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PORTLAXD, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1002.
PERILS OP GOOD-FELLOWSHIP.
"What happens to Furnish or Chamber
lain does not greatly matter. One of
them, at least, can take care of himself,
and if either or both cannot, the state is
under no obligation to provide them a
place. But -what becomes of all of us la
worth considering.
There Is only one reason for voting
for George Chamberlain for Governor,
and that is that he Is a good fellow. He
talks about reform, but he knows, and
his supporters know, that he has never
instituted any practical measure of
moral or economical reform In all the
years he has been holding offlce In Ore
gon. He is making his reform talk
merely as a bait for votes. He haB no
purpose, and if elected would have nei
ther the resolution nor the executive
Ingenuity to cut down the necessary or
the superfluous expenses of our state
government.
An economical, business-like, efficient
administration of the state government
is assured in the hands of Mr. Furnish
assured by his success in managing his
own business. Any man who really
wants an economical and efficient gov
ernment should vote for Furnish. Those
who really want it, we under
take to say, will do so. Those
who shout the loudest for reform are
interested merely in it has a device to
catch votes. They don't want reform.
They want offlce.
Being a good fellow is a very slim
equipment on which to conduct a busi
ness of $2,000,000 a year and control an
army of employes. Good-fellowship will
not decline land loans to undesirable
applicants, or deny appointments to un
worthy but persistent office-seekers, or
refuse pardons to undeserving crimi
nals, or veto extravagant appropria
tions, or hold down contracts to the
lowest possible price. Good-fellowship
does not drive pirates off the state's
school lands, or keep the Attorney-General
from hiring special counsel, or see
that the treasury's funds are where
they ought to be. Good-fellowship is a
most delightful companion, but a most
untrustworthy and vicious executive.
Every trouble we have had in the
Governor's offlce at Salem has been due
to want of backbone. It is unnecessary
to mention names and Incidents, but
from Pennoyer's pardons down to the
present day the mistakes that our Gov
ernors have made could have been
averted at the critical time If the good
fellow in the executive chamber had
set his teeth together and said. No!
Think it over and see if that statement
isn't right; and then bear in mind that
nobody ever was Governor of Oregon
who hated to say no as much as
George Chamberlain does.
Think it over. It's a matter of busi
ness. It concerns every taxpayer, every
person Interested In righteous govern
ment, whether in the slums of Port
land, the penal institutions at Salem,
the school lands in distant counties, or
the pilotage at -the mouth of the Co
lumbia River. Good-fellowship is a
dangerous thing to Indulge in respon
Slble office. Think it over. It is a
question of money and morals.
"IMPERIALIS3I" IX UNEXPECTED
PLACE.
It is with trepidation bordering on
apprehension that we observe the dec
laration made by the Women's Board
of Foreign Missions of New York
against the admission of Oklahoma,
Arizona and New Mexico to statehood.
These good women base their remon
strance to the House of Representa
tives upon the ground that the popu
lation of the territories in question "Is
generally ignorant, Immoral and incapa
ble of appreciating or performing duties
of citizenship," and the most critical
estimate of this protest we have seen is
disposed to concede that "while there is
unquestionably a considerable body of
sterling and Intelligent citizens in each
territory, everybody knows that there is
probably a larger body of people of
Mexican or Indian extraction, peons or
descendants of peons, who would not
make admirable American citizens."
"What will be the feelings ofour high
ly virtuous and conscientious Senators
when they read this feminine protest?
"What will be the perturbed feelings of
Boston and South Carolina? There, at
least, if not by the Women's Board, it
is known that the right of self-government
and all the privileges and duties
of citizenship are inherent and inalien
able in every human breast Antis in
Massachusetts contend for this principle
in the Philippines, though a consider
able fraction of the voters of. that state
are disfranchised on educational and
perhaps other grounds. Southern Sen
ators contend for the principle in the
Philippines, though they do not apply
it to the negro.
Self-government is a function "which
requires long training for Its adequate
exercise. Four hundred years in this
country and centuries of It earlier in
Germany and Britain have fltted Amer
icans for It; but fitness has not been
demonstrated In the Philippines, where
savage outbreaks are still the rule; in
Latin America, where even now revolu
tion stalks red-handed through the
streets, or even in Cuba, where prox
imity to this country has long been in
culcating American ireaa
All this talk about consent of the gov
erned'ln the Philippines is Insincere and
worked up laboriously for no other pur
pose than to make out a case against
those to whom the administration of
our Government has been entrusted.
Tillman's brutal speech in the Senate
shows how much genuine solicitude his
party has for Justice to Inferior races,
whether in the South or'in the Philip
pines. The honest opinion of the mis
sionary women, with its unconscious
recognition of the Inability of the unfit
to govern themselves, Is of more perti
nent weight than all the labored ad
dresses with which Democratic Sena
tors are prolonging unrest and uncer
tainty in the Philippines by delaying
the Philippine government bill. It is
inconceivable that Oregon should send
to the world a message on June 2 of
approval of this hypocritical demand for
Philippine independence.
