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THE MORNING- OfcEGONIAN. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1901 Entered at the Postofflce at Portland. Oresaa. as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION BATE 3. B.T MaI1 PotKo prepaid, in advance) Dai y. with Sunday, per month $ M IJtUy. Sunday excepted, per year T BO IJaUy. with Sunday, per year.. 8 03 Sunday, per year ... . . . . . . . 2 00 Th Weekly, per year I 50 The Wceky 3 months ... 80 To City Subscribers JWIy. per week, delivered. Sunday excepted. I5o aliy. per -week, delivered. Sunday included.H3 - POSTAGE RATES. fttlB!t.e? States. Canada and Mexico: 30 to M-par paper.. ..........to t as-page paper So Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication In The OregronSan should be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The OreRonlan." net to the name r individual, letters relating to adverting-, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." Eastern Business Office. 43. . 43. 47. 48. 49 Tribune building. 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C. by the Ebbett House news stand. For sale In Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & "Kendrick. S06-812 Seventeenth street: Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co.. Fifteenth and Lawrence street: A. Series. Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TODAY'S WEATHER Occasional rain, with southerly winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature. 47; minimum temperature. 36; pre cipitation. 1.56 Inches. PORTLAND, TUESDAY, DEC. J), 1002. When a representative of The Orego nlan visited Seattle, Olympla and Spo kane some months ago and pointed out the hopelessness of the anti-railroad campaign upon which Governor Mc-. Bride was then entering, the prediction was laughed to scorn by the Governor's devoted and enthusiastic following. It Is ninety days yet before the "Washing ton Legislature will adjourn, yet even now the railroad commission sky Is cov ered over with the darkest kind of clouds. If Governor McBride cannot see that he has chosen the most Inaus picious hour in the history of his state for an assault upon its railroads, his dis cernment certainly falls most ignomln lously short of his energy and resolution. The City of Seattle is today centering its splendid buslnesa-and political re sources upon the field of transconti nental and trans-Pacific trade. The co lossal figure and the commanding gen eral of this movement, universally trust ed and admired, is J. J. Hill. What he plans, Seattle will help to execute. What he wants. Seattle will give him. 'The city of Tacoma is gasping for railroad favor, and Spokane itself, in spite of Its coquetting with McBride, looks to Its railroads to maintain and advance its commercial position. The whole state.Is substantially in this position, not of sub servience or truckling to railroad cor ruptionlsts, but of anxiety to co-operate with railroad brains and money for the state's advantage at a critical moment In Its history. If a commission bill is passed at Olympla, it will be shorn of its claws. It will neither hurt the rail Toads nor help McBride. No territory should be brought Into the Union or kept out upon grounds of partisan gain or loss. The lives and for tunes of hundreds of thousands of peo ple cannot honestly or decently be made the football of political ambitions. Yet everybody knows that just this discred itable thing will be done so long as we have territories to supplicate. In the fu ture as It has been done in the past. The pitiful thing about it is. the near sightedness that has to do duty lor po litical prescience. The objection to Ari zona and New Mexico is their unfitness, and not their probable affiliation with the Democratic party. The view that these Western communities, with the ir rigation and immigration, railroad and mining development that even now are "beginning to make them over into TJtahs and Oregons, will remain Democratic for any considerable length of time Is precisely as fatuous as the similar view concerning Oregon forty-four years ago. Oregon's admission was strenuously re sisted In the North, by those who looked upon it as a sure and permanent Demo cratic state, and it was finally admitted through the efforts of men to whose longer vision It seemed clear that the forces already in operation would com mit the state to the Republican cause. The sequel showed; for Oregon voted for Lincoln at the very next elefitlon, and row for many long years has been one of the most dependable states in the Re publican column. It will be just so with the remaining territories. There is noth ing In the doctrines of the Democratic party today to commend Itself to husky, hopeful young communities of the far West What the Rocky Mountain States dld in November of this year, Arizona and New Mexico will do whenever they are admitted to the Union. Juries sometimes render queer ver- diets. Mrs. Eliza Heath, editor of the Mamaroneck (N. Y.) Democrat, was re cently indicted for criminal libel upon Miss Annie Lynch, schoolteacher. Mrs. Heath was president of a self-appointed vigilance committee on educational management, and sent a letter to Miss Lynch and to the president of the local Board of Education demanding her res ignation, and charging her with miscon duct and writing obscene letters. On trial not the slightest evidence of any sort against the virtue of Miss Lynch was produced. One witness testified that he had once seen Miss Lynch in a buggy sitting partly In a physician's lap, but only when there were three persons in the buggy. Mrs. Heath admitted that she did not know of any single "un virtuous act" which Miss Lynch had ever committed. The physician testified that he was the family physician of the Lynches, and that when the Lynch sis ters came to his house they were always driven back by his wife or himself. In face of all this testimony and the wan ton and wicked libel which attacked a woman's virtue without cause or excuse, the jury acquitted the prisoner, thus re fusing legal vindication to an innocent young woman who had been grossly ma ligned by one of those she-cats who are sometimes