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PORTLAND, THURSDAY, NOV. 22.
The Oregonlan presents today a sym
posium of -views from prominent state
Democrats a to the reorganization of
the Democratic party. They do not
agree. The men -who supported Bryan
are convinced that the party does not
need reorganization as much as it needs
votes. The correspondent who did not
vote for Mr. Bryan Is certain that un
less It Is reorganized the want of votes
and public confidence will be perma
nent In other words, the division
among Democrats over this mooted
question Is clearly along familiar lines
between the thlok-and-thln -Democracy
on the one hand, and the Palmer
and MoKlnley Democrats on the other.
The gentlemen who have twice been
tangled up in the wreck with Bryan
have grown to like It, and do not want
to be extricated or reconstructed by the
gentlemen who walked with them up
to the brink and declined to fall over.
The Clevelands and the Dickinsons and
their like are not Democrats because
they express a wholly Inexcusable pref
erence for whole skins and sound bod
ies. There would seem, to be consider
able justification for this view. The
necessary qualification for orthodox De
mocracy nowadays Is an undismayed
demeanor before defeat and disaster,
"8nd a vicarious willingness to suffer for
the blunders of Bryanlsm.
"Well, accept the view that the De
mocracy, If reorganized at all, must
submit to the operation at the hands of
Its friends, and not its ex-friends. "We
take It that no Democrat will deny that
the party must have recruits, and these
recrUIts must come from the opposition.
A vote Is a vo.te, and no sensible Dem
ocrat will undertake to challenge the
right of any person to vote the Demo
cratic ticket who cannot show a cer
tificate of unbroken party orthodoxy.
What, then. Is to be done If the pres
ent minority Is to be changed to a ma
jority? Adhere to doctrines that have
alarmed the country and divorced so
many Influential Democrats? Or take
a moderate and rational attitude
toward public questions, and thus in
spire respeot and attract support? One
correspondent, who doubtless voted for
Bryan, expresses opinions that are
worth the candid consideration of all
Democrats. He thinks reorganization
Is not necessary, but he advocates poli
cies that involve an entire change of
front. He opposes reorganization. He
simply wants a new deal.
The resentment so plainly shown by
one or two of our correspondents
against the anti-Bryan Democrats Is
not surprising, under all the circum
stances; and we are also prepared to
hear that Republican efforts to reor
ganize the Democracy are not partic
ularly appreciated. The Oregonlan will
Bay for Itself that it Is very much In
terested In the great question as to
what Is going to become of the Demo
cratic party: and. as it is the only real
vehicle of Democratic expression in the
state. It felt that It might properly give
an opportunity for Democrats to ex
change views, and find out how It all
happened, and what must be done to be
saved. If the Democrats do not want
to be saved. It is sorry; but It will en
deavor to bear their misfortunes with
composure. If they do want to be
saved, it will be glad, and. It will cheer
fully do for that great end whatever Its
duty seems to require. Just now It Is
simply trying to find out for the gen
eral public benefit how Democrats
themselves reel about It To those
Democrats who are still alarmed about
our liberties and the perpetuity of the
Republic, It will demonstrate by its ex
ample the living truth that free speech
is not dead, and therefore the unhappy
catastrophe ihey fear may thus be
postponed for some time.
Ambassador Choate, In his recent fine
address on "Abraham Lincoln," deliv
ered at Edinburgh, exaggerated the
merciful, philanthropic side of the
great statesman to a degree that im
plied gross executive weakness. Lin
coln was merciful when he could safely
blend justice with mercy. He was not
merciful, but hard as flint, when he
thought mercy would mar justice.
"When Gordon, the captain of a slave
trader, was tried and convicted In Bos
tan and sentenced to death as a pirate.
Lincoln was In vain pleaded with to
commute his death sentence; but he
sternlr refused. President Jackson
promptly pardoned the captain of a
slave trader who was sentenced to
death in Boston, but Lincoln would not
do it. "When the Confederate firebug.
Kennedyi who tried to burn New York
City, was convicted and sentenced to
death, Lincoln refused to commute his
sentence, and he was equally inflexi
ble in other cases where men were cap
tured executing acts of war after get
ting within our lines in the dress pt
spies. Lincoln as an executive never
abused the pardoning' power as grossly
as many other Presidents who had
small reputation for merciful temper.
There was a very stern side to Lin
coln's nature His mercy never degen
erated Into abusing power on the side
of mercy. He was not gentle or lova
ble at all when his sense of Justice was
offended. He was a man who clearly
believed there were times when he did
well to be angry, as his stern rebukes
of Hooker, Meade and other unsatis
factory Generals In his official corre
spondence attests. He was benevolent
and philanthropic, but his predominant
quality waa his love of Justice and
truth, and no public man who is true
to Justice and truth can always be merciful.
