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THE MX)B2SI2sG OBEGOfflAlf, SATUEDAY, JUKE 27, 1903. Entered at the Postoffice at Portland. Oregon, as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION BATES. By Mall (postage prepaid. In advance) ttito Sunday, per month. ........ .$05 Daily, Sunday excepted, per yesx 7.90 Pally, with Sunday, per year a.. 8.00 Sunday, per year 2.00 The Weekly, per year 1.50 The Weekly. Z months....... -50 To City Subscribers Sally, per -week, delivered. Sunday excepted-15e Pally, per week. delivered. Sunday lncluded.20o POSTAGE RATES. . United States, Canada and Mexico IS) to 14-page paper...... ..le It to 80-pago paper ......................... 2c 12 to 44-pags paper ..........3c .Foreign rates double. Hews or discussion Intended for publication Is The Oregonlan should be addressed invarla Sly "Editor The Oregonlan," not to the name at any Individual. Letters relatlnr to adver tising, subscription, or to any business matter ceouia oe addressed simply "The Oregonlan." The Oregonlan does not buy poems or stories from Individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to It without solici tation. No stamps should bo inclosed for this purpose. Eastern Business Office, 43, 4. 45, 47, 48. 40 Tribune building. New York City; 510-11-12 Tribune building. Chicago; the S. C. Beckwlth Special Agency, Eastern representative. ,For sale in San Francisco by L. E. Lee. Pal ice Hotel news stand; Goldsmith Bros., 230 Batter street; F. W. Pitts. 1003 Market street; 3. K. Cooper Co., 740 Market street, near the Palace Hotel; Foster & Orear. Ferry news stand; Frank Scott. SO Ellis street, and X. WheaUey, 813 Mission street. For sale In Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner, SCO South Spring street, and Oliver & Haines, 905 South Spring street. For sale In Kansas City. Mo., by Rlcksecker Cigar Co., Ninth and Walnut streets. For sale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co., J17 Dearborn street, and Charles MacDonald. SB Washington street. For sale In Omaha by Barkalow Bros.. 1612 Faraara street; Megeath Stationery Co.. 1303 Farnam street. For sale in Ogden by W. G. Kind. 114 23th etreet: Jas. H. Crockwell. 242 25th street. For sale' In Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co., 77 West Second South 6treet. For sale In Washington, D. C, by the Ebbett House new stand. For sale In Denver, Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrick, 906-012 Seventeenth street; Louthau & Jackson Book & Stationery Co., Fifteenth and Lawrence streets; A. Series. Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TESTERDAVS WEATHER Maximum tem perature. 74; minimum temperature, 5S; pre cipitation, 0. TODAY'S WEATHER Showers; southerly winds. PORTLAND, SATURDAY, JUXE 27. BRYAX DOWX, CLEVELAND- TJP. That is the significance of the Iowa convention. It is in the West that Bryan has his stronghold. It is there. If anywhere, that must arise the forces which are to emphasize cheap money and free riot, as desired by Bryan, and subordinate tariff reform and honest money as desired by Cleveland. Iowa, moreover, has been more than most states directly under Bryan's influence. It has also been without such eminent gold-standard Democratic agents as Miller and Morton in Nebraska, Breck enrldge and McCreery In Kentucky, Vilas and Bragg In "Wisconsin. Cleve land polled 37 per cent of the vote of Iowa in 1892, but Bryan polled 40 per cent of it in 1896, and in 1900 he held a larger percentage of the popular vote than he did In such neighboring states as "Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota. Repudiation of Bryan In Iowa Is cer tainly significant. Its effect will be to renew the zeal and redouble the efforts of those who look upon Cleveland's nomination as the wisest possible move for the Demo cratic party. And such It undoubtedly Is. It Is doubtful whether Roosevelt can be beaten; but It Is perfectly cer tain that if any Democrat can do.it Cleveland Is that man. He Is probably the only man who can carry New York; he is the strongest candidate for New Jersey and Connecticut, and it Is at least doubtful if any other nominee could run so well In Indiana, Illinois and "Wisconsin. The "West will be for Roosevelt. The Democrat who wins must add gains in the East, with a few votes from the Middle "West, to the sure resource of the Solid South. The only hope of Democratic victory lies in winning back the men alienated in 1896. As they come in, Bryan votes will go out. But In general the losses through Bryan disaffection will be in Republican states, and negligible, while the gains through Cleveland, will be In doubtful states and of the highest value. The significance of Iowa's action lies in the fact that a delegation from that state more favorable to Cleveland than to Bryan Is now among the distinct possibilities. Now, If Iowa should be for Cleveland, why not "Wisconsin, Illi nois, Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana, Pennsylvania? And with so powerful a defection from Bryan in the region where he has been strong, what could stay the triumphant march of already Vigorous Cleveland sentiment in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and New England generally? The signs are unmistakable that the South inclines to act with New York and neighboring states where Cleveland is strong, rath er than collaborate with Bryan upon another defeat. "We are Inclined to draw from the Iowa episode, therefore, a very material encouragement for those who prefer a-Cleveland man next time to a Bryan man; and among the Cleveland men there Is no one whose following at all approaches In strength the following of Cleveland. Behind Gorman there Is a certain cold admira tion for political acumen; behind Par ker there Is a dispassionate apprecia tion of negative virtue; behind Olney there is a perfunctory recognition of merit But behind Cleveland there Is a "vigor, a hope, an esprit de corps, born of faith in the