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THE MORNING flREGONI'AN,'. PBID AY, OCTOBER .10, 1902. Eatereor at the Postofflca at Fortlan'd. Oregon, ' as'- second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION BATES. "By Mall (postage prepa'ld. 1n advance) Dally, with Sunday, per month $ 85 Dally. Sunday excepted, per year - 7 CO Dally, with Sunday, per year 0 00 Sunday, per year 2 00 The Weekly, per year .'. .' 1 50 The Weeky. 8 months 50 To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday excepted. 15c Dally, per week, deUvered, Sunday lnduded.ZOc POSTAGE URATES. United States. Canada and Mexico: 10 to 14-page paper , 14 to 2S-psge paper.. ....... ......2c Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed Invaria bly ""Editor -The Oregonlan," not to the name of any Individual. Letters relating to adver tising, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." Eastern Business Office. 43. 44. 45. 47, 48. 49 Tribune building. 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C, by the Ebbett House news stand. For sale In Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck, 006-912 Seventeenth street; Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co., Fifteenth and Lawrence street: A. Series, Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TODAY'S "WEATHER Fair, with northerly winds. YESTERDAY'S "WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 70: minimum temperature. 54; pre cipitation, none. PORTLAND, FRIDAY, OCTOBER XO. PLAYING "WITH FIRE. The attitude of the would-be oligarchy of coal-mining plutocrats In Pennsyl vania is only one of the signs of the times. Passion for wealth-getting for -the sake of the idle pomp or brutal power it Implies surges in the veins and arteries of American life. This vulgar passion for wealth wrongly won is at the bottom of the St. Xiouls scandal; it is the attraction of cohesion that vital izes the trusts; the cold-blooded greed it breeds la behind trie policy that en rages worklngmen and stimulates them to strike, to wage long and bitter battle, with President Baer and his as sociates, whom he describes as "God's anointed" guardians of labor and the hard-coal monopoly of. the country. The Impiety of Baer is not more In evidence than his insolence when he told Presi dent Roosevelt In spirit that it was the President's business to enforce the laws rather than to offer the mine operators unaeked-for and unwelcome advice. Oie of Baer's associates. President Fowler, of the few York,. Ontario & Western Railway, is reported to have said: "We will brook no outside Inter ference of whatever nature, political, humanitarian or any other." Upon what meat has this Imperious Caesar of the hard-coal monopoly fed that he has grown so great that he can afford to fling his defiance at the law, at the church and the people? This kind of talk shows how much easier it is to get rich out of a coal mine and coal carrying monopoly than it is to acquire brains, for brains is a gift direct from God, while money may be Stolen within., as well as. without the law by a combi nation of mediocre men who are satur ated with the passion of insane acquisi tiveness. If there was a man of genu--lne brain power among this coal-mining conspiracy he would see that when he assumes the present attitude of Presi dent Baer he is playing with fire and in viting ultimate ruin at the hands of the very people he defies and the public sen timent he insults. There are some 25, 000,000 of American wageworkers, and they all sympathize sufficiently with the present quarrel ofi organized labor. The wageworkers of this country will ulti mately rout the coal-mining and rail way transportation plutocracy with the close and deadly fire of their ballots. The plutocrats in this country can buy bayonets, but they cannot buy men, enough to capture the ballot-box, for when the people once become roused to the conviction that the private owner ship of railways and coal mines means an increasing public danger, National ownership will surely follow. Wheq that ultimate day of wrath cbrries, the wealth of Morgan & Co. will not be able to elect a Legislature or even buy one, to corrupt or cajole a Governor or a court of final resort. Why not? Be cause when the people are angry and feel that they do well to be angry no man dare sell them out; he cannot, af ford to pay the price that will be ex acted of him for his treason. Dooley tipped with truth his sarcasm, when he said the "decision of the highest coort was always affected by the election re turns." Well, the American people have the ballot and they "will take such good care of the "election returns that no banded plutocracy in coal or railway transportation will have any chance of: a long and riotous life We are a patient people, but we are Intensely practical, and in the last analysis if we cannot untie the knot of difficulty we shall cut it without hesitation or regret. We are a people who belieye that Imperfect and even unjust government is better than no government, so will not recklessly tram--pie under foot the Jaws whose shelter has been used and abused to the injury of the public weal, but If these stupid, reckle'ss plutocrats continue to play with fire they will burn up their own plant. Denis Kearney, a common place, cunning demagogue, led an In surrection in California in 1879 which elected an Iconoclastic Legislature; it behaved like the Puritan soldiers, "who not only killed godless enemies, but stu pidly destroyed precious and noble works of art. If the railway transpor tation conspiracy to leech the. public, the oppressive trusts, the coal monop oly, do not heed the notes of warning that begin to fill the air, they will wake up some morning and find their real master, the American people, is wide awake; too. The Government, if forced to it, will take their, railroads and take their coal mines, not at their