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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4.
A BRIEF REVIEW.,
There are reasons why Mr. Furnish
was not in himself a strong candidate
for Governor. He Is not a public speak
er, and there are persons who think
little of the ability and worth of a can
didate for public office In particular
political office If ,he have not some kind
of "gift of gab." Again, there are Re
publicans not a few who wouldn't Vote
for Furnish because he was formerly a
Democrat, and In their thinking no man
of this description ought to be taken up
as a Republican candidate, at least till
all the old and faithful adherents of the
party who have been supporting it since
Lincoln's time have had their turn
at the Gubernatorial office. But
the main cause that cut down his
vote was the vengeance cf a defeated
faction. Bosses- and their followers,
shelved by the primaries and conven
tions, wanted to "get even." Upon Fur
nish, as the man who, In their view of
it, had snatched the scepter with an un
lineal hand, they concentrated all their
wrath and rage. He was the man
through whom they had lost control of
.the party; his dame was the symbol of
their defeat, and they resolved to "take
,lt out of him." In this effort they were
favored by the personal popularity of
George Chamberlain a man for whom
It was easy to persuade others to vote.
Moreover, the "avengers" used inces
santly the argument that, inasmuch as
the remainder of the state ticket would
be elected, with a Republican majority
in the Legislature and the two Repre
sentatives in Congress, the state would
still be in the Republican line. All these
conditions were favorable to the fac
. tional conspiracy to sacrifice Furnish to
the wrath of those whose last weapon
was lust of revenge.
Loss of the Governor Is unfortunate,
for many reasons; but the substantial
results of the campaign have been
saved. A strong Republican majority
in the Legislature is assured; there will
be a Republican United States Senator,
and he will not be either Simon or
Geer; Oregon's Republican representa
tion In both Houses of Congress is tp be
maintained; the City of Portland re
mains in Republican, hands, and George
H. Williams Is to be the Mayor. On the
whole, considering the peril in which
the party was placed by the formidable
combination between a revengeful and
powerful faction and the Democratic
party of the state, the result Is more
fortunate than many had feared It
might be. Oregon still is a Republican
"state.
It is easy to say that Furnish ought
not to have been nominated. But it
was Furnish or Geer; and they who
were resolved to shake Simon's hold
upon the party and had won a com
plete victory in the primaries of Mult
nomah and other counties were unwill
ing to give the Simon machine the ad
vantage or opportunity of rehabilita
tion. For Geer, supposing Simon would
control Multnomah, and therefore the
state convention, was acting in con
cert with him; the organization of the
convention in the interest of Geer
would have carried with it .control of
the party organization as well as the
nomination of Geer, and this would
have enabled Simon, to maintain his
hold on the party or large influence
over it Furnish wanted the nomina
tion, but was not himself specially op
posed to Geer, and the situation was
such that if Furnish had.not been nomi
nated, Geer would have been. Then
there would have been a contest on far
other grounds than those of the con
gest which has just" been witnessed.
The fight against Geer would have been
very different from that which Furnish
had to meet; it would have had exceed
ingly ugly features, and no one who
has an Idea of what it would have been
can suppose that Geer would have fared
in the result better than Furnish has
done.
All these things were considered by
the convention, which, in the circum
stances, preferred Furnish to Geer, as
it had a right to do, though Geer and
some of his supporters thought other
wise. There was talk that Geer was
"entitled to it," and Geer thought so
himself, no doubt; forgetting that he
had not held that idea when Governor
Lord wanted a renomination. Lord fell
in a contest between factions, just as
. Geer has fallen; but Lord and his
friends, though deeply disappointed,
had the magnanimity to fall In and sup
port Geer. The conditions that brought
about the nomination of Geer in 1898
need not be recited at length. No ma
jority of the convention wanted Geer,
but he had a bunch of delegates who
held a balance of power between strong
factions, and the contention about the
seats of the Multnomah delegation was
accomodated by a settlement under du
ress, which caused the name of Lord to
be kept out of the convention of that
year, as Geer's name was withheld from,
the recent one. These things are com
mon in conventions, whose rigorous law
is that? men who enter them must ac
cept their usages and obligations; in
other words, must "play the game."
Another part of the law of politics is
that no man !o "entitled" to anything;
for under our system every man may
aspire to any position, and no office be
longs to any man. The system allows
no privilege or nobility, no claim to
"title" or "inheritance," even for "an
other term."
The contest this year has been a
troublesome one, but it might have
been worse. v Suppose Mr. Simon had
carried the Multnomah primaries, hadt
nominated his legislative and county
ticket here, and had caused the Mult
nomah delegation to, the state conven
tion, aa he could and would have done,
to cast its vote for Governor Geer. Un
doubtedly Governor Geer would have
been renominated, and Mr. Simon and
himself would have been in full con
trol of the party organization. But
what would have happened? A more
stormy contest than the one we have
passed through; SImon-Geer leadership
could not possibly have united the
party; there would have been a most
acrimonious contest and certain defeat.
