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THE MORNING OREGON! AN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1902, Entered at the Postomce at Portland. Oregon, as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Hall (postage prepaid. In Advance) Dally, with Sunday, per month o Daily. Sunday excepted, per year J w Dally, with Sunday, per year Sunday, per year r The "Weekly, per year 1 SJJ The "Weekly, 3 months w To City Subscribers' Daily." per -week, delivered. Sunday excepted.lDc Dally, per week, delivered, Sundays included.-Oc POSTAGE RATES. United States. Canada and Mexico: 10 to 14-pago paper . 14 to 2S-page paper Foreign rats double. Newo or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan." not to the name of any individual. Letters relating to adver tising, subscriptions or to any business matter Should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan. Eastern Business Office. 43. 44. 45. 47. 43. 40 Tribune building. New York City: 510-U-L. Tribune building, Chicago; the S. C. 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Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck, OOG-012 Seventeenth street; Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co.. Fifteenth and Lawrence streets; A. Series, Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TODAY'S "WEATHER Fair and -warmer. Northerly winds. YESTERDAY'S "WEATHER Maximum tem perature. 74 deg.; minimum temperature, 53 deg.; no precipitation. i PORTLAND, MONDAY, SEPT. S, 1002. TIME FOR AN END OP IT. Th Orpcronian asserts that "there was not the Ellghtest reason for tho suspicion of tho use of money" In tho nomination of Mr. Fur nish over Governor Geer. That may be so. yet bm nninft that Mr. Furnish would decidedly, ob Ject to the making of a statement as to what that nomination cost mm rrom pnnmrjua w mc polls. His campaign from start to finish had every appearance of being strictly on a cash basis. And, without considering any wrong In Buch a transaction, we cannot oeneve inm TVi n rir.m'nnl n n waft not a beneficiary. The lohnrer is worthy of his hire in any instance, and more especially In this case, where tho man to whom Eunnort was given was puoiicu known to have profited largely from tho very questionable handling of men through their giving whisky to Indians, besides was a recent convert to the party mat nominaieo. rhiii -h. had nb steclal fitness for the honor- wo position. However. The Oregonlan laid Itself open to Just criticism In lending sub stantial aid to a man wnom it rausi nav known, at least suspected, from his record. would, in case of election, have, used the office for personal profit and aggrandizement. Eu gene Guard. Now, of course, the Eugene Guard has no knowledge whatever of the matters it talks about: no information for sup port of its assertions. It is speaking merely from conjecture; and its con jecture is that of a narrow, petty, ma lignant, mendacious and utterly corrupt spirit The Guard insinuates that The Oregonlan had money from Mr. Furnish for its support of him; and it couples the insinuation with the statement that "th laborer is worthy of his hire" which simply means that the Guard It self, or the mind that directs it, is un scrupulous, mercenary and corrupt. From utterances of journals of this sort you may know what motives actuate and control them. Mr. Furnish is an honorable man. The Oregonlan is an honorable newspaper. Mr. Furnish had a right to aspire to the Governorship of Oregon. The Oregonlan had a right to support him, and it did support him. wholly from considerations of public duty. For the support it gave him The Oregonlan never had one dollar, directly or indirectly, and he who asserts or in timates that it had is himself a corrupt scoundrel and lies in his throat as deep as to the lunga The Oregonlan has 6ald that Mr. Fur nish is an honorable man. It says that because it has every reason to believe blm such. He "was Deputy Marshal for the United States under John Myers, a citizen of approved character and a life long Democrat. Whatever reflection may be made upon Mr. Furnish "from the questionable handling of men through their giving whisky to Indians," and profit therefrom, through fees, falls with heavier weight on "Honest John' Myers, who approved the charges and ihad the larger share of them for his own profit. Moreover,- Mr. Furnish Is as honorable a.'' Trian' as his competitor for the Governorship, and In several ways an abler one albeit he is not a smooth, oily or flatulent orator. Fortune favored Mr. Chamberlain and he was elected not specially upon superior merit, but because a multitude of incl dents contributed to that result. One of these incidents was the fact that he was District Attorney of Multnomah and his partisans used the office for all it was worth to coerce for him the votes of a large class in Portland. The campaign, however, has been thing of the past these three months. Its contentions need not be considered further and there needs no further at tack on the personal honor or reputa tlon of the participants in it The no lion assiduously propagated that Mr. Furnish "bought" his nomination and relied on money to elect him is disgrace ful only to those who have asserted It Mr. Furnish has but a very moderate fortune, and his expenditure In. the cam paign was small even trifling. He was misunderstood, maligned and beaten; and It 1b time now there was an end of the misrepresentation. It is time, moreover, that the little cheap rascals of unscrupulous journalism ceased to represent whole classes of our people, including the leading men of the state, and the honorable men of the state, as unprincipled and corrupt, and as actually selling for money in conven tions nominations for leading positions in the state. Such charges are simply a reflection of the venal scoundrellsm that makes them. What Premier Barton, of Australia, has to say about the working df their compulsory arbitration law is of much interest now. He arrives in this coun try to find our people suffering dire In convenience and heavy losses on ac count of a labor war of a kind that has been successfully obviated