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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1002
TWO IN CONTRAST.
George Chamberlain is a good fellow.
"He has a kind and genial heart and
planners of affability and distinction.
IKo man can do another a good
turn with better grace. Tet few
men in the State of Oregon are less
fitted by nature and habit to be its
Governor. His election to that office
would be a perilous undertaking to
which the people of the state will never
consent.
Qualities are strangely and effectively
contrasted in the opposing candidates
for Governor. That firm adherence to
principles and that rugged force of
Character which Vino rrmrlo Air. 1?iilnkl
a success in the world of business and
affairs, are absent from his opponent.
tMr. Chamberlain has no convictions
that interfere with his entire agreeabll
ity to the insistent demands of others.
He has nothing of the indomitable pur
Ipose that stands, like a rock against
unworthy applicants for place, against
demands for approval of unsafe legis
lation, against Improper appeals for
pardons. The man at the head of the
state government at Salem needs above
everything else that decision of charac
tor which enables him to say. No. That
quality Mr. Chamberlain has not
The Governorship of Oregon is a busi
ness office. It needs not so much grace
ful manners and mellifluous speech as
it needs a clear head, business training
and experience and a resolute will. The
jCombination is exemplified in an un
jusual degree in Mr. Furnish. He has
the Qualities of a gentleman, a loyal
heart and an aptitude for "making and
keeping friends. In addition to this he
has those supreme qualifications for di
recting the large affairs of the state
so necessary and so lacking In Mr.
Chamberlain. The average voter and
(taxpayer is not easily gulled in these
matters. He sees quickly enough where
the state's true Interest lies, and then
he acts accordingly.
The Democrats complain about al
leged shortcomings at Salem the past
four years. But they offer a man for
'Governor who would be less able than
(Governor Geer has been to resist, ap
peals of a sort that should be resisted.
The Democratic position regarding state
finances requires the defeat of Cham
berlain and the election of Furnish.
HOPE FOR THE3 COLUMBIA.
Senator Turner's position on theSei
ate commerce committee has enabled
him to secure amendment of the river
and harbor bill carrying 614,000 for im
provement of the Upper Columbia be
tween The Dalles and Celilo. This is
'good news for everybody in the Pacific
Northwest "We hope Senator Turner
will stand firm for this amendment
when the bill gets Into conference, and
be able to overcome the opposition
(which menaces the project in the House.
The project is one of great importance.
The removal of tlje obstructions be
tween The Dalles and Celilo will open
up to an enormous interior territory an
unbroken river navigation of 550 miles
that Is, 403 miles of the Columbia from
its mouth in the Pacific Ocean to Priest
3aplds, Douglas County, "Washington,
and 145 miles of the Snake River from
its mouth In the Columbia at Ains
"worth, "Wash., up to a point a short dls
'tance above Lewiston.
The obstructions which now exist in
the twelve miles of the Columbia be
tween iThe Dalles and Celilo are known
as Three-Mile Rapids about three miles
above The Dalles, Five-Mile Rapids
'about five miles above The Dalles, Ten
Mile Rapids about ten miles above The
Dalles, and Celilo Falls, which are at
Celilo. Three-Mile Rapids are the least
serious of all, the blasting away of some
rooks being all that Captain Harts con
siders necessary to remove the danger
ous features of this place. The esti
mated cost of improving Three-Mile
Rapids is $152,448. Five-Mile Rapids are
nearly two miles long, and are not nav
xigable. Fortunately, two natural ca
nals, with rock sides and bottom, par
allel Five-Mile Rapids, and Captain
Harts plan provides for taking advan
.tage of the existence of one of these
canals to pass steamboats around Flve
Mile Rapids.
The plan Is to use the natural canal
lying immediately south of the river,
widening and deepening the canal
where necessary, and constructing the
necessary locks and lock gates. The
estimated cost of thus passing boats
around Five-Mile Rapids Is $2,147,333,
which also includes the cost of con
structing a dam at the head of Five
Mile Rapids, which dam is designed to
back the water up add practically
"drown out" some of the most trouble
some of Ten-Mile Rapids. Captain
Harts plan also makes provision for
removing some obstructing rocks at and
below Ten-Mile Rapids at an estimated
cost of $407,556.
At Celilo, it Is proposed to construct
a canal and locks on the Washington
phore, to pass boats around Celilo Falls,
at an estimated cost of $1,212,034. Ac
cording. to Captain Harts plans and
estimates, the entire cost of improving
the twelve miles of river between The
Dalles and Celilo Is $3,969,371.
The removal of twelve miles of ob
structions will thus open up 550 miles
of superb river navigation. The 'Im
provement planned by Captain Harts
will put the City of Spokane within 150
miles of waterway connection with New
York City and the ports of the Old
SVorld.
BADLY DAMAGED PROPHECY.
The Indignation felt by the hide
bound protectionists that multitudinous
legend ascribes to the Republican party
at the tariff reform sentiments ex
pressed from time to time by Repre
sentative Babcock, of Wisconsin, is suf
ficiently well known of all men. Mr.
