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PORTLAXD, SUXDAY, MAY 13.
In opening war on the Republican
'candidates for the Legislature, Mr.
pingham has undoubtedly chosen an
"unpromising method of advancing his
wholly meritorious scheme of primary
reform. This is unfortunate, both for
him and for his cause. He has per
iformed valiant service in purification ,of
politics, for both the Australian bal
jlot and the registry law are primarily
due to his efforts. His present crusade
against abuses of primary elections is
also an enterprise upon which all
worthy citizens must wish Godspeed.
But it is well enough to remember that
4t has only been possible to get thte
Australian ballot and the registry law
through support of Republican mem
bers of the Legislature, and especially
the Republican members from this
county. Upon their aid a direct pri
mary law must also depend for Its en
actment, and their friendly co-operation
is more to be desired than their
ill will. It need occasion no surprise
If numbers of the Republican Legislat
ive candidates now before the people
Immediately announce themselves as in
iavor of Mr. Bingham's bill, or at any
rate in favor of some kindred measure.
As for the direct primary system
itself, it is deserving of all support,
ot only for its promised eradication
of primary abuses, but also because it
is really an essential part of the gen
eral scheme of secret ballot and honest
electorate inaugurated In the Austral
ian ticket and the device of registra
tion. Direct nomination of candidates
by secret ballots at primaries held un
der official auspices would remove the
last menace of machine politics from
full and free exercise of the voter's
will. If the Republican party, presum
ing it to be in the ascendency here, as
it is now, merits popular support by its
measures, it may be sure of indorse
ment. If It does not, it should be
beaten. If the leaders command the
jopular support of the party by their
leadership, they should be Indorsed. If
not, they should be dethroned. It is an
open secret that Mr. Simon, for exam
ple, has alu ays believed that his course
In politics here had the support of the
better class of citizens, and that upon
an appeal to the business element he
would be sustained. It is also true
that such influence as he has had here
"has chiefly rested upon the basis of his
efficiency in serving the solid business
Interests of the community. Mr. Simon
Was In favor of extending the Aus
tralian ballot to our primary system.
It is worth noticing, also, that at Lin
coln, Neb., and Minneapolis, where di
rect primary nominations are in use,
the reforms have been engineered and
pushed to adoption by Republicans.
Upon Republican support, then, Mr.
Bingham must depend, an alliance far
more promising for his cause and more
fitting for his companionship than Bry
aulsm, with whose financial heresies
and socialistic Iniquities he has no sym
pathy or patience.
The fact is that any man who ob
structs a Republican triumph in Ore
gon next month shoulders a very heavy
and dangerous responsibility. This ap
plies to even office on the ticket, but
it applies with peculiar force to the
choice of Congressmen and members
of the Legislature, who are to vote for
a United States Senator. Impairment
of the normal Republican majority
lther at the polls or in the Legislature
will be taken throughout the country
as an evidence of Republican disaffec
tion on the money question and reten
tion of the Philippines. An Illustration
in point is afforded by the recent elec
tion in St. Paul. The Republicans
there thought It would be funny to
elect a Democratic Mayor, and they did
80, without any reference to National
Issues. The effect abroad Is seen in the
remark of the Chicago Record to the
effect that the Administration's poli
cies are such that
the consequence may be to loo Minnesota, If
the result of the municipal election In St. Paul
Is an indication of sentiment hroughout that
state.
National issues did not enter into the
election, but the effect upon the coun
try is precisely the same as If the elec
tion had turned upon them. There is
no mistaking the warning herein con
veyed to every voter in the State of
Oregon.
If a mnn wants to discredit the
sroltl tnnlard and shut American
trade oat of the Orient, the licnt
Tray he can do it is to scratch the
Republican ticket Jane 4.
n In the long run. the gold standard Is
a blessing to the silver men as well as
everybody else, if they only had eyes
to see it. "What they think they need
is free coinage and feverish inflation.
"What they really need is a stable
standard of money and a currency
firmly based on gold. Prosperity re
quires more currency, and that means
greater volume of sliver coins. For ex
ample. India is now active in the silver
market. The silver shipped from Lon
don to the British East Indies in Jan
uary and February aggregated 54.960,
290. an Increase of 51.4 per cent over the
like period of 1899. To China the ex
ports were $961,095, an Increase ot 63.7
per cent. The outflow to China ia
thought to be silver for railroad work
and payment of troops. Russia and
Germany are both spending money on
rallroadsand mining concessions. The
large Eastern demand steadies the
price of silver. Some 12,000.000 fine
ounces of sliver have gone out, the
United States supplying 0 per cent of
the amount. In addition to the London
shipments, China took during the two
months M58,4S2 in silver direct from
San Francisco, making the total sent
to the East about 14,455,000 fine ounces
of silver. The fact that India, with her
Immense volume of sliver acquired un
der free coinage, has been able to
maintain it at the gold value of 15d to
the rupee, and now under the gold
standard requires an added supply of
silver coins, is an unexpected but strik
ing refutation ot the Populist notion
tha't the gold standard destroys silver.
It destroys silver no more than it de
stroys cordwood or Columbia. River salmon.
THE GREAT IXSPIRER.
