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OUR NATIONAL FARCE.
Alabama wants nrotectlon for Its iron.
! Bouth Carolina for its cotton, Louisiana
xor Its sugar. In another column is
printed a collection of views showing
that Southern business men disbelieve
Sn free silver and fear Bryan's election
will produce a panic. The South en
tered heartily into the war v.lth Sp'ain,
now enjoys the benefits of trade with
"Cuba and Porto Rico, and is anxious for
such Pacific expansion as will widen
the market for cotton and Increase our
Saclllties for getting it there. Yet the
I South will almost unanimously cast Its
Presidential vote for a man who Is
.pledged to do all he can to oppose all
Its. desires and prevent the fruition of
Hits hopes.
Ordinarily a man's political convlc-
i t;ions exert some appreciable Influence
n his vote. The Rocky Mountain re
4gion went for silver in 1S96, the Pacific
Btates went for expansion In 1898.
j Pennsylvania's iron regions and Ohio
I nvoolgrowers send men to Congress who
Tvill give them protection. No man who
53 lor free trade in Canadian lumber
can get elected in Wisconsin; no man
j "Who is for free trade in Canadian hay
I end potatoes need run for Congress in
! -Northern New York. An anti-lmperial-
hist wouldn't stay long In the Oregon
I delegation, or an opponent of Federal
irrigation laws in that of Wyoming.
i Slow many Englishmen will indorse
I Bryan for his support of the Boers?
How many Populists will knife him be-
-cause he declares for "direct legisla
tion"?
Cross Mason and Dixon's line and all
j Is changed. If you are in search of
first-class gold-standard and expansion
arguments, consult the flies of the
j Louisville Courier-Journal, now whoop
llng It up for Bryan. If Texas needs
anything at all, she needs Asiatic open
ings for her cotton; but she will give
! 100,000 majority, more or less, for the
Isnan who advocates abandonment of all
I'we have gained in the Pacific The
gold-standard business men of New Or-
leans and Charleston and Atlanta and
Mobile will vote for the candidate who
.promises them free silver and a panic.
The Southern gentleman, cherishing the
I traditions of law-abiding and law-fear
ing ancestors, fresh from the studies of
Jhis library and unspoiled by foreign
socialism, will support the Chicago plat-
iorm, with its outcries against settled
government and Its pandering to mob
Tiots. The long staple cotton fields of
l.'South Carolina, menaced with Egyptian
i competition; the iron mines and mills of
I JUabama, the sugar plantations of Lqu-
ilsiana, will vote for a free trader for
SJPresldent.
All that the South hopes for it will
Strive with its electoral vote to forbid.
1.A11 that it fears it will strive with its
helectoral vote to bring to pass. Alas,
i-that over so wide an extent of this most
I progressive and independent of Nations
public opinion should be a farce and
3olltical discussion a mere mummery!
It takes 224 electoral votes to be Pres
ident. If Bryan is elected, he will get
3.5 of them South of the Ohio and east
iof Texas and Missouri. Not one of
them will represent the convictions of
the South upon the issues on which
IBryan is making his fight to be elected.
jA. campaign is on, and reason is ad-
! dressed to voters for and against issues
land candidates. But the evidence and
I the arguments are of no concern to the
lescendants of Washington and Marion,
Jefferson and Sumter, Patrick Henry
laud Daniel Boone. McKinley's useful
Ilabors or amiable weaknesses, Bryan's
limpassloned appeals or acrobatic gyra
tions, are all one to them. A man
I Would be a pretty poor footracer who
mad to be given 150 feet in 224 and then
leweat like a carthorse to scratch out.
REJOICE, BUT IN MODERATION.
A generous and truthful man of Al-
Ifoany, J. P. Hackleman by name, and
1 evidently possessed of all the sweetness
of disposition and fairness of debate
("Which characterize the ideal Prohibi
tionist, sends us, on a postal card, this
tribute of disinterested benevolence:
Have you lieard anything about tho election
3f the Prohibition candidate lor Sheriff in
Portland, Maine 3 The total vote of the .Pro-
ibition party in that county two years ago
vos only 941. while the Republican vote was
7299, and the Democratic rote 5130 The plu-
lity 01 tho Kcpuwican nominee over the
ohlbltion candidate that year was 635S. This
changed this year invo a plurality for the
ohibitioa nominee of 400 or 50CH votes. The
Portland Press, a Republican paper, says:
The result Is simply amazing." Come, let us
joice together. You won't have to worry any
or over the nonenforcement of tho law in
Brtland, Maine, at least. Come now, can't
ju rejoice? -
The Oregonian always rejoices to see
j gentle lambkins play, and would not
ilaiGwingly detract from any human
icing's happiness. Our correspondent,
r doubt not. Is impervious to any dis-
aomflting' facts; consequently his joy
not be impaired hy any quotations
rom the election returns Qf Cumber-
id County, in which Portland, Me., Is
lEltuated. Its vote for Governor, Rep-
jentatlve in Congress and Sheriff in
B88 and 19Q0 stood thus:
Governor Rep. Dcm. Pro.
BOS ... - 7.114 4.&07 C.490
300 ... 10,107 C.870 1.300
Congressman
.................. S.14U 4,800 .....