Babcock had the temerity to suggest
and even to Insist that where protected
Industries have risen to the point of
domestic monopoly and thriving exports
the tariff Is unnecessary and should
be withdrawn. He has gone so far as
to counsel and even to propose a bill
putting the products of the steel trust
and allied concerns on the free list. Hia
bill has not been passed yet, more's the
pity, but he has not abandoned it, and
as often as anybody accuses him of
surrender he reiterates his fell purpose.
What was to be done with Babcock
has also been sedulously exploited by
the Democratic papera The Republi
cans were up In arms. They would see
to Babcock. Any man who would ad
vocate tariff reform should be disci
plined. The implacable high protec
tionists would soon fix him and the
flrst.step would be his deposition from
the post of chairman of the Republican
Congressional Committee. No man was
fit to direct this year's Congressional
campaigns who was not still true to the
doctrine of protection to the limit and
all the time for everything that has
votes, from shipyards to hencoops. This
was a very plausible story, and was all
right up to a certain point. But that
point has been reached, viz.:
Washington. April 0. The Republican Con
gressional committee, at a meeting tonight, at
which Representative Mercer, of Nebraska, pre
sided, unanimously re-elected Representative
Babcock, of Wisconsin, chairman.
Mr. Babcock belongs on the side of
the House where all the genuine tariff
reformers sit. He and Republicans like
him are trying conscientiously Jo rem
edy the inequalities which time has dis
covered in the Dingley rates. But they
receive no aid from the Democrats, who
spend their days dreaming dreams of
"militarism" and "imperialism." While
Roosevelt is moving against the trusts
and Babcock is trying to correct the
tariff, Democrats In the North are quak
ing at me standing army and Mr.
Christmas, while the South is con
sumed with fear lest men of color in
the Philippines shall be disfranchised
or maybe burned at the, stake. Through
Mr. Babcock's efforts a few genuine
tariff reformers will oe elected to the
Fifty-eighth Congress. But the Demo
crats will do all they can to prevent
him.
OUR MODEL IN MALAYA,
Englishmen, who are familiar with
the methods by which the native popu
lation of India and the Malay States
have been reduced to a tkt nr r.onn
and order, are doubtful of our making
any gratifying progress-If we forget
that an Asiatic is not amenable to Eng
lish or American methods of govern
ment Great Britain has found out by
costly experience that India cannot be
ruled by English domestic methods, and
governs It today by a kind of benevolent
paternalism which is not without a
smack of despotism. An Englishman,
Sydney Brooks, In the current number
of the North American Review, warns
us against repeating the mistakes we
made in the reconstruction period of the
Southern States, and in our dealings
with the Indians. Thirty years ago
Great Britain began her attempt to ad
minister" the internal affairs of the Ma
lay Peninsula. Up to this time British
rule had been confined to the Island of
Penang, the Territory of Malacca and
the Island of Singapore, which holdings
were officlallyknown as the Straits Set
tlements. In 1895 all territories ac
knowledging British protection were'
amalgamated for administrative pur
poses under the title of the Federated,
Malay States, which are not British but
only "under British protection," even
as Egypt is not an organic part of the
empire, but "under British protection."
When the British entered upon their
work of reconstruction, these Moham
medan States were administered on a
system of Oriental feudalism by a
hereditary Sultan. This despot sold
justice to the highest bidder, and the
punishments included frightful tortures
Necessaries of life, like salt, oil and
tobacco, were royal monopolies, and the
peasant was a feudal retainer, taxed'
Into the earth. The regular taxes were
a poll tax of $2 for every adult male,
and Import and export duties of 10 per
cent was laid on everything that came
into or went out of the state. Between
the pillaging of the great chiefs and the
exactions of the Sultan, the people were
victims of ceaseless extortion. Slavery
existed in all the native statea The
first step of the British was to prove by
prompt military punishment that they
hnd nnwer oYilrit tham nj .-
ond was that British officers could ben
trusted to keep their word. Under
British protection the revenue of the
states has multiplied forty times over,
and the value of the import and export
trade within the last twenty years has
risen 900 per cent The British succeed
ed because their agents were of the
highest character men of learning; and
ability, who understood the native
character of the Malay, and because
they belonged to a stable, competitive,
high-salaried, .absolutely non-political
colonial service.' They began by rigor
ously punishing serious crimes, whether
committed by a peasant, a village crilef
or a baron, or at the instigation -of the
Sultan. This soon carried the common
people over to the side of the British
resident, whose power secured them
against being plundered.
All this was done, however, with the
least possible Interference with local
customs. The Sultan and his officers
were considerately treated and respect
for their dignity was enforced. The.
Sultan presides over the State Council,
which Includes the Important native
chiefs and some Chines. All the lower
grades of service are filled by Malays,
and thre are not a few. native Judges
on the bench. The Mohammedan relig
ion Is left untouched. Public gambllng
houseB are even today under govern
ment protection. The British think we
Americans will fall If we attempt to
Occldentallze the- Orient by bestowing
juries and a free press and elected Leg
islatures on the Filipinos, because they
have failed wherever they have tried It
in India. The wealth of Malaya lies in
Its tin, but the Malays are too Inert
to work, so the tin deposits are worked
by Chinese and Indian coolies. Under
our Chinese exclusion policy we could
not employ this kind of labor, but, as
suming that the Filipinos are Inert, a
supply of negro labor could be brought
to the Philippines.
