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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. THURSDAY, APRIL. 30, 1903. he CDregorttotu Xnterac at tbm PostaOc at PortUad, Oregon. at second-clai matter. MVISED ECBSCIURPTION RATES. f BfStall (posUg prepaid. In adTanc) r- with Bandar. P" noats lar excepted, per l i Sob day, per year., , 8.00 . 2.00 . per Vearli Weekly. I month. . JO 'nin."r Subscriber- . , i r week, delivered. 6undr xeeptd.lSe ' Dur. Per week, delivered. Sunday Included.SOe " postage: rates. . U.n,u State. Canada and Mexico in Jpw "If "t24e PPer . ...Jo foreign mtea CoubU. ws or discussion Intended for pubUeatlon In The Oregonlan ssould b addressed Inrarl f Mr "Editor The Oregonlan." not to the nam of aar lndlrifln,! Ttt.r. niulir ta adrer titters tnbtcrlpUon or to asr tmtlneu miller tfcculd b addresaed lmply Th Oregonlas." Oregonlan doe not bar poem or stone from Indlrldaal. and cannot undertak to re turn any manuscript tent to Jt without solici tation. Mo ttampa abould b indoted for thla Purpose. .tm ltnifni.. AMm J9 XL MX. 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YESTERDAY'S WEATHER-Maxlmum tern- TODAY'S WEATHER Cloudy, wth probably showers, illrhtly cooler: wind shitting to ' toutherlr. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, APRIL 30. A RADIO ASSAILANT. Under the headline, "Portland Graft' era," the Roseburg Plalndealer pub lishes the following: Mow that all opposition to the Lewi and Clark Exposition bat fallen through for want of being pushed, the dorm hoof of Portland It fully seen. The money which to ub f scribed and promised to be paid Is had a strut tied, to It, and the money U to be paid In to th capital stock of a prlrate corporation to control the Fair and all of it profits, and th f0.000 Portland will par In a the capital stock will control and own tho $500,000 appro priated br the stato and also what Is donated by th MaUonal Government. Th state U to pay the. money to th director of the Fair, and the stats will care coining to show for it ex cept th Fair. The property value of Portland real estate win double In value, and all the re ceipt of th Fair will so to th company, and If the profits amount to J 1.000, 000 or more it will all belong to th Fair company; also all th buildings erected on the Exposition sit. Th state la not to have one cent of the profit, th Portland grafter are to have everything", and the next Legislature will be called upon to appropriate at least iSOO.000 more In order to make the expenditure of th first 1300,000 of benefit to the state. This Is merely an Intemperate tirade, "without truth or shadow of It. Sub- rib rs at Portland will pay In not ROO.WO. but 3400.000. As to "pronts.' here Is no thought of any. The money subscribed will all be used for promo tion of the Exposition, and no sub scriber expects the return of a dollar through dividends. "The property "value of Portland real estate" will not "double in value" In consequence of the Fair, and may not be increased at all; but If It 3hould be doubled or quad rupled In value. It would be a mighty good thing for the State of Oregon. Nothing better could happen even for Douglas County. The capital stock subscribed and paid at Portland will not "control and own the $500,000 appropriated by the state and also what may be donated by the National Government." These asser tions are absurd and untrue. If the National Government shall do anything at all. It will provide Its own special exhibit, as it has done elsewhere, and manage Its exhibit through Its own agents. Specific directions as to use of the appropriation made by the state are given In the act of January last, by which the state commission was cre ated and the appropriation made. Six members of this commission are to act with the executive committee of the Portland corporation, and to this joint body all matters concerning the admin lstratlon and management of the Cen tennial are to be referred; and In case of disagreement between the two parts of this joint body the whole of the eleven members of the state commis sion are to be called In. If there shall still be disagreement, then the mat ters at Issue are to be referred to the Governor, the Secretary of State and the State Treasurer, whose edict is to be decisive and final. Is not the state to be fully protected here, and through Its own officials, under their oath of office? For the members of the com mission are to take on oath to per form faithfully their duties as pre scribed by law. But, "the state is not to have one cent of the profits." There are to be no money profits, or pronts measurable in money. Much good, no doubt, will be done in a general way for the state by attraction of attention to it from other parts of the country, and. It may be hoped, from abroad. 'And Portland is paying the larger part of the money. since she not only pays the JIM.OOO subscribed here, but almost one-third of the (500,000 appropriated by the state. "All the buildings erected on the Ex position site will belong to the Fair company." Not so at all. The act ex pressly provides that a detailed account shall be kept by the commission of all expenditures and for what purposes; that all the property of the state, with the exception of the state s one-half in terest In the Memorial building, shall be sold at the end of the Exposition and the money turned Into the state treasury. It Is the expectation of the commission that a large sum .from "salvage" will thus be realized. The object and desire of Portland In undertaking this Centennial celebration and Industrial Exposition was to do something for-the whole racmc ortn west. It was undertaken, not for selfish ends merely, but more largely from a ense of civic and patriotic duty. Port land's position and rank seemed to lay this duty upon her. The great body of her citizens, and especially those who nro putting up the bulk of the money -and giving their time and labor to the organization of the Fair, wish that some other place even Roseburg could have taken the lead In it. Finally, the assertion that "the next Legislature trill be called on for 3500.