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For sale in rtanvsr rvi v.. tt.iu.. r Kendrick. 06-812 Seventeenth street: Louthan c j action Book & Stationery Co.,- Fifteenth m Lawrence street; A. Series. Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TODAY'S WEATHER-Falr, with northerly winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tern perature, 01; minimum temperature. 48; pre cipitation, none. PORTLAND, SATURDAY, OCT. 18. IRRECONCILABLE TARIFF SCHOOLS. When Republican get to revising the tariff we suspect that the coal and lumber Indus Tribune. &mas t-he flrst to Minneapolis Probably not. A common error with Republicans and Democrats alike is the Idea that tariff reform by Republicans la to approximate the Democratic the ory of the tariff. Nothing is more fal lacious or mischievous fallacious be cause it ignores the basic antagonism of a century-old conflict, and mischiev ous because it affrights Republicans who ought to be helping tariff reform along. The world of political economy is di vided Into two camps as Irreconcilable as the poles. To one school protection Is a blessing, to the other a crime. In the free-trade view thenvcan-be jio abusa of protection. Its normal operation, - free from corruption and special favor itism, is an abuse in Itself. The more wise and just a protective tariff, the more indefensible it is in free-trade eyes. There Is no room in Democratic the ory for the proposition that one given Industry has outgrown the need of pro tection. As the need never existed, it can never pass away. There is no room in -Democratic theory for the iproposl tion that a given industry should be denied; the farther benefit of protection, ' for protection is an Injury wherever and whenever applied. These Illustrations suggest the two antagonistic attitudes toward the pres ent beneficiaries of the tariff. The Re publican will have in mind to conserve the industry of the country by saving protective tariffs where they are needed and cast them away where they are not needed. The Democrat will address himself to the salvation ' of the coun try's industries by giving them the boon of free trade. He will strike at the tar iff where it protects, for it is nowhere needed. But the Republican will try to eavp it in every case where the need of it cannot be shown to have lapsed. Every discussion of the tariff ques--ticn in the United States must be quali- neci oy recognition of the fact that Democratic theory is perverted by un worthy exponents in practice. The "Wilson bill was drawn on Democratic lines,, but diverted by Gorman and oth ers to Republican practice. It was a protective tariff when completed, and that is why President Cleveland de nounced it But as to the' Democratic theory itself, in purpose and in opera tion, whenever it can have free course, there is no mistake whatever. Its base lo free raw materials, because they are the basis of manufacture. Free lumber and free coal are among the Indlspensables of Democratic tariff doctrine. Nobody has set this out with more clearness" and authority than Mr. Cleveland himself. For example: No tariff measure can accord with Demo cratic principles and promises, or bear a gen uine Democratic badge, that does not provldo for free raw material. We have In our platforms and. In every way possible declared In favor of the free Importa tion of raw materials. I cannot be mistaken as to the necessity of free raw materials as the foundation of logical and sensible tariff reform. . When we give to our manufacturers, free raw materials, we unshackle American enterprise and Ingenuity, and these will open the doors of foreign markets to the reception of our -wares and give opportunity for the continuous and remunerative employment to American labor-. Free raw materials, it is needless to remark, are. not objects of Republican effort They are inconsistent with the protective principle, especially in every field where raw materials under discus sion are ofidomestlc production. A Re publican might consent to free raw silk or free tropical fruits, but not to free wool, free hides, free coal and free lum ber. As a matter of history, nearly every sort of raw material we do not produce Is fre under our Republican tariffs, and nobody has the temerity to propose abolition of the duties on grain, however mirth-provoking they appear in Democratic eyes. A flood of light may be thrown upon the impending tariff battle hrthe United States by considering the genesis of the present agitation. It takes not a par ticle of its rise in .the historic citadel .of tariff-reform. The American Cob denltes, the New England Free-Trade League ajid the professors who were so busy with ridicule and invective a gen eration ago are npt In evidence. Tariff reform In 1902 rages In protection trongholds. Not in New England, but lil the great Northwest, is Its habitat; not in the schools, but on the farms, are its promoters."' These men do not' ask for free raw materiala They ask for reduced tariffs on the manufactures that no longer need them. If we can get rid of the Populism I and corporate arrogance that encumber i and repress our public thinking, we j shall have a battle royal on the tariff mat will ao your heart eond. Anri tho lines can be drawn now -with certainty. The Democrats will stand for free raw materials In exemplification of the free trade theory.' The ReDublleans will stand for correction of tariff abuses, not to discredit protection, but to save it. Support of the Republican policy from Eastern manufacturers, who have long besought free raw materials in connec tion with protected finished products, will not be easy to secure. Some of them may pass over to the Democratic camp. Certain it is that while Theo dore Roossvelt 19 