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TODAY'S WEATHER Fair and warmer.
INortherly winds.
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER-Maxlmum tem
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PORTLAND, MOXDAY, JULY 1, 1001.
SITUATION AXD OUTLOOK.
Portland's situation as regards the
Conformation of the country is analo
gous to that of New York City. At
each place there is a natural converg
ence of trade routes. Regions near at
hand come up stream or out of their
way lor a short distance In order to
effect a common meeting-place with in
coming commerce from a greater dis
tance. At New York the Great Lakes
commerce, coming by way of the Erie
Canal and the Hudson, is met by the
secondary streams of produce and pur
chase originating in New Jersey, Dela
ware and Pennsylvania to the south
west, Long Island to the south, and
Connecticut and Rhode Island to the
east. Similarly, here at Portland, the
commerce of Eastern Oregon and
"Washington, coming down by the Co
lumbia and Cascades canal, Is met by
the streams of produce and purchase
originating in the Willamette Valley
to the south, the "Lower Columbia to
the west, and In the southern tier of
"Washington counties to the north and
northwest Sections down the Colum
bia and up the Cowlitz And It con
venient to come here for the great trad
ing center with the traffic of the Upper
Columbia and the Willamette, just as
Long Island Sound and Jersey produc
ers are glad to meet, In the harbor of
New York, the greater stream from the
north and west.
Another interesting correspondence is
Sn the labors performed in removal of
Obstructions to water navigation. The
jgreat port of New York once labored
under the same sort of disadvantages
which once hindered Portland. Once at
New York vessels of fourteen feet draft
had to wait for the tide, and sixty
years ago small vessels were some
times detained for weeks in a vain ef
fort to get out. So here at Portland
vessels drawing twelve feet once had
great difficulty in ascending, where
ships come and go freely with a draft
of twenty-five feet Steamers of 6000 to
8000 tons continually leave and arrive
easily where once those of 1000 tons had
difficulty and delay. The problem here
was easy In one respect, for the Co
lumbia's volume, not like the feeble one
of the Delaware, for example, is ample,
and its. current Is sufficient, to main
tain a channel, once the proper im
provements are made. The condition Is
infinitely better than it was, and it
will be made better yet to meet the
Increasing (demands of commerce.
Every advantageously situated sea
port and. metropolis needs much supple
mentary work, both in its channel to
the sea and Its internal connections.
The railroad -work here has been in the
.main well done. "We have four lines up
the "Willamette Valley, one line up the
Columbia, another up the Cowlitz, and
another down the Columbia There are
three lines now needing to be built
one into the Clearwater region, one into
Central Oregon, and one into the Neha
lem; but when these are built Port
land's rail connection with its tribu
tary regions will be complete. So the
waterway improvement needs comple
tionfirst and foremost the entrance to
the river and an extension of the jetty
will give us thirty-five to forty feet
there permanently; second, the channel
Ircm Portland to the sea, and, third, the
river Improvement opening the Upper
Columbia to water transportation.
The fact Is that Portland never stood
In such a favorable position as It dpes
today. Its facilities for trade. Internal
and foreign, are unprecedentedly ample
and efficient. Its banks are full of
money, its streets full of busy people,
crops are promising, lumber industries
thriving, mines prosperous, trade active,
hulldings going up on every hand, both
for dwellings and for business. Last,
"but not least, never before have our
people manifested such abounding cour
age, ambition and determination. The
augury of a great future is in the air,
and on every hand appears evidence of
a resolve to build the city's destiny se
cure and bright
The recent co-operative congress in
England adopted without a dissenting
vote a resolution declaring that there
was an urgent necessity that Parlia
ment should provide an old-age pension
for every citizen, male and female. In
vain did one member point out that, in
view of the fact that the co-operators,
with their wives and families, num
bered between 9,000,000 and 10,000,000, it
was not necessary to despair concern
ing their own ability to provide for the
aged. He remarked also that the
money lor pensions could not he drawn
from some mysterious "bottomless pit,"
but would be taken from the pockets
of these who were present. Mr. Hol
yoke, almost the last survivor of the
pioneers of co-operation, argued against
the resolution saying that "the objects
of these societies were to put into the
hands of the working classes the power
of taking care of themselves, and not
to go as suppliants to the state." In
reply it was stated that the govern
ment was likely to pension the idle
and debauched, and that the thrifty
co-operators must Insist upon having
their share of the universal pension
fund. The reason for the adoption of
such a resolution was the socialistic
spirit of the congress, for It demanded
immediate legislation to destroy the
"undue and unearned advantage of
landowners," which Is the political
economy of the late Henry George.
Great Britain is dangerously near the
enactment of some form of radical socialism.
MACVBAGH'S MISGIVINGS.
Because all efforts to compass the
abandonment of the Philippine Islands
have failed, things look exceedingly
dark to Mr. Wayne MacVpagh. The
evil consequences of that failure are
remote, as might have been expected,
and involvet no less catastrophe than
the seizure of the Government by the
discontented, and a redistribution of
wealth, by which those who have not
shall have, and the now penniless shall
be well fixed.
