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PORTL.WD, SATURDAY, JUXE 28.
PORTLAND'S LABOR. TROUBLES.
"Whatever sympathy the community
feds for the desire of laboring men to
better their condition and for the desire
of the capitalists to run their own busi
ness In their own way, the prime con
cern the public has In industry is to get
the work done. It wants buildings put
up, lumber sawed and planed, fuel de
livered and street-cars operated. In
view of the general desire that the ac
tuities of the town, should go forward,
there is nothing but discouragement In
the course of the local labor situation
during recent weeks. Old strikes con
tinue and new ones begin.
A few das ago a strenuous effort was
made on the part of the planing mills
to end the strike In their favor by say
ing it was ended. Accounts of men
going back to work and others about to
do so were given with such persistence
and verisimilitude that they found cre
dence in the press and among builders.
But the assertions were met with de
nials by the union men and the prom
ised collapse faile'd to materialize. This
strike, apparently, is in full force and
effect, notwithstanding official an
nouncements from the mills that the
men will be back at work In a day or
two. Meanwhile a considerable body of
teamsters went out Wednesday, and the
Portland .City & Oregon Company's
slreet-car system is also in the grasp of
a strike. It begins to look as if what
ever Is going to be done In Portland has
been done. No more buildings, appar
ently, are needed. Nobody is anxious
for employment at offered wages, no
body cares to run business' on the terms
asked by the labor available. It Is an
ominous 'outlook.
The impressive thing about the situa
tion is the basic similarity -of the posi
tion assumed by the employers. If they
all belonged to one firm, they could not
be more coherent In their determina
tion to affirm the principle, that they
will run their business in their own
way. This is the issue that underlies
all the pending struggles, widely as
they differ in their superficial charac
teristics. The planlng-mlll men are
striking for a nine-hour day, the street
car men against an objectionable dis
patcher and superintendent, and the
teamsters for weekly' payment of
wages; but the most casual observer
cannot have failed to see that these
contentions are but the trappings and
the suits of the real question Shall an
owner be permitted to run his own
business in his own way, or shall the
conditions of operation be Jointly agreed
upon by employer and employed? That
is to say, "Shall we recognize unions or
destroy them 7
In the long run, unionism is pretty
certain to occupy the entire labor field.
One can recognize the Inherent weak
nesses, contradictions and wasteful ex
pense of unionism, -and at the same
time apprehend clearly enough the
tendency to organization among work
lngmen which seems irresistible. The
union has taken complete possession
of many trades, and is rapidly growing-'
in -others. The non-union printer
is practically extinct, and the railroad
world from conductors and telegraphers
down to switchmen Is rapidly becoming
organized. Building trades are com
mon and National federations almost
universal, while the organizer is even
Invading such unpropitious fields as
those of bartenders, domestic help and
Government employes. Oregon is rea
sonably 'Certain to approximate more
and more to the industrial conditions
of the older states, just as It nas had
to fall into the Eastern vogue in a
hundred customs of business and soci
ety. This is not to say that any one of the
unions now battling -for existence will
win its fight. Industrial wars do not
consist of vlctoriesall on one side. The
unions are certain sooner or later to
have to reckon with the very Important
fact that nowhere are their embattled
ranks confronted with more lnauspl
rlous conditions in the e'mploylng camp.
Nowhere Is the spirit of sturdy Inde
pendence and self-reliance more indom
itable than In Oregon. Call it firm or
stubborn, mossback or conservative,
there it ia It will form its own plans
and execute them in Its own way. It
loves money, perhaps, but It also un
doubtedly loves its own way. Maybe
It would rather not do business than to
do It under duress. It is not accus
tomed to dictation, and it will take it a
long time to get used to it.
This is the situation in Portland,' and
om,inous is a very mild term to apply to
It If there is any indication of yield
irg on eithpr side, the evidence is
a 'mitly concealing itself. In general
ur people, employers and employed,
arc tois well off to feel the pinch of
flf privation that usually precedes cons'"-tinn.
Business confronts a dull
Summer and possibly a bitter "Winter.
The only certainty seems to lie in the
legended remark bf the old country doc
tor's diagnosis that "the case will be a
good deal worse before It is much better."
DEWEY OX THE STAXD.
Dewey's testimony is said to give the
antis considerable depression, but In
view of their remarkable lmpervlous
ness to fact, this is hard to understand.
What he says Is, in reality, not greatly
tp the advantage of either 6ide, and
if the truth were known he was doubt
less called as a witness more as a mat
ter of courtesy than from any expecta
tion of profit by Republicans or Demo
crats. As there would have been no
great difficulty in securing his presence
had It been eagerly desired on either
side, the presumption of -Indifference is
a fair one, and is ratified by his testi
mony. The Admiral says he never promised
Aguinaldo anything. Impeaches the dip
lomatic quality of Pratt and Williams,
dispels at once all anti-imperialistic
dreams of broken pledges in the Phil
ippines, and sets out the littleness of
the Filipino George Washington in
terms befitting a man of vigor and
candor Euch as Dewey is known to be.
But he also says that he considers the
Filipinos superior to the Cubans In ca
pacity for self-government, and he
pleads guilty to acts of Indiscretion.