THE OUTLOOK.
The summary df campaign conditions
throughout the state printed yesterday
Is well worth reading by all who take
an interest In current politics. It was
meant to be Impartial, and with pos
sibly one or two exceptional reports
seems to be so. The Oregonlan's corre
spondents In the different counties are
of varying political affiliations, and, in
fact, many of the most active and trust
worthy men among them are Demo
crats. Severely as their politics are to
be deprecated, their fidelity as news
gatherers, rain or shine, day and night,
leaves nothing to be desired. There Is a
warm spot in The Oregonlan's heart for
its Democratic and Populist and Simon
correspondents, and it is disposed to
take their predictions of the campaign's
outcome at par value.
The feature of the game, as the base
ball people would put It, Is Chamber
lain. Tongue for Congress, First Dis
trict, will get a larger percentage of the
vote, though possibly not greatly more
majority, in view of the light registra
tion, over Weatherford than he did over
Dr. Daly two years ago. As to Will
iamson, for Congress, Second District,
it is all over but the counting. On the
state ticket, outside the Governorship,
there Is little interest, and no room for
doubt of Republican s ccess. Crawford,
for Attorney-General, is deyeloplng un
expected strength. The opposition to
Judge Bean, owing to the desirability
of his retention on the Supreme Bench,
Is merely nominal, and many Democrats
will do themselves the pleasure of testi
fying their appreciation of the efficient
service of Secretary Dunbar, Superin
tendent Ackerman and Treasurer
Moore.
Mr. Chamberlain's popularity is an
element that the correspondents in
Western Oregon uniformly reckon with.
This is to be overcome, and so is the
other unfavorable symptom represented
'by the extremely light registration.
Most of the unregistered voters are Re
publicans. Every unregistered and non
voting Republican adds something to
the purchasing power of every Repub
lican who sacrifices his interest in the
success of the Republican National
policies for his liking for Chamberlain
or his sympathy with Mr. Simon's de
sire for vengeance. The voters, unfor
tunately, are not few who yield their
civic convictions to personal likes and
dislikes. The larger and greater con
cerns of National policies and the wel
fare of the state government they ap
prehend dimly, but the charms of af
fable personality and ready speech they
accept at full value. As a celebrated
statesman once expressed it, "What's
the Constitution between friends?" Un
doubtedly there are voters In Oregon
who are dominated by no higher ideals
than this.
But there are offsetting circumstances
which will contribute powerfully to the
Republican vote, as the election returns
will certainly show to the surprise of
many an optimistic Fusionlst. The
Populists, who cast nearly 27,000 votes
ten years ago this November, are re
turning to the Republican ranks whence
they were largely drawn. They are
protectionists, as they have always
been; they find the initiative and refer
endum In the Republican platform;
their leaders are openly advocating the
Republican ticket. Another source of
Republican strength Is the new settler.
Eastern and Western Oregon, as well
as the streets of Portland, are teeming
with new arrivals who came from Re
publican states, and others who, in
changing their abode, are glad to leave
the Democracy for a party of progress
and victory. Correspondents' estimates
printed last Friday put this influx of
new voters at between 9000 and 10,000.
We apparently confront a dull cam
paign and a light vote; but there will
be many votes from Republican new
comers, and there will be many Demo
cratic and Simon stay-at-homes.
There is another element in the situa
tion which will dawn upon the politi
cians after election, and which may as
well as noticed right here, and that is
the drawing power of Mr. Furnish. If
you notice the reports of the campaign
you will see that wherever Mr. Furnish
goes he makes friends. He "makes a
good impression." The Chamberlain
men don't talk quite so confidently as
they did before he came. Now. that
has been the habit of his life. Who
ever brushes up against W. J. Furnish
finds out that he has got next to a
man that it will do to tie to, a man that
can be trusted, a man that has it in him
to get there. When Blnger Hermann
got 1650 votes for Congress In Umatilla
County, Furnish got 2075 votes for Sher
iff. He beat two men for Mayor of
Pendleton as a Democrat, and then
turned around next time and beat an-
other as a Republican. He gets the
votes. This Is going to happen again
June 2. Mr. Furnish is out meeting the
people. He gets their confidence. He
will get their votea The most surprised
man in Oregon June 3 is going to be
George E. Chamberlain.
Another buried city has been added to
the geat epulchers of the world. The
site of St Pierre, as that of Pompeii and
Herculaneum, lies deep under volcanic
belchlngs, given over to desolation and
death. The imagination of Bulwer in
painting, after a Japse of more than
eighteen centuries, the lurid nicture of
J Pompeii la its- last 'throes of mortal
agony was never more of a marvel of
human conceptipn than now, when the
world Is literally face to face with its
realization. The only relief of horror
In a situation of thts kind is found In
the fact that so far as human suffering
Is concerned it was quickly over. A
convulsion of Nature and a combination
of the elements In revolt before which
even the sea retreats and the solid earth
groans and writhes, quickly drown all
humaYi cries by making swift end to
human suffering.
