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PORTLAAD, TUESDAY, FEB. 25, 1JJ02
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THE DEMOCRATIC MADNESS.
The Relchsrath was in session again
yesterday at the head of Pennsylvania
avenue, and In the temporary Incapaci
tation of both the very learned and able
gentlemen from South Carolina the
task of exemplifying for Prince Henry's
benefit the courtesy of the most digni
fied deliberative body in the world was
bravely shouldered by "Wellington, who
passed the He to McComas In terms
sufficiently explicit to bring from the
presiding officer a peremptory order to
take his seat.
It is worth noticing that the source
of all the late exhibitions in the Relchs
rath is one the Philippine question.
In particular, Wellington and Tillman
are enraged because the ratification of
the treaty of Paris has put the antis
in a very deep and disagreeable hole.
It cuts from under them the ground of
appeal from enforcement of American
sovereignty. The treaty of Paris con
veyed the Philippines to the United
States, and the Supreme Court has
-ruied that they are American territory.
Turn where they will, the antis are
confronted by this iron wall of treaty
and decision. No wonder they are rest
ive. But all this could be borne if one last
hope were not to fail. Under our sys
tem of government an appeal always
lies to the people. No matter what
treaties are ratified, they can be abro
gated and others negotiated. No mat
ter what laws are passed or policies
inaugurated, Congress can reverse
them. The Democrats have elected to
stand upon the relinquishment of the
Philippines. In 1S98 and in 1900 they
went before the people on that Issue,
and were utterly routed. Yet they have
thrust it again to the front and seem
determined to make it the issue again
in 1902 and 1904.
"What makes the Democrats mad is
that the abandonment of the Philip
pines arouses only antipathy or con
tempt among the masses. It is not in
our blood to give up what we have
gained, and against this virile Instinct
of expansion the antis rage in vain.
Their most frenzied appeals fall upon
heedless ears. In vain they hold up the
menace of "empire," In vain they trem
ble for the Republic and sympathize
with the Filipinos, in vain they expa
tiate about "liberty" and "consent of
the governed." The people will not
have it. They will sustain their flag,
their army and their country's cause,
and the more fiercely all these are as
sailed the firmer is the popular deter
mination to stand by the Government.
The American people will never con
sent to the abandonment of the Philip
pines while a vestige of armed oppo
sition to our legal authority remains
in the archipelago. They "will never
consent to aspersion of the men "who
fought the war with Spain, harvested
its fruits and enforced obedience to the
sovereignty that war and its conclud
ing treaty gave ua They will never
consent to indictment of American pur
poses toward the Spanish Islands or to
the apotheosis of men in arms against
the American flag. They will never
'vote that American rule means tyranny
or oppression anywhere, or that the
men who died on Luzon's soil and lie
burled in Luzon's sands were fighting
for enslavement of a worthy and heroic
;people.
The sooner the Democrats realize this
the better it will be for them, for the
honor of the United Slates, for the wel
fare of the Filipinos. If they have any
sense or reason left, they will substi
tute it for the madness that led them
to attack the Impregnable gold stand
ard in 189G, the sentiment of patriotism
in 1900 and the common decencies of
civilized life In February, 1902. Have
the gods marked the Democratic party
to destroy it, that it is thus made mad?
The necessity of additional pilots at
the mouth of the river was never more
clearly illustrated than last Saturday
"With a fleet of thirteen ships ready for
sea and three others outside to come
in, the force of nine pilots was, of
course, unable to take advantage of
the favoring wind and make a clean-up.
Each pilot sailed out a ship, but when
all of them had been pressed into serv
ice there still remained five vessels
which were waiting an opportunity to
get to sea, and for which there were no
pilots. The amount levied on shipping
for bar pllbtage is sufficient to main
tain a force of twelve or fifteen men at
annual salaries greater than could be
secured in any similar line of work.
Nine1 pilots- are dividing the money
which should be paid to fifteen men,
and commerce is suffering by the short
handed service. Meanwhile, the Astoria
Commissioners state that they will ap
point more pilots whenever necessary
but they do not appoint them. The
difference between the tugboat service
and the pilot service at the mouth of
the river is that the two tugs are under
paid and the nine pilots are overpaid.
An equalization should be made by ap
pointing more pilots.
DEERIXG RECIPROCITY.
Among the chief beneficiaries of the
protective tariff are the makers of vari
ous classes of machinery, allied to the
lronr and steel trades. None of these
branches of Industry has been better
taken care of than the makers of ma
chinery and implements used in agri
culture, for whose benefit a uniform
duty of 25 per cent ad valorem is main
tained. Yet the fact is we make these
things more cheaply than our competi
tors do; so that while our home market
is reserved for domestic monopoly, our
manufacturers can sell their surplus
abroad in open competition with the
foreign manufacturer, sometimes, as in
Germany and Russia, paying high du
ties at the foreign port of entry.
This monopoly of the home market,
coupled with cheap iron and steel and
efficient skilled labor, has enao.cd our
implement men to extend their sales
rapidly. The figures of exports show:
1001. fiscal year $10,313,34
1800 5,170.775
1S01 3.219.130
1SS8 2.367,253
The exports in all and to Europe for
eleven months of 1901 were as follows:
Total JlC.094.oOS
To United Kingdom 1.780.S45
To France 2.010,357
To Germany 2,511.524
To other Europe 3,750,110
The total exports were at the rate of
about $17,500,000 for the calendar year.
