THE 'MORNING OREGONIAN. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 1, 1901.
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rOUTLAXD, FIIIDAY, FEUIIUARY 1.
The habit of dependence on the state
grows everywhere, and It grows by
what It feeds on. Multitudes are com
ing: to think they can do nothing for
themselves, any more. Growth of this
habit is by no means peculiar to Ore
gon, where man Is not disposed to kill
the coyote any more, unless the state
hires him to do it. In Massachusetts
they are having an experience entirely
similar. A million dollars have been
spent within a year in the endeavor to
exterminate the gipsy moth, but It
persistently refuses to be exterminated,
and members of the legislature are
beginning to express the opinion that
It Is time the people of the affected dis
tricts, instead of calling for more ap
propriations, were trying to do some
thing for their own protection. It Is
said they do nothing of the kind, but
rely wholly on the state, entirely will
ing to draw money from the treasury
for fighting the pest on their own land.
This habit forces legislation, and the
legislation in turn feeds the habit. The
state must be the guardian and sup
porter of the Individual, in most of the
affairs of his life. He is no longer able
to cut his beard without the assistance
or superintendence of the state, or to
buy butter for his table, or to protect
his fruit from winged or creeping pests,
or his flocks from the ravages of wild
beasts. No one now thinks of doing
anything for his own education; and
the citizen puts up incessant demand
for enlargement of the functions of the
state, in all conceivable ways, so he
may "get a job," in which the duty is
but nominal and the salary secure. He
thinks his services as an old citizen,
or his name as the son of an old citi
zen, should entitle him to a pension.
Next thing the state is to have is an
inspector of horse-shoeing, and then
perhaps next thing a state inspector of
stepladders, so persons of the household
may not fall and break their necks or
limbs. Nobody can look out for himself
any more, and we need a state In
spector of rubber shoes, to see that we
don't get our feet wet and gallop off
into a consumption. This exercise of
the care of the state Is capable of In
finite extension, and it is clear that in
the science of multiplying officials we
have made but a beginning. From sev
eral localities we hear that wild geese
are in the wheat fields. What's the
Btate going to do about that? Appoint
a state commission to deal with the
subject and give it power to hire the
owner or the owners of the wheat fields
to make war on the geese? Evidently
it's "up to us," in ways innumerable.
It Is to be hoped that the Northern
Pacific's move toward the Nehalem
Valley is undertaken in good faith, and
not, as some profess to believe, for the
purpose of scaring off another project
to connect Portland with that country.
But whatever the aim of the Northern
Pacific announcement may be, it should
cot be permitted to upset plans for di
rect connection between Portland and
Tillamook County. The timber of the
Nehalem will afford a large trafflc. it is
true. So, doubtless, will the coal of the
lower valley. But Portland has more
at stake than merely the hauling of
timber or coal to market. Probably no
corslderable development can take
place in the Northwest corner of the
state that will not to some degree
benefit this city. We should not, how
ever, be content with a portion of the
benefits when a little energy will bring
all to us. For example, we should not
be content to see the Northern Pacific
carry the traffic of the Nehalem coun
try around Portland to and from the
East, though we might get a little inci
dental trade of the new community.
Portland's interests and the interests
of the Nehalem Valley and Tillamook
County are identical, and they should
be knit together industrially, com
mercially and socially. Communica
tion between these places should
be direct and untrammeled by the
exigencies of transcontinental traffic.
P-Ttland is the natural market
place and commercial center for
all the country westward to the coast.
The short rail haul to this market
wuld be so inexpensive that the de
mand for harbor improvements at Til
lamook and Nehalem Bays might be
done away with. Not the timber sup
ply, or the coal, or the agriculture, or
the manufactures of that region, but all
of them, Portland wants. It will aid
their development It will contribute Its
advantages to bring to its best the native
wealth of the region, and the benefits
will be mutual. But this is not to be
accomplished by roundabout, indirect
transportation accommodations. Give
Tillamook County a direct route to
Portland for her products, and the mat
ter of further shipment will take care
of itself. Give the Nehalem Valley one
road that leads around Portland to the
East, and a large part of the advantage
that ought to come to it through proper
trafflc routes will be denied and Port
land and the country will suffer from
it. Portland should have a railroad di
rect to the rich Nehalem country.
A correspondent inquires when the
offices of General and Lieutenant-General
were created. George "Washington
was created Lieutenant-General by
Congress in 179S in anticipation of the
United States becoming involved in a
war with France. Major-General Win
field Scott was made Lieutenant-General
by brevet in 1840. U. S. Grant was
appointed Lieutenant-General March
12, 1864, and made General July 25, 1866,
and Major-General Sherman was made
Lieutenant-General. On Grant's resig
nation of the office of General in 1869,
before his inauguration as President,
Lieutenant-General Sherman became
General and Major-General Sheridan
became Lieutenant-General. Lieutenant-General
Sheridan succeeded on the
retirement of Sherman to the command
of the Army, and was ultimately pro
moted to the rank of General. On the
death of General Sheridan in August,
1SS9, Major-General Schofield, as the
ranking Major-General, took command
of the Army, but was not appointed to
the rank of Lieutenant-General until
February 5, 1895, and was retired with
that rank in September of that year.
