Morning Oregonian., June 13, 1904, Page 6, Image 6

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PORTLAND, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1004.
SINUOSITIES OF STATESMANSHIP.
It Is Instructive as well as entertain
ing to read the deliverances of the
Democratic spokesman of Oregon on
National politics. The great men of the
party. Including the, delegates to the
Democratic National Convention, tell
us that nothing more must be said upon
the money question. That "free sil
ver," which they all supported but a
little while ago, Is now a dead issue.
That there is nothing In "anti-Imperialism,"
because the United States cer
tainly will not withdraw from Hawaii,
from Porto Rico and from the Philip
pines. That the Panama question, out
of which there has been enormous ef
fort to manufacture Democratic thun
der, must be dropped, ''because there
is nothing In it." In other words, the
Democratic party admits It has been all
wrong, has been raising false alarms,
and now wants to quit its past. But
it has yet, or thinks It has, a card or
two which It would play. The states
men of Oregon Democracy wish to
make the issue on the trusts and the
tariff.
This is Governor Chamberlain's view.
This is ex-Senator Holman's view.
This is J. D. Matlock's view. This is
the view of Sheridan of Douglas and of
Gleason of Multnomah. It is the view
of the delegates from Oregon to the
Democratic National Convention so
far as it Is possible to arrive at their
views.
So the great Issues of the past ten
years, on which our Democratic friends
in Oregon, as well of the United States,
asserted that the liberty and the pros
perity of the American people de
pended, are no more. They have gone
glimmering. They are obsolete. It Is
admitted, then, that the Democratic
cry was a false alarm. Governor
Chamberlain admits it; and you know
he is a statesman. Colonel Holman
admits it, and you know he isn't. So of
the rest. Meantime there must be
new issues. They are the trusts and
the tariff.
It Is on these subjects, therefore, that
the Democratic party, under the lead
of Oregon, is now to "come out strong."
Bryan will not do. because he is too
violently opposed to the trusts and to
protective tariff; Hearst will not do, for
the same and for other reasons. No
body under the attainder of Bryan and
Hearst ideas will do. In order to fight
the trusts and to cut down the in
famous protective tariff, we must have
a Democratic candidate who stands well
with Wall street and the trusts and
with the great protectionist interests
of the counry.
A New Tork man, say one Alton B.
Parker, whose name will not alarm the
trusts, nor startle timid capital out of
its propriety, nor threaten the pro
tectionist manufacturers yet who may
be posed as the enemy of trusts and
protection is the man.
At last William Jennings Bryan be
comes a useful citizen. He stands ou
against this cheat and humbug and
ridicules it He asks his party to af
firm something, to stand for some
thing and not be a mere pretense, try
ing to veil its purposes and to deceive
the country.
Since the establishment of the first
llfesavlng station by the United States
in 1847 the record of this service has
been one of continued heroism and of
yearly augmenting usefulness. The an
nual report of the veteran Superintend
ent Sumner I. Kimball follows closely
the customary lines. It contains many
pages of detail in which 'ho attempt is
made to embellish facts with sentiment,
yet which in reality the story is one of
great heroism and endurance. Briefly
stated, of the S5S2 persons whose lives
were placed in jeopardy by disaster
within reach of the llfesavlng service
last year only 20 were lost. The total
value of the vessels and cargoes in
danger of shipwreck amounted to
58,848,215; of this amount, 57.6S3.5S0 was
saved. Of the means -used In saving
human life In peril, the surf boat,
manned and urged forward Into tem
pestuous seas, made 1180 trips, landing
over 100 persons. The breeches buoy
made 86 trips and landed 79 persons.
The work of the llfesavers is of an extra-hazardous
nature, but 'thus far the
Government has made no provisions for
pensioning them, either for age or dis
ability incurred in the service!. In some
instances pay has been granted for two
or three months to a disabled man or
to the family of one who has lost his
life. Upon this subject the report has
this to say: "Pensions are a necessary
measure for the preservation of the ef
ficiency of the service. A great num
ber of men have grown old in the ranks,
particularly of station-keepers, who are
able to get through the required phys
ical examination, but who are really
unfit to endure the prolonged struggles
and the perils and privations Incident
to their positions; yet they choose to
face these rather than the prospect of
want, or a reliance upon the charity of
neighbors." A bill providing for pen
sions for this class of Government em
ployes has been Introduced in Congress,
"and Superintendent Kimball expresses
the hope that it will be passed at the
next session. '
A BATTLE OF GIANTS.
The Chicago convention promises to
be a tame affair. It comports well with
the history of its party for many years.
That is, its course has been laid out
for it by unseen forces and unexpected
events. When Governor McKlnley was
arraigning Grover Cleveland In 1891 for
discriminating against silver, he little
thought that In five yeare the National
campaign, with himself as the Presi
dential nominee, would be pitched tn
the repudiation of his own speech.
' No more warning or circumspection
had the Republican party as the expo
nent of expansion. The blowing up of
the Maine and the soldierly exploit of
George Dewey were things undreamed
of at McKinley's second inauguration.