A recent issue of a Philadelphia paper
announced that 36,000 tons of these Im
plements are In process of shipment from
that port and New York. The Othello
has called from Philadelphia with 10,
000 tons of mowers, reapers, harvesters
and smaller wares for Odessa and the
south of Russia. Up tq this time the
record cargo has been 7000 tons, shipped
to the same destination a year ago. The
Alecto sailed February 5 with nearly
6000 tons. The Castello and five other
steamers will load in great part with
agriculturel machinery in February and
March and sail from New York. The
McCormick Company is said to have
furnished nearly the whole of the car
goes of th Othello and Alecto; the
Piano Manufacturing Company, of
Piano, 111., Is shipping 3000 tons; the
Aultman-Miller Company, of Akron, O.,
2000 tons, and the Deerlng Harvester
Company, of Chicago. 1200 tons.
These facts are recalled by the dis
patch stating that Mr. Deerlng Is en
deavoring to secure at the forthcoming
Chicago conference f. strong Indorse
ment of the pending reciprocity treat
ies. Implements shipped to France
alone pay about $67,000 a year duty.
The manufacturers want this French
duty cut off or reduced, and in return
they -will cheerfully relinquish duties
not an iron or steel, plows or harvest
ers, oh, no! but on -wines and oils,
jewelry and knit goods. For conces
sions into South America they will he
roically consent to a 'total abrogation
of the duties on hides and wool, neither
of which are raised in plow factprles
or Implement works. It is not surpris
ing that over this kind df reciprocity
the general public declines to get ex
cited. SEA POWER SPELLS STATESMAN
SHIP. The recent checkmate to Russia in
China is a fresh illustration of the fact
that Great Britain's sea power is not
only her saving source of defense, but
Is her effective offensive strength. Rus
sia's advance has been arrested in the
far East by the combination of naval
strength with the military power of
Japan. Great Britain has halted Rus
sia when victory was near, just as she
halted Russia when her victorious ar
mies were about to force the gates of
Constantinople in 1878. Lord Beacons
field at this moment ordered a British
fleet to the Dardanelles. Russia saw
the game was up, because, with a Brit
ish fleet in the Black Sea, Constantino
ple was absolutely Impregnable. Gen
eral Francis V. Greene, who graduated
at the head of his class at "West Point
in 1870, in his "Russian Campaigns in
Turkey, 1877-78," speaking of the first
lines of Turkish defense between the
Black Sea and the Sea of Marmora, said
that no other capital in the world pos
sesses such a line of defense; Uiat
with 75,000 men for a garrison it may
be deemed impregnable, except to a
nation possessing a navy capable of
controlling the Black Sea and the Sea of
Marmora and a fleet of transports suffi
cient to land troops In rear of Its flanks.
That is to say, Constantinople is prac
tically Impregnable in the hands of a
first-class military and naval power.
Its possession by Russia meant the
practical control of Asia Minor and of
the entire Levant; it meant the domina
tion of the Balkan Peninsula and the
whole of Greece. Turkey had soldiers
enough and of good quality enough in
1S78, but she could not hope to hold
the land defenses of Constantinople
against Russia having a predominant
fleet In the Black Sea unless she re
ceived the support of a powerful navy.
"With a powerful navy she could hold
Constantinople indefinitely against the
whole military power of Russia. Great
Britain acted promptly by at once fill
ing the water gap in Constantinople's
otherwise impregnable defenses by or
dering a fleet to the Dardanelles. Rus
sia's navy in the Black Sea would, of
course, be powerless to resist the Brit
ish warships, so Russia had to make
peace on the best terms possible with
the Turks, at San Stefano, and was
subsequently obliged to submit to a se
vere revision of this treaty in the treaty
of Berlin.
