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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1902. Entered at the Postomce at Portland. Oregon, as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (postage prepaid, In advance) Dally, with Sunday, per month $ j" pally. Sunday excepted, per year I ""J Dally, with Sunday, per year Sunday, per year.... 2 00 The "WeltH- nr vr ISO The TVeeky. 3 months 60 To City Subscribers M gaily, per week, delivered. Sunday excpted.loc Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday lncluded.SOc POSTAGE RATES. United States. Canada and Mexico: JO to 14-page paper Jc 3 to 28-page paper 2c Foreign rates double. New or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should bo addressed Invaria bly "Editor Tho Oregonlan." not to the name of any Individual. Letters relating to adver tising, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." Eastern Business Office. 43. 44. 45. 4". 48. 9 Tribune building. New Tork City: M0-11-12 Tilbune building. Chicago: the S. C. 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Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrick. 806-012 Seventeenth street: Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co., Fifteenth and Lawrence street: A. Series, Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TODAY'S "WEATHER Occasional rain and slowly rising temperature, with east to south cast winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 45; minimum temperature, 37; pre cipitation, 0.00. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, XOV. G, 1002. George Turner knew perfectly well in 18DG that free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 was crazy economics and dishonest politics. Yet he sold the birthright of sound thought and upright action for the pottage that could be brought to him by a passing mania of Bryanism. Six years seems a long time when it stretches before us, but doubtless it seems short enough to Turner now, . when he reflects that in March his place in the Senate must be vacated to be filled by a Republican. With all his shrewdness of intellect and accomplish ments as a politician, he has made the fatal mistake of supposing that error xnay as well be espoused as the truth. The sequel serves to show him that no man can hope for any permanent hold on power through compliance with mis guided crazes of the hour. This same lesson applies to other states: The Bryan belt of 189G and 1898 is rapidly coming back to the Republican column, where it naturally belongs. Washing ton, Idaho. Nevada, Montana, Wyo ming, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Utah joined the Dem ocratic column then, and In Tuesday's election all but one or possibly two have swung back to their normal place. There is nothing in Democratic policies for the benefit of the great West. Its communities should set their faces toward the morning of honest money, fair tariffs. Pacific expansion, equal rights to labor and capital, special priv ileges to no combination of capital. They should send their men of force and character to the front; their turners and trimmers to the rear. Oregon is one of the very few states "vhich have not, In arranging the date of its state elections, fallen into line with the National practice which fixes the Presidential election for the first Tuesday in November. Original ly there was a general and widely vary ing practice in this respect, but one state at a time, through constitutional change, adopted the November election day. This change was proposed in Ore gon some fifteen years back, two State Legislatures being all but unanimously for it; but when the question came up to the people they rejected It by an over whelming vote. Nobody has ever been able to explain why. All the argu ment Is favorable to the November elec tion, including a very considerable .financial saving, but the fact remains that the people wouldn't have It. Un der our practice, members of Congress are elected a year and a half before they are required to appear at Washington, and the Governor and members of the Legislature seven months before the be ginning of their practical duties. No especial harm comes of this In ordinary times, but it is equally true that no good comes of It. The one pos sible advantage qf our early election is that, being the first to vote each two years, the Oregon returns get an amount of National attention, which gratifies our vanity and contributes to the general advertisement which many deem a mat ter of importance. On the other hand, a case might easily occuc In which we should be glad to withhold our vote until the latest possible date. In course of time the argument of convenience and economy will probably prevail and we shall fall In with the common prac tice and cease to be a "June state." However much one may deplore the fiasco which is very generally accepted as the most probable outcome of a spe cial session of the Legislature, it must be admitted that the reasons upon which that outcome Is predicted are far from creditable to the members of the Legislature. No candid person, we take it, will deny that if the Legislature would meet, enact the Centennial ap propriation, the Portland charter, the supplementary Initiative and referen dum statute, and possibly a "fiat sal ary" law, in a week, adjournand go home, the result would amply justify the expenditure of 510,000 or less that would be incurred. The benefit to Port land alone by the enactment of the new charter would be almost incalculable. In view of the fearful condition of cer- , tain roadways and bridges, and the practical paralysis of almost every de partment of the city government through lack of funds and the demoral ization naturally incident to a virtual Interregnum between systems. If any persons still cherish the ancient theory thatwhatever injures Portland -redounds to the benefit of