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PORTLAND, TUESDAY, APRIL 4. 1&0S.
ROOSEVELT TOR A THIRD TERM?
The Democratic party has many queer
mental crochets. First it's forBryan, then
it's for Parker, and now It's for Roose
velt, It wants him to be nominated and
unanimously re-elected four years
hence. The Democratic party, however,
does not propose to move to make it
unanimous, but It does intend that he
shall be the People's Choice, with a
large "P." The Democratic party has
a monopoly 'of people's choices, and a
very large and varied assortment to
choose from. The only thing marring
this very excellent programme is that
the people never choose its candidates.
But that is a minor detail.
We Judge that Roosevelt is the pres
ent Democratic programme from the
very significant performances of some
Democratic leaders and other Demo
cratic newspapers. Mr. Hearst has re
cently declared in his newspapers that
ttfie President will be and should be
nominated to succeed himself in 1908.
The New York World echoed this ad
mirable sentiment by saying:
President Jloosovrlt wiH be renominated tor
President of the United States In 190S, and
be will Tor. re-elfKsted. He will be re-elected
not merely because, he Is the Idel of the
People, or on account ot his virtues, or by rea
son of the mistakes that add to hla popu
larity, but because there will be so real op
position. The Democratic party is and will
be hopelessly divided against Itself.
All this is very edifying, in view of
the repeated assaults on the President
by the World during the last campaign.
Since then it has devoted a great deal
of space, energy and learing to its ex
posure of the mistakes of Roosevelt
However, the World surrenders four
years In advance, but expects to con
tinue the fight, all the same. Mr. Bryan
in his Jefferson day speecfi intimated-
that the Democratic party is "not so
much in need of reorganization as it is
of harmony. The truth of this state
ment Mr. Bryan demonstrated twice for
himself and once for Mr. Parker. Mr
Bryan not long ago called at the White
House and assured the President that
he was with him heart and soul in his
railroad rate fight and the beef trust
Inquiry, and in all the "Democratic
policies which Mr. Roosevelt avocated
and sought to enforce.
All this evinces a. studied and careful
plan to place Mr. Roosevelt in a posi
tion to be a candidate for re-election.
It Is remembered not more by Demo
crats than by the public at large that
on the day following the November
election President Roosevelt caused to
be published throughout the United
States the following announcement:
On the Fourth of March next I shall have
terved three and one-half years, and thia
three and one-half years constitutes my first
term. The wise custom which limit the
President to two terms regards the substance
and not the form, and under no circumstances
will I br a candidate for or accept another
nomination.
The Democrats are merely seeking to
put the President in a position of hav
ing said what he does not mean. If he
were to yield to any suggestion, or In
timation, that he accept a unanimous
renomlnation. these very Democrati
newspapers would be the first to inquire
what he meant by commiting himself
so definitely and positively against a
third term. As they have been his
fiercest critics in all his policies hereto
fore, so they would not hesitate to em
phasize any inconsistency, real or ap
parent, in his conduct. It is withal one
of the most singular situations in our
recent politics.
Germany's implied threat to refuse
recognition of French hegemony In Mo
rocco is apparently an indication of in
creasing German activity in the Africa
Continent. An expedition of Germans
is now in Abyssinia, and a syndicate of
merchants is being formed to establish
extensive business connections with
that country. A new corporation, the
German Bank for Bast Africa, has
opened offices in the principal ports of
Northeast and East Africa. Taken In
conjunction with the Kaiser's present
visit to the Levant, the significance of
these facts Is not being lost upon Paris
and London, as the latest dispatches in
dicate. The Triple Alliance, with Great
Britain as an energetic "rooter," and
the Dual Alliance are no longer ranged
individually against each other.
"Scratch me and I'll scratch you," ap
pears to be the mutual attitude of the
Czar and the Kaiser.
THE CHICAGO ELECTION.
If Judge E. T. Dunne, Democratic
candidate for Mayor, of Chicago, is
elected today, it will Indicate the de
termination of the people of that city
to embark on the largest experiment in
municipal ownership of lines of com
munication that the United States has
witnessed. One of the questions to be
put to the voters, independently of the
choice of the Mayor, reads, "Shall any
franchise be granted to street-railways?"
