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1 THIS -MORNING OKKGON1AN, THURSDAY; OCTOBER "9, 1902. 1 i Entered at the PostoflJce at .Portland, Oregon. ' as tecond-class matter. -- REVISED. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. . ; By Mall (postage prepaid. In Advance) Dally, with Sunday, per month 83 Dally, Sunday excepted, per year., 7 BO Dally, with Sunday, per year 0 00 Sunday, per year 2 00 The Weekly, per year 1 W The Weekly. 3 months 60 To City Subscribers Dairy, per week, delivered. Sunday excepted.ISc Dally, per week, delivered. Sundays lncluded-20o ' POSTAGE RATES. United States. Canada and Mexico: 10 to 14-page paper 1 14 to 28-page paper o Foreign rstB double. Newa or discussion Intended for publication In The Orcgonlan ehould 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 simply "The Oregonian." Eastern Buslneaa Office. 43. 44. 45. 47, 48. 4D Tribune building. New York City: 510-11-12 Tribune building, Chicago; the S. C. Beckwlth Special Agency. Eastern representative. For sale In San Francisco by L. E. Lee. Pal ice Hotel news stand: Goldsmith Bros. 233 Sutter street; F. W, Pitts. 1003 Market street; J. K. Cooper Co., 745 Market street, near the Palace Hotel: Foster & Orear. Ferry newa stand: Frank Scott. SO Ellis 'street, and N: Wheatley. 813 Mission street. For sale in Los AnceJes by B. F. Gardner. 250 South Spring street, and Oliver & Haines. 303 South Spring street. " For sale la Kansas City, Mo., by Rlcksecker Cigar Co.. Ninth and Walnut streets. For sale in Chicago by the1 P. O. Newa Co.. 217 Dearborn street, and 'Charles MacDonald. 63 Washington street. For sale In Omaha by Barkalow Bros.. 1612 Farnam street: Megeath Stationery Co.. 130S Farnam street- For sale In Salt Lake-by the Salt Lake News Co., 77 West Second South street. For sale In Minneapolis by R. G. Hearsey & Co., 24 Third etreot South. Fpr sale In Washington, D. C. by the Ebbett House newa stand. For sale In Denver, Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrick. 006-012 Seventeenth street: Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co.. Fifteenth and Lawrence streets; A. Series, Sixteenth and Curtis street. TODAY'S WEATHER Probably fair; winds mostly northerly. YESTERDAY' S WEATHER Maximum tem perature. OS: minimum temperature, 54; pre clpltatlon. trace. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9. LET; THEM HAVE THEIR BOND. "Every' contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspir acy. In restraint of trade or commerce among -the several states, pr with for eign nations, is hereby declared to be illegal Every person who shall make any such contract or engage in any such combination or conspiracy, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a line not exceeding $5000, or by imprisonment not exceeding one 3ear, or by both said punishments, In the discretion of the court. "Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine, or conspire with any other person or persons to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several states, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5000, or by im prisonment not exceeding one year, or hy both said punishments, In the discre tion of the court. . "Every contract, combination In form of trupt or otherwise, or conspiracy,;, in restraint of trade or commerce in any territory of the United States or of the District of Columbia, or in restraint of trade or commerce between any such territory and another, or between any such territory or territories and any state or states' or the District of Colum bia, or foreign nations, or between the District of Columbia and any state or states or foreign nations, lo hereby de clared illegal. Every person who shall make any such contract or engage in any such combination or conspiracy shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, -shall be pun ished by a fine not exceeding $5000, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court. "Any property owned under any con tract or by any combination, or pursu ant to any conspiracy (and being the subject thereof) mentioned in section 1 of this act, and being In the course of transportation from one state to an other, or to a foreign country, shall be forfeited to the United States, and mar be seized and' condemned by like pro ceedings as those provided by law for forfeiture, seizure and condemnation of property imported Into the United States contrary to law." "We said in this column yesterday morning that public opinion In the United States will not approve of vio lence in support of strikes. Perhaps the statement should be qualified. A train load of militia 'at -Pittsburg was hissed by the populace and a riot was barely averted. Similar expressions are re ported In other places. These guards men were doing nothing more than obey their orders and their oath of of fice. Their orders are nothing more ob jectionable than the suppression of mob law and the protection from assassina tion of men whose crime is willingness to work. "Why this disregard of law? "Why this apparently increasing popular willing ness to see strikers take the law Into their own hands? It will not do to Im peach the popular Impulse unheard. You cannot Indict a whole people. There Is some reason for this popular condona tion of lawlessness. The reason why the miners are meas urably condoned in taking the law Into . their own hands is. that the-mineowners have already set the example in flagrant defiance of the law. The trusts aspire to- be a law unto themselves. "Whether it is the Northern Securities merger, brazenly defying the plain mandates of half a dozen state constitutions and statutes, or the steei trust, gobbling up properties everywhere and withdrawing from industry $12,000,000 a mqnth in profits, or the anthracite coal trust, monopolizing the hard-coal land, the machinery that prepares the coal for user every foot of railway over which it goes to market, every car that car ries and every