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POBTIND, MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1004.
FRUIT OF UNIFORM POLICY.
It is a part of the free-trade philoso
phy that tariffs on imports are in real
ity a burden on exports. That is, they
reduce the foreigner's proceeds from his
sales to us and by that much impair his
ability to buy from us. In theory tills
principle is unassailable; but in prac
tice the exports ofj the United States
are so great as to justify the protec
tionist as he points to the record. with
pride. Under the Dingley tariff, avow
edlyprotectionist and outrageously high
and unjust in parts, our exports of
manufactures have increased from
about $220,000,000 in 1896 to about $440,
000,000 in 1904. ,
It has been held by free-traders, and
plausibly, that our high-tariff policy Is
bound to -injure' the export of manufac
tures; inasmuch as the heavy duties we
collect on raw materials puts an em
bargo on manufacturing, as compared
with the British, for example, who get
their raw materials free. The com
plaints as to hides, coal,, iron, etc, are
familiar. Curiously enough; however,
the record is exactly the other way.
"While our total export trade has In
creased by some 75 per cent since 1S9G,
our export trade In manufactures has
increased by 100 per cent. "We lead all
other countries as an exporter of do
mestic products, while the proportion
of manufactured goods to unmanufac
tured constantly Increases. As to our
total export trade, full figures for the
year ended June SO, 1904, are not yet
obtainable, but for the eleven months
of that year and of preceding years
back to 1896 these returns' are given:
1800 S200.500.021l 1901
1S97 250.4S4.5C5 1902
1808 2C1.C53.7S4 1903
1809 300,854.428 1904
...$378,533,408
... 371,348.100
... 373.545.543
... 410.536.473
O900 393,030,5791 j
These are certainly very puzzling re
sults from the free-trade standpoint;
and it is not strange that in attempting
to explain them away the free-trade
New York Times falls into a most la
mentable predicament. It admits the
figures but finds fault with the condi
tions they reveal, complaining that our
export commerce rests on an illusory
basis. This year's figures, "Instead of
furnishing an occasion for raising loud,
unthinking hurrahs, really give us
cause for serious uneasiness." "Why?
Simply because "more-than 60 per cent
of our exports is made up of agrlcul
tural products." This, we are told, is a
symptom of National weakness. It is a
condition which Involves "not the max
imum, but the minimum, of economic
..gain and increase in the National
' wealth." "The nation," our neighbor
' says, "would gain Immensely in the
economic sense by a policy which would
tend to increase the home consumption
of its agricultural products."
A moment's reflection would have
shown the Times that in an incautious
moment It had made a most damaging
admission. The policy of building up
home manufactures as a wiser form of
activity than shipping raw material
away and shipping it back in finished
form is at the basis of the high-tariff
policy and is inconsistent with free-
trade philosophy, which adjures every
man and nation to pursue its naturally
most profitable bent without economic
Interference from government. The
New Tork Tribune shrewdly picks the
Times up on its. admission, and pertl
nently says:
This has been from the beginning the
.primary aim of the protective system.- All
the struggle made In this country lor low
tariff has been directed toward a larger ex-
port on our jart of agricultural products
ana a larger purcnase zrom aDroaa oi
nanufactured articles. . The South has
."ought for that policy since 1820, and the
Democratic party, its tool and agent, has.
lent Itself to every successive effort to
check this nation's - Industrial development
.and to keep It, as far as possible, an ex
porter of cotton, grain, oil and other nn-
manufactured products. ... Judged by
its economical . results, the Dingley tariff
has more than Justified Itself. Under It
the nation has achieved an extraordinary
prosperity. Why should the American voter
risk an interruption of that prosperity by
Inviting another experiment In tariff leglsla
tlon as botched and ruinous as tho Wilson
Gorman bill -of 1804?
It is just as well that the Tribune
guardedly refrains from saying that the
Dingley rates are the cause of the situ
aiion it contemplates with such satis
faction. The truth undoubtedly Is that
while high tariffs are coexistent with
prosperity they are not the causes of it.
When we have reckoned in the influ
ences f soil and climate, cheap lands.
abundant ores, cheap waiter and rail
transportation, free trade between the
Bt2es,tJrep6 is o ccruus & -residuum
of credit due to Governmental policies;
but the salutary element In those poli
cies, and especially In our tariff policy,
inhejes not in its "protective" charac
ter, hut in its approximate consistency
throughout the years. We have grown
apace under high tariff. We should
have growa apace undtr low tariff. The
rise of our export .trade owes more to
the adoption of the gold standard than
to the Dingley laws. If Roosevelt is
elected it will be, because the business
world, with sound instinct, dreads a
change; not because it approves high
tariffs on raw materials or the protec
tion of cheap jewelry.
GROWTH OF COASTWISE TRAFFIC.
