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Mil ItCHS OK SOCIALISM.
)f dlsr?r.!cnt which we gather together
vailing t re cr tendency of this rhove
rnent cT'.rts of an Increasing desire to
advance the activity and pcope of gov
erncsertal Interference with and control
cf private enterprises. The movement
la awsr from individualism and from
the competitive principle under which
our Industrial civilization has mounted
to be deplored: but It If Idle to miscon
ceive the symptoms of the complaint, as
- w V . til UiUfj wits
Harper's Weekly:
T I . tlrnVM ... .1-1.1., I . 1 ,-
a nnrniin-" snnrn ttr v n i a namiiiya rrnrei
ir-ntiiiiir.ii wiiw aci. uun ine iiieury mat
ssyuung is io tie Rained by a suppression or
statistics, there Is spread rroof of the fact that
Socialism Is likely two yean hence to become
as formidable a political power In this country
as PonulKra ra 10 years urn. the sooner the
fact If recotmlied the better. Eternal vldlance
QDiimi nnnnf 1 n fn an ttm a. c
inat they see no sluns of It. The startling
truth la that, while Eucene V. Debs, the So-
csnaiuiB xor lTesiaent in .wki. re-
iai- sMiciaiiPL canaiaaiea xor uoncress at
to Mr. at the rate of S0O ner rent tw wmM
twice aa strong as the Populists were In 1S32,
m!(ht carry a, few states, and would hold th
i-'i- i ij " i u uiiiera. tnai is mucn
more serious, they mleht tempt one of the
w w . ... vu .v as DlJCI Ul
u Inn inrh l t tu. . u .. .
w. .-upitiB WIU1
Ko epoch In thfr life nf HnrnAHn W-ir
ly la better defined than its present
jr-"" upjJUitt.HJ itlC
Vilfjt V sV U1U
conuiDute anrreflectloie of real value
the DrOblrm of "r.nlfam anrl lA At
' tuiiMi. nave
..-.i.-.fc.Mj a tjvttru
warn inn Aqrnh Qhmtunt Af ihe.
popular favor. That It is compelled
retort to such fallacious and super-
iot arrue Trell for the strength 6f its
The complaint Is that the growth of
rnn e.inr.AM hA ni,.. i a -
a- - a-wsauA .ClUil.O,
O s tMC IUIC1
-o - v I'uj'jucsuuu ir
hat which forbids to look beneath the
urfaee at the causes .of which social-
v. ui..ik iiAtv.4
a .n.t.lli a . i s .
h.t pervades all parties, and it is not
nrunA with nnt( i.m
e or the naternallsHc (4pinmtnnB nf
. XTsaww X-r-L- Tiw, i A. . . .
' " w,n nut 111 intiT ninr.
-- aui,
Popular discontent may turn to wrong
jrectlons for relief, as it did in 1896; but
uuea dul 3i ri mir nr nnth T 1. .
rounds In actual conditions of needless
ardshlp or abuse. Untoward condl-
nf Q DllTAVa flTVlrl A .w . e
I . V. MMtOl, UiU 1 L 13
-sV MiUtj"""
xpatlate as Harper's Weekly does
pon the patient's temperature and res
tratlon Is the act of the incompetent
ractitloner. It would be more to the
urpbse to Inquire what unnatural and
rijust conditions have produced Ihe at-
n.s a,w WiC
c
The socialistic discontent of the
- w uic iuui Ui
" cutu wnw
trough special prlvilegee. The right
ay u reauce tne complaint is to re-
StkA AV. TA J 4. ( . .
CT 1IU1 UUlltTf
clallsm is the certain but inferior
medy. Tou can cauterize the wound
umejir wait ana amputate the limb
iewure. Tne special privileges en-
by orrorate wealth In th Yprl-
forms of needless tariffs, secret
fir f-fii'fv nr OTflTiiTftrv nwMntinn . .1
!OmnetltJVA tmii. rati Via antiiu1
ln miu i. lilt ' cue UUL IcaCnEU.
ow existent, there is no es5ape from
extreme remedy of government ac-
r 1 1 111 htiii nnnirtii i no twi s s rr m
of the people cannot be suffered to
lbate the 'will of the bulk of the
'c n iuw vwi vutaiivutf prove
stronger than the existing laws, the
laws will be revolutionized so as tp
make the Government, in law as In
reality, stronger than ihe corporatlona
The cause of the French Revolution
was not the passions of the Parisian
populace. It was the hoary abuses of
the Imperial regime. The cause of the
Reformation was not the rebellious spir
its of recalcitrant priests. It" was the
pressure of the established order upon
the lives and consciences of men. The
cause of the Protectorate was not Crom
well's ambition. It was the misrule of
the Stuarts. The cause of American In
dependence was not unruly colonists
here, but Parliament and King over
there. Whatever measures In antagon
ism to entrenched power and wealth be
come nessary In the United States will
be the product of abuses which have
stirred a long patient people at last into
revolt.
DOING GOOD -YVORIC.
