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SrULY 8, 1904.
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rilliams, on taking1 thCr, at the
lopenlng of the conventio?" He "was
sandld enough to admit that he him-
Iself, standing with the great mass of
lis party, had accepted the party
scheme expressed in the Bryan plat
forms; but he said that fitful fever was
over now. The party, then drunk and
bold, is now sober and sane. But is
such a party to be trusted?
It tok Grover Cleveland for its idol;
and then, because Mr. Cleveland was
ascertained to have certain sound and
very positive opinions and purposes, not
in accord with Its instincts, it aban
doned him, denounced him, and
in a fury nominated Bryan his
antithesis and opposite. Following
its Instinct, it nominated Bryan
again. But now it lauds Cleve
land, claps and applauds the introduc
tion of his name, makes a platform
which is all he could desire, and nomi
nates a man who is to be presented to
the country as opposed directly to all
that Bryan stood for; and it seems to
suppose that upon, this record it can
win the confidence of the country.
Not unless the American people shall
have short memories, and that after a
lot of very bitter experience. But what
the Democratic party ought to do to
complete the simulation of its own
reformation and amendment is to pass
a resolution of thanks to the Republi
can party for saving it and for saving
the country from the consequences of
Democratic folly.
JUDGMENT ON DESERT.
A political party is not to be Judged
from the professions it makes, at a par
ticular time, or from its criticisms of Its
opponents; but from the whole course
and tenor of its own history.
Judged so, what Is the Democratic
party? What has it done during the
last fifty years that it can be proud of,
or the country can approve? It has
been beaten at all points; and the prog
ress and prosperity and glory of the
country during this long period consist
in and rest on the fact that Its policy
has been almost steadily rejected.
It did, indeed, have a brief period of
power, from 1S93 to 1897, when it had
full control of the Government; but that
period was the most disastrous in the
history of the country. So long as the
memory of that period remains, nobody
isvants a recurrence of it.
What the Democratic party of the
country has done, during the last fifty
years, has simply been to make all the
tasks of the country harder. This was
the result of its work during the fight
against the extension of slavery, during
the war for the Union, during all the
struggles with, all problems since cul
minating in the contest for mainte
nance of a rational monetary standard,
in harmony with the business condi
tions and common sense of mankind.
On the wrong side, on the irrational
side, of every important thing, you
have found the Democratic party.
The Democratic party realizes this.
So it finds it necessary, in order to get
any standing whatever, to reverse it
self. It Is now making a platform anti
thetical wholly; to the platforms it has'
put forth hitherto. Its effort is to get
away as far as possible from the plat
forms of 1896 and of 1900.
But what ground has such a party to
Btand on? The whole question now is
whether the Democratic party, with the
history It has made, is entitled. to the
confidence of the country.
How can a party be entitled to the
confidence of the country when it pre
sents Itself with a virtual confession in
its mouth that it has been all wrong for
fifty years, professes acceptance of all
ifcat has been achieved over Its opposi
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now to offer but quibbling criticism and
petty opposition, on matters already
achieved, which it dares not attempt to
reverse?
The true Judgment of a party and of
Its merit is not to be formed on Its pro
fessions of today, nor on Its splenetic
criticism of opponents, studied for fac
titious objects; but on the whole course
and tenor of Its history. Studying the
Democratic party, and Judging it, on
this rule, what can be Its desert? Let
Its St Louis pretensions be studied and
Judged on this basis and by this rule.
It is the only rational and Just method.
LABOR VOTE AND ROOSEVELT.
The labor vote elected Cleveland In
1892. The labor vote was cast over
whelmingly for McKlnley In 1896 and
1900. The labor vote wllbe overwhelm
ingly for Roosevelt In November, 1904,
and his election is therefore assured
within all reasonable human probabil
ity. By the labor vote we do not mean
simply the labor union vote, but the
vote of the industrial masses of the
country, whose sympathies are natur
ally with the cause and rights of wage
workers when they do not by their own
folly put themselves grossly In the
wrong. This vote always turns the
scale In the Presidential election, be
cause It Is In the mass an unpurchas
able vote. Much Is said of the power of
money In politics; but you cannot buy
up the great states of this country,
whatever you may be able to do with a
seven-by-nine pocket mine like Nevada.
The great majority of the wage-workers
of the North will vote for Roosevelt
rather than for any man the Democ
racy are likely to nominate. They will
do this, not because of any hero wor
ship or because of any contempt for
the Democratic candidate, but because
Roosevelt is the first President of the
United States who dared to violate all
precedent, and to create an extra-constitutional
commission to arbitrate be
tween the anthracite coal barons of
Pennsylvania and their striking miners.
During the dreadful Homestead (Pa.)
riots of 1892, President Harrison proba
bly would never have consented to use
the pressure of his great office to per
suade the Homestead manufacturers to
appear before such a commission. It Is
SnetJier any cautious, conser-
alned lawyer-President of
ty could be counted upon to
e precedent erected by Mr.