engine that hauls It whether one or all of these, they are de liberately and openly defying the laws of the United States. President Baer and his allies make bitter complaint about lawlessness. It does not lie in their mouths to -prate about lawlessness, whose every act la taken 'in defiance of the Sherman anti trust law of 1890, which we have quoted at the outset of this article. If this law were obeyed, the anthracite trust would be Impossible. If this law ;ere enforced, Baer and his whole crowd of arrogant lawbreakers would be behind prison bars, where they belong. They are as guilty as the murderous dyna miters of Shenandoah. They demand the law give it to them! Let them be punished and. their possessions forfeited to the state. THEN AXD SOW. The great parade of the veterans of the G. A. R. at Washington yesterday was a notable event. The ranks of the Union veterans are thinning rapidly,, over 50,000 having died during the past year. They are entitled to the respect and reverence of the Nation because of the honorable part they bore In what a very gallant soldier. President Hayes, called "the great event of the age, the sacred and stainless" war for the Union." President Hayes was most felicitous In his phrase "the sacred and stainless war for the Union." It is "sacred" be cause its memories run back to so many hearts and hearthstones In 'this broad land, and It is "stainless" because it was fought to maintain and perpetuate free Institutions against a Confederacy whose corner-stone was human slavery. Of the sincerity of the Southern people there is no more question than there Is of their abounding valor, but sincerity of conviction does not establish the ex cellence of faith, for the Saracen spent his blood as' bravely in battle under the crescent as the Christian did under the cross. The war for the Union was not only stainless in' moral but In legal and con stitutional equity. The sincerity, the valor of the South, cannot be im peached; the constitutional arguments for and against the right of secession are today, of course, become a purely academic question, because the question was fought to a finish and finally set tled by force of arms; nevertheless, it is clear from the speech of General J. H. "Wilson yesterday that It is too soon- yet for Charles Francis Adams to expect a monument to General Dee at. "Washing ton erected by the Government. This feeling is not due to anV personal bitter ness of feeling to General Lee, but to the conviction that De deserves a mon ument at the hands of the Nation neither more nor less than Davia "We are not ready yet to plant a monument to Davis cheek by jowl with .that of Dlifcoln, and logically enough "we are not yet ready to' erect a monument to Dee. The time will come, as it comes to all peoples, when this mood may pass away, but it is too soon to expect that brave, sincere soldiers on both sides should look at a Lee statue erect ed by the Government as lightly as does Mr. Charles Francis Adams. Few of the Union veterans who marched yesterday at Washington are under 60 years of age. Of their old corps and division and brigade com manders few are left. Schofield, Sickles, Howard, Franklin, Thomas J. Wood. William F. Smith. Dodge, Willcox, Wil son and Merrltt are about all the old corps commanders that are left, while of the eminent division commanders Miles, Brooke, Ames and Chamberlain survive. The great Confederate cap tains have all passed away save Long street, who Is S3. But the disappear ance of -all the notable figures of the war for the Union Is not the thing that will particularly Impress an old Union veteran today, for In the thirty-seven years that have elapsed since the close of the Civil War death would be sure to make havoc In the ranks of the com manders old enough to be of high com mand, but. the important, the surprising- thing is the revolutionary change in the methods of war, its arms and battle tactics, since 1865. The Union soldiers, with the exception of a few picked regiments, were armed with muzzle-loading rifles and used black pow der. The soldier today is armed with a magazine rifle and uses smokeles? pow der. The modern rifle, by the rapidity of its Are. its great range, has become in the hands of a marksman the su preme weapon. This is the judgment of Lord Roberts and of every intelligent English officer who participated in the Boer War. ' The ordinary soldier will now fire twelve times as many shots per minute as he was able to do In 1870. What with Increased 'rapidity of fire, greater penetrative power and the greater pre cision that the improved military mag azine rifle possesses, It is five times as deadly as was the French chassepot of 1870-71. The effect of artillery Are Is five times as deadly as it was in 1870, and the firing is two or three times as fast. Add to this the use of smokeless powder and we have the conditions of practical war so completely changed and revolutionized 'that if the armies of the Union could be reanimated today and those of the Confederacy, the army using the arms and the close forma tion for battle practiced in 1864 would be annihilated if the other army was furnished with the modern rifle and smokeless powder and fought in open order, as did the Boers. The veterans of the war for the Union do not know any more about the improved arms and battle tactics which are consequent upon this improvement than If they had never fought with Grant or Sherman. So supreme in importance has mastery of the rifle become that General Ran dall, U. S. A., commanding the Depart ment of the Columbia, in his report urges the Government to provide that no soldier be eligible to re-enlistment If he Is not a good marksman. Some men can never be taught to shoot straight, and such men General Randall says are not fit for soldiers. Dr. Conan Doyle came back from the Boer War and wrote that henceforth no man who was not a sharpshooter was fit for a soldier. This revolutionary change that has come in military