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Hearsey & Co.. 24 Third street South. t For sale in Washington. D. C. by the Ebbett House news stand. For Bale in Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck. 006-912 Seventeenth street; Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co.. Fifteenth and Lawrence street: A. Series. Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TODAY'S WEATHER Fair, with slowly ris ing temperature; variable winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature. 38; minimum temperature, 34; pre cipitation, none. PORTLAND, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21. The Irrigation Convention has left be hind it, in the hands of a subcommittee of three men, a task which is surpasssd in importance by nothing that came be fore its sessions. This is the matter of an irrigation code for the state. It is superfluous to say that the Legislature cannot be depended upon to do anything of value In this line. The universal con demnation of the state's? Carey law by those who voted unanimously for It sup plies all the evidence on this head need ed. Under the most strenuous sort of pressure from outside, the Legislature may be induced to vote, but not to in vestigate or construct. Therefore the subcommittee on legislation must buckle itself down to the task of perfecting a code, and Mr. Sam "White, the chair man, could ask for no prouder monu ment than an irrigation code which will not only facilitate and reguate the pro cesses under the Carey law, but will also define the procedure for water rights in such way as to enable the Federal Government to begin work of its own. It is extremely doubtful whether any steps will be taken by the Interior Department within the borders of Oregon until a satisfactory state law regulating water rights has been passed and sustained by the courts. Little was said on this subject at the convention, but it is of Immeasurable importance, and Mr. Davis stated definitely that question about water rights Is equally prohibitive of Government Initiative with prior private occupation of land. Get together, Mr. White, and let us see your Irrigation act. President Roosevelt's speech at Mem phis brings him into the light in respect of authorship. He is not a great writer, but no one is better equipped to speak of Tennessee's history than the author of "The Winning of the West." We should say that next to his moral influ ence upon society, in Europe as well as in his own country, the President's chief service will be his incidental enthrone ment of the intellectual life. For with all his traits of impetuosity and out-of-door activity, Mr. Roosevelt exemplifies as no President since Garfield has exem plified the scholar in politics; and while his thought is seldom profound and not always convincing, his mood and method are those of the thinker far be yond the mood and method of Garfield's somewhat tawdry oratory. No public Bpeaker Of his time addresses himself so undlvidedly to the thinking faculty of his audience as the President does. Ele gance of diction he Ignores utterly, and even denies himself the humbler flow ers of rhetoric which Lincoln loved and McKinley employed upon pccaslon. All that Roosevelt alms at Is to communi cate his thought to his hearers and arouse them to his own conclusions. His few .quotations are Introduced, not to grace his speech, but to fortify his thought. This is why the reasonable expectation that the President would improve as a public speaker is meeting justification. A scholar by method it not by temperament and accomplish ment, he is in the way 0 advancing from the crude utterances on trusts and tariff of a year ago to sound conclusions worth the attention of Congress. His speeches and state papers may never be literary achievements; hut they are apt to be events in the march of affairs. Our Salem dispatches this morning put the State Land Board In a very un favorable light. The Odell transactions. facilitated at Salem, connived at in the Burns Land Office and now discredited and balked by Secretary Hitchcock, tend to portray the state as a willing accessory to Odell's operations, under which the machinations of the lieu land iniquity are given free courss. There are, of course, numerous defenses to the unsavory exhibit. There is the time honored excuse that if Odell hadn't his office in the Statehouse and easy access to every aid he needs, somebody else would. Then it is pointed out that the Federal Government does not defend the homesteader's rights any more than the state defends the recipient of its school land deeds, although the home steader's rights are Inchoate and the state's deeds are ripened. The Govern ment protects the homesteader when his title is in the same finished state, with the school land deeds. Another apology is that the state makes $1 25 an acre In the lieu land transfer, which many will regard an insufficient recompense for participating in the act of repudiating its own deeds. Mr. Odell is in a very thrifty way, and apparently within' the letter of the law, but this whole busi ness is going to appear as a far from creditable chapter in Oregon's history, and one to which no posterity will point with pride. The record is that the state Itself, through Its Governor, forwards by its own application the movement by which the Federal Government "wrests" from it and from purchasers the alleged mineral lands. It assists powerfully at its own assault, like the young woman who offered to hold the calf. Does the Governor think it is high policy for the state to encourage the voldance o'f its contracts, and will he so declare himself? If so, our col umns are open for' that purpose, not excluding the customary reference to the Senatorial campaign. Utterances of leading men and of the newspapers of the state as reflected in