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5i'Ki3 JEFFERSO?nAjr PRECEDENT.
In snaking Constitutional difficulties
bver the acquisition and government of
ftha Islands we have received from
Spain the Bryan Democrats are merely
threshing over old straw, long since
Ithoroughly threshed out by the pollti
jcal parties of the country, including
&he!r own. It was the decision of
ZThomas Jefferson and his party, in
PL803-4, that territory not only could he
teOQUired without Constitutional war
rant, but governed "outside the Consti
tution' in any way Congress might see
fit. Under Jefferson's leadership both
these things were actually done.
Jefferson's first thought was a Con
stitutional amendment for authoriza
tion of the acquisition of the Louls
jiana territory. To this end he drew up
Ian amendment and presented it to his
KSablnet. "The province of Louisiana is
incorporated into the TJnlted States and
tenade a part thereof," began this curi
ous paper; "the rights of occupancy
In the soil and of self-government are
'confirmed to the Inhabitants." But the
suggestion found little favor with the
leading men of his party. Jefferson
was merely making a play for preser
vation of his consistency as a strict
constructionist of the Constitution.
Gallatin maintained that "the TJnlted
States as a Nation have an Inherent
right to acquire territory," and Madl
scn, Nicholas, Breckinridge and many
more took the same ground. Eager to
acquire Louisiana, Jefferson gave up
the contention, though the principle of
strict construction was the breath of
his political life. It was this action In
regard to Louisiana that gave strict
construction Its fatal wound, and Jef
fersonian theories never again received
general support. After this, no Presi
dent could have been more Federalist
than Jefferson himself.
The purchase of Louisiana consum
mated, the next question was as to leg
islation for the new territory. What
were the powers of Congress over It?
Here now, In relation to Porto Rico
and the Philippine Islands, the Demo
cratic party is taking a position di
rectly the opposite of that taken on leg
islation for Louisiana, by the Jefferson
Administration, with the sanction and
support of Congress.
The position was assumed and main
tained that the Constitutional limita
tions imposed on Congress in relation
to the states were not applicable to the
newly acquired territory. Madison In
deed admitted that the Constitution had
not provided for such a case as this,
hut said broadly that the action pro
posed must be estimated by the mag
nitude of the object, and that those
who had undertaken it must rely upon
the candor of the country for their jus
tification. A bill was reported for the
government of the territory, which
emanated from Jefferson himself. What
this bill was is thus described by Ben
son in his examination of the decision
of the Supreme Court in the case of
Dred Scott:
It was a startling bill continuing the exist
fine Spanish Government; putting tho President
in tho place of the King of Spain; putting all
the territorial officers In the place of the
icing's officers, and placing the appointment of
Ell these officers In the President alone with
out reference to the Senate. Nothing could be
jnoro Incompatible with our Constitution than
teucb. a Government a mere emanation of
Spanish despotism. In which all powers, civil
nd military, legislative, executive and Judi
cial, were In the lntendant general, represent
ing the IClng; and where the people, far from
possessing political rights, were punishable ar
bitrarily for presuming to meddle with polit
ical subjects.
pretation and put it into practice. We
make one more extract from the His
tory of Henry Adams:
By an act of sovereignty as despotic as tho
corresponding acts of Franco aad Spain. Jef
ferson and his party had annexed to the
Union a foreign people and a, vast territory,
which profoundly altered the relations of the
states and tho character of their nationality.
By similar acts they governed both.
BOTH A QUACK AND A CRANK.
The extracts from the private letter
of Mr. Bryan to the managing editor of
the New York World, published a few
days since, are interesting as casting
some light upon the question whether
the "Boy Orator of the Platitudes" is
a political quack or sincere political
crank. The devoted partisans of Bryan
hold that he is an unselfish champion
of the people, a sincere political re
former. The advocates of the gold
standard generally believe that Bryan
is an arrant demagogue, consciously
dishonest in his advocacy of doctrines
which seek to establish socialism and
invite ultimate anarchy. William Allen
White describes Bryan as a man who
sees in his creed the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth; a
man who is sincerely persuaded that
he "is a statesman of destiny"; a man
of superficial education, utterly unread
in standard authors in sociology and
economics, Mr White holds that Bryan
Is not a demagogue, but an honest,
sincere, brave man with an extraordi
nary voice, a self-confident, self-de
luded man, an orator for whose elec
tion "there Is really no more reason
than for electing a fiddler. Both tal
ents rouse the emotions. Bryan is a
voice, an earnest, honest, gallant, lo
quacious young man with a hypnotic
voice." The true view of Bryan is that
he is not altogether a political quack,
nor that he is altogether an honest po
litical crank of vast ignorance and
boundless misinformation. He appears
to be a cross between a political quack
and a social crank.
Prom the days of Mohammed to the
present date there has been no lack of
successful impostors and charlatans
with a strain of self-delusion in their
composition. Bryan is an agitator ut
terly deficient in statesmanlike views.
