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PORTLAND, ITUDAX, SEPTEMBER 8.
THE DEBT TOR OUB ITAUt
There is a difference between a man
end a mollusk, and another difference
between a man and a wooden Image.
It Is to such, difference that we owe the
participation of theUnited. States in the
Xwis and Clark Exposition.
Yesterday Tlie Oregpnlan printed a
drawing: of the main Government bund
ling:, to be erected, among others, at the
Pair grounds. It Is not too much to
eay that these buildings and the exhibit
-within them will be to our people the
greatest of all the attractions of the
Pair. The Fair will be highly success
ful, and It will owe Its success mainly
to the liberal participation of the Gov
ernment in it.
It was through, one man, one only
man, that this recognition and this par
ticipation were secured. The Oregoni
ans got the cold shoulder. Members of
Congress would scarcely talk to them
on the subject. In their extremity they
went to President Roosevelt for aid.
He listened, with interest, called bis sec
retary and took notes, and said he
would do what he could. As he saw
and talked with, one leading man after
another, the effect quickly began to be
manifest.- The whole detail would make
an Interesting statement, but now Is
not the time to print it. Again and
again the Oregonians went to him with
their suggestions and requests. They
were always treated with, consideration.
"The President said everyttime he would
do what he could. And he did it.
It was Theodore Roosevelt's concep
tion of the history of the country and'
Ids knowledge of the West that moved
Mm to this interest and kindness. It is
not too much to say that had any other
man been President of the United
States this recognition would not have
een obtained. The Northwest owes it
wholly to President Roosevelt. No
other President has known the "West as
Roosevelt knows it. Stiff and prim for
mality In the "White House would have
forbidden any approach. There have
been invertebrates in the "White House,
and even wooden images there, and i
may be again; but we trust not now
again, nor soon. I
THE WET BLANKET AGAIN.
The so-called independent newspapers
"that support Judge Parkerthe New
York "World, the Boston Herald, the
Brooklyn Eagle, the New York Times
have admitted freely that Judge Par
ker's speech of acceptance gave his
cause a cold chilL Harper's "Weekly
calls It "a wet blanket." Others talk
of it as "a frost" Pulitzer, of the
"World, both through his newspaper and
by personal intercession and implora
tion, has been trying to Induce Judge
Parker to rise to the importance of the
occasion and to the height of the argu
ment, and write a letter or make a
speech that would electrify the people,
and win their affection and admiration,
as "their leader and teacher, their trib
une and advocate."
'Well, Judge Parker has spoken again.
A great bunch, of Democratic editors,
in the hope of getting the electrifying
utterance out of him, gave notice that
they would go and see him. They gave
him ample time for preparation. One
can't reasonably be expected to "come
out strong" as a leader and teacher, a
tribune and advocate, without proper
notice. Such proper notice was given,
and they all went to see Judge Parker.
He received them and made the
speech. Read It, and judge whether on
this occasion he has poured forth the
animating strains so eagerly desired
and expectantly awaited. The Orego
nlan might be accused of having a
party bias, and doesn't like to say.
But we fear this speech, like the one
that preceded It, will be regarded by
the esteemed "in d pen dent" press as
only decorously dulL It will not start
the palpitation and thrill through the
heart of Democracy, we do venture the
opinion No more than heretofore has
the tongue of Esopus on this occasln
dropped manna for the hungering and
thirsting wanderers of the wilderness.
Jndge Parker as revealed through his
utterances, is a mighty good man, of
the unimaginative, plodding1 cort; sol
emnly heavy; neither a politician nor a
statesman, but merely a commonplace
party man, who cannot contribute a
note to the canvass that will put spirit
into It. Hifi nomination was a reaction
to dullness and safety, under the guid
ance of -the plutocratic element of the
party, from the courageous spirit that
uttered itself through Bryan.. .In order
now-to get any kind of animation into
h jparty hey, will be forced. -tocall.
on Bryan, who will put his owia ideas
into the campaign, and who may regale
the country once more with .his opinions
uttered many times alreadyof
Judge Parker and of the trick of the
-Belmont-Hill syndicate, through which
Parker got the nomination. This, also,
just before the "convention:
I believe that I can prove to every unbiased
mind that Judge Parker Is not a fit man to be
nominated either by the Democratic party or
by any other party that stands for honesty and
fair dealing In politics. l am satisfied that -we
now have evidence sufficient to convict Judge
Parker of absolute unfitness for the nomina
tion. The country will Judge whether these
utterances by Mr. Bryan are not made
prophetic by Jud e Parker's failure.
THE ESSENCE OF SOCIALISM.
Socialism wishes to be heard. Every
opinion, held by a considerable number,
has the right. Yesterday The Orego
nlan published a long letter, from Dyle,
"Washington, written by a Socialist who
made an editorial that recently ap
peared in these columns an occasion for
propagation of his own opinions. To
day there is a similar letter from a
reader at Colfax. On its own part The
Oregonian will say another word.
