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3 THE MORNING OREGONIAN. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 17, 1902. Otoe r00tticm "Entered at the Postofflce at Portland, Oregon, as eecond-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES." Br Mall (postage prepaid. In Advance) Dally, with Sunday, per month ? S5 Dally, Sunday excepted, per year......... 7 50 Dally, with Sunday, per year 8 00 Sunday, per year 2 00 The Weekly, per year 1 CO The "Weekly. 3 months W ToCity Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday excepted. 15c Dally, per week, delivered, Sundayn.tncluded.20c POSTAGE RATES. United States. Canada and Mexico: JO to 14-page paper ..lc 14 to 28-page paper 2 Foreign rates double. News or discussion. Intended for publication In Thp Oregonian should be addressed invaria bly "Editor The Oregonian." not to the name of any Individual. Letters Telatlng to adver tising, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonian." 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Hearsey & Co., 24 Third street South. For sale In Washington. D. C. by the Ebbett House news stand. For eale in Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck, 906-012 Seventeenth street; Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co.. Fifteenth and Lawrence streets; A. Series, Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TOD AT" S WEATHER Fair; warmer. North erly, winds. YESTERDAY' S WEATHER Maximum tem perature. C8 deg.; minimum temperature. 41 deg.; no precipitation. y PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY,' SfcPT. 17. THE ISSUE, AXD WHERE IT IS. Principles before men. The people before the party. The greatest good to the greatest number, before the contin uance of special privileges to the few. This Is the platform upon which thoso Republicans stand whose persistence has apparently sent Speaker Henderson into voluntary retirement. It is an event almost unprecedented in our po litical annals, and its effect upon cur rent discussion must be profound. It will emphasize the tariff reform senti ment in the Republican party as hardly anything else could have done. Let us discount Mr. Henderson's an nouncement in every possible way. There will be enough left for comfort of all tariff reformers Suppose that he has something p!s In view. Sunnose that he is afraid that Boies will beatJ him. Suppose he thinks that he can bluff governor Cummins and Senator Dolllver and Mint Director Roberts down, so that they will keep- still about the tariff and fix it for him to be ap proved in his stand, returned to Con gress and re-elected Speaker. Suppose everything that sympathy or malice can invent, and nothing of the force of this announcement is broken; for Speaker Henderson plainly, attributes his with drawal to the activity of tariff reform Republicans of Iowa. It will be difficult for certain blind and deaf Republican politicians and newspapers to maintain their Inability to see any tariff-reform sentiment in their party; awkward for them to con tinue to assert that there is no difference at all in the party over the tariff ques tion, and transparently false for them to continue to assert, as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Tacoma Ledger falsely assert, from day to day, that the only persons asking for 'tariff re form are Democrats and free-tradera They will hardly call Speaker Hender son & liar. They can only adopt the highly logical and astute assumption that everything our noble Speaker Hen derson says is true as gospel, and at the same time everything our noble Dol liver and Cummins do is quite correct and proper. Henderson says his tariff views do not square with those of many Iowa Republicans. And he speaks truly. The man who says that some trust evils cannot be reached through abolishment of certain duties, and should not be so reached, is not in harmony with many Republicans, not only in Iowa, but in every state and territory of the Union. If Speaker Henderson is opposed to action on the tariff, or if he occupies such pitiful, perilous, dishonest ground as that recently taken by Secretary Shaw, he is better to withdraw. Every man who takes that position is going to be a hindrance to the party's success and to the country's progress. Let no one deceive himself Into think ing that a smug complacency and re fusal to see the tariff-reform sentiment in the Republican party, can possibly deceive any considerable number of voters, or pass current for honest poli tics. If Mr. Henderson or Mr. Tongue, of Oregon, or Mr. Cushman, of "Wash ington, will go out among the people and ask them, man by man, whether they believe that tariff- protection should longer be extended to the steel trust and salt trust and paper trust and sugar trust, they will get No from ninety nine men out of every hundred. Who is' going to be fooled Into belief that these trusts need the tariff? Who is going to be deceived by ceaseless re iteration of high-tarifi organs that the tariff "protects" American labor? Who does not know that Hanna and his crowd try to take care of these great corporations in return for heavy contri butions to the quadrennial campaign fund? Who is so dull as to suppose that this thing can be kept up indefinitely, . and the people cajoled into voting the Republican ticket, by lying to them and Insulting their Intelligence? Even' man in the United States who has both brains and information knows that the old contentions upon which high tariffs like the Dlngley rates were upheld have passed entirely out of gen eral acceptance. The plea for our "In lant Industries" has become ridiculous. The theory that the tariff keeps up the wages of labor may still be believed by some, but It is not believed by those for whom It Is employed, namely, the workingmen themselves. They know well enough what keeps their wages up. They know exactly how the corpora tions turn over to them a certain pro portion of their profits, as their due un der the operation of the tariff. There is one course for the