He is clearly a political quack in his
methods, and yet he may be credited
with a sincere belief in free silver at
16 to 1, and in his gospel of state social
ism. He believes in them beca-use he
doesn't know any better. His early
reading was inadequate to equip him
for sound discussion of Buch subjects,
and the applause that his first oratori
cal advocacy of false finance obtained
was fatal to any subsequent correction
of his views. He found out that hl3
cornstalk fiddle with its silver string
produced a kind of popular "ragtime"
music which a great many people loved
to hear and keep step with; so Bryan,
who is a voice, has sincerely fallen in
love with the sound of the only instru
ment of which he is master. The per
sonal -egotism of the man is as large
and as ill-founded as that of an Indian
or an African chief. He believes In
tensely in Bryan, and believes that the
superficial apprehensions and guesses
of Bryan at sound finance and govern
mental reform are superior to the accu
mulated experience and deep reflections
of the world's philosophers and states
men. Many popular agitators have
been of the type of which Robespierre
is an extreme Illustration; men "whose
minds were too much disordered for
liberty and not enough disordered for
bedlam."
There is no more difficulty in
believing that Bryan is half politi
cal quack and half sincere, self-deluded
crank, than there is in believing that
the strain of charlatanism in Robes
pierre, who, originally an opponent of
capital punishment, became the pitiless
advocate of the "reign of terror' rest
ed on a foundation of intense intellec
tual egotism.
Knowledge of and respect for the les
sons of past history made it Impossible
for men of genius, like Mirabeau or Na
poleon, to attempt to govern like Robes
pierre; but Robespierre was utterly
without genius or talent. He was a
superficial, prating pretender, a man of
"ambitious and unquiet mediocrity,"
and yet he was something more than a
low, cunning demagogue. He was a
man of intense egotism, a narrow
minded political crank, who believed in
himself so completely that he became
one of those arch fools who venture
recklessly where angels fear to tread.
Bryan Is, outside of his voice, a man
of "ambitious and unquiet mediocrity,"
a political quack, an artful demagogue,
and yet something more. He Is a man
of Intense, self-deluding intellectual
egotism. He is not without faith In
his own folly. His mental limitations,
his large misinformation, his barbarian
contempt for what he does not know,
make it not difficult to believe that he
is at once a quack in his methods and
his ambition, and yet a sincere crank
in his absurd convictions. Napoleon
was styled "the eagle-eyed man of des
tiny," and General Walker, the fili
buster, was called "the gray-eyed man
of destiny," and Bryan, from the ob
liquity of his financial and political
views, deserves to be called "the cock
eyed man of destiny."
If he is right, there never ought to be
an end of sectionalism, growing out of
the Civil War.
A good many years ago a Republican
Congress voted to rehabilitate politi
cally the ex-Confederates who complied
with the conditions of political recon
struction. After this was done, of
course, neither party could fairly re
fuse to place the ex-Confederate Mexi
can War veterans on the Mexican War
pension roll, and they have all been en
titled to pensions under that pension
act since its enactment under Cleve
land's first Administration. Longstreet
is over SO years of age. He has kept
his oath and complied with all the con
ditions legally required for complete po
litical rehabilitation since he surren
dered at Appomattox, in 1865. His
right to a pension as a Mexican War
veteran, and his right to an increase of
pension, is as clear under the law as
that of any -other United SCats pen
sioner. The Oregontan thinks the G.
A. R. commander-in-chief is old enough
to keep step with music of the pres
ent, and to speak like a statesman, and
not like a narrow-minded, sentimental
sectionalism In this matter of the re
turn of the Confederate flags. There Is
a survival of provincial narrowness in
evitably among some passionate women
and feminine-tempered men, both South
and North, but the public example of
the commander of the G. A. R. ought'
to have been exhibited on the side of
statesmanship rather than shallow sectionalism.
never mentioned but aa idle, frtvelous men,
fond of desultory reading and- negligent of
the studies of the place.
In conclusion, Macaulay said:
The bad effects of our university system may
be traced to the very last In many eminent
and respectable men. ... They may play
at bo-peep with truth; but they never' get a
full view of it In all its proportions. The cause
we believe Is that they have passed those
years durlnr which the mind, frequently ac
quires the character which It ever after re
tains, In studies, which when exclusively pur
sued have no tendency to strengthen or ex
pand It.
Macaulay uttered these views nearly
seventy-five years ago. He was nearly
fifty years ahead of English scholastic
culture, but Herbert Spencer In the
next generation powerfully advocated
the same view of "what knowledge Is
worth the most" in the Westminster
Review; and the views of Spencer were
supported by Professor Huxley, the
great scientist, and by John Stuart
Blackie, the famous Greek professor of
Glasgow university. Some twenty
years ago Charles Francis Adams ad
vocated the same views before Harvard
College, and the increasing pressure for
opportunities to obtain a practical,
technical, scientific rather than a pure
ly academic education has achieved
something In the matter of educational
reform along the lines so early Indi
cated by Macaulay, whose vast schol
arship never clouded his eye as a prac
tical thinker.
