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- - - . - -THE MORNING OREGOfflAS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1902. tie rjegomcm Entered at the Pcstofflce at Portland, Oregon, as recond-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mail (postage prepaid, In Advance) Daily, with Sunday, per month Dally, Sunday excepted, per year w Dally, with Sunday, per year "V Sunday, per year -J The "Weekly, per year 1 JJJ The Weekly, 3 months w To City Subscribers Dairy, por week, dellvicred. Sunday exccptea.ijc Dally, per week, delivered. Sundays included oc POSTAGE RATES. United States. Canada and Mexico: 10 to 14-page paper....... ....... 14 to 2S-page paper.. Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonian should be addressed invaria bly "Editor The Oregonian." not to the name of any Individual. Letters relating to adver tising, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed Elmply 'The Oregonian." Eastern Business Office. 43. 44. 45. 47, 48. 40 Tribune building. . 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C, by the Ebbett House news stand. For sale in Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrick. OOC-912 Seventeenth street; Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co.. Fifteenth and Lawrence streets: A. Series, Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TODAY'S WEATHER Partly cloudy and cooler; winds mostly northerly. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature. 77.; minimum temperature, 43; pre cipitation, none. PORTLAND, MONDAY, SEPT. 22, 1002. THE PRESIDENT OX THE TARIFF. No one who knows the lifelong habit of Theodore Roosevelt will be surprised that in the very first speech he delivers on his "Western tour he plunges into the heart of the tariff's relation to the -trusts. Hanna and Aldrich might advise him , how he should spealr, but they could not induce him to keep silent. The country knows what he thinks, and to his utterances every candid mind must give assent. The President's contribution to the problem Is one that has been slow of apprehension by the public, and even hy so-called experts. It is that tariff reform is not to be guided by the facts of the trust situation, and that the trust problem is not to. be settled by tariff reform. As the matter was stated in these columns some time ago: Tariff reform touches the trust problem only I Incidentally. There are many trust3 that re ceive no "protection." There are others that "would be enabled by free trade In their produc tions to drive Independent competitors to the wall. There arc other lines of production, again, notably sugar, where free trade Is for bidden by considerations of revenue; and.thero aro still other departments of industry whero total withdrawal of tariffs would subject inde pendent producers to foreign competition to which they cannot as yet be subjected with justice. To crush the trusts in these lines would be to crush the whole industry. The trust problem touches tariff reform but Incidentally. The tariff Is In many places ln lqultously and burdensomcly high, and the cor rection of it must be conducted with primary reference to the need and the encumbrances and the injustices, and only secondarily with refer ence to the presence of trusts In any particular field. To put trust-made articles on the free list will not solve the trust problem, nor will It meet the demand for tariff reform. Unjust tariffs must be removed, however the removal may help or hurt a trust. Every discrimina tion in the laws that gives undue power to the trusts must be withdrawn, but tariff discrimi nation -comes very far from covering the whole field. The reason for tariff reform is Its justice, not Its capacity to lnjuro anybody or anything. This is precisely what President Roosevelt says, though in different words, and the extract Is reproduced at considerable length because the ex act bearing of the trust and tariff prob lems cannot, we believe, be more ac curately stated. The most that can be said for the occupation of any given industrial field by a trust, so far as tariff reform is concerned, is that such occupation offers prima facie evidence that the need of projection in that Held has been outgrown; and a conclusion to that effect will be facilitated in every case where the trust is organized for export business and does actually sell a large surplus abroad in the teeth of foreign competition. We do not re gard this working hypothesis as a safe and uniform guide; for the need of pro tection and the safety of its withdrawal constitute an economic problem by no means so simple as the mere enactment of free trade. As to the tariff problem itself, the President's views leave much to be de sired, but they are, on the whole, re assuring, chiefly from the manner of their expression. He refers without r disparagement to "those who, while they believe in a protective tariff, feel that there could be a rearrangement of our schedules, either by direct legis lation or by reciprocity treaties, which would result in enlarging our markets." In another place he adverts to the ques tion "whether, on grounds totally un connected with the trusts, it would be well to lower the duties on various schedules, either by direct legislation or by legislation or treaties designed to secure, as an offset, reciprocal advan tages from the nations with which we trade." And all this betrays an under standing and appreciation of the tariff reform contention in the Republican party, of which" President McKInley's Buffalo speech was. perhaps, the most felicitous expression yet formulated. The President's discussion of the tar iff aspect of the trust problem Is illu minative and irreproachable. It de volves upon him to make yet clearer his sympathy with the modifications Ha- sired in the Dingley rates from consld- eratlons of justice and commercial freedom. This he may yet do, for in doing so he need go no farther than President McKinley went at Buffalo. The immediate cause for satisfaction is that