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, .,I .THE -ilORNING .OEEGoklAN; PRID AX,-. 6(JC&BER.5r 1900, r-tt- MfqJ- Y- r- ;tts regmcm Entered at the Postoffice jit Portland, Oregon, ua second-claes matter.' f At TELEPHONES. i-MtorloI Booms. ..ioo Business Office. ...GC7 BEVTSED SUBSCRIPTION BATES. By 3an (postage prepaid), in Advance rS?,? 'SflUl Sunoay, per month $0 S3 JJ&Uy, Sunday excepted, per 5ar 1 50 "" with Sunday, per jear 9 00 "Sday, per year .. 2 00 5 ecitly. Per year 1 CO Ti" 5;cUy. a months 50 City Subtjcrfbers- : Aaay, per week, dellered, Sundas Included 20c POSTAGE BATES. iwnlj? States. Canada and Mexico: 2 J8-iaee paper lc 10 to 32-page paper ...... 2c Foreign, rates double. Notts or aiBcusslon Intended tor publication la The Orcgonlan should bo addressed Invaria bly "Editor The OreponlanV" not to the name or ny individual. Letters relating to adertls ing, Subscriptions or to any business matter fihould be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." 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TV. Xnnn. 1029 Fifteenth street. N. "W. For sale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co . 217 Dearborn street. I TODAY'S TVEATHER Cloudy and threat- nlng, with showers; arlable winds. PORTLABTO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3 AKTIS ARC FOR SILVER AAD ItlOT. There is one subject on which the Gold Democrats of 189G who are also "anti-imperialists" of 1900 are ominous- ily and painfully silent That subject is Bryan. "We know what they thought of him four years ago, but we are ig norant what they think of him now. In all their literature they exoatlate at great length on the iniquities of "im- j perlalism," but they shrink from point ing out the exact way In which they contemplate averting them. If they do not propose to vote for Bryan, it is In cumbent upon them to disavow what Is a natural and fair lnteroretation of their words and acts. If they -do -pro pose to vote for Bryan, it Is incumbent on them to show In vsrhat respect he of lers the country expectation of a better administration than it can get through McKinley. It is easy to find fault with McKln- ley; but this does not permit us to ig nore the faults of Bryan. The menace of Bryanism appeared to them Insup portable in 189G. How is It they have "become so unconcerned to that menaqe now? Then they regarded him as an unsafe and unworthy man for Presi dent. "Wherein do they find evidence that he has lost his faults and gained virtues Jn the interim? How are you going to rebuke "Im perialism" without imperiling the gold standard? How are you going to rebuke "Im perialism" without encouraging riot and anarchy? How are you going to rebuke "Im perialism" without menacing the integ rity of the Supreme Court? How are you going to rebuke "im- I perlalism" without indorsing the spoils ! doctrine? How are you going to rebuke "Im perialism" without promoting: the Pop ulist clamor for destroying the efll- jciency of the .rmy? Of course, if our Gold Democrats of 1896 and "anti-Imperialists" of 1900 are willing that these momentous things at stake should all go to smash, in order that they may wreak their Vengeance1 Tdn McKinley, there Is nothing more to be said. But steps of this consequence ! must be taken advisedly. You can't defeat McKinley except by electing Bryan. Tou can't indorse Ag- Uinaldo without aspersing Dewey and Anderson, Lawion and Stotsenburg. You can't vote for anti-imperialism without voting tor free silver. Let no man deceive himself into thinking that refusal to vote for Mc jKlnley can bv any possiblltly he in terpreted as simply a rehuke to Mc iKinley and "imperialism." Every man l-who refuses to vote for McKinley takes ibis stand with the apostles of 16 to 1-, gwlth the Chicago anarchists; with the enemies of civil service reform; with those who would destroy the Armv and lleave our cities at the mercy of mobs; fwith Croker in New York, Tillman In South Carolina, Altgeld in Illinois. Ilentz in Ohio, Clark in Montana. He fdoes his best to make these men and their ideals supreme in the United I States and to advertise to the world I that we have succumbed to the un worthy elements that were successfully Ircslsted In 1895. It is an unpleasant responsibility; but Bit cannot be evaded. A MONTH OF CARNIVAL. Prosperity and enterprise in the jNbrthwest have been exemplified within the past month In carnivals, 'fairs and harvest festivals in various cities, to which the principal thorough fare in each has Deen .given up f6r a number -of days of display and merry- Smaking. Portland led off in a carnival that takes precedence of any public festivity in the history of the North- Roseburg, on the extreme south. land Pendleton, to the far eas (speak ing witnin tne bounds of the state), fol lowed, each with a, display and festival Ithai brought hundreds of people in touch with each other in social and justness relations, and was a true rev elation, to many, ot the vast resources land varied products of the sections rep- ssnled. Now comes The Dalles, at the iteway of the line dividing Eastern id "Western Oregon, announcing an )ct4ber street fair that in the abund- ice and full maturity of the products lexlxlbited ie iitly called a "harvest irnival." In addition to this. "Walla ralla, Just across the border, has a lagnlflcent fruit fair that is drawing ilthcr hundreds of our people, and Spokane is delighting all Eastern rashington, western Idaho and Mon- wlth a like exhibit vHood River, too, In the midst of a fine fruit district Oregon's Inland Empire, announces horticultural fair, beginning today, it Will chow all ;ts rich products. These .September carnivals and fairs r$re In addition to the regular agrlcul- tural fairs, state and county, which have been of unusual 'merit and at tracted In every Instance a large at tendance, 3?our years ago one such a festival In tlie state