The present law provides for but three
Major-Generals, and gives the senior
Major-General the temporary rank and
pay of a Lieutenant-General, but the?
pending Army bill provides for one
Lieutenant-General, six Major-Generals
and fifteen Brigadier-Generals, Instead
of six, as now. Under this new law
General Miles will be assured of his
present rank of Lieutenant-General, as
the bill forbids the reduction In rank
of any officer because of the changes
brought about by its provisions. When
the offices of Lieutenant-General and
General were successively given to
Grant, it was not expected that they
would continue beyond the retirement
of his successors, Sherman and Sheri
dan, but General Schofield, In the last
year of his active service, finally suc
ceeded In becoming Lieutenant-General,
and now his successor, General Miles, Is
likely to secure the same honor.
KOT A FAIR MEASURE OF THE MAX.
Professor Goldwln Smith, in the cur
rent number of the Atlantic Monthly,
expresses the opinion that such a man
as Lord Rosebery, who has been Prime
Minister of England, and who may
again be Prime Minister of England,
oight to be in better literary business
than making a book out of "the petty
miseries of Napoleon at St. Helena, his
squabbles with Sir Hudson Lowe and
the bickerings of his little household."
The criticism of Goldwin Smith is In
teresting as that of a very able writer
and historical scholar, whose estimate
of Napoleon is as bitter In its complete
denial to the great Corslcan of any
moral sense or humanity as if it had
been written by Sir Walter Scott or
Lockhart, or some other English Tory
contemporary of the prisoner of St.
Helena. Goldwln Smith thinks that
while Lord Rosebery is veracious he Is
evidently under a spell, and "feels that
in dealing with th'e great conqueror he
Is dealing with something more than
human." The critic of Lord Rosebery's
book makes much of the fact that on
his way to Elba Napoleon was more
than once in peril of his life from the
fury'of the people against their fallen
tyrant." This is not true, only in the
sense that his carriage was surrounded
by a mob, which was no more the peo
ple of France than the English mob
that stoned the Duke of Wellington's
carriage and smashed the windows of
his London house were the people of
England.
The mob in any country is always a
cowardly, cruel brute and a fool. The
same French mob that hooted at the
Royalists, the Girondists and the Dan
tonists as they rode to death hooted at
Robespierre and the "Terrorists" when
their turn came. The same French
mob that threw up their caps for the
returning Bourbons hooted Charles X
out of France and In less than twenty
years hooted his successor, Louis Phil
ippe, still more derisively oft the
throne. If Cromwell had failed and
been dispossessed by force of foreign
arms of the throne of Britain, would1
there have been any lack of mobs to
hoot him on his way to the scaffold or
to deportation to a place of exile?
Goldwin Smith charges Napoleon with
the murder of Pich'egru, of Toussaint
l'Ouverture and Hofer. PIchegru had
every motive to commit suicide, and
doubtless died by his own hand. Napo
leon had no more motive to order hl3
assassination than he had to direct that
of Moreau. If he could afford to sub
mit the fate of Moreau to public trial,
he certainly could afford to let justice
take Its course with Pichegru, who was
detested by his old comrades of the
French Army becauseof his treasona
ble correspondence with the Austrian
enemy.
Napoleon had no motive to murder
Pichegru, while PIchegru had every
motive to murder himself. The negro
liberator of St. Domingo died in prison;
his capture and death in prison was
discreditable to Napoleon, but it was
not a wflit worse" than the seizure of
the Seminole Chief Osceola under a flag
of truce by General Jesup, United
States Army, and his confinement In
Fort Moultrie, where he died. Our Gov-i
ernment, under President Jackson,
treated Osceola as treacherously as Na
poleon did Toussaint. Andreas Hofer
was a Tyrolese Insurgent leader, who
after surrender again took up arms,
was captured and shot by sentence of a
military court, just as a Boer leader
who took up arms after surrender
would be liable to execution by military
court if captured. The shooting of sev
eral thousand prisoners of war at Jaffa
was justified by the laws of war, as
they had repeatedly broken their pa
role. Wellington, in his dispatches af
ter Badajoz, laments the mistaken hu
manity whloh spared the lives of the
garrison of Ciudad Rodrigo, saying that
if they had been shot Badajoz would
not have cost him 5000 men. Welling
ton held that a fortified town refusing
to surrender and forcing- the attacking
party to storm it forfeited life and pro
tection of property. Wellington's army
in Spain was guilty of far worse ex
cesses than any French army under
Napoleon's eye.
Measured by his capacity for per
sonal gratitude to his companions in
arms, or his conduct of war, Napoleon's
character for humanity and sensibility
to human suffering does not suffe"r,by
comparison with that of the Duke of
Wellington, and rises far above that of
either Marlborough or Frederick the
Great. Napoleon must be measured
not only by the standard of the politi
cal morality of bis time, but by his
enormous opportunity and the tempta
tions to which he was subjected. He
had all Continental Europe at his feet
for more than ten years; he command
ed supreme power, and he was con
stantly tempted to use it despotically
and selfishly. Men fawned upon him at
every hour; his public life was a long
struggle with his own worst passions.
