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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1900. Dite rsQomcOT atered at the PesteOce at Portland. Oregon, as secesd-elass matter. TELEPnOXES. Itorlal Booms.... 198 Business Offlce. 68T BEVISED SUBSCRIPTION KATES. B7 Mall (postage prepaid). In Advance t'y. with Sunday, per month $0 63 Solly, Sunday excepted, per jear w lur. with Sundr. ncr ar 9 00 3aday, per year 2 UV Weekly, tier ar 1 BO 1 "Weekly, Jt jnosth 6 To City Subscribers ally, per week, delivered. Sundays excepted.l3c 3aUy, per week, delivered. Sead&ys lacluded.203 POSTAGE KATES. United States. Canada and Mexico: 10 to 10-pase paper lo IS to 22-page paper 2a Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication The Oregonl&u ehtfuld be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregoalan." 'not to the name any lndlrldual Letters relating to advertls- subscrtotlons or to any business matter iould be addressed slniDly "The Oreronlan." The Oreronlan does not buy poems or stories individuals, and cannot undertako to re am any manuscripts sent to It without solid lUoa. Ko stamps should be Inclosed for this purpose. Puret Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson. at 1111 Pacific avenue, Tacoraa- Box S33, corns. Postofflce Eastern Business OSlce The Tribune build- Nev Tork City; "The Rookery " Chicago; ao S. C Beckwlth special agency. Ne-n York. For sale In 8an Pranclseo by J K. Cooper, T6 Market street, near the Palace Hotel. Gold- eltix Bros 283 Sutter street: F. W. Pitts, 1008 Market street: Foster & Orear, Ferry I Hews stand. For sale In Los Ansel ps by B. F. Gardner. 39 So. Sprlne street, and Oliver & Haines. 10B ISo. Eprlnc street. For sale In Omaha by H C Shears. 108 Ji. Blxteenth street, and Barkalovr Bros.. 1012 I Fa ream street For sale In 8alt Lake by the Salt Lake News ICa, Tf W. Second South street. For sale In New Orleans by Ernest & Co., 1115 Royal street. On file In Washington. D. C. with A. W. iDum. 603 Hth N W. For sale In Denver. Ce . by Hamilton & IBIendrlik. 906-912 Seventh street. - TODAY'S WEATHER. Cloudy and threot- enlng, vilth occasional rain, southerly winds. PORTLAND, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12 Ernest Ren&n. the great French his torian and philosophic critic, says that ruin Is the certain end of "a race full of energy that Is put prematurely in possession of political independence." Itenan's generalizations are sometimes 120 sweeping, and probably this one is. Eut the principle involved in the xnazlm is incontrovertible. It amounts to the same doctrine laid down by Arls- tctle that forms of government must be lnclligently adapted to the status of the people under consideration, and more laconically expressed by Francis Parkman in his declaration, "Freedom la for those who are flt for It." These conclusions are the result, not of suoh speculation as the anti-lmperiallst in dulges who asserts their opposltes, but of study of actual human experience. It is the verdict of history, and it is exemr. lifted for the hundredth time in the news of the day from the United States of Colombia, where another biooiy and turbulent revolution is in progress. A Portland clergyman, Kev. W. R. Lord, has asserted that these un happy South American republics are better off than they would be as parts of a strong and orderly country, with its capital outside their boundaries. But the fair Interpretation of Aristotle, Renan and Parkman, and of the verdict of the people of the United States last Tuesday, Is that the Philippine Islands will be better oft under American sov- , erclgnty than they could be if turned I over to constant struggles of revolu I tlonary bands for ascendency on the South American plan. We must not confusp the welfare of the people of a country with the selfish desires of a few ambitious, warlike spirits among them. Portland's future does not depend solely upon her natural advantages, as one school of our controversialists maintains, nor yet solely upon the com parative enterprise shown here and elsewhere, as another body maintains. The truth Is between the extremes. This point has tremendous natural ad vantages In the contest for supremacy, but those advantages may be nullified by Inaction here or overcome by strenu ous effort elsewhere. Ease of acquisi tion Is not the only condition of prog ress, f l r the history of communities, as well as of individuals, shows that struggle brings strength. New Eng land owed her early eminence partly to her strong soil and rigorous climate, which made a sturdy race. Seattle stands together as one man today, as much as for anything because the ef forts cf the Northern Pacific on behalf of Taooma compelled the men of Se attle to work in union or else be pushed to the wall. The people thrown upon bard conditions will be like Kipling's pioneer: Strong lust of year shall 4rl e Mm out. And hunger arm his hand, Tt wring his teed from a desert nude. His foothold from the sand It is not safe for a city to go to sleep on its natural advantages, because It Is easily possible for persistent enter prise to enlist outlay that will offset those advantages. If the channel from Portland to the sea. had not been kept deep by dredging, what point would there bo In this talk of the head of deep-sea navigation? It is true that It will always cost more to haul grain from Eastern Washington to Puget Sound than to Portland; but the stock holders of the Northern Pacific may be able and willing to do as they have been doing for an indefinite future pe riod. Besides, enterprise may minimize the differences. The Northern Pacific, for example, might get its coal so much cheaper than the O. R- & N. that the cost of the roun?trlp from Tacoma to Wallula and back would be less than from Portland to Wallula and back. Then there is the eastward