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JUTI.AXD, WEDNESDAY, JAX. 23.
Jit is worth rjotiiifr that Governor
tu'-t, of Idalio, ioins in Governor
Be i s rtcorrmendatlon for an overturn
C nsress looking to popular votes
t Urlted States Senators. The reason
lr n this plan Is, of course, convic-
Ibn. that hope of favorably action hy
le Sfiiate Itself Is vain unless some
-mldable expression of opinion can
made from sources which Congress
bound to heed. Resolutions from
any states, while they might not be
iScient to secure a National conven-
Icn tot the purpose, would certainly
.a to Increase the number of Sena
rs fayorable to the reform. Mean-
Ihile, the biennial Senatorial struggles
Legislatures throughout the coun-
y are supplying the usual arguments
om experience. There are deadlocks
fourcapltals, not counting the Ore-
pr. situation, and there is again grave
mgerfchat at least two of the states
rill be .unable to escape one or more
licaocirs in the flfty-seventh Congress.
?re In Oregon the mischief of these
ip.-diruents to legislation has been en-
inred'by extended use of the ortrani-
ktlon I the Legislature in the interest
Senatorial candidates. "We have al-
idy witnessed the spectacle of the
arroprtations Of a session beinc armor-
lonjd among the supporters of a suc-
Bsful aspirant, and now we are called
Ipon to contemplate the use of com
mittee places and clerkship appolnt-
lens to the same sort of end. This
abominable, and the worst of it is
lat we need expect nothing but the
ime procedure every session. It is
ftibtlrss in vain that the sufferers by
he arrangement protest, for if they are
rlumphant next time they will proceed
aienge themselves for this chastlse-
icnt So that the task of Legislative
lection of Senators gains steadily in
(dxious qualities. It has always taken
p the time and Interest of the session.
fow It undertakes to dictate all the
iws and control all appointments. Let
le Legislature pass some bill or other
IrcUding for popular vote on Senators,
nd the Legislature will hardly brave
ublte opinion hardily enough to'dis-
L'gard the mandate.
A. perusal of Representative Watson's
fil'for abolishment of drinking at eat-
.g places leaves one in doubt whether
e Is really aiming at obesity or at the
Indent and honorable American instl-
ttion of the free lunch. It is notorious
Lat the most potent anti-fat remedy
:. w r. to dietetics is complete absten-
ton from liquids at meals, and as Mr.
,"atgon's bill applies to all places -where
y portion of the "general public"
vjikes f nourishment, it is evident
it Itb enforcement will knock off the
ustcmary table beverage of a good
'iare if our citizen? On the other
an L he specifies that if anybody sets
Ut a. free lunch he Is thereby estopped
jm serving liquors with It Since the
agination refuses to contemplate a
t fee rch being seived without the
frf-ldental sale of wherewithal to wash
d-wn tr devotees of the hospitable
Uebu&rd have adequate cause for
r.am Mr "Watson may be right, but
certalni sets at defiance more than
e established tradition of alimentary
-re. Onrt is that small portions of food
kre )j;hly beneflcial to the stomach
lto whlen several gin cocktails or
rhisky str&ights are being introduced
rapid succession; a second is that
ttarci, for example, taken at meals, is
lre beneficla than otherwise, and a
ltd Its thai if a man must drink, he
far better to drink at table than be
tween meals on an empty stomach. All
If these theories Mr. Watson ignores In
Us propt sal to line and imprison those
'ho ser food and alcoholic beverages
gtUier, W hatever moral virtues the
ieasure is designed to inculcate, fair
leaiing 's not among them. He has
fone so far as to make specific inclusion
t boarding-houses in his bill. Although
le hardest-hearted boarder would
Ihrlnk before committing his landlady
o thirty days in the County Jail, it Is
ertheless true that the proposed law
-lI strengthen the grasping nature of
rose rem- imaged housekeepers who
lubstltute weak coffee and ineffectual
lea ior the cup which truly cheers and
imforts Mr Watson should amend
l,s bill, providing appropriate fines and
iprisonment for Roman punch, claret
I up ar.d p.um pudding with brandy
auce.
Queen ictorla has had her wish and
Ived to an advanced old age. But the
Itory of her closing year is one whose
((stressing pathos none can envy. Men-
ll decay had made her hours or a
pod part periods of insensibility, and
rcn when full consciousness returned
ffe was more unhappy to her than In
fbe otver wrotched state. It is a strlk-
:g demonstration In the kindness of
Nature in removing the most of us
before the day comes when we have
"owl the elasticity to rise above reverses.
In Victoria's case, sorrows that come
to nil fell with crushing force upon the
cnfeebied powers that once sustained
similar burder.3 with dignity and grace.
IIuiabM-t's assassination, British de
fenis in Africa and Empress Freder
ick's 'llncss seem to have plunged her
into un ac3tasy of grief and pain. Un
controllable fits of weeping seized upon
nr, and nervous prostration set in.
