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The President's letter of acceptance "presents a most impressive array of :Cacts which, are either forgotten or ignored by the antis, but which arp "utterly subversive of the whole fab ric of their contentions. They may be briefly epitomized. The purposes of this Government toward the Filipinos are fairly . infer able from the Instructions given to General Merritt as. early as May 19. 1898. He was directed to proclaim to them that we had no design to "make "war upon the people of the Philippines, nor upon any jart or faction among ,them, but to protect them in their homes, in their employments, in their personal and religious rights." It is clear upon the record that thjs. purpose was honest, and that, if obstruction had not interfered, both here and there, it would long ago have been fulfilled. The same purpose was subsequently announced, through General Otisr in the December following, "In the most pub lic manner, that we come not as in vaders or conquerors, but as friends to protect the natives in their homes, in their employment and in their per sonal and religious rights." And the record shows that just this has been done whenever subsidence of armed In surrection against our lawful author ity has permitted. The Schurman Commission went over to the Philippines fully desirous of establishing peace and the largest measure of self-government possible within necessary safeguards of peace and order. Some of the members were "anti-imperialists." They wanted the war stopped through pledges of self government to the ITiliplnos. Their plan was approved at Washington. The islanders were to elect officers and serve as appointees, much like the pro gramme now satisfactorily operating in Cuba and Porto Rico. The Tagals were satisfied. At the final conference for acceptance of the plan and cessa tion of hostilities, the Americans were present, but the Tagals were absent. They never appeared. Then the com mission said: It is no use. "We must' restore order first, and introduce self government afterward. Disappointed, but firmly convinced that "only through .American occupation, therefore, is the Idea of a free, self-governing and united Philippine commonwealth at all con ceivable," the commissioners came home. Then the Taf t Commission went over. Its purpose was not enslavement or op pression, but The establishment of an educational system throughout the Islands; the establishment of c system to secure an efficient cHll service;, the orranlaatlon and establishment of courts; the organization and establishment of mu nicipal and departmental governments, and all other matters of a. civil nature for which the miiltary governor Is now competent to provldo by rules or orders of a leglslathe character. Then follows as impressive a passage as the letter of acceptance contains, an extension 'to the Filipinos of the Con stitutional rights and privileges which the antis so recklessly charge us with withholding. This is what the Presi dent enjoined: Tio person shall le deprived of life, liberty or property -without due pro cesK of la-vr. Private property nli&ll not be tnlcen for public -use -without just compen sation. In nil criminal prosecutions the ac ccued Rlinll -enjoy the rigrht to a speedy and public trial, to he in formed of the nature and cause of the accusation, to be confronted "with the witnesses agrainst him, to have compulsory process for obtaining -witnesftet In his favor, and to have assistance of counsel for his defense. Excessive bail shall not he re quired, nor excessive fine imposed, Zto cruel and unusual punishment Inflicted. No person shall he pnt twice in Jeopardy for the same offense, or he compelled in any criminal case to be Wk witness against himself. The rigrht to security against Tin Yeasonable searches and seizures shall not he violated. Neither slavery nor involuntary "servitude shall exist, except as a punishment for crime. 3kO bill of attainder or ex-post-facto "Jaw shall be passed. So law shall be passed abridging: the freedom of speech or of the Jjrecs, or of the rigrhts of the people to peaceably assemble and petition the Government for a redress of Errievnnces. No law shall he made respecting: the establishment of religion or pro iihitins the -free exercise thereof, and the free exercise and enjoyment of religious" profession and worship, without discrimination or prefer cnoe, shall forever be allowed. The Tafc Commission was composed, like the Schurman Commission, partly of the so-called anti-imperialistic ele ment, Judge Taft himself, before he went away, .made an address in which Jhe deprecated conquest and bespoke eelf-government for the Filipinos. Yet fche Taft Commission, having studied the problem on the grounds, comes to the same old conclusion, viz: Turnlce islands over to a coterie of Tagalog poKOcians "will .pllsht fair prospects of enor tnous Improvement; drive out capital; make life mod property, secular and religious, most lnse-, care; hostell by fear of cruel conscription any body of conservative Filipinos -who have aided lLmeric&ns, in. Trail-founded belief that their people .are not now fit for elf-govcrnment and Ccuxtro&uco same oppression and corruption' which existed in all provinces under Malolos insurgent go-ernment during the eight months of its control. The result will be factional strife betweenJealous leaders, chaos and an archy, and "will rcQuire ,and Justify active In tervention of our Government or some other. The record, shows that our every ef fort has been bent to establishment of good government in the Philippines. Our purpose was beneficent, we have done the best we could. The only re source left the antis is to show that we have no authority for our course' there, no matter how benevolent our purposes or salutary our procedure. And for this