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... THE CHANGE IN BRYAN.
The Oregonian has just discovered that
Mr. Bryan Is a wonderful man. which Is all
right, but coming at this time and pre
sented with a view of causing dis&enslons
in the support of Parker it is very peanutty
in its character. Albany Democrat.
With a general Inclination among
hidebound Republican organs to glorify-1
Bryan, now that the Democratic party
has passed Into the control of his oppo
nents, The Oregonian has no sympathy,
but shares for it the repugnance ex
pressed by the Democrat. Much as we
desire Roosevelt's election and Parker's
defeat, we have not the slightest notion
that such result Is to be achieved by in
sincere Indorsement of Bryan by those
who have always opposed him when
he was dominant in his party.
Yet there are reasons why The Orego
nian thinks much more of Mr. Bryan
than it ever did before, and some of
them are worth sotting down, for the
Nebraska statesman, or politician, or
demagogue, call him what you will, is
an element in our National politics not
to be ignored. He is not the nominee of
his party for President, but he is such
a force in Its councils that they who
fancy to reckon without him will come
to confusion.
It would puzzle any one to compare
Bryan's work at St. Louis with that of
his opponents and point out where they
were superior to him in platform effect
iveness, in fairness of contention or in
force of logic. He did not ask for re
affirmation of free silver, he only in
sisted that there should be no recanta
tion of the two previous National plat-
forms. This was not a great deal to
ask, and the request prevailed. In the
Illinois contest he seemed to have the
evidence on his side, and he turned
from what he might easily have made
a popular ovation in his own honor to
a dispassionate and painstaking review
of the record. As to the gold standard,
he declared that If the party was for
gold it should say so, it should not
dodge the issue in the platform and
then submit to dictation from Parker.
Is there any honest mind that can re
pudiate this declaration?
But what we started out to say of Mr.
Bryan is this: That eight years have
profoundly changed him somewhat for
the worse somewhat for the better
ut on the whole radically. From a
eort of freak he has developed Into a
man among men. From the apostle
and prophet of a semi-religious mania
be has passed to a hardheaded man of
the world. In him today the careful
observer sees less of the impassioned
visionary, more of the prosperous pub
lisher. On the platform at St. Louis
and on the hard-fought fields of the.
committee-xooms he met his antago
nists like their equal. "Without rhap
sody or the fine ecstasy of the enthusi
ast it was a conference or a dispute
like a council of business men; no idle
rant about Impossibilities, but conces
sion for concession, give and take.
It is on this common ground, as the
equal of Hill, "Williams and Daniel, as
a man among men, where Bryan un
ceremoniously and cheerfully placed
himself, that he has no reason to be
ashamed of his own showing. Before
an audience almost Inconceivably vast
his was the one presence, his the one
voice, to enforce Instant silence and
rapt attention in every nook and corner
of that stupendous, echoing edifice,
where others could hardly be heard
with the aid of threats from the chair
and their execution by uniformed offi
cials who threw disturbers bodily out
the doors. This was partly due to Idol
atry of Bryan adherents, but largely
also to his cogency in debate and to the
fact that while others Indulged largely
in meaningless mouthings, Bryan al
ways had something to say that was
definite In its bearing and fearless In
its utterance.
Is the change for better or for worse?
Is a sensible politician to be preferred
to a hare-brained visionary? For
Bryan has lost, along with his early
enthusiasm and some modicum of sym
pathy for the masses which could not
all have been assumed, a certain some
thing worth admiring, and gained in its
place, a worldly wisdom, an apprecia
tion of the so-called good things of this
life, and also If the truth must be
told a cynicism, revealed in the hard
lines of his face, suggestive of bitter
memories of thousands who oheered his
speeches and voted against him, which
one could almost weep for, who values
the ardor of youth and the frenzy of
the impractical idealist.
It is a grim and a grouty world. We
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:3o.v. - v Pi 'ii il I I'WIII HI I IIIWIIWIM ' iWMHIWI
get wisdom as we go along, but some
times we Jose something that Is better
than wisdom. Early love and truth
may be strengthened and perpetuated
In those whose lines fall by still waters
and in green pastures; but under disap
pointment and along paths where the
righteous are forsaken and the wicked
spread like a green bay tree, then fresh
young faces of hope, animated per
chance by Impossible visions, take on
lines of cynicism and greed. The fam
ily must be provided for and the Com
moner must not lack for readers, and
one must take up the weapons which
political experience has approved.
Bryan has been studying In a hard
school. Like "Old Innocent" in Tim
Murphy's' "beautiful comedy "I know
the world since last night, but I was
happier yesterday." And possibly better.
PARKER'S LUKEWARM SUPPORT.