Republican party -to pursue, and only one. It must cut loose from the lying stuffed prophets around the protection Baal and take the honest ground of tariff reform. In that way it can hold the people's confidence. The choice Is plain before It, It can choose the trusts or the people. Ye cannot serve two mastera If It is de termined to rest under the dictation of the protected intersets and profess In ability to see and unwilling to cor rect the manifest abuses of the tariff system, its hold on power will weaken. The skillful mariner is not he who clings to outdated and useless and ob structive bulks aboard that burden down his laboring craft In heavy seas, but he of the quick eye and prompt decision, who casts away every Incum brance that impedes his progress. It is well that the battle for tariff re form Is within the lines of th& Republi can party. There, at least, there Is ac tivity among the issues of the hour. There, at least, men are not fighting over the responsibility for old defeats, or threshing over the Issues of the past. There, at least, is life; and it is to the living thinkers and actors in that party. Inheriting the courage and the con science of 1S61 and 189G, that the country will look for tariff reform, and not to the dry bones of the Democracy, buried under the debris of anti-imperialism and the silver mania. A WHITE MAX'S PARTY. The Republican party in Alabama is to be henceforth a white man's party. Negro delegates, by the decision of the Republican State Committee, were re fused admittance to the State Conven tion, which met yesterday. This ac tion is the natural consequence of the practical disfranchisement of the negro under the new Alabama Constitution. Since there are now no appreciable number of negroes who are, voters in Alabama, the white Republicans fairly concluded that their political conven tion should be composed of men who were voters rather than of men who were not voters and had no hope in the near future of becoming voters. The negroes who will be most deeply affect ed will be the professional colored poli tician, who frequents National Repub lican Conventions and is generally for sale, either for office or personal profit of some sort. If these" creatures had been represented in the Alabama State Convention' they would have been In the National convention. The colored vote for many years at the South has done the Republican party ho good, and the possession of the vote by the colored man has done him no good. The Republican National Convention will be more Intelligent and more in corrupt for the elimination of the pres ence of the professional negro politi7 clan. It is, of course, painful business trying to cure a bad blunder by begin ning the whole work over again, but the people of the South who are the rul ing forces in that section have deter mined to disfranchise the negro, and the white Republicans, while they are not responsible for this disfranchise ment, cannot, of course, continue to In clude among their political forces men who are without votes in any appreci able numbers. Practically the Republi can party is not much worse off, for all the Congressmen they can lose by the disfranchisement are two from North Carolina, and this loss Is by no means certain, as the white Repub licans have a strong vote in those districts. On the whole, it looks as If the elimination of the negro vote would not be of any disadvantage to the negro. He either did not dare vote or he sold his vote in the Southern States, and in the one case his vote was a wooden gun and In the other-it was a curse to him. The negro vote was worthless to the Republican party, for it stood for no electoral votes, for few members of Congress, and was a fertile source of corruption In the National convention, where the colored delegate generally had his price. THE FIELD OP THE ORIENT. The eloquent speech of Senator Bev eridge at San Francisco is in its logic familiar to the intelligent men of this coast, who were from the outset cease less advocates of the policy of, expan sion. The leaders of public opinion among us have always recognized the fact that until the Pacific Slope secured the trade of the awakened Orient we should be on the wrong side of the con tinent. The rich and highly civilized markets of Europe are the prize of the Atlantic seaboard states, which we can not to any appreciable extent share with them until the Nicaragua Canal is built, and then not to an equal extent. To a developed, awakened, freely trad ing Orient the Pacific Coast must look for Its great remunerative markets. When China is webbed with railways, as she is sure to be some day, when our naval and military power becomes clearly understood through observation to the Asiatics, so that the nations who trade with us know that we can protect our commerce ard our commercial allies as faithfully as does Great Britain, we shall at least equal Great Britain as an absorber of the Chinese trade. But If, after having our soldiers and ships of war at Manila, for, say, ten years, we should withdraw them sud denly on sentimental grounds, there would be no commercial future for us in the Orient; we should drop back to where we were the day before Dewey's guns destroyed the Spanish fleet before Manila. And this is what the antl-im-perlallsts of the extreme East gravely expect that we shall do, soon or late. If we do, it will be the first time within two centuries that a great people sac rificed a grand opportunity of national expansion in obedience to the dounsels of political sentimentalists and homi letlc visionaries. What fornV our gov ernment of the Philippines will ulti mately assume we cannot tell today, but we may be sure that the youngest child among us. If he should live to be a century old, will not see Manila and the Island of Luzon pass from under the American flag, or any other por tion of the Philippines that is worth the outlay of its retention. If American commerce is rapidly to increase In the markets of the Orient, It will need the presence and protection of