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THE HIEIRLID: PUFLISHKD DAILY KXCKKT SUNDAY TtT KNOTTa ll0. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY EDITION. One Year (in advance) . . $fl no Six months 3 00 By Carrier, per week 15 WKKKLY EDITION. One Year In advance, $150 If not paid in advance, ..$' 00 Six month, 75 Three month, 40 Telephone Number 38. TUB railroad in Oregon are having a good deal of trouble on Account ot washouts. TliE chances are very favorable forjudge Chapman to be made the vacua nominee for IT. S. senator when the legislature convens. Tub committee appointed by Mayor Duller to investigate work done by Htrt'ct Commissioner Pois 11 made their report last night vindicating him. MR. Jo.NKS, Spies anil Petersen should nee Richey, rannele A Craig and net; what can be done toward that opera house and have a report for the next meeting. ... SlXKKTAKY ClIAKLKST FOSTER thinks the pension expenditure will soon, reach f2:"i,lX)),XK) a year. Twenty years ago nobody supposed it would reach !P),(XX),XX) a year. Jkk.VY Simpson, in spite of the at tempted assissiriHtioii, has to be contendeu with " ,llt'iWr majority of l,4iX. It pln"i, the people came very near .'""''t'k' ' politically TllK Atlanta Constitution names "the new comet Cleveland." It is most apprepriate none of the fellows know where to find it. "Where am I at':" applies to Cleve land anil the comet. A CANAL through the loth tuns of Panama or through Central Amer ica that was operated so as to dis criminate a ga i n s 1 1 1 1 e I T 1 1 i t e d S t a t e s in favor of any yther power would soon be subject for action by this government. Where does the dis crimination against the I'nited States in the case of the Welland Canal ditTer from this supposable case? I 18110 our imports of barely were ll,'.i:t2,."it."i bushels. In 1S4U imports fell to 5,(7S,7;i:i bushelH, and they would have been less but for the great rush of barley from Canada in September before the new tariff passed. Put the fiscal year June III), ISS'2, was wholly under the McKin ley law, and what was the result? Simply that we import only 3,1 M,Xil bushels, a decrease of 8,18(1,200 bush els, which represents the increased market of home-grown barley. Is this a benefit or an injury to Ameri can farmers? THE New Orleans Picayune de mands the instant repeal of the Mc Kinley tariff bill and a return to the schedule put in force in l8;i. It is significant that the best thing the people in the south can find to take the place of the republican robber tariff of lN'.XHsthe republican robber tariff of 1SSU, which was some $."(),. 00U,(XX) higher in the aggregate than the much abused McKinley bill. The change is desired because if the bill of lSSIl quietly slips back into effect the duty on sugar will be restored. Put that duty will not be put back on the schedules in the present generation. No party would dare fly in the face of public opinion by making any changes in the sugar duty, further than taking off the last farthing'on refined sugars and making them free abso lutely. State Journal. This democratic ringmasters have every reason to bank on the credul ity and gullibility of the American voter. I he late election proves this, but, there is a limit to this slighl-of-hand business and TllK llEKALl) rather thinks the average citizen will call the turn on these political dervishes when he is asked to swallow the very latest Cleveland fake, viz: that (irover Cleveland secured the support of Tammany by attending the Shear-nian-Murphy meeting some weeks before the New York registration and notifying those big gun that he had no pledges to matte, defying them to do their worst. This story is going the rounds just now of the democratic newspapers. There is nota blind partisan in the country even among Cleveland's fool wor shiperswho is big enough fool to believe that Grovcr secured the en thusiastic support of Tammany and .the big Tammany registration in New York City by notifying that political bandit, that he had no promises to mane to mem. un, no that story is too thin for an alliance gnan to swallow. THE REDEMPTION OF MISSOURI. The official returns disclose the interesting and gratifying fact that Missouri is no longer a democratic state. Strictly specking, Cleveland carried it by a plurality of 41,215 over Harrison, but he did not re ceive a majority of all the votes polled, says the Globe Democrat. There were 2U8,0:fl) votes cast for him, and 272,.KT against him. In other words the figures show an anti-democratic majority of 4,220. This is something that has never happened before in the history of the present ascendancy of the dem cratic party in Missouri politics; and it has a definite and important meaning. The records of previous elections prove that the margin of difference between the democratic vote and the combined opposition vote in the state has steadily uud materially decreased, until at last there is nothing left of it. In 1SV0 this difference was 54,701; in 1880 it was U,!X)7; in 1SS4 it was M.'XXi; in 1888 it was 2,572, and in 1892 the pre ponderance of voting strength is on the other side' That is to say, the number of voters in Missouri who are democrats is smaller by over 4,XX1 than the number of those who are not democrats. It has ceased to be true that a majority of the citizens of the stale belong to Un democratic part', and henceforth it will lie necessary for that organisa tion to do its boasting in a modified and more or less hesitating man ner. !t is no answer to say that the re publicans are still in a coiisidcrble minority, and that the decline in proportion of democratic votes to opposition votes has been mainly helpful to new parlies. The sig nificant fact remains that then? are more voters in the State who are acting against the democratic party tkau there are voters, who continue it their Hiiiuwii-I Tl, it n-n-i,- l.)"