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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.
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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
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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.