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-sws'awswssaKS- ,jr-i-J"'1WiEMsrtWM"-. JCWJ"pB?,?- ' $ -gUMl MAl THUKSDit .4fja 4, 1901, ""I' TSs"' """spgse ""yfiag 'iv,5f'f'' ' V l rggomort Entered at the Posiofllce at Portland. Oregon, as second-class matter. TELEPHONES. Editorial Booms ICO I Business Office.. .GOT REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (postage prepaid). In Advance Itylly, with Sunday, per month $ 85 Dally Sunday excepted, per ear. ........ 7 50 Daily, with Sunday, per year 0 09 Sunday per year - 2 X) The "Weekly, per jear i..-. 1 JO The Weekly. 3 month ,.. . M 1 JrpClty Eubscrlbers- ally jmjt week, delivered. Sundays excepted.ISc DaJy, per week. dell cred. Sundays Included 20c POSTAGE RATES. United States, Canada and Mexico: 10 to 15-pare paper..... 1c ill to 32-page paper. 2c Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication In; The Oreeronlan should be .addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan." not to the name f any Individual. Letters relating to advertis ing, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." The Oregonlan does not buy poems or stories irom IndHIduals, and cannot, undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to It without solici tation. No stamps should be Inclosed for .this Purpose. .Puget Sound Bureau -Captain A. Thompson. office at 1111 Pacific a enue. Tacoma. Box 355. Tacoma Fostofllca, Eastern Business Office 47. S. 49 and D9 Tribune building. New Tork City; 4G3 "The Rookery." Chicago; the S C. Beckwlth special agency, Eastern representative. Tor sale In San Trancloco by J. K. Cooper. 74C Market etreet, near the Palace Hotel; Gold smith Bros.. 230 Sutter street; F. W. Pitts, 300S Market street; Foster & Orear. Ferry news stand. Tor sale in Los Angeles by B F. Gardner. 259 So. Spring street, .and Oil er & Haines. 100 So Spring street. For sale in Chicago by the P. O. News Co.. 217 Dearborn street. For sale In Omaha by H. C Shears. 103 N, Sixteenth street, and Barkalow Bros.. 1G12. Farnam street. For sale in Salt Lake by th Salt Lake News Co , 77 W. Second South street. On file In Washington. D. C. with A. W. 33unn, 500 14 th N. W. For eale In Denver, Colo., by Hamilton &. Jvcsfirlck. SOd-912 Sexenth street. TODAY'S WEATHER. Partly cloudy, with probably occasional showers; southerly winds. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, APRIL 4. AX INESCAPABLE NECESSITY. Rev. Frank E. Coulter's frank espou sal of qualified socialism on Scriptural grounds -may serve one useful purpose not in ills mind at all, and that Is ta set people thinking about the undis guised socialism of Jesus and the Apos tles, largely derived from earlier He brew teaching. The war upon insincer ity and sham will some day compel choice between Christian denial of the infallibility of the teaching of Scrip ture on social topics on the one hand, and on the other hand Christian ac ceptance of communism. Jesus was himself ignorant of the sreat institutions and establishments of a complex civilization, and could not foresee our modern industrial develop ment. "Wealth and worldly power were to him unmitigated evils. There was nothing to be desired in the great men of this world, nothing to be admired in the subllmest creations of human art and energy. The poor were to be rewarded because they were poor, and the rich cast out because they were rich. The one thing yet needful in the blameless young man whom Jesus loved for his character was that he sell all he had and give to the poor. Upon this basis were reared the communistic muaitles of the apostolic church, Which suffered inevitable collapse in 8pX.e of heroic contributions sent from thrifty Antloch to thriftless Jerusalem. Christian communism, however, like nearly all of original Christian doc trine, was hut an extension of ancient Hebrew ideas. The fanciful attempts to explain Jesus by heathen philoso phers and even Hebrew teachers of his own or immediately preceding time are excluded by theIain fact that his phil f -ospphy of life is drawn from the ancient Hebrew writings, in which his match Jess religious nature had been steeped. "Whether he read the books or imbibed them through the more common oral method of the East, it is certain that he drew his theology and ethical code from the books of the Hebrews, notably the book of Enoch, and including both writings canonical and those at eundry times and by divers authorities rejected as apochryphaL The empti ness of sacrifices and the necessity of heart repentance were told in the Psalms, one burden of the prophets was the blessedness of the poor, the first or true Isaiah preached the New Tes tament gospel, and in the old book of Proverbs were found the very words used in Paul's great encyclical about feeding your enemy and thus heaping joals of fire upon his head. There are two ways of avoiding the logical dilemma which Mr. Coulter un wittingly thrusts upon the church. One way Is to say that Christian socialism is unobjectionable. For this there is no warrant. "We cannot subscribe today to the doctrine that the rich man Is con demned by his wealth; we must And out how justly or unjustly he made his money. We cannot blindly apotheosize the poor because he is poor. "We must gather evidence as to the justifiable or unworthy sources of his poverty. If a man sues us at the law, we cannot sub mit tamely to his. utmost exactions. If he takes our coat we must up and at him, the while having locked our cloak out of his reach. "We cannot sell all qut .goods to feed the poor, or we should soon -al be poor together with no goods anywhere to sell. The othet way of escaping the di lemma is to laim for the teachings of Jesus that the 7 are not socialistic, and this is as impossible as the other. The socialism