-,Vv , " ,, "lost the power iin. has gradual' ' plied by a distinct ntK.' " ' jonty. ' It could not carry Missouri today on a square, test of strength with the aggregated elements by which it is antagonized. If the anti-democratic votes were polled for one man or one party, they would win the viotory; and it is by no means unlikely that they they will be so (tolled in the near future. The figures above quoted pertain to presidential elections, it will lie observed, and so their force can not be broken by the convenient argument that they stand for local conditions and accidental influence. Thty have a deeper purport and re present a more substantial and sys tematic tendency. When a party holds a Slate by a plurality only, its tenure is manifestly weak and precarious; and that is what has come to pass with a democratic party in Missouri.. A majority of the people are not in sympathy with its doctrines and purposes, and will not contribute to its success in com ing elections. They arc divided, it is true, into several organizations are all of one mind so far as hos tility to the democratic organiza tion is concerned, and in their own way and time they will get together The liourbou sentiment is not as strong in the State any moie as the sentiment by which it is resisted; and that means , the daybreak ol redemption. PKESIDENT Harrison is writing his winter message for the outgoing congress to consider and the conn try will have theopportunity to read once more a good, sound, loyal re publican document, bristling with facts and figures clothed in good English, and addressed to the rea sou and understanding of the American republic. It will be a state paper by a statesman, who believes in protection for the American wage workers, who has not had foresight enough to understand what the republican party has done for him and who apparently won t have sense enough to appre ciate the blessings the republican policy of running this country has bestowed upon him until he is scoured and scorched by a liberal dose of Dritish free trade. Tills IIkrai.ii is willing the American wage worker shall work a while for the Hritish manufacutures after that experience he will be willing to once more work for the Yankee at home. There will be a general howl all along the line when Mr. Harrison again calls the attention of the American people, in a calm dispassionate manner, to the con- dition in which his great adminis tration turns this country over to the most dishonest, cowardly set of politicians ever placed iu charge of the destines of any government. In Massachuessetta the prohibi tion vote has steadily decreased. It was over 9,000 in 1S88, nearly 9,000 in 1891, and only 7,011 this year. The southern brigadier is in the saddle, and democratic statesmen will have to march in the column or kick. Try the "Crown" cough cure, llrown & Biuret guarantee it. Mr. Frederick Douglass is out in a manifesto on the subject of the recent election, in which he ex presses the opinion that the colored people of the south will find better protection against outrage under the Cleveland administration than they have found under the adminis tration of Haniaon. He pathetic ally points out that the law should protect the weak againsl the strong. So it should. Hut in the cases to which he refers he very badly mixes the elements of strength and weakness. He classes the whites who do the lynchings as the strong, and the negroes who are lynched as the weak. The fact is that the weak in such matters are the unfortunate and helpless women, ami the strong are the burly and brutal negroes who outrage them. No law and no administration can ever stand be tween such brutal crimes and their prompt and terrible punishment. The only way to stop the lynchings is to stop the ravishings. Some of tht learned istronomers are saying that the earth had the pleasure of hitting the comet a re sounding blow in the middle a few nights ago, and that the celestial visitor is now making tracks in an other direction on account of the collision. After due deliberation the people have about reached the Conclusion that the astronomers know next to nothing about the comet anyway, and that in the fu ture they will consult a good old fashioned almanac when they want to know what is going on in the universe about them. The weary eyed scientists in charge of the tel escopes do not seem to be able to agree in telling about the cornel any better than the democrat.