3he passed sleepless nights, and the
days were made miserable with irre
slst'ble drowsiness. The bitter outcome
o this bootless and dlFtressing strug
g'e was but the inevitable end of ex
treme old age, which spares neither
sanctity nor the fictions of sovereignty
palsy. This melancholy history may
not be altogether true, for it is at Best
but the picture medical experience
could approximately draw of the hu
man frame when taxed to the limit of
four-score years, whose very strength
Is sure to be labor and sorrow. But it
may serve to show us how vain Is the
desire to live beyond our allocted time.
Life is one thing to the alert and vig
orous, but an entirely different thing to
the aged. When the body is w6rn out
and the nerves are exhausted, and the
spirit has failed, and the mind has lost
Its power, the joys that used to delight
have lost their charm, and sorrow falls
with crushing blows to find the heart
defenseless against attack. The will
that carried Victoria through the last
few and bitter years of her reign had
for its justification a fear that her pres
ence could ill be spared. Motive of this
adequacy may sometimes approve
similar determination in others, but for
the most part the wise man would pre
fer, if he could choose, to go when his
work is done, while the sunset light
still streams peacefully through mem
ory's rustling leaves and across a
tranquil sea. rather than to linger on,
helpless and naked to the blasts of a
stormy night.
How old must a man be to be too old
to go to the Senate? Senators, like
.other men, are as old as they feel, and
when they are as able to do things as
younger men, perhaps abler, they 'are
not to be set aside on account of age.
Uncle Shelby Cullom, aged 72, has just
beer, re-elected to the Senate, and the
people of Illinois seem to think they did
the best they could for themselves
when they re-elected him. The Senate
has. In fact, a good many older men
than Culloiri, and none of their com
petitors, so far as we have observed,
has had occasion to complain of their
inability to hold their own. Pettus, for
example, is SO, Morgan Is 77, Ross,
Hoar and Hawley are 75, Piatt of Con
necticut and Stewart are 74, Allison Is
72, Teller, Vest and Jones of Nevada
are 71, Proctor and Frye are 70, Piatt
of New York Is 68, Cockrell and Depew
are 67, Lindsay and Caffrey are 66, and
Hale is 65. In the House, Grew is 83,
Grosvenor 68, Powers 66, Grout atid Joe
Wheeler 65. Five members of the Su
preme Court and three members of the
Cabinet are 65 or over. Tears are, in
fact, a very poor measure of a man's
capacity for effective work. In all Ore
gon there is not a man of any age more
effective in business management, more
sought for advice upon affairs, more
relied upon by friends for help or feared
by competitors, than ex-Senator Cor
bett, whose aspirations for a. return to
the Senate are denounced because he
is too old. A man that is able to do
what Mr. Corbett is doing every day is
not too old for the Senate, and the
pretense that he is so is a mere cloak
to cover selfish Interests that would be
menaced by his election. It proceeds,
too, for the most part, from quarters
that are very vulnerable in the line
where their attacks are conceived.
What has Mr. Corbett done or failed to
do in the First-National Bank of Port
land, in the Water Committee, in the
Public Library, in the Portland Acad
emy, or in his part In the politics of
the state for the past six years, that In
dicates his powers are falling, or that
he is unable to do a full man's work
In the Senate? The answer is, there is
nothing. When a man says Mr. Cor
bett is too old, he is hiding his real
desires behind an Invention, and a very
thin one at that.
JUST RECOGNITION.
The people of the state, and especially
the citizens of older Oregon, will ap
plaud the evident good-will of the pres
ent Legislature toward the Indian War
Veterans, as shown in the prompt re
sponse to the request to further the in
terests of these valiant men of a past
era by providing means for pushing
their pension claims upon the attention
of Congress. While it is a matter of
regret that it should be necessary to
work diligently 't or recognition of serv
ices, the value of which is apparent to
every one who knows anything about
the dangers that beset the early settlers
of the Pacific Northwest through In
dian wars, and which the volunteers,
of whom the handful known as the "In
dian War Veterans" were called out to
avert or suppress, the fact that it Is
thus necessary is apparent. These
claims should be allowed, and allowed
promptly. Men grown old, upon many
of whom the vicissitudes of life press
heavily, cannot afford to wait the dila
tory tactics of unsympathetic Congress
men who have no personal knowledge
of the events of half a century ago.
The mists of time hang heavily between
the present and the period represented
by these gray-bearded veterans, who
In their early manhood went out to de
fend their homes against the savage
foe of the frontier. Men born and
brought up under conditions essentially
different from those of the border;
born, perhaps, since the period of In
dian wars in the Pacific Northwest has
ceased, can scarcely be expected to
realise the conditions under which these
Indian War Veterans earned what they
ask In their petition to Congress. They
are not indifferent to the demands of
justice, as some sore-hearted veterans,
weary with liope deferred, have
charged. Thej simply know nothing
about the matter except in the most
cursory way, and it does not appeal to
them as essentially important.
While our Representatives in Con
gress have from time to time made ear
nest and loyal endeavor in behalf of
the Indian War Veterans claims upon
the General Government, they have not
been able to bring the matter to a suc
cessful Issue, The - auxiliary effort
sanctioned by the present Legislature
will, it is thought, supply the missing
link between the past and present, and
give vitality to the question, of which
it has been sapped by the long drainage
of year,s. One has only to be a- loyal
Oregonlan, appreciative of and enjoying
the blessings of peace and plenty, of
home and civilization made possible by
the valor of those of w"h'om the small
number of men known as Indian War
Veterans are representatives, to Insure
his Interest in this latest phase of the
attempt to secure pensions for these
volunteer soldiers of a former era, the
remaining few
Against -whose familiar names not jet
The fatal asterisk of death Is set.