haul to be considered. The ability of the road to make low rates on west-bound wheat rtJj depend somewhat on whether It gets profitable loads, or any at all, when the train goes East again. The O. R, & N, might pay 6" per cent in annual dividends, and the Northern Pacific 3; O. R & N. bonds might sell at 109, and Northern Pacific at 75; yet the North era Pacific would continue to do busi ness and make equal rates from the pain fields to seaport Tbere will never be a time when Port land can afford to dispense with public service and counsel from her best men. The same sort of talent that brought Jjull Run wator to Portland, and has kept the rivers open, must be contlnu eusly enlisted in the city's every activ ity Our very beet and most success ful business man ought to serve on the committees of the Chamber of Com merce; on the Board of the Pacific Coast and Oriental Exposition, and rep- resent us In our dealings with the rail roads and the War Department. Just at this time -pre ought to have two of the strongest men in the state in the United States Senate. They ought to be men who can command respect and Influence anywhere, whose demands at Washington cannot be lightly set aside, and who, when the Interests of the city and state are at stake, will not have to leave Washington and spend all their time stringing wires for re-election. We never should have a City Council made up of men who can't make a liv ing at anything else. It is well enough to have natural advantages, but it is also well to have something else to which to point with pride. Meanwhile the main thing is to Heep the channel open and raise thing. The comparison of Colorado's vote In ISM and 1900 Is a most Impressive com mentary on the suicidal course of the Democratic party. Bryan's vote is 4L 000 less than in 1S96. but McKinley's Is 61.000 more. A good part of this dis crepancy, of course, arises from the new voters, concerning whom an As toria correspondent wrote with much point and suggestlveness in yesterday's Issue of The Oregonlan. It must be confessed there Is little in present Dem ocratic appeals to attract the young man, whose eyes are turned, not toward the past, but toward tho future. The high traditions and worthy achieve ments of the historic Democracy, which keep the veteran still in the ranks, have no part in the first voter's conceptions. He looks only at present proposals, and he la apt to have small patience with dim speculations that stand In the way of his country's ad vance in material prosperity and po litical honor. Some Democrats are for free silver now because they were for it in 1896; but the first voter looks upon it without sentiment and correctly ap prehends It as a protest against prog ress. And the chances are, as our As toria correspondent says, that the man will remain with the party for which he cast his first vote. NO ANTIS IN BRITAIN. The passion for generalization is lead ing British political critics Into hasty conclusions. The election results In Canada, the United States and Great Britain are not so identical as these critics Imagine. There was a pro-Boer faction among the Liberals in England before the Boers declared war, but after that event the hands of Great Britain were firmly upheld by both the great parties in the English Parlia ment. The only members of Parlia ment who were wanting in patriotic spirit were a few splenetic Irish home rulers, who, voiced by that most gifted master of brutal Invective, Tim Healey, kicked with both feet the dead bodies of the lion-hearted British soldiers who fell at Dundee and Spionkop. This senseless Irish faotlon would have cudgeled the government with bitter abuse Just as cordially if it had been at war with France or China or the hill tribes of India, with Russia or the United States. In the recent British elections the question of sustaining the government's action in Its war with the South Afri can republics did not enter to any ap preciable extent, for a number of Lib eral candidates who had fought with distinguished courage against the Boers were defeated for election. Men as rad ically antagonistic to Mr. Chamber lain's policy as John Morley, James Bryce and Sir William Harcourt made no attempt to cripple the hands of the government In Its vigorous prosecution of the Boer War. But in the United States the policy of the Administration has been bitterly fought by the Demo Popullst party, from the submission of the Treaty of Paris to the United States senate for ratification to the November election. The action of the Government in the matter of the suppression of the insurrection in the Philippines has been denounced as "imperialism," and had the candidate of the opposition been elected last Tuesday, his very first act would have been to undo all that has been done in those Islands, and to with draw our troops from their territory and abandon them to their own devices. So far as the Bryanlte party had any live issue, it consisted In Its promise to withdraw from the Philippines, be cause our occupancy and government did not rest on "the consent of the governed." The opposition made their fight upon this issue, and the hypercrit ical creatures who were Gold Demo crats in 1S96, but sliver balloonatics in 1900. justified their apostacy to the cause of honest money by affirming that free silver was a dead Issue, while "imperialism" was a present danger. It Is clear that our fight on Tuesday last was a far more serious' and crit ical battle than the late English elec tion or that In Canada. If the Salis bury Conservative party had not won by a large majority, the work of the Boer War would not have been undone, for Lord Rosebery and Sir Charles Dllke. among the Liberal leaders, were among the most vigorous supporters of the government in the matter of the Boer War. In Canada both political parties had