President they will not be supreme in Republican councils, as they have been under the Hanna regime., The Protected coro"oratlona nt JSrew-York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania ana umo will be In no further danger of mistaking themselves for the Re publican jiarty. The tariff will contrib ute another interesting page to the story of the ascendance of the West. THE PUBLIC MAY DD3IAJTD IT. B. E. Clark, grand chief of the Broth erhood of Railroad Conductors, who was appointed by President Roosevelt as a member of the coal-strike commission, is reported, as sayimr that he will ac cept; that he "is a believer in arbitra tion, but not in comDUlsorv arbitration." At the recent meetlnc: of the British Trade-Union Congress the resolution demanding the establishment of com pulsory arbitration in labor disputes In the United Kingdom was beaten by a vote of three to one. The figures snow that the British trade unions are more firmly arrayed against compulsory arbitration than they were a year ago. The spokesman of the Miners' FpiT rn - uon declared against Judges as arbltra tors. He was for freedom of contract and a strong trade union. With Mr. Clark, he said In substance that "arhi tration was all very well, but it must not De compulsory." It is not difficult to understand that labor would have no fault to find with compulsory arbitration if the Judges, titj aure to always rule In favor of labor's appeal, but there is another party more deeply interested in the en actment Of this modp Of HPttlAmont tVion either striking coal miners or demotic coal operators, and that is the great general public, some 20,000,000 strong, wno are consumers of anthracite. The public weal Is the paramount considera tion In the settlement of such a far reaching struggle between coal miners and coal ODeratOrH and If rnmnnlcnra arbitration had been part of the laws or Pennsylvania it would not have been possible to make the coal-confmminsr public pay ?15 a ton for coal whenthe strike had lasted eighteen weeks. If both sides to the quarrel were uuuKcu unuer me law to go before a court of arbitration, whose sole duty was to traverse all the facts and render a decision, there would follow an in qulry lasting perhaps three weeks, and men when the court delivered its judgment, the general public would sus tain it and the losing party could not afford to disregard It. The men would not stop work until the hearine- was concluded and judgment pronounced. It woum De an economical, .upright and conclusive mode of reaching a reason ably just decision at moderate exnense to the state. In the meantime the nub ile would not suffer by the failure to mine coal. The present tribunal annolnted hv President Roosevelt will hear both sides and reach a decision which, when pro claimed, will doubtless be respected by both sides, but the chief force behind it lies In the fact that the coal onerators could not afford to repudiate it. if un welcome, in the face of public opinion, and the miners in the present instance, are sure not to renudiatp. It. But suppose some day there Is an- oiner siriKe, followed by equal public distress, and the President does not happen to be a Roosevelt, and 1e rnt disposed to imita'te his example. Why, then the t public welfare would suffer greatly for lack of compulsory arbitra tion. Suppose there was another Roosevelt; there might not be another Mitchell. Suppose there were another Mitchell and another Roosevelt; there might be difficulty fn persuading the op erators to arbitrate, and matters might proceed to a grim extremity we have escaped. Labor and its employer may not want compulsory' arbitration, but it looks as if the general public needed it. THAT LOADED AMEXD3IEXT. A correspondent who signs himself- "Old Subscriber" writes to inquire whether the new initiative and referen dum amendment makes any change In the time in. which acts of the Legis lature will take effect. The. question must be answered in the affirmative, for all laws will now go Into effect 90 days after the close of the session, whereas in the past many laws have been put In operation" immediately by means of an emergency clause. This 'matter was effectively treated in yester day's dispatches from " Salem. The amendment provides that the people may have arty measure referred to them (except laws for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety), and that referendum' peti tions may be filed at any time within ninety days after the a'djournment of the Legislature. This in effect limits the emergency privilege to actual emer gencies, and all other measures must wait the ninety days before going Into effect This feature of the amendment will prove of some Inconvenience to the Leg islature, and perhapB to the state offi cials. Appropriations for the main tenance of public institutions, and even for the payment of the compensation of the members of -the Legislature, will not be available until the ninety dava have expired.. But while those who receive the money are waiting fpr it, the people will have ah opportunity to scan all ap propriations and learn whether any of tnem are unsatisfactory-. -The people have a right to be heard, and they In tend to be heard. This state is now a government "of the people, for the peo ple and by the people." as It should he. The Legislatures have been altogether too free, In attaching emergency clauses to tneir acts, and have sometimes for gotten the welfare of the neoDle In omo of their appropriations. To place a check upon legislative action is the purpose of the amendment. The Oregonian believes the Leelsin- ture will be -more careful hereafter in its- acts, and that there will be nn oc casion to ask that any measure be re ferred to the people. Public officers