Current magazine Interest In Macau
lay Is not surprising when we remem
ber the service he did for his day and
generation and the more abiding in
fluence for good he exerts to the pres
ent time, through the Impulse his pages
give in the direction of the master
minds. It is the peculiar and the noble
function of Macaulay to serve as a sort
of vestibule to all that is best in lit
erature. Other English essayists within
their peculiar limitation of genius are
perhaps superior to Macaulay, but
there Is no other English writer whose
pen has awaked and informed the in
terest in history and literature of so
many minds.
"Why was this? "why does Macaulay
above English essayists, like Cariyle,
De Qulncey and Matthew Arnold, suc
ceed so splendidly in Informing, illu
minating and inspiring the mind of the
average reader? He was a man of vast
and accurate scholarship, but men of
equal scholarship have failed where he
succeeded. His success was due largely
to temperament, early environment,
but most of all to the fact that to a
memory of enormous capacity and
range he Joined not only the historic
imagination, but the exceptional abil
ity to write with such absolute lucid
ity that his meaning is always per
fectly clear to his readers. He had wit
and logic at his command, but his pro
digious memory enabled him to argue
by illustration so eloquent as to be at
once Instruction and entertainment.
His imagination was not poetic, like
that of Cariyle or De Quincey. He
could not -have written Carlyle's "His
tory of the French Revolution," which
Is really a poem of dramatic quality
rather than a history, but a fine his
toric Imagination, the kind of imagina
tion that makes an orator of the qual
ity of "Webster, was possessed by Ma
caulay to such a degree that for the
purpose of giving a young man a cor
rect Idea of the French Revolution and
its great actors, the essays on Mlra
beau and on Barere are of superior
value, because they are really historical
and not poetical. Carlyle's great work
Is for the mature reader, not for the
young man, to whom literature is a
new domain. The wonderful memory
of Macaulay furnished him always with
the argument of eloquent Illustration,
while his historical Imagination enabled
him to make his characters breathe and
walk again in his books. There are no
wooden figures in his works; there are
no dull homilies.
Another powerful advantage pos
sessed by Macaulay was that as a man
he was a far nobler type of English
man than either Cariyle or De Quin
cey. Macaulay came of a line of Scotch
Presbyterian ministers on his father's
side, while his mother was the daugh
ter of Quaker parents. His father was
a philanthropist, a pious, devout man,
an associate of "Wllberforce In obtain
ing emancipation of the slaves in the
"West Indies. But while he inherited
from his parents a love of truth and
Justice, benevolence and generosity, he
was totally unlike them in his pug
nacity and his ambition for public life.
He was a man of magnificent bodily
health, and wonderful endurance until
he was 52. He was a man of unfailing
good humor and Joviality, who, trained
to the law, rose to rapid distinction
as a Parliamentary orator and states
man; was the author of a code for
India, and was a versatile man of let
ters. Despite his phenomenal industry,
he was never a recluse, but after
twelve hours of hard work enjoyed a
good dinner and good company, at
which he was always the most brilliant
talker.
The charm and practical rather than
visionary quality of "Macaulay's liter
ary work is due to the fact that he
was at once a scholar and a man of
the world, and that during his public
life, even in India, he was a man of
perfect bodily health. He had touched
the world on every side, social, political
and domestic, at home and abroad; but
he had touched It with the humane
spirit of a man of healthy mind and
body. He had never wasted his youth
in dissipation, as some really great
Englishmen, Fox and Byron, have
done; he had never befogged his brains
with opium, as did De .Quincey and Col
eridge; he had never cultivated morose
pessimism as a parlor plant, as did
Cariyle,; he was a splendid child of the
English middle classes, who was a
brave, truthful, honorable, generous,
patriotic, pugnacious Englishman, ab
solutely free from all bigotry and in
tolerance in religion, if not In politics,
from boj-hood to the grave. He plead
ed the cause of the Jews; he treated
the Church of Rome with Just respect.
He was not afraid to say in 1843 that
Dickens' "American Notes" was a friv
olous, dull, vulgar book, although he
was friendly to Dickens. He did not
hesitate to say that he had a poor
opinion of Scott as a man, although he
admired his genius, and he hated Lord
Brougham as a malevolent, dishonest
politician and charlatan.
Macaulay's notable characteristic In
writing is his utter refusal to be other
than absolutely intelligible to the largest
number of readers in contempt ot ped
agogic critics. He resented strictures
from the editor of the Edinburgh Re
view upon his use of the words "shirk,"
"bore" and "awkward squad"; he was
a most accurate scholar, but he was
practical, and In defense of himself In
sisted that "in periodical work there
may be allowed pointed, ornamental
sentences that in high, grave work
would be regarded as viciously florid."
Lord Macaulay was not a man'born out
of his time, like Ruskin and Newman.
'He was without a particle of morbid
sentlmentallsm, self-consciousness or
literary affectation. He was a man of
every-day personal humanity and man
liness in public or private life. There
were no bees in his bonnet; no "wheels
In his head." He was the highest type
of an English gentleman; of the men
tal rank of Fox and Thackeray, men
whose genius was always in earnest
and always of beautiful simplicity In
expression. To Macaulay the world
owes much of that literature which, to
use h.Is own language, "consoles sor
row and, assuages pain, brings glad
ness to eyes which fall with wakeful
ness -and tears and ache for the -dark
house and the long sleep."