The President tried- manfully, indeed,
to escape from war, and strove against
acceptance of the burden in the Phil
ippines. BUt it was all to no purpose.
The course of human affairs moves
from unforeseen causes to unintended
ends, sometimes unwelcome ends.
Somebody, who is at the helm for the
ponce, becomes responsible for the sea
manship of the ship of state, but not
for the port Into which he is compelled
to take his way.
We might go farther back. It would
be easy to show from the record that
the overthrow of slavery was a thing
unpremeditated in the National mind in
1860. The Civil War itself was .not
apprehended as the Inevitable conflict
until after it had become history.
Pregnant hints of these mysterious
leadings of events are scattered all
through Lincoln's state papers. He
feels All -the while that.he never knows
what is coming. He takes up the tasks
as the way opens, but he does not pre
tend to see or choose the way. The at
titude is rather that of Newman's
deathless hymn, "Lead thou me on!"
Being in power, the Republican party
then has without especial credit or dis
credit to itself become the custodian of
the Government as it has moved along
unfamiliar and at times disquieting
paths. Representing at the North,
where and only where men vote their
convictions on National questions, a
popular vote of some 6,000,000 out of
10,000,000 and an electoral vote of ex
actly 292 in S02; representing in Con
gress, from Northern states, where and
only where members of Congress are
chosen on National Issues, 207 out of
261 Representatives and fifty-eight out
of sixty-four Senators representing
tnus me vast majority of the American
people, the Republican party has be
come, through force of circumstances,
the agent of National development
As to the Presidential nominee, the
result at Chicago is equally predeter
mined. Theodore Roosevelt was not
nominated at Philadelphia In 1900 to
become President but to remove him
from power In affairs. His accession
was determined by events. So has been
his present ascendancy. Effort has not
been lacking to divert the nomination
from him; but two of the most powerful
figures in the party, who might have
brought another result to pass, Hanna
and Quays are dead. Age and ambi
tious rivals have shorn Piatt of his
power, and circumstances have con
spired to remove from the area of pos
sibilities every other name. There is
no more choice at Chicago than there
was at Philadelphia in 1900 or at Min
neapolis In 1892.
Not so with the Democrats at St.
Louis. It has been the contrary and
lamentable fortune of the Democratic
party to be the Inevitable critic and
opponent of these National movements
that have gone on under Republican
ascendancy. How bootless the task has
been Is Indicated from the vain ef
fort in 1888 and 1894, under the only two
Democratic administrations In forty
eight years, to reverse the policy of the
country on the issue which apparently
carried the Democratic party to power.
The Mills bill failed In the Senate, and
there also by Democrats the Wilson bill
was made over into a protection meas
ure. It is unquestionable that similar
failure would mark the attempt of the
Democratic party to divert the Nation
from other established courses on which
it Is tending. They cannot change
events or movements of the time, they
can only look on and complain in dis
cordant tones; some- that the Govern
ment Is too strong, others that it is too
weak; some that we are too much for
property, others that we are too much
for labor; some that we are too lax
with official misconduct, others that we
are too severe.
It is not surprising, therefore, that In
this extremity of confusion and cross
purposes, in this army divided into
mutually belligerent and destructive
camps, the Democratic National Con
vention meets, 100 years after Thomas
Jefferson was elected the second time
by 162 votes out of the 176 in the elec
toral college, not only identified in the
public mind with hostility to Jefferson's
honest money views and Jefferson's ex
pansion practice, but hopelessly at sea
as to Its declaration of principles and
its Presidential nominee. Nothing
whatever is certain about the St Louis
Convention, therefore, but that it will
be a genuine contest, admirably com
patible with Democratic habit and pre
dilection. When the convention ad
journs, it will have marked a memor
able milestone in the history of the
party, of the Nation and of popular
government
The most interesting thing about the
St Louis Convention Is that it will be
a battle of giants. The Kansas City
affair of four years ago was depress
ingly dull and pitifully hopeless. The
delegates cheered themselves hoarse
qver . the escape from sliver as "the
naramount issue." DBrcelvlnir. the
wisest of them, that the exit was only
Into the equally Impossible ground of
"njitl-Imnerlallsm." The foregone con
clusion of platform and nominee kept
the, giants of the- party away from the
convention almost without exceDtlon.
This year they are all going. Th& names
of the principal figures are found in
the admirable- forecast of the -convention
which we printed from our Wash
ington bureau In yesterday's Issue.