inflated price, either. Thesa plutocrats will call that social istic revolution; so it will be, but a peaceful revolution, won through the ballotrbbx, which makes and ' unmakes Presidents ' and Governors and Legislatures- and courts in this country. It will be a peacef ul revolution because the people will be behind it with nothing to oppose them -but a few plutocrats, who. having used their exceptional opportu nity to fill their moneybags, are now dlspos3d to sandbag the public with their sack at every turn of the road. But there is no' army In this country that cannot be dispersed by the ballots of the people, and it is high time that the plutocratic combinations in all the states ceased to -invite trouble with an irritated and Impatient people. Presi dent Baer and his associates recall Dean Swift's bitter saying: "You can judge what God thinks of riches by the kind of fellows he gives them to." A GREAT WATERWAY, The successful trip of the mammoth steamship Lime Branch from Portland to Astoria with 8000 tons deadweight aboard would have been a hightribute to the port at any time, but when It is considered that thetrip was made on 22 feet draft at the lowest stage of water of the season, the performance Is ex ceptionally creditable. While It is true that a greater depth bf water will be needed on the bars. -and equally true that It will be provided In time, the fact that a single vessel carried, In cargo, fuel and stores. 8000 tons from Portland to Astoria fully demonstrates the won derful possibilities of this' magnificent marine highway. An interesting feat ure of the trip of the Lime Branch was her passage over what was formerly St. Helens bar at full speed with more than ten feet of water under her keel. For many years after Portland's ship ping interests began to grow this bar was a constant menace to her prosper ity, and at low water extreme difficulty was experienced in getting ships of sav enteen feet draft over It. Lighterage expenses were very heavy, and the de lays of vessels en route up and down the river were so great that shipowners exacted a heavy differential In rates as compared with San Francisco. When this differential became so onerous that business was being driven away from the port, public sentiment was awak ened, sufficiently to secure recognition from the Government and the jetty was built. On its completion the bar disap peared, and there is now a depth of water at this point sufficient to float the largest ships that are built. The work of the St. Helens jetty has dem onstrated the ease with which the wat ers of the Columbia can be controlled or guided into the proper channels, and has lessened the necessity for experi menting in improvements at other points in the river. There will always be trouble so long as attempts are made to build a chan-. nel quartering with the stream, as Is the case at Reeder's, but eventually we will "stand In" with nature and do with Willow bar what we have done with St. Helens that Is, assisted the water in making a straight channel down stream. Similar work Is needed at the other high spots In the river, but In the ag gregate the task is not so enormous as to cause any misgivings as to the result and the ultimate position of Portland as a seaport The Lime Branch is a strict ly modern freighter of a size sufficient to enable her to compete with the larg est vessels" afloat, and of a type which will admit of her going Into hundreds of ports throughout the world where larger steamers are barred at times by scarcity of cargo and insufficient "depth of watec All over the world, wherever ships can float, commercial customs, which in effect are commercial law, de mand that the .ship go as .near tD the cargo as she can getj The'&irect inter est of the producers" In this generally accepted rule is shown by the fact that the Lime Branch carried the product of a hundred farms from Portland to As toria at a cost that could never be ap proached by any other method of trans ;portation. The argliment sometimes advanced that the railroad company should put this wheat through by rail to Astoria at the same rate as Is charged, for deliv ery at Portland is not sound, and the charge sometimes made that the rail rate to Portland is high enough to admit of a haul from Portland to Astoria for nothing has no direct bearing on the question of the haul between Portland and Astoria. That question is simply this: Is the actual cost of transporta tion per ton per mile as cheap by rail as if is by water? The Lime Branch has demonstrated that it is not. She is carrying wheat to Europe at a lower rate than It has ever been taken from Portland by steamer, and is enabled to do this by her immense size and eco nomical " operation. She Is the latest representative bf a class of freighters on which we must depend for trans porting our products, and It Is of the utmost Importance that the river be kept in shape for handling vsesels of this size, or even larger ones. If It becomes necessary. JSo long as more than 6000 tons of cargo can be carried In a single vessel from Portland to Astoria without delay, there will be no diversion of the traffic to the more expensive rail route. VETERANS IX LINE. There Is something pathetic as well as much that stirs the deeper depths of patriotism In the spectacle presented by 25,000 men veterans all, with the frost rime of the years upon brow and chin In line at the Grand Army parade In Washington. More than 37 years ago these men were mustered out of the service that saved the Union from dismemberment. Their steps are ordi narily slow in many Instances halt; the fires of youth no longer glow In their eyes, but the fire of patriotism still burns in their hearts, giving strength for the occasion. All honor to the old soldiers! The presence of many of them at the thirty-sixth reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic, now In