He regrets now that he gave the arms
and recognition he did to Agulnaldo's
forces. If he had it to do over again
he would wait for the American troops.
In this act of Dewey he laid the founda
tion for the uncomfortable position in
which Senator Carmack had him at the
closa of yesterday's examination, and
will get him In again as 60on as possl-
uie mis morning.
The number of persons who care what
support or discredit the unpatriotic and
senseless fantasy of antl-imperallism
derives from Dewey's testimony or that
of any other man is so limited as to
render that aspect of the inquiry negli
gible; so we shall dismiss this episode
with two brief observations. One is
that it makes no difference under the
sun whether Pratt. Wildman and Will
iams were competent or incompetent;
whether Dewey promised something to
Aguinaldo which hie had no business
to promise, or not; whether It is right
or wrong to arm a conscienceless ally
and turn him loose against the enemy.
None of these things affect the fact that
the Philippines are ours by conquest
and purchase as much as California is
ours, the further fact that rebellion
will be put down there precisely as it
was in South Carolina, and the addi
tional fact that copperheads of 1902 are
entitled to the same contumely and re
proach that a loyal North heaped upon
the copperheads of 18G4.
The only other necessary thing in
connection with Dewey's testimony is
a passing breath of disdain upon such
creatures as Carmack and Patterson,
whose highest ambition seems to be to
punish and humiliate before the people
these brave officers of our Army and
Navy who have responded to the call
of duty on distant foreign shores and
on far-off tropic seas. Turn the Gov
ernment over to these malignant ene
mies of our military representatives,
and where would the Republic's defend
ers be the next time a European foe or
a rebellious territory lifted hands
against the flag? If the soldier is to
receive scorn instead .of honor and per
secution in reward for his bravery and
fidelity, what will nationality be worth
In any land? It is a curious conception
these professed statesmen have of pub
lic sentiment, if they suppose, as they
certainly do suppose, that the path to
glory leads through defamation of those
who have borne arms and hazarded life
for their country's flag. To them there
is fitting answer in the words of Inger
soll: "I have one sentiment for the sol
diers, living and dead: Cheers for the
living, tears for the dead."
A VERY LIVE CORPSE.
The language of Bryan concerning
the recent speeches of ex-President
Cleveland and David B. Hill is entirely
free from ambiguity. Mr. Bryan may
not be a Democratic statesman of his
toric worth, but he Is at present a very
vigorous, alert and pugnacious political
figure, and he has a very large follow
ing among the Demo-Populists of the
South and Southwest. He does not pro
pose to be "turned down" without his
consent, and he makes It very clear that
he will never consent to be turned down
to please Grover Cleveland or David B.
Hill. Any plan for the restoration of
the Democracy to the harmony and
health prefigured by Cleveland and Hill
will die; in its birth if Mr. Bryan is not
consulted and deferred to: Cleveland's
talk about "the Democracy of Tilden"
Is absurd. The Democracy of Tilden
has been obsolete for ten years la the
South and West; It has been replaced
by Demo-Populism, which still prevails
in this region, where Bryan's views
through his paper have a thousand
readers and admirers where the views
of Cleveland and Hill have one. This
may seem dispiriting news to the kid
glove Democracy of the North. Atlantic
States, but It is the truth.
Mr. Bryan does not Intend to be
snuffed out; he proposes to be consulted
and respected In the deliberations con
cerning the future of the Democratic
party, and If he Is not he will be sure
to make the party caldron bubble with
plenty of toll and trouble, for while It
is possible for the organizing and re
forming statesmen of the North Atlan
tic States to refuse him a chance tc
make a spoon, they are not strong
enough to prevent him from spoiling
the horn. Mr. Bryan is the only man
In the Democratic ranks today who has
an appreciable following at the Middle
West, Southwest or South. He is an at
tractive orator; his newspaper has a
large circulation; he is a man of energy,
shrewdness and vindictlveness. He has
not forgotten that Cleveland, Hill and
Gorman have .never lost a chance to
defeat him, and he will, not suffer any
man of .their cult to be nominated In
1504, or, failing in this, he will secure
their candidate's defeat Bryan is de
termined to be distinctly recognized,
and a man with at least a million of
voters at his back is pretty sure of
recognition. Napoleon told Talleyrand
when he said Europe would not permit
him to march against Moscow: "Bah!
Europe is the mistress of any man who
has 500,000 men at his back.".
Cleveland's vague, ore rotundo ven
tuoslties count for nothing against the
plain, direct, purposeful speech of
Bryan. Cleveland is as venerable and
vacuous an orator as Tom Hood's fruit
vender stalking tolemnly through the
streets- of Stamboul crying, - "In the
name of the prophet figs!"
A strike Is always Inopportune. This
Is especially true when Its chosen tlm
is the center of the Industrial scasoa.
the long days In which workmen can
put in full time and for which they
ungrudgingly receive full pay. It Is
Important to maintain the principles of
unionism In the community, but there
are other things that should have care
ful consideration .at this time and In
this connection. The rank and file of
labor are not responsible for enforced
Idleness. Laborers stand ready to obey
orders, and will gladly hear the order to
resume work. Let those responsible for
the strained industrial conditions now
prevailing and threatening further in
dustrial stagnation get together, seek
honestly to adjust their real differences
and abate their stubbornness. The
rights of the public and the welfare of
homes of labor are in the balance.
