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THE MORNING OREGOIxIAS, - TUESDAY, APML 21, 1903. he v$ovtian. Entered at the Postoace at sortlan4. Ores, u Meoad-claat matter. REVISED EUESCRIKPTIOX RATES. Br Mail (postage prepaid, la advance) Dlllr. with 8andr. per month....... Sally. Ecnday excepted pr yesr.. " Dlllr. with Sunday, per yew... ........... 8.00 Sunder, per year.. ...... ....... xrai The "weekly, per year.. .. The 'Weekly. Z months.... -W To City Subscribers . . . ... JJally. per week, delivered. Sunday exeepted.Mo DUly. per week. delivered. Bundey Included JOa POET AGE KATES. United States. Canada and Mexico 30 to 3 4-pce pspr..... -.---0 10 to 30-pago prer. -'-r S3 to 44-pege paper ...'.....---iG Foreign rales double. News or discussion intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be ad fire Bed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregooiaa." not to the nam cr ony IndlrldnaL Letters reUUnc to adver tising, subscription or to any business matter bould be addressed simply The Oregonlan." Tea Oreconlan does not troy poems or stories from Individuals, and cannot endertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to It without solid tatloa. No stamps should be radosed ior tola Purpose. Eeetsro Business Ofaee. ..-. 4T. &, 4 Tribune building; New Tork aty: SlO-ll-lI irltmne building. Chlrsro: the B. c ee" Special Asener. Eastern rsnresentsttTs. For sale In Sen Francisco by X . I. Fsl sce Hotel news stand; Goldsmith Bros-. SM Sutter street; F. TV. Pitts. 1008 Market strew 3. K. Cooper Co.. 7S Market street, near the Palace Hotel; roster tc Oner, Ferry news tend; Frank Scott. 89 EUls street, and N. YTaeatiey. 813 Mission street. For sale In Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner. SS0 South 8prtng street, and OUrer tt Haines, StC South Serine street. For sale In Kansas City, Mo, by Rlckseeker Clear Co.. Ninth and Walnut streets. For sa In Chicago by the P. O. Sews Co, III Dearborn street, and Charles MsrTVinaVl. 3 "WsshlnrtOB street. For sale la Omaha by Barkalow Bros, $611 Farnam street: Megtatb Stationery Co.. 1908 Famam street. For sale la Orden by W. O. Kind. Ill 23th street. Jss. II. Crockwelt. 242 Ssth street. For sale In Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co, 7T West Second South street. For sale 1a Washington. D. C, by the Ebbett House news stand. For sale la Denver. Colo, by Hamilton Kecdrlck, S0S-S13 Seventeenth street; Loo than Jaeksoa Book & Stationery Co, Fifteenth and Lawrence streets; A. Series. Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TODAY'S WEAT5IETI Occasional rata, cooler; brisk .southerly winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, TO deg.; minimum temperature, id deg.; precipitation, 0 Inches. I'ORTLAXD. TUESDAY, APRIL, 21. THE GIIOUVD OF THE PHOTEST. Nature, In her orderly moods, does nothing In excess. "Ne quid nlmls" Is as clearly her motto as It Is the phil osophy of human action. In healthy conditions there Is growth and there Is change; but It Is in a regular, moderate and orderly way. Society must "get ahead." It cannot get ahead on a basis whereon all are on a level. The com munity where all men are on a level; where no man Is more successful than another, no man no richer than another, will be. Inevitably, a com munity stagnant. Idle, at best semi- barbarous and on the verge of starva tion. - But, while all this Is so on the one hand, on the other hand It Is not good, nor can It come to good, to have great part of the wealth of the country and 'the power that goes with it concen trated in a few hands. "Nothing to ex cess" Is the safest of rules. The great objection, to the trust and to the merger is that they make a few- persons enor mously rich, and concentrate power over the Industry, the capital and the general welfare of the country In the hands of the few and, at the rate at which the process is movingof the very few. It cannot be good for a country, for a great country like ours, that a few score persons shall be the masters of Its Industrial forces and the great body of the people their depend. ents. Hence the protest against the trust and the merger. Doubtless they who desire to make themselves the autocrats of this sys tem and to perpetuate their power are sincere in their estimate of themselves and of their own good Intentions. They believe, we may suppose, that the be nevolent paternalism which they seek to establish will be good for the body of the people: Just as the Holy Alliance, under the leadership of the Czar of Russia, after the fall of Napoleon, pro posed, on benevolent principles, to re lieve the people of the .trouble of po litical agitation and of government, and to leave them no duty but that of sub missive subjects. And yet that pro posal was not accepted as the" gospel of affairs in the political world; nor win the proposal of the magnates of our trusts and mergers be accepted as the gospel of affairs in the social and In dustrlal world. The protest against the trust and the merger Is a protest against a new feu dalism, dependence and serfdom, lien like Bockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan and 31111 may think, perhaps sincerely, that it would be better for the masses of the people to accept without question and be content in the positions they would assign them; but that is not the -way It Is going in the Industrial and social world, any more than In the po litical. Everybody knows that in the nature of things some men must be richer than others, and that all prog ress is both a result and a cause of inequality of conditions. But they be lieve, too, that there is positive danger and evil In enormous combination of wealth and in concentration of the di rection of it In a few hands; and that they who have had the favor of the Gov. eminent to establish corporations and to build up corporate power should not be permitted to combine the forces thus created through corporations to establish a universal monopoly and maintain It, subjecting the industrial operations of the whole people to