warmly supported the pol icy of offering military assistance to Great Britain during the Boer War, and if Laurier had been beaten, the Conservatives would not have beaten him because of his loyal support of the home government In war time; It would have beaten him on the plea that he had not demanded and obtained some important concessions In return for this prompt offer of military contingent for the Boer War. No question of loyal support of government was at stake between the parties at either the English or the Canadian election, but at our recent election it was as dis tinct a battle of antagonistic political policies as was the second election of Lincoln in 1861. If Lincoln had been beaten, our flag would have been with drawn from the South, and we should have made peace without honor, con fessing that our attempt to longer erov ern the South "without the consent of the governed" was a failure. If Bryan had been elected, our flag would have been withdrawn from the Philippines, and we should have made peace without honor. The American antl has no par allel In British lands. Booker T. Washington, in his speech at the General Howard birthday ban quet In New York City on Thursday evening, said of his people, the negroes: "We had to be sent for. There was not one of us but what was worth from $806 to 51000 when we came here. And the poor white man was not worth 50 cents. Even such men as our 'distin guished and illustrious chairman would not have brought 50 cents at that time." Mr. Washington has evidently forgot ten the fact that hundreds of white men were sold into slavery in the American plantations in the Seven teenth century. Cromwell deported thousands of Irish rebels to the Bar badoes and to the plantations of the American colonies, where they were, sold as slaves. The plot of Charles Reade's novel, "The Wandering Heir," turns on the kidnaping and transpor tation of a young Irish Lord to Amer ica, where he was .sold as a. slave and set to work on an American plantation. UNIFORM DIVORCE. At the next session of the Virginia Legislature a bill will be offered chang ing the law. in relation to divorces. It will be presented by three commission ers from Virginia on uniformity of state laws. This movement to establish a uniform divorce law In all the states will fall. A uniform divorce law must of necessity recognize as lawful the principle of divorce. But the State ot South Carolina not only has no di vorces, but by a clause in its constitu tion provides that divorces in that state shall at no time be lawful. Of course, South Carolina must be left out of all consideration in this movement for uni form divorce law. MarrlageB between blacks and whites, or those of negro de scent, are prohibited In fifteen of the old Southern States, and also in eight states of the West and Northwest. But there Is no such provision of law in any of the Eastern or Middle States, nor does such prohibition exist In Louisiana, where these is a large mulatto popula tion and wnere there is a larger popu lation of foreign ancestry from Conti nental Europe than Is the case In any other Southern State. To make uni form the divorce laws of Louisiana and Mississippi it would be necessary either to abolish the prohibition against inter racial marriages In Mississippi or to es tablish it in Louisiana, which would be Impossible. In four of the states there is a like prohibition between the mar riages of whites and Indians, and in three states against the marriage of Caucasians and Mongolians. The causes for which divorce are granted vary so radically in the vari ous states that any attempt to harmon ize them by a uniform divorce law would be out of the question. In New Tork absolute divorces ate granted only for adultery. In other states di vorce is granted for desertion; in some for habitual drunkenness; in others for cruel and inhuman treatment; and In two for voluntary amicable separation. In one state the marriage of a member of a religious sect which believes the institution of marriage to be unlawful is a ground for divorce. In some states the attempt upon the life of the hus band or thte wife Is ground enough for divorce. Some states allow divorce "for violent and ungovernable temper," "the vagrancy of tho husband," and stich other cause as may be deemed by a court sufficient, if satisfied that the couple can no longer live together. In some of the New England States divorce is granted "for intolerable se verity," and the court has given so liberal a construction to the words "intolerable severity" that wives have beeft frequently divorced who did not pretend that the "Intolerable severity" they complained of included anything more Intolerable than the use of insult ing and degrading epithets on the part of the husband The Judge In one such case ruled that a man who never struck his wife, but who made his home a hell by the dally application of foul, pro fane and obscene language to his wife, was clearly guilty of "Intolerable se verity." Willful desertion as a cause for divorce dates batik to the Tteforma tion, and the other causes which have since been added, such as extreme cru elty, habitual drunkenness, conviction of felony, eta, have been enacted cblefly for the benefit of wives. CENSUS GROWTH IN THE ARID STATES. SESII- According to the census figures, twelve states have shown an Increase In population amounting to 30 per cent or over in the last decade. Of this list, seven are In what is known as the semi arid region, where the farmer depends in a large measure on Irrigation for success In his vocation. These leading states, in the order of their Increase, are: Idaho, 93; Montana, 84; Wyoming; 62; Washington, 49; Utah, 33; Oregon, 32; Colorado, 31. The states of the Middle West, which showed the largest proportion of Increase a third of a cen tury ago, have