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Government extends some aid. Now
comes the wicked Canadian Pacific, a
subsidized foreign corporation, and de
liberately, and probably with malice
aforethought, charters the American
steamship Hyades to carry a full cargo
of coal from Japan to "Vancouver. And
this at a time when there are Idle Brit
ish vessels on both sides of the Pa
cific The explanation by the Post-In
telligencer of this latest outrage will be
awaited with interest. Another disas
trous blow to the theories recently illus
trated -by the Post-Intelligencer is the
charter for foreign business of the
American ship Great Admiral, an old
wooden drogher thirty-four years old,
while a number of fine modern-built
steel British ships are unable to secure
cargoes on Puget Sound. Apparently
our merchant marine Is able to take
care of itself. In periods of freight de
pression as well as in prosperity.
ANDREWS SEES SOMETHING.
It has taken Dr. E. Benjamin An
drews a long time to find out that he
was wrong about sliver In 1896. Even
now fie comes short of the- due confes
sion, and will go no farther than to say
he was misled. As it makes no great
difference to gold or silver, finance or
TjhllosoDhy. what Dr. Andrews thin
on -any subject, we are left to conclude
that his present purpose ij, merely to
set himself right before thinking men
and Incidentally get his name in the
expressed by a willful young woman.
that her marriage Is a matter that is
strictly her own business, a case of this
kind bears ghastly testimony. The
truth Is that a daughter's marriage, and
only In a less degree, perhaps, that of a
son, involves the lives-, not often. In a
material sense, but always In the high
er sense, of those whose love was his
or her heritage. If It Is a prudent mar
riage and results in the founding of a
happy home, the' Influence of that hap
piness Is widely diffused, and finds, in
deed, a radiant center around which the
love and the pride of the "home ioik
rally. If a mistaken marriage, It Is ab
surd to suppose that the unhappiness
and the wretchedness accruing are con
fined to the principals In the mistake.
Tti tVio rsrr Tinfnrc of thinJTS. this Can
not be so. But as there Is no adequate
punishment for a man of the Leasia
type a man with whom a woman who
Is his wife cannot live, and from whom
she cannot get away so also there is
no remedy for the folly and the decep
tion that lies In wait to procure ill-ad
vised marriages.
The first question that arises when
the details of a most wretched matri
monial experience In which a gentle,
delicate woman Is the sufferer are
given to the world through the courts
In a plea for divorce or through mani
fest though uncomplaining misery of
the wife Is, "Why did she marry such
a man?" Echo will simply answer.
"Why?" But common observation
comes to the rescue of many a wom
an's good sense and discloses another
reason. He was not "such a man
Or, having
mall in the Seattle Postofflee before his
arrival- in that city, and Imprudent
newsmongers had proclaimed Just how
many letters from Ills wife awaited him
there, not falling to criticise her chi-
rography as "careless." Of course, im
pertinence like this does not greatly or
for long disturb the serenity of a,broad-
mlnded man, but it Is for the time being
exceedingly annoying. Mrs. Hoosevelt
has not been a participant in this fa
tiguing semi-official Journey, and any
allusion to her in connection therewith
is entirely uncalled-for.
It Is a curious fact that Andrew Car
negie, a Scotchman born and bred, and
Goldwin Smith, who is English born
and bred, an Oxford professor and a
member of the British Parliament be
fore he made Toronto his home, both
believe that Canada's best chance. If
not her inevitable destiny. Is to throw
her lot In with the United States. Gold-
win Smith says the forces of Nature
draw both countries toward union.
Race, language, literature, political in
stitutions, social sentiments and habits
are the same on both sides of the line.
There are more than 1,000,000 native
Canadians in the United States". There
is a continual exodus of Canadians to
the great American centers of employ
ment. There is now a reciprocal influx
of Americans from Minnesota and
North Dakota Into Northwest Canada.
Intermarriage Is frequent. The peri
odical literature of Canada Is American.
American currency circulates in Can
ada. Canadians resort to American
watering-places, and Americans to the
watering-places of Canada. Canadians
operate on the New York Stock Ex
change, and American Investment In
Canada Is very large and rapidly In
The connection of each of
tPORTLAND, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1003.
newspapers,
Nothing that any English geologist
told or could tell Dr. Andrews formed
the slightest Justification for his sup- . when she married him.
port of free silver coinage In 1896. It -been, "such a man," he carefully and
Is to be feared that an exploration of j adroitly concealed his identity with
his then arguments would develop a this libel upon manhood from the
nnr rioni morft of crazy speculation WOman who loved him. ana whom, irom creasing.
on his part than of geological looning i some lnscrutanie reason Known oniy w tne naaian provinces witn me states
forward to cold exhaustion. The un- himself and the powers of darkness, to the south of it is stronger than that
dertaklng, however, would in any case j and entirely apart from the impulse of
be profitless. The fact is that no scare- true manhood which nnas lis expres
itv of trold. Impending or lmaginea, oi- sion m marriage, ne aesirea to marry.
fers the slightest reason why silver I There is this extenuation, therefore,
v,i T,r,. nr at -inv other nasi or for the woman who marries sucn a
man"; possibly also for her parents m
consenting, If they did consent, to the
marriage the man who masqueraded
before them as a lover and a would-be
husband was not the man whom they
had every reason to believe him to be,
and whom, when he fell, they found
present time, be admitted to United
States mints in limitless volume at the
ratio of 16 to 1. The inadequacy of sil
ver as real money was as plain Deiore
n ..- n tRQfi ns it is today. No
pxmsb for the sliver mania can avail.