POETRY DOES XOT FIX XATIOXAL
POLICY. '
An anti-Imperialist admirer of Senator
Hoar's speech in opposition to the Chi
nese exclusion bill quoted James Russell
Lowell's description in his "Commem
oration Ode" of 1865 of the United States
with the following, comments:
She of the open soul and open door,
"With room about her hearth for all mankind
A sentiment which was received a generation
ago throughout the entire country with un
qualified, applause; a reception which indicates
the wide departure we have since made front
our old National ideals..
This is all very absurd. The United
States never was" "of the open soul and
open door, with room about her hearth
for all mankind," as a matter of fixed
National policy. Our policy In this re
spect was never poetic, but always prac
tical. In the early history of the Re
public, with a vast area needing rapid
settlement. It was a matter of National
self-interest to Invite immigration, . but
the moment that this necessity was over
the United States had-no more "open
soul and open door," no more "room
about her hearth for all mankind" than
was dictated by cold-blooded National
self-interest What Lowell sang in 1S65
of the United States had never been
consistently true of this country before
1SS5; it was not true In 1S63, and has never
been true since that date. Beyond the
limitations of narrow, selfish National
Interest, the United States has never
been, "of the open soul and open door,
with room about her hearth for all man
kind." The United States Invited aliens when
she was a Nation of vast area and
sparse population, but since that date
she has treated the question of making
America a refuge for all the voluntary
or Involuntary exiles of the universe
purely as a question of National self
interest We exclude Chinese; we ex
clude contract labor; we exclude pau
pers and criminals 6f official record; we
exclude consumptives and persons suf
fering from other Infectious and repul
sive diseases. The policy of our Gav
ernment, despite the poetic moonshine
of Mr. Lowell, has always been intense
ly practical and subordinated to the pol
icy of cold-blooded self-interest
Fletcher of Saltoun said: "Let me
write the songs of a nation and I care
not who writes Its laws," .but, however
true this may have been in the seven
teenth century. It is no longer true In
our day. The influential, efficient, im
portant man In modern life Is not he
who writes its songs, but he who agi
tates in behalf of and finally formulates
Its laws. George S. Boutwell, Tn his
"Recollections," dismisses with con
tempt the modern Impression that
Lowell's dialect political satires of 1845
1846 exercised a powerful political In
fluence. Mr. Boutwell, who was the first antl
slavery Governor of Massachusetts,
says that Lowell's verses amused every
body of brains in all parties, but had
not the slightest political effect Low
ell had then no distinction. The Boston
Courier. In which Lowell's satires were
printed, was read only by abolitionists.
There was only one pulpit in Boston,
that of Theodore Parker, where anti
slavery views were tolerated. Charles
Sumner was, when United States Sen
ator, ostracized socially for his opinions
on slavers'. Mr. Boutwell says that in
his opinion Lowell's satires of the Mex
ican War never. added a man to the
anti-slavery ranks; that, so far as the
recruitment of the armies of the Union
Is concerned, the one piece of writing
which contributed largely to recruit the
armies of the Republic during the Re
bellion was Webster's speech in reply
to Hayne. The closing paragraph of
that speech was in the schoolbooks of
the free states, and had been declaimed
from many a schoolhouse stage. Mr.
Boutwell holds that up to the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise In 1854 the
whole array of anti-slavery writers and
speakers had not accomplished the
grossly exaggerated results attributed
by a few admirers of Lowell to his
political satires of 1845-46.
Mr. Boutwell lived In those times
which tried men's souls; he was in com
plete sympathy with Lowell's anti-slavery
opinions, but as an old lawyer he
declines to violate his Judicial integrity
and attribute to Lowell's poetics a po
litical force which he feels they did
not exercise. This whole business of
seeking to make a man of poetic qual
ity a political prophet and oracle is ab
surd. Mr. Lowell from his poetic youth
to his pessimistic and Anglomanlac
old age was the most Inconsistent of
men. His opinions on pure literature
were valuable; but his opinions on poli
tics from youth to old age were of no
sort of value to anybody for the polit
ical thought they contained. After the
Civil War ceased to inspire his verse,
Lowell had, so far as his permanent
literary reputation Is concerned, better
died than lived. His last days were
spent in coughing up and expectorating
his discarded opinions, which he had
emitted when "the Lowell family" were
fighting and dying at the front These
were the days when Lowell wrote lines
like
I'd rather be what your meanest slave is.
Than hold up to God a hand
As drlppln red as yours, Jeff Davis.
