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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27.
TOO MUCH FRANKLIN. .
The hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Proverbs x:4.
Seest thou a man diligent In business? He
shall stand before kings, he shall not stand
before mean men. Proverbs xxli:20.
It Is the perennial charm of the book
of Proverbs that It supplies in quaint
and concise form, endeared to the mem
ory o the English-speaking races for
300 years, a sententious- bit of philoso
phy for every situation of common life.
Thus, in spite of the texts we have
quoted, it says in Proverbs that wis
dom is the principal thing, bet&r than
rubles, and that the fear of the lord is
the beginning of knowledge and the in
struction of wisdom. Perhaps It would
be too much to say that the Hebrew
people have dwelt too much upon the
thrifty admonitions of Proverbs and
less than they should upon the more
spiritual counsels of David, of Job and
of the prophets; especially If we re
member the artificial pressure which
Europe has brought upon its Jews to
keep them from the learned professions
and drive them into trade; and yet
there are many Scripture texts which
indicate that avarice was a besetting
sin of the Hebrews from the earliest
times.
As to our modern proverb-maker,
however, there, need be no doubt what
ever. The principle upon which Frank
lin largely formed the American every
day philosophy Is faithfully expressed
in the proverbs at the head of this arti
cle. The central thought of Franklin's
teaching was worldly prudence. Al
ways taking out of the meal bag and
never putting In, soon comes to the
bottom. He who buys what he does not
need will need what he cannot buy.
It is hard for the empty bag to stand
upright. He that goes a-borrowing
goes a-sorrowing. Lying rides on
debt's back. They have a short Lent
who owe money at Easter. The hand
of the diligent maketh rich. Seest
thou a man diligent in business? He
shall stand before Kings, he shall not
stand before mean men.
But It is not the highest ambition in'
life to ,be rich; nor is the presence of
Kings the most desirable plate where
one may stand. And it is an impressive
commentary on Franklin's philosophy
that Philadelphia, where his statue is
prominent and where his influence most
abides, is today pronounced the most
corrupt city in the .world. It is rich
and respectable, wise and diligent; but
its officials collect $20,000,000 a year In
blackmail; Its annual election records
from 40.000 to 80.000 fraudulent votes;
Its franchises, worth millions, are un
blushlngly sold for a song to corrupt
bidders by corrupt officials ; Its princi
pal men are notoriously criminal in
their prostitution of office for private
gain, sometimes arrested and tried, but
never punished; its City Hall has al
ready absorbed 520,000,000 and continues
to be the repository of Jobs Innumer
able; It spends 51.000,000 biennially to
corrupt the Pennsylvania Legislature,
until' It has been estimated that the tax
payers have been robbed, within the
last few years, of -5100.000,000. It is not
strange that Albert Shaw avers that
"Philadelphia must stand as the colos
sal type of corrupt administration, not
only for the United States, but forvtbe
world," or that the ICorth American
pronounces it "the most plundered mu
nicipal corporation on earth," or that
Gustavus Myers, writing In the current
National Review, calls It "the most cor
rupt city in the world" a conclusion
he emphasizes by reminding us of the
occasional periods of virtue that mark
New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Minne
apolis and other ring-ruled cities, but
to which Philadelphia is and always
has been a stranger.
The American people need, perhaps,
to be rich; but far more they need the
virtues and graces of the spirit; the
august rectitude of Washington; the
solemn humanity of Lincoln, the devo
tion to civic righteousness, in defiance
of wealth and of class hatred alike, that
is shown by Roosevelt. The merchant
princes of our proud career we do not 1
need to emulate so much as the fine
flower of spiritual strength and grace
exemplified by Emerson, Bryant, Long
fellow, "Whlttier, Lowell, Holmes. It Is
better for our youth to be fed upon
"Thanatopsls" and "Evangeline" and
"Snowbound" and "The Autocrat" than
to learn how to rise from b'rakeman to
the presidency of the road. It is bet
ter to do justice and love mercy, to be
faithful in friendship and kind to the
distressed, than to own a palace on
Fifth avenue and a seat at the Stock
Exchange. Franklin Is good to study
and to profit by. In many respects he
is our greatest American; but as a
guide he Is unsafe and as a former
of character he is one-sided, because to
him the spiritual life was a thing to be
tolerated ofilyfor Its contributory aid
to material success. If the American
people are Justly charged with too great
fondness for wealth and Its display, the
corrective Is to be found in the Ideals
held by our great poets, scholars and
teachers, who saw the transcendent
verities of the higher life.
Only the actions of the Junt
Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
THE MAN GIIURLVN PERIL.
It is certainly a dismal picture which
some of our agitated publicists drawbf
Manchuria under the fostering hand of
Russian development. Settlers are
pouring in there, large tracts of 'fertile
land are coming, under the plow, and
flour mills are springing up on every
hand. The result Is "looked upon with
foreboding, for will not the Russians
thus supply their own population there
with flour and shut off the American
supply?
One hardly knows whether to indulge
the more terror at this dread outlook
or at the equally ominous spectacle In
volved in Russian supremacy of the
sort that stifles all development and
makes of the land a barren desert.