In other words, Great Britain, by or
dering her fleet to the Black Sea, had
checkmated Russia's victorious advance
on Constantinople. Had Russia been a
first-class naval power in 1873, she
would be in full occupation of Con
stantinople today, but Great Britain's
navy made Constantinople's lines of de
fense impregnable. "Without a first
class fleet Cotistanticople is not defensl-
ble against a northern Invader com
manding the Black Sea. Turkey had
no such fleet, but Great Britain prompt
ly furnished it and the Russian bear
bad to "withdraw with a .sullen growl
of disappointment. The sea power of
Great Britain Jn this instance robbed
Russia of a splendid prize, for which
she had been battling at an enormous
cost of blood and treasure for more than
a. century, since the days of Catherine
IL The action of Lord Beaconsfleld on
this occasion was as absolutely Justlfla-
J ble as the recwit action of Lord Sells-
bury In the matter of the British alli
ance with Japan for the preservation of
the peace and territorial Integrity of
China and the prevention of the annex
ation of Corea. Turkey can be left in
possession of Constantinople, for with
out a navy and a first-class army she
Is not a menace to any power, but not
so Russia. Russia, once in possession
of Constantinople, with the Bosphorus
and the Hellespont, she would make It
Impregnable; she would at once become
a great naval power, for the Black
Sea and the Hellespont would give her
the greatest marine base in the world,
which could be neither Invested nor ap
proached. From this Southern capital the Czar
at the head of an army of 2,500,000 men
would soon create the second great navy
of the world, a navy that would make
him' probably master of the Mediter
ranean. If this had been permitted to
happen in 1878, Great Britain not only
would not be In Egypt and Cyprus to
day, but Great Britain would not have
been able to have checkmated Russia
for the second time, as she has done
by her alliance with Japan. If Russia
had been permitted to occupy Constan
tinople In 1878, she would by this time
have built a navy in the Black Sea so
strong that Great Britain would have
had her hands full to hold her own In
the Mediterranean and In Egypt. Itj
was because Great Britain had foreslghfi
enough to see that she could not afford
to allow Russia to occupy Constantino
ple' that Great Britain is able todayjto
spare the sea power that has just'ena
bled her for a second time to check
mate Russia. Verily, Captain Mahan
was not wrong when lp substance he
said the supremacy of her ea power
spelled statesmanship for-Great Brit
ain. England knows her advantage,
and is careful not to lose it. There la
an old Russian saying "The empire
only goes where the Cossack can march
dry shod" but this limitation of the
Slav would not be true today if Great
Britain, through her sea power, had not
broken Russia's grip on the gates of
Constantinople and erected barriers
against her adva'nee on Pekin and her
occupation of Corea. The Instinct of
Great Britain was sound In 1878; she
cannot afford to let Russia become a
first-class naval power.
CONDEMNED BY THE RECORD.
Though the House has declared for
abolition of the war tax on tea, there
is a disposition in the Senate to per
petuate it; and in view of the divided
sentiment of the dealers (the consumers
have no representatives In either house
of Congress), the Senate is apt to have
its way. If for no other reason that
its natural repugnance to doing any
thing businesslike is reinforced by Its
desire to refuse nothing to the sugar
trust, which wants taxed tea and free
coffee to help it in its fight with the
Arbuckles.
And yet this tax on tea Is, as it al
ways was, unjustifiable and mischiev
ous. The accumulating surplus de
prives It of the excuse of needed reve
nue. It must therefore stand or fall
by the contention of a fraction of the
trade that It tends to ameliorate the
quality of tlyxtea used in the United
States. Fortunately, the figures are
now at hand from which the truth or
falsity of this contention can be ac
curately derived. The compilation from
which our figures ere taken we find in
the Boston Herald, and they are illu
minative and conclusive. Under the
DIngley tariff tea was Imported free of
duty, and in 1896 93,998,372 pounds of
tea, valued at J12.704.440, was imported
into this country. In 1897 there was Im
ported into this country 113,374,175 pounds
of tea, valued at $14,835,862. In 1898 the
imports fell off to 71,957,715 pounds, val
ued at $10,054,283. The figures for 1899
were not far different from those of
1898, showing a slight Increase in the
quantity of tea imported, and a de
crease in its value. Last year the Im
ports of tea amounted to 84,845,107
pounds, valued at $10,558,110. Thus It
will be 6een that, while the country
has grown In these last five years therb
has been a decrease of onore than 9,000,
000 pounds In the imports of tea last
year when compared with the year end
ing June 30, 1896. It is proved, there
fore, that the war tax has lessened the
use of, tea, and by that much discour
aged the sale of American flour, cot
ton and lumber In the Orient
All this time coffee has been reaping
the desired and expected benefit. In
the calendar year 1889 there was 87,547,
394 pounds of tea Imported; in 1900 there
was 86,384,696, while in 1901, the year
ending with December 31 last, there was
only 68,220,653 pounds, a little over
half of what was Imported Into this
country in the fiscal year ending June
30. 1897. Contrast this showing of tea
with the Imports of coffee, which comes
in free of duty. In the calendar year
1899 the coffee Imports amounted to 878,
198,029 pounds; in 1900 to 783,918,634
pounds, and in the year ending Decem
ber 31 last 1,072,009,182 pounds. In the
light of these figures it is not surprising
that those Interested In the coffee trade
are also interested In opposing the re
moval of the tax on tea.
Now as to the effect of the law on the
quality of tea consumer. If the tax has
improved the quality, the average Im
port value must have increased. But
the contrary Is the case. The value of
tea Imported into this country last
year was only 12.4 cents per pound, a
decline of 1.1 cents per pound from the
figures of 1896, or more than 8 per
cent. Thepeople of the United States
in 1900 Imported cheaper tea than they
did five years ago, and doubtless paid
more for it. On January 20, 1S96, For
mosa tea was quoted from 18 to 21
cents a pound; on January 26, 1902, For-J
mosa tea was quoted at 24 to 25 centaf
per pound. Admitting the tea to be ejp
actly the same grade In the two years.
there has been an increase in the cost
to the American consumer, although f.
is not the full amount of the 10 cents
tax. But these figures prove that the
tax on tea has not benefited the Amer
ican consumer in any way, and.has In
creased the cost of this household ne
cessity. "Surely," says the Boston Her
ald, In commenting on these very same
figures we have used, "If the Govern
ment has more revenue than It aeeds,
and some of the war revenue taxes' are
to be removed, as now eaems probable,
tea is one of the articles that should be
replaced where it belongs on the free
list."