Three coasting steamers arrived at
Portland from California ports yester
day, arid two departed from' Portland
with full cargoes. For months there
have been from five to seven of these
vessels in and out of Portland every
week. The rapid Increase of Portland's
coastwise traffic has been one of the
most remarkable features in the growth
of our marine business. In some re
spects this traffic is less desirable than
the ovea-sea commerce, and in others
there Is an. advantage in favor of the
coasting business. In shipping a cargo
of Oregon products to a foreign country
we, of course, receive in payment
money from which not only the city
and state from which the cargo was
shipped derive benefits, but the country
as a whole profits In degree by the re
ceipt of this new capital. Coastwise
shipments being more In the nature of
Interstate traffic with the capital in
volved merely shifting from one state
to another, has its limitations In creat
ing wealth for the country as a whole.
And yet back of the increasing coast
wise traffic are fundamental reasons
for Its growth and existence which
prove it to be more valuable to the im
mediate localities in T,'hichfIt originates
than Is the foreign traffic "We are
shipping to California an immense
amount of wheat. The business in this
cereal has reached such proportions
that it has, temporarily at least,
eclipsed our foreign wheat trade. No
regret, however, can be expressed over
this state of affairs; for the Callfor
nians are taking our wheat because
they are willing to pay more, for it than
we can secure from the foreigners. In
lumber, which, Hext to wheat, is the
most important asset to be reckoned
with in considering our marine traffic,
the case is somewhat different, for the
reason that it is a commodity thatmore
easily feels the effect of overproduction.
If the demand for lumber were suffi
cient to take an unlimited output on a
basis that would net the manufacturer
a profit proportionate to that made by
the grower of 50-cent wheat, there
would be an Immediate increase In our
already large production.
As matters now stand, we are sell
ing the foreigners every foot of lumber
that we can force upon them, and are
still obliged to turn to our California
customers to secure a market for much
more than the foreigners will take. It
must also be- remembered that while
this coastwise traffic may not bring di
rect returns in foreign money, there are
indirect benefits which cannot escape
us. California annually exports wine,
fruit, hops, etc., to the value of many
millions of dollars. These products,
which do bring wealth t direct from
a foreign country to our own, are sent
out by the men who are buying our
lumber, wheat and flour, arid In this
manner we receive through our coast
ing trade an indirect benefit from the
California foreign trade A good many
years hence the Pacific Coast will reach
a stage of development when its own
population will have created a demand
for a large share and perhaps all of the
products which we now export in such
large quantiies. The present rapid In
crease In coastwise traffic might not In
appropriately be termed the beginning
of that end.
The producer living In a territory
thus provided with an outlet by sea has
an advantage even in Interstate traffic
which can never be enjoyed by the one
dependent entirely on land transporta
tion. The sea is an open commercial
highway on which the economically
built and economically operated
relghter of the small capitalist enjoys
the same rights and privileges as the
crack liners of the big corporations
The railway lines of the millionaires
are the controlling factors In the estab
lishment and regulation of freight rates
on land; but at sea the small owners
and operators, with their cheap craft,
set the pace on rates, and the big fel
lows are forced to conform to that pace
or drop the business.
AS SEEN BT A KIND CRITIC;
It takes a woman, and an appreciat
ive Oregonlan at that, to see with the
kind eyes of personal interest what has
been done and what has been left un
done upon the Oregon building at the
St. Louis Fair, "Why," asks our cor
respondent, "L. C O.," in a recent
Issue, "was the principal 'label' of
the building and what it stands for
nailed up back of the building' on the
stockade, where even the searching
eyes of a lover of Oregon failed to dis
cover its full text until the last of a
week's-stay at the exposition?" Prob
ably because" there was not a woman
with an eye to the fitness of things at
the elbow of the designer or con
tractor to suggest a more appropriate
and conspicuous place for the name of
the building and for the explanatory
announcement, "Oregon ninety-nine
years ago."
Then, again, why were not rapidly
growing Summer vines and quickly
blooming annuals, geraniums, etc.,
found in profusion on the- outer walls
and ' grounds to give color and
coolness to the picture in July?
And why are not the inner walls
hung with large . engravings,' pho
tographs and paintings of Oregon
scenery, industries and modern build
ings? For the same reason, perhaps,
that the "label" of the state building
was not properly placed and the ex
planation conveyed by the words "Ore
gon ninety-nine years ago" was not
made duly conspicuous.
As "It. C. O." very truly says, "groups
of small, pictures do not attract the eye
or engage the interest of the hurrying
sightseer." The picture presentation
should be "large, imposing, convinc
ing." It is not strange .that in- all
these discrepancies this generous
critic and loyal citizen of Oregon sees
painful evidence of a "lack of funds"
In the presentment made by the Oregon
building at St. Louis. Eastern people
interpret its deficiencies less kindly and
set Oregonlans down as "slow." The
real reason probably lies between these
two estimates. , More could have been
done with a more liberal allowance, of
course. But the blunders pointed out
were not due to much to lack of funds
as to the failure of those In charge to'
make the' best possible showing from
the funds that were provided.
j There- i a focultyr-a sort of -ekqih
sense which all do not possess This
faculty finds expression in "putting the
best foot forward."' Its province is to
make a brave showing in spite of re
stricted finances. It artfully conceals
evidences of a shortage of resources by
making the best of what Is provided.