It is useless to dispute on minor mat
ters, or to split definitions. Socialism
is what its spirit makes it. At bottom
it is a protest against inequality of
property and. conditions. The Socialist
is one who, if he could prevent every
other person from being or from becom
ing rich or prosperous, or from having
more property or better conditions than
any one else, would not only accept for
himself humble and even meager con
ditions of life, but would willingly cut
himself off from the hope of acquiring
property and of living on the higher
plane.
To -this end he proposes that the state
shall own the fixed and productive cap
italall land, factories, workshops.
warehouses, machinery, plant, appli
ances, railways, ships, etc or, to ex
press all in a convenient phrase, the
means of production, production ac
cording to economic usage being sup
posed also to include the distribution
and circulation of products. The dis
tribution also is to be effected through
a scheme of labor, organized and di
rected by the state. Each person is to
work for what he gets, paying for what
he gets in labor time.
The object of this scheme is to create
equality. As the state Is to own and to
direct all the means of production,
every individual Is to be cut off from
the hope of making money or of build
ing up a property of his own. He Is to
'do time" for the state, and to have his
dally dole for it. If he have a house to
live in, the state wouldn't take it away
from him, nor meddle with his little
personal belongings; but since he
couldn't make anything above his little
dally wage, he couldn't keep up his
property; he would have nothing to im
prove with; all Jiving would quickly
fall to a low common level, progress
would at once become Impossible, and
civilization itself would be lost in the J
common degradation. All this is so ob
vious that mere statement of it 13
enough.
For observe that no man Is to uso
wealth for the production of more
wealth. He is not to have the means of
doing it Private property the little
that may be left will soon wear out or
otherwise disappear; there will be no
"means of renewing it not even the
furniture of the house, for the forces
tending to equality would reduce air
living to a level and to the lowest level.
Within ten years the conditions would
be Intolerable. 'Howover, if the experi
ment were made, it wouldn't last even
ten years.
Now, it may be understood" what The
Oregonian meant when it said that "the
social democratic ideal to which we are
suppoeed to be tending is a condition of
Boclety in which all should possess
everything in common and no one any
thing for himself." It was not an er
roneous statement of the logic of So
cialism, as the present correspondent
mistakenly supposes. For the state is
to possess all theneans of production
and distribution; which is to say, all
property or wealth which can be used
in the production of more property or
wealth; which again is to say all prop
erty of Teal or actual value; and, as
the state is to be the people, the com
munity, owning everything through
which property or wealth may be re
produced, and consequently everything
really worth having, the condition will
practlcalW- be one in which all, L e., the
state, wuld possess everything In com
mon and no one anything for himself.
Socialism, therefore, runs practically
into communism.
Do not overlook the fact that in the
Socialist programme the state is to own
and operate all the means and instru
ments of production land, machinery,
implements and tools. Yet, curiously,
It Is denied that this Is state ownership.
The product of the Industry directed
by the state will be the property of the
community, to be sold to individuals, or
distributed among -them, in exchange or
payment for labor. Yet, curiously, the
ownership of the state is also denied
here. No play with words, or play on
words, comes to anything in such a
matter. The result of the system is
that the state becomes the owner, theJ
proprietor, the manager, the director
owning and directing all productive
property; organizing labor and forcing
it, if necessary. And certainly it will
be necessary, lor man in general has a
deep-seated repugnance to labor, and if
he can "lie down on" the state he will
be very sure todo it
So far we have been speaking of what
is called productive labor. 'But there is
still much labor in the world that Is im
portant and indispensable though not
productive in the economic sense. There
13 all the labor that consists In render
ing services where no material thing
results or is worked into more desirable
form. There is the labor often abso
lutely necessary-that consists in doing
services that many or all require the
labor of the physician, the professor,
the magistrate, the schoolmaster, the
policeman, the soldier, the domestic ser
vant, or, as he or she will be called in
the Socialist community, the domestic
help not to speak of the labor that
merely ministers to amusement There,
too, is the higher labor of the man of
letters, of the artist, of the man of sci
ence, so far as he is an original inves
tigator. How is all this labor to be or
ganized under collectivism, and partic
ularly how much is it to be paid com
paratively with productive labor, and
with" what? "With goods out of the
state warehouse?
.Many readers of The Oregonian per
haps most of them may think It sur
prising that this journal should deem
it worth while to deal with this subject
in a serious way, or at alL But Social
ism Is a theory that is urging its claims
or doctrines; it has a candidate for the
Presidency, for whom, even in Oregon, '
.several thousand votes .grill bo thrown,
while his aggregate for the country
may exceed the vote3 thrown for the
Prohibition candidate. Our own Social
ists do not" clearly define their position.
They scarcely know what they want, or
to what their theory would lead. One
must go to the books of their philoso
phers and text-writers for statements
and definitions. Socialism, let us re
peat, is based on the assumption that
the state should take possession of the
means of production and should direct
distribution, in the interest of equality
allowing no private enterprise, since,
if any were allowed. Inequality would
enter from that side. The individual is
to work under direction of the state,
"doing time," in a condition lying
somewhere between slavery and penal
ism. Of course it is impossible.
"RACE SUICIDE AND PEACE."