fallen low In the ll3t, and In many cases have been passed by states of the East and South. The percentage of growth In the semi-arid region of the for West bears out the assertion of Irrigation experts that the country tributary to the Colo rado and Columbia Rivers and In the Rocky Mountain districts will be In the future the expanding area of our Na tlqnal domain. The tide of possession of settlement bearing upon its crest a multitude of homeseekers, has al ready set in. It may not be at its full, possibly will not be for several dec ades, but there is every reason to sup pose that the percentage of increase In the first decade of the Twentieth cen tury will far -exceed that of the last decade of the Nineteenth. A orellmi nary step looking to this result Is seen In the effort that Is being mode to con vince the people of the trade centers of the country that the recovery of this vast area to agriculture will confer a general InBtead of a purely local bene fit This view was made clear at a re cent meeting of Chicago business men, wherein irrigation experts demonstrat ed to the satisfaction of all who heatd them that Chicago as a trade cotter will be vastly benefited by the u vltl pllcatlon of homes in the arid region. The expenditure of money and the exercise of skill in constructing stor age reservoirs are necessary prelimi naries to this scheme. It is not that these regions are devoid at all seasons of the year of moisture, but that the Winter precipitation in snow Is dissi pated In freshets In the early Spring. This is clearly a condition that engi neering skill can correct, but this means the expenditure at the outset of large sums of money, either by private corporations or through state or Na tional appropriations. This will come In some shape In due course of time. Since the time away back In 1836, when Rev. Samuel Parker, on a missionary errand, traversed these seemingly boundless areas, over which at that time luxuriant grass waved, wild flow ers bloomed and enormous herds of buffalo roamed, saw with the prophetic vision of the practical man this mighty region teeming with population, its grand possibilities In this line have been recognized by all who have in formed themselves upon, or even given casual attention to the matter. Civi lization has pushed its way thither slowly, painfully and perilously dur ing the .greater part of the intervening time. It will make more tapid strides in the future, and next to the railroad the greatest auxiliary to its endeavor will be a comprehensive system of Irrigation. Jerry Simpson, who has long pined In political and social exclusion, comes before the public again and again Is sockiess. He made a freak bet with a man in Wichita by which he agreed, If McKInley were re-elected, to go with out socks Winter and Summer for four years, the other man to subject hlm Belf to like discomfort and Indignity in the event of Bryan's election. As he will no doubt wear flannel-lined shoes and toast his shins by the fire through out the Kansas Winters included in the bet, he will, as before, get his little bit of sockiess notoriety cheap enough. The Cecil family may be said to rule the British Empire at present Lord Salisbury Is Prime Minister; his son. Lord Cranbourne, is Under-Secretary for Foreign Affafrs; Lord Selborne, his son-in-law, is at the head of the Ad miralty; hlsnephew, Arthur Balfour, is First Lord of the Treasury and leader of the House of Commons, and another nephew, Gerald Balfour, is Secretary for Ireland.. There is no ground for complaint, for the Cecil family has al ways been distinguished for capacity in discharge of public affairs since the days of Queen Elizabeth and James I. The newly elected Legislatures of Ne braska, Delaware and Montana will choose two United States Senators, while legislatures to elect one United States Senator were chosen In Kansas, New Hampshire, Texas, Illinois, West Virginia, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michi gan, Minnesota, South Dakota New Jersey, Idaho, South Carolina, Tennes see, Wyoming and Colorado. The Re publicans will lose a Senator in Mon tana, one in Colorado, and one in Idaho, but ought to gain two in Delaware, one In Nebraska, and one In South Dakota. By ceaseless agitation and extraordi nary appeals to passion and prejudice, the Prohibitionists have managed to double or treble their vote of 1895. But thrice nothing Is nothing, and they have achieved nothing. Up in Walla Walla a brewer was running: for 'the State Senate, and the temperance peo ple united on his opponent and defeated him (the brewer). No other man on his ticket was beaten. The moral of this Is so obvious that anybody but a con firmed Prohibitionist can see it. Bryan dubbed that man sordid who was concerned about the dollar, and that man glutton who was concerned about the dinner-pall. Sordid gluttony Is the euphemistic paramount Issue of this base existence of ours, as Bryan knows now if he did not before. And the worst cf it is that the voter prob ably will have to buy things and eat until the end of time. Bryan's logic may be food for thought, but there Is too muoh wind pudding about it to keep body and soul together. It does not appear that any one peered Into or quoted from "Coin" Har ney's book during the late campaign. O'erwearied as the American people were with talk, there were some things to be thankful for, and this was one of them. It has indeed gone very well with the country since the cobwebs be gan to gather about this ohce famous book. Well had It been for Mr. Bryan and for the Democratic party had he been shelved with It The President, by executive order, has extended to our soldiers In China the same privilege that was given to soldiers in the Philippines a year ago, admitting free of duty Christmas pres ents and souvenirs sent by them to their