would have .been Impossible, for the simple -and sufficient reason that there was no money in cir culation. A wise decision in. regard to our fin ancial policy at the polls in 1896 changed all this, and its legitimate returns in abundance and restored con fidence have long been coming in. Not until this year, however, have the peo ple felt Justified In spending money freely for the double purpose of renew ing their acquaintance with each other and exhibiting the bounties of prosper ity. These carnivals and festivals and fairs tell their own story, and any one so disposed can furnish details of each that will add a new chapter to the state's industrial, social and business life. ADVICE FROM A BUSINESS MAN. The active duties of so busy a man as ex-Senator Corbett ae apt to leave little time for reflection upon or par ticipation In the principles and issues of politics and government But Mr. Corbett has always been an exception to the general rule of successful busi ness men. He has given not only money, but study, counsel and plan ning to the religious, educational and artistic needs of this region, and he has contributed to political discussion from time to time full and frank ex pression of his own Ideas as experi ence and observation guide him. The advice of so successful and so public spirited a man is certainly worth con sideration, and for an article from Mr. Corbett's pen, printed In another col umn, we bespeak general attention. Mr. Corbett's deliberate opinion Is that the most Important thing at stake in this campaign Is the permanence and stability of our monetary stand ard; and he is positive that the election of Bryan would certainly result in dis trust, instability and disastrous times. Though Mr. Corbett is not the man to shrink from meeting trouble, as his sturdy course in 1893 and following years showed, yet he is not a needless alarmist, and has no interest in pro motlng1 panic, for few men In this com- munlty have more to lose by financial disaster than he has. But as a busi ness many his opinion 1s that Bean's electjpn Involves great danger to busi ness. He urges us to avoid It His ad vice is not to be lightly set aside. Mr. Corbett Is in favor of expansion. He looks upon accession of new terri tory Jn the Pacific as highly advan tageous to us, both for markets for our goods and for providing tropical prod ucts our rapidly increasing population is certain to require. And he has small patience with the cry of the little Amer icans that the flag Is an emblem of tyranny. The path he expects us to tread In the Philippine Archipelago is "to enlighten and educate lfs people, and extend to its inhabitants the bless ings of liberty under an American rep resentative government" "We commend this view of Mr. Corbett to the people of this state who have known him for many years as a man of sound public spirit and long-headed business sagacity. On questions of so great concern to our commercial and Industrial life, he Is not likely to bo mistaken. IT THE SAME BEVERIDGE. American politics presents' no more unlovely page than the deliberate and shameless assertions of "antl-lmperial-Ists" (some of them are In Portland) that Senator Beverldge In his first j speech In the Senate rested bs case for retention of the Philippines upon the ma'terlal wealth of the islands. "We have spoken of this malicious misrep resentation before, Tut we advert to it again because of a reference to Mr. Bev erldge's latest speech In the columns of the New York Evening Pos, one of the Senator's most persistent detract ors. The Post says: Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, has given the Nation a real surprise After acquiring the reputation of an orator clven ower to "hlfalu tln," he made a speecn at cJolumbus, Neb , jesterday on trusts, which is the most sensi ble delUerance oa the subject that has como from an speaker on either side. Apparently It did not occur to the Post that its surprise might be due to its own blindness hitherto, instead of to any transformation in Beverldge. The fact Is, its the same Beverldge, and his frank, direct method of going to the heart of a problem and blurting out Just what he thinks was exempli fied In his first Philippine speech Just as notably as In his Columbus speech. The trouble was- tv Ith the antls, who were blinded to his merits by their prejudice against his cause. Therefore, though they belong to a class that unremit tingly mourns over the decline of ora tory In the Senate, they lent their sup port and countenance to the grand mothers of the Senate Trho resented that a new member should have ideas and summon the courage to express them. "We advise the antls, most of whom J are sane and upright outside the sphere of their imperialistic hallucination, to keep an eye on Beverldge. He ib not a dreamer or a fool. He has worked his way up from a poor newsboy to a place of respect and confidence among busi ness men, and to a high rank in the legal profession. He will be saying things not only on trusts, but on finance and commerce, foreign rela tions and domestic policy, that they will be very glad to hear and to ap prove. Hard knocks about the "world have driven considerable sense into his Hoosier brain. He may possibly be right on the Philippine question. Stran ger things have happened. The equitable administration of are llef fund for the specific purpose for which it was contributed, viz., that' ach and every sufferer from a great calamity may receive the pro rata re-. quired by his or her necessities, and no more, requires executive ability of an unusually high order. All depends upon honesty in handling and system In disbursement It is not always pos sible to guard against imposture on the part of claimants, and it is still more difficult to guard against self-seeking among agents and sub-agents of the chief almoner, to whom the relief fund Is