900 9.878 O.UiO 1.355
Sheriff
7.290 5,133 341
5.0Q2 4,4SS 0,425
The Republican and Prohibition nomi-
paees for Sheriff this year were thersamo
ia 1898. Mr. Despeaux, who was elect-
ed last time, was evidently displeasing
to the county, for 3000 Republicans and
1500 Democrats voted for Pearson, Pro
hibitionist, of whom they thought very
little in 1898, and elected him. How
much better success Pearson meets
with in practice than Despeaux had, we
shall know more definitely' in 1902, when
he comes up for're-electlon. Meanwhile
we refuse positively to rejoice over the
fact that Prohibition will be enforced
in Portland now, without an Indemnify
ing bond against possible wastage of
emotion.
There was no Prohibition nominee for
Congressman in the Portland district In I
1898. But the figures on Governor show
a Republican .gain of 2200, a Democratic
gain of 1000, and a Prohibition loss of
4000. This need not discomfusticate our
friend at Albany. He can read only the
returns on Sheriff. Every Prohibition
ist reserves the right to select what
facts he will admit to be in existence.
THB SCHOOLBOOK JOB.
It is a good thing to throttle an octo
pus, or cripple a trust, It Is a bad
thing to make a bungling job of so vir
tuous a purpose. Results may be sor
rowful, and they may also be expen
sive. If the experiment of Professor
Browne, Superintendent of Public In
struction for Washington, In his great
effort to castigate the book monopoly
teaches any lesson, It is that political
"reformers" usually do more harm than
good. The helpless children of the state
must stand the consequences, and their
parents must foot the bills. The "geog
raphy" compiled, by Harr Wagner Is
rotten with errors and absurdities; and
other works, the product of home talent,
are being severely criticised where they
are used. For the adoption of these
works the State Board of Education
in Washington is responsible. If Gov
ernor Rogers, friend of the "barefoot"
schoolboy, has any proper sense of his
duty, he will remove the entire board
at once, or those members who joined
with Browne in introducing the ridicu
lous Wagner into the schools of the
state. The friends of Browne Intimate
that politics has inspired the attack on
the new system. Possibly. But will
politics cause the Rogers administration
to throw its protecting arm around
Browne, and endeavor to shield him
from the consequences of his own stu
pid folly If folly only It Is?
We know something about the opera
tions of the book trust in this state. Its
methods are not admirable. But the
intrigues and machinations of the trust
to cajole and persuade and influence
educators into its way of thinking about
its books are no excuse for machina
tions and intrigues and corrupt jobs by
its enemies to deprive It of Its business
and build up a little monopoly of their
own. These things, or something very
like them, were done in Washington.
Superintendent Browne aided the for
mation of the Westland Publishing
Company, a local concern, which de
pended entirely upon his official favor
to establish it in business. Browne Is
directly charged in some of the Wash
ington -newspapers with being finan
cially interested in this concern. This
allegation he denies; but he is "proud
of his efforts to encourage local publi
cation, and has no apologies for his rec
ord." In any event, this publishing
concern is his creature, and its organi
zation was an essential part of the great
job whose fruits are chiefly to be found
in the astonishing Wagner geography.
Browne's highest duty, and his only
duty, to the people of his state Is to
maintain a competent system, of in
struction in the public schools. To pro
tect the state treasury from school
book jobbers Is a collateral duty, in
volved in the larger trust. For a Su
perintendent himself to be part and par
cel of any such conspiracy Is unpardon
able and shameless.
THE OHIKESE SITUATIOK.
The agreement of Great Britain with
the answer of the United States to the
German note was to be expected, for the
English mind is of common-sense qual
ity. Great Britain knows that the Chi
nese situation must be met as a condi
tion, not as a theory. Great Britain
knows that the dismemberment of
China would be an awful mistake from
a commercial point of view, and would
be an almost impracticable proceeding
as a military performance. The Kai
ser's demand that the "few" persons
who have proved to be the original and
real Instigators of the outrages against
international law which have occurred
at Pekin be delivered up to the foreign
powers for punisnment, Derore any
peace negotiations with China be
opened, is so extreme that our Govern
ment naturally declined to approve it,
and Great Britain has Indorsed our re
fusal. Nevertheless, Germany means to per
sist in a course of aggression. Her de
mands are clearly aimed at the Em
press Regent, who is the lawful ruler of
China, and who is described as the orig
inal and real instigator of the outrages
at Pekin. Lord Salisbury, however,
shows his English common sense In de
clining to Insist that the punishment of
the guilty ones who were in authority
shall precede negotiations for settle
ment. He knows that the Chinese will
never consent to surrender their Em
press Regent to foreign powers to be
punished as those powers may choose
for offenses which could only be proved
after Impartial investigation. And there
is something to be said on the Chinese
side of the case. It is true that attacks
were made upon the foreign Legations
at Pekin, but the foreign fleets had al
ready bombarded and taken the Chi
nese forts at the mouth of the Pel Ho,
As a matter of self-respect, the Chinese
will never surrender their Empress Re
gent, and Germany has a ten years'
war on her hands if she insists on her
original terms.
The Chinese have legitimate griev
ances against foreigners, and especially
against Germans. No nation with a
semblance of pride could consent to de
termine one of the leading subjects of
negotiations before negotiations had
commenced. The German Government
proposes to the various powers that
"the Cabinets concerned should Instruct
their representatives at Pekin to Indi
cate those leading Chinese personages
from whose guilt In Instigating or per
petrating outrages all doubt Is exclud
ed." This means the trial of an indefi
nite number of Chinese by a "star
chamber court" composed of a few for
eigners who are in Pekin as the diplo
matic agents of foreign governments.