GHOSTS THAT ARE IaAID.
An effort has recently been made
through the "War Department to ascer
tain the present burial spot-ot Colonel
"William L. Crittenden and his com
rades, who were shot in Havana at 2
o'clock in the morning of the 16th of
August, 1851, at the foot of Atares Cas
tle, and were burled In the old Espada
cemetery. Crittenden had gone to Cuba
to aid the insurgent General Lopez In
liberating the island from Spain, and
was captured, with his companions,
some, fifty in number, on the afternoon
of August 15. After being shot, the
rabble were permitted to rob their bod
ies of clothing and mutilate them by
cutting off arms, legs, and then parad
ing them through the streets. Colonel
Crittenden and one of his ofilqers were
reserved to the last. The men were
shot In the back, kneeling in platoons
of six. "When Crittenden was ordered
to kneel, he refused, saying, "An Amer
ican kneels only to his God. and always
faces his enemy." The American Con
sul at Havana did not open his mouth
to protect his countrymen. Colonel
Crittenden was graduated from "West
Point Military Academy in 1845. in the
same class with Generals Fitz John
Porter, "William F. Smith, Thomas J.
"Wood, David A. Russell, Barnard E.
Bee, Charles P. Stone, John P. Hatch
and Gordon Granger. He was the son
of John J. Crittenden, an eminent
statesman of Kentucky, who at the
time of his son's execution was Attorney-General
of President Fillmore's
cabinet.
The announcement of the barbarous
manner of the execution of Crittenden
and his comrades caused Intense ex
citement in the United States. In New
Orleans the office of the Spanish
Consul and the houses of several
other Spanish residents were mobbed,
and in Florida Spanish residents
suffered similar indignities, for which
our Government made due apolo
gies and paid damages. It was
remarkable that the execution of Crit
tenden did not bring us into war with
Spain, and the chief reason why it did
not was probably because at that date
Spain would have been backed not only
by France, but byGreat' Britain, had
we gone to war with Cuba. President
Grant "would have made the barbarous
execution of the crew of the Virglnius
an occasion for Interference with
Spain's rule in Cuba if he had not been
notified by both France and Great Brit
ain that they would not ipermlt our
Intervention in Cuba.
Suppose that while we were trying
to keep the peace with Spain in March,
1S93, a party of American filibusters
commanded by the son of a distin
guished member of President McKln
ley's Cabinet, had been barbarously
shot to death a few hours after cap
ture, and their bodies given to the rab
ble of Havana, to be torn to pieces
after death, how long would it have
been before popular Indignation would
have forced Congress to declare war
with Spain? Such news would have
excited the same burst of popular rage
that followed the explosion of the
Maine. The American people would
not have protested against the right of
Spain to execute the American filibus
ters, but they would have protested
against the wanton haste and cruel
manner in which Crittenden and his
comrades were shot to death in cold
blood, and, worst of all, the savage
mutilation of their bodies after death.
Spain could not In 1S98 have safely re
peated either the Crittenden massacre
of 1S51 or the Virglnius massacre of
1S73.
Mr. "Webster was our Secretary of
State in 1851, and he doubtless would
have thrown his Influence for interven
tion In Cuba If he had not known that
Spain was backed by both France and
England, Just as Secretary Fish discov
ered to be the case in 1874, when Grant
desired to go to war with Spain over
the affair of the Virglnius. Of course,
there would not have been any diplo
mats Justification for war with Spain
over the execution of Colonel Critten
den and his comrades, beyond Its bru
tal haste and cruelty and the mutila
tion of the bodies after death, but If
we had been as foot-loose in 1851 as we
were in 1S98, we would surely have gone
to war with Spain, because the popular
rage would have supported the "Whig
Administration "fn war as cordially as It
did Congress on the heels of the blow
ing up of the Maine. Under Fillmore,
because of the Crittenden massacre;
under Pierce, because of the firing on
the "Black "Warrior," and under Grant,
because of the Virglnius massacre, we
would have gone to war with Spain in
Cuba, but our "hands were tied until
1S9S, when Great Britain for the first
time in her history proclaimed non
interference in behalf of Spain In Cuba,
and so today the poor ghosts of Crit
tenden and his comrades no longer
squeak and gibber unavenged In the
streets of Havana, fpr the flag of their
country waves victoriously over their
obscure graves.
THE OLD AND THE NEW".
An illustration of one of the practi
cal difficulties in the way of successful
missionary work is afforded by a re
cent Incident in Idaho. For a number
of years the Connecticut Indian Asso
ciation has conducted a mission school
at Fort Hall, but recently transferred
it to the Board of Missions of the Epis
copal Church. The lady who had been
in charge of the- work had endeared
herself to the Indians, and felt that she
must spend her life among them; yet
when the transfer was made she sev
ered her connection with the mission
and associated herself with a new Pres
byterian mission to be established only
six miles -distant, where it Is feared her
popularity with her former charges will
create friction. The "Indian at home
and the heathen abroad cannot be ex
pected to grasp the subtleties of our
denominational differences nor imbibe
our denominational zeal and prejudices
without harmful effects. A partial
inoculation with theological virus In
early days led to one of the saddest
tragedies in Oregon's history, when
"Whitman and his associates became
the victims of savage Inability to un
derstand the mysteries of 'denomina
tional differentiation.
