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SHE ARGUMENT FOR THE
"STRAIGHT
TICKET."
Party can be maintained only through
fidelity of its members to each other,
and through their joint or combined
fidelity to the principles of party ac
tion. It is only through party action that
anything can be accomplished in polit
ical affairs. The members of a party
owe fidelity to each other and to the
common cause they are engaged In.
Only so can they accomplish anything
In their common cause.
"What is party? Take this definition:
"Party is a body of men united for pro
moting by their joint endeavors the Na
tional Interest upon some particular
principle In which they are all agreed.
Therefore every honorable connection
will avow it is their first purpose to
pursue every just method to put the
men who hold their opinions Into such
a. condition as may enable them to
carry their common plans Into execu
tion, with all the power and authority
of the state. As this power Is attached
to certain situations, it is their duty to
contend for these situations. "Without
proscription of others, they are bound
to give their own party preference in
all things; and by no means, for pri
vate considerations, to accept any offers
of power in which the whole body is not
included; nor to suffer themselves to
be led, or to be controlled, or to be
overbalanced, in office or in council,
by those who contradict the very fun
damental principles on which their
party is formed, and even those upon
which every just connection must
stand."
Here, then, Is a definition of party,
and of party obligations. It Is not put
forward as The Ore,gonIans own. To
the universal reader It Is familiar. He
knows where to find It. No other ap
peal so powerful ever was made, to
stand by your party and to vote Its
"straight ticket." as this by Edmund
Burke. It Is instinct with the genius
of reason, of argument, of eloquence
and of common sense.
You can sustain your party and Its
principles only by supporting those
who, for the time, may be named to
uphold the one and the other. For it
you believe in your own politics, or
think them of any weight, you cannot,
in reason, refuse to adopt the means
of having them reduced Into practice.
You cannot act a desultory and discon
nected part. In short, If you wish your
party to succeed, jou should and you
will support its candidates.
On this great text, quoted from the
works of the greatest of political phil
osophers and thinkers, and the great
est .of the authors of maxims of
political action. The Oregonian makes
appeal to the Republicans of
Oregon to stand for the candi
dates of their party, throughout. For
the principles for which you stand noth
ing is to be gained by voting for oppo
nents, een for minor offices. On the
contrary, much may be lost; for you
discourage thereby some of the best of
your ov n party associates and give the
opponents of your party an advantage
by putting a certain degree of power in
their hands.
Affected derision of the argument
that support of 5 our party's candidates
for Sheriff and District Attorney is
necessary for support of President
Roosevelt does not In the least alter the
fact that the argument is sound and
true. In order to enforce your princi
ples you are bound to give your own
parts' preference in all things. Of (
course it is assumed that' your candi
dates are worthy men. Then personal
objection or private pique can, justly,
have no weight at all.
Then do not allow the flippant argu
ment, or assertion, that It is not good
sense to vote the straight ticket. There
is greatest good sense In it; no good
sense In any other line of action if you
believe in your own politics. If you
wish your principles carried into prac
tice there is but one way stand by
your party.
The reason why there Is so much
Jying accusation against Blnger Her
mann Is that certain persons have con
ceived the notion that It is possible to
boat him by lying accusation. They
"base this notion on the fact that his
majority last year on the small vote
cost In the special election was not up
to Republican high-water mark In the
district. But the conclusion is false.
There will be a very full vote this year,
and Hermann's majority will go high.
There would be an equal, amount of
Jylng accusation against Representa-
live "Williamson, by the same parties,
were it thought possible to heat him.
However, It will be found that the one
will be elected by about as bis a ma
jority as the other.
UNDULATIONS OF MUNICIPAL REFORM.
The demand of citizens of St. Paul for
the abandonment of separate municipal
elections for consolidated, elections Is
not the only exhibit In the perplexity
and variation with which all municipal
reforms proceed. It is only a little
while since every municipal theorist
recognized one-man power In a Mayor
as the very first principle of reform.
And yet the other day a professional
municipal mformer. In Portland on an
official tour of the cities of the West,
assured us that the true path of reform
lies through government by the Council.
Goodness and purity, which were wont
toMwell in a "Whole Thing Mayor, now
abide In a "Whole Thing CpunclL How
It will be next year we forbear to
prophesy.
The City of New York haB been pur
suing Its painful and strenuous way un
der a city charter devisd by one of
those sacred and divinely inspired in
stitutions a charter commission. Con
cerning these lieglslatlve" commissions
we have the word of Mr.. Thomas C.
Devlin, now Auditor of Portland
That every city where legislative appointed
commissions have had charge of municipal
work, or managed municipal enterprises, has
had the earns story of extravagance and in
efficiency. As. stated by the Hon. Seth Low,
"A state commission for any purpose other
than Inquiry is one of the most dangerous of
bodlw, for the reason that it exercises au
thority unchecked by any effective respons
ibility." (Municipal Reform In the United
States, G. P. Putnam's Sons. Chap. rv. pp.