there and in New Zealand. To him the United. States appears to bo in a stage of barbarism, and he Is as much astonished as an American would be to land In some country where the old feudal Barons and their perpetual strifes were still exiBtent To him the watchword of the coal barons, "We have nothing to arbitrate." will appear monstrously Im pudent and absurd, and. In fact, it la In Australia the public are considered to have, some rights concerning a con dition of civil war like that now exist ing In Pennsylvania.. Lest some of our readers may have failed to see the state ment of Premier Barton, we reprint It for their consideration: Arbitration la compulsory, and when disputes ariso between employers and employed, both parties are required to submit the Issue to a board of arbitration, which la under govern ment control. A Judge of the Supreme Court Is the head cf the board, and two assessors are named to act with him, one appointed by each side. A money deposit, sufficiently large to make both the parties to the dispute un- willing to forfeit It. Is required to be paid Into the court before arbitration begins. The de posit is a guarantee that both sides will abide by the finding of the board. Since the enact ment of this compulsory law. strikes In New South "Wales are unknown. Tho board of arbi tration has power not only to prevent and set tle strikes, but also to give decisions that will regulate all the conditions of labor. A single Judgment suffices to raise tho wanes or lower the hours In any trade, or to enforce healthy conditions In workshops. In Australia they do not have perfect confidence In "Christian owners" as judges in their own case. They have more confidence in the justice of a dis interested official tribunal. CONDEMNED BY INACTION. The organized labor of Great Britain, In national convention assembled, gives to the world its unanimous view of trusts, which must forever put an end to the senseless cackle about the tariff being "the mother of all trusts." The resolution adopted reads: The growth of gigantic capitalistic trusts. with their enormous power of controlling pro duction. Is Injurious to the advancement of the working classes, and by such combination the prices of commodities are raised, the standard of4comfort of the people can be re duced, the workmen's freedom endangered -and National prosperity menaced. The presence of trusts In Great Brit ain, under free trade, effectually sets at rest the contention that trusts in Amer ica can be destroyed by free trade. Tariff reform is right, necessary and just, but It Is not a panacea for trusts. There arc some of our trusts that no tariff reduction will affect There are others that tariff reduction will benefit It is Idle, then, to propose a settlement of the trust question, or of the tariff question, merely by an act putting trust-made or trust-controlled products on the free list It Is further conceiv able that such a law would operate, as Senator Lodge says it would, to enable some trusts to destroy their present in dependent competitors. Now. the least creditable use to which this plain fact can be put is to palliate the iniquity of inaction by Congress qn either the trusts or the tariff question. There is not a man living who can de fend the outgrown schedules of the Dlngley law in their entirety. They need correction, -and It Is no defense of inaction to say that their correction will not destroy the trusts. The Republican party stands ar raigned before the country, not because the trusts can't be destroyed by tariff reform, or by publicity, or by the Sher man anti-trust law; but It does stand arraigned because upon several well-as certained and thoroughly demonstrated and undeniable evils, it has nothing whatever to offer but inaction, evasion and In many cases downright misrepre sentation. There has been a great deal of talk. We have been debating the trusts and the tariff inequalities for many years. It Is time something was DONE, as well as talked. If the party chooses reciprocity under the Dlngley law's plain programme, how Is It that not a reciprocity treaty has been ratified? If, on' the other hand, the tariff is to be corrected in only a few minor Imperfec tions and anachronisms, why is it that no such bill Is permitted to see the light of day In either Senate or House? In a word, is the Republican party to go on spouting to all eternity, and never enact the simplest of reforms touching tariff correction, or overcapitalization of trusts, or publicity, or reciprocity? It is objected that the trust question is for the states. Well, what are the states going to do about It? What party Is In 'power In New Tork, New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois, where the trusts make their home, and whence they issue forth to prey upon Independent competitors to the Nation's remotest bounds? If there is nothing the Republican party, in states or Nation, can perform In antagonism to or restriction of the great corporations, "protected" or oth erwise, it will stand before the country as a self-confessed weakling among par ties and a renegade in the presence of high traditions and a heroic history. President Roosevelt Is doing all he can In the way of action, counsel and Initia tive. In the White House he pursues the same course of straightforward, courageous action that distinguished him in the Civil Service Commission, in the police administration of New Tork City, in the Navy Department, in the Army in Cuba and In the Governor's chair. The country is behind him, re gardlees of party, and if the bosses of his own party spum his- counsel and discredit his leadership, it will be the worse for them. SECRETS OP LONGEVITY. The centenarian Is in evidence in various parts of the country with in dividual recipes for long life. Having lived a hundted years, he Is asked by the curious, anxious to achieve lengths of days, how he managed It, and with tne eagerness or age to give advice, a recipe for longevity. Is dictated In thin and piping voice, and duly written out for the assumed benefit of the masses. THe peculiar feature of these recipes is their wide divergence: "I have smoked tobacco since I was a lad," says one, "and believe the habit prolonged my life." "I have never touched to bacco," says another, "and to this fact I attribute my exceeding length of daya" One has risen early, retired early and worked hard; another has lived a life of comparative leisure, sat up late and always indulged in his morning nap. The vegetarian Is fre quently In evidence in the matter, and the man who has eaten meat three times a day has had his innings. The truth perhaps iq that, having stumbled up along the years to a great age, living pretty much as his neighbors have done, who have dropped by the wayside, the centenarian Is given an Impossible task when he is asked tb tell how It was done. He simply does not know. . One of the latest centenarians In- evl dence is Mrs. Frank Toung, of Worces ter, Mass. Her recipe prescribes plenty of hard work, early to bed and early to rise, three full meals a day, with meat at each, a cup of tea and a slice of bread before going to bed, temperate and moral habits, and for, married women large families. She herself was the mother of eight but the efficacy of : this part of her recipe for longevity Is rendered doubtful by the fact that but two of these children are living. Per haps, however, she was' so busy in the supervision of her own diet and habits that she allowed him to go their un supervised way to premature graves. The mistake In this eager search after a recipe for longevity warranted to carry those who follow it down past the period of human usefulness on to de crepitude, Is in the suppositIon that great age is a boon to be fondly desired and diligently striven after. Dr. Ed ward Young, moralizing In somewhat doleful strain upon life and death, de clares that There Is a time when llko a thrice-told tale Long-rifled life of sweet can yield no more. We have but to remember the very old persons whom we have known, of sight and hearing defective, appealing by their very feebleness to pity to find indorsement for this estimate. But this view aside. It Is plain that no one can, by another's rule of living, insure length of years for himself. Be yond the simple precepts of temperance "and regular habits no rule can be form ulated that will reasonably Insure a long life. The thing to be done by those who ardently desire the very doubtful boon of ninety or a hundred years on earth Is to find out in their own practice what conduces to health, and to avoid what experience has shown to be harmful. Gladstone's formula contained vigorous exercise with the ax In the forest, and the fact that he passed beyond four score, ax in hand, proved that he knew what was good for him. John Ruskln attained an almost equal lengthVof years, though physically too frail, for many years at least, to wield an ax, while Whittler, though of sturdy race and rugged health ici his youth, was obliged through many years of his more than four-score to protect himself care fully from the open air of the New England Winters. There is a homely adage which de clares that what Is one man's meat is another man's poison. Wise people ac cept the truth thus proclaimed and or der their own lives In accordance with their own judgment, unenvious of the centenarian and unmindful of his hard- and-fast rules for diet, exercise, work and play. IMPOTENCE OF FORMS. An interesting curiosity of our polit ical system Is the dependence of one of the principal officers of the Govern ment upon the passing humor of a sin gle small community, known as a Con gressional district. The office in ques tion Is the Speakership of the House of Representatives, a position second only In power to the Presidency Itself, and In some situations even more powerful still. With the support of a select co terie behind him, the Speaker can kill or make a National policy over the President's head. This phenomenon is brought Into prominence just now by reason of the Democratic resolve to defeat Speaker Henderson for re-election if It can be done. Horace Boles is the portentous name to lead the cause. He is 75 years old, and will pretty certainly be beaten, having .a plurality of 20,000 in 50,000 votes to overcome. Boles will doubtless make his flght on the tariff question, having been a lifelong free-trader. It was on this Issue, In fact, that he left the Republican party, after having been a Republican member of the New York Legislature. Upon this Issue, In view of Henderson's antipathy to tariff reform and the growing sentiment in Iowa for It, Boles may get a few Republican votes, but not enough to elect him. It Is worth noting, by the way, that tho possibility of efficient members of the House of Representatives being lost to their party, state and Nation tends, by Its very danger, to Its prevention It is perfectly obvious that Speaker Henderson's district will be disposed to stand by him more solidly by reason of his eminence and Influential position than It would If he could be divested of those advantages. His plurality of nearly 20, 000 was only 7000 four years ago, for example, and ten years ago was but a bare 200. What an Interesting thing It is that the will of the people somehow finds a way to achieve its deslre9, without much regard to these little curiosities of legislation! With all the incentive the Democrats have to de'feat a man of Speaker Henderson's prominence, and with all the effective agencies at their command. It is doubtful If they could possibly, put speakers, literature, money and personal solicitation of resident Democrats of influence enough into Speaker Henderson's district to carry it against him. The contest would In stantly become National In scope and Interest, and the Republicans would ex ert themselves accordingly. The ulti mate result might He not far from the exact situation at the outset of the campaign. Our political annals are full of. just ouch exhibits In the vitality of living forces and the helplessness of dead rules and rites and commands and pro hibitions. A Legislature nominated by Spooner's enemies will, re-elect Spooner to the Senate. If the Presidency is in doubt, we get an electoral commission and go ahead. If expansion gives us territory we have no law for, we keep along as best we can at what Is right and necessary, and the Supreme Court sustains us. If the electoral college wears out, we instruct its members at National conventions and they resolve themselves Into automata without more ado or respect for the Constitution. When-a small and sparsely settled state like Oregon elects one Republican by 15.000 and defeats another on the same ticket by 300, it Is about time to recog nize the fact that In politics the results are in the people's handa THE ONLY EFFECTIVE CURE. Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania, has "been asked to call an extra session of the Legislature for the enactment of a compulsory arbitration law. Whether the Legislature of Pennsylvania, which Is usually corrupt, could be counted upon to enact such a law Is doubtful, but it is probable that for political rea sons Quay and Penrose would favor a Legislative settlement. The Oregonlan has Insisted from the start- that the les son In all great strikes to labor is the necessity of compulsory arbitration. Theoretically It is easy Ao talk about a great strike being conducted without violation of full enforcement of law and order, but practically great labor strikes inevitably are sooner or later disfigured by acts of violence. The moment em ployers become fairly successful in em ploying men on their own terms, it is Impossible to prevent outbreaks of dis order on part of the strikers without re sort to military force. Voluntary arbi tration nas oeen tnea over and over again, but it is worthless the moment It Is subjected to any extraordinary test, Arbitration, to be effective, 'must la volve compulsion and the machinery for applying it This kind of arbitration is cot favored by capital because it fears that before a court clothed with powers to summon persons and papers, to examine books and accounts through experts, the em ployers would be likely to lose their case four times out of six. Organized labor In England and some of Its rep resentatives here oppose compulsory ar bitration because It would extinguish the consequence of the walking dele gate and the ambitious labor dema gogues of all sorts. But the general' public, whose welfare Is paramount to that of both combatants In any labor controversy, will ultimately Insist upon the enactment of compulsory arbitra tion and its application to disputes of labor and capital employed In coal min ing, transportation and other business Involving widespread public service. Judge Shlras, of the United States Su preme Court, has already declared him self In favor of adopting some measure of compulsory arbitration. More than a year ago Judge Knowlton, of the Mas sachusetts Supreme Court, a very learn ed and conservative jurist, urged a con sideration of thi3 method of disposing of Industrial disputes, In course of an ad dress before the Yale law school. The present strike makes It perfectly clear how severely the general public can be made to suffer by the refusal of both capital and labor to recognize the paramount Importance of the pub lic peace and comfort The mining op erators, when reminded of the para mountcy of the public weal, answer in effect, "The public be d d," and or ganized labor has more than once shown an Incapacity to understand that neither capital nor labor Is at liberty to go to war at any moment in utter contempt of the general public weal. It Is con trary to sound public policy to permit either capital or labor to create a situa tion of large and Increasing public dis tress and discomfort, and the public be fore many years will protect Itself against the renewal of such long-continued, disastrous strikes by enacting com pulsory arbitration. Labor, wherever It has resorted to this remedy, has had reason for public congratulation. For the labor leader the strike Is attractive, but for the rank and file of organized labor the strike Is of no permanent ad vantage to labor, and Is, an Intolerable burden to the public. Capital has the advantage of labor In a strike, and with natural selfishness objects to compul sory arbitration, but it would be bet ter for labor If compulsory arbitration was enacted and the labor strike be came extinct. The Philadelphia North American thinks that the Pennsylvania Legis lature could not be relied upon for any remedial legislation; but .Quay Is report ed to have recently told the mine oper ators that unless the strike was settled Pennsylvania will elect a Democratic Governor this Fall. Quite possibly Gov ernor Stone's disposition to call an extra session of the Legislature may be a mere "bluff" played against the mine operators, who are conducting the an thraclte coal roads today In plain vio lation of their charters and the laws of Pennsylvania In adding the business of coal mining to that of common carrier. The fact that this Is done through sub sldlary corporations rather than through the railroad company directly makes no essential difference. Whether anything is done this year or not in the matter of compulsory arbitration, It Is the Impor tant lesson of this great strike to labor. Labor always will be In trouble; capi tal always will have the better of labor In a great strike until compulsory arbi tratlon IS enacted, which compels both parties to come Into court and show their hands. in another column The Oregonlan pre sents Its annual estimate of the wheat crop of Oregon, Washington and Idaho for 1902. Perfect accuracy Is not claimed for these figures, as much of the Spring wheat Is yet to be taken care of. The totals, however, are be lieved to be approximately correct, as based on conditions existing September 1. By deferring publication of the re suits of the observations of numerous special correspondents until next Win ter, or Spring, the figures could be made sufficiently accurate to suit the most exacting. Knowledge of the dimensions of the crop at that time would be too late to be of any value as having bearing on tonnage requirements, etc., and the figures are accordingly present ed as the most accurate that can be ob tained at this time. An Interesting feature of the showing