The German note Is couched in terms so
severe as to make a settlement with
China impossible. Germany a few
years ago, as a reparation for the death
of two missionaries, exacted from China
the seaport of Kiao Chou and practi
cally the whole province of Shan Tung.
Her present purposes are doubtless in
line with that mischievous proceeding,
Emperor William ougntito remember
the far-sighted moderation of. Bismarck
after Sadowa and Sedan. ' Bismarck
knew human nature -so well that heal
ways shrank from driving a high-spirited
people to extremities. He urged
Emperor William I after Sedan to treat
for peace with any party or dynasty
that represented the French people, so
that peace might come and French
pride be saved. The good sense of Bis
marck is absent from the councils of
the German Emperor today, who evi
dently seeks to humiliate the Chinese
to the dust. He will not succeed. The
Chinese will rise as a nation and re
pulse Germany. Germany will be
obliged to retire or fight a ten years'
battle of doubtful issue.
DOLLAR. AND DINNER PAIL.
What shall It profit a man to assist
Agulnaldo to a throne and lose his own
job?
McKlnley proposes to establish order
in the Philippines, set up a stable gov
ernment with local self-government and
United States sovereignty. Bryan pro
poses to establish order in the Philip
pines, set up a stable government with
local self-government and' a United
States protectorate. Is the difference
great enough to pay a man to "vote for
16 to 1, bring on hard times and throw
himself; out of work?
The idea is to return to the Republi
canism of Washington, Jefferson, Jack
son and DIncoln. The idea Is, if we
can't have "consent" in the South or
with the Indians or in Alaska of Porto
Rico, anyhow we must give It to Agu'n
aldo, even at the 'cost of a financial and
industrial revolution here at home. It's
a pretty hard proposition.
Let us elect Bryan and the silver Con
gress that will go along with his vic
tory. Let us get up a scare in business,
abandon Pacific expansion, encourage
riots, get a few anarchists in the Su
preme Court, shut up the factories with
threats of free trade, break up a few
banks with fear of the silver basis, tell
the world that four years of prosperity
at home and honor abroad don't suit us,
and have a change all round. It will
be a tough dose, but Altgeld and Till
man will be happy and Agulnaldo can
blow his silver whistle undisturbed.
You tell me that I must do the hand
some thing by Agulnaldo. Well while
I am taking care of Agulnaldo, who will
be taking care of me? Who is going to
buy my goods if my customers cancel
their orders? Who is going to get my
money out of the savings bank -when It
.closes up? Who will pay my income
tax if one is enacted? Who is going to
give me a job- if I am thrown out of
work?
Bryan says it is monstrous to talk
about the dollar in the pocket so long as
Agulnaldo is unsatisfied. He says it is
disgusting to talk about the full dinner
pall, just as If a 'man had no ideas
above his dinner pall. But if a man is
thinking of doing without both the dol
lar and the dinner pail, he wants to
know where he is going to get off. It
would be pleasant living for the Bryans,
doubtless, at the White House. It
would be agreeable to Agulnaldo Ibsu-
lng proclamations twice, a week to his
minions In Manila. But the average
man is not going to think so much
about what will happen to Agulnaldo as
to forget to think about what will hap
pen in this country.
We go on the prinolple in this country
that if a man doesn't look out for him
self, nobody will look out for him. A
good many people think highly of self
preservation. That is what Agulnaldo
did when he took $400,000 of Spanish
coin and sailed away, leaving the sacred
cause of freedom and "consent" to' its
own resources.
CROKBR, BRYAN'S PARTNER.
There Is little doubt about the fact of
the illicit deal between Bryan and Cro
ker. The Tammany boss offers to sell
Bryan New Tork for all the state's Fed
eral patronage and a Cabinet position.
He wants the latter for his faithful1
friend and creature, HJdward Murphy,
the beer king; the spoils he will dis-
j tribute where they will do the most
good among his mercenaries and para
sites. Bryan Is not entitled to the ben
efit of his lame denial of the stories
about the corrupt bargain. Croker Js
a calculating dealer in political dry
goods. His masterly activity is never
displayed for nothing in any cause. If
he bets $80,000 against $250,000 on Bryan,
It Is because he can afford to lose, and
he has larger game In view. In this
case his aim is to raise a mighty cor
ruption fund from the saloons, gam
blers, lawbreakers, politicians, Tam
many appointees and other municipal
favorites. The $80,000 Is merely an ear
nest tp them that they are to get a run
for their money. Perhaps they will.
But It will be because Croker, with his
boodle In hand, thinks it worth his own
while to spend It for Bryan.
To carry the election is with Bryan a
practical, and not a sentimental, ques
tion. It is his purpose and his business
to make himself President, If he can.
As Croker was his mo3t powerful ally
at Kansas City, so is Crokerlsm to be
the most influential instrument in his
final success. Thus he stoops to con
quer and dirties his fingers by striking
hands over an Iniquitous deal with the
most wicked, unscrupulous and danger
ous trafficker in public morals and offi
cial consciences the country has ever
known.
Now Bryan is going to New York to
help out his partner, Croker.- It may
be supposed that his presence there will
be a certain guaranty that McKlnley
will carry the state. The sure effect of
this visit will be to alarm the luke
warm, stimulate the indifferent and
arouse the slumbering antagonisms
that have not as yet appeared In ef
fective measure during the campaign.
