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A HISTORIC PARALLEL.
McKinloy dealing with Porto Rico and
Roosevelt dealing with Cuba are two
very different things. Each case shows
us a people calling for relief, an
Administration pointing out our "plain
duty," and angry trusts issuing orders
to the Republican leaders. -There Ihe
similarity ends. President Roosevelt
thinks "plain duty" is something worth
while. He has conferences with the Re
publican leader?, but at such times they
lo not do all the talking., He says hi3
say. and though the Republican leaders
resent his firmness and complain about
it. the indications all point to their sur
render and his vindication.
It is certainly a time when the coun
try should let the President know that
his stand in this matter is appreciated.
The needs of Cuba are, indeed, imper
fectly understood. Few persons com
prehend the decline in the price of sugar
which makes Cuban industries once
profitable now unable to run except at
a loss. But the people are sufficiently
well advised of the nature of the cam
paign waged against Cuba. They know
that it is but cne part in a determined
resistance that the protected trusts are
prepared to maintain against any and
every proposal to impair the high tariff
wall with which their grasp of the home
market and their power over consum
ers are maintained.
There is an old parallel for this do
mestic demand for justice to outlying
regions. , Just so the British cam
paign on behalf of the American colo
nies was made. British men knew that
the insistence of Parliament upon un
just taxation of the colonies carried
with it a similar injustice toward the
British taxpayer at home. Britons who
took the side of the colonies did so
largely in their own self-defense. They
were fighting for economic liberty in
England when they stood for economic
liberty in America. It Is so with us to
day. The domestic consumer's fate in
his struggle with the protected trusts
hangs somewhat upon the result of the
attempt to, pluck Cuba and the Philip
pines. One unfortunate reflection is to be
made upon the President's course. It is
that, considering the clearness with
which he sees the Cuban situation,
he is remarkably blind to the
case of the Philippines, which is
aggravated, as compared with Cuba's,
by the fact that the Philippines are de
nied the independence we have prom
ised to Cuba. Our "Washington advices
are to the effect that while the Adminis
tration is urgent for concessions to Cuba
Its attitude towards the Philippines
constitutes one of the greatest difficul
ties our Pacific Coast representatives
have to contend with in striving for
justice to the Philippines. If the House
and Senate should join issue over the
Senate reductions in the Payne sched
ule, we hope to see the Administration
on the side of the Senate. "
WE'RG SOT ALL ALIKE.
A valued reader and friend of The
Oregonlan sends us this note: '
I regret that you did not embrace tho op
portunity afforded by the Neill eplsodo at
Spokane to read a much-needed lesion to our
strutting and pretentious secret orders. They
are an Increasing source of mischief, because
they offer (1) a counterfeit religion, ihlch
.keeps men out of tho churches; (2) a coun
terfeit Insurance, which Is sooner or later
doomed to certain failure, and keeps men
from taking legitimate insurance; i3) ft false
view of life, which injures personal thrift and
Independence, and (4) undignified initiatory
exercises, which any self-respecting man must
resent as Actor Nelll did. Will you permit
me to record my conviction that Mr. Ncill did
exactly right, and should have the applause
of every right-minded man?
"We have no doubt that- our corre
spondent correctly represents the feel
ings of a certain fraction of the com
munity, but he must be reminded that
another and perhaps a larger fraction of
the community entertain diametrically
opposite opinions, and that for those
who hold them, those opinions are a
guide. If thousands of men prefer the
religion of the lodgeroom to that of the
churches, the presumption Is that the
former is better adapted to their needs.
There Is no way to change them, and
perhaps rebuke or- opposition Is the
least promising of all methoda It is the
same way with the insurance problem,
and the social problem. It Is a free
country.
As to the 'secret work" or "supple
mentary work," we have only to remem
ber that man Is a sjiortive animal and
exercises of acrobatic comedy are com
mon in our secret orders, where they
appeal to this universal instinct of play.
Numbers of men are so constituted that
they find these performances unbear
ably .distasteful. One such is our cor
respondent, another such, apparently, is
Mr. Nelll. Doubtless our corresnondent
will never apply for admission to 'the
Elks, and Mr. .Neill had'the same rem
edy in his own hands. He could easily
have satisfied himself as to what he
must expect Possibly he valued the
advertisement very highly, and worth
all it cost.
A BLOT UPOX CIVILIZATION.
Mysterious as are the ways of Provi
dence, there are times when their mean
ing is an open' book. No cause is so
Iniquitous, no official Is so Unfit and cor
rupt, as not to find ready and impas
sioned championship in the Senate of
the United States. It is a truth that
needs occasional demonstration, and for
this cause, in connection with the un
speakable Noyes, has Mr. McCumber
been raised up.
The Senate pf the United States is the
most dignified deliberative body in the
world at itsnvn valuation, and at that
only. In fact, it Is the cesspool of Amer
ican politics. Thither repair the brain
less rich, the blackguard poor, the con
scienceless rapscallions and the coarsest
clowns that imported strains and na
tive talents can proAice. Such aslnin
ity on one hand and rascality on the
other as our National life affords pains
takingly erect themselves "into an im
posing arch into which as a keystone
the United States Senate fits with
miraculous precision.
