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Second South street. For sale in New Orleans by Ernest 4 Co., 115 Royal street On file in Washington. D. C. with A. W. OJunn, 009 14th N. W. For sale in Denver, Cola, by Hamilton & 3?endrlck, 903-812 Seventh street. - , TODAY'S WEATHER. Fair; variable winds, Snostly westerly. PORTLAND, SATURDAY, NOV. 3, 1000 BRTAX'S CLASS CIVUSADE. The main Inspiration of the Bryan campaign Is a desire to "down" every body who is doing any business or 'who possesses any property. Bryan lias made this contest, far more than any former one, a contest of classes. 31a has made It a crusade against those who have a little, or something, more or less, by those who have little or nothing; a contest between those who expect to live by social and political agitation, against those who expect to live by quiet and prudent industry. Hence the great mass of our restless population, the mass of those who are more or less Inefficient and Improvi dent, are for Bryan; while the great mass of the orderly and quiet people, attentive to business, employed In careful and provident industry, are against him. To every observer this division is ap parent. Bry&n has forced this class issue. As a rule, men who feel they have nothing to lose are for Bryan; while as a rule those who have a little or something or much, and who want to maintain conditions under which business can be done and Industry will prosper, are against him. Bryan forces this political class di vision, as the "paramount Issue." The germs of It appeared In his work four years ago. It Is far more apparent now. He attacks every considerable business as a monopoly. He denounces every association of capital necessary for prosecution of a large business as a trust. He tells the apple-grower, the wage-worker, the butcher and baker and retail 'dealer, that they would bet ter quit their present occupations, which are hopeless, and take up the line of political agitation. But Bryan's appeal goes even below all this. It Is addressed also to those who, through want of Intelligent energy, have succeeded in nothing; to those who have lacked ability or Inclination to pursue anything with continuous and persevering effort; to those who have lived merely in the passing day, thoughtless of tomorrow, and therefore may have now neither resources nor prospects; to theorists and sentimental ists who argue that the world owes them a living, without effort or respon sibility on their part; to those who had prospects once, but lost them through indolence or want of capacity for the steady work of life, or through unwill ingness to keep up the strain and pres sure necessary to growth and success against the strenuous competition which all men have to meet; to thost who have been defeated through their own lack of Judgment, or worse, through subtle progress of faults and vices in themselves, against which they made no effective resistance to all, in short, who are going aimlessly and un successfully through the world, ready to learn from the Bryan politician to blame society and government for their failure. Four years ago the campaign that bad free coinage of silvor for Us key note was bad enough; but this In many ways Is worse. Bryan characterized the gold standard as "a conspiracy of the money-changers against the wel fare of the human race." You might have supposed this was the .very cli max of evil. But "worse remains be hind." Even this terrible conspiracy of the gold standard against the welfare of the human race Is nothing compared with the newly discovered conspiracy to trample down the holy principles of freedom as represented by Tagal sav ages. To make matters even worse, there Is another conspiracy to -keep business and industry afoot throughout the United States, and to maintain ra tional condition, for continued protec tion of property and employment of la bor. The Brj an campaign Is simply a cru sade against the business, the indus try and property of the country. Bryan tries to range on his side every man who. feels, or is supposed to feel, that he has nothing to lose. Some men of property, some-men engaged In busi ness. Bryan expects to hold through partisanship. But he hopes to arouse and toting to -his standard all the hosts of Jack Cade politics. Evidently he thinks this sort of men more numerous than they actually are. Croker's threats of violence against the ballot-box are but vain bluster. The Federal election law pf 1870 was enacted after the wholesale frauds of 1S6S in th City of New York, by which the vote of the state was stolen from Grant, the Presidential candidate, and Grlsweld. the Gubernatorial candidate, and given to Seymour and Hoffman. This crime against the suffrage was directed by Tweed, thea boss of the Tammany'Tring, lirfd It was Impossible to prevent a. repetition ef It. at Na- tlpnaT elections unless'' the National Government exercised Its constitutional right and provided for the regulation of National elections- by the National authorities. Hence the law of 1870, en acted by a Republican Congress and signed by President Grant, which will be enforced by the United States Mar shal arid his deputies In New Yprk Glty and the leading cities of the state on election day. This law does not In terfere with the action of any honest voter. It does not Interfere with, mod ify or supplant the election laws of the state In- any way. It simply provides for the National supervision and reg ulation of Congressional elections. No body opposes it but the municipal scoundrels in the great cities of the North, who seek to steal the suffrages of the people at the National elections free from Federal Interference. The lawless people