- in outlining their new tarill bill. A tarty whose victory is due to the fact that the opposing party simply refused to go to the polls holds power on a frail tenure. This is the case with the democratic par1 ty. In proportion to population there ore no more democrats in the country now than there were iu lsss, while there are just as many repub licans as then. No republicans have gone over to the democracy. Their party was beaten down be cause tens of thousands of its mem bers iu every important state de clined to vote, and they declined to vote because the party's position on some of the leading issues did not suit them. The party's position will be fixed so that it will suit every republican in lMNj. A Southern journal, criticising Mrs. Lease, of Kansas," says: "When Mrs. Lease first visited the south she had only kind words for southern people." Well, it would t ike more of an angel than the modern woman to continue "kind words to a people" who would soil her best gowns with rotten eggs. If Mrs. Lease had been other than ladylike, southern people might find some excuse for their inde cency, but they found nothing of the kind to charge against her and the less they remind the public of their own disgrace the better. The Cincinnati Enquirer believes in "the spoil," and is grieved that Cleveland after investing lf2."i,(XX) cash and getting the prize ticket is not more thoughtful of "the other fellows." The Knquirer says; "It is the new blood that counts. Oh, Mr. Cleveland, there are thousands upon thousands of democrats of all ages, of all sizes, of all degrees of qualification and special fitness who are available." Nehraska has in congress a rep resentative named Omar Kem. He must not be confounded with Omar Khynni, who sang a wanton lay of ruby wine. The second Omar does not sing of wine much, but as to the relation of a bushel of corn to a pound of pork on the hoof he is said to be no mean authority. San Francisco Kxaminer. Mr. Cleveland has started on a hunting expedition to evade the pressure of office-seekers. A hunt ing trip may do as a temporary expedient, but nothing short of a whaling voyage will accomplish the desired result. The pay which Louisiana will get for rolling up her big majority for Cleveland wilt be the loss of $10,000,. 000 or $12,(XX),(XX) in sugar bounties which the democratic party will abolish. She gets what she de serves. A GOOD many democrats are in favor of lengthening out the pres dential term to six years. The re publicans, however, who nre conn dent thatthe future is with them, think that the present term is long enough. Tub city of South Omaha has to heads to its police department at present and lively times are ex pected before the matter is settled It is now iu court. GEORGIA REJOICES. The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle of the 17th has its first page full with a glowing report of a great state meeting, opened by saying: "The streets of Augusta went democratic by 30,000 majority last night," and then describing the grand proces sion of 10,000 or more, with banners of strange device. Here are some of them: "A large picture of a ne gro betig whitewashed by Watson, and the inscription, 'Your white wash is Too Thin." After this a large cannon, "The Third Party De stroyer of the First Ward." These being interpreted to mean a white man's government and the solid south for free trade. King Cotton's chariot was great and gaudy. This was fit and natural, but a cotton mill beside this dis play of free raw material would have made the show, complete. "Shake Raggers" counted 300 medi cal students, bore skulls and held aloft "transparencies galore," of which the first was: "Medical Stu deuts bill for Tommy's Corpse the M. D.'s in line for Democracy." Grovetown delegation . inarched proudly under the startling cogno men, "Hell Kaisers from Columbia" and the "Old Dloody Six Hundred" was on hand. The Hon. Doykin Wright spoke with fervid eloquence of our great national hero, Grover Cleveland, bearing aloft the banner of democ racy, with "tarill reform on its folds. Major Iilack spoke iu a like strain and also said that people should re member they were citizens of a free republic, and continued: One mes sage tonight, and I utter it with all the emphasis of a profound convic tion, let this proud hour of victory and triumph lie still more glorified b;j spirit of magnanimity, cheers. It is better lo heal than to wound; it is better to build up than tear down; it is better to cultivate friend ship than enmity; it is better be cause; it is diviner to love than to hate' This word for peace must have sounded strangely to the "Shake K'aggers" and "Hell Kaisers." Another speaker said that the democrats were in full power and "must take the responsibilities as well as the offices." Hetween the lines this reads: Keep the south so id and push for free trade. Kvidently it was a day for rejoic ing democrats, and they did their best. So WE find dialect, as a branch of literature, worthy of the high at tention and employment of the greatest master in letters not the (nearest mountebank. Let no im pious faddist, then, assume its just interpretation, lie may know every thing else in the world, but not dia lect, not dialectic people, for both of which he has supreme contempt which same, be sure, is heartily re turned. Such a "superior" person age may even go among these sim ple county people and abide indefi nitely in the midst of them, yet their more righteous contempt never for an instance permits them to be their real selves iu his pres ence. In consequence, his most conscientious report of them, their ways, lives, and interests, is abso lutely of no iuiportrnce or v;di;e in the world. He never knew them, nor will he ever know them They are not his kind of people, a ly more than he is their kind or peo:lt , any more than he is their kind of man; and their disappointment grieves us more than his. Many of the truly heroic ancestty of "our best people" grew unques tiouably dialect of cast not alone in speech, but in every mental trait and personal address. It is