When the people say "No," the
Republican policy of limited extension
of existing franchises, on condition of
modernized service and equipment, and
with the right to buy out the owners
at the end of a short term of years at
actual valuation of tangible assets, will
be definitely and permanently refused.
Judge Dunne has baited his hook to
the poor and ignorant voter with the
promise of a two and a half-cent car
fare. This means, in few words, the
purchase of the property by the "haves"
for the special benefit of the "have
nots." To secure for a Democratic
Mayor the votes of the latter class the
city Is, with open eyes, to make a los
ing investment of $100,000,000. Rather a
high price.
The Democratic programme involves
purchase of the properties of the street
railway companies (dealing with every
line in the huge city, and including ac
quisition of current franchises), on the
basis of existing profits from the uni
versal five-cent fare. But if. as is prob
able. Judge Dunne is elected, and com
plies with his' campaign promises, the
earning powers of the lines will be cut
in half In future.
The equipment of many of the roads
absolutely demands almost entire re
newal now. How badly this Is required
every recent visitor reports. The city's
capital account will have therefore to
be heavily loaded up, also, on this ac
count. It is a spendthrift career on which
Chicago will so embark. The funds for
the purchase, development and equip
ment will require issues of stock prob
ably to the aggregate of $100,000,000.
And under the glamour of the start the
moriey will flow in. As the shrunken
revenues will have to provide working
expenses, dividends, betterments, and
inking funds, the strictest economy
and most experienced management will
hardly avoid bankruptcy. The history
of other cities which have taken this
same road shows also that the public
ppetite for municipal ownership grows
by feeding. British municipal enter
prises have secured investments of cap
ital which have risen by 140 per cent
in the last IS years. Up to 1902 the to
tal sum so Invested was 51.778.9151966.
At a similar rate of increase for the
ears 1904 and 1905 the astounding sum
of $2,042,400,000 is reached. But the no
ticeable point is that these municipal
investments are divided into two
classes, productive and nonproductive.
The productive absorbed 5841,899,350.
leaving 5937,016,616 of capital yielding
no returns on which the municipalities
have to provide interest, and. also to lay
up. oy sinKing funds, for the rainy
day when payment of the principal for
these costly undertakings comes round.
Publication of these figures has caused
such general astonishment that a prac
tical stop has ensued. The most ex
perienced writers predict that the high-
water mark has been passed, and thai
a recoil from further investments along
tnese lines is already apparent.
Chicago may have gone too fast and
far to stop now. If so. other cities in
the land will have the chance to profit
by a dearly-bought experience.
-MERITS OF THE LAND GRANT.
The Grand Trunk Pacific is experi
encing some difficulty in securing a land
grant for the western end of the pro
posed road. British Columbia has been
asked to give a grant of 7,000,000 acres.
and thecompany will not begin work from
the Pacific terminus of the road until
it receives assurance of some assistance
in the form of a grant. Whether the
assistance asked is forthcoming or
not. the road will undoubtedly be
pushed through to the Pacific from the
eastern end. but it may be a matter of
several years before it reaches the
ocean, unless work is undertaken from
this end. The land grant has played a
most important part In the develop
ment of the West, and it would seem a
short-sighted policy on the part of the
British Columbia government to with
hold from the new line Che amount
asked. The land, until a railroad is built.
is or very little value. The coming of
the road will of course increase Its
value many fold. but. while the road
is profiting by the increasing value of
the grant, thousands of settlers and the
country as a whole are also reaping rich
rewards through its coming.
