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PORTLAND, THURSDAY, AUGUST SI.
SOT TO BE THOUGHT OF.
If President Mdlen has any serious
thought of constructing a new bridge
across the Willamette River at the
upper end of Swan Island or any other
place below the four bridges already
in operation, he may as well give it up.
No bridge should be built there. No
bridge can be built there except In di
rect antagonism to the Interests of
Portland, and this is not to be thought
of.
The most charitable construction pos
sible of application to Mr. Mellen's pro
posal is that it is a bluff, pure and
simple, designed to wrest favorable
terms from the O. R. & N, for use of
the steel bridge. It is idle to suppose
that access to Portland cannot be had
over the O. R. & N.'s bridge, in view
cf the amicable arrangements that have
been announced for Northern Pacific
trains to come down the O. R. & N.
tracks from Wallula to Portland. The
bridge can accommodate the traffic be
tween Portland and Puget Sound In
addition to all trains coming and going
on the Columbia River line.
Mr. Mellen may also relieve himself
of any idea that $3,000,000 or any other
sum spent to enter the city by way of
a new bridge across the lower harbor
will Incline the people of Portland in
the Northern Pacific's favor. There are
bridges enough already. Such as they
are, there are too many. The harbor
has been damaged incalculably by their
multiplication, ' and property-owners
have paid heavily for the free-bridge
craze that swept over this community
twelve years ago. Such injury to up
river property and such damage to
lower-river shipping as has been already
sustained can be borne, but they must
not be repeated or increased, and who
ever proposes it is not making a wise
move.
It is of some concern to the welfare
of the Northern Pacific Railway that
Its desire to inflict still greater inca
pacity upon Portland's harbor be dis
owned as speedily as possible. "What
ever the purpos?, the effect could only
be bad. Nothing more disadvantageous
to the harbor could be proposed. These
facts are so plain that they almost jus
tify a question as to the Intention be
hind the proposal. Has that intention
any connection with Mr. Hammond's
theory bf advancing Portland by dry
ing up theTJvor, or with the Northern
Pacific's steadily pursued policy of
strengthening Puget Sound's maritime
position?
SECRETARY SHAW'S POSITION.
The strength of the tariff-reform sen
tlment among Iowa Republicans is made
manifest by the eagerness of Secretary
Shaw to put himself In line with it in
so far as his situation will permit,
Shaw, with Secretary "Wilson and
Speaker Henderson, is at political en
mity with the Dolllver-Roberts faction,
by which the tariff-reform movement
has been Inaugurated. He was a mem
"ber of the convention by which the
reform resolutions were adopted, and
while he did not. like his friend Speaker
Henderson, lose his head and speak
out in bitter and unreasoning opposition,
his views in opposition were clearly
understood. But Mr; Shaw is not will
ing to go down with the wreck of
disgruntled majority; he proposes to
keep himself "In line" with the party
at home; and so he takes the first oc
casion, to say things which, while they
bind him to nothing in his National re
latione, will tend to maintain his home
fences. He has been in politics long
enough to know that there can be no
greater tactical mistake for a public
man than to get at outs with the domi
nating sentiment of his own state.
But it is questionable if Mr. Shaw's
position, as outlined in his Vermont
speech, is positive enough to suit the
temper of the Iowa reformers. He is
for changes "whenever Congress
reaches the conclusion that the friends
of protection are strong enough to con
servatively modify certain schedules,"
etc ; he Is fearful of "paralyzing busi
ness for a season"; he feels "some doubt
about the wisdom" of going ahead in a
way that will cause "protracted debate"
with its business dangers; he defends
the protective tariff against the charge
of being the "mother of trusts," at the
same time confessing that "it is the
parent of conditions that make it profit
able for capital to combine," etc; he is
for nothing In the way of tariff reform
which cannot be done "without a three
months' acrimonious debate."
All of which, when boiled down, means
that Mr.: Shaw is not for tariff reform
in the spirit and upon the terms of his
Iowa fellow-citizena He belongs to that
class of tariff-reformers whose senti
ments are all right, but whose courage
is not equal to the work. His policy Is
like that of the cautious mother who
insisted that her little boy should learn
to swim before going in the "water.
Hair-splitting; like this is not calculated
to conciliate sentiment in a .region like
Iowa, where political feeling Is still of
the robust type, where they have unfail
ingly the courage to match conviction,
and whtrre- they despise a- dodger.- Mr.
Shaw did Aot rise to a position of pom
mandlng public respect by the meth
ods of hair-splitting, and we suspect
that If he is to retain his place In pub
lic consideration he will have to put a
little more positlveness in his views.
The tariff-reformers of Iowa are not
going to be content with an attitude
which assures them of sympathy in
one phrae-e, while in the next It is de
clares that the changes they are- clam
oring for are impossible. The "bugaboo
of business disturbance will not restrain
men who are as deeply in earnest as
those who urged and voted for the tar
iff resolves in the Iowa convention. .
WHY THEY CAN'T WIN.
But for one thing, the Democratic
party would be the logical recipient of
power at the hands of the American
people in the coming November elec
tions. That one thing Is the demon
strated unsafe character of the domi
nant Democrats Bryan and the Bryan
wing.