The process marked out is interest
ing. Every Filipino who dies in his re
bellion, every barn burned in the Trans
vaal, every American officer promoted
for doing his duty in Luzon, will oper
ate to encourage lynching in the South
and to render insecure the surplus
wealth of the -contented class. The
MacVeagh law of social evolution will
accelerate the division of the contented
from the discontented, and the discon
tented, being in the majority, will seize
the Government and appropriate the
property.
There is in the United States an in
creasing disposition to lean upon the
Government for support and to punish
the acquisition of wealth with heavy
taxes; but aside from this tendency
there Is little support for Mr. Mac
Veagh's misgivings or his law of so
cial evolution. He is more ready than
circumstances warrant to class capital
ists as contented and laborers as discon
tented. In many respects the opposite
Is the case. Contentment has never
passed the cottage by on Its way to the
envious palace. Even as it Is, our cap
italists make shift to survive under
their burdens of taxation, and at this
Summer soason an astonishing number
of picnics and excursions are planned
by the very class who often used to
spend holidays bemoaning their fate in
cups of grog. As to the sharper line of
cleavage between rich and poor in the
electorate, the fact is that now, as al
ways, the ranks are badly mbted and
streams are constantly passing from
one to the other. The discontented la
borer of today Is the magnate of tomor
row, and millionaires of yesterday are
walking the streets looking for a job.
Industrial development, with Its high
power organization and labor-saving
machinery, is making it easier every
day for the poor but active fellow to
rise, and harder for the empty-headed
heir to keep his place.
Political parties in the United States
supply little comfort for the MacVeagh
law of .social evolution. The Boston
anti-Imperialist, surfeited with comfort
and civilization, joins hands with Mr.
Bryan's isandlotter on the Kansas City
platform, and In the Republican ranks
the paternalistic craze possesses alike
the pauperized Indiana pensioner and
the millionaire shipowner seeking for
subsidies. One party demands that the
Government shall take care of the poor
mlneowner, and the other pleads for the
Impoverished shipbuilder. We can take
our choice between restoring sliver and
restoring the merchant marine, but in
any case we must restore, protect, sup
port Honors seem even in this scram
ble of private pockets for public taxes.
If there Is any more and more division
by sharp cleavage in the electorate, Mr.
MacVeagh should have been more ex
plicit. It might be well enough to get away
from the buzzards and the agitators a
minute and take a look at the people
themselves. How do the rank and file
regard these predatory schemes? Are
the Democrats clamoring for reasser
tlon of Bryanlsm, and are the 'Repub
licans holding "mass meetings in favor
of the subsidy graft? Is the public
rising to support of unjust strikes, and
Is anybody fearful of either great party
adopting a plank In favor of the trusts?
The country Is, In fact, Mr. MacVeagh,
exceedingly busy and most despairing
ly preoccupied with profitable enter
prise and well-paid labor. The "less
fortunate majority" will be well con
tent If the "more fortunate minority"
will take a day oft and go fishing along
with their "courage and time and
thought." As for the ominous "law of
social evolution," If it is in straits, we
can raise a handsome popular sub
scription next pay day, or perchance
Mr. Morgan will endow it with a mill
ion against its day of need.
THE WHEAT SEASON.
Detailed statistics of the movement
of wheat from the Pacific Coast ap
pear In tables printed In other columns
of this paper. As usual, the Oregon
metropolis stands in the lead over all
other ports, shipping over 37 per cerit
of the entire amount exported by Port
land, Tacoma, Seattle and San Fran
cisco. This percentage has been ex
celled in some years in the past, when
the Willamette Valley contributed from
3,000,000 to 4,000,000 to the output, and
with a good crop in that locality a
higher average will be shown for the"
year now beginning.
A decidedly Interesting feature of
the movements of the fleet lies In the
fact that not a single one of the 148
wheat and flour vessels which cleared
from Portland was obliged to lighter
a pound of cargo between Portland and
the sea. During the season the Dutch
steamship Wllhelmlna cleared with the
largest wheat cargo that ever left Port
land. The advantages of a fre3h-water har
bor are shown in the record of the out
ward passages of. the ships from the
different ports, the Portland fleet which
arrived out In the first seven months
making average passages four days
faster than the ships from San Fran
cisco, and eleven days faster than the
ships clearlrfg from Puget Sound. The
distribution of the crop for 1900 shows
the Oriental flour shipments to be
about the same ns In the year pre
vious. The increase in this direction
has been checked by the war In China,
but with a settlement of the difficulties
which beset that country, & heavy In
crease will be shown.
The yield of about 37,000,000 bushels
for the three states brings the average
for the past four years up to over 35,
000,000 bushels. The maintenance of
this average for this length of time,
with the splendid prospects for an even
greater crop this year, Is the result, to
a certain extent, of bringing new acre
age under cultivation, but a large
measure of the success attained Is due
to more careful tilling of the soil. A
50,000,000-bushel crop of wheat in the
three states will not occasion surprise
within the next five years, and even
that figure will be passed within ten
years.
A BANK-ROBBER TURNED LOOSE.