And to hope that the remaining years
of each of these will be brightened and
made comfortable by recognition that
it Is but human nature to desire, and
aid that some of them, 'at least, sorely
need.
OUTLOOK FOR THE SEW REIGN.
Albert Edward, who, under the title
of Edward VII, succeeds to the English
throne, will be 60 years of age in No
vember next. He has inherited his dis
tinguished father's talent for easy and
tactful speech on all public occasions;
he Is a man of dignified and attractive
personal presence, of polished manners
and charming temper; he possesses
much of his mother's fine taste for art
and music, and altogether the new
King is sure to be a popular sovereign.
He was carefully educated In his youth,
and his mind has been enlarged by
travel. He visited the United States
and Canada In 1860, and was received
with distinguished Tionors in all the
great cities of our land. During the
early years of his married life he was
reputed to be somewhat -given to riot
ous living. If he erred in this respect,
he soon repented, for he has borne him
self with dignity and self-restraint for
many years. It Is probable that his
early errors were exaggerated, as they
are apt to be under the fierce light that
always beats upon the throne. It Is
certainly true that for more than a
quarter of a century our eminent Amer
ican statesmen who visited England In
private or public capacity have brought
home nothing but golden opinions of
the Prince o? Wales. Our Minister to
England under President Cleveland, the
late E. J. Phelps, a man of great per
sonal dignity amd refined manners, was
never weary of bearing testimony to
the public and private worth of the
Prince of Wales, whom he described
as a man of superior public talents
and charming manners, whose natural
gifts and accomplishments would have
daslly obtained for him recognition in
a private station. Mr. Phelps was an
excellent Judge of men and a severe
critic, and his estimate of the Prince of
Wales may be accepted as a Just meas
ure, of the man.
Under these circumstances, Great
Britain is sure to suffer no loss of pub
lic respect through the personal char
acter and conduct of the new monarch.
He will be sure to behave as "the first
gentleman in Europe" should. He is
on excellent terms of long personal ac
quaintance with his present Prime Min
ister, Lord Salisbury. He Is a social
favorite with all ranks of his subjects,
with the possible exception of the black
and yellow political wasps that compose
the Irish lrreconcilables in the British
Parliament. He is on terms of warm
personal friendship with his nephew,
the Emperor of Germany, and with his
wife's nephew, the Emperor of Russia,
whose, wife is the King of England's
niece, 'being the daughter of his sis
ter, the late Princess Alice. There are
no serious clouds upon the political
sky of Europe that forecast any stormy
times for the empire in the near future.
Great Britain has in Germany a firm
ally, should France ever be reckless
enough to break the peace, and so long
as the present Emperor of Russia lives
the attitude of Russia to Great Britain
is sure to be at least conciliatory.
There is small prospect that the peace
of Europe will be broken for many
years, as It Is the policy of both Ger
many and Russia to prevent war.
The attitude of Great Britain to
America is sure to be friendly, for our
points of contact with Canada involve
no probable discord that could not be
easily quieted through peaceful nego
tiation. The teasing guerrilla war in
South Africa will continue to plague
Great Britain for some months to come,
but it is sure to expire when the Eng
lish secure reinforcements of mounted
men, and perhaps before that time;
since there Is no prospect of European
intervention, and ceaseless warfare
must exhaust the ammunition and
horseflesh of the Boers. In India there
is peace and content; in China there
will not soon again be serious war. If
the new King lives fifteen years, as he
Is likely to, for he comes of a long
lived race, he Is not likely in that time
to see the tranquillity of his reign
broken by any serious war abroad or
by any violent political agitation at
home, equal to that which constantly
plagued his mother's reign in the "re
form" administrations of Gladstone.
The Irish home rule question has been
dying of creeping paralysis since
Gladstone disappeared from active pub
lic life, and nothing of equal virulence
is likely to take its place. Great Brit
ain is likely to be occupied, like Amer
ica and the great powers of Continental
Europe, with "the readjustment of races
and conditions and of the globe's gov
ernment to enlightened civilization."
The health of the new King has al
ways been erood, save an attack of
typhoid fever many years ago, and a
comparatively recent lameness, due to
an accident, which, however, has yield
ed to surgical treatment. In event of
his death, he would be succeeded by
his son, George Frederick, Duke of
York, who Is now about 35 years of
age. The forecast for the new reign
is, on the whole, flattering for public
satisfaction and happiness at home; for
peace and good will abroad.
TVHY TIIE YANKEE BOY LEAVES
THE PARJI.
In a recent public address, "Adiron
dack" Murray, a gifted but erratic
man, said:
It Is not the fault of the children that has
caused the dear old homesteads of New Ens
land to pass to alien ownership, but "because
those children were taught by precept and ex
ample the love of greed, the pride of station,
and that the right thins for a boy to do was
to so forth into the world as far from the old
home as possible, and anywhere, anyhow, be
come beastly rich and as quickly as possible.