The Senate is a deliberative bods. It
prides itself on its dignity and cour
tesy. Its high standards have been pet
by ruffians like Tillman, clowns like
"Wilson, ignoramuses like Dubois, howl
ing dervishes like Pettigrew, screech
owls like Mason, promoters like Hanna
and Elkins, tricksters like Gorman and
Quay, moneybags without pretense of
statesmanship, like Clark, Kean and
Dryden. A man of brains and character
can hardly aspire to the Senate any
more. It's as much as his reputation Is
worth. Such is its character that the
worst is at once believed of the man
whose name is mentioned In connection
with It. In many states the extremity
has been reached of choosing the less
objectionable of one or more unworthy
aspirants. Old ideals have to be aban
doned and new ones set up. The highest
moral and intellectual accomplishments
we can expect in a Senator nowadays is
that he is six feet tall, posses?es the
gift 'of human speech, and has no con
victions that cannot be instantly sac
rificed for an appointment or an appro
priation. There Is not a department of our Gov
ernment, nor an Institution of our laws
and affairs, nor an establishment main
tained by public monev. that is not
something viler and more dangerous
from the Senate's unholy touch. It has
stamped venality upon every tariff law
and dishonor upon every currency law
enacted in a generation. It has tied the
Nation's hands with Cuba, fomented In
surrection in the Philippines, prostituted
me Army with Its traffic in appoint
ments, and made Its list of employes
an Instrument of support to male and
female stipendiaries of its members.
If the Senate of the United States
could be wiped out of existence tomor
row, the public conscience would be
quickened and the millennium brought
Immeasurably nearer. Of greater gain
than the relief to National legislation
would be the redemption of politics In
every state from the devastating moral
and material influences of Senatorial
campaigns.
WHAT TO DO WITH THE PHILIP
TINES. Major John H. Parker, a graduate of
West Point in 1S32, is at present an
officer in the Twenty-eighth Infantry.
He wpnt to the Philippines in the lat
ter part of 1S99, and has but lately re
turned. "While in the Islands he organ
ized civil government in seven and ad
ministered it .in six munlclpcs. and
was also assistant to the chief Judge
Advocate in the Philippines. The Major
Is an educated 'soldier, and to his mili
tary duties he has added some quasi
judicial responsibilities that have af
forded him unusual opportunities for
observation and reflection upon the
question of the best ultimate disposal
of the Philippines, not Incompatible
with our National Interests, our Na
tional honor and the best interests of
the Filipinos themselves. This question
he discusses at length in the current
number of the Forum.
Briefly summarized, his views are
those: The distance is so great and the
alien character of these people so dis
tinct that it is worse than folly to hold
out to them the Idea of proximate state
hood. For many years the firm appli
cation of a strong military government
will be necessary to the maintenance of
order and tranquillity. Our present
force of 45,000 men cannot soon be ma
terially reduced, and there Is no hope
that the resources of the country will
ever be adequate to more than support
its own civil list and constabulary.
Upon the United States, therefore, is
entailed the burden of about $07,500,000
per year merely for police purposes, In
a country that never can become more
than pelf-supporting. To the needs of
this outlying dependency we shall be
obliged to sacrifice two-thirds of our
actual Army. "We do not need the Phil
ippines to sustain our Asiatic policy of
the open door, for that policy is already
guaranteed us by solemn treaties and
assured independently of our occupation
or ultimate disposition of the Philip
pines. The permanent retention and
government of the islands as dependen
cies is not, In Major Parker's judgment,
especially desirable, either In peace or
war; but he concedes, of course, that the
honor of the United States requires the
thorough establishment of stable condi
tions as the first step toward a consid
eration of the ultimate disposition of the
islands. He thinks the proposition of
an autonomous government for the
islands open to the very serious objec
tion that there is an utter absence of
sincerity and good faith among the Fili
pinos, riot only In their relations with
all foreigners, but equally in their In
ternal intercourse. They show the same
racial defect of character in their inter
tribal relations. Duplicity and treach
ery is the attitude of every Filipino
toward the rest of mankind. Of course
such a people could not be trusted v to
institute and maintain an independent
government, with the United States
Government for sponsor.
Major Parker Is a practical eoldier,
with no nonsense of "anti-imperialism"
about him. He Insists that our course
In the Philippines could not have been
different from what it has been. We
have waged a righteous war, which was
forced upon us by unavoidable circum
stances; but the Philippines have not
as yet become part of our definite, set
tled international policy. We are not
yet committed to any action beyond the
establishment there of law and order,
tranquillity and good government. As
a matter of National self-interest, Major
Parker evidently thinks that "the ces
sion of the Philippines for 'a suitable
equivalent to some European or Asiatic
power, capable of guaranteeing the con
tinuance o'f the stable conditions we
have there Instituted, would be the best
disposition we could. make of an unde
sirable and embarrassing possession
forced upon us by unavoidable and un
foreseen circumstances." This sug
gestion is plausible, but not profound.
The probabilities are that for weal or
woe we are in the Philippines to stay.
Europe had no objection to their trans
fer from a weak power, like Spain, to
the great trans-Atlantic power of the
United States; but it Is not likely that
the transfer of the Philippines to any
fclngle one of fhe great naval powers
of Europe could be peaceably executed.