intrusted. Still, the frauds perpe trated in this way are infinitesimal in comparison to the good accomplished in temporarily feeding, clothing and providing shelter for a stricken host Contributions to the Galveston relief fund up to October 1 aggregated nearly 5800,000. The possibility that a small portion of this large sum may be frit tered away by mismanagement or di verted from its gracious purpose by be stowal upon unworthy claimants is of small mbment "when -baleen In ;onneo- hon with the fact that in thousands of j Instances It will clothe the naked, leed the hungry, furnish care to the sick arid shelter to the houseless and light again the beacon oft hope , in a. myriad ,of human hearta! QUESTIONS FOR PARENTS. Some "months ago the ladles' Home Journal introduced an entering wedge Into a vexed problem" that, being pushed, will, it Is believed, lay it open' to solution. An artlcie from the pen of Mrs. Lew "Wallace, published in that paper, some months ago, entitled, "The Slaughter of the Innocents'," revealed the danger to which the cramming system in our public schools, wrlth itB nerve-destroying results, subjects the children, especially the daughters of the Republic, and -the utter folly, ast viewed irom a practical stanapomt, oi teaching them at the cost of their health many things that they were be ing taught. A little later an editorial In the same publication, entitled, "A National Crime at the Feet of American Parents," presented in plain language the cramming evil as specially illus trated by the "home work" Imposed upon the pupils of our public schools. In response to these editorial articles, the editor has received hundreds of let 'ters from parents and teachers warmly Indorsing the sentiments expressed and crying out for a remedy for -what has grown to he a colossal evil. Subordinate teachers are, as every one knows, helpless in the matter. They must work, and opportunity to do so depends upon following the curriculum as prepared by the higher educational authorities, and promoting to the next higher grade a certain proportion of the crammed pupils. It Is agreed, there fore, that reform in this matter must come from the parents. The Journal's plan to bring this about is direct and simple. It is that' "every parent w-ho has a child- at school send a note to the teacher stating that under no cir cumstances whatever will the father and mother permit any home study by the child:" An avalanche of such notes falling upon subordinate teachers would necessitate appeals to the heads of their schools, and thence beyond, to the City and County Superintendents of tSchools, which would force a readjust ment of the entire system of study. The matter will be more readily un derstood when it is realized that the en tire system of study during school hours in many of the grades and on up into the High Schools is arranged. with a view to compelling home study. This taken-for-granted home study stopped, a change in regard to studV and recitation periods in school would be compulsory. "The studies at school could, not be increased in number," says this writer, "for there are already too many; ,the school hours -cannot be lengthened, because the tide has al ready set In to shorten them. Hence, some studies would be thrown out, if home work were eliminated, and this is the result desired." Clearly, until this Is done, the objectionable "cramming" must continue. The plan suggested will, if followed, be effective in other ways. The stout parental declaration of rights, says this writer, 'would in thousands of cases be the- first direct evidence that the American parent has awakened to an Interest in the school ing of his child, and intends hereafter to have something to say as to what the educational system shall demand ot the child." It may be said of the "plan 'thus urged that it presupposes a condition of wis dom and "purpose in parents in regard to their offspring which, unfortunately, is by no means a universal accompani ment of parentage. While almost' any parent could, under popular stress, be Induced to write a declaration of eman--clpatlon from home work for his chil dren, the trouble would be in Inducing the persistent following up of the prin ciple in order that the last estate of his children in the public schools might hot be worse than the firstthe estate of neglect in instruction or of unearned promotion, representing ignorance in stead of kndwledge. In justice to the superintendent of the Portland 'pub lic .schools, it should be said that home work In the aggravated sense so familiar to parents is not indorsed by him, and that he has been at some pains in decent years to' restrict it There is still, however, judging from the complaints heard .in many homes and the looks, of books that High School boys and girls carry to and from school dally, too much exacted In the way of. study out of school hours. ,The writer quoted is not amiss, except in his mode of expression, when he says: "The whole question is now 'up to the- par ents,' " adding: "It is for them to strike the first blow." To which we take the liberty of adding, it will be for them to pursue the matter unlnlermlttently and consistently If they would not waste the paper upon which the note Is writ ten and relapse Into a bondage worse than that from which they sought to escape the bondage of the defeated the tendency of which is to bear much before again 'assuming the offensive. No one doubts the power of parents in this matter. "Wijl they use It? It Is said, supposedly to the discredit of public spirit -j in Portland, that the feeling In favor of free "libraries is de cidedly stronger in the state at large than -here. In explanation of this f act, If It Is a fact justification not being at temptedIt may be said that Portland has been worked to the limit In the past few years on the "free" proposi tionfree bridges, free lights, free