ho
got back from his outing. Chicago Evenlni
Post.
What the Census Tell
Chicago Times-Herald.
What does the census say?
Study the figures well;
Hundreds of thousand of hurrying men.
Each with a. story to toll !
Each with a heart and each with a souL
Each with his Joys or cares.
Each believing that he. somehow,
Should- weigh In tho world's affairs.
What does the census show?
Hundreds of thousands of men
Wearily quitting their taskn tonight
To toll tomorrow again;
Hundreds of thousands of people, each
Faithfully hoping away
For a gllmpso of tha chanco for th lucky
striko
That each la to make, somo day.
What does the census tell?
Does it tell of the eyes that acho?
Does it tell of tho wreath on tho llttlo moundf
Does It toll c- the hearts that break?
Does it tell us a story of brotherhood.
Of help for the halt .and blind?
Does It toll of the proud who rido In front
And the weary who trudgo behind?
What does the census show?
Hundreds of thousansd of hanii.
Knotted and. rough and whlto and soft.
Filling tho world's demands;
Hundreds of thousands of sons of Gcd
Tolling In hope, in doubt.
Each with hla woes or each with his Joys
That the world cares nothing about!
What docs tho census say?
What do the figures mean? "
Hundreds of thousands o'er whom tho graaa
Will some day bo growing greont
Hundreds of thousands ot bubbles cast
About on a troubled sua
Men. tn myriads harrying paat
With never a thought of mt
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