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INSANE.
The attempt to hold ""yellow kid"
journalism and vituperative campaign
oratory responsible for the murderous
acitfcs of anarchists is absurd. Patrick
Henry, in one of his great speeches on
the eve of the American Revolution,
sa:d: "Caesar had his Brutus, Charles
I had his Cromwell, and George III may
profit by their example." Suppose,
three months after the utterance of this
infective, some English political fa
ijatic had shot George III; would it
hate been fair to argue that the lan
guage of Patrick Henry had incited the
assassin to shoot the King and that
therefore Patrick Henry deserved to be
mobbed and silenced henceforth if he
pnsumed to denounce the powers that
be? The truth Is that the crimes of the
anarchist need no explanation beyond
his simple creed, under which he holds
that any ruler, be he President, Czar,
Emperor or King, ought to be destroyed
at the first favorable opportunity. Men
holding such a creed draw no inspira
tion o incitement from partisan pollti
tarcar toons, editorials or speeches. Had
Bryan heen elected he would have been
just as odious under the anarchist
creed as McKinley. The Philadelphia
Hecord .has this sensible word on the
subject of modern assassins, who are
the mental and moral degenerates of
thglr generation:
If there wore no newspapers of any kind; If
political rivalry should not exist; If socialism
and anarch' wore unheard of; If there -were
no labor agitators and no trusts nor million
aires, there would still be Booths and Gult
etus and Czoigoszes. In all ages there hae
been assassins and assassinations, and the
present Is no exception to this rule. The en
tire suppression of newspapers, political or
labor agitators, rich men and corporations
w uld not diminish tho number of degencr
ars who are ready to kill those in authority.
The attempt to fasten responsibility
fur these crimes upon political parties
or upon any group that has exercised
the right of criticism will get no sup
port from any man intelligent enough
to understand that the free, natural
movement of modern society cannot be
cribbed, cabined and confined lest
some creature of deranged or unar
ranced Intellect find some pretext for
crime in the written or spoken words of
cur political life. Exceedingly severe
denunciation of Jay Gould was printed
"by the press of New York City more
than once during his eventful career.
He was truthfully held up to public
opprobrium as a railroad wrecker, as
the fraudulent maker of an overissue
of Erie common stock, as the engineer
and architect of the "Black Friday"
panic, by which thousands of Innocent
persons were ruined. It was proved be
yond dispute that his manipulation of
the Erie Railroad changed it from a
diidend-paying property Into one that
under his control gave no return even
on the preferred stock. It was proved
that he retired from Its management
with $12,000,000 cash, the spoils of his
robbery of the small, poor investors,
whose loss of dividends reduced them to
poverty. Suppose, following this bitter
denunciation of Jay Gould by the New
York Times, some so-called "labor" an
archist had shot Gould dead as a pirati
cal plutocrat: could we fairly hold the
aiewspapers responsible who told the
full truth about Gould and his work?
Must the right of vigorous criticism of
public men and affairs be silenced be
cause some man of diseased mind rises
xiv and commits murder?
In a population of seventy-five mil
lions there are doubtless a considerable
: number of creatures who have barely
brains enough to be permitted to in
herit money. To such creatures a
startling public event or the imposing
shape of a public man may feed Into
a blaze their passion for notoriety, just
as every red rag is a battle-flag to a
bull But the free motion of civilized
sccleiy is not to be restrained and put
in a straitjacket because a scheme
of government which is framed for the
needs and rights of the average sane
human being Is horribly abused and
insulted by an exceptional man, who is
either absolutely insane or Is the unre
lenting enemy of any and all forms of
organized human government. The New
York Evening Post speaks to the point
when it inquires if' those who have
denounced Croker as a corrupt and in
tolerable, ruler could Je held responsi
ble should some one Tise up and assas
sinate &Im.
The "yellow journals" are not respon
sible feranarohlsts. for anarchists are
most common in countries where "yel
low journals" do not flourish and where
the cartoon seldom or .never is aimed
at the head of the state. In. London for
many years a low class of journals has
greatly flourished, whose cartoons of
Gladstone were most brutal in his day,
and whose caricatures of Queen "Vic
toria were most irreverent. It is not
in such countries as Great Britain and
America, where freedom of press and
speech is so free Irom restraint, that
anarchists afe most common. It is in
countries like Russia, Italy, Spain,
where full freedom is unknown.
We can no more prevent a man capa
ble of an act of murderous anarchism
from nlyincr his vocation by silencing
"yellow" jounals than you can prevent
a man from becoming a thief by forbid
ding the public exposure of anything
that might tempt him to steal. Society
will never forbid a merchant to expose
his wares for sale because a natural
born thief may be tempted to steal; and
society will not abridge the free exercise
of the rljrht of criticism of public men
and measures, even to the point of in
temperate language and vituperative
violence, lest some tottering brain take
fire or some anarchist find a pretext for
murder. Society cannot in wisdom or
justice subject Its sane and decent mass
to disabilities for the acts of the In
sane and the indecent. It cannot afford
to punish the sane for the insane, the
well for the sick, the strong for the
weak. The business of society is to leg
islate for the living rather than for the
dying and the dead. Laws are made
for the healthy, normal, sane man, the
average man. whose rights cannot safe
ly be abridged because of the possible
murderous antics of a small minority
of mental criDoIes and moral paretics.
