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PORTLAND, THURSDAY, NOV. 7.
THE -"LIHERAL PARTY" IN GREAT
BRITAIN,
It has been said that "the hopelessly
desperate condition of decrepitude into
which the Liberal party appears to
have fallen in Great Britain Is one of
the most extraordinary developments
in contemporaneous political history."
Tet it Is not surprising. The center
of Interest In the affairs of Great Brit
ain Is the South African War. The
Liberal party there is not a party of
resolute purpose and strenuous en
deavor. It is a party of debate, rather
than of action. And Great Britain
knows that the only way to get through
the war is to fight it out It is sub
jugation of the Boers, or acknowledg
ment of their independence and loss of
South Africa.
It was the Liberal party, under Glad
stone's leadership, that got the British
Empire Into this stress of difficulty.
Gladstone, after Majuba Hill, yielded
to the Boers. He made peace with
them, on terms which virtually was a
British surrender. At that time the
Boers could have been conquered with
but a small part of the effort which It
became necessary to put forth twenty
years later, after they had fully armed
and prepared themselves for the con
flict This South African War is the
heritage left to Great Britain by the
Liberal party, and the people do not
forget the source of It
Again, when the peremptory message
of the Boers to the British Government
made the present war Inevitable since
no nation receiving such a message can
have any choice, but simply must fight
a large section of the Liberal party,
trufe to the sentimental Instincts of
men who think nothing can justify
-war, or resistance, put Itself in attitude
of opposition to the prosecution of the
war very much after the manner of
our peace-at-any-prlce faction during
the Civil War in the United States.
Another section of the Liberal party,
however, seeing clearly that the alter
native of vigorous war was the loss of
South Africa, resolved to' support the
government and have done so. These
events have virtually disbanded the
Liberal party; so that the decrepitude
into which it has fallen -Js a perfectly
natural consequence.
The people of Great Britain see that
they have to fight it through, or admit
the dismemberment of the Empire.
That Is what is the matter with the
Liberal party. It is deemed too "lib
eraP for the integrity and safety of
the empire, and at this time, therefore,
It -has no mission or function.
HERaiANN ON RESERVES.
It is evident that Commissioner Her
mann is learning by experience. That
part 'of his annual report touching the
forest reserve system, published yes
terday, is a commendable presentment
of the subject It fails, however to
cover one point that has been the basis
of considerable complaint While the
law opens the way to great abuse to
permit indiscriminate lieu selections for
land within the borders of a reserve,
this Is only part of the evil. The other
part is that relatives and favorites of
Influential politicians are able by some
process,- occult or other, to know long
In advance just. where land Is to be
reserved, which knowledge they turn to
aocount by "locating" on the land in
order that they may use it as base for
lieu selections after the withdrawal of
the tract This abuse is not due to im
perfection of the statute. It Is clearly
an abuse of official position by some-
ooav, tms is not intended as a reflec
titt on the Commissioner of the Gen
eral Land Office, but It Is a fact that
sttbuld be considered in connection with
any statement of the present difficulty.
Commissioner Hermann put one phase
of the- matter very clearly In the f ollow
lowing pertinent questions:
Why should the Government bo required to
part tlUo to millions of acres of the public
.domain valued In the market at $5 per acre
and sold by the Government itself under tho
timber and stone act only In limited quantities,
not exceeding 100 acres, at not less than $2 50
per acre, and then only upon certain proof
and publication, and to accept in exchange
lands held in private or corporate ownership in
reserves not worth anywhere or at any time 50
cents an acre? Are we not paying an unnec
eS8? ,Kn rice for our roserXesr
Appraisal of the land relinquished
and that taken as lieu Is recommended
as one solution of the problem present
ed. In that case he who should have a
poor claim In the reserve or a tract
from which he had taken the timber,
for example, would be permitted to take
in lieu only land of equal value else
where. The same would be true of val
uable 'claims, equal lieu value being
given. Another suggestion is that there
' be a competent appraisal of the larid
to be relinquished, and that the Govern
ment buy it outright. This method
would be subject to abuse unless con
stantly under the most rigid scrutiny.
It might be wise to give the Govern
ment the power to employ either of
these methods In settling with reserve
claimants.
In one part of the report the reserve
in the San Francisco Mountains of Ari
zona, "where the checker-board system
was observed and only the 'alternate
sections reserved, is referred to as a
commendable success. In another place
the difficulty of keeping such reserves
from being pastured at will by the own
ers of the unreserved sections, or of
enforcing regulations for preservation
of forests or keeping water pure, Is
pointed out The wisdom of this plan
of reserve Is open to serious question.
It might be preferable to the present
system of unrestricted lieu land selec
tions, but it is to be hoDed that Con-
hgress will devise a better and juster
metnoa or eirecung tnese very aesiraoie
reservations of the public domain.
NO "REALIGNMENT" HERE.
Tuesday was inauspicious for the
gifted authors who periodically in the
magazines tell us all about the "re
alignment of parties." As things are
now they are not to be In the near fu
ture, we rea.d over and over again.
Readjustment of Issues and member
ship is clearly Inevitable every few
weeks, and whenever an unwary editor
can be hypnotized signs multiply to
the effect that the momentous and far
reaching effect is near at hand.