BUSINESS IS BUSINESS.
"Portland is a fine town a mighty
fine town; of commercial vigor, business
sagacity, conservative instinct and met
ropolitan pride. But It has one fault
a fault which very perceptibly retards
Its growth. This fault is diffidence.
When a hustling individual proposes a
new enterprise which would add rock to
the foundations of Portland's prestige,
there are always men to rise up and
say: 'This Is no new thing with us.' We
were awake to Its advantages long be
fore you opened your eyes to them. We
tried it long before you thought of It.
So, you see, we are quite up to date.
We would try it again, but what's the
use?' "
' These words were uttered two years
ago by a prominent Eastern financier.
Another of those "old-new projects"
has come up again. It Is that of a
steamship line between Portland and
Alaska.
This project once more has come to
the attention of Portland business men.
Sure enough, the instinct of some of
them has voiced itself again In the quo
tation of the Eastern financier: "We
have tried that before: what's the use?"
But there is a great deal of use. Port
land can sustain a line. The live mer
chants of this city know it well. The
Oregonlan, In appealing to them, does
not advocate something new under the
sun, but something that has been partly
forgotten. They should give their ap
proval to the project; -not approval of
negative apathy, but approval of posi
tive action. This is a time for the
cheery "Now, all together," not for the
dismal "What's the use?"
The proposal to operate steamships
with home capital Is good. Mercantile
Interests here will thereby be -so closely
bound up In the enterprise that Puget
Sound will be deprived of a strong
weapon wherewith to destroy It. If
private individuals could have had ab
solute guarantee that Portland would
stand by an Independent line from this
port, through thick and thin, they
would have put on steamships ere this.
Without this support a private line
would be ruined by Puget Sound com
petition, because a rate war would
probably drive It out of existence be
fore It could get established.
Former efforts of this city have failed
chiefly for three reasons the vessels
used were too large, the service was
too infrequent, and there was no as
surance Jt would last Seattle used a
"mosquito fleet" and filled orders quick
ly. It was the opposite with Portland.
"We should like to trade with Port
land," said a Juneau merchant five
years ago, "but Seattle can fill an order
In two weekfvVrhen Portland takes two
months."
Alaska is not beyond Portland's
commercial territory. This city ,can
get 'into the northern -field If
It will devote Itself with en
ergy and calculation.' That field has
no especial love for "Seattle, for: , busi
ness Is business. It will trade wltn
Portland If It can do so on equal terms
with Seattle. This city has the wealth,
the prestige and the working power to
seize and to hold this opportunity. The
question Is simply when. Shall It be
now? Portland can do business wtth
Alaska If some of its worthy citizens
will quit "What's the use?"
'AX HONORED INSTITUTION.
The State Grange, a representative
body of farmers and farmers' wives,
will hold its annual session in Salem
during the last week in May. The
Grange, as one of the formative social
and Industrial influences of the state,
may be said to lead all others. It ap
pealed In Its early organization In this
statevto the social Instinct of the people
in the rural districts that, though dor
mant from long Isolation, was still alive
with a yearning for sympathy and com
radeship. Scarcely secondary to this
in fact leading it In the organization's
declaration of purpose was the feel
ing that unanimity of purpose and prac
tice In the matter of securing reasonable
remuneration for their labor through
reasonable prices for its products was
necessary to the farmers' prosperity.
Working along these lines, many fail
ures came from inexperience in trade
and in politics, but profiting by the les
sons of experience, the farmers perse
vered, maintaining their organization,
reassuring one another, learning each
year new lessons that they have turned
to their profit In the production and dis
posal of crops, until today the Grange
element is stronger than ever before in
many agricultural sections, and its pur
pose and endeavor are honored wher
ever, as a working body,' it is known.
The social feature has kept pace, at
least evenly, with the Industrial and
commercial advancement of the order.
The women of the Grange, to many of
whom the opportunity came as a revela
tion of the social side of life from its
most sympathetic standpoint that of
common experiences and common Inter
estshave become noted for their quick
perceptions, their open-handed hospital
ity and their rare culinary skill. Their
ability and quickness In grasping any
of the problems that come within the
line of their Interest are well known,
and their opinions upon these matters
have a deciding Influence. This is quite
a departure from the old-time yet not
so old but that It is well remembered by
many scarcely past middle age where
in women were silent factors In farmers'
homes and lives, so far as any expressed
opinion upon matters of moment went;
when their outings comprised one or
two trips to the country store each year,
an occasional visit in a neighborly way
to the nearest neighbor, whose environ
ment was similar to their own, or an
swering with sympathy and assistance
an urgent call of birth or death from
near or far as the emergency might
arise. Noble women were these pa
tient, unremunerated tollers; not the less
noble in all of their Instincts of true
womanhood are their descendants, who
through sympathetic touch In the everyday-affairs
of a widened and widening
life have assisted each other to grow in
worldly and community interests;
whose conversation is not so much of
the number of pieces in the last new
quilt as of the paper on physical cul
ture read by one of their number at the
last Grange 'meeting or the late farm
ers' Institute, but who are more helpful
and not less womanly because of their
larger opportunities.