The main thing, evidently, is to view
with alarm, and it makes little differ
ence whether the cause of fear be a
good Russia or a bad Russia. In either
case we are to tremble with affright
and move to the aid of Japan.
The idea that a teeming and pros
perous population is a menace to its
producing neighbors is very old but
very persistent. The same spirit that
dreads Manchurian development now
was abrqad two hundred and fifty years
ago and vehemently opposed the colo
nization of the New World, on the
ground that its crops would drive Eu
ropean farmers to ruin. It was seen
again in this country when Eastern
farmers and statesmen opposed West
ern development. Europe has subsisted
and grown rich off the New World, Just
as the .East has subsisted and grown
rich off the West.
So it will be with Asia, once West
ern enterprise makes the most of its
latent resources. It used to be the fond
belief of Europe that it could raise its
bread, but that day is forgotten. And
even in the United States the percent
age of exportable wheat surplus to the
total crop Is growing continuously
smaller and smaller. The trade now
looks forward with certainty to the
time before many years when the
United States will consume all its own
wheat and import to supply a deficit.
What wc need in Asia, what all the
world needs in Asia, Is a great and
prosperous population buying of us
freely and selling to us freely. The
idea that we should be happiest and
best if all our neighbors could be re
duced to a howling wilderness Is un
worthy of intelligent men. There Is no
menace to the United States in the de
velopment of backward regions. There
is only the certainty of better things
for us.
IMMENSE SHIPPING OUTPUT.
In view of the fact that the year
1903 was one of the most disastrous that
shipowners have ever experienced, it is
somewhat surprising to learn by the
official returns that the amount of ton
nage put afloat lost year was practi
cally the same as In 1902. The annual
review of the Glasgow Herald, which Is
accepted the world over as strictly au
thentic, shows the number of vessels
launched In all countries last year to
be 2441, compared with 2393 In 1902.
This slight Increase In the number was
more than offset by a decrease in ton
nage, for the craft launched In 1903 ag
gregated 2,679,531 tons, compared with
2,715.670 tons in 1902. The United King
dom continues to lead the world In ship
building, more than half of all the ton
nage put afloat being constructed at
the yards of England, Scotland or Ire
land. The ascendency of the steamer
and the increasing tendency toward
higher speed, even in the tramp steam
ers, is reflected In an increase in the
horsepower of the vessels launched.
With a decrease of 38,139 In the ton
nage, the indicated horsepower of the
vessels launched last year was 335,231
greater than that of the fleet of 1902.
Perhaps the most wonderful feature
In connection with these statistics Is
the showing made by a single Scottish
yard, which last year launched eight
vessels aggregating 110,463 tons. In
cluded In this fleet was the monster
Baltic, the largest vessel afloat, with a
tonnage of 23,673. Next in size to the
Baltic last year were the Minnesota and
Dakota, of 21,000 tons each, which. J. J.
Hill is building at New London, Conn.
Following these In size come a couple
yet unnamed of 16,780 tons, at the yards
of Harland & Wolff, and the smallest
of the six big vessels of the year, the
Republic, registers 15,378 tons.
The addition of this enbrmous amount
of tonnage to the available supply for
moving the world's commerce will un
doubtedly prevent a very marked ad
vance In freights for at least another
year, and perhaps longer. When it Is
considered that the greatest decline
ever experienced In ocean freights came
at a time when there was world-wide
prosperity In nearly all lines of indus
trial activity, it can be understood to
what an extent the business of ship
owning has been overdone. Had the
world's shipyards last year shown a
marked decrease In their output, the
natural increase In trade on shore
would have been sufficient to afford re
munerative employment for all the ves
sels which would now be available. As
it Is, these new modern-built craft,
constructed with a view to very eco
nomical operation, will have the prefer
ence at the low rates obtainable, while
the more ancient and more expensively
operated carriers will hang like a dead
weight over the market, ready to fall
in at the first advance that will enable
them to make operating expenses.
With all of the tonnage now available,
however, it Is a certainty that rates
have reached the bottom, and any
change must necessarily be for the bet
ter from a shlpownlng standpoint. The
past year has witnessed the retirement
of large numbers of vessels which were
unable to make expenses. These ves
sels will not come back Into the mar
ket until there is an improvement that
will enable them to make expenses.
Then, with the memory of a long
period of stagnation and low rates,
shipowners will be slow In placing or
ders to replace their fleets and meet a
trade that is ever growing but at a rate
that makes it Impossible accurately to
gauge Its requirements until they must
be met. The pendulum always swings
& little too far. no matter which direc
tion it moves. It swung too high in
1901, when Portland exporters were
forced to pay 52s 6d for grain ships to
Europe. It swung too low last year,
when the shipowner was forced to carry
grain from Portland to Europe for 15s
6d. A happy medium would be more
satisfactory for both freight producers
and freight-carriers, buf a system for
preserving this medium, has never been
perfected.
