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PORTLAND, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1904.
BAILEY SHOWS BAD TASTE.
It; is In very bad taste for Senator
Bailey to denounce the Federal Govern
ment for its increasing expenses, which
he dishonestly designates as "the reck
less extravagance of those now In
power." Mr. Bailey is accounted a very
brainy man. If he is, then lie knows
perfectly well that Federal expendi
tures have grown by reason of the in
creased part the Government takes In
development of the country's resources,
waterways, etc., and that' the section
and state he halls from derives great
benefit from this policy.
It is a common cry of the Democrats
that Government expenses should be
cut down by limiting its field of opera- i
tions to what are known as the legitl- j
'mate expenses of government; yet our
Democratic communities are always
clamoring for Federal.aid of their local
needs. The mouth of the Mississippi
has absorbed millions. Galveston, in
Senator Bailey'sown state, has asked
and received Government work on its
barbor, so that the depth of water has
been increased from twelve to twenty
seven feet. Since the election of ;Mc-
Kinley in 1896 the Government has
spent $175,000,000 in river and harbor
work, and the South has had its right
ful share.
We do things for localities and even
for industries in this way because it is
the easiest and best way. It would im
poverish Galveston to dig its own har
bor, or New Orleans to dike "the Missis
sippi. Through customs and internal
Tevenue the whole people can do this
work without burdensome taxation.. In
1860 we spent $11,000,000 on our Navy.
The same per capita today would bring
the total to $30,000,000, whereas in 1903
we spent $60,000,000. It is not the mag
nitude of these operations that signifies,
tout merely the question whether we get
honest value for the money spent.
Enormous sums have been spent by
the Government to save the South's
cotton crop from the boll-weevil; to ex
tirpate from the South its scourge of
yellow fever; to fortify its coasts; to
house its Federal offices; to herald ap
proaching storms on the Gulf and South
Atlantic; to relieve its flood sufferers;
to multiply its postal facilities; to fos
ter its rice industry, whloh has grown
from an output pf 115,000,000 pounds in
1898 to 400,000,000 pounds in 1903. The
South was benefited by the expendi
tures made by and still chargeable to
the war with Spain, which corrected a
situation of grave menace to Southern
peace and prosperity, and it will be
"benefited still more by the Panama Ca
nal, which has also Increased our per
capita expenses very largely. In view
of the stupendous enterprises the Gov
ernment has maintained and still main
tains for the benefit of Texas and other
Southern States, the partisan attackB
made by Mr. Bailey upon the Govern
ment finances reflect nothing but dis
credit upon him. Tet he and his col
leagues will shamelessly back up to the
Treasury again as soon as th6 appro
priation bills are framed in Congress
next December.
THE DOSE AND THE DRAM.
Edward Bok, in the Ladies' Home
Journal a few months ago it will be re
membered, brought down a hornets
nest about his ears by a specific, and, as
it proved, an unwise attack upon cer
tain proprietary medicines. He pursued
the .only safe and wise course under the
circumstances by beating a hasty re
treat, seeking to placate the forces that
he had challenged to combat as he ran
. He has not, however, given up the fight
along this line, though he is more wary
than before. His latest point of attack
is the "Woman's Christian Temperance
TJnloh, the good women of which he ar
raigns as stultifying themselves by
patronizing patent medicines, the basis
of which is alcohol. He charges them
further with being Inconsistent in per
mltting the advertisements of these
medicines to be parted upon their
fences, outbuildings and houses, and
with subscribing, paying for, taking
into their homes and reading religious
papers that publish patent medicine ad
vertisements.
To all of these indictments vast num
bers of these good women will no doubt
nave to plead guilty. Perhaps, how
ever, they will Ignore the charges as
frivolous and irrelevant. They will, be
wise In so doing, first because thou
sands of temperance women are wedded
to .their doses,, even as thousands of in
temperate .men are wedded to their
cups, and to pledge them to abandon
these as a requisite of membership in
the great organization with which Mr.
Bok is at issue, would be to decimate
the ranks of the'W. C. T. U. without in
the least Interfering in the legitimate
business of the patent medicine man.
The .question raised and urged against
the W. C. T. TJ. by Mr. Bok is similar
to that which the members of that or
ganization have long urged against the
sale and use of liquors in the name of
temperance. It Is prohibition vs. indi
vidual judgment, taste or preference.
xhe one seeks by arbitrary means, of
fensive to the splirt of ' Individual lib
erty, to cut off the dose the other the
dram of the free-born American citizen.
THE ELEMENTS OF DEFEAT.
It is something like a month ago since
The Oregonlan, upon the completion of
the Democratic organization at New
York, ventured the, inquiry "Has the
slump begun?" Also the prediction was
hazarded that the Joyful acclaim with
which Parker's nomination was herald
ed would soon be overwhelmed In cries
of .discontent with, the progress of the
campaign in the objectionable hands to
which It had been Intrusted and with
the no-resistance policy pursued by
Judge Parker. In confirmation of this
prophecy we here submit a few sample
utterances of the three great Parker
newspapers:
New York World: The trouble through
all these twenty years has been that the
Democratic party has never once nominated
a candidate of its own. Its nominations have
been made for It -by a few bosses like Hill.