The American Government has been
very liberal In its treatment of the
transcontinental roads, but the growth
and development of this Western coun
try would have been seriously retarded
for many years had the Government
failed to offer a most substantial grant
as an inducement for capitalists to in
vest in such an undertaking, the out
come of which was a matter of grave
doubt. The case of the Great Nnrthpm
Railroad has frequently been cited as a
reason why railroad grants are un
necessary. That road, however, was
built under entirely different conditions
from those which confronted the build
ers of the land-grant roads. The heav
ily subsidized Canadian Pacific had al
ready scattered settlers clear across the
continent just north of Mr. Hill's line,
while on the south the Northern Pacific
had for a number of years engaged In
similar work. Neither the Chicago, Mil
waukee & SL Paul, the Northwestern
nor any of the rest of the roads now
headed for the Pacific Coast on this side
of the line can secure anything in the
way of a land grant or a subsidy, as
they have nothing to offer in return.
The new road through the wilds of
British Columbia will for a considerable
portion of its length tap a virgin field
and by affording transportation facili
ties will create vast wealth in districts
now "almost as inaccessible and worth
less as they were when Captain Cook
was skirting the shores of Western
British Columbia. The Grand Trunk
Pacific was originally projected for the
purpose of opening up the agricultural
country tributary to the Atlantic sea
board, and It could fulfill this mission
without a western land grant. The lat
ter will hasten its construction from the
Pacific end many years, and It will
prove a profitable investment ' for the
province which is asked to make. the
contribution of land that, until the com
ing of the road, will be comparatively
valueless.
A WHOLESOME OPINION.
Opinions differ in this community -in
regard to some methods of the City
Board of Charities in the pursuance of
the work designated by the name of the
organization. But when it comes to the
views of the Board as expressed by
Superintendent Walpole in regard to
permitting maimed or blind musicians
to ply their vocation upon the street
corners for contributions from the pub
lic, or allowing armless and legless peo
ple, or persons with distorted limbs and
bodlos to ask alms under pretense of
peddling lead pencils, shoestrings', safety
pins, etc., our citizens must generally
and Indeed unanimously agree with the
sentiment of the Board as expressed by
Mr. Walpole in his address in the Uni
tarian Chapel Sunday evening. "These
people," said Mr. Walpole, "should, if
unable to earn their own living, be
cared for by the county."
This is a simple and plain statement,
and one supported by state law and
city ordinance. Not only do such per
sons by working upon the sympathies
of passers-by, receive compensation out
of all proportion to the effort made or
to the service rendered; but they often
shock the sensibilities of young chil
dren, and of delicate women who for
reasons that every physician under
stands should be protected from such
sights.
To people of sturdier or stronger fiber
mendicancy supported by physical mis
fortune is nothing graver than an an
noyance of the passing hour. Perhaps
the strongest tendency of such a com
bination of commercialism and deform
ity 1s to make the general public care
less of or Indifferent to human misfor
tune as represented by a twisted hand
holding out cheap lead pencils, an arm
less trunk appealing to notice and seek
ing trade by a garland of shoestrings
draped about the neck, or a blind mu
sician torturing an accordion until it
wails out Its misery in the tiresome
jingles of a past era In which love-lorn
melodies were more popular than now.
This Is certainly true In the case of
those who attempt to induce pity for
their misfortunes by making public dis
play of them. Whether pity, disgusted,
bestows an unwilling alms, shocked,
turns aside shudderingly or. hardened,
withdraws both glance and favor, the
effect of the unseemly display is most
undesirable and may Well be shunned.
The law-givers of the state and city
have done their part toward protecting
the public from the unseemly exhibi
tion that typical deformity Is prone too
often to make of itself for gain. It is
not more law that is needed in this
line, but a strict and Impartial enforce
ment of those that arc already here.
THE vcE OF IDLENESS.
Of all vices to which young men be
come slaves. Idleness Is by no means the
least. It is a vice easily contracted in
youth and hard to throw off in manhood
or old age. Unfortunately, It is not
generally looked upon as an evil In the
sense that drinking, gambling and de
bauchery are evils, 3'et its Influence is
no less certain in breaking down char
acter and sapping physical and Intel
lectual strength. Fathers and mothers
who would be shocked at the suggestion
that they would permit their boys to
smoke cigarettes allow tbeir children
to acquire from day to day habits of
Idleness which no effort of after years
is likely to overcome. It Is out of Idle
ness," " largely, that other vices grow,
and. this one avoided, there is small
danger of the child becoming addicted
to others.