families and friends in the United States. The order represents justice rather than generosity, but the thought fulness of the Executive In Issuing It is not the less appreciated on that ac count The Chicago platform was a "new Declaration or Independence." The Kansas City platform was a fervid and touching reaffirmation of that immor tal document There is ahead of us all a vast field of speculation as to whether the Democratic principles of 1904 will be a reaffirmation of the reaffirmation. Some Bryanites are resolved upon a very effective means of spiting McKIn ley, They are going to sit right down and show him he can't make them prosperous against their consent Their perversity will doubtless be rewarded after its own kind. Roosevelt has four years of hard grinding ahead of him. He will have to make lots of noise to keep himself to the fore. And he has shown himself able to make it When Hearst predicted a landslide for Bryan he was unaware that the habit of yellow journalism had become so unconscious as to deceive himself. It will be pretty hard perhaps for some of the mordant cantankerous Democrats to bear up under four more long years of grinding prosperity. It's all the same tp Stevenson whether he is Vice-President or not He Is just as little potatoes In one obscure place as In another. Reporter Black's Record New York Times, People who live In Waterloo, la., were not at all surprised when they heard that author of the false Cleve land Interview published by the Phila delphia Times was their fellow Iowan. Mr. Robert J, Black. For that enterpris ing individual Is well known In Water loo, not as the Intimate friend of ex Cabinet officers, or even of statesmen of lesser rank, but as a professional phre nologist who also dabbles a little In hyp notism in other words,, as the ordinary village seer and sorcerer, exploiting- ig norance and superstition in the ordinary way, and conceding just enongh to tho spirit of the age to drape himself In the robes of pseudo-science. ''For 5a cents. (American money,)" says a dis patch in tho Chicago Times, "Mr, Black will make a 'chart' of his customer's bumps, with advice given gratis as to the kind of person whom the client would do well to marry." It is also stated that Mr. Black has some reputation as a practical Joker in his hours of relaxa tion, and several of his acquaintances think that he has "worked off" his, al leged interview In on effort to see how much of a hubbub among the politicians he could create. This is a kindly inter pretation of an act of rather gross de ception. Involving money considerations possibly of more than rtrlvial amount, but perhaps it will pass on a pinch. The dispatch continues: ""Last Summer, a Waterloo man met the phrenfeloglst ax' Atlantic City. He was then working! the East with his charts, -and told his West ern friend that he contemplated making a phrenological examination of Mr. Cleveland, at the same time asserting that he would Interview the former President on politics and make him 'give up. Nobody who knows Black believes his story about Mr. Cleveland. At tho same time he has always been regarded as a harmless creature, and no one can be induced to look on the recent Incident with gravity." Not even the Philadelphia Times, unfortunately, though that paper has every reason to look on it tolth ex treme gravity. "Four Tears More." Chicago Tribune. Four years more of tho "full dinner pall" In its emblematic sense of National and Individual prosperity. Four years more of industrial activity, of Increased employment at good wages, of an expanding- export trade, of enlarged commerce, all of which Implies National happiness and the individual content of the work ingman. Four years more of a stable govern ment, of a conservative management of National affairs, of peace and law and order at home and Of amicable relations with all the nations of the world with whom wo have been brought Into closer contact during the last four years. Four years more of the gold standard, which means, four years more of an hon est currency, an honest dollar, honest payment of obligations. National and pri vate, and the upholding of the National credit and National honor. FoUr years more of opposition to every thing Implied by Bryanism and Populism. Four years of respite from appeals to class hatred, from attacks upon courts of justice, from conspiracies Sgalnst law and order, from menaces to industry, and xrom business uncertainty. No Backward Step. Los Angeles Times. Mora important than either the popu lar majority or the majority in the Elec toral College, from a practical oolnt ul View, is the Republican majority in Congress. The Senate Is safely Repub lican, and the election just held will doubtless Increase by several votes. In due course, the Republican strength In that body. The triumphant popular Indorsement of Republican principles has caused joy In patriotic hearts, both at home ana beyond the PacWo Sea. The splendid results which are sure to flow from It will serve to make the American name evon more honored and respected than it is today throughout the world. It proves us to be a people who will take no backward step; who will do our duty unflinchingly as we see It; a people who have the courage of their convictions, and who mean that their flog, which has been so often baptisea with the blood of their valiant sons, shall stay where the valor of their heroes have placed it ' i i i m Clergymen Collect Their Own Dues. London Express. An extraordinary survival from the primitive tradition of the clergy openly collecting their own "dues" in kind from the people may now be seen in full swing In tho rural districts of Upper Savoy, in Switzerland. Every year about the mid dle of October clergymen, attended by youths bearing sacks and baskets, go from Village to village, receiving the