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t i--v c-"n B THE MORNING 'OKEGONIAN, TUESDAY, OCEOBEE I, 1901. , r "$?' kg v8Q&maL Entercfl at the Postofflce at Portlsifi. Oregon, as second-class matter. T ELEPHONES. w Editorial Ttooms 1C6 1 Business Office. ..GG7 REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Br Mall (postage prepaid), in "Advance Bally, with Sunday, per month .. $ 85 Dally, Sunday excepted, per year......... 7 50 Daily, with Sunday, per year.. 3 00 Sunday, per year ...... 2 Oi The "Weekly, per year 1 50 The Weekly. 3 months fcO To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered. Sundays excepted.l5c Dally, per -Reek, delivered, Sundays Included.20c POSTAGE RATES. United States, Canada, and Mexico: 10 to 10-page paper.......... ................lc JO to 32-page paper............ 2c Forelm rates double. New- or discussion intended lor publication In The Oregonian should be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregonian," not to the name of any individual. letters relating to adver tlalne, subscriptions or to any business matter should De-addressed simply "The Oregonian. The Oregonian docs not huy poems or stories .from individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to it without solici tation. No stamps should be inclosed for this purpose. Puget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, offlce at 1111 Pacific avenue, Tacoma. Box 505, Tacoma Postofllce. Eastern Business Offlce. 43. 44. 45, 47. 48. 49 Tribune building. New York Cltyj 4C9 "The Rookery," Chicago; the S. C Eeckwlth special agency. Eastern representative. For sale in San Francisco by J. K. Cooper, 740 Market street, near the Palace Hotel; Gold smith Bros.. 230 Sutter street; F. "W. Pitts. 1008 Market street: roster & Orear, F-rry news stand. For sale in Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner, 250 So. Spring street, and Oliver & Haines, 100 So. Spring street. For eale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co., 17 Dearborn street. For sale in Omaha by Barkalow Bros., 1012 Farnam street. For salo InSalt Lake "by the Salt Lake News Co.. 77 W. Second South street. For sale In Og&en by W- C. Kind. 204 Twenty-fifth street, and by C H. Myers. For sale in Kansas City. Mo., by Fred Hutchinson, 004 "Wyandotte street. On file at Buffalo. N. Y.. In the Oregon ex hibit at the exposition. For sale in Washington, D. C, by the Hbbett House news stand. For sale in Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kendriak. O0S-912 Seventh street. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 72; minimum temperature, 48; pre cipitation, 0.00. TODAY'S WEATHER Fair, with northerly winds. PORTLAND, TUESDAY, OCTOBER. 1. hiatvy auESTioxs akswbred. Many times in the course of the year every citizen of Oregon, is called upon to give information about the state, or some particular part of it, or some par ticular industry in it Frequently the information asked for is supplied after considerable trouble to hunt up the, facts. Often it is given incorrectly or not at all, because a busy man cannot take the time, even if he knows where to apply for data, to compile records of climate. Industries or government, or to describe the characteristics of r.ny given region" and ascertain whether there he land open Itsettlement or to purchase. But every man or woman who has friends in the East or who comes in contact with tourists knows how often information of this character is sought and how seldom it is that the facts are available for answer. This is why The Oregonian goes to the trouble of compiling this character of information .and presenting it before the public Our own people may profit from having these matters set before them occasionally, and the compilation is certainly of value in answering- more fully than would be jdone in personal communications the inquiries that homeseekers are daily and hourly mak ing. "Where and how may cheap lands be obtained in Oregon? Need a purchaser reside upon land purchased from the state? It being conceded that there is plenty of cheap land available on the mountain sides, what use can be made of such land by families without cap ital? What is the profit in Western Oregon from supplying milk to cream eries? What return may one expect Irom fruitraising? What about wheat nd other agricultural products? What of the livestock' business? What of lum bering? What transportation facilities does the state have? How do the com mon school facilities compare with those of the Eastern States? What of the climate the temperature, the moist ure, the healthfulness? What is the Oregon plan of government? How heavy is taxation? What is the state debt? Is it worth while to go to the expense of making a personal investiga tion of Oregon with a view to settling a family or establishing a "business here? These are a few of the questions asked by persons interested In chang ing their homes. The answers to them and to many more may be found in The Oregonian published Monday morning the homeseekers' number of The Ore gonian. People who have friends inter ested in such Information should send thGm copies of that paper. It supplies the knowledge in convenient form, and obviously as reliable as an official re port It is a matter of great Impor tance to the state that such Informa tion be spread wide. A RECORD OF GOOD WORKS. Memories of the old Portland Acad emy, the first Protestant school for higher education in this city, are re vived by the death of Rabbi Bories, who was the first teacher of ancient languages in that pioneer institution. A scholarly man, he was well prepared for the work which he assumed in this de partment. He was otherwise -well equipped for the work through an apti tude for it that is born in and not ac quired by an individual, and, though a generation has passed since his en deavor in this line went into the his tory of the educational life and effort of the state numbers of men and women are still the better and more capable citizens through contact with him in the classroom. Upon the site of the old academy building, then in the edge of the forest and surrounded by fire-blackened stumps and logs, and en