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P"7 0 - THE JftOKNtNG "OREadjtfA, YEI)KESftA-Y, SEPTEllBElf 12. '1866. iw refiamass Eni-oned st the PnetcOoB at Portlana, Ore-gas, &a second-class matter. TELEPHONES. Editorial Itootaa....l06 1 Business Oince...-867 . REVISED SUBSCMKTtON SATES. Br Mall (rostoee prepaid), in Advanco Daily. withSunday, per month r.....0 S3 Dally, Sunday excepted, per year J Dally, with Sunday, per year..-... J5 Sunday, per year ....7. - 3 Tbo "Weekly, pr year...... -1 52 The Weekly. Z months M To aty Subscribers t . , Dally. jt week, delivered. Sunday ezcfPM-iE? Dally, per -week. deUvered. Sundays lncludedJOc POSTAGE KATES. United States, Canada and Mexico: 10 to 16-page paper , - 18 to 2-pace paper ... .....so Porelcn rates double. Ktrw or dissuasion Intended for publication in The Orogonian should b addr-eascd Invariably "Editor The Oreconlan," sot to the name of ny individual. letters relating to advertistne. subscriptions or to any business matter should beaddresied simply "The OreBonian." Th Oreconlan does not buy poems or astories trom Individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn eay manuscripts sent to it without llctta tlon, JCo stamps should be Inclosed lor this Srorpose. Pngat Sonnd Bureau Captain A. Thompson. fflo at 1111 Faclflo avenue, Tacoma, Box 853, Taooraa pcstofllee. Eastern Business Ofllce The Tribune build ln& New Tork City; -The Rookery." Chicago; the E. a Beckwlth aped al agency. New Tork. For sale In San Francisco by J. X. Cooper. Tfl Market street, near the Palace hotel, and ttt Goldsmith Bros.. 238 Suttef etre-et. For eala In Chlcaco by the P. O. .New Co "217 Dearborn street. TODAY'S WEATHER, Fair and- cooler, with Westerly -winds. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 12 PROSPEROUS TO A FAULT. What has become of the army of men Twho were around here in 1896, with tat tered clothes and melancholy cast of countenance, looking1 for work? "What lias become of the procession of females -of all ages and nationalities who were "Wont to assail the housewife who had 'applied for a girl for general house work? What has become of the crowds of idle men who daily gathered on Third-street corners four years ago to bewail the hardness of the times and 'applaud the fervid periods of our curb stone orators? What has become of the columns and columns of "Situations Wanted" that filled whole pages of the newspapers? Gone! You can keep an advertise ment for a. girl for general housework running In the papers for a week at a time and not get a. single answer. It is not all on account of hoppicking, for 3ts been the same story all Summer, end even last Spring. Many families iave broken up housekeeping and gone to boarding because they can't get help. The town is full of people, but they are not crowding around calamity-howlers. They are paying their way into the Carnival or the theaters. Tour Winter's stock of cordwood. which once would have been surround d hy a clamorous herd of sawyers, stands unmolested and unsought. The classified "ad." pages flourish luxuri antly, but the applicants are would-be employers, except for an occasional per son who would consent to work such hours as she is not attending school or studying music, or for those who hanker to be companions of persons in comfortable circumstances. While papa Is splitting wood and making fires, and mamma is flying around the kitchen, the children are performing for them selves the duties of nurse and gov erness. It is hard to find a good house to rent, and labor gets so much pay for its work that only the bravest venture upon the enterprise of building. The stores are so crowded you can hardly get waited on. The hotels are turning away people. The theaters are play ing to standing-room. Delivery com panies have to work nights and Sun days to work off their parcels. Every body has money, everybody is looking for help. The farmers are on Easy street If a man's pocket is picked, the thief gets $100. Hopyards and canner ies are scouring the country for un skilled help. Employment 'agents tell employers that they can't keep their record up even with the applications coming in. In the advertising columns desires are expressed for cooks, bar tenders, bookkeepers, waiters, sales men, shoemakers, carpenters, engi neers, tailors, loggers, graders, shovel- ers, swampers, welldiggers, porters, bellboys, dishwashers, woodchoppers, farm hands, clerks, quarrymen, cham bermaids, second girls, nurse girls, girls for general housework, ironers, wait resses. If this accursed gold standard .keeps on at this rate much longer, our leisure classes will be eliminated from the pop ulation entirely, and the good old leg end "Situations Wanted" will he a dim memory pfthe past Bryan thinks we need a change, ..and maybe he's right. "Too much prosperity" would be a cap tivating campaign cry for the million aire with the ax and the society leader with the dishcloth. THE TSEW STATE PATH. ICew life seems to have come to the Oregon state fair, and the departure Is in every way commendable. To get the counties of the state interested in dis playing their products, to get a spirit of friendly rivalry abroad in the vari ous sections tif the state will do more than large appropriations toward mak ing the fair a representative state in stitution. This is the end to which the present management has striven dili gently and intelligently, and a measure of success is already apparent An agricultural fair is meritorious only when it displays the best products of the land. The best way to get out the best products is to excite the spirit of competition among the producers. There is no virtue in yearly displays of effusive mediocrity neither benefit to the state nor inspiration to the pro ducerand it is small wonder that the Oregon fair degenerated into an annual "hoss trot" and talking-match. Now that steps have been taken to collect Oregon's best productions for this sea sonable show the best product of each sjction and county of the state, not merely of the Willamette Valley or other such limited area, there will be