All of which Is Interesting and proper.
It is, In fact, to be desired' There is
nothing whatever wrong with this ad
mirable programirie except the trifling
detail of votes on election day. Then
Old Realignment goes into his hole.
Republican states returning to their an
cient fold after the spasm of Bryanitis
are:
Kansas
Colorado
Nebraska
Whereas
Utah
Montana
"Nevada
"Washington
Idaho
Wyoming
the Democratic States of
Maryland and Kentucky, lost to Bryan
on account of silver, are again Demo
cratic There is a. solid South once
rmore, and substantially a solid North.
fcucn effect as the Booker Washington
incident had is in the same direction.
It revived the race issue In the South,
It sent 25,000 colored voters In Ohio
solidly to the polls for the Republican
ticket.
To be sure, there is a little differ
ence in the two returns. -The abandon
ment of silver in the "West is hearty
enough, as a discredited cause deserves.
But the distrust engendered by free
coinage in the East does not easily
pass away. Maryland Is close. Massa
chusetts and New Jersey seem no
longer debatable ground. ' The price the
Democracy pays for its silver lunacy is
very high.
Why didn't the demand for tariff re
form make more Democratic votes?
The reason Is that tariff reform is not
a Democratic but a Republican de
mand. Tou can find In Democratic
newspapers and Democratic speeches
plenty of hostility to protection, just as
you can find hostility to everything
Republican. But it is In Republican
papers and in the mouths of Republican
members of Congress only that Is to be
found an intelligent discussion of the
need for tariff reductions on trust-controlled
products, of protected corpora
tions. Where is the stronghold of tariff
revision? In the Middle West,, in the
Republican newspapers of Chicago, St
Paul, Minneapolis. Milwaukee. Who is
recognized champion in Congress?
Representative Babcock, chairman of
,uie axionai Jttepumican Congressional
Committee. Reciprocity is similarly
circumstanced. Not from Democrats,
but from Republicans, come its promo
tion and advocacy. The Democrats are
finding fault enougb,the Republicans
propose to do something.
There is, therefore, little encourage
ment for the theory that parties are to
be formed anew on tariff or other is
sues. The only constructive measures
for tariff reform in the fifty-seventh
Congress, as for justice to the depend
encies in the fifty-sixth, must be ex
pected from Republican sources.
A TALE OP TWO CITIES.
No more damning Indictment has ever
been framed agajnst an American mu
nicipality than the City of Philadelphia
framed against itself in Tuesday's elec
tion. Its shameless x subservience to
vice and official crime is brought out
in bold relief by the opposing example
of the City of New York.
New York is a foreign city, Philadel
phia an American city. The census
figures for 1900 are not yet available,
but in 1890 New York had six foreign
ers for every eight natives, while Phil
adelphia had seven natives for every
two foreigners. Yet the City of New
York shows today as it showed in the
election of Strong in 1894 that it can
rise above Its evil elements and put
good men in power. Philadelphia shows
itself unable to do this. It Is bound to
a carcass of political and moral death,
and when the knife is put into its hand
to cut the bonds It refuses to strike.
It is the most abject surrender to un
worthy, and unscrupulous political ma
chines known to our municipal history.
Rothermel, candidate for re-election
as District Attorney, was originally
elected as a Republican. He did his
duty and was entitled to re-election.
But because he did his duty, the Quay
machine determined to punish him. The
citizens took him up and gave him the
united support of the anti-Quay forces.
But he goes down to defeat, and honest
government with him, by an adverse
majority of 35,000.
Philadelphia was, on the surface, for
reform. The newspapers were for re
form. Everybody shouted for reform.
But they voted the other way. The
dog returning to his vomit Is a prize
winner In vacillation compared with
the fondness Philadelphia manifests for
its political refuse.
Tammany-ridden New York, of the
red lights and cadet system and awful
tenements, sets an example of munici
pal and civic decision that heartens
men everywhere; while the descendants
of William Penn and Benjamin Frank
lin uncover their shame to the scorn of
all mankind.
THE AMENDE HONORABLE.
Much as The Oregonlan has had to
say against anarchy and anarchists, it
Would not for worlds do them and their
cause any injustice. It is accordingly
moved to apologize to the whole tribe
of them for an expression that crept
Into its telegraphic columns yesterday
through the temporary inadvertence of
an otherwise assiduous and blameless
telegraph editor. The offending words
ran on this wise:
Salem, Nov. 5. A letter was received at the
Governor's office. today threatening Governor
Geor with tho fate of President McKInley un
less, within six days, he should release one
Edwin V. Tweiman, who is now in the Walla
"Walla Penitentiary, serving a term of 20 years.
. . . A great deal of ignorance is displayed
In thinking Governor Geer has jurisdiction over
a penitentiary In the State of Washington.
There is in this, covertly veiled, an
aspersion unon anarchosophy which
upon adequate reflection would have
revealed itself even to the preoccupied
eye of a Jabez Nelson. Since when
were threats against a public official
required to be reasonable, or their au
thor presumed guiltless of ignorance?