of the South regularly nullify every Federal law that seeks to protect the ballot-box, but the law is of service at the North, where we do not mob Federal officials, nor treat tho Federal authority with contempt. DELL STUARTS INVENTIONS. The Oregonlan Is credibly Informed that Hon. Dell Stuart, of Portland, in a speech at Corvallls, asserted that under the so-called Sulu treaty, polyg amy and slavery are .guaranteed by the United States to the Inhabitants of the Sulu Archipelago, and used these words: This traffic In human blood and lrtue. is rec ognized, permitted and abetted In this In famous treaty, which bears the official seal and clsnature of the United States of Amer ica. It beare the signature of William McKln ley. President of ths United States, and is a contract that is binding, and one from which the United 8tates cannot retire, and Is in honor bound to respect. Mr. Stuart is a lawyer, and knows the necessity of having authority back of assertions. If he makes misstate ments through careless neglect to verify his authorities, he is as culpa ble as if he made deliberate misrepre sentations. In another column we print the conditional agreement made by General Bates with the Sultan of Jolo. There is nothing In It about polygamy, and the only reference to slavery is a guarantee of emancipation through purchase to existing slaves. The vari ance of Mr. Stuart's assertion from the truth is too plain to need pointing out. ' Mr. Stuart goeB out of his way to characterize "this infamous treaty which bears the official seal and signa ture of the United States of America." Of course, Mr. Stuart knows that an agreement between a Sultan ahd a gen eral Is not a treaty, and he knows that a treaty has to be confirmed by the Senate of the United States before It' 1b "a contract that Is binding, and one from which the United States cannot retire, and is in honor bound to re spect'' The Bates agreement was sent to the Senate by President McKlnley, with the information that he had approved It, "nbject to the action of Congress, Trlth. the reservation, which. I have directed shall be communicated to the Saltan of Jolo, that tills agree ment is not to lie deemed in any Tray to authorise or fflve the con sent of the United Stntcn to the ex istence of slavery in the Sulu Archl pelnfiro." THE SENATE HAS NEVER ACTED ON THE AGREEMENT. Mr, Stuart, In common with other thoughtful and veracious Bryan states men, goes out over the country spread ing invented facts and commenting upon them with spirited oratory. He Invents the fact that the United States has recognized polygamy and slavery. He Invents the fact that the treaty bears tire official seal of the United States, and Is a binding treaty when the truth Is the President confirmed it (with the exception relating to slavery) subject to the action of Congress, and Congress never acted. Bryanlte Inventions of this sort, like the bogus sayings of Lincoln, are spread abroad over the country, and men like C. E. S. "Wood and Dell Stuart snap them up and use them without verification. If they do not Invent them themselves, they "uset them from some lying partisan scrapbook without veri fication a course which, in a lawyer, is equally reprehensible. Yet we would not be unreasonable. How Is a man to do If there are no facts on his side, unless he can Invent some? "WHEAT IS STIIiIi ICING. Figures printed In The Oregonlan's marine columns of Thursday show Oc tober exports of wheat and flour from Oregon and "Washington amounting to over 3,000,000 bushels. These shipments are not record-breakers, even for the month of October, for Portland alone has nearly touched the 3,000,000-bushel mark In a single month, but they are Interesting In noting the wonderful growth of the wheat industry In the Pacific Northwest. A younger genera tion than the "oldest Inhabitants" can easily remember the time when the en tire shipments of wheat from Oregon and "Washington for an entire year were sometimes less than 3,000,000 bush els; and even within the past fifteen years they have occasionally dropped down around 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 bush els. This growth Is not destined to slacken for many years, for not only Is much new land annually coming under culti vation, but the methods of farming which are applied to land already In use have Improved to such an extent that the crop Is annually becoming more certain. Of course, no amount o( labor and care can effectually with stand such assaults as nature made on the "Willamette Valley wheat crop dur ing the season just closed; but, as noth ing so near a failure has before been experienced In forty years in the Val ley, the possibility of a repetition Is re mote. East of the mountains, however, the wheatgrower Is materially reducing the percentage of loss which he former ly suffered through unfavorable cli matic conditions. In exposed localities, where early or late frosts destroyed the tender varieties of club, he now sows the tough, hardy red wheat, and Is rea sonably certain of securing a good crop. On light lands, where a scarcity of moisture made "Walla "Walla a very un certain crop, Sonora wheat Is now turn ing off verj good yields. Another factor of Very great import ance In assuring a crop is careful cul tivation of the solL By plowing deep and having the soil wcH loosened and mellow, much better crops are secured than by the old slipshod method of scratching over the top and expecting nature to do the rest There is yet such, a large area of good land well adapted to the growth THE MOIiNIfttf ' OREGOSIAN, UkXUPttAY. KOVEMBEB 5. 