lies In the fact that Washington again has . approxi mately twice the amount of wheat that Is produced in the State of Oregon, and that upwards of 10,000,000 bushels of this wheat Is in territory which Is not now tributary to Portland. In other words, Seattle and Tacoma have an ex elusive field, which Is producing nearly as much wheat as Is grown In tne State of Oregon, and two big railroads pull Ing against one road from Portland In the remainder of the wheat districts of the state. A few cheap newspapers on Puget Sound and at Astoria mention this development in Puget Sound ter rltory as being a loss to Portland, but as Portland will handle as much wheat from her own territory as she did last year. and. as much from competitive ter rltory as will be handled by the North era Pacific, just where she 1b "losing' is Indistinct The Big Bend country 1 susceptible of greater development in wheat production than any section now tributary to Portland, but this city will not lose by this development As matter of. fact, Portland exporters financing the Washington wheat crop from Portland and shipping a portion of it from Puget Sound still control and always will control the greater portion of the wheat trade of Washington and Idaho, as well as that of Oregon. An effort will be made to secure the enactment of a law governing child la bor in the various Industries of the state at the coming session of the Legisla ture. As yet child labor has not reached the point In this state where It can be classed as an abuse. This Is generally admitted by the advocates of the law who, however, contend that true reform goes in advance of abuse and is pre ventlve rather than remedial. This is a phase of the question worth considering, and one that will doubtless have due weight with legislators when the time comes to act upon it. Souffriere is a faithful echo of Pelee, repeating its dismal bellowlngs with force and precision, and belching up ashes, lava, mud and volcanic dust from a, supply seemingly exhaustiess. It Is as If Souffriere were thundering across the waters to Pelee, "What you do with Martinique I will do with St Vincent" Quite naturally, the peopl of the latter island tremble before this threat, feeling certain that the choleric I monarch is master of the situation. THEIR IMPREGNABLE POSITION. Brooklyn Eagle. Mr. William J. Bryan Bays: "Whle 1 shall not be a candidate for the Presi dency In 1904. I shall use all my influence to prevent tho nomination by the Demo crats of anybody who was not loyal to both ticket and platform in 1S56 and in 1900." The net conclusion to be drawn has Just been summed up by Carl Schurz. tie cans Mr, Bryan "tne evil genius or the Democratic party who must be ex orcised out of It." Whether tmjr Is to be dono by purgatives, by prayer, by Podsnappery, by proclamations or by in cantations Is not disclosed. The neces sity of doing It Is apparent but the methods have not been revealed. Mr. Schurz has been a Republican, a Lib eral Republican, again a Republican, a Democrat, a Bryan man through one Presidential election, and he now laces the future as an anti-Bryan man In the capacity of a volunteer Exerciser. Per haps he may have a method of getting rid of Bryan concealed about his person. He may be reserving It from view until he has patented It But when It is ex hibited, we wfeh it may be effective. There are those who can tell Mr. Schurz how they escaped Bryanlsm. They never went Into ife. They did not have to exor cise It out of themselves, for they never admitted It Into their normal or mental systems. Art emus Ward said that he escaped being fatally wounded at .the siege of Sebastopol "by not being there." Those able to prove an alibf.every time Bryanlsm was ladled out for Demo cratic consumption, are better off in their minds and In their reputation than those who took some of it They may not he regular, tut tney were not wrong. They may not be eligible to Democratic consideration, but they do not have to base any appeals against Bryanlsm now on the shaky foundation of having sup ported It or borne with It or compromised with if or in any wise sought to con ciliate It, in the past Their original or aboriginal, and In either case, their con tinuous estimate of Bryanlsm, better vin dicates their steadiness and their judg ment than toying or flirting with It at. any time wduld have done. Their with ers are unwrung. They sympathize with the difficulties of their former colleagues and would like to get them out of their difficulties. But the latter can only get themselves out of conditions of their own making. Meanwhile, principles are permanent. though politicians may be unstable and though organizations may wabble. And among the principles which are perma nent are honest money, expansion, law and order and a tariff limited to the ex penses of Government eaultably and economically administered. Those prin clples are Democratic whether the word be spelled with a small "d" or a Dig u whether the organization so named for gets them or flouts them or fools with them, or not. The men who stood dj those principles are Democrats whether with a small "d" or a big "D" and wheth er the support of those principles enabled them to act. not with the Democratic organization, but with the Republican or ganlzatlon. Those who nave tneir aoc- trlneo in the historic past or one or ganlzatlon! yet who can find the ex- nnncnts of those doctrines. In whole or in part, only in the contemporary nom lnees of another organization, are Dener off than those who mistook regularity for righteousness, policy for principle, or ganlzatlon for conscience and the pnos nhorescence of the falsifying sea for the serene shining of the sun in tne neuvens, "Prohibition" In Maine. New York Evening Post. One of the most appalling pictures of drunkenness In an American city ever drawn Is presented In a formal letter to the Police Board of BIddefora. Me., Dy the president and 53 other members or the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The story seems almost lmpossi ble of belief, and yet the specifications are so clear that It cannot be disregarded tvia wnmpn declare