man and recollection of two victories, which makes his cause alive while the rest are dead. From a Republican standpoint Cleve land's nomination is not to be desired, because it menaces Republican victory. But from an independent standpoint it is greatly to be desired. The blight ing influence of elections, with which recent campaigns have made us famil iar, might reasonably be expected to be absent In the event of two such nomi nations as Roosevelt and Cleveland. It is true that Republican appeal could find would be made, and justly, to the country against the dangers embodied in the return of the Democratic party to power. But the dangers we have re cently dreaded would not alarm to any such extent as they did in 1S96 or 1900. Property and order would feel safe under Cleveland as under Roosevelt; and we should not be bbliged, as a Na tion, to blush at the spectacle of a po litical mountebank, preaching financial heresy and class hatred, marshaling half the voters of the country behind him in an attempt to seize the Govern ment in the name of boy oratory and debased currency. The news from Iowa is good news. Mr. Sothem's engagement, with so ad mirable an organization and equipment, forms a fitting close to a dramatic sea son which has been as successful, flnan- cially, artistically and socially, as any In the history of Portland. The golden summers -when New York companies headed by Kelcey and the Hollands or namented our local annals saw little else, and such men as Irving stood out In a great mass of Inferior productions. But a single season that gives us such notables as Sothern, Mansfield, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, WHlard, Goodwin, fcobson, "Warfleld and the Bostonlans may well delight memory and gratify the pride of the Marquam management. RUSSIA IX NORTH CHINA. The New York Journal of Commerce Is still making a visrorous nrotest against Russian occupation of Manchu ria and incidentally pleading that China be permitted to retain her power over the ports of that rich land across the Pacific. "It is the Chinese possession of Manchuria," says the Journal, "which affords the sole guarantee of an open door for our commerce in these prov inces." It was the Chinese possession of Manchuria which for centuries kept that land a sealed book whose contents the "foreign devils" were never permit ted to examine. No country on earth has so diligently endeavored to live within herself and so persistently dis couraged intercourse with the outside world as has this ancient mass of cor ruption, egotism and antediluvian methods which is now crumbling to pieces under the heel of modern civil ization. The Pacific Coast ports are closer, geographically and commercially, to the ports of Manchuria and other parts of China than are any of the Atlantic ports, and, being In close touch with the situation, our merchants naturally prefer to see Russian development in stead of Chinese Inactivity and Indif ference. Iii discussing the advantages or the disadvantages of Russian occu pancy of Manchuria or any other por tion of North China, Portlanders or other Pacific Coast men can reason from a condition, and not from a the ory. "We had no trade of consequence with North China or Siberia until Rus sia began extending her outposts on the Pacific. Almost simultaneously with the advent of a large force of sol diers and civilians at Vladivostok or ders for lumber., flour, forajre. nro- vlslons, machinery and other merchan dise began pouring Into Pacific Coast ports. The export lumber trade of this city began with the first shipments made to Vladivostok. It increased with wonderful rapidity as the Czar's min established their flag at Port Arthur ana Taiieh wan, and from a small beginning made possible by Russian enterprise in the far East Portland's lumDar ousiness has expanded until we are today cutting more lumber than is turned out by any other Dort In the United States. The Russians have given the flour trade In Siberia and North China a similar Impetus, and, as every bushel of Pacific Coast grain that Is sent across the Pacific In the form of flour enhances the value of that which Is left to seek another market, our millers and farmers have profited greatly by the opening .of the new field. Thpr is very little sentiment in trade. Rus sia has made a market for our prod ucts because she' needed them. Has England or any other country done more? Who would suffer the greater if we sold no flour and wheat to Eng landthe one who had It to sell or the. one who needed It to eat?. We trade with Russia Just as we trdv with England, France, Germany and all of the rest of the world, because we have something to sell which they wish to buy. We had the same goods to sell long before the flrst company of Russian soldiers crossed the Urals and floated down the Amur. Of what good was China's "guarantee of an open door," when she persistently refused to buy .anything after the door was open? The Chinaman points with pride to the fact that civilization completed Its work In the Flowery Kingdom 2000 years ago, and all modern improve ments and methods. In his view, should be religiously tabooed. We can make no progress under the evil Influence of such a belief, and were it not for the advent of the Russians and Germans in North China, the rich provinces of Manchuria, Shan Tung and Pe-Chl-Ll would still be as profoundly Ignorant of America and American traders as they were 2000 years ago. The object of all law since the beginning of time has been to afford the greatest good to the greatest number, and the open ing of North China to the world will not only afford a field for trade and development to the swarplng millions of the Slav race, but It will better the circumstances of the ldol-worshlping heathen who objected to Russian oc cupancy and also to that of all other nations who sought to enter their country. So far as his conquest in the far East Is concerned, perhaps It would be as well to thank