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That the American people have de sired the construction of the Isthmian canal at Nicaragua rather than at Pan ama Is unquestionable. They hare not liked the flavor or odor of the Panama project, with its history of corruption. And as for trafllo between the Atlantic and Paciflo Coasts of the United States, Nicaragua offers the shorter route, by many hundreds of miles. But the Panama project has b-jen adopted. It Is assumed that the au thorities of the United Stater the dip lomats and the Senate have superior knowledge; and upon it action has been taken. We are commltteed to Panama. Professor Emory R, Johnson, mem ber of the Isthmian Canal Commission, In the current number of the Independ ent (New York), undertakes to set forth and explain the reasons why Panama has been chosen. The sum of these reasons, he tells us, why the commis sion recommended the Panama route. instead of the Nicaragua-Costa Rica lo cation, was that the Panama Canal will be shorter, cheaper and on a lower al titude. For the Nicaragua route the estimated cost was 190,000,000; for Pan ama, Including the payment Of 340,000,- 000 to the old company, 3184,000,000. But it would, cost $1,150,000 more annually to maintain and operate the canal at Nic aragua than' the one at Panama; and capitalization of this annual sum would make a total or $50,000,000 more against Nicaragua. Since the canal at Nicaragua would be much the longer one, more time would be required to pass vessels through It This, it is urged, would be on offset against the saving of distance south and north. To steamers it might be; to sailing vessels not so. The Pan ama Canal will be 49.9 miles in length; the Nicaragua Canal would be 1SJ.65 miles. It Is urged further that the fact that the Panama Canal is stralghter than the Nicaragua route will be a consid eration of much importance to vessels of the length required for modern com merce. Again, the summit level of the Panama Canal will be elghty-flve feet above the ocean level; while the level of Lake Nicaragua, the summit on that route. Is twenty feet higher. The num ber of locks at Panama will be five, two on the Atlantic and three on the Pacific Bide. At Nicaragua eight locks would be required. We are to pay Colombia $10,000,000 outright for the concession at Panama; but this Is not deemed excessive. In view of what that country is to sur render to the United States. Colombia now receives $150,000 annually from the Panama Railroad, and under the ar rangement with the Panama Canal Company was to receive from 6 to 8 per cent of the gross receipts from the operation of the canal the concession stipulating that this payment should not be less than $250,000 annually. Thus Colombia is surrendering a pres ent annuity ox azou.uuu ana a prospect ive Income of larger amount. These advantages Colombia will lose alto gether under the new arrangement; for the railroad will go with the canal, and Colombia Is to surrender her right, for merly reserved, to take over both. These concessions to the United States are deemed equivalents for the sum to be paid and the annuity for 100 years; and at the end of 100 years the United States is to have the option to renew. As to control of the canal, we ore to have the lease of a strip of ter ritory six miles wide, and the right to take such measures as may be neces sary for defense of the canal. Under this lease construction and op eration of the canal probably will pro ceed smoothly, for we are pretty big, and shall be bljrger. and Colombia probably will not want a quarrel. This is the true ground of hope that we shall keep out of trouble with these "little convulsive republics" of Span ish America, as somebody has called them. The election of the Republican candi date for Mayor in Cincinnati by 12,000 majority is the termination ot a very hard-fought contest.' Flel:h,mann. the Republican Mayor, who has been re elected, is a Jew of great wealth and business ability. The Democratic can didate was Melville E. Ingalls, presi dent of the Big Four railway system, who had also the support of the Citi zens of Cincinnati. The Republicans of Cincinnati charged that the candidacy of Mr. Ingalls, who was a Gold Demo crat in 1SS6 and 1SO0. was the first step of a plan to make him the Democratic nominee for President, or at least to "have him presented by the Middle West Democrats ur the National coni ventlon. It was also charged that it was part of a scheme to send a Demo crat to the United States Senate to suc ceed Marcus A. Hanna. The Hamilton County representation, being the larg est ot any county In the state in Gen eral Assembly, the political complexion of the Assembly is almost Invariably decided by It. Had the Democrats car ried Cincinnati and Hamilton County, they might have made Senator Han na's election as close as it was when he was elected the first time by only one vote, and that vote came from an Independent Republican from Cincin nati elected on a "fusion" ticket. Under these circumstances, it is clear that the .Republican victory in Cincinnati last Monday is not without some sig nificance in National politics. PRUNE TUB THEE TO SAVE IT. The Idea that to destroy monopoly is to destroy business is erroneous, and the arguments upon which it rests are In.. Ti..Ia. . . a , honeand notTy is more dangerous than false structures of fair outward seeming, but supported on insecure foundations. The idea that to Jostle the fabric of tariff in equalities and monopolistic favors en Joyed by the' trusts will topple our whole productive system over may be a frightful confession .of Industrial rot tenness, but it affords no