A consideration of race suicide that
was completely overlooked In the dis
cussion that followed the President's
criticism of the diminishing size of
modern families was lately brought for
ward by the Saturday Evening Post as
worthy of taking Into account ' Taking
as a basis of Its presentment that the
present war In Asia Is the direct out
growth of expansion made necessary by
the overcrowded territory of Japan, It
is argued that, from the simple stand
point of economy, a constantly Increas
ing population is not to be desired.
"Expanding Russia," says the Post
"has come into collision with exnandmsr
Japan. One or the other must elve
way, and Kurokl's artrument with
Kuropatkln is to decide which It shall
DC-
Japan is under the pressure of an
economic necessity. Her present facili
ties for maintaining her growing pop
ulation are not adequate to their com
mon, urgent needs. She is sacrificing
thousands of her people In orflpr tn
make room for additional thousands yet
to oe. bne must have room. She Is
fighting for very life not the life that
is comprehended in a stationary or
lessening population, but the life that
looks to a limitless increase of neonl
with abundant space for their mainte
nance.
Pursuing this suMect.. it Js askd
why France has changed from the
most restless, aggressive, ambitious
power in Europe to the moat neaeefiii
and contented, and the answer given is:
because her people are not increaslne-
and the land that is enough for one
generation will be enough for the next
Lrermany, on the other hand, is a mm.
ace to the peace of the world henansA
her swarming population Is constantly
pressing upon her cramped boundaries
seeding an outlet for its energies as a
means of life itself." Vjf?
As long as nations exhibit with nrirto
the returns of the periodical census that
shows a large increase in population
me menace or war will shadow what
-we call the congested centers of na
tional lire, it is not only that breath
ing room Is necessary and onrmrtimirv
to make a living essentiaL Civiii'znMnn
will not stop at this, but urges upon
every intelligent citizen or subteet de
mands that must be met in order to
make life worth the living. This is
what we call "progress " and from th
view above taken the price that must
oe paid for keeping step with it peace
fully is found in the wise limitation of
population.
"Enough people, but not fin Tnnnv,f
should be the desire of every nation,
me watchword of Drudence in pvwv
famllyf The prayer "Give me neither
poverty nor riches" is one that may be
applied here. A rovsterine. dam omits
half-fed, ill-plad family is not a desira
ble possession. Neither Is a childless
house in which an excess of plenty Is
found. This question mav well enn.
sldered an important one in Its bear
ing upon the peace of ovprprnwflpfl
countries. Summing up, the Post de
clares that if there were a little more
race suicide in Germany the tk
Europe would be on a much more sta
ble foundation and "there would be
more activity around Mr. Carnegie's
peace paiace at The Hague."
THE SPIRIT OF SECTIONALISM. ,
Amid the rebel yell and to thf Rtrai'nq
of "Dixie," Mr. Clark Howell rises at
the Democratic editorial
protest against sectionalism. It is like
w wno chooses to ignore the clan-
nisnness or nis race and blame all oth
ers for regarding him clannish.
J-here Is no sectional issue in hio
country except as it is raiser? w v.
South. There Is no race issue in this
country except as It is raised by the
aouin. Jin the North we divide on mih.
He questions; in the South there is no
division, there Is only one ndrtv iinri it
Is for gold or silver just as the Demo
cratic platform pronounces. Tn th
North we have views on nubUn mo
tions; in the South there Is no ques
tion Dut me "nigger."
President Roosevelt appointed rn
Crum to be Collector of the Port of
Charleston. This and all other ap
pointments of colored men in nfiw
made by him do not exceed in mo
ment, or In numbers the similar ap
pointments by either Cleveland or Mc
Klnley. Nobody thought anvthlnir of it
but the South. Nobody made any issue
of It but the South.
President Roosevelt sat at Umnh r5t
Booker Washington. He treated him
with ordinary Courtesy as the repre
sentative, of lO.MO.OOO blacks in the
United States. The act is In accord
with custom in the United States every
where but In the South, and in every
court of the Old World. Nowhere was
any russ made about it but in the
South; nowhere was the rare
brought forward but in the South v0f
we hear protest of sectionalism.
The Northern man may not fniirrar h
social customs of the North when ho 'la
in the South, if he is wise and consid
erate, he will not discuss Booker Wash.
ington in polite society or associate
wnn negroes south of Mason and Dix
on s une. JBut how about the Northern
man when he is at home in th TMv.fh
Do not expect the- Southern -man
leave his provincial notions south of the
Ohio and Potomac when he
North, but merely ask him if the North
ern man at the North shall follow th
social customs of the North at the
North; and the answer Is, No. The an
swer Is that the social standards of h
South must be the standard of a Re
publican and a Northern President in
the white House. Not content with in
sisting upon peculiar standards for It
self, It Insists that that peculiar stand
ard shall be the National standard. Yet
we hear complaint of sectionalism.
"All the South asks," says Mr. How
ell, "Is to deal with this question as
Its conscience and judgment dictates."