the President has so far cut loose from the Hanna and Aldrich school of political economy as to state the tariff revisionists' demands in the admirable phrases we have quoted. A great point has been gained for intellectual de cency when a Republican President openly refers to the tariff as a matter for practical consideration and possible amendment. This will do for a begin ning. Now, then, Mr. President, turn the page for the next lesson. Gently now, but firmly; oh, firmly, and straight ahead! The colored people in Virginia are registering in unexpected numbers un der the new constitution. Democratic politicians are alarmed. A Richmond dispatch says: "The white voters are not showing interest in the registra tion and the colored registration is large in- some placea In Lynchburg; for in stance, .in a large white ward, 105 ne groes registered and less than 100 whites." The "understanding clause," as it is called, frightens many white men away, while colored men with even a small education are ambitious to take the test. The clause requires that all citizens in. registering shall explain, a part of the constitution selected by the registrars. They select difficult pas sages lor colored men and easy pas sages for uneducated white men. Yet the white men hate to take the risk of being rejected as incompetent under the ordeal. CUSHMAN TO HIS CRITICS. It is the opinion of Mr. C. W. How ard, the "Whatcom County member of the resolutions committee at the recent Tacoma convention, that when that committee voted to leave out the plank indorsing the Cuban policy of Presi dent Roosevelt, it performed a negli gible act, and abated nothing of Its pur pose to indorse that policy, and im paired in no wise the convention's In structions to its Congressional nomi nees to support that policy in Con gress. His view Is shared by Mr. "W. "W. Robertson, the committeeman from Yakima County, whose letter, with Mr. Howard's, we printed September 15, and by Mr. Thomas H. Cavanaugh, whose letter we print this morning. These men hold that the platform's mention of the President's "foreign and domes tic policies" includes Cuban reciprocity, and that the convention's nominees are by this utterance bound to that policy. How correct Is the view these gen tlemen (hold of the effect of their action upon Representative Cushman, at least, appears from the telegram from the Congressman himself, which we print on another page, in connection with the letter of Mr. Cavanaugh. Mr. Cushman holds, and it seems to The Oregonian soundly, that when his friends achieved the. death of the Cuban reciprocity plank they accomplished a result not barren or meaningless. If the conven tion had wished to commend Cuban reciprocity, he says, and Instruct Its nominees to support it, the thing could have been done by the simple utiliza tion of two words. This was not done, and the result that would have fol lowed the plank's Insertion does not fol low Its excision. Francis W. Cushman is to be com mended to the people of his state as a man who knows his course and will keep it. who knows his rights and will maintain them. "With some of his Ideas, The. Oregonian has no sympathy. It resented, and still resents, his attack upon the river and harbor bill in the Fifty-sixth Congress, and especially upon the Columbia River. It viewed, and still views, his attack upon the present organization and methods of the House-as 'a cheap sensation, ill-considered and Inimical to the expeditious discharge of public business. It regret ted, and still regrets, the alliance which, at the Congressional session recently closed, he made with a group of con scienceless bandits to humiliate the President and, in the name of a great and prosperous nation, to visit a piece of petty spite in most ungenerous spirit upon the long-persecuted people and struggling industries of Cuba. v But The Oregonian would be false to its trust as a newspaper of Inde pendent mind If it did not hold up Rep resentative Cushman to the people of his state as a man to be admired for his decision, steadfastness and vigor, con gratulated upon his many successes, and honored for his fearlessness and ability. These are qualities which our public life needs, and which the dis cerning voter will be quick to recog nise as fitting a man exceptionally well for efficient work In Congress. Wash ington will never want for Influence or voice at the National capital as long as it sends Cushman to represent it. His outspoken words and firm resolves cast a sickly light over the timorous politicians who meekly yielded at Ta coma to his superior shrewdness and force of character. COMMERCIAL CHEMISTRY. If it is true that the wealth of the country does not so much consist in what is produced, as in what is saved, then the rapid Increase of wealth in our own country is not an accident of progress, but an incident of thrift Mod ern commercial Industry, says a recent writer on economics, "knows no such thing as dirt, In the old and simple sense; nowadays it is hardly safe to say of any kind of residual product that a use may not conceivably be found for it." Take smoke, fbr example, that pest of air, when liberated in large quantities, an unmitigated nuisance when allowed to settle over cities. According to a re port of the operations of a blast fur nace in a Western state recently, as cited by this writer, it appears that by means of stills enough has been saved from the smoke to pay a large propor tion of the running expenses of the fur nace. The figures show that a cord of wood makes 2S.OO0 feet of smoke, and in the smoke of 100 cords there are 12,000 pounds of acetate of lime, twenty-five pounds of tar and 200 gallons of alcohol. It would take a mathematician of pro nounced skill and unwearied patience to compute the number of tons and gal lons of these substances that our burn ing forests have given to the air in this section within the past two weeks. A tyro dare not hazard a guess, but must fall back upon the popular estimate that the amount is