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THE MOENING OREGONLAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1902. Entered at the Postorflee at Portland, Oregon, is tecond-claas matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (pottage prepaid. In advance) - ai!y. with Sunday, per month g Dally. Sunday excepted, per year J J I'ally. with Sunday,- per year Sunday, per year i-JS Thfc Weekly, per year 1 9r Ti-c Wceky Z months 00 To City Subscribers . . ,,. Daily, per week, delirrrcd. Sunday ecPted,2rJ ! Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday Includel.zue POSTAGE RATES. United States. Canada and Mexico: JO to 14-page paper I J4 to 28-page paper... zc Foreign rates double. News cr discussion Intended fcr publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan." not to the name of any individual. Letters relating to adver tising, subscriptions or to any business matter ihould be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." The Oregonlan does not buy poems or stories from individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to it without solici tation. No stamps should be Inclosed for this purpose. Western Business Office. 43. 44. 45. 4T. 48. 49 Tribune building. Nets Tork City: 010-11-12 Tilbune building. Chicago: the S. C Beckwlth Special Agency. Eastern representative. For sale In San Franc! I. E. Iee. Pal fcce Hotel news stand: Goldsmith Bros.. 230 Sutter street; F. W. Pitts, 1003 Market street: 3. K. Cooper Co.. 740 Market street, near the Palace Hotel: Foster & Orear. Ferry news etand; Frank Ecott. SO Ellis street, and Jf. Wheatley. S13 Mission street. For tale In Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner. 53 South Spring street, and Oliver & Haines. 805 South Spring street. For sale In Kansas City. Mo., by T.'taecker Cigar Co.. Ninth and Walnut streets. For ealo In Chicago by the P. O. News Co.. 817 Dearborn street, and Charles MacDonald. 63 Washington street. For sale in Omaha by Barkalow Bros., 1612 Farnam street; Megeath Stationery Co.. 1S0S Farnam street. For sale in Bait Lake by the Salt Lake News Co.. 77 West Second South street For sale in Minneapolis by R. G. Hearsey & Co.. 24 Third street South. For sale In "Washington. D. C, by the Ebbelt House news 6tand. For sale In Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck, 000-912 Seventeenth street: Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co.. Fifteenth and Lawrence street: A. Series, Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TODAY'S WEATHER Showers, with south erly winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 55; minimum temperature, 4G; pre clpltatlon. 0.32 inch. PORTLAND, SATURDAY, XOV. 15. 'The Oregonlan will cheerfully Join In any mo-cement of promise looking toward improved service, higher taxes and lower rates for Oregon and Wash ington railroads. Its files attest the un compromising warfare it has unremlt tlngly maintained against railroad abuses and railroad predation, railroad Inaction and railroad aggression, what ever and whoever the offender might be, and the best proof of it Is In the fact that railroads themselves are in a per petual state of complaint at the attacks In these columns. But for all that we are unable to follow the curioUs process of reasoning by which Governor Mc Bride and his supporters reach the con elusion that erroneous assessments of railroad properties can only be reached by a Railroad Commislon. Here Is he amiable and straightforward bpoKes- xuan-Revlew, of Spokane, showing that while the Baltimore & Ohio is assessed at $20,500 a. mile in Indiana, the North ern Pacific, Union Pacific and Great Northern are assessed at only 56000 a mile in Washington. The comparison is obviously unfair; but suppose It is lair. Then what to do? Why, raise the assessment. This can be done either under the present system or by putting corporations of this general character under a State Board of Taxation or Equalization. That is the way they have gone to work in other states. It Is no proper province of a Ballroad Commission to assess railroads or any other properties. Our political system provides for the election of other off! cers to whom assessment and taxation belong. A Railroad Commission io either an advisory and administrative body, designed to adjust grievances and Improve traffic conditions, or else it is a mere machine at the disposal of ambl tious politicians. It Is to be feared that Representative Babcock is not the most admirably equipped of candidates for the Speaker ship; but neither Is Cannon nor Dalzell Not one of these three men would com pare with Blaine, Kesd or Carlisle. But the candidacy of Mr. Babcock Id principally to be regretted, not upon this ground, but because of the discredit his defeat would seem to cast upon the cause of tariff reform with which he has been prominently and hon orably identified. The Speakership, it IS well to remember. Is to him -with the most votes. Not the best parliamentar ian or the soundest thinker or the ables! executive lands this prize, but the bes rustler. The popular mind, however, Will not thus discriminate. Cannon's dc. feat would be ascribed to his hostility to certain appropriations, for example; Llttlefield's to his anti-corporation activ ity, and so on. The popular view of Babcock's failure would be an aspersion on tariff reform, and that would be dis agreeable, if "not mischievous. What should be done, of course. Is to get back toward the business-like rule of Reed and away from the good-fellow-Ehlp regime of "Henderson. In the evo lution of the Speakership we may have reached a critical stage, and what Is most needed and expected of the House Id action. We are used to guff and dig nity and bombast and delay in the Sen ate, but of the House the country will continue to hope something better. The erlormous volume to which the Nation's business has grown stands more in peril from delay and cowardice than from lack of dignity of the Tillman and Du bois order. Altogether, though Mr. Bab cock's case seems like a forlorn hope, it is to be prayed for with pious zeal. The election of so pronounced a tariff reformer w6uld