the Amer ican Navy.1 and for this reason, if for no other, Manila is sure to remain in possesion of our Government. Questions of this sort are always settled by the broad plea of National self-interest, by which, In the widest view, all great questions have been set tled by great peoples. Sentlmentallsm never yet saved a state, and every at tempt to found a state upon phrases has been a miserable failure. The Girond ists of the French Revolution all lost their heads on the scaffold because they were a gifted band of eloquent phrase makel, but, the average American is a man of saving common sense and he solves the political problems that con front him upon business principles; he always asks himself, ""Will It pay?" The anti-slavery party never had any numbers or influence until the North made up its mind that slavery was an economic industrial error; that its ex tension In the long run would not pay.' In resisting the extension of this Indus trial evil and economic error we were drawn into a great war which destroyed it. This Illustrates how the American people settle political problems of seri ous consequence. They Inquire what Is expedient Can we afford the experi ment? Is there any money in it as a permanent investment? In this spirit the fate of the Philippines will be set tled. Our title, which we extorted by arms from Spain and to whom we gave a consolation purse of $20,000,000, Is per fectly legitimate. We did notgo there for pur health, nor for the health of the Filipinos. The Filipinos were offered their choice be tween acceptance of our authority and .war. They chose war, and obliged us to reduce them to subjection by arms. This being done, we shall never abandon the Islands on the plea that the Filipinos are entitled to the right of self-government; that we have no business "to govern them without their consent." This is an attempt to upset the whole of human history, an enormous and complex fact, with one - of the pet phrases of aged and decayed political pedagogues. We have never in. our whole history governed In obedience to this shallow phrase. We governed the negro and the Indian both without their consent at the very time that the great Declaration was uttered; we have gov erned them both without their consent ever since. We expanded when we pur chased Louisiana and Florida; we ex panded when we obtained New Mexico, Texas and California; we expanded when we obtained Hawaii; we expand ed when we occupied Porto Rico with out her consent; we expanded when we annexed the Philippines without the consent of the Filipinos. Our right to stay there Is clear, and there we shall stay Just so long as It seems expedient for us to remain. We shall stay there if it pays us as a people to do so, and in view of the future mercantile ex ploitation of the Orient it most surely will pay us to keep our flag flying at Manila within easy call of any portion of the Chinese Sea. The attempt to con fine this great country within the circle of a sixpence by quoting glittering, rhetorical generalities as perpetual Na tional policies is as absurd as the New York rector who proposes to refuse hat less women admission to his church be cause St. Paul held that women must cover their heads in church.' STATE PAIRS, OLD AXD XEW. The opening days of the State Fair this year have proved satisfactory, both from a financial and popular point of view. This, owing to the fact that the hop harvest is not yet fully completed and that the attention in many agricul tural sections that contribute to the dis play at this annual festival has in the past week or ten days been absorbed by the timber fires that have had such wide prevalence, may be considered extraor dinary. It certainly speaks well for the prosperity of the farming commu nity, for the general Interest in agricul tural and stock exhibits, and for the energy of the managers. "Not for many years," says the pres ident of the State Agricultural Soci ety, "has the attendance upon the first day of the fair been equal to that of the opening day this year." There was a time, well remembered by old Orego nlans, when the State Fair was the farmer's festival. It furthermore pro vided the only annual outing, though this term did not come Into use until, some time later, for villagers and towns people, and they were prompt and eager to take advantage of the opportunity to don their best clothes and go for the purpose of seeing and being seen. A simple festival in those days was the State Fair, and its opportunities for en joyment were limited only by the ca pacity of the people, young and old, to enjoy that which it had to offer. Standing out in a clear light through the mists of intervening years are the pleased and pleasing faces of young matrons as they lingered around the display of wonderful crochet work in the pavilion, and of the complacent faces of the older women as they gath ered around the corner hung with quilts wrought in intricate patchwork. The marvel of several successive fairs in the earlier years was a sawtooth quilt made up of 10,000 pieces neatly sewed together by a woman of 75 years. Un pretending, except in the matter of the patience with which it was wrought, this quilt really aroused more interest than did those that flanked it on the left and right, the one a clever and very gaudy imitation of a sunflower and the other considerately labeled "double peony" for the enlightenment of the multitude. Evolution has been busy In the domestic realm during these Intervening years, and the quilts of our grandmothers have given place to bed spreads dpne in dainty embroidery or wrought with braid and lace stitch; but it is doubtful whether the newer and far more artistic creations give more genuine pleasure, either to makers or beholders, than did the old-fashioned quilts, without which the State Fair of a former period would have been tame In the estimation of a multitude of good, housewifely woman. This is but an example of change as written in every department of manufacturing in dustry, as here shown. In