a griev ous fact for us to confront, but many of them wore npparel of the commonest, talked loudly, and doubtless said "thisawny"nnd"that away," and "Whatchy'doin' of?"and "Whury' go in' at?" using dialect even in their prayers to Him who, iu His gentle mercy, listened and was pleased; and who listened ver ily unto this hour to all like pray era, yet pleased; yen, haply listens even to the refined rhetorical peti tions of those who are not pleased. James Whitcome Riley, in the De cember Forum. WILL BE HIS OWN PREMIER. A cabinet post under Mr. Cleve land in his new term is not likely to afford great honor or satisfaction to it incumbent. The chances are that he will be his own premier, with all that the phrase can be made to imply, says The Globe Demociat. Strictly speaking, cab inet officers are mere clerks to the president. The cabinet has no reg ularly defined or necessary place in the constitutional scheme. That instrument makes no mention of it, but provides that the president "may require the opinion iu writing of the principal officer in each of the executive departments upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices," although he is under no obligations to be guided by these opinions. Cabinet meetings are secret, and no record is kept .of what transpires at them. The duties of cabinet oflicera are highly important, but their posts nowadays do not bring great honor in a political way. Even the post of secretary of state has ceased to be a stepping-stone to the presidency When a man accepts an office in the cabinet he takes himself off the presidential track for the time be ing. National conventions do not go to cabinets any more for candi didates. A cabinet officer is a sort of servant to the president. The latter appoints him and directs him, and can demand his resignation at any time without being called to account for it by any person or body. Undoubtedly Mr. Cleveland will assert his authority to the full over the men whom he selects for. hia ministerial council. He will go into power by a larger majority than anj' other president has gained since Grant. Moreover, it may be said that, to a considerable extent, he created the issues and marked out the lines on which the victory has been gained. His free trade message to congress in 1887 formed the chief issue on which the cam paign of 1S88 and 1892 turned. The defeat of the former year he finds amply compensated for in the bril liant triumph of the present year. It is, in a large degree, a personal victory, and it is entirely probable that he views it in this light. The extent of his majority proclaims that the people believe him to be better than his party. He has been commissioned to run the administration to suit himself.aud as he hardly looks for a third term iu any contingency, he may be relied on to obey the com mand with the nearst practicable approach lo literahiess. He will be the boss of his party as no other president has b.'en since Jackson. Over the entire executive depart ment of the Government he is likely to exercise a dispotic sway that will completely efface his cabi net officers and other subordinates, and largely detract from the glory and prestige attached to their posts. SHEARMAN CALLS FOR ACTION. Thos. G. Shearman, the noted free trader, who stumped the country for Cleveland and Stevenson, has written a letter to the New York livening Post in which he takes a strong position for an extra session to repeal the McKinley law. lie says that the great danger wl ich now lies in the path of the new administration is not redicalism, but blind conservatism. "Already," he says, "there may be seen the usual pheas for moderations or very slight modifications of the tariff, and for a long postponement of the day upon which any reform shall take place." Now that the victory is won and the officers are certain there is a class who want to let well enough alone. Mr. Sher man proceeds to take issue with these cowards who are afraid lo use their victory and afraid of the logic of their own platform. Says Mr. Shearman: If nothing is to le attempted In-fore the assembling of the new congress in Decern Iter, WQ, it is certain that the new turilt, whatever it may lie, will not he enacted until June, WU; und if the nonsense which is now gravely brought forward as to nec essary delay in its tukinn effect is to be respected, no change would really take place until January 1, 1V.C. The result is obvious to nny man who tun see. The new industries which the McKinley hill was intended to create will not he created. The importations will he restricted by the enormous duties; the peopte will be heavily burdened Ity useless taxation and will gain none of the relief which they might have gained if the McKinley hill had Keen left alone by increased, although unnatural, domestic production. Mr. Shearman cites the history of the tariff of 184i. The free traders carried the election of 1841. Instead of meeting the question promptly, the democrats began to temporize and postponed carrying the will of the people into elieet until 184(1. So afraid were the democrats of their issues that they postponed the tak ing effect of the tariff law until after the congressional elections, or until the first of December, 1840 more than two years after the verdict of the people at the polls. Mr. Shear man says that the suspense caused commercial depression, and so en raged were the people that the dem cratic majority of sixty iu the lower house