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THE MORNING OBEGONIASf, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1903. Entered at the Potomcp at Portland. Oregon, as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (postage prepaid Jn advance) "Daily, with Sunday, per month ?0.83 gaily, Sunday excepted, per year 7.00 Dally, with Sunday, per year 0.00 Sunday, per year .' 2.00 The Weekly, per year 1.50 The Weekly. 3 months 50 To City Subscribers oally, per week, delivered. Sunday excepted.l5c Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday included.SOc POSTAGE RATES. United States, Canada and Mexico 10 to 14-page paper ...lc 16 to 30-pago paper 2o 2 to 44-page paper ....3c Foreign rates double. "News or discussion intended for publication Jn The Oregonlan should be addressed invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan," not to the name of any individual. Letters relating to adver tising, subscription, or to any business matter should be addressed simply. "The Oregonlan." The Oregonlan docs not buy poems or stories trom individuals, and cannot' undertake to re ran any muiuscripts sent to It without solici tation. Io stamps should be Inclosed for this purpose. Eastern Business Office, 43. 44. 45, 4T. 4S, 40 Tribune Building. New Tork City: 510-11-12 Tribune Building, Chicago; the S. C. Beckwlth Special Ag6ncy, Eastern representative. For sale In San Francisco by L. E. Lee, Pal ace Hotel news stand; Goldsmith Bros.. 230 Sutter street; F. W. Pitts, 1008 Market street; 3. X. Cooper Co., 740 Market street, near the Palace Hotel; Foster & Orear. Ferry news Btand; Frank Scott. 80 Ellis street, and N. Wheatley, S13 Mission street. For sale In Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner, 2ZQ South" Spring street, and Oliver & Haines, 205 South Spring street. For sale In Kansas City, Mo., by Rlcksecker Cigar Co., Ninth and "Walnut Btreets. For 6ale in Chicago by the P. O. News Co., 217 Dearborn street; Charles MacDonald, 53 Washington street, and the Auditorium Annex Sews stand. For sale In Minneapolis by M. J. Kavanagh, CO South Third street For sale In Omaha by Barkalow Bros., 1012 Farnam street;; Megcath Stationery Co., 1303 Farnam street; McLaughlin Bros.. 210 S. 14th street. For sale In Ogden by W. G. Kind, 114 2Uh street; James H. . Crockwell, 242 25th street; F. R. Godard and C. H. Myers. For sale in Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co., 77 West Second South street. For sale in Washington, D. C. by the Ebbett House news stand. For sale in Denver, Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrick, 906-012 Seventeenth street; Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co., Fifteenth and Lawrence streets. I TESTERD AT S WEATHER Maximum tern. 3erature, 67; minimum temperature, 50; pre cipitation, .OS of an Inch. TODAY'S WEATHER Fair; northerly winds. t . PORTLAND, MONDAY, SEPT. 14. AiV ANNIVERSARY. Two years ago today there passed away at Buffalo, a martyr at the as sassin's hand, William McKinley, twenty-fifth President of the United States, and one of the best-beloved rulers in the history of mankind. In some respects he was not a strong personality; but he was strong in all the qualities that win affection and loyal regard. Intellect ually, he came .slowly to truth, but he stood steadfastly for what he believed until new litrht was prlven him. He was long a believer in silver, 'but when that error was plain to him he djd valiant work for gold. He began his career with an implicit faith In the savlner grace of high tariffs, but time and the development of our industries showed him his mistake. His last nubile utter ance, the Buffalo address, is a far -cry from the William McKinley of the '90s. preaching protection as the panacea for all Ills and the very ark of economic safety. At Buffalo, President McKin ley said: We must not renose in fancied seeurltv that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing. ... The period of exclusiveness Is past. The expansion of our trade and com merce Is the pressing problem. Commercial wars are unprofitable. A policy of good-will and friendly trade relations will prevent re prisals. ... If, perchance, some of our tar iffs are no longer needed for revenue, or to encourage and protect our Industries at home, why should they not be emDloved to extend and promote our markets abroad 7 On this memorable anniversary it may be profitable to recall with what deference and fidelity these statesman like counselshave been received by those who worshiped McKinley when alive and pledged themselves at his death to carry out his ideas. Their only notice of those broad and enlightened prin ciples has been to treat them with si lent contempt oropen contumely. The two years that have passed have been eventful and progressive years In every department of the Government. The Itfavy has been notably increased, the public land system and practice, have "been revolutionized, the Army has been reorganized, Federal Irrigation work has been entered upon, the consular and diplomatic service nut UDon a new footing, the Department of Justice has made a new chapter of history In Its attitude toward the trusts, the Postof flce Department has been shaken from top to bottom with prosecutions, the State Department has been active in South America, Asia and Europe, the Treasury has set a number of momen tous precedents. But how about "the period of exclu siveness"? How about "tariffs that are no longer needed"? The answer is that not in a single line of statutory or treaty law has the "period of exclu siveness" been infringed upon, not to the fraction of a cent In any tariff "no longer needed" has the counsel of Will- lam McKinley been heeded. Cuba i nominally freed five years ago, and constantly since that time given nrom- lse of tariff concession, stands unre ; lieved at the behest of Oxnard and Havemeyer, rich with unjust gains and arrogant with unjust power. Carnegie i scatters over Europe the millions piled I -up through the tariff on steel and the j wages that were denied to Homestead I and Pittsburg have