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r-3'-.j 3 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, ggDjg NOVEMBER 3, . 1902. EatereJ at the Postofllco at Portland. Oregon, as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES.- By Hall (postage prepaid. In advance) Call?, with Sunday, per month $ "jj Dally. Sunday excepted. :per year.. ....... 7 50 Dally, with Sunday, per year 00 Sunday, per year 2 00 The Weekly. per year...-... 1 50 The IVceky. 3 months 50 To City Subscribers Dallr. Der ffwlr rlollvArv1 Runilav oTCented.lOC Xally, per week, delivered. Sunday lncluded.-Oc POSTAGE RATES. TTn!tlrt StntM (7tnnAn n1 Wfrinn 10 to 14-page paper. c U to 2S-page paper 2o foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication in The Oregonlan should bo addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregonian," not to the name i any Individual. Letters relating to aaver- ttetag, subscriptions or to any business matter snouia be addressed slmnlv "The Oregonian. 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There Is a single consideration which alone should insure Idaho to the Re publican, column, and that Is a desire to -purge the state of Its discreditable representation in the United States Sen ate, with the whole Pacific Coast set 'ticg Its face to the magnificent future ox commerce ana manufacturing so plainly confronting it: with the moral and intellectual life of the whole Na tion in vigorous activity, lareelv owlncr to the presence of Theodore Roosevelt m the Presidential chair: with the Re publican party about to enter upon a new lease of power in the task of rem edying tariff and trust abuses and heln ing organized labor to maintain its rights against the aggressions of organ ized capital It seems as if the young and growing State of Idaho should at .length have lost patience with the itr no ranee and unscrupulousness that -have long disgraced it at the National capital, iaaho Is one of the verj- few States to which the Republican party can look with reasonable hone of a vote . .tomorrow that will strengthen the hands - i cc itoosevelt and his supporters. It has tbe opportunity to send to tht RMinto ; ICfTt will, either a brilliant young leader -wno will instantly take- a, front place In tb-re of Republican .tariff-reform -V. Pjj-a: Mr. Borah doee hot develop Pfrenrth, a mm. in tfee'peraoa is'SfUrnncsavl hw -fan? If jbWheenlted States Senate. Whn men like these can ornament and dig nify Idaho's place in the Senate, it Is strange she should content herself with Heitfeld end Dubois. " like the memory of a forgotten dream comes again the old story of the South em Pacific's plan to brldfre the Willam ette above Milwaukie, so as to afford relief for Its tremendous West Side traf fic. This is only one of the paradoxes of our early years that time doth nrnm- lse to prove. There was no tremendous tranic in those old days, though we fondly said so. But at lencrth develnn. ment draws near. Transportation of wniamette valley products, diversified as they are and increasing amain, is to be a problem. And capital is reaching pui to soive it. The Villard dream of tke. Hotel Portland has come true. The ? Jream of a drydock is coming true. The ,AtorIa railroad came in due course. "The dream of a bridge at Vancouver is 0lng to come true, Soon there will be .trolley roads into Washington County ad. throughout the Valley as far as -Albany, perhaps Eugene. Soon the iron jkocse will wake the echoes of Crook and -"Harney and Lake and Klamath. Soon v Goldendale andNehalem and Tillamook -will be railroad towns. Then the pe tdnsula from St. Johns to Sellwood and ..Mount Tabor will teem with dwellings, business places, churches, scho&ls and factories. Then Washington and Morrl- on and Alder, and maybe Stark and TamhlH, will be lined wlthv tall struc ture clear up to Thirteenth street, j.aixth.will be another Third street, and .Portland's narrow thoroughfares will be , crowded as Upper Broadway on a -'Saturday afternoon. The brilliant - -dream of 4-one generation becomes the f . -barren, reality of the next. And so it -?Till be, no doubt, till the elements melt ; -ttfth fervent heat and the heavens are ; . rolled together as a scroll. f The present angry mood of the Irish . nationalist members of the British Par j lieient was originally due to the ap- plication of -the crimes act in parts of -Jfeelsnd. and the refusal of the Balfour Cabinet to consider the nendine land- pTwirchase bill, which has for its object 'ifcb compulsory expropriation of Irish 2 . lafldlorda The crimes act may be ap-X'-: pHed by the British government to the jKhole of Ireland or to any part of that : oouBtry, it permits in time of peace the ; exrcise of such peremptory powers of i i ,tmana punishment as would be tol- craiea Dy the American people only in vu&l, a time as our Civil War, when l xreataent UncoJn more than once sus- ps4ed thfe right of habeas corpus and lbjrlht of trial by iurv. 5 that A mpp. icaa, cltUetis like Vallandigham could i? acreeied and tried before a military 6oaaaa4ion or railroaded to Fort La ette as a suspect These things we . bftwe- done in civil wnr nr tt-? n f '''lITtll W In mn ' rC' -""v vii peace we uo not l a; citizen and try him before a 5e-W juage. The answer of the Brit- laa--government -njould be that Ireland nw. .AJBenca; mat tne crimes act was tm. -seder Gladstone as part of the i Jegialation that followed the f Lord Cavpnflloli n, c orke by a band of w&M Jader was Joseph Blake: that -ft w,law enacted by Parliament nnd ;tiad pt been repealed even when the oontained a home-rule majority; ; its liTicfitlon in Ireland was made necessary by the violent speech 'and ac tions of some of the members o'f the Irish party. It is a comfort to remember, says, the