rivalry that will bring out the "best of eaclu- This will accomplish what ought to he accomplished by a state fair. It will indicate the capabilities of the state, show its stage of develop ment and give to the average pro ducer something to strive for that has fceen attained and that he can attain to. If the aim of the agriculturist can thus be raised, other industries and social life will take care of themselves, for we rest upon the soil, and all im provement must begin there. Even that famous quadruped the Sa lem hog, under the new state fair pol icy, has been refined lo such' degree that it is said he now wears downy ur and purrs. This alone is an achievement that should make the en tire state rejoice. The rest of the state will meet the Capital City more than halt way in any reform that will make pleasanter relations, evidence of which may he found in the ready exertions of the outside counties to take creditable exhibits to the fair. The time may yet come when the "cow counties" will rejoice in the glory of the state fair and the Salem hog will be forgotten in the new unity and consciousness of the superiority of .all Oregon. . CHARACTERISTIC. Mr. Bryan was in good form at the University of Chicago', and dressed up with exquisite skill those principles and aspirations that so delight and im press his enthusiastic followers. How anxious he is to appear well before a university community may be readily Imagined. It is not strange that he puts his best foot foremost and most painstakingly poses as the statesman and thinker he likes to be considered. His first arraignment of the Republi cans is that they are on the defensive. "We," he says, "are attacking the Re publicans." Tills is true, and there are two reasons for it One is that the acts of the party in power are always the object of criticism on the part of the opposition; the other is that the pro posals of the Democracy are so repug nant to the country that It is fain to hide them beneath the smoke it raises with false charges of Imperialism and financial slavery. It Is hard to see in I either of these conditions any reason why Bryan should be elected President Then he talks about the standing Army, and his utterance on this sub ject is thoroughly characteristic of his method as a debater. Everybody knows that the establishment of peace and order in the Philippines is handicapped by lack of sufficient forces to suppress the guerrillas and protect the occupied districts. If we could once stamp out the insurrection completely and get civil government well,, to going, the work would go forward prosperously. What does Bryan think about it? He says the Republic Is in danger. "It is not that four men in a thousand can terrify the thousand," he says; "it Is that a thousand men will permit four men to live as professional soldiers where one is enongh." Mr. Bryan seeks to imply here," though he Is too shifty and crooked to say so like a man, that an Army of- 25,000 men is suf ficient for our present needs. He knows better. The Government has been handicapped, and still is handi capped, by the foolishness of Populists In Congress who prevented the Army from being made effective. We shall have more trouble on this score next year. Our military forces are crippled by Populist stupidity and malignity, and then complaint is "made that the war in the Philippines still goes on. This, too, is not a satisfactory reason why Bryan should be elected Presi dent Mr. Bryan denies "the right of any nation to decide that another nation is capable of self-government" Crook ed as a ram's horn. He wishes this saying interpreted &s supporting the Tagalog insurrection against our au thority. Now, the Tagalog3 are not a nation, and never were. The Philip pines are our possession as much as Oregon or Nebraska is, and its Inhab itants are subjects of the United States, just as Mr. Bryan himself is a subject of the United States. The Tagalogs are no more a nation than the South was a nation from 1SG1 to 1865, and their error will be demonstrated to them In exactly the same way the South's error was demonstrated to the South. The South is glad today it was restrained in the United States, and the Tagalogs -will be glad they were restrained in the United States. They will learn In time, as "the South has learned, that American sovereignty is not the despicable thing it is represent ed by the Bryanite school of statesman ship. Nor is this any reason why Bryan should he elected President Another delicate touch of the candi date Is his observation that "the rich man who dodges his taxes indirectly robs the poorer man who pays his full quota." The rich taxdodger, he says, must be execrated, the poor hon est taxpayer must be commiserated. How about the rich honest taxpayer or the poor dishonest taxdodger? Bryan does not say. Catch, him doing justice to any rich taxpayer or taxdodger? Catch him reflecting on any poor tax payer or taxdodger? Nay, verily. That would not comport with his purpose. Just this sort of stuff, is being, offered the voters of the country as a cheap bid for their support It affords no reason why Bryan should be elected President These are the direct appeals of Bryan for votes. He has some indirect appeals which may be left to speak for them selves with the discerning, for exam ple: If this Nation wants a colonial policy it can have it. The American people can do what they want to; but when they do a. thine they must rec ognize that in doing It they must assume re sponsibility for what they do. What all should desire is triumph of truth, rather than the triumph of that which any particular person may think to bo true. That which is pood for the majority of one party is good for the majority of all parties. Tou can no more afford toi steal when steal ing is respectable than you can when It is dis honorable. Mr. Bryan did not say that the hon est man is a better citizen than the thief, or that it is far brighter on a sunny. noonday than in a moonless midnight These omissions were doubt less due to pressure of other matter, but they would have supplied reasons for his election