matter, no lawyer now de .nles the perfect title of the United States to the islands under the treaty of Parist The President's letter leaves anti-imperialism without a leg to stand on. EVOLUTION OF THE RACETRACK. Somebody has said, half in humor and half in earnest, that in the original di vision between man and the animal kingdom the.horse was almost admitted and the dog altogether. At all events, so early were these animals included among the companions and friends of man that neither the horse nor the dog has today any original wild represen tative. The horse probably originated on the steppes of Asia, but he was do mesticated and had disappeared as a wild animal before the dawn of writ ten history. "While the bones of the fossil horse are found in plenty in both hemispheres, there were no living horses In America when It was discov ered, and the wild horses of the North American and South American plains, as well as those of the table-lands of Asia, are domesticated horses that have escaped from captivity and be come wild, even as there are packs of wild dogs in Utah, New Mexico and other spots that have escaped from do mestication and become wild. There are wild animals allied to the horse family, like the zebra, the quagga and the wild ass of Asia, just as there are wild animals, such as foxes and wolves, that are allied to the dog so nearly that hybrids can be obtained. But there Is no original of the dog or horse left In the animal kingdom. The Australian dingo is the nearest approach to the dog, and the zebra and the wild ass are the nearest approaches to the horse among wild animals, so completely has the original type of dog and horse been lost in the kingdom of wild animals. Horseraclng in chariots is mentioned In Homer and in the oldest literature. Horseraclng was a sport so passionately loved by the Athenians that Aristoph anes, the great Greek comedian, refers to it more than 400 years before the Christian era. the age of Socrates. Al clblades, Pericles and Plato, as a. sub ject for satire, and It was conspicuous from the earliest times among the Olympic games. There was, of course, nothing remarkable In this fact, for the natural man was a hunter and a war rior before he was a farmer. The first beasts he would subject to his control would be those that would help him in hunting and in war as beasts of burden, chase and transportation, so that active-minded, Intelligent people were Horsemen before they were farm ers because men were hunters and fish ers and herdsmen before they tilled the soil. War and the chase would oaslly account for the early absorption and extinction of the horse In the kingdom of wild animals. As man rose In Intel ligence and became not only a warrior. a hunter, a herdsman, but finally a farmer, he found leisure for recreation, and contests in speed and skill between men and between beasts were the natu ral recreation of gregarious humanity. The Roman civilization, of course, adopted the recreations of the older civilization of the Greeks, just as' the best Roman art and literature are but able echoes and imitation of the ex cellence of Greece in plastic art and literature. The original superior qual ity of Roman civilization over that of Greece was that Rome was primarily a disciplined soldier, a brldgebullder, a military engineer, a road, aqueduct and sewer builder, a -lawmaker and gov ernor, but her art, her literature and her amusements Rome adopted from Greepe, and from Greece horseraclng came to Rome. "When the Romans ar rived in Britain and found It without amusements they Introduced horserac lng. "William the "Conqueror, with his big Norman horses, Improved the small British "cayuse." The Crusades Im proved the breed of horses In France and Southern Europe. London had horseraclng as early as 1174, although, of course, the performances of the tilt yard absorbed public attention, for they exhibited feats of arms while "witching the world with noble horsemanship." Horseraclng in England has been nour ished by the royal court from the days of King John. Edward III, Henry VII, Henry VHL Queen Elizabeth, James I, Charles I, Charles II, James II and "William in were all fond of horseflesh, and to their patronage is due the evo lution of the racetrack- in England. Even Oliver Cromwell, stern Puritan that he was, kept running-horses in 1653. Horseraclng began In Virginia, Mary land and the New -York Colony of Man hattan in the seventeenth century. Governor Slaughter had races on Long Island in the reign of "William III, and horseraclng was popular In the middle of the seventeenth century In Virginia, and especially Maryland. Virginia be gan to Import thoroughbred English horses as early as 1730-40. The first race in South Carolina took place for 20 In 1734. and a racecourse was es tablished in Charleston, S. C, in 1735, and on this racecourse in the last years of the century the famous John -Randolph, of Roanoke, rode his own horse and won over a visiting aristocratic Englishman riding his own horse. Be fore the Revolution the Tlch families of New Tork City, the De Lanceys and the Morrises, raced the Southern plant ers at Baltimore, and De LanceyB fa mous mare Strumpet was generally vic tor, because, as her name, implied, she was very fast. The trotting-horse first came to the front In America In 1818, when the gray gelding Boston Blue made a mile In three minutes. Dutch man, in 1836, under saddle, made three miles In 7:32, and four miles In 10:51. On modern tracks, with modern advan tages, it is doubtful If this has been sur passed for a long-distance race. The test of the racecourse is necessary to the maintenance and improvement of racing stock. Therefore reputable as sociations should be permitted to con duct honorable business, to the discour agement of those whose ,sole aim is to make money, regardless of the