been filtered through Schwab's hands Into the vaults of Monte Carlo and along the Riviera. The affection of Mr. Hanna follou-or? the dead President's memory and coun sels up to the brink of honest tariff re form, and there it stopped. There Its loyalty faltered and Its courage failed. The period of exclusiveness la still I here. The infant Industries, to criants I grown, must not be weaned from their .beloved bottle. The tariffs that are no I longer needed must not be given up until such time as the protected cor- l poratlons themselves come into court ! and ask to be adJudced trulltv. until the trusts themselves come to Contrress I and pray to be deprived of some por tion of their swollen revenues. What does any one suppose will history have I to say about that parting message of the martyred President? Does any one suppose that history, when it looks back upon the Influence of corooratlons I In the public life of today, will say that Mr. McKinley was wroner and the I trusts were right? Will It not rather Ieay the simple and self-evident truth, that McKinley was right, but that the power of the protected interests was I too great for the wisdom and con- I science oxthe people to prevail over them? As long as this reign of micht lover Tight continues, the 14th, of Sep-: tember is a day for National -renroach: itt its commemoration in any other J spirit than In remorse and shame should be Impossible for any public man who professes loyalty to Melon ley's memory. ' IN TIIB DARK. We are given to understand: On One Hand. On ilte Other Hand That the reserve pol- That the reserve pol icy is dictated by the Icy is now attacked by land-robbers. tthe land-robbers. That Hitchcock, Vi- That Hitchcock is hot las. Alzer and athnrs the trail of landl are in a land-grabbing grabbing syndicates. i That Hermann's clerks gave out the In formation of reserves to be set aside. That Hitchcock spoke advisedly when he talked about grand Juries for land officials. That the local land syndicate. That Hermann had no part in the leaks givipg information of, reserves. ThatHitchcock'a war! on Hermann, Meldrum, Waggoner and others; will cause his down fall, j That the local land officials aro guiltless, j officials are guilty. If the casual reader gets the impres sion that these antagonistic columns cannot be both equally and contem poraneously true, his discernment can only be commended. The Oregonlan must confess Itself very much In the dark along with its average readers. It knows a little which has not yet ap peared in Its columns, but very little. Iu is meanwhile cultivating every likely source of Information. It has obtained an article from Senator Fulton, which it printed last Saturday. It has also requested and hopes to have soon for publication an article from ex-Representative - Moody and another from Representative Hermann. It takes it for granted that both of these gentle men, Mr. Hermann especially, will be glad to go on record freely, with all possible Information concerning the In side history of the public land opera tions in Oregon the past two (or shall we say ten?) years. Meanwhile, ajso, effort is being made at Washington. The fact should be susceptible of ascertainment as to the source whence Information issued to Oregon concerning the boundaries of contemplated reserves. There should be no hesitation in any official quarter in giving out such Information for the public benefit The Interior Depart ment's theory of the land office's ad ministration is flatly at variance with the theory of the Oregon delegation. Mr. Hitchcock may be right, and, if he Is, ofcourse Senator Fulton and Rep resentative Hermann and many offi cials are Wrong, and, If he is right, moreover, he can very readily adduce evidence that he is right such evi dence, for example, as Inspector Greene's report, which, by the way, may exist in carbon copy elsewhere than in the archives of the Interior De partment All these things, as we say, are dark and dubious as yet. But everything that can be done tb get the facts to the light of day is being done; and when the facts come out, as they are reason ably certain to come out, unless the wires and mails between Washington and Oregon give out, all persons here and elsewhere who have been shame lessly maligned, misjudged and wronged, will be vindicated, and their characters will stand out clear and bright as the noonday sun. Until that happy denouement, good citizens can only possess their souls in patience, and turn their eyes fondly and hope fully in the direction of Washington, The Dalles and Roseburg and we had almost said Oregon City. OVERTAXING DIVERTS TRAFFIC. "All that the traffic will bear" has long been known as the limit fixed by the late C. P. Huntington for a maxi mum freight rate, and, in spite of their protestations of philanthropy, there are but few railroad men who would not gladly adopt the Huntington policy were they In a position to make it work. The remarkable increase in grain exports from New Orleans and Galveston has at last had the effect 'of reducing rail, freight rates between Chi cago and New York. The transporta tion lines, in making this tardy effort to stay the tide of trade that has begun setting away from them, have not made this reduction for the purpose of help ing Chicago or New York, both of which have suffered by the diversion of grain to a new outlet to the high seas, but simply because they have awakened to the fact that the traffic 13 not obliged to bear their tariff. New York has long been aware of the fact that the rate demanded from Chi cago, the Western headquarters of the greater portion of the American pri mary wheat markets, to tide water on the Atlantic, was so high that the busi ness was steadily being diverted to the Southern ports, which were situated at the foot of a down-hill haul. From time to time the newspapers of the metropolis have made strong demands for a reduction of rates, but these de mands have heretofore availed nothing. Chicago is the greatest grain market In the world. Its geographical location, in close proximity to vast areas of wheat