A successful and mainly satisfactory,
party can'under favoring circumstances
elect a comparatively unsafe man to the
Presidency. Such an event came to pass
In the first election of McKInley. But
a discredited party cannot elect a man
who is not felt to be safe. No man
Is safe who accepted the Bryan doc
trines of 1896, because they menaced
in the direst way the foundations of
all confidence, credit and prosperity.
The agitation of the Democrats in
1896 was directed against the gold
standard. It was held up as the source
of financial ills and the obstacle to
financial prosperity. Ingenious and
persistent as are the attempts to mis
interpret and confuse the matters con
tended for In that campaign, the knowl
edge that the battle was waged against
the gold standard is deeply seated in all
observant minds.
The silver standard is the present
bane of China's foreign relations, and
information from Mexico is to the ef
fect that owing to the depreciation of
silver and the high gold premium, work
on some large contracts Is being held
back, and that sentiment in favor of
the gold standard ha9 been powerfully
stimulated. There is no permanent re
lief for these ills but adoption of the
gold standard, and the step is only a
question of time In both China and
Mexico.
But this recent discredit Into which
the silver standard has fallen contrib
utes nothing to and detracts nothing
from the folly embraced by the Bryan-
ites in 1896. The evils of the silver
standard and the necessity of the gold
standard were abundantly established
at that time. He who ran might read.
Great Britain adopted the gold stand
ard in 1816; Portugal in 1854; Germany
in 1871; the United States in 1834 and
1873; Denmark. Norway and Sweden in
1873; Finland In 1877; Tunis in 1891;
Austria-Hungary in 1892; India in 1893;
Russia and Chile in . 1895; Costa Rica In
1896. The contention for the silver
standard was set at naught by all ex
perience; yet that experience was flouted
from every stump in the Democratic
campaign.
It was a supreme error, and heavy
will be its penalty. Tariff inequalities
need correction, but they can more eas
ily be borne than the dangers of control
by a party with no more regard for
truth and financial honor and stability
than the Bryanized Democratic party
showed in 1896. The country is meas
urably aroused on the tariff; but not to
anything like the extent to which it was
aroused on the question of .the stand
ards. That is why the Democrats can
not win this year. That is why every
body who is sincerely concerned for
tariff reform directs his efforts at Re
publican sources of influence and power.
SAVAGES CANNOT EXPECT MEItCY. I
The Oregonlan Is in receipt of a copy
of the Manila Freedom of July 15, which
publishes in full the remarkable speech
made by Major Glenn, United States
Army, In his own defense, and his sub
sequent speech made In defense of Cap
tain Ryan, United States Army, charged
with administering the water cure.
Major Glenn has made military and
civil law a subject of study for fifteen
years; he is the author of a text-book
on the subject of international law; he
has been an officer In the regular Army
for thirty years, and his address in de
fense of Captain Ryan was a masterly
argument. A most interesting portion
of his address Is his citation of histor
ical proof that acta of exceptional bar
barity on the part of a brutal enemy
deprive that enemy of any right to the
humanities of civilized warfare. Among
other instances cited were the atrocities
of Anderson's Confederate guerrillas,
who in Missouri in September, 1864,
murdered our men In cold blood,
scalped the officers and mutilated their
bodies most obscenely even before
death. Under orders from General Clin
ton B. Fisk, a man of distinction after
the war for -his acts of philanthropy,
these miscreants were pursued, and
whenever captured were at once put to
death without any form of trial.
Secretary Stanton wrote General Will
iam H. Seward, commanding at Mar
tlnsburg, Va., regarding guerrillas, "to
employ any means In your power to de
stroy these robbers and murderers, and
when persons guilty of such transac
tions come within your power, you may
deal with them as their crimes merit,
without making any report on the sub
ject." General Grant, in July, 1862, or-"
dered the most stringent measures
against guerrillas, and General G. M.
Dodge wired him from Trenton, Tenn.,
July 29, 1S6P, as follows: "The man who
guided the? rebels to the bridge burned
was hung today. He had taken the
oath. The houses of four others were
burned to the ground." General Law
ler, in Louisiana, ordered Colonel Davis
that If he captured any of Quantrell's
men and troubled the commissary for
rations for them, "I shall certainly
quarrel with you." Quantrell was the
author of the massacre of Lawrence,
Kan. a fellow who would capture a
hospital train of Federal wounded and
shoot them to death In cold blood. Gen
eral Sherman wrote General Watklns,
October 29. 1864, asking if he could not
"burn ten or twelve houses of well-
known secessionists in Fairmount and
Adairsville, kill a few at random and
let them know that It will be repeated
every time a train Is fired upon." Gen
eral Sherman defined a guerrilla as "a
wild beast," who should be destroyed,
not captured.
Major Glenn quotes ample official evi
dence from th? Civil "War records that
our troops, with full'approval of Grant,
Sherman, Sheridan ' and Secretary of
War Stanton made short work of .mis
creants who practiced savagery In war
fare or treachery in shape of taking the
oath only to, obtain residence and pro
tection within our lines which was used
to benefit the Confederates.