that "there are. In onen and defiant operation, many bar rooms fitted up and appointed as suitably and gorgeously as In any of the large license cities la other states"; that more than 20 are running openly upon the mam street half a dozen at Smith s corner. and a number on other specified streets' that In many places business Is carriea on all night, as well as all day, and on Sundays as on week days; mat men. women, and children are cpnantly en ferine these places, little boys ana gjris going to buy beer and liquor for their elders, and often drinking over the bar themselves: and. finally, tnat our streets are filled with drunken men, women ana children, to an extent that manes me nnmp of our cltv a byword." Blddeford Is a place of only about le.cw peopie. ib it the prohibitory law and. If not, what is it? that results in sucn conumuiu o thMfi in so -many Maine cities ana towns for Blddeford is not a sinner aDovo an others? Value of Torpedo-Boat. Philadelphia Record. In a recent test of accuracy In firing torr.Pdoes the vessels or tne torpeao boat flotilla in the North Atlantic made some remarkable hits of a floating target 1000 yards away. As each nit wouia have meant utter destruction m nine oi actual war tho Importance of these wasps of the navy Is being heralded abroad as n valnntale discovery. .It is wen to snoor straight, of course, whether with popgun or with automatic torpedoes, but the main thing' In these high explosive days Is to get close enough to an enemy to loflee a shot. Long oerore any torpeao boat could have approached within 1000 yards of an enemy It would have been blown out or water. Light From Anti-lam's Citadel. Boston Herald. This problem of granting the Filipinos their Independence Is not difficult to solve when we examine it In a logical manner. It Is perfectly clear that, so Ions: as they Insist on having full and complete liberty, they must remain in opposition to us. It is also oovious tnat. so long as they are In opposition to us, We cannot afrord to Dacic out ana giv them their independence. .Hence,- Dy series of logical deductions, we naturally reach the conclusion that, If the time should ever arrive when they cease to wish for Independence, we shall let" them have it if they want It and we think It Is best for them and for us. Battle-Hymn of the Republic, Julia "Ward Howe. Mlno eyes haw seen the Klory of tho comlngr of the Lord; Ho Is trampllnff out tho vintago where tho grapes of wrath are stored; Ho hath loosed the fateful lightning of bis terrible swift sword: His truth is marchlnc on. I have seen him In the watch-fires of a hun dred circling camps; They have bullded him an altar In the even ing dews and damps; I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel: "As yo deal with. my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let tho Hero, born of woman, crush tho ser pent with his heel, Slnco God Is marching on." He ha3 sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He Is sitting out the hearts of men before his Judgment-seat: Oh I be swlfC my soul, to answer hlml be Jubilant my feet! Our God Is marchln? on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was" born across the sea, "With a glory In his bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free. While God is marching on. MR. F0SS FOR TARIFF REFORM. Chicago Evening Post Once more it Is the duty and pleasure of progressive Republicans to welcome a prominent pubic man as an adherent or the growing Idea of tariff revision. Con gressman Foss has joined the advanced and enlightened minority, which, with sense and truth on its side, cannot fail to convert Itself Into a majority. Mr. Foss has Improved his opportunities while among his constituents. He has kept his eyes and ears open, and as a re sult he takes his place beside Governor Cummins, Tawney, Senator Cullom and the other exponents of the tariff-revision doctrine. Mr. Foss, unlike the trimmers, bigots or cowards, recognizes the strength of the popular sentiment for tariff revision. or, "more properly speaking, tariff ad justmentthat Is, adjustment to new conditions. ' Speaking for himself, he has no hesitation In approving this demand. The conditions of 1902," he says, "arc not the same as those of 1S97, when the present law was passed, and some of the schedules undoubtedly need revision by the friends of the tariff, and not by its enemies." Secretary Shaw told the Vermonters that the Iowa platform was truistlc and platitudinous, since no sane man denies that schedules must be changed to meet new times and new conditions. But the Secretary knew perfectly well that the Iowa platform was not academic, that it meant a good deal more than It said and that it was extremely distasteful to the high-tariff Bourbons. That . platform meant that certain abuses of protection demanded Immediate attention, and that readjustment or revision was the duty of the hour, not the possible task or a ru ture Congress. Representative Foss takes the same lew. "The Republicans," he Is quoted as saying, "will win the coming election, and they ought then to make such mod ifications and changes as are advisable. The notion that the tariff must not be touched In prosperous times he does not even allude to, because it is puerne, senseless and contemptible. Performed With Credit. New York Journal of Commerce. A brief, und in the main a statistical, summary of what the United States did In Cuba has been published officially, and It cannot but Increase the National pride of every American, and it will assure all ex cept a few recalcitrant anti-imperialists that with a few years of peace our of flclals will give an equally good account of their stewardship In the Philippines The colonial task was a difficult one, and one for which we had little preparation. The National Government purports to ad minister the territories, but they are In the main self-governing and are even rep resented In Congress. We had no officials trained for this work, and the patronage system under which our civil offices are filled suggested alarming possibilities. But wo hd a trained and highly enccuve corps of officials In the