Simon leadership in Multnomah two
years ago produced a total rout; this
year anti-Simon leadership has carried
the local ticket almost entire, and
everything in the state except the Gov
ernor. Defeat of Mr. Furnish s the
one trophy of the malice of faction.. But
had Geer been in the place of Furnish,
with Simon la command of the cam
paign, with the Multnomah ticket as
his own, and pledged to return him to
the Senate, who can believe that suc
cess would have been possible? The
Legislature would. have been lost, as
well as the Governor, and it would have
been fortunate Indeed if the disaster
had gone no further.
These remarks are made for the pur
pose of showing that there is another
side of this subject which It would be
just as well to look at today, while the
subject Is still recent, and before Inter
est la It shall have been superseded by
other things or dulled by time.
ABDICATION OP THE ANTI.
Happy, happy antls! Who does not
envy them their serene elevation above
all such dry and sordid things as facte,
all ouch girding and depressing things
as consistency, all such inconvenient
institutions as reason and justice? It
is so blissfully easy and so full of so
lace to the soul to sit calmly down
and whenever anything is done by the
Government simply grunt and growl
and say It is wrong, and pick up the
handiest ugly thing lying within reach
and hold it up us the eternally true and
sound reason for the error and iniquity
of the Government's course.
Two Illustrations sHall suffice. We
all know how the Irish members of the
British Parliament have opposed and
denounced the Boer War. It was
enough for them to know that the na
tion was at war they knew Instantly
that they were for the enemy, whoever
he was. So, now that peace has been
conquered, they are equally as before
displeased. How well one can Imagine
the outbursts of wrath with which they
would have greeted a settlement whose
terms Inflicted hard terms upon the
Boers! How they would have declaimed
against the lust of empire and the de
cline of liberty and the exactions of a
heartless conqueror. This exhibit, for
tunately, is denied us. The terms of
peace are so liberal that nobody can
complain of them on that score. But
are the Irish members satisfied? Not
they. The pro-Boer extremists, the dis
patches say, "still find something to
cavil at" The Irish objection was that
THE GO.VERNMENT HAS GIVEN
AWAY EVERYTHING.
Illustration No. 2 is the Philippine
bill passed by the United States Senate
yesterday. We all know how strenu
ously the antla object to the military
regime in the Philippines. Stable civil
government, they say, should be estab
lished there, and perhaps they are right.
Anyhow, that Is what the Senate Phil
ippine bill provides. It contemplates a
permanent popular representative gov
ernment for all the islanda There is a
Legislature, consisting of two Houses
and a local commission, with power to
provide additional provincial and mu
nicipal governments without Waiting
for further legislation from Congress.
Now, how did the antls meet It? Well,
they have resisted It by every means at
their command. Much as they hate
military government and loudly as
they cry for civil government, they
have done everything in their power to
perpetuate the present reginie. Tillman
and Teller, Carmack and Patterson,
Rawlins and Hoar, have consumed .time
and raised rows and abused the Army
without offering a stagte helpful sug
gestion as to the forms of self-government
desirable for application inthe
Philippines. They have denounced "the
military and talked about imperialism,
but to perfect and advance a measure
designed to introduce self-government
in the islands they have not lifted a
hand. For THE FIVE MONTHS
SINCE THE PHILIPPINE SELF
GOVERNMENT BILL WAS, INTRO
DUCED THE ANTIS HAVE DONE
NOTHING BUT DELAY ITS PAS
SAGE AND PERPETUATE THE
MILITARY REGIME OF WHICH
THEY COMPLAIN.
In a free country every man has the
right to set himself up In opposition to
all the steps In progress the nation
makes, because the administration in
charge of the government Is not to his
political liking. But he thereby for
feits all dalm to weight andjrespect for
his utterances. He abdicates the func
tion of a reasoning being.
.Object-lessons illustrating the per
nicio.us effects of the system of child
labor in vogue in the factories of that
state are to be presented by the agi
tators of this question In New Jersey
by the exhibition in various places of
twelve children ranging in age from
8 to 10 years takeu from the glass fac
tories of MInatola. The pinched, young
old faces and stunted bodies of these
child workers will appeal more strongly
than any words can do to the sensi
bilities of the great army of well-to-do
parents who believe In and practice,
children's rights in their own homes.
It Is to these, constituting the respon
sible community, that the agitators of
this question of child labor look for the
protection of children of tender years
by means "of law following in the train
of public opinion from the unchlldly
tasks that are Imposed upon factory
children. Certainly1 no stronger or more
convincing argument agaicst a system
that defrauds childhood of fresh air and
sunlight deprives It of educational
privileges and childish sports and natu
rally developed bodies can be presented
than the mute spectacle of these de
frauded ones, mere infants In years,
will furnish. The first step will be to
close the factories of the state to chil
dren of tender years; the next and
much the more difficult undertaking
will be to compel the parents to feed,
clothe and send them to school. If the
lawmakers of New Jersey wrestle suc
cessfully with these matters, much can
be forgiven them in the way of venal
laws that have bred and sanctioned,
other evlla
THE ACTOR.