Passing from our records to those of
the Franco-German "War of 1870-71,
Major Glenn recites the fact that the
inhuman cruelties Inflicted upon the
German wounded left in the houses dur
ing the battle of Bazellles so enraged
the Bavarians that -they burried down
the whole village, stood the captured
inhabitants against the house walls and
shot them without form of trial. Sev
eral women who tortured the German
wounded by pouring coal oil over them
and burning them to death were Indis
criminately slaughtered by the German
Army. The franc-tlreurs put- German
soldiers to death with torture, and were
always shot without trial on capture.
In the draft riots in New York City
in 1863, President Acton, of the Police
Board, said to his Inspectors and cap
tains: "Don't take any prisoners until
the mob is put down kill, kill, kill!"
And kill they did. Some 1500 persons
were killed In the streets of New York
by the policemen and the soldiers. They
were ' tumbled from roofs of houses,
pitched out of windows with the bayo
nets, and served just as the maddened
English soldiers did the Sepoy muti
neers, whom they hunted from story to
story of. a great government building
until they'had killed 2000. A large por
tion of the victims were boys under
age, and many of them were women,
but they were members of a murderous
mob who had hanged Inoffensive ne
groes from lamp-posts with the flesh
cut into ribbons and all of their toes
and Angers cut off.
Major Glenn shows clearly that In all
modern armies acts of shameful atrocity
and gross treachery on part of an en
emy forfeits their right to anything but
the most terrible retaliation.
IMPERIALISM IN PRACTICE.
"Imperialism' may have Its draw
backs, but it has, too. Its advantageous
side to the "oppressed." Take, for ex
ample, the case of Porto Rico. ShVwas
taxed in the last year of Spanish rule to
the extent of $2,852,425, of which 46 per
cent was for Spain. Last year she was
taxed $1,976,802, every penny of -which
was applied to domestic purposes. In
the last year of Spanish rule Porto
Rico spent $1,300,000 for military pur
poses; under American rule she spent
not one dollar for military purposes. In
the Spanish days Porto Rico spent
$256,942 for police; under American rule
she spent for the same purpose last
year $204,360. Under Spanish rule Porto
Rico spent but $84,543 annually upon
charities and sanitation. Under Ameri
can rule it Is spending $230,575. Spanish
rule gave Porto Rico but $72,117 in 1897
98 for schools.
American rule is spending nearly
$600,000 a year on schools. Spain
imposed on Porto Rico a tariff which
oppressed insular Industry for the
benefit of Spanish industry, and took
nearly half the public Income. We
have given Porto Rico free trade with
the mainland and every cent of Income
from every source. Spain taxed pov
erty and let wealth escape. We have
shifted the burden of taxation from
poverty to wealth, and from the con
sumers of codfish and pork to the con
sumers of tobacco and rum. There are
now 50,000 children in school in Porto
Rico. The Insular treasury balance on
July 1 last was $314,000, a gain of $239.
000 for the year. Exports for the fiscal
year were $12,889,925, an Increase of
more than 50 per cent. There were 13,
000 fewer deaths than the year before.
. It Is admitted that the system of ex
ternal . authority under which Porto
Rico now lives Is not ideal, that It is
not In accord with American notions,
but It is far ahead of anything Porto
Rlco ever knew before, and far ahead
of anything she could have created or
maintained for herself. Furthermore, it
Is not final; for Is there an Amerlcaa
who doubts that In the fullness of time
and with the development of intelligence
and the spirit- of self-dependence and
self-government Porto Rico will reach
a system In perfect harmony with
American principles? If there be such
a man, he will do well to study the his
tory of his country, with special atten
tion to its treatment of the Northwest
Territory, of the region which came to
us by the Louisiana Purchase, of Cali
fornia, of Oregon, and even of Alaska.
A VULGAR DEMAGOGUE.
Ex-Police Superintendent Devery Is
making a great noise in his campaign
for election as Assemblyman in the
Ninth district of New York City. Dev
ery was a very corrupt member of the
Tammany police force when Croker
ruled New York City, and when ho
was forced off the police force by the
election of Mayor Low and District At
torney Jerome, he retired with a large
fortune which he had stolen by black
mail under Tammany. Now he is be
come a noisy, blatant demagogue of
the most commonplace description. He
gives picnics, free vaudeville shows,
buys shoes for barefooted boys osten
tatiously, pays the coal bills of poor
widows and gets up. huge excursions
for women arid children.
This has always been the method of
corruptlonlsts of the worst municipal
type in this country. It was the method
by which "Boss" Tweed retained power.
He robbed the city treasury right and
left, and then subscribed $50,000 to the
fund for furnishing the poor with coal
In the Winter. He is described In Cole
ridge's lines on the devil, of whom the
poet says, "He gave to the poor what
he stole from the rich." The same
method was practiced by "Doc" Ames
in Minneapolis and, to go further back,
it is the same method that was prac
ticed in ancient Rome, when ambitious
men treated the people to gladiatorial
shows, to chariot races, and not seldom
to large donations of corn, while th
soldiers were given money.
The free-lunch and free-beer politician
Is the cheapest, the most commonplace
and the most ancient type of corrup
tionist. Considering the class that Dev
ery appeals to, he may succeed, even
as "Doc" Ames succeeded, but he is a
commonplace, vulgar type of ruffian.
Croker never stooped to such methods.
