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ORTIiAXD, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5-
POOR. IX COMPARISON.
It -will, we suspect, be thought no in
justice to suggest that our friends of
the Bryan party are not really so so
licitous about the freedom of the Fili
pinos as they are desirous to win,
"through the cry of "imperialism," a
Iparty triumph at home. They really
iiave no such fear as they pretend, that
'sail the arching skies of liberty are to
be eclipsed. Well do they know that
wherever the American flag may be
'advanced a rational and well-regulated
liberty will be established. Well do
they know that whenever resistance to
"the authority of the "United States shall
"cease, all the rights, all the protection
guaranteed by the Constitution of the
United. States, will be assured to the
inhabitants of the Philippine Islands.
Tet it is assumed, for the purposes of
'this political campaign at home, that
unless we abandon the Philippines, the
-Congress of the United States, in whose
hands rests the power over the islands,
'will proceed to "oppress" and "enslave"
the people. But we thlnlc there is no
American citizen who does not have
more confidence in the Congress and
people of the United States.
Then, again, after we have throttled
liberty in the Philippine Islands, we
shall proceed to hang it in chains at
fcome. It is a very old song with our
wailing friends this cry of militar
ism and Imperialism. It is not for
the purpose of twitting them with
iailure of their past lugubrious prophe
cles on this score that we turn back to
some of their platforms; for they are
as glad now as others were satisfied
then that what they uttered was non
sense. We wish simply, in a spirit of
Idndnesft, to remind our gloomy and
pessimistic friends of their addiction to
a. bad habit, in the hope that they will
not continue forever to be ridiculous
iby adherence to it Abraham Lincoln
has now been placed as a saint in a
jhosen niche of the Democratic Pan
theon. Mr. Bryan is quoting him every
day. But this same Abraham Lincoln
was denounced in his time by this same
party for his alleged designs upon lib
erty, even more vehemently than Will
iam McKlnley is denounced now. In
this school of opposition to Abrah'am
Xiincoln, in this atmosphere of denun
ciation and abhorrence of Lincoln's
"principles and purposes, William J.
Bryan was born and bred. His school
'Slng in opposition to Lincoln made Bryan
the Democrat he is today. Well, when
Lincoln was the President that is to
say, in the year 1864 the party in
which Mr. Bryan "was reared, in their
National platform, adopted at Chicago,
(attacked . Lincoln in this hysterical
''.manner, to-wit:
Resolved, That this convention does explic
itly declare as the sense of tha American peo
ple that, after four years of failure to restore
the "Union by the experiment of war, during
whlcn, under the pretense of a military neces
sity of a. -war power higher than the Constitu
tion, tne Constitution itself has been
"disreerarded In every part, public
. liberty and private right alike trod
rden. down and the material pros
perity essentially impaired, Justice,
Immunity, liberty and the public
-welfare demand that immediate ef
forts be made for a cessation of hos
tilities. Just read that resolution through, and
Tead it with care. Anti-imperialism of
-today is but a feeble note to it Don't
forget that it was Abraham Lincoln,
quoted now daily by Bryan as the peer
less champion of liberty, who was thus
assailed as a militarist and imperialist,
dn his own time. But before now men
Hiave been known to build sepulchers
to prophets killed by their fathers; yet
itf we correctly remember the text woe
to such is pronounced.
It will be remembered that this cam
paign of anti-imperialism against Lin
coln did not succeed. Nor did the next
one, against Grant, fare better. Take
this deliverance, from the Democratic
National platform of 1SGS:
"Under Its (the Republican party's) repeated
assaults the pillars of the Government
are reciting on their base, and,
hould it iraccecd in November next
and inaugurate its President, ivc
-will meat as a. subjected and con
quered people, amid the ruins of lib
erty and the scattered fragments of
the Constitntlon.
It really must be feared that our un
happy friends of the present day, on
looking over these relics of their his
tory, and noting what vigor of expres
sion was in the utterance of that day,
and how deep was the alarm of their
parts', will be disgusted with their puny
and feeble efforts of the present time.
Just think of it! "The pillars of the
Government were rocking on their
base" in that gloomy time', and we were
to ""meet as a subject and conquered
people, amid the ruins of liberty and
the scattered fragments of the Consti
tution." What a poor, spiritless per
formance the present "anti-Imperial'
campaign is! When "anti-imperialism"
was in pristine vigor, man, how it could
talk!
The formal declaration of Senator
Wellington, of Maryland, for Bryan,
long time expected, is announced. Wel
lington has changed his politics and his
party because the Republicans of Mary
land have refused to accept him as boss
and dictator of the state. He never
was heard of before an accident elected
bim to the Senate, and after bis term
shall expire he never will be heard of
again.' He says he has changed his
party relations on the Issue of "impe
rialism." That is a subterfuge. Be is
merely a little, self-seeking politician,
inflated by the accident of his election
to the Senate, whom the. Republicans
of Maryland would not permit to be
their dictator and boss. Wellington's
term In the Senate will soon expire, and
then he never will be heard of more.
He was a clerk In a store In Baltimore
when elected, and because he had been
an active ward politician was taken up
for the Senate by a party unused to
victory In the state.
WHO NEEDS AX -OPEN" RIVER?"
A little while ago the report was sent
out from the Palouse country that cer
tain Fusionlsts would try to make a
campaign issue of the opening of the
Columbia River. However sincere or
widespread this purpose was, It seems
to have failed of execution. The Seat
tle convention met and made its plat
form without reference to the subject.