of equal cogency with those he chose to submit Oregon pays $2200 per year for pro tection of game and forests. Little Rhode Island, not so large as Clacka mas County, pays $17,000 yearly for the same purpose; Michigan, 27,000, and New Tork $109,000. The interests to be guarded in Oregon are not less impor tant than in those Eastern States. The difficulties in the way of protecting game and forests In a sparsely settled country are certainly as great as in populous states. In Oregon the game warden has much to accomplish with the slender resources at his command. But $500 is available for paying depu ties about the state. This will not pay for many good men, and only men of good repute, energy and Independence are fit for the service. Fortunately, the United States forest rangers are willing to act as deputy state game and for est wardens, without additional pay. and a very effective arm of the service is thus obtained. The various counties want deputy wardens, -and a few men are willing to serve for nominal pay. but the prosecution of men for illegal hunting is not a pleasant duty, and usually the detection and punishment of violators of the game laws costs money. J Game Warden Quimby is evidently do ing the best hecan with the means at his command. He has secured convic tion in more than a score of cases this year, and the month of September is yet to be heard from, the month most prolific in'game-law violations and con victions. If all good citizens would take an interest in the preservation of game and forests, in the enforcement of the laws, there would be less complaint of illegal shooting, less evidence of reck less spoliation, less call fop- an appro priation from the public treasury to hunt and punish -the lawless. The game warden should be encouraged and upheld in every effort to enforce these laws. AMERICAN' AND EUROPEAN RAIL WAY SPEED. A highly interesting record of the speed attained on various American and European railroads has been re cently printed in the English newspa pers. According to the data gathered, the railway service of the United States stands at the head in speed for short distances covered. At least, the time made during the Summer months on the Reading road by the train running between Philadelphia and Atlantic City is considerably ahead of that of any other short-distance railway in the entire list on either continent The fastest long-distance service is main tained by the Paris & Midi Railway Company on a train running from Paris to Bayonne, in Southeastern France. The average speed maintained by this latter train is about a mile an hour greater than that of the Empire ex press from New York to Buffalo. It is shown, however, that while there is but little need on this fast French train to slacken speed, except at stations where stops are made, the New Tork Central train, running as it does through the streets of Albany and Syr acuse, and having other precautions to be observed, is compelled to slacken speed and lose time to such an extent that in order to maintain its high aver age it Is obliged to run between stations at a higher rate than does-the fast French train that heads the list of railway flyers. It is probably true, also, though this contingency does not appear in the report, that he Ameri can railway trains are much heavier than the passenger trains on the Eu ropean roads, and, furthermore, that the foreign locomotives could not by any possibility pull the dead weight that In this country is attached to a fast express train. The wonder of the railroad service in this country is not in the great rapidity with which tra'ins are whirled from one terminal point to another, but In the enormous weights which the engines lift across the Rocky Mountains and the-excellent time they, make notwith standing the great weight which they draw and push over this great divide. To witness the fents of power performed by the mighty locomotives harnessed to this service is almost to become a worshiper of the mechanical power and genius of man, if not of the inanimate things themselves. And while the first desire of the American people is to "go," and the next is to "get there," they may well bide in patience the time made by American locomotives, serene In the consciousness that no such speed, under similar conditions, could be got ten out of foreign locomotives. This Is a fast age, regardless of nationality, and Americans may7 well be satisfied with the part In Its movements that Is played by the American locomotive and Its engineers. THE SUPERFLUOUS TICKET. The Presidential Prohibition ticket contains the names of two highly re spectable and altogether estimable men. Upon this statement opinion is unanimous. But to what end are these candidates running? Do not they themselves, do not all intelligent citi zens know, that their quest is futile; that, indeed, it is not a quest at 'all, but merely a side game in politics, played without a remote hope of win ning? Does not Candidate Woo"ley, as he goes about the country" soliciting votes, know that he Is merely urging men to 'throw their votes away? There can be no question about this. The re sult of the election would be precisely the same should these good people rt maln at home on the appointed day and relieve their minds by talking pro hibition to their respective gateposts. In the earlier stages of the Prohi bition movement, its advocates esteemed it an honor and a privilege to "stand up and be counted." It would seem, however, that this process, eliminating as it does the voice of those who pur sue it 'entirely from the questions at Issue in the National contest, would become monotonous to an Intolerable degree, as the years go un, and that sensible, patriotic men would "become tired of playing In this" way at voting. Common sense is a quality that should not be Ignored in politics, and those who slight its teachings often do so at the expense of Interests at least equally vital with that for which they stubbornly and without hope of suc cess contend. Of course, there is no law, beyond the unwritten one of in dividual patriotic