guide for wise statesmanship. The sooner blem ishes are corrected, the better. The longer we prop up a false and precari ous regime, the more disastrous will be the fall at last. . It Is admitted that the tariff needs revision; but it- is said that to change the wrong schedules will upset busi ness. Is the iron and" steel business, then, so dependent upon its unjust tar iff favors that it cannot subsist with out them? Is our whole industrial fab ric built up- on a foundation of unfair ness and artificiality! Are the trusts so rotten that a breaih of publicity will shiver them into sundered and Inef fectual atoms? Does the country's great railroad equipment rest so exclu sively upon organized rapacity and fraud that a requisition of honesty and law-abiding would send them all into bankruptcy? If this were true, it would be time to act with decision. There is no treat ment for the root of the completely dis eased tree but the ax. If American in dustry, with all Its advantages of soil, climate, sources of supply, free trade between the states, enormous home market, enterprising capital and skilled labor, cannot hold its own with the rest of the world, without high tariffs for manufactures, fictitious capitalization of stocks, and dishonest transportation methods, then it would be better at once to reorganize upon an honest foun dation, cost what it may. But it is not true. The excuses ore the merest pretense. Reform of the laws and of their enforcement does not menace the existence of out industrial system. There is time yet to prune and spray the tree on which excrescences appear. Yet the tariff and trust defenders af fect to believe that the entire tree will crumble into ashes at the first touch of the prunlng-knlfe. The answer the "stand-patters" make is that tariff revision proposes "to de stroy the disease by killing the pa tient." This might be true of the free trade Democracy, but it is not true of the Republican demand for tariff re vision. The "stand-patters," on the other hand, propose to cure the patient by letting him entirely alone. Some thing oils him. It Is monopoly, pro moted by the' tariff, which reserves the domestic field for the trust and denies the consumer the rescue of foreign competition. It is no answer to the true diagnosis and the prescription of wise tariff revision to say that free trade will kill the patient. It is no an swer to the need of ten grains of qui nine to say that fifty grains will make him crazy, and that therefore we must give him none at olL Legitimate business does not have to be bolstered up with predatory tariffs, falsa weights and swollen capitaliza tion. Legitimate industry is not flat tered, but slandered, by the declaration that equality before the law and hon est policies will destroy It. The ex cuses ore paltry and pitiful. The ad mission is for tariff reform, but the plea is "not now." Let us do right, but "at some more convenient season." And the prayer that the tariff should be. revised by its friends comes peril ously near the demand that the day ot revision be put off until it is con sented to by the very Interests that are now enjoying unjust gains from monopoly in which the tariff protects them. It Is perilously near the pro posal to put oft the pruning of the tree until the moth and aphis in Joint con vention invite us to their removal. A PHILANTHROPIC DELUSION. The theory that the saloon Is now the poor man's club, and that the drink evil can be largely cured by the Hollywood Inn, is, in our Judgment, a delusion. This is Dot paid in deprecation of the Hollywood Inn, which is an exoellent Institution and exercises an Influence that it is desirable to see at work, but the real victims of the drink evil do not resort to the saloon for recreation, but for rum. for alcoholic stimulant, which the recreations obtained at the Hollywood Inn do not, of course, sup ply The victims of the drink evil who desire recreation can get it for the money they spend In stimulants. The saloon would not last a month es a poor man's club without Its alcoholic bever ages. The victims of the drink habit, when they are Incapable of self-conquest or indisposed to undertake it, will never be drawn away from the saloon by the offer of recreation in various at tractive forma. . The victims of the drink habit do notgo to the saloon in search of amusement, but in search of alcohol; the amusement and recreation is entirely secondary and coincident to the lmblbatlon or alcohol. There Is no lack of amusements which are not accompanied by alcohol, and the amusements that are incidental to alcoholic indulgence are accompanied by en abandon and utter freedom from self-restraint In speech and action that, of course, could not be permitted in the Hollywood Inn. The Hollywood Inn will, of course, attract a very large number of persons who belong- to the working classes, but we de not believe they attract many of the class of men who naturally would spend their even ings in the saloons. The clan that natu rally spend their evenings In the saloons are persons who like alcoholic stimulants and who like the kind of con versation end freedom from self-restraint permitted In the saloon. The number of men who spend their even ings in the saloon among wcrklncmen Is comparatively email. The majority fit workingmets. Ilka th majority of other men who use stimulants, do not loaf Is tho saloon, but go .about Ihedr business. The proprietor of a saloon does not care fcr loafers who spend little and stay long; and the saloon hab itue la on Incorrigible who is so wedded to drink that he would find no enjoy ment in the Hollywood Inn, which o re fers him a recreation .that is