are In theory servants-of the neonle. hut he people have never before been in a po sition to. command the acts of their servants. There is". an old story of a merchant who. before jrcintr on a loner journey, called his clerk and gave the store into his charge. The clerk prom ised tnat he would run the business Just as he would if it were his own. No, you won't," replied the merchant. you win run it just as If It were mine." The trouble has been that the Legis latures have run the state too much as they would if it were their own, and they have made too many trades that the people do not like. The people have asserted the right to have the state run ao if it were theirs, which must be con ceded to be enltrely proper. THE SETTLEMENT SAVES CONGRESS .The success of the President in end ing the great strike will assure the elec tion of a Republlqan Congress, in No vember, if that event has been hitherto of doubtful Issue. The elections in Ver mont and Maine showed a larger vote and majorities than in the last off-year elections, but these states did not vote when the public excitement over the strike was most tense, and they are not great anthracite-consuming states, like New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut. But for the disturbing existence of the coal strike, three months 'ago, the Repub licans were confident of carrying the next House by a fair working majority of from twenty to thirty votes. During the last thirty days the Increasing stress of the strike naturally caused great anxiety to the Republican leaders in Pennsylvania, New York, and even Ohio. Of cpurse,, it was easy to say that this tremendous Industrial struggle was of business and not political origin; that President -Baer and J. P. Morgan were both Democrats; but experience has shown that the 'party in power suf fers if a great strike remains -unsettled the year when National elections are held. Many voters of comparatlvely limited political knowledge have strong' sympathy with striking labor,- and jump to the conclusion that the party in power is responsible for everv nub ile calamity from foot-rot among sheep and murrain among. cattle to labor troubles and poor cropa It was this fact that David B. Hill had in mind when he Inserted his "Gov ernment ownership and operation" coal plank In the New York Democratic plat form. The Democratic craft needed all the breeze it could get to outsail the Republican ship. Hill knows that there Is a Social Democratic and a Social Labor vote of from" 25,000 to 30,000 in rew York State. He wanted, that vote, and he will probably getdt, but if the great strike had remained unsettled until November election day, the coal plank in the Democratic platform would have won over many thousands of Re publican wageworkero in the Empire State. It was this ominous prospect that made Governor Odell naturallv anxious to have the strike settled before it was too late to save the state to the Republicans. The strike Is settled through the good offices of the Presi dent and his counselors, and in ample time to save Congress and to save the Empire State, if victory is there, pos sible, which is still doubtful. There is no such thing as National unity among tne Democrats. They will not hold a harmonious National convention in 1904, and they cannot possibly nominate a candidate that has any reasonable hone of election, but there is a reported unity m tne Democratic party in New York today which makes a Republican vic tory in that state by no means certain. rne Democrats of the City of New lork express acsolute confidence in their ability td" obtain over 100.000 ma jority this year. If they do this, the Republican counties will need to "come to Harlem bridge" with a far larsrer majority thah they had in 1S98, when Roosevelt was lected. ""The fact that men like John G. CarJlsIe. John A. Mc- Call and E.- M. Shepard were delegates; that Hill's platform was adopted with out any protest on their part, -shows plainly that this year the Democrats of New 'York State are more anxious to be victorious than to be consistent with their past. Mr. Carlisle. In his public career-in Congress and In Presi dent Cleveland's Cabinet, always In speech denounced the National owner ship of railroads, but he offered no op position to tne platform of Government ownership of coal mines. The fact that he and others like him made no oppo sition Is strong assurance that the New York Democrats do not regard their platform as anything more than a crazy-quilt flag unfurled or great sail set. to catch every bit of breeze that la blowing. The New York Democracy needs to win the battle, is anxious to come- Into port victorious, and It is ap parently prepared to vole solid on elec tion day for the ticket, without nnv criticism- or qualification of the plat- rorm. In 1868, when Grant was the popular hero, when the Republican party was firmly united, the Democracy carried New. York for "Seymour for President by 10,000, and from that day to this New York has-been a Demo cratic state at National elections save when it has been rent by. factional quarrels. The Gold Democrats that have always been the strength of the campaign sack are returned to their old camps so content with the dronnimr of Bryanite finance that they are willing to swatiow without hesitation state so cialism, more radical than anything Bryan ever tittered. A storv suggestive of that strn n cr.ct chapter or incident in human life the apparently studied. Rersistent neglect of nis or her children by an intelligent father during the "precious morning hours of life" comes from Baker City, where, as it is related, a little bootblack who knew him only by name found the father who had desarted him in his in fancy in Denver twelve years before. The