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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
THE BEST OF A BAD MATTER.
Prom the apparent impasse Into
which they had permitted their Gov
ernor on the one hand and" their rail
road lobbyists on, the other to lead them,
the Republican of "Washington seem to
have made the most advantageous exit
possible. As was intimated in these
columns two days ago, the triumph of
the raliroad forces would carry with it
an attainder of corruption under which
the party would very painfully labor.
It would also have to sustain the severe
technical misfortune of a vote of lack
of confidence in the Governor, who oc
cupies, ex officio, the position of "party
leader. It is probably true, as asserted
by the railroad forces, that the removal
of the Congressional struggle from the
situation, as soon as the candidates
were nominated, cleared the way for the
Governor's victor', which had previous
ly seemed to be impossible; but however
this may be, the fact remains that the
party has stoqd behind its Governor,
has declared itself free from railroad
dictation and has spiked one of the most
formidable guns of Senator Turner and
the Democratic organization. -
With this much conceded, 'The Orego
nian's sympathy with the Tacoma pro
ceeding ends. It can find neither com
mendation nor forbearance for the con
templated appeal to the people for a
device of administration which is
known of all men to be' inoperative.
This Is dishonesty. Itvcan find neither
commendation nor forbearance In the
second place, for railroad managements
that end their salaried employes about
the state trying to buy up conventions
and Legislatures. This is corruption
and bribery, and, in the spirit of the
law, criminal. It can find neither ap
proval nor palliation, in the third place,
for a public opinion which agrees to
brand every man as a bribe-taker who
will not consent to wage general and
Indiscriminate warfare on the railroads.
This Is not a pleasant theme, and The
Oregonlan does not wish to recur to It
again in the present campaign. But
once for all let it be said that one could
hardly expect to find anywhere a lower
state of moral sense than is revealed in
the apparent consensus of "Washington
State opinion, to the effect that If a
man is not an anarchist he is a scoun
drel. Every man in the State of "Wash
ington who desires to see railroad prop
erty protected and railroad interests
treated with justice and fairness Is
forthwith set down as .having been cor
rupted by railroad money. It is Incon
ceivable In Washington that a man can
understand the sham of a raliroad com
mission and voice his conviction unless
he has been paid to do it. The only
conclusive evidence of moral upright
ness is wild-eyed hostility to every cor
porate interest, right or wrong.
Obviously the sufferers by this unique
state of affairs will be the Innocent in
vestors whose money Is in the securities
of the Great Northern, Northern Pa
cific and O. "R. & .N. Railroads.
And a large measure of responsi
bility for the situation rests with the
officials of the roads, who have busied
themselves unnecessarily In question
able methods. The activity of railroad
lobbyists throughout the state the past
few weeks can be described only to be
condemned. No unjust freight" or pas
senger rate law can be enforced, because
it cannot survive the judicial tests that
It must certainly meet. The Federal
courts of Washington are fair. Nobody
has ever feared he could not get justice
before Judge Hanford. An appeal al
ways lies to the United States Supreme
Court, which set aside a Nebraska rate
law as unconstitutional. The menace of
a railroad commission- is known to be
empty. It Is at best a thing of Ineffi
ciency and humbug. The railroads
must know this as well as any one, yet
they compass heaven and earth to de
feat It. They have, by their very ac
tivity and alarm, given color to the
Idea that the railroad commission in
volved a danger to their plans. The re
sult is just, so far . as these -strenuous
efforts are concerned. They have dug
a pit and fallen Into it.
The three railroad presidents did a
good thing when they met the farmers
and attempted by a reduction of rates
to disarm prejudice and take the rate
question out of politics. That work,
however. Is incomplete, so long as they
permit the present political activity of
under-ofilclals to continue. The . fact is
that the good Impression they then
made has' been measurably destroyed
by what has" happened since. The
railroad Interests of the State of Wash
ington are rapidly getting themselves
Into the same fix the Southern Pacific
has occupied so expensively and uncom
foHably so ' many -years in the poli
tics of California. Mr. Harrlman
is trying to get. rid of the venal and
predatory -conditions long suffered
in California, .thereby extricating the
Southern Pacific as rapidly - as pos
sible from" Its" political entanglement
This "remedial policy must be employed
in Washington State. Otherwise, there
Is trouble In store, not only for prop
erty rights, but for public morality.
GERMAN MILITARY SUPERIORITY.
The annual maneuvers of the German
Army are now In progress, and are at
tended by distinguished military men
of the British and American armies, In
cluding Lord Roberts, Generals French
and Ian Hamilton, of the British Army,
and Generals S. B. M. Young and H. C.
Corbln. of the American Army. Em
peror William, of course, as Commander-in-Chief,
presides over the whole af
fair, but the great strategist and
tactician of the German Army Is Count
Waldersee.
Germany is the foremost military
power of the world. Her telegraph,
telephone, railway construction and bal
loon service are considered the best In
the world, and so are her cavalry and
artillery. Her general staff Is the model
for the whole world. The peace estab
lishment of Germany's Army today ex
ceeds 600,000 men, while her armies on
a war footing amount to a grand total
of 5,788,000 men and 250,000 officers, a
force that makes her today from a
purely military standpoint more than a
match for the combined forces of France
and Russia, taking into account the
much greater actual efficiency of the
German Army, which Is the most pow
erful, most perfect fighting machine
that the world ever saw.