Governors, Senators, Representatives
and in general the chief Democrats in
all the states will be there, and for a
purpose;
Curiously enough, they are going
there, not so much in hope of winning
the election in November, or in deter
mination to get results in platform or
on ticket, as to establish themselves In
their respective state's and crush rivals,
for local purposes and. for the possibil
ities of the next campaign. Hill 13
there to crush Murphy and Murphy to
Undermine HUL The "Big Four" in
almost every state have personal and lo
cal ambitions of this sort which will
inform the nominal conflict over plat
form and candidates. What the plat
form says or who is nominated, they
care little. Each is battling for his
own political future. All of which is
promising, for it provides the elements
of a first-class contest What becomes
of Hearst or Parker concerns none of
them so much as what damage can
be inflicted upon a rival. No desire to,
honor a deserving statesman or carry
principles to victory can equal for com
pelling urgency the desperation of
Bryan fighting for vindication and of
the Cleveland wing fighting to Justify
its course in 1896.
OREGON'S EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.
Oregon's public school system Js un
dergoing changes which promise to
transform it from a chaotic condition
Into a perfect and harmonious whole.
Indeed, much progress has been made
In that direction In the last few years,
and, though the work goes on with so
little display that few observe it, im
portant changes are now being made.
Without any apparent organized effort
for that purpose, all the educational In
terests are striving for the Improve
ment of our schools and great good Is
being accomplished. ,
One of the first steps that marked a
permanent advance in the educational
system was the adoption of a required
course of Btudy for the common schools
and a uniform examination for gradua
tion from the eighth grade. This
change, effected through the persistent
and Intelligent efforts of Superintend
ent Ackerman, loyally aided by the
leading .'eachers of the state, Aas given
the common school a definite charac
ter so that completion, of the course
means something that can be under
stood by educational workers In this
and other states. Under the former go-as-you-please
methods, a diploma
showing graduation from the eighth
grade meant nothing in particular, ex
cept In Portland, Salem and a few of
the larger towns.
It Is different now. and th mini's in
the smallest and most remote country
school in the state pursue the same
course prescribed for the largest and
best schools in the Valley. At the com
pletion of the course the boy and girl
in far-off Malheur undergo exactly the
same educational test that Is used in
the public schools of Multnomah
County. A diploma of graduation from
the eighth grade is signed by the
County Superintendent and it entitles
the holder to admission to any ninth
grade in the state. These first eight
years of study represent a definite
amount of work, and a diploma has a
meaning that every public school
worker, whether In the primary de
partment or In the University of Ore
gon, fully understands.
Along with this organization of the
common schools has grown up a high
school system which is now quite firmly
established in nearly every county In
the state. In the less populous coun
ties, the high schools are yet iacklng
in some respects, bu.t they are founded
upon the same general plan to take
up the work where the common school
leaves off and prepare the pupil for en
trance to the freshman class of the
State Uunlversity. The high school
course comprises four years of work,
and wherever It has been brought to
the required standard, a diploma show
ing graduation has a definite meaning.
The high school is yet In its formative
period in several of the counties, but
the time will soon come when In ev.ery
county there will be offered a uniform
four years' course of instruction above
the eighth grade.
The State University has recently
given the high-school movement a now
impetus by dropping from its course
of study all branches properly Included
In high-school work. Heretofore, stu
dents could, go to the State University
and take two or three years of work
preparatory to entrance in the fresh
man year. This has been gradually
eliminated until now the board of re
gents has found It practicable to drop
all the preparatory work and concen
trate the work of the Institution upon
the four years of the college course.
This will tend to strengthen the high
schools, for students who would other
wise secure their preparatory instruc
tion at Eugene must 'now go either to
the public high schools or to some of
the private academies. With this elim
ination of the academic work, the edu
cational standards at the State Uni
versity have been raised and that In
stitution will htcome more popular
among our young men -and women
seeking a college education.
This systematic organization of our
public school system is in keeping with
the best thought of the time In every
line of effort. A perfect organization
of working forces does -more than any
other one- thing to secure the success
of industrial enterprises. Each depart
ment of a factory or of a business in
stitution has its particular work to
which it gives excluslv6 attention.
Thus each worker Is enabled to ac
complish the greatest results, and since
the whole system works In harmony,
there is nothing left undone. Thus It
will be in our educational system. The
completion of the eighth grade will be
the ambition of every boy and girl who
enters the public schools. When a com
mon school education has been ac
quired, many will drop out and learn
trades, become farmers or laborers,
housekeepers, or enter the agricultural
college or normal school to prepare for
special work. Others will continue the
course and graduate from the high
school. A still smaller number will go
on through the State University, com
pleting the sixteen years of study
which the public school system offers.
It Is neither practicable- nor wise for
every person who enters the first year
of the common schools to Yry to com
plete the senior year of the "university,
but It is well that the whole system
should be so harmoniously organized
that those who desire to pursue the
whole course may do so with no loss
of time or waste effort
The condition of affairs in Lake
County for some months past shows
that border ruffianism yet lingers upon
the outskirts of civilization and" that
savages have not all "been confined, to
Indian reservations. It is plain that
lawlessness upoa the sheep ranges must
be checked by legitimate means, and
that very soon, if re would not have
the vendetta rule in this section of our
state as It has long ruled in portions
of Kentucky and West Virginia.