the Czar for what he has already done before we begin damning him for what he may do. The Mott-street Chinaman is a different in dividual from the North China Boxer, and neither of them are as agreeable for business associates as the Russians. CHILD LABOR RESTRICTIONS. The great anthracite coal strike and the investigations that were made In the attempt to settle Justly the conten tion between the miners and operators drew the attention of thoughtful and humane people to the question of child labor, not only In the anthracite dis trict, but throughout the country. The South, In Its industrial awakening, had before been arraigned as Impolitic and inhuman in that Its textile mills were filled with children of tender years, of whose helpless, hopeless condition the law took no cognizance. But with op position to child labor in full cry In the North and the wretched condition of the "children of the coal shadow" dis closed by observant writers In the newspapers and magazines, the phil anthropic spirit of the South was aroused and a body known as the Ala bama committee was appointed to formulate a law the restrictions of which would give the children of poor white parents in the manufacturing cities a chance for their lives. The work of this committee has been dic tated by enlightenment upon their sub ject and tempered by prudencer The result Is that restrictions Indorsed by the ethics of civilization have been placed upon child labor In the South. Agitation upon the subject at the South, in New Jersey and Pennsylva nia, extended to New York, and a com-' mtttee organized for that purpose a year ago made a report of conditions existing in the manufacturing cities of that Btate that was so convincing to the Legislature that restrictions were placed upon child labor there that are nearly or quite as rigid as those In the South. Under the law as amended the following safeguards are thrown around child laborers In New York: "First. The perjury of parents regarding the ages of their children made dlfilcult by requir ing the- transcript of church, school or other public record establishing the accuracy of their statements. Second. Vacation work In cities prohibited for children under 14 (Instead of 12 as hereto fore). Third. A nine-hour limit subsUtuted for a ten-hour limit upon the store and factory work of children under 10. Fourth. The employment of messenger, de livery and offlce boys under 14 forbidden. Fifth. The work of newsboys In New Tork and Buffalo prohibited absolutely for children under 10 years of age, and restricted to whole some hours by a license system for children between 10 andtl4. Sixth. The compulsory education law made to support the child labor law. by requfrlag school attendance up to the age of 14. instead of 12 as heretofore. These restrictions are in the main reasonable. To fulfill the Intent of the spirit In which they were framed, the sixth clause was necessary, since to turn child laborers away from their work and leave them without making attendance upon school mandatory would be- to make their last estate worse than the first. As between child labor pushed to the extreme In hours and child idleness that knows no limit, the little that there Is to choose lies in the direction of the first condition. In point of fact, work Is necessary for the proper moral and physical development of children, but it should be restricted to labor that comports with their strength and conditions of growth, and so arranged as to hours as not to in terfere with proper attendance upon school. A community In which these conditions exist Is an Ideal one, and, It may be added, an Isolated one. Law cannot create It. But the restrictions of law as above outlined, supplemented by a multiplication of schoolhouses and the rigorous, conscientious of a compulsory education law, will correct the evils of child labor by abolishing illiteracy and child siawrv The agitation that has laid the ground- worK ror this result )ias to this extent been fruitful of good. The sunprstnin. ture Is yet to be built, and though some iiaws wm creep Into the construction, there Is hope that it will be fair to look upon and conducive a generation hence to an advancement of the status nf I American cltizenshiD and the strMie-th and purity of American homes. DEMOCRACY IN GERMANY. Emperor William of Germany Is quoted as saying that for him "every Social Democrat Is synonymous with enemy of the nation and the father land," and that the Social Democracy Is "the party of subversion." The So cial Democratic party of Germany was founded by Ferdinand Lassalle In 1862. Bismarck knew and admired Lassalle, although he was hostile to his political opinions, and perhaps it was his con viction that the followers of Lassalle would be less dangerous with the bal lot than without It that Induced Bis marck in 1S71 to insist upon the grant of universal suffrage In the German Imperial constitution. In 1871 the Socialists chose but three deputies to the Reichstag. In 1887 they .elected seven. In 1898 they elected 57, which was later Increased to 58. The present election of 1903 will give the Social Democrats probably S5 votes In the next Reichstag. The popular vote of the Social Democrats hi 18S1 was 312.000; In 1887 It was 763.000. in 1890 It was 1,427.000, in 1898 It was 2.107.076, and now It Is reported as 3,008,000, an In crease on the preceding election of 900, 000. The hate of Emperor William for the Social Democratic party Is natural, because Its platform repudiates mili tarism, demands the separation of the church and the school, introduction of a militia system and freedom of speech and the press, a progressive Income tax and succession duty, and responsibility of the government to the Reichstag. When Krupp, the great gun manufac turer of Essen, .was buried, Emperor William, In his funeral eulogy, made a furious assault upon the Socialists, who had denounced Krupp as the represen tative of plutocracy in Germany. The election