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THE MORNING OREGOSIA, THURSDAY, gEPJFEMBEB, 6,. H9Q0. Jtee jgsmatt Catered ct the Postofflce et Portland. Oreroa, as second-class matter. TELEPHONES, Editorial Boom..10C 1 Business Office... .G07 REVISED SUBSCRIPTION BATES. By K&U (rootage prepaid). In Advance Daily, with Sunday, per month... ...... ?2 ? Dally, Sunday excepted, per year.,.. .... Dally, -with Sunday, per year....... w eunday, per year ,.....-... a J" The Weekly, per year... ..... .. j JTbe Weekly. 3 months.... ...- To City Subscriber . , . Dally, per -week, delivered. Sunday ezcepted-Hto Pally, per week, delivered, Sundays IncludedJWo POSTAGE BATES. United States, Canada and Mexico: 10 to 16-page paper .........J 16 to 82-page paper ...o Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed Invariably "Editor The Oregonlan," not to the name of cny individual. Letters relating to advertising, cubasriptiona or to any business matter should 1 addressed simply '"The Oregonlan." The Oregonlan does not buy poems or stories from individuals, and' cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to it without solicita tion. No stamps (should be Inclosed tor this purpose. Paget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, office at 1111 Pacific avenue, Tacoma. Box 853, JTacema. postofflce. Eastern Business Office The Tribune build tag, New York City; "The BooX-ery." Chicago; the-B. C Beckwith special agency. New York. For eale in San Francisco by J. K. Cooper. f6 Market street, -near the Palace hotel, and fit Gojdsmlth Bros., 230 Sutter strett. For sale in Chicago' by the P. O. New Co., 17 .Dearborn street. . TODAY'S WEATHER. Increasing cloudi ness; cooler; westerly winds. f PORTLAND, THURSDAY, SEPT. 6. AN EXPOSURE OB" BRYAK. We are indebted, and the country Is Indebted, to Mr. Robert P. Sell, of this city, for a crushing exposure of "Will iam J. Bryan's method of garbled quo tation, intended to mislead. Bryan is fond of quoting Abraham Xincoln. Mr. Bell shows how Mr. Bry an, in his Labor day speech at Chicago, deliberately garbled matter from Mr. Lincoln, ignoring the context, wrench ing the quotations from their purpose and meaning, and making them do duty for a purpose very opposite to that Which Mr. Lincoln intended. It Is the message of December, 1851, that Is thus garbled and distorted. This piece of work should exclude Bry en from all consideration among honor able men. He has attempted to con vert an argument made by Mr. Lin coln against a. Confederacy founded on slavery, against its pretensions of prop erty in man, against the assumption by it of the right of capital to own labor, into an argument against capi tal itself and the general rights of prop erty. This most demagogical, shameless, xllshonest and dishonorable piece of work reveals a trait in this political agitator which many suspected, be cause it naturally belongs to such a character. "What Lincoln was protesting against was the pretensions of the slaveholder, against the claim he was making in the name of capital to property in labor and in the man performing it. It was the slaveholder's effort to "place capi tal above labor" that Lincoln de nounced; and Bryan himself has a di rect descent both from political and lineal ancestors who supported that system, and both ancestry and descent have made him what he Is. Let every one read Mr. Bell's letter. There will he found in it a new revela tion of the man Bryan. REASONS AND REASONS. On? of our newspapers, which we ithirik is not so kind as it ought to be, says that editors here and there who opposed Bryan four years ago, but are now supporting him, would have done "well to burn their files behind them be fore going qver to Bryanlsm. For illus tration, it reproduces the following pic ture of the Demo-Populist leader, drawn in 1896 by the facile pencil of the editor of the Louisville Courler Tournal, who is nbw advocating the election of Bryan: itr. William J. Bryan has come to Ken tucky, and Kentncldans have taken his meas "ure. He is a boy orator. He is a dishonest Nlodger. He is a daring adventurer. He is a fjjolltical faker. He is not of the material of "which, the peoDle of the United States have -ever made a President. Nor is he even of th inatcrlal of which any party has ever before an ado a candidate. But there is this excuse for the great paper of Kentucky It could not afford to continue and persist In its antag onism to the controlling opinion of its section. It was compelled to change, as a business proposition; for it has frankly admitted that its former course cost It -"hundreds of thousands of dol lars." It simply could not hold its ground against an intolerant partisan sentiment, nor could it become a Re publican journal and throw itself on Republican support It may be doubt ed whether any newspaper ever made a greater sacrifice, or had a severer trlaL -In the circumstances, no one can lilame the Kentucky paper for a change that was inevitable, unless it was will ing to die; and that is a sacrifice no one should expect such a newspaper and Its business to make, since even its death would in no wise help the cause it had espoused at so great a loss. A "man might help a cause by dying for it, but a newspaper couldn't There js no .sentiment of generous ad miration for a sacrifice Jike that, to be stirred to imitation of it But a paper like the San Francisco Examiner is, on another plane. It was among toe most strenuous of our news papers for retention of the Philippine Islands. It flouted the rubbish of "Im perialism." By one of its esteemed contemporaries of California the fact is recalled that so short a time a.go as April 27". 