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THEORY AND PRACTICE.
The natural and legitimate functions
Of government are restricted to public
and universal objects. Among these
may be mentioned the preservation of
order, the dispensation of justice and
the protection of the land from foreign
invasion. This is the Democratic ideal
and it is a high ideal. Few sincere
eouls there are who have not at some
time or other longed for a regime of
simple Jeffersonian rule, for what would
te a restoration of simplicity and fru
gality, if we had ever had such a thing
before. Admirable as this theory is in
conception, it is Impossible in practice.
We have strayed so far from the nat
ural and legitimate functions of gov
ernment that we can never get back;
and It is equally certain that it Is bet
ter for us not to try to get back; for
the attendant losses and confusion
would be infinitely worse than to con
tinue as we are.
Certain farmers in the Upper Colum
bia Basin are dissatisfied with the expensive-carriage
rates on their crops to
tidewater. They would like the Gov
ernment to clear out the river chan
nels so that he can compete to better
advantage with the farmers in other
countries and in other parts of our own
country. This Is not in accordance
with Democratic theory; but it Is In
accordance with Democratic practice.
Internal Improvements are not only
Jeffersonian, but they were urged as
a policy by Samuel J. Tilden, and to
day In Congress the Democrats are
clamoring for more river and harbor
work, while the Republican leaders are
firmly holding down the appropriations
to the lowest possible mark.
This is only one illustration out of
many that might be named. It is no
natural and legitimate duty of Gov
ernment to help a manufacturer to the
home market, or to carry letters hither
and thither for correspondents, or to
gather information for jobbers as to
foreign markets, or to supply house
holders with pure drinking water, or
to Interfere on behalf of a shipper in
his tussle with a railroad company, or
to irrigate a man's arid land, or to find
out for a stockgrower how many sheep
there are in his state or the Nation, or
to protect a man from buying inferior
food, or to set up an electric light in
front of his house, or to get him some
rare field and garden seeds from Per
sia and Egypt, or to pay him a sub
sidy for carrying nfails, or to main
tain libraries, parks, museums and
botanical gardens for his edification and
enjoyment, or to educate his family, or to
provide credit currency for his conve
nience, or to keep him from destroying
the salmon industry by overfishing. Tet
Government does all of these things,
and nobody contemplates the abandon
ment of any appreciable portion of
them.
Further reflection may show us that
those who are inclined to be the most
strenuous in opposing Government in
terference for somebody's benefit are
apt to demand still further Government
interference to somebody's injury. Thus,
if it is Democratic to oppose appropria
tions for centennial expositions, it is
apparently also Democratic to appeal
to the Governmept to raise money by
taxation to interfere with the open op
eration of railroads. They who depre
cate the entrance of Government Into
educational work are often eager to see
the Government embark In the street
car or electric light business, at least
to the point of owning the franchise
on which these Industries proceed. It
is an open question whether we need
greater freedom for private business
under the law, or less; and it Is per
fectly certain that if we were to adopt
the attractive theories put forth by Mr.
C. E. S. "Wood at Baker City on Thurs
day there would be an end to the
socialistic proposals with which Demo
cratic activities are honeycombed to
day. The New York Democrats have
asked for the state ownership of coal
mines, and if it had not been for its
Democratic backing, the movement to
take taxes for the support of the Port
land Library could never have suc
ceeded. The most powerfully operating cause
of this increasing Governmental en
trance into undertakings for the indi
vidual or the section Is not the growth
of socialism, for the Impulse of Inde
pendent effort is still strong in the
American people; but It lies in" the read
iness with which Government can raise
the funds for such work, the advantage
of supreme authority in its prosecu
tion and the uniformity that only Gov
ernment can enforce. The stupendous
sums yielded by internal and customs
revenue are drawn from the .people
without creating any feeling of bur
densome taxation, whereas, for the
localities interested In Internal Improve
ments to provide the funds by subscrip
tion nr otherwise would be a task
almost if not quite Impossible. This is J
appeal successfully to the common
sense of the American people, who prac
tice, if they do not know Burke's phil
osophy, which teaches truly that there
are no fixed principles In government,
but that politics really consists in the
intelligent adaptation of means to ends.
Experience has put us In a frame of
mind where the theoretical correctness
of internal Improvements, Government
participation in world's fairs, etc., la
waived for the more practical questions
whether the money can bring results
justifying its use, and whether It Is or
has been honestly and prudently ex
pended. The day when any man's vis
ion of Spartan frugality can be accept
ed ad a working hypothesis of politics
has forever gone by in the United
States. "We must be satisfied to sur
round the paternalistic ventures of
Government with every possible safe
guard of caution and honesty.
TO SAVE THE YOUNG.
