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PORTLAND, WEDXBSDATT, JULY 23.
CRUELTY OP TUB IDEALIST.
The American press has seldom shown
a greater uniformity of opinion than It
now shows over the Philippine friar
question. Everybody recognizes-the Jus
tice of the Administration's position,
which is approved also in London, in
Paris, and even by critics of the Vati
can's procedure at Rome itself. There
Is a general agreement on the rectitude
of the American proposals, the impos
sibility that thetfrlars should remain,
and the imperative bearing of their de
parture upon the peace and prosperity
of the islands. Jn the New Tork Even
ing Post,, however, we find this note of
protesi: t
Who would suppose, from the tone of the
American press, or even from the tenor of the
communications of tho Administration to the
Vatican, that tho Philippine friars had a
shadow of legal right behind them? "The
friars must bo." Is tho current cry; Jt it Is
In direct disregard of the most solemn treaty
obligations assumed by this Government.
"We shall not discuss the legality of
the riar contention or the treaty rights
of the religious orders. These are in
process of adjudication. Such agree
ment as is entered into between Rome
and "Washington will be framed under
that treaty and in. conformity there
with. ItWis true that the -peace and
prosperity of the islands are absolutely
conditional upon "withdrawal of the
friars, and their withdrawal will be In
sisted on; but it is equally true that
their rights will be respected, and the
Government at Washington will pre
serve to them their property rights as
It is now protecting them in Manila
from the Tage.of 'the natives they have
so cruelly wronged and plundered.
We advert to the topic for the sole
purpose of explaining why it is that
nntl-imperlalism is so ready to cham
pion the cause of the friars. What is
there in the contemplated withdrawal
that so stirs the blood and arouses the
concern of anti-imperialism? The an
swer is-that the withdrawal promises
peace and prosperity to the Philippines.
It will set th"e final 'seal of approval
upon the American occupation. -It will
set at naught once and for all the cra
ven cry that we are forbidden by our
Constftutlon and incapacitated by our
lust of conquest and genius of despot
ism from holding a tropic possession in
tutelary relations looking to its event
ual .self-government. It promises to
purge the American name from the as
persions that anti-imperialism has
heaped upon it, and relegate the cop
perheads of 1900 to the category of the
copperheads of 1S64.
It is in perfect keeping with the rec
ord of anti-imperialism that it should
thus hope and contend for perpetuation
of everything in the Philippines that
menaces the success of American ad
ministration and the peace and pros
perity of the islands. It was wont to
pray that the Tagal savages would
drive our soldiers Into the sea and to
urge that we abandon the islands to
their own helplessness, anarchy or seiz
ure. Jt fcasn. evprx. possible way en
couraged aita enlivened the 'Philippine
insurrection, and then It has twitted the
American authorities that the insurrec
tion was still alive. It has resisted the
employment of sufficient men, arms and
resources to establish American sover
eignty there, and then it has ridiculed
the American authorities for the delay
In the establishment of that sovereignty.
It is not surprising that now anti
Imperialism pleads for the retention of
the friars, that they may continue to
harass American administration there
and prolong the misery and unrest of
the inhabitants. Nor Is it to be com
plained of. Only let us have done with
pretenses that the animus of the pro
ceeding is love of country and friend
ship for the Fillpinoa Let us' under
stand that tho supreme end to be
.achieved is the establishment f a pre
conceived notion; that uprfn the alar of
his own theories, the anti-imperialist
will sacrifice country, army, Filipino
all alike.
Talk of -despotism! What tyranny is
equal to the intellectual tyranny of the
self-centered theorist? What cruelty is
so cruel as that of the idealist? Not
for the Filipino, not for the honor of
the American Army or the luster of the
flag, has the antl steadfastly pursued
his course. Not though the friars should
remaining lead the islands into an-
other devastating blaze of war and ra
pine, would the antl forego his chance
to make capital for his fixed idea? Be
side the unfeeling cruelty of such intel
lectual arrogance, the water-cure be
comes a childish pastime and the very
Inquisition a means of grace.
Thlfrd Asistant$ Secretary, o'f State
&erbet D. Pierce' has returned from
the conference at The Hague, and an
nounces that Russia will'pay the claims
for damages to American sealers and
whalers. This is satisfactory, so far as
it goes, and Russia will undoubtedly
make good for all the trouble she has
caused American citizens "where never
a law of God or man got north of fifty
three." The American sealer has other
claims, however, and the greatest is on
the American Government, which ille
gally seized schooners in Behring Sea
over fifteen years ago. Payment for
the error was made to the British seal
ers, but the American Dealers have
never received their money. As mat
ters now stand, Amerioa has paid dam
ages to the British sealers, Russia has
promised to pay damages to the Amer
ican eeajers, but America has failed to
make any provision for paying her own
subjects, who have the same claim for
damages that has been acknowledged
in the settlements made with Great
Britain and expected from Ruesla.
WISCONSIN'S OPPORTUNITY.
The Wisconsin Republican conven
tion easily rises, through the attention
it gets, to the height of a National epi
sode. The whole country, regardless of
party, is concerned at the menace of
Senator Spooner's retirement, and urges
his re-election. Some deprecate the con
vention's act in seeking to discipline
or humiliate Spooner; others, in the in
terests of harmony, call upon him to
assent to the conditions laid down; but
all agree that in failure to re-elect him
Wisconsin primarily and indirectly the
Nation at large would sustain a severe
loss.