For example, more money was not nec
essary In order to make known to every
sightseer who passes that way that the
Oregon building at St. Louis represents
Oregon, not as It is, but as it was
ninety-nine years agfe.. Nor would -it
have required any greater outlay to put
the "label" of the building In ar con
spicuous than In an obscure place; nor
to have had quickly growing Summer
vines running riotously over the' build
ing, and such space as was available
aflame with the blossoms of nastur
tiums and cannas and geraniums set
in their cool green leaves. Funds were
doubtless "short," but the faculty which o
induces its possessor to "put the best lb
foot forward" seems to have been ab
sent altogether when it came to carry
ing out details In and about this Oregon
building. To be "slow" in this day and
age of the world may not be a crime,
but it certainly is to be left behind in
the race. There may 'be more reafYlr
tue, judged from the basis of utility, in
the old farm horse than in the high-
stepping racer, but the latter gets
there" and attracts attention on the
way. This, freely interpreted, is we
take- it, the special mission of the great
Fair. And a nation, a state, an Indus
try or an enterprise that does not
these requirements would better, not
enter the lists as an exhibitor. It Is not
a crime to be "slow," but it is short
sighted policy to go among the world's
rustlers thus handicapped.
PORTLAND A HUMANE SOCIETY.
Arrest of a young 'man charged with
ill treating a horse and his arraignment
in the Municipal Court is a reminder
that cruelty to animals Is rare in Port
land. In this case the defendant has
lived here only a few days. There is in
Portland a remarkably widespread and
healthy sentiment on the question of
kindness to dumb creatures. It is uni
versally exerted, and serves to protect
our burden-bearing servants no less
than the feathered songsters. This sen
timent is not of new growth. For more
than a generation the Oregon Humane
Society,-working eff actively through the
public schools In a variety of ways, in
stilled into the minds and hearts of
Portland youth the doctrine that cru
elty to animals is a sift; that theyVmust
refrain from It, and whenever in'their
power restrain others from committing
It. These boys and girls are now men
and women, all participants in the
city's activities, and recruits are added
to their number every day. Thus we
have thousands -of self-appointed
agents of the Humane Society who by
suasion accomplish what an army of
uniformed officers could not do. Occa
sional exceptions to the rule of kind
ness may almost invariably be traced
to newcomers.
Portland's healthy sentiment in this
matter came forcibly to the notice of a
humane society missionary from New
England about four years ago. He was
on a tour of the Pacific Coast and when
he arrived here he was astonished to
learn upon inquiry that the Oregon Hu
mane Society was without a represent
atlve. It happened that the president,
the vice-president and the secretary
were out of town, the latter leaving no
assistant or substitute, and the Hu
mane Society's police officer having
been laid off for lack of funds. The
missionary called at The Oregonlan of
fice and was rejoiced when he was told
that all Portland was a humane society
whose limited number of policemen
could easily take care of infractions of
the law, which did not average two' a
month. "This is one city where evi
dently my services are not needed," he
said, with undisguised pleasure, and he
tosk the next train for Seattle. Port
land's comparative freedom from cru
elty to animals is based, not on stat
utes, but ipsts in the heart and con
science of the community. '
. JUST REALIZING OUR RESOURCES.
A. very large portion of the State of
Oregon Is still an undiscovered country.
Though Government surveyors have
run lines over nearly every township
and made plats showing the location of
streams, the character of the soli and
tho presence of timber wealth, and
though public roads traverse the state
In every direction and postoffices are
located In the most thinly settled parts
of the Interior, yet.lt may be said with
little semblance of exaggeration that
nearly half of the state Is practically
unknpwn. The "discoveries" we have
mado in the past few years Indicate in
some measure the extent of our lack of
knowledge of the real- Oregon
In the valleyvs between the Coast
Range and Cascade Mountains, and In
a few valleys in Eastern Oregon, where
the railroad has gone, we have learned
the possibilities of; the country as an
agricultural region. The same may be
said of the coast district around Tilla
mook and Coos Bays. But what of the
rest of the state? Though the immense
forests of unsurpassed timber lay be
fore our eyes for half a- century, It is
only within the last five or six years
that we have "discovered" their value.
The waters of the Deschutes, the Mai
heur, they Umatilla and the Klamath
have been flowing in their channels all
these years and we have known what
Eastern Oregon soil will do when water
has been put upon It, but it is only
very recently that we have been
brought to realize the enormous value
of those streams as the source of sup
ply for Irrigation systems. - Though we
have known of its existence for half
century and more, the Deschutes coun
try has really just been discovered. In
Wsetern Oregon the mountain streams
have been ,splashing and dasBing, try
ing to attract the attention of the peo
pie who came here from the other side
of the Rocky Mountains to make their
homes and develop the resources of the
country, but it is only In the last few
weeks that we have "discovered" the
real value of these magnificent water
powers
In every annual edition of The Ore
gonlan and of other papers throughout
the state the story of Oregon's almost
unlimited natural wealth has been told
and retold. The facts have been set
forth in full detail by men familiar
with their subjects, yet even, the men
who wrote the stories of Oregon's In
dustrlal resources had but slight aoore
elation of the real significance of the
Information they placed before the
world. Men who lived upon the border
of the most valuable forests and hunted
deer through their shaded retreats have
grown old without exercising their
right to take timber claims or home
steads. Tired business men have left
their desks in shop and bank and fac
tory to spend a season fishing hr the
rushing waters of a mountain stream
but -they did not see in that display of
unharnessed power the fulfillment of
the needs of the future. We of Oregon
have been missing opportunities until
Eastern capitalists have bought our'
timber lands, secured control of our
ater powers and begun the. develop
ment of our Irrigation enterprises. '
But the opportunities are not all gone.