It is not likely that their transfer to
either China or Japan -would be per
mitted. We can choose In the Philippines
whether to stay or quit; but the moment
we abandon the islands to their own
designs they wlil revert to a nest of
ferocious, cunning Malay pirates, such
as they were before Spain occupied.
them, and long afterwards. Tho mo
ment the islands became a port of issue
and sheiter for piratical 'Chinese junks
and Malay proas, the powers of Eu
rope would promptly agree to their par-
titlon among themselves, and it is
doubtfui if this occupation of the
islands would be to the naval and com
mercial advantage of the United" States.
Therefore we shall stay in the Philip
pines; we shall exterminate or corral
the bolomcn and other brigands of the
islands, even as we did the Apaches,
Sioux, Blackfeet and Cheyenr.es; we
shall not hesitate in some places to
create a politude In order to maintain
peace. We shall probably be obliged to
govern the Islands after the British
methods of benevolent despotism by
which India has been made happier if
not highly civilized.
XOT WORSE HERE.
The Archbishop of Canterbury. In a
recent speech in support of a resolu
tion against the legalizing of marriage
with a deceased wife's sister, denied
that the moral law is as much observed
in America as it Is in England. lie
regarded the prevalence of divorce in
America as a certain sign that Amer
icans are distinctly below Englishmen
mcrally. This reasoning is very shal
low, because 65 per cent of the great
increase in divorces granted by the
law lit- America, are granted on the ap
plication of women for desertion, re
fusal to support, or chronic intemper
ance. Under the law of England, while
the husband can get an .absolute di
vorce from 'the wife for adultery alone,
the wife cannot get a divorce from the
husband solely en proof of marital in
fidelity, unaccompanied by any other
111 treatment. That Is, under English
law. Infidelity in the woman Is held to
be a greater offense than infidelity in
the man. In this respect, surely the
English law is less instinct with moral
sense than the American law, which
gives the husband no advantage over
the wife. Among recent divorces grant
ed In England was that of an English
Baronet, a distinguished diplomat, from
-in unfaithful wife, who shortly after
married her paramour, a Colonel in the
British Army, who had done brilliant
service In the Boer War. The men
had been intimate friends, and whe-n
the intrigue was discovered the wronged
husband forgave .his wife out of deep
sympathy for her grief over the death
of their little daughter, which occurred
shortly after the exposure. The English
Colonel gave his pledge in writing to
the injured husband that he would
henceforth never meet or associate in
any way with the repentant wife, With
in less than two years after giving this
pledge, the English bflicer renewed his
correspondence with his friend's wife,
and the intimacy was exposed to the
husband by the wife of the English
Colonel. The English Baronet obtained
a divorce, and so did the wife of the
English Colonel, who thereupon mar
ried his paramour. This case was so
revolting in its perfidy that King Ed
ward has taken notice of it and forced
the offending English officer to resign
from the army and banished him from
the social circle of the court, to which
he was formerly admitted. It would be
hard to find in the annals of our Amer
ican social life a divorce case revealing
as low moral sense among persons of
culture and intelligence as this English
divorce case. It Is safe to say that
American social life, .high or low, is
quite equal in morality to that of Eng
land. The dissolute life in both sexe3
of many of the English nobility goes
far to show that conjugal purity is" not
assured by the prohibition of marriage
to the deceased wife's sister, or by giv
ing the husband more legal immunity
for adultery than the wife.
AX OLD FRIEXD IX A XEW PLACE.
Mr. Arthur Lee, erstwhile British
military attache in the United States,
and now member of Parliament, is a
very smooth article. His present study is
to make it as uncomfortable as possible
for the British War Office, by revealing
,such secrets as came into hie knowledge
by virtue of his official position in the
United States. Mr. Lee Is a great trav
eler and a social swell of phenomenal
height and volume. He "has also been
known to be an assiduous collector of
information. His latest exploit stamps
his distributive capacity as equal to his
skill In collection.
Major Lee's winning ways have always
stood him In good stead. At Washing
ton, under the Alger regime, he was
enabled to secure a letter admitting him
to United States fortifications (where
American citizens may not tread), and
since then, if his remarks in Parlia
ment are to be believed, he Induced
somebody at Washington to place at his
disposal the services of a personage un
known, but understood by the resource
ful Major ito be "the chief horse ex
pert of the United States Army."
We shall offer two brief but we sub
mit pertinent observations on Major
Leo's activities. When he was at the
mouth of the Columbia River in 1S97 he
made maps and measurements of the
United States fortifications. He has
doubtless communicated them to the
persons most interested in possessing
knowledge of them, with the same free
dom he exhibits In unbosoming his mil
itary attache knowledge upon the floor
of the House of Commons. Secretary
Alger might get them and put them in
the second edition of his book.
Secondly, the War Department's de
nial that a "chief horse expert" or. sim
ilar official was tendered to Majpr Lee
is without bearing or moment. The War
Department flatly denied the letter of
1S97, though its existence was fully es
tablished." Don't go to the War Depart
ment for the sources of history.