permitted by an. Inscrutable Providence to conduct a country weekly newspaper. Some twenty years ago a New England jury acquitted a man charged with the murder of his wife in order to marry hla paramour. The evi- dence of guilt was so overwhelming that some weeks after the trial the Prosecut ing Attorney asked one of the jurymen if they had any doubt of the veracity of the witnesses or of the accuracy of the medical testimony, and he replied: "Oh, no; we believed 'the deacon' was guilty without question, but we thought that woman he wanted to marry had 'kind of befuddled him,' and. so we agreed to acquit." The six railroad systems which touch or directly connect with Omaha subr scribed to the fund in support of the ex position -of 1898 in the following-named sums: The Chicago & Northwestern,' $30,000;. the Burlington, $30,000; the Union Pacific, $20,000;, the Rock Island, $20,000; the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul, $10, 000; the Missouri Pacific, $15,000. The subscription of the Western Union Tele graph Company was $5000. At Nashville four railroads gave in the aggregate $107,000.. At Atlanta, when the exposi tion subscription was making In 1894, all the railroads were in the hands of re ceivers, and they were not permitted to make any subscription, but at a later time the court in control so far modified its instruction as to permit the taking of exposition bonds to the extent of $50, 000. Not being able to do what they deemed the fair thing by the enterprise, the railroad managers found a multitude of ways by which they could directly serve the financial interest of the. expo sition management, carrying great quantities of freight at nominal rates and otherwise contributing Indirectly to the exposition treasury. Each of the three expositions was organized upon a basis similar to that projected for Port land, although in no Instance did the popular and voluntary contribution equal that which has been pledged here. At the time these expositions were held only one of the three cities named had a population equal to that of Portland at this time. WHAT IS A NATION f The anti-Imperialist press continues to charge our Government with having been guilty of far more outrageous ag gression in the Philippines thah any thing that England did to the colonies on which we. justify our Revolutionary War. In its criticism of the message of the President, the Lewlston (Me.) Sun says: This very good order that President Roose velt boasts ot forcing upon, the Filipinos will probably be as great Injury as benefit to them. The history or civilization Is that the really valuable civilizations are such as nation alities have worked out for themselves. This English 'and American liberty of ours, the most perfect ever known, was worked out by generations of struggle. No other superior Nation, came and taught us liberty. Let us examine this dogmatic state ment in the light of history. The an cient Briton was not only conquered, but essentially absorbed by the Invad ing Saxon; the Saxon was conquered and largely civilized by the Norman. The Anglo-Normans subdued Ireland. The emigrant English in America exter minated the Algonquins of New Eng land, crushed the "Six Nations" of the Iroquois In New York, the Delawares In "Pennsylvania, the Creek Confederacy in the South, and at a later date subjugat ed the Sioux Nation and the other pow erful tribes of the trans-Mississippi re gion. It looks very much as if peoples who were quite as fit for government as the various tribes of the Philippine Archipelago had been reduced to a con dition of reasonable law, order and lib erty under law by far niore peremptory and thorough treatment than we have attempted to apply to our Asiatic pos sessions. This "brings us naturally to consider whether the Filipinos ever stood for a nation or a government In the same sense as the American colonies when we defied England. The historian Profes sor McMaster has always defended our Philippine policy as- entirely in accord ance with our historical practice and precedent; the late John Flske assented to it, and now Woodrow Wilson, presi dent of Princeton College, in the Decem ber Atlantic, recalls the fact that Ed mund Burke, who aproved of America as standing for an ordered government with Institutions sealed and confirmed by debate and the suffrages of free men, declined to approve of the new liberty in France until he "was informed how it had been combined with government; with public force; with the discipline and obedience of armies; with the collec tion of an effective and well-disciplined revenue; with morality and religion; with peace and order; with social and civil manners." The test of Burke is "how liberty has been combined with government," and under this test the United States could not afford in justice to the civilized world to relegate the scattered, marauding and piratical peo ples of the Philippines to their own de vices. Liberty not combined with gov ernment would have left ladrones on land and Malay pirates on the sea to fix the fate of the Philippines for a cen tury to come, until the civilized world seized and wrecked them as a pestilent nest of robbers. Because music is a good thing, men who love it do not attempt to erect an opera-house in a desert traversed by no mads or in a howling wilderness peo pled by wild beasts; and because liberty combined with government is. a good thing we do not leave It to be kicked about like a football by a mob of capri cious barbarians or ferocious anarchists The thought of Burke, "How liberty has been combined with government," is the test of the matter which Boutwell, Hoar, Schurz, Edmunds .