He was a man of affairs, not a poet,
and his struggles and his conquests,
his success and his failure, made up
the stern conflict of life with life, of
man with the world. Measured by his
enormous temptations and his oppor
tunities, Napoleon behaved with far
more moderation than any man of his
time. As a diplomat, he was sometimes
tricky, but so was Metternich and so
was Bismarck. His military and polit
ical career was entirely just and patri
otic up to the peace of Tilsit, in 1807.
His war with Spain was a very great
blunder, and his Moscow expedition
was an act of madness. A very able
Frenchman, M. De Blowitz, the Paris
correspondent of the London Times, in
a recent article confesses that since
Napoleon "no man has seemed a suffi
ciently energetic pilot to steer the
French bark toward a port where it
could find shelter from the storms and
anchor in safety." In heither personal
nor political morals, in personal hu
manity neither in peace nor war, does
Napoleon suffer by comparison with
any of the statesmen or soldiers of
Europe of his day of glory or defeat.
HISTORICAL FALSEHOOD.
The denunciation of the reign of Vic
toria by the United Irish-American So
cieties at New York City as one in
which "greater injustice, more cruelty,
grosser wrong, were Inflicted upon hu
manity in general, and upon the Irish
In particular, than in the reign of any
other English monarch," is a very gross
falsehood. The truth is that every im
portant act of reform in the govern
ment of Ireland, with the exception of
the Catholic emancipation act of 1829,
was enacted In Victoria's reign. It was In
Lord Melbourne's administration, from
1S35 to 1S40, that the tithe system and
municipal corporations were reformed
in Ireland, and Ireland was given a
poor law. This first administration un
der Victoria commanded the support of
the great Irish "liberator," Daniel
O'Connell, who confessed that the Mul-grave-Drummond
administration under
Lord Melbourne's Premiership gave
Ireland a good and deservedly popular
government.
It was an English House of Lords
that, in 1844, on appeal, 'reversed the
judgment pronounced by the Irish court
against O'Connell. The coercion bill of
Sir Robert Peel was defeated by the
British House of Commons In 1846, and
O'Connell was on cordial relations with
Lord John Russell's Ministry, which
succeeded that of Peel. He welcomed
the appointment of Lord Duncannon as
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and sup
ported the Ministry in Parliament.
Since O'Connell's day there has been
steady progress In the reform of the
government of Ireland. There Is not a
distinguished English statesman of Vic
toria's reign that has not advocated a
more liberal treatment of Ireland than
was tolerated in any previous reign,
save the few years that an Irish home
rule Parliament was extorted from
England by Grattan.
From 1868, the year of Gladstone's
first great reform administration, down
to the present date, there has been
steady progress to better government of
Ireland. The dis-establishment of the
Irish Church and radical reform in the
peasant land tenure was the work of
Gladstone and Parnell. Gladstone did
not succeed In enacting home rule for
Ireland, but the Conservative Ministry
of Salisbury has not hesitated to en
large the scope of the reforms secured
by Gladstone. The insurrection of the
"young Ireland" party of 1848 was bit
terly denounced by O'Connell; and Its
leaders, when convicted of treason and
sentenced to death, had their punish
ment commuted to banishment. Most
of them escaped to America, and those
who did not were pardoned and re
turned to Ireland.
When we recall the horrors of 1798,
the execution of Emmett In 1803 and the
brutal policy wnlch prevailed under
George IV and William IV, It Is a gross
historical falsehood to say that Vic
toria's reign has been conspicuous
above that of all other English mon
archs for cruelty to Ireland. The steady
abatement of misrule in Ireland has
been one of the glories of the reign.
A FOREGONE CONCLUSION.
Rural postal delivery can scarcely
as yet be said to have fully passed the
experimental stage, though It has taken
a place in the postal service that gives
promise, not only of permanence, but of
expansion. It is freely predicted by
some members of the House committee
on postal affairs that a systematic
effort will be made In due time by those
specially Interested to secure a more
liberal sliding scale of wages for those
who serve In the capacity of mall cir
cuit riders. Thus far rural mail-carriers
receive a maximum rate of only
$500 a year, and oat of this they must
care for their own horses. It has not
been found difficult, thus far, to get
reliable men to ride the rural circuit,
but the statement that this pay is "not
enough" has been freely made, and It
meets with the ready indorsement of
the large number of persons who think
that Uncle Sam should be made to pay
not only all that service performed for
him is worth, but as much more as he
can be made to pay.
It Is cited In this connection that city
mail-carriers begin work at $600 per
annum and work up to $1000. The ad
vantage thus far is with the city car
rier, but, on the other hand, it costs
more to live In the city than in the
country. City carriers have protective
organizations, which have from time to
time urged Congress to increase their
pay. Their efforts have been handi
capped by their inability to interest
representatives from the rural districts
in their cause. From $600 to $1000 and
a position protected by civil service
rules is considered by country folk gen
erally quite good enough. With the
rural carriers working In conjunction
with their city brethren, however, the
case will be strengthened, for the coun
try representative cannot afford, politi
cally speaking, to be Indifferent to the
demands of his constituents.