As an executive., Lincoln probably
never pardoned a man justly convicted
of murder or theft. ' He pardoned qne
or two soldiers, raw country volunteers,
for sleeping on picket post. He par
doned a few young deserters who he
believed had been demoralized by read
ing Vallandlgham's speeches commend
ing the example of desertion from the
Union rankx and Inspiring soldiers with
discontent and disloyalty. He pardoned
some other youthful deserters who he
was persuaded did not, through igno
rance and military inexperience, appre
ciate the enormity of their offense. He
did not pardon any "bounty jumpers"
sentenced to death, nor any soldier old
enough in years and military experi
ence and service to be fairly held re
sponsible for his acts. (There has been
a great deal written about Lincoln that
Is romance, and the popular Impression
that he invariably Interfered to prevent
the shooting of deserters Is .without
foundation. He did Interfere In some
cases when he seemed to have just
ground for clemency, but there were
hundreds of cases where he refused to
Interfere, and in the cases of men who,
to obtain a large bounty, enlisted, then
deserted, enlisted again for another
bounty, and were finally caught and
sentenced to death, Lincoln never In
terfered. PORTLAND AND THE ORIENT.
The'establlshment of a first-class line
of nodern-bullt steamships between
Portland and the Orient will at last
give this port opportunity to retain
credit for a vast amount of business
which originates here, but in the past
has been diverted to other ports. When
the Canadian Pacific started the pio
neer Oriental line from the Pacific
Northwest, the Portland Flouring Mills
Company supplied the greater part of
the cargo secured on this Coast, the
product being shipped In coasting craft
to Vancouver for reshlpment on the lin
ers. A few years later the Northern
Pacific established a line to the Orient,
and again were the Portland merchants
depended on to supply the greater por
tion of the flour cargoes, as well as find
a market for a large percentage of the
Inward cargo not Intended for the East.
These facts demonstrate that Portland
is quite familiar with the Oriental busi
ness, and has engaged In It for a suffi
cient length of time to understand it
without aid from a junketing Govern
ment commission. Such being the case,
all that was necessary was good trans
portation facilities, and these we are
now promised. ,
In looking over the files of The Ore
gonlan, we hnd that the Jane A. Falk
enburg arrived at this port in 1857 with
530 tons of freight, "the largest cargo
that had ever been landed In this, city."
The same paper also alluded with par
donable pride to the fact that the Falk
enburg came up the river drawing
nearly seventeen feet of water. It Is a
long leap from the Falkenburg's 530-tou
cargo to the 9000-ton cargoes of the In
drapura and Indravelll, but Portland
has made It, and If her citizens arc
alive to their Interests they will not
sleep on their laurels. The O. R. & N.
Co. has given us the best service ob
tainable. With these fine steamers
they have met the demand as it now
exists. To meet the ever-changing con
ditions and natural growth of the ma
rine traffic,-we must not only provide
these steamers with a perfect channel
to the sea, but we must dredge out a
channel for the larger steamers that
will gradually follow the new liners,
just as they have followed the' Falken
burg and her successors of gradually
Increasing proportions.
SUBSIDY BILL IN DANGER.
By the time Congress Is again In
session conditions will be much less
favorable for, the passage of a shipping
Bubsldy bill than ever before. Every
shipyard of importance in the country
Is running to its fullest capacity, and
many new ones have come Into exist
ence, with . cme of the old doubling and
trebling their facilities for turning out
vessels. Contracts for mercantile craft
alone on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts
amount to $30,000,000, and It Is now al
most a certainty that more new ton
nage will go into the water under the
American flag In 1901 than In any pre
vious year in the history of the coun
try. Americans have met the foreigners on
their own ground In all kinds of Indus
trial and commercial pursuits, and,
with the experience of the pas: and
the prospects of the future, there Is
nothing in the situation that warrants
the belief that they cannot successfully
cope with thfm on the high seas. The
Lake shipping men have been, steadily
enlarging their craft, and within the
past year several of the largest of their
carriers have passed through the canal
and out into the ocean In competition
with the fleets of the world. They have
ventured beyond the coasting trade,
and have been so successful that others
will follow.
The fact that America is building
ships for foreign governments, which
have had the world for a market in
which to buy their ships, shows plainly
that there Is an advantage In our favor
onthefirstcost of the ship. The fact that
building and sailing American ships in
competition with the fleets of the world
has enabled a few Americans to pile
up colossal fortunes shows that we can
operate the ships as cheaply as the
foreigners can operate their craft. The
late Arthur Sewall gave us continued
demonstration of this fact for over forty
years, and, while he has departed from
earth, the good work he started still
goes on. Two splendid American steel
ships will soon be launched from his
yards at Bath, Me., and as soon as they
J leave the ways keels will be laid for
two steel ships which will exceed in
size any other American ships afloat.
The shipping business has been so
profitable all over the world for the
past few years that nothing but strict
legislation culd keep American capital
out of it The Standard OH Company,
becoming wearied of paying vast sums
to foreigners for carrying their prod
uct to the far East, have within the
past two years bought up entire fleets
of sailing vessels. These ships should
be under the American flag, so that the
credit for ownership and home port dis
bursements would rest where it prop
erly belongs; but America has yet to
learn the lesson in ocean carrying
trade that Germany has been so quickly
taught by the mistress of the seas.
Of the grain ships en route to Port
land at the present time, twenty-five
fly the German flag, while Great Brit
ain, for the first time in the history
of the port, has 'dropped back to sec
ond place with but twenty-three ships.