father, according to the recital, is an industrious, well-respected man, but he had "lost track" of his little boy some years before. though it was nl- ways his purpose to hunt the child up when he had accumulated sufficient mean's to rear him in comfort. "To rear him!" What in the name of reason did the man think time was dolntr with hia neglected infant while he was leisurely accumulating means wherewith to reat him? Did he suoDose the bov was nniot ly awaiting in his cradle the tardy re turn of his parent with a nocketful of money for his rearing? Did no vision, of a neglected boy running like a colt about the waste, or of a pathetic, erimv little lad trudging about with a boot black's kit, earning a precarious liveli hood, vex his dreams or haunt his wak fcig hours? It will - probably occur to parents who do their earnest, conscien tious duty by, their children durlnsr thP formative period between infancy and 12 years of age, and find their hands fun in so doing, that it is high time that this father took charge of his hnv. dressed him -comfortably and put him in school. It Is to the boy's credit that through all these childish years of na- rental neglect and its consequent priT vation he kept steadily to the purpose to find hia father, with orily the clew of a not uncommon name to guide him in nis forlorn quest, industrious mean while in a calling thai puts lip no bars against ignorance, and the work pt which i& within the limit of a child's strength. Here, however, credit In this case stops, s!nce . clearlji the father, so long recreant to duty, does not deserve commendation for his tardy acceptance of the care of his boy. If there is any excuse for even temporary neglect ot parental duty, justice and humanity fail to disclose It. The people of Marlon County are to be congratulated upon the verdict of the jury in the Markley murder case, tried at Salem the first three days of this week. A verdict of guiity, In view ot the evidence, will do 'more to mm. 'mand respect for the law and the courts tnan anything elss that could have re sulted from the trial. There Is a pos-. albllity that Markley is innocent of the murder of John D. Fain, but that pos sibility does not amount to a reasonable doubt when the evidence is considered. There were a series of .circumstances any one of which was sufficient to war rant the verdict of murder In the sec ond degree which the jury rendered. The deathbed statement of Fain, declar ing that Marklev wan his sbvor rnr. rlCS COnVIctlon to the nnnralmltx mind. The fact that Markley, while professing to be a warm friend of Train remained for two hours within less than a hundred feet of the dying man with out Inquiring after his condition or of fering to render assistance la a ci rcn in stance that "points almost conclusively io nis guilt. A heart so hard as that may readily be believed to have had murder in it. The testimony of Sheriff Colbath, who was entirely unprejudiced, that Markley told him before the au topsy had been performed that he could not find In his (Markley's) store any shot like that which killed Fain showed that Markley knew what kind of shot was then buried in Faln's body. All this is not saying that Markley Is guiity of the. murder of John D. Fain at Cham poeg last June. It is saying that, the evidence produced at the trial was abundantly sufficient to warrant the verdict of the Jury, and that a failure to convict would lower the courts and juries in public respect. The certainty or conviction when a good case has been made Is what commands respect for our criminal law. Miscarriage of justice is the excuse offered for lynch ings. There is evidently at least one mis creant at Fort Stevens whose arrest and punishment is long overdue'. Two at tempts to burn some of the Government ouiioings at that place within two weeks call for police vigilance that anouid end in the capture and punish ment of the Incendiary. Next to the trainwrecker, the "firebug" is the most conscienceleca of criminals. The man who, in order to gratify personal re venge, opens a railway "switch or on plies the torch to buildings which may or may not be occupied by persons asleep places hlmself beyond the pale of sympathy except In so far as it may insist, if necessary, upon a fair trial and the orderly. Infliction of nunish ment. "Catching Is before -hanging," and between the two civilization inter poses the judgment of the court It would be well for the law to be so amended that capital punishment would follow the wanton niacins: of human life in jeopardy -by either pf theaa. crimes, whethei fatalities result from the act or not. siam s crown Prince, now in New York City, has been educated wholly abroad, at Eton. Oxford and the Rnval aiilitary College of Sandhurst. He talks English perfectly, is a great Shakespearean scholar. Dossesss a nro- found knowledge of all the Greek and .L.atin classics, and has written and published a very clever work on the intricate but rather romantic auestion of the Polish succession, which has been accepted as a standard work at mnci of the leading educational Institutions in England, and is by his permission now being translated with a similar view into German and French. His manners are excellent, and he has spent the last nine months in visiting the vari ous European courts, where he made himself-so agreeable as to be received as one of the family circle, enneclnllv at. Copenhagen. At Vienna, the, old Em peror Went in perscn to the railroad sta tion to receive him, and gave a grand review In his honor, and everywhere he has been received with similar distinc tion. - ' The details of the Mollneux murder in New York have the sound of ancient literature.- A murder, a peculiarly atro cious and colif-blooded one, was com mitted in December. 