opinion within five years is the greatest since Water loo, when the British soldiers fired from the hip Instead of taking sight, as mod em riflemen do. The French military .commanders and the German Kaiser continue today the old cavalry charges and the old infantry tactics, but. our best officers know that marksmen Is the lesson of the Boer War. If Lee's army had been armed with magazine guns and smokeless powder, moving against it In solid lines would have been madness. We should have been worse repulsed than were the English by the Boers, for there would not have been such disparity of numbers. ' If there is one royal or Imperial fam ily in Europe the members of which are more mild and harmless than all the rest, it is the royal family of Denmark. King Christian and his Queen are aged, placid, blameless, gentle folk, whose happy domestic life Is a model for every household in the realm. Their children occupy or are close, generally In a sub ordinate sense, to nearly every throne in Europe, and in all the relations of life, public and private, give evidence of having been well born and carefully brought up. The two daughters, Alex andra of England and Dagmar, Dowa ger Empress of Russia, are at present visiting their venerable parents In Co penhagen. Harmless and gentle as they are, anarchists are upon their track 1 YtfWfci'liiiWf ttiTTi- rVVti seeking opportunity o assassinate them. This statement would be Incredible were It not for the remembrance of the fate of the blameless, inoffensive Em press of Austria when traveling in Swit zerland a few years ago, and for the fact,, so -frequently demonstrated, that the anarchist strikes at position In the desecrated name of liberty, assigning no reason for his act. King Christian Is . guarding his daughters carefully with the aid of Russian, detectives, and will, It is said, have them hasten their departure from their ancestral home lest perchance harm might befall them there. If anarchists could bring upon themselves greater detestation than that in which clvillzation'has long held themt they may now be given an added meas ure. THE PENSION EVIL. When it was confidently announced by the New York Sun that the New York Republican state platform would Include a plank urging reform in the matter of pension legislation, the Brook lyn Eacle. while expressing its satisfac tion, plainly Intimated that the news j was too good to be true, and the fore bodings of the Brooklyn Eagle have been verified. The New York Republi can State Convention passed no resolu tion of protest against the -pension evil. The Brooklyn Eagle grounded lis skep ticism upon the fact that the competi tive demagogy and debauchery of both parties in bidding for votes make any legislation in the line of pension reform the despair of the honest veterans who are ashamed of the deserters, malinger ers and perjurers whose names pad and tarnish the pension roll. The honest veterans are ashamed of the prosecution of the business of pension-getting by pension brokers, who are utterly without conscience in their business and utterly unscrupulous In Its prosecution. The average Congress man will vote for any bill the defeat of which he has reason to fear might cost him a number of votes in a closely con tested district. It is this kind of Con gressman that will vote to deprive the Army of its beer canteen; not because ho believes the loss of his beer In garri son will make the enlisted man- on the whole a better because more efficient soldier, but because' he has reason to think that his action in robbing the soldier of his beer panteen will help him to a few Prohibition votes in his dis trict In case he ever needed them. Few Congressmen dare vote against vicious pension legislation, lest they be branded by the pension brokers as "disloyal to the Union veteran." The pension roll today Is over 1,000,000 strong a gain of 1711 over the previous year. The total amount disbursed for pensions in the last fiscal year, ending June 30, was $137,500,000. and 339,436 I pending claims are awaiting action by the Pension Bureau. The total dis bursements for pensions on account of the Civil War since July 1, 1865, amount to $2,728,S78.000. In 1879 it was believed that the pension list had reached Its limit. The number on the rolls that year was 242,755, and the sum paid for pensions was $33,000,000. That was four teen years after the war, and- now. thirty-seven years after the war, the expenditure for pensions Is more than four times as much, the roll Is a million strong, and Is still growing." About 50,000 persons are employed In the business of pension-getting. The first report of the new Commissioner of Pensions Ih Its comments cn the exten sion of the roll through special acts oC Congress, known as private pension leg islation, demonstrates that the use of this method of enlarging the roll Is in creasing rapidly. As late as 1898 the session of Congress which adjourned that year passed less than 400 special pens-ion acts of an annual value of only $67,000. The last session of Congress passed 1114 special acts of an -annual value of $182,825, or nearly one-ninth of all the private acts which have been passed In the last forty years. The course of the new Commissioner will be watched with interest. He has had nothing to do with the period covered ! by the last report, but his removal of Dr. Raub, the efficient medical referee, who was as distasteful to the pension sharks as was Commissioner Evans, has not favorably impressed the thoughtful public. PRIME FACTORS IN AGRICULTURAL PROSPERITY. Against the pioneer idea that good, solid pork could not be produced In Oregon because corn did not thrive here as In the states of the Middle West, ex periment has been for some time bat tling. Fact has made headway slowly against theory In this respect, but, aided by careful, painstaking, practical ex periment, results in pork producing on a relatively small scale have become so satisfactory that hogralslng