It would be. strange If the spectacle
of wayward boys "and girls, familiar in
Portland as In every city of its size,
and familiar, alas, in smaller cities and
even in rural settlements, should not
appeal with great force to such ear
nest bodies of men and women, as gath
ered In separate congregations to dis
cuss the subject in various Presbyte
rian churches of the city on Thursday
evening. It is often said that the isola
tion and narrowness of country life
seem to beget repulsive and dangerous
manifestations of wrongdoing in the
young more than the busier and gayer
life of the city; and yet It must be
owned that the facilities for certain
forms of evil are greater in the city.
"While country life affords its pecu
liar opportunities and temptations for
those who incline to badness, and while
crimes of young persons are frequently
reported from the country, In astonish
ing ratio to the sparseness of popula
tion, yet the outer snares for young
feet and the opportunity for indulgence
in grosser misconduct without detection
are obviously greater in town. Boys
can stray into haunts of vice when
abroad on the street, and girls can re
sort to secret rendezvous with much
greater security from parental knowl
edge. It is doubtful whether country
parents are more solicitous for their
children's safety than city parents, but
it is not doubtful that when they are
careless they are more apt to be taken
up with distractions from home in the
city than in the country. In such cases
the waywardly inclined child is not
likely to be kept from falling.
The city authorities can never do the
work which must be done at home, in
the way of training, counsel and early
discipline; but all that can .be done
should be done to prevent the active or
passive participation by the vicious
classes in the undoing of boys and girls.
Every saloon man detected in violat
ing the statutes made in protection of
minors should be relentlessly prosecut
ed. Policemen should notice and inter
fere with all suspicious conduct of boys
and girls on the street, and every of
fense of this sort should be promptly
and frankly reported to both authorities
and parents. It is a foolish policy that
thinks to spare a child's or a parent's
feelings by covering from the light a
boy's or girl's first escapade. ' Such
kindness is ultimate cruelty. "Vicious
tendencies in youth mucst be corrected
early or not at all. Prompt action may
save, but to dally Is to fall utterly.
We are prone to say that the churches
would work to better advantage to In
struct the young than to rail against
conditions; yet there may be some In
justice in this. The private duty does
not eliminate or fulfill the public duty.
And we may overestimate the respon
sibility of religious training; for infi
dels are known to bring up exemplary
children where the most devout some
times fall. Many an unhappy mother
realizes too late that her children have
gone astray while she has been busy
here and there with mothers meetings
and reform clubs. The attractiveness
of a loving home and the firmness of
parental counsel are obligations laid
upon unbeliever as well as believer.
The churches are not to be blamed for
all the wayward children.
And yet the fact remains that the
child's salvation must be won from
within out and not from without In.
All the laws and restrictions in the
world cannot make a good man or wom
an out of the Individual that is deter
mined to seek the disreputable and the
vile. What must save the boy or the
girl Is the principle instilled from ear
liest years "by faithful love and author
ity, line upon line, precept upon pre
cept. We must reach the wayward and
reckless parent somehow before we can
make much impression on the charac
ter of children that live at home. How
this can be done is a problem that al
most baffles solution. It is one that at
best can yield but slow results, and per
haps the most unsatisfactory effort of
all is that directed In a public and
militant way against society or author
ity In the mass. The work that really
counts Is the warning counsel of early
life. There are boys In Portland who
would not be tempted by a saloon on
every corner. There are few girls prop
erly born and reared who will not in
stinctively recoil from every step that
leads at last to drinking liquor with
a strange man in the stall of a res
taurant or saloon.
USEFUL IN MANY WAYS.
A small volume containing an account
of the Louisiana Territory, Its history,
purchase, and present condition, Is of
more than passing Interest to Oregon
people. The story of that great country
and its momentous transfer to Ameri
can control is told by Dr. A. E. Wlnship
and Robert W. Wallace. It Is told In
the simplest language, clearly and with
out unnecessary or distracting details,
so that it is well adapted to the use
made of It in several states, where it
has been made a text book in the
schools.
In view of the National interest that
is taken In the Fair at St Louis, it is
a good thing that the children should
know the event which that Fair is de
signed to commemorate. And the Fair
authorities recognize the even greater
measure of good that the use of this
book will do their enterprise. As an
indirect advertisement of the St Louis
Fair there could be nothing more effect
ive than the use of "The Louisiana Pur
chase, As It Was and As It Is" in the
schools.
The application of the lesson to be
derived from the experience of St. Louis
to local conditions is obvious. A similar
history of the Lewis and Clark expedi
tion, with similar descriptions of the
Northwest as It was then and as it is
nbw, would prove -of vast benefit not
only to the Immediate purposes of the
Fair but to the country permanently.
If such a work can be obtained and its
introduction into the schools accom
plished the Northwest would be greatly
benefited.
A PLEA THAT SHOULD BE GRANTED.
The plea that has been made in be
half of Portland's old fire horses does
credit to humanity. It Is not likely
that It will be Ignored. The public Is
thoughtless at times, but it Is readily
awakened to a sense of duty by timely
reminder. This reminder was given in
the recent announcement that these
faithful old fire horses that had rushed
at top speed to fires upon the tap of the
great bell for more than a score of
years were to be sold to the highest
bidder. A stiffness of the joints due to
years and service has made the old
horses unfit for the work of the Fire
Department This means that "Colonel"
and "Jerry" and "Jake" must give
place to more nimble horses in the engine-houses.