CIVIL SERVICE EXPECTATIONS.
Nobody doubts that in one very im
portant respect President Roosevelt's
course will be aggressively reforma
tory: and that is in' the direction of
civil service reform. The details of his
probable programme are therefore of
first-class importance; and they are
given in a Washington special to the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, whose rep
resentative at the National Capital, Mr.
W. B. Stevens, enjoys a pre-eminent
reputation for access to facts and trust
worthiness in their record. His infor
mation is that President Roosevelt will
advocate the extension of the civil serv
ice rules to our Consular service, the
similar Inclusion of pension examining
surgeons, and also, with the consent of
Congress, a farther extension into the
field of fourth-class postmasters.
These are important changes, and full
of promise. As the Globe-Democrat
points out. the movement to place Con
sular agents of the Government under
civil service will meet with the hearty
approval of the large commercial en
terprises of the country. Suggestions
have come to the State Department in
this line repeatedly. Big concerns of
New York City have tried repeatedly
to inaugurate a movement in this direc
tion, and big wholesale concerns In
other cities have been parties to all
these movements. Just now, as the
commercial enterprises of the country
are reaching out for foreign trade, and
with unusual success, there Is a great
demand for an improved Consular serv
ice. Without impugning the confessedly
good work dons by our Consuls now,
which is attested by the investigations
of our European rivals themselves, it
must nevertheless be recognized that
there is room for considerable Improve
ment. The extension of the civil service
would mean almost an entirely new sys
tem. Men would have to show special
qualifications upon examination and
through their experience In the field for
the line of work to which they would
be assigned. After service they would
be promoted to more important duty
and with increased remuneration. Consul-General
Stowe voiced the sentiment,
which has often been expressed In com
munications to the State Department,
upon his recent return from South
Africa. He said that foreign countries
continually complain that they no
sooner become well acquainted with a
man and have confidence In him than
there is a change of administration and
he is displaced. The Consul-General
believed that permanency for men who
show adaptability to the work and who
give satisfaction to the interests which
they assist In this country would great
ly increase the efficiency of the service.
The other reforms contemplated are
equally desirable if not as important in
an industrial sense. In the proposal to
extend civil service reform to pension
examining surgeons President Roose
velt will have the indorsement of the
present Commissioner of Pensions, who
has recommended action in this direc
tion. He will have some striking exam
ples of abuses which have grown up
under the present system to draw from.
He will have records of the same men
who were examined by half a dozen dif
ferent boards and with as much vari
ance in the results of these examina
tions as it is possible to find. In clas
sifying and placing fourth-class post
masters under the civil service, the
President will have more of a task.
There he will have to meet opposition
from members of Congress, and, it is
fully believed, will have to seek leg
islation from Congress before it would
be possible. The growth of rural free
delivery has relegated the fourth-class
postmasters to a place of comparatively
less Importance, but politicians will be
loth to let go their hold on these of
fices. The new President's utterances Injure
a moderate procedure in all these mat
ters. The method will doubtless be the
statesman's, not the rough rider's.
Through the medium of the present
Cabinet we shall be "fortlte In re,"
but also "suavlter In modo." Sweeping
orders are not to be expected, but
steady effort and pressure in the direc
tion of reform. The abuses of the ap
pointive power are among the most
flagrant and most widely extended un
der -which our Government labors. It is
encouraging both for business and pub
lic morality that In this Important mat
ter we are certainly headed in the direc
tion of honest and effective reform.
MR. FULIERS MISAPPREHENSION.
Comes now Henry B. Fuller, author,
of Chicago, 111., to add his voice to that
of Professor Triggs in establishing the
richt of that city to the title of the
literary center of America. Like Pro
fessor Triggs, Mr. Fuller comes not to
praise but to blame, but, instead of dis
charging his load of criticism at poets
sacred and profane, he trains the bat
tery of his disapproval on the reading
public of the United States of America.
The aforesaid public, Mr. Fuller assev
erates, is not able to grasp and appreci
ate real literature. It has. for example,
shown no frantic zeal to purchase and
read "The Cliff Dwellers" and "With
the Procession," so that manufacturers
of that artistically constructed and cun
ningly wrought fiction, which plunges
the reader deep Into a great many sub
jects which he has difficulty In tracking
to their connection with the story, may
as well shut up shop and stop paying
rent and fuel bills. This lack of intel
lectual refinement of perception Mr
Fuller attributes to the fact that this'is
a Republic, and he intimates that he
would he had been born under another
flag, which one he does not specify.