1&00, of wheat that the production "6t the cereal by the aid of irrigation has not been resorted to except In 'Isolated cases. "Wherever this method has been In use, results have been quite satis factory, and that it will become more general In the near future Is a cer tainty. Diversified farming is destined to add much to the wealth of our rural population, and naturally, of course, to our cities; but at the same time the Wheatgrowlng industry is bound to show a steady growth, and the mari time greatness of Portland and other Northwestern ports will increase in keeping with the growing prestige of the cereal which has made us great. SEWING AGAINST MGHT. The Bryanlte Democracy includes among Its supporters a few men of pub lic fame s men of trained Intellect and high personal accomplishments, like Olney, Schurz, Bourke Cockran, meii who have chosen to support the cause of dishonest money and Popu lism not for lack of light, but in spite of light Education will not give a man robust common sense nor Intellectual Integrity. United States Senator Jones, of Nevada, in 1874 made a powerful argument against flat money and green backlsm, and defended the gold stand ard as strenuously as Roosevelt does today, saying that "gold Is the univer sal standard of the world," and plead ing for the gold dollar as fixing a stand-, ard by which the workman knew ex actly what his labor was worth. But when the selfish personal interests of Senator Jones in 1877 with the depre ciation of silver made him a sllverlte because he was a mlneowner and a Senator from a sliver state, he swal lowed his own financial logic, and since 1878 has tried to enact legislation which would make the United States Govern ment pay him a higher price than the market offers for his sliver bullion. Senator Jones sinned against his light and his learning In order to swindle the people of the United States for the benefit of Nevada and his mining prop erty. Senator Teller, of Colorado, and ex Senator Hill, of that state, were both men whose power of intellect to see through the transparent fallacy of the false finance they advocated was un doubted. In the struggle over the ques tion of repudiation in 1868, whether the United States bonds should be paid In gold or greenbacks Benjamin F. Butler was a "greenbacker," and succeeded in imposing his financial sophistry upon an able and absolutely honest man, "Wendell Phillips, the flaw in whose diamond Intellect was seen when he threw up his cap for greenbackism In America and for nihilism In Russia. Alexander H. Stephens, Senator Booth, of California; Senator Thurmaa, of Ohio; Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, were all men of superior Intellect and none of them lacking In culture or political learning, and yet all of them sinned against their best lights In becoming silverltes or greenbackers. President Eliot confessed with mortification that the training of Harvard College could give a man no more moral sense and common sense than G5d had .given him, and the proof of It Is found In the fact that a number of Harvard College graduates voted tor the Bland 'bill, for free silver, for Illimitable greenbacks. There was nothing more remarkable In this than the failure of Harvard Col lege to educate Its children to be al ways faithful to freedom and hostile to human Blavery. As a matter of fact, the colleges and churches that were the special depositories of learning and culture were the last to feel and yield to the lift of the great instinct that hurried the North forward into unre lenting conflict with slavery. The truth is that no great names are weighty enough to commend to popular reason an intrinsically bad cause; and no thoroughly good cause will fall be cause all of learning and culture Is not with it or Is bitterly against It Daniel "Webster Is easily our greatest statesman, measured by his endow ments of understanding, logic, elo quence and political genius; and yet after being the Idol of New England for nearly forty years he was abso lutely powerless after his 7th of March speech of 1850 to obtain tho Indorsement of his own party In his own State of Massachusetts. No learning, no eloquence, no accom plishments, no weight of character, is of value with the people when these great attributes are prostituted to the worship of folly or fraud or palpable injustice. "With the exception of Lin coln, about every conspicuous Republi can and "War Democrat was for peace ful secession before the firing on Sum ter, but after the shot was fired there was no more talk of peace. The plain people ordered the peace-at-any-prlce statesmen to prepare at once for war. The aggregate culture, learning and statesmanship of the whole North could not have stayed the popular uprising. It would have been a mere light cork dancing on the crest of a tidal wave. BRYAN'S PARTY DID IT. The Bryanlte Democracy is still fret ting over the two negro provisions In the Oregon constitution. Both are the products of pro-Blavery Democracy, One of these Is section 35 of the BUI of Rights (article 1). It follows: No free neero or mulatto, not residing; In this state at the time ot the adoption of this Con stitution, shall come, reside or be within thin state, or hold any real estate, or make any contract, or maintain any suit therefn; and tho Leclsl&tlTo Assembly shall provide by penal laws for the removal by public officers of all such necroes and mulattces, and1 for their ef fectual exclusion from the state, and for the punishment of persons -who shall bring them Into the state, or employ or harbor thorn. Ex-Governor I F. Grover, of Port land, who Is still living, was -chairman of the committee on Bill of Bights in the constitutional convention which met at Salem in 1857. The section which so grievously offends