The merits of the controversy are not,
of course, all on one side. It is doubt
less true that Governor La Follette's
ambition and the ambition of Million
aire Stephenson, who has played the
part of "angel" to La Follette's machine,
are responsible for much of the war on
Spooner. It is unusual, also, for state
conventions to demand of a Senator ac
quiescence in and support of measures
of purely local bearing. If a man once
declined a re-election that he now
craves whether from personal reasons
that -do not now exist or through misap
prehension of the faqts, this certainly
does not compel his party, if it really
wants his continued service In his post
of duty, to require of him a humiliating
sort Df recantation and promise to be
good hereafter. '
But all this pettiness does not explain
tho objection to Spooner's course and
the application for his being put under
bonds. There are grounds more rela
tive. The "stalwart" ring, harklngJ
back to Sawyer and now handled by a
few Wisconsin plutocrats, has used
Senator Spooner's name and influence,
if not his active efforts, to frustrate
La Follette's purpose and especially to
defeat the primary election and taxa
tion measures to which the Republican
party in tfie state had committed itself.
The methods of the ring, -including sub
sidization of newspapers, have been of
fensive and its arrogance very displeas
ing. This is why Spooner is dragged
into the local issues. The party (mean
ing in all such cases the majority, if
only of one), wants to make sure that
Senator Spooner, while claiming im
munity from antagonism over local ls
Bues, shall extend to the party in its
management of these same local ques
tions, equal Immunity from interference
by him and his immediate associates.
If Spooner expects re-electlqn on Na
tional grounds, regardless of his views
on state Issues, those who have suffered
by reason of his machine's activity will
require equal freedom in the local field.
If we must let you alone, they say to
him, then you must let us alone. Prom
ise to do this and the Senatorehlp is
yours.
Out of this apparent impasse it will
not be surprising to see the party itself
emerge with a bold decision, but partly
satisfactory, to either of the principal
disputants. Spooner has had his rebuke
from the state convention. La Follette
may get his this Winter in the re-election
of Spooner. The party can sustain
the Governor on state Issues and pass
its proposed laws, and at the same time
retain Spooner in the Senate. One very
useful servlco of such procedure WQuld
be to demonstrate the sometimes for
gotten fact that the state convention
has no business with the Senatorshlp
anyhow. No member of the Legislature
is responsible to the state, convention
for his vote on Senator. He is respon
sible to the reople of his legislative
district. The penchant of state conven
tions for affecting concern over Sena
torshlps is deserving, of some such
setback as Spooner's re-election would
afford.
THE MYSTERY OF HEREDITY.
The retirement of Lord Salisbury has
"been made the text for articles concern
ing hereditary capacity for public af
fairs. It is true that Lord Salisbury is
descended from the Cecil family, which
dates back for Its first eminent repre
sentatives to the reigns of Queen Eliza
beth and James I, but from that date
down to the career of Lord Salisbury
there have been no Cecils who have
been men of superior political talents.
The record of the Cecils for continuous
hereditary public talents does not equal
that of the Marquis of Lansdowne, the
Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Ar
gyle, or the Duke of Bedford. The aris
tocratic families of Wyndham, Herbert
or Buller can show a better record of
continuous public talents than any of
these English nobility we have named.
There Is nothing remarkable In this,
because public distinction vcannot be
explained .by heredity either in Europe
or America, The Stanleys, who repre
sent the house of Derby, have a better
record of hereditary public talents than
any aristocratic house in England, and
yet nobody can tell why, any more than
they can tell why no great man In
America has had a great son save John
Adams, or why no great man in Eng
land has had a great son save Lord
Chatham.
Who can explain the unexpected emi
nence of "Stonewall" Jackson, of Grant,
or Sheridan, or Longstreet, or Lincoln,
by heredity? Who can explain Nelson,
or Wellington, or Napoleon, or Massena,
by heredity? Who can explain Crom
well, Marlborough, Lord Cllve or War
ren Hastings, by heredity? Who can
explain the poet Shelley by his hered
ity? His father was a man of purely
commercial ability, a trader in New
Jersey for a time. The son of the poet
Shelley, Sir Percy Shelley, had a
father of the first order of genius, and
his mother was a woman of superior
talents, who wrote the novel "Franken
stein," but Sir Percy Shelley was noth
ing but an organizer of private theat
ricals. The son of the poet Browning
Is a respectable painter, but not a poet,
and the descendants of several famous
poetic marriages are In lunatic asylums.
The sona pf political reformers and en
thusiasts are not seldom the most un
progresslve of men. the sons of million
aires the least business-like, and those X
of divines the least saintly. None of
Napoleon's great marshals left a great
child. Cromwell left no great child.
None of the great warrior Kings of Eng
land left a great child. Edward I, the
Black Prince, and 'Henry V left eons
conspicuous for Incapacity. No Ameri
can author of literary genius has left
a child who perpetuated the memory
of his sire. No American soldier of
superior talent has left a child of mili
tary ability, behind him. No American
statesman has left a son behind him
of superior ability save John Adams.