The story of success, rising from pov
erty and obscurity by resolution and
patient toll, so familiar to us In busi
ness and political life, Is exemplified In
a widely different field byMr. Richard
Mansfield, America's greatest actor,
who begins an engagement tonight at
the Marquam Theater. Mr. Mansfield
was of gentle birth, and had the price
less advantage of a gifted mother and
the companionship in early life of re
fined and educated persons of both
sexes; but he came to America to seek
his fortune, a youth whom family re
verses had rendered poor, without
friends or influence. He worked in a
Boston store, he painted pictures which
he tried to sell in England, but tried
in vain, and 1 was only when starva
tion stared him in the face that he ac
cepted an engagement with a company
of strolling actors at a salary of 3 a
week.
The American stage has few more
charming traditions than the familiar
story of how at the last moment the
veteran Stoddart asked Mr. A M. Pal
mer to excuse him from the part of
Baron Chevrlal in the "Parisian Ro
mance," how Mr. Palmer thereupon as
signed It to Mansfield, who made that
unlovely but powerful creation the dra
matic sensation of the season 6f 1882-83.
This episode is typical of Mr. Mans
field's whole career. It has been a suc
cession of brilliant triumphs. One was
with "Prince Karl," another N with Dp.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," another with
"Beau Brummell,". another with "The
Scarlet Letter," another with gallant
Cyrano de Bergerac
Without detracting from the peculiar
and dazzling gifts which Mr. Mansfield
possesses by Nature in voice, mien and
nobility of feature, it Is nevertheless
true that no career emphasizes more
signally than his that quality of genius
which dwells in "the infinite' capacity
for taking pains"; because, while he la
an actor, he is something far more
than an actor he is a great producer,
a thorough and devoted studenc, not
only of his art, but of'hls art in its re
lation to life. These concomitants of
his mimetic, and even creature, talents
are what lift Mr. Mansfield out of the
level of cleverness into the realm of
greatness. As a man admired and be
loved In two continents, as a worthy
exponent of a noble art, as a citizen of
the world who seeks intelligently to
adapt his art to the adornment and en
richment of human life, Mr. Mansfield
is welcomed among thinking men wher
ever he goes.
With the excitement and the bitter
ness of a political election all about us.
It Is well to be reminded of that se
rener realm where dwell the devotees
of art In its varied forms, who" give
themselves not so much to wealth or
power or battles with rivals of com
merce and finance as to the dispensa
tion of pleasure. There Is a delight that
only comes from the qu!et,hour with the
consoling pages of the novelist and poejt;
there Is the sense of beauty gratified at
we look upon the masterpiece of brush
6"r chisel; there are the inspiring and
soothing messages of music; and among
these pure delights we must reckon'also
the joy with w"hich we follow the great
actor as iie holds the mirror up to Na
ture and plays at will upon the hidden
harp-strings of the secret soul. The
world has been happier since Mansfield
lived, and better, too, If it has rightly
heeded the heroism that brightens the
squalid garret of the dying Beau, and
the nobility that flashes in Cyrano's
plume.
FUTURE OF SOUTH AFRICA.
Now that the Boer War Is a closed
book, the future of British South Africa
is an interesting question for considera
tion. In 1S00 perhaps 250,000 whites, in
cluding some 125,000 transients, were
credited to the Transvaal. These tran
sients, drawn thither by the gold de
posits, with their fellows In Klmberley,
Rhodesia and the then Orange Free
State, were the Ultlanders of the
Transvaal. Outside of Cape Colony we
have an English South Africa of the
vast area of nearly 1,250,000 square
miles. Behind the tropical coast strip,
on the eastern and southeastern border
of South Africa, which strip includes
barely 10 per cent of the South African
area, runs the Drakensberg Range of,
mountains, which rise from 6000 to 12,
000 feet above sea level. To the west of
them lies the great South African in
terior. Behind these mountains lies the
central plateau, the, great veldt, the real
South Africa, which stretches westward
for hundreds of miles until It slppes to
the Atlantic Coast, and includes Dema
rara and Namaqualand. The real South
Africa begins in Cape Colony and runs
northward, for more than 1000 miles.
An American, Albert E. Robinson, who
as correspondent of the New York
Evening Post visited South Africa, de
scribes the chief characteristics of this
South Africa as "loneliness and desola
tion." This South Africa covers an area
equal to the sum of that of Washing
ton, Oregon, California. Nevada, Utah,
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado,
New Mexico, Arizona and Texas. Cape
Colony and' Its dependr-'ies cover an
area more than four-fii of Texas.
This portion of the United States has
a white population of over 7,000,000,
which Is the work of fifty .years. Set
tlers have come to this portion of the
United States because of its capacity
for production and facility for distribu
tion. But South Africa has not much
to stimulate settlement save Its mineral
wealth, which, outside of gold and dia
monds. Is largely undeveloped. Mining
attracts and provides for only a limited
population. In South Africa nearly all
the manual and all the, unskilled labor
In mines Is done by Kaffirs at prices
that appeal to no white man. In 1898
there were 12,413 whites employed In
the mines of the Transvaal, and prob
ably 16,000 would cover all eo engaged
in South Africa Including the "Trans
vaal, Orange Free State, Rhodesia and
Klmberley. In 1897 only 13 per cent of
the whites employed In the mines rep
resented resident families, so that the
South African mines directly support a
resident white population of not more
than 25,000. Those indirectly supported
merchants, traders, their clerks and
employes are in much greater number.