"When a Colorado delegate to the
Democratic National Convention had
been admitted with joy and trembling
to a room in the Jefferson Hotel where
D. B. Hill and other great chiefs sat
around a contemplative table, his sim
ple faith In the Parker enthusiasm was
rudely shattered by seeing one of the
Parker leaders espy a Parker button
on the table and hurl it contemptu
ously from his sight with an expression
of profane and picturesque disgust. It
Is a disclosure of the real Hill-Sheehan
feeling for the man whose cause they
espoused because he seemed the only
man they- could win with at St. Louis,
but for whose high Ideals, rugged hon
esty and Independent spirit they have
nothing but aversion, because they
know they cannot use him. No one
who knows D. B. Hill and has put to
gether the scattered 'fragments of
Judge Parker's character which the
past fortnight has disclosed need be as
sured that the trioky politiicans of the
New York Democracy' look forward to
the chance of Judge Parker's election
with anything but delight. They are
as pleased as Mr. Hanna was at the
elevation of men like Taf t and Root to
power. They are as pleased as Alex
Sweek would be at the prospect of
electing, by his own efforts, E. C. Bro
naugh as Mayor of Portland.
Tammany Hall is still worse dis
gruntled. Sharing, as It has done, the
Hill-Sheehan disapproval of Parker, it
has a more relevant ground' of objection
In the belief that a Hill triumph in the
state betokens only ill to Murphj' and
the whole Tammany dispensation. A
Republican Governor Is better for Tam
many than a Democratic Governor of
the Hill school who will use his position
to destroy the power of Tammany and
its leaders. There will be, of course, no
open or avowed opposition to Parker in
the Democracy of New York City. But
Murphy's open hostility to Parker be
fore the nomination and his sullen, un
reconciled acquiescence in the result at
the last, betoken a Tammany apathy
sufficient, not of course to destroy' the
Parker majority in New York City, but
to bring it down to a figure where it
may readily be overcome by the Repub
lican majority of the state at large.
New York is a Democratic state only
when the Democrats are united and
alert. Such a condition has yet to be
brought about
These are some of the shaky founda
tions which the conference at New
York City has been anxiously exploring
with a view to the superstructure of
the campaign. There is evidently a
serious divergence between the nominee
and the National Committee. Mr. Hill
displays none of the cordiality that
might naturally be expected. Mr. Gor
man, invited to Esopus, declines to go.
From such hints as are permitted to
escape the wall of secrecy, it would
seem that Parker expects a National
chairman en rapport with himself, and
the politicians who nominated him have
no notion of any such thing until Par
ker gives them assurances of certain
concessions whose nature can only be
inferred from the venal and unworthy
natures of those who are demanding
them. It is at least doubtful If Judge
Parker will pay the price demanded by
the National Committee, and perhaps
not that suggested by Henry G. Davis
himself, who is an unreconstructed sil
ver man and disapproved Parker's cele
brated telegram the moment he heard
of It
It has been said that Parker is a hard
man to get up enthusiasm for. This Is
not true. He is an easy man to get up
enthusiasm for in a certain very nar
row circle. There is unbounded enthu
siasm for Parker in that choice and
superior coterie to which belong the
editors of refined and exclusive publi
cations like the New York Evening
Post and Brooklyn Eagle. These are
already beside themselves with a joy
which is all the more wonderful and
eerie because of the staid and solemn
precincts whence It emanates. There Is
enthusiasm also among the big trusts,
which are overjoyed to think they have
a "safe" man. But there Is no enthu
siasm at Wolfert's Roost or Tammany
Hall or in the multitudinous camps of
Bryanism about the land. The Demo
crats have got Parker. Now what to
do with him? He Is quite as much to
their purpose as a prayer book would
be to a gang of footpads.
THE INHERITANCE TAX.
It Is probable that taxation of Inheri
tances will become a universal rule In
our states. It has not yet been made a
feature of the Federal or National tax
system, and probably will not be; since
the General Government has occupied
already the more fruitful fields of taxa
tion and revenue that Is to say, cus
toms and excises. Inasmuch as the
states have entered this other field of
taxation, no doubt It will be left to
them. It may be made very productive,
if the laws be framed to that end. It
might, indeed, be made the Instrument
of confiscation and redistribution of es
tates. How far the voters, under our
system of suffrage, might be willing to
go in this direction, is yet to be deter
mined. Thus far twenty-nine of our states
and territories have enacted laws for
taxation of inheritances. But their
statutes on the subject have wide vari
ation. No two are wholly alike. In
most of them there are differences in
the treatment of succession, collateral
and lineal Inheritances In some of
them of marked character. The Oregon
statute bears rather more lightly on all
descriptions of Inheritances than most
others.
The method Is not new." It has come
to us like most other things we have,
Including the gold standard and Sun
day observance, and trial by jury, from
England. Foreign countries having an
inheritance tax are England, France,
Germany, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Swit
zerland, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Portu
gal, Denmark, Austria, Canada, Aus
tralasia, and perhaps some others.
Pennsylvania was the first among our
states to adopt such tax. In Pennsyl-
vanla it dates back to 1826. Maryland
and Virginia followed in 1844. Other
states did not follow till after the Civil
"War; but-the list has been extended till
it now Includes Delaware, New York,
"West Virginia, Connecticut, Massachu
setts, California, Maine, Ohio, Tennes
see, New Jersey, Illinois, Iowa, Ver
mont, Michigan, Missouri, Montana,
Wisconsin, Arkansas, Nebraska, North
Carolina, Oregon, Utah, Washington,
Colorado, North Dakota, Wyoming and
New Hampshire. Such law has also
been enacted In Hawaii and Porto Rico.