progress in Washington, represents, no doubt, an effort tnat prudence cannot wholly sanction, since old men cannot well af ford to make overdrafts upon their vi tality and incur fatigues from which age rallies but slowly,' possibly not at all. However, as not a few of them are upon record as willing to Incur this risk, even to the possible shortening of their few remaining years, rather than forego the pleasures of the annual re union, prudence retires to the back ground, hopes for the best and permits them to have their way. And a joyful, way it la Recalling the time when, as raw recruits, . they marched down Pennsylvania avenue, followed by the kindly, anxious eyes of Abraham Lincoln, at whose call they came to the defense of their country, it is not surprising that they forgot their years and again marched with sturdy" step down the same Abroad thorough fare, while the President of the United States, younger than the youngest of their number, exerted himself to do them honor. Times have changed, and people have changed, but changeless is the feeling which prompted these men to respond in their youth and early manhood to the call at their country. Again, all honor to them, as, secure in the Nation's gratitude and affection, they pass se renely down the farther slope, wait ing for "taps" to sound and lights to be ordered out by an edict that none can dispute. A FAMOUS CONSPIRACY RECALLED. The recent death of Samuel Arnold at Baltimore removes from this "world the last survivor of those who. were convict ed June 29, 1865, by a military court of complicity in the conspiracy to murder President Lincoln, Secretary Seward and other officers of the Federal Gov ernment. Of those convlcJedf Harold, Atzerott, Payne and Mrs. Surratt were hanged July 7, 1865, while O'Laughlin, Spangler, Dr.- "Mudd and Arnold were all sentenced to Imprisonment for life' save Spangler, a stage carpenter, who was sentenced for six years. .. O'Laugh lin dled at the Dry Tortu'gas. Dr. Mudd, after several yeass of confine ment at the Dry Tortugae, was par doned, while Arnold was pardoned by President Johnson In 1868. The military commission which convicted these men included among others Generals David Hunter, Lewis Wallace, August V. Kautz and Albion P. Howe. Harold, Atzerott and Payne clearly deserved their fate, but Mrs. Surratt, it is now believed, did- not possess knowledge that Lincoln's murder was intended. The sentences of the others were severe, but it was a terrible time of grief and rage, and moderation could not be ex pected. Dr. Mudd was an able physician of Maryland, a man of good private char acter, a warm sympathizer with the cause of the Confederacy, . to whose house Booth rode and had his leg set, having broken one of the bones in his fall after jumping from the theater box where he shot Lincoln. Mudd gave Booth medical care fbV a day or two In his house. There was no evidence that Mudd was privy to Booth's crime before its commission, and If he had reason to suspect Booth's identity with the as sassin he did not do more than direct him to where he could find means) to cross the Potomac to Virginia. At that time probably few Confederates, even among those who did not desire Lin coln's murder, would voluntarily have surrendered a man to whom they had given asylum and medical assistance for a broken limb.- At all events. Booth found no difficulty in securing food and shelter among Confederates after he reached Virginia. Had it not been for his broken leg, which gave him 'such terrible pain that he could not ride, he probably would have found a hiding place somewhere in the South for weeks and perhaps have escaped from the country for a time. Booth came of strange, eccentric stock. His grandfather was1 an English lawyer, a radical in politics, who made all his guests bow to the picture of Washington; his father was the famous English actor, Junius Brutus Booth, who at -25 years of age divided with Edmund' Kean the highest honors of his profession. This great actor was sub ject to attacks of intermittent insanity all his life. On his. arrival in this coun try in the full flush of his fame, in 1821, he seriously thought of abandoning his profession and becoming a lighthouse keeper. His periodical insanity was af terwards aggravated by intemperance. Of this eccentric paternal ancestry came John Wilkes Booth, who inherited his father's handsome face and his moody, insane temperament. He was a disso lute man, pafefonately attached to 'the Southern cause, but Clara Morris, the famous actress, in her recent article says that he was a very attraptlve man who was very affectionate and kind to his fellow-actors of both sexes and greatly loved by them. He was doubt less a monomaniac, whose superficial endowments of body and mind enabled him to win over to his pjot Ignorant creatures like Payne and weak-minded dudes like Harold and sodden-minded anarchists like Atzerott. Had John H. Surratt not escaped arrest by flight until 1868, when he was found in the ranks of the Papal Zouaves and surren dered to our Government, he would surely have been convicted and hanged with Payne, Harold and Atzerott. His flight really doomed his mother to the gallows, for her house, because her son was one of the consplratprs, was the meeting-place of the assassins. There was really no sound reason for hanging Mrs. Surratt. except that she was the mother of John H. Surratt, who de served hanging but escaped through the disagreement of the jury in his trial In 1868. The stern commission of old sol diers that convicted his mother in 1865 would surely not have spared him. So convinced were many warm friends of the Union cause that Mrs. Surratt at the worst only believed that the original plot to abduct Lincoln was to be carried out that they signed a petition to President Johnson ,for com mutation of the death penalty, and it was carried to the President