Over two-thirds of these German ships
were built and owned by the British
until a short time ago. As a matter of
fact, half of them have passed from
the British to the German flag within
the past three years. No subsidy was
asked or needed when Germany de
cided to increase her merchant marine;
but she said to her subjects: "Go forth
into the markets of the world and buy
ships wherever you can buy them the
cheapest" If American capital could
have secured the same permission from
our Government, all of these ships
which Great Britain supplanted with
steamers would not now be flying the
German flag. The German and British
merchant marine Is hot subsidized, but
the shipowners of those two countries
do not need to wait until a ship can
be built when they find a trade where
they can operate one to profit They
simply go out and buy it where they
can secure the best figures, and place
it jUnder the German or British flag.
Therein lies the only advantage of any
importance that the foreigner has over
the American In the shipping business.
This advantage can be overcome by
easier and less expensive methods than
a subsidy.
KRUq-3RS RECEPTION IN FRANCE.
The reception to be awarded Paul
Kruger in France, beyond expressing
the popular feeling of a large number of
the Inhabitants of the City of Marseilles,
Is of no more official significance, so far as
the government of France Is concerned,
than was the enthusiastic reception ob
tained In the United States by the
great Hungarian orator and revolution
ist, Louis Kossuth, in 1851. If Kruger
could speak French as eloquently as
Kossuth spoke English, he would be
the lion of the" hour In France. Kos
suth came to America to plead for In
tervention in behalf of Hungary. He
obtained admiration, sympathy and
abundant applause, but not the slight
est encouragement from our Congress
except the ccurtesy that Is always ex
hibited to a distinguished foreigner who
has borne a great part In recent public
affairs. Daniel Webster and other con
spicuous Americans took part In pub
licly welcoming him, but the congrat
ulations he received Included no hope
of Intervention In behalf of Hungary,
no word of official denunciation of Aus
tria. The Government of the United
States ha? always steadily refused to
Interfere In the affairs of Europe upon
any such vague ground that we were
bound as a republic to help every peo
ple nominally fighting for enlarged
freedom of self-government. Under
President Washington we refused
to interfere in behalf of the French
Republic In Its battle with Great Brit
ain. We refused' In 1824 to send a com
mission to Greece, then In the throes of
a bloody revolution against Turkey, al
though both Webster and Clay elo
quently urged the passage of the reso
lution. We restrained with a strong
hand the people of our border states
who sought to furnish arms, men and
supplies to the Canadian rebels In 1837,
and finally we awarded no official rec
ognition to the Boer envoys who visited
this country; last year. We are a common-sense
Government We know that
we cannot afford to be a gamecock for
all the world. We know that as a- Na
tion we cannot afford to play knight
errant in behalf of the Boers fighting
Great Britain, any more than we could
afford to play knight errant In behalf
of the Armenian Christians who were
punished with murderous military se
verity by Turkey.
Kruger doubtless comes to Europe
to obtain, if possible, some promise of
foreign Intervention in behalf of the
so-called South African Republic. He
still claims to be President on the
ground that the Boers have still a con
siderable number of soldiers In the field.
He claims that he comes to Europe as
the accredited envoy of the South Af
rican Republic and of the Orange Free
State. He no longer asks for com
plete politicals Independence, but seeks
to persuade one or more of the Euro
pean powers to urge England to put a
stop to the present guerrilla warfare by
offering the Boers legislative autonomy
in domestic matters. This is Paul Kru
ger's mission. That it will utterly fall
is certain, for the British Government
not only would refuse to restore legis
lative autonomy to the Transvaal and
the Orange Free State at the present
time, but would be sure.to resent as an
unfriendly act any application to that
end by France or any other European
government
For this reason it is not likely that
Kruger will be--given an official recep
tion by- President Loubet at the execu
tive palace In Paris. The Anglophob
lsts In France will greet Kruger with
enthusiasm, for it is a characteristic of
this faction in France never to lose a
chance tot make grimaces and throw
mud at England; but this kind of wel
come Is of no more service to Kruger's
cause than were the vociferous pro
Boer meetings In America, whose prin
cipal megaphone was "Web" Davis.
These meetings were as barren of solid
advantage to Kruger as was his Ameri
can welcome to Kossuth nearly fifty
years ago. America cheered him, ad
mired him, sympathized with him,
dropped money In his hat for Hungary.
He heard eloquent speeches concerning
the right of Hungary to Independence
without a thought of armed interfer
ence between Austria and Hungary.'
Kossuth did not comprehend that an Ir
responsible American audience Is one
thing, while the responsible American
Government !s quite another. He soon
found out that while an American audi
ence would cheer to the echo his fa
mous phrase, "the solidarity of the peo
ples, ' the American Government would
not give Hungary a single sword, sol
dier or cannon. Tt would not vote it a
single dollar. The American Govern
ment turned an utterly deaf ear to Kos
suth's plea for intervention, and he
never forgave us for It, for in his subse
quent retirement of forty-two years
Kossuth never gave any thought to
America.