No, Mr. Howell, that Is not all the
fcoutn asks, it also asks that other
shall deal with this 'question, not ac
cording to their conscience and iudsr-
ment, but according to the conscience
and judgment oSthe South. The stand
ard at .Washington must be the stand
ard of Mississippi or else the race Issue
has been imposed upon the South. The
ia.uonai policy toward the negro must
De tne South's policy. In society, in edu
cation and in politics. "All the South
asks Is to be let- alone' is an old cry;
and the answer Is- the ams today that
was made by Sumner in 1854 "The
South must let us alone." Then it was
tne offensive tactics of slavery that
drove the North to resentment now It
Is the offensive tactics of dictation
along other lines the demand -that the
southern point of view be enthroned
not only at the South, but at the North.
Does It ever occur to men like Clark
Howell, who is justly the pride of the
South in brains, culture and character,
that when the Democratic party enters
the PresidentiaUstruggle with the Solid
South to begin with, trusting to a few
Northern States for the small comple
ment needed, it has put up an exhibit in
sectionalism that should debar it from
ever speaking of sectionalism? It has
been the hope of good citizens, South
and North, that fair and generous
treatment of the South would Introduce
a fairer spirit there and eliminate sec
tional lines.
The negro, disfranchised, ostracised,
burned to death, has been left to his
fate. The Federal troops, sent there to
Protect him in his right to vote, have
been withdrawn; the Fourteenth
Amendment has been flouted and the
Nation has acquiesced. Elections have
become a farce and human rights a
ffstly joke, yet the Nation makes no
sign. But wherein does sectionalism- as
a Southern or Democratic resource yield
any indication of abatement?
Where is the Southern State that di
vided on other ground than the "nig
ger" from the time of the benevolent
Hayes to the rule of the martyred Mc-
-aanieyT Through all these years the
South maintained Its solidity. It is not
satisfied with being let alone. It must
come .North with Its peculiar political
and social theories, and whoever nur-
sues his natural way in transgression of
tne southern code is accused of raising
"the race issue."
Observe that Mr. Howell promises:
"Eliminate the race question as a polit
ical issue, and you have put the cap
stone on the pyramid- of National
unity." Now the
political l$sue except as the South
makes it so; for nowhere but in the
bouth is "the nigger" the sole basis of
political action. If we eliminate the
race question as the South eliminates
ir, therefore, we shall talk of nothing
else. And the only wav in whinh the
South will be satisfied for us to elimi
nate it is for us to eliminate thonegro
enureiy as a human beincr. National
Unity, as Mr. Howell pnnnolvie if a
Northernsubmisslon to Southern stand
ards. This is not union, It Is terrorism.
Figures recently published show an
enormous Increase In the output of
coca leaves, from which the alkaloid
called cocaine Is manufactured. These
leaves come from Peru, and exports of
them from that country have more than
aoupied in five years. The bulk last
year aggregated in weight something
like 1,300,000 pounds. While of great
value as a local anesthetic in surgery,
cocaine has become the physical, mental
and moral undoing of thousands. Many
01 its victims, like those of opium, are
conscious of the element that the drucr
has been in their undoing, but, being its
utter slaves, they do not seek nor de
sire ireedom from its baleful power.
Others do not know even the name of
the destroyer, it haying been smuggled
upon "them as an inprredlent In some
pernicious compound theeffect of which
is to allay pain and give the consuming
disease undisputed right of way. Tem
porary rener is secured, the nostrum
becomes a favorite medicine, and either
the cocaine habit Is formed or the ner
vous system is wrecked.
Perhaps the promoters of the local
outdoor sanitarium for consumptives
are moving as rapidly In the direction
of this object as is. practicable, under
the circumstances, but it no doubt
seems to a pale, waiting host who feel
that they have not a day to lose if thev
would escape the Insidious advances of
"the great white plague." that these
medical and sanitary scientists are not
moving at all. There are obstacles in
the way of this movement, no doubt.
which only those in touch with the ef
fort understand. The chief of these Is
money or the lack of it Yet relatively
a small sum is necessary to carry out
the simple plans for outdoor life that
arebelieved to be a rational and reason
ably certain cure for tuberculosis In Its
earlier and middle stages. It may be
hoped that whatever the obstacles that
are retarding this movement, they will
be speedily overcome and the ooen-air
sanitarium become a reality instead of
a dream long deferred.
Three prizes $3000. $2000 and $1000
are offered by the University of Chi
cago for the best monographs .upon
'The German Element in the United
States, "With Special Reference to Its
Political, Moral, Social .and Educational
Influence." One monograph will be se
lected for publication by a first-class
publishing-house, and will be profusely
illustrated. Half of the net proceeds
from the sale of the book are to gb -to
the author, In addition to the cash
prize. Further, the donors aim to stim
ulate research upon topics germane to
the general subject, as, for example,
German Music In America." "Influ
ence of the German Kindergarten," and
so on. Payment will be made for such
essays, if found suitable for publica
tion. An excellent opportunity is thus
offered to students of German-Amer
ican affairs to obtain valuable prizes.
Judge Parker finds that It costs more
to carry on the Government now than
it did In former years. No doubt; and
it will cost still more, years hence, than
it costs now,. The boy's clothes will not
fit the man. Perhaps it is discoveries
like these that make Judge Parker's
oratory so impressive and so edifying to
the "independent" press the New York
World, Harper's Weekly and the rest
TRUE POLICY FOR THE PHILIPPINES.