Mr. Murray was always poetic-minded,
never practical; he has been every
thing by turns, but nothing long; he
began life on a Connecticut farm, and
he was quick to leave the farm at the
first opportunity. Energetic, aspiring,
adventurous Yankee boys do not like to
live In a narrow-minded community,
Where the system of representation Is
an outrage on popular .government and
makes the Legislature a. breeding-place
of sentimental sumptuary legislation.
Last November the State Attorney at
Burlington, Vt, applied to the court for
temporary injunctions against about
J Xprty drug stores and aalooiyj la hat
city. Among the owners of property
agalnsi whom action is brought under
the prohibitory liquor law are ex-Governor
Woodbury, Professor V. G. Bar
bour, of the University of Vermont; a
president of a savings bank, and the
vice-president of another, the present
City Treasurer, while many of the
druggists charged with being common
sellers of liquor hold positions of re
sponsibility and are classed among
most intelligent and upright men of
business in the state. The property
owners decline to be classed as crim
inals, on the declaration of the State
Attorney, who has ujj to the present
time failed to convict one in ten of the
men he now charges with violation of
the law. ,
The cheap, petty legal prosecutors
live out of this rigorous prohibitory
law, and resist its reform always at
the Legislature, because Its replace
ment by a license law would cut oft
the revenue which they now obtain hy
an enormous number of petty prosecu
tions, since the state pays the prose
cuting officer his fees whether his
prosecution fails or succeeds. The very
same Legislature that at its last ses
sion refused to let the people vote on
the question of license "killed a bill pro
hibiting the granting of free railroad
passes to the Judges of the Supreme
Court. Something like two-thirds of
the towns of the state have lost ground
during the last ten years. The gain
of 11,219 in population during the past
decade for the whole state is confined
to a very few cities and towns. Bur
lington and Barre gained 8352 of the
whole growth, and Montpeller 2000,
which absorbs nearly all the net in
crease for the past ten years. Four of
the fourteen counties have a smaller
population than in 1830. Here we have
a state that is clearly declining outside
of three or four towns, which repre
sent the lumber, granite and marble
interests. Nevertheless, this declining
state is admirably adapted to grazing;
its Intervale farms In the Valley of
Lake Champlain and the Connecticut
River are as fine for general agricul
ture and frultraislng as there are In
New England.
Why should this agricultural state
have more abandoned farms in propor
tion to its agricultural population than
Massachusetts? Massachusetts, with a
far poorer soil, has but 711 out of 45,010
farms reported as abandoned farms.
The value of agricultural property In
Massachusetts In 1895 was $110,271,859,
exclusive of buildings, which repre
sented a value of $77,920,357, while the
annual value of all products was about
$55,000,000. Massachusetts is the rich
est state in New England, and of course
does not owe her growth in population
to her agricultural advantages, which
are small and mean compared with
those of Vermont. Nevertheless, there
is not the same flight from the farms
Of Massachusetts as from Vermont,
because the State of Massachusetts is
far more liberally and intelligently gov
erned. The flight from the farm is not
altogether because of what Mr. Mur
ray terms "the love of greed"; it is due
to a natural love of social freedom; of
free air purified from the miasma of a
rotten marsh of decayed and decaying
Puritanism.
Consular reports show that the conse
quences of the disturbances in China
are being seriously, felt In the silk and
tea trade in various commercial cen
ters of the Old World. The Chinese
production of silk in 1900 is estimated at
4.500,000 kilograms (9,920,7 JO pounds).
This in itself is not a bad showing, but
the uncertain conditions of business
make it rather risky to Import Chinese
goods. This, as stated by Consul
Hughes, of Coburg, has created a great
demand at Lyons for Syrian silk goods.
Unfortunately, the present silk cop in
Turkey 's not very gjod. so that a
sharp rise in prices is probable. The
tea trade is In a similar position. The
large hou-jes that import are well pro
vided, but there is a scarcity of freight
steamers to load cargoes. Insurance
companies have refused to take riss
on Chinese goods, while banks have
ceased to advance money on this kiad
of merchandise. The Ceylon tea plan
tations will benefit by these condition.',
and, as usual in all trade disturbances,
from whatever cause, the consumer
pays the difference.
While the people of some of the cities
of Montana shared the general discon
tent of urban citizens in most of the
pretentious municipalities of the coun
try at the showing of population made
by the late census enumerators, those
of the entire state are rejoicing in the
fact that there are- eleven times as
many people in Montana as there were
in 1870. The increase in the last decade
was 84 per cent, while during the last
decade of territorial government the in
crease was 237.5 per cent. Practically
speaking, Montana has been populated
since 1870. In that year the entire
state contained but 20,695 people less
by nearly 10,000 than the City of Butte
now possesses. The last census shows
a population of 243,329 as the advance
made In thirty years in this part of the
"Great American Desert" of half a
century ago. The fact that this num
ber represents an average of but 1.7
persons to the square mile Indicates
the vastness in area and possibilities of
population in this great Rocky Moun
tain State.