- 000 more" is .as purely gratuitous and unfounded as the rest of this Ignorant and venomous diatribe. The act ex pressly forbids the commission to Incur any debt or obligation, or to make any expenditure. In excess of the sum al ready appropriated, and declares that the state will be In no way responsible or liable for any of the acts of the Fort land corporation. Xt us add that the Roseburg Pla.lndea.ler has the distinc tion of being the sole unreasonable and rabid opponent of the Centennial among the newspapers of Oregon. ARE THEY RCADT TO SCRREXDEIlt Besides the fundamental difficulty in the way of arbitration which we have repeatedly pointed out, and which we have endeavored to treat with the great est possible distinctness in another article on this page, the local situa tion Is encumbered with two antagon istic conceptions of arbitration Itself. The unions propose a method of what can hardly be called arbitration at all, but Is rather conciliation. This is a conference between representatives of each side. It is a perfectly fair and feasible method of settlement, and un deserving of the derision with which It has been received in the hostile camp; for If the three union presidents, on one hand, should meet, for example, with Mr. Poulsen. Mr. McKenzle and Mr. Sheeny, the conclusion reached by the six. If one were reached, would be more satisfactory, binding and conclus ive all round than any Imposed upon both sides by an Independent tribunal, however wise and Impartial. This plan might be varied, as It usually Is In practice, by the selection of other union men by the interested unions, and of other employers by the interested em ployers. The plan of the contractors Is to agree on disinterested arbitrators, outside the ranks of both sides to the controversy. This is the more feasible, apparently. because the mills and contractors will agree to It, while they will not agree to the other, and because the unions seem not Immovably averse to any fair method of choosing the board. The employing side doubtless counts on getting the better of the strik ers In the sympathies of the arbl tratlon board,' In which they may or may not be disappointed. The bust ness acumen of the mills might stand them In good stead in the diplomatic game of selecting the arbitrators, and the employers have shown the courage of their convictions all along In their belief that public opinion will sustain them In their contentions. If. then, on agreement can be had on the personnel of the arbitration board to consist, let us say, of three or five prominent citizens regarded as Impartial judges a great point has been gained toward a settlement; and a further encouraging sign Is In the ap parent willingness of the unions to go back to work,, and of the mills to fur nlsh lumber freely, as before. Immedi ately upon the submission of the ques tion to the board. We take It that there would be no difficulty in getting the mills to agree to this, and in get ting both sides to agree to date the award back to the time of this resump tion of work. There Is a distinct modi fication on both sides of the vindictive and unrelenting spirit shown a month ago, and retail business, which once welcomed the prospect of the lockout as a speedy means of relief. Is becoming clamorous for an armistice. This brings us back to the basic difficulty . which we have all along pointed out, and which Is coming to be generally recog nized as the stubborn obstacle In the way of an early settlement. This Is the recognition of the union. A hint of what an arbitration board might be expected to do is afforded In this ex tract from an award made yesterday in Chicago: The company shall not discriminate against members of th union and employe that are not members, and shall lay no obstacle In the war of peaceable and lawful endeavor to strengthen th union or to enlarge It mtm bershlp. The union shall not discriminate between it own member and their fellow employes who are not 'members of the union br boycott or therwlse, and shall pursue only peaceabl aEd lawful method to extend It Influence and In crease lta membership. If the parties to Portland's present strike and lockout will agree to arbl- tratlon of so wide scope as to Include the basis for such an award, building can be resumed In Portland tomorrow. The mills must agree to waive their discrimination against the unions, or else the unions must agree to waive their discrimination against nonunion workmen, or both. But this is for each side to yield the very point upon which the men walked out and the mills shut down. "Will they do It? And If they will, why don't they do It at once, with out the hocus-pocus of an arbitration court? THE MATTERS IX DISPUTE, Arbitration of such disputes as that now flagrant at Portland never can be successful, because the main point will be withheld by the unions from arbitra tion. This main point Is the question whether nonunion men may be em ployed on the same Job with union men. and whether the latter will submit to It, or not. Unionism never will submit this ques Hon, openly, to arbitration. The ques tion may come In, Incidentally, when arbitration Is forced by pressure of public opinion or by physical circum stances; and when the award Is against the claim of the' union on this point, as it was In the case of the coal strike in Pennsylvania, there may be acquits cence In it for a time through neces slty. But the unions will always reas sert their claim when they can, be cause they feel they must, or give up the main bond through which unionism exists or is held together. It is just as well to take note of the one big stumbling-block or obstacle to an agreement on this