The action of President McKlnley In
pardoning Charles W. Mussey. the for
mer cashier of the Merchants National
Bank of Rutland, Vt., who was convict
ed about a year ago of embezzling $100,
000 of the funds of the bank and sen
tenced to seven years In the House of
Correction, Is a great outrage on pub
lic justice. This man Mussey had
served barely a year of his sentence;
he was a man of mature age, who for
many years had been the trusted serv
ant of the bank he 'robbed. His sen
tence was not more than is generally
given a horsethief in the majority of
states. Under the law, these bank
robbers of the Mussey sort can be im
prisoned from three to seven years, but
they cannot be sentenced to Imprison
ment "with hard labor," so that their
punishment is a very small plaster to
the very big wound they make in the
body of the bank.
Such men deserve no clemency; their
punishment Is entirely too light for
their offense; they are men of intelli
gence, of superficial respectability,
sober scoundrels whd under the mask
of pretended virtue relentlessly rob
their trust until they are found out.
They are generally convicted, for the
evidence against them is a written, In
disputable record of their own making,
but their conviction and punishment Is
robbed of all Its effectiveness as an
object-lesson of exemplary justice, be
cause the mild sentence Is eight times
out of ten nullified by a pardon signed
"William McKlnley." The bank-robber
of the Mussey sort Is Invariably par
doned, if he has any friends, and as a
rule this worst kind of a bank-robber
is the only thief who ever has any In
fluential political friends for the rea
son, we suppose, as the late Governor
Pingree said, that "every rescal is an
extreme partisan." This Mussey was
doubtless one of "the original McKln
ley men" In Vermont In 1896.
There is another Vermont bank-robber,
the late cashier of the Vlrgennes
National Bank, who, with his alleged
"pal," the Lieutenant-Governor of Ver
mont, will shortly be placed on trial
for robbing his bank of $50,000. This
Vermont bank-robber will be convict
ed; will have a sentence of seven years
Imposed upon him, and then In less
than a year a pardon probably will
Issue to this furciferous Vermont bank
cashier and his "pal," the Lieutenant
Governor of Vermont. No wonder the
bank burglars from within the bank
increase In Vermont, for if they steal
every dollar of the bank's money they
get only seven years. If they serve
their sentence, It Is no great hardship,
for they cannot be made to work.
They are not herded with the crowd;
their friends call upon them period
ically; they are. supplied with books;
they are permitted to enjoy any luxu
ries they obtain by gift or purchase,
like cigars, fruits, etc., and to a man
who enjoys his ease It Is a compara
tively happy fate to be convicted of
having robbed the bank whose keys
had been trusted to his care.
Silas M. Walt some twenty years ago
robbed his bank In Brattleboro, Vt,
of a very large sum of money. He
was convicted.- was sentenced to seven
years In the same House of Correction
from which Mussey has just been re
leased by pardon. Those who visited
Wait in his confinement said he had a
very comfortable room, that he em
ployed his time fully in reading and
writing, and that altogether his situa
tion seemed to be one of comparative
comfort. Wait unfortunately had as
many political enemies as he had
friends, for he was a man of aggres
sive ability, and President Hayes un
fortunately took a sterner view of
bank robberies by bank presidents
than does William McKlnley, so Bank
President Walt served his time. Cash
ier Mussey is a little seven by nine
thief In Sundav-school sheep clothing;
he did not know enough to make any
enemies by leadership In business or
politics, so nobody has resisted his re
lease, for he was always the little ras
cal who is the extreme partisan In the
rear rank. No wonder the mediocre,
vulgar criminal who steals a horse or
holds up a man on the highway feels
like turning anarchist when he serves
a ten-year sentence, while the base
robber of a bank tsust Is released in
less than a year.
Thomas Barker, recently convicted in
New Jersey of an assault with In
tent to kill the Rev. Mr. Keller, an
Episcopal clergyman of excellent ante
cedents In reputation and conduct, was
greatly surprised because the Jury con
victed him,' and is deeply grieved 'be
cause the court has sentenced him to
five years in the penitentiary. Barker
testified that he first learned of the
alleged assault upon his wife about a
year and a half after Its occurrence;
that he learned it, not from his wife,
but from a man a boarding-house gos
sip who whispered it to him. Barker
further testified that, despite the fact
that his wife had not told him at the
time, and evidently did not Intend to
tell him, he at once tried to murder
Mr. Keller. He confessed that he never
wrote Keller a letter accusing him of
wrong; never gave him any opportu
nity for denial and proof of innocence;
he accepted his wife's statement with
the same morbid confidence in her
veracity 'and sanity as that manifested
by the husband who, after seeing a
man kiss his wife, was perfectly sat
isfied with her brazen denial on the
ground that he "wouldn't believe his
eyes before he would his wife." An
ignorant savage might be excusable
for killing a fellow creature on the
totally unsupported accusation of his
wife, but an intelligent man wh6
Would deliberately proceed to murder
his fellow-man on the totally unsup
ported accusation of his wife, or any
other accuser, Is a man worthy 'of the
severest punishment possible under the
klaw. Barker Is either a very great vil
lain or a very great fool. Human life
once taken cannot be restored, and
every man is entitled to be heard in
his own defense, no matter how bad his
repute may be or how high may be the
character of his accuser. But this
man Barker seemed to think that he
1 was morally justified In attempting to
murder without warning any man
whom he chose to accuse of an infa
mous crime. Barker had not a scin-
tilla of gvidfinoe against Keller beyond
his wife's shocking charge. Keller's
character was excellent; his conduct
had always been discreet and blame
leas, and yet this man Barker did his
best to murder him on the bold, unsup
ported accusation of Keller by Mrs.