of the New Testament is In cidental, because Jesus concerned him self mainly not with conventions, but with the soul itself. He aimed at right eousness of the individual, through the repentant heart and through works for repentance meet. His references to the social fabric are small, therefore, in bulk, but they are none the less unmis takable, and reveal his pure and gentle nature as revolting from all the fabrics of society and government, simply be cause he did not comprehend them, any more than Jacob did, wandering with his tent through Canaan, or Jeremiah, oewalllng that his people should wax fat and prosper. If Jesus was infallible in his every, "SMtterance, there is no escape from communism. The Salem Statesman, loyal partisan organ, abject in its toadyism, is In deep distress because, as it alleges, The Ore gonlan "has persistently ridiculed and belittled President McKinley." The Oregonlan has often criticised President McKinley, may at times have ridiculed but never has belittled him. Yet tt If It had both ridiculed and be ted bimT An organ like the one at Salem, desiring to testify its thanks for past favors and to signify Its hopes for more, may make salaams before the President's sacred majesty If It wishes to; but it needn't expect like abasement in others. The country has a proper estimate of President McKln ley. He is an amiable man, of good in tentions, but without firmness of pur pose, or resolution to pursue a "plain duty" when he sees it He is governed by an extremely narrow and self-seeking political ring, led by. Senator Hanna. He yields always to the "pull" of political gangs, as witness his redent appointment of a lot of decayed, re jected politicians to the directorate of the St. Louis Exposition. In affairs large and small he is but clay In the hands of the potter. The people knew this well enough last year; but they would have elected anybody against Bryan and Bryanlsm. What the coun try really thinks of McKinley and the course of his Administration-will be as certained so soon as the Democratic party shall abandon its dangerous er rors If it ever do. THE TENACITY OF POLITICAL HATE The Massachusetts Legislature Re cently passed a bill by a rising and' unanimous vote appropriating " $25,000 for a statue of General William F. Bartlett General Bartlett, when lead ing his regiment, the Fffty-seventh Massachusetts Volunteers, In the as sault on Port Hudson, lost his leg. As soon as he had recovered from his wound he returned to service and was made a Brigadier-General for gallantry In action, June 20, 1864. He was mus tered out dn July, 1866, and soon came into public notice as one of the first Union veterans to insist with Gover nor Andrew that any scheme of recon struction that djd not place the rehabil itation of the South in the hands of Its natural leaders, the leading soldiers and -statesmen of the Confederacy, would prove a failure. General Bartlett did not survive the war many years, but to the day of his death was op posed to the reconstruction scheme of Thad Stevens and Charles Sumner, which endowed the negro with the suf frage. His gallantry endeared him to the people of his state, and his liberal political policy toward the South made hls memory popular with the Democ racy, so that it was easy to persuade the Legislature to vote a statue In bis honor. The Connecticut Senate the other day approved an appropriation of $1000 for a monument to John Brown in Tor rlngton, on the condition that the town of Torrington acquire the ancestral Brown homestead and make It public ground. On the same day that the Massachusetts Legislature appropriated $25,000 for a statue to General Bartlett the New Hampshire Legislature refused to pass a'blll appropriating $5000 for a statue of ex-President Franklin Pierce, notwithstanding the fact that Pierce was a brave soldier in the Mexi can War, was Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives before he was five years out of college; and before he was SO years old was a member of Congress. He was a United States Senator when he had barely reached the constitutional age for ad mission to that body. After he had, for family reasons, resigned from the Senate, the Senatorship was again of fered to him and refused. He declined -the Governorship of his state; he de clined the offer of the Attorney-Generalship in the Cabinet of President Polk. .His father had been a distinguished officer In the War of the Revolution, and General Pierce's gallant service in Mexico with General Scott was worthy of his sire. When he was nom inated for President in 1852, General Pierce was the most brilliant jury advo cate at the New Hampshire bar. He was a very kind-hearted, lovable man, of most charming graciousness and courtesy of manner, that made him universally popular personally with all who met him. His personal Integrity was above suspicion, and yet the Leg islature of the state of his birth, where he lived and died, has refused an ap propriation of $5000 .for a statue to he placed on land owned by the United States Government at Concord. The personal memory of General Pierce Is most attractive, for his kind ness of heart was such that he never spoke harshly of his fellow-men, and could refuse no request whose denial he thought would give pain to the peti tioner; but the public policy with which President Pierce became Identified from 1854 to 1857 was so Infamous that the sons and grandsons of his old friends and fellow-citizens will not vote him a cheap statue of honor. In that great crisis of the battle against the exten sion of slavery this kind-hearted, sweet-tempered man placed himself all his days on, the side of slavery. The South could always count on Franklin Pierce before the Mexican War, during the Civil War and to