In refreshing contrast with the con
gested condition of Legislative buplnets
at Olympla, owing to the Senatorial
light concluded last week. Is the ad
mirable progress made at Salem, In
spite, of the Senatorial fight still in
progress. For this more favorable situ
ation at Salem the good feeling of the
Senatorial battle Is responsible, and the
good feeling Is largely attributable to
the moderation and fairness with which
the respective candidates have conduct
ed their campaigns. It Is years since a
Senatorial election has been pending
with less bltternes?. It is years since. In
the face of that obstruction, commend
able legislation has made such gratify
ing progress.
We have before alluded to the good
work of the Multnomah delegation for
the special objects In which Portland
Is deeply Interested. But. the Legis
lature's efficiency has been noteworthy
on general lines. The striking thing Id
the disposition to take up reforms that
have become long overdue, but which
have been Ignored by preoccupied ses
sions hitherto. Such measuw.:. either
enacted or virtually ensured of passage,
are the bllki providing for payment by
private persons of the coot of well-to-do
patients at the Insane asylum: trans
ferring executions of criminals from
county nats to the penitentiary; look
ing to a Just compensation for the State
Printer; establishing a State Board of
Health; taxing corporations; authoriz
ing the state to carry Its own fire In
surance; removing county-wat fights
from the Legislature; requiring street
cars to be equipped with fenders.
In all these undertakings, ad well as In
the Lewis and Clark Centennial appro
priation, the Portland flreboat and the
Portland charter, the Legislature has
evinced a praiseworthy purpose td get
at the state's business with expedition
and fairness. If any attempt to hold up
meritorious legislation was contemplat
ed. It has been wisely abandoned. The
debates. In particular that on the ref
erendum In the House, and that on the
Lewis and Clark appropriation 1n the
Senate, have evinced the proper atti
tude of a Legislature toward its taska
It Is earnestly to be hoped that this
spirit of faithful endeavor will continue
and that it will eventually work out a
satisfactory solution of 'the Senatorial
question ltelfr
IRELAND'S IiAXD PltODIiGMS.
Recent statistics show that the aver
age Income of an Irish peasant family
of five members Is J125 per annum aft.er
rent and taxes are paid, or $25 for each
person. There are over 2.000,000 persons
living on $25 annual Income. The land
conference says that the landlords are
willing to sell for $250,000,000.
Agriculture is not profitable In Ire
land, and there is little manufacturing.
There are 7,700,000 acres or land In grass
In Ireland, from which the annual re
turn Is not over $10 an acre, and 1,700,
000 acres tilled, from which the return Is
$15 an acre. Much of the land is given
over to pasturage, because cultivation
is not profitable. Ireland pays annual
ly in local and general taxation $65,000.
000. If It were a manufacturing coun
ty and its taxation were greatly re
duced, It ought to equal Great Britain
in prosperity. With cheap ocean trans
portation, agriculture, it seems, cannot
be carried on in Ireland.
This is the present situation In Ireland
as set forth by the Irish land confer
ence. The condition of Ireland is ap
parently discouraging, and yet the emi
gration from the Island In 1901 was only
30,561 from SL population of about 4,500,
000.. The pressure of distress In a coun
try Is generally fixed by the figures of
its emigration. The figures for Austria
Hungary are 113.390, for Italy 135,936. for
Sweden 23,331, for Russia 85,257, for Ger
many 21,65i: Cornpare these figures
with toe enormous emigration of Ire
land In her former years of terrible dis
tress consequent upon a congested popu
lation, and It Is difficult to resist the
conclusion that Ireland's present condi
tion, while not enviable, is a vast lm-
provement over that of twenty years
ago.
SU.D.VYrSCII00t, llOOKS.
t)r. E. G. Hirsch, of Chicago, in a re
cent discourse in a synagogue In that
city upon "What Shall Children Read?"
scored the stories in the standard Sunday-school
books In most unmeasured
terms, saying:
There la not a single note lh this trash that
Hncs true to the life or character of the child.
In these books all sorts ot lite are clammy;
God Is dragged Into them In the role of a bru
tal and bungling policeman. There are no
words In the Anglo-Saxon tongue that would
adequately characterize their stupidity. The
Bunday-school books, are worse than any dime
novel. Their theology Is damnable, and their
morality la below the free sign point. And If
they were not liable io these objections they
can be condemned for tbelr literary sin. They
contain so much bad grammar and baby talk
that they are a cruel Infliction on the child.
This, except as It relates to the liter
ary sin thus foisted upon children. Is a
too vigorous arraignment of Sunday
school story-books. Their theology is
for the most part too far outdated to
be considered Vdamnable.,, and their
'morality" lsjf the weak rather than
the vicious type. They are stupid, for
a fact, but this Is rather In their favor
than otherwise, as it closes them to
children of qulck'irUelllgence, who in
this day are somewhat discriminating
readers when it cbmes to that. The
truth is that the influence of the Sunday-school
library is not as great aa it
was before large-hearted, clear-brained
men and women had made special study
of Juvenile life and its needs and em
bodied their findings in suitable and
profitable stories for the young. .
Time was when there was nothing be
tween the Bible and Mother Goose, for
children to read. The wide chasm thus
left was bridged over early In the past
century by Bundoy-:hool story-books
namby-pamby, certainly, but not
vicious. These served their mission, for
ther taught a generation to read and
paved the way for Bood.-wholesgme. Ju
venile literature. "Oliver Optic," Louise
M. Alcott, Susan CooIIdge, Emily Hun
tington Miller, Eugene Field what
glowing memories of childhood Joys
these and half a score of names perhaps
equally familiar call up In the minds of
thousands of men and women who were
the eager child readers of a past gen
eration! Truly, It has been many years
since children were compelled to read.