the rest of the state, they are rare enough to be negligible. - Mr. Corbett's presentation of the bene fits that would accrue to the Centennial from prompt action at a special session are simply unanswejable. The special session, then. Is scotched, if not killed by the conviction of the Legislators that they cannot meet, do business that Is -"lful and go home, because they can- not refrain from all sorts of wrangles and delay and mischief-making general ly. This is far from flattering to the members themselves or to the state. Yet until they give evidence to the con trary, their estimate of themselves must stand and the special session be aban doned. Probably if assurance of prompt and creditable legislation could be had. Governor Geer would call the sesslort. Meanwhile, there is manifest a more favorable feeling toward the project. Whether it will assume such shape as will justify the call remains to be seen, and is not at all probable from anything that appears. THE RESULT IX CALIFORNIA. The confussd and anomalous result of the election In California is due pri marily to the disorganization of parties brought about by the labor troubles of the past two years. In a straight con test between Republicans and Demo crats on National Issues California is largely Republican, as was demon strated two years ago, when the per centage of votes cast for McKlnley as against Bryan was greater than In any other state In the Union. But since that election there have been two great strikes in San Francisco, with results unfavorable to the laboring element; and on the basis of the animosities en gendered by these contests there has grown up a strong labor party which In San Francisco has made alliance with the Democrats. It Is this combination that has pulled down the Republican majority In the state from approximately 40 000 to approximately 5000 and which in two or more Congres sional districts has overridden the Re publican vote. Personal considerations have, possibly, had something to do with the result; and If Governor Gage and his friends had really wished for party success, it Is likely that the Re publican vote would have been larger. The election of Pardee, even by a narrow margin, saves the state to the Republican column; but, practically, so far as the"" interests of California are concerned, it would have been better to have lost the Governorship and saved the Congressmen. From every point of view the defeat of Loud and Kahn is to be regretted. Both are men of abil ity, experience and public confidence. Both have at Washington the standing which comes from established connec tions; and it will be long before those who have been chosen to succeed them, no matter what their talents may be, can become so effectively Intrenched. It Is not to be expected that the fusion of Democracy and organized labor out of which this result has come will last long, for it rests upon nothing more substantial than a. campaign bargain. There is no natural and enduring basis for this affiliation, and the positive re sults attained In the campaign just ended are not important enough to ce ment the partnership as a mere ar rangement of political convenience. Furthermore, there Is an inherent weak ness and a tendency to pull apart in all such unnatural combinations. If a Na tional election were to be held tomor row, it is probable that the fusion which wrought such havoc on Tuesday would melt away and that the Republican ticket would get Its usual handsome vote. The Legislature to meet at Sacra mento in January will be Republican a fact of special significance, since there will be a United States Senator to elect. Perkins, the retiring Senator, is a can didate for re-election, and has at this time more positive strength than any one of several rivals. Governor Gage, who might have been a formidable rival, is practically removed from serious con sideration by the result of Tuesday's voting, which will be accepted by the public as assurance that he practically abandoned the party in the recent struggle. They have no use In Califor nia for "soreheads" who, from personal or factional disappointment, sulk in their tents, and Mr. Gage is not likely to be a factor in the Senatorial elec tion. XEEDLESS ALARM. The London Saturday Review In a recent article Insists that the United States is Great Britain's most formid able, most logical and terrible enemy. Its argument is -that It is a settled ob ject with the United States to include Canada, from which It Is separated only by a land frontier of great extent and with whom it shares the" control of the water boundary of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence. The Review says that there Is acute territorial and com mercial rivalry between Great Britain and the United States, which always results in an ultimate trial by force, and concludes this alarmist article by saying that "We want the British Empire ulti mately to get the better of the United States: the Americans naturally wish the reverse." The Saturday Review Is a London journal of established reputation for high ability and Intelligence, and it is remarkable that it should publish this article, which Is utterly without war rant in present events or future pros pects. There have been times in the his tory of this country when America would have been glad to annex and ab sorb Canada. We made a stout fight for Canada under the walls of Quebec when Montgomery fell; we should have obtained Canada under the treaty of Paris of 1783 had it not been for the cold-blooded jealousy of France and Spain, for Lord Shelburne told Franklin that Great Britain was willing to yield Canada and the Bermudas but France foiled our efforts. We should have been glad to occupy Canada In 1814, but our land forces were badly led arid accom plished nothing. If the Canadian In surrection of 1S37 had been successful, it is possible that its