Croker and McLaughlin. And as long as
this method of choice continues it will never
get a candidate of the right caliber, for the
bosses never will nominate a man whom they
do not expect to ba their tool.
New York Times: There is no virtue in
the proclamation of a policy invariably ac
companied by a neutralizing declaration that
you don't mean a word you say. With" the
perfect frankness of a friend, wo must say
that was what was the matter with the
tariff paragraphs of Judge Parker's speech.
of acceptance. There was no pledge, no
promise, no armative declaration of Demo
cratic opposition to the extortions, private
favors and public outrages of the Dlngley
tariff. If the Demoorats really intend to
do nothing with the tariff, they should quit
talking about it.
New York Evening Post: Judge Parker
will not be elected unless he secures the
largo Independent vote in such states as New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana.
The movement of the thinking independents,
who again and again have turned the scale
in this state. Is the serious factor. They
have .twice given the electoral vote of New
York to Cleveland, partly because Cle-eland
represented their Ideas, partly because he
was bitterly hated by such as McCarren and
Murphy. Although this precious pair are
not, as the Republican newspap6rs would
have us believe, among the cligibles for the
Cabinet, they .are both fit candidates for po
sitions in the darkest background. The
harm they can do may, after all, be very
slight; and yet a sense of propriety requires
from them silence, and very little of that.
A political campalagn affords an unusual op
portunity to the noisy and the empty. Sen
ator McCarren has seized the right moment
and has done his b,est to thrust his odious
and distrusted personality into the fore
ground; and Mr. Murphy apparently envies
the notoriety of hbs rival.
There is but a word to add to these
exhibits, which explain themselves.
They show that newspapers with any
self-respect cannot be depended upon to
bolster up a discreditable cause without
occasionally blurting out the truth. The
"World, in the passage quoted, Is talk
ing about the Governorship; but its re
marks have a. profound bearing on the
Presidential campaign, for they show
that the Parker cause Is perpetually on
the thin crust of a slumbering volcano
Which-may. break out at any time,. This
Is not a situation that spells victor. It
has, on the other hand, all the ele
rhents of defeat.
DEPARTING PRESTIGE OF THE SUEZ.
The fame of the Suez route as the
greatest commercial highway on. earth
is in 'a fair way to be dimmed by the
astonishing growth of the trans-Pacific
trade. The latest candidate- for honors
In this new field is the Allan Steamship
line, which pioneered the steamship
business out of .Canadian ports on the
Atlantic The management of this line
is heavily interested in the new Grand
Trunk Pacific Railway, which is to
cross Canada much farther north than
the route now followed by the Canadian
Pacific Railway. The Allan line was a
very Important factor In the develop
ment of. trade between Canada and
Great Britain, and has always stood
close enough to the British throne to
secure merited aid in its undertakings.
It Is Great Britain's enormous trade In
terest in the Far East that has sup
plied the ocean traffic which has made
the Suez famous. Other countries have
contributed, of course, 'but the bulk of
the tonnage passing through the canal
sails under the flag of Old England.
The first deviation made from that
time-honored routetwas when aid was
extended to the Canadian Pacific for
the construction of a road uniting the
eastern and western provinces of Can
ada and enabling Great Britain to land
her soldiers and civilians on this side
of the Pacific without the necessity 6f a
long sea voyage, or travel through alien
territory. Immediately following the
completion of the Canadian Pacific to
Vancouver a line of steamers to the
Orient was placed in service, and Great
Britain had a new highway to her Far
Eastern possessions. The new route
riot only enabled her at a great saving
of time to send troops and treasure
back and forth between Europe and the
Far East but it also proved of enor
mous value In developing one of her
principal dependencies.
Out of the long-neglected but rich for
ests and fields of Canada came a rich
stream of traffic. Some of It flowed to
the east and some to the west, but it all
paid tribute to Great Britain through
the transportation line which she had
backed so heavily. The success of tne
Canadian Pacific has been so marked
that It could not do otherwise than at
tract attention and Invite competition
The promoters of the Grand Trunk Pa
clfic see before them opportunities
of development as bright as those
which confronted the builders of the
Northern Pacific Each one of the
great northerly transcontinental rail
roads was In turn declared to be too far
north ever to amount to anything, but
each In turn proved successful, and
feeders of the Canadian-.Pac!fic are to
day on the borders of the Great Slave
Lake, a region which a few years ago
seemed as far away as the north pole.
The proposed Grand Trunk Pacific
will have a Pacific Coast terminal so
much farther north than the other
transcontinental roads that Its connect
Ing trans-Paclnc line can reach the
shores of the Orient by a much shorter
route than any other line crossing the
Pacific. This, with, the old-established
business of the Allan line on the At
lantic, will give the new roUnd-the
world route to the Far East a very good
business from the start. It has only
been fifteen years since all of the trans
Pacific business north of San Francisco
was handled by the three" steamers of
the Canadian Pacific, - and even with
small craft running as feeders between
Vancouver and Portland and Puget
Sound, the pioneer liners In the trade
frequently went out without full car
goes. Today there are twenty-five reg
ular liners plying out of Oregon, Wash
ington and British" Columbia ports to
the Orient, and to help them out extra
steamers are dispatched every year in
numbers sufficient tp carry more freignt
than was carried "by all of the regular
liners fifteen years ago.