This law Is an Inexorable one. From
Its edict no living creature can escape.
It touched great Gladstone and sent
him home to rest and seclusion while
yet there was work which he would
willingly have done; It touched Bis
marck several years before his pass
ing, and the man of blood and Iron was
forced to bow to its decree. It Is the
only law that practically treats ail
alike the rich and the poor, the hu
man and the brute. There is no Inci
dent in a church conference more sug
gestive and more painful than that
which relegates the old minister often
pitifully protesting that he Is still able
to work to the superannuated list
There Is no Incident of home life more
pathetic than that which dedicates the
chimney corner to grandmother and
requires her to fold her long busy hands
and cease to direct the every-day life of
the household.
Humanity has come to the rescue of
these outdated ones and with Its gen
tle devices has smothered their pass
ing years. As before said, It is to the
credit of humanity that it is extending
its kind offices in this direction to meet
the demands of gratitude and generos
ity In the case of faithful dumb crea
tures, whose day of active usefulness Is
past
Let "Colonel" and "Jerry" and "Jake"
faithful creatures, with a glint of hu
man Intelligence in their eyes, be spared
the ignominy and the suffering of a,
cart-horse existence for their few re
maining years. The city, from the
standpoint of common gratitude, cannot
afford to sell these faithful servitors;
our citizens cannot afford to stand Idly
by and have them sold. Let the old
fire horses be comfortably sheltered,
properly fed and decently groomed for
the remainder of their lives at the ex
pense of the people whom they have
served. The Humane Society Is the
proper almoner of this bounty and may
well be gratitude's disbursing agent in
this case.
The uncle of President Roosevelt In
his address before "The Thirteen Club"
of New York City accepts as historical
truth the old story first set afloat by an
English tourist concerning President
Jefferson's "hitching his horse to a post
and stepping Into the courtroom to take
the oath of office." This story Is utterly
without foundation of fact Jefferson
was a well-bred, .Intellectual man of
excellent common sense, and he was
Inaugurated with no more simplicity
than his predecessor, John Adams. The
tourist who printed this absurd story In
England was an English Radical of the
William Cobbett character, and he
printed this libel on Jefferson's good
sense for English circulation. The con
temporary evidence Is overwhelming
that Jefferson was inaugurated very
much as was President John Adams.
There was no "riding alone up to the
Capitol and hitching his horse to the
fence." Jefferson was a man of demo
cratic political Ideas, but socially he
was anything but a man of simple hab
its of life. He had lived In Paris, In
herited large wealth and married a rich
widow. He always lived luxuriously
for his day and generation. At Monti
cello he dispensed a splendid hospital
Its, he dined off sliver plate and had
a retinue of servants. He prided him
self on the excellence of his Madeira
wine, spending for this article over
$11,000 during his stay in the White
House. His table Included all the lux
uries that money could purchase, be
sides those produced by his splendid
plantation. At Montlcello Jefferson
entertained every man of eminence
from Europe who sought our shores
either as an exile or a tourist Jef
ferson was a man of college educa
tion, a fine lawyer, a great student of
the best literature. He possessed the
greatest literary culture of his day. He
Imported all the latest books from Eu
rope and was a man of excellent breed
ing and a charming talker. It Is totally
incredible that so Intellectual, refined,
well bred and accomplished a man as
Jefferson could possibly have stooped to
so stupid a bit of cheap demagogy as
"riding up to the Capitol, tying his
horse to the fence and proceeding to
take the oath of office." A man of the
Bryan type might venture to do such a
thing, but Thomas Jefferson was not
only a statesman, but a man of good
sense, a well-bred gentleman.
The late Isabella U of Spain was
thirty-five years on the throne before
she was driven, out by a revolution. She
did not lose her throne because of her
immorality but because the people of
Spain did not like the action of. her
father, KJng Ferdinand, In making her
heir to the throne In violation of the
old Salic law. She was descended from
the corrupt French Bourbon stock, that
in the time of Louis XTV succeeded to
the throne of Spain at the cost of a
momentous and ruinous war known as
"The War of the Spanish Succession."
Her father was one of the worst of men,
a treacherous and cruel tyrant Her
mother was the sister of King Bomba,
the brutal despot of Naples, against
whom his subjects revolted in 1848-49,
and the sister of the Duchesse de Beri,
who had a talent for becoming the
mother of unexpected children. She was
a creature that would have been a pop
ular favorite In Europe before the
French Revolution, for she was kind
hearted, charitable, generous, good-humored,
sensual, fond of low company; a
kind of Charles H of England In petti
coats. Her last husband, we believe,
was a good-looking dragoon. She had
some of the weakness of Catherine II
of Russia, without a particle of her
genius for government or her enjoy
ment of good literature.