75-76)
The City of New York, as we have
eald, has been working under a char
ter made by a charte commission, al
though If memory-serves the New York
commission was elected by the people
and had that point in its favor; but in
either case the charter is so good that it
Is revised at every recurring opportu
nity. As to the City Council, for ex
ample, the commission proceeded on the
theory that the bestowal of large pow
ers and responsibilities would either
elevate the character of tHe prevailing
type of Aldermen or entice a higher
type of men Into the board, and it ac
cordingly created a double-chambered
Legislature, with important functions
to disoharg- in connection with city
government, with the result, as we
learn from the New York Globe, that
both branches of this new legislative
body were tuffed with the same old
brand of local statesmen. The results
were so disastrous In every way that
when the chatter came to be revised,
after three years of trial, one chamber
was abolished, and the activities of
local legislative talent were confined,
under some restrictions, to a single
body, the old Board xf Aldermen.
There Is one more illustration worth
notice. In the Issue pf Good Govern
ment (organ of the National Civil Ser
vice Reform League) that came yester
day we find an article by the noted re
former, Colonel Silas "W". Burt, who Is
examining, in the hope of its ameliora
tion, a defect he sees in the civil service
reform principle as applied to adminis
trative rather than subordinate posi
tions. Civil service systems, as we
have come loosely to describe them, do
not give us administrators. The rank
and file of subordinates are not am
bitious to start with, and. In entering
minor places they "disassociate them
selves from all private business mat
ters, and, content to follow the dry trau
dltlons of the, service, as they ascend
more or less slowly, lose or impair their
faculty of Initiative, If they ever had it,
as well as their intelhjent and active in
terest in official concerns not immedi
ately In contact with their dally work."
In order to get the good material, there
fore, we must go outside into, business
life for "those who, conscious of their
ability, disdain the commonplace duties
of those grades and the slow progress
of promotion," and whose experience In
the world has endowed them with 'tact,
discretion, courtesy, a knowledge of
men In the mass, the value of all being
enhanced by what Is termed personal
address."
The object we have In reciting these
somewhat tedious and dispiriting exhib
its in reform work Is to show that civic
Improvement does not He In written
laws nor In patent devices of reform.
Civil service reform, for example,, re
strains the corrupt head of a depart
ment from putting out efficients; but
equally restrains the honest and vigor
ous head of a department from putting
out lnefilcients. If you have a good
Mayor and a bad Council, you are for
all power In the Maybr; vice versa, you
are sure that the Council should be the
main thing. The reformer is apt to de
generate into a vacillating and queru
lous creature who stamps with approval
all who favor his amendment to the
charter, but TegardB all who distrust his
and favor their own as public enemies.
It Is well for him to rofiect at times on
the checkered career which reform has
to follow and treat the Infamy of today
with caution, reflecting that In the
whirligig of municipal philosophy It
may be the reform of tomorrow.
TinXGS ANACHRONISTIC.
A man like Dr. Edgar P. Hill is a
survival and an anachronism. He
ought to have lived centuries ago. And
yet he ought not to have lived cen
turies ago; for had he lived then he
would have been a conspicuous figure
or perhaps only a humble Instrument
In making earth the hell from which it
was rescued only through the blood of
martyrs and through the heroes of rev
olutions. Dr. Hill wants the state to control the
conduct of the Individual, In accord
with his own peculiar theological and
theocratlcal ideas. Only such as our
prophetic brother are fit to tell the peo
ple what the rules of their conduct
should be; what beliefs they should
entertain, or what practice they should
follow, as to amusements, meat and
drink, and "Sabbath observance"; and
he would have the state, under direc
tion of holy men like himself, of whom,
however, he would be chief, join with
the church and use the power of the
church to enforce these precepts and
the prescribed practices. And, In the
last resort, following the Idea of an
cient Israel, which, under direction of
the prophets, insisted that the worship,
to be kept pure, should be concentrated
at Jerusalem, and that the "groves"
and the "high places" should be elimi
nated, all worship should be centered
at the corner of Twelfth and Alder, un
der direction of Dr. Hill as high priest
and prophet. Then, indeed, you will get
the pure religion! Then, Indeed, you
will get the precepts of right conduct!
Effort was made In Europe, both in
the British Islands and on the Conti
nent, to enforce Ideas like these, or
kindred to them. Followed the civil
and religious wars. In. all the counries
of Europe. In France and Spain it
went too far in one direction; in Eng- J
land too far In another. But in all was
the Idea that the priest should rule the
people, through church as well as state,
and that the ecclesiastical creed, as de
livered by the priest in the name of the
church, was infallible, as a rule alike
of indiyldual, social, political and religious-
life.
A relic of this system in Portland Is
Dr. Edgar P. HUL Since those terrors
have passed, people laugh at him.
MISPLACED FRIENDSHIP.
