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HEARST AND PARKER.
There are grave doubts whether the
promoters of the Hearst boom, or even
Its contemplated beneficiary himself,
ever expected his nomination in 1904,
whatever their plans may involve for
1908. They have certainly gone at it,
juBt as everything else to which Mr.
Hearst has put his hand has been gone
at, with enthusiasm and an abandon of
liberality in the assemblage of every
possible means to the desired end.
Mr. Hearst has certainly acquired a
great deal of advertising for himself
and for his newspapers; and if the real
credit should go to his brainy subordi
nates it is enough to say that all their
demands and efforts are for him. It is
not in friendship for Brisbane but in
hatred of Hearst that Brisbane is urged
as the suitable nominee if the Hearst
cause should win. Perhaps it would
be a. fair criticism to say that advocacy
of Brisbane discloses a disingenuous
ness which compares unfavorably with
the fidelity which Mr. Hearst always
secures from the men in his employ.
This quality of binding men to loyal'
service is far from discreditable, either
to its possessor or to the faithful ad
herents of his cause. It is an impress
ive exhibit in fealty that the numerous
men of fine talents whom Mr. Hearst
has attracted to his interests in various
parts of the country have preserved a
eteadfast devotion to his interests,
.which has never flagged to the extent
of justifying a single suspicion of dis
loyalty. Nobody, we believe, has ever
put forth the suggestion that with all
the reputed baseness of Mr. Hearst and
his satellites, any one of them might be.
guilty of treachery.
The truth is that much of the abuse
that has been heaped upon Hearst has
arisen out of misinformation and often
something worse. Business rivalries
and partisan desires have not been idle.
"Without any desire to extenuate the"
folly and mischief of yellow journalism,
it may be pointed out that the activities
of Mr. Hearst have been often devoted
to praiseworthy objects, and as a man
among men he has shown a disposition
toward correct and even liberal dealing
which many of his detractors might
emulate with advantage to themselves
and their dependents.
The Hearst boom stems to have net
ted, however, a moderate amount of ad
vertising and exploitation for its princi
pal, and some annoyance, and alarm to
the Cleveland wing of the party. It
would be unsafe to declare that it has
altogether ended there, however, be
cause his strength at St Louis will be
In hands that can use it if opportunity
offers, not to elect him, but to beat
eomebody else. "Who that somebody
might be Is inferable from the consid
erable outcry that has gone up against
Parker since that worthy's enthusiastic
Indorsement at the hands of Cleveland.
"Whatever hope existed that Parker
would satisfy the Bryan wing of the
party seems dashed by the row that
Cleveland's utterance has stirred up.
In view of the previous distrust of Par
leer by Mr. Cleveland, this Indorsement
certainly lends color that Mr. Cleveland
Is not really so averse to the nomina
tion for himself as some have supposed.
-The possibility becomes distinct, there
fore, that the Parker strength may be
undermined on one hand by Cleveland
men who distrust Hill and on the other
hand by the Influence of Bryan. Thus
the way might be opened for Hearst to
use the balance of power to name the
candidate by combining with Olney,
Harrison or McClellan to beat Parker.
On the surface Parker is as good as
nominated; but the elements of his de
feat are in the raw material, ready for
eorae master hand to work up into the
finished product - Mr. Cleveland's In
dorsement of Parker has already de
stroyed the hope that through Parker
lay the path to Democratic harmony.
It gives Parker a certificate of sanity
and rectitude well nigh fatal to his
chances. If Parker is worthy in Cleve
land's eyes, then he is disqualified in
!the eye of the Democracy. No further
evidence of this is needed than the
platforms and nominee of Its last two
campaigns.
Andrew Carnegie is breaking into
print with considerable regularity of
late. A few days ago he was out with
a statement that he would contribute
$1,000,000 to assist in electing Roosevelt,
and now he is telling the Europeans
how much good he is to derive from
his $3,000,000 fund for perpetuating the
fame of American heroes. Considering
the manner in which Mr. Carnegie's
wealth was obtained. It would be more
becoming for him to parade it before
the eyes of the world with a little more
modesty. An exorbitant tariff tax which
was levied oh the American consumers
enabled Mr. Carnegie to pile up his vast
Jtrealth, and when he talks about con
tributions of 51.000,000 to a political
fund, no matter how worthy the candi
date he seeks to aid may be, he is cer
tainly not displaying very good judg
ment If Mr. Carnegie will spend somje
of his ill-gotten gains in bringing about
a revision of the tariff laws so that an
American citizen can buy American
goods as cheaply in America as a Euro
peon can buy the same goods in Eu
rope, he will have accomplished more
good t'han will result from his heroes'
fund or his million-dollar political contributions.
VICTORY SNATCHED 1TJOJI DEFEAT.
Yesterday's decision at St Paul has
been a foregone conclusion from the
moment that the Government itself,
through the Attorney-General, inter
posed Its objection. The scarcely con
cealed purpose of the Federal Courts,
of late years, has been to sustain the
Government, without too much regard
to technicalities, whenever the question
at issue was fairly to be Interpreted as a
political question or as primarily an in
timate part of the Federal policy as
jointly determined by legislative and
executive departments. This was open
ly announced in the insular cases, and
doubtless weighed, as we have hereto
fore suggested, with the Supreme Court
in Its ruling on the merger.