lands, and with a wonderful sys tem of lake and land transportation ra diating in all directions through the surrounding wheat states, has given it a prestige enjoyed by no other market in the world. All of this prestige, how ever, has not prevented some of the wheat which formerly passed ' through her gates on Its way East from now following the water courses, which are naturally the courses of least resist ance, and going foreign by way of SCew Orleans and Galveston, instead of by the old route through Chicago to New York. i The increasing area of new land In the West and Middle West kept the traffic returns on the railroads from showing annual decreases, as the Southern ports showed Increases, and may have deceived the managers as to what they were losing. It did not de ceive the grain men, however, but not until a .comparatively short crop cut down the volume of business at New York, -while it increased at the new Southern ports, did the railroads take alarm and reduce rates. It Is probably too late for New York ever to win back her prestige as the greatest wheat-exporting port In the New World, but the reduction will help out the Western farmers and will .give the water-level lines to the south an opportunity to demonstrate how cheap they can haul wheat to tide water. The action of the Eastern lines Is not different from that of those operating in the West Increasing business has for the past few years kept all of the roads In the Pacific Northwest so busy that the line with the best route to tide water has had all of the business it could handle without the necessity of offering any inducements In keeping with its advantage,, but sooner or later it will be obliged to haul wheat to tide water at a lower rate than Is pos sible by the lines that must lift It a mile to get it over the mountains. The law of gravitation will assert Itself, and wneai win xouow xne water courses I down to the sea from the- Columbia basin, Just as it Is now following them from the Mississippi Valley. The rail roads will never be asked or expected to haul wheat at a loss, but they will be expected to handle it at the lowest rate possible that will show a profit by . the best route from the fields to the high seas. WOODEN SHIPS. The steel ship, with its tremendous development , in swiftness, carrying ca pacity and power, was thought a few years ago to have driven the wooden ship out of the service of commerce. A revival of shipbuilding in the old Maine shipyards during the past few years has, however, disproved this idea. A great deal has been said about the de cadence of the wooden ship, and espe cially of the wooden sailing ship, but a little inquiry Into the matter shows that this does not apply to the great American coastwise merchant marine. This Industry Is greater today than it was when the harbors of active lumber ports, like Bangor, for example, were crowded with top-Bail schooners. True, the vessels are fewer in number, but they are so much larger than in times past that the tonnage entering and leaving the port above named In wooden bottoms Is much in excess of what It was in the palmy days of the American merchant marine, of which we hear bo much. The truth of this statement can read ily he established. In the old days a ship of 600 to 1200 tons was reckoned a "big fellow." Today the coal steve dores in Bangor and Bath speak of 1000-ton schooners as "little fellows." A schooner must be pretty close to 1500 or 2000 tons net register to attract attention In this coastwise trade, and there are a great many on the New England coast whose tonnage is in ex cess of the latter figure. It Is with vessels of this type that the Maine shipyards are busy, and they have had a fairly prosperous year. Though the cost of materials is high and the wages of shipbuilders are higher than for 'many years past, orj ders for new wooden vessels are com ing In,, and contracts that afford a fair margin of profit to the builders are readily placed. As stated by a Bangor journal, "No one down East seems to have any apprehension that the ship yards will go out of business until the ocean dries up, even if they don't build square-riggers any more." In brief, though the steel ship Is the great deep-sea commerce carrier of the world, the wooden ship is the carrier of a coastwise trade of constantly Increas ing volume. Vessels built In Maine shipyards fox the lumber and coal trade of the coast, changed It is true to meet the development of the modern idea In the carrying trade, which finds econ omy In transporting large loads Instead of small, are in demand, and as long as the demand continues the supply will be kept up. FOR MERCY'S SAKE. A movement to establish a retreat In this city for homeless consumptives Is, it is said, about to he inaugurated. Such a project is well worthy the con sideration of a generous and . humane people. The object, so far as It has been defined, is not to treat consump tives in the incipient stages with the hope of restoring them tohealth, but to furnish the pitiable victims of this wasting malady who are homeless and who have reached the Incurable stage wlth a cheerful, quiet, comfortable home, In which to spend the short al lotment of time that Is left to them. The number of sufferers who need a retreat of this kind In this community is not large. A small home would be sufficient to accommodate them, and at present there Is literally no place where they can go and receive the care that their condition demands. Bacteriology, in discovering and disclosing the na ture of consumption, has made con sumptives unwelcome everywhere; whether as patients In hospitals and sanitariums or visitors at health re sorts they are undesirable If not for bidden guests. Sensitive, weak, fading, without hope of recovery, sufferers from this disease have a strong claim upon human sym pathy, and especially so when they must find shelter where they can, un aided, and are deprived by circum stances of jhe care and nourishment upon which such comfort as may still attend them depends. The time will come when no commu nity 'can call itself