He had a robust brain and captured the
Influential men in the Tammany Democ
racy by his energy and power of organ
izatlon, out .Devery is notning out a
foul-mouthed, burly ward politician, who
tole himself rich by blackmailing vice
under Tammany, and Is now trying to
buy a seat In the New York Assembly
by offering free beer and free lunch to
the mob, by -ostentatious gifts to the
poor, and kindred bribery, which is re
sorted to by cheap, vulgar brutes with
more stolen money in their pockets
than decent brains in their heada
Devery Is nothing but a big brute of
a fellow, who was a municipal bandit
when he was on the police force, and
who now has a vain ambition- to become
a political "boss" in the New York
Democracy. .
The delightful welcome given th&
Boer Generals by King Edward has
been attributed to the superior natural
tact of King Edward, stimulated by his
sagacious apprehension of national self
interest. Dr. William Everett, In his
fine speech before the allied British so
cieties of Boston, says that when he
wa3 a member of the University of Cam
bridge in 186L among his fellow-students
and personal acquaintances was
the Prince of Wales, who had just en
tered Trinity College. The Prince was
not quite 20 years of age. and he was
distinguished then for a truly gracious
and friendly desire to accord their due
to all people, "to understand them, to
know them, and to act accordingly."
Dr. Everett believes that there has
never been a King of England since the
mighty Edward I who has been more
anxious and more determined that "the
right word shall be said and the right
thing done to every man." And this
fine attribute he inherited from his able
and accomplished father. Prince Albert.
We have no doubt that Dr. Everett has
correctly measured the character of
King Edward. This fine trait explains
Lthe steadily growing popularity that he
has obtained among all classes of Intel
ligent Englishmen. He Is not a hand
scrnie man, like his father; he is not a
man of superior powers of public speech;
he does not pretend to brilliant versa
tile culture In art or literature, but he
is a man of democratic instincts, of
genial temper, of social tact, and, above
all, he is in full sympathy with the duty
of strict justice to your fellow-men,
Avhether they be friends or foes, .whether
they belcng to the aristocracy or the
commons. This sense of justice In all
things and to all men has given dignity
to the character of the Prince of Wales
before his people, and this It was which
prompted him to urge that an early
peace on generous terms be made with
the Boers. This It was that inspired
him to award so cordial and captivating
a greeting to the gallant Boer Generals
when they were introduced to his pres
ence. Advoaates of subsidies will be very
much depressed at the news of the
organization of a shipbuilding trust.
The Morgan shipping combination was
a good deal of a blow to them, and this
one I3 like unto It. The Maritime Re
view said of Mr. Morgan's operation:
"It killed the shipping bill absolutely.
so far as the present Congress is con
cerned." A recent dispatch from Eliza
beth, N. J., announced the organization
there of a combination which takes in
the Crescent shipyards and Moore's
foundry, the Union Iron Works, of San
Francisco; the Bath Iron Works and the
Hyde Windlass Works, of Maine; the
yard of Harlan & Holllngoworth and the
Eastern Shipbuilding Company, of New
London. Plenty of .concerns are left
outside, apart from the Cramps and
Newport News and Sparrows Point
yards: there are the new ones at
Qulncy, Mass.; Camden, N. J., and Nor
folk, Va. But still it is a pretty for
midable combination, and, as the New
York Journal of Commerce suggests,
the fact of Its existence will, not facili
tate the appropriation of money to sup
port the Infant industry of building
ships in this country until such time
as It shall be able to go alone.
Representative Tawney, of Minnesota,
has evidently learned something since
he got home. In a letter to his constltu
ents he says: "
In respect to the tariff and Its revision by
Congress, I will say to you that I am In hearty
accord with the declaration of the Republicans
of Minnesota as expressed In their recent plat
form. I will go- farther and say that If elected
to the Fifty-eighth Congress I shall not only
work for a revision along the line of a reduc
tlon of duties, Including a reduction of the duty
on lumber, but will say to you that If the Re
publicans control the Flfty-ejghth Congress
there will be such a revision of the tariff.
Minnesota is evidently abreast of
Iowa. Mr. Tawney's course in conneo
tlon with the "Insurgent" opposition to
President Roosevelt's policy has result
ed In opposition to his renomination
He has found out, apparently, his weak
spot, and seeks to strengthen It. The
popularity of the protected trusts is not
such that any intelligent member of
either house of Congress should be de
ceived by Impressions of Its greatness.
Judge Shiras. of the United States Su
preme Court, reached the age of 70 on
January 26, 1902, and will be eligible
for retirement October 10. 1902, at which
time he will have completed ten years
of service, and, being 70, can retire, If he
choosea Chief Justice Fuller will be 70
February 11, 1903; Judge Harlan Will be
70 June 1, 1903. Judge Brewer Is 65,
Judge Brown is 66, Judge Peckham is
64, Judge White 4s 57, and Judge Mc
Kenna is 59. Judge Holmes will be
nearly 62 before he can take his seat-
older than any of his associates were
at the time bf their appointment. The
famous Judge Storey, when appointed
to the supreme bench from Massachu
setts, was only 32, and served thirty-
four years.