So long as the Government through
Congress and the executive, is perfectly
clear as to its duty and purposes in
handling the transcontinental mergers,
the Federal Courts will be disposed to
acquiesce. Such a course Is certain to
arouse no end of Democratic discon
tent but no more than an opposite
course would Justify. It was one of the
late Governor Pennoyer's favorite con
tentions, in which he was not without
excellent Democratic company, that it
is no business of the Supreme Court
what laws the Government chooses to
enact or course to follow.
It looks exceedingly doubtful whether
anything more will come of the Gov
ernment's anti-merger activity than the
Supreme Court's decision, which is rap
idly degenerating into a perfunctory
undertaking, not hostile to mergers ex
cept In some Pickwickian or figurative
sense. The 4-to-4 decision against
Northern Securities justifies the suspi
cion that the Supreme Court strained a
point to sustain the Government and
will only be too willing to stay its hand
at the Administration's first 'sign of
weakening. That sign was the Attorney-General's
Interference at St Paul,
and the Circuit Court has evidently
taken the hint There Is not likely to be
any interference at St Paul or "Wash
ington or In New Jersey with any move
made by the Department of Justice for
the advantage of Hill and Morgan.
These may look like wild and whirl
ing words; but they are certainly not
impugned by anything enunciated yes
terday at St Paul. If the discussion
vouchsafed by the court means any
thing, it means that the Hill plan of
distribution is satisfactory, both to that
tribunal and to the Administration. The
court does not merely assume that Mr.
Hill will make a proper distribution,
nor does it stop with the assertion that
it cannot act until that assumption is
rendered untenable by procedure on
Hill's part that is plainly improper. It
goes farther. It says that the original
decision expressly contemplated the act
now asked for by Messrs. Harrlman
and Pierce and withheld it That is to
say, it was originally intended, exactly
as has been done, to declare Northern
Securities illegal, but not to interfere
to prevent Hill In other ways from do
ing what he tried to do through the
merger.
The court farther says that the pub
lic has no concern in the case, so long
as the Attorney-General disavows it,
and pointedly Implies that in any other
proceeding which may be brought the
only interests adversely affected by the
Hill plan will be the Harrlman Inter
ests. The oourt therefore, being with
out Intent or disposition to assume the
custody or direct the disposition of
Great Northern or Northern Pacific
stock, limits its opposition to Northern
Securities solely to the form of the
merger and not to its intent It is
against public policy for Hill to control
the two parallel roads through North
ern Securities, but It la not against
public policy for him to control them
through separate boards of directors.
This position is supported 'by the sym
pathy in the Supreme Court for the
merger. If the Harrlman people can
extract any comfort from this, they
must make the most of it
A BARREN IDEALITY.
Certain representatives of the clergy,
judging from their sermons and their
ecclesiastical resolutions, do not seem
to understand that in a government
where fundamentally church is sep
arated from state, our Legislatures are
not ecclesiastical assemblies, but bodies
whose function is to enact the public
opinion of both sinners and saints, and
not to ratify the fiat of any church.
The Rev. Dr. Huntington, of Grace
Church, New York City, in a recent
sermon called upon "the Republic to
side with the Christ who sanctioned di
vorce only for one cause.' The absurd
ity of this appeal is evident when we
remember that the Roman Catholics,
who number nearly ten millions of our
population, deny that Jesus sanctioned
divorce for any cause. All the Prot
estants, with the exception of less than
a million- of Episcopalians, believe that
Jesus permitted divorce for more than
one cause, or for the cause of desertion,
besides adultery, and this belief is ex
pressed in the statutes of every state of
the Union except South Carolina and
New York.
There are more than a million of Jews
in this country who reject the authority
of Jesus to define the limitations of
righteous divorce. People who do not
belong to the Roman Catholic or the
orthodox Protestant churches hold that
the la.vf, both as to polygamy and as
to divorce, Is a purely human and con
ventional rule. The vast majority of
Christian believers in the United States
deny that Jesus laid down any such
rule as that attributed to him by the
Rev. Dr. Huntington, of the Episcopal
Church. The American people in their
legislation, in all the states except two,
have said that there is no divine prohi
bition of divorce for more than one
cause. Against this civil enactment
one-third of the organized Christian be
lievers deny that Jesus allowed divorce
for any cause, but rather established
matrimony as a sacrament dissoluble
only by death.
This is nothing but the reaffirmation
of government by theocracy, such as
plagued Puritan New England ud to
the outbreak of the Revolution. How
can there be any National legislation
concerning a uniform divorce law with
out violating our fundamental principle
of the separation of church and state'
and offending the religious conscience
of- a great part of its citizens? The
Catholics would grant divorce for no
cause; the Episcopalians would grant
divorce only for adultery, while many
Protestants would grant divorce as Lu
ther allowed it for desertion. As a
matter of common sense. It is none of
the church's business. It ceased to be
the church's business when the church
and state were fundamentally separat
ed In fact and function. Uniform di
vorce law is one of the bees that buzz
In the bonnet of the Impractical reform
ers to no purpose except to decrease the
respect that intelligent men have for
"reform" of all sorts.