X To the Grange aa an element of
growth In Its special line of endeavor
all honor and credit are due. And there
is no reason to suppose that it will out
Hye its usefulness, since the human field
In which it works is a constantly ex
panding one, calling steadily for In
creased ability in its tillers and sowers.
Australia Is moving for a railroad
that shall traverse the Island northerly
and southerly, bringing Melbourne and
Port Darwin Into direct connection.
Melbourne Is In the southeastern part of
Australia, and It la the chief railroad
center of the Island. That quarter Is
by far the richest and best-developed
part of Australia. The railroad across to
Port Darwin is urged on the ground
that It will give quicker connection with
London than is possible by present routes
of travel. The fastest line from Mel
bourne and Sydney to England now
crosses the United States, but the objec
tion to It Is that It Is largely a water
route, and consumes much more time
than would be required by land. By
a railroad 2400 miles long across
Australia, the route to London would be
largely overland, the Intention being to
run In connection with It a line of
steamships to Port Arthur, there reach
ing the great Siberian railroad. But It
will be a long time before this route is
opened, for more than 1000 miles of rail
road through a non-productive country
remains to be built, and Australia Is not
rich enough to do this at once.
The elimination of curves from rail
way tracks is going on at an accelerated
rate. The decreased distance and the
greater rate of speed made possible by
straight tracks make good In a little
time the expense Incident to the work
of taking out the curves. Engineers
competent to express an opinion upon
the subject predict that trains will be
run at the rate of 100 miles an hour by
the middle of the present Century over
tracks as straight as that between Mos
cow and St Petersburg, the route of
which, it is said, the Czar in
dicated by marking It on the
map by a ruler. One thing Is clear. If
cars are ever whirled along at the rate
of 100 miles an hour, the tracks will
have to be straight Experience has
proved that to round curves at less than
half that rate of speed Is fraught with
grave danger.
The "blue laws," that have held
place on the statute-books of Massa
chusetts since 1677, have at length been
repealed. While no attempt has been
made In recent years to enforce their
more obnoxious provisions, and while,
in fact, laws that are not supported by
public sentiment are practical dead,
even though they have not been ex
punged from the statute-books, It has
for some time been held that there were
more or less of menace and reproach In
these laws, and that to square her ac
count with civilization Massachusetts
should repudiate them. The bill repeal
ing them passed the Legislature with
out debate and without a dissenting
voice.
The latest big timber deal Is recorded
In Astoria In a deed showing the trans
fer of 17,000 acres In the Nehalem Val
ley to the Oregon & Montana Lumber
Company. The price Is not given, but It
Is said to be not lessthan $87,500. This
purchase means ultimately the develop
ment of a region rich in timber and coal
that has lain for a' 'surprisingly long
time in a state of nature. Capital does
not tie Itself up In out-of-the-way
places and remain Idle. Hence a pur
chase of this kind may w'ell be taken
as a close forerunner of a railroad and
all else that follows In the way of set
tlement and development.
George H. Phillips, the Chicago grain
speculator, who has made two failures
while trying to corner the grain market,
is again on his feet and making a long
reach for the control of the market this
year. His plan is to form a gigantic
pool which in magnitude and extent will
eclipse anything of Its kind in the his
tory of American trade. The one thing
to be said of this manipulator of the
grain trade Is that he has plenty of
nerve, and does not hesitate to use it
The coal war is on In Pennsylvania,
backed by a stubborn determination on
both sides, which indicates a long period
of contention and idleness. The situa
tion is keenly regretted, both in an in
dustrial and a commercial sense, and
It Is hoped that a spirit of conciliation
will come between the opposing ele
ments to the end that an equitable ad
justment of differences may be reached
speedily.
Spring advances slowly. Better so
than with a rapidity that would 6end
the melting snows of the mountains
down with a rush that will cause a
repetition of the dreaded high water In
the Columbia and Its tributaries.
Cloudy days and cool nights may not
be good for the roses in city gardens,
but they are the salvation of the po
tato and hay crops in the Columbia bot
toms. - i.
The Socialistic nominee for Governor
will take the stump this week In advo
cacy of his candidacy. This announce
ment will lead to the general public In
quiry, Who Is this candidate? His
name Is R. R. Ryan, and he halls from
Salem. Further than this, and that he
Is out in a vain quest for the Governor
ship of Oregon, deponent sayeth not
We regret to have hurt the feelings of
certain persons who cannot see any Im
propriety in electing a Governor on an
anti-expansion platform to preside at an
expansion centennial; yet so far the out
cry has been strictly confined to those
who .would be for Chamberlain in any
event This somewhat mitigates our re
gret A good brother up the Valley hates to
see The Oregonlan attacking Chamber
lain as it does. He would it were more
conservative, reposeful, self-contained.