The German troops engaged In the
present maneuvers are about 92,000
strpngt exceeding In numbers the whole
regular Army of the United States. -The
vitality of the military spirit of Ger
many Is due to the Impressive example
of Emperor William, who has more than
once said that the most potent support
of his throne Is his army. He attends
all parades, maneuvers and anniver
saries of battles, delivers speeches,
fraternizes with the officers of the
army at luncheons or banquets given
at their barracks He fixes rewards
and punishments, dispenses promotions,
orders and decorations, gives praise or
censure, confirms, revises or nullifies
sentences by courts-martial. He Is said
to know personally half of the 25,000 offi
cers of his standing army.
The excellence of the German Army
is not due chiefly to Its memory of pa
triotic glory won In 1870-71; it Is due to
the fact that It has always been scientif
ically kept abreast of the times. No poli
tical nor personal Influence can be suc
cessfully Invoked to screen any man,
high or low, In the German Army who
Is not fit for a soldier. An officer may
be proved a tyrant and a brute and
hold his place, but If he is so ignorant
of his profession as to exhibit his in
competency, his lack of sound military
Intelligence, to his superiors, he cannot
stay In the German Army. In event of
a great war no man simply because of
wealth or rank could possibly secure a
commission in the German Army. He
would be obliged- to render military
servloe, but without military knowledge
and training he could not obtain a com
mission. The son of Bismarck fought as a plain
trooper In one of the German regiments
in 1870-71. A man must earn his spurs
In the German Army. He must earn
his commission by study and proved In
telligence at the military schools, and In
peace and In war he must prove by his
valor and conduct that he Is fit to keep
his commission. Nothing is wasted in
vainglorious boasting or empty enthu
siasm. War in the, German Army is
reduced to a science, a business. If
you do not know your business, you
cannot obtain a commission, and if you
neglect your business, you cannot re
tain it.
AN INTERESTING SUBJECT.
There is no subject that comes "before
medical societies In the discussion of
which the general public Is so deeply
Interested as that of tuberculosis and Its
treatment. A disease that numbers
among Its sufferers anever-decreaslng
host, and among Its victims thousands
every passing year against which all
the remedial agencies known to medi
cal science are powerless, and one that
Is communicable though not actively
contagious consumption is the stalking
ghost bf every community. Investiga
tion has brought much to light in the
pathology of this disease In recent years.
Its? cause has been so definitely deter
mined that It Is not necessary to await
Its development through slow stages in
order to detect Its presence. The Intel
ligent physician can detect it In its
earlier stages by the use of his micro
scope with unerring accuracy and give
the patient warning of Its presence.
Knowing that no medicine has yet been
discovered or compounded that will de
stroy the pernicious germs of the dis
ease that will nog also destroy the tis
sues upon which life depends that medi
cine Indeed but aggravates the difficulty,.
and hastens the end by disturbing dU
gestlon and destroying the. patient's ap
petite, the perplexed physician has been
wont to advise "change of climate" as
long the only resource from the de
stroyer. How vain this resource has
proven has been seen- In the death, far
from home and friends, of hundreds of
consumptives who staked their last hope
on this advice and lost.
Experience and observation, passing
through many trying stages in coping
with this 'disease, have at length de
cided that life In the open air Is the
only means by which the germs of tu
berculosis can be dislodged from the
system once Invaded, or their "presence
therein rendered Innocuous. Not the air
of Colorado or of New Mexico or Ari
zona, or of any specified place, but the
open air of any locality the climate of
which will permit people to live in It
constantly eat In it, sleep In it. breathe
In it. So far, indeed, has opinion ad
vanced in this direction that we find
one physician at the medical convention
now In session In this city declaring
that -It should be made a penal pffense
for doctors to give drugs In the treat
ment of tuberculosis, adding: "The
open-air treatment Is the only one that
Is valuable."
Sanitariums 'carried on upon this prin
ciple have been established in many
places. Open air. wholesome food and
rest are the principles upon which these
establishments are conducted. These
simple weapons with which incipient
consumption may successfully be corn
batted are within the reach of suffer
ers everywhere. The cost of a roof
chamber, protected merely from the
rain and snow, would be much less than
the railway fare to Arizona or Colorado.
Western Oregon Is not an Ideal place
in which to carry out this Idea, owing
to the long and persistent rains of Win
ter, but there is no reason why the eli
minate of Southern Oregon cannot be
made to serve the purpose of the con
sumptive who seeks the open-air treat
ment as well as that of Arizona, while
the climate of Eastern Oregon can
scarcely be inferior to that of Colorado
or Montana for the same purpose. The
declaration of Dr. Hershey . before the
medical convention Wednesday that
"there is no special climate that will
cure tuberculosis; what is needed Is to
get out Into the open air and rough it,"
contains the essence of all experience
In this matter. To follow this advice
effectively it-will be necessary to begin
early In the progress of the disease,
since for reasons that are obvious to
any one who has had experience In the
care of consumptives It Is as imprac
ticable In advanced stages as would be
advice to the patient to take exercise by
means of flying.
USES OF EXPOSITIONS.