However exhausted our goid suppu
of the maritime provinces with Ontario
or of French Quebec with either. The
nonulatlons are so ranldlv fusing that
there will soon be nothing to divide
them but a political and fiscal line. The
Influx of American settlers into the
Canadian Northwest will be sure to
promote this fusion. These are the
forces of Nature that Goldwin Smith
enumerates as ultimately certain to es
tablish a continental union In a free
and honorable way.
NATIONAL traits.
There-ls a touch of Oriental craftiness
l-about Russian diplomacy which exas
jperates Western minds with their eth
'lcal standards of a commercial clviliza
'tion. The trader has learned that it is
Impossible to do business unless a man
lis preparing to perform In exact con
'formlty with his promises. In Anglo
'Saxon morals, therefore, veracity has
'come to occupy a cardinal place: and
'the unfettered fancy which Tuns riot in
treatment of its facts in the far East
and has done so since earliest times
ranks easily as the first offense in the
RrlMah and American decalogue. The
duplicity and exaggeration which orna
mented the history of ancient Israel.
from Abraham at Gerar and the thrifty
Jacob down to the naive conflicts of the
Bvnontic srosoels. survive today at
Pekln, Constantinople and St Peters
burg, and are severely execrated by
the Protestant nations, which are as
slow as any other people to look not
only on one's own virtues, hut on the
virtues of others.
Cruelty is another national or racial
trait which we hold in horror. Now
cruelty is a survival of savagery; but
so is that cupidity which tramples upon
another's rights; and while we pride
Anrttpivesi on tolerance, we must re
member that the cruel nations may
surpass us in other virtues more highly
esteemed by them and more rigidly en
Joined by their consciences. A good
Mussulman, for example, may be one
who persecutes the Christian dog and
Is kind to his fifteen or twenty wives
and concubines. That Circassian girl
Is dutiful who rushes with most eager
pride into the arms of her Syrian pur
chaser. Who shall deny that an ap
proving conscience blessed the Canaan
Ite father who passed his children
through the fire to Moloch? Where Is
the Christian parent today who could
stftnd successfully the test of Abra
ham when he was commanded to offer
Isaac, and which of our most credu
lous newspapers would have treated
seriously the story Mary Magdalene
told on her return from the sepulcher?
In filial obedience and In reverence
generally the Orientals surpass us In
finitely; indeed, it-is doubtful if in the
whole range of conduct we are their
equals in humility and tenderness.
Much as we abominate their more overt
formB of cruelty, our industrial civil
ization has its own forms of inhuman
ity which call our superiority in ques
tion. We do not throw our daughters
into the Ganges or sell them to Persian
harems; but we consign them to living
deaths In noisome factories, and from
many a home of recreant parents boys
and girls find a worse fate than Ganges
In the filth and poison of vile company.
There Is u. refinement of cruelty in the
rapacity of the usurer and the evlctor,
often more cowardly than the blow of
the armed assassin going forth in broad
daylight to his post of carnage. Where
Liberty is fondly believed to shed her
light for all the world, the door of
equality Is shut upon the negro, and
the Chinaman lives in continual fear
of outrage Unhappj- the alien, whether
in China or Russia or Mississippi or
California! Rare is the American who
Is qualified by being without sin to
cast the stone at those whose lip wears
the sneer at "Inferior races." Is there
any pride of race like that of Britain
and America? Is the "foreign devil"
execrated only In China? Is the "alien
landlord" despised only In Russia?
Take broad views. We all have our
virtues, please God. yet all our faults,
as well. Learn from the Chinese the
beauty of filial devotion, from the Ger
man the rewards of conscientious
thoroughness, from the French that he
role graclousness which makes the
most barren life worth living, from the
Irish that self-respecting pride which
repels the libertine, from the Scotch
the spirit of fearless Independence,
from the Italian that love of beauty
which ornaments the humblest lot.
Russia Is a long way behina us on
the path of progress. If there is any
truth in our hypothesis that a govern
ment can rise no higher than Its sub
ject people, then surely her ignorance
and squalor may plead in her mltiga
tlon. if not in her defense. Take broad
views. Noblesse oblige!
mip-ht hnvp been in 1896. the free coin- that he was not Happy to this extent
age of silver could only have increaacu the wretcnea wue wno, upon awan-
our financial difficulties; ior. wnue uic enmg to tne true sense oi ner euiiui
excluslve choice of gold has solidified tlon, finds that she Is married to "such
nni mndp nermanent the standard of a man," finds one sweet drop In sor-
values, the attempted relntroduction of r0v's cup of gall In the reflection that
silver could onlv have unsettlea values, ner marriage was not maae in aisre-
killed confidence, stopped Investment
And nut an end to employment Tee
silver would only have Intensified the
difficulty with gold scarcity, whereas
on a safe, if limited, volume of stand
ard money the machinery of currency
devices so multiplied the facility oi
exchanges that convenience kept pace
xHth stability. It may well be doubted
whether the considerable supplies of
trold that have poured Into the circula
tion since 1896 have Deen oi aio ii
irnin to our monetary situation. Quan
titles of erold undeniahiy nave acieu
PHirwicv and' traveled back and forth
across the Atlantic and Pacific to settle
troilo balances or relieve artificial strin
gencles where otherwise the work might
hnvp been done by commercial ihmu-
ments. One thing is certain, and that
tvmt -r-p should no doubt have ad
vanced farther on the Inevitable road
orvnrrt n scientific currency, referring
to gold for Its denominations, but based
gard of parental advice or in defiance
to parental authority.