Railwaj- Age, that anthracite, though an-Immensely useful servant. Is not King. In support of this statement it Is cited that the production of Pennsyl vania anthracite in 1901 was 67,471,667 tons, while the output of bituminous coal aggregated 293,298,516 tens, or four and a third times as much. Pennsyl vania produces practically all the an- tnracne m the country, while twenty nine states and territories produce bi tuminous coal. This year, of course, he quantity of bituminous mined has been greatly Increased, while for nearly haif the year the anthracite mines have been closed. Last year hard coal was considered about as cheap in many lo calities as soft coal, in proportion to the relative heating capacity, but the strike placed the former out of compe tition with the latter in respect to econ omy. This condition will hardly be re lieved this Winter, even if work in the anthracite mines Is fully resumed and pushed to the utmost limit of produc tion. Indeed, the exorbitant' prices for all kinds of fuel, which may be classed as "sympathetic" rather than impera tive, is a real calamity Induced by the strike, and one that is not likely to be overcome until the Winter Is well over. Hence, though anthracite may not be King, its power is prodigious and far reaching, and for the time being practi cally absolute. The Rev. Dr. Henry Blanchard, of Portland, Me., recently discussed before a ministers' club of that city the sub ject, "What Is the Best Disposition of the Liquor Problem?" Dr. Blanchard Is a man of large experience and of great earnestness and seriousness of character. His answer was that the best thing to do with the liquor problem is "to hand it over to the forces of edu cation and religion." History proves that all attempts to prevent drunken ness by, law have failed; that the law is always weak when it stigmatizes something as wrong that the individual believes Is right Dr. Blanchard holds that the prohibitory laws have made multitudes of hypocrites. He himself Is a total abstainer, because he believes "the religious man should be ready to forego his right to use liquor In order to help his weaker brother." But at the same time he had no right to cast re proach upon the character or motives of such men as Emerson, Lowell, Long fellow and Phillips Brooks, who used wine and did not believe that In so doing they offended God or injured man. Dr. Blanchard holds that the advocacy of prohibition is a great waste of effort, time and enthusiasm; that "the same energy, the same devotion, would bring about better results if these were concen trated upon the work of rousing men from sloth and selfishness to passion for service to mankind." AX UNDECISIVE DATTLE. A very important political campaign, marked by general apathy In certain portions of the state, and by fierce fac tional strife elsewhere, closes in the State of Washington tonight The Re publicans are claiming the state by 12, 000 to 20,000 majority, the Democrats by 4000 majority. Never In the history ofc the state have accurate forecasts' 61 flsial feKvUts fcem so dtfiftcult- to'raaket -for-jaeVer beforVha6 the ReDufillcaa .party df Ihe etate been rent by so many conflicting factions There are enough Republicans In the state to pile up a majority of at least 15,000 for the ticket, but with equal truthfulness it can be said that there were enough Republi cans in the state In 1896 to show a ma jority nearly equal to the present claims of the Republican chairman. Yet In 1896 the ticket was snowed under, and four j'ears later 10,000 Republicans voted against the party's nominee for Governor. The factional differences which re sulted in turning the state upside down and inside out politically on these oc casions were no greater than they are at the present time; in fact, never before has Internal strife raged with such vio lence within the party as has been the case since Governor McBrlde forced his celebrated Railroad Commission meas ure on the state convention. Under such conditions neither the dissatisfac tion of President Roosevelt nor the rail ings of Governor McBrlde against polit ical heresy win serve to stay the hands of some of the knife-wielders. The re sult of the Tacoma convention showed the McBrlde wing of the Republican party to be In power. The margin In its favor was so small, however, and the feeling ran eo high, that It Is only natural that some of the sores caused br that, conflict are still unhealed. To Intensify the trouble, the speeches of the Governor and his followers have been so bitter that they have reopened these sores In many places where they might have healed had they been let alone. The fact that a large number of hon orable, upright and Intelligent Repub licans throughout the etate objected to an appointive Railroad Commission, which would virtually place unlimited power in the hands of one man wfco controlled the appointments, brought down on their heads the wrath of the McBrlde faction. These men in most case3 were the equals of the McBrlde contingent ln honor. Intelligence and party loyalty, and they have smarted under the attacks that have been hurled at them from the stump and from the press. They are not railroad lobbyists, and are not corruptionlsts, and yet the McBrlde rule for determining the posl- tlon or' attitude of a man leaves no al ternative. If they will not train with his crowd they can be nothing else but corruptionlsts and lobbyists. Some of these antagonists of the party organlza tlon are outspoken in their hostility to the coursa of the Governor and his fol lowers, and the weight of their opposi tion can accordingly be determined nu merically. The uncertain quantity in the case. however. Is the silent vote, and it Is al most a certainty, that this vote will play havoc