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TI1E ' MOKNIXG. OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, APRIL' 35, 1903.. Entered at th FostoSea at rortland. Oregon, u second-class matter. KCTIEED SCBSCRTRPTION' RATES. Br Mall (postar prepaid. In advance) vuitv wiw ouxiaar, per montn.... Dally. Sunday excepted, per year., sjaii Sui Dally, with bimiay, par year.i.... 1.00 S.00 1.50 nur. xer r year.. . To weekly, per yexr. The Wnilr, S month!.. ............ ...... -0 To city Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday excepted.lSe Dally, per week. delivered. 6unday IneludedUaOe POSTAGE RATES. United State, Cine at asd Mexico SO to l-par paper.,.. ... ,.lo 16 to SO-pas papr......................-Xo 13 to si-pc- paper ................ &a Foreign rate doable. Ken t or discussion Intended (or jrabucstlon. In The Oreronlan should tie addressed Invaria bly Editor The Oreronlan." not to the nam any Individual. 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Km Co.. 17 Dearborn street, and Charles Mac Donald. C3 Washlnrton street. For sal In Omaha br Barkalow Bros. 1C12 ramam street; Meceath Sutloasry Co. 130S Farnam streeL For sale In Orden by W. a. Kind, lit 23th street: J as. 1L Crock well. 542 23th stmt. For sal -In Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co.. 77 West Second South street. For sale In Washlnxton, D. by th Ebbett lions news stand. For sal In Denver, Coin, by Hamilton lc Kendrlck. S06-SI3 SeTcnteenth street: Lou than Jackson Book & Stationery Ox. Fifteenth and Lawrencs streets; A. Series. Sixteenth and Curtis streets. YJS6TERDAVS AVEATHEB Maximum tem perature. 73; minimum temperature, 45: pre cipitation, 0. TODAY'S WEATHEn-Partly cloudy, prob ably followed by showers: cooler; winds mostly southerly. I'OirfLAXD, SATURDAY, APRIL -5. WOIUC FOR CHILDREN. Many children are overworked, and many do not work at alL There is evil both ways. It Is 'a mere foolish sentimental Ism that raises an outcry whenever a child Is seen at work compelled to It; for nothing can do the child so much wrong as to bring it up wholly without personal knowledge of work and of what It means. Here, as In all other affairs of life, there Is a safe middle ground. It Is right and proper, and for their own good, that children should be required to work. reasonably and moderately; but it Is an outrage upon them. Indignity and violence to humanity, a wrong to the state, when children are put in to work and kept at work as the poor little drudges, during long hours, of an Indus trial machine. In IslIe'sMonthly. William S.Waudby, special Agent of the United States for the Department of Labor, has an ar ticle on the subject of child labor. He says there are about 1,750,000 children between the ages of 10 and 15 years at work In the mines and factories of the United States. The figures represent an increase of 100 per cent in the dec ade from 1890 to 1900 a growth, as he finds, mainly due to two causes first. the Introduction of labor-saving ma. chlnery. which children can tend; and, second, the increasing disposition and tendency of working men and women to send their children into mines, fac tories and workshops at an early age. The truth is that in this respect many parents, who could do better for their children, are much more unfeeling than capitalists who employ them. They little pity their own offspring, com pelled to drudgery, deprived of growth mentally and morally, and brought up as Illiterates in the midst of free schools. Many parents are willing to live in idleness, and worse Indulgence, while they drive their children to work. But it is folly, in this matter as Jn others, to rush from one extreme to the other. Because some children are cru elly overworked, it Is utterly wrong to assume therefore that children should not be required .to work at all. Noth log can be more Injurious or cruel to children than to bring them up with out practical acquaintance with labor. "Work Js always to be the leading duty of life. The state interposes to prevent abuse of childhood through compulsion to work long hours under the factory system or in the mines. But while it can check and ought to check this abuse, it Is powerless to enforce upon parents the duty of teaching their chll dren, as they ought to do, the knowl edge and habit of self-supporting in dustry. Ko more pitiable condition can be conceived than that of children turned out upon the world without means of supporting themselves In some useful employment. Yet parents are constantly guilty of this neglect, and a false humanitarian Ism -seems to approve it by raising a storm. of, pro test when 'children are seen at work, even within reasonable hours and at employments not beyond their strength or years. The person who is not taught to work while he is growing up will seldom learn it or like It afterward. The Bagdad Railroad Is to traverse the length of .Asia Minor down the Eu phrates to the Persian Gulf, with a line connecting with Damascus, where a French railroad ends. Russia op poses the building of this railroad, be cause It desires Instead to push two lines of Its own down through Persia and from some point on the Black Sea, both to the Persian Gulf. This would give the Russian railway system direct entrance on the Persian aulr and the Indian Ocean. Germany, on the other hand, wishes to see Asia Minor opened by railroads In which German cap ital Is heavily involved, and .which will become profitable when they become through lines. France wishes to con tlnue Its control of Syria, while Great Britain desires to keep Its supremacy in tho Prnlu Gulf. Thus Western Eu rope Is united In a policy that shuts out Russia and gives it oniy me Dar ren table land of Kurdistan or Ar menia. Great Britain, France and Ger many are reported to be In agreement to build the Bagdad liauroaa. it inis scheme Is carried out, Russia will be Isolated and Turkey