Nobody could object of course, to a
declaration by any and all parties In
favor of Improving the Columbia, but
if It was -desired to make a campaign
issue of the matter, the failure Is cause
for satisfaction, and the Fusionists are
to be commended; for their good sense.
It Is bad politics and questionable mor
als for state organizations to "seek to
array section against section.
The fact Is- that there is neither poli
tics nor sectional interests in the Co
lumbia improvement project The fact
is that the opening of the river between
The Dalles and Celilo will make little, if
any, difference in the comparative ad
vantages of one shipping-point over
another, or in the advantages of one
producing point over another. We are
apt to regard the Columbia improve
ment as an enterprise In aid of Port
land. It is nothing of the sort The
real beneficiary will be the farmer of
the Inland Empire, so far as rates to
the seaboard are concerned, and the
consumers of the Inland Empire, so
far as distributive rates from the sea
board are concerned. The sooner this
is undf-rstood, the better.
Whatever the rate on grain is from
Eastern Washington or Idaho points to
Portland, just exactly that will be the
rate on grain from Eastern Washing
ton or Idaho points "to Puget Sound.
Cut a boat canal around the dalles and
reduce the grain rate from Lewlston
from 14 cents, or whatever It is per
bushel, to 7 cents, and that moment you
reduce the grain rate from Lewlston
to Taeoma to 7 cents a bushel. The
farmer will get 7 cents a bushel more
for his wheat Nobody need ever ex
pect atime when the rate on grain will
be cheaper down the Columbia than it
is to Puget Sound. Any benefit Port
land receives from Columbia River Im
provement will be received in equal
measure by Puget Sound. The compet
ing railroads, In self-preservation, will
be compelled to make the same rates
from all common points. The same
rule will apply to distributive rates on
merchandise from Portland or Puget
Sound points to country consumers.
The beneficiary in each case is the
man in the interior.
There is some evidence that this sub
ject is beginning to receive attention
In the regions it most intimately con
cerns. Representative Moody, of Ore
gon, has made the opening of the Co
lumbia River the principal object of
his ambition, in the Interests of his
Eastern Oregon constituents. Ex-Senator
Wilson, of Washington, now again
prominent In the politics of that state,
has long been an advocate of the canal
with locks at the dalles. Senator Fos
ter is also understood to have made
promises of all possible assistance. The
most hopeful sign, perhaps, is the
growing interest in the matter through
out Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washing
ton and Idaho. When the farmer real
izes that it is his fight and when Pu
get Sound realizes that an open Co
lumbia means lower rates both from
Eastern Washington on grain and into
Eastern Washington on merchandise,
the Improvement will have a much bet
ter chance of realization than it has
today.
EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND.
To a representative of the New York
Herald ex-President Cleveland recently
addressed the following statement:
Buzzard's Bay, August 2C, 1900.
My Dear Mr. Hepworth:
Tour letter received.
I am Quite cure you wrongly estimate the
value of any expression I might make con
cerning: the political situation.
Besides, 1 am by no means free from the per
plexity which now afflicts thousands of thoso
who lovo the principles of true Democracy.
In theso circumstances I am not inclined to
advise others as to their present political duty.
A crisis has arisen when each man's consclenco
and informed patriotic sense should bo his
guide.
Inasmuch, therefore, as neither tho cer
tainty of my ability to rightly advise nor any
call of oblicatlon prompts me to discuss polit
ical conditions, I think I ought to be permit
ted, in my retirement, to avoid the irritation
and abuse which my interference at this time
would inevitably ,invlte. Tours very truly,
GBOVER CELVELAND.
It is clear that Mr. Cleveland has no
Intention of voting for the Demo-Populist
candidate for the Presidency. But
he is wise in declining to throw himself
into the political arena. " For any state
ment he might make he would be ven
omously attacked. Tet his record of
service to the country is greater than
that of any President since Lincoln;
for he it was who saved the country
from the shame and disaster of the
plunge to the silver basis, on the brink
of which it was when he came to the
Presidential office in 1893. Mr. Cleve
land has many faults, but there Is no
Irving American who has rendered to
his country a service equal to his own.
In the death of Arthur Sewall, the
United States will lose a man who has
done more to keep the American flag on
the high seas than any other shipbuild
er or shipowner that this country has
yet produced. Unaided by subsidies,
bounties or any other class legislation
in his favor, through good times and
hard times alike, Sewall has kept his
ships moving and his shipyard at work.
The Sewall house flag has floated with
the Stars and Stripes in all of the big
seaports of the world, and the ships of
the Sewall fleet in structural beauty,
utility and monej'-making capacity,
bore well comparison with those of any
other nation on earth. Mr. Sewall's
success in life and the attendant glory
he has won for the American flag in the
ocean-carrying trade are solely the re
sults of a perfect knowledge of his busi
ness and well-directed individual effort.
In strange contrast are the efforts of
the alleged patriots who seek to "re
store"" the American flag to the seas
by a systematic and well-organized raid
on the Treasury. The political hlstory
of Arthur Sewall as a "Vice-Presidential
candidate on a losing ticket will soon
pass from memory, but the fame o Ar
thur Sewall as a builder and owner of
American ships is a part of American
history which will-not soon be forgot
ten. His life work and achievements
will stand as a lasting rebuke to the
men who are persistently endeavoring
to demonstrate that legitimate competi
tion cannot be successfully met without
Government aid.
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"WHAT WB DRINK.