Kruger is technically still President
1 of a state that has not yet ceased en
tirely Itr armed resistance to Great
Britain, while Kossuth was only the
former President of a completely de
funct republic; nevertheless, practically
both the Orange Free State and the
South African Republic have no more
reasonable 'hope of ultimate independ
ence than has LUzon. Kruger Is not an
orator, not a man of poetic mind, like
Kossuth, and he will soon find out that
no effective mediation with England In
his behalf can be accomplished offi
cially through France. When he finds
this out he will probably settle down
quietly in Holland and mind his own
private affairs. In the meantime, the
sentimental Boers will trek to German
Southwest Africa, while the practlcau
mlnded men among them will stay in
their native land and make the best of
British rule.
The report of another Boxer Insur
rection Is probably well founded, for the
recent action of the German troops in
destroying the tombs of the old Ming
dynasty, fifteen miles northwest from
Pekln, was in the nature of an act of
sacrilege well calculated to provoke re
taliation. According to Sir Robert
Hart, the British manager of the Chi
nese customs service, who was In Pekln
during the terrible days of July, the
Boxers would have done no harm to the
legations had not the allied forces
bombarded the Taku forts. This as
sault was construed as an act of war,
and in accordance with the usual cus
tom in such cases the Chinese Govern
ment sent notice to the Ambassadors of
the attacking forces to quit Pekln
wiihln twenty-four hours, but they
would not do so. Sir Robert Hart says
that the Chinese regulars in Pekln
could have demolished the legation
buildings and killed all the occupants
any day they chose, had they not been
restrained by some person or persons
of consequence. Our Government Is so
disturbed by the action of Germany
and Great Britain that it contemplates
withdrawing; from the concert of the
powers rather than join In steps whose
only effect can be to Impair the national
life and dignity of China and violate
our own principle of maintaining the
territorial and administrative integrity
of the Chinese Empire.
Milton's new creamery may serve an
important purpose as a model estab
lishment for Eastern Oregon. It being
confessedly a model, the development of
the dairy Industry In the Inland Em
pire will depend to a considerable ex
tent upon the showing made at Milton.
If that fall, many will be convinced
that creameries will not succeed there,
though such evidence would be far from
conclusive. If it prove to be all that Is
expected of It great encouragement
will be given the creamery business,
and the farmers will the easier break
from their one-crop bond. All the con
ditions appear to favor the enterprise,
and it may be welcomed as another ele
ment in the development of the varied
resources of the Columbia Basin. It is
in every way commendable.
One of the Boer envoys says his coun
trymen will fight to the death. The
chief representative Boer is far from
fighting to the death. He cleared out
like a dastard, leaving his people to
their fate. Also" he absconded with a
great quantity of gold which belonged
to them. If Kruger Is a hero, why is
he afraid to die? Does he think he has
a lease on immortality? Or is he nig
gardly with hlsfcfew remaining years?
No spectacle could be more beautiful
in martyrdom or more Invoke to ecstacy
the pen or lyre than the last stand of
this pictured patriarch exhorting his
doomed followers to courage and to
death. The Action Is Inanimate. The
old man Is austere in years, but not in
heroism.
Tacoma people took the November
snow storm and the ley blasts that ac
companied it quite too seriously, or too
joyously. No less than nine persons In
that city suffered fractures of limbs
Monday, five of the accidents being due
to coasting and the balance to falls
upon the slippery pavement All of
which goes to show that cold weather
does not agree with people who thrive
upon the soft, humid airs of the North
west Coast
In event of the death of United States
Senator Davis, Senator Lodge might
succeed to the chairmanship of the Sen
ate committee on foreign relations, for
the two men ahead of him, Fryq of
Maine , and Cullom of Illinois, are
neither of them as well qualified for
the succession as Senator Lodge, and
each of them already has the chairman
ship of an important committee.
It may be that Blnger Hermann does
not have his lightning rod up for the
Senatorshlp, although there have been
no advices to that effect But a six
year Senatorial term Is two years longer
than a four-year Land Office term, and
thereby hangs much thrifty signifi
cance. Kruger will receive a grand ovation
because he was a coward In the face of
danger. But that makes no difference
with Frenchmen. French ldeal3 are
difficult for the American mind to com
prehend. General Macabolos, an ex-Flliplno
chief, will go after Agulnaldo wJth 100
picked natives. The Information will
cause Bryan severe pain. The Fili
pinos are such a llberty-lovlng people.
Croker says It Is no Joke that he in
tends to clear New York of vice. It
would be Interesting to know what con
nection he has with the administration
of New York.
When the New York movement
against vice moved in, Croker moved
out
Reduction of "War Taxes.