If they read at all. the books which Dr.
Hirsch anathematizes aa clammy and
stupid and much thai Is worse In the
view of religion and morality.
As well expect the. Intelligent man or
woman who has access to Emerson,
Huxley, Ruskln or Shakespeare to read
Baxter's ''Saints' Rest," or, Newton's
"Cause and Cure of Infidelity," as to ex
pect the children of today to read the
Sunday-s:hool stories that make heroes
of boys who stoutly refuse to go in
swimming on Sundays because it is
"wicked," or heroines of little girls who
peak and pine over Bible texts wrought
upon canvas with garish wools. Implicit
ly obey their mothers, worship the min
ister and die young. These books are
stupid enough and "clammy" enough,
but for this reason they are hot dis
tinctly mischievous. Very few children
read them
LABOR I.K.MlMXt! FROM MOIIOAX.
Labor unions are going to school to J.
Plerpont Morgan. The lesson they have
learned to date Is, If you're going to
combine, make It a big one. The brake
men, no matter how well organized, are
not able to enforce a demand for bet
ter pay from n "harmonized" railroad.
The Carpenters' Union Is not strong
enough of itself to enforce a demand
Tor "ralr" conditions of the building
trades employers. Therefore the nioral
Is borne In to them that they mu ex
tend tbelr atllllations, that they must
become Industrial combinations Instead
of merely class unions, and that It may
be possible to meet organized capital
with organized Industry.
Both of these manifestations have
come to the surface in" Portland In the
past few days One of them Is in the
form of a movement to get all railroad
employes Into one organization, which
would supersede the separate brother
hoods of the engineers, conductors and
trainmen. This idea Is not a new one,
but It depends for its development upon
the conditions Introduced by the recent
railroad combinations. The other mani
festation Is in the form of a lumbering
project In which union labor would
control the forest and every rtage of the
timber product to the completed build
ing. This Is precisely on the lines of
the Morgan steel trust.
Will thess combinations do what la
expected of them? It Is to be feared
that they will not neither the capital
istic nor the Industrial nor the labor
organizations. The most that may be
hoped for is that they will for a time
preserve a sort of balance between the
various agencies of production and dis
tribution. The great financial combinations that
control the railroads and so many Qf the
industrial forces of the country are riot
on a basis that promises permanence.
They are largely underwriters' schemes,
and when they have paid promotion
profits, hard times will probably sweat
the water out of them and they will be
ready for a new deal. But labbr Is
hardly In position to be thUd exploited,
at least not with equal profit. It may
be that the coalition of the opposition
will serve to press together labor ele
ments that would surely fly apart but
for such pressure, and from this ar
rangement a measure of good may
come. But at the first opportunity the
laborer will Join the ranks of' capital,
and until the lot of labor shall be made
desirable for Itself all adjustments are
but temporary, lb this manner does
human society progress, with prodigious
wear and tear, but still working out
something for the benefit of the race.
Representative Kramer's bill for a law
punishing bribery In political conven
tions should receive the support of every
member of the Legislature. The sale or
purchase of a vote or a proxy In a con
vention Is Just as much against public
policy as the bartering of votes at an
election. Conventions now have the
recognition ot law. In many counties a
nomination Is practically equivalent to
an election, but whether it Is or nott the
nomination or any candidate should not
be secured by the use of money. Should
we ever reach that period In govern
mental evolution when United States
Senators will be elected by a vote of
the people, a seat In a state convention
will be prized nearly as highly as a seat
In the Legislature today. As members
of the Legislature are selected largely
with regard to their probable prefer
ences In the choice of a Senator, much
more would delegates to a convention
be selected upon the same consideration.
It Is common knowledge that proxies
in conventions have been bought and
sold. Transactions of this kind should
be punishable by the Imposition of
heavy penalties.
The Treasury Department, through its
Immigration agents, has taken a stand
In the matter of ruling out anarchists
that will receive popular indorsement.
This most dangerous criminal that
comes thither from foreign shores may
well be turned back with criminals of
other classes when he feeeks an asylum
under the American flag for the pur
pose of breaking our laws. No effort
should be spared to keep this element
out- While It Is not always easy, and.