matter. Union men will not consent to the employ ment of nonunion men; that Is, will not agree to work on the same Job with them. Ethically this position Is weak. but practically It Is the whole basis of unionism. And there no doubt will be circumstances in which the employers would, on their side, be disinclined to submit this point to arbitration. It Is from this point of view that The Oregonlan has expressed doubt of the serviceability of arbitration in cases like that now presented In Portland. The unions feel that they must reserve this one point, principle or claim on their side from arbitration. But on the other side it is the main contention. The Oregonlan merely wishes to speak plainly, so this matter may be under stood. The people of the First District, of course, will elect Mr. Hermann: they need no appeal from' The Oregonlan. Some of the Republicans didn't want him, but the question now Is whether they prefer him to a Democrat. That Is to say, whether Republican policies, on the whole, or Democratic policies, are better for the country. While nobody supposes that the election of a Demo crat in the First District would upset the country, it remains, nevertheless, that the House of Representatives Is made up of units, and if Republican units are cut out the Democratic units will have greater value. Mr. Hermann will get the votes of Republicans now; very probably some other Republican one year hence. PRESIDENT AKD CTRRE CT. President Roosevelt's utterance of yesterday on the currency leaves noth ing to be desired from an academic point of view, but one can almost wish it unsaid, in view of its almost certain fate. Is It not better to Ignore a wrong and its remedy than to give the prom ise to the ear that can only be broken to the hope? The President takes his stand on the impregnable ground of a currency that wllr expand or contract with automatic certainty and facility, without Jar to business or -disturbance of confidence. He says truly that while the gold standard has been formally espoused, something yet remains to be done in the way of Insuring the parity of our token silver, and also In giving the currency elasticity. He puts his finger on the weakness of the Aldrlch bill and all kindred proposals, which aim only at Inflation. The currency needs chance to expand, he says in perfect truth and with admirable directness, but It needs quite as much the capacity to contract. It would be Idle to enlarge upon this simple statement of our currency weak ness and its remedy; upon the dangers of constant inflation in the way of gold exports, uneasiness and speculation, or to show the Imperative need of a be ginning In an honest banking currency which shall in time supplant the pres ent Instrument for perpetuating the National debt. But the President's ut terance must be regarded otherwise than as merely a detached commentary on our currency system. It must be viewed as part of executive policy and In relation to legislation, past and pros pective. President Roosevelt's proposals are hostile to the plans of Allison and Aid rich. He has given them currency, no doubt, without consultation with the Senate leaders. They stand about as much show for acceptance in Republi can party councils, therefore, as the tariff-commission scheme which he pro mulgated last Fall, or the revisions of Dlngley rates which he urged in vain upon the Senate leaders. Therefore we could wish the President's wise and courageous words on the currency un said. They can only serve as chaff for the Gold Democrats, the while Alli son placates the groundlings with his .bond bill, or else as ghosts of futile promises, to join the ghastly throng al ready at the Republican board. TOE ELASTIC STANDARD. The rapid advance in the price of silver within a week again awakens memories of "the crime of li," which Is still mourned by Bryan and one or two others. In this part of the world prosperity under the accursed cold standard has been so great for the past few years that the course of the market for silver and other pot-metals has not been followed very closely. And yet the elasticity of silver as a monetary standard among the heathen across the Pacific has a disturbing effect on many lines of trade in which Oregon and Washington are directly Interested. Until very recently the silver market has for months been dragging along near the bottom, each fluctuation tak ing It farther Into the depths. Oregon and Washington millers, depending ex clusively on the Orient for a market for their flour, discovered such a sameness to their cables that the new codes will have a word which will mean, "Impos sible to work new business on account of the depressed condition of the sliver market." The Importance of the Oriental silver market as a factor In the flour trade was shown yesterday by the receipt of cable orders for flour at an advance of 5 cents per barrel over prices at which It was offered without takers before silver began advancing. This, of course. Is satisfactory to the millers who are manufacturing and selling flour, and to the Orientals who find their buying capacity suddenly In creased through the advance In silver. This temporary Improvement, how ever, adds nothing to the- permanent position of silver as a money standard. and is only the forerunner of a rebound which, will again send the flour mar ket and all other markets Into the dumps. This uncertainty will exist so long as China retains sliver as a stand ard. Such a large portion of the whole world is now on the gold standard that fluctuations in the yellow metal no longer occur, qr. if they do, are of such infinitesimal proportions as to have little or no effect on trade. The Chinese capitalist or wholesaler who purchases our flour, cotton, lum ber, etc., mult accordingly pay for It In gold. He cannot sell to the con sumer or retailer In gold, for sliver is the coin of the realm, and he must ac