1899, under the headline, "No body Can Sweep Back the Tide," it made the following editorial declara tion, to-wit: We trust that Mr. Bryan will yet range himself in line with the National aspirations for expansion. The time has come, as it come? at intervals to every vigorous nation as it has come to ours on several former occasions "when the old boundaries are too contracted for the pulsing life within them, and when the health of the body politic demands that room. The popular Instinct understands the need for these periodical expansions, and every genu ine statesman understands it, too. Mr. Bryan may think he is close to the peo ple, and that his silly talk about "Imperial ism" moves them, but he will soon And out that Americans are as much in favor of ex pansion today a3 they were when they ap plauded the acquisition of the Louisiana ter ritory by that noted imperialist, Thomas Jef ferson. There was noneed for the Examiner to change its course, in otfler to put Itself in accord with the sentiment of its state, for that sentiment Is over whelmingly for expansion and takes now- as little stock in "Mr. Bryan's silly talk about 'Imperialism,' " as the Ex aminer phrased it last year, as it did then. The Louisville CourlersJburnal, by the way, is still for expansion, and still declares In the most positive way that we never can withdraw from the Philippine Islands; but it says It must be a Democratic paper, and therefore it supports Bryan. HOW TO HELP THE POOR. The sympathetic soul is always moved at the sight of poverty and misery. All the wealth and comforts in the world, when viewed In connection with their opposltes, seem only to intensify the squalor and gloom of the homeless and the poor. It is but natural, therefore, that a kindly natured man, sitting down to a "sumptuous lunch" at the country mansion of a Maryland gen tleman In the historical and beautiful neighborhood of Cumberland, should say, as Mr. Bryan said: I never visit a Summer resort and see the re freshing shade and beautiful homes without thinking how few, comparatively, of the peo ple of this country are able to enjoy a Sum mer homo. That the poor are not rich has per plexed and saddened wiser men than Colonel Bryan, and perhaps more sin cere ones. But it is well enough to re flect at the outset that the problem seems persistent through all forms of government and all systems of religion. The old Hebrew prophets, who almost deified the poorand visited upon the rich all manner of imprecations, were unable thereby to alter the Inequalities of so ciety, and Jesus, whose sayings are full of similar comparisons, confessed the hopelessness of universal munifi cence when he said: 'The poor ye have always with you." Mr. Bryan- does not specify how gov ernment Is to overcome the disparity in worldly possessions, but In a vague way he impugns the laws. Society ought to do differently, he thinks; the Government ought to do differently. But If he will study history he will, find that the more government tries to do for the Individual, the more helpless does the individual become, and so the more hopeless and prostrate his lot The men who have anything, as a rule, have gained strength only through struggle. The nerveless and portion less are those whose powers have atro phied through disuse, who have been pampered Into nervelessness and Inde cision. Society does so much for some people that they are unable to do any thing for themselves. As for private beneficence, Its path way Is strewn with wrecks. There Is an essential element in achievement, and that Is personal Initiative. If a man or a woman has no ambition, en ergy or application, no amount of philanthropic effort can supply It. Open a home for fallen- women, and, they will make a convenience of Its comforts, only to return to their former ways. Take the children of the ne'er-do-well, house, feed and clothe them till they are able to do for themselves, and almost invariably they are help less. If they are boys, they drift into vagrancy or crime; If they are girls, they become the victim of the first be guller. Open a "Rest" for vagrants, and they will do no more work than absolutely necessary to get an occa sional meal and a cheap lodging. Those who undertake the care of families of improvident men find that once they begin it their task is never done. If a man won't work, nobody can make him acquisitive. If a woman is a born slat tern, no society can make her a good housekeeper. The one thing necessary, therefore, in order that every man may be rich and have his Summer home, Is that he. shall be provided with" grit and gumption; for opportunity, as the lives of all our successful men attest, is open on every hand. But to provide men with this equipment Is not within the purview of Mr. Bryan or of his party. "Witi, free coinage of silver, if it comes to that, Mr. Bryan can double the amount of poverty in the country and halve its wealth. He also proposes to close the doors upon our trade expan sion in the Orient. If any of our poor men come to own a Summer home, it will be secured in spite of Mr. Bryan's most strenuous efforts to the contrary. OUR PISCATORIAL ACCESSION. The introduction of both the small mouthed black bass and the large mouthed variety Is an accomplished fact There is a great difference be tween these two fishes In their value as game fish and as food fishes. The black bass which rises so freely to the fly is the species known as the small-mouthed; the large-mouthed do not take the surface fly with equal avidity, and when hooked do not show the same vigor of fight as the small mouthed, being more sluggish and sur rendering more quickly. The small mouthed black bass may be recognfzed on sight by his greater game qualities and by the position of the eyes, which are always located behind the angle of the mouth, while those of the other spe cies have the eyes In advance of the posterior junction of the jaws. From an article In the New York Sun, entitled, "Angling for Black 'Bass," we extract the following as bearing on the question whether black bass will de populate trout streams: It has been observed that the black bass in rivers are constantly seeking tho upper waters, their range being restricted only when the cold spring water