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Those who feared industrial operations in that region would be strangled and that set tiers would be injured by reservation of lands they had reasonably counted on to remain open to settlement, so they might have neighbors and schools, will be gratified to learn that they will be given even consideration, and that land not of proper character for forest reservation will be excluded. The boundary of the proposed reserve is likely td -be made very irregular for this purpose. But announcement of the Sec retary that he will also exclude school lands will cause sorrow to the prescient gentlemen who bought all thdse lands in that section for the purpose of con verting them into lieu-land base after creation of the reserve. Of course they did not pay in full for the land; such operators never risk more than they are obliged to. They paid 25 cents an acre on their purchases $10,500 for 42,000 acres, If that was the area they bpught, Now that their cake is dough, they will make no further payments. The state will be ahead the $10,500. It will have the land, but that will be of little value under the plan proposed by Secretary Hitchcock. He seems to' be averse to permitting speculators to make money at the expense of the state oh informa tion that leaked from his office. He would, doubtless, not object if the state school fund were to be the gainer. Now if the State Legislature will rise to the occasion and advance the price of lieu lands to an adequate figure, tlje East ern Oregon reserve may be made more regular in form, Avith profit to the school fund and without injury to any legiti mate interest. Secretary Shaw's experiments in aid of the money market have expanded the circulation by some'$G0,000,000, and while considerable relief has been af forded trade in general, and to Wall street in particular, the hiost impressive fact of the situation is the danger that w'll be borne by this inflation as soon as, stringency gives place to redun dancy. Our system suffers from inade quate facilities of expansion, but quite as much from obstacles to contraction. Slowly as bank notes can be poured Into the circulation, their withdrawal is at best restricted to a maximum of $3,000,000 a month. Now it is said that banks which have transferred bonds to the circulation division under recent stress and inducements will not be per mitted tot withdraw them, under pain of parting with the public deposits against which their state and municipal securities had been substituted. These powerful discouragers of contraction emphasize the grave evils of inelasticity on Its retirement side. The redundant currency encourages speculation and ministers prosperously to popular errors concerning Inflation. Not the least of its mischievous operations Is the expul sion of gold under Gresham's law, The situation. is Illuminative, and, rein forced by the distrust of our financial eituation cabled from almost every Eu ropean bourse and the educational ef fect of the New Orleans, convention should lend itself readily to 'effective work on behalf of currency reform with the coming session of Congress. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer renews its protestations of. Interest in and la bors for the Columbia River. It looks in the mirror and there beholds the one effective, tireless and disinterested agency for the improvement of that r.oble waterway. Its efforts in that direction may be attributed, as It ex plains at other times, to its clear recog nition of the Columbia River as a dan serous and perpetual rival to Puget Sound. Anything that broadens and strengthens and deepens the Columbia River, the Post-Intelligencer will tell you, 19 hostile to the interests of Seat tie, and that Is why the Post-IntelU gencer fights The Oregonian and at the same time works so zealously and hon orably for Columbia River Improve ment. It is also because of its zeal for the Columbia River that the Post-In telllgencer is .so bitterly opposed to the election of Lev! Ankeny as United tates Senator, inasmuch as it recog. jalzes in him a man who would work effectively in Congress for opening the Upper Columbia and cheapening the grafa rate from Eastern Washington farms to tidewater. Perhaps it does not know that every obstacle to navjga, tion that is removed from the river be tween Fort Canby and Lewiston or the mouth of the Okanogan reduces grain rates to Puget Sounu, as well as (Portland, but this ignorance must be ascribed to its excessive and conscieo loua zeal for the Columbia River and for the humiliation of Puget Sound. The Post-Intelligencer's activity for river Improvement is partly .due- also o its hostility to the railroads, particu larly the Great Northern and Northern Pacific, and to this same purpose of In juring those roads must be ascribed its bitter, warfare on Xievl Ankeny, whom it fears might be friendly to Hill, Mel len, Grosseup, and -possibly to John I. Wilson. ' President Eliot's promiscuous night mares need not have alarmed him so acutely, If he had more thoroughly ex plored the bases on which they rest. Reflection is of very limited value when it proceeds upon insufficient informa tion. President Eliot's pessimistic view of American education has been pretty thoroughly exploded. He is no nearer truth in his references to emotionalism In religion and his criticism of Amer ican trades unions. Fifty years ago, probably les3, emotionalism was a grievous fault in the Methodist church, as in others. Rut' neither in that de nomination nor elsewhere will President Eliot hear today the fantastic preaching of the last generation. If the churches need anything, they ne.ed more fire and less form. Their general complaint is