was wiped out and the con trol of that body given to the Whigs and two years later the Whigs car ried the presidential election. To show the bad effects of postpone ment Mr. Shearman cites the period of resumption. The resumption bill was passed in 187,1 February but was not allowed to take effect until January, 1879. The four years of suspense were four years of ter rible commercial depression. The months of suspense in regard to the tariff, he predicts, will have the same effect, The reasoning of Mr. Shearman is correct. The republicans of the country heartily endorse his posi tion. Let the ax fall on the head of the McKinley bill at once. Let it be repealed, dug up root and branch. And it ought to be done as soon as possible. It will not do for democrats to let well enough alone. PROF. VAMBERY ON THE PAMIR QUESTION. Prof. Vambery, of Buda-Pesth University, is a well known writer on historical and geographicr, questions, and has more than one come to the aid of England in tur( iera ui lrt-uuriiui cat cnaracirr. mil the Inter-Ocean. In August, 18 for instance, he visited F.nglar and was, of course, received wit the distinction suited to such a val uable ally, and in September of the same yeai he promptly came for ward in England's behalf iu regard to Persia, and though admitting that Russia, in seizing Ashurada was but acting in accordance with the terms of the treaty in 1813, took occasion to noint out instances O ...v . .. :. . . "ivussian greediness aim to pr,,, diet what Kussia would do if En;.1; land did not check her. . It is not surorisincr. therefore. that the Russian statement of the Pamir question, as contained in ar ticle to the semi-official Turkestan Gazette last September, comment upon which recently appeared in the Inter-Ocean, should call forth h counter-statement from Prof. Vanfi bery. As the question of ownersh, or rights in the Pamirs may at an at any time precipitate the long ex pected struggle between Kussia and Great Hritain in the Kast. Prof. Vambery's counter-statement may be looked upon as a semi-official re joinder on the part of England to the statements of the Gazette ar ticle. Prof. Vambery writes with a fuller knowledge of the Pamirs than perhaps any other European, as, in addition to his familiarity with oriental languages, including that of the Khirghiz of the Pamir, Vambery traveled in Khokand for months and speaks with the author ity of personal knowledge and ob servation. Yet, granting all these facts, it must be admitted by im partial observers that he does riot make out his case for England, and certainly does not overthrow what he calls the "shallow reason ad duced to justify Russia's claims of ownership of the Pamirs by pre tending that this high tableland be- Auri-J 1 1 ln.f l.tr -n-li4 r ,Iii-u., i,t. heritance from the late Khanate of Khokand." To show the untenableness of Russia's claim Professor Vambery goes into a long and learned dis qusition as to the orgin of the name Pamir, which, however inter esting in itself, has nothing to do with the claim advanced by Russia. It is interesting, of course, to know that the name Pamir was first men tioned by two Chinese pilgrims in 318 A. D.; that Marco.Polo speaks of a plan he calls Pauiier, and later mention is made of it iu ItiO.'i; and that the work probable means "a plan, a sterile trace of country," but ihese facts, like the flowers that bloom iu the spring, clearly "have nothing to do with the case." Pro fessor Vambery, however, admits that Madali, or Mehemet Ali, Kho kand's greatest ruler, from 1821 to 143, "whose conquests extend in all directions, may have laid claim occasionally to certain portions of that high tableland in order to have a control over the Kiptchaks and other branches of the Khirghiz and to attack the Chinese, with whom he was frequently at war," but as to de facto possession and Russian rights he declares them to be "problematical." To most readers, other than En glish, Professor Vambery's udmis sion, together with the facts fo Russian predominance of Northern Asia since the disappearance of In dependent Tartary from the maps, furnishes very strong presumptive evidence, indeed, in favor of Russia claim to hereditary ownershipof the pamirs, Professor Vambery makes a further admission that "there is no doubt that certain portions of the Pamirs are fre piented by Khirghiz coming from the Alai i. e Russian subjects." As, according to all authorities, there are not per haps more than 1,500 inhabitants proper of the Pamirs, it is extrem ely improbable that these few mis erable half-frozen and half-starved contest the right of lordship with the wandering Khirghiz. On the whole, therefore, Professor Vam bery's counter statement does not dispose of Russia's claim of here ditary ownership, ami the Pamir question is not, as most people have been led to believe, a question of "Russian greediness ' as much as it is of Hritish aggressiveness. The New York Morning Adver tiser does not approve of the pro posed long distance race from Ne braska to Chicago to celebrate the opening of the world's fair. It says: 'A more cruel form of sport was never devised than this long dis tance racing. It simply means ex treme cruelty to nnimals and estab lishes no claim lo endurance on the part of the men. If the cowboys of Nebraska are aching for fame, let them leave their bronchos at home and walk to Chicago." England gives the Prince of Wales fcW0,(Xx) per year for wanting to be king. It is a fat job.