Since never, so far as we know.' Why
should an anarchist, bent on vengeance,
be guided by such artificial limitations
as state lines? There Is no reason, re
corded of history
Governor Geer, we take it, is responsi
ble for incarcerations in the Washing
ton State prison, and chould be assas
sinated with precisely the same logic
used in the murder of Humbert because
he was a King and of McKInley because
he was a great ruler. Hence this apol
ogy. We cannot go on record a's attrib
uting to anarchists any of the limita
tions imposed upon the rest of mankind
by reason or humanity.
CHOKER'S METHODS.
The battle wonjby the Citizens' party
of the great City of New York over
Tammany Hall was most desperately
and bitterly fought on both sides, and is
the most important victory ever won
by the friends of good government over
the champions and beneficiaries of cor
rupt mlEruie. It has been compared to
the great victory of November, 1871,
over the Tweed ring, but the victory of
Tuesday was enormously more difficult
to win. It was an easy matter to beat
Tweed, for, compared with Croker,
Tweed was merely a stupid, greedy
thief, who, finding an open opportunity
to rob the city treasury, plundered it
by practices so grossly criminal and eo
sure of detection that they would Im
peach the Intelligence of a 'professional
thief. Tweed and his fellow-conspirators
robbed the city by forglns the
Mayor's indorsement to city warrants.
Tweed was at the head of the Board
of Public Works, and Connolly was
Controller. When these two scoundrqis
needed the Mayor's indorsement to a
city warrant, they forged It in a most
clumsy manner. One of Connolly's
clerks made secret copies of the neces
sary figures from the books of the Of
fice; one of the discarded and disgrun
tled beneficiaries of the "Tweed ring''
sold these fatal figures to the New York
Times, and with their publication a
short investigation of the city warrants
held by the Tenth National Bank
proved conclusively that Tweed and his
official associates had robbed the city
of millions, and were liable to criminal
prosecution.
The victory won on Tuesday over
Tammany was obtained over a far abler
and more artful man than Tweed. Cro
ker has grown rich easily through his
headship of Tammany without stealing
a dollar from the city treasury after
the clumsy criminal methods of Tweed.
As the leader and executive of the
Tammany ring, Croker has always
known in advance when and where new
streets were to be opened, new parks
laid out, new lines of transportation
created, and, of course, this knowledge
could always command a market price.
His political and official favors always
obtained him commercial opportunities.
He was always sure to be let in at the
bottom of every great enterprise that
needed his help to obtain a franchise or
a privilege for a song. He always had
"the tip" when to buy stock at bottom
prices.
There is no limit to the opportunities
for wealth-winning that are open-to a
man like Croker with the vote and
Influence of Tammany Hall in his
pocket. The Tammany "delegation int
the Legislature could make or break a
bill whose enactment was wanted by a
corporation; the Tammany government
of the city could make or break a busi
ness enterprise by its control over a
franchise. Croker' could always raise
all the money necessary for politics by
assessment of every Tammany political
office-holder, from Judges of the Su
preme Court down to petty clerics in the
city departments. Croker was the gen
ius of commercialism in politics. He
sold the influence of Tammany, its po
litical and offlciaf favor, for cash or Its
equivalent, at every opportunity.
It is easy to see how such a man, by
purchases of real estate, by purchases
of stock, by "tips" and opportunities of
all sorts, could get very rich in a few
years and not do anything that could
possibly subject him to successful crim
inal prosecution. Below Croker's polit
ical commercialism was a still more
dreadful official terrorism which black
mailed everybody, from property-owners
and shopkeepers down to wretched
street hawkers and prostitutes. To un
seat such a man as Croker was a gl
gantic task compared with the expul
sion of a clumsy, common thief from
power, like Tweed, and it has been ac
complished chiefly by successful appeal
to the heart and conscience of the vast
wage-arnlng vote of New York City.
The exposure of the horrible piracy
and blackmail practiced upon the poor
and ignorant and friendless by the ex
tortions of the Tammany "push" within
and without the police Is what won the
labor vote. The story of Tammany
getting fa't on the contributions of -a
horrible traffic in young girls was a
tale that stung and drew blood from
Tammany with every blow of its lash
whenever it was told. To the aroused
conscience and hearts of the plain
wage-working masses, New York City
chiefly owes its emancipation from the
corrupt tyranny of Tammany.
WITHOUT PREJUDICE.
They have high Ideals over in Seattle.
The traditional" blindness of justice is
deepened and darkened by several
thicknesses of opaque bandages. All of
which stands out obtrusively in the
conduct of the Considlne case. Consl
dine Is a "gambling man," and he is on
trial for having assassinated Seattle's
late Chief of Police. The defendant's
notorious character thereupon imposes
an added qualification upon those juris
prudence has wisely adopted for pre
serving the jury-box from men of either
convictions or information. Thus, as
the report reads:
The defense was very careful In its examina
tion of jurors, though not much more so than
tho prosecution. No one was passed for cause
by Mr. "McKIroy, of the defense, who was in
the slightest degree opposed to individuals en
gaged in the liquor trafflo or known as gam
blers. In fact, the convictions of tho men in
terrogated touching gamblers and Incidentally
men in the liquor traffic was tho basis of all
questioning on tho part of the defence.