Army, and civil appointments have generally been made with proper regard for the interests or the persons to be governed. The result is that we have completed In Cuba and are performing In the Philippines a task which many Americans saw their Government assume four years ago with no little ap prehension, and performing It with honor to ourselves and with great advantage to our wards. "Society's" Test for Insanity. Hartford Courant. The suicide of young Remington at fash lonable Newport Is not naturally an lnci dent to provoke a smile, however it may be put. And yet It Is hard not to laugh at the printed statement that It is believed the younff man's mind was somewhat off, because It was noticed that day that he walked In Bellevue avenue on tho "side never used by society people." It Is re lated that an expert detected insanity onco In the fact that the sufferer called twice for soup. Now another test is found In observing which side of the street a man takes. The social world, It seems, knows only cne side of Bellevue avenue. To be on the other would be called being out of the swim, if it wer.e not that anything so vulgar as going Into the water Is as out of order as taking the wrong side of the street But think of the regulations that hedge about "society people," when, In the little matter of walking on the side walk, choosing the oft-side- Is accepted as evidence of Insanity. Better talk of in anity; It Implies less strain on what Is called the mind. Poor Sort of Amusement. Washington Post. After all, what pleasure is there in running these high power automobiles at railroad speed? Tho occupants have to bundle themselves up, to wear goggles and all sorts of defenses against dust and gravel. They cannot possibly enjoy the Ecenery or the motion. The only Idea Is to go faster than some ono else. It seems a poor and barren form of hap piness. It cannot be enjoyed under normal conditions. Everything is arti ficial. Nothing Is natural or whole some. The whole question .is one of frantic speed and unknown dan'ger. PEKSONS WORTH KNOWING ABOUT. Two Franciscan monks, dressed In the robes of their order, have Just made the ascent of Mont Blanc, accompanied by three guides. They are stated to be the first priests who have ever accomplished the feat. John TV. Mackay. the Irish-American multi millionaire, who died recently In London, was once paid a fine trlbuto by a friend. "Mack ay." said be. "la one of the few rich men I should like to know If he were poor." Delarey, the Boer commandant, lost a son during the late war with Great Britain, a bright youth only 15 years of age. who was laid low by a bullet that utruck him while he was standing by his father's aide at Modder River. Next Thursday there Is to be a reunion of Confederate veterans in Auxvasse. Mo., and one of the chief features will be a 50-yard foot race between VT. H. Shelton and Tyra C. Bishop. The .former Is 83 years old and tho latter Is 80. and each of the elderly athletes declares that the winner of the coming sprint will set a mark for his sons and grandsons. Miss Minnie Schenck. of Wllllamsport, Pa., Is declared to bo champion woman rifle shot of the world, having Just established a record of 20 consecutive bullseyes at 200 yards. Miss Schenck. who uses a 32-caIlbcr rifle. Is a terror- to roarrows. Out of 50 shots at these marauding birds In one day recently she did not miss once, using a 22-callber rifle. Cornelius Vanderbilt, tho millionaire . In ventor, keeps half a dozen mechanical drafts men busy on drawings of his Inventions. When !n N'ew York City Mr. Vanderbilt spends most of his time with these draftsmen In his ofllce on the seventeenth floor of a business block on Broadway, where may be seen modela and drawings of fireboxes, coal cars and other de vices which he has Invented. A mortgage for $22,000 hangs over the Church of the Epiphany In Brooklyn. An In terest' note of something over $200 came due a few days ago. and .Dr. Dean Richmond Bab bitt, the pastor, succeeded In raising the amount, but only after several days' hard work. Undaunted by the somewhat cheerless prospects. Dr. Babbitt now declares that by New Year's day he will have raised the entire $22,000. and will discharge the mortgago Itself. Secretary Shaw Is on the trail of the "two- hat" men In his department. These are the Individuals who find It necessary to go out for an occasional drink during office hours, wear ing a soft felt hat and leaving their ordinary head covering on the usual pegs. If a chief of division Inquires after a clerk who Is absent on such an expedition he Is told: "Why, So ond so must be around somewhere. There's his hat on tho peg." Mr. .Shaw has determined to put a stop to thl9 practice. Rev. Mr. Barker, a preacher In Charlton County, Missouri, learned that a Sumner saloon keeper was violating the law by selling liquor to minors. The reverend gentleman, having a slightly distorted sense of duty. Induced a boy to purchase somo whisky, his Intention being to prosecute the saloon man. The boy obtained the liquor all right, but the dealer caused the preacher's arrest on, the charge of conspiracy, and Mr. Barker's trial comes up shortly. Mean while, the saloon-keeper is doing business as of yort. NOTE AND COMMENT. Now It's everybody's site. Speaking of the Fair site, the only thoroughbred player is the game loser. The passenger who Is late for dinner never complains that the street-car runs' too fast A horse called Democracy ha3 broken the Coast record for a mile and a half at Whatcom. Strange how little there is in a name! . A mitigating circumstance in connec tion with the stenographers' discussion of the woman question Is the irreproach able "copy" provided the type machines. "Parcus ob heredls causam, nlmlumqua severus. areldet Insano," as Horace says. In other words, he who is frugal on ac count of his heirs and too parsimonious over trifles, la next door to a fool. An indignation meeting Is proposed by some real estate wortnies to protest against the choice of the" Fair site, and Mayor Williams will order the Are de partment out to turn the hose on them. That is, he ought to, if he doesn't All