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? st- M'tpi ' THE sMaEKIKG.r0KEG01sTIA WEDKESDAT. OCTOBER 3, 1000.. h$ rgc:tian Entered at the Postofflce at Portland, Oregon, as second-class, matter. TELEPHONES. Editorial Booms ltt'J Business Offlce..-.65T REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mail (postage prepaid). In Advance Dally, -with &unday, per month. ..........$0 85 Dolly, Sunday excepted, per year. ......... 7 50 Dolly, -with Sunday, per jear... t 00 Sunday, per year ... .. 00 The "WeeKly, per jear ..., 1 50 The Weekly. S months . W To City Subscnbsrs Dally, per week, delKered, Sundays excepted.lBc Daily, per week. dcrll ercd, Sundays included.20c POSTAGE KATES. United States, Canada and Mexico: 10 to 10-page paper ........................ -le 16 to "S2-pa.ce paper .............. -e Foreign rates double. r , News or discussion Intended for publication la The Oregonlan should be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan," not to the name of any Individual. 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For salo in Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co., 77 "VV. Second South street. For salo In New Orleans by Ernest & Co., 115 .Royal street. On file in Washington, D. C, with A. "W. Dunn, 1029 Fifteenth street, N. TV. For tale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co., 17 Dearborn street. ; I TOD AT S "WEATHER. Cloudy and threat ening, with showers; variable v.inds. i PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3 IXBEPEXDEXT ESTIMATES. The New Tork Herald, an independ ent paper, which ris giving no support to McKinley, and opposes Bryan olity on slxteen-to-one, has undertaken an investigation, through its own agents, of political conditions in the contested states. Its conclusion is that McKln ley's re-election is well assured. It thinks, however, that he will lose Ken tucky and Maryland, but will carry OEansas, South Dakota, "Washington and "Wyoming, which he lost four years ago. Thee changes would just balance each other. But the Herald thinks Indiana, -which voted for McKinley in 1S88, a -doubtful state, with chances, however, in McKlnley's favor. Nothing but a great "upheaval, the Herald says, of which, however, it declares it sees no eign, could defeat McKinley. The Bos ton Herald, another great independent Journal, after an extended review of the field, comes to the same conclusion as that announced by the Herald of New York. The Boston paper sums up in the following statement: If In any quarter there is any important drift ing away of Bepubllcans to the Democratic party under Brjan leadernftip, we have not dis cerned it. Individual Bepubllcans, some of them persons of note, have announced their purpose to vote for Bryan on account of their disap proval of the President's course in the Philip pine business; but wo see no good reason to think that these have had, or will have, a numerous following in their action. There is no strong, alarming drift of this character. If there was even a peril of it, the alternative- of Brvan- Jsm, as embodied in the Chicago platform, has caused it to vanish. Nothlnr like a "ground swell" or a "tidal wave" of revolt can bo de tected. Nor is it now to be expected. If the people could be moved on this issue, the movement would ha-ve begun earlier. There are no new arguments available to start It at this day. The whole case was presented long ago as plainly and forcibly as It Is likely to be .here after. Our Judgment is that the people lave settled the matter in their own minds and are unlikely to be shaken in their resolution by further argument, .however brilliant and ap pealing. What we do expect to see In the next six "weekB Is a steady weakening of tho Demo cratic ranks wherever the Republicans really make a flrbt to win. They have the means nd the organization to fight hard and suc--cessfully. They have only begun to 4ut forth thelrower. The blunders -of their opponents will fight for them. Bryan is the always con spicuous blunder. The -Republicans have a tremendous and almost invincible ally in tho .general prosperity.1 It pleads for them day and night. From now on their battle will be waged with Increasing vigor, and -Re Judge with in kcreasing confidence. A STRXHVa COaiBIXAOTOJr. The weakness of the Bryan cam paign appeals with irresistible force to the funny men of the illustrated pa pers. Where folly is, there will the satirists be gathered together. IE is one tff the noticeable features ofi this cam paign that the funny men are all on one side. They are usually divided, lut Bryan is tbo much for them. The bogy men..of imperialism, and the spec tacles of Croker and Tillman engaged in alighly moral and Sentimental pre tense are captivating to any one with a sense of humor. So the humorists are against Bryan. Harper's Weekly has an impressive cartoon .entitled "William Tell" in the current number. The cast of the play, of which "a continuous performance by the great Croker-Bryan-Altgeld-Ol-ney combination" Is given, tells the story: William Tell :.Mr. Bryan His Son Mr. Croker Grand Tootler Mr. Debs Village Poet Mr. Garrison Ground-and-lofty Tumblers ..... t r:T,Y",;;"Mr Schuri. Mr. Cockran Belated Old Gentleman......... Mr Olney fiGA,ae y-s. ; Altgeld Book Agent .... Mr. Richardson Ma,5 , Mr. Stevenson Pitch Forker Mr. Tillman Guide Out of a Job Mr Hill GessWrthe Tyrant .... ....Uncle Sam who kindly obliged the management. General Manager ,. James -K. Jones Mr. Bryan in the title role is the larg est figure in the cartoon. But Mr. Cro ker, in a combination suit of tiger-skin and convict's garb, standing on a block 6f "ice-trust" "balancing a prize pumpkin labeled "imperialism" on his head as a mark for Mr. Bryan's "free silver" crossbow, holds the central in terest of the scene. In the detail of the drawing Mr. Altgeld as -a brigand guide helping Mr. Olney over the free-silver and injunction