Indeed, may be exceedingly difficult to
detect anarchists who seek landing at
our ports, the Inspectors stationed at
the place of embarkation soon become
skillful as detectives. Assured of the
support of the Treasury Department,
these men will be encouraged to do their
duty fearlessly. The man whn ihmi,
centuries of heredity and environment Is
lorninst government" should not only
be told to etay away from the United
States, but the properly constituted offi
cers of the Government should see to it
in all possible ways that he and his
kind do not find lodgment here. "
As iong ago aa 1815 the poet James
Russell Lowell contributed an article to
the National Anti-Slavery Standard on
"The Prejudice of Color." In this ar
ticle Mr. Lowell said that while some
thing might be said In favor of lenient
Judgment for an aristocracy 6f intellect,
or physiologically1 to bolster up an aris
tocracy of birth, "a patent or nobility
founded on no better distinction than an
accidental difference In the secreting
vessels or the skin would seem ridicu
lous even to a German Count who
had bought his title for $36." It is as
true today as it was in 1845 that the
prejudice against color is as widespread
and as deep-seated at the North as at
the South. It Is really worse' at the
North, for merely physical repulsion for
the negro is.not so strong at the South
as at the North, because the old planta
tion life In the days of slavery accUs
tomed the whites so much to the pres
ence or the blacks that purely physical
repulsion was not felt Iti a society where
the house servants were negroes and
the master's children not seldom had a
black nurse. As long ago as 1845 Low
ell pointed out that "the colored people
of the so-called free states are still held
in slavery by something stronger than
the Constitution, more terrible than the
cannon and the bayenet the force of a
depraved and un-Chrlstian public opin
ion. We shut them rigidly out from
every path of emulation or of ambition,
and then deny to them the possession of
ordinary faculties."
The total number of inhabitants In
Australia was on March 31, 1901, only
3,782.913. Adding New Zealandt the
population of the whole of Australasia
was 1,555,662, In which the excess of
males over females was 223,026. A large
portion of the vast area of Australia Is
uninhabitable, owing to the scanty rain
fall. The bulk of the population Is
found on the coast line and In the cities.
A few large sheep farmers have appro
priated great tracts of pasture lands.
The principal cities contain over 30 per
cent of the whole population. New Zea
land Is better cultivated than Australia,
where the land Is chiefly devoted to
grazing. The birth rate of Australia Is
Bteadlly declining. In 1861-fco'lt was 25.17
per 1000, but In 1900 It was 16.11 per 1000.
The white natives and settlers are be
ginning to emigrate to Argentina or
South Africa. The public debt Is nearly
$1,500,000,000. On June 30, 1902, the In
debtedness per head of the population
was $49i. The drought of the last twd
years has caused the lc of millions of
sheep, cattle and horses, and last year
destroyed the wheat crop. The provin
cial governments have neglected to pro
vide works on a large scale for water
storage and Irrigation by means of
wells.
Vermont Is to vote tomorrow on the
proposal for repeal of the prercnt pro
hibition law of the state, established In
1852. According to the terms of the
referendum, high license wlil go into
force two yearn hence, even if a major
ity votes against It now. The advocates
of high llcenw, as a substitute for pro
hibition, were In the majority In the
Legislature recently In session, but It Is
reported that the high-license bill may
be rejeced becahse tlie great majority
bf the liquor dealers are lined up
against It. The proposjd Vermont
high-license law i too strict and severe
to please the liquor dealers. The liquor
Interest within and without the state
prefers prohibition, which means gen
erally "free rum," to a strict high-license
law-. At the September election the
regular Republican candidate received
36,864 votes, the license Republican can
didate 28,201 votes, the Democratic can
didate 7364, and the Prohibition candi
date 2498 -otes. The license Republican
and Democratic votes aggregated 35,565,
showing a majority in favor of license
of only 1203. a small margin.
Senator Stelwer seems not to have In
troduced .many bills In the Legislature,
but at least some or those he has pre
sented are Intended to cure Ills that are
more than Imaginary. One ot these Is a
bill providing that the State Land Board
shall not sell lieu land until the "base",
upon Which It was selected has been
finally approved by the Federal Land
Department. Lieu-land dealers have
made enormous sums or money In pro
curing' the- state to give conveyances
ror lieu land selected upon derectlve
base, and then, when the bas finally
failed, have secured from the state
other base for Which the state should
have received value. The dealers profit
ed by the transaction. No semblance of
reason can be offered In support or the
policy of permitting the state to issue a
deed to land the title to which is known
to be uncertain.
According to our own usage in war,
the Germans arid British ore not open
to criticism for keeping up a stringent
blockade so long as a peace protocol
remains unsigned. Our Government, in
the Summer of 189S, did nothing to bring
hostilities! to a close Until the Washing
ton protocol had been signed. The
Hague court or arbitration declares that
warlike measures shall not be Interrupt
ed until a special agreement for an arm
istice has been made. The- German
naval commander reported that he "was
unexpectedly attacked" by Fort San
Carlos, artd replied by a bombardment
of the fort. Technically, the German
commander did nothing that he could
not lawfully dd under a belligerent
blockade, which continues belligerent
until the governments responsible for It
order that It be raised.
Among rececii deaths Is that of Colonel
Charles Cn Gilbert, of the retired list of
the regular Army. He graduated from
West Point In 1S46, and served In the
Mexican War. He was a Captain in the
Third Infantry at the outbreak of the
Civil War; was appointed Brigadier
General of Volunteers In September,
1862, and commanded a corps of General
Buell's army at the battle of Perryville.
General Gilbert, Justly or unjustly, was
held responsible for disaster to Gen
eral McCdok's corps, which he failed en
ergetically to support. At all events,
after the battle 'or Perryville, In Octo
ber, 1862, General Gilbert, from a corps
commander, dropped Into complete ob
scurity. He was retired as Colonel n
1886, Colonel Gilbert was over 81 years
of age at the time of his death.