Yet Mr. Fuller need not go outside of
his own city to find proof that even the
benighted citizens of a Republic are
willing to pay for the kind of literature
they like. There are several, not to say
many, book stores in Chicago which
market annually a large number of sets
of the complete works of William
Shakespeare, the novels of William
Makepeace Thackeray and Nathaniel
Hawthorne, and, more recently, books
by Maurice Thompson and Booth Tark
ington. Robert Louis Stevenson, James
M. Barrle and Rudyard Kipiing were
blithe to have their books published in
this country, and if Mr. Fuller will take
a cruise around the public and private
libraries of his city he will find very
many copies of the works of each, as
well as the product of such Chicago
writers as Eugene Field, George Hor
ton. FInley Peter Dunne and George
Ade. Mr. Dunne and Mr. Ade may not
give that delicate finish to their work
which distlncuishes that of Mr. Fuller,
but the latter has surely not improved
much upon the style of Field, nor can
he lay claim to a great deal of superior
ity over Shakespeare. Thackeray, Haw
thorne, Stevenson or Bame.
This seems to dispose of Mr. Fuller's
evident belief that the citizens of a
republic are inclined to discourage the
trade of novel writing. So far are they
from doing anything of the kind that
they are. In fact, only too willing to buy
whatever is offered in the way of enter
taining narratives, and if Mr. Fuller
will but write the kind of stories they
want he will find them as ready to line
his pockets with evidences of their rec
ognition as they have done those of
Archibald Clavering Gunter, Albert
Ross, Old Sleuth and other writers who
care nothing for the finish of their work.
Mr. Fuller's fellow-townsman, Ople
Reid, has never had reason to complain
of lack of a market for his wares, for
he makes it a point to write the kind of
stories people like to read. And if Mr.
Fuller will go and do likewise, he may
be as brilliant in his treatment of his
subject and as classical in his style as
he chooses, without the least fear that
the literary excellence of his books
makes them unacceptable to the read
ing public.
AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY.
We may be sure that the Czarina's
refusal to ride In the same carriage
with Mrs. Loubet will provoke many a
smile In this "country at the foolish dis
tinctions of rank recognized so rigidly
in the Old World. Yet a little reflection
Will show us that even in democratic
America we have our social classes,
every whit as jealous of their preroga
tives of various sorts. Not long since
there was a dreadful rumpus at Wash
ington as to whether Army or Navy
had precedence in a parade. We have
our exclusive churches and exclusive
clubs. Mrs. Gotrox is proud.not to have
Mrs. Nobody on her visiting list, and
how So and So could have Such and
Such at her reception passes the com
prehension of the proud Miss Macbrldej
The thoughtful might easily be puz
zled to decide who is justly entitled to
this social exclusion, and upon what
grounds. Opinions differ 'Widely, indeed,
as to what is the highest society. For
some the open sesame to recognition
is wealth, for others It is wit and gen
iality, for others birth and breeding,
for others the perfect knowledge of
fashion's customs in conduct and dress.
Which is the more aristocratic place of
birth Boston or Virginia? Should one
trace back preferably to Creole ances
try, or Englsh nobility, or French Hu
guenots, or Scotch-Irish, or Knicker
bockers of New Amsterdam? Some of
us came over in the Mayflower, while
others, doubtless, were fairly success
ful at home and had no occasion to
move.
A visitor from Venus or the moon
would certainly have difficulty In esti
mating these conflcting claims to ex
clusiveness and pride at their true
worth. He might conclude, in view of
the precariousness of wealth and the
slender share of participation any of us
had in the accident of birth and the ex
ploits of our ancestors, that we should
vaunt our merits in these respects with
due humility and forethought. We all
had ancestors living some thousands
of years ago, and our credit for the
good ones is no greater than our guilt
for the shortcomings of the unworthy.
It is not a very strong presumption, that
the descendants of the great and good
are up to the full measure of their dis
tinguished forbears, and a peculiar
glory hangs about the names that have
come up from lowly origin to be house
hold words among the nations. He
whose chief boast is what his fathers
were or did comes pretty near Confess
ing the need of reflected honors to
cover his own deficiency.
The broad and cenerous mind recog
nizes that the rank is but the guinea's
stamp. There have been noble, souls In
all time who rose above the petty claims
of social pride to recognize that we are
all made of the same poor clay, all
come helpless and without merit of our
own Into the world, all depart In equal
helplessness, leaving behind all tokens
of rank or wealth. These, make our
true aristocracy the nobility of the
soul "kind hearts are more than coro
nets and simple faith than Norman
blood." Such was PhillipsfBrooks, sit
ting down In his shirt sleeves with
workingmen at table, such was Frances
Cleveland, singling out the tired old
woman in faded gown for smile and
kind word at the great Reception in the
White House. Such show us the mean
ing of noblesse oblige. Suppose that
fate has given us wealth, or breeding,
or gracious presence, 'or sparkling wit
is it our talent's nobler use to spread
unhapplness with withering glance or
cold disdain, or to shed light and
warmth about us on lives that have
been darkened in their birth or by the
stroke of unkindly fate? As the poet
reminds Lady Clam Vere de Vere, 'tis
only noble to be good. The honors are'
not for those who "thrust their fancied
superiority upon those in humbler sta
tion, but for those whose ready hands
are scattering seeds of kindness by their
daily path.