pride, to which a man is amenable in the matter of throwing away his vote or refusing to cast it and this quality Is not so uni versal but that the superfluous ticket will receive a few thousand votes more or less in every state in November. The irony of Nemesis fiendishly mocks the Democratic, party. That party which was so unalterably op posed to the admission of Hawaii Into the blessings of this glorious Nation, that party which reared a President to deny Hawaii a share of our National happiness, now defends Itself against the Nemesis which its own selfish pol icy engendered. But Hawaii has come in for her revenge. She has ruined what slight chances of success that great National organization had 'by holding It down to outgrown tenets. She has dwarfed its development by Inoculation of 16-to-l poison again. Bv the single" vote of Hawaii, faith In that outdated yet immortal truth of 16 to 1 was reaffirmed. Here is where Hawaii has "consent" "consent" with a venge ance. 'She has swayed the destiny of an august political brotherhood de scended from the revered Jefferson, of the identical brotherhood which so rudely slighted hen, But Bryan Is not disgraced along with .the others. By an amazing contradiction of circum stances, his honor has been saved saved by the narrow margin of one vote. We quake when we think of that one vote. "Consent" that inalienable precept of a great apostle, the same as 16 to 1 was a while ago, "consent" has accomplished the rescue of his con science. What a hollow mockery yet Important significance "consent" has.. So soonras Hawaii got It she paid back to the Democratic party with one hand what she owed. With the other she spared Bryan the obloquy of scuttling his cherished but neglected dogma. JSp wonder "consent" is a holy cause with Bryan. But strange It is so holy with his party when fts name is Nemesis. Many- hard-headed and close-fisted citizens will doubtless think that Ore gon can get along without a building at the Pan-Amerlcaak exposition to be held in Buffalo nlf:year. Doubtless It could. Oregon hiaV.got along with out these things mostf of its life. Ore gon has got along without many of the displays that have been used by other ambitious and enterprising states and communities to attraot attention. It has also got atang without the advan tages that have come to other commu nities from these activities. .But Ore gon's position in the world today is Buch that it cannot continue a policy of indifference and thrive. It must make itself better known, it must hustle for business, for people, or it will die of its masterly inactivity, if not of its eminent respectability. It is In com petition with communities of 'driving enterprise, and it, too, must drive or fall behind. The old style will not do for the. new conditions. Oregon should be represented at Buffalo -with, a state building and an adequate exhibit. It can well afford such representation; in deed, It can 'ill afford not 'to be repre sented there. There is time now to pre pare without waste of money. This will assist to get the state out of a rut and to get the attention that its resources and location merit. In viev of the tremendous catastro phe that iias overwhelmed' the City of Galveston, It would seem to' be the part of prudence 'on all economic lines to abandon the site of the hapless city to the waves that have clearly proved their mastery over It, and force com merce to the mainland. At best but a spit, the highest point of which is but nine feet above ordinary high tide, 'its inner shore bounded by the waters of Galveston Harbor, the outer by. the long roll' of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, its destruction could only be a matter of time. Conflicting winds, bearing at once the waters of the har bor and gqlf upon the sand spit, would. readily cause the waters to meet above the island. This in effect is what hap pened last Sunday, practically wiping the city off the sand spit The calam ity resulting from the meeting of the waters oyer. the city can hardly be es timated. Suffice it that it is one ot the most formidable In the storm rec ord of 'the country, both in regard to loss of life and of property. The death by his qwn hand of .Otto Greenhood Monday evening was a sad but not altogether surprising' ending of a' life 'of singular1 and even extraordi nary vicissitude. Well 'born, carefully bred, possessing an excellent education, he failed signally to make" a place for himself in the world, thpugh diligent in industry and estimating his powers at their full value. Fortune played fantastic tricks with him, now -carrying him upon the crest of the wave and again submerging him in the depths. He was apparently unable to'mee.t and make the most, or, indeed, make any thing, of opportunity, but it may be said to his. credit that to all but his most intimate friends, and these were few, he presented a uniformly cheerful and hopeful and to all a courteous bearing. Whatever may -have been the causes that led to the failure and final ship wreck of his life, pity may well draw a kindly veil over them, lamenting only that he suffered, not that his suffering is ended. Captain Wilde's defense in the mat ter of the grounding -of the Oregon was evidently accepted at its face value by the Navy Department, since he is continued in command of that magnifi cent battle-ship. Clearly, no man could be expected to know of the ex istence of an uncharted rock in .un familiar waters, or to see it when sub merged to the depth of twenty-one feet. Upon this showing Captain Wilde re tains command of the .ship, and public Indignation, that ran high at the re port that she was grounded through the carelessness or Incompetency of her commanding officer, is soothed by the assurance somewhat vague and con tradictory that the pride of the Navy, in achievement at least, is again in fighting trim. The reason why expansion sentiment Is not rampant on the, Pacific Coast is because nobody takes anti-imperialism seriously. If anybody supposed there was actual danger of the scuttle policy in trans-Pacific waters, the latent con viction of our people here 'would find vigorous expression. But with no ma terial opposition to retention of the Islands, it is useless to "get excited. Great Britain is justly alarmed at the development of German maritime prowess. The German schoolmaster Is at the bottom of Germany's greatness, and his work'has.been nobly done. "Made In Germany" has long since passed from a badge of inferiority to a mark of value in textiles. It promises to become a trade-mark of power in nautical achievement. Waldersee seems likely to find his occupation gone before he arrives at the scene of his duty. But William has had his orations and sermons, and that is the main thing. The thunder of the index will be no more deceiving than when Prince Henry went to the Orient in the same way. 