King Edward, in company with the
Duke of Newcastle, made a visit to the
United States in 1860. He was then In
His 19th year. On the occasion of the
Prince's visit to Boston, October 18, 1860,
an International ode, composed by Oli
ver Wendell Holmes, was sung in uni
son by 1200 children. The second verse
of this ode was as follows:
Father, with loving caro
Guard Thou her kingdom's heir,
Guide all his ways;
Thine arm his shelter be.
From him by land and sea
Rid atorm and danger flee.
Prolong: his days!
Since Hanna thinks the result of the
last election was a personal vindication
of himself rather than a ratification
of McKlnley, It Is easy to see why he is
so obtrusive with his ship bill.
It Is palpable that that West Point
cadet who was insolent before the Con
gressional committee has not been
hazed into a gentleman.
McKlnley Is afraid to receive anybody
until he has entirely recovered. Evi
dently he is more afraid of grip reme
dies than of the grip.
If JL .W. Corbett had' more rela
tions, Senator McBride might regard
him An an eligible successor.
CHARLES DICKENS OX EXECUTIONS
The method of celebrating the past cen
tury chosen by the London Times was to
publish an edition containing an extract
from its awn columns of tvery one of the
hundred years, making a record of novel
ty and interest. For the year 1849 there
appears the following letter from Charles
Dickens, Illustrating his characteristic
power of feeling and expression in the
highest degree. It gives a tremendous
picture of the fearful scenes that In those
days surrounded a public execution:
"To the Editor of the Times Str: I was a
witness of the execution at Horsemonger
Lane this morning. I went there with the
intention of observing the crowd gathered
to behold it, and I had excellent oppor
tunities of doing so. at Intervals all
through the nigh, and continuously from
daybreak until after the spectacle was
over.
"I do not address you on the subject
wita any intention of discussing the ab
stract question of capital punishment, or
Any of the arguments of its opponents or
advocates. I simply wish to turn tills
dreadful experience to some account for
the general good, by taking the readiest
and most public means of advertising to
an intimation given by Sir G. Grey in the
last session of Parliament, that the Gov
ernment might be induced to give its sup
port to a measure making the infliction of
capital punishment a private solemnity
within the prison walls (with such guar
antees for the last sentence of the law
being inexorably and surely administered
as suould be satisfactory to the public at
large), and of most earnestly beseeching
Sir G. Grey as a solemn duty which he
owes to society and a responsibility which
he cannot forever put away, to originate
such a legislative change himself.
I believe that a sight so inconceivably
awful as the wickedness and levity of
the immense crowd collected at that ex
ecution could be Imagined by no man, and
could be presented In no heathen land
under the sun. The horrors of the gibbet
and of the crime which brought the
wretched murderers to it faded in my
mind before the atrocious bearing, looks
and language of the assembled specta
tors. when I came upon the scene at mid
night, the shrillness of the cries and the
hows that were raised from time to time,
denoting that they came from a concourse
of hoys and girls already assembled in the
best places, made my blood run cold. As
the night went on, screeching and laugh
ing and yelling in strong chorus of paro
dies on negro melodies, with substitutions
of "Mrs. Manning" for "Susannah," and
the like, were added to these. When the
day dawned -thieves, low prostitutes, ruf
fians and vagabonds of every kind flocked
to the ground with every variety of of
fensive, and foul behavior, fightings,
falntlngs, whistlings, imitations of Punch,
brutal jokes, tumultuous demonstrations
of Indecent delight when swooning wom
en were dragged out of the crowd by the
poSlce with their dresses disordered, gave
a new zest to the general entertainment.
"When the sun rose brightly as it did
It gilded thousands upon thousands of
upturned faces, so inexpressibly odious in
their brutal mirth or callousness, that a
man had cause to feel ashamed of the
shape he wor and to shrink from him
self, as fashioned In the image of tne
devil. When the two miserable creatures
who attracted all thl ghastly sight about
them were turned quivering into the air,
there was no more emotion, no mora pity,
no more thought that two immortal souls
had gone to Judgment, no more restraint
in any of the previous obscenities, than
if tho name of Christ had never been
heard In this world, and there were no be
lief among men but that they perished
like the beasts.
"I have seen, habitually, some of the
worst sources of general contamination
and corruption In this country, and I
think there are not many phases of Lon
don life that could surprise me. I am
solemnly convinced that nothing that in
genuity could devise to bo done ia this
city, in the same compass of time, could
work sunh ruin as one public execution,
and I stand astounded and appalled by
tne wickedness it exhibits.
"I do not beHIeve that any community
can prosper where such a scene of horror
and demoralization as was enacted fchds
morn'ng outs'.do Horsemonger lane jail
is presented at the very doors of good
citizens, and is passed by. unknown or
forgocten. And when, in our prayers and
thanksgivings for tha season, we are hum
bly ex;-esslng before God our desire to re
move the moral evils of the land, I would
ask y;uT readers to consider whether it
is not time to think of this one, and to
root it out. I am. sir. your faithful ser-vant.--Charles
Dickens, Devonshire Ter
race, Tuesday, November 13, 1S49."