George Frederick Kunz contributes an
article to the current number of the
North American Review on the man
agement and uses of expositions. Mr.
Kunz speaks with authority that comes
of long training and extensive observa
tion. At the age of 20 he represented
at the Centennial Exposition of 1S76
the American Museum of Natural His
tory. Since then he has attended In an
official capacity the Paris expositions In
1880 and 1800, the exhibitions at At
lanta, Nashville, Omaha, Buffalo and
Turin. In the judgment of Mr. Kunz
the indictment lies that "such enter
prises have been largely planned and
managed for the pecuniary' benefit of
their promoters; that the expenses of
their administration have been contin
ually evaded: that business men who
risked their goods, their money and
their time In an enterprise which they
had a right to believe National have In
the end been forced to the conclusion
that they were drawn Into a private
speculation from which real estate deal
ers, railroad companies, hotels and local
tradesmen derived huge profits, profits
which should have gone Into a general
fund to pay all just debts and charges
before any individual benefited by a
single dollar."
The exposition of 1S7G resulted In a
collapse In Philadelphia real estate, due
to overspeculatlon In the vicinity of the
fair. The patriotic subscribers to the
stock of the exposition never received a
dollar in return. The contractors at
Buffalo, who built "the Dream City,"
went unpaid when the railroads and
hotel-keepers made profits. Mr. Kunz
predicts that the time must come when
the public and the exhibitors at Amer
ican expositions will cease to suffer
from the greed of private speculators,
the brutality of Inefficient management
and misdirection. If our expositions
were managed on the lines of the ex
positions of Europe held the past Sum
mer, their expenses would have been
paid out of moneys, which should have
gone Into the general fund Instead of
to private beneficiaries. On the other
hand, Mr. Kunz frankly admits that
our great expositions, while defective in
financial management, must have been
of immense benefit to the country.
To the Philadelphia Exposition of 1S76
was due an art movement of National
proportions. Out of It grew the Me
morial Hall In Philadelphia and the
Commercial Art Museum. The great
Chicago Fair educated the people and
was a means of Introducing new ideals
and standards of architecture nd art
into their homea A great boom In
mines followed the Denver Mining Ex
position of 1882. The Chicago Fair il
lustrated the first, Buffalo the latest, de
velopments in electric lighting, and at
Omaha the intermediate stages were
shown. At Atlanta there was a fine ex
hibition of the arts and industries of
the- Southern Statea The exhibition at
Nashville of local industries and manu
factures was of extraordinary benefit to
Southern consumers and Northern man
ufacturers. As a benefit to exhibitors,
the great Russian Fair formerly held
at Nijnl Novgorod Is quoted, where for
over a century the annual sales In six
weeks' time amounted to a billion of
francs, and all Central Asia there had
an annual exchange with the whole ter
ritory of Central Europe during the
Middle Ages.
Abroad the -expenses of a fair are provided-
for before the doors are opened.
Private Individuals are not permitted
to form companies by, which they can
contrive to reap profits, while the cred
itors whistle for their money, if the en
terprise is unsuccessful. Mr. Kunz con
cludes by saying that "In every other
than a financial sense every exposition
held in the United States has been suc
cessful. No one of them has failed to
benefit directly and indirectly every part
of our country a result far better than
If they had succeeded as money-making
t enterprises but failed in the higher
meals ana utintiea"
SETTLEMENT WITH THE BOERS.
At his recent conference with the Boer
Generals in London Mr. Chamberlain
Is reported to have compared Great
Britain's treatment of the Boers with
the treatment of the South by the North
after our Civil War. Mr. Chamberlain
says that the North gave the Confeder
ates their llves'and liberties and "after
a period of ten years gave them votes,
but 'did not give them any money com
pensation, while England gave the
Boers $15,000,000 toward relieving the
waste of war.. Mr. "Chamberlain's an
swer Is either ignorant or disingenuous.
In the first place,, it is not historically
just to compare our Civil War to the
war of Great Britain with the Boers.
From the standpoint of our Government
the Confederates were Insurgents
against our flag, while .the Boers were
not British subjects. The Orange Free
State was absolutely free, and the
Transvaal Republic was absolutely free
save that In the matter of treaties with
foreign powers the sanction of Great
Britain was needed. To this extent only
did the Transvaal Republic acknowl
edge the suzerainty of Great Britain.
The Boers invaded British territory
and were finally conquered In the war
that followed, but the Boers were not In
any sense Insurgents or rebela Fur
thermore, our Civil War lasted more
than four years, cost us some eight
billions of dollars, about a million of
lives on both sides, and left us with a
public debt of about three billions of
dollars. When the great armies of Lee
and Johnston surrendered they were not
only given their lives and liberties, but
their horses to help them, as Grant said,
"In their Spring plowing." The small
territory of the country of the Boers
has been completely swept of food for
men and fodder for domestic animals;
the farmsteads have all been bufned.
This was Inevitable with the passage
of a great army over a small territory,
much of which had never been agricul
turally productive. The Boers with
their families were really In a state
of comparative distress and famine at
the close of the war. The territory of
the South had suffered considerably In
spots from the march of our armies,
but as a whole the South at the close
6f the war did not lack for local food
supplies. The lack of suDDlles for Lee's
"army and Johnston's was not due to'
the lack of food In the South, hut to
the destruction of the railways behind
those armies, which prevented transpor
tation of military supplies of all sorts.