COAST JOBBERS' ADVANTAGE.
No blame can be1 attached to the Spo
kane jobbers for their effort to secure a
differential over Portland sufficient to
cut this city out of a large trade dis
trict west of Spokane. The people of
the Inland city, however, can expect
against such a move nothing but a fight
by the entire jobbing trade of the North
Pacific Coast and If the railroads
should attempt to grant any such con
cessions as are demanded they would
shortly be taught the error of their
ways. Portland developed into a big
wholesale center long before any trans
continental railroad met tidewater at
this port For many years after the
advent of the railroad, our jobbers
brought large quantities of freight
around the Horn by sailing vessels, and
on many classes of heavy freight In
which time was an unimportant ele
ment they made the rate which the rail
road was forced to meet or else lose the
business.
Tramp steamers have driven the sail
ing vessels from this 'round-the-Horn
route, but the rates by the modern car
riers are still so low that they are meet
ing the competition of the railroads and
the business is increasing In volume.
In over-sea traffic the coast city, of
course, always has an unconquerable
advantage over the city farther Inland.
We can hardly term business between
New York and other Atlantic Coast
cities and the Pacific Coast as over-sea
traffic, but in a manner Its freight clas
sifications are Identical with those on
traffic which comes from a foreign port
The Pacific Coast jobbers annually
handle hundreds of thousands of tons
of freight included In which Is a vast
amount of merchandise which .weighs
heavily but cost little. Unless the sub
sidy graft goes through and a monop
oly Is given a few rich shipowners,
these jobbers can always charter a ves
sel or secure space on one to bring to
Portland, Seattle or Tacoma this heavy
merchandise.
The ocean Is a free highway and will
always remain so. Accordingly, any city
that is reached by this highway will
always have an advantage over one
that Is dependent on an artificial high
way on which the right of way Is con
trolled by man and not by the Al
mighty. Even if the railroads were dis
posed to Invite the re-establishment of
this 'round-the-Horn freight service by
granting the concessions asked, they
would be losers on the business handled
from Spokane. The big field for trade
In Oregon, "Washington and Idaho is in
the grain districts, and practically all of
the surplus from these districts finds a
market, not at Spokane, but at the tide
water ports of Oregon and "Washington.
This gives the railroads a back haul for
their cars which are sent out from
Portland. Seattle and Tacoma with
merchandise for distribution in the ter
ritory which Spokane Is seeking to gain
at the expense of the Coast cities.
If Spokane should secure the large
slice of new trade which the concession
asked would give her, the railroad com
panies would be called on to distribute
merchandise west of Spokane with com
paratively little freight to haul back on
the return trip of the cars. They will,
of course, haul a limited percentage of
the wheat crop of the territory invaded
to the Spokane mills to be gruond Into
flour, but as about 75 per cent of the
crop goes foreign they would haul a
much larger percentage of empty cars
back to the distributing center at Spo
kane than from Portland or the Puget
Sound ports. There is another feature
of the situation which will render It
very difficult for the railroads to make
any discrimination In favor of Spokane,
and that Is the fact that not a single
argument In favor of making this con
cession to Spokane does not apply with
equal force to Lewiston, Colfax, Day
ton, RItzvllle, "Walla "Walla, Pendleton
or other thriving cities east of the
mountains, and it is perhaps needless
to state that the granting of discrim
inatory rates to each of these cities
would not please the Spokane jobbers
who alreadj' do considerable business
In territory tributary to those towns
and cities.
Natural location Is the greatest factor
In making a big jobbing center, and
Nature was more kind in this respect to
the Coast cities than to those lying far
ther Inland. Portland, Seattle and Ta
coma can retaliate in a most effective
manner If the railroads grant Spokane
the concessions asked. Spokane can do
nothing In the way of retaliation If they
fail to grant her demands.
"JIU JITSD."
Among other things that our touch
with or knowledge of Japan has
brought out Is a book on "JIu Jitsu,"
or the Japanese method of physical
training as It has been practiced In
Japan, according to Irving Hancock,
author of a -book Upon this subject, for
2500 years. The term "JIu jitsu," we
are told, means "muscle-breaking," and
processes, postures and exercises by
which this object is attained are given
In detail by Mr. Hancock and strik
ingly Illustrated
Now, in point of fact, the Japanese,
whether men or women, are not re
garded by Americans as physical mod
els, either In stature or "strength. The
under size of these people, according
to the specimens that have found their
way to our shores, does not challenge
the admiration of an athletic age, and
no one would think of looking to them
for feats of strength. Yet in point of
fact these people are possessed of won
derful powers of endurance and are in
general healthy, cheerful and ready for
whatever offers.