THE LATEST TRUST.
The American Society of Equity has
issued a bulletin to the farmers of the
United States demanding an Increase In
the price of wheat and urging the farm
ers not to sell their wheat for less than
?1 per bushel.' Some of the elements of
the "trust" are noticeable In this latest
scheme for advancing prices, but in
asmuch as the project, as outlined in
yesterday's dispatches from Indianapo
lis, does not Include a plan for buying
up all of the wheat for the purpose of
cornering the market, it Is not yet sus
ceptible to the Sherman anti-trust law.
And yet there are features in this pro
posed wheat trust that are not "unlike
those of the salt trust which a few days
ago paid $5000 fine for a violation of the
Sherman law.
There are certain conditions, finan-
Justice Brewer, of the United States
Supreme Court in a letter to the New
York World on the occasion of its
twentieth "Pulitzer anniversary," paid
an impressive .and somewhat unique
tribute to Journalism. Referring to the
dissemination of the news throughout
the country as a powerful Influence
toward the unification of the people, he
said: "We are becoming truly one peo
plc because we have better knowledge
of each other. The press, which tells
us every da,y what all do and say, helps
us to know each other, and so, by
bringing the American people Into
more Intimate acquaintance. It has
been making a more perfect union.1
There Is more than a grain of truth In
this estimate. In the very nature of
things we care very little, for people
that we know little about, and noth
ing In the abstract for people that are
unknown to us. With the press sup
plying the news of every section to
every other section, and discussing Its
most Important features candidly and
intelligently, people separated by wide
distances become well acquainted with
each other. It would be surprising. In
deed, If the feeling of nationality were
RUSSIA'S UPHILL TASKS.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
tti -nj!an rnvemment has removed
,. nnv.nmr nt TTUhenef. under whoae
administration the massacres of a raonth
ago occurred. Massacres In Tiraspol,
Odessa, Nlcolaleff and Kleff have been
prevented by vigorous military measures.
The St Feteraourg correaponucui.
London Times (anU-RuasIan) says:
"In Justice to the Russian people It
ehould be pointed out that -there Is no
sympathy on thtir part witn uie iusueu
rtn ThA TirMldent of the Jewish order
of B'nal B'rith says: "It is neitner iaar
nor wise to execrate the government of
Russia because of the murderous brutal
ity of a frenxitd mob.
These declarations lnaicuie a.
tiAn tr. treat Ttussla as lainy as oui
nations would be treated under similar
circumstances. Last year tne iwissuia
government was criticised for the se
verity employed In suppressing the peas
ant riots in Southern Russia. There was
no question of race prejudice or naireu
In the riots of 1S02. The bitterness was
against manufactories operated by for
eign capital and against the government
for protecting tne manuiaciureia
tho ncint: and the factory employes.
The riots wore suppressed and concessions
made by the Czar, but an ot souiaetu
Russia was In a ferment
Parallel with the industrial agitation
In Southern Russia was the anu-jewisn
agitation In Roumanla. iror zi j-ears or
up to the treaty of Berlin, the Bcssara
blan frontier district was controlled and
exploited by Roumanians. When the
European powers compel ten
to cede the territory to Russia there was
Intense bitterness and open rebellion In
Eastern Roumanla and Western Bessara
bia. An agitation against the cession
to Russia continued for years and caused
much Irritation in Russia and Western
Europe.
The Roumanians In Bessarabia are still
Roumanians In prejudice. They have not
been overconslderately treated by the
Russians. They are not easily contronea
and they are certainly as hostile to the
Jews as the native Russians. At all
events. It may be assumed that tno mixea
population of Kishenef is more difficult of
conrtol than the population oi a obubci
lvely Russian city.
This does not palliate the offense of the
local authorities In permitting a riot to
culminate In a horrible massacre. It does
not excuse the general government for
not taking measures to prevent riot ana
massacre at Tiraspol. It explains, how
ever the- difficulty of the situation ana.
Indicates how It Is possible for the Czar
and the masses of the Russian people
honestly to deplore such atrocities and at
the same time be unable to prevent them.
An the Russian trovernment Is now In
conrtol of the situation and Is admit
tedly strlvlnc to preserve order and pro
tect the Jews there seems to be no neces
sity for protest or admonition from the
United States or any otner nation.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Let us see Whether Murderer Lcasla has
the police Tracylzed.
In about another year Mr Hmna. will
Harper's Weekly.
The dinner glrtn on May 9 to Secretary
Root' at the Lotos Club. New York, directs
attention to one of the chief causes o-
... Iff T?rut AVIC.
has SSS te fate of or accidental nd what he has gone up against
Presidents. Not long naa i)ier, rm- Besides, there was Billy Emerson., an
wnhatld intend Tthan' other great member of the Emerson fam
t,n,.r th trusted friends of ' . . . ?