Lowell outgrew all this, but such po
etic "statesmen" do not in their vague
verses mark out the lines of public pol
icy. We draw the color line severely not
only at the South, but a't the North,
and some of our plutocratic snobs are
stupid enough to try to enforce it In
the leading hotels of London. The color
line Is so Invisible In England that on
the 18th inst the negro King of Bar
otseland, Africa, dined at the private
residence of Mr. and Mrs. Talbot who
are relatives of the Earl of Shrews
bury. The guests Included the Arch
bishop of Armagh, the Earl and Count
ess of Seafield and the -Earl of Carys
fort Subsequently a reception in honor
of this negro King was attended by
the Marchioness of Tweeddale, Viscount
and Viscountess Bangor, Lord and Lady
De Freyne, and many other persons
prominent in society. The Talbots. In
sending an announcement to the press
said that Lewanlke "honored them by
his jeresenca ai dinner." This African
Prince conforms to the dress of English
society, wears a silk hat, frock coat and
patent leather shoes. To an English
man there Is nothing surprising in this,
because Great Britain's subjects include
men of all colors. There are Hindoo
Princes and Malay chiefs and African
potentates among Great Britain's vas
sals, who not seldom appear at court
receptions. The sons of some of these
dark-skinned Asiatic Princes have been
educated at the English universities.
Slavery never existed In modern Eng
land. Even before West Indian eman
cipation, In 1837, the moment a slave
landed In England he was free, as was
decided by Lord Mansfield In the
famous "Somerset" case. These facts
serve to explain why the color preju
dice, the aristocracy of skhi, Is so stiffly
maintained in the United States and so
lightly enforced by comparison in Eu
rope. In Europe the only question
asked concerning a guest by a landlord
Is, "Will he behave like a gentleman
and can he pay his bill?" The
negro, from 1619 to 1865, was with few
exceptions a slave in the United States,
and for this reason he encounters a
color line, an. aristocracy of skin, that
he cannot easily clear, as he could In
England.
The New York Board of Health has
issued anew the old command, "Don't
spit on the sidewalks." The board be
gan its crusade against this filthy habit
three years ago by forbidding expec
toration on the ferry-boats, trolley and
elevated cars, and In car stations, and
now the sidewalks are to be protected
from this menacing nuisance. The Jus
tification of this action (since, Incredible
as It may seem, the free and easy Amer
ican public requires that it be Justified)
is in the statement that twenty years
ago almost six deaths in every hun
dred in Now York City were caused by
tuberculosls, whereas the number of
deaths last year from this disease was
only about 2In the hundred. The
presumption, reinforced by scientific In
vestigation, is that this decrease Is very
largely due to the partial correction of
the habit of spitting In public places.
Our own city, where deaths from tuber
culosis make up a large part of the
mortality list, might with good effect
inaugurate a vigorous crusade against
this filthy habit. Here is a line Jn
which the new city government soon to
be Inaugurated can earn the gratitude
of the decent majority of our citizens
and In due time reduce the death rate
from tuberculosis.
Intelligent people are not supersti
tious, of course, but for some reason,
whenever the fact becomes known that
an heir to the Russian Empire Is ex
pected, the word of the soothsayer, to
the effect that Nicholas H would be
the father of seven daughters and die
without an heir Is retailed with some
thing of conviction in the telling, while
with the birth of each of his four daugh
ters superstition records something of
a triumph. So, now that King Ed
ward has been arrested by disease al
most on the way to Westminster for his
coronation, the prophecy of the "Ep
som gypsy" is being .retold with many
a doleful wag of the head. This proph
ecy was that His Majesty would rise to
the throne Itself, but would fall Just
short of his ambition at the last mo
ment, and would not be crowned
King. Of coure, nobody wants this
so-called prophecy- to oome true, but
the fact remains that many people "who
are nota bit superstitious" believe that
It will. Prophecies of this character
are but random gabbllngs, revamped
upon occasion to give prestige to the
soothsayer and pander to the very
prevalent desire to make merchandise
of the unknowable,
King Edward shows himself to be a
man both of good sense and good feel
ing In his direction that the King's din
ner to the poor be served at the ap
pointed time, despite his serious Illness.
The King remembered that this dinner
means much to the poor class con
cerned, and he was true to the instincts
of a humane gentleman not to Inflict
a disappointment upon a ciass not fitted
philosophically to bear It It Is no new
thing for the royal household of Eng
land to endure sickness and domestic
calamity. Queen Mary, wife of William
III, died In her prime of beauty of the
smallpox; Queen Anne was the mother
of many children, none of whom sur
vived Infancy; George IH suffered from
Intermittent insanity, and became blind
several years before his death at 80.
Byron in fine verses laments the untime
ly death-of the Princess Charlotte. Ed
ward, the Black Prince, died of consump
tion Just when the senile; immorality
and weakness of his famous father
made all England hope for the accession
of the heroic son.
Among the famous men who were for
a brief term cadets at West Point were
Edgar A. Poe, the poet; Matt H. Car
penter. the eminent lawyer and states
man of Wisconsin, and' James McNeal
Whistler, the celebrated painter.
Whistler remained three years at the
academy. The Army and Navy Journal
gives the following curious story In ex
planation why he did not pass his ex
amination: The subject given him In Chemistry to discuss
before the academic board was "Silica," which
constitutes 8 ter cent of the solid matter of
our earth. Whistler, It waa said, in perfect
Innocence of the subject, but with his charac
teristically charming manner, described silica
as an "elastic gas," or "a saponlflable fat"
The young ladles In the audience smiled ap
proval, but the stern academic board dispensed
with Whistler's further valuable services at
the Military Academy.