CREEDS MOVE SLOIVLY.
It Is possible that the revisions of the
Presbyterian creed now in progress will
excite interest and even controversy in
ttte General Assembly that 'mets in
May, but one would fain believe that
large numbers of the commissioners,
both lay and clerical, might by this
time have ceased to regard the creed
as a matter of religious life and death,
and have learned to possess their souls
in greater patience on the subject than
both radicals and conservatives showed
in the contest that raged over Briggs
and revision lit the assembly that met
at Portland in 1892. A good deal hap
pens in ten years in these hurrying
days. Within that time many of the
old school have been superseded by
young men with modem ideas of Gen
esis and Paul's encyclical.
In these ten years the needs ot man
have been pressing upon the attention
of the alert and humane mind, and the
pre-eminence of dogma has correspond
ingly declined. Examples of nulnlt In
dependence set by Beecher and Phillips
Brooks, Lyman Abbott and Newton
Dwight Hlllls, F. W. Gunsaulus and Dr.
H. W.. Thomas, Heber Newtcn, Henry
Drummond and John Watson, have left
deep Impress upon many minds. How
men live Is more Important than what
creed they prtofese. The Infants who
died In Infancy are ot less concern than
those that the tenements of our great
cities are breeding up to wretchedness
and crime.
Therefore, while the revision commit
tee has satisfied itself that the Pope
is not anti-Christ, and that it may not
be a sin to refuse an oath administered
by rightful authority, and that infant
damnation should not be taught, and
that predestination Is to be Interpreted
In accord with free, will, but will re
affirm other things In the Westminster
Confession quite as much out of keep
ing with modern thought as the die
credited traditions, let us hope that the
more progressive party In the church
will not greatly protest in favor of fur
ther revision. These controversies have
been magnified and embittered beyond
all necessary and decorous bounds. The
escape of man from -ecclesiastical im
perialism is so complete today that no
body of believers can be bound to re
pose implicit faith in a cast Iron creed
offered them from any source. It is
better to let the creed be reformed
slowly as the conservatives consent. No
creed can express the advanced thought
of Its time. No squadron can move as
fast as its speediest ship.
SPEAKS TO THE SEW GENERATION
The ringing, hopeful speech delivrvi
by President Roosevelt at Charleston
on Wednesday was the voice of the new
generation. President Roosevelt is in
his 44th year; he was barely three years
of age when the first shot of the Civil
War was fired; he was not seven years
old when Lee surrendered. The thirty
seven years that have elapsed since the
Civil War have, as the President truth
fully said, made a substantial end of
sectionalism. There Is nobody left to
day in the United States on either side
whose death would cause either section
to waste any time in large funeral hon
ors or heartfelt mourning of any sort
The statesmen and the great captains
who came out of the great war for the
Union holding the hearts of the people
are all now dead, and with their death
both the realistic din and the romantic
memory of the great conflict is extinct
Henceforth both sections are 'sure to
satisfy their passion for trade and pres
ent pontics undisturbed by the'vener-
able shapes or the warning voices of the I
great soldiers and statesmen of Issi.kf;
We stand on the threshold of a new
departure, and we feel It just as all m'en
felt it when Washington was borne to
the tomb, whose living voice and influ
ence, because of his great patriotic ser
vices, served something to break the
point of bitter partisanship.
The patriotic military fetich was po
tential in both sections for about twenty
years. Its failing powers of invocation
were manifest when the country elected
Cleveland President, who not only was
a Democrat, but a Democrat who had
never concealed his lack of sympathy
with Lincoln's war policy. Since 18S4
the battle cries of the Civil War have
not been of any serious political conse
quence. Harrison defeated Cleveland
because of the tariff Issue, and Cleve
land defeated Harrison because the la
bor vote was cast for the Democratic
candidate. McKlnley defeated Bryan
because of the adoption of free sliver
at 16 to 1 by the National Democracy
as part of their creed. During all these
years the work of erecting soldiers'
monuments, of 'founding National ceme
teries, has been steadily proceeding all
over the country, but as a political in
spiration the sentiment of the war be
tween the section's is exhausted. The
monuments of- consequence are 'all
erected; the cemeteries completed. The
great military and civic figures of the
Civil War are all gone to the dark
house and the long sleep. The war
drums and fifes are no longer part of
our political field music. Military and
patriotic records ace no longer Influen
tial In securing nominations to office.