cordingly protect his gold Investment from loss through a decline In silver. This Is done by exacting a profit In keeping with the risk of a decline. Ex cessive profits restrict trade, and the American exporters accordingly suffer through the uncertainty of the Chinese financial system. The advance In sil ver in this country has amounted to nearly 5 cents per ounce in the past ten days, and. If it can be maintained, will be of great benefit to American mine owners. The most rabid gold-standard man has no objection to seeing silver sell at high prices, the higher the bet ter; but there is a large and growing demand throughout the civilized world that it keep In Its" class with the baser metals and cease disturbing financial and commercial conditions, which re quire a more stable standard of value. No specific cause is given for the sharp advance of the past few days. but It Is probable that it is In a meas ure due to an Increased demand from the far East. Whenever the European powers appropriate a slice of China, It has been the practice to issue silver coinage beating the stamp of the ap propriator, and If Russia, puts out an Issue In keeping with the vise of the territory which she seeks, it will re quire considerable bullion. Another factor In the advance Is. the Idleness of a large number of low-grade silver mines, which cannot be operated at a profit when silver Is low. Some of these mines, which formerly contrib uted heavily to the world's supply of silver, have been Idle for years, and meanwhile the demand has been In creasing more rapidly than the produc tion of the mines which can operate at a profit at low prices. In other words, the natural demand has pulled up so close to the supply that higher prices are Inevitable, and the limit will not be reached until the low-grade mines can come Into the producing field again. The master of the British bark Dun earn, which arrived at Astoria Tues day, reports that five of his seamen de serted while the vessel was lying at Sitka, Alaska. There Is nothing very unusual In this Incident, as there Is hardly a port In the civilized or unciv ilized world where a vessel can touch that sailors will not desert If they have an opportunity. This statement may not be accepted without question by the friends of Jack Tar, who place all the blame for desertions on the sailor boarding-house men, but it Is a fact, nevertheless. The noteworthy feature of the Dunearn desertions lies In the fact that the vessel was the first deep water merchantman that ever entered the Alaskan port, and that the seem ingly necessary factor In .deep-water shipping, the sailor boarding-house man, had not yet pitched his tent on the Sitka beach. The Oregonlan has no .doubt whatever that sailors In this port are frequently Induced by the sailor boarding-house men to leave their ships, sometimes with the conniv ance of the captain, sometimes against his wishes, but the Dunearn incident serves to show that the sailor will de sert without the aid of the boarding house man and against the will of the master. Science, with all of her wealth of research to draw on, has never fully explained the presence in the sailor's mind of that particular germ or mi crobe which causes His roving fancy, that Ilk th wind There 1 nothing can tar. and nothing can bind. It is there, however, and as long as ships sail the seas, the man before the mast will take a periodical turn ashore and through his own Irresponsibility set at naught all the pretty theories which misguided moralists seek to put In practice for him. The sailor is the same the world over, and when the mi crobe of unrest begins working, all ports look alike to him. The excess of benevolence as wit nessed in response to the call for relief after the Johnstown disaster some years ago was repeated when the Martinique calamity shocked and horrified the world. After having made all the dis bursements that seem wise to them, the committee appointed by the President and the national committees for the relief of the sufferers find a balance on hand of a little more than half the funds contributed for this purpose. This surplus It Is, with the consent of the contributors, proposed to dispose of either by returning to the donors 60 per cent of the' amount forwarded by them or by turning the money over to Governor-General Taft to be used at his personal discretion for the relief of suffering Filipinos. A blank contain ing these two propositions is being sent to subscribers to be voted upon and re turned to the commission. Accompany lng this blank is a statement of the pro rata disbursement of the funds at dif ferent points where terror-stricken and destitute refugees congregated. The promptness and generosity with which the American people rise to meet on emergency and the calm, level-headed manner in which business men disburse the offerings of sympathy, are shown In this transaction. The Canadian Minister of Finance, Mr. Fielding, recently announced that the Canadian tariff on German goods has been Increased by one-third as re taliation for the action of the German government In imposing a maximum scale of duties on Canadian producst en tering the German Empire. Mr. Field lng also announced that United States Senator Fairbanks had asked for a re newal of the negotiations of the joint high commission looking to closer trade relations between the two countries. Our Canadian export trade, which amounted to 557,000,000 in the seven months ended January 1, 1903, could be not only retained, but Increased, by a reciprocity treaty, but without such treaty American Industry will see high duties put on many other articles be sides steel rails, that will be subject to a duty of J7 a ton as soon as they can be made In Canada In quantities suffl cient to meet the demand. The Domln Ion is a growing country, for since 1S9S the Canadian foreign trade has in creased $181,000,000, despite the