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PATRIOTISM AS A RELIGION.
Through the gallantry and patriotism
exhibited by the colonial forces In the
Bouth African war, talk Is revived In
England of closer union between Great
Britain and the colonies. Even the
Conservative London Standard says:
"The war has brought us a long step
towards such a consummation. For It
has shown us that the colonies have
won the strongest claims to gaining the
privileges of empire by volunteering
to assume its burden. And in the fight
ing of the past few weeks nobly have
the colonists vindicated their title to
chare in the common heritage of the
race."
Some talk of Imperial Federation;
Dut what does It mean, and how could
It be brought about? It Is conceivable
that It could take In Canada and Aus
tralia, but how could It Include India?
The area and population of India are
bo great that, in its Federal aspect, as
the state or canton of India, It would
hold a mighty preponderance in the
ImperiaT Federation, and might even
govrn all the rest. "Where would Great
Britain, Canada, Australia or South
Africa, or all of them together, be
alongside of such a yoke-fellow? The
Imperial Federation cduld hardly In
clude India; and yet It is the one part
of the Queen's dominions where she
tears the title of Empress, and It would
be strange If, In forming the Queen's
dominions Into an Imperial Federation,
her one Imperial possession should be
the only part of her dominions to be
left out.
Though a ruling state is not likely to
stoop to the level of Its own dependen
cies, yet many a ruling state has found
It wise to Incorporate its dependencies
in its own body. The growth of the
P.omar. Empire, by gradually admit
ting one class of its dependencies after
another to the full Roman franchise,
is the great example of all. But this
process Is not federation. It is quite
another case when a great power, an
ancient power, a ruling power, is asked
to come down from Its place, to rank
for the future simply as one member
alongside of Its own dependencies, even
though most of Its dependencies are its
'wa children.
InVriew of the difficulties It Is not
possible to see how Federation of the
British Empire can be accomplished.
Yet it Is certain that through Joint ef
fort in the present war the parts of the
Empire have been drawn closer to
gether. There has been an exhibit of
b. common patriotism never before wit
nessed among them. Adoration of the
state, worship of national power, such
as the world witnesses In France and
Germany, begins also to be In the Brit
ish Empire a sort of national religion.
The cult indeed has been silently grow
ing a long time. This Is the first gen
eral exhibit of it throughout the dis
tant parts of the Empire.
The Jewish people knew patriotism
sjnder the form of a national God, Iden
tified with the nation, victorious with
It, vanquished with it, its double, the
personified genius, the spirit of the na
"tion, in the sense which primitive peo
ples attribute to the word spirit.
Greece was a confederation of cities
over which soared an idea that of the
superiority of the race and Its predes
tination. At Rome there was an em
blem, a sort of flag, the symbol of Ro
man might, of that power exercised
first by a handful of citizens over a
small region, then over a collection of
countries, and at last over a whole sec
tion of the known universe. France
-was long time "finding herself." In the
Hiddle Ages she began to be something
precise, at least in the hearts of her
children: but it was the Revolution and
her later reverses that have trans
formed France. Patriotism, as now
understood In France, Is a sort of
dogma; France imposes it; she regards
It as a sort of crime not to believe In
It. 'Worship of the state becomes a re
ligion, yet without the old Jewish idea
of a God exclusively devoted to the na
tion. This conception is perhaps no
permanent thing, for patriotism, like
religion, will change Its nature again.
Germany, through her victories, brings
hack the idea of a national God; and
since the last great war the ruling
powers of Germany have been talking
of the God of the Fatherland, as If
their country held some proprietary
Tight in the Deity, or was the object of
his special favors, against others. The
great British nation probably will not
advance patriotism to the rank of a
religious dogma; and yet we see In the
British national mind the same move
ment elsewhere so often witnessed. It
Is not new In England, indeed, for It
has been at work there for centuries;
hut in the colonies there Is a growth or
development of patriotism to which the
parent country Instantly responds, as
If she recognized it as identical with
that spirit which is a sort of national
religion.
A national peril Is always the touch
stone of this spirit; and the exhibit
certainly has been remarkable through
out the British Empire.
The Oregonlan, speaking of Colonel
Bryan's tour of the Northwest States,
said yesterday: "He Is making many
speeches, but Is getting small atten
tion." It would perhaps have been
more accurate to say that he Is get
ting small consideration. No doubt he
has large crowds at many places; but
he Is not heard with the same Interest
and applause as formerly. People go
to see and hear him merely as they
would any free show. Very few are of
the opinion that he has anything of
value to offer. Glib as an orator, he is
no thinker, and he suggests nothing
that can be of use towards the solu
tion of any important problem before
the country. He is serious, after his
manner, but he touches the depths of
no problem or subject. He skims only
the surface, and deals merely with the
superficialities of words, to which he
gives no precise meaning and which
therefore carry no weight. Mr. Bryan
never utters a sentence of phrase that
is quotable. But one of his expressions
ever caught attention his "crown of
thorns and cross of gold" and that was
ridiculous and never would bear repe
tition. THE CLOVEN HOOF.