Young and progressive workers in
foreign missionary fields are beginning
to rebel against the theological dogmas
that hamper them In their work, which
seem to the wondering heathen to make
the missionaries offer them many kinds
of religion, all claiming to be Chris
tianity, and yet all differing in a way
they cannot understand. These men
realize that their work is seriously re
tarded by this condition -of affairs, and
are Impatient toxbe released, from de
nominational restraints and theologi
cal dogma. They wish permission to
carry to the heathen the simple gospel
of salvation, and on this platform 'to
present a common and united front.
They also wish to get away from the
logical result "of the harsh dogma, that
the heathen without Christ has per
ished, regardless of his character, and
to be able to assure those to whom
they take the gospel that there has
been salvation for their parents, even
In the darkness of heathendom. Not
all have reached this attitude, but
many have done so, and the number
who realize that denominational and
creed restraints must be brushed aside
before missionary work can make the
progress they hope for Is constantly in
creasing. Not only Is this sentiment for a sim
ple creed forcing itself upon the mis
sionary workers In foreign lands, but
those interested in evangelical work at
home more and more deplore the re
straints of denominational creeds. It
is to start home missionary and evan
gelical Work upon this simpler basis,
to unite all Christians In a common
effort, that Sheldon has left his" Topeka
church and started upon a tour of Eng'
land and the United States. He repre
sents the most advanced sentiment in
missionary effort, while the Fort Hall
teacher stands for the perpetuation of
the denominational differences that
have obstructed missionary progress in
the past and not seldom led to such sad
results as that at "Whitman Station.
LIGHT OX GREAT, DARKNESS.
One phase of the servant-girl ques
tion which every employing house
mistress fully understands is that sug
gested by the home department of the
"Woman's Club of this city, In its pur
pose to grade wages for household la
bor, In accordance with the ability of
those who engage in it to perform it
with intelligent proficiency. It Is a
well-known fact that a multitude of
girls go out to house service demand
ing and receiving current wages who
bring neither skill nor Judgment to
their tasks. In the simple matter pf
the management of the kitchen stove
or range, stupidity is often manifested,
which utterly' falls to distinguish be
tween the degree of oven heat neces
sary to bake a delicate cake in thin
layers and to bring a three-rib roast
to the proper degree of toothsomeness
to match the dinner hour. The conse
quence is that the cake Is bitter clear
through from the scorching of an over
heated oven, or the roast la tough and
unpalatable from long sizzling In an
oven insufficiently heated.
This is but one example of the lack
of training or the indifference to ex
cellence in the quality of service la the
house servant who demands and re
ceives for incompetent service the
"going wages" and exacts In conjunc
tion therewith the regulation privileges
of her station, regardless of Ill-cooked
meals and untidy kitchen. The scheme
outlined, by the home department of the
"Woman's Club Indicates a belief that
to arouse Jn working girls of the domestic-service
class a pride in their
work, with suitable recognition In the
matter of wages for its competent, con
scientious performance, will correct the
Indifference and carelessness that un
derlies what our New England mothers
were wont to term "slack ways" in
housework.
The assumption- st a reasonable one,
but it may be feared that its practical
application will be blocked at the out
set by the fact that every girl who
goes out to household service considers
herself competent. Girls are not so
much to blame for this, perhaps, since
from time immemorial women have
been considered, by reason of their sex,
capable of doing housework. Little
girls, in the homes from which domes
tic servants are drawn, are perched up
on boxes at the kitchen table or sink,
given a pile of dishes promiscuously
-huddled together, some lukewarm
water (their tender hands not being
able to bear hot water), a piece of yel
low soap and a rag, and told to "wash
the dishe3." Being girls, It is supposed
that they know how to perform this
task without further Instruction.. The
result is that most trying of all slov
ens to a tidy housewife a slovenly
dishwasher turned out to domestic
service a few years later. So it Is all
along the line of housework. A cloud
of dust Is raised and It Is called
'.'sweeping." "Dusting" follows, which
does not "dust" Porches are treated
to a few pallfuls of water whisked off
with a broom that leaves its marks;
beds are thrown together, mirrors
rubbed with a soiled towel, stoves and
the wall blackened with the same
whisk of the brush, and most discour
aging of all, the housemaid thinks she
Is doing the work in approved style
simply because she knows no better.
"When the fact is recognized that
training for the vocation Is as neces
sary in a housekeeper as in a nurse, a
stenographer, a typewriter or a seam
stress recognized in circles from
whence the supply is drawn the homes
of hardworking fathers and mothers
whose daughters must earn their own
living there will be reason to hope that
this evil of Incompetent house- service
will be corrected. "Whether the "Wom
an's Club will 'be able to inaugurate
this needed reform may be doubted,
since the source of the evil lies without
Its Jurisdiction. However, this work
Is clearly In the line of the club's legit
imate endeavor, and the public, or
that portion thereof that may be de
nominated "long suffering" in this con
nection the women who have wrestled
and are wrestling still with incompe
tent domestic help will await further
disclosures In this line of endeavor with
Interest not wholly devoid of hope.