their rule or will. Power like this is greater than all the power of absolute Kings. Between man's material condition and his living spirit there Is Intimate re lation; and the power that can control the former will ere long control the latter. It is the firm hope of the people that the check given to combination and merger In the recent suits at St. Paul will prove the first step of a necessary and salutary restraint. Government by the people becomes a mockery and farce. If somo twenty Morgans, -Hills and Cnrnegies, or a less number, are allowed to control the means and op erations through which and mainly, for -which government exists. In an Indus trial age they who control the indus trial forces of a country are its Kings and they contrc the life of a people who by combination and merger, under corporate powers, get control of the means whereby they live. It Is a subtle and Insidious, yet most effective, usurp ation. If the flaxgrowlng Industry finally proves to be the great success that Is now predicted for It, the Willamette Valley will be under no small obliga tions to the Oregon women's Flax fiber Association. The members of that organization expended much time and money In desaoastmtiEg the qual ity of the fiber that can be produced In this state. Their demonstration was complete, so tar as the quality of the product was concerned, but It remains to be seen -whether the manufacture of flax products can be profitably conduct ed In this state. Mr. Eugene Bosse, wHo Is raisins flax for fiber at Balctn, found last year that he could not se cure a sufficient number of persons to pull his crop. Oregon children enjoy reaching up to pick hops from the Tine. but their backs would not endure the work of pulling flax. Yet the pulling of the crop Is one of the necessary pro cesses, and unless the problem of se curing labor can be solved, a serious obstacle has been encountered. AX ACTIVE COMMISSION. The Child Labor Commission has begun Its work In a manner that prom ises a careful and thorough supervision of the matter with which, under the new law covering this question, it is called upon to deal. It is a well-established fact that what is everybody's business is nobody's business, and In no other field of rrobllc endeavor Is this maxim more fully verified than in that of so-called reform legislation. Take, for example, our temperance laws. The lawmakers of past years have been importuned by ardent friends of temperance) to pass laws fixing the responsibility for drunkenness In cer tain cases upon the more responsible party to the' transaction the venders of liquor. The Jaws asked for have been cheerfully given, and yet it is a matter of common knowledge that in many saloons minors drink at their will, habitual drunkards do not find It difficult, not to say impossible, to pro cure drink, and even very small boys have been found drunk upon the streets without any effort having been made to secure the apprehension and convic tion of the dealers who gave or sold them drink. This looks as if our temperance friends bad expended all of their enthusiasm and righteous indignation in getting the laws forbidding the gift or sale of in toxicants to lrresponslbles of the classes named, and had complacently retired upon their laurels. Indeed, the lesson that reformers have been the slowest to learn Is the simple one based upon the self-evident fact that no law. however salutary, will enforce itself. The champions of the child-labor law are proving notable exceptions to this rule. The result will be that this very salutary law will be enforced in the spirit of Justice and humanity In which its passage was urged and secured. Its provisions are plain, and It is the pur pose of the commission to keep them before the public to the end that they will not be violated through ignorance. Vigilance is the price exacted for the enforcement of all laws of a reforma tory nature. The chief stumbling-blocks in the path of the child-labor law are parental avarice, carelessness and du pliclty. In the present stage of the in dustrial life of this state employers are not likely to seek to evade It, The point where child labor can be used ex tensively and with any considerable profit has not yet been reached. Hence this law and the full and fair promise of its enforcement come at this period In our industrial development as safe assurances tit a wise application of the ounce of prevention, which is better than the pound of cure. CLIMATE AXD JfATIOXAL. GIIOWTK. Ben Butler was wont to Insist-that all the great races of the world dwelt In the temperate zone; that tropical cli mates had never produced great races or great men. This statement is doubt less too sweeping so far as individuals are concerned, for Hannibal was a child of North Africa, Mohammed a son of Arabia, Hyder Alt a native of Southern India, and Toussalnt L Overture of San Domingo. It Is probably true, how ever, that the great peoples of the world have flourished In the temperate zone of Europe and America. The ex tremes of heat and cold, for obvious reasons, do not favor the growth of a great state. A tropical climate Is ener vating to the body, is not attractive as a place of residence to men who can do better, and an extremely cold cli mate makes the maturity of grain, fruit and vegetables difficult, if not Impos sible, and by its severity Is not attract ive to men who are not compelled to endure It. How far the influence of climate may affect the growth of a great state Is naturally suggested for discussion by the exceedingly sanguine views expressed of the future rapid growth of the Canadian Dominion. Intelligent men who have lived many years in both Canada and the United States ore not only confident in Can ada's complete commercial Independ ence, but go so far as to claim that before many years Canada will become & dangerous rival of the United States in the markets of the world. Canada has already made American cheese take a second place and put her own In the first by the excellence of her product: Canadian bacon commands the