Furthermore, the slaves at the South
kept the plantations ip. a state of culti
vation except in the path of our armies,
so that there was no such comparative
widespread destitution and distress be
cause of war as existed In the South
African Republics.
We did not disfranchise the Confed
erates for any term of years. As fast as
they framed constitutions acceptable to
Congress they became at once politically
rehabilitated. In the Presidential .elec
tion of November, 1858, Alabama, Ar
kansas, Florida,. Georgia, Louisiana,
North Carolina, South Carolina all
voted; the only states not voting
were Virginia, Mississippi and Texas.
At thlB date all persons had
been pardoned except those under In
dictment in any court of the United
States having competent Jurisdiction.
This was the situation in 1868, within
leas than two years after President
Johnson's official proclamation that the
war was over, and less than four years
after Lee's surrender. These facts show
clearly, first, that the relation of Boer
and Briton and that of Unionist and
Confederate were In no sense Identical,
and. secondly, that, considering the
length, the bitterness, the margnltude..
the severity and the enormous cost of
our Civil War, we dealt more gener
ously with our insurgents than the Brit
ish did with the -Boers. .The- South had
not been made a desert and a solitude
by our arms; it was not foodless nor
homeless; Its land was still fertile, and
It had plenty of strong-handed farm
ers. Its business and-commerce were, of
course, paralyzed, but the South as a
whole had not been swept clean by the
besom of war of crops, flocks and herds
and farmsteads, as had the territory of
the South African Republics.
Had the South been In the same state
of bitter need as the .Boers, that need
.would have been known and alleviated,
but this need did not exist. The South
asked only for political restoration, and
It obtained it so rapidly that by Novem
ber. 1868, every one of the seceding
states save three voted for President.
Mr. Chamberlain's comparison Is not
just to America or to the Boers. If Great
Britain's war had bee'n to stamp out an
attempt at secession on the part of Scot
land or Ireland, his comparison might
have- some force, but the Boers were
not revolted English subjects. Mr.
Chamberlain Is wrong when he says
that we disfranchised the South for ten
years; we offered thein prompt restora
tion. All except Virginia, Mississippi
and Texas were fully restored in 1868;
Virginia and Mississippi were restored
in 1869 and Texas in 1S70. so that within
five years after the great surrender the
whole Southern Confederacy was legally
entitled to elect members of Congress
and to vote for President of the United
States.
, It Is hoped that Percy A. Smith, ap
pointed by Senator Simon to fill the
existing vacancy In the Naval Academy
at Annapolis, will be able to pass his
entrance examination successfully, Ore
gon has not been fortunate In this line.
Few of its appointees have qualified and
passed on Into active service in the
Navy, though a number of very estima
ble and energetic young men have from
time to time entered and essayed to
enter the Naval Academy. The Port
land public schools have not, from some
cause, appeared to advantage in exam
inations of this character. It might be
well to look the matter up and
strengthen the weak points Indicated by
the repeated failure of candidates who
have received their preliminary educa
tion In theoa schools to pass the en
trance examination to Annapolis.
The Oregonlan Is glad to be reminded,
In the Tacoma nominations, of its earn
est desire and humble efforts in the last
Congress, in behalf of the reapportion
ment bill which gave Washington three
Representatives. A determined effort
was made, and for a time looked om
inous, to prevent the state from getting
its rightful increase. Gain in Washing
ton's representation Is a good thing for
the entire Pacific Coast, and If Oregon
Isn't satisfied why, let her go and get
the people, as Washington did. Wash
ington is now numerically equal or su
perior in Congress to thirteen states:
Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire,
North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island,
-South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming.
If one time Is more inconvenient than
another for a tie-up of river traffic,
that time is the fruit-shipping and hop
jiicklng season. There may be good
reasons for the present serious crip
pling of this traffic, but thus far they
have not been divulged.
United States) Senator Hawley, of
Connecticut, is in declining health, and
will probably never again take his seat
In the Senate. Senator Hawley Is about
76 years of age. -His term expires in
1905.
Here's Candor for Yon!
New York Evening Post.
Quay and Penrose threatening the rail
road presidents with the power of the Re
publican party In Pennsylvania, If the
coal strike continues, are a pair of ridic
ulous mice at the foot of a mountain In
labor. The calmness of the aforesaid pres
idents in the face of such danger Is eas
ily accounted for. Quay and Penrose be
long to them and to the capitalists affil
iated with them. They can put both of
them out of office as easily as they put
them In more easily, in fact, than thcy
put Quay in the last time. Quay would
never think of passing a law at Harrls
burg without their consent. If anybody
should attempt to pass such a law. Quay
and Penrose would compass Its defeat In
some way. The Republican party in Phil
adelphia and Pittsburg, and In the state
at large, Is the subservient tool and In
strument of a corrupt ring, of which
Quay and Penrose are the figureheads, but
not the motive power. The real parties In
Interest are the corporations that furnish
,the money by which tho springs of gov
ernment aro polluted, and the state made
a hissing ana a by-word to mankind. No
wonder tho railroad presidents snap their
fingers when their two Senators talk about
the Republican party and the power of
the state In connection with the coal
strike. Senator Piatt, in his interviews
about the strike, has not hinted at the
use of political power as a means of end
ing it, but '.has merely predicted the end
within two weeks. He Is therefore less
of a humbug In this Instance , than his
fellow-Senators from the adjoining state.