To have gone fnsfter than -we have
already gone In gtfvlnff the inlanders a
constantly Increasing measure of self-
government would have been disas
trous. At the present moment to give
political independence .to the Islands
ivonld result In the immediate loss of
civil rights, personal liberty and pub
lic order as regards the mass ' of, the
Filipinos, for the majority of the
islanders have been given these great
boons by us, and only keep them be
cause we vigilantly safeguard and
guarantee them. To withdraw our Gov
ernment from the islands at this time
would mean to the average native the
loss of his barely won civil freedom.
We have established In the islands a
Government by Americans assisted by
Filipinos. "We are steadily striving to
transform this into self-government
by the Filipinos assisted hr Ameri
cans. President Roosevelt
1
RETURN OF TBB NATIVE.
' New York ArArican.
Henry James, the greatest American
man of letters that the men of letters of
the world know, arrived yesterday on
the Kaiser Wllhelm 1L David Munro, ed
itor of the North American Review, for
which Henry James wrote the "Ambassa
dors," conducted him to the Players' Club
In Gramercy Park.
There Henry James was inaccessible to
the ordinary people, and consented to be
inaccessible. He IsSadmlrable and re
served. John Drew shook his hand and In
vited him to see Robert Reld working at
his window for the church that H. H.
Rogers has built In Connecticut but
Henry James could not go to Robert
Reid's studio in Washington Square'. He
had to take, at 4:S0 o'clock, the boat that
goes to Atlantic Highlands.
He is not as on sees him in the por
traits that are printed of him. He has no
beard. He has the air of a bishop. But
his head Is a marvel to the phrenogollats.
His forehead Is the front of a Greek tem
ple.
"I am glad to be In America again," he
said to John Drew and others. "It 13 as
I felt that It was, but more startling.
am dazzled a little. I have been away
from her so long! You excuse me, don't
you? I am glad that I am to stay here
and work for a time."
"You are Idolized here," he was told.
"I hope that you flatter," he replied.
My work is not to provoke so much In
terest It Is as I can make it that Is
all. How clear the air Is here! And how
studiously you have made at the 'Players'
an atmosphere which Is not of New
York!"
This had the sound of an epigram and
several persons shuddered; for epigrams
are not in vogue at the "Players" when
they are not made by the popular mem
bers there. But Henry James suppressed
sighs of his appreciation of the shudder.
His clear eyes were unreadable. 1 He said:
"I aim not in my natural element you
know. One must take time to get one's
bearings. There, I talk as If I were a ship
captain."
Mr. James' most recent expression of
dissent from popular opinion Is In the
rouowlng lines that no wroto for an Eng
lish newspaper:
"The falling birth rate shows that the
pooplo are beginning to think for them
selves. It is the ultimate, satisfactory so
lution of all our social troubles and labor
difficulties. Large families to the work
ing classes are an Inexpressible burden.
and the overstocked labor market leads
to poverty, degeneracy and crime. The
falling birth rate Is the best news of out
time."
Crokedness Was Known.
William Allen White In McCluro's.
For nearly ten years a number of Con
gressmen and a few citizens have known
that there was crookedness in the Post
office Department During McKlnloy's
first term it was whispered among poli
ticians all over the country that there
were some profitable pickings for some
one In the Postoffice Department When
the Cuban Postal scandal -was: nroheil
politicians all over the land winked and
sam tne reiiows were getting too greedy
and bold. Clocks and typewriters and
cash registers and mail-box fasteners
were being dumped Into country postof-
flces too lavishl v fnr the men tyhn "Hr
business In politics" not to be morally
certain that there was a "rake-off in It"
as the phrase goes for some one. Gen
erally speaKing, when a man has ad
vanced far enough in masonry of politics
10 De x-ostmaster or a town of 10,000, he
knows that when a typewriter that he
doesn't need and didn't nrrfer sont n
him from Washington, and a cash regis
ter mat no never tnougnt of needing is
dumped upon him, and a lot of useless
rural -delivery recinter hnnw nm un
signed to him, and when the service has
10 pay du per cent more than the current
price for repainting the mailboxes which
he has not asked to have repainted the
Postmaster, wen nlnntr In tho i iff- nf
politics, knows Chat some one Is stealing.
So, during McKInley's entire administra
tion, Republican politicians of high and
low degree, seeing the way things were
going in their local postoffices, had their
Idea abOUt the condition of th Intra nt
Washington and, being loyal party men,
.wpt sun. j.c was supposed to be a breach
of faith for a Republican to crv "aton
thief" On a fellow Rennhltenn nr fnr n
Democrat to stop the peculations of a fel
low Democrat And when the thief is the
man above you It takes considerable moral
courage to say anything about it The
iew .r-oaimasiera who did aay anything
about the stealing found out to their sor
row that silence is golden.
Form of a Battle Prayer.
New York Sun.
To the Editor of The Sun Sir: TVe nf.
en read In history of Generals praying
10 wa lor success, Dut l do not remem
ber to have ever seen a prayer suitable
for use on such an occasion. T nm rna
who personally does not believe In war,
although my sympathies are with the
Japanese In the present conflict, but I am
wining to submit a prayer that I have
mado for use in any armj':
"O God, wo who are about to plunge
into battle pray theo that thou wilt be
with us and so direct our guns that wo
may mow down tho enemv like rhnfr
May we kill hundreds outright and malm
many more, thereby causing gloom and
aesperation to settle upon tho hearts and
me neartnstones or our enemies.