In some of the states there are un
settled questions as to constitutionality,
and In New Hampshire a constitutional
amendment has been enacted for vali
dation of the tax. There are those who
think such tax unconstitutional in Ore
gon; but the subject has not yet re
ceived the attention of the courts of the
state. Others say there can be no
doubt of the constitutionality of the tax
in Oregon; for though It is objected that
this statute violates those provisions of
the Constitution which require taxation
to be uniform and based on equal rate
of assessment, it Is answered that this
means no more than that the Legis
lature, while selecting and defining the
subjects of taxation, must follow a uni
form rule. That is, taxation within the
class selected must be uniform. It is
proper to say, however, that as applied
to inheritance tax, under our statute
and constitution, the rule has not yet
been settled by adjudication.
The laws of the several states vary
greatly. But as a rule they make a dif
ference between lineal and collateral
inheritances; and there are wide differ
ences in exemptions, according to
amounts of inheritances or bequests.
This form of tax doubtless will be used
more and more, in course of time, for
revenue for the state; and perhaps It
may be put on a graduated basis or
scale, for the purpose of enforcing re
distribution of property, after the death
of those who have accumulated it. The
possibilities in this direction are cer
tainly all that even the devotee of so
cialistic Ideas could require.
TOUCHING A NERVE.
A vessel forcibly seizing another upon
the high seas must belong to one of
three classes. She must be a man-of-war,
or a privateer, or a pirate. The
status of the Russian "volunteer cruis
ers" St. Petersburg and Smolensk Is
therefore a matter of considerable in
terest just now. Should the St. Peters
burg, which took the P. & O. liner Ma
lacca and put a prize crew aboard her,
not be a duly commissioned vessel of
war, she has committed a piratical
act, and a British ship would be justi
fied In sinking her. Even a privateer
has no right to attack a neutral ship,
she being merely authorized to engage
vessels under a hostile flag.
But the St. Petersburg cannot, In any
event, be regarded as a privateer, for
Russia is a party to the declaration of
Paris, which says, in succinct phrase,
"privateering Is and remains abol
ished." This volunteer cruiser, then,
must be a full-fledged Russian man-of-war,
and as such is perfectly within her
rights In searching neutral vessels and
in seizing those in which contraband
may be found. If the Malacca was car
rying contraband, she Is a legitimate
Russian prize. Presumably official cor
respondence for Japan was the forbid
den cargo, although the dispatches so
far have not mentioned the reason
given by Russia for the Malacca's seiz
ure. The seventh article of the Russian
"Rules of War," promulgated In Febru
ary, says that "neutral ships are for
bidden to carry letters or dispatches
for the enemy," so that there is no
room left for doubt on this head.
It is the very justification of Russia
on this count that condemns her on an
other. The Russ, in discussing the
seizure of the Malacca, says: "When
the St. Petersburg and the Smolensk
passed through the Dardanelles under
the merchant flag their destination was
correctly given as the Far East. In
fact, the A'essels, upon entering the Red
Sea, armed and hoisted the military
flag." Now the mere hoisting of an en
sign does not convert a merchant ves
sel Into a ship of war. She must have
a commission from the sovereign of the
state to which she belongs. As the St
Petersburg could not have obtained this
In the Red Sea, she must have had it
before passing through the straits. She
must, In point of fact, have been a duly
commissioned Russian ship of war
falsely flying the mercantile ensign and
obtaining passage through the Dar
danelles in direct violation of treaty
obligations.
The question then arises, How far
would a neutral signatory to the treaty
of Paris be Justified in denying the
right of search to a Russian warship
smuggled out of the Black Sea in defi
ance of treaty terms? This aspect of
the case does not appear to have been
discussed, but it would seem that Great
Britain might properly refuse to have
her merchant vessels stopped by treaty
breaking Russian warships. In any
event, Russia must either disavow the
action of the St Petersburg or admit
that she has ceased to regard the
treaty of Paris.
The whole affair must be a blunder
on the part of Russia or a scheme to
draw other nations into the quarrel
with Japan. The benefit to "the Russian
cause of capturing a few mall sacks Is
so Infinitesimal and the danger of Irri
tating neutrals so serious that there is
no apparent object in keeping ships in
the Red Sea for the purpose of arrest
lg mall steamers. If Russia desires to
Involve Great Britain, she has gone the
right way about it. Interfere with one
of her steamship lines and a nerve is
touched that sets throbbing every fiber
in the commercial body of the king
dom. Much now depends upon the
weight or lightness of Russia's touch.
THE OLD CHURCH AND THE NEW.
"The corner-stone of the new Congre
gational Church at Forest Grove will
be laid this evening." Thus runs a
news Item from the historic college
town that was the center of an educa
tional and religious community In the
beautiful wilderness known as "Oregon
Territory" more than half a century
ago.