Bryan was not part of the Bill of Rights reported by Chair man Grover August 22, 1S57. Two days later a special committee on schedule was appointed, with Mr. Grover as chairman. He reported the schedule September 11, and on September 17, it was debated at great length and adopt ed as It came from the committee. The schedule provided for the submission of the questions of free negroes and slavery. The other section that fills the Bryan Ites with alarm for the safety of the blaok race is section 6, of article 2, as follows: No nesro. Chinaman, or mulatto, shall have the right ot suffrage. This Is a part of the article on suf frage and election. Delazon Smith, the "Hon of I4nn," an ardent pro-slavery Democrat was chairman of the com mittee on suffrage and elections In the constitutional convention. He report- ed the article August 25, 1857. minus the word "Chinaman' in eectlon 6. Asked what the word "free" meant in the first section: "All elections shall be free and equal," Chairman Smith re plied that it did not mean Chinamen or "niggers," and for that reason he thought it sufficiently explicit To strengthen the article, the word "Chi naman" .was Inserted on motion of Mr. Grover. The Oregon constitution is the prod uct of the Democracy. Its adoption in November, 1857, was hailed as a great Democratic victory. The exclusion of free negroes by a vote of 8640 to 1081 was a Democratic triumph. But the re jection of slavery bya vote of 7727 to 2645 created a suspicion among the De mocracy of the time that a cog had been slipped somewhere in the opera tion of the machinery. Section 35 ot article 1 or the Oregon constitution 'was superseded and annulled by the four teenth amendment, ahd section 6 of ar ticle 2 by the fifteenth amendment Neither has ever been hailed as a great Democratic victory. And down South both are being nullified by grandfather clauses In new state constitutions. ITS LOGICAL APPLICATION. Bryan is the conspicuous advocate of free silver coinage at 16 to 1, whose logic Is nothing but the logic of socialism, Populism and paternalism In govern ment. Reduced to its lowest terms, the free silver coinage logic means that the United States Government should con tinue to pay the price of thirty years ago for the silver bullion of the silver producing states. There Is no more equity In this proposal than there would be In the proposal that the United States should take all the oil of the Standard Oil Company at the price of thirty years ago, or pay the old-time price of $3 50 a barrel for salt which now costs but 50 cents. At the extra session of August 1893, Bryan voted and spoke with those who de nounced Congress for refusing to con tinue to pay out the gold, which the Government wanted to Increase, for a supply of silver It did not want He argued that if the Government refused to buy sliver bullion which it did not want at a price far above the market, the silver mining Industry would suf fer. The same kind of logic could have been Invoked with equal fairness to Justify the Government In buying Ore gon's and "Washington's timber, or Michigan's Iron, to hold up its market If this is not the logic of Bryanlte Pop ulism and paternalism, what is It? If It Is the business of our Govern ment to- buy silver bullion at a price far above the market and store It In the Treasury to hold up a falling .market for silver-mining states, then It Is the business of the Government to buy Michigan's Iron, to buy Oregon's lum ber at a price far above the market to help its depression, and It is the business of the Government to order public works constructed to furnish labor to the unemployed at the ex pense of the whole body of taxpayers. There Is the same line of logic running through all this false assumption that It Is the business of our Government to support the people Instead of the people supporting the Government The Government Is only the trustee and administrator of the public money obtained from the citizens of the whole country by taxation, -and it has no more business to pay out Its gold to hold up the price of silver than It has to pay out Its gold to hold up the price of Iron or lumber. Bryan voices the cloud of wasps and locusts of pa ternalism and Populism which for ten years have darkened the political sky of the Middle "West and the trans-Mis-slsslppl States, and this fact Is entirely consistent with his logic In favor of free silver coinage at 16 to 1, for If his logic In favor of free sliver is sound, then the so-called logic of Populism and paternalism Is sound, too. The ar gument for free silver rests on state socialism, paternalism and! Populism for its defense. If it Is the business of the Government to support the people of the silver-mining states by taking all their silver at a price far above the market at the expense of the rest of the country, why, then, it Is the business of the Government to "bull" the falling price of labor in depressed industries the country over. A well-known citizen of German birth, a business man of Portland and a Gold Democrat, said yesterday to an Oregonlan writer, In answer to an in quiry, that he knew of no one of Ger man birth who had anything to lose, who was going to vote for Bryan. "When Mr Hunt offered a proposition for saving $13,000 to the city, he ought to have known it would be turned down. Since time when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, pub lic money never was intended to be saved, but to be spent A vote for Bryan Is a vote for slav ery and polygamy In the Philippines, because he wants to clear out of the Islands and allow the natives to con tinue their evil practices. Therefore, vote for Bryan and for slavery and polygamy. "When