Some of the Federalists objected that
this bill was unconstitutional. The Ad
ministration party replied that the Con
stitution was made for states, not for
territories. This was followed by an
other bill, which deliberately set the
new territory apart as a peculiar es
tate, to be governed by a power Implied
in the right to acquire it In support
of this legislation it was asserted by
the leaders of the Jefferson party that
"Congress has a power in the territories
which it cannot exercise In the states,
and, that the limitations of power found
in the Constitution are applicable to
the states alone." To the protest
against the exercise of despotic power
by Congress, it was answered that "the
principles of civil liberty cannot sud
denly be engrafted on a people accus
tomed to a regimen of directly oppo
site hue." Henry Adams, in his "His
tory of the United States During the
First Administration of Thomas Jeffer
son," says: "Thus, Louisiana received
& government in which its people who
cad been solemnly promised all the
rights of American citizens were set
epart, not as citizens, but as subjects
lower in the political scale than the
meanest tribes of Indians, whose right
to self-government was never ques
tioned." The Federalists, with all their con
ception of large National powers,
thought some of these measures went
very far; but on the whole they acqui
esced in the interpretation of the pow
ers, while questioning many of them
the policy of so extensive territorial ac
quisition. But the doctrine that terri
tories could be ruled "outside the Con
etitution" was acquiesced in by both
political parties in Jefferson's day, and
it was Jefferson himself, and his party
leaders with him, who forced this inter-
HETURN OP CONFEDERATE FLAGS.
The "Veteran Volunteer," whose let
ter is published in another column,
seems to be in a state of sincere mental
obfuscation. He remembers nothlngthat
is pertinent to the controversy, and for
gets nothing that is in public wisdom
worthy of oblivion. To him it is noth
ing that a very heroic Union soldier,
President R. B. Hayes, invited an ex
Confederate soldier to sit in his Cabi
net. It is nothing that another very
gallant Union sbldler, President Har
rison, placed an ex-Confederate soldier
upon the United States Supreme Court
To him it is an outrage that Longstreet
should be on the pension roll. If this
old soldier will think the matter over,
he will see that if he is right, then no
Confederate soldier ought ever to have
been rehabilitated and restored to his
political rights; that all his property
should have been confiscated; the right
to the exercise of suffrage and holding
of Federal office should never have been
restored to him; he should have been
made a political Pariah and held in the
condition of a political outcast today.
If our veteran correspondent is right,
all the external earmarks of the Civil
War should be perpetuated as long as
possible on both sides. If he Is right,
because there are still lrreconcllables
of both sexes in considerable numbers
at the South, there should be encour
agement extended to the perpetuation
of Identical irreconcilability at the
North. If he is right opposition to ex
travagant and loose pension laws, which
need revision rather than enlargement
and multiplication, affords just ground
for denunciation of The Oregonlan as
unpatriotic and anxious to rob "the
men who draw a pittance as a pension."
COLLEGES AlfD CLASSICS.
The season of college commencement
exercises is over, and the usual discus
sion arises as to comparative value of
a college education and the necessity
of some reform, in its old-time academio
curriculum to meet the increasing mod
ern pressure for purely practical or
technical education.
It Is an interesting fact that as early
as 1826 the value and the defects of a
university training were vigorously
discussed by that great scholar and lit
erary genius, Macaulay, In an article
contributed to the pages of the Edin
burgh Review. A distinguished grad
uate of the great English University
of Cambridge, a profound classical
scholar, who to the end of his days
could read at sight in the original not
only all the famous Greek and Latin
classics, but all the lesser lights of both
literatures, Macaulay approached the
subject fully armed with both learning
and culture, and certainly without the
prejudices of a purely utilitarian phil
osopher and thinker. Macaulay se
verely criticised the great English uni
versities for lavishing such enormous
bounties on particular acquirements, so
that In consequence "there is among
our youth a glut of Greek, Latin and
mathematics, and a lamentable scarc
ity of everything else. We every day
see clever men of four and five and
twenty loaded with academical honors
and rewards enter Into life with their
education still to begin, unacquainted
with the history, the literature, we
might almost say the language, of their
country; unacquainted with the first
principles of the laws under which they
live, unacquainted with the very rudi
ments of moral and political science."