agricultural Implements there .has been a complete revolution. "The styles have changed," say the women; "vast improvement has been made," say the men, and few in deed sigh for a return to the "good, old times." Yet these old fairs, dear to memory, were the stepping-stones to the fairs of today. "Milestones of progress," every one of them, though,lt seemed for some years that the movement was one of retrograde rather than of advance. In other words, the State Fair had Its dull, disagreeable, disastrous years years wherein during every da'y of the ex hibit the rain fell uninterruptedly from wlnd-ariven clouds and the grounds be came a dreary expanse of mud and water; years wherein the low price of wheat forbade the farmer the expense of taking his family to the fair; years wherein the management in utter des peration turned the fair Into a racing event, while the chicken coops, pigpens and cattle stalls, long unoccupied, took on the appearance of loneliness and un thrlft. Tbe general verdict was that farmers were discouraged, and well In deed they might be, with wheat at 50 cents a bushel and no market for any other farm product that the output' of half a dozen, farms could not glut. But these conditions passed away slowly, as Is the habit of disagreeable things, and for five years past the State Fair has shown evidence of the return of agricultural prosperity. The old has emphatically given place to the new. Plump grains and tall grasses still at test the bountyof the soil in the sec tion set apart for them, but evidence of a diversified agriculture is seen in the bale3 of fragrant hops that tower beside them, in the flax and prune and wool exhibits. In the dairy section the hand churn has given place to the sep arator and the balls of dairy butter to the squares, duly wrapped and labeled, that come from the creameries. Troops of substantial-looking farmers with their well-dressed wives and daughters complete the picture of agricultural prosperity as presented by the State Fair of today, and emphasize the re juvenation of the farmer's festival. These are some of the lighter aspects of the State Fair. Its more substantial features are readily "discernible. But who shall say that these are more Im portant than those? May we not say truly that the real benefits that spring from this farmer's festival grow out of the friendly Intercourse, the neighborly interest, the spirit of competition, that are made possible by this annual gath ering? Utilitarian in its conception, the State Fair Is something more than this in its expression, and upon this "some thing more" Its popularity and financial success depends. The voice of the man who cries ba nanas is of such excruciatingly strident quality that it could not possibly be a voice of this sort that Tennyson yearned for when he wrote: Oh. for the touch of the vanished hand And the sound of the voice that Is stllL A very little of the voice of the ba nana man literally goes a great ways. It la ' a natural speculation as to whether the banana man originally pos sesses this extraordinary voice and is prompted by its possession to select his calling, or through the exercise of his vocation obtains the voice by a sort of evolution from small beginnings. Does the feeble pipe become a steam calliope by Incessant practice, or do men born with a raucous votee apprehend the value of their eccentric natural endow ment and take to bellowing bananas as promptly as Achilles in his boyhood grasped the arms of a warrior with en thusiasm at first sight, alhough he had up to that date been dressed as a girl and known no playmate but girls? It Is an Interesting question not easy of solution. There is no doubt, however, that the voice of the banana man, whether a birth mark or an acquisition artificially obtained, Is an appalling en dowment. When heard' for the first time it creates the suspicion that a section of barbed-wire fence has been Installed in the banana man's throat, dVer which his voice is ceaselessly trying to climb and becoming badly torn up In the ef fort. This explanation Is plausible, and some explanation would seem to be necessary, for the voice, if not grand, is at least "gloomy and peculiar." It im plies a throat of brass and adamantine lungs. The Philadelphia Press ably advo cates the enactment by the next Legis lature of Pennsylvania of a uniform primary election law, the object of which would be the placing of all nomi nations for office in the different polit ical parties under the same restraint as are now placed upon general elections, even to the provisions that the elections pshall take place on the same date and official ballots be provided as are now supplied at the expense of the county. The Press would make It a criminal of fense for a Republican to "vote at a Democratic primary, and vice versa for a Democrat to assist the Republlcana The famous Professor Vlrchow, whose death was recently announced, was one of the great men that the Hebrew race has given to the world, though this is not generally known. He was a radical in politics, and so fearless that when a German scientific society re quested him to resign from a- number of French societies, after the breach of war had occurred, Vlrchow refused, de claring that the opposition of two coun tries had nothing to do with the fellow ship of science. The English historian, Kinglake, was born with the Instinct of a professional warrior, and. his indignation was great when the "grotesque Salvation Army," as he called It, adopted military nomen clature. "I would let those ragamuffins call themselves saints, angels, prophets, cherubim. Olympian gods and goddesses if they like," he said, "but their preten sion in taking the rank of officers In the army is to me beyond measure re pulsive." WHY HE VOTED FOR LINCOLN. Great Emancipator's Fairneits to Po litical Opponents Won Him Over. Leslie's Weekly. No incident in the life of Abraham Lin coln better illustrates the greatness of his nature than the following, whloh has probably never before been related: At the