'And the partition of China is still in the future. Consistency Conspicuously Absent. "Anti-imperialists" well over middle life, who were abolitionists 40 years ago, ought to be a good deal embarrassed by the exposure of their inconsistencies ot Constitutional construction. The adage that wise men change their minds; fools never, does very well in some cases, but If a wise man changes his mlnds he does it for reasons which he can ex plain, and which others can feel the force . of, whether they approve tha change or not The wise man who changes his mind admits that he has -changed his mind, ana1 explains why he now believes that he used to be wrong. ButrJMr. Boutwell and Mr. Schurs, and "we may also include Senator Hoar, In spite of his reluctant support of the President as against Mr. Bryan, have never admitted that thefIr Constitutional views were wrong when they were abo litionists and were insisting that Con gress could and should exclude slavery from the territories because the Constl 'tution did not apply to territories. In 1858 Mr. Boutwell declared .that "the Con stltution of the United States may be extended over ,a territory by the treaty of annexation or by the law of Con 'gress. In which case it is only the au thority of law; but the Constitution b force of itsoWn Rrovlslons lsllmited to the people and the states of the Ameri can Union." But In 1900 he says: ''When ever territory Is acquired, whether by conquest or purchase, such 'territory be. comes subject to the Constitution." If Mr. Boutwell and Mr. Scburz wish to ba taken seriously they should explain why; if they are Constitutional anti-imperialists now, they denounced the Dred Scott decision. DEMOCRATS AND THE COURTS. Reason Why Many Lawyer Will Not Support Bryan. Chicago Times Herald. To the Editor: I had the impression that tha Democratic Chicago platform of 1800 embodied a declaration advocating a fundamental change in the Constitution of the Supreme Court of the United States, in effect making? its mem bers elective by the people and giving: the President power to remove its members at his pleasure. Will you kindly tell your readers whether this Is so or not, and If not, whether In some otherv official declaration tha Demo cratic party has not mado Itself responsible for advocating' one or both of these changes or something Ilka them? C. 7. S. Springfield, 111. The Democratic' platform of 1896 con tains no plank resembling even remotely the declaration of the correspondent's note. Its only mention of the Supreme Court by name is in the tariff resolutions, where a hostile animus is undoubtedly indicated throughout the following para graph: Until tho money question Is settled, we are opposed to any agitation for further changes In our tariff laws, except such as are necessary to meet the deficit in revenue caused by the adverse, decision of the Supreme Court on tho income tax. But for this decision by the Su preme Court there would be no deficit in tha revenue under the law passed by the Democrat ic Congress in strict pursuance of the uniform decisions of that court for nearly 100 years, that court having in that decision, sustained constitutional objections to its enactment which had previously been overruled by the ablest Judges who have ever sat on that bench. We declare that it is the duty of Cdnsress to use all the constitutional power which remains after that decision, or which may come from its reversal by the court aa it may hereafter be constituted, so that the burdens of taxa tion may be equally and impartially laid, to the end that wealth may bear Its due propor tion of the -expenses of government. There is evidence of Irritation in this resolution which seeks relief in a menace, and although the menace is against the court as then constituted, that is, aga nst individual members rather than against the. Institution, the effect of its fulfill ment would be to give us Judges who should decide by politics rather than by law. And in another plank which de nounces Federal interference in local af fairs the resolutions read: We especially object to government by in junction as a new and highly dangerous form of oppression, by which Federal Judges, In contempt of the laws of the states and rights of citizens, become at once legislators, judges and executioners; and we approve the bill passed at the last session of the United States Senate, and now pending in the House of Rep resentatives, relative to contempt in Federal courts and providing for trials by jury In cer tain cases of contempt. This" declaration was intended as an ap peal to the labor vote and was suggested by the bitter controversies of the time over railroad 'strikes and riots and the decisions of Federal Judges relating thereto. 