A Freethinker' Prayer.
By R. C. Adams, president of the Montreal
Freethought Club.
May the commonwealth of man come;
may the will of the worker bo done; may
the toller receive abundantly his dally
bread; my each man pay his debts and
never ask forgiveness of Just dues; may
we resist temptation, tp Injure others or
aegraoe ourselves; may me discoveries anu
inventions of science and the knowledge"
of nature deliver us from evil and let us
strive to do justly, love mercy and make
other people happy. Amen.
SPIRIT OF THE NORTrJWEST PRESS
The Editor and the Candidate.
A lhanv T)Tnnom
Reputable newspapers got very little T
from candidates for office; in fact, tney
are fortunate if they get their subscrip
tion paid up in advance for a year. Most
papers are patriotic to their party and
give an Immense sight for nothing more
thap they receive credit for.
Work forhe Great Explainer.
Pendleton Tribune.
That forest reserve question will be
come rather vexatious to the Hon. Binger
Hermann before it Is settled. The min
ing men about Sumpter are up in wrath,
stockmen.are in doubt and not many peo
ple are certain that the reserve 1s a good
thing. The Commissioner will have a
good time explaining why he did it and
the good of having a reserve,
Irrigation' Universal Blessing.
Salem Statesman.
The manufacturers of the East want
more American farmers to sell their prod
ucts to. There is a vast extent of terri
tory In Eastern and Southestern Oregon,
now practically or wholly desert, that can
be reclaimed and made rich and thrifty
with magnificent farms. Every part of
Oregon will be benefited by the reclama
tion of these lands.
Portland nnd Coos Bay.
Bandon Recorder.
Portland has awakened to the fact that
there Is . a Coos Bay country, with an
enormous amount of natural wealth
around it, and is talking of making an
effort to reach out after it. Portland has
hitherto left Southwest Oregon to the
tender mercies of San Francisco mer
chants, and It -will be surprising if she
now scrapes the moss o"ff her back and
rustles out for the" conquest.
Athletic Sensation on Gray's Harbor.
Aberdeen' Sun.
Ex-Policeman. Doyle, who was let out of
the force on the ground that he was the
weakest member of It. was the strongest
man who struck the hammer which was
one of the street attractions during the
Carnival, He sent It up to 2123 pounds;
W. Ryan made It go to 3400. and Judge
Pearson .went much higher than L. L.
Maley. City Attorney Shields shot the
staple out of Its socket, and there was no
register. The bolt struck the top of
Kaufman's building.
And Yet He Died!
Falrhaven Herald.
Mr. Jansen was one of the best-known
caterers In Whatcom. He conducted the
Saddle Rock Oyster House In the Light
house .block, and but recently moved to a
new location on Elk street. He was of a
sociable and jovial nature, and made
hosts of friends while engaged In busi
ness. He v leaves a widow and son to
mourn bis death. He. was a member of
the three fraternal orders Fraternal Or
der of Eagles, Improved Order of Red
Men and the Fraternal Union of America.
Pleasure Before Business.
Ashland Tidings.
Advices from the mouth of Klamath
River, In the neighboring county of Del
Norte, say that salmon canning operations
ceased last Saturday at the Klamath Riv
er cannery-. At the time there were a
few salmon being caught, and canning
would have been continued longer had the
entire Indian crew not left to attend an
Indian dance, being held about 30 miles up
the river. The pack for the season
amounted to a little over 3000 cases. With
plenty of help at the cannery the salmon
were plentiful enough to have packed 7000
cases.
Independent Journalism.
Salem Journal.
The large, advertisement In this paper
for the great American Tobacco trust
cost a great deal of money. Those adver
tisements in the American newspapers
cost five times as much as the prizes of
ferCd. What Is the purpose of these ad
vertisements? Nothing but to popularize
certain brands of cigars, and compel re
tailers to keep them in stock, and to
that extent drive all similar brands out
of the market. Thus it will compel the
jobbers to handle Its brands, compel the
retailer to keep them In stock, compel
the smoker to use them, and force out big
dividends on Its watered stock.. There is
one way out, and that is to smoke Oregon-made
cigars, as long as the factory
does not sell -out to the trust.
Benefits of Legal Stndy.
Salem Law Journal.
The study of law is the best educational
drill, no matter what profession or busi
ness a person Intends to enter. If a teach
er. It broadens his mind and benefits his
pupils. If a politician. It makes him a
better one; the halls of Congress and the
greater part of the principal offices of the
land are filled by lawyers. If a financier,
his success is more assured, as more than
nine-tenths of the financiers are lawyers.
If a divine, his perception .of right and
wrong Is more extended and he sees the
full difference between the letter and the
spirit of the law. The trained equity law
yer whets his faculty for percelylng right
and wrong to the keenest edge, and looks
to the spirit and intent of the law, rather
than to the letter of the law, and discov
ers wrongs and applies remedies based up
on the highest development of the Golden
Rule.
Governor Hnnt for the Senate.
Boise Statesmen.