rocks is an even more humorous touch than Messrs. .Schurz and Cockran balancing themselves on their hands with their heels in the air. Puck, Judge and Life also contribute to the piquancy of the campaign. The witty Life has a bantering article on the Gold Democrats, whom It shrewdly characterizes as helng for Bryan, not to elect him, but "to finish him," be cause they want to be with their party "when the Bryan mania Is over." Puck has a front-page cartoon of Olney in a home for incurables, with a rubber doll of Bryan .in his hands, while Puck is examining his cranium with the air of a phrenologist There Is more serious thought than sport in the front-page j cartoon of Judge, which has a face of Agulnaldo with the inquiry, "Who is back v Agulnaldo, who has killed so many of our soldiers?" The paper about Aguinaldo's head is cut so it can be turned down, and when this is done the face that stands revealed beneath is the face of Bryan. It is one of the most powerful political cartoons ever contrived. It is curious, perhaps, that the funny men should be in alliance this year with the religious press, but so it is. Such a complete unanimity we have never had before, and it is to be hoped we shall never have again; for it is dangerous that one of the great parties should be committed to policies' so ob jectionable as to incur the censure of the religious papers and so idiotic as to invite the gibes of the funny men. The religious press takes Bryanism seriously, resenting its unpatriotic pro posals abroad and Immoral proposals at home. The humorists are attracted more by its ridiculous features. These two wholly dissimilar engines of public opinion are not to be despised when working separately; but united, they make a combination that will be hard to beat. BRYAN'S DISTINGUISHED SERVICE. The Democrats had a winning issue in 1S96 the tariff and they threw it away. They had a winning lssue in 1900 McKinley and they have thrown it away.. Nobody takes much Interest In "im perialism" or the trusts or free silver. But great Interest might have been aroused on one issue if the Democrats had availed themselves of it. That is sue was McKinley himself and his crowd. To have nominated a better man than McKinley would have been to encom pass McKlnley' defeat Men would have taken chances on free silver, which is not as imminent as In 1896; they would have taken chances on "anti-imperialism," which, though a senseless dream, is a comparatively harmless one, because it can't be re alized. Men would have done this if they could have secured thereby a man of the first rank, a man of patriotism and wisdom, a man to be trusted. That was the Democrats' opportunity. But they didn't take it. They chose to put up a man who is McKlnley's inferior in every way; more dictatorial, more vacillating, more erratic, more unsafe in counsel and wild in visions, infinitely less of the statesman, infi nitely more of the demagogue. The Jssue of this campaign Is not ex pansion or free sliver or free riot or the trusts. The issue of this campaign is Bryan. He forced himself on the party and now he is forcing himself on the attention of the country. He scurries hither and, thither, he clatters, clatters everywhere, making new blunders and alienating voters with every fresh speech. Prominent men who supported him four 'years ago are deserting him one after the other because of his vicious appeals and foolish assertions. News papers that supported him early in the campaign are compelled in self-respect to disapprove one after another of his arguments, until they are tired of keep ing up the futile struggle. It has been Bryan's sole and persist ent purpose to draw all attention to himself. And he has succeeded. He has focused the public mind upon his demagogic appeals and his inconsistent, incoherent ravings. The duplicity of his course on the Treaty of Paris, the un reasoning venom hurled against all property, the blundering effort to make capital out of misfortunes and sneer at every evidence of prosperity and progress, the crookedness of his methods in debate, his ill-natured flings at the Army, his shameless perversion of Lincoln's sayings, his striving after the appearance of greatness all are operating with cumulative power to break down such support and confi dence as were originally his in antl McKinley clrcleB. The Democratic party permitted itself to be hypnotized by Bryan, and now it must bear the consequences of his foolish acts. "What could it expect of a man who had spent four years with no other occupation but the unblush ing and unwearied pursuit of the Pres idential nomination; who took no man's advice, however sagacious or sincere, but bore down all before him with the force of his obstinacy; whose every act was directed confessedly for a partisan advantage; whose mental caliber was shown in his free-sliver nonsense, whose civic spirit in his appeals to dis content and anarchy? Everything that Bryan said and prophesied about the gold standard in 1896 proclaims him a superficial thinker and a reckless word-monger. He was sure to do the same thing this year with whatever he might touch. If there is anything in "blmetallsm," he has disci-edited it by hlB idiotic ravings against the gold standard. If labor has any grievance, lie will kill itH chances by his abuse of capital. If there Is anything" in "anti-lmperiallsm," he has destroyed its reputatlpn by hiB crooked actions If there is any just complaint against the trusts, he has covered it out of sight by his blundering and unrea soning denunciation. If there Is any thing in "militarism," he has brought upon it the contempt of every sound mind by his aspersions upon our gallant little Army and our heroic volunteers. McKinley would have made his elec tion impossible if Bryan had not made Bryan's election more impossible. The one man that is going to elect McKin ley and Roosevelt Is "W. J. Bryan; and