McKln ley and Dingley tariffs. The marriage settlement of Alice Thaw, Countess of -Yarmouth, was ar ranged by Miss Thaw and her immedi ate family, so the public Is Informed by her mother, "as a proper recognition of the position that the Earl and Count ess will occupy." In other words, hav lng bought her title. Miss Thaw hon estly and generously paid for It out of her Inheritance. This is a private transaction, and If the heiress is sat lsfled with It, the American public should be retaining, however, its In alienable right to make such comment as may seem proper. Improvements of a public nature pro jected In and about the City of New York figure up a total exceeding one thousand million dollars. This esti mate has nothing to do with private buildings or Improvements, of which no estimate can be made. Nothing like expenditure on such a scale was ever before thought of In any city of the world. Within this century New York will be the world's greatest city, ex ceeding London not only in population, but In financial eminence and commer cial greatness. Booker T. Washington lately received from W. F. Powell. United States Mln lster to Hayti. a letter stating that the government of that island desires provide for the Instruction of twenty Haytian young men at Tuskegee. Pro vision has already been made for six of the number, and two have reached the Institution and entered upon the work. Mr. Washington is highly gratified at this extension of the Influence of Tus kegee and for the substantial aid that It promises. General Miles was a good' soldier dur ing the great war. He wasn't treated well during the, war with Spain. But he ought to be above all feeling of pet tiness and of personal resentment for slights put upon him. He should real lie that he is growing old, that his ca reer Is made, that his title to remem brance will rest In things long past- not In the trifles of this time nor In his pceTisaaess about them. PORTLAND'S ROSE FAME. Lewiston (MeO Journal. It la a beautiful city" this Is the re mark that sets the seat on the success of many a community; Just as the neatness of a man's residence frequently sets the seal on his business and social success. Hence, the duty of a eitr to sprig up; dress well; beautify and adorn Itself is clear. Ko .city that seeks to attract resi dents or build cp industry can afford to neglect It. Peculiarly, too. It Is a part of the duty of every resident of the dty and thus it becomes a matter of clvic-sentl- ment. brought about by education and ex hortation. We notice, for Instance, that a steady current of comment is being made by Western writers for the press arid maga zines touching the adornment of some of the leading Western cities. Denver, Colo-, is having a spell of municipal adornment. Portland. Or., has voted to spent thou sands of dollars In purchasing rose bushes to be planted alongside the principal streets In honor of the decoration of Port land for the anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition these roses to be a re minder through all the years In wiucn they grow and blossom, of the anniversary of which they are a part. It Is an esthetic climax in civic decoration, but we sub mit that it is rational and sensible better than gingerbread palaces, shoot-the-chutes or flying horses. Abroad, the same spirit of municipal art- study is long ago apparent. Parts finds Its chief stock In 'trade to be In Its own beauty and in the loveliness of its parks and boulevards. Budapest has spent mil lions on pure art decoration. Every feat ure of her externals Is intended to be artistic even to her street railway serv ice and the electric Ugh'tlng fixtures on her streets. The crude telegraph poles, the tangles of overhead wires, the ugly water ing troughs and the inartistic frontages of ugly sign boards are obliterated and wherever the eye rests It Is purely pleas ing so far as it Is possible to make It. We feel that we have here In Lewiston and Auburn the same opportunity In a modest way, to make the most of the surroundings Just the same as other cities are so industriously doing. We are getting into the danger of underestimating our selves and finding too many boles in the municipal skimmer. The croaker and the knocker are too often abroad growling under breath at every evidence of business enterprise. The men who have faith in tne future of the cities seem to be In for a whole lot of trouble from envious critics Instead of being applauded for their zeal and commended for their purpose. Sug gest any sort of - a public expenditure lor the beautiflcatlon of the cities under an; other guise than the purest utility and up goes the chorus, we have had too mucn of the critical In years gone past. Partisan politics Is largely at the bottom of it ana the willingness to say sharp things about others at the expense of all. This conal tlon of affairs Is not peculiar to Lcwiston and Auburn, but Is incidental to all cities where political matters rule the roost and Is In Itself a continued bar to civic prog ress. What we need In this and In all other Maine communities Is a sense of our own value and the Idea that we have a future to fulfill fortunate, happy and fruitful. as we can make it. Every man needs first last and ail of tne time to De jealous or. the good name of these cities. Every man needs to be careful to keep his own front dooryard and his back areas (dom iciliary and civic) clean and neat "My own business first and a good word for my neighbor" Is the proper public motto. Every man needs to feel that everything that lends to the beautiflcatlon of the city In Itself an addition to the home life of every resident In the city. Every man needs to feel that a practical application of the purpose of such cities as Portland. Or., and Springfield, Mass whose ex penditure of $100,000 tor the enlarging of a public park some time ago was so crit icised but which is now conceded