compassing it., for many blocks, are beautiful homes, -spacious churches and commodious public school buildings, while out beyond it, in what was then scarcely penetrated woods and thickets, there is another Portland Academy building, populous with pupils and prosperous In its work. The new has succeeded the old in all lines of en deavor here and elsewhere since the man whose mortal remains were yes terday consigned, with the beautiful and symbolic rites of his faith, to the tomb became identified with Portland's growth. But the foundations then laid have been carefully builded upon, the superstructure fulfilling grandly the promise of Its beginnings and justify ing the plans then formed for com munity prosperity and greatness. The foundation-builders have dropped away until relatively very few remain, but their work survives for yet a little while in memory. After this "-limit has been reached it will still live in the history of the state, and, better yet, in the lives of the descendants of those who were pioneers In the educational work of its formative era. Of all those of whom the late Rabbi Bories was a type, who, having given their endeavor to history, have passed on, it may he well said: "They rest from their labors, but their works do follow them." AMERICAN "FREED Oar." Senator Bacon has been telling the Filipinos that as soon as the necessity for military operations is at an end in the islands, the United States will ex tend to them freedom as it is known in America. The American brand of freedom is not it is hardly necessary to point out, the Spanish article, nor yet is it the fanciful or unworthy thing imagined by a few Filipinos. Senator Bacon's Idea of It Is doubtless unlike what some other statesmen in this coun try would commend, but he is a good man to give counsel to the Filipinos, for he has been their effusive friend in Congress. His resolution declaring our peaceful purposes in the direction of liberty and proper measure of self-government there was approved by The Oregonian at the time of Its offer In the Senate. We still think that perhaps some moderate tender of sympathy and good wishes not inconsistent with resolute prosecution of peace measures might have accomplished something with the insurgents on sentimental grounds. Mr. Bacon's resolution hardly -went farther than certain pacific utterances of Presi dent McKinley. Although the Senator has been constructively; an anti-expansionist, he has not been one in a viru lent sense, and Is not now an opponent of the Administration's policy. Sound and necessary measures are likely to find in him this Winter a cautious sup porter rather than a captious critic. But it Is worth while to inquire what "freedom as it is known in America" is. Liberty is an elastic term, and in these days is greatly abused. If we begin at the foundation of our written law, the Constitution, we shall soon see that our National idea of freedom comes very far from being a state of unre strained liberty.- The Constitution is a formidable compendium of "don'ts." General Government and states are au thorized to do some things, but they are simply overwhelmed with "shall nots." There is no end of things that are reserved to the states from the Federal Government, things that Con gress may not do, things forbidden to the states. We make a Legislature, but we hedge it about with drastic consti tutional restrictions. We make courts, but define very rigidly their purview. Mayors, Sheriffs, Councils, commissions of every kind, are continually running up against the stone wall of some inhi bition. When we come to the individual, he is entirely surrounded by a multiplicity of laws setting forth what he must do and may not do. He can't burn up his own property or chastise his own wife or ride his bicycle on his own sidewalk. A policeman will be after him if he spits in a street-car or resents an insult, and the Federal grand jury will view with Implacable displeasure the honest opinion he clothes in too forcible or ex pressive language. He must send his children to school and have them vac cinated. If he can't pay rent he will be thrown into the street, and if his water bill runs over, the supply -will be cut off. If his wife is out after hours, some officer will get gay with her, and the Sheriff is always after hl3 property with a delinquent tax sale. Street-cars run past his door In spite of his inef fectual protest, his property is taken to pay for Improvements he never ordered, and if he be so fortunate as to escane the clutches of the all-devouring stat ute, he is yet in hourly peril "of the in junction and the equity court. The first letter of freedom in the, United States, then, is order. One has liberty in full, provided he elects to pur sue it along certain very strictly de fined lines. He can do what he likes, If he happens to like what the law and the courts and the officials approve. Otherwise he will find freedom an elu sive and perilous possession. For such of the Filipinos as have supposed free dom to be a state of unrestricted liberty the American brand will prove a griev ous disappointment Nowhere in the world is the Individual's opportunity to grow up to his capacity of useful ness and enjoyment, -within well-ordered lines, more secure than in the United States. Nowhere is liberty to -interfere with others more effectively denied. The Filipinos must leam this, and they will learn it in time. They will be better off in the end, but the road will doubtless seem strange and rough upon frequent occasion. Their lack of previous training will be to their painful disadvantage. "Freedom is for those who are fit for it," and its degree must be apportioned to the bene ficiary's need. A WASHINGTON ANNOYANCE. The Oregonian is taken to task by a wiseacre Seattle paper for calling a cer tain kind of lumber "Oregon pine." The esteemed authority at Puget Sound re gards "Oregon pine" produced In the State of Washington as a travesty on the reason of language. Our worthy neighbor perhaps has never heard the story. Let it listen. Once upon a time Oregon was the whole Pacific North west In a historical sense it is 'so yet. The present Washington was then