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PORTLAND, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1000.
Cuba Is the only method of saving the
Monroe doctrine.
The plea Is doubtless fanciful, but
Senator Morgan undertakes to say that
if Cuba Is granted independence Spain
may be expected to attempt reacqui
sitlon of sovereignty over Cuba; that
she "will insist on right of Intervention
on behalf of her subjects in the island
a right not excluded by anything" In
the treaty of Paris; that we are pre
cluded from assertion of the Monroe
doctrine concerning her; that Europe
will support Spain in such a conten
tion; and that if Cuba stands upon
her rights under our declaration of war,
there Is no help for a had matter but In
statehood. Skillfully as he arrays the
undeniably awkward situation into
which Cuban negotiations have de
scended, the conclusion Is no more ten
able than any other Imaginary but Im
practicable device.
Statehood for Cuba can be defended,
doubtless, on ideal grounds. Fears of
foreign elements In our body politic are
chiefly a product of the imagination,
and full admission to the Union would
be at once a short cut to economic
benefaction to Cuba and summary end
of strategic dangers and Instinctive
dread of colonialism. But because of
these very things, in their practical
consequences, the tiling Is pragmatical
ly Impossible. Our members of Con
gress do not want free trade with Cuba.
There Is hardly a state In the Union
but whose industries would exert pow
erful influence against the free entry of
Cuban products. Senator Morgan him
self Is likely to hear from the sugar
'plantations of the South In unmistak
able accents of resentment and alarm.
all coxrsciiaxEs at large:.
If we are agoing to have a reform
charter, why not make its reforms
thorough? The proposal to elect all
Councllmen from the entire city instead
of from wards has been voted down in
committee, but that does not end the
matter. There is yet time for the
scheme to be incorporated in the char
ter.'and this should be done.
The sections of a city do not repre
sent the distinct separation and antag
onistic interests which found reflec
tion in the assignment of Senators to
states and members of a State Legis
lature to counties. It is doubtful, in
deed, to what extent good government
is advanced by the log-rolling of vari
ous sections -for appropriations; but
there is no doubt that the scattered
concerns of a metropolitan district will
be looked after more wisely and hon
estly by a Council competitively with
drawn from the whole body of the com
munity than by a set of fellows chosen
primarily to advance the interests of
their respective neighborhoods.
To dignify and elevate the Council
has become, Indeed, the problem of
municipal reform. This has resulted
partly from academic conviction that
the Legislative function of the city
should be rigidly restricted to this rep
resentative body, and also from practi
cal collapse of the once popular notion
of locating all possible power in the
hands of the Mayor. As cities have
grown, moreover, and their concerns
multiplied and diversified, it has be
come apparent that the real business
of the Councilman is not looking after
his ward, but looking after the whole
city. In an article In the North Ameri
can Review for May, Mr. John Ford,
a noted student of municipal problems,
puts the acts of hte Councilman on
general matters as ninety-nine to one
act representative of his peculiar con
stituency. The conclusion Is, therefore,
that the effort should be to get good
men for the whole city, rather than
good men for each ward.
It needs no argument, but only the
slightest reflection, to show that if a
councilmanio candidate's claims be
subjected to the scrutiny of the whole
body of the voters, the process of sur
vival of the Attest would be greatly
strengthened. The license the low
wards of every city now enjoy to nom
inate undesirable candidates and let
the voters choose between them would
be withdrawn, because every man on
the ticket would have to run the gaunt
let of the honest, intelligent vote in the
other districts. There would be no more
show for a tough to defeat a deserving
man for Councilman than for Mayor
or Treasurer.
A city is something few Americans
know much about, and something peo
ple of a community the size of Portland
know practically nothing about. The
Nation is young, the far West is espe
cially young, and we have all been
living, to all practical intents and pur
poses, in the country. Municipal gov
ernment must now become, however,
no longer a toy tb play with, but a busi
ness to occupy our serious thought The
problems of debt and taxation, fran
chises and public works, engineering
and sanitation', schools, sewers, parks
and streets, must be met with wisdom
and decision. We must, imperatively,
call to our aid the lessons of experi
ence elsewhere. One of the plainest of
these lessons is the high moral and eco
nomic value of electing all Councllmen
at large.
STATEHOOD FOIl CUBA.
Unaccountably taken with Senator
Morgan's original advocacy of state
hood for Cuba, the Philadelphia Rfc
ord has obtained from him a long and
careful argument in support of that
novel and highly diverting project. We
take It that outside of Congress and
Cuba itself there is no opposition to the
island's admission to the Union at
Which those who think with Mr. Mor
gan need feel alarm; but till those
trifling obstacles are overcome, the sub,,
ject is one of more value for its sug
gestlveness than for any Immediate
bearing -on affairs.
It is a fortunate circumstance for Mr.
Morgan's scheme that it comes before
the country prominently at the very
time when the Piatt amendment has
been rejected again, and thus has de
ferred hope of a speedy settlement of
the Cuban problem. If Cuba demands
concessions that Congress will not grant
and Congress insists upon conditions
with which Cuba will not comply, Im
patient people will be apt to turn to
statehood as a relief from trouble. Any
port in a storm. Mr. Morgan also dwells
with emphasis and at length on the very
toDic accentuated In these latest Cuban
negotiations. He says statehood for J
A PLAGUE-SPOT UNCOVERED.
