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PORTLAND, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1002.
INESCAPABLE RESPONSIBILITY.
Upon every citizen rests the responsi
bility for the result of the election June
2, and the verdict then to be rendered
which will interpret the attitude of Ore
gon toward the Issues that confront the
Nation. Are the purposes of the Re
publican party worth standing for?
They are known of all men;.they are re
flected in the results of the past five
years. What are the purposes of the
Democratic party? And are they worth
standing for? They are reminiscent of
the distress of that time, not long past,
at thought of which all men shudder,
but which ended with defeat of the
Bryanized Democracy. The purposes of
the Simon fuslonlsts, what do they
stand for? What, but lltle, narrow,
selfish, revengeful, petty and factional
politics?
Republicans throughout the state
must know that what the Republican
party of the country stands for is at
stake in the election that is coming.
The voice of Oregon is no unimportant
factor. It comes at a time that gives
it special significance to the country.
Candidates who stand before the peo
ple in a general election ought to repre
sent something They ought to stand
for a party and for a cause. Parties
are an indispensable agency in repre
sentative government. They who stand
before the people in a general election,
representing no party, having no policy
or purposes in which any general body
of citizens is concerned, responsible to
no party or through no party for any
thing that can be determined, fearing
to adopt any party creed or policy lest
they might alienate some whose support
they seek such are merely in the posi
tion of a faction or an aggregation of
factions pursuing motives petty or per
sonal, and little entitled to considera
tion. Such is the "fusion" movement in
Multnomah County. Its authors dare
not call themselves one thing or an
other. It is not a Democratic ticket, for
it is based on no principles or purposes
of that party. So far as the Democratic
party is concerned, it Is a sacrifice of
everything to a Simon alliance. And
what is the purpose of the remnants of
the Simon faction? Ruin when they
cannot rule. If not leadership, if not
control and victory, at most revenge.
Here is a ticket, especially the Simon
part of it, nominated by not more than
three men, and handed out to be rati
fied by an assembly, comppsed in part
of Democrats, who, however, had abdi
cated their functions as members of the
Democratic party and put themselves
into an assembly of mongrel descrip
tion, to which the last remnant of the
Simon faction, self-appointed, had be
taken themselves as "citizens." By this
combination, authorized by nobody,
emanating from darkness, of the ring
xlngy, axtlcket Is put forth which is
said to have been "nominated by the
people, not. by a ring."
It is not possible to misunderstand.
What sort of Republicans are they who
join this effort to make Oregon a Demo
cratic state?
Again, the Inquiry is, Are the pur
poses of the Republican party worth
standing for? Or is experience with
Democratic policy and with the results
thereof so soon forgotten?
Take it on another basis. Oregon is
faring well at the hands of the Repub
lican party and the National Adminis
tration. Congress is giving attention to
our wants. The river and harbor bill
carries nearly everything we could ask.
We are vitally interested in retention or
the Philippine Islands. Expansion of
Pacific commerce, just begun? depends
on continuance of the poilcy that has
called it Into existence. Are we to give
all this up for a little petty scheme of
factional politics, inspired by a narrow
partisanship, in conjunction with mo
tives of personal revenge?
This is the nature of the present con
test in Oregon. Is Oregon to adopt the
larger ideas of the time and get ahead,
or sink back Into petty, narrow, cheap
and trifling politics, personal and fac
tional? It deserves the earnest atten
tion of every citizen of Oregon.
It really seems" as If the powers that
hold dominion in the air were abusing
their prerogative in extending March
weather far into May. It is sad to
think of the wealth of cherry, peach
and plum blossoms that fulfilled their
mission by blooming and casting their
petals. It now seems evident that the
fruit crop In these lines will be short
over wide areas of the Willamette Val
ley a prospect the fulfillment of which
is further Insured by every additions,!
day of cloudy, showery weather and
cold southwest winds. However, half a
crop of cherries Is a big crop In Oregon,
and with this assurance we roust per
force be content. Plenty is not so bad,
though abundance was desired.
THE FAIR SITE.
The lively Interest that is being taken
In the choice of the site of the Lewis
and Clark Fair is gratifying as show
ing a genuine Dublic Interest in the suc
cess of the Fair, that, when the proper
time comes, may be depended upon to
rise superior to the narrow personal in
terest t)f real estate holders and center
upon the Exposition, whether it is lo
cated upon the East Side or the West, A
to the northward on the Peninsula or
southward toward Sellwood. To the ex
teat that Interest is taken in this mat
ter there will be disappointment when
the choice is made, but this will be tem
porary, and should not Influence ad
versely the effort that will follow in
making the Fair a credit to the State
of Oregon and the City of Portland,
and grandly commemorative of the cen
tennial which it will fitly celebrate.
Men, we are wont to say, are but
children of larger growth. Hence some
expression of chagrin, of disappoint
ment, and perhaps of ill-feeling, may be
expected to follow the choice of this lo
cation. But Just here is where thel
"larger growth" of men as individuals
may reasonably be expected to appear.
Disappointment, as represented in sulk
ing or other manifestation of vexation,
is childish; as shown in the power to
rise above personal considerations it
marks the "larger growth" which the
well-worn adage proclaims. Upon one
proposition all are agreed. The grounds
chosen should combine utility and con
venience to the greatest possible extent.