The Imperfect vision, the unreason
ing obstinacy and the unpatriotic spirit
of the true "antl" are stamped on every
page of Henry Loomls Nelson's article
in the April Atlantic. Its dlslngenu
ousness, moreover, stands out more
clearly by reason of the dispassionate
tone adopted by the essayist in his In
troductory paper In the March num
ber. That Is to say, here and now Is
discovered the Nelsonlan strategy. Let
me In this first paper, reflects the essay
ist, propitiate and disarm my patriotic
reader, by laying aside every appear
ance of weapon and armor; with the
bland smile and the unruffled front of
the ideal Judge, I shall Tender him an
easy prey to the dagger of "antl-Im-
perialism," which, at the proper Junc
ture, I shall draw from Its unobserved
hiding-place. In the April number he
preserves the aspect of the critic so
far as consistent with his purpose, yet
Is forced to reveal that critic he Is not,
but only a very bitter and unscrupulous
assailant of the National spirit.
Dispassionately judicial he is to a
fault, regarding everything else but his
object of assault. As to the tariff, for
example, some think one thing and
some another; doubtless they will pur
sue the course that suits them best.
As to the money question, there are sli
ver men, "stirred to the very depths of
their being," and sincere In their an
tagonism to the Money Power; and on
the other hand there are the gold men.
for whom Mr. Nelson can find in his
heart no warmer word than the descrip
tion "sound-money men." Some pro
fessed to believe that free silver In
volved a degree of danger to our finance
and Industry, but whether they were
correct or not he really has no sort of
Idea.
Fair-minded to the point of Imbecil
ity on the money question, our essay
ist adopts toward the problems and'
legacies of the war with Spain stead
fast unfairness that would put a cor
poration lawyer to the blush. A few
of his expressions will Illustrate his
train of thought. He says "It Is an In
teresting fact that most of the Demo
crats who announce that they are Im
perialists belong to that faction of
their party which has hitherto pre
vented It from keeping Its pledge to
reduce tariff taxation, though it Is also
the fact that among the leading Repub
lican anti-Imperialists are men who
have labored strenuously in the cause
of protection." This is not a fact at all.
but an untruth that reflects credit upon
Mr. Nelson's powers of ' invention.
Brlce was one of the chief betrayers of
the "Wilson bill, and he is dead. The
others were Gorman and Jones. They
are both antls today. It would be hard
to mention any prominent high-tariff
Republican, except Hoar, who Is
against expansion now, and Hoar has
never done much with the tariff. The
men who have made our tariffs. In both
House and Senate, are expansionists.
Space forbids more than a few exam
ples of the cant phrases of anti-Imperi-allsm
which" Mr. Nelson Introduces, an-
parently oblivious of the annihilating
uiow they strike at his mask of fair
ness thus: "They believe in th
soundness of the assertions of our Dec
laration of Independence that govern
ments 'derive their Just powers from
the consent of the governed';" "Imper
ialism and colonialism are necessarily
hostile to the spirit of modern democ
racy;" "the theory that the Govern
ment of the United States possesses
any political power or Jurisdiction
whatever, except the power and Juris,
diction bestowed upon It by the Con
stitution, Is repugnant to every in
structed Democratic mind, and to many
Republican lawyers;" "Senator Bever
idge is believed to havestated the pol
icy of his party in respect of the Phil
ippinesthat is, that It is purely com
mercial," etc These and 'many more
are chimeras, long dispelled by such
men as Schurman and Lindsay. "Wheth
er the consent of the governed obtains
depends upon what the governed wont.
If they want Blavery, or anarchy, or
polygamy. Government will proceed
without reference to their consent. How
hostile colonialism is to the spirit of
modern democracy depends on Its
spirit If its purposes are beneficent,
they are In accord with it. If they are
oppressive, as the Puerto Rican tariff
proposals are. they are hostile to it.
The Government of the United States
has all the inherent and Inevitable at
tributes of sovereignty, whether they
are expressed In the ConstltuUon or
implied. And as for Senator Beveridge.
the cheap misrepresentation of his
speech, in which Mr. Nelson Joins, ill
becomes the pages of the Atlantic
Monthly. His speech expressed the
high ideals of the American people re
garding our mission and duty In the
Philippines. He did. it Is true, answer
the protest that the Islands are worth
less by enumerating their material pos
sibilities, but the assertion that he de
clared our purposes there to be purely
commercial Is a slander nowhere
matched in recent history, perhaps, out
side the desperate and sullen ranks of
anti-Imperial lsnu
Perhaps the greatest mistake into
which -Mr. Nelson falls Is one In con
nection with an entirely different topic.
The excess of fairness he affects on
other subjects in order the more effect
ually to fall upon the patriotic Instinct
leads him into error regarding protec
tion. His view Is that all our evils are
forms of socialism a view he Ingen
iously extends to the expansion prob
lem (are we not expansionists because
it Is the Government's duty to provide
us with markets, and Is it not for this
that our boys laid down their lives In
Luzon?). He sees little difference,
therefore, between the socialism that
asks the Government to hold the home
market for the home manufacturer and
the socialism that wishes to destroy the
privileges already enjoyed by the ex
ceptional, so that those who have not
may have. But there Is a great differ
ence. The protection school of social
Ism appeals to Government for aid of
the few that they may become rich;
the collectivism school of socialism
wants the accumulations of the rich
dl'
none either rici
of proportion would hWeMHWied
Nelson to visit upon tho protection so
cialist some 'of the vials of wrath he
reserved for those who repudiate the
gospel of Isolation and surrender.