The greatest of the old-time National
highways was that wide avenue opened
from Cumberland, Md., through Penn
sylvania, the "Panhandle," and on
across Ohio, between 1806 and 1840. It
was popularly known as the Old Na
tional Road, but Its legal name was the
Cumberland Road. Its most eminent
promoters were Albert Gallatin, Jeffer
son's Secretary of the Treasury, and
Henry Clay. This great 'public road
was authorized In the act of Congress
of 1802, which enabled the State of Ohio
to enter the Union. Section 7 of thl3
act decreed that the money received
from the sale of one-twentieth of the
public lands in Ohio should be applied
to building roads from the navigable
waters of Atlantic streams to and
within the new state "under the au
thority of Congress." The matter was
put in charge of the War Department,
and soon commissioners appointed by
the President of the United States were
surveying a route for,a National boule
vard from east to west The first Gov
ernment appropriation was dated 1806
and was $30,000. This National road
was begun at Cumberland, Md., In 1811,
and even while the War of 1S12 was In
progress was slowly pushed along over
the Alleghcnles by way of Unlontown,
Pa., to the Ohio River. When the war
was over it was nearlng Its destination,
and In 1818 was open to traffic to
Wheeling, Va.
A German paper. In commenting upon
the ratification of the Panama canal
treaty, recalls the prophetic language
used by Goethe so far back as 1827.
Discussing Humboldt's travels, Goethe
said:
This much Is certain: If by a crosscut ot
this kind it could be accomplished that ves
sels with all sorts of cargoes and of every
size could go through tuch a canal from the
Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, quite
incalculable results would follow for the
entire civilized and uncivilized human race.
T, however, would bo nurprised if the United
States would miss the chance to get such
a work into her hands. It is to be foreseen
that this young state, with its decided ten
dency toward tho West, will in 30 to 40
years have also taken possession, and will
havo populated the large areas of land on
the other side of the Rocky Mountains. It
Is furthermore to be foreseen that In this
entire coast of the Pacific Ocean, whero na
ture has already created the most roomy and
safest harbors, in course of time very im
portant commercial towns will carry on a
large trafllc between China and the East In
dies with tho United States. In such a case
It would not only be desirable, but almost
necessary, that merchant as well as war
vessels should be able to havo quicker con
nection with tho western and eastern coaBts
of America. I therefore repeat that It Is
entirely indispensable for tho United States
to make a passago from the Gulf of Mex
ico to tho Pacific Ocean, and I am certain
that she will accomplish it.
Judge Emory Speer, of the United
States Court for the southern district
of Georgia, a Southern man, born and
bred, an ex-Confederate, recently sen
tenced Harry Olson, a sailor runner,
who was found guilty of shanghaiing
a number of negroes, to five years In
the penitentiary, the maximum term,
and to pay a fine of 55000. In sentenc
ing the prisoner Judge Emory Speer
said that the action of the Jury was an
other exemplification of the truth that
the most effective friend of the help
less and unprotected negro is the gen
tleman of the Southern communities.
They know hl3 weakness, he said, but
are never slow when he Is in the right,
or when he has been wronged, to come
to his assistance or his defense. "While
this Is true," he continued, "it Is proba
bly also true that representative
Southern people are not aware of the
excesses and cruelties to which the law
less and vicious sometimes resort In
depriving helpless colored men of their
liberties. We cannot have a stable
prosperity when any class of citizen
ship, however humble, can be crimi
nally deprived of liberty without due
process of law."
The "graveyard of the Pacific," lo
cated on the west coast of "Vancouver's
Island, has many additions to Its grue
some store within the past few months.
These tell of stanch vessels crippled by
the gale and carried by the dread sweep
of the down-streaming seas upon the
roclcs which form, Indian fashion, their
elevated burial places. Of many lives
beaten out by the combined furies of
the gale, the waves and the rocks; of
a myriad of human bodies stark and
stiff, which sank to the depths of the
cruel sea, unknelled and uncofflned. Bits
of wreckage twisted and torn have told
mutely of the terrible tale of disaster,
leaving Imagination to supply the de
tails. The tale of the past three weeks
Is told thus mutely but surely In the
wreck of the British ship Lamorna, the
schooner Kailua and the sealing schoon
er Triumph. The skeletons of all of
these have been added piecemeal to
this great marine graveyard, adding to
Its ghastly store.
Flocks and herds In Eastern Oregon
were appreciative of the warm weather
of several days ago, and recuperated
visibly from the sharp pinch Induced
by the long cold Spring. Stockmen are
well pleased that danger from hunger
and cold has passed for this season
and are reckoning up their profits from
the Increase of their stock, which prom
ise to be large. As an offset to the
klate Spring the wool will be much clean
er and of better quality than If it had
been loaded with dust during the past
month. Thus the 111 wind that blew so
long and so fiercely increased, in the
long run, the comfort of the sheep and
will add to the profits of their owners.