There are timber lands that may be
had for a small part of their future
alue. water powers whose future util
ity Is unforeseen by tbelrowners, arid
wastes that are yet awaiting the appro
prIator,,of available water. There are
rich mineral deposits yet unfound and
fertile fields yet unplowed.N In West
ern Oregon electric lines will make
small farms much more valuable, and
In Eastern Oregon the extension of rail
roads will build new towns and fac
tories and open up new agricultural
regions. The changes which have taken
lace in the last ten years are but the
eglnning of a development which will
surpass the most sanguine expectations
of our most optimistic people. The fut
ure has riches In store for him who
can see and appreciate the real value
of things, and who will seize the oppor
tunity when it Is offered. Today thou
sands of our people are looking with
regret upon the ' opportunities they
missed in timber lands, arid lands and
water powers? How many will be say
ing a decade, hence, "If I- had only
known!" &
Fifteen thousand landseekers who
meet-pwere "disappointed in the rush for the
Rosebud reservation lands have moved
farmer west and will endeavor to se
cure claims In the Devil's Lake coun
try, and an Italian steamship company
Is working out a plan to colonize Texas
with, farmers from the Mediterranean.
No Oregonlan who has ever visited
Texas or Dakota Is likely to get mixed
up In a rush for any lands that those
states have to offer the Intending set
tler. Good Oregon land Is not so plenti
ful at low prices or no prices as it once
was, but there are many thousand acres
hat will compare favorably with the
Texas or Dakota land, and which can
still be had without much greater phys
ical, mental or financial outlay'than Is
necessary in the acquirement of a claim
by the "rush" method, which Is fol
lowed whenever the Government holds
land Ipttery. For being thus over
looked, however, Oregon may find some
consolation in the thought that perhaps
she might not like the kind of citizens
who are niBhing Into Dakota and
Texas.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer still re
fuse to explain why all mention of
Portland was omitted when it printed
an extended article on Pacific Coast
wheat trade. Instead it flounders
around in a maze of misrepresentation
and wild statements which it puts out
in an endeavor to obscure the real point
at issae. The Bureau of Statistics, in
its official figures, showed that Port
land during the, fiscal year ending June
30, 1904. shipped more than twice as
much wheat as all Puget Sound ports
combined, and within a few bushels of
the total amount shipped by all ports
In California and Washington. The fig
ures also showed that Portland was the
only port on the Pacific Coast that
made a gain In flour exports for the
year. Under such circumstances The
Oregonlan thought that an article on
Pacific Coast wheat trade was Incom
plete without at least a slight mention
of Portland. We would still be pleased
to have the P.-I. explain why all refer
ence to Portland was omitted from Its
article on the Pacific Coast wheat trade.
It is difficult to decide whether the
extreme heat of Summer or the extreme
cold of Winter is the more severe on an
army in the field. One Is Inclined at
this time to decide that the heat is
harder to endure than cold under stren
uous conditions of war. It seems, in
deed, that nothing could Impose i
greater tax upon human endurance
than tolling with artillery under.
burning sun and scorched by a "kamsln
wind." But, recalling the bitter suffer
ing of Russian troops in crossing Lake
Baikal a few months ago, and reflecting
upon the suffering of the French army
during its retreat from Moscow In the
early years of the past century, It must
be admitted that fighting In 120 degrees
of heat Is not more fatal to troops than
beating through deep snowdrifts
against bitter winds when the thermom
'"peter registers 50 degrees below zero,
The conditions in either case are prac
tically Insupportable for any length of
vtlme, and, contemplating them from a
safe distance, each seems worse than
the other.
The Haytlan Republic, where the
music of the revolutionist "sings on and
Is never still," is apparently getting
ready for another spasm. The rate of
exchange is up to 600 per cent, and
President Nord in a public address
few days ago accused the foreign pop
ulatlon of plotting against him with a
view to overthrowing his government,
He also stated that he would take
strong measures to defend himself and
made a threatening reference to "what
happened In Haytl In 1S04." Details of
the present grievances of the Haytlati
monarch are not given, but there are
very few pages In Haytlan history but
would have shown brighter had the ad
vice or example of the "foreign popu
latlon" been followed.
The twenty-ninth annual review of
the Commercial News, San Francisco;
old reliable shipping and trade paper,
Is at hand, and, as usual, is a highly
creditable publication. Editor Bates is
quite complimentary In the numerous
pages he devotes to Portland, and
makes special notice of the work of the
Port of Portland and the Lewis and
Clark Fair.