"Catching Is before hanging;" to be
sure, .arid it is difficult to accomplish
this necessary preliminary. Once ac
complished, however, it is very certain
that rope wll be stretched in the In
terest ot justice in the' Silver Lake re
gion, either lawfully or unlawfully. The
rewards offered by the G6vernor for' the
apprehension of criminals who have
made ruthless war upon, the sheep In
dustry, killing not' only inoffensive and
helpless animals, but their caretakers,
have Induced the people to believe that
vigorous effort will be made to appre
hend the miscreants and visit penalty
upon them. The slate, should spare
neither effort nor expense necessary to
put. a stop to the outlawry Upon the
ranges that has already sufficiently dis
graced it
A EROBESaC IN TRANSPORTATION.
The lisndon Times' military critic ar
gues with convincing force that the
fatal weakness of Rus3$a Is her hopeless
incapacity to solve her Immense trans
portation problem. The French mili
tary authorities,, confirmed by those of
Austria, state the daily wants of an
army of 300,000 men and 100,000. horses
to represent a daily weight of 1600 tons
a day In food alone. The maximum
carrying power of the. Trans-Siberian
single-track railway could not suffice to
feed the army, since 1600 tons a day
represent 177 wagons, or seven trains of
twenty-five wagons, one in excess of
the number of military trains which the
Russian superintendent of military
transportation .expects to obtain daily.
The Japanese staff reckoned correctly,
therefore, in their estimate that 250,000
men was the largest army Russia could
maintain" In the Far East by means of
the railway. It is not believed by Euro
pean military authorities that Russia
can send more than 20,000 men a month
to the East, and how these numbers are
to be fed passes the wit of man to
imagine.
A Russian' army corps of 41,000 men,
leaving Moscow on June 1, would reaqh
Mukden about July 6, and the. corps
would be completely concentrated not
before August 13. The conclusion of
these Continental critics is that, so- long
as Japan ' retains the command of the
sea, sjie can place two or more men in
the field for every one that Russia
brings up, since she can throw troops
into Manchuria with greater facility,
greater speed and in more efiicient con
dition. The extraordinary difficulty of
the Russian problem of military trans
portation over a single-track railway of
5000 miles may be illustrated by the
difficulty with which General Sherman
supplied his army of 100,000 men moving
on Atlanta from Dalton, Ga,, by a sin
gle line of railroad from Nashville, in
May, 1864. In this campaign troops en
route were directed to march, Unless
in cases of sudden emergency they were
ordered forward by rail. The railway
trains were strictly devoted to the car
rying of Army supplies. '
It took 1300 tons per. day to keep the
Army of 100,000 men supplied and accu
mulate such stores as would be needed
In case of temporary interruption of
communications by accident or by the
enemy's cavalry. Sherman drove beef
cattle for the Army on foot to the front,
and it was only b such vigorous meas
ures that Sherman kept his Army of
100,000 men supplied on the march of
some 150 miles between Dalton arid At
lanta. It took Sherman from May 4 to
July 20 to reach the enemy's lines be
fore Atlanta. Of course, the Russians
encounter no opposition to their march
of reinforcement, but It Is exceedingly
long and their line of railway military
BUpply utterly Inadequate.
So with the march of Sherman's
Army of 60,000 from Atlanta to the sea,
from Savannah to Goldsboro, the same
difficult problem of military transpor
tation had to be solved, and the diffi
culty of its solution over comparatively
Bhort distances -shows how serious a
matter the forwarding of a great army
from Moscow to Mukden over a single
track railway -of Inadequate supply
must be. The only advantage the Rus
sians have Is that until they reach
Manchuria they will meet with no mili
tary opposition, but in every other re
spect General Sherman had the best
of it, for his Army officers and men
were of very high Intelligence, the
ranks of hl3 soldiers furnished skilled
mechanics, engineers and artisans who
could build a railway, construct a
bridge, repair a locomotive with such
rapidity that General Joe Johnston,
who was a generous foe, said that no
army since the days of Julius Caesar
had ever surmounted such natural diffi
culties with equal energy and success
as that of Sherman.
Now, remembering that the Russian
railway line of supply Is a single-track
railway nearly 6000 miles long, run by
men who are Inferior to Americans in
Intelligence, energy and mechanical
skill, and it becomes clear that the
Russian problem of military transpor
tation is one of tremendous magnitude
and extraordinary difficulty. It is so
stupendous that the view of "the Eng
lish military critics that unless Russia
regains control of the sea she 13 likely
to be beaten seems not an extravagant
judgment Russia will fight to the last;
she cannot afford to do otherwise. To
refuse to fight would be to part with
her prestige among Asiatics. She can
not afford to evacuate Port Arthur; she
cannot afford to yield Mukden without
a battle, but unless she regains the sea
she is likely to lose the day.