Is reached, and by the absence of deep pools in which they can find rest and comparative protection from danger. This dis inclination of river-bred black bass to enter cold spring brooks where trout Hvo has saved the latter flsh from extermination in many waters. The black boss, like the trout, will live and thrive in cold prinz waters that are land locked if born and bred there, but will not, as beforo stated, enter a trout stream from choice, and if tho ponds or lakes are compar atively shallow, as most trout streams are, tho black bass will not increase" in weight or numbers; at least such has been the result of the writer's observations and experience. The small-mouthed black bass is a) finer game fish than the trout; it is an excellent food flsh, while the large mouthed black bass Is Inferior as a game fish and as a fish for the table. The New York Age recalls the fact that "the late Collls P. Huntington em ployed a vast number of negroes In all sorts of capacities, for he believed" that 'worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow.' " The Age adds: "Mr. Huntington was particularly interested in Afro-American education, and .ren dered substantial assistance to such schools as the Hampton Institute, Tus kegee Institute, Livingston College, and the like." Mr. Huntington left very little of his immense fortune for public purposes, but Hampton Institute is to receive ?100,000 for its permanent fund. "With the exception of $25,000 for b, local New York charity, thi3 is the only be quest" In his will Jo, education or any other public end. In England Mr. Huntington's fortune, -reported as $78, 000,000, would pay a death tax of $6,240, 000, but here it will pay perhaps a third of this sum. EVOLUTION OF THE! CIRCUS. The evolution of the modern, circus Is an interesting subject The cause of its popularity we need not go far to find, for its combination of a menagerie with trained horses, equestrians and athletes appeals both to the primitive human curiosity, whlqh seeks to view what is new and strange, and to In telligent admiration for feats of strength and skill, the result of pa tient training on the part of man and the wild animals he has learned how to master. The illiterate man and the learned philosopher both visit the cir cus; but for very different reasons. The illiterate man Is drawn thither chiefly by the same sort of human curiosity that Jed the untutored savage who had never seen a negro to scrub him pa tiently, thinking he was but a white man who had been dyed black. But the phlosopher goes to the circus to verify his knowledge of natural history by the sight of wild animals that are not included among the fauna of his own circle of vision and knowledge; to enjoy the spectacle of a trained man performing easily feats of strength and skill of which the most perfect natu ral man Is incapable; to witness the ex ceptional ability of an animal-trainer who by nerve and patience makes the fiercest and most untamable carnivora come and go at his call as promptly as would his favorite house dog. The circus touches the whole circle of human life- more completely than even the theater. There Is no man or woman so Ignorant, there Is no man or woman so learned, refined or accom plished, that does not find the circus attractive. To some It is a mere recre ation, but to others is a subject for in telligent observation and reflection. This Is why we And there the young and old of both sexes; those who are nearest the cradle and those who are nearest the grave. This Is tyhy we find there both the top and the bottom of human Intelligence. There never was a political campaign In this country In which "the whole circle of human na ture was as completely represented as you will find it at the circus. There are hundreds of people In every state In this country who are never seen at a theater or at a political meeting or a religious revival who are sure to be found at the circus. Circus day Is a red-letter day, not only for childhood universally, but for many grown-up children. Of course, the modern, mag nificently organized circus is a com paratively recent evolution, but all the factors of the modern circus have been drawing cards as far back as we can trace the history of humanity by any form of written record. The primitive passion of human curi osity to witness the unexpected, to see the new and strange, to admire excep tional skill and strength, that Is at the bottom of the popularity of the circus, can be traced through the literature and records of the remotest antiquity and through the literature of modern life. Shakespeare, whose vision, wheth er born of the power of external ob servation .or. .of the power of imagina tion nothing escaped makes frequent allusion to this universal passion. . In more than one of his plays he refers to the antics of "the dancing horse"; he makes' Trinculo, in "The Tempest." wish he had Caliban In England, "nad but him painted, not a holiday fool 'but would give a piece of silver, because there any strange beast makes a man; when they will not give a dolt to relieve a lame beggar, they will give ten to see a dead Indian." Autolycus, in "The Winter's Tale," and the porter In "Henry VIII," satirize with their speech this primitive passion to witness the unusual, the unexpected, to believe the Incredible. Barnum advertised a mer maid, but his advertisement was noth ing new, for the advertisement of such freaks and fakes can be traced through all human history to the dawn of literature. Monstrosities, both animate and In animate, have excited the curiosity of human nature In all ages; and the set tlers of our thirteen colonies were ever ready to pay for the privilege of seeing objects that are now commonplace. As late as 1796 New Yorkers considered it a great treat to see a live African Hon. The Providence Gazette for Feb ruary, 1792, advertised a monkey as "a natural curiosity." In 1796 the people of New York paid a half dollar to view