apathy. Methodism, in particular, which Dr. Eliot singled out for his animad version, is giving us pre-eminently a race of pulpit thinkers abreast of the most advanced theology as touched by scientific discover, and historical re search. On labor unions, Dr. Eliot is equally malapropos, for the suppression of individual Initiative, punishment of individual excellence and curtailment of output he denounces belong not to or ganized labor in the United States, but to organized labor in Great Britain. Dr. Eliot has either derived his ideas of trades unionism from British experi ence, or else generalized falsely from the few American Industries where the suicidal British principle prevails. There are few Intelligent trades In- America where the efficient workmen is not given an advantage over the inefficient. Sometimes we have strikes in which labor seeks to force piece work upon employers who are contending for uni form salaries. H0O3I IX MARITIME COMMERCE. The maritime commerce of the Pa cific Ocean is at present greater than ever before. More wheat, flour, lum ber, canned goods and miscellaneous products are going out of Portland, San Francisco and. Puget Sound ports in the, closing, months 'of 1902 than were ever floated before in a corresponding pe riod. The merchants of these cities are working In new fields of trade, and the value of -food products shipped from Portland alone to South Africa for the month of November will exceed $500000. The lumber business has expanded be yond all expectations, and is still grow ing at a rate never before approached. Perhaps the strangest feature of this Immense oversea traffic lies in the re markable fact that ocean freight rates have reached the lowest point on rec ord. From all Pacific Coast ports, ves sels can be secured to carry, freight to any port in the known world, at rates lower than have ever before been quoted. Not only will these vessels ac cept cargoes at ruinously low rates, but even the enormous amount of business offering Is Insufficient to supply all of the Idle tonnage with cargoes, and at every port on the Pacific Coast deep water craft are lying up to await the return of better times. If is a bad year for theshlpowners, but a great year for the producers and shippers, and the sit uation now presented serves to Dhow how rapidly the men who control the merchant marine service of the .world not only meet, but anticipate, the re quirements -of the world's commerce. Less than two years ago ocean freights out ef Portland were more than three times as great as they are today, al though the amount of freight moving was much less than It Is at the present time. The shipowners of old England, whose fleets "had fed the seas for a thousand years," knew nothing about lumbering, farming and flour milling, but they did know how to sail ships and run steam ers, and the Germans and Norwegians were not far behind them in that knowl edge. To meet the requirements of the growing, trade of the Pacific, then pay lag such enormous profits to the ship owners, they sent in orders jfrhlch taxed tlfe capacity of the shipyards to the limit. The output of these yards has been so enormous that they have not only caught up with the demand,, but have so far exceeded It with the ton. nage supply that ships must be opsr ated at a loss until matters are equal lzed again. The high rates paid the foreigners for ships a few years ago encouraged the Americans to build a big fleet of large modem schooners and barkentlnes for the Pacific Coast lumber trade. Nearly one hundred of these big carriers have been added to the Pacific Coast fleet within the past two years, and now, when the more expensive foreign ship are unable to secure cargoes of wheat or flour, they are barred from this lum ber business, except in a small way, by the more economically operated Amer ican vessels. Ocean commerce, like all other commerce, Is regulated by supply and demand, and the same rule applies to ships that applies to the cargoes they carry. The bottom has undoubtedly been reached and rates are too low, and after they have lingered In the depths for a brief p.eriQd there will be a re bound, for but comparatively few ships are now building to take the place of thebig fleet which is constantly going out of existence through old age, fire, flood or disaster. Quite frequently within the past few years the Consular report of some ob scure agent .of the Government has al luded In deprecating terms to the scarcity of American ships and the pos sibilitles for trade in distant 'quarters of the globe, if t America only had a subsidized fleet to carry her goods to market. The fallacy of these Intima tions that American trade is at all re stricted by the size of the American merchant marine has never been njore plainly shown than in the present era of prosperity on shore and low freights at sea. We can reach the markets of. the world with greater ease and at less ex pense today than ever before, and that we are working" this advantage to the limit is shown by our unparalleled exports. So long as the hop market remains firm, buyers continue active, and the price persists in advancing, there is little probability of a hop pool. Hops are too valuable for the growers to give up contrql of them. In a year when there was a. surplus, the growers who put their .hops in a pool held their prod uct off the market, while others were thereby enabled, to Etell. Theool did little if any good to its members. Now that hops are scarce, a pool might bring a higher price, but the Individual grow ers are confident of -their ability to sell their hops to good advantage separately. CONTROL THE RAILROAD TRUS'J. Signs of the times point to nothing more clearly than to centralization