time of the National election of 1S64, when President Lincoln was a candidate for re-election, some of the soldiers who H'ere encamped about "Washington were illowed to go home to vote. The men soon discovered that those who were In charge of the arrangements were facilitat ing the movement of the men who were expected to vote for Mr. Lincoln, and that the movement of those who would prob ably vote for Gen. McClelland was being correspondingly retarded. This discrimi nation occasioned a good deal of anger, and after much discussion one fioldier, having in mind the well-known fairness of President Lincoln, proposed that three or four get Into a carriage and present the case to him. The suggestion was accept ed, and they were soon In the White House, where they were very cordially received. They told their story, explaining that they were Democrats and wished to vote for General McClellan, and that it seemed to them that they were not to be allowed to get away In time to vote. Mr. Lincoln asked a few questions, and then wrote and handed to them a message, addressed to their commanding officer, but did not ac quaint them with the contents. As tho men wero returning to camp It was sug gested that It might be well to read the message, in the fear that it might be an order for their punishment, but the sug gestion was quickly dismissed. When the message was delivered to the officer, he read: "You will see that these men and their frlcnds are given every facility to leave tor home Immediately, In order to vote." The order was obeyed promptly; the men reached home In ample time, and the veteran who tejls the story says: "I believe that each of us voted for Mr. Lin coln, although we were Democrats, and this was the only time that I ever voted for a Republican candidate." Thank, Gentle Friend. Boston Herald. . One of the able papers, of the nation Is The Oregonian, published In the Far West, In the City of Portland. It is Repub lican In Its general politics, but has an ed itor who thinks for himself, and is never afraid to speak out his convictions. We find him discussing the tariff so far as to remark that "the tariff was made for man, not man for the tariff," a truism as far as common sense is applied to It, but rank heresy according to certain modern polit ical standards. He says further on the same theme that the tariff "at its beat is a plain, simple, practical instrument of common-sense statesmanship. It becomes a principle only when It is exalted to the place of an Idol, and then it Is a principle both vicious and mischievous." SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS A Ghastly- Pan. Aberdeen Recorder. All the fat porkers at Polson'B camp were burned, which was a loss that would make most anybody grunt. Never Heard of It. Olympla Recorder. The Oregonian has perpetrated a lead ing editorial upon the Republican poli tical situation in Washington, in which the startling assertion is made- that every body riot in favor of a railway commis sion Is accused of having been bought up. Certainly no such accusation was made at the state convention. Spirit at Christian Missions. Sllverton Torch of Reason. Brother Green has offered his Free thought Magazine for one year for only 50 cents to any Christian minister. Here is the opportunity to do good missionary work. We will Join Mr. Green In this matter and make "clergy rates" for the Torch. Send us a dollar and we will send both Freethought Magazine and Torch to any clergyman you name for one year. Violin From Native Woods. Florence West. A very handsome violin made from the native woods of this section may be seen at J. W. Carman's store. The front of the Instrument la spruce and the back is of curly maple. It wis manufactured by Mr. Sallsburj't of Heceta Light House, who took it up occasionally during his leisure time. The workmanship dis played Is very fine, though the principal tool used in its manufacture was a pocket-knife. The tone of the Instrument Is pronounced by a number of musicians to be exceedingly good. The Seattle Idea. Tacoma News. P. J. Fransloll & Co- will construct a wharf and warehouse on the tide' flats at Seattle adjoining the Parkland Fishing & Packing Company, having leaded a piece of land lOOx 200 feet for 10 years, and also a lot 100x180 feet. The Parkland Fishing & Packing Company has begun work, on a wharf and packing house to be built at Seattle on the tide flats. The land, which has been leased from the Northern Pacific Railroad Company for five years, has a frontage of 100 feet on the water front and extends backward 200 feet. The wharf will be COxGO feet, and the warehouse 60x50 feet, and 1V4 stories high. Seatle Trade Register. The foregoing title and paragraphs are clipped from last Sunday's Issue of the Seattle Trade Register. Both Items are substantially correct In every particular but one. The error Is that the word Se attle has been substituted for Tacoma In both paragraphs. The Avrtnl Pennlty of Isolation. Adams Advance. Mrs. Mattle Lavadore, whose home 13 about three miles west of this city, was examined on Tuesday last by Dr. D. J. McFaul, of Pendleton, on the charge of Insanity, and committed by County Judge Hartman to the Insane asylum at Salem. The unfortunate woman, who has a hus band and several children, has shown for some years past unmistakable signs of Insanity, but at no time has appeared dangerous.