The gold and diamond mining opera
tions in South Africa cannot possibly.
In the judgment of Mr. Robinson, at
tract to that country in the next fifty
years as high as 500,000 whites, men,
women and children included.
But this population cannot be regard
ed ao permanent, nor mining as a per
manent industry. Fifty years of work
will exhaust tthe deposits of the "Rand"
district the chief gold-mining district
Coal of Inferior quality underlies large
areas of South Africa; copper appears
in the Transvaal, and so does cinnabar.
Nickel and tin and galena are reported,
Iron is widely distributed, and there is
evidence of zinc, antimony, cobalt and
manganese. The coal is of local use
and value for mining operations, on
railways, and such manufacturing es
tablishments as require fuel. There Is
no near prospect of any such demand
for the native Iron as will Justify ex
tensive operations In its manufacture or
mining. The iron and steel now used
Is In the form of special machinery,
which can be imported much more
cheaply than It could "be made on the
spot. South Africa has no extensive
local market to offer the farm settler,
to whom other lands are open at small
er outlay, with better promise of re
turns under easier conditions. Outside
of Cape Colony there Is no appreciable
timber supply. Woolen manufacturing
la a possibility, and $10,000,000 worth of
wool was exported In 1899. "The country
now exports its wool and imports its
woolen goods. The hide exports of 1839
amounted to $2,000,000 in value. The
ample supply of cheap local labor offers
no encouragement to the immigrant de
pendent upon his earnings for his dally
support The lack of raw material and
the sparse population .exclude any prob
ability that South Africa at any near
date will export her manufactures or
need any labor for her local market
The development of the country and
the Increase of Up population will de
pend upon the Occupation and working
of the land. Nine-tenths of South Af
rica Is practically treeless, so far as
wood Is concerned, that has any value
for building or fuel. The nights of a
South African Winter are often very
cold. With proper irrigation the arid
soil may be made wonderfully fertile,
but the necessary outlay Is too extrava
gant to -be a profitable Investment
Then the settler has to contend with
locusts, white ants, horse and cattle
disease, tee-tie flies and fever. Ranch
ing Is one of the possibilities of South
Africa. Sheep and goats have made
men .rich In Cape Colony, but further
north there is small promise of jrofit
In sheep or cattle ranching, because of
drouth, locusts and scanty herbage In
Winter. Canada, Australia and Cape
Colony have been under the British
flag for many years, and are not yet
densely populated, although offering
greater promise of 'comfort and prosper
ity than, does her newly acquired South
African territories.
The war will leave, of course, some"
race antagonism, which perhaps may
endure until a new generation shall
arise who can forget the Colenso cam
paign, Magersfonteln and Cronje's sur
render. Ultimately there will probably
be a federated South Africa under the
British' flag, something akin to the Do
minion of Canada. To this Dominion of
South Africa may some day succeed a
great South African Republic under Its
own flag, but this day Is far distant,
for the only nope for South Africa for
many years to come is the development
and redemption from the waste of war
andthe adverse natural conditions thai
can be effected only by the artificial
methods of relief .which the home gov
ernment is both able and willing to
apply at its own expenpe.
A pathetic figure during the first fif
teen months of the war In South Africa
was the. aged, feeble, sorrowing Queen
of England. To a woman's Instinctive
horror of war were added the apprehen
sions of age. the helplessness of senility,
the sovereign's responsibility, bitter
grief for her own who died In the fray,
and anxiety to see her country at peace
before she surrendered the scepter to
her son. While no doubt Nature, after
her kindly fashion, dulled to. some ex
tent the perceptions of the aged Queen
and thus allowed her a measure of tran
quillity during the closing months of
her life. It is yet true that she suffered
keenly at times as the incidents of the
war were pressed upon her attention,
and it Is certain that she longed with
a woman's ardent hope for peace.
In the death cf Ashby Pierce at his
home In Albany a few days ago, the
passing of another pioneer Is recorded.
A man of steady purpose, unostenta
tious life and generous Impulses, Mr.
Pierce left the mark of a good man's
endeavor upon the community of which
he was far more than halt a century a
member. He build ed his own monu
ment, not In a cemetery, but on a public
street of Albany, and called It "Pierce
Memorial Church," from the doors of
which, with the simple, hopeful service
of the Unlversalist belief, he was car
ried to his grave at the age of 81 years.
Pelee continues to spit cinders, and
Souffriere to disgorge boiling mud. while
from a long undercurrent of sympathy
Mount Blackburn. In far Southeastern
Alaska, bellows and disembogues "a
stream of dirty stuff, mixed with large
and small boulders." Truly, Nature, as
represented by the body of the planet,
is in throes similar to those which in
times past brought forth the Islands
from the deep and projected mountains
from the dry land. There Is proof In
this that creation, so far from being
completed, is still In progress.
The immigration scheme of Mr. G. M.
McKlnney, of the Harrlman railroads,
cannot fall to work for the good of the
state, and ultimately for the profit of
the- railway system that it represents.