Henry Gassawav Davis. , Democratic
noriiinee for- Vice-President, will be
hailed as the greatest of American in
venters' if he can demonstrate to the
country that the National card game as
played at Elklns, W. Va., can be made
of sufficient Interest to be Indulged In
every night and nobody quit loser.
Henry Koch, housepainter, spectator
at an accident in one of Chicago'
streets, Impulsively rescues a policeman
overcome by gas and pays for this life
with his own. In such circumstances
Andrew. Carnegie's hero fund is hardly
a topic ior newspaper jest. ,
Denominational Co-Operation.
Unnlncott's.
'My dear," said "Mias Flagstaff to her
country beau, "I thought I ought to tell
you beforehand that I'm a somnambulist.-
xou mieat not liKe to- marry a woman
who '-"
But the impatient Mr. McCoy cut short
her remarks, saying:
"That makes no difference, Caroline-
none In the world. I'm a Methodist, you
know, and ,1 can go with, you to your
church in tho morning and you can go
j with mat to ray-church at eight;
ROOT THE STRONGEST MAN.
Republicans Confident He Will Run
for Governor of New York.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Aug. 6. Notwithstanding his dec
lination. New York Republicans are con
fident that Ellhu Root will eventually ac
cept the nomination for Governor, and
make therace in the interest of the Re
publican party at large, as well as the
Republican party of New York. By "many
New Yorkers, Root's nomination is
deemed necessary If Roosevelt Is to carry
the state In November.
It Is recognized that New York Is go
ing to be close, and that the very best
man In the Republican ranks must be put
at the head of the Republican slate
ticket If the party -would win. That man,
beyond any shadow of doubt, Is Ellhu
Root. . Root Is head and shoulders above
all other New York Republicans, not ex
cepting Governor Odell, who would like
still another term at Albany. ,
It Is perhaps natural that Root should
not want to run for Governor. When ho
retired from the office of Secretary of
War ne announced his intention of going
back to hlslaw practice, which had suf
fered while he wa3 in- the Cabinet He
wanted to return to his chosen profession.
and make money. He made none whilo ho
was in the Cabinet, and he would mako
none as Governor of New York.
One of the Big Guns.
It has been explained by some who pre
tend to know that Root declined the
nomination in New York-because ho is
representing James J. Hill. There Is
probably no, foundation for that, at least
so far as sentiment is concerned. Root
as attorney for one of the great1 com
panies that constituted the Northern Se
curities Company has not embarrassed the
Administration, and the fact that he had
held such position as a lawyer would not
detract from his power as a politician
should he consent to run for Governor.
jttoot js not a small politician. Nor Is he
a small-caliber lawyer.
William J. Youngs, who was at one
time private secretary - to Theodora
Roosevelt, when the latter was Governor
or rew York, has some views on Root
and the New York situation, which are
of interest.
-New York Republicans," says Youngs,
'regard Root's nomination as essential to
Republican success. I know that Presi
dent Roosevelt is very anxious that Mr.
Root shall be the candidate for Governor,
The President wants to carry New York.
although he can be elected without it-
Mr. Root is undeniably the strongest Re
publican in the state, and Governor Odell
realizes this. He, as manager of the Re
publican campaign, wants the strongest
man that can be nominated, and he recog
nizes that Mr. Root is that man. Gov
ernor Odell also recognizes that It would
be fatal to him to again be the Republican
candidate, and let the state fall Into the
hands of the Democrats."
Depew Slated for Retirement.
In connection with the story that Root
is slated for the nomination for Gov
ernor comes ,an interesting tale to the
effect that Senator Piatt and Senator
Depew are to be retired, and that Gov
ernor Odell and ex-Governor Black, who
nominated Roosevelt at Chicago, are to
be sent to the Senate at the expiration of
the terms of the sitting Senators. Just
how much truth Is back of this story re
mains to be found out.
Odell wants to remain la politics, and if
he can't hold onto the Governorship, the
Senatorshlp is the next best thing within
his reach. Senator DeDews term ex
pires on March 3 next, at a convenient
time If Odell desires to make the race for
the Senate, for his own term as Governor
expires next January. Depew has not
been a success as a Senator, and It is
hardly probable he can have another
term.
Odell In tho Senate with Piatt for four
years, until Piatt's term expires In 1909,
would not get along altogether harmoni
ously, but Piatt Is getting very old and
quite feeble; ho Is not active and ener
getic, and would have to depend much
upon his colleague, and in this way Odell
as junior Senator, would forge to the
front, and take precedence over his col
league, as he has succeeded him In the
leadership of the Republican organization
in New York.
Of course Odell Is looking ahead to the
Presidency, and if he cannot retain the
trovernorsnip, no would, oe almost as
prominent as Senator, and would probably
stand as good a chance in 190S as if he
entered the field from Albany.