beyond computa tion. The by-products of corn, formerly wastage, are enormous. Without going into detail, it may be said that articles of commercial value are produced from everj' part of the corn plant and cereal. Stalks, husks, cobs and grain appear as articles of commerce more or less unrecognizable, but are marketable and useful. Then there is the tin can, one of' the hardest things to dispose of that issues from the kitchen or basement. Thou sands of hous?keepers have in recent years found cause to bless the economic ingenuity that takes the tops and bot toms of tin cans, melts them down and makes them into window weights; rolls the sides out fiat and uses them to sheath large traveling trunks, and takes the solder from the seams and sells it to the plumber. In some cities, notably In New York, the business of collecting and dispens ing sawdust has grown into considera ble proportions. There are something like 500 vendors of sawdust In the city and a capital of $200,000 is Invested in the Industry, which combines supply and demand. In Germany it is com pressed into bricks and sold for fuel. In this countrj it has many uses, from the familiar one of carpeting the floors of restaurants, butcher shops and bar rooms to deadening" walls, protecting vvuier pipes irom ireezing ana smiling dolls. t The by-products of the slaughter house swell 'enormously the profits pf the great packing industry. It Is not too much to say that not one particle of the animal hair, tissue, horn, hoof or bone is wasted. Manufacture and commerce reap a harvest small in de tail but of ample proportions in aggre gate from what was once the offal of the' slaughter-pen, and in so doing in crease Immeasurably the conveniences and comforts of civilization. There is not In all of this the pitiful parsimony that ruled the New England kitchen in a former generation. 'It is economy of resources in a widened sense made possible by growth and an in creased population with increasing needs and wants that are never satis fled. It is the mainspring of great indi vidual wealth, the foundation upon which some of the largest fortunes in the country are based. It is, so to speak, modern commercial chemistry working upon the principle of old-fashioned economy. OREGOX CHILDREN ARB NOT ILLIT ERATE. Oregon has cause for rejoicing in the low percentage of illiteracy among her children, as shown by statistics gath ered by the United States Census Bu reau. Of all the states of the Union, Oregon made the greatest advancement in the decade 1890-1900. In compiling Illiteracy statistics, one table was pre pared showing the percentage of the population of the several states able to read and write among persons from 10 to 14, this; being the age when school children would show actual results from their primary training. It is a matter worthy of note that in every state and territory.- save Arizona and Nevada, there has been a marked increase in this percentage since 1890. According to these figures, 99.58 per cent of the children of Oregon between 10 and 14 years of age were able to read and write In the past census year. Tills remarkably hjgh percentage makes Oregon the third state In the Union In the efficiency of its school system, Ne braska being first, with a percentage of 99.66, and Iowa second, with 99.63. Where Oregon is now the third state, in 1890 it was away down in the elev enth place, Its percentage then being but 98.20. The State of Washington la now in the eleventh place. Its percent age being 99.30, while In 1890 It held the seventeenth place, with a percentage of 97.75. Idaho Is now twenty-second, the percentage being 98.77,' being an ad vance from the twenty-sixth place, with a percentage of 96.18 in the decade. This' information, while hidden away In an obscure table, yet constitutes a glowing tribute to the efficiency of the school system of Oregon and the other Northwestern States. It indicates be yond question that the schools are reaching out and getting in touch with the people; that the adults, many of whom were denied an early education, are determined that their children shall be better equipped. When, too, it is considered that no small portion of the children of school age in Western States are Indians, the total returns, espe cially from Oregon, are little short of marvelous. As is to be expected, the greatest Il literacy . among children, as, among adults, Is found In the South, Louisiana heing at the foot of the list, and South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Texas, Kentucky and others hovering thereabouts. But It is to be observed that there has been material improve ment In those states, Louisiana having nearly 10 per cent less illiterates in 1900 than in 1890, having risen in the decade from 57.26 to 67.12. THE BLUE MOUNTAIN' RESERVE PROJECT. There are, of course, a few individ uals who will suffer disturbance of their plans, and possibly some loss,- if the forest reserve proposals of the Interior Department, as related to the Blue Mountains, shall he" carried into effect. There are a few homesteaders who have gone Into the forested district in good fatth to make and maintain homes there. There are. too, a considerable number of persons who have created logging and milling plants looking to a j supply of raw material from the mountain timber fields. There are oth ers who, through some local advan tage, "control" areas of mountain range which they would feel aggrieved to give up; and there are many who wish the mountain pastures to remain open, wholly regardless of what may follow after the timber has been cut off, the younger trees tramped to death and the grass roots destroyed. These motives are trivial. They are wholly personal, and In their nature temporary- There is no problem in making good to the few bona fide set tlers in the mountains what they will lose through the proposed reservation; and there will be no injustice if a gang of land speculators shall be despoiled' of holdings gained through Juggling with the land