Six feet of earth makes us all of one
size. There will come a day when all
this pretense of rank and -worldly pos
session wilj, fall away from us like a
narment that is laid aside. "One dig
nity delays for all.'slngs Emily Dick
inson, it Is" the pomp that brings us
coach and footmen, state and throng,
as we are borne to the common resting
place of all. If nothing else will tem
per the pride of birth and place, surely
it should die out before the thoughts
of the last bitter hour, the solemn dark
ness and the narrow house. "When I
see Kings lying by those who deposed
them." says Addison; "when I consider
rival wits placed side by side, or the
holy men that divided the world with
their contests and disputes, I reflect,
with sorrow and astonishment, on the
little competitions, factions and de
bates of mankind. When I read the
several dates of the tombs, of some that
died yesterday, and some 600 years ago,
I consider that great day when we shall
all of us be contemporaries and make
our appearance together."
The Washington state grain Inspec
tion service, which has never been seri
ously regarded in the grain trade, ex
cept as a means for providing offices
for a few politicians, is making a new
bid for recognition. According to the
Tacoma correspondent of the New York
Commercial, the inspector will send
samples of the Washington wheat crop
to Liverpool, and it is expected that
cargoes will be sold on the grades rep
resented by those samples. The corre
spondent states that this is a radical
departure from precedents, and con
tinues: Heretofore Washington wheat has not been
distinguished from any other grain grown on
the Coast in the European markets. In fact,
samples labeled "Oregon wheat" hao been
sent abroad and wheat from this state has
been handled under that name. This, too, in
Site of tho fact that only a small proportion
of Washington wheat as handled through
Oregon, and the grain crop of Washington
far exceeds that of Oregon. It has been, as
Grain Inspector Wright declares, a case of
"the toll wagging the dog."
The only wheat known in the Liver
pool maiket, or in any other market in
the world, as "Oregon wheat," is the
wheat grown in the Willamette Val
lev. and not a bushel of wheat grown In
Washington was ever shipped as "Ore
gon" wheat. The statement that
"Washington wheat has not been distin
guished from anv other grain grown on
the Coast" is rubbish. Washington
wheat is sold in the European markets
as "Walla Walla" and "Bluestem," al
though the Tacoma papers have made
repeated efforts to substitute the name
"Club" for "Walla Walla." The 1901
crop of the State of Washington, like
all of its predecessors, will be sold in
European markets on the grades estab
lished by the exporters in this city, who
handle the crop of both states, ship
ping some of it from this port and some
of it from Puget Sound.
David Starr Jordan, of Stanford Unl
versitv. writes of a recent visit to Japan
very entertainingly in a late issue of the
New York Independent. Among other
things that he discovered while in the
Island Empire was that the Japanese
feel toward America a peculiar, almost
romantic, jrratitude. which he accounts
for in part by sayfng:
It was America who in 1851 -first opened
Janan to, tho activities of tho West, and fur
nished the occasion for the downfall of the
outworn feudal system and the dual rolo of
Shogun and Mlkadp. It was America who led
in the establishment of the Japanese school
system and the great Imperial University at
Tokio It was America who was ilrst willing
to allow Japan full jurisdiction in her own
rorts, which had been opened to foreign resi
dence and foreign trade. To Japan, America
is her nearest and best friend among the na
tions, her guide, her leader in paths which
are new and' strange.
He cites' further that the trade of
Japan Is great and growing. The prof
its of this trade will, of course, go to
those from whom the Japanese may
choose 'to buy, and he adds: "To the
end of ' controlling this trade, and
through it the trade of the Orient, to
which Japan holds the key we have
only to offer fair dealing, personal cour
tesy and the chivalrous spirit which
draws i together men and nations."
This 3s an important fact, tersely
stated, and one which the exporting
manufacturers of the United States
may easily apply to their profit.
Rulers of Europe, led just now by
the Czar and President Loubet the lat
ter to give place immediately to Em
peror William are busily engaged in
talking without saying anything. Un
fortunately, compliments passed be
tween rulers cannot be taken as pledges
to universal peace. Otherwise the mag
nificent army of the French Republic,
which made so grand a display of disci
pline and latent power before the Czar
the other day, might well disband and
its hosts return to the productive walks
of peace.
The Liverpool owners of a British
f steamship are reported to have lost over
$25,000 by the delay in loading their ves
sel in San Francisco on account of the
strike. The California growers have
been unable to market their wheat and
barley at a time when it would com
mand the best figures. It is thus evi
dent that two apparently disinterested
parties have suffered a vast amount of
financial damage from a cause with
which their connection, if any, was very
remote.
Favorable wheat weather in the Ar
gentine was the bearish factor in the
Chicago wheat market yesterday. The
crop of the southern country is four
-months distant, but, like all coming
events, it Is casting its shadow before.
The American wheat market has been
in the shadow for so long that It is very
susceptible to anything that looks like
a cloud, and the bulls and the bears
will make the most of any new haze
that appears.