give another delightful Jolt to the deluded creatures who had him ousted from the chairmanship of the Congressional Convnlttee because of his tariff views. It is gravely to be doubted whether the Anthracite Commission cart enjoin or even urge the recognition of the min ers' union upon the operators. Ameri can publfc opinio would shrink before bo palpable an invasion of private rights. AH the conditions of labor In the mines can be adjudicated without reference to the union, and such a course would probably save the miners some trouble as well as the operators. What recog nition the mines &111 give the unions is strictly their own business, and need not affect the settlement of the issues in volved. Yet it Is perfectly clear that business prudence as well as social jus tice condemns the determination of the operators not to recognize the union. Experience has shown that It pays em ployers to treat with the organizations of their workmen. They get a good deal in the way of uniformity and definite unflerstandiegs, and they are spared a measure of- discipline and order which the unions take upon themselves. All this is nothing-, however, to the single consideration of cheerfulness and con tent in the workshop. They are but blind leaders of the blind who fancy- that they have won a great victory for their owners when they are able to send few hundred laboring men back to their tasks cringing like a whipped cur, with hope crushed in their bosom and resent ment smoldering for outbreak at the first opportunity. Organized labor in the United. States, high and low, rests? its hope for justice on its organizations and their recognition. Maybe this is .all wrong, foolish, damaging even to the men themselves. But that is their be lief. And by that belief and its treat ment their course will be guided. With recognition they will go cheerily about their tasks, for effective and profitable labor to them and their masters alike. "Without It they will be sullen and ready to throw down their tools at the first excuse. It would be interesting to know what men like Baer and Truesdale find In the history of American industry for a generation to teach them that the or ganization of labor as a tendency can at this late day be halted and turned back. TRUST COMPANIES AND NATIONAL BANKS. In an article contributed to the No ember Review of Reviews, Mr. Charles A. Cbnant, of the Morton Trust Com pany, New York, tells of the extraordi nary growth of the trust companies of the country in the past ten years, and speaks of the tendency of trust com panies and the National banks to trench upon each other. Since 1S91 the num ber of trust companies in the United States has increased from 171 to 417, their capital has advanced from a little more than J79.000.000 to nearly S180.000.- 000, and their individual deposits show a gain from $355,330,000 to $1,525,587,000. Of this Increase of deposits nearly $1,000,000,000 has been in the past five years, which" is only about $200,000,000 less than the total gain in deposits in all the National banks In the country In the-ame period. In New York City the deposits of clearing-house banks have Increased 40 per cent In the past five years, while the trust companies of that city have gained In deposits about 150 per cent In the same time. The chief function of the trust com panies, of course, is to execute trusts for individuals, living or dead, and fcr es tates and corporations. To a small ex tent the National banks operate In the same field, but their peculiar province is the lending of their deposits upon commercial paper and the issue of cir culating notes. The two classes of in stitutions trench upon each other in the use made of their deposits in the loan market. The trust companies do little in the line of discounting commercial paper, which service is still in the hands of the National banks, but the great In crease in the volume of deposits the trust companies is to an extent at the expense of the National banks, and re duces correspondingly the ability of the banks to satisfy the demand for com mercial accommodation. This situation results in pressure upon the trust com panies to enter more and more Into the field of the National banks, and threat ens in time to give them large control over the purely mercantile -business of the country. However, as their profits In other lines are so much greater, there Is no Incentive for them to crowd the banks out of the mercantile field. Mr. Conant points out the inadvlrabll Ity of requiring the trust companies to keep on hand cash reserves similar to those now. required of the National banks, which has been the trend of sentiment lateij'. One reason given for leaving the trust companies out is that their funds are very largely on deposit with the National banks, and necessity for holding out 25 per cent cash reserve by the trust companies would tie up $50,0.00,000 without sufficient reason. Moreover, Mr. Conant is of the opinion that -the personal equation counts for much In the development of the trust companies, which doubtless owe a part of their success to the fact that they do not need any statutory certificate of character. To lay them on the Procru lean bed of rules and regulations would reduce their usefulness. Arguing from the present status of our financial lnsti tutlons and policy, Mr. Conant's reason lng is sound, but It Is easy to sse hov; conditions may change o as to make National supervision of the trust com panics desirable, if not imperative. AN ACCOMPLISHED DIPLOMAT. Today Ambassador White will attend a dinner given In his honor at Berlin by the Italian Ambassador, Count di Busca. Andrew D. White, who at 7 years of age now retires from the dip lomatic service. Is the ablest represen tatlve that our Government has ever had at Berlin. George Bancroft was man of learning, bufhe was not a man of worldly tact or political skill. Bay ard Taylor was an accomplished man of letters, was a man of noble and impos ing presence, of exceedingly genial tem per, but he was like Bancroft, a man of letters rather than a dlplorrfat. Minis ter Phelps was a better man of business than either Bancroft or Taylor, but