tame and tasteless compared with the stimulus of alcohol. Let not the philanthropists delude I themselves with the Idea that men go to the saloon In search of recreation. They go there for rum. and those who do not go there for rum primarily be long to a class that go home or about their business speedily and easily find recreation for themselves outside of Hollywood Inns. The alcoholic incor rigible, if he cannot or will not cure himself or submit to medical treatment, cannot be saved by Hollywood Inns, because the treatment Is not heroic: enough to cure the Incorrigible, even if he would consent -to try It, which is Zl'TJLl for. the alcoholic stimulus cannot be cured by houses of Innocent rec reation, for the victim of the drink habit does not abuse alcohol because he cannot afford innocent recreation without alcohol, but because he prefers alcoholic stimulus to recrea tion that is not coincident with alcoholic indulgence. Moral suasion by family and friends, medical treatment, awak ened moral sense, aroused will power, may save an alcoholic who is bent on self-conquest, but every man of the world knows that men do not frequent a saloon to find recreation; they seek it primarily for Its rum the recreation is a secondary matter. COMPETITION AND FOREIGN TRADE. A special dispatch ' from Berlin de clares that there is "acute alarm" in Germany with respect to current move ments tending to bind the several coun tries of South America closer to the United States. It is feared that Ger many's large trade with South America will be lost to this country if the "Pan American spirit" shall continue to de velop and if the project for a railroad to connect New York and Buenos Ayres shall be carried out. "We should be very glad, for the sake of American interests, if there were. Indeed, a prospect of the United States superseding Germany in the South American markets; but it must be ad mitted that the prospect now seems very remote. The "Pan-American spirit" has, indeed, grown rapidly since the emphatic assertion of the Monroe Doctrine by President Cleveland in the Venezuelan affair of 1694. and it has been a good deal stimulated by more recent events, but it Is not easy to see how all this Is going to moke much dif ference In future trade movements. Germany does a great business with South America, not because of any po litical or other affinities between the German and the South American peo ples, but because she has been able to sell a wide range of manufactured goods cheaper than any other country which operates in the South American "market which means cheaper than any other country In the world. The reasons ore not far to seek. German manufacture has in recent years gotten upon a highly effective basis. It is in the hands of able or ganizers; it is supplied with the very best forms of mechanism; and.' most Important of oil, it Is supported by a body of skilled, devoted and relatively cheap labor. The price of labor In most forms in Germany is less than In England, and very much less than in the United States. Furthermore, there are practically no strikes in Germany, and therefore no waste of economic force in struggles between employer and employed. "Work in the German shops and factories goes steadily on from year's end to year's end, and German manufacturers are able to make contracts for future and timely delivery of goods Just as British manu facturers used to do, and as, to an ex tent, American manufacturers are still able to do. Furthermore, the German government now and for some years past has taken upon itself the busi ness of maintaining transport lines be tween the home 'country and South America, assuring a regular, depend able and relatively cheap freight car riage. It was upon the basis of these conditions that Germany took a large proportion of the South American trade from England some years back, and has continued to hold it ever since. Before the United States shall be able to beat Germany In the South Ameri can markets, she must be able to pro duce cheaper manufactures and to get them more cheaply into the hands of the consuming countries; and there seems no immediate hope that this may be done. "We are not making greater headway in the invention and applica tion of economical devices than Ger many; in this respect all countries now adays may be said to be on a common level, for what one develops may easily be borrowed by another. There Is, in fact, constant Interchange of new pro cesses and new devices between Ger many and the United States, and in future there Is not likely to be much advantage on the part of one country over the other. American labor Is still, man for man, more effective than Ger man labor, but the advantage Is not as great as we have been fond of believ ing, and it grows relatively less year by year,, due In part to the Industrial principle Involved In German popular education and to the lack of It with us. And it need scarcely be said that with us labor, is far better paid. American labor is not likely to be cheaper than it has been during the past decade upon the average. Even if the great project as yet merely a "project to connect North and South America by railroad should be come a reality. It is difficult to see how it could much affect the course of trade. The mileage of such a railroad would of necessity be very great so great as practically to make the rates for through freight prohibitory, it is not conceivable that a railroad operat ing between the two divisions of the continent could compete with the direct and relatively short water route In the matter of rates, or even In point of tune, excepting for fast express and passenger carriage. Unless there shall be some revolutionary change in land transportation, it Is practically certain that transportation between North and South America will continue to be by sea; and In this respect the advan tage of the United States over Ger many or any other European country is not very great. Once a ship is load ed, it makes little difference whether 'the distance she must go be & little more or a little less. 