No good citizen, obviously, could be
prejudiced against gambling or saloons.
The man who could unblushingly con
fess a doubt as to the high moral tend
ency of roulette and twenty-one, or
question the efficacy of saloons as a
means of grace, must be far gone in
unfitness to participate In the palladium
of our liberties known as trial by jury,
as any other palladium, like the ballot
or the public school.
All friends of good morals and human
progress generally should make a mem
orandum of the Seattle Ideal, for uSe
in sudden emergencies and sociologlc
reform. If we admit to juries the man
With scruples against gambling-houses
and saloons, next, thing we shall find
men who detest murder, abominate se
duction and even look with unfriendly
eye upon rape and arson. One might
think, at first blush, that this standard
would Involve some difficulty in obtain
ing a jury, but It is reassuring to learn
that In -Seattle the "work" was success
fully accomplished with neatness and
dispatch,
Altogether, the evolution of the jury
Is certainly getting on. The fatal error
of reading newspapers and forming
opinions has long been recognized by
the discerning mind of the law. If we
can also uproot prejudice against vice,
we shall pass on in time to, unbiased
frames of mind concerning crime itself,
and the Ideal juror may at last be dis
cerned In Junch and Judy or, the totem-pole.
William Travers Jerome, who has
been elected District Attorney in the
City of New York, mad- a series of
speeches during the canvass which
aroused the attention of the whole coun
try. Nobody exposed Tammany so
thoroughly and fearlessly as he did. He
didn't proceed on the principle pursued
by Mrs. Gamp's friend, in conversation
"A-namln' of no names, Salrey,
a-hamin of no names," but he did name
names, right and. left, to the amazement
and terror of Tammany, and he fixed
the responsibility for evil-doing on this
man and that, with terrible effect.
Among those whom he arraigned was
Tammany's Chief of Police, Devery,
who made matters ten times worse for
himself by this comment:
Jerome's insulted everybody. He's insur
rected tho public mind an' is leading It up to
anarchy. The taxpayers ought to have him
arrested for libel, and indict him and fellcM
with him, for blackin' the fair name of the
city.
This reply provoked merciless ridicule
from 'the press, and added It as a
further force to Jerome's indictment
and denunciation Low declared that
if he should be elected, about the first
thing that would happen after his In
duction into office would be the ap
pointment of another Chief of Police.
But of course Devery Is no worse than
the system that made him, and of
which he is the minister. He was at
the head of Tammany's system of
blackmail that is, of dealing with
those who were willing to pay for being
"let alone."
In March, 1819, the famous German
dramatist, Kotzebue, was assassinated
by a German university student named
Sand, a young man not 25 years of age,
a man of very mild, pleasant and affec
tionate disposition, jof pure life and
moral habits. Sand, like all the Ger
man university students, was an en
thusiastic believer in enlarged political
liberty as well as political unity for
Germany. Kotzebue, in his writings,
had savagely satirized and ridiculed
these opinions; Kotzebue was known
to be In the pay of Russia. Sand came
to regard Kotzebue as a moral outlaw,
and because he could not reach him
legally, believed it a religious duty to
destroy him, so he stabbed him to death
and then went Jnto the street, where he
knelt down, and, raising' his bloody dag
ger, cried: "Long live my Fatherland!"
He made no attempt to escape, and, al
though his crime was committed March
23, 1819, he was not executed until May
20, 1820.. He was a shy, modest fellow,
personally greatly beloved, and was of
the same type as the German Stapps,
who was shot for seeking to assassinate
Napoleon as the arch-enemy of his
country.
Republicans of Kentucky and Mary
land have lost their respective states,
largely through their own misconduct.
Petty men have been In control. Cheap
little politics have been the conse
quence. It was only by high-minded
conduct that the Republican party
could hope to maintain the ascendant
In states like Kentucky and Maryland,
where it gained success only through
a great National Issue. But the con
duct of their leaders was not high
minded. Under such leadership as that
of Wellington In Maryland and of Tay
lor and Powers In Kentucky, there was
no possibility of continued ascendancy
for the Republican party.
The Oregonlan trusts that President
Roosevelt will accept the resignation of
Secretary Long, of the Navy Depart
ment He is the man chiefly responsi
ble for the persecution of Admiral
Schley. He has been the active or pas
sive agent of a clique of Schley's ene
mies, has supported a contemptible In
trigue against the man who fought and
won the naval battle of Santiago, and
would better now retlce from public
view. This Secretary, can well be
spared from the public service and
from the private service, in public sta
tion, of the naval clique that has been
engage'd In this ctntemptlble business.
I
It is difficult at times for trainmen,
who deal every day, year in and year
out, with the hobo element, Intent on
stealing a ride on trains, to control
their tempers sufficiently to prevent
them from laying violent hands upon
these Impudent creatures of the high
way. It is most unfortunate, however,
when loss of temper or even the neces
sity of self-defense results In action
that takes or seriously threatens life.
In these Instances ofextreme provoca
tion it may well be said that he who
ruleth his spirit is greater than he who
taketh a city.