That is to say, they should be readily
convertible to the uses for Which they
are chosen, and accessible without un
necessary loss of time in transit of vis
itors from the center of the city's busi
ness These main points settled, the
rest will follow. Every public-spirited
citizen should make up his mind in ad
vance of the selection of this site, to
abide by the decision cheerfully, uphold
all criticism of the choice as wholly use
less, and therefore unwise, to the end
thaf. all things may work together for
the good of a common cause.'
THE COAL-MINERS' STRIKE.
A strike far-reaching in its conse
quences, and one that should be avoid
ed by all conciliatory means on the
part of both employes and employers
that are at ail compatible with justice.
Is the coal-miners strike. The history
of the industrial dissensions of the past
ten years contains a no more unsatis
factory and disastrous chapter to all
concerned, which includes a. vast army
of consumers, than that which gives in
detail the events and the consequences
of strikes and lockouts in the coal-producing
regions.
It is conceded by the general public
that President Mitchell, of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, and the ex
ecutive committees working with him,
displayed great caution and moderation
In matters leading up to and finally cul
minating in this strike, while employ
ers' agents of National reputation as
sound business men from time to time
dealt with the matters at Issue in a
careful and conciliatory spirit Still,
the strike Is on, a lockout has followed
in some of the mines, and the battle
of the contending elements promises to
be stubbornly contested.
It Is evident that this industrial war
is a question in which the public has
deep Interest and concern, since it men
aces the prosperity which extends far
beyond the coal region Into the Indus
trial life of the Nation, Its convenience
and its prosperity. There Is nothing
certain In the outcome of a contest of
this kind. The strike will doubtless be
a long one. If it succeeds it will require
many months of hard labor to make up
for the loss in wages. If it fails no
body will even be ultimately benefited,
while the enormous and far-reaching
losses will bear heavily upon various
industries, not alone In the, mining re
gions, but In a much wider field of
human endeavor. The operators and
the railroads may repair their losses In
time by increased production and an
added tax upon consumers, but the loss
in wages is Irreparable. That Is to say,
the miners and their families will bear
the chief burden, and the coal-consuming
public will follow them a dlose sec
ond. That there Is a real grievance behind
a strike of this nature cannot be doubt
ed. That, growing by what it feeds
upon agitation, injustice and stub
bornnessunreason, follows in the train
of grievance is no doubt true. And,
since it is also true that a strike in a
great Industry that bears so close a re
lation to business, trade and home as
does the anthracite coal Industry quick
ly assumes the proportions of a calam
ity, such a strike.should be by all pos
sible means avoided through mutual
concessions 4n the beginning, which in
the end must be made. That this is not
done proves that with all their getting
in the great school of experience men
have failed to get an understanding of
each other; that through the open
causeway of human nature and corela
tive interests they are not yet able at
all times to- reach the goal of harmony,
at which alone employer and employe
can rest In security and mutual good
feeling.
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS OF A HALF
CENTURY.
The progress that was made in manu
facturing in the last half of the nine
teenth century that is, from 1850
to 1900, inclusive Js shown in a census
bulletin recently issued. This present
ment makes quite interesting reading
of its class, being an epitome of the
industrial growth of a period the most
wonderful in every respect, in the
world's history According to the most
careful summary that It was possible to
make, the number of wage-earners in
.the time covered was multiplied by 5,
then wages by 10, and the value of the
product by 13. That is to say, the In
crease of product was greater than the
increase of wages, and the increase of
wages was nearly twice as great as the
increase of wage-earners. Being fur
ther elaborated. It shows the develop
ment of machinery within the half cen
tury, since by no other means could the
apparent value of the wage-earner's
product have increased from 5L0S5 in
1850 to 52.451 in 1900. If this is true and
great pains have been taken to make
the estimates at least approximate to
facts the workman n a factory, rep-,
resenting the average of all workmen,
now turns out a product 2-1-3 times as
valuable as that which his predecessor
of fifty years ago turned out When we
consider that all sorts of manufactures
are included in this stupendous average,
and since the1 market value of very
many manufactured articles is much
less, than in 1850, this general result is j
surprising. .
The one fact brought" out distinctly
as the leading element Jn. this summing
up is that this progress is due to ma
chinery as auxiliary to the wage-earner's
endeavor. Men In one vast depart
ment of our Industrial life make the
machines; men in other departments
operate them, assuring a more valuablev
and at the same time a lower-priced
product and a much more abund&fit one.
Further than this; this interesting bul
letin presents a table of the growth of
our manufactures by decades apd In'
detail that Is well worth scanning.
Thus it. is shown that the rate of In
crease in the number of establishments,
in their capital, in wages, In the num
ber of workmen, was smaller between
1870 and 1880 than during any other
decade of the five covered, while in al
most every respect the most rapid rate
of increase was noted in the decade fol
lowing, from 1880 to 1890. The stagna
tion of the first half of the next decade
and the slow recuperation ofvindustry
during the second half are matters of
common knowledge. For these reasons
the results of the business of the decade
ending with 1890 did not become appar
ent until within the last few years of
the century, when the tremendous in
dustrial equipment of the country was
magnetized into life.
Perhaps the most Interesting fact in
this presentment is that which shows
that the immense gains in manufac
turing industry have gone largely Into
wages. The story is told in the state
ment that the increase in wages was
nearly double the increase in the num
ber of wage-earners. Beyond this It is
not necessary to explore In order to un
derstand why the skilled American
workman and the products of his hands
lead the world.