Oregon wants "people." But there are
people and people, and Mr. McKInney's
plan Is to induce the best to come hith
er and identify themselves with the ag
ricultural, industrial and commercial
interests of the country. This plan
meets precisely the needs of the Pa
cific Northwest. and being" intelligently
and systematically arranged In detail.
It cannot fall of success.
If Mrs. Carrie Nation le mentally Irre
sponsible for her acts of lawbreaklng,
she should be in an asylum for the In
sane. If she Is mentally responsible for
her conduct, she was justly punished
by fine and Imprisonment, and Gov
ernor Stanley, by his Immediate pardon
and remission of her punishment, both
as to fine and Imprisopment. has done
a very discreditable act He declines
to Issue a warrant for the hanging of
convicted murderers, but Is prompt to
pardon Mrs. Nation
If, after all, It shall prove that Fur
nish has been elected by ten or fifteen
votes, there will be a wonderful change
In the general physiognomy. It would
be a study to watch the public counte
nance and see hilarity and gloom
chance sides.
HIS STRENGTH WITH THE PEOPLE1
New York Evening Post
Two encouraging lndicationa that public
sentiment is r'.ght on the question of
reciprocity for Cuba were afforded yester
day. Tho Ohio Republican State Coaven
tiln adopted a resolution declaring that
"we believe It Is due, alike to Cuba and
to ourselves that. In accordance with the
Republican principle of reciprocity, prop
er and reasonable trade concessions shall
be made by our Government to Cuba in
return for her concessions upon American
products1, eo as to benefit the trade of both
countries and to fully and generously
carry out every obligation of our National
honor, whether expressed or implied."
The Kansas Republican State Conven
tion adopted a resolution to the same
effect Even more striking was thii
hearty greeting which was given by the
litter convention to Representative Long,
the Kansas member of the ways and
means committee, who stood bealde Mr.
McCall, of Massachusetts, In. the de
mand for action during all the weeks that
the majority held back, and who ear
nestly supported In the House the bill
which wis finally reported. Most grat
ifying, too, was this announcement by
Mr. Long, which f evidently, must have
been made with full knowledge of the
President's position:
"The Cuban reciprocity bill has passed
the House, and It will pass the Senate,
or there will be an extra session of
Congress."
Extremely significant, also was what
Mr. Curtis went on to say, and the re
ception of his remarks by the conven
tion. "We will stay there until It Is
passed," he continued, "and President
Roosevelt our lt'ader now and our leader
In 1S04" when this occurred:
"He got no further. The convention
cheered and cheered again. Long stood
still while the delegates shouted. 'Your
hearts are right,' he said, finally. 'I told
President Roosevelt when left Wash
ington thit Kansas was with him all
the time, and I think he will know it
as we do now."
Both Mr. Roosevelt and the Republican
politicians who want to nominate some
body else in 1S04 will do well to study
this Incident The Washington corre
spondent of the Times quotes a Republi
can Senator, "who, of course, would not
be willing to have his name, used," as
saying what we all knew that Repub
lican Senators generally "don't like Mr.
Roosevelt's style," and would rather see
Mr. Hanna nominated, as. this Senator
thinks he may be; but he admits that
the sentiment of the party may demand
the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt, espe
cially if, to quote further the same au
thority, "he would consecrate himself,
as Mr. Cleveland used to say, to the
service of the people." The outburst of
applause In the Kansas convention was
not the work of a claque organized by
machine politicians of the James S.
Clarkson type; It was the spontaneous
response of right-minded men to the an
nouncement that the President recog
nizes the duty of the Nation toward
Cuba, and will insist that It shall be
discharged. Mr. Roosevelt can never
build up a machine which will force his
nomination two years hence; but he
can make himself so strong with the peo
ple that he may be as indifferent to ma
chines as Mr. Cleveland was.
The Issue of 1004.
Kansas City Journal.
Representative James D. Richardson,
leader of the minority in the Lower House
of Congress, declares that the: Democrats
will make "Imperialism" the lcsffe in 1001.
It will be necessary for the Damocrats to
have an Issue in 1504, of courser, and it is
all right for them to be casting around
for one even two years before their plat
form will be framed. All the time be
tween now and the meeting of the Nation
al conventions will be required to find a
plausible one, and the probability Is that
the time will be too short for the purpose.
It is possible, also, that nothing better
will present itself for campaign "purposes
than the Issue Mr. Richardson selects.
But If that Is true, the Democratic party
is in desperate straits Indeed. It might
almost as well put free silver to the front
again. In fact, the odds are rather In
favor of free silver as against "Imperial
Ism." True, silver was overwhelmingly
defeated when It was made the paramount
Issue in 1S96, but the Democratic defeat
was more disastrous still when "imperial
Ism" was made paramount fpur years
later. Estimating by the size pt the re
spective reverses, free silver would be the
more promising choice for the next con
test A Foolish Measure.
Indianapolis News.