The veterans are not all of them too
old, but they have passed their prime of
Influence and cannot hope to be lead
ers of the new generation to which Pres
ident Roosevelt belongs and whosa
glowing hope and courage he voices so
vigorously today. The pension list has
become so burdensome that war -eagle
eloquence Is no longer equal to white
washing extortion and vitalizing ex
travagance. The -memory and Influence of the ter
rible struggle between the sections Is
gone or swiftly going with the disap
pearance of the heroic generation that
fought it out valiantly on both sides
to the end. Its genuine romance, its in
spiring realism, its sorrow, its joy. Its
glory and Its gloom, are practically
aead as a potential popular force in
politics. President Roosevelt sees all
this clearly, and rightly considers it a
subject for present congratulation. He
congratulates both ssctlons upon the
great civilization that-, the victorious
Issue of the war for the Union pre
serves for us, fashioned and cemented
into Its present Imposing shape. A man
of fighting blood, who has proved him
self a stout soldier on the firing line,
he nevertheless expects peace, and pre
dicts for the South and the whole coun-'
try an Increased Industrial development
nf.0, -an ,,.i.i Tu i uItonc4 to treat l'shtly the obligations of
of war. He would not have a tfeace that! s6c,A anf1 ,,",, ,Htv Tt h. inw
makes no preparation for war; a peace
that will never fight for National honor
and self-respect. To such a peace he
would prefer a warlike episode like our
stormy past, discordant with guns and
drums; disfigured by battle, by waste
of blood and treasure. The argument
of the President is that If our peace to
come Is guaranteed to be a peabe with
honor, asserted, defended and secured
by a willingness and ability to wage
war upon just occasions, then neither
the North nor the South need regret
that the heroes and the statesmen and
other object-lessons of our great war
for nationality are no longer with us
visible or volceful shapes.
The senseless attack by the Socialists
of his kingdom upon King Leopold of
Belgium Is in strict line with socialistic
unreason on governmental problems.
It is by flaunting the red flag In the
faces or the constituted authorities,
yelling, hooting and throwing stones,
that the mad leaders of a mad faction
seek to reconcile orderly persons to their
Ideas of what constitutes a legitimate
government There was no more reason
in the attack the other night upon the
King of the Belgians' In his capital with
hot words, threats and missiles that do
duty as arguments with the genuine
Socialist, than there wasj in striking
down In the name of liberty the Em
press of Austria when traveling In Swit
zerland a few years ago. These people
seek notoriety, and In Its hot pursuit
they sometimes (though not as fre
quently as could be desired) are brought
up sharply against penalty.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has enteredfor
mal protest against the erection of a
triumphal arch to the memory of her
husband. The outcome of his struggle
can scarcely be said to be Jn the nature
of a triumph, and in leaving his fame
and achievement to history his widow
displays a sound appreciation of the
eternal fitness of things. This 13 not
the first time that she has interfered
to prevent mistaken friends and admir
ers from placing the achievement of
Jefferson Davis in a false light before
the public, ft Is well that she compre
hends the fact that posterity Is a good
judge of history, and can decide better
than contemporaneous heroes the value
of the work done by a politician or
patriot.
The "mothers' meetings" recently in
augurated In this city In connection
with public school work seenxto grow
in popularity and In promise. The
movement is based upon the right idea,
viz., the getting together, for purposes
of mutual understanding, of mothers
and teachers. It may be hoped that the
movement will not be ephemeral In
character, but that It will develop Into
a special department of educational
work In this city. It has this in Its
favor from a financial point of view it
can be added to the public school cur
riculum without the cost of an addi
tional penny to the taxpayer.
The Democratic platform does not at
tack the general positions of the Re
publican party. Its authors dared not
do that. The country Is too prosperous,"
under Republican policy, to permit that
to be done, without bringing ridicule
upon the attempt. The authors of this
platform are obliged to content them
selves with picking at details of Repub
lican action, here and there. This is
cheap enough too cheap to be the basis
of action for a great party. In Demo
cratic policy there is nothing construct
ive. It is the policy of carpers not
even the policy of direct and manly ne
gation.
That President" Roosevelt's view that
an end had come at last to sectionalism
because of the Civil War at the South
voiced the opinions ot his Charleston au
dience we have no doubt, for on the 3d
inst, the thirty-seventh anniversary of
the evacuation of Richmond?, the Rich-
mond Dlsnatch saidr
For years racn recu""hig anniversary of
evacuation day" was a day of gloom In Rich
mond. Bitter were the recollections of our peo
ple, and their feelings were Intensified by the
parading and Jollifying -which the negroes were
then accustomed to Indulge In. But a new
generation has arisen and we live In happier
times, and most 'people have their faces turned
to the future rather than to the past.
With grief and regret we observe that
the Democratic platform Is silent on
the great Isoue of free silver coinage,
on which hitherto it has agonized so
terribly and so long. That is, at last
this party discovers what a fool It made
of Itself In the years that are past. It
"sees now how it ought to have accepted
long ago the disinterested advice of The
Oregonian on this subject It will see
the same thing after a while In regard
to the Philippine Islands and other mat
ters of today.
Alfonso, Spain's boy King, Is said to
feel aggrieved that his accession to the
throne next month Is npt exciting the
degree of Interest that is shown In the
coronation ot Edward VII of England
the month following. Perhaps a boy of
1G cannot be expected to have any great
degree of discernment, but the averag
American boy of Alfonso's age would
have little difficulty in explaining to
him the difference between the power
represented by the King of England and
the King of Spain.
The New York Court of Appeals re
cently decided that workmen have the
moral and legal right to say that they
will not work with certain men, and
the employer must take their dictation
or go without their services. Chief
Justice Parkers conclusion Is that "a
labor organization Is endowed with pre
cisely the same legal right as is an in
dividual to threaten to do that which It
may lawfully do."