the columns of this paper from day to day reveal a steadily growing temper of acquiescence In the suggestion of the Lewis and Clark Board for a state ap propriation of $500,000. It Is true that thi amount is larger In proportion than has been customary In other exposition states; but the cases are' by no means parallel. The typical exposition is a show, an entertainment Its work ia done when the gates close on the last day. Far otherwise Id it to be with the Lewis and Clark Centennial. That 19 to be a memorial celebration and an object-lesson with a new and distinct pur pose. The reward of the Chicago and Buffalo events was gate receipts. The reward of the Lewis and Clark Centen nial Is knowledge of this great region, from the Rocky Mountains to the ocean and from California to Alaska, in every community on the globe where money is looking for investment and en terprising men for land to till, mines to be opened and forests to be made into lumber. That is why the contribution to this our own enterprise must be on a larger scale than if it were merely to serve as the backing for a spectacular show. A realizing sense of this the true nature of the matter Is growing, and when It has penetrated to every nook and corner of the state, Including some remote fastnesses of close-fisted Port land taxpayers, we do not expect to see any formidable opposition whatever to a half-million appropriation. If there Is any part of Oregon 'that wishes to b'e unknown of capital and settlers alike, It can consistently contend for a small ap propriation; but localities of that .sort are getting few and far between. A FAR-REACHING BLUNDER. The recent elections proved so conclu sively that the Democratic party Is without a policy and absolutely without a leader that non-partisan political ob servers, who are by no means satisfied with the Republican party, are hopeless of Democratic success before 190S. The present situation of the Democratic party is due to its far-reaching polit ical blunder of 1896, when it not only became a reckless advocate of depreci ated silver, but of populism. The Intel ligent, conservative Democrats of the country revolted against a platform that was hostile to honest money and hostile to the sanctity of the Supreme Court as part of our machinery of gov ernment The commercial classes knew that debased currency would mean ulti mate bankruptcy for the Government and distress for the people. The law- abiding classes saw that populism looked forward to packing the Supreme Court through Congress at every real or fancied political emergency. The terrible defeats of 1896 and 1900 proved how deep was the rift In the Democratic party,, and the recent election shows that" the routed Democracy still remains leader less and without even a National battle flag. The blunder of 1896 was a terrible one, and it ig not surprising that the Demo crats, East and West, find it difficult if not impossible to get together. In 1S61 the Democracy made a far-reaching blunder In its refusal to support the war policy of Lincoln, and so profound was the impression made by this blunder that the Democracy did not carry the Presidential election until 18S4. In 1892 the Democracy came Into power on the platform of "a tariff for revenue only," but a Democratic Congress repudiated this platform, with the result that the evangelists of dishonest money and pop ulism captured the nominating conven tion for 1896. The Democratic leaders who were not advocates of depreciated sliver and populism made another far reaching blunder in opposing McKIn ley's Philippine policy. The history of this country shows that no political party ever opposed the National Admin istration in time of war and traduced the American Army without exciting the hostility of the American people. The Democracy is in a very bad way today because it has lost the confidence of the friends of honest money and the National Supreme Court; because it has lost the confidence of the intelligent friends of thorough tariff reform, and because it has lost the confidence of pa triotic men In both parties who love the American flag and are proud of the American soldier. For these reasons the National Democracy has no just hopes of successfully contesting a Presi dential election before 1908. It Is true that the National campaign does not take place until 1904, but the events of the next year do not promise to alter' the present outlook. By a year from the present date the candidate of the Re publican party and the issues which he will represent will have been finally de termined. In the Winter and Spring of 1904 the choice of delegates will be made, but there will be no uncertainty as to the action of the National Conven tion long before these delegates are chosen. Nothing short of some very Im portant, unexpected and far-reaching event can possibly change the present outlook, which i$3 that President Roose velt will be easily, elected his own suc cessor. Assuming, then, that the Democratic party has no chance of success in 1904, what platform can It hope to succeed upon in 1908? Its only hope, in our judgment, is to become a socialist party. The Bryanlte following at the West would probably welcome a platform of this sort, and there is5 a deal more so cialism at the East than there is pop ulism. There were nearly 35,000 votes polled for the socialist candidate this yearin Massachusetts. It may not be denied that the labor problem is reslst lessly forcing Itself into American poli tics. Many thoughtful men In both par ties have reluctantly reached the con clusion that we shall be obliged to choose between government by the managers of concentrated capital,-possessed of a monopoly of public necesrl tles, and government ownership of all great public utilities that ares popular necessities which must not be monop olized in outrage of