It Is speculating a long way ahead to
discuss Black as a successor of Senator
Piatt, but If Piatt, at the end of his
present term, concludes he has had
enough of politics, and makes way for
some younger man, jiiacx toi proDaDiy
stand as much show as any other. But
five years works wondera in New York
politics. It is useless to discuss what
may happen so far in the future. Present
talk of Black is merely a pleasantry for
whlllng away Summer hours.
Democratic Committee. Gathering.
NEW YORK, Aug. 7. Democrats from
different sections of the country began
leathering today in anticipation of the
meeting of the Executive Committee to
morrow morning and the notification of
Judce Parker of his nomination on Wed
nesday. Timothy E. Ryan, member of
the Executive Committee from Wiscon
sin. was among the early arrivals. He
told Chairman Taggart that his state was
debatable ground and expressed the opin
ion that tho Republican factions could not
be brought together.
"W. S. Cowherd, chairman of the Con
gresslonal Committee, came over from
"Washington to consult with the Demo
cratic National managers regarding con
certed action for both President and Con
gress. Among other arrivals were J,
Browne, member of the National Com
mittee from Florida, and Representative
Claude E. Swanson, of Virginia.
Opening Republican Headquarters.
NEW YORK, Aug. 7, The Republican
headquarters will be formally opened to
morrow by Chairman CortelyOu and such
members of the Executive Committee as
may be in the city. There will be no cere
mony, but the members of the committee
will begin the campaign at once. Senator
T. B. Scott, of West Virginia, arrived to
night and other members will be here
tomorrow.
Hay Dines With President.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. Secretary Hal
dlne with the President at the Whito
xiouso luuuy. ne remamea mere until
11 o'clock. N .
To America.
y George Henry Boker.
What, cringe to Europe! Band it all In one.
Stilt Its decrepit strength, renew Its age.
Wipe out Its debts, contract a loan to wage
Its vena.1 battles ana, by you bright sun,
Our Goa is talste, and liberty undone,
If slaves have power to win your heritage!
Look ca your country, God's appointed stage,
Where man's vast mind Its boundless course
shall run: .
For that It was your stormy coast Re spread
A fear in vvlrter; girded you about
With granite hills, and made-you strong and
dread.
Let him who fears before the foemen shout,
Or gives an inch before a vein has bled,
. Turn ca' himself, and let the traitor out
AUGUST- BELMONT SULKS.
Piqued by His Failure to Get National
Chairmanship, He Refuses to Col
lect Campaign Funds.
' Philadelphia Press.
New York, Aug. 1. Word has been
seat to the managers of the Democratic
Presidential campaign that there will be
no large contributions to the Parker and
Davis campaign funds from Wall street
and the allied financial Interests until
after Judge Parker has written and pub
llsned his letter of acceptance. The Dem
ocratic managers have been notified by
August Belmont, it is said on good au
thority, that he will not assist In gather
ing campaign funds.
It Is understood that the attitude of
Mr. Belmont Is that he will contribute
his share when the time conies, but that
he will he responsible for no oher contri
butions and need not be expected to do
any active work in the campaign. This
action is ascribed to pique on Mr. Bel
mont's part. He wanted to be chairman
of the National Committed; but the com
mittee elected Thomas Taggart, of Indi
ana. It Is said by Mr. Belmont's friends
that tho Democratic managers wished
him to underwrite the Democratic cam
paign and "that he refused after he had
been denied the place he desired. The
plan was to make him treasurer. He re
fused to take this "place and so far as Is
known has not withdrawn that refusal.
What the Democratic managers say
about Mr. Belmont's position is that he
has "laid flown."
QNLY A FEW OF THEM LEFT.
Chicago Chronicle.
The late Governor Pattlson of Penn
sylvania adhered to the last to tho party
which calls Itself Democratic and takes
In . vain the names -of great American
Democrats. Ho clung to it for what It
had been and refused to believe that its
masses had proved recreant to all Demo
cratic principles.
Himself ardently devoted to those prin
ciples, ha could not bring himself to see
that tho dominating forces of the party
had become utterly undemocratic and
were using the organization for purposes
that were evil and wholly at variance
wltn the principles to which he was so
strongly attached and which had ani
mated the party in its better days.
He could not help knowing that the
party had been misled, but he refused to
doubt that its rank and file wero still
sound of mind and heart and would glad
ly respond if summoned to return from
their wanderings by leaders of tho right
stamp.
He went to St. Louis to aid In restoring
the party to true and .able Democratic
leadership and thoroughly imbued with
the hope and belief that the efforts of
himself and others would be. c?owned with
success. Tnere is reason to oeiicve tnat
his labors at St. Louis in a cause which
wa3 really hopeless hastened the end of
a life capable of great usefulness to the
country.
Mr. Pattlson rendered distinguished
services in his own state. A man of high
character and resolution, he attempted
to rescue the state from the political cor-
nmtlnn lnn whlnt. - V.o gallon Tn fVila
work he made the local Democratic party
useful. He became its candidate for Gov
ernor and was elected. The people wished
for reform and responded to the appeal
embodied In his candidacy regardless of
their party affiliations.