The welcome gjven to President
Roosevelt at the Charleston Exposition
was befitting the Chief Magistrate of
a great Nation by one of Its sovereign
states. There Is no occasion for rejoic
ing over this simple fact. The expected
has happened. - The South In her own
queenly way pays tribute to the Presi
dent of a reunited people, "forgetting
the things that are behind."
Never before in our history was the
prosperity of the country so high' as at
present. But the Democratic party of
Oregon Is not satisfied with the policy
that has produced this prosperity, and
proposes to reverse it
How much hair would the Democrats
be tearing", out If the Louisiana mules
were going to the Boere instead of the
British? -
THE WAGES OF SIN.
Philadelphia Times.
The murder in North Fifteenth street,
beneath Its tragic horror, conveys an im
pressive lesson to- those who arc accus-
and domestic duty. It has laid
bare to the public gaze one cf those com
mon instances of a so-called "double-life,"
the man of apparent respectability main
taining two establishments, with two
families, and trusting to his money and
Influence to shield his immorality and
protect his good name In "the business
world. The crime, of a servant at once
breaks down the screen, not only expos
ing the man to his proper family and
friends, but dragging him into the public
light and holding him up to the con-
temPtuus scrutiny .of the whole com
munity.
To men of this class the old warning
can be confidently repeated: Be sure your
sin will find you out. It cannot be con
cealed forever. Sooner or later, it may
be in some wholly unexpected way. the
truth will come to light and there never
is any escape from the result. Men may
treat it lightly and say that the offense Is
only In being found cut; that the man
who is unfaithful to the sacred ties of
family and honor is no worse than many
of his neighbor and that his private af
fairs are nobody's concern; but the man
who is found out knows better. He
knows that he Is disgraced and condemned
and that he never can stand again be
fore the community ofc? he stood before.
Here was a man of good connections
and largo business responsibilities, with
every opportunity to live a useful and
honorable life, who has been carelessly
sowing the wind and all at once is com
pelled to reap the whirlwind. The cir
cumstance, are more than usually sen
sational, but the drama itself is the
same that has been played again and
again, and the denouement differs only
in the means by which it is brought
about. Often it Is long delayed and the
man fincles himself secure: he brings
himself before the public In some way
or does- something to attract atention.
and then the fatal exposure comes and
he finds himself confronted by his sin.
The way is blocked before him. He has
taken the chance nnd lost.
The path of history Is strewn with the
wrecks ot careers, that were ruined in
this way. Young men In their folly, old
men In tbelr ripe experience, alike imag
ine that they can defy the Inexorable
law of moral accountability, and alike
are disillusioned In the end. They may
still hold up their heads, but it 13 only
a hollow pretense; they feel that men
look at them askance; that they are only
tolerated. It they arc not avoided. Their
sin has found them out.
This 's one of the strongest of the les
sons Impressed by the recent hideous
crime. If not .Itself the outcome of
Illicit and immoral relations, it has forced
these relations Into light, bringing dis
tress upon the Innocent and shame npon
Jhe guilty, and holding up a warning that
even the most careless and indifferent
cannot disregard. There can be no such
thing as "a double life" that will not soon
or late prove itself wholly a bad life and
bring Its punishment in Its train.
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Silver in the Philippines.
New York Herald.
The fluctuating value of the silver dol
lars circulating in the Philippines repels
would-be Investors in the islands and
exercises a baneful effect upon their trade.
It is astounding to find the Senate com
mittee rejecting the suggestions of Com
missioner Charles A. Conant, as approved
by the War Department, and reporting a
measure providing for the Philippines free
and unlimited coinage of dollars to be
made of American silver. Nothing could
be more destructive than to mint silver
Jn unlimited quantities for any one who
chose to deposit It. We have now on our
hands in the archipelago polygamy and
slavery, and no end of other complica
tions. The Senate committee proposes to
add Bryanlsm to the list
Chicago Chronicle.
The statement that a subcommitte of
the Senate Philippine committee has re
ported in favor of the silver standard In
those islands is strangely persistent In re
appearance. The governments of India and Japan are
by far the most enlightened In the Orient
and best know the needs of the people of
the far East. They adopted tho gold
standard to put an end to the Irregulari
ties In the exchanges, which were a source
of endless uncertainty and loos to the
people and of gain to none but dealers In
exchange.
Almost all the international trade of the
world today is conducted on the gold basis.
Practically all the external trade of the
Philippines, including that with the United
States, is conducted on that basis.
In view of these notorious facts it has
seemed Incredible that a committee of
Congress should deliberately determine to
prolong a monetary condition which keeps
the exchange between the Philippines and
the rest of the world In a state of un
certainty tmd confUslcn.
t
Hoiv Evans "Was Handled.
Boston Herald.