government might have asked for annexation to the United States, even- as Texas did on her suc cessful revolt from Mexico. But Great Britain put out the flame of insurrec tion in Canada as easily as a man ex tinguishes a blazing match with his foot. The- grant of home rule from Great Britain made Canada fairly content. The United States granted Canada a reciprocity treaty In 1854 for twelve years. This treaty would have been re newed in 1SGG had "it not been for the bad blood between the countries bred by the Civil War. At the close of that war Charles Sumner favored the" forci ble annexation of Canada, but Presi dent Grant treated the suggestion with deserved contempt. From the organiza tion of the Dominion of Canada In 1867 and since the treaty of Washington In 1871 there has been not the slightest desire on the part of the United States to extend its flag over Canada. Nothing but peaceable, voluntary annexation would have been tolerated, and with the organization of the federation of the Dominion of Canada the old-time an nexation faction dlsanneared from Ca- nadian politics. The Canadians ceased to regard annexation as their inevitable destiny. They saw that their enormous territory would eventually obtain and support a very large population; that with the full development of their agri cultural and mineral wealth, of their timber and fisheries, that the Dominion would become a very rich colqny. Can ada knows, too, that with the 'revolu tion in the arms and tactics of modern warfare she is perfectly able to defend herself from foreign Invasion or from oppression by the home government. Canada's ultimate destiny Is Inde pendence. She Is today loyal to Great Britain, but some day, hvhen she has become more populous, she will ask for and obtain from Great Britain the grant of complete Independence. Canada knows that she never had anything to fear from the United States since 1870, for we did not want her except on her own application with the approval of England, and since the Canadians have become .attached to their own system of government they have not wanted us. There Is not the most remote chance of any quarrel between Great Britaim and the United States, and from this It follows that we are in no danger of seek ing to invade Canada. The Saturday Review assumes that the United States aims to absorb Canada, by force if need be, because the two countries are In geographical touch. We are In geo graphical touch with Mexico, -a richer prize than Canada and ono more easily won, and yet Mexico Is in no danger of annexation and absorption by the United States. There is no possible ad justment of the commercial rivalries of the United States and Great Britain by war. That stupid mode of adjustment was worthy of the eighteenth century's deadly wrestle between France and England for the supremacy of North America and India, but under the pres "ent conditions of warfare on land and sea war between two great powers like the United States and Great Britain would mean mutual monetary exhaus tion and commercial paralysis, with a debt that it would iake a century of peace to liquidate. Commercial rival ries between two great nations will never again be settled by war, for war has become too expensive and too de structive. The British alarmist seems to belong to the same class of minds that are always plagued by the apprehension of a terrible religious war in America between Protestants and Catholics. These fearful folk are men born out of their time, because clean behind It. We don't want Canada and Canada doesn't want us, and we are In no danger of war with Great Britain. STROXGER THAN HIS PARTY. The lesson of the election is that Pres ident Roosevelt is not only the leader of his party, but that he is stronger than his party. Democratic leaders like United States Senator Jones confess thia when they say, "The general belief In the rectitude, sincerity and courage of President Roosevelt Is aiding the Re publican's much more than they will ever know." But for this impressive personality of President Roosevelt, Odell certainly would not have been re-elected Governor of New York and the Republicans would have lost control of the House of Representatives. So re laxed has the grip of the Republican party upon the country become that it is doubtful If any of Its leaders save Roosevelt could lead it to sure vlctory In 1904. It Is easy to attribute the vic tory of Tuesday to business prosperity, but under equally favorable industrial conditions we were beaten in the off year of 1882, just twenty years ago. In 1SS0. as in 1900, the Republicans swept the country. The President then elect ed was shot in 1881. and Vice-President Arthur succeeded Garfield in September, even as Vice-President Roosevelt suc ceeded the murdered McKlnley. The November state elections of 1881, like those of November, 1901, showed little change. The business prosperity of the coun try showed no decline in 1SS2, and for tils prosperity the Republican party claimed and obtained large credit In spite of this prosperity, the elections of 18S2 went against the Republicans. I The House elected In 1880 had a Re publican majority of twenty; that elect ed in 1882 had a Democratic plurality of seventy-eight. Grover Cleveland was elected Governor of New York by nearly 200.000 plurality, a result largely due to the bitter factional quarrel between the Blaine and anti-Blalne Republicans. This New York feud did not explain the fact that the Democrats carried Ohio or that General 'Butler was elected Gov ernor of Massachusetts over the Re publican candidate. Business prosperity did not give the Republicans victory In 1882, and business prosperity would not save them today If Roosevelt were not today the leader of his party and because of his personality stronger than his party. President Arthur in 1882 was not the leader of his party; he was heir to a fierce party