The fool-killer appears to be 'doingTsomo
very artistic work through' the" French
automobile. " ' '
We regret to learn that there are a few
citizens of Portland who never heard bf
the laundry strike. ,,v
If a postmaster can't open a few.let-
nrweunni out OI me Wiumch
These men were forthwith converted Into
powerful, and, as It proved. Irresistible
enemies. Mr. Roosevelt has pursued a
precisely opposite course. Incomparably
the most Important members of Mr. sac
Kinley's Cabinet were Secretary Hay ana
Secretary Root. Both of them have not
only retained their places, but so far as
we can Judge, are more InfluentUl ttan
t :,nM h kent in mind that sec-
Z Tf hno not onlv borne the bur- I ters that hanneh to attract his curiosity.
dens Incident to the war office ln time Where are the office-holder's-prerogatives?
of war for the insurrection in ws-rv-
pines has possessed the proportions of a Apparently the Seattle authorities wero
war but also has had to discharge, "Wtn surprised to find that Mrs. Roosevelt
relation to the 9,0W,w numan didn't use a typewriter in writing to her
the Philippines, an me luntuu.o
In England belong to the Colonial Office.
So far as our new empire In the East is
,T,rn Mr Boot has had thrust upon
him a task the magnitude of which might
well tax the resources of the broadest and
the highest statesmanship. That tne iusk.
has been well performed Is recognized by
the whole American people wunoui u
tlnctlon of party. It may even be doubt
ed whether President Roosevelt himself
has grown more in the National estima
tion than -has Secretary koou
If. now, we turn to the State Depart
ment we cannot but seo that the reten
tion 61 Mr. Hay has been oi signal ser-
w tn h? cwief. The nualltles imperative
ly needed ih that branch or our eaerai
Government during the last 18 months
have been caution, reticence, discretion,
self-control. Not only has Mr. Hay these
qualities, but they are conjoined witn a
right perception of the dignity and des
tinies of the United States. Thanks large
ly to him. we have not lost ground in in
ternational opinion, out gaineo. grounu,
since our war with Spain. If we except
a certain uneasiness expressed In some
quarters lest he should go too lar m aei
erence to England. Mr. Hay's conduct of
the State Department Is admitted to have
strengthened the Roosevelt Administra
tion In public confidence, iie is quicn.
almost as quick as was McXlnley. to de
tect the drift of popular sentiment, nor
that reason, he was careful to refrain
from committing our Government too far
In approval of the coercion oi Venezuela
by the three blockading powers, and we
doubt whether he would sanction a repe
tition of the experiment in the case of
another Latin-American commonwealth.
Not only, however, has the country rea
son to be grateful for the services of the
Secretary of State and the Secretary of
War, but we should give the primary
credit for their work to Mr. Roosevelt
himself, who, had he been like other ac
cidental Presidents, would not have per
sisted In keeping his predecessor's friends
In office.
Original Anti-Expansion Arguments.
McMaster tells us that the protests
agalnts the Louisiana Purchase from press
and rostrum took euch form as this:
"FIften millions as a price for a wilder
ness! Maine had been sold by Ferdlnando
Gorges for 1250. and Pennsylvania had
cost William Penn but a trlflo over 5000.
Fifteen million dollars! You can eay It in
a breath; you can write it in a few
etrokes. But what does it mean? Weigh
It. and there will be 433 tons of solid silver.
It would take 866 wagons to draw It. The
wagons In line, each occupying three rods,
would stretch out five and one-half miles.
If a man were to set out to fill the wagons
Should Xot Tnjce It Seriously.
New York Evenlns Post.
Again those nervous Germans (phleg
matic Dutchmen we used to call them!)
are stirred up by a speech of President
Roosevelt's. In this country' t passea un
noticed. It was lust the regular hlfalutln
about a blc navy and the control of the
Pacific. We do so much talk of that kind
In the oress and on the stump that we
think nothing of It 'because wo know it
means nothing in particular. But here is
the- German press talking about daring
ambitions and an "alirming development
of the Monroe Doctrine!" What stupid
folk they are to take this screaming or the
eagle as anything more than practicing
the scales. Yet if that nooic Dira expects
to be welcome In the international zoolog
ical eirdens. where he has demanded ad
mission. It wouia De just as wen ior mm . th te of 16 a day It W0Ud take him
to adont the rule of not screeching unless ; mnfua -pii0 niinr on dollar
he means something by It or of always r-ckonln nln6 to an inch, the pile would
carrying a placard In his talons reading
'Don't mind me; I'm only joKing.
Target Practice That Pays.
Minneapolis Journal.
for redemption more generalll on the . &nd clImatlCf whlch could not Intensified by the touch of Interest ojlof n ht n as many snots froln the whteky has Veen removed."
be three miles high. It would load
sloops; It would pay an army of 25,000,
40 shillings a week, for 25 years. . .
"Who Is to benefit by the transaction.'
The South and West, who will pay no
share of the debt because the tax" on
actual w,alth of the community . whose 'Vorth $1 per bushel In this
proper function u i iu orC " -
base. Values will still be reckoned In
ounces of Kdld; but exchange will not
thus engendered.
need to be made In coin, and the wealth
of the business world rather man taxa
tion of the people will be the pledge of
value behind the banking currency of
the future. These things were as true
In 1896 as they are today; and free sil
ver could only have substituted panic
for reform.