assured of a new lease ot life. Prime Minister Balfour acquiesced In Germany's railroad plans In Asia Minor, including the terminal at Koweit, on the Persian Gulf, as the crlce ot the Kaiser's strict neutrality during" the Boer war, in acuanre ui m ""v,Vr ii,m f nermanr. The price iiald for this neutrality was not too Elgh, but tie English people and pre are so blinded ay their commercial Jealousy and bate of Germany that they give no freight to Balfour's explana tion. It to now regarded as settled that French and English, as well as Ger man, capital will .be Interested In this Bagdad railway that Is to be con structed from Konla, near the eastern edge of Asia Minor, to Mosul, and thence southward to Bagdad and Bas sora. PROTESTS FROM "WALL STREET. From the New Tork Financial Chron icle one may look for a fair reflection of capitalistic impression of the merger decision. And .the Chronicle Is much put out. "Where we had looked to find some measure of satisfaction with a ruling obviously in accord both with the law and with public policy we and only grunts and growls. Though the Chronicle does make a very plausible showing. The decision Is, It says, that while no restraint of trade has been practiced, ana .wnue the merger's motives may have been laudable, its offenr consists in the fact that the combination "confers the pow er to establish unreasonable rates," and the Chronicle submits that a man might as Justly be divested of his razor on the ground that it "confers the power" to commit a felonious assault. And there Is more to the same effect. "Why, then, was the merger dissolved! The Chronicle says It was because the court yielded to public opinio. The anti-trust 'agitation "has reached the proportions and symptoms of a mania," and the Chronicle would fain "let the Supreme Court have time to get out of the atmosphere" of. the St. Paul de cision. The answer to this complaint Is that no court in any country, least of all under a popular government, can be regardless of public opinion. Slavery and railroads, to go no farther, show lnthelr history how courts as well as Legis latures reflect the changing public pol icy of the tune. Anti-trust sentiment may be a mania, and it may not. The question, is one of fact, and not of mere assertion. It rises in the very general conviction that monopoly is a deadly thing, however eminent its representa tives and beneficent its immediate pur poses. If we have to be saved by mo nopoly, it will be a public monopoly. and not the trust in private hands. More specifically and pertinent to the Chronicle's reductlo ad absurdum, it may be said that a powerful contribu tory cause of the public sentiment be hind the St Paul decision is the per nicious activity of the trusts. If they are reaping the whirlwind, they have sowed the wind. They have contra vened the spirit and the letter of the Sherman law, and have thought to defy the courts as they have defied Congress. The merger's claim Is to promote trade rather than restrain it; but the plain fact is that the merger aimed at precisely what the Sherman law designed to prevent, and that is the destruction of the free play of com petition and Independent initiative. Morgan may be wiser than the law. but he Is not the law. HU1 may know better than the courts what is good for the country, but the Judicial function is not vested in him. It is the province of Congress to determine what is best for the country; and it is the province of our magnates to study the law to obey, and not to break. Nothing needs the support of the law so much as prop erty; and if property is wise it will not be found setting examples of lawless ness. The beggar on the curbstone has no more right to select what laws he will obey than has the magnate of "Wall street. This is the basis of the public sentiment that our trust promoters find so galling. "Whosoever shall fall upon this stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever this stone shall fall, it will grind him to powder. Busixnss AXD THE GUARD. XATIOXAL The National Guard does not get the support of the great busbiess houses of New York City, and their employes who are members of the militia make timely and vigorous protest against this discreditable fact. During the Chi cago riots of 1S94 the clerks of leading houses who obeyed the summons of the militia service found themselves soon after gradually dropped out one by one upon the ground that a large business house could not afford at a busy season to lose a week or more of time on the part of an employe who belonged to the militia. One of the largest corporations in New York City, employing in its main office about 500 men, distinctly discourages, through Its officers. Na tional Guard enlistments among Its clerks. In case of a riot, this company would be likely to lose many millions of dollars. Its directors approve of the National Guard in general, but they "want no employes who belong to Its ranks. Of course, the knowledge that great corporations and leading business houses object ta employing men who belong to the National Guard is a sert ous injury to the efficiency and Integ rity of the citizen soldiery, There is no remedy for this situation. for it is Incurable by law. If a man could prove that he was discharged or discriminated against because of his connection with the-National Guard, he could obtain legal redress, but the dls charged employe cannot prove legally that he was "let out" because he per formed his duty In some military emer gency, although he is morally certain why he lost his head. The situation is one that can .only be cured by' the growth of more patriotism and public spirit and less short-sighted selfishness on the part of Influential business men. Commodore Vanderbtlt In 1851 gave the United States Government a splendid transport worth $500,000; he was a hard headed, close man in money matters. but he said, bluntly: "All tny