no less Oregon than the present Oregon was. If the State of Washington is ashamed of its pedigree, it should take note -of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Ne braska and other states, which, al though not Louisiana, are in the Lou isiana territory. If those states are not ashamed of the name Louisiana, Wash ington has no worthy reason to be ashamed of Oregon, for "Oregon" Is far more euphonious and full of historical charm. In days gone by everything in this Pacific Northwest was in Oregon. Ore gon was the name of the Columbia River, and was the object ahead of the pioneer. Oregon was the goal of Lewis and Clark and of John Jacob Astor. The Inhabitants of the region, includ ing Kllckitats, Chinooks and Puyallups, were Oregon Indians. The furs were Oregon furs. The mountains were Ore gon mountains, and the air was Oregon air. Likewise the pine was Oregon pine. If the State of Washington Is bent oh giving Its own name to things within it, why is Ptiget Sound Puget Sound? Why is Mount Rainier not Mount Tacoma? Why are Holstein cattle Holstein, or Guernsey Guernsey? Why is Merino wool Merino Instead of Washington, and Cotswold Cotswold? Why are Italian prunes Italian, Bald win apples Baldwin, Burbank potatoes Burbank, English walnuts English, and Royal ' Anne cherries Royal Anne? Why, also, are the citizens of Wash ington Americans? But perhaps the State of Washington is not disgraced by producing "Oregon pine" any more than by producing the other things of alien names mentioned. A GENTLEMAN, AND A CAD. Sir Thomas LIpton, speaking to a reporter of the running down of the Erin by the revenue cutter Gresham while the race was in progress Satur day, said: Captain Walker, of the Gresham, and I aro old friends, and the fact that his boat ran into mine accidentally will not mar the friend ship for a moment. The damage Is not so very serious. It will necessitate docking the ship, of course, but that can bo done after the races, as long as no one was hurt on board the yacht I shall not grumble at all, because it might hae been so much worse, you know. The day following the last cup race in 1895, Lord Dunraven, Sir Thomas' pre decessor as challenger for the America's 'cup, relieved himself of the following courteous and pleasant remark, in the course of an Interview full of the same kind of sentiment: I do not think I should be subjected to in sult from the regatta committee of any yacht club or from the representatives of any chal lenged syndicate. I know that I cannot get a show. Valkyrie is my yacht. LIpton, whose magnificent steam yacht was really injured to a consider able extent through the fault of the captain or navigating officer of another vessel, proves himself the gentleman that he is by insisting that the dam age is trifling, and by assuring the world that he is not in the least offend ed. Dunraven, because the regatta committee refused to accede to a re quest preferred two days before the race that it be sailed over a course more than 100 miles away, sulked and pouted, and accused the regatta com mittee of insulting him. Lipton's con duct all through the races last year, and up to the present time, has been gentlemanly and sportsmanlike. He took his defeat two years ago with good grace, and in the bitterness of the dis appointment that must have followed his loss of Saturday's contest by 82 sec onds he was cheerful, and had only praise for the Columbia and her crew. He has spent -no time haggling over the time allowance given by Shamrock to the Columbia, his only comment be ing that it was less than he expected, and that he was more than satified. Dunraven objected to everything the measuring committee did, and even in timated that C. Oliver Iselin, a sports man as square and honorable as Lip ton, had connived at the removal of ballast from the Defender before she was measured, and its subsequent res toration, thus putting her on an unfair footing in the race. His course was one of continual bickering and quarrel, and after the races were done he wrote a long letter to the regatta committee of the New York Yacht Club, in which, under pretense of explaining his course, he renewed his whining protestations that he had been unfairly used. Lipton knows that he will get fair play at the hands of his rivals, as he knows that he will take no advantage of them. He is willing to make any concessions that may be necesary for the sake of harmony, while at the same time keeping a keen eye out to his own interest, for he would not be an easy man to get the better of. Serene and unruffled in any and all circumstances, game to the backbone, and a gentle man in the best sense of the word, he is the kind of a man who adds dignity to anything in which he participates, and, If all true Americans did not want that cup kept on this side of the water, they would wish with all their heart that he might lift it THE FIRST MONUMENT. The first monument to President Mc Kinley is likely to be erected in the South at Atlanta, Ga., where, at the peace jubilee, December 15, 18D8, Mr. McKinley uttered those memorable words which have done so much to ob literate the sectional passion and preju dice that was one of the lamentable legacies of the great war for the Union. Mr. McKinley said: The time has now come in the evolution of sentiment and feeling under the providence of God when, in the spirit of fraternity, wo should share with you in the care of the graves of the Confederate soldiers. The cor dial feeling now happily existing between the North and the South prompts this gracious act, and. if It .needs further justification, it is found in the gallant loyalty to the Union and the flag so conspicuously shown in the year just passed by the sons and grandsons of those heroic dead. The Atlanta Journal urges that the South should build the first McKinley monument, and that it should stand in Atlanta. Why not? If the North can approve the action of the placing of General Robert E. Lee's name high among the tablets that adorn the walls of the American "Hall of Fame" in New York City, surely the South can afford to do honor to the memory of a gallant soldier of the Union who was the first President