may now be classed as one of Oregon's grow ing commercial and agricultural Indus tries. Demonstrations In this line have proceeded so far that results from speci fied treatment In foods, feeding, range, etc., may be definitely counted upon. Men who understand the matter sa for example, that very 160-acre farm In the Columbia Basin may be made to turn off a carload of sound, well-condi tioned hogs each year, and this not to the exclusion of dairying and ordinary farm industries and products, but In conjunction with and supplemental to them. The intelligent farmer no longer talks of the waste products of the farm. Properly managed, a farm has no waste products. Pigs and poultry are the ready alchemists that turn farm wast age Into savings. At least they may and will do this If properly managed. Ignorance of this fact, or neglect to profit by It, has caused, the soil to be worn out from the production of w'heat and supplied our markets with eggs, chickens, bacon, hams and lard from the farms -and great packing establish ments of the Mississippi Basin. Oregon farmers have learned a great deal In the past ten years that is profit able to themselves and to the state. But they have not yet met demand with full supply in these very profitable lines of their vocation. Dairying has been pushed according to modern methods until it is now possible to find Oregon butter in our markets the year round, but there is room for further growth in this industry If the outlying markets of which Portland Is the commercial cen ter are to be supplied. The test of ag ricultural prosperity is In these and other lines of production grouped under the head of diversified farming. That test is being slowly applied, yet with increasing rapidity year after year, to the agriculture of the state. ' Its possi bilities in this line are only limited by the number and well-directed energy of Its rural population. The soil Is here; diversity of location i9 sufficient to meet every need of diversified farming, and over all broods a- climate that Is without the rigors of Winter and the - jTiiffiirf" - ft'tilii n if : intense heat of Summer. Population is needed to work out the problem of - Ore gon's resources; pioneer habits born 'of Isolation need to be broken, and farm ing customs now In a state of transition neqd to progress farther away from old methods that had their root In a clipper-ship commerce that demanded wheat as cargo. These things will come first of all the population, then a de velopment In agriculture that will in clude pork and- poultry production and dairying as prime factors, and a wider and' constantly widening market, the supply rising grandly to meet the demand.- A further step in the establishment of the gold standard in India Is rumored In England, and In a discussion of. It the Manchester Guardian says that rupee bonds are at a slight discount In London, while IndIan-gold bonds are at a premium of about 8 per cent. The difference Is partly due to rates of ex change and to the remote possibility of an abandonment of the present finan cial policy of the Indian Government, but the fact that the rupee bonds are subject to Indian as well as British In come taxes, while the gold bonds are subject only to the latter, and some other differences between the two bonds, go farther perhaps to explain the difference In their prices. The. re port Is that the Indian government Is going to guarantee the Interest of the rupee bonds at it pence per rupee, prac tically making the rupee bond a gold bond for two-thirds as many pounds as the bond would have called for be fore the decline in silver. Such a course, the Guardian points out, would Improve the credit of the Indian gov ernment and enable It to borrow here after on better terms. If Interest rates should decline, there would be a profit In refunding the rupee bonds, which are redeemable much earlier than the gold bonds, and the Guardian believes that capital would. go to India more freely and on easier terms if this step were taken. It is significant, perhaps, that Manchester, whence Issued much of the "blmetallsm" nonsense that so leng Im peded the adoption of the gold standard by India, is now disposed to accept that policy as an established fact. United States Senator Lodge Is correct when he says that there can be" no reci procity with Canada until the Alaska boundary dispute is settled. The Cana dian government refuses to open any question at issue between the two coun tries while the boundary issue remains unsettled. Canada makes the settle ment of the boundary question the su preme Issue between the two countries, and the United States cannot open ne- gotiations for trade reciprocity without first conceding the Canadian demands concerning the boundary. The -game of Canada Is to warp the United, States from Its present position by refusing to discuss reciprocity or the fisheries. The Canadian territorial claim on the boundary issue has not the slightest jus tification, but the friends of Canadian reciprocity think the question for the future is whether our interest In the settlement of other issues may not be come so great or so acute that a few miles of territory or a few miles of sea coast In Alaska could not be compared with reciprocity In value to our people. In our judgment the friends of reci procity are, as a matter of cold busi ness, right: but they are likely to be beaten-' J5y Mr. Lodge, who declares "against yielding tb Canada an inch on the boundary Issue, because Mr. Lodge can easily appeal to National pride and to the just prejudice which Canada al ways manages to excite against herself by her conduct whenever she takes part In a joint high commission with Great Britain and the United States. The excellent basis the anthracite rail road trxfst has laid for Its high moral appeal tbv the law may be Inferred from tlese two sections of the constitution of Pennsylvania: No Incorporated company, doing the business of a 'common carrier, ' shall, directly