"Whether these characteristics are due,
as we without special reflection are
wont to believe, to the inheritance of
the quiet, uneventful, happy-go-lucky
existence of their ancestors, in which,
literally "shut In from all the world
without," they lived and died for ages,
or to some secret In physical caretaklng
and system of development all their
own, the world to which they have
been but lately Introduced is not pre
pared to say. However this may be,
this author, who Is an authority on
physical training, is enthusiastic upon
the subject of "jiu Jitsu," and-commends
It In a neat volume which he
.dedicates to the "American woman and
her English sister." -He starts out with
the. .assertion hal j,the r phrase "the
weaker sex" should be stricken from
the English language; tb'ls he follows
up by declaring that, after long experi
ence In Japanese athletics, he has no
patience with women who consider that,
merely because of their sex, they should
be weaker lhan men. He asserts fur
ther that In Japan women are not
weaker than men, and adds that In this
country they have "no right to be." .
The course In physical training as
outlined Is a strenuous one, but care
Is taken to avoid violent exercise, for
which the subject has not been pre
pared by careful steps leading up to it
Overtraining, resulting In physical col
lapse, as not infrequently witnessed In
our college athletics. Is unknown to this
ancient method. The processes em
ployed are simple, but, It Is alleged,
they begin at a very early age and are
followed up with the unflagging pa
tience of a people who know not haste
and are as cheerful In waiting as In
doing.
"We And it Hard to reconcile the state
ments of this author In regard to the
science of physical existence In Japan
with the familiar tales of travelers and
missionaries In regard to the manner In
which, Infants are cared for and the
way In which girls of tender age are
seen on every hand with a babe
strapped to the back of each, while at
play, the sun shining straight Into the
eyes, of the Infant, whose lolling head
keeps time with the movements of his
child nurse. But let us not be hyper
critical. If there are women In Japan
whom "JIu Jitsu" has made superior to
the physical weakness that belongs to
American women as a class, let us not
be above learning the lessons that de
veloped this strength. Let us not fol
low the example' of this author by los
ing patience with women who are weak
and who suffer manifold disabilities
through this weakness. But If as a
people we can learn of Japan In the
matter of physical development, let us
not be above taking the lessons, even
though we may not hope to eliminate,
by the aid of "Jiu Jitsu," the ailing
woman from the American home.
If the decision rendered at St. Paul
yesterday is sustained, all of the ad
vantage gained by Mr. Harrlman In
paying $1000 per share for Northern
Pacific stock will have been lost The
abnormal prices to which that stock
soared were warranted only by the con
trol of the road passing Into the hands
of the men who were paying the prices.
It Is perhaps unnecessary to state that
Mr. Harrlman will not give up the
struggle after receiving the flrst rebuff
In a state which owes so much to Mr.
nlll, when It is recalled that Mr. Harrl
man has behind him in this deal John
D. Rockefeller, whose financial strength
and position Is more powerful than
ever, while behind his antagonist, Mr.
Hill, is J. P. Morgan, whose frayed rep
utation no longer permits him to wield
the Influence that was his when Harrl
man defeated him and his associates in
the Northern Pacific deal. Yesterday's
decision is undoubtedly pleasing to Hill,
but may not mark the end of the pro
ceedings. The Rhodesian output of gold is not
very large, but shows a steady increase,
taking one year with another. Feb
ruary last, for example, gave 18,673
ounces, against 17,000 ounces, 13,204
ounces and 12,237 ounces, respectively,
In February. 1903, 1902 and 1901. The
total production In 1903 was 231,873
ounces, against 194,168 ounces. In 1902
and 172,150 ounces In 1901. The trouble
In Rhodesia Is the same as In the Trans
vaalwant of Kaffir labor. The high
price of coal is being corrected by the
recent railway connection with the
Wankle coal mines. In May, the rail
way will reach the Zambesi and Im
proved transportation Is expected to
quicken the fine copper mines north of
the river. It Is, however, a stubborn
fact that the gold of Rhodesia is not so
equally diffused and reliable as that of
the Transvaal.
And still the Montana reputation for
doing everything and everybody on an
extensive scale holds good. Recent
mention was made of the $20,000 fine
which was imposed upon Mr. F. Au
gustus Heinze. Then the receiver In
the Boston & Montana case put In a
bill for $200,000, and now the telegraphic
advices state that the attorneys In the
case have been awarded $50,000. It is
not to be wondered at that even John
D. Rockefeller experiences difficulty in
buying up the state where legal advice
and contempt of court come so high.
"Wonderland, 1904," the finest of all
publications issued by the Northern
Pacific Railway, made Its appearance
yesterday. The high standard of text
and Illustration In former years Is fully
maintained. OHn D. Wheeler's editor
ial work, always of the first class, com
mends itself to all who are 'fond of
books of travel that are not marred by
obtrusive advertising. Not the least
Important and gratifying feature of this
year's "Wonderland" is the" Lewis and
Clark Renaissance, to which nine pages
of excellent matter are devoted.
