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lORTLAAD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15
I Elsewhere In today's issue appears a
penchant communication on the sub-
-1 f the dental bill before the Legls-
Iturc. The Oregonlan is in entire svm-
uhy With "Fair Play." and under-
kkes to say that he puts the "recru-
Lrs ' hors du combat The medical and
r.al professions have both adoDted
to scrfst less and pernicious dogma that
licrtislng is "unprofessional," but in
pr tlrr they are all glad enough to get
Iver-i-slng provided it is free. The
y r Jffs that are immoral are those
hat th- aderttaer honestly nays for.
doctors and dentists of skill and char
ter a'l.rtise in The Oregonian. and
li'ts fir malpractice, which afford a
Ignificant test of efllcience, are seldom
rught against them, often against the
:n-ad ertlsers. There is no more sense
li doctors or dentists refusing to ad-
crtlse than for lawyers or bankers or
phouls or churches.
The Bellinger code bill, passed by
l:e Senate, 22 to 5, is in every -way a
referable plan to the commission
bheme. As to the details of the pro-
:Eal and Its merits as to the work of
rintlng and publishing, The Oregonian
not sufficiently apprised to speak
th confidence; but as to the advisabil-
ly of a new oede and as to the pre
pinent fitness of Judge Bellinger to do
lie work, no doubt whatever can exist
any quarter. Probably no man con-
rted with the Oregon bar is more
r.rthy tj perpetuate the labors of
kady and Hill than Judge Bellinger.
Is a lawyer he was indefatigable and
templars; as a Judge he is without
ar or favor and above reproach. His
tme Is sufficient guarantee of accuracy
:d merit in the new code. It is gratl-
lng that with much of legislation im-
Icd by the Senatorial fight, the Sen-
fce has recognized this good work and
ie House will doubtless concur without
Innecessary delay.
If certain Senators, Morgan of Ala-
lma among them, had known as much
rrll 19, 1S9S, as they know today, they
fculd not now And themselves in the
fkward Inconsistency betrayed In ut-
hr contradiction of their vote upon the
?claratIon of war. There were Sena-
brs who resisted the demand of Turpie,
leller, Mason and others to recognize
:e non-existent Cuban Government;
it they all agreed to the clauses of the
claration of war that make us trouble
iW. For example:
ISec 4. That the United States hereby dlc
alms any disposition or Intention to exercise
Jvcrelirntj , Jurisdiction or control
cr said Island, except for the pacification
creef, and asserts its determination when
l&t Is accomplished to leave the government
iJ control of the island to its people.
Obviously, it Is a bad mess. Mr. Mor-
xn Is right when he says we need
saling and naval stations and forts
prcg the southern coast of Cuba, but
Is wrong in supposing that we can in
;mmcn honesty proceed to demand
lem. "Whatever exigency we are in,
id faith is no way out of it. A
lUltltude of reflections crowd upon the
Lied in contemplation of this awkward
tuatlon. One is that our irresponsible
:r.ate is inferior as a working body
the House of Commons, with its au
critative Cabinet, which determines
: Ilcics upon reflection. Another is that
the heat of declaration of war the
lest intention will go astray through
Irk of forethought and deliberation,
bt a, apparently, must be turned adrift.
e can only hope that annexation will
rrcal to her as the profitable course.
lo this end. Congress should withhold
irlff concessions she could rightfully
fcniand as a part of the "United States.
The r -rrunatlon of General Frederick
e'-t Grant to be Brigadier-General in
:e regular Army is without justlflca-
Icn He is a great soldiers son. and
lat Is his sole claim to consideration.
te was graduated from "West Point In
F"l, anl served on his father's staff
:1 v.n General Sherman's staff until
pi, whtn he returned to civil life. He
fas Minster to Austria. His record
tuslcess life and political life as Po-
?e Commissioner of New York City
ught him no reputation as a man of
rcrgj cr capacity. "When he resigned
P Acq Commissioner he was regard-
as a complete failure, as a soldier,
a man of business and as a public
Ifica'' He has won no reputation in
ie Philippines that justifies his being
ken practically from civil life and
tared oer hundreds of officers in
rery way better fitted in experience
id training for the position. The ap-
aintment of Dr. Leonard "Wood and
iptaln J F. Bell to the rank of Briga-
ler-General is certainly inexcusable
am the Army point of view, but the
?pv!ntment of Fred D. Grant is worse
this, that it is contemptible, for he is
man o no ability, while General
"Woodarfd,Jeneral Bell are at least men
of sqch mental capacity and military
abilityrJ-General "Wood's rise from an
Assistant Surgeon in the regular Army
to that oCBrigadier-General has no pre
cedent since 1S61, when Assistant Sur
geon S. "W. Crawford, U. S. A., who was
part of the,&arrison of Fort Sumter un
der Major Kobert Anderson, when It
was fired upon, In April of that year,
was made Major of the Thirteenth In
fantry, and at the close of the war was
a division commander In the Fifth
Corps of the Army of the Potomac.
General George Sykes used to allude
sarcastically to Crawford as his "Surgeon-General."