or Indi rectly, prosecute or engage In mining or manu facturing articles for transportation over Its "works; nor shall such company, directly or In directly, engage In any other business than that of common carriers, or hold or acquire lands, freehold or leasehold, directly or Indirectly, ex cept such as shall be necessary for carrying on Its business; but any mining or manufacturing cbmpany "may carry the product of Us mines and manufactories on Its railroad or canal, not exceeding BO miles in length. No railroad, canal, or other corporation, or , the lessees, purchasers or managers of any railroad i or canal corporation, shall consoll date the stock, property or franchises of such corporation with or lease or purchase the works or franchises of, or In any way control, any other railroad or canal corporation own ing, or having under Its control, a parallel or competing line; nor shall any officer of such railroad or canal corporation act as an officer of any other railroad or canal corporation own ing or having the control of aiarallel or com petlng line; and the question -whether railroads or canals are parallel or competing lines shall. when demanded by tho party complainant, be decided by a jury, as in other civil Issues. Every official act of President Baer's is based on flatfooted defiance of thes3 paragraphs. A pound of example is worth a ton of precept. The Montana Record gives details of a wild ride from Fort Benton to Great Falls, In that state, a distance of sev enty miles, of a candidate for the Judge ship of a newly created, judicial dis trlct, -In order that he might file the certificate of his nomination in time, The story is one of an all-night gallop across gulches, along, high banks and through the coulees from creek bottoms to batch land. The candidate reached the olticlal goal just in time, making the rest ui me trip to iiejena Dy train, worn out, as may well be supposed, with his ride. The pity of the- pitiful in such a case is due the gasping, foam covered, dust-begrimed horses that were so mercilessly pressed Into this strenu ous political service. Whatever be comes of the candidate as a result of the exertion, it may be hoped that the horses were not entirely disabled by their all-night gallop over mountain roads. Secretary Edwards, of the Democratic Congressional campaign ' committee, does not agree with Mr. Joseph H. Man ley, of Maine, that Democratic success In carrying the House this year would be of doubtful advantage to that party. Mr. Edwards says: "If the Democrats win slhls House and the Presidential election of 1904 should be so close it would have to be thrown into the House for decision, we should have the count lng machinery." Voters can" get a good Idea of the kind of anti-truot fight they might expect from the Democratic party, says the Buffalo Express (Rep.), "from the fact that James K. McGulre Is obliged tb refuse to serve again a3 chairman of the executive .committee because his time will all be occupied In reorganizing the asphalt trust;" SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS More RefomiBg Needed. Milton Eagle. If Mr. Baer, of the Philadelphia & Read ing Railway, Is sl member in good stand ing of the Second Reformed Church, it is pretty good evidence that the church needs reforming again. "Where They Could Be Appreciated. Salem Statesman. The season Is approaching when the people of Oregon would appreciate good roads, If they had any. The Government Good Roads convention in Portland next Tuesday and Wednesday ought to be largely attended by people from the Wil lamette Valley, and from all over the state. Hotv to Beat the Coal Trnat. Albany Herald. Easterners who shiver this Winter with coal $21 per ton and cordwood $16. per cord, who shiver from storms In Winter and cyclone and drouth In Summer, face a very simple alternative. Come West; come to Oregon, where cheap fuel la abundant, where there are no deadly storms, but a mild climate and richest re sources on earth. "Our Boya In Bine" No More. -Joseph .Herald. One of the most sensible moves in con nection with the Army Is the proposed change in uniforms. Khaki has been found by British experience In South Africa to be too light, so the proposition Is to dress our soldiers' In a working garb of olive drab that Is hard to distinguish at a dis tance fiom their environment of trees, haze and earth. The change proposed is practical and businesslike, but, .alas! what becomes of "our boys In blue"? Allee Saiaee Portland. Spokane Chronicle. Some of those glaring circus signs an nouncing the coming of a circus, that ap peared In Spokane August 20 are still hanging to the poles on some of the streets of the city. Perhaps It is just as well to let them hang there a while long er as a sort of monument to the bad taste of city officials who permlttcd'an advance agent to disfigure the streets of the city more than they had been disfigured 'air ready by the forests of poles. Leaves a Brave Record. Fairhaven Herald. Emile Zola, who has Just died. in Paris, will go down in history as the man who dared the whole French government, went to prison and risked his life to right a wrons done a fellow-man. It Is one of the few of the kind on record the bravest one of the 19th. century and revealed the depths of degradation to which some men will go In the effort to bring others to their level. Alfred Dreyfus and family have lost a true friend, the world a genu ine philanthropist. The Old World Agitated, Too. Botes Statesman. Tho old world is more seriously agitated oyer the trust question than had been supposed. Statesmen prominent In the affairs of their respective countries are heading movements to curb the power of the combinations, and they seem to be experiencing the same troubles we have on this e!dc. Some remedy will certainly be forthcoming in tho near future; on whichever side of the Atlantic It Is dis covered, the other would do well to adopt It, at Ica-Jt until something