the common weal. Neither party has yet made any deci sive declaration on this question, but the time Is not far distant when neither party can afford to dodge it There are a good many Republicans who believe in Government ownership; there are a good many Democrats who THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FKIDAY, do not believe in it. It is quite possi ble that by 1908 on this issue there may be a realignment of parties, as there was in 1896 on the Issue of honest money. This is the only burning ques tion of the future, and it will not be dis posed of by the Republican party's pro posed regulation of trusts, or by tariff reduction as an adequate protection against monopoly and privilege. The popular temper will sooner or later wel come a party that demands radical trust, regulation and public control of public service monopoly. If the Repub lican party answers this demand, it will keep in power; if it does not, "it will be forced to give way to the Democratic party, standing on the platform of pub lic ownership of public service monop oly. NO COLOR LINE AMONG REPUBLIC ANS. President Roosevelt received a warm welcome from the colored people of Memphis, afcd he deserved it, for he has acted the part of a man in refusing to prescribe- any American citizen on the ground of race or color. By his recent removal pf Collector Bingham, In Ala bama, the President showed that he would not permit a Federal officer to use his position and his prestige under a Republican administration to draw a color line In the party. If the color line were established in the South, Collector Bingham could not logically object to the reduction of the representation of Alabama in the Republican National Convention pro rata with the Repub lican white vote. How would he and his fellow white politicians like that? The Republican party knows no color line as a matter of justice, and could not afford to know one as a mere mat ter of selfish policy. In Ohio there are 25.000 colored voters, and there must be an equal number in New York State. The states of the South, of course, can do as they please in the matter of suffrage, but the Re publican party recognizes no color line in Its National conventions. As a party it repudiates the racial injustice and In equality which Collector Bingham saeks to establish as the law and practice of the party In the Southern States. It Is reported that President Roosevelt will appoint Dr. William D. Crum Collector of the port of Charleston, S. C, despite the protests of the "Illy whites" of both partlea There 19 nothing against Dr. Crum except his negro blood. He Is a man of culture, accomplishments and character. His political opponents ad mit that his life Is without reproach, and concede his capacity for the office. The only objection offered to his ap pointment by the Mayor of Charleston and others Is that the appointment of any man of negro blood would be of fensive to the white Democracy of South Carolina. So much the worse for that white Democracy if it opposes the right of a free man to hold an office for which he ia fitted by education, by brains and character. The- social equality shibbo leth is a ghost that won't walk. Social equality is not fixed by law In this coun try; It takes care of itself. The great French novelist, Alexander Dumas, was the son of a brilliant French General who was a mulatto, and his negro blood showed strongly in the hair, complexion and features of his famous son. Push kin, the greatest poet of Russia, was of negro blood. Paris was proud of Dumas and St. Petersburg of Pushkin, and some of us even In America are today proud of Booker T. Washington, who Is welcome in London's highest and most exclusive aristlcratic circle, the same circle that welcomes Ambassador Choate. The New York Evening Post recently published some extracts, from the diary of a cultivated French gentle man of" noble blood, who lived saveral years in this country. Among other In cidents recorded we note the following: Dined with J. B. Smlth a colored caterer, Boston's Chevet. He sent' my wife, on our arrival, a magnificent bouquet. I went with Mr. Phillips to thank him. I found him at his home in Cambridgeport. with his wife (very white and well bred). I did not decline Smith's Invitation to dine with him. My wife and Mrs. M. W. Chapman were with me; the other guests were Sumner and Longfellow. The din ner was excellent. Longfellow was extremely gracious, and conversed with much warmth. Here we sse a polished French gentle man and a distinguished Senator of the United States and a famous poet, all of them men of fine culture and refined tastes and manners, who did not shrink from dining with an intelligent, well bred man of color. Longfellow never was conspicuous at all as an anti-slavery agitator, but he " was a Well-bred man who was too manly to manifest any race prejudice against a man of negro blood who was well bred, upright and intelligent. The Republican party has no quarrel with negrophobists in politics, but the Republican party is content to be in a minority In the South before it accepts negrophobia as its po litical philosDphy, faith and practice. A SOLDIER'S APPEAL. Major Robert K. Evans, of the Army, made a point in an after-dinner talk at the Loyal Legion banquet In this city Wednesday which deserves emphasis. Speaking for "The American Soldier," he declared that In two particulars he has not been fairly treated by the coun try In the recent wars In Cuba and the Philippines. "Your soldier man," he said, "by the rules of his trade Is In. some respects a servile instrument ser vile in the sense that his first duty Is to obey and In the further sense that mili tary discipline makes him almost an au tomaton in his dependence upon his offi cers and In his work on the battle field." And under these conditions, con tinued the