& Co. always overlook In their latter-day indictment of an ex pansion policy that is as old as our Gov ernment; in their applause of Filipino Insurgents against It Washington cared nothing for liberty as a barren Ideality; he cared only for liberty when It was associated with order, with authority, for security of property, for public morality,- for the things that sustain and give dignity to liberty. Before Wash ington was elected President he wrote in 1786 of the Shays Rebellion in Mas sachusetts to Henry Lee, in Congress, who had suggested that Influence should be employed to appease the insurgents: "Influence Is no government. Let us have one by which our lives, liberties and properties will be secured." On the other hand, Jefferson openly favored the Shays Rebellion and claimed the Government had no right to suppress It, but Washington clearly be lieved with Edmund Burke that Jlberty i3 no more the birthright of the animal we call man than It is of the animal we call lion or tiger, or, as President Wil son puts it, "Liberty is the privilege of maturity, of self-control, of self-mas tery, and a thoughtful care for righteous dealings that some peoples may have it, therefore, and others may not." Burke's insistence that liberty is not In Itself government; that in the wrong hands, hands without skill or discipline, it is incompatible with government, is the conclusion that must be reached by those who know bow long and painful was the evolution of English liberty from the days of Magna Charts, In the thirteenth -century, to the revolution oft 1688 and from the revolution of 1688 to the reformed House of Commons of 1832. Our ancestors brought to America the discipline of law and order as well as love of liberty, and' the Filipinos cannot obtain self-government except as we o"b talnd it by accepting the discipline of law, learning to love order and respect it. To give the Filipinos independence today out of hand would be to set adrift a rudderless ship manned by a crew of freebooters. We cannot give them self government, but we can help them by our paternal care to become fit for it. The people of the Philippine Islands were not a nation; they are of many races, with nothing lit common except that they were for centuries In a state of arrested development caused by the Spanish rule. A people so diverse and heterogeneous could not today form a nation and be advantageously subjected to common forms of government devised by themselves. They must become fit by the education and discipline of our guiding hand. v VENEZUELA AND THE MONROE DOC TRINE. The claims of Germany against Vene zuela are estimated at about $2,000,000, and are connected with the non-payment of Venezuelan , bonds Issued a number "of years ago. to German capital ists for the building of railways. The claims of Great Britain relate to dam ages claimed by certain subjects of Great Britain, whose persons and prop erty it is asserted were unlawfully seized by the Venezuelan authorities In .January, 1901. There Is justicein Presi dent Castro's plea that his government In emerging from an expensive civil war is in no condition to meet the financial demands of Great Britain and Germany, but at the same time he will have to. .do something to satisfy the demands of the British and German claimanta President Roossyelt In his message plainly says that he has no sympathy for republlcL'vJhat fail to keep internal, order and pay their debts. Our Govern ment is prepared to see England and Germany collect their bills by any method that suits them short of seizing territory. Certain London newspapers with characteristic Insular ignorance take the position that Great Britain and Germany ought to hold the United States responsible for debts due by Ven ezuela to European creditors, or, as the Daily News puts it, "If the United States is to have the privileges of the Monroe Doctrine, it should also assume Its duties." The Monroe Doctrine could not possibly apply to the present situa tion unless the collection of . debts Is used as a pretext for the acquisition of territory. The day after the Monroe Doctrine was uttered the powers of Eu rope were just as free as before that date to collect debts due their subjects" by the threat of coercive measures, and If necessary by the seizure and tempor-" ary occupancy of Venezuelan Custom- Houses. Germany and Great Britain are among the powers signatory to the treaty of Berlins which guarantees the territorial life and Integrity of Turkey. The ques tion is fairly asked of the London presy whether the United States could justly hold these powers responsible for the collection of the debts which our Gov ernment holds to be due American citi zens by the government of the Sultan. The Government of the United States is responsible for the territorial life and integrity of the South American Repub lics against Europe, under the Monroe Doctrine, but it is no more responsible for the acts and debts of those republics than Great Britain was responsible for the massacre of the Armenians or for Turkey's unpaid American debts. The Monroe Doctrine simply affirms our pur pose to forbid any further European ac quisition of territory on the Western Hemisphere, to protect It from European expansion. Our Government Is not responsible for the recent civil disorder In Venezuela, nor for Its debts. We do not Interfere with the Internal affairs of the republics of South America, or attempt to screen them from the consequences of their failure to pay their public debts. We simply say that there; must be no exten sion of European power on this conti nent. When Napoleon III violated the Monroe Doctrine by his invasion of Mex ico, in 1863-4, we ordered him out and he obeyed as soon as victory set our armies free to enforce our will. We cannot under the Monroe Doctrine in terfere with Great Britain and Germany in their efforts to make Venezuela pay her debts, but If Great Britain or Ger mans attempted to appropriate the ter ritory of Venezuela, we should promptly interfere. SOCIAL INSTINCT NOT RESPONSIBLE. The Rev. Raymond Calkins, of Pitts field, Mass., at "a recent discussion of "The Saloon, Its Function and Perils" by some clerical and lay doctrinaires in New York City, said: The saloon is ministering to the social in stinct of the people, and that Is why it exer cises Ha mysterious and powerful Influence In every community. It Is an Information bureau. It Is a labor bureau, a postofflce. a place of recreation, amusement and fellowship. Mr. Calkins is doubtless a good, sin cere man, but he does not know what he- Js talking about. It is very clear that his observation of the saloon has been very superficial. People do not