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! THE NEW YORK STATE OUTLOOK.
' A thing that puts to eonfusion all estimates and
guesses as to the outcome of the approaching election
m this state with regard to state officers is the slump
that occurred two years ago in the total vote of the
two great political parties for the same complement
f officers, as compared with the total vote of those
parties in 1900, says the New York Commercial.
That vote in 1900 amounted to 1,498,592, where
as in 1902 it amounted to only 1,321,497 a decline
f 177,095, or nearly 12 per cent The aggregate vote
lor the republican and democratic candidates for
governor in 1902 was only a little over 15,000 more
than it was as far back as 1898, although it is obvious
that the number o.f republican and democratic voters
in this state had in the meantime enormously increas
ed, and that there must have been a still greater
merease since 1902.
! It is noteworthy, too, that the great bulk of these
ttay-at-home voters in 1902 was to be found in the
wp-fitate counties. Of the 177,095 loss in the total re
publican and democratic vote for governor inl902, as
compared with the similar vote in 1900, over 121,
600 was due to stay-at-home voters in the counties
tutside of New York, Kings, Queens and Richmond.
"While the latter counties contributed 40 per cent of
the total republican and democratic vote in 1902,
they contributed only about 30 per cent of the total
faHinf off in the vote question.
; It is only natural that there should be a decline
m the popular vote in "off" years, and in this state
the great preponderance of the decline is usually
m up-state counties in most 6f which many voters live
tiles away from the polls. Most of these counties
are habitually republican, and in presidential years
at least in recent presidential years they gener
ally return pluralities, more or less heavy, for both
the republican national and state tickets. Independ
ent voters are found mainly in the cities.
Predictions, therefore as to the result in this state,
especially on state officers, are largely worthless be
cause little information is at hand to tell which way
this unknown quantity of stay-at-home voters in
1902 may cast their ballots in November. That the
mass of these voters are republican in politics is a
fair assumption, and unless there is more evidence
f republican dissatisfaction in up-state counties than
m now manifest, the latter will probably roll up their
customary pluralities for the republican national and
state candidates. In this event the democratic na
tional and state candidates will have to look chiefly
to the cities for a. triumph in the Empire common-wealth.
them. , Our system of public schools was closely
studied by them, and some of our distinguished edn
enters were enlisted in aiding them to organize a
like vstem in their country, with grades and nor
mal methods and a school regime that would take all
classes without restriction under its wing.
AH this went on, with startling rapidity and we
are amazed to think how speedily all the essential
features of our western civilization were shipped off
to Japan.
The Japanese miud may not be creative it is
quick to see and has an appropriating capacity
readier and larger. thau elsewhere witnessed in the
world. It is said that Japan made greater progress
in all that pertains to a high-grade civilization in
six years than the European nations did in 600 years.
The assertion is not extravagant. It is one thiug to
invent, and another thing to import.' European
nations had to invent and we know that invention
follows the long and winding trail of necessity, and
that necessity assumes new shapes as society becomes
complex. It is the superiority of European nations
that their high civilization was long in maturing
that it was the progressive evolution of years. Vast
fabrics are slow in rising, and institutions are never
the creatures of a day. A great German was en
gaged for nearly twenty years in inventing and' per
fecting the automatic press a man of much less
capacity may understand it and set it to work.
Nevertheless, the, assimilating power of the Japa
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nese, tneir amazing inuusiry ana rkui m cnicmug
up and importing what the great Aryan peoples
have developed through the ages, looks like a miracle
to us, who are fated to go along at a slower pace
through years of laborious plodding and research.
"What astonishes us is the amount of brain power
they are able to bring into war. Much as we do not
like to think it, war brings into requisition the high
est order of human brains. "War gives rank to na
tions. "War is the bloody index-finger that points
the way to permanence and preeminence of civil or
ganization and strength where the strongest intel
lects and sturdiest will are entitled to hold sway.