returns from brilliant victory for the Socialists, their vote having Increased since last election from 4400 to 22.705. This result con firms the statement of Herr Bebel the leader of the Socialists, that every one of the Kaiser's furious attacks was worth 100,000 votes to the Socialist party. The result of the German election shows clearly that monarchical princi ples, aristocratic principles and militar ism are steadily losing ground. The in creased tariff on foodstuffs to proteot the interest of the German landowners has Increased the price of food to the working classes, and they have voted with the Socialist party in Increasing numbers. The government today would be utterly beaten In the German par liament were it not for the support of the Clericals, the Catholic party of the center, which has been purchased by concessions in the matter of the Stras burg University, by the Emperor's visit to Rome and by the promise to per suade the Bundesrath to sanction the repeal of the law which bars Jesuits out of Germany. The Clerical or Catho lic party Is charged with a desire to do away with universal suffrage and the secret ballot in elections for the Reichs tag. The Conservatives have frankly said since 1S95 that universal suffrage Is "the derision of all authority,-" and have favored the abolition of the secret ballot. If the electoral districts were appor tioned to population, as by the organic law of the German Empire they should be, the Socialists should be able to elect 132 Deputies, or about one-third of the Chamber. But for over thirty years the Imperial government has re fused to provide by statute for the strict adjustment of representation to popula tion which the organic law requires. Schaumburg-LIppe has a representative for a population of 43,000, while the Sixth District of Berlin has only one for a population of 700.000. Emperor William was reported to have said a year ago that the Socialists were trying to transform Germany Into another United States, but that this would never be accomplished while a single member of the house of Hohenzollern remained alive. If the house of Hohenzollern had no better representative than It had in 1806 or In 184S, Germany would soon be without a Kaiser. Emperor William would do well to avoid serious con flict between the imperial government and the parliament. It Is easy to say: "Only one is master In this country; I am that one. Whoever opposes me, him I shall crush to pieces." Charles I said this and lost his head, and Emperor William's grandfather In the revolu tion of 1S4S had to take to flight from Berlin and live In exile In England. Congressman Glllett, of Massachu setts, In a recent address to the Post masters of the Connecticut Valley, among other things, said that "the wnoie question of appointments and patronage still continues a perpetual cause ot vexation and apprehension." He said that the Senate's nower over appointments helDed ereatlv to mAk that body excessively and dangerously supreme in the legislative part of the Government The relations between the Senate and the President havi h come considerably those of barter and sale; that under these conditions th House holds a mean position. Mr. Gll lett called attention to the demoralizing relations between Congressmen and th officials In the great executive depart ments. Only a few days ago," says Mr. Glllett. "a hlch official told m that to a Senator who was Importuning him for some office he said, 'If you were con ducting a large business, would you auow any one to select your subordi nates?' and he answered: 'Of course not, but that has not nertinentv hor for I don't allow that the department should be run. on business principles at all; It is purely a political matter. " What can be expected of the depart ment, officials whose positions depend so largely upon the good-will of such Senators? Mr. Glllett had been told that a private corporation could run the United States postal service at one half Its present cost, and the recent ex posures would seem to justify this esti mate. Mr. Glllett said: "Thr Is Tin one who has such a vital personal Inter est m economy as to watch constantly and prune down expenses, consequently the pressure for extravagance Is Im mensely greater than the pressure for economy." The spirit of the Henoner undaunted and their pride 'Is unsub- auea. .out as . a matter of Drudence. would It not be well to abandon for building purposes the town lots lately swept of houses by a sudden freshet that was Invited and percipltated by me topography of the surrounding country, plant them with cottonwoods or some other quickly jrrowinsr trees. and build upqn higher ground? Nature meets numan defiance with calm, un ruffled front, and human courarr is as nothing when opposed to an onset of tne elements. The man who puts prop erty In Jeopardy of such a flood after Its cause has been explained and its euect luiiy realized Is needlessly reck less, while he who builds a home In the pathway of a torrent and places therein his wife and children Is criminally so. Building space Is ample; let the loca tions of new homes at Heppner be chosen with regard to their safety when the next great precipitation of rain and hail on the hills roundabout comes rushing down Willow Creek Valley. Varied Western interests will receive substantial gain from the action re cently taken at Los Angeles, Cal., by which a fund of 56000 was raised to send C. B. Boothe to New York City for a year as Commissioner to represent the National Irrigation Association there, to keep in touch with members of the association, and Incidentally to secure as many new members as possible. Those familiar with the work necessary by which the arid lands of the North west are to be reclaimed think It ad visable that Mr. Boothe should have an official title In connection with the Na tional Irrigation Association, and it has been suggested, If this step meets with the approval of the members of the ex ecutive