eggs are in the basket of the American Union, and every dollar I possess Is well spent In its preservation. Vanderbllt was no philanthropist nor golden-mouthed patriot, but he had brains enough to understand that the security of all property in the last analysis rests upon bayonets. It is become a proverb that merchants hate to fight; this is natural, because men of business Know by ex perience how hard it Is to create wealth and how rapidly war wastes wealth. J but he Is a very short-sighted trader who forgets that the security of the great city which represents his triumph is the sentiment, the patriotic memory that reminds every trader that he Is a posslblo soldier. Great states soon become the shadow ot a name when they cease to rest for protection and perpetuity on great hearts, who are ready to fight, and, if necessary, to die. not only in defense of their merchandise, but In defense or liberty when assailed, and of human i . " . ? . mere rich trader state can, of course, I hire mercenaries, but when a great 1 state sets to that It to near Its fall. That is lhe story of Tyre, of Carthage, of Greece, of Rome, of every ancient state. "When they became rich enough to buy soldiers without stint, their na tive hardihood had so far departed that either their mercenaries plundered the state that hired them or helped bar barians push it "into its grave. The story of Venice" sod Genoa carries with it the same moral. When a state breeds nothing but traders and money-grabbers It invites capture by an Invasion of warlike barbarians by sea or land. It is easy today to smile at the thought of what would have happened to the North if the cause .of the Union had been beaten by the South; but if Tee had won at Gettysburg, as he came dangerously near doing, Baltimore. Washington and Philadelphia would have fallen into his bands, the Con federacy would have been recognized by all Europe as a nation, the whole South would have Supported Lee's vic tory with Intense energy and courage, and in that event terms of peace would have been enforced that would have made the Confederate bondholder look smiling and the holder of United States bonds look as melancholy as a miser whose strongbox had been robbed. The youth of the country who fought for the Union -and fell where they fought spent their lives for a sentiment. for a flag, but behind that flag crouched the bankers and traders of every great city of the land, with their hearts in their "mouths, for they knew that the loss of Gettysburg meant not simply the ineffectual waste of the gallant blood of the North, but It meant the loss of the banker's and the trader's treasure. How stocks and bonds would have tumbled, how prices of land and houses would have fallen In great cities, had Lee occupied Baltimore, Washing ton and Philadelphia! Verily, the great merchant and trader has no real se curity today for a single dollar of his superfluous wealth except the bayonets I of citizen soldiery and those of the ( Army of the United States, and because of this the great trader and merchant, and banker is most deeply Interested in- making our National Guard the finest body of militia in the world instead of demoralizing it by discriminating against employes who seek to Join it. A single day's unchecked riot in a great city would cost the great merchants, traders and bankers very dear. The wonder is that the very class whose stake is the largest in the efficiency of the National Guard should Indirect ly. seek to demoralize It. A sagacious merchant ought to Know that the most determined defenders of property would be the men who are de pendent upon its preservation for their bread. A National Guard composed largely of men recruited from the work ing force of the business world will naturally make a resolute and Intelli gent fight against riot, and to "black list" them because they are National Guardsmen is an act of folly for the employer. ' TUB OLMSTED PLAXS. Mr. Olmsted's admirable landscape outline should serve the two-fold pur pose of putting the undertaking at last before the people in concrete form and of arousing a direct and immediate In terest in the constructive features of the enterprise. Hitherto the grounds and buildings have been baseless fab rics of Inchoate visions like the pil grim's imaginings of the celestial city. It Is worth a good deal to have at length even a newspaper ground plan, widened streets, plazas, terraces. building sites, wharf arid railway fitted to the familiar features, of Balch Creek and Guild's Lake. It seems superfluous either to ex. plain the Olmsted plans, which were printed yesterday In detail, or venture an approving verdict on a matter of so technical a character. But It is per fectly clear, whatever may be thought by expert opinion about the details. that the architect has constantly had In mind such practical matters as con venlence and profit as well as the more artistic things relating to architectural effect. Access Is ready for railroads. boats, street-cars and pedestrians. The incidental features of Midway charac ter are separated from the Exposition proper, while terraces, peninsula, lake and river are utilized, apparently to their greatest advantage. This is well; for the first business of the directors. as custodians of the large sum con tributed. Is to make the Fair succeed. An artistic triumph, obtained through ruinous financial management, would simply be a failure. An eligible site has been chosen for the Lewis and Clark memorial building, and It is fitting to remind ourselves that the site will be central. It is not central now, but Portland in 1906 and succeeding years will not be the Port land of 1903. The peninsula, from St. Johns to Milwaukie, Is going to be filled up with stores, warehouses; fac tories ana Homes, irvington and Hoi. today's Addition will be thickly settled residence districts, and handsome houses win line the west side