MOST ISIPOTEXT, CRAVE ASD AD-DLB-PATED
STIFFS.
"Whatever of a humorous character
Senator Pettus may have Introduced
Into his speech, we are not permitted
to know; for the exhaustive report of
It brought by the press dispatches pre
sents a desert of most depressing and
painful aridity. Tet under the influence
of Its delivery the Senators are depicted
as doubling up In an ecstasy of excru
ciating enjoyment and shaking their
sides at the sallies of this mlrth-pro-voklng
son of Momus. "Why, then, did
the Senate laugh?
The answer Is that the Senators were
constrained by the law of their being
to laugh over any attempt at faccttotis
ness at the expense of Senator Bever
idge. Pettus was the Sir Benjamin
Backbite of the hour, and they roared
at his jokes, on religious conviction.
To "the atrocious crime of being a
young man," Mr. Beveridge had added
the unpardonable offense of having
something to say. He had accurate in
formation, having been In the Philip
pines, and In the Senate accurate in
formation Is an unprecedented and un
speakable crime." He left the mild and
ruts of Senatorial dullness and Insipid
ity, and in doing so he outraged all the
most sacred traditions of the Senate.
He spoke In eloquent sentences that
fired the imagination of his hearers and
stirred the blood, and forthwith th
Mugwump world, but now bewailing
the decline of oratory, was moved to
derision, and the dry bones of the Sen
ate were mortally offended. In a word.
Senator Beveridge, a young man and 2
new Senator, had the temerity to assert
himself, to be original, forceful, coher
ent, pertinent, and to step at once into
fame as an orator. For this he must
suffer.
A man can win the respect and even
admiration of the Senators, but he
must go about It in the ordained way.
If he will empty his head of what per
ceptive and retentive faculties It pos
sesses; If he will worship dullness and
Inanity as an idol to whose similitude
he may haply be changed through be
holding as in a mirror; if he will show
more and more deference to the more
and greater Imbecility and the more
damnable a project is treat It with the
more tenderness and forbearance; If he
will look wise as an owl when he knows
nothing, and wear grizzly hairs on his
face two feet long, he will be known
of the Senate as a great man and Idol
ized as a statesman.
Otherwise, he has no hope. Other
wise, these high and mighty duffers,
priding themselves on their dignity and
courtesy, will walk out of the chamber
like a pack of Ill-bred hoodlums, when
he talks, as they walked out on Bever
idge Thursday.
FIRST COUNTR.V FLOWERS.
Dora Read Goodale, In an article on
"First Country Flowers," contributed
to the New Tork Evening Post, con
fesses that In New England there are
no wild flowers until April, and the
flowers of April are not many In num
ber.' They include the hepatlca, a
beautiful little plant of the anemone
family, whose blossoms, white and
blue, with an occasional pink one, span
gle the earth before the coming of
New England's favorite blossom, the
trailing -arbutus, a plant of the heath
family, not seldom termed ground
laurel. This trailing arbutus is found
from the pine woods of South Carolina
to those of Canada, and from those of
Maine to thbse of the Pacific Coast, for
it has been found In certain favored
spots of the State of "Washington and
British Columbia. The other wild flow
ers named by Miss Goodale among the
April blooms of New England are the
bloodroot. a beautiful plant that Is
not included among the flora of Oregon
or "Washington; but we have New Eng
land's dlcentra cucullaria, and another
variety, unknown in New England, the
dlcentra formosa, which resembles
New England's dlcentra canadensis,
save that its heart-like pendants are
purple Instead of white. New England
has two varieties of Claytonla (Spring
Beauty), while more than a dozen va
rieties are found in Oregon.
April brings New England the ad
der's tongue (erythronlum), sometimes
called In New England dog's tooth vio
let. In Oregon there are three varie
ties of this plant. Two of them resem
ble strongly the New England plant,
but the lilac-colored adder's tongue of
Southern Oregon Is unknown In New
England, and, we believe. Is not found
east of the Mississippi. The New Eng
land trilllum grandlflora and the trll
llum plctum (painted trilllum), are
handsomer plants than the compara
tively small white trilllum of Oregon.
New England's spring wild flowers In
clude an eccentric plant, called Jack-In-the-pulplt,
or Indian turnip. The
Houstonla. called bluets, or "Quaker
Ladles." Is a beautiful little plant not
found In Oregon. Add to this list the
yellow violet and the skunk cabbage
and we have all the wild blossoms that
Miss Goodale claims among the April
flowers of New England. It should fur
ther be said that few of these plants
are found In bloom before the middle
of April, and the majority of them are
not often seen before the first of May.