An article on normal schools In these
columns two days, ago should, perhaps,
have pointed out-tha't the objectionable
practices complained of In the State of
Washington have been eliminated in
Oregon through the efforts of State Su-
perintendent Ackerman, with the earn
est, co-operation of President Campbell,
of the Stale Normal School at Men
mouth. The statute which overthrew
the old abuses was' part of the compre
hensive scheme of educational reform
whose closing chapter was the text-book
reform carried out -last year. The Ore
gon normal schools have been deprived
of the privilege of having their diplomas
accepted without examination. Every
graduate must go before the local ex
amining boards on precisely the game
basis as other applicants. The normal
graduate, therefore, stands on the same
basis as the graduate of the law school
or'medlcal school, and must pass exam
ination in all branches of knowledge he
aspires to teach. This is probably as
far as the state can go in limiting the
activity of normal schools. In the
other aspects of the matter Oregon Is
as badly off as Washington, particu
larly in the political activities demand
ed of the schools, which have resulted in
both "states in the establishment of sev
eral struggling institutions where there
should be but one strcng one. No law,
probably, will ever be able to prevent
the ambitious teacher from availing
himself of seeking the same techni
cal Instruction sought by aspirants in
other professions; but the pernicious re
sults of Indiscriminate admission off
graduates to the profession without ex
amination were abundantly attested In
the abuses that gave rise to the present
law."
The National Liberal party was or
ganized In Cincinnati on the 2Gth ult.
by representatives from many sections
of the country. A hint of what these
illiberal Liberals arc trying to do is
contained in the preamble to the con
stitution which declares for the abolish
ment of Chaplains In Army and Navy,
in many legislative bodies, and In all
public institutions; the taxation of
church property and the abandonment
of Sabbath observance. If all this were
accomplished, what then? Would any
body be happier or better off, and would
liberty of conscience be more fully as
sured than now? Of all who strain at
a gnat and swallow a camel our so
called liberallst easily bears Qff the'
palm. Not only would he refuse to ob
serve Sunday himself a refusal clearly
within his right as an Individual but
he would compel all -others to forego
Sunday observance; having no use for
Chaplains' services, he wquld arbltrar-
Lily deprive others who may have of the
comfort of their ministrations. This is
the old spirit of compulsion revamped
but, not disguised, and called, with vir
tuous assumption, "liberalism." It can
make iro great progress either in poll
tics or public sentiment as long as the
true spirit of liberty dominates the
American people.
On the SOth ult. the anniversary of the
execution of St. Charles the Martyr
(Charles I of England) was" observed
In Philadelphia and elsewhere in this
country by cartain ecclesiastical dudes,
one of whom wrote the "Living Church,"
of Milwaukee, as follows:
As January 30 draws near, it strikes ms
that more might be done to honor the memory
of one of the mo3t glorious martyrs of tbo
English cLurch. ... He Is, Indeed, "our
o-n, our royal saint." May Goi sreed tho
day when there shall arise. In many parts of
the country, churches dedicated In tho nams
of St. Charles, the Martyr.
When we remember that the great
English historians, 'Hallam, Macaulay
and Gretn, all agree In describing
Charles as not only a most cruel tyrant,
but as a most conscienceless liar and
perjurer in all his dealings with his
people; when we remember that his
crimes against civil and religious lib
erty filled America with illustrious po
litical exiles, it docs seem as if the
devotees of St. Charles the Martyr in
historical decency might keep silent.
The New York Evening Post keenly
asks: "If a chapel In honor of St.
Charles the Martyr, why not a tablet
to the blessed memory of Archbishop
Laud?"
The Dowager Empress of China is all
right upon some matters. When, for
example, she directs tho officials of vari
ous provinces of the empire to discour
age Tiy diplomatic methods the binding
of the feet of female children, she comes
to the fore in a reform effort .that has
taxed the energies of missionaries in
vain for years. Tsi An herself has feet
of natural size. She sprang from the
ranks of the lowly, wherein this custom
does not prevail. Having no prejudice
of caste to overcome in the matter, she
can issue this edict readily, and. with
out reservation of conscience. Good for
Tsi An.
The late General Harrison C. Hobart,
last, survivor of the original five who
tunneled their way out of LIbby'priscn
in the most trying period of the Civil
War, and who died at the Soldiers'
Home Hospital near Milwaukee on the
26th ult, .had been a resident of Wis
consin since 1S4G. A forceful man, he
laid a shaping hand upon much of the
early legislation of that then remote
Northwestern territory. His life and
achievement, both as soldier and citi
zen, were honored, and his death, being
In the natural order of things. Is an
nounced with reverence rather than re
gret. The Thunder Mountain mining camp
occupies a position in Ceneral Idaho
that is almost equally accessible, or 'in
accessible, from all points of the com
pass. Houston? Ketchum, Council and
Stites, in Idaho, and Grantsdale, Mont.,
are almost equi-distant from the new
gold strike, and Boise and Emmet are
not much farther away. But mountain
"ranges Intervene between each of those
railroad points and Thunder Mountain,
and Winter's grasp will hold the ele
vation impassable for general traffic
until well Into May, though prospectors
will go In earlier.
"Let 'ep go to the devil and take care
of themselves!" This Is the attitude of
the Democratic party towards the" Phil
ippines, as stated by Mr. Money, of Mis
sissippi, on the floor tf the Senate. It
is the condensed expression of a plat
form. Is It a sentiment that is to
maintain the honor of the American
name? In this concrete .form the Phil
ippine question will bel)efore the people
of the United States In the next Presi
dential election.