of the river clear -out to Oswego. A notable Incident of this development will .be a tremendous building activity In the dls- trict leading from the old Exposition building out to the Lewis and! Clark grounds and beyond. The memorial building will be central. It will not seem farther from business than the High School seemed less than tea years ago. . . RUSSIA IXV1TES WAR, The action of Russia In making de mand upon China for the cession of Manchuria is Important, as it' invites war with -Japan, which would mean probably war with Great Britain, for Manchuria is of vital consequence to the Japanese, considered as a market for their manufactures and as an out let for their surplus population. On April 8 last a meeting of the two chief political parties at the Japanese capital passed a resolution praying -the. British and Japanese governments to urge China to Insist upon the restoration of its administrative functions In, Manchu ria. One of the speakers, a professor in the Tokio University, said that noth ing but war could make Russia evacu ate Manchuria, for which Japan must prepare herself, as it was absolutely necessary to keep Manchuria open to the Inflow of emigrants from Japan. Corea alone could not take up the overflow of Japan's- population, for Corea is a poor country and can take but a.small fraction of Japan's increas ing manufactures. Japan has lost all chance of occupying the Philippines through their acquisition by the United States. To Japan, therefore. Manchuria has become indispensable as a market and as a place of settlement for emigrants from her .shores. Russia will not evacuate Manchuria except by tKe" ap plication of force. Japan, of course. cannot succeed In forcing Rus sia to evacuate Manchuria, unless she obtains the rapport ef Great Britain, which she will probably obtain, for England cannot afford to- acquiesce in the violation of & promise In regard to Manchuria in the fulfillment.of which her ally. Japan, is vitally concerned. If Great Britain supports the demand of Japan with her powerful Navy, Rus sia, will be compelled to recede from her present demand on China.. and probably the demand is made in. order to And out what Great Britain' means t do. Russia does not feel pertain whether Great Britain Is in earnest or only "bluffing" in her position as an ally of Japan, so by her demand on China for surrender of all sovereignty in Manchuria Russia has called" Eng land's hand. The United States, as a large export er of the commodities distributed from Nlu Chwang, Is deeply Interested to tals refusal of Russia to keep her prom ise to leave China's authority In Man churia intact, r but our resentment should not extend beyond an earnest diplomatic protest and remonstrance. Kussia. nag deliberately invited war with Japan and Great Britain. Even if war does 'not come between Russia and Japan,, not many years will elapse before there will be another anti-foreign outbreak in China, for the Chinese are busily importing firearms and war material Jn violation of the Pekln pro tocol. The Pekin settlement really set tled nothing permanently, for the whole question of the evacuation of Nlu Chwang and all Manchuria was pur posely' omitted from both' the' delibera tions and the protocol. The Ottawa correspondent of the London Economist writes that Journal that the gerieraUbelief in the Canadian capital concerning the case to be heard before the Alaskan Boundary Commis sion is that the -Americans will win. They believe that Lord Alverstone. the Chief Justice of Great Britain, will be guided by the evidence, and the corre- spondent of the Economist says: "A weak feature of our case is that it has the appearance of being an after. thought. Russia claimed whatvls now claimed by the United States, and Eng land naa naming to say to the con trary." Canada never set up any. claim until many years after the" Northwest Territory became part of the Dominion, and did not seriously Insist that the United States was claiming too much: until 1SS7. The Canadians never con sidered their- case as worth disputing about until after the discovery of gold In the Yukon. Then, of course, Canada desired to control the routes running north from Lynn Canal to the Yukon River and Dawson. Canada naturally wishes to be able to reach the Yukon River by way of Lynn Canal without having to use American territory. When Canada many years ago pro posed to Duuo a railroad, to.the mari time provinces, sne wanted it to go through territory belonging to the State of Maine; hence a, claim was. made to that territory. Daniel Webster, for the United States, and Lord Ashburton, for Great Britain, examined Into the claim and found it unjust, and Great Britain signed the famous Ashburton treaty of 1S42, which confirmed the claim of the United States. The Philadelphia Ledger prints the facts regarding the appointment of ne groes to office "by President McKlnley. It appears from Its list that he put no less than fifty-two" Into the- Federal service, to say nothing of several hun. dred appointed to the regular and vol unteer armies. Nine of Mr. McKInley's appointees were made Collectors of Cus toms, sixteen were given postofilces, five went to the Internal revenue serv ice and nine Into the Interior Depart ment. To the diplomatic and consular service Mr. McKlnley appointed the following: Rev. O. L. W.. Smith. Min ister to Liberia; W. S. Howell. .Minister to Haytl; John T, Williams, Consul at Sierra Leone; Dr. L. W. Livingston, Cape Haytien? M. W. Glbbs. Tamatave; M. B. Van Horn, St. Thomas; Dr. George H. Jackson, La Rochelle; C L. Maxwell, Santo Domingo; J. R. Ruffln, Asuncion: R. T. Greener, Vladivostok; Dr. H. W. Fumess, .Bah la; J. R. Spur- geon, secretary of Legation at Liberia; T. J. Calloway, special agent Paris Ex position. Beside -this -list Mr. Roose velt's, fifteen negro selections seem few indeed, particularly as eight of the fifteen were