of rallrOad power. The movement began ten years ago, but was -interrupted by the panic of 1S93, and remained sus pended during the succeeding years of business depression Upon reorganiza tion of the companies that had sought relief In the bankruptcy courts, cen tralizing influences again came into play, and the process of putting In highly concentrated form the railroad jower of the country has gone so far that today less than a score of men control the railroads of the United States. Indeed, it is not doubted that by agreement among themselves Messrs. Morgan, Hill, Harriman, Vanderbllt, Gould, Rockefeller, Schlff and Moore could do about as they might please with the transportation lines of this country, both land and water. These men hold in their hands a power that is hardly secondary to that of the Government Itself. Their em ployes far outnumber those of the Gov ernment, including the Army and Navy and all the civil service. The business interests of the country, the prosperity of the people, are at. their mercy. But the governing motive underlying all their colossal operations Is not the pub lic good, but private gain. They have already measurably destroyed the com petition which was the sole safety of the public, and every mov.e in, the traffic world exhibits a purpose more and more to systematize and centralize contro'- of transportation agencies, t6 the .end that there shall be no competition be'tweea carriers. Of course this Is a large prob lem to work out, but Its solution is plafnly in view. This train of reasoning leads inevita bly to the question whether the cen tralized railroad interests would not to an extent exercise governmental func tions. If so, is it not against public policy that they should be permltted to reach a position of such autocratic power? And, admitting it is, how can it be prevented? Here is where the publicist finds difficulties thickening. Government ownership would Certainly net end the trouble. The motive of pri vate gain- which animates the railroad syndicate does not promise greater harm to the people than would, be likely to follow political corruption and Incom petence In the management of so gigaiv tic a machine by the Government. It is to be hoped that our political affairs will some day be on a basis that would make such a move safe. Just now commendable progress is being made in that direction. But at this time he would be' optimistic indeed who could believe that Government ownership and operation would bring any reifef from the evils of centralized private control Government regulation of transporta tion is- the only remedy now available or practicable. It cannot be said that the vast capital In railroads and steam ships should receive no consideration that the public should embark oh a pol Icy .of indiscriminate warfare against It. That would be most Unjust. But the people may properly set limits to com binations that restrict wholesome com petition; may withdraw the large pro tection which the law permits the In dividual capitalists to take through the medium of corporations; may k,eep a jealous eye upon the operations of such public servants as common carriers, and require publicity of all their acts. These and kindred measures may yet keep the transportation monopoly within bounds and make It serve useful purposes. But we are not yet ready to have our Gov ernment administered by a Wall street trust, after the manner of Hhe late Frank Stockton's "Great War Syndi cate." . INDEPENDENCE IN LOCAL ELEC TIONS. According to the' news dispatches, there will be two tickets in the field in Salem's municipal campaign, which will end with, the city election December 1 The present city officials, who have served two terms, in pursuance of elefc tion under a "citizens" movement, are to be renominated at a mass meeting to be held next week, and the Repub licans are to name a ticket the make-up of which is yet unknown. The dis patches also show that ther are to be "citizens" tickets in the field, In oppo sition to the Republican candidates, In several other Oregon towns. It is to be regretted that In a strong Republican city like Salem conditions should exist which make it possible for any ticket to wio. in opposition to that nominated by the- majority party, it Is the history of the political affairs of nearly every city that, when one party Temalns In power for a considerable time and seems to be supported by a safe majority at the polls, the officers forget their duty to the taxpayers and permit extravagances which ultimately lead to defeat.. Thus it was with Salem Those who read the reports of Salem's municipal campaign four years ago will remember that the 'city was Jieayily in debt and becoming more deeply in volved each year. Seeing no hope of reform at the hands of the Republican candidates nominated that year, a num ber of citizens, of various political affil iation, united In naming a city ticket upon which were member? of all par ties. The nonpartisan ticket won, and at the close of a term characterized by economy in administration, the officers were re-elected. They are now to be placed, before the people as candidates for election to a third term. Under circumstances such as those which existed in Salem four years ago, the "citizens" ticket deserved to win. There if) a vast difference between a nonpartisan movement in which repre sentative citizens select candidate's for the good of the city and a fusion move ment in which two parties or factions unite in order to capture and divide the spoils of' office. When there Is a real need for a nonpartisan movement, there will be identified with it a considerable number of worthy members of the ma jority partj. When the majority party has learned Its lesson