It Is not mentioned as a reproach to
Dubois, the little Populist from Idaho,
who swells and struts In the Senate,
that he was "a stranger by birth and
a scholar by charity." Great men as
well -as little have started that way.
But when he sneers at a distinguished,
officer of the Army as a man who began
life as "a charity boy," he finds that
a story may te told, "mutato nomine."
No former registration will sufllce for
this year. You must register now, or
soon, If you desire 'any participation in
politics this year.'
GUESS HE IS ACTING.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Speaker Henderson and Representatives
Dalzell. Payne and Grosvenor oppose any
tariff concessions to Cuba and the Philip
pines. Henderson. Dalzeli and Grosvenor
control the committee on rules. Dalzeli..
Payne and Grosvenor control the ways
and means committee.
Consequently, as long as the Republican
majority in the House and the Republican
party In the country submit to the dicta
tion of these men there is no hope from
this Congress for justice to our tropical
possessions. s
Henderson. Dalzeli, Payne and Gros
venor are surviving types of the Congress
men who tried to hold dawn tho American
people when the Nation -was bent on free
ing Cuba and avenging the .Maine. With
Mr. Reed's retirement and Nelson Dlng
ley's death, the House organization fell
Intothe hands of these popgun statesmen,
and they still dominate it.
Under this same leadership the country
beheld with amazement and indignation
our promises to Porto Rico repudiated and
our plain duty violated. Under pressure
of public disapproval the mistake had to
be admitted and corrected later, -at the
expense of the Republican party and the
American people. Yet today the same
men for the same reasons are trying to
repeat it. twice over, at the expense of
their party and their country.
The majority of the Republicans in the
Houce, nine-tenths of the Republican par
ty at large, and an overwhelming ma
jority of the people, regardless of part,
are utter'.y weary of such trilling with
great questions. The people and' the
party. In and out of Congress, are wltn
the President in demanding justice for
the Cubans- and the Filipinos, just as
they were with the late President in de
manding justice for Porto Rico. They are
right and will not be turned aside. They
look to Mr Roosevelt for help.
Nov Is tho time for the President to
give the people and the party this help, to
relieve the party of a leadership that leads
only to humiliation, to save for the people,
from the hands of these petty vandals, a
clean and honest future In our islands.
May the President grasp his opportunity!-
The people are with him. They
rely on him to act. For their sake, for
the party's sake, and for his own sake,
may he not fall them!
TRUST'S rilEXOMEXAL FIGURES.
J. 1. Morgnn's 1'ny Wax One Hnmlrcil
mill Twenty-nine 3IiIllona.
NEW YORK. Some remarkable thing3
are made public In the report of the
billion-dollar steel trust. Among them are
the earnings of the company, its surplus
and the price paid for launching the cor
poration. J. P. Morgan nr-d the. under
writing syndicate for launching the trust
received stock In the corporation to par
value of $123,937,500. The corporation's sur
plus on the day the balance was struck
was $174,344,2)5. T.he net earnings for nine
months were ?S1.779,2?S, and the dividends
paid 1 nthc same time aggregated Sii.DM),
7C6. Morgan and company paid. In securities
of the big trust, nearly CO0.COO,OQO for the
control of the Carnegie concern, whose
plans at that time, if carried out. would
have meant a war of the giants of the
steel trade.
TtoiiIjIch of Mr. Current.
New" York Times.
All marriages have an intrinsic interest
for everybody, but It Is rare, indeed, that
tho record of a wedding In a hamlet so se
questered and remote attalrd to such a
height of interest as does this one, which
we find credited to the Richmond (Ky.)
Pantagraph: "Over at Ccnterville, Miss
Mattlc Boyd and James M. Current were
married. Miss Boyd has been Postmaster
for IS years, holding on during McKin
ley's administration through sympathy,
fihe having lost both legs in a railroad ac
cident at Cynthiana when a school girl.
She is 53 years old, and weighs 220 pounds.
The groom, who is six feet four Inches
tall, and 23 years of age, has
been carrying the mall, from her
postofllce to the Kentucky Midland Rail
road. When the Magistrate asked if he
took the lady to be his lawfully wedded
wife, he replied: 'Yes; she is good enough
for mc' " That, now, we call a good
story, told with admirable brevity and
simplicity. It Is full of human nature, and
the narrator, like a true artist, let3 the
facts speak for themselves and reveal
what they will. They reveal a whole lot,
especially about Mr. James M. Current,
who Is evidently heroic without being per
fect which is the way of mortal heroes,
whether their scene of action Is large or
small. One could for that matter, ono
must wish that Mr. Current had con
quered his modesty, and answered with
an unexplanatory "Yes," when interro
gated as to his intentions regarding tho
mature and abbreviated, but still suffi
ciently weighty object of his affections.
To say that she waa good enough for. him
contained a most ungracious Intinmtlon,
and one that would have fully justified
the lady in stumping haughtily away
from whatever substitute for an altar the
Magistrate had provided, leaving the cer
emony incomplete, and In getting a new
mail carrier, too, as quickly as possible.
But time had probably taught her philos
ophy it does, they" say and though she
doubtless told herself that the speech was
"just like a man for all the world," she
seems to have .done -It silently and the
fateful rite went on. There is no chance,
however, that Mr. Current's words were
unnoticed or that they will be forgotten.