The worklngmen know that
Roosevelt "stood In the gap"
half of oppressed labor as no
sment ever has. They will
can trust Mr. Roosevelt to
his own precedent. We may
aj good-will again In some dire
fi idustrlal distress. Mr. Roose-
on forms no precedent. Is no
for the action of his succes-
ocrat or Republican: and
'e will keep him as long as
fore we i 111 replace him with
ose sympathy with the cause
Inst despotic, unjust capital
le of proof and les3 worthy
trust and confidence."
ument will be sure to be
the ablest leaders of the
Industrial classes as the
ng reason why Roosevelt
re-elected. They will say:
dared to stand by oppressed
when he put his whole political
fate In peril by so doing. We cannot
fairly do less than stand by him."
Against this argument it will be useless
to institute a campaign of Impertinent
personalities, or Irrelevant or inconse
quential comparisons. The average
worklngman will answer: "We do not
Impeach the personal character or pub
lic ability of Judge Parker, or whoever
the Democratic candidate may be. We
only say that we know Mr. Roosevelt Is
our friend, and we will not change him
If we can help It for a man who cer
tainly could not be a braver friend and
who might, when he uncloaked himself,
prove to be our enemy."
The creation of the Anthracite Coal
Strike Commission was perhaps the
greatest performance of Roosevelt's
whole career. He staked his whole fu
ture success upon that act and forced
the mlneowners to appear before It or
give Judgment against themselves by
default. When that strike commission
rendered Its verdict and President
Roosevelt Indorsed It with his approval,
he had really made sure, not necessarily
his nomination, but his election If he
were nominated.
A CHARACTERISTIC INCIDENT.
A pathetic circumstance of the har
rowing aftermath of the Slocum disas
ter was the death from grief and the
midnight burial of Rev. Edward Fred
erick Moldehuke, who had been pastor
since 1871. of St. Peter's German Lu
theran Church, which lost a large num
ber of Its members In the disaster. The
calamity followed closely upon a sea
son of great prosperity. The congrega
tion had Just finished a handsome new
church building. The members were
devoted to their pastor and their
church. The swift succession of con
flicting emotions was too much for the
pastor. The shock quickly prostrated
him and his death followed.
For many reasons peculiar to the peo
ple and the situation It was planned to
hold the funeral at 9 o'clock In the
evening, when the men as well as the
women of the hardworking congrega
tion could be present But with delays
incident to so many calls upon the un
dertakers. It was midnight before the
ceremony was begun. No less than 3000
persons of all ages waited patiently and
silently through three weary hours, and
then walked the distance of over a, mile
that Intervened between the church and
the pastor's home. There were but two
carriages In the line, and these were oc
cupld by members of the pastor's fam
ily. The burial was an event as sacred
and as solemn as that of children be
stowing the final token of filial affec
tion upon a loved and venerated father.
Church ideals change with the chang
ing religious thought of the times. In
the more modern churches and congre
gations such a scene would be Impossi
ble. It represented the devotion of an
entire parish to a man who was the
custodian, In a sense wTde and deep, of
the religious life of his people, and who
held himself and was held by them re
sponsible for their spiritual welfare. It
harks back to the days of. primitive
New England in which the pastor was
the spiritual father of his flock and
grew old and gray in Its service with
out thought of giving place to a
"younger man." Such an exhibition of
affection and loyalty could probably not
be found In America outside of the Ger
man Lutheran Church, and certainly in
no other would the quaint old custom
of night burial be witnessed.
The simple midnight obsequies of the
pastor who for a third of a century had
been the faithful mentor of his people
gave insight into 'the character of the
man and of the shaping methods of the
gospel that ho preached that the ordi
nary events of life do not dlsclose.-rA
parish has seldom lu this country been
so severely stricken by disaster as was
this German Lutheran parish In this In
stance. Its people have exemplified the
quality of their faith In the humility
and courage with which they have met
the heavy blow. Stifling their grief, the
survivors have burled their dead, lifted
their heads and resumed the old way,
unquestioning the love of God and the
mercy of His Provldenca, regardless of
the findings of the Coroner's Jury and
the disclosures of the official investiga
tion. It may be possible, indeed, It Is
but human, that they find
Hot Indignation mingled -with their prayer.
Kindled at man while they his God adore
Since man's agency in the catastrophe
Is apparent, but this In no wise disturbs
the serenity of their belief or abates
their faith In a Providence that over
rules all things for good.
EXISTING CONDITIONS IGNORED.
The unsuccessful strike of the mas
ters and pilots on the Lake craft was
one of the most glaring exhibitions of
the utter disregard of a few men for
the InteVests of a large number ever
charged up against union labor. Less
than 2000 men were directly Involved In
the strike, but, as they were mostly
licensed officers of steam vessels, their
strength was sufficient to tie up nearly
all of the steam craft on the Lakes,
with the result that more than 100,000
frelghthandlers, dock laborers, miners,
orehandlers and others Incidentally em
ployed In the traffic were kept In Idle
ness for the best tw o months of the sea
son. Not only did this army of men
lose the opportunity to earn a livelihood
for the two "months when the strike was
on, but they will suffer an Indirect loss
for the remainder of the season, as
much of the traffic moved by the Lake
route has been diverted to the rail lines.