council, that he should be des ignated as the chairman of that coun cil. This Is an excellent Idea and ought to have universal commendation, It Is necessary that an interest should be awakened In New York as to reclama tion work in the arid West, and Mr. Boothe Is remarkably well qualified to make friends in that field. Without an efficient police force, the gang of men exposed to smallpox on the line of the Portland, Vancouver & Yak ima Railroad cannot be held long In quarantine. Some of the men are cer tain to steal away at night. The City of Vancouver should establish a com petent patrol, and Portland, In the In terest of public weal, will do well to put on inspectors at the Vancouver ferry. This will work no Inconvenience or discomfort to the regular travel, and It may prevent the spread of the dis ease. Suspects who cannot give a sat isfactory account of themselves can easily be turned back. In the past few years Portland has suffered little from the spread 6f smallpox brought Into the city from interior towns and log ging camps, because the cases were promptly taken In hand by the health authorities; still, it is better and cheap er to keep exposed folk out than to care for them after they get In. Sir Thomas 'Llpton is again upon American soil, and again he has a yacht In American waters with which he hopes to lift the America's cup. A game sportsman and a gentleman withal. Sir Thomas has won his way to popular esteem In this country. And while all loyal Americans hope to re tain the historic cup to capture which he has come, they feel that defeat at his hands would lose something of Its sting. He says that Shamrock III is "a remarkable boat," and It must be ad mitted that his judgment upon such matters is good. They say that Emperor William has mastered the English language. While It Is In questionable taste to criticise the grammar of a friendly greeting, there will be pedants who will take ex ception to this extract from William's message to the President: "I assure you that the squadron is warmly wel comed, and will, I trust, make an agree able stay. Everybody will vie with each other to make them feel at home." Over 500,000 worth of coffee was shipped from Porto Rico between Janu ary and June this year, as compared with $21,000 worth In the same time last year. There has been a heavy In crease In the shipment of sugar to the United States, while tobacco also is in greater demand. Orange cultivation Is growing rapidly. Railways, steam and trolley, are being extended. BInger Hermann has done Oregon no Inconsiderable service In securing ap propriations for river "and harbor Im provements. He Is preparing to follow up at the next session of Congress the work he did effectively for several years. While inspecting the battleship Kear sarge. Emperor William held conver sation with Jack Tars and unbent a few times to crack jokes. Evidently he has learned a few things from Roose velt. To the First Baptist congregation. of Portland Is commended an earnest read ing of the 133d psalm. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. His Record as bb Investigator, Con sidered la Relation to Fest efice Matters. Brooklyn Eagle, Ind. Dem. President Roosevelt Is not a novice In ordering investigations or In making them. One of the flrst things he did as Gover nor of New York State was to investigate and decide the charges against Bird S. Coler as Controller of New York City. The Controller had rejicted the highest bidders for bonds because they did not bid for the whole Issue. He rejected the next highest bids, though they were for the whole issue, because the bidders stip ulated that the bids should be passed on by counsel for legality of form the Con troller holding that a conditional bid was no bid. The bids which were accepted were very low. They were made by a syndlcatt. The syndicate comprised, with others, relatives of the Controller, In the firm to which the Controller had belonged.. The syndicate was enabled to sell the bonds at a figure very profitable to them selves. The transaction lost to the city a large sum, which a sale to higher bidders could have secured. Governor Roosevelt decided that the facts of mingled commercialism and nepo tism set forth In the charges did not call for removal. The same Governor acquitted, while rep rimanding, District Attorney A. B. Gard iner, on charges affecting his conduct of his office and on other charges he removed him. The charges on which the official was removed Involved disrespect to the Governor's orders, requiring a rescinding of an order by the head of the Police De partment. There was surprise that the Governor acquitted Mr. Gardiner on the flrst charges, which Involved accusations of oppression In the Mollneux case, and removed him on the second, which in volved, so to speak, making faces at the executive. Mr. Roosevelt, while Governor, appoint ed General Greeno and Wallace MacFar lane, of New York, and Mr. Wilcox, of Buffalo, commissioners to investigate the action of the State Commissioner of Pub lic Works, George W. Aldrldge, In the expenditure of J3.O00.O0O for canal improve ments The commission made a report showing that the expenditure had wrought no goqd results for the state and had been marked by extravagance, favoritism and waste, to say the least. Neither pun ishment, nor prosecution, nor restitution in any case at all followed. And while Governor Roosevelt made John N. Part ridge Superintendent of Public Works, It Is a satire or a commentary that Colo nel Partridge Is now out of public life and George W. Aldrldge Is secretary of the State Railroad Commission. The foregoing facts have a bearing on the investigations now going on, under Mr. Roosevelt's Presidency, Into the acts of the Postoffice Department. The facts furnish a better index to Mr. Roosevelt as an Investigator than impressions drawn from the admitted Integrity of hia char acter and from the presumed impetuosity of his temperament. He is absolutely