a live elephant kept in a small house on lower Broadway. Children were al lowed to gaze at him for half price, with the express stipulation that "nobody Is allowed to give anything to the ele phant but his keeper." In 1790 Phila delphia crowded to Peale's museum to see "a live American swan, an East India goose and an opossum with nine young ones." In 1773 a young elk was exhibited In New York at sixpence for a grown person and threepence for a child, and the same year the curious paid 2 shillings to view an electrical flsh. An American dwarf was exhib ited in a private house in Philadelphia in 1798 the price of admission was 25 cents and In 1771 a female dwarf 53 years of age and 23 inches high was exhibited In Boston, the admission price being 1 shilling. In 1760 a boy "as white as a European, with curly hair like a negro, but white as lamb's wool," was exhibited through the colonies. This albino excited a good deal more at tention than he would now, for with but one theater in four or five of the lead ing cities, trivial objects attracted at tention. Within the past twenty years there have been 1600 dynamite anarchist ex plosions. The victims of anarchist as sassins have Included a Frenoh Presi dent, a 'Spanish Prime Minister, an Austrian Empress and a King of Italy, besides the killing and wounding of hun dreds of lesser persons. In 1894 bombs exploded In theltalian and French Cham bers and in every capital in Europe. In May, 1887, the Chicago anarchists, with their bombs, killed eight police men and maimed fiftysfour. For this crime four were hanged, and of those sentenced to life imprisonment, Gov ernor Altgeld, on his accession to the Executive chair, pardoned three. In 1894, in Rome, anarchist bombs killed eight persons; in Barcelona anarchist bombs thrown Into a crowded theater killed and wounded a number 'of per sons, Including several women and children. In Paris the anarchists Ravachol, Valllant and Henry were executed, and in Austria and Spain several suffered . death. The murder of President Carnot In August, 1894, ; caused 'the' passage of a law under which anarchist1 papers have been sup pressed and the clubs broken up. In 1896 ninety-six anarchists, were ex pelled from France, in 1897 sixty-six, and in 189S twenty-eight England, Germany and Austria in 1893-94 enacted laws, penalizing any plot to us.e dyna mite. France, Italy, Spain and Portu gal have passed similar acts. Every civilized state but the United States has passed special legislation directed against anarchy, In this country" noth ing has been done by way of special legislation. . In .view of the fact that King Humbert's assassination Is re ported to have been plotted by a nest of anarchists In Paterson, N. J.f it is a subjeot for regret that our state, and National legislation does not Include a law like that of Switzerland, making it a crime to plot a murder or explosion anywhere within or without our territory. "We esteem that man whose latent flame of patriotism Is ever ready to blaze forth into an exhibition of hero Ism, We admire that man who Is ever prepared to sacrifice self and fortune for his country. We canonize that man who would serve his fellow-cltlzens even though they should give him an irk some task. Some men are more ready than others to assume an irksome task. Who can blame them if they let -their fellow-cltlzens know It? Once Dewey was more ready than others. Now it Is Cornelius Vanderbllt He Is ready to go to Congress. Bryan Is a political agitator, without scruples. He Is a most Insincere, pesti lent and dishonest man. Some respect has been shown him hitherto. Hereaf ter none can be. What manner of man he is may be seen in the exposure of his dishonest action and purpose in per verted quotation of Abraham Lincoln, proven in The" Oregonlan today. This should and' will nullify the last claim of his partisans to respect and cour tesy for him. It should and will break him down utterly before the people of the United States. The way England has of making everybody pay up for breaches of In ternational propriety is being exempli fied In the China affair. When Great Britain gets hold of anything, It Is pretty hard to sh'ako her loose without a persuasive Indemnity. She knows the trick of turning bargains to per fection. It is worth something to China to have the English Army out of Pe kln. If the British get left, we shall see why it was we could not move things as we wished. . Johjn G. Woolley hopes to get 500,000 votes as candidate of the Prohibition party for President He will not get half that number, for the Prohibition party -Is weaker with the people than it was In 1S88, when It polled 249,907 votes. In 1892 it polled 264,133 votes, and In 1896 It polled but 145,076 votes, Including 13,769 votes cast for the Free Silver Prohibition candidate. In 1S84 the Prohibition candidate polled 151,803 votes. We cannot blame the Americans at Pekin for wanting to clean up the en tire' crowd of Chinese officials who abet ted the Boxer outrages. But the cool headed judgment of the home 'Govern ment will be more appropriate for the time than their hpf.