Macaulay vigorously combats the no
tion that the mere speculative knowl
edge of mathematical truth makes men
good reasoners. As a matter of fact
he says, no people reason so ill as mere
mathematicians. "On questions of re
ligion, policy or common life, we per
petually see these boasted demonstra
tors either extravagantly credulous or
extravagantly skeptical." On the sub
ject of the classics, Macaulay says that,
when our ancestors first began to con
sider the study of the classics as the
principal part of education, little or
nothing worth recalling was found in
any modern language. Circumstances
have confessedly changed. He grants
that a man who knows Latin is likely
to know English better than a man
who does not but points out that this
advantage Is not peculiar to the study
of Latin. Every language throws light
on every otler. There Is not a single
foreign tongue which will not suggest
to a man of sense some new consider
ations respecting his own; but he con
temptuously says that "a man who
thinks the knowledge of Latin essential
to the purity of English diction either
has never conversed with an accom
plished woman, or does not deserve to
have conversed with her." Macaulay
pays an eloquent tribute to the Greek
language, and grants that great advan
tages may be derived from its study;
but thinks that they may be purchased
at too high a price; that seven or eight
years of tho life of a man who Is to
enter Into active life at two or three
and twenty Is too much. He admits
that the Greek language is a more val
uable language than the French, the
Italian or the Spanish, but does not be
lieve that It is more valuable than all
three together, since all three, may be
acquired in less than half the time in
which it is possible to become thorough
ly acquainted with Greek. He thinks
that not only the modern languages of
the Continent receive less attention
than they deserve, but that our own lit
erature, second to none that ever ex
isted, Is unpardonably neglected. He
quotes Instances of Greek scholars
grossly Ignorant of the hiBtory of the
great statesmen of the English revolu
tion of 1641.
Macaulay's argument is that few men
Intended for professional or commercial
life can find time for all the studies
that belong to a complete and liberal
education. Some of them must be given
up. He would provide for the mind
first necessaries, then conveniences;
lastly, luxuries; and under luxuries he
classes the Greek and Latin languages,
since of all scholastic pursuits they re
quire for decent remunerative mas
tery the greatest sacrifice of time.
If a man Is able to continue his studies till
his SSth or 30th year, by all means let him
learn Latin and Greek. If he must terminate
them at one and twenty, we should la general
advise him to be satisfied with the modern
languages. If ho Is forced to enter active life
at 15 or 10, wo should think it best that he
should confine himself almost entirely to his
naUvo tongue, and thoroughly Imbue his mind
with the spirit of Its best writers.
Instead of many lads with a smatter
ing of Latin and Greek, from which
they derive no pleasure and hasten to
forget, there would be many more who
had treasured up useful and agreeable
information. Macaulay treats the Eng
lish universities as contemptuously as
Wendell Phillips did Harvard College,
for he charges them with taking it for
granted that England
la Indebted to them for all tho talent they
have not been able to dee troy, as If great men
had net appeared under every system of edu
cation from the schools of the ancient Greek
sophists and tho Arabian astrologers down to
the School Divinity men and the Jesuits. There
would still be groat men If nothing was taught
but tho fooleries of Spunhelm and Sweden
borg. ... Many of the men, who since
they have risen, to eminence- are perpetually
cited as proofs of the beneficial tendency of
English university education, were at college
WHY SO HOT!
The personal abuse of the President
in the National platform of the Prohi
bitionists surpasses anything In viru
lence that has appeared of recent years
in the utterances of political parties.
Washington, Jefferson, John Qulncy
Adorns and Andrew Jackson were made
subjects of most vulgar personal abuse
dnrlng their Presidential service, and
in later days Lincoln's personal ap
pearance was made the target of brutal
jest by the "copperhead" Democracy.
President Cleveland did not entirely
escape outrageous attack, but since his
day nothing has equaled the Intemper
ate denunciation and untruthful de
scription of President McKlnleys hab
its expressed In the platform of the
Prohibition party. Of the personal
purity and sobriety of President Mc
Klnley's life there Is no doubt among
Intelligent Americans, and the wanton
language of the Prohibition platform is
a fresh illustration of the fact it is diffi
cult for a fanatic and a bigot to speak
the truth-Jof those whom he considers
the enemies of his cause.
But why are these Prohibitionists so
hot about the question of the Presi
dent's abstemiousness? It is a virtue
in any man to set a worthy example
of domestic purity and temperance, but
it Is not the only virtue nor the great
est virtue that adorns human charac
ter. Many men, whose domestic lives
have been pure and temperate, have
been very bad men, like Charles I and
Marlborough. Of Charles I, Milton says:
"His private virtues are beside the
question. If he be insatiable in plun
der and revenge, shall we pass It by be
cause in meat and drink he is tem
perate?" A man may be temperate at
table and regular at chapel, and yet
be so selfish, cruel and deceitful In all
the Important relations of life as to be
justly regarded as a very bad man.
The untruthfulness and recklessness
of the Prohibition indictment of Presi
dent McKlnley is a striking illustration
of how much easier it is for Prohibi
tionists to abstain religiously from all
forms of alcohol than it la to refrain
from Intemperance in the use of lan
guage. Temperance Is good. Perhaps
total abstinence Is the highest Ideal for
all, but surely total abstinence is not
more Important than the habit of
speaking the truth concerning your fellow-men.