horse and everything else. The Government crop report, printed in the commercial department this morning, presents some interesting fig ures on wheat. The condition Septem ber 1 is given at 65.5, compared with an nverace of 80.9 for the Bast ten years. These figures demonstrate pretty effectually that even so big a country as the United States cannot eieyate prices by; a partial crop .fail ure. Wheat Is now 73 cents per bushel In Chicago, on a very low crop condi tion, and yet twice within the past ten years it has sold for more than double, that figure on a vastly improved crop condition. If our wheat customers can secure stocks from other countries, they, will never run prices up, no matter ho'vy badly our crop may be damaged. A FAMIIIAR STORY. The. truth about Nome City as a min ing camp, and the Cape Nome section as a mining district, is being told from time to time by men of discernment and practical judgment who are nei ther disappointed nor yet fortunate goldseekers, but who went thither in the early Summer for the purpose of Informing themselves and the public concerning the true conditions existing there. One of these Rev. J.' F. Ghorm ley, of this city presents In a short let ter published in The Oregonian yes terday facts which, If made known and accepted four or five months ago, would have prevented the most disastrous epi sode In the history of mining excite ment in the Pacific Northwest. His presentment Is from personal observa tion, conducted without hardship to himself and untlnged by disappoint ment Hence his estimate of Nome as a gold-bearing region differs material ly from that of the enthusiast of four months ago who pushed feverishly for ward through Ice-gorged channels ex pecting to pick his fortune from the grass roots or wash it from the beach sands during the short Summer and re turn to civilization before the close of navigation in the Fall. The boom bubble, Inflated to enor mous proportions by transportation companies In their own interest, has burst, leaving wreck and ruin upon the beach. But Nome Is not, therefore, nec essarily a failure as a mining district. On the contrary, men who with pa tience and foresight pursue the advan tages that really exist there; who prop erly provide for their own comfort, stay by their property with cheerfulness and determination, and work their claims with proper equipment for a few years, will reap a substantial harvest from their endeavor. Nome is not a fail .ure as a mining district because un reasonable expectations concerning its extent and richness failed of realiza tion. Its gold output may not be enor mous, but It will, no doubt, make a showing in the next few 3rears that will equal all legitimate expectations. The location Is not an inviting one to men whoiove home, and who, to be-reasonably content, must b'e within easy ac cess to civilization. But there are those who will submit to deprivations In these lines, protect themselves from physical privation, abide the long Arctic night in comfort, and reap their reward in the opportunities that the coming day will offer to enterprise and persist ence. In the meantime the lesson f Nome Is now before, the world. It cannot be said that there Is anything new In it. It is, in fact, but a repetition, varied somewhat to meet climatic and geo graphical conditions and the exactions of transportation, of the history -of mining excitement for the past half cen tury. There is no reason to expect that men will profit by It, since this is not the way of mankind. As The Orego nlan has pointed out many times, there is no reason why any man should leave Oregon for the purpose of bettering his condition, industrially or through en gaging in any productive enterprise. If mining has special charms, we have here a field vast and prom ising in which to indulge this prefer ence, tapped by railroads, in close touch with civilization and free from climatic rigors. THE LETTER ASH THE STANDARD. It Is not too much to say that Presi dent McKinley's letter of acceptance is not only a most trenchant and efficient campaign document, but rises clear above this into the higher domain of a very able state paper. It will not only make thousands of votes for McKlnley among Gold Democrats and "anti-Im-pei'iallst" Republicans who are today halting at the parting of the ways, but it is so serene, able and sincere an ut terance that it will probably form the most honorable page In the public writ ings of the President. It Is so astute, keen, tactful, persuasive and dispas sionate that every word of it will be read with attention and respect by the thoughtful, honest Independents of both parties, for It surpasses In these quali ties even that remarkable Boston speech which ex-Secretary Olney heard with admiration and then said to an anti imperialist friend: "You greatly un derrate the intellectual powers of Pres ident McKlnley ; he Is easily the ablest and most intelligent politician in the United States." If Ghauncey Depew had said this, nobody would have heed ed It; for, while a very able man of busi ness, he is a shallow and frivolous par tisan political thinker compared with Olney, who is a trained lawyer of the first rank, a man of courage and Inde pendent convictions, who is too manly to Impeach the Intellectual force of a political antagonist because he does not agree with him. The argument of President McKlnley Is absolutely square and absolutely fair whn, addressing the sincere friends of honest money, he says: "The stability of our National currency is therefore secure so .long as those who adhere to this platform are kept in control of the Government." This is absolutely unan swerable. No man pretending to be lieve in the gold standard can fairly say that its security would not be directly or Indirectly Impaired in the near, fu ture by the election of Bryan, who