by her daughter, a beautiful young woman of admirable character. Johnson refused to see her, and the writ of habeas corpus In the case, although allowed, was suspended by order of the President. The President was an ambitious and heartless demagogue, and at that time was playing the part of a radical Re publican, and he hanged Mrs. Surratt because he thought, and perhaps cor rectly, that a maddened public senti ment demanded her death. Those who remember how. furious.the public mind was when the lunatic Gulteau was tried solemnly, convicted and hanged, can understand the bitter rage of the North over Lincoln's murder. The fact that John H. Surratt was tried three years from that date and escaped all pun ishment, and that President Johnson pardoned Arnold, sentenced for life in 1865, justifies the belief that no jury would have convicted Mrs. Surratt of murder, or awarded Dr. Mudd so se vere a punishment as life Imprisonment. It Is doubtful, whether a jury of stiff Union men would have found Spangler, Arnold and O'Laughlin guilty. Major General Hunter, U. S.- A., the president of the court, was a very stern, able old soldier, a strong partisan and a lifelong intimate friend of Lincoln, and' so was. General Joseph, Holt' the Judge Advocate. Notwithstanding the fact that the proposed German tariff law has been advanced to its second reading by the appropriate committee of the Relchs-. tag,: considerable doubt Is said to pre vail as to Its ultimate enactment. The agrarians have had much the advan tage In the committee, and have marked up many rates of duty. As food grows more expensive the indus trial population becomes more hostile. The Socialists, who are politically strong, are fighting the Increases, while the Centrists,. German Conservatives and Free Conservatives have decided to support the agrarians. The. govern ment la trying to hold the balance1 be tween the rural landowners and the urban population, and to keep the way open for commercial treaties, and, has repeatedly declared . that it could not accept the amendments forced in the committee. In the committee! the other day one of the rural landowners moved to increase the duties on cereals, which the Minister of ,the Interior strongly re sisted. At the same time 2 cents a pound was added to the price of pork, making it 26 cents; a good filet 'eosts 48 cents. The programme of the Social ists Is tot prevent action cn the bill at this session, so that an expression of the country on the tariff Issue can be obtained at the general elections in June. The International Mercantile Marine Company, of which. J. Plerpont Morgan is the head, has bought 50,000 tons-of English coal, which will be brought over and distributed among the poor and the charitable Institutions of New York. This Involves an expenditure of $500,000. It Is charged, however, that sweet charity In this Instance Is .used as a cloak to cover the real purpose of the ship combine, which is in sympatny with the coal operators, the object being to allay public sympathy and starve the miners out. On the other hand, It. is hinted that it Is a direct slap at the coai barons for falling to settle the strike at the recent Washington confer ence. Between the two estimates there Is wide divergence so wide that there is ample room for the exercise of pri vate opinion without touching either. Since one view Is as. good as another, why not give Mr. Morgan credit for possessing feelings of ordinary human ity and extraordinary philanthropy, ex pressing them In a timely donation of coal to "the suffering poor of a. great city.?', . The death of Hon. A. R. Burbank at his home In La Fayette on the 7th Inst, records the passing of a well-known pioneer of Oregon. Mr. Burbank was a worthy, useful and public-spirited citi zen of "the territory and state for half a century. With the exception of the decade between 18&7 and 1867, a portion of which time he lived in Washington Territory, he resided in La Fayette. For many years he carried on at that place the chief mercantile business of Yamhill County. Through methods of Industry and economy and strict devo tion to "business he secured a. compe tency for his old age, which he and his estimable wife have long enjoyed, dis pensing generous hospitality, while passing serenely down the slope of life together. A worthy citizen, a kind neighbor, a devoted husband, a tender father, A. R. Burbank discharged con scientiously the obligations of life as they came to him, and passed on, leav ing an, honorable record In the com munity In which he was for many busy years .an important factor. It has been very pertinently suggest ed that the terms "wealthy and won derful" be substituted for "wild and woolly", in speaking of the great, abounding West. If there Is any ad vantage Jji a definition that defines or a description that describes, this sub stitution should be made. The new civ ilization that dominates the vast region, practically unknown half a century ago, Is shown by a recent incident observed ten. miles from a. Kansas town and thus related In the Youth's Companion: "A farmer riding under an awning on a sulky plow met at the end of his furrow the rural mall wagon. The . driver tbssed-the farmer a bundle of mail, 'and as the team took up its steady course back across the half-mile field, the farmer unfolded the daily paper printed that morning 200 miles away and read of the happenings in China' and the news of the political campaign." Truly, there Is nothing suggestive of a "wild and Wpolly West" In this picture. "Wealthy and wonderful" will do. When Commander Torrance speaks of unpensloned veterans "without a hos pital record "who formed a part of those splendid armies of bronzed and well-seasoned men that throve on the very hardships of war," he pays a splendid, well-earned tribute to thou sands of soldiers who respect the true pension principle and decline