with some of the early estimates In any event, neither the Senatorial nor the railroad contest will be settled by the election returns tomorrow. Gov ernor McBrlde has announced the inten tion to force his commission bill on the people at all hazards, even going so far as to call a special session of the Legislature, should ' adjournment be taken without passing the bill. The Democrats are also pledged in a mild vcay to the commission bill, but with them the commission bill and every thing else is merely Incidental to the election of George Turner to the United States Senate. Turner seems to have acquired nearly as tight a grip on a cer tain portion of Washington Demo cratic party as McBrlde holds on certain portions of the Republican party. The one "Will sacrifice everything else to continue In the United States Senate; the other has lost' slgtt of everything but the unlimited political power which will be conferred on him by his Rail road Commission. 1 Under such circumstances the large number of voters who believe in neither Turner nor McBrlde are drifting on a -sea of perplexity with -the unpleasant feeling that whichever haven they at tempt to reach will be the wrong one. The Republicans will undoubtedly have a safe working majority In the Legis lature, but It will not be as large a majority as should be shown in a stdte that Is so overwhelmingly Republican. On the Senatorial question, with so much valuable "trading stock," there , la no assurance that a small Repub lican majority will Insure the election of a Republican to the United States Sen ate. There have been some very fierce" political fights at past sessions of the Washington Legislature, but unless the political air of the Evergreen State is materially clarified by tomorrow's elec tion returns, the past contests will be as mild as "pink teas" compared with the circus that will convene in January with Governor McBride as ringmaster. THE CALIFORNIA ELECTION. If California had not an established character for vagarious and whimsical political action, there would be no ques tion as to the result of tomorrow's election. Two years ago the etate went Republican by 40.000 majority, and two years before that It gave a very re spectable plurality for the Republican candidates. Its habit Is. Republican; but in twenty years it haielected three out of five Democratic Governors, and has rarely failed to split 'its Congres sional representation. San Francisco, a strongly Republican city on National Is sues, elected a Democrat running on a Labor ticket to the Mayoralty, last year, and a Democrat each time in the three preceding elections. AJameda and Santa Clara Counties, strongnolds of Republi canism when It comes to Presidential elections, are never without a consider able Democratic representation In their official rosters. The voting habit of the people Is curiously independent of party discipline, and it rarely fails, to work out anomalous and unexplalnable results. All the conditions this year point to the success of Pardee, the Republican can didate for Governor, but there Is no cer tainty about It, and many Republicans are looking for the election of his Demo cratic opponent, Lane. The uncertain factor in the case Is the labor vote, which Is well organized, and which In San Francisco, San Jose and other cities of the state has won notable victories since the last general election. In San Francisco the labor vote has been pretty closely allied with the Democratic machine, while at Sacra mento, Los Angeles. San Jose and else where in the Interior it has been In al liance with the Republicans. But, gen erally speaking, the notion prevails in California that Democracy Is more "friendly" to labor than Republicanism; and this Is the basis of the feeling that Lane may win. It is difficult to understand why labor in California or elsewhere should cher ish the notion that the Democratic party Is a better riend to labor than the Re publican party, in. view of tfce-recorda of theNtwo parties.' Democratic policies, whenever they have beeWCcarried into effect in Tecent times, havere8Ulted Iri -mwLTwjB -io tserirorKiBg- .classes?- as wen astorall other classes. Att tjb'e. end of Cleveland's last term in the-Presidency there , were 7,000,000 idle or hall-Idle worklngmen In the country. The Demo cratic policies liad paralyzed industry and had created a condition of., want in every cottage where the ability to provide the necessaries of life rested upon dally labor. Republican policy corrected all this, and It has ever made the interest of the wage-earner one of Its foundation stones. It has built up the great manufacturing Industries, of the country, and it has maintained the conditions under which wages in Amer ica are vastly higher than in any other country. Republican policy and Initia tive carried through the restriction policy under which the Pacific Coast has been saved from the threatened Chinese invasion. Republican sentiment has supported the demand for fair wages everywhere and for reasonable hours of labor. And just now It is a Republi can Administration which has brought the arrogant mineowners of the anthra cite coal district to accept the prin ciple of arbitration with all that this principle promises for the interest and dignity of labor. The Democratic party j has no such record of service to the j laoonng lnieres: or tne country; it nas, In truth, no record excepting that of platform platitudes and of opposition to measures by which general prosperity has been brought about. Democratic success in California this year would be a serious blow to the in terests of the state in Its National re lations. Through its Republican repre sentation in Congress the state is now In close working relations with the Gov ernment at