Many Democrats have been intending
to vote for Bryan because their suspi
cions and fears have been allowed to
subside through the absence of the
great agitator. Contact with Bryan Is
the best possible advertisement of Bry
anlsm, and it Is Bryanism that the
great majority of voters in New Tork
abhor. Croker they can tolerate, be
cause he is simply an ugly excrescence,
a dragon that does not have to be slain,
but to be paid, to make him innocuous;
and the alternative of Croker is Piatt.
But Bryan and Bryanism New Tork In
sheer self-protection must fight and aid
to kill off.
Wheat and flour shipments from Port
land for the first three months of the
current season will be the largest on
record for a corresponding period. Fig
ures printed In Tacoma correspondence
In anotner column show that Portland
has not only held her own In this busi
ness, but within the past ten years has
made a decided gain over the Puget
Sound cities. It is' during the ten-year
period for which the figures are given
that the greatest effort was made to
divert wheat tiom Portland territory to
Puget Sound poets. Portland has done
much for her shipping since 1890. The
channel has been deepened so. tha,t
lighterage is ho longer necessary; com
pulsory pilotage has been abolished,
towage rates reduced, extensive docks
equipped with the latest Improved ma
chinery for -cheap handling of grain
have been- completed, and numerous
other Improvements have been made.
The fine showing produced while suffer
ing under a. handicap which has now
been removed is a guarantee that the
good, long lead we now hold will show a
proportionate- increase in the next ten
years. Tacoma and Seattle will in
crease their wheat shipments as new
territory is tapped by railroads termi
nating on 'the Sound, but there Is no
reason why -Portland's increase from
now on should not be proportionately
greater.
Mr. Bryan occasionally refers to pros
perity ln a sneering way, but he has
never undertaken a straightforward
discussion of the facts. In 1894 there
were 1,424,966 depositors" in our Na
tional banks, 502,756 in state and private
banks, 205,368 in loan and trust compa
nies, and 3,413,477 in savings banks. In
1899 there were 1,991,183 depositors in
National banks, 960,394 In state and prl
vate banks, 443,32-1 in loan and trust
companies, and 4,254,516 in savings
banks. Here is an increase of 2,109,547
in the number-of depositors in banks..
The value of deposits in 1894 was $2,874,
528,406. In 1899 the amount was $4,608,
096,005, jm increase of $1,733,506,599. The
average deposit in,- banks was $520 in
1894, and $602 in 1899. As if in direct
answer to Mr. Bryan's insinuations, the
figures in Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado
and the Dakotas are particularly sig
nificant. The increase in deposits In
North Dakota Is over 100 per cent, or
from $2,275,795 In -1894 to $5,050,000 In
1899. In South Dakota there has been
an increase from $2,958,463 to $7,042,915,
or an increase of $4,084,452. In Ne
braska there has been an Increase from
$22,428,240 to $35,726,105. In Kansas there
has been an increase from $17,147,160
to $33,605,101, or an increase of
$16,437,941. In view of these figures,
the Chicago Inter Ocean trenchantly
remarks that "when Mr. Bryan tells
the people of any -of these states that
their condition is as bad under Repub
lican rule as Under the administration
of Cleveland, the men, women and chil
dren with their savings in bank will
rise up against him."
Among those thrown out of employ
ment in the anthracite coal district by
the strike In and around Hazleton is
an army of "breaker boys," 2000 strong.
Most of these are too young to realize
what stopping work'means to them and
to those to whose support they contrib
ute. "Barefooted, grimy-faced," says a
correspondent of the Philadelphia Bul
letin, "they scampered down the rick
ety stairs as the boom of the knocking
off gun sounded the glad tidings of .a
long and jolly rest." One cannot won
der that these little wage-earners wel
comed the strike. Earning money
means toll to them over the wet ' or
dusty chutes through the cold Winter
mornings and throughout the livelong,
shivering day. Th$ breaker boy is a
wage-earner who never sees the $1 69 or
$2 a week thai he makes, His parents
trade at the -company store, and his
wages go Into the general account He
has no time for school. His father was
a breaker ' boy "before him, and re
ceived no sohopling. In these coal min
ing districts the compulsory education
law is a dead letter. It is circumvented
by the unwritten law of necessity. Very
young children go to school, but after
the miner's son is ten yCars old he must
join the black-faced army in -the great
coal breaker and pluck out his living
from, the never-ceasing flow of anthra
cite. Expectingnothlng else, the lot is
accepted, If not , cheerfully, with indif
ference, except as to its" monotony, a
break in which was gladly welcomed
by the breaker boys when the early
knocklng-off gun last Saturday an
nounced that the strike was on.
Whlttler san's the story of Chicago's
disaster by flre in 1871 In the words:
On three-score spires tho silnset shone
Whero ghastly sunrise looked on none.
And, never loBing sight of the divine
principle In man or slighting an oppor
tunity to record an expression of it, he
added to a recital of the city's woes a
laudation of human generosity that
they Invoked, saying:
But underneath. the threat'nlngr wav
Tho world, full handed, reached to save.
An exemplification of the quick re
sponse of generosity to the call of sore
distress might, "fyell be recorded" In the
same lines In the case of Galveston.