It is hard to persuade a shoemaker
to stick to his last. Frank T. Bullen,
whose "The Cruise of the Cachalot" told
so entertainingly of a whaling voyage,
is endeavoring to describe his first im
pressions of America in a series of let
ters which compare with his sea story
about as favorably as the Clermont
compares With the Deutschland.
The best time at the free-for-all trot
at the State Fair Tuesday was 2:26, al
though the field of horses entered was
the best that ever started In a similar
event in the state. If "State Fair"
weather continues to live up to its rep
utation, breeders should endeavor to
secure a breed of animals provided with
fins and flippers.
The Oregonlan has received a com
municating discussing the proper uses
of "at" and "in," but the correspond
ent uses the word "maid" for "made"
and spells "proper" with three p's.
Hairsplitting discriminations of this
rank are too common to be worth
printing.
Tales of distress from Alaska have
begun coming early this Fall. This
time it is trouble for the natives, and
it is brought about by the Christian's
thirst for gold and the Indian's thirst
for liquor. There is nothing new in it,
regrettable though it be.
Mrs. Weatherred seems to have got
the Lewis and Clark Centennial before
yesterday's gathering 'at Buffalo in ef
fective shape. Her Indefatigable efforts,
in this direction deserve all praise.
TW0 NOTEWORTHY TRIBUTES.
Henry Watterson in the Louisville Courier-Journal:
"
The notion that he was not his own
master, and the master of all about him,
was singularly at fault. Nothing could
the better: prove this than his fidelity to
his friends. It lsjthe weak man who kicks
away the ladder when he has climbed to
the top. McKinley showed himself grate
ful to every round of the ladder. In his
heart he feared no man's rivalry, not even
the accusation and appearance of a di
vision of power. He knew as few men
have known how to say "No," as if con
ferring a favor and to send the suitor
away at least half satisfied.
Critics seeking to deny him the higher
virtues of statesmanship called him a
clever politician. And so he was. But
was it only clever politics that was able
to hold the Government well In hand and
keep it out of a premature "declaration of
war until the moral bUsls of that war
should be clearly laid apd the people be
thoroughly united? WaRn it only clever
politics to pilot the ship o state through
the breakers which succeed all wars and
to bring her back into port intact and
with so little strain that thus far we can
scarce see any sign of danger, or even of
stress of weather?
What may betide, what may be hia In
the womb of the future, wo know not.
Wo can only judge the sailing as far as
wo have gone. The elements may thick
en -and grow dark. The skies may be
overspread. Perils may gather on every
hand. But the sailing has been too
smooth over seas that were so strange
for anybody to deny the actual states
manship, however he may dispute the
doctrinal statesmanship of William Mc
Kinley. Ex-President Cleveland, at Princeton:
The man who Is universally mourned
today achieved the highest distinction
which his country can confer on any man;
and he lived a useful life. Ho was not
deficient in education, but with all you
will hear of his grand carrer and his serv
ices to his country and- his fellow citi
zens you will not hear that the high
plane he reached or what he accomplished
was due entirely to his education. You
will instead constantly hear as account
ing for his greats success that he was
obedient and affectionate as a son, patri
otic and faithful as a soldier, honest and
upright as a citizen, tender and devot
ed as a husband, and truthful, generous,
unselfish, moral and clean in every re
lation of life.
He never thought any of those things
too weak for his manliness. Make no
mistake. Here was a most distinguished
man a great man a useful man who
became distinguished, great and useful
because h had and retained unimpaired
qualities of heart which I fear university
students sometimes feel like keeping in
the background or abandoning.
MOVEMENT IN REAL ESTATE.
Louisville Courier-JournaJ.
What Henry George so bitterly de
nounced as the "unreserved increment"
absorbed by owners of landed property
has been brought to attention by the nu
merous large transactions that have re
cently taken place in New York. Ad
vances over previous sales have reached
unusual figurea, owing to the changing
centers in the trading and residential dis
tricts. The natural result has been a de
velopment of speculation and some gigan
tic deals. A feature is that much of this
trading has been done by corporations
instead of private individuals as formerly.
Sixty-eight of these have been formed
for the purpose of dealing in real estate
and one has a capital of $20,000,000. How
ever, many large operators have arisen
who are thought to be worthy successors
of the elder Astors, the Goelets and Amos
R. Eno.
A well-known Kentucklan who has Im
portant financial and commercial con
nections has recently put himself on rec
ord as saying that a great movement
is impending in veal property everywhere.
Aa he expresses ' it, the man who doesn't
get hold of some land for himself and
his children within the next 50 years will
have to go down to his grave with the
conviction that they will never own any
except at very great cost. He made this
as a general proposition with no Idea of
specifying any particular place as likely
to benefit more than another. He simply
believes that the great wealth which has
been created during tho past will seek be
fore very long another outlet than in
railroads or other corporations. Tho
ownership of land has always been a
passion with Anglo-Saxon nations, "andt
indeed, with all modern civilizations. It
is natural that there should be more
desire to accumulate real estate posses
sions In such great and growing cities
as New York and their environs. The
present New York operations arc on a
larger scale, but the same movement Is
to be observed elsewhere. As to whether
this is to extend to agricultural lands is
a question that the future must solvp.