he will do it by the comprehensive and Incessant demonstration of his own unfitness. A STUFFED RETURN. It is given out by the Census Office that the population of Seattle is 80,671. But the actual population of Seattle cannot exceed 65,000, and very probably is from '3000 to 5000 below that figure. Seattle started In to make a return of 100,000. By stuffing and padding it was carried up to, near 90,000, and then Ta coma called for a stay of proceedings. The Census Office took hold of the problem, and there -is a compromise which reduces the figures to the total above stated. Still, upon this return, Seattle has succeeded in stuffing her census by at least' 15,000. The reason why The Oregonlan speaks so confi dently is that those two unfailing in dicia of population, the school census taken by the state this year and the registration of the vote this year, prove that Seattle's actual population cannot possibly exceed 65,000. The school cen sus of this year shows 14,507 persons of school age at Seattle, and 10,940 regis tered vpters at Seattle for the city elec tion In March last The school census of this year shows 20,489 school children at Portland, and the" registration last' Spring showed 16,300 voters at Portland. Now, since Portland, with 20,489 school children and 16.300 registered voters (last Spring), has 90,426 inhabitants, how many should Seattle have? Fig ure this out, and you will find, after making all ppssible allowance for "floating population" at Seattle, that the total cannot possibly exceed 65,000. The census revision has cut oft 10,000 to 20,000 from the figures which Seattle had proposed for her return. Close in quiry and recissloh would have cut off at least 15,000 more. It is simply im possible that a city with "Seattle's school census and registered vote should have 80,000 inhabitants. A LESSOR IN HEREDITY. The history of the Hess family has long been running as a serial story in the criminal annals of the state. The latest chapter, though there is unfor tunately no reason to suppose it is the closing one in this record of murder, "theft, incest and scandal, was opened on Sauvle's Island laBt Thursday evening In the commission of what appears to have been a cold-blooded and deliber ately planned murder. The murderer in this instance Is the Illegitimate son of a 13-year-old mother, and his victim the husband of this mother a man who, through ignorance of the law of blood entailment, or In defiance of It .married the child-mother in later years. Representing the third generation in a family whose crimes and misdeeds of varying degrees of enormity, but all of which were born.of or Incited by the baser instincts- of humanity, have cost the state heavily in court fees and pen alty exactions during a period cover ing a quarter of a century or more, this man Kuetemeyer awaits in prison,' with the stolid effrontery of his race, trial for his life.. The man who, in serious stress, is deserted by his mother, may well be considered friendless; he who in the most terrible crisis of his life is de nounced by her as always "a bad boy and worthless," and bitterly arraigned as a bold and deliberate murderer, is worse than deserted by man's1 best friend, in that his mother urges many and good reasons for his conviction and punishment as the law in such cases directs. It may be noted In passing that this woman was herself the vic tim of baleful heredity, which as a child-mother, more sinned against than sinning, no doubt, she transmitted to her son. Life, as judged from the sim ple standard of morality, has gone hard with her from her cradle. The environ ment of her childhood was that of deg radation; its very atmosphere was foul with moral taint Physical debase ment involving responsibilities , that the mature people of her blood never comprehended or rationally assumed, followed as a natural consequence, and this misbegotten son was born. The degraded creature, miscalled a man, who was "the father of her child, has dropped out of this record. At least his name does not appear in it, the whole account against decency and society being charged up against the "Hess family." The nameless" waif took, as it appears, a name that quite befitted him, as it represented a double crime the murder of his grandfather and the. marriage of the slayer to his grand mother. This, in brief, is the outline of the family history brought to light through this latest incident in the serial story, chapters of which at irregular in tervals have appeared in the newspa pers of the state for many years. Society stands .powerless before such a record, while law can only deal with the principles of the new chapter after it is written by consigning them to, prison or the gallows. Later on, per haps, in the development of the human race, society, sanctioned by law, will take measures in self-defense to stop the breeding of criminals of notoriously tainted blood, but this porat has not yet been reached. Punitive measures puny and powerless to stay the force of the stream of criminality that comes direct from the fountain of heredity, turgid with human passions uncon trolled, and dark with foul and name less deeds are applied when an act of more than ordinary flagrance opens up a new chapter in this family history. This Is all, and the public draws a breath of relief Jf, in pursuance of such measures, the doors of the Penitentiary are locked for a term of years upon one of the name or blood, and is con scious of a feeling ' of security when perchance the trapdoor cf the gallows falls and one of the breed dangles briefly but effectively at the end of a rope. A familiar example of the baleful power of heredity when directed into channels of lawlessness and held there by environment Is shown in the crim inal annals of the State of New York, in which it appears that from the Ille gitimate offspring born more than a pentury ago of an Ignorant