A more engaging defense than Dr.
Andrews selects Is to be the one most
preferred for the sllverlte apology'; and
country, whether the farmers sold or
held. All three of these conditions as
sisted In sending wheat above 51 per
bushel five years ago. Some of them
are now sufficiently threatening to
cause a very steady market with prices
tending higher, but the Individual or
society that attempts to force wheat up
by gaining control of a large portion of
the output regardless of conditions in
other parts of the world, will encounter
disappointment more often than suc
cess. The population of the United
States Is not great enough to consume
that is the growth and arrogance of whgat afc $1 per
corporate wealth.. Many things said
against the Money Power by Bryan in
1896 are said by gold-stanaara men to
day in dealing with the trusts; and In
this recourse to the Bryanlc terminol
ogy had by sanity and honesty In 1904
will be found the supposed palliative
of the "blmetallst" ravings of 1S96. The
blanket however, is too short for the
bed. There is and was no reason in
Wall-street misconduct for the silver
mania. Free coinage, indeed, couiq
only have Increased the burdens put on
the backs of the poor by the manipu
lations of the rich. For It is only in
full-vaiue
steady employment ana
wages ana inviolate vim, when the crop was 226,000.000
poor nave touay an, bushels smaller.
for a snare in tne bjjuuh ii... . . th Federal Sait
Company's monopoly 'was the almost
The manner in which the pet the
orles of the shipping-subsidy seekers
are being pounded to pieces at this
time Is positively brutal. The latest
offenders In this line are the Boston
Steamship Company and the Canadian
Pacific. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
repeatedly asserts that It Is impos
Bible for an American vessel to com
pete with the Britishers In the carry.
tas of freight unless the American
bushel or at half that figure; conse
quently we must depend on the for
eign market There have been years
In the past when we exported as mucn
as 235,000,000 bushels, because we sup
plied It cheaper than other countries.
The crop of this country, however, va
ries greatly. In 1891 we produced i4S,
460,000 bushels of wheat, while the year
previous the crop was but 522.000,000
bushels. Here was a shortage nearly
equal to the largest amount ever ex
ported, and yet cash wheat In Chicago
for the closing months of 1901 was from
3 to 5 cents per bushel higher than It
was at corresponding periods the year
The Coal Commission's Investigation
disclosed, among other things, the fact
that a very large number of boys under
the age limit were being worked with
their parents' consent In the breakers
and coal mines of Pennsylvania, and
that many girls, also under the age
limit, were working In the textile mills
that have sprung up In the coal dis
tricts. The Legislature, acting upon
Information thus received, passed a
more stringent child-labor law. This
law went Into effect yesterday, with
the result that In the Lehigh district
alone 500 boys were excluded from work
In and about the coal mines. That the
last estate of these boys may not be
worse than the first. It behooves the
educational, authorities of the state to
see to It that the compulsory education
law is rigidly enforced. Otherwise Idle
ness will beget mischief which work
estopped, and legislation that was In
tended to produce beneficial results will
prove pernicious. ,
biggest guns In the Navy (13-Inch), at a
target 17x21 m size, iwa yaras auuuih
while the ship was steaming at the rate
of ten knots an tour. Taking the record
of hits by the weight of metal tired, tne
Alabami scored 64.8 per cent of hits out
of 49.8SS pounds of metal fired; the In
diana GO ner cent of 42.S00 pounas nreu.
and the Illinois E3.5 per cent out of 47,720
They "Wouldn't Do.
Chicago Tribune.
Talk about the Democrats not having
anv a-ualiaDie material ior rresiuenuai
candidates !'' exclaimed the passenger with
the skull cap. T?ot to speak of Cleveland,
Olney or Gorman, we have four first-class
Tifro firav PorVsr Thnvpp and Adams
pounds fired. There Is no waste of money aU Qf them good men. and men that no-
m target practice ok k dy can say a word against."
All these resources of the poor would
have been struck a staggering blow by - product on of the commodity
11S "1 dZt Not only was it necessary to expen
me .Di jiiiiivi "
been the poor applegrower
men and women without Newport
las, whose lot the sliver Jeremiah did
The spectacle of automobiles racing
across the country at the rate of sixty
two miles an hour, attended at Inter
vals by death and destruction, made a
Sabbath holiday In France last Sunday.
Among the casualties were the Instant
death of the chauffeur who drove Lor
raine Barrows' machine, the fatal In
Jury of Barrows- himself, the serious
as those at Pensacola. And such practice
must be kept up. The best navy in tne
world Is the one which has the best gun
ners in Its service, and to attain this effi
ciency much money must neces3irlly be
fired away at targets.
Jfo Extra Seaslon la Demanded.
Albany Argus.
The onlv great and pressing question
which demands the attention of Congress
at the present time is the reform of the
tiriff: but the party in power nas aen-
nltely refused to attend to that matter
and the calling of an extraordinary ses
sion cannot be for that purpose, mere is
nothing but the tariff which cannot wait
until December, and as for the tarirc tnat
must perforce wait until the people elect
a tariff reform Congress. Public sentiment
Is not favorable to extraordinary sessions
on the too of the protracted regular ses
sions unless extraordinary conditions
warrant them. . No such conditions now
exist.