promises that he will upset It as soon as possible after his election You may assume that Bryan could not upset it if he tries, but you cannot deny that Bryan distinctly promises that he means to try to upset It as soon as he Is elected, and to keep on trying until he succeeds. President MbKlnley fur ther says most incisively: It will be noted that the demand is for Im mediate restoration of the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1. If another issue is paramount, this' is immediate. It will admit of no delay and will suffer no postponement. In all three platforms these parties announce that their efforts Shall be unceasing until the sold act shall be blotted from the statute books and tho free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1 shall take its pla&e. There is not an honest, intelligent Gold Democrat who voted for McKlnley in 1896 who can logically Tef use to vote for him today; for, if there was any .real battle of the standards , in 1896, tnat battle of the standards is on today, in asmuch as the platforms of both par ties distinctly declare that the same battle Is on by writing the same leg ends an their resnoWlvo battlp-fiasrs and shouting the same war-cries. If the, same battle is not on, why is its battle cry ph both platforms? Why does Rryan still promise with particularity that, he will upset the gold standard at the first Executive opportunity? He says in substance: "I may not be able todo it as soqn as I am elected, but as soon as X am able after my election I will lose no opportunity; I am ready to make or force an. opportunity to ur set the gold standard and substitute free silver at 16 to 1." The argument of President McKinley's letter is absolutely-unanswerable on this point; it re lentlessly obliges every Gold Democrat of 1896 who voted for him in 1896 to vote for him today or take refuge in the mis erable jeply that "platforms do not count this year; Bryan cannot upset the gold standard If he would, and he' dare not If, he could." This answer' wllldo for Ignorant, weak men, or for cheap demagogues, but it will not do for ablet honest Gold Democrats, un less they say frankly with Gold Demo crat E. M. Shephard, of New York City: "I grant 'you that Bryan's ' election means disorder and commercial ruin, but I prefer it to the ultimate conse quences of McKlnley and imperial ism." . This answer is so absurd that it illus trates how a man may have a1 clear head for finance and yet have a dead political fly in his ointment. If Mr. Shephard knew as much about Ameri can history, about the political history of modern times, as he does about finance, he could not possibly be ter rorized by this political spook of Impe rialism. President McKlnley calmly and crushlngly disposes of Mr. Shep hard and his clan of political doctrin ' aires when he says: Empire has been expelled from. Porto Blco and tho Philippine! by American freemen. The flaff of the Republic now floats over those Islands as an emblem of rightful sovereignty. Will the Republican party stay and dispense to their Inhabitants the blessings of liberty, education and free Inntltutlons, or steal awayf leaving them to anarchy or Imperialism? The American Question is between duty and deser tionthe American Verdict will be for duty and against desertion, for the Republic against both anarchy and imperialism. President McKlnley chose a most for tunate moment for the publication of his letter of acceptance. He waltecl until the returns from the September state election In Vermont showed clear ly that the Republicans had not only polled clear up to the high-water mark of the party vote of 1888, but had added more than 2000 to this poll of 29,000 plurality. The New York Evening Post confesses that there Is no evidence of any Democratic gains from the Repub lican party on the new issue of impe rialism to be discovered In the returns from Vermont, and the Republican vote Is at high-water mark, leaving the ab normal year of 1896 but of the account. The Post points out that while the moral issue against Blaine in 1884 and the revolt against the McKlnley tariff in 1892 reduced the Vermont total by many thousands, the anti-Imperialists who were ready to swallow Bryanlsm are evidently few and far between in Vermont. Apparently about half of the Gold Democrats of Vermont of 1896 re fuse today to vote at all, so long as the party clings to Bryanlsm, while a quarter of them must have voted the Republican ticket to lift its vote to over 31.000: The Post, which Is a manly .newspaper, and does not try to make figures lie, comes to the conclusion,. that the VmoraKo Vermont Is that the Re publicans can' cfirry the country for McKlnley in November by hard, woric, but that "they cannot repeat the 'scare of 1896 and frighten a host of Demo crats into supporting their candidate. Bryanlsm is still so odious that the more independent-minded men, who also op pose McKInleylsm, are content to let the Republicans beat it once more, though they do not expect or desire that the Administration shall be in dorsed by any jsuch phenomenal Re publican majorities as were rolled up four years ago." On the heels of this significant Vermont election President McKinley has let slip his exceedingly able letter of acceptance. It Is like Mercutio's wound It will "do." It makes McKinley's e'lectlon in Novem ber almost certain. The vagaries of the socialist have only to be presented to cover with obloquy his scheme for an equal distribution of property and Its benefits, labor and Its .emoluments, thrift and its recom pense, throughout the peoples of the world. The great and insuperable ob stacle to the realization of these dreams is In humanity Itself, with its widely diversified gifts, Its varying degrees of energy, morality and ambition, its de sire or lack of It to be and to do. Every practical man, and