feud that it was im possible to quiet, and because he was not and could not have been the inspir ing leader of his party, the Republicans were severely defeated in New York, Ohio and Massachusetts, lost the lower House of Congress to the Democrats, and two years later were defeated In the Presidential campaign of 1884. There has been a rise in prices bring ing increased cost of living; there has been the prolonged coal strike, and when we add to this the fact that the Republican party has been long enough In power since 1897 to wear out its wel come, it is remarkable that the Democ racy did not inflict upon it in November, 1902, a defeat as severe as that suffered in November, 1882. The chief, If not the only, reason we escaped defeat was the universal popular confidence felt In President Roosevelt and the strong desire to hold up his hands within and without Congress. There was a time when but for the prompt appeal and Intervention of President Roosevelt the great strike would have proceeded to disastrous conclusion. For such a ter mination the Republican party would lutve been arraigned by Democratic demagogues; the Republican President would have been denounced as utterly without sympathy for the wageworkers of the country. This Illogical and un just Indictment would have been sue cessfuK The President with manly frankness trusted the people; took them Into his confidence against the warnings of pro fessional politicians, and he has suc- ceefled in saving himself and his party when the ordinary political leaders would have wrecked the whole outfit. Governor Odell, who was in full sympa thy with the President's views, owes his re-electlcn to thi3 fact. The pluto cratlc. Republicans In New York City in large numbers either voted for Coler or did not vote at all, and Odell was saved from defeat by the farmers, the mechanics and wageworkers of the country counties of the Empire .State. Odell was helped something by the fact that David B. Hill, whose puppet Coler would have been as Governor, Is hope-, lessly distrusted by such Independent Democratic papers as the New York Post and the Brooklyn Eagle. A con siderable portion of the Independent Democratic vote was given to Odell be cause of the odiousness of Hill. The popular determination to "stand by the President" has won the election. By his singular mixture of political shrewd ness and moral courage the President 'has firmly Intrenched himself in the hearts of the people. He has succeed ed, as Jackson and Lincoln succeeded, byjils union of simplicity of purpose and manner to courage In action. It Is easy to say that a President with a strict s-jnse of official dignity would not have stooped from It eo far as un officially to Interfere in the settlement of the strike, but the President "stooped to conquer." The first fruit of his con quest' is the victory of Tuesday, and Its ultimate laurels he will win and wear in 1904. The arrest of a neatly dressed widow of refinement at Denver on the charge of repeating is not surprising. She had voted twice and was casting her third ballot when arrested. She admitted her guilt, saying that her motive was to make some extra money. In time the. woman voter will be as corrupt as the man voter, and the only effect of woman suffrage will be to duplicate the mascu line suffrage. Women whose circle of life is ruled by decent men will, dupli cate the votes of these decent men, and. women whose life i9 ruled by Indecent men will duplicate the votes of inde cent men. It will be harder probably to get the best women to the polls than it will te to get the worst to vote, and so socjety will get no benefit from this enlargement of the suffrage, but will rather -suffer injury. On the whole, the test of experience in Colorado shows that woman suffrage Is politically in expedient. It will do the men no good and promises to do the women no good; It Is dangerously likely to do them much harm. Practical politics in Colorado has already created a class of female lob byists, and now we have the female re peater and A'ote-selier. In the long run whatever tends to masculinize a woman tends to demoralize her. The regular Army Is to be gradually reduced from 66,497, its strength since June 1, to 59,865 men. No discharges are to be made, but recruiting will be re laxed and vacancies occurring in the ranks will not be filled. The cavalry hereafter will consist of fifteen regi ments, with a total strength of 12,240 men; each troop will have 65 men in stead of 75. as at present. The total in fantry hereafter will be 24,480 in thirty' regiments, with but 5 men to a company, Instead of 80, as formerly. No regiments disappear bodily from the service, and the Army could be ex panded next week by the authority of the President and the War Department If a sudden emergency demanded it, for under the act of February, 1901, the Army can be increased to 88,000 men, exclusive of native troops in the Philip pines. The off-year elections of 1890 fore shadowed the Democratic victory In the Presidential battle of 1892, even as the off-year elections of 1894 indicated the probable result of the Presidential cam paign of 1896. In the offsyear of 1898. while the Republican majority in the House was reduced to 13, nevertheless the result accurately foreshadowed vic tory for McKlnley In 1900. So today the swing of the off-year elections is with the Republicans and foreshadows vic tory for 1904. Roosevelt is relatively not as strong in New York and Massachu setts as he is in the West. The West forced his nomination for Vice-Presi dent in 1900; the West will nominate him for President and will elect him in 1904. The public Is likely to know more about coal mining coal miners and coal operators from the investigation now going on than it ever knew before or could know under any other circum stances. Assertion and denial on the part of those interested are not