A number of the "Washington papers
have been expressing undue satisfac
tion over the occasional reverses which
Mr. Harriman has suffered in his big.
fight for control of the Northern Pa
cific. It has always seemed to The Ore
gonian that after the Northern Securi
ties was declared an illegal organization
the men who supplied the stock from
which the merger was formed were en
titled to a return of that stock. The
contrary belief is expressed by Mr. Hill
and his friends, but even this difference
of opinion should not account for all of
the hostility which the Evergreen State
seems to show for Mr. Harriman. This
feeling Is all the more remarkable when
It is remembered that it was Mr. Hill,
and not Mr. Harriman, who made the
40-cent rate on flour from Minneapolis
to the Orient, thus attempting to cut
the Puget Sound millers out of a trade
which was theirs not only by right of
exploitation, but by the advantage of
geographical location.
In giving the Minnesota and Dakota
millers and incidentally the farmers of
those states this cheap access to the
Oriental markets, Mr. Hill was in effect
paying them a bonus to run opposition
to "Washington farmers and millers,
who were forced to pay aa much for a
short haul across the state to tidewater
as the Eastern men paid for a haul 1500
miles longer. By no possible construc
tion of the 40-cent rate can the millers
and farmers of "Washington-find any
thing in it that warrants them in ex
pressing friendliness for Mr. Hill, and
Mr. Harrlman's action In fighting
against the establishment of such a ru
inous rate certainly entitled him to
more kindly consideration than he has
received from our neighbors on the
north.
This unfriendliness toward Mr. Har
riman might be more easily accounted
for if the Puget Sound papers had ever
admitted for a moment that the ports
served by the Harriman lines were In
any sense rivals of the "Washington
ports. This they have never acknowl
edged, but, on the contrary, have al
ways insisted that Mr. Harriman would
never beJn a proper position to do busi
ness to advantage until he had a termi
nal point on Puget Sound. As a matter
of fact, the control of the Northern Pa
clfio by Mr. Harriman would probably
result in a large portion of the Eastern
"Washington wheat which Is now lifted
over the Cascade Mountains following
the water-level route to the sea. Mr.
Harrlman's rise In the railroad world
has been meteoric, and his wonderful
success has' been directly due to his
marvelous ability in reducing grades,
straightening curves and otherwise
lessening the cost of moving freight.
With that end in view he has spent
large sums of money in Oregon and
"Washington, and the traffic originating
in these states will some day pay ln
creased dividends to Its producers by
xeason of these facilities for economical
J transportation.
Harriman ownership of the Northern
Pacific would not necessarily mean hos
tility to the Puget Sound cities, but It
would mean that all traffic produced In
the Northern Paciflc territory in the
State of Washington and bound for foreign-markets
would follow the easiest
and most natural route to the high seas.
The closing of the Wallula gateway a
few years ago deprived a portion of the
traffic of Eastern Washington of such a
route to market, but with Harriman in
control of the lines on both sides of
that gateway it would soon swing open
and in the end the rate made over this
route would be the rate that Mr. Hill
would be obliged to meet In order to
protect his Big Bend Wheat business
from going over to the enemy.
THE PARTY OF LEGATION.
There Is something extraordinary In
the fact that the political party that
Jefferson created should have an or
ganic life today. The so-called Demo
cratic party has been on the brink of
destruction more than once since the
retirement of Andrew Jackson from the
Presidency in 1837i It was beaten,
horse, foot and dragoons, in the cam
paign of 1S40 and beaten by the Whig
party under the leadership of a vain,
silly old man, General Harrison. The
death of Harrison, the apostasy of Ty
ler, the political treachery of Polk In
1844, seemed to have saved the Democ-t
racy from a succession of defeats. In
1818 the Democracy ought to have won,
for Polk's administration had forced
the Mexican War to a brilliantly suc
cessful conclusion, and as a rule In poli
tics the party that is in power In war
time Is perpetuated In peace If It Is not
beaten In war. The War of 1812-14 per
petuated Democratic rule and wrecked
the Federalists.
The war of 1861-64 forced the renoml
natlon and re-election of Lincoln and
kept the Republican party In power for
twenty years. The defeat of the De
mocracy In 1S48 was due to the factional
quarrel between Cass and Van Buren,
which dated back to Van Buren's de
feat for the Democratic nomination In
1844. The defeat of the Democracy In
1848 turned not upon a question of prin
ciple, but of men, and for this reason
the Democracy were easily able In 1853
to sweep the country, because the great
pro-slavery struggle of 1850 had made
it a question of principles, not of men.
The Democracy of the North and South
were a pro-slavery unit and the Whig
party was suspected of anti-slavery af
filiations; it was believed to sympa
thize more with Seward than it did with
Webster.
Under ordinary circumstances the
Democratic party would scarcely have
survived Its record during the Civil
War, but questions of reconstruction
and questions of finance divided the
Republicans among themselves, so that
by 1S76 the Republican party had fully
exhausted Its welcome. It was saved
for the time by the bayonet government
of the South, but It obtained the defeat
in 1884 that was logically its due In 1876.