General J. Franklin
Bell is an able and efficient soldier, but
It was gross injustice to Jump a junior
Captain of Cavalry over 1032 officers of
longer service. For the promotion of
Dr. "Wood there Is no excuse. He com
manded a volunteer cavalry regiment
three weeks: he is an able sanitary en
gineer, a good civil administrator and
organizer, but these facts furnish no
good reason why an Army doctor
should be made a Brigadier-General In
the regular Army. The nominations of
Grant, Bell and "Wood ought not to have
been confirmed, but the responsibility
for the great wrong of their nomination
rests upon the President and his mili
tary adviser. General Corbin.
In a recent discussion between United
States Senator George F. Hoar and
United States Senator Turner, the lat
ter, referring to Senator Frye, of Maine,
said:
He is so cheerful and optimistic of spirit
that he can only be compared to the country
man mentioned In the Flush Times of Ala
bama and Georgia, who. In relating a fight
which he had had with a neighbor, said: "I
gently Inserted my nose between his teoth and
bore him to the ground."
Mr. Hoar Mr. President, -nlll my honorable
friend allow me to say In justice to John
Phoenix that that -was the celebrated fight be
tween John Phoenix and the editor of the San
Diego paper.
Mr. Turner I thank the Senator from Mas
sachusetts for his correction.
Mr. Hoar He was an old and personal
friend of mine, and I wanted him to get the
credit due him.
A correspondent inquires when Sena
tor Hoar was associated with the late
Captain George H. Derby so intimately
aB to be a personal friend. Captain
Derby was a Massachusetts man, born
and bred at Dedham, near Boston, and
was graduated from "West Point in
1846. George F. Hoar was born and
bred at Concord, Mass., and was grad
uated at Harvard in 1846. Derby came
of a distinguished old Salem family.
His father was a lawyer, a graduate of
Bowdoin College, and a man of some
note as an author. Boston was not a
great city in 1846, and Massachusetts
boys who distinguished themselves at
West Point had a wide social acquaint
ance with the Massachusetts boys of
their vicinity who were students at
Harvard. Doubtless Senator Hoar's
acquaintance with "John Phoenix"
dates back to their college days. Cap
tain Derby, who was a brilliant humor
ist, was stationed for several years at
Vancouver Barracks, and Is well re
membered by a number of our citizens
who were young men In 1854-56. Cap
tain Derby died in May, 1861, from the
effects of a sunstroke he received while
engaged on professional duty in Florida
in 1859.
A MORAL BOYCOTT.
There Is an association in Trenton.
N. J., founded recently by a number
of women connected with the "W. C. T.
U., known as "The Business Girls' As
sociation." Nearly a hundred of the
members have already signed, the fol
lowing pledge:
I hereby promise not to associate with or to
marry any man who is not a total abstainer
from the use of all Intoxicating liquors. Includ
ing wine, beer and cider, and I promise to ab
stain from the same myself and I will not
marry a man to save him.
Advising young girls to "boycott" so
cially not simply drunkards, but all
young men who are not total abstain
ers, belongs to the deepest ooze of plat
form bigotry and folly. Nine-tenths of
the clergy of Great Britain, whether of
the Anglican Church or Dissenters, are
not total abstainers, and outside the
Methodist and Baptist churches a ma
jority of the clergy In America do not
abstain absolutely from the use of some
form of alcohol. The use of wine and
beer at dinner Is not unusual among
clergymen in America, and the use of
whisky xis not rare among clergymen
who have been educated in Scotland.
Gladstone used wine daily at dinner
from youth to old age, both In public
and In private, and so did every Pres
ident of the United States save Lincoln.
Is there any need for an apology for
the decent use of wine at dinner? To
use wine in moderation Is no more a
sane excuse for using it intemperately
than the temperate use of food is any
palliation for gluttony or children born
In wedlock any plea In abatement for
bastardy.
Why should young girls be urged to
"boycott" socially a young man who
uses alcohol at all rather than a young
man who Is cruel, deficient in commer
cial integrity, without honor in pecu
niary matters, a social sponge, who
grinds the face of the poor, robs the
ignorant or despotlzes over the weak
or the unfortunate to his own selfish
advantage? Are there no scoundrels or
brutes who are total abstainers? Tour
sober gambler and your sober burglar
are very common characters: they have
to be to succeed at their nefarious busi
ness. No right-minded woman would
marry a drunkard, and yet no right
minded woman would refuse to marry a
man otherwise of good repute except
upon proof that he was a total ab
stainer from alcohol. He might be a
total abstainer and yet be a very worth
less fellow, and he might drink a glass
of wine at dinner or elsewhere in mod
eration all his days and be an admira
ble man.
It is true that no young woman ought
to marry a young man "to save him."
A young man who would accept such a
sacrifice is worthless, and a young
woman who would consent to make
such a sacrifice is wanting in both
moral sense and worldly wisdom.
Young men, like young women, work
out their own salvation, and the tem
perance morality that has only a
coddled life, that bursts into being and
continues to bloom only because of a
young woman's smllet or outstretched
hand, has not vigor enough to keep it
sweet in the smallest of the world's
trying experiences. Every man sooner
or later earns a reputation for the
power of self-restraint or the lack of
it, not simply In the matter of abstemi
ousness in the use of alcohol, but in all
matters where self-indulgence may mar
the sane conduct of life. To earn a rep
utation for self-restraint and modera
tion as opposed to self-indulgence and
riotous living, is a fair test of a man,
but whether he is or is not a total ab
stainer from alcohol is of and by itself
no assurance that he is an all-around
self-ruled, self-restrained man. He
might never drink and yet be utterly
destitute of moral sense, as is the sober
miscreant under death sentence at Co
lumbus, O., for shooting and robbing
his friend in order to get money enough
to marry upon, or he might drink a
glass of wine every day at dinner with
his family from youth to old age, and
remain from first to last a model hus
band and father.