that Portland needs, to have a , band like Tacoma's, Is a leader, a few musicians and an appreciative public. Nature has abundantly provided a su perior quality of atmosphere In which the, strings and reeds may melllfluously vi brate. There is room, ateo, for th sounds to circulate. The higher education of women has at last struck China. Eight young ladles of the highests circles In Klangeu are go ing through a three years' course in a woman's college In Japan. It Is the lirst known case of the kind and Indicates that China was severely Jolted not long ago. Some of the Boston boys have formed an Edward Everett Hale baseball club.' They wanted uniforms and got up a rattle to raise the price. They asked Dr. Halo to take 0 cents worth of tickets. Ha wrote back: "I do not like to subscribe to what seems to me a lottery. But I en close $3 for the uniforms. I am much pleased that you formed the club and that you gave to It my name." From the Chicago" Becord - Herald's latest budget df literary Intelligence: Cyrus Townsend Brady Is building a home la Brooklyn. A feature of It Is to be a hall SO feet long by ,eo feet wide. In which he will dictate stories to ST stenographers at once. S Wier Mitchell has decided to have a pneu matic tube run from his home In Phlladelphhj. to the Century Magazine office In New York. He will thu3 bp able to save time and express charges In forwarding his contributions to Mr. Gilder's periodical. Mr. Elbert Hubbard Is engaged In writing a delightful series of Little Journeys to tha world's breakfast food factories. Mr. Hcnr- Watterson Is about to publish his reminiscences. The second volume, which con tains his references to Grover Cleveland, will be printed on asbestos and bound in sheet iron. Richard Harding Davis is at work upon hla autobiography. It will take the form of a novel. In which the hero performs prodigies of valor and Is a devil of a fellow with the girls. General Lew Wallace has mado o-er $1,200. 000 out of "Ben Hur." but he says he would not advise any young man or young woman to go Into literature, as thero Is only one "Ben Hur," and, of course, but ono Lew Wal lace. If you're waking. call me early, call mo early, mother, 'dear. For tomorrow'll be the most strenuous day oC all this glad old yxar; Of all the other days, mother, not oca can half compare. - For I'm to be Queen of the fair, mother; I'm to be Queen of the fair. My picture's In tho papers with my coronation gown. And everybody will be there to see me wear my crown. And General Riley will be there, with aword and waving crest. And the Tacoma Lodge, mother, to play and then protect. And Salem, with Its silken hoso and powder In its hair. For I'm to be Queen of the fair, mother; I'm to be Queen of the fair. The ppielers will all bo there, mother, each at his chosen stall. And Larsen, too, will loop tho loop, and maybo take a fall; And Slmon3 with his railroad, and Davis wlta his store. And all the- town will promenade upon tho, sawdust floor; The Governor will bow In state before my royal chair. For I'm to be Queen of the fair, mother; I'm, to be Queen of the fair. It's all Just as I wish, mother, except the roustabouts; Who push those squawking things against ma with ill-mannered shouts. And men who could not speak to me in any other place Will Insolently leer and throw confetti In my face; Yet If you're waking, call mo, mother; I'va promised to be there. For I'm to bo Queen of the fair, mother; I'm to be Queen of the fair. Honaeliold Economy. Judge. Bramble Why do you always agreo with your wife' In everything she says? Thome I find It cheaper to do that than to quarrel with her and then buy diamonds to square myself. PLEASANTRIES OP PARAGHAPHBRa Count in the Cook. He Don't you think two can live as cheaply as one? She Yes; but how about the cook? Detroit Free Press. With Exorbitant Prices. "She takes only boarders who are blue-blooded." "How does she make sure that they are?" "She bleeds them." Philadelphia Evenlns Bulletin. "Money. talks." said the caller. "Well, tho kind I get must talk in a whisper." chuckled Senator Stocks. "Why?" "Because it Is hush money." Philadelphia Record. At $2 a Visit. "Yes, the doctor has put ma on the strictest kind of diet." "Indeed. What Is it?" "Well, he toys I mustn't eat anything I don't llko. and not any more than I want of what I do." Baltimore News. An Economical Fellow. Geraldlne I'll bo a sister to you. Gerald That will be nice. Geraldlne What do you man? Gerald My elster loves me. but she doesn't expect me to take her anywhere. Brooklyn Life. Exalted. "Why did she break the enzage ment?" "Well, she felt that he was not her equal socially. You see. her father was ap pointed a member of tho reception committee, and his picture was printed In all the papers showing him standing right beside the Prbs--ldent." Chicago Record-Herald. In Chicago. Mr. Dearborn (to Mrs. D., for merly Mrs. Clark) By the way. Helen. I saw your first husband today. What a happy-looking man be Is! He seems utterly wlthoU' care. Mrs. Dearborn Ye9? That reminds me. 1 saw your first wife the other day. Never saw her looking so cheerful. Boston Tran script. A New Danger. "What do you think we had better do about this trust business?" asked tho apprehensive citizen. "I don't know," answered Senator Sorghum; "something ought to be done pretty soon or they'll get so power ful and Independent that they won't think It worth while to pay for Influence.1' Washington Star. His Preference. "Would you like to ta President?" asked the good old gentleman la the park. "Naw," responded the youngster la the golf cap. "I'd rather be the President's little boy." "And why?" "Because thon I could get my name in the papers If I only scratched my nose or had my picture taken." Chicago News. Another View. "You've no right to block tha sidewalk with your material and make every body step out Into the street," complained tha irritated citizen. "The sidewalks belong to the people." "You bet they do!" cordially as sented the contractor that was putting up tha skyscraper. "And there'll be about 60O of 'em In this building as soon as It's finished."-. Chicago Tribune.