'We may as well make up our minds to this fact, namely, that we shall not supersede Germany or any other country in the South American or-other markets until we can produce and deliver goods at less prices than they. And the tendency in our manufac tureas it may be traced in the indus trial news from day to day Is not Just now to steadiness of operation or to redaction of cost. There are many economists who believe that, as labor and other conditions are going, this country will sell less goods on foreign account before it sells more. It Is estimated by the- bureau In charge of the statistics that the total immigration for 1303 will reach SOO.OOO, exceeding the previous highest record, that of 788.993 In 1882. In 1900. of the total population of New York City, only 7S7.477, or 2L5 per cent, were na tive Whites born of native parents, so that the estimated immigration for the present year exceeds the native popu lation of our greatest city. Of the im migrants now coming to our shores, the great bulk ore from Southern and Eastern Europe, and the majority from Italy. The Italian population of New York, which is now 250,000. is likely to be about BO0.00O by 1910. This would give New York a larger Italian popu lation than any city of Italy except Naples. Of the SOO.OOO of Italians in this country, about 40 per cent are in New York. The remainder are for .the most part In New Jersey, Pennsylva nia, New England and In the Western States. "With the exception of Louisi ana, which has 17,431 Italians, there are few in the Southern States. There are about 4000 in Texas. These Italians are mostly peasants from the South of Italy, and ought to be well adapted" to the agricultural conditions of the South, and the demand, for them, in Louisiana is increasing largely. It is not likely, however, that any effort will be made to attract them to the Southern States as a substitute for negro labor, because they will not work as cheaply as negro labor, and they would be found less tractable, more turbulent and disposed to industrial revolt. Negro labor can not afford to strike, for a strike is treated as a "race war." The negro can work, too, probably in malarial dis tricts where white men would perish, and at cotton-picking and sugar culti vation Is probably more competent. As a miner the negro would be cheaper labor than the Italian. The South knows that on the whole the negro Is the cheapest and best labor it can get, and it will not be in haste to replace the negro with Chinese and Italians. Several days ago The Oregonlan re printed from an Eastern exchange the following paragraph and verse: A. bureau chief in the Nary Department declares that at least two-thirds of his- time is taken up In listening to retired naval offl cers who want pleasant assignments on shore duty. Ha has summarised these requests In this fashion: , 4 Td Ilka to hare a nice, soft Job Where I could (Imply be A sort of weakly visiter.- To draw my aalaree. And then, as that got burdensome. An' seemed inclined to bora me. Td like to hare soma fellow iJeld To go and draw It for me. Evidently some one who should be above it has been guilty of "gross and culpable carelessness" and has made The Oregonlan on unconscious accom plice In petty larceny. Here Is a wail from the author of the purloined rhyme: Editorial Department Xews, Baltimore, 310.. April 3. Editor Portland Oregonlan Dear Sir: About six weeks ago I felt lair and wrote a short elght-ltne skit, and cow I see that some damned scoundrel among the literary thieves' in Washington has tried to swipe It. r don't know who he is. but rll bet X can lick him with one hand tied behind me. I hare a lot ot respect for a man that steals something to eat. hut a man that hooka an other man's brains isn't worth powder and shot to blow him up. However, I would tike to expend some of my muscular energy on the small-minded cuss with the intelligence of a tumble-bog TmT presumed to hare originated the enclosed. It waa first published, and ortglnallr. in my department ot Sidelights; Baltimore Mews, six weeks ago. Who is the bureau chief re ferred tot Tours to the limit. HENRY EDWARD WARNER. "While approval cannot be given to Mr. -Warner's language In its entirety, every Just and sincere man will sym pathize with the sentiment he utters. All that The Oregonlan can do is to give the offense publicity. In Hope that the guilty wretch will come forward and confess his crime. The Brooklyn Elevated Railroad re cently Increased the hours of work of seventy-five women employed as ticket sellers from ten to twelve tC day with out increase of pay, which Is JL20. The road has no competition; it Is not afraid of the women, who are not strong or united enough to resist. In other words, this greedy corporation commits on act of oppression upon these women It would hesitate to com mit upon male employes. In the year 1891 organized labor se cured the passage ot a law by the Leg islature of Indiana fixing the wages of unskilled laborers employed by coun ties, cities and towns at 20 cents an hour. The Supreme Court of the state has recently decided that the act is unconstitutional, since it deprives the counties, cities and towns of freedom to make contracts. The court holds, too, that