The resolution Introduced In Congress
by Representative Stephens, of Texas, to
prevent this country from accepting from
a foreign country any statue of a King or
ruler who has ruled or is ruling "by the
supposed divine right of Kings" is as fool
ish as the reasons given for It namely,
that the acceptance of such a statue
would be a repudiation of our basic prin
ciples, an Insult to the memory of our
Revolutionary fathers, and so forth and
so ori! The statue of Frederick the Great
Is not offered because he was a king by
divine right, or King at all, nor Is it ac
cepted for that reason, but because he
was great, and he Is one of the few of the
many that wear that title that deservelt
He had the faults of his age, but If our
war college, in front of which his statue
Is to be erected, can turn out such Gen
erals as he was, it might mean the coun
try's salvation In time of war. The gen
tleman's point of view Is as narrow and
prejudiced as was that which originated
the objection of the other Representative
to sending relief to Martinique. Both be
long in the same category.
General Chaffee's Findings.
Boston Journal.
It surprises tho country that Major
General Chaffee has disapproved the find
ings of the court-martial In the case of
Major Waller and Lieutenant Day, of the
marines. This Is, indeed, iron discipline.
Major Waller ordered a shooting of some
treacherous native guides when his com
mand was in a condition of desperate
weakness. General Chaffee holds that
General Waller was not guilty of mur
der, but that he ought to have consulted
General Smith. General Chaffeo even
maintained that Lieutenant Day would
have been justified in refusing to execute
these men. This is carrying humanity
to an extreme point In no other service
than our own could Major Waller and
Lieutenant Day ever have been brought
to account before a court-martial.
Soldiers nnd Their Critics.
Chattanooga Times.
We may h,ave no business In thoBe
islands, but being there we are for our
own, and. somehow we can't get the con
sent of our reason to believe the officers
and men of the Army, all of whom are
American men, born and bred, are any
worse than the balance of us would bo
were we In their places. It Is quite easy
for our wordy polltlciansi to tell us what
should be done and how the soldiers
should do It but it's dollars to dough
nuts they would do exactly as our men
arc doing were they similarly situated.
We should not only be Just to our sol
diers, but we might add a bit of the qual
ity ofi mercy and sympathy in judging
their acts under the trying necessities
with which they hive to deal.
Punishment in Theory nnl Practice.
.Baltimore American.
A teacher In Albany lately was dis
missed for administering corporal punish
ment to his pupils. TJie theory of educat
ing Juvenile human nature by methods of
gentleness, sweetness and light seems to
be a difficult one to bring Into favor with
all having practical dealings with that
same juvenile human nature In Its pris
tine fervor. The general Idea Is that the
world is entirely too short for that theory
In the, supply of ideal educators who unite
In one person the saint the philosopher,
the scientist and the martyr in the proper
proportions.
JEFFERSON'S LIFE 0F-JESUS.v
Minneapolis Tribune.
How many know that Thomas Jefferson
produced a Life and Morals of Jesus of
Nazareth, which remains in the original
manuscript and never has been repub
lished? There is only one copy in exist
ence, a volume of small size preserved
In the National Museum. It is composed
of printed extracts from the testament
narrative In four languages, making a
fairly continuous record of the person!
life and direct teachings of Jesus. There
are copious marginal notes by Jefferson,
including an abstract of the Roman law
of sedition, under which Jesus was con
demned. The volume was prepared by
Jefferson when he was President, and
he said of It In a letter to a friend
10 years later, "A more beautiful and
precious morsel of ethics I have never
seen."
Under a resolution introduced by Rep
resentative Heatwole, the House has just
authorized the printing of 9000 copies of
this book as a public document It Is
to be reproduced la photo-lithography,
and Dr. Cyrus Adler will write an intro
duction for it. It seems late in the day
for this, and it Is natural to connect the
delay with the repugnance inspired by
Jefferson's opinions in relation to relig
ion in a less tolerant age. But the fact
seems to be that this volume was not
bought by Congress with the rest of
Jefferson's library, and was not In the
possession of the Government when the
rest of the works were published by
order of Congress. It remained in pos
session of his family and was bought
later for $400 from Miss Randolph.
, Jefferson was what was then called an
Infidel, and is now called an agnostic.
He drew his religious opinion from the
same source as Thomas Paine, whose
political writings had to wait for the
present generation and Moncure D.- Con
way for adequate editing, because of the
popular anathema against his works on
religious subjects. Jefferson was less ag
gressive and better poised than Paine,
and his larger political pre-occupations
left him les3 time to offend the domi
nant feeling of his. time. He would have
been a pretty good liberal Christian
today. He treated the New Testament
story with great reverence, omitting the
miraculous matter without comment and
presenting its subject as an example of
supreme goodness. Nevertheless Jeffer
son was hardly more odious to the "best
people" of the Revolutionary period as a
Democrat than he was as a skeptic.
Mrs. Lease Divorced.
Kansas City Star.
The reason assigned by Mrs. Lease for
seeking a divorce from nor husband was
that of a thoroughly practical woman.
The separation was not asked for be
cause Mr. Lease was a Kansas' druggist,
but on the ground of non-support. It
certainly does not seem to be an unrea
sonable thing for a wife to demand that
her husband shall take care of her. It
appears, from Mrs. Lease's story, that
Mr, Lease never ' contributed $3 to her
support during their whole married life.