-headed indignation. The McKlnley Administration is one of the least' impassioned we have ever had, so that we shall not be committed to ah extreme policy. The suit against Hon. H. W. Corbott, brought In the name of E. E. Peterson, has collapsed. There is every evidence that the suit was brought through col lusion between the nominal plaintiff, the woman, and the attorney. It never had the semblance of good faith. It never was intended that it should be tried. The motive from the first was not doubtful. There Is not that brotherly or sister ly 'love between Tacoma and Seattle that ought to subsist between twin cities. The following from the Tacoma News is a sample of the ginger from the family jar: Omaha has fallen oft 40,000 in population in 10 year, but that Js nothing to the decrease that will bo recorded whenever they succeed In getting an honest count of Seattle. Mr. Lincoln denounced the man who tries to persuade an American soldier "that he Is fighting In a bad cause, for a wicked Administration or a con temptible Government.',' The quota tion, pointedly observes the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, has escaped the no tice of Bryan and Towne. A French Colonel declares that a sol dier who commits suicide is a deserter, because he abandons his post. Until now suicide was a favorite way for Frenchmen to Indemnify their honor. Let no man say hereafter that Will iam J. Bryan is an honest man. He Is not an honest man. SUverlte Rebuke of Sllvorlsm. New York Journal of Commerce. SI ight-of-hand Is Mr. Bryan's favorite resourco, even in dealing with the silver question, where there Is no doubt what ever about the Issue between the Chicago and Kansas City platforms and the prin ciples of sound money. Referring to the Just condemnation of the 16-to-l ratio, ho asked "why Mr, McKinley's Administra tion, is coining silver dollars today at the ratio of 16 to 1?" Tho reason Is that Sen ator Wolcott and other sllverltes or half sllverltes In, the Senate would not allow the war revenue act to go through Con gress without exacting the coinage of the bullion then owned bv th Onvpmmpnt. These patriots would not allow the Im perative need of the Governmen.t then at war to be provided for without "doing something for sliver." But tho vital dif ference between the 16-to-l advocated by Mr. Bryan and that now practiced by the Government under compulsion from the Senatorial blmetallsts Is that the former Is coupled with free coinage and the latter is not. For a New Canadian Water Way. New York Times. Considerable attention Is being paid In London to the project of the Canandlan authorities which will enable British ves sels to carry wheat from Canadian prairies along a water way wholly with in the boundaries of the Empire, and In so doing to effect a saving practically equivalent to 1000 miles over United States routes, from the Western States to Liverpool. The scheme Includes the utilization of the series of Jake and rivers, lying In a direct line, between Montreal and Lake Huron, and, by the construction of less than 30 miles In all of canal, to complete a continuous navigable water way for vessels from the head of the Great Lakes to the Atlantic tidal waters at Montreal, shorter than any other possible route by about 300 miles. The advantages of such a scheme are two-fold because of reduced freight rates the grain can 'bo sold-"cheaper In Great Britain, while the new navigation wllL also develop that vast territory of New Ontario, which stretches for several hundred mllesr from the north of Lake Su perior eastward across the, headwaters of the Ottawa River. The Ontario Government has recently Issued a pamphlet describing the natural advantages'' of this section of Canada: 1t possess not only great forest wealth but even greater mineral wealth. Such 'discoveries of gold, nickel and Iron have been made as are perhaps unique. Even now the prospects ore that In a few years Ontario will possess a gold mine Industry rivaling that of the Cape or o'f Western Australia. Along the Atlk-Okan River, about 90 miles from Lake Superior occurs a -range of Iron ore from 150 to 300 feet in width, rising 200 feet above sur rounding country and extending for 20 miles from east to west, aald to be, the largest deposit yet discovered In Amer ica." ELECTIONS 'IN VERMONT. Figures Glvea for Comparison, Since the Year 1876. The following figures show the vote In Vermont for Governor, in the Septem ber elections, from 1876 to 1838. Compari son may be made from them with the result of last Tuesday's election, when, the full returns of Tuesday shall have been received. Of course. It will be un derstood that It Is only In Presidential years that the September vote Is at all significant In 1876 the Republican plur. allty was 23,'93Q; In 1SS0 it was 25,603; In 1SS4 it was 22704; In 18S8 it was 28,995: in 1892. 19.702; in 1896 It reached the unpre cedented figure of 38,541. It will be noted that In the years when It was small 1854 and 1893 the Republicans lost the Presi dential election. What the portent now is cannot well be determined, but if the plurality shall reach 32,000, as reported down to the hour when this Is being writ ten, it must be taken as an omen quite favorable to the Republicans. It would seem that neither par.ty has, at this time, polled Its full vote. The phenomenal Re publican plurality of. 1696 was the first response of the country on the straight silver Issue of that year. It Is evident that many persons are now disposed to regard this question as not dangerous at present; hence no doubt the smaller vote In Vermont. When tho majority In Ver. mont falls below 25,000, In September of a Presidential year, it has been taken as a sign of disturbance of normal politi cal conditions and of a trend of opinion away from the Republican party. Thus, In 1884, when the plurality fell to 22,70. Blaine was defeated In the following No vember; In 1SS2, when It fell to 19.703, defeat of Harrison followed; in 1876, when It was 23.9CO, Hayes was barely success ful, through the Electoral Commission. But in 1SS0, ivhen the September majority In Vermont was 25,603, Garfield won: and In 1892, when It was 28,995, Harrison won. In 1SC15 some thousands of Democrats voted with the Republicans on the sil ver Issue, and many more refused to vote at all. The following figures would Indi cate that the full Republican vote ot Vermont is about 48,000, and the full Democratic vote about 20,000. Vermont is a state In which there has been no Increase of voters or population during many years: Plu rality. 