he lacked the versatile preparation for a high diplomatic post that had been sought and obtained by Andrew D. .White. Mr. "White was an accomplished schedar in the literature and political history of Germany; had served in the New York Legislature with distinctlori during his service as president of Cor nell University. Mr. White had served as Minister to Germany when Bismarck was in his glory; he had been Minister to Russia In President Harrison's term, and bQr came Ambassador to Berlin under President McKinley in 1S97. When our war with Spain broke out, public senti ment In Germany was as bitterly hostile to the United States as It was toward England In her conflict with the Boers. Ambassador White's famous Fourth of July speech to an audience of American fellow-citizens at Leipzig was delivered at a time when there was but one jour nal of influence in all Germany that was friendly to the United States, and that was the Frankfort Zeltung, owned and edited by.a Jew. No German statesman or General believed in American suc cess. Emperor William even shared the general belief that we were to meet great reverses on land and sea at the hands of the Spaniards. At this time Mr. White quietly said in his speech that "the United States would not suf fer any Intervention or Interference In this war." The antl-Amerlcan and pro Spaniard howl subsided from that date. While Minister to St. Petersburg Mr. White prevailed upon the Czar, Alexan der III, to forbid the Incessant arrests of adopted American, citizens, Russian Israelites by birth, who on visiting their native country had been seized and sent to Siberia. Ambassador White has done honor to his country and raidered im- nnrtwnt sss-rvlc.&s aa a. rilnlnifiRt. Ho U easily the best-equipped man, measured by his natural temper and his linguis tic acquirements, that has represented us In the -courts of Continental Europe. THE MYSTERY OP INSANITY. The statistics of the state asylum for the insane show that this class of pub lic wards Increases" every year at a rate exceeding the rate of increase In popula tion, and this is recorded of all the states of the Union. The present year ly increase in the number Of the report ed insane In Massachusetts is about 4 per cent, while the whole population gives less than 2 per cent a year. In the ten state establishments, the Spring field Republican says, there was an In crease of nearly 6 per cent this year, and 10 per cent In two years. The State of New York, with 7,500,000 popu lation, reports between 24,000 and 25,000 insane, while Massachusetts, with 3,000, 000 population, has over 10,000 insane. Both states have about one insane per son for each 000 of population. Ver mont has as large a proportion, while Connecticut, with about 910,000 people, reports one Insane in 320 people. Dela ware reports but one in 500, North Caro lina reports only some 200Q insar.e one in every 1000. Insanity and epilepsy are gaining fast among the colored people of the South. Michigan reports 5103 in sane, a little more than one in 500, while Wisconsin reports almost as many. Illi nois, with not quite 5,000,000 of people, reports 9728 insane, about one in 500. Indiana reports one in 570, Kansas one in 600. ana Nebraska one In 700. In every state save Wyoming there has been an Increase of Insanity. In Oregon, assuming the population to be about 420,000, there are 1256 re ported September 30, about one In every 335 persons. Ohio and Pennsylvania fall short of this ratio. Assuming the popu lation of the whole country to be SO, 000,000, we have 160,000. insane. Of these very few arc likely to recover. The real recoveries do not equal the deaths in any one year. The same state of things prevails In all the great countries of Eu rope, such as Great Britain, France end Germany. There is no question but what insanity increases more rapidly in countries of high, intense civilization than In one of primitive quality. When Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837 the Insane were treated with great brutality, were loaded with letters and kept In Iron cages. This was true of America as late as 1840, but since that date philanthropy has done much for the humane care of the insane, but in spite of better care and the intelligent efforts of medical -science for the ameli oration of mental diseases, the rate of increase outruns the rate of increase of populatjon In every, state In whi?h full and authentic records can be obtained. The apparent Increase In insanity, can not be due to increase in social vices, for in both Great Britain and the United States, there is far less alcohoile intem perance than there wa3 fifty years ago. In all respects the average Englishman and American lives more healthfully, so" far as diet, clothing, exercise and venti lation Is concertied, than he did fifty years 'ago. Germany and France show a high rate of insanity, butifss than Great Britain, while Russia and Austria are far below the rate of either France or Germany. It will not be pretended that the Russian peasantry are a tem perate people, so far as alcoholics are concerned. It Is clear that the peoples of the world who stand for the highest, civilization United States, Great Brit ain, France and Germany lead the world In the mntier of increase of in sanity. Insanity was almos't unknown among the primitive negro or the primi tive Indian or among the Chinese In their own country. Since the negro was emancipated his insane have increased In number, and the number of Chinese Intone shows a rapid increase. Probably the same In crease would be found among the In dians, had they been compelled to hustle for a living as have the Chinese, and negroes, under unfriendly circum stances. The Increasing stress of the struggle for existence is the most plau sible explanation of the increase of the number of insane entirely beyond -the Increase In population. The average man of the great civilizations of the world Is not as intemperate in food and drink as he was fifty years ago, but the struggie for existence is harder for the weaklings. The sleepy, nonprogres sive countries of the, world show rela tively a small list of insane, while