the day of his death. Of no other New England born and bred statesman can it be said that from the first to the last hour of his political life he was as devoted a par tisan of the old pro-slavery propaganda as were Calhoun, Yancey, Toombs or Jeff Davis. The only New England man who approached Pierce in his pro-slavery zeal was his Mexican War comrade, General Caleb Cushlng, but Cushlng started out an anti-slavery man, and while he was afterwards a bitter pro-slavery partisan, he offered his services to the Union In 1861 and it was not his fault that his sword was not accepted, as was that of General Butler, who voted for Jeff Davis at the Charleston convention of 1860. But Franklin Pierce was In corre spondence with the secession conspira tors up to the outbreak of the war. He did not, like Cushlng and Butler, lift his voice for the Union after the firing on Sumter, but he was a venomous cop perhead during the war, and when he died in 1869 he was still odious to his fellow-citizens. He was a better man than either Cushlng or Butler, neither of whom had a particle of political honor or honesty, and yet from being the most popular citizen of his state he became the most odious, because he would not change his coat or cheer for the North when his heart was sincerely with the South The late E. J. Phelps, Minister to England, made the same sacrifice for his opinions, but he sur vived the Civil War thirty-five years, and ten years before his death was glad to confess that he was wrong in 1861 and that the war for the Union was entitled to his sympathy and respect. But President Pierce died In 1869, when the bitterness of the reconstruction bat tle had not yet been exhausted. The refusal of New Hampshire to honor Pierce's memory shows how deep and tenacious yet is the f ecollection, of his conspicuous pro-slavery altitude, Sen President and during the Civil War his Administration1 precipitated. MORE THAN ONE ARGUMENT. The Seattle Post-Intelligence is Still floundering around In a maze of -misrepresentation which it uses in lieu 6f facts in an effort to create a senti ment favorable to the gigantic ship ping subsidy graft The Post-Intelligencer charges The Oregonlan with in consistency, because this paper, d. week ago, advocated the repeal of the bbso lete navigation laws, which prevent American citizens from buylrig shlp in the same mafltets' that are otfen tb the Germans and other natiqns, and subsequently showed that America could build ships cheaper than any other nation. There is not the slightest Inconsistency In the? statements, and The 'Oregonlan could print a new and excellent reason every day In the we'ek showing why the producers of 'this country should hot be held up by Rock efeller, Hahna, Grlscom and other mil lionaire shipowners, who are the chief' and only beneficiaries to profit by tbl3 $180,000,000 steal. . The Post-Ihtelligericer accuse! The' Oregonlan of manufacturing facts, and yet It neglects to answer or refute these., facts. The density of the ignorance dis played by the Post-Intelligencer is shown, in Its statement that the Liver pool Shipowners' Association (whatever that may be) "dictates rates for- ocean carrying and has the wheatgfowers.of the Pacific under tribute to the amount of millions atinualiy." Blit the fact is that oiit of 102 cargoes of wheat Cleared I from Portland since the opening of the present season but 57 were cleared un der the British flag the Germans, French, Italians, Dutch, Danes 'and Norwegians sectirlhg the profits on han dling the remaining" 45 cargoes. A week ago the Post-IritelhgenceE was anxious for the Government, to fol low Germany's plans, for upbuilding. the merchant marine. Now It accuses The Oregonlan of distorting- facts be cause this paper stated that free ship's had made Germany a power on the ocean. The Oregonlan yesterday pHht ed some facts 'regarding Germany's growth in the particular trade In which both Seattle and Portland are Interest ed. These facts, which cannot be de nied or explained away, show lhaf out of thirty grain vessels of a net register of 55,000 tons en route or listed for Port land, thirteen of-25,489 tons fly the Ger-' man flag, while but fifteen or 26,718 tons fly the British flag. By far the most interesting feature of the show ing, however, lies In the fact that nine of the largest of the German ships were craft which formerly sailed un der the British flag, and were taken over under the generous free-ship laws of Germany to add glory to the Ger man flag arid wealth to their German owners. These ships do not draw one Denny of a subsidy from the German Gov ernment Why was America shut out of the market when these ships were for sale? They have been carrying Ore gon and Washington wheat to Europe since they were first built, and why should not they be" given the right to register at Seattle or Portland? There is another matter which a'lso concerns the constituents of 'the Post Intelligencer, arid that is that it re quires the product of nearly 100 wheat farms to fill a vessel like the German bark Henrlette, which. Is now headed for Portland. These 100 whea't farmers are In the business of raising cargoes, the one owner of the Henrlette is In the business of carrying them to market. Is It just that one man should be paid a subsidy in.a favored line of industry while It Is withheld from the ioo others simply because they arg not rich enough to own ships? In conclusion the Post-Intelligencer says: "The truth is that The Oregonlan knows little about the shipping busi ness, and cares less." Portland has dispatched 102 grain ships the present season, and Seattle has dispatched four within the same period. From these figures it Is quite natural to suppose that The Oregonian would not have as excellent