"Yes." said the passenger with the side
whiskers. "Well, let's look at them col
lectively and consider the Inherent prob
abilities of any of them being elected."
Whereupon he wrote their names on a
slip of paper as follows:
PaRker.
GrAy.
Thayer.
AdamS.
"No." he said, "they won't do."
The passenger In the skull cap inspected
the result and changed the subject
husband.
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal, has
solved the Democratic' problem mqst hap
pily, thus: For President Cleveland; for
Vice-President, Bryan. Platform: Har
mony. "The fire and life insurance businesses
are lotteries," Simeon Ford, of Now York,
toiu the Home Insurance people at their
recent dinner. "In order to draw a prize
in the fire Insurance lottery, you have
got to go up in fire and smoke. In order
to draw a prize in the life Insurance
business you have to reverse tne pro
cess." The Brooklyn Eagle, which has been
booming Grover Cleveland for a tnlrd
term, now nominates the following ticket
which it says should receive the full party
support of the Populists next year:
For President The man who playfully
points a gun at his dearest friend.
For Vice-President The man who rock;
a boat containing persons who cannot
swim.
Colonel John J. Partridge, ex-PolIco
Commissioner, addressing the Woman's
Republican Club In New York a few days
ago, said that in 1S92 he had made SCO
appointments, "and they did not cost any
one -a cent." But, according to the com
putation of a friend, based on the alleged
previous custom of exacting payment for
appointments and promotions, he had thus
"thrown away 5782,000."
Here Is the story of an Ohio lawyer who
did not become a politician, as he was
not built on political lines. It is told by
a Washington man. who was his clerk at
one time: Lawyer B. was a gruff sort of
personage,, and believed In making every
one pay for every service. One of his
clients was the president of a bank, who,
during the pendency of his case, dropped
Into the lawyer's office very frequently
and tola stories. The lawyer was a good
listener, and seemed to enjoy the stories
very much, but after the banker went out
Lawyer B. would say: "Here, charge Mr.
Blank J10 for an hour of my time. If I
have got to listen to his stories he has got
to pay for. It" Finally the bill was made
out and carried to the banker. It was an
itemized account stating the date of each
call. He scanned It closely and remarked:
"H.e aas made me pay for It pretty well,
hasn't he?" "Pay for what?" asked the
clerk. "For listening tn mv iitorle " And
then he paid the bill.
i
Bnslnex.i Men and. Bosses.
Kansas City Star.
In discussing the corrupt rule of the
Pittsburg ring in the current Issue of Mc
Clure's Magazine, Lincoln Steffcns quotes
a remark by a business man which throws
light on one Important phase of municipal
rottenness. The late Christopher Magee
was the boss of Pittsburg. A business man
who Mr. Steffens thinks Is a typical Amer
ican merchant said to him: "When I called
on Chris his outer office was filled with
waiting politicians, but he knew I was a
business man and in a hurry; he called
me first and he gave me the street with
out any fuss. I tell you It was a sad day
for Pittsburg when Chris Magee died."
In other words, this "good citizen" and
reputable business man of Pittsburg was
Just as willing to rob the city when ha
had the chance as any corrupt politician
could be. His chief interest in the munici
pal government was for what he could
get out of it.
Has the Record an a Talker.
SDrlncfleld Republican.
Mr. Roosevelt as the head of a great
state, has so completely smashed all rec
ords, both domestic and foreign, In the
oratorical line that no ruler, ancient or
and perhaps fatal Injury of Marcel Re- modern, remains In the sine class with
American. Soldier's Proad Mother.
New York Press.
There Is a Mrs. Sweeney in New York
who Is the happiest mother Imaginable.
Her -son John has been selected as the
best typo of the American soldier. Ho en
listed In the war with Spain in 1S3S, and
at the close of the fearful conflict (!)
was honorably discharged. Shortly after
ward he re-enllsted and Is now a Sergeant
at Governor's Island. John Is 24 years of
age, 6 feet 2 Inches in height, weighs 1S5
pounds. He neither smokes, drinks nor
chews. You ought to see his exact coun
terpart In wax at the Eden Musec. The
figure Is Intended for the .Louisiana Pur
chase Exposition at St. Louis, where it
will be on exhibition.
and hired TGe Bums o money to sHJmce or an- nault the killing of two spectators and him. It Is a phase of his administration
nnrt vll- sorb Eastern salt concerns. Dut tne un- numerous min0r injuries 'to persons, entirely unanticipated and thererore douD
Fennypaclcer's Monumental Cbeelc
Baltimore News.
Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsylva
nia, has so far recognized the rights" of
newspapers to existence as to submit to
an Interview. "Pennsylvania," he says,
"Is a little better than any other state.
Public offices are managed here on a
broader and better basis, leading to high
er thoughts and better results." "On a
broader and better basis" Pennsylvania,
which contains Philadelphia and Pitts
burg "leading to higher thoughts and bet
ter results" thoughts of jobbery. Jobbery,
jobbery, results of franchise thefts and
ballot-box frauds on a scale never paral
leled by any other state of the Union.