very reliable as a basis of knowledge. The findings of the Coal Commission will consider the claims of opposing inter ests, and as far as human judgment impartially exercised is able to decide, will give the public the facts in the case. The two sides that proverbially belong to every question will no doubt be found, and between these will lie the basis of settlement. The New York Sun several days be fore the election announced the result of' the private Republican poll of the prospective, vote of the state as showing 8500 plurality for Governor Odell. The New York World bfefore election an nounced that Its canvass indicated Odell's re-election by only 10,000 plural ity. The Brooklyn Eagle, unfriendly to Coler, predicted for Coler a plurality of 23,000 in Kings County. The Tammany leader, Charles F. Murphy, the night before election predicted that Coler would have in Greater New York plurality of 120,000. These figures were remarkably verified by the election re turns. The per capita expense of CO cents a day for the Inmates of the 1 isane Asy lum is low enough, considering the In creased cost of all food supplies, and especially of meat, within the past year or two. It may be hoped in human ity's name that the supply end of the bill It not unduly pinched In order that the salary end may be maintained and still allow the aggregate to make a showing for economy for political rea sons. There Is no reason to suspect that this may be the case-, beyond a knowl edge of the traits Inherent In human nature and the facte that dominate poll tlca President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, of the University of California, expressed the opinion before election that the country would certainly be swept by the Democrats were it not for the per sonality of President Roosevelt. He found in Nebraska, on his way to Wash ington, that only personal admiration for the President was preventing thou sands of Republicans from voting the Democratic ticket. The Prussian government has recent ly bought of private owners six rail ways having a total length of 550 miles and a capital of $20,000,000. The gov ernment paid for them, about the mar ket value of their stocks. . Only two railroads of any importance are left in Prussia outside of state ownership and operation the Dortmund-Gronau and Lubeck-Buchen lines. SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS S1IH WlmcltinK the Columbia. Astoria Arftorian. The TacOma Ledger says: It would not be a surprising circumstance If Harrlman were to try to Increase the volume of Ori ental commerce through Portland. How ever, the rumor that he will do this by means of steamers of the tonnage of the Hill line 13 nonsense. .Such steamers could no more get to Portland than they could to Denver. Forest Preservation Appreciated. Elgin Recorder. The question of water supply is fast be coming a serious one to many ranchers In the eastern portion of the state; but once let our timber areas around' the sources of our streams be denuded and then they will clamor more loudly than ever, for water. The agricultural portion of our population should adopt some immediate plan to let Congress know that, they ap preciate the efforts being made for the preservation of our forests. How Timber Land Is Goins. Medford Southern Oregonlan. The steady quest for timber land does not cease. People come here from the East for the single purpose of taking tim ber claim's. As an instance, two tourist cars loaded with passengers, distinct par ties, one with 27 from Michigan, the other 22 from St. Paul, were switched off from an overland train at Roseburg the other night. They came all that distance, at all that expense, simply to get timber claims. And they will have to return about four months hence to make proof on their claims. Our home people do riot realize the chances that are steadily slipping from them. It will not be long till all available timber will have been taken. Decidedly Disrespectful. Tillamook Headlight. Anyway, who cares whether Spud Gear Hughes approves or disapproves of the new dredge built by the Port of Portland Commission? Because Hughes "could not be the whole "thing and because his brother Commissioners saw he had the "b.g head," it was necessary, so as to make 'a success of the drddge, to Ignore the Commissioner who thought he knew it all, and the other members of the board were Ignoramuses, and should do exactly as Hughes told them. The next Legisla ture will bo failing In Its duty If it does not drive the spud gear Into Hughes and remove him from the commission, for he is no longer useful nor ornamental on the board. Must Not Delay Irrigation Worlc. Salem Statesman. Portland Is waking up to the import ance of securing the early action of the Government and state In undertaking the irrigation of the arid lands in this state. It is a splendid idea. The way to get things these days is to go for them and get them. There is no good reason for delay, but there might be a great deal of It If the officials at Washington thought there was little Interest In Irrigation In Oregon. While this is the Webfoot state, there are millions of acres of land In the eastern and southeastern section of it which are now desert and almost without value, or entirely so, but which will be come rich and great with tho aid of Irri gation, and which will pour immense wealth into the channels of commerce for all time, once they are reclaimed. Columbia River No Good. Astoria Astorlan. The Telegram Is In high glee over the announcement that Harrlman Is to run four great steamships out of this harbor, and sees the commercial supremacy of Portland coming with a 35-foot channel to the sea. The talk of a channel of this depth, while showing proper enthusiasm. Is nonsense. The people of Portland have snent nearly $2,000,000 on the river below that city, and in scores of places there la less than 21 