opportunities for keeping In touch with shipping as are enjoyed by the Post-Intelligencer. The bureau of promotion which Is maintained in con nection with the subsidy graft should supply the Post-Intelligencer with some arguments in favor of the bill. It Is making a sorry mess of its attempts to manufacture arguments for use out here on the shores of the Pacific, where nearly every one is in close touch with shipping. Having renounced allegiance to the revolutionary government of the Philip pine Islands and sworn allegiance to the United States Government, Aguln aldo is now in a position where he can be of great service In procuring com plete pacification of LUzon. If he plays fair, he Is likely to be appointed to a position of responsible authority, like that of a provincial Governor. If he does not play fair, he has by his own act made himself liable to very severe punishment. The chances are that he will respect his oath.' He does not want to be exiled to Guam or the Samoan Islands, and he would" enjoy the dignity of a provincial Governorship in Luzon under the authority of the " United States. The action of Agulnaldo will be influential In persuading the out standing Insurgents to submit, and the fact that the United. States made it easy for him to make his peace when it was in our power to have deported him to Guam or the Samoan Islands Will conciliate his followers and convince them that our Government Is disposed to a policy of clemency and conciliation the moment .that armed resistance to its authority' has ceaBed. Mablhi, the brains of the Insurrection, was deported to Guam because he persisted ln being an "Irreconcilable"; Agulnaldo knew his fate and did not wish to share it, so he decided to take the oath. The reports that frauds have beeri de tected In the Commissary and Quar termaster Departments at Manila sim ply prove that our latest war is-no exr ceptlon to our wars in the past or those of modern Europe. In our Civil War of 1861-65 there -were fraudulent prac tices in the Department of the Missis sippi. General Justus McKIhstry, a graduate of West Point, was tried be fore a military commission at St Louis and lost his commission because of these frauds. He was at least incom petent, and was believed .to have guilty knowledge of the swindle. There were hundreds of minor officers of the Com missary and" Quartermaster Depart ments who were tried and dismissed from the service during the Civil War, and a good many .Quartermasters and J Commissaries wee not.tif&d; who qughl J to nave oeen, ror they entered the serv ice bankrupt and left It very rich men. There" were frauds practiced utiori the doverhmeHt in the 'Revolutionary War"; In the War of 1812-14. and In tHe Mexl- can War. In the army of the first Na- yuieon irauamenr. quartermasters ana Commissaries were so common that Na poleoh on ode occasion ordered the exe cution of a Commissary who had sold 150,000 bottles of wine Intended for the rank and file, and pocketed the money. Thlevlhg Quartermasters and Commis saries were so common lh Wellington's army in the War of the Spanish Peniri sula that he-was obiigdd to shoot them by sentence of drumhead court-martial. During the Crimean War vof -1854-56 the frauds practiced! upon the British Army were so ehdrmous that their exposure contributed to the fail df the Ministry. There, have been frqudg practiced 'Upon the British Army.in Sduth Africa In the matter -of shoes .and. clothing quite as flagrant as any that were perpetrated upon the soldiers of our Union Army. There is nothing surprising In the ex istence of such frauds; they are sure to pceur, and their existence la ho In dictment bf our civil and military au thorities so ldhg as the guilty are promptly brought to trial and given ex emplary punishment George Kennan, who knows Russia as we'll as any man can know It, Indi cated the vhlue df the news and rumors froffl Russia when he sdys: "What Is goifig on lh Russia cannot be clearly understood. Nothing that goes on there ever, gets out to the world in Its' full truth.-" On this statement the New York Everting PoBt remarks: "Exist ing cbnaltloriS lh Russia are very sim ilar t3 tHdse which Drevailed lh Ger many hortiy after the Inauguration of the policy of reaction by the Congress of Vienna, and which continued during the long struggle for German unity. A state of things like that In Germahy before 1850 and in Russia at present coiild never exist In k country pos sessing a definite politlpal organization, with recognized organs' for the expres sion of public oplnioh. Only .under the influence" of German particularism or Russjan utocrapy would such an out let for'pppulaf" feeling be necessary, or the crUdp and rather aimless agita tion of the students have any political significance whatever. The university disturbances ate merely representative of the gerieral spirit of unrest which more and more pervades 'the intelligent classes lh Russia, and must be expected to increase as Industry develops and the conservative policy breaks down." The death of D'Oyiy carte remo'ves the second one of the brilliant trio that has given the world the sprightllest comic operas our stage has known. To Engilshnien the name of the dead lm pressaHo is inseparably associated with the Gilbert-Sullivan operas, even back to the time of the "Trial by Jury," some twerity-four years ago, DOyly Carte's remarkable Intuition for dramatic suc cess led him to associate himself with those arch merrymakers, even before the public had recognized the full scope of their tfilehts. Nature had given him a bold and ventUresbme spirit; and It was this .that led him to conceive one of the most audacious financial projects of the nineteenth century; for he was the, creator and builder of the, famous Savoy Theater