Barker, who was notorious for peri
odica! attacks of hysterical mendacity
or mendacious hysteria. Barker was
Intelligent enough to know that the
annals of medicine are full of cases
of women who have made false state
ments and accusations in a condition
of self-delusion, and the annals of Jus
tice are full of cases where both men
and women have made false statements
and accusations out of pure, unadul
terated "cussedness." Barker's brain Is
altogether too hot; five years In the
"cooler" will do him a power of good.
The Columbia River, upon which the
members of the committee on rivers
and harbors are to look today, drains
nearly all Oregon, nearly all Washing
ton, the whole of Idaho, large parts of
Montana and Wyoming, and a gteat
portion of British Columbia. It receives
streams also from Utah and Nevada.
Its watershed extends from north to
south along the western slope of the
Rocky Mountains more than 1000 miles,
and If you measure the breadth of the
basin from the summit of the moun
tains to the sea, the distance Is from 700
to 1000 miles. This' mighty river has
opened the only pass through the great
mountain chain of the West to the Pa
cific Ocean. It Is not only a route for
navigation, but the only water-level
route for rallrbads. It Is the key,
therefore, to the commerce of the
northwestern portion of the United
States, and to transcontinental com
merce as well. It is the only course
within the United States by which
water runs from the Rocky Mountains
west to the Pacific; It opens the only way
upon which cars may run by gravita
tion from the roof of the continent to
the Western Ocean. These are phys
ical facts which The Oregonlan com
mends to the gentlemen of the com
mittee who are to" see the Columbia
River today.
Our friends from the East cannot fall
tc- note the dellghtfulness of the West
ern climate, In contrast with the ex
cessive heat, reported from all points
cast of the Rocky Mountains. The
swelter there is extreme, and there will
be two or three months of It yet. The
Boston Herald endeavors to charm pain
for a while, or anguish, in this way:
"Forget It," is a good bit of advice to
follow regarding the hot weather. The
man who thinks of heat is hot Shakes
peare asks
Oh, who cdn hold a Are In his hand
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
We confess that we do not know the
name and address of such a party, but
we do believe that no day Is so hot but
we can make it a little hotter by think,
ing heated things about It Go slow and
think cool things or try to forgot the
weather entirely. Some may be com
forted by revolving In their mind some
such thought as this:
It's cool up there where the stars are.
Where Venus and Neptune and Mars are;
Thoiigh lt'a hot down here, about half of tho
ear.
It's cool up there where the stars are.
Mormonlsm Is Invading the East
ern cities, and gets Its converts mainly
from the Christian churches. Brook
lyn, N. Y., has a Mormon "conference"
established, and a successful congrega
tion. The elders in charge are carry
ing oh their work In all suburban New
York City, and practice a house-to-house
visitation. Among recent con
verts are Mrs. Blair and Mias Eliza
beth Dickinson, who were officers In
the Christian Endeavor Society of the
Port Morris Congregational Church.
The children of the neighborhood shout
after them, and the members of her
Sunday-school class mockingly inquire
of Miss Dickinson how many husbands
she is going to get. Dowlelsm and
"Christian Science" obtain converts, so
why not Mormonlsm? It is not more
absurd; Its polygamy has quite as good
a biblical justification as Dowie or
"Mother" Eddy,
General John B. Turchin, a brave and
efficient Unlcn officer of the Civil War,
Is dead In his 80th year, having been
born In the Russian Province of Don,
January 30, 1822. He came to this
country after service in the Russian
Army In Hungary and the Crimea,
rising tb the rank of Colonel. He was
a civil engineer in the service of the
Illinois Central Railroad when the re
bellion began, and went to the front
as Colonel of the Nineteenth Illinois
Regiment, and was made Brigadier
General in July, 1862, resigning In Oc
tober. 1864. For a few years General
Turchlh was solicitor of patents 'In Chi
cago; then he established the Polish
colony of Radom, In Washington
County, Illinois, and had since farmed
It. He was author of a valuable book
on "The Campaign and Battle of
Chlckamauga," published In Chicago In
1S8S.
The members of the committee on riv
ers and harbors will be In position to
judge whether they ever saw a greater
river in their lives than the one they
are to see today; and from the magni
tude of the river they may form some
estimate of the extent of country that
sends subh a river to the sea. It Is a
country In extent exceeding the whole
territory of the United States east of
the Mississippi and north of the Ohio
and Potomac Rivers, with all New Eng
land thrown In. If there Is any person
to whom this statement seems an exag
geration, let him take the tables of
areas, add and compare them.