- Her hallucination seems to have been that she saw angels. She said they were all dressed In red. white and blue, and that she could hear them play music, but could not get close enough to touch them. She claimed to have been left alone at home a great deal of the time while her husband was out work ing, and said she would burn the house down some day If he did not stay with her. McBrlde's Great Victory. Dalles Times-Mountaineer. The Washington Republicans In state convention displayed a bit of good Judg ment when they determined to heed the advice of Governor McBrlde rather than that of the railroads, and lucorporated In their platform a clause favoring the Governor's railroad commission scheme. So now Governor McBrlde stands at the head of the Republican pirty In Wash ington, and unquestionably he has the ability and moral worth to fill that place. Ever since he succeeded to the Guberna torial chair he has shown himself to be a man of the people. Neither politicians nor corporations have been able to han dle him. In short, he has been Governor as much as was his predecessor, the late John R. Rogers. Every pressure pos sible was brought to bear upon the dele gates to down the Governor In tho con vention. Tho railroads exerted all their powerful influence, but to no avail. McBrlde stood out nobly as the leader of the masses, and has won. The people of Washington are to be congratulated upon his victory. Railroads Sowing: the Wind. Spokane Spokesman-Review. Of course, the railroads have a right to be heard. That privilege cannot fairly be withheld from any corporation or pri vate individual having interests at stake. But when the paid employes of the rail roads from all parts of the state are sent to party conventions, not with a view to looking after party" Interests, but rather for the purpose of attending to railroad business, It Is Inevitable that these agents should subordinate the Interests of tho people at large to the Interests of their employers. They go to conventions to do the work of the railroads, and not to rep resent the people of the party to which they belong. And the result of their taking so active a part In political affairs must be to bring the direction of party matters partially, If not wholly, under railroad Influence. Unless the railroads are forced out of politics their meddling will steadily become more offensive as they become better Intrenched. And if they are given free rein, the people may rest assured that it Is only a question of time when the railroad agents will usurp the right to decide political matters af fecting ward, city, county and state. A Wisconsin Railroad Commissioner. Tacoma News. Hon. Duncan J. McKenzle, of Alma, Wis., was a visitor to Tacoma yesterday. He has the honor of having served for four years as the only Railroad Commis sioner tf Wisconsin. In that state they have one man who take charge of railroad matters. He Is elected by the people on a direct party ticket. Mr. McKenzle was elected twice, the first time having 50,000 majority, and the second time doubling that number. He had returned from What com, where he purchased a home, when an Evening News reporter met him at the Donnelly. "Yes, I served for two terms as Railroad Commissioner in Wisconsin," says Mr. McKenzle. "I was the only man, as our law provides for the election of but one man, to whom all railroad matters must be submitted. We had no fights or dis agreements on the question of rates, or property valuations. Of course, they all reported to me. If they had any claims that could not be adjusted or rates that could not be settled among the shippers and railroad men. We had no trouble In the matter. I think, however, you people have made a serious political mistake In Injecting the railroad matter Into your state politics at the present time. Under the circumstances you should have taken no action on the question." An Optimistic View. Chicago Post. The Invalid looked out of the window,1 Just as the hearse went by, and he smiled happily. "D'ye mind, Biddy," he said, "It's worth th' dyln' to have a ride in a -thing like that, with th' feathers on top an' a man with a bug on his hat, an' you beln gr reater an more . niclasary than th' mar shal lv a St. Pathrlck's day parade. There's wanst in ye'er life ye're th' whole .thing, an' that's when ye're dead." BEET-SUGAR VICTORY IN UTAH. Chicago Post, Rep. At last the opponents of plain duty, na tional honor and national Interest have scored a "victory." They had to go to Utah for an Indorsement of their thor oughly discredited position. At the Re publican state convention held yester day at Ogden a platform was adopted In which Cuban reciprocity Is conspicuous by its absence. The brief dispatches do not enlighten us as to the contents of the platform doubt less because the voice of Utah, Repub lican or Democratic. 13 not of supreme Importance In National politics. But as the platform favors President Roosevelt's nomination and election In 1904, the omis sion of any reference to Cuban reciprocity, a cause with which Mr. Roosevelt's ad ministration Is peculiarly identified, is of some significance. To Indorse the President while condemn ing his Cuban policy a policy to which we are bound, as he has repeatedly de- ! Ciared. by every consideration of honor and duty Is sheer self-etultlticatlon, and the "Insurgents" are quite welcome to the satisfaction they derive from their cheap and doubtful victory. Their fanaticism Is Illustrated by their readiness to trans fer their hostility to Senator Beveridge. who was present at the convention, and who was requested to address the dele gates. Suspecting a "conspiracy" to in flence the convention in favor of reciproc ity with Cuba, the Insurgents threatened to create a disturbance or otherwise mani fest disapproval of Senator J3everldge's sentiments In relation to the burning ques tion. This was a confession of weakness and fear. The Indiana Senator did speak to the delegates and other Republicans, but In the evening, after the platform, minus Cuban reciprocity, had been adopted. Sen ator Beveridge "was greeted with wild cheering." but the report does not say whether the following passage of his elo quent and comprehensive speech received its share of the applause it merited: The President's Cuban policy is Inspired by National honor, but National honor and Na tional necessity walk hand in hand. We are responsible for Cuba to the world and to his tory. That great statesman. Senator Piatt of Connecticut, framed a law which Congress adopted which forever binds that Island to the fortunes of the United States. . . . The prayers of the American people are that Cuba, under the protection of the United