Louis T. Barln, whose death occurred
suddenly Monday morning, was In his
day a .conspicuous figure in local poll
tics In Clackamas County. In this con
nection he was widely known between
1869 and 1S90. He was one of the tew
men who, after having been an active
and successful politician for many
years, quietly dropped back to profes
sional life. His name will recall many
political Incidents of a bygone era, and
the news of his death will be heard with
regret
It will be fully eight months before
the new Morrison-street bridge will bo
fully opened for traffic. The Inconven
ience that the public will suffer from
this long closing of the bridge will, of
course, be considerable, but It Is un
avoidable and In the end will be fully
recompensed. The structure as planned
will accommodate the demands of
traffic for many years, and when fin
ished will be a credit to Portland and
Multnomah County.
The Mining Congress that will be held
In this city from August 22 to 27, Inclu
sive, will be one of the most Important
conventions, in Its bearing upon the de
velopment of a great Industry, that has
ever been held In the country. Its dele
gates will be practical men of affairs,
and will represent financial Interests
that are practically unbounded.
Berrygrowers who supply this city
are justified in their purpose to keep
the price of their fruit up to a figure
at which they can afford to grow
it and have something left for their
labor. The laborer Is worthy of the
fruits of his toll In .whatever field of
endeavor he earns It
Do Something Useful.
Charlotte (N. C.) Chronicle.
Better abandon all attempts to please
Mr. Bryan and get up an honest plat
form to go before the country with.
"THE LINES OF TORRES VEDRAS"
Minnapolls Tribune.
The strategy of the Japanese In Corea
begins to recall one of the most bril
liant operations of history, Immortalized
in one of the greatest military classics,
namely. General Napier's Peninsular
War. Everyone who knows a little his
tory will remember with what meager
forces the Duke of Wellington attacked
the mighty power of Napoleon In Spain.
We suspect that contemporary observers
thought of the power of England In
comparison with that of the continental
Empire of France much as contem
porary observers think now of the power
of Japan in comparison with that of
Russia.
Only one thing was in favor of the
lesser combatant After Trafalgar, Eng
land had command of the sea, could
land troops In the country of her ally
and continue to supply them as long as
they did not go too far from the coast
England had no such army as Japan can
command. What forces she could spare
she threw into Portugal. These were
the thin edge of the wedge that in a
few years was driven home to Paris,
bursting the French Empire Into frag
ments. That wholo splendid story does not
concern us here; only the way Welling
ton began his Invasion of Spain through
Portugal, established his base, fortified
nis rear and protected his land com
munications. Besides his slender forces
he had to use tho raw levies of Portu
gal. These required patient organiza
tion and training and the Joint forces re
quired a strong fortified base. Instead
of a single city Wellington chose for this
base the whole peninsula formed by the
Tagus where it discharges Into the sea.
Here was a country one .hundred miles
in' circumference, accessible only ori one
side by land, and there protected by
rocky heights and defiles. Ho turned
It into one immense fortress, guarded
toward land by concentric lines of de
fenses and commanded toward the sea
by the fleet
This was large enough to contain, not
only all the allied forces, but the whole
population of Southern Portugal with
their cattle and supplies; so that he
might surround it with a desert in
which no enemy could live. Here was a
striking example of the reconcentratlon
practiced by Weyler in Spain. All the
troops Napoleon could throw Into Spain
could not drive Wellington out of this
fortress. Hero he drilled and prepared
his troops for the later campaigns In
which they fought their way to and
across the Pyrennes. Here ho protected
tho rear of tho advancing army and
kept It supplied with everything neces
sary. Torres Vedras was the English
base for the whole Peninsular War.
The Peninsula of Corea Is many times
bigger than the llttlo peninsula on
which Lisbon stands, but military opera
tions, by aid of railroads and other
modern inventions, are now carried on
upon a much larger scale than they were
a hundred years ago. So .far a3 wo can
unaerstana tho strategy of the Japanese,
they are planning to turn the whole pen
insula Into a great Torres Vedras. They
have overrun It with troops and taken
practical possession of tho government.
Their advance was pushed rapidly to
the very narrowest part of It between
AnJu and Port Lazareff. This 13 a coun
try of rOcky heights and defiles, like the
.little Portuguese peninsula.
Here the Japanese seem to be work
ing like bees or beavers, carrying paral
lel lines of fortifications over mountain
and valley across the wholo peninsula.
The advance, so rapid up to that point
has been slow since. Clearly Japan is
establishing here a fortified line to pro
tect the whole peninsula in the rear and
to furnish a base for tho advance Into
Manchuria. Back of that line, while she
retains command of tho sea, Japan will
be as safo as Wellington was safe la the
peninsula by tho Tagus. Here Is .one of
the cases where history throws an in
teresting light upon currant ovents.
Too Much of the "Reformer."
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The "Reformers" are always trying to
find something wrong with the regular
order of things. That is their business.
They have nothing else to do. They go
on tho theory that the world was not
made right and that it i3 their business
to set it straight Of course, everything
Is not in a perfect condition. If it were
thero would bo no talk of tho millennium.
Everybody is doing about the best ho can
under the circumstances and within its
environment It is a pity he cannot do
better, but ho cannot be helped by lec
tures made up of big words woven Into
long, billowy sentences. The thing these
"reformers" ought to do Is to devise a
means of giving everybody a first-class
university education, so that nobody
would have to work, and thero would be
a universality In tho wearing of purple
and fine linen and plum-pudding always
on the table.