Washington, and it has gained amazingly through this fact in the past two years. Backed by the com mercial pre-eminence of San Francisco on the Pacific Coast, the voice of Cali fornia has In' large measure .been per mitted to make the policies of the Gov ernment in the Pacific Ocean. And under this policy the progressive move ment of the state and of its chief city has been by leaps and bounds. This movement will not, of course, be stopped by local Democratic success, but it is beyond question that at some points it will be embarrassed. A community In sympathy with the Administration and represented In Congress by persons working with and in support of the Ad ministration, is bound to enjoy advan tages which are hardly to be expected when the conditions are reversed. Cali fornia will not serve her Interest by choosing a Democratic Governor, nor bv substituting Democrats for Repub licans in her representation at Wash Ington, and she ought to have the good sense not to try the experiment. TEACHERS NEED MORE PAY. The principals of the public schools in Salem have petitioned the School Board to increase their salaries, and in sup port of their request they assert that $630 a year Is not sufficient, in view of the Increase In the cost of living In the last three years. The salary, they point out. Is only an average of $52 50 a month for twelve months, and 19 not as much as is being paid to teachers holding similar positions In other 6lties of the state. According to the showing thej- made, othei towns pay their prin cipals from $S0O to $1000 a year. The subject of teachers' salaries Is becoming a very live one, and Is being forced upon public attention In nearly every county In the state. Complaint is everywhere made that teachers are scarce, and In several counties there are schools that have no,t been opened be- cause teachers einot Je fotuid. Be yond question 'tMcoipikm bas been brought about Ijltbs; itfprevejnent in the general financial oeiditlon of the country, which jhas madeother occupa tions more profitable tifan. teaching. During the hard ilisee allargg number of young men and w"smei who took up teaching as a means pt gaining a live lihood "cut prices'! in competition with those who were- "following' teaching as a permanent profeaeten, .and the present scale of wages resulted." n accordance with the law dfsupply snd demand, wages went down, " The reduction of the supply Is certain" to bring about an advance-. In almoetevery school district the funds are -eo llmlteS that School Boards will not raise salaries until they are compelled to'doso la order to se cure desirable teachers.' The list of- principals who signed the request for advancee"- in salaries at Salem contains the. names of educators who have been identified with the schools of this Htate fofr many years, and they are known as most capable instructors. That their service's are worth more than they are receiving, aod that the changed conditions and the advance In the cost of living Io a eufflc.ent reason for In creasing the salaries,; few will question. Whether the school district cap afford to pay any more Is a question, for the board to determlncj That Salem is be hind many other towns In the matter of salaries of principals, is evident from" the. figures submitted in the petition for an advance. It jsonly a matter of time, therefore,' when, Salem must pay higher wages or And her principals seeking positions elsewhere. Marlon County V-Representatives in the Legislature have, -agreed not to promise any appointments ih the Leg islature, nor toj recommend any person for nn nnnnlntmnnf iinftl niiMi lma oa the delegation sees flt'tohold a caucus mm seiect tne persons, who snail be sup ported for the positions the delegation may be permitted to fill. This Is, a very well-advised move. The great evil of the clerkship abuse has its origin prin cipally In, the promises', members of the Legislature make to their friends before they know how many of the promises they can fulfill. When a promise has been made, the member feels a desire to fuHill it, even if atiseless clerkship must be created for that purpose. If all dele gations followedthe course of the Ma rion County Representatives, there would be fewer charges of broken prom ises, and there would be fewer sinecures around the Legislature. All states west of the Mississippi River have not been asked to aid the Lewis and Clark Fair, although the headlines of a news article In yester day's Oregonlan Indicated that they had. The purpose of that article was solely to make clear , the necessity of an early appropriation by the Oregon Leg islature. If the aid of neighboring states Is to be obtained, Oregon must take the lead right soon after its Leg islature convenes next January. In the same month all Legislatures west of the Mississippi River, except those of South Dakota, Iowa and Louisiana, will begin their blennia.1 sessions. If the co-operation of the Western States is taf be ob tained, theirLegislatures mu9tbUap; amuch:a ttaKpdies, with the three. exception naniedwUl not fconvene It may , l4aat;the boy who beglrjs" at the bottom of anyjcalllng and works his way up wiil'get to be a millionaire soon er than he who spends four years get ting an education. And for this very reason, if for no other, college train ing Is to be commended. Men who are baldly millionaires are of little use to the world. Indeed, they are probably more damaging to humanity than pau pers. Men who know how to live right lives, who are actuated by higher con siderations than those preceded by the dollar sign, are the great need of the age men who will say with Agasslz, "I cannot afford to waste my time making money." The time of the boy who does not get a general education never be comes too valuable