This view foreshadows the organiza
tion, a. little further on in the expan
sion of rural mail delivery, of the
Amalgamated Order of Urban and
Rural Hall-Carriers, the wage scale of
which Congress will oe practically
forced to indorse. No time Is set for
this concerted move upon the Nation's
source of salary supply, but members
of the committee on postoffices and
postroads see in the course of time an
army of rural carriers 40,000 strong,
joined with a force of city carriers
numbering 25,000, marching on Congress
for an Increase of salary to ?1500 a year.
While conceding that everywhere and
at all times the laborer is worthy of
his hire, it may behoped that the postal
service of the country will necome self
supporting before so formidable an ad
dition to its expense is demanded cer
tainly before It is allowed.
The obsequies of Queen Victoria will
be marked by a military pageant the
like of which the world has never seen.
Though a woman of peace arid a mon
arch whose long reign was compara
tively free from devastating wars, the
late Queen is said to have expressed a
desire for a military funeral, the idea
being possibly more to emphasize the
power of the nation than as a tribute to
her personal greatness. With all due
respect to her memory as a woman, and
all honor to her as a wise and benefi
cent ruler, It may be said that the world
will breathe a sigh of relief when all
this pomp and display is of yesterday.
The strain of the paBt fortnight upon
the English people has been severe In
many directions, while that upon the
royal family has been Intense. Already
the heir apparent 'is seriously ill with
nervous exhaustion, and will be unable
to Join the funeral procession, while the
women of the family are on an emo
tional rack, the tortures of which can
readily be imagined. One and all will
no doubt be glad to take up the burden
of life- again, which, as compared with
tho burden of death, will, for a time at
least, be easily borne.
As pointed out by the Army and
Navy Register, the delay in the passage
of the Army reorganization bill has cre
ated a great deal of embarrassment to
the Government, and under the most
favorable circumstances the adjustment
to new conditions, including the with
drawal of volunteer, regiments from the
Philippines, will "be attended with great
expense an amount not less than
?1.500,000, and probably $2,000,000. It
will be necessary to charter additional
transports to bring home within the
necessary period about 12,000 volun
teers, and it is estimated It will cost
$115 per man for water transportation
from Manila to San Francisco, and this
feature of the situation alone makes the
additional cost fully $1,380,000. Only
two of the twenty-six regiments to be
brought back from the Philippines have
thus far sailed. After 9000 men have
been sent home there are to be no fur
ther embarkations at Manila until the
arrival of the regiments from home,
which cannot be before April 1. These
new regiments of regulars, of course,
will be little better than undisciplined
mobs of recruits.
Perhaps if Representative Eddy looks
deeper Into the project for bonding pub
lic officials he will find that his objec
tion to it is based on a misapprehen
sion. The beneficiary in this matter is
not so much the guarantee companies
as it is the public treasury. Bonds
signed by citizens are often found im
possible of enforcement when treasur
ers fall. These guarantee corporations
can always be made to pay. This
county and city would be some hun
dreds of thousands of dollars better off
If their Treasurers, Sheriffs, etc., had
been bonded by a security company.
Banks and express companies have long
ago learned the wisdom of looking to
guarantee companies Instead of their
employes for reimbursement on defalca
tions. Why must the public be forever
behindhand in the methods approved by
business experience?
Testimonials from thirty or forty
Senators at Washington, as to Mr. Mc
Brlde's mental, moral, physical, politi
cal and legislative vigor are printed by
a sheet at Salem. They are amusing,
as a woman's attempt to establish her
character by affidavits would be. "Me
thlnks the lady doth protest too much."
It must have been felt that there was
grave room for doubt, or these testi
monials from Washington as to abili
ties never discovered .In Oregon would
not have been solicited. Supposing
them genuine, that they were solicited
for use In Oregon is plain upon their
face. This will scarcely strike any one
as a judicious expedient.
One of the real needs of Oregon Is a
state mining bureau. Under proper di
rection It would devote Its attention to
Inquiry Into the mineral resources of
the state, furnish information about
them and be of great assistance In their
development. We have a Fish Commis
sion, a Dairy Commission, a Fruit
Commission, all of them Important In
their spheres; but the mining Industry,
whfch Is destined perhaps to greater
Importance than any other, as yet re
ceives no such attention. It seems to
The Oregonlan that the Legislature
might well consider this subject.
In order to meet such expenses of the
state as are just and necessary, we
must avoid those we can get along
without One of these is a residence
for the Governor. There Is no more
reason for the state to buy the Gover
nor a house than there Is to buy the
Treasurer one, or the School Superin
tendent. The White House at Wash
ington Js an office, and as such a neces
sary part of the public buildings. No
such need exists at Salem, as the Ex
ecutive chambers are ample for the
Executive business.
The Oregonlan does not at all wish
to be or to become mentor or prompter
to the Legislature. But it will say once
more that it trusts the memorial to
Congress In favor of The Dalles-Celllo
canal will not be overlooked. The Leg
islature of Idaho has taken action,
through a strong memorial, accompa
nying it with an address of high eco
nomic value. We beg once more to so
licit the attention of the Legislature of
Oregon to this important subject.