the energetic, Intensely adventurous and ambitious peoples show the largest rec ord of insane. The leading classes set a pace which the weaklings cannot stand, so they fall by the wayside or are entombed in the living grave of a madhouse. The Irish show the smallest per cent of insane in Great Britain; they are a mercurial people, who do not worry long over Im aginary sufferings, have fine physiques and are long-lived; but the Germans are a thoughtful, brooding people, and are more prone to depression under disap pointment and difficulty. The peas antry of Austria and Hungary are fond of music and dancing, and are not am bitious, while the Russian moujik is without ambition and content with his degradation. Out of such torpid races there are few recruits for the insane hos pitals. "A house divided against Itself can not stand." This Is the keynote to the warning sounded by President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, to the warring organizations that compose this body. "Trade against trade" will be an Infinitely worse situation, and more hopeless of a peaceful outcome than labor against capital. Wise men understand this statement and shudder at its far-reaching significance. It is for them to control the thoughtless, the arrogant, the impatient, in the ranks of labor, restore harmony where It has been displaced by discord, and prevent the further growth of dissension, the consequences of which President Gom pers depicts in such strong language. Can they do this? The next few years, perhaps even the next few months, so swiftly do events follow events In this age of restlessness and vain strivings, will render an answer to this Important question. The independent press of the East thinks that the recent elections show clearly that the so-called Democracy party Is a "leaderless" party. There lj nothing in the returns that points to Hill, Johnscn or Bryan as" the next Dsm ocrailc candidate for the Presidency. Gorman is discredited by the Republi can victory in Maryland. Even Balti more, a Democratic city, was carried by the Republican candidates. Ex-Presl-dent Cleveland, who emerged from his retirement and spoke for the Demo cratic ticket in tHe Fifth New Jersey District, did not prevent Republican success. At Morrlstown, less than a urplc W fore Xha election. Mr. Cleveland said: "You know I seldom Indulge in prophecy but no man can doubt the signs of the? times. Next Tuesday will tell a story In this district, in New York, and all over this land, which will bring cheer to all of us." Despite Mr. Cleve land's personal appearance on the stump the Republicans In New Jersey were re markably successful. Tom Johnson Is severely beaten in Ohio with his reaf firmation of the Kansas City platform. In Indiana the Democrats were badly beaten. Truly, the party Is a leaderleso party, racked with internal dissensions, without any common principle or com mon aim. The Republican party had a leader in President Roosevelt who was a whole platform for his party from Maine to Oregon, from the Canada line to the Potomac The Intemperate language used by Mr. Gompers In 'denunciation of President Eliot discredits a man who a few min utes before had been exhorting' his fol lowers to tolerance of each other'j? opin ions. There Is no.argument In Invective. Quite naturally, President Eliot and Samuel Gompers entertain widely diver gent views upon labor unions and strikes. This is no reason why the lat ter should arraign the former as a Bene dict Arnold or a Judas Is:ariot. Pres ident Eliot's strictures upon labor or ganizations were given in dignified, if strong, language With his statements ana conclusions it is perreciiy jusi unu legitimate to take issue. This a great many thoughtful, observant people have done. But to denounce him as a traitor because of the opinions he holds on this question, and declare that In entertain ing them he is looking backward toward barbarism, is calculated to do harm to a cause that needs a rally of all good in fluences in its favor at this crucial pe5- rlod In Its history. Mr. Rompers' best friends and the best friends pf the cause he represents can but regret the lan guage that he used In this connection. It Is only the thoughtless who applaud intemperate speech. The decision of the authorities of Yale University that every student must in clude instruction in swimming in his gymnasium work is to be commended. In the German military schodls all stu dents are, of course. Instructed In swim ming, and in the majority of the Ger man public schools swlmmlng'ls taught to the pupils. In all the great armies of Europe every soldier is expected to know how to swim, for If he does not, he Is liable to be drowned, as the passage of large rivers by the troops Is a com mon feature of the annual maneuvers. The soldier who . cannot swim is likely to be drowned, for cavalrymen are fre quently dismounted crossing a stream, and 'infantrymen not seldom are thrown into deep water by accidents to pontoon bridges. In the Russian Army the order was once given during a maneuver for a whole division to swim a river, and the order was obeyed by several men who could not swim and were drowned. At West Point we believe that every cadet Is obliged to learn how to swim. If the apostles of banking reform have actually captured the bankers them selves, they have Indeed won a notable victory, for nowhere elsa has conserv atism been more firmly rooted. The bankers, as a rule, cling tenaciously to the, greenbacks, hesitate at assets cur rency, scout branch banking and regard currency-reformers about as trustingly as they do burglars. The banks can get any kind of currency reform they will agree to ask for, and if the con versions reported from New Orleans are genuine, there may be good news this ' Winter for Mr. Fowler and Mr. Overstreet and the rest of them. It Is to be feared, however, that, like other Southern converts, the bankers will j backslide when they get home. No one enouio speculate in currency reionnwn the New Orleans advices without an In demnifying bond. Recent events have-thrown cold water back on the Prohibitionists, for not only has Boston defeated district