BIRTHDAY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
President Roosevelt has been invited
to visit Jackson, Mich., on July 6, the
date of the semi-centennial anniversary
of the Republican convention, which at
Jackson fifty years ago nominated the
first state election ticket known trader
the name of Republican. The question
about the first state convention of the
Republican party has been recently
raised In the New York Tribune by
William Barnes, of Albany, who holds
it happened at Saratoga, N. Y., on Au
gust 16, 1854. But Francis Curtis, of
Springfield, Mass., writes the Springfield
Republican that the primacy belongs to
the state convention held at Jackson,
Mich., July 6, 1854, when the platform
adopted had this plank:
Resolved, That in view of the necessity of
battling for the first principles of republican
government and against the schemes of an
aristocrary the most revolUng and oppressive
with which the earth was cursed or man de
based, we will co-operate and be known as
Republicans until the contest be terminated.
This antedates the Saratoga conven
tion by several weeks, and the latter
did not contain the word "republican"
in Its platform, and Myron H. Clark, Its
successful nominee for Governor, was
not known as a Republican In 1854.
The New York Evening Post points out
that while Michigan was first with her
mass state convention, Wisconsin was
the first to suggest the name. What
was to be the first Republican conven
tion of Wisconsin was planned to as
semble in June, 1S54, but it was deferred
until July 13, the anniversary of the
ordinance of 1787, which dedicated the
Northwest Territory to freedom. So
Michigan was first with her mass state
convention, but the Wisconsin Idea of
the name was obtained from a letter
written by Horace Greeley in which he
said that he had been advised that
Wisconsin would adopt the name "Re
publican" on July '13, and suggesting
that Michigan anticipate her sister
state on the 6th. The name was first
suggested to Greeley by Alvan E. Bo
vay, of RIpon, Wis., as early as 1852,
when he predicted the overwhelming
defeat of General Scott and the dis
appearance of the Whig party to make
room for a new party, which would
rally the scattered anti-slavery ele
ments. In February, 1854, a meeting was held
at Ripon, Wis., to consider the organ
ization of the new party, and another
in March. Early In June the news of
the Kansas-Nebraska bill reached Ri
pon and Bovay wrote Greeley again,
urging' him to call It "Republican,"
and on June 24, 1854, appeared Greeley's
indorsement of the new name. In our
judgment the Republican party sprang
full armed Into formidable political life
because Stephen A. Douglas proposed
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
of 1820 in his Kansas-Nebraska bill.
Abraham Lincoln said: "I was losing
interest In politics when the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise aroused me
again." Lincoln was a natural leader
of the conservative anti-slavery masses
of the North, and as it took the Kansas
and Nebraska bill to arouse him out
of a state of political apathy, It is safe
to say" that from Douglas dates the
birth of the Republican party of 1854.
Without such a radical measure as the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise of
1820 It is not likely any new party
would have arisen. The old Whig
party could .have enlarged its girdle
and in time have become the conserva
tive anti-slavery party. When Lincoln
In 1855 was asked where he stood, he
answered that when he was aRepre
sentative In Congress he voted for the
Wilmot proviso forty times, and that
"I now do no more than oppose the
extension of slavery."
The Wilmot proviso was Introduced
In Congress by David Wilmot, of Penn
sylvania, August 8, 1846, as an amend
ment to the so-called "two million bilL"
It declared It "to be an express, and
fundamental condition to the acquisi
tion of any territory from Mexico that
neither slavery nor Involuntary servi
tude should exist therein." Besides
Lincoln, such conservative Whigs as
Webster and Robert C. Wlnthrop voted
for It, and such Democrats as Hannibal
Hamlin, of Maine, and A. G. Thurman,
of Ohio. The desire to resist the fur
ther extension of slavery as a great
social and economic danger . was
strongly felt by both Whigs and Demo
crats as early as 1846. Webster and
Clay, both anti-slavery men, framed
the compromise measure of 1850, and
went to their graves in 1852 fondly
trusting that the evil day of civil war
and disunion had been put off for at
least another generation. Had Doug
las stayed his vandal hand, it is quite
possible that the day of civil war and
disunion would have been delayed for a
good many years. So from this point
of view Stephen A. Douglas forced the
Republican party Into organization and
agitation and was the real precipitator
of the Civil War, which Henry Clay's
compromise measure of 1850 might have
averted or at least postponed for many
j-ears. Of their own motion the South
ern men had never dreamed of de
manding the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise.