States, may care for herself: but whether she walks erect with growing strength or whether she totters In weakness and turns to us, asking again a government by American administrators, our destiny is her destiny and our aid is her right. And relief for Cuba is relief for ourselves, be cause she will take scores of millions of dol lars' worth of the surplus products of "our fac tories and farms. Even in Utah, It Is certain, the people heartily agree with every word of this ci tation. The convention misrepresented them. Is Jewish Exclnnlvencss , Breaking: Upf Baltimore Sun. "Is Jewish excluslveness becoming a le gend rather than a reality?" asks the Lon don Chronicle In connection with the fol lowing data from Australia, which would seem to suggest an affirmative answer. In New South Wales, according to the re cently published matrimonial statistics, during the last year no less than 67 Jew-, esste selected husbands from the Church of England, while 17 mated with Catholics and 11 found their affinities In the Presby terian fold. One hundred and flfty-one Jews were united to Anglican wives, 62 to Catholic, 13 to Presbyterians, 12 to Meth odists, 4 to non-denominatlonallsts and 2 to Congregationallsts, while a solitary son of Israel is reported to have wed a Bap tist. Altogether out of 781 Jewish mar riages, 311 ware more or less "mixed" a favorable showing for modern Anglo-Is-raelltlsm. Lesson to the Organs, Denver Republican. The Supreme Court of Vermont has given decision that a contract by which a newspaper agrees for a consideration to supporta candidate forofllce is against the public good", and thereforo for office Is against the public good, and therefore In valid. The newspaper cannot recover pay ment for Its services by a suit at law; it has no more standing in court than a gambler seeking to force a plundered vic tim to redeem the notes passed over a card table. The lesson which the Ver mont decision probably will Impress most vividly upon the venal newspapers of the country Is that It Is advisable to take no contingent cases, but to demand pay in advance. In politics as in poker, I. O. U.'s are no good. The Scholar in Politics. Denver Republican. There la plenty of room in American politics for the scholar who appreciates that the source of power In a free country is and ought to be with the people them selves. Those who cannot do this or who believe that the government of this coun try should be Intrusted to some kind of Intellectual aristocracy would do well to return to their books and let the world move on, as It surely will do, without them. From mythology comes a story profitable to all who will give heed to Its warning. Anteus, the Libyan giant, was Invincible as long .as he kept his feet upon the earth. It was not until Hercu les, having discovered the secret of his strength, lifted him from the ground that he was compelled to yield. PERSONS WORTH KNOWING ABOUT. Should Pope Leo XIII live till next year he will celebrate his diamond Jubilee as a bishop, his golden Jubilee as a Cardinal and his silver Jubilee an a pope. " After Jumnlnr BO feet from the top of the. Mayor's house at Wisbech, a Persian cat alighted safely on its feet, apparently none the worse for the adventure. The youngest member of the British Cabinet is Austen Chamberlain, who is 30. The Earl of Salbcrne is 43, and Walter Long, 40. These are phenomenally youthful men for such ex alted stations. Rev. Daniel J. O'Sulllvnn. a Catholic priest of St. Albans, Vt., is the regular Democratic candidate for the Legislature from that city. He waa educated at Montreal and ordained to the priesthood In 1870. Senator George F. Hoar is one of the best classical scholars in New England. He devotos all his spare time to the study of works of medieval writers, and can quote from Caesar, Tacitus and others by the yard. If Rev. J. H. D. Duckrey, of Cambridge, Mass., has hia way, the colored students at Harvard will soon have a home of their own to be known aj "Emancipation building:" At present they are socially ostracized. The sole survivor of Commodore Perry's ex pedition to Japan is Professor John S. Sewall, of Bangor Theological Seminary. Professor Sewall is now engaged In writing a book giv ing a complete history of the expedition and Its results. Bt. Rev. Dr. Nevill. the Anglican bishop of Dunedln. N. Z., is reported to be forming a .syndicate largely composed of clergymen and church members for the purchase of saloons and the building of "reformed" hotels in their place. There ought to be smooth sailing In the two Massachusetts state conventions next month. Ex-Secretary of the Navy Long will be chair man of the Republican gathering, and ex-Secretary of the Navy Olney, of the Democratic Ship. Each expects to launch a winner. The British military attache at Washington. Lieutenant-Colonel Kltson, has been appointed commandant at Sandhurst, one of the most Important assignments In the British Army. Lieutenant-Colonel Kltson was formerly com mander of the Royal Military College, at Kingston, Ont. Small theaters are to be established In all the communes of Boumanla by the King and Queen, in which the villagers are to give, once or twice a week, moral plays having as their object the Inculcation of religious and social precepts. The first of the theaters will be built on one of the royal estates. New Orleans is to have a home for orphan boys, built out of funds bequeathed by the late Georse Xavler Carstalrs. Mr. Carstalrs was himself orphaned while very young, and had a hard struggle with the world. He accumulated s, large fortune, however, all of which ha has left for the purpoco Indicated, NOTE AND COMMENT. Mr. Hanna pounds the table and says that the tariff shan't be touched as long as he Is In'the Senate. This doesn't mean so very much. His term will be out in 1005. They must have had a hot time at the Pacific County Institute. This is what the teachers presented to the able lec turers: For teachings and so skillfully rendered. With humor and gay repartee: The institute week has