The Pocatello Trihunp avs it h in
formation to the effect that Governor
Hunt Is planning to become a candidate
for Senator in the event of his being re
elected to his present position. It speaks
of a bait said to have been held out to
the Washington delegation to the effect
that, if they would vote for him for Gov
ernor, they might have Adams for Lieutenant-Governor,
and that, as he would
be a .candidate for Senator, the. latter
might thus become Governor of the state.
It Is altogether probable that such a plan
Is being evolved. It was said In Poca
tello that there were letters there from
the Governor urging the recipients to op
pose the plan of nominating a candidate
for Senator, his reason being that he
would have a chance to win the Senator
ship after being elected Governor If he
were not handicapped by the convention's
having made a nomination.
Johnson's Favorite Bait.
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
As applied to local street railways, gas
and electric light plants and othr mu
nicipal monopolies,' public ownership is
largely a question of business policy. Its
advocates who take it up In that spirit
cannot be criticised as "enemies of prop
erty." But when municipal ownership is
taken up as a short cut to popularity
and political power, there Is cause for
distrust. A good deal of this spirit has
been, manifested hy Mayor Johnson. ,He
haa said enough to Indicate that he
would be. as unsafe in the Presidential
chair as Mr. Bryan, to whose, financial
and other nostrums he subscribes. He If
not unlikely to be thrown overboard by
the next Democratic National Conven
tton If he appear before It as a candi
date, and he certainly will be If that
party is able by that time to see the very
patent fact that it cannot hopt to re-establish
itself in public confidence till it
suppresses the last and the least mani
festation of the- Populistlc and destructive
spirit of'ISSS and 1300.
That's a Fact,
Albany Democrat.
The soliciting committee Is out after
subscriptions for the advertising funds
under the Harriman system, and most
everybody Is responding, realizing the ne
cessity of Linn County holding up Its end
of tho important scheme for getting East
ern people Interested in Oregon. It is
time that the name .Oregon was known in
the world, as well if not- better than
Washington.
CLEAN JOURNALISM PROSPERS.
Youth's Companion.
There are encouraging Indications of a
revival of clean Journalism. It is not
coming through the establishment ot
"endowed newspapers." Few practical
newspaper mea believe In that agency
for the reform of deplorable newspaper
tendencies. The very fact that a newspa
per was endowed would so far detach It
from ordinary conditions of publication
as to make it useless as an example.
Moreover, the existence of such a news
paper would Imply a confession that a
really clean and moral journal was
unprofitable; else why the endowment?
It Is not phllanthrophy that Is wanted,
so much as business sagacity apd a good
newspaper sense, Joined with a high pur
pose. A newspaper Is not a moral tract,
and cannot be displaced by tracts.
A man who should spend millions In en
dowing .newspapers that were too good to
stand alone would not be nearly so great
a benefactor as the man who demon
strated that a clean newspaper can be
made to pay.
This demonstration Is now being made
In several American cities. Some of the
most successful newspapers repudiate al
together the methods of the "new jour
nalism." They do not disfigure their
pages with cheap pictures, nor with huge
blotches, of red ink, nor with headlines 1"
type four inches high. They do not pad
three lines of actual news, transmitted
by cable, with" half a column of lurid
details manufactured In the office, pro
ceded by a lying date-line. They have
no drag-net out for scandals; they show
some respects for rights of privacy. Yet
their news service Is of the best, They
are well written and well edited; they
appeal to healthy minds; their circulation
Is large and Increasing.
It Is especially gratifying that the recent-sale
of one or two important news
paper properties has brought the-m under
a management which is committed to
these methods.
On Long: Sermons.
New York Evening Post.
Nothing more irritated Charles II
against his faithful Scots than the three
hours' sermon, full of animadversions on
the sins of his father, through which he
had to sit before being crowned King o
Scotland, preparatory to the Invasion of
England. Little wonder that later he en
tertained the liveliest objection to writ
ten sermons, and in a letter to the Uni
versity of Cambridge commanded its
members not to smoke tobacco, wear
periwigs, or read their sermons. He re
buked Stilllngfleet for reading his dis
courses, but the divine replied that the
presence of so great and wise a Prince
prevented him preaching extempore. The
compliment pleased Charles, and to Stlll
ingfleet's tu quoque, "Why does your
Majesty read your speeches to Parlia
ment?" he made the witty reply that ne
had asked the two houses so often and
for so much money that he was ashamed
to look them in the face.
But the Merry Monarch's forbearance
under the eloquence of his. chaplains" was
exemplary. Richard Baxter preached De
fore him for an hour and a half, and even
though tho sermon was "contracted" ror
the occasion, and Charles took refuge In
slumber, the feat excites the admiration
of this age of brevity and stricter morals.
Once Dr. South stopped In his sermon be
fore the court and called to Lord Lauder
dale by name: "My Lord, my Lord, I am
sorry to Interrupt your repose, but 1
must beg of you not to snore quite so
loud, lest you awaken His Majesty." This
so tickled Charles that he exclaimed:
"Odds fish! this chaplain must be a bish
op." But George II was not so compla
cent In church. Rls main anxiety was
that the sermon should be short, since
otherwise he was, to use his own words.
"In danger of falling asleep and catching
cold," After this the chaplains reduced'
the compass of their discourses to 15 min
utes, so that the King's highest praise
was "a good, short sermon."