Were It not for the fact that Nature
Is doing much In the way of deepening
the channel at the mouth bf the ColuirU
b'la, the masterly delay about convert
ing the transport Grant Into a . bar
dredge for this work might be alarm
ing. Here is another lot of bids ror
such convention, in which the shortest
time mentioned for the work la five
months, and these have been referred
to Washington for consideration. It is
not probable that the dredge will be
ready for service before August 1. and
it may be much later if we do not keep
continually pushing. Hair the Summer
Is already wasted. Is It Impossible that
San Francftco and Puget Sound have
contributed to this official delay?
Chinese labor Is to be Introduced Into
the gold mines or the Transvaal. The
gold-mine owners are to pay $150,000,000
of the War debt and the Interest on
$150,000,000 more, and are allowed to Im
port Chinese labor.
' The dispatch from London announc
ing that General Miles dined with the
King closes with the statement that the
King's health is good. Why" not also
tell us how Miles came out?
By his suicide, Wlllard H. Winters, of
BUtte, proved the wisdom of the girl
who refused to marry him because he
persisted in drinking-,
Germany's intrigues.
The Forum for January.
Germany's political intrigues have more
than a passing interest for. the United
States at the present time. If the secret
history of the Danish Wfcst Indies treaty
negotiations were ever published it would
probably be discovered that'Oerminy had
n very large flriger In the pie. One Is In
clined to ask why Denmark, after hav
ing apparently welcomed the thought
of ridding herself of the Incubus of
the Danish West indies, should sud
denly discover that they we're Of value
to her and defeat the treity. The answer
might be that Germany was possessed of
sufficient Influence at Copenhagen to
bring about a reversal of Sentiment. Nor
would It be dlfllcult to .discover her mo
tives. Germany, In addition to seeking
a foothold In South America, Is extremely
anxious to obtiln a point d'nppul In the
Caribbean Sea, and the only place in
which she can plant her flag Is the Dan
ish West Indies.
Germany thnt Is. offlclnl Germany
knows only too well that the Monroe Doc
trine keeps her out of the Caribbean ex
actly ns It keeps her out of South Amer
ica, and Germany, of courv;. Is not go
ing to try conclusions with the .United
States to trt the validity of the Monroe
Doctrine, because at the present time she
Is perfectly well aware of the fact that
she cinnot wage successful war against
this country. What may happen In the
future, say six or eight years hence,
when Germany on the sea will bo more
powerful than the United States that Is,
unless the United States greatly In
creases her Navj' no one can tell, una
"the future not being borri, we will ab
stnln from baptising It." Io quote Mere
dith. For the present Germ-my undoubt
edly regards diplomacy as a more power
ful weapon that battle-ships, and it
must be idmltted that so far she has
made her diplomacy triumphant.
Germany gains two thlnss by prevent
ing the transfer of the Danish West In
dies tu the United States. So lone as St.
Thomas and the adjacent islands are un
der the Dlnlsh flag they are not in the
possession of the United States, and In
statecraft, as well as in some other
things, much may be gained by delay.
No one knows what may happen In the
course of a jew years. Undoubtedly next
to owning the Islands herself, Germiny
prefers to see no change made In the
proprietorship.
But there may be another reason why
Germany regards the existence of the
status quo as In her favor. That she
would like to absorb Denmark Into ihe
German Empire is not open to question.
There ire people, of course, who insist
that such a thing Is absolutely Impos
sible, not because of any opposition In
Germany, but becahse the Danes are too
bitterly hostile io Germany to become
Germans. They have not forgotten the
seizure of Schleswlg-Holsteln. But that,
ifter all. Is the past. Remembering the
close dynastic ties existlhg between Eng
land and Denmark and England and Ger
many, It. la not a fanciful stretch of the
Imagination to conceive that the German
Emperor may be trying to Induce his
uncle to use his Influence to creite a
sentiment In favor of Denmark's becom
ing part of the German Empire. Em
peror William Is, perhaps, not unwilling
to pay for this service, but. exactly what
he can offer to England is not appar
ent at this moment.
Supposing Denmark should be merged
Into the Germin Empire, what, then, be
comes of Denmark's West Indian pos
sessions? The obvious answer would be
that they would follow the flag. That
would be a transfer of sovereignty from
one European power to ahother. A trans
fer of sovereignty In the waters of the
new world would be a vlolatloil of the
Monroe doctrine. Would the United
States so fegird It In the circumstances?
An extremdly Interesting question would
be raised If that should happen and a
question that might .not be so easy of
solution, especially If at that time, as
already suggested, Germany possessed
a navy superior to that of the United
States and felt that she could afford to
disregard the warning of the latter coun
try. That Is a phase of the Danish West
Indlin negotiations that has been given
some thought by men whose business
it Is to give serious consideration to the
question.
Coal rnrty nnd Tea Fnrty.
Hartford (Conn.) Couraht.
Some traditional American traits pushed
right to the front In that raid on the coal
earn at Areola, 111. The professional and
business men of the town knew' exactly
what they wanted and what they did not
want. They wanted the coal; they did
not want riot nhd pillage. It would be
no surprise to learn that some ot the men
who took charge of the proceedings at
Areola trace their descent from men who
attended the Boston tea party. That also
waa a wholly Irregular, lawless affair. Thd
Boston taen togged themselves out as
Indians before they rushed the shlpi and
tumbled the tea overboard. They took
that precaution against arrest and pun
ishment. . The Areola men went about
their work more boldly. They wore no
disguises. They are not skulking and
hiding, now that the thing Is done. The
Illinois Central knows where to lay its
hando on them If It wants them.