The Democratic party lives today sim
ply because two great political parties
are a necessity of our National life. It
meets a want of our political system
It could not be desroyed, even If Its
leaders sought to destroy It. The South
is solid because off the race question,
but even if there were no race ques
tion the South would be Democratic be
cause of old-time political sympathies
and experience. The Bryans and the
Hearsts stay with the Democratic party
because there is more ignorance, more
crude thought, In the Democracy than
in the Republican party, and the Ie-1
mocracy has always ieen a. kind of a
"sailors snug harbtr" for cranks and
doctrinaires and demagogues -of all
sorts.
The Democracy- of today has been
happily described as "-a whirlpool of
radicalism with a solid rock of conserv
atism in the middle." The Eastern De
mocracy represents a conservative
"money power"; the South, too, has a
large element of conservatism based on
the aristocracy of race caste. With the
South's rapid growth in wealth this
conservative element Is likely to grow
stronger. Will Democracy soon return
to power? That will' depend upon the
character of the element that is domi
nant In the Democratic ranks. In 1876,
In 1884 and In 1892 the people were
clearly not afraid of the Democracy
under the conservative leadership of
Tllden and Cleveland, but the people
promptly repudiated the Democracy in
1896 and 1900. The Democratic party Is
tenacious of life, even under severe de
feat, and this Is because two great par
ties are a necessity of our political sys
tem. Defeat will never destroy a great
party, although It' may discipline and
reform It.
The boundary line Is the frequent
cause of bitterness, rancor and hatred
among settlers on the border. It has
often led to murder, being in fact one
of the most frequent causes of homicide
and the sad and distressing conse
quences that follow thjs crime. The en
counter In Lane County a few days ago,
m which an aged man lost his life and
because of which the life of his slayer
is now in jeopardy, shows that this
fruitful cause of- feud between neigh
bors Is not confined to the newer settle
ments, In which a careful survey of
lands has not been made. The scene of
this latest boundary-line murder Is in
one of the oldest agricultural sections
of the state. ' An accurate survey of the
land should long ago have settled the
question In dispute. It is idle to exnect
two interested ranchers to come to an
amicable agreement about a strip of
land which, they both claim. The ag
gravating things that each does to the
other m the attempt to "get even" are
almost certain steps that lead to the
gravest of all crimes. The County Sur
veyor should be called upon to settle
differences of opinion in regard to
boundary lines of a blind or Inaccurate
survey, making such decision in the
matter as the equities in the case de
mand. If this is not strictly In the line
of his duty, It would be well in the in
terest of justice, neighborly harmony
and the peace and dignity of the com
m0nwealthJo make it so. Such an oc
currence as that near Cresswell a few
days ago is a disgrace to a civilized
community, and is as unnecessary as
disgraceful. Trouble of this kind Is not
brewed In a night. It is usually a sub
ject of comment In the neighborhood
for months before the acute stage is
reached and murder is done. It Is
clearly the duty of the proper authority
on boundary lines to take cognizance of
and settle the dispute which could only
have arisen through a blunder in sur
veying. "Aloes, cHret, myrrh and Incense" are
the fascinating subjects discussed In a
report from Consul Masterson at Aden.
It seems strange that such things
should be regarded as mere articles' of
commerce, but so It id. Mr. Masterson
says that Aden Is the export market of
these four substances, and that no other
port can ever oust It Of aloes Aden
last year exported 31,696 pounds, nearly
all of It going to London. Civet, which
Is one of the essential ingredients of
nearly" every high-grade perfume made,
is taken from the pouch of the civet
cat, an animal found In Abyssinia. The
annual production of civet ranges from
250 to 200 pounds, and about half of this
amount Is shipped to New York. The
price at Aden is from $1.60 to $3.24 an
ounce, according to purity. Myrrh Is
principally used as an ingredient in in
cense, and the amount annually ex
ported from Aden Is about 1,344,000
pounds. A strange use of myrrh is
made by the Abyssinian hunters, who
smear their bodies with it before hunt
ing elephants, in. the belief that their
quarry will not attack them on account
of the smell. Incense, Mr. Masterson
explains, is a prepared article, and the
word frankincense applies to a particu
lar gum that is the principal component
of Incense. Commercially, however, In
cense is used to designate a "tear-
shaped gum that exudes from a tree
that is found in considerable quantities
in British Somaliland." The crop of in
cense varies from 2,240,000 to 3,360,000
pounds, and the price Is from 4 to 12
cents a pound. About half the Incense
exported from Aden goes to Bombay,
the remainder being taken principally
to Marseilles and Trieste.
Opponents of the Republican party
are making every possible effort to pull
down the Republican vote and Repub
lican majorities, not only on the gen
eral ticket, but for the local candidates.
If they could meet with some degree
of success they would quickly point to
the result as a blow delivered to Presi
dent Roosevelt They now say to Re
publicans, "It don't make any differ
ence how you vote now, so vote for our
men; you can vote for Roosevelt In No
vember." But If this game should have
any success, they would exclaim, next
day, "See how weak Roosevelt Is I We
told you so!"