No American Jurist of the first 'order of
ability has had his fame freshly illus
trated by the ability of his son. The
great lawyers of America, Marshall,
Hamilton, Wirt, Luther Martin, Web
ster, Choate, Cushlng, Evarts, Curtis,
left no great children behind them.
It Is even true where you would not
expect It to be true that in the world of
commercial affairs a great man of busi
ness seldom leaves a great son behind
him. It is true that Commodore Van
derbllt's son proved himself a capable
man. but it was merely the capacity to
guard wealth that had been made, to
maintain combinations that had been
contrived. Of course, a man who would
be content to live on a Staten Island
farm until he was 45 was not a Com
modore Vandcrbilt. What Is the expla
nation of this singular failure of hered
ity to perpetuate eminence? It is en
vironment. The great man's son has
an easy sit, there is no Incessant spur
on his flank. Nothing worth doing was
ever done well except under the real or
fancied spur of necessity. The soldier
fights for the marshal's baton, the
writer works for fame that means
money.
WORSE NEEDED THAN ADVICE.
Another voice has been projected Into
the busy forum of Democratic coun
sel. It is the voice of Vilas, pleading
for harmony. One after another of the
great Democrats has put out his views
as to what the party needs for suc
cess. Cleveland spoke, Hill spoke, Bryan
wrote, wrote again, and will soon speak,
Mr. "Watterson wrote and will write
again frequently. Edward M. Shepard
has written. All are full of advice. Mr.
Cleveland suggests harmony through the
elimination of Bryan. Bryan suggests
harmony through the elimination of
Cleveland. Watterson would like to dis
pense with them both. Mr. Cleveland
doesn't please the antis because he ig
nores their sacred Ism. Mr. Shepard
advocates the very things Bryan de
mands, but says that Bryan himself Is
"not wanted by the people." There is
no agreement here. There Is no pro
posal upon which the erstwhile .war
ring factions of the Democracy can
combine. The Cleveland wing will not
harmonize upon the basis of its own
discredit. The Bryan wing will not har
monize upon the basis of its discredit.
Enter Mr. Vilas, it Is whose idea that
bygones should be bygones: What does
It signify now, he reasons, or seems
to reason, who betrayed the party? We
were licked, let It go at that. Now, to
win. Now, to formulate something that
we can all agree upon, and Jet the
party officially pronounce the Bryan
Cleveland feud a closed incident. Let
the dead past bury Its dead. Look off
to the East, where the sun is rising on
a reunited and. victorious Democracy,
endowed by the people with the sacred
trust of delivering them from the com
bination of greed and rascality now de
spoiling them under the name of. the
Republican party. Etc., etc., etc.
Selah! .
However creditable as alanilad, the
lamentations of Vilas will nol serve as
a safe political guide. Tliey evince that
serene but fatal disregard of truth
which ever Informs thV platitudinous
ponderosities of the Democratlcharmon
izer. All the trusts, he 'says; are Re
publican. He might Just atf"3vjll and as
truthfully have said that all the banks
are Republican, or all the factories, or
all the men that have anything to lose.
Many trusts, from Standard Oil and
American Cotton Bale down, are Demo
cratic. It would not greatly signify if
they were not, except that capital In
any form Is apt to be afraid of a party
that favors free riot and rotten money.
Our worklngmen, he says, are held In
Industrial slavery so degraded that Its
equal can only be found In Oriental
countries. This will be news to the cor
porations of Portland, who are bewail
ing the tyranny of organized labor. All
these are sparkling gems -of truth, how
ever, to the assertion that protection
"fomented war." The free-trade yellow
Democrats fomented the war If anybody
did, and the Impulse It has given to
freer trade ha3 kept the protected trusts
in hot water ever since. Expansion is
the great discourager of isolating tar
iffs. For Mr. Vilas to go about accus
ing the protected trusts of bringing on
the war that has caused them so much
trouble would be adding Insult to In
jurs. All of which Is neither here nor there.
Excellent as the Vilas counsel is, es
pecially that part of it where he ad
jures the party to invoke oblivion upon
Its recent exploits, the Democrats
should be advised that counsel Is not so
much what they need .as action. They
have advice to burn, but as a vote
getter it leaves much-to. be desired. To
paint with pride tb nothing but com
plaints is like the crackling of thorns
under the pot. A good deal has been
going on these six years. What have
the Democrats done? Well, they have
barked at the heels of every horse In
the parade. As for tariff reform, they
sold It out In 1894 when they had both
houses of Congress and the Presidency.
As to the war with Spain, they rushed
the McKInley Administration Into It
pell-mell, and then resisted and ham
pered its every step, from the original
appropriations to the treaty of Paris.
As to trusts, they voted against every
bill offered. As to free trade, they
helped kill justice to the Philippines and
concessions to Cuba.
If the Democrats would do something
creditable, to Inspire popular confidence,
they might hope for victory. 'But so
long as their responsible representa
tives In Congress play the odious part
of mere obstructionists and upon occa
sion worse, all the letters Mr. Vilas
can write, speeches Cleveland can make
or editorials the Commoner, Courier
Journal and Constitution can fulminate
are of no avail. Actions speak louder
than words.