Sufficient time has -elapsed since the
unjust tax discrimination, against tea
In favor of coffee went into effect to
enable some generalizations to be made
other than the first and obvious blow
at the one trade and encouragement df
the other. It is evident that tastes and
habits pertaining to diet are susceptible
to some, but not to an Illimitable extent,
from legislation. In hard times heavy
taxation could undoubtedly reduce con
sumption' of either tea or coffee to a
minimum, but a prosperous people will
tend to give their dietary preferences
full rein. ,
That Is to say, time and reviving
prosperity seem at length to have over
come in a measure the impulse to sub
stitute coffee for tea. Figures even in
dicate that consumption of tea may be
on a distinct, if slight, increase, coffee
on a decline, something as malt and'
vinous- liquors are slowly displacing
distilled spirits. These are not con
clusions that can be safely predicated,
but statistics are momentarily suscep
tible of such inferences, to be held sub
ject to further evidence.
The rise of coffee to widespread use,
and a corresponding neglect of tea, con
sequent upon the war-revenue act of
1898, mulcting the Infusion and letting
the decoction go free, make up one of
the most striking paroxysms in our do
mestic economy. The hard times of 1893
had reduced our consumption" of sugar
from 66 pounds per capita to 63 pounds,
of coffee from D.61 pounds to 8.01, and
of tea from 1.38 to 1.31. But the tax on
tea sent the per capita consumption of
tea down to .91, while that of coffee
rose to 11.45. .In imports the record of
tea Is even more impressive; for, while
we had been buying $13,000,000 to $14,
000,000 worth of tea annually for many
years, the Imports for 1898 were only
$9,000,000 In value, and for 1899 about
the same. The subjoined table shows
the Imports of tea and coffee for a
term of years:
IMPORTS.
Coffee. Tea,
1801 ? WUOO.000 $13,800,000
1802 128,000,000 14.50D.000
1803 80.400,000 13.8O"),0C0
1894 00.300.000 14,100.000
1S03 08,100,000 13.100,001)
lEOfJ 84,700.000 12.700.000
1807 81,500,000 14.S00.O0O
1898 ..:. ." 05.000,000 O.GOO.OOO
isna 53.20o.ooo o.coo.ooo
1000 52.400,000 10,500,000
These variations have gone on, It
must be remembered, contemporaneous
ly with Increase of population. The
Government statistics of per capita
consumption show a decline in the use
of coffee much more decisive than Is
revealed In the table of Imports, and
a marked increase in the consumption
of tea since the first adverse effect of
the war tax, thus:
PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION.
Tear. Coffee Tea.
1801 7.09 1.29
1602 9.01 1.37
1893 8.24 1.32
1894 , 8.01 1.S4
1895 9.22 1.38
1S93 804 1.31
1897 9.05 1.55
1S0S 11.45 .'Jl
1899 10.55 .90
It is evident that the per capita fig
ures for 1900 must show a -further de
cline In the average use of coffee and
Increase in the average use of tea. The
figures are not to be Implicitly relied
upon. They carry in themselves evi
dences of their own inaccuracy. But
taken in connection with the record of
imports, they are sufficient for the ten
tative conclusion arrived at, which
must nevertheless be held subject to
correction from such elements as the
prices at which products are held,
stocks on hand, crop failures, Asiatic
wars, etc.
It would be restful to generalize that
wines and malt liquors have displaced
this falling off in tea and coffee con
sumption, and also a decline in use of
distilled spirits. But though there Is
some evidence pointing in that direc
tion, it is hardly sufficient for a demon
stration. Our imports read as follows:
Malt
Spirits. Wines. liquors.
1801 $4,200,000 ?10.000.000 $1,700,000
1892 2.000.000 8.000,000 1,700.000
1S33 3,000.000 10.200,000 1.900,000
1894 2, 400.000 G.700,000 1,500,000
1895 2.700,000 7.100.000 1,500.000
1S90 3.000.000 7,10').000 1.000.000
1897 3,800,000 6,800,000 1,500,000
1898 2.100,000 5.900,000 1,200,000
1S09 3,100.000 0 590.000 1,400.000
1000 3,500.000 7,400,000 1,700,000
These figures show such sudden vari
ations that they are practically yalue
less for generalizations. As far back
as 1870 we averaged as high as 2 gal
lons per capita per annum of distilled
spirits, 5.31 gallons of malt liquors, and
only .32 gallon of wines. The average
of spirits has fallen to 1.15, while that
of wines has risen to .35, and of malt
liquors to 14.96.
The generalization we are sure of,
therefore, is that in the long run we are
approximating the habits of other coun
tries. This Is a process discovered In
the Increased use of spirits in wine and
beer-using1 countries like France a-nd.
Germany, and In the rise, of coffee
and decline of tea in tea-drinking
Britain. Great Britain imported 10,
562,773 in tea in 1896, but only 10,405,
084 in 1897, and only 10,367,672 in 1898.
Of coffee she Increased her. Imports
from 3,559,454 In 1S96 to 3,585,674 in
1897, and 3,744,454 in 1898. In three
years she increased her coffee bill by
$10,000,000, and cut "down her tea bill by
about the same amount. It took the
human race a long time to get sep
arated and established in widely di
vergent habits and predilections. It
wilt take it a long time to overcome
these differences. But toward some
such common status every race is trav
eling in convergent lines.