laws and held as an un fair vantage ground in the competition for mountain range. And it is certainly no part of the -public duty to assure, at infinite loss to Itself and to genera tions to come, profits to the timber exploiters. The argument that the Blue Mountain forests should be sur rendered to the loggers- and mlllmen be cause they have at some cost made ar rangements for their spoliation, is sim ply too ridiculous for serious considera tion. There is no doubt as to what will happen if the opposition to the Blue Mountain reservation shall prevail. Under one device or another, the whole forested area of the mountain region will speedily pass Into private hands, and the maw of the sawmill will soon swallow every tree large enough to be made Into lumber. For the mlllman there will for a little while be very considerable profits, but the "settler" will gain nothing, since the price of lumber Is controlled by conditions else where, and he will pay the commercial price, whether he buys from the, local mill or from the stock of the dealer who draws his supplies from the great timber fields nearer the coast. In Ave years or ten, at most the Blue Moun tains, under the hands of the specu lator and the mlllman, will be stripped bare of timber. And the mountain range will not fare better. Under the pressure of present conditions, it is being grazed to its, destruction. Not merely is the season's grass harvest re moved, but the grass roots are being eaten out of the ground by swarms of hungry sheep, and young trees are being destroyed by the teeth or the hoofs of the countless flocks which are driven to them for Summer pasture. In five years or ten, at most as mat ters are going, there will be no moun tain range. The whole Blue Mountain region, as one writer has put it, will be skinned to the rlm,-rdck, and its rich pastures reduced, to" barren dust-heaps. And then what will happen? The whole of Northeastern Oregon, for which the Blue Mountains stand as a reservoir, will find that It has lost a great water-conserving and distribut ing resource. Streams will dry up before their time, and faithful wells will cease to bear water. Torrents will rush from the bare mountain sides in Winter and Spring, and there will be drouth In Summer. And then men will wonder if, Indeed, they do not curser at the recklessness which permitted a few timber men and stockmen to gain fortunes at the permanent cost of the countrj', and of those who will inhabit it for generations to come. The forest reserve system does not, as It has been charged, withdraw the nat ural resources of the country from de velopment and hold them to Idleness. It simply does not permit the resources of the territory which it covers to be ruthlessly wasted. It makes, as yet, no provision for the use of timber under rules assuring forest preservation, but it permits such use of the range as Is possible without destroying It. It pre serves as a permanent resource, under reasonable usage, that which, under abuse, must soon wholly be destroyed. But Its best result Is the safeguard Which it puts upon. the water resource of the country. By preserving the tim ber and the general superficial condi tions which conserve moisture, it holds forested and mountainous regions to the character which nature has been cen turies In creating namely, as reser voirs from which the lower regions may draw in the drier seasons. The bounty of nature has given to Northeastern Oregon the great reservoir of the Blue Mountains, which send down streams In every direction for the refreshment and enrichment of the land. The In terior Department, with wise fore thought, seeks, under the machinery of a forest reserve, to maintain the condi tions which will make this blessing a permanent one. This purpose Is sup ported by every motive of reasonable ness; It is opposed only by the tem porary interests of private selfishness1. A reminder of old slavery days, wherein negroes were not allowed to learn to read and write, was presented In a Pittsburg court a short time ago. A negro who reached Pennsylvania as a, fugitive slave In 1862 sued his em ployer for a residue of wages and ex hibited in court two curiously notched sticks, which represented his system of keeping accounts. On one of these were. peculiar notches representing 25 cents and recording the payment of that sum by his employer; other notches were 50 cent and $1 indicators. Ori the other stick the record of his work was kept .in notches showing days and half days. The simple, primitive method excited the curiosity of the spectators, and per haps the compassion of some of them. Against it the, employer presented his account, which tallied with that of the negro In the number of days' work per formed, but which showed that the lat ter had been paid In full for his services. The balance claimed was 593, quite a considerable difference between the two statements. The decision of the court was not given, but it is not improbable that the laborious, painstaking method of Ignorance striving to look after its own appealed strongly to the judicial sense and caused at least a part of the claim to be allowed. Method and painstaking amount to a great deal In the estima tion of careful people. As against the haphazard way In which relatively well educated persons frequently transact business, the "notched stick" of sim plicity as exhibited In this case does not make a bad showing. The desire to be honest and exact; the purpose of Industry to get what It earns, and the wish, to support a claim for wages earned by a record of some kind, are commendable traits that stand to the credlt.of an unlettered mind, even when presented by a stick laboriously notched and carefully preserved. The return to his home port In Nor way of Captain Otto Sverdrup, with his gallant vessel Fram, after four years' detention In the ice of Jones' Sound, was Identical In date with the return of Lieutenant Peary after remaining about the same length of time in Arctic Ice and snow. Captain Sverdrup