departed Too quickly, we all quite agree. In the Cleburne, Tex., District Demo cratic Congressional Convention 7200 bal lots were taken on the nomination of a candidate for Congress. Two of the can didates. Riddle and Gillespie, then agreed to join their forces, drawing cuts for the man who should receive their votes. Gil lespie was the lucky man and he was nominated on the 7201st ballot. Poindextcr. the third man, was not In the deal and diJ not like being gambled out by his rivals, but he acquiesced at length and all was lovely. The Ohio town" of Mansfield has just had a festival of great originality. It was called the "Bills' picnic," and every Will iam In the place was invited. A he gcat led the grand march. The lean Bills and the fat Bills played a baseball game. Then the Bills feasted; and speeches were made by representatives of the law Bills, the shoe Bills and so on. Here is a' sociable Idea which can be put Into effect wher ever there are two or more bearers of the same Christian name. The esteemed Post-Intclllgencer has ac tually admitted to Its columns a shadowy shade of an Intimation that possibly some thing that Is going on under the Repub lican Administration at Washington might be managed better, in the Treasury De partment, for example. Without other than this evidence we feel justified In asserting that the editor Is off on his vacation. When the Fost-lntelllgencer is at Itself. It bolts the food laid on its plate by the powers that be bones, hair and gristle, asking no questions and mak ing no faces, like the large-minded, In dependent journal that It Is. Johnstone Bartlett, lightning rod agent, called on the Prosecuting Attorney In Lin coln, Neb., and asked that warrants be Is sued for the arrest of twelve Atchison County farmers. He says he started out of Atchison a week ago with a team of good horses and a new spring wagon, but that during the week he was swindled out of everything, in trading horses, and was compelled to walk back to town. He did no business and lost all his lightning rods. The Prosecuting Attorney said that get ting the best of a horse trade was no vio lation of the law, and Bartlett left for the East, saying bank presidents were easier than farmers. t An Iowa editor recently entertained W. J. Bryan at dinner and made copy from the occasion for his next issue as follows: "He Is a splendid feeder, and between the two of us Mrs. Blair's elegant dinner suffered vast devastation. We had corn and potatoes and roast beef. Bryan sent back his order for a second helping of corn. He said he was very fond of corn. What could be more popular In Iowa, the greatest corn state of them all? If any Republican farmer could see how Bryan likes roasting ears, and then refuse to vote for him. he must be unpatriotic in deed. And when it came to change plates for the second course or the third course there were so many of them we could not keep track of them Bryan said: 'Walt a minute. I am not quite done.' That did not displease the hostess, do you think?" To further the effort of the committee now. trying to raise a fund to procure a testimonial for Admiral Clark, who com manded theiOregon In the great battle of Santiago harbor, The Oregonian reprints part of an interview had with Fireman Maloney, of the battle-ship Iowa, and which appeared in The Oregonian of Sep tember S. 1S9S. He said: Let me say a word about the Oregon. They say Sampson deserves credit because he com manded the fleet. They say Schley deserves credit because he commanded the fighting squadron. No one gives Clark any praise, be cause he is only a Captain. But he is the man who really won the victory. He Is the man who ran down the Colon, and he is the man whom all tho fighting men of the Navy look up to. He fought his ship broadside on. and he peppered the Spaniards through and through. Only for him, the Colon would havo reached Havana with her rich treasure, and. as he acted Independent of both Sampson and Schley, he deservs as much praise as either of thoso commanders. Mr. Maloney was an eye-witness and his testimony Is valuable, even though ho was a humble fireman. What! I A candidate for President? Perish the thought: get thee behind me. heraus- mltlhm; not on your tintype. What would become of tho Commoner, And of the 520.000 barn? Besides, have I not had glory enough? Twice have I led tho Democratic cohorts to defeat; Once sat in Congress; And, from week to week. Beheld my editorials spread broadcast by the Associated Press. Don't I make a speech Or write a letter At every opportunity. Favorable or unfavorable President or not President, I tell you. They can't hold me down I And yet! There's that old buzzard of Buzzard's Bay, The bald-hended rooster of Wolferfs Roost, And that old political gormandizer Gorman; How they would grin And slap each other on the back if they could Do me up! Then, some of my worst antagonists are dead. There's Morton, and Dick Bland, and Governor Russell and Palmer All gone! Boies is dead, too, but doesn't know it. The South is for me, Tho West Is for me, Tho East cuts no Ice, anyhow. I say! Do you think I could make It? I must see Tom Johnson about this. What time does the train start? Where's my hat? "Search Me." Atlanta Constitution. The people by the thousands were crowded about And the President spoke, with Intent to give out His position on trusts and the things that he said Caused every old codger to doddle his head And remark "Well, whar does he stand? D'ye see?" And I said: "Search me." The newspaper fellows were writing like smoke. Shortbandlng every darn'd word that he spoke. But when the pothooks and curves were un spun I heard each a-asklng the next other ono This remark: "Where did he land? Could you sec?" And he said: "Search me." r The folks read the papers, all anxious to seo How dead right on the trusts the President be. But when they'd scanned thorough and clean Each turned to his neighbor with questioning mien And remarked: "Well, whar In this d d trust business Is he?" But t'other un said: "Search mel"