These facts are worth reciting, as
they illustrate the marked difference
between the climate of Oregon and that
of Massachusetts, where Miss Goodale
has her home. Portland Is In about the
same latitude as Montreal, which Is
some 400 miles north of New Tork
City, and yet Spring flowers begin to
unfold In Oregon in February, and all
of the April plants of New England,
common to both sections, are In bloom
before the middle of March. In Febru
ary the synthyris, a little purple flower
whose tints remind one of the hello
trope, never falls to put In an appear
ance, and by the first week of March
the yellow violet, the Claytonla, the red
flowering currant, the white trilllum,
the Oregon grape (Mahonia), are gen
erally In bloom. This year by the mid
dle of March, In favored localities
about Oregon City, the wild iris and
adder's tongue were in bloom, and so
was the calypso borealls, an orchid that
never blooms In New England before
the middle of May. Of course, our
skunk cabbage was In evidence by the
middle of March. It Is a far handsomer
plant than the New England variety,
and less malodorous, owing possibly to
Its superior environment.
There have been seasons where the
Spring opened earlier than this year.
but we do not remember any season.
when wild vegetation went forward
faster than it has since the first week
Several wild plants that
ere found in bloom by the middle of
March this year seldom put in an ap
pearance before the last week of April.
The warm "spell" in February doubt
less explains this early appearance of
the iris and adder's tongue. The slight
snow that followed the warm days of
February did not set back the waking
flowers into a "Winter's sleep, and a
few days of sunshine In March forced
them Into quick florescence.
WHAT SHALL "WE EAT'
Vegetarians are beginning to disagree.
The new school of vegetarians believes
only in what are termed "top" vege
tables. Here Is the argument for the
new school, taken from the Hartford
Times, attributed to a "woman physi
cian": Never yet have I known a man or woman
whose diet showed a preference for potatoes
and other underground starch products, who
didn't likewise show a heaviness of mind and
body. He steps weightily, he thinks slowly, his
speech Is halting. If not most of the time
punctuated by a full stop. I know of no Intel
lectual handicap like potatoes. On the other
hand, I can always spot him who lives chiefly
upon the succulent above-ground plants. Llka
them, he Is light, airy, quick in all his mo
tions, ready with his tongue and never found
wanting in his thoughts.
A complete answer to this argument
Is found. in the Irish peasantry, who,
when they lived more exclusively upon
the potato than any people in Europe,
as they certainly did sixty years ago,
were a most athletic race and of re
markable longevity. A more vivacious
man, "light, airy and quick in all his
motions, ready with his tongue and
never found wanting with his
thoughts," wai seldom found than the
average potato-consuming Irish peas
ant sixty years ago. The sons and
grandsons of the Irish peasantry, who
emigrated to America after the famine
of 1845-16, have become far more of a
meat-eating people than their fore
fathers, but it cannot be said that they
surpass them In native powers of body
or mind! and they certainly do not
equal them In longevity, for phthisis
and lung diseases generally claim more
victims among the American-born
Irish than they did among their grand
fathers in Ireland. So that the "argu
ment" of the new school of vegetarians
does not seem to be well founded, so far
as the potato Is concerned.
There Is a good deal of nonsense In
the so-called arguments of inflexible
anti-flesh evangelists of both the old
and new schools. A writer In the New
Century Review, an English periodical,
argues that a vegetarian diet Is a
"cure" for alcoholism. The Irish peas
ants were famous for their high aver
age of physical strength and agility
when their diet was chiefly the potato;
were famous also from the time of
Queen Elizabeth, as Shakespeare notes,
for their fondness for whisky. They
ate very little animal food compared
with the beef-consuming Englishman,
but they were not less prone to the
free use of alcohol.
Not many years ago the leading di
etary cranks of the country announced
that while meat diet makes men irrita
ble, brutal and ferocious, fish diet Is
excellent, because it is "brain food."
As a matter of fact, the fish-eating In
dians of Oregon and "Washington were
found by the white settlers to be far
Inferior In mind and body to the meat
eating Indians of the plains, like the
Sioux or the Cheyennes. The flsh-eat-Ing
Indians of Puget Sound weretphys
lcally, mentally and morally far In
ferior to the Nez Perces, who were, like
the Sioux, meat eaters rather than fish
eaters. There is no reason to believe
that an exclusive fish diet promotes ac
tivlty of brain compared with meat
diet, and yet there Is no reason to be
lieve that meat diet rather than vegeta
ble diet Is essential to the production
of vigor of mind or body. The history
of the Irish peasantry shows that the
potato, together with oatmeal. Is quite
equal to meat diet In keeping a people
In vigorous health and strength of both
body and mind. But because this may
be granted Is no reason why people
vho find a mixed diet of meat and veg
etables more palatable than a purely
vegetable diet should spoil their din
ner, if it keeps them in good bodily
condition, because they have a vege
tarian faddist for a family physician,
who would probably argue that Byron
was a rake because he was a meat
eater. But then Shelley, who was a
vegetarian, deserted his wife and ran
away with another woman, and was an
"infidel," or, as we say today, an agnos
tic. In spite of his vegetarian diet.
TRADE DALAXCES HEAVY.