'In certain cases where the roads were tnrown into the courts under re ceiverships the authority exercised by the Judges in restraint of violence through injunction and penalties for contempt were particularly obnoxious to their critics. State platforms echoed the National onei but there has been no such official declaration of the party as the corre spondent Imagines. The platform adopted at Kansas City this year makes no spe cific mention of the old judicial issue, and, owing to an oversight. Is silent also on the question of the Income tax. The" first omission may be explained by the disgust with which the assault upon the courts was received, but unfortunately the party had proved Its readiness to lend Itself to the purpose of demagogy even in 'such a serious matter, and Its threats are not forgotten. The American people know that the Independence "of thekbench Is Indispensable to the preservation of the Government and there is no subject about which they are more sensitive. In a Close Corner. New York Commercial Advertiser. Mr. Bryan found himself in a corner when a correspondent " of tho Herald asked him, at his home In Nebraska, whether, if elected President, ho would make payment in silver on all the Gov ernment bonds that on their face call for coin. His reply to this very direct question was: "Say Mr. Bryan declines to be interviewed on that subject" There is a noble "sincerity" for you, a thrilling display of "courage qf convic tions!" As Secretary Gage has pointed out, Bryan as President could, If ho had the disposition, pay not only the "coin" bonds, but all the disbursements of tho Government In silver, with the result that the Government would pass immediately to the silver basis at th? ration of 16 to 1. If he has no intention of doing this, in case of election, why should he not say so? He could not have a better opportunity to show that the free silver issue is dead, Is no longer a menace to the country, than was fur nished him when the Herald asked him this question. But instead of answer ing he "dodged." Why? Simply because he wishes to hold both the Populist sup port and that of tho ' anti-lmperiallsts. Yet ho really answered the question in his speech at Omaha wheh he said: If Republican policies are right, then thoso who represent the opinions held by Democrats, Populists and Silver Republicans ought to ba overwhelmingly defeated, for there is a dif ference between Republican policies and ours in their terms as wide as the gulf that sep arated Lazarus In Abraham's bosom from Dives. The policies for which our people stand are directly antagonistjc to the policies for which the Republican party stands, and both cannot be right. The chief of the policies for which the Republican party stands is the gold standard. Bryan's position of "direct antagonism" to that commits him to the payment of the bonds in silver and a descent to the silver basis. Mr. Hanna Rebuked. New York Tribune. Vermont's insprlng vote of Tuesday, like Oregon's three months ago, emphasizes the inapproprlateness of 'the apathy scare with which it has been proposed by cer tain' managers to belittle Republican chances and thereby perplex and bewilder the business world. Oregon's extraordi nary Republican plurality In June was an unmistakable warning to the Bryan man agers that they will have .to fight to maintain themselves In the Rocky Moun tain commonwealths or to hold their Presidential candidate's home state in the Missouri Valley. Vermont's verdict is a notice to the Fusion leaders that with "lmperlalsm" as a "paramount" issue this year they can make no more vital an impression on Eastern opinion than they could with silver inflation -in 1896. The lesson of the two elections is written too' plainly to be obscured or minimized. Republican, prospects in , a Presidential year were never brighter." Then why con tinue to wake unfounded apprehensions by a vociferous "apathy" cry? A New North Polar Record. Chicago Tribune. The Italian Prince, the Duke d'Abruzzi, has reached the coast of Norway after an absence of 15 months in the north polar seas, and announces that he succeeded In reaching a latitude of 86 minutes 33 sec onds north. Nansen's "farthest north" was 86 minutes 14 seconds. This gives the young Italian the honor of having come 19 miles nearer the pole' than - the noted Norwegian, leaving only 2U miles of Arctic mystery still to be penetrated before some daring explorer can claim tho frigid honor of haylnar -reached the long-songht-for spot The Duke d'Abruzzl has maintained his reputatilon for daring and executive ability. His vessel, the Stella Polare, suffered more than did Nansen's lce,resisting Fram, and the ex pedition lost three members by death, but the enterpriso seems to have been conducted on the whole with remarkable ability. For the present rugged Norway has been outdone by sunny Italy In the long Arctic quest nl due time some other nationality perhaps tho United States in the person of Peary will press on still closer to the pole, only to be surpassed by some other, until the pole Js reached. Then, perhaps, there will be an end of the long line of more or les3 disastrous expeditions that have followed each other so persistently for over three centuries. It is the mystery, of the unknown, com bined with the desire for adventure, that now makes the north pole such a mag netic pole. When the" mystery is cleared away and when everybody knows whether there Is land, or open sea, or rugged ico at latitude & degrees north, the Pearys and Nansens and D'Abru.'szls will seek excitement and glory In other quarters. At the present rate it is not Kkely to ba many 3'ears before this come-? to pass. CUTTING GORDIAN KNOTS. Convenient, Bnt Not Always Product ive of Best Revolts. New York Times. This tendency arbitrarily to simplify complex questions is, we think, Illus trated by the assertion that "seJf-gov-ernment in the Philippines" mustmean "self-government by the Filipinos," and therefore "their independence." Under- I lying this assertion there seems to be the assumption that the Filipinos are a fairly homogeneous people, with common habits of thought and life, common Ideals, reasonably uniform capacity for manag ing public affairs and a general desire for some definite kind of self-government Of course, this Is unfortunately not true. They are of all sorts and conditions, races and religions. Especially they are of very various degrees of fitness for managing either public or private affairs. It is simply impossible that the exten sion of self-government can be made with equal rapidity and equal safety to all. It Is still more plainly Impossible that in dependence can be given .to the whole of them