Croker is to quit politics In New York
and take up his permanent residence in
England. That this Irishman has found
England so attractive a country to
dwell In has not missed remark. "Cro
ker pays $5000 a year personal taxes to
KingEdward of England, and less than
?500 a year in. New York, where he got
all his money,." said a New York news
paper. Hits like this were very effect
ive. Salisbury is willing to abrogate the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty, but it must be
for a "quid pro quo." All this goes to
show what a fix we should be in if we
did not have a school of diplomacy
versed in the phraseology of the art
as well as the technique.
Democracy ia a great leveler, and one
man in this country is as good as an
other if not better. San Francisco has
elected to the Mayoralty the leader of
the orchestra of a theater.
Is It possible that something of Phila
delphia's subservience to official greed
can be traced back to Franklin's mer
cenary philosophy?
. The Ladles' Home Journal offers $25
for the best suggestion as to how to
improve the magazine. That's easy.
Get a new editor.
WILLIAM II AND ROOSEVELT.
Slany Points In Common Bet-ween tuc
Two Rulers.
Theodore Roosevelt and the German
Emperor have many points In common
their fearlessness, their frank and impul
sive natures, their Impetuosity of purpose,
their Intense interest In their undertakings
and their versatility, writes W. E. Curtis
from Berlin to the Chicago Record-Herald.
Roosevelt has never written an -opera or
preached a sermon or offered a prayer in
public; he has never composed a war song
that I am aware of, but is young yet.
William II established a precedent for
sovereigns to do such things, although
his opera was never produced, and half
the editors in Germany were sent to Jail
for making sport of his music- If there
is anything in the world that William 11
likes less than another it is ridicule. He
doesn't care so much how people abuse
him, but the man who makes fun of him
is never allowed to forget it. Editors
and artists of comic-papers who publish
impertinent cartoons are punished much
more severely than those who write digni
fied and serious attacks upon the. policy
of the government and the motives of the
Kaiser.
Roosevelt is sensitive also, but he has
such a keen and highly developed sense of
humor that he is able to appreciate a joke
on himself almost as much as if it were
on another person. About the worft
scalding Roosevelt ever got was Dooley's
"Alone in Cuby," in which he was repre
sented as writing tho history of the Cuban
war as if he had fought it all by himself,
but he roared when he read it, bought
dozens of copies of the papers In which It
appeared, and sent them to his friends.
He cut out the article and carried it
around in his pocket-book, and used to
read It to people, and the first question
he asked of me when I met him at the
Philadelphia convention was whether
Dunne, who wrote the Dooley articles,
was in town. I told him I thought he
was, and he said that he wanted to see
hfm. Dunne" was as .reluctant as Roose.
velt was eager for the meeting, and when
they finally came together on the floor ot
the convention hall, Roosevelt exclaimed:
"By Godfrey, Mr. Dunne, I would rather
meet you than any man in this hall. You
gave me the worst roasting I ever got,
and my wife has read it to me about 11
times, when she thought I needed disci
pline, but it was tho best thing you ever
wrote."
Emperor William would paralyze people
it he should talk in that '-nay to any one
who had ridiculed him In public.
The other day, at the dedication or a
church at Konigsburg, he surprised the
congregation by offering a most eloquent
prayer, which would have done credit to'
an archbishop. He asked the blessing ot
the Almighty upon his people, that they
might be taught to follow in the foot
steps .and the faith of Queen Louise, his
great-grandmother, the loveliest' of all the
Queens of Prussia, In whose honor the
church was named. This, I believe, is
the flrrt time he has ever offered a prayer
in public, although he seldom makes a
speech without confessing to his depend
ence upon the Divine Providence, and ho
has a deep religious sentiment. Re is
firmly convinced that he is the chosen of
the Lord. In the Summer of 1500, during
the Chinese troubles, he preached a ser
mon one Sunday morning on board the
imperial yacm Hohenzollern. The officers
and sailors of that ship were his only
congregation, but the sermon was intend
ed for the world at large, and has been
printed in many languages. A very good
sermon it was, too. Rev. Dr. Dickie, pas
tor of tho American .church In Berlin,
translated It into English.
Capital for Pacific Trade.
New York Journal of Commerce.
It was a timely topic which Mr. T. C.
Kauffman, of Tacoma, introduced to the
American Bankers' Association in dis
cussing the financial and commercial fu
ture of the Pacific Coast In its relation
to the expansion of trade with the far
East Of all the communities of that
Coast, those of Oregon and Washington
have shown the most Intelligent Interest
In the development of Oriental trade and
the greatest amount of enterprise in pro
moting It. Mr. Kauffman thinks that to
enable the United States to attain all
the advantages arising out of a constantly
expanding commerce, Congress snould
enact the necessary legislation author
izing the establishment of International
banks, with headquarters in New York
and branches in all the leading commer
cial cities of the globe. That the time is
ripe for the establishment of such banks
in the far East is admitted on all sides,
and would be welcomed by nobody more
warmly than by the officers of the United
States Government who are concerned
with the finances of our new possessions
in the Pacific. But it is not at all ob
vious that the institution of such Banks
can be effected only by National legis
lation, while It Is sufficiently plain that
they cannot be established without a very
considerable amount of capital. It is,
after all, the latter commodity whose
subscription is the essential preliminary
to the American banking system, for
which there Is so excellent an opening
In the far East. f
Dancers of the Apothecary.