civilized and allow the victims of this pitifully lingering disease to drag out their last days In dark, unsuitable, perhaps noisome, lodgings, because, either for pecuniary reasons or from the fact that they are shunned, as infectious, they must take any room that they can get. If this matter is properly brought before the public, with a feasible plan upon which to work, there Is no doubt but the financial aid necessary to establish and maintain a suitable retreat of a few rooms for this class of sufferers can be secured. It may be hoped, in the name of common humanity, which Includes public safety, that the movement will take practical shape and be pushed to a successful issue. NO MILITARISM IX AMERICA. The standing army of Germany, now engaged in its Autumn maneuvers, and the standing Army of our Republic af ford a powerful contrast in history, both past and present. The standing army of Germany has slowly but stead ily increased until today it Js over 600, 000 strong on aN peace footing, and the Emperor is now asking for a further Increase of 38,000 men. The history of the Army of the United States In its periodical Increase and decrease, has from the foundation of the Republic reflected the necessities of the country by the way in which it has been ex p'anded or contracted by Congress to meet existing conditions. In 1791 our Army was about 2200 strong, but the wars with the Indians of the Northwest territory forced its expansion to a total of 258 officers and 5136 men. The fear of war with France expanded our Army In 1799 to a total of 2447 officers and 49,944 men. Major-General Alex ander Hamilton was the senior officer. By 1S01 this large force had been re duced to 241 officers and 3046 men. In 1808 the Army was Increased to nearly 10,000 officers and men, and In the War of 1812-14 the Army was expanded to 3495 officers and 59,179 men. At the close of this war It was reduced to 674 officers and 11,170 men, and after an other six years was reduced to a total of about 6000 officers and men. The pressure of the Florida War compelled a further expansion of the Army, which in 183S had a total strength of 735 officers and 11,804 men. The Mexican War was fought very largely by volunteers, but the regular Army was increased until It consisted of 13a3 officers nnrt ME1 mon A Mexican War the Army was cut down hy two-thirds, so that it consisted of-882 officers and 9435 men. In 1855 It was increased to 1040 officers and 17j278 men. During the Civil War the -.regular Army reached a total of 2009 offi cers and 37,264 men. At the close of the war the Army was Increased to 3036 officers and 54,641 men. In fB69 twenty .regiments, of Infantry were dis banded, and the authorized strength was fixed at 2277 officers and 35,036 men, and in 1874 the Army was reduced to 25,000 men. In the Spanish War the Army was Increased to 2246 officers and 62,473 men. This was Increased in 1899 to 22S5 officers and 65,000 men, and then In 1901 came a reorganization, which has glyen us, besides the staff corps, fifteen regiments of cavalry, a corps of artillery and thirty regiments of In fantry, with 3820 officers and a maxi mum enlisted strength of 100,000 men. The actual strength, at present is fixed at 59,866 men. These fluctuations In strength Illustrate how completely the Army of the United States" Is the crea ture of our National Leeislature. The United States has about 80,000,000 of people, while Germany has not more than 60,000.000. Our little army of 60,000 makes not the slightest Impres sion of militarism upon the vast' body of our people, while the vast -standing Army of Germany of over 600,000 men in time of peace saturates the whole body politic with militarism. What militarism can do In France was illus trated by the terrible case of Captain Dreyfus. The Dreyfus case, perhaps, would not happen In Germany, but fearful outrages are committed upon civilians by military officers, which either go entirely unpunished or obtain but trifling consideration at the hands of the authorities. The case of Ensign Huessner, of the German navy, who killed Edward Hartmann, his life-long friend. Is familiar. Huessner was tried and sentenced to four years Imprison ment! He appealed, and the second court reduced the sentence to two years' detention In a fortress, at the ex piration of which he will rejoin the navy as an officer. Huessner came out of a restaurant. Hartmann was not In uniform, and, instead of saluting Huessner said simply: "How do you do, Huessner?" Huessner ordered him under arrest, Hartmann turned to run away, and Huessner at once ran his sword through his back. This "detentioV in a fortress Is a totally inadequate punishment for a horrible murder, for Huessner Is al lowed his own wine and servant, can eat and drink what he likes, is allowed five hours a day exercise In the open air, and, with the permission of the commanding officer, may extend his excursions to the neighboring vil lages. He can receive and pay as many visits as he likes, and within the fort ress his personal liberty Is absolutely unrestricted. Huessner can get leave of absence, for a week or two, and go away to enjoy life if he finds the fort ress dull. In short, this form of pun ishment Is no punishment at all, but rather a pleasant holiday, and is part of the system of maintaining a fayored military caste exempt from the ordi nary laws of justice and morality. This is the latest illustration of what fearful outrages on justice militarism Is re sponsible for in Germany.. It Is worse In Austria. A young cavalry officer re cently mortally wounded with his sword a leading architect of Trieste because he remonstrated with the offi cer for taking his seat in the car. This cavalry officer was never convicted for this outrage, and is still In high favor in the army. An electrical engineer of Vienna was mortally wounded In a dancing hall by an officer. The officer was not arrested, and no steps were taken to punish him for the crime. The same foul outrages go unpun ished In Russia, and when American tourists express their horror at such murderous military