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Show I" .' (i , 'Qj Spokane ought to have been told by I ' pomobody that It was not Its turn to i' jjjj win yesterday. I' f ' ? , I Abel John Evans remains silent, and '' yet not so lonjr ago be, too, was con- ' ' . i fildered a true DemocraL i 'j ,' ' After pcrauadlne tho Japanese lo I ! V come up into Manchuria, Gen. Kuropat- . j I ! 1 kin cannot bo so rude as to drive them ! . '; out- ' , ' ! i i How can we expect to have a clean it ( , j; ',11 c'" 'hen tho ladles here do not take 1 ; l , 1 ' hold of the sweeping, like tho?3 of Kala- j' 1 'M : mazoo? ' ' i Grovcr Cleveland Is writing history, 'l ' and Is considerately treating the only ! ' i ',! Democratic President In many years I , . i ! 'i with great fairness. I vjjj . l lij . Idaho editors who visited Saltalr yes- I' j y, ttrday should see it again when it Is ! ' j most popular after the opening of the t i ' ' i j' season and the bar. il 1 ( ' I' ( ' '; Surely, tho Hon. Mathonlhah Thomas ; will be yet numbered among the aelf- i ! ; ! j sacrificing Democrats willing to take , j ! j judicial nominations. , j ;:f j His opponents will do well to iemem- , ' ' ! T er that that well-known cattleman, the ( ',!. j. Hon. 'Qull Nebeker, has had much ex- i 1 jj perlence in roping things. ' t ' ' '4 1 In somff aD0Ut to ascertain whether ,j V,. j i he should run for Governor, Mr. Itoy- r lance Is considerate enough not to ex- I 1 , c'te any noisy demonstrations, i ' if1 i; ) ,' 1 , 1" V, DItl tne AVad0 think that the dc- irj j fondant could not be guilty of anything, I , I ' j 'n as the evidence conclusively showed f ,P ' that Tie had only killed a Chinaman? '! i i ;' ) " 'ril,,,! Jt ,s now thougbt that the general i '( :,j ( conference will take action making It ,11, , unnecessary for Methodists hereafter to jj 1 i ' ' ' hide lhe cards wnen the' see the mln- i 1 ! ' ' Jster coming. H Mi -1 1 jl J . ; The desti-uction of the great port of H'l,;,, , ji 1 Dalny by the Russians, to prevent the Hi ' '.J, ' !' Japanese using the docks, Is a frightful Bjl .jlllj ! wasfei The cost of the docks alone is Hj I I l 'i 1 j ! pufat six million dollars. The other ex- ) ;j ' j;; pendltures to make Dahiy the great Hj' I1 'Ij Kusslan port and commercial station Hj ' ! T In the Far East were probably much H! 4 r' greater. To destroy all these ex- Hi i ' ' j i tensive improvements now; merely to I J1 it '1 inconvenience the Japanese movements j (iM that cannot be -prevented anyway, looks , , " j ti1 less like strategy than despair. I'.jl'M, ' V, i , , The Methodist ban against dancing, Hi I' !' jj card-playlngr, and theater-going Is not H ' , T to be lifted altogether at this time. Even j , ' I.1 the most progressive element does not 'j'. r . i now propose to ask it. But the propo- Hji j! i'f ; ' sltlon Is, and It Is said to be the ex- H' hiii il!, pectation that the committee in charge H H(1 j if' of this business will report to the gen- HL 1 'y'!'1 eral conference now in session at Txs Hh ' ; ' Angeles, to change the inhibition of H'' I i those amusements from a positive pro- H1 ji ; .'j.' f hlbltlon to "an advisory restriction," H j wlth liberty to individual members to Hl ' settle su'ch matters for themselves, and Hi ! Si j i jurisdiction In local conferences to deal H , . jj,; I "Ith abuse of the privilege. This, If H! 'j ii'nj, adopted, will btj a practical triumph for H" ij the liberal element in the church. But Hj (' , j! llri It may create a good demand for new i j dancing halls In many places, and the ' I J'lll enlargement of many theaters. H j Jl 5 1 1 1 The British hope to play off one of Hi ; l j jj j the "popes" of Tibet against the other, '' I does not seem to work In actual prac- Hj i; I' 1,ce- Thc resistance lo Col Younghus- !, ,;l band Is that of a united people. The Tm ( ' Ml I "pope" which the British hoped to use in"' l Jli 13 lhG SI)lrIlual head of tlie Buddhist Hj' mi ' In church, the pant-chen lama, who la In H 4i ! ( I the same relative position in Tibet that 1 I ' tlie Snc,,c ul Islam is in Turkey, and H , ij I that the Mikado used to be In Japan. ( ' Il r This spiritual head has no temporal j 'Hi j U f power, that being vested In the dalal l ' i 1 j I lama at L'hassa. It Is now reported that Hj I' tne British expedition Is In a state of H'jifi i siege, and will have to be reinforced. H' !) '' "" B an aljsolute necessity, for Hr l '! Great Britain cannot now afford to fall Hl" ,i ' jlJlS ,n 1,1,3 Tlbet expedition. Failure to Hl ) u ), ,prcss on and accomplish the objects of 1 V J H ; I the expedition would be a confession of H' 'I r M'fli defeat and would leave the country to HiJ.y Itusslan influence, affording another Hli I'liir putIway for tUc Russians into India. Besides, the example of Gladstone's withdrawal from the Boer war with thc Boers practical victors, proved such an enormously costly blunder In both blood and treasure that It Is not at all likely lo be ropoated. |