Publicity an American Safeguard.
Springfield Mass.) Republican.
No country In the world has ever yet
existed in such an atmosphere of publicity
as this republic. Nowhere else, It is
certain, is there so minute, so tireless, so
relentless a searching for and grabbing
up of national weakness, political corrup
tion and individual sinfulness ns in these
American states. An Illustration of the
difference In this respect of England and
America comes to mind. When tho Jame
son raid was investigated by a parlia
mentary committee the Inquiry at a crit
ical point was smothered, and the world
has since had the Impression that the
stifling was done to protect someone In
high station. It Is no exaggeration to
say that such an act is impossible in tho
United States today because no govern
ment and no party could face the attacks
of a press that stands In awe of no power,
social or political.
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The Course Dinner Going Out.
Boston Herald.
It Is not absolutely lmpossiblo that
"course" dinners go out of fashion, not
from too obvious reasons but because,
overnourlshod society is tired of spending
so much time in eating the same old
dishes. When such a trenchman as King
Edward limits his dinner to one hour
either ho must eat too fast or thero aro
not more than four or five courses. Who
knows If the lavish flummery of tho up-to-date
dinner party Is not passing, llko
some other wornout caprices, and soon
tho world of wealth will content Itself
with dining on one special dish?
Democratic Philosophy Valuable.
Indianapolis News.
One-half tho people of tho United States
are proud to call themselves Democrats,
In spite of mistakes and, false and un
wise leadership they have clung to tho
party because they believed that it stood
for a philosophy that was valuable even
when It was wrong on temporary Issues.
And Its philosophy Is valuable. We cannot-
afford in this country to get very far
away from the old Democratic doctrine of
equal rights to all and special privileges
to none.'
Exploiting a Vicious Idea.
Indianapolis Sentinel.
The "Raffles" burglar stories printed
some time ago In a magazine seem to be
bearing fruit We aro now having in
different parts of the country "gentle
men" burglars in dress suits and female
burglars who call themselves "Lady Raf
fles'" and so on. Some question may arise
as to tho moral effect of making heroes
and heroines out of professional criminals.
The Tongueless Parker.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Tho Democratic party is struggling hard
to get up a show of enthusiasm over a
dead silence
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OBJECTIONS TO DIRECT PRIMARIES
St Paul Pioneer Press.
Thero has been somo dissatisfaction
expressed with tho primary law this
year, but It is significant that It has all
come 'either from those who used to run
tho conventions and believe that Gov
ernment was instituted among men for
the benefit of the machine, or from
thoso who have listened to the plaintiff
notes of these wounded leaders. Instead
of a horde of ofilceseekers bound to
this or that faction and foisted on the
public to feed at the public crib and t'o
play Into the hands of a small coterie of
Republicans the primary law stlmuated
the search for good candidates all over
the city, and the result was a primary
ticket composed largely of men whom
the office had sought unpledged and In
debted to no one. Most of these men
have been nominated. The result Is
tho strongest ticket the Republican
party has had for years. A ticket of
strong campaigners and of men who are
entitled to the confidence of tho taxpay
ers and who havo It. No convention
ever did so well except when stimulated
by popular Impatience, and that was
about once in a decade.
The machine politicians don't like
this primary law but they never have.
They fought it from the flrst and con
tinue to sneer at it But it must bo
judged by Its results. Two years ago It
redeemed the City Council from the
clutches of tho street-railway company
and this year It has insured another
honest assembly and has given tho op
portunity for a much more satisfactory
board of Aldermen than tho present
one. No special interest can manipulate
tho people. The people they mako mis
takes, but If they do they can correct
them. Under the convention Bystem
they were compelled to choose whoever
was offered to them, and oven after his
unfitness was shown a dangerous Al
derman or Assemblyman was often
thrust down tho popular throat If he
was a good party man ho could do what
he pleased with the Interests of the
public. If he "stood In" with any spe
cial Interest and had access to Its cam
paign fund It only made him a more de
sirable candidate. The self-constituted
clique calling itself "tho party" Ignored
both the real party and the Interests of
any one- but themselves. The logical re
sult of a continuance of that system
would have been In St. Paul, as It has
been generally, subjection to a machine,
corruption and inefficiency in adminis
tration and all the other evll3 of oli
garchic rule masquerading as popular
government.
Imperialism and Its Benefits.
Chicago Record-Herald.
"Since the Unionist party came into
power In the Summer of 1S95," says the
Speaker, "they seem to havo engaged
their countrymen in at least fourteen
wars and military expeditions. .It is an
atrocious and bloodthirsty record, of
which aa empire of savages might be
proud, but of which a kingdom that
stood among civilized powers for peace,
freedom and justice must be eternally
ashamed."