reappointments- Natural ly, the Ledger asks why "the South, which Is so angry and clamorous re garding President Roosevelt's original seven appointments, was neither indig nant nor clamorous with respect to President McKInley's fifty-two appoint ments." The termination of a long and useful life of versatile -public service in seem ing official disgrace Is Illustrated by the removal from office of Assistant Attor ney-General Tyner. Tyner is 77 years of age, and a paralytic. Probably his mind has been weakened by a disease that implies decay of bralri power, for It is rare to find, a man who has main tained his Integrity unsullied to old age turning rascal on the verge of the grave. It was contrary to sound public policy for the Government to keep a paralytic 77 years of age In an impor tant public office. James Freeman, of Washington, N. J has become a father for the twenty- eighth time. He Is 63 years' of age; Is a colored war veteran; he had fourteen" children by his first wife, and fourteen by his second wife. The first fourteen were all boys, except one; his children by his second wife consist of eight boys and six girls, Including Jwo sets of twins. This colored war veteran nas certainly not been guilty of "race sul clde," and is clearly a man after Presl. dent Roosevelt's own? heart. Youths Tnrnlnsr to Crime. St. Paul Glob. The startling statement is made In Min neapolis that ot the 41 prisoners in the Hennepin County Jail not one Is above 21 rears ot age. The condition mat brings about this state of affairs is worth while inquiring into. A Hennepin County Judge commenting upon the situation says mar he believes the Increase of crime among young men Is due to their being forced out of many sources ot employment by girls. The one thing certain is tne fact that there are more young men occupying cells In Jails and penitentiaries than there were a few years ago and it behooves those persons who interest themselves in criminology to Inquire into the conditions that have brought about this increase in the criminal tendencies of young men. The White ScoatEe. , Philadelphia Inquirer. The New York Society for the Preven tion of Tuberculosis 'has determined to build a sanitarium for consumptives In the Adirondack, with' accommodations for nearly S00 patients. Thus the work goes on. The battle against the disease which, is the greatest foe of man is pro oressinz. and there can be no doubt that the time is coming when consumption. will be practically stamped out. SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS I Right Dews the line, denials News. This is glorious- news lor not only the First District, but the entire state, for his nomination Is equivalent to election. No man In Oregon understands so well the needs of the state as does Mr. Her mann, owing to his long and valued ex perience a one of the Nation's mosf faith ful and useful lawmakers. Works Both. "Ways. Rogue IUvr Courier. The "rebuke to Roosevelt" plea is likely to be used very largely in the costing Congressional campaign and by both par ties. This ! the argument that failed to elect Furnish for Governor. No President has ever been more bopular In Oregon than Roosevelt; but the voters have their Ideas as tp what constitutes a rebuke to Was JCot the Whole Corvallis Times. Thins;. Because they .did not support him for United States Senator. ax-Governor Geer declares the Democratic members of the late Legislature "did not uphold the Mays law." The difficulty with the ex-Gov- I emor's notion of things is that he was not the whole Mays law. It Is easy for a statesman to go wrong in his opinions. A Corvallis statesman insisted that his 'sick cow had hollow horn until the hired man reminded him that she was a muley. The Democratic Plea. Ashland' Tribune. Ex-Surveror-General Meldrum says he wants Hermann elected "to go back to Washington and get after that man Hitch cock. or course. But will It oe good policy for the Republican voters to send a man to Congrees to fight a trusted member of an Administration which they commend for.lts splendor? If "they oblige the Hermann "rooters" by helping him Into Congress "to shoot It Into Hitchcock," what may the President be expected to do for oregonl There Are Others. Granite Gem. To read some of the articles written about the "Sumpter district" one would be lead to believe that all the mines of Eastern Oregon were crowded directly around Sumpter, and that such places as Granite. Alamo, Whitney, Greenhorn and SnsanviUe. If they do exist, are merely suburbs of which Sumpter Is the hub. We are glad to see Sumpter grow and prosper it is the central and distributing point, and as It grows, so will we. What we object to is claiming that mines which are from SO to 40 miles from that city as being In a rtonij's threw of Sumpter. Just rememser mat. tne aoove-menuonea places are very much in evidence on the map. The- Outs All Think This. La -Grande Chronicle. The 'experience that the old State of Missouri Is undergoing In getting rid of a gang of boodlera demonstrates how dif ficult it is to undo political corruption when. It once gets a good foothold and Is at the same time entrenched behind a solid voting majority. For years the Repub lican papers of St. Louis have pointed out the abuses of state government and. espe cially the mismanagement of the state's school moner. but the average voter voted "hls ticket Just the same. A big one-sided gilltlcal majority, whether Republican or emocraOc. Is a bad condition In any state, county or community, and It Is bet ter from any point ot view for the minority ticket to make a Bweep once In a while than to continue a, condition wherein the public Is likely to be robbed The Aramment for the Perpetual. Corvallis Gazette. The Democratic managers talk nonsense when they ask the people of the First District to vote for a. Democrat, a new; untried and Inexperienced man for Con gress, Because