schools, etc. Delving desperately for money. wherewith to pay taxes, while officials as desperately consider ways and means whereby more money can be extorted, our people have found- that nothing is "free"; that everything must be paid for to the uttermost farthing. The free-library proposition is in line with the progressive sentiment of the age. To carry It out however, requires money raised through taxation. The pro rata asked, or which it is proposed to ask, is small, and very possibly property-owners In the general squeeze will nol f eer it. They have felt so much and so keenly on the same line, however, that many of them have assumed a hostile air, quite natural, even if repre hensible, in this instance, toward add ing to the blessings of the many at the expense of the few. Seattle Is in the throes of poignant re grets because it did not take In various more or less adjacent suburbs, and thus equal Portland's population. It Is obliged to content itself with the reflec tion that with the addition of Ballard (five miles away). West Seattle (three miles), v Renton (seven miles), and Georgetown, the population in and around Seattle is about equal to Port land's. But Portland has suburbs. 'too. Ann rriAV annimn s,r rno ntrr umifo llmlti Mount Tabor, Montavllla, Woodstock, rr - f r St. Johns, Sellwood; Hillsdale; Berthas and "West Portland, added to the city, would "bring ip its population near to 100,000. Besides, the area of Seattle is now 30,720 -acres (forty-eight square miles), and Pprtland has 25,600 acres (forty square miles). Territorial ex-H panslon In the former city would seem, already to have reached its proper limit This Is the style of grotesque rot that passes rfor .eloquence among the ad mirers of Jim Ham Lewis: " Wo shall never be driven, to the desperate ends of bolstering the decaying strength of a falllrg chief talrt by pandering to the fantastic element whose' hollow huzzas for what they neither understand nor care Is the only hope ot Impostors In the hour when neither reason nor 'justice dare" be appealed to to sustain them. , This dizzy paragraph from Lewis' In dianapolis speech was aimed at Roose velt As a panderer Jim Ham himself Is the most conspicuous "falling" chief tain" the "Northwest has produced. A year ago he was &n expansionist, and played to the galleries for quite a little time along that line. Now he is for the policy Of scuttle. Once he was against the Nicaragua Canal. Later he was for it. His whole career has 'been a record of spectacular incon sistencies. "What he wants Is oftloe and notoriety. And if he cannot get office he musf have notoriety anyway. " Like the accommodating schoolteacher, he will teach the world round or the world square, just as the directors desire. One more rloh excerpt: No bloated Gorjon, swollen with party dic tatorship, sits In sacred place, blinking hlsi splenic eyes at us as slsnala for our every movement. . . . We abandon these to no man, and we defy the insolence of masters or he arrogance ot ofllce to take one Jot of our Independence from us. , Where is Croker? 7$. Byron , Daniels, whose death oc curred In Vancouver Wednesday, waB -a moving element in the community life of which he was a part in his boy bood, eariy manhood and mature years, along1 lines of manly uprightness and conscientious endeavor. Not a great man, -even in a local sensef nor a prom inent man politically, though first and last he held several positions of trust and Influence. he was yet a good man in the sense that he was steadfast In the discharge of duty. A pioneer of the younger stock though still a pio neer both of Oregon and Washington1, he was honored in life as he will be re gretted in death. The splerfdld vitality of Governor Roosevelt has sustained him through out his hard campaign tour of the Rooky Jlquntairi States as' it did in the military" campaign in Cuba two years ago. His voice, like his courage, seems to be of unfailing quality, and he shows no signs of bodily fatigue that a peace ful night in his sleeping-car does riot overcome. He is doing yeoman's serv ice, not only for McKinley and all that his Administration stands for In the coming election, but for Roosevelt In the Presidential contest of 1904, when for personal reasons he, will probably let others attend to the sp'eechmaklng. There can be no international bound ary dispute near Mount Baker. Stories to that effeci are the product of a yel low imagination. The boundary is at the; 49th parallel, of j latitude. Location of the! 49th parallel la a simple survey or's problem. But trouble-breeders and crimson-brained1 fakers must haye something to talk and write about. ," Would-be United States Senator Clark has reached his-home In Butte, and will remain In Montana untjl after the electlqn. ..This means .that the' thews and sinews of war from the Democratic standpoint in that state will be in plen tiful supply so long as needed, either in aggressive or persuasive political war fare. We observe that, after due delibera tion, the Democratic National Commit tee concedes Oregon to the Republicans. There Is nothing like a graceful sur render to the inevitable. On our part we are disposed to think Texas may go for Bryan. A Salem marching club is to receive out BInger Hermann with the mighty clamor of 100 brass Instruments. Happy bompromlse! There ate indeed some sensitive souls "in these, final days of contention between gold and silver. . . Somebody the census office, perhaps reduced the Seattle census from 90,000 of 100,000 'to a paltry 80,000. This was the most unklndest cut of all. Chairman Jones takes all the states for Bryan out just a few. He took 'em that way in 1896. L. . . . The Taxpayers' League continues to pavfe our streets with tomes of good advice. . J' A-DeMiiicaIle Argument. -, Baltimore American. x In his speeches in. the West Mr. Bryan his frequently coupled his arguments