The Rev. Dr. William Hayes Ward,
editor of the Independent, is a Congre
gational clergyman, -and the Rev.
Charles H. Eaton, of the Church of
Divine Paternity, New York City, is
a Universallst, but the Congregational
ism as well as the Universallst, agree
in thinking that it is a violation of lib
erty for the law to prevent a citizen
from taking whatever quiet recreation
his own conscience approves on Sunday.
William Watson Goodwin Eliot, pro
fessor of Greek literature at Harvard
University, Who has Just closed his dis
tinguished career as a classical teach
er, after forty-five years' service, was
a contemporary student at Gottlngen
forty-;flve years ago with J. Plerpont
Morgan, when Morgan notably excelled
In mathematics.
It is a very narrow circle of persons
at Astoria, and a circle, moreover, of
very narrow persons at Astoria, who
are endeavoring to put a stop to fur
ther improvement of the navigation of
the Great River of the West.
THE COMING CONFLICT.
In the Republican Party and Before
the Country, on the Tariff.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
"We have reached a point In our In
dustrial development." said Senator
Foraker to the Oh!o Republican conven
tion "where we produce more than we
consume. We must find markets for the
surplus or quit producing It. We can
get partial relief by tariff revision and
reciprocity treaties with European and
South American countries, but the great
est markets of the world are in the far
East."
The home market, to put Senator For
aker's evident thought in another way,
no longer suffices to absorb the energies
of the American producers. THey must
find markets for the surplus. How shall
they find them? How shall they, with
out sacrificing the advantages of pro
tection, obtain outlets for the swelling
tide of domestic manufactures?
To tnes questions Senator Foraker
gives two answers. One is to go ahead
boldly w'th "the great work of the hour
the establishment of a 3table and suc
cessful government In the Philippines
not to haul down the flag and run away,
but to remain and hold taet to the posi
tion, the prestige, the advantages, and
the opportunities we now enjoy" In the
Oriental markets.
Senator Foraker's other answer is
that we shall fendeavor. by such recipro
cal trade arrangements as will be mu
tually advantageous, to enlarge our mar
kets in Europe and South America. That
these arrangements would Involve a re
vision of our present tariff Senator For
aker concedes.
As the "keynote" of a campaign in the
President's own state. Senator Foraker's
words, taken in connection with the
stress laid upon reciprocity by the Pres
ident In a recent addre, certainly chal
lenge National attention. All thoughtful
Republicans must consider them care
fully, for they preeage a conflict of giant
dimensions in the party a conflict which
will rage with Increasing fury from this
day to the close of the polls in November,
1904.
AX ENGLISH SCHOOL HEADER.
Through their school books the English
people are endeavoring to Instil In the
minds of their young a friendly feeling
for the United States. Before us is a
copy of "The Citizen Reader," Cassell &
Co., London, which has large use In the
schools of the United Kingdom. We copy
these paragraphs from It:
In the time of George III. more than 100
years ago, the King and the Parliament wished
to govern the English who had gone to Amer
ica, and to govern them In a way which was
contrary to their wishes and without their
advice.
When the Colonists for so tho English In
America were then called refused to obey a
Parliament which they hod not chosen, the
King and the Parliament declared war upon
them, and sent soldiers to put them down.
But there, were some men In Ensland who
could not belleva that It was rlsht or Just o
make Englishmen obey laws which they them
selves had had no share In making, and de
spite the King and the majority of Parliament
being against them, they had the courage to
say so openly, and to try and obtain for their
countrymen across the Atlantic the rame rights
which they claimed for themselves.
The greatest of there men was Edmund
Burke, whose famous wrlttnra I hope you
will read seme day. Although many of, his
friends were anxious for war, and though
by refusing to support the King he lost favor
at court, he nevertheless raised his voice over
and over again In favor of peace.
Unfortunately, h was not listened to; un
luckily, those who cried out for war were
listened to. The war went on; the Colonists
rose aralnst the Royal troops and defeated
them, and at last, as we know, the Colonists
refused any longer to submit to English rule,
and made a Government and a Nation of their
own. That Nation became the United States
of America.
It Is Impossible to say what would have
been the future of England and the United
States if the wise counsel of Edmund Burke
had been followed. But of one thing wc may
be sure: namely, that all the suffering and
sorrow caused by an unjust war would have
been avoided, and that the hatred and distrust
which for a long time after the war existed
between the English In England and the Eng
lish In America would not have been felt.
Happily, the bitter memories of that time
arc long forgotten, and between England and
the United States there aro. only feelings of
friendship and brotherhood, but we can all
see now how much better It would hnve been
If Burke's words In favor of peace had pre
vailed; and we can see In him a true patriot,
because he was brave enough to say before
all the world that he would not support what
he thought to be unjust and wrong.
A Parallel of Orators.
Comparing Mr. Bryan with William L.
Yancey, of Alabama, who was one of the
most powerful advocates of secession in
1860. the Louisville Courier-Journal says:
Mr. Bryan is an orator. So was Mr. Tan
coy. He Is an extreme doctrinaire, as Mr.