at. Hermann was in con gress for so long a time that he gained ability and experience that enabled him to give the people of his district better service than any other Congressman was able to give his constituents. A farmer or business man who has an employe who gives him more and better service than he Is able to secure from another does not dispense with such faithful serv ice to take up a new, untried apprentice of no experience, simply because the old hand has worked too long and given better service than anv. one else. For the same reason the people of the First Dis trict will vote for Mr. Hermann for Con gress. The Things That Draw. ' Albany Herald. A case on trial in this city demonstrates the old saying that many people- who stand high socially In a community are morkldly curious. It even seems strange that 200 or 300 people would alt on hard uncushloned seats for a full day to hear vulgar and obscene .testimony. In a di vorce case, but such was done in this city during the past two days. There were not only boys and young men, but mid dle-aged men. and men whose hair was frosted by three score and ten years or more. Not only that.but there was quite a sprinkling of women among the crowd who remained in their seats tor a nau a day at a time. Such cases are very demoralizing to a. community, and their trial should be secluded from, the morbid public gaze. Remedy for LynchlnBs la Law. Whatcom Reveille. The greatest responsibility for lynehlngs lies with the Judiciary ana the oar. Courts are dlllatory and technical. The bar permits tactics that hinder the processes of the law. When Justice mis carries so olten tne temper oi tne people is disturbed. Then they take the law Into their own hands. The. people of por tions of the South have been greatly ag gravated. There is no disposition to deny the aggragavatlon. The women are not safe in their homes or on the streets. Until they are lynehlngs will go on. Oc casionally a mob will make an Innocent man the victim ot its madness. But such Incidents simply Illustrate the inability of the mob to. deliberate on the Innocence or gulhr of the party in Its hands, and ar rive at any reasonable and safe conclu sion. They illustrate the lm potency of the mob as an avenger when its reason la counfounded and the wrong of resort to mob law. They can never lessen lyneh lngs. Only swift and certain visitation of Justice upon the heads of all murderers through -the prompt workings of the ma chinery of the law can "ever bring that reform. Crednllty's Wide Range. Baker City Democrat. The desire to get something for nothing and to get it quick in large quantities is as old as Jacob at least, but It never was as rampant -as among the American people at the present time. The tendency to bet and speculate is the offspring of this overmastering desire. The nlentlful- ness of money, the small rates of Interest, and the monopolies that prevent the prof itable use of small amounts of money In many lines of business all tend to aggra vate the evil and furnish a harvest for the get-rich -quick schemer. It. makes lit tle difference what sort of hook or what sort of bait Is used. The hog mouths will swallow at a gulp anything, from stock in an Imaginary gold mine or a chimerical gusher to the promise of 100 per cent a week on alleged wagers upon horse races, So blind are they In their greed that they seemingly never see nor profit by the sad experience of others of their school who are made to suffer severely for their folly. Considering the multitudes of these gul- libles and the ease with which they are landed, the wonder Is that there are not more anglers in the fishpond. The fact that there are not more fakers' shows one ot two' things either the suckers con stitute practically the whole population, or there are more honest mea la the" world now than in the day of Diogenes. THE GOLDEN AGE Of BRIBERY. Kansas City Star. Readers ef Dickens who have noticed the recent revelations, of bribery la -Delaware, Rhode bland. Pennsylvania, New Tork and Missouri will recall the expert- esces-ot Mr. Pickwick la the famous con test at Eataaswtll between Horatio Tir ana, Esq.. of FUktn Lodge, and Samuel Sfasapkey, of Slumpkey Hall: Mr. Pick wick, it win be remembered, descends upon the town one meat wnen tae excite ment Is at Its" height. The- next morning he looks at a crowd of voters and this conversation ensues: Fine, fresh: hearty fellows they seem." said sir. Plckwicxv rlanelnc from the window. "Werr freshj' replied Earn: -n,ana the two waiters at the FeacccK has been a-pomptn orer tha Independent voters as sopped there Isst nlsnt." "Pmnplns: oyer Independent voter!-" ex claimed Mr. Pickwick. "Yes." said hla attendant, "every man slept ver h fell down: we draaxed m oat. on by no this momln and pat 'em tinder tha ptonp. and. they're in resrlar One order now. bnium abeat th committee paid tor that 'ere Job." The polling takes place amid great ex citement, spring vans parading the streets to pick up tho numerous drunken voters. A small body of electors holds out until" I the last moment. "One. hour before the close of the poll." says the narrative. "Mr. Perker solicited the honor ot a private in terview with these InteHlgenr. these noble, these patriotic men. It was granted. His arguments were brief, but satisfactory. They went In a body to the poll and when they returned the Hon. Samuel Slumpkey, or mumpkey Hall, was returned also." This, account, extravagant as it appears, little overdrawn. In the lath cen tury and in the earlier part cf the 19th bribery at elections was almost universal in England. Ot course, this was only preliminary to the boodllng that went on In Parliament. Members expected to re coup themselves for what they spent In elections. "Money," wrote the great Frederick. "I have long known to be the mainspring of ttja British constitution.' While Franklin was Pennsylvania's agent In London