The modesty of Secretary Hitchcock
in allotlng to himself credit for the Re
publican victory in the State of Oregon
is surprising. His claims should be ac
companied by specifications, for a num
ber of the men who assisted in rolling
up that magnificent majority are under
the impression that some of the Sec
retary's Democratic special agents have
bfeen devoting more of their time to
politics than they have to unearthing
land frauds. It was under-handed
work of this nature which made the
task of attaining that majority much
harder than it would have been had
not some -of the "suspicions" of these
special agents been paraded before the
public as facts. .
Surely the hop-growing counties of
Western Oregon that have voted for
Prohibition, under the name of local
option, will not keep on growing hops,
whose only commercial value lies In the
fact that they may be converted into
"that dark beverage of hell." Last
year's crop of nearly 100,000 bales
brought Into their pockets 53,800,000.
With all this blood money ' in ithelr
pockets are these counties going on to
grow more bops?
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AS SOLID AS' OF. OLD;
New Tork Globe.
The Democrats of the; country will not
be able to- extract either comfort or en
couragement from the result of y ester
nay's election In Oregon. Pour years
ago. in a precisely similar election, the
Republicans carried the- state by a plu
rality of about 8000 for the highest can
didate on the ticket and by a plurality
of about 3000 In the Flrat Congressional
District and about 0000 in tho Second.
Now they are said to have a plurality
of 18,000 In the state, about 800Q in tho
First Congressional District and about-
10.000 In the Second. It was deduced
from the result four years ago that riot
only was the state certain for the Re
publicans In the ensuing Presidential
election, but that the figures of the re
turns showed conclusively that there had
been no diminution In Republican
strength throughout the country as a
whole. This was confirmed by the re
sults in November, for McKlnley carried
Oregon by 13,000 plurality and the coun
try by a larger popular and electoral
vote than he had received In 1806.
It was thought now tuat a change fa
vorable to the Democrats had been In
progress In Oregon because the Demo
crats elected their candidate for Gov
ernor In 1902 by 276 majority, and be
cause, at a special election for Congress
man, in the First District in June of last
year, the Republicans had a plurality of
only about 2000. The result yesterday
shows that these Democratic hopes were
delusive, and that tho state and, infer
cntlally, tue northwestern section of
which it Is a part, is as solidly Republi
can as it was in 1S96 and 1900.
It Could Be Heard.
Boston Transcript
Oregon has fired the first shot of tho
Presidential- campaign, and It has no un
certain sound. Yesterday Oregon elected
a Supreme Court Judge and two Con
gressmen. Dispatches at hand indlcato
that the aggregate of the Republican
pluralities will reach that of two years
ago, If It does not exceed it In 1902 the
Republicans had 7372. plurality in the first
district and 83S9'in the second. Yester
day's ' Republican pluralities are put at
from E000 to 7600 in the first and 10,000
In the second. Oregon has a Democratic
Governor, G. E. Chamberlain, 'who was
elected in 1902 by consequence of faction
fighting among the Republicans, who
made a weak nomination. The .fact that
Oregon has a Democratic Governor has
caused uneasiness among those Republi
cans who have forgotten that on tho very
day on wa.ch he was chosen the Re
publicans carried both Congressional dis
tricts by great pluralities.' Oregon's vote
of yesterday shows that there is no Re
publican "slump" in the Pacific North
west No Reaction Apparent.
Baltimore News.
The long-looked-for reaction against
the Republican party does not snow It
self in Oregon. The Republicans of that
state yesterday elected their two candi
dates for Congress, one by a plurality of
from 5000 to 7000 and the other, by a plu
rality of about 10,000, which Is the usual
figure. The Republican candidate for
Judge of the Supreme Court will have a
plurality of 20,000, about the same as the
plurality for tho Republican-, candidate
for Governor two years ago.
A Fruitful Source.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Of course, the "sane" Democracy will
make no use of Oregon's increased Re
publican majority iafter its Democracy
declared for Hearst
Hardly an Event of Note.
Chicago Tribune.
If Oregon wants to " get Itself noticed
under a scaro head It will have to do
something more startlingly unusual than
to go Republican.
Far Removed From Folly.
Kansas City Journal.
Perhaps Oregon was too far away to
be properly impressed with the enormity
of the Administration's offenses against
the constitution.
Bryan at St. Louis.
New York Sun (Dera.)
As Mr. Bryan will be chairman of the,
Nebraska delegation to St Louis, he will
necessarily be a member of the commit
tee on resolutions and In that capacity
will be able to submit a minority report,
embodying his views to the National Con
vention. Will he content himself with
that demonstration of consistency and
thereafter bow to the will of the party,
or, having failed to rule the Democracy,
as fall he unquestionably will, will he try
to run It by repudiating the platform and
candidate put forward by its accredited
representatives? ... If we were to
consider on the interest of the great con
servative mass of the historical Democ
racy we should feel constrained to say
that a sweeping exodus of the Bryaniie
element would be, upon the whole, a
fortunate event. It would probably as
sure victory to the Democratic party
this year, and, even should It cause "an
ephemeral reverse, it would offer a re
splendent promise for the future.
Cannon May Be Dragged In.
Detroit Free Press.