It is positively painful to read in the
dispatches that, owing to the small de
mand for silver dollars, it is proposed
to coin them over into smaller coins.
What an awful revelation of National
turpitude in shaking the dollar of the
daddies!
Twenty-five Senators voted against
the bill for rfclnfordement of our Army
in the Philippines. That is a sort of
patriotism which the country will esti-
j mate at its value,
GRAIN INSPECTION A FRAUD.
The Tacoma Ledger Is much distressed
over the alleged interference of The Ore
gonlan in the matter of wheat Inspection
in the State of Washington. The Ledger
says:
"Washington certainly keeps inside Its own
jurisdiction, pnd may reasonably request that
Oregon dp the same. The advice of Oregon U
not wanted, particularly as It Is not disinter
ested advice and Is tendered for the benefit of
Oregon.
The facta are that Oregon Is Jealous of
Washington, betraying this circumstance every
time there Is a Webfoot yawp against, wheat
Inspection. In the latter state No. 1 wheat
must weigh 68 pounds. In Oregon the standard
la 50. The advantage to the Oregon grower In
this. Is obvious, and Oregon would like to have
the standard annulled. To abolish Inspec
tion would be to permit the exporter to do
the grading, and there is no possibility of be
lieving be would do it so fairly as a disinter
ested party. The farmer shipping 10,000 bush
els to Tacoma would be forced to accept the
estimate of the buyer, and If ever' bushel were
No. 1 and the buyer chose to grade It as No.
2. or even lower, the farmer would be help
less. "Washington is made up largely of farm
ers. Their representatives at Olympla are not
there for the purpose of doing these farmers &
wrong. Therefore they will pay no attention
to The Oregonlan, so ardently engaged In the
attempt to befooL them.
The Ledger displays considerable Igno
rance regarding the wheat business and
the Jurisdiction of Oregon concerning it.
The grain committee of the Portland
Chamber of Commerce establishes the
grades under which all of the wheat ex
ported from the State of Washington Is
shipped, and Portland exporters with
branch houses at Tacoma export over
half of all of the wheat shipped from
that port, and Portland supplies the
finances for moving nearly all of the crop
of the State of Washington. Including
the amount of wheat exported by Portland
shippers from Tacoma, Seattle and Port
land, the Oregon metropolis Is shown to
control the distribution of considerably
more than two-thirds of all of the wheat
produced In Oregon and Washington. Tak
ing these facts into consideration, The
Oregonlan feels disposed to claim a slight
jurisdiction in territory In which Oregon's
commercial interests are so vitally con
cerned. The Washington State Grain Inspector
established a grade of 58 pounds per
bushel for No. 1 wheat. He thus adver
tised to the world that the State of Wash
ington had a poor crop, and 5S-pound
wheat was the best It would
average. This is the "obvious ad
vantage" which the Ledger claims for the
Washington farmer. Fortunately for the
latter, the grain committee of the Port
land Chamber of Commerce refused to
permit the quality of Washington wheat
to be discredited-by any such grade, and
It was raised to 59 pounds, and every
bushel of No. 1 wheat that has been ex
ported from Tacoma this season has been
shipped under the c9-pound grade of tho
Portland Chamber of Commerce, and not
under the lightweight standard of the
Washington Grain Inspector. The Wash
ington state grain inspection service is
a farce, and gives the farmer no protec
tion whatever, for the simple reason that
no attention Is paid to the Inspector or
the grades which he establishes.
The Ledger proceeds on the hypothesis
that all exporters are thieves, and an
honest man like the Washington State
Grain Inspector is required to prevent
their robbing the farmer. The farmer
shipping 10.000 bushels of wheat or any
qu'antlty of wheat co Tacoma does accept
the grade of the buyer, and that grade Is
uniform all over Oiigon, Washington and
Idaho. The grain business does not differ
from any other business, so far as honest
dealing is concerned, and any dealer or
exporter who steals from the farmer by
failure to pay No. 1 prices for No. 1
wheat will be forced out of the business
by his own actions In very short order.
Tacoma Is becoming quite a shipping
point for wheat not tributary to Portlnnu,
and the Ledger might avoid a repetition
of the ridiculous misrepresentations which
it has been making by gaining a little
actual knowledge of wheat grades and the
manner In which the wheat-exporting
business Is conducted In its own port.
THE PRIVATE GRAFT.
They Have It In Chicago and They
Don't LHce It.
Chicago Journal.
The criminal conditions of Chicago are
unsparingly laid bare in the February
number of McClure's Magazine, by tho
well-known writer, Joslar Flynt (Mr. J.
F. Wlllard). It Is a narrative that is
startling In Its array of facta and an In
dictment of the Police Department of this
city that Is utterly shameful.'
Do the people of Chicago know that
hen Is the criminal center of the United
States, the thieves; paradise and the
thugs' haven of security? Are they aware
that there are 50,000 thieves, tramps,
swindlers and other criminals who make
their home here, most of whom are known
to the police, and, by reason of that fact,
live here with Impunity?