The evil Influence of culti
vating an lptolerant habit of mind
concerning the opinions and practice of
a very large portion of decent and en
lightened mankind is illustrated by the
fact that these peculiar partisans of
the cause of temperance find it easier
to abstain from alcohol than they do
to tell the truth without perverting or
inverting It
cusslon when relief parties take the
field. It is only when a new expedition
is fitted out, carrying a number of hu
man lives into deadly peril and sub
jecting human beings to hardships for
which, in spite of all that has been suf
fered in Arctic wilds, no substantial
returns in knowledge have been re
ceived, that protest against Arctic ex
ploration as folly is heard. Through
all the years that have passed since the
rescue of the remnant of the Greely
party from starvation or- worse on an
Inhospitable coast the feeling of revul
sion caused by the publication of that
chapter in Arctic exploration endures
and is called up at the mention, in
whatever capacity, of the name of its
leader. No expedition ever left the
shores of the United States accompa
nied by a more fervent Godspeed than
that which went to the rescue of the
Greely party, and it is sickening even
yet to reflect that a few days of delay
in starting or in transit would have
sealed in a horrible manner the fate
of every survivor of the expedition. The
record of finding the bodies of De Long
and his companions In their frigid biv
ouac on the Siberian coast Is one of the
most pathetic chapters in the history
of American adventure, while the name
of Sir John Franklin still serves - to
recall a tale of suffering and disaster,
of struggle and death, which was com
mitted to the silence of the Ice and for
years was wrapped In the dumb snows
of the far North. Of the many Polar
expeditions fitted out for the relief of
lost explorers, all have been cordially
seconded In their endeavor by popular
sympathy. So In regard to the Andree
search parties, now in the field or soon
to embark. The Indorsement and God
speed of humanity go with them.
Here are some preliminary figures as
to the populations of Portland and Se
attle. The school census, under the
direction of the state, has just been
completed in each city, showing the
following children of school age: Port
land, 20,489; Seattle, 14.507. In this city
children between the years of 4 and 20
are enumerated; In Seattle, -between 5
and 21; so that the comparison is in all
respects fair and accurate. A few other
figures will prove instructive. Port
land held on election June 4, Seattle
March 6. The following votes were
cast: Portland, 13,952 (registration 16,
300); Seattle. 8851 (registration 10,940).
At the Presidential election of 1895
there were cast in Portland for the Mc
Klnley and Bryan electors 15,663 votes;
in Seattle, S4S7. If the election figures
indicate anything, It Is that Seattle has
now about 65 per cent of Portland's
population. But the comparison by
this year's vote Is hardly just to the
Washington city, Inasmuch as its elec
tion this year was for city officers alone.
and probably not as full a proportion
of the voters turned out as in Port
land. But school children are always
an accurate index of population. Se
attle has now 70 per cent as many as
Portland. Assuming that the census
.will show Portland to have from 90,000
to 95,000 people, the returns from Seat
tle should be from 63,000 to 66,600.
SLINGS AND ARROWS.
A Kevr Job.
?ou are
Nominated.
Bryan;
You have
Won out In a
"Walk.
There need
Be no more restrictions
On
Tour easy flow of
Talk.
But the
Many complications
That
Are likely to
Arlso
Will give you things
To think
About
This Summer, we
Surmise.
So don't
Bo too discouraged
If
Ton find the
Job at
Hand
Somewhat over largo
To tackle with
The means at
Tour command.
This Chinese Imbroglio,
Maybe,
Will get mixed up
In the game;
And, although
You're not
Up in It. you'll
Start talking Just
The same.
Which la where you'll
Get off wrong
Again,
If onco yoa
Get a
Show
To tell the shouting
Multitude
The things
You do not
Know.
So for heaven's sake
Let others
Talk away to
Beat tho band.
But
Don't spiel away oa
Subjects that
You do not
Understand.
It It's
Possible, dear
Willi.
Let your oratory
Sink,
And, though If s
A new employment.
Try for all your worth to
Think.
MASTERPIECES OF LITER&TURE-XXI
ARCTIC RELIEF EXPEDITIONS.
While to the outside world, that mar
veled when Andree, in the Summer of
1897, cut loose his famous balloon from
its moorings upon the island of Spits
bergen and was lost in the profound
silence of the great North, the name of
the adventurous explorer and aeronaut
has beoome only a remembrance, it
seems that to a few it still holds the
possibility of a living reality. He took
on that wildly experimental journey
two companions sturdy Scandinavians
like himself, Strindberg and Fraenkel
and his equipment was as complete as
it was novel. So carefully was the
expedition provisioned that, unless ut
ter wreck amid the warring aerial cur
rents of the Arctic zone overtook his
airship, It is believed that Andree and
his companions may still be alive.
Falling in this. It is not unreasonable
to suppose that traces of the wreck,
and perhaps records of this most fan
tastic and venturesome of all of the
expeditions ever fitted out for the dis
covery of an open Polar sea, may be
discovered.