ostracized and finally degraded child-mother, over 800 criminals have sprung. Reformers of a certain class regard this as a mer ited punishment inflicted upon society for its hard and cruel treatment of the child "Margaret" the mother of this race of criminals, and strive thereby to inculcate lessons of charity for the err ing of this type, so fruitful in the multi plication of evils But no one has gone far enough to assume, In the interests of humanity, individual and collective, that thiB' untutored mother, strong willed, passionate and vengeful in her nature, and the child born of her Way wardness, and the evil tendencies of the father, who for obvious reasons es caped the odium that attached to mother and child, should have been held under strict surveillance by the state, .with such limitations as were necessary to stop the multiplication of their kind. As long as the state stands supine before the cause, it must deal as best it may along punitive lines with the effect, levying heavily as oc casion demands upon decency and thrift to pay the expense that must necessarily follow the increase of crim inals whose very name Is a stamp of low-grade but pernicious and far reaching vice. There are two opinions in regard to the late developments concerning meth ods pursued in the Assessor's office. The general public, that in Its simplic ity thinks that ordinary business meth ods should be applied to public business as regards the hiring of clerks, sala ries, hours and personal responsibility exacted of .employes, holds these de velopments as a shame and a disgrace and frowns indignantly; the office-holding public thinks the methods disclosed are quite proper and withal necessary to "fix a man inch's -Job," and smlleB knowingly and Indulgently. The first deprecates the existence of the system, the last regrets that Its workings are brought to light The first Is made virtuously Indignant by the disclosure ' &e last' deucedly uncomfortable. Both conditions are temporary, how ever, and will not in the least change the method By which oil for lubricat ing the political machine 43 procured. Bryan himself is the paramount issue, and the paramount Bryan has declared: ' ( -If there Is any ono who believes the gold standard la a good thing, or that it must be maintained, I warn him not to cast his vote for me,' because I promise him it will not ba maintained in this country longer than I am abie'td get rid of It. This, it is true, was said four years ago; and the fussy Mr. Schura and other "antls" say that the silver ques tion amounts now "only to a rattling of dry bones"; but Bryan said recently at Zanesvllle, O.: "The party stands where it did in 1896 on the money, ques tibn"j and in his letter of acceptance hq again declared for free coinage at slxteen-to-one. This is the real ques tion the paramount issue of the cam paign, for it menaces all business, in dustry and prosperity, just as it did in 1896. Free coinage, slump to silver and loss of the gold standard would hurt 'the country now as much as it would have hurt it then; and though it would no doubt be more difficult to force the silver standard now than it -would have been then, yet in fact the effort to force it now would "again paralyze all 'business' and Industry. Hence 'every man who believes in the supreme im portance of sound money must vote against Bryan. Hundreds of thousands who are not admirers of McKinley are going to vote for hltn aB against Bryan in order" to prevent upset of business. ' A state election will be held in Geor gia today, when a Governor, a full Legislature and a large number of local officers will be chosen. There has been no campaign to1 speak of, and probably most of the voters would be unaware of the day set for the j election if the chairman of " the Democratic State Executive Committee had not kindly taken the trouble to call their atten tion to it. The Georgia Democracy has entire control of the ballot-boxes and the tally-sheets, hence can afford to dispense' with campaign speeches. The Populist party has little vitality left; the Republicans are doing nothing and expect nothing. The -Democratic ma jority wa's 67,000 in 1898. the Populists having cast 51,580 votes, It is nqt like ly that the latter will cast half that number of votes today, hence the Dem ocratic majority will be so much the larger. There is no reason, indeed, why it should not be 80,000 or 100,000 if the strength of the counters holds out. .The anthracite minfeowners make a 10 per cent concession under pressure of public opinion. They say they can not afford it, and the price of coal will have to go up. But the coal rail roads ought to stand their share. Hero is the financial status of two roads which traverse the affected region, and whose Interests are closely identified with the mine operators': Pelaware & Hudson Railroad Capital, ?34, 800,000; 7 per cent dividends paid from 1880 to 1800; C per cent paid since; stock sold in 1899 from 106& to 12594. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Capital, $26,200,000; stocks and bonds' pay 1 per cent; stock sold last year from 157 to 194. It would seem that the railroads could" do something to relieve the situ ation, without serious danger of bank ruptcy. To dll strained and wordy contentions concerning the possible future state of the agnostic or the Buicide, the folr lower of Christ and his teachings may answer, "Judge not that ye be not judged," while the creedless man, en dowed, with a full measure of trust and human sympathy, may ask and assert with Whlttler, the gentlest soul that ever faced dogma with the simple logic of divine love: Who fathoms the eternal thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord Is God I He needeth not The poor device of man.' The rehabilitation of Galveston goes on, in spite of f the late terrible demon stration of the fact that no human .skill or forethought can make the