Memory recalls a quiet pioneer vil
lage, restful and homelike, the nucleus
of Pacific University, In those early
days. It recalls a mud-battened log
church, brown and rugged, with mod
est pulpit, rude benches, small square
windows, that stood among the oaks a
short distance from the spot where the
corner-stone of the new church will be
laid today. The pulpit was occupied by
Rev. Harvey Clark sacred to mem
ory and to early civilization; then by
Rev. Elkanah Walker, sacred to the
missionary Idea as conceived, though
never worked out, among the Indians
of the Pacific Northwest and a little
later by Rev. Thomas Condon, whose
name has since "been literally written
upon the rocks of Oregon. Rev. S. H.
Marsh, then a young man fresh from
an Eastern college, who spent the sub
sequent years of his life in the service
of Pacific University, occasionally
spoke from this plain pulpit In the log
church among the oaks. Among the
regular attendants were Tabltha
Brown, fondly remembered as the
"mother of Tualatin Academy"; Thomas
G. Naylor, a stanch supporter of the
church and the school; A. T.. Smith and
his delicate, saintly wife, and "Mother
Walker," then In vigorous middle age.
There were others, perhaps equally
faithful, but these were literally the
pillars of the old log church, and of
them all but one remains Rev. Thomas
Condon who In serene age awaits the
summons that will announce the close
of a long life early dedicated to human
ity and to education.
And these were the moving forces in
the construction of the building which
took the place of the old log church,
built about 1857 and burned to the
ground a few years ago. For nearly
forty years the slender white spire of
what Is now spoken of as the "old
church" rose above the oaks, a verita
ble landmark to the visitor. The grad
uating exercises of Pacific University
were for many years held In Its plain
but- ample auditorium. The village
folk went there to be married, and from
Its portals the forefathers of the ham
let were carried to their last repose.
Whether decorated with roses for
commencement, apple blossoms and
sweetbrier for May weddings, evergreen
and holly for Christmas, or lilies for
Easter, or shadowed by grief upon
funeral occasions, the old church re
flected in Its many years all that ivas
the best and the tenderest, the most
hopeful and most helpful, In the life
of the community. May not those who
from time to time entered into the life
work of the old church be excused If In
the roar of the flames as they rioted
in its destruction they heard, and in
fancy still hear, the shout of triumph
that Is the fitting close of a long life of
usefulness?
And now another building is to be
reared upon the site of the old. Its
corner-stone is to be laid this evening
with ceremonies well befitting its mes
sage to mankind and its work in the
community. Into its construction, we
may well believe, labor and self-sacrifice
and hope will enter. Within this
corner-stone, to be set and sealed this
evening, such of the records of the old
church as can be written will probably
be deposited, to meet In due course of
time and circumstance the eyes of a
succeeding generation.
The ceremony, whether viewed in the
light of retrospection or of anticipa
tion, of reverence for past achievement
or hope of future accomplishment, will
be of deep and abiding Interest, first
to the community of whose life It Is the
rallylng-polnt, and again to the circle,
wide and ever widening,, the center of
which Is the college town.
The death of John R. McBrlde at
Spokane is a notable event He was a
member of a family that has had posi
tion and consideration In Oregon from
early pioneer times. He had a part, In
his youth, In the organization of the
Republican party of Oregon, and was
the first Republican sent from Oregon
to the House of Representatives of the
United States. Earlier than this he was
a member, from Yamhill, of the con
vention that framed the constitution of
Oregon In September. 1857. Of this
convention Judge R. P. Boise, of Salem,
Mayor George H. Williams and ex
Governor and ex-Senator L. F. Grover,
of Portland, are perhaps the only sur
viving members. John R. McBrlde was
just 25 years of age when he sat In the
constitutional convention. He was 30
when elected to the House of Repre
sentatives from this state. His youth
ful enthusiasm for the purposes which
the Republican party was organized to
promote and maintain is remembered
by his coevals, and his career Is part of
the history of Oregon, of the early time.
During the past forty years he had
lived and worked outside the field of
his early effort most of the time at
Salt Lake City. Latterly he lived much
at Spokane. He was a lawyer of note
and eminence; his specialty was mining
law. In which his ability was acknowl
edged. Though It Is so long since he
lived in Oregon, the remembrance of
the active and generous career of his
youth in Oregon specially endears his
memory here. "Old Oregon" remem
bers and still will remember him.
The Liverpool wheat market, which
In times past has been highly sensitive
to war and rumors of war, regarded
yesterday's news very lightly. Distant
options remained unchanged, and Walla
Walla cargoes for prompt shipment
were 3d per quarter lower. Unless the
wheat operators have made a very bad
guess, this would Indicate that trouble
between Russia and England Is a very
remote possibility. The extent to which
England is dependent on Russia for
breadstuffs would make war between
these two countries a very serious mat
ter in this respect much more serious
for England than for Russia. World's
wheat shipments for the past four
weeks have amounted to 27,490,000 bush
els, and of this amount Russia has con
tributed 9,120,000 bushels, practically
one-third, and is still shipping at the
rate of about 2,000,000 bushels per week.