The story of the rescue by the police
of a "white girl baby from a Chinese
opium den has no doubt sent a thrill
of horror, supplemented by a feeling
of thankfulness, to the heart of every
humane listener in this city. Succeed
ing this feeling of horror and thankful
ness has been, we may well believe, one
of astonishment not unmlngled with
Indignation and execration for the
woman who sold this helpless babe into
a Chinese den, "with Its degrading sur
roundings, as the latter are known to
exist, not only in this city, but In other
cities of the Pacific Coast. "We have
a good many babies in this business,"
said this Insensate keeper of a "chil
dren's nursery," "and it is not possible
to keep track of all of them." And
so, with utter unconcern as to the future
of this child, apparently unconscious
that she had been guilty of the slight
est moral dereliction in selling her to
the keeper of a Chinese opium den, this
woman babbled on of the mother of this
baby, "who was a nice young woman,"
and asked, "Why are they making such
a fuss about this child?" By compar
ison with this woman the Chinese
foster-mother, who, according to her
ideas, took good care of the child, and
even the foster-father proprietor of an
opium den though he was and is are
shining lights in humanity and in mor
als. But what about the traffic of which
this dull keeper of a "children's nurs
ery" In the very heart of this city, bab
bles so unblushingly so stolidly? Is It
true that there are "nice young women"
(heaven save the mark!) in any such
number In this city as to make possible
and profitable the business of the baby
farmer? That a floarishing business is
made possible by women who, to retain
the appearance of respectability, find it
necessary to conceal their social sins
by the abandonment of their new-born
infants to the tender mercies of this
callous creature and give no thought
concerning the disposition that she
makes of them? To err is human, but,
deliberately to shift the consequences
of error in a matter Involving the
moral and physical welfare of helpless
Innocents Is diabolical.
The Chinese parents in this case are,
Indeed, the least of the malefactors
connected with it That they loved the
little white child whom they had
bought, paid for and taken into their
home cannot be doubted. That they
were bringing her up as their very own
Is witnessed In the finery In which she
was clad and the fact that she had
been well fed and housed, 'as they were
fed and housed. Thev no doubt feel
some natural pangs at parting with
this darling of their otherwise childless
lives.
The unavoidable conclusion from this
case is that bad P-s opium dens are,
there are worse places in this city than
these; that, demoralizing as they are,
there Is at least one place whose in
fluence for evil reaches farther out In
the subtle realm of human life than
they. While they deal with mature
minds and condemn the bodies of men
and women to disease and death moral
and physical the "children's nursery,"
Instituted as a cloak for a social sin,
dominated by a female dragon, con
demns or may condemn, In Its heedless,
soulless, mercenary way, babies newly
born or yet unborn, to lives of immoral
ity, crime, disease, neglect and hopeless
degradation. Of all the moral plague
spots uncovered from time to time In
this city and they have not been few
or lacking in noisomeness this surely
Is the most pernicious. Miscalled a
"children's nursery," It combines sacri
lege with diabolism and presents one
of. the most remarkable examples in
our municipal annals of "borrowing the
livery of heaven 0 serve the devil in."
as a Christian creed and Protestants
as Christians.
We do not know whether this Father
Harney Is a hereditary Catholic or a
Catholic by conversion. His law for
the punishment of heretics laid down at
New Brunswick is "so different from
the teachings of Catholic theologians
who are grounded in their faith that it
is difficult to class him except ,as a
bigot who would revive the stake and
the Inquisition if he dared. Christians
who accept the doctrine of future pun
ishment do not hold that Catholics or
Protestants are foreordained to hell be
cause of their creed. Modern Catholic
opinion of Protestantism is well ex
pressed in a little book, entitled "Path
ollc Belief," by Very Revertend Joseph
Faa DI Bruno, for many year3 a mis
sionary priest in England, an American
edition of which was published in 1884,
with the imprimatur of Cardinal Mc
Closkey. Father Bruno said:
Catholics do not bellee that Protestants
who are baptized! who lead a good life, loe
God and their neighbor, and are blamelessly
ignorant of the Just claims of the Catholic
religion to be the only one true religion (which
Is being called in good faith) are excluded
from heaven, provided they believe that there
Is one God In three dllne persons, that God
will duly reward, the good and punish the
wicked; that Jesus Christ is the Son of God
made man, who redeemed us, and in whom we
must trust for our salvation; and provided
they thoroughly repent of having ever, by their
sins, offended God
Catholics hold that Protestants who have
these dispositions, and who hav e no suspicion of
their religion being false, and no means to dis
cover, or fall In their honest endeavors to dis
cos er the true religion, and who are so disposed
in their heart, that they would at any cost
embrace the Roman Catholic if the knew It'
to be the true one, are Catholics in spirit,
and in some sense within the Catholic church,
without themselves knowing it. She holds
that these Christians belong to and are united
to the soul as it Is called of the Catholic
church, although they are not united to the
visible body of the church by external com
munion with her, and by the outward pro
fession of her faith.
The substance of Father Bruno's doc
trine Is that a Protestant who sees in
the Catholic church the true faith but
does not embrace it externally by pro
fession, Is in danger of losing salvation.