even the dreamer, if he has studied human na ture from actual Instead of imaginary models, knows and must know that all this talk about "the people taking pos session of land and tools" as the right ful owners thereof, for the purpose of operating them In bulk and detail, "with democratic management, for the benefit pf the whole people," is the chimera of the visionary, which lacks only opportunity to become an element of mischief. It Is easy to Imagine, pro viding one has a mind disordered on economic subjects, a Utopia suited to the condition of Affairs described by one" David Kafka In yesterday's issue, but it would be impossible to people it with men and women possessed of the ordinary attributes , of human nature. This Is a fact so plain, and so well at tested by practicaiknowleflge of men and things that It may well be submit ted without argument. The tremendous power of 9. West In dian hurricane . was demonstrated in Galveston and throughout a thickly settlfed district of Texas Sunday In a loss of life and property that Is ap palling, and, it Is said, unprecedented In the storm history of the section vis ited. The hurricane itself wari prob ably not more forceful In Its progress or wider In Its scope than many that have preceded It from the same direc tion, but it took in a city In Its course and swept with resistless force over a wide area dotted with smaller towns and thickly planted with homes, work ing devastation and death instead of beating out its fury upon the open plain and tenantless mountains. Hence the ruin wrought is unprecedented, though the tempest has many a pro totype that has 'crossed the Gulf of Mexico, and spent the concentrated en ergy gathered from conflicting ele mental forces in and about the West Indies upon the hither shore. If the reports of casualties 'gathered in the panic that accompanied and succeeded the storm provetriie, it is probably within bounds to say that it was the most disastrous, though not necessarily the most severe, storm that ever visited Texas. A calamity of this kind, being one against which human forethought cannot provide or human nnwar avert. brings distress hioh, Is entitled to prompt relief,' so faras the suffering that it induces can be relieved by open handed generosity. Pacific, University and education In Oregon will mlsa Dr. Thomas McClel land. His work for that institution has been indefatigable, and he has left perr manent results. Attainment of its pres ent high standard of efficiency is im measurably due to his patient, unremit ted devotion; His zeal in general mat ters of education has contributed to im provement throughout the state. But not merely as an educator has his In fluence been felt In a financial way he has accomplished quite -as much as in any other. His able management has established Pacific University upon a sound financial basis, and- the en dowments which he has brought to the institution have enabled its work grad ually to be extended in scope and im proved in excellence. He has given ideals to Pacific University which will live long after him. The function of 'that college' in Oregon educational, activities is an important one, and Dr. McClelland has largely contributed to make it so. Truth crushed to earth in 1900 will rise again In 1904. That is to say, it will rise In 1904, if it is not sooner for gotten, Four years ago a certain truth was crushed to 'earth, but because of the sad indisposition of circumstances, its rising has been indefinitely post poned. 'Will the same thing happen to "imperialism"? By retiring from Pekln, the Admin istration does two things which will look well next November. It frees It self from the Imputation of imperialism In China and from the unpopularity of apparent alliance with England. It has take.n forty years to convince the Democrats that Lincoln's princi ples 'are good things to conjure with. Now they are convinced and are mak ing up for lost time with all their might and main. DAWES ON THE CONSTITUTION. Massachusetts ex-Senator Answers Bryanite Contention. New York Tribune. Ex-Senator Henry L. Dawes, In "The Congregationalism" makes a novel point against the Calhoun theory that the Con stitution restricts the powers of Congress over the territories to those conferred on it with relation to states. He points out that when the Constitution was adopted we had no territory except the Jand northwest of the Ohio, shortly before ceded to the Confederation by the several states having claims there. For the gov ernment of this territory the Continental Congress adopted the famous ordinance of 1787. This ordinance, Mr. Dawes saysv is "a complete code of laws for the gov ernment of that territory down to the minutest specific particular, every part of whlca it would have been Impossible for the Congress of the Constitution to enact, If the limitation of Its power in the states, as is now contended, applied equally to the territory." The ordinance' was drafted by some of the men who also made the Constitution, and1 at about the same time. Men turned from their duties In Congress at New York after passing It to take up their duties In the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia. This fact leads Mr. Dawes to remark: Now, In order to maintain, as the Demo cratic party now claims, . that the limitations of Concreslpnal authority In tho states are alike applicable to territory belonging to the United States, It is necessary, to believe that these men left their associates In the one body engaged In framing the ordlnanco and -went into the other body and helped make a consti tution which, the moment it was adopted, would extinguish the entire ordlnanpe because unconstitutional, being beyond the power of Congress to legislate In tho statc3. There may be found at the present dav small politicians capable of such trickery, but