So strong Is this belief and so Insa
tiable the desire to know more about
Andree and his venture, that no less
than three expeditions have been lately
fitted out for this service. These will
each act independently, and still with
reference to the course covered by the
other. A Russian expedition, headed
by Baron Von Toll, has mapped out a
most difficult coursethat of explor
ing the Arctic coast of Europe, and
Asia, the latter during the Summer of
1901, reaching Behring Sea, if possible,
by the frigid line of the Siberian coast
The hardship and danger involved in
this undertaking are great, yet it is re
called that it was accomplished in 1871
to 1873 by Baron Nordenskjold. The
Arctic region was then much less fa
miliar than now, the gateway of its
mysteries and rigors having yielded in
some degree to the power of the golden
key. Still, the infallible depths of the
white silence into which Andree disap
peared have never been penetrated, and
to sound these depths and, if possi
ble, draw forth the records of the An
dree expedition, or find some clew to
the hardy explorer's fate, is an attempt
worthy of valorous men of the race
from which he sprang and of the hardy
races akin to it
With a Swedish and Russian expedi
tion operating in Spitzbergen, and
three expeditions a Swedish, a Danish
and an English on the coast of Green
land, together with the Russian expe
dition on tho Siberian coast the field
will be pretty well covered. Needless
to say, the world even the practical
world, that views Arctic exploration as
wasted effort will await with Interest
news from these search parties.
The question of the utility of Arctic
exploratjoft does not enter into the difr-
The Silver Republican platform also
indulges in some hifalutln' language
about consent of the governed. It is
opposed to the "whole theory of Imperi
alistic control," and wants the same
principle applied to the Philippines that
we are "solemnly and publicly pledged
to observe in the case of Cuba." This
is essentially Democratic doctrine haul
down the flag, renounce sovereignty,
and get out How do the Silver Re
publicans here and In Washington like
that? There are a few of them left and
they are so anxious not to become fewer
that they have heretofore avoided the
expansion rock. The Washington Sil
ver Republican Convention adopted a
platform that was dumb on this great
matter because some thought one way,
some another. But Kansas City puts
on record plainly the attitude of the
devoted remnant still remaining with
the party. Further, the Democracy in
Its platform says this is the paramount
issue. Then silver Is not the paramount-
issue. It Is about time for the
Silver Republicans out this way to
find out where they are at, If they are
anywhere.
A large majority of American mis
sionaries in peril In China are, as ap
pears from the lists published, women.
A few are wives of ministers sent out
by the missionary boards, but most of
them are unmarried women, who, un
der the belief that they were called to
the work of evangelizing the heathen,
enlisted in the missionary service in
China. The pitiful futility of their en
deavor is witnessed in the fact that
even their alleged converts deserted
them in their hour of peril, and that
presumably, all have been butchered,
with atrocities made familiar to the
people of the Pacific Northwest by the
frequent recital of the details of the
Whitman massacre. It would be in the
Interest of humanity, which Is the basic
principle of Christianity, if the minis
ters of the country would take for a
text by preconcerted agreement some
Sunday in the near future the
words: "EphraJm is joined to his idols;
let him alone," and make the applica
tion suggested by recent events and the
present situation in China with vigor
and earnestness.
Our ions Coincidence.
A young man sends to The Oregonlan
tho following lines, and asks for a crit
ical estimate of them. He adds by way
of a side remark that he can write
others like these, if such verae is market
able: Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear;
Pull many a flower is bora to blush unseen
And waste Its sweetness ca the desert air.
The lines are very pretty, and seem to
be all right aa far as feet and rhyme
are concerned. The statement of alleged
fact they contain is rather bald. The
young man who wrote these verses does
not explain how he knows that the dark
unfathomed caves of ocean bear gems
of purest ray serene. If said caves are
unfathomed, it is safe to say that he
has never been there, and if they are
dark he wouldn't have seen the gems
if he had. Deserts, as every one knows,
are arid and barren, and consequently
are not likely to be productive of many
unwitnessed blushes on the part of full
many a flower. As an essay this poem
will not do. It bears the stamp of genius,
but tho yoit.g man who sends it to The
Oregonlaa is not likely ever to achieve
fame by being its author. One reason for
this Is that Thomas Gray happened to
think of the same identical lines several
years ago.
Tnnn.
Tuan
One bad.
Bad man.
Heap mad.
Elm kill
KwangTsu;
Him will
Kill too.
Maybe,
TslAn,
If he
Think can.
Him heap
Like fight.
Him keep
Out sight
Novo Box
Man come.
Take knocks
Bltng dlum;
Tuan
Heap talk.
Box man
Heap walk;
Blmeby
Find white.
White die
All lite.
Box man
Much mad,
Tuan
Heap glad.
Htm will
Like slay
An kill
All day,
Jus so
Him will.
Heap no
He klU;
Land had
Koman
Like bad
Tuan.
"Prothalamion" Edmund Spenser.
Calm was the day, and through tho trembling
alr
Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play
A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay
Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair;
When L (whom sullen care.
Through, discontent of my lone frulUes.stay
In princes court, and expectation vain
Of idle hopes, which still do fly away
Llko empty shadows, did afflict my brain)
Walk'd forth to ease my pain
Along the shore of silver-streaming Thames;
Whose rutty bank, the which his river hems.