23,030 20.005 25.603 21.303 22,704 20!522 28.003 14.103 10.702 32.021 38.511 23,872 Year. Rep. vote. Dem. vote. 15HJ -.4.008 21.038 1878 37,312 17,247 18S0 ,47,6-id 21.1U5 lbS2 35.3J0 14 41G 1834 42521 10,820 1880 ., 37,700 17,187 1888 43.0J2 10.527 1800 33.4U2- 10.2UO 1802 3S.01S 10,211 1M 4U.0G1 14,142 J806 M,42tl 14.S85 1M8 p 33,565 14,0811 The Wall Street View. Henry Clews. Secretary Gage has quite opportunely wamel tho coun'ry of the real dan;e' from illvcrlsm. Ihe law of March It, a3 it now stands, Is parfectly safe when in terpreted by those whose faith Is pledged to the gold standard; If, however, admin istered by its enemies or those pledged to si e, It C34 d not be depended upon to maintain the go!d standard. It J3 still possible, If those in authority were so In clined, f r this Government to pay Its ex penses and redeem its obligations in sliver dol'ars as well as gold dollars. Gold pay in. pt? woUd o cojrs cease at once if such a change of policy were attempted. That a peril of such gravity is possible from a simple change cf administration, ghould be fcufllcient warning to the sound menoy Interests to rouse themselves 4lnto vigorous activity; the danger from apathy in that quarter being almost equal to the danser from the strength of the silver party four years ago. Without discussing politics, cs such. It is perfectly proper to warn the pe.ple that if these possibilities should cvin be turned into probabilities at the next d:c Ion, the present era of p o p:r.ty would be suddenly ended, and tho whole country would be thrown into a state of business depression more vio lent than' that feared four years ago, be cause tho sh'ck would not have bsen soft ened by several years of anticipation. SU- verlsm .should be crushod for good next November, and ro'hlng but apathy will prevent. Tne danger of overconfldence, however, Is a very serious one, Sarcoum Anent Pnpret Sound. Now York Commercial. There are 11 separate and distinct rea sons why, In the opinion of the Seattlo Times, President James J. Hill, of the Great Northern Railroad, "Is the groat eat railroad magnate from the standpoint of construction, management and pro-, ductlve outcome that the world has ever known." These reasons are all double leaded In wide editorial measure and properly sized up in a recent issue of the Times, and they present a decidedly Imposing appearance. But in their last analysis they really comprehended only the single proposition that, while "the future success and greatness" of Seattle were "trembling In the balance," the great Hill had it In his power to "make or wreck" that future, -and wisely chose to "make" It that Is, ho named Seattle as the ocean terminus of hlB great lake, railway, ocean and Oriental transporta tion system. In short, James J. Hill deftly killed two birds with one stone- made himself great In a minute and In that minute assured the "future great est" of Seattle. Had his final cholco of a terminus been Everett, the competing port, It Is fair to presume that Hill would now be a non enlty and Seattle would be permanently "off the map," without a future of any sort. Unfortunate Everett! Thrice happy happy Seattle! Mr. Bryan and the Suffrage. Boston Herald, Ind. We observe that the Springfield Re publican and the Washington Post, re-' ferrlng to the Herald's suggestion that some one ought to question Mr. Bryan regarding his opinion of the course of those Southern states which have adopted constitutional amendments dis criminating against colored citizens in the exorcise of the right to vote, say, substantially, that this Is a subject as to which he may properly hold his peace, leaving to the Supreme Court the duty of determining whether by this action the states have violated the Constitution of the United States, This Is an evasion. We are not seeking Mr. Bryan's opinion of tho Constitutionality of the proceeding. He Isn't enough of a Constitutional law yer to make his opinion on the lawful power of tho states to do such things worth asking for, or giving attention to. We want to know what Mr. Bryan, as a citizen, a politician and an ethical states man, thinks Of these proceedings, Sup- posing, for the sake of argument, that these Southern states have a technical right to violate the spirit of the Consti tution and the Declaration of Independ ence In this manner, does Mr. Bryan think It is a right and democratic (using the word in its generic sense) thing to do? Is It, or Is It not, a proper policy for a party that Is making loud profession of devotion to the equal rights of mankind and the doctrine of the consent of the governed? This is a Jive issue. It is organically affiliated with the "para mount Issue," as he defines it. "We hope ho will allow himself to consider it seri ously and give the public his views. i i . i . .i i a i i EDMUNDS FOR BPKINM3Y. He Is Still an Aatl, but He Has Soonic Reason Left. New York Commercial Advertiser. Ex-Senator Edmunds, like Senator Hoar, demonstrates that It Is possible for a man to be an antl-lmperlallst and retain his sanity. He 4 does not favor expansion as a National policy any more than he has from the beginning, but he does not regard that as sufficient reason for turning the country over to Bryan. "I believe the good of the coun try," he says to a Herald corespondent, "demands the re-election of President McKlnley. I suppose expansion Is his greatest vice, and I do not really know that he is an expansionist" Think of the emotions of Irving Vinslow when he reads that! Why Mr. Edmunds waves aside the entire volume of antl-lmpe-rldllstlc literature m that finnl clause. Not know that McKlnley Is an expansion ist! Has the man never read the Hon. Carl Schurz' speeches and the Atkinson pamphlets? And then see the harsh view he takes of Bryan, the 'candidate of tho Aptl-Imperlallst League for the salva tion of the Republic. "Altgeld may be honest, Bryan may bo honest; I believe, for that matter, that the majority of anarchists are honest, but It Is the ideas they have and which they try to carr out that make them unsafV" There are. for example, Bryan's sliver Ideas. "That Is something on which no chances should be taken. There are millions of dollars worth of