license, they are told that such deeds are necessary "to unhold the prestige of the army and to enforce respect for the Emperor's uni form among the common people." If any such outrages were committed by Army officers In America and went un punished Congress would see that stern Justice was wrought, no matter how high the rank of the officer. In Eng land public sentiment Is just as stern as in America. Queen Victoria had no mercy 'for the finest cavalry Colonel In her army when he was accused of an act of Indecency toward a poor friend less governess, and he found no mercy before the courts. There Is no mili tarism In either America or England In the German, Austrian or Russian sense of the term. We don't want more sol diers than we need, and we need no soldiers that claim impunity for crimes committed In the name of "the honor of the army." The National Irrigation Congress, which will convene In Ogden, Utah, on the 15th Inst, will cover in its work subjects of vital Interest to the people of the Rocky Mountain States. Experts and scientists who have made careful study of the subject will present their findings on drainage, the duty of water, economic phases of irrigation and kindred topics. The creed, if it may be so called, of this congress, is as fol lows; "Let us make an Inland empire in America through irrigation and In tensive cultivation of the soil, for land without population is a wilderness, and population without land is a mob." Discussion of the topics involved In the broad presentment of a proposition to make the wilderness bloom as the rose cannot fall to be of public Interest. The wisdom of going slow In matters likely to be affected by the character of living persons has received further ex emplification In the case of the Griffith Park at Los Angeles. The city ac cepted ground from the millionaire, who is now under arrest for shooting his wife, on the condition that It be used as a park and called by his name The shooting incident has caused public opinion to swing in the other direction, and the last thing the Angelenos want Is a park that will perpetuate the name of Griffith. When Chamberlain asked the British government to institute an inquiry Into the question of preferential tariffs. It was shrewdly remarked that the result would be "not an Inquiry, but a cru sade." The prediction has been ful filled to the letter, and the crusade may result in a dissolution of the. govern ment - Four of the principal brewers In Phil adelphia are on trial on the charge of substituting Injurious chemicals for malt and hops in the preparation of their beer. This is a matter of impor tance to the Philadelphians who drink the allegedly doctored beer, and also to the Oregonians who produce good hops. ' Developments In the Crittenton Home case Indicate that the stork is as much a tempest-lover, as the story, petrel. SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS Hoc Habet. Dalles- Chronicle. With but few exceptions the state press Is unanimous In the sentiment that the Oregon delegation has been treated shab bily by the turning down, of their candi date for the registership of the La Grande office. Moody Can Stand It. Salem Journal. Knowles, the choice of the Oregon dele gation for the position of Register of the land office at La Grande, who was turned down by Secretary Hitchcock, lays all the blame therefor on ex-Congressman Moody. This is flattering to Moody, as It suggests that he has more influence than the whole Oregon delegation. The President Is "It." Eugene Journal (Klncaid.) Knowles published a letter Jn the Ore gonlan bitterly denouncing Malcom A. Moody, Hitchcock and the "Administra tion" generally. But they will have to,cooI down and take their medicine. The man who has the appointment of 100,000 officers in his hands and the army and navy Is not only a "bigger man than old Grant," but bigger than Congress. Hitchcock the Whole Tklng. Prinevllle Review. While our delegation Is gettlng( turned down on their recommendations, and our State Is getting to be placed In reserve, we are getting lots of free advertising, through the almighty and most powerful Hitchcock, who sits upon his throne at Washington like a czar, dictating to we Oregonians whom he considers as nincom poops, and entirely unfit to attend to our own affairs. How good it is to have an all wise person to look after us. Is It a Rapprochement With Simon.! Klamath Express. Neither Secretary Hitchcock nor Pres ident Roosevelt, the dispatches say, liked to favor the wing of the party by which John W. Knowles was recommended for appointment as register of the La Grande land office. Is this a direct slap at the dominant wing of the Republican party in Oregon, or merely Intended as a balanc ing up of tho turning down by Roosevelt of Senator Simon's recommendation for register at Oregon City, after promising him tho place? It Will Talk Give It Time. Eugene Register. If the Interior Department remains silent after its arraignment by Knowles the public will draw the conclusion that Mr. Knowles has been greatly wronged. Even if the charges filed against him were true, he has been wronged In that the charges were never mado known to him that he might offer his defense. It is plain that the incident is not closed by any means and that the affair will cause considerable commotion in the Re publican politics of the state and will be a disturbing factor back In Washington. Woodpile Full of Xegoes. Tillamook Headlight Another version for the failure of the Portland, Nehalem & Tillamook Railroad Company to construct its line Is that W. Reld and J. McCracken are only playing a game of bluff for the railroad companies to bluff off any other railroad company from building into Tillamook. Gracious, If this is true, how easy it is to humbug the people when there is a little money and a rnumber of "stool pigeons" used to do so. It is now In order for Mr. Reld to write an article for -The Oregonlan confirming or denying this. Not Complimentary to Stockmen. Moro Observer. Wo can see no excuse for the "plain talk" Oregonians are giving the Presi