Wlirtt Una Made Sugar Cheap?
Plttsburc'Post.
President Havemeyer. of the sugar trust,
has been telling his stockholders about the
reduction lh the price of sugar Since the
formation of that saccharine combination.
What has made It cheaper than it was in
1SS7 is the trebling of beet sugar produc
tion. Increase of cane fjgar nnd the com;
petition of an Independent refinery. But
tho Dlngleyltes saw to It that the people
did not get all the benefit of the cheap
ening of raw sugar by Increased produc
tion. They only cut the duty from 2
cents. These cold facts ought to demon
strate that neither the trust nor the tariff
has cheapened sugar.
ConI Trust's Criminal Influence.
Indlanapollo Sentinel.
Unusual activity In stealing coal Is re
ported from all directions. And, likewise,
unusual activity In robbing consumer by
coal operators, railroads and dealers. The
coal Industry is a great distributing center
ot criminal Influences nt present.
Disproportion' lit Knnnnn Guard.
Kansas City journal.
Things seem to be sadly out of propor
tion In Kansas. At the Idiot aeylum one
employe takes care of nine Idiots. At the
penitentiary one officer safely guards 16
malefactors. But with the Kansas state
Senate It takes four guards or attendants
for each' Inmate.
Lcnrnlnrr tlte White Man's Ways.
St. Louis Posl-Dlspatch.
From whom did the msro leaders In
the South learn to levy tribute upon their
fellowr who are applicants for appointive
offices?
Through Pence to Light.
Adelaide Anne Procter.
I do not ask. O Lord, tbat life may be'
A plearant road:
I do not ask tbat thou wouldst take from me
Aught ot Its load;
I do not ask that flowers should always sprint
Beneath my feet: '
I know too well the folfon and the stlns
Of thlnss too sweet.
For one thlnjf only. Lord, dear Lord, I plead
Lead roe aright.
Though strength should falter and though heart
should bleed.
Through Peace to Light.
I do not ask. O Lord, that thou shouldst shed
Full radiance here;
Give but a ray of peace that I mar tread
Without a fear.
I do not ask my cross to' understand.
Sly way to see:
Better In darkness Just to feel thy hand
And follow thee.
Joy la like restless day: but peace dWIne
Like quiet bight.
Lead me, O Lord, till' perfect Day shall shine,
Tnroufh Peace to Light,
COMPETITORS AND TARIFF
New Tork Evening Post.
The reason given by the President In his
message repeating the cry nrst raised, we
believe, by that sworn enemy of monopr
oly. Senator Aldrlch was that "the small
producer" would suffer If the tariff ad
Vantage of trusts wer"e cut off. But ob
serve how his statement of yesterday ut
terly refutes this former argument of his
own. "Small enterprises," he now says,
'"have certain advantages over large com
binations, and will live and thrive If as
sured of an open and" fair field." Not a
word pbout the tariff as the parent of
their prosperity! The Attorney-General Is
even more explicit on this point. "Small
Individual enterprises not uncommonly
spring up and thrive within the shadow
of the larger ones . . realizing large
pront because of the close economies pos
slble through direct, personal, interested
management." At one blow the boasted
superior economies of trusts knocked on
the head, and" the last vestige of brains
dashed out of the "small producer"! It Is
time this defunct fraud were decently
buried.
"I can easily." said Senator Hoar yes
terday, "understand the impatience, and
Indignation" of men who see "an artificial
being with an artificial capital and an
artificial stock, crushing out all domestic
competition by an adroit and Illegal artl
flcfr. and getting control of the home mar
ket." We should think so. If he reads the
Massachusetts papers! And the venerable
Senator said that he did "not wonder"
that the remedy of removing the tariff
had ''occurred to some good mcrt." He
Said It was even "worth thinking of,"
which Is a great concession from so stiff
a protectionist. But he thought he could
find a "better" remedy namely. In that
anti-trust bill of his own of which he
presently said that it was "excecdlngly
imperfect." might need to be modified in
'all of Its provisions," but was "all I
have to offer today!" This Is to make the
whole anti-trust movement ridiculous.
President Roosevelt, after frank abandon
ment of his original grandiose programme,
and his humble request for one crumb of
comfort In the shape of legislation against
rebates, cannot shut hl3 ears to the rising
cry for relief by the route of tariff legis
lation, without bringing his own sincerity
Under grave suspicion.
Thnt Troublesome Indemnity.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Chinese government has renewed
Its representations to the powers that
It Is unable to pay the Installment and
Interest overdue on the International
Indemnity. Under the treaty it was
agreed that the Indemnity should be
paid on a gold basis. Tho fall In sliver
since the sjlgnlng of the protocol has
added many millions 16 the Indemnity.
If It is to be paid la gold. The Chinese
government desires that payment may
be made In silver, and that duties may
be collected hereafter In gold. The
United States Is willing to accept Its
fehare of the Indemnity in .silver, but
will not consent to the collection of
Chinese duties In gold In the future.
The powers have been hitherto disin
clined to modify the terms of the treat-.