Ex-United States Senator Chandler
believes, or pretends to believe, that the
negligence or Incapacity of Minister
"Woodford caused our war with Spain.
On the eve of the declaration of the
House in favor of intervention. Minister
"Woodford telegraphed to the President
protesting against war, and declaring'
that the Madrid Government was doing
its best to keep the peace. It was not
Minister "Woodford's fault that we went
to war with Spain. "War with Spain
was morally certain from March 21,
1898, when our naval court of examina
tion and Inquiry found that the Maine
had been destroyed from the outside.
"War was certain from that moment un
less Spain promptly assumed responsi
bility for the destruction of the Maine,
expressed regret for the event, and
pledged herself to the payment of in
demnity for the loss of the vessel and
for the payment of indemnity to the
families of the crew who lost their lives.
Great Britain or Germany would, under
similar circumstances, have promptly
made this an affair of honorable
amende, but Spanish pride would not
consent to avert war by an apology and
Indemnity, and consequently Spain lost
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines.
But for the destruction of the Maine
and Spain's mean attempt to dodge all
responsibility for this disaster-, there
wouid have been no war on our part.
General "Woodford did his best for
peace; so did President McKinley; but
we had war Inevitably because we
ought to have had war with a nation
mean enough to disavow all direct or
Indirect responsibility for the treacher
ous murder of the crew of an American
n-of-war in a Spanish harbor.
M
It is the general judgment that the
beating of Henry C. Albers by the po
lice was outrageous, atrocious and
brutal. There is a great deal of feel
ing about it. Mr. Albers' mill was on
fire. He desired to enter the premises
for the purpose of saving papers or
other property; when an attempt was
made by a man In ordinary dress, who,
however, proved to be a policeman, to
hustle him away from the place. It
was a singular and unwarrantable as
sumption of authority, and the natural
protest against it led to a most brutal
beating of Mr. Albers by the police.
"When a well-known business man, who
had committed no offense, but natur
ally was trying to save his property.
Is beaten Into insensibility by official
ruffianism, there Is no wonder the pub
lic indignation Is great. There Is in
formation that the outrage will be made
the subject of judicial Inquiry. It may
also lead to action that will introduce
changes In the composition and direc
tion of the police force. "Whose "ma
chine" It is everybody knows; and
everybody knows, moreover, that its
main function is a political or factional
one. Much the greater portion of its
effort is regularly -employed In schemes
for ruling politics and continuing its
members In official place. In conjunc
tion with other parts of the machine, it
is at work night and day in this busi
ness of organizing gangs and coddling
the icIou3 and criminal classes for
their votes. Devoted to such purposes,
the police will naturally forget the
treatment due to Responsible citizen
ship. By this unspeakable outrage it
especially dedicates itself to public de
testation, and citizens will find a way
soon to emphasize their displeasure.
The liquor question Is likely to as
sume supreme Importance in the coming
campaign in Kansas. The Republican
element, that stands in with the present
liquor laws of the state laws that are
shamelessly violated In every city will
make a strong fight In the convention
for the ultra temperance candidate for
Governor. Next to this, the effort will
be to secure Judges of the Supreme
Court, of whom there are five to be
chosen, who stand pledged to the en
forcement of the liquor laws. The spec
tacle that Mrs. Carrie Nation's meth
ods have made of the state in fighting
the liquor traffic has opened the eyes
of thousands to the fact that prohibi
tion under present management Is not
only a farce, but a scandal. Its advo
cates realize that, In order to make even
a reputable showing of Kansas as a
temperance state under prohibition
laws, they must have a Supreme Court
that will uphold the laws and a Gov
ernor who will enforce them. They re
fuse to see that even then men who
want to drink will find a way to fulfill
their desire, and that, since the. liquor
traffic cannot be stamped out in the
face of a demand for liquor, it must,
in the best Interests of society, be con
trollednot by a hatchet in the hands
of an irrational shrew, but by the more
effective methods of high license.
Senator Tillman Is announced as the
orator of the 124th anniversary of the
birth of Robert Emmet, Ireland's patriot-martyr,
which will be celebrated
at the Academy of Music, New York
City, on Sunday evening, March 2, un
der the direction of the Clan-na-Gael.
Senator Tillman is pugnacious enough
certainly to do full justice to his sub
ject and his audience.
As Tillman could not be permitted
to dine with gentlemen, the invitation
to him to attend the dinner given to
Prince Henry of Germany has been
withdrawn. It now remains for the
Senate to Instruct Its doorkeepers to
refuse him admission to its chamber.
The Senate can partially redeem itself
by taking a stand now against ruffians,
liars and blackguards.