We have just passed through a period
of great depression to tlllera of the soil,
and farming operations are now beginning
to show the large profits that have re
peatedly led to disastrous speculation. In
addition to this, the rapidly expanding
population of the United States and their
larger earnings have naturally produced
an inquiry for some stable form of in
vestment, and nothing has been so great
ly In favor through long periods of time
as real estate. It may be that the sud
den access of activity in New York may
mean a more general advance in land
values, but It Is to be hoped it will not
result in anything so disastrous as the
"booms' of unhappy memory in the West
and South a few years ago. If it goes
so far as to encourage the acquisition of
homes it will do no harm and may do a
great deal of good.
Southern Erttlmntcs.
Atlanta Journal.
There is no danger that President Roose
velt will be a narrow sectionalism He has
often expressed his high admiration of the
people of the South. In his "Life of
Thomas H. Benton" he pays a superb trib
ute to the soldiers of the Confederacy
and their noble chieftain, Robert E. Lee.
Very recently he has spoken of the South
in terms oj enthusiastic praise. We may
expect him to be the President of the
whole people. Let us bo thankful for the
reasonable, assurance that In Theodore
Roosevelt we have a President who will
adorn his exalted ofilce and use It wisely
and well; a President wh6m the Nation
can trust, and of whom it will have cause
to be proud.
AH Strife Forgotten.
Richmond Dispatch.
It is .the greatest glory of this country
that all political and sectional strife and
discord can be so burled and temporarily
obliterated by a great National calamity.
It is but natural that those who by po
litical affiliation and geographical location
are most closely allied to the dead Presi
dent should unite In reverential tributes
to the man; it is little 9hort of remark
able that those who come from a different
geographical subdivision of the country
and are unalterably opposed to the poli
cies of the party with which the late
Chief Magistrate was allied should with
equal reverence unite in the universal
mourning.
The Theory Ih Not Sound.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The doctrine that like cures like, or, as
the homeopathlsts put it, "simllia slmill
bus curantur," may have some force in
medicine, and the hair of the dog may be
good for the bite, figuratively, but that
lawlessness will cuje lawlessness is a
theory which should find advocates in no
civilized country.
Mnlcc It n Crime.
Philadelphia Press.
Seditious and Inflammatory speech or
writings or any utterance or publication
tending to crime once made a fektny,
and the entire scheme and propaganda of
anarchy becomes a crime and can be
suppressed as is any other crime.
THE HOME IN DANGER.
Baltimore Sun.
Dr. Arabella Kenealy, L. R. C. P., con
tributes a thoughtful article to the Lon
don Chronicle upon, the decline of tho
home in consequence of the "emaniclpa
tion of women."
"The streets." she says, "are thronged
with busy, hurrying girls and women who
are bank clerks, typewriters, doctors,
journalists, artists, bookkeepers, teach
ers, nurses, shopwomen and apothecaries."
"Who, then," Dr. Kenealy asks, "are
the women content to practice merely
womanly qualities? Where, then, are their
homes? These women, somebody answers,
do not need to be at home. In their
houses cooks do the cooking, housemaids
the cleaning, footmen and parlormaids the
ministering, wet nurses or somebody'3
feeding bottle and patent foeds mother
the babies, nursemaids tend the children,
governesses teach them, trained nurses
look after them when they are sick,"
and so forth.
The happiness, the virtue, the prosper
ity of a nation rests upon the home. IE
this learned lady is right in believing that
the home is to be destroyed by the eman
cipation of women, and their consequent
entry into gainful occupations, then the
emancipation of women will bring upon
mankind a calamity compared with which
all other calamities are trivial. And yet
the facts that this lady marshals cannot
be denied. Women are frequently left
in positions where they must make their
own livings or starve, or else become ob
jects of charity. That has always been
the case, and there has generally been
sufficient work for women so situated
to do. But when women enter into em
ployments which have heretofore been
filled by men the result Is that the wages
which men received are reduced, more
men are out of employment and an in
creasing number find themselves unable
to marry and support families. That
means that when women enter Into these
employments it Increases the number o
women who must make their own living,
because it decreases the number of men
who can win bread for them. Just the
other day it was announced that one bank
in Chicago had discharged 13 men who
were tellers and bookkeepers and filled
their places with women. What will be
come of those 13 men? What will become
of their families? Perhaps some of them
have wives and daughters who will be
driven from their homes to seek employ
ment in case the head of the family
should be unable to get work or should
be driven to take wages insufficient for
tho family support, ai;d so the home will Da
broken up. The woman who is driven
to breadwinnlng by necessity is entitled
to the aid and sympathy of all. But her
greatest enemy Is the woman who goes to
work not from necessity. There 13 a large
and constantly increasing (class of work
ing women in stores and offices who are
not driven to work by necessity, but be
cause they want excitement; they want
more money than their parents can give
them In order to dress in finer clothes,
or they are dissatisfied with quiet do
mestic duties at home. These Women, al
ready having, a home provided, can af
ford to tako any wage that is offered,
and their competition forces down the
wages of women who have nothing but
their wages to live upon and deprives
many of them, as well as many men,
of their means of livelihood. Economic
ally It is best for society that men should
be the breadwinners and women the hbme
makers. That Is demonstrated by acttjal
experience in this and other countries.