There is absolutely nothing In these
specific tests of presumptive virtue.
You must not drink this or you must
not do that, If you ever expect to be
officer of mine. It was Holmes that
said:
Tis but the fool that loves excess;
Hast thou a drunken eoul.
The bane is In thy shallow skull.
Not In my silver bowl.
AGE AXD EXERCISE.
It has become the fashion for certain
people who dabble in the so-called "sci
ence of being" and deduce alleged facts
from their own opinions to assert that
men and women need not grow old,
even physically; that in constant activ
ity and cheerfulness and a determina
tion to remain young lies the secret of
perpetual youth. The chimney corner,
so enticing to persons who, according to
the calendar, are old, Is flouted as en
ervating instead of restful, and aged
people are warned to shun Its allure
ments, ignore aching bones and stiff
joints, take to the sharp, frosty air, and
thus cheat nature out of her dues.
On the other hand comes Dr. Hoy. a
reputed medical expert of Chicago, and
declares that men of middle age and
past do not need and should not take
exercise that, In fact, they are better
off and stand a better chance of long
life if they will forego physical exer
tion. This theory he has elaborately set
forth in a book recently published. Ac
cording to his reasoning, every action
of the brain or the muscles destroys
cells, uses up tissue and creates so
much waste matter to be taken up by
the blood and eliminated from the sys
tem. The machinery for carrying off
this waste, he says, Is strained If It Is
exercised after It Is thirty-five years
old. The case of Senator Davis is cited
as an example of death resulting be
cause the poison induced by disease
could not be gotten rid of, the machin
ery of the body that should have per
formed this service having become worn
out through a long period of undue ac
tivity. It is further asserted that Will
iam M. Evarts is alive at more than
three-score and ten, a"nd Joseph Cham
berlain keeps his health and strength
though an old man because neither
takes exerpise. Hence It is concluded
that exercise Is a foe to health, and
especially to longevity.
But what of Gladstone, who used, the
ax dally In the forest at Hawarden un
til past four-score? Or of Ruskin, who
lived to be an old man In spite of cease
less mental activity? Or of Victoria,
who took her dally drive to within a
week of her death at past four-score,
and even up to that time gave con
sideration to weighty matters of state?
In the face of such testimony, the cor
rectness of Dr. Hoy's position may well
be doubted. Indeed, from evidence all
about us It is safe to conclude that
exercise Is indispensable to persons of
all ages, varying only In kind and de
gree at the different stages of life. Is6
lated examples, however illustrious, do
not prove or disprove a general rule.
Common sense Is the safest guide In all
cases. The man of 40 cannot, with
out Injury, indulge in a vigorous course
of athletics which would be beneficial to
a young man of 20, nor should the man
of 60 attempt to be as nimble as a man
of 40. And when nature lures the aged
man to a cozy seat by his own fire
side, he will not greatly err in compli
ance. The whole truth, after all the
labored reasoning of extremists on both
sides of the question, Is that every one
should take a reasonable amount of ex
ercise dally, regulated to suit his age
and bodily vigor, urging himself thereto
If necessary with the reflection that ac
tion Is life Inaction death.
STEALING THE LIVERY OF HEAVEN
Ex-Congressman Lentz desires to
make the local Bryanlte Democratic or
ganization of Columbus, O., now known
as "the Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln
League," a National organization. The
Impudent appropriation of Lincoln's
name and fame by the Bryanite Democ
racy Is one of the punishments that
great and good men are made to suffer
after death. The late Chief Justice
Ryan, of Wisconsin, who was famous
for saying nothing good of a brother
lawyer in life, never hesitated to pro
nounce a charming eulogy upon him
dead. On one occasion, when the Chief
Justice had spoken with conspicuous
eloquence, one of his audience re
marked: "Judge Ryan always did like
dead lawyers." It Is something so with
the Democratic party. It never had
anything but brutal abuse and vilifica
tion of Lincoln in life, but the moment
Lincoln was assassinated the Demo
cratic camps become vocal with elo
quent praise of the great President.
Lincoln Is treated with nominal re
spect, but he is really cordially hated
by the Bryanlte Democracy, because
they know and feel that Lincoln's logic,
enforced by Grant's sword, dispersed
the Democratic party and remitted it
for twenty-five years to the condition
of hungry political outlaws and sullen
exiles from the pale of National patri
otism. Lincoln is the great distinctive
figure in the Republlc'3 Pantheon, and
yet the Bryanlte Democracy today pre
tends that It Is ready to canonize him
and celebrate his birthday as hilarious
ly as they do that of Jefferson. Jef
ferson was a legitimate Democratic
saint, who would have disrupted the
Union long before his death, had It not
been for John Marshall, whose presence
on the Supreme Bench prevented Jeffer
son from honeycombing the timbers of
the ship of the Union with the teredo
doctrine of state supremacy. Outside of
bedlam finance, which was always re
pudiated by Jefferson, Bryan Is justi
fied in his worship of Jefferson, but the
picture of Jefferson has no business In
the same Democratic gallery with that
of Lincoln.