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, must
by this time be getting enough, quite
enough, of the company of his "anti"
friends and copartners, Tillman of
South Carolina and "Wellington of Mary
land. Poetic Justice might have been Im
parted to the Presidential dinner invi
tation episode if Senator Tillman's place
had been filled by Booker "Washington,
who, if of "color," is a gentleman.
f If y
SJ
ou want to condemn such out
rages as that committed on Henry C,
Albers, you would better register, so
as to be prepared to vote in the pri
mary as well as in the election.
t is to be hoped there Is no truth in
the report that Mexico Is contemplating
the gold standard. It could only pro
mote insupportable outbreaks in the
Commoner.
The Beauties of Protection.
Toledo Bee.
If protection Is such a wonderfully good
thing, why don't the Republican leaders In
Congress jump at the chance to discuss It
and spread their argument before the peo
ple? Carnegie accumulated several hun
dred millions while the people were being
taxed to protect him. The steel trust Is
selling steel rails in Europe for $17 and
charging Americans $2S for the same rails.
They, can do that because their Infant in
dustry Is protected.
Bryan's Standpoint.
New York "World, Dem.
As a candidate for the second time. In
1900, Mr. Bryan demonstrated that he
would rather be wrong than be President.
His present attitude toward the party
that has twice followed him to utter and
ignominious defeat is that it is better to
be consistent than to be rational.
CLASSIFICATION OF LAWYERS.
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Kansas City Star.
Judge Stephen A. Lowell, in a recent ad
adress at the University of Oregon, made
the following classification of the mem
bers of the legal profession:
There arc today, roughly speaking-, four
classes of lawyers first, the corporation attor
ney, who draws an assured talary or retainer
of ample magnitude; second the lawyer of the
old school, who maintains the ideals of his
profession, and who is being slowly crushed be
tween centralization of commercial Interests
on the one hand and the sharp practice of his
competitors on the other; third, those men nom
inally lawyers who supplement their meager
professional Incomes by collections, loan and
Insurance business; fourth, the "rustler," who
seeks business by the same methods as the
traveling salesman secures his orders, and who
either never knew, or has forgotten, that the
duty of an upright counselor is to prevent, not
to fostr, litigation.
It is obviously the opinion of Judge
Lowell that the lawyer who holds fast to
the Ideals of Integrity and honor is getting
the worst of It, and Is going to the wall.
If this were really true, or, in any sense,
a necessary reoult of present conditions,
nothing could be more deplorable. But It
would seem that, with all of the exposure
of the legal profession to commercial in
fluences, which Is justly complained of,
it cannot, In the end, become thoroughly
venal, for that would mean danger and
destruction to the whole machinery of Jus.
tlce, which Is, of course, an Impossible
contingency, assuming that the great body
Fof society Is honesY
Jl the courts are to be maintained as the
Safeguards of equity, and if the original
purpose of the lawyer to stand as a min
Isttr of Justice Is not to be wholly aban
doned, the bar must purge Itself of the
vicious Influences which have made it the
object of reproach, and It is believed that
the power of public sentiment, which Is
becoming aroused on this question, will
be sufficient to save the legal profession
from utter demoralization.
"When the return to more upright meth
ods of practice comes and come it must
then the lawyers, who are classed by
Judge Lowell as of the old school, and who
are now standing as watchmen and sen
tinels on the walls, will be honored as
they deserve.
That the "rustler" spoken of by Judge
Lowell known In Kansas City as the
"snitch" Is all too common and numerous
must be admitted. He is an offensively
familiar figure in this community, and the
freedom he has enjoyed in the practice of
his indecent methods has made him defiant
of public opinion. He has enjoyed the
protection of the Bar Association, but
that does not place him beyond the reach
of a public reckoning. He Is execrated
by the people and, after all, the Bar As
sociation cannot afford to show Indiffer
ence to popular opinion.
The practice of creating litigation and
causing mischief and trouble with the in
tent of reaping personal profit Is some
thing quite too athorrent for lawyers to
stand for who wish to enjoy the respect
of decent people. The desire not to for
feit so valuable an asset as this will com
pel the Bar Association to take up arms
against the "snitch" and cast him out.
"With the Bar Association It is narrowing
down to a matter df self-preservation, and
that Is an argument that always counts.
Cuxnmlns and Dolllver Abroad.
Chicago Chronicle.
However seriously the remarks of Gov
ernor Cummins and Senator Dolllver, of
Iowa, on the tariff and trust questions
may be taken at their homes, there are
the usual indications that in other Re
publican strongholds, particularly at the
East, they are interpreted in a Pick
wickian sense only.
Messrs. Cummins and Dolllver are say
ing and doing nothing that their pred
ecessors in the leadership of the Republi
cans of Iowa have not said and done for
more than 30 years. Until Mr. Blaine
forced a National Republican convention
to declare that, rather than reduce the
monopoly tariff duties by so much as I
per cent, the party would remove every
cent of taxation, upon whisky and beer,
the Republicans of Iowa deluded them
selves with the Idea that they were In
fivor of tariff reform, but since that
time they have indorsed protection in
their platforms and on the side they
have talked as Cummins and Dolllver
now talk.