site a safe one for a city. Recklessness In a case of this kind stands for enterprise and "a bold defiance of conditions for good, wholesome prudence. A repeti tion' of the storm, that wrought Buch -disaster to human life and property will come no one knows when. To take the risk Involved in rebuilding a city on a sand spit directly in its path Is tthe sheerest' folly. Four years ago Bryan made his cam paign on the issue that men were poor and there was nothing in the dinner pail. Now, when it is shown that the dinner pail Is full, he affects a lofty scorn of so sordid, mercenary atid ma terialistic an argument . Even Seattle did not have as many people as it claimed. The jackscrew method of raising figures is either not all It is cracked up to be, or the Cen sus Office is brutally indifferent to the wiles and blandishments of the Seattle boomer and. padder. ' Puzzle: Seattle claimed ' 100,000. The Census Office gives 80,671. What is the real population? Tho President's Serene Confidence. Philadelphia Ledger. Chairman Hanna was much astonlsned at President McKlnley's confidence in the result "You are the most optimistic Re publican I have met this year," Baid Hanna to the President the other after noon. ''It is really refreshing and en couraging to hear you express so much confidence." The cause of McKlnley's faith In tne outcome of the light is easily explained. He gets personal reports of the campaign which do not go to the National commit tee. McKinley knows the exact situation every night In every state before his head touches the pillow. He has had assurances that before election day every labor trouble In the United States will have been settled and adjusted. This will mean an avalanche of support from wagework ers, and virtually turn tho election tide. No wonder, then, that McKinley, In the calm shades of Canton, declines to go swinging around the circle; declines the noise and worry of delegations, and awaits with philosophic faith the verdict in November. Where Money Is a Drag. While Bryan was in Kansas last month tho Cincinnati Enquirer, which is support ing him, published In Its news columns, by some strange oversight a special dis patch from Topeka, saying that money was so plentiful In Kansas that there was little or no demand from borrowers, and money lenders were going out of the "business. Seven banks had gone into liquidation in the last eight months be cause of the light demand for loans, and an eighth was about to do so, its presi dent saying that two-thirds of the bank's deposits were Idle. He and the cashier Wore both going to farming, In which they' could do better than in banking in prosperous Kansas. Probably Colonel Bryan did not hear of these things while he was careering through the state at the rate of 17 "calamity" speeches a day, trying? "to convince the people that the stories of their prosperity were campaign lies told to keep him out of the White House. DANGEROUS TO BRYAN, TliimblorlKffinsr IVItk "Issues' Not Good Form. Memphis Commercial-Appeal. It is incomprehensible that many of those who were most loud and voracious in theif demand for the free and unlim ited coinage of silver four years ago should make wry faces and gag over it when it is offered to them now. They seem to forget that disloyalty to silver is disloyalty to Bryan, who is the incar nation of free silver. They seem to for get that to degrade silver would be a breach of faith with our allies, the Free SUver Republicans and the Populists, upon whom -we must depend to carry the Western States. These people know noth ing about expansion, foreign commerce or our Interest over seas. Many of them have never seen water, except in a sur face puddle or when taken from a bored Well. Thoy know nothing about ships or shipping, of foreign markets or commer cial highways. They know Bryan and .free sliver, and for these they are will ing to abandon their own nominees and support the Democratic ticket, because the Democratic ticket represents para mountly free silver, which is their chief demand. These Westerners are sincere and hon est, and it will not do to play fast and loose, with them. They will not stand any bunco game. The platform of 1896 made free sliver the chief issue, and the Kansas City platform indorsed the Chi cago platform in Its entirety, making free silver again the chief issue. For fear that it would not be so considered, the de mand for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1 was 'incorporated specifically in the Kansas City platform by Mr. Bryan's explicit directions, and against the Impotent wishes of many lead ing Democrats. The imperialism plank in the platform, like the feathers and paint on the In dian brave, are good enough for show and to arouse enthusiasm, but of very lit tle use for effective fighting. The first demand is for the establishment of a stable form pf government In the Phil ippines, a demand made to conciliate Eastern goldbUErs who hate silver, and which means that we must go Into the school-teaching business for several gen erations and complete the work begun by the Spaniards 300 years ago. Stable governments are never rudimentary. They are complete and potential develop ments, based on political civilization and ethnologic adaptiveness. Stable govern ments are not built up on a basis of banditti or Moro headhunters who live in trees, and where each man's spear or bolo is a law unto itself. It Is possible to achate financial reform. keep it to the front and bring It about' wunin a rew years. It is possible also to establish a stable government in the Philippine Archipelago, -but when this task is accomplished the centuries will be much more numerous than they are at present. Any attempt to make a Na tional platform all things to all men, for free silver in the West and against free silver in the East Is contemptible and merits defeat. An ObJect-Leson in Expansion. Leslie's Weekly. In