O thou God of Battles, enahin its
make many widows and orphans; let
there be hundreds of homes desolated; let
there be devoted son3 left to mourn the
fathers that we shall kill; let there be
distracted wives and mothers to cry un
ceasingly at the loss oS the light o their
homes and the support of their declining
years.
"O God. If there be cnod men nn hn
other sido who pray to theo for suc
cess, turn thou their prayers to empty
words.
"Let It be given to us to sink more shlna
and to cause more misery than our ene
my, with all his striving, can do; and"
this we ask for the sake of Christ who
labored to bring ooaco and cood will to
earth. Amen."
CHARLES BATTEL!. LOOMIS.
Torrlngford, Conn., September 3.
A "Popular' Champion.
Daily Olympian.
In.lSS6 and 1900 Georce Turner muldn'f
vote with tho party1 that espoused sound
money. Mr. Turner never permits him
self to get on the unpopular side. He is
What the Walla Walla Statesman termc
him a champion of "popular" rights.
Preparations.
Christ Church M. S. (About 1600).
Yet If His Majesty, our soyerelgn lord,
Should of his own accord
Friendly himself Invite, '
And say, "I'll bo your euest tomorrow
night."
How should we stir ourselves, call and com
mand
All hands to work! "Let no man idle stand!,
1
"Set me fine Spanish tables la the hall:
See they be fitted all; "
Let there be room to eat
And order taken that there want no meat
See every scone- and candlestick made bright
That witnout tapers tney may give- a light
Look to tho presence: are the carpets
' spread.
The dazle o'er the head.
The cushions In the chairs.
And all the candles lighted on the stairs?
Perfume tno cnamocrs, and In any cas
Let each man give attendance In his place!"
Thus, if a king were coming, would we do;
Ana 'twere gooa reason, too;
For 'tis a duteous thing
To show all honour td an earthly klnir.
And after all our travail and our cost.
So ho be pleased, to think no labour lost.
But at the coming of tho King of Heaven
All's set at six and seven;
We wallow in our sin;
Christ cannot find a chamber In the inn.
We entertain him always like a stranger.
And, as at first still lodge him In the man-
TREASURER PEABODY'S HUMOR.
New York Press.
So far ihe Presidential campaign" has
moved In a deadly dull rut of serious
ness, cheered by no flash of humor from
either side. Save for Mr. John Sharp
Williams' pitiful five-column, "satire" at
White Sulphur Springs, wherein the satire
waa so successfully concealed that expe
ditions of exploration to Its labyrinthlan
depths return haggard and baffled, hither
to no one has tried to lift the campaign
from the slough of melancholy.
All this is to change now.. There has
burst across the Democratic sky the flamo
of a natural-born humorist He Is Mr.
George .poster Peabody, the treasurer of
the Nattjnal Committee, who has perpe
trated the following gigantic jest upon the
voters f the country:
At the next National election over 14,000,
000 votes will be cast "and the task of
presenting to this vast electorate She
various issues of the campaign and the
records- of the respective candidates is
one which involves the expenditure of a
large .sum of money. "
Unlike Its well-intrenched antagonist,
the Democratic party has no favored or
protected interests to whom it may turn
for a campaign fund. Its reliance for the
necessary funds must be upon, patriotic
citizens, who believe that the 'cause of
constitutional, economic and- honest gov
ernment and the Just and equal enforce
ment of the law are involved In this cam
paign. The committee appeals for such
contributions as each citizen may be'able
and willing to make.
Mr. Peabody's enormous joke has the
high merit of being addressed to the com
monest intelligence. Hardly a schoolboy
who can read the dally newspapers will
fall to see the point of it Yet it also
must have caused convulsive laughter In
the National headquarters before It was
passed Into general circulation Mr. Pea
body himself must have enjoyed a quiet
chuckle over It as he framed it Being a
director or a large holder In a dozen cor
porations, all of which ha. can call on for
contributions, he could relish his own
suggestion that the Democratic party
was starting a campaign on behalf of the
trusts with a war chest no better filled
than was Mr. Bryan's in tho first battle.
Perhaps he passed it on through the
National Executive Committee's suite to
Mr. Patrick Henry McCarren, the imme
diate representative there of the Standard
Oil and Gas trusts, where It was wel
comed with a quiet snicker, and then
turned over to Colonel James M. Guffey,
of Pennsylvania, also heavily Interested
In Standard Oil and the leading spirit
In a score of Pennsylvania corporations.
It should have raised a great guffaw in
the office occupied by Mr. James Smith,
Jr., who has had a finger In nearly every
trust pie in that nursery of trust3, New
Jersey. It ought to have caused explosive
laughter in the. private room of Mr. John
R. McLoan, of Ohio, one of tho most no
torious corruptlonlsts in the democratic
party. It could not have failed to burst
buttons oft! the waistcoat of Mr. William
F. Sheehan, the "Blue-Eyed," the hero of
many a raid on the treasuries of the
street railway corporations, whose "handy
man" ho has been since the days that
Buffalo got too hot to hold him.