Intelligently Interpreted, the position of
Iowa Republicans on the subject of the
tariff Is about as follows: If the time
ever comes when the trusts and com
bines find themselves In a mood so self
sacrificing as to admit of the voluntary
surrender by them of the privileges so
long cpnferred upon them by the tariff,
no one" will bo braver than the brethren
of Iowa In voting to let them have their
own way. So long as one of the least
of the favored ones shall Insist that he
has not had enough Iowa may talk occa
sionally for home consumption, but It
will not act.
The Iowa Republican position as to the
tariff is that It is dishonest, 'oppressive
and productive t)l extortion and monop
oly, but that any man who suggests the
Idea that It be done away with, or even
modified. Is a horsethlef and a scoundrel
who would reduce the American pedple
to beggary and soup kitchens.
It Is to be hoped that Messrs. Cummins
and Dolllver are as well understood at
home as they are abroad.
Mistake of the Antis.
Professor "Woodrow "Wilson.
Misled by our own splendid Initial ad
vantage In tho matter of self-government,
we have suffered ourselves to misunder
stand self-government Itself, when the
question was whether It could be put Into
practice and conditions totally unlike
those with which, and with which alone,
we have been familiar. The people of
the United States have never known any
thing but self-government since the col
onies were founded. They have forgot
ten the discipline which preceded the
founding of the colonies, the long drill In
order and In obedience to law, the long
subjection to Kings and to Parliaments
which were not In fact of the people's
choosing. They have forgotten how many
generations were once In tutelage In order
that the generations which discovered and
settled the coasts of America might be
mature and free. No thoughtful student
of history or observer of affairs needs to
be told the necessary conditions precedent
to self-government the slow growth of
the sense of community and of fellowship
In every general Interest, the habit of or
ganization, the habit of discipline and
obedience to those intrusted with author
ity, the self-restraint of give and take, the
allegiance of Ideals, the consciousness of
mutual obligation, the patience and Intei-
Igence which are content wun a slow ana
ilversal growth.
Two "Ways of Doing; It.
Pittsburg Post.
They do some things much better In
South Dakota than in Kentucky. Up on
the boundary line dividing the former state
from North Dakota there was a "blind
p!g," and it was the cause of much dis
order in the neighborhood. A party of 20
farmers proceeded to that dispensary a
night or two ago, seized 'the proprietor
and tied him hand and foot, poured his
stock of liquor on the thirsty snow ana
demolished his shanty. Nobody was hurt.
In Kentucky, when a similar feat was at
tempted, seven or elsht good citizens were
killed, and some bad ones.
A Bond of Sympathy.
Terrc Haute Gazette.
Germany and the United States are
"down" with the same complaint. Both
have trust-breeding tariffs, and both have
producers who will sell dear at home and
cheap abroad. The British consumer
buys German Iron or German sugar on
much better terms than the German con
sumer does. The German consumer very
naturally is becoming indignant. He does
not see why he should be robbed In order
to benefit either the producers at home or
the consumers of the DIngley sort. He
wants indirect robbery taxation stopped.
This Is a point to which the American
people are coming.
THE MOTHER OF THE PRISONER
San Francisco Bulletin.
Among the prisoners in the dock in
Judge Dunne's courtroom the other day
was a boy 14 years of age. He was waiting
trial for pocket-picking. The lad, though
poorly clad, was handsome and rather pre
possessing. He stood In a corner of the
dock and talked through the grating to a
woman about 35 years old, who was gaily
made up and attired, and who dried her
eyes with a lace handkerchief a3 she chat
ted with the prisoner. Now and then she
put her hand through the bars and gently
brushed a curl back from his forehead.
This tableau was noticed by the Judge,
and after adjournment the boy's case
having been continued he had the young
prisoner brought to him In chambers.
"Who was the woman you were talking
to?" Inquired the Judge.
"My mother."
"Have you been living at home with
her?"
"No. She and my father are divorced.
I don't know where he is. I think my
mother is married again, but I am not
certain."
"Not certain?"
"No; she placed me In an asylum when
I was 7. I ran away when I was 10, and
I've been on the bum ever since."
"On the bum what does that mean?"
"Oh, living around wherever I could
find a place to sleep."
"Ever work?"
"Helped a peddler a few times. Sold
papers. Begged. Never had a steady job.
The cop says I rolled a drunk, but I never
did."
"Hasn't your mother tried to help you?"
"Not to my knowledge. This Is the first
time I've seen her in a couple of yeare.
Some woman who visits the County Jail
dug her up and told her I was In trouble."
"She seemed very affectionate?"
"Oh, she always Is. She Is very fond of
me."
"Indeed?'
The conversation was longer, but there
Is enough here for a text.
Comfortable people who live well in
epite of their cojnplalnts against fortune,
who have been raised In clean and kindly
homes, who have had good schooling and
who belong to the respectable classes have
no Idea of the number of worthless pa
rents there are who abandon their young
children and let them run wild, consorting
with vicious company, living by petty
theft, knowing the gutter for their step
father and the policeman for their natural
enemy; parents who never take the slight
est trouble to redeem their wayward lads,
but who, when they see the lads In jail
or in the dock, weep copiously and brush
the curls back from their poor little fore
heads. At every asylum and home of ref
uge one may hear tales of the Joy with
which parents and near relatives get rid
of children by throwing them on the
charity of an institution.