to suggest that our Government should care for the graves of both the Union and the Confederate dead. This suggestion of President Mc Kinley at the close of a war when the blood of the South and the North had been shed for the first time in defense of the same flag since the war of 1846 47 with Mexico was in the nature of an inspiration. It was born doubtless of a high and noble feeling, but it has proved to be an act of statesmanship. Since the United States became a Nation no Northern man, we believe, has received a monument to his mem ory save General Nathaniel Greene, who died at Savannah, Ga., three years after the close of the Revolutionary War. Greene was of Rhode Island birth and Quaker breeding, but his greatest fame was won fighting the bat tles of the South in the Carolinas. The State of Georgia voted General Greene an estate as a testimonial to his great services, and after the Revolution he settled at Savannah, where his conviv ial habits and fine social qualities made him a great favorite. He died of apo plexy at Savannah, in his prime, when about 44 years of age, and Savannah raised a monument to his memory, as she did also to that of the gallant Pol ish nobleman, Count Pulaski, who fell leading the assault of the American troops at the siege of Savannah. Outside of General Greene, we do not believe there is a monument to .any Northern born and bred soldier or statesman at the South. There are statues of Henry Clay and of General Jackson in New Orleans, but the early political estrangement of the North and the South made it difficult for any Northern -statesman of the first rank to obtain a monument by popular favor at the South, and up to the time of the Civil War all the memorable soldiers of the country, save General Nathaniel Greene, had been men of Southern birth. Daniel Webster was too ccnspicl uous an opponent of the extension of slavery into new territory from 1820 to 1850 to become a popular idol at the South, and his championship of the compromise measures of 1850 was as sumed only two years before his death, too late to win him much gratitude. Up to the accession of Fillmore, in 1850, every President of the United States had been of Southern birth, save John Quincy Adams and Martin Van Buren. Neither of these able statesmen was ever a political favorite with the South, and after that date the Northern-born Presidents were either friends of the South too mediocre to justify a monu ment or political antagonists whose ability might command respect but did not inspire affection. There has been no time since the close of the Civil War when the South has been in the mood to erect a monument to any man of Northern birth and breeding, not even to the mighty Webster, who completely sacri ficed his whole past popular fame as a leader of the conservative opposition to the extension of slavery by his famous speech of March 7, 1850, one of the very greatest speeches of his life, a speech of really patriotic purpose to procure a settlement which would prevent the re sort to civil war, a speech which did put off that calamity ten years. For this speech Webster certainly deserved and probably really obtained the respect and confidence of the leading, thought ful men of the South, but the war with its embitterments followed less than nine years after Webster's death, too quick for his memory to get any public memorial honors from the South. Of the generation that fought the Civil War, President McKinley is the first that is likely to obtain a monu ment from the South. He was happy in his thought, and he was fortunate in his opportunity. In our judgment the day is not far distant when the memory of Lincoln and Grant will both be treated with as much honor at the South as that of McKinley. Lincoln was Kentucky born; he was no rene gade, like Johnson; he was without mal ice; and Grant was a stout soldier arid a man of honor, who treated Lee with respect and sympathy, and threatened to resign his commission if President Johnson violated Lee'g parole. Thp heir apparent to the British throne, with his wife and future Queen, having visited every part of the widely separated dominions of the empire within the past four or five months, are now in British Columbia. We may be sure that their ideas of England's greatness have been many times multi plied during the past week by the vast areas which they have traversed and the magnificent panorama of Nature spread out on either side of their track. From the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Georgia is a 'wide stretch of country so wide as to make the Mother Isles seem pigmies by comparison. Capable of sustaining a vast popula tion, this area is but sparsely popu lated at present That it will in the fu ture add greatly to the resources in wealth and population of the empire no one can doubt least of all the Prince, who stands next to the throne and who, with wonder and delight, has viewed It from the observation-car of a swiftly moving train "for many successive days. The optimistic Oregonian (all loyal members of his tribe are optimistic and therefore cheerful yoke-fellows) was right when he assured disappointed fair-goers and apprehensive prunegrow eus last week that the weather then prevailing "could not last." Never was a dreary sky succeeded by a brighter, or wind-driven rain by more balmy, bracing airs, than were offered in atonement by the last two days of Sep tember for the tempestuous weather of the preceding week. May the repentant mood of the weather clerk last until every prune is gathered, the wealth that is in potato fields mined, the apple crop housed and Fall plowing and seeding completed, thus justifying the living faith of Oregonians in Ore gon climate. Miss Stone, the American mission ary who is held captive by Bulgarian bandits in the Balkan Mountains, will, according to advices received, in de fault of the payment of an enormous ransom, either be put to death or forced to marry 6ne of her savage, dusky cap tors. The missionary board by which she was sent out to labor for the con version of creatures of this moral and physical caliber, refuses to pay the ran som, and calls upon the Government to