Catholic opinion goes further than this.
Rev. Louis A. Lambert, who edited the
American edition of Father Bruno's
book, wrote as a footnote: "A believer
In one God who, without any fault on
his part, does not know and believe
that in God there are three divine per
sons, is, notwithstanding. In a state of
salvation, according to the opinion of
most Catholic theologians." Catholics
now believe, even if the theologians do
not preach it, that a Protestant in good
faith In any Protestant creed will be
saved whether he has seen the light in
the Catholic church or not, When the
excitement of the second Dreyfus trial
was at its highest, an eminent Paris
Jesuit was quoted as saying that Cath
olics believe that "even a Jew in good
faith might be saved." Priests like
Father Harney do not represent modern
Catholic belief. If he had lived COO years
ago, his sentiments would easily have
earned a bishopric for him, while Lam
bert, Di Bruno and Hewitt would have
been sent to the stake or put upon the
rack of the Inquisition.
of the country are now controlled large
ly by the same men who are interested
with Mr. Morgan, in buying up foreign
fleets, and they have orders so far ahead
that they cannot turn out work fast
enough io meet the requirements of the
trade. The oil business' of Mr. Rocke
feller gives employment to about 400
ships a year, and the steel interests of
the same gentleman and his associates
sppply freight for a still larger fleet
It would be'-very sailsfactoryfor Rock
efeller if the Government would pay
him a subsidy for carrying his own
freight to market in his own ships, but
it is unnecessary and should not be per
mitted. Mr. Rockefeller Is entitled,
however, to the privilege of American
registry for the foreign ships which he
is forced to buy in order to handle even
a small portion of his freight
this
Somebody at Astoria sends us
complaint:
Noticing an article in my Dally Oregonian
of Saturday, the 18th Inst, giving an account.
of a TVhlte child being adopted by Chinese In
your city. . I wish to say if those officers of
the law, Messg. Haw ley and Kerrigan, whould
take a, visit down here they might find an
other white child, or more, decked out in Chi
nese costume It is conspicuously paraded on
the streot every day, and Is noticed b sev
eral people of this place. It Is a shame that
white children should be raised in heathenism
in a country like ours? The Boys and Girls'
Aid Society "should take a v lsit here.
Much as The Oregonian censures the
Portland episode referred to and on
that head its views are elsewhere on
this pago set out it has small sympa
thy with the Astoria complaint no
more, In fact, than It would have with
Chinese who should be horrified to see
Chinese babies being brought up by
Americans, clad In Western garments,
with loose shoes and short hair. .It is
not the nationality, but the criminal
surroundings of the Portland baby and
the circumstances of its sale, that
arouse just indignation. Let us get
over the idea that Chinamen are some
thing less than human. White babies
are being brought up in some respect
able Chinese homes in Portland, and
brought up well.
CATHOLIC
THEOLOGY ATD
ESTANTS.
PROT-
The Paullst fathers who are conduct
ing a mission at New Brunswick, N. J.,
recently found this query In the question-box:
"Does the Catholic church re
gard Protestants as heretics, and does
it not believe and teach that heretics
should be punished, even with death, If
necessary?" Father Harney's answer
was:
In a way, I say jes Certainly -the church
does consider Protestants heretics. In a way.
A formal heretic Is one who knowa he Is per
verting the truths of God. and the Catholic
church. No man, by sinning himself, should
be allowed to lead others into sin. I do .not
doubt. It they -nere strong enough, that the
Catholic people would hinder, even by death
if necessary, the spread of such errors through
the people. And I say, rightly so.
The Paullst fathers are an American
Roman Catholic missionary society
which was organized with the papal
sanction in 1858. Originally and for
some years afterwards they consisted of
men who, like their founders Fathers
Hecker, Walworth, Baker and Deshon
were converts from Protestantism.
They were generally men eminent for
learning. The founders and later Father
Hewitt "who became associated with
them, were ministers who stood high
in the estimation of both Protestants
and Catholics. They did not go about
the country preaching that Protestants
are heretics and doomed to eternal
damnation. They treated Protestantism
THEORIES IN X.EED OF A DRYDOCK
The theory that America's only hope
for a merchant marine lies in the pay
ment of a $180,000,000 -subsidy to million
aire shipowners is receiving some pret
ty hard knocks, at, the present time.
Cold commercial facts are making this
theory appear so ridiculous that nearly
all of the advocates of the gigantic job
have temporarily subsided. About the
only paper on the Pacific Coast that
has had the assurance openly to advo
cate the graft since J. Plerpont Morgan
bought 'Up a good share of the British
merchant marine is the private organ
of a Washington political trickster.
This organ is printed at Seattle, and for
this reason, its advocacy of, the ship
ping subsidy is all the more remark
able. According to the theory of the Seattle
paper, a subsidy Is needed because it
costs more to build and operate ships
under the American flag than under a
foreign flag. This theory Is knocked In
the head by James J. Hill, the patron
saint of the Elliott Bay settlement.
Needing a couple of mammoth steam
ers to run between Seattle and the
Orient in competition with the British,
Germans, Norwegians and Japanese
who were operating on that route, Mr.