speaker, the soldier is enti tled to efficient command, and he is most grievously treated when subjected to untrained and incompetent officers commissioned through political or other "outside" motives. Proceeding, Major Evans declared that both in the Quban and Philippine service commands of conspicuous importance, calling for skilled professional judgment, were In the hands of men with" no military train ing and no moral right to command. He cited instances, in one of which his immediate battalion participated, in which brave and patriotic men went to their death through the incompetence of un'skllled commanders; and with a sup pressed but passionate emphasis he de clared that the blood of these dead was upon the head of somebody who, for some political or private motive, had Imposed upon "the soldier man" an In competent and blundering authority. Proceeding to his second point, Major Evans declared that the American sol dier is entitled to the best tools of his trade to the best guns, the best ammu nition and the best appliances In general. And yet, he pointed out, the Spaniards had better guns than the greater part of the American troops in Cuba; and even the Filipinos were better supplied with smokeless powder. In the Philip pines our. regular troops werer well .armed, but the greater number of the NOVEMBER f volunteer regiments carried guns of in ferior and obsolete pattern, rendering them, man for man, other things being equal, at a disadvantage. A nation which has mcney for eyeTythlng else, the speaker declared, Is morally guilty ! or something like it when it sends its j sons to fight lis battles Inadequately armed and so ill supplied in the matter of powder as to be at a disadvantage in every contact with the enemy. And, he declared, it is no excuse that nothing better is on hand, for a Nation like ours' Is guilty when she does not keep on hand ready for any emergency what ever Is requisite for the effective service of her soldier eons and for every possi ble measure ofprotection that may be given them. jThere Is weight In these points. A man who thus appeals for the American soldier has a title to speak in plain terms and with utmost emphasis. Where complaisance on the cne hand and econ omy on the other are practiced at the risk of the soldier's life, it Is indeed a case for plain speech. Major Evans is right when he declares that there i3 no excuse for being short of modern guns, for not having on hand adequate sup piles of smokeless powder, for sending our soldier lads to face better tools and better facilities than their own. He Is right when he demands that the Gov ernment get the best In the shape of guns, no matter at what cost, and maintain such supply, at no matter what cost, that its soldier sons shall not be compelled to face disadvantage and even death as the effect of a stupid eco nomical "prudence." Edwin D. Mead, an ardent antl-im-perlallst, quotes approvingly "from Charles Sumner's address before, the Boston Peace Society in 1S45 on "The 1 True Grandeur of Nations. This was the voice of an anti-slavery Whig who was opposed to the Mexican War, but this came Mr. Sumner did his best by his inflammatory speech in the United States Senate on the Alabama claims to involve us in war with Great Britain under Grant's first administration. In this famous speech Mr. Sumner went so far aa to Insist that it was our duty to expel Great Britain from North Amer ica by the forcible annexation. of Can ada. Mr. Sumner always was an apostle of peace except when the shooting was done with his permission and approval. It seems to be a foregone conclusion that coal consumers must bear the bur den of increase in miners' wages if this Increase is allowed. The possibility that the profits of operators might be some what reduced In order to let the miners have a living wage and still be large does not enter into the discussion of the question. Simply stated, miners must either be held down to a wage insuffi cient to furnish themselves and families with the comforts of life, or coal con sumers must stand a rise in the price of coal that will be keenly felt, especially by the poor. The profits of the wealthy operators cannot be diminished. That point seems to be settled. Somethings are too absurd for even Wayne Mac Veagh to talk about. The sturdy lads of Oregon who are willing to serve their country as naval officers should begin o "study up." There are still two vacancies In the Naval Academy awaiting Oregon boys, examinations for which will be held in April. While it is a matter of regret that several applicants have failed to pass the required tests,' this should not deter others from entering the lists, but rather encourage vigorous, earnest ef fort. Nominations will be made March 5 and examinations will be held a month later. "Brace up," boy9. Don't let these vacancies at Annapolis continue to mock your patriotism or your capa bility with their emptiness. The provincial towns (of England are securing better service, as regards gas, water and markets by municipal man agement, while also reducing their rates out of the profits. Darlington in six years has made a net profit of $350,000, relieving the rates of each family in the town to an average amount of 7 50. Birmingham's profits in five years are $618,640; Bolton's, $1,002,325; Leeds', $872,015; Nottingham's, $620,000; Man chester's, $2,210,600, while the water rate also has been reduced from 5d to ld in the pound. The operators would much prefer sep arate unions of the anthracite and the bituminous miners. It will probably not be maintained that they take this stand out of any desire to benefit the status of the men. It is far more prob able that they think such segregation would facilitate their own tactics In the controversy. Nothing cpuld so convinc ingly approve the course of President Mitchell