The traffic has more than doubled
every five years since the Canadian Pa
cific entered the field, and with the out
look today brighter than ever before, it
fs not too much to expect that a similar
ratio of Increase will be noted five years
hence. Under such circumstances it is
rfot surprising that the staid old Allan
line, with the experience of more than
half a century In the business, is show
ing a desire to get Into newer ana
richer fields than those where it is now
working. The .natural growth of busi
ness the world over will prevent the
Suez from showing much of a decrease
In the volume of Its traffic, but Its pres
tige a"s the world's greatest commercial
highway Is passing on, and will shortly
rest on the Pacific roilte between the
Occident and the Orient.
MODERN MIRACLES.
When Rip Van Winkle awoke from
that famous sleep he saw much that
amazed him and much that was not in
evidence when he absorbed the insom
nia preventive. But what seemed as
miracles to. Rip would be tame and
commonplace" in the strenuous life of
today. The flight of time as measured
by the progress of the- world in all arts
and sciences was so slow at the time
that his fairy tale was spun In compar
ison with the speed at which we are
booming along in this twentieth cen
tury that a decade or two hence we will
have difficulty in understanding how
Rip saw very much at which to won
der. Think of the creepy sensation that
would have come over a more modern
Rip Van Winkle who might have awak
ened yesterday from a twenty years'
sleep and read the news of the day as
presented In the columns of The Orego
nlan. He would have learned that
Japan, which less than a generation
ago was fighting with stinkpots and
short swords, was handling modern
guns of such remarkable power that
they were battering to pieces Russian
forts twelve miles away.
He would also read that the little
brown savages of not so long ago had
by their naval maneuvers and deadly
work In destroying the mightiest battle
ships afloat taught the entire world new
tricks in the art of war. Electric
searchlights were blinding the eyes of
the defenders of the forts, while modern
guns with a power for execution never
dreamed of a few years ago were pour
ing Into them a rain of death. Our
modern Rip would have found some
thing to conjure with aside from the
war news. He would have read of one
of those horseless carriages which
Mother Shlpton saw In the vision cov
ering a distance of three miles in 8 min
utes and 15 seconds, and then plunging
from the track and killing a couple of
spectators. Other modern miracles
which would have attracted his atten
tlon were the accounts of the balloon
race from St. Louis to Washington, and
of a runaway airship In France which
was captured by pursuers In automo
biles after a flight of forty-four miles.
Men were fighting with their fists, of
course, when Washington Irvlng's Rip
fell asleep, but our modern Rip, on
awakening, would have read that the
news of one of these fights was sent by
rounds to a steamship in mldocean, and,
passing on over a cable which the ship
was laying, had been ticked off to the
lonely dwellers on far Alaska's shores.
He would also learn that our twenti
eth century wizards had bent the forces
of Nature to their wills to such an ex
tent that legible messages were sent
flying through space by what is known
as wireless telegraphy. None of the old
masters of the black art who amazed
our ancestors ever produced In natural
tones "the sound of" a voice that Is
still," or amazed his audiences with
moving pictures in which famous men
who have departed from life seem to
live and breathe and move again be
fore us.
In far Thibet, that land of mystery,
almost the sole remaining spot on earth
from which civilization has thus far
been barred, Colonel Younghusband Is
endeavoring to plant the banner of
Great Britain. A few of his soldiers
fall before the spears of his foe, and
immediately the wires are carrying the
news of the disaster over mountains
and plains, through deadly jungles and
under rivers and oceans, to thousands
of newspapers, and almost before the
bodies of the victims are cold millions of
readers all oer the world know of the
disaster. Just a bare mention of all of
these modern miracles would be too
long a story at this time, but they have
developed so rapidly that imagination
stands bewildered In contemplation of
what the future must hold for us.
PATRIOTIC BUT UNDEMONSTRATIVE,
Bishop John McKIm, of the Protes
tant Episcopal Church, for twenty
years a resident of Toklo, as mission
ary bishop, is now in this country for,
.the purpose of attending the general
convention of his church. During his
long residence In the capital of Japan
he has had abundant opportunities for
studying the Japanese character, and
he has given to the press some of his
impressions and conclusions In regard
to these wonderful people of the Ori
ent.
Bishop McKIm's view of the cause of
the unbroken Japanese successes of the
present war correspond with those of
other students of Japanese life and
character, in that he attributes It to the
unity of the people, their great patri
otism and the careful preparations that
they had long and quietly been making
for the contest.
In addition to these characteristics
the Japanese value human life very
much less than do the people of any
other race or nation, with the possible
exception of the Chinese. Nine-tenths
of them, according to Bishop McKIm
go into war with the full expectation of
being killed In the service. This is not
bravery as we understand the term, but
utter fearlessness of death, which is as
much a part of their nature as is patri
otism. This fearlessness is accounted
as one reason why so many of them
are killed in battle. They scoff at pre
cautions looking to their safety, and
take their lives In their hands cheer
fully and with grim determination to
Win or die.