highest price In the English markets, and Can ada feels confident that in the matter of wheat, and even flour, she will In a few years surpass America In the su periority of her product. Omitting Alaska from the possessions of both countries. Canada has &00.000 square miles more of land available than the United States. Northwest Canada, within the last twenty years, has be come accessible and available land through the Canadian Pacific Rail way, and Its reputation for agricul tural fertility Is becoming attractive to a considerable number of emigrants from Minnesota and the Dakotas. The official record reports that wheat lands in Northwest Canada yield from 62 to 67 bushels to the acre, while In Min nesota the average yield is but IT bush els. -Barley yields from 59 to 68 bushels to the acre, oats from 130 to 117 bushels to the acre, peas from 68 to 66 bushels to the acre, fodder corn from 24 to 36 tons to the acre. The Canadian district that is now at tracting American immigration lies north of North Dakota, Minnesota and Montana, and comprises the Provinces of Manitoba, Asilnabola, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, with an area of 375,009 square miles, and if Athabasca be In eluded, where good crops are raised In the Peace River VaUey. it wlU add 104,- 600 square miles. Much of this great district is good agricultural land. The, coU is rich, the Summer is warm, and in the mountain district the severity of the weather is -tempered by the warm breezes of the Pacific. This territory raised for export in 1902 60.000.000 bush els of wheat, to say nothing of oats, barley, flax, etc. By means of a ship canal from the foot of Lake Huron, by way of the Ottawa River, to the St. Lawrence River at Montreal, and thence by Lake Cham plain, through the proposed Richelieu Cans, to the Hud bob River, 1G00 miles win be caved over the present, routes, and by her' acces sibility to the, waters of the Great Lakes, the St, Lawrence and its tribu taries Canada ought to become In the near future a great transporter and ex porter of food products. The leading prophets of Canada's coming greatness, like Erastus Wtman, an American merchant of Canadian birth, point out that Canada possesses a vast element of wealth in her great forests of paper-pulp wood; that with her ample water power she Is perfectly equipped to prepare the pulp for manu facture. This pulp area extends from the Interior of Labrador, Newfoundland and Nora Scotia west and northwest to Alaska, from the SL Lawrence Val ley and the prairie sections almost to the Arctic circle. This pulp area, which is estimated to contain. 450,000,000 of acres. Is practically inexhaustible as a source of future revenue for Cans da. The mineral wealth of Canada Is Iron, copper, lead, - nickel, coal, petroleum. salt, mica and slate. In coal Canada has rich mines, capable of great devel opment, at tidewater. In Nova Scotia orj the Atlantic and on Vancouver Island on the Pacific These facts strongly fortify the conclusion of the Canadian statesmen that Canada will ultimately prove a formidable rival to the United States as a competitor in the markets of the world, but it must not be forgotten that there Is no part of the United States, save Alaska, which has not been considered in this com parison, which is not Included in the temperate zone. The productivity of the United States is not limited by any extremity of heat or cold. Accepting as sound the view that any climate where a good crop of wheat 'can be regularly harvested is not too cold to Invite an Immigration of sturdy agriculturists, the United States has the best of Canada, for It is admit ted that the country north of the Peace River Valley in Athabasca Is not fit for remunerative agriculture. There is no large part of the United States, from the Canada line to the Gulf of Mexico, from Maine to Oregon, of which It can be said that It is Incapable of remuner ative development owing to the sever ity of the climate. Even our old-time American Desert is only fertile arid land that irrigation makes luxuriantly productive. And this fact will make it impossible for Canada, great as she Is destined to become, to overtake the United States. Canada is limited by climate in her development,' while the United States is not thus restricted. A few thousand Americans will be at tracted by Canada's cheap wheat lands. but the vast majority of European im migration will settle In the United States. The South will be filled up with immigrants from Southern Italy; the North win retain the immigration from Northern Europe. Little of it will go to Canada so long as we have any cheap acres to occupy. The climate of Canada will repel the natives of South era Europe: the climate of our Southern States will attract them. CL.EVEX.AXD FOR. PRESIDENT. The antipathy to Roosevelt which comes to the surface of the financial world ever and anon is much more a matter of news to Democrats than to Republicans. It is of no great moment how cordially the President Is disliked by rich free-traders in the Democratic party. The interesting thing is wheth er these men can get a nominee to their minds on the Democratic ticket next year. Certainly It would be a dramatic epi sode If Miss Democracy should appear on the ballroom floor leaning on the arm of Mr. Wall Street. Certainly It would be a fight for your money If Grover Cleveland should be the Demo cratic nominee against Theodore Roose velt; If the plutocrats so sedulously alienated from the Democracy by the Joint efforts of Colonel Bryan and Chairman Hanna should come back to sit at the head of the feast. Cleveland Is In reality a promising candidate, provided only his friends could 'subordinate the now dominant Bryan. The thing is not Impossible, as is readily suggested by the favorable acclaim with which Cleveland's recent Tuskegee meeting speech has been re ceived in the South. The Influence of the South in Democratic councils Is tremendous; and while its pre-eminence nt National conventions is not equal to that in Congress and the electoral col lege, the