The railroads, like the vessel-owners,
were facing a bad season, and were
eager to snap up any business that they
could get away from the steamers.
Once securing the traffic, they will re
tain at least a portion of It, and there
will be a slackening In the volume of
business to be moved, now that the
strike has been broken. In declaring
the strike off, Captain Howell Issued a
statement In which he said that the as
sociation had concluded that It "would
be good policy at this stage of the
game, owing to existing conditions over
wn'ch we have no control, to advise our
captains to go to work and make the
most of a bad situation." It waa the
positive refusal of the masters and
pilots to recognize these "existing con
ditions" that caused the strike and the
Immense loss suffered by both labor and
capital. And the loss, as usual, falls
heaviest on labor. The Lake Carriers'
Association, which owned the boats, of
course suffered by the idleness of the
capital Invested In Its fleet, and also by
the diversion of business to the rail
lines, but it is in a much better posi
tion to stand this loss than are the men
who caused It and those who, although
blameless, suffered by the strike.
There can be no very friendly feeling
toward the masters and pilots from the
100,000 frelghthandlers and others who
suffered by the strike, nor can the own
ers regard with any great degree of
sympathy the men who, regardless of
"existing conditions," paralyzed Lake
traffic for the best two months of the
year and made a bad matter so much
worse that the entire season will be un
profitable for all concerned. Public
sympathy Is the most valuable asset
held by labor unionism, and where this
sympathy is weakened or destroyed by
such Ill-advised contests as that of the
masters and pilots on the Great Lakes,
the effect Is felt far beyond the immedi
ate scene of the trouble.
Perhaps the worst features of the un
successful strike is the suffering of the
innocent for the sins, bad Judgment or
arrogance of the few leaders who Ig
nored "existing conditions" until after
the damage was done. Thousands of
people, union and nonunion, are suffer
ing today in Colorado because months
ago a few walklng'Melegates failed to
recognize that one of the "existing con
ditions" In a free country Is the right to
labor at a wage satisfactory to the In
dividual American who has that labor
to sell. Continued disregard of "exist
ing conditions" will break up the
strongest union that was ever formed.
"WOMEN'S WISE GIFTS.
Portland has been favored In recent
months with examples of womanly gen
erosity In the form of wise benefac
tions. Mrs. Rosa F. Burrell conscien
tiously devised her property In a way
that as she believed, it would be of
large and permanent benefit to man
kind. Mrs. Amanda Reed followed with
bequests that testified to the exalted
generosity of her nature and the excel
lent quality of her Judgment Exam
ples of woman's philanthropic spirit In
the disposal of her holdings when she
must relinquish them by decree of Na
ture are not confined to any locality.
Mrs. Henry Whitman, an artist whose
death occurred recently in Boston, left
a large estate the accumulation largely
of her own endeavor. This she distrib
uted by will with careful discrimina
tion and good Judgment Radcllffe Col
lege Is to receive 5110,000, Harvard 510,
000 and Tuskegee Institute 150,000,
while liberal sums go to the Boston
Children's Hospital, Infant Asylum,
Home for Incurables and the Society in
Behalf of Crippled and Deformed Chil
dren. There Is the womanly touch In all of
these benefactions, except perhaps the
legacy to Harvard, which Is more In the
way of "giving to him that hath" and
represents a man's business outlook
rather than a woman's sympathy with
the needy and unfortunate.
The rule of law which denies an In
jured man the right to recover damages
when his own carelessness had contrib
uted to the injury Is not only Just but la
necessary to the continuance of large
business enterprises. If every" person
who suffers an injury on a railroad or
In a factory could recover damages,
notwithstanding his own contributory
negligence, such enterprise would soon
be bankrupted. It Is protection enough
'to the public that an Individual or cor
poration is held responsible for the In
Jury directly due to its own neglect
The case decided by the Supreme Court
last Tuesday Is an illustration In polht
The owner of a large building left an
elevator shaft unguarded In a corner of
a large storeroom. In this the propri
etor was guilty of negligence. A man
who had been invited to come to the
building to transact business went aim
lessly toward the elevator, though, as
he himself admitted, the corner was so
dark he could not see, and though his
business errand did not take him to
that part of the room. His fall down
the elevator shaft would not have oc
curred had he been duly warned or had
the shaft been guarded. Had he used
ordinary precaution, however, the accl-
dent would not have happened, and be
cause his own negligence contributed to
the accident he was denied the right to
recover damages. The courts cannot
permit a man to recover compensation
for Injuries which he brings upon himself.
The story of the manner of wounding
unto death of Ernest Vogt, a child of
4 years, at his home In Montavllla on
the Fourth of July, Is one of the- Incred
ible things that we believe because we
must and for which there is neither
reason nor probability. That a child
should not have rushed with, frantic
screams to his mother after having
been wounded as was this boy, regard
less of the manner of its happening,
telling of his Injury, Is the strange part
of the Incident Since there was an old,
rusty revolver on the premises and
within reach of the child, It Is no won
der that he gained possession of It and,
the spirit of mischief being abroad, In
flicted fatal injuries upon himself. But
that he died some hours later, having
been able to stand around and whim
per and cry for some time before he be
came unconscious from the poison of
the wound, without telling what had
occurred, Is the feature of the case that
staggers belief and renders it one of
mystery that stands alone In its class.