Upon one proposition all are agreed.
"Women must be trained In the mani
fold duties of housework before they
can competently'perform Its duties. To
secure this training ought not to be
Impossible; it ought not, indeed, to be
difficult. Nevertheless, the problem Is
one the solution of which will tax to
the utmost the Ingenuity of those who
have set themselves to the task.
Lord Roberts Is In Kroonstad, which
means that he is about 125 miles nearer
Pretoria than he was at Bloemfonteln,
which he left ten days ago. From
Kroonstad the .enemy will hardly make
a long stand' this side of -the Vaal
River, although it has been reported
that the capital of the Orange Free
State had been removed to Heilbron,
which is about fifty miles northeast of
Kroonstad. From Kroonstad there is a
branch railway running to Vler Fon
teln, near Klerk's Drift, on "the Vaal
River. The Boers were reported some
weeks ago as having fortified Vlljoen's
Drift, on the Vaal River. The retreat
of the Boers from Kroonstad will
doubtless be followed by the retirement
of the Boer army from Its present po-
sitlon at Biggarsberg, in Natal, con
fronting the army of General Buller.
From Ladysmlth to Harrismith, in the
Orange Free State, is but -sixty miles,
and from. Ladysmlth to Glencoe is but
forty-two miles, so that Lord Roberta
can give the hand to General Buller as
soon as he gets control of the railroad
from, Bethlehem to Harrismith, if that
should be any part of the purpose of
his campaign. But if It Is not his pur
pose to do this, then on the retreat of
the Boers from the position before
Glencoe, General Buller could cross the
Buffalo River Into the Transvaal and
turn the position, of Lalngs Nek. It Is
not easy to see how the Boers can
make any long stand this side of Pre
toria, for with Lord Roberts' cavalry
at Kroonstad. the railways from Jo
hannesburg to Klerksdorp and Kroon
stad will be open to attack. If Gen
eral Hunter's advance has reached
Vryburg, as reported, he is but ninety
six miles from Mafeklng. The success
of Lord Roberts thus far warrants the
belief that the Orange Free State will
be soon free of the enemy, and the
seat of war transferred to the Trans
vaal,
Major-General Merrltt who relin
quished command of the Department, of
the East last Friday, goes on the re
tired list June 16 next. General Mer
rltt was graduated from "West Point,
No. 22 in a class of forty-one members.
In 1860, which included General Horace
Porter, our Minister to France, and
General James H. Wilson, of the Union
Army, and the Confederate General
Ramseur, mortally wounded at Cedar
Creek. General Merrltt was a First
Lieutenant in the Second Cavalry in
May, 1861; became Brigadier-General of
Volunteers In June. 1863, and Major
General of Volunteers April 1, 1S65.
"When he was but 28 years of age he was
rated Grant's, most reliable cavalry
leader after Sheridan. He was appointed,
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Ninth Cav
alry In 1866; Colonel of the Fifth Cav
alry in 1876; Brigadier-General In 1887;
Major-General In 1S95. At the out
break of the Spanish "War, great things
were expected of General Merrltt, but
his six weeks' service at Manila not
only brought him no reputation, but
dimmed his fame. He has been a Gen
eral In the regular Army for thirteen
years. General 0tl3 will succeed to the
vacancy thus created on the list of Major-Generals,
and. probably General
Theodore Schwan will be given the va
cant Brigadier-Generalship.
Of course Towne will withdraw if
Bryan says so. That is what he Is
there for. But, a nomination having
been fastened on him by the Populist
convention, it may not be so easy to
further the Democratic Job as if the
scheme had gone the way the Duluth
spellbinder says he wanted It to go, and
that was to leave the place vacant. To
surrender the nomination in the Demo
cratic Interest will smack of betraying
a "trust" reposed in -him, and It may
make trouble not with the Butlers and
Pettlgrews, but with a minority of the
Sioux Falls Populists, who have still
a lingering fancy that they belong to a
political party, and not to a pliant
Democratic adjunct. "With the domi
nant Populist majority, anythingBryan
directs Towne to do will be all right.
That was fixed long ago. But it is Im
portant not to drive any more recruits
to the rejuvenated Mlddle-of-the-Road-ers.
So it looks as. If a bad mess of it
may be made if Towne tries to with
draw, and permit another presumably
with a bar'l to be substituted.
The letter of Hon. Thomas. H.
Tongue, in another column, Is a can
did and convincing statement of the
difficulties surrounding the passage of
the bill for granting pensions to the
soldiers of the Oregon Indian "Wars,
and shows that, through continuous
and persistent work, he has secured its
advancement to a position where there
Is reasonable hope that It will be passed
the present session. It Is almost Im
possible for only one or two Repre
sentatives to secure the passage of a
bill In which there Is no general inter
est It is swamped under the accumu
lation of bills In which other members
of Congress are interested, and the
struggle is a severe and desperate one
that results In bringing It to the sur
face. This fight Mr. Tongue has made,
relentlessly and persistently, ever since
his entry Into Congress, and there Is
promise that his efforts will not be In
vain. If he succeeds, both he and the
worthy-veterans who have so long been
neglected by a thoughtless country will
have cause for congratulation.