The Republican party took its plat
form from the old "Liberty party" of
1840-44, which under the lead of James
G. Blrney was not an abolition party,
but a party opposing by constitutional
resistance the further extension of
slave territory. Douglas forced Into
life and labor the great party which
made his election as President Impossi
ble and that of his great rival, Lincoln,
sure. It was the iconoclastic hand of
Douglas that drew Lincoln out of his
political retirement. The new party
gathered its" recruits from the Seward
Whigs, from the Hannibal Hamlin
Democrats, from the Salmon P. Chase
Free Soilers. It was defeated in the
National election In 1856, but it was
strong enough to elect Lincoln Presi
dent in 1S60; yet It is quite possible, had
it not been for the Civil War, that the
Republican party would have been de
feated by the Democracy in 1S64. The
moment civil war began the Republican
party was sure to be sustained by every
loyal Whig or loyal Democrat until its
close, and long after Its close the Re
publican party lived on its "war" cap
ital and the Democratic disposition to
play with fireworks, finance and cheap
money, with repudiation and illimitable
greenbacks for twenty years after the
restoration of the Union. The capacity
of the Democratic party Invariably to
do the wrong thing at Just the right
time has helped the Republican party
to maintain a vigorous life, despite Its
many serious mistakes in policy and
action,
The objections of parents to the mar
riage of a willful daughter to a pre
sumably unworthy man, when pushed
to extremes, can only result in parental
discomfiture and humiliation. The
young man who has a loyal ally in a
love-stricken daughter has his case al
ready won against the practical father
and apprehensive mother of the damsel
who with mature vision see only dis
aster or passive unhappiness for her in
an unsuitable marriage. W. J. Bryan
showed a knowledge of human nature
which was creditable to him when he
withdrew active opposition (which no
doubt was well based) to the marriage
of his daughter last Fall, so far as to
Insist that the marriage take place at
her home. Frank T. Wall, the wealthy
rope manufacturer of New York, was
less politic or prudent In his opposition
to the late marriage of his daughter
to Jules B. Neilson, and made himself
ridiculous before the country in trying
to retain his daughter In his home after
she was the wife of Neilson. These
wayward marriages sometimes turn out
happily, that of General Fremont and
Jessie Benton being an example In this
line, but usually, or at least very often,
they result In the return in a few years
of a penitent young woman to her
father's house after a suit for divorce
has been filed against her husband for
abuse of some kind, or for general
worthlessness Incompatible with the so
lution of the bread-and-butter problem
for two or more persons. Disappointed
parents, whose advice in such matters
Is Ignored by willful daughters, make
the best of a very trying situation by
allowing them to marry at home and
depart In peace. The wound will ran
kle, but It will not be subject to cruel
thrusts of alleged wit or open taunt
from the outside world.
Barbers may "barb" hereafter in this
state without let or hindrance. That
is to say, they may open up shops
whenever and wherever they see fit,
choose their own hours and fix then
own prices, without regard to the dic
tates of the State Board of Barber Ex
aminers. Is a profession to be thus lev
eled to the grade of a business, and are
those who choose to engage In it to be
permitted to manage it? Are energetic
ypuths who aspire to be tonsorial
artists to be allowed to Vlearn the busi
ness" as quickly as they can, and to
put the knowledge that they acquire in
three months to practical use, instead
of waiting three years, more or less,
before they can legally "open shop"?
The answer to these questions and oth
ers that might be asked along the same
line depends upon the Indorsement of
the Supreme Court, or the refusal of
that body to Indorse, the opinion of
Judge George In the case of the State of
Oregon against H. L. Briggs. This Is
the man who defied the authority of the
Board of Barber Examiners and opened
a barbers' school, the motto of which
was "Barbering quickly learned," or
words to that effect. The Board Is as
yet undecided whether to make fur
ther effort to clip the wings of Its op
ponent's ambition or to let a useful and
honorable profession go to the bow
wows. The School Board shows commendable
dispatch in beginning-preparations for
the new schoolhouses that 'it has been
authorized by the taxpayers of the dis
trict to build this season. A" modern
schoolhouse cannot be constructed in a
few weeks, and to delay all preparation
for building until the beginning of the
Summer vacation, well on toward July
1, as has been the custom in years past.
Is to have the new building in a state
of unreadiness in September, which
hampers the work of the schools in that
part of the district for weeks or months
as the case may be. Not only is this
Inconvenience and handicap suffered by
pupils and teachers, but valuable time is
lost In the Spring, when worklngmen
included in the name of "housesmlths"
are eager to begin work and the build
ing industry Is less likely to be ham
pered and delayed by strikes than Is the
case later In the season. Delay In this
matter has been a source of surprise
and even of Indignation In times past,
and, as before said, the promptness
with which the board has taken up the
building authorized for the present sea
son Is gratifying. Having criticised
freely the dllatorlness of the board In
former years, it is but just to note and
commend Its present promptness In
grappling the building question for the
district
The pirates who roamed the Spanish
Main In the old days and who now re
appear on the comic opera stage were a
bold, bad lot, and have always been
supposed to be about the worst ever.
Cyrus Townsend Brady and other
chroniclers of pirate deeds have not
lessened the reputation for nerve and
daring that some of the old-timers of
the Sir Henry Morgan type enjoyed,
but for the real thing In pirating up to
date the Chinese are entitled to the
medal. Advices from the Orient by the
steamer Korea report the capture of a
Chinese warship by the pirates whom
the vessel had been sent to capture.
The merry men of the sea, after captur
ing the vessel, looted, her of all valu
ables, and then, tying the crew hand,
foot and pigtail, ran the craft ashore
and escaped to the woods. The soul of
Captain Kldd must have been marching
on, and In the course of Its rambles
stopped to turn a trick in the Canton
River.
"War Is certain," says the master of
a steamship which arrived at Tacoma
yesterday. "It does not look so much
like war," said the master of a steamer
arriving at Portland the day previous.