Another surprising element In the case
Is the obtuseness or seeming Indiffer
ence of those about the child. Of this,
however, it is useless to speak. Par
ents under such circumstances are, no
doubt, victims of self-accusation to
which It would be unkind to add the
weight of censure.
The nomination of Turner for Vice
President will be a hard blow to Wash
ington Democracy. It has only been
about eight years since the ex-Senator
took charge of the Democratic party of
our neighboring state, but since enter
ing the camp of his former foes he has
demonstrated beyond question that It
was not a case of Washington Democ
racy, absorbing Turner, but of Turner
absorbing Washington Democracy.
Having possession of the party and a
bunch of cheap-at-any-prlce Populists,
Mr. Turner elected himself to the
United States Senate, where he shone
with a brighter light than commonly
beamed from a Democrat original or
"galvanized." Some decidedly bad po
litical moves on the part of the Repub
licans of the Evergreen State have led
the Democrats to believe that It Is pos
sible for them to elect a Governor, but
their brightest searchlights have thus
far been unable to find but one candi
date whom they regard as possessing
strength sufficient for the race. This
lone candidate Is George Turner, and
now, when National Democracy, over
looking our own "Gawge" Chamberlain,
has insisted on his carrying the Vice
Presidential banner, the state ticket is
left acephalous.
Morrow County, with a population of
less than 5000, has commenced harvest
ing a 1,200,000-bushel crop of wheat.
This wheat at present market prices is
worth on the farm more than $600,000,
and will, accordingly, add a matter of
$120 per capita to the wealth of the en
tire population of the county. When to
this sum Is added the large amount re
ceived from the wool and livestock
turned off this year, the showing will
be so highly flattering that the popu
lation of the county ought to Increase
with a rush. The aggregate wheat yield
of Morrow County 1- small in compari
son with that of some of the larger
counties of Oregon and Washington,
but it is doubtful whether any other
county In the Pacific Northwest can
show such large returns per capita from
the wheat Industry.
Consumption can be cured. That Is
now the opinion of scientific men, based
on actual experiment If the disease Is
discovered In time, and the curative
measures suggested by physicians are
adopted, a favorable result may reason
ably be anticipated. It is the plan of a
number of unselfish persons, headed by
Dr. A. C. Smith and Dr. Woods Hutch
inson, to establish In Portland an out
door sanatorium, where cures may be
undertaken at very small expense, and
where at the same time It may be dem
onstrated that the Oregon climate Is as
suitable as any other for that purpose.
A considerable amount has already
been raised; but the fund Is still about
5300 short It Is to be hoped that the
balance of the money for this most
worthy object may soon be procured.
Another big lumber-carrierT with a
capacity of 3,500,000 feet, arrived at
Portland yesterday to load for the Ori
ent A 2,500,000-foot carrier Is due next
week to load for Manila. In port load
ing for South Arfica, the Orient and
coastwise ports is a fleet of lumber
craft with a capacity of 7,500,000 feet,
while a fleet of 9,000,000 feet capacity Is
en route or listed to load at Portland.
These figures show the remarkable vol
ume of business In a comparatively new
line, and are In striking contrast to the
oft-repeated stories of dullness and In
activity In the lumber trade. The solid
tralnloads of lumber that are rolling
out of the city also offer evidence that
while the lumber business may be un
profitable, there Is plenty of It
A news Item In yesterday's Oregonlan
stated that a Portland dealer had been
awarded the contract to supply the
Government with four horses at $125
per head, and four mules at 5165 per
head. In these figures we And what
may be termed financial recognition of
an unfortunate animal which for cen
turies has carried not only our material
burdens but also the weight of a num
berless array of almanac and comic
supplement Jokes. The mule may be
"without pride of ancestry or hope of
posterity," but when he sells in the
open market $30 per head higher than
the horse, the king pf the animal world,
the tribute to his worth Is certainly of a
substantial nature.
Mrs. James White tried to kill her
faithless and brutal husband; but she
was not skilled In the use of firearms,
and failed. White is a man of low In
stincts, vicious habits and bad record,
but he had a wife who paid him the ex
traordinary compliment of being Jeal
ous of him. He requited her love and
her constancy by nearly boating her to
death. Obviously there is great need
in Portland of a school where women
may be taught how to shoot
Bryan had his day yesterday. The
St Louis Convention turned loose a
great volume of noise In his honor. It's
a mighty poor funeral where the de
ceased can't get a little attention.
There's nothing In the Constitution to
prevent ex-Senator Turner getting all
the Democratic nominations that may
offer. . '
H0T FIGHT x0N PETTIGEW.
Contestant Says He Threatened to
Bolt if Conservatives Won.
ST. LOUIS, July 7. It was 4:20 o'clock
this morning when the credentials com
mittee adjourned. Most Interest attached
to the Illinois contest because of the part
played by W. J. Bryan, but charges made
against ex-Senator Pettlgrew in the
South Dakota contest also caused a great
stir.