to devote to mere money-malting. And this is not the best use that can be made of a man's time. Recent voluminous dispatches regard ing the Southern Pacific labor situation, sant out from San Francisco and Oak land, wore the appearance of partisan agitation, which later developments have confirmed. It is hardly to be ex pected that a time will come when everybody will be satisfied with the ruling pay for service. Just grievances will arise from time to time, and adjust ments must be made. But agitation having for Its object to make men dis satisfied with reasonable conditions Is always to be deprecated. "When self constituted "organizers" of labor stoop to euch Inflammatory practices they do the cause of labor greater harm than amalgamated capital can. Matthew Stanley Quay must feel In need of another vindication. It is ob served in the news from the National capital that he is to be prosecuted for violation of the civil service law that his courts and law officers are to be asked to pronounce upon his guiltiness or Innocence of the offense charged. As if violation of the civil service act were not one of -Senator Quay's leading vir tues! Who would have any use for him but for his ability to shake the plum tree? Among the discoveries that have the novelty of genuine originality Is that one emanating from Eastern Oregon to the effect that the Oregon constitution forbids capital punishment. And how harrowing I:; the thought that so many' bloodymurderers have been unconstitu tionally hanged In a law-abiding state! And that more of them are likely to go the same way! The lively and intelligent Interest that women are beginning to take in the Lewis and Clark Fair is a hopeful sign. The helpfulness of women In such work has been often demonstrated, and In naming the working committees this fact will no doubt have weight President Roosevelt's strictures on bolting Washington State Republicans would be more serviceable for practical use if he nad made it clear whether he had specifically In mind the Wilsonian Republicans in King or the Turner Re publicans at Spokane. An armistice of ninety daj's'for the preparation of peace terms In Colombia would be funny. Half a dozen revolu tions could be fought to conclusion In that time, and nobody seems prepared to guarantee that they will not be. Old General Average Precipitation got a body blow yesterday SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS Few yill Let Go the Old. Boise News. A Philadelphia specialist announces a new-fangled cure for rattlesnake bites That's the first objection to the old rem edy on record. For the Miners to Think About. Baker City Democrat. Some of the Baker and Grant County raining Interests are short-sighted enough to kill the goose that, lays the golden egg. When the mountains of Eastern Oregon are denuded of their forests, snows will not lie upon" the mountains and there will bo no water in the Summer for either mining or agriculture. Troubles ot a President's Daughter, Walla Walla Union. The lot of a President's daughter Is not alwayis a 'happy one; as the case of Miss Alice Roosevelt demonstrates. Every few weeks there appears in some of the news papers the Information that she is engaged to bo married to some one, and the fol lowing day the big press bureaus are re quested to deny the story. Every rose hasjts thorn. Imported by the Operators. Eugene Guard. The mixed character of the people en gaged In taking coal out of the earth back In Pennsylvania may be best com prehended through the statement that President Roosevelt's arbitration proposal was explained to the Wilkesbarre Mine workers' convention, which accepted the same. In four languages. Evidently United States talk Is at a "discount In the coal districts. In a Pessimistic Vein. Cottage Grove Leader. As was to be expected, the J500.000 ap propriation talk has probably knocked the special session of the Legislature In the head. And the people will have to put up another four years with exorbitant sala ries and probably a lopr-rolllns: session. In which senatorial and, fair appropriation auuciuKs win get in a general mixup anu tne regular session become another dls grace to the state. Too Much Reserve Business. Albany Herald. The timber reserve business Is being overdone in Oregon. It Is an outrage to tie up nearly all the available timber lands In the state. It Is wise to provide for reasonable timber reserves, but It looks llKc a job to reserve all the timber lands left In the state, and to allow the lieu land business to go on flourishing. If these forest reserve crank3 have their own way, the lumbering "industry in Oregon will ate in its infancy. By the Sherman Resumption Method. Salem Statesman. The way to build roads Is to build them. and to go at It with the understanding that It will tako a long time and cost a great deal of money. If this- fact could be impressed upon the Oregon Legislature to convene next Winter it would perhaps save a lot of useless tinkering with the road laws. The chief business of Oregon Leglslatur.es heretofore has been the pass ing of read laws, and yet we have no good roads worth mentioning. Charges That Are Unreasonable. Pendleton East Oresonlan. The people of Grant County are thor oughly worked up over the forest-reserve question. Such discussions always bring out abuse on both sides that Is unwarrant-. ed. The charge that the interior papers are fighting the reserve because It would cut off a large advertising patronage In the way of land and timber notices does L'notsourid reasonable. The average news paper man la not made of the kind or ma-. terial that .would sacrifice ' the" country's interests f ot $ few dollars paid in this way. And then there are charges against tne other side equally as unreasonable. The