The resident foreigners in China are
naturally anxious that there should be
no continuance of the Empress Dowager
and her party as the future Pekin Gov
ernment The Empress must go, if the
men who have interests in China are
to be satisfied. This is not only a natu
ral, but a rational view, from the resi
dent foreigner's standpoint, but the al
lies are confronted with a condition, not
a theory, in China. The trouble, is that
the public opinion of China, as voiced
by the great Viceroys, Is behind this
barbarous woman. Even so Intelligent
and able a statesman a3 Ll Hung
Chang, who Is of Chinese, and not
Manchu lineage, pleadg for the continu
ance of the Empress lrt authority, and
so do the great Viceroys who have kept
the peace in the Tangtse Provinces and
Southern China. These statesmen do
not approve of the reckless anti-foreign
uprising in the Province of Chi LI and
In Manchuria, but they are really anti
grelRn n feellnff, ana while they do
not approve of the reckless methods of
the Empress Dowager, they have a su
perstitious reverence for her authdrlty
as the representative of the Manchu
dynasty. The Empress Dowager is the
"guilty, responsible author of all the
crimes perpetrated in violation of the
law of nations. Yet if she were prop
erly punished for her crimes, the whole
of China would probably be convulsed
In . a universal anti-foreign outbreak,
which might nof be suppressed except
by the united efforts of the powers, and
might end In the partition of China.
This would mean a long and expensive
war, during which trade with China
would be cut off. The powers can be
trusted to pull together for the rescue
of the foreign Legations at Pekln, but
with this accomplished, all unity of ac
tion is at an end. Great Britain, if she
could do as she desires, would raze the
fortifications of Pekin and Inflict exem
plary punishment upon the Empress
and her confederates, but she cannot
execute such a policy against the pro
test of the rest of the powers of Eu
rope. Russia and France would not
approve it, and unless Germany gives
the hand to Great 'Britain It is more
.than likely that Russia will have her
way and the Empress Dowager will go
unpunished and resume her authority.
A dispatch from London to the New
Tork Tribune gives this statement:
English statesmen thought that they had a
Tight to count on American aid in pursuing: an
unselfish policy which is for the common ben
efit of tho clvllljsed world, and they will bo
deeply disappointed to And that they are mis
taken, and that American regard for the "open
door" and Chinese integrity is limited to
words. The moment the United States is asked
to accept some amount of responsibility it
hastily effaces Itself and executes a precipi
tate retreat.
Can it be possible that the English do
not know that we have a general elec
tion at hand, and cannot afford to do
anything? No country, conditioned as
our country is, can be expected to adopt
and pursue a policy based on any large
view of things or any long view of
things. Our electorate can be so easily
Influenced and fooled by demagogic
appeal that t may at any time throw
away large future advantage, just as it
is likely to do in China now. The ques
tion Is whether we shall not do it in
the Philippines also. Ours Is a country
governed largely by self-seeking poli
ticians and ignorant partisan news
papers. Therefore it can pursue no
far-seeing policy,' for such policy is sure
to be stigmatized as oligarchical, or, in
the modern jargon, imperialistic. So a
Government like ours must feel its way,
and perhaps lose its opportunities. It
must not be expected to pursue a pol
icy based on any large view of things.
We simply do the best we can In the
circumstances.
No happier comparison could have oc
"curred, none could have been contrived'
than that between Roosevelt and Bryan
on the same platform Labor day.
Roosevelt was sensuous to appreciate
the delicacy of an unpolitical occasion,
and he respected the truce ground. His
words rose above party lines and ap
pealed to the good sense of all men, no
matter what the' color of their political
notions. Comprehensive social prob
lems formed his theme, . not partisan
ones. He permeated his discussion
with felicity, optimism and hopefulness.
Bryan did just the other thing. He
did not speak to all Americans, but to
Populist-Democrats. He did not touch
the universal sympathy of his audi
ence, nor did he appeal to that judg
ment which is higher and more general
than politics. His rant had only one
color, and that color was anarchic
red. Discontent, malevolence, vicious
ncss, constituted the soul of his garrul
ity. The whole was coldly calculated
to excite the heat of human passion,
demagogism par excellence was Its
tenor. Nothing shows up more the im
propriety of his genius than this impu
dent violation of etiquette. His appre
ciation of good taste evidently has not
improved since 1896. Then he abused
non-politieal privileges with 16-to-l plat
itudes. Now it Is with' expansion non
entities. The Boston Herald, an independent
paper with Democratic predilections,
says the Introduction of the specific sllr
ver plank In the Kansas City platform
was the blunder which cuts off hope
or prospect of Bryan's success. It adds:
Mr. Bryan insisted upon it, and hence,
against the Judgment of a majority. It had to
go in; but then Mr. Bryan has proved himself
on a number of occasions to be a political
blunderer. .Ho did It when he urgod at "Wash
ington the ratification of our peace treaty with
Spain, and he did It araln at Kansas City
when he Insisted upon a clear-cut reassertlon of
tho ld-to-1 currency theory. It Is that Insist
ency -which is destined to bring about his last
and complete political defeat. After next No
vember It will be clear to' the Democratic
party that Mr. Bryan and those whft for the
last four years hae insisted upon keeping him
to tho forefront of the orsanlzatlon are not
leaders, and do not represent ideas that a po
litical party in this country can have if it
wishes to possess any sensible influenco in con
trolling the Notion's dostinlcs.
"The Fighting Boer" is the title of an
article In one of our newspapers. The
Boer has not shown himself a fighting
man nor a resolute soldier. He never
fights on equal terms, and when pressed
hard always surrenaers. He 1b good in
active movement and light guerrilla
warfare, but Is not a fighting soldier.