OUR NEUTRALITY LAWS.
A correspondent asks The Oregonlan:
"If we have the right to sell supplies to
a belligerent In our own territory, why
not In theirs?" The citizens of the
United States have a right to do within
the domain of the United States what
ever they may legally do within "the
United States, and they 'may do with
out the domain of the United States
only that which the powers that be in a
foreign country choose to permit. The
citizens of the United States may, sell
supplies to either belligerent subject,
of course, to risk of-capture and con
fiscationbut the citizens of the United
States may not fit out a vessel of war
in this country and enlist men to be
employed against a friendly power.
Our right to sell to either belligerent as
a matter of private traffic is, of course,
safe enough In our own territory; but
our success in selling supplies outside
of our own country would be like the
success of smugglers. Our Government
does not pretend to protect the private
traffic with either belligerent beyond
our own domain. The belligerent that
buys the goods takes his risk on their
delivery.
The British merchants could sell
goods to either belligerent during our
Civil War, but whether- the Southern
belligerent ever got his goods depended
on the ability of the blockade-runner to
escape capture by the cruisers of the
enemy or his blockading fleet. We have
our own neutrality laws, and enforce
them, but we do not protect private
traffic with either belligerent outside
of our own domain. The private Amer
ican trader must take care of his own
ventures beyond the United States. No
man may be enlisteu- in this country
to fight a friendly power, but if an
American citizen chooses he may go
abroad and enter the service of an
other government to fight a friendly
power. Horses and mules are contra
band 6t war, but either Boer or Briton
may buy them in this country; but
when these -horses and mules are found
upon the high seas by the wrong bel
ligerent, they are, of course subject to
forcible seizure by Briton or Boer, as
the case may be.
The British shipments would, of
course, Incur no risk, for the Boers
have no navy any more than has
Switzerland. It Is the misfortune, not
the fault, of the'Boers that they have
no navy; but that Is no reason why
the citizens of the United States may
not under our laws sell horses and
mules to persons for shipment to South
Africa. The Boers can buy horses and
mules of our people today, and the only
reason why they do not buy them is'
because they cannot hope to deliver
them. The British buy them because
they can deliver them. During our
Civil War both belligerents bought In
the first year of the war arms in for
eign countries. The North bought En
field rifles of Great Britain, and the
South bought Whitworth rifles. Whit
worth and Brooke guns. The guns sold
to the Government of the United States
were easily delivered, because the Con
federacy at that time had no navy, but
the arms and military supplies sold to
the Southern Confederacy had, to run
the risk of capture by our blockading
fleet and cruisers. An American citi
zen might run the risk of trying to trade
to both belligerents, but he would trade
at his own risk, with, of course, the
chance of being ground to death be
tween two hostile jcamps.
As to what is contraband of war, that
is a very indefinite question.- The
French proclaimed rice contraband of
war when they were fighting China
some 20 years ago, and if France and
Russia should go to war with England
doubtless they would proclaim bread
stuffs contraband of war at 'the risk of
the possible Interference of the United
States to protect her -export trade In
food products from ruin- The United
States Government permits traffic with
either belligerent, but the American
trader delivers his goods in a foreign
country at his own risk. If they are
seized on the high seas by the wrong
belligerent and condemned by an ad
miralty court as contraband of war, the
American trader must pocket his loss.
In our Civil War the smuggling of qui
nine and other Important medlcalsup
plles to the Southern Confederacy
caused the expulsion of a host of North
ern traders from the lines of General
Grant. The British trader could sell
anything In line of military supplies to
the South from British dominions, but
he had to make his delivery at his own
risk. If we captured his cargo and con
demned it as contraband of war, ha had
to pocket his loss. .
The same correspondent inquires why
J our press dispatches allude to the
Transvaal as Transvaal Colony while
the war is yet undecided. The Trans
vaal was proclaimed a part of the Brit
ish Empire by Lord Roberts, September
1, 1900. The Boers have nq base, no real
government; -they are only waging a
guerrilla warfare; the "capital and all
the chief towns of the Transvaal, its
railroads, its mines, are all in British
possession: the fate"of the war is really
decided, although all resistance has rint
yet ceased; legally and technically the
Transvaal Is JSecome a British posses-
slon- : -
Secretary Shaw bids fair to be the
most popular member bf the Roosevelt
Administration, especially with Ameri
jcan women "returning from abroad. He
has given directions that are expected
to infuse a new spirit of courtesy infft
the Custom-House service by which of
fensive and overminute methods of bag
gage Inspection will be avoided. These
methods have for years annoyed the
traveling public in a degree out of all
proportion to the amount of revenue
which they have been instrumental In
collecting through uncovering "attempt
ed frauds upon the Government. It 13
hed, and very properly, that the law
ought not to concern itself with trifles.
While officers should be vigilant in pre
venting smuggling, they should deal
reasonably with the average passenger, J
who; while he has no intention of de
frauding the Government, has an in
tense desire to protect his "baggage
from ruthless and sometimes ruinous
handling. The former policy has been
to treat ail travelersas dishonest until
proven otherwise; the new policy Is to
treat all as honest until evidences to
defraud are shown. It remains to be
seen whether the average trans-Atlantic
traveler Is worthy of the confidence
thus reposed in his or her honorable.
dealing with the Government. The cus
toms receipts for the first quarter of the
new fiscal year In the principal Atlantic
ports will probably decide whether or
not the traveling public is deserving
of the magnanimity shown by Secretary
Shaw in this matter.