honest. In many things he has shown himself to be absolutely fearless. He can be thorough. Thorough ness Is called for now. We are not call ing for vlndlctlvenes3 or injustice. They are showy and taking, but they are capable of shielding favorites behind vio lence to nonfavorltes or to hostlles. Thor oughness Is justice. Justice is alone re quired. Justice will not be mistaken. No counterfeit of, it Is possible. "Yellowlsm" cannot cry It down. In a demand for vin dlctlveness. The country will not pre judge the President. It recognizes his dlf- ucultus. and trusts his honesty. It recog nizes his complications and also his re sponsibilities. It does not want to push or stay his hand, but it does want him. as an omciai, to regard only hewing straight to the line as bis sole duty, let tne chips rail where they may. And It likewise wants him as a Republican to re gard any rogue's Republicanism as In It self an aggravating addition to any rogue's rascality, involving alike Infidelity to the ideals and repute of a rrreat Dartv and to the laws and fame of a great coun trj'. But, frankly, to do that, he will have to increase the rigor of his record as an Investigator. Big offenders will have to be preferred for moral fuel to little ones. The scandals put the parry In power on tne aeiensive. They give to the Democ racy a hue and cry- Neglected or toyed with, they can give to the Democracy an issue. It will be the fault of Mr. Roose velt alone, should mistaken mercy or er roneous expediency cr partisan calcula tion, on his part, give to hi3 political ad versaries an lsaue of that sort likely to be a winning sort. Max O'Rell Was Sadly Jarred. Detroit Free Press. O'Rell Was booked to ler.ttirn In TTo rf. man's hall in Grand Rapids something like iu years ago. Carroll Hartman was hav ing a serious time in indnrlnc the unnl of the valley city, to see the merits of lec turers. There was a blir sale for th fVRnii tor ture and Hartman wandered over to tha Morton House In the afternoon to call on the French wit; also to pay him his fee of $100. 'But I have not delivered tho 1 Suppose I should die before tonight," said u Mten, wno couw not understand why a manager should nar for something not vtt delivered. 'Oh. that's all richt TA nhlhlf e-o,, corpse." replied Hartman. The witty Frenchman never recovered from the shock'of Hartman's remark. At anv -rata he refused to lecture in Grand Rapids again. Roosevelt the Whole Things New York Sun. What need of a Hanna or a Quay any more than of a Payne? If the Hon. Theo dore Roosevelt wins the Republican nomi nation for President in 1904 It will have been his own personal achievement. Who ever Is nominally at the head of the cam paign organization will be there because Mr. Roosevelt puts him there. But In real ity the sole manager of the canvass for Mr. Roosevelt's election will wear Mr. Roosevelt's hat, precisely as the sole man ager of the preliminary canvass for nomi nation has continuously worn Mr. Roose velt's trousers. Substantially the same thing may be said In advance concerning the genesis of the platform on which Mr. Roosevelt, if nominated, will run. The Colored Band. Paul Laurence Dunbar. Wen de colo'd baa" cornea roa'chln down do street. Tou kin heah de ladles all erroun repeat: "Ain't dey handsome? Ain't dey gran"? Ain't dey splendid? Goodness, lan'l Wy, dey' s pu'fect fom dey fo'heads to der fe-t!" An' slch steppln to de music down de line, 'Taln't de music by Itself dat meks It fine; Hits de walkln", step by step. An" de keepln time wld "Hep," Dat meks a common ditty toun" divine. Ob, de -white ban play hts music, and hit's mighty rood to bean. An It sometimes leave a Ucklln in yo ieet; Bat de hea t roes into business Fu to help erlonr o eah. Wen de colo'd ban' goes m&'cbin down de strcet. Yct She Can Drive. Brooklyn Eagle. She cannot drive a na.ll. 'tis true. With all the skill ber husband can; But yet. she has her part to do. And does It Ttrithout shirking, too: ilan drives the nail, 'she drives the man. VIEWS OF THE HEPPNER FLOOD It's When Water: Cewes, aad How. Omaha Bee. More people appear to have been drowned by the cloudburst in Oregon than lost their lives la all the floods in Kansas. Iowa and Missouri. It is not the amount of water so much as the way It is precipitated that determines the damage. To Be Commended. Tacoma News. Portland is to be commended for aban doning her proposed Fourth of July cele bration and appropriating her fund of to the relief ot the Heppner suf ferers. That Is a most commendable sacrifice and Portland will no lose any friends by it. No Act More GracqfaL Tacoma Ledger. . Portland, as the chief city of Oregon, has been most generous in responding, to the needs of Heppner. There could have been no act more graceful than the turn ing over to the sufferers the fund that was tohave been devoted to a Fourth of July celebration. Lean Inn: Toward Superstition. Philadelphia Record. This Is certainly a year of disasters. Now an Oregon town has been washed away by a flood, and several hundred lives are believed to have been lost. Per sons who have any leaning toward super stitions may be excused for wondering what It all means. Clondbnrsts and Their Effects. Philadelphia Inquirer. Despite the many cloudbursts that have visited tills country, and especially Its western section. In recent years, many people still think a cloudburst to be only an unusually heavy shower. The story of the disaster at Heppner, Or., must convince them that it is more than that. From a scientific standpoint, it is es pecially fortunate that the testimony of eye-witnesses to the catastrophe is so full and direct. The flrst that was seen of the coming deluge was a black cloud, accompanied by thunder and lightning, which appeared at the head of the prin cipal creek. The next scene was a solid body of water, 20 feet deep, rushing down tho narrow valley of the creek and sweep ing everything before if. Evidently, the cloud had dropped its liquid contents