at tho same time, and It is not easy to see how it can be given to soma and not to the others. In the circumstances that actually ex ist, we are convinced -that the only safe and the only Just and humane policy is to retain the control of the islands and of all the Inhabitants of them; to estab lish order as fast as practicable, and to set up In each community a-system grad ually developing self-government, with the strict purpose to make it ultimately complete. If the -system works, the time will come when independence will be pos sible, and then we do not believe that any considerable party la this country will oppose It. This, we believe. Is the policy that the present Administration is engaged- In trying to .carry out Imper fectly, no doubt and with mistakes. It is, we are persuaded, the one that Mr. Bryan would be forced ip the long run also to try to apply, and In the effort we see no reason to think that he would make less mistakes or be in the least more faithful or intelligent than Mr. Mc Klnley. It seems to us to be much more sensible to strengthen the good intentions and emphasize the responsibility of Mr. McKinley than to try to replace him by any one at present available. This, we take it, so far as concerns the Philip pines, Is the "paramount" issue. The Moving: Stairway. The New York "L" road has put into operation at one station a novel device for elevating passengers from the street to the station platform. It Is a moving stairway, operated on a principle similar to that of the moving sidewalks ex hibited at the Chicago world's fair and at the Paris exposition, except that it moves up an. incline instead of on a level. The passenger steps upon the slow ly moving platform at the bottom, holds to a handrail, and steps off when he reaches the top. The floor of this Im proved sort ot treadmill Is covered with rubber cleats to keep the feet from slip ping, and at the top It meets the station platform In a way that makes it impos sible for a woman's skirt to be caught. It Is said to have a capacity of 3000 pas sengers an hour, and costs only 51 25 in 10 hours. It is described as working sat isfactorily and being extensively used. MEN AND WOMEN. Dr. John Gulteras, who resigned the chair of pathology In the University of Pennsylvania to fill a similar position in the University of Ha vana, has established there a journal entitled Revlsta de Medlclna Tropical. Tho official reporters on the Paris Exhibi tion have been selected If. Larroumet is to deal with liternture and art, M. Charles Picard with science.. M. Michel Lew with manufac tures, M. Grandeau with agriculture and food supply, M. GIde with social economy, and M. Dislere with colonization. Cyrus Field Adams, the colored editor, lin guist and orator, who has been appointed a member of tho advisory committee of the Re publican National Committee, is a native of Louisville, but now resides In Chicago. Ho has been since 1S85 editor of the Appeal, which has a very large circulation. He delivers polit ical speeches in tho Scandinavian, German, French, Italian and Bohemian languages. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Temple, is reported as saying to a lady visitor at Lam beth: "When I was a curate I used to devote all my spare time to readlnff Homer, Virgil and the noble ancient classics. When I was a vicar I used to devote all my spare time to talking about these noble classics. Now I am an archbishop. I am' a privileged person, and I devote some of my precious time to reading Rudyard Kipling." Brigadier - General Bell, the new Provost Marshal of Manila, began his career as a sol dier in 1802 as a Lieutenant of the Eighty sixth Ohio Volunteers. For his courageous bearing during the battle of the "Wilderness he received the brevet of Captain, and he was brevetted Major for "gallant and meritorious services" In tho battle of Reams Station. After the Civil War he became an officer In tho regular Army. General Bell performed distinguished services in the war with Spain. Chin 'Tan Sun, who lives in California, is said to be the wealthiest Chinaman In the United States. He came to the Golden Gate In tho steerage of a steamer, the pennltess son of a poor farmer in the Sun Nlng province ot China. Ho started as a. cook. but. being very enterprising, rapidly became wealthy. At pres ent he employs several hundred "white people in his factories and canning establishment, owns city real estate and biff cattle ranches, runs a Chinese lottery and several merchan dise stores in San Francisco, and Is In the real estate business in Hong Kong. Chin Tan Sun gives a share of the credit for his success to his white wife, to whom he is said to be devoted. A Mother's Reverie. George Birdseye in Boston Transcript. My baby boy upon the pillow lies. Wonder forever old, forever new; And as I gaze, he opens wide his eyes. Like violets kissed by dew. They seek my face with Iovo and rapture ailed; That look of tenderness how well I know Tho same his father wore, whose life death stilled Only a year ago. Ah! Will his boy be like him when he grows To be a man, afar from home's caress? Will he be nobler, braver, whence knows His father's worthiness? His work is not begun; may he decide On one true Guide to lead him through life's days; Oh! may he stand the test when souls are tried. And follow virtue's jways. And yet I dread the hour when manhood calls; He wlU not be as now my little child. So guarded by his dear home's hallowed walls Where love and mother smiled. But now, while he is mine and only mine. Til fold him closely in warm arms of love, And feel the Joy the world, ere I resign, Can never rob a of. . - n. NOrEAND.COMMEBTV , Seattle doesn't welcjm smallpox. It might diminish -populat loi. "We can use all ot this kind of weather tho elements have on hand. Mr. Olney makes it plain that his swal lowing of Bryan leXt a (dark brown taste In his mouth. The returns from Vermont ought to constitute a hunch to Bryan to stay out of Republican states. It would be interesting to see soma after-taking pictures of the Gold Demo crats who have gulped down 16 to 2. The