in; London. ,' Twenty years ago the idea of establishing a home for comic opera even Gilbert Sullivan opera might well be regarded asthe wildest of Utoolan schemes. Yet . th6 enormous profits that have accrued from It have fully justified his faith in the project. Among the many Inno vations introduced into this new taber nacle of dramatic art may be mentioned one In particular. At his suggestion It was furnished with 1200 Incandescent lights. This Is said to be the first at tempt to light a public building entire ly oy electricity. In business shrewd ness, in dramatic instinct, In tact and in splendid confidence In his own pow ers, D'Oyiy Carte must rank as one of the greatest of modern Impressarlos. The whole country will rejoice In the appointment by the President of Calvin T. Titus. as cadet at large to West Point The term "at large" never be fore had so wide a significance in this i connection, the appointee having been called to the acceptance of the place 1 from far Manila, to which place he returned after having been the first to scale the walls of Pekln last Summer to the rescue of his imprisoned country men. It may be hoped that the Dock erys of the Military Academy will not consider It Incumbent upon them to teach young Titus "his place" by means detailed by them before the Congres sional committee of inquiry Into West Point hazing practices last Fall. "His place" Is among manly youth, not among cdwards,- but this will only serve to expose him to the persecutions of the latter, if the programme as ren dered against MacArthur, Booz and others Is carried out after his entrance. None are so blind as those who will not see. For example: Portland, Or., April 3 (To the Editor.) Re ferring to your editorial In Tuesday's Issue, If you hae no objection will you kindly publish the list of names of Arms signing the petition In favor of opcngambllns In this city, and fereatly oblige, ONE OF TOUR SUBSCRIBERS. '(Inclosed!) Portland, Or., Aprir3, 1001. Editor Orego nlan Dear Sir: I inclose herewith a request, but do not wish my name published in connec tion with It. Respectfully yours, The correspondent, who is a business man himself, evidently cannot see any reason why business, meli sljoUld hesi tate to have their requests, concerning gambling signed 'in the papers. Yet he wants his own withheld, '.Comment is unnecessary. A Republican awakening In Montana, aB shown by the results of the munici pal elections in Buttej Missoula, Helena and Anaconda, as against the fact that the state went Democratic a' few months ago, both in the National and state elections, is suggestive of the means used to compass the latter result. The stake's the1 Democrats played for last November Included two United States Senators; and the money put up by at least one candidate made the game worth while, The New York World asks: "Does not Agulnaldo a prisoner bring home freshly to the American pedple the blis tering truth that for the first time-In their history , they are called' upon to rejoice at the discomfiture of a man and a people fighting for liberty?" We neVer have been much concerned In this country about the preservation of savage - liberty - - OVER TWO MILLIONS. Another Statement as to Legislative AppropflatlbnH. Saem Journal. How much did the late Legislature ap propriate? So far no two sets of figures i frora different sources agree exactly, but all point to a higher total than was an ticipated. If the following figures are not corrected sufficiently, the Journal will be glad to make any further addi tions or subtractions. The Journal reprints the efforts of the Salem correspondent of The Oregonlin to ascertain the total appropriations made by the latfe Legislature. That writer has some reputation for accuracy, Industry add fairness. His statements are based on an official compilation made in the offlco of the Secretary of State. The Journal has presented figures from different authorities arid does not con sider any of them final or complete, but all taken together come constantly nearer the truth. The Oregonian totals, based on Secretary Dunbar's figures, are not entirely satisfactory and do not work out mathematically correct. For instance, The Oregonlan's educa tional appropriations for the Twenty-first General Assembly omit the Normal Schodls and are given at ?2i5,618 51. The Journal on March 1$ published the educa tional donations of this Legislature as follows, and they have riot been chal lenged: University, general appropriations 25.000 00 University, 1901-02 95,000 00 Agricultural College, general ap propriation 30,000 00 Agricultural College 1901-02 50.000 00 Monmouth Normal School 30,800 00 Ashland Normal School 15,000 00 Drain Normal School .- 11.000 00 Weston Normal School .' 59,429 52 Total for higher education... .$336,229 52 This Is $120,611 01 more than The Or egonlan Now, how will the totals stand, accord ing to The Oregonian's figures? Oregonian and Secretary of State total $1,792 94188 Scalp bounties 115.000 00 Educational Commission 120,611 01 FiStr hatcheries, reappropriated 10,844 00 Grand total J2.039.396 89 Jt Is claimed that the Soulier's Home got two appropriations of ?24,00O, when only- one was intended. Deduct this and the tbtal money appropriations of the ldst Legislature staHds at $2,015,396 89. an Innovation, indeed Yet Every Advance In Our History Una Been Innovation. Louisville Courier-Journal. Let us say at oncB that the scheme of occupying a territory remote from our borders, of subduing a people ailen to our character and Institutions and of under taking a system of Colonial Government Over this territory and these peoples with out their consent and apparently In oppo sition to their will Is riot merely a seri ous Innovation upon the original plan embodied