to de mand help from the Government which they do not need. "Men who throve upon the hardships of war" have mani festly no disability claims to present against the Government in whose serv ice they cheerfully fought. H. Clay Evans, whom Commander Torrance scores vigorously for his supposed un friendliness to pensions and pensioners, never made a stronger point against pensioning able-bodied men than this. Zeal sometimes overreaches itself and proves too much. It seems to -have done so in this Instance. Discussing the election of United States Senators, the Hartford Couranl. (Rep.) makes a new suggestion. Sen ators are nominated and practically elected by the caucus of the dominant party. This, the Courant thinks, is where the rascality Is found, and It is made easy by a secret ballot. While the secret ballot Is the right of each Individ ual voter, yet the open ballot is what every voter has the right to demand from any man whom he delegates to vote for him. This the Washington Post (Ind.) describes as "the best sug gestion that has ever been submitted on thl3 vexed question. Let the legislators in caucus be compelled to vote openly, with the voice Instead of a ballot, and scandals will be reduced to small pro portions." The Rev. Edward Everett Hale is a thinker of broadly generous Impulses and a sagacious Interpreter of social tendencies. It Is therefore worth while to quote the following words from him In reply to an invitation to serve on a Boston committee for settling the coal strike: The strike la bringing nearer the Inevltablo solution. This Is the control or practical ownership of the mines by the State of Penn sylvania or ultimately by the Nation. In a Republican government' It Is not possible, as it Is not right, that 20 men or 50,000 men shall control a supply which the good God has given for mankind. Take care that your committee does not ally itself with the 20 or with the 50.000. A college professor whose experience covers half a century says that "among students- there is less fear and shame of being In debt" than formerly. A care ful study of Horace Greeley's "Recol lections of a Busy Life" may be com mended "to students as a valuable ad junct to their preparatory course, as it will perhaps tend to fortify them against incurring unnecessary, obliga tions the- tendency of which is either to blunt the senslbllltlesvor distract the mind from the work .In hand. The appointment of Mr. Austin Cham berlain as Postmaster-General of Great Britain has brought about the unusual spectacle of father and son sitting asrj counsellors in the same Cabinet. The case Is not, however, without parallel in English history; TIEWS OF THE WORLD'S FAIR. Keep Yonr Coat Oh, Brother. Albany Democrat, We are all In favor of .building up Ore-, gon, but it is not a very good Idea to go wild over this Lewis and Clark Exposition.. It will be a good thing, deserving promo tion, but It is not In order for vs to eive our coat away for it. .The Appropriation Favored, Fossil Journal. The Journal Is heartily In favor of a ,llberal appropriation for the Lewis and Clark Fair. The directors have decided' to ask for ?500,000 from the Oregon Leg islature, and we do not think that it. is a cent too much. It will amount to less than $2 on every $1000 of taxable property, and will never bo missed by any one. Renewed Asvnrnnce of Success. Salem Statesman. The addition of the name of Hon. A. Bush, of Salem, to the board of directors for the 1903' Fair at Portland gives, re newed assurance that the great , enterprise will be managed In a business-like way. Mr. Bush will creditably represent thls part of the State ot Oregon In the man agement of the Exposition. Oregon's Reputation at Stake. Toledo Leader. If the Lewis and Clark Exposition, to be held at Portland In 190", Is not a suc cess, every citizen of Oregon should go out behind the house and blush. .If Ore gon 3 Representatives . .get . the proper hunch from their constituents, there will be an appropriation large enough to make It a success. Oregon's reputation -Is at stake, and the dyspeptic Individual who whispers "extravagance" should be bumped. Should Not Conslder.Srualler Amount Dallas Observer. The executive committee of the Lewis and Clark Exposltlon'has decided to ask the state for an appropriation of 4500,000 for the big Fair to be held in Portland In 1S05. This amount Is not excessive'; In fact. It Is very reasonable, If a first class exhibit of the state's resources is to be made, and a smaller appropriation should not be seriously considered. The tax will be spread' over a period of two years, and will not be burdensome. Let the. Legislature vote the amount promptly and cheerfully in order to help along the good work. Will Need Some Lobbying. Brownsville Times. The ways and means committee of the Lewis and Clark Exposition Commission have decided that the State of Oregon should make an appropriation of $500,000 to the fund being raised for the 1905 Fair in Portland. A cool half mil lion is a considerable sum, arid, unless we miss our guess, the commission will be compelled to .do some tall lobbying before the .members of the Legislature will be able to seo the matter In the same light Portland and the 'commission do. In this Instance the "cow", coun ties will doubtless be heard from. Can Be Saved EUiievrhcre. Elgin Recorder. Among "the many other-things" the com ing session of the Oregon Legislature will be asked to do will be an appropriation bill for the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland in 1905. The directors of the Ex position have agreed that $500,000 from the state will be about the proper amount. While that would be a rather large ap propriation for this state to make for any thing only direct state business, yet there Is no doubt but what the money had bet ter be spent In the Interests of the Lewis and Clark celebration than in the