He is, by the way. for Chamberlain.
His discomfiture is a delicate tribute to
effectiveness, which we acknowledge
with thanks.
Republican prospects are good
throughout the state. This fact, how
ever, should not make Republican vot
ers lukewarm in the discharge of their
duty, for, after all, it is the ballot de
posited on election day that counta
Tillman would make a good defender
of the water cure if he would only try
his hand at it Why do the Southern
statesmen strain so at water and swal
low the stake?
Maybe it's a sordid age, out the meas
ure of public and private charity is the
sufferer's need. Witness the Mar
tinique contributions.
PITFALLS 0FSUPERSENS1TIVENESS
Chicago Tribune.
The governing board of the Ancient Or
der of Hibernians takes the grotesque,
burlesque Irish comedian altogether too
seriously. Of those who hear him many
find him amusing and some tiresome. No
body Is so ignorant as to imagine that the
Irish comedian of the vaudeville Is any
thing more than a creation of the stage.
He is only one of the curious "unrealities
which playwrlters and players have
evolved. The stage Irishman Is as fantas
tic as the stage Frenchman or stage Yan
kee. Nobody fancies these queer creatures
really exist Nobody who sees them Is
prejudiced against Irishmen, Yankees or
Frenchmen.
If the theater were a place where people
went to be Instructed mstead of being
amused which is the almost invariable
reason for men and women going there It
would bo necessary to sweep away a mul
titude of misleading characters at once.
No mercy would be. shown the stage sailor,
Jew or negro. Perhaps the stagelover
would have to make his exit also. He Is
often painfully untrue to nature. As peo
ple will not go to the theater to be in
structed, and as they do not assume that
the stage Irishman is the real Irishman
for they see the latter every day, and
know just how ho talks and walks there
Is no harm done by allowing the stage
Irishman to persiet In his foolishness so
long as there are men who are entertained
by that kind of foolishness.
The burlesque Irish actor is a carica
ture, of coarse, but there is no spirit of
animosity toward the Irish race in his
absurdities. Nor do the persons who laugh
at the absurdities look on Irishmen as
ridiculous. No raco prejudice Is fostered
by the theatrical caricatures of Yankees,
farmers, or Irishmen. Therefore, the gov
erning board of the A. O. H. ought to take
a philosophical view of the matter, and
not undertake to be reformers of the
stage. Whoever attempts to play that part
Invariably gets Into hot water.
If tho banishment of the Irish comedian
were to be brought about because he libels
Nature Instead of holding the mirror up
to her, there are other comedians who
will have to go, because they libel influ
ential elements in the community. The
farmers are often grossly misrepresented
on the burlesque stage and In cartoons.
They are held up to ridicule more fre
quently than the Irish are. It must be
irritating to them sometimes, but so long
as everybody else Is caricatured the far
mers do not protest. Should the Irish
burlesque comedian be driven away, the
farmers will ba Justified In asking for tho
extirpation of the farmer burlesque com
edian. The Yankees, the negroes, -the
Jews, the sailors and the Germans wW
insist that they be no longer caricatured.
What then, will the burlesque actors do
for a living?
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Bret Harte's Untune Service.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The appreciations of Francis Bret Harte
called forth by his death have strangely
omitted to give him the credit he deserves
as the father of the modern short story.
His service to literature In this respect
la more clearly discerned In England than
in America. We have not yet fully grasped
tWe fact that to Bret Harte, more than
to any other writer, belongs the honor of
giving the short story of it3 most perfect
and human form.
Poe and Hawthorne had brought the
older type of story ta perfection, but their
tales dealt largely with an Imaginary
world. It remained for Bret Harte prac
tically to create the story of local color
and of local characters. From the ap
pearance of "The Luck of Roaring Camp"
In The Overland -Monthly, in 1ST0, we may
justly date the rise of the modern short
story. With a flash of genius the young
author put Into his tales the strange,
wild, kaleidoscopic life of the mining
camps as he had seen It in his most im
pressionable years, setting each picture
Into an exqulalto framework of oierra
scenery, and casting over his ' unk'empt
characters just enough of the glamour
of romance to make them attractive. 'J. he
distinctive thing about the stories was
their essential realism their freak por
trayal of real characters In a peculiar en
vironment This type of story has become so uni
versal now that we take it as a matter of
course. Mr. Howells has applied the
method to New England, Mr. Cable to
Louisiana, Mr. Page to Virginia, Mr. Allen
to Kentucky, Mr. Kipling to India, and so
on through the list of the best story
writers of the day. The short story now
is closer to the hearts of the people than
any other form of literature. It will ever
remain Bret Harte's chief glory that he
brought it out of the air and down to
the soil and the lives of real men and
women.
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Christian Unity Coming Along:.
New York Times.