These neglected gamins who grow up on
the streets and who never knew a moral
code are the recruits who renew the army
of professional criminals. They have no
sense of property rights and theft Is as
natural to them as speech. To be chased
by the police is one of their games and
gives them a thrilling delight until, one
day, they are caught and sent, perhaps, to
the penitentiary. The prison Is the uni
versity of crime, and after a few years
among the ablest professors of lawbreak
ing they emerge, trained for 'a career of
crime. Burglary, robbery. larceny, be
come their trades, and they seldom think
of trying their hands at honest and equal
ly or more lucrative work.
The mother and not the boy should have
been on trial In Judge Dunne's court. Un
fortunately, It Is impossible to devise a
law that would fix on a negligent parent
responsibility for crimes committed by tne
child whom the parent abandoned or ne
glected. But the law ought to take cog
nizance of the. environment in which child
criminals are bred. It is pretty hard on a
boy who has never had a chance to learn
his duty to society to be sent to prison
for five or 10 years because he did what
he had been taught to do.
"" A Southern Vlevr.
Baltimore Sun.
The North is now getting a gratifying
proportion of the Increased negro popula
tion of the country, as might be Inferred
from the more numerous race riots and
lynchlngs In that section. In the decade
between 190 and 1900, according to the
census, the negroes Increased In the 14
Southern states and the District of Colum
bia from 6.710.5S2 to 7,535,073, or at a rate
of 16.75 per cent, an din the rest of the
Union from 778,004 to 997.406. or at a rate
of 23.19 per cent. The increase in New
York was 9733 more than In Maryland and
3S56 more than In Virginia. In Pennsyl
vania the Increase which was 49.49 was
29,842 more than in Maryland and 3S.440
more than the negro increase in "West Vir
ginia. Similarly the Increase of negroes
In Illinois was twice that of Missouri and
11,415 more than in Kentucky. Indiana
gained 1240 more than did Missouri. Penn
sylvania's negro population of 156,845 lacks
less than 5000 In fact of being equal to that
of Missouri, and Massachusetts has more
negroes In Its population than Delaware.
This means that the colored people of the
border states are fast migrating to the
cities of the North. As they are excluded
from the trades unions and are restricted
to uncertain employments, their lot is not
much improved by the transfer of alle
giance. In the Gulf States, whence there
is less migration to the North, a larger
apparent rate of increase is shown than
in Maryland. Virginia and Kentucky, and
their numbers tend to increase further in
such of the more Southern states that are
multiplying their mining and other In
dustries that require unskilled labor. Now
that the "reliable" Republican vote in so
many Northern states Is being largely in
creased by the influx of negroes, the Re
publicans In Congress ought to be more
magnanimous than to agitate In favor of
cutting down the representation of ne
groes In the South.
The Lost Ball.
Laura Slmmone, In March Smart Set.
Standing one day on tho golf links,
I was weary and HI at ease;
And I baffed and foozled Idly
Over the whins and tees.
I know not what I was dreaming.
Or where I was rubbering then;
But I swiped that ball, of a sudden.
With the force of two score men.
It sped throush the crimson twilight "
Like a shot from a 10-inch gun:
And It passed from my fevered vision.
To the realm of the vanished sun;
It chassed over the bunker.
It caromed hazard and hill;
It went like a thing Infernal
I suppose It Is going still.
It shied" each perplexing stymie
With Infinite nerve and ease;
And bored right on .through the landscape
As if it were loath to cease.
I have sought but I seek It vainly
That ball of the strenuous pace,
That went from the sole of my niblick.
And entered into space.
It may be some blooming caddy
Can sooner or Jate explain;
It may be that only In heaven
I shall find that ball again.
"Ironqulll" In Topeka State Journal.
O who will the next Crank be?
Will Its pet name be Carrie or Tom?
O what will the next Crank be?
And where will the Crank come from?
The hours are becoming tame.
The candles are burning low.
The music Is growing lame,
Tho minutes are going slow.
O who will the next Crank be?
And what will the next Crank say?
How long must we wait to see?
O where does the next Crank stray?
Are we lost, are we left, can't we last?
Are we going to lose our show?
Is our circus a thing of the past?
O nlxle. a thousand times NO.
No matter how brief It may stay.
It may preach. It may howl. It may fight.
A pillar cf nonsense by day,
A pillar of folly by night
Come on. you mysterious Crank;
Unknown though at present you be;
No matter your name or your rank.
Hush to, "we are waiting for thee."
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Victor, Colorado, Is again coming to the
front as the American Barcelona.
Congress will henceforth be divided into
the rough house and the lower house.
Miss Stone's coming out party was a
little late, but It was nevertheless a happy
occasion.
They tried to bury a frozen man In
New Jersey and he got hot about It and
thawed himself alive again.
Baltimore Is threatened with an oyster
famine. The young bloods of the city
arc probably not caring much.
Perhaps Minister "Wu will give Prince
Henry an imitation of the way Prince
Chung was received In Germany.
It was unkind of Roosevelt not to en
tertain Prince Henry with a good lively
go between McLaurln and Tillman.
Of course the Prince will chute the
chutes and loop the loops and indulge
In other modern American diversions.