The only explanation that would jus
tify the association of the Bryanlte
saints in the same picture gallery with
Lincoln would be explanation of Judas'
presence in the great painting of the
"Last Supper," viz., that the historical
unity of the picture made the face of
the traitor as indispensable as the face
of the Christ. To a full picture gal
lery of Lincoln's times, the faces of its
Judases are as necessary as the faces
of the saviors of the Nation, but lo a
gallery exclusively devoted to the ex
hibition of Democratic political saints
there is neither room nor good light
for the picture of Lincoln. The Bryan
ite Democracy has use for Jefferson's
memory and "principles," but as yet
they have no sincere admiration for the
memory or use for the patriotic princi
ples of Lincoln. It Is altogether too
soon for the Bryanlte Democracy to ap
propriate Lincoln with impudent assur
ance, even as they have Washington
and Jackson, and describe him as "the
foremost exponent in his time of good,
sound. Democratic doctrine." It is al
together too soon for the Bryanite De
mocracy to try to make its political
"rogue's gallery" look respectable by
plundering the Republican party's "hall
of fame" of its leading heroes and
statesmen. When the Bryanite Democ
racy celebrates Jefferson's birthday, It
never hesitates to couple his name and
fame with that of Washington, who de
nounced Jefferson, the founder of the
Democratic party, as a political incen
diary; and with that of Jackson, who
collared Calhoun and cowed him into
submission when with Jefferson's torch
in his hand he tried to fire the fabric of
the Union. It would be a crowning act
of political Impudence for the Bryanite
Democracy to include henceforth in its
gallery of ancestral portraits that of
Abraham Lincoln, who carried the battle-flag
of his party when It sent the
Bourbon Democracy howling back to Its
trenches, who with both pen and Bword
stabbed the pro-slavery Democracy to
death.
The Bryanlte Democracy making
claim to Lincoln as an original evan
gelist of their creed of flat money and
populism Is Jlke a rabble of Turks on a
religious feast day, pledging the mem
ory of Jesus as a prophet Identical In
moral and spiritual philosophy .with
Mahomet. It Is too soon for the people
to forget the past. Lincoln's picture
among the portraits of the political an
cestors of the Bryanlte Democracy
would be like the portrait of Cromwell
in the library of a Jacobite who still
believes that Charles I was "a blessed
martyr" and that Edward VII is a
usurper upon the throne of Great Brit
ain. When the Bryanlte Democracy
tries to steal Lincoln's name and fame
as a sign under which to conquer, they
have "literally stolen the livery of
the court of heaven to serve the devil
in."
In the break-down of the Spanish
armored cruiser Emperador Carlos V,
at the outset In her attempt to reach
Cowes to take a place of honor In the
marine funeral procession of the late
Queen, the Spanish newspapers are
forced to proclaim that there Is some
thing rotten In Spain's navy. It Is in
deed pitiful if the Government at Mad
rid has learned nothing fromjthe Span
ish-American War. An object-lesson
limned with blood and fire, and pre
senting destruction In Its blackest, and
at the same time most vivid, tints
should not pass unheeded. The verdict
of the Spanish Liberal press is that
"useless officials with powerful titles"
must be cleared out of the navy If It Is
to retain the semblance of a fighting
equipment. As at present constituted
and officered, Spain's navy is not un
fortunate it Is simply useless, even as
a guard of honor at a funeral, and what
enrages the critics the most Is that,
such as It Is, It costs annually 27,000,000
pesetas to keep It Inoffensively aflodt.
In cur solicitude to make laws against
usury, we should not neglect to leg
islate against the man who would pay
excessive interest, as well as against
him who would receive it. The usurer
has nothing to favor him except the
folly of his victim. No law of the land
compels any man to borrow. A law
of business and commerce, however,
inhibits borrowing at less than a
market rate. This rate is low or high,
according to attendant risks. One of
these risks depends upon the character
of the borrower. If he makes rash
promises, he probably Is more dishon
est than the lender, because he hopes
to cheat the latter with usury laws.
Moreover, It Is not dishonest to lend
money at more than the legal rate.
Besides, the signer of a note wants
the money or he would not sign. He
violates the usury law, not the lender.
Generals J. H. Wilson and Fitzhugh
Lee, who have been confirmed by the
Senate as Brigadier-Generals In the reg
ular Army, are both of them graduate?
of West Point, and both of them veter
ans of the Civil War. Fitzhugh Lee,
nephew of Robert E. Lee, was gradu
ated from West Point In 1856. On the
outbreak of the war he resigned his
commission, entered the Confederate
Army, and rose to be Major-Gencral.
General Wilson was graduated from
West Point In 1860, and rose to be Ma-jor-General
of Volunteers during the
Civil War. Both of these officers will
soon go upon the retired list.
In order to render more complete
"protection," why not have a law to
compel inspection of everybody who
shaves? In this way the next person
would be spared much hazard, and
barbers would not be so liable of mal
practice. If only those with a permit
should be allowed to shave, we can
readily see what a panacea for Inno
cents It would be against barbers' Ills.
By this means also, a Board of In
spectors would be given fat jobs and
thereby removed from the wear and
tear of grinding for a living.