Bryan was asked the other day why $1 In United States money is worth $2 in Mexican, he replied that Lincoln talked human rights, not dol lars. Yes, and Lincoln didn't get the thanks of the Democrats for doing it, either. It must not be forgotten that a mem ber of the Legislature Is to be elected from Multnomah County, at the gen eral election Tuesday. The names of the candidates will appear on the ballot- Let no one overlook It The Democratic Jeremiah told some voters the other day he was talking to their heads, not their pocketbooks. That Is good. We see now what he meant in 1896. Then, he talked 16 to 1; but not to their heads. Was ever greater imperialism perpe trated upon the public than Bryan's Indomitable determination to say noth ing about 16 to if Advance in Cnrapalfrn Methods, Baltimore American. A gratifying feature of the present campaign is the very general disuse of personalities in the political discussions. Whatever abuse there has been is direct, ed to the Issues, rather than the nomi nees. This is a wide departure from p-e-vlous Presidential struggles. It is quite common to compare the past with the present to the disadvantage of the latter, and yet In some of the earlier National contests the most Illustrious statesmen, men whose wisdom Is reverently quoted today, were abused without measure. It was regarded as a legitimate method of conducting a campaign. Recent contests in this country have been conducted on similar lines, and It may be that the pub- He disgust for suph, methods, exhibited bv giving supoort o ths candidates mrst outrageously abused, has driven them tut of use, at least for the moment If poli ticians have been made to understand that personal denunciation Is the poorest of all political devices, the) public will bo Immensely the gainer. In every campaign thai which interests tho public Is the administration of public affairs, and pot the private affairs of the candidate. FLAXSEED AND ITS "OIL. Importance of the Industry and Ef fect ot the High Prices. New York Tribune. The recent advance in the price of lin seed oil has attracted much attention In the commercial world to the condi tion of this year's crop of flaxseed, from which this important oil is made. The uses of linseed oil are many and va ried, but oilcloth and linoleum men are perhaps those chiefly affected by the pres ent high values. Several of the larger oilcloth factories of the country, It is re ported from Chicago, are either shut down or able to do little business as a result of the market conditions. Trade in tho United States It said to require something like forty million gallons of. linseed oil annually. Estimates of the year's crop of flax seed have been steadily reduced of late. The crop year Is supposed 'to begin In Setember, but It Is as yet practically im possible to gauge the yield for this year accurately. The first estimates of the to tal product were about 25.000,000 bushe's. Now the figures are about 18,000,000 bush els. To the average man the mention of flaxseed brings recollection of younger days, of poultices and flaxseed tea, of pneumonia and the drug store, where the slippery seed Is carefully weighed out In mlnuta quantities. The commercial uses of flaxseed, the vast amount used In making linseed oil. the methods of hand ling great quantities In bulk, Just as wheat Is handled, are matters outside the range of the average man's knowledge Each bushel of flaxseed yields a little over two gallons of oil. The pulp or cako remaining after the extraction of the oil has a value as fodder, and is an impor tant by-product "While cottonseed neal and rice meal are used to some extent as substitutes for oil meal, yet there has never been found a satisfactory substi tute for linseed oil. The painter, the white lead maker, the oilcloth manufac turer, must have Unseed oil, and so the farmer in the far Northwest tends care fully his flaxseed crop and the mills crush tho slippery seed In order that their ? rants may be supplied. The centralizing endency of modern business was never better illustrated than In the case ot the linseed oil Industry. In- fact, the history of this industry shows a competitive pe riod, a period of combination, when com petition began to be too severe, and final ly a , period of centralization, through which the business Is now passing. The flaxseed crop of this "country va ries from ten to twenty millions of bush els, nearly three-quarters being raised in Minnesota and the Dakojas. Chicago and Duluth are the great flax markets of the count-y, and tho trading In futures ot flaxseed 'is one of the most hazardous speculations known. The range of prices Is extremely wider from 75 cents to $2 a bushel, and a fluctuation of 10 or 15 cents is an ordinary occurrence. Tho small size of the crop, as compared with wheat or corn, tends to encourage cor ners, and many fortunes have been made and lost In the uncertain market. At present tho price Is high, owing to bad weather in the Northwest, which has damaged a large portion of the crop and has delayed threshing. In the process of extracting the oil from the seed It Is crushed by rollers, going through set af ter set until It appears as line meal. Then it Is steam heated In tanks, to soften it and free the oil. As It comes from the tanks, a sticky, sweet-smelling mass, It Is shaped by a small press Into blocks, and these blocks are put under powerful hydraulic presses. The oil begins to flow In the gutters as soon as the power Is put on, but It Is an hour before the press Is opened and the oilmeal taken out The oil passes through various refining processes which prepare It for market. The cake Is elthor shipped unbroken for export