A particularly disagreeable feature of
the case is .that the President Imposed
upon the Commissioner a secrecy In the
matter which was not observed at the
White House. The enemies of the Com
missioner got early notice of their tri
umph, and. of course, they were too
Joyful to contain It- The Commissioner
felt obliged. It seems, in loyalty to the
President, to prevaricate concerning It,
as Mr. Carson rather mildly character
izes his denials. On last Friday so
Insistent and positive were the assertions
that the Commissioner had resigned
that Mr. Carson himself at 2 P. M.
called upon him at the Pension Office
and was assured by him that he had
not resigned. He went away believing
that the late reports were only repeti
tions of old rumors. "One hour after
this unaccountable prevarication of the
Commissioner," says Mr. Carson, ,"he
was summoned to the White House and
informed by the President that he had
decided to make a public announcement
of the resignation, which he would ac
company with a 'statement.' The. state
ment was published with the letter of
resignation on Saturday morning, and 13
undoubtedly Intended to convey the Im
pression that the Commissioner has not
been driven from the office at the dic
tation of the Grand Army, but has re
tired voluntarily." This is the story as
told by one who, there Is good reason
for believing, has first-hand knowledge
of the facts. It seems unnecessary to
comment on It further.
Interests Lie In Union.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The truth is that the best Interests
of both the United States and Cuba lie
In the direction of union. Cuba cannot
compete In the commercial world stand
ing alone. Its people do not understand
tho game of trade and traffic and have
too long Indulged In the lassitude of the
tropical clime. Cuba needs the Yankee
blood and push. It needs Its brain and
brawn. It needs capital to develop an
Island so fair and sweetMn nature's gifts
as might have been the early Eden. Cuba
cannot desire to be fbrever a genteel beg
gar. All considerations Of Its Castilian
pride resent It
Thirty Cents for Lnsnrns.
Omaha World-Herald.
King Edward has decided that on the
day he is crowned he will give a dinner to
500.000 of th most destitute poor In his
kingdom. On that day Lazarus Is not
to be left to sit on the steps, but Is to
be invited in to gather up the crumbs
that fall from the rich man's table. Even
the beggars are to be royal guests. From
the royal coffers 5150,000 has been appro
priated for his largess. That Is at the
rate of exactly 20 cents a meal, and in
the eyes of all these, the world' over, who
think and consider and feel, this is pre-
ntmlv TtrHflf fltA YrtAtl ..rill ln1 1I1
cents.
THE DEGENERACY OF WATTERSCJN
New York Times.
There is no speculation in the dull eye
with which Henry Watterson's bogy
glares at him. He cannot kindle the
fires of life under Its ribs of rag and
straw. He may brandish the thing in
the streets, but it would never occur to
the tenderest blue-eyed babe to be fright
ened thereby. The child would turn from
it to him and only wonder what the gen
tleman was doing with his old stuffed doll.
If John Adams had not been beaten by
Thomas Jefferson in the Presidential elcc.
tlon of 1SC0, or if General Grant had got
a third term our blessed liberties would
now be in tatters, and we should walk
the streets with gyves upon our wrists.
Twice we have been delivered once from
John Adams' attempt to monarchize the
Government and once from General
Grant's plot to impcrialize It. But be
warned, my countrymen, the horrid peril
again confronts us. There Is a rough
rlding Diaz In the White House no "slyly
peeping out of the stable yard of tne
White House" who has laid his plans
to Mexlcanize the Government. And the
Times, which belongs to a class of news
papers that "know nothing they do not
want to know, or else they see nothing
unless- they stumble over it and skin their
shins," sinfully refuses toyjoln Colonel
Watterson in his efforts to raise the hair
of his fellow citizens by disclosing the
autocratic and Mexican nature of the
Army bill.
We have no idea what the readers of
the Louisville Courier-Journal think of
Colonel Watterson's - performances with
the bogy. We know what they oughrMo
think more, what, they ought to tell him
that he might be In better business. Al
beit much Inclined to be perverse and
flighty, Henry Watterson has sometimes
served his party well. He has still the
ability to serve It. The Democracy needs
all the brains It can command, all the
sound, living Ideas, all the active capital,
available for Its use. It needs able lend
ers and wise direction that It may re-g-iln
the confidence of the people. But
with his "bronch-buster" silliness Colo
nel Watterson makes public confession
of an empty mind and files a petition m
political bankruptcy.
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"OREGON AND SCUTTLE."
Article That Was Briefly Summar
ized in the Dispatches.
Washington Star.
Oregon votes In June. Tho Republi
cans have nominated a state ticket and
adopted a platform. They accept the
issue as to the Philippines laid down by
the Democrats of the. Senate. They are
opposed to scuttle. Permanent Ameri
can control, with the natives ordering
the local government as rapidly as they
qualify, is their answer.
The National bearing of this answer
grows out of the fact that at this elec
tion a legislature will be chosen, which
will in turn choose a United States
Senator, and Oregon's representation In
the next House will also be decided.
Republican success therefore will mean
votes In Congress against any scheme
looking to hauling down the flag at
Manila.
Retention of ,the Philippines Is safd
to be strongly " favored by the people
or tha Pacific Coast. The question ap
peals to them on tho business, as well
as on the sentimental side. They are
figuring on an enormous Oriental trade,
which they think American sovereignty
will promote, and they have contributed
a liberal quota of the troops which have
been upholding American authority In
the Islands. For these two reasons they
are not In sympathy with those who
would pull up stakes and come home.