by the Constitution of the United States, and contemplate by the authors of that Constitution, but that it is repugnant to the prudent counsels de livered by the wisest of our older states men, to say nothing about the teaching of history. But, considering the developments of a hundred years of modern progress, the Influence of modern Invention upon con temporary civilization and the operations of modern thought upon the nations of Christendom, Is It a greater departure than was made by our forefathers when they first came over to America and vanquished and robbed the Indians, and by their progeny when they set up along the Atlantic seaboard a bucolic republic founded in popular sovereignty, yet main taining the institution of African slavery? God moves In a mysterious way his wonders to perform. What was his all wise purpose? We know not. But there we were and there we are; and nothing Is surer in the future than that we shall be there "a century hence unlesa some power turns up strong enough to drive us out. Instead, therefore, of discussing I the abstraction of imperialism, illustrated by the rights and wrongs of the Phil ippines, we were more profitably en gaged In considering how we pnay best administer possessions, -which, for good or for evil, are with us to stay. Itennn on Chrlstlnn Soclnlism. Renah in his "History of the People of Israel" points out that the prophets, notably, Jeremiah, were anarchists, who declaimed perpetually against the rich, against social inequality, against com merce, trade and industry and national progress of every kind. Renan concluded his review with the following opinion: "The movement of the world Is the re sultant of two forces: Liberalism on one side; socialism on the other; liberal ism of Greek origin and socialism of Hebrew; liberalism urging the greatest attainable human development; socialism taking the cause, before all, of strict justice and the happiness of the majority, often injured In reality the requirements of civilization and the state." Almsgiving, Improvidence, communism and contempt for riches are constantly taught In the New Testament. The so cialistic teachings of the Old and New Testament have established forces that threaten to phsh liberty one side to make nay for anarchy or to supplant Indi vidual philanthropy with organized pa .ternallsm. Anarchists are never weary of quoting the statement that It Is almost Impossible for the rich man to be just or to enter the kingdom of heaven, thus using it to point the moral and adorn the tale of every Insurrection of the lawless classes against the law, order and peace of civilization. This is In substance Re nan's view, which he further Illustrates by pointing out that In the Middle Ages the prophets, interpreted by St. Jerome, were used to frighten the rich and pow erful and to hinder in the interest of the poor or pretended poor, all industrial, socialistic and national development; prophetlsm emphasized the protests of the poor. Not the Monroe Doctrine. New York Evening Post. It is not sufficient to say, as Mr. Cleve land does, that his "Venezuelan policy "has established the Monroe doctrine on last ing foundations in the eyes bf the world." The late E. J. Phelps, who was a great lawyer and a warm personal friend of Mr. Cleveland, whose Minister to Eng land he had been, took occasion to show In a public lecture, some time after the excitement had passed away, that the Monroe doctrine had nothing to do with the matter, that Mr. Cleveland had wholly misconceived it, and that his course In the Venezuelan matter was as unjusti fiable In the eye of public law as It was indefensible In morals. It is from no desire to reopen that controversy that we call attention to what has been said on the other side by a man whose patriot Ism w as equal to Mr. Cleveland's, and whoso equipment as a lawyer was su perior. i Remarkable Growth of Australia. New York Times. Remembering that Australia has 2,973,000 square miles of area as against our 3,603, 000. but only 4,000,000 Inhabitants to our 76,000,000, we can better realize what a stride those 4,000,000 people have made In every modern way. It Is only about 50 years since Australia ceased to be a con vict colony; since then, even with a soil of which two-thirds Is a desert, It can now furnish the world with one-fourth of Its wool In quantity and one-third of it In relative value. Its mineral output alone amounts to about $25 for every in. habitant. Australia can do better than that, though, in a paternalistic way. She can outdistance her mother country; against England's 40,000,000 people and $450,000,000 of revenue she puts her 4.000,000 people and $150,000,000 of revenue, and of fers every settler $150 per capita the highest average hi the world, A3HISE3IENTS. The complete breakdown of Maurice Barrymore. who Is now conflried in a New York madhouse, is no less of a shock to the many theatergoers who hav long been accustomed to look unon him as one of the foremost American actors, than to the members of his profession who trere his Tarm personal friends. Mr. Barrymore has been seen in Portland a number of times, his last appearence here being as Captain Davenport, In Augusta Thomas' "Alabama." A man of essentially artistic temperment. he took up the stage as he did painting or literature, and made It an accomplishment. He brought to It great talent, which, how over, might have won him equal fame had Maurice Barrymore. It been directed In any other channel, and his success was a matter of course. While he played a wide variety of characters In his long career, he never did anything really great, his most marked success being achieved as leading man In the support of actors of great genius. Mr. Barrymore was a man of wide culture, of fine