If the Far Eastern trouble ever reaches
a stage when It becomes advisable for
Russia to place a check on this enor
mous flood of wheat that Is now pour
ing into the European markets, there
will be a sharp advance that will hold
until the Liverpool buyers can start
supplies from some other direction.
America still has considerable wheat
for export, but It is not available at the
low prices now prevailing in the Liv
erpool market
Reductions of wages In cotton mills
of Massachusetts and New Hampshire
follow the law of a falling market
Among the chief factors of this situa
tion is the rapid Increase of cotton
manufacture In our Southern States,
where labor works longer hours at
lower rates than in New England, and
where child labor Is not only permitted
but enforced. There Is almost no or
ganization of labor In the South, and
children are "put through" during long
hours. The Democratic National Com
mittee would do well to turn Its atten
tion to the cause of downtrodden labor
in the solid and uncontested Democratic
states.
The packing-house agreement Is a
victory In terms for the strikers, and
yet also a defeat for them In that they
at first refused arbitration. It Is not
necessary to assume that the employers
propose to turn out the nonunion men
who have come to their relief. The
forty-five days allowed by the agree
ment for taking back the strikers
should enable the packing-houses to
make room for alL
"HIS PERSONALREPRESBNTATIVE"
New York Tribune.
In the meeting of the platform com
mittee of the Democratic National Con
vention on the night of July 7, Mr. Bryan
addressed David B. Hill, the manager of
the Parker movement, and the following
colloquy took place:
"You ought to have a gold platform to
go with the gold candidate you are for
cing upon the country."
Mr. Hill replied that he knaw nothing
as to Mr. Parker's monetary views.
"Do you mean to say," demanded the
Nebraskan, "that you don't know Judge
Parker'B financial, views?"
"I mean Just that" responded Mr. H11L
"You have no knowledge on that sub
ject?" "None."
"Have never asked him?"
"I have not I have never sought to
secure an expression of his views, and he
has never sought to convey them to me.
I only know that he 13 a Democrat and a
high-minded and patriotic man, and I be
lieve that he can be trusted implicitly on
this, aa upon other matters of public
policy."
Within 48 hours, on the receipt of Judge
Parker's telegram, at a meeting of the
Democratic leaders, this same David B.
Hill said:
"I am not here to say that the telegram
from Judge Parker Is a fortunate thing,
but I do say that no intelligent delegate
or no state delegation voted for Judge
Parker without knowing exactly where
Judge Parker stood. There Is nothing
new In Judge Parker's telegram. The fact
Is that I, as his own state representative,
and in a sense hlB personal representative,
fought all night for a financial plank for
Judge Parker to stand on, and when
granted by the subcommittee I fought
another day to keep it
"It was defeated, and I voted with all
the others to make a unanimous report
So every man knows that Judge Parker
would stand on a plank of that kind. His
nomination is on a platform without It,
and there Is nothing in the telegram but
the expression of that which you all knew
he believed."
One of these statements was false and
Intended to deceive. Which was It?
After the platform had been adopted,
Mr. Hill, In an Interview, declared:
"I am perfectly satisfied. Of course
there are things I wanted in, and thought
should go in, but In politics it is give and
take, and I am taking. I should have
liked to have seen an expression on the
finances in the platform, but the majority
thought otherwise, and neither Mr.
Bryan's plank nor mine was adopted. You
will remember that the New York State
Convention made no mention of the finan
cial situation, and so this platform is
similar."
Later he said: "Judge Parker will, I
believe, make an ideal candidate, and will
fit the platform, which is also ideal."
These quotations are made from the files
of reputable Democratic newspapers of
this city.
We are entirely willing to believe that
Judge Parker was grossly misrepresented
by this, his chosen agent, as also by Mr.
Littleton, his choeen orator, and by the
New York platform, his chosen declara
tion of principles, of which, in spite of its
studied silence on the money question
while Southern and Western delegates
were still being hunted, the Evening Post
said: "That this sound and vigorous po
litical deliverance had Judge Parker's ap
proval without saying." But if this is true
if Judge Parker was by some mysterious
providence struck dumb like Zacharias
and was unable to speak about the wrong
done him by the New York platform until
his nomination should have been per
formed; If he had no power to communi
cate his views to Mr. Littleton, who un
doubtedly thought he was telling the
truth; If he did not say some ten days
beforo the convention, as Mr. Hill de
clared to the platform committee in an
swer to a question about the kind of plat
form the Democrats should adopt: "I am
perfectly willing to leave that to the wis
dom of the Democratic party" certainly
now that his mouth Is opened and his
tongue Is loosed he can express his opin
ion of one who has deceived In his name
and can disassociate himself from such a
dishonest advocate. Hill has told so
many conflicting stories that nobody can
telL which was the truth and which was
the falsehood. Certain it is that there
were some untruths told by Hill In the
exploiting of the Parker candidacy. What
ever disabilities the Judge may have
labored under hitherto, It Is now Incum
bent upon him to repudiate this trickster
and drive him from his presence as a
wicked and unfaithful servant or else
take upon himself the burden of the de
ception. Hill, as hia agent proclaiming
himself "his personal representative," has
done the dirty work whose dishonorable
character Is clear on Its face. He must
either ratify the agent's acts or repudiate
the agent. He cannot pose before the pub
lic aa the innocent victim of Hill's false
hoods and go on In close friendship with
Hill.