to have been one of the best Investments for the people that was ever made, are of them selves Investments like unto the' buying of new furniture for the home of every man. Health, comfort, pleasures in good kind. beautiful surroundings these belong to the people at the bands of every commu nity so far as It can give. Let us see to it that we do not underes timate these things. Let us beware lest, while other communities set out rose bushes and beautify public places, we let ours run to weeds and brambles and fbr- cet that people demand to dwell In mu nicipal homes of pleasant aspect, well housekept, well appointed and as well fur nished as the public purse can anord. In other words. let us dress our cities as well as we can: keep our public streets clean; keep the weeds out of the sidewalks; put flowers on our little parks; keep our front lawns In better shape, adorn -and beautify all we can. It will pay dividends. In health. In happiness and In Inndustrial welfare. The necord of n. Veteran Editor. Philadelphia Public Ledger. William V. McKean, for many years edltoT-ln-chlef of the Public Ledger, whose death is recorded, was a many-sided man of strong character, who, during a full half-century, had an active part In the administration of public affairs. though seldom holding public office. He was a public-spirited citizen, well known for bis probity and Intelligence, and ac quired Influence because of these quall- ttHi an Influence that was Increased, but . not created, by his newspaper connec- uons. xiunns mo penra oi nis acuta career there are few public undertakings about which be has not been consulted In advance. He was the trusted adviser of many public officers. Presidents, Gover nors. Mayors and Judges of the court. respecting appointments to office, and he never betrayed the trust. He was not merely honest be was honorable and not withstanding his force of character and his Intensity of feelings, which some times led him to violence of expression, be was eminently Just and strove to give each man his due. He was a man of great learning, ac quired chiefly by reading and Intimate association with learned men. and be was also a graceful and forceful writer, being especially well adapted to the hurried work of a newspaper writer, for he could. at a moment's notice, write intelligently upon almost any subject without turn ing to the books, but depending upon bis own storehouse of knowledge his mem ory. As a writer he was characterized by a high regard for the truth. He dealt. as far as possible, only with well ascer tained factsi and was extremely careful In the choice of language, that he might present tne zacts to tne mud of the reader without the least distortion. He Impressed the importance of this style upon bis assistants, and this aided In building up the Public Ledger's reputa tion for accuracy and fairness. Although be never wrote recklessly, and seldom under the Impulse of passion, he was powerful In Invective when he was sure of his ground, and generally had such command of language that he could meet any of the varied requirements df the editor of a daily paper. But It was as a citizen sincerely de voted to tne puduc interests that Mr. McKean will be remembered by citizens generally. He did' more than the share of one man In promoting the public good. taking a special Interest In educational efforts and In science. In (his he had no personal Interest to serve. He acted tnrougnout ms long ana useful career "with conscience and common sense, honest purpose and clean hands." An Unheard-of Proceeding;. Indianapolis News. The Venezuelan government troops took an uniair advantage or tne revolutionists by attacking them in the rear. Where did the government suppose the revolu tionists could run to under such circum- stanceaT The whole proceeding la con trary to the rules of South American warfare. London, 1SW. PORTLAND. April 3. To the Editor.) Would you please Inform me as to where Mrs. Patrick Campbell was' born? ADMIRER. THE "SDCCESS". OF HIGH TARIFF Springfield Republican. It is the Bureau of Statistics of the United States Treasury Department which calk special attention to the fact that: Importations of merchandise are now be ing made at a rata of over tl.OQ0.0CO.00O a year, tar" exceeding all previous records. For the iz months ending with March last lmnorts rise Just above the billion- .dollar mark and compare as fellows' with the same months of previous years: 11 Mos. ending March SI Total Imports. IKS J 70U1S.5S3 1SSS SCM.09USJ 1SJ7 BW.9tl.0H 19S .H........H............M. i.llS,K -isss tso.sis.stn 1SK.0 S3X.T61.S.O 1S01 ; 807.591AS 1SC3 S02.W.030 1303 ............... .a--..Lvn,dB33 This is an Increase of 43 per cent from IKS. when the low Wilson tariff was In force. In other words, merchandise im portations are nearly half again as large Under the high Dlngley tariff as under the Democratic tariff, sometimes called the free-trade tariff, of ISSi. The avowed purpose of protective tann legislation is to equalize the conditions of home with those of foreign production. and to extend the home market for nome manufactures by reducing the market for foreign manufactures. Tne purpose or such extreme protective legislation as- Is found In the Dlngley act of 1S3T the most extreme ever enacted Is to place home production at a still more superior ad vantage as against foreign competitors, and still further enlarge the home market by reducing the market which foreigners will be able to find here. Nevertheless It appears that foreign producers are finding in the United States a large and evidently a more profitable market than any they have ever found before. Their shipments hither now exceed all previous records and continue to Increase, those for March closely approaching 100,000,000. or at the rate of nearly J1.200.JO.JO a year, now far. then, is the high tariff succeeding In fulfilling the purposes and