Mr. Ferdinand Link, one of the pio
neer carriage-makers of Chicago, and
his wife celebrated their golden wed
ding in that city recently. This is a
very tame announcement, but the cere
monies covering a three days' celebra
tion of the occasion were quite out of
the usual order. A feature of the cele
bration was, the clasping of hands by
the aged couple in a" marble mausoleum
in St. Boniface cemetery, where they
expect, to, .lie, when , death . overtakgs,
them. The significance of," this proceed
ing la not plain, though it Is said that
it was intended as a mark of gratitude
that their lives had been prolonged to
their golden wedding day. To most
persons this manner of expressing grat
itude will appear grewsome rather than
joyful, but If It gave pleasure to the
L actors In the little drama, no one else
has a right to object. Things of this
kind are merely masters of taste. Thjs
.dedication, so to speak, of- a tomb by
the living, who in due time will become
Its occupants, Is not more fantastic
than a sculptured slab in Lone Fir
cemetery representing a well-known
pioneer and his wife, said to have been
carved from life, standing hand in
hand in their quaint wedding garments;
or yet another conceit In the same cem
etery, represented by a granite monu
ment in the center of a smooth grass
plat bearing the name of a well-known
citizen still living, upon which when
occasion requires suitable dates will be
carved. There Is really no accounting
for whims of this kind. Wise and rev
erent people merely take note of them
and pass on.
The old boundary-line feud, that has
been responsible for the untimely death
of many good and worthy men, " was
pushed to Its logical sequence In Jose
phine County last April, and resulted in
the killing of John Schoubacheler by
his neighbor, Gibson. The latter has
just been convicted at Grant's Pass
of murder in the first degree, the jury
in a former trial having failed to agree.
The verdict, it is said, occasioned much
surprise, as the provocation to the deed
was great and the immediate stress,
as the friends of the condemned man
allege, was self-defense. It may ,well
be argued that murder In the first de
gree Is a too extreme finding in a case
of this kind. It is clear that a quarrel
cannot reach a murderous stage unless
both parties thereto are at fault. The
history of such feuds proves that the
point of killing or being killed is usual
ly reached before the fatal shot Is fired.
All things considered. Justice would not
greatly err In making manslaughter the
extreme limit of the jury's finding In
such cases. The criminal In the Jose
phine County case seems to be a man
of great nervous excitability. The men
tal strain that he has undergone since
the fatal occurrence has wrecked him
physically, and If the sentence stands
as now rendered and execution is or
dered, the Governor will probably be
asked to commute the penalty to Im
prisonment for life, which, following
the usual custom, will be for a term of
years of greater or less length, accord
ing to the conduct of theprIsoner.
In another column will be found a list
of fifty-five lumber vessels built within
the past two years at Oregon, Wash
ington and California yards for the for
eign trade. Not only are these vessels
able successfully to compete with the
foreign craft, but they are carrying
lumber at a profit at rates which can
not be met by the foreigners without
a loss. If the argument of the subsidy
grafters were sound, these vessels would
all be obliged to hug the Coast and
remain under the protection of the
coasting laws In order to prevent their
owners going Into bankruptcy. Four of
these modern-built veesels have sailed
from the Columbia within the past
week, one for Japan, another for China
and two others for Australia a strange
proceeding If the profits to be earned
In the protected coastwise zone were as
much greater than those of the foreign
trade as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
would have us believe. No other fin
worthy cause has had more to contend
with in the way of cold, hard facts
than has the shipping subsidy bill, and
every new craft that slides Into the
water makes the plea for Government
aid appear all the more ridiculous.
The myth of militarism seems to have
vanished completely. The Army has
been reduced to about 63,000 men. By
recent order of the Secretary of War
only 18,000 of these will be retained in
the Philippines for police duty. About
45,000 will be left for the garrisons in
the United States, or about 18,000 more
than before the Spanish War. The 27,
000 on duty four years ago were scarce
ly enough to garrison the posts, and
were not sufficient to care for the coast
artillery. It was insisted at that time
that the Artillery Corps ought to be
Increased by from 15,000 to 20,000 men,
to the end that the equipment' repre
senting an investment of millions of
dollars could be kept In repair. The
reorganization bill, so bitterly fought
on the ground of "militarism," provided
this Increase. The slzeyof the Army to
be statoned in theJ United States is
therefore practically the same as before
the war, with the addition of a few
thousand men to take care of the Coast
Artillery. Thus Is the ghost of mili
tarism effectually laid, and political op
ponents of the Administration, In Con
gress and out of It, are left without a
"spook" to lean upon.
The enterprising newspapers of the
State of Washington are already circu
lating their figures on the coming wheat
yield. Like nearly all of its predeces
sors for the past half-dozen years. It Is
several million bushels larger than any
that has ever been harvested, and, tak
ing the yield by counties, it ! In a fair
way to amount to nearly 60.000.000 bush
elson paper. Exporters and Interior
dealers, however, will be agreeably sur
prised If It reaches 30,000,000 bushels,
and will not be at all disappointed If It
lands around 25,000,000. bushels, when
the returns are all in. Tonnage Is
cheap this year, and the shipowner who
takes the present figures on the Wash
ington crop too seriously will be disap
pointed 'in securing high rates.
Hops are in excellent condition, with
20 cents a pound in sight. The hay crop
has been saved, mostly In good condi
tion, wneat is ripening rapidly, with
a prospect generally of a good yield.