did not attempt to reach the North pole. The object of his expedition was to explore the unknown wastes of North Green land. This he did extensively,' while his vessel lay for three years impris oned in the Ice "as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean." The forces of Nature at length came to his alcj, and by means of a heavy south wind, the barriers of Ice, against which explosives had been used in vain, were broken up and the vessel set free. The notes of the two expedltlpns, almost exactly con temporaneous in the time of their start ing .and return, will be Interesting by comparison, to those interested In such matters. J The troubled life fit Marie Henrlette, the unhappy Queen of the Belgians, has at length come to a close. Her name for a thjrd of a century and more has been a synonym of neglect, suffering and sorrow. The patient, loyal wife of a reprobate husband; a mother grief stricken by; the death and misfortunes of her children; a woman whose wom anly pride was wounded by the public discussion of her domestic woes, the afflicted Queen has long looked to death as the only release from her sufferings. And death at the last was kind. He came swiftly and without special warn ing, and, finding her alone, delivered without ado the message tlfat secured her release. Presidential tours ate, of course, more common today, when the whole country Is webbed with railways, than they were In the old days of the- stage and the canal and the ferry-boat, but Wash ington, Monroe and Jackson all visited New England within their terms of of fice. Washington went as far as New Hampshire and Monroe visited Vermont in company with La Fayette In 1825. The Montgomery Advertiser explains the situation in Alabama as follows: "There are thousands of 'Bryan men' In Alabama who never believed in him and his policies, and there are thousands of others who did believe in him but are done with him." A Snesentlon for the Italian., Chicago Post After the organ-grinder has been work ing for about 10 minutes the woman sallied forth and addressed him. " 'Taln't no use," she said. "You don't get no money, for that, an you don't de serve none. If you'd put as much of the same kind of work on a churn you wouldn't have no trouble makln' a good UvInV SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS A Horrible SBgrgrestion. Newberg Graphic In refuting the charge that Furnish spent thousands of dollars to secure his election as Governor, the Eugene Regis ter says that it has yet to find a single paper that received from him, directly or indirectly a single dollar for supporting his candidacy. Perhaps that- Is where Mr. Furnish made his mistake. There's a great art In knowing how to place money conducive to largest returns. Motives Pointedly Attributed. "Spokane Spokesman-Review. Wilson and his Seattle paper opposed a commission because, as creature and mouthpiece of tho railroad Interests, they are more concerned in relieving the com mon carriers of all restraints than In pro tecting the rights of the people. The Idea never occurs -to them, or If ir does, it never finds expression, that the public stands In need of protection against the dangerous powers that are undoubtedly possessed and wielded by the railroads. Coppers Onr Jonathan. Baker City Democrat. "Jack" Bourne, after whom the town of Bourne at Cracker Creek, this county, was named, and who Is the principal owner of the E. & E. mines. Is a candi date for United States Senator "from Ore gon. Bourne had a big following in the Republican ranks a few years ago, but of late he seemed to have dropped out of the political arena. He may make a stagger towards rallying some strength, but it Is not likely he can come within any respectable distance of the coveted prize. Limits on Convention's Authority. Yakima Washlngtonlan. What authority Is vested In a state con vention to Instruct the legislators in the different counties as to their duties In the Legislature? Is it not true that the con vention Is limited in its instructions to the creatures of the convention, namely, state and National officers, nominated by the convention? In other words, a delegated convention is not greater than the power of the people who sent the delegates to do a specific thing, and none other. Another thing, If the va rious counties repudiate the action of a state convention that stood practically even on the commission business, and in struct their legislators to let the matter drop, what are Governor McBrlde and his confreres going to do about It? Heredity Not Omnipotent. Lebanon Criterion. Some people wonder how It Is that Henry Watterson, Jr., eon of the great Henry Wattorson .editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, could turn rascal as ho. has ana do such a thing as forge an Army payroll and draw sevetal months' salary the second time. True ibis a wonder that a boy, coming of good family and trained up as he doubtless has been should turn out a rascal and a forger, but it Is not strange. We have boys right here In Linn County and possibly right here in Lebanon, that, although blessed with a good home and honest parents, are not, figuratively speaking, worth the powder It would take to blow them up. Just why a degenerate son will look clear over and beyond the example of an exemplary mother and a good father to some Tracy or possibly to some less desperate but more trifling fellow, has long been a question that great minds have failed to solve. It is no credit to such a son that he has abused his privileges and failed to hearken to the warnings of his par ents. Did. He Deserve This? Spokane Chronicle. I am proud to preside over a convention, gen tlemen, which stands by the teachings of Jeffer son and Abraham Lincoln (applause); which has kept its faith unimpaired and In which tho hope of the Nation Is centered. A convention which stands fast by the principles adopted at Kansas City and Chicago (applause); which stands absolutely unabashed by that prince o men. William Jennings