TRIBUTE TO OULLOM.
He Is 72 but Ham No Mors Competent
Rival J.
Chicago Journal.
The triumph of Senator Cullom is a
triumph of clean politics. Mr. Cullom's
friends went into this fight for him to
win It, and their methods were fair and
above board. The management of his
campaign by Messrs. Ames and Bethea
was masterly. Their initial step of se
curing the pledges of 64 good men to vote
for their candidate did the business. The
routed candidates have nothing to com
plain of. Their simultaneous retirement
In the face of the Inevitable was the
only graceful step for them to take.
During the period preceding the cau
cus of yesterday that nominated Mr. Cul
lom there was much of the customary
wild talk, most of It based on the amount
of money that candidates were supposed
ly prepared to spend. It has ended, as
usual, in air. The choice of Mr. Cullom
proves, If It proves nothing else, that an
Illinois SenatorshIp is an nonor not to oe
acquired by .purchase. It is an honor to
be bestowed on the best man available,
and in this case the best man has se
cured it.
There is comfort for the retiring candi
dates if they view the event in the correct
spirit. Congressman HItt's speech be
fore the caucus proves that he does so.
HItt would have made an admirable Sen
ator, but both he and Mr. Cannon know
that there are other spheres in which they
can be equally useful. Ex-Governor Tan
ner retires with the frankly expressed
statement that he has no favors to ask of
anybody. That is well. The ex-Governor's
friends are to blame for having deluded
themselves and him Into the belief that
he could be chosen, and Mr. Tanner now
knows that he was not wanted for Sena
tor on any terms. Therefore his retire
ment was Judicious.
Senator Cullom's long public record ,is
a record crowded with honors. As Con
gressman, Governor and Senator his ca
reer is part of the history of Illinois. Dur
ing his 18 years as Senator he has been
a credit to the state. There is no man
more competent to guard Its interests
in the legislative councils of the country.
It would have been unwise to retire him.
Stupendous Financiering.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The U principal companies engaged in
various forms of steel manufacture have
outstanding a total of $739,468,100 of com
mon and preferred stock. The Carnegie
Company has, in addition, $160,000,000 of
bonds, so that the total capitalization of
these 11 companies is $929,468,100. or very
close to $1,000,000,000. If It be true, as re
ported, that there Is a scheme for unit
ing these companies In some 3uch way
"as Is going on among railroads an idea
may be obtained of the colossal dimen
sions of modern financiering. Think of
underwriting a $1,000,000,000 scheme.
Kept His Word for Him.
Toledo Times.
It seems that when he was re-elected to
the Senate six years ago Senator Chandler
promised that he would not again be a
candidate. After thinking the matter over
he changed his mind, but the people of
New Hampshire kept his word for him.
JUST ARRAIGNMENT OF LYNCH LAW
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The lynching of the negro. Alexander,
at Leavenworth was as atrocious in its
incidents as any occurrence of this na
ture In the history of the country. It Is
the more atrocious ior the reason that
the deed was enacted In a community
where churches, schools, an educated
and moral public opinion, and all the
outward badges and indicia of civiliza
tion and morality are to "be found. The
seizure of the prisoner from the officers
of the law and his trial and execution by
mob law, without barbarous accompani
ments, would have been a sufficiently de
plorable event to happen in such a pro
fessedly law-abiding community. The
fiendish punishment and torture Inflicted
upon the prisoner could scarcely be ex
celled by the diabolical Ingenuity of a sav
age tribe. Are barbarism and savagery
still latent in every American community?
The Leavenworth affair casts distrust up
on our boasted civilization. The repeti
tion of these shocking spectacles In our
most "advanced" states 1b a sorry com
ment upon American reverence for law
and respect-for the orderly processes of
the courts. When thousands of "citi
zens" go out to witness the burning at
the stake of a trembling wretch, as at
'Denver and Leavenworth, we feel that
large deductions should be made from our
progress during the century, upon which
we have been recently felicitating our
selves. During the last vear there were nearly
as many lynchlngs as lpgal executions In
the United States. The severity of the
criminal law seems to havo little influ
ence as a deterrent of lynchlngs. These
take place frequently in states where capi
tal punishment is Inflicted for murder and
for other crimes as well. Mob vengeance
Is In evidence, too, in populous commu
nities, in cities where the civil and. If need
be, the military power can be summoned
to thwart the mob. The tendency of the
civil authorities to rely on the military
and prevent lynchlngs probably explains
the hesitation and delays of Sheriffs In
taking proper measures to prevent these
disgraceful occurrences. For some rea
son they are very much more frequent
in the United States than they 'are m
European countries that have reached
our state of enlightenment If It is said
that capital punishment does not pre
vent crime. It can be said with equal
force that lynching, even with the most
atrocious and brutal concomitants, aoe
not stop fiendish crime.
It is a monstrous error to hold that
crime can be checked by committing oth
er crimes In the punishment of it. Thu
men who inflicted the horrible, unlawful
punishment upon Alexander were them
selves criminals. And thef S0OO people who
went out to see the public burning of a
human being "half a dozen blocks away
from the center" or the City of Leaven
worth were. In contemplation of law, aid
lng and abetting the horror. A whole
community carmot be punished, of course.