It may continue to be for a few years
a little expensive o stay, but ultimately,
as they belleye, the returns of every
description will be gratifyingly remun
erative. For that matter this statement of the
case applies wherever antl-scuttle senti
ment prevails. What Is called the com
mercial view of the situation Is widely
taken now without apology. Why not?
The commercial view did qot take us
to the Philippines, but now that we
are there and in control by a perfectly
legitimate stroke of war, why should we
not in laying out further plans take
prominently Into account a legitimate
stroke of business? Commercial devel
opment Is the spirit of the age. and the
Philippine archipelago Is not outside Its
influence. The archipelago will be de
veloped under the flag of some strong
power, and why not under the flag of
the power which is on the ground by
right and In force, and with purposes
altogether In line with the welfare of
the natives? The Filipinos themselves,
competent authority states, are today
wholly incapable Of bringing the cpuntry
Into touch with the progress of the
times.
Still, scuttle seems now to be the pol
icy of the anti-administration forces. It
may be only a campaign cry. The cry
of free trade carried the day In 1892.
But the country neither wanted nor got
free trade. Would the triumph of scut
tle at the polls be followed bv actnsil
scuttle In policy? The chances would be
as a thousand to one against It
Feminine Silliness.
Silly women will do almost anything in their
enthusiasm for a male performer, and the CO
who rufched at Kubellk In Brooklyn after a
performance, and endeavored to kiss him, are
unfortunately not the only examples of such
hysterical adulation among their "sex. Poor
Captain Hobsbn was made ridiculous before the
whole country by Just such nonsense. Of course,
the man In 6uch a cae Is taken at a tremen
dous disadvantage. He can neither accede nor
refuse with dignity. It is said that some of
the Brooklyn women taunted Kubellk with be
ing a coward. But there are many otherwise
brave men who would shrink from such an on
slaught, and there are women whom it would
require no small bravery to kiss. -providence
Journal.
Altruistic, but Not Business.
Mobile Register.
The Democratic plan for. the setting up
of the Philippines as an independent coun
try, with neutrality guaranteed by all the
principal nations of the earth, is altruistic.
It Is based upon the theory that the peo
ple of the United States will do everything
for tho Filipinos and ask for nothing In
return, after having spent several hun
dred millions of dollars as an Investment
in their islands. In the Ideal state what
Is proposed Is precisely what a great
Nation such as ours ought to do and
would do; but It is not business, you
know.
Variorum on an Old Jingle.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
A few days ago the Inter Ocean printed on
Its editorial page "the best-known bit of verse
in the English langauge," written by Richard
Grafton, as follows:
"Thirty days hath November,
April, June and September,
February hath twenty-eight alone.
And all the rest have thirty-one."
Commenting on this a contemporary says:
"Where was the Inter Ocean brought up?
We never before heard the 'bit of verse In any
form but this:
" Thirty days hath September,
April. Juno and November;
All the rest have thirty-one.
Excepting February alone.
Which hath eight and a score
Except when leap year adds one more." "
Evidently your contemporary Is not posted on
Eastern lore. New England children being
taught the following wording:
"Thirty days hath September,
April. June and November;
All the rest have thirty-one.
Excepting February, which alone,
Hath four and twenty-four.
And every fourth year one day more."
Berkshire County, Massachusetts, would say:
"Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November:
February hath twenty-eight.
Thirty-one being tho others' rate."
Seymour. la., adds another, which Is entirely
nw fo me. and may be to the Inter Ocean
readers also:
"The fourth, eleventh, ninth and sixth,
Hath thirty days to each affixed;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Save February. with twenty-eight In fine.
Till leap year gives it twenty-nine."
"MRS. WILSON AMES.
Seymour, Iiu ,
NOTE AiD COMMENT.
W. J. Bryan was also mentioned.
Too many carpenters sometimes spoil the
platform.
The fight Is on; lot the candidates fall
where they may.
The average Democratic platform Is usu
ally spelled "t-a-I-k."
There are more Idle -plows and unwatched
flocks In the bunchgrass country.
After all, the ticket will probably -be
punched before the party gets to the first
station.
The Senate's liberality to the Columbia
shows that it has not been studying geog
raphy out of Astoria text-books.
By a skillful combination of sidesteps
and straddles the great principles of the
Multnomah Democracy were finally got
together.
Some of Emperor. William's private
yachts are fitted up almost as regardless
of cost as an Army transport running out
of San Francisco.
"Sam" Hague, who first introduced real
negroes as minstrels in Europe, died a
short time ago In England. While run
ning a saloon in Syracuse. N. Y.. some
35 years ago, he conceived the Idea of
taking a comptny of negroes abroad. He
did so, and "Hague's Slave Troupe" made
a tremendous hit. He picked up all the
members in Syracuse and neighborhood,
but none knew the difference across the
water. Hague became wealthy, but was
worth little or nothing at the time of his
death.