interpose. While this victim of mis guided zeal is to be pitied in her dire strait, the Government may well dis claim all responsibility in her case and decline to establish the "precedent" which her ransom would involve, and which the board refuses to establish. The attitude of the faculties of Ore gon colleges toward athletics is at once sympathetic and reasonable. While it is Insisted that the work done on the field must be secondary to that of the classroom, all necessary and proper en couragement will be given to physical development, which in the curriculum of the college student means football. Discretion is the better part of valor in this as in other lines of what may be termed antagonistic endeavor. The wise college professor, singly and In aggre gate, knows this and governs his col lege accordingly. Famine prevails in some portions of Russia year after year. This condition now exists in nineteen provinces among the most populous in the empire. This means the utter destitution of hundreds of thousands and the necessity of gov ernment relief for them for at least nine months. Systematic efforts for the re lief of these people as industrious and economical as any upon earth are in progress. Notwithstanding this, 'suffer ing from hunger and its deadly ally, typhus, or, it is fitly called in Russia, the "hunger- fever," will be past com putation. Who shall sow say that the bulls raised to ccntribute to the bloody na tional sport of Spain are devoid of hu man instincts? A dispatch relates that seven of these sagacious creatures fled in terror on being introduced in the rin to a charging automobile. Shamrock II may not lift the cup, but it is quite clear that in making the strenuous attempt to do so she will put the Columbia upon her mettle and her skipper to the limit of his nautical wits. The expected has happened in San Francisco. The police and the striking teamsters have come to blows. The end is not yet, hut its beginning is recorded. We are reminded that when Oregon weather is good it Is very, very good. We save the remainder of the quota tion against a rainy day. MAECHYTHAT IS ALWAYS WITH US Chicago Record-Herald. When Americans have reflected -with gratification on the triumph of the law in Buffalo, they should consider also whether it does not contain a very pointed moral for the American public. We feel that it Is right that the an archist should be executed, we are glad that there, was nothing of the spirit ql anarchy In those who gave him a trial according to the forms of law, yet an archy has so demoralized the country that we have here an average of more than 150 lynchings a year. It will not answer to differentiate and say that the term anarchist Is properly used only of men who advocate the kill ing of Kings and other rulers. There Is complete anarchy in a district when a mob of lynchers defies the government, terrorizes the local authorities and mur ders a man with every species of atro city. This would be true if a man were punished for a crime and his guilt were proved. But the anarchical character and tendency of the act Is driven home upon the conscience with a special emphasis when it is known that the victims of these outbursts of passion are sometimes killed" though there is no proof against them. They may be absolutely innocent, and it is often the case that they are hanged for minor offenses. In commenting upon this National dis grace, we might almost say this National crime of lynching, Booker T. Washing ton suggests that in the assassination of the President we have reaped what we have been sowing. It is not necessary, however, to connect the act of Czolgosz in any way with the acts -of the mobs in order to cast obloquy upon the latter. We may admit that Czolgosz got his in spiration trom foreign teachings without at all relieving our own peculiar kind of anarchy of the opprobrium that attaches to It. The records are all sufficient to condemn it utterly as a monstrous crime against law and government. According to them, says Mr. Washington, "2516 per sons have been lynched in the United States during the last 15 years. There are or have been engaged in this anarchy of lynching nearly 125,800) persons." What a story of barbarism and anarchy combined that tells to Europe, where lynchings are almost unknown. All the anarchists In the world of the Most stripe do not equal this army of essentially American anarchists, who should lay aside their self-righteousness as they read of the trial at Euffalo and take its lesson very seriously to heart. The Truth About Subsidies. Chattanooga Times. The greatest steamship system in the world, the Hamburg-American, has been built up out of Its own business. For the carrying to and from the far East a fortnightly mail, the German Empire, last year, gave it a bonus or subvention of $65,000. not enough to pay the expense of a single round voyage of one first-class ship! This line has been created by private enterprise entirely, and in competition with the great British lines, Cunard, White "Star and others. The British Gov ernment gives no bounties to any lines, except those that carry mails to and from points that are of doubtful profit! In all cases of bounty granted the pay is poor, considering the service rendered. There has been for years a vast amount of romancing In our high tariff and sub sidy newspapers about the conspicuously big bounties Germany and Great Britain were said to pay their steamship lines, that held mail contracts. These stories are now known to be tissues of untruth and half-truth. They -will by no means support the proposition that the Treasury must be depleted of hundreds of millions as tho only means whereby we can se cure a respectable merchant marine. For that matter, while the clamor for sub sidy Is raised and kept up by the poli ticians, the shipbuilders are pushed to their utmost capacity by orders for new ships; yards aro being enlarged and new ones are being constructed. The problem Is solving itself, and It ought to be al lowed to go on so. The country Is too big and its people are too independent for either to fit Into the Swiss or any other socialism that has been contrived for a lOxlO-foot