Bryan. (Applause.) Choice extract from the speech of Chairman Canfleld at the Democratic state convention. Sounds pretty, doesn't it? "A convention, gentlemen, which stands by the teachings of Jefferson and Abra ham Lincoln"! Ugh! When did Abraham Lincoln teach his countrymen to abandon territory to reb els? When did Abraham Lincoln teach the people of the United States to wrest from colored Americans the rights which they possess? When did Abraham Lincoln sneak as far as he dared in the direction of free 'trade, and teach the voters of this Nation to sneak after him? When did Abraham Lincoln do anything to justify the party which ridiculed him, abused him, lied about him, opposed him when alive in its present efforts to claim him as its own nearly 40 years after the great patriot martyr's death? Stands by the Coyote Bounty. Pendleton Tribune. Western Oregon opposes the law be cause It has no coyotes and pays more taxes than does Eastern Oregon. It would take too much space to renew the. old. "scrap" with the people west of the Cas cades who have everything else of a pub lic nature that the state supports cap itol, "pen," asylum, all the schools, etc. so we will merely say they are against the bounty law. But a sentiment has' been born in a place or two In East ern Oregon against It. It 'did not origin ate in the sheep camps, of course. It started with the man who is not well In formed on the subject. He does not know that the law protects the poultry and the pigs of the entire state and the life of many a young calf is saved by it. The small farmer who depends on his eggs and chickens for a large part of his live lihood is protected. His hogs are also free from the danger of the prowling coy ote. The benefits to this class of peo ple are as great as to the sheepmen. One Important fact is perhaps often forgot ten, which- Is that the sheepman pays a special tax per head Into the bounty fund. Hq, pays for the special protection he receives. The sentiment throughout East ern Oregon should be unanimous for the continuance of the bounty bill, If not for an Increased bounty. We recommend that the rato per scalp be raised. Some Justification, but N'ot Much. Yakima Republic'. The Oregonian is considerably worked up because the Republican state platform Ignores the "subject of Cuban reciprocity. In fairness, there is not much ground for Tho Oregonlan's complaint; but there Is some. In our opinion, the platform, which indorses the President's foreign and domestic policy and pledges the Congressional delegation to the support thereof, binds the Congressmen from this state to assist President Roosevelt here after to establish his Cuban policy. In the last session they voted against the Payne bill, which, though it was not sat isfactory to the President, was urged by him. Tho excuses for the failure of the convention to adopt a more specific dec laration on this point are several. An other, and an absorbing question, was be fore the convention. In the settlement of the railroad commission question, not only were Important National questions lost sight of, but candidates for Congress were made and unmade. By the time the com mittee oh resolutions had the platform drafted, Cushman's nomination had been fixed, as a result of his combination with the Governor's forces. A specific indorse ment of Cuban reciprocity waB then taken from the draft of the platform, not be cause the committee favored It, but be cause Cushman considered It ,a slap' at him. Cushman's remonstrance was to the point. There was no sense in making a platform to embarrass . a candidate whose nomination was certain. The com mittee, therefore, contented Itself with a declaration for the future guidance of Congressmen from this state. MORE VIEWS OF HENDERSON Kansas City Star. The withdrawal of Speaker David B. Henderson from the Congressional race of tho Third Iowa District Is a surprise, but it Is not a mystery. He had two political contests ahead' of him and was liable to defeat In each. The element of danger was within h!a own party. Henderson Is the type of man who can stand up in a political fight that is conducted along straight party lines, but is apt to manifest pique whenever opposition comes from within the party ranks. Having had his oWn way so long In his district, he could not bjook the assertion of-popular senti ment against his extreme protectionism. He did not even stop to consider that this opposition was not so much against him as against a wholly unjustifiable survival of high protection as applied in many In stances. The nomination of Mr. Horace Boles by the Democrats of his district aggravated the situation. While the Republican lead ers declared confidently that Henderson would be re-elected, they betrayed their lick of confidence through the extraordi nary programme laid out for the canvass of his district. Republicans who had no reason to confuse or misrepresent the sit uation believed from the time of the nomination of Boles that .Henderson was almost certain to be defeated. In his course as Speaker, Henderson lost popularity in his party in general rather than In his district. His rulings have been arbitrary- At most he has taken counsel with but a few leaders of his party, and they have been conspicuously of the "old crowd," against which there Is a sort of revolution in the House. His dogged op position to the appropriation for the St. Louis Exposition hurt him, especially In the West. He Insulted the Senate by writing a gratuitous open letter prac tically calling its members cowards in connection with the Porto Rlcan legisla tion. Ho betrayed unstatesmanllke pre judices and a lack of tact by going to President McKInley and the Secretary of War and personally expressing his dis approval of the bill to promote General Miles and General Corbin, but the meas ure was passed In spite of his unrelenting opposition as Speaker. In his treatment of the chairmen of various committees and Individual members he has seemed to forget that he had been elected by them