The humane. Instincts excited by this
calamity ar6 confined to no race or na
tion. The French were among the first
to respond to the call' for aid, and very
oarly in the fray a generous subscrip
tion was forwarded to the Mayor of the
stricken city lay the Chinese of New
Tork.'
Reports of the needless abuse to
which horses were subjected while be
ing placed aboard .the transport Lennox
indicate that It would pay the Govern
ment In such a case, -from a standpoint
of economy, to hire a humane officer
with full police powers to see that Its
horses are properly handled. While
perhaps none of the creatures were seri
ously injured by being persuaded on
shipboard with clubs vigorously applied
to their backs, shins and haunches, it
can hardly be said that their value,
either for docility or endurance, was en
hanced by this treatment There are
certainly other and better ways to man
age horses that would give them the
advantage of starting on a long and nec
essarily trying sea voyage with whole
hides and unbruised bodies.
All for McKlnley.
The Springfield Republiqan finds, in run
ning over the editorial pages of its re
ligious weekly exchanges, that thoy
are all supporting McKlnley. And
yet it is .--r pointed out that Bryan
Is an active church member in
good and regular standing. There
was a time, only a few months ago, when
desperate efforts wore made by a few In
temperate and clamorous temperance re
formers, whose headquarters appear to be
in Washington when Congress Is in ses
sion, to array tho religious press against
President McKlnley on account of the
"Army canteen," the practical operation
of which was not generally well under
stood. Because the President choso to
follow .the Attorney-General's legal in
terpretatldn of a law of Congress rather
than their own, these people planned a
systematic -campaign of abuse and de
traction against him. His personal hahits
were misrepresented, and he was assailed
on account of the liquor traffic In the
Philippines, the facts in regard to which
were, distorted and exaggerated. The cam
paign was carried into some of the great
religious assemblies and conventions of
the year and strenuous efforts were made
to induce 4he conductors of the religious,
newspapers tq join the crusade. OS course,'
agitation led to investigation, and theVe
sult is, according to the Springfield Re
publican, that the religious weeklies are a
uni in support of McKlnley.
SOME PERTINENT REPLIES.
As Pertinent, Anyhow, as One That
t Bryan Recently Made.
New York Tribune,
. Mr. Bryan has spoken at last on North
Carolina. He has addressed himself to a
consideration of the suppression of the
negro vote in that state and to the con
sequent imposition of government with
out the consent of the govorned. He has
done so with the fullness, the frankness,
the qourage and the philosophic calm
which were to be expected of him after
his bold and exhaustive discussion of the
currency question in his Indianapolis
speoch of acceptance. This interesting
episode occurred at Fort Scott, Kan., and
this was the fashion of It: Some one
asked him about North Carolina and the
race question in that state. "I am glad
you mentioned North Carolina," said Mr.
Bryan. "Now, I want you to read the
Sulu treaty, and, having done that, 1
think you will blush until election day
and never have time to think of North
Carolina."
Most admirable' Crlchton! Now, we sup
pose that presently some impertinent
heckler will ask him, "What about free
silver?" And the great man will say:
"I am very glad you mentioned free sli
ver. Now, I want you to read what
Jefferson said about Louisiana, and I
think you will find it ever so much more
Interesting than anything I could say
about 16 to 1." Again, some bad boy will
demand, "How about packing the Su
preme Court?" And the candidate of
Popocracy wHl reply: "I am delighted
to hear you mention that. Now, I want
you to commit the whole of Tupper's
'Proverbial Philosophy' to memory, and
When you have done that I think you
will be so dead to the world that you will
not even know there Is a Supreme Court."
And when at the last some son of Belial
inquires, "How about the Income tax?"
the would-be reincarnation of Lincoln will
austerely reply: "It just warms the cock
les of my heart to hear you mention the
dear old income tax, Now, I just want
you to say 'Peter Piper picked a peck
of pickled peppers' until you can say It
forward and backward at the same time,
and then It will be dollars to doughnuts
you won't know an Income tax from a
hole In the ground."
Truly, It is a great scheme. Only, with
all reserve and respect and reverence,
we are not sure that It Is quite original.
For It is written of the late Dennis
O'Toole that he was once instructed by
hls master to get rid of an unwelcome
caller who had inquired if the master
was at home, and to do so by giving
him "an equivocal answer." Dennis did
It. Later his master asked him tiow he
did It. "Sure, I gave him an equivocal
answer." "But what did you say, Den
nis?" "Well, sorr, he asked me was
Yer Honor at home, and I says to him,
sure, says I, 'was yer grandmother a
monkey?' "
What W1U' Happen March 5.
The Philadelphia Ledger has been trying
to forecast the situation on March 5,
1901, In case of the election of Mr. Bryan,
and also in case of tho re-election of Mr.
McKInTey, and it; sums up the matter as
follows:
Wo cannot speak with as muoh certainty
about what Mr. Bryan would do on the, 0th of
March, 1001, if he should be elected, as -we
can about what Mr. McKlnley would do under
similar circumstances, but we know enough of
his vagaries to be assured that he would do a
great deal of mischief and very little good.
me paramount ,issue is the nnanclal pro
gramme of the two candidates for President,
and when the country begins to consider what
Mr. Bryan's election would bring about, it
will assuredly decide to let well enough alone
and have four years more of ouslnoss done on
a sound, "financial basis, which is one of the
elements' ox prosperity. '
The Immediate Insne.
St Louis Globe-Democrat.