This characteristic is admirable only
In a limited sense. It Is much wiser for
any people to strive to live for their
country than recklessly to- die for it
The quality of patriotism that causes
soldiers to rush needlessly to death is
shortsighted at, best. -This Is especially
J so in the case ofthesoldiers of Japan.
since that empire has not a large re
serve of. men, and as a matter of fact
has no soldiers to spare certainly none
to waste.
Though in toUch with Western civili
zation, there is one point upon which
the Japanese do not approach the West
ern idea except as It Is 'found among
North American. Indians. Whittler, In
one of his earlier poems a tale of In
dian life in old New England brings
out this characteristic In these lines:
The Indian heart la hard and cold;
It close darkly o'er its care.
And formed In Nature's sternest mold
Is slow to feel and strong to bear.
This estimate is not' quite true of . the
Japanese, though the effect seems to be
the same. These little brown people of
the Orient, It Is said, feel keenly "the
emotions of Joy and sorrow,, grief and
pain, but they are taught to repress
their feelings. The women smile and
smile, and always smile; the men culti
vate an air of perfect indifference.
News of a victory over which, the
American pe6ple would shout them
selves hoarse, the men receive Impas
sively if not stolidly, while -the women
chatter smilingly over the news as they
knit tirelessly upon cholera belts for
the soldiers the general occupation of
Japanese women at the present time.
To Americans this lmpasslveness is
scarcely less than offensive. They see
In It not the deep waters of a strong
nature, but the shallows of a superficial
one. And yet these people are alert,
active, imitative and persistent every
thing 'but original, communicative,
demonstrative and warmhearted, and
they are leaving the impress of their
quaint and seemingly unnatural char
acteristics upon the thought and the
achievement of . the worlds We shall
know more of them as the years go on,
and perhaps understand them better
Perhaps also we shall leartt of them to
modify to some extent the excitability
that now and again has caused our peo
ple, as in the well-remembered Dewey
Incident, to make a ludicrous spectacle
of themselves, first In bestowing noisy
and unstinted admiration upon a hero
and; almost immediately and for trivial
cause turning this Into censure.
Our Canadian neighbors, ever alive to 1
the value of the fishing' Industry; are
how building what will be tlie largest
fish hatchery on the Pacific Coast. It
will be situated 'on Trout Creek,, near
Harrison Hot Springs, and will have a
canacitv of 50.000.000 frv; This should
be encouraging news for the "Washlng-
tonlans, who are just at present bewail
ing, the shrinkage of the sockeye pack
to less than 100,000 cases. Of course the
Canadians are ..not building this big
hatchery for the direct purpose of sup
plying the Puget Sound canners with
fish, but In due season the larger pro
portion of the fish thus hatched will
svlm Into Puget Sound traps and
seines. The Columbia River Is in need
of more hatcheries, but In proportion
to the relative size of the maximum
pack we. are Immeasurably In "advance
of the Puget Sound district, and It
would seem the part of wisdom for the
men Interested in the perpetuity of the
Industry to get In and help the Canadi
ans by building a few 50,000,000-fry
hatcheries on this side of the line.
The largest schooner ever built on the
Pacific Coast . is now in port ' to load
for Australia. The vessel was built at
Eureka, Cal., this year, and has al
ready made a trip to the, Orient with
1,700,000 feet of lumber. This is a larger
cargo than can be carried on a square-
rigged vessel of one-third greater reg
istered tonnage, and the crew required
to work the schooner is only half as
large as that required for the square-'
rigger, 'The cost of the schooner Is also
much less than that of the ship. In
other words, we have in the schooner
Crescent a craft that carries more
cargo, costs less to build and less to op
erate In proportion to her size than any
other type of vessel afloat. No foreign
built ship on the Pacific today, either
subsidized or unsubsidlzed, can success
fully compete with this American-built
craft, either In original cost or cost of"
operation. This Indicates that there
may be an opportunity to build up a
merchant marine without the necessity
of choking it into helplessness on Gov
ernment pap.
- Tfie local authorities at beach resorts
would dp well to guard the reputation
of sucn resorts a little more carefully.
Gambling and shooting scrapes at such
places cannot do otherwise 'than pre
vent strangers -from visiting them-, and
will also have a tendency to Induce peo
ple who are now regular visitors to seek
a place where such evils are less in evi
dence. The beach population at most
of our seaside resorts is largely made
up of youngsters, from whose tender
minds it Is well to divert the contem
plation of such acts as have been re
ported from two near-by resorts within
the oast few days. The old ocean and
its wonderful stage settings at Clatsop
and Yaqulna presents to the Summer
visitor too much that is beautiful to
have the pleasing prospect marred by
the wickedness of man.
The suggestion that paper bags, to be
burned once a month, be substituted at
police headquarters for the receptacle
of the contents of the pockets of per
sons who are arrested, taken to the jail
and searched, for the fifty canvas bases
now used to hold 'these articles, pending
the release of the owner, is a good one
as far as It goes. But why use these
bags a month? Why use one the sec
ond time? Paper bags are cheap.- They
are also clean, In that they present, a
smooth. Inhospitable surface to burrow
ing microbes Why not buy them at
wholesale prices and burn them when
relieved of their malodorous, possibly
Infectious, contents?