From the State Department today,
May 20, notices Identical in language"
will be sent to all United States Am
bassadors and Ministers residing
abroad, announcing the termination on
that date of the military occupation of
the Island of Cuba by the United
Slates Government. Supplemental to
this announcement will be the state
ment that Tomas Estrada Palma has
been duly installed President of Cuba.'
There will be no invitation on our part
to the nations to recognize the new re
public, but it Is expected that they will
of their own volition accept the fact of
Cuban Independence and follow the ex
ample of the United States by sending
to the Island a Minister resident, staff
of Legation and Consuls. This wjjl, no
doubt, follow in due time the Inaugu
ration of President Palma, which will
take place today. Whatever the po
litical future of the Island may be, It
Is certain that the United States Gov
ernment has discharged a delicate and
difficult task In Cuba with honor and
resigned it with dignity.
In his budget speech last month Sir
Michael Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the
British Exchequer, declared as prelimi
nary to the presentment of his esti
mates that "war is a costly thing to
wage and a costly thing to terminate.''
Thl3 is perhaps truer now than in any
other, period of the world's history, be
cause of the more costly enginery em
ployed in waging war, and of the char
acter of the people against whom it Is
waged. Great Britain finds in South
Africa, and the United States finds in
j the Philippines, va war costly to wage
ana costly to terminate. Tne resistance
of the Boers is that of stubborn chil
dren untutored in thevvaiue of- scouting
the necessity -ot yleldingfTtire resistance
ofthe Filipinos 'is agaitt'that of chil
dren schooled in treachery, but ignorant
of the $rst principles of liberty, the
blessings of which they scout while fill
ing the air with clamor for their at
tainment. The Dutch crisis has passed for the
present, and the subjects of Queen Wll
helmina, who have a genuine affection
for her, may indulge in the hope that
she will be spared to them for many
years. Her recovery may not settle
ffirever the disputed succession to her
throne, but it will settle it or her life
time at least. Her death. It was feared,
would disturb the peace of Europe; her
life, judged from the same standpoint
of possibility, may prolong it.
"It ain't such a thundering sight of
fun when you come to light," was Dar
ius Green's only objection td flying, and
the pertinence of the observation has
never been surpassed even in these days
of airships. The one unconquerable
thing that stands (n the way) of aerial
paVlgation is the mortal peril of the oc-
r-casional accident
Shnnie.
Minneapolis Tribune.
There has been no more shameful episode In
recent American history than the attack on
the honor of the American Army by a lot of
tin-horn Senators, who thought they saw a way
to make political capital. These Are beginning
to hear from the country, and, dull to sense
of shame and honor as they are, they begin to
realize that they have made a mistake. The
assault on tho Army Is weakening, even before
the Republicans, who should nave met It boldly
at the beginning, had bean aroused to tlfeir
duty "by the same popular message. It must
be said that nobody In the American Govern
ment,. In either party or In any branch of it,
has come out of this affair with much credit.
The War Department also Is overwhelmed
with protests from the late volunteer troops,
who feel that their branch of the service Is
dishonored by the testimony of witnesses be
fore tho Senate committee. This Imites atten
tion to these precious witnesses, who have
been playing a part less res'pectable. because
less dangerous, than that of the few American
deserters to the ladrones In the Philippines.
The Senate cpmmlttee has scraped the country
with a garbago rake for scum and rlfT-raft
ofhe American volunteers, which wonld help
the Democratic party to votes, by slandering
the 'service they had left. .
Tho singularly small result of willing wit
nesses Is evidence, not only of the good con
duct of the Array In the Philippines, but of
the general satisfaction of the troops with the
conditions of their service. Out of more than
PO.COO Volunteers, the Senate committee has
found barely a dozen disgruntled enough to do
its dirty work. The episode Is nearly over now,
but It made a bad smell while It lasted.
.
A Hindoo Obituary Notice.
Seth Bam Das, the premier banker of
Patiala, is Ao more. Poor soul! he was
destined to fall a prey to his own wound
ed susceptibilities. A man of high posi
tion and of the venerable "age of 70. with
an immaculate character and an unspotted
name. Known tor ms large-heartedness
and charity, Seth Ram Das was a unique
figure irrl the native society of, Patiala,
and his death has caused a gap which
can hardly be filled up. The Seth was
arrested "by the Patiala police among those
ill-fated Chaudharies who were dragged
by the Durbar to undergo the indignities
and sufferings ot confirmed sedition mon
gers. He felt all this keenly, and, see
ing that the evening of his life was so
clouded and begirt all round with humilia
tion and disgrace, his heart sank and
eventually failed, like a deserted castle,
which comes tumbling down to ground
for want of an inmate. As one muses
over this grand ruin, in vain he seeks
to trace this untimely decay to any dis
ease or infirmity, for the "canker" had
been preying all the while ""on his vital
parts, and the poor Seth died of broken
heart. i.
SEATTLE AND THE BULGE.
San Francisco Call.
San Francisco has not indicated any
fear of Jealousy of Seattle and her grow
ing trade. Tho frequent statement of its
percentage of increase has caused no dis-qulet-here,
because; starting at zero any
trade must be state'd at once in hundreds
of. per cent increase!