Hill, after receiving bids from foreign
bidders, and carefully considering the
relative cost of running them under his
own or a foreign flag, let the contract
to an American yard. This was not
philanthropy or patriotism, but it was
business, and the transaction is a fact
so much in evidence that it carries more
weight than all of the theories in Chris
tendom. Another of the stock theories of the
Seattle paper , is that which accounts
for the marvelous growth of the Amer
ican merchant marine as being solely
due to the protection afforded it in the
coastwise and lake trade. Here again
a Seattle transportation company pre
sents facts which make the theories of
the paper appear simply ridiculous.
The steamship Tamplco, built on the
Lakes and owned on the Lakes, is now
headed for Seattle to enter the foreign
"trade out of that port. This steamer,
which, according to the Seattle paper,
will be followed by a number of others
of the same class, steamed away from,
the prosperous Lake trade, past the pro
tected zone of coastwise traffic, and out
Into the open ocean with the world for
a field and the fleets of every nation
on earth to compete with. Here are
some "facts of recorded history" that
are not easily explained away.
The Seattle paper In commenting on
the Morgan deal, says, "American cap
ital will thus receive dividends on
steamship lines, which have heretofore
paid dividends to British capital," and
yet It throws up its hands in horror at
the thought that this mighty fleet of
modern steamships should be given, the
right to fly the American flag and add
glory to the country that supplied the
money with which they were bought.
The profits last year on the line of
steamers purchased by Mr. Morgan
were 14 per cent on a very liberal cap
italization, a fact "which removes the
possibility of that gentleman's being
actuated by charitable or philanthropic
motives while making the deal. While
Mr. Morgan can worry along on the 14
per cent net profit, he will not refuser
his big share of the $180,000,000 present
whlcb the subsidy organs are trying to
extract from the millions of producers"
for the benefit of a few shipowners.
These ships are earning no subsidy un
der the British flag, and at the first op
portunity they should be permitted to
come under the American flag. Amer
icans will keep on buying ships abroad
so long as they are paying such big
dividends as they pay now, and by so
doing they are not depriving American
shipyards of a single order.
As a matter of fact, the big shipyards
The Oregonian is a plain speaker.
It is no admirer of mincing manner or
meticulous style. It hopes it never may
be. Everybody knows and every can
did person admits that it was ill-advised
on the part of the President to
attempt a long and fatiguing journey
of a public nature with his invalid wife.
The Oregonian, as a plain speaker, has
plainly said a thing that is in every
one's mind. But it brines remon
strance and denunciation from certain
llttle-mlnded people of the press, who
attribute The Oregonlan's remark to an
alleged "hatred of President McKln
ley." Of course, this Is an assumplon
utterly gratuitous and without foun
dation. The Oregonian finds better
business than indulging hatred of any
body. But it Is a plain speaker. It
does not admit that there are sacred
and forbidden subjects, pertaining to
thinking and living, to topics of general
concern, secular or religious, with
which it may not meddle. The Orego
nian is one of those journals which
would lose their main function, should
they renounce their habit of plain
speech.
Mrs. McKInley's recovery now seems
assured, and the President will hie him
back with her to Washington with a
thankful heart The people of the Pa
cific Northwesi'have to some extent al
ready g&tten over the disappointment
incident to his failure to complete his
long-projected tour, and are cheerfully,
as becomes reasoning human beings,
turning the funds pledged to the enter
tainment of the Chief Magistrate Into
other channels of public profit and re
joicing. This is as it shotild be.N The
old saying, "What can't be cured must
be endured," Is as binding upon human
ity now as in the old days when passive
endurance was reckoned as one of the
cardinal virtues. The spirit that dic
tated it has grown somewhat out of the
doggedly submissive stage, and, as is
befitting to an age of progress, has as
sumed an attitude of cheerfulness that
is disposed to make the best of what
cannot be helped.
WHY DOUUVER VAS LATt-.
J. R. Rathom, in Chicago Record-Herald.
A bellboy at the "Aud," "which In bell
boy language, means Auditorium, has
solved a sort of mild mystery by confess
ing hie participation in a UVtle adventure
that happened during the national cam
paign last Fall. One night Senator Dol
ilver was billed to speak for the Repub
lican candidate .for President, and 5000
people had crowded Into the big theater
to listen to him. The reception commit
tee waited on him In his apartments iu
the Auditorium Annex and offered to es
cort him to the platform, but be asked
them to go ahead and said he would fol
low in a few moments.
The few momenta lengthened Into min
utes, however, and the minutes into 20
before the Senator made his appearance,
looking hot, flustered and very tired. The
long-continued applause and the Introduc
tory speeches gave him plenty of time to
recover himself, and when he rose to be
gin his address he appeared as calm and
self-possessed as usual.
The members of lhe reception commit
tee wondered in a placid kind of way what
had happned to cause the 20 minutes' de
lay; none of them imagined that the
speaker of the evening was within a few
feet of tnem for most pf that time doing
an act that the vaudeville managers would
have featured as the funniest of the year.
"This here's the whole thing," said the
bellboy the other day, "from A to Izar"d.