189S a wnmn r being the victim, and this Dr. Molineux, to save whose life such strenuous ef forts have been thus far successfully made, being the alleged murderer. The public, with Its proverbial forgetfulness, has lost Interest' In the case, and only by a strained "effort, that it does not to make, recalls the circumntn nces which in Its estimation fixed the crime upon the accused with a fair degree of certainty. The tenacity of English jus ticeas represented, for example, In the case of. Mrs. Maybrick Is unknown In this country. Events crowd so quickly upon the heels of events with us that the happenings of a few vear pr. cite little interest. The crime unon which the Mollneux trial la based in nearly four years old. "Outdated," says public sentiment, and turns languidly away. The Audubon Society of New York Is out in Its annual protest against the slaughter of birds for millinery pur poses. Judging from the disnlav on fashionable hat3 for the season of bird findings', from the-tiny wings of erst while warblers, daintily folded, to ereat pathetic-looking gulls and terns perched in strained attitude atop of beaver hats, their glass eyes suggestive of a nnlnfni death, In which fright was a leading feature, the Audubon Society Is not making much progress in this .special line of effort. The late Rear-Admiral T. O. Selfrlflee whose death took place on the lath inst.. was born at Boston, April 24, 1804, and was therefore in his 99th year. He en tered the Navy as midshipman in 1818, or eighty-four years ago, and was re tired so long ago as 1866, after having served- more than forty-five years. The oldest officer borne on the British Navy list is Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, who was born in 1S09. and is therefore 93 years did, or five years younger than Admiral SelfrJdge. And now. we are to have a "candy trust" We now need only a diamond trust to complete the woes of the com mon people. Seeli and Ye Shall Find. Eugene Register. President Hyde, of Bowdoin. Collesre see3 the devil Jii women. A man usually sees wnat he to looking for, If ho is 'per- aiieni enougn. Have Such. Things at Home. '. Albanv Dcmnersf. It Is declared that' the Seattle police forca is rotten and that bribes are taken refflllarlv. One. doesn't Tve to irn nut. side of Oregon to find such i condition. It oiien aocsn t taKe mucn or. a straw to show which way tne wind is blowing. Might Have Saved a. Sadden Shoclc. Salem Statesman. , The authorities at Nome hanged a con demned man a short time ago in an Ice house. It is suggested that they might at least have chosen a warm place, and have made the transition of the unfortunate fellow to his next world less abrupt and startling. Would Sanclcli Hazing?. Salem Statesman. Tt In rennrted thot there Vina Vien hir ing at the Oregon State University. Tho hazers ought to be expelled or thoroughly thrashed. Thl3 ls an Eastern Importation of brutality that ought not to be tolerated in Oregon, especially In an Institution supported from the public funds. Not So Fast, Good Anarchist. Walla Walla Statesman. J. Plerpont Morgan Is a bigger man than the President of the United States. He is emphatically "it." He is now about to settle the coal strike after every other agency, business, political or Govern mental, has failed. Hoch der Kaiser Wilhelm must come 'off his perch beside the Almighty and give way to Morgan. Vive le Emperor Morgan. Stop Slip-Shod Roadmalclnff. Albany Herald. The good roads convention In Portland this week ought to be productive of much good. Under the new system of denoting a specified amount of the .taxes paid In each for making roads, good results are to be expected, and they will be realized if each county goes about the work -of making good roads In a systematic, rational and up-tb-date way. Stop the) slip-shod methods, and profit by the ex perience of others by adopting scientific,; modern plans of road-making. Troubles of the Small Sheepmen. . Eugene Guard. The small sheepman In Grant County seems to be between the "devil and the deep sea." If the forest reserve is es tablished, he must give place to the large stockralser that has the pull, and if not he will have to face the owners of timber claims, who will want rent for their pas ture that the small sheepmen, cannot af ford to pay.' It takes several sections to range a band of sheep in the mountains, and If the stockman has to pay rent for many 160-acre timber claims it will be come a drain on his exchequer he can not stand. Apple the King? of Frnlts. Lebanon Criterion. It might be well to suggest to fruit growers once more that good Winter ap ples bring a good price, and that they are always In demand. As Oregon's pop ulation increases the demand for .apples will increase, and it is about time that more new orchards were being planted. Tliere is no crop that Is cleaner or nicer to handle than big, red apples, besides the work Is such that, the farmer and his family can do without the expense of hired help, thereby keeping all of the profits. Prunes, plums, peaches and pears are all good fruit, but the apple Is the king of all' fruit. Seattle Idea In Operation. Tacoma Ledger. When a ship leaves Portland with an 8000 ton sargo. The OreRonlan prints big "pictures of the vessel and uses half a column of edito rial In commenting cn the Incident. When a steamship loads 14,000 tons at a. Seattle dock. It Is -treated as a common local marine occur rence. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. There hnr never heen hut ono enrsrn that measured up to anything like 14,000 tons dispatched from fuget sound in its entire commercial history. That cargo was loaded on the American steamship Shawmut. 