go to a liquor saloon for any other purpose except to get a drink. The love of al coholic stimulants is the. life of the liquor saloon. The vast" majority of people who visit a saloon leave it when they have obtained as much alcohol as they desire. Nobody who is truthful ever pretended that he went to a liquor saloon primarily except to get a drink. The man who needs recreation after labor can find it outside the saloon; he goes to the saloon because he wants al coholic stimulus. The saloon is a very email part of the drink evil. The drink evil cannot be cured by free coffee houses or reading-rooms as substitutes, for they are not substitutes, and never will be substitutes for the liquor saloon, simply because they do not furnish, liquor. No "ministering to the social in stinct of the people" will take the place of the saloon so long as th desire for alcoholic stimulants retains its sway. If there were no saloons there would be a bottle in the cupboard at home. Men can play at cards without gam bling and fln.d recreation; nevertheless there Is adeal of gambling, In the world. It would not close the gambling-places to establish a free coffee-house with cards, chess, checkers and dominoes next door, because the passion for gam bling is no more due to the social in stinct of the people than Is the appe tite for alcoholic stimulus. The earliest human literature records that man "had an appetite for alcoholic stimulus since the days ot Noah, and man has been a gamester as far back as we -have any authentic human history. It is deplorable that the vices of drink ing and gambling should continue ,to plague civilization; but Jet "lis Tie honest aboutTit and, not pretend- that the Influ ence of the saloon or the- gambling house Is 'due "to the fact that they min ister to the social Instinct of the beo- ple?" They do nbt;'th6 saloon ministers to the desire -for alcoholic stimulant, and the gambling-house ministers to that form of avarice which may be defined as a passion Ao get something by your wits or your luck which; you are hot willing to obtain by ork a hope to get something for nothing. The saloon and the-gambling den, no more can be explained br saying that they "minis ter to the social instinct of the people" than can the antiquity of the bagnio. Thomas Nast, the famous cartoonist of Harper's Weekly in the Civil War period and in the Greeley campaign of 1872, is dead at Guayaquil. Ecuador, where he was Consul-General at a salary of $3000 a year. He was a native of Hungary, but came to this country when a child. He was a man of genius as a caricatur ist, and the pages of Harper's Weekly, which he Illustrated during the Civil War, are Invaluable to the future his torian, as they caught the transient mood and -passion of a great people In an hour of tremendous test and trial. As an artist Nast made a deeper mark than any man who has followed him. 'j.ne aeciine of Nast was due to his own folly and want of .character. He treated George William Curtis, editor of Har per's Weekly, so offensively at times that it finally led to the severing of his connection with that journal. Nast had won all his best fame on the rpide of the Republican party, b.ut He now, sought employment as a caricaturist from Dem ocratic, journals, and in this work he uiaue Bume uruiai pictures ot men utte Chauncey Depew, who had always treated him with personal kindness and courtesy. Mr. Depew resented it by dropping Nast's acquaintance and refus ing to accept his explanation that "It was purely a matter of business." A good many other men imitated Depew's example and Nast found himself re garded as a mere mercenary who sold his pencil to anybody and for any pur pose who would employ it. He was a vain, consequential man, and the new situation mortified him. He then ven tured his money, of which he had at that time considerable, In Wall street and lost it. Then he took to the road, delivering lectures and illustrating them by his wonderful offhand chalk pictures on the blackboard. It was on this trip that he visited Portland about 1888 or 1889 and made the acquaintance of a number of our citizens, who were great ly Impressed with his talent as an artist and his emptiness as a man. From that time he hadbeen gradually slipping into obscurity, from which he was tran siently rescued by his appointment to his South American Consulship. Nast deserved all his fame as a caricaturist, for his genius was remarkable, and his pictures for 1861-65 will always make Harper's Weekly for those years of great historical value. But he was a heartless, mercenary man, Ill-bred and arrogant In social life. It Is to be "regretted that -the clearing house cities 'of Washington do not fol low approved practice In compiling their bank .clearings. For the reason that they do not, there can be no proper comparison between their figures and those of '"the reports of .Portland and Sah Francisco clearing-houses, and it would be .of statistical interest to make such comparisons. The larger percent age of growth 1b always expected in the newer country, but when matters other than bank business are drawn into the clearing-house, and "balances" are set tled in chips and whetstones in order to swell the figures and "make a showing;" the results are not a true gauge of busi ness. Imagine New York dolngbuslness on that plan! Portland's clearing-house is conducted on the New York plan. It is an institution for facilitating business, not for producing boom figures. Still, Portland's increase of clearings has been great, and it is Increasing steadily. This means an increase In the volume of business donehcre.. It shows what con fidence the Pacific Northwest has in Portland 'as a financial center. Barry Johnstone, the actor, made a conclusive job of It when he shot himself a week ago last night in Philadelphia. An Intensely emotional man, he was readily incited to jealousy, and as read ily crazed by it. To such a man reck less pistol practice comes natural, though his aim is not always goodt when, having slain the object of hio pas sion, he turns the smoking muzzle of his pistol against himself. Johnstone's aim, both murderous and suicida'l, was accurate