votes of a few Northern dele gations like those of New York, Penn sylvania and Ohio, added to the South ern votes, would do the business. The third-term tradition will hardly He against a man who has been out of the Presidency for eight years, and Cleve land Is evidently more vigorous at 66 than most men at 70. The elder Har rison was inaugurated at 6S, and five of the Presidents were over 60 at the beginning of their terms. Cleveland, as the candidate of the conservatives and money kings, op posing Roosevelt as the man of the common people, would be a spectacle of unusual Interest. On the one hand, there would be an Imposing procession of those who have voted for McKlnley on the money question, returning in a body to the Democratic camp, and on the other hand there would be a lively commotion in the labor and socialistic ranks, where Bryan was popular, but where Cleveland could never be en dured. Who would be elected Is far from clear. We should have a formidable bolt from Bryan, that's certain; but Cleveland would not lose much by this In the South if he were regularly chosen and by the aid of Southern votes. It would not greatly signify whether the Populists of the West voted for Cleve land or for Roosevelt or with Bryan; Inasmuch as the Cleveland election. If It should occur, would be brought about by the Solid South and a few Northern states like Ngw Tork. Indiana and Illinois. These states would bo close; for. while such forces as Tam many would restrain from Bryan the Democratic masses which might other wise go with him. the discontent with Cleveland felt In rural New York, In diana and Ohio would be very great, especially as the lines were drawn with Cleveland as the candidate of the hated plutocracy. We should Incline to the view that such a contest, bitter, and perhaps de structive of one or both of the old par ties, would result favorably to Roose velt; and for the reason that while property and Intelligence, on tariff and labor considerations, might go over to Cleveland in great numbers, the Bryan tte schism In the party would beat htm. If Bryan's Influence on his party could be eliminated, there would probably be enough preference for Cleveland, as to currency reform, tariff reform and the rights of property, to elect him, with the opposition divided between Bryan and Roosevelt. But that malign Influ ence cannot bs eliminated. The effects of that, wild debauch of 136? have not yet worn away. Mr. Bryan will bare to be much older and feebler than he Is today before a Democratic President can-be elected in spite of hbnl The names of the Army officers first to serve on the general staff under the new-law providing for Its organisation were published early In the present month. The criticism that has followed their announcement seems to sustain the vigorous opposition with -which the suggestion of the measure was met by The .'commanding General of. Ihe Army and by others, who feared that tt might simply mean an Increase of power in the Adjutant-General's department. with corresponding weakness In that of the Quartermaster. This- fear was partially allayed by the promulgation of rules for the government of the se lection of officers of the staff service, but it has been aroused again by the announcement of the list of appointees. forty-two in number. In which the Quartermaster's department has but a single representative. This, In the face of the recent lesson -of the Spanish War, is, to say tne least, surprising. Every body will remember how men and sup plies Tiled up at Tampa in the Spring of 1898, owing to the lack of experi enced Quartermasters- The one thing needed for prompt mnitary action In an emergency Is expert Judgment In the purchase and movement of supplies, and. this our Array equipment , woefully lacked when, put to a practical test. In view of this fact, it Is surprising that the Quartermaster's department re ceived such slight recognition in the appointment of the general staff, while the Adjutant-General's office was given six of the first ten officers appointed. There are ten staff departments, so that if Corbln's department had been given only Its Just quota there would be but one instead of six members from the body that is supposed to perform only the clerical duties of the Army. How ever, since the rules governing the se lection of staff officers forbid the board to receive political or, personal indorse ments, and direct it to consider only the merits of the candidates, the coun try is bound to believe that merit, and not favoritism, controlled these ap pointments, though the large prepon derance of merit, in the Adjutant-Gen eral's department does seem & little strange. Judge Sherwood, of Missouri, pre sents an able argument In support of his contention that the initiative and referendum amendment is in violation of that section of the Federal Constitu tion which guarantees to each state a republican form of government. Our old friend TTRen replies that the laws of the state are stUl made by'represen- tatlves of the people, and that the ref erendum serves merely as a limitation which precludes the Legislature from misrepresenting the people. From present Indications, all attempts 'to proceed under the initiative and refer endum have been abandoned, and it is likely that our Supreme Court wUl not have an opportunity to pass upon the validity of the amendment until some Legislature passes a law that Is rad ically wrong. When the amendment was before the people In the last cam palgn, it was not discussed In all Its bearings, -but was considered only as a means of placing a restraining band, upon an unwise Legislature. It was not even suggested that desirable legis lation might be endangered for a- time by the filing of a referendum petition which would tie up an act of the Leg islature for eighteen months. If good Judgment shall 'be used In exercising the referendum power, the amendment will still have the popular approval evi denced by the large vote by which It was adopted: but If the amendment should be used as a means of hamper