The gradual disappearance of the high
fences which once marked the division
lines between creeds and sects in the
Christian Church Is interestingly Illus
trated by an Incident mentioned In Tho
Congregatlonallst a denominational or
gan of liberal tendencies. At the recent
installation of the pastor of a Unlversal
lst Church In one of the New England
cities a Methodist delivered the nraver.
a Congregatlonallst preached the ser-
mon, the "right hand of fellowship"
was extended by a- Baptist with well
chosen and appropriate remarks, short
addresses were delivered by another
Congregatlonallst and by a Unitarian, and
a graceful letter of welcome and con
gratulation was read from the rector
of an Episcopal Church. No especial sig
nificance Is attached to the fact thit the
Catholic Church was not represented,
and that no rabbi took part In the ex
ercises; but perhaps some may be dis
covered In the fact that no Presbyterian
considered it in keeping with his clerical
duty to attend and say pleasant things.
There are doubtless many who will re
gard the combination above described
with an luterost akin to that which Irre
sistibly attracted us a generation ago
to the cage of the Happy Family In Bar
num's Museum; but the more It Is con
sidered the more pleasing and gratifying
the incident appears. Evidently Chris
tian unity is making substantial progress.
Oh, Ye, They'll Apologise.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Tho first disinterested testimony in
regard to the trouble In Venice between
the officers of tho cruiser Chicago and the
Italian police Is the voluntary statement
of an Englishman who was an eye-witness
of the Incident and It confirms ab
solutely the verislon of the affair which
Lieut Doddridge and the other officers
concerned made when they were released
on Friday. The trouble started by the
accidental overturning of a table, which
a "crowd of cafe loafers whose type is
well known" seized as an opportunity
for making Insulting remarks. The
American officers used no vlolenco except
In self-defense, and the loafers whom
they Injured all brought suits for dam
ages, ranging from 5100 to J0 each. The
English eye-witness says of these suits:
"That this was pure harpy tactics and
an attempt to make the most out of an
apparently 'good thing was shown by
the readiness with which they compro
mised for tho lump sum received by them,
which was In the neighborhood of $400
for the crowd, probably about one-fifth
of the- amount claimed." It Is In order
now for the American newspapers that
passed judgment upon the American of
ficers before they knew the facts or had
the other side, to apologize for their most
unjust conduct In condemning them un
heard. "Will End the War Once Again.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
President Roosevelt Is announced for a
tour of the South some months later. The
war between the North and the South has
been over for a good many years, but, of
course, the settlement will be clinched
again, when the Chief Executive roes over
1 the fl&M oi caxnaxaw -
THE ISSUE IS MADE UP.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
The lines of the opposing forces in Con
gress are being drawn on the Philippine
question. The Republicans are determin
ed to push their bill for the framing of a
civil government for the Islands and also
to repel the attacks which the Democrats
are making on the Army In the archipela
go. Apparently, too, the wiser Democrats
are beginning to see that these assaults
on the country's flag arc hitting their
party hard blows without doing any harm
whatever to the flag. This Is shown by
the clrqumstance that some of the older
and saner Democratic leaders are check
ing, ,or endeavoring to check, the wild
and vicious harangues of Rawlins, of
Utah; Teller and Patterson, of Colorado;
Dubois, of Idaho, and others who have
been assailing the Army and the whole
system of civil and military government
In the Philippines. These vaporings
have not only obstructed legislation, but
they have brought the Democratic party
Into contempt and have destroyed what
little chance any Democrat supposed that
party had of carrying the congressional
elections of 1902.
It is plain that the Republican bill for
tho government of the Philippines will
have a large majority In both branches
of Congress. Senator Lodge, the head of
the Philippine committee in his chamber,
has just mado a long and very effective
speech In favor of the measure of which
he was ono of tho framers. He took oc
casion to repel the assaults which copper
heads In and out of Congress have been
making on the Army In the Islands, and
In this, of course, he had an easy task.
The facts are on his side and the country
i3 overwhelmingly with him. He made
an effective use of the fact that many
Filipinos have been on the side of the
United States all along, and that these
persons have rights In the islands which
this country Is going to respect Not all
the natives are represented among the
insurgents. The element Which has been
favorable to American sway Is an Im
portant ingredient of the native populaa
tlon, and It Is getting stronger and
stronger every day. Apparently the cop
perheads In Congress and the prss have
never learned tho existence of those
friends of America In the Islands, who
would be murdered by the rebels and the
rebels' friends if the United States troops
should bo withdrawn.
In the congressional canvass of 1802
the Philippine Issue Is bound to flguro
with great prominence. The Republicans
In Congress and in their leading newspa
pers throughout the country are taking
care that the issue shall be kept at the
front Thus far the enemies of the Phil
ippine bill havo been allowed to do most
of the talking, because the Republicans
knew that the sort of talk which has
been directed against the bill and against
tho Army In the Islands was calculated to
make many Republican votes. Seeming
ly the older heads among the Democrats
have also grasped this truth, for they
are now endeavoring to stop the tirades
of Dubois, Teller, Rawlins and their co
partners. Nothing Is more certain than
that the flag which Is put up in the Philip
pines will stay up. This Is the deter
mination of every Republican from Presi
dent Roosevelt down to the humblest
member of the party. The Republicans
will give wise government to the Islands,
which the Islanders will accept cordi
ally In time, and which a large proportion
of them are prepared to accept already.