option, but the court of the Dlrtrict of Columbia h&D decided that the sale of liquors in the Capitol restaurants Is not Illegal. A bill has been reported ,In the Vermont Leg islature, acceptable to the majority of the members, to secure the abolition of the prohibitory law In that state and substitute local option. Finally, Adjutant-General Corbln, United States Army, in, his annual report, says that the 'increase of desertions and of trials for infractions of discipline Is by those best informed attributed to the abolition of the former privileges of the post ex change, and recommends the restoration of the canteen. Judging by the fruits of the season, It does not seem to have been a good "bearing year" for the Pro hibitionists. The Jefferson CounAy (N. Y) grand jury wants a whlppmg-post provided for the punishment of wifebeaters, fam ily-deserters, vagrants, petty thieves and other petty offenders, and has adopted a resolution praying that "our members of Assembly and State Sena tor use their influence to secure the en actment of a law to establish a whlp- plng-pcst In each town In Jefferson County." Jefferson is one of the finest and most fertile counties of the Empire State, has a population of some 70,000 people, the majority of whom are farm ers of wealth and high Intelligence. It is singular that so rich an agricultural community should be cursed by an In creasing number of persons that need the whlpplng-post. From a studied perusal of the editorial columns of the Seattle Times we are Irresistibly led to the conclusion that It Is simply all that a newspaper should be. The aforesaid columns bristle with encomiums upon the aforesaid journal's mental, moral and physical superiority, the stupendousness of Its circulation, the eligibility of its advertising" columns. Indeed, if anything has been' neglected in the general whoop-up, It certainly was due to inadvertence. One could almost Wish, however, that the Times had con e'dered its pervasive and unapproach able greatness sufficiently noticeable to gain the discerning reader's attention without the aid of so continuous and strenuous a certificate of character Who Beat Lnnef . San Franoisco Bulletin. Beyond question the defeat of Franklin K. Lane and the election of George C Pardee were brought about by two cltl zens of New York, E. H. Harriman and William Randolph Hearst. The first has a railroad In this stater the "second newspaper. Both draw immense Incomes from their investments in California and neither has the slightest concern in the affairs of this state except as they may affect the security of the profits of his capital here located. Allied by a, common motive of selfishness the Southern Pa cific Railroad and the San Francisco Ex aminer opposed Lane and In zo close a contest It cannot be doubted that they turned the balance- to Pardee's side. SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST-PRESS And So It Docs'. Albany' Herald. With butter worth 60 to 75 cents per roll, eggs 30 cents per dozen, hops 23 cents per pound, grain, fruit, wool and all other farm products at good prices, .farming ought to pay ire Oregon. One for the Woman Politician. Eugene Register. After all we Shall have to score one for the woman in politics. There was a Re publican landslide in the Colorado elec tion, and only one Democrat was elected to a- state office. This was Mm. Helen Grenfell. Has Washington County n CnndltlnteT Forest Grove' Times. It is given out on the- quiet that the Multnomah legislative delegation at a meeting a few nights ago tacitly agreed that they would not support C. W. Fulton tor United States Senator. They did' not decide upon a candidate to support, but it Is rumored that ex-Senator -Corbctt and Sol, Hlrpch Were both favorably consid ered. It looks as If Portland would like to hog everything in sight. With both Senators during the past several years, it would seem that they might let the re mainder of the state have a show this time. -And Mr. Corbett Is Rifftit. Harrlsburg Bulletin. The .scope of the 1905 Fair, as explained by H. W. Ccrbett. Its president, depends largely upon what the Legislature may do for Its benefit; also, as to what may be done with the money that may be appro priated by the state. He says It will be the duty of the Legislature to appoint a commission to have charge of and to su perintend Its outlay. He suggests the Idea of a state building for the display of Oregon products, and especially grains, grasses, fruit and vegetables. He is of the opinion that Oregon's greatness de pends largely on these productions. He Knows His Business. Eugene Guard. Governor Geer takes six closely type written pages to tell why he declines to call a special session of the Legislature to kill hlm?elf as a Senatorial possibility. The Governor dors not propose to carry any extra weight If he can help It in his. race for the Senatorsbip. The Repub lican electors voted for him as their choice for United' States Senator at the same time the members-elect were voted for. He does not propose to give' those members the least possible excuse to fail to register the choice made by the lest Republican state convention and the peopIc at the polls. Oh, bat Do Thcyf Hillnboro Argus. When Geer first contemplated an extra L session to place the newly elected state officials on a flat salary. Portlanders of the Matthews ring kicked most right eously and said it was all a play by the Governor to make him Senatorial votes. This was not true, as Geer knew he couldn't get any more votes than he had at the" close of the campaign. Later on Portland wanted an extra session that an appropriation might be considered. Mr. Geer has changed his mind and flays that the state enn wait. And so, forsooth, the pure and loving political saints down In Multnomah walleth. Forest Ractrcrs Needed. Eugene Guard. Now they have got a man of brains to give ouggeatIon8 about fires in forest re serves! This prodigy suggests that cabins be- built on the mountain peaks and a man kept In each with a powerful glocs to keep an outlook for un usual smoke or fires. " Then he thinks men could be sent to the locality. Why a spyglass? Don't