this is class legislation. In forecasting what the Democratic National Convention of 1904 will do. It is not safe to eliminate Carter Harri son, of Chicago. For four successive terms he has been elected Mayor of the second city in the United States, under circumstances that would have defeat ed a less popular man. He Is easily the strongest Democrat In Illinois, and Bryan doesn't "have It in" for him in remembrance of 1896 and 1900. Athletes the world over, professional and amateur, will approve King Ed ward's encouragement of the useful art of swimming by his offer of a gold cup to be, competed for next July In Lon don. It is eminently fitting that the contest is to be under the auspices of the LUesavlng Society. As a little exhibition of sentiment, the present of a pipe of peace by Sioux chiefs to President Roosevelt Is inter esting. Twenty years of railroad prog ress and wheat culture on the Dakota plains have not been without effect upon the most warlike of "Western In dians. "Whatever fate, error and slugging the bail may hold in store for the other seven clubs in the league. It is com forting to reflect that the Portland Browns cannot get lower than the bot tom In the standing of teams. Once more France Is agitated over the Dreyfus affair. A country- not given to championship prizefights and baseball may be forgiven for excess' of feeling-over worn-out sensations. SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS Mayb. Re -Will Find Out. Vancouver Independent. President Roosevelt in appointing Frank Vaughn Register of the Vancouver Land Office has turned down politicians for efficiency. If the President fully realized the condition of things In -Washington politics, more such appointments would undoubtedly be made. Reform Doesn't, Advance by Spasms Eugene Register. Every once In awhile different communi ties become alarmed at the deatructlveneas- of the deadly cigarette, a crusade Is waged, the boys and men let up tor a few days, then, after the flurry is over; make up for lost time, so that the death-dealing little missile continues to dig Its cus tomary and increasing number of graves. Thtnlts It III Advised. Ashland Tidings. To the average citizen the futile attempt ot ex-Senator Joseph 81mon to question the integrity of President Roosevelt in the matter of the appointment of a Register of the Land Office at Oregon City is tn'e height of folly and unwisdom on the port of the ex-Senator from this state, and the moat 111 -advised political move hs ever made. - Reserves a a Last Resource. Heppner Gazette Grant County stockmen are certainly en titled and should have their share of the range on the public domain, but when It comes to putting a fence around the whole thing, the Government at least might have something to say. If a few people In Grant County persist by .force of arms to control the public lands for selfish mo tives, then it would be better to have-a liberal forest reserve,., where rights would be Justly and equally distributed to all by the Government, tor this is the aim ot the Government. Delay Should Be Avoided. Burns Items. Petitions for the referendum on the ap propriation for the Lewis and Clark Cen tennial, which Is to be held In Portland In 1S05- were received in Barns this week There is small likelihood of their receiving much attention here.' Though one of the farther eat counties from the site of the proposed exposition, the people recognize the benefits it will-bring to Oregon and In directly to this section. Should the mat ter be referred to a vote of the people It will undoubtedly succeed and the delay the referendum would occasion should be avoided. Losses on Bangs Steele Snray Courier. The stockmen at last see a brighter prospect ahead of them, as another week will bring sufficient grass along the river districts to relieve the poor cows and sheep that must have fallen victims ot continued "Winter weather. The past Winter, though comparatively mild, was a long and hard one on stock, and the amount of bay consumed greatly exceeds that ot any one of the past several "Winters. While none of our local stockmen have suffered heavy losses, a number re port the loss of from two to ten head of fettle, which cuts the profit out of the herd.- The sheepmen have not sustained heavy losses. In. one of two herds the loss win reach 10 per cent, but the aver age loss will probably not exceed the usual allowance of 2 per cent. AH West of the Cascades. Oregon Mist! E. W. Conyers, of Clatskanle, says that he voted for the location of the county seat at St. Helens In 1S57. Previous to that time It was located at Milton Creek, In those days the settlements did not ex tend back farther than five miles from the river, and it was important that It bo located convenient to water navigation. In 1S62, when Mr. Conyers was a member of the Oregon Legislature, he made a fight for Columbia County to retain the full amount of her constitutional territory, which was not less than 3J.O00 square milts. Clatsop County wanted to take in territory to within a short distance of Mayger. Even in those far-off days some of the residents in the extreme south end of the county wanted to become a part of Multnomah County. President and the Stone Wall. Hillsboro Independent. Ex-Senator Joseph Simon to. expending a lot of hot air uselessly In arraigning President Roosevelt for not appointing the Senator's selection for Register of the Oregon City Land Office. The President 1 a very practical man. and he recognized the fact that he' could not make an ap pointment and have It confirmed when both Senators of the state Interested are. unfriendly. Mr. Simon asserts that the Oregon