Japan finds cause for satisfaction In
the belief that It was a mine planted
by Admiral Togo which the Petropav
lovsk struck; Russia finds equal satis
faction In the declaration that It was
one of her own mines that, becoming
loosened from its moorings, drifted Into
the path of the battleship and caused
her destruction. These are specimen
crumbs of comfort that human beings
feed upon in war time. In the mean
time the world at peace sincerely de
plores the death of brave Makaroff and
his twice four hundred men who, Im
prisoned In the mighty ship, miserably
perished.
More than once since war. between
Japan and Russia began, cablegrams
have brought in briefest form the In
telligence: "The Japanese fleet bom
barded Port Arthur for hours and
retired." Of the effect on the fortifica
tions and the carnage among the men
behind the defending guns, we hear
nothing. Their side of the story Is tojd
with vividness by a wounded officer of
the Russian Artillery, who by aid of
his nurse wrote to his mother. His let
ter will be published In tomorrow's is
sue of The Oregonian. Its human In
terest commends It to every reader.
The construction of water works at
Seaside, Oregon's chief Summer resort
by the sea, is a matter of prudence as
well as a promising business Invest
ment The place has become too pop
ulous In the Summer months to depend
upon a water supply from wells with
safety. Those who own Summer cot
tages at that place, as well as those
who live there throughout the year,
are to be congratulated at this advance
movement In the interest of sanitation.
COURAGEOUS COMMON' SENSE.
Washington Post
As to Mr. Cleveland's equipment, there
Is no mystery whatsoever. He Is not in
tune with the American spirit as regards
the tariff. He advocates a somewhat
vague, and therefore alarming, reform, as
to the practical results of -which could
they be. Indeed, defined the Individual is
left to mere conjecture.
There Is no doubt that public sentiment
throughout the country. Irrespective of
party affiliations, demands certain amend
ments of the existing dispensation; but
nobody knows just what amendments Mr.
Cleveland seeks and would urge. He has
never made himself clear upon this point
He denounced the amelioration of the Wil
son bill In 1S34 as "perfidy and dishonor,"
and we are left to Imagine for ourselves
what he would have ordained Instead.
Thus far he is a conundrum not to say
a cause of suspicion and uneasiness.
In all other respects, however, he ap
peals to the Judgment and conscience of
conservative Americans. He stands for
stability in finance, ho represents the pro
tection of civilized society against violence
and anarchy, his very name is a guaran
tee of deliverance from the abominable
Anglomania which has Inspired our for
eign policy of late, we know that he would
put at stoo, at once and finally, to mis
chievous meddlings in the affairs of for
eign nations over which the Judicious have
been made to grieve so frequently within
the past few years.
And Mr. Cleveland's strength with the
thoughtful and Intelligent public lies In
the fact that whereas the country is in
no danger from his tariff heresies sup
posing him to entertain any the country
could safely count on receiving the bene
fits of his patriotic, courageous and con
servative common sense In all matters
that would bo within his control.
Explaining It.
New York Evening Post
The phenomenon of Hearst Is largely ex
plicable by the corporations that set them
selves above the law. They are aghast
at his ravines. But they should not be.
He Is their creature. Whatever of un
purchased political support he has comes
from the confused belief of many ignorant
people that he is somehow their cham
pion against wealthy tricksters and cheats
who are devouring widows' houses. Hearst
or, rather, tho shrewd advisers who he
retains to telL him what to do merely
seizes the opportunity offered him by
those who graps at unlawful wealth. To
puzzle-headed folk dimly conscious of suf
fering wrong, ho goe3 with his brass
bands and his conjurer's costume, and
shouts frantically: "Make mo President
and you will all get your legal rights."
Calculation.
Brooklyn Eaglo.
The movement in other states than New
York for Judge Parker's nomination for
President is all the better because It is
founded on calculation than It would bo
were It merely founded on sentiment Tho
Parker movement In New York State It
self Is the better for being founded on
calculation and sentiment than It would
be were It founded on sentiment alone.
To carry New York Is necessary. A
man who has carried it Is more likely
to carry It again than one who never
has. Judge Parker has carried It We
know that he carried It In 1S97 in circum
stances of Republican handicap. But ho
carried It. all the same. And Repub
licanism is not now any more free from
handicapping circumstances than It was
then.
Despair.
Indianapolis News.
There is no evidence that Hearst has
any spontaneous support for his preten
tions. No Important newspaper, pos
sessed of dignity and Influence, speaks
In his favor; no leader of the Democratic
party of National standing openly ap
proves his candidacy. If he shall be
nominated and we cannot believe that
possible It will be accomplished by such
a debauching of political methods, by
such a purchase and sale of men, that
we not only may well despair of the
Democratic party, but also may fear for
the republic itself.
Next to Cleveland.
Nashville American.