Arkansas on Monday held one of those
elections which are peculiar to some
eight or ten of the Southern States.
Such elections "don't count," because
they are always counted In advance.
Some of us may live to see Ll Hung
Chang in the role of a peacemaker be
tween the powers.
Towne ratifies Lincoln also. "Well, it
does him more good than Lincoln harm.
A Born Diplomat.
Detroit Free Press.
Diplomacy in the affairs of a nation
Is nothing more than an extension of tact
in social life. -One day last week a giant
of a colored man took a load of coal to
a residence on the Cass farm. Be was
cross and ugly and the good wife who
was looking after things at home wanted
much at his hands. He had told her that
he had three tons to throw off the wa
gon, had sworn roundly because the slid
ing door of tho barn was hard to open,
and he was In open rebellion when she
asked him to make a bin in the corner
so that the coal would not scatter all
over tho floor.
"What you take me fo woman? You'm
jes' like de boss at yahd. He done 'cludo
Ah'm a hos3, a steam lnjln, an' a tug.
Ah do mo' wo'K dan all of 'em put to
geda' and den dey's sayin' Nick do dis
and Nick do dat till Ah'm ready fo' to
dig a ax in 'em. Ah'm no bin bulldan.
Ah'm a coal heabah, Ah Is. Dat load
goes right heah in de centa' of de fioah
and ef any man comes 'round' heah say
bin to me Ah'll flah him trough de roof."
Not a word back did the little .woman
say. She went to the house, "took the
half of a luscious watermelon from tho
icebox, carried o the barn, and saidy
'.'Hero, Nick, is some Ice-cold melon
and, here's &, big silver spoon. Eat it -all,
for we have more than we need. It may
cool your throat I do pity any one who
has to work so hard this weather. Sorry
I spoke about the bin, but I didn't know
where to get a man."
Nick's eyes glistened. He tackled the
melon before he did the coal, and he ate
by the cubic foot He built the bin.
He nailed up a loose window sash and
he swept the barn floor. When lie re
turned the spoon to a maid at the back
door he had his hat in hand, while ho
said:
"Please gib mah 'gards to do missus.
Tell heh I neber 'joy nothln' mo' in mah
life, and say when she done want mo'
coal please ask to' Nick."
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A TAME OF COLORED DISHOPS.
Prohibited In the Soutb, Tbey Are to
Talk Politics In the North.
Chicago Tribune.
A nurtiber of Bryan papers say that
Bishop Turner and other bishops of tho
African Methodist Church are going to
vote for Bryan arid to use their influence
with the colored men to get them to
support him. It Is said further that,
with this object In view, the colored
bishopB propose takingfthe stump in th.o
Northern States, where alone colored
men can vote and colored speakers are
allowed to talk politics.
If this story is not a pure roorback it
Is a serious reflection on the Intelli
gence of men who asume to be the
teachers and guides of the race to which
they belong. The only reason advanced
by the bishops for the support of Bryan
by colored men is that President McKln
ley has not disapproved strongly enough
of the lynchlngs of which so many ot
them have been the victims. But If he
Is culpable because not emphatic enough
In denunciation, how much more to be
condemned are the lynchers themselves.
The colored man who Is about to vote
for the party to which the men who did
the lynching belonged, because people
belonging to the other party have not
condemned those acts severely enough,
must bo a man of an extremely rudi
mentary education and primitive Ideas.
It would be hopeless to appeal to tho
reason of a man who is going to vote
for a party which held his ancestors in
slavery' as long as it could, nhd which
afterwards disfranchised the colored vot
ers and bragged of it Senator Tillman
was the spokesman of that party when
he said in the Senate:
Wo took the Government away. We stuffed
the ballot boxes. We shot them. We are not
ashamed of It. With that sy3tem force, tissue
ballots, etc. we got tired ourselves. So we
called a constitutional convention, and wo
eliminated, as I have said, all ot the colored
people whom we could under the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments.
This Is' what the Democratic party has
done for the colored men. The Republi
can party gave them freedom and what
ever voting rights they exercise. But for
the Republican party they would not bo
permitted to vote in considerable num
bers anywhere. Generally speaking the
states In which their votes are cast
nnd counted are Republican states, while
those In which they ate denied access
to the polls are Democratic states.
This whole story of an attempt to turn
the colored vote over to Bryan is so
serious a reflection on the loyalty and in
telligence of the colored race as a who:c
that It must bo set down as a campaign
tale signifying nothing. When we see
colored bishops on the stump in the
North urging their people to vote for
Bryan we will believe it and not before.
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Despotism nnd the Dinner Pall.
New Tork Sun.
The Baltimore Sun's attack of anti-im-perlallsmus
.grows worse. The newspaper
is now raving against prosperity and
the full dinner pail. Mark these symp
toms of acute Bryanlty:
The inmates of our almshouses and jails are
fed three tlires a day. The worst convicts in
our stato prisons have their dinner palls filled
as a matter of course. Tho farmer does aa
much for his cattle. The cows ret their corn
with regularity, and likewise tho pigs their
swill. But are Hanna & Co. quite suro that
American worklnrmcn are to be captund and
taken into the imperial camp and harnessed up
to dras the chariot ot trusts In a triumphal
procession of grasping greed and soulless com
mercialism by the mere assurance that they
shall fare a"! well in the mattgr of meals as
paupers and criminals, and be as regularly
fed as if thoy were cowa or swincf
So a full meal, or a series of meals,
is disreputable and bestial. It makes a
man a brother to the awine, and puts him
on a level-with the pauper and the crimi
nal. If we understand the reasoning
of our Monumental friend, the American
workingman gets too much to eat and
thinks too much about what he eats.