The refusal of a peerage by Sir Will
lam Harcourt is not surprising. Neither
Pitt Canning, Peel nor; Gladstone ac
cepted a peerage. Fox was so cordially
hated by George HI that he was never
offered a peerage, and probably would
not have accepted It if he had been, for
no great debater cares to be trans
ferred from the House of Commons to
tne dull atmosphere of the House of
Lords.
One useful function for the Fourth of
July appears at length In Its discour
agement of hesitation In Congress.
Members are. anxious jto get away from
Washington, and therefore they assume
an Interest they have never felt In the
government of the Philippine Islands,
and other topics of National concern.
The Fourth has been slandered.
On another page in today's paper ap
pears the address of Mr. Charles Fran
cis Adams on Oliver Cromwell, which
was referred to editorially yesterday.
The paper Is noteworthy in many ways,
and has attracted much attention in
historical circles.
Dewey .has a damage case against the
Senate committee "for dragging out of
him the magazine story he was going
to write.
THE DECLINE IN WAGES.
Kansas City Star.
A nummary of the report of the manu
facturers' division of the Census Bureau
has been made public. The full report
will be published next month. At first
sight the principal table of statistics seems
to show gratifying material progress. The
number of establishments has increased 44
per cent since the last preceding census.
The capital employed has reached the
enormous sum of nearly ten thousand
million dollars a gain of 51 per cent in 10
years. About $2,329,000 is paid in wages 23
per cent more than in 1S0O. The value of
the product Is put at $13,000.000, ' or 29 per
cent above that recorded in the previous
census.
But a closer Inspection of the figures
reveals some unpleasant facta One of
these is the increase in the number of
women, 16 years old and over, who are
employed In factories, and another is the
large number of children at work. The
census enumerators found 4,000,000 men
above 16 employed by manufacturing con
cerns. This number is 23.7 per cent larger
than In 1890. A million women wage
earners in factories were counted an in
crease of 2S.4 per cent The number .of
children is not large only 16S.0C0 but it is
39.5 per cent larger than in 1S90. This
growing tendency to employ women and
children must be deplored. It seems to
mean that fewer women are to have
homes of their own and that more chil
dren are to be sent to the factory Instead
of to the school.
Under present conditions the employ
ment of women in factories seems inevit
able. To some degree the factory work
merely takes the place of the diversified
labor their grandmothers would have had
to do, at home. The woman of two gen
erations ago frequently wove the cloth
from which the garments were made.
Today the weaving Js done In a factory.
But work that takes a woman from home
after her marriage does not commend it
self to the community. It Is to be feared
that the census statistics point in this di
rection. The Increase in the number of
child wage-earners Is unqualifiedly bad.
Every child has a right to a common
school education, and the state la Justi
fied in insisting, as a part of its police
duty, that he have it The census statis
tics Invite the attention of legislators to
this -subject
Another unpleasant fact, brought out in
the report is that the average wage to
day is slightly less- than in 1S30. The total
wages paid have Increased only 23 per
cent while the number of wage-earners
is 25 per cent larger than 10 years ago.
Of course, such figures are not definite
enough to be satisfactory. A proper com
parison could be made only between wages
of a certain class of workmen in 1SS0 and
1900, But it may be assumed roughly
that the additional workingmen now em
ployed are distributed up and down the
scale" so that there are 25 per cent more
earning $1 a day than in 1S90 and the
same additional percentage earning $5 a
day. If that is the case there has been
a decline in the average wage paid of
about 2 per cent
With the Improvements made In ma
chinery, the increased output of factories,
and the advanced cost of living, an in
crease In the average wage was to have
been anticipated. But, apparently, the
gain has gone to the capitalist in divi
dends. Perhaps the complete volume of
figures will furnish some other explana
tion. But the summary given out seems
to show that the last census decade failed
to secure to labor Its due share of the
profits, evea If there has been a great Im
provement over the period of depression
In the early S0s.
Wanted! An Ixsae.
Florida Times-Union.
What Is to be the Issue during the com-
ing campaign? Can we get together and
win on free silver? Mr. Bryan will ac
knowledge that expansion of the currency
has already taken place-by late discoveries
of gold, and there Is no longer a "strin
gency in the monev market" Can we win
on the issue of giving Independence to
the Philippines as we did to Cuba? Demo
crats are divided there as well as Repub
licans. Shall we charge that England
bought us to commit the crime of '73?
Why, she fears we are making a colony
of her. Shall we dilate on the horrors
of the water cure in the Islands? Shall
we denounce the Republicans for selling
horses to the British and allowing the
trusts to live?
Doubtless the last three would occupy
prominent places in the platform to be
written by Mr. Bryan, but they are of the
past or the present; what of the future?
We cannot win unless we get together,
and we cannot deserve success if we have
no card? to play except denunciation of
our enemies and promises to tear down.
What "would Mr. Bryan have us do by way
of building up? The Republican party
richly deserves to be beaten, but how
shall we deserve to win and 'what shall we
do when we have a President in Congress
and a majority in the two chambers?
Mr. Bryan has a wide and commanding
Influence, and he should tell us what we
must do to be saved as well as what to
say when we speak. t
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Minnesota and Cnbnn Reciprocity.