The big guy" (meaning the distinguished
statesman) "sent down a call just after
two reception comity went away over to
the theater. He saye to me that We. would
get all crushed' up In the push around,
the doors, and asked me to put him onter
an easy way troo to tho stage. That was
a dollar In It for me, so I led the pro
cession and we started down the tunnel
across to the Aud, and I slipped him in
the wagon alley back of the stage door.
"Well, when we got that far I says to
him that if he didn't want to crost the
open stage to get? to right side we would
have to go underneath by the machinery
an' come up that way. He says, 'I don't
want to go over he open stage, not on
yer life, sonny. I begun to walk down
the stairs with him ahead, and we got
about half-way over when he says.
Great Caesar's goat, wot's this? It was
a tub of red paint elttln on the concrete
floor, an his nibs had run right Into It,
both his legs, patent leathers an' black
dress pants.
'The Senator1 swore considerable an' said
a lot of nice things tto me, but he fln'lly
got a move on an' told me not to stand
laughln' there like an idiot, but to go and
unstrap his valises and bring down a pair
of p"ante, shoes and socks.
"When I gets back with the goods there
was his whiskers standln by the light of
a little electric globe waltln fer me. We
could hear the mob up above stampln' an'
uhlstlln and the big organ poundln' out
to .fill In the wait The Senator done a
llghtnln' change turn that night for his
life. He whipped off bis swallertall an'
sot on the concrete while I handed hlni
the things as he wanted them. Just as
he got the first boot on there was a extra
large roar from up above. Then, the Sen
ator says somethln' under his breath about
it beln' enough to make Rome howl and
the reception guys thlnkin' him a blank
ety blank fool. He struggled with the
other boot about four mlnuttes, and then
'he remembered he had a pretty sizeable
foot, and had to take both his shoes off
while he pulled on his pants. While he
was doln' this turn he said eome more
strong things.
"At last he got? everything on all right.
Then he says to me, 'Pick up all that stuff
andl take it to my room. See me In the
mornln' and I'll give you another dollar,
but If you ever talk about this affair tb
anyone I'll break your neck.' I showed
him the way up the other side to the
stage, and as soon as I heard, by the
yawp, that he had got into the ring, I
bundled .up the clothes 00 as none of the
palnf.drlps would get on me and made
tracks for his rooms.
"Well, he was the main squeeze that
night, an' the papers said next? mornln
that he cut the mustard in great shape. I
guess his head was so swelled by It that
he forgot the other dollar he promised me.
Anyway, I never got If, and so the story's
out."
INSULAR CASES NOT DECIDED.
WASHINGTON, May 20. The United
States Supreme Court today adjourned
until next Monday without announcing an
opinion in the Insular cases. The court
will adjourn next Monday until next Oc
tober. The Supreme Court decided the case of
the American Sugar Refining Company
vs. the United States In favor of the con
tention of the Sugar Company. The case
was a proceeding to determine whether
duty should be collected upon the value
of sugar when it is shipped or when It is
landed, the value having Increased while
the weight decreased by virtue of Its dry
ing out while in transit. The court al
armed the decision of the Circuit Court of
Appeals for the second circuit, which held
that the tariff assessment must be on the
basis of the value upon arrival.
Kansas will be allowed to file its suit
in the Supreme Court to enjoin the State
of Colorado tittm deflecting for Irrigation
purposes the water of the Arkansas river
to the Injury of the former state. The
decision of the court to this effect was an
nounced today by Chief Justice Fuller,
who also announced that the State of
Colorado would- have leave to plead, an
swer or to demur to the Kansas bill.
Colorado has sought to prevent the fil
ing of the suit because of its effect on
Irrigation Interests of the Arkansas Val
lev in that state.
The Court denied the petition of ex-Congressman
White in his case Involving the
validity of the tax upon stock exchange
"calls" under the war-revenue act.
Many will be Inclined to sympathize
with Moderator MInton, of the Presby
terian General Assembly, who, viewing
the secularization of the schools, asks
gloomily if in our fear of uniting church
with state we have not "gone so far as
to disunite God from the state"? The
faith of our sons and daughters is In
volved, he says, . and what threatens
us Is "not an organized skepticism, but
a God-forgotten secularism." There Is
truth In this, but the fault does not
lie with the schools, for their province
Is not to teach religion. Protestantism
succeeded in secularizing the public
schools, and It did well. If It has failed
to pursue the equally necessary thing
of Instructing Its children in religious
truth the difficulty does not lie with the
educational but with the religious
forces.
Preaching against stock gambling is
common nowadays. The rise in North
ern Pacific stock on the day of the panic
Is said to have nearly broken up a cler
gymen's meeting In Philadelphia, and
there comes from Mllburn, 111., the re
port that a Congregational minister
has been suspended because he lost
over $100,000 of money belonging tb par
ishioners in disastrous stock specula
tions. This minister was formerly a
member of the Chicago Board of Trade,
and as many of his precious flock were
disposed to hazard money in the mar
ket, he was considered a fit instrument
to operate the pool, with the results
mentioned. Now they blame him for
their losses, and his suspension follows.
The Berlin correspondent of the New
York Evening Post, writing under date
of April 30, says that facts have re
cently become public "which go to con
firm the opinion held by many keen
observers both medical and otherwise
all along, that the Kaiser is not of
normal mind." There is a strain of
mental infirmity in the family. King
Frederick William rv of Prussia broke
down with softening of the brain and
was succeeded on the throne of Prussia
by his brother, William, who Is the
grandfather of the present Emperor of
Germany.