man ner a great deal of our state funds go at present. If the extra rake-off which the State Printer and other state ofllcials get each year were devoted to advertising the natural resources of the. state away from home, the result woujd be far more bene ficial to the state at large. Money had far better be spent for public .enterprises than In paying unearned salaries to state ofll cials. Expenditure Will Return vMnny-Fold. Junction Times. The. directors of the Lewis and Clark Centennial will ask the Legislature for an impropriation of $500,000. To raise this amount It will requlro 1-mIU tax for two years. To make it plainer, a taxpayer who pays taxes on $1000 will pay the sum of $3 50, or $1 75 per year. The Exposition will be of great benefit to the entire state and will be the means of attracting thou sands to our. state who otherwise would have perhaps never heard of the great and many resources of Oregon. New settlers will come, new enterprises and numerous factories will spring up, and. the expendi ture will return many-fold. The crowded East has just discovered that Oregon Is on the map. The "World's Fair attracted their attention. More medals were won at the Pan-American than by any other state. At Charleston; Oregon took first place, and the thing for us to do Is to get the people here. Oregon must take' the Initiative; the other states in the original Oregon will be guided largely by what we do ourselves. The National Gov ernment will also be guided hi Its appro priation by what we do as a state. Port land has given $500,000. Let us be gener ous and show to the world that we are enterprising and progressive, that we have the beet country on earth, and we want them to come and see It. We therefore favor the appropriation. Let us have an exposition equal to any or drop the mat ter entirely. "Our Every Support.' Albany Herald. Every section of the state, which In the aggregate has unparalleled resources, will be represented and advertised by the Centennial. The thousands of peo ple who visit Portland during the fair will serve as an advertising medium for the entire state, and will be the heralds of such an Influx of immigrants as the Pacific Northwest has never before ex perienced. The ultimate benefit will thus be for the entire state in the more thickly settling of the agricultural districts, building up business interests, stimulat ing the lumbering industry and opening the eyes of Easterners to the great op portunities for capital In the West. The need of Oregon at present Is people and capital. The Lewis and Clark Centennial will afford an avenue through which our wants may be supplied. Another Important feature of the Ex position will be the advertising of the Orient, the trade with which Is fast becoming a very Important .feature o'f western commerce. It Is essential that the opportunities there be impressed up on people of the Eastern States and the Centennial affords the opportunity for doing so.; Then will the necessity of an open harbor at the mouth of the Colum bia be realized, and a great era of com mercial and industrial growth be entered upon which will be of Infinite gain to the" people of the entire state. Then let us lend our every support to the suc cess of this. Oregon's greatest exposition. It is up to the people to assist in se curing a liberal appropriation from the Legislature. Return of the Apron. ' Boston Transcript. As another sign of revision on the part of our girls to feminity there Is prophe sied the return to the apron, long ban ished to maids' wardrobes and to below stairs regions. Now It Is coming to the fore by degrees, and by the time all in door things are in full swing, 'it will be a recognized part of every woman's house uniform. Of course. It will be an ornate affair, made of materials expensive and dressy, and with everything possible done to it to relieve It of its utilitarian aspect. Though It will have 6trlngs; no apron Is complete" without strings for the tying up of various persons that like to be held by such means. FACTS IN THE MINERS CAS'E. t Chicago Inter Ocean, Inquiries from several quarters indi cate that under the stress of inconven ience, caused by deprivation of anthra cite coal, confusion has arisen as to just what the anthracite miners are striving fcr. The statement just Issued by John Mitchell, authorized spokesman of tuJ miners, in arjwer to the assertions ot President Baer, of the Reading Railway, spokesman of the trust, tells briefly and clearly what the miners ask. "Ve demand," says Mr.. Mitchell: "1. An "Increase In wages tor men employed on piecework; "2.' A Teductlon In hours of labor for men employed by the day. "3. Payment for a legal ton of coal. "4. That coal shall be honestly weighed and correctly recorded." Tee following condensed summary or .facts explanatory of these demand, and of the assertions of either side, has been carefully made and Is believed to be en tirely falrr The average earnings of anthracite mine workers are less than $300 a year each. In 1900 for 1901 wages were raised 10 per cent. -Meanwhile cost of living has Increased 30 to 40 per cent, A day's work In tho bituminous mines Is eight hours. In the anthracite mines it is' 10 hours or more. A legal ton of coal at the pit mouth is 2240 pounds. The men claim that they are compelled to deliver from 2700 to 3400 pounds, and even then are often "docked." The trust claims that this excess of 4E0 to 1160 pound and the sub sequent "dockage" are necessary to com pensate for waste which the men should leave underground. The men claim that they send up no such amount of waste. The men claim that they are often cheated In weighing the coal and in re cording the weights. The trust denies the charge. But when tho men ask tor check welghmen of their, own choosing, to be paid by themselves, the trust re fuses to grant the request. The two latter demands of the