the American people will brand the men who lay such du plicity at the 'door of any one of the framers of the Constitution. But these men went fur ther. Takins omces under the Constitution which had thus extinguished tho ordinance. these men upheld and administered tnis ordi nance In all its parts, till under Its benign In fluence thus administered the last of Ave great states found itself by the side of the original thirteen. Nothing can make It more plain that In the crlnlon of those who rcado the Consti tution this new construction is not the true one. The Calhoun doctrine which Mr. Bryan has adopted Implied, as the great defend er of the right of the Inhabitants of the territories to hold slaves exultingly avow ed, "the extension to the people of those territories of every privilege, right and immunity which the people ot the states enjoy" If that Is the true view of the Constitute, it inevitably follows, as Mr. Dawes says, "that immediately upon ac quisition ten millions of Filipinos havo the common right with every American citizen to exercise citizenship and resi dence, set up whatever religious rights, trade, business operations, or social and commercial relations they please in any and all parts of the land, making thereby an American-Filipino resultant of this government. It need not be added that such a government would be no longer the Government of the United States of America created by the Constitution. ' Even the Democrats repudiate the log ical conclusion of their own doctrine, and in their platform declare that the Filipinos must not be made cltlzsns, while declaring that the Porta Kicana, whose status under the Constitution la exactly the same, are Irrevocably citi zens with all tho Constitutional rights. Their position Is so Inconsistent and ab surd that It would fool nobody, except for timid fears of the exercise of dis cretionary powers by Congress. These fears are groundless. There is no mor.e danger pf Imperialism in the exercise of the undefined power over tho territories than in the exercise of the narrower, but within limits, absolute discretion granted to Congress In the states. Lib erty has not been brokon down by it. In spite of-the alarms of John Taylor, of Caroline, and the other timid state rights men of the first half of the century. Mr. Dawes sees that "discretionary power Is a necessity In our Government, and rests on faith in those who are to come after us," and he does not think the country decadent, but says that such power ''is the cornerstone of free Insti tutions, and comes of the conviction that all wisdom and patriotism will not dis appear from among men when we die." Late Marriages. Boston Herald. Mr. F. B. Sanborn, In an address be fore the American Social Science Asso ciation, at its' meeting in Washington, calls attention to a new feature which has at tended the added Importance of woman In the business life of the nation. "In creased Independence of one sex of the other In the marriage relation," he says, "has deferred marriages and hastened separations, has made the families ot the middle classes smaller, and will have the same effect on the more laborious classes." It has brought about the habit of later marrying, if it has not lessened the number of marriages. Women not being dependent upon men for support to the extent they were have ceased to feel the necessity for early marriages. Thus population Is being lessened of Its Increase from the social and Industrial independence, of women that is now ex perienced. Statistics seem to prove this Professor Glddfngs. of Columbia College, states that "nearly or quite one-half of the worklngwomen are at present sin gle during several of the years In which, In former generations, women ot the sarn a clanc iirera raarlas: cJbildraa." Pa j thinks women themselves are being im proved by remalnlng longer single, and says of them that by means ot their meetings, discussions and classes, there has come into the lives of worklnjr-women-"a large measure of that educa tion which teaches the value of sanitary surroundings, cultivates a love of books, music and art, and awakens a sense of moral responsibility underlying social re lations." Later marriages are better for the race also. Other authorities declare that the healthiest children are born of mothers whose age is between 20 and 20, united to husbands whose age Is between 30 and 40. The woman movement, so fax as it enables women In youth to rely upon themselves, rather than to lean upon man,- appears to have produced re sults clearly conducive to the well-being of society. WHAT IS HE FOIt? Von Walderaee 3Iust Have Been Sent for a Pnrpone. Boston Herald. It would bo Interesting, If it were dis coverable, to find out what was the real reason for Field Marshan Count von Waldersee's departure for China. It must have been manifest before he set sail that the serlouB warlike operations were at an end, and that nothing in the way of military maneuvers against the Chinese were likely to be undertaken which would require the presence as Commander-in- Chief of one of the ablest living sol diers. That the German Emperor did not consider that the presence of his favorite field marshal was In urerent demand was made manifest by the time that was wast ed In formal ceremonies of various kinds, Buch, for example, as the presentation df a marshal's baton. If It had been ex pected that he was to head the forces that were marching to the relief of Pe kln, he would, have been hurried to tne far East with the least possible delay. as we. for example, sent General Chaf fee. But he is now going there in a relatively leisurely manner, and wnen ne arrives is to have under his control a vary considerable body of German troops, beside tho nominal command of the allied forces, so long" as these forces remain allied. But what Is ha to