outstanding Government bonds payable In silver, and with one ot Bryan's followers a3 Secretary of the Treasury we do not know what might happen." As for .trusts. That 13 not a party question; for there are as many Democrats as Republicans In them, and combinations of men for business pur poses Is not a party question. The Attorney-General and the Supreme Court can be depended to treat them justly. In regard to the Philippines, Mr. Ed munds 1b as sane and Judicial as he is In reference to other subjects. "If W6 had dropped out of the Philippines aftei Dewey fought at Manila, all would have been well." Flshtlng, under a different method of procedure, might have stopped a year ago; but all that is of the past As for the future, Mr. Edmunds says: "We should maintain an Interest there. As for throwing them over as tho Demo cratic platform proposes, I, am opposed to any such proposition. If we could do that, I firmly believe that within at most three years the Islands would be In the possession of England, Germany and Spain, and I should not like to see that." It Is made very plain by these utterances that Mr. Edmunds was never at heart a genuine antl-lmperlallst. It he had been he could never have said that we should maintain an Interest In the Philippines Does he not know that we are guilty of "criminal aggression" In belhg there? Bryan and the Snprcme Conrt. Now York Herald. That Mr. Bryan, should he be the next President, would have the appoint ment of one or more Supreme Justices is altogether probable. That he would appoint men Imbued with his own Ideas goes without saying. What a Bryanlzed court would be able to do Is shown by the n-ast power which the Judges of that tribunal may wield. It might sweep away the Constitutional barrier to a Popullstlc Income tax. It might abolish whot Mr. Bryan and his followers have so loudly denounced as "government by Injunction." It might Import Into the Constitution and the laws of the "United States the financial fallacies of the S1I verltos and the governmental vagaries of the Populists. MEN AND WOMEN. The Democratic candidate for Governor of Wisconsin. Louis C. Eohmrlch. Is a successful Milwaukee lawyer, who was born In Germany 45 years ago. Sousa made a bis impression on the forelsn cltlos which ho visited with his band. In Munich It wa! ealil that nothing of the kind had ever been heard there before. Marlon Crawford will bo present at tho first presentation of his dramatized novel. "In the Palaec of the Klwr." by Viola Allen, in "Wash ington, the latter part of September. Sir Thonai Linton has started a new enter prise. He Is trying to organize the Australian wine trade with a view to pressing the colonial wines on the British public as he did the Cey lon tens. Maacagnl has completed a four-act opera, called "Vestllla." on which he has been en gaged several years. Nothing ho has written, however, has achieved the success of his "Cavallerla Iustlcana." Rev. Henry B. Smith, rector of St. Paul's Church. Ardmore.. I. T., who has Just been or dained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church, Is a full-blooded Cherokeo Indian. He will soon leave St. Paul's Church to become a member ot tho staff of the Cathedral at Mil waukee. ' Capital punishment has been abolished In Italy, but It would be a good deal more merci ful than the penalties In store for the assas sin of King Humbert. Ten years' solitary con finement means death or Insanity by slow tor ture The prisoner will not be allowed to talk, road, write or smoke. President Gary, of the Federal Steel Com pany, is to build a Methodist Church at "Whcaton, 111., as a memorial to Mr. and Mrs. Erastus Gary, his father and mother, who were closely identified with religious works In "Wheaton durlns their lifetime. Tho building will cost between 150,000 and $75,000. The conception of a figure In this case a winged Victory preceding a warrior has been well worked out by the sculptor, St. Gaudens, In his statue of General Sherman, but the idea Is not new In Itself. A statue of Charlemagne has two such figures, and one Is introduced in a monument to the lato German Emperor, William I. A copy of tho will of Stephen Crane, which was probated In England, has been presented In Surrotate Howell's court at Goshen, New Tork. Mr. Crane bequeaths his household goods and furniture at his former home In England to his widow, and allows her all the royalties frpm his books and wrltlncs as long as she lives. He ha4 no real estate Crowded Out. " Baltimore American. x I Where Is the old tramp printer 't Who used to saunter In, With his ruby nose and rusty clothes. And the inost engaging grin? He's crowded out by Improvements By a clicking new machine Which clatters and chugs and throws out these slugs: "Mnghadstl (((nghdbtfxty seen." He "used to stick type for Greeley." "Many an many's the night. Old Horace would awear, If I wasn't there To follow his copy all right." He never set any "pl-llnes" To bother the make-up man. " He never yet slammed jammed: sentence thus "Forthyanxtsgetb&? the plan." He knew all the deans and the ancients, Greeley, and Raymond, too. Prentice, Medlll. McCullough? "Sure, Bill. He'd told every one what to dol Now he's replaced by machinery Something that cannot think That don't havo to eat, and can't "Pi Its feet." Because it don't know how to drink. Gone 13 the old tramp printer, "Who'd ask you for a "bit," And after the strike would again "hit the pike" To a town where he might "get a sit." He's listed, anions back numbers By the soulless linotypes, Which sputter and fuss and set a line thus: "HadffjtyUlinnoprstydijfnbcYg pipes." K0T E AND C0MMEST. , There will be no Waterloo for the Maryland Wellington this year. The man behind the speech 13 the mast formidable person at large in this coun try Just now, For obvious reasons the Inventor of a. hand organ never accompanies It on a tour around the country. - Bryan thinks so highly of Roosevelt's speeches that he makes two every time the hero ot San Juan Hill makes one . Now that the Horton law Jias been" repealed, the fistic heroes will again haven to settle their disputes on their type writers. Prince Leopold 13 to receive a crown as a wedding present When he takes unto himself a wife he has the other throne in as it were. 