An article reprinted in The Orego
nlan the other day from an interior
paper, attacking Mr. Fred T. Merrill,
was printed inadvertently, and with
out its having come under the eye of
the editor. The Oregonian has no ob
jection to Mr, Merrill's candidacy for
Councilman from the Third "Ward,
other than its general objections to
all opposition to the Republican nomi
nees (Which need not to be restated
here), and it wishes now to disavow
most pointedly and emphatically ani
madversions upon Mr. Merrill's private
and business character, embodied in
the reprinted article referred to.
Dr. Daly dodges. He stands, he says,
with his party on the money question.
It Is something of a revelation to
learn that the doctor has discovered
himself. He has done a good deal of
wobbling around. He carefully culti
vated the impression among Republi
cans during his Legislative, career that
he was far from orthodox on silver.
But he is almighty orthodox now. The
virtues of a nomination to straighten
up the invertebrate are something
great.
The Queen went to Ireland and the
British public wore green, adopted the
shamrock, listened with well-feigned
pleasure to "Garry Owen" and "St.
Patrick's Day," cultivated a suspicion
of the brogue, in their speech, and suc
ceeded in weaving a beautiful tapestry
of brotherhood with Ireland on a screen
of gauze, so beautiful that they did not
realize it was only gauze until Salis
bury put his foot through it.
Towne Is a 16-to-ler from the head
waters of Silver Creek. He Is on the
ticket with Bryan because Bryan wants
him there. And Bryan wants him be
cause it is his purpose to emphasize
silver in the campaign. The Bryan De
mocracy is wedded to its. free-coinage
idols. The Gold Democrats might as
well finally scuttle the Palmer and
Buckner ship and make for safe waters
In the Republican party.
The noble art of prize-fighting 13 now
an exact mathematical science. ThP
loser gets 25 per cent of the gate re
ceipts, the winner & comparatively
1 greater portion.
A DISSERTATION ON ORATORY.
Veracious Description of the Mayor's Pro
' Slorey Campaign.
"How'm I a-bettln? "Why, Storey, of
course." declared the Old Rounder, in re
sponse to an inquiry. "HIzzoner's the
sole survlvin palls-dyum ot our lost liber
ties, the safety-waive of a munlccypallty
downtrodden like truth-crushed-to-earth-wlll-rise-up-"WIlIyum
- Riley - agin. Tho
woter who puts hl3 nlckel-In-the-slot ma-
cheen a-garahlln on Storey will draw a
ryal flush each an' every time; an all
It costs you 13 a fiver a t'row. There's
only one Story to the inunlclplle eddyflce,
but the doors Is wide open to the hungry
and the heavy-laden, an' also the proud
but thirsty citizen who has l03t all but
honor an his vote; and the back en
trances is likewise a doln' a flourishln'
business. There hain't no Dicky Crokers
nor Marcus Hannas a-runnln this pure
and rightyuu3 hadmlnlstratlon. Storey's
It, with a large I a very large I. The
slab-wagons of public virtoo Is a rollln
along the middle 'of the road with Storey
a standln' at the helium lookln like
Washington a crossln the Dellyware. Jest
to drop in on his Hessian friends -for a
little Christmas eve swaray .(soiree?).
" Wlllyum, sez I to him the other day,
how's she a-goln'?
" 'All O. K..' sez he. Ton can't lose
me, Charlie, when It comes to buckln
this kind of a lajout Hear my ellyguent
speech last night?'
" 'Speech to the barkeep, I 'spose, sea
I. 'Why don't you say It Into a phony
graph,' sez I, 'an distribute it aroun' in
them places where It will do the most
goodr sez I. WlIlyum, you're fairly
ublkltus, but you can't be everywhere all
at once,' sez L
" 'This was no low Invitation to Im
bibe,' sez "Willyum. 1 never frequent
them places. If I can't win out In my
noble and pattryotic struggle agin the
bosses without a-floodln the town with
the demon drink, which biteth like a ;a
serpent and etingeth like the Ingrattitood
of a Republican convention, I'm wlllln'
to lay down In the first .round, and ask
the referee to count mo out. No, sir.
I made a very ellyguent speech at Father
O'Rlloy's church fair, which wa3 writ to
order by my amanyensls.'
" 'Has the A. P. As and your old
friends the Catholics Jlned hands and are
they all goln thunderln' "down the ages
together"?' sez I.
" "That's a base inwention of the enemy,'
sez ho. 'I never Jlned that wicked an
disloyal organization, the late A. P. A.s,'
sez he. 'At least not offlshally. "What I
done in my private capacity, my esteemed
contempyraarrlea, Mr. Rowe et al hadn't
oughter drag forth from the silent an
aleepln' memyrles ot a forgotten an
buried past: There Is other skellytons In
somebody else's backyards,' sez he.
" 'Kerect, Willyum sez I. 'Let sleepln
dogs lay or lie, as the case may. he,
aez L
" Tessdr," sez he. "But they oughter
quit lyin. The Catholic wote an the Irish
wote an' the labor wote is goln' to the polls
In solid phalanxes for the "only unim-
peechable peach In the whole fruit orchard
of candydates." as I says In my ellyguent
speech. Of course, that was Jest my own
dellyklt way -of halludln' to myself. But
the haudlence recognized the picture de-
scribed In my bortycultufal slmily an'
applauded wlgorously.
" 'That was werry good,' sez I, 'DUt
why didn't you also tickle the fancy of
your large an' appreshyatlve congryga
shun of supporters by referrln' to yer
self as the only free an' independent
candled cherry In the unswallered cock
tall of reform?"
" 'Well.' sez he, 'that'll do noble for the
Second "Ward. Them's my constltooents,
too. It ain't good "politics to be too mls
cellanyeous In makln' ellyguent speeches.
Father O'RIley Is a prohlblshlonust and
he might 'a' misunderstood.'
" 'Right you are, Willyum,' sez L It
don't do to get lost in the exhooberance
of your own verbosity,' sez I. 'In makin
an elljguent speech, contalnln ellyvatln'
sentyments, you sh'd always come out of
the same hole you went in at.'
" 'Speakin' of holes-,' eez he, 'has the
capashu9 orryfus into which I have
shoved the Doctor escaped your eagle eye?
Last night, while I was a-waltln' for the
car I dashed off the followin pblllyso
phicle pome" on my cuff:
Strange we nevertmlss the whisky
While inert plenty In the kasr.
Strange we sever miss tho barkeep
Till we'ra plnln fur a Jag-.
Strange we. never miss the boodle '
That we need to make us strons
With the voters till some fellow
Keeps tho sack tied up too Ions.
Now le Wells has got the lucre
That I need to pass around.
An I've got to get It off him.
If the means Is to be found.
And that's the only reason
That we're friendly, him an I,
For I'll have to spend MT boodle
If ole Wells stays dry.
"All of which was Immyterlal, imperty
nent and lrrelyvant to the lshocs. But
that was his business. "Lookee, here,
Willyum.' sez I. T thougnt you an' th
Doctor was co-adjutlonors in the humany
taryan work of prescrlbln' remedies for
the ills of the body pollytick. I thought
you was warm friends,' sez I.
" 'Certlngly we are. sez Hizzoner, cer
tlngly wo are. But did you "ever hear the
insplrln and beautiful tale of tho China
man that got religion? Ah Fong Jlned
the Baptist church, and was a hot num
berI mean warm member for quite a
spell. Then Wum Lung, seeln' how well
Ah Fong was a-doln' as a lost Mongolian
sheep a-reclalmed where ninety-nine was
shlverin' away In the outer darkness where
the worm dleth pot an' thieves break
In an' steal Wum Lung concluded that
he'd also JIne, and he was sudden seized
with a bad case of conversion. The
brethren and slstern did too much rejoic
ing over Wum Lung to suit Ah Fong. and
he got Jealous an back-pedaled hard, an
didn't show up at the meetln's no more.
One day the preacher met Ah Fong on
the street and begun all over ag'n to con
vince him of the error of his ways, "No
sabe," says Ah Fong. "Lookee here,
Fong," says the preacher. "I thought you
was a warm Christian." "Sure," says
the heethen Chinee. "One time me was
walm Chllstlan. But walm all got cold
now." That werashus narrytlve describes
wery accurately the present deploryable
state of mind of my old friend the Doctor.
Our friendship Jest now ain't at the bllln
point
" 'Don't the Doctor happreshlate your
glltterin' success In a-sweepln through
the Second Ward like a devastatin' sy
moon, an a-leavin him to hold the bag?'
" 'Doc's ongrateful, sez willyum. 'Oh,
lngratitood. thy name Is Wells to say
nothln ot Mackay an Glass an' Little
Joe. Doc says he don't understand my
flowery play to run him Into the ditch.
Eez I to Doc, "Doc. lets have a fair un
derstands an an ekal division of honora
and sp'Ils," sez L "Agreed to," sez he.
"All right" eez I. "Now, Doc, you've
got a regular constituted and certified to
nomenynashun," eez I; "I ain't got none,"
sez I. "Kerect," sez he. "Now," sez L
"It's my turn. Tou keep the nomenyna
shun. and Til take the eleckshun," sez L'
" A trooly ekttable an unselfish ar
rangement sez L "Did he agree to
fuse?
" "Well, not exactly. sez Willyum. "He
suggested that I follow my own hlllus
tryus preccydent of retiring from the areny
on eleckshun day an let the publlck do
the votln'. "You're too modest a states
man to wote for yourself." eez he. "But
never mind, that There'll -bo a kworma
present," '' "
MASTERPIECES OF 'LITERATURE.
xin.
Quatrains From the Rubafyat of Omar
Khayyam Fitzgerald's Paraphrase,
Wake' For the Sun who ecatter'd Into flight
The Stars before him from the Field of Night
Drives Night long with ttesn from HeaVn,
and strikes
The Sultan's Turret with a. Shaft of light
xir.
A Book of Verses underneath tire Boush.
A Jug- of Wine. a Ioat of Bread and Thou
Beside me ei aging- In the Wilderness
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enowl
- XUI.
Soino for the Glories of This World; and sobm
Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come;
Ah, take the Cash and let the Credit .o
Nor heed the rumble of & distant Drumt
XVT.
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts npea.
Turns Ashes or it prospers; and anon.
Like Snow upon tho Desert's dusty face.
Lighting- a little hour or two was son.