as a presiding otilcer. He has been Irascible and dictatorial. Although chos en twice without opposition, his unpopu larity In the last session grew to such pro portions that he foresaw a fight for a third term. Mr. Henderson's exalted plea that he cannot run because he Is not In harmony with the sentiment of his state is not wholly in keeping with his record. It will be remembered that he opposed the Cuban reciprocity bill at first, and that he came around very gracefully when he heard from Iowa. If is, therefore, amusing, to say the least, to note his boast of friend ship for Cuba, and his professed Inability to adapt himself to the sentiment of his party. The adaptability required of Mr. Hen derson in making the Congressional race was not extreme. Iowa adopted a very clastic tariff plank significant, but capa ble of varying constructions as witness the Innocent meaning extracted by Sec retary Shaw. One would suppose from Mr. Henderson's letter of explanation that his state had declared for free trade, when, as a matter of fact, at most It was only for a modified revision of those tar iffs that give shelter to monopoly, with the extreme and unfortunate probability that even this limited policy would not be applied by the Republican party In the near future. No, Mr. Henderson's withdrawal Is not a mystery. It Is a case of fear and pique. Highly Favornble. San Francisco Call. In declining the Republican nomination for Congress in the Dubuque district, Mr. Henderson voluntarily relinquishes the Speakership, to which he would have been re-elected for a third term without opposition. His reason is highly cred itable to him, while his act Is distressing to his party. He prefers to abide by his conviction that protection is an economic principle, and not a policy of expediency, and as his party in Iowa holds an atti tude on that subject that is out of line with his convictions, he prefers to disem barrass it and himself by giving It a fair way in his district. N"ew York's Disgrace. New York Journal of Commerce. No doubt is left by the report of a com mittee appointed by the Mayor to investi gate the riot at the funeral of Rabbi Josephs that there Is a systematic harry ing of the Jews on the East Side, which at times becomes serious. Policemen and even police magistrates are said In the re port to be In the habit of treating the Jews harshly, and this amounts occasion ally to brutality from the policemen and a denial of justice from some magistrates. The charges are serious, and the dis closures being made Mayor Low and Commissioner Partridge will find some way of removing the abuses, at least for a time. Unfortunately, there Is a great deal of race prejudice, which not only affects the populace, but the police also, and even Invades the bench of magistrates. In a locality where It is evidently a common thing to insult Jews, and a not uncom mon thing to throw missiles at them, the Jews were insulted when they were es corting to Its last resting place the re mains of their chief rabbi. Not only were they Insulted, but missiles were thrown at them, one of which narrowly missed the hearse. Out of this not unnaturally re sulted a riot, and when the police reserves arrived they clubbed right and left with out any effort to discover the guilty par ties, inspired, there Is too much reason to fear, by the consideration that they were Jews whom they were clubbing. The re port that the trouble began by an attack on the Hoe factory by the funeral pro cession was absurd on its face, and noth ing Is left of it by the report of the com mittee. There Are Other Ideals. Montreal Star. What has often surprised the Chinese and other Easterns is that the Western world should profess a religion which is the absolute negation of their whole tone of mind and manner of life. They glorify force; their religion tells them not to glor ify force. They maks the gaining of wealth their principal and absorbing pur suit; their religion tells them that the love of money is the root of all evil, and that the rich man has the scantiest pos sible chance of entering the kingdom of heaven. Goethe has said that a man's philosophy is often the supplement of his character; In other words, all that he cannot put Into his life he puts Into his philosophy. Something of the same kind would seem to be true of the Western nations and their religion. The sum of the matter seems to be that, where we thought we had everything to teach and nothing to learn, we find that we have much to learn perhaps quite as much as we have to teach. We have a civilization of our own, but It is not a universal civ ilization; It Is a steam-engine civiliza tion. We have yet to learn the civ ilization that deals primarily with the heart and intellect the civilization that truly, not only professedly and conven tionally, esteems the life as more than meat and the body as more than raiment. Logical Sequence. Chicago Tribune. "This, ladles and gentlemen," the dime museum lecturer continued. "Is the cele brated vampire bat, of which all of you have read. It fastens Itself upon Its sleep ing victims and sucks the life blood from their bodies. You will observe Its fe rocious expression of countenance as it hangs suspended, head downward, think ing, doubtless, of the many bloody feasts it has had in the past, and longing In vain for equally bloody feasts In the future. Passing on now to the cage on the right, I wish to call your attention to our re markable collection of snakes." "That's right," mumbled the red-nosed man In the crowd. "First the bat and then the snakes!" NOTE AND COMMENT. Take Your Own Medicine. r The doctor looked his patient o'er And gravely shook his head. "You mustn't carry so much steam; J You need a rest." he said. ' To burn the candle at both ends Will wreck your system cnlte; And now I must be off. you know, I'm driven day and night." "The law's unconstitutional." The lawyer sternly salth, "And my advice Is positive t To fight It to the death. Jfo man of spirit would submit To