The rain that fell generally through
out the Willamette Valley Saturday
night and Sunday was refreshing, and
will prove beneficial to late gardens and
fruit. This Is especially true of pota
ties, cabbage, apples and pears. It will
be Invaluable also to pastures, and,
though the precipitation was less than
desired, Its effect will be to clothe the
country in green within a fortnight
More rain is promised, and It is hoped
that the promise will be fully met be
fore the time for hopplcklng begins.
When It Is learned from official re
ports that In ten years the annual school
district tax levies, voted by the peopla
or mis state, nave increased zoo per
cent, it Is not surprising to learn also
that Oregon is among the. states hav
ing the smallest proportion of Illiterate
persons.
Wanted the Center.
Kansas City Star.
A Dane in Osage County, Kansas, who
,had never used a telephone before, was
asked to call, up central. He took down
the-,recelver and shouted: "Hello,- is dees
ban de middle?"
DEMOCRATIC TRIBUTE TO D. B. HILL
New York World, August $4.
Since the Cleveland campaign of 22
years ago the boss or bosses Irucontrol of
the party organization have mocked and
insulted the Democratic, voters with a
series of cheap politicians whose nominal
leadership was a blistering reflection upon
the intelligence or virtue of the citizens
who accepted It. ' '
David B. Hill was perhaps a qualified
exception. He has a disciplined though
narrow mind, a thorough knowledge of
machine politics, the strength and weak
nesses of a man with one passion, lacking
Imagination and moral sensibility. He
nominated himself for Governor twice and
was twice electe'd. He allowed Croker
to nominate him a third time and was
overwhelmingly defeated. He wad as Gov
ernor a foe to graft ,nd grab and did
the state some service. But his politics
was always subterranean and selfish,, and
ho lacked the broadness and . the wisdom
to call the strong men of the party to his
support.
Hill jind Croker together nominated
Roswell P. Flower for Governor, a man
who could not write a grammatical sen
tence, but who had the money to secure
Croker. and through him the nomination.
In 1S98, when Robert B. Van Wyck, the
most corrupt and incompetent Mayor New
York has known since the Tweed ring,
was scandalizing tfia party in this city,
Croker, with Hill's acquiescence, nomin
ated Augustus Van Wyck for Governor.
Ho grosser Insult to public decency could
have been conceived. Augustus Van
vyck was personally more respectable
than his brother, but his election at such
a time would not only have removed a
necessary check upon the local misgov
ernment of his brother, but have greatly
'increased it. Yet such was the vitality
of the Democratic party that this candi
date came within 18,000 votes of being
elected.- Manifestly a decent nomination
then would have burled Roosevelt, and
there would have been no Rough-Rider
Presidential campaign today.
Two years later HiU nominated his law
partner. Stanchfield, a cheap country poli
tician, the defender of Brockway's enor
mities In the Elmira Reformatory, an ad
vocate of Imperialism, the type of every
thing' that a Democratic leader should
not be.-
In 1902 there was every prospect of
Democratic victory. Judge Parker was
willing to accept the nomination. The
convention wanted him unanimously. He
would have been elected. With his record
as Governor he would have Jjecome as
wen Known to tne country as liiaen was
in 1S7S, and would, have entered the Pres
idential campaign with the great advan
tage of a record of positive achievements
to his credit.
But Hill had White House hopes him
self at that time. He did not want a can
didate of Presidential size, and so he
nominated Coler, a person small enough
to make Hill absolutely sure that he could
control him, and against whom even Odell
managed to scrape out a victory by SO00
plurality.
The trouble through all these 20 years
has been that the Democratic party has
never once nominated a candidate of its
own. Its nominations have been made
for it by a few bosses like Hill, Croker
and McLaughlin. And as long as this
method of choice continues It never will
get a candidate of the right caliber, for
the bosses never will nominate a man
whom they do not' expect to be their
tool. In Its Internal organization the
party of the people has been an oligarchy
why not let the Democracy this year
make Its own nomination? Why not ask
Hill, Sheehan, Murphy, McCarren and
even Judge Parker to stand aside and
leave the choice to a free convention?
Persistent "Delusion."
New York Sun.
A master 'mind in the Zenith City of
the TJnsalted Seas advances In the Du
luth Evening Herald this theory, of the
vote of the Nation on Bryan's paramount
issue of 1900:
The Sun says: "Public opinion declared
itself in favor of imperialism in 1900." That
Is a statement that can be effectively denied.
While, seemingly, the American people de
clared themselves in favor of Imperialism be
cause they restored the Republican party to
power in 1000, many voters were deluded into
the belief that there was no. such thins as Im
perialism or colonialism in the Republican
party policy. That they should have seen
through this subterfuge is equally true. But
they did not. That is one of the serious de
fects of our political system.
Our friend will accept our compliments
and confident assurance that when It
comes to a proposition to surrender ter
ritory rightfully under the flag and sov
ereignty of the United States, the "de
lusion" of the voters will persist, and
the same "serious defect" of our politi
cal system will continue to appear In
every recurring election when surrender
is an issue.
That is all there is to it.
. The Second Straw Vote.
Chicago Tribune.
The Tribune's second straw ballot.
whose result was published yesterday,
raises to 10,988 the total number of
Chlcagoans whose Presidential prefer
ences have been ascertained.