He may hug the speaker's gavel to his
breast and declare that to him it is the
implement Indicative of the greatest
honor he can hope to win, but hl3 fit
ness Is on his trail and whether he will
or no he may find that there is a demand
for his nomination that he canno with
stand. His objections will be overruled
as Mr. Roosevelt's were overruled in 1900,
and. willy-nilly, he will be gathered up
and hurled into the office and become an
appreciable part of the "old men's
morgue." And he would add strength to
the ticket. The politicians will remember
that.
What He Might Do.
Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
A fearful contingency Is suggested that
in the event of President Roosevelt's de
feat he might set up a new newspaper,
the Cowboy, in opposition to Mr. Bryan's
Commoner. What Is still more alarming
is that ho would go to writing more so
called histories and biographies like thoso
in which he hag wantonly assailed the
memories of nearly all his great predeces
sors in the office of President.
From "The Problem."
Emerson. ,
Not from a vain or shallow thought
His awful Jove young Phidias 'brought;
Never from tie Hps of cunning fell
The thrilling Delphic oracle;
Out from the heart of Nature rolled
The burdens of the Bible old;
The litanies of nations came,
Like the volcano's tongue of flame.
Up from the burning core below
The cantlclea of love and woe.
The hand that rounded Peter's dome,
And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,
Wrought in a sad sincerity;
Himself from God he could not free;
He bullded "better than he knew;
The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Know"et thou what wove yon wopdblrd's-nest
Of leaves, and feathers from her breaot?
Or now the fish outbuilt her shell.
Painting with morn each annual cell?
Or how the sacred pine tree adds
To her old leaves new myriads?
Such and. so grew these holy plies.
Whilst love and terror laid the tiles.
Karth proudly wears the Parthenon
Aa the bret gem upon her zone;
And Morning opes with haste her lids.
To gaxe upon the Pyramids;
O'er England's abbeys bends the sky.
As-on Its friends, with kindred eye;
For. out of Thought's interior sphere.
These wonders rcse to upper air;
And Nature gladly gave them place, ,
Adopted them into her race, .
And granted them an eual date
With Andes arid with Ararat.
. OBLIGATIONS TO THE DOCTORS.
Philadelphia. Record.
, The American . Medical Association's
annual convention in Atlantic City, which
will open today, will bring together tho
largest number of eminent physicians and
surgeons who are in the, habit of as
sembUng for professional advantage, com
bined with a little recreation. The occa
sion invites acknowledgment of the enor
mous obligations of society to the pro
fessionone which In the very nature ot
the case Is the most progressiva of all
the learned professions, and which, for
that reason, reflecta more perfectly than
any other tho intellectual progress of the
age. Divinity and law progress, yet they
are inevitably moored to ancient revela
tions and lo precedents and established
principles. Medicine and surgery are as
progressiva as pure science, with several
of whose branches they are most inti
mately connected. So rapid is the growth
of knowledge, and so constant tho change
of method In the healing art. that a dis--tingulshcd
doctor who was consulted
about the revision of a professional
library gave the Bhort and comprehensive
prescription to throw away every book
more than ten years old.
There are still Hying persons who can
remember when surgery ventured little
beyond amputations, and "saw-bones"
was net a very misleading piece of slang.
Now the wonders of abdominal surgery
follow so fast Upon each other as to ex
cite little astonishment and even an in
jured heart has been repaired. Medicine
has suffered somewhat in popular estima
tion from tha greater wonders of the
knlte, though unjustly. Diseases that
were hopeless are now considered hardly
serious; epidemics are stayed; sanitation
Is making illness rather a fault than a
misfortune; preventive medicine Is taking
the place of the curative; the voice of
Rachel weeping for her children Is not
heard as It was a century ago, and a ma
terial addition. hn been made to the aver
age of human life. In spite of the strain
of modern life, of which so much la
heard, there is little doubt that the period
.of man's activity has been considerably
prolonged. We may still jest about doc
tors, as of everything, but we are under
great and growing obligations to them.
Bent on Mischief.
Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.).
If In this year'3 contest for President
the Democrats are to have even the most
desperate fighting chance, it lies In the
complete elimination of the policies and
men that doomed them to defeat In 1896
and 190O. Bryanlsm not only defeated
Democracy, it disorganized and demor
alized the party. In those two years in
which he was a candidate Bryan was the
wrecker of his party and obviously with
out Intending to do so, but he is now
plotting .further to wreck it as a revealed
wrecker. His purpose to rule or ruin
it is undisguised and his presence in the
St Louis Convention at the head of the
Nebraska delegation bodes no godd to the
National Democracy. He is bent on
mischief and his designs can be thor
oughly thwarted only by the convention
Ignoring him, his followers and platform.
Before the Democratic party can possibly
rise on the stepping-stone of its dead self
to victory it must rid itself once and
forever of the deadly blight of Bryanlsm.
Cleveland and the South.
Charleston, S. C. News and Courier
(Dem.)