For the fiscal year that ended June
30. 1899. the balance of trade with for
eign countries In our favor was, In
round numbers, $416,000,000, and this
was In addition to a similar balance In
our favor In the previous year of $420,
000,000, and to one of 3313,000.000 In the
year before, or 31,119,000,000 profit for
this country in three years. The re
turns of the Government figures for
January and February, It Is reported,
make It fairly certain that the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1900, will show
a trade balance In our favor far In ex
cess fit any previously recorded. For
February our Imports were only about
37,000,000 greater than those of Febru
ary. 1899, though In the previous months
of the fiscal year this relatlvo Increase
of Imports was much greater. On the
other hand, our exports for February
reached the total of 3120,000,000, well
nigh the largest amount of merchan
dise ever exported In any month In our
history. They represented a total ex
cess of exports for the month of nearly
SDI.000,000, an increase of $26,000,000 over
the same excess of exports in Febru
ary. 1899. Exactly one-half, or $13,000,
000, of this Increase of exports for Feb
ruary was due to the Increased sales
of raw cotton. The English financial
newspapers estimate that the needs of
Lancashire spinners, as determined by
actual contracts, are such as to require
purchases of American cotton between
March 1 and September 1 of 1,200,000
bales, which means an expenditure of
at least $50,000,000 of English money In
this country for cotton during the com
ing summer.
The remaining $13,000,000 excess of ex
ports for this February over those of
February, 1S99, is made up In sales of
manufactures. The foreign demand for
Iron and steel and copper, and various
manufactures of them, continues un
abated In Europe. Owing to the ex
haustion of the supplies of coal In for
eign countries and the comparative
great cost of European coal production
In the future. It is predicted that Amer
ica will, within two or three years, be
the greatest coal exporter In the world.
The first eight months of the fiscal
year have given us an excess of exports
over Imports of $365,000,000, so that if
the remaining four months of the year
do as well as the first eight, our favor
able trade balance for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1900, will be more than
a half billion of dollars, and If the gain
made In January and February is
maintained, our trade balance will ex
ceed this amount by one hundred mil
lions. .
TUB FRIARS IX THE PHILIPPINES.
i
All unbiased observers in the Philip
pines agree that the vital problem in
the pacification of the Islands Is one of
providing the .people with priests whom
they will respect and trust. This is
largely a matter for ecclesiastical de
termination, as It concerns the relations
of the Roman Catholic Church to Its
communicants. But conditions might
arise which would compel the United
States Government to Interfere for pro
tection of life and property, preserva
tion of order and assertion of sover
eignty. If a priesthood which has
tyrannized and oppressed and robbed
for centuries, and against which
the Filipinos have revolted in the past
and are now in revolt. Is to be restored
to Its former parishes and estates, the
situation would concern the peace and
order of the islands and make action
by the Government Imperative.
Prior to our war with Spain the mon
astic orders were Church and State In
the Philippines. In their hands were
the property, liberty and even the lives
of the people. The Spanish soldiery
was always at their command, the
friars made full use of their powers.
At a word from them a native could
be cast Into a dungeon for an indefi
nite period, his family scattered and
his property confiscated. In one way
or another the orders have become
possessed " of property of Immense
value. Much of it was purchased with
funds granted by the Spanish Gov
ernment: much. It Is asserted, was ac
quired by force and fraud. There are
large interests In Manila proper and In
the surrounding wards of Tondo, Bln
ondo, Santa Cruz, Malate, and In all
towns and cities of any note. Besides
these, the various orders claim title to
much city property and vast tracts
throughout the country districts. It 13
the ownership of this property that is
the bone of contention. To settle this
question and the friar Issue, Archbishop
Chapelle, of New Orleans, went to Ma
nila some months ago, as Papal Dele
gate. He has accomplished nothing
tangible. His intimation that the Span
ish friars would be restored to their
old parishes Is fiercely resisted. The
Filipinos have done with the friars, and
want them no more. Neither will they
listen to suggestions to leave the or
ders the property they have. Including
that alleged to have been acquired by
Illegal means. That question, they In
sist, must be left to the determination
of the courts.
In our haste to condemn the Filipinos
as rebels, we entirely Ignore an aspect
of the Insurrection which ought to ap
peal to every lover of religious freedom
In the land. They are a simple people.
to whom the Roman Catholic religion Is
everything. Both In what is good and
what Is bad, the Church has made them
what they are. They rose against the
Spanish Government because its au
thorities permitted the friars to oppress
them In every conceivable manner, and
In some ways which. In the light and
learning of the nineteenth century, ap
pear Inconceivable. One great reasor
why they are fighting us is that we
have yet given them no assurance that
with the change of sovereignty In the
Islands Spain and Its laws, customs,
bigotry and Inquisition were relegated
to the European peninsula. They do
not ask this country or the Roman
Catholic Cuhrch for the absolute right
to elect their own religious Instructors,
but that priests who have pillaged
them In the past shall not be forced
upon them again, and that the courts
shall not be closed against the adjust
ment of property rights In dispute.
They simply seek relief from oppres
sions to which not a Catholic nor a
Protestant In the United States would
submit for a moment.