Is It any wonder that crime Is rampant
when the police stand In- with the crimi
nals and share the spoils? Mr. Wlllard
gives the names of pickpockets and hold
up men who have "operated" here for
year,s under the protection of the police,
and he relates cases where thieves have
been actually ordered to steal by police
officers so as to be able to pay up for pro
tection These criminals flock to Chicago be
cause they feel safe under the Harrison
rule. One of them told Mr. Wlllard that
they like Harrison. "I like him and the
'push' likes him, 'cause he gives us rope."
Certainly he give them rope, for he 1
not only "the friend of the worklngmen,"
Dut tne iriena of tne nonworkingmen.
The lnttor are his undeviatlng and most
faithful supporters. They fill the lodging-houses,
and, when out of jail or the
bridewell, as they usually are at election
time, they vote for Harrison.
It is Idle to say that this vast horde of
criminals cannot bebroken up and scat
tered. They will fly like frightened sheep
from the strong arm of the law when they
know that that arm will strike, and strike
In earnest.
Put an honest, incorruptible, courageous
business man In the office of Mayor, and
the railroads leading from the city will be
crowded with men and women fleeing
from the wrath to come.
There is no use in mincing this matter
longer. Mr. Harrison either will not or
cannot cleanse the city. His Police De
partment does not intend to do it, for it
is hopelessly corrupt, as Mr. Wlllard ab
solutely proves. As one thug said to him.
"wherever you see thieves and grafters
as thick as they are here you can put It
down that the police force Is grafting."
How much longer is Chicago to endure
a grafting police department?
A Winter Sonar
Washington Star.
When the wind stahts in a-blowln
An de snow Is drlftln deep.
An' the snow keeps on a-snowln'
White de sunshine goes to sleep,
Yob-splrlta dey gits glummer
An It's mighty hahd to smile
But you knows It will be Summer,
If you'll wait a little while.
An' when de wind Is shrlekin'
It will soften now an then.
Like some gentle voles were seekln'
"oh to cheer us cullud men.
Oh! dls cabin needs de plumber,
n' as move Is out o' style;
But we knows it will be Summer,
Xt W$ ITOIU a little while.
THEY ARE SIMPLY AXTI-AMERICA.
St Paul Pioneer Press.
When Judge Taft announces that the
Filipino insurrection Is on its last legs,
and General MacAfthur asserts that there
is still need of a large army, the New
York Evening Po3t proclaims Judge Taft
to be a liar, and General MacArthur to
be a true man. But when Judge Taft
characterizes the drink evil In Manila a.s
"disgraceful," and General MacArthur
that there is no more drunkenness than
in a city of like size In America, the
same paper proclaims the General to be
the liar, and the Judge to be a true man.
It is the way with your antl-lmperlallst.
He that does not say something that can
be distorted into a text for one of their
snarling editorials is incapable of truth,
and utterly untrustworthy; won by place
or pelf to utter things contrary to his
convictions. Be he as pure as snow he
cannot escape calumny. From the most
obscure corporal to Judge Taft. who.
thougn an anti-lmperiallst, gave up his
life place on the federal bench because
he felt there was work to do In the Phil
ippines, not one who has ventured to con
tradict the preconceived notions of the
Evening Post or the Springfield Republi
can has escaped Insult and slander. In
their zeal to Justify their course they
have forgotten that honest and conscien
tious men, even with the same set of
facts before them usually differ. They
have attributed to the nation mere lust
of territory and selfish desire for ag
grandizement In nil that preceded and all
that followed the Spanish war. Encased
In their own narrow self-righteousness
they did not recognize in 1S33, and have
not yet recognized, that not since the
first crusade has a war been waged on
such high ground as was the Spanish
war In the grandeur of tho motive that
lay back of that war and that led to the
assumption of sovereignty over the Phil
ippines there la not a wa7 In history, not
even the crusades, that can equal It.
Intolerable Injustice and inhumanity cried
for succor, and the whole nation, with
the exception of a few self-wrapped the
orists here and there, heard the cry. The
nation rose, as it wanted to rise to the
rescue of the Armenians. Humanity, pure
and simple dictated the war itself, and
humanity dictated the taking of the Phil
ippines. The editors of the papers in
question, if their sluggish, cynical pulses
were capable of being stirred, need only
have talked with earnest, conscientious,
peace-loving men anywhere outside of
Massachusettes and New York to have
found that it was humanity alone that
led to that war.
And there is not an act nor a sugges
tion in the whole history of this affair
that to candid, honest men has not been
palpably dictated by the same generous
spirit. That the Filipinos, either because
of self-seeking leaders or because of their
failure to comprehend that "benevolent
assimilation" meant exactly what it says
chose to meko war upon this country
has been unfortunate. But in no sense
or degree whatever has it been Justified
by the spirit which has actuated this
Government. That mistakes have been
made is probable, but no one lias yet
stepped forward to suggest any better
way. In fact, from the standpoint of
practical policy and true humanity ft Is
possible, and to many just and peace
able men it seems probable, that tho
country has been altogether too gener
ous and humane, and that had it dis
played a tithe of the malignity with
which these papers charge It or practiced
a half of the severities and deceits laid
at the door of its officers, military and
civil, much blood would have been saved
and the islands would have been farther
along on the road to liberty than they
are today. Our leniency and desire to
conciliate rather than punish seems to
have been the weakest link in the policy.