The Transcript warns Republicans
against the mistake of underestimating
the strength of such a man as Parker. It
Is not likely that the Republican leaders
will make any such mistake after Parker
Is nominated and the campaign Is fairly
opened. Their utterances now are In
tended irferely for anteconvention effect
They look on Parker as the strongest
man, next to Cleveland, the Democrats
can nominate.
Isn't There One Other?
St Paul Globe.
Parker is the coming man and Democ
racy may well bo nroud of him. To win
with him would be magnificent and to fall
with him would bring no disgrace. We
can think of no other name on which
all Democrats may so heartily unite for
the big fight that Is before them, and
that we sincerely bellevo they may win
If they will.
His Idea of the Proprieties.
Buffalo Express.
It Is alleged that Willie Hearst has
been trying to buy all tho hotel space In
St Louis during the Democratic National
Convention. If he can get all the dele
gates to become his guests of course
they can't refuse him tho courtesy of a
Presidential nomination In return for his
hospitality.
Turning From Bryanlsm.
St Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Democrats of the West find in
Judge Parker a candidate who offers them
an opportunity to turn from Bryanlsm to
sound principles and a safe, strong can
didate with which they may confidently
appeal to the people without violating the
strictest code of party ethics.
Oklahoma's Opening.
Kansas City TIme3.
There are still new ways of opening a
convention. At the Democratic Conven
tion In Oklahoma yesterday Instead of be
ginning with prayer or the reading of
the call, it was started by an editor
shooting a sergeant-at-arms.
Is This a Straw?
Boston Transcript
Ex-President Cleveland seems to be un
necessarily strenuous In his denials of
hospitality to negroes for a man who
really has no use whatever, now or later
on, for the Southern vote.
Orders From Georgia.
Atlanta Constitution.
New York must do one of two things
instruct for Parker or not! If It adopts
the former course tho fight for the. nom
ination Is at an end If the latter, it has
Just begun.
Gdod Taste In Wall Paper.
Harper's Bazar.
The rules of good taste never change,
though they sometimes seem to do so.
The wall should be treated from the base
board up. If there Is a dado. It should
represent the darkest tone of all those
employed for the wall; the division above
it should bo several shades lighter, the
border, if any, still lighter, and the cell
ing lightest of all, and for this reason,
which always exists, the celling receives
less light than any other portion of the
room, and the border less than the wall
below It The effort therefore, must bo
to counteract the darkness above by sup
plying the missing light A darkly
papered ceiling should always bo avoided
In any but a Turkish or Indian room.
Cool yellows, deep creams, golden tans,
are the best celling tones, as a rule,
though ther are occasions where a soft
blue or a rose-flushed celling 13 to be
advised.
FAIR DEALING AS A POLICY.
Kansas City Star.
A recent address by Mr. C. S. Mellen,
president of the New York, New Havon
&. Hartford Railroad, before the Hart
ford Board of Trade, deserves attention
because of its frank recognition of tho
evils In existing corporation manage
ment The "accomplishments of results
by Indirection," the endeavor to "thwart
the intention, If not the' expressed letter,
of tho law," the "desire to withhold what
Is due" and "to force by main strength
a result not Justified" these, ho thinks,
arc the chief causes of the prevailing
sentiment against the great corporations.
It Is an unexpected pleasure to find
such a straightforward arraignment of
trust policies from a man In authority.
It is still better to learn that he con
siders tho policy of secrecy and unfair
ness as already becoming obsolete. "The
day has gone- by," he asserts, "when a
corporation can be handled successfully
In defiance of the public will." And he
predicts that If the abuses which he has
indicated are not corrected, "public utili
ties will be managed and operated by the
public which created them, even though
the service be less efficient and the result
less satisfactory from a financial stand
point." The soundness of these views as to
corporation policy has been demonstrated
by experience. Unfairness on the part of
the management of trusts has provoked
retaliation. Radical agitation, advocacy
of extreme measures and drastic legisla
tion have been evoked by the short
sightedness of men in control of corpora
tions. "Sir," said a gambling speculator on
the French Bourse the other day, "France
Is dancing on a volcano." "That may be
so," was the reply, "but you and your
kind are tho orchestra which furnishes
the music" The same answer might be
made with justice to the managers of
corporations who havo been guilty of the
practices which Mr. Mellen condemns, but
who complain that popular sentiment is
unreasonably Inflamed against them.
With general recognition of the too
frequent trouble with corporate policy in
the past there will undoubtedly come a
change. Directors will recognize the
financial importance of fair dealing and
tho money value of popular favor. More
men of Mr. Mellen's views will gradually
rise to positions of authority. When the
public becomes convinced that the trusts
are dealing honestly and are not trying
to secure undue advantages much of the
existing friction will disappear.
Ireland's Population Changing.
St. Paul Pioneer-Press.