Secretary Gage thinks that there might
be a reduction of J20.000.000 In the revenue
taxes. The President, it Is said, will rec
ommend a reduction equal to 120,000,000
per annum. The surplus In the Treasury
is accumulating too rapidly, as It did at
the cade of Mr. Cleveland's first term,
when the revenue exceeded the expendi
tures by $120,000,000. In, August 1SS8. the
idle money in the Treasury was equal to
one-fourth of the volume of money In
circulation throughout the country. The
.present surplus Is due to the war revenue
act of 1E98, which Increased the beer tax
from $1 to $2 per barrel, imposed license
taxes on bankers and brokers, theaters,
circuses, museums and concert halls, ex
hibitions, bowling alleys, billiard and
poolrooms. It Increased the taxes on to
bacco, snuff and cigars and dealers In the
same It Imposed stamp taxes on legal
Instruments, bank checks, bills of ex
change, telegrams, express or freight re
ceipts, bills of lading, warehouse receipts,
stock transfers, bonds, debentures and
certificates of Indebtedness, on sales of
produce or merchandise, or agreements
for sale at any public exchange qr board j
or trade, also on proprietary medicine,
cosmetics and perfumery. It also Im
posed a tax on legacies. Under the act of
1SSS, the internal revenue rose from $173,
S63.S13 to $273.4S4.578, an Increase of near
ly $100,000,000 In a single year, Tha In
crease for the first four months of the
fiscal year of 1900 was $10,000,000 over the
corresponding period of 1S99. All the taxes
fall on the classes well able to pay, but
the Secretary of the Treasury appears to
thin . that the tax on proprietary medi
cines, perfumery and .cosmetics could bo
easily spared and the taxes on convey
ances. United States Senator Lodge, In a
recent speech In Bostpn on what the Re
publicans should do with their new leasa
of power, said "We must reduce taxa
tion by taking off war taxes wherever
they can be spared."
FOREIGN TRADE IN OCTOBER.
Balance Far in Execs of Any Previ
ous' Month.
New York Journal of Commerce.
Tho exports of the United States last
month were nearly $30,000,000 greater than
in any previous month, and, as the Im
ports were not exceptionally large, having
been exceeded in three months of 1!99
and four months of 1900, the favorable
balance Is far beyond that of any pre
ceding month. The Increased exports of
last month compared with those of Octo
ber, 1B99, are accounted fop in part by
the increase in the movement of staples,
and her the net increase is wholly due
to the larger quantity and higher price
of cotton. The Increase In the export of
all staples waa under $30,000,000. while the
Increase in cotton alone was $32,000,000;
In breadstuffs and some other items there
were decreases. But while the increase of
staple exports waa $30,000,000, the Increase
in total exports was $37,000,000 and over.
This is Interesting because the exports
other than staples contain the manu
factured goods. They Include other Items
also, but all the manufactured exports
come In this miscellaneous group, and It
is the Increase In manufactured goods
which for the most part accounts for the
growth of this unclassified list. If we
deduct the staple exports, the breadstuffs,
animals and provisions, cotton and min
eral oil, from the total exports, the differ
ence, or unclassified exports In October
for the past five years, will be found to
be as follows:
Exports other than staples October
1900 . $57,832,903
1S99 60,104.832
3598 42,020,183
1897 , 34,277,113
1896 S5.6U.2DS
Since 1896 and 1897 the Increase has been
more than $20,000,000 In October, or at
the rate of, say. $250,000,000 a year, ac
counted for principally by the growth of
our manufactured exports.
If to the excess of exports of merchan
dise we add the excess of exports of sil
ver the excess of exports over Imports
for 10 months ending with October In
each of the past three years Will appear
as follows:
Favorable balance for 10 months
1S98 $480,462,885
1899 3S8.6S5.258
1900 520,145.440
The gold movements for these three 10
month periods were a net Import of
$139,020,320 n 1893, and $9,553,085 in 1899 and
a net export of $7,089,672 In 1900. the move
ment of gold this way decreasing as the
merchandise balance of trade increased.
The vaguely estimated movement of se
curities this way and the conjectural bal
ances to our credit In European banks
must be Invoked to explain the discrep
ancy. The domestic production of gold
makes us Independent of foreign sup
plies, and the stock in this country must
increase rapidly unless the drafts by
Europe should be exceedingly heavy.
Our Imports are Increasing, but not
very rapidly, and the detailed statements
of our foreign trade show that in great
part the Increase consists of raw or partly
manufactured materials whose go wing im
portation shows an increasing activity in
our factories. The Imports for 12 months
ending with October were $204,000 000 great
er than In 12 months ending with October.
1893, but those Imports were exceptionally
small. The Increase of the jast 12 months
over the 12 months preceding was $70,000.
000. and over 12 months ending October,
1897, It was $83,000,000. The exports for
the 12 months Just closed were $145,000 000
greater than those of one year ngo,
$212,000,000 more than two years ago, and
$357,000,000 more than three years ago. The
excess of exports of merchandise for 12
months ending October for six years has
been as follows:
1899-1900 $605,919,962
1898-1899 530,721,983
iwf-1898 593,034,898
1896-1897 336,482,961
1S95-1896 261,318,702
1894-1895 21,022,893
The balance for the past 12 months, It
will be observed, Is very little larger than
It was two years ago. The imports at
that time were exceedingly low, much be
low those of the year before and tha year
after. But the exports of that year have
been greatly exceeded in the two years
since closed. The excess of exports In
each of these years b'lt the first was
phenomenal till It was surpassed, and
with the exception of two years ago the
excess of the past 12 months was a great
Increase over tho excess of any previous
year In the past six.
Foreign Trade Still Grows.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Very remarkable evidence as to the
business conditions under which the
American people repudiated Bryanlsm is
furnished by the October foreign trade
statement In that month, our exports
amounted to $163,093,597, an excess over
imports of $92,475,226. breaking all records.