The Immediate participants in the busi
ness will also probably escape punish
ment. The law will break down from the
magnitude of work Imposed upon It In this
Instance. There will be a failure of Jus
tice. This was the very pretext which
the mob excused itself with In taking the
prisoner out of the custody of the law
to be burned. The Governor of the state,
smarting under the disgrace which has
been visited upon his Jurisdiction, has in
structed the Attorney-General to investi
gate the conduct of the Leavenworth
Sheriff in connection with the lynching,
and a reward has been offered for the
discovery of any one Implicated in the
affair. Lvnchers are rarely arrested and
punished.
Humility of London Tradespeople.
New York Evening Sun.
"Never did I feel to the full the prestige
of my nation," said an American, "as
in London a few years ago while the
guest of our embassy there. A member
of the family and myself started out one
morning on a shopping tour. At one shop
my companion ordered a number of
thlrigs to be charged and sent home the
address she gave, thanks to Uncle Sam3
providing no ofllclal residence to his Am
bassadors, conveying nothing to the
tradesman's mind. 'Beg pardon. Miss,
he said, his native subserviency Just
tinged with native Impertinence, 'but you
said charged, didn't you? What name
please?' 'The Embassy of the United
States,' she replied. You should have
seen that tradesman. He didn't fall on
the floor and ask us to walk over him,
but I shouldn't have been surprised at
anything. When the English are
"umble,' they are so very, very "umble.'
Oh, Miss," cried the tradesman, fairly
salaaming in his emotion. 'I only asked
what name because I thought you was
the Duchess of , and you see. Miss,
I wanted to be quite sure. Miss.' Could
anything have been more characteristic?
He thought he could atone for everything
by taking her for a titled dame who, In
this particular Instance, happened to be
a professional beauty as well. Both she
ana I were content to know that his true
reason was the unchallenged credit of
Uncle Sam."
A Vision of Jodgment.
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The New York Evening Post has been
doing for the City of New York a work
similar to that done by the Times some
30 years ago when the latter exposed the
robberies of the Tweed gang. The Post
has carried through a fearless and care
ful investigation of the accounts of Ave
city departments, which show that under
Tammany rule the expenditures for three
years, 1898 to 1900 inclusive, have been
$23,500,000 In excess of those of the three
years precedirig, and there is abundant
evidence that a very large share of this
has gone to enrich Croker and his con
federates. It has been said that Croker
will not again return frdm England.
Perhaps means may ere long be found of
bringing him back as Tweed was brought
back from Spain in manacles.
Dave Henderson on His Dignity.
Sioux City Tribune.
Speaker Henderson does not accept invi
tations to dinner nowadays until he is
assured what seat he is to occupy at the
table. He explains that he 13 not proud,
but proposes to vindicate the claims of
the exalted position he occupies in the
Nation, Time was when Dave Henderson
would have eaten pork and beans with a
knife at a Grand Army of the Republic
campflre and satisfied himself with the
reflection that where MacGregor sat there
was the head of the table, provided only
that MacGregor, by a properly democrat
ic behavolr among the voters of an un
comfortably close district, could turn up
on -the right side of the plurality column
on election day. And MacGroger alwaj'3
did.
Boll It Down.
(Selected.)
Whateer you have to say, my friend,
Whether witty, or grave, or gay.
Condense as much as -ever you can.
And say it the readiest way;
And whether you write of rural affairs,
Or matters and things in town.
Just take a word of friendly advlco
Boll It down
For if you eo splutterine over a page,
"When a couple of lines would do,
Your butter Is spread, so much, you seu.
That tho bread looks plainly through;
So, when you have a story to tell.
And would like a little renown.
To make quite sure of your wish, my friend.
Soil It down.
When writing An article for the press,
Whether prose or, verse. Just try
To settle your thoughts in the fewest words,
And let them be crisp 2nd dry;
And when it is finished, and you suppose
It Is done exactly "brown.
Just look it over again, and then
Boil it down.
For editors do not like to print
An article lazily long.
And the general reader does not caro
Tor a couple of yards of sons;
So gather your wits In the smallest space,
If you want a little renown.
And every time you write, my friend,
Boll it dorm. .
NOTE. AND COMMENT.
Long live the King!
It would appear that Mr. Bryan would
rather write than be President
Luckily, whenever the British suffer a
reverse they have reason for It.
Are the detectives who have scared
away Pat Crowe properly scarecrows?
Roosevelt's yellow-Journal reporter evi
dently has hard work keeping up with
him.
The Kansas news in the Lincoln Com
moner ought to be a star feature theso
strenuous days.
If a message from Mars should reach us
by way of the Philippines or South Af
rica, would It be censored?
The knowledge that "a millionaire's wed
'dlng will be "featured" by the yellow pa
pers adds a new pang to riches.
It remains for Hon. Matthew Stanley
Quay to make a cat look like a dead duck
in the matter of a superabundance of
lives.
Roosevelt Is shooting mountain lions,
and Cleveland, ducks, but as this is the
close season for octopl. Bryan has to stay
at home.