It haS been suggested that the contro
versy be submitted to The Hague Tri
bunal for arbitration. Unless China can
accumulate sufficient gold by the col
lection ist duties In gold, the same diffi
culty will arise when the next Install
ment of the Indemnity Is due. An Im
portant question has arisen unaer tne
treaty, notwithstanding the prolonged
deliberation over It.
t
. " The Danish islnmls.
Baltimore American.
The Danish Government has sent com
missioners to the Danish West Indies to
Investigate prevailing conditions, and re
port upon tne measures that ought to be
adapted for their Improvement. The
islanders are excited and hopeful, and
await eagerly the coming of the commis
sioners. It may be said In a general way
that It is a pity this Wea of an investiga
tion with a view to Improvement Hid not
occur to the King of Denmark before,
always provided he Is sincere lrt his pur
pose and it Is possible to improve the
condition of the islanders. Had It been
done. 30 years ago there would have beerl
ho 'necessity for periodical attempld io
sell the group of Islands for about five
or ten times their worth, and no American
statesmen would have' been perlodlcally
tempted to buy them under the Impres
sion that they would be a valuable ac
quisition. The King would have saved
himself disappointments and heartburn
ings, nhd he would have prevented a con
siderable amount ot friction In American
politics.
GInd of the Honor.
Chlcazo Tribune.
"Ladles and gentlemen,"- said the chair
man of ihe" meeting, who was slightly
deaf, "I take great pleasure In Introducing
Mr. "
"Colonel," whispered the man who was
to speak, correcting him.
"Mr. "McConnell, Whose eloquent
tons "
"So no," again whimpered the other. "I
said Colonel Colonel Colby 1 my name."
"Didn't quite catch It," said the chair
man. In a low tone, turning around.
"Please say It again."
"Colby Colonel Colby?'
"McCullough. Thank you. Ladles and "
"Not McCullough. Colby Colby Colonel
Colby."
"A little plainer, please. Is it Corkle
McCorklc?"
"No, Nol Can't you hear? Colonel
Colby-Colby!"
"Who will now address you," gasped
the chairman, turning again to. the aud
ience, wiping his forehead and sitting
down.
Change In Northern Sentiment.
Baltimore Sun.
In former years when any attack was
made upon the Southern people the press
of the North woutd be almost unanimous
In npprovlng It. This" seems to be no
longer the case. It Is now only the ex
treme, ultrapartlsan Northern newspaper
which approves of the policy of treating
the South as conquered territory. In ap
pointing the negro Crum as. Collector of
the Port of Charleston against the protest
bf the people of that city, nnd In closing
the postofflee at Indlanola, Miss., and de
priving Its residents of the use of the
malls, because the negro postmistress re
signed her office, the President Is not re
ceiving the support and commendation of
the influential Northern newspapers.
Many of them condemn him unreservedly,
and others, which have all along support
ed him through thick and thin, are silent.
Mr Den.
(Brooklyn Eagle.)
I've ft "den" that's all my own.
That the maid must let alone;
Though it be In disarray.
Thus the roald must let It stay.
Pehi are lying everywhere:
Ko one's moved the old armchair;
Manuscript Is scattered o'er
Desk and table, couch and floor.
Pipes are where I put them last;
Papers, too. where they were cast.
And the carpet doth display
Ashes that hare missed the tray.
Thus I'd always have my "den";
But. alaslillke other men.
I've a wife who grieves to see
That I can thus happy be.
That my ways her patience tries
I can gather from her sighs.
And at times. In sheer despair.
She Invades and cleans my lair.
I can bar the serving maid.
But ,mr wife Is not afraid;
She "arranges" now and then
Book and paper, chair and pen.
Woe Is me. In such a case
Everything Is In Its place:
Order doth my wife create.
Leaving me dlscons61ate.
Things are then concealed from me.
For they're where they ought to be:
I'm In worst of human plights
When my ''ita" Is "put to rights.'
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Stay with It, Boweri!
Many a little fellow with a weak chin
Io able to grow a strong beard.
It's easier tor the Kaiser to sound
Havana harbor than for ua to sound the
Kaiser.
It appears that C M. Schwab never gets
alarmingly ill until he strikes a. cable
station.
A bachelor can Inaugurate a fight al
mcet any time by bfferlng advice to a
married man.
It Is an off day In Washington when-
some one does not suggest a new route for
the Isthmian Canal.
As a rider to the agricultural bill In the
Senate the omnibus Statehood bill seems
to be a trifle overweight.
Richmond PMrsnn "Hnfcnon'a evesleht
may be poor, but his financial foresight
seems io be in working order.
A contemporary says that the coal tnisl
Is very close to all the other big com
binations. It Is time it got "next" to
Itself.
Thankji to the foreright and frugality of
the lata Jnv HmiM rmmt iinnt A rva.Bi
J wh... V1, A-& V. HO 1
lane is once more a member of the French
cnamber of Deputies.
With grain rates at the present low ebb,
it seems odd that the local highwaymen
should devote so much time to waylaying
sea captains on the docks.
If the Hon. George Fred Williams will
just keep right on making new parties
he may yet get one .that he can belong to,
though we have misgivings.