The people of the South are indebted
to Mr. Cleveland for that recognition
which made the South really a part of
this country. Ho stood firmly for the
revision of the tariff, ho maintained the
public credit he put down the spirit of
anarchy, he declared against the robbery
of the public treasury for the .benefit of
unworthy pensioners upon the people's
bounty, he reaffirmed the Monroe Doc
trine in the "Venezuelan dispute, he re
sisted the' tendency to entangling al
liances with other countries, he stood
for the supremacy of law. and for the
greatness and self-sufficiency of this
country. Mr. Watterson and other strong
men have made objections to him, but
they have made no objections and can
make none which would destroy the faith
of the people in Cleveland or which would
In any way affect our Juagment of the
man.
Compulsion to Be Used.
Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.).
There will be no repetition of this fa
tuity at St Louis this much is assured
beyond the peradventure of a doubt. In
other words, there will be no dictation.
From a controlling force Bryan has
dwindled into a factor of comparative in
significance. Of course, he will cling to
and fight for his antiquities, but his ab
surdities are awaiting disposition on this
occasion, reasonably certain to be final
the party will wash Its hands of Bryan
lsm. By the time the convention has
gqne into history he wil be confronted
by the disagreeable necessity of exploit
ing his exploded notions under other
auspices. A good day's work will have
been done when he Is more or less
courteously dismissed. Senator McCarren
once suggested that, ho "go away back
and sit down." It"ls needless to add that
compulsion is among the requisites. The
seat is ready for him, and it is a back
seat
Strength of the Mormon Church.
Minneapolis Journal.
The Mormon Church Is a great com
mercial and Industrial power. Its people
do not co-operate in the socialistic sense,
but the capital to conquer new soli from
the desert to start new manufactures
and to extend their influence In every way
Is supplied by the tithe, or tenth part
of every Mormon's income, so rigidly col
lected. With this vast fund the wilder-,
ness and the solitary place have been
made glad and the desert to blossom as
the rose. Industrially the Mormon Church
has done wonders for the West, but It
has all been done for the aggrandizement
of the Mormon hierarchy.
Taking a Long Step.
Washington Post (Ind.)
There is positively nothing to be found
in existing conditions to indicate that the
party would suffer at the -polls in any
state in which the Democrats have a
fighting chance of success by the defec
tion of Mr. Bryan. Indications are, on
the other hand, that the Democratic
party will take a long step toward re
habilitating itself in the confidence of
the people when it rids itself once and
forever of the last vestige of the bifght
of Bryanlsm.
The Dffference.
Atlanta Constitution (Dem.)
However, Judge Parker does not bottle
his mouth with his foot, as does the
loquacious gentleman who will likely op
pose him for the Presldenoy. The shal
lows babble, not the deep.
Go, Loyely Rose..
Edmund Waller.
Go, lovely Rose!
Tell her, that wastes her time and me,
That now she knows.
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems '-to be.
Tell her that's young
And shuns to have hix graces spied,
That badst thou sprung
In deserts, where no men abide.
Thou must have uncoromended died.
f
Small Is the worth v
Of beauty from the light retired:
Bid her come forth.
Suffer herself to be desired.
And not blush so to be admired.
Then die! that she
The common fate of all things rare
- May read In thee:
'. How .small a part of time they share
," That wo so wondrous sweet and fair!
NOTE ANDjOMMpJ
'"Each morn a thousand roses- brings."
drinks most any old brand of whisky.
Tho nl j . x. Jit. .nAM -t Truk
doing the Tracy act by. surrounding tho
posses.
To Women nhni ..tt.it t T.nnta tha
Kansas City World gives some assorted
chunks ot advice. "Don't start .tired." is
the first warning. Anotheris '-'Doa't
carry much monev in mnr tmiina In St
Louis they are holdlmr un women on tho
streets In broad daylight" Things must
certainly be In a bad way at St Louls
when It gets a knock like this. "
Even tl dumb brutes feel tho-xlorious
influence of June, as tho editor of the
Maryvllle. (Ga.) Record has noticed.
'These beautiful warm sunshiny days."
he says, "mako pigs feel tired, and they
love to take beauty naps In the warm
sunshine on the sidewalks. It almost
seems cruel to be obliged to disturb their
slumbers In order to get by them."
"According to a North Missouri paper,"
says the Kansas City World, "the cir
cuses havo grown so moral that there is
a heavy falling, off in attendance." The
people of Northern Missouri seem to ba
applying to the circus treatment hitherto
reserved for other shows. "Make tho
stage moral," says the public, and when
its advice is taken stays at home.
Somo people there be that say our
young millionaires lead too reposeful
lives. "They should be up and doing,"
say the censors of empty existences.
None, however, can condemn Reginald
Vanderbllt He is leading a life rull ot
excitement, and his deeds, of derrlng-dof
have not been equaled by any. To dodgo
Jerome 13 in Itself an achievement worthy
of a place In the Hall of Fame.