Philadelphia Press.
The Minneapolis Journal of last Wednes
day contained, the result of an inquiry
made among the Republicans of Minneso
ta to find out their opinion concerning
the Cuban reciprocity policy of President
Roosevelt Interviews were had with lead
ing members of the party in 50 or CO of the
most Important places, so as to retteet as
nearly as possible the average sentiments
of the state. The Journals Inquiry shows
that there Is not only a majority in favor
of reciprocity with Cuba, but an over
whelming preponderance of opinion on
that side. The drift is so decided as to
lead the Journal to assert that four-fifths
of the people Interviewed stand with the
President Such expressions as these crop
out all -through the Interviews: "I am for
reciprocity"; "I think the President Is
right"; "Put me down as with the Presi
dent"; "The President should be support
ed"; "I'm a reciprocity advocate"; "Pres
ident Roosevelt Is pursuing the right
course,'.' and other utterances equally as
strong.
This sentiment is not confined to Minne
sota. The state most largely engaged In
the manufacture of beet sugar ia Nebras
ka, and yet the Republican convention of
that state lasjt week heartily indorsed
reciprocity with Cuba. Other Republican
state conventions will doubtless take the
same stand.
Hetty Green's Pup,
Chicago, Record-Herald.
Hetty Green, the richest woman In
America, has astonished people who know
her by appearing recently with a pup
under her arm. Now, it is claimed by stu
dents of human nature that no one can
love a dog and be devoid of kindness.
Byron wrote an epitaph for his dog. Eu
gene Field sang in praise of the bench
legged flee, and there probably never was
a poet or any other good man of woman
on earth who didn't have a warm spot in
his or her heart for one dog or another.
Therefore it is argued that Hetty Green,
having taken a dog to her bosom, must
be developing a kindly disposition, and it
is hoped by some people that she may
presently even get to looking with favor
.upon the children who play in the areas
attached to her tenements. How glorious
It wbuld be if this might come true! But
the probabilities are that Hetty's pup is
to develop into a ferocious dog and be
used in connection with the revolver that
she has recently been carrying. People
who shy around Hetty supposing that be
cause of the pup she has developed" a sen
timental streak are likely through igno
rance, alas! fo lose much of their faith in
the do theory.
'
Leave It to Roosevelt.
Indianapolis News. '
As everything else disputatious is being
submitted to President Roosevelt for de
cision, the Democrats might leave It to
him to brine about the reorganization of
i their Dartv.
A SCANDALOUS SPECTACLE.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The mo3t scandalous spectacle of Amer
ican public life today is that afforded by
the special and peculiar privileges en
Joyed by 'Henry T. Oxnard. chief sugar
lobbyist in the Capitol at Washington.
Mr. Oxnard, it must be remembered, is
a private citizen. He holds no official
position whatever. He ha3. legally or
morally, no greater rights about the
Capitol than any other private citizen.
Yet look at the privileges Mr. Oxnard Is
permitted to enjoy:
Early In the present session, by grace
of the Hon. James A Tawney, chairman
of the committee en industrial arts and
expositions. Mr. Oxnard was permitted
to make the room of the committee vir
tually his private office. From it he di
rected the campaign in the House
against Justice to Cuba and against the
Roosevelt policies.
When the Cuban bill had passed the
House, Mr. Oxnard moved over to- then
Senate wing and was provided with even
more commodious private offices. The
rooms of the privileges and elections
and Interstate commerce committees ad
join and connect By grace of the Hon.
Stephen B. Elkins and the Hon. Julius
Caesar Burrows, chairmen of these com
mittees, their rooms were practically
given up to Mr. Oxnard from which to
continue his campaign.
Lately Mr. Oxnard has grown more
bold and hl3 Senatorial friends more sub
servient The marble room, so-called, is
the general reception-room .for visitors
to Senators. If you wish to see a Sen
ator, while the Senate is In session, you
send .In your card, and If the Senator
has time to talk with you he sends back
his card, which admits you to the marblo
room for Interview. There is a stand
ing rule that no one, except members of
Congress, Is to be admitted to the. mar
ble room without permission from a Sen
ator, i
This rule, however, has been relaxed
In favor of Mr. Oxnard. He walks Into
the marble room whenever he pleases,
Bits down, and sends for the Senators
to whom he wishes to give instructions.
And there are about IS Senators who
promptly obey his summons and deferen
tially listen to bis commands.
From his place In the marble room,
Henry T. Oxnard issues his orders .and
his Senatorial henchmen hear and obey.
Among his friends In the marble room
Henry T. Oxnard sits and boasts how he
has beaten the Administration, com
pelled the Republican party to do his
will, and thwarted the desire of tho
American people to do Justice to Cuba.
Such Is the scandalous condition pre
sented visibly every day to all observers
In the Capitol at Washington. What
are the American people going to do
about it? What are they going to do
with the Senators and Representatives
who have thus enthroned a lobbyist?
More especially how is the Republican
party going to explain and Justify to the
people this" public flouting of the popu
lar will at the mere beck and nod of a
man In no way commissioned to repre
sent a village crossroads at the Capital?
Magnifying Side Issues.
Milwaukee Free Press.