The Elba would stay hire and help
abolish crimping, If it were not that the
delay would cost her owners roundly
But until some such sacrifices will be
borne, crimping will go on. It Is folly
for owners, agents or Consuls td as
sert that this work must be done, and
then to permit the chief sufferers by
the practice and the main factors in
its potential correction to go their way
leaving the burden on others. Crimp
ing will never be done away until the
owners and exporters combine to do iL
This Is the truth of the matter. Every
thing else is idle and foolish.
The apple-growers of half a dozen
Western States, including Nebraska
have formed a trust "to regulate the
price of that fruit." Thus falls at one
fell stroke one of the most moving ap
peals of Bryan In the last campaign
"The poor apple-grower" and his hard
lot compared to the trust magnate or
namented the fervid supplication of the
Nebraskan for his own electipn. The
"paramounts" are suffering from
heavy mortality.
Bishop Potter speaks out in favor of
the miners and in reprobation of the
operators, like the brave man he is.
Unfortunately, little if any effect is to
be looked for from his or any other ut
terance. The operators are already in
hopeless defiance of public opinion.
The convict who In his peregrination
about the penitentiaries of the country
sslccts the one in Kentucky for a mur.
derous escape deserves no sympathy for
his Inevitable backset. Men of the
Dark and Bloody C round know what
guns are made for.
PROPHECY AND SUPERSTITION.
New York Times.
It would be Interesting to know, If
there were any way. of finding out, to
what extent the recent coronation of King
Edward has tended to emancipate from
silly superstition the great multitude of
people who. because of an alleged pro
phecy by a gypsy charlatan or fake witch.
to the effect that he would relsn but
never be crowned, have regarded It as
Impossible for him to experience what
has Just happened to him. When his sud
den and critical illness necessitated tne
postponement of the coronation cere
monies In June every one of this multi
tude shook his or her head and oald to
his or her neighbor: "See, it could not
be otherwise because It was prophesied.
He will never be crowned, because If he
Is, the prophecy would be falsified, and
that would be Impossible."
But the prophecy. If ever made, nao
been falsified. What will the hag-ridden
victims of superstition say now? The
pessimistic oracle shot her prophetic ar
row Into the air, but It missed Its mark.
Such arrows frequently do; but the fact
that guesses of this character are occa
sionally right and are remembered for
generations when, through what is prob
ably a purely accidental coincidence, they
seem to be vindicated, tends to keep alive
superstitions- which should have died a
natural death when it was discovered that
witchcraft was chiefly hysteria, and spells
and charms, like curses and blessings, ex
hausted themselves in their reflex action
upon the persons primarily In Interest. A
suggestion which the clever soothsayer or
necromancer succeeded in implanting in
the mind of one susreptlble to such in
fluences through fear of the "super
natural," usually developed Into a morbid
Impulse, In consequence of which the
person whose future was blighted by a
curse or an adverse prophecy, frequent
ly did all in his power unconsciously.
perhaps to bring about the conditions
which would seem to be a fulfillment of
the prophecy of which he was the vic
tim. In some circumstances propnecj
was very easy, uiven a Knowieage oi.
temperament, character and habits, and
It W06 not difficult in a primitive state
of society to tell with a close approxlma-
tlon to accuracy what wculd sooner or
later happen to a man. The fulfillment of
prophecies could be recognized tnrougn a
nrettv wide rantre of happenings, as they
were usually vague enough to mean what
ever might chance in the general line ot
their accepted significance.
How deep a hold superstition still has
upon generally intelligent people is indi
cated by the very general belief In Eng
land concerning the gypsy prognosis
above referred to. that there was "eomc-
thlnc in it." Obviously there was nom
ine in It. Will these same people go on
cherishing the sayings of irresponsible old
vagabonds and vagrants as sacrea
oracles? Probably. Superstition dies
hard, even in the 20th century.
Mexico's Silver Menace.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
ThfrA is a chance that Mexico,
too.
will s6on give up the silver stanaara.
The broad gap between silver and gold
at the regular coinage ratio and the lluc-
tuation in the. market price or. suver are
giving Mexico a good deal of trbuble.
These things would give any country
trouble In which the silver, currency ba
sis prevailed. Many Industries In Mexico
are now held up by tne uncertainty- as
to which direction silver prices win go
in the near future. Silver's price nas a
direct bearing on the cost of materials,
labor and everything else entering Into
industry, and the fluctuations now under
way have blighted enterprise In Mexico
for the time.
The chances are that Mexico will not
consent to tie Itself much longer to a
system which haa been abandoned by
all the other progressive countries in the
world, and which Is clung to by no other
great country of the present day except
China. Mexico has many educated, alert
and enterprising men. They are abreast
of the world's thought in all fields. All
of these, of- course, are in favor of the
adoption of the gold standard, but new
views make converts slowly In Mexico.
That country has had the silver standard
through practically all of Its great days,
and a change to the gold basis would un
settle many things for a time and cause
much embarrassment.
But the change will have to come
sooner or later, and the sooner the better.
