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ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, li04.
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SENATOR COCKRELL'S CHOICE.
The satisfaction produced by the discovery that
a Republican legislature had been elected in Missouri
was tempered wily by the reflection that the surpris
ing victory would result in the retirement of Senator
Cockrell from the place which he had filled so long
and creditably. The feelinir was not less strong
among his political opponents than in his own party
that his prospective disappearance from public life
was to be regretted, and the present expectation that
he will continue to serve the country in another ca
pacity is sure to please his fellow citizens of every
political faith.
In offering to Senator Cockrell the vacant isth
mian canal commissionership the presilent has paid
him an unusual compliment, for he informs him at
the same time that, if considerations of health con
strain him to decline it, an appointment to the inter
state commerce commission awaits his acceptance,
In one of those two important posts, therefore, it
may be hoped that the senator will find a congenial
opportunity to employ his excellent talents and sound
judgment for the general benefit. This practical ex
pression of the president's high regard for the Mis
souri statesman, fully according with the estimate in
which he is everywhere held, is a gratifying incident
of political life.
THE CHIVALROUS AMERICAN "WOMAN.
That leader in the woman's club movement in
Chicago who lately declared the American man to be
the superior of the American woman marks an era
in modern progress. It is not that for a moment we
agree with her. We merely applaud a long step for
ward in the matter of advanced thinking, says the
Saturday Eveping Post.
Years ago an after dinner speaker and it need
scarcely be added, A man-ironically apostrophized
the New Woman (she was new then) as "once our
superior, now our equal." A president of the Oxford
union, in grave, undergraduate debate, hit off the
case more aptly in declaring that though the New
.Woman had ceased to be a lady she had not yet
become a gentleman.
The signal fact about the present dictum is that it
proves that the speaker has become a gentleman.
We should not be surprised to find that the remark
was post-prandial, and made with a wineglass tilted
aloft in a patronizing toast to "the better sex, God
bless them."
The spirit of chivalry has its root in the sense of
greater strength. When all women are conscious of
the superiority they have so long been proclaiming
they will unite in a toast to even such a poor, down
trodden being as the American man. They will have
become gentlemen all. Is it not up to the American
man to look to his laurels! Let him proclaim from
the housetops that it is a most superior woman who
thus acknowledges his superiority.
Meantime the question of the relative merits of
the sexes remains about where it was. A generation
ago rural debaters used to fall about one another's
ears discussing what would happen if an irresistible
force met an immovable body. The modern question
of the superior sex is a fitting substitute. It is allur
ing because it is elusive; it is possible to discuss it
with delighted acrimony because no solution is at
tainable. For a scheme of nature in which one sex
is more necessary, more useful, more able or more
virtuous than the other is as inconceivable as a
scheme of nature in which there are irresistible forces
in conflict with immovable bodies. If, in the past,
man has shown a certain superiority in character by
being satisfied with his place in the realm of nature,
woman has shown an equal share of the divine gift
by a spiritual discontent that was sublime.
And yet the remark from Chicago shows progress.
OUR STYLE AND TITLE.
At the Thanksgiving dinner of the American col
ony in London Sir Edward Clark took occasion to ob
ject to the people of the United States adopting for
themselves the name "Americans" and calling their
country "America." The subject has been discussed
before.
Many years ago, at a Fourth of July celebration
by Americans and foreign guests in Geneva, an emi
nent Frenchman made the same criticism, and pro
ceeded to an elaborate analysis of the origin and con
struction of national names, says the Call. He pro
ceeded from thia analysis to derive for a citizen of
this republic the name "United Statesian." When
this is examined, it is seen to lack entirely the quality
of distinctness and exclusive application. We have
in this hemisphere the united states of Mexico ami the
united states of Brail. On the isthmus, since Boli
var's day, there has been cherished a dream of the
united states of Central Amriea. So, seen from the
outide the bare term uuited states would require explanation.
The Frenchman found his analogy in the name
of France and French. Both terms are understood
and are limited. Our name, the United States of
America, is older than the constitution. In the
articles of confederation adopted in 1777, confederat
ing the original thirteen separate colonies, article 1
said: "The at vie of this confederacy shall be the
United States of America." This was followed in
the preamble to the constitution of 1789, in which
the convention wrote that we "do ordain and estab
lish this constitution for the United States of Amer
ica.
It will be observed that the article "the" serves
other than its merely grammatical purpose. It means
that there may be other united states, but this is
'the" united states. At the time it was adopted this
was the only United States of America. It is, there
fore, the senior and its juniors have only copied it
style. We have, it will be seen, the prior right to
call ourselves Americans. When we adopted th
name all the rest of the hemisphere was in a eolinia
condition. The Canadas were English, the rest o
the hemisphere was mainly divided between Spain
and Portugal and the jieoplo were Spaniards am
Portuguese. We were the only Americans, adopting
the name of the continent as our name. When th
revolution began we called ourselves "Continentals,'
because we wished to be differentiated from the peo
ples who owed a foreign allegiance beyond the con
inent. The transition of "American" was perfect
ly natural and in accordance with the principle gov
erning selection of style and title. So we were the
first Americans and have become the greatest, ani
will remain to the end the greatest Americans, meas
ured by our personal characteristics and our national
power.
Our style and title are well understood by the
whole world. Sir Edward Clark's criticism was called
out by an evolution of our style required by brevity
nd dictated by the rule of exact description and
designation. In view of the existence of other unit
ed states, junior to us, in this hemisphere, our gov.
ernment has dropped "United States" as the desig
nation of our foreign embassies, and our diplomatic
representative is now called briefly and descriptively
"the American ambassador." The title is simple and
dignified, and belongs to us by prescriptive right.
Other nations adopt their names and bear them
for reasons sufficient unto themselves. For a long
time after the fall of Calais broke poor Mary's heart
the English sovereigns styled themselves "king of
Great Britain, France and Ireland." In our first
treaty with Sweden the sovereign called himself "the
king of Sweden, of the Goths and Vandals." So also
we have had treaties with "his most Catholic ma
jesty and "his most Christian majesty. These
sovereigns chose the name that seemed best to ex
press their power or their pretensions. The people of
this country are also sovereign, and have the same
right to choose the national name by which they will
be known. Our fathers called themselves Americans
and this America, and the union they formed became
logically the United States of America. These styles
will endure. Sir Edward Clark proposed to rechrist-
en us "Unona." But Mr. Choate, American am
bassador, simply and with dignity dismissed the
subject by saying that "we are quite satisfied with
our name."
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Chicago. Nov. 28. Willie Fltiirerald
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Mitchell Will Ee Re-elected.
Hazlcton, Penn.. Nov. 2. Pn-ahU-nt
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Moscow sets up a school for journalists, where the
ethics and aesthetics of the business and all its frills
will be taught and its students turned out masters of
the craft, so fas as the certification of their displomas
is concerned, at any rate. If it were not for the big
blue pencil with which the government edits all its
editors, some of those turned out by the school might
come to something; but as it is their chances are not
very promising.
An exchange calls attention, without comment, to
the fact that while it cost William L. Douglass $35,
000, by his own statement, to run for governor of
Massachusetts, the salary is only $8,000 a year, and
the term is for a year only. But then, look at all the
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