McKinley Marriage.
Canton Repository, Jan. 27, 187L
The audience-room of the new stone
Presbyterian Church being nearly fin
ished, the lady members resolved to
have It ready for the wedding of Major
McKinley and Miss Ida Saxton.
Promptly at the hour yea, long before
the 7:30 P. M. named upon the Invita
tions the house was filled with the ex
pectant multitude. The scene at the
church was novel and Interesting. Here
were a thousand people all the build
ing will hold all on tiptoe of expecta
tion to see. Professor Flster came in and
entertained them by music upon the
organ.
Some minutes after he commenced to
play there was a sensation. Everybody's
face was turned toward the door. Many
stiff-necked old and young sinners near
ly broke their necks at It. At length
they came, first up the left aisle James
A. Saxton leading the bride, his daughter.
They were followed by Miss Mary Saxton,
a bridesmaid, escorted by Abner McKin
ley. Upon the right aisle Major Mc
Kinley approached the pulpit, leading
Mrs. James A. Saxton.. Ushers and brides
maids followed.
As to the dresses worn by the ladles,
we shall be compelled, owing to our
meager training In Jenkins" technicali
ties, to be entirely silent, except to say
that they were faultless In taste and
exceedingly rich and beautiful.
Arrived at the area In front of the pul
pit, the parties disposed themselves
gracefully and with perfect facility, the
bride and bridegroom In the center of a
half-circle, the former -supported by the
maids and the latter by his friends.
The Rev. E. Buckingham and the Rev.
Dr. Endsley married the couple, using the
plain and yet imprassive Ceremony
usually employed by ministers of the
Presbyterian and Methodist churches.
At the conclusioln of the ceremony the
crowd waited respectfully until the newly-made
husband and wife and their
companions had passed out. Then
tongues were loosed and the dumb spake
and gossips became supreme, and all
agreed that nothing could have been more
gracefully performed than the first act
In the life drama upon which the gallant
major and his young and beautiful wife
have just entered.
After the marriage ceremony the per
sonal friends of the families partook of
refreshments, which had been laid at the
residence of Mr. Saxton. Major and
Mrs. McKinley took the 10 o'clock train
for the East and will make a bridal tour
of the Eastern cities for three or four
weeks.
OUR TRADE WITH AFRICA.
American Goods In Demand in Many
Parts of the Continent.
WASHINGTON, May 20. Frederick
Emery, chief of the Bureau of Foreign
Commerce of the State Department, makes
public" today the second chapter of "Com
mercial Relations of the United States,"
dealing with the trade .of this country
with Africa. The chapter Is made up of
trade testimony from four United States
Consuls statloried at favorable pojnts of
observation at all points of the compass
on the continent. Consul Kidder, of Al
giers, says:
"I am convinced that a more certain
market for American product adapted
to the wants of the country does not ex
ist pn this side of the Atlantic than Is
offered by Algeria. The commerce la
controlled by European houses and the
most Improved farming Implements are
In Increasing demand. The bast tools at
the fairest prices can be sold herei re
gardless of where they come from. Amer
ican food products are sold to some ex
tent through branch houses In France and
are popular wherever used. A grocery
dealing exclusively In our food products,
with some one to demonstrate methods
of cooking, would be a great success. In
short, there is hardly an article of any
growth or manufacture which would not
be appreciated here If presented In the
proper way. The greatest drawback to
trade Is the lack of a direct steamship
line."
Consul Glbbs, of Tamatlve . says:
"American trade In Madagascar is in
creasing. Canned meats, corn, petroleum,
etc., are arriving in larger quantities.
Twenty truck wagons from Wisconsin
recently reached here, consigned to one
of the contractors engaged on the gov
ernment roads."
Consul Williams, of Sierra Leone, says
that place is destined to be the distrib
uting center for European and American
Imports and the gateway to the interior
of the continent. Imports from the United
Sfates are gaining; an agency for our
goods has been established in the city.
Consul-General Stowe, of Cape Town, re
marks that wire for fencing Is being in
troduced from the United States In much
larger quantities. There is a good mar
ket he adds, for galvanized corrugated
sheet iron. Our wagons for farm work
and city hauling also supply the demand.
American rubber goods stiand the climate
of South Africa better than those of any
Other country.
WANTED AMERICANS TO STAT.
Petition to General Chaffee Signed by
Thousands of Chinese.
WASHINGTON, May 20. The War De
partment1 has received from China a peti
tion of several thousand Chinamen, who
assembled in front of the office of the
Provost Marshal at Pekln March 28 last,
and signed by 5S00 Chinese residents of
that city, praying the retention of the
American troops. The petition told of
the good work performed by the American
soldiers and of thousands of homeless
people who had been fed by the Ameri
can charity houses. Captain John C. F.