Oregon Is herself again in the. outlook
for apples. Pears and othejr fruits will
be plentiful, though not with .the riot
ous abundance of some former years,
which really Is not necessary. Taken
all together, the Oregon farmer has a
right to look the cheerful man that he
Is, and to pity his brethren In various
states whose fields are submerged with
mud and water.
It Is said that Sheriff Cudihee, of
King County, Wahlngton, takes seri
ously his failure to capture or kill
Tracy. Furthermore his political friends
take it seriously, and his political ene
mies see in it a coveted chance to un
horse him, should he again be nomi
nated for the Sheriff's race. All of
which Is sad. but sadder still Is the un
derlying fact that Tracy has shown his
.pursuers, bloodhound.es- and all, a clean
pair of heels.
THE PACIFIC COAST'S EXPOSITION
Lesllo's Weekly.
There will be hold In the City of Port
land. Or., In 1905, a great fair, to last
several months, to commemorate the
centennial of the arrival of Lewis and
Clark on the Pacific Coast, after their
journey from the mouth of the Missouri
on the first and the greatest of the Amer
ican Government's expeditions of explo
ration. The historical and political con
sequences of that expedition were mo
mentous. It furnished the United States
with one of the earliest and one of tho
strongest of the claims by which it
galne.1 undisputed possession. In the
treaty with England in lSi6, pf the vast
empire en the western side of the Rocky
Mountains, comprising the present States
of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, and
parts of the States of Montana and
Wyoming. -.
The citizens of Portland and of Ore
gon in general are proceeding in an ener
getic and intelligent way to get up a
fair of which the Pacific Coast and tho
wholj country will be proud. The com
pany which Is to manage the fair has
been Incorporated, and has ex-Senator
Hsnry W. Corbett as Its president. The
capital stock, originally set at $300,000,
was raised In two days, and then it was
enlarged to $500,000. The City 6f Port
land is to provide the site and one or two
buildings. Oregon's Legislature is to bo
asked for an appropriation for it of $500,
000. The Legislatures of Washington,
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah and
) British Columbia have Indorsed the pro-
jcui, ana assurances nave ueen given iaai
they will make liberal appropriations to
it. California has manifested its Interest
In the idea, and is expected to contribute
handsomely toward it. Congress will be
asked to appropriate $2,500,000.
It was with the Oregon Historical So
ciety that the idea of a great fair for
the Lewis and Clark centennial origi
nated. The project made an Immediate
appeal to all the people of that city and
state, and has beep received with favor
by those of the entire section west of
the continental divide, as well as by
British Columbia. The St. Louis fair
of 1S04 will help tho Portland enterprise,
for many of the best exhibits from all
parts of the world will. It is expected, be
removed at the end of 1904 from the city
on the Mississippi to the city on the
Columbia.
The Lewis and Clark Fair of 1903 will
have exhibits from all parts of the
world, but its especial purpose will be
to display the growth, products, re
sources and capabilities of the Pacific
Coast and Rocky Mountain region of tho
United States and Canada, of those of
the United States possessions In Hawaii,
the Philippines, and other parts of the
great Western ocean, as well as of the
resources of China, India, and the rest
of the, great Asiatic countries. It will
thus cover a field which has not been
adequately, touched by any of the other
expositions a Held which Is constantly
and rapidly growing in importance.
What Happened to Dietrich.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Senator Dietrich, of Nebraska, was
conspicuous in Congress for his opposi
tion to the Cuban reciprocity policy of
the President. In the Republican caucus
at Washington he exerted strong influ
ence to prevent party action on the re
ciprocity bill.
Senator Dietrich's hostility to Cuban
reciprocity continued until the Repub
lican convention of Nebraska met at
Lincoln, on. June 18.. He and Senator
Millard telegraphed their views on reci
procity to the convention and asked for
an Indorsement of thorn. This commun
ication, by order of the convention, was
placed on file without reading, and the
platform especially commended "the jus
tice and wisdom of the President's reci
procity policy with Cuba."
This was official notification to the
country that the Nebraska Republicans
supported the President as against their
own Senators. It was a warning to all
Senators who had antagonized the Presi
dent on the Cuban bill that the people
were against them. But in a caucus
held two days later the beet-sugar Sen
ators showed a solid front and voted
down Justice to Cuba.
There was no immediate response to
this anti-Roosevelt movement, but it put
the Republicans of every state on guard.
So, when, a few days ago. Senator Diet
rich offered his services for the cam
paign in Nebraska, the state committee
declined to accept them.
This was not a courteous act, but it
was a Just one. It indicates clearly how
Nebraska Republicans feel toward tho
man who misrepresented them on the
floor of the Senate. It confirms the state
ment made In this newspaper a month
ago that, as between Dietrich on one
side and Roosevelt on the other, the Ne
braska Republicans would stand by
Roosevelt to a man.
There are several other Senators, East
and West, who may find food for thought
In what happened to Dietrich. The les
son is of general application, and it is in
structive enough to be remembered.
Friar Situation In n Nutshell.
New Tork Tribune.