In those communities where the principal
occupation Is one in which women do net
engage the condition of the mass of tha
people is unifotmly better than It Is in
communities where women and children
are employed. The people la a community
where Iron and steel are made, or where
they are engaged In shipbuilding, are
more enlightened and more prosperous
than those in the cotton-mill town, where.
It takes the whole family husband, wife
and children to earn enough for the fam
ily to Jive upon.
Another and a very lmpbrtant result of
women engaging in the various wage
earning occupations is the danger of de
generacy. A woman, clerk not only has
no time to rear her children properly, If
she has any, but the nature of her occu
pation may render her physically unfit
for the duties of the mother. One of tho
underlying causes for this condition, and
many other things which militate against
home and happiness, is the growing greed
for money and the growing discontent with
that state of life to which it has pleased
God to call us. This discontent Is more
marked among women than among men.
Many of them are never satisfied. Those
who have little want more. Those who
have much want more. Money means
more to women than to men
It is necessary In society, and women
thirst for society, and each one wants to
live better than her neighbor. Of course
there are multitudes of homes which have
not been invaded by the spirit of unrest.
There are multitudes of men and women
who, having little, are content with that
little and are thankful for the blessings
they enjoy their health, friends, food and
raiment and do not repine for things they
connot have nor envy thoso who have
them. There are people who know that
wealth and society and pleasure do not
bring happiness. Happiness Is dependent
on what Is within and not on riches.
But the spirit of the age is discontent and
a grasping greed for money, a vulgar love
of show, having which no man nor wo
man can be happy.
Marie Twain Fntlioms Himself.
New York Times.
Sometimes of a sunny afternoon Mark
Twain strolls up and down that part of
Fifth avenue above Twenty-third street,
where art and book stores are frequent.
The humorist seems to find certain rest in
peering into windows of these, though
he rarely crosses their thresholds. Ho was
about to turn away from the window of a
shop when his eye was caught by what
seemed to be an etching of hlmsolf. Tho
humorist was staring blankly at his like
ness when he was joined at the window
by one of those chatty Individuals always
ready for a street corner exchange of
opinion.
"Pretty good likeness of the old man,
isn't it?" said the chatterer, without see
ing tho writer's full face, which wa3
partly In shadow.
Mark said it was.
"Say, what do you think of that fel
low's work, anyway?" went on the chat
terer. "I think," said Mark, still without turn
ing his head, "that he Is the greatest Im
postor the American people ever refused
to take seriously."
"How ro?"
"Well, because he really is serious and
because' nobody'll believe him; he passes
for being humorous." With that Mr.
Clemens faced his questioner.
"Well, I'll be switched!" ejaculated the
chatterer.
The face of tha humorist became deep
ly concerned. "For heaven's sake, don't
tell any one I told you. It would ruin
me with my publishers," he said, starting
up the avenue.
But the chatterer went home and told
his friends.
Cleveland' Tribute.
New York Tribune.
Of all the spoken tributes to the charac
ter and memory .of President McKinley,
not one has surpassed in dignity, discrim
ination and feeling that which was de
livered in the great hall of Princeton
University on Thursday by his only living
predecessor. Peculiar" Interest would in
evitably attach tq the words uttered by
Mr. Cleveland on such an occasion, and
a multitude of his fellow-citizens wih
long retain a grateful sense of their per
fect appropriateness.
Retribution In the IjUYvfnl Way.
Baltimore American.
There is no need to grow hysterical over
the punishment of the President's assas
sin. He will receive the calm justice
of the law, and, after that, the justice
into whose hands every man may well
fear to fall for the terrible Derfection of
its retribution.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Indian Summer seems to be delayed) in
transmission.
Tho athletic trust may expect a ged
many strikes.
The St. Louis anarchist avWantly is
in training for a position as a pews
agent. '
Hcr-e's to tha cup. Mfty Sir Tharnna
Lipton have many more chances to try
to lift It.
m .
The yellow journals ar beginning to
think some other color wulcL ba more
becoming to them for a while.
A Connecticut man has sent a dog to
Sir Thomas Lipton as a nutscot for
Shamrock II. It i probably a sea-dog.
Spain is going to war with Mroeo.
She has learned a good deal about tbe
folly of fighting out of her olase sixwe
1S0S.
The Attorney-General of Indiana, sya
Chicago is a dangerous country. Chifeago
will forgive "dangerous." bat never
"country."
Speaking of Cabinet rumors, it may be
authoritatively stated that no pertfelto
will be offered to Hon. Richard Creker,
of New York.
It will be a good many years before
passengers on dirigible balloons will feel
safe in going to sleep without parachutes
under their pillows.
The mistake made by the Missouri pro
fessor who killed his sweetheart and;
then himself, was In not reversing the
order of his crimes.