feet depth at low water. How ever much Portland may desire and work for a dqep channel, improvements are necessarily of a temporary nature. While Portland harbor will accommodate tho ordinary grain ships of today. It is inade quate for the requirements of Harrlman's big steamships. Vesseis of this class will take their cargoes at Astoria, where there is ample depth. Likelihood of Timber Frauds. Albany Democrat. In Oregon there has been a great deal of Interest in the ruling providing for the holding, up of all timber claims the titles of which have not been perfected. This has not been received very well, and yet, a.s a matter of fac. there is occasion Tor the action, for undoubtedly for two or three years there have been frauds In many parts of the state. Two or three years ago there was a suit in Albany at leastin Indicating that a good many men had been hired by a company to perfect the title toj certain claims, justified by certain deeds which followed when the final receipts had been filed. There is plenty of circumstantial evidence now to indicate the same kind of business in other parts of the state. The Democrat predicts that within a few years nearly all the timber land of the Cascade Range will be owned by a very few men or syn dicates, the usual trust result. Doont for the Irrljrntlon Congress. The Dalles Times-Mountaineer. The tew Oregonians who attended the recent meeting of the National Irrigation Congress held in Colorado came home enthusiastic advocates of reclaiming the arid wastes by use of water, and at once went to work Interesting the people of this state In irrigation. As a result an Irrigation congress has been called to meet in Portland on November 18 and 19, to which everybody Interested in the sub ject will be welcome. It Is well Oregon Is folng to take the lead in this matter, for Eastern Oregon especially Is deeply con cerned In the reclamation of Its so-called desert lands, of which there are thousands of acres that will never be reclaimed ex cept through Government aid, and this can be secured only by conccrteu action. Let Eastern Oregon send an enthusiastic delegation to this Congress, men who are alive to the needs of the country, and who will stir up the dry bones with an endeavor to get recognition from the Na tional Government for their state. Prompt and Intelligent action by this Congress will aid our delegation in Washington to get Oregon set apart as an Irrigation dis trict In accordance with the law passed by the last Congress. To Protect the Lands. Spokane Chronicle. Reasons are not lacking for the belief that the Interior Department has good cause for calling a sudden halt upon the s-elzure of timber lands In Oregon; and in Idaho and Washington, too, closer Inspec tion might not be amiss. The law Is sim ple enough; and the man or woman who cannot conform to It need not complain when claims are forfeited. In this part of the country there has been a tendency to easy perjury which may yet bring trouble to some of the of fenders. Every entryman is required to accompany his application with a sworn statement which says: "That I do not ap ply to purchase the land above described on speculation, but In good faith to ap propriate it to my own exclusive use and' benefit, and that I have not, directly or Indirectly, made any agreement or con tract, in any way or manner, with any person or persons whomsoever, by which the title I may acquire from the Govern ment of the United States may inure in whole or in part to the benefit of any person except myself." Yet how many of those who have taken this oath knew at the time that they had already made an agreement, if not indeed a contract, for the sale of the land? , The Government is not moving any too aoon. If timber lands are worth acquiring they are also worth preserving from dis honest raids. APPENDICITIS. New York Herald. Sir Frederick Treves in a recent medical lecture in Liverpool Is reported to have said that peritonitis is now looked upon as a thing to be encouraged in cases of appendicitis. This statement. In connec tion with his operation upon King Ed ward VII. carries with it considerable sig nificance, but it true in part only. It must be understood that there are two well-recognized forms of this inflamma tionone protective and the other de structivedepending upon the presence or absence of septic infection. In the majority of cases of appendicitis, when the appendix lo merely Inflamed or ulcerated, nature walls in the affected parts by an effusion of plastic material which limits the process and forms the boundary of the future abscess. This is what occurred to King Edward, and to fortunate recovery from a simple Incision Into a circumscribed suppurating cavity That It is not always safe to trust to such chances is evident enough In those in stances in which the perforation of the appendix is attended with malignant and J infectious peritonitis from the start and before there is time for the formation of protective adhesion of adjoining tissues. These are the cases which demand im mediate operation to save life, and are rightly designated by surgeons as "fulmi nant" in character. In the commencement of an acute at tack of appendicitis there is tno way of guaranteeing against a sudden fatal turn In the ailment, and hence the majority of surgeons are In favor of early oper ative Interference In all cases. The Eng lish surgeons are. however, more conserv tive, thus taking greater risks than the American practitioners. Fortunately for tho King, he was safe in coming under tho British rule of practice, but the re sult might .have been otherwise if equal chances had been taken with a primary septic Infection of the abdominal cavity. This circumstance should not. however, be taken to prove the right of the oper ator to make absolute rules for all cases of appendicitis, however Induced. It is safe to say that American