It Is to be remembered, too, that thi3 was
long before airs. Lease acquired the habit
of wearing light silk gowns to travel in
and of bedecking herself with costly mil
linery. It was not until Mrs. Lease left
her unhappy honte in Wichita that she
became addicted to such extravagance.
Mrs. Lease has been frequently up
braided by her former Populist asso
ciates for her vanity and pride, but It
was scarcely possible for a lady so dis
tinguished as she has become to live up
to her new position on the sort of a
layout with which she was forced to be
content when she was taking in boarders
and canvassing for books.
It is not to be assumed, by any means,
that the plea of non-support entered by
Mrs. Lease means that she Is a sordid
woman without conjugal tonderness. It
is not likely that a person of her strong
personality desired to be the spoiled and
petted darling of her husband, but there
is not a woman in the world who will
not tire Of a man whom she has to take
care of that is, if he is able 1 6 take care
of himself and of her, too.
The wife who has to clothe herself and
her children and keep up the table very
soon learns that a husband is a needless
appurtenance in the household and can be
easily dispensed with. This sort of shift
lessness will wear out any amount of
love and romance, and, on the other
hand, a man with very little el3e to
commend- him to a wlfecan win her re
spect and even her affection by looking
carefully after her wants.
In the absence of any evidence in the
way of rebuttal from Mr. Loase the
public will Justify Mrs. Lease in her
course and will even accede to her the
right to console herself if fate should
bring her face to face with some gal
lant gentleman who yearns to provide
her with the luxuries which she seems to
crave.
Bafl Day for Rawlins and Hoar.
Minneapolis Tribune.
This Is a day of tender memories and
chastened Joy in worthy sacrifice of life
for honor and country, In all minds con
scious of the reverence due to that noblest
duty, nobly done. What kind of day Is
it for men whose constant employment
has been to smirch the honor of men fight
ing for their country and to drag down the
ideals of American nationality? What
place in- this Memorial day have the
United States Senators, who have been
circulating the lewd inventions of a few
unworthy American soldiers about the
conduct of the Army In the Philippines?
One may fancy how Senator Hoar would
hang his venerable head if he strayed
into a military cemetery dotted with new
graves. One may Imagine how the
Southern Senators would sneak out of a
Confederate burylng-ground, rather than
witness the honor paid to the heroes of a
lost cause. Those, at least, risked their
lives in open battle. They did not skulk
In luxuriously upholstered committee
rooms, half way round the world from
danger, and shoot American soldiers In the
back with slander and falsehood. For
these persons the sunset of Memorial Day
should be the m03t welcome thing about
It
The Attacks on the Army.
Washington Star.
Although it has been mentioned before,
it is worthy of note again that the old
leaders in the Senate on the minority
Side, and particularly those who served
in the Confederate Army, have taken no
part in this attack on the Army. Their
sagacity and chivalry must both have
advised against it They are good partis
ans, and doubtless are as nnxlous for an
Issue as any of their associates, but they
can see that even If a triumph at the polls
could be gained by such means It would
prove more vexatious than profitable to
the winners. We have sat a task for the
Army more difficult in many particulars
than any ever set for American soldiers
before. To hold the Army up to obloquy,
therefore, upon the gabble of a few men,
somo of whom are entirely without
knowledge of war. Is aa offense against
fair play and decency, which any party
as a party should hesitate to commit
i
The PinfiT-PonjBr Lover.
London Punch.
It Is not mine to serve with stately grace.
The celluloid Into my lady's face;
To win no game with skill to me Is given,
I will nor play at all unless I'm driven.
It is not mine.
It Is not mine to send with easy grace
The light ball bounding.
The white ball bounding in my lady's face.
Not mine In endless rallies to repel
The thousand artless strokes she knows so
well;
Not mine my suit victoriously to press
(My valet does this when 'tis In a mess!)
Not mine with futile.
Not mine with frantic racquet to repel
The curly service.
The cunning service that I know too welL
But mine It is to scramble in her train.
The- search In darkened corners to maintain.
And lemonade to etch with deference.
And can the score, oft "love." with look In
tense; The grateful liquid.
The blameless liquid fetch with reverence,
My plngtul worship, .
My pongful "worship thus (o evidence.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
He who bolts Is barred.
What Is so raw as a dayin Juner
Ballots speak louder than words.
Wc have had a little volcano of our own.
What a dire waste of good ballots there!
was.
It was all settled at the primaries, any-l
way.
Go back to the party, gentlemen, and
stay there.
t -
After all. the G. O.
to stick to.
P. is a good thing
Senator Simon has heard from his con
stituents again.
There will be leis talking and more
thinking. after today.
A good many citizens will have to be.
content to continue as such.
For tale Job lot of election cards. Ap
ply to any candidate you meet
After two or three more jolts, the bolter
will wish he had forgotten his keys.
England's war was not a very big or.o,
but It cost A great deal for its size.
It will not do to tell .the judges and
clerks of election that they don't count
It btgirs to look as If D. Soils was not
a glittering success as a political boss.
From all accounts, it appears that C.t
Auditor Devlin Is a trifle ahead in tne
race.