enough to cause the instant death of his victim and his own death after a week of suffering. He had many friends who regret his end, but since such a man Is likely to finish his life in this way, there can be no great cause for mourning when the case is closed, as was Barry Johnstone's, by the obse quies and burial at Syracuse, N. Y., today. When the "Harrison" train started for Minneapolis In 1892, "Tom" Reed said sneeringly, "Hurry up, boys, and get Into the ice wagon"; but this same "Tom" Reed wrote a friend as follows: Dear John: "I have recently delivered a lec twt In a flourishing- Michigan town. When I cot off the cars the first thlnx I noticed was a large handbill announcing that "owing to the lecture of the Hon. Thomas B. Reed the regular Thursday evening prayer-meeting at the Methodist Church will not take place this week." I wish you, too, John, might grow In zrace so that a. Methodist church might adjourn their prayer-meetings to hear you preach a lay sermon, but I fear you are too clossly wedded to your Idols. Considering that the friend addressed was a man of serious life and Irre proachable habits, the wieh and hope expressed for his' reform was absurdly funny. The Lorenz system of bloodless surg ery as applied to certan cases Is hailed as a boon to mankind. Just now It is menaced to a greater or less degree by the danger of falling Into the hands of surgeons who are not equipped Tvlth the knowledge and experience necessary to insure the complete success of the treat ment. Dr. Lorenz is, however, doing his utmost to prevent unsatisfactory results of his treatment by giving unsparingly of his .own knowledge in the matter. At a public clinic at Johns Hopkins Hos pital today he will demonstrate the pro cess by which he reduces congenital hip dislocation without the use of the knife. Science and humanity are alike inter ested in the work. General Joseph R. Hawley, of Con necticut, it is reported, will never again occupy his seat in the Senate,, owing to disabling illness. Senator Hawley is 76 years of age, -and hia present term' of service will expire March 3, 1905. VIEWS ftF-THE message. . Essential Facta Ignored. f Chicago Chronicle.. He asserts squarely that "the question of the regulation of the trusts stands apart from the question of tariff revision. Yet he speaks of depriving trust goods of protection as a "punitive measure' ana plumply declares that "the tariff on an thracite coal should be removed!" "Why, pray, if the trust question Is entirely apart from. the tariff question,? In discoursing of the ruinous consequences, of tarlff reduc tion to the "weak competitors" of the trusts he wholly ignores the fact that for some years past our manuiacuirera umc via. eonriinp thir cnnrta abroad In great onontiHoc nnri solllne them. In markets where they have no tariff protection what everyes, even in me nonie uwimiu ViMt- Tnnot fnrmMnhliv competitors. The removal of all duties from such goods woud not ruin either the trusts or any other producer of these goods In this country. Mr. Roosevelt ought to be able to see that. Anthracite Minora and "Lalior Cost." New York Journal of Commerce, wo hsivfl not believed that the truot question could be settled wholly, or even mainly, by reductions or tr.e isnu, uu the tariff suppresses foreign competition its rivlurtlon would have a much closer relation to the efforts of the trusts to con trol prices than the President admits, ms remarks on this topic arc quite Inadequate. Wo nn'st-j on 'lalwavs allowlnK a sufficient Tate of duty to more than cover the differ ence between the labor cost nere ana abroad." Why more than cover the dif ference? The President's suggestion of a tariff commission is very tentatively made. "If the Congress desires additional consideration." he says, "to that which will be given the subject by its own commit tees, then a commission of business ex perts can be appointed whose duty Jt should be to recommend action by the Congress after a deliberate and scientific nnmlnnflnn nt thft various schedules as they are affected by the changed andJ changing conditions." une jfresiaent s specific recommendations are for- the rat ification of reciprocity treaties, or direct reciprocal legislation, and the removal of the duty on anthracite. But if labor 13 entitled to protection by the tariff the an thracite mlncro have as much claim to the benefits as any other workmen. For Partisan 'Consumption. Chicago Record-Herald. -President Roosevelt's . second annual message to Congrcos has one and only one advantage over his first it is about half as long. In every other respect it Is singu larly lacking in recognition of the truism incorporated in its reference to marksman ship in the Navy. "In battle the only shots that count are the shots that hit." So In a President's message the only passages that count are those that hit, and upon the real questions before the country trusts, tariff and the disposition of. the Philippines Mr. Roosevelt appears to have used a literary blunderbuss where the peo ple expected he would go gunning with a repeating rifle. And yet tnis is precisely the sort of a mecBa-ge that will arouse the greatest enthusiasm In the columns of Republican organs. Its self-congratulatory tone and assurance that we are the great est nation on earth and that all's well cmough as it is seto the organ-grinder at rest and enables him to pronounce the message the true measure of the Presi dent's statesmanship. The same old plat itudes, will serve to commend, a state paper that, hao not a single passage to mike the pulse beat faster of a new recommendation that "requires a second thought. . . . Thl3 scrt of balancing by tbo rH nt .in pvsr rnnvenlant "If" Der- vades the message whenever it approaches the discussion of questions about which there ia a difference of popular opinion. This Is all the more disappointing because it Is unlooked for in the utterances of Theodore Roosevelt. The American peo ple are not accustomed to seeing him strike out without nerve and aimlessly in a sea of difficulties. Trimming and Opportunism Praised. Brooklyn Eagle. Tho President discriminates between tariff revision and trust regulation. He