It Is unfortunate that the attention of
Congress and of the country should be
distracted from the question of the relief
of Cuba by any side Issue in which Cuba
figures, such as the expenditures of money
under the administration of Governor
General Wood, whether for the purpose
of furthering the interests of reciprocity
or r the support and pacification of that
uneasy old soldier of fortune, Maximo
Gomez.
Tho n-svmpnt nf allowances to General
Gomez is declared by Secretary Root to
have been almost a necessity. The old
General was certainly deserving of It, and
the amount has not been large, although
the size of it cuts little figure. It is
hardly supposable that the Cuban people
will object to the use that has been made
of their money, or that leading Cubans
were no't consulted in the matter. But
whether they were or not, and whether the
expenditure was one proper to be made
or not, nas no more Deanng on me ques
tion of arranging for reciprocity than the
concentration camps or the water-cure in
the Philippine Islands had on the question
of giving civil government to the Fili
pinos. It is all extraneous matter, and
the consideration of it in connection with
the main question. Is prompted simply by
a malicious desire to put the administra
tion in a bad light and to defeat action
that should have been taken months ago.
"Interesting, If True."
St Paul Pioneer Press.
The story goes that Washington's two
Representatives- who are elected at large
have an effective method of dividing the
burdens of office. Congressman Cushman
.does the talking, and "Congressman Jones
does the quiet work. Every once In a
while Cushman expresses in picturesque
language his discontent with the way his
state is treated, while Jones stands in well
with the powers and makes good use of
his colleague's tirades without getting
himself unpopular. The result has been
an enormous list of appropriations, and
Washington is so pleased that It Is going
to elect its third Representative-at-Large
and have all three working for the state
rather than for any particular district
Aside from the opportunity for "team
work," this method of election affords a
much wider range of choice and tends to
secure a higher average of ability than
the plan of district representation.
Fifteen Years Ago.
J. S. Holden.
I wandered to the grogshop, Tom; I stood be
side tho bar
And drank a. bowl of lemonada and smoked a
bad cigar; v
The samo old kegs and Jugs were there, the-
ones we used to know,
When we were on the round-up, Tom, some
fifteen years ago.
The bar-keep Is a new one, Tom; the one who
-used to sell
Corrosive sublimate to us, is roasting now in
well; The other has a plateglas3 front, his hair is
combed quite low.
And looks Just-like the one we knew soma,
fifteen years ago.
Old Soak came up and Called for booze, he had,
the same old grin.
While others burned the lining from their
throats with Holland gin.
And women stood beside the door, their faces
seamed with woe,
And wept Just as they used to weep some
fifteen years ago.
'I asked about our old-time friends, those
cherished sporty men.
And some were In the poorhouse, Tom, and
some wre In the pen;
And one, the one We liked the best, the hang
man laid him low;
The world is much the- same, dear Tom, as
fifteen years ago.
I asked about that stately chap, that pride
marked for Its own.
He used to say that he could drink, or let the
stuff alone;
He perished of the James H. Jams, out in the
cold and snow
Ah, few survive who used to booze some fifteen
years ago. , '
New crowds line up against the bar and call
for crimson Ink;
New hands are trembling as they pour the stuff
they shouldn't drink;
But stlll'the same old watchword rings, "Thla
round's to me, you know!"
The same old cry .of doom wc heard some fif
teen, years ago.
I wandered to the churchyard. Tom, and there
I saw the graves .
Of 'those who used to drown themselvesln red,
fermented waves;
And there were women sleeping there where
grass and daisies grow.
Who wept and died of broken hearts some fif
teen "years ago.
And there were graves where children slept,
have slept for many a year.
Forgetful of the woes that marked their fitful
sojourn here;
And 'neath a tall white monument in death
there Heth low.
The man who used to sell the booze some fif
teen years ago.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
The hottest days of the season appear to
be delayed In transmission.
Perhaps our brilliant ball team will con
tend that 13 Is an unlucky number.
Never mind; we'll have a good ball team
the year of the Lewis and Clark Fair.
Admiral Dewey Is not an admirer ot
Aguinaldo, and yet he knows film as well
as does Senator Hoar.
If no enemies attack the King from the
outside, the coronation will probably come
off next time without a hitch. .
A German has written a book entitled
"In Darkest United States," and yet he
makes light of the whole subject.
It Is surprising that some enterprising
American doesn't Import Mount Peleo and
sell It for a Fourth of July celebration.
With Aguinaldo and Tracy and Merrill
at large at the same time this country
will be rather too -much the land of the
free.
Chile Is now seeking a coaling station.
The nation gets afraid of Its name every
once in a while and tries to do something
to warm up.
The news dispatches report the explosion
of a Spanish magazine If Spanish maga
zines are as hot as Spanish newspapers.
It is not at all surprising, y
In stopping the premature celebration ot
the Fourth, the police show little consid
eration for the surgeons and the hospitals,
not to mention the undertakers.
The Chinese have again begun to use
the missions for fuel. It may be discov
ered some time that It Is hardly worth
while to convert people unless they will
give a bond to stay converted.
Bourke Cockran wants Aguinaldo to
come over and stump the country for the
Democratic ticket. Just becauso a man is
voted liberty there Is no reason why It
should be construed to mean license.