To be sure, the exceptional demand for our
cotton had much to do with making this
enormous total, foreign markets having
taken more than $60,000,000 worth of the
staple at prices nearly double those paid
last year, but our manufactures cut a
figure very nearly as large, and there is
every Indication that the export trade In
thes articles Is Increasing rather than
diminishing. This means not only that
our markets have been extended, but thai,
our financial position Is -secure. With
exports for the 10 months of this year
arraroximatlng $500,000,000 more than Im
ports, there need be little fear that our
commerce, however It expands, will be
hampered by stringency In the domestic
money market; our foreign credits can be
relied upon to stand any reasonable
strain.
We Spring: From Mud.
London Truth.
A good deal of pleasure appears to
have been elicited by the proofs which
a German professor has made public to
show that we are not descended from
apes. It would seem that the apes
taranched off from the direct line of de
scent about the time that we did, and
that they are, consequently, our cousins
a good many times removed, and not our"
remote grandfathers. Personally It la a
matter of perfect indifference to me
whether I descend from an ape or wheth
er the ape is only my cousin. During the
period that covers the life of a planet,
or, I suppose, of a star, there Is a com
paratively brief period when the heat and
the humidity produce vegetation, and tho
outcome of vegetation is animal life, if.
Indeed, there Is any clear line of de
markation between animal and vegetable
life. We and the apes alike descend from
protoplasmic mud. one of the most recent
discoveries being that all molecules are
a self-contained electric battery.
Paris Shops Have No Special Sales.
London Telegraph.
Two points are soon noticed by shop
pers in Paris. Although there are fre
quent "expositions" or "exhibitions" of
certain lines of goods, there are. In the
British sense, no periodical sales. It must
however, be admitted that on exposition
days certain lines then put on sale are
often offered considerably under the usual
prices. The other point of even greater
importance to the British 'visitor Is that,
while no great shop has cared to add a
restaurant to its other attractions, it gen
erally has a reading-room, where all the
leading papers may be seen, and where
friends can arrange to meet
NEED OF ARMY REORGANIZATION
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The United States Army now contains
S7.000 officers and enlisted men. It has
11 regiments of cavalry, seven regimeats
of artillery, and 49 regiments of Infantry.
Of the First Cavalry, four troops or
companies, are in Montana, Wyoming,
and the Dakotas. and eight troops are In
the Philippines. The Second Cavalry Is
in Cuba. The Third and Fourth are In
the Philippines. The Fifth Cavalry Is In
the United States. The Sixth Cavalry
Is In China and the Philippines, the Sev
enth In Cuba, the Eighth In Cuba and
the United States. Four troops of the
Ninth are in Utah and Arizona and eight
troops are In tho Philippines. Six troops
of the Tenth are In Cuba and four are In
the United States. The Eleventh (Vol
unteer Cavalry) Is In tho Philippines.
One battery of the First Artillery,
eight batteries of tho Third, one of the
Fourth, 11 of the Sixth, and two of the
Seventh are In the Philippines. All the
other artillery companies are In tha
United States. Cuba, Porto Rico, and
Hawaii. Of the regular Infantry regi
ments the Third, Fourth, Sixth. Twelfth,
Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Six
teenth, Seventeenth. Nineteenth, Twen-
uetn, uwenty-nrst. Twenty-second,
Twenty-third. Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-fifth,
with battalions from other regi
ments, are In the Philippines. The Ninth
Infantry Is In China. The Tenth Is In
Cuba and at stations in Nebraska and
Wyoming. The Eleventh has been In
Porto Rico and at stations In our East
ern States. The 24 regiments of volun
teers are all In the Philippines.
The full strnegth of the 24 regiments
of volunteer Infantry Is 32.616. The full
strength of the regiment of volunteer
cavalry the Eleventh Is 12S4 men. There
are In the 10 regiments of regular oav
alry 12,022 officers and men. In the seven
regiments of artillery 10,191, and In the
25 regular regiments of Infantry 34,583.
The aggregate of artiljery, cavalry, and
Infantry In the Philippines is 65,725. This
leaves about 32.000 men for duty In the
United States. Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii,
Alaska and Guam.
Of the Regular Army 509 officers and
5702 enlisted men are in the quartermast
er's, subsistence, medical, engineer, sig
nal, and other departments. Probably
5000 are in the artillery, and In forts on
the frontier guarding the coasts and
1579 are Indian scouts. With a Regular
Army of 65,000 men. we would have, sut
slde of departments and coast defences,
not more than 54,000 officers and men for
campaign work. With a Regular Army
of 27,000 we would have not more than
16,000 for active campaigning.
under the present law all of the 24
volunteer Infantry regiments and the reg
iment of cavalry are to be mustered out
of the service by the 1st of next July.
This will take 34,574 officers and men from
the Army of 97.000. Under the law the
Regular Army of 65,000 is to be reduced
to 27,000, the main reduction coming in
cavalry and infantry. The United States
will then have for work on its own fron
tier and In Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii,
and the Philippines 25 regimenta of infan
try, with companies reduced to the mini
mum, and 10 regiments of cavalry.