"While It Is hardly to be held that
Government would be justified, except
under extraordinary conditions, In In.
terfering and ordferir.g a definite form
of settlement of the trouble between
the friars and the people, a course Is
open to It which, If adopted, would give
the Filipinos a better understanding
of what constitutes Americanism.
Along this line is the creation of an
American court to settle by American
law the property question. In the final
adjustment of matters, the monastic
orders might lose some land, but there
would be consolation In the reflection
that churches, whatever their denom
ination, exist for the salvation of souls
and not for the acquirement of riches.
Sound Judgment ought to suggest to
Archbishop Chapelle that It Is Impolitic
to endanger the peace of the Islands
by putting the Filipino Catholics under
the domination of Spanish tyrants.
A paper at The Dalles has published,
and other McBride organs have cop
led, a statement that The Oregonlan
falsified Its report about the "Wasco
County Republican primaries. This, It
Is hardly necessary to say. Is untrue.
The Oregonlan prints the news leav
ing falsehood to organs. Its informa
tion from The Dalles was that "the
McBrldo Influence failed to material
ize" In the primaries, and it printed the
statement as news. The organs are
hysterical about It. But The Oregonlan
Is again Informed that the statement
was correct. Of course, it is true, or
It isn't. The Senatorial succession Is
receiving much attention, and Mc
Bride's office-holders and relations are
openly or covertly at work all over the
state. No one believes they neglected
"Wasco, with Its dominating power over
nine members of the Legislature. Sure
ly the county was not allowed to go by
default. Does The Dalles Chronicle
assert that "the McBride Influence" did
"materialize" In the "Wasco primaries?
And does It mean to say that the
"Wasco delegation, when It comes to
the State Convention, will seek to put
up McBride men for the nine Joint
Senators and Representatives who are
to be sent to the Legislature from
"Wasco and other counties associated
with It by the reapportionment law?
If the "WaBco delegation to the conven
tion Is for McBride. the State of Ore
gon Is Interested In learning it. The
delegation Is composed of Messrs. J. S.
Schenck, H. L. Kuck, M. T. Nolan, M.
P. Isenberg. G. "W. Johnson, A. Stew
art, E. L. Smith, H. E. Rooper, F. N.
Jones and C. S. Smith. "Will the Chron
icle point out those who are under the
McBride Influence? The Oregonlan
prints the news, and cares not what the
organs may say. Further, It edits its
news, and does everything In Its power
to render Its news Intelligible, accurate
and full. The utterances of The Ore
gonlan are not controlled by the corre
spondents or, others whom It employs.
It revises, adds or curtails, as It may
And necessary to truth and accuracy.
It professes to know how to' be a news
paper, and its success during fifty
years, where all others have failed,
may. It modestly supposes. Justify this
confidence. It thinks It possible, too,
that these critics might have better
success as newspapers if they would
work to gather and print the news. In
stead of trying to Instruct The Ore
gonlan how to be a newspaper.
The late General Z. B. Tower died In
the place of his birth, Cohasset, Mass.,
In his 82d year. It Is a noteworthy fact
that, after forty yeara of continuous
life In the Army, an officer of high
rank and professional ability should,
on his retirement, return to the place
of his birth to spend the remaining
years of his life. It Illustrates the dif
ference In temperament. General Sher
man, pn retirement, preferred to llv
In Brooklyn, where he was close to the
social life of New Tork City. General
McCook lives 'in Paris; General Scho
fleld In Chicago; General Howard In
Burlington, Vt., and the great majority
of retired officers of high rank live lc
"Washington, D. C. General Getty lives
In a small town In Maryland, and Gen
eral Thomas J. "Wood at Dayton, O.
After an active official life In "Washing
ton, D. C, for many years, few Army
officers on retirement would enjoy th?.
quiet life passed by General Tower for
seventeen year In Cohasset. His sense
of local attachment to his birthplace
and the friends of his youth must have
been very strong.
"William M. Evarts. the great lawyer,
now In his 33d year. Is living In extreme
seclusion In New Tork. One old friend
who visited Mr. Evarts recently asked
how he accounted for. his longevity.
"Tou have always been a hard worker.
Tou have been what we call a free
liver. Tou have never taken care of
yourself, and were not born with a
strong physique. "Why is It that you
have outlived nearly all of your con
temporaries?" "I suppose It's because
I have never taken any exercise." an
swered Mr. Evarts. solemnly. Joseph
Chamberlain also makes boast that he
never takes any exercise, but he has
scarcely passed CO. Mr. Evarts has out
lived nearly all his contemporaries, but
his complete retirement is due to tho
fact that he Is blind, and has been
so for some time.
The Springfield Republican's com
ments upon the fact that the trailing
arbutus, or "Mayflower," had been
adopted as a state flower, recalls the
fact that many years ago Nova Scotia
placed this early Spring flower upon
one of her coins, with the Inscription,
""We Bloom Amid the Snows." The
"pine tree shilling" was among the
early coins of New England, but the
man who selected the emblem and In
scription for the early coinage of Nova
Scotia was a remarkably poetic-minded
person for his utilitarian environment
of lumber, fishing and coal Industries.