The wages of the employes in the Car
negie Steel Works have been increased.
Andy might not have had so much money
for libraries If this had been done while
.he owned the works, but it would not
have Injured his memory.
Ex-Captain Dreyfus Is still having great
trouble to get a flat in Paris. Recently he
succeeded In obtaining the lease of a place
In the Boulevard Malesherbes, but the
outgoing tenant having discovered who
was his successor, refused to allow him
to enter or to give the necessary instruc
tions to the upholsterers and decorators.
The Paris courts have now ordered tho
tenant to admit M. Dreyfus once a week
for two hours until the expiration of the
lease.
Two American girls were recently visit
ing a town in Japan not much "frequented
by foreigners, and a friend who under
stood Japanese told them of the comments
made when they appeared In the street.
Said Miss Peach Blossom to the Hon. Miss
Chrysanthemum: "Oh, do look at those
foreign women! See how strangely they
are dressed. They wear short kimonos.
just like the men. How very, improper!"
"Yes," acquiesced the other. "The for
eign women have no taste in dress. In
Tokio, where I have been once, no for
eign woman's -toilet Is complete without a
stuffed bird on her head. If she has not
enough money to buy a whole stuffed bird
she buys a head, the wirigs or some feath
ers. They are very strange, the foreign
women."
"But," exclaimed the first, "did you no
tice the terrible size of the noses of these
two foreign women? Are the noses of all
the foreign women as large as these?"
"Yes, they. are as large. But they are
proud of their large noses. The foreign
women do not consider a large nose a dis
figurement" "How very strange! And, see their
eyes are as round as the full moon."
"Yes, as round as the full moon. They
stare at you without any expression or
feeling."
"And their walk! Do look at their walk! ,
So ungainly just like great big birds!"
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A Statue to General Lee.
To the Editor of the New York Evening
Post Sir: Will you allow an Anerican
white woman, born in the South in tho
last days of slavery, to thank you for the
admirably wise and just article, ontltled,
"Shall General Lee Have a Statue?"
which appeared in your paper June IS?
The writer of tho article puts, his linger
on the insuperable objection to Mr.
Charles Francis Adams' suggestion that
some time in the future a statue to Rob
ert E. Lee be erected In Washington, this
objection being that "General Lee did not
stand for anything In the world's advance
ment." General Lee'was a man of sufficient In
tellect to see, and of sufficient moral In
sight to de'plore, the awful evils of slav
ery. A year before his death, he said to
John Leyburn, at Baltimore, that he re
joiced that slavery was abolished, adding:
"I would cheerfully have lost all I have
lost by the war, and have suffered all 1
have suffered, to have this object at
tained." Yet he did his utmost to perpet
uate the evils he so clearly saw. He Is
the type of man who. throughout history,
has done'more to confuse and darken tho
Judgment of average people than that
other type of man who professes and pos
sesses no moral standards, but says rranK
1y: "I know no moral law."
Every Southern woman old enough to
have positive knowledge of slavery must
emphatically protest against Mr. Adams
reported statement, that a monument to
General Lee "would typify all that goes
to make up the loftiest type of character."
The loftiest type of character stands for
the loftiest virtues: Truth, justice and
mercy.
AMERICAN WOMAN OF THE SOUTH.
The Adlrondacks, June 19.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGUAPHERS
"Well, cook, and -what did you think of It?"
"Lor mum, she sang beautiful Just as if she
was a-gargllng." Tit-Bits.
It Is warm enough now to roast beefsteak on
the roof. but. unfortunately, beefsteak Is een
higher than the roof. Atlanta Constitution.
Appropriate Countryman Please explain
this here ship to me, sir. Inventor Don't say
this here ship, my friend; say that air ship. N
Detroit Free Press.
Disappointed. "How did yon like 'Little Lord
Fauntleroy' T' asked the Sunday school teacher,
as Jimmy McFHnn returned the book to her.
"Aw, I didn't like It." replied JImmie, frankly;
"I Cot It wuz a red-hot detccktlt story."
Ohio State Journal.
Unwholesome. "Do you think that sugar Is
unnwholesome for children." asked the anxious
parent. "Well." answered the physician, "my
observation is that It Isn't likely to do children
nearly as much harm as It does politicians."
Washington Star.
The Record. Smith Brown Is the laziest man
on record. Jones How so? Smith When his
wife asks him to water her flower-bed he
throws a bucket of water on his Newfoundland
dog and then has him stand in. the middle of
tho flower-bed and shake himself. Puck.
Wise Doctor; Mrs. Fondma Sorry to disturb
you at this hour, doctor, but we can't Imagine
what Alls the child. Doctoi-Cold, perhaps.
Did you have him out today? Mrs. Fondma
Yes, but only to his grandmother's? Doctor
Ah! qyerfed. that's all. Philadelphia Press.
A Let Down. Professor Blinkers I hope you
did not find my lecture too technical. Jllsa
Baynes? Miss Baynes (with pride) Oh, no.
professor. I was able to follow It all. Profes
sor Blinkers I am glad of that, as I tried to
make It Intelligible to the meanest comprehen
sion. Punch.