"Ireland for the Irish," has been and
is a sympathy-compelling cry. But what
if the Irish move out, of their own ac
cord, because they can do better in Amer
ica, and the Scotch, English, Scandina
vians and Germans move in because they
can do better In Ireland than in their
native countries? Such a movement
seems actually going on. America, has
such magnetic attractions for the Irish
that in tho past 20 years, according to a
circular issued by an Irish antl-emlgra-tion
society, 755,000 people between the
ages of 15 and 35 have gone to the United
States. Children and older people prob
ably number nearly as many more. The
members of the society named are pre
sumably Irish Nationalists, who keep up
a constant agitation for Irish autonomy,
regarding the union as Ireland's most
grievous wrong, though much has been
done to remedy the most crying of tho
evils from which Ireland has suffered.
They seo that If emigration contlues at
the present rate they will at no very dis
tant date lack a constituency. For the
entire population of Ireland is only about
4,456,000, and it has decreased at the av
erage rate of 69 per 1000 in each of the
past three decades. Of the aggregate
population, too, an Increasingly large pro
portion is of foreign birth. People of the
other races named, unhampered by his
torical or religious or other antagonisms,
find British rule quite enjoyable, and are
ablo to prosper abundantly. The men of
the anti-emigration society beg of Irish
mon and women in the United States
that they will stop sending money to help
their relatives to come over to Amer
ica. This effort will of course prove fu
tile. No race has found a home in Amer
ica more congenial to its aspirations and
desires than tho Irish. They are wel
comed here, as It were, to a land flowing
with milk and honey, and they will prob
ably como in increasing instead of in di
minishing numbers. In the making of
America they have borne a splendid part
The fact would appear to be that the
irreconcilable tNatlonalist propaganda
which has so long been at work In Ire
land, magnifying the distress of the peo
ple, ever presenting tho dark side of af
fairs, belittling the efforts of liberal
minded Englishmen like Gladstone for tho
betterment of Ireland's condition, and
sowing discontent and pessimism all over
the Island, have overshot tho mark.
They have disgusted the Irish people
with Ireland, and done as much as any
other agency to promote the emigra
tion In which they now see their own
finish.
Abuse of Privilege.
Detroit Free Press.
The recent action of the House In ex
punging from tho Congressional Record
an attack made upon one of its members
by another of the body under the ex
tension of leave to print, calls attention to
the gross misuse to which that privilege
Is frequently put and the necessity of re
stricting the practice. Originally Intended
to expedite matters and give members an
opportunity to Insert in the Record, whore
they could be read later and digested,
statistics and other matters appertaining
to the topic under discussion, the rulo
has been distorted and the privilege
abused by unscrupulous persons until it
has reached a point that occasionally be
comes unbearable.
Ag'ln Him on General Principles.
Pine Belt (Ala.) New3.
Tho alleged Hearst boomlet may fright
en some Democrats, but not ub. The
people tho common people, if you please
("one of whom we are which") have long
ago discarded the tenets, doctrines and
teachings of Bryan Democracy and are
looking forward to the time when the
party will return to tho true Democratic
faith of Jefferson and Jackson. Hearst
seems to be a second edition of the Ne
braska orator and could not carry hl3 own
state if nominated. We're agin him on
general principles.
Just an Idea.
Providence Journal.
What the favor-seeking American ship
owners expect to make out of the exclu
sive right which they aro asking of Con
gress to carry Government supplies over
sea Is not known. But some idea of their
rapacity may be obtained from tho fact
that they spurned a proposition to give
them, as an alternative to monopoly, a
25 per cent advantage over foreigners in
that carrying trade.
Consequences of Nomination.
Lexington (Ky.) Daily Herald.
Of course every intelligent man In Amer
ica knows that under no possible concat
enation of circumstances couM Mr. Hearst
be elected President; if it be" possible to
buy a nomination, he cannot buy his elec
tion. His nomination will forever smirch
every prominent politician who helps to
bring It about and disgrace those who
combined to produce it
Judge Parker's Silence.
Savannah (Ga.) News.
AH of those who are making the point
against Judge Parker that they do not
know where he stands on public questions
aro not friendly to him. They are sim
ply seeking opportunities to attack him.
He Is therefore right in remaining silent
NOTE AND COMMENT.
The Old Fire Horse.
When clangs the sudden gong.
He rushes to his place.
But the youngsters sweep along
With too Impetuous pace. '
For one and twenty years
He'a bounded at the cry,
And heard the eidewalk's cheers
Salute him, thundering by.
Now creeping age has come
To work its will at length; ,
The lion heart to numb, 4
To dull the lion strength.
His spirit yet is high,
HIu spirit yet Is fain, . ,
But ago must ever vie
With eager youth in vain, v
The veteran's day Is o'er
To heed the clanging gong; , -
He cannot serve us more.
So aell him for a song.
Fearful Possibilities.