6195 tons net reclatei the larg est steamship ever seen in these waters noL at a tseatuo docK, but at Tacoma. However, the Shawmut stopped at Seattle on her way to sea and took aboard mer chandise valued at 310,384, and the P.-I., if we are not greatly mistaken, made a great aoo over her coming and going. Remove the Limit. The Dalles Times-Mountaineer. Lnst Frldav a mnn was Irllled In Vnrt land by falling through a defective bridse oeiongmg to tne city. A lawsuit will fol low, in which the plaintiff wljl be tho heirs to his estate and the defendant the City of Portland. By reason of an antiquated Oregon statute, the amount possible to recover will be $5000. .Had the, man been only Injured, though still living, there would be no limit to the amount for which he could ask damages. However, since he Is killed, and his family deprived of his earninss as well as hia care nnd comfort they can recover no more than $5000. This, sohib wm cunienu, 10 a just limit, since the burden of the judgment will fall upon the taxpayers. But that is a false con clusion. It matters not who Is responsible for the death whether the taxpayers, thronrrh their neents fnnhllc hfflclaltA rr some Individual or corporation the heirs of tho deceased are entitled to. the privi lege to claim such damages as they have sustained by reason of his death. This limit that is niaced unon humnn life by the Oregon statutes Is unju3t and unreasonable. Too often It deprives heirs of what they are justly entitled to. One of the first nets of the Leelslnture thnt convenes next January should be to 're peal the law placing a limit upon the damages that may be recovered for the nocldentnl or Intentional tnVInc of o man life, or amending It so that the limit would not do less tnan ?zu,uw. Remove the Tariff -From Politics. Astoria Astorian. The ntntAment- of ex-'Presldent PIotto- Innd. ntihllnhed vesterdav. with reference to the political situation Is of Interest to all Americans, regardless of party af filiations. Mr. Cleveland la one of the soundest men of the Nation, and on any one agrees with it or not, must attract re spectful attention. The former President urtre?: tariff reform, which ls not nitrnrli. Ing, when his life-long belief In the tarlff- ior-revenue principle is recuueu. nut what la most noteworthy In his ftinrss. slon Is the statement that the reform pro posal Is above party lines. Cleveland Is rignt. i.nere nag Been aiiogetner too much politics in the United Statea We have played the political game to the det riment of our interests, one party as much aa the other. That moderation of the exLtlnr tariff Is needed Is nnnarent and It is to be hoped that the Republi can sentiment In that direction, already strong, will result in something tangible. Republicans and Democrats alike must pay more attention to tho'welfare of the people and less to their own political In terests if we are to be prosperous. De- nre?5ilbns and strikes are the renilt nt unnatural conditions, and all that Is need ed to avoid them is. a wholesome desire to advance the Interests of the tnn! Tariff reform does not mean free trade. by any means, but rather protection to tho American consumer. Many Republi cans feel that moderation of party prin ciples would be dessrtlon of those noii- cles which have built uo the countrv. forgetting ' that holies change with the times. The high protective tariff is no lonser a benefit, so far as trust-man ufnr- tured articles arc concerned, and the needed modification ought, as" Cleveland insists, be above partypolltlcs. " THE AMERICAN WAY. CTh trr p-n Inter flrpnn. Every lover of? poetry and -books knows the romance off the flrst edition of ' Ed ward Fitzgerald's version of the Rubat yat of Oman Khayyam how Bernard Quarltch published the little - book, but touna no Buyers, ana how It finally went into the penny-bcx to be discovered by Dante Rossetti. who talked about It to his friends until there was at last de- mana enough to Induce Quarltch to pub lish a small second, edition, and then how the poem's fame slowly grew for years until it became a fashion, with devotees proaucing ana buying editions almost in numerable. The plain tale of the first American etunon or mtzgerald's Omar, told by F. F. D. Alfcery in sL recent issue of the Book Loyer. iS OUiie as romntlrlt fnnt mnr romantic iii its plainness than the f'ables to wmcn nave ascribed to Frank Mayo, the actor, to John J. Plat, or to W. D. Howells: the noetic alscemm ent nnd the seal for literature which made this first American edition exist. For this "flrst American edition of Omar came not from Boston, nor any other widely .recognized center of arts and letters, 'but from Columbus, O., then known to the great word merely as the political capital of a Western State, and little dlstin5mlshed from dozens of other prosperous American country towns. Hot ua tne dook me proauct or commercial enterprise or literary connoisseurshlp In me ordinary sense, out .01 the practical talents of educated American young men, who desired a beautiful thlnsr. and made it for themselves. Iri the VPar 1Rfi9-7rt there lived In the same house in Columbus two young law yers and a minor state official. One 'of them happened to read a review of the second London edition of Fitzgerald's Omar, Fascinated with the beautv of the extracts from the poem, he talked about it to his friends of similar tastes. He and several others- ordered copies of the DOcm from a New York Imnorter hut (could not obtain as many as they desired. ne eaiuon, tney were inrormea, was ex hausted, and the demand was so small and scattering that the nrohnhilltle?: of a new issue In the near future were few. So they resolved among themselves to make what they were, through no fault or tneir own. unabie to buy. isevlns' & Myers. local Drlnters. were