contribu tions of their parishioners. No sort of consumable commodity comes amiss, though money is mort favored, and every evening the sack or bosket goeq back heavily loaded. These contributions are a popular test of respectability, and many a housewife has been known to burrow the wholo amount of her offering to the pa rochial Incumbent Women's Enlarged Spbere. Minneapolis Times. Women earn their bread in almost every branch of human Industry. Women make or help to make coffins, bricks, tiles, sewer pipes, tools, boxes, barrels, furni ture. They are in all the professions; they are stockholders and partners in various kinds of business, and as to the more conventional occupations of wemen they are galore. In the more unusual ways we have had a woman anthropolo gist a woman forester, women who mine and women who deal In stocks. One wom an spent GO years In making a bead house and lately was found dead with her un finished work before her. Nevada n Dwindling State. Philadelphia Record. The population of Nevada has dwindled until now It Is only 42,354. It will prob ably be still less 10 years later. Yet this handful of people has two votes In the United States Senate to balance or nullify the weight of the greatest state in the Union, and one vote in the House of Rep resentatives, though having only one fourth of a quota. On a close vote la the Electoral College the voice of Nevada might be decisive of the Presidency. The sovereignty of the citizen means some thing In this abandoned mining camp. Rolling Stock Oolnsr Abroad. Cleveland Plain Dealer. In competition with European manufac turers a Pittsburg concern bas obtained an order for $6,000,000 worth of rolling stock for South African railways. The American company made a hid a third lower than any other company, but In the matter of time beat the best European bidder by eight months. THJs winning of big contracts by Americans Is getting to be almost a matter of course, and Is not calculated to Improve the frame of mind of the British manufacturer. I HI Freedom of Trade in Japan. New York Times. There can hardly be a more conclusive argument in favor of the freedom ot trade in Japan than the progess that has been made under that policy. The essential force from which that progress has come about Is the native energy and Intelli gence of tho Japanese people. They have overcome difficulties that might well have discouraged or paralyzed any people, and they have done so by means drawn solely from themselves. Honest Clerks in Banks. Boston Globe. A New York bank clerk rises to protest that "if Diogenes were living today he could find the man he woe looking for right in any bank in the country, yes, and not only one, but any number of the specimen for which he searched In vain" and he Is probably correct All honor to the honest men in our financial Insti tutions on whom dishonest men occasion ally bring undeserved dishonor! The Tryst, Paul Laurence Dunbar In New Llpplncott De night creep down erlon? de land. Da shadders rise an' shako De frog- la sta'tln' up bis tan' Do cricket 1 awake; My work Is rnoe' nlsh done, Celes'; Tonight I won't b late, I's hu'yln' thoa my level fees'. Wait ru' ma fey da gats. De mockln' bird '11 sen' his glee A-thrlllln' thoo an thoo, I know dat ol' magnolia tree IS etnelltn de fu" you; De Jaasamlne entde de road Is bloomln' rich an' white. My heart's a-thrnbhin' 'cause It knowed You'd wait ru me tonight Hit's lonesome, ain't It, stan'la' thala T7ld no one nlsh to -talk? Sat ain't day whUpaha la de sin Brlong da fjahden walk? Don't somep'n kin' o call my name. An' say "ho love you bes't" Hit's true, I wants to say. de eanje. Bo wait In.' me, Celes". iny somep'n ru' to pass de time, Outslng de mockln' bird, Ton rot da raualo an' da rhyme. You beat hlci wld de word, ra comln1 now. my wo'k Is osC D hour has come fa' res. X wants, fcj fly. hut unly, nuv Watt CuT xae, dear Celts. COMMENT OS TBE ELECTION Ko More Bryan lama. Springfield (HI.) State Journal. All ot this means much to this country. It means that the Isms of Bryanism no longer need be feared, and that the af fairs of the Nation will continue to be conducted on sound business principles. It means happiness, peace, contentment and prosperity for the American people for the next four years "The End of Bryanism." Pittsburg Dispatch. Since the campaign of 139$ had to be fought over again, it is well that the re sult is so decisive. It can be taken for granted that this Is the end of Bryanism. The Democratic party should now give heed to tho possibility of Intelligent oppo sltlon on some better basis than the at tack on public credit and business stabil ity that has been personified by its candi date In the last two campaigns. Bryan Himself Distrusted. Chicago Record. Mr. Bryan's defeat is attributable main ly to lack of fath. In his financial and economic theories. In part too, it may be traced to the lack of confidence in his capacity for the administration of prac tical affairs. Admiration Is not confidence and the esteem for Mr. Bryan's personal character, for his purity, honesty and sin cerity, was not sufficient A man who is admired for his eloquence, his lofty mo tives and a certain vein of rapt poetic or prophetic fervor Is likely to be- mis trusted as to his capacity for getting down to earth and dealing with the af fairs of earth. Like Campaign of 1804. Des Moines State Register. Last Tuesday's re-election was the grandest indorsement the voters of the United States have ever given a President President Lincoln was sublimely re-eleot-ed In 1604, but many of the states were not represented In that election because of the prevalence of the Civil War. There was much similarity In tho campaigns ot lmuaniy in me campaigns oi 1S64 and 1S00, because the enemies of the I Government and the flag were arrayed against the