"JEFFERSONIAN SIMPLICITY."
Nonsense of This Clause in the Demo
cratic Platform.
Now York Sun.
This plank appears la the Democratic
platform:
We believe that one of the best methods of
procuring economy and honesty In the public
service Is to have public officials, from the
occupant of the White Houso down to the low
est of them, returned as nearly as may be to
Jeffersonlan simplicity of living.
Now, how did Jefferson live? His was
the life of an educated, studious, intelli
gent and well-to-do gentleman of his day.
The estate he Inherited from his father
gave him a handsome income for those
days and he increased it by a large law
practice and by marrying, in 1770, a rich
widow. He enjoyed the luxuries of life
and Indulged himself In them. His home
at Montlcello, the most distinguished seat
of private hospitality in America, was
equipped with all the conveniences ob
tainable at the time he flourished.
That is, he conducted himself as be
came a gentleman of means and his con
sequence and there was nothing in his ex
terior manner of life to indicate that if
he had lived in our day he would have
ordered his household less expensively or
less elaborately than does the man who is
now in the White House, or the men who
will live there In the years to come.
The American people expect their Presi
dent to live In a way becoming the dignity
of his office and their own dignity, and
accordingly they provide him with a home
and with a salary sufficient to enable him
to do It
A Chance Too Good to Lose.
New York Press.
It Is now In order for Democratic free
trade newspapers of such truth-loving,
candid hearts, honest tongues and pure
souls as the Evening Post to point another
lesson of the hideous tax wrung from the
American people by the Dlngley law, as
proved by the rising price of meat the
supply having been cut off by a strike
against the packers throughout the whole
country The wicked and remorseless
Dingley law having cornered the cotton
market In a stock-gambling speculation
to cause disaster to the cotton mills of
New England, and having ordered a strike
of all the wholesale butchers In the United
States, no doubt the free-trade lover of
his fellow-man would be In the seventh
heaven of Joy If only the Dlngley law
would burn up the Nation's wheat crop,
that pearls of truth might drop In endless
succession from his lips, telling of the
horrors of a people fettered by a protec
tive tariff to work, wages and prosperity.
No Cause for Worry.
Washington Post
Wa never worried a mlnuta over ilr.
Bryan's illness after we learned that he I
'had symptoms of pneumonia. The disease 1
has not yet. been invented that would
stand any show in a. battle with. Mr.
I Bryan's lungs.
i
THE PARKER JUGGLE.
New York Press.
Judge Parker assuredly would have
commanded the respect of all honest men
had he Informed the St Louis delegates
before his nomination that he "regards"
the gold standard as- permanently estab
lished. Conceivably It might have been
due him to hail his aot as great political
courage for a Democrat of that type.
By an Imaginative flight some enthusiasts
might have pictured him the "conquer
ing" hero, though his manly act left him
a corpse on the Convention Hall floor.
But' Judge Parker did not act before
he was nominated on a Bryanlzed plat
form. He waited until after the Bryan
lzed platform was dickered for by his
managers, agreed upon, passed and put
among the unchangeable archives of the
Democratic party; until after, in accord
ance with that agreement, his nomination
was delivered over to his managers; until
after the delegates had completed all their
work, "cinched" the Belmont-Parker pro
gramme. Then, when It was too late to
make a change, he sent hl3 telegram, say
ing he "regards" the gold standard as
firmly established.
That Is the simple chronological record
of the Parker heroism, which was two
days behind even manliness and candor
and square dealing.
With equal clearness and conviction Mr.
William J. Bryan explains the method of
the bunco heroism In his formal state
ment made public yesterday. He says:
I have nothing to withdraw of the things
that I hae said against the methods pursued
to advance his candidacy.
It was a plain and deliberate attempt to de
ceive the party.
He and his managers adroitly and purposely
concealed his position until the delegates had
been corralled and the nomination assured.
After he had secured the nomination, he In
jected his views upon the subject at a time
when he could not be' taken from the ticket
without great demoralization.
The nomination was secured, therefore, by
crooked and Indefensible methods.
Nevertheless, on top of that statement
Mr. Bryan says -he will vote for Judge
Parker, because Mr. Bryan believes In fol
lowing his party, even against conviction.
Judge Parker, for gold, voted for Mr.
Bryan, for silver; Mr. Bryan, for silver,
will vote for Judge Parker, for gold. That
Is where crooked methods have landed
that combination.