better shall develop. Should Ralne More Horses. Jacksonville Times. Our farmers should pay more attention to raising horses. It is presumed they have noticed the frequency of the visits of horse buyers in their midst, also the fact that the demand for horses is far lri excess of the sUDDly. The fear whloh nre- valled a few years ago that the introduc tion of electricity, the cheapening of bi cycles and the Invention of automobiles would eliminate horses from general use has proven groundless. They are bring ing good prices everywhere. The breed ing of horses was practically suspended In this county for several years, and their scarcity has been felt. -The profits from the sale of one or two gobd animals each year would appreciably increase the farm er s net income. A Nation' Wrath. Astoria Astorlan. At some future time In the history of the English language, when swearing Is as polite as it used to be, there will bo words strong enough to condemn, or, to use the Bible word, damn, the proprietors of the Pennsylvania coal mines. There Is one tning they could have done, as In case of war call a truce for the Winter months. Coal produces and maintains fire, and they are getting very near that game known as playing with fire. What ever rights, they claimed are now to the public of no Importance. Their last ob stinate stand has brought down a Na tion s wrath upon them. It Is not quite believable that a man of President Roose velt's determination and fearlessness has finished with the Baer tribe. Why Don't You Laud Them, Thent Astoria Astorlan. Portland is gradually getting Into the habit of claiming any Oregon honors which may spring from every gooseberry bush. Quite recently Astoria sent a whole train of salmon to the East, and the old lady with the tower proudly announced the fact that the train left Portland. It did. It stayed there to get water, said "How do you do?" and that was all the high-toned city had to do with It. We packed the salmon, engaged the cara and made up the train. We may not be able to boast a fair, or get up a gambling raid, but we do claim that we know something about salmon and how to ship it. After all. it is complimentary to As toria that Portland should attempt to steal our honors. We have lots of other things to pride ourselves on besides fish, and we get tho money Portland is wel come to the pleasure of announcing that our trains pass through her depot. Power of Personal InSnence, Tacoma Ledger. Captain Clark, whose splendid record with the Oregon forms a proud page in naval history, was modestly relating some of the experiences of tho famous voyage. He had told his men about the formidable fleet of the Spanish, and had added: "If we do meet it, it will not look so well." Explaining afterward how he happened to take, so bold a view of the case he said simply: "I was with Farragut, you know." When to Dewey fell the task of entering Manila harbor, where there were mines and torpedoes, that brave officer says he tried to do as Farragut would have done under similar conditions. Grim old Farragut, one of this country's heroic figures, was impelled by the one thought of doing his duty. He was not trying to set an example, but, ho was liv ing up to the promptings of his conscience and his patriotism. He was incapable of the sort of fear that could overcome the impulse to dp the right. All his activity was years ago. It was In the battles of a war that middle-aged men do not re member now. Clark and Dewey were young men under Farragut, each with all his record to make. They almost wor shiped their commander, for such was the habit of all who had felt the force of his presence where the cannon were roar ing. Unknowingly, perhaps, each resolved to be like him, and when their time of trial came, they stood the fullest test. The dual Incident shows that a man Is more than "he himself thinks. He has an influence that may last, and it may be for good or for evil, as he elects. In doing justice to himself, making the most of his opportunity, the Individual Is doing much for others." The influence survives the in dividual and Is assed from generation to tranerallnn. SOME OF SHAW'S MISTAKES. Philadelphia Record. However useful ' and beneficent may prove the impulsive assumption of legis lative and judicial powers by the Secre tary In one Instance, there Is a reasonable suspicion that he feel3 too strongly the party duties of his position that he Is too deeply concerned to maintain the popu larity of the Republican party at th'e cost of the Integrity of the laws of Congress and of custom. One reason why officials are often denied arbitrary power to fol low a wise and benevolent course is the fear that by the exercise of a personal discretion they might pursue an unwise and dangerous policy. It may be that Congresu has been remiss or foolish In Its refusal or failure to provide legal sanc tion for the action which the Secretary has taken, but still there is a prejudice against the fixing up of Congressional botchwork by executive -officials. Baltimore Sun. If the Government can come to the re lief of New York, bankers In an emer gency, through an elastic interpretation of the banking laws, why ohould It hesi tate to Impart. a similar degree of elas ticity to the laws relating to "combina tions In restraint of trade"? Money strin gency Is not worse than a coal famine. For nearly five months conditions have existed in the Pennsylvania coalfields which seemingly warranted action by the Government. Yet not a step had been taken until the last day or two to relieve the necessities of the people, and to bring about an adjustment of one of the most disastrous Industrial wars In, the history of. the Nation. For the relief of Wall street "a radical departure from prece dent" wa3 promptly undertaken. For the relief of many millions of people suf fering for lack of fuel the . Government could devise no remedy. Is it possible that our laws are elastic only when Wall street's Interests