surgeons will not agree with Sir Frederick in thia par ticular, their large experience with the disease commanding proportionate re spect. Orepron Aprnlnst the World. Oregon City Enterprise. The past 20 years have been a" great de velopment period for Oregon, Washington and California, whereby primitive con ditions have been eliminated by the build ing of cities and towns; valleys and plains have yielded to the energy and activity of the systematic farmer, frultraiser. stockgrowcr and lumber manufacturer; transportation facilities and convenient markets have given us a widespread field for consumption of our products; schools, both public and state, have grown to be recognized ns equal with those of the East; society is of the best, and there re mains no condition lacking to put us on a par with older and better developed states. This, today, is the high ground of Ore gon's advantages, which Is giving to us a permanent citizenship In the contented homes that dot the land In every direc tion. There Is ho longer a doubtful fea ture to the newcomer in making his per manent home In Oregon. Here he finds a faithful reflex of all the advanced condi tions In the East, with the addition of an ideal climate and" the grand future pros pects of living in the most enlightened, progressive and opportune field of activ ity and progress In the United States. Destiny i3 marking out a grand future for the present boys and girls who. witb commendable pride, can say they are na tive Oregonians or Oregonians by adop tion. A Miners' Victory. London Dally Telegraph. There can be no doubt that organized labor In America has won a victory of a kind to which It ha3 been' Uttlo accus tomed, and upon a field by no means ex ceptionally promising. The polyglot com position of the workers on the anthracite fields, for instance, was much against their chances. They were opposed to an alliance of immensely powerful interests Insisting upon Individual dealing between the syndicates and their hands, and re pudiating in the case of labor the prin ciple of combination on which the whole colossal organization of American capital is now based. The miners' association. In the sequel, has not been expressly "recognized" by the coal and railway owners, but, by securing the reference of all claims respecting hours and wages to a commission of arbitration, American trades unionism has achieved precisely what the best-advised trades unionism in this country has successfully set itself to secure. The precedent Is significant and may be far-reaching, for It suggests pret ty unmistakably that the spread of labor organization 'across the Atlantic may prove a more rapid and powerful check upon the trusts than either tariff reform or Federal amendment. Good Gronnd for Tariff Reform. Washington Post. Many of the schedules of the Dlngley law are obsolete and need revising, be causo one great feature of the Dlngley act. reciprocity, has not been carried into effect. All the schedules which Mr. Ding ley said were purposely made too high In order to afford room for reduction by reciprocity are still too high. While the -Post does not approve of tariff legislation by treaties, it Is in favor of reciprocity by act or acts of Congress. And It is absurd to talk of "standing pat" on schedules that were put at an excessive height with the understanding that. In a few months, they would be let down. That Is not defending protection, what ever else Jt may be. If free trade were not dead beyond possible resurrection, the talk of the standpatters would be the kind of tonic to restore it to pernicious activity. The President's Victory. London Times. In the most quiet and unobtrusive man ner President Roosevelt has done a very big thing and an entirely new thing. We are witnessing not merely the ending of a coal strike, but the definite entry" of a powerful government upon a novel sphere of operation. Mr. Roosevelt has not taken up this task as an amateur mediator. He has not entered upon it without count ing the cost, or without the support of convictions and ideas far outrunning the ostensible subject-matter of his action. His personal reputation and prestige are enormously enhanced by the Immediate public service he has rendered. They will be immeasurably enhanced when . the American people grasp, as they rapidly will, the far larger issues involved In his striking departure from precedent. An Appreciative Word. Klamath Falls Republican. The Oregonlan deserves the gratitude of this country for Its efforts to make known our resources and possibilities. Word Weariness. (The Washington Star.) Over kopjes I have wandered. In my mind; Iir jinrickshas I've meandered And reclined: For whene'er I light my taper And sit down to read the paper Some confusing foreign caper Do I find. The names of these musicians Drive me wild. Though my natural disposition's Rather mild. And now the news surprising Of the Doukhobors' uprising Keeps me groping and surmising Like a child. These foreign names have shattered My content: My busy brain is battered. Bruised and bent. Ap"art I scarce can tell 'em; Can't pronounce nor even spell 'cm. And I wish that I could sell 'em For a cent. " - X0TE AND COMMENT. Job's comforter has now got his cue. The only" welcome press agent a tailor. A brilliant color schemer-elevating the negro. William R. Hearst is now as big a man as Ella Wheeler Wilcox. It has been finally decided that if was Eve who first raised Cain. Every dog has his da'y: the infant has the small hours of the night. The New York American .will now ab sorb the Congressional Record. The man who worships woman (lovely woman!) has frequently to revise his .con- fession of faith. The woman in Colorado that was found to have voted three times apparently be lieves that women have equal rights with men. Chicago women are using dew baths for the complexion, and Oregon women are getting