Tillson, of the Fourteenth Infantry, the
Provost Marshal in replying to the. peti
tion,, said:
"It is needless to tellyou that the United
States does not maintain an army for the
purpose of furnishing the City of Pekln
with good municipal government, and
as a business proposition your appeal for
the United States forces to remain longer
in Pekln, has little tb stand upon. That
you will need our protection there Is lit
tle doubt and as the broader principles
of humanity must frequentlyl sway the
people of any country, your petition is
not hopeless and I shall be glad to refer
it ro our Government. Whatever the re
sult of your petition, whether we stay
or go, it may be gratifying to you to
know that the soldiers of the United
States, who by force of circumstances
came to China as your enemies, are now
your friends and we hope that this friend
ship may endure.
' XQTE AND COMMENT. W ,
Good morning. Have you seen the man
who Is predicting a flood?
In Kansas the song of the sower has
drowned the stroke of the hatchet. .,,
Richard Mansfield bas a disposition, that
is worth an army of pres3-' agents. (
Backward, oh. backward, O time. In-your fllgbtl
You don't need to turn; this la April, alii
rights
The war cloud that has been hovering
over Wall street has gone to West Point
via Albany.
In the meantime let us remember that
we are going to have a fair of our own ,
one of these days.
'TIs clear that plain pedestrians
Wll! never get oa welt
With scorchers till they learn to wear
A light and clanging bell.
A proposed new language is devoid, of
swear words. There is no likelihood that
it will ever be used over the telephone.
"We know that Summer's coming.
As the days go swiftly by.
When we hall the luscious shortcake;
So, farewell, dried-apple pie. '"
It has been raining oil in South Dakota,
and Mr. Rockefeller Is beginning to feelk
uneasy. He cannot see his way clear to
buy up the clouds.
Just at present the yellow papers .ara
unable to liven things up In dull times'
by ucooplng each other on the story of
Aguinaldo's death.
Sir Thomas Iilpton Is afraid that the
hull of the Shamrock Is defective. This
Is much worse than if something wa3 the
matter with only a part of her.
The Hawaiian Legislature has been re
ducing the salaries of offlce-holdenx The
lawmakers oer there are apparently la
mentably Ignorant of Republican institu
tions. The Brooklyn colored brother who has
been charged with conduct unbecoming
of a minister probably neglected to leave
his razor at home the last time he went
to church.
Blunders will creep Into the best regu
lated newspapers and thl3ls the only ex
cuse The Oregonian has to offer for an,
embarrassing piece of stupidity In Sun
day's paper. Half-tone cuts of Colonel J.
C. Bell and tho late Louis Sohns were
confused in a large mass of detail work:
Saturday night, and part of the Sunday
edition was printed before the mistake
was discovered and rectified. The Ore
gonian has only this inadequate apology
to offer and requests the indulgence of lta
offended readers.
A London paper says that C. T. Terkes;
the American street railway magnate, now
In London, recently received the following
letter from a young woman: "Dear Mr.
Terkes: I have seen by the papers how
rich. ou are. and also 1 have seen your
picture, which looks kind. So I thought
I would tell you that my parents are
poor and depriving themselves of many
comforts in order to give me a good ed
ucation. Among my school friends there
is a gymnastic club, of which I am a
member, and all the girls wear silk skirtsr
and it gives me the horrors to feel I can't
have one, when I hear the fasclnatlng
rustle of their petticoats. Would 'yott'N,
send me ?5 to buy one? Yours," etc Mr.
Yerkco received the unique epistle from
his secretaryt and, to the latter's aston
ishment, exclaimed: "Send her the money.
It will give more pleasure than If Invested
in any other way." The money was sent,
and the acknowledgment was aa follows::
"Dear Mr. Terkes: Thanks so much for
the money. I invested it, and can now
ruotle with the others."
And now the machinists are to strike
for a nine-hour day. Step by step labor
seems to be coming up. Here it gets a
raise, there it gets a shorter day and
all under the accursed gold standard,
with the crime of '73 still unavenged
and Bryan still a private citizen.
Business on the German Bourse "was
wholly dominated by New York last
week," the cable says, and the news
from Xondon and Paris tells practically
the same story. It is a significant indi
cation of the shifting of the financial
balance of power
Here la Sense
Spokane Spokesman-Review.
The President came West accompanied
by his official family, traveling as a public
functionary, and primarily tp take part
in the ceremonies attending the launch
ing at San Francisco of the battle-ship
Ohio. Of course, a man of President
McKInley's experience and knowledge of
the American people might have antici
pated the profound interest that would
He aroused along his route and the keen
disappolntmerit and widespread Incon
venience which would result from Inter
ruption of the programme. Under the
circumstances it was a mistake of judg
ment to include his Invalid wife in, the
party, but this Is hot a time to reproatch
him In harsh spirit Granting it was a
failing, the country will concede that it
was a falling which leaned to virtue's
side
Too Late to Object.
NEW YORK, May 20. In the course of
a long interview relative to the situation
In China, cabled to the Herald from St
Petersburg, a Russian of high rank, pre
sumably Count Lamsdorff, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Is quoted as saying In an
swer to the question, "What About Man
churia?":
"The time to make objection was when
the concessions was made years ago. DOe3
any one suppose that any country Is go
ing to build a railway through such a
country and leave it unprotected or to be
wrecked)wherever wild hordes of brigands
choose to operate? Besides, I consider
that the Siberian railroad Is of the big
gest Importance to the commerce of the
world, especially to America. The Amer
icans are a shrewd and clever race. They
show it in their policy. The Siberian Rail
way being, so to sifeak; a belt of the
world, Is sure to be of great assistance
to American commerce, which already
flourishes here is a very successful manner1."