they propose to furnish men; wno have ordinary eyeslgnt? .No man Is needed on a peak, with or without a glas. The -active moving forest ranger Is the only practicable forest protection. And not to put out fires when started only Gad's agencies may do that, rain else the fire bum Itself out but to warn the pub lic, settlers, hunters, against carelessness with flre3, and to keep warning them. One Way to Assure Irrigation. La Grande Chronicle. The gathering together of the business men of Oregon In an irrigation convention means that irrigation will be treated in a business way. Its romantic phase can be handled by the poet and the press writer. but the subject Itself; as it Is connected with the vital interests of Oregon, will be handled with the unerring system and the lain rigidity of a business transaction, The appointment of practical men who have made a success In theirown voca tions, and whose judgment and sagacity underlie our present splendid business In stitutions, means that Irrigation will 'also be a success. The same mailed hand that has made Oregon what she Is by sheer labor and skill, will make Oregon what she ought to be under Irrigation. This subject is now nssuming an organized and systematic appearance. V e fire In shape to begin actual work at the foundation Of the enterprise. Not n Cheerlnpr Ontloolc. Lewiston Tribune. It is loo early yet to estimate what the outlook is for the Democratic party In the state. It win take another election to tell just how deep the wound Is left by the public records of the past two years. It seems scarcely possible there can be a complete recovery within the next two Years, but that Is of minor consecuence to Democrats who have faith in the peo ple. The main thing is to get right and be right, and then there nped be no fear of the ultimate outcome. In all probabil ity the Republicans will render an excel lent administration of the public business for the next two years, and doubtless also, for another two years. Good citizens Will hope for and aid in a continuation of such administration as long as the party in power seems to deserve public confi dence. In such an event there Is no like lihood of the Democrats regaining power, even If they should have a slight numeri cal preponderance In the stato. for years to come yet. barring an untoward reverse in National conditions. Perhaps It may not ba as bad as that, from a Democratic standpoint. Perhaps the state is even now Democratic n convictions and ready to return to Democracy and its saving uses whenever Democracy return to itself; each may cherish his own hopes as tn that. The Alarm. Youth's Companion. Tho elation busks in a peaceful dose. Unused, to the floor, the lonr poles pass. Trucks nnd wapons and tape-like ho3e Glitter in red or the shine of brass. And over the tonsuc the harness swing. As though on some unsorn forms designed, A fireman whistles, and softly sings. The horses nod in their stalls behind. Clang! Clang! Clang! In an instant sweep Wide the dears under magic hands. Clans! Clang! Clang! how the horses leap Kach to his place, at the gong's commands. Clang! Clang! Clang! there's a scurry of feet. Snapping of clasp and grasping of line. The wagons are Into the startled street "What is the number?" "Seventy-nine." Clang! 'tis another clamoring gong Shouting the warning: "Way. I sayt Way for my horses, lusty, strong! Way for my wagons! Way! Way!! Way!!! Street cars ciear o: me crossings araw Drivers press to the pavement's marge Monarch of all, by might and law, Ttuslfes the firemen's crimson charge. Battle of tires and clangor loud: Rhythmic beat of galloping hoof; On to where in gathering crowd People stare at a sloping roof. What Is the work? Is the crisis one ' Taxing courage and strength of men? Oft there are" deeds by hcrOeis dono ' Ere horses champ In their stall3 again. .Edwin- I. Sabln, RURAL FREE DELIVERY. Chicogo Tribune. The, officials of the Postoffice Depart ment look forward now to the extension of rural free delivery throughout the en tire United States. They have made their estimates a3 to what It will tost to de liver letters on every American farm or plantation In the sparsely settled and thickly settled parts of the country. The cost will not be trifling. To deliver every rural American his mall will take about $24,000,000 a year. Should the ptesent serv ice be extended at the rate of 12.C00 routea a year until the 700.000 square miles ot territory yet to be covered have been taken care of, there will bfesfor several years an annual deficit in postal revenues of from JS.COO.000 to $10,000,000. The deficit will, it is asserted, disappear gradually as the revenues increase by reason of the Improved postal facilities. Notmany years ago rural free deliv ery was a questionable sort of experiment. The farmers, for whose benefit It was Intended, did not in all quarters take kind ly to it. They are not eager seekers'fcfter novelties, and the Idea cf abandoning the customary trip to the village postoffice for mall, a trip which gave them n wel come opportunity to gossip with neigh bors and discuss crops and elections, was not altogether attractive to them. But they appreciate fully now the advantages of the hew departure. There Is an Increas ing pressure for the establishment of rural routes, and the representative of a coun try district who cannot secure something In this line for his constituents runs the risk of losing his popularity. So strong Is the pressure for rural free delivery that the Postoffice Department officials .are not dealing with a remote question when they prepare estimates of the gfosa cost of a complete rural serv ice. But while the cost will be large, it will not frighten Americans. Indeed, they are in the habit of looking unmoved on much larger appropriations for far less useful purposes. It may well be that whjen the letter carrier makes his trips to every farm er's gate the farmers will make a more extensive use of the malls than they do now, and that the revenues of the depart ment will expand as they have in the past whenever better facilities have been provided. Even if this were not to be the case, the "general