Idleness is a habit, and, like most evil
habits, an unnatural one. Toung Chil
dren are full of life and activity, and
desire to be doing something. Their
minds arc alert and observing; their
muscles are full of pent-up energy seek
ing every opportunity for escape. The
child who was "born lazy" is as rare as
the boy who was born with a hunch
back, a crippled limb or a defective
mind. It is lack of opportunity, incul
cation of wrong ideas of work, and ab
sence of reasonable encouragement in
commendable effort, that takes the life
out of a boy and makes him an idler, a
saloon loafer or a tramp. The mother
whose care of her four-year-old is lim
ited to "don't do this and don't do
that," the father who fails to provide
work and play for the boy when he has
passed from the mother's care, are not
only encouraging but enforcing idle
ness.
The trouble is that we do not look
upon idleness as a wrong as a sin. Re
ligious teachers who Insist that no work
should be done on the Sabbath day for
get that the command, "Six days shalt
thou labor," preceded the command to
rest on the seventh day, and all the
stress Is laid upon the command to rest.
While it is true that to some extent
public opinion censures the idle poor, it
does not look with the same disapproval
upon the idle rich. The young lady
who insists upon high moral standards
exclaims that "Hps that touch liquor
shall never touch mine," but does not
declare that "the hand that rests in
idleness shall never hold mine." Too
often the hand of the idler is given
preference and honest labor Is looked
upon with contempt. Men who contrl
bute neither physical nor, intellectual
effort toward supplying the wants of
the world are too often made the pets
of society. The idler is a dishonest
debtor, be he rich or poor, for he re
fuses to pay the obligation he owes to
the world for the necessities, pleasures
and comforts it affords him.
RECRUITING FOR CHKMATVA.
The Indian reservations of four states
are being beaten for recruits to the
student-body of the Indian training
school at Chemawa. For reasons not
difficult to. understand, Indian parents
are not eager to close with the educa
tional opportunities offered to their chll
dren, especially their daughters. Even
among white parents native-born
Americans at that it is not unusual to
find those who must be compelled by
law to send their children to school.
"They can get along without schoolln
as well as I did," is the argument which
is considered conclusive In such cases.
What wonder, then, if "Poor Lo,
wholly without ambition, lazy and feel
ing absolute ownership in his children
thinks the same?
And then there is the distrust of the
white man and his methods; the In
stinctlve feeling that education will fix
a great gulf between him and his chll
dren, and the natural affection which
makes Indian mothers, In common with
other human mothers, cling to their
offspring, that must he overcome-before
the desired and- necessary consent of
these parents can be obtained. AH
things considered, the educational
agents of the Government do well so
far to overcome these obstacles as to
keep the roster of the training school
full or comparatively so.
Whittlers word-picture of the Indian
maiden Is after all the most natural
one, . though contact with civilization
has made it obsolete except in poetry.
Singing of "Weetamor," daughter of
the mighty "Bashaba," who
Held his long unquestioned sway
From the "White Hills far away
To the greajt tea's sounding shore.
The poet who touched both the tradi
tions and the realities of New England
with the subtle hand of a magician,
said:
Unknown to her the rigid rule.
The dull restraint, the chiding frown,
The weary torture of the school. . -
The taming of wild Nature down.
Her only lore the I'gendn told.
Around the hunter's fire at night;
Stars rose and set, and season rolled.
Flowers bloomed and saowflakes fell unques
tioned In her sight.
Civilization, in attempting to substi
tute the love of books and the menial
commonplaces of housework, dishwash
ing, scrubbing, washing, ironing, sew
ing, etc, for this, setting of romance
and Nature, naturally meets with many
obstacles and produces In the main un
satisfactory results.
The other side of the Indian woman's
life in . state of savagery has been said.
but not sung. A wretched drudge, a
despised burden-bearer, an abject class
of people from the public gaze
An object, ever pressing, dims the night.
And hides behind Its ardor to be seen.