The unanimity apd vigor with which'
the people of the United States recognize
that base money and not flag-furling Is
the paramount issue is striking terror
into the hearts of the'Bryanites. Free
sliver is turning the whole. of the East
and all of the Middle West against Bry
an, as it did in, 1896. The protection of
the 100-cent dollar Is the vital issue with
the wage-earners all over the country.
Chairman Jones said In September, 1896,
that the characterization "50-cent dollar
party," which the Republicans hurled at
the Bryanltes at that time, did the latter
more damage than any other epithet that
hit them. The designation "45-cent dollar
party," which Is flung at the Bryanltes
in 1B00, will damage them more than did
Its predecessor.
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- MEN AND WOMEN. -
On the nomination of Lord Roberts tha Duke
of Westminster has been appointed Second
Lieutenant In the Royal Horse Guards. The
Duke's service In South Africa was short, but
most creditable.
Professor R. Means Davis, of x South Caro
lina College, at Columbia, Is writing a hlstorr
of South Carolina during reconstruction days,
and when ho has finished that will undertake.
if he yields to the general wish, a history of
the state at largo for use in Its schools.
Alexander Ramsey, the first territorial Gov
ernor of Minnesota, the first Mayor of SU
Paul, ex-Senator and former Secretary of
War, has refused persistently to add to the
biographical notes he has already made pub
lic, although he has received many flattering
offers from magazlno editors.
The new Queen of Servla has many personal
attractions which mirht to endear her to her
subjects, notwithstanding tho opposition to hor
marriage. One who knows her well says aba
is a tall, graceful brunette, with beautiful
hazel eyes, -which at times betray a high
strung temper. Her voice is agreeable, and
even musical. She speaks French and German
with great fluenoy. She is well versed in
French literature, and reads the papers at
tentively. Lady Currle- still signs "Violet Ftfae" when
she publishes a poem. This she has just done
In the pages of the Lallan Review, a maga
zine printed In Italy In the English tongue
and advocating many of the reforms, espe
cially in laws and usages relating to women,
whloh are associated particularly with tho
Anglo-Saxon race. The new magazine, which
Queen Maraherlta Joins the British Ambassa
dress in fostering, is edited by Madame Zam
plnl Salozar, who is now on a visit to London.
Onr Dead Soldier.
Thomas M. Farquajiar in New Tork World.
A khaki-covered soldier had made the last re
treat. His warrior soul wea marshaled before the
Judgment seat,
A foreign, silent rlco swamp had welcomed
him to death.
And o'er him moaned the night wind with
sultry, fretful breath.
While throbbing through tho waving reeds
their melancholy tune,
The ebbing battle guns die out in weird and
walling croon, ,
And, he whose eager ear hath heard them boom
on Luzon's plain
Will never more thrill at their sound nor fol
low them again.
A faint and far-off bugle call, -a humming, dis
tant drum,
Tho night bird's plaintive crying, through the
clinging rnarsh mists como;
Tho rice dyke's gloomy groaning, straining
'gainst the sodden surge
In sullen, savage music sobs the soldier's only
dirge.
Tho slow lament, so sweetly sad, that bursts
from martial band.
Will not be thine, oh! soldier, in thy grave
on foreign strand.
But twice ten thousand warriors from storied,
strenuous past
Acclaim thee, from dead battlefields, a hero of
the last.
But, soldier, where thou llest there shall be
thy native land;
For government shall keep the soil seised by
thy daring hand,
The flag shall droop abovo thee with weight of
battlo-lore,
i i.nin- n o'rnr-ir ,, fco. - .
ao'mdro."
SOUTHERN VIEWS -OF POLITICS.
New Tork Evening Post, n
The full returns of the Arkansas elec
tion are decidedly unfavorable to the
Democrats. The vote of the state for
Governor in 1900 thus compares with the
corresponding election in 1S9S:
Dem.
Item. Rep. Pop. Plu.
1S9S 01.124 S3.S:6 1390 E6.2SS
1900 88.637 40,701 3.1 47,936
It will be observed that the Republican
vote has Increased about 14 per cent,
while the Democratic has fallen, off near
ly 3 per cent But this by no means ex
presses the Democratic loss, for most of
the Populists haye always been Demo
crats, and when the vote of that party
sinks from 13.SS0 to 3641, the Democratic
should have Increased by 7000 to 8C0Q. On
the basis of the division in 1S98, therefore,
the Democrats have really lost something
over 10 per cenjt, as against a Republican
gain of 14 per cent. There have been
charges of fraud against the dominant
party by the Republicans In each election,
but they may be considered to balance
each other, and so do not affect the com
parison. The showing is what might have
been expected after the indications of
public sentiment In the South during the
last few weeks. That section has lost Its
Interest In Bryan's, free-silver nostrum,
while It has no heart In his campaign
against the Imperialism In which It be
lieves.
Some light upon public sentiment In
other parts of the South, as well as In
Arkansas, Is cast by a canvass of bank
ers In dozens of country towns through
out that section just made by the Balti
more Manufacturers' Record. They were
asked for their views upon the present
conditions of business Interests In their
neighborhoods, and were also Invited to
express their opinions as" to whether the
business Interests of the country will be
best served by the election of McKlnley
or of Bryan. Many of the bankers make
.no reference to politics, which Is in itself
not without significance as Indicating a
widespread lack of enthusiasm for the
Democratic candidate, and while a num
ber would like to see Bryan succeed,
there are many who are outspoken
against him. Thus the cashier of a bank
at Fort Smith, Ark., writes that his soc
tion never before enjoyed so great a de
gree of prosperity as now, and adds:
"We, are well satisfied with McKinley's
Administration, and for my part I appre
hend that a change would prove most dis
astrous to every business enterprise."
Three or four other expressions may be
worth quoting:
From Eminence, Ky. It is my opinion that
the election of Mr. McKlnley will be for the
business Interest of the country. Imperialism
is only a scare that we care nothing about.
I am a Democrat, but I am convinced It Is to
our interest to make no change in the Presi
dent. From Coal Creek. Tenn. While I was a
Democrat and voted three times for Cleveland.
I do not see what could be done from a mere
human standpoint that would be more dis
astrous to the business Interests of the coun
try, and therefore to every Interest, than thM
election of Bryan. The gold standard of
money must be maintained, lmprelallsm or no
imperialism.
From Blalrs, S. C Tho average business
man believes that the election of Mr, Bryaa
to the Presidency of the United States would
cause a money panic.
From Bertram, Tex. While a very large ma
jority of people In this section will ote for
Mr. Bryan for President, because ho la thir
party nominee, still the honest conviction of
the best business men Is that they would
really prefer to see Mr. McKlnley ro-elected,
believing that such re-election would the bet
ter tend to Insure continuance of present pros
perity. When lifelong Democrats are In, such a
frame of mind as this, it is not strange
that the Arkansas election should show
Democratic losses and Republican gains.
No candidate for the Presidency was
ever treated with such contempt In the
section where he was supposed to be
strongest as is Bryan by the South in
this campaign. All of the state beow
the Potomac and the Ohio Rivers, with
the possible exceptions of West Virginia
and Kentucky, are conceded to him by
everybody, and yet in. all that region
there Is scarcely any sign of warm sup
port, while leading Democratic newspa
pers do not hesitate to sneer at tho nom
inee of their party. Take as an illustra
tion these remarks by the Montgomery
Advertiser, the most Influential Journal
in Alabama, upon Bryan's recent claim
that the coinage of silver dollars by the
McKlnley Administration Is a vindication
Of the "16 to 1" doctrine: "For the sake
of the party, we wish Mr. Bryan would
stop making such statements. Mr. Bryan
knows that such coinage has absolutely
no connection with free coinage at IS to
L There's no excuse for such statements."
It Is evident that the sentiment of the
South regarding the financial Issue has
changed greatly, and that the business
men of that section are now In no mood
for tampering with the gold standard.
This is one reason why the South Is cool
towards a candidate who Is committed
to the overthrow of that standard.
While the South has thus cooled to
wards Bryan as the advocate of a finan
cial revolution, a large proportion of Its
people are Indignant against him for tak
ing up in this campaign opposition to ex
pansion, and for his championship of "the
consent-of-the-governed" principle. The
South Is the section of the Union which
has always most strongly favored expan
sion. As the Galveston News, the lead
ing newspaper of Texas, recently put It:
Purely nobody who has read the record
can, pretend that the Democratic party
has over opposed this policy. The very
grandfathers of the party stood on this
foundation, and In this very doctrine the
organization found life and power." As
for the theory that the superior race
need bother about getting the consent of
the Inferior to the government of the lat
ter, representative Southern journals rid
icule the idea and reject It with scorn.
The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, for instance,
admits, that "we of the South are uncon
stitutional with regard to the negro, and
expect to continue so right along," and
declares that "such a modification being
necessary In the South, it will likewise
be necessary In the new possessions." In
View of the developments regarding antl
lraperlallsm in the South during the past
month, It is not strange that Bryan
should feel Inclined to switch off to the
anti-trust Issue.
Politicians "Who Can Manngre.
Atlantic Monthly.
A boss Is not only a partisan politician,
that is, one concerned with partisan poli
tics, but he Is a political machinist, one
concerned with the machinery of political
parties. Many politicians are not political
machinists. In England, indeed, while
nearly every public man Is a partisan pol
itician, few of the leading public men are
ol!tlcal machinists. Mr. Chamberlain
s, or is supposed to be, a rare exception
to the general rule. . In this country
Messrs. Reed, Edmunds, Blaine, Bayard,
Thurman. all partisan politicians, and
none of them wholly Ignorant of partisan
political machinery, yet were not political
machinists, as was Mr. Tllden, for ex
ample, f
t a
"Will Find HIM Joab on November S.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Mr. Bryan's topic was free trade In
1892; free silver in 1S98, and It Is Absalom
in 1200.
NOrE AND COMMENT . - ,
The coal outlook Is very blackv
The sample of weather submitted yes
terday is just the thing for the Fall
style..
Bryan's admirers say. he bellayes every
word he says. He must be a man of re
markable credulity.
Von Waldersee Is getting ready to loadfi.
the allies, and LI Hung Chang Is p-.se -,
paring to lead the German.
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The frost will soon bo fallln'
From the cold November sky.
And the mellow golden puakln
Will bo ready fur the pie.
ir New Tork hadn't repealed the Horton
law it might have secured the Chinese
German war as a Winter attraction.
The mummy raised his head, and spoke;
They listened for his words, and lol
He cracked the same time-ripened Joka
We hear at every minstrel show.
If Oom Paul find3 time hanging heavy
on his hands he might buy a little cheap,
excitement by getting a few shares in tha.
ice trust.