welfare" will be 'pro moted by an expenditure which brings the furmer3 of the United States into closer touch with the biisy world, from which most of them are so far removed. "BILI." DEVEItY'S COMMENT. He Says Hill Is Out of It for AH Time. NEW YORK, Nov. 7. William Dcvery. ex-Chief of Police of New York City, said concerning the New York election: "Some time ao I said that David B. Hill was a political hold-out man, who would not go Into the game unless he could feel the marks of the. cards through a pair of boxing gloves. He had the cards this time marked all right, but one night after he had been smoking political dope and shaking hands with himself In the White House somebody stole the deck and changed the marks. "I ain't playing no searchlight on my self as a prophet, but Hill's finish was as plain to me all through this campaign as the Flat Iron building is to a man i front of the Fifth-Avenue hotel. "He rang: the bell at the front door of the morgue the day he passed me along In the convention at Saratoga. After this his address Is 'D. B. Hill. Dead House, Compartment No. 13. Handle with car.' " Plight of the Plillinplne. 'cw York Journal of Commerce. Silver, after showing some time ago a disposition to recover a part of its lost alue, resumed its decline, and in London yesterday it made a low record price. Happily our currency Is pretty well se cured from the bad effects of such a de cline, though the eradication of silver- Ism from our statutes Is not yet complete. But our Philippine possessions aro still exposed to the Injurious effects of a de clining unit of value. Through the Manila Board of Trade, and through the Insular Commission, they have besought us for relief, and there was absolutely no ex cuse for refusing the relier except tne tenderness of a good many Senators toward the sllverltes. It Is difficult to understand how men like Ssnators Alli son and Lodge could have joined In a committee report refusing to grant the Filipinos the relief needed, and which the House was ready to grant; but such was the case, and the trade of the Island in cluding their trade with the United States, must continue to be subject to losses and uncertainties till the remain ing influence of silveriem can be exter minated. If the Manila bankers relievo the merchants of the uncertainties of for eign exchange, It is one of the costs of the business - which the profits of the business have to meet. Take Avrny the CInb. Chicago Chronicle. One fact stand3 out like a headland In contemporary Crime. It Is that the ten dency of men to live away from thflr homes and at clubs and hotels is an ener getic cause of prevalent defiance of moral laws. There always has been and there always must be Crime. No check Invented upon It by antiquity was equal to the check exerted by the modern home. The contemporary woman is in a large degree responsible for the Increasing tendency which men of family show to live away from home, or to spend their leisure chlelly apart from those to whom they are bound by bonds of nature and duty. . When the men of the household find other places of rest and recreation more attractive than the home. It Is time for the women of the family to accuse themselvc. They are not always culpable, but they are culpable In a larger proportion of cases than they would be willing under all circumstances to, acknowledge. It behooves the elder men, whom misfortune or necessity or homclessness compels to live at clubs to discourage among younger men the ninllg- nant. and growing fashion of practically deserting the natural home for an unnatu ral home at a club. Jlllsrmtlcm Towards the "West. Kansas City Star. It is declared that in the month of Oc tober alone more than 40,000 emigrants passed through Chicago for parts beyond the Mississippi nnd Missouri Rivers, and that this volume has been sustained for some time and ha? shown no signs of de crease. Most of the settlers are Of the better clase of foreigners, but many of them are Eastern farmers, who have sold out their small holdings in the old states for the larger ones that the price will .se cure in new lands. Without doubt most of those "who seek Western homes at this time will fare well. The West is capable of sustaining and profiting by a vastly greater population than It now holds. If the westward movement is drawing to some extent on the big cities go much the better, for the centers of population are becoming dangerously crowded. All in all the movement Is one that will make Its impress on the West, enhancing its importance as the most productive sec tion of the country. Quay'n Prominence No Deterrent. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Our strenuous administration is evident ly no respecter, of bosses. The Depart ment, of Justice has forwarded to the United States District Attorney at Phila delphia charges against Senator Quay for violating that provision of the civil service law which prohibits any Government offi cial fiom soliciting campaign contributions from members of the classified service. There may be a hitch in the proceedings, however, as the District Attorney, who has to report whether the charges are true, Is a Quay man, and may not feel like proEecuting his boss. How far the Attorney-General will proceed If he gets an. adverse report is not announced; but even If Senator Quay Is not brought to bopk the fact that tho administration has shown that it intends to enforce the civil service law will make such men 0.3 Quay mora chary In their methods. KofE AND COMMENT A good breakfast TTmore to be deslre5 than great riches. The spirit of the true Oregonlan goes up with his umbrella. The man who Is bored rules his Hfi with the adage. "Know thyself." The Astoria papers talk as if they spoke with the mouth of the' Columbia. Perhaps President Roosevelt gpes bear hunting to avoid these who are office hunting. 'Your true, lover feels jealous, when ha sees his beloved's picture In a photo graphic display. The woman who persists through the four seasons in carrying a parasol look3 on the sunny side Of life. The man who does not find the great est pleasure In tickling hLs baby is fit for treason, stratagems and spoil. And now a, Kansas Judge has decided that a man may bury hla wife alive. Thus the state of the woman suffragist progresses towards .Millennial prosperity. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell punctured an bid superstition when he stated In an ad- -dress that suffering Is not beneficial and does not sweeten the disposition. Tod" many croaking dyspeptics nowadays go about the street and tell of then suffer ings. To suffer 4s to lose forever a pre cious Illusion; to find void where there was happiness; to forego without redress. Commend us to the man and the woman who forget what they have suffered and find sweetening in glad and wholesomo life. To any person of sense who still has somebody to share his emotions with, this life Is simply full to overflowing with splendid things, and when the material World grows dim Providence has granted visions only less deer. They sat in the gloaming of the electric- light and he cculd see that her pensive cheek was glistening with tears of medltatlveness. "Hush, dear," he said thrilllngly, "I have had a raise- of sti pend. I now receive $3 SO a week." "Yes." she murmured tenderly, "but when we are married I shall have to wear long skirts like mamma does and they they cost more." And there was a dread silence till Algernon, who had Just donned long trou sers, muttered grimly, "What matters It, Sophronlca? Your picture In the paper shall be only a head and face." She clapped her hands with joy. "Oh, Algy, and I can do my hair up ort the back of my head." The man of 15 long years yawned. "Oh, you women," he said in luxurious scorn; Then they had their first quarrel. She -was only 14, and forgave him. Two shabbily dressed girls stood in front of a bookstore last night and read aloud the titles of the books. Every, now and . then one would nudge the other and look her shyly in the eyes as much as to say: "Isn't that romantic?" Presently the name "His First Love" caught their attention and" the smaller of the two whispered, "D'ye ever have a first love, Sftde?" "Nit. I ain't had nothln' except a guy with 7 per who wanted to marry me. "I ain't never been ast." responded the other to this faint hint of a romance. "I jest am sick for somebody to come and make nice compliments :dnd act sorter soft. Ain't you never had such?" There was no reply for a minute. Then both turned away and the taller re marked almost maternally, "Goose, what would you do. If he did?" The younger, laid a timid hand on her companion's arm and said earnestly, "Sade, If a feller loved me, I I'd pet him." And It was a man who heard the bitterness In the other's laugh. While the conditions of the Klickitat Valley, including the narrow range of its industries, mark it as a pioneer country it Is far from being a new country in an exact sense, for it "has been sottled "for more than 40 years and has been devel oped to tho limit of Hi? opportunities un der the existing conditions of transporta tion. Its first civilized occupation wa3 more than 40 years ago by cattle men from the Willamette country, and for 20 years the Valley was held as a cattle range. 'Agricultural settlers now and again found their way into the country, but whllo tho soil was productive, the general conditions were not promising, and this fact, with the unfriendly disposition of the stock men toward settlers, served for a long period to keep out Immigration. In those days the line of approach to the whole region of Central Washington was by way of The Dalles north through Klickitat and the Slmcoe Pass; and upon the basis of this through traffic more than of the business of the Klickitat country Itself, there developed the beginnings of a town at the Golden ranch, called after the ranch proprietor, Goldendale. Its sit uation 23 miles north of The Dalles made It a convenient stopping place for travelers and freighters, and from a ranch-ihotel It grew into a prosperous little town, and with the later growth of the Country has come to be the community center and one of the established seats of business in Southern Washington. r PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGItAPIIERS Silence glvps consent, but most women prefer to employ tho word "no" for thl3 purpose. Puck. Casey I heard a noire at yer house and saw rolks there last night. Was ye receiving? Dacey I was. McGuire give me a black eye! Chicago Daily News. Judge I don't think that women have always been vain: you know women were made be fore mlrors. Fudge And they've been be.foro them ever since. Baltimore Herald. "H'm! The composer of this song was con ceited enough. I must say." "What makes you think so?" "Why, here in one place he ha3 written 'Fine.' "Philadelphia Bulletin. "So you don't think well of Arctic explora tion?" "No." answerpd Mr. BIi22ins: "we know the north pole Is there, and that nobody's going to move it. If we found it we wouldn't have any use for it anyhow." Washington Star. "You ought to call this the volcano cigar," says the patron, looking critically at the che root. "Might be a good name." assents the dealer. "You can bet it would. Why. all. tho survivors will be Wanting to brag about how they escaped It." Judge. "And what Is the matter with this poor man?" asked the benevolent visitor. "Ah, poor fellow," said the guard. "He went crazy trying to explain to one of his neighbors how to" vote a spilt Legislative ticket without cast ing his ballot for the wrong man." Chicago Record-Herald. Mr. Wabash Yes. I'm stopping at the Bong tong House. Miss Eastern Ah! that's our most fashionable hotel. The service is splen did, don't you think? Mr. Wabash Well, I've seen better in Chicago. All the swell hotels out our way furnish silver-mounted bellows to blow, your soup with, for Instance. Phila delphia Record. "I don't see," said the ecnslble glr, "how you could bring yourself to run around "after that actor; such a concelttd stick as he Is." "You're mistaken," replied the matinee girl, "He's Just as modest as he can be. Why, when I asked him whom ' he. considered the greatest actor In tht' world, he actually blushed and replied that It wasn't for hlnV to say." Philadelphia Press.