At Tillamook four steelhead salmon
have been caught whose dorsal finn
was removed at the Salmon River
hatchery last year. Wiseacres con
clude that salmon do not always re
turn to the same stream to spawn.
They certainly do not if gifted with
the wisdom of those four fish. Sa
gacious flsh, no matter how brave,
would never risk the Columbia more
than once. The very fact that those
four escaped the snares of the Colum
bia Is reason enough why they never
came back.
Some $5,000,000,000 of personal prop
erty Is yearly assessed in New York City
alone, and is yearly "sworn off." This
personal property Is, however, nearly
all of it the stocks and bonds of cor
porations, and the State of Pennsyl
vania successfully reaches it by taxing
the gross receipts of these corporations
as a measure of the value of their fran
chise. Some such device as this is likely
to be adopted generally, as the only
means of making accumulated capital
bear its proportion of the public bur
dens. A Tacoma woman has brought trip
lets into ,the world. That city has
started out to make a larger census
showing in the next 10 years than In
the last decade.
TOPE LEO'S NEW ODE. '
. AX. CHRIST. MOCCCC.
PRIDIE KALENDAS IANVARIAS
A IESV CHRISTO
INEVNTIS SAECVX.I
AVSPICIA.
Cultrix bonarum nobllls artlum .
Decedlt aetas; publtca commoda,
Vlrcsqua naturae retectas,
Qulsquls avet, memoret canendo.
Saell occidentls me vehementlus
Admlssa tangunt; haec dolco et freme.
Pro! quot retrorsum consplcatus,
Dedecorum monumenta cerno.
Querarne caedes, sceptraque dlruta.
An pervagantls menstra licentiae?
An dlrum In arcem Vatlcanam
Mllle dolls Inltum duellum?
Quo cesslt urbls, prlnclpls urblum,
Nullo Impedltum servitlo decus?
Quam saecla. quam gentes avltae
Pontlncum coluere sedem?
Vae segregatls Numlne legtbus!
Quae lex honestl, quae superest fides?
Nutant. semel submota ab arts,
Atque ruunt labefacta lura.
Auditls? Effert impae consclus
Insanlentls grex saplentiae;
Brutaeque naturae supremun
Nitltur asserulsse numen.
Nostras supernam gentls orlginem
Fastldlt excors: dlssoclabllem.
UmbraB lnanes mente captans,
Stlrpem homlnum pecudumque mlscat.
Heu quam proboso gurglte volvltur
Vis lmpotentls caeca superblae,
Servate, mortalei. In omne
Iussa Del metuenda tempus.
Qui vita solus, certaque Veritas,
Qui recta et una est ad supcros via,
Is reddere ad votum fluentes,
Terrlgenls valet unus annos.
Nuper sacratos ad cineres Petri
Turbos piorum sancta petentlum
Is lose duxlt; non Inane
Ausplclum pletas renoscens.
Jesu, futurl temporls arbiter,
Surgentis aevl curslbus annue;
VIrtute divina rebelles
Cogc sequi mellora gentes. ,
Tu pacts almae semlna provehe;
Irae, tumultus, bellaque trlstla.
Tandem resldant: tmproborum
In tenebrosa age regna fraudes.
Mens una reges, te duce, temperet,
Tula ut lnstent leglbus obsequl;
Sltque unum ovlle et pastor unus,
Una fides moderetur orbem.
Cursum peregl, lustraque bis novem.
Te dante. vlxt: Tu cumulum adllce;
Fac, quaeso, ne incassum precantls
Vota tul recldant Leonls.
Leo XIII.
TRANSLATION.
In the year of Christ 1000.
On the day before January 1.
From Jesus Christ.
The prospects of the opening century.
A noble age, fosterer of good arts, is dying;
whoever cares to may commemorate In song
the public cohvenlences and the forces of
nature that have been laid hare.
More keenly do the things permitted by
the declining century touch. me; at these I
grieve and wax wroth. Oh, shame, how many
monuments of disgrace do I perceive In look
ing back!
Shall I mourn over battles and thrones over
turned, or the monBters of license roaming
at will, or the unhallowed war opened with
a thousand wiles against the Vatican citadel?
"Where has vanished the honor of the city,
chief of all cities, bound by no service; the
city which the ages, which our ancestors peo
ples, revered as the abode of pontiffs?
Alas, for laws turned away from the Deity:
What law, what faith. Is left for the good
man? As soon as they are removed from the
altars all laws totter and fall Into ruin.
Do ye hear? The self-confident herd extols
the lmplousness of science growing mad and
strhes to assert the tuprcme divinity of brute
nature.
Senseless, It turns in disgust from the divine
orlcln of our race; snatching at empty phan
toms in its mind, it mingles together the races
of men and that of beasts, that cannot be
united.
Oh, Into how shameful an abyss Is whirled
the blind power of Impotent pride. Observe,
mortals, at all times the awful commands of
God.
He who alone is the life and the certain
truth, who Is the straight and only way to
heaven. Only He has power to make the
years flow according to their wish for those
dwelling on earth.
Lately He himself led crowds of the pious,
seeking the holy places, to the consecrated
ashes of Peter; no meaningless augury that
piety is coming to life again.
O Jesus, our Judge In future time, grant
favor to the course of the rising age; by Thy
divine power compel the rebellious people to
follow better things.
Do thou strew the seed of gentle peace;
may angry passions and quarrels and deplora
hl wars at last be quelled; drive into the
realms of darkness the frauds of the wicked.