It Is understood that the able Secretary
of Finance. Don Jose Ives Limantour, Is
a gold standard man. Nobody who knows
that official's character and record will
doubt this. He Is a modern man in the
largest acceptlon of that term. When
ever anybody points to the possibility of
the death or retirement of President Diaz
at an early day as an irremediable disas
ter to Mexico, the name of Secretary Li
mantour recurs to the mind. It has been
said that the secretary Is the eholce of
General Diaz for the higher office. The
people of Mexico have been for several
years past considering him as a probable
successor to General Diaz. The secre
tary will furnish an additional reason for
Mexico's and the world's confidence in
him It he succeeds in bringing his coun
try to the gold basis, as rumor says he
wants to do.
Alaska' Development.
6t. Louis Globe-Democrat
A bulletin issued by the Portland (Or.)
Chamber of Commerce Is an instructive
showing of the rapid growth of commerce
In Alaska. The big territory purchases
now annually merchandise valued at $15,
000,000, and its importations since becom
ing a part of -the United States are placed
at iuu.w,wq. since K5 Alaska has nro-
duced furs, fish and gold worth J1&,OCO,000,
equauy cuviaed between the three Items,
American capital to the extent of J23.000.-
000 hao gone into the territory. Half the
presentpopulatlon of 75.000 has been gained
during the past five years. Alaska's sal
mon pack last year was valued at $7,
000,000, and In quantity was eight times
that of the Columbia River. Thirty com
panies operate 55 canneries in Alaska, em
ploying a capital of J22.000.0oo. Our big
gest territory is spreading out in business
In a way characteristically American.
According to the writer connected with
the United States Agricultural Depart
ment. Alaska has resources to support
a populaton of 3,000.000. The Government
estimate is that Alaska contains 2,000.000
acres of land suitable for farming and
pasturage. Finland, much the same geo
graphically, supports a population of 2.
600.000 6n half the agricultural area of
Alaska. Govesnor Brady recently enlarged
on the agricultural attractions of the ter
ritory. but added: "What's the use of
inviting people to come to Alaska to settle
when Congress neglects to pave the way?
As matters stand It Is Impossible for a
man to take up a homestead claim, for
the simple reason that there are no sur
veys, and the land office will not open
the land for settlement until it is aur
veyed." No doubt, if Congress should
act in this matter many of the Amerl
cans buying lands in Canada would
chocse Alaska Instead as their" future
home.
JnMt So!
Brooklyn Eagle..
"He who makes two blades of grass
grow where only one grew before Is a
public benefactor," according to universal
authority. Mr. A. S. Ochs has made only
one newspaper appear where two appeared
before. In Philadelphia. The deduction de
pends on the point of view. It probably
signifies that Journalism should not muzzle
the Ochs that treads out the corn which
the able owner of the consolidated Public
Ledger and Philadelphia Dally Times
would be the first to acknowledge. The
Ledge" needed Juvenatlon. The Times
needed an Infusion of earnest purpose. The
unified resultant shows that each got
what it needed and lost what It could well
do without Such 13 the harmonious con
Junction of need with opportunity in West
ern world journalism under ucnsiuentai
initiative.
A REPUBLICAN AGENT.
Denver Republican.
The best agent for the Republican party
Is Mr. Bryan on his speaking tour In the
East. He Js doing more than any other
man in the country possibly could do to
make the people of that section appreciate
what the Democratic party as represented
by hint really is, arid knowledge of the
true character of Bryanism is the surest
preventive against its poison.
He appeals to the prejudice of the dis
contented and the dissatisfied, and tries
to array them against the enterprising and
the prosperous. He preaches a doctrine
of disorder closely akin to the anarchism
which some of the discontented immi
grants from Europe have brought to the
United States. Whlle he proclaims that
the governing power in this country is
the people themselves, he makca an im
proper use of that fundamental truth by
trying to awaken a desire to tear down
and destroy the work of those who have
achieved material success.
A man in his position might do much to
induce people to Improve their condition
by developing the resources of the coun
try, laying broad and deep foundations of
prosperity, and exerting themselves In
every legitimate way to take advantage
of the opportunities that lie before them.
But in all his talk there is nothing that
inspires to greater or better effort. He
hao nothing but appeals to prejudice and
hatred. He Is the foremost representa
tive of pessimism, and whatever success
he may achieve will be with men who are
more envious of success in others than
desirous of achieving it themselves.
With such a spirit the mass of the peo
ple are not in sympathy. Such doctrines
find many listeners only in times of wide
spread depression and business stagnation.
The country is too prosperous to be led
into the belief that the mass of the people
are oppressed and that a small group of
men In New York are robbing them of
tnelr liberties.
Conservative and unenterprising though
the Democratic party usually is, it Is not
destructive and anarchistic. The element
in it to which Mr. Bryan appeals with
most force is the Populistlc. The Demo
cratic party has fallen heir to the isms.
the vagaries and the anarchistic tenden
cits of Populism, and the more Mr.
.Bryan s influence Is exerted the more
Popullstic will Democracy become. But
it will become rather by driving out of
us ranics tne men who have faith In their
country than by making converts to his
system of freak doctrines and political
dreams. Democrats who wish to lmnrovp.
their condition and that of the country
will desert the Democracy rather than
join Mr. Bryan In wandering away from
tne pains or common sense.
The outlook for the Republicans in the
Congressional elections has been greatly
lmproved as a result of Mr. Bryan's
Eastern tour, and Renubllcan leaders
could ask nothing better than that he
should continue to proclaim his Ponullstlc
doctrines through all the country east of
tne .Mississippi.