H. H. Smith charged Mr. Pettlgrew
with being opposed to any but a Hearst
or Bryan man. and quoted language he
said Mr. Pettlgrew used In the State Con
vention In answer to a question as to
whether he would bolt the National Con
vention, as follows:
"Do you suppose I would pledge myself
to support the nominee of the St. Louis
Convention? I put the question to you.
gentlemen. Suppose they nominate old
Cleveland or some other man In the
Cleveland-Hill ring of the Democratic
party. Suppose they reorganize us, nomi
nate a Republican on, a Republican plat
form, and declare for trusts and the mon
ey power. I tell you that I would bolt
the ticket and do everything in my pow
er to defeat it at the polls."
The committee did not disturb the sit
ting delegation, of which Mr. Pettlgrew
Is the head. '
The committee gave patient hearing to
every contest represented, except that of
Dr. Mary Walker, claiming a seat In the
convention as the woman representative
of the Democrats of New York. Dr.
Walker waited patiently the Indulgence
of the committee until a late hour, and
gave up In despair. The committee took
action regarding Porto Rico, the Philip
pines, the District of Columbia, Illinois,
Maine, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
South Dakota and Indian Territory.
The Maine contest. Involving three
seats, was decided against the Hearst
delegates and In favor of those on the
temporary roll. The New Jersey contests
were decided In the same way. The con
tests In this state Involved the First and
Second Districts, and the argument pre
sented by both sides was heated and in
volved unpleasant personalities. .
In the Ohio contest. Involving the
Twelfth Congressional District Rose and
Gilliam, who had obtained seats at the
hands of the National Committee, re
tained them. The sitting members of the
Pennsylvania contest were retained with
out argument on either side.
VISITORS OUT IN FORCE.
Galleries Are Filled Long Before the
Officials Arrive.
ST. LOUIS, July 7. At 10 o'clock,
the time set for the opening of the
second day's session of the convention,
not 100 delegates were In the hall.
There was general anticipation that the
session would be brief and not over-exciting,
the knowledge that the resolutions
committee -nould not be ready to report;
the fact that Mr. Bryan, a member of
that committee, was anxious to mix up
In the struggle over the report of the
committee on credentials and could not
do so as long as the committee was work
ing on the resolutions, all combined to
kill off Interest for those who were In
possession of any Information of the mi
nor workings of the convention. The vis
itors, however, -were out in greater force
than yesterday, and the galleries were
well fllied long before the arrival of any
of the convention officials.
Two new delegation emblems were on
the floor today, those of Porto Rico and
of the Philippines. One bore a very large
"Porto" and a very small "Rico" and the
other shotting in large letters, "P. I."
The committee on permanent organiza
tion, which met directly after the morn
ing session cf the convention, accepted
the formal declination of Senator Bailey
as permanent chairman. Champ Clark,
of Missouri, was then elected and accept
ed tho position.
When the conynlttee assembled. Chair
man DInsmoro said that Senator Bailey
had made no sign whether he would a&
cept or decline the chairmanship. Unof
ficially he had heard that Senator Bailey
did not desire the honor. William Capps,
the member from Texas, said: "Senator
Bailey authorized me this morning, In the
presence of Mr. Clark, to say that while
he was deeply sensitive of the honor of
fered him by the convention, he resigns.
Edward Hay, of the District of Colum
bia, said that Mr. Clark authorized him
to accept the chairmanship should the
committee accept him.
On the motion of Frederick C. Shraub,
of New York, the committee chose Clark
by acclamation.
The orcer maintained in the convention
hall this morning was a great Improve
ment over yesterday, although the pro
ceedings were heard with difficulty. The
first business was tho presentation and
adoption of the report of the committee
on rules.
The weather conditions In the hall were
vastly improved over yesterday, the tem
perature being lower, and the humidity
much less.
Inaccessible to Visitors.
ESOPUS, N. Y., July 7.-Judge Parker
was inaccessible to visitors today. He
spent the morning In his study attend
ing to business. -The reports from tho
convention at St Louis were telephoned
to Private Secretary McCastand. who
communicated the news to Judge Parker,
but otherwise thero was nothing to in
dicate the remotest interest in the St
Louis convention.
BELLIGERENTS REQUESTED IT
Br!talns Offer to Police Seal Flsher
. ies Made to Please Both.
LONDON, July 7. In the House of
Commons today Premier Balfour, reply
ing to a question of Gibson Bowles (Con
servative), said that the action of Great
Britain in sending warships to the Kom
mander Islands for the projection of the
seals, was taken at the request of both
Russia and Japan. No Jurisdiction would
be exercised over Japanese vessels, but
the Japanese government had requested
that any raid should be reported to It.
and the government of Japan would deal
therewith. There was no breach of neu
trality in Great Britain's action and no
international question could arise there
from. Mr. Balfour, In the course of his an
swer, reminded his questioner that the
Prlbyloff Islands do not belong to Rus
sia, as stated In his question, but to
the United States.