It doesn't alwaj-s pay to leave a party
just because it nominates its own can.II.
dates.
Perhaps the volcanoes in the South Seaa,
were moreiy celebrating the proclamation,
of .peace In advance.
Mount Pelee has shut down just when
the South African war correspondents
were turning to It for support.
A Danish police official Is to study Amer
ican police systems. It he applies them at
home, there will soon be something rotten
in Denmark.
With two Republican Congressmen anij?
a Republican Legislature, Oregon may
perhaps be forgiven her step aside on the
Governorship.
Unfcrtunately for the Ncrth End vote,
some of the citizens registered from that
part of the city had returned to their
hornet in Seattle and Tacoma.
An amusing incident occurred the other
day in a Brookllne. Mass., electric car,
which was comfortably filled, when a well
dressed young woman entered and took
a seat next to a man. Presently she
leaned forward and began to tie up her
shoelaclng. It proved rather difficult toA
do with her gloves on, but after a whll&
the passengers witnessing the perforoi
ance saw the feat accomplished and the
woman sit back, calmly gazing out of the
window, as if "she was always tying her
shoe" in electric cars. At the next 6top
the man beside ..er rose to get off. but.
lol there came a struggle, and then horror
mutual and general. The two were fas
tened, not exactly hand and foot, but shoe
and shoe. So diligently had the young
woman tied the knots that the lacing had
to be cut by a ready pocket-knife before
the couple could be separated. Blushes
and laughter, embarrassment and Indigna
tion were rife, for of all comical scenes to
which street-cars are subject, this Wa3
one of the drollest
The General Assembly of the Presby
terian church South, which ha3 just closed
its sessions at Jackson, Miss., adopted the
folin-nrlne declaration:
"This assembly Is fully persuaded that
the language employed in chapter X, sec
tion 3. of our 'confession of faith,' touch
ing Infants dying In Infancy, does not
teach that there are any Infants dying In
Infancy who are damned, but is only
meant to show that those who die in ln-
fiinev are saved in a different manner
from adult persons who are capable of
being outwardly called by the ministry
of the word. Furthermore, we are per
suaded that the Holy Scriptures, when
fairly interpreted, amply warrant us In
believing that all infants who die in In-
fancv are included in the election of grace.
and are regenerated and saved by Christ
thrnueh the Spirit"
Commenting on this one of the members
of the assembly said:
"We can say positively that children of
believers who are included In the cove
nant of grace are saved, but in regard to
the children of unbelievers, especially the.
children of the heathen, it would be dif
ficult to prove from the Scriptures that
they are safe."
a
Gpod for Ohio.
TTrnTTi tho "Rpnuhllcan State Platform.
The American Army has taken up a
work of establishing order and maintain
ing authority In the distant Jfmuppines,
on Trhtia wft dpnlore and severely con-
Anmr, nnv instnneps of crueltv which may
have occurred, we remember that our
rioldiers are fighting a oarDarous anu
treacherous foe, who have often inflicted
roost Inhuman and revolting atrocities up
on their prisoners. It Is the Nation's
Army, drawn frctn every section of tho
niinrv trnnTi'lnir no Dolitics OT creed.
but fighting the Nation's battles under
the Nation's flag, and we resent wun m-riio-nntinn
"rpppnt Democratic efforts to
drag Its honor in the dust, and to cast
reproach on its fair name.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGItAPHERS
A Sure Thing. Mrs. Von Blumer Well. 1 1
see that Mrs. Hotpace has got a divorce. Von j
Blumer That means another weaamg present.
Puck.
Irish Maid Do you want a good beating.
Master Jimmy, or do you not? Because. It
you don't behave yourself, this minute, you'll
get both. Punch.
Yeast It costs a good deal of money for
this Government to look after the counterfeit
ers. Crimsonbeak Yes. It looks just like send
ing good money after bad. Yonkers Statesman.
Her First Thousht. Mr. Reeder I see by thq.
newspapers the Adventlsts predict that tho
world will come to an end next Friday. Mrs.
Reeder Oh. dear, and I have nothing fit to
wear! Ohio State Journal.
In the Justice Court. "You admit you stola
the melons?" said the Judge. "Oh. yes. suh
I stole um!" "And yet you ask for mercy?"
"Yes, suh: kaze de white man kotched me 'fo
I had a chance ter eat uml" Atlanta Consti
tution.
Usual Thing. Ping How did you come out
on that stock deal last week? Pong Lost $500.
Ping But I thought you said a. friend had.
given you a pointer? Pong So I thought but
it turned out to be a dlsappolnter. Chicago
Dally News.
Going for Good. Crabbe Today for the first
tlme I was really delighted to hear Miss Nex
doore's piano going. Ascum Something worth
listening to, eh? CrabbS I should say so. I
heard tha Installment man taking It away.
Philadelphia Press.
If a mah Is killed by an automobile, his es
tate may collect damages to no greater amount
that $5000. If ho Is merely maimed there la
no limit to the damages. This Is manifestly
unjust, being class legislation In favor of tho
comparatively few chauffeurs who have perfect
control of their machines, and can always b
suro of killing their man. Life.