And when it got the final seal of ap
proval from the Big Chief himself, the
peerless leader, whose list of corporations
in which he is a dominant factor kills
a page of .the Corporation Directory, it
must have been with a shrill cackle of
delight from Mr. August Belmont Bel
mont of the Interborough & Manhattan,
always cheerful givers; Belmont of the
Louisville & Nashville, which should be
able to raise- all by Itself a bigger fund
than Mr. Bryan had in both his cam
paigns; Belmont of a scoro of trust com
panies, and banking and mining , com
panies, so many that their enumeration
would tire the reader!
What a giggle it must raise, this huge
joke of Mr. Peabody, when It greets the
eye of Mr; McCord Meyer, of tho Sugar
Trust, who, as chairman of the Demo
cratic State Comimttee, is passing around
tho hat with success and whoso election
was applauded by the chief Parker organ
as guaranteeing the biggest campaign
fund in. the party's history! Mr. Have
meyer, who no doubt has already written
the fat check which he said under oath
it is his habit to give In the campaign,
can read it with a smirk. Mr. "Jim" Hill,
who has "come out for Parker,'" and who
Is .still nursing his wrath against Presi
dent Roosevelt for smashing the Northern
Securities merger it was hardly neces
sary to send him the "piteous appeal" of
Treasurer Peabody, but he can have a
laugh at It, too. Mr. Thomas F. Ryan,
whose street railway concern never falls
to come up handsomely In an emergency
like this, as MnTerome once sensational
ly demonstrated how can he fall to be
tickled by the excellent humor of the
worthy Mr. Peabody?
We might go on until election day with
the list of those who cannot fail to be
exhilarated by the wit of the treasurer.
We have not mentioned the loading mem
bers of the Constitutional Club, who
should bo willing to part with a small
percentage each of tho fat fees they get
from corporations for their able efforts
to beat the Constitution and-all laws hos
tile to their predatory clients. The Pea
body circular everywhere will excite as
much hilarity as if Mr. Andrew Carnegie
should send forth a pathetic appeal for
10-cent contributions from the people for
the purpose of building a library or as If
Mr. John D. Rockefeller should ask for
a popular 5-cent subscription to pension
superannuated Standard Oil directors, or
11 Air. unanes m. Schwab should Invite
the common stockholders- of the Steel
Trust to fund a movement for the relief
of tho organizers of tho Shipbuilding
Trust
An Odd Decoying Scheme.
Baltimore Herald.
Mrs. Robert J. Rurdette was talking
one day about the white ribbon that Is
the sign of total abstinence.
"There are some persons," said Mrs.
Burdette, "who don't wear the whlto rib
bon with sincerity! They wear it per
haps about as hypocritically as It was
worn by an employe of a certain brewer.
"This employe, after years of dissipa
tion, appeared ono day at the brewery
with the white ribbon on his breast
Nothing was said to him, and he wore
the ribbon for some months. Then, one
day, the head of the firm, happening to
notice the man's badge, approached him.
" 'Why, Frank,' he said, 'It Is strange
to see you, a brewer," wearing the white
ribbo'n.
" Tt dpes look strange,, sir,' the man
admltte'd.
" 'Well,' said the brewer, 'why do you
do It?"
" 'It is like this,' said the "workman. T
wear tho ribbon because It makes men
like to tempt me, and when I'm tempted
I succumb, sir.' "
Ballad of the End-Seat Hog.
Chlcaso Jfews. -The
car you've waited for so long
Comes whizzing down the .street;
In haste you step aboard." but lo!
A dragon guards he'eeat. ,
Stolid, absorbed, indifferent. .
Unyielding aa a log,
He sprawto across and bars the way
The end-scat hog.
Tou balance on the footboard low.
You cling unto the bar, . f
And, wondering, view the vacant rows
Of seats within the car, n .
Until your blood is in a flame, ' -
- Your brain Is in a fog
And you abhor this animal, -
Tho end-seat hog.
Vainly. In desperation grim, .
Your way you try to squeeze
Beyond his large, protruding feet
Hl9 hard 'and bulbous knees.
Till, when you smash his bulging toes,"
This greedy beast to Jog,
He scowls and grunts In deepest Ire
The end-seat hog.
And so, while dally traffic rolls
And throngs go on their way.
This human traction problem greets
The public day by day.
Therefore the general verdict la
No manger e'er held dog-.
So stupid and so eelnsb as
The end-seat hog, ' ,
NOTE -AND COMMENT., :s
Sorry He Became a Printer.
A kid who began feeding a press jta a
Seattle printshop and was fired at the end
of the. third week, made his way down to
Portland, and got a similar job in ono
of the local shops. Saturday he com
pleted two weeks work, and applied to
the office for a raise. .
"How long have you been working
here?" asked the boss. .
"Two weeks," answered the kid.
"Well," said the boss, "to put It plainly.
I "don't think- you're worth a cent more
than youre getting."