power. Pnset Sound Methodists. New York Evening Post. The Puget Sound Methodist Episcopal Conference Is the latest champion to en ter the list against the higher criticism. The conference has adopted resolutions denouncing the Garrett Biblical Institute and the Boston. Theological Seminary as partlccps criminis with the higher critics. The Boston Seminary has already been under lire for several years, and has thus far held its own. at any rate with the Methodists in the East. It remains to be seen whether the Western Methodists, who take their theology more seriously, can temporarily cut the ground from un der their own school, the Garrett Institute. Of course, no man who is familiar with the history of theological discussion for the past 40 years doubts for a moment where the ultimate victory will rest. Just as the reactionaries at first fought the theory of evolution as contradictory to the statements in Genesis and thus subversive of Christianity, and then accepted the theory as a singularly beautiful confirma tion of the biblical account of creation, so they are slowly but surely making their peace with the higher criticism. Un less the Puget Sound Methodists change their views, they, not the Boston Semin ary and the Garrett Institute, will, in the course of a decade or two, be regarded as herding with heretics. a ' Malady of Morals, Not of Politics. Indianapolis News. The more one considers the question of anarchy the more clearly does one -see that the cure for the malady is not so much political as it is moral. Undoubted ly some laws can be framed that will help somewhat, though In legislating we must always keep in mind tho danger of do ing more harm than good. We cannot destroy free speech, a free press, tho right to meet and discuss grievances, or Indeed any of thoso' great Constitutional privileges which are our most precious heritage. We. can say that these rights shall not be abused, and we certainly can hold a man responsible for his abuse of them. The Tariff War Is On. Wheeling Register. Tho long-smoldering fires of revolt within the Republican party against the Iniquitous tariff for trusts only have finally broken out in tho open, and the Republican ranks at the next session of Congress promise to be divided about in the middle on tho tariff question. The last straw that seems likely to break the back of the high tariff camel was Presi dent McKInley's speech the day before his assassination, in. which he took for him new and advanced ground against the present tariff system and in favor of reciprocity. Selfishness the Sole Motive. Indianapolis News. The real truth is that the strength of protection has been not in. those who de fended it philosophically, but" in those who defended It from selfish motives. And if those who have been helped by it find that there i3.an effort on foot to deprive them of any part of their advantage, they will, of course, be roused to the in tensest opposition. To them it does not matter whether you call it reciprocity or tariff reform. As far as they are con cerned the effect would be tho same in either case. ' The Right of Criticism. Philadelphia North American. Only a very extraordinary kind of fool can be. made to believe that because a murderous wretch has taken the life of the President It becomes everybody's patriotic duty to cease criticising the trusts, cease discussing the problem of poverty and the dangers threatening the republic through the rapid growth of enormous fortunes which have their roots in monopoly. GERMAN GRAIN IMPORTATION. New York Journal of Commerce. A consular report just issued gives the amount of wheat imported by Germany last year as 455,534 tons from the United States and 278,198 from Russia. A report from Consul-General Mason, at Berlin, earlier in the season, reviewing the gen eral cereal situation In Germany, gave the total German wheat Imports last year as 078,874 tons, so that Germany got 244, 744 tons from other countries. A great part of this came from Argentina, whose exports last year and the year before were very large. This year the exports have been much less. No one knows what the crop next Winter will be. but the greater part of the exportable surplus from last Winter has already gone out of the country, and Germany will get but a very small part of her requirements for several months from that quarter. In 1S97 the imports of wheat from Russia were nearly three times as great as in 1900. while the Imports from the United States were less than half as great Russia had a scanty crop in 1S97, and after making considerable export' could have had but little surplus to meet, future deficiencies. TKe Russian reports have indicated pretty good crops in tho years since then, but as a considerab'e area was suffering from famine last Win ter, and the exports in the last two or three years have been much less than they Used to be, it is not a violent sup position that the crops have been rather short. The fact that in 1897 Russia sent Germany nearly four times as much wheat as we did, and last year we sent Germany nearly twice as much wheat as Russia did, looks as though the exporta ble surplus of Russia were contracting. The total net imports of wheat .into Germany in metric tons last year and In two earlier years were as follows: ir Tons. sS8 37S-S74 lS 1.2M.SS1 1897 1.044.533 At the date of Consul-General Mason's report, early in June, and nearly ail the German wheat Is Winter, is was dfflcially calculated that the Prussian deficit of wheat would be 1,053,515 tons. The wheat was deficient in other parts of Germany, but no figures were offered and the crop shrinkage would be less than In Prussia. But the estimated shortage this year In Prussia alone, 'added to the actual impor tation last year, would make 2.032.SR9 tons as the amount of foreign wheat needed this coming year; and there Is no reason to suppose that Russia will be able to furnish more than last year; and some reason for believing it will not be able to furnish as much, while Argentina will furnish very much less during the first half of the year, and tho Indian exports cannot be hcavy. In 1892, after a very bad crop year, tho German