If we are to Judge by the published
statements of Tillman's friends, there Is
ho such thing ns murder In South Caro
lina, and manslaughter constats In killing
a man while asleep.
An Arizona authority puts the case for
statehood In this neat way: ''Arizona la
too far from Washington to be treated
like the District of Columbia, and too
near to be treated like Luzon."
The eaylngs of Baron Speck von Stern
berg at Washington and the doings of
Kaiser William at Berlin, lead one to the
belief that Marconi Isn't -keeping them in
connection.
The late Russian Minister of the In
terior, M. Slplagln, banished without triai
61,00) persons. Including Socialist leaders
and men of education. His successor, M.
Plehwe. has found It necessary to per
suade many of these to return to their
homes, as It has been found that the ex
pulsion of so many professional men and
scientists has ' affected the general wel
fare of the country and even Its Industrial
development.
Things are looking Up In Georgia. Frank
L. Stanton has tuned his strings Again and
lifts his voice merrily:
That Is ihe editor's Easy Chair,
At the rickety, three-legged table there;
He comes lij smiling; he takes a seat.
And high on the table rests tils feet:
Arid, far from the bill collector's stare.
He leans 'way back 1& his Easy Chair.
Then forward he bends, and his rusty pen
Goes lf miles o'er ther paper then.
When neTer a thought. Is left to pull.
The printer tells him the paper,s"fu1l.''
Then the editor anilles. and, released from care.
He. too. gets full In hU Easy Chain
Senator Warren, of Wyoming, towers
a giant among men. One Ot his hands w&T
badly injured years ago while he was
President of the Senate In the state
named. One day a fight started between
two members and the sergeant-at-arms
was unable to stop It. Warren moved
down from his desk and threw both Of
the fighting Legislators out of the hail.
But before he had accomplished that one
of the warriors In trying to hit his com
batant with a heavy ruler, struck Warrin
on the hand. Several bones were broken,
and the hand has been disabled ever since.
Lord Wolseley. who Is at Naples, In
tends to visit the scenes of Napoleon's
Oriental campaign, and obtain local color
for a military article, possibly a book.
He will visit Napoleon's battlefields at
Chebrelss and Embabeh from Cairo, and
subsequently land In Syria, making tha
Journey from El Arlsh to Gaza, and Jaffa,
via Acre. He will visit the Plain ot Es
draelon, the famous Hebraic battlefield,
where Napoleon won a victory after thd
siege ot Acre. Lord Wolseley's memoirs,
however, are hardly more than half fin
ished. With suitable apologies to Poo a West
ern poet writes:
A headline In a morning paper musically sayst
"The Sultan of Morocco Is a fugltlre from
Fex";
And although there Isn't any special reason, aa
I ee.
Why the nature of the news thould bring a
thrill of Joy to me.
Tet there's something In the sentence's alliter
ative Jingle
That, In spite of sober reason, sets my being
all a-tlngle.
And I rise In excitation to a state ot wild ex
ultln' . . , . .
As my, rhythmic soul with gratitude o'erbubbles
to the Sultan
For the glorious opportunity he gave ths man
who says:
"The Sultan ot Morocco Is a fugitive from
Fez."
A corespondent who signs himself "An
Interested Farmer." writes:
Would like to ak through' your paper tha
following questions:
First A person owning land, entirely sur
rounded by land not his own, has no outlet to
road, how can he enforce a way out?
Second A has a spring In his pasture, which
In the dry season runs but very little water
lmo B's field, enough, however, for B's stock,
provided A would keep a less number of stock:
in his pasture. A keeps a large drove ot steers
and by drinking so much water in Summer It
falls to reach B's land. Question: Is A entitled
to all the water. If his stock needs it. or must
he keep a less number, enough to see that tha
water reaches B's land (acknowledging that
some water has always reached Ba field, ex
cept when A has a big lot of stock) ?
It Is made quite apparent In both these
inquiries that "An Interested Farmer"
doesn't keep a shotgun.
rLEASASTftlES OF PAttAGttAPlIEhs'
- -
"I hear that he married an actress." "Ail
men do." Detroit Free Press.
"Has he great poetical Imagination?" "I
should say so; he Imagines he's a poet!" Bal
timore ilerald.
"Do you think she really loves hlmj" "Well,
she's begun to call him 'Foolish boy!' ''Phila
delphia Evening Bulletin.
An Advantage. First Actor The adranca
agent has to hustle. Second Actor Tes; but
be doesn't hare to attend the performance.
Puck.
To Him That Hath. "Rocks to the Rocke
feller!" muttered the customer, as he handed
over the coin for a gallon of coal oIL Chicago
Tribune. .
Teast It's hard to keep a good man down.
Crlmsonbeak That's why they -put such heavy
monuments over some ot them. I suppose.
Tonkers Statesman.
Miseries of Heiresses. Dora How miserable "
Arthur looks since I rejected him. Clara t
don't wonder, poor fellow. Now he'll hare ta
work for a living. New Tork Weekly.
Waggsby Jld Publicity is. beyond a doubt,
the most eccentric man I ever saw. Xaggsby
How soT Waggsby-'Not fewer than half-a-dozeh
papers have printed portraits of him.
and the contrary creature actually looks Ilka
every one of the pictures. Baltimore Amer-lcao.