and places In the field candidates who have the confidence of the taxpayers, the need of a "citi zens" movement soon passes away, and the voters, return to the support of their party ticket. This Is the condition which 'now con fronts the Republicans of several Ore gon towns. If they nominate men who are fitted for the positions to which they aspire,1 and pledge them to pursue proper policies in municipal affairs, there should be no doubt of thpi uc cess at the polls. Noopartlsanshlp hY municipal affairs Is becoming every year more popular, and to meet it the majority party must choose Its candi dates with care. Whenever a nonpar tisan movement degenerates into a , scheme of offlceseekers tb secure their.' own personal en,ds, the people will not be long In finding It out. Labor Is demanding a larger share of the return from railroad operation. In many cases wage advances have been granted, and orobably more will be. ""At. the same time we see numerous expressions to the effect that railroad officials are worried over the problem of keeping up dividends and also grant ing the wage increases asked for. They say a 20 per cent advance in the price of labor would reduce the dividend rate so low that stockholders would not get a reasonable return on their Invest ments. And yet the movement to swell capital proceeds. There was the very notable expansion of Rock Island capi talization a few weeks ago from $75,000, 000 to $202,500,000. Among the more Te cnt authorized additions are $25,000,000 to the caDltal of th Sr. Paul, and $10.- 000,000 to the Northwestern. It" Is fairly admitted In these cases that the In creased stock issues" are partly for the purpose of giving stockholders 'larger returns on. their Investments. The stock goes to present stockholders. It Is Is sued at' par, but' Its market value la about twice that; in other words, It Is at 100 per cent premium. A man hold ing 1000 shares would get the "right" to buy, for example, 100 shares of the new Issue at par. In thl& transaction he would make a clean $10000, which would be equivalent to cutting a good-sized "melon," and still would not, to the un initiated, look so much like getting ex cessive returns from rallr,oad operation. So long as railroad managers resort to this practice to swell the returns for money Invested in shares of stock, they will receive little sympathy when labor also demands a larger share of rail road earnings. Companies that are too poor to pay good wages to employes should be too poor to be milked by financial manipulation. It. has been decided by the Superin tendent of Public Instruction that . a child is entitled to 'receive free tuition in the district in which his .parents re side, regardless of where he may have b4en enumerated In the annual school census. This decision is of importance, for the reason that the school funds are distributed arSely upon the basis of school population as shown by -the an nual census. . Under this ruling, a child who is enumerated in a country district and then moves to the city with his parents ,draWs school money for the country district and receives his tui tion in the city.. Theoretically, the re movals to and from a district will be about equal, but, since many families move to the city in the Fall and spend the Summer In the country, school clerks will hereafter be careful to enu merate all the-migratory children where they live during, the school year. It has been the generally accepted rule that a child is entitled to free tuition In the district for which he draws school money. The only Democratic Governor elected In t the United States outside of the South Is Dr. Garvin, a country physi cian of -Rhode Island who owes'1 his election, it is reported, to the belief that tle Republican party was respon slble for the nonenforcement of th'e ten hour law. The most powerful steel and Iron company In the state last Spring publicly refused to obey the new law reducing the hours of labor among Its employes, which led to a violent strike and the calling out of the militia. The Republican party passed the law and then did not enforce it, although.it was declared constitutional by the Supreme Court A desire to upset General Bray ton, the Republican "boss," led many of, ms party to vote for Garvin, Who 19 Gl years old, a graduate of Amherst College and. Harvard Medical School and was a private soldier in the Fifty first Massachusetts Volunteers In the Civil War. The Governor of Rhode Isl and has no veto power, and can make few, if any, Important appointments, as the appointing power is lodged chiefly in the General Assembly, which the Re publicans control. The opportunity furnished by the Spanish-American War has been grand ly Improved by General Leonard Wood, both In gallant, meritorious service to his country and to his own military ad vancement. His military experience dates from 1886, when he entered the service in the campaign against Geron- imo. as a medical officer, for which -posi tion he was fitted by graduation from the Harvard medical school. But for the opportunity of wap his name would not, In all probability, have ever been written high in the military annals of the country, but, being an energetic, ca pable, educated man, he would have found a position suited to his attain ments in civil life. It is to the credit of General Wood that, having had op portunltles, he laid hold upon them with a courage and persistence that com manded favor in quarters where favor counts for a man's promotion. The Chicago Chronicle has an inter esung story to the eilect that every electicn day for the past twenty-seven years ex-Senator Dawes, of Massachu setts, has been driven to the polls by his old coachman, Patrick O'Hearn. On their