Of these 6504 are for Roosevelt. 3789
for Parker, 548 for Debs, and 147 for
Swallow. Their usual vote is 6006 Re
publican, 4209 Democratic, 422 Social
istic, , and 129 Prohibition. Roosevelt
and Debs gain at the expense of
Parker.
The second ballot confirms the story
told by the first one. that there is at
this time in this city a drift towards
Roosevelt, which is stronger In some
classes than others, but which applies
generally to a poll representing 37
classes in the community.
The Tribune began Its poll with no
idea of what the result would be. and
with no intention of boosting a. particu
lar candidate. It simply wished to as
certain popular sentiment as to all of
them. The results It has obtained are
without partisan color. There has
been no attempt to make a canvass so
as to give Roosevelt the best of it. If
he leads It Is because of his greater
popularity.
The Little Jap.
Baltimore American.
The little Jap he pegs away
Night after night, day after day;
He's always going right ahead "
That's why so many Slavs are dead. '
He doesn't stop to rest or sleep.
But though the roads are rough and steep
And foe-begirt, still day by day
The little Jap he pegs away.
The little Jap he doesn't talk
Nor diagram with pen or chalk.
He doesn't tediously explain
How certain forts his men will gain.
Instead, he s.ves his breath and strength
To shout with when he shall at length
Have felled the grisly giant's stalk
The little Jap he doesn't talk. , "
The little Jap he doesn't brag
Or rnadly masticate the rag:
He doesn't gloat o'er fallen foe
Until that foe is lying low;
He doesn't tell the world his plans.
But marshals silently his clans
And scraps with vim that cannot lag -
The little Jap he doesn't brag.
The little Jap he doesn't wait
And sit around and rail at fate; '
Instead he tackles with a vim
"Whatever'a in the way of him..
He doesn't soak in jagful juice
He knows such things aren't arty, use.
He's busy early, busy late
The little Jap he doesn't wait.
The little Jap thus teaches you
And teaches othCr, people, too .
That 'tlsn't wjse to Jag or brag
Or mouth the mastlcatlve rag, 1
Or wait or murmur or complain, -
But just to work, come sun or rain,
Less theorizing, more of Do
The little Jap man-teaches you.
TEE BA&HAR30R JEREMrAH. ;
. New York Sun.
A few davs aen our nhilanthroDic con
temporary, the Hon. Joseph Pulitzer was
yanking the tocsin and swatting the ket
tledrum and yelling at the tent doors of
the drowsy marshals of the Parker pha-
lanxf
"Wake up, Mr. Taggart; wake up, Mr.
Sheehan; wake up. Mr. De Lancey Nicoll;
wake up. gentlemen of the executive commit
tee. .
The recipients of Mr. Pulitzer's stac
cato serenade couldn't be waked up. Mr.
Pulitzer was not discouraged. If he
couldn't make the Democrats wake up,
he would put the Republicans to sleep.
It must be admitted that his measures
for that purpose have been well taken.
From his hermitage in Bar Harbor he
addresses Mr. Roosevelt, "candidate fcr
President of the United" States and the
Western Hemisphere," a little note that
covers somewhat more than nine columns
and a half of the World. As a guarantee
of good faith he appends a map of the
Western Hemisphere. The letter is run
ning as a serial. Mr. Pulitzer has plenty
of time and likes to write letters: and
after he has written them, millions of re
porters record the sensations of mingled
awe and satisfaction of the readers. But
really yesterday's chapter was too long.
Anybody that pretends to have read it
will be set down as either a prodigy or a
liar. Mr. Loeb would never travel him
self or ask his principal to travel over so
many miles of words.
Anybody who boldly begins at the sig
nature and tries to read from finish to
start Is gravelled at the final fateful sen
tence: It Is not only you nor the Republican party
but the Republic that will "stand or fall"
by your "record."
Observe the confusion of Mr. Pulitzer-'3
conjunctions. That Is the way of despot
Ism. First, the conjunctions fall; then
the Constitution and the Republic. Yet,
if Mr. Pulitzer will pardon us, It Is "not
only" he "nor" his letter that has been
the first to mark the sagging of tha pil
lars of the State. At the Kansas City
Convention, in 1900, another Western
statesman and prophet, Judge Phillip, of
California, said that if Mr. McKinley was
re-elected the Democrats wouldn't be al
lowed to meet in another National con
vention and criticise the Administration.
Some other seventh son of a seventh son
was saying in the twenties that if John
Quincy Adams was elected President the
next Congress would.be the last. Time's
wastebasket is full of seers.
Even if the Republic must fall between
1905 and 1909, the prospect need not be
absolutely dark. Mr. Pulitzer will con
tinue to dash off double-leaded little bil
lets of a page and a half until he Is drag
ged from his hermitage by a brutal sol
diery; and Seitz, unappalled by the ruin
of our Institutions, will be getting out a
Western Hemisphere edition.
What Lincoln Did Not -Say.
New York Sun.
From the Limbo of Roorbacks wink and wake
The Forged Quotation and the Same Old Fake.