There Is a combination in Portland,
on the one hand composed of selfish and
vicious politicians, on the other of hys
terical religionists, which Is and long
time has been, defaming Portland. One
of these days these slanderers, who
draw their support from the business
and industry of the city which they de
fame, and warn people away from, may
get the hint, and a broad one, that their
occupation, so pleasing to themselves,
Is not pleasing to- the responsible citi
zenship of Portland.
It may just as well be understood
now, and better now than later, that
the defamers of Portland, those who
long time have been denouncing Port
land as a place of Infamy, a place to be
shunned and avoided, a veritable
Sodom, have got to "shut up." Port
land is a great deal better than they
are, and they would better learn it soon.
Only to a certain point will the people
of Portland tolerate her defamers; and
that point is nearly reached.
It would seem Indeed that the man
who offers himself for Sheriff of Mult
nomah County ought to be Identified In
some permanent way with the business
aVid affairs of the county; that he
ought to be a property-owner and tax
payer, if only on a small scale; that he
should be something other or more than
a temporary squatter, working here for
interests centered elsewhere, and liable
J at any time to leave or be called away.
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A "STAMPEDE" BY BRYAN.
New York Times.
There are interesting rumors about Mr.
Bryan. Some of his friends say that he
has already made his plans for St. Louis.
He will try to stampede the convention.
1 There will be apparently no delegates In
structed for Bryan, and those instructed
for Mr. Hearst will not be sufficiently
numerous even for obstruction. But fix
Ins his eye upon the Hearst delegates and
the large number of unlnstructed dele
gates, and modulating the tones of his
voice to their emotional range and key,
Mr. Bryan will attempt to sweep the con
vention off Its feet toy the sheer power
and charm of his oratory. The name of
the candidate in whose behalf this feat is
to be accomplished has- not transpired, but
we presume that If Mr. Bryan should get
the convention well In hand the best Mr.
Hearst could hope for would be an offer
of the second place.
If Mr. Bryan Is really planning an ora
torical stampede It Is unfortunate for him
that his friends have been so Indiscreet
as td make this premature disclosure, for
now he sets his snare In the sight of his
bird. Foreknowledge of the hypnotist's
design is usually or often a protection
against him. Moreover, while Mr. Bryan
may have the reputation of a stampeder,
those who know the history of their coun
try are aware that no achievement In that
line has ever been put to his -credit. The
careless and the unobservant have been
accustomed to say or to believe that he
stampeded the Chicago Convention of 1SS6,
and brought about his own nomination by
his cross of gold and crown of thorns
speech. There, never was the slightest
foundation for that v yarn. The bedevtl
ment cf the Democratic Convention of
1S96 and the nomination of Mr. Bryan
were prearranged by the Republican silver
men who had been paying Mr. Bryan for
his lectures. His speech In the conven
tion was an old one, and while It pleased
his audience and evoked their tumultu
ous applause, It was not a factor In bring
ing about his nomination.
There Is no appreciable danger that the
St. Louis Convention this year will be
s'tampeded by Mr. W. J. Bryan. The par
ty has turned away from him. It Is sick
to death of him. A very great majority
of the delegates to St. Louis will go there
with an Immovable prejudice against him
as on enemy. They look upon him as one
to whose counsels the Democratic party
can no longer listen. He will have about
as good a chance of stampeding the con
vention to Populism as Governor Cum
mins would have of stampeding the Re
publican Convention to tariff reform. Still,
since Mr. Bryan will destroy himself if he
bolts, the stampede plan may be his only
hope. If so, It Is a delusive one.
The judgment of history upon Mr. Bryan
has been recorded and the appropriate dis
position to be made of him pointed out in
tuneful verse by Mr. Norrls Bull, from
whose poetical observations upon the pres
ent situation of the Democracy, as they
appear in the last issue of Harper's Week
ly, wo quote the following stanza:
Bryan's usefulness is over, his friends are
forced to say.
And the issue that he represnts Is dead;
Underneath the golden daisies
Let us bury him, and raise bis ,
Cross of Gold in retribution at his head.
The State and the Fair.
Albany Herald.
If the State of Oregon wanted the
Lewis and Clark Fair at all. It was up
to the state to make a decent appropria
tion. The $500,000 state appropriation la
but a small part of the total amount to
be distributed, almost entirely In Oregon.
With the appropriations of the Federal
Government and the other states, the
amount to be distributed directly by the
Fair In Oregon Is so much that the tax
will be returned many times over in Im
mediate benefit and profit to Oregonlans.
This without taking Into account the
largo sums that must be paid out by
visitors, and wnlch will at once go into
circulation In Oregon. The undeveloped
resources of the state, calling as they
do for more settlers and more capital,
will receive prompt and permanent atten
tion because of the Lewis and Clark Fair.
The whole state wanted It The Gov
ernor and Legislature favored the half
million appropriation. The really con
servative element In the State of Oregon
Is behind the Fair. It promises to be a
success. If It Is, none will be louder In
claiming title for the ensuing praise than
some who for political effect at present
shout "extravagance" In this connection.
Investment Is not always extravagance.
What produces a fair return for invest
ment Is In no way allied to extravagance.
The display of more sincerity and less
humbug In the arguments of the antl
falr people will be just as well. It is
rather late In the day to stop the enter
prise. Lincoln Honored in the South.
Leslie's Weekly.
A little sidelight on the decline of sec
tionalism In the South and the growth of a
mote tolerant and fraternal spirit in all
matters affecting our National life wa3
afforded the other day In the action of the
Mississippi Legislature In voting down by
a decisive majority a proposition to
change the name, of a county from Lin
coln to Jeff Davis. Among those who.vot
ed against the change were a number of
Confederate veterans. That these Legis
lators were not averse -at the same time
to do honor In some other way to the
leader of the Confederacy was shown by
their action at tho same session In mak
ing the birthday of Jefferson Davis a pub
lic holiday In that state.
The Cad and His Camera.
Boston Transcript
May a cad photograph a President's
daughter without her permission? Miss
Alice Roosevelt has been so annoyed late
ly by the attentions of the snapshot ar
tists that she refused to alight In Phila
delphia the other day until assured that
no camera fiends were lurking in readi
ness to capture her likeness for the Sun
day newspapers. The worst of this photo
annoyance Is that It seemingly Is one
which cannot be touched by legislation;
the only remedy In sight Is for prominent
people who are subjected to It to provide
themselves with stout walking sticks and
smash the cameras of offensive photog
raphers. Opportunities Still Plentiful.
Savannah (Ga.) News.
Young men nowadays are Inclined to the
opinion that the opportunities for making
fortunes are not as great as they were a
half or even a quarter of a century ago.
As a matter of fact there Is plenty of evi
dence that the avenues to fortunes are
as unobstructed now as they ever Were.
Indeed, the demand for men who are ca
pable and reliable Is now greater than
ever before, and where there Is such a
demand there are opportunities for mak
ing fortunes.
Uncle Sam in Action.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
A New York man who stole a letter" on
Saturday was arrested, tried and sent to
prison within 24 hours after he committed
the offense. If he had stolen a railroad
the process would have taken at least as
many years, and most probably he would
never have been tried at all
Cupid and Campaspe.
John Lyly.
Cupid and my Campaspe playd
At cards for kisses; Cupid paid:
He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows.
His mother's doves, and team of sparrows;
Loses them too; then down he throws
The coral of his Up, the rose
Growing on's cheek (but none knows how);
With these, the crystal of his brow.
And then the dimple on his chin;
All these did my Campaspe win:
And last he set her both his eyes
She won. and Cupid blind did rise.
O Lore! has she. dona this to ihee7
What shall, alas! become of me?
ALTRUISM AND JTBE BIRTH RATE.
Baltimore Sun.
The race-suicide scare has extended to
England, and the Bishop of London, who
Is a. bachelor, has taken up the cry. The
English birth rate has declined 17 per
cent in the last 20 years. "The weekly
birth rate cf London," says a doctor of
that city, "has declined by nearly 400
births as compared with the average of
the past ten years. This meAns that Lon
don is losing a natural Increase of 20,
000 children a year, which wllj mean prob
ably 250,000 during the next ten years. I
expect that the decline will be even more
marked, for I find that the Idea that
children are a luxury to be avoided is
rapidly spreading among the working
people. Twenty years ago the danger
arose among the aristocracy; ten years
ago It began to spread among the middle
classes; now the worklngman is .saying
the same thing: TVe are not going to bo
bothered with children. We've got enough
to do to keeD ourselves." "
The British patriot Is much distressed
at this species of strike, but some con
solation is found in the diminished death
rate. Sanitation has become a sort of
atato religion, with the result mat most
varieties of disease show decreases. New
scientific remedies, improved skill in
surgery and better hospitals save hun
dreds of lives daily, so that when all Is
told population continues to increase.
though at diminished rate. If fewer
children are born, those which are born
are better cared for and a larger per
centage of them reach the adult stage.
Modern science prolongs the lives of the
unfit as well as the fit but upon the
whole there la Increased comfort and
dignity of life.
The subject has Its political aspect
"In a really well-ordered state," says
a jingo London doctor, "premiums
would be offered to the patriotic par
ent who brought up his children to
bo good citizens. Why should the par
ent bringing up a child to adult per
fection be treated in the same way as
the selfish bachelor who contributes
no effective units toward the continu
ance of the empire?" France led the
way In taking what may be called the
selfish Ylew of size of family, but it
is now general in the highly civilized
countries and prevails even In far-off
Australia. A. practical Australian, af
ter noting that the birth rate In New
South Wales has fallen off 30 per cent
in 20 years, adds: "Give us employ
ment, constant employment, and I for
one will marry, become a patriot and
attempt to remedy the falling birth
rate."
But this expedient would be useless
In countries In which, as in the United
States, the birth rate declines in the
presence of great industrial activity,.
Mr. Goldwin Smith, In a recent maga
zine article on-the topic of the rapidly
extending agnosticism of the present
day, ventured the opinion that the ces
sation of belief in the Immortality of
the soul would- paralyze many activi
ties, causing men to be unwilling to
did for any cause and thus bringing
War to an end. If they will not die for
a cause, neither will they live for It
The future of the race becomes a mat
ter of Indifference to those who expect
no future for themselves, but must try
to 'get all they can out of the only life
in which they believe. Duty to the
race is undoubtedly a less effective
sentiment now than formerly.
Power of the Cattle Barons.
Johnstown (Pa,) Democrat
The organization of the Western
cattle barons to fight the beef com
bine is an anomaly, as both are after
tho same game of plundering the pub
lic The barons have banded them
selves together Into what might be
termed the grass trust, and are trying
to get the farmers of the Western
states to help them fight the beef trust
The cattle barons are even worse rob
bers than the beef barons, in that they
monopolize all the valuable Govern,
ment land and thrpugh their retainers
prevent, by force Of arms. If necessary,
any owner -of. a small herd or a settler
from Intruding at the peril ofT his life.
To show the power of these cattle
baronsi they have succeeded In forcing
President Roosevelt to give up his ln
tentldn, of removing the barbed-wire
fences with which the barons have un
lawfully Inclosed about all the Gov
ernment land on the Western plains.
Politically both these combines are
Republican and liberal contributors to
the campaign - fund of that party,
which probably accounts for their im
munity from punishment by the Ad
ministration. See the Lord Mayor and the "Times."
Victor Smith In New York Press.
Everybody In England, so to speak. Is
Infected with the betting mania. Every
body goes to the races or bets in- town.
Everybody loses. Everybody complains.
Everybody tries It again to recoup.
Everybody In Australia bets. Everybody
In South America bets. Everybody In
France bets. Everybody In the Philip
pines bets. Everybody In Japan bets.
Everybody in China bets. Everybody in
tho world bets. Now, by this "every
body" I mean every person who can find
a chance to make a wager makes It
Farmers do not bet as a rule, because
there Is no Inducement, no opportunity.
What? Do not bet? Why, they will bet
their last dollar on a cow race at the
county fair. All races, all nationalities,
all creeds, all conditions bet Just so
long as men have varying opinions there
will be betting. And there Is absolutely
no harm in betting If you win. But be
sure you win. What the reformers are
trying to do Is to save the losers.
Voice of Lane County.
Eugene Register.
At the big Republican meeting in Port
land the campaign cry was, elect the' en
tire Republican county ticket and carry
the state by 20,000 for Roosevelt as an In
dorsement of his policy toward the West,
and as notice, to the country that Ore
gon Is solidly for his nomination and
election.
Roosevelt believes In and advocates
maintenance of party organization and
election of party nominees from top to
bottom. Lane County Republicans will
place the seal of indorsement upon that
sound principle of Republicanism this
year by electing every man on the ticket,
first because the principle la right and
second because the Republican ticket
from top to bottom 13 the best ticket In
tho field and the best named by the Re
publicans In years.
' Another Jap Victory.
Washington Star.
The Czar Is said to be so much grieved
by the Russian reverses that he Is think
ing rtf nVinnrlnniritr "hi flesnotie authority
rand giving his country a constitution. The
Japanese would be justified In regarding
such a step as a fine tribute to their prow
ess as promoters of civilization-
That Time of Year.
William Shakespeare.
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do
hong
Upon those boughs which shake against the
cold.
Bora ruln'd choirs, where late the sweet
birds sang:
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the West
Which by and by black night doth take
away,
Death's second self, that seals up all In rest:
in me thou see'st the glowing of such Are,
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie
As the death-bed, whereon it must expire.
Consumed with that which it was nourlsh'd
by:
This thou percelVst, which makes thy
- love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere
Jong.
.' X0TS AKD COMMHtT.
, ftflttw
The man who would a&etiak vJ fetat
his mouth.
People that talk about ike lMfttMr.
The man that rocks the boat, aad
The girl that would go out with hbau
At last the season permits us to switch
from rhubarb to strawberries
A whale entered Tacoma harbor and. had
half the population blubbering'.
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A Turner girl eloped In a baseball suit
She Is evidently fast enough for a bigger
league than the matrimonial
While the tunnel Is being constructed
Seattle la settling down. When it's com
pleted the Great Northern will be settling
up.
Photographs of candidates for queenly
honors at the carnival Indicate that the
pomp of the pompadour has not yet
passed.
Referring to Queen Victoria, one of the
speakers at the Armory on Tuesday 6ven-
1 lng said It was right ''that we should
memory her-honor."
According to "G. B. S." Shakespeare
wrote in verse because he was In too much
of a hurry to use the more difficult me
dium of prose. And tfrere is a bunch ot
moderns of whom the quip might be truth
fully used.
The British Admiralty gazetted a dead
man as chaplain of the Mersey Naval Vol
unteers. Familiar with naval chapjatns,
the Admiralty possibly concluded that a
dead man would do as much good as a
live one and be less In the way.
The Creation Is reproduced on the Pike
at St Louis. Light appears at command,
the dry land Is seen when the waters roll
away as ordered; and finally Adam and
Eve appear on the scene. Thl3 shows the
public estimation of the higher criticism.
President Baer Is throwing more trouble
on the Lord, who, according to the
Reading magnate, Is responsible for car
shortages. If the accusation Is true, we
expect that when Mr. Baer Is about to
leave for heaven the Lord will bring
about a complete blockade of celestial
traffic. '
In tho past few days we have been read
ing dispatches from Billings, Mont, re
garding a thief who was said to have
swallowed a diamond, and was being sub
jected to examination by X-raya In the
hope of the Btone's exact position being
discovered. By the latest reports the pho
tographs hadall failed to show the dia
mond. A curious point In this connection
is made by a writer in the New York
Times. A similar story came from Texas
ten days ago. In that case the stone was
discovered, and an operation was to be
performed on the thief to uncover and
recover the stolen property. The Times'
authority pointed out a discrepancy in
the Texas version. A genuine diamond Is
transparent to X-rays, so that the object
discovered in the thief's "insldes" must
be of paste, and not worth the expense of
an operation. The failure of the Bluings
photographs to reVeal the stone has been
taken as an indication that the man did
not swallow it, whereas, it may merely be
an Indication that the diamond Is genuine.
Provpklngly short la the dispatch from
Weston telling of, a "spat" In the social
circles- of that small but cultured, commu
nity. So far as one may gather the facts
from the correspondent's brief message,
It appears that President French of the
Normal School, In the course of some dis
cussion, stated that none "but hobos
worked In a brickyard. It is evident on
the face of It that Mr. French spoke In
the heat of argument for a moment's
thought would have prevented him from
making so egregious a blunder as to talk
of hobos working, and especially In a
brickyard, where the labor Is labor and
no mistake. The laborers in the neighbor
ing brickyard, it appears, accepted the re
mark as Mr. French's mature opinion of
their social status and, to show their own
dissent therefrom, pelted him with eggs,
that are courteously described as being oi
"venerable age." And there the matter
rests, or at least simmers, for the people
of Weston are said to be split into two so
cial factions, the one pro-brickyard and
the other pro-professor. Rash would ba
the person daring to comment upon a
neighborhood quarrel, but there Is one
point upon which we cannot refrain from
dwelling. Whence, in a well-ordered com
munity, come the eggs of "venerable age"
that seem to be always available for the
reproof of the obnoxious? Venerable eggi
are not things to be found on the pantry
shelves of the people. The housewife does
not treasure them. They cannot be bought
In the stores not under that description,
anyway. Where do they come from, thenl
Is It possible that some dread mystery ol
cooking would be exposed by pressing the
question to a solution?
WEX. J.
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OUT OF THE GINGER JAft.
Nell Mr. Tawker is such a flatterer. Belle
Has he been flattering you? Nell Oh, yes; hi
told me today that I'm not at all likt son
tfther girls. Philadelphia Ledger.
"That man has studied political economy."
"Maybe so," eald Senator Sorghum, "but thi
injudicious way he spends his money at ar
election looks to me like political extrava
gance." "ft ashlngtcn Star.
Teacher Can any little boy tell me how II
Was that David prevailed against the glani
Goliath? Pupil My pa says brute etrengtt
never Is In It with the feller with a pocketful
of rocks. Boston Transcript.
Kwoter After all, "Truth Is stranger- thai
fiction," jou know. Newltt It may be stranger,
but it isn't as successful. Tou never heir oi
truth going into "Its twentieth edition in sla
months." Philadelphia Press. .
Kitty Oh, Auntie, I atn so happy! Horaci
sais there's nobody In all tha world like ma
Aunt Jane Nonsense? You're not so eccentric
as all that although there'a no denying yoi
are a bit odd. Boston Transcript
Husband Tou say this la venison? What In
duced you to buy it? Wife Well, the butchei
said it was cheap and Husband If he ha
told you It wasn't deer he would have bees
nearer the truth. Philadelphia Ledger.
Citlman Tou look particularly happy today
Subbubs I am. I've Just succeeded In getting
our leading lady to sign for another eeason.
Cltiman I didn't know you were In the the
atrical business. Subbubs I'm not I refei
to our cook.
"Things are terribly catching down at th
boathouse." "What do yon mean?" "Why,
first you catch onto the stroke, then you catd
cold, then you catch & crab, and then you
catch the deuce from the coach." Harvard
Lampoon.
"I suppose you had a perfectly issrelr tlm
at Wexford's house party?" "No; It waa a
fizzle. Mrs. Wexford has to little tact. Sh
was always arranging it so that, the men
would bae to pair off with their own. wives."
Chicago Becord-Herald.
"It's a lucky thing for-me I ain't in th
box," said the great baseball twlrler, an,: h
paraded up and down the bedroom floor with
his tooth-cutting son and heir. "Why," asked
his wife, sleepily. "Because," he answered,
"I don't seem to have aov control of tbi
J bawl." Chicago-Bally New
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