in contending for a common union. The world of Intelligent, spiritual con ception and growth, regardless of de nominational lines, will lose a friend and counsellor In the death of Rev. Jo seph Parker, the great English Congre gationalist preacher. Dr. Parker repre sented to progressive religion under one name what Dr. James Martlneau rep resented under another. There was some distinction, perhaps, between the tenets of the two, but little difference. The attractive pictures put before the Irrigation Convention by t'.;c various counties with promising reclamation projects made an Impressive exhibit In local loyalty, and In the aggregate min istered powerfully to state pride. It is permitted every citizen to view these widely scattered regions with uniform hope and pride, and to feel a larger con fidence in the great future of Oregon. Of the present Generals of the regu lar Army, thirty-four- in all, only eight are graduates of West Point. Not one of the Major-Gcnerals, of whom there are seven, Is a graduate, nor is the Lieu-tenant-Gcneral. Of the other Generals but two rose from the ranks of the reg ular Army., The rest were appointed officers from civil life, or have come up from the volunteers of 1861-65. R. L. Smith, the Booker T. Washing ton of Texas, enjoys the distinction of representing a white district in the Texas Legislature, although himself a colored man. He is at the head of the Farmers' Improvement Society, an or ganization of negroes, who own 50,000 acres of well-stocked land and expended upon It last year $30,000 for Improve ments. Secretary Hitchcock has checkmated W. H. Odell's progress In the great land game in which he has been playing a lone hand for some time. "Tbe appli cations," says the Secretary of the .In terior, "do not conform tQ-.the, regula tions." This is decisive. No doubt it is also just, 2i; . 1902. SPIRIT- OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS A Rule Reversed. Walla Walla Union. The coal barons may think that might makes right, but John Mitchell's trl- umphant way -of standing off his sophistic I cross-examiners proves that right makes t m5sht- Here's a Lops-IIcnded Publicist. Salem Journal. t ' ' What interest have other towns in Ore- j gon in making Portland a city of a 1 quarter of a million? Like other cities., j she would suck the life-blood out of all the rest of the state. j I Unduly Pessimistic. Albany Democrat. ( The great question before the next Con- 1 gress will be that of the tariff. There j is a strong sentiment in the Republican : party In favor of tariff revision, but tne country prosperity In unparalled meas bosses in the "party have decreed other- urc. we have seen at the same time wise, so that when Congress meets It Is nearly nil of Its benpfits usurped by the verv doubtful if the party permits any thing of the kind. In fact, it will not be done, for the simple reason that a re vision cf the tariff will bo detrimental to the Interests cf the trusts, and regardless of talk for nolltical effect, the party 13 not going to do anything serious to the trusts. Some people can see tnis, some j cannot, and some do not wish to. Sny It's Too Much. The Dalles Times-Mountaineer. Since Governor Geer has refused to .. . . .... , -r-i nsten to tne pminuve appcui 01 jtu. for an extra session of Legislature the-. Lfwis and Clark Exposition, let the people of that city who are connected with the management of the fair become a little more modest in their demands. Let them ask for a reasonable appropria tion at the hands of the Legislature, one that will be proportionatewith the benefits to be derived by the state at large, say. J250.CO0. Such an appropriation will very nkejy mcPf the approval of a majority in- both houses, and will be sanctioned by the j neonle crcnerallv throughout the state. It will receive attention early In the session, and a referendum vote will hardly be de manded. An Important Point. Salem Statesman. All thenn npnnln who nrt talkintr about Irrigation of the arid lands of tho state by the Government or by private Individ uals forget one thing. They forget that the people who are expected to buy and settle on the lands are likely to be pos sessed of some Intelligence. Under the rule of caveat emptor, they will look out for themselves to some extent. It Is con tended by some of the people who are op posed to private enterprise that the Carey law does not make any provision to fur nish the settlers with water perpetually. But the private persons or corporations would havo to see to It that the land was sold before they couhl get their profits. They would have to find buyers. And they would have to offer them somo in ducements in order to sell them the land. Over in Washington.' perpetual water rights are sold with the land, by irriga tion and land companies, who are not operating under any act at all. They offer this inducement in order to get their money and profits out of their lands. They could not find bifjjers In any other way If they offered less. The, thing for the" people of Oregon to do Is to get all the arid lands Irrigated possible, and as fast as possible. Delivery of the 28. Spokane f.pokesman-Revlew. With characteristic egotism, Wilson Is parading the boast, "I cast 2S votes for Foster for United States Senator." He follows this boast by revealing In the Ta coma Ledger a part of the consideration of that deal. He declares that he drew from Foster a signed contract the price of his delivery of his deluded supporters. Tills contract had at least five sections, and Wilson has published the fifth sec? tlon, being a promise" from Foster to sup port him for tho Senate In 1903. Tho other clauses of the contract are not re vealed by Wilson, and probably will not be revealed. They would disclose more than Wilson would care to have the peo ple know. More, perhaps, than