do, assuming that in the meantime as one may as sume, unless the German Emperor is de termined unon revenge the contest has come to an end by means of diDlomatlc negotiations? If the German Emperor proposed to take a liberal share of the Chinese Empire, and hold it as future Gorman territory! one can Well under stand his wish to have on the scene a relatively large body ot troop3 under the command of his best General, and It may be that his reluctance to accede to peace methods, which would reduce Count Wal dersee's mission to lmpotency, has been due to a keen disappointment that war like complications are not so 'far coiv tlnued as to make a break-up of the Chi nese Empire Inevitable. If the wish to gain new territory Is dominating tho German Emperor's mind, then, probably, the sooner negotiations looking toward peace can be begun the better it will be for the political Integrity of the en plre. since, as ranking General, this high German officer. If he were on the scene, might by his Influence or action seriously embarrass diplomatic negotiations. Accuracy No Object. St. Paul Pioneer Press. The profundity ot historical knowledge on which the Bryanltes base their argu ments this year Is again Illustrated by tho St. Louis Republic. That uaper speaks of Jefferson as a controlling Influ ence in the convention which framed tho Constitution of the United States; also as a member of the Virginia convention which ratified the Constitution. The fact Is that Jefferson was in France during the session of the Constitutional conven tlon, and for two years thereafter, so he could have been a member of neither ot the bodies referred to. But so long as Bryan himself Is given, to misstating his torical facts whenever the exigencies of argument require, nothing better can be expected of his followers. MEN ANp WOMEN. Guy M. Walker, who has been made official Interpreter to General Chaffee, Is a son of the Rev. W. P. Walker, for many years a mis sionary In China. Gardiner. Me., boasts of a blacksmith who has not lost a day's work from sickness from the day he went Into the shop to learn his trade, 30 years ago, to the present. Among those who accompanied the new Jap anese Minister to Washington was Mr. Tama da, a prominent Judge of Toklo, who will re main In Philadelphia tho coming- year. Professor Gegenbaur, who has done more for the Darwlnlai theory of evolution than any other German, excepting Professor Eaeckel. has reslsmed his professorship of comparative anatomy at Heidelberg, where he has taught since 1878. He Is 73 years old. Hans Hohl. a German, of Appleton. Wis., recently swam across Lake Winnebago, a dis tance of nine miles. Hohl has frequently gone distances of three and four miles, but this trip is the longest he has ever attempted In this country. Hohl is a natlvo of Saxony, Germany, and is 27 years old. Robert Burns-Begg. who recently died at Kinross, Scotland, was a grand-nephew of Rob ert Burns, being a grandson of Isobel Burns, sister of the Scottish national poet. He be longed to the legal profession, and was for more than 20 years Sheriff Clerk of the County of Kinross; ho also held several other im portant publlo appointments in the county. Be sides being a frequent contributor to the press, he was the author of a "History of tochlevcn Castle," "The Lochleven Xngler," and aoma other books. In politics he wa3 a stanch Con servative. i The Man Who Knows It AH. Denver Post. You buniP against him everywhere, in coun try and In town, Upon his sadly swollen head ho wears tho knowledge crown. His bump of self-esteem stands out Ilka a. knot upon a log. His egotism never yet was known to oltp a cog. His Bolf-assuranco has Its stamp forever iu his eyes, No gray and patriarchal owl could ever look so wise. He is a constant suff'rer from enlargement of the gall. And petrefactlon of tho cheek, the man who knows It all. Ho has an unimpeded flow of language at command. His active, tireless tongue Is of the automatic brand, ' His nasal orran ho inserts in every one's af fairs, Ha sows the grain of knowledge whtle his neighbors sow the tares. No matter what the theme may be; he's posted up to date. The information that he bears would wreck a common pate. He thinks without hla guidance this terrestrial whirling ball Would cease to take its dally spin, the man who knows it all. Tou never hear him say, "I think." He's far too wise for that: T! knowledge far above dispute that trickles through his hat. He'll meet your solid argument on any point with sneers. And pound his views with strokes of tongue Into your weary eara; No word of contradiction oc correction will he brook. His statements are impregnable he's talking by the book. He'll take a stand as solid as a rook-constructed wall. For what ho knows he knows he knows, the man who knows it all. He'll tell you how the President should guide the ship of state, What wise and ever-needed lawa our Congress should create, How Generals In time of war should move against the foe. And Just the very point at which to strike the vital blow. Ho cannot be accounted for, save on the theory That when the Lord created him for some strange reason He Deprived him of a set of brains, but gave him double gall. And filled his head with "crazy bones," the mnn who knows it all. . NOrE AND COMMENT. - Bryan 13 the only spectacle in Nebras ka which is not indicative- of prosperity. If you don't believe that Portland is an, expansionist town, read tha census re- turns. The trouble with the Chinese situation is that the powers are all in the field, instead ot at the bat. China's foreign debt amounts to $3,000, C00.00O. Just at present she will allow her creditors, to do the worrying. Aguinaldo's chances fpr victory are not. very bright, but It must be consoling for him to think ot Bryan's. The Shah of Persia has Just bought 60 blcycles and seven