Chambers' Journal.
The distilled essential oil of almonds,
which, when diluted, supplies the popular
flavoring for sweets and confectionery
known as "ratafia," contains in its
strongest form a sufficient percentage of
hydrocyanic acid to make It highly dan
gerous. A young man who was executing
an order by pouring it from a large bot
tle to a smaller, noticed that ho had not
put the label quite straight on the small
er bottle, and took It off again. Before
replacing the label he licked it to make
sure of its sticking properly; but while
pouring he had Inadvertently let a drop
or two trickle on the outside pf the bot
tle where he had affixed the label. Then,
when he touched the label with his
tongue, he felt as if something shot
along that member, and also a jump of
his heart, sp he rushed to a tap, which
was fortunately close at hand, and put
his tongue under '4he running water.
Never, as long as ho lived, he said, would
he forget that poisoning sensation.
Here's The Whole Trouble.
Brobklyn Eagle.
There are half a dozen reciprocity trea
ties under consideration now, bift they
were framed in the Interest of people
who wanted to get a freer market for
their goods abroad, and their ratification
has been prevented by the producers of
American goods which would be com
pelled to compete with the foreign goods
to be admitted at a lower rate of duty in
return for the concession on American
goods exported to the country from which
they came. It Is apparent that when
once the desirability of reciprocity is ad
mitted It is not easy to make a feasible
plan for bringing it about. We shall see
what the manufacturers can accomplish
when they get together in Washington
next month.
Morgan Aiding: the Socialists.
Sioux City Tribune. .
The number of people is fast increasing
who believe Mr. Morgan is the greatest
practical socialist in the world. He Is
getting things consolidated into such
shape that society can take them over.
He is taking the lead In the onslaught
against competition, which is absolutely
essential, or has always been so consid
ered, to the continuance of a satisfactory
condition of society under the individ
ualistic regime. As competition Is ex
tinguished the people feel more than ever
the need of it Convinced that they can
never have It again, they will cast about
for the'next best thing; and public owner
ship appeals to the mat bnce. The num
ber of people whp believe they see ahead,
as the unavoidable destiny of these great
properties, government ownership, is In
creasing .day by day.
MONEY AND RANKING POWER.
Resources Are Plenty Enensh
ir
Only Mode Available.
Chicago Record-Herald.. '
So much has been said at the recant
meeting of the American Bankers Asso
ciation of the defects of our banking sys
tem, of tho peril of funds looked up In the
Treasury and the need ot keeping more
of our stock of money in circulation that
It may create a popular impression that
our whole monetary system Is lna vtry
bad way.
Now, as a matter of fact the monetary
system of the United Spates was never in
a more healthy condition'' than it is to
day. If Its flexibility were equal to its
strength there would be little cause for
the discussion of ways and means for its
Improvement.
To one thing the American people are
reconcnea. aney prefer dealing with ai
surplus rather than with a deficit. They
prefer a full Treasury to an empty one.
It is Just as well, however, that the
American people should be assured that
there Is no present menace to the trade
and commerce of the Nation by reason
of the stock of money "locked up" in the
United States Treasury. According to the
Secretary's last statement tho total stock
of money held in the Treasury as assets
of the Government October 1 was J28,
S51.269. This was exclusive of the JW
306,757 in the National Bank depositories,
against which there are outstanding lia
bilities to the amount of nearly JW.
000,000. But ff there is J29S.861.269 "locked up"
in the Treasury, It should be remembered
that on October 1 there was a matter of
$33S,029,S66 unsecured, non-interest bearing
United States notes in circulation. So
what the United States withholds on one
hand it more than returns on the other.
This brings us to consider the stock of
money in circulation, which at the open
ing of the present month, was $2,227,188,
491, or S2S.52 per capita on an estimated
population of 78,098,000 the highest per
capita circulation ever reached in this
country. The general stock of money In
the United States at the samevdate was
$2,526,019,760. This Is two and a half
times greater than .the monetary stock of
the United Kingdom.
Turning to the avallablo banking power
of the United States we find It exceeds
that of the United Kingdom by almost
the same ratio. According to Muhlcman
the available banking power of the latter
in 1SS5 was as follows:
Captal and reserve .r-. 123,910,000
Deposits 6-17,391,000
Circulation 39,138,000
Total ., S10,4W,000
This Is the equivalent of ?4,052.295,C00.
Whereas we find by the last report of
Comptroller Dawes that the available
banking power of the United States In
1900 was 18,063,446,539. or, If we include
savings banks, J10,6S5,317,704, divided as
follows: '
Capital 51.024,728,675
Surplus, etc 882,202,792
Deposits, etc 8,513,090.123
Circulation 265.356,112
Total 510.685,317,701
It will be observed that our banking
power exceeds that of the United King
dom at every point. And by way of full
measure it might be added that the cir
culation of National bank notes up to Oc
tober 1 had Increased to $319,773,315.