Had the party sustained him it prob
ably would have become a permanent
power for good in tho state. But it did
not sustain him and it passed Into an ap
parently hopeless minority. It was com
posed of such antagonistic groups and
the most powerful of these were actuated
by such unworthy motives that It could
not be made a power for good.
xet so Diinaaa was vsovernor jratuson
by his attachment to tho party name, so '
confident was ho that the name was truly
expressive of the esssential character ot
the party, that he still held fast to the
organization and sacrificed his lire m a
struggle to make the party what he imag
ined it to be.
There are still many Democrats of the
old school men who hold fast to the
Democratic party that is because they
labor under the delusion that it Is tho
Democratic party that was men who
dream of purifying it and harmonizing It
and making it a power for good under a
truly Democratic leadership.
But the number of these Is steadily di
minishing. One after another they are
freeing themselves from their delusion
and abandoning the hopeless task of as
similatinjr Irreconcilable opposltes for the
most part bad and transmuting them into
a homogeneous party with singleness or
purpose "and capacity for the accomplish
ment of good ends.
The day is not remote when the last of
them will leave the Democratic party to
disintegrate from its own violent antago
nisms and its Incurable moral rottenness.
Soon there will not bo a grain of the
Pattlson salt left to stay the progress of
decomposition.
'SWIMMERS GO INSANE,
Started on a Long Race From Brook-
lyn Bridge.
NEW YORK, Aug. 7. Clifford Baxter,
a civil engineer, and Captain John En-
right, of the South Beach llfesaving sta
tion, started on a swimming contest from
Brooklyn bridge to the Iron pier at Coney
Island todav and both were taken out of
the water temporarily crazed, after swim
ming for seven hours, and when witnm a
mile of their goal. The distance is esti
mated at 13 miles.
Baxter passed Enright at Norton s
Point when both men wero nearly ex
hausted. Enright 'Soon afterward declared
that some one was holding him back and
began to rave. He was taken from the
water. .
A brother of Enright, seeing that Bax
ter might finish, became excited and
jumped overboard. He caught Baxter and
Baxter's crew fought him oft with an oar.
By this time Baxter developed a delusion
that a devilfish was towing him and that
ho was starving to death and his friends
dragged him from the water.
Satan Was a Delegate.
New York Press.
Some of the Prohibitionists profess to
bo much distressed to learn that the brew
ers of Indianapolis contributed liberally
to the expenses of the National Conven
tion of the party recently held in that
city. But so far we have not heard of
the Rev. Dr. Swallow or his chairman
of committee handing back the amount of
tho contributions. Nor have any apolo
gies been offered by the Prohibitionist
National Committee for accepting the aid
of the brewers. In the assault on the
Army canteen the liquor Interests and the
Prohibitionists were In close alliance, and
the connection seems to have been en
tirely satisfactory to both parties, else
tho brewers would not have voluntarily
helped finance the Prohibitionist cam
paign or the Prohibitionist party have
accepted- of help from such a quarter.
The Prohibitionist organ, TheVoice, now
that the fact of the brewers contribu
tion has become known to the general
public, thinks that the money ought to
be handed back, basing Its opinion, how
ever, not on. any" high grounds of prin
ciple, but ortithe fact that a knowledge
of such contributions "is liable to create
much trouble and misunderstanding In the
heat of a campaign. It is quite appar
ent that when the good people met to
gether at Indianapolis, "Satan came
also." . t
A Widow Bird.
i. Percy Bysshe Shelley.
A widow bird eat mourning for her love
Upon a wintry boughj
The frozen wind, erection, above,
The freezing stream below!
There was no leaf upon the forest bare,
Jfo flower upon the ground,
And llttlo motion in the air fc N
iEscept the ralU-wheel's eound.
- ; NOTE ANDJ0MMENT. :
The, English are in IHassa. That In
terpolated "h" must have betrayed the
defenders. d
Portland's cops will now be able to
handle prisoners with gloves and club
'em at the same time.
Chicago has just held an. "old settlers
picnic." Presumably anyone who has
lived there more than 10 "years is, an old
settler. '
Bishop Potter,, who is trying to Investi
gate the saloon evil, has been censored
by the W. C. T. TJ. It is wonderful how
many people think they have proprietary
rights In the strait and narrow way.
The, announcement that Henry Gassa
way Davis is an ardent lover ot poker
should bring him a large number of votes,
but the further announcement that he
plays for "love" only, should take them
away again.
The London Dally Graphic probably
didn't mean exactly what it said In this
itemi ,
A tram car was overturned at Birmingham
last -evening. Fortunately, the only passenger
was a woman.
So. frequent have thefts of bicycles by
Kaffirs become In Pretoria that the gov
ernment has authorized a municipal by
law providing that natives' bicycles shall
be painted yellow. And these are the un
civilized Kaffirs that had to be displaced
by Chinese!
Bishop Potter was present at the open
ing of a saloon In New York last week,
and took part in the religious exercises
on that occasion. The saloon sells all the
usual alcoholic liquors. In a room par
titioned off from the bar is a soda fount
ain, where beer also may be obtained.