advocates the maintenance of protection, ns a system. But he" considers no tariff law to bo a finality or a fetich. Ho thinks that the largest corporations are benefited, if at all, by the tariff so little that they can do business without its restrictions, the removal of which would simply destroy their smaller competitors. He makes this pretty clear. But we must confess . that he advances no proposition, which suggests specific action, without safeguarding it or disqualifying It to such a degree as almcet to make It more of an abstraction or of an aspiration than a programme. In final form. This Is due to the fact that he is the head of a party which Is divided and which" he would not further divide, the head of a party which he thinks must be kept united at. nearly all" hazards, the head of a party which is a party of action, of responsibility, of high affairs, tho head of a party long in power and "desirous of .'taying In power longer. Trimming, which Is a virtue en titled to more commendation than it re ceivco, opportunism, which bears a stronger relation to wisdom, than Is gen erally accorded; caption, which Is, .at times, but another name for duty, 'are all Imposed tfn the head of a party or on the head of a government In such circum stances as now, exist Considering the Impetuc3lty of his own nature, Mr. Roose velt has very successfully expressed the ethical desires of the mass of the people, on the one hand, while seeking to con ciliate the complicated conditions inhar- mpnlously prevailing In the Congress, on the other. . Hesitant Message, Wasted Session. New York Evening Post. We are bound to believe that Mr. Roose velt's heart is In his policy of regulating trusts, yet even here he Is singularly vague and Inconclusive. He doe3 not specify a single definite evil or name one precise remedy. This entire part of the message will, in short, be taken as an effort to qualify and minimize the Presi dent's previous deliverances on the sub ject of trusts. Attorney-General Knox's speech at Pittsburg was worth a dozen of it for directness,, lucidity, and vigor. Our dislike of the sections of the message which refer to the tariff is not due to the fact that we do not agree with the Presi dent's opinions, but rather to the fact that It is so difficult to make out what those opinions are. He talks like a man who has had contradictory views strongly urged upon him, and has accepted them all In the mcot catholic spirit. His proposi tion is that the tariff should not be med dled with, since it is so Important to maintain "economic stability." So far we can understand him. He Is on the ground occupied by high "and dry' protectionists like Senator Hale, who say it is sacrilege to touch the tariff at all. But what does the message do next but go on to suggest several ways in which the tariff might be and should be amended! To bring out this Inherent confusion, we arrange the President's propositions In order: First The tariff should not be changed. Second One way In which It should be changed is by means of reciprocity treaties. Third If the reciprocity Idea does not apply, then there may be "a lowering of duties on. a given product" Fourth If a "given rate of duty does pro mote a monopoly which works 111, no protec tionist would object to such reduction of the duty as would ecuallze competition." Fifth "In my Judgment, the tariff on an thracite coal should be removed." If any man can detect an underlying philosophy, a clear grasp of the subject as a whole, In President Roosevelt's dec larations about the- tariff, he can do more than we, with the best will in the world, are able to. Nowhere do we find Roose velt himself, nowhere the true leader with definite convictions and a settled policy. The President seems, in other words, to have listened amiably to various Influ ential requests to "put in" things about ine tarm, anu io. ,iiave put. mem. jn, whether they eat each other up or not. The reBult of such an uncertain trumpet cannot lead to any serious preparation for battle. A hesitant message points the way to & wasted session. SEIRIT OE THE .NORTHWEST ERESS. . Watta to Come on- Street Cars. Forest Grove .Times. What is the use of having any Fair at Portland, If Portland won't let us have ariy street-car line so we can go to see ItZ , Their Exaggerated Fears. ' Toledo Reporter. An appropriation of 5500.000 Is only about $1 per capita for the people of Oregon, but some good people believe it means about to or 56 for each taxpayer In" the state. And Not Stnpld Parsimony. Albany Democrat. Every loyal citizen ot Oregon wishes to eee the state built up into a splendid commonwealth, but the conservative ele ment of the state does not wish to see the next State Legislature go beyond its means in making an appropriation for the- Lewis and Clark Exposition. It 13 an occasion where business methods should be employed and not merely senti ment. The Fnlton Ileply to Gccr. . Astoria News. The point that a member of the Ore gon Legislature cannot, under the Ore gon state constitution, be elected United States Senator is something that only tyros talk about. Senator Simon was president of the Oregon State Senate when he was elected United States Senator. No one ever pretended that fact disqualified him." In fact, the Oregon constitution cannot add to the qualifications of a Sen ator of the United States. He needs only to T)e a citizen of the United States. "Wants n Jim Crow Building. Toledo Reporter. There Is little doubt that the next ses sion of the Oregon Legislature will ap propriate something for the Lewis and Clark Exposition. Just how much will be appropriated is not yet known. Certainly the State of Oregon should Incur the ex pense of collecting and displaying an ex hibit of Oregon s bst productions of the mine, the mill and the farm. That being done, the state will have performed its whole duty toward a close corporation that has started out to boom Portland, and hopes to cover all possible deficits with half a million dollars that the state needs for the Improvement of Its schools and roads. The assumption that It will take 5500,000 for the erection of a building and a creditable display