In actual wealth, in monetary stock. In
money in circulation and in available
banking power the United States Exceeds
the United Kigdom about in the ratio
ot 2 to 1. And according to the Comp
troller's report already referred to. fol
lowing Mulhall's statistical method. It
exceeded all Europe, Including the United
Kingdom, by the following figures:
United States 2,578,000.000
Europe and United Kingdom.. 2,50S,000,000
From all of which It is evident that the
chief need of our banking system is flexi
bility to make its enormous resources
available at ihe place and hour of de
mand. Is the Hackney Going Ont of Favor?
Scrlbner's.
There has been of late years a good deal
of talk against hackneys. But there is a
place for these horses. It is said that they
have not the force and courage of trotters.
That may be, but for that reason they
may suit people who wish especially to
have safe and quiet horses. An English
man who has been a great exhibitor of
show horses in this country, and who be
gan with a natural preference for"hack
neys, told me that he now preferred trot
ters. As showing the superiority in cour
age of trotters, he said that, when his
trotters were lying down in the stall he
could get them up with a word, but that
he had to take a whip to get the hackneys
up. I don't see that that objection would
be serious to people anxious to have safe
horses, which are at tho same time strong,
handsome and have good action, qualities
which hackneys certainly have. A breeder
of hackneys to whom I mentioned this
incident said: "What nonsense that is!"
And he added: "Of course, hackneys have
not great speed, but they can go as fast
as carriage horses ought to go." Ho made
this further claim for hackneys, that he
could win In the show ring with a mare
or gelding of hackney breeding, while
nearly all the trotting-bred prize winners
are stags that is, animals kept as stal
lions long enough to get the. crest of a
stallion. I believe it is true that most
trotting-bred prize winners are stags, and
that hackney mares sometimes win, as was
the case with this black mare at Toronto,
which also took first prize at tho Syracube
State Fair.
Little Bateese
"William Henry Drummonu.
You bad leetle boy, not moche you care
How busy you're kipln' your poor gran'perc,
Trln to stop you cv'ry day
Chasin' de hen aroun' do hay
Wy don't you geev' dem a chance to lay?
Little Bateese!
Off on de flel' you foller de plow.
Den w'en you're tire you scare de cow,
SIckhY de dog till dey Jomp de wall.
So de milk ain't good for not'lng at all
An' you're only live, an a half dis Fall,
Little Bateese!
Too sleepy for sayin' de prayor tonight?
Ncer mln'; I s'poso It'll be all right
Say dem tomorrow ah! dere he go!
Fas' asleep In a minute or so
An he'll stay lak dat till de rooster crow.
Little Bateese!
I
Den wake ua up right away toute suite
Lookin for somet'ing more to eat,
Makin mo t'Ink of dem long leg crane.
Soon as dey swaller, doy start again.
I wonder your stomach don't get no pain,
, Little Bateese!
But see heem now lyin' dere in bed.
Look at de arm onderneat hoes head:
If he grow lak dat till he's twenty year
I bet he'll be stronger dan Louis Cyr
An' beat all do voyageura leevin' hare.
Little Bateese!
Jus' feel de muscle along hees back.
Won't geev' heem moche lloddor for carry pack
On de long portage, any size canoe.
Dero's not many t'lng dat boy won't do,
For he's got double-Joint on heos body. too.
Little Bateese!
But, leedle Bateese! please don't forget
We rader you're staying de small boy yet.
So chase de chicken an' mak' dem scare.
An' do w'at you lak wit your olo gran'pore.
For w'en you're beeg feller he won't be dere
Little Bateese!
Gold and Gray.
A. M. Orpon, In Chambers's Journal.
X told you once, sweet wife, long years ago.
When all our blood thrilled with a jouthful
glow.
That In the whole wide world naught oeuld
compare
To the wild glory of your golden hair.
Now a far other vision seems to rise.
Nay! start not, dearest, with such wondering
eyes.
A deeper beauty I have learned to see;
That silver-gray far dearer Is to me.
v NOTE AND COMMENT.
Low is aco high.
Though her prsifien.t has resigned, it
is again, "Hail, Columbia!"
It Is a good thing for th Sultan that
imprisonmbnt for debt has ben abolished.
Concerning Croker's defeat, the country
does not noed to ask "Where did he get
it?"
France seems to have provided herself
with plenty of Turkey for a -regular old
fashioned Thanksgiving.
Bryan's $4S0 heifer came high, but she
doesn't hokl the record by any means.
There once was a cow that janiped over
the mcon.
In refusing to land a ship on Clatsop
Beach. Pilot Matthews showed little con
sideration for the Summer hotel-koepers
of thai port ,
Buller assorts that he is the vistlm of
a conspiracy. As he never won a viclory,
however, there is little to give color to
his contention.
It looks as if the battle of Santiago
would look like a friendly series of ma
neuvers, compared with events at the
court of Inquiry.
They are arguing the Schley caso In
Washington, as If it had not already been
argued threadbare in every grocery store
and barber shop in tho country.
The Tammany braves must feel In re
gard to Now York much as the braves
who found they had sold It to the whites
for the equivalent of a gold brick, In early
days.
Of course. If the lady who went over
Niagara Falls In a barrel had lost her
life It woukl have been the fault of the
barrel. Since the barrel evaded destruc
tion, credit should be given where credit
is due..