ing legislation which will be finally sus tained by a vote of the people, it will not be long before there will be a cry for Its repeal. There was no act passed by the last Legislature which a ma jority of the people desire to vote down. It is therefore pleasing to know that there are not 5 per cent of the people who are willing to subject the state to the expense and 'annoyance of needless ly submitting an act to a popular vote. The State Board of Horticulture will have strong popular support In any of Its efforts to enforce the cleaning of in fested fruit trees. Failure to spray orchards Is due to a careless neglect rather than to malicious Intent to evade the law and endanger the property of others. All that is needed is a vigor ous Commissioner who will hunt out the orchards that are diseased and say to the owner: "You must spray, and do it now." Putting off until tomorrow should not be tolerated by the Horticul tural Commissioners. Now Is the ac cepted time, now Is the day of extermi nation. A Board of Horticulture that will cleanse the orchards throughout the length and breadth of the Willam ette Valley will go down in Oregon in dustrlal history as a commission that filled a long-felt want. In the newer sections of the state orchards are better cared for, but If reports are true, there is need of heroic reme dies in the destruction of fruit pests In the Valley. There Is a time for all things, and therefore' a time for spray ing. Let us hope that the Board of Horticulture will see that the spraying Is done at the proper time and In the proper manner. All honor to the young people who forego the pleasure of an evening at the theater or who- deny themselves many luxuries of life In order that they may save money with which to pay' for a cottage in which to make their home. The tendency toward living in flats or "rooms' Is fast making this appear to be a "homeless" nation. How can family be raised in a flat? When new ly married couples begin their wedded life by settling down in homes of thelr own there will be less reason for com plaint of small families and the problem of race suicide will be solved. Some of the hopgrowers up the Val ley are alarmed over the prospect of an injury to the growing crop from the ravages of a worm that attacks the roots. It will now be In order for the "bears" to assert that these stories are colored for the purpose of bracing up the falling prices of the crop of 1301. If the smaller towns of the state, such as Salem, Eugene, Albany, etc, have not quite the bustle and noise of Port land, they can console themselves by reflecting that their building booms are not hindered by differences between employer and employe. What with "gilt-edged baseball" and the gypsy camp, there was no lack of attractions in this city last Sunday. It was a case In which seekers after amusement paid their money and took their choice. TRIGGS AND ROMEO. New Tork Sun. To men of stood llTer. life Is full of frspplnrsies- To us It is. and long has been, one of the greatest ol tnese leumuea In ralAr amateurs to Professor Oscar LoveU Trigg, a true museum piece and the choicest treasure in Dr. Harper's col lection. We cannot boast of having dis covered Ttirrs. for he -was born great. discovered himself early and has a Just appreciation of the -value of this discov ery. But in our bumble way we have helped communicate him to the -world. asalated In his effusion And collusion ana beckoned reverent millions to his shrine. Wo have Joyed to see him perform three heroic labors, tiz.: . 1 -Knock out" old Whlttler and Xocsfel- tow. 1. 'Do up"" the hyma writers. 8. Xaae Ms baby at the end of a year ot solemn conroltaUoa. But these achievements are only the bright beginning of a long- course of hal cyon and vociferous proceedings. As yet. Professor Triggs is but la the. bud. He came near blossoming tne otner aay, ana. the English, drama would, have bjosspmed with him. A firm which Is to produce Romeo and Juliet" offered him T0O a week to be the "advance agent" of the show and to "work cp enthusiasm by lec turing." Professor Triggs was compelled to decline the offer, but the terms of his refusal show that it is not absolute and that "some day," as the melodramas cry, he win Illuminate Shakespeare, dramatic literature and the -public mind: "I rexret my Inability at this time to take ad van tore" of this oeDortnnlty. tor the plan proposed seems .to me to be an excellent one. I would recard It, tram my point ot new, as aa educational opportunity. It would (-ratify me to be able to present my views en drama, on 8haxespeare, and. on this particu lar play, to ac-tlence that would cather to gether from a serious Interest la the drama Itself- This would be a form of "university extension' not hitherto tried, and which should be attended with sood educational re sultssuch as I would desire and such also s X assume you would desire." The nan Is worn off the phrase "univer sity extension." What Professor Triggs proposes and the country hungers for Is Tiiggs extension. He must not give up to Chicago what was meant for mankind. His views on any subject are impressive; but on Shakespeare they would be as authoritative and final as it Is his genius to be. As we have watched him swatting Whlttler and Longfellow, we have felt like yelling. IVhat, art thou drawn a mens these heartless hinds r The Drofessor should take a man more nearly of his size. The Shakespeare le gem should be allowed to delude no more. Professor Triggs can be depended upon to reduce this man Shakespeare to his natural proportions, club the sawdust out or that wax Sgger ot literature ana preach to eager multitudes the superior ity of the modem playwrights, with all the modern Improvements. The so-called poetry and imagination visible In this Stratford charlatan's plays must be torn out, deracinated, the fellow would call it. In his fustian etyle. If these plays .are to be put upon the stage, they must be rewritten; and Professor Triggs is the destined rewriter. atnender and reviser. The sapless old-fashioned rhetoric must be cut down. The fresh and natural con- temDorarv tonsrue: nure and Trlggslan. must be nubstltuted. For example, who can read with patience these tinsel lines? Madam, an hour before the worshipped sun Peered forth the colden window of the east, A troubled mind drare me to walk abroad." This must be translated Into Triggslan, somewhat like this: 'Say. lady, aa hour before sun-up I was feellnc wormy and took a wane around the block." Here Is more Shakesperian rubbish "O. she doth teach the torches to bum bright! Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night. As a rich jewel In an Ethiopia ear." How much more forcible In clear, con cise Triggslan: "Say. she"s a peach! A bird!" Hear "Pop" Capulet drivel: "Go to, go a. Tou are a saucy boy." In the Oscar dialect this is this: "Come off, kid! Tou" re too fresh." Compare the dropsical hlfalutln. Right's candles are burnt out. and Jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain's tope.' with this time-saving Triggsian version: "I bear the milkman." The downfall of Shakespeare is only a matter of time and Trices. Carnegie ought to endow Triggs. Oscar Hammer- stein ought to dramatize xnggs. inggs is the hope, and soon will be the pride. of the stage. He. ought to have not less than 17030 a week tor 53 weeas a year. Senator Dietrich's Philippine Policy, New York Journal of Commerce. The Dietrich plan for helping the Phil ippines by preventing the development of the sugar ana to Dacca roausuies ana stimulating the production of tropical ar ticles like coffee. India rutter, cocoa, eta, that are not produced In the United States, by means of admitting those from the islands free while Imposing a duty uron them when coming from other sources of supply, has a plausible look to devout believers in tne protection oi evervthlncr at anr Drlce. but It Is a delu slon and a snare. The way to treat the Philippines is to give them every advan tage of their natural resources ana ca nacltles and not to tax the consumers of this country to confer a bounty upon them while suppressing tne industries from which they can make the most. Why should all the people of the-country. for Instance, nay a duty upon conee irom Java, Braiil and Central America, and raise the price of that from the Philip pines to the same level, to subsidize mat particular Industry when the people can do .better with something else? Why should tbey raise the cost of an Important raw material like rubber to develop Its production at one spot when It can be got to better advantage somewhere else, and that spot neeas noimng out irecuum ana the introdctlon ot enterprise and labor to develop on Its own natural lines? The Dietrich plan is a compound ot protection and subsidy that contains the pernicious fallacies of both. Harvest of Political Chicanery New York Evening Post So dees a disgrace as that which befell M. Cavalgnac yesterday at Paris has rarely been the lot or an ex-Minister ana the bearer or a great name. Tne accuser was the eloquent Socialist Jaures. and. afterward. Cavalgnac's old chief. ex Premier Brisson. It was shown by Jaures that Cavalgnac as Minister of War. had received, after the Zola trial, a letter from General Pcllleux of the Genera: Staff, In which that officer had offered his resignation because he bad found himself "the dupe of those without honor." and because his superiors bad made him "work upon forgeries." Here was a formal con fession of that policy of falsification which the Etat Majeur had long adopted In its own defense. What M. Cavalgnac. Minister of War. did. all the world knows. He continued his role of bluff defender of the army, and resolutly sought to stifle the scandal that has at last overtaken him. By what casuistry and pleading ot the raison d'etat. Cavalgnac made himself the ally of the Merders and of similar a rear filth, we do not know. It Is a nasty business at best, and only to be recalled because, in the case of Jaures, it has shown the value or an idealist in politics; while In general It has strikingly proved that the meaner political crimes Invari ably return to plague their Inventors. Pessimism In tbe Sunny South. Roanoke fVaO Times. Glory Is but a transient dream that gives color to a sleep bespangled .with Illusions ot greatness: a mirage, glitter ing, but unsubstantial, hovering,' above the oasis in the desert of life ai whose fountain many a weary traveler wouId: quench his burning thirst that he may press on to grander ccignta. ADVICE TO THE ."STRONG MEN." Chicago Tribune The New York Times asks if It would not be wise for the "strong men," like J. Plerpont. Morgan and J. J. Hill, "to ad mit frankly that the Government and peo ple are after all greater and stronger than the corporations their sovereignty create.' Doubtless it would be wiser. It is true, as the Times says, that "by pro voking- continual litigation they perpetu ate conditions of uncertainty and finan cial disturbance which they themselves loudly deplore." This week's flurry la the stock market is du exclusively to the failure ot anrattempt to get around the .provisions of b. law which clashes with the Ideas ot certain men regarding tne proper management of railroads In which they are interested. Unfortunately, the "strong man." un less he has had political experience, sel dom knows how to yield, gracefully to the will of a majority when he tninics tne majority Is not so wise as he is. The stronjr man in the world or finance or trade has been educated by his successes to be tenacious of his opinions. Intolerant of the position, and contemptuous or tne views ot those who have not had his training and his good fortune. Such a man beueves he knows best. Laws which run counter to his theories cf political economy or railroad management are nul lified by him whenever he can find law yers shrewd enough to do it- ' Absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority" Is the duty of all men. unless moral Issues are Involved. Time has vindicated the men who violated the .fugitive slave law. When the question Is whether a corporation