XVIL
Think, in this batterd Caravanserai
Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day,
How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
Abode his destln'd Hour, and went hia vway.
XIX.
I sometimes think that never blom so red
The Rose as where some burled Caesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt ia her Lap from same once lonely Head.
XX.
And this reviving Herb, whose tender Green
Fledges, the Rlver-Llp on -Rhich we lean
Ah. lean upon It lightly! for who knows
From what onc lovely Lip It springs unseen!
XXL
Ah. my Beloved, fill the cup that clears
Today of past Regret and future Fears;
Tomorrow! Why Tomorrow I may be
Myself with Yesterdays Sevn thousand Years.
XXIL
For some we loved, the loneliest and the best
That from his Vintage rollings Time has pret.
Hat e drunk their Cup a Round or two before,
And one by ono crept silently to rest.
XXHL .
And we, that now make merry in the Room
They left, and Summer dresses In new bloom.
Ourselves must wo beneath the Couch ot
Earth
Descend ourselves to make a Couch for whom?
XXIV.
Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend.
Before we. too, Into the .Dust descend;
Dust Into Dust, and under Dust, to He.
San3 Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and sans
End!
XXVIL
Uyself when young- did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
About It and about; but evermore
Came out by the same door where In I went.
XXVIIL
With them tho seed of Wisdom did I sow.
And with my own hand wrought to make It
grow;
And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd
"I came like water, and like Wind I go."
XLI.
Perplext no more with Human or Divine,
Tomorrow's tangle to the winds resign.
And lose your Angers In tie tresses ot
Tho Cypress-slender Minister of Wine.
XLIIL
So when the Angel of the darker Drink
At last shall find you by the river brink.
And, offering his Cup, Invite your Soul
Forth to your Llpa to quaff you shall not
shrink.
XLIV.
Why, If the Soul can fling the Dust aside.
And naked on the Air of Heaven ride,
Wer"t not a Shame wcrt not a Shame for
him
In this clay carcase, crippled to abide?
XLV.
'TIs but a Tent where takes his one-day's ist
A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest
The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash
Strikes, and prepares It for another Guest.
XLVL
And fear not lesfExlstenco dosing your
Account and mine, should know the like no
more;
The Eternal Sakl from that Bowl has pour'd
Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour.
XLVIL
When Xou and I behind' the Veil are past.
Oh. but the long, long while the World shall
last,
Whloh of our Coming and Departure heeds
As the Sev'n Seas should heed a pebble-cast.
LXm.
0 threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise 1
One thing at least Is cerfaln This Lite flies;
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies;
Tho Flower that once has blown forever dies.
LXTV.
Strange, Is It not? that of the myriads who
Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through
Not one returns to tell us of the Road,
Which to discover we must travel, too.
LXV.
The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd
Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd,
Aro all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep
They told their fellows, and to Sleep retum'd.
LXVI.
1 sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-llfo to spell;
And by and by my Soul return'd to me.
And answered "I Myself am Heav'n and HelL'
LXVTI.
Heav'n but the Vision of fulflll'd Desire,
And Hell the' Shadow of a Soul on Are.
Cast on the- Darkness Into which Ourselves,
So late emerf'd from, shall so soon expire,
LXVIIL
We are no other than a moving row
Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go
Round with this Sun-lllumln'd Lantern held
In Midnight by the Master of the Show;
LXTX.
Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays
Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days;
Hither and thither moves, and checks, and
slays.
And. one by one back In the Closet lays. '
LXX,r
The Ball no question makejhfOff,Aye. and Noes
But Rlsht or Left as strikes the Player goes;
And He that tosa'd you down Into the Field,
He knows about It all He knows He knows!
LXXL
The Moving Finger writes; and. having writ
Moves on- nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure It back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word- of It.
LXXH.
And that Inverted Bowl they call the Sky,
Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die,
Lift not your hands to It for help for It
As lmpotently roll3 as you or L
LXXTV.
Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare;
Tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair:
Drink! for yon know not whence you came,
nor why;
Drink.! for you know not why you go, nor
where.
LXXX.
Oh, Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin
Beset tho Road I was to wander In,
Thou wilt not with Prcdestln'd Evil round
Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin!
LXXXL
Oh. Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst maka
And evn -with Paradise dvlse the 8nake;
For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man
Is blacken'd Man's Forgiveness give end
take!
XCVL
Yet Ah, that Spring should -vanish with t&e
Rose I
That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should
close!
The Nightingale that In the branches sang.
Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who
knows!
XCVH.
Would but the Desert of tho Fountain yield
One glimpse If dimly, yet Indeed, reveal'd.
To which the fainting Traveler might spring,
Aa springs the trampled herbage of the field l
xevm.
Would but some winged Angel ere too late,
Arrest tho yet unfolded Roll of Fate,
And make the stem Recorder otherwise
Enreglster. or quite obliterate!
XCIX.
Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things enUre,
Would not we shatter It to bits and then
Remould It nearer to the Heart's Desire!
C.
Yon rising Moon that looks for us again
How oft hereafter will she wax and wane.
How oft hereafter rising look for us
Through this same Garden and for one In Taint
CL
And when like her, O Sakl, you shall pas3
Among the Guests Star-scatterd on the Grass.
1 Where I made One turn down an empty Glal