This view of the subject should be suf
ficient to retire through proper official
authority, this 'beaten, servile, degrad-
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u"-1"1 "TK IOU
uer on meee snores a century ago, ana
her name was leerlon. Methods that
have decimated nor ranlw thmic-h
vere. have been In the end kindly. And
the effort to lift those who remain out
of the deeper degradation in which a
half-civilized, half-savage environment
has placed them, is praiseworthy as
being the only thing left to do.
The second expedition In search of
Anthony Fields, the young Brooklyn ex
plorer who has been lost in the white
silence of the Far North for the past
two years, will leave Tromsoe, Norway,
for Cape Flora, Franz-Joseph Land,
late In May. The year that does not
send out one of these search expedl-'
tions as an exceptional one. It can only
be hoped that this quest, known as the
William Zeigler expedition, will prove
successful not only In returning the In
trepid young American explorer alive
and well to his country, but In enrich
ing the chronicles of discovery and of
science .by his findings. This hope is
not quite as forlorn as that which at-,
tended earlier relief expeditions of this
character, but it Is still shadowed by
the anxiety and doubt that waits on
rave possibilities of danger in a re
gion where Nature sets her forces re
lentlessly against the presence of man.
The action of the student-body of
the University of Oregon in refusing a
representative student of Pacific Uni-
erslty the privilege of attending the
late debate at Eugene between the TJni-
ersity of Oregon and the University
of Washington, is hotly resented by the
student-body whose member and rep- I
resentatlve was excluded. SO far as has
been shown there was no reason that is
worthy the student-body of the Unlver-
elty of Oregon for the action that has
aroused the indignation it the under
graduates of Pacific University. An
open debate. In the form of an enter-
talnment, to which the public was In-
vited. should certainly have been free
to all well-conducted persons who de
sired to attend.
Times change, even in ancient China.
Minister Conger has just met the Em
peror and the Dowager Empress in
farewell audience, and the Orientals
felt so bad over his departure that they
decorated him with the "first grade of
the third-class Order of Double Drag
on. There was a time not so very
long ago that Minister Conger was very
anxious to leave Pekin, and It was only
the fear that the Dowager Empress had
given the murderous Boxers authority
to decorate him that prevented him
from leaving. Whether the Order of
Double Dragon will atone for the for
mer indignities conferred by order of
the she-dragon is a question which only
Mlnlster Conger can answer.
Reports of Impending famine in India
have been sent out of late, and yet
Consul Ridgley rejwrts that Indian
wheat is now figuring in Spanish Im
ports for the first time. Wheat from
Bombay has been competing with that
from the Danube and Black Sea coun-
tries, and made up 20 per cent of the
grain imports into Barcelona. Consul
Ridgley further reports that Spanish
millers are petitioning for a rebate of
the duty on wheat ground for export.
or. In other words, they are beginning
to think seriously of exporting in large
quantities flour ground from imported
wheat.
Chairman Payne, of the House ways
and means committee, favors free trade
with the Philippines in 1909. According
to the old song, many things will hap
pen In 1909. Meanwhile the Filipinos
are learning much about the blessings
of freedom, political, commercial and
otherwise.
Port Arthur's Russian civil Governor
says that Stoessel was bribed to surren
der the fortress, but the public will con
tinue to believe that Stoessel yielded be
cause the Japanese gave him more than
he bargained for.
President Roosevelt remarks that im
left Secretary Taft sittinc- on thA-Urf r
the Rtn FinmintrA offni- vn( i
made Secretary Taft the 'ideal man to
keep down anything that can be sat
uPn
From the ashes of defeat Mr. Merrill.
he says himself, "rises like the phoe-
nix." .Nay, nay; .Mr. Merrill Is a far
more Iridescent and coruscating bird
than was ever the phoenix.
After tackling the gray wolves of
Wall street every day or so for three
years, the President will find the In
dian Territory wolf-hunt a mild diver
sion.
The President has at last got his
5100,000 man in Theodore P. Shonts,
chairman of the Canal Commission; but
he gets him for 530,000.