The leading editorial, "What Lincoln
Said." in the Hon. John Roll McLean's
Cincinnati Enquirer, leads thus:
There has been a revival In the newspapers
of what Abraham Lincoln declared, a short
time before his death, to be one of the dangers
of the times ahead of him. "I see in the near
future," said Mr. Lincoln, "a crisis approach
Ing that unnerves me and causes me to trem
ble for the safety of my country. As a result
of the war, corporations have been enthroned
and an era of corruption. In high places will
follow, and the money power of the country
will endeavor to prolong Its right by working
upon the prejudices of the people, until all
wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the
Tepubllc is destroyed. I feel at this moment
more anxious for the safety of the country
than ever before, even in the midst of war."
This was duly "exposed" in 1S96 and 1900.
It has so burlesque a face. Its talk about
corporations" and the "money power"
is so grotesquely premature, that its au
thor must have had an unholy joy in
making it- "In the midst of war" is an
other bewraying phrase, as if Mr. Lin
coln had long survived the war. He died
before Joe Johnston had surrendered. Of
course, Nlcolay and Hay know nothing
of such a letter. It is the cheapest sort
of a forgery, but it will be solemnly used
again by the Democratic thinkers.
Why don't the fake foundries turn out
something new? For example:
I view with alarm the great aggregations of
capital called trusts. George "Washington.
Imperialism and the departure of Jeffer
sonian simplicity are the twin dangers ot
American civilization. T. Jefferson.
If any man refuses to haul down the Amer
ican flag, boot him down. J. A. Dix.
Why must the campaign fake be the
same old fake?
Two Good Stories.
T. P. O'Connor's London Weekly, M.
A. P., learns "from an old diplomat"
that the last words of the last Inter
view between the German Emperor and
the late Prince Bismarck were spoken
in English. When the rupture between
the two appeared to be final the Iron
Chancellor went to the Palace to resign
his seals of office. The supreme mo
ment arrived, and the Chancellor
thought that by tact and consummate
diplomacy he might even yet succeed
in bending "that young man" as he
afterward bitterly called him to his
Iron will. But Kis art and his eloquence
were In vain. The Sovereign and his
Minister had, of course, conversed In
German. But when all was over Bis
marck said in a changed voice and in
English: "Then I am in your way, sir?"
And the German Emperor answered in
one word: "Yes."
The late Senator Quay circulated a
story wherein Speaker Cannon is rep
resented as a singer. The occasion was
political banquet where a discussion
arose over the song, "The Old Oaken
Bucket." Senator Quay remarked: "I
never heard it sung through in my
life." "I will bet you a dollar that I
can sing- it through," asserted Mr. Can
non. "Take you," said the Senator,
"and the toastmaster will hold the
stakes and be referee." Mr. Cannon
cleared his throat and attacked the fa
mous old melody with grim earnest
ness. At the end of the first stanza
Senator Quay got upon his feet and in
terrupted the song. "I wish to say, it
I may be pardoned," he commenced,
"that I dislike to lose a dollar, but I
am willing to concede the stakes to my
adversary and take his word for the ac
curacy of his knowledge If he will stop
singing right where he Is."
Stanley,
Sidney Low in LondeU Standard.
Large shall his name be writ, with that
strong line
Of heroes, martyrs, soldiers, saints, who
gave '
Their lives to map the waste, and free
the slave.
In the dim Continent where his beacons
shine.
Rightly they call him Breaker of the Path;
No cloistered spirit he, remote and sage.
But a swift swordsman of our wrestling
age.
Warm In hl3 love and sudden in his wrath,
How many a weary league beneath the Sun,
The tireless loot had traced, that lies
so still!
Now sinks the craftsman's hand, the sov
ereign win;
Sleep sound, unsleeping brain, your work is
done.
Muffle the drums and let the death notes
. roll.
One of tne mightier dead is with us -here;
v Honor the vanward's Chief, the Pioneer,
Do fitting reverence to a warrior soul.
But far away his monuments shall be.
In the wide lands he opened to the light,
By the dark forest of the tropic night.
And his great River winding to. the Sea.
By the natives of the Upper Congo Stan
ley was known as "Bula Matari," the
.preaKer or. ssiones, on account ot his ac
tivity in clearing the bush and making
roads. . .....
-. N PTE; AND CfffiMENTi -
Oh, Shaw! . " ' "
Did you take the children'.
" Parker has red hair.
It will .be gray
November 9. '
The modern balloon seems to, be a. fine
conveyance If you don't mind In which
direction you go.
No, Colonel Mazuma, the Secretary of
the Treasury doesn't carrv thei-surolus
around In his pocket.
A Slavonian and a Cuban In Oregon City
fought ov.er some question neither of them
could, understand. Just like theoloelans.
The Weather Bureau was just rejoic
ing that not once In 20 years had a drop
of rain fallen on August 28. Pride gdeth
before a fall.
The only vaudeville advertised '
Is "moral and refined."
"Which makes poor Reuben wonder where
To find the other. kind.
Jt becomes necessary to remind the
public once more that the Police De
partment js a private institution, re
sponsible to nobody. .
If General Stoessel were now asked to
surrender he would probably reply with
even more profanity, for the- weaker a
man s case Is the more he is likely to
bdlster It with cuss words.