May one thought, under Thy lead, restrain
kings that they may press on to obey Thy
laws; may there be but one fold and onti
Shepherd, and may one faith rule the world.
I have run my course and hao lived twice
nine lustra. Thy gift. Do Thou add a crown
ing gift. Grant that the prayers of Thy Leo,
who is entreating Thee, may not be In vain.
METRICAL TRANSLATION.
Translated for the Independent by Dr. William
Haes Ward.
Now ends this age, kind nurse of noble arts;
It useful gifts, and nature's powera unveiled.
Let those who will acclaim with grateful
hearts.
The allures of this falling century
Concern me more; these I bemoan. Alas!
Whav wrongs my backward gase recalls to me!
Of slaughters, broken scepters, vice wide
spread. Shau I complain? Or of the atlcan
Beset with thousand wiles of battle dread?
Queen City, that hast never owned defeat,
Why fades thy fame? Long centuries hon
ored thee;
Ancestral tribes bent at thy pont!ff3 seat.
Woe when man's law the law of God defies!
What faith can stay, once from God's altar
rent?
Then justice faints and falls, and honor dies.
Hear ye the Impious rant, the rabble speak.
Vain of their crazy lore? Their only God
In nature blind and dumb and dead they seek.
They scorn to see, wrought In the human
frame.
Image of God; but, chasing empty dreams.
They make the seed of man and beasts the
same.
Alas! how wallows in a gulf of shame
Man's shameful pride! Mortals attend and
bend.
In service bend before God's holy name!
Ho Is the Life, the Truth, the only Way
To Heaven above. He only can restord
The vanished years to mortals gone astray.
Tls He that lately led the pious throngs
Of pilgrims seeking Peter's holy dust
No empty omen for our prayers and songs.
Jesus, .thou ruler of all times that be.
Bless thou the century's successive years.
Bid thou the recreant nations turn to thee!
Nourish, I pray, the seeds of kindly peace,
To realms of darkness drive the crimes of
men.
That passions, tumults, cruel wars may cease.
Let Kings with eager hearts thy laws obey;
One sheepfold and one shepherd let there be.
And let one faith-rule all the earth for aye.
My course Is run. Now fourscore years and ten
Thou glvest me of life; give me Its crown.
Let not thy Leo's prayer be prayed in vain.
Democratic Testimony.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
It was Garfield who spoke of John Mar
shall as "that great Judge who found the
Constitution paper and gave It power."
Be that as it may, the demurrers to Mar
shall's construction of the Constitution
arc today merely paper, while Its power as
now maintained Is along the lines that
Marshall laid down.
It Would Help the Democrats.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
If the Republicans care to block needed
leclslatlon In order to force action on the
subsidy bill, and If they choose to saddle.
on the country an extra session in order
to complete their raid on the taxpayers,
so much the better for the Democrats, as
far as party considerations are concerned.
A FILIPINO ON THE PHILIPPINES
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
A native Filipino, Benito Llgarda. form
erly Secretary of the Treasury in Aguln
aldo's Cabinet, has recently given an In
teresting interview in New York concern
ing the situation In the islands. He is
vouched for as one of the most highly re
spected citizens of Manila and as a gen
tleman or unimpeachable veracity. That
he is a conservative as well as an intelli
gent observer is apparent in all his state
ments. What he says will therefore have
more weight than the hearsay reports of
statements of irresponsible and compara
tively unknown natives which the antl
Admlnlstratlon press Is continually rolling
tinder Its tongue. Of the drift of native
sentiment since September, when he left
Manila, he does not undertake to speak
with authority, as he has had, like the
rest of America, to depend on meager
and contradictory press reports. He .how
ever, has great faith In the tact and wis
dom of the Taft Commission and its ulti
mate success in winning the confidence
of the natives. He says of it:
This commission, headed by Judge Taft, Is
fast setting at the bottom of things. It Is
grappling with problems which confront It.
and is dally lessening the friction which ex
ists. Thousands of Filipinos are beginning to
realize this. Perhaps not quite as much
progress has been made as your people ex
pected: but progress there has been, and It
has been sure and certain. It is slow, it
perhaps will be slow. President Taft and
his associates have Inspired confidence wher
ever they have gone and In what they have
done. Suspicion of the Americans Is giving
way 'to confidence, and there is a growing
Impress ft) n that the American commission and
the American Government are sincere In their
endeavors' to better the condition of the Is
lands and to lift up the people from a state
of bondage to self-respect.
On the much-mooted question of the
capacity of the Filipinos to govern them
selves, Llgarda says:
A great deal has been said about the fitness
of the Filipino for self-government. I believe,
and I say It with all respect, that the Fili
pinos are not capable of self-government now.
They certainly will be In the future. They
have good Intelligence and love moral and
social development, and I can assure you that
they have a natural moral element In their
character. When the Filipinos know the laws
and customs and the real feelings of the
American people toward them I am sure they
will make as good citizens as you are. Why
not? Tou must remember that they have
had no part or chance In the government of
their country. They have been practically
serfs. When the Americans broke the Span
ish yoke and ended Spanish rule. It was
natural that many should think that they were
able to conduct their own affairs, but I know
they are not able. The Spanish Government
had taken away not only the idea but the
spirit of development. Conditions were as
bad as they could be.