It is not that the anti-lmperiallsts be
lieve that the country has no mission In
the Philippines, or that they belive it
unwise for this country to attempt to
govern peoples of alien race, that they
are obnoxious. That is a matter of opin
ion and open to debate. If they believe
this, it Is their unquestioned right to
express their opinion and to supporo It
with such arguments as they can com
mand. It is because they persistently
If not wilfully refuse to recognize the
sincerity and nobility that have actuated
and continue to actuate the nation and
its high officials In this matter; because
they label them hypocrisy and cant;
charge the basest motives where the pur
est exist, and because they indiscrimi
nately accuse all that do not agree with
them with dishonesty and wilful cruelty,
that they are obnoxious. If they ever
come to recognize that they have misun
derstood the spirit of the affair, that they
are not the God-appointed judges of the
conscience of the nation, nd that other
men are as honest and as conscientious
and perhaps as wise as they, they may
gain a larger audience But until they do
recognize these iings and argue the
matter temporately and charitably, we
venture to say that the cause of antl
expanston or anti-Imperialism, or what
ever they may choose to cnll It, will lose
ground. It Is rooted in dishonesty and
uncharitableness and cannot flourish.
Portentous Day In Lincoln.
New York Sun.
All day yesterday an enthusiastic but a
reverent crowd filled the wordrooms of the
Weekly Bryan. The Peerless glowed with
hope and speech. The Boy Absalom and
Bryan Chorus Club sang silver and anti
trust hymns. Telegrams of congratula
tion were received from Coin Harvey, Cy
clone Davis, Web Davis, General Jim
Weaver, Tobe Schrutchlns, Hez Lung and
other eminent Bryanites.
Seven letter-carriers broke down under
their weight of registered letters, and had
to be carried off In ambulances. The cash
ier, who has been counting out the money
for weeks, had an acute attack of cash
ier's cramp and a substitute had to be pro
cured. At 3:17 P. M. Lincoln Hose Com
pany No. 3 was called out to extinguish
a batch of Colonel Bryan's manuscript,
which had set the composing-room afire.
At 4:12 P. M. the eilver pen with which the
Colonel wrote the leading articles for the
first number of his paper exploded with
a terrible slat of thunder. Nobody was
hurt, but the heart of Dr. John H. Glrd
ner, of this town, to whom the pen had
been promised, was broken.
When the Colonel went to bed. a tired
but a happy man. at 2:35 this morning,
he eaid that nothing in the world both
ered him except the fact he had to buy his
raw paper of a corporation.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
"Rubber, spun-glass, steel, and Ivory are tho
most elastic substances." The writer of this
seems to have forgotten the human conscience.
Boston Transcript.
"Boohoot Johnnie Jones has moved away!"
"Were you so fond of your little playmate?"
"Naw! but. bcohool He was de only kid on
de block I could lick!" Brooklyn Life.
Still More Impressive. So she refused
you?" "That's tho Impression I rocelved."
"Didn't she actually say nor "No, she didn't.
All she cald was 'Ha-ha-ha!' " Cleveland
Plain Dealer,
Small Boy Mamma, does God sea every
thing? "Tea. dear." "Does he know I'm going
to say, 'Now I lay me'?" "Yes, dear." "Woll,
I ain't. I'm going to say the other one."
Brooklyn Life.
Depends on the Victim. "There are two
kinds of grip going round." "What are they?"
"The kind a person gets who can afford to
stay in bed, and the kind a person gets who
can't affordto stay In bed." Chicago Record.
The Cake Fell. Mrs. Newlywed "I had hor
rid luck with my cake. Mrs. Binthare Too bad
did It fall? Mrs. Newlywed Yes. I placed
It on the window-ledge to cool, and my hus
band, either by accident or design, pushed It
off. Cleveland State Journal.
Those Dear Girls. Teas Mamma was rum
maging through the attic today, and she found
the cradle I used when I was a baby. She
was going to throw it out, but I wouldn't let
her. Jess I should say not. Antiquities are
all the rage now. Philadelphia Press.
"Polly, dear, suppose I were to shoot at a
tree with five birds on it, and kill three; how
many would there be left? Polly (aged 0)
Three, please. Teacher No; two would be
left. Polly No. there wouldn't, The three
shot would be left, and th'e other two "WOUld be
I (Ilea away.-Tlt-BlU.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Kansas may be dry, but the' news from
there Isn't.
Riots are taking place In a Russian
University. The hazing bug Is evidently
circumnavigating the globe.
There aro still a few commissions in the
British Army which are not held by mem
bers of the German royal family.
The prespect of making good Indians of
the Inhabitants of Oklahoma has materi
ally lessened In the last few days.
Judge Caples is coming home, and wo
shall be reminded that Oregon Is tho
brightest spot on "God's green earth."
Th.s ha2lng inquiry throws light on ob
jects hitherto shrouded in the densest ob
scurity. It has found Admiral Dewey.