importation of wheat was only 1,250,000 tons, but since then there has been a considerable increase of population and the habit of eating wheat bread has been increasing. Furthermore, the Prussian rye crop is also short. There 13 some confusion in the figures of imports. Consul-General Mason's report gives the amount im ported last year as S17.242 tons. The re port from Consul Harris makes the im portation from Russia alone a little more than that, but the Importation from Russia is nearly the total and the differ ence between the figures is not very great. The estimated shortage In Prus sian rye reported by Mr. Mason was 713, 121 tons, and the actual importation last year was 817,242 in one report and S68, 083 In the other. This would Indicate a need during the present year of 1,530,000 or 1.5SO.O0O tons of rye, except so far as it might be replaced by other grains, and If the price permitted it would probably be replaced In considerable part by wheat. The largest German rye Importation in recent years was a trifle less than a mil lion tons in 1889. In the two ensuing years it was also large; in 1S92, the year of very heavy wheat Imports, the imports of rve fell to 4OG.00O torn?. Thp.ro 1 ln room for doubt that in the coming 12 months Germany will be a. vera- hp.iw importer of breadstuffs, and that In the matter of wheat tho Unlt'ed States will have less competition from other coun tries than usual. Specnlatlon. Forum. Nothing can be more beautiful from the standpoint of pure reasoning, and nothing Is more vital to the smooth work ing of the great machine of modern cii--llized life than this transfer of capital through the mechanism of the stock mar ket. Let us suppose the volume of cap ital seeking Investment, both permanent and temporary, to be as large as it to today, but without any common markets in which transferable securities could be sold. Then what would happen if a sudden demand for money should fall upon London, Parla, or New -York? Ir the entire demand had to be met In gold, or even in trade bills of exchango, the result would bo a drain upo'n the mar ket where the money was demanded which would result In convulsion upon convul sion, in the impairment of values below any point ever reached In a stock mar ket panic, and In the paralysis of the whole industrial mechanism of the coun try. Mills would stop and wages would cease to be paid, because tho commer cial banks would be called upon to de nude themselves of gold and commercial bills, so that they would hoard with tenacity of terror what little money they had left. How does the stock market avert such dangers? Simply by substituting securi ties for money. If money becomes plen tiful in a given market like New York, ths surplus gravitates to the stock mar ket This Increases the offer of money for securities, and the prices of securi ties rise. Such securities aro then drawn by the magnate of high prices from other markets, where money is less plentiful and prices are lower. The money, In other words, Is drawn from the market where it is redundant to the market where it Is most needed. It becomes profitable to sell securities for money where they bring a good price, because tho money obtained for them can be lent at a high rate in tho market where It Is scarce. The rate of Interest for money thus co-operates with the fluctua tions in securities to maintain. In the supply of money and loanable capital, a balance which Is the more accurate In proportion to the case with which securi ties and money move between markets. The cost of shipping gold was once a controlling factor in the difference In the rates for money. Securities have now to a large extent taken the place or gold In these International exchanges. The cost of shipment is smaller, the risk is less, and the time required for making transactions has been reduced by the us of the telegraph, the ocean cable, and tho telephone. Tho larger the ownership, of foreign securities on a given market, the more elastic Is the cushion whlcn that market presents against sudden shocks. Foreign securities do not usually suffer Impairment from the same causes which affect domestic securities, and they therefore represent In international trans actions the most perfect substitute for money. In Polite Novla Scotia. New York Commercial Advertiser. A woman who spent the Summer In Nova Scotia has just come down from Halifax with some interesting stories of her ex periences among the Bluenoses. One of them has to do with a hunt for a hair dresser. When she arrived In Halifax she inquired at her hotel for a hair dressing parlor. "Go right down to the corner shop," said the clerk politely, "and you'll find what you want." Down to the corner the woman went, and In the shop was a sign reading, "Fur Store." McKInley's Unanswered Letters. There are said to be 50CO requests for Mr. McKInley's autograph on file In Wash ington. It had been the custom of the late President to devote spare moments to the gratification of those demands In so far as he could, but during a few months ab sence or through a period when the Presi dent would be busily occupied with affairs of state, these letters asking for auto graphs would pile up. , j NOTE AND COMMENT. Tils drouth & terribly persistent. Bet us hope that the cup will be just as heavy tonight as It is now. At last reports tho Boers were actively engaged in business at the old stand. A new Greek priest has arrived In New Ycrk from Athens. His name will follow on a freight steamer. Now that the hunting season is on, it is' just as well to find out for ccrta.n wliether or not it id loaded. f he only thing left for Bryan is to have the Chicago platform dramatized, and re turn to the stage to play It. The men who went to school with Roose velt are even more numerous than those v,ho stood on the bridge with Dewey. Fires will be lighted with kerosene as long as kerosene is used for fuel hut never twice by the same servant girl. Bull Run water is plentiful and cheap. And yet the milkmen are coirg to raise prices. Why ehoufd this thing be . A Come, keep tfc cup. and stifle all our fears. Its presence is the kind of thing that cheers. Anil tr Sir Thomas gets his mit