he would want the obliging 2S to know. There is nothing surprising In this .revelation. It is what-was expected by persons cogni zant of Wilson's career and methods. But it is surprising to find Wilson engaged In a ridiculous effort, after this confession, to round up another bunch of Legislators for use as trading stock at Olympla this Winter. Members who might attach themselves to this political huckster, after these amazing admissions, could not hope to escape one of two classifications. They would elOier be regarded as exceedingly stupid or' as alert and vigilant to offer themselves for trading purposes. Idnho Is Interested. Lewlston Tribune. There is every reason to believe Mr. Ankeny would make the Improvement of the river as a whole his first Interest and duty In Congress, as. doubtless would Mr. John L. Wilson, though In the nature of things the latter's 'concern could scarcely be so immediate and direct as the for mer's. In fact, any man of sufficient in telllcence and discretion to find his way to Washington without being taken there In handcuffs by the Sheriff would neces sarily understand tho importance of open ing this free highway to the sea. Even Idaho has been known to send men there who would vote right on the question on roll-call. What Idaho will do hereafter In this respect cannot now be seen. Congressman-elect French understands v.e situation clearly, and will undoubtedly act vigorously In the public interest. The Senatorship ia a dense puzzle at this time, nnd when It Is settled it may be merely a means of distributing postmastershlps rather than for the furtherance of a great economic benefit like the open river. But It ought to be made plain that the river question Is the greatest of all questions to the people of all the region drained by the Columbia, while the postmastershlps and similar considerations not only con cern only a few, but can be disposed of just as satisfactorily by those large enough to understand and Influence the politics of river legislation. The river would be open today If the people had only stood up for It and demanded It. Appropriations large enough to secure continuity of the work to an early com pletion could be secured at any Congress If the people made that the first consid eration for sending men to Congress. It is the dereliction of the people as an ex ample to the Congressmen that Is pri marily responsible for the delay and half heartedness In making a commercial high way out of the second river in the Nation In Importance and capacity for usefulness, but some day the people will rise and de mand that the way be opened, and then it will be opened. Old Grimes, Jr. Boston Globe. "Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more" Until some mighty trust shall buy That far-off "Golden Shore." He was as honest as the sun. And all his bills did pay. So consequently had to wear His Winter suit In May. He paid good wages to his men; He must have been insane; He lived a simple, quiet life And never did complain. He helped the widow In her need. His name the orphans knew; He had but one new hat a year, And boots he had but two. His life was like a Summer day; He always wore a smile; Tls sad to think he lived In vain Who might have lived In style. Tcs, he Is gone, good old man Grimes, We ne'er shall see him more; He was so far behind the times , Ho should have died before. CAST OFF THE LINES. Baltimore American. It is earnestly to be hoped that the re port that President Roosevelt has deter- j mined to let Wall Street look out for Itself is true. The President of the United states Is not elected to advance or protect the Interests of any particular class of citizens, or special group of men. His utia to who, ?le' He owes " t0 them' became of their suffrages, and under his oath to .so administer the affairs of the Government that the welfare of all the people will be conserved. It Is better by far that any coterie of speculators. body of promoters, or particular company pf cap,tallsts shouId be disturbed, ur.- clone and subjected to less than that the grCat mass of the people should be made the vlctiirn'of undue financial burden3. While we have seen restored to the issrs, the masses having been almost entirely excluded from participation In prosperity's prrfits. Capital Is today stronger ard bolder than It has over been. The people, on the other hand, are 4n a sorry plight, the cost of living steadily advancing wfclla wages remain stationary. 'inis condition demanas that some curort he put fcrth for is correction, and Prcs idcr.i Roosevelt can do no wiser nor more popular thing than to cast oft the Hne3 that now hind the financial depart ment of the Government to Wall trcct. Kr.a. laKinir ine ncim doicuv ana iear- .. .f4) Mr Mnrr .I,-,, urr, tQ fte Therc Qre - 1 be curbed, monopoly to h-i crushed, dan gerous and grinding combinations to be thwarted in their designs against the peo ple. This 13 work enough for one man, and It Is work that should be pleasing to a man of the type of Roosevelt. The foe Si .powerful enough to furnish all the en tertainment he desires and he Is quite likely to realize a new phase of the stren uous life before success shall crown hln efforts. But let him once raise the rtand- ar. Ct him call, and the people will rally to his support. Irrespective of their party affiliations. The trusts have become a public men-, ace. They must be dealt with, tind If Theodore Roosevelt will write Into his forthcoming message to Congress adec laration which, by his subsequent action, shall become a proclamation of emancl- patlon from tho trusts. he will have 'made good" his claim to the confidence of the people and continued preferment In their favcr. The anti-trust fight Is the battle of the moment. To avoid It would mean official disaster for Roosevelt and his party. To take up the gage