arc Imperiled? Can radical departure from precedent" be authorized only when the financiers of New York need assistance? Must the people freeze because the laws enacted for their protection are without that benevolent elasticity which has proved the salvation of Wall, street In a crisis? If tho Government can do thlnsrs for the bankers which the law apparently never contemplated, why should It not be able to find In the laws which were designed to protect the people from monopolies some warrant for a "radical departure from precent" In the Interest of the pub 11c? , New York Times. There is difference of opinion among the bankers of the city as to the real situa tlon existing at the time of the decided action of the Secretary of the Treasury, and as to the real need of that action On the one hand, it was held that the condition of the money market was threatening serious trouble for legitimate business interests, trouble for which men engaged In that sort of business were not responsible and which they could not pre vent. On the other hand. It la held that by far the greater part of the strain on the market was produced by speculation ror wnich the natural and adequate rem edy was liquidation, which the high money rate was bringing about in a manner that would not seriously distress legitimate business. Thosa who entertain the latter view logically reason that the interven tion of the Treasury In so conspicuous a manner will delay the Inevitable settle ment, encourage further ventures, and tend to produce a situation more difficult to deal with and possibly more threaten ing than that which existed before. Philadelphia North American. If Secretary Shaw imagines that he ha3 not disobeyed the law, he is too unsophis ticated to be trusted to manage the flnan ciai nnralre of the Government. The "law forbids Asphalt Trust methods In the establishment of a guarantee fund, lest some conndlng Secretary might load up me .treasury with "cats and dogs." secretary Shaw claims, the amazing acneme to relieve wall street speculators as nis own. His acceptance of sole re sponsibility for his action confirms the. be lief that tho Administration- was taken by surprise as well as the public. The wonder is how he ever managed to create the impression that he was qualified for a place in the Cabinet. Tariff Revision by Experts. Kansas City Star. The President's suggestion of tariff re vision by experts recalls the experience of the country with a 'similar plan under the Arthur Administration in 16S2. The measure of 1SS2 provided for the ap pointment of a "tariff commission" of nine members by the President. Its duty was "thoroughly to investigate all. the various questions relating to the agricultural, commercial, mercantile, manufacturing, mining and industrial Interests of the United States, so far as the same may be necesKiry to the establishment of i 1h- diclous tariff, or a revision of the existing uinn upon a scaie or justice to all Inter ests." The commission was emnnn-oroH to travel to secure Information and was to repqrt soon after the opening, of the next session of Congress. The. schedule submitted was annrovtd by all the members of the commission. It was not satisfactory to the protected Interests, however, and under pressure from the House ways and means commit tee constructed a measure of Its own, raising rates instead of reducing them. So much confusion resulted that the House finally abandoned Its bill and took up one that came from the Senate as an amendment to the internal revenue bill. The struggle was finally fought out in conference, and the compromise measure, reportea only a day or two before ad journment, was rushed through prac tically without debate. The law failed to lower duties materially, and the work of the commission was wasted so far as the act of 1SS3 was concerned. The failure of the plan 20 years ago seems, to have been due rather to lack of competent party leadership than to any fault In the method. Mr. Roosevelt is, of course, familiar with the Arthur experi ment. If it should be repeated he could be depended upon to avoid the mistakes that' made that attempt abortive. The "Truce ol God,'' Chicago Chronicle. When hostile armies confronted each other in ages generally called "dark" each rested on Its arms from sunset Sat urday to sunrise Monday. It was the "truce of God." In an age deeming itself full of light and In all respects superior to the ages described as "dark," brutal sensatlonlsm knows no truce of any sort. A Jew-hating Paris paper warned the miserable Drey fus that If he dared appear at the funeral of Zola he would be hissed and otherwise maltreated. The savagery with which racial prelu dice wages its squalid but sanguinary battle fears neither Deity nor devil. The ferocity of the Jew baiters of the French press Is the more despicable because much of it is inspired by mere wanton sensa tlonlsm, and their malignancy would be equally wanton had they -happened to get on the otner side ol tne question. Hear, Ye Ladles. John Fletcher. Hear, ye ladles that despise What the mighty Love has done; Fear examples, and be wise: Fair Callsto was a nun; Leda, sailing on the stream To deceive the hopes of man, Lov-? accounting but a dream. Doted on a silver swan; Danae, In a brazen tower. Where no love was, loved a shower. Hear, ye ladies that are coy. What the mighty Love can do; Fear the flereenej of the-boy: The chaste moon he makes to woo; Vesta, kindling holy flres. Circled round about with spies, Never dreaming loose desires, Doting at the altar dies; " IUIon, In a short hour, higher He can build, and once more fire. NOTE AND COMMENT. The Lo"jtChlld. ' Through the streets of a crowded city A lost child wandered lone. He shrank -from the throng3 on the pave meat. From the faces and forms unknown. He longed for the home surrounding? For his own familiar place: He cried for his mother's comfort. He longed for his father's face. For the sight of his father's