Not content with this blow at the flimsy
foundation upon which the fiery advocates
of Filipino independence have reared their
gorgeous superstructures of unsubstantial
words, Mr. Llgarda substantiates the con
tention and echoes the warning of General
Lawton that the blood of the American
soldiers lies at the door of their own
countrymen, who have by misrepresenta
tion of the purposes of the Government
and by their silly clamor fostered misap
prehension and false hopes among the
Flllrlnos. On this subject he says:
Some of you Americans have done your best
to keep up this Insurrection by sending out
encouraging statements to those who are
fighting against your government. Why do
they do that? The activity of those In arms
today can be acounted for In great measure
by the activity of these men who live In
your own United States of America. I tell you
absolutely that many of the American officers
and soldiers have been killed by this American
aid. False Ideas are given to the Filipinos
and quicker than any one can tell the news la
carried to the Filipinos' camp. I know not why
you do this. If Americans themselves post
pone the days of peace, whom can you blame?
Certainly not the Intelligent Filipinos, who
really would like to follow peaceful pursuits,
but who hesitate to do so because your own
people put Into their heads that they are
to continue In practical slavery, that Ameri
ca will withdraw from the Philippines and
that Americans have no right to the Islands.
I have very much respect for those American
people who are honestly trying to secure Im
mediate self-government of the Philippines. But
their Ideas are not practical. The Philippines
are not ready. I indulge the hope that as
soon as the Filipino demonstrates his capac
ity for self-government complete and ample
Justice will be done by your country. In the
meantime we must go along in the paths
of progress, developing all wo can under the
fostering care of your country and do away
with all friction which tends to retard prog
ress. William II nnd Bliimnrck.
Fortnightly Review.
William's great merit was that he dis
missed Prince Bismarck. This may seem
strange, considering that a young mon
arch needs nothing more than an old, wise
and strong Minister, more especially a
Minister of the world-wide fame and in
fluence of a Prince Bismarck. But It was
exceedingly good luck for Germany that
Prince Bismarck was not permitted to die
in harness, as he often wished. If he had
died as Chancellor without the world hav
ing had an opportunity of seeing William
II and Germany getting on without Prince
Bismarck, hls death would no doubt have
meant war, very likely a European war.
Alive and not ruling, Prince Bismarck
served, as It were, as a buffer state. As It
happened, both France and Russia had to
fear the reappearance of Clnclnnatus.
Meanwhile the world had seen that all
was right in Germany without the great
founder of the empire.
But It may be granted that this high po
litical motive was not the only cause of
the overthrow of the first Chancellor.
Long before this catastrophe there have
been politicians who prophesied that the
young Emperor and the old Chancellor
would not be in accord for long. Prince
Bismarck himself was sagacious enough
to forestall his own fate, for he used to
say the Emperor would be his own Chan
cellor. Yet he was not wise enough to
take the consequences.
Maybe gratitude, the popularity of the
Chancellor, and the advantage of having
such a man as First Councilor would
have made the Emperor delay from day
to day and from year to year the catas
trophe,' were not his overruling desire to
let the world, especially his own people,
know that In Germany, in Prussia, the
monarch is the real ruler.- William II
was jealous not as man, but as sovereign.
One should be master, and that one was
not to be the Chancellor. It was a ques
tion of principle.
Bryan's Talk on England.
New York Times.
We can imagine the consternation
which the King's compliance with the
oracle's advice would create in England.
The very first step, of course, would be
the resignation of all the Ministry, from
Lord Salisbury down, who are responsi
ble to Parliament for the official utter
ances of the sovereign. Tho next would
be the taking, of measures, for which
there Is a precedent at the beginning of
the last century, for the dethronement of
the ICIng, as non compos mentis, and the
establishment of a regency.
We trust that there are not many of our
readers who need to be told what an
abysmal depth of ignorance Is here dis
played by the statesman who undertakes
to Instruct his countrymen by these won
derful suggestions, and who seems to have
terminated his reading of British consti
tutional history with the close of the act
ive period of George III.
The Latest General Grant.
Boston Herald.
It pays to be the son of a great Gen
eral and something of a Republican poli
tician besides. In the recent Army pro
motions, Frederick D. Grant has been
Jumped over 804 Captains, 277 Majors, 93
Lieutenant-Colonels and 77 Colonels in the
regular Army. The great General Grant
won bis promotions in a different man
ner, being taken at tho beginning of the
Civil War from a humble position in civil
life, and fighting his way up to all of
them by successive steps.
N0Tri.AND'V0MM,rNi !
.This Is the month when the year takes
l day off.
Affairs in Madrid seem
normal condition again.
to be in their
That death of Kruger's seems to be an
unlimited go-as-yu-please.
Captain Oborlln M.
dissatisfied with jail
Carter Is evidently
life.
Vancouver, Wash., Is proving Itself to
be a great city by becoming the scene
of a crusade against vice.
Minister Wu Is doing so muoh talking
that there is reason to fear hei is goingi
to join the Populist party.
There Is a lobster famine in Boston.
Have the antls selected some other city
as the seat of their capital?
Wllhelmlna's honeymoon will not bo
marred by the fear that Alfred Austin
is going to write an ode about it.
Queer that the Chinese mandarins who
were requested by Kwang Hsu to com
mit suicide should decline the honor!