But Seattle pays this, city the compli
ment of constantly attacking Its primacy
in commerce, showing its mislocatlon,
lack of facilities and its forlorn situa
tion generally.-
The Inst demonstration of this kind is
ratner interesting. The Post-Intelligenc-er
graces its pages with a map Of the
globe, embracing the hemisphere from
abput "WlnnemuCca. to Borneo. Across
this is drawn Hogarth's line of beauty,
a curve that starts at the Anaconda cop
per mine, crosses the Siskiyou Moun
tains, plunges 4nto the Pacific half-way
between Seattle and San Francisco, and
goes whizzing across the ocean to New
Guinea. This is called "The Great Circle
dividing the globe into trade heral-
spheres." All the trade north of It be
longs to Seattle. That city has filed a
caveat on It. The trade south of it is
given to San Fr&nclsco, and consists of
the commerce of the Society Islands, Ha
waii, a small piece of New" Guinea and a
few miles of the -coast of Australia.
It is a most depressing circle, and Is
quite enough to cause a fall in real es
tate in this city. It is introduced with
the statement that "the bulge of the earth
favors Putret Sound." and slves Seattle
the bulge on San Francisco. Ldoklng at
the formfdable and admonitory chart, one
wonders at the self-denial of our enter
prising neighbor. While inventing trade
circles and stringing them around the
planet like seams on a'baseball, this por
tentious line might as well .have been
thrown over San Francisco with the
statement that It compels us to go to
Seattle to do our shopping.
After all, it is not worthy the com
mercial dignity of that enterprising city.
If a circle artist should draw his pencil
through the Atlantic Ocean, the same
sort of a line would locate all the trade
of the Atlantic seaboard with Europe at
Portland, Me., leaving New York a small
speck made by a small fly In an Idle mo
ment. It Is that Bort of theoretical greatness.
which has been used by the boom cities.
Fort Scott. Kan., tried to alarm the
world by publishing a map showing that
town to be In the center of the earth.
But immediately the town of Hutchinson
Issued a map proving that It was the
center of the planet. Then many other
towns made the discovery that the hori
zon is a perfect circle around any given
point of the globe, and that every place
Is the center of the earth. Then every
body breathed easier, and as the town, of
Hutchinson had extensive and profitable
salt wells, it Immediately proceeded to
outrun and outgrow Fort Scott, and the
latter has only a few miles of lot stakes
to show for the advantages of its central
position.
Trade depends upon sometnmg nesiaes
geography and imaginary commercial cir
cles. The trade centers of Europe have
shifted many times, and may shift again.
Wisby, in. the far and -frozen North, once
controlled the trade of that hemisphere.
and so did Venice, and after her Genoa,1
in the soft and clement South. Then it
passed the Pillars of Hercules to the Low
Countries, and finally crossed the chan
nel to the British Isles, '
The Immediate presence of production
and consumption is a factor In centering
trade. The friction of exchange deposits
the profit of commerce. The enormous
and varied production of California is the
stable quality in the commerce of San
Francisco. Trade that merely passes
through a "place from a distant point of
production to a distant point of exchange
deposits no, profit in transit. The advan
tage claimed for Seattle, and proved by
a great circle that ha3 no more sub
stantial existence and influence than, the
witch circles that used to terrify the
superstitious, is an advantage shared
equally by Bitter Creek, Medicine Bow,
Puyallup, Walla Walla and every station
on the Northern Pacific and Great North
ern through which trains pass carrying
freight to a far-away point of exchange.
Of course, the exchange made on Puget
Sound will increase with locaj popula
tion and production, and they will con
tribute to local profit and to the growth
of Seattle. But San Francisco, in the
lush abundance of production in Califor
nia, from resources that are only
scratched superficially, feels no fear of
her own future "and no jealousy of the fu
ture df Seattle.
Whr Nixon .Retired.
Chicago Tribune.
New York, May II. In connection
with Mr. Nixon's retirement hia friends
told a story today that Mr. Nixon, whose
reputation for integrity never was ques
tioned by those who knew him, was re
peatedly, after affiliating himself with
Tammany, subjected to indignities by
people who thought that he could bo
bribed. One of these was an attempt to
get him to change the specifications for
the steel for the Williamsburg bridge by
the payment to Mr. Nixon of 5100,000 In
cash, or Its equivalent. He Indignantly
spurned the proffer, and was with diffi
culty restrained from assaulting the mm
man who tried to bribe him.
An old classmate at Annapolis, it Is
said, was chosen to do the "dirty" work.
He called on Mr. Nixon at his home and
during the evening conversation drifted
quite naturally to the bridge contract and
the kind of steel that was to go into the
structure. Mr. Nixon's old classmate
proposed to him that a certain grade of
steel would answer all purposes for the
bridge, and that If Chief Engineer Buck
could be overruled it would be either di
rectly or indirectly worth $100,000 to Mr.
Nixon.
Springing to his feet Mr. Nixon Is. al
leged to have said: " ," calling him
by name, "you have insulted me. I never
thought you would think me capable of
.taking a bribe. I ought to knock you
down. I'll let the Insult go because It
may be that you are under the Influence
of liquor and don't know what you have
said." Then the old friends parted ene
mies. Mr. Nixon virtually confirmed the ctory
when asked about it, but he would not
specify.