the annals of social develoDment nothing In the world's history surpasses the record of California and the rest ot the Pacific Coast in the past half -century. There were only 5000 or 6000 persons-in California, exclusive of the Indians, at the beginning of 1848. The gold discov ery on January 24 of that year, and Cal ifornia's cession to tho United States by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo one week later, before the gold find was known either In this country or In Mexico, al tered California's destiny and profoundly affected the world's' history. Since that memorable January morning in 1S48 when the grains of Bhlning dust were discov ered in the raceway of Sutter's mill, on the American Fork, California has pro duced $l,6O0,0CO,000 of gold, or one-fifth of all the gold found by all the world since time began. The stimulus which this tremendous gold output has given to the "business activities of every nation under the sun is immeasurable and incalculable. The handful of whites In California at the beginning of 1848 was swelled by the ln-rush from all over the world which tho gold discovery Incited until, at the time of California's admission as a state In 1850, It had 92.000 Inhabitants. California's present population is nrob- ably 1,500,000. The entire Pacific Coast has 3,000,000 inhabitants The census report- gives San Francisco a population of 343,000 this year. Sacra mento, Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Ta coma and other Pacific Coast cities are also mounting toward high figures. The great expansion of America's trade with China, Japan and the rest of Asia which is certain to take place within the next few years, and which is bound to con tinue, will ultimately scatter New Yorks, Bostons, Philadelphlas and Baltlmores all along the Pacific Coast from San Diego Bay to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Nothing Ventured', Nothing Gained. Lowton Standard. Portland's smelter scheme has not yet been abandoned, although nothing has been done to make the enterprise sure. A large smelter in Portland would be of great benefit to that city and the mining interests of the state. Under present con ditions our people feel that we have noth ing In common with tho city of Portland. If we desire financial aid to develop a worthy mining enterprise Portland la the lost place thought of to seek It, although that city has millions of Idle money. This is due to the fact that other cities outside the state recognize the worth ot our mineral resources and stand willing to advance funds as proof of their faith. They are aggressive and are seeking in vestment, while Portland is ultra-conservative and seems willing to horde her dol lars rather than to take a reasonable! chance. Portland must make a radical change In her attitude toward this part of the state before she can hope to profit a great deal from our mineral wealth. A South Carolina Ex-Senator's View Says ex-enator M. C. Butler, a South Carolina Democrat of the old school: I am an expansionist. I think tho Democrat ic party made a mlstako when they raised the cry of antl-lmperlallsm, and I don't believe that there is any such thins. As for the South ern people, I don't see how any of them, es pecially those in the cotton business, can see anything not beneficial to them In the policy of expansion. I think Mr. McKinley has made a most excellent President. He Is thoroughly conscientious, Intensely patriotic, and has the best interests of the country, North and South, at heart. Retired for Repairs. " The Western Laborer, of Omaha, Neb., is a paper that carries at the head of Its columns the name of William Jen nings Bryan for President Still, it is hqnest enough and frank enough to say: It may be hard for Democrats publicly to acknowledge it, but it must bo privately con ceded that the present apparent tie-up between Russia and the United States retires the "secret treaty with England" Issue from the campaign. The retirement may bo only tem porary, but it is certainly out of the service at the present wrltlnsr. "What Mr. Schurz Said. It is somewhat cruel, in view of his present attitude, for the Commercial Tribune, of Cincinnati, to reproduce theso sentences from a speech delivered by Carl Schurz at Pontiac, HI., four years ago: Abraham Lincoln ahd Bryan. Abraham Lin coln and Altseld. To associate these three names together as allies In a common cause aye, to pronounce them together In the same breath a not only a fraud, it is a sacrilege I GOVERNMENT AND "CONSENT." Many persons, some of them lawyers, argue as if the expansion question were to be settled by legal procedure. This Nation Is notT on trial before a legal court but before a moral courts The distinction Is sufficiently important for those who realise our true justification for staying in the Philippines. If we defend our action by moral evidence and by arguments of expediency, we are pursuing a course of National rectitude. Public sentiment far anticipates court justice and preserves the purposes and ends of justice quite as well. Its rules of evidence are those of equity and of fair play. Sentiment has oftener been right in public policy than states men, and sentiment will decide the ques tion of expansion. If we can show that annexation will be good for us and good for the Philippines we may trouble our selves with nothing else. The notion of "consent" started from a kindly yet nqt true conception of gov ernment. It did not comprehend the whole significance or the true function of gov ernment. Started from a mistaken analy sis of government the notion has returned as an argument against government itself: for the doctrine of "consent" negatives government. In the ideal state of man, there will be "consent" because there will be no government; but so long as there is government there cannot be "consent." In the most modern social de velopment we experience