therein of all the resources of Oregon Is not founded on any reasonable basis. A fifth of the sum would serve the purpose as well. No Trading on the Fnlr. Newberg Graphic. The system of "barter and trade" has fastened onto the State of Oregon, a state with a population less than 500.000. four normal schools., that are sucking pap from the state treasury, when the state ought to have but one, and following In this train is a long list of appropriations that are made biennially, many of which never would be made if this system of "you tickle me and lil tickle you" was not In vogue. The Graphic believes that a liberal appropriation should be made for the Lewis and Clark Fair, but the bill ought to be passed, upon by the members on its merits, and aside from any other matters that are to come be fore' the Legislative session. It is Ore gon and the whole Northwest that is to commemorate the Lewis and Clark ex pedition, and the question of an appropri ation ought to be taken up and settled as broad-minded men settle any .question that Is of vital Interest to the people they "represent. Give Him the Glad Hand. Toledo Reporter. Admiral Clark has indicated that he will come to Portland to receive the syord which our state Is to present to him In appreciation of his meritorious services ns commander; of the Oregon .at Santi ago. As President Roosevelt has said, the battle of Santiago was a captains' fight. The exploits, of the Oregon in reaching the scene of action by a voyage of 13.C00 miles, and In her effective work on the battle line, stand unparalleled In the history of modern warfare. Some of the commanders at Santiago have not spared the worst kind of partisan meth ods to emblazon their names aa heroes of the fight, the most reprehensible of this class being Admiral Schley; but the consciousness of duty well done has suf ficed for Admiral Clark. Although ac knowledgments of his superiority have been somewhat retarded because the pub lic mind was absorbed In tho question of the commandeijshlp of the battle, the mists are cleared away and the modest captain of the Oregon stands out the hero In a battle of heroes. Everybody Is glad that Admiral Clark Is not too modest to accept this token of our ap preciation of his services. Barrett the Best Man for the Place. Tacoma News. President Roosevelt has promptly si lenced all clamor among the politicians for the appointment to the Japanese mis sion rendered vacant by the death of Al fred E. Buck, of Georgia, by announcing that he will apolnt John Barrett, of Ore gon, to thai Important post. The ap pointment will be regarded aa the best one that could be made for several rea sons. -Mr. Barrett Is a resident on the Pacific Coast, well and favorably known In all of Us commercial centers, and the Japanese mission properly belongs to this, section of the country, whose commercial relations with Japan are most Intimate and direct. Mr. Barrett has had consid erable experience in the diplomatic serv ice, and Is thoroughly familiar with pub lic affairs in the Orient. At the present time, it is believed, Mr. Barrett is in' the Orient on business connected with the coming Louisiana Purchase Exposition. He will be able to undertake his new dip lomatic duties In the Flowery Kingdom without delay. Mr. Barrett has been in dorsed op former occasion by the Cham bers of Commerce of all the leading cities on this coast! and there can be no ques tion that the appointment President Roosevelt has decided to make will give general satisfaction. The Japanese mis sion Is worth 512,000 a year, and Is In the same class In this respect as the Ambassadorship to Italy and the mis sions to AustriaiHungary, Spain, Brazil and China. ; Pnblic Lands Bribery. Tacoma Ledger. . That public lands are in demand is a fact capable of more than one construc tion. It might Indicate that settlers were pouring In, that the lands were being put under cultivation. It might Indicate that a lot of soulless corporations were getting a grip on the vast domain, and that In order to do so there was made necessary the crime of perjury, and the incidental one ot bribery. To acquire a. claim calls for a considerable expendi ture. It cannot be done by the mere process of declaring intention and settling there. When men who have never been known to have more than a day's wages at once appear with their families, and each member of the family files on a claim and puts up the coin there Is reason able ground for suspicion of bad faith. The object in opening land is not merely that of getting rid of it. The idea is that it shall be taken by bona fide settlers. Many Instances have been known where it has not been taken- up by settlers of this type, but by the hired representa tives of speculators. The matter is worth rigid investigation. To punish the agents would be Insufficient and Ineffective. The real offenders are the persons who are behind the illegal deals. The man who accepts pay for doing a dishonest task Is bad, and subject to correction, yet to correct him alone Is not to hinder a repe tition of the offense. The scheme of brib ery can- find other tools with which to work. It is to be hoped that Congress shall look into the matter closely. There are Immense interests at stake, and the moral and material side are equally de serving of attention. . . K.0TE AND COMMENT. . Mamma, have you seen my overshoes? A lawsuit -sometimes ends in a'sult with stripes. This transport business seems to be a case of loVe at first sight. Mascaghl has insinuated; that Boston is not civilized. . He's beginning to learn something "about the country "The cold In the East Is universal.'