He will be reminded of them later.
The Gorman Folly.
Boston Herald.
Every once In a while some Democrat
comes forward with the suggestion of
Arthur P. Gorman as a candidate for the
Presidency. The men who do this arc
generally of the mosaback order, or were
Jn agreement with Mr. Gorman in his
knifing of the reform tariff attempted un
der President Cleveland's administration.
Mr. Clark P. Howell, of Atlanta, Ga., who
Is tho latest person to engage In thla
role, probably prefers Gorman on the lat
ter account. He Is very much out of sym
pathy with the live Democrats in tne
country, however. In so doing. They will
never forgive Mr. Gorman for the harm
he did In holding up the Wilson tariff as
it wan reported and in transforming it
Into a protectionist measure In its pass
age. That alone would be fatal to Mr.
Gorman aa a Democratic candidate. Be
sides, he is much too old a man In pol
itics. Fresher blood is needed there If
there Is to be a prospect of success. Mr.
Gorman Is a good political manager, if
there can be, security that he will man
age for his party and not for hlmseir
against his party; but aa a candidate of
his party for the Presidency he would be
very weak. and. If lie is the shrewd man
that he Is credited with being, he Is fully
aware of that fact himself.
Oar "Inferior Artists."
Tho following paragraph from an arti
cle on "Nathaniel Hawthorne's Place In
Literature," by D. F. Hannigan, in Lit
erature, will shock admirers of Henry
James and W D. Howells:
The undlscrlmlnatlng critic also misleads the
public, as he probably misleads himself, when
ho lauds Mr. Henry James and Mr. YV. V.
Kowclls as, masters of style. The style of
both these authors is surely marred by cum
brousness, affectation and self-consciousness.
When we compare their method" with that of
Nathaniel Hawthorne, we are strcclc by the
difference. Hawthorne appeals 'to the human
heart: they, appeal to the prejudices and, wo
might add to the manias oi latter-day lit
erary pedants. While Mr. Howells s,ees noth
ing In modern life but "leather and .prunella,"
Hawthorne sees a deer and tr!r hnrVcmnn
behind the apparently commonplace routine of,
fiwiiicu existence. io overestimate living
American writers Is to do Injustice to Haw
thorne. Ona of the worst offenses of the log
roller Is the way In which he, so to speak,
depreciates the literary currency. He makes
pewter pass for sold, so that books become
a species of debased coinage. It is time to'
call attention to the fact that the American
writers of- today are much- Inferior artists to
Hawthorne. .
HEREDITY OR ENVIRONMENT?
San Francisco Bulletin.
The question whether heredity or 'en
vironment has more to do with a man's
character and career has long been moot
ed. There are some who argue stoutly
that a man's disposition Is inherited and
that environment has little Influence on a
man's life; In. short, that a man may rise
superior to his environment but that his
inherited disposition of mind and body is
part of his being, a part of which he
cannot get rid. Others, on: the contrary,
insist that a man Is fashioned by his com
panions and surroundings, and that
heredity has little determinative Influ
ence in his career.
The story of a boy who is a ward of the
Youth's Directory will suggest some In
teresting speculation about what might
have been. Twelve years ago an a'gent
of the directory found a little boy chained
to a Staple in the wall of a sub-cellar in a
Chinatown tenement. The littlo fellow's
wrists were connected by an Iron chain,
and his body bore many sores and bruises.
Ho was attired in the Chinese fashion,
but his clothes were poor and dirty. He
spoke only Chinese. An old Chinese
woman, had charge of him. She said she
was his mother, and that the father was
a white man, a sailor, who had gone away
In a ship and never came back.
From his squalid environment the lad
then about J years old was taken to
the Youths' Directory. The Chinese
woman applied to the Superior Court to
recover the boy, but the court appointed
Father Crowley guardian of the minor,
who thenceforth resided at the Directory.
At first his little pigtail, his Chinese gar
ments and his way of Jabbering in the
Cantonese dialect afforded sport for the
white boys In the house. But the shears
soon removed the queue, the blouse and
flowing pantaloons went into the rag bag.
and the boy was outfitted in the American
fashion, and, being nameless. Father
Crowley presented him with a brand new
name a name common in Ireland, Scot
land and the United States. Willie that
was the first part of the name was sent
to the Marshall Primary School, where he
picked up English and the irt of reading
and writing. It was "not long ere he had
mastered the new tongue sufficiently for
his needs. He proved to be docile and
quick-witted. Although at first his coun
tenance seemed distinctly of a Mongolian
cast. It gradually becam'e more of the
Caucasian type. Until two years ago he
spoke English with an accent remotely
suggestive of the Chinese, but about that
time the foreign, accent vanished, and
Willie's English now Is as perfect as that
of- any descendant of the Mayflower pil
grims. When Willie had been at the Directory a
number of years he was sent Into the
country to do chores for a wealthy widow.
who had a ranch. He was Industrious and
sober, wns well grounded In reading, writ
ing and arithmetic, and today heIs man
aging the large poultry business of his
employer and Is In a fair way to do very
woll. He is a strong man. 20 years old,
a thorough American in speech, manner
and thought. Last week he came down
from the country to visit the Directory,
which he still calls home.