there is no such thing as "consent." There cannot there fore be more "consent" In the Filipino or in any other social order than in our own. Wo boast our model is better than any. If we are honest we know it Is better than what the Filipinos could devise or maintain. If It is not we should hush up about inalienable rights because they flourish only in our system and If the Filipinos could Improvise a better they could improve on what are known as inalienable rights. In abstract ratiocination all govern ment is destructive of individual privi lege and stifling of individual initiative. Every great thinker has given expression to this fact. Government limits the con genital prerogatives of the individual which are his by virtue of his superior strength or unusual intelligence. For the welfare of the mass the necessary evil I3 good of restraining those pre-eminently endowed to the exercise of ordinary pow ers. This has been done because they surpassingly endowed are a minority. Social decree ordains they shall conform to the common mold. To say this mi nority is governed with Its consent were folly. Government would not be if there were consent. To say absolutely all government Is good were folly again. If government had existed a million years or so we might declare positively. But if we do not know what government is good we know what government is best and we shall give the Filipinos that gov ernment. And we may reasonably flatter ourselves we know what government is best a great deal more than the Filipinos do. It is assumed by those against expansion that the Filipinos are entitled to Inde pendence because they are a nation gov erned without their consent These antis. If they are reasonable, are of the opinion that if the Filipinos are not a nation, a nation in the double sense of the term, geographically and ethically, they are not entitled to Independence. Appealing to the Declaration of Independence they seem to presume that the Filipinos are as much of a nation and are as capable of exercising political privileges as Amer ica was in 1776. A great deal of significance therefore hinges on the meaning of the word na tion. According to antis It means that the Filipinos area homogeneous people, not a medley of uncongruous races. It means that the Tagals are not a distinct race bent on dominating all the others, but that the others are In full sympathy and accord with them. It means that geo graphically as well as ethically all are a nation, and that Intervening seas trans mute their national spirit as well as land; not that those seas are barriers to inter course and creative of social differentia tions. It means that the several races have a common medium of understanding through which they transmit to each other their national impulses and express their national will; not that they speak several scores of dialects, some of which are mutually unintelligible. It means also that they have a common code of moTals and Ideals Instead of almost as many diverse conceptions of right and wrong and of national ends as there are races. It means that they have a single na tional motive, of which they aro con scious; not that they are composed of marauding savages; not that they are Jealous of each other according to the whim of a' particular chief; but that they aro respectful of the several Ingredients of the Nation, whom they recognize as brethren and with whom they are at all times ready'to co-operate for the common good. If they have not this national spirit; if Agulnaldo does not impersonate the national Impulse; If he does not speak the national will; If they do not have a com mon language, a common tradition and history, a common custom and a common conception of the public welfare; If their national sympathies aro Impeded by in tervening oceans, then the Filipinos are not a nation. If they are not a nation, they certainly are not entitled to Inde pendence and consent. If they are not a nation the principles of the Declaration of Independence are not properly applied to them and all this logomachy about con sent ot the governed is misspent breath. All the facts we have make It plain that there is no common bond between the Filipinos. We are justified In esti mating them an inharmonious aggregation of dissonant semi-barbarous races. We may even go so far-as to predicate there Is no Filipino people. The Tagals, with whom we are fighting, are only one in gredient of the population. With other Ingredients we are at peace. The propo sition is unproved extravaganza that the Filipinos, lacking concord as they, do, could preserve indepiKdence if it were granted them. The counter proposition is established to the satisfaction of every careful Investigator that they could not That so many contending elements could maintain order is not merely past reason. but past experience. "Singf a Song- of Autumn I" Washington Star. Sing a song of autumn With a freight car1 full of gralts The farmer stops complaining And la happy once again. But the politician watches. With a sad, suspicious eye For the politician's thtnklng Not of crops, but of his "pie." And as tho pie approaches, Tho oratora will sing; And, if "good times" are mentioned. Many chant. "There's no such thing." But the farmer's voice is lusty. And it bears ncj note ot pain As he sings a song of Autumn With a freight car lull of grain. NOrE AND COiJMENT. Fall openings are not popular with thi oyster. All the political parties mow hava Presi dential candidates In the field but th Democrats. The Democrats are the real imperlalista. Didn't Bryan crown them with thornr four years ago? Bryan Is wise to get his photograph taken now. It will be difficult to look pleasant after November 6. Lieutenant Hobson ought to go on th stage. He could make a fortune by act. lng as his own press agent. Oom. Paul is not moving his capital any more. He has got it salted away in a stocking, against