The Philippine question is one of several
winning Issues which will be kept promi
nently before the country by Republican
newspapers and stump speakers during
the canvass of 1902.
Hard Whaclc at Rawlins.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
x Senator Lodge's speech had many very
effective passages, but none more so than
the one In -which he "did up" that son
orous ally of the "antis." Senator Raw
lins of Utah. Mr. Rawlins In one of his
most Impassioned outbreaks against the
American army in the Philippines had
alluded to Copernicus as a. victim, of tor
ture. Senator Lodge used this new ver
sion of history as a means of torture for
the erudite author of it saying:
Mr. President, the great astronomer and
mathematician Copernicus died at the age of
70, in his bed, a canon oC the, church, in the
bosom ot the church, and his great work about
the revolution of the celestial orbs was only
published to the -world as he lay dying. He
was never tortured. It Is possible, Mr. Pres
ident, that the Senator was thinking of
Galileo, but Galileo recanted, and lived
10 years longer. So that, as the story
lived 10 years longer. So that, as tho story
applies neither to Copernicus nor Galileo, it
must be some other tortured astronomer the
Senator has In mind. But if. Mr. President
the Senator had only told the right story of the
right man. if he-had only described Galileo after
reciting his recantation, as he arose from his
knees anil muttered under his breath the fa
mous words that have como down to posterity,
the Senator might have taken that opportunity
to teach the party to which he belongs the
lesson which they seem to be as slow In learn
ing as the Roman Curia in the 16th century,
that the world moves.
Nothing in the shape of cold brutality
that has come from the Philippines Is
comparable to this. The "antis" should
fall upon Senator Lodge and give him
the worst larruping of his life. He is
the man who would not let Atkinson
lay his. "views" before the committee.
Less Reading, More Thinking.
Detroit Free Press.
Of popular reading there Is entirely too
much, except upon the hypothesis that
reading Is to kill time, divert thought and
provide temporary pleasure. The vast
majority of contemporary novels, like so
many other productions of the day, are
made to sell to a class that demands Its
literature wet from the press. Fairly
good writers can bo named by the scoro,
and It Is probably because there are so
many of them that so few attain to real
distinction, just as we mourn the absence
of Websters and Clays because there Is
such a multitude of accomplished states,
men that unapproachable distinction Is
seldom possible. But the curse of the
situation lies In the mighty legions of
mediocrity and worse. They turn out
books as the modern press showers Its
deluge of dally papers. The seasoning Is
high; the substances little and flabby.
The average novel-reader of the age Is a
"skimmer." Ho wants nothing of sug
gested thought philosophy, ethics, or
even description. He culls out the tale
proper and reaches for another volume.
He Is the victim of mental dissipation.
He gathers nothing that lasts, and his
powers of receiving impressions grow con
stantly weaker. It would be an Inesti
mable boon to this and succeeding gen
erations If there were far less reading,
more careful selection and far more think
ing upon what is read.
Governor Cummin Talking Bravely
Boston Herald..
AH the protests of the extreme protec
tionists in deprecation of meddling with
the sacred tariff do not intimidate the
Republican Governor, Cummins, of Iowa.
He was elected as an avowed tariff re
former, and his utterances in office do
not differ in sentiment nor In force from
his utterances before the election. He
has lately made a speech In Minneapolis,
and there he advocated Government con
trol of trusts, and went so far as to de
clare In favor of a law prohibiting the
issue of any stock except for money paid
in at the par value. This must "Jar" Mr.
Morgan and all the professional promot
ers. But the bold Governor did not quit
with this thrust He talked tariff treason
In a stralght-from-the-shoulder way that
will have a far-reaching influence, for he
Is forging into a leadership of Western
opinion that Is ominous. Sentences such
as these are likely to fly over the coun
try aa un wjngs, ana to awaken a re
sponsive echo In many minds: "I believe,
too, that some branch of the Government
must be empowered to Remove the duties
on Imports upon those commodities re
specting which competition no longer ex
ists in our own country. . . . I believe
that the consumer has a better right to
competition than the producer has to pro
tection. Competition we will have, that
of our country preferred, but that of the,
world if necessary."
NOTE AND COMMENT.
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Got any election cards?
The street corner Is often mightier than
tho stump. 3 '
The Boers continue to hope for peace
and to fight fof It.
Why don't thefuslonlsts nominate Joe
for Mr. Inman's place?
Free beers are more than eloquence, and
free cigars than argument
Wllhelmina apparently considers
worth living, even for a queen.
life
The smoke of the political battle Is
rather more pungent than fragrant
Alphonso got hold of Edward's date
book and played his show ahead of him.