About this time the Colorado lions
begin to wish they were just yellow
dogs.
More Excuse for It.
Atchison Globe.
Somehow a misspelled word in a love
letter never looks so bad as one In a-lottcr
written just before committing suicide.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
The smaller the auto, the more'noise
it makes and the stronger it smells.
"Is Chicago going insane?" asks the
Chicago Tribune. Not exactly "going.
Soattle retaliates upon the "Raffles"
that made her famous by making him j
stand trial.
St. Johns can now settle back in Its
armchair and watch Portland In the
throes and throw-downs of ' an elec
tion.
"When Hay's away
Loomis will play
As much as Taft wiM let him.
The man who 'invented the phrase
about the "open door" has been the
cause of more international guff than
anyone else in this generation.
Chiffon is the cirrus of the millinery
sky.
Tip to candidates for the Mayoralty:
The phrase "A square deal for every
man is about worn out. esiacs
round dollar is more to the point.
Evangelist Toy's life story wasn't s6
bad after all. Summed up In three
words It was "ioo much booze," quite a
commonplace talc.
Chief Hunt now" has a vindication to
hang on his watche'nain.
Members of the' Australian cricket
tcam which will soon pass through J
British Columbia on its way to Eng-
bnH nn h -.v 3A v., nr
7" a! T;' ul ' ; - w.,::
"-" .
finU test match to a finish, instead of
limiting It to a paltry three days, it
looks as if the Australians will pass the
Os?ler limit before the rubber Is Je-
clded.
When a pearl Is in an oyster and the
oysters In a peach, does the girlie get
the pearlie that Is thus within her
reach?
She does; according to the decision
of a high and reverend German court.
President Harper Is drinking deep
draughts of liquid sunshine. He must
feel "nil lit up."
By" the way, what has become of the
City Beautiful?
Candidate Merrill's own platform:
"A regulated open town, with the re
quirement that those who dance must
pay the fiddler."
The fiddler being
Girls are already worrying over the ef-
feot of freckles: Fears for the prune crop.
Summer comes sky-hootin.
McCrcdie replaces Oyama in the popu
lar mind.
Some poetical cuss talks about proud-
pied April. We suspect he referred to
rhubarb pie, which now flourishes exceed
ingly. .
Now and then the barn-yard editor of
some Eastern paper tries to boost the
hens of his State by spinning yarns about
the number or the sire of eggs they lay.
Even one knows that Oregon hens lead
the world in both respects, but that Is not
all. The Oregon hen is an adaptable
creature. Look at the poultry of Sardine
Creek. They fill their gizzard with nug
gets of gold to such an extent that each
fowl yields tp a tidy sum In nddition to
its market price for the table. All that
Sardine Creek farmers need do to become
I millionaires Is to buy enough chickens and
put them to work as miners. Think of
having the gold actually brought home to
tho hen-house. Happy Sardlno Creokers;
they don't even have to walk after their
golden harvest. All that Is necessary
when a farmer needs $5 is to cry "chlck-
chlck-chlck-chick," and cut out a couple
of gizzards.
How it must grieve the new mothers
to road of the Hans Christian Andersen
celebrations. That a man who wrote a
lot of most untruthful stories for chil
dren should be honored thus is a disgrace
to modern civilization. Had he done some
thing useful compiled a volume of alge
braic examples, for Instance there might
be some reason for a celebration but sto
ries, and fairy stories at that!
Manchurian Benr to Colorado L.ion I
know how it feels, old man. On to Har
bin.
GuBtav Anderson, who would like to be
municipal judge, has a most alarming
platform "Hew to the line, let the chips
fall where they may." Office-seekers de
sirous of appropriating famous sayings
had better hurry; the supply is limited
and the demand spirited. The hew-to-the-
line platform is even fuller of possibility
than the square-deal one.
The Kennebec (Maine) Journal says
'the most unique honeymoon of the sea
son was taken by that couple who were
married at Bingham last Saturday morn
ing and started at once for Portland,
where the bride was operated upon for
appendicitis." We hope the bridegroom
was thrifty enough to hold out the par
son's fee and give It to the surgeon.