egalhst militarism wMh the anthracite ooalminers" strike. He has-been wont to reason in this manner: v. America- has - no use for an army of 100,000 men unless it Is to prevent, by force of arms, the correction of evils which should be corrected by legislation, as in the cage of thot striking" anthracite coal mlners. Such argument must Impress Itsolf upon all fair-minded persons as cowardly and despicable. It is based upon a false premise, pd Is a covert attempt to ar ray' class "agalnet class; to excite the en mity of the poor against the rich, by making them tbeHevo that the military arm of the Government is to be used to oppress them. None,' knows better than Mr. Bryan how false such an argument Is. He knows, if he .knows anything, that the troops'-'ar&.Jn the anthracite regions to preserve order and protect property, and ho knows, too, that they will act as quick ly In' the" performance of thl3 duty when the- offender is a 'rich operator as when he'iis a pobr miner. Bryan's proneness to -make political capital out of calamity Is reprehensible, but when he seeks to provoke class hatred It becomes danger ous and despicable. It is tantamount to saydngf that were he in an executive post tioiC'Tlot might prevail before he would employ his power to check it. The man with-such propensities is altogether too dangerous to be intrusted with the reins iof National Government t V "A Wise Business Policy. ' " Chicago Tribune. The closing down of a part of the Illinois Steel Company's plant at Jollet is not unexpected to itoose who ore con versant with the trend of business of this cBass or of any crfher which involves the making of heavy future contracts. It iBf nOt safe to continue business when or ders cease coming in. To do so would only make bad matters worse". The Jo Het Plant ib partly closed pending the re sult of the Novemben election. Its cus tomers will not .give . their orders until -they know who la to be the next Presi dent In a few weeks' time the result wiL he. Jenownr anl then, .-In-Acasd Mc Kinley Is'elected, orders" will comVln all the more rapidly, and the plant will have all it can do. If Bryan is elected It will s derange every class of business, and no manufacturer will be crowded with orders. The tame precautions that are being taken at Joliet are being taken In other lines of business where large Investments are contemplated. It, is well known that men" having large sums to invest here, there, or wherever an op portunity presents Iteelf, have been ad vised by their principals to await the result of the election before doing so. It Is always wise to shorten sail in un certain weather. It is easier to meet the siorm if it comes. If it does not come no harm is done. Meanwhile the working men themselves can do much toward averting a storm. "Down With Them AU. New York Sun. At Nebraska City, on Wednesday, Bry an told this slgnl4cant truth to the em ployes of the starch factory there, the seat of the town's chief Industry, which Nebraska's Attorney-General Is trying to drive out of the state: If tho people of Nebraska City defend the starch trust, they must be prepared to defend all other trusts, for It Is Impossible for them to destroy trusts located elsewhere and defend a trust located In their own city. To the Nebraska City people, for whom the starch factory Is the means of liveli hood, and who consequently condemn the effort to destroy It, Bryan says that the sacrifice of that, factory Is a necessity of the Democratic i plan to destroy trusts everywhere and utterly. There can be iio exception. "Leave your work," says tha prophet ot the Democracy, "so that an trusts may be smashed without subject ing us to the charge of inconsistency. "" ' The Nebraska starch works, the most conspicuous of the victims which Bryan Ism dedicates to the destruction, is typical of a great number of vast enterprises. How great the number Is is outlined in the sweeping statement of the Hon. John B. Stanchfleld, Democratic candidate fot Governor of New York, that "the'se ag gregations of capital" (the trusts) "rep resent the unification of every important Industry in the land." Under Bryanism every Important Indus try in the land would be made to feel a shock such as business has never felt In the country's entire history. Any tariff agitation, i any panic ever lived through was a Suhuner breeze to the killing tor nado of the Bryan policy against the country's Industries. Does any sensible man, whether ho owns two dollars or one, want to bring on such a catastrophe? Beverldgre on Bryan and Trusts. , Chicago Times-Herald. Senator Beverldge reminds Mr. Bryan that there are trusts 'and trusts. Some ot them carry on a legitimate business by legitimate methods, others do not This is the rational distinction that the Senator makes between them, and he says thxt the former should be encour aged, while the labter should be discour aged by regulation and punishment, Mr. Bryan, on the contrary, makes no distinction in appearance at all. He de nounces" trusts by wholesale, as if every great organization of capital wore a crime 'and every great corporation should be destroyed, with all this uncompromising denunciation of trusts he does, however, make one exception to his rule", though he himself does not regard it as such he has nothing to say against the labor trust. Yet Mr. Beverldge declares truly that the labor organization Is merely a form of trust. It may be a good thing In prin ciple. It may be the only instrumentality by which labor can assert Its rights against organizations of capital. The Senator thinks that it is all this, and that so long as it attempts to gain legit imate objects by legitimate methods it should be ranked wibh the better trusts. But he adds that if Mr. Bryan is honest In his Indiscriminate abuse of trusts as trusts and If he is logical "he must de stroy the trust of labor as well as