.' We have, a few Individual colds In Ore gon, but for the rest we are pretty well, thank rou. For once In the year a man may have a secret from his wife- without Incurring her displeasure. She feels sure that it will out on Christmas day. , England and Germany say that Castro must pay or fight. The wily "Venezuelan will doubtless remember the ancient axiom about the man who runs away. The new cup defender Is to be called "Eagle." If she can go as fast as the coin of that denomination she'll leave Shamrock III looking like 30 cents. It Is said that the Shah of Persia, has more hard cash put by than any other. sovereign. In his palace at Teheran the "King of Kings" Is supposed to have a sum estimated at 530,000,000 In specie. Exchange. This, simply proves that it Is cheaper to live married than unmarried. And the more the cheaper. Poetry Is not always a gentle expression of benign sentiment. Witness the law pult t,f the Brothers Ely, of New Jersey. One brother Is suing the other for alleged defamation of character in a poem. They both write poetry, and professional rivalry has finally culminated in legal processes. Most will remember the divorce of two noted poets last year. Though man and wife they could not stand each other's lit erature. Magazine readers unfortunately have no recourse. An upstart commandante down in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, has made the same old attempt to arrest a passenger on an American mall steamer. Not so many years, ago two American war vessels lay Idly by while a passenger was taken off a steamer of the Pacific Mall line and killed by Guatemalan soldiery. The dis grace hasnever been wiped out, and we may still expect the half-breed savages of our sister republics to disregard our flag. This time a Scotchman saved us, but, un fortunately, Scotchmen aren't always on hand Secretary Hay Is the most dignified of men. At the Cabinet meeting last Friday he told a story ot an experience he had when he went to New York early last week. He took the midnight train, and in the morning stopped at tho station res taurant in Jersey City to get a cup of coffee. While he was drinking his coffee and nibbling a roll a large, red-faced man who was not at all Impressed by dignity, nudged the Secretary of State with a vigorous elbow, and, pointing to the sugar, said: "Say. sport, ferry over the confec- tlonery, will you?" There is no forgiveness so full as that of a woman. By the slde of the dying Barry Johnstone was his "sister, and it was in her ears that he poured the mut tered words of repentance. Possibly he felt as ho paused on the dim brink of eternity the sweetness" of that woman hood ho had so cruelly wronged. Th3 world can never forgive a crime like his. but we may at least not grudge him the slender comfort of knowing that In the lonely hour of death a woman tried to soothe his anguish. It is too often true that in health men use women as- their playthings; in weakness it is often the victim of men's brutality that makes their passing easy. Here Is a gem from the Eugene Reg ister. The true poet cannot be masked even In the dry details of an accident to two log dams. Swollen and turgid watere ot the usually placid Willamette are hurtling past Eugene at a furious rate, bearing upon their broad ex panse ponderous scatterings of flotsam that race downstream in grotesque Imitation ot a stecrlochare. Warm rains of tho past 36 hours had caused tributary streams to pour forth their torrent3 from melting snow-clad slopes ot the Cas- cades. By 10 A. M. the accumulated waters were scurrying Eugenewards. and at 4 P. M. flood tide was reached. The river gauge chron icled over 18 feet above low-water mark.- Be tween the first and second bridges was a olld sea of water, and. to make the flood scene complete, at the farmyard on the right the contingent of chickens and domestic ani mals were forlornly grouped on a, small lsl nnd In front of the hou.c. the high water i having driven them from their accustomed haunts. In the manufacturing district the flood had rendered motive power of the race useless, and tho wheels were silent. H. D. VVagnon reports that the raging waters carried away two log dams at the site ot his proposed sawmill at Natron. The dama In question represent a lot of hard work and aa outlay of over $1200. . Mr. VVagnon. however, considers himself for tunate, for within another week l.COO.000 feet of logs would have been boomed In the in closure. Lumber also would have reposed on the site for the mill and would have been' swept away. . PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS "The bride looked like a Queen." "Tho groom looked like the deuce." Judge. "She calls that her football coat." ""Why?" "Because It has a full back." Philadelphia Bulletin. Village Swain Lovely moon, ain't there, Sally? Sally (revisiting her home) Nuthin to what we 'as in town! Punch. Church There Is a waiter over in our place named Scales. Gotham Ah! Expects every one to tip him. I suppose? Tonkers Statesman. Bobby Did God make that new baby, pa? PaYes, Bobby. Bobby Say, pop. about what does he charge for a kid like Jimmy? Detroit Free Press. Hewitt I proposed to twin sisters and both gave me the mitten. Jewett Well, there's one consolation; your mittens ought to be mates. Biooklyn Life. Miss Thlrtyodd Softleigh had the audacity to propose to mo last evening. Miss Twenty even Indeed! And when Is the wedding to take place? Chicago Dally News. "Of course," said the youth who was In love, "two can live as cheaply as one." "Per haps." replied his wise father, "but I never knew them to do It." Chicago Evening Post. Margaret Have you any plan or system for being an agreeable guest? Katharne Yes, Indeed! I always go home a day or two be fore my hostess expects me to leave. Puck. Teacher And what Is the color of the ocean 7 Tommy Blue. Teacher Can you glYe a rea son for this? Tommy I guess It's 'caust the blueflsh that's In It ain't fast color. Philadel phia Press. She These souvenir performances are a good Idea. They give one something to remember the play by. He But I think, as a rule. I'd prefer having something to forget it by. Brooklyn Life. "I believe." said, the young physician, "that bad cooks supply "us with half our patients." "That's right." rejoined the old doctor. "And good cooks supply us with tho other half." Chicago Daily News. Hlgbee Our friend Ranck Is In Europe now, Isn't he? Jigbee Yes. and he must be travel ing under the name of "StrombolL" Hlgbee What makes you think so? Jigbee A dispatch from Italy the other day said: "Stromboll be gan to smoke yesterday and the people of tho neighborhood at once packed up and iRoved away." Philadelphia Press. jAsr. Attune;.-.