arrival Mr. Dawes casts his bal lot and afterward holds the horse while the coachman goes. In and votes. He confesses to an admiration for the Irishman's loyalty to his political faith which has not been shaken by any of the arguments of hi3 employer. The flavor of the story lies in the fact that Patrick being a Democrat and .Mr, Dawes a Republican, It would amount to exactly the same thing if neither of them voted. " Tom Johnson's Defeat. Boston Herald. The heavy majority cast asainst Tom Johnson In Ohio js not, when fairly con sidered. a rebuke altogether to the man A portion of his principles aro not to our mind those of enlightened statesmanship and wo regard it as fortunate that in tho new leadership that" is anticipated for the Democratic party he Is not to be prom inent; but it is always to bo remembered In Mr. Johnson's favor that he Is an hon est and a pure man. We .mean by this that he is honest and pure in his political methods, an advantage that, In these days, is not to be lightly estimated. Mr. Johnson's loss "of votes came, in part, as the penalty for his having attempted to purify the Democratic party,' He fully appreciated the rascality of the methods which John R. McLean had brought to bear there, and he denounced them and defied their author. In so doing, he in - curred the animosity and the opposition of McLean, wnlcn operated considerably In the voting. Several thousands of hi? loss were due. to the efforts made in this quarter to Injure hln with the people, .and, rightly estimated, they should be ac counted to the credit of Mr. Johnson. r SPIRIT l0F THE NORTHWEST-PRESS What Has 9 track Them? Astoria Newa Harriman's liberal policy and .gigantic schemes for immigration will .soon make Oregon the most prosperous state In the West. Roosevelt ine Actual Leader. ' Grass Valley Journal. The campaign just" ended has, at least. served to ' demonstrate that President Roosevelt is the actual leader of his party and that he la a clean and able politician. Johnson a Impertinent Reformer. Salem Journal. The Ohio campaign had too much John son. A millionaire, who Is making nis fortune greater out of a tariff and pat ented protected steel rail, denouncing all other wealthy men, is about the high- water mark of Impertinence in a reformer. Oregon Not to Be Afflicted. Brownsville Times. Oregon is not to be afflicted with a spe cial session of the Oregon Legislature. Governor Geer on Tuesday decided defi nitely not to call the extra aession, ex pressing it ao his opinion that it would not be in the Interest of economy. Wonldn't Have Been for Economy Roseburg Plaindealer. Governor Geer has been a long time as certaining the fact that a special session of the Legislature would not be In the In terest of economy, nor that any emer gency has existed at any time "to justify the convening of the 'Legislature in spe cial session. , Just as Well at Regular Session. Sclo News. Governor Geer has. decided not to call a special session of the Legislature, giv ing as his excuse that tho people did not want any special session. There .was hardly any excuse for an extra sessionr the only one being to get an appropriation for the Portland Fair, and" this can be made at the regular session as well as to call a special one for that particular pur pose. Tho Suggestion May Be Adopted. Eugene Register. Unless Portland fixes up Its streets and bridges before the Lewis and Clark Fair is held, the metropolis should build an underground tunnel from the depot and fire -the visitors to and from the grounds pneumatically, without giving them a chance to see the actual dilapidated con dition of a city that presumes to Indulge In the greatest fair in the history of the country. Horse oC a Different Color, c Eugene Guard. The coalmine .owners say they will-not recognize labor organizations in dealing with employes. Yet they are in a trust themselvca. Consistent? No! But -ho expects consistency in the scramble for wealth or existence? It Is the devil take tho hindmost. It rests with our lawmak ers to compel justice in these monatrous combinations of our latter-day civilization both to employer and employe. - Made a Scrlons Mistake. Salem Journal. The State of Oregon has made a seri ous mistake, if there is going to be a Lewis and Clark Centennial at all. in not getting In and providing for it three months before the other state Legisla tures meet. When-our state Is trying to do something to get into the range of vision of the Westward coming millions of Immigrants it was an Imperative nec essity to dp that thing early, and with sufficient vigor to attract the attention of tho world. It always pays to do the right thing, and do it right. Says Three Favored It. The Dalles Times-Mountaineer. The taxpayers of Oregon should pull off their hats to Governor Geer, and credit him for having done at least one com mendable act, that of refusing to convene the Legislature in extra session at the request of a goodly number of the noll tlrlnns nf Portland. n.nd .a number of neo- ple, including the three dally papers of' that city, who wanted to put the state to an expense of $15,000 or J20.000 for an extra session to lUTiner tneir own soman in terests. To Be Trouble Over Scalp Bounty. Moro Observer. The principal advocates of the coyote scalp bounty are men In tho sheep indus try, and even amongst them there Is a disposition to have the law repealed or amended. Some of the strongest opposi tion to the law will come from the Mult nomah delegation, and from counties throughout Western Oregon. Most of the money paid foe scalps has come from west of the Cascades, and has been spent east of the mountains. The proposed re peal will Inaugurate a warm fight. Will Probably Find Out in January. Prinevllle