Jlere, certainly, Is a man whom en
vironment has almost created. Had that
lad grown up In a sub-cellar of China
town, had he been beaten and put In
chains for childish offenses, and kept sub
ject to the environment of the tenement
house where he was found, what would
have been his career? Perhaps he would
have been a highbinder. Perhaps he would
have been a "hand" in a wash-house. In
an Alaskan cannery or in a California
orchard, living on rice and tea, gambling
away his wages, without spirit, ambition
or individuality. Certainly he would not
have been a free, cleanly American citi
zen, with American ideals. '
Environment is the most powerful agent
in human life. It Is another name for
destiny. Few, Indeed, are the men that
rise above their surroundings. Among tho
millions of blacks that have lived and died
in eCntral Africa, where there are no Ten
Commandments, has there been one pure,
good woman or one gentleman according
to our standard? If the best man and
woman among us had been brought up by
Bushmen In a village In the African for
est, remote from the Influence of the
whites, what would they have been?
Would heredity have saved them from
their brutish environment? And If the
child of the humblest peasant parents had
been reared in a royal palace. In the be
lief that he was the King's eldest son and
heir, would the peasant have croppd out
In him or would he not have been as
kingly as the genuine royal offspring?
Heredity, no doubt, has some Influence on
tho character, but environment has a
vastly more Important Influence In the de
velopment of a human being.
A Xew Poem by Snppbo.
Chicago Tribune.
Dr. Schubart, the assistant director of
the Egyptological department of the Royal
Museum In Berlin, has made an important
discovery. In examining fragments of old
books and manuscripts recently acquired
by the museum he found a torn and badly
crumpled piece of parchment, which
proved to be a fragment of a parchment
roll containing poems from the fifth book
of Sappho. The manuscript dates from
the sixth or perhaps the seventh century,
which Is not surprising, as It is known
that many of Sappho's poems had been
preserved until that time. It is generally
believed that the poems were lost during
the Arabian invasion of Europe. ,
The fragment, given In free translation,
but preserving the meter, reads as fol
lows: "When sho now
Among Lyd la's women appears,
'Tls llko unto the full moon
Rising serenely In the evening sky.
It Outshines .
Tho mest brilliant stars; It casfs
Over he mlrror-llke sea
And meadows. In flowers- clad.
Magic light.
Nature Is bedecked with "dew;
Sparkling are the roses.
Dainty flowers, and bushy herb3.'
Oar Unsurpassed Gold Holdings.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
A statement published today shows that
the amount of gold held In the Treasury"
vaults considerably exceeds half a bil
lion dollars. The following table affords
some Interesting Information as to the
respective supply of this metal in the
possession of the United States and lead
ing, foreign governments: ,
Gold In United States Treasury $345,100,303
Gold in French Treasury 478,143.000
Gold In Imperial Treasury. Russia.. 329.S37.000
Gold in Austria-Hungary Treasury. 223,071.000
Gold In Imperial Treasury. Germany 224.5SO.000
Gold In Bank of England. 172.C22.000
Even when all deductions are made for
the gold, which, in accordance with law,
must be maintained in our Treasury as a
reserve- fund, this showing is highly im
pressive.
It demonstrates the solidity of the basis
on which the great; volume of American
business, is conducted, and It reveals the
utter falsity of the theory that "bimetal
lism" is Indispensable to the prosperity
of the United States.
An Evening Melody.
Aubrey De Vere.
Oh. that you pines which crown1 tho steep.
Their flre3 might ne'er surrender!
Oh that yon fervfd knofi might keep
While lasts the world 4t tplendor! '
Pale poplars on the wind that lean
And In the sunset shiver,
"Oh that your golden stems might screen
For aye yon glassy river!
Tbat yon white bird on homeward wing
Soft-sliding without motion,
And now In blue air vanishing
tike- snowflake lost dn ocean.
Beyond our sight mlg"ht never flee, .
Yet onward still be flying;
And all the dying day might bo
Immdrtal In Its dying!
Pellucid thus In golden trance.
Thus muto In expectation.
What waits the Earth? Dellveranca7
Aho no. Transfiguration!
She dreams of that new earth divine
Conceived of seed Immortal, . -
She sings 'Not miner the holler? shrine.
But mine the cloudy portal!"
NOTE-AND COMMENT;
Did any one say politics?
The red-sported vest also, affords a gleam
of hope to the unblanketed Indian.
There'are still a few eminent statesmen
who are not unwilling to be. William Allen
Whitewashed.
Senator Tillman Is the exception that
proves the rule making courtesy the
duty of a Senator.
We are threatened with another poem
from the Santlam. The' ground hog has
failed to "make good."
Prince Henry is to be treated to opera
in New York. The city- will probably ba
mortgaged to pay theJfSlll.
The talk of abolishing bull-fighting docs
not refer to the kind that Is going on in
Wall street part of the time.
One of Dewet's last guns ha3 been cap
tured, but all he seems to need In his
business is a few last ditches.
A woman who was almost 100 years old
committed suicide. Death isn't always
as speedy as he Is generally believed to
be.
There has been another blizzard In Ne
braska, but the editor of the Commoner
was already burled rather deep under tho
drifts.
Our carload of poems on. Beautiful Snow
is snowed In somewhere in Wyoming.