men rest on questions of evidence'upon which no one without personal knowledge of the industry can pas3 an opinion. But every dne can form an opinion whether American citizens ought to be asked to live and bring up their families on In comes averaging les3 than $300 a year, especially when it is admitted tfiat the Industry in which they are engaged re turns good profits to their employers. "As to the reasonableness of these de mands," adds Mr. Mitchell, "we have proposed to submit to and abide the award of any impartial board of arbi trators." That proposal has been before the coal trust for some -four months, and Is stilT before it. The answer of the trust has been and Is that it has "nothing to arbitrate." MR. HEARST IN CONGRESS. How He "Will Plrrce His Oven Decis ions on Stntutc Books. New York correspondence, Philadelphia North American. Mr Hearst Is a prolound thinker. Not only has he studied all of the political, Industrial and economic problems which afflict this Nation and the race In gener al, but he has solved meet of them, and Is going to Congress, it is believed, mere ly to superintend personally the placing of his decisions upon the statute books. As mlsht be expected from a multiple .newspaper owner, Mr. Hearst will repre sent more than (me district. He will prob ably finish the term of Amos Jv Cum mlngs, In the old Tenth District', and serve a full term In the new Eleventh, which embraces a good deal of the other. He will not serve both terms at once, so It will not be possible for him to pair with himself when a vote Is called on questions about which ha Is undecided. This dual nomination was reserved until a few days ago for Arthur Brisbane, one of Mr.- Hearst's most brilliant assistants In the production pf his New York news paper. No explanation of the chang has been made, but It Is conceded that the proprietor has at any time the power to blue-pencil even his managing editor's ambitions. By measure of achievement Mr. Hearst should be one of the most notable mem bers of the House. In the matter or diplomacy, It Is only needful to mention his conduct of a paper In San Francisco and one In New York during the first Bryan campaign. The former was com mitted to free silver by its environment, and the latter was brought into line with a skill which challenged admiration. Among other notable achievements dr Mr. Hearst may be mentioned the aboli tion of the beef trust, the defeat of William J. Bryan on two occasions, and the election of Governor Odell. He was about to crush the coal trust and seize the anthracite mines himself in the pub lic interest, when the Interference of President Roosevelt disturbed the plan. . But the fame of Mr. Hearst will rest upon his conduct of the Spanish-American War. While the Government hesi tated, he went boldly forward, declared the war, began It, and successfully su perintended in person some of the earlier operations. He would no doubt hae carried It to a triumphant conclusion, had not the tardy Government intecvened and robbed him of the distinction. Roosevelt In 1004. New York Commercial Advertiser. The action of the Republican State Convention ot Massachusetts yesterday swells the number of states that have virtually pledged themselves In favor of President Roosevelt's renomlnation in 1904 to 15. The list,, with the number or delegates each state will have in the con- 22 Montana C 10 New Hampshire 8 14 New York 78 6 Pennsylvania 08 20 Texas 30 20 Washington 10 32 22 Total 304 30 Colorado Connectlct Delaware Kansas - Massachusetts TTnrinT- tViA npw Conerressional apportion ment the next convention will contain 58 more delegates than that of 1900. or 9S4. As a majority Is necessary for a nomi nation, the successful candidate must receive 492 votes. President Roosevelt has at present pledged to him just two , fifths of the entire convention, or 98 votes less than a majority. Not a single Republican state convention has failed to -approve his Administration in the most emphatic terms, so that It Is a per fectly justifiable assertion that If the nominating convention were to be held now he would be renominated by accla mation. When It Is considered that not a single state convention has ever before In our history pledged itself two years in advance to a President's renomlnation. the full significance of the present demon stration is apparent. A Courtier's Love. Mary Olcott. J ' She doth not wear. In the dark clamour of her hair. The Jeweled ruby and the pin That coquetries are 'broldered In. She doth not smile " Merely with lips, but these beguile With little runs of Joy her eyes. That watch you coldly otherwise. t i Her stately wayu Have something of King Charles his days; Arfd could you mark her blushes. O. Twere like soft opal tints on snow! Say that she spurns . Men, heartless! Yet within her burns A noon of fire which, if she gave. Would make Love's very self her slave. If I should dare Ask for her heart, she would not caro; Wherefore I wait on second thought When Time's bold ravages ire wrought. Ah. Time, come now! White haggard ago upon her brow. Change me her black locks Into gray Ere new hour's dazzle Into day. Or. Time, thou thief! Being but human and love brief, 1 may turn traitor and put b7 Mine own exceeding constancy. NOTE AND COMMENT. The Attorney for the Defense. Gentlemen of the -jury, I ask you, if you can. To look with lenient eyes upon A poor, unfortunate man. He's In a sad position. He's had a discouraging time. On. account of a popular prejudice Concerning vice and crime. It's true he has led among you A most disgraceful life; It's true he robbed his partners. It's true he beat his wife. But these are his misfortunes, So pity him If you can; He's a victim of persecution, A poor, unfortunate man. Observe that the poor offender Has never had half a chance; He's the product of birth and training, He's the victim of circumstance. His