The sole representatives of free silver
at present seem to be W. J. Bryan and
Stanford University, and the latter Is con
valescing. The Boors appear to have more Generals
than the British, which, perhaps, explains
the heavy odds against whioh Kitchener
is struggling.
Jamaica 'legislators are pledged to'reslst"
Joseph Chamberlain's colonial policy.
Their constituents are encouraged by the
success of the Boers.
Why pay a German Prince"$18.000 a year
to be King of Holland when any number
of live American politicians would take
the job for half that amount?
The Filipinos are beginning to ask the
Government at Washington for seeds.
The seeds of discontent, which they re
ceived from Boston, they were apparently
unable to use.
Between the citizens of Leavenworth
and Mrs. Nation, the people of Kansas
are getting almost as muoh entertainment
as in the days when Rev. Mr. Sheldon was
running the Topeka Capital.
Now that Tesla is going to communicate
with Mars, there is an opportunity for
some Inventor to devise an airless ship to
journey thither, and a lungless man to
travel on It. The latter. It need not be
stated, cannot be constructed out of a
politician. ,
The King of Italy, himself a very early
riser, walked into tho office of administra
tion of the royal household the other
morning at 8, and found only a scrub
woman at work. He asked the first clerk,
who arrived at 9:30, when the other clerks
were due. "We are all due at 8, your
Majesty." "Ah, and It Is now 9:30," re
marked the King quietly. Since then
there has not been a case of tardiness.
Talk about the Kansas cyclone, with Its devastating-
might.
Shedding barns and calves and fence posts
as It goes.
Ripping up whole tracts of country, spreading
ruin left and rlrht.
As it shrieks and howls and tears and roars
. andblows, -It's
a mild and gentle zephyr In its potency
for HI.
And as harmless as the balmy Summer air.
When compared with Mrs. Nation. If you
doubt it. wait until
That lady goes upon another tear.
Then hurrah for Mrs. Nation, with her ac
curate right arm
She can give a Kansas cyclone cards and
spades, and do more harm.
There Is wailing down in Wichita; the dreaded
Demon Rum
Has hustled home In haste to hunt its hole.
And venders of intoxicants And trade is on tho
bam.
While shattered is the erstwhile flowing
bowl;
And heavy beveled mirror glass, that once so
brightly shone
Behind the grand mahogany back bar,
Is shivered into atoms, and the ground around
is strewn
"With decimated bottles near and far.
Then here's to you, Mrs. Nation; you're an
antiquated lass.
But you fade the Swedish maidens when it
comes to smashing glass.
In tho barrooms of old Kansas there is palsy
shaken fright
For they nevor know where lightning next
will strike.
Not a ginmill-keeper dares so much as show a
single light.
For fear that Carrie's coming up the plxe.
She has got her brickbats with her, and pro
jected from her hand
They speed with most unerring, deadly aim.
If thev fall to smash the things on which tho
gentle Carri planned
They are sure to nail some other, bigger
game.
Then here's to you. Mrs. Nation, for your
rnarksmashlp's Immense.
And you've got the liquor traffic looking worse
than 30 cents.
Oh! the streets are running whisky, and tho
barkeeps weep and wail,
For they thought they had her finished long
But they could not hope to hold her with a
common Kansas Jail,
And she's not an easy quitter, nit. not, nol
She has gat the pleasant memory of days be
hind the bars
To urge her on to action strenuous,
And the liquor men she meets with now may
thank their lucky stars
If they are left with breath enough to cuss.
Then here's to you, Mrs. Nation, and here's
health to whisky, loo.
But In Kansas there's not room enough to
hold the both of you.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
Agreed. Mistress More bric-a-brac broken.
This Is very annoying. Maid Yes, ma'am.
That's Just what I said when I knocked It
over. Puck.
Probabilities. "Will nothing Induce you to
change your mind and marry V he asked".
"Another man might," she replied. Philadel
phia North American.
Teacher (suspiciously) Who wrote your com
position, Johnny? Johnny My father. Teach
erWhat, all of It7 Johnny No'm; I helped
him. Tlt-Blts.
Palliating It. "But ma. Uncle John eats
with his knire." "Hush, dear. Uncle John la
rich enough to eat with a Are shovel If ho
prefers It." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
False Beacon Lights. "But she looks so con
fiding!" "That's Just what" makes her so hor
rid. When you get to know her, you discover
that she has nothlnr to confide!'' Brooklyn
Life.
Maligned. Hungry Hugglns Wot do you
think? A woman called me a animated scare
crow this mornln. Weary Watklns I'vo
knowed you sence the early eighties, but Z
never seen no animation about you yet In
dianapolis Press.
Rival Wedding Bells. Miss Beale (to her
rival) It looks as though wedding bells will
soon ring for you and the Count. Ethel, dear.
Ethel (the successful one) Yes, darllntr. and I
hope they will ring for you before aaoth.tr cen
tury. Harlem Life.
A Surface Indication. "Lucy has gone away
to boarding school." said one East End girt
to another. "So I heard." "But 1 don't think
it'a a very high-toned school." "Why?" "Be
cause It has terms Instead of semesters."
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.