That was not the only occasion when
Mr. Nixon, because of his Croker affilia
tions, was "approached" by men with
unworthy motives. It Is believed to have
been a steadily increasing accumulation
df these exceedingly mortifying experi
encesmortifying to an hjonest man like
Mr. Nixon thit made him absolutely dis
gusted with his political experiment os
leader of a corrupt organization.
Mount Pelce and Nicaragua.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The opponents of the Nicaragua Canil
Jnslst that the eruption -of Mount Pelee
makes it necessary to postpone all
isthmian canal legislation indefinitely.
They contend that in the fict of the ter
rible upheaval a"t Martinique it would be
unwise to pass or attempt to pass the
Nicaragua Canal bill at this session of
Congress.
Four years ago the Pacific railway lob
by wanted information, and canal legis
lation was delayed. Two years ago the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty threw -the railway
lobbyists into a panic, and again there
was delay.
When the Clayton-Bulwer treaty was
Lremoved, the Panama scheme was .ex
ploited. This having ceased to Interest
the American people, the opponents of
any isthmian canal turn to the volcanic
eruption in Martinique for aid.
The lake region of Nicaragua has
never been disturbed by volcanic erup
tions, and the ruteof the proposed ca
nal, including Lako'NIcaragua, is as it
was when first explored, 400 years ago.
Besides, Mount Pelee and the Nicara
gua route are farther apart than "Vesu
vius and the "Manchester ship canal.
The gentlemen of the anti-canal lobby
should study the map. Then they might
pwof3 TTtaVltcr tharnaalvaa rldlntiJmm.
PUSILLANIMOUS CARMACK.
Iew York Commercial Advertiser. r
.What was the motive which Impelled
Senator Carmack, of Tennessee, to apolo
gize to the Senate for his language In de
bate toward everybody whb Is in any way
concerned with carrying forward the Ad
ministration's policy in the Philippines?
There was nothing unusual about that
language in the mouth of a man engaged
in the agitation of which Mr. Carmack is
one of the leaders. He called General
Smith a "bloody old scoundrel, murderer
and butcher," General Funston "a deliber
ate, willful and malicious liar," andsald
of Republicans in general that they were
guilty Of "devilish Impudence," and of
one of them. Senator Dolllver, that "so
far as hi3 argument is concerned he might
just as well have been swinging from his
prehensile tall from a leafy bough." This
Is blackguardism, of course, but it is the
ordinary ".antl" language of debate and
expoelt.on. Mr. Carmack had used even
more unusual language a few days earlier.
The speech for which he aoolosrlzed was
delivered on May S, yet on April 25 he said
? the Senate, in reference to President
Roosevelt's speech at Charleston
The President must not be Judged In his mo
ments of oratorical ferocity or when the frenzy
of battle Is In his blood. He Is not vindictive,
but simply strenuous, and he resembles In his
habits of speech a certain Tennessoean's horse,
of which It was said that running away was
his natural gait.
In the same speech Mr. Carmack said of
General Funston:
He 4s the Jayhawker Brigadier" from the
wind-swept plains, the mlghUest Samson that
ever wielded the Jawbone of an ass as a
weapon of war. ... If men are to be
hanged without regard to law for speaking
words calculated to Incite Insurrection, the
first neck to feel the strangling clutch of fte
soaped rope should be the heroic gullet of
Funston.
That Is regulation "anti" language, as
we shall show by abundant citations from
the highest authorities. Senator Rawlins,
of Utah, arose in the" Senate on April 29
to explain that he had been misreported
when he was represented as having, in a
previous speech, called General Chaffee a
"dastard villain," and then said:
Did Chaffee, alone, unaided, in coldness and
brutality, and In savage and unrelenting disre
gard of- eery humane sentiment or possibility
of human suffering, conceive thl Iniquitous
scheme? "Whence from what diabolical source
was It derived? The American people ought
to know. Is there any penalty beneath the
sun adequate to be meted out to the dastard
villain who has thus brought dishonor upon
the American name and the American people?
On the same day Senator Teller declared:
This Government cannot escape the condem
nation of the world and ot every right-thinking
man for this miserable, wicked attempt to
compel these people to accept our Government
whether they desired It or not.
On the same day also the regular re
ports of the debate contained this pas
sage: Mr. Bacon, of Georgia, expressed the belief
that the disease and great mortality among
the natives of Batangas Province has been
caused by the laying waste of the province by
war. Crops had been destroyed and the In
habitants had been confronted almost by a
condition of famine.
These citations give an accurate Idea of
the regular style of language used by the
allies of the "antls" in the Senate.
Whence comes the inspiration? Why,
from the chief "antl" organ itself. It is
the plain, literal truth that the Senators
from the far West and South have shown
more restraint in their assaults upon the
officers of the Government at Washington
and In the" Philippines than the "antl"
organ has. Witness the following, direct
ed against Secretary Root, In the Evening
Post of April 9:
The War Department, as we see by the evi
dence extracted from It about corruption In
the transport service, and by the other official
proofs of barbarities In the Philippines, which
it was keeping dark, will hush up everything
if It can. But Congress and the press must
not let any, of these evil deeds be covered up.
And the following against the Ameri
can Army from the same paper on the
same date:
Our troops In the Island of Samar have been
pursuing a "policy of wholesale and deliberate
murder. They have made of their war simply
"the hired assassin's trade."