Was painted all with variable flowers.
And all the meads adorn'd wlthtdalnty gems
Fit to deck maidens' bowers.
And crown their paramours
Against the bridal day, which is not long:
Sweet Thames l run softly, till I end my song.
There In a. meadow by the river's side
A flock of nymphs I chanced to espy.
All lovely daughters of thej flood thereby.
With goodly greenish lock3 All loose untied
As each had been a bride;
And each one had a little wicker basket
Made of fine twigs, entralleo! curiously.
In which they gathered flowers to All their
flasket.
And with fine fingers cropt f ullf eateously
The tender stalks on high.
Of every sort which In that meadow grew
They gathered some; the violet, pallid blue.
The little daisy that at evening closes.
The virgin Illy and the primrose 'true;
With store of vermeil roses,
To deck their bridegrooms posies
Against the bridal day, wliich was not long:
Sweet Thames t run softly, till I end my song.
With that I saw two swans of goodly hue
Come softly swimming down alone the lee;
Two fairer birds I yet dld.never see;
The snow which doth tho top of Plndus. strow
Did nover whiter show.
Nor Jove himself, when he a swan would be
For love of Leda, whiter did appear;
Yet Leda was (they say) as while as he.
Yet not so white as these, nor nothing near;
So purely white they were
That even the gentle stream, the which, them
bare,
Soem'd foul to them, and bade his billows
spare
To wet their silken feathers, lest they might
Soil their fair plumes with water not so fair,
And mar their beauties bright
That shone as Heaven's light
Against their bridal day, which was not long
Sweet Thames! run softly, till Lend my song.
Eftsoons the nymphs, which .now had flowers
their fill.
Ban all In haste to see that silver brood
As thoy came floating on the crystal flood;
Whom when they saw, they stood amazed still
Their wondering cye3 to fill;
Then seem'd they never saw a. sight so fair
Of fowls, so lovely, that they sure did deem
Them heavenly bom, or to be that same pair
Which through the sky draw Venus' silver
team;
For sure they did not seem
To be begot of any earthly seed.
But rather angels, or of angels' breed;
Yet were they bred of summer'siheat, they say.
In sweetest season, when each Cower and weed
The earth did fresh array;
So fresh they seem'd as day.
Even as their bridal day, which was not long:
Sweet Thames! run softly, till Iend my song.
There have been many accounts of
the rescue of Lieutenant Gilmore and
party In the Philippines, and of the ex
periences of rescued and rescuers, but
no other so complete as that which ap
pears on another page of The Sunday
Oregonlan today, written by George P.
Dyer, Assistant Surgeon, United States
Navy. It Is vivid and accurate, and an
excellent piece of literature as well as
a reliable narrative of thrilling adven
ture. The incidental light on the life
and social habits of the Filipinos is in
teresting and of great value. Mr. Dyer
belongs to the cruiser Princeton, which
recently left Luzon for service in Chi
nese waters.
Answers to Correspondents.
J. Hamilton Ia Not with a pink shirt
Duelist Krupp cannon, at thirty paces.
Wagnerian Student He only wrote one
opera in rag time "The Gootterdamme
rung." Alfred A There Is no rhyme for gouge.
Amateur Cornetist HOOO and 10 years'
Imprisonment at hard labor.
Chinese Missionary. Not unless you
can get an army corps for a convoy.
Autograph Collector. Canton, O., and
Lincoln. Neb.
Tmiihlft-TTunter. St. Louis.
Governor T y r Don't go back
just yet , .
Prospective Beaslder. 100 a week and
a pocketful of. engagement rings.
David Bennett H. Don't worry, he
won't be elected.
Poet Because you failed to enclose
a stamp.
Graduate. There 13 a good demand for
railroad laborers.
Nicholas of R a. Tea, tho powers
probably aro next to you.
Twenty-six members of the Demo
cratic resolutions committee, reprer
sentlng less than 200 out of 930 votes,
put the Democratic convention on rec
ord for 16 to 1. This is quite an
achievement in a convention where, for
example, the interests of the minority
are so completely safeguarded that it
takes two-thirds to nominate a candi
date. But Bryan was something more
than two-thirds. He was the whole
thing.
The Anaconda Standard records that
the mention of Bryan's name aroused a
"frenzy of enthusiasm" at Kansas City.
But the seating of the Clark delega
tion seems not to have aroused any
particular frenzy of enthusiasm, with
Mr. Daly's Standard.
Of course Stevenson accepts. He Is
both surprised and gratified to find that
he still lives.
An Unfailing Sign.
There's a sort o' Summer feeta" floatin'
through the outolde air,
CcmhV driftin' through the window, penetratin,
everywhere,
The thermometer is dlmtmY to the nineties
mighty fast.
An the chill of early mornia' kind of never
ecems to lost.
But we've had these very symptoms through.
the season once or twice.
And I only know it's Summer, 'cause the
butcher's takln' ice.