RARE PARSI MATVUSCRIPT.
Columbia University Han Ilecclved n.
Codex of the Zoroastrlan Ritnal.
New York Mall and Express.
About a year ago an announcement was
made of a- rich gift to Columbia Univer
sity of manuscripts of the Avesta. or
Zoroastrlan Bible, presented to Colum
bia by several Parsls of India, through
their high priest. Dastur Kalkhosru
Jamaspjl, of Bombay.
The crowning gem of the collection has
now arrived In the form or a sixth and
most precious codex of the Zoroastrlan
ritual, sent through the same distin
guished high priest, for Professor A. V.
Williams Jackson to present to the li
brary of the university.
This newest accession is a manuscript
that Is remarkable in many ways. It Is
nearly 500 years old and it contains the
Yasna, or Liturgy, Including also Zoroas
trlan hymns that are still chanted by the
white-robed priests of the Indian Parsis,
as they were more than 25 centuries ago
in the tableland of ancient Iran. As de
scribed in the monumental edition of the
Avestan texts, by Professor Goldner, of
Berlin, this manuscript is known by the
signatures, and it was some time the
property of the Magian priest, M. Pauri.
Besides Its age and acknowledged merit
it- Is especially valuable because It con
tains in excellent form not only the orlgl.
nal text of the liturgy In the sacred
Zoroastrlan language, but It is accom
panied also by an old Sanskrit version of
each sentence to aid in interpreting the
original.
The great codex Itself now comprises
166 folios, but three leaves have disap
peared at the beginning, and they must
have been missing generations ago. The
manuscript Is not bound, but consists lit
erally of fugitive leaves, simply laid be
tween sheets of thin paper, and oiten
damaged or patched. But each of Us
pages is precious because of the excel
lence, accuracy and independence of the
reading.
PERSONS WORTH KXOWIXG ABOUT.
" The Kins: ot Greece la expected "at Cowes
this tfeek. on s brief visit to Klnc Edward.
King George to going to Join Queen Olga, at
St, Petersburg, for the marriage of their third
son. Prince Nicholas, and the Grand Duch-ss
Helena Vladlmlrovna. -which Is to take plaea
on Friday, August 29.
Henri d'Almeraa has written a book full
of anecdotes about Frenchmen of genius, their
failures and successes. One thins they have
all had In common; a capacity for hard work.
He Instances Bourget, who, as a young man,
used to get up at 3 and work till 7. Then he
gave lessons all day long, and In the evening
he was at h'a de?k aealn, writing till late at
night.
Lord Brassey, who has an article on "Sub
sidles to Shipping." in a current British pe
riodical, and whose name has frequently ap
peared recently in discussion of the Morgan
ship combination. Is well qualified by prolonged
study of this question to give an opinion. In
1871 he delivered the first of a series ot
speeches on naval administration, advocating
alliance between the naval and mercantile serv
ices. The establishment of the second-class re
serve,, which now numbers 10.000. was owing
to the persistence of his advocacy In Parlia
ment, and he also took & leading part In the
founding of the Royal Naval Artillery Volun
teers. In 1S8S he waa a member of the com
mission on the defense of coallnx stations.
The Duke of Devonshire, Lofu President ot
the Council, has recently completed his 60th
year. Two years after leaving Cambridge he
was attached to Earl Granville's special mis
sion to Russia in 1S5G. The next year North
Lancashire returned him to Parliament, and
he moved the vote of no confidence that result
ed In the defeat of Lord Derby's government.
He then became Under Secretary for War, soon
afterwards Postmaster-General, and In 1S71
Chief Secretary for Ireland. In 1S7G Mr. Glad
stone retired, and the Marquis of Hartlngton,
as the Duke was then known, became leader of
the Liberal party In the House of Commons.
In 1SS0 be was asked by the Queen to form
an administration, but declined, and went to
the War Office under Mr. Gladstone.
The Mother's Dream
William Barnes.
I'd a dream- tonight
As I fell asleep.
Oh! the touching sight
Makes me still to weep;
Of my Httlo" lad.
Gone to leave me sad.
Aye. the child I had.
But was not to keep.
As m heaven hlh.
I my child did seek.
There. In train. came by '
Children fair and meek.
Each in Illy .white.
With a lamp alight;
Each was clear to sight.
But they did not sneak.
Then, a little sad.
Came my child In turn, ,
But the lamp he had.
Oh! It did not burn:
He. to clear my doub
Said, halt turn'd about,
"Your tears put It out
Mother, nsrer mourn,"
, NOTE AND COMMENT.
Mr. McCusker may now pull down the
circus posters.
More light is thrown on the Chicago
murder mystery and the police see the
mystery quite plainly.
Although nobody Is going to build the
Coos Bay railroad, that seerce to be the
reason why it's going to be built.
The boy who would perloh If required to
carry water for hl3 mother takes delight
In carrying water for the circus elephant.
We are said to be In strained relations
with the Porte. How much money have
we been trying to strain out of him this
time?
There conies a time at the end of vaca
tion time when what the wild waves
are saying sounds very much like board
bills.