For such fear of the results of lengthy
sermons there Is sufficient reason In the
disaster which befell Eutychus through
St. Paul "so long preaching" as to keep
his hearers until midnight. Dean. Swilt
declared that "opium Is not so stupefying"
to many people as a long sermon." ami"
In his famous sermon on the Eutychus
episode in the Acts improved the occasion
in his most" pungent manner. i?nc
preachers now in the world, however
much they may exceed St. Paul in tne
art of setting men to sleep, do extremely
fall short of him In the' power of work
ing miracles; thereforo, hearers are be
come more cautious, so as to choose more
safe and convenient stations and posi
tions for their repose without hazard of
their persons, and upon the whole mat
ter choose rather to trust their destruc
tion to a miracle than their safety,"
Plnx Ponar In Chinese.
San Francisco Call.
The New York Sun reports that a few
days ago two Chinamen were traveling
on a Sound steamer when they overheard
some white men using the words "ping
pong." They complained to the captain
that they had been Insulted by the words,
and when the captain refused redress
they attacked the man who uaed them.
It seems' that "ping pong" are fighting
words in China, so people who wish to
avoid insulting Mongolian dignity would
better be careful how they talk of the
game.
PERSONS WORTH KNOWING ABOUT.
Colonel Hardy W. B. Price, of Clayton. Ala.,
one of the few still surviving who took part In
the battle of San Jacinto, which decided Texan
Independence, is hale and "rearty. and remem
bers the battle as though it happened but yes
terday. He is 85 years of age. having been
born In Edgecombe County. North Carolina,
on May 6. 1S1T.
Galusha A." Grow, Congressman-at-large from
Pennsylvania, will not be a candidate for re
election In his home district". Mr. Grow cele
brated his 80th birthday recently. He was
Speaker of the House during the Civil War.
The venerable statesman Is quoted as saying:
"I have appreciated highly the honor that has
been done me in electing me Congressman-at-large.
and I am satisfied with the record that
has been made already."
On several occasions lately Conan Doyle,
while walking In London, has been mistaken
for Lord Kitchener, much to the author's em
barrassment. Once he was nearly mobbed by
a yelling crowd of enthusiasts, who cheered
madly for "the 'ero of South Hafrica." By the
way, It has seldom fallen to the lot of man to
reach affluence In a literary career so early in
life as has-been the case with Sir Conan. He
Is only -13. rich; titled and popular.
Judge John Stewart, of Chambersburg, Pa.,
considers that those who steal bicycles should
be classed with horsethieves, because persons
too poor to buy horses use the silent steed In
stead. Two bicycle thieves were convicted in
his court last week, and he sentenced each of
them to 18 months In the penitentiary. Prie of
them said, impudently: "Thank you," where
upon his honor remarked: "As you are so well
pleased I shall Increase your term by six
months '
Albert Bruce-Joy, who Is 60 years of age. is
one of the most active of English sculptors.
He has given Bow her Gladstone. "Birmingham
her Bright, Westminster Abbey ls Matthew
Arnold, Stratford-oh'Avon her Mary Anderson,
and has set up numerous other statues In Eng
land and in America. Born In Dublin, he be
came a pupil of Foley, and studied three years
In Rome, since when he has traveled much In
America. He Is one of the sturdiest of vege
tarians. The lecturers of the Federation of Alliances
Francalses In this country the coming season
will be Germain Martin, a young professor of
the University of France, and Leopold Mabll
lrau, director of the Paris Musee Sociale. Mar
tin's subjects will be historical, his tour begin
ning In October and ending In December; Ma
bllleau will speak before the Cercle Francalse
a Harvard University, the alliances and sev
eral universities, and al6 he will initiate a
-French, normal school here.
"Big Chief" Devery. of New York, who Is
making such a lively flght for district leader
ship in Tammany, has a pithy way of puttltjg
things at times. At one of his meetings he
was discussing David B. Hill, whom he de
nounces, of course. Said he: "Hill has sat on
a fence at Wolfert's Roost sq long, with hl3
eyes shut and his ears open, that he has begun
to molt Dave Hll enters no political game
unless he can feel the marks on the cards
through a boxlpg glove."
NOTE AND COMMENT.
So you see there are worse things than
rain.
The smoke tempered the rays of the
sun,' anyway.
The crematory may. not yield any reve
nue, but It hasn't lost a scent.
Governor McBride won out by a narrow
margin. But if you don't think It's
enough, ask the railroads;
The ticket put up at Tacoma Is ahowy
and effective. "Washington will make the
most of Itself at Washington.
"Let's smoke," said the fir to the vol
cano, This was so offensive to the pow
der magazine that It gave the tree a
blowing up.
Steam whistles sound the knell of parting day,
The barnyard with electric lights is gay:
The plowman in his auto wheels away.
With phonograph and telephone to play.
These forest fires may be set down to
the Joint credit of Major Ormsby's re
doubtable rangers and the timber syn
dicates that have been looking. so faith
fully and vaingloriously after their new
purchases.
They say that when some of the East
ern Oregon, stockmen who have been tak
ing In the sights woke up yesterday
mornlng and found ashes all over their
clothes they thought they had died In the
night and passed to their future home.