Persons desiring a job lot of paramount
Issues dirt cheap will do well to commu
nicate with the Democratic party about
November 7.
The death of a millionaire Is vlevted
with suspicion by the New Tork police.
If he had been an office-holder the sus
picions would seem more reasonable.
Bryan has not yet announced where he
will eat his Thanksgiving dinner, but hd
will be safe In Inviting his friends to the.
little white-washed cottage on the farm.
The editor of the London Times Is a
rather august personage In the eyes of
most Englishmen, and few puollc men
care to run the risk of Incurring his dis
pleasure. Lord Brougham w as not of that
number, however. He was the author
of a rather sharp practical Joke, the
victim being the dreaded "Thunderer" It- '
self. The editor of that paper was a
particular enemy of the great statesman,
and It occurred to the latter that It would;
be a good joke to give out tnat he was:
dead and see what kind of obituary no
tice the great London newspaper would
give. Lord Brougham was traveling In
the provinces at the time, and the report
of his death was soon circulated. A rep
resentative of the Times called at his
lordship's residence to verify the rumor.
There he wa3 assured the renort was
Indeed true, and In proof was shown the
coffin and pall, which haa already beert
laid out. The next day the Times ap
peared with a notice of Brougham's:
death, in which the statesman's life and.
character were depicted in tho most viru
lent terms. It was very small satisfac
tion to Lord Brougham when, a few days
later, ha exacted an abject apology from
the editor.
Oh! the shl: o state's In peril,- where shaa k
often been before.
She's drlftln' with her rudder gone upon a
rock-bound shore;
The cyclone of calamity Is roarln overhead.
An on the smashed an battered decks alt. ,
hope Is lyta' dead.
The shla o' state's In peril, an the day o"
wrath Is here,
It never falls to come around a Presidential
year.
Oh J the ship o' state's In peril, an the snako
armed octopus
Is reachln' out Its slimy colls to grab an'
swallow us. f
Its awful, fear-compellin form above tha
wave appears, r- V.
As it showi up unfallln'ly In Presidential
years.
An If the jcrand of ship keeps on she'a cer
tain sure to go
To wreck an' ruin on the rocks. Jest like foue
years ago. "
Oh I the ship o state's In peril, where It fre
kently Is found.
The Bryan howlers all can hear her keel grate
on the ground.
They see the slrnal of distress a-flyln' at her
mast.
An -natch to see her swallered up amid the
shrlekln' blast.
But they'll be disappointed, fur the crew seta
up a cheer.
An" iuta out In the nick o time each Presi
dential year.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGItAPHEHS
The Only Way. He What would you do if X
should kiss you? She That Is for you to find,
out! Puck.
A Clever Turn. "What a pretty Fall hat
that is of Mrs. Flypp's." "Yes. That's her
Summer hat turned around with the back to
the front.' Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Papa has looked you up." "But, dearest
are you going to let that make any differ
ence,?' "Oh. no! There Is no reason why we
should not still remain engaged.' Life.
Mother Tommy, what makes you so latent
Tommy Had some words with the teacher,
and she kept me In after scholol. Mother
Tou had words with the teacher? "Yea,
mother. I couldn't spell 'em.' Tlt-Blts.
Near Enoush. Tommy Pa. what does "dis
agree" mean? Pa Well, when two people
think alike they are eatd to asrreo. Now, you;
can guess what "disagree" means. Tommy
Oh, yesi that's when only one people thtnka
alike! Philadelphia Press.
The Savase Bachelor. "I do believe that
young pair have come to an understanding at
lost." said the landlady. "If they have, thoy
are tho first couple in love that ever exhibited
any signs of possessing understanding." said
the Savage Bachelor. Indianapolis Press.
The Absurdity of It. "I tell you." Bald tha
practical citizen, speaking with emphasis, "tha
secret of permanent roads 13 ' "How did
you ret tho Idea that I was interested in thet
subject of permanent roada?" interrupted th
paving contractor, with a frosty smile. Chi
cago Tribune.
Let There Be Light.
Robert Kldson In Brooklyn Eagle.
Can you not see. my borthers, how great this
Nation grows.
Emerging from Its century of toll and martial
throes?
How In the year of miracles, the fateful
ninety-eight.
With little effort It became the peer of any
stater
The equal of the greatest, with ample power
to grow?
Then cease your petty wrangllngs and let dis
sensions go.
When this great century was young, with foes
every hand.
Wo let not well enough alone, but needs must
then expand;
To rest content with thirteen states wa not
our lucky star.
We. raised them up to forty-five, and, thank
Godt here we are;
And here we mean to stay, my boys, right at
the same old stand.
And no American now lives who says wo'vo
too much land.
As we crossed the Rocky Mountains, now w
breast the surging waves.
For tho Islands God has given, sacred with
our heroes graves;
As wo fought to free ourselves, boys, now we
fight to free the world.
With the same old flas abovo us. by Provi
dence unfurled;
For we are stronr enough by now to help
across the sea.
And God Intends it shall be done: so. brother,
let it be.
There's antl-this and ant t-that, but old Tims
rolls along.
And Uncle Sam Is marching to Expansion's
glorious song;
Tho Nation's prosperous through light, must
hold together fast.
Nor lonser be divided by the hatreds of tl
past;
The advocates of isolated selfishness aro blind;
The more. TJnlted States there are, thatpettar
for mankind. '