the trust of capital' This is not a pleasing diTermna for a demagogue to face, but it is -unavoidable. Nevr Yorlc IrfnVyera on Bryan. All doubt about the- position of ex-Sec-retary Carlisle in the campaign is re moved by his acceptance of the presi dency of the Lawyers'- Bound-Money Campaign Olub. Wherever ex-President Cleveland may stand, his Secretary of the Treasury Is against Bryan. With him Btand such conspicuous Democrats as Wheeler H. Peckham, George L. Rives, Pranicls Lyndo Stetson, Franklin Bart lett and George Hoadlye all of whom stand on a declaration of principles Vhlch oloses with this resolution: "That in our opinion "the defeat of Messrs. Bryan and Stevenson Is essential to the permanent and efficient maintenance of the gold standard of value In this country." An other plan-k In their platform Is equally explicit on another phase of Bryanism. "The integrity, honor and purity of tho Judiciary," they declare, "should be maintained, and tho Supreme Court should be continued with power to Inter pret the Constitution and laws of the United States free from political fear or favor, and should remain as a co-ordinate branch of our Government beybnd the powervof political Intriguers to influence or coerce." That Is quite different In tone from the stuff which Messrs. Schurz, Cockran, Olney. and Shepard have been emitting, and undoubtedly reflects far mora accurately the sentiments of the great body of Gold Democrats. Hard to Follow. New York Tribune. Mr. Bryan is making so many misrep resentations of fact these days that It Is hard to follow him. In trying to excuse the disfranchisement of the colored vot ers of North Carolina by the BryanUes, he asserted that "by the legislation of the last session of Congress the negroes of Porto Rico had even been denied the right of trial by Jury." This statement wasinot true, and If Mr. Bryan did not know better than to make such an asser tion his position as a candidate for tho highest office In the gift of the people re quired him to be silent The provisions of the Porto Rican legislation were fully discussed both in and out of Congress last Winter, and tho measure was the subject of a vast amount of misrepre sentation and also of plain lying by Its opponents, but not one of them ever had tho hardihood to make such a statement in rogard to it as the one above quoted. BRYAN AGAINST CIVII. SERVICE REFORM. We are In favor of fixed terms of office in the civil departments of the Government. We want It so that when a man goes into ofllce he trill know how long? he Is coln(r to stay and when he is proinc ont. We do not want to build np an ofHce-hold-inff class and fill onr offices for life bccanie men appointed nnder those conditions are likely to have no con cern except Jto draw their salaries. We believe that a life tenure, -which relieves a man from all farther care, Is destructive o the highest form ot citizenship and ought not to be tol erated in. a country like oars. Everybody at Work. Keokuk Gate City. The Keokuk Light & Power Company advprtisqd in the Gate City yesterday morning for 25 men, requesting them to report witb picks and shovels at Thir teenth and Seymour streets. Greatly to the surprise of the superintendent not a -man appeared. He couldn't understand why an advertisement In this paper should he so unproductive of results, and set about hunting Up men on his own account, only to find that there wasn't in unemployed laboring man in Keokuk. All who cared to work already had all the work thoy could do, and that, too, at fair wages. Yet Mr. Bryan Is iterating anq reiterating that the prevailing prosperity Is only apparent and not real. F0WERFP& ARRAIGNMENT 0F0I,NEY Harper's Weekly. Mr. Richard Olney, of Massachusetts, is a gentleman for whom we have the high est respect We have regarded him as one of the truly large minds of tho coun try, and any utterance which may come from his lips Is entitled to respectful con sideration, but it need not be accepted as a final Judgment Mr. Olney Is merely human, and while his conclusions are al most Invariably sane, he Is quite as prone to occasional error, as any other person not gifted with omniscience. So when this stanch and sterling Democrat cornea out as a suporter of the Populist Mr. Bryan, announces his intention to vote for the candidate who advocates the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to l; Indicates a preference for the one man in this land who most completely embodtes, who most xnoroughly emphasizes, and most persistently advocates opposition to Mr. Olney's own attitude toward free riot; makes of himself an undoubtedly ln fluentlal champion of a candidacy which Ib fundamentally subversive of all the high Ideals for which he himself has stood, because he too has become timid in the face of a wicked and fictitious is suewe can only regard the situation with sorrow, and lament the pernicious influence of Bryanism upon noble minds. The support of Mr. Bryan by Mr. Ol ney should be an additional incentive to those who are fighting against Bryanism. It is bad enough when Mr. Bryan makes his appeal to ignorance; it Is worse when ho affects the merely Intelligent; when he has succeeeded In befogging a great mind with his false doctrines, that la the timo when he becomes the greatest men ace to the commonwealth. We are con fronted with this supreme and wholly un expected situation today. When in tho face of his reiterated championship of every dangerous political heresy that has shown itsolf on the surface since the Civil War Mr. Bryan Is able to secure the sup port of a man like Richard Olnoy for a valid or Invalid. reason, it is no time fo any voter having National honor, respect for the authority of the law, a truly pa triotic love for his country, to sit idle. Every coat must come off, and a fight as if to tho death rrust be fought. Tho fact that Mr. Olney inspired the first serlor-, warlike note sounded In this country since 1SG1, in the Venezuela mes sage of Mr. Cleveland, Is" unimportant There Is no use dilating on the fact that Mr. Olney was onco ready In a high of ficial capacity to Involve this country In a conflict with a first-class power when we were without means of defense or of aggression, and must have suffered un told misery because of the possible re sults of his attitude. What Mr. Olney did In December, 1S95, he did as a mat ter of conviction and principle. Just as he is now speaking from conviction and prin ciple. The point Is tha Bryanltls has seized upon one of tho most stalwart of our citizens, and has laid him low. The point Is that In five years the comedian of 1896 who made us laugh has become the tragedian who awaits the supreme mo ment of the drama to accomplish his fell purpose, and whose success. If he Is suc cessful, will be due to his subtle cunning rather than any large-minded statesman ship which he can be shown to have de veloped during the period of his polit ical sequestration. The point is that ono of the most astuto lawyers of this coun try has been won over to tha cause of an archymasked, perhaps, but anarchy none the less, and under ordinary circum stances culte as obvious to the mind of Mr. Richard Olney as on that day, some six years ago, when with a remarkable show of courage he blessed this country by his advlco to the then President of the United States which resulted In the immediate suppression of riot In the streets of Chicago. Has Mr. Olney forgotten Mr. John P. Altgeld and the days when through his innuence, or rainer jus negiect ot am.. Federal Interference In maintaining the supremacy of the law became the obvious and perilous duty which was courageously performed by the Executive? Ha" Mr. Olney forgotten the days when the Pres ident of the United States leaned upon his shoulder as upon the shoulders of a strong man In opposition to the forces of repudiation, today not only represented by but reincarnated In the person of Mr. William Jennings Bryan? Has Mr. Ol ney forgotten the Ideals of the Demo cratic party? Apparently ho has for gotten these things, but wo hope tem porarily only. His' letter, after all. was written to a private Individual. Perhaps It wad not Intended for publication, and was designed to express merely his views at the moment of writing. In a Presiden tial contest August Is a hard month for ho man of conscience who Is sincerely anxious but unable to make up his mind as to tho proper course of action. Even Mr. Olney's chief, Mr. Cleveland, has con fessed himself utterly at sea 'as to his duty in the present emergency. It Is not until October that an open mind is able to express itself definitely. We shall therefore take Mr. Olney's letter as a merelytentatlvo expression of his present impressions, and we shall look with inter est for tho vlew3 which he may be willing to express along about tho 31st of October. Our hope that Mr. Olney will change his mind Is based upon the wonderful vari ance between his present attitude and that which he assumed In March last In his imperialistic article In the Atlantic Monthly. Our only fear lies in the pos sibility that the extraordinary letter was Inspired by a desire to get back Into the public service. Trusts No New Thlnpr in France. Ainslle's Magazine. The trust system in France, though not embracing so many lines of business as In Germany, has flourished for many years. The iron trade Is almost wholly controlled by great combinations of capital, and so are the chemical Industries. The cheese, paper and a number of Other large in terests are almost wholly In the hands of syndicates. Combinations In the domain of transportation have had Important de velopment In France, Germany and Aus tria. In France, for example, all the rail road lines entering Marseilles, the leading seaport of the country, are under the con trol of a single company, and In league with It Is said to be the strongest of the French steamship companies, and also the company that owns all the docks of the city. 0 Free Silver to the Front. Worcester Gazette. The way in which the George Fred Williams gang has sailed Into Mr. Thayer shows clearly that the silver issue Is still tho' paramount Issue of the campaign. If Imperialism were the paramount issue, as Mr. Bryan claims, Mr. Thayer would be accepted by the Bryan Democrats, for he Is perfectly loyal to the Democratic platform on that Issue. The fact that they oppose him because of his adherence to the sound-money causo proves that free silver Is the main thing that they are fighting for. By showing his hand so. plainly, Williams has done much to in crease the Republican majority In this state. Mr. Thayer Is the present Representa tive from the Third Massachusetts dis trict. Another Successful Strike. Chicago Railway Age. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen has Just passed through a serious strike. Grand Master Sargent struck for higher pay, and got ready to fire for another line which offered bettor wages. Arbi tration was agreed upon, and the trouble was peacefully adjusted, the striker be ing re-employed at an Increase of $1500 In his next year's pay. Served him right A Good Point. Boston Herald. That's a good point made by Senator Allison, that If free silver is not an issue In this campaign because, of the com plexion of the Senate against It expan sion ought npt to be for the same reason. That's so. korE:ANQ"cOMHBNT. ! T r r ii ? It is rumored that Seattle has gone to work on the census of 1910. . We might a3 well charge- that little -till against the Sultan up to profit and loss., Until Kwang Hsu ceases to-rVlew with alarm, he will keep out of reach of tho allies. The man who Is on the way to assassi nate McKinley has been going a Ions time. Cleveland Is enough of a fisherman to know that the whole thing is in keep.ng quiet Prosperity is so general this year that, even the astronomers' business Is look ing up. Adlal should get to work. There are several nominations which he ha3 not yet accepted. Bryan says our prosperity Is largely vi-j-fonary, but only favored mortals are per mitted to see visions. Kentucky Justice may be blind, but it seems to be able to see guilty men who are invisible to the rest of the world. Perhaps Cleveland declines to swallow Bryan because at his time of life an at tack of indigestion, would be serious. The passing of Admiral Dewey from tha proud position of a hero is rough on tho poor babies who were named for him. Until "Von Waldersee announces whero he is going to eat his Thanksgiving din ner, wo cannot expect much from him. The editor of a periodical announces, "We don't need, any more manuscripts. We are full, and have been for two years." If he speaks tho truth he would hardly be capable of editing manuscripts if he had them. The anxiety of certain hunters to bag Chinese pheasants has led them to make frequent violations of the ordinance which forbids the discharge of firearms within the city limits. Around the hills back of the city are several flocks of pheasants which have been fed by families residing in outlying houses, until they have como to feel that they are wanted In Portland and form no small part of its suburban attractiveness, which is really the fact But lately numerous hunters 'have been, seeking them that they may destroy them, and unless tho police are active in enforcing the ordinance against shooting within the city limits, the bright plum age of the beautiful birds which now may be seen, along nearly every hillside path, will soon be only a memory. It is pa thetic to see the birds flushed in a walk over the hilla fly toward the city, wherb they have come to look for their friends, and where. Just now, they are more likely to find only men and dogs alert to bring them down. When the snow falls the pheasants sometimes venture Into tho heart of the residence district, and they never fall to find, people who will feed them and extend them such protection as they can, in return for the pleasure of their company. A few arrests of violators of the ordinance referred to will put a stop to the wanton destruction of tho beautiful birds, and will preserve them 03 one of the most attractive slght3 to bo seen about the hills. Oh l the Democrats oC Oregon, that valiant Spartan band. "When baUots new th thickest, they -wer formerly oa hand, Pennoyer, grand old chieftain, in the fore front oC the bunch. Upon his richt Pat Powers, -with his largo, prophetic hunch; "With Stout deployed upon the left they'd faro to battle forth. And summon their supporters, from, tha East, "West, South and North. Alas! they're scattered like the leaves that fall beslda the way. And the glory of Democracy is vested la O'Day. Obt the Democrats of Oregon, is many a hard lost fight. They saw their vast majority diminish out of sight, And gathered round the council board, hot collared and Incensed, To ask each other what it was that they'd been up against. And then they'd notice, while the Causa had suffered sore defeat, Pennoyer. great and mighty chief, had got there with both feot. But now affairs ore altered, and ot all tha faithful band There's not a single leader who stands half a show to land. Oht the Democrats of Oregon, they who onca were out for blood. They answer to the roll-call by tha single name of Mud. And William Jennings Bryan, when he- tele graphs out here For news of his majority, wilt get no old-time cheer; The valiant push of long ago have wandered from the fold. And now are on the vast outside a, region which is cold. O'Day alone stays In the coop, and when In tones full clear B. Bryan sings out "Democrat3t" he'll feebly answer 'Here!' PXEASAKTRIES OF PAItAGBAPHEHS Admitted. Cholly There! I killed that ono all right, didn't IT The Gamekeeper Yes, sir. He's Just as dead as anybody could haa killed him! Puck. Motherly Pride. Ja.net Mother. Jack saya that Miss Polndexter has married an under writer. Mother Pooht That's nothing! Didn't' our Clara marry an editor? Harper's Bazar. His Pessimism. "Our boss won't let us offer any excuse when we "make mistakes " "Why not?" "He says It hurst his feelings to aeo us waste time in which we might be making' more mistaken. "Chicago Record. "I've come to tell you, sir. that tho photo graphs you took of us the other day are not at all satisfactory. "Why, my husband look3 like an ape!" "Well, madam, you should hao thought of that before you had him tol;en." Tlt-BUs. She Had. "Ahl" said the yoilng man with the little bald spot on the crown of his head, "your life has been a calm, placid, emotion less one. You have never met your fate. You have never been In. the grasp of an oer-, mastering passion that has seized you by thov heart string" and held you quivering." "Surely I have!" she replied wonderlngly. "I am learning to play golf 1" Chicago Trlbuno. "Now I liny Me Down to' Sleep.' Eugene Field. The Are upon the hearth is low. And there Is stillness everywhere; Like troubled spirits, here and there The firelight shadows fluttering go; And as tho shadows 'round me creep, A childish treble breaks the gloom. And. softly, from a farther room. Comes, ".Xow I lay me down to sleep. ' And. somehow, with that little prayer And that sweet treble In my ears,. My thoughts go back to- distant years And linger with a. dear one there; And, as I hear the child's aman. My mother's faith comes back, to ms, -Crouched at her side I seem to be. And mother holds my hands again, Oh. for an hour In that dear placel Oh, for the peace of that dear timet . Oh, for that childish trust sublime U Oh, for a, glimpse of mother's facerlr , Yet, as the shadows round mo creep , t ' X do not seem to be alone Sweet magic of that treble; tone And "Now I lay me down to oleebV