Senators and he are not working in harmony. It is supposed that Mitchell and Fulton will admit the same fact, wherefore they would oppose the appoint ment, and should the President name the objectionable man no confirmation could be secured. The President knew that and keeps his head away from the stone wall. To an outsider this seems a reasonable course. What Orenron Needa. Cottage Grove Leader. While we think the Oregon Legislature appropriated a very large sum of money for the Lewis and Clark Centennial, we are not now in favor of invoking the ref erendum for the purpose of postponing or defeating this appropriation altogether. When this measure was up before the legislature for action was the timo for vigorous protest if the people were op posed to so large an appropriation. The money that would be expended in holding this special referendum election would go a long ways toward paying off the Expo sition appropriation. Oregon needs new blood, new capital and new energy, and the Lewis and Clark Fair will do much toward bringing it to this state. The Ex position, if Judiciously managed and cred itably carried out. will be worth all it costs the state. Great Importance of Road Problem. Coqultle Bulletin. The good roads question Is one which should not be allowed to lapse into a dun remembrance as dry weather approaches. In a few weeks the roads will be hard and smooth and the rivers and seas of mud which marked their course during the Winter months is very likely to become an Indistinct memory until the rains come again next Fall. Then it will be too late to attempt to do more than cobble them up so that a team can worry through them. The ground in this county Is fav orable for good roads It they were prop erly built and maintained, but it Ifl evident that as a people we do not know how to make roads and we need to be shown. There is nothing in the world which would develop the country faster than a system of good roada. The facility of transportation, the widening of the mark ets, the lessening of Isolation and the gen eral liveliness of trade which would en sue would bring the country forward in a manner which would be a surprise to the natives. Great Social Winter In New Orleans. New Torlc Press. This has been a great Winter, in the social history of New Orleans, and the list of celebrities entertained in the Cres cent City in the last few months might, arouse the envr of even the Newport hostesses. Of course. Miss Alice Roose velt and the Duke and Duchess of Man chester were the banner attractions. Now Mrs. Norman de Ruyter Whitehouae. viewed by some persons as the handsomest mat ron in New Torlc is visiting In the South. She win be entertained by Mrs. John Mc Ilhenny, the hostess ot Miss Roosevelt The wlfo ot the. creator of tabasco sauce, is the acknowledged leader of New Or leans society. This is a bitter reality to the arUtlcratlo French and Creole families. THE. CHURCH AXD THE THEATER Frederick. Ward in Chicago Chronicle. From the time we started out this season we have played to audiences that were only limited to the size ot the houses and more frequently than otherwise have turned them away for want of ppice. Mr. James and myself have limited ourselves entirely to Shakespearean drama and the elaaaica, never stooping to cater to the low and depraved taste of any class ot people. It la very true that managers are In the business tor business purposts and must self-respecting men and women there are uoicuraoj oigaer suns usu iua atui- sltlon of wealth at the cost of respecta bility and self-esteem. Just at present the question agitating the public mind Is the Indecency of the stage, an the only solution, to my mind. Is to establish closer relations between the men and women of the dramatlo profession and the church. Centuries of misunderstanding have raised mountains of 'prejudice which will take time, patience and labor to remove, but the time Is ripe, the conditions favor able and the opportunities greater now than at any other time to o$rcotr.e the difficulties and establish a more cordial relation between these two great factors of our intellectual and spiritual life. It Is not now the time to trace the origin of the drama or to follow It through Its vicissitudes or Its evolution from the primitive pastoral plays of the old Greek TflMml, tA V. iMltnMnn that , n w In Its literature, opulent in its poetry. sionous in its numanity, stanoa as one ot the most Important factors In our modern civilization. Sufflct.lt to say that it waa under the direct Inspiration of the church that the modern drama came into existence, and. incredible as it may seem to many, it Is nevertheless a fact that the church was the first theater, the altar the first stage, the priests the first actors and the mass the first play. In a word, the modern drama Is the Im mediate offspring of the church, and like many other children, strong In its health and vitality. It grew, thrived and pros pered, until it became too great and in fluential to continue in its parental home. It was east forth, first to the door, then to the churchyard, then to the fields and finally to the world, the breach gradually widening till the relation that should have been one of parental and filial love became Instead a bitter animosity. Family feuds are of all the most bitter and the feud between the church and the stage was no exception to the rule. Denunciation on one side aroused defiance on the other. The church nnnrM1 o-.l, !....,(.