dent and Secretary Hitchcock concerning forest reservations in Oregon. The sys tem of reserves is all right It protects the area and foreats from the grandest aggregation bf-sublime timber thieving ever before developed. It protects the pas turage from devastation from an army of human hogs known as sheepmen, cattle men, etc., and it saves the State mil lions of dollars annually in growing crops dependent upon moist winds from, a pro tected forest, which the greed of lumber men would soon convert Into a treeless waste. Afraid It Is Loaded. Boise News. Senator Dubois and S. P. Donnelly, chairman of the Democratic stato cen tral cqmmlttee of Idaho, are quoted in published Interviews as being desirous of .raising the .Mormon issue in Idaho pol itics. These gentlemen occupy, high po sitions In the councils of the party in this state, but in a matter of this grave importance can voice only their own personal views.. The policy of the party will be declared In convention assembled and without regard to the political for tunes of any man or set of men. The Democratic party is a broad and liberal organization which, while opposed to any alliance of church and state, stands ever as a mighty bulwark ot religious and po litical tolerance. Come, Dear Old Harmony, Come! Union Republican. Senator Mitchell philosophically reasons that the recent appointment to the La Grande land office demonstrates that, af ter all, the appointive power still rests at Washington, and In this conclusion the Senator is wise. If the appointment re ferred to shall have the effect of serving notice upon Oregon Republicans that their differences must bo settled and that the Administration will not become a party to further discord and strife in this State, it will have accomplished much. The President having cut out the pattern. It would seem to be the part of wisdom to be guided by it, ,and the Republicans of the State of Oregon, while consulting at the cross-roads, must decide which road they will take the one leading to a con solidation of party strength or the ono pointing to further discord and greater weakness. Advice to the Mayor. Weston Leader. The confession of Mayor Williams that Portland is unable to prevent gambling, and must therefore sanction It and derive a revenue from it, would be humiliating If based upon a truo conception of fact; but It isn't If Portland's police were ordered to raid all gambling dens, after due notification to close and stay closed, and afterward to arrest gamblers wherever found, and to keep' everlastingly at It, on pain cf dismissal, Portland would soon be free and remain free of the vice. Men who must gamble might still find secluded places in which to do so under lock and key; the law does not wholly prevent mur der and burglary. But gambling could be absolutely and permanently suppressed as a regular business at public resorts, and Mayor Williams' weak-kneed plea for an unholy compromise with the devil is un worthy of his record and character. It would be more manly of him to say that he Is In favor of open gambling as a measure of public policy, and doesn't want to suppress it In BxtremlH. Tennyson's "In Memoriam." Be near me when my light Is low. When the blood creeps and tho nerves prick And tingle; and the heart Is sick, And all the wheels ot Being slow. Bo near me when the sensuous frame ' Is racked with pangs that conquer trust; And Time, a maniac scattering dust, And Life, a Fury slinging flame. Be near me when my faith Is dry, And men the flies of later spring. That lay their eggs and sting and sing, And weave their petty cells and die. Be near me when I fade away, To paint the term of human strife. And on the low dark verge of Ufa "Cfc wulgkt ot sternal day. ' THE SAD CASE OF ROME. New York, Commercial Advertiser. We hope that the magnates who rrrange courses of Instruction in our secondary schools and colleges can be Induced to have more attention paid to the subject of Roman history. There Is evidently a great need for a better understanding of Roman life as it actually was. This understand ing is conspicuously lacking In many cler gymen and other public speakers, and also In more editorial offices than "we care to mention. Rome, Imperial, decadent Rome, has a fatal fascination for a certain type of ministerial and editorial mind, and this fascination is quite apart from any actual knowledge of Roman history. Many good ' souls do not wish to know any more than they think they know about It The sub ject Is too awful, too hideous to dwell upon. They like to think about It vague ly and to shudder virtuously, but they regard the actual facts as best 'left in a sort of nebula, a levis umbra, as the Ro mans themselves would possibly have called it. A stray allusion to Tacitus and Juvenal and Suetonius Is always regarded as a safe and telling thing, and" It Im presses the multitude. That Roman social history does not begin and end with these three worthies Is a fact which never enters the modern rhetorician's mind. What sort of a place was Homo In the opinion of those who talk about it and draw parallels from It and whom threaten our society and 'our Government with a lapse into Roman depravity? Rome was a bad old place crowded by the vilest of men and women the home of every form of wanton luxury among the rich and of frightful crime among the poor. Men fed their horses on gilded oats and themselves banqueted on larks' tongues and pheas ants' brains. Public officials robbed and plundered and murdered as they pleased. The rabble were always yelling for bread and circuses panem et clrcenses, as the handbook of popular quotations would say. Everybody was degenerate, and the social poison distilled In the capital of the empire spread rapidly throughout every vein and artery of tho whole social and political system. A verse of Matthew Arnold's Is always very satisfying to per sons who have this sort of notion with regard to imperial Rome: In hl3 cool hall with haggard eyes The Roman noble lay; Ho drove abroad In furious guise Along the Applan Way. The Implications of this stanza are per fect The