In a damage suit for alienation of
wife's affections brought against a Lin
coln County rancher, the plaintiff values
his wife's services at $2000 and her love
at 531.000. This must be highly flattering
to her as a woman. If a little mortifying
to her as a cook.
WEX J.
Description of General Bell.
C'dcago Chronicle
Judee Ben B. Lindsey. the Denver
jurist, at a recent address to a civic body
in this cltv. was trying to give a fitting
desr-Hntlon of Adiutant-General Sherman
Bell, tho head of the military govern-
ment In the Cripple Creek district In
ZL 1111
did not want to use any harsh terms.
nr.il. besides, the subiect was a difficult
- nno tn handle Rnd cive exactly the rieht
shade tr the descrintion.
So finally, after making some general
comment, he said that he believed the
incident ot a Scotchman he had met In
"Victor one day would give his hearers
a very clear Idea of the man.
' "I met this man on the street one day,"
said the Judge, "at the time of the mili
tary control, and I asked him what he
thought of General Bell. The man pulled
my ear close to him and whispered 'this
Interesting tale:
" T was up yesterday morning at dawn.
The sun was just coming up and the
moon and stars were just getting dim.
Over there on the peak of Straw Mountain
I saw General Bell sitting. He had
sword in hie hand 100 feet long. He
watched the sun a while and looked over
at the planets.
" 'All of a sudden he waved his sword
around his head and bellowed, so that
the mountain rang and reverberated with
the tones. He shouted:
' "Sun, moon and stars! Right about
face! Forward, march!" '
"Then, the man said, he watched the
jsun come up and the stars and moon go
down, smiled to himself and went back
to his quarters."
REVIVALISTS AND THEIR METHODS
Comment by The Orcpronlnn Is Taken Up by the State Preaa la the
Pulpit to Be Exempt From Criticism f Candid Statement by a "VVallx
Walla Preacher.
Eugene Register.
PORTLAND has been in the throes of
agitation over editorial comment
made by The Oregonian regarding the
revival in-progress In that .city. One
of the evangelists, who formerly was a
sporting man, has been tailing how
bad he was before conversion and The
Oregonian suggested that no good
could come from parading a man's past
deeds.
This question is subject to two points
of view. Among a class of people
who have given themselves over
to vice and have completely lost their
self respect, the possibility of reform
ing as Rev. Toy has done- might be an
encouragement to men 'of that class.
But among those who have been rush
ing through the world busy with Its
affairs too busy to concern themselves
with the hereafter yet have kept clear
of the destructive vices that drag men
down men of this class are not moved
nor affected by the reformation of men
like Rev. Mr. Toy for they have over
steered their bark in an onward coursn
without being drawn aside by every
wind that blows. Men of strong char
acter, vigorous thinking, and of cor
rect habits, look with contempt upon
the vices that cause men to stumble
and fall, to riso today and fall tomor
row, strong in manhood when tempta
tion is not In the way, but suocumbing
to its enticements at every approach,
Men ofHov Mr. Toy's type do good n
the world but it is questionable wheth-
er he can do most good by preaching
tne straight gospel rather than in hold
Ing himself up as an, awful example of
the ravages of sin.
The world has come to recojrnize the
power and efficacy of the Christian
religion in making- men and women
better, but it accepts the tenets of
Christianity only that conform to the
teachings of Christ. The world long
since accepted the Bible as the Divine
rule for human conduct which urges
men to go out Into the world tolling
the story of the cross and the sacrifice
made for the human race, preaching
the doctrines that exalt humanity, put
ting behind the old man with all his
Bin forever. For we arc taught that
through conversion old things are done
away with and all things become new.
The man who holds himself up as a
living example of what can be accom
plished in the transition from sin to
righteousness will not win as many
souls into the kingdom as he who, no
matter how bad his past life, makes
his present existence a livinjr evidence
that he has been with Christ and
learned of him and that he is living the
doctrine he preaches.
Astoria Herald.