- . .1. stage answered with raillery. The preacher ana uie actor replied with ridicule. But time, manners and opinions have ehana-ed and tn.tf (h. t. i ... - j u ouao nciwyiuca uie outstretched, hand of conciliation offered ujr uie cuurcn. ana ir tne long conflict Is Mt brought to a speedy termination I think I ma.T aaf1r mav t v. eatiif m - rest with the drama or Its representatives. Hc-mans against, tne theater brought to my notice, usually emanate from narrow-minded preachers, who', through lack of matter, turn to the sensational, the well-worn subject of the stage, and using the game old threadbare Ideas, distorted facts, familiar slanders and fallacious ar guments, arrive, much to their own satis faction, at the most "lame and impotent conclusions." generaly stultified by their Illogical admission that personally they are entirely Ignorant of the subject of which they have been speaking. Then let us strive to know each other better: let us candidly admit that there have been faults on both sides. Most of us have had Christian parents and the elementary principles of morality and religion have been instilled Into our hearts and minds from childhood, and time, thought and experience have de veloped our appreciation of these matters from our various points of view. There fore, we do want recognition ot the In tegrity of our motives and the sincerity tir. ?c"f- How can this be accom plished but Inr battxr . do not condemn the church because of some unholy pastors; why should the tfllTA . n .1 1 . . . utable members? ' Sme Ual w?h-"y 0.1 tt.e bar U not affected ",9 medical profession by reason of its 2naks-.Jroere are bIa "heep fa every fioct Then let us find them out, lei is .discriminate between them Justly, let us honor the worthy and the good, respect the true and the noble, and while we deprecate the existence of the vicious and I"' let. not by denunciation and .ex posure, but by forbearing kindness, gentle fTJl an2 lod exanjPle. endeavor to lead them back to the fold, with the as un with reformation and Integ rity they win receive their Just recogni tion according to their merit and de servlnir. The .state and Its followers have suf cmUCS '"J" " the hands of toe church and nothing- Is more calculated to rouse resentment In the human breast, than injustice, and to thfa must be at tributed much nf th. ... . .. EST..10.. ?L?.ch"- ?. Offered " "rr "v w aii. m most cases It proceeded, from Ignorance on the preacher's nartr th. i. f .,. , remoTe tile JL V"1 k?w" DS ber. Do .7. VT; ,CV , "um meater because some of the plays presented are not what you think they oiih t k. T-i,". . 1 your presence and patronage your m . ftww. w.c wonny ana the. true-and show by your absence and ever? facultr at rmir . . " every nation ot thVmere-triconS ,"0 V- . Ula 01 your convictions, realize the Immense power of the drama for mod and hi . 1. drama -rV" " 1 ."-""Pie as well as pre- DOt Preach our sermSnl but act them. W ri.. n . . . . ' -J v"'tuo emotions Of the human heart not by lifeless art of tne painter and SCUlDtor. tint w V .. .a moving -perso-na-tlon Tf th'e thoK Only an -Unpretentious Jaunt. Washington Post. 'aft that President Roosevelt car ries but two secretaries, one doctor, three stenographers, three messenger., iwoe! cret-servlce men, one poet-naturalist, rep resentatives of three press association representatives of three IllustratedTaper.: one official photographer andTroteS graph operators, and will make but am speeches, rather gives a quietus to thn mJ WMtem P tob?0, nf(,.1,l unpretentious little outing for the purpose of avoiding publicity. Receiving Just Retribution. Hartford Times. The owners of U.CCO tons of anthraeirn coat tied up In the Erie Basin inUew York, tried to sell It at H 60 ner ? 1 Saturday and were unable to do ,0? ah this coal la said -to have cost toe buyers between 13 and tlO ner inn j . . firm I, said toXA iSS Wtatsr0 TrT theJ,nb" during the I- . B0.od newi that some of thesespecmator, in coal are getting their XadrlxaL By John Totfmunter. When criinroses begin to peer Tnoogh distant hills be capped with snow. And one stray thrush will carol clear To snowdrops drooping all a-row; When ootldlng roots caw as they pass. And the son gleams o'er misty plains. Or melts the hoar-frost fran the grass. The tkxxl nam brisker la the Teina. Then her for the Spring! when the sweet birds sing; Both lsds and lassea lore the Spring. When sunshine fills the keen Msrch air. And ralnfiaws whirl across the lea. And the day veers from foul to fair, Andtbe sap rocs in. every tree; When clouds go Boating far and near. And coltsfoot suds in mrry lanea. And all things feel the Spring o the rear. The blood runs merrier In the veins. Then her for the GprlngI when the sweet birds sing; ,Bota ladsiaad lasses lore tl Spring KOTE ANDC0MHENT. Did anybody mention baseball! This seems to be the open season for strikes. As ihe waters fall In the Mississippi Val ley, the hopes rise. The President has reached the Yellow stone. Look out for bear. The baseball warleems to be of more importance than the fracas In Macedonia Just at present. When the President hits some of the YeUowstone stages he will realize that he Is still doing a little rough riding; The steel trust haJonly earned 113.000.