He should turn to nobler things. Ha
should kick away the dinner pail and
swear to be well fed and prosperous no
more. What are wages and what is food
so long ns Aguinaldo and his bandits are
not permitted to range unchecked in Lu
zon? Besides, how can anybody have
any appetite when imperial chariots,
dragged by workingmen, are rumbling
about?
The fascinating offer made by the Bal
timore Sun is this in substance: "Give
up eating and give up the Philippines."
There are not many persons sufficiently
altruistic to take this adlvce.
What Bryan Stands for.
Louisville Po3t.
One For the Goebel law and Goebellsm
in Kentucky; that is, for government
without the consent of the governed at
home.
Two Independence for the Philippine
Islands, with permission to Aguinaldo
to establish a dynasty without interfer
ence from any nation on earth. Protec
tion, that is, for Aguinaldo, from any
Interference from any nation.
Three The free and unlimited coinage
of silver at 16 to 1, without waiting for
the consent of any other nation.
Mr. Bryan la an honest man, nnd he is
a statesman. When the political trick
sters like Hill and Watterson asked him
to omit a specific declaration in behalf
of the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1
ho said "No with all the emphasis of an
emperor. It was a folish request from
schemers and tricksters. Mr. Bryan's
answer could have been found in the
greatest epoch of his life his speech
at the Chicago convention of 1896 in clos
lng the debate on the, platform. In that
speech Mr. Bryan said, in direct response
to Hill's pleading for a compromise:
"And, now, my friends, let me come
to the paramount issue. If they ask us
Why it is that we say more on the
money question than we say upon the
tariff question, I reply that 'if protection
has slain its thousands the gold stand
ard has slain its tens of thousands. If
they ask us why we do not embody in
our platforf all the things that we be
lieve in, we reply that when we have
restored the money of -the Constitution
all other necessary reforms will be possi
ble: but until that is done there is no
other reform that can be accomplished."
The Ne'w York Journal's List.
Lewlston (Me.) Journal.
On Monday. August 27, the New York
Journal, an ardent and Industrious (not
to say imaginative) advocate of the free
silver school of Bryan, published a list
of "distinguished Republicans" in several
states who declare their reasons for for
saking the Republican party, as now
controlled. Among the names mentioned
Is a list from Maine, as follows:
Ex-Justice Clarence Willis, Silas Look,
Daniel T. Salt, Abraham Plpher, Charles
Bond, Lewis Fay.
The New York Journal goes widely Into
this state purely as a sensational news
paper. Its reputation as a political
prophet is now and always has been bad,
and this but makes it worse. A whole
army of names, in black type like tho
above, adorns the same page as this
unique list -from Maine. Not one of them
from this state ever existed, Every one
of them was born in the Imagination ot
the astute political novelist - in Mr.
Hearst's office, who had to have a list
of recalcitrant Maine Republicans- be
cause Maine's vote Is earliest of all tha
states.
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A Socialistic Governor.
Chicago Record.
Perhaps for the first time in the history
of the British Empire a British colony is
now being ruled by an avowed socialist.
Sir Augustus Hemming, the Governor of
Jamaica, is absent In England on a long
holiday, and his place is being filled by
Sydney Olivier, C. M. G., the Secretary
of the colony. Mr. Olivier has only been
out here a few months, coming from an
appointment at tho Colonial Office in Lon
don, but already he has made his power
felt throughout the- colony. He Is one
of the leading members of the very eclec
tic Fabian Society, and took a prominent
part In socialistic propaganda while in
London, both as a writer and a speaker.
Most socialist leaders are despots in prac
tice, and It therefore comes natural to
him to exercise what is to all intents and
purposes absblute power over Jamaica.
It is a curious anomaly that a socialist ot
light and leading should hold such a high
position under a conservative govern
ment but It only illustrates the fact that
the administrative and political branches
of the British Government machine are
utterly divorced from one" another. It is
well that It should be so. When Mr.
Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for
the Colonies, "wanted a man to reorganize
the finances of Jamaica he naturally
chose Mr. Olivier. He knew he had finan
cial genius, and his political theories did
not matter, since they could hardly be
applied to a tropical colony inhabited by
negroes- America's failures in Cuba and
Porto Rico have been largely due to her
neglect to copy the excellent example set
by the British colonial system.
Hoiv Cables Are Repaired.
London Tit-Bits.
It is said that one of the submarine ca
bles is laid at a depth of 15,000 feet. At
any rate, there are at least three cables
working at a depth of nearly 17,000 feet
and four In about 1G.0O0, but the vast ma
jority lie in water about 12,000 feet deep
or less.
Repairing a cable is hard work. Tho
apparatus has to be at once sensitive and
strong. The repairing steamer proceeds
to the point where calculation shows the
break or damage to have happened, ana
then lowers a grapnel, which it slowly
drags across the route of the cable at
right angles. As soon as a tension on the
grapnel rope is noted, due to catching
the cable It has hooked, great pains have
to be taken lest the precious treasure
trove slip off at any stage of its Jour
ney up to daylight.