Of tho wars referred to two were In
Ashantl, three wore wars with tho na
tives in Matabeleland and Mashonaland,
one was In the Sudan, one was on the
northwest frontier of India, one was
the Boer war, and there remain the Chi
nese expedition, and "adventures" In
"Venezuela, Kano, Aden, Somallland and
Thibet. "The two last-named," say3 tho
Speaker, "are still with us and are In
volving a heavy expenditure which can
not be measured accurately, but certainly
runs to several hundred thousand pounds
every month."
The cost for the active operations of
war during the nine-year period is put
at 250 million pounds, or, roughly, $1,250,
000,000, and it Is added that during the
same period the government has run
through 400.000,000 pound3 (two billion dol
lars) "In the way of "normal or peace
expenditure on soldiers,, sailors, battle
ships, barracks and forts." In tho mean
time consols have declined from 114 to
So and the national debt has Increased
from 635,000.000 to 79S.000.000 pounds, or by
$S15,000,X to a total of nearly $4,000,000,
000. One Item of cost, the loss of life. Is not
figured In this account but probably that
would not deter tho supporters of tho
government from working out what he
considered to be a more than sufficient
set-off In tho maintenance, and extonsion
of British sovereignty in distant lands.
What this implies, however, is subject
of dispute, whllo tho loss of life and tho
Increased expenditure of the British tax
payer are cortaintles which impose a limit
upon the national enthusiasm for expan
sion. The ordinary taxpayor, who has no
Interest outsldo of. England, can hardly
feel a compensation for his heavier bur
den In the profits of Rand mlneownors.
If there Is any distribution of benefits
he does not realize It, and whllo there
Is no probability of a recession from
tho advanced posts already occupied. It
would be strange If thero were not a
marked reaction against tho Imperialistic
sentiment of the last fow years. Not
only Is It the natural course among na
tions as well as individuals to seek re
pose after extraordinary efforts, but the
continued pressure from tho financial ob
ligation must have a sobering effect that
will bo felt for some time to come.
For the Landed Gentry.
New York Evening Mall.
Senator Fitzgerald, of the Eleventh
District, who presumably Is a good Demo
crat, according to Bowery standards, I3
championing a bill before tho Legislature
which provides for tho registration of
rural landed estates with the Secretary
of State, "under a designation, with
which may be associated a device." Tha
bill does not say what the "designation"
or tho "device" shall be, but lt3 language
makes It apparent that the designation
Is to be the name of the estate while
the device may very properly be a sort of
crest or coat of arms. Tho bill, as has
been pointed out would, If passed, dis
tinctly encourage the owners of rural
residences In putting on tho aira of a
landed aristocracy.
Regarded as a Chaser.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Tho Lewl3 and Clark Exposition will
follow tho big shoW, and will bo well
worth the price of admission.
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Renouncement.
I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong,
I shun the thought that lurks In all delight
The thought of thee and In the blue hesven'a
height.
And In the sweetest passage of a song.
Oh, Just beyond the fairest thoughts that
throng
This breast, the thought of thee waits, hidden
yet brlzht;
But It must never, never como In sight;
I must stop short of thee the whole day long.
But when, bleep cornea to close each difficult
day,
When night gives pause to the long watch 1
keep.
And all my bonds I needs must loose apart.
Must don! my will aa ralmont laid away
With the flrst dream that cornea with the
first sleep
I run, I run, I am gathered to thy heart.
Alice Meynell.
Sin.
Lord, with what care hast thou begirt ua
roundl
Parenta flrst eeason us; then schoolmasters
Deliver us to laws; they send ua bound
To rules of reason, holy messengers.
Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin,
Afflictions sorted, anguish of all slzca.
Fine neta and stratagems to catch us In,
Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.
Blessings beforehand, tlea of gratefulness.
The sound of glory rinsing- In our ears;.
Without, our shame; within, our consciences;
Angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears
Tet all these fence and their whole array
One cunning" bosom-sla blows quite away.
i-Georse Herbert.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Tho bridge is bottled. f
It used to be, "All the world loves a
lover." Now it Is, "All the world loves
a divorcee."
Tho railroads will treat Chicago as a
Summer resort point Here's a ray ol
hope for hades.
A Russian mine Is something like a
"He. " The fellow that drops It never knows
when It's going to blow him up.
It is officially announced by tho Chi
cago Record-Herald that William Elroy
Curtis will soon complete his census ol
India.
It must be an anxious time for any
oysters that may live near Port Arthur
They never can tell when a Russian bat
tleship is going to drop on them.
Of course it's very fine for the Japanese
orator to have the chance of alluding tc
the 0 centuries of his country's history,
but what about the poor Jap 'schoolboy I
When a woman visits a seer, who
throws her Into a tranco and relieves
hor of her watch, money and silk cloth
ing, she has less cause for sorrow than
for rejoicing. Suppose the seer had tak.
en the cotton, wool and linen clothing. In
addition to tho silk.
Wo aro heartily In favor of jiu-jitsu
for women. Irving Hancock say3 that
after a course of It tho ordinary -woman,
far from balking at carrying a scuttle
of coal from the cellar, will think noth
ing of running upstairs with a full coal
scuttlo in each hand, while hubby, pre
sumably, smokes with his feet on tha
table. Banzai jiu-jitsu.