Time May Come. Spokane Chronicle. Senator George Turner denies The Ore gonlan's story that he Is to be appointed chairman of a railway commission by Governor McBrlde; but he does confirm the story of his reconciliation with ex Governor McGraw, saying: "The es trangement arose over some criticisms which I made as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the territory on some factions of McGraw, who was then Sheriff of King County, in regard to a murder case that I tried. My criticisms were much more severe than the circumstances justified." The time may come when Mr. Turner will realize that the same com ment applies to many of his criticisms of the Republican party; In the meantime that party will continue in business at the old stand. Moral Law Is Natural Law. Pendleton Tribune. Dr. "Stephen S. Wise's lecture last even ing was Interspersed with many wise speeches, but one of the deepest themes of the whole discourse was his declara tion that the moral law Is the -natural lawj Shakespeare as a moral teacher never tagged a moral to his plays, but he portrayed by powerful Illustrations wickedness as caused by the violation of natural laws, and that virtue Is the re sult of harmony with and obedience to the natural laws of the physical and spir itual world. Ignorance causes much sin, but It Is ignorance of the laws of right conduct Tfie genius of Shakespeare un derstood all of man's Instincts and pas sions, and by strong Illustrations of each he showed their results upon human con duct and "character, and left the picture as he painted it Special Sessions for Senatorial Elec tion. Astoria Astorlan. It might be a very sensible plan to elect United States Senators at special ses sions. Every time an election comes about Representatives of the different counties "trade away" in the interests of their respective candidates, and the peo ple always suffer. The man who is after votes gives his support promiscuously to measures that are not meritorious, and It has been shown In the past that the state has been made to pay many thousands of dollars for trades of this kind. Election of Senators at special sessions would have a tendency to separate politics from busi ness, although, of Oourse, the trading could not be entirely prevented. If poli tics" Is such a curse that It will Interfere with the business Interests of the state, it ought to be played at a time set apart solely for the purpose. Ivey's Programme at Washington. Juneau Dispatch. J. W. Ivey, who was In the city yester day, will spend the Winter at Washington, where he will be the representative of the Nome, Yukon River and Valdes citi zens in securing needed legislation. Mr. Ivey will fight for the extension of land laws, restriction of power of attorney for the location of placer mining ground, pro tection to fish, district benefits from license fund moneys and a Delegate to Congress. Mr. Ivey agrees with the Dis patch that the large companies must unite with Alaskans In securing a Delegate to Congress at the next session, or South eastern Alaska will have to have a terri torial form of government During Mr. Ivey's visit to Washington at the latter part of last Congress, he made a canvass of tho House and Senate as to their po sition on the Delegate question, and ob tained the most favorable results, and It is his firm opinion that Congress will ac cord this relief at the next session. Fol lowing a Delegate to Congress and the other needed measures suggested by Mr. Ivey, comes the demand for statehood! Ignoring the territorial form of govern ment stage. Mr. Ivey will have the united backing of the Oregon Senators in his fight and will, no doubt, be a strong factor in next Winter's lobby. EVOLUTION OF ELECTION DAY. Kansas City Star. . Where, oh, where, Is the vehement, old time editor who was wont to blur all over tne last Issue of his .paper before election day with long, primer, admonitions In apple-butter Ink, "Look out for Roor--bachs!"? This Interesting patriot, with his seething concern for the salvation of the country, and his wakeful and sensitive suspicion as to the dark perfidy of the enemy, has been ceasing gradually from out the firmament, for the last few years, and the present campaign seems to have marked his disappearance altogether. You may search for him diligently with tears In Bitter Creek and Cowboy; In Osceola and Humansvllle, and you will not find him. He lingered for many a golden Au tumn after the exit of the Indian and.thq buffalo, but now, alas, he. too, is gone. And where, also, are the Wide Awakes and the Flambeau Bearers, who, only a few years ago, illuminated the night with their blazing torches, and shed the radi ance of their patriotism abroad on a trem bling adversary, intimidated and abashed by the numerical force of the marching legions? Where are the dauntless voters who accounted It as only a reasonable service to their party to present their bodies as subjects for the baptism of drip ping kerosene, and who were swelled with the pride of martial conquerors in their club regalia, spattered with mud up to the waist? Have these intrepid partisans gone to join the old Jackson Democrats and the Whigs who used to climb to the dizzy tops of hickory and poplar poles and fix the flag of victory there? It would only be to augment tho grow ing sadness of the public to ask what has become of the fresh and comely maidens who, as representatives of the states, used to ride In the campaign processions, em bowered In forest foliage, whose vivid green contrasted pleasantly with the rod, white and blue decorations of the young women. These panoramas of loveliness have vanished, alas, with the detectives of the roorbach, the torch-bearers, the pole-climbers, and the impetuous stump orators, who