A vigorous application of the drag net
would not seriously injure the North
End.
We begin to suspect that J. P. Morgan
got up the coronation jusl to make busi
ness for his steamship lines.
Iowa had three cyclones In one day. If
this thing keeps up the crop of cabinet
officers will be utterly ruined.
Tho father of the modern prodlcal son
will open wine, perhaps, but he can
hardly afford to kill the fatted calf.
Two rival whisky trusts are likely to
go to war. Perhaps one of them will go
to the length of serving real whisky.
As oil and water will not mix. the
Standard Oil Company la In no danger
of absorption by the new lord of the
seas.
The price of the ham sandwich has
been raided In Chicago, but as long as the
age limit Is not raised, there should bo
no serious objection.
It Is an 111 wind which blows nobody
good. The coal miners strike gives tho
trust magnates a long sought for ex
cuse to raiae prices.
A curious check was presented to tho
cashier of one of the Tonawanda banks
recently. This check, which was for $10,
was made payable to "the sweetest of
the sweet," and was presented1 to the
cashier in the ordinary way. The cashier
naturally startled by the unusual expres
sion In the body of the check, asked In
Innocence: "Who Is 'the sweetest of the
sweet'?" "I am," replied the lady. "Kind
ly Indorse It that way," said the cash
ier. She did. And, as her husband's ac
count warranted It, for, like a prudent
man, he had not overdrawn it, "the
sweetest of the sweet" received her
money.
Alfred Belt, who Is frequently credited
with being the richest man in the world,
Is altogether unlike Cecil Rhodes, the
man with whom he was so long associat
ed in South African affairs. He is highly
polished, courteous, reticent, well-balanced
man of the world, whose London
home has been furnished with a scrupu
lous eye to the avoidance of display. He
spends a great deal of his time on horse
back, and Is regarded as one of the best
dressed men in London, abhorring a
wrinkle as much as Cecil Rhodes detested
fine clothes. Nearly all the clerks In his
employ are university men and several
arc members of the aristocracy. Mr.
Belt was born In Hamburg 40 years ago
of an old and, prosperous Hebrew family.
When Archbishop Patrick J. Ryan, of
Philadelphia, who was recently appointed
a member of the Board of Indian Com
missioners by the President, was a very
young priest he was stationed at a parish
In St Louis, where Archbishop Kendrlck
presided over the diocese. The latter
lived In a very small, unpretentious house,
scarcely In keeping with his position
In the church. One day when Father
Ryan was passing tho house ot the arch
bishop, accompanied by a Chicago priest
who was visiting the Mound City, he
pointed out the house as the residence
of the head of the local church. Tho
Chicago priest said with surprise: "Why,"
you should see the splendid residence we
hAve In Chicago for our archbishop I"
"Ye3," responded Father Ryan, "but you
should see the splendid archbishop we
have In St Louis for our residence!"
Turned the Sea Red.
London Telegraph.
An extraordinary hlng has happened to
the blue Mediterranean. M. Santos-Du-mont
has turned it red. The inflation of
his balloon commenced, as announced,
early yesterday morning. In the shed of
the Bay of Monaco, and was continued
until toward 2 o'elock In the afternoon.
But at that hour a sinister rumor, which
had been gradually spreading In the prin
cipality, reached the ears of the authori
ties. Alarmed Inhabitants rushed from
the beach with the strange news that
the azure waves of the bay had been
dyed blood red. Officials tvent down and
saw with their own eyes that the remark
able rumor was true. It was a deep red
sea and not the blue Mediterranean, on
which the yachts of the bay were sailing.
A messenger was at once dispatched to
the balloon shed to stop the Inflating op
eration. An official from the Prince sub
sequently went to the Aerostatic Park,
and M. Santos-Dumont's secretary, M.
Emmanuel Alme, explained the mystery.
Iron sulphate thrown off In the produc
tion of the hydrogen gas for the balloon,
and running Into the sea, had combined
with the sodium chloride, otherwise tho
salt of the latter, forming a precipitate
of oxide of Iron of a deep-red hue that of
rust which Is the same substance, and
of strong coloring properties. M. Em
manuel Aime assured the official that no
harm could possibly come to the fish In
the bay, or to any other creature, from
the change of tint of the sea.
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Tlie Fear of Death.
John Keats.
When I havo fears that I may cease to bo
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain.
Before high-piled books, in characfry
Held like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain;
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face.
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance.
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair Creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish In the faery power
Of unreflecting love then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and thinH.
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
One Word Is Too Often Profaned'
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
One word is too often profaned
For me to profane it
One feeling too falsely dlsdaln'd
For thee to disdain It.
One hope Is too like despair
For prudence to smother,
And pity from thee more dear
Than that from another.
I can give not what men call love:
But wilt thou accept not
The worship the heart lifts above
And the heavens reject not;
The desire of the moth for the stai
Of the night for the morrow,
Tho devotion to something afar
i"rom tho sphere of our sorrow t