Btds for a fresh lot, f. o. b., will be
considered.
An Ohio man can smoke through his
e"ars. But think of the bills he must havo
to pay If he takes advantage of his privi
leges and smokes three, cigars at once.
Chicago contractors are going to elevate
her trains that run through the .stock-i
yards for S2.00O.00O. Western trains are
frequently held up fora 20th part of that
sum.
Rlstorl has broken the record for ac
tresses by celebrating her SOth birthday.
Actresses in this country stop havJhg
blrthdays long before they get that far
along.
There was an error In the foot
ings of the, British losses during tho
whole Boer war printed In the Sunday
Oregonlan of February 2, which makes it
desirable to publish the following recent
figures from the- London Tablet In full
correction:
N- C. O.'s
and men.
4.471
1,035
Q7
10.907
542
Officers
Killed In action 4(
Died of wounds ..'. ..101
Prisoners who have died In cap
tivity 5
Died of disease 27fi
Accidental deaths 20
Invalids sent home who ha-e
died -T
Invalids sent home who have
left the service as unfit....... ..
Missing and prisoners : 7
Total 045
4.437
435
23,334
The late Robert Bussell Green, the sen
ior verger of St. Paul's Cathedral. Lon
don, was no respecter of persons, as
Indicated by a story which connects him
with the present Kaiser. The Emperor
and the Empress, had been worshiping
one Sunday morning at St. Paul's, and
were going out before the celebration. "I
should like," said the Emperor, "to see
the tombs of Wellington and Nelson be
fore I go." "You can't, slr," replied the
verger; "service Is going on In the choir."
It should be noted that these tombs are
not in the choir, so that nobody would
have been disturbed by the Emperor's
visit; but to the verger the rules of the
cathedral were as the laws of the Medes
and Persians.
An army surgeon back from the Philip
pines says that while on furlough he
visited Shanghai and stopped at a hotel.
A Russian Prince who was touring the
world was there, and one day two of
Shanghai's leading citizens came to call
on him. They approached the English
clerk behind the desk and asked, with
all due respect. If his highness, etc., wa3
In. The clerk calmly walked to the foot
of the stairs and yelled, "Boy!" A Chin
ese servant appeared at the head of tho
stairs. Then quoth the clerk: "Say, boy;
one plecee Prince, topside you have got?"
"Have got," calmly said the Ghinaman.
"All right," remarked the clerk to tha
visitors. "He's In his room. I'll send
your cards up." And such, says the sur
geon, 13 "pidgin" English.
The Harper County, Kan., man who
sued his neighbors for 53000 damages got
no better than a hung jury. The neigh
bors had ridden him on a rail and ducked
him In a horse pond because he spoke dis
respectfully of President McKinley. At
the trial It was brought out that what Jtho
man said was this; "McKinley Is not a
d d bit better than I be and he can
afford to take the chances of being killed
half a dozen times over at the saary he
gets." This was said beforo the Presi
dent died, and not much attention was
paid to it at the time. But after tho
President died the neighbors got tq think
ing it over, and, without much thinking,
got madder and madder, and at last they
met In a body and rode the man on a rail
and ducked him In the pondv'
Four-Leaf Clover.
Ella Illgglnson.
I know a place where thesun is llko gold
And the cherry blossoms'burst with snow,
And down underneath is the loveliest nook
Where the four-leaf clovers growl
Ono leaf is for hope, and one 13 for faith.
And ono 1 for love, you know; .
And God put another In for luck
If you search jou will find where they grow.
But you must have hope, and you must have
faith:
Tou must love and be strong and so ' '
If you work. If you wait, you 111 find the place
Where tho four-leaf clovers grow.
PLEASANTRIES" OF FAItAGRAFHERS
"Is she -a'pollte girl?" "Not at all. She
finds It Impossible to break herself of tho
habit of telling the truth." Tlt-Blts.
Nell Tos, George and I are engaged, but
you mustn't say anything to him about It.
Belle "Why doesn't ho know It 7 Philadelphia
Record.
An Indication. Charley Did 'she marry htm
for love or for moneyt Edith Well er when
he fell Jit she called In the youngest doctor
In the neighborhood. Judge."
The Game of Fame. Scrlbbs Do you think
your new novel will sell? Stubbs Sell? Ye3.
slree; I've hired a Chicago man to come for
ward and claim the plot. Detroit Free Press.
She Preferred It. He It Is better for us
quietly to live apart, without tho scandal of
a divorce. She I don't agree with you. My
social position is not so strong at present that
I can afford to neglqct any means "to make It
better. Brooklyn Life.
No Patience. "What's the matter, lltslo
boy?" Inquired the kind lady, sto&plng before
a sobbing urchin on the street. "I I got a
boll on my neck," whimpered the boy- "Yes,
but Just think how many bolls Job had!"
"I know, but think uv th patience he had,
too!" replle- dtho. boy. Ohio State Journal.
All In Knowing" How. She I often wonder
how you manage to dash off those! exquisite
little poems of yours. And what a lot of
money4 you must make! The- Poet Oh, it's
very easy. I sit down, say In January, and
think until about August or September. Then
lnv November or December, when the poem Is
completed, I sell tt for S3, or sometimes (u
high as $10.-Life.
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