automobiles. Married life on a large scale comes high. The shortest way home- to Lincoln is a background In front of which Mr- Bry an will not have himself photographed. Prince Chlng 13 anxious, he aays, to explain things. It 'is not likely, how ever, that he will be able to explain, how It happened. Of all tho men who weary on The most atrocious bora Is he who coolly soys, when you Have told a story half way through, Ho's heard It twice before. The hard-hearted legislators who re pealed the Horton law had no sympathy for that unfortunate class of 'people, known as theater-goers. Bryan asserts that the title to a people cannot be acquired by .purchase. If he- is right his friend Jefferson must have gone otter Louisiana with a dark lantern' and a six-shooter. Ho stood on the bridge at midnight, " " And the deck of the bridge gave way. And they found his straw hat floating On the rippling waves next day. Ho was fished from tho depths andhurled? In a grave by the river's brink. And the lines on his headstone tell ua That he died ot too much drink. A Dublin newspaper, the Irish People, asserts that a famine as dire as that of 1846-47, which sent to this country the first great Irish emigration, Is now impondlng In Ireland. Corn and potato crops havo been destroyed, the potato by the rot, as in those years. It 13 rainins down In Kansas, and the poet3 down that way Are celebrating the event with many a tuneful, lay; The hungry ground is drinking In. the showera as they fall. And the dry and dusty farmers are rejolclns one and all. It Is. rainlnc down in Kansas, and they're hungering- for more, But as for Willie Bryan, why1, ha feels al mighty sore. The fastest voyage ever made across the Atlantic was achieved recently by tha Deutschland, the enormous new steamship of the Hamburg-American llne Her time from Cherbourg to Sandy Hook lightship was five days, 12 hours and 29 minutes. This cuts down the best pre vious record between the two points mentioned made by the Kaiser Wllhelm der Grosse by not less than five hours and eight minutes. By such a boat 3 that it must easily be a five-day voyage between New York and Queenstown. Michael Carr, who bad for half a cen tury kept a small grocery in Philadelphia, dlec lately, leaving a frugal fortune of 5125,000. He divided $46,000 among his rela tives, and left JSO.OCO among 23 Hdmatjr Cathollc Institutions in the city, among them some churches. la sums varying from 51000 to 510.CC0. Michael Carr, with, his modest fortune, waa a far better citi zen and public-spirited man in his opin ions as to me responsibility and obliga tions of wealth than the late Collis P. Huntington, who accumulated over 370 000,000 and made no public bequest com-, mensurate with his va3t property. J PLEASANTRIES OB PABAGBAFH&I19 Wanted, a steady man to look after a gar den and milk a. cow- who baa a good voice and is accustomed to sins in the choir. English, Country I uper. A Liberal Authority. She Don't yoo thlnlc my chaperons is delightful t He (a war corre pondent) Very. hero Is no "pross-ccnaor-hlp" about her! Puck. Not So Perilous. The boy etocd oa tha burn ing deck. Quoth ho: "This la no Josh! But Jfs not a party platform, so it might ba worse, b'goebl" Detroit Journal. "I can't go to that church again: the pastor does not believe that people B to hell." "Oht Don't say that; he believes that some go ' "Well, that Is. better than nothlngl" Brook lyn Life. The Professor's Scheme. Henderson (who has Just bought a new pipe) Can you tell mo. pro fessor. If this amber Is genuine? Profeeaor Ob. that's easily determined. Soak It in al cohol for 24 hours. If It's genuine It will then havo disappeared. Glasgow Evening Times. Airy. "Tou know," said Senator Sorghum, roprovingly, "I told you that what I wanted from you waa a good, breezy speech." "Well," answered the professional orator. "I thought that was what I gave you. Nearly everybody who beard It said my arguments were only wind." Washington Star. Corrected. City Editor Evidently you didn't get a very close view ot Nookash'a Summer placo. Reporter Not very close. Why 7 City Editor Tou refer to it as "a magnificent mar ble pile," whereas It's a frame house. Re porter Is it? Just cros3 out "marble" then and Insert "wood." Philadelphia Press. The Cost of a Song. James Riley in New England Magazine. Over and over and over, tha songs of our Ufa are sung, Tha came today as In ages gray when first tho lute was Btrung; The same today as In' ages gray, the singer's highest art la to sins of a man and the sout of a man from the depths of the human heart. To sing tho song that lingers in bis heart from that far day, When men were brave and women fair and life was la Its May. Is the singer's part of gladness when he gives his soul to man, In a sons that lives because sweet Pain has changed his earlier plan. Tha husk, the harvest and tho bin and all Life's spreading plain To the singer must be singing if ho mans soul would gain. Man In his soul unsatisfied strUea ror what cannot be; , He grasps at a tar. and holds In his hand a drop from the sounding sea. , Over and over and,over, since the towers of Time ware old. Over and over and over, since the cloud gave the sun Its gold. Over and over and over, since the lines of our lives began. v Has man gone out from the marching host to , sing of the soul ot man. The singer who sang of the pyramid's prima has gone the ways of men; But the sun and moon and human heart are Just the same as then. The heart of man Is a restless sea of varied ' star and clime, ' And only when its depths are stirred cornea Song on the shores of Time. Over and over and over, since Wrong had! realm, and state, t Over and over and over, since the Shades oa the Living wait. Over and over and over, singing of sun in tha rain. The chosen of God are bringing tha voice ot ihiw,iw na.ln. NJ