HAS ALL FAITH IN GERMANY.
Japan Does Not Seriously Regard the
Klauchou Incident.
TOKIO, July 7. An official statement
issued here today declares that the Jap
anese government Is confident that Ger
many will maintain its neutrality. The
Kiauchou Incident is not regarded 6eri
ously by the government or the people.
During the recent activity of the Russian
Port Arthur and Vladivostok equadrons.
It was suggested that they possibly In
tended to run Into some neutral Chinese
port, disarm and claim protection and
Klauchou was named as one of their pos
sible havens. This port Is on the east
coast of the Province of Shan Tung and
Is on territory comprising a protectorate
of the German empire. One newspaper
intimated that Germany was willing to
extend its protection to the Russian war
ships. Russian Ship In Suez Canal.
PORT SAID, July 7. The Russian vol
iintpsr steamer Sh Peterhnro-. xrilrVi
passed through the Bosphorus from the'
ijiacic sea xuesaay mat, entered tne
Suez Canal today with a cargo of coal.
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Satoill Goes to Indianapolis.
ST. LOUIS, July 7.-Af ter n ten days
stay In St. Louis, Cardinal Satolli left
today for Indianapolis.
ADDRESS OF CHAMP CLARK,
He Asserts Republicans Misrepresent
Democrats as Free Traders.
ST. LOUIS, July 7. The address of Con
gressman Champ Clark, of Missouri, on
assuming the position of permanent chair
man, in part was as follows:
In his boate. King- David said that "all men
are liars." Had he been In Chicago while
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,, was reading the
Republican platform he would no doubt have
pronounced the same opinion more lelaurlr.
for surely there never was more (mendacity
packed .Into the same space In anj- document
purporting' to be a grae state paper.
Shakespeare says: "Thrice Is he armed that
hath his quarrel just; and he but naked,
though locked up In steel, whose conscience
with Injustice Is corrupted."
In the Impending conflict our quarrel Is
just and we are In the right bejond all cavil.
To state it in a general way, our contention
is that the Government shall bo restored to
the democratic-republican baste, on which the
fathers of the republic Intended It to rest and
ahall be made once more a Government of the
people, by the people and for the people. In
stead of a Government of the classes, by the
classes at.d for tho :latfos.
To state It with more particularity, we in
sist, that exorbitant taxation ahall be reduced
to Just and reasonable rates; that extrava
gance In appropriations shall cease; that econ
omy shall pretall In all the transactions of
the Government; that all the departments shall
be thoroughly Investigated from top to bottom
by Congressional committees; that all evil
doers of any degree shall be driven from the
public service and properly punished: that the
trusts shall be proceeded against by Indict
ment, as are common and smaller criminals,
and that the Constitution accompany the
American flag Into the new possessions.
The proposition that e must support Pres
ident Rooeeelt'0 Philippine policy If he Is
right or wrong, Is the -veriest rot-a-t&le told
by an Idiot. I am willing to go as far as
anyone on patriotism; I will support my coun
try In any emergency; but President Roose
velt Is not the country. The time has not yet
arrived, I pray Almighty God that It will
never arrle, when the American people will
accept the arrogant dictum, of Louis XTV If
repeated by an American President: "I am the
state."
Prealdent Roosevelt, If at all worthy of his
high position, must entertain a supreme con
tempt for those political supplejacks, partic
ularly for those claiming to ba Democrats
who go about with sanctimonious mien, eaj ing:
"The President Is wrong In hls Philippine pol
icy, but we must support the President."
I defy any Jingo to stand up aftd declare
with straight face -what tho President's policy
or the Republican policy Is.
Wrongly Itepresented as Free Traders.
In every state In the Union It Is a felony
to get property of any sort, or to attempt
to get It, by false pretenses. If the same rule
applies to the getting of offices or to attempt
to get them the whole Republican party could
be sent to the Penitentiary.
One of their false pretenses the one on
which they harp the most Is that the Demo
cratic party Is In favor of free trade. The
charge la utterly false a lie made of whole
cloth. There are Individual Democrats who am
free traders. Just as there are Individual Re
publicans who are atheists, but It would ba
precisely as true and fair to denounce the
Republican, party as the party of atheism as
to denominate the Democratic party a party
of free trade. It waa never a free trade
party and Is not now. The man who charges
that it Is does so because of his Ignorance or
of his mendacity.
Democrats favor the cutting down of exorbi
tant tariff rates to a reasonable basla. They
believe that In many schedules of the present
law the rates are too high; those that are
too high we are In favor of cutting down. "We
favor any modification of the tariff schedules
that may be required to prevent their becom
ing a shelter for monopoly.