or Is ground Into oilmeal for the home market. Germany la a large Im porter of oilmeal. Bryan's Sermon. Now York Bun. In his speech at Morrlstown, N, Colonel Bryan dripped with unction. J.. He was m a nortatory mooa: I have sometimes felt tempted to deliver a sermon. My test is already selected, and when I can no lonxer restrain myself, and when I preach my sermon you will find my text In James. It reads like this: "If a man says that he loves Qod and hites his brother, he la a liar." I would not use that strong language myself, but I have no rlzht to amend the Bible, and that Is -what tho Bible says, liy text would be short but my sermon would be long If I tried to show you how many there are of them. How many are there -who confess that they love Qod and hate their neighbors? You can see the smug satisfaction on those thin lips. What a truly pious frame ot mind the good man was in! Whose voice is the loudest in preaching the dev il's gospel of hate and envy? Who is un wearied in setting neighbor against neigh bor, "the poor" against "the rich," the workman against the employer, the un successful against the successful, the shiftless against the saving, the loafers against the industrious, the Incapable against tho able? Who bellows from a thousand stumps that this is a Govern ment of syndicates and trusts, that the uncommon people grind the faces of the common, that the Republicans want to raise armies and build forts to Intimidate or shoot down their Democratic neigh bors? Who Improves each shining hour by belching calumny and false suggestion, envy, malice and all uncharitableness? The first man to confess that he hates his neighbors and puts his whole heart and goll Into making them hate one an other should be William Jennings Bryan. Nebrnulca'n Strike in tHe Election. St. Louis Globe-Democrat A victory for McKnley In Bryan's Stato would give Nebraska the greatest boom which It has ever had. There would be no more falling off In popula tion as has taken place In Omaha and Lincoln, Bryan's home town, In the 'ast ten years. The Bryanlzatlon which has hit those two places would be abolished, the Improvement would Immediately bo discernible, and the outlook would be bright From present Indications Ne braska Is going to get this boom. The Republicans have high hopes of success In that state. Nebraska has been cursed with a very bad dose of Bryanlsm for many years, and even Bryan's warmest Nebraska supporters must see by this time that this is having a disastrous ef fect on their state. A Republican vic tory in that commonwealth is among'the probabilities. ' West Virginia Democrats Lose Heart. It Is known that prominent Democrats in West Virginia, notwithstanding their little spurt over Mr. Bryan's tour through tho statehave really lost heart and some of them In private conversation frankly admit that they expect to gain nothing there, except perhaps, a United States Senator. The state is so gerry mandered that McJClnley might carry it by 10,000 and the Legislature might bo carried by the Democrats. Fight tor Congress Cloning-. The Democratic Congressional Com mittee at Washington has ceased send ing out what Is euphemistically stylsd "literature," and now confines Itself to answering letters and similar duty. The Republican sub-comnitttce there is still active along all the customary lines of campaign work. The latter's headquar ters will continue open until election night it is Bald. Most of the documen- tary work, however, has been done by the main committee In Chicago. THE SO-CALLED SOLD TREATY. CONDITIONAL AGREEMENT BETWEK2 BRIQADIKR-GBNSRAL JOHN C- BATBS, REPRESENTING THE TJNITED STATES, AND THE SULTAN OF JOLO, Between Brigadier-General John C. Bates, representing the United States, ef the one part; and His Highness the Sul tan of Jolo. the Dato Rajah Muda, the Dato Atttk, the Dato Calbl, and the Dato Joakanaln, of the other part; It being un derstood that this agreement will be in full force only when approved by the Governor-General of the Philippine Islands and copflrmed by the President of the United States, and will be subject to fu ture modifications by the mutual consent of tho parties In interest Article 1. The sovereignty of the United States over the whole archipelago of Jole and its dependencies Is declared and ac knowledged, r Art II. Tho United States flag will be used In the archipelago of Jolo and Its de pendencies on land and sea. Art HI. The rights and dignities of His Highness the Sultan and his datos shall bo fully respected; the Moros shall not be interfered with on account of their re ligion: all their religious customs shall be respected; and no one shall be prose cuted on account of his religion. Art 'IV. While the United States may occupy and control such points In tha Archipelago ot Jolo as public Interests seem to demand, encroachment will not be mode upon the lands Immediately about the residence of His Highness the Sultan, unless military necessity requires such occupation in case of war with a foreign power; and where the property ot Individuals Is taken due compensation will be made In each case. Any person can purchase land In the Archipelago of Jolo and hold the same by obtaining the con sent ot the Sultan and coming to a satis factory asrecraent with the owner of the land, and such purchase shall Immediately be registered In the proper office of the United Status Government Art. V. All trade In domestic products of tho Archipelago of Jolo, when carried on by the dulan and his people with any part of ths Philipolne Islands, and when conducted uhdei the American flag, shall be free, unlimited, and undutlable. Art "VX The Sultan of Jolo shall be al lowed to communicate