Republicans In both of those memorable contests. In this year's cam paign many of the old "copperhead" ex pressions and assertions of 1SG4 were re vived and repeated, but they failed to turn the Intelligent and patriotic people against President McKInley. The West Did It. Chicago Times-Herald. Once more tho great West has rallied to the standard of honest money and fear- lees, progressiva Americanism, Lot the pessimists look at the Republican major ities in Ohio and Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Ken tucky, Iowa and Nebraska, and read therein the edict of the American people that where the Stars and Stripes has been raised in honor American sovereignty shall be maintained inviolate until order Is restored and a stable government is established and the disposition of our Island territories is settled by the calm decision of Congress. Once more the Pa cific States join with the Dakotas and tho older states of the West and East to repel the assaults of sectionalism and disintegration. Significance of California's Vote. Ban Jose Mercury. Had California voted for Bryan and in opposition to the McKInley policies It would have signified to the country that the state best Informed and moat directly interested in Pacific Ocean affairs was in opposition to the Presi dent and it would have been a noisy, even If not an effective, argument in condemnation of all that has been done In the past three years in the name ot the American Governmont and in be half of American interests. That it would have stayed the hand of Ameri can policy and enterprise in the Phil ippines we have very much doubt, but u would have been a very awkward fact for the Administration and It wouln have put California In an anomalous and absurd position. Democrats Need Reorganization. Minneapolis Tribune. It is, perhaps; too early to dlscura Mr. Bryan's future, but this second defeat ought to end him as a Presidential quan tity. It does not seem reasonable to sup pose that his party will take him up again four years hence. There is evidence that the South, although it votes the Demo cratic ticket this year from force ot habit. Is very much disgusted with its Presiden tial nominee, and will Seek another leader hereafter. We hope to see the Democratic party reorganized with leaders of charac ter and sound judgment at its head, for In a Government like ours a strong- oppo sition party is healthful for tho body pol itic, provided its leaders do not surrender to the forces of socialism and disintegra tion, as Bryan has done. Patriotism and Common Sense. St, Paul Pioneer Press. The battle is over and won. It is the triumph of the patriotism and common sense of the American people over the evil forces that were arrayed against the National honor, against the foundations of social order and all the safeguards on which rests the material prosperity of the country. And It is a victory so over whelming and so decisive that the war of business and social anarchy is not likely to be renewed for a long time to come. It will not only make secure the foundations of business prosperity at home, but It will put a speedy end to tho disturbances in the Philippines. They have been kept alive by the hope of Bry an's election, and now that hope is gone peace and order will soon be restored and the good work which McKInley has be gun will go on without molestation. Were Tied to a Corpse. Lincoln (Neb.) Journal. It is time now for the people of the South to tum over a new leaf and drop the race issue as their "paramount" concern, when they go to the polls. They have suffered enough for .their sins and ought to stay In the Union as Americans and not act as though they were aliens with no interest in the common welfare. What is needed In the South Is new leadership. The old men are paralyzed and can do nothnlg more. The yoUng men should take the helm and steer it out of the bonds of iniquity and the gall of bitterness. There is little doubt that the majority of the Southern people who worked and voted for Bryan last Tuesday are today rejoicing in their hearts that they were powerless to elect him and that the better conscience of the Northern people has delivered them from business disaster and kept the avenues ot progress and prosperity open to them. And the Flag Is Still There. Chicago Inter Ocean. The country rises today In all the pris tine buoyancy and puissance of a mighty people. The light of an unstained past will continue to shine over the future. The flag is not to be pulled down in the Philippines. The power of this Republic is not to be prostrated before a Tagal brigand. The sun Is not to set on American soil. The work that Dewey did Is not to be in vain. The laborer is to have his honest hire. The employer is to keep his honest profit Vested rights are still safe under the Constitution of the United States. The nightmare of lawless confiscation has been banjshed from the face of politics. The honor, the prestlije, the prosperity, and the contentment that have been our possessions for four years are to remain I with us. Ana the flag u sun mere ya nag u Estill there. James K. Jones has now begun to have his doubts about Bryan's election. We "have a long time to think about that big fair, but we shall need" oil' of it The foolkHler8 post-election labors' will be- confined to a very few states this year. Of course Bryan does not want to be an editor. Editors have to work for- a. living. "I am prepared for the wurst" ob served the hog, as he dived Into the sausage mill. "WhRt Happened to Jones" Is a drama whose title has considerable political sig nificance just now. That Chicago author who went bank rupt should have devoted his talents to writing popular songs. The more Helen Gould sees of her sis ter's husband, the mere boquets she throws at herself for remaining single. Chicago has