The Pruneville Journal tells this election
story:
Judge it E. Brink was doing a little elec
tioneering himself Monday morning. While
standing on the sidewalk near the Courthouse
he got his eye fixed on a. copper-skinned Sl
wash from the Agency whom he thought
would be willing to vpte about the way the
Judge believed was" right. So he touched tho
Indian on the shoulder and the conversation
which was overheard by several bystanders is
related this way:
"Well, my son, where are you from?"
"Agency." "Going to vote today, my boy?"
"Yep." "Are you right sure you know which
men to vote fori' asked tho Judge, who was
parrying in a legal way for a little elbow
room. "Yep," aald his monosyllabic client,
whose face was as stolid as a brick wall.
"What's your business, my boy?" "Banker."
"Banker!" said the Judge, as he took, a step
backwards to keep from falling over. "Yep."
"Where were you born?" "Ireland," said tha
stoical copper-skin and the bystanders snort
ed. And the Judge -couldn't tell to save his
collar, button from scratching his neck who
the Joke was on or for whom the Indian af
terwards voted.
We are Indebted -to the Kansas City
World for some useful hints concerning
conduct at the table, with especial refer
ence to accidents. "If one happens to
spill something Nhe Is unfortunate, but a
ready, earnest apology is all that he can
do to remedy the difficulty. A careful
hostess will acknowledge the apology
and immediately change the subject"
This Is undoubtedly a better plan than
offering to pay the laundry bill. Thero
may be some doubt about this, however.
"If a guest drops a fork or a spoon he
should let it lie. The hostess will provlJo
another." Suppose the -hostess hasn't got
another, what's to be done? "If a bit of
food falls on the bodice- or waistcoat of
a guest he should remove as much of It
as he can, quietly, with the corner of his
napkin." A "he" guest with a bodice
would be something ot a curiosity, but
here again the advice is excellent Far
better to frankly remove "as much of It
as you can" than to affect a-lofty Ignor
ance of the accident when a plate of
hash empties itself over your bodice or
waistcoat. And besides It would be a
pity to waste it -
. It Is a curios thing that just at present
there should be, heard protests against
ritualism in the church and in the col
lege, If ritualism may be used in a broad
1 er sense. The Protestant Episcopal
Church, to be sure, is accustomed to out
breaks of such criticism, but it Is moro
novel as applied to the universities. Tho
Boston Transcript mentions recent func
tions at Yale. Harvard and Columbia, and
points out the increased formality and
ceremony. Guests are marshalled in ac
cordance with rules of precedence hither
to honored more In the Old World than in
the New. The Milwaukee Wisconsin
says that the undergraduates of the State
University were offended by the wearing
of caps and gowns by the faculty at tho
celebration of the university's jubilee, al
though the same students are "respons
ible for the costly ostentation of tho
Junior Prom." Ceremony is, after all,
dear to the American soul. Look at,, tha
flub-dub associated with fraternal organ
izations, and the grandeloquent titles of
their officials. From the affairs of tho
Nation and of great institutions, cere
mony I3 Inseparable. With the lapse of
time custom grows stronger, and each
year leaves an additional deposit of cere
mony. Presidential inaugurations are ex
ample enough.
WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
Nell I wouldn't marry a man who drinks
beer. Belle No; I suppose It's champagne or
nothing, for you. Philadelphia Record.
"She was deaf to his suit." "I don't see
how she could be. Why, his clothes are louder
than those tho college boys wear!" Cleveland
Leader.'
A bore is a man who tells the smart things
his baby said when you want to be telling
the smarter things you said. Baltimore
American.
Mother There, Ethel, don't cry. The spank
ing hurt mother more than it did you. Ethel
I know it. That's what I'm crying for. Har
per's Bazar.
First Artist We must go to nature for our
subjects. Second Artist Oh. that's easy, but
where in thunder are we to go for our cus
tomers? Brooklyn Life.
Naybor Is that a new henhouse you're build
ing? . Mr. Snappy No; thi3 is an old one I'm
building to take .the place of the new one I
tore down last week. Philadelphia Ledger.
Butcher We have some very nice sugar
cured hams. Mrs. Newlywed I'm afraid they
won't do. You see, my husband doesn't be
lieve In homeopathy. Philadelphia Record.
"He's a gentleman. Isn't he?" "I think so.
He has a racing stable, gambles in Wall
street Is posted occasionally at his club, and
doesn't live with his family." Town Topics.
"The qucsUon is this: Would, you advise
me to marry a beautiful or a sensible girl?"
"What a foolish question! A beautiful girl
would do better, and a sensible girl would
now better." Puck.
"Sometimes." said Uncle Eben, " a man.
sits on dc do' step an' thinks he's smaht
enough to run de govment when he ain't got
Judgment enough to keep de cow out'p do
garden." Washington Star.
Billings They haven't decided yet what was
the cause of Tom's death. When found, there
was a bottle half-full of whisky on the table.
It is very sad. Noddle I believe you! What
a pity he. couldn't have lived long enough to
drink It all up! Boston Transcript.