all at once, instead of letting them fall gradually in the form of rain, and thl3 was a cloudhurst. Most meteorologists agree that a cloud burst on land is substantially the same io Muierspout at sea; tnar, m fact. It Is a waterspout which, having tcooped up Its waters by the well-known suc tion process, has Been carried over the land until It meets with- an obstruction sufficient to break- It anil lf th fall In a mass, as it does when a water spout creaks at sea. Like cyclones, stirh lmwuinnmo i-ioif. can be neither foreseen nor avoided, but mere may De some consolation In tha fact that they seldom or never visit the same neighborhood twice. A Phenomenal Storm Record. Philadelphia Bulletin. A compilation which has been made of the disasters from natural causes In this countrj' during the past seven weeks shows a series of sadly destructive oc currences whose rapid succession has had few, if any, parallels in recent years. Beginning with the Memorial day floods at North Topeka. Kansas CJty and Des Moines, loss of life and property brought about by the risinz rivers -wna nmmntw followed by a tornado In Georgia and a cloudburst In South Carolina, which to gether killed about 160 people. The floods at St. Louis were next in the list; and the catastrophe in Oregon, also caused by a tremendous rush of water. Is apparently the most deadly yet recorded this year, with the estimate of fatalities ranging from 250 to 00. Altogether it seems probable that at a moderate computation not fewer than 600 to 700 lives have been sacrificed in less than two months, while the destruction of property is placed at more than $25. 000.000. But while the Pacific slope, the Middle West and the South have been scourged In this manner, the states of the North ern Atlantic seaboard have escaped. Peo ple in this region may grumble occasion ally at the freakishness of its climate, but they are seldom called upon to face such calamities from the forces of nature as those which have assailed their fel low Americans in thl3 season of alternate drouth and downpour. The Jewish Cemetery at Newport. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This poem was written by Longfellow in 1S32. In his reply to the prominent Hebrews of the B'nal B'ritb, who went to Washington to ask. our Government to assist them In get ting a petition on the subject of Jewish per secution before the Czar of Russia. Pres ident Roosevelt drew their attention to thesa verses as being "one of the moat touching poems of our own great poet." How strange it seems! These Hebrews In their graves. Close by the street of this fair sea-port town. Silent beside the never-silent waves. At rest in all this moving up and down! Tho trees are white with dust, -that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains In the South wind's breath, While underneath these leafy tents they keep The lone, mysterious Exodus of Death. And these sepulchral stones, so old and brown. That pave with level flags their burial-place. Seem like the tablets of the law, thrown down And broken by Moses at the mountain's base. The very names recorded here are strange. Of foreign accent, and of different climes; Alvares and Klvera Interchange With Abraham 'and Jacob of old times. "Blessed Be God, for he created Death!" The mourners said, "And Death is rest and peaee :" Then added. In the certainty of faith. "And glveth Life, that nevermore shall cease." Closed are the portals of their synagogue. No psalms of David now the silence break. No rabbi reads the ancient decalogue In the grand dialect the prophets spake. Gone are the living, but the dead remain. And not neglected : for a hand unseen. Scattering its- bounty, like a Summer rain. Still keeps their graves and their remem brance green. How came they here? Wnat burst of Christian hate. What persecution, merciless and blind. Drove o'er the sea that desert desolate These Ishmaels and Hagars of mankind? They lived in narrow streets and lanes ob scure. Ghetto and Jcdenstrauss. tn mirk and mire; Taught In the school of paUence to endure The life of anguish and the death of Are. All tbelr lives long, with the unleavened bread And bitter herbs ot exile and Its fears. The wasting famine of the neart they fed. And slaked its thirst with marah of their -tears. Anathema marantha! was the cry That rang from town to town, from street to street: At every gate the accursed ilordecal x Was mocked and jeered, and spurned by Christian feet. Pride and humiliation hand in hand Walked with them through the world, wher e'er they went; Trampled and beaten were they as the sand, " And yet unshaken as the continent. For, in the background, figures vague and vast Of patriarchs and of prophets -rose sunllme. And all the great traditions of the past - They saw reflscted la the coming time. And thus forever with reverted look The mystic volume of the world they read, Spelllns It backward, like a Hebrew book, TI'I life became a legend or the dead. But ahf what once has been shall be no more! The groaning- earth in travail and In pain . Brtngs" forth Its races, but does not restore. And the dead sntlons never rise again. NOTE AND COMkEXT. Scandal this morning. Where.? - Nobody has yet accused Peter of being a St. Waterless sprinkling carts seem to be the latest craz. It must be grating on the stanch union men to be held up by nonunion highway men. No one has yet cracked 'the safe in the pollcs station, but it Is expected any minute. Sir Thomas Xipton has .donated a cup for the San Diego yacht races. Tea cup, probably. The Portland baseball teams could or ganize a Tailenders' Trust with the great est of ease. The Civil Service Commission will soon get to work on the examinations for the men In the hold-up service. The historian Lecky said that John Wesley "has had a wider constructive In fluence In the sphere of practical religion than any other man who has appeared since the 16th century." The S7th birthday ha3 Just been cele brated at Ebenthal, In Austria, of one of the most extraordinary old ladies In Eu rope, namely. Princess Clementine ot Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, mother of Prlnco Ferdinand of Bulgaria and only survivor of the numerous children of the French King. Louis Philippe. Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee In stitute for Colored People, has declined the offer of an English society that he visit South Africa, study conditions there, and report to the society and the govern ment on the best way ot dealing with the industrial and educational wants of tho colored people In that countrj'. The offer was made through Earl Grey, a member of the British House of Lords, and head of the South African Company. For the 11 months ending May, 1800. our export of raw cotton amounted to 530S.747. 005, which exceeds the similar period of 1302 by 15,219,178. By June 30 the total will probably be 5317,000,000. If so. It will ex ceed the banner year 1301 by $4,000,000. The quantity of cotton exported this year Is smaller than in 1S9S and IffJO, but the re alized price was much higher. Comparing the 1303 period with 1S01, the figures are 3,481,000.000 ppunds of the value of $305,003, 000. against 3,203.000,000 pounds of tha value of $303,000,000. When John Wesley died. In 1731. there were In England about 79,000 Methodists and 312 ministers. In America the num ber of members was about 50,000, total of about 130,000. The remarkable progress of Methodism In the 110 years which had elapsed since his death was shown by the figures which were announced at tha ecumenical conference in London in 1301; Ministers, 43,334; local preachers, 1W.7S3; churches, S3.0S7; members, 7.659.2S5; Sun day schools, S1.22S; teachers and officers. Sl,392; scholars. 7.077,079; adherents. 24. 839.42L The New York Central Railroad Is pre paring to test the worth of beech, birch and maple woods as track ties. The com pany now uses Southern hard pine, but It has to be brought, from far away, the supply Is becoming low, and It Is proving too expensive. Trial will accordingly be made of these woods found In abundance near the line of road. The plan Is to sea son the birch, beech and maple ties and treat them to a preservative solution of some sort. It is believed that in this way a more durable tie can be obtained at less expense than the hard pine, which lasts about five years. The Morning Star. In speaking of Rev. John Murray, a- prominent Presbyterian minister of old, tells the following: "While Mr. Murray was In Newburyport. there was another John Murray, who be came prominent as the founder of the Unlversalist denomination. It was sometimes difficult to distinguish them, both having the same name. To meet this difficulty as far as possible, the one was denominated 'All Hell," and the oth er 'ito Hell Murray." Once at an auction in Boston Mr. Murray gave his name, when the auctioneer inquired. What Mur ray? 'Rev. John Murray.' 'Which, Sal vation or Damnation Murray?' " A. Victim ot Overvrorlc Louisville Courier-Journal. It would not be an unreasonable guess that the versatile Merrick, the brilliant paragrapher of the Washington Post, died from overwork. He was one of the hard est workers on the American press, rare ly taking even a brief vacation, and tha tax to which he subjected his mental and physical forces must have been great even for a man only 44 years of age. Tha newspaper dally grind Is exacting on the best of human machines. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS Wall street philosophy. "The burned child dreads the fire, but the fleeced lamb goes out and accumulates some more- wool." Chicago Record-Herald. Mrs. ICnlcker Is Mrs. Jones a well-informed woman? Mrs. Bocker Tes, Indeed; her cook has Uved with all the other families In the neighborhood. Harper's Bazar. Father This report you have brought me from school displeases mo very much. Willie Yes, sir. I told the teacher It would, but she's that mean aha wouldn't change It Philadel phia Press. "Shall I administer gas before extracting your tooth?" asked the dentist- "Well." answered the fair patient from a back township, "If It doesn't cost any more, I'd rather you'd give me electric light." Chicago Dally News. "How many senses have we, Willie?" "I have 17." said the boy proudly. "Tou know bet ter than that Willie." "No. I don't. I've got a dime and a nickel and two pennies, and If that don't make 17 centses, what does?" Chicago Evening Post. Ezra Pike Mother, you got ter step takln in Summer boarders, er else I got to quit farmln". Mrs. Pike Wy pa, what's tha trubble? Ezra Pike They's no use prayln' fer rain with 14 Summer boarders prayln" fer fair weather. Judge. Upgardson A Panama, hat Is expensive, of course, but K will last forever. The longer you wear them the tougher they get. This one. of mine Is In lis third year. Atom Tes. I've been noticing It. I think it's the toughest bat I ever saw. Chicago Tribune. Miss Uptosnuff Tes: Clarence has been duly inspected by the whole family, and it has been officially decided that I may marry him. It la clearly proved that none 'of bis folks are con nected in any way with the United States Postal Department. Baltimore American. Advertisement School of Applied Domestic Science, Theory and Practice. Under our sys tem each student. In turn. Is provided with a cook whom the other students try to get away from her. Thus the basic, principles of modern housekeeping, both offensive and defensive, are inculcated In the most effective manner. We guarantee the competence of graduates. Puck. The other day a young Arab, having found a bad sixpence, was trying to make use of It at different places, but to no purpose. At last he went into a tobacconist's and asked for 3 penny cigar. Having got the cigar and also the change, he was leaving the shop when tha man called out: "Come back here: it's a bad one." "Never mind, sir." replied the yowgster; "I'll smoke it if it Hiakes me IU." Glasgow Evening Times. i