he was a keen observer of poli tics. In 1763 be wrote to his friend, Joseph Galloway: "AD the members are now la their counties and boroughs among their drunken electors; much confusion and dis order and such profusion of money as never was known before on any similar occasion. It is thought that near two millions win be spent in this election; but those who understand figures say the crown has twornllUona a year in places and pensions to dispose of, and it la well worth while to engage In such a seven years' lottery, though all that have tickets snouid not get prizes. Oeorge III bought up the House of Com mons much as Addicts tried to buy the Delaware Legislature or the baking pow der trust the Missouri Senate. When Parliament met In 1773 Fox mustered vote above 100 In opposition to the King's coercion policy toward America. Treve lyan remarks In his "American Revolu tion that the size of the minority was doubly significant In that age of Intimi dation and bribery. Alt who voted on the one side were perfectly well aware that in so doing they cut themselves off from the hope of their sovereign s favor. And meanwhile a full half of those who voted on the other side were drawing public salary without rendering any public ser vice except that of doing as they were bid or were fingering money which had passed into their pockets from the exchequer by methods that in our day would have been ruinous both .to him who received and to him who bestowed 'Let Cooper know," wrote Lord North to his manager, "whether you -promised Masterman twenty-five hundred or three thousand pounds for each of Lord Edg cumbe's seats. I was going to pay him twelve thousand five hundred pounds, but he wanted fifteen thousand." In another letter Lord North complains of the shabby treatment by a noble friend. Lord Fal mouth, who had agreed to deliver three seats at twenty-five hundred pounds- each. but had afterward, raleed. the- price to guineas- In 17SS the Mayor and Aldermen of Oxford advertised their votes for sale. Somebody complained and the offenders were brought before the bar of the House and forced on their knees to accept a rep rimand from the Speaker. Franklin remarks in a. letter to Galloway that indignation over their moral guilt was not supposed to have Inspired the prosecution. Tie House," he says, "could scarcely keep countenance, know ing as they all do that the practice Is general. People say they- mean nothing more than to beat down the price by a little discouragement of borough lobbing. now that their own elections are coming on- The price Indeed Is grown exorbi tant. no less than 4000 for a member. Then he goes on to tell about Beckford's bill to compel every member to swear he had done no bribing before he should be allowed to take his eeat. This was "uni versa!! y exclaimed against as answering no end but to perjure the members. Borne gossip about BecKford s reply to a speech against the measure Is thus re counted by Franklin: "The honorable gentleman,' says Beckford, 'In his learned discourse, gave us first one definition of corruption, then he gave us another defini tion of corruption, and I think he was about to give us a third. Pray does that gentleman Imagine there Is any member of this House that does not know what cor ruption laT which occasioned only a roar of laughter, for they are so hardened In the practice that they are very little ashamed of It." William Corbett, writing in ISIS of con ditions in England sounds very like George Kennan writing 'In 1S03 of Delaware. When I was in Honlton in 1806, wrote Corbett, "many ot the wretched voters told me. In the hearing of witnesses now alive, that they knew how wicked It was to do what they did, but that they wanted tha money to pay their rents, and that they should be starved if they did other wise. Some abused me very foully, and said that in advising them to vote unin fluenced by money I was endeavoring to rob them of their blessing! For this was the term they gave to the money which they were to receive. But. Indeed, the bribery and corruption, the frauds and false swearings are too notorious to need particular Instances to establish their ex istence." The fact that a public -sentiment so vitiated could finally be restored to a good degree or ceaitn is encouraging to American's who have been appalled by re cent disclosures in the united States. Some Slight Conceaalon. Spokane Chronicle. At last something has been discovered that gives old Oregon a chanceAto com pare statistics with Washington and brag real hard. By the census returns for 1900 It- Is shown that while Washington con tained but IsT3 goats that year Oregon had 100.715 about one-eighteenth ot all there are In the United States. But the odds are two to one that Washington ran count the most Kids. The Free Library. (At th recent Jubilee ot the Tn Libraries la Manchester. EntUnd. the following poem by Lewis Moms was read:) Here-nanda now cold have reared a shrine "Where weary- frame, and throbbing brain May rest "mid garnered i heaves dlvln And find a brief surcease from pain. And cares and penury and foU, Tha mill's loud whirr and stifling air, Tha din. the "smoke, the dust, the soli which vex tha workers everywhere. Xeath spells of th poetic mnse. Or hers whose storied paxes sir The glamor which the Paat renews And bids, oar vanished Britain live; Or those which wear for girl and boy Bright dreams of Life, to f sir for truth : Tho slow, the flush, th new-born Joy. Th Innocent fantasies ot youth; Or Science) with her predoaa store Which mede and keep, our England sreat. Or maxims sax of elrlc lore I which bind tb Freeman and th State. yv without price for all who -eons. Here are new precious mines ot gold For thoughtful rest denied at home. Com all, com often, young and old! JWTE AND ceXMKiT. Agam we celebrate. " How long will It last? Are you married T It. not. why noil For sale: Several dozen prise eggs