the same results by going shop ping. John Alexander Napoleon Zebcdee Dowie says all reporters are "otlcklt" students. This would Imply that they were on fly papers. The New York Journal has advanced one step further and decided that love Is the true remedy for divorce. This Is strange; it Is usually given no good reason for it. A boy in Denver eloped with his sweet heart, and for contingencies took two rifles, three revolvers and 500 rounds of ammunition. And In spite of It all hli mother-in-law got him. An Englishman has stigmatized the pro fessors of Chicago University as "slangy freaks" and the policemen as "porcine sluggards." Who says our British cous ins cannot appreciate the joke of Amer ica? A manufacturer not 100 miles from our citv tells a good joke upon himself, saya the Philadelphia Ledger. He Is credited with being extremely disagreeable to hfcj emploves. A man just arrived In thl country called on him one day to ask for, work. 1 "Have you a recommendation of char-J acter?" he asked the stranger. "No," he replied, "but I have friends ir ,u ..nior-.-. T..Vir will irlvo mft one." Putting his bundle on the floor, he lettl In the course of half an hour he re- turned, took up his bundle and was leav ing the office without a word. "Did you get your character?" asked the manufacturer. I The man. without halting a moment or , . j.i. . ltn. Vtnf T raisins: nis eyes, sum; aw, husk;, got thine." . If one will stand on the corner of Third and Washington for half an hour between 4:30 and 5 o'clock In the afternoon he may live for a little In a new and delightful world. During these short minutes folk from all the city pass by carrying In the eyes and on their Hps the experiences of the. day. Here goes the man whose kindling face Is the memoir of an achieve ment; jQgglng along In his wake trudges the lad whose twinkling eyes tell of some urchin prank. Sweeping forth, like a Quepn before her court, proceeds a fair woman with starry eye3 and flushing mouth, ana at sight of. her beauty thf? laggard yoUih swings into a manly gait and his fnceyn turn 'nets Into the mold of an honest dream. Beggar and prince, strong and weak display the standard of their purpose?. To watch them Is to real ize that the multitude streams along guided by no twinkling faith; high on the horizon of each rises an ideal, the pole of keen and pleasant desire. One of the most remarkable features about this city is the regularity with which people go to bed at 10:30. Any night of the week the late passenger on up-town streets may look in vain for a sign of life In the dark houses, and tho lonely car rushing through the mist seems hurrying off to rest. The Easterner and the Callfornlan cannot understand this attitude towards the lovely hours of even ing. He avers that life is best worth liv ing after 10 o'clock. Perhaps there is something In this statement. The wooer would not have to plunge Into his over coat at 10:10 and seek the club for re creation till sleepy time. The young fel low who has taken his best girl to the theater would not have to worry about losing the young woman's latch key- and the man whose slow tongue never says the things he has been aching to utter would not have to spend the time before midnight In expostulating addresses to himself, because just when he found tho phrases he desired the fair girl looked at the clock with a slight flutter of weary eyelids. On the other hand, what could speak better for the domesticity of Port land? The business man comes home and reads his paper and writes a letter or so; talks with his wife about the new cook and then goes contentedly to bed. The wife and mother, who has been excel lently employed all day over her house hold duties, finds no distracting element of vivacity and revelry to draw her mind from her proper sphere; the young woman gets her beauty sleep and waits for the man who can tell her all about himself and his salary before 10:15 P. M. Truly, this is the best way of living. Avaunt! cozy suppers after the theater, confidential chats and enlivening parties. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS In a Restaurant. He Will you have a little lobster? She Oh. John, this Is so sudden! Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Mrs. Youngwcd And what are these? Deal erSalt mackerel, mum! Mrs. Y. Are they fresh? Chicago Dally News. His Mother Get up. Tommy: you know tho early bird catches tho worm. Tommy Well. I ain't going fishing today. Detroit Free Press. Friend But If there's no hope of saving him, doctor what are you going to perform the operation for? Docter-?10O. Town and Coun try. jjIn matters of fashion womn follow each other like a flo?k of sheep. She Just so; and men follow each other like women. Brooklyn Life. "Yaas." said Cholly Nuritch. "it's all very nice to have plenty of money, and not have to work, don'tcherknow, but I don't find much to occupy my mind." "But. fortunately." re plied Mlrs Peppery, "you don't need much." Philadelphia Press. Molly I was so mad at the party Inst night! Kate Greene had on a dress exactly like mine. Polly Yes, but how It must have disgusted her to see you with a dress like hers! That ought to make you happy, I should think. Boston Transcript. "The new railroad has been a great blessing to us." says a rural exchange. "In les3 than six weeks we got enough damages out of it to build a town hall and grade the cemetery. A few more enterprises of this kind, and our town will rise to heights undreamed of in the history of new settlements!" Atlanta Consti tution. "I don't know what there is about betting on horse races that should be so deleterious to health." said young Mrs. Torklns. pensively. "I never heard of such a thing," answered the visitor. "Neither did I until I heard Charley talking about It. Every time he makes a bet he comes home and says there Is something wrong with his system." Washington Star.