When Seth Low becomes fatigued withT
his work at Columbia University he get
the relaxation he- needs by running foi
Mayor of New York. (
The scientists who are endeavoring tot
prove that Adam and Eve are myths
win wtvu icaa iiuuuiu in uuuvim;ui& pu?
pie that the aople was a delusion.
A Chicago preacher says that the first
anarchist was Satan. In justice to hisj
majesty, however, it would be said that
he has reformed and become a tyrant. '
An eccentric man named Evans, wha
recently died in Carmarthenshire, WalesV
devoted his life to witnessing hangings!
making the acquaintance of executioners
and collecting relics of murderers. Ii
the early days of public hangings h
would travel any distance to seo a man.
"turned off." He was so fascinated by
tho business that on the death of Cal
craft he applied for his. post. As thld
was not granted, he set up a gallows in
his own house and invited his friends to
test the noose.
Roswell Martin Field, who has recently
visited Marblehead, finds that it won't
answer to mention in that quaint and an
cient town, Whittler's poem on "Skipper
Ireson's Ride," or to make inquiries ag
to the former home of Flud Iroaon, who
For his hard heart,
"Was tarred and feathered and carried In a cart
i By the women of Marblehead.
Skipper Ireson really suffered this indig
nity for the supposed offense of refusing
to jylleve a vessel in distress, but it was
learned afterward that when he sought
to reiJeve the vessel his crew mutinied,
and tniMMvaiS., J
Marblehead, every other person you mee
is a descendant of this maligned and ill
treated skipper, it is found best fer the
visitor to take the advice of a peace-loving
native, and not ask anybody as to
tho location of the old Ireson house, for
fear of getting "sarsed." "He who has
been 'sarsed by a proficient of this stern
and rock-bound coast, knows how well
that job can be performed," says Mr-Field.
PL.U.VSAA TRIES OF PAUAGKAPHERji
An Ambitious Lady Husband The doetoV
says If 1 keetf up this race for money I'll
break down when I am 40. Wife Never mladf
dear. By that time we shall be able to afford
it. Life.
Deacon Pecksniff Fie! I'd be ashamed to be
seen coming out of a saloon. Mr. Hardkase
Oh, yes: I suppose you're proud of the fiwi
that you always stay in until they put you
out Philadelphia Record.
A Sign of Progress. McJigger Oh! no. 14.
isn't a one-horse town any more. Thingumboty
JTo? McJIgger No. You remember thelit
"Grand Dramatic Palace"? Well, they sail US
"the theater" now. Philadelphia Press.
He Said No More. Mr. Bender Great SottJ
When a woman goes out to get samples she
spendg half a day. Mn Bender That's noth
ing t Why, I have known you to make a round
of the sample rooms ami spend half the night,
Chicago News.
One Better. Mistress Mary! Mary! I've Jaafc
broken my handglass. You know how unlusky
it Is seven years' unhaplness. MaidOta,
that's nothin'. ma'am; 'ow about me? I've
just smashed the largo glass in the drawing
room! Glasgow Evening Times.
Consumer I say, what kind of a cigar do
you call this? It's the worst tobacco I ever
tasted. Dealer Beg your pardon, but you ar
wholly In error. Therfr isn't a partlele of to
bacco in that cigar. It is so easy to be mis
taken, don't you see? Boston Transcript.
Ruling Passion Strong in Death. "I saw
Mrs. K. going into an auction sale last Men
day. Isn't he craze for bargains extraor
dinary?" "Yes. Indeed. I believe she eeutd
die happy it she knew sho would ba laid oul
on a bargain counter and burled as a rem
nant." Town and Country.
The Glorloun Season.
Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution.
Jest a breath o' AVlnter: It ain't so fur away.
Though 'twill be a little while ylt "fere you
hear the Addles play:
Yit it's good to dream about it the eyes that
brightly glance.
An the room a-goin' roun' you In the glory
o the danee!
Jest a breath o' Winter a whisper in tho
pines.
An fewer songs o mockin' birds a rustle) h
the vines.
An' the gold leaves In the woodlands! ." . .
well, the Summer had Its joys.
But it's Winter that makes musie fer th
merry gals an" bos
Jest a breath o Winter: Let it come, and aUy
awhile!
The sweet Spring1 and the Summer made alt
the gardens smile; ,
But Winter has its pleasures an" the bey '11
take tholr chance
With the rosiest o" pardners In the blight
round o' the dance!
Decayed Domesticity.
London Daily Chroniolo.
Houses are gone: in flats one dwells.
Flats hisher thnn St. Paul his dome
The orchestras of new hotels
Drown the old strain of "Home, Sweat
Home."
Onlr the nurse by baby stays;
Only the club our food can dress;
We from a cookloss kitchen gaze
Upon a nursery motherless.
Reckless, the modern woman throw3
Her high prerogative away.
Forth to the market place she goes.
And does man's work for woman's pay.
Yet if some palliation's sought
For woman's error nay, her erime
There is at least the simple thought.
This has been going on some time.
Domestic arts whose loss we grieve
Have been decaying every year
Since Adam first observed to Eve
"Your cooking's not like mother's, dear.'1