upon It on-p. " "x ng on:o Jt ror years and y.a-s. And oh. my friends, with what a brava carouse . If we but Keep it. we oar Jll will hov.se. ' The echoes tliat have Ion? lain dead and cold With our wild rooting- we will straight arouse. Peculiar Interest la added to the already popular hymn, "Nearer. My God. to J nice, irom the fact that Its wonN wcra among tho last en the lips of Present lIoKInley, and that it was sung at hia funeral. The author of the hymn is Sarah Flower Adams, an English lad. who ?as the ward of the noted stat-emia Fox. The words were written l.i FtO, ail vere set to music by .Mrs. Adams sis ter, Eliza Flower, iltsjs Flower was a filftcd composer, and her musical gcr.lua vas recognized and praised by Mendels sohn. Robert Browning and others. Yet tie hymn was not popular until after 1360, when Dr. Lowell Mason of New York, composed for it the music which at onca won the hearts of Chri&tians in Amcrlci aad Europe, and made it a favorite anions davotlonal hymns. The accession of Vice-President Roose velt to the Chief Magistracy adds another to the list of Presidents who had but ono Caristian name. Of the 25 Presidents but six, the younger Adams, the elder Harri son, Polk, Grant, Hayes and Arthur had tvro. Mr. Cleveland, since the death of ex-President Harrison, Is the only liiing ex-President. There have been but thrc otjiier Instances whera there was but ono surviving. In lS3tJ when Madison died, Joan Quincy Adams alone survived, in 1S7.1, when Fillmore died, Andrew John son,, and in 1SS6, when Arthur died, Hayes. There have been but two occasions when there was none surviving during the term of John Adams, when Washington died, and during the second term of Grant in 1S73, when Johnson died. Sarah Bernhardt has just met with a, rebuff on the part of the Austrian court. It seems that, with a view to perfect her impersonation of the youug King of Rome in the "Aiglon." she applied to tho Em peror for permission to spend a night at Schoenbrunn in the bedroom occupied by the Duke of Reichstadt. and whW still remains ao it was, untouched slnco his death. Sarah thought that amil thai surroundings la which M. Rostand's mel ancholy hero slept, and, perchance, dreamed, she would enter more thor oughly into the spirit of the character. The Emperor, however, so kind and con siderate, especially where women are con cerned, would not hear of such a thing, resented the request, and politely but res olutely declined to entertain It. Biblical Prophecy of Shamrock. Chicago Tribune. A curious Illustration of how a Bible text may be found for almost any occa sion Is furnished in the sermon preached last Sunday by Dr. Reed Mackay to tho crew of the yacht Shamrock on a text taken from Isaiah xxxill:2S, which reads: "Their tackllngs are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast; they could not spread the sail; then Is the prey oC a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey." Dr. Mackay said thl3 was a prophecy of victory for Shamrock, tho last clause being especially applicable tot Sir Thomas Lipton, who Is still lame from the effects of a recent accident. The clergyman's discourse was greatly ad mired by the sailors of the Irish yacht. Americans may be less inclined to accept the inspiration of the text as applied to tha present occasion, and may charge DrA Mackay with the ministerial shortcom ing of having preached only what his con gregation wished to hear, but Judgment on this point should bo reserved until after the races. If "the lame" should happen to "take the prey" it would be a strong argument on the side of Dr. Mackay's wisdom In the choice of a text, if not of his biblical exegesis. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS Tho Detachable Sort. "Misa Flummery has such beautiful hiirl Why. sha can sit on it.' "How careless or her to leavo it lying around In chairs." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Giving Hor Encouragement. "I shall never marry." said the girl hi blue with decision, "Oh. my dear." replied the girl In gray, "you're really not so bad looking as all that." Chicago Post. Uncle Eph'm. "Hit bats all," exclaimed Undo Eph'm, "how de slot machine business is agrowln". After awhllo you'll bo droppin' a penny in dc slot an' glttin' religion." Chi cago Tribune. Preliminary Arrangement. Mailory After wo are married, 31arle, you must necr hesltato to ask me when you want money. Marie No, indeed, Mallory; and I hope that you will neer hesitate about giving It to me. Brook lyn Life. "Did you see Mr. Smlfkina this morning?" asked tho bookkeeper. "No." replied th pub lisher. '"What did he want?" "He desired U3 to advance him 15 shillings on his forth coming work 'How to Be a Financial Suc cess.' "Glasgow Evening Times. Friendless Both. "No." he saW, "t haven't anything for you " "Say. mister." whined the beggar, "t guesi you don't know how it feels to have no friends, an " "Don't I though? I'm the official handlcapper for tho Ladies' Golf Tournament." Philadelphia Press. Discovered. "They had been married a year before anybody knew It. and even then tucir secret was discovered only by aecldent." In deed?" "Tc3, one evening at a card party they thoughtlessly played partners, and' the way they nuarreled let the whole thins out!" Detroit Free Press. The Ingredients. "What did you And on that vessel which washed ashore this morning''" asked the cannibal King of his chief. "Only a shipwrecked shoemaker and a case of sher ry, sire." " 'Tis well, slave. Make me a. sher ry cobbler for dinner. I have often heard of such a delicacy." Baltimore American. Domestic Economy. Poor Man Well, did you buy that book telling all about how to economize In the kitchen? Wife Tes. I've got It. Poor Man That's good. What does it say? Wife It's full of recipes telling how to utilise cold roast turkey but we haven't tho turkey. New York Weekly. Dumleigh There's nothing cranky about Mr. Synnrac; he's a man of sense, he 1st Mark ham Flattering. Dumleigh Not a bit. Folks have been saying that smoking cigarette- weakened the intellect. I asked Mr. Synnex and ho told me to keep right on; it couldn't possibly have that effect on me. Boston Transcript.