Tho case stands thus: The friars,
whoso unwelcomeness to tho Filipinos
Catholic as well as non-Catholic Is at
the root of the whole trouble, are now
In asylum at Manila,-' maintained at
church expense. They dare not go back
to their old places for fear of personal
violence at the hands of tho people. The
United States Government ,1s properly
unwilling to reinstate them by force
among a people to whom they are objec
tionable. It Is willing to pay for the
property which they have been compelled
to leave behind them, but It suggests
that, as a concomitant of its so doing,
the friars shall leave the islands, thus
ridding the latter of their most serious
disturbing element. If the ecclesiastical
authorities refuse to withdraw the friars
from the Islands, they will have to con
tinue keeping them In asylum at Manila,
and may not be able so advantageously
to dispose of the property which th
friars can no longer occupy a state of
affairs which, we should think, would
not be permanently satisfactory to the
Vatican. As for the generosity of the
American proposals, that Is obvious when
we compare the conduct of this Govern
ment with that of France and with that
of Spain. Those countries give the Ro
man Catholic Church official state rec
ognition and support, and maintain dip
lomatic relations with the Vatican;
things which the United States does not
do. Yet they have arbitrarily expelled
or suppressed associations of friars with
out entering into negotiations with the
Vatican upon the subject, while tho
United States has taken pains to seek
such negotiations. This country has been
more considerate, conciliatory and gener
ous than they. It will not be less firm.
Missouri Asparagus.
New York Tribune.
Asparagus is now In such esteem In Mis
souri that some of the eloquent orators In
that progressive Louisiana Purchase State
are said to be in favor of adopting it as
the typical flower of the commonwealth.
No Idle, futile sentiment In that idea!
Plain, sensible, commendable! Aparagua
is not only edible, but wholesome and de
licious. New York has been exulting in
the belief that tho best asparagus is raised,
in Oyster Bay, Long Island, but the de
scendants of the Knickerbockers have
never thought It desirable to oak the Al
bany Legislature to designate that dainty
plant as the Empire State flower. Let
Mfsouri put it In her buttonhole by all
meansr New York will not protest. And
Kalamazoo celery may wisely be selected
as the state flower of another enterpris
ing and honored commonwealth In the
West. There is- no more delicate and
palatable celery thin that of Kalamazoo.
It is a credit to Kalamazo and the state
In which Kalamazoo la enshrined bf a
precious pearl of possession. Now what
state of the Union will pick out the pie
plant as Its floral emblem? Rhubarb has
many robust and. vigorous claims to pub
lic approval ,
TRADE WITH NEW POSSESSIONS.
St Louis Globe-Democrat
It U a slander on American character to
say that this country went Into the war
with Spain entertaining any aggressive
designs upon Spanish territory. The de
sirability of honorably owning Cuba had
long been felt in the United States, but, at
the beginning of hostilities. Congress vol
untarily erected a barrier to the acquisi
tion of Cuba as a result of the war. The
wisdom of such a pledge In the face of
the uncertainties and unknown factors la
every conflict between two important na
tions may well be questioned. We were
compelled, as a matter of common sense,
to add tho Piatt amendment to the condi
tions of Cuba's independence. The re
sponsibilities of success In war were
forced upon this country, territorially and
otherwise, and some of them were unwel
come. We Were practically forced to as
sume sovereignty in the Philippines or see
them abandoned to anarchy or sold by
Spain to a European power. Porto Rico
may be said to be the only indemnity we
received In tho Spanish war, and even In
that instance the main consideration with
us was that Spain would sell the Island to
our disadvantage unless we acquired the
title.
These remarks are a proper preface to a
review of our growing commerce with the
new possessions, for if territorial greed
figures In the care the benefits derived In
a business sense would be under a cloud.
No shadow of that kind rests upon the
title. Five years ago. when Porto Rico,
Hawaii and the Philippines were foreign
territory, our exports to those Islands
amounted to T6.773.5C0. In 1001 the total
was $35,000,000, and showed a constant In
crease. Our exports to the Philippines in
1S97 were $34,597. This year they will
reach $5,000,000. In 1S97 Porto Rico bought
from us to the extent of $1.9SS.SSS. Last
year its purchases footed up to $9,651,000,
and will go beyond $10,000,000 In 1B02.
Hawaii bought American goods in 1S97
amounting to $4,690,075, and this year calls
for $20,000,000 worth. Within the same
five years since 1897 our imports from
these islands have increased as follows:
Philippines, from W.3S3.740 to $7,000,000;
Porto Rico, from $2,1S1,024 to $7,000,000, and
Hawaii, from- $13.6S7,799 to $26,000,000.
These are but the beginnings of a great
future commerce. Our shipment of goods
to Alaska this year will aggregate $15,000,
000, or about twice as much as we paid
for that great territory. No one can set
bounds to the development of our trade In
the Pacific. All our Islands there are ex
panding In business rapidly. Porto Rico
keeps pace with them, though on the
other side of the world. But from Cuba,
now an independent nation under Its own
President and Congress, comes constant
reports of darkening prospects and Im
pending' "ruin." The main trouble In Cu
ba, from a business point of view. Is lack
of confidence. American and other outside
capital will not venture there under pres
ent circumstances. Trade follows the flag,
because business confidence goes with the
flag. The Cubans will see the vital point
In dua time and gladly ask for annexation.
PERSONS WORTH KXOWIXG ABOUT
Apparently there is no limit to fusion in
Kansas. W. E. Jeffs, a frultBrower living
near Wichita, announces that he haf succeeded
In producing: a cross between a cherry and a
plum.