AH the Gods at Once.
New York Tribune.
J. Plerpont Morgan is undoubtedly the
Jupiter of railroads. Is he to be also
the Neptune of the seas? Are the amaz
ing combinations of the steam highways
of America to be followed by the domina
tion of the ships? Are the trackless lanes
of all the oceans to be governed by the
genius that sets the hedges of the paths
across-the continents?
Colonel Coolridgre Retnrns.
SAfc FRANCISCO, May 20. Among the
passengers on the steamer America Maru,
which arrived from the Orient, was Col
onel Coolrldge, who was in command of
the Ninth Infantry during the siege of
Pekln. Coolrldge took command after
Colonel Llscum was killed and remained
in charge almost up to the time of his
departure for this city. Colonel Coolrldge
will be stationed at the Vancouver bar
racks.
PLEASANTRIES OF PAR.1GRAFHERS
School Examiner What Is the meaning oC
false doctrine? Schoolboy Please, sir,. It's
when the doctor Elves the wrons stuff to peo
ple who are sick. Tlt-Blts.
'Little to Say. He It may be wrong, of
course, but I always make It a rule to say
just what I think. She You're not much of a
talker, are you? Philadelphia Press.
"Throat trouble, eh? And you are a. musi
cian? Music Is often very hard on the throat.
What Instrument do you play?" "The basa
drum, doctor." Philadelphia Times.
He Plead3 Not Guilty. Mamma Fighting
again? Why, a. good little boy wouldn't hurt
a hair of another boy's head! Johnny Well. I
didn't! I just punched his nose. Puck.
Took Himself Seriously. "What did Gobang
do wltA the money he earned by writing arti
cles showing how to get rich raising chick
ens? "He lost it running a chicken farm in
New Jersey." Town and Country.
How It Looked. Farmer Greene What's ole
man Perkins eon L'.udylnz fer to be at col
lege? Farmer Axlegreese A missionary,
guess I He keep3 touclung the ole man. up fer
"Indemnity" every week or two. Puck.
Just as Easy and Cheaper. "Do you go
away this Summer?" "Ho; we've taken a,
smaller house, and we think we can be Just aa
uncomfortable at home as we can In a fash
ionable hotel anywhere." Chicago Record-Herald.
Mr. House It doesn't seem to me that our
new cook Is a great success. Mrs. House
Not as a cook, I grant jou; but she has lived
in nearly half the families in town, and her
conversation Is so entertaining! Boston Tran
script. Poodle and the Proposals. Mr. Simpson
(Bhowlng agitation) Miss Lucia, there Is a,
communication that is I might say there are
words which I feel compelled to utter. Miss
Lucia Oh don't let me interrupt you, Mr.
Simpson but wait till I put poodle out he
gets awfully mad If. anybody that Is he's so
excitable. Chicago Record-Herald.
Woodmen of the World.
COLUMBUS, O.. May 20 The Sovereign
Camp, Woodmen of the World, today de
cided that In the future if members en
gaged in the liquor business they shall
be exnelled and camps refusing to take
this action shall have 'their charters re-J
voked. Heretofore the executive com
mittee has been empowered to revoke the
actions of the Sovereign Camp, but it
was today considered that in future their
acta must be confirmed by a two-thirds
vote of the sovereign body In such cases.
Boers Dynamited a Train.
LONDON, May 20. Lord Kitchener re
ports to the War Office under date of
Pretoria, May IS. as follows:
"An armored train has been dynamited
south of American Siding. Major Heath,
of the South Lancashire, was killed."
Reliance.
Washington Star.
Along about las Fall, when all de trees begin
to shed,
An de wind It kep a-blowln fierce aa
strong. ....
De blossoms dey done wilted, an we lef em
all foh dead.
It's certain dey was treated mighty wrong.
An de snowflakes took possession wlx aa Irrl
tatln air
Dat ud sho'ly make yoh Indignation, bile.
But dem blossoms dey Jes' wnisper dat dey
didn't muchly care.
Dey was boun to git delr innln's ftuh
while.
Dem snowflakes dey done frollck like dey
gWinter stay foh keeps.
An' dey plied up snowdrifts over an' aroun'
De places whah de vl'let an de dandelion
sleeDS.
An' dey says, "We reckon dat will hoi you
down."
But hyuh dem blossoms is to welcome June
time at yoh gate
An chahm de skies to give an answerln
omile;
Dey knowed whut dey was talkln' 'bout when,
dey made bold to state
Dey was boun' to git delr Innln's aftuh
while.
So when I sees de Happy Day a-goln" roun' de '
bend
An turnln down deplane of bygone years,,
I says. "Good-bye. or Happy Day, I knowed
we'd hatter end
Our 'soclatlon. Tain no cause foh tears
You Is cwlnter cut across lots or totrayel
round about.
Whiles me an Trouble goes fohi many a.
mile;
But I won set up complalnlh', case I knows
wlfout a doubt
You Is boun to git yoh Innln's aftuh while."
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