But Mr. Bryan has wandered far from
an appreciation of the character of the
American people If he thinks they will or
can compromise with their consciences
now when they did not and could not In
1S96 and 1900. Democrats who voted for
Mr. Bryan In his two campaigns may not,
many of them, have, believed his judg
ment was sound. They believed he was
sincere and honest. Had they thought, to
quote Mr. Bryan's own words, that he
was deliberately practicing "crooked and
Indefensible methods," that he was "ad
roitly -and purposely concealing his posi
tion," he would have received hundreds
of thousands, perhaps millions, fewer
votes even than he did receive. Silver
Democrats and Gold Democrats, who hold
to honest principles and, thank God,
that Is what the majority of either party
does! will not take the Belmont-Parker
bunco as something to be followed and
worshiped above every question, every
principle of rectitude and honor.
The Belmont-Parker organs and man
agers will never be able to fool the Amer
ican people Into believing that the "crook
ed and Indefensible" methods were not
conceived in darkness and executed in
fraud. The American people do not slob
ber over mock heroism and have hysterics
over sleight-of-hand performances when
the real questions Involved are the good
name of a party and the honor of the
Nation. They will adjudge this miserable
trick to be literally what Mr. Bryan says
and precisely what It was "a nomination
secured by crooked and Indefensible meth
ods," and then sought to be palmed oft
on the public as a work of heroism by
Judge Parker, a phenomenon quite divine.
And knowing as well as Mr. Bryan
knows exactly what was done and why
it was done, they will give Judge Parker
and his managers shorter shrift than they
gave Mr. Bryan himself In two successive
campaigns, for at least they believe the
silver leader, right or wrong in his views,
to be frank, manly and honest. But as It
Is unthinkable that the American people
will permit the Presidency of the United
States to be made an object of green
goods swindling or a promotion jobbery,
like a "market rigging" stock fraud, they
will deliver a verdict at the polls on elec
tion day against this deception, chicanery
and dishonesty which will retire the Belmont-Parker
methods, "crooked and In
defensible, from the great political func
tion of President making for many, many
generations!
Women in Slaughter Houses.
The World Today.
Few people know to what extent woman
Is Invading our great packing-houses. The
number in the Chicago stockyards has al
most doubled In the past year. At the
present time 2000 women are employed
there. It Is true that a little less than
half that number are engaged In the re
volting work described, the majority be
ing employed In painting and labeling
cans, wrapping and packing soap and
butterlne. To such work the butchers
make no objection. But the number en
gaged In the less pleasing occupation Is
gradually being Increased. Last Summer
the sausagemakers at the stockyards went
on strike. The strike was not sanctioned
by the National officers of the organiza
tion, and when the men refused to return
to work the packers proceeded to fill their
places with women. The union could not
object The men had struck without au
thority. The women are at work today,
filling. Unking and trimming sausage.
The men are seeking work. What wage3
the women are being paid Is known only
to themselves and their employers. They
are Lithuanian peasant women. Few can
speak the English language. To organize
them would be practically Impossible,
even were it advisable, which the union
officials do not believe. But at infrequent
Intervals a few men are laid off and a few
more women hired. Can the union stop
the innovation?
A Juggling Business.
Philadelphia Press.
The explanations that are given out
concerning Judge Parker's telegram to
St Louis on the failure to adopt a money
plank disclose the great anxiety of his
leaders to clear his record on this mat
ter, although the convention declared that
the financial question Is not an Issue. The
Democratic State Convention In New
York Ignored the question In the same
way as did the National Convention. The
only Issue before the State Convention
was that ot Parker's candidacy. His
friends controlled the convention, and the
platform, was made to conform with his
views. He made no complaint of the fail
ure to say anything about the gold stand
ard. Death.
Young's "Night Thoughts."
Why start at death? Where is he? Death
arrived,
la past: not come, or gone, he's never here.
Ere hope, sensation fails, black-boding man
Receives, not suffers; death's tremendous blow.
The knell, the ehroud, the mattock, and the
grave;
The deep, damp vault, the darkness and the
wormr
These are the bugbears of a Winter's eve,
The terrors of the living, not the dead.
Imagination's fool, and error's watch,
Man makes a death which Nature never made;
Then on the point of his own fancy falls.
And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
A Poem of Passion.
-MI
-Houston Post
- NOTE AND COMMENT.'
Nature a la Mode.
When, down from the sky
And up from the street
Ceaselessly fly
The shafts of the heat:
Bereft of a breeze.
In the city we choke,
As they strangle our ease
With a muffler of smoke.
But the breeze of delight
May be felt In the glade.
Through the. drop-stitch ot light
In the garment ot shade.
So let us make haste
To the country, for there
The peek-a-boo waist
Of Miss Nature we'll wear.
-ji
History occasionally drags the-rlght
person to the guillotine. '
Looks like a race for highest place be
tween beef and the thermometer.
The relief of Port Arthur would be noth
ing to the relief of the newspaper readers.
The National Committees are slow In
telling us whether the higher price of
meat Is due to the Republican or the
Democratic party.
Two Walla Walla boys set out on a
Journey round the world. Their Journey
ended at Pendleton, owing to paternal
interference. Something always Inter
venes when wo would see Carcassonne.