Review. There are several gentlemen in the State of Oregon who think they are pe culiarly fitted, far better than any one else, to represent our state for the next six years In the United States Senate. And these same gentlemen would give considerable to know the individual opin ions 'Just now of each member of the Ore gon Legislature as to their particular case, as well as to know what influence could be used to make these members fa-r vorable to him In particular, if they are disposed to see the other way. Opposed to Direct Nomination, Dufur Dispatch. The Direct Legislation League is com ing to the front again with some more of their rot, this time in tho shape of the direct nomination proposition. The people of Oregon, lest Jupe, shut their eyes and swallowed the league's dose In the shape of the Initiative and Referendum, and.lt was not more than swallowed until they were seeking an emetic. Let the people now profit by that experience and thor oughly sift this thing before giving it their indorsement, so that they will not again find themselves hollering New York before the dose has fairly reached their stomachs. Favors Early Appropriation. Dallas Observer. , v There will be no special session of tho .Oregon Legislature. After giving the matter careful consideration, Governor Geer Jias decided that conditions do not warrant him to Issue the call. While there aro several matters requiring prompt Legislative action notablo among them an appropriation for the Lewis and "Clark" Fair the demand for an extra ses sion was not urgent or widespread, and the move was not regarded with general favor. Let It be kept In mind, however, that one of the early actc of the regular session should be one making a lib eral appropriation for the Fair. The suc cess of the enterprise depends upon It, and tho pride of the state demands It. It Will Please the Taxpayers. Condon Globe, Governor Geer has declined to 'call a special session ol the Legislature. He sets forth his reasons in a lengthy letter made public Tuesday. In brief hfs reasons are: Instead of helping It would harm the Lewis and Clark Centennial appropria tion. In regard to the Portland charter, he says that matter can be attended to equally ds well at the regular session as at a special one, and the same reason Is advanced as .regards flat sala ries for state officials. As regards enacting legislation to make opera tive the Initiative and referendum amendment, the Governor says that is al ready operative. These reasons may not seem sufficient to the people who have been clamoring for an extra session, but the taxpayers generally will be pleased to know that the expense of an extra ses sion Is 'to be avoided. WHAT BABC0CK SAID, New York Times. WASHINGTON, Nov. 8L On every hand are preparations for- th& assembling of the second session of the Flfty-3eventh Congress, and the presence'-of many Rep resentatives Is a reminder that business soon will be resumed on Capitol Hill. The first Monday of December will come on the first day of the month, and a3 many of the Senators and Representatives have homes here, the time for making them ready for occupancy is short enough. Mr. Babcock. of Wisconsin, Is one of those having- homes In Washington, and he Is now here enjoying a rest from the labors of the campaign. He Is being men tioned as a probable candidate, for the Speakership, but he does not permit him self to be drawn into conversation on that subject. It is too far ahead for serious activity, and with a session of Congress intervening, the Speakership must neces sarily be largely, a matter for speculation. One year ago, when the House was In process of organization, with a Speaker already determined on, the wrangle was confined to the formation of the principal standing committees, and there was a vehement demand from the high protec tion wing of the Republican party that Mr. Babcock should not Je again appointed a member of the ways and means committee, The demand was made for the reason that Mr. Babcock had given offense to the high protectionists in proposing a measure interided to reduce duties on manufactures of iron and steel. Mr. Bab cock, however, was appolned to the ways and means and rovlved his bill, which is still pending before the committee. As Mr. Babcock adheres to his belief that there should be a reduction in many of the duties prescribed in the existing law, he surely will encounter determined op position from those members who differ from him on this subject In case ne snau become an active candidate for Speaker.1 With regard to the significance of tho election. Mr. Babcock does not agree with his high protection associates. Instead of being an Indication that tariff revision is not demanded. Mr. Babcock believes the elections mean that the people desire revision of duties and reductions wher ever reductions can bo made without in Jury to American industries. "Tuesday's elections clearly show," said Mr. Babcock, "that tho people want to live two more years under an admin istration that will be Republican In all Its branches. If the Democrats had won, it would have signified that the people wanted no tariff revision for the next two yoars, as it would have been Impossible to accomplish anything in tnat airecuon with a Democratic House and a Repub lican Senate. The people expect the next Congress to undertake tariff revision, and they expect revision to be made on Re publican principles." With regard to the outcomo of the re cent Congressional elections, Mr. Babcock said it was natural to look for Repub lican losses In the largo cities, where so many men depend on salaries and. day's wages. The party in power is held re sponsible for the Ills that may bo pre valent, and this year