Both" steamers left the Orient at the
same time, and both masters had equal
facilities for securing the latest news
up to the time of sailing. With such
testimony from men who are direct
from the scene of the prospective hos
tilities, It Is not to be wondered at that
some of the high-priced news that is
received by cable is of a decidedly con
flicting nature. There may be war in
the Orient, but there is such a large
and varied assortment of "ifs" to be
considered that it is not surprising If
steamship captains .as well as corre
spondents hold widely divergent views
as to the present status of the case.
The bears made another raid on Mr.
Armour's 90-cent wheat yesterday, and
in the first flush of their success they
crowded the price down nearly 3 cents
per bushel. The Armour sack is a deep
one, however, and vsupport" of the
kind- that moves worlds was soon forth
coming and pushed the price back well
up toward the point from which it
started. Meanwhile the long line of
wheat Is not becoming very much
shorter by the forcing of the new wheat
king's hand every time he attempts to
unload a few million bushels.
Harper's Bazar is authority for the
statement that "hand-painted stockings
are now worn by the best-dressed
women." "Truly feminine vanity has a
tendency to go to extremes In personal
decoration. It is well known that
hand-painted faces have long been in
vogue.
V BRYAN AS A BOLTER.
Chicago Chronicle, Denx.
From the Populistic faction of the so
called Democratic party comes the re
Iterated assertion that no man shall be
nominated at St. Louis who was a bolter
In 1S9S or 1900.
This Is supposed ,to be sweeping enough
to exclude as candidates most of the
conspicuous Democrats from Mr. Cleve
land down who did not hall with joy the
programme of repudiation and revolution
set forth at the Coliseum in Chicago in
the year first mentioned.
Yet the convention of 1S36 nominated a
bolter In the person of Mr. Bryan; he was
renominated four years later at Kansas
City, and, if words and actions mean any
thing, he is a bolter even now.
Mr. Bryan and his Populists in Ne
braska: bolted Mr. Cleveland in 1S9 and
Mr. Bryan came to Chicago four years
later as a member of a bolting delegation.
It is true that he and they have since
then set up the claim that they voted for
Weaver, the Populist, in 1892, In order to
deprive Harrison of the electoral vote of
Nebraska, but it will require only a glance
at the returns from that state in that
year to show the fallacy of this assertion:
Harrison ...... 87,227
Weaver . 83,134
Cleveland 24.943
If Mr. Bryan and the other Populists
who admit that they voted for Weaver
had been particularly In earnest in their
professed desire to deprive Mr. Harrison
of the electoral vote of Nebraska they
could have done it easily by voting for
Grover Cleveland.
The fact is, of course, that Mr. Bryan
was not then and Is not now a Democrat.
He would bolt Mr. Cleveland today Just
as he bolted him in 1S92 In favor of
Weaver, and the probability is that he
and his Populistic following will bolt any
nomination made by St. Louis that Is not
strictly Populistic
Wise politicians will see in this situa
tion the futility of attempting to recon
cile tho irreconcilable.
The political parties going in opposite
directions cannot be successfully fused.
A real Democrat may be nominated with
the certainty of losing the Populists. A
Populist may be nominated with the cer
tainty of losing millions. of Democrats. A
straddling, meaningless nomination will
suit nobody.
So far as bolters are concerned, how
ever, Mr. Bryan should bo the last man
on earth to complain about nominating
one ot them. All that he is or has been In
politics may be attributed to bolting.
If he had remained a Democrat he
would have fared no better in the folly
and madness of 1S2S than any other Dem
ocrat did.
Mr, Beverldge Has Ability.
Chicago Tribune.
To those people who yet regard him'
askance, as insufficiently mature, we re
spectfully commend a perusal of Mr. Bev
eridge's book on "The Russian Advance."
This book Is a masterpiece of observa
tion, comprehension and divination of
ultra-Oriental conditions. It does not
treat merely of Russian advance, but also
of the whole Far Eastern question. This
subject has been treated by many writ
ers, prominent among whom are Henry
Xorman, British M. P.; Lord Beresford,
British Admiral; Lord Curzon, Viceroy of
India, but In our estimation no other cog
nate book remotely approaches In interest
or value "The Russian Advance." The
Englishmen have emphasized the politics
of the situation, and have treated even
the politics generally. They have swung
mouth-filling phrases about, but they
haven't written as If they had been as
Indeed they were on the spot. Beverldge
goes Into the minutiae of the matter. He
tells of the trade conditions, the hours of
work, the way to catch the Chinese buyer,
the standard of living In Siberian cities,
how the coolies working on the Russian
railroads feel, why, America lags behind
in China. After reading the .book one feels
that the author knows his subject and
knows It well.
Practical men like practical men to man
age their affairs. In the Senate the lead
ers, for the most part, are not men of
great talent. They are shrewd, sagacious,
common-sense men. There are a few Sen
ators, however, who are endowed with at
least a spark of the divine fire. One of
them is John C. Spooner, of Wlsconsinr
and the other is Albert J. Beverldge, of
Indiana.
Irritating the Raw Spots.
Springfield, Mass., Republican.
Mr. Roosevelt gets Into a fever over
Senator Hanna and what he may do. His
undue anxiety is communicated to others.