- . rear' As ,nfat Industry it seems as big as the Cardiff giant. If the submarine torpedo-boats only had to stand testa, they would be all right but now and then, when real use comes for them, they don't come up to the mark. . The bakers who have been on a strike at The Hague have returned to work. They have probably been living on their wives' cooking, and couldn't stand It any longer. The fact that a cousin of toe President has married a Count has aroused the Ira of Messrs. Hoar. Atkinson. Bryan et aL These anU-lmpertallsts are determined not To be caught napping. Andrew Carnegie has announced that hs will pay the doctors' bills of the students who suffered from typhoid fever at Cor nell University. At last there seems to be a possibility that hU gigantic wealth will be diminished. It is reported that a young man in Bos ton recently applied for a position In a large firm, and presented a reference from his pastor. The head of the firm examined it, and tossed it back. "No good," he exclaimed. "We don't work on Sunday here." The laws of Massachusetts provide that a National bank and a savings bank shall not Tbe located In the same building, nor shall the president or cashier of a savings bank hold similar office In a National bank. This law was passed soon after the dis covery was made that Lewis Warner had succeeded in wrecking both toe National and the savings banks with which he wes connected In Northampton, and that he had been able for many years to con ceal his thefts by transferring securi ties from one, institution to toe other when the bank examiners made thelr rounds. J. Luther Plerson, of Westchester County, New York, la March, 1S01, had a child less than 2 years old sick with catarrhal pneumonia. Christian science was his method ot cure, and no physi cian was permitted to aid the child, which died. He was arrested, tried and con victed and fined J300. On appeal the Su preme Court, by a majority vote. In an opinion rendered by Judge Bartlett. has reversed the lotfer court, deciding that Plerson was'not obliged to call a quali fied medical doctor. In a minority opinion Judge Goodrich took the contrary view, holding that Pierson's action was "a plain refusal to obey the jaw," An old comrade of General Chaffee says that during the Civil War he and Chaffee (then a captain) were stationed at Jackson. Miss., when the latter con tracted yellow fever. The young officer did not fear either shot or shell, but was desperately afraid ot the fever and made up his mind that he was going to die. He .sent for a clergyman, but" while toe preacher was giving him consolatiaa there was some boisterous talk, includ ing an oath or two, near toe door. Chaf fee raised himself on his elbow and said Indignantly to a sergeant: "Tell those fellows to be quiet. I'll be d d if I'm going to have such language while this clergyman is here." The reverend gentleman finished his efforts somewhat hurriedly, convinced that toe soldier had some chance of recovery. The Rev. Dr. Ralnsford, a distinguished clergyman of the Episcopal church, a man who always "has toe courage of his con victions, said in a recent speech at a ban quet in New York City, of the social evil: I'm tired of the people who take the attitude that it's out of sight and there fore doesn't exist. Why aren't we honest about It? You can't stop the evil any more than you can close toe saloons on Sunday. It will ex ist and every man knows It. and why can't we look the facts In the face? Why don't we speak out to the women to our wives and tell the truth, the facts? There Is a much higher percentage of Unmarried young people in toe city now than there was 10 years ago, and we know It- We know that expenses are high and that marriage Is deferred. So why don't we acknowledge the facts? The brothels in New York I bellevo should be left alone not licensed never licensed but kept In order. (Applause.) Keep toe evil oft the streets. As to toe tenements, you can't drive it out of toe tenements. Morgran Should Not Complain. Indianapolis Sentinel. J. Plerpont Morgan complains that the tariff on works of art Is "extremely un just and burdensome." because he Is called upon to pay some 33,000,000 of tariff on a lot of pictures and statuary he has been buying. But if it had not been for the tariff, he would not have been able to buy .them at alL It was the tariff that made possible his promotion of trusts, out of which be has made his enormous fortune. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS Inquisitive Person What are those peculiar looking things? Dealer Pressed family skel etons for the closets ot fiat-dwellers. Judge. "Boys, don't you know it's wicked to fight? Now, if I were you. I'd kiss and make up." "Say, wot do yous tlnk dla le a woman's clubr' Life. Dr. Cjuackerlr You should eat & bowl of oatmeal and milk every morning: Patient I do. Doctor. Dr. Quackerly Then you shouldn't. Chicago Dally News. Briggs Do you consider Mercer much of a French scholar? Origge Prettr fair. Re un derstand! the language sufficiently well not to attempt to speak it. Boston Transcript. Sonhrette Yes; I natter mrself that It was I that made the play a success. The Manager Veil. I don't know. I t'ink 70a ought to git der ministers some gredlt tor der vay dey chumped on It. Puck. She It is really wonderful how this, part of the world suits old people! There's my grandfather, he's eightr-nlne next month. He Reallrl Almost a what-4'ye-call-lt? a, non entity, don't you know I Punch. They ear there's an Island in the Pacific with COO lnhahltanta where drunkenness, crime. Jails, police and courts are unknown." "Is that so? It's a wonder somebody hasn't started In to clrlllz It." Brooklyn Lite. "Try this whiskey. Colonel." said the Ohio man. "I'tb had it in the house for more than fifteen years." "Excuse me." rejoined tho gentleman from Kentucky, "hut Til have to pass- It up. It must be something fierce It you couldn't get rid of It la that length ot time." Chicago Daily Kewa. "Ton write your first name very welL In deed. Mlsa Pinkie," criticised the writing teacher, "but you make a sad botch ot the 'Johnson part of It." "What Is the differ ence, Mr. Epencer asked -the pretty girl. 1 v ,v . 11. 1 1 . j .uutUil a, V 1 some x, ucofv xduuaa.