direct with the Governor-General of the Philippine Is lands In making complaint against the commanding qfllcer of Jolo or against any Naval commander. Art. VH. The introduction of firearms and war material Is forbidden, except un der specific authority of the Governor-G-eneral of the Philippine Islands. Art. VHI. Piracy mu3t be suppressed, and the Sultan and his datos agree to heartily co-operate with the United States authorities to that end and to make every possible effort to arrest ant? bring to Jus tice all persons engaged in piracy. Art. IX. Where crimes and offenses are committed by Moroa against Moros, the. Government of the Sultan will bring to trial and punishment the -criminals and offeneis, who will be delivered to the Government of the Sultan by the United States authorities if In their possession. In all other cases persons charged with crimes and offenses will be delivered to the United States authorities for trial and punishment Art X. Any slave In the Archipelago of Jolo shall have the right to purchase freedom by paying to the master the usual market value. Art XI. In case of any trouble with subjects of the Sultan, tho American au thorities in the Islands will be instructed to make careful investigation before re sorting to harsh measures, as in most cases serious trouble can thus be avoided. Art XII. At present Americans or for eigners wishing to go into tho country should state their wishes to tha Moro au thorities and ask for an escort, but It Is hoped that this will become unnecessary as we know each other better. Art. XI1L The United States will give full protection to the Sultan and his sub. jects In case any foreign nation should attempt to impose upon them. Art. XIV. The United States will not sell the Island of Jolo or any other island of the Jolo Archipelago to any foreign na tion without the consent of the Sultan of Jolo. Art XV. The United States Govern ment will pay the following monthly sal aries: Mexican dollars. To the Sultan 250 00 To Dato Rajah Muda 75 00 To Dato Attlk 60 00 To Dato Calbl 75 00 To Dato Joakanaln 75 00 To Dato Puyo woo To Dato Amir Hussln 60 00 TO Hadji Butu 50 00 xo Hablb Mura 40 00 To Serif Saguln 15 00 Total 760 00 Signed in triplicate, In English and Sulu, at Jolo. this 20th day of August, A. D. 1589 (13 Arabull Ahll 1317). A Warning- to Kentucky. Chicago Tribune. There is one thing which the Kentucky Democrats should bear In mind. It Is that If they count out the Republican candidate for Governor that will be a local matter. The counting out of Re publican electors will be a Nat'onal af fnlr. Suppose the result of the Pres'dcn tial election should turn on the vote of Kentucky, and Democratic electors should be fraudulently given certificates ot elec tion. There would be great difficulty In getting these votes 'counted. An attempt to have Bryan declared elected by rea Bon of the votes of those electors might well have serious consequences. It might bring about a controversy as serious as that of 1S76. In that instance the Repub licans were in the majority In the Senate only. This year they have a majority In both branches of Congress. Accord ing to all appearances, the result of the election will not be decided by the vote of Kentucky. Assuming that to be the case, the counting out of Republ'can elec tors will be a useless piece of rascality, committed from sheer love of fraud. If, on the other hand, the vote of Kentucky lj to decide the contest, it is most desir able that there should be no question as to the legality of that vote. Thert, is another question for Kentuckly Demo crats to consider. It Is that Senator elect Blackbdrn has not been sworn In yet If his friends do any cheating In Kentucky next month under that Goebel law whlcfl elected him, he may have to wait outside the bar of the Senate for some time. Ho is responsible for mUch of tho recent fraud and violence which have dlsraced Kentucky. He Is the man who said, "If there Is any stealing it will not be done by the other fellow." The Senate will lose nothing by taking Its time about the admission of such a man. Vaudeville as a Campaign Argu ment. Voters of the Twelfth Congressional District of Missouri are reveling in vaude vlllle entertainment free of all expense. The Democratic candidate is the pro prietor of a big vaudeville theater in 8 Louis. Every night now, it is reported, he takes his stand near the door of his playhouse, and when a man seeks admis sion he has only to shew that he Is a voter In one of the wards of the district, and the doorkeepers come forward and welcome him within. All others pay. Vaudeville is declared to be a winning card with many voters in this Missouri constituency. All Democratic Bupraboon Alike. Grant's Pass Courier. All Bryan bugaboos may be classet alike, trusts, Imperialism, militarism, Dec laration of Independence, consent of the governed, the Tagal outlaw, Auglnaldo, a second Washington: each and all are mero subterfuges employed to deceive people to the end that Bryan be exalted to the Presidency of the United States. - A'OCJVaND COMHENJlii Keep your eye On the prosperity parada tonight , Mr. Woolley is no true Prohibltigpist. He refuses to take water". 