Charles Dickens' offlce table, chair and look
ing glass and another hlg-h-back chair he used
In the edltor'a offlce of AH the Year Round,
were sold at auction In London lately for
$425. They were given at Dickens death to
his housekeeper and sold by her to a collec
tor. Five acres of land around Charing; Cross,
London, are held by the Marquis of Salisbury.
These acres were obtained by his ancestors 250
years ago for grazing land at the modest rate
of $2 CO an acre for 500 years. What that
little bargain has been worth to the Cecils It
would be rather difficult to accurately com
pute. John Morley. the English statesman.' was
the first editor to be made a Cabinet Minister.
He passed from the editorial chair of the Pall
Mall Gazette to the Chief Secretaryship of
Ireland. "What must come as a surprise to
readers of Mr. Morley Is that the distinguished
author and statesman at one time thought
of going Into the church.
Emperor William not long ago visited Cre
feld. a busy town on the Rhine, and there was
Informed by some pretty girls that they would
be much pleased fo have a handful of Lieuten
ants to danco with them. In a day or two
His Majesty ordered that a crack hussar regi
ment be quartered in Crefeld. and the burgo
master Is busy preparing for a season of un
wonted gaiety.
Surgeon John F. Urle, attending physician
to President Roosevelt and his family, has
been detached from the Naval dispensary and
ordered to duty as assistant to the chief of tha
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, relieving
Surgeon Q. D. Gatewood, who has been ordered
to Lancaster. Under his new detail Surgeon
Urle will be almost constantly occupied In the
Navy Dpartment and therefore will be
obliged to discontinue his professional attend
ance on tho President.
Famous men are often curiously" little known
In the localities where they live. A corre
spordent recently traveling in & -part of Glou
cestershire. England, which Is noted far the
growth of plums, got into a conversation with
an old resident who told him a great deal
about plum culture. "Yes," he wound up,
'there's good seasons. And then the good
time- makes up for the other, and you forget
your losses. There Shs a man a year or two
back Rosebery. Lord Rosebery, his name was
made 14 shillings a bushel on one season's
plums."
Prince Henry of Prussia was indebted to
Adolph Bender, an American citizen, for some
courtesy when his royal highness was com
ing across the ocean. In acknowledgment he
sent Mr. Bender a thoroughbred dachshund
and the bluebloodtd quadruped has been play
ing hob at Soundvlew Park. In Westchester
County, New York, where Mr. T3ender lives.
Its new owner got Into a fight over one of
Its pranks, a visitor threatens suit or per
sonal chastisement because of another, and a
young woman wants $5000 damages on ac
count of having been almost frightened out
of her wits by the funny little brute.
When Mr. Shaw become Secretary of the
Treasury there was a minor employe of the
department named Mike, whose duties were so
multifarious and complicated that he had
come to be regarded as indispensable. About
once In two months Mike went on a spree
ahd -as discharged, but was always taken
back when things In his particular sphere
went wrong. Mr. Shaw learned of this and
asked the delinquent's Immediate superior:
"What would you do If Mike were deadT"
"Oh T minnnRA w -would hftvw tn itrnlrtiUn
out things ourselves." "Well, so far as thls.
oepanment 13 concerned, auks is ueaa. bo
begin and straighten."
Senator Piatt, of New York, has celebrated
his 60th birthday, on which occasion he re
ceived a host of congratulations from friends
and admirers all over the country. On being
asked for some advice by a young man about
to enter political life, he said: "Never give
any one the right to say that you have broken
your word to him. Be careful about making
a promise, but when you have once .passed
your word, stick to It, though It may be to
your own detriment." Mr. Piatt has had inti
mate social and political acquaintance with
every President elected by his party, from Lin
coln to Roosevelt, and has been the undisputed
Republican leader In New York State for 18
years. .
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In n Veldt Cemetery.
Westminster Gazette.
Peace to the quiet dead I
Trooper and burgher here.
True to the men who led, e
True to their lights fell near;
Question not right nor wrong.
Question not gain nor loss.
Brothers In death they He
Under the starry cross.
Brave men and true alike
Matters not creed nor race
All are of one great kin
Here In the resting place.
Nation 'gainst nation strives
Endlessly 'neath the sun;
When the "great silence" falls
All are In rest as one.
Tears for the wrongs that keep
Far from us peace and good!
Tears that In life there Is
No happy brotherhood!
Peace to the quiet and dead!'
Life's errors cleared away
Brothers In hope they wait
The breaking of tha day, -- -
0TE AND COMMENT.
Gab Is nine points In an argument.
The posse is fortunate, that Tracy has
noii driven It out of the country.
If you are a good man in trouble, bea?
up. The church steeple suffers oftenest
from the storm.
If Agulnaldo can't profit from amnesty
and self-government, what would he do
with Independence?
Minister Wu will write a book. In one
respect his stay in America has been
unfortunate for him.
If your promise to add to the Lewis
and Clark subscription was good, are you
as good as your word?
Alphonso is Indeed leading poor old
Spain a merry pace for progress. He 13
said to have learned to swear and to
drink' highballs.
It's not Gates who has the corner In
corn, but the farmer. And the farmer,
like all philanthropic people, takes all
there Is coming to him.
What General Smith has dope has
brought him honor. "What he has said
has brought him reprimand. Are you
good at drawing conclusions?