Portland. April 13. (To Note and Com
ment.) The Oregonlan's dispatches state
that when the news of the disaster to the
battleship Missouri reached the New York
Navy-Yard "some of the old salts shook
their heads and declared the unlucky 13
was at work again." By a course of specious
reasoning tho blame for the sad fatality
la ingeniously laid at the door ot the "un
lucky 13." By the same course of logic the
Russian battleship Pctropavlovsk came to
an Inglorious end on April 13. also, since
the name of this vessel contains 13 letters.
According to later dispatches 751 men went
down on the flagship. The sum of these nu
merals also equals 13. But the torpedo
boat "Vestrashln, also destroyed, con
tains only 10 letters. It Is frightful to con
template what would have been the hit
ter's Xato if It, too, had contained 13 let
ters. READER.
"Reader" falls to observe that by count
ing the first letter In Vestrashln twice
and the last letter three times a total of
13 letters is reached in her case also.
Tho Hearst trumpeters are blowing
themselves out of breath.
Note and Comment's weather forecast
(copyright, 1904) Saturday 3 showers.
New York mourns an April snowstorm.
Out here there's nothing snowy but the
fruit trees.
Boston seems to llko a sensational mur
der case almost as much as San Fran
cisco does.
A woman will believe almost anything
bad of 'a man that looks distinguished
in evening dress.
Baldness in the editorial columns of th
New York Times becomes calvlty. And
yet we laugh at Boston.
First Democrat: "What's the good
word today?"
Second Democrat: "Tom, of courso."
Two of tho Roosevelt kids havo the
mumps. This is about the furthest they've
over gono in the way of swelled heads.
In view of tho disclosures In Phila
delphia, some one suggests that the ex
pression "baby farm." snould be discarded
for "abattoir."
There is a possibility that the steamor Jef
ferson will get Into deep water. Tacoma
New3.
There Is no doubt about her owners be
ing already In deep "water.
The office of Coroner has been abolished
in New York. If this example Is fol
lowed in other states, America will lose
one of her greatest founts of unconscious
humor.
Up In IiOwiston a young man tried to
recover, with tho aid of a gun, presents
that he had given a girl. If he wanted
his gifts so badly as all that why didn't
he marry the girl?
The Republican National Committee
man from Texas, referring particularly
to Mr. Hearst says:
No man who parts his hair In the middle
can ever carry Texas for the Presidency.
That settles It
Tho Philadelphia North American re
prints from its files of April 10, 1S04, somo
verses taken from the London Sun, en
titled "The Herring Pond." It appears
that the term was then applied to tho
English Channel, and Its use as a name
for the Atlantic was of later develop
ment The Tacoma News Is running a spelling
school, printing a list of words mis
spelled in the office during each day. The
list doesn't occupy a column, and thl3
leads one to believe that It Is incomplete.
Does the News think that in these days
of 8ymetrlcal developement in education
that any person can be such a cypher as
not be able to spell correctly?
In theso days we hear much of Imperial
magnificence and extravagance In tho
White House. What moro democratic
spectaclo could be presented to the Nation
than that of two children of tho Presi
dent's laid up with mumps? Is there not
something In the very word mumps sug
gestive of the robust Democracy of Old
Hickory, especially when contrasted with
such an essentially aristocratic term as
tonsilltls? Jefferson himself might havo
had mumps, but we are sure that he would
have scorned appendicitis. The nation is
not yet becoming a despotism or a coun
try of empty pageants. The old aliments
still flourish, thank Heavens. The good
old times and the good old simplicity and
the good old diseases, 'rah for the bunch.
WEX J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
"Who Is this Wagner, anyway?" "Ho Is
the author of a musical comedy called 'Tho
Simple Life.' " Puck.
Giles So you do not think tho statues in
our parks are up to date? Miss Gasolene
Indeed, I don't. Why, there isn't ono of
the figures driving an auto. Judge.
Friend If your washerwoman charges by
the piece It must be rather expensive.
Young Housekeeper Oh, no. She loses so
many things that her bills are nover high.
New York Weekly.
"Did you go Into that speculation you
were talking to me about?" Yos." "What
do you expect to realize from It?" "Just
at present there's a strong prospect that I
may realize what a fool I was." Philadel
phia Press.
"Do you beliove," she asked, "that a
genius can possibly be a good husband?"
"Well," he modestly replied, "I would pre
fer not to answer that question. But my
wifo ought to be able to toll you." Chicago
Record-Herald.
"Did you say that man in the kitchen
with you last night Is a relative, Norah?"
Yes, mum." "He didn't look like a very
close one, Norah." "Oh, well, mum. you
should have seen him before you opened the
door!" Yonkers Statesman.
They were discussing a member of Goth
am's fashionable set. "She has a great deal
ot forethought," someone remarked. "Oh,
yes. Indeed. Why, she acquired a residence
in South Dakota before she was even mar
ried." Chicago Evening Post.
"I sent three poema to Blank's magazine
last month, and this morning I learned
that it had suspended publication." "Say,
that's what I call tough luck," responded his
friend. "But even if the publishers should
bring suit against you for damages, they
won't bo able to recover anything." Chi
cago DoUv News.