'Alfred Austin has been silent so long that his countrymen begin to be troubled with a fearful suspicion that he is study ing Chinese dialect. The Czar has been' trying to stop gamb ling. If he stops It the way he stoppett war the whole world will soon bo one: great Monte Carlo. John D. Rockefeller, It is said, con eat only crackers and milk. The trust at which he 13 at the head, however, con tinues to swallow entire oil wells, and. seems to thrive on them. The Atlanta Constitution rejoices la the fact that the North Is having a few riots. The Constitution, of course, la sure that the number will never be great enough to make the North formidable as a rival of the South in this respect. Breathes there the man with soul so dead. Who never to himself hath said. "I'm glad the clrcun Is In town?" J" Who never shared the heartfelt Joy 1 Evinced by every healthy boy , When pass tho elephant and clown? ' If any ruch you chance to know Who says no gorgeous "greatest show" Can set his heart with Joy on Are, , Who says he never likes to stand And hear the passing clrcua band. If such thero be well, he's a liar. Six German states are now governed! by regents; the kingdom of Bavaria and thc principality of Llppe Detmold, on account of the Insanity of their rulers; the princi pality of Reuss of the younger line,, where the Prlnco has turned the government over to his son; the Duchy of Brunswick, which Is held by Prussia pending a set tlement with the House of Hanover, anrt the Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerln and Saxo-CobUrg-Gotha, whose rulera are not yet of age. Mark Twain, who will soon return fo his home In Hartford, Conn., thus an swers a friend who asked him if he did not enjoy traveling: "No, I don't I do It for the sake of my family. If I had my way, I'd settle In one spot and never move. In fact, I can't understand how any writer can be persuaded to move of his own accord. Old Bunyap was In luck when they threw him Into prison. If C had been In his place, they'd never have got me out" Some years ago a man ran up a bill of 52CO In the Tremont House, Chicago, and then ran away without settling it. The trunk which remained In his room was unusually heavy, and when opened after his departure was found to contain speci mens of ore, brought from the gold and silver mines of Colorado, where, presuma bly, he had lost all his money. After waiting out the legal time. Mr. Gage sept the contents of the' trunk to an assayer. who returned two bits of metal valued at more than $100 In excess of the bill, after deducting his own fee. PLEASANTRIES OP PAIlAGILVFH&Rg Provision for the Future. Mrs. Bonney Six motherless children, you say? And can't you. find work? Tramp Oh. they're not old enough, for that yet. ma'am. Brooklyn Ufa. Watered Stock. Costlgan Av Oi had a. boonch of money Ol'd never put any of it in the Ice trust. Bystander Why not? Costlgan Bekaso there's too much water in tho stock. Judge. A Desirable Equipment. He Oh. yes. 1 have heard him sing. I. admire him very much. She. Really, you don't mean It? He It isn't his singing I admire; it'a his nerve. Chicago Evening Post. According tq Experience. Farmer B. This 'ere paper says they ain't nothln f'r an ap petite like a long tramp. His Wife Land t They don't know what they're talkln' about. A short one c'n eat Just ez much. Philadel phia Telegraph. Infalllbln Signs. Mammy Blackey Whad meks you fink Mlstah Moke am gwlno to pre poso at last? Daughter Kasa I kin tell from, his hungry looks an' da seediness ob hla clothes dat he ain't gwina to be ablo to sup po't hlase'f much longer. Harper's Bazar. Some Wero Touched. Tho Chicago Reform. Association were about to lynch an Alderman, one day, when tho wretch cried out that a sad wrong was being done him. "I have helped to make your municipal government absolutely and beyond question the corruptest in the world," he exclaimed. "Is this the thanks f get for my efforts to make our beautifut city pre-eminent?" There were many present whoso civic pride was touched by this plea. Detroit Journal. ' Miss Lucy. ' Boston Transcript.. Miss Lucy was a modern child. Extremely up to date. No superstitious trash defiled Her most superior state. No fairies hovered round her cot. No giants barred her way. Old Santa Claus was quite forgot With all deceitful play. Her food was modulated milk, With graham bread and rice; Her underclothing was of silk. That cost a pretty price. Her governess from Paris came. Her nurse was German born; At English words they cried. "For shame r And treated them with scorn. She never went In car or shop For fear of catching gorms: Sho could not near a beggar stop, , On any sort of terms! t And now a very curious thing . I must perforce relate; And list, ye parents, while I sing Of poor Miss Lucy's fate. At twelve years old she went to school. And there, oh strange to say. She seemed a little like a fool, In some mysterious way. She could not read, she not spell. Her tongues wero Jumbled so; Twould weary any one to tell The things she did not know. And though no giants crossed her lot Or ghosts to cause her fear. She trembled sore, lest by her cot A microbe should appear. At last one very windy day. While walking with the muld, In spite of all her silk array She caught a cold. 'tU said.' Oh, poor Mtes Lucy! Microbes came t And sat down In a row. And germs, and things without a name, " That all refused to go. For many a weary day and night They had their wicked will; v'i 'Till nurse and doctor won the fight By patient care and skill. Ah, in the most enlightened schemes Some difficulties lurk; So not amiss, it sometimes seems. To watch how they may work.