and force the fighting until the evil of modern cap italistic combinations shall have been put under adequate control means for Roose velt and the Republican party realization of the highest ambitions an American can entertain. Cast off the llne, President Roosevelt, Congress must back you up. The Divorce Record. San Francisco Bulletin. Tho latest official figures show that there are in the United States 114.CO0 di vorced women, against 81.000 divorced men. The greater number of divorced women is accounted for on the ground that a larger proportion of divorced men marry a second time than of divorced women. It Is assumed that tho greater ability of the divorced husband to earn money enables him to marry a second tlrno. The woman In most cases has to await the coming of a man who Is at once agreeable and able to support a family. While there are Instances of wives who seek divorce in the hope of improving their financial condition, by far the larger part of wives will cling to their homes. If home is not all the' had hoped for. The mother's attachment to her chldren Is ad mittedly stronger than the father's, and for this reason. If for no other, she only applies for divorce when release from marriage vows is forced upon her. Ask an unhappy wife why sh does not. apply for a divorce, nnd her eyes will turn In voluntarily to her children. There are In stances of husbands who have given their wives abundant rause for dlvorco who still love their children. The wife In such cases is yenerally sacrificed to the mother. The divorce record also show? that In Utah, where until recently plural marriages were the rule, the proportion of divorced women is less than In states where the law allows the man but one wife. This fact cannot be advanced as an argument in support of polygamy, but it may throw some light upon one of the causes of divorce. Need of the Post Currency. BInghamton Leader. The 57th Congress will reassemble In a few weeks and it is widely hoped that a part of Its work will be the passage of the post check currency bills, which pro vide for a practical and convenient meth od of sending small 'sums of money by mail. A great deal has been written on this subject and there are few who do not know that this method is simply an Uiue of currency that can be circulated as cash and also be safely remitted by mall, because when mailed it will be made payable only to one person whose name Is written in the blapk space that Is left for that purpose. Under the present money-order system safety can be assured only at the sacri fice of convenience, and convenience can be consulted only by disregarding the ele ment of safety. The post check plan is both convenient and safe, and, being so. it is just what the public needs In Its line. The business interests and the press favor it with virtual if not actual unanimity, and. in fact, the full measure of popularity It has won is a warrant, if not an order, for Its adoption by Congress. Tariff Revision AHNured. San Francisco Call. The Call said that the retirement of Speaker Henderson definitely settled the future of tariff revision and established it as a Republican policy. Current develop ments prove the correctness of our fore cast. The West controls the next House. No Eastern candidate for the Speaker ship Is considered. That power will pass from Iowa to Illinpis with the election of Cannon, and a Western man. probably Babcock of Wisconsin, will supplant Payne of New York at the head of the committee of ways and means. Though contradictory reports are given out, there is every reason to believe that the com ing short session of Congress will be fol lowed by an extra session comprehen sively to revise the tariff. This is a bold policy on the eve of the Presidential elec tion of 1904. but tho Republican party has never been cowardly in its course upon any subject, and as It Is now dominated by revisionists that work will not be done piecemeal, by amendment haphaz ard, but by an entirely new bill that will wipe tho Dlngley bill off the statutes en tirely. To a Footliprht Chnrmcr, The Brooklyn Eagle. I Fat last night In an orchestra chair. And studied your features so wondrously fair A nleasure it was. I confess. Although you spoke naught but the lines of the slay. Your- voice o'er my heart exerted a sway I cannot find words to express. And yet, as I sat In that orchestra chair. Some troublesome thoughts occurred to me there. Now, Julie DeVere is a beautiful name, And truly I hope you were christened the same. And not a plain Maggie O'Toole. The newspapers tell me that twenty's your age. But many are that for years on the stage I hope you have broken that rule. And yet, as I sat In that orchestra chair. Such troublesome Questions occurred to me there. The programme informs me that you are a "Miss." Yet some programmes err in matters like this. For bllls-of-the-play will deceive; The man who was playing the monster bazoo. .For all that I know, may be married to you. Although it is hard to believe. And yet. as I sat in that orchestra chair, Annoylne surmises w.ould come to me there. NOTE AND COMMENT. The man who will take a dare frequent ly has to take it farther than he wishes. It Is quite proper that a girl who is a vision should be seen In a dream of a drcso. Fire-escapes are compulsory now. Tho question Is what will they do with the unfortunates who do not escape? The unknown persons who dynamited the gambling dens in Chicago possibly found It the only way to make a raise. Curfew will not ring tonight. But the curfew bellcp. will still be open to the sweet protestations of youth with a ring. Tho proposition to tax bachelors is be hind the times. Every single man In this country now has to pay tribute to every fair woman. It has been finally announced that Teddy, Jr., left school on account of his rye:. AVhy couldn't