cool hall, brings up the artificial luxury of Roman life. The haggard' eyes suggest awful vistas of incessant dissipa tion. The furious driving on the Applan Way typifies the Roman noble's disregard of life and limb, and his frantic desire to escape from his own dark thoughts. Post equitem sedet atra Cura to revert once more to thei handbook of quotations. It la thlsVsort of Rome a Rome that never really existed which our publicists" and preachers are forever holding up as a warning as to what American society Is coming to. The Rev. Dr. Buckley has given it out as one who has tho straight tip from tho oracle, that in a few short years we shall all be wallowing in tho hldeousnesg of the later empire. An antl Imperlalstlc newspaper harrows up the feelings of its readers by detailing all the awful oppressions of the proconsuls their plundering of provinces, their outrages upon individuals, and their arrogant de fiance of divine and human justice and It forges Us way to a triumphant climax when It announces that a Postmaster In the Philippines has absconded with a bun dle of postage stamps and his left a short age of nearly $18 In his accounts. See, says this editor, the taint of imperialism extending to the remotest outposts of our rule. This is the sort of thing that Taci tus described, that Cicero in his Verrines denounced, that Juvenal lashed with a whip of scorpions. It Is too bad about Juvenal and Tacitus and the whip of scorpions und the ab sconding Postmaster and the smart set whose automobiles remind one of the "fu rious gulflo" of the Roman noble on Ihe Applan Way. But when you come to look at It seriously, these editors and ministers are all-wrong about Imperial Rome. TacI ,tus was an antl-lmperlallst and was ham mering the government. Juvenal was a professor of rhetoric who like to give peo ple shocks and who kept putting In moro pepper all the time. Suetonius was an old woman with a taste for scandal monger Ing, who collected all the contes lestes that he had ever heard, and worked them off on the dead and gone emperors of the century before. Why do not some of our people read the sober-minded chronicles of Roman gentlemen, like Pliny or of Roman Christians like St Jerome? Then they would find out that the Roman Empire was the abode of prosperity and peace and good government and virtuous living; that, as one of the church fathers ex pressed it, the wholo land was a garden; and that, relatively speaking, there was less vice and corruption and social degen eracy than there' has been, let us say, In England at any time during the past 300 years. You can find more horrors in any yellow journal on any morning of the week than could have been collected in Rome in a fortnight. Therefore, we say, let the children In the schools and the young men In the col leges learn something about Rome as It really was. Let them get out of their heads the absurd notion which has now prevailed for centuries that Rome perished because It became unspeakably corrupt, and at last rotted away because of the de generacy and the enervation of its people. The Roman Empire really fell apart, be cause Its provinces were locally too well governed, because they were allowed to have so great a measure of autonomy as to separate their Interests from the In terests of the Mother City. And as for the social side of Roman history. It may be that we In modern times are going to the dogs; but If so, we are not thereby exhibiting an h!sorlc parallel to the splendid empire of the Caesars. Denounce our modern tendencies and predict awful catastrophes that are to come from tho frivolity ot the luxury of less than 1 per cent of ouf population; but don't for pity's sake, drag poor old Rome Into the discus sion. Romd. as an awful example, has been badly Overworked. Rldino- by Compass. Titbits. Sir Evelyn Wood is offering a cup for competition by officers In a long-distance compass-bearing ride. The idea Is a novel one so far as England Is concerned; but similar rides, known as chart-and-compass races, were carried out under Lord Rob erts In India. The distance to be .run is 25 miles, and competitors are forbidden to use whips or sticks, while spur-marks on a horse will mean disqualification. The idea of the competition is to train the officers in the proper management of horses, the importance of which was demonstrated in South Africa. Speak Gently. G. W. Langford. Speak gently: it Is better far To rule by love than fear: Speak gently let no harsh word mar The good we may do here. Speak gently to the little child; Its love be sure to gain; Teach it in accents soft and mild; It may not long remain. Speak gently to the aged one. Grieve not the careworn heart; Whose sands of life are nearly rub, Let such in peace depart. Speak gently, kindly to the poor; Let no harsh tone be heard; They have enough they must endure. Without an unkind word. I Speak gently to the erring; know They must have tolled In vain; Perchance unkindness made them so; O, win them back again. Speak gently; Love doth whisper low, The vows that true hearts bind. And gently Friendship's accents flow, Affection's voice Is kind. i Speak gently; 'tis a little thinr. Dropped in. the heart's deep well; The good, the Joy, that it may bring, Eternity shall ten. .NOTE AND COMMENT. Ed Hamilton' evidently believes in the Roosevelt way. When knighthood was In flower It wasn't nearly such a bloomln show as It will be. today. Bulgaria says she will be real mad If it's true that 6000 of her subjects have been massacred by Turks. Griffith, the Los" Angeles millionaire In jail for shooting his wife, -has found a good team of lawyers. Their names are Silent and Works. The "shriek of a maddened beach dragged down by the sea" will be a lul laby to the rasping sound of the pebbles grated by the reform wave. It seems strange that a man gets much less newspaper space for presenting his city with a 3000-acre park than for shoot ing his wife and only wounding her at that. A Dresden restaurant keeper ha3 lost his lease through selling chocolate bear ing pictures ot Princess Louise. Tho authorities