fallings are Jils misfortunes; Don't condemn, but pity, hecause Society shows a most pitiless f ice To the man who defies its laws. You see, when a man's arrested. For any serious crime, Th feeling of public opinion Is against him every time. The papers begin to denounce him. He's hounded at every turn. The laws are unfeelingly hostile. The Judges severeand stern. . So, gentlemen of the jury, I ask you. "twlxt man and nun, To look upon my client As a poor, unfortunate man. Think how the criminal suffers From prejudice every time, And lay aside for the moment Your feeling against his. crime. Has anybody seen the comet? Congressman Hearst will at least know where to go If he wants his speeches printed. The Trans-MlssIsslppl Congress Is pain fully finding Its way over the hill to the poorhouee. Possibly a joint debate might be ar ranged between Governor Mcftrlde and Presidents Hill and "Mellen. Governor Cummins exemplifies the Iowa idea of tariff revision. We see now wnat Speaker Henderson bumped up against. Now that Seattle Is out of the pennant race, the anvil chorus over there will take a turn at Manager Dugdale and his merry men. Speaking of coal famines, it makes ua shiver to think what might happen If a elabwood famine were to raise Its hideous front In Portland. The grand jury seems to be Interview ing a great many persons whose knowl edge of the gambling situation Is un official and Inoffensive. After the performance of the Lime Branch, we may be able to wrench even from Astoria a mild concession that tho Columbia Is considerable of a brook. The coal famine In the East Is nothing at the side of what the beer famine In Portland would be If saloonkeepers dia not thoughtfully advise their customera to lay In their supplies for the wee sma hours before 1 A. M. In Sweden a committee was recently ap pointed by the government for the pur pose of ascertaining how many hours chil dren -of various ages ought to sleep In or-, der that they might be able to study prop irlv. Acenrdlnar to the reoort forwarded to the- Minister -of EducatIon,-'cn"viarnr -who are 4 years old should sleep 12 hours; children who are 7 years old, 11 hours; children who are 9 years old, from nine to 10 hours, and those who are from 14 to 21 years old, from nine to 10 hours. It fur ther points out that anaemli and weak ness In children are frequently due to lack of sleep. The City Record is the biggest newspa per In the world, according to Tip, in the New York Press. It is published every day in the year, Sundays and legal holi days excepted, and sometimes contains as many as 3S3 pages. Supervisor Philip Cowen siys that Its readers find the mis ery' of life relieved by the sunshine and humor that scintillate its columns. There is lots of both If you know where to find them, he maintains. This paper has three editors Mayor Low. Corporation Counsel Rives and Controller Grout; and ono gen-4 eral manager-Mr. Cowen. Mr. Cowen receives $5000 a year, and has a staff of trained assistants. The Record has. the privilege of changing Its politics with every change of administration without losing its circulation. A Teutonic saloonkeeper in Baltlmoro having saved more .money than he cared to allow in his till over night, decided to deposit it In a bank. Str.-lllng down the street he Inquired for a "goot bank," and was directed to the nearest one. He asked the bank usher: "Is 3Ir. President nf home?" The usher replied that tha president was in his office. "Very well, you yoost tole him that Mr. Yoccup Schmltt want to put a hundred dollars every night In his bank and take it out in tiie morning." After a long wait the at tendant returned and Informed Mr. Jacob Smith that the president could not take hla money, as he was not rated by Dun nor Bradstrect. The excited Germa-n re plied: "Dun or Bradstreet! Vhy, I was been raided twice by der police." PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAP1IERS Sibyl Oh. Mr. De Tanquc. why do you refer to my singing as a "treat." De Tanque Your liquid notes fairly Intoxicate me. Baltlmora Herald. Says a rural exchange: "The Coroner arrived on the scene 10 'minutes after the accident; but the deceased was already fatally dead. Atlanta Constitution. . Modern Way She And so they were mar ried in June. He Yes; and six months later they were divorced, and lived happily ever after. Chicago Dally Xews. Uncle Jack The professor ha3 a mummy quite 2000 years old. Elsie Oh. mummy, will you be 2000 years old when me and Cyril are grown up like him? Punch. "I suppose you arc well seasoned?" said tho tourist In the hunting forest. "I ought to be," responded the old guide: "those city hunters have peppered me enough." Philadel phia Record. Mr. Pitt What do you think of these park balloon ascensions on Sunday? Are they proper for the day? Mr. Penn Perhaps the Idea Is that anything is proper on Sunday which takes even one person nearer heaven. Plttsburs Chronicle-Telegraph. Miss Malnchantz I suppose you've heard of my engagement to Mr. Jenks. Miss Ascott Yes, and I confess I was surprised. You told mo once that you wouldn't marry him for a million dollars. Miss Malnchantz I know, dear, tiut I discovered later that he had two millions. Philadelphia Press. "My boy." says the successful man, "If you get along at all f you must learn to stick to things. Everlastingly sticking to It wins In the end." "Oh, I don't know." retorts the youth. "Look at the postage stamp. It sticks all right, but ah It gets out of It Is a smack across the face, and a place In the waste basket." Baltimore American. "If you will be good." said -the. kind-hearted, stranger, "you may be President of the United States." The barefoot boy. who was evidently playing truant, took the proposal under earnest consideration before he replied: "No. sir. You can't fool me with no promises. Father buya all the gold bricks for this family." Wash ington Star.