1 Hanna is getting an Insight into &1 meaning of the word strenuous Himself. - If you reallv ;eet as if you could support 1 Bryan, Debs is the roan you ought to votat tor. Bryan has met Croker. and he Is his. The statement Is true either way yoirr read it The football proton is open, and the' cas ualty columns arc again appearing on thvf first page. . ' Thanksgiving proclamations are thefe most effective campaign documents thac have been issued. t The Democrats will have to danca lo the tune if Tho Prosperity March, whetS- er they want to or not The Democratic steering committee wUXt do well to take out a license, to, pllo lat the waters of Salt River. Bryan is one of the very few oratdr who can set his mouth going and then. Just go away and leave It. ,V J It you want to know how Oregon is go lng. look at the parade this evening. Thoy, will both jto in the same direction. W. R. Hearst has offered $1000 reward for proof of fraud in the eloctlon. Sen ator Clark can get that- reward if he real-' ly wants It. Colonel Bryan advises the people to vat, the Democratic ticket from top to. bot tom. They wili ahe his advice they will vote It do;vn. The powers Insist that the Empress Dowager be removed, but they do not re member that the Chinese must first catch' their Dowager Empress, The poor people of New York, who were robbed during the Summer by Tammany', ice trust, will get plenty of Ice this Win ter. So Boss Croker thinks there is' a pretty even distribution of things, aftee4 all. , The writer evidently had a slight cold, but ho has the right Idea: Bryanism banishes brosberity, bars brocrees. balks brains, baffles belief, bankrubts body belltlc, barters brethren, befools blockheads, bescars believers, betrays bravery, benefits bawnbrekers, breathes blight, breeds brothel, belittles batrtetlsm, blasts blessings, brews bain, brays brazenly, busts business. All of the humorists are not out mak ing campaign speeches or writing for th almanacs. One of them Is engaged In poultry-raising up the Valley. He sent in a orate of ducks yeBterday. The orato was not of the regulation style, but was manufactured from a home-made cradle., The rockers had been knocked off and slats nailed across the top to keep tha ducks from escaping. Across the end was printed In largo letters: "From the cradlo to the grave." At the last session of Congress IS or 20 Senators were talking one day in a cloak room, relates a cot respondent, regarding their South Carolina colleague, who had just delivered one ot his characteristic) tirades. In the midst of the conversa tion Senator Hanna walked In, " and fo him a Democrat in the group said: "Sen ator, we are holding a caucus to elect Tillman the champion as of the Senate. Are you with us?" "You'll have to ex cuse me," rejoined Senator Hanna, "I am already pledged to Pettigrew." In the course of human history there has bren much "expansion." There; aro readers who no doubt will recognize Kits record: On this side ot Jordan, In the land, ef Moab. began Moses to declare this law, saying; "The Lard our God spoke unto us In Horeb. saying. "To have dwelt long eonugh In thi mount Turn you and take your yountr, and go to the mount of the Amorltei, and te all the places nigh thereunto. In the plain. In the hills, and In the vale, and In the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanltes, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, tha river Euphrates. Behold I have set the land before you; go In and possess the land. "And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them " There Is much more to the same effect. Indeed, the history of "expansion" and "Imperialism" Is a very extended one, both In sacred history and profane. Truth Is, the history of this world Is a very dark record, because men haven't stayed; at home. Expansion has been the devil's own work. Nothing good ever happened. The election Tuetday will decide a freak bet between A. Fleming, deputy under Collector J. W. Ivey, of Alaska, now vis iting with his family on the East Side, and Dr. Hopkins, of Skagway. Dr. Hop kins is a strong Bryan man, while Mr. Fleming is equally as strong a supporter of McKlnley. Before Fleming came on his vacation he and Dr. Hopkins had many a hot discussion, and finally they bet the clothes they had on and then their watches. But that was not enough, and they made another bet It was agreed that In case Bryan Is elected President. Fleming Is to go down Into the hold of a. steamship running between Seattle and Skagway and act as stoker for the round trip. If McKlnley Is elected, then Dr. Hopkins is to shovel coal into the firebox of a steamer for the round trip between Seattle and Skagway. One is bound to lose the bet, and the other -wljl insist on the loser paying the bet according to agreement The other stokers will, nu doubt contrive to make the loser as com fortable as possible, by keeping him in & hot corner and seeing that he la fully em ployed shoveling coal on the trip, so that time will not hang heavily on his hands. The Neir Battalion. Stephen Crane in tho Aaadetny. "Whcn a people reach the top of a hilt Then does God lean totvard them. Shortens tongues, lengthens arras. A vision of their dead come to the weak. The moon shall net be too old s Before the new battalion rise Blue battalions. The moon shall not be too old When the children of change shall fall , Before the new battalions , The blue battalions. Mistakes and virtues will be trampled deep, A church and a. th'lef shall fall together ' A sword will come at the bidding of the eye less. ' "" The God-led, turning only to beckon. Swinging a creed, like a censer, ' At the head of the new battalions- Blue battalions. March the tools of Nature'a Impulse Men bora ef wrong, men born ef 'right. Men of the new battalions The blue battalions. The swkh of swords is Thy wisdom. The wounded make gwturea llko Thy Son', THa feet of mad horses Is one "part. ' Aye. another is the hand of a mother on ths brew of a son. Thea swift as they charge through "ft shadow. The men of the new battalions Blue battalions God lead thorn high, God lend then far. Xicad them far lead tKem'high, These sew battailous- , j Tho blU5 baitallcnj. A