Special grapnels have been devised for
this Important work. In one of the lat
est the prongs project from a hood like
the claws of a crab. Should any of them
come in contact with rock on the bottom
of the sea they recede within the shield
sufficiently to let the grapnel glide over
the obstruction. In this new grapnel the
prong, if It has hooked a bight of cable,
will still hold on when It retracts Into
the shell.
Jfo False Show.
A countryman was induced to accept
tho invitation of the sideshowman to walk
Into the tent and see the leopard change
his spots. Having paid his quarter and
viewed the leopard without discovering
anything peculiar about the animal,' the
countryman walked up to the showman
and demanded his money back on the
ground of misrepresentation, whereupon
the genial showman remarked: "Wait a
bit stranger, wait a bit. The transforma
tion will take place in due time. Just
as soon as the leopard gets tired of lying
in that spot he will get a move on and
try some other spot. This is no faku
show. Walk in and see the leopard
change his spots!"
Raking: np Old Personalities.
Chicago Tribune.
"On this point," said the old Democrat
ic whce.lhorse, "let me quote from a
speech delivered nearly 40 years ago by
that great and good man, Abraham Lin
coln" "Please tell us," Interrupted a squeak
ing voice pertaining to a man In the
crowd, "what you said about that great
and good man, Abraham Lincoln, nearly
40 years ago."
Then arose loud and indignant outcries,
and the ill-mannered person who had been
guilty of the Impudent and uncalled-for
interruption was unceremoniously hustled
outof the hall.
Returns From Small Citlei.
According to the census returns, the
population of Qulncy, 111., is 36.252. a gain
of 475S, or 15.11 per cent, over 1S90, when
It was 31.4W.
The population of Covington, Ky., Is
42.93S, as against 37,371 in 1890. This Is an
Increase of r567, or 14 9 per cent.
The population of Pawtucket, R. I., a
given by the bureau, is 39,231. against
27,633 In 1S90. This is an Increase ot 1I.5D8,
or 41.97 per cent.
The Esteemed "Paramount Isaue."
Chicago Journal, Ind.
It is really painful the way the South
ern Democratic press Is poking fun at
the '"consent of the governed" plank In
the Kansas City platform. The esteemed
"paramount Issue" is regarded as a graat
joke In the South.
MEN AXD WOMEN.
Mmc Pattl has for some tlmo held the rec
ord for the lor-st sum that has been earned
In a year by a woman. Her highest total for
12 months is $350,000.
Rider Haggard, the novelist. Is trying to
have all English missionaries trained as ath
letes, since nothing, he fays, co lmpre.-,c3 the
savage as strength and agility.
Plo Centra, the factotum of the Papal house
hold. Is described as a short, wiry man, well
up in the '50s, of olive complexion, closa
shaven, with piercing eyes and a benevolent
smile.
The Government of Queensland. Australia,
has engraaed Dr. Maxwell, th famous augar
expert of Honolulu, for five years' service on
the Food Commission at a salary of $20,000 a
year.
Lord "Wantage emphatically protests against
the admission ot women to the now rifle clubs
now In course of formation in England. The
Idea Is ridiculous, he says, and, what Is more,
he even suggests that It would reduco tho
"great gamo of national defense" to tho level
of golf or croquet or tennis if once women
joined in it.
An aid-de-camp of King Humbert says he
never saw the King angry but once. The aid
was then at a dinner in the rolo of ofllcer
whom the Queen always kopt at hand to make
a fourteenth at the table If necessary, and
arose to prevent the sitting of 13 when a lady
was obllsed to leave the room. The King an
grily Insisted that the aid keep his seat, as
tho superstition was all nonsense.
Good Intentions.
"Washington Star.
I've found a quiet, shady place,
"Where I can hear the bees
And watch the sunbeams as they traca
Their frescoes through the trees.
I ought to do
A thins or two
Ero day's departed.
But Just you wait!
I'll hustle great
"When I get started.
Is that the sun 'way over there
"Where twilight colors glow?
'Tis but a little while, I'd swear.
Since morning's mist hung low!
How oft before
My conscience sore
Xt dusk has smarted!
Tomorrow I v
Will do or die.
"When I get started.
"What's this! Another hair grown gray!
I won't believe my sight!
It seems no more than yesterday
Since youth was smiling bright
Those plans ot old
Tot fame and sold!
Those memories light-hearted!
But don't you fret;
I'll do things yet.
If I et otartedl
NOTE AXD C0SIMENT.
A politician and his ambition are sooa
parted.
Even Jupiter Pluvlus could not have
kept yesterday from being a fair day-
The concert of the powers seems to
be devoted to Wagnerian music Just now.
If men adopt shirtwaists, they will not
do It merely as a matter of form, lika
their sisters.
It Is singular how the dangers to tho
country that Bryan espied from afar di
minish as they approach.
Now doth the festive apnlo pla
Arise In all its mlht.
And gallop on a nlghtmaro spry
Through Tommy's chest all night.
Office-holders usually hold on to a good
tiling, but Minister Conger, for some rea
son, or other. Is perfectly willing to qulU
Tho Empress Dowager they'll And
A most uncommon fair one.
For when they catch her she'll not wait
Until she gets her hat on stralcht.
Because she doesn't wear one.
The Democrats could have captured tho
support of a large class of voters It they
had adopted a plank declaring against
jailing" without the consent of the jailed.
It Is a cold day frhen Kansas can't
scare up a hard-luck story- She Is howl
ing now because the railroads can't get
cars enough to haul her wheat crop to
market
If Aguinaldo has been correctly in
formed about the chances of the great
Democratic party, he Is probably in tho
hospital suffering from an acute attaclc
ot heart-disease.