And the following from the same paper
on April 11 against both Secretary Root
and Governor Taft:
Secretary Root and Governor Taft come very
badly out of this affair of keeping back vital
Information from Congress. The reports with
held are terribly damaging, but the fact of
withholding them Is almost more damaging.
It Is not simply that It argues a lack ot can
dor; It Is very nearly a breach of faith. ...
The document Is one which should have been
Instantly turned over to that committee of in
quiry, and given to every American to read
and ponder. But what was done with It?
Why, Governor Taft concealed It, Secretary
Boot plgtfon-holed Jt. and nothing but the
Indiscretion of General Miles gave the public
a hint that such a tell-tale report was In
existence. This Is, to our mind, almost an
impeachable offense. It Is to treat Congress
und the people with, contempt. It casts In
evitable suspicion on every statement of the
case that Secretary Root may make. "What
cards is he still keeping under the table?
Those charges were made in reference
to the Gardener report, and were untrue.
Governor Taft did not "conceal" It and
Secretary Root did not "pigeon-hole" it..
It was sent to General Chaffee for Inves-'
tigation because it was on its face a hear
say assault upon the Army, as it has since
been shown to be. Ten days later, when
Governor Taft and Secretary Root had
made public the truth about their pro
ceedings with the Gardener report, the
Evening Post, April 21, never having with
drawn Its first calumnies upon these offi
cials, added a new one as follows:
There can be no question that the War De
partment has been seriously discredited by. the
recent revelations of the manner In which It
so long deceived the country regarding the
question of torture by onr troops In the Phll
ll pines.
This deliberate misstatement was fol
lowed three days later, April 24, with one
like unto It:
The attitude of the War Department and of
the Army until a few days ago was that there
had been no cruelty, and that soldiers who
said there had been were liars. Now that It Is
Impossible to cover the matter up longer, tho
disposition Is to claim "that cruelty was neces
sary, and" that only white-livered people would
object to it.
Now compare the following refined and
gentlemanly allusion to General Funston
in the Evening Post of April" 26 with those
of Senators Rawlins, Cannack and others
in the Senate, and see how perfectly it
coincides with them:
What Is General Funston to do with his
mouth since the President ordered aim to stop
talking? A man with the Funston type "of
mouth evidently cannot long restrict It to the
single purpose of eating. Surely he will not
wear the gag which the President has Just In
serted When he can escape the( necessity of
behaving like an officer and a gentleman by
the simple act of resigning his position.
r
Highland Mnry.
Robert Burns.
Te banks and braes and streams around
The castle o Montgomery,
Green be your woods, and fair your flowers,
Tfaur waters never drumllel
There simmer first unfauld -her robes.
And there the langest tarry:
For there I took the last fareweel
O' my sweet Highland Mary.
How sweetly bloom'd the gay green blrk.
How rich the hawthorn's blossom.
As underneath their fragrant uhade
I clasp'd her to my bosom!
The golden hpurs on angel wlnga
Flew o'er me ahd my dearie;
For dear to me as light and life '
Was my sweet Highland Mary.
WI' raony a vow and lock'd embrace.
Our parting was fu' tender:
And pledging aft to meet oraln,-
We tore oursels asunder;
But. Oh! fell Death's untimely frost.
That nipt myflower sae early!
Now green's the sod, and cauld'e the clay.
That wraps my Highland Mary!
O pale, pale now, those rosy lips,
I aft hae klss'd sae fondly!
And closed for aye the sparkling glance.
Tbrft dwelt on me sae kindly;
And mouldering now lit silent dust .
That heart that lo'ed me dearly!
But etlll within ray bosom's cere
au-w ii ,v Highland, Mary.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
What a short Summer we had!
Those of us who. are still alive havu rea
son to be thankful.
There are other reasons for not living
In Texas beside ex-Governor Hogg.
A speechless politician might be a val
uable addition to modern inventions.
Curious that oratory and brass band3
should be needed to get the silent vote.
The powers began to quarrel over "VI1
helmlua's possessions too soon. She heard
about it, and got welL
San Francisco has been shocked by an
earthquake,. It takes an earthquake to
shock San Frarcisco.
E. H. Harriman has bought another
railroad, probably for a birthday present
for some cecond cousin.
Nebraska reports a volcano. 'Somo
states can't be anything but Imitators, r.j
matter how hard they try.
Cuba now has an opportunity to frams
a constitution that will mean whatecr
any party hereafter chooses to make it.
The difference between J. P. Morgan ari
the Count of Monte CrLsto is that the
Count only thought he owned the earth.
Kipling says that America has the deir
Cbt little army in the world. Events h"nc
proved, however, that it is worth all it
cost.
The American troops are almost as long
in wi(hdrawlng from Cuba as the British
forces are in withdrawing frorn the
Tranjv aal.
If the camera trust will only put its
product beyond the reach of the fiend, the
President ought not to set the Attorney-
General on it.
The young King of Spain is already a
target for anarchists. It bis mother
doesn't keep her eje on him he Is likrly
to drop the scepter and run.
The new Secretary of the Navy siys
that naval officers should go to sea once
in p. while. If this plan is carried out it
will prove disastrous to the controversies
which form, part of the attractions of
Washington.