TVe are assured that neither Jeffries
not Fltz will be etale Friday night, -but
we do not get this assurance about the
advance news of the fight.
For never was a otory of more woe
than this of Juliet and her Romeo, and
now Sarah Bernhardt and Maude Adams
aro going to make polyglot out of It.
The Vatican knows something of dip
lomacy Itself. It has not lived these long
ages to be caught at disadvantage by
any youngster nation come out of tha
West.
Mary MacLane Is In Chicago, even ,
within the shadow of Chicago University,
where they make echolars while you wait.
If Rockefeller is a greater man than
Shakespeare, the latter gentleman must
be to Mary as 30 cents.
No law of gods or men will keep ooya
from plunging Into cool water on a hot
day. It remains for us to decide whether
a function as natural as eating is a
crime. The city ordinance may be good
but we have to deplore the necessity of
It.
"Peace and Harmony," shout the Uem
ocratla brethren. But there's the trouble.
The party haa had too much peace ana
harmony. It needs a shaking up to rid
it of Its- discordant elements. "Peace and
harmony" is only a shell and the canker
Is within. Regeneration is the only rem
edy for the incurable plague.
Antl-expansionlats back In Boston keep
up their noise. But our Island possess
ions "are fast becoming integral parts
of our domain. If the antls live long
enough they may have to embody In their
principles not only our new possessions
but of Florida, Oregon, Texas and Cali
fornia. Let ua hope they will not five
.that long.
A new era lg opening into Oregon.
Wealth b to be extracted from rocks
and soil and streams and trees, in large
part, by strangers. The sons of Oregon
should rise up If they would Inherit tho
gifts of their mother state. The fabu
lous wealth of Oregon's timber resource
nearly all of this Is in the hands ot
strangers. And likewise In every other
resource, opportunity Is closing fast.
A timid ring summoned the housewife
to the door. She found a young man who
looked as- If he suspected his green tie
and Tuxedo cravat would draw too much
attention.
"May I see," ho ventured nervously In
syllables so closely riveted together that
the housewife could hardly split them
apart, "may I see the plasterer?"
"The plasterer," returned she. "the
plasterer? Oh, yes, He's working up
stairs. Climb the ladder on the outside
of the house."
The young man surveyed the ladder
doubtfully, but grit his teeth as If fuily
determlned to overcome every obstacle.
Soon after the doorbell repeated Its tim
id ring. "I showed him my license," he
stammered, "but he laughed and swore
at me. He ain't the pastor. Is he?"
"The pastor," gasped the lady, "No!
he Uvea around the corner."
Agulnaldo does not love to be called a
disreputable- scrub and mongrel. He
knew so miserably little that he made
war on the United States. It Is saa
he will lecture in this country. We may
expect a great many scatter-brains equal
to himself to disport with him. This is
what Archbishop Nozaleda said of him
before the Philippine Commission:
"Q. Do you know Agulnaldo?"
"A. Yes, sir; In Cavlte, when he was presl
dente, he honored mc with a great deal of
music."
"Q. What kind of a man Is her
"A. He is poor. I cannot say whether he
is cultured or uncultured. He has had only
three years' course In secondary Instruction,
without any benefit to himself."
"Q. Does he speak Spanish?"
"A- I do not know whether he has learned
any since he has been in the field, but before
he could not follow a conversation Jn Span
ish." "Q. But has he not more force of high char
acter than the men he has gathered about
him?"
"A. Not at all. Circumstances have favored
him. . . . He has no personal valor what
ever." i '
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
Mother How do you like your new teacher?
"Ob, she's a splendid teacher. She don't caro
whether wa know our lessons or not." Tlt
Bits. Not His Fault. Toucher I don't owe a dol
lar in the world. Touches Then nobody will
lend you more than a half, eh? Chicago Tri
bune. "He Is the champion of our automobile club."
Yes?" "Yes, he has killed more people
without getting his name In the papers than
any other member." Life.
Ho Learns Something. Grandpa My father
used to tell me that all play and no work
mado Jack a lazy boy. Harry Did he? Is
that chestnut as old as that? Puck.
Temptation. "You have such a cosy homo
here." her caller said. "Yes." she replied.
"Sometimes I almost feel like giving up my
club work and llvlnr In It for a while." Chi
cago Record-Herald.
A Direct Query. "I never went to a circus
when I was a little boy," said the rather
austere parent. "Was that because your fath
er wouldn't let you go unless you would be
good?" asked the youngster, In entire Inno
cence. Washington Star.
It Wouldn't Work. "If people are so crazy
for outdoor exercise I don't see why they don't
get up garden-hoeing parties and such things."
"Wouldn't do at all. The difference between
exercise and work is that exercise accomplishes
nothing." Chicago Evening Post.
Quee. "Yes. I still have the first dollar "i
ever made." said the gray-haired passenger.
"The Idea!" exclaimed the traveling acquaint
ance, "and how did you keep It so long?" "It
was very Imperfect, belns my first, and I'd
have had trouble In passing 1L" Philadelphia
Press.
He Knew. "There is a good deal of illiteracy
around here, isn't therer asked the man from
the North, who was Journeying through the
wilds of Arkansas. "That used to be. strang
er." replied the native to whom the Inquiry
was addressed, "but them confounded revenue
officers have done- busted the business p'lunsb
up." Judge. m f
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