If the Republicans renominate President
Roosevelt In 1904 he will be the first New
Yorker they have named for President
since tho Republican party was organ
ized. Of the eight Republican candidates
for the Presidency, one was credited to
California, six were from the Middle
West, and one was from Maine. But of
the nine Democratic candidates for the
Presidency named during the life of the
Republican party, four were from New
York State.
Tho English papers never weary of
telling of the strange things alleged to
have been said und done by visitors from
America. The following is one of their
latest creations: "At a well-known hotel
In New Brighton. In the smokeroom.
there Is a brass plate on which Is in
scribed. "Charles Dickens favorite seat.
The other day a-party of Americans cams
In. and one, espying the plate, exclaimed:
'Well, I'm going to sit here a bit. nnd if
Dickens comes in he can have his favor
ite scat.' "
A 4-year-old citizen of Indiana who has
been spending several weeks In Oregon
was dining the other day at the home of
a Clatskanie relative, where the asking
of a blessing precedes the meal. This was
new to the boy, but he had been duly
warned by his mother, and was the very
soul of decorum until the ceremony was
over. After the "Amen" he looked up
brightly and said, "Let me do that, too."
He was given permission to go ahead, and
after casting his eyes down and finger
ing the letters on the back of his plate
until perfect quiet had been restored, he
solemnly observed, "And Tracy killed
himself."
Let them have their roaring Felee, with Its de
vastation rare;
Let Vesuvius and Sapotitlan spout.
We can see and feel the cinders In our atmos
pheric air.
And be sure there's Are somewhere hereabout.
I come from Colorado's wilds
And Adirondack delis:
I beard the grizzly in his den
And Join the cowboy yells.
Manhattan toughs or Spanish guns
Have touched me not a. speOK:
The bucking broncho rears aloft.
But finds me on hl3 neck. -
O, trains may crash and battles roar
In vain their deadly strife.
And e'en the murderous trolley falU
To reach the strenuous life.
A man who had lost his much-beloved
wife consulted a stonemason In regard
to the erection of a tombstone with a
suitable epitaph. After having a num
ber of lines suggested, he finally suggest
ed the following:
The light of my life has gone out.
A short time afterward the widower
fell In love with a very charming girl, to
whom he became engaged. He Intended
to leave town, returning on the day of
the wedding, and before he went off In
structed the mason to alter the epitaph so
that the feelings of his prospective wife
would not be hurt. This the mason prom
ised to do, and when the widower re
turned he visited the grave at once, find
ing that the mason had been true to his
word, the epitaph now appearing:
The light of my life has gone out, but I have
found another match. -
John Murphy Farley was born In
County Armagh, Ireland, August 20, 1S42.
He saw but little of Ireland, however,
coming to America in his youth. After
graduating from St. John's College. Ford
ham, In 1S66, he studied for the priesthood
at St. Joseph's Seminary. In Troy, N. Y.,
and In the American College In Rome.
Ordained In 1S70, he was assigned to a
parish on Staten Island, and ever since
he has been connected with the arch
diocese of New York. As early as 1S72
Bishop Farley became secretary to Car
dinal McCloskey, nnd In 1SS4 he became
private chamberlain to Pope Leo, with
the title of monslgnor. Advancement
since then has been steady and rapid.
In 1S31 he became vicar-general of the
archdiocese. In 1S92 domestic prelate to
the pope, and in 1SD5 auxiliary bishop an 1
coadjutor to Archbishop Corrlgan. This
prelate has belonged to the liberal wing
of the American Catholics, and his ele
vation is regarded as a marked recogni
tion of them by the Vatican.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
Mrs. Glltedge How do you like the new but
ler? GUtedge He's a peach! Made me feel at
home at once! Life.
A Rise in Estimation. Mr. Gotrox Your
friends won't think any mora of you for spend
ing your money so freely. Cholly Gotrox Oh.
some of 'em do. dad some of 'em actually think
I'm a wlne-agcnt! Puck.
Professor Von Note You haf a vine collection
off classic music here. Music Dealer That's
for young ladles to look over previous to asking
for a copy of "The Honeysuckle and the Bee."
New York Weekly.
Couldn't Resist It. "What deep mourrlrg
she has on for such a distant relative?" "Well,
you see, she went shopping an J struck such a
rplendid bargain sale of black goods.' Phila
delphia Evening Bulletin.
Not Much Difference. "Was that Summer re
sort as homelike a place as they advertised it
to be?" asked Mrs. Jenner Lee Ondego. '"I
found It so." reDlied Mra. Seldnm-Holme.
"Tney naa a russ witn tne cook regularly every
day." Chfcago Tribune.
The Only Thing. Customer I expect to take
a trip abroad, and I usually get seasick. A
friend ot mine told me he thought you could
fix me up so that I could keep something on
my stomach. Druggist Ah. yes; what you
want Is one of our hot-water bags. Philadel
phia Press,
Mrs. Hoax My new servant girl's a good one.
but she makes ,my husband so mad. He's a
crank about his coffee, you know. Mrs. Joax
Vnd she can't make coffee, eh? Mrs. Hoax
She, makes it Just- right, but that's the one
thing he always likes to kick about, and now
he hasn't any excuse, don't you see? Philadel
phia Record.