Jim Hill advises the people to raise
things. That's what they're trying to
do. to raise a disturbance with the rail
roads. It makes a difference to a man when
you tell him the site will be next to his
property, and in the next breath say
you mean the oil tanks site.
Since the Civic Improvement Associa
tion is out after nuisances, let us suggest
"the car platform hog and the man who
refuses to pay his occupation tax.
Notwithstanding the untissnllable proof
that the new charter docs and does n"t
need amendment, it remains that the
charter does not and does need amend
ment. Thousands of people will now read
"Huckleberry Finn." Just to see where
thy Immorality come in. The directors
of the Denver Library must be old
women.
Schwab only needs a rest. He certainly
does if he has been trying to earn his
ealary. He finds it Is not worth about all
It cost.
Alger says. If elected Senator from
Michigan, he will fill the office to the best
of his ability. He wisely refrains from
saying that he filled the office of Secre
tary of War to the best of hla ability.
A prehistoric skeleton has been dis
covered In Kansas. The size of the
cranium Is about equnl to that of the
present inhabitants. How long do people
have to live in Kansas, to btar out the
higher evolution theory?
The Kaiser refuses to let the Crown
Prince marry an American girl. If the
Hohenzollerns" would only admit some
new blood Into their dynasty, perhaps
they would lose some of their pig-head-edness
and gain some brains.
There are under United States Govern
ment license 325 retail liquor dealers in
Vermont, an average of 20 to a county.
There are 2S2 licensed dealers In malt
liquors and It wholesale dealers in malt
liquors. Since 1S52 Vermont han been a
Prohibition state.
According to statistics furnished by
real estate men from Kansas north to
Winnipeg, land values have Increased
nearly 50 per cent in the last two years.
It Is estimated over 21.000 American farm
ers have settled in the Canadian North
west In the first seven months, o this,
year, and that before the year Is over
the number will be 50.0CO. American syn
dicates and farmers liave purcl ased over
5.000.000 acres of land In the Canadian
Northwest already this year.
Of course. It sounds good In this dem
ocratic day to Inflict the law upon all
citizens alike,, without distinction as to
race, color or previous condition. This
is a popular theory, but It Is none the less
fallacious. The respected, well-known
citizen carries a probability of innocence
with him, which the hobo does not. Mr.
Burrell Is a respected citizen, and this
fact should have weight In a court of
justice. So are other men respected, but
many of them are not generally known,
and their wqrth, therefore, cannot carry
general recognition.
Valuable relics of the kings of the first
Egyptian dynasty are on the way to the
University of California. The pride of
the ancient eovereigns no longer shields
against the vulgar gaze, and all Is vanity.
If the remains of any of the monarcha
themselves are among the relics, fate
after all la kind to them. "Imperial
Caesar dead and turned to clay, might
stop a hole to keep the wind away." And
in another vein muses Sir Thomas
Browne: "Mlzralm cures wounds, and
Pharaoh is sold for balsam."
Captain Lewis- basked In the Elyslan
sunshine. "Clark," said he, "do you
remember when you went up the Willam
ette River?"
"To be sure I do."
"How far up did you go?"
"Where Portland Is."
"Where they're going to have the fair
In our honor?"
"No. where they're trying to find a
site for the fair."
."Aren't there any?"
"Plenty, when I was there."
"Why didn't you pick one out?"
"I knew there would be all kinds of
kickers. It's like choosing a Queen for
Elks' Carnival; they all ought to be
chosen."
And only the murmur of the zephyrs
was heard as the Captains kept on bask
ing. PLEASANTRIES OF PAIIAGRAPHERS
A Sign of Wealth. "Their wealth must b
prodigious." "It Is. They own two automo
biles." Detroit Free Press.
First English Lord Did you propose to MIsj
Porkpacker? Second English Lord No. Tc
her father. I hate to have any business deal
ings with a woman. Life.
Mrs. Style I want a hat. but it must be In
the latest style. Shopman Kindly take a chair,
madam, and wait a few minutes; the fashion
Is Just changing. Tlt-BIts.
Uncle George Harry. I -suppose you keep a
cash account? Harry No. Uncle George. I
haven't got so far as that: but I keep an ex
pense account, Boston Transcript,
Just Started. "Young man." said the evan
gelist, "do you not wish to be saved?" Not
yet," replied young Rakeley; "I'm only Just
beginning to be lost," Philadelphia Press.
All Is Vanity. Mrs. Dorcas Why is Mrs.
Gadsby so glad she hasn't any children? Dor
casIt gives her more time to attend those
mothers' met tings. Judge.
Christian. "My husband's health Is
wretched." "Why don't you to Christian sci
ence?" "Christian science?" "Yes; the kind
they teach at a first-class cooking schooL"
Puck.
Calling the Turn. She (time, 11 P. M.) Are
you aware ot the fact that I am a mind
reader? He No, Indeed. But to put you to the
test, tell me what I'm thinking of. She You
are thinking of starting for" home Immediately.
Chicago Dally News.
Tourist (after unusually long stoppage at bor
der station) I say, guard, why aren't we going
on? Anything wrong? Guard (who Is peace
fully taking his lunch) There's naethlng
wrong, sir, but I canna whustle the noo; ma.
mouth's fu o fclacults. Tlt-BIts.
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