A mountain of arsenic has been discov
ered near Tacoma. This ought to put
a new complexion on affairs over there.
The next time Miss Stone goes mlsslon
arying she ought to tie a rope around
her waist.
Santos-Dumont, is willing to stake his
reputation that his airship is all right,
but the airship alone will take him up.
Congress cannot make any sarcastic
remarks about Parliament, the Bundes
rath, the Chamber of Deputies and the
Reichstag.
The society reporters who "do" the
"White House banquet will, of course,
begin the list of among those absent with
Congressman Wheeler.
Emperor "William is going to have his
American-buiit yacht fitted up In Eng
land. He evidently isn't afraid of being
boycotted for not patronizing home indus
try. Among recent deaths is that of tho
famous American painter. Albert Eler
stadt, whose best work was devoted to
the scenery of the Rocky Mountains and
of the Yosemlte.
The conference of freight officials of
the trans-continental railways of the
country In Portland has recalled the re
cent attempt made by the directing heads
of the big corporations forever to eradi
cate the pass evil. One of the greatest
outlets of free rides Is through the freight
department, where courtesies extended to
largo shippers have. In former years,
acted practically as a premium for busi
ness. Figures have been complied to
show that one person out of every eight
who travel on tho railroads docs so on
a pass. This means a loss to the rail
roads annually of an amount in excess
of $40,000,000. Moreover, the discrimin
ation neceisary to prevent too flagrant
an abuse of the pass system, and to in
sure someone riding on the lines who will
pay good coin for the transportation, has
a tendency to make enemies out of tho
disappointed ones. The deadheads trav
el over two billion miles in the course
of a year. It is not shippers alone, how
ever, who contribute to this aggregate.
Legislators, politicians and other classes
In a position to demand favors at the
hands of the men who write the passes
help to swell the grand total. The effort
made to .abolish passes has. not been suc
cessful, but tho magnates are still Work
ing on tho problem, and It Is chillier In
the presence of a railroad official. If you
are after the magic signature and little
slip of paper, than Is the courting of c.
Boston girl.
There is more than a mere. Jumbling
of words In the phrase "nose for news,"
which Is a qualification to successful re
portorlal work on a big newspaper, or
any other, for that matter. The report
er must know the Item when he sees it
and, moreover, frequently must bo
able to estimate what part of
It Is the most Important, when
time will not permit as full a devel
opment of the story as might be desir
able. Apropos of the "nose for news,"
there was a reporter on a local paper
once, who was -Bent around the hotels,
and returned with the following personal:
"Abner McKinley, of New York, Is at
the Portland."
"Here," said the city editor sharply,
"what do you mean by turning In this?
Don't you know the man Is a brother of
tho President?"
"Yes," answered the news gatherer.
"Why didn't you Interview him? Find
out what he Is doing here, where he came
from, where he is going and anything
else you can? Why didn't you get tho
story?"
"I did," replied the reported assertively.
"Where is It?"
"There," declared the reporter, and he
pointed to the personal, which would
make but a scant line In print.
He lacked the nose for news.
The foregollng recalls the story of a
young cub, who was sent out to report
the deliberations of a society founded for
the promotion of universal peace. He
returned to the office about 11 o'clock
that night, and the city editor stopped
him.
""What sort of a story did you get?"
"No good." replied the cub reporter.
"They didn't discuss the question at all.
The meeting ended In a fight."
"Peace society meeting ended In a fight
and no story. Good-bye," said the
editor sadly, and the farewell was sincere
and lasting.
.
PLEASANTRIES OF FARAGRAPHERS
Husband How do you like your new girl?
Wife Well, she works me a little harder than
the last one, but she Is more respectful. Tlt
Btts. Two Failures. "And so their marriage was
a failure." "Yes. Her father became a
bankrupt a week after the wedding. Brook
lyn Life.
The Wear and Tear of It. 'You must find
It wearing to be the wife of a genius. "Yes,
so many fools tant to know how I am able
to get along with him." Chicago Record-Herald.
"Say, my uncle dat's visiting us has got a
wooden leg." "Ugh! dat's nuthln. When I
was down ter New York I saw a man dat
was all wood In front of a cigar-store." Les
lie's Weekly.
How a Woman Tells. "The other glrl3 all
think my hat Is beautiful." "Did they tell
you so?" "No. Indeed; but they cast the
most disdainful looks at It you ever saw."
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Nearby Treasures. Lucie I always give the
prettiest embroidered things I do to my moth
er. Marie That Is kind and thoughtful In
you. Lucle Yes; then I can borrow them,
you know. Detroit Free Press.
A Remarkable Analogy. "You've got to be
come well acquainted with a classical com
position," said the musical enthusiast, "be
fore you can really like It." "Yes." answered
Mr. Cumrox. In an amiable effort to keep up
the conversation; "It's a good deal the samo
way with a dog." Washington Star.
Mortification. "Surely, Edith." exclaimed,
the minister to his daughter, "you are not
going to attend a theatrical performance this
evening." 'Yes. father." "Shame! Do you
forget that this Is the penitential season?"
"Oh, no; that's Just it. You see. this It aa
amateur performance." Philadelphia. Presv