left at this office- Did you ee the meteor? The. war with Mars is on. Hurry op-jeid marry before- the Uceace fees are raised. Leo Fried- addresses the mothers' meet ing. Good Joke. Miss Ware, also, must be vindicated to support the Administration. It appears that Mrs. Tnrner was the real Postmaster-General herself. We might celebrate the day Teddy gets here by having, a couple of hundred wed dings. There must have been a mothers' meet- ing on some other planet, and the ladles grew vfolent. r ' Resolved, which, is worse, the old maids or the old bachelors? Take that, some of you college debaters; A recent arrival from' California aays race suicide" nearly ruined him. He bet on the wrong horses. King- Edward will soon have a few messages from SomalUand ot the "I re gret to inform you" character. Winiam K. Vandervllt is having a hard time getting bis license. Come to Port land and get one free ot charge. A correspondent asks how long Binger Hermann has held office. The Oregonian does not know. It thinks about 7S years. If the battle is between the mills and tha unions, where do the contractors come in? Have they signed away their status In court? So Colonel Rickey. Immortal originator of the gin rickey, committed suicide! Alas! Colonel, you deserve a better fate! Reach me the Old Tom! What with losing thousands dally through inability to find cars enough to ship away their enormous surplus, and a simultaneous deficit for the home, demand, the mfllmen are certainly In bard case. Fierpont Morgan, who celebrated his Kth birthday last Friday, achieved his greatest business successes since he reached the three-score mark. Ha first became prominent in the financial world about 20 years ago, when he went to Eu rope and successfully so!d-CS,000,000 worth of New York Central stock. This made the old financiers gasp. By this piece of work Mr. Morgan won the lasting friend ship of the late William H. Vanderbllt, and Incidentally cleared $1,000,000 for him self. David Bennett Hill used to be a con firmed baseball "rooter" when he was in the United States Senate. Senator Spoon- er, .of Wisconsin, Is similarly afflicted or gifted. He and Mrs. Spooner attended a game in Washington recently, and when the home nine won In the tenth inning, the Wisconsin statesman discarded all Senatorial dignity and yelled with tha best ot them. He acknowledges with pride that he is fond of the National game, and rv likes a horse race,' too, but he never bets. At a dinner Chancellor Von Bulow gave before hla recent departure for Italy, Em peror William met Professor Delltzsch for the first time since His Majesty criticised the professor's lecture on the Babylonian origin ot the Bible. The professor is hard of hearing, and the Emperor's part of the dialogue was conseuently In a rather high voice. His Majesty greeted him with: "Well, professor, we have broken a lance together since I saw you." "Only one lance. Your Majesty," responded the pro fessor, referring to the tact that he had never replied to the Emperor. Justice Buckley, the English Jurist, who reversed the Attorney-General's decision and ordered the extradition ofWhtttaker Wright from New York, is fast becoming a terror to lax officials of all kinds. In speaking recently of the duties of com pany directors he laid down this standard ot conduct: "A man cannot accept office and then say he Is not responsible for the duties of the office. It is. I think, of the first Importance that It should be under stood that a director, whether paid or elected to serve without payment; owes, duties which, he canno. in honor and hon esty and legal liability disregard." Ezi Competition No. 6. In the absence of the ben editor, we have taken the liberty of opening one of his letters marked "Egg Competition," and herewith append the Inclosed com munication: Spray. Or., April lS.-r-(To the Editor.) ' I feel like some ot our neighbors about bragging. I have a pullet that was hatched late last Fall, and I can beat O. Andrews or T. A. Porter. My pullet has laid several eggs, and I have six now in the bouse that will measure 9& Inches lengthwise and 9 Inches around. I have sold 71 dozen this Winter, besides having cake and custard pies and pud dings, and I only have 14 hens. Plymouth Rock crossed with Bramahs. The Ply mouth Rock hens lay red eggs. I gets cents more a dozen than a good many others do. If It were not so inconvenient, I would send the editor one-half dozen, and he would have one dozen, for they are two In one. P. S. This may seem fishy, but call and see me, and I will prove it Dy ray land lady that keeps the Spray Hotel. W. A. ROBINSON. PLEASAJfTRIES OF PARACRAPHEHS "Why, ain't you at school, littla boyf "I stayed away on account ot sicaneis. iir.--"And who Is sick. If I may askr' 'The truant oncer, air." Puck. "Did yoa st a late supper alter tn loeater last nlghtr' "Hardly. It waa so long com ing that I considered It an early breakfaau" Waihlnston Free Press. "What do you think of my poems i alcJ the young author, -wen.- answered wn Cayenne, "they are betwixt and' between. They're too sensible for noniens verses and too nonsensical for sensible verses." Waahlni ton Star. "Who was It said 'cleanliness Is next to kodllness" f " don't remember. But he WOUldn't AST SiO II jmt wv - - J I lived in Chlcaa-ar' "What would h hava said tn that case. uieanucess is nw to im possible." Chicsgo Record-Herald. "I recall a remarx wac uencrai urani maae to roe once ai omner, Hm ttooaoy uraai. "which waa most characteristic of the man." T think I can guess what It was," said Pep prey. "Wbatt" "Keep th chang for your self, my man." Philadelphia, Press. "t supposed you cornea me uown oceans oi my poverty,-- saia ia impecunious yonin, "bat yoa snouid remember that It is possible to have plenty of money and still b unhap py." "True.' replied she. "but I would rather b unhappy' with money than without It-" I Chicago Daily News,