tastes, and brilliant wit, many bits of his conversation being treasured to this day in the memories of his friends. His character has even been above re proach, and his presonallty was such as to make friends of all with whom he came in contact. It is a matter of very serious regret that no hopes can be entertained for his recovery. Long on Preachers. There has been a surfeit of clergymen on the Portland stage of late. After John Storm's mad pursuit of Glory Qualye through three Impossible acts of "The Christian," "The Village Parson" read melodramatic lines In a deep bass voice from the stage at Cordray's. Then Daniel Sully, as "The Parish Priest" amused several undeservedly small houses with his humorous philosophy, and last night "The Little Minister" delivered his "last ly." The stage, like everything else, is subject to epidemics, and the last one appears to be parsOnltis. However, in none of the plays Is the clergyman travestied, and his translations to the In side of the footlights has given no cause of offense either to his profession or his parishoners. Goodwin's Nevreat Ambition. Nat Goodwin, who Is determined to rob the stage of a good comedian In order that the world may have a chance to judge of the merits of a new Interpre ter of Shakespearean roles, has gone so far In his plans to play Shylock, as to have himself photographed in the part. Heretofore Mr. Goodwin's announcement that he was to leave comedy, has been regarded as a Joke, but he ha3 finally convinced the skeptics of the sincerity of his intentions. Of course all comedians Imagine that they are deslgried by nature for tragedy, and It requires a series of bitter lessons to teach most of them their error, whether Mr. Goodwin is one or the mistaken or not remains to be seen. Portland Girl Doing Well. A newspaper clipping Is going the rounds to the effect that Margaret Mayo" who has a place In the cast of "Arizona" this season, is the youngest daughter of Frank Mayo. Margaret Mayo Is in reality Miss Lily Slatten, of Portland, who elect ed to become an actress several years ago, and who has achieved considerable dis tinction" on the stage. Miss Slatten was for a number of years a pupil In the high school here, and has many friends and acquaintances in Portland who will be pleased to learn that she Is so well placed. Dramatic Notes. Helene Odllon, the famous German actress, Is to appear In this country. Frank Daniels, with the entire "Ameer" Company, will go to London at the close of the season, under the management of KIrke Le Shelle. Viola Allen Is to close her New York season In "In the Pilace of the King" about the last of April, and will play for four weeks more on the. road. Richard Mansfield gave good advice to the graduating class of the Empire Thea ter School of Acting In New York last week- He advised the young women not to pose off the stage, and the young men to wear their hair short, as ordinary con ventions demand. He also spoke of patriotism on the stage, and In, favor of a National theater. Our Inveterate Ofllce-Holdera. New York Evening Pdst. There are some odd things about our In veterate office-holders by appointment They constitute J"? we have said, a polit ical class as firmly fastened upon the public treasury as If they were glued there by law. Yet they are .the very men who are filled with noble rage at the thought of a public service to which entrance may be had by merit, and In which there shall be fixity of tenure. That Is the frightful bete nolr of "a permanent office-holding class," and it terrifies no one so much as our nermanent office-holders. You will hear a man who has. by favor or In trigue, lived at the public crib from his youth up describe with moving eloquence the danger to the Republic which lies in a class of public servants who may hold office during good behavior. This Is slightly comic, but It Is enough to move an anchorite to laughter, to hear these same chronic office-seekers gravely rebuke the Cubans for wanting office. That, they sagely explain. Is the great peril of giv ing Cuba Independence. Her. public men want office, think of thatl Her constitu tional convention contains politicians! Yes and ex-Generals, men' who never did a stroke of honest work, and hope to live out of politics. Clearly, this will never do. Such fondness for office as the Cubans display would be the ruin of any re public, except one like our own, made great and strong and beautiful by patriots of the kind we have been considering, all whose thoughts are of office. G. Washington Arrnlnnldo. Providence Journal. He is merely a crafty young man who has eluded his pursuers a long time, a self-ambitious and vainglorious fellow of slight military ability who wished to pose as the head of an opera-bouffe republic and has now been foiled in his designs. With his capture begins a new period of peace and happiness In the Philippines. Civil government will be granted at once so fan as the Inhabitants show them selves prepared for it. A greater measure of freedom will be vouchsafed them than they could have obtained from Aguinaldo's hands.