Mexico Is about to adopt a measure for
the protection of birds. No doubt tho'
Central American republics will follow
Mexico's example when they have solved
the problem of protecting their Presi
dents. Prussia now has a government sausage
factory. The War Department superin
tends the work, so that the German sol
dier shall be fed on sausages that are
made from meat of the best quality. Con
scription might be abolished In PruBsia
after this. Think what a rush there
would be for enlistment
A writer In the New York Times calls
attention to the merits of "Vanderdecken.
a Chantey" in the Booklovers Magazine
for July. Vanderdecken Is certainly an
astonishing piece of work, one of those
things so true to life that they seem
genuine documents and so good that they
could only be written by a man of talent
"Vanderdecken" is a ballad of the sea.
It purports to be a manuscript that has
sculled around forecastles on many voy
ages, and the annotations by various
hands are of the sea. salty.
What is all this fuss over tho "Russian
ship St Petersburg," which captured the
liner Malacca in the Red Sea? There 13
no such vessel as the St Petersburg. A
vessel seizing another must be a pirate,
a privateer or a ship of war. The Rus
sian volunteer fleet Is a government In
stitution, therefore the St Petersburg
cannot be a pirate. Russia Is a party to
the declaration of Paris, which abolishes
privateering. Therefore the St Peters
burg cannot be a privateer. Treaty obli
gations prevent Russia from sending
ships of war out of the Black Sea. There
fore the St Petersburg cannot be a ship
of war. If she Is not a pirate or a
privateer or a ship of war it Is evident
that she must be nonexistent
It appears that the recent strike of
freighthandlers in Havana was caused
by a laborer who swiped an egg for flip
making purposes. Under the American
system the longshoremen and others are
prohibited from taking" anything from
the packages they handle, although the
practice was common under the Spanish
regime. The man who took the egg was
fired and the others quit because they
thought the bosses acted without suffi
cient cause. As the strikers said In their
reply to the employers, "Merely for hav
ing taken an egg for the sole purpose of
making a gin cocktail, with no other in
tention than to allay the thirst which the
severity of the labor on the wharves pro
duces, the dismissal was made." Spanish
American longshoremen and frelght
rUstlers are a pretty thirsty set anyway.
Casks of native wine and beer that aro
shipped along the West Coast not Infre
quently reach their destinations half
empty.
Occasionally, through the medium of
babbling letters read at breach-of-promlse
trials or a conversation over
heard In a shady park, the ordinary per
son learns of enthusiastic young lovers
who tell their Maybelles that they the
Maybclles are 130 popnds or whatever
the weight may be of love. The conceit
If not particularly subtle. Is at least
pleasant, and one would imagine that a
subsequent Increase In the avoirdupois of
Maybelle would Increase tho lover's hap
piness. Naturally, one would think, the
more there is of a girl the more there Is
to love. But It Is Impossible to tell. Here,
for instance, is a Mrs. William Pierson, of
Wllkesbarre. When she was married she
weighed 132 pounds; now she weighs 262.
It would appear that William should have
more than twice as much love for his wife
now as beforo, but he hasn't In fact
Mrs. Pierson had to get a warrant for
his arrest on tho charge of beating her.
She says that William lost his temper as
she gained her weight, and that now he
hates her. It's a cranky world.
WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
"Water, water everywhere," said the Modern
Mariner, contemplating the trust. "It's
enough to drive a man to drink." Somervllle
Journal.
Sally Brown Tour mother seemed very much
amused at that little story I told her last
night. Dolly Yes, mother has laughed at that
story ever since I can remember! New Yorker.
"Preserve us!" cried the berry. "I can," re
marked the cook. "Wouldn't this Jar you?"
queried the Mason can. "No, but this would,"
exclaimed the sugar, giving them pound for
pound. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Ida So Ernestine married that young man
after giving him the shake three times? May
Yes. Indeed. She believes In treating young
men and medicine the same way "shake well
before taking." Chicago News.
"I see you wear a yachting cap," said the
newcomer: "perhaps you can tell me what
'starboard' means." " 'Starboard,' " repeated
Mr. 'Hallrume, "why that's what the star
boarder gets, ot course." Philadelphia Press.
"Mr. Heavyweight," said the minister. "Is
willing to subscribe $10,000 for a new church,
provided we can get other subscriptions making
up the same amount "Yet you seem dlsap.
pointed," eald his "wife. "Yes, I was In hopes
he would contribute $100 In cash." Brooklyn
Life.
De Auber (showing portrait) What do you
think of It, old man? Crlticus It's remarkably
lifelike. Is it a portrait of some friend of;
yours? De Arthur Yes, it's Muggaby.
thought you knew him. Crlticus Know Muggs
by? Why. ot course I know him. I've known
him intimately for more than 20 years. Chi
cago Dally News.
Bessie Do you know, I believe I'm a half
fool, and I guess Harry Is the other half
Kitty Not very complimentary to either
you. Bessie I suppose not, but I mean It al
the same. Harry was up to eee me last evei
Ing, and by some accident or other the electrl
light got turned off. And. If you will belle
It, we eat there in the dark at least two hou
it never occurring to either of us that it cou
be turned on again la halt a second. Bost
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