evidently thought it enough that her conduct should be In every one's mouth. Lnllaby. (By telephone from the Macleay block.) Hush-a-by, baby. Your noise is absurd. You've made such, a fuss, The papers have heard. The Errant Consul. The Japanese Vice-Consul was arrested on Saturday by Officer Gasset on a charge of drunkenness. t The little Jap-Jap-jap-Jappy, Was feeling remarkably happy; Even Consuls grow frisky, On Occident whisky. Discovered this little chap-chap-chapplo. He felt like tho Jewel of Asia. Like a frivoling frivolous geisha; And his step was so Quavering, Stride was so wavering, f He'd have slipped off the edge of all Asia. The chrysanthemum-mummy-mum-mummy. Is pretty but only a dummy, It needs some bravado, Too boost the Mikado, And I've found it in rum-rum-rum-rummy. "There's a package," says Gasset-Gas-Gasset, "And the Consul's the villain that has it. He's behaving- so badly And shouting so madly. It never would do to pass-pass it." More Work for St. Patrick. Fourteen rattlers have been released near Blarney Castle, by an American who wishes tb ascertain if St. Patrick's edict. Is still effective. News- Item. The heavenly choir was a-harpln' wld Pat, When, "Whist, for a minute," he shouted, what's that? There's a sound comla' up from the dear little isle. That somehow or othor arouses my bile. I'm oft te investigate" Rappin' his wings Bight over the battlement suddint he flings. Like an airship ho fell by tho side of Lough Neagh, Whero he drownded the sarpints that wonderful day. An he looked all aroun' for a snake or a toad, But dlvll a wan could he find in his road; So runnin' an' skippin as light as a fairy. He passed Into Cork through the broad Tip perary. An sure enough, there, all stretched out at life size. Fourteen rattlers he saw with hl3 own saintly eyes. "Wnlrroo an be Jabers, begar an begum" St. Patrick conjured till he nearly was dumb. An' he almost gave In to the sarpints embat tled. Till they wriggled their tails, an he saw they were rattled. So at it he wlnt an' he cursed thlm by book. By candle an' bell, an' he .flourished his crook. Till, seomln' to pity, 'he brought some poteen, , An a . sup laid the rattlers out coM an the green. Tho rest It was aisy; the snakes were dead drunk. An' soon in the watery were quietly sunk. "Such varmint should stay in the place they belon?." Said Patrick, resuming his harp an' his song. PLEASANTRIES OF" PARAGKAPIIEKS The File What makes you screech so? The Saw You set my teeth on edge! Chicago Tribune. "Did you ha-e a good time fishing?" "Dh. fair, fair," roplled the candid man, "but wo had a better time lying about it when we got back." Chicago Post. Smithers Do you know any one who has a horse to sell? She-7-Yes. I suspect old Brown has. Smithers Why? She Well, papa sold him one yesterday. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Kind Old Lady It grieves me deeply to see you coming out of such a place. Huggsy Madam, I share ycr sorrow. Why. fur de mere price uv a drink I wouldn't have, done It. New York Sun. Ascum I suppose you took in all the auto mobile exhibits while you were abroad? Skawcher Nothing. Just the same, old pede.-?-trians, pigs, chickens" and things that we have here." Philadelphia Press. v She They don't seem hrfppy together. Ho once told me that his wife was the light of his life. He Ah but the light was always going out. She (catching the Idea) And leaving him entirely In the dark. Punch. Embryo Artist What doyou think of that for a painting? You wouldn't believe that is the first thing I ever completed, would you? Careful Critic I might think so, but I wouldn't say so for anything. Boston Transcript. "Don't pull yer gun In this here court," said the Blllvllle Justice. "You've got to respect the dignity which you see lyin loose 'round here. If you want to kilt a man. whilst court's in session, I'll fine you for contempt." Atlanta Constitution. "Oh. my," murmured the Fall overcoat, stir ring uneasily in the clothes chest, "I certainly did have a good. nap," "Which you ain't got now," snickered the fat moth, sitting on a camphor ball near by, "'cause I ate most of it." Philadelphia Press. "Our minister cave voice to some great thoughts in his talk this morning," said the good deacon. "Yes," replied the village libra rian, "thoughts, in fact, that have been thought by somts of our greatest thinkers." Chicago Daily News. "Is your son going back to college?" "Yes," answered Farmer Corntossol. "Doesn't he know enough?" "Yes; he's got book learnln', but from the way he's been helpin' around the place this Summer I reckon he needs a few more athletics." Washington Star. Landlady I'll have to request you to pay in advance, Mr. Shortlelgh. Shortleigh Why, ain't my trunk good for a week's board? Land ladyNo; it looks Uko one ot those emotional trunks. Shortlelgh Emotional? Landlady Yes; one that Is easily moved. Chicago Dally News. "Why do so many writers use that hackneyed phrase, 'the weather-beaten farmer?" said the" young maa who reads novois. "I dnnno," answered Mr Corntossol, as ho laid down the paper containing the latest news, "unless it's because the weather beats us out of so many crops." Washington Star. "I rtckon you won't believe it," remarked Farmer Hayrlx, "but that old rooster what Jist crov'd is morn'n twenty years old." '"Oh, I believe it all right enough," replied the Sum mer boarder, "and I am also willing to believe that the old hen we had for dinner was his grandmother." Chicago Dally News. Mis. Patty Do you really think Dr. Duck man Is a skillful physician? Mrs. Glblin (the patient) I don't know so much about tnat. But he has such a quieting way with him! When I said I hoped I shouldn't be buried alive, ho said he'd look out for that. Wasn't that thoughtful of him? Boston Transcript. Peters Her marriage is like a romance. Parr So.? Peters Yes; she eloped with her father's chaulfeur. The automobile blew up and killed him before they got to the minister. The man who rescued her from the wre,ck pro posed to her on the way home, and waa ac cepted. They were married yesterday. Balti more American.