Yancey was, He Is as cocksure of himself
and of his dozma as Mr. Tancey was. Like
Mr. Yancey, his opportunity and power camo
to him while yet a young man. Like Mr.
Yancey he Is a man, traveled chiefly from
the bookcase to the fireside. Mr. Yancey con
structed a system out of his own fancies; he
advocated this system so eloquently that he
secured for It and for himself a great popular
following. More than any other one man Mr.
Yancey lured the South Into a war based upon
what all ths world now knows was a delu
sion. Recalling the days of 1800, when Mr.
Yancey stocd very much before the country
as Mr. Bryan stood In 1803 and 10C0, we ven
ture to draw a moral from the likeness be
tween the two and to offer up the prayer that
Mr. Bryan might not too late discover the
futility of his dreams, as Mr. Yancey, amid
the ruin of hi"! country, had discovered that his
theoretic edifice was but a house of cards.
The Southern Negro Vote.
The situation In Virginia relative to the
negro vote which the constitutional con
vention la undertaking to deal with in
such a way ns to avoid the pains and pen
alties prescribed In the Federal Constitu
tion, is thus described by the Washing
ton Star. It Is the same in Alabama:
For years the black belt has furnished the
majorities by which the Democracy has con
trolled the state. They were obtained. It has
bpen freely charged, by gross frauds at the
polls. The Republicans are strong In the
white tbelt. but have been unable to meet the
returns from the black belt, which at times
have been mathematical marvels. But at last
the Democrats of the black belt have tired of
the work Imposed upon them, and Insist upon
being relieved of It. And so they say In sub
stance to the convention: "Come, now. The
negro must be disposed of In some other way.
You muit disfranchise him, or we will remain
Inactive and permit the state to go to those
who under the law an It now stands are en
titled to control It."
The Rate Went Up nt Once.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Hartford Times says that when the
Constitutional amendment affecting mort
gage taxatiori was passed In this state
the Hartford insurance companies "with
drew from the Missouri field, as far as
making new loans was concerned, and al
so refused to make renewals of old loans."
The rate of Interest paid by borrowers
went up. At the end of six months or
loss and confusion the State Supreme
Court decided that the amendment con
flicted with the Constitution of the United
States. When not doing something mal
evolent the Missouri Legislature botches
up business affairs with Its ignorance.
Snsrsestive Verses.
Miss Frances Bacon Paine writes the
following verses in the July number of
Harper's Magazine:
APART.
If I were dead I think that you would come
And look upon me cold and white and say:
"Poor child, I'm sorry you have gon away."
But Just because my body has to live
Through hopeless years, you do not como and
say.
J'Dear child, I'm glad that you are here today."
A BRITISH OPINION.
Hypocritical Snarl From an Old
Enemy.
London Saturday Review.
We trust that our very welcome guests,
the delegates of the New York Chamber
of Commerce, have found their visit to
England pleasant.
One can take an Interest in these Ameri
can representatives which the Summer
flight from trans-Atlantic shores does not
usually or easily exclt'e. There Is nothing
ennobling In the sight of an American
"doing" Westminster Abbey or edifying In
his criticism of the 10th picture gallery
he has traversed In one day. But get
him on trade, and It Is Impossible not to
feel, we can hardly say veneration, but
certainly respect, blent with something
even of awe. One looks with keen curi
osity on the American trader to see what
manner of man he Is that could produce
an economic result that has shocked and
mado to grumble the whole civilized
world. You feel, too, that there you
have the great republic pure and simple;
that is its reality; that is what it cares
about; there it is Itself. Dismiss culture
and tone, freedom, equality and all such
figments, and get down to a hard cash
transaction, and you see the American at
his best. There, In fact, he becomes very
great; and it is absolutely absurd to take
him In any other way. The production
of wealth is the one thing to which the
American people has really given its mind,
and, circumstances being at the same time
entirely favorable, it has succeeded to its
own huge admiration and the world's
absolute dismay. No other nation has
succeeded tb the same extent in the same
time, but no other nation has so entirely
given itself over to the making of wealth
as the whole duty of a people. Never
has there been a people In which tho dis
crepancy between their performance as
traders and their achievements in every
other capacity has been so great. In that
respect the United States aro a portent.
They have grown In a manner quite pecu
liar to themselves. To the ancients It
would have seemed a monstrous growth, to
the Greeks hideous, to the Romans Igno
ble. For you have in America the strange
phenomenon of the best minds and the
best characters systematically over a long
period renouncing what the world has al
ways regarded as the higher things. State,
affiairs, arms, art and "contemp'atlon"
and passionately pursuing the things men
had hitherto looked on as necessities
which most? were not so fortunate as to
be able to avoid, but which all would
escape from if they had the opportualty;
necessities not In themselves degrading,
yet obstacles to the highest, or, at any
rate, the pleasantest things. That has
not been the American view; their philos
ophy of life reverses the old order.