There is no classifying, no understanding
a man who can say a thing like that
Yet Pennypacker repeated it over and
over.
continually bewail. The British gold-
standard conspiracy was a pitiful farce
to construct about the real offenses of
our money kings and trust promoters.
We must put Dr. Andrews a place
above Bryan, who asks us to believe
that he can never err. The chancellor
says he was misled, which Is more than
Mr. Bryan will ever say. It falls far
short however, of the manly confession
o ferror made, for example, by John
G. Carlisle, who was. like Bryan, In
politics, and had the excuse of party
exigency which Andrews did not nave.
It Is sad to think that we owe so much
of "blmetalism" to British geology, in
addition to our heavy debt to Lombard
street on the gold standard.
"SUCH A MAXr
This community is again confronted
by a most shocking crime a crime
boldly committed In the bright sunlight
of a Sunday morning, following delib
erately threats that had been made.
and adding a feature that was at once
unique and diabolical in the compul
sion of the only witness of the crime to
abandon her babes to the care of a
neighbor, with a He upon her Hps, and
go with the murderer of her father. If
this creature Leasla Is not mad, he Is
clearly a vers devil Incarnate, for
whose crimes against the weak and
natural heights to which the trust
forced prices attracted English and
German salt in large quantities. Sev
eral thousand tons of this" foreign salt
was brought to Portland, and to pre
vent a demoralization of prices the
trust bought It up at an enormous ad
vance over the price paid by the or
iginal Importers. In this way a large
proportion of the prpfltswere consumed
In keeping down competition, ana asi
quantities in excess of the demand were
piled up at all of the Coast ports, it
was this flagrant and open exhibition
of unnatural trade conditions which
made the salt trust an easy prey for the
Sherman anti-trust law. The supply
was so much in excess of the demand
after the price had reached a certain
height that no legitimate manipulation
of the market could maintain prices,
and an illegitimate attempt was fol
lowed by disaster.
several vehicles gone to smash and
others practically ruined. Barring these
trifling accidents, or incidents, the race
was a "grand success," demonstrating
the superiority of a light over a heavy
vehicle, or vice versa the discerning
public Is thus far unable to tell which.
President Roosevelt understands per
fectly well how advantageous to him
self Is every move on the political
chessboard which brings the manipula
tions of his antagonists out Into the
open, iience ne taises occasion io no
tice the Ohio controversy whose details
have been brought to the Pacific Coast
by The Oregonlan. The only hope of
antl-Roosevelt success, slim enough at
the best. Is in keeping under cover.
One of the expedients is the old dodge
of scaring up favorite sons in various
states, so as to
ly interesting. He Is mcontestiDiy tne one
man In the line from Washington to him
self who can claim the title oi tne taiK-
Ing President"
The Candidate for 1004.
Atlanta Journal.
The Democratic candidate for 1904 must
command the confidence of the sober bus
iness men of the country as well as the
wage-earners. He must be a champion
of tho people without pandering to thetr
Press MuKlInsr Will Xot Succeed.
Troy Times.
t. t ...it oafo n nv thnt the nre;s
muzzling law In Pennsylvania will not ac- lag to curb its arrogance.
nmniiah its nurnose. In the first place, I , '
the nro does not need muzzuns. in me f11"""1 .
third place the people win not siana iu i .uetroit J?ree ress.
And this Is America, wnere tne peopie i it is not possible that there were any
rule, not a monarchy. In whicn tne go - Union veterans among .the citizens of Col
ernment Is lodged In the hands of a royal umbus, O., who protested against honor-
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
"Helen is very clever; Isn't she?" "Do you
want my opinion or Helen's?" Harper's Ba
zar.
Holll Is
hft easily rattled? Hall Don't
despot
The Tariff Responsible,
Philadelphia Record.
It Is the tariff which allows the trusts to
make these high prices for their products.
Had there been no such overcapitalized
combinations the competition between the
aennrate establishments would give to the
oriTe snn5 in various i J . . ... . , i
, - - , rt'Z people the benent oi prices resumieu
keep the delegations i-.:-,, of production and would mike the
lng the Confederate dead that are buried
In the Camp Chase cemetery, The men
that did the fighting In the Civil War
don't act that way about those things.
mand which wrought havoc with the
salt trust's plans will serve the wheat
trust, or "Society of Equity," in the
same manner. No local or even Na
tional conditions can force wheat above
a figure warranted by world-wide con
ditions. We had dollar wheat five years
ago without the aid of a "Society of
Equity," we may have it again this
year with the aid of the society, but
in order to have any assurance of main
tainlng the price year after year the
wretched woman who was his wife and J new society must embrace In Its mem-
S.MI.I.p-a. S and cra en-
trame that Hanna Is
spoiled by Indorsements at this year's
conventions. .
One of the fruits of the error made at
Chicago in 189 G Is to close the door now
against the Democratic party in Its am-
during.
Wall of the Fat Hunter.
Chlcaco News.
t TTvrplf -want a modest little flat
Mvurff. mv husband and our children "three
Eight rooms cr seven; we migm ao tv.ih
We would be cram pea. dui we expect io k.
the frail mother of his two babes there
Is no adequate penalty outside of the
torments of the orthodox hell. And
when to this Is added the cowardly
murder of his victim's father, whose
offense was one of nature and of grace.
the act of Interposing to prevent a con
tinuation of these cruelties by receiving
his daughter and her Infants into his
home, imagination, appalled before, is
overwhelmed In the effort to conceive
of a punishment to fit the crime.
Against the thought often flippantly
bershlp wheatgrowers in other parts of
the world. As the agriculturists In
these outside precincts annually pro
duce something like 2,000,000.000 bushels
more wheat than Is grown In the United
States, and consume a much smaller
proportion of their product than Is the
case with Americans, the possibilities
for expansion on these lines are far
greater than the probabilities.
bltlon to gain the support of the busl- The bathtub lined, of coarse, with porcelain
nn world axralnst Rooseveltlsm. But
for that supreme act of folly the coun
try's wealth might welcome the Cleve
land Democracy as the alternative of
anti-trust warfare under Roosevelt
But that act stands and its bearing Is
conclusive. And the punishment fits
the crime.
follies, and he must be ready to protect know. 'I've never been able to shake him.
the property of the country without fall- Harvard Lampoon.
"Ts gentlemen, all l am m me wunu
owe to mr wife." "If that's all you ow
you're mighty lucky. - Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"What's the latest thing out in shoes?"
asked one woman of another at the club. "My
husband." was the prompt reply."-ChlcaBa
Record-Herald.
Blczs Your friend Dobba seems to be a
very well-educated man. Boggs I should iay
he Is. He knows so much that he doesn't be
lieve anything. Judge.
"Sure. Murphy was wrong, an heknowed
he was wrong, an' he owned up lolke a little
man." "Did he. now?" "Yls; he licked tlws
other mon fir-rstt" Puck.
Kev X. Horter Shame on you! You're
drunk half the time. Why don't you do bet
ter? Lurhman Can't aflord It. It coats money
to be drunk all the time. Philadelphia Press.
"If Jack Xospud should ask you to marry
him" simpered -Slaudle. calling up a blush,
"what should you dor' "What I have always
done." said Mabel. "Send him to you." Chi
cago Tribune.
Miss Passay (coyly)-And Just think! Last
evening he suddenly caught me a u
and" klsed me. Mls Pepprey-H a ways wia
The President was Justly Incensed
that prying eyes had scrutinized his
John D. Long is quoted as saying that
Mr. Olney would make a better run for
President next year on the Democratic
ticket than Mr. Cleveland, for two rea
sons first he actively supported the
Democratic ticket in 1900r while Mr.
Cleveland refused to do so; second, he
would have no third-term tradition to
smash.
A back porch ample and a kitchen light.
But though I've tramped tho town through
run and rain.
I cannot find a place that seems Just right.
Pve searched the south. Ive hunted north and
west.
Tve scanned the papers till my eyes are dim;
I've mounted stairs until I ache for rest-
But rtlll the chance appears exceeding sum.
Tm not particular, though you may doubt
The fact, for flats are many, nut I r.na
Though, as Tve sa!d I looked the town about.
Txere's not a single one thats to my mina.
I'm willing to pay any kind of rent
In reason, but It seems rm doomed to roam
Forever through the streets. My time Is spent
Exclusively in searching for a. home.
And now It soon will be the Jat of May
A thought that's calculated to appall.
W ranet move somewhere certalnlr oh, say!
Why will they bulla the closets tu so cmaui
Concerning Humility.
' Newark News.
Low In a town yard, grassy paved.
A humble dandelion grew.
Above her head proud lilacs waved.
Proud In their plumes of blue.
The dandelion's beamliur face
Was upward turned, yet all In vain.
The lilacs contemplated space
In haughty, cold disdain.
"Ah well!" the dandelion sighed.
"Far rather would I lowly be
Than flaunt my blossoms high and wide
For all the world to see."
And did a gentle little child
Ignore the lilacs' higher claim
And pluck the dandelion mild?
No, reader; not the same. r
JTor did a wicked youngster teatj
The lilac bushes with his knife
And leave the dandelion there
To lead the quiet life.
Humble the dandelion lay.
Veiling her face In verdant screens,
Untlt a man came by that way v
And dug her up forgreens.
In ostentatious vanity
The lilacs evermore aspirea.
Therein ther showed their sanity
And got themselves admired.
All this, dear reader, goes to show
That men don't gain thro' belay swabs.
We mustn't hold, ourselves too low
It we would bold our jfcbs.
good-natured fellow-and so unselfish-
adelphla Press.
"Wonder why Van Majcw la always referring:
to his 'velvet lawn'?" "He's got a right to.
He told roe that with the grass seed be has
sown and the new iod he's bought It baa cost
him Jrst 14.75 a yard."-Clnclnnatl Commer
cial Tribune.
The Pastor-Surely. you do not. mean to say.
Mrs. Hlshmore. that the bad people to tho
community outnumber the good people In the
ratio of two to one? Parlshloner-Certalnly.
doctor. Aren't one's next door nelghborson
both sides of one always obectlonabIe?-Cbl-
cago Tribune. .
' "Yes Brown Joined one of those co-operative
communities where all work for the common
good at that particular task for- which he
best fitted, and they made him Mayor." Was
that because he wa best fitted for that Job.
"Not exactly. It was because he wasn t good
toe anything el6e."ChlcaSo Evening Post.