delay in finding the Empress Dow ager leads to the belief that the search for her is In the hands of police detec tives. ' The Populists, of course, believe that railroads and telegraph companies should not be under Government control with out the consent of tho governed. It is reported that W. J. Bryan and Thomas Sharkey will collaborate next. November on a work entitled: "How It Feels to Be Xdcked in Every Fight" Some politician now has an opportu nity to draw a parallel between the rise In the price of peaches and the rise In the hump at the bottom of the bas kets. A census of the Philippines is to bo taken, but It is not likely that any enumerator will catch Agulnaldo just for the 2 cents he will get for counting him. A' Washington Chinese laundryman has been punished for throwing flat-irons. Thatfs right Are the foreigners to be allowed to usurp the prerogatives of tha American housewife? Never! Things have come to such a pass In Portland that it is cheaper to travel than to stay at home, but when a man an.d his wife can travel 103 miles for 5 cents. it is hard luck for them to have to pay $10 for sitting in a carriage two hours. Yet this is what a Chinaman did yes terday morning. He came up from As toria and got married, and yesterday morning at 7 o'clock he and his bride were driven down, to the wharf to take passage on the Bailey Gatzert for home. The Gatzert was late in arriving In fact, did not get up to her wharf till 9 A. M. and tho- Chinaman paid the hackman $3 per hour to stay there, and allow his wife to remain In the carriage where she was concealed from the vulgar gaze. When the purser of th& boat received 50 cents for carrying the couple to Astoria, he just wished that the boat and all her ap parel and furniture was made into hacks, and that he could have them filled to the end of time with Chinese to stand on the wharf at J5 per hour. Sun's a-shinin on the medders, an the hUIa Is soft an' warm. An the dreamy clouds above us don't glva warnln' of a storm; Hills an' valleys all is mellowed with a bluer September hatse. An' the twilight kind o lingers at the close o shorter days. Ain't the time fur Autumn, weather, sun ha3 sot too bright a glow. An' wo kind o' feel it In us t that the Summer hates to go. Crick's a-bubblln through the- canyon slngln songs o happiness. An' the ferns Is trallln' on It-with a mother like caress. All day long I Ustento It, a X lay there half asleep, I can hear It slngln', slngln'. like Us song's too good to keep; An' Its waters tell me softly, tell me truly, &s they flow. That the days have been, soibappy Summer sort o hates to go. Winter's comln', bringln' with it alb-Its never endin' rain. An I fancy I can hear it beatia' on my win dow sane. Autumn's warm an' soft an dreamy, but somehow It always brings Thoughts of sadness liko the shadow ot the old Dark Angel's wings; So we cllny an' clin to Summer. an we're mighty glad to know That it's' plecla' out Its visit, fur ws hate to have It go. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS The Soap How do you stand in politics? Tha Sponge I'm an, expansionist. Chicago Record. Ways of a Patriot. "You remember that during the American war with Spain Winter green sternly refused to eat Spanish macker el," said Twynn to Trlplett. "I remember,' replied Trlplett. "What of It?" "Well, now he won't eat off china, plates.' Detroit Frea Press. The Sensitive Sultan. "Now said tha Grand Vizier to tha new poet laureate in tha court of Abdul Hamed. "I wish to caution you against the unhappy use of words of doubtful sound. Your predecessor was bo-orstrung be cause he dashed oft a littlo gem entitled 'Oda to America. "Baltimore American. "It's an HI Wind." Etc. Doctor Bill fclee fully) I've made, over $300 during' the past three weeks, setting1 broken nosas, alone. Friend (astonished) Indeed! How do you ac count for such an epidemic? Doctor Bill Why, In last month's Kind Ladles' Journal there was an article for boys, entitled, "How to Build a Shanty In a Tree.' Puck. In Self-Defense. "What makes you assume such a loud and aggressive tone In proclaiming your own merits ??' asked the very candid friend. "I am forced to do It" was the great actor's answer. "I'm. naturally on of the most modest men In tho world, and I've got to keep praising myself, for fear toy sensitive nature will compel me to go to- tho manager and tell him I think I am. getting- too much money." Washington Star. A Railroad Map. Mrs. Bibbs, as the train gives a lurch) My goodness! Are we oft tha track? Mr. Bibbs No. we seem to b running all right. Guess wo went round tho curve. We must bo at Chicago. Mrs. Bibbs But Chicago was a thousand miles off when we started,, and we've only been riding an hour. Mr. Bibbs Can't help it. I looked at the map of this railroad, and there ain't a curve in It till it gets to Chicago. Hunt up y'r things. New York Weekly. The Exiles. London Spectator. This poem, by Porclval Gibbon, was written while the author was a prisoner ot war at Pretoria, and first appeared in the manuscript paper circulated among the prisoners! Watch the south-bound swallows got What manner of folk are they? Out of the sky they came to you. Guests of the Summer's day Born in your sheltering thatch, and bred v A fortnight's flight away. But when your days are warm and bright. And God shall lend them weather. Their schooled battalions take their flight A thousand wings together; Each year the native-born come back To flock with their own feather. So, mother country, of thy sona- A many men there be , Whose lot hath cast them all abroad. Whose hearts have stayed with thee. Who yield thee praise from the skirts of i tile. earth. And tho fringe of the nether sea. tP" England, behold! our arms are strong. ' Our shoulders broad to bear; ,v All that the Gentiles cast on thee Our birthright 'tis to share, " f And when thy legions face tho field " The exiles will bo there! t- From every continent and sea v Our fancies homeward fly, """ Grant, though wo sojourned lonir brcfi v Wo all como homo to die, " Each, liko a native Engllsamuk i i Jn Enjjllaa earth to llol r r '