Then things are said that were better,
from every party point of view, left un
said. Mr. Hanna's friends retort in kind
or take the initiative toward more mu
tuality or irritation. The fever of specula
tion as to all sorts of possibilities of ac
tion on Mr. Hanna's part grows and
spreads. Irritant factors are ever present.
Raw spots are kept inflamed. It all tends
to cloud the Republican situation. If any
thing could make Mr. Hanna contest the
party nomination with tho President the
tactics employed are calculated to. He is
Indignant with the overzcalous friends of
the Administration. These would not
annoy so aggressively If Mr. Roosevelt
were less eagerly anxious over his nomi
nation. It is the strenuous temper set
ramifying in everwldenlng circles that
plays the mischief with the peace of mind
that ought to prevail. Here Is the secret
and the source of the trouble.
A Republican Blast.
New York Press.
Senator Hanna could not be President
If he were In fact able to defeat the
nomination of President Roosevelt- No se
lection of the Hanna bureau could be. The
voting Republicans and tho voting Amer
ican people wbuld not touch a Hanna
bureau ballot with a ten-foot pole. Not
Senator Hanna, nor any man for whom
Senator Hanna, by the grace of the trust
power, would sanction or indorse. The
voting members of the Republican party
want the nomination of President Roose
velt and they will accept no other candi
date in his place. All that Senator Hanna
can do, therefore, and all that the agents
of his $10,000,000 bureau can do with a con
tinuation of their efforts to drum up
booms against President Roosevelt is to
work harm to the Republican party by
embarrassing, baiting and reading the only
genuine Republican movement in the
United States the movement of the
party's millions on millions of voters to
nominate Mr. Roosevelt as their candidate
for President!
Tales From Home.
New York Sun.
Ulysses was off for the wars.
"I do hope," murmured Penelope, "he
won't get mixed up irr that Japanese-Russian
affair; he doesn't speak anything
but blank verse Greek."
Anxiously unraveling- the shroud, she'
awaited the extras..
Achilles was bemoaning his vulnerable
heeL
"It's the only part of you tha steps
on a tack In the dark," -he explained be
tween yells.
Tenderly extracting the Instrument, he
hopped back to bedon the other foot.
The Services of the Fathers.
New York Sun
Benjamin Franklin had 'just driven his
bargain with France.
"tinerel" he exclaimed proudly: "I think
they ought to put my face on the trading
stamps for that." .
Like all genlusest however, he was un
appreciated, being relegated to the 1-cent
rural local drop-letter.
Thomas Jefferson was advocating the
use of decimal currency.
"Just think." be exclaimed, "how mucb
easier it will be to borrow J 10 than 2, 1
shilling; 1 penny!'"
With a joyous whoop. Congress surren
dered to the argument.
A NEBRASKA FOLK TALE.
New York Sun.
An Energetic Young Goat was interested
in the problems of -Impact, Resistance and
Rebound. Planting himself firmly In front
of a Stone Wall he bleated cheerily: "I
will butt that Wall down.
At the end of that butting the Wall was
standing; but the Butter had a Sore Head.
The Energetic Young Goat fed on Sil
verberry for four years. H& was still de
voted to the problems of Impact, Resist
ance and Rebound. "By the Horns of the
Silver Moon," he swore, "I will butt that
Stone Wall down." At the end of that
Butting the Wall was healthy and the
Butter had a Sore Head.
The Energetic Young Goat browsed
through Eleven Counties and had inter
views with BIgbugs and Blgtoadslnthe
puddle. He went back to his native Teth-erlng-place.
The neighbors said: "This
Goat has learned Sense by this time, we
doa't think."
One Morning Mr. Fox saw Mr. Goat
whetting his Horns and gnawing a File.
"Ah. still studying Impact, Mr. Goat?
rm a little surprised to find that you are
still resolved to be- a Wallflower. Tee,
hee!" For Mr. Fox was bilious and en
Joyed the misfortunes of his friends.
"Mr. Fox," said Mr. Goat sternly "You
are an Opportunist. I am a Ultlmatlst,
I may not butt down that Wall, but I de
serve to."
So Mr. Goat kept on chewing Silver
berry, gnawing Files and sharpening his
Horns. For he was a believer in the Ulti
mate and the Ultimatum:
Mr. Hanna's Candidate.
New York Times.
William. H. Taft, son of a Secretary of
War, and himself soon to be Secretary of
War, for threa years Judge of the Su
perior Court of Ohio, for eight years a
United States Judge in the Sixth Circuit,
and Civil Governor of the Philippine
Islands for more than two years just
past, would be beyond question the strong
est candidate the Republican party could
put in nomination for the Presidency.
Able, pure, a .man of energy, yet emi
nently level-headed. Governor Taft stands
very high Indeed in the opinion of the
American people. He would receive the
entire Republican vote. If the Democrats
make mistakes at St, Louis, he would get
many thousands of Democratic and inde
pendent votest
Senator Marcus A. Hanna would be a
weak candidate. Pretty much everything
for which the Republican party Is dis
trusted and attacked Is typified in the
person of this Ohio Senator. But while
he would be a poor candidate, he is one
of tho best living judges ot American
politics. Ambition may beset and beseech
him, but to his clear and acute mind It
must long ago have become evident that
if Mr. Roosevelt is to bo sot aside. Sen
ator Hanna is not the man to take his
place at the head of the Republican col
umn. The prediction may be ventured that If
Mr. Hanna decides to break openly with
the President and to seek his defeat In
the nominating convention, the Hanna
candidate will prove to be Governor Taft,
He Is an Ohio man and he is a strong
man, two circumstances which are not
likely to have escaped the observation of
the Senator.