"I quit right here," rejoined the kid,
with considerable profane emphasis. 'You
can take your job to hades, and I blank
sorry now I ever learned the printing
business."
Titles of 'Novels-
Among the books recently published .ap
pear two with unusual titles "The Letter
H" and "The Letter D." .Passing over
the fact that these "two letters frequently
appear with a dash after them, Indi
cating a tropical warmth of language, 'It
Is now likely, In view of the slavish man
ner In which novelists copy titles', that
we shall have books labeled with the re
maining 2i letters. If the fad extends
to numbers it will be interminable.
"Tho Number One" may let loose an
avalanche of books running into the
millions.
Made, to Be Smashed.
Some captious persons have ex
pressed the oplnlqn that the Creator erred
In making the darker-hued races that oc
cupy so much of the earth's surface.
Such criticism is hasty. God didn't waste
the time he spent over the "brown broth
er" any more than man wastes the time
spent in making clay pigeons. Both, prod
ucts while away civilization's idle hours
In being shot at
. Ready to Use.
From reading several current novels we
have come to the conclusion that the ex
perienced novelist no longer goes in
search of local color: he takes It with
him.
Another Definition.
International law Is something by which
a nation justifies Its own acts and damns
those of others.
J Defined.
knot-hole in
Newport A
seaboard.
the Atlantic
Turn that slot machine to the 'wall.
To the oyster, September must appear o
ho-r-rld month.
Vermont supplies the syrup for the Re
publican hot calces.
Presently the football reporter will bo
vying with tKa war correspondent
It's the red spider that's In the hops at
this stage: the red snakes come later.
In Russia there Is rejoicing that the
army Is "out of danger." That is funny
enough.
It's as hard to pin Kuropatkln down
to a point on the map as to do tho same
thing with a flea.
According to a New York Magistrate, a
man cannot be disorderly In a saloon. No,
he merely raises; a rough house.
Senator Depew says that England is
about to abandon free trade. She might
put a tariff on chestnuts to start with.
Sniff How can you tell this is a Demo
cratic paper? '
Biff It never mentions the Trustswlth
out using a capital T.
W,hilc the Sheriff was watching his twin
babies, four 'prisoners escaped from She
boygan County Jail. What matter, so
long as they didn't wake the kids?
A local restaurant man has been de
clared insane. He bought up the visible
supply of monthly magazines.
Puzzle: Which was cause and which
effect?
In some ways royalty can do things oa.
the cheap. The Crown: Prince of Ger
many, whose engagement has been an
nounced, cost his future father-in-low
very little In gas, as the royal courtship
apparently began and ended In the same
week. When these 'matters arc pretty
well fixed up beforehand, there's a vast
saving effected in candy and such things.
Tw6 hundred Democratic editors visited
Esopus yesterday. Now look out for
countlcssparagraphs on this plan:
"Tho Trusts must be curbed, or this
country will be dominated by the heart
less plutocrat. As we remarked to Judge '
Parker on our recent visit to Rose
mount "
"The failure of the Republican Admin
istration to erect a Federal building in
Dead Ox Flat should make every loyal
Dead Oxer vote for Parker. As we said
to the Judge when we visited Rose
mount "
"Judge Parker, by virtue of his genial
manners, would bo an Ideal President for
the President, as chief mixer of the Na
tion, must be a man of open and friendly
disposition. Judge Parker fulfils the re
quirements, as we .can say from personal
experience, having closely observed him
when we visited his charming home at
Rosemount"
. WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
lira. "Windyclty I hear that Mrs; Packer Is
quite a collector. "What Is her fad? Mrs.
Lakeside Husbands. Smart Set.
"My face Iff my fortune, sir." she said.
"Well."' he replied, "poverty Is no disgrace, but
It's awfully Inconvenient at times." Chicago
Dally News.
Nell She Intends to be married very quietly;
In fact, lfa a secret. Belle How do you know?
Nell All the girls are talking about It. Phila
delphia Public Ledger.
She True happiness Is found m pursuing
something not In catohing It. He If you had
ever pursued the last car at night you wouldn't
eay that. Chicago Journal.
First Moth It's no wonder you are troubled
with Indigestion after eating so much. Second
Moth I know, but It was such a fashionable
overcoat. Town and Country.
Bridget Is It thrue, mum, the master's give
up drlnkln'? Mistress Yes, but why do you
ask? Bridget Nuthln', mum, only the cloves
be gotn faster than lver. PIck-Me-Up.
"I made a thousand miles in ten minutes
once. Gues9 that was going some." "Get
down to facts." "I played another traveling
man for a mileage book and won." Detroit
Free Press.
"I tiupposc you have spent a great deal of
money for pictures." "Heape of It," answered
Mr. Cumror. "What Is tho most expensive
picture in your collection?" "Photograph of a
titled son-in-law to put In ttho family album."
Washington Star.
"Mr. Scrapem," said the hostess to an ama
teur violinist at an evening gathering, "you
play the violin, do you not?" "Yes; after a
fashion, you know," was the modest reply.
"How nice!" murmured half the company.
"Did you bring your Violin with your "No. I
did not." "How nice!" "murmured the other
half of the comcany la fervent unison. Gal
veston News