.Women are allowed in this room, but not
in the bar. Just how this enterprise will
boost tho temperance cause does not ap
pear clear at this distance.
For 13 hours, says an Associated Press;
correspondent, the Russians fought liko
madmen, and. during all that time they
did not see a single Japanese soldier. The
future Napier is going to be hard up for
"purple patches" in war histories. The
fighting of invisible foemen can offer no
compensation for tho lack of charging
squadrons, flashing swords and bristling
bayonets all jumbled "up together in full
view of tho man on a convenient hillock.
An item in the Victoria Colonist con
cerning malls for Pitcalrn Island- brings
to the public attention the little Island
where the descendants of the Bounty's
mutineers still make their home. Regu
lar malls, of course, are unknown to the
people of Pitcalrn, as they have to de
pend on visiting passing vessels. A man-of-war
usually takes their letters once a
year, and the Colonist announces that a
mall will be dispatched by H. M. S.
Shearwater, which will leave Victoria
about October 1. The Islanders seem to
prefer reading-matter of a religious char
acter to any other.
Many a quarrel between man and wife
arises from trivial causes, and causes a
lasting estrangement Before marriage
there Is usually less bitter argument and
obstinate decision. It" was probably a
lucky thing, howeverr for a couple in
Halifax (Yorkshire) that they fell out
before marriage. They were In a cab,
along with the best man and tho brides
maid, on the way to the church, when
a dispute arose as to which of them
I should open the door of the cab. The
bride held one view and the groom an
other. So excited did the argument become-
thafthe bridegroom refused to en
ter the church, and went home a bach
elor. A Southern writer tells this story In
Harper's Weekly of a negro preacher's
version of the parable of the Good Sa
maritan: There was a traveler on a
lonely road, said the preacher, who was
set upon by thieves, robbed and left
wounded and helpless by the wayside.
As he lay there, various persons passed
him, but none offered to assist him.
Presently, however, a poor Samaritan
came by, and, taking pity on the wounded
man's plight, helped him on his mule and
took him to an inn, where he ordered
food and drink and raiment for the man,
directing the Innkeeper to send the bill
to him. "And dis am a true story,
breth'ren," concluded the preacher; "for
de inn am standin' dere yet, and In de
do'way am standin de skel'ton ob de
innkeeper, waifln fer de Good Samaritan
to come back an' pay de bill."
Who would expect to find a critic of
American manners in Fiji? Here is what
"Ola" has to say In the Fiji Times:
Did any one else wonder with Ola wnere
"the scandal" came "in In the Report o Miss'
Alice Roosevelt attending race, meetings and
being photographed in the act (1) of handing
over money to a bookmaker, and (2) displaying
her winnings to a Member of Congress? In!
Suva, it Is a sign of caste to "wager" and
"win" It you can. From the pillars of jhe
church to the newest-hatched butterflies of
society, all our 77 "put their little bit on"
quite openly, and with no side glances to see
who's looking. The old buffer who gets his
500 a year pockets his five bob dividend froml
the tote (totalizator, a betting machine) with
an Impassive face but an inword chortle, andl
"Daughter" clutches the 15 shillings sween
with quite open radiance. And why not? I
From this Is appears that society inj
Fiji Is limited to the Seventy-seven. New-!
port, even if the Four Hundred were re
duced by half, would appear to have more,
elastic regulations. Or is It that there;
are only 77 white people In the Islands?
WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. 1
M
Proprietor How Us that new salesman doing?
Floorwalker Great. "Why, he could sell a box
of writing paper to a man who couldn't write
his name. Philadelphia Bulletin.
He I hope the fact that life led a gay life
and been out nights a great deal won't make
any difference. "Indeed. It does. If I accepted
you, you might reform." Life.
"But have you any expectations, young
man?" "Of course, I have. Three- rich Girls
want to marry me, but I'm going to give your
girl the first chance." Cleveland Plain .Dealer.
Towne It's funny you don't know that man
over there. That's Braggs. Browne I never
heard of him. Towne Evidently you've never
been within range of his voice, then. Philadel
phia Prass.
Ajax had just defled the lightning. "I
wouldn't do it," he 'said, "but Mrs. Ajax gets
nervous every time there's a storm." And
women haven't changed much since. Chicago
News.
"Do you think that elections are as honest
as they used to be?" "No," answered Senator
Sorghum. "I can't say I ao. A lot of people
get paid for votes nowadays and then don't
deliver the goods." Washington Star.
Bookie So y'see. If the 'orsa starts at 15 to
1 you get 15 quid, 10 to 1 you get 10 quid, S
to 1 Ave. D'ysee? ThA Innocent Oh, yes. I
see, perfectly. But what do I get It the horsa
starts at 1 o'clock exactly? Illustrated Bits.
"Open your mouth a little wider, please
said the dentist, "My friend, replied the
professor, with some Impatience, "I can't open
niy mouth any wider. But I; can extend It
vertically a little more. If you insist upon It,"
For nothing1 Jars the prpfesspra nerves worse
than the use of slipshod -English. Chi caga
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