such unjust attacks And now I must go up and pay My occupation tax." e "And. fourthly, my belovtd friends," The pastor said, "observe The greatest In the gospel band Are they who humbly serve. Accept our creed of faith and love. j AH else are heretics. The law should give some one the power To wring their craven necks." "Throw It away!" the editor Exclaimed in language strong; "All compositions should be brief. And this one Is too long. All articles must be condensed. Description, news, opinion." And then he seized a pen and' wrote Two thousand words of minion. "1 And so In every walk of life. Familiarity Doth make each man repudiate His own philosophy. The cobbler's shoes are full of holes. The tailor's coat Is torn; Upon the milliner's fair head A last year's hat Is worn. The plumber's house Is full of gas. The builder's full of smoke; The barber's classic head Is bald. The medium Is broke. When I get wealth and time enough I'll found a school to teach iC The Inconsistent sons of men To practice what they preach. Paradoxical as It may seem, Indian Summer Is mild and gentle. If you want to do a good deed, buy a box for the fire-sufferers' benefit. It was unkind for Mr. Soper to offer to turn the hose on the fire subscription. If the bar had any pride It would feel Insulted at the way everybody talks about It and remove Itself. From the number of "quiet" weddings reported, one would be justified In Imag ining that absence of pistol practice and war-whoops are sufficiently rare to de serve mention. Is It better- to have a Sunday law that can't be enforced or to repeal it and in cur the attainder of Immorality? Our purpose is merely to state the question. The answer Is not yet on earth. The man who ran the cigar stand In the Waldorf-Astoria in New York has been arrested for evading the payment of Internal revenue. It should be Impos sible for a rude person with a warrant to invade the sacred precincts of the Waldorf-Astoria. There is a newspaper published at Jack sonville, 111., by lunatics and for luna tics, and for a starter It declares that "a fool never goes crazy or gets bald headed." It ought to appeal to the folk with thin hair as well as to those with thin brains. When William J. Bryan was in Rich mond, Mo., on a recent trip somebody asked him how many acres his famous farm contains. "I farm 35 acres and over see 3000 acres," was the Nebraskan's re ply. Then he added. In explanation, that his place Is on a hillside and overlooks SOOO acres of fine valley land. His "over seeing" consists In looking over his neigh bors' property. The forthcoming retirement from Par liament of W. E. H. Lecky, the historian, Is said to be due to heart' weakness. He is the most fluent speaker in Parliament, and causes despair to stenographers be cause his' speeches flow swiftly hi a con tinuous stream of most elegant but diffi cult language, with never a pause or break, the result being that when he de sires an accurate report he is forced to supply it himself. A resident of Washington thought of what he considered a funny thing and went Into the office of George E. Roberts, Director of the Mint, to put his Idea Into practice. "Mr. Roberts," he said, "I vis ited the mint in Philadelphia the other day and had a julep." There was a laugh, which was heartily received when Roberts replied: "If that's all you had you missed a good thing. You ought to have taken a silver .fizz, too." Emile Zola was asked the other day by a French journalist to give his Idea re garding education. He replied: "I was educated at the Municipal College at Alx and the Lycee St. Louis In Paris. I lost my father when I was quite young and as my mother was very weak in her at titude toward me I was able to develop In my own waj,'. I did not learn to read until I was 8 years old. I may say that I educated myself, and I think that Is the best way. I do not believe In school education." There Is an odd character at Atlantic City, who is called the Mayor of the Boardwalk. He is always on the board walk from early morning until dark, car rying a cane with a flat, wide blade at the end, with which he pushes through the cracks between the planks all the scraps of paper and other flotsam and jetsam that the tens of thousands of promenaders drop an they stroll up and down. The "mayor" does not receive any wages. He has a benefit performance at one of the pier theaters every season, which usually brings him in several hun dred dollars, and business men whose shops front upon the walk raise a purse for him twice a year. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS "Say, Goveynor, when Is the best time to go Into the stock market?" "On Sundays and hol idays." Detroit Free Press. "Do you enjoy walking?" "Immensely." "Good. Then I'll take you for a ride In the country In ray automobile." Washington Star. "What kind of a stove did the prehistoric man use?" asked little Ostcnd. "Probably ha used a mountain range." Philadelphia Record. "They say he spends all he makes." "Oh, It's worse than that. Why, he spends a good part of what his father makes." Chicago Even ing Post. Beryl Well, all I've got to say is that Ethel Is a two-faced creature. Sibyl Yes, and she'd look better if she'd use the other face Instead of the present one! Baltimore Herald. "Aren't you afraid to trust your little boy with that automobile?" "Oh, no. We always give him as many checks for various amounts as he Is likely to need before starts out." Chicago Record-Herald. Mrs. Newlywed How dare you object to my bills? Papa pays them all. Mr. Newly wed Yes, hang It! But I haven't tho nerve to ask him to pay any of mine when you are touching him up all the time. Judge. "What was the cause of the delay?" asked the only passenger that had not left the car as he looked up from the newspaper he was busily reading. "Coal wagon Just ahead ran over an obstruction and spilled a bushel or two of an thracite on the tracks," replied the other passen gers,, climbing aboard the car again with bulg ing pockets. Chicago Tribune.