The Duke of Norfolk, who has re
signed his office of Postmaster-General
under the Salisbury Ministry in order
to serve in the army in South Africa
as an officer of the Sussex Yeomanry. Is
the premier Duke, being the fifteenth
Duke since the creation of the title In
143S. The family name of the Duke of
Norfolk is Howard. The present Duke
of Somerset Is the fifteenth Duke, but
his title goes back only to 154".
Seventy years ago there were twenty
six distilleries In Penn's Valley. Penn
sylvania, and now only one remains.
And yet neither Pennsylvania nor any
of the neighboring states has had
legal prohibition. The growth of tem
perance sentiment and practice is due
to social and religious Influence in the
direction of higher morality and more
enlightened civilization.
Demonstrating once more the unwis
dom of the old saw, March, which came
In like a lamb at Portland, went out the
most beautiful day of an exceptionally
delightful month. Nature was lavish
in her blandishments, and he who for
any cause was obliged to remain in
doors yesterday is entitled to commiser
ation. Anti-Expansion Ignored.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Some very noteworthy observations up
on the political situation in the South are
quoted from a Texas Democratic editor
in the Times today. He says that all
the business men and bankers of his
state are opposed to Bryan, but that
Bryan "has the politicians, the Populists
and the cros3-roaders, who wear but one
suspender," and will get the vote of Tex
as in the National Democratic Conven
tion and in the election. As for the re
sult in the country, if Bryan runs ho pro
diets that McKinley will get a surprising
ly large vote, for the Palmer and Buck
ner Democrats and the men who did not
vote at all in lS9t5 will vote for McKinley
to a man. together with many who voted
for Bryan four years ago, for this rea
son: "There has been' such a marvellous
Increase of business in the South and
such general prosperity that the people
are more than pleased with existing con
ditions, and the latter, with many people,
are ascribed to the policy of the McKinley
administration." The noticeable thing
about this and all other Democratic com
ment from the South Is the complete ab
sence of all allusion to the antl-imperlal-lsm
planks In Bryan's platform. Nobody
in the South appears to treat them se
riously. In fact, -the only serious treat
ment of them comes from the Antl-Im-perlallsL
League, which finds them en
tirely satisfactory. Verily, this is a queer
world, and the "times are wild."
The Reciprocity Treaties.
"The public prefers to have those reci
procity treaties ratined, and It prefers
that the protected Interests shall stand
aside that this may be" done," says the
Minneapolis Journal (Rep.). "All Inter
ests which have received the benefits of
protection should be able to fee that the
era of trade expansion in this country
has set In."
"The policy of reciprocity Is as much
a part of the Republican creed as pro
tection." says the St. Paul Pioneer Press
(Rep,). "The St. Louis platform binds
the party to it. That pledge is 'not ful
filled merely by authorizing the President
in the Dlngley law to negotiate treaties,
nor by the negotiation of the treaties.
It will not be fulfilled until the treaties
negotiated in good faith have been rati
fied." 9 C
Xo Pnrt- Could Stand the Strain.
"Washington Post.
No measure has ever passed both Houses
of Congress against such opposition as the
Puerto Rican tariff bill has evoked. No
party is or ever will be strong enough
to bear unharmed the strain of the pas
sage of a measure thus opposed.
s
Worse Than the Stamp Act.
Boston Transcript (Rep.)
If the American colonies had cause for
anger by reason of the Btamp act. how
much more has our colony of Puerto Rico
the right to complain over the still harsher
treatment that we have given and pro
poso to give her?
MASTERPIECES OF LITERATURI
Stanzas From "Adonais" ShcIIey.l
I weep for Adonais he la dead!
Oh. weep for Adonais! though our tears
Thaw not tho frost which binds so de
head!
And thou, sad Hour, selected from all yean
To mourn our loss, rouse thy obscure' compeer
And teach them thine own sorrow! Sayr
"With me
Died Adonais: till the Future dares
Forset the Past, his fate and fame ahalMte
An echo and a llcht unto eternity!"
1L
Where wert thou, mighty Mother, when he lay.
When thy Son lay, pierced by the ehaft whlcbl
Ales
In darknefs? Where was lorn Urania
When Adonais died? With yelled eyes.
'Mid listening; Echoes. In her Paradise
She sate, while one, with soft en
breath.
Rekindled all the fadlnsr melodies.
With which, like flowers that mock; the i
beneatn.
He had adorned and hid the comics -hull
death.
IIL
Oh, weep for Adonais he Is dead!
"Wake, melancholy Mother, wake and weep
Tet. whereforer Quench within their burl
bed
Thy fiery tears, and let thy loud heart keep!
Like his a mute and uncomplaining; sleep;
For he la gone where all things wise and fs
Descend. Oh. dream not that the amorous j
Will yet restore him to the vital air;
Death feeds on his mute voice, and laughs a?
our despair.
VII.
To that high Capital, where kingly Death
Keeps his pale court In beauty and decay.
He came; and bought with price of purest
breath.
A grave among the eternal. Come away!
Haste, while the- vault of blue Italian day
la yet his fitting charnel-roof! while still
He lies, as If In dewy sleep he lay;
Awake him not! surely he takes his fill
. Of deep and liquid rest, forgetful of all 11L
XV.