found joyous and profitable occupation In rending their throats with the accusations of treachery and malice and corruption and mendacity which they hurled at the dastards who had the temer ity to oppose them. Can the country endure the elimination of all those forces once so potential with out the danger of disintegration? Will the citadel of Liberty continue to stand firm and strong, since all of the watchful guards of old have been removed from Its towers? Is the roorbach to be allowed to perform Its mischievous mission with out protest, and is kerosene In the futuro to be devoted wholly to swelling the usu fruct of the Standard Oil octopus? Let not the Autumn elections be pulled off without some consideration of these momentous questions. Temperance Behind the Bar. Philadelphia North American. Tho National Association of Retail Liquor Dealers, too, are pledged to pro mote the cause of temperance. Their po sition is outlined in this resolution, passed at last Thursday's session: "We recognize the weakness of human nature, and are the readiest to lend our Influence and efforts to the reform of the drunkard and to the curtailment of the evil resulting from excessive indul gence." 1 It will be admitted at once that In as sertlng familiarity with the weakness of human nature the liquor dealers do not strain credulity. They ought to recognize It, for they meet It every hour of the day It is their most profitable guest, their most hard-worked employe, the founder and builder of their fortunes. If they refused to acknowledge such a valuable aid to success they would be guilty of grave Injustice. Nor does their Interest In the drunkard and tender regard for his welfare need emphatrc utterance. This principle has to assist in his reform is something new. Now that the public Is aware that the liquor dealers are ready to lend their efforts In this cause there should be no delay In negotiating the loan. An announcement of the kind of as sistance offered will bo awaited with Im patience. While no outsider may claim the right to Intrude with advice or throw cold water on their enthusiasm, the plan of stopping the sale of liquor suggests Itself. This might not be universally ef fective, but the association would at least havo the satisfaction of doing Its part. "Way of the Transgressor. Eugene Register. The story has Its piteous side. Who knows what struggles Younger went through In his ambition to become a man amongst men. and to make amends to the world for his past misdeeds. Who knows but that if he had been pardoned so that ho might marry, he would have settled down and become a model citizen? But there Is the other side. Sin and evil has its recompense of reward. To havo pardoned Younger would have established a bad precedent, and perhaps his mar riage would have given to the world a progeny of criminals, possessing all the vlclou3ness of tho father In his days of outlawry. So we halt between the two extremes sympathy for the criminal, who was ambitious to atone for tho past mis deeds, and protection of society from tho consequences of palliating a life of crime and running the risk of extending tha vicious instincts to the second and third generations. A Modern Requirement. The Brooklyn Eagle. The baby laughed and then he crowed; Then looked his father In the eye. He seemed to know the modern code. Which none dare now deny. "You've been both cood and" kind to ma Since my short life began. But I can't bo your son." said he; "You're not a union man." "I havo some wealth," the old man said; "A million 'bucks' or two. 'Twill go to you when I am dead To show my love for you." " 'TIs not for me," tho boy replied "Your wealth la under ban. Your offer I can but deride; You're not a union man." 1 Tho youth with fervor made his plea; The maid In silence heard. "I only seek to gain." said he, "Ono little potent word." "I've one condition, sir." said she, "But one that Is not hard; If you wculd lay good claim to me. Just show your union card." "Before I sentence you today," Said Judge, with solemn face, "Pray Is there aucht you have to say That bears upon this case?" "Why. yes." the man returned, "although Of course. I bear no grudge. Before I yield I'd like to know If you're a union Judge." If this keeps up. 'twill come to pass All things must union be; We'll have a label on the grass, We'll stamp ono on tho tree. On child and house and book and knife. On picture and on chair: On cook and housemaid, sweetheart, wife a he label must bo there I Wings of a Dove. At sunset, when the rosy light was dying. ar down the pathway of the West, I saw a lonely dove In silence flying To bo at rest. Pilgrim of air, I cried, could I but borrow Thy wandering wings, thy freedom blest. I'd fly away from every careful sorrow And find my rest. But when the dusk a -filmy veil was weaving, Back came the dove to seek her nest Deep In the forest where her mate was griev ing There was true. rest. Peace, heart of mine! no longer sigh to wan der; X.ose not ,thy lite. In fruitless auest. Thereare no happy Islands over, yonder; Come heme and rest. Henry. .Van Dyke. NOTE AND COMMENT. ". Where are my overshoes? .Now will you patch up your roof?; General Miles advocates a uniform pol icy. A man " is known by the size of hla woodpile. Where your umbrella is, there will your heart be also. For a man to say "God made me" Is to go into voluntary bankruptcy. The young fellow who' sends bouquets to actresses usually ha&n't a scent to spare. A rolling stone gathers no moss, but neither will one that's burled, for that matter. When Max O'Rell says an engagement Is not a rehearsal for matrimony, -he means that the scenes are lacking. The world owes every man a living, but the trouble is that most men won't take the trouble to