Squire L. D. ChacWen. of We'lington,
Kan., who celebrated his S4th birthday
last week, when a boy used to go Into the
woods after squlrrcla with Roscoe Conk
ling. He chewed tobacco for half a cen
tury, and then quit. He finds his pipe
a comfort. He never took a drink of red
liquor at a bar. After 60 years of married'
life Mrs. -Shaddon still docs all her own
housework except the family washing,
and the squire sav$ he has to read the
riot act once In a while to head her off
from doing that.
"When I have anything to say.' re
marked Henry Watterson the other day, "I
write It: then I put it in my pocket. After
a while I take it out, read It and write it
again. Once more I put it away. Then I
write It again and send it down to tha
printer and have it put in type. When I
get the proof T run over it closely and
write it again, and again it goes to tho
printer. Afterward it is sent to me again
in the revised proof. Then I make the
last corrections and send it down again. '
And then." continued Mr. Watterson, with
a heavy sigh, "the confounded printer gets
it wrong."
A young woman c!crk at the Court
house was asked to Teport for the Well
ington, Kan., Mall a wedding that was to
take place in the office of the Probate
Judge. Here Is her journalistic achieve
mentotherwise not even the names be
ing given: "The bride was 1G years old,
wore a short dress and black kid shoes,
black dress, red choker, blue velvet hat
with plumes arranged to give a wing ef
fect, crown flat and white rosette In front.
The groom was tall, gawky and light com
plected, wore a blue necktie, striped trous
ers, dark blue barred sack coat, standing
collar, black shoes laced upside down,
with strings trailing."
H. H, Faxon prints some figures to show
what has happened In Qulncy, Mass., with
no saloon. In 20 years. In that time the
population has more than doubled, the
valuation has Increased nearly three-fold,
the deposits In the savings banks Nearly
five-fold, and new houses more than five
fold. These things were to be expected
In a prosperous city so near- Boston, but
what was not to be expected in the ordi
nary course of things was, that, while the
population Increased 120 per cent, the
amount expended for the poor department
should decrease 12 per cent. l Five cities
in Massachusetts with a smaller popula
tion paid much larger sums for the sup
port of the poor.
The Irrepressible Conflict.
Springfield Republican.
The marked difference of opinion of one
member of the County Congregational
Ministers' Club from its generally accept
ed doctrines and a refusal on his part
to resign, when resignation Is suggested)
as a solution of the difficulty, prombed'
possible Interesting developments. The
higher criticism excitement was tardy in
reaching hls region but our attack com
ing late 'in life like the measles, to use
an entirely Irreverent simile we have had I
It very hard. For the past three years
It has convulsed our little theological
world. The question of Mr. Hutchins
will be raised, If it comes to an issue,
as a sort of a test case. The person whose'
opinions are questioned admits himself
that they are not in accord with the old
fashioned creeds, according to which In
spirit; if not In exact letter of agreement,
the society was formed: but he claims;
that Congregationalism Is advancing, and
as a perfectly autonomous body the as
sociation Can and should make a broader
test of membership, which would admit
men who have taken the more radical
view of Interpreting the Scriptures, 'xhe
body of the association, no doubt, take the
conservative view, and it is extreme
ly Improbable that they will broaden their
requirements to any such extent as woull
be advocated by Mr. Hutchins. In tho
meanwhile there are undoubtedly a num
ber of members of the association who
have taken a view nearly. If not quite,
as radical as the latter. If an effort is
made to expel him from the society, what
will bo their position in it?
In Need of an Arbitrator.
Washington Post.
Sooner or later Mr. Hanna will have to
take charge of the strike In the Repub
lican party.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
Carried to Extremes. "Miss Neerwon is a,
man-hater. Isn't she?" "Yes, In3eed. 'Why,
she won't even live in a house with a mansard
roof." Philadelphia Bulletin.
A Possibility. Papa A young woman cannot
be too careful about the man she accepts.
She Oh, I don't Know! She might be so care
ful that she'd remain single. Puck.'
Why He Belongs. "Why, I didn't know your
husband played golf." "He doesn't. He- sits
on the clubhouse porch anddrinks things when
the afternoons arc hot." Chicago Record-Herald.
Loafer Any chanco of a job o' work "ere,
mister? Foreman No. We're not wanting any
more hands now. Loafer Well, the little bit
o work I'd do wouldn't make no difference!
Punch.
Both Sides. "Our legislators." protested the
machine politician, "arc not as bad as they
are painted." "No?" replied the plain citizen.
"Well, thpy're certainly not so good as they're
whitewashed." Philadelphia Press.
Solar Plexus. Miss Brighton What a lovely
wateh-fob, Mr. Borcm. Is jour watch equally
pretty? Mr. Borcm Here It Is. Miss Brighton
What! eleven o'clock! Why. I had no idea it
was so late, had you? Chicago Dally News.
Her Lucky Daughter. Mrs. Wiggles Lan
sakes! what ye flxin' up so fer? Mrs. Back
wooda W'y, hain't ye heerd that Hattle mar
ried one o" them French fellers with a ferrln
title an' s comln' home next week? Mrs.
-Wiggles Do tell! Did she marry one o them
Counts? Mrs. Backwoods Mercy me! I guesa
he's "olgger'n a Count. She say3 in her letter
thet he's a chaffeur. Judg