Lost Echo sits amid the vfilceless mountains.
And feeds her grief with his remembered lay.
And will no more reply to winds or fountains.
Or amorous birds perched on the young green
spray.
Or herdsman's horn, or bell at closing day;
Since she can mimic not his lips, more dear
Than those for whose disdain ehe pined away
Into a shadow of all sounds: a drear
Murmur, between their songs. Is all the wood
men hear.
XVT.
Grief made the young Spring wild, and ehe
threw down
Her kindling buds, as if she Autumn were.
Or they dead leaves; since her delight Is flown.
For whom should she hae waked the sullen
jear?
To Phoebus was not Hyacinth so dear.
Xor to himself XarclstAis. as to both
Thou. Adonais; wan they stand and sere
Amid the faint companions of their youth.
With dew all turned to tears; odor, to sigh
ing ruth.
XVII.
Thy sister's spirit, the lorn nightingale.
Mourns not her mate with such melodious pain;
Xot so the eag!. who Uke thee could scale
Heaven, and could nourish in the sun's domain
Her mighty youth with mornlnpth complain.
Soaring and screaming rounJfciaBty nest.
As Albion walls for thee; tb4
Light on his head who plel
breast.
And scared the angel soul 1
ly guest!
XVI IL
Ah woe is me! Winter Is I
But grief returns with the reJ
The airs and streams renew i
The acts, the bees, the swallovl
Fresh leaves and flowers dei
sons" bier;
The amorous birds now pain
And build tbetr mossy homes J
And the green lizard and J
Like untmprisoncd flames!
awake.
xrx.
Through wood and stread
and ocean.
A quickening life from the Eartb3
burst.
As It has ever done. with, change and motion.
From the great morntng of the world when first
God dawned on Chaos; In Its stream Immersed,
The lamps of Heaven flash with a softer
light;
AH baser things pant with life's sacred thirst,
Diffu themBelies, amreirend in love's delight
The beauty and the oy of their renewed
might.
XX.
The leprous corpse, touched by this spirit
tender.
Exhales Itself In flowers of gentle breath:
Like Incarnations of the stars, when splendor
Is changed to fragrance, they Illumine deajh
And mock the merry worm that wakes beneath.
Xought we know dies. Shall that alone which
knows
Be as a sword consumed before the sheath
By sightless lightning? The Intense atom glows)
A moment, then is quenched in -a most cold
repose.
XXI.
Alas! that all we loved of him should be.
But for our grief, as If It had not been.
And grief Itself be mortal! Woe Is rael
Whence are we. and why are weT of what scene
The actors or spectators? Great and mean
Meet massed In death, who lends what life
must borrow.
As long as skies are blue and fields are green.
Evening must usher night, night urge th
morrow.
Month follow month with woe. and yeanwaka
year to sorrow.
XXXIX.
Peace, peace! he Is not dead, he doth not
hath anakened from the dream cf life
"Tls we. who. lost In stormy visions, keep
With phantoms an unprofitable strife.
And In mad trance strike w 1th our spirit's knlf a
Invulnerable nothings. We decay
Like corpses In a charnel; fear and grief
Convulse us and consume u day by day.
And cotd hopes swarm like worms within our
living clay.
XLVIII.
Or go to Rome, which is the sepulchre.
Oh. ndt of him. but of our Joy; 'tis nought
That ages, empires and religions, there
Lie burled In the ravage they have wrought;
For such as he can lend, they borrow not
Glory from those who made the world their
prey;
And he Is gathered to the king of thought
Who waged contention with their time's decay.
And of the past are all that cannot pass
away.
LH.
The One remains, the many change and pass;
Heaten's light foreer shines. Earth's shadows
fly;
Life. like a dome of nany-colored glass.
Stairs the white radiance of Eternity.
Until Death tramples It to fragments. Die,
If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost
peek!
Follow where all Is Ced! Rome's azure sky.
Flowers, ruins, statues, music, words, are
weak
The glory they transfuso with fitting truth
to speak.
Lin.
Why linger, why turn back, why shrink, my.
Heart?
Thy hopes are gone before; from all things here
They have departed: thou shouldst now depart!
A light Is parsed from the revolving year.
And man. and woman; and what still Is dear
Attracts to crush, repels to make thee wither.
The soft sky smiles the low wind whlspersnear;
Tls Adonais calls! oh, hasten thither,
Xo more let Life divide what Death can Join
together.
LIV.
That Light whose smile kindles the Universe,
That Beauty In which all things work and move.
That Benediction which the eclipsing Curse
Of birth can quench not, that sustaining Love
Which through the web of being blindly wove
By man and beast and earth and air and sea.
Bums bright or dim. as each are mirrors of
The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me.
Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality.
LV.
The breatW whose might I have Invoked in sons:
Descends en me; my spirit's berk Is driven J
Far from the shore, far from the trcmbl
throng
Whose sails were never to the tempest giv
The masr earth and sphered skies are rive
I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar:
Whilst, burning through the Inmost v4
Heaven.
The soul of Adonais. like a star.
Beacons from the abode where the 1