a rainy day. Summer Is not with us just now, but she is pretty sure to play several re turn engagements before the snow files. Bryan ha3 been wandering around among paramount issues for a good while, but he hasn't come to a point on ans of them yet To all parties alike, to Tories, Union ists, Liberals and Nationalists, among the members of the House of Commons themselves, except one man, Mr. Cham berlain is Invariably known as Joe, and Is never heard of by his full name. TheA one man who breaks thl3 rule speaks of the Colonial Secretary as Joey. A Camden Sunday school teacher was telling the story of the boy Jesus be coming separated from his parents, and the more vividly to Impress on the youth ful minds the grief ot tho alarmed parents she asked the question: "What would you have done. John, if your little brother had become separated from your side in a strange city?" "Go right to City HalJ," was the quick rejoinder. The teacher waived discussion and the lesson proceeded. Nearly 20 years ago Congress passed a special act donating an 880-pound cannon to a Grand Army Post at Attleboro, Mass., and the piece was mounted on the top of a tall granite shaft as a soldiers monument. Recently a gang of daring thieves carted the cannon away In broad daylight, and parts of It have just been recovered from a Junk dealer, who Inno cently purchased the same. Most of the metal ha3 been melted up and run into various kind3 of castings. The last official report gives 141 public schools in Hawaii, employing 344 teachers and having 11,436 pupils. These are sup plemented by large and excellent private schools IS in number, employing 200 teachers, with 4054 pupils enrolled. OC these 15.000 and more students about 5000 are Hawaiians and nearly 3000 fractional Hawaiians. The Portuguese come next, with nearly 4000, and then the Chinese and Japanese, with over 1000 each. Then come the American children, 600 strong. Nine nationalities are tabulated, and the stragglers from all corners of the world are placed under the heading, "other for eigners." A correspondent of the London Graphic says that the friends of the dead in China beg permission to burn quaint pasteboard , Images of men and cattle shaped In crinkled paper on the spot where the dead lie. The ceremony Is a mark of respect, and is believed also to act as a sedative on tho departed spirits. Another curious custom In China is the destruction at funerals of bogus bank notes bearing a huge face value, which are a token that the friends of tho dead are overwhelmed with grief and so for getful of worldly matters that they lavish their substance even to the verge of bank ruptcy. These bogus notes are specially manufactured and sold for the financial effect they produce at a funeral. Bogus Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, is -in trouble. He brought It upon him self by an Inadvertent remark In a cam paign speech at Bowling Green a few days ago, "Fellow-citizens and fellow Democrats I" he cried, "I want you to come out in force thl3 year so as to overcome the Republican majority of last year" and then the candidate paused to hear his audience respond, "We will." But it didn't. It only coughed and wriggled all of it, that Is to say, except a few antl-Goebel Democrats and Repub licans who were present They greeted the appeal with what the reporters ot debates In Congress call "derisive ap plause." It is said that Beckham blushed when he realized his blunder. . PLEASANTRIES OP PARAGRAPHERS "As I ctftno by the kitchen window,. Jane-, I thought I saw you on a young man's knee!" "Weil, ma'am, it's an artist friend of mine, and I have been giving him a. few sittings." Fun. Deacon Goode (to a little girl formerly of hta Sunday school) I hope, Mary you are still walking in the straight and narrow wayMary Oh, dear, no. Deacon Goode. Haven't you heard? We now ltva on tho boulevards-Boston Transcript. J Condensed Tragedies. "What do you think is the saddest work ot Action you ever read?" "The cook book," answered the young woman who has not been married very long. "Not more than one In ten of those pieces comes out right." Washington Star. Who Could It Have Been? Angry Politician See here! I've a good notion to have you ar rested for libel. What do you mean by pic turing me as you have? Cartoonist But the picture looks like you. Angry Politician I know It does! I know it doe! But do I look like a man who likes to look like himself? Baltimore American. Libelous. "I -want to know." angrily de manded the celebrated London music hall star, "why you are "billing me as 'the peerless actress'?" "Why. -what's the matter with that?" asked her American manager "M& ter? I want you to know I had as many peers chasing round after me In London as any of tho other girls." Philadelphia Press. 1 1 Roosevelt in Wyoming. (Told by a guide.) Robert Bridges In New Tork Tribune. Do you know Yancey's? "Whero the winding trail From Washburn Mountain strikes tho old stage road. And wagons from Cooko City and the mail Unhitch awhile, and teamsters shift the load? A handy bunch of men are 'round the stove At Yancey's hunters back from Jackion'a Hole, I And Ed Hough telling of a mighty drovlo Ot elk which ha ran down to Teton Bowl. And Yancey, he says: "Mr. Woody, thero. Can tell a hunting yarn or two beside. He guided Roosevelt when he shot a bear And six bull elk, with antler3 spreadinff wide." But Woody Is a gjulde who doesn't brag He puffed his pipe awhile, then gravely said; "I knew he'd put the Spaniards In a. bag. For Mister Roosevelt always picked a head. "That man won't slosh around in politics And waste his time a-kllllng little gme; He studies olle, and men, and knows their tricks. And when he picks a head ha hits tha same." Now. down at Yancey's, every man's a sport. And free to back his knowledge up with lead. And each believes that Roosevelt la tha sort To run tho stato. becauao "bo picks a head.'