It is an awful school may we be delivered from its
hideous discipline in making our virtues known
but as a matter of history all nations have had to
train in that school, and the awards of destiny have
always passed through that grim schoolmaster's
bloody hands. Judged by this standard, the Japa
nese take rank already among the foremost nations
in the world.
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' ; SYMPATHY WITH JAPAN.
In the war between Russia and Japan popular
sympathy has been running fulltide in favor of
Japan. That little insular country has had all along
the prestige of success, and the world applauds suc
cess. In comparison with Russia Japan is a little na
tion with little men, with no empire behind it, and
ao history, says the Tacoma Ledger. It requires a
long and checkered history in any people to chrvelop
any kind of strength, intellectual, economic or mili
taryany kind of organized resource. Civilization
in any country marks its advance in that way. It
takes time time to get territory, to get wealth, time
to train the patriotic impulses of the peoplj in the
arts of war and peace. For long centuries this won
derful people, commercially speaking, wer-3 a hermit
people, with their ports shut up again-! European
trade. Civilization advances through foreign con
tact, mainly through commerce, and it was only half
a century ago that our Commander Perry succeeded,
y diplomatic maneuver, in opening the gates of the
Japan sea to the fleets of the world. From that date
the tremendous reserved force of the Japanese was
let loose. Their progress was phenomenal.
European civilization was eagerly studied.
Young men of talent and promise wero sent out
wnder government maintenance to the great univer
sities cf Germany and England, and the United
States, to get the science of these old and cultured
nations, and the secrets of their industries, their
nechanics; their laws, their social life, und to ccme
back equipped to reproduce all these things in their
native land. These student emissaries were particu
larly fascinated with what they could learn in the
United States. Its democratic institutions pleased
COME .OUT OF IT.
The disposition on the part of seacoasi news
papers to show up their grain shipments is commend
able as evincing a desire to advance the interests
of the towns in question, but the papers frequently
make themselves ridiculous in parading their, ship
ping statistics. This is particularly ture of the
newspapers of the nothwest, each of which works to
outdo the other. The results are not infrequently
most laughable.
The Portland Journal is one of the enthusiasts
there are three of them in Portland and in its
Tuesday issue informs its readers, in red headletter,
that Portland is in the lead that the wheat ship
ments from that "port" for the month of September
were the largest in the United States 1 One would
naturally suppose Portland had made a record that
justified red ink and front page position, but he is
woefully in error. ".Portland shipped less wheat dur
ing the month in question than during almost any
other month of the year. The exports aggregated
113,091 bushels, one lone cargo having been sent
away. San Francisco's exports totaled 67,000 bush
els, the Bay City holding second place in the record
for the month. " ,
Now, there was a story in connection with, the
official statement of wheat exports for September.
The fact that Portland should have headed the list
with trifling exports of 113,091 bushels was in itself
a remarkable condition of affairs, and along this
line a very presentable story might have been writ
ten. But there is no cause for any elation. The rec
ord is not one of which Portland could possibly vbe
proud, for it was unusually below the average.
Rather, it was something of which Portland might
well feel ashamed.
The desire to advertise the seaport is uppermost,
however, and the Portland papers, as well as those
of the sound, will probably continue to startle their
readers with sensational headlines over articles that
have little or no commercial significance.
The most accurate clock in the world is in the
basement of the Berlin observatory, and has been
running since 1865, when it was set up by Professor
Foerster. It has often run for three months at a
time with a daily deviation of not more than fifteen
thousandths of a second. But it is not accurate
enough to suit astronomers, and the clock is soon to
be put in an air-tight underground room.
It takes three and one-third times as long to write
the Roman numerals from 1 to 100 as the Arabic, and
the chance for error is twenty-one times as great. It
takes three times as long to read the Roman numerals
from 1 to 100 as the Arabic, and the chance for error
in this is eight times as great Yet there is a great
advantage in the Roman numerals, for nearly all
the civilized world knows them.
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