Just 200 years ago there lived, at tho
court of Prince Ferdinand de Medici, a
Paduan harpsichord maker, by name Bar-
tolomeo Christoferl, a man of great in
ventive genius. After Innumerable ex
periments, he solved the problem, a long
standing puzzle to the musical instru
ment makers of the period, how to make
a satisfctorlly working "keyed psaltery,"
and by the method he Invented of over
coming the difficulties Inherent in tba
task, produced an instrument-which was
the undoubted ancestor of thlrjpknoforte
of today. For the piano Is, ln-eseentlal,
says a writer in the Universal Magazine,
a dulcimer with a fitted keyboard; It Is
not simply a modlflcfiton of the old harp
sichord. The latteV, It is true, did possess
a keyboard, but the depression of Its keys
caused a "plucking." harplike action on
the strings, and not the striking of a
hammer, with controlled rebound, the pe
culiar characteristic of the newer instru
ment. From 1709 the date when Christo
foro made his four "keyed psalteries"
the piano, at first slowly, but afterwards
by leaps and bounds, went on increasing
and increasing in popularity, until now
its manufacture has become a great in
dustry. Not long ago an American briefly tarry
ing in London had occasion to send a
postcard in a great hurry. As he was In
tho neighborhood of the general poatoffice
he purchased the card there, thinking to
write and to post it all under the one
roof. But as he took his pen in hand at
one of the many well-equipped desks In
the building's spacious corridors, a uni
formed officer stepped up and said: "You
can't write that 'ere, sir." The American
apologized, removed to another desk, and
had barely grabbed Oils pen a second time
when another officer appeared. "You can't
write that 'ere, sir," he said; "hit's ha gain
horders." The American betook htmbelf
to a third desk. A third official appeared
and told him ho couldn't write at that
desk. "In Heaven's name," asked the
American, "at what desk can I write?"
The officer looked puzzled. "H'im sure
Hi don't know, lr," he replied. "Ye might
go houtside to some 'otel hor hother. But
ye can't write letters nor postcards hin
the posthoffice. These 'ere desks his hail
reserved for those has wants to write
telegrams." "They may think they aro
running a postofflce over there," concluded
the American, in telling the story. "If
they did but know it, It's Just a branch of
Westminster Abbey."
Apropos of tho recent marriage of an
Ensign In the Navy a short time ago who
did not have an overabundance of this
world's goods, "some of the veterans at
the navy-yard recall the story of Rear
Admlral Kirkland, who was affectionate
"ly known in the Navy as "Red Bill." A
young Ensign hesitatingly found his way
Into the Admiral's cabin one day, and.
with a groat deal of circumlocution and
coughing finally let It be known that ho
loved the Admiral's daughter, and would
bo the happiest man on earth If he had
her parent's consent to marry her. "No,
sir!" thundered the Admiral. "No, sir-
ree! Not now, anyhow. No pauper of an
Ensign is going to marry my daughter.
You'd better wait until you are promoted
and are able to support yourself beforo
you think of marrying." The young offi
cer astounded the Admiral by not retir
ing precipitately. He even ventured the
reminder that the Admiral him -t had
married when he was but an EnKbt and
that his married life had been a happy
one. "Red Bill" Kirkland glared at tho
presumptuous speaker for a moment and
then thundered: "I know I married when
It. was an Ensign. My father-in-law sup
ported me for several years, too, but I'll
be hanged if yours will!"
PLEASANTItlCS OF PARAGHAPIIERS
She Won. Tese I acepted Jack Tlmmld
lest night! Jess Oh, I'm so glad. Tesa Are
ou, really? Joeo Yes. I bet him a box of
gloves that J oil would. Philadelphia Press.
After the Surgical Operation. Barber
What will you haw on your face, witch hazel
or bay rum? Pat-ron Nalthr a.n nor the
ether. Jutt put on plain court-plashter!
Judge.
Nervous Tourist Stop, driver, stop! There's
something wrocf! I am sure a whrs coming
off! Driver Arrah, be aisy, then, yer honor.
Sure, it's the same one's been eomla' off thiu
these three days bark' Puneh.
And That Accounts for It. "I cannot con
ceive why she lnlted that grass widow to her
wedding. Why, she's a woman with a norrlble
past." "Yes, my dear, but nen enough to
furnish an elegant present." Phlladlphla
Evening Bulletin.
Success at Last. Dr Brown Well, did you
keep the thermometer in the room at TO de
grees, as I told you? Mrs. Murphy I did in-
.dade, doctor, but I had a hard toime to do it.
The only place it would stay at elvlaty was
fornlnst the chlmney-plec?. Life.
Harry (hesitatingly) Mhw Mabel, I ah have
something moat important to ask you. May
I that Mabel (encouragingly) What to it,
Harry? Harry May 1 Mabel woukl jou bo
willing to have our nams printed In the pa
pers with a hyphen between them? Glasgow
Evening Tlmee.
Edith I hear that you and Fred are quite in
terested in one another. Bertha Don't ou
tell a soul. Edith, but really X boMeve Frvd
and I were made for each other. We have
played golf together three times, and we have
never quarreled exeept two or three times
when Fred tvas clearly In the wrong. Boston
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