A coterie of Eastern ministers are
holding revival meetings in Portland
and One of them announced as hte text.
"From Sporting Life to Preaching."
The Oregonian criticised the subject
with the result that at a meeting reso
lutions were adopted censuring- The
Oregonian as an Immoral paper and
for other theological discrepancies.
There are some revivalists who come
lnto a community who have formed
an idea that they own the whole city,
newspapers and all, and everyone must
be subservient to their behests whether
they believe in it or not. A newspaper
has as much right to criticise a minis
ters sermon as tho minister has to
criticise the newspaper. One of tho
fraternity. In speaking In advocacy of
the adoption of the resolution, said he
knew an instance of a similar kind
where a newspaper criticised a minister
and it lost 7500 subscribers. . If he had
cut off the two ciphers, he might possi
bly come nearer the truth.
Religious revivals are all right and
are often productive qf much good.
People don't have to go to them unless
they want to. Ail churches and re
vivalists depend to a large extent upon
the free advertising they get from the
newspapers to secure audiences. They
have no religious publications to sup
ply the field, as there Is not a religious
daily newspaper published in the Unit
ed States. The ministers or the
churches do not own. neither have they
ar mortgage on a secular newspaper.
although some of the shouting breth
ren imagine they have. By antagoniz
ing the press they injure their own
cause. There are other people in the
world who read newspapers besides
professional revivalists, and general
news and matters of public Importance
A, DEMOCRATIC PREDICTION.
New York World (Dem.)
To its many valued contemporaries and
to the political oracles of both parties
The World presents its compliments and
renews its prediction that Theodore
Roosevelt will be renominated for Presi
dent of the United States in 190S and
elected.
The World is well aware that in the
bubbling enthusiasm of an unprecedented
victory Mr. Roosevelt said that he would
not again be ajcandidate. It is also well
aware that Mr. Roosevelt's first Impulses
ar frquen"y "versed by his sober sec-
Villi VUUUb"..
Mr. Roosevelt controls the Republican
organization. The Southern delegates
will favor his renomlnation. The Far
West will be wildly enthusiastic for him.
In New York and Pennsylvania the ma
chine will be for him. Favorite sons may
have friends In the next National Con
vention, but Theodore Roosevelt will be
the real choice of the delegates.
"Thirty-six months is a long tIm- for
anv candidate to keep the pre-convention
enthusiasm of his followers at a white
heat." observes our neighbor, the Sun.
The enthusiasm of Mr. Roosevelt's fol
lowers is always at a white heat. He is
the radium of American politics.
He will be renominated, and his elec
tion will follow; as a matter of course.
What candidate of a hopelessly divided
Democratic party would stand one chance
In a million against Theodore Roosevelt?
For Health and Beauty.
Cleveland World.
Don't wear tight shoes; they make a
voung "face look old and
drawn and
wrinkled in a few hours.
Don't live to cat, but eat to live. Many
of our ills arc due to oveneating. to eat-
Ing the wrong tnmgs anu to irregular
I eating.
Form a habit of throwing oft Before
( going to Dea at mgni an me cia m
anxieties of the day-cverything which
can possibly cause mental wear and tear
or deprive you ot rest.
Don't go too long without food. Hun
ger gives a strained look to the face,
too. Now and then If one is fatigued a
bite between meals will Invigorate tho
whole system and give relaxation and
repose to strained muscles and nerves.
Don't worry, but If worry you must
keep the forehead smooth don't wrinkle
It. Worry Is called the American Na
tional disease and Amerlcanltls is its
distinctive name. The women of the
Orient are wiser they never worry.
Order.
Life.
The chairlady rapped sharply.
"It ought not to be necessary for the
chair to remind members," she said se
verely, "that under our rules of order,
to say nothing of common courtesy,
only one member may be silent at a
time- Any member who becomes silent
at the same time that another member
Is silent is distinctly out of order."
The ladies of the club visibly cringed
under this merited rebuke. Many of
them flushed to the roots of their hair,
and several there were who burst Into
tears.
arc published to satisfy all classes and
conditions of society. One may read
an article in a newspaