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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1903)
THE MOKNINff OREGONLAN, THURSDAY SEBTISMBER 17, 1903. ltTfrr f(trfrJl'Tirrt f i4-lV ViiijV-tvUV-f Entered at the Postofflee at Portland. Oregon, as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSpRIPTION. KATES. By Mall (postage prepaid In advance) Dally, with Sunday, per month 2-hi Dally, Sunday excepted, per year .&0 Dally, with Sunday, per year -j Sunday, per year The "Weekly, per year i-gjj The Weekly- months OT To City Subscribers . Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday excepted.l&c Daily, per week, delivered. Sunday Included.20e POSTAGE RATES. United States, Canada and Mexico 10 to 14-page paper - ......lc 16 to 30-page paper 22 'to 41-page paper . ...3c Foreign rates double. Kews or discussion intended for publication In 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 does net buy poems or stories from Individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to It without solici tation. No stamps should be inclosed for this purpose. Eastern Business Office. 43, 44, 45. 4T. 48. 49 Tribune Building. New Tork 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 ace Hotel news stand; Goldsmith Bros.." 23G Sutter street; F. W. Pitts, 100S Market street; J. K. Cooper Co.. 740 Market street, near the Palace Hotel; Foster & Orear. Ferry news stand; Frank Srott, 80 Ellis street, and N. Wheatler, 813 Mission street. For sale In Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner, 258 South Spring street, and Oliver & Haines, 205 South Spring- street. For sale in Kansas City. Mo., by Rlcksecker Glfcar Co., Ninth and Walnut streetsi " , For eale in Chicago by the P. O. News Co., 21 7 Dearborn street; Charles MacDonald. 53 Washington street, and tho Auditorium Annex sews stand. For eale in Minneapolis by M. J. Kavanagh, CO South Third street. For sale in Omaha by Barkalow Bros., 1612 Farnam street; Megeath Stationery Co., 1308 Farnam 6treet; McLaughlin Bros., 210 S. 14th street. For sale in Ogden by W. G. Kind. 114 2Uh ftreet; James H. CrockwelL 242 2oth 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. a. by the Ebbett House news stand. For sale in Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck. 906-012 Seventeenth street: Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co.. Fifteenth and Lawrence streets. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature. 81; minimum temperature, 61; pre cipitation, 0. TODAY'S WEATHER Fair and continued warm; north to east windr. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, SEPT. 17. THE IMPOSSIBLE PROBLEM. Some twenty-five years ago there was an "example" In arithmetic, or al gebra, which by one method of opera tion brought one result, perfectly con sistent with the terms of the problem and with entire justice to all interested parties, including, if 'memory serves, the owner of a ditch which was let by contract and two laborers, yclept A and B, who were to divide the payment for the excavation between them. But it was easy to prove, by another method of Operation, that the answer thus reached was wrong. Whichever way the example was worked, the other way would prove the first was wrong. It is something like this with the municipal problem of vice. Nature seems to have so ordered it that no way in which this miserable cancer of com munity life is handled can give satisfac tion. Men cry peace, peace, but there is no peace. There is only incessant war, heartburnings, corruption, an hour of hope succeeded by a fresh abysm of despair, an armistice which lasts but a night, an arrangement which is made only to be broken, an interminable and bitter conflict between impractical Idealism on one hand and conscience less utilitarianism on the other, with the forces of vice and crime on sleep less qui vive to take advantage of every division in the ranks of decency. This is why we see Mayor Williams administration beset today by the very forces of law and order which strove so strenuously and successfully fifteen months ago to prevent the municipal triumph of a combination which in cluded every nefarious occupation and corrupt alliance In the city. It is the unfailing resource of the vicious to ac complish by stealth what they are de prived of in the open. A regime of blackmail was broken up by Judge Williams' election, and its devotees will never rest until they can get it restored by breaking In upon the union hereto fore existing between the forces of de cency. "Moral waves" usually take their rise in the counsels of hungry grafters, and this present movement is probably no exception to the rule. There is never a time in the history of any great city when evidence cannot be found to stir decent people to Indig nation, provided it is assiduously gath ered and presented to them. It Is ecough for the right-minded to be told of even country boy who is enticed to a saloon and robbed; of every girl who is dragged into a secluded room, plied with drink an! ruined; of every young clerk who is tempted by gambling losses to steal and falls. These things are always going on. An explosion over 4hem always waits only for some inter ested crook to take them up and exploit them before preachers, fathers, moth ers, business men, newspapers. Then the community is aroused. Then, for a brief space, whatever method is in op eration is changed for some other method. The mind, tired for the time, turns to some other subject, and what seemed to be reform turns out to have been only a stirring up of the pool,'? which is as noisome as ever in its con stituent parts. There is very little difference between the present situation in Portland and that which generally prevails In any city of the size. It is true that Mayor Williams has suffered himself to be badgered and seduced into a quasi ad mission that- he had an arrangement with the gamblers, involving a monthly fine and permission to run, when the fact Is he has made no arrangement, as &4S assailants could readily have ascer tained. It is also true that in this mat ter charity is apt to be lost sight of no one should Impute sympathy with wrong-doing to the Mayor or either member of the police committee, all of whom are for "decency and order In community life. But aside from these incidental features, the problem here today is the same old problem how to handle vice so as to satisfy those who can be satisfied only by its extirpation, which is impossible. The only way to stop gambling and prostitution in Port land or New York City or London- is to purify the heart of man, where every ?rime exists before It sees the light. Ami yet we would not seem to dis courage the Investigation Into the con duct of the police department No hon est official, no competent Chief, no suc cessful administrator, is Injured by the closest scrutiny Into his operations. Public Inquiries of this sort are always in order when officials affect the Idea that their actions are no concern of the public. Perplexing and annoying prob lems of this sort can be handled se- cretly and autocratically In Russia and Turkey, where tlie masses have no voice In government But In this free coun try, where the governed rule, it i a welcome sign when the people manifest keen interest In the conduct of affairs. It is only when they are callous to the shortcomings ot public servants that representative government comes into peril. The price of liberty is not eternal complaisance and an implicit confidence that whoever Is "it" Is right. BALFOUR A PROTECTIONIST. When Secretary Chamberlain Issued his manifesto in advocacy of a prefer ential tariff in favor of the British colo nies. The Oregonlan pointed out that his phraseology left no room for him to escape classification as a protection ist, however vociferously he and his friends might claim adherence to free trade as a principle. That classifica tion has been generally conceded; and now a similar conclusion must be reg istered against Prime Minister Balfour. He is more insistent even than Mr. Chamberlain upon his fealty to free trade; but his claim is bogus. He has thrown free trade away and adopts the protectionist view. The terminology of the cult admits of no other explanation. The heresy of protection has taken firm hold in British soil, and its issue, how ever uncertain now, can only be mo mentous. It means dissensions, it may mean the beginning of the end of Brit ish supremacy; for the theory of protec tion is wrong for the United Kingdom, and it is difficult to see In what way It can be applied, without disaster propor tioned to the measure of Its adoption. The press correspondents seem to us to err In attributing to Minister Bal four a definite abstention from Indorse ment of the Chamberlain proposals; for If we waive for the moment the general adhesion to the protective point of view, there Is reference to almost every prin cipal economic problem of the kingdom in terms harmonious with those of the Colonial Secretary. The treatmeritof Great Britain as a lone free-trade coun try in a hostile world of protectionists, for example, might have been Mr. Chamberlain's own; and so might his more minute examination into the ef fect of tariffs on combinations, and when he says "the only alternative is to do to foreign countries what they always do to each other, and instead of appealing to economic theories in which they wholly disbelieve, to use fiscal In ducements which they thoroughly un derstand," he says in other words ex actly what the Colonial Secretary has been endeavoring to impress upon the. British mind namely, that free trade Is a self-imposed sacrifice, and protection is the assumption of effective weapons. How utterly irreconcilable all this is with the traditional dogmas of free trade It seems gratuitous to rehearse. It has been the axiom of enlightened political economy these fifty years that the nation which claps high duties on Its imports only Impoverishes its own people, and that free trade finds its chief and unanswerable defense in its bestowal of progress and strength upon the country that adopts it But Mr. Balfour has come to think, along with Mr. Chamberlain, that protection pro tects Instead of robs; that the foreigner pays the tax, and that protective tar iffs, instead of being relics of barbar ism, are really most excellent instru ments of National advancement, ap proved and brought to perfection, as it were, by the experience of mankind for, let us say, a thousand years. If It were not too late, one would be tempted to remonstrate with these Brit ish statesmen, for thus having joined the great army of iconoclasts. Great Britain Is a hardworking and matter-of-fact sort of country, busy, grimy and not given too much to fancy or humor. And yet upon that island there has flourished in unchallenged sway for. fifty years one of the most beautiful and ethereal ideals of human conduct that ever sparkled above the dismal mart. That ideal is free trade. Cut from pure theory as clear and clean as a polished diamond, it has conquered men's hearts and defied the countlng xoom and demagogue like th'e vision of the Holy Grail. " But its nour has come. As a religion it must go; and it must take its place, along with home rule and disestablishment and the de ceased wife's sister, as the football of party politics and the' theme of Irrever ent badinage at the clubs. Set down there then on humanity's ledger . an other heavy entry on the bad side of profit and loss account, along with the equality of all men, the verbal inspira tion of the Bible, the Olympian gods and Santa Claus. It is getting to be a dry old world! MAKE BRIDGES BEAUTIFUL. lo a city ouiit upon me names or a river bridges are a matter of the great est importance, not only from the standpoint of utility, but from that of beauty. Few structures are more grace ful in their own appearance and add more to their surroundings than well- designed bridges, and on the other hand nothing so thoroughly destroys the pleasant effect of a scene as bridges that are planned with the sole thought of providing a passage over an ob structive river. The Idea that something more than mere utilitarian motives should govern in civic improvements-Is steadily grow ing in the United States. It is being fostered in the schools, theoretically and practically, and will thus in time pervade the Nation. In no direction, as already Indicated, can this movement find better scope than in that of ar tistic bridges. Many rivers of the Old World share their reputation of beauty with the bridges that span them. A good Driage m time becomes a true part of the natural scenery, and not a small part How many bridges 'of to day are anything but blots upon the landscape? Very few, and the reason is not hard to find. Steel Is a new ma terlal in brldgebuilding, and is still In an experimental stage, or rather is in a stage that still permits of new facts being learned of it When stone was employed there were no new devices to be introduced. The structural part of the work was plain sailing, and the builders devoted their attention to mak ing beautiful their work. With steel the builders are striving for the great est strength and the greatest durabil ity, to the neglect of other qualities that should be regarded as no less essen tial. The president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, in discussing the artistic possibilities of steel construe tion, declared that beauty is frequently sacrificed: to economy for the reason that the engineer cares little for artistic effect and the architect knows little about engineering. The co-operation of the professions, he suggested, is the cniet requisite for- bridges that will combine strength, grace and economy. Structures with these qualities may be hard to obtain, . but the result espe cially in Portland's case, would be worth much effort At Morrison street if possible, let us have a structure that is worthy a place in the landscape that Includes Sam Simpson's lovely river and the eternal snows of St Helens and Hood. JURIES WOULD NOT CONVICT. The recent suggestion of the rope for all grave crimes, made by E. W. Bing ham, is not new; and because it has been thoroughly discredited Is not worthy of serious revival. Anybody who ever perused the pages of the New gate calendar knows that under- Eng lish law less than a century ago not. only all grave crimes, .but the theft of property to the amount of 12 shillings, was punished with the death penalty. Sir William Mountford, in his speech in the House of Commons against the death penalty for minor offenses, relat ed a case where a young woman, very poor, with a baby at her breast, was hanged for stealing a roll of cloth olthe value of 12 shillings. Executions for a very large number of minor offenses continued as late as 1825, and It was 1837 before the death penalty was re stricted to the crime of murder. Crom well was the first great Englishman to reduce the number of capital offenses. Hanging, drawing and quartering was Inflicted for treason upon tho Scotch Ja cobite Lord Balmerino in 1745. Eliza beth Frye and Sir Samuel Romilly urged the amelioration of .the English criminal code, but without success, for many years. - Reform was finally ob tained, not through the humanity of the lawmakers, but because juries refused to convict when the death penalty was attached to a minor offense. Doubtless there are grave crimes be sides murder that deserve the death penalty, but outside of rape it would probably be difficult to persuade juries to convict The experience of Great Britain, which was obliged to abandon capital punishment for minor offenses, is instructive. Great Britain did not ameliorate her code through sentiment alism, but because the people "kicked." The juries would not convict a man for a minor offense if the conviction sent him to the gallows. It seems' singular that the death penalty was not retained for burglary, highway robbery, rape and arson, but if our memory Is correct under the British code today capital punishment Is Inflicted only for mur der. It is exceedingly difficult today to convict a man accused of murder, even when the proof of guilt is clear. If the accused has money and friends, he sel dom goes to the gallows. He will not escape punishment entirely, but will be convicted of murder in the second de gree or manslaughter. It would be very difficult to get juries to send to the gal lows any man who was other than a murderer or a man guilty of rape. Bet ter legal convictions and some legal punishment than acquittals and the mad antics of Judge Lynch and his court Any government is better than spasmodic outbursts of anarchy. 1 ONE HUNDRED INCHES, FORSOOTH! Some ardent Oregonians are accus tomed to lament that our state is not so well known in the East as it should be. How little ground exists for such a dis mal belief Is evident from the fact that the New York World uses Oresron to point a contrast with the Death Valley of (California. "Agriculture." savs the World, "can not be carried on successfully in the United States without irrigation when the rainfall Is less than twenty inches per year. When we consider the fact that in Pennsylvania we have an aver age rainfall of about forty inches a year, and that In Oregon the rainfall reached 100 inches per year, we realize what a slight rainfall the valley has." We do, indeed. With 100 Inches a year we even wonder how Pennsylvania, with its "measly forty, can avoid being completely shriveled up by the burning rays of the moon. To help readers of the World to re alize the heat of the awful Death Val ley, we might consider the fact that the Willamette is frozen solid six months every year, and that Portland Is burled in snow all the Winter. To realize the wild nature of the Death Valley we have only to consider that the biggest wild game In Portland's suburbs is the bear, the mastodon hav ing been exterminated by the settlers in the early '70s. Oregon not known! Such nonsense has been exploded forever . by the World. As the. figures for Orpcrnn's rainfall given in the Eastern naDer do not quite agree with those tabulated hv the Weather Bureau, it may be interest ing to note the official record, which is given for what it may be worth In a question of this kind: Portland, 39.16 inches; Roseburg, 36.52; Baker CItv. 14.14. Even Astoria, at the mouth of the Cblumbia, did- not reach the 100 inches mentioned, by the World, having to be content with 83.34, as recorded by the vv eather Bureau. "THE LANDLESS MAN TO THE MAN- LESS LAND." The great problem of a congested eltv population centuries old in Europe is being brought before the practical hu manitarians of our own great cities for solution. Commander Booth-Tucker In the September bulletin of the Bureau of Labor at Washington tells of some very effective methods that have been an plied to the solution of this problem by that wonderfully energetic organization the Salvation Army, in the establish ment of farm colonies within the past five years. He will address the Na tional Irrigation Congress, now in ses sion At Ogden, upon this phase of the subject, and Incidentally, perhaps, show how the vast arid regions of the Na tion may be made habitable by Irriga tion and be populated by systematic ef fort to the relief-of the congested dis tricts of the great cities. He brings out in the bulletin to which reference is above made some of the features of the great work of farm col onization under direction of the Salva tion Army a work barely five years old and yet In his judgment beyond the ex perimental stage. The purpose of this effort was to enable worthy families to separate themselves from the hoDeless conditions of overcrowded city districts and tenements, keep together and ultl mately by their own exertions and pay rpents to become home-owners. The farm colony was projected by the Sal vation Army as a means looking to this end. As tersely expressed by Com mander Booth, the proposition was to bring Into partnership the "landless man and the manless land' and ad justthe balance between them. In pursuit of this purpose the Salva tion Army is now operating in the United States three farm colonies one veach In California, Ohio and Colorado In all, about 400 persons have been set tled on 3000 acres of land. The families are entirely self-supporting. Some of them have already paid for their hold ings. Many of the 20-acre farms are valued at from $2000 to 55000. On some of them stone cottages and barns have been built The mpst Important of these settle ments is at Fort Amity, Colo. There early in 1898 a section of land, consist ing of 640 acres (since Increased to 2000), was purchased. The first settlers reached Fort Amity In April ot the year named, having been assisted thither. That Is to say, their railroad fares and freight charges upon their household goods had been advanced. The colonists were not the driftwood of the slums, but worklngmen from the large cities, chiefly frpm New York, who had been unable to accumulate property. They were settled upon tracts of from ten to twenty acres eacly re ceived a house in which to live, the necessary tools and implements with which to work their lands, a horse or two, one or two cows and a few pigs and poultry. This was not a gift, but a loan, to the colonist, duly charged against him, with suitable arrange ments by which he could meet tlje payments from the fruits of the land and of his own industry. The first who came were set to work making general Improvements, such as digging irrigating ditches, running fences, etc. They were allowed the even wage of 52 a day. Half of this was credited on their debt, and the other dollar paid their living expenses, until returns from the land began to come In. In April, 1902, the first colonist paid his entire debt and was the 'owner In fee simple of 20 acres of land upon which was a neat stone cottage and stock and im plements With which to work the land. The entire savings of ten or twelve years previous to his going to Fort Am ity were represented by a team and some household furniture. Under his new environment he paid off the ac count charged up against him in giving him "a chance" a total of 5900 in three years, besides supporting his wife and three children and building his house. In the presentment of this case lies the argument that proves the feasibil ity of the scheme which proposes to bring the "landless man to the manless land." First, of course, the man must desire to possess the land and be willing to live on and cultivate it. He must want a home bad enough to be willing to work and save for it This, it Is as serted, thousands of the worthy poor of the great cties are not only billing but anxious to do. The scheme is not a charitable one In the sense that it pau perizes by indiscreet giving. It is grounded upon the gospel of self-help, and the aid that it gives looks stead fastly to that end. The co-operative feature which has wrecked so many colonies is not a part of this scheme. On the contrary, individual ownership is provided for and encouraged. This Is charity in its broadest and most prac tical sense; a charity that inculcates responsibility and promotes self-respect qualities which the large class "in our great cities known as the "worthy poor" prize as a sacred heritagel. The charges of S. M. Brosius. snecfal agent of the Indian Rights Association, against George I. Harvey, superintend ent of the Pawnee Indian Asrency. at Pawnee, I. T.. are bold, broad and spe cific. Harvey Is accused amonir othpr things of brutality to children In thp Indian schools, of Irregularities In the leasing and sale of Indian lands, and of manipulating Indian moneys to the ad vantage of himself and banks In whlnh he Is Interested. The Indian Depart ment cannot, vif it would, Ignore these charges. Those that pertain to the In dian lands are similar to others that have been unearthed in various sections of the wide West pertaining to the management or mismanagement of Government lands, and there Is unfor tunately little reason to doubt the truth which they allege. The findings of the Government Inspector who is now at work on the case will be looked for with interest. The policy of the Department of the Interior, as boldly announced by Secretary Hitchcock and ratified by the President, Is to allow no man against whom charges of fraud in the land ser vice are proven to be retained In the service. The findings in this case are likely to cause further dissension be tween the Interior Department and poli ticians with election debts to pay and prestige in the matter of appointments to maintain. In a case of this kind it is evident that one side or the other must go to the wall, and It does not need a prophet to tell which it will be. Mr. Chamberlain's scheme of prefer ential tariffs has been denounced not only by British Liberals, but by many leading Unionists, and fourteen English and Scotch, professors of political econ omy, connected with the leading univer sities, have issued a manifesto against his schemes. The signers of this mani festo are convinced that any system of preferential tariffs would probably lead to the relntroductlon of -protection Into the fiscal system of the United King dom, which they hold would be detri mental to the national prosperity of the country. A worse blow for Mr. Cham berlain's scheme of a preferential tariff- scheme Is Its rejection by the Trades Union Congress at Its recent session in Leicester. Only two delegates voted for Mr. Chamberlain's dear loaf and Im perial reciprocity, which is denounced in .the resolution of condemnation as "mischievous and dangerous." Mr. Chamberlain Is obtaining a great deal of notoriety at the expense of his popu larity. The New York Tribune's approbation of a proposal to present C. O. Iselln with" a testimonial will be echoed by every one with sufficient intelligence to appreciate the services rendered by the managing owner of the Reliance. If Sir Thomas LIpton, the loser, Is presented with a service of plate, why not the winner? From the adulatory notices accorded Sir Thomas it seems that we are in a fair way to place the unsuc cessful on a pedestal and consign the victor to oblivion. The fleet on the Rhine, a river about half the size of the Columbia, numbered 9574 vessels at the end of last year. Of the total, 1183 are steamers, the others being sailing vessels and barges, with a carrying capacity of 2,853,227 tons. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." Thus Bernard Shaw, who must have, been thinking of the antls. Captain BofcnrduK Retain His Skill. Chicago Record-Herald. At Lincoln, 111., on Tuesday, August 25, with an automatic, Winchester rifle Cap tain A. C. Bogardus, the retired cham pionship shot of the world, accomplished, at the age of 70 years, a new feat In marksmanship. At a distance of 33 feet from a target three Inches In diameter and loading his own gun he fired 100 shots In exactly three minutes without missing the target THE KNIFE IN BRIGHT'S DISEASE. Providence Journal. Great progress has been made In the science of surgery In recent times, and still fresh discoveries are constantly re corded.' One of the latest to advance be yond the experimental stage holds out the, hope that chronic Brlght's disease of the 'kidneys, long regarded as incurable and- necessarily fatal within a longer or shorter period! of time, may soon be placed with smallpox, diphtheria, con sumption and yellow fever on the list of those more familiar and once Irresistible diseases that man's Increased knowledge and skill have robbed of their ancient terrors. The discovery that chronic Brlght's disease can be cured by a surg ical operation was made a few years ago by Dr. George M. Edebohls, a noted surgeon of New York City, by accident In November, 1S32, he operated on a pa tient for the purpose ofrelJevlng the usual symptoms of what is commonly called floating kidney. During the opera tion it was discovered that the tfatlent was suffering also from chronic. Brlght's disease. The operation, though successful as regarded the first trouble, was finished without any expectation that it would af fect the. second. It was found with sur prise, however, that the symptoms of this disease also gradually disappeared. By April, 1897, Dr. Edebohls had performed five similar operations, and three out of the five patients were restored to per fect health. The conclusion reached from these experiences was that If the knife could cure Brlght's disease when com plicated with floating kidney it would probably be equally effective when that disease existed by itself. In January, 1S98, the first surgical opera tion deliberately undertaken for the cure of Brlght's disease was performed with entire success, a permanent cure being the result. Within the next four years and a half Dr. Edebohls performed 40 such operations with gratifying results. The operation Itself Is described as not being a very difficult one for a sklllfu surgeon, not so difficult as that for float ing kidney, In performing which Dr. Ede bohls Is reported to have met with a very small percentage of mortality. The danger to the patient lies not so much In the oper ation itself as in the changes which the disease may have wrought in the heart and the circulatory system generally. The operation consists practically of the re moval from about the kidney of certain obstructions to the free circulation of the blood. This being done and nature left free to take up the work of cure, the disease Is gradually obliterated by the absorption of all Inflammatory products. The results of this new method of treat ing Brlght's disease are being carefully watched by the medical fraternity to see whether a permanent cure Is effected or whether the relief will prdve td be only temporary after all. So far they all seem to justify confidence in the efficacy of the operation. THE CUP AND ITS LESSONS. New York Journal of Commerce. Sir 'j. nomas LIpton seems unable to win the cup, but he has suceeded magnifi cently In something else of far greater consequence; that of promoting good will between the United States and Great Britain. In this respect he stands with out a peer. Sir Thomas will be more welcome to the honor of this achieve ment than to the cup, which we still In tend to retain, ho matter how much wo like our doughty antagonist; and we like him mightily for the true sportsmanlike qualities which he has Invariably dis played both before ond after defeat The exceptional spirit of fair play and consideration shown on both sides during this contest might well be exercised more freely In business affairs, though this is not the only lesson which the races Bug gest. While they show our superiority in yachting, while they prove that the Yankee has lost none of his skill in ma rine architecture, while they suggest that the American shipbuilder might do equally well If given an equal chance; these con tests leave unproved our ability to run successfully a merchant marine of any importance under the same conditions as our rivals. In yachting we ask no odds, but in international shipping we cannot maintain a respectable footing either with or without protection. We can build the fastest yachts for amusement, or splendid warships for defense; yet we cannot run the 20,000-tonners which carry the world's commerce and promote the world's peace and progress unless we hide them under an alien flag. Why are such craft beyond us? Why are we always beaten when trying to run ships under the same conditions as our rivals? Why Is It when we drop play and turn to business, or drop yachting and turn to the ocean liner, or even the useful tramp, we take the rear position and resort to such weak, Ineffective supports as "patriotism," pro tection and subsidies instead of studying, and following if necessary the methods of those who are now beating us? Yacht ing victories are all vory well, but we want something more substantial. The Trouble With Loir. Minneapolis Tribune. Without positive .qualities to commend him to anybody; without having satisfied anybody with his administration; without inspiring in anybody the belief that his second administration would be more sat isfactory than his first, now he Is going to be renominated because he has the neg ative virtue of not repelling anybody fa tally. Here Is the secret of Mayor Low's continued success in a community where he has no warm friends or sincere ad mirers. He Is a safe and stupid sort, of man; honest In public business without" special talent for It; of decent manners, but without personal charm; equally with out enthusiastic support and determined opposition. He will live in private remin iscence as the most commonplace public character that ever was foaled, the dullest spirit that ever lowered the social temper ature of a dinner table or turned the thoughts of a public meeting to damna tion and the dead. But he will live in public history as the first reform mayor of Greater New York, who won rendmi natlon, and perhaps re-election, by his high character and distinguished services. The funny thing about It is tht neither judgment will be far wrong. Dob; Kennel Could Stable Thlit Horse. San Francisco Examiner. There arrived in this city last week what Is In all probability the smallest horse In the world. It Is but 221-2 Inches high, weighs 73 pounds, and, by competent horsemen. Is said to be about 10 years old. The horse comes from Tamplco, and Is 'the property of A. J. Morrison, a show man of Los Angeles. He says that the horse was born on the Liani Island, In South America, and that Its diminutive size Is probably the result of continued inbreeding. The animal is not pretty, for Its head seems to be disproportionately large for Its body: still, though untamed, It Is quite an Intelligent little animal. It has never been shod, and none .of Its feet would hide a silver dollar. When In St. Louis recently Mr. Morri son took the animal to show It to a friend, who Is an organ-builder. The little horse walked through the hole of one of the large wooden pipes In the factory without difficulty, and the pipe Is only 24 Inches square. The horse Is to be exhibited at the St Louis Fair, and Mr. Morrison says It cost him $3000. Cnrlyle and Emerson. Montgomery Schuyler. A bale-fire kindled in the night. By night a blaze, by day a cloud. With flame and smoke all England woke It climbed so high, it roared so loud. While over Massachusetts pines Uprose a white and steadfast star; And many a night is hung unwatched I It shone so still. It seemed so far. But Light Is Fire, and Fire Is Light; And mariners are glad for these The torch that flares along, the coast. The star that beams above the seas. FOREST RESERVE POLICY. The Tacoma News devotes a column to a misrepresentation of The Oregonian's position upon the subject of forest re serves, a misrepresentation which is either malicious or was due to a failure to read the utterances upon which its assertions are based. The News says that The Ore gonlan protests against the withdrawal from entry of public lands, and that this paper has advocated the abandonment of reserves already created. The insinuation Is that The Oregonlan Is opposed to the forest reserve 'movement in its entirety. Nothing could be further frpm the truth, and It requires no careful searching to find The Oregonian's position upon this subject, which is of so great Importance to this state. TheNews has deliberately or carelessly overlooked The Oregonian's declaration of its opinions upon the es sential features of the forest reserve pro ceedings. We need not restate our posi tion, but merely quote from previous ex pressions in thes-3 columns to show that the News has been guilty of misrepre sentation. The editorial In The Oregonlan of September S upon which the News bases its tirade, contains the following: Against a judicious creation of forest re serves, under proper laws and regulations, there is nothing to be said. Every timber expert who has ever come to this state from the East will testify that the waste ot timber in the Northwest is enormous, and that lum bermen give no thought to the needs of those who will cut timber in Oregon In years to come. Beyond a doubt, there is a need of Government control and preservation of the forests on the public domain. No one will question, either, that there is good Justifica tion for the creation of forest reserves in cer tain portions of the state for the purpose of conserving the water supply. It is a matter ot common knowledge that where the timber has been removed from the land in which rivers have their source the water derived from "Winter -snows passes oft rapidly In the Spring and the dry season is lengthened. The conservation of the water supply In streams running largely through the public domain is manifestly a proper matterfor Govern mental control. The News Itself does not contain : more pronounced indorsement of the for est reserve idea than that. It is not against the temporary withdrawal of lands that The Oregonlan has protested, but against the creation of permanent re serves before the laws and regulations have been modified so that the creation of a reserve shall not resultin a gift of thousand of acres of valuable timber land to "scrippers." Here is what we said on September 8: Tho Oregonlan does not say that none of the proposed reserves should be created, or that any one of them should not be created. but it does say that no final action should be taken until the people of this state have been fully informed upon all the material facts, and have been heard in opposition to the pro posed action, if they have any -protest to make; that no reserve should bo created until after all lands have been excluded which are not valuable for the timber they contain; that no reserve should be created until the lieu land and scrip laws and regulations have been amended or repealed, so that the crea tion of a reserve will not be in effect a gift of large tracts of valuable land to corpora tions. As to the proposed abandonment of re serves already created. The Oregonian's position Is also clear and unequivocal, as appears by this expression In the Issue of August 31: The demand voiced in some sections for the abandonment ot forest reserves already created is -unwise. There is some reason for the protest against the creation of reserves upon the lines indicated by the recent with drawal of public lands from entry, but the samo reason doesnot- exist in favor of the abandonment of reserves. The preservation ot forests is a duty that this generation Owes to Its successors, but this duty will not be fulfilled by the creation of reserves in the manner that has obtained in the past. The proper course for the Government to pursue now is to maintain existwg reserves, sell the marketable timber at Its actual value and no less, and avoIA-the abuses of the past in the creation of new reserves. There is no need of haste in creating new reserves. Tho land has been withdrawn from entry, and no more private claims can attach. The land department should carefully ascertain exact ly what lands should be included within a re serve before final action Is taken, and then the .rules governing the exchange of lands should be so modified as to prevent the giv ing away of thousands of acres of the best timber lands. The Oregonlan Is not opposed" to the creation of reserves. It has favored them and still favors them. But it Is opposed and will always be opposed to the crea tion of reserves under -laws and regula tions which .permit owners of land within the reserve to exchange worthless land for the best timber land to be found In the public domain. If the News had read The Oregonian's utterances upon this subject, it could not have made the representations It has without deliberate unfairness. A Kentucky Breakfast. New YorK Sun. "Colonel Williams of the Second Ken tucky Regiment Is universally beloved and respected in the Middle Southern States," said A. M. Taylor, amusement caterer to the Flagler hotels In Florida. "I was on my way to New York last week, when I met the Colonel at Cincinnati-, " 'I tell you, sah,' said the Colonel, 'Ken tucky Is the finest state In the Union, sah. There you will find the best cattle, the noblest and most "beautiful women, and the finest eating, sah, in all this broad land. . " 'Eating? Colonel,' said I, to draw the Colonel out. 'Now, what do you have for breakfast?' " 'Breakfast, sah,' exclaimed the Colonel. 'Why I last had a steak and a bottle of whiskey and a dog, sah.' " A dog?" said I, 'seems to me that a dog Is rather a queer dish for breakfast' " 'You misunderstand me, sah,' replied the Colonel with hauteur. 'I procured the dog to eat the steak, sah.' ' 800 PIayern In One Band. New York Sun. The most remarkable band that ever played in Buffalo marched down Main street Tuesday afternoon. It was a con solidation of all the bands that came to the state conclave of the Knights Tem plar, and It was 800 strong. Nine drum majors marched at its head and none of them was less than six feet tall without his shako. The giant band played "On ward, Christian Soldiers" In perfect time and the 50,000 people who lined Main street wanted to applaud, but did not because they could not have been heard. The Old Sonprs. London Dally Chronicle. I cannot sing the old songs. The songs of hopo and Joy, Which lightly glided from my tongue When I was but a boy; Then Britain led the universe. And all her deeds were great; Now they are not and Linton's yacht Was seven minutes late. Oh, who could sing the ancient songs In dreary times like these. When Frenchmen beat us oft the turf, And Germans rule the seas. When Yankeeshots at Bisley Take oft thT Palma plate. And Shamrocks race gives her a place Just seven minutes late! The harp that once o'er all my songs The soul of music shed Now hangs as mute upon the wall As though that soul, were dead. I sing no more or If my heart To music I can bring,' The minor key has charms for me I'm saddest when I sing! The anchor is no longer weighed, Britannia rules no waves, Tom Bowling and his like are laid Unhonored In their graves; The sea upon its cold gray stones Breaks with a sound I hate Because tho yacht that LIpton owns seven minutes late! K0TE AND COMMENT. "I am a free-trader," says Mr. Balfour, "but I believe in protection." . Most Investigations have a disagreeable quality of leading somewhere. Bunn would be a toothsome successor to Mellen of the Northern Pacific Having furnished a gag for the Chap erons, General Beebe "Is at last famous. Miss Roosevelt fs more In the swim than ever. She recently made a descent in a submarine. Premier Balfour's "open mind" is like an open-work shirtwaist less in it than ap pearances indicate. The bias of some courts Is shown by the conviction of two trap owners on the mere fact that there were fish in - their traps. It is a terrible thing how easily a mother-in-law can alienate her daughter's affections from a man with vices no greater than drinking and gambling. "I'm strongly In favor of a ship sub sidy," said Ham. "What i want is a subsidence," remarked Japheth, who was the wag of the family. Riding: tlie Celestial Gont. The Indiana boy who died as the result of a high school society's strenuous Ini tiation will have a cinch on his tormen tors when their turn comes to follow him. Dear Lady Disdain. Molly Is fair, and fair to me. x Dolly is fair and disdainful: Molly's as kind as she's fair to see, Dolly delights to be painful. Lucky old world with two such girl. Fairer the sun never shone on; Molly. I know, Is a pearl of pearls Yet Dolly's the one that I'm gone on. The Jewel Consistency. The Atchison Globe, which has a kick coming acainst LIpton, gets after him In this manner: It cost the maker of LIpton's tea $3,000,000 to make his last failure at lifting the cup. This is paying more a line for advertising than even the Ladles' Home Journal would charge. Sir Thomas LIpton says Americans are so polite that it was almost a pleasure to lose. He has said this every year. Sir Thomas Is a teaseller, and his interest in the cup is merely a smart move to secure cheap adver tising. The Bulgar'H Lot. It's not a comfortable lot The prisoners of the Turk have got; Their cells are but a few feet high. Which makes the very infants lie. At night when they may wish to sleep The Turks pour water two foot deep; This is not nice, though as a rule It keeps the hottest of them cool. And sometimes in the dungeon there The guards block all the holes for air. Which makes the inmates nearly daft. Although it keeps them from a draft. The captives pout In such a pet When food enough they cannot get. Although a splendid mode of cheating The Ills that come from over-eating. And when they're feeling dull the guard Will prick them with their bay'nets hard; And still tlie people in the Joint Will not appreciate the point. Oregon Not So Few. Indianapolis is now hinting that it is as great a literary center as Boston. And Butte, Mont., doesn't think either Boston or Indianapolis amounts to much since Mary MacLane's appearance. Washington Star. Why should Portland be left out? Every day a new songbird finds Its voice by the banks of the Willamette, which has caused as much shedding of ink as any rlver on the continent. Its peculiar charms never fall to win love at first sight, as shown by the following stanza, the first of a poem contributed by Harry J. Praeger: When I first caught a glimpse of thy glorious surroundings, Pine-covered mountains and canyons bo grand. Little wonder I felt, I. could rest here for ever, ) And dream I'd discovered the lost fairy land. Literary Notes. Owing to the great Interest manifested in the "MS. In a Red Box," so Ingeniously advertised by John Lane, It Is announced that Modd, Dead & Company will soon publish an adventure story to be known as the "MS. In a Brown Paper Parcel." It is explained that the story was picked up by the wife of one of the publishers in mistake for a parcel of rolled oats she had bought In a grocery store. The firm has advertised for the author, but he or she, apparently, has been ashamed to, claim the book, a feeling that will be quite Intelligible to those reading it. Moughton, Hiffiin & Company are about to publish the "MS. Wrapped Around a Pork Chop." The story was bought by Mr. Hlfllln because, as he explains. It had something good In It. "The MS. found In an Ash Barrel" (Mobbs-Berrlll Company) is said to be a sure success. It was discovered by Mr. Mobbs' son as he was hunting for a to mato can to hold bait. As the ash barrel belonged to the Booth Tarklngton Dough nut Factory, It Is evident the story must be a good one. The next book promised from Rentano's Is the "MS. Found on the Pantry Shelf." This, priceless story was being used by Mrs. Rentano to keep jam stains off the shelf, when it was discovered by Tommy Rentano, who had gone to swipe sugar. He became so absorbed In the story that he read four shelves of It, throwing pots of jam to the floor as they obstructed hl3 view. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS Young Atterfeet Millie, I don't see how I can live without you! Heiress (who knew him) Probably have to go to work, will you? Chicago Tribune. Composer Yes, my opera will be sung when the works of Handel, Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner are forgotten. She Yes, but not until then. Indianapolis Journal. "See here, sir," cried her father, angrily, "how Is It I catch you kissing my daughter?" "I guess." replied the youth, "it was because we didn't hear you coming." Philadelphia Lodger. Photographer Don't assume such a fierce expression. Look pleasant. Murphy Not on your life. My wife Is going to send one of these pictures to her mother, and if I look pleasant she'll come down on a visit. Phila delphia Record. "What would you dovlf you were to find an honest man?" "Don't mention any such ter rible possibility." returned Diogenes. "You'd spoil one of the best Jokes that ever enabled me to bunco my neighbors as the village wag." Washington Star. Mother-DIdn't I tell you not to allow any young man to kiss you? There are dangerous microbes in a kis3. Daughter Yes, but Jack's kiss was filtered. Mother (In surprise) Fil tered? Daughter Yes, he kissed me through a veil. Philadelphia Record. Mrs. Enpcck Did you hear about that man In Ohio who got into trouble by marrying six women? Enpeck No; but I'm personally ac quainted with a man a good deal nearer homo who acquired a Joblot of trouble by marrying only one woman. Chicago News. Johnnie Mother, say, that Is all nonsense with the life Insurance, Isn't it? Mother My, what an idea, Johnnie. What makes you think so? Johnnie Well, didn't Mr. Brown tell 5rou the other day that he had his life insured, 'and now he Is dead all the same. Brooklyn Ufa. J