Whether as a philosophy of life, as Na
tional polity, as the training of individ
ual character, their order is sound and
will bear the test of time is one of the
most interesting, as one of . the most
momentous, questions the world has yet
to see answered. It would be worth while
living to see It?, even at the cost of
rithonus' burden. The question cannot
be answered now. The immediate result,
however, Is very obvious. In the depart
ment to which the Americans have chosen
to consecrate themselves they are dusting
every one else. That is the plain truth,
and the Continent is beginning to see it
So does everybody here se,e it, but because
the Americans are what the Briton calls
"Anglo-Saxons," he thinks he must not
whisper of their hurting him, and so let'3
loose all his volubility in scolding on the
Germans, who, in comparison, are hardly
damaging him at all.
This is, of course, a purely business
transaction. It Is as childish to blame or
be angry with the Americans for Injuring
us in trade as it Is futile to Dretend that
they do not. The only sane thing to do
Is to acknowledge the fact, and resist
them as well as we can. At present we
do neither. We arrange our fiscal system
entirely In the Americans' Interest, who
very wisely make the utmost of our amia
bility and deftly conceal their contempt
for It under a cloud of sentimental friend
bhlp, which does not open our eyes, while
unveiled contempt would. But the fiscal
matter Is far from everything. We have
not taken trade scient'fically as have the
Americans, and we do not throw Into it
the same energy and concentration. In a
sense, we do not take It seriously.
nOW RIGHTEOUS WE ARE!
And the Pharisee Stood and Prayed
Tims, by Himself.
Seattle Post-Intefilgencer.
Under the caption "Ishmaelltes," the
Pcst-Intelllgencer published, on Friday
morning, a truthful and accurate state
ment of the character nnd methods of
two pariahs of Journalism: The Spokane
Spokesman-Review and the Portland Ore
gonlan. It was not an accusation, but
an interpretation; a picture of these news
papers and their ways, as known to all
men by their contents. We had a sus
picion at the time that perfect fairness
would entitle one other newspaper to be
entered in the same list. Since then it
has sought that dishonor eagerly, and
we believe It should be conferred. There
fore, not to occupy further space with
unfragrant subjects, we cheerfully com
mend our renders to a reperu.nl of tho
article in question, applying it with equal
directness to the Seattle Times.
A First Copy of Dunyan.
Notable among rare books is a copy of
Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress," which has
Just been bought In London for 57375 by
Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co., of this city.
This copy is superior to all others In size
and in having a unique Impression of the
engraved portrait of Bunyan dreaming,
by R. White. This portrait has the view
of the city In the background labeled
"Vanity," which Is an error for "Destruc
tion." The mistake seems to have been
detected at once, and the plate was with
drawn from the remainder of the first Is
sue. In the third edition It appears with
the correct wording. At one time this
copy was in the possession of Jane Fleet
wood, and was later In the library of the
late T. A. Nash. In 1854 Macaulay said,
rather rashly, that "not a single copy of
the first edition is known to be in ex
istence. The year of publication has not
been ascertained." He was repeating
Southey. who made a similar remark in
1639. Five copies are now known, but
only two are perfect.
Done With Bryan.
Hartford Times. Dem.
The Virginia constitutional convention
voted down almost unanimously a motion
that W. J. Bryan be Invited to address
the convention. Two years ago It was
scarcely possible to hold a meeting or
any sort In the Southern States that
would not before Its adjournment invite
Mr. Bryan to address it. This craze seems
to be disappearing at last There could
be, of course, no proper reason why a
presumably non-partisan body, called to
revise the constitution of a state, should
solicit an address from the leader of
any political' party.
Sermons the People Want.
New York Times.
We are nearlng or have reached the
stage of depravity denoted In public opin
ion to the effect that sourness is not vir
tue nor Innocent amusement ungodly. On
Sundays, Summer Sundays, at least, the"
trout brook, the r.olf links, the seashore,
the mountainside, will preach the sermons
of nature to those who will listen to no
other 5n that season.
Hams n Gnnrnntee of Peace.
Minneapolis Times.
Minister White says there Is no ground
for fear of a quarrel between the United
States and Germany. From another
source we learn that the Kaiser thinks
the American ham Is the only ham worth
frying an egg with. Thus passeth another
war cloud.
NOTE AXD COMMENT.
Is Hon. Chauncey Depew In training for
the stase?
Ice, mercury and fireworks, are all go
ing up together.
Look at the river, gentlemen, and see
what you think of it.
The coolness between Spring and Sum
mer seems to be at an end.
This Is the kind of weather that make
us sorry for the people who live in tho
East
General Callles wept when he surren
dered, but his tears were of the alligator
variety.
Your Uncle Russell fiage seems thus far
to have escaped the contagion of the glve-It-away
bacillus.
Perhaps Oom Paul is coming over mere
ly to be prespnt at the launching of Web
ster Davis book.
It Is reported that Charles M. Schwab
may join Tammany. Isn't JSOO.OOO a year
enough for the man?
Among the officers who have laid them
selves liable to a charge of undue se
verity is General Humidity.
Americans are said to be buying up all
the diamonds in Europe. They probably
need them for the Filipino trade.
Chicago is a little disappointed that the
St Louis Fnir Commission didn't select
her as a site for the exposition.
There is no record of hazing In the
Chemawa Indian School. The Indians, It
must be remembered, are now civilized.
There certainly seems to be every rea
son why the gates of Commerce should
be opened to Astoria. The town 13 always
knocking.
Illinois boasts that she has the only
magazine for the Insane. Is there no one
to urge the claims of Nebraska to a simi
lar honor?
We feel gratified to learn that reports
from Astoria, Seattle et al.. that the Co
lumbia runs dry in Summer have not been
generally credited.
The Democrats and Pops refuse to work
together. But the double harness will be
brought out as seen as there are any
offices to pull for.
The Seattle P. I. is now supplied with
material for frothy editorial matter,
which, if carefully husbanded, ought to
last over till the next political row.
A negro hanged himself because it was
so hot in the Eastern city in which he was
living. He must have been tolerably suro
of a change for the better In the country
he was bound for.
Judge , one of the great lawyers of
the last generation, charged a client a
retainer of J1000 In an Important case, re
lates Victor Smith, but settled the suit
before the Judge had opened a book or
written a line concerning It. His client
called to see If he would refund part of
the money. The lawyer seemed surprised
at the suggestion. "Refund!" he ex
claimed. "Refund, did you say? My
friend, that Is a kind of fund unknown
to the legal profession."
r - . i
Twenty years ago it was estimated that
200.000 persons crossed London bridge
dally, 130.000 on foot and the rest in ve
hicles. Wlfh the growth of population
these numbers have almost doubled, in
spite of the relief afforded by the build
ing of tho tower bridge, half a mile down
stream. It has, therefore, become an ur
gent matter to increase the capacity of
the older bridge, and It has now been de
cided to accomplish .this by means of
granite corbels which will carry the foot
way as projections over the water on each
side of the bridge.
Charles M. Schwab, hwd of the greac
steel combine, may have a woman as a
rival. Mrs. Estelle True-Nell, with of
fices in the Park Row building. New York,
is the principal Incorporator and the head
of the $1,000,000,000 Queen Mining Com
pany, which has just been incorporated In
Pierre, S. D. The other Incorporators are
Pearl Young, Mrs. True-Nell's daughter,
also of New York, and Oscar Nelson, of
Pierre. Mrs. True-Nell admits that the
new concern of which she is the head has
not a paid-up capital of $1,000,000,000, but
says that it has all the money it wants.
At a meeting of 400 clergymen at New
Haven, one cf the number told the other
399 that "with the modern Ideas of heaven
nnd hell, the preacher no longer has the
authority he once had. The firmly fixed
Idea that there is no future punishment
for sin is responsible for this- sujpqur
and brimstone have ceased to act as
Sheriffs, and the fear of hell has gone
from the minds of almost everyone." All
of which, as the Boston Herald suggests,
coincides with "Dea Easy's Opinion" that,
"Hell's plaln out. no matter what the or-
thodoxers say
At's tryln' fer to kep It hot. It's fadln' every
day,
The place where sinners sizzled In the tortures
o' the damned
Has kind o been made over like, an sort o
cooled and ca'med."
PLEASAXTRIES OF PARAGRAPIIE11S
Mistress (to servant) Be careful not to spill '
any soup on the ladles' laps. Biddy (new In
the service) Yes. mum, where shall I spill It?
Glasgow Evening Times.
Teacher Anonymous means without a name.
Write a sentence showing you understand
how to use the word. Small Girl (writes)
Our new baby Is anonymous. Tit-Bits.
She Knew Her Book. "You don't seem to
learn swimming very fast." "No." "But the
men all seem very willing to teach you."
"Exactly that's why I don't learn." Brook
lyn Life.
A Safe Invitation. Hotel Proprietor Colo
nel, these four gentlemen saw the sea serpent
on Saturday. The Colonel Indeed? Gentle
men, let's go inside and hae something.
Puck.
Wlmbleton Hello, old man. have you taught
your dog any new tricks lately? Qutmbleton
Yes, I've been teaching him to eat out of,
my hand. He ate a big piece out of It yes
terday. Fun.
Harder. Author There! I've finished that
novel In three weeks, and now I must not be
Interrupted for six months. His Wife What
are you doing to do now? Author I'm going
to write a short story. Harper's Bazar.
The Good One My man. It makes me feel
bad to see yau coming out of a saloon. The
Bad One Well, bos. It wouldn't have don
yer any geed If jcr had saw me goln In. I
only htd a nickel, an that wouldn't have
bought drinks for both. Philadelphia Record.
The Juvenile Brain. Mamma And what
have you bought grandpa for his birthday?
Tommy A beautiful pipe. Mamma But, you
Silly boy, you know he doesn't smoke. Tom
my (after a disconsolate pause, triumphantly)
Ah. but he can use It for blowing bubbles!
PIck-Me-Up.
Solicitous. Mother Where have you been,
Johnny? Johnny Down by th ole mill
watchin' a man paint a picture. Mother
Didn't you botbe. him? Johnny Naw! He
seemed to be real Interested In me. Mother
What did hi say? Johnnj He asked me If I
didn't think 'twas most dinner time and you'd
miss m-s. Harlem Life.
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