"Paul Leicester Ford," says the Phila
delphia Record, "was quite a familiar
figure in Philadelphia when he was
gathering material for his bIograp.ii-aI
works dealing with the lives of Wabhing
ton and Franklin. Much of his rsc-irch
was accomplished in the rooms of the
Historical Society of' Pennsylvania, at
Thirteenth and Locusjt streets, and thero
he delved into musty documents eany ana
late, seeminjr Indefatigable in his labcrs.
He had a little desk reserved for his own
use on the Thirteenth-street side of the
nuiidlnff. where the light wa3 best, and
there the pathetic but eager figure of the
little hunchback could be seen every day
fnr spveral weeks, poring over the rec
ords and copying notes with an apparently .
tireless energy. He lived very quieti
here, and made few friends, but many
frequenters of the Historical Soclet's
building will recall the crouched-up l'ttlo
man working away in the corner."
Miss Christine Ross, of New York, is
the only woman in that city, if not in
th United States, who has held the of
fice of certified public accountant. She
was the first woman to attempt the ex
aminations for the place. She was second
nn fhp. list of candidates, being only six-
tenths of a ooint below the mark received
by the most successful competitor. When
asked about her duties. Miss koss saiu io
u rfnrter: "People, principally women,
send for me from all around .to straighten
rhPir accaunts. Charitable organizations
which are managed by women are amo"g
my steady clients. Few things, indeeu. a-e
more helpless than the average young s--siety
woman' who, from all sorts of good
motives and kindly Intentions, attempts to
kpen the church diet, kitchen or day rur-
bm-l- hnnks. If she should turn her ac
counts Into a crock, beat them thorougiiy
nn hk them In an oven for 30 mirutcs.
the treatment would be about as sensible
as that which .ey ordinarily recele.
Oklahoma' Advancement.
nviivicrn "Rppord-Herald.
t ,ra Vino Vithrtn heen anv doubt as
to Oklahoma's right to statehood, it
should now disappear iorever. vivi
tion follows the college yell. Where the
college yell Is never heard it may be un
i . if tVio territorial form of ROV-
ernment be dropped; but. there noer can
bo any question as to the presence of ad
vanced thought where the college yell
echoes and re-ecnoes tnrougn wi? iu.
The Oklahoma Agricultural and Medical
College has just adopted the following of
ficial yell:
Oh, we are the students of the A. il. C!
Kl! Yi! Kl! Te!
The 'wearers ot the black nnd the orange we,
Blp Zip! Hooray!
We haven't any great excess of cash!
YjbII A. M. C!
And that's- why we don't do anything rash.!
O. K. L. A.
Kl Yl! Kl Yel Rip Zip! Hooray! Hooray!
Hooray!
r- nr ni O. K. L. A.! O. K. U. A. I
Let Oklahoma come right into the sis
terhood. With tnis yen io mi i.
culture can no longer be disputed, and the
lustice of her claim for the benefits and
privileges oi siaieuuuu w Siuuuuai;
onstrated.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHEnS
The roan who can't swim is a fool to rock
the boat; but so Is the man who can.-Baltl-more
News.
Bella-He said his ears burned awfully last
night. Stella Well. I'm sure ne s got w
burn. Yonkers Statesman.
m TX....1 "Tif Rrpnletim advised me to gc
n -warmer climate." "He sends most of his
ntirnt there." Detroit Free Press.
He YoU promised to be my pupil ani learrJ
trt love me. "But 11 maes sutu u. uii.tU"
h.n vonr heart Isn't" In your work.' Life.
More Evidence. "There Is nothing so sweet
..- .nn.Af her voice." declared the young
i,... hi Hcems to think so." put In thd
.in.. inrfv. Baltimore American.
JCC.W. ,- -
He You are worth your weight m goia. acarj
ci,. nvi ihnt's old: elve me someming newj
"What 'shall It be?" "Say I'm worth mj
welcht in beef. Yonkers Statesman.
Often the Case. "They say his wife drove
him to drink." "Perhaps sne am. Dut iron
u t tnnr nf him T think he would hav
been awfully disappointed If she hadn t. ChH
casra Post.
Guilty. "Do you know anything about hypj
notlsm?" asked the girl in the pink waLstl
"Well." replied tne nuny-nairca maia, as snj
hat. n her tart hand to dlsnlav a. spurkllmi
solltalrg to better advantage, "you can judgl
for yourself. Chicago Dally rews.
tvillv T mpl our new minister on mv wai
to Sunday school, mamma, and he asked me lj
I ever played marbles on bunday. fiiotner
H'm! And what did .you say to that? Wllly-
t Mid. "Get thee behind me. Satan' and
walked right off and left him. Tlt-Blts.
AmpnltlM of the Game. Mr- Meddleton (s
the "amateur athletes" exhibition) I say. BJxj
By., we a oeiier put a. n&iurai ioui on nrsi oa
tt mfirht npHdentnllv catch the ball sor
times. Mr. Blxby (amiably) Oh, very wHlJ
I'll exchange places wun you, sir. juage.i
Discouraging. The Messenger Boy Well,
A' vbt lltro mercftntllft life? The Offlce.hov
de boss don't give me any encouragemjnt
Boy Why, he never gives me a look when L'nl
workln ; but Just as soon as I start ter lo:
bit, he's Johnny-on-de-spot wit his eagle ci
.fUCK.