which exists by virtue ot a statute is greater than the people who allowed it to be organized, the man who endeavors to defeat the will of the majority need look for no vindica tion. Instead of entering upon an un equal contest he should submit to the will of the majority and confine his efforts to endeavors to convert the majority to nls way of thinking. It may be galling for Mr. Morgan and other men who have a low opinion of the wisdom of popular majorities and of a public sentiment. ad verse to railroad combinations, wmcn they think la unenlightened, to obey an obnoxious law which embodies the wishes of the people, but it will be wise to do so. The part or Ajax aerying tne ugnt nlng" Is a spectacular but not a success ful one. PRESIDENTS AND M0NARCHS Chleasro Inter Ocean. Professor Hasse. of Lelpstc Is regarded by his countrymen as an entirely serious person. It is safe to assume. In fact, that he always thinks and speaks from the German viewpoint with the utmost grav ity UDon all nubile Questions and occa sions. If he did not he would hardly be n, German university Drofessor. Yet Professor Hasse. when the Reichstag on Thursday was discussing the Venezuelan adventure, declared that the result of the government's conduct was "to Increase America's reputation while ours sinks." A laree share of the blame for such depression he ascribed to Baron Speck von Sternberg, German Ambassa dor to Washington, or whom ne saia: The behavior or Ambassador Sternberg- has been such that the United States ought to pay his salary. I bare no words la which to char acterize bis action. He even ventured to place the President on the same plane with the Em peror! Professor Hasse and those Europeans who think as he does will doubtless re gard' the statement as "Yankee Impu dence." yet it is tne soua ract mat tne American people regard It as no com pliment to have their President de scribed as the equal of Emperor William. And Emperor William Is about the only monarch now whom they would not be offended to have placed on tbe same plane with their Presldent Tbat Is the American viewpoint. Jus tified to the American mind by the fact that European monarchs do not now, and. as a class; never have, compared either In statesman!?, ablllty-or In personal rec titude with American Presidents. There have been 2 American Presidents, and no royal house in Europe can show their equals as either statesmen or men. No Democrats From the North- Chicago Chronicle CD em.) In tho United States Senate which will meet next December the Democrats will have only six members from Northern States--two each from Colorado and Mon tana, and one each -from Idaho and Ne vada.. And these are not Democrats. They are the surviving progeny of po litical miscegenation a system which be gan when cranks and freaks of all par ties came Into possession ot the Demo cratic National organization in 1S3S. They repudiated the safe and sound Democratic platform of 1S32 founded on all the pre ceding Democratic platforms, varying In terms only as the progress ot events and changes in the National condition re quired. In 1S33, following tho Democratic vic tory on the platform of the previous year, there were 11 Democratic Senators irom Northern States. There were two Demo cratic Senators from New York, two from New Jersey, two from Indiana, two from Wisconsin, one from Illinois, ona from Ohio and some from other Norther States. This number Is now reduced to six. And these six were all Republicans in 1833. None of them now represents the Demo cratic party In Its Integrity and in the traditional Democratic faith. They came over and are left on Democratic hands as the waits, the flotsam and Jetsam of the wild political tempest of seven or eight years ago, but which now has par tially or mostly subsided. Jfo Illch Tariff Wanted There. Winnipeg Tribune. A movement Is on foot to urgo upon the Dominion Government the placing of a duty on cream separators. About 00.000 worth of cream separators or their main part was Imported Into Canada list year. A duty of say 30 per cent would mean that the farmers and dairymen of Canada would pay a tax ot J1W.C0O a year on the separators they buy. Prices In Canada would go up Just the amount of the duty. And for what? Merely to enable two or three Canadian factories to make a big profit. The Frauds In tbe Postal Service. Pittsburg Leader. The duty of the Postmaster General. now that tno naicea tacts are before him, is plain. He must cleanse his Depart ment with an unsparing hand and, by tho severity of the lesson administered to his offending subordinates, prevent ef fectually the possibility of a recurrence of the evils at present undergoing- ex posure. Let It be shown in this Instance. at an events, mat tne power or politicians to protect unworthy servants of the Gov ernment can no longer prevail. LenrninK in, Spite of Himself. Indlmapolls News. The President admits that the tariff Is not sacrea ana mat cnanges In the sched. ules are sometimes necessary to. meet the Nation's shifting needs, which is addi tional proof that sometimes we progress in spite of our most strenuous efforts to the contrary. In April. B. Richardson. In April month, ot smiles and tears, A little time you came , to star. The sunlauzhed out as if 'twere May, The fields put on their best array. And the cuckoo cried to listening ears. In April month of smiles and tears. And you with rptrit brave and gay. Who smile through sorrow and laugh down fears "With your tender face and your wilful way. And your mood that changes every day. And every change the more endears. Like April month of smiles and tears. ' Our heart were sad and skies were Cray, And"the rain fell fast, when you went away In April month of smiles and tears. K0TE AND COMMENT; . What it the ballplayers should striker Today we have the Browns, not the blues. We will have a chance to see for our selves this afternoon. Jack Marshall win find out today" what It feels like to be a conquered hero. The only thlnir that could knock out James J. Cor belt would-be a phonograph