The stand-pat organs and speakers claim that
only antiquated sorts of our manufactured ar
ticles are sold abroad cheaper than to Ameri
cans at home. That theory ls very ingenious,
but unfortunately It Is not true, for steel
rails are sold abroad at $8 per ton lesa than
they are sold at home, and the fashions In
steel rails remain the same, or substantially
so
Will he or some other etand-patter explain
why Americans should be made to pay one
third more for American steel rails than the
citizens of other nations for them? He may
answer as did Mr. Representative Olmstead, of
Pennsylvania, that the railroad companies pay
for the eteel rails and that It Is the business
of nobody else how much thty pay for them,
but Olmstead bad more courage than Infor
mation, for everybody with two Ideas above a
Hottentot know9 that everybody that travels
on a railroad, everybody that ships anything
on one, everybody that uses anything so shipped
helps pay for the steel rails. The railroad
companies foot the bills In the first Instance,
and then make their customers repay them
with Interest at the highest rate the trafllo
will bear.
True Position on Tariff.
The true Democratic position on the tariff
Is this: Recognizing the fact that a large
portion of our revenue has alwavs been raised
from customs duties or taxes, Democrats di
vide all imports Into three classes neces
saries, comforts and luxuries, and contend that
the tariff taxes should be highest on luxuries,
lower on comforts and lowest or none at all
on the necessaries. They furthermore say that
taxes should be uniform on all ar'icles belong
ing to ono class. That Is the Democratic par
ty's position, from which It will not be driven
or bullied. No amount of misrepresentation
will cause them to budge from that position.
"When Napoleon signed the title deeds in this
vast country west of the Mississippi he turned
to the American Commissioners and said:
"Now I have given England a maritime, ri
val," and so he had until Insatiable greed and
criminal maladministration crowded the star
tj banner of the rep-ibl.o from tiie llgh teia
and abdicated the rich U-mnln of the ocean.
In 18C0 we bad the second largest merchant
marine In the world our sails whitened every
harbor and our flag floated In every breeze
vrilcr the heavens. How radly all this has
changed after 35 years of Ftpi'bllcan misrule,
last sear of all the merchantmen tnat w-ht
through the Suez Canal, not a single vessel,
great or small, except battleships, bon the
American flag at Its masthead, and our flag :
Been In foreign waters only whin flying over
a man-of-war.
"Why have things come to this thameful, thb
pitiful complexion in a country that has tho
finest material for ships and sailors In the
world? Becauso our exorbitant tariff system
ha- made it impossible for an Andean to
build a ship In competition with tho U:.i:sh
shipbuilders on the River Clyde.
Republicans as Trust-Breakers.
Republicans claim in public to be the great
and only trust busters, notwithstanding the
fact that under Republican misrule truva have
sprung up like mushrooms In a damp collar,
and havo become plentiful as berries In June.
It Is said that "straws show which way the
wind blows." Here Is a "straw" which Indi
cates that the trusts have nothing to fear from
Republican trust-busters. It Is the appoint
ment of Attorney-General P. C. Knox. Repub
lican trust-buster par excellence, to succeed
the lateM. S. quay. There would have been
nothing strange or suspicious were It not for
the influence which secured the appointment
for Mr. Knox. There can be no question about
his Intellectual qualifications for the position.
People will open their eyes In astonishment
and begin to inquire as to the why and where
fore of his appointment when they learn that
the transfer of Mr. Knox from the Attorney
Generalship to the Senate was procured by the
earnest efforts of Mr. Frlck, Mr. Cassatt and
Mr. Donald Cameron, to Induce United States
Senator Boles Penrose, the new Republican
boss of Pennsylvania, to permit Mr. Knox to
be Senator, for Governor Pennypacker, who
nominally made the appointment, does not
appear to have been considered at all in the
premises. The amazement of the people will
grow like Jonah's gourd vine, when they learn
that Mr. Frlck Is the heaviest stockholder In
the steel trust; that Mr. Cassatt Is president
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, which
Is one of the members of the trust, and that
Mr. Cameron represented the Standard Oil
trust and Wall Street Interests In persuading
Boss Penrose to let Mr. Knox go to the Sen
ate. e
Sure Swallow Will Accept.
vDIANAPOIiIS, July 7. Oliver "W.
Stewart, chairman of the National Pro
hibition committee said today:
"The Prohibitionists havtj nominated,
the Kev. Silas C. SwaJJow, of Harrlsburg,
for President. He has not declined, he
will not decline the nomination, and the
Prohibitionists are not going to hold
another convention.
"And," he continued, "you can also
say that the Prohibition pCn Is not go
ting Into any alliance with any one."
NOTE ANDv COMMENT.
"Nothlnr lalls like failure. W. Jl B.
Bryan jilted! Alas, he loved not wisely
hut to6 well.
The Japa continue to act so "puzzling."
How stupid of them!
"Demonstration" seems to be reduced
to a science at St. Louis.
How are the thorns of defeat pressed
down upon the brow of ambition.
Jim Jingles, highwayman, of North
Yakima, got first $10, then ten years.
Jingles Jangled.
Democracy would "revise the tariff In
a conservative spirit of fairness to all In
terests." Perhaps there's more or less in
that than appears to the eye.
There was an old lady named Walker,
Reputed to be a long talker;
' When she asked for a seat
Then the answer came neat:
"Mrs. Walkera a talker, so balk her."
The Astoria volunteer hose company ran
150 yards In 2G5-6 seconds. The City by
the Sea has produced good runners in the
past. Evidently its hills are good, to de
velop wind and limb.