consulted and were , found to have ma terials for a practical duplicate of the London edition. Amonsr those whom Mr. Albery . remembers as consulted and aa FrcoaDiy agreeing to meet the cost or printing and blndmsr were: Colonel James Watson. General W. A. Knapp, Dr. Star ling Loving and Messrs. E. L. De Witt. Henry. C. Taylor. Georore J. Atkinson. William. P. Little, F. F. Hoffman, and F. F. D. Albery. Colonel Watson the Co lumbus' discoverer of Omar, gave the printers his copy to work from, and Mr. De Witt read the proof. So was oroduced the firsit American edition of Fitzgerald's Omar, a book which will now bring in any book mart In the world more dollars than It contains pages. xsot more than 100 copies . were printed, and probably not more than 75. Those interested took the conies thev hnd snh- scribed for and distributed them among tneir mends. A courteous letter of exninnatlon was sent to Mr. . Quarltch. and the then tin- known translator, stating that there was no micuuon to miringe upon elther's legal or moral rights, and that the books were not for sale, but had been printed merely to supply the demand, which the author ized publisher was unable or unwilling to meet. There are now in existence., so far as Mr. Alben- can lenrn. onlv is rnnlpc or. the C&lumbus Omar. Those who nmrtnrM It had no thought of their work becoming a thing for which collectors would ran sack the earth and pay all sorts of prices. ine dcok was. as Mr. Albery: says, "the simple device of several American gentle-s j men. uninspired by any thought of .fame.j and uninfluenced by any prevailing fad,, but full of appreciation of a beautiful work of ar't, to get what they Could not buy from old Bernard Quarltch." These young men of Columbus. O., in 1870 saw a beautiful thing and desired it. They were ready and willing to buy it irom its owner. He was unable or un willing to supply It. So they made it for themselves. They broke no law and they Infringed no principle of morality. They simply followed the American way. "If you can't buy It, make it yourself." That is the American way. The Coat of White House Business. World's Work. Aside from the President's salary and the expense of keeping the White Houwi in repair, it costs the Government only about $65,000 a year to operate the estab lishment. Of this amount S50.COO Is ex pended in the salaries of the 20 men on the executive payroll. These range from the secretary to the President, with a sal ary of $5000 a ypar, down to messengers, and doorkeepers whose pay ia In some! Instances perhaps one-tenth of that sum. This remaining $15,000 defrays all other expenses the replacing of worn-out office furniture, typewriter repairs, stationery and feed for the half dozen horse3 in the White House stables. Of course the ex ecutive office his the benefit of many economles beyond the reach ol the thrifty merchant. For Instance, alt official mall Is franked, saving approximately $20 a day. Special telegraph and cable rates are also secured. The Dangers of Idleness. Brooklyn Eagle. As soorias your man of millions retires he begins to gather moss. It works into the crevices of his Intellect, spreading them wider and letting in all sorts of lit tle vegetative aliments that grow ranker and ranker with time, taking to them selves more and more of the substance of their host, until, after a little, he Is ail ments mostly. He has nothing to think about, except his corns and his lungs and his rheumatism, and the more you think of your works the more they creak. Nothing Is left then but Christian Science orsomethlng to do. Making: Crime Respectable. Minneapolis Times. In his defense of R. M. Snyder, one of the St. Louis bribers, Attorney Priest re ferred ,to bribery as a "conventional" crime, the inference being that it Is so common as to have become almost lawful by custom. If lawyers have the audacity to excuse bribery because It Is so onmmr... as to be a "conventional" crime, how lone- t-I1I Ifr m i. , -s ..... il uc mi mete are serious attempts to bring about the acquittal of burglars and murderers on tho knme nii? c. eral varieties of felony are becoming quite i.uiiYcimuuui ivr society s weiiare. Politics and Judicial' Office. Indianapolis News. We .have never been ahte to man's politics should be a controlling fac tor in his selection for the, bench. What the community wants is not good Repub lican Judges or Democratic Judges, but KOOd Judees. Tt oncVit n .,.,.- u i - IJf I . a--- iv "CUL Hie UL'St Judges that -it can get. Wise men. it seems to us, when they come to vote for the Judicial candidates, should leave pol itical considerations apart and vote for the men that are beat qualified by experi ence, knowledge and temnemmont fnr th work of the bench. HI Fears Are Groundless. Louisville Courier-Journal. Undo Charlev Grosvnnor. nrrordlnr to a dispatch, says that "If the coal strike continues until the November election. It will cause not only financial and indus trial disaster, but the defeat of the "Re- nubllean' nnrtv nil over th ommtnr hesitates to begin his Congressional cam paign in which he will have to face 9001 coal miners." Uncle Charlev is too ness'i- "mlstlc. The country Is not going to smash even if the coal-miners should beat mm ior congress. NOTE. AND COMMENT. Drop a nickel .In he; slot:and get pulled. Mr. Morgan ha3 proved' himself a good Baer tamer. The city rockplle has just, opened for the Winter term. " ' Governor-elect Chamberlain continues to regard himself as twins.