About 11 o'clock every night two little
hop-o'-my-thumb mice may be seen for
aging in the brilliantly lighted grocery
window of ono of tho department stores.
They aro pretty small fellows, even for
mice, but they don't seem a bit afraid ol
the spectators on the other sldo of tha
window. For several evenings they have
been trying to bore their way through a
wicker basket containing figs, a project
that appears more Important than that
of a Panama canal. Unlike most mice,
these two pigmies do not appear averse
to publicity, so they may be gratified to
find "their names in the paper."
According to tho Paris Bontemps, the
municipal authorities of Papetto. La.,
have framed a set of regulations govern
ing lynchings and shootings. Tho Bon
tempts omits to state it3 authority, but
the editor must have faith in the authen
ticity of tho dispatch, for he calls atten
tion to it in his leading article, and makes
It the basis for a column of rhetorical grief
over barbaric America, tit appears that
persons taking individual action In
Papetto are frowned upon, for it Is an
nounced that any man shooting at a
negro, unless the negro bo a criminal,
shall be fined $1.50 or be kept In the lock
up for three days. Organized lynching
is regarded in a different light, for the
Bontemps enumerates the rules that have
been drawn up to Insure order at these
ncessarily Informal executions. None but
persons entitled to vote will be allowed
to set fire to tho negro at tho stake. The
us of firecrackers is forbidden. Persons
firing at a negro must exerclso care to
avoid injuring white spectators, or they
will bo hold liable. And as" an instance
of magnanimity on the part of Papette's
authorities tho Bontemps' correspondent
sets forth that tho sum of $10 will In
futuro be granted the next of kin of any
negro lynched by mistake. "Can this In
deed bo tho 30th century?" despairingly
asks the Parisian editor. Can it, indeed?
How many funnels had tho Petropav
losk? The question is not one that seems
likely to agitate American editors to
bring forth fiery letters from correspond
ents, to cause betting and figurative
gnashing of teeth. And yet a glance at
tho Montana papers shows that the fun
nels of tho Petropavlovsk aro now tho
main topic of tho editorial writers that
formerly railed for or against Holnzo and
other ornamonts of tho copper-producing
districts. So far a3 can be seen through
tho smoke of battle, the Anaconda Stand
ard and tho Butto Minor are the principal
battleships in action. The Miner showed
Its readers a picture of tho sunken flag
ship, which wa3 portrayed. In this in
stance, with threo funnels. The Standard
gave less funnel for tho money, Its pic
ture showing but two. Such a trifling dis
crepancy in the photographs of a ship
which was at the bottom of tho sa, any
way, would doubtless havo passed without
remark had not a Montana man, with
the spo'tln character of tho state, laid
a bot that tho Petropavlovsk herself had
two funnels, no more and no less. Tho
other party to the bet held that threo
funnels was the number. B lost In
other words. It seemed to bo satisfactorily
established that tho Standard's picture
camo closer to the original In tho matter
of funnels than did tho Miner's. The
Petropavlovsk is sunk beneath tha 'main,
and now that this dispute has been set
tled her hulk may rest In peace. But
what In tho world would happen should
Montana take to arguing and betting
over the pictures of Cossacks guarding
the railway or Manchurian brigands at
tacking a Russian convoy?
WHX. J.
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OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
"So yer let dat teacher lick yer?" "Well,
wot would yer hev mo to do? Hit a woman
dat knows nuttln' wotever about boxln'?"
Puek.
Ted What makes you think old Rocksey
doesn't Intend to let you marry hla daughter?
Ned The tip he gave me on the stock market
was a loser. Town Topics.
"They ain't a-goln to let BUI out on bond no
more." "They ain't?" "No. Last time he
got out he shot the Judge In the leg by mis
takean' the court's agln him now!" Atlanta
Constitution.
"Do the automobllists give you much trou
ble?" asked the visitor. "Not now," replied
the farmer, carelessly; "not since we've
learned that a charge of buckshot will bust a
tire." Chicago Post.
"But surely," protested the lately departed
Boston girl, "you are not going to take me to
the er Infernal regions. "Only for a few sec
onds," replied the attendant spirit. "We must
thaw you out a little." Town Topics.
Mr. Short Can I believe It you will really
marry me? Miss Tall Yes. I always make
my own drosses, and, aa we are both the same
height, you will come really handy when I
am cutting and fitting. New York Weekly.
"I have bet a silk hat with that man five
times in the last year, and ho has never paid
me one of them." "That so? I didn't knew
he was In the habit of breaking hla wori.
"Oh, he Isn't; he won the bets." Cincinnati
Times-Star.
"Pa. Is retribution the worst' thing a person
can haver "No; it Isn't half aa bad as the
feeling one has after he has confessed and
then discovered that he wouldn't have been
found out If he had kept quiet." Chicago Record-Herald.
"Money," said Senator Sorghum, "la the
cause of a great deal of corruption." "X am
glad you admit It." "Yes, I admit and deplore
it. My ambition for some time has been to
get enough of It to bo beyond the reach of
temptation." Washington Star,