the high prices of many f f the food products and the un usual condition that obtains with regard to coal, making that commodity difficult to get even at exorbitant and unprece dented prices, operated against the Re publicans and lost them members In Bos ton, Providence, New York, Baltimore, Chicago and other cities. But in the ag ricultural districts the Republicans made gains because the high prices for farm products helped the agriculturists. "Then there was the personal popular ity of President Roosevelt," said Mr. Babcock. "The people In every section of the country regard him as honest, fearless and energetic In his efforts to do tho thlng3 which are for the best inter ests of the people, regardless of what the effect may be on any particular Interest. The Tuesday vote was a splendid indorse-, ment Of. the President. "The coal strike was like a black cloud nn tho. nolitlcal horizon. The President's timely and vigorous handling of the mat ter, resulting so satisractoruy, Diew umi cloud away. There was undoubtedly a loss of votes to the party by reason of the high price of fuel, because of the strike, but that loss was nothing In pn portion to what it undoubtedly would have been had November arrived with the strike still in progress, the price of fuel going up, and none In sight. If the cloud which was visible on the horizon had been allowed to come nearer, there is no telling what the result might have been. x "Ono of tho very gratifying signs of the times is the political evolution of the West. Since 1S9G tho free-silver fallacy has been on the wane, and at each elec tion since that time. In 1896 the Repub lican party polled from 20 to 30 per cent pf the vote in Idaho and Montana, in 1S9S from 30 to 40 per cent, in law per cent, and at the Tuesday election It was over 50 per cent, while the two members whom we got from Colorado were entirely unex pected. It is in tnat section, too, mai the influence of the President was felt. His popularity unquestionably had much to do with the vote in these states." Representative Prince, of Illinois, agrees with Mr. Babcock In the opinion that the popularity of President Roosevelt had much to do with giving the victory to the Republicans. "He is the most popular man in public life In this country." said Mr. Prince. 'I .sincerely believe that if it had not been for his aggressive action in me anmra clte coal strike, the Republicans would have lost the next Congress. The Presi dent's popularity is increasing every day. He has the 'call,' and before the people his honesty, sincerity, vigor and ability are making him stronger constantly." President Roosevelt's Influence. Philadelphia Ledger. It would be interesting to learn how many of his countrymen who thought they were voting on Tuesday for Tom, Dick or Harry really voted, unconscious of the influence ho exerted upon them, for Theo dpre Roosevelt, or rather for the policies they thought ho would vote for if he were in -their places. There is nothing in life worth so much as character, and in Amer ican politics its . influence is Inestimable. Tho character of President Roose velt .ever since" his entrance Into public' life, whether as a civil or a military leader, has Inspired his countrymen with a sentiment some thing stronger than mere respect they re gard him with that affectionate esteem, as the political reformer, the Rough Rider, the frank. Impulsive, blunt man, which is tho sequence of their high faith In his sincerity and fidelity to high ideals and worthy achievements. This feeling, so generally shared by men of all parties, undoubtedly had a widespread and ma terial influence upon the elections of Tuesday. A "Wnll Prom China. Bhanghal Times. It la enough! Now let mo die, and leave this vale of tears; I've seen this bustle coming on this half a dozen years; I've stood for fancy drop-stitched hose and hat- bands ladyliko, But here Is where I rise In vrath and 'go out on a strike. If this is what tho stern decrees of latest stylo demand, Then let me softly flutter to some bustle-lacking land. "We had the sash to grace the waist, likewise v tho high-heeled shoe; Tho shirtwaist half-effeminate. We struggled with that, too; "Who knows how soon we'll be compelled to wear things decollete. And fear to try the crossings when the weath er's slightly wet? If bustles are the next affliction fashion has to give, Go, call tho undertaker, for I do not care to ,llve. 'TJs but a step to powder puff and airy fairy lace; It's not so far to braided hair and fresh enam eled face; But when they order bustles well, a wise man one time said: "When one may not be In style he'd better far be dead." Sc, ere the fickle fancy has a chance to change for worse. Please tell the undertaker to come romping with the hearse. NOTE AND COMMENT. ? ' Mascagnl Is finding- that music hath no charms to soothe tho savage managerial ear. The contracts have been let for the coni struction of the new wharves on the Seventh street canal. . . However strongly the churches may in culcate the doctrine of individual- salva tion, the young peoplo will persist in seek ing It in couples. t When the funny man of a paper makes dciiperate love he is likely to make the, comic hit of his life. F. Opper Is dis covering this truth. The attempts of Miss Lawrence, of Se attle, to keep the Illinois Methodists to strict living are .not meeting with the success they deserve. Poor little girl, doesn't she know Seattle's reputation? A story by "Tim Murphy" hits - one nail on the head. A man came to the box-office of a theater and asked tho prices. "Seats. In the orchestra' are 51 50; upstairs, 75 cents and $1; box seats, $2 SO, and the gallery. 