- Editor Bryan will refer to it as the "ap parent settlement of the strike." Parliament seems to need' the services of a referee and bottle-holdera - Mr. Lord is trying to ring in the tele phone companies. . Line busjv Call again. The cigar dealers are keeping their eyes epen for tho coming of the angels of Lord. The Good Roads movement is not in dorsed by the laborers on the city rock pile. - " The gamblers and ' the are singing the.chorus to mer Time." saloon-keepers "Good, Old Sura- Funny thing, this reform;. TBey are try ing to keep the Columbia bar, open seven days In the week. . President Roosevelt has decided not to visit ex-Prcsldent Cleveland. .He "will miss a lot of, extra choice fish stories- The nickel-ln-the-slot machines being closed, the plugged nickel will seek the marts of trade via the contribution box. "The. attendance at the Roseburg Bap tist convention." we are informed, "has reached high-water mark." They're that kind According to the un-rive"r cantatas tha Willamette is so low that it has to be raised with jackscrews before boats can pare. If all the people who go to the matinee got home in time for dinner, more seats would be filled at the evening perform ance. Now that the bicycle rider has resumed the. use of the eidcwalks more people will believe in the need of street improve ments. Before proceeding further. Mr.- Lord's Law Enforcement League may have to pause a moment to- suppress Mr. Living ston's Law Enforcement League. Now -we understand the unwonted tor pidity of the Washington campaign. Jim Ham Lewis, the only living American vltascope, has moved to Chicago. A Seattle policeman has been caught at graftinir. It is. a hlch crime In a wldc- open.town for the private graft to poach on the preserves- of the public graft. Now that the Washington pilots have pulled out, the Oregon Chair-Warming Asooclatlon of Bar Observers can settle down to a steady season of Winter's Play and run out occasionally between hand3 to pick up a ship or two. . President Roosevelt's action In the mat ter, of arbitration was like that of the Irishman who was in charge of a strik ing thresher-crew. He dilated on mattera for- some time and ended as follows: "What Oi've said this marnimr is mineral: this afthcrnoon It will .be personal." He had-io.fur.tber trouble,, -, Margaret McKInley, niece' ot the late President, and daughter of Abner Mc kinley; Is a .clerk In the National Bank at OklahomaNClty, and has. made a small fortune in real estate epeculatlon. MlS3 McKInley has been in her" present position ior several years. She began her real estate operations by buying city lots for which she paid about $125 apiece. The property was located In what later be came a prominent business section, and the young woman's profits are said to have exceeded $10,000. It Is not generally known that the Shah of Persia has four sons now In Europe receiving their education. They arc mild and Inoffensive, with hardly enough spirit between them to declare an opinion, such Is their fear of their royal parent Tho latter was not In favor with his father. Nesser ed Din, who was assassinated In 1805. Until his accession he was Governor of a distant province. The Princes until recently were confined In the harem with their father's numerous wives. The simplicity of the ordinary life of the Danish royal family is nowhere more strongly Illustrated than at Bernstorff Castle, whera they have been "holiday ing" lately.. The palace itself Is not much larger than an English- country seat, and the accommodation, is limited. The iate Czar and the Czarina Dagmar did not mind being packed away In two little room3. England's KInr nin-ava o like for Bernstorff. Queen Alexandra, on the other hand.. ha3 a special love for the place, because she spent her youth there. New York society Is somewhat stirred up over the question of Just hotv to treat the Crown .Prince of Slam. The royal visitor's rkin ia of pronounced dusky hue, and hitherto It has "not been considered quite correct among the haut noblessu of Gotham to admit "niggers" to the Inner circle. It seems, to be overlooked that the young man Is a university grad uate and a successful author. One book he wrote, "The War of the Polish Se cession." has attracted favorable notice. And, by. the way, the author's name as i it appears on the title page Is Mana Va jlravuda. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPIIEUS Waggs Tounjr Doolt Is golns the pace that kills. Jaess Ah! Drunk? WogRS No. He's running: an auto. Chicago Dally News. She (getting tlredj-rSpeech Is sliver, but si lence Is golden. Ke Well. If speech Is only sliver, one can hetter afford to waste It. Punch. "Can't always have what you want In this world." "Xo, but that doesn't prevent you from wanting what you haven't got." Detroit Free Press. Three hot literary suppers are scheduled to come off soon. The literary committee Is no-v In the swamp, hunting the 'possums for 'cm. Atlanta Constitution. Old Stager I sec this is your flrst campaign. Candidate It Is. How did you guess it? Old Stager xou arc distributing real Havana ci gars. Chicago Tribune. Manhattan Are the people of Pennsylvania In favor of calling an extra session of tho Stats Legislature to settle the coal strike? Penn Well, most of us- think the coal strike Itself 13 bad enough. Puck. "You sell ladles' hats here?" began the sour looking man. "Certainly." replied the milliner, repressing a smile. "You want to buy one for your wife?" "No, I don't, but It loo's as if I'd have to." Philadelphia Press. "I suppose you regard Eve as to blame for tempting Adam to eat the apple?" "Not at all." answered Miss Cayenne. "Eve was too generous to want the apple all for herself, and Adam was not gentleman enough to let her have it." Washington Star. Rogers You don't have much company at your house, do you? Blake No. Should like to. but the thing is impossible. When our cook has her day off, of course Mrs. Blake cannot have company, you know; and on other day3 the cook objects to It. Boston Transcript. S