- In time they will come to see that the failure of his hopes involved for them the best political destiny that could be provided. ' Becoming Tired. Florida Times-Union. Democratic. While we admire Mr. Bryan and fought his battles humbly in this isolated part of the political vineyard, we cannot appre ciate his principle nor "understand his mo tive In attacking Grover Cleveland by weak ridicule. When history glows with bright pages of Cleveland, Mr. Bryan, we fear, will not occupy more than a foot note on Its pages, nor even sleep as a forefather In a village tradition, nor be a mute inglorious Milton long by the clods forgot I XOTE AND COatMENT". There are rumors of a war in South Africa. The news from Kansas Indicates that the state has outlived Mrs. Nation. April Is attending to the Unfinished bus iness of "her Immediate predecessor. The early bird catches the grip, if hfa happens to live In this neighborhood. Carter Harrison seems to be about tho kind of Mayor Chicago wants, after all. Agulnaldo seems to be playing for a Brigadier-General's commission for him self. The cabloid of "antl-lmperlallsta" sttll refuse sternly to approve the capture of Agulnaldo. Atkinson has not yet applied for a Filipino dictatorship, but he still has plenty of time. Our old friend, the deficiency In pre cipitation, is in danger of turning up in the death column. A prominent actor complains that actors do not eat propely on the stage. Why give them knives, anyway. Perhaps If the Sultan of Turkey wera to give a church fair he could ralaa enough money to pay that little bllL "Twill soon be- necessary To stock the bankers tllli. For trust magnates' convenience. With billion dollar bills. One of the first things that should be taught the benighted heathen Is tho duty of offering up prayers for Hon. Mark Twain. The man who predicts the June flood hasn't been heard from yet, but don't think for a minute he has gone out of business. Slxto Lopez says he Is anxious to seo Agulnaldo. Possibly wants to learn if his chief has become sufficiently versatilo to look like all the photographs lately printed. Sdnjr of Detvet. I come from some place, here or there, I leavo no track behlnil me, The British seek me everywhere. But none of them can find ma. I sally forth at break of day And capture half an army. Then, like a shade, I fade away, Before they see or harm. me. To keep things humming for the foej Is always my endeavor; The Brrtlshers may come or go But I go on forever. X make a sadden night attack Upon J. Bull's position. And o'er tho velt I hurry back. With tons of ammunition. In vain an ammunition train Puts efforts forth to shake me. And expeditions seek In vain To take or overtake me. I drop upon a camp at night. And scatter consternation. And. putting all the mules to flight, Retreat In great elation. Bach new man sent to capture m$ I soon succeed In trapping; And when I get him collared he Admits I caught him napping. To trick and badger every foe Is always my endeavor; John Bull's commandors come and go, But I go on forever. Quite Iilke Home. Havana Post, March 21. An old-fashioned fight over tho spoils of politics seems to be going on In the city government of Havana. The Na tional party, whoso members ara at pres ent In the crib, does not propdse to allow the Republicans, who at present happen to be drawing salaries from the city, to continue to do so any longer. They ara to be bounced to make room for tho frlend3 of the Aldermen of the National party. This is like old times at home. A contemporary said recently that there were 250 emDloves in the city buildings, r where. In the most reckless days of Span ish rule, there were not more tnan ou or 60. "Wheeler on Pnimton. Kansas City Star. Oeneral Wheeler, as might have been expected, makes no mistake as to tho character of Frederick Funston, and the merit of his recent achievement. The old cavalry leader, himself an Intrepid fighter, declares that he has never known anyono so fond of venture as General Funston is. The Agulnaldo expedition was thor oughly characteristic of the Kansun. It was not a spectacular exploit undertaken for the fame it might bring. It wits moro in the nature of a daring undertaking en tered upon for the good it might do and the excitement It would afford. William the Adviser. New York Evening Sun. It Is rather peculiar to find the Kaiser telling his guards what they ought to do should stormy times like those of "Forty-eight" once more be seen In Ber lin. The monarch noW known as "Wlilfaih the Great" was more than half Inclined to abdicate then through sheer discourage ment William II would hardly feel Ilka following that example at any rate. Have not his troops got a new barracks near his royal palace? Magnetism for Agnlnnldo. New York Journal. Let him be brought across tho conti nent and allowed to see the power, tho greatness and the good will of the coun try that offers him a share In its mighty inheritance. Then let him be t.aken to Washington, and there let President Mc Kinley exert upon him some of 'those magnetic attractions that disarmed Demo cratic opposition In thd last session of Congress. Axe to Grind. Baltimore "World. This world Is filled with people, from tne cabin to tho throne. Who are full of deep-laid schemes and little plan-lets of their own. And the more ou get among them the oftener you will find That nearly everybody has "a little ax to grind." There's the young girl In society, who'll treat you awfully well; She'll make you think she's yours alone, your head she'll badly swell; She's using you to spite another and somebody most unkind; She wilt give to you the throw-down when she has no ox to grind. Take for instance, politicians of a parly that's In power. They will swear they are your truest friends and Jolly you by the hour; Their friendship ends with the election, and jou'U very quickly And 'Twaa your vote, not you. they wanted with their little ax to grind. The baby of your neighbor climbs up upon your knee; She laughs as she carcstes you as loving as can be; It's the penny she is after, and not the lovo that fills, her mind; She Is just like all the others with her llttla ax to grind. And when our lives have ended, and our souls to heaven have flown; When we stand beside the pearly gates of ala baster stone; You will And eome gay dace Ivor, who for a pair of wings has pined. Work some "con game" on St. Peter-wl&i his little ax to grind. v. 3cr-ZSt,iit8 " itv "fr