Colonel Watterson says he never heard
of the highball, which Is not surprising.
They only take It straight In Kentuoky.
England will be occupied somewhere in
the next W0 years and that somewhere
might just as well be South Africa as
not.
The lightning that-ls playing around the
Capitol at Salem finds so many rods erect
ed that It Is unable to decide where to
light.
Dewet keeps right on fighting, just as
if he had never heard of the appointment
of the new Field Marshal in the British
Army.
The chances that William Waldorf As
tor will be appointed a Customs Inspector,
a Postmaster, or & Baronet by the new
King are not very bright.
As soon as all the cash subscriptions
have been received, Editor Bryan will go
to Europe, and leave a "sub'' to collect
the cabbages and cordwood.
A man down in Alabama was killed by
lightning while at a telephone. That Is
rather a summary way to take a man off,
and when his sins are so fresh, too.
We may expect the Legislators to come
home today and try their best to get tho
third house to approve some of tho
measures they hope tb pass next week.
The asphalt fuss down In Venezuela
reminds us of the fuss we had several
years ago over the paving of Washing
ton street.
Everything comes to him who waits
for nothing, but nothing comes to him
who watts for everything. The foregoing
is the resu.t of profound study, and there
Is no appeal.
It may be delicately possible that abol
ishment of, one Circuit Judgeship in Mult
nomah County is opposed by lawyers be
cause It would remove a goal of ambi
tious longing.
Mrs. Nation has received an offer to
star on the stage In "Ten Nights In a Bar
room." One night would be sufficient.
Besides that probably would be all the
theatrical manager aould stand.
Will Pat come under the category of
the law whereby a bounty will be given
for crow scalps? The next thing needed
is a bounty on mosquito scalps. Let not
a genius at Salem miss his opportunity.
Several of the collages have decided not
to bo represented at the inauguration of
McKlnley and Roosevelt. It is under
stood, however, that the graduates of the
Electoral College class of '01 will be pres
ent. Senator Simon has asked Senator Mc
Brlde to help htm by telegraph in his
endeavor to got recognition for the Co
lumbia. Does the senior Senator have
more influence away from, than at, Wash
ington? An American who wa3 sojourning In
Spain at the time says that on the very
day when Dewey was destroying tha
Spanish squadron at Manila a representa
tive audience, including some of Spain's
bravest and best, were attending a- patri
otic bull fight in Madrid, applauding tho
words of the famous matador: "With tho
ease with whloh I have killed this noblo
animal, the bull, will the glorious Spanish
Nation uphold the traditions of the past
and keep green the laurels of their il
lustrious fathers by triumphing over the
Yankee pig."
The Rev. Mr. Sheldon, of Topeka, has
this to say about the evangelical churches
in England: "There is more formality
there than here. I coAild not get used to
this. The pulpits were high and open
from the rear. There was a formality
about the way the mtnlster Is treated.
At one place the sexton and church offi
cers wore full dress suits. They met In
the vestry and ushered me Into the pulpit.
I do not spsak in a critical way of this
It Is their form and custom. The sing
ing was beautiful. I never heard such
singing before In churches as in England
and Schotland, unless In Dr. Hillls' church.
In Brooklyn. They have only the words,
and do not use notes. There was more
reverence In the churches. We have a
certain Irreverence they have not. I
never saw a person whisper In service all
the time I was there. And everybody
brings a Bible. I wish this were so here."
Lapse of the Old 3Ian.
Denver Post.
Pa ust to go te ehurch an pray
An In class meetin' have a say.
Had fam'ly wushup ev'ry' night
An' tried to raise us beys up right.
The preacher called him "Brother Todd,"
An' said he was a child o Ged
'E'd bin an'inted 'mong the saints.
An' cleansed from all his staful taints.
An that same preacher ust to be
At our house purty frekently
To read a chapter o' the "Ward
An' pray ontll I bet they heard
His supplications flyin 'round
Clear to the other end o town.
An then he'd stay fur dinner. My.
But how he'd make the chleken fly.
An praise ma's eookln', an' she'd smile
An' on his waltin plate'd pile
Mere provender, an' he'd jes" flop
His Jaws an never holler "Stop,"
An never break away ontll
He hadn't no more space to All.
But, as I was sayin', pa
"Was Jes' a Christian up to taw.
But since the time he got to be
A polertlclan, somehow he
Thinks more o gittin' office placd
Than of the means o savin graee;
Don't never ga to chureh no mere.
Nor kneel down on the fam'ly floor
"With us around, an' ask the Lord
To temper the avengln' sword
To us thorn lambs, an' shed the light
O' graee upon us day and night.
Ma says he's backslid from the fold,
That on the throne he's slipped his hold.
An" he Is that way 'cause she knows
No polertlclan ever goes
To heaven, an" she's skeered that ho
la founderln' In the sinful sea.
But I've a sort o Christian hope
He's ylt 4-hangln to a rope.
To pull back to the fold again
When he has got his fill o' sin;
The rope a-bela rather slim
For slch a hefty fish as him.
But be hangs to It as true as steel
He asks a WessUV tvery meal.