running overtime. It has been decided to shed a Uttle. Illum ination on the quarrel of the gas com panies in San Francisco. Great storms are announced from Ger many. This time It Is not the press that is on the rampage, but the weather. The city government would like to know how to get mora money. That la a question a whole lot of us would like to know. too. A man named Slim was yesterday lynched In Wyoming -for murdering an other man. He had that sort of a chance from the first. Every day some doctor announcer that he has discovered the cause of cancers. The public is more generally Interested In cures than causes. The gentleman who tried to imitate Tracy in California Is no doubt now hav ing an opportunity to swap yarns with the Oregon outlaw between blasts. Countess Russell, who married Prince -Athrobald Stuart de Modena, has discov ered that her husband Is not a prince at till, but a footman. It seems he Is to be of some use after all. Heports from Paris state that Santos- Dumont la busy building a big balloon shed which will house at least three ot his airships. He has purchased 12,000 square meters of land facing the Seine at Neullly. Just opposite the Island of Puteaux, where ,1s situated the famous Summer club for Parisian sportsmen. M. Dumont lives In ,the Champs Elysees and goes about the dty on a tiny electric American runabout. His new balloon wlU be the tenth that he has built, and as M. Dumont Is of the opinion that No. 9 waa much too heavy No. 10 will be. of a much lighter design. Experts say that No. 10 will be a beautiful toy but not a machine to conquer the air. Dr. JTatton was delivering a lecture re cently In his course on ethics at tho Princeton Theological Seminary and ex perienced much annoyance because some of the students ate peanuts instead of attending to him. Finally he administered this rebuke: "Gentlemen, I have delayed starting the most Important part of to day's lecture, hoping that the stock of peanuts would be consumed and a rest ful quiet be restored. As the quantity seems ample to meet the demands and the supply appears inexhaueltble. I feel constrained to request that your appetites be restrained until the conclusion ot the lecture. I would be greatly pleased if In the future anyone wishing to conduct a 5 o'clock tea in the classroom would confine the refreshments to sponge cake." Prominent among tho King of Portu gal's varied tastes Is an English passion for sports of all kinds and it is knpwa that once when Jhike of Braganza he entered the ring to face a bull -with points unbated"; that is to say, not padded, as Is generally the case In Portu gal as distinguished from Spain. One of the ladies of the court had dared the Duke to face a bun with lte homs un guarded and so he entered the arena In the Spanish manner Incognito, though everyone knew who the bold banderlllo was. Unfortunately the Duke slipped- and fell, but, starting up before the bull could charge again, he ran for the bar ricade and cleared It at a bound Just a moment or two before the Infuriated ani mal splintered the woodwork with its horns. Limerick Competition So. 14,368. Our Invitation to send In stray limericks has been accepted by at least one person In the state. Probably the soothing, balmy Spring was too much for him. and ha succumbed to the poetic microbe. We append his remarks: An editor asks for some rhymes. Tbe kind that he pars for in dimes. But d a It Cathlamet. And the River Willamette Caa only be used a few times. A Gardener's Burial. Andrew J. Johnson, forestry expert. whose burial will take place at Astoria today, was a true son of Nature. A bot anist, wedded to his calling, he was rich in flowers and trees, and though ot a kindly, social disposition, he was at home In the solitudes and -mads its plant-Hie familiar friends. The following fragment picked up among the flotsam and Jltsam of current literature is published as a tribute from a nameless source to a mart who loved all growing things: This Is the grave prepared; set down the biers Mother, -a faithful son we bring thee here In loving ease to lie beneath thy breast. Which many a year with toying toll he drest, His was the eldest craft, the simple skill. That Adam piled, ere good was known by ill: Tbe throstle's song at dawn his spirit toned; He set his seeds In hope, he grafted, pruned. Weeded and mowd, and with a true son's care Wrought thee & mantle of embroidery rare. The snow-drop and the Winter aconite Came at his call ere frosts had ceasd to bite; He bade the crocus name aa with a charm; The nestling violets bloom'd. and teard no harm. Knowing that for tbelr saies a champion meek Did bloodless battle with the weather bleak: But when tbe wealthier months with largness came His blazoned beds put heraldry to shame. And on the Summer air such perfume cast As Saba or the Spice Isles ne'er surpast. The birds all lov'd him. for he would not shoot Even the winged thieves that stole hla fruit: And ha lov'd them-the little fearless wren. ( The red-breast, curious In the ways of, men, The pilgrim swallow and the dearer guest That sets beneath our eaves her plastered nest; The merry white-throat bursting with his song. Fluttered within Mi reach and fearM no wrong. And the mute fly-catcher forgot her dread. And took her prey beside his stooping head. Receive them. Mother Earth, his work is done; Blameless he lived, and did offense to none; BUmeless he died, forbidding us to throw Flowers In his grave, because he lov'd them so He would not have them stifle underground. But bloom among the grasses on his mound. We, that have loved, must leave him. Mother, keep A faithful watch about him in his sleep. Vain Courtesy. New York Sun. De Stj-le What did that. Polite Man do after they got him strapped Into the elec tric chair? Gunbusta He wanted.to get up and of fer a lady his seat. How the Jeies Differ. New York Press. When a man reckons up how much tt costs him to live hotflgues- on how much, is jeftl or clothes ufhen a woman bail figured" up what her, clothes cost she esti mates what is left to live on.