Oh! the rollicking excitement in the air
Of the fair.
How It seti the- town to humming, how it "
Drives away dull care, "
See the crowds of people thronging
Through the archway at tho gat
See the eager eyes belonging
To the children who are longing
For the splendors of the fete.
While the noise, nolBev noie
Of tho wild, tumultuous Joys
Now rise, now fall, now swell through an
The circumambient air
At the fair. fair. fair, fair, fair- fair, fair.
At the wonderful Street Carnival and Fair. T
Judge Francis C. Lowell, of the United
States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts, has determined that the
tribunal over which he presides shall no
longer be reproached for laxity In making;
new citizens. A list of the candidates for
citizenship Is required to be posted in
the clerk's office at least 10 days before
the applications are heard, and the oath,
of the applicant Is not to be deemed suf
ficient to prdvo his age at the time of his
arrival Into the United States. It has
been the practice ot Judge Lowell to re
fuse admission to married aliens whose
families have not come to this country
with them.
The fact that the close season for ducks
ended on September 1 has caused many
people throughout the country to imagine
that the close season for upland game
birds ended on the same date. This mis
take has come near getting some farmer
boys into trouble, as they shot some
grouse and pheasant5? and displayed them
openly. When they found out their mis
take, they expressed their regrets and
said they would not hmve thought ot
shooting- the birds had tVey not sup
posed the close season for tbam was end
ed. Farmers and everyone else must bear
In mind that the close season for pheas
ants, grouse and quail does not end till
October 1. and that the open season ends
December 1, that the killing of mere than
15 birds in one day Is prohibited, and that
sile of all these birds is prohibited until
Farmers jVo Lonprer Isolated.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
While our cities have been entangled!
In a mesh of municipal misrule and the
problems of comfort and wholesomenessi
have become Imperative of solution thd
country has made a wonderful stride to
ward the acquisition of town advantages.
Herotofore the village, or at least tho
hamlet, or the crossroads tavern. 3tore and
church, constituted the nucleus of a ru
ral section. Very rapidly this Is being
done away with. The grouping of homes,
throughout the country is made by rural
telephone circuits. In some of the statea
these circuits have already multiplied Into
the tens ot thousands. It la a. social revo
lution which we have not yet begun to,
take a full estimate of in our social eco
nomics. Farm isolation is a thing of the past.
Neighbors scattered about, miles from,
each other, now chat pleasantly and ex
change news by telephone. These circuits,,
connected with a Iong-dl3tance service, en
able the farmer to live In constant com
munication with remote markets. He la
learning to keep as nearly as good a tally
of prices as is posted by the board of
trade, by which tally he sells his cwp
Intelligently.
PLEASANTRIES OF PAnAGRAPIIEKS.
A Flight of Fancy. Visitor Good mornlngr.
tlde'3 very high this morning, eh? Ancient
Mariner Ar. If the sea was all beer, there
wouldn't be no bloomin' 'Igh tides! Punch.
A Fiction Problem. "This Is called a prob
lem story, but the problem Is not yet apparent
to me." "Walt till you get to the end. You.
will then wonder why you ever read 1U" Do-
trolt Journal.
A Puzzle In Compassion. "Dickey, whenever
you see an Insect of a bug in trouble you must
be merciful and help him out." "But., ma. 't
Aun' Jane eels a plnchln'-bug down her neck.,
mus' I help th' bug or help Aun' Janet" In- '
dlanapolls Journal.
On the Spot. "Welcome! Welcomo!" cried
the bfliered Lezatloners, as the head of tho
rescue party arrived. "You are hero Just fa
time." "I'm glad of that." said the leader.
"I'm hero with a. liberal cash offer for maga
slno articles on your experiences by everybody
In the bunch." Philadelphia North American.
Her Nelghborlp Reciprocity. "How do you:
llko your new neighbor, Mrs. Way?" "Not at
all. She's awful stingy. Why,, she borrowed
our tack-hammer and a nutmeg early last
week, but when I went over yesterday- to aslc
her to lend me $S to pay- on tho rent, she said
she didn't havo it to spare. "Wasn't that
small?" Philadelphia Telegraph.
Billings In your club, doesn't it sometimes
come awkwardy to have to follow parliamen
tary rules and refrain from referring to a man
by his name? Ollrow Not at all. For exam
ple, when I speak of Bcesley as "that apology
for a man whose gigantic promlnenco Is his
diminutive inferiority," everbody Itnowa
whom. I mean. Boston Transcript.
Simplifying "Work. "Hero is your morn
ing's mall," said the attendant The Sultan oC
Turkey reached out hla diamond-covered hand;,
then drew It back and exclaimed with a yawn:
"I'll tell you what I wl3h you'd do. Just run
through It and throw away the ultimatums
and bills for indemnity. Then I'll look through
the rest at my leisure." Washington Star.
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Little Willie's First Visit.
Chicago Times-Herald.
I hear no shouting In the hall.
No pounding on the floor;
He isn't marking- on the wall
Or swinging on the door:
H13 battered toys are put away,
'The cat is deep In dreams
He's been away a week today.
And, oh, how long It seems!
No books arc strewn upon tho stairs.
His gun Is hid from view;
His paints are not left on the chalra, w
Tho ruga are not askew;
He went away a week ago,
Hos coming home again
Tomorrow he'll return, bnt oZ
How can I wait till theat