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PORTLAND, THURSDAY, APRIL. O,
WHY PAX AM A. WAS CHOSEN.
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.