Though the sprinklln' carta Is rumblln on the
hot aad dusty street.
An the asphalt pavement's cavln' like 'twas
tar beneath our feet
Though the bees at noon o trunrcnin' an' the
house Is full of flies.
An" a. feller can't quit sweathY In his collar
If he tries,
Thoush they're rvnY Ice cream endy to cH
them as has the price.
Still we ne-er know It's Summer tiU the butch-
er takln' ice.
When we see the sky-blue wagon standln at
the butcher's door.
An the man with the tongo ls.naulln great big
chunks across the floor.
When we see the kWs a-chasm fur to gather
up the scraps.
Never mindln If the Ice man gives them ugly
cuffs and slaps.
We dort need no weather prophets, fur we
know It will euffloe
As a certain sign o Summer that the butcher's
taklnr Ice.
J. J. MOKTAGUK.
Then forth they all out of their baskets drew
Groat storo of flowers, the honour of the field.
That to the sense did fragrant odours yield.
All which upon those goodly birds they threw
And all the waves did strew.
That llko old Peneus waters they did seem
When down along by pleasant Tempers shore
Scatter'd with flowers, through Theasaly they
stream.
That they appear, through lilies' plenteous
store.
Like a bride's chamber-floor.
Two of those nymphs meanwhile two garlands
bound
Of freshest flowers which In that mead they
found.
The which presenting all in trim array.
Their snowy foreheads therewithal they
crown' d;
Whilst one did. sing this lay
Prepared against that day.
Against their bridal day, which was not long;
Sweet Thames! run softly, till X end my song.
Ye gentle blrdil the world's fair ornament
And Heaven's glory, whom this happy hour
Doth lead unto your lovers' blissful bower,
Joy may you have, and gentle hearts content
Of your lovo's complement;
And let fair Venus, that Is queen of love,
With her heart-quelling son upon you smile.
Whoso smile, they say. hath virtue to remove
All love's dislike, and friendship's faulty guUe
For ever to as soil.
Let endless peace your steadfast hearts accord,
And blessed plenty wait upon your board;
And let your bed with pleasures chaste abound.
That fruitful issue may to you afford
Which may your foes confound.
And mako your Joys redound
Upon your bridal day, which Is not long:
Sweet Thames I run softly, till I end my Bong.
So ended she: and all the Tost around
To her redoubled that her undersong.
Which said their bridal day should not be long:
And gentle Echo from the neighbour ground
Their accents did resound.
Bo forth those Joyous birds did pass along
Adown the lee that to them mutmurM low,
As he would speak but that he lackd a tongue,
Yet did by signs his glad affection show.
Making his stream run slow.
And all the fowl which In his flood did dwell
Gan flock about these twain, that did excel
The rest, so far as Cynthia, doth shend
The lesser stars. So they, enranged weU,
Did on those two attend.
And their best servlco lend
Against their wedding day. which was -not long:
Sweet Thames! run softly, till I end my song.
At length they all to merry London came.
To msrry London, my most kindly nurse.
That to me gave this life's first natlvo source.
Though from another place I take my cams,
An house of ancient fame:
There when they came whereas thoee briciy
towers
The which on Thames broad aged back do ride.
Where now the studious lawyers have their
bowers.
There whllomo wont the Templar-knights to
bide,
Till they decay'd through pride;
Next whereunto thero stands a stately place,
Whero oft I gained gifts and goodly grace
Of that great lord, which therein wont to dwell.
Whose want too well now feels my friendless
case;
But ah! here fits not weU
Old woes, but Joys to tell
Against the bridal day, which was not long:
Sweet Thames! run softly, till I end my song.
Yet thorein now doth ledge a noble peer.
Great England's glory and the world'B wide
wonder.
Whose dreadful name late thro all Spain CIO.
thunder.
And Hercules two pillars standing near
Did make to quake and fear:
Fair branch of honour, flower of chivalry!
That flllest England with thy triumphs' fam
Joy have thou of thy noble victory.
And endless happiness of thine own name
That promlseth the same;
That through thy prowess and victorious arms
Thy country may be freed from foreign harms.
And great Eliza's glorious name may ring
Through all the world, flll'd with thy wld
alarms
Which some bravo Muse may sing
To ages following.
Upon the bridal day, which Is not long:
Sweet Thames! run softly, till I end my song.
From those high towers this noble lord Issuing
Llko radiant Hesper, when his golden hair
In th ocean billows he hath bathed fair.
Descended to the river's open viewing
With a great train ensuing. f
Above the rest were goodly to be seen
Two gentle knights of lovely face and feature.
Beseeming well the bower of any queen.
With gifts of wit and ornaments of nature
Fit for so goodly stature.
That llko the twins of Jove they seem'd In sight
Whtch deck the baldric of the Heavens bright;
They two, forth pacing to the river's side,
Received thoso two fair brides, their love's de
light; Which, at th' appointed tide.
Each one did make his bride
Against their bridal day, which was cot-long:
Sweet Thames! run softly, till I end my eonj