25 cents." The anxlous questioner scratched his head for a mo merit and then asked, VWhat do they play In the gallery?" , A young couple of the name of Ivan stein have the glad possession of a boy of tender months, ilr. Ivansteln's first Inquiry each evening on his return from business is about the boy. One night lost week he came in out of the rain and slammed his umbrella into thoNrack and hailed his wife boisterously. "Hush," said the latter. "You'll wake Jakey." "Jakey! What's the matter with him? Is he sick?" "I don't know what the matter is, Sol, but he has been unwell all day." Mr. Ivanstein kicked off his overshoes and eald cheerfully, "Just a little indls io3ltlon. I guess, Rachel." "Do be quiet, Sol, baby'3 very sick; don't wake him." The young father grew serious, and taking- his wife's hands in hl3 own, said: 'Tell mo Mruly, Rachel, what Is the mat ter?" "Sol, he just lies on the bed and takes no Interest." "My gracious!," walled her husband, "he must be dead." There was i a man In attendance at a very poor show the other night whose conduct excited first derision and then, pity. Among the chorus girls was ono of undoubted youth and undoubted in competence. She had a little jsong to sing which was far above her ability, and, moreover, rot in the best of taste. When this part of the programme com menced the man edged over towards hia pelghbor, two seats off, and laid a gnarled hand on his arm. The latter turned in some impatience and looked Inquiringly at this intruder. Nothing abashed, the stranger whispered, "Fine show, isn't it? But you just wait till Angelica Remarve comes on. She's a corker." Angelica came on. Her throaty little voice strug gled with her song and she twiddled her scanty skirts In pitiful Imitation of her more favored sisters. The exhibition was so painful that the eecond sian wearily looked over at the other. But his face was serenely happy; every note seemed to bear a special benignant neseage to his ears. After the excruciating perform ance was done and the slender girl had bowed herself off under a fire of raillery from the. upper part of thq. .houso the listener turned confidingly ip those around him and said, "Ain't that-the real thing?'. "Who is she?" asked tho other, lazily. "My daughter,"' was thq answer, given with elmpje pride. And every man within hearing sat up straight and clapped her every appearance. An elderly citizen, a householder for many years, said yesterday to an Ore gonian reporter that, as at this time the women folks were agitating the subject of servant girls and how to get their work done, ho would like to advise all men to keep out of the agitation. "I would say to them: 'Do not despise the ndvico of the wise; learn knowledge from those that are older.' My wife had much trouble with bad. cakea, and said, 'tho Lord sent victuals and the devil sent cooks, or pretended cooks.' Chinese cooks are scarce nowadays, and I, hear ing of ono, said to be an artist In his line, hired him, and he was no good at all." "Good gracious!'' said the reporter, "did you not have a similar experience years ago?" "Well, I may have had, but I forgot." "Well, I remember It," said the re porter. "I interviewed you on the, matter at the time and wrote It up. It must be 3 or 15 years ago. Chinese cooks were num erous then, but you thought you had secured an extra fine one. You took home that evening a lot of ox brains and ox tails and told the new cook to fry the brains for breakfast, and to make soup of the tails. Next morning, when you came to breakfast, you found that ho had fried the ox talla and had held the brains to make soup, and you were much, disgusted." "Oh I remember It well," said' he. "If I had. remembered It sooner I should not have hired another Chinaman." "You tp& me at the time," said the re porter, "that you might have known that, as the Chinese had no politics and no re ligion worth having, and had no public schools, and their compass pointed to' the South. A Chinaman should not be expepted to know on which end of tho ox the brains wore found." PLEASANTRIES OF PAItAGRAPHERS Maude Which would you rather be rich or handsome? Clara Well. I'd like to bo rich also. Chicago Dally News. Schoolmaster Xow. let U3 have "Little Drops of Water" again, and do, please, put a little spirit Into it. Glasgow Evening Times. Director Why have you such confidence in the new cashier? President Ho drinks, smokes, goes fishing on Sundays and never lived In the suburbs. Brooklyn Life. Judge Yes; he has often declared that tho lot nf the poor Is to ba envied and the pov erty Is often a blessing. Fudge What, Is ho as rich as all that? Baltimore Herald. "You married me for my money," she ex claimed angrily. As for him. he refused to lose his temper. "You must hava been look ing at yourself In the glass," was all he said. Chicago Post. "Smlthers never lights one of his cigars., Just keeps U In his mouth and chews the end. I've often wondered why." "You wouldn't If you had ever' smoked one of them." Cln. cinnatl Commercial Tribune. Poet Good news. dear. That poem of mine His Wife Has some one accepted It at last? Poet No, but I heard today of a new magazine that I haven't yet submitted It to. Phlladelnhla' Press. "Oh. how terrible," she cried, wringing her hands. "Can't anything be done to get the poor man out from under the wreck" before he dies? This Is awful. I " "Never mind, lady," said one of the bystanders; "don't take on. It's only the automoblllst that's hurt." Chicago Record-Herald. "r 1nn't know what tr ilr Jlhnnt thlj eaM the defeated candidate. "Has pny new an noyance come up?"' "Yes. I have Just learned that my son bet five thousand dollars that I. would be elected. I don't know whether to commend his final affection or criticise his utter" lack of Judgment." Washington Star.