The esteemed Congressional Record has
reached a circulation of 26,000. And somo
people question the prosperity of the
country.
King Edward will have to study for thar
stago If he ever hopes to look like all
the pictures that have been printed over
his name.
The bill to save the big trees at Cal
averas, Cal., which has passed the Senate
and now awaits the action of the House,
authorizes the Secretary of the Interior
to pay $125,000 for the famous grove and.
If the offer Is refused, to save the grovo
under condemnation proceedings. Tho
San Francisco Call says: "The strong
sentiment that has been developed in
behalf of the big trees Is extremely
creditable to the people of California. Nor
Is that . sentiment confined to this state.
We have become as a people old enough
and wise enough to know that historic
treasures and natural wonders havo mora
than an intrinsic value. We have lost
much In this direction that might havo
been saved; but we may at least pre
serve what is left."
"One of the most desirable posts at
Windsor Castle," says a correspondent of
the Chicago Record, "Is that of 'tho
King's limner,' who in ancient times dec
orated books and manuscripts with initial
letters, and who now prepare parchment
commissions when his majesty is pleased
to confer knighthood or some other honor
upon one of hla subjects. The man who
now fills the post has extraordinary skill
with the pen and brush, and his diplomas
and certificates were greatly admired for
their exquisite taste and skillful execu
tion. He receives a salary of J2500 a year.
"She clockmaker at Windsor Castle re
ceives the same compensation, and it is
his business to keep all the timepieces In
repair. The historiographer, who is sup
posed to keep a record of events, holds an
hereditary office, with a salary of $2500
a year. The master of music. Sir Walter
Parrett, the famous organist, receives
11500, and arranges concerts for his
majesty's diversion. The surveyor of
pictures Is paid 51500, the librarian (who
by the way is Richard R. Holmes, an emi
nent author), receives $2500, the examiner
of plays $1600; the keeper of the swans Is
paid $200, and the barge master, who looks
after the boats used by the royal family
at Windsor, has a similar compensation."
PLEASANTKIES OP PAItAGItArilEItS
Hypocrisy is the homage whioh Tammany
Hall pays to virtue. Puck.
They Wanted Him. "He says that his em
ployers always regarded him as a valuable
man." "Yes. they offered a large reward fer
him when he left." Life.
Not Complaining. The New Pastor I'm
very glad to have your husband's good opin
ion. Slste Hardshell Oh! he's quite satis
fied. He says, What can we expect at such a.
salary? Puck.
Poor Fellow. Lena I don't know what to
make of Harry Harmless. Alma Well. If you
were to do as a good many of the girls have,
done, you'd make a fool of him. Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin.
Miss Fuzzle I want to break my engage
ment, but don't know how to do It without
driving the poor fellow to sulcwe. uuw
Brother Why don't you let him see you la
curl-papers Just once? Tit-Bits.
Literary Note. Messrs. Mowln, Baryl & Co.
announce that they have already sold 2,580,000
copies ot a thrilling novel they axe to bring
out next Fall. They have not yet selected the
author who is to write It. Chicago Times-Herald.
An Episode. Streakor We had a glorious
trip. Beautiful weather all the time, and the
auto collided with only one man. Whlzzer
Police notified? Streakor Yes; but tho man
was so far gone that it wasn't worth while to
arrest him. Harper's Bazar.
Urban Economy. Tenant Why, what you
call a spare bedroom Isn't a room at all, only
the picture of an alcove painted on the wall!
How could we get a bed In there, pray? Jan
itorWell, people mostly has their furniture
painted In these day3. It saves movin ex
penses. Detroit Journal.
A Testimonial. Jones You remember what
a miserable memory I used to have? Well,
Dr. Bolus gave me a. prescription that haa
done me a world of good. Smith Something
to take before meals, was it? Jones Well, I
don't recall Just what the directions were, but
It's a splendid cure. Philadelphia Press.
Fnlstnff's Song.
Edmund Clarence Stedman.
Where's he that died o' Wednesday?
What place on earth hath he?
A tailor's yard beneath, I wot.
Where worms approaching be;
For the wight that died o' Wednesday,
Just laid the light below,
Is dead as the varlet turned to clay
A score of years ago.
Where's he that died o Sabba' day?
Good Lord, I' not be he!
The best of days Is foul enough
From this world's fare to flee;
And the saint that died o Sabba day,
"With his grave turf yet to grow.
Is dead as the sinner brought to pray
A hundred years ago.
Where's he that died o yesterday?
What better chance hath he
To clink the can and toss th pat
When this night's Junkets be?
For the lad that died o' yesterday
Is.Jdst as dead ho! ho!
As the whoreson knave men laid away
A thousand years ago.
The Little Lady.
(Of Four Bright Tears.)
.Atlanta Constitution.
The Llttie Lady hath' for me .
Only her kisses tender.
And in her eyes a light I see
That's all of earthly splendor.
Sha knows not when the world goes ill: '
She only knows she love-s me still!
The Little Lady's smiles so bright
With mystic spells have bound me;
She waits for me when falls the eight,
And twines her arms around me.
She knows not where my steps may bo:
She only knows her love for me!
Dear Lady of the tender years
And of tho bright eyes beaming.
God keep these trusting eyes from tears.
And God ba with you dreaming!
I know not what those dreams may be:
, I only know your love for me!