the rest of us make that excuse go? The poor little girl who ran away to Baker City may thank her stars that homesickness came upon her while she yet had a home. There Is a nostalgia too bitter for tears when the place of affection Is darkened forever. Klng. Leopold has resolved to live bet- ter hereafter. He Is a cood man. and everybody hope3 that a life so marked by domestic virtue, fatherly kindness and respect for the Ten Commandments may long be spared to his devoted people. A Chicago preacher warned the girls of his congregation against dudes, dead game sports, the man who promised to reform after marriage, and the young man who'didn't believe in religion. Girls, there's only one thing for you to do. Come Wc3t. A man whose experience in society has been limited to a modest range was In vited not long ago to a very swell house where there were maid servants and man servants. He stayed and enjoyed himself hugely for a couple of weeks. On his re turn he was asked by a less-favored friend what he had discovered. "Noth ing much," was his response, "except one thing. "What is that?" came the query. "I now know the definition of a maid." "Yes?" "A maid Is a woman who is dressed at 7 A. M." An urchin of an inquiring temperament discovered a new thing about Chinese queues yesterday. The Chinaman whqm he'used to experiment on was dickering with a lottery ticket vender, and this proved so engrossing that he did not no tice when the small boy gave the end of his pigtail a couple of turns about a doorknob. His chaffering finished, the Celestial started off and was brought up roundly. In the endeavor to twist his head to see what the matter was, he broke the strands and his sleek locks dis integrated, unraveled and showed that all but the six Inches nearest the scalp was made of fine black thread. This strange phenomenon bewitched the lad who was the cause of the trouble, and he Incau tiously approached to get a nearer view. The Infuriated Chinaman spied him, gave vent to barbarian language, caught him by the slack of his breeches and spanked him In improved Western style. When the fracas was over the bp standers" were unable to decide "Who the madder, the ' boy or the Chinaman. The tall was fal3e. The story thereof Is true. A Helena hack driver smiled Inoppor tunely at a somewhat funny slip In Stuart Robson's tenses one night last week, the story runs, and lost a fare. Incidentally he uncorked the vials of the eminent Thespian's wrath. The Incident happened In the front of the Grandon. Robson, tired from Interpreting his Shakespearean role, was pacing the floor of the rotunda within. The driver waited outside In the cold. The actor was to be carried to the Northern Pacific depot. But he seemed to have forgotten the fact. He dallied and the horses stamped. The cabby, with visions of other "work ahead, grew Impatient. He opened the door and looked in. His appearance clearly disturbed Robson, for he broke off his meditations and emerged frowning. "Isn't it your business to wait until I am ready to go?" said he. "It Is, but I can't wait all night. I have another fare," replied the driver. "And the train Is almost due at that," he added. "Sir," said Robson, drawing himself up, "you contracted with my manager to take me where I choosed and to do so when I choosed." A startled look from the driver greeted the first "choosed." The second caused a smile to flit across his face. The player caught the glance and turned on his heel. "I shall employ another cab," he called over his shoulder, "or maybe I shall walk to the depot." "Do," came the reply through the dark ness, "and be hanged." Members of hl3 company. It Is stated, cooled their lead er's wrath sufficiently to induce him to give up his determination to walk, and try another cab. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS He Carrie, I believe you think I'm a fool. She And yet you say I'm always in the wrong. Boston Transcript. Alice What do you do when Jack talks foot ball to you? Julia Well, I try to look intelli gent. Detroit Free Press. A man feels blue with trouble, red with rage, white with fear, yellow with envy, and green with Jealousy. Baltimore American. "If I should die rich. I'd leave my money to establish a much-needed Institution." "What Is that?" "A dormitory for policemen on night duty." Puck. Gerald As it Is to be a secret engagement. It would not be wise for me to give you a rinse at present. Geraldlne Oh. but I could wear It on the wrong hand. Judge. "Yes. Muggins is an innocent, trusting indi vidual." "I should say so. Why. that man can buy a cheap pair of patent leather shoes and think they won't crack!" Baltimore Her ald. "Why Is sulcclde wrons?" shouted the free thlnklng crank. "Because It Interferes with digestidn. respiration and other Important func tions of the body," answered the health crank. Life. "So you had a successful hunting trip?" "Eminently successful. We didn't bring back any game, but nobody was shot by any of the other members of the party." Washington Star. Mamma I was surprised and shocked by the coldness with which you greeted Miss Boresuro when she called. Ethel Yes. mamma, but 1 made up for It later. Mamma Did you? Ethel Yes, indeed, you should have seen how cordially I bade her good-bye. Philadelphia Press. Doctor (flndlng patient sampling a bottle ot whisky) Here, here, my man, that will nevar do. That's the cause of all the trouble. Face tious Patient Well, then, fill your class, doc tor. Now we've found the cause, the 30oner we get rid of it the better. Glasgow Evening Times. Fond Mother I do wish you would look over some of my little boy's sketches, and give me your candid ooinion of them. They strike ma as perfectly marvelous for one so young. Tho other day he drew a horse and cart, and, I can assure you. you could scarcely tell th difference! Punch, -