expectations of Its framers? It Is quite probable that the present In dustrial revival would have come Into existence bad the tariff been let alone In 1KS7. But admit that the enactment of the higher duties was the great stimulating factor In bringing on the present pros- pcrlty. The Dlngley act then becomes re- I sponsible for the high prices prevailing in the home market, which are at once a cause and consequence and Index of pros perity; and the high prices, rising to the level of the higher tariff, become In turn responsible for the unprecedented Invasion of the home market by foreign wares which the higher tariff was designed to keep out. Hence It must be concluded that the high tariff has Indirectly proved quite as great a stimulus to Importations as it has directly been a discouragement. I It a lower tariff existed prices In the home market could not have been pushed up so high, and hence Importations would not have become so large; but home mar ket prosperity might have been Just as great since, with lower prices all around. tne costs of production, which are now eating up the profits of Industry, would not have been so high. The lesson of the present experience Is that extreme pro tection tends to defeat Its Own ends, and I such Is the case to a striking degree with i tne Dlngley enactment. A STATUE TO SACAJAWEA. The Indian Heroine of the Levrls and Clark Expedition. Chicago Inter Ocean. Upon the publlcaUon of Mrs. Eva Em- ery Dyes book, "The Conquest,' graphic narrative of the expedition of Lewis and Clark to the Pacific Coast, the Inter Ocean editorially directed attention to the services of Sacajawea, the heroine of that famous exploration, and suggested tnat she should be enrolled among the na tion's notable women. It was further sug gested that the women of the country snouia erect a statue to too Indian woman at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, the starting point of the expedi tion of ISM. It now appears that the suggestion of the Inter Ocean has been taken up In far away Oregon. Portland is to hold in 1305 a Lewis and Clark Centennial In celebra tion of the centenary of the first crossing of the continent. The women or Oregon. Washington. Idaho, Montana and the Da kota! have taken up the project of erect ing a memorial -to Sacajawea suitable to the occasion. An association has been formed, with Mrs. Dye as president. It Is proposed to erect a statue to cost about JG0O0. It has been thought fitting that the sculptor snouia be a woman and a westerner, and Miss Alice Cooper, of Colorado, has been suggested. Readers who are familiar with that great American classic, the Journal of Lewis and Clark, or who have enjoyed The Conquest, will remember Sacaja wea and her services to the explorers. Lewis and Clark found her In their Winter camp among tne Mandans. She was a captive Shoshone girl of 15, and the slave wife of a French half-breed Interpreter. She would have died In childbirth had It not been for the' aid of the explorers. In the Spring she and her husband and babe went west with the party. When the explorers bad abandoned their canoes and were approaching the Gates of the Mountains they stood face to face I (IIUJ inuui t . UCUHUC Ul U1C Ui UUISO. jt -was Sacajawea who pacified the Sho- with failure, because of the lack of horses. ahones. obtained horses and smoothed th way through the Flatheads and the Nez Perces. Passing over her many services during the Winter spent at the mouth of the Columbia. It was Sacajawea who guid ed the party on the return trip. She seemed to have the instinct of the homing pigeon, and again she found the way out of the wilderness. Sacajawea understood the Importance of the expedition, and was as earnest for its success as were Its leaders. Her serv ices were great. If she was not the salva tion of Lewis and Clark. Yet when and where she died Is not known, and no stone marks her resting place. The Importance of the expedition of Lewis and Clark is brought strikingly to mind by the fact that the wilderness through which Sacajawea guided them 100 years ago Is now thickly studded with flourishing cities and purpose to erect a statue to their guide. The President's Tribute to Gov. Taft. Hartford Courant. What does the salary paid William H. Taft amount to as compensation for such unpurchasable services as he Is giving the country, and for the personal sacri fices he makes dally In giving them? It is pleasant to know that for an American of his qualty a few words uttered yester day by his and our President will be a reward far above money. "There Is not In this Nation a higher or a finer type of public servant than Governor Taft." says Theodore Roosevelt, doing himself honor In saying it. "lie has rendered literally Inestimable service, not only to the peo ple of the Philippines, but to tho people of the United States." These are two sen tences that will go straight to the Gov. ernor's heart- We wish his father could have uvea to read them. The Fnded VIoIei. Tbomas Bailey Aldrlch. What thontbt la folded In thy leaves? What tender thought, what speechless cainl 1 noia my xaaea up to mine. Thou darling of the April rain! I hold thy faded Up to mine. Thouch scent and axure tint are ned O dry, mate Hps I ye are the type Of something In me cold and dead: Of something wilted like thy leare. Of frazranoe flown, of beauty dim. Yet. far the lor of those white bands That found the by a rivers brim; That found thee when thy dewy mouth Was purpled a wltn ataln of wine. For love cf ber who lor fonot. I hold thy faded lips to mine. That thou abocldst lire when X am dead. When Jiata la dead for me and wrong. For this X use my subtlest art, For this I fold thee In my ions'. JiOTE AND COMMENT. The Portland teams are still playing ping-pong. The baseball scores will be printed with a wide black border; hereafter. Meteorites ought to be plenty in the vicinity of the old Iron