The Inadequacy of thla force is ap
parent to every one. The danger of
such depletion of our fighting strength
need riot be enlarged upon. For the last
year the Filipino rebels have kept strag
gling forces in the field by holding out
the hope of a change of policy In the
United States. That hope has been de
stroyed. Now the leaders will try to
keep their men in the field by holding
out the inducement of outlawry and plun
der when the United States is compelled
to withdraw more than half the troops
now in the Philippines.
The necessities of the situation de
mand action on Army reorganization by
the 56th Congress. The Nation cannot
wait for an extra session of the 67th
Congress. Even If In the coming cam
paign In Luzon, under the personal direc
tion of Genera MacArthur, the guerrilla
bands of Filipinos are suppressed, there
still must be a strong force In the island.
To prevent disaster, outlawry, and mas
sacre in the Philippines the rebels must
have notice through Congress that the
Regular Army of the United States Is to
ba made large enough at onco to meet
any emergenoy. And the sooner they
get that notice the better' it will be for
all concerned.
THE POETICAL POLITICIANS.
Marie Hanna Writing Verses on the
DcfcafeU Pettisrrerr.
New York dispatch to the Chicago Chron
icle. A merry and rhythmical echo of the
notes of the campaign victory has
reached this city. On last Wednesday
Chairman Hanna, of the Republican Na
tional committee remained quietly at his
home on tho outskirts of Cleveland.
When he arrived at his office in Cleveland
Thursday morning Senator Hanna found
awaiting him a dispatch from William
Barbour, of New York, reading:
Tell me. Mark, oh' tell me true.
Hast thou knocked out Pettlgrew?
As Mr. Hanna had included South Da
kota in his Western tour of speech-making,
and as the defeat of Pettlgrew was
to him, as to thousands of other Repub
licans, one of the most agreeable inci
dents of a sweeping victory, Mr. Hanna
quoted this dispatch to a correspondent
of a New York newspaper, and It was
published In the Thursday edition. It
now appears that Mr. Hanna was tempt
ed Into sending a metrical reply by wire.
Mr. Barbour writes to the editor as fol
lows: "I did not expect to see my telegram to
Senatqr Hanna in the next edition of
your paper. If the leader of the Repub
lican party gave you my maiden verselet
to print. I feel Justified in giving you
his reply, which reads: ,,
Yes, Billy, it Is true.
We have defeated Pettlgrew;
Tour Joy I share with you.
Whoop de doo de doo.
Relative to the Invitation for him to
Join the two weeks' hunting party on
Colonel Wetmore's game preserves In the
mountains In Southern Missouri, Senator
Hanna will not accept William Jennings
Bryan, Colonel James K. Jones, ex-Governor
Stone and other distinguished men
are also invited. "I shall be obliged to
decline the Invitation," said Senator Han
na, "I need rest after the long siege of
the campaign, and .1 propose to stay
right hero in Cleveland to rest .and catch
up with my work until Congress con
venes." i
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
When a well-known actor was asked at an
amateur play which performer he liked best,
he replied: "The prompter; or I saw less
and heard more of him than any one else."
Tit-'Blti.
Bridal Presents as Revenge, "One ef my
rivals played me an awful mean trick."' "What
was It?" "He gave us a lamp, which burns a
half gallon of coal oil every night;" Indian
apolis Journal.
Mrs. Molllgon And shure have yez had the
baby christened ylt? Mrs. Blennfgan I should
say so. The little feller was cryln'. the other
day, and Pat couldn't make him stop, so be
went and played the hose on him. Yonkers
Statesman.
ByJHls Pen. "And you-say.ypu have made
a fortune by your pen?" said the earnest
young man with the literary look. "Yes, sir,"
replied the comfortable person. "And I de
served It. It is one of the best fountain pens
ever put on the market" Washington Star.
Tha Foundation of Alt Prosperity. Reuben
Rallfenee There's people gittin' buncoed every
day in New York. Henry Hoecom That's Jest
what I've always said: "Take away the great
agricultural classes from tha country and the
country and the biz cities couldn't subsist a
month." Puck.
Naturally Made Him Suspicious. "I've given
a little attention to that new clerk of yours,"
remarked the man who wanted to do the clerk
a favor, "and I want to say- that I consider
him a youth who will succeed. I notice he Is
the kind who puts something aside far a rainy
day." "Dear me and I've missed two um
brellas already." 'returned the merchant.
"Sluch obliged for your tip. Til watch, him." J
Galcago evening- Post.
KOfE AND COMMEXr.
People who think they can build fires
rwith dynamite never die In Homes for the
Aged.
Tho author of "Beautiful Snow" is dead,
which saves somebody from committing:
crime.
At any rate. If New York is reformedi
while he is gone, Crokectcan prove am
alibi.
The Prince of Wales hai ceased to
creaso his trousers. He has evidently
given up all hope.
"Coin" Harvey has gone to Arkansas
to live. That la what ATkansaa, gets tor
voting for Bryan.
Mr. Croker aays there may be something
to call him back next Summer. There is
more likely to be something to call him
down.
Jack and Gill slid down a. hilt
Across a street-car traek;
A troley car came whlxxlng past.
Alack, alas alack l
Chicago has shown her generosity by
offering Unolo Sam har drainage canal.
Now let Portland make him a present of
Mount Hood, ,
On thin Ice naw the youngster skates!