offered its drainage canal to tho Government, but the offer is not likely to be accepted unless the city will break the Chicago River off the end of the canaL The re-election of McKinlcy is already oppressing the plain people In Portland. A street car company has' forced $2 40 a day on downtrodden employes who would only have been obliged to accept $2 S3 In the event of Bryan's election. It is the habit pf a certain Lewtston (Me.) Instructor in languages to sail upon the pupil end then give him a olew to the place by translating the first throo or four words the latter la to read. The ..,,. . ,, . ,, . .. ,. . , '""" - "" "ilou. " ",c. " in somewhat of a hurry at the close of the hour suoh startling admonitions as these rell forth upon the class: "Next 'Take eft your boots.' " or "Mies S You scoundrel, what do you mean?' " or "Mr. Brown 'Pray the gods to epnro you,' " and the Innocence of the teacher and the surprise of the pupil never fall to please the sense of humor of the class. A Jewish oavalry Captain of excellent standing was detailed as Instructor to tho training-school at Fontalnebloau. He was promptly sent to Coventry by his fellow offlcors, who even took the unusual step of complaining to the Minister of War against the unpopular appointment mak ing their protest on personal grounds. General Andre, Minister of War, dismissed promptly to their regiment six instructors of the school, and the Commandant will be transferred to other service. In Ger many oommissions are refused to Jews, and In France, If French officers will not treat the Jewish fellows decently in public, military service should not be requested from the Jews. The Treasurer ot Lincoln, Neb,, sent the following reply to a letter from Green field, III., Inquiring whether Mr. Bryan was "the largest taxpayer In the city." "Lincoln. Nob., Feb. 8, 1000. Dear Sir: W. J. Bryan Is not our largest taxpayer. There are a good many who pay more. He pays a rather large personal tax for an Individual, but net the largest, being for county and city for I860 J23S 60. He also pays something on real estate. Be fore he was nominated for tho Presi dency he paid quite a small amount M. I. Altken, City Treasurer." It will be seen that this tax represents personal property to the amount of about J1&.000. besides which he owns a small farm, probably worth $2400. Reforms in the organization of the state militia have been enacted by the Vermont Legislature. The oRloe of Adjutant and Inspector-General Is consolidated with that of Quartermaster-General. The time of the annual enoampment Is extended from five to seven days. The pay of the officers and men Is raised, and privates will now receive 51 50 a day and subsist ence. All the plcnie features will be eliminated. The militia will be uniformed like the Regular Army, the annual muster will be an occasion tor work and for suoh practice as the beys did not have in the old days; there will be no collars. In the company streets fer the storing of liquid refreshments for visitors, and thero will bo no company cooks hired for the occa sion to prepare the delicacies carried along by officers and men. On the con trary the men will receive such rations aS are issued In the Regular Army, and must prepare them In the regular way. On the 3d inst at Alfred. Me., George H. Champion, of Boston, was convicted of murder In the first degree. ''Champion killed George W. Goodwin. Mrs. Elsie N. Home. Soott Goodwin and Fred L. Bertsoh. occupants of George W. Good win's farmhouse at West Newfleld, on the night of June 10. Sentence of life Im prisonment was pronounced Immediately, Capital punishment Is not Inflicted in Maine, so this wholesale murderer will be a state charge for the rest of his days. The number of the murderer's victims Is not remarkable, since he was sure to escape the scaffold. If he should kill a number ef his guards In prison he would puffer no additional punishment Immu nity from capital punishment granted to such cutthroats ultimately ends In exe cution by Judge Lynch. A famous Italian bandit who recently escaped from prison has murdered 80 persona since ho broke loose. If ho was Captured tomorrow he could only be returned to prison, as capi tal punishment Is abolished In Italy. PLEASANTRIES OF rAnAGUAPHEnS. Not Yet Labeled. Boy (in political banner factory) Wot name gws with this piqtur Bryan er McKInley? Proprietor (after ex amination)) X dunao. Ask the artist, New Torlc Weekly. Claiming- Acquaintance. Chlmmle Dat'a Mc Corker, d heavy-weight rue cousin used ter go ter school wld'm. Biltle Dat ain't nuthln me bruMer had free front teeV knocked out bym onet. Brooklyn Life. When It Will Come Oa Mr. Wlokwlre I notice that Bryan and Rooseyelt's trains passed eaeh other a day er so ago. Mrs. Wlokwlre acodsass! Not on tho same track, I how? "Of eourse not That attempt will not be node until Tuesday." Indianapolis Press. In Old Missouri. Colonel Peppah X belters In votla early an' often, sub. Colonel Ited tye X don't, sub. It's too much trouble to vote early, an' It's a waste o' time to vote often. I prefer to chuck, la a good big- bundle o' ballots all to one an' hev yer duty over with. Judge. A Social Economist--"Dls, prosperity is all tlctltioust." said Meandering Mike. WluU makes you t'lnk lt7" asked Plodding Pete. Because y keep on offerln us roast turkey an elder de same as dey did last Koverober. If we was pergressin' as we ort de hand-outs would Include terrapin an' champagne by dls line."-Washington Star A Berioue Ohjectlen. "I don't see hnw yon can permit your Willie to play with thai Don ohue boy He uses shocking language." "Mercy I Is he playing with that UtUe wretch?' 'Yes, they are JUst around the cor ner; X knew yon wouldn't want hlsn contam inated." "Contaminated! Why. the Donohue scamp -has the whooping ecugn'" Cleveland .Plata Dealax.