works at Os wego. Russia denies that she wfll attempt to annex. Manchuria. She will commence operations today. It will take 00.000 for Portland to en tertain the President, but It's worth dou ble the money to have him here. Teddy has been kissing all the young sters In Kansas and Nebraska, but It Is not reported that he has been Hob sonlng any pretty girls. The man who said It would be funny If the Portland teams should win the pen nants In the two leagues spoke the truth. It would be funny, ridiculously. Incon ceivably funny.. MARS, April a. (Special aerogram.) The report that a meteor from this, place landed on the Earth on Friday last has 3No meteors have been mislaid or lost here for several months past, and the only explanation that has thU9 far been offered Is that the meteor Is the body of an unfortunate umpire who was kicked oft Into eternity last week for calling three strikes on a local baseball slayer in a championship game. "I never could understand." a New York plumber was quoted as savinir 'why people take such an Interest la a hole In the ground. Ever since I began plumbing I noticed that pedestrians who seemed to be In a fearful hurry, as well as Idlers, stop to peep Into a hole In the street. Is it' because long habit has as sociated every hole with the graveT Is it because the underground mysteries Ptw553 a fascination for those who know mey wiu eventuauy De placed thenar A new Japanese Buddhist paper called the Thundering Dawn, announces Its ad vent In the following terms: "This paper has come from the womb of eternity. It starts its circulation with millions and millions of numbers. The rays of the sun. the beams of the stars, the leaves of trees, the blades of grass, the grains of sand. the hearts of tigers, elephants, lions, ants. men and women are its subscribers. This Journal will henceforth flow lh the uni verse as the rivers flow, and the oceans surge. A Attorney-General Knox Is as enthusi astic a fisherman as any man In public life In Washington has been since Graver Cleveland left the White House. The other day he was talking fishing to a friend, who described the merits of a trout stream up in Maine, where a friend of his had hooked 100 fish in a single day. "But," added the friend, "that isn't real sport." "Well, I don't care myself to catch 'em on the wholesale plan," re turned Attorney-General Knox, "but nevertheless, when I drop a line I like to get an answer, right away, Admiral Dewey and General Miles. though the best of friends, like to "Josh" one another. Recently they visited Mount Vernon together and the General was much Impressed by the sight of Wash ington's grave. As they wert lea ving -the place General Miles said: "I wonder what Washington would say If he were suddenly to appear here In the flesh." Dewey glanced quizzically at his old friend and he answered: "I really don't know. Nelson, unless he asked how the devil you ever succeeded In getting the job he once held." "Throw up your hands," yelled the holdup artist, and he pressed the chill ing muzzle of his revolver to his victim's temple. The victim held his hands as high as he could, while the artist went through his pockets, quietly abstracting the coin. "This Is so underhanded," murmured the victim, and he waved his arms in the air above his head. 'On the contrary. It's all above board," replied the artist, and he tapped the sidewalk beneath with his toe. "The heaviest hole In my experience Was one that weighed 432 pounds," said John D. Rockefeller. He smiled faintly and resumed: T happened on this hole In my younger days, when I was In the refining business In a small way In Hartford. I had ordered two castings, each SS Inches square and 10 Inches thick, the first casting to be solid, and the second to have -a perfor ation about 30 Inches In diameter through its middle. Well, the foundry clerk, through some sort of an error, billed both castings to me as though they were solid, . and when I pointed out his mistake, sent me a credit slip. He had evidently, ac cording to this slip, taken the dimensions of the hole in the second casting lOx 30x20 Inches calculated what the weight of a piece of iron of those dimensions would be. Then that weight, 433 pounds. he had put .down as the weight of the hole, end the credit slip he sent read: 1 'J. D. Rockefeller, Cr. By 1 hole. weight 132 lbs., at-Sc, J2L60.' "And that was the heaviest hole I have ever known." ' A( Rebel of the Veldt. Our Dumb Animal, for April. Saddle and bridle and girth. Stirrup and crupper and bit: Man oa tho top of a little horse, Shassr and strong- and at. Ragged and bearded face. Ragged old hat of felt. Rifle that kill at a thousand yards. And a tight-crammed cartridge belt.. He doesn't know how to dress. And to doesn't know how to drill; Jim no met me wukii uwei in tne world. . And foucbt till tcey bad tnelr Oil; He's a slovenly, awkward chap: He's a lubberly farmer man; But he lay on the veldt, from dawn till dawn. And shot till they broke and ran. Bertrand Shadwel Ha didn't know how to acrap. Was no good at the gun. But be waa the bhoy who gave you points. When it came to cut and run. Thank God I The war la o'er. Tnat peaea 1 signed you bet. For now Mr. Boer can save his boots. Else he might be running yet. Portland. April 22. Barney O'Heegan, Oh. wen. I don't know about that. Tou ray be' no good with a gun; But Epionkop told a different ul Who was it that day cut and runt I notice that you thank your Ood. That peace ha been lgned well, sow, esy, 1 Do you recollect what you people said About "dinner on Christmas day"? Tou were going to do this and do that. As your chief told gln and again. Do you know why It took you three years at more? Twa because you were up aglnt men. So it I were you I wouldn't brax. O'er the poen, who their liberty lost. For you. conquered at last but remember Tou wen out at a terrible cost. Portland, H&r L. -H, W, ZXade, it