Sliakespeare Revised.
New York Evening Post.
Chorus of citizens (Heath, Tyner,
Drlggs, Beavers, Dietrich, et al.) The
foxy Hanna is ascended; silence!
Hanna Politicians, office-holders and
grafters! hear me for our cause, and be
wary, that we may win; believe for your
own good, and follow me, that we may
win; do not censure me In your wisdom,
but awake your senses that you may the
better dissemble. If there be In this as
sembly any dear friend of Roosevelt's, and
If that friend demand why Hanna rose
against Roosevelt, this is my answer; not
that I loved Roosevelt less, but that I
loved myself more. As Roosevelt loved
me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate,
I envied him; as he was valiant, I bowed
before him; but as he was devoted to
civil-service reform I undermined him.
Who is here so foolish that would be a
bondsman and give bonds? If any, speak;
for him I have no regard. Who Is here so
coy he would not be an office-holder? If
any. speak, for he belongs not In this
company. Who Is here so foolish that he
would make not money out of the Gov
ernment? If any, speak, for him have I
offended. I pause for a reply.
All None. Hanna, none.
Hanna Then none have I offended. I
have done no more to Roosevelt than you
will do to me Jf you have the opportunity.
Senator Hanna's Position.
Kansas City Star.
Whether Senator Hanna is the leader or
the instrument In the movement to dis
credit President Roosevelt among Repub
licans, it may be accepted that this move
ment would be most inconsequential if
Mr. Hanna would come out strongly
against It. Therefore, the most vital fac
tor In the political news of the day Is
speculation as to Senator Hanna's wishes
and purposes. The latest Intimation Is
that he will seek to prevent the nomina
tion of Roosevelt not by announcing him
self as a candidate, but by putting for
ward some other candidate. It is said in
Washington that Secretary Hay and Sec
retary Root have both been approached
and that both have declined to consider
the proposition to come out against the
President. It is also rumored that Mr.
Taft, tho new War Secretary. Is being
considered, but with little hope that he
would enter a campaign for the nomIna-j
uuii. xuiiuwiug uicac icpui u cum imuiiii-
tlons a belief has been expressed that
Senator Hanna really believes that Pres
ident Roosevelt cannot be elected,, and
that he would not be- opposed to him if
be had confidence in his running power.
Joints in Hanna's Armor.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Senator Hanna has never yet submitted
himself as a candidate for the direct votes
of tho people. He has won his successes
as the campaign manager for two friends,
one of the widest National popularity
and strength, the other of hardly less
standing in his state. But if after gaining
reputation by the victories of McKlnley
and Herrick he should be put up for the
suffrages of the people for the highest po
sition in the land, the fierce light that
beats upon a Presidential candidate would
begin to pry into his personal political
achievements. His acquisitions of South
ern delegates In 1896, over which charity
has heretofore cast a veil, would be
dragged Into publicity. The veracity of
his platform, "there are no trusts." would
be tested. The value of the proposition to
"stand pat," when neither trust promo
ters, stock fluctuations nor the wages of
labor will consent to stand pat, would be
questioned. His relations to the feast of
the spoils hunters carried on under the
protection of his Influence by his next
friends, Heath, Beavers. Rathbone et al.,
would furnish literature that would make
the Blaine campaign seem as mild as new
milk.
Alaska in Congress.
Minneapolis Journal.
Alaska has not yet had any authorized
representative at Washington. There have
been delegates self-appointed and bear
ing credentials from local organizations,
but their influence has been of little ad
vantage because they have often antag
onized each other and left members of
Congress In doubt as to what were the
real needs and interests of the district.
It Is high time that Alaska had an author
ized, "capable spokesman at Washington.
An incident in Syracuse.
New York Sun.
Archimedes- rushed out, yelling "Eu
reka!" The Indignant people rejoined: "You're
another!" and rushed him back to don
bis bathrobe.
X0TEAND COMMENT,
- i ' .
"Here goes nothing," said . a Seattle
bartender as he blew his brains out.
Did you ever buy any underwear that
fitted like tho suits In the ad pictures?
The Emperor of Corea must be a pro
tean personage, judging from his pic
tures in the newspapers.
If certain sulta are successful there will
be no quicker way of making money
than by losing it at faro.
Machen will appear to give his. side of
the Postoffico case. It will surprise most
people to learn that he has a side.
A man may be able to juggle knives
on the vaudeville stage and still trip
over his neighbor's feet in a street-car.
A Boston preachor returns his salary
to the church. As a mark of appreci
ation, the church might increase his sal
ary. If all the war correspondents that are
on their way to tho Orient were to or
ganize a corps, it would be strong enough
to hold the balance of power.