features, ' Every hurrying face he scanned: He cried for the sound of his father' voice And the touch of his father's hand. Then at last his father found him; He ran to his poor lost boy; And the weeping gave place to smiling And his tears unto cries of, joy. And so on some fateful marrow. When the Angel of Deatl) draws near I shall pass to an unknown city. And wander alone in fear. I shall know not the streeta or the faces I shall shrink lrom tho unknown land Oh, then to be found by a Father's voice And the touch of a Father's hand! Have you seen the comet? The strikers will fight It out "to th bitter end." That'3 the name for It. The Crown Prince of Slam ought to bs twins if he expects tq attract much at tention In this country. If the Seattle team will come over here before next Sunday, we will show them what a pennanj. looks like. They are sending Consul-General Bragg to a post w4ere he can talk ad lib. with out danger of being understood. We suppose it will occur hereafter to Mrs. Bragg that the General's letters are intended for domestic consumption only. Governor Geer "may have something to say In the near future," thus breaking a consistent record of reticence and silence. The President gazed yesterday upon a few of the boys who went through something more strenuous than a 15 minute war. To make the Crown Prince of Slam feel at home when he comes to Portland, wa really should devise some scheme to bring John Barrett back. We take it that the young lady who cajoled the New Orleans carman to leave his post by throwing her arms' around his neck believes firmly in union prin ciples, t We are obliged to Inform the gentlemen from Helena, gently but firmly, that all this ding-bumping of "the Portland team is wanton waste of energy. The fourth place Is ours for keeps. Blanche K. Bruce, the negro who at one time was Registrar of the Treasury, Is publishing a paper In Bond. Miss., its avowed object being the elevation of the colored race on the Booker T. Washing ton plan. He advises all negroes to "buy Homes, educate their children Industrially, serve God and practice morality and tem perance and let gambling and politics alone." When "President Roosevelt was In con ference the other day with Attorney-General Knox, Postmaster-General Payne, Secretary Moody and Governor Crane, Mr. Knox asked him .if the operation of last Sunday, when the bone was jerap 3 was painful. "Y ell," said the Presi dent In that emphatic manner which Is so" characteristic of him, "It was not one period of unalloyed pleasure. When they got down deep I felt as if I'd like to have another talk with that Plttsfleld motor man." Some of the Mazamas are beginning to feel ambitious and plume their wings for a higher flight or brace their muscles for a higher climb than Oregon moun-' tains afford. Really to enjoy mountain climbing we must get above the 15,000 foot line. Mount-Orizaba, which is bnly 150 miles from tho City of Mexico, Is the highest mountain in North America which has been surmounted by climbers. It gives the ambitious Mazama an op portunity to go above the 1S.O0O foot line, and is comparatively easy of ascent. Tho starting point for parties is well up, and riding Is practicable up 'to the 14,000 foot line, and the slopes are. easy from there to the summit. No one need be surprised if a party of Mazamas is or ganized In the near future to explore Mount Orizaba. When King Edward was tho Prince of Wales, several years ago, and was better able than now to gratify his democratic taste, he was taking a walk alone in St. James Park before breakfast. He found himself followed by a well dressed but crazy-looking old woman. He had seen and suffered from her before, so he ig nored her sedulously and severely, and continued his stroll until he was obliged to turn homeward. Then the woman stood right before him and courtesled. The Prince raised hi3 hat and tried to pass on. But in vain. "I have a grievance. Your Royal Highness," began the stranger, drawing from ber handbag a big, closely written parchment roll. "Ach, Madam, thees ees not ze first time I have been taken for ze Pr-rlnce of Wales," was the reply In a gruff voice, and with a fine guttural German accent. The old lady flashed a look of deepest scorn upon the Teutonic "double" of the King that was to be. Then sho put away" her precious documents and said loftily, with the rather pitiful vanity of her class the Miss Flites of real life: "I have the honor to know personally all the mem bers of the royal family, and If my eye sight were not becomlngJso bad nowa days I would never have made such an astonishing error as to have taken you for the Prince of Wales." 1 ' PLEASANTRIES OF PARA6RAPHERS "She thinks it's wrong to go to tho theater." "Well, poor thing, she has to have some excuse for never being asked." Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Miss Do Jones Are you musical, Professor Paddyrusky? Professor Paddyrusky Oh I yes, but If you want to play, don't mind my feel ings. Detroit Free Press. Little Jabs and pushes. Little drops of gore,, Bring to our attention The football game once more. Judge. "Say, old man. can't you take dinner with me tonight? I have a couple of millionaires on hand." "My dear boy. I would rather take a basket of food down to the Subtreasury and eat It alone." Life. ( "Who were the Goths?" the teacher asked. "I don't think I ever knowed any ol 'em. mi'am," answered the frightened little boy. "We never lived anywhere but Mendota till we came here." Chicago Tribune. She Did your father give you a check when you told him you wanted to go on the excur sion we were talking about? He A check! He gave me a full stop. He declined to give me a dollar. Boston Transcript. Lady (artistic) How I envy you living here In the middle, of Constable's country! M. F. H. Well, I don't know who your friend Consta ble is. but I think he's pretty cool saying this Is his country. Why. I've hunted it for 20 years, and hope to put In 20 more! Punch.