We hope Chief Hunt will be as success
ful In suppressing the news as- he has been
in suppressing firecrackers on the Fourth,
We are bothered by the latter only two
or three days In the year.
The Japanese hurled themselves against
our position, but were unable- to shake us.
We then retired. The enemy was unable
to dislodge us from our position in the
night we retired without calling up our
reserves. These are great Russian vic
tories.
At Hamilton. O., James Gill, of To
ledo, has married a, girl whose father
insisted on having her full name of
"Missouri Arkansas Napoleon Four
Hundred Miles Below the Mouth of the
Ohio Absher" placed on the records
when the marriage license was ob
tained. Henry Absher, the man guilty of
inflicting such a dreadful combination
of words upon his daughter, explained
that she was named in honor of on
aunt who lived at Napoleon, on the
Mississippi River, In Arkansas, 400
miles below the mouth of the Ohio.
President Stuyvesant Fish of the Illi
nois Central Railroad relates that when
at college he and some of his class
mates spent a week-end at Garrison's,
N. Y., and amused, themselves at a little
game of draw poker. The day follow
ing the entire party assembled in the
Fish family pew at church, the rector
announced for hl3 text, "And Ephriam
Went Out With a Full Hand." One of
his college friends thereupon leaned
over and whispered In young Fish's
ear, "Say, Stuvy, what a d d fool
Ephriam must have been." i
The 100th anniversary of the death of
Barbara Heck, the" founder of Metho
dism .in America, is being commemor
ated by a large gathering of Metho
dists from the United States and
Canada at her grave in Blue Church
Cemetery on the. Canadian side of the
St. Lawrence, three miles from - pgdens
burg, N. Y. Through her efforts the. rlrst
Methodist sermon was preached in
New York in 1776. Afterward she and
her husband removed from New York
to Canada. At this memorial service
funds are being subscribed to build a
memorial hall near the cemetery for re
ligious services.
An epidemic of disaster struck the the
atrical profession last Winter and quite a
number of road shows went on the rocks
many a weary mile from home. The man
ager of one of these shows, a bright,
young newspaper man, after successiuny
piloting his aggregation from New York
to Seattle, was forced to give up the
fight and landed in Portland with assets
of 50 cents. It Is a long walk from Port
land to the Rialto on'' "dear old Broad
way" and Manager Brown wasn't suro
whether he was needed there at that
time. He thought, however, that there
would be something doing by September,
and In order to put in the Intervening
time, shipped before the mast for Europe
on the French bark Vercingetorlx. Yes
terday a local newspaper man received
from Ipswich, England, a postal card an
nouncing the arrival of the ship and Mr.
Brown, and below the signature was writ
ten "Address New York City." Actors
and theatrical managers have been cred
ited with all sorts of schemes for avoiding
tie walking between the last stand and
Broadway, but It Is believed that Man
ager Brown is the pioneer In the round-
the-Horn route.
WBX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
"Isn't she a mannish girl?" "No, she's col.
lege boyiah; she goes about with her sleeves
rolled-up." Cleveland Leader.
"What did you propose to her for, any
how?" "Well, I couldn't think ot anything
elso to say, and the silence was becoming
appalling." Chicago Tribune.
"Now," said the teacher, "can you tell me
anything about Hiawatha?" "Tea,"- replied
little Henry, "it's the tune that made Long
fellow famous." Chicago Record-Herald.
Guest (at Summer hotel) You didn't ad
vertise the mosquitoes you have here? Pro
prietor No; we only advertise the attrac
tions. Guest But you advertised the view,
the air and the grub! Puck.
He Hello, Miss Pert! Looking for something
to draw? Can I be of any assistance to you?
She Well, you might pose for me, if you
don't mind. My drawing master told me to
choose something simple, you know. Half
Holiday. "Tea," said the man who uses old-fashioned
phrases, "my daughter can make a piano
fairly talk." "If that piano was talking,"
answered Mr. Cumrox, "the nature of Its 're
marks must have been something fearful."
Washington Star.
"How, Is your school of Journalism doing?"
"Well, It is a little slow. We have no trouble
in getting people who are willing to be teach
ers. The trouble is to find anybody who
doesn't think he knows all about how a news
paper ought to be run." Washington Star.
Hunter I hear your horse ran away with
you yesterday. Glanders Nothing of the sort.
He ran away, to be sure, but that was no
fault of mlne. I happened to be on his back,
however, and "out of curiosity I stayed there,
Just to see where be was going, you under
stand. Boston Transcript. 1
Miss Matilda Nitman frankly admits that she
is an old maid and means to remain an old
maid to the end of the chapter. A friend re
cently asked why she did not marry. "Why
should I?" Miss Nitman answered, "I have a
dog that growls and a parrot that swears and
a cat that stays out nights." Exchange.
A Dolorou? AppeaL There 1$ a little matter
to which the Me$?enger ieg$s to call the at
tention of $ome ot its 5ub?criberf. We really
hate to $peak ot it, but ?ome have $eemingly
allowed It to ?lip their mind$. To n$ thl?
1$ a very Important i?$ue; in factN it 15
nece$?ary In our bu$tne??. We won't. $peak
further on the Subject. . Perhap? you have
gue$$ed the drift of our remark?. Mississippi
Mesaenser. - . . ,