A few feet frem the shore: ,
Anon hla family weeps and weeps
Because he Is no more.
A celebrated English physician says that
he has found that warts may be eured by
revacclnation. He rcvacclnated a girl of
15 who had 94 warts on one hand, and
seven weeks after tha operation the wart
bad all disappeared. Many other remedies
had been tried Jn vain.
Rhode Island has finally succeeded in re
ducing Itself to the rank of a state with;
but one capital. Newport, with Its gay
Spring session, has been sacrificed by am
amendment to the constitution adopted
Tuesday. It took about 100, years to brine
It about, however.
The late Lord Chief Justice Russell, sayai
Professor Dicey in the Fortnlshtly Re
view, found his chief relaxation from pro
fessional cares In cardplaylng. He was
one of the most habitual of leisure-hour
cardplayers, where the stakes were large
enough to draw his mind wholly from his
work.
The castle in which 'Oswald d'Aurraena,
a Belgian artist, has offered Mr. Kruger a.
home was built by monks 300 years ago asi
a convent It has had a varied career, a.
former owner having entertained royalty
in It and was bought only a few years
ago by M. d'Aunnene. who Is wealthy, and
restored all the old splendor, besides In
stituting all modern conveniences and
comforts.
The late banker Abraham Wolff, of
New York, whose estate has Just been fig
ured up, left about 2.000.000. And yet he.
was never reckoned among the heavy
millionaires. He began, his career as aa
office boy, without a penny, working hla
way up. He never talked about hla
wealth or splurged with It, but when he
made his will he didn't forget to remi-m-ber
generously every employe In his bank
ing house, from the highest to the lowest.
Some of the principal public libraries In
the country "have added music to their
circulation departments, and with marked!
success. The idea Is spreading now to the
libraries In the smaller cities. Seattle has
Just adopted it, beginning with 200 books
of vocal and instrumental music. In the
Seattle, as In other libraries which have
adopted this'feature, the 'aim lstOencour
age the taste 'for gocd music. Scores oC
the most popular oratorios and light andl
grand operas are the chief feature.
An actress who is now acting in a prcm
inent New" York theater found herself 20
llttje in demand a few years ago that she
was about to abandon all effort to re
main In her profession, learn how to ma
nipulate the typewriter, and seek her
fortune In1 that line of work. Just at the
tjme when her prospects looked darkest
she Inherited a small sum of money whlch
she had never expected to get It proved!
enough to enable her to make a start In
the way she wanted, and after a while she
went to New York, where she "met with,
a degree of success that no actress so lit
tle known had ever enjoyed before.
Maximilian Shinbum, the bank burglar,
who escaped from the New Hampshire
State Prison no lessthan 35 years ago,,
has. but Just now been recaptured. It
may reasonably be doubted It there is an
other case on record where success has:
finally rewarded so long a search for an.
escaped convict, or for any other kind of
a' fugitive from Justice. In this case the
credit of the recapture is probably due to
the wonderful persistency of the Ameri
can Bankers' Association, wbloh has a
fund for the detection and punishment of
these offenders, no matter now prolonged
or hopeless the pursuit o hpwheavy the
expense Involved 'fn conducting it.
"Nevermore I"
S. E. Klser In Chloago Times-Herald
Sitting lonely, looking dreary, with his larynx
raw, and weary
From his talking, talking, talking theretofore;
While he read the awful, solemn figures shown
ln many a column.
Something got to flapping, tapping at his
door
Flapping, tapping and kerslapping at bis door.
And remarking "Nevermore 1"
Putting down the paper sadly, saying: "Ah,
'tis Jones or Adlal.
Come to offer consolation, who Is tapping at
my door I"
"C-come in," he hoarsely stuttered, when be
fore htm darkly fluttered
An old crow that perched upon a plaster bust
above the door
That benim convention bust above the door.
Saying to him, "Nevermore'
Looking at the bird and trying to refrain a
spell from sighing.
He baulred what the message was Jt bore:
"Ah. the people still are true, they .still want
me and silver, do they
Still want me to be their tribune, as before T"
And the bird It croaked the word 'It had so
plainly croaked before,
Whleh was merely "Nevermorel"
Startled and unnerved and broken by reply so
aptly spoken.
His remaining whlsp of hair he madly tore.
And he spluttered and he muttered, and a flood
of sad words uttered,
As hi carpet slippers pattered on the floor,
And the crow eat mildly blinking as he grave
ly paeed the floor.
Always croaking "Nevermorer
"Nay, 'tis false!" he madly shouted, "though
we've been defeated routed
I'll be ready to rush forth again and talk la
nlneteen-fouzi
Still my lungs and nerve shall serve me,
nought shall stop me, nought shall swerve
me
I shall And some other issue and keep leading
as of yore
I will be the people's tribune- and keep talking
as of yore!"
But the bird croaked "Nevermorer
"Shoeel" he cried, "oht leave met leave met
You have come but to deeelve me I
I am stilt the heaven-born leader and will
lead as heretofore
I am ktUl their sacred saint and Z will com
with plea and plaint and
I will speak In silvery accents thay will hear
me and adere '
But he tottered gasping, fainting, as the erot
flew out the doer,
-Sternly croaking "Nevermorel"-
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