John Bull really doesn't mean anything
nawsty toward the liamos, don't y
know never did from the start, really.
But those Thibetans keep throwing stone3
and bruising an officer now and then, and
Curzon merely wants them cuffed a bit,
don't you know?
An Innocent-looking German boy walked
into a drugstore the other day and faced
the proprietor, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"Haf you got soma bees stlng3 for
rheumatisms?" ho shyly inquired.
"Bees' stings for rheumatism," the pro
prietor repeated. "Where did you hear of
that?"
"Why, muther vas reating it by da
newsbapers," replied the lad.
The proprietor laughed.
"I've seen something of that kind In the
papers," he said, "but I wont attempt to
offer you anything Just as good. Where la
the Theumatlsm?"
"In de handt und in da arm," tho boy
replied.
"Well, see here," said tho proprietor
with a sudden smile, "I haven't got tho
cure on my shelves, but I keep It In my1
back yard. You go out through this door
and walk around my flower-beds. When
you see four or fivo bees resting on a
flower Just try to pick them up."
The boy nodded and went out. He was
gone at least ten minutes.
When he came back his faco was rod
and his nose where an angry bee had
alighted was beginning to swell. He heJ4
out his hand. J
"I picked me somo of doso bees oop,"
he placidly remarked.
"Did you?" said the amused proprietor.
"And does your hand feel any better?"
The boy looked up.
"It aind't for me," he placidly replied,
"it's for myJjruder."
Fashion in names is a curious study,
says an English paper.
Thero is a good, sound reason for most
changes and crazes, and the folk who
have recently been lamenting that Mr.
Barrio has mado tho name of Mary un
popular are quito correct in supposing
that this change of fashion will have its
way.
Nothing, of course, could change they
universality of Mary in Roman Catholic?
countries, where it is frequently added to
a boy's name, too. In England the royal
names of the moment aro easily first. Al
bert and Alberta raged throughout Eng
lard 50 years ago; and today Victoria,
shortened to Vera, and Alexandra, short
ened to Aline or Alex, are fairly popular.
In the royalist world of Paris the names
Dorothee and Amelia were almost as
popular as Marie for some time after the
marriage of tho Duko of Orleans, but for
certain well-known reasons this fashion
did not last long.
The casual visitor to Devonshire would
say that half the 3 and 4 -year-old boja
in the place aro called Redvers, and this
was perhaps the least foolish bit of
nomenclature connected with the war.
Moreover, this was partly a result of tho
semi-feudal and almost universal custom
of christening children after the greatj
man of tho neighborhood.
Stanleys swarm round Liverpool, How
ards round Arundel, Herberts round High
clere; while at Chantllly the Christian
names of the late Due d'Aumalo wero
adopted evon by the numerous English
families of the neighborhood.
WEX. J.
THREE REGIMENTS WIPED OUT7
Chinese Bring Reports of a Russian
Victory Near Port Arthur.
CHEFOO, July 7. A trustworthy China
man, who arrived here today from a point
on the east coast of the Kwang Tung
Peninsula, near Port Arthur, brings the
information that on July 5 one division
of the Japanese army reached the noclh-
,east slope of Takushan Mountains, the
summit ot wmen 13 leas man inree nuies
from Port Arthur. This division parted
from another division of the army on
the highway north of Port Arthur, after
which it mado its way through mountain
ous country. The other division contin
ued along the main road toward the ma
rine camp, to reach which It will have
to pass over a plain, but, attacked by
this division In conjunction with that on
Takushan Mountain, the marine camp
will not be tenable.
Fort No. 16, which is on the main line
of the defenses surrounding Port Arthur,
was taken by the Japanese on July 6.
Continuing, the Chinaman declares that
Russians In Port Arthur say that last
week three regiments of Japanese troops
were "wiped out just north of Port Ar
thur. A Russian regiment, which was
out reconnolterlng, was driven back by
the three Japanese regiments, who wero
In turn surrounded by two regiments of
Cossacks and wiped out. The Russians
say also that in another engagement be
tween outposts eight Japanese were killed
and 72 were taken prisoners. These re
ports lack confirmation. The Russian
troops at Port Arthur still believe that
an army is marching south to relieve
them.
It has been learned here that only one
division of the Japanese army under
General Oku occupied Kaiping. Another
division of this army is marching along
the Foo Chou road, which turns to the
northwest at Kaiping and continues to
YInkow, the port of Niu Chwang. There"
probably will be an encounter between
this latter division and Russian forces at
Erhtambo. Thl3 report was received from
Niu Chwang.
A third division of General Oku's army'
Is proceeding" along the east side of the
railroad track, and Is acting In co-operation
with the division which Is on the'
railroad.
(Takushan used In this dispatch to
designate a mountain near Port Arthur,
means "lonoly mountain," and this mean,
ing accounts for the frequent use of thd
word.)
Skrydloff Probably on Destroyer.
TIENTSIN, July 7.-It Is believed at
Niu Ohwang that Vlce-Admlral Skryd
loff left that place on the destroyer which
Is reported to have arrived at Port Arthur
last Sunday after running the blockade.
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