collect what's coming to them. V The Board of Education Is discussing music behind closed doors. It Is sincerely to be hoped that some of the ambitious pupils will follow this example. A minister In Pennsylvania declares that the clergy "must forsake pride and leavo pretty women to their own devices." Thla Is tho view of a cross-eyed man. No bright and shining sky. No sun, no moon, no stars. No green leaves, no flowers, No seats inside the cars. November. The Steam Roller will leave the west side of Seventh street on the even hour. This staunch craft has been licensed for passengers, and will probably be loaded to the mud guards every trip. There is one young man in New York who will look around in the future before he drops into a seat in a crowded car on the Ninth-avenue express of the ele vated road. He was standing, the other morning, when the train mada a stop at Seventy-second street, re lates the Sun. Another man left his seat at that station. A young woman, who had also been standing and was nearest to the vacant seat, started to occupy it. The chap who had been standing next to her cut in ahead of her and dropped Into the place. The act was audacious. Just as the fellow got his newspaper unfolded, a passenger, who had nudged his way In so as to have room to maneuver, reached over and got a grip on the lapel of the chap's coat. He gave it one yank, and tho other passengers opened up space. The chap was lifted from his seat which he had grabbed and was slammed against the floor of tho car. Tho man who had brought about the sudden change in the situation lifted hls hat and, bowing with the grace of a courtier, beckoned to tha young woman to occupy the vacant seat. Then he assisted tho chap to hl3 feet, and said to him: "Sorry to make It so sud den." A good joke is told upon James Hamil ton Lewis. As was well known hese in Washington, flays the Washington Evst, while Lewis was In public life he Me played an unusual amount of information upon many subjects. As ex-Speaker Reed was known to say, "there, was nothing scientific, political or literary that Lewis did not know enough about to be abso lutely right or always wrong." In sci ence, in medicine. In his own profession of the law, literature and politics, to say nothing of the eciences of natural philosophy, classics, astronomy, etc., Lewis was constantly appealed to by members of the House. One day in the cloakroom, where a little lunch was served, Lewis and the late de ceased member, Dr. Stokes, of South Car olina, happened to be present. Tho doctor was a member from an interior district in the state and had been elected becauso of the universal esteem in which his pa tients held him for his high eminence as a physician. There were present Colonel Elliott, of South Carolina, who vouches for the truth of the joke; McClellan, of New York; Foss of Chicago, and De Vrees of California. Dr. Stokes and the others were taking malted milk; Lewis was invited to participate. The Colonel commenced to dilate upon the digestive qualities of malted milk. He learnedly started out upon all the elements of acids, lime and proportion of salts in the compound and the effect chemically it had upon the gastric juices. Dr. Stokes was a calm, quiet gentleman. To all of Lewis' essay and homily ho spoke not a word, except to Inject "of course," "indeed," "I dare say." Tho others stood about with manifest Inter est In the Western Congressman's talk and learned dissertation upon the physi cian's own science. All at once Lewis spied a medal dangling upon the watch chain worn by the doctor. He touched it with his fingers and remarked, "Doc tor, that's a very beautiful medal. Might I ask you was that given you for de portment (laughingly)?" It was the doctor's time. Every ono was Interested when he quietly eaid: "No, Colonel, I won this medal In a post-graduate course at a New York medical col lege, out of a class of 16G, for the best essay upon digestive qualities' of malted milk." And lo! there It was, written upon the medal. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS "I am going ud in the Adirondacks shoot ing with a party of automobilists." "Well, shoot all you can." Life. "Jlmpsum has invented one of the greatest gas-savers of the age." "Indeed? What is it?" "An oil lamp." Baltimore Xews. "She's so masculine, isn't she?" "Very. Why. she even fell down in a man-hole tho other day." Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Grandpa Willi, why do you study gram mar? Willie So I can laugh when people make mistakes. Detroit Free Press. "Ennui." said the Cynical Codger. "Is the po lite society name for laziness. It means 'doing nothing and too tired to stop.' "Baltimore Herald. Sirs. Haterson How are you getting along with your servants?" Mrs. Caterson First rate. They haven't complained about me for a week. Brooklyn Life. 'You want J30 for that old suit?" asked the second-hand , dealer; "why, it Is full of dust." "Yes; B"ut It Is coal dust." responded the thrifty housewife." Philadelphia Record. Sunday School Teacher Now, James, If you are good always you can go to heaven. I'm sure you want to go. don't you? James (doubtfully) Well, pop said last night If I'd be good for one week he'd take me to see the ootball game. Judge. Father (examining hl3 son's expense account at college) Young man. what do you mean by charging up half a dozen bottles of whisky to "wearing apparel during last term"? Son Oh, that's all right. I used that stuff for night caps. Town and Country. Reassuring Him. She had been shopping. and he was naturally disturbed. "I hope you didn't spend much money while you were down town today," he remarked. "Not a cent, except car fare. George,' she answered reassuringly. "I had everytnlnz cbartred"- Chicago Evening Post,