Anyone that has met a book agent will
sympathize with the Sultan ot Morocco,
who told a World's Fair agent to tako
550,000 and tell President Francis to stop
writing letters.
Panama starts off with very admirable
resolutions. Gambling is to bo prohib
ited in the republic, for Instance. The
authorities might as well prohibit the
tide from rising at Taboga Island.
Papers in Japan are discussing the ser
vant question, which seems to cause as
much talk In the Orient as it does in the
Occident. The merits ot Chinese and of
Japanese are being discussed in such a
voluble way that it Is evident we may
change the skies we live under and still
have the same subjects for gossip.
The stupidity of the British postofflce Is
a favorite theme for English writers, but
now and then some of the clerks show
flashes of intelligence. A letter was posted
at Canterbury this season addressed with
one word Dolg. This name was written
In a rectangle of which one side was
omitted. The letter was duly delivered
to the goalkeeper ot the Sunderland As
sociation Eleven. A letter with the name
Lajole written inside a diamond would
probably be delivered with equal celerity
in this country.
Empress Emily Brown, of Corea, Is a
myth. So says the Kobe Chronicle. And
this after many American and not a few
English papers had devoted columns of
space to her romantic story. The origin
ator of the story described the fair Emily
Brown as tho daughter of a missionary
from Wisconsin. The Emperor was smit
ten with her charms and offered her a job
as Empress-ln-Chlef at a salary of $10,000
a year. It Is too bad that such a pictur
esque figure should be of the stuff that
makes dreams.
When a school girl goes home, and
announces that she has to write an es
say on Sebastapol, there is a sensation,
says the Atchison Globe. Her brother
wants to know if It is a new game, and
her sister asks her if it is something to
eat. Her father has forgotten Sebasta
pol In the worry of earning- a living,
and Sebastapol has had the same fate
In her mother's mind in the duties that
attend the running of a home. The girl
cribs it out of a book, and the house Is
hushed while she does it Every member
of the family Is Impressed with the heavi
ness of the girl's brain, and Sebastapol
becomes .as familiar a topic at table as
If It were a cheese. In this way, educa
tion seeps out, and a family picks up
something.
Interviews are proverbially ticklish
things. A reporter named McBulloch, of
the Melbourne Age, obtained a good in
terview from Sir John Madden, Chief
Justice of the colony. Among other things,
Sir John was quoted as saying that all
Intelligent foreigners were struck by tho
vulgar and unintelligible chatter of Aus
tralian women and by their graceless car
riage. When this was published there was
naturally no end of a howl from the Vic
torians, and Sir John wrote to tho Age
repudiating the statement. The Age pub
lished his letter, adding In a footnote its
regret that the reporter had "misappre
hended" the Chief Justice, and McBulloch
was fired. He brought action against the
proprietors for wrongful dismissal and
for libel. He had In court a number
of newspaper men who swore that it was
a common practice among public men to
allege misreporting when they had cause
to be sorry they spoke. Although Sir John
stuck to his repudiation through a severe
cross-examination, McBulloch was award
ed a shilling for the libel and 7 for the
dismissal. WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
"Well, Johnnie, did you have a good time
at the children's party?" "You bet. I was
sick for nearly a week." Chicago Record
Herald. "Brer Williams don't need no coal in
Winter time." "How come?" "Wy, he all
time dreamln dat de devil got hlml"At
lanta Constitution.
He She doesn't like me. I attempted to
kiss her once. She How foolish of you!
Why didn't you attempt to kiss her twice?
Philadelphia Ledger.
Physician Don't be downcast; you're not
dead yet. Patient That's what bothers me.
If I were dead I shouldn't have to trouble
myself about your bill. Boston Transcript.
He So your husband has given up smok
ing? It requires a pretty strong will to
accomplish that! She Well, Td have you
understand that I have a strong will! New
Yorker.
"The Chinese have a custom of paying- all
their debts on the first," said the creditor.
Insinuatingly- "Yes," answered the debtor.
The Chinese are mighty hard to civilize."
Washington Star.
"Maud said something awfully clever
about that rich Chicago uncle of hers."
"What was It?" "She said he was born
with a silver pie-knife In his mouth."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Have you ever heard Paderewski?" in
quired the patron. "No," replied1 the musi
cal barber. "You don't suppose I'd patron
ize a man who wears his hair that way,
do you." Philadelphia Ledger.'
A contemporary, in speaking of a fire, says
"it ate its way up:" The case must be a
parallel one to that of the goat in the bag
gageroom that swallowed his destination
tap. Baltimore American.
She Woman's weapon Is the pin. It Is
mightier than the sword. He You are
right. The hatpin has become almost as
formidable in public as the rolllng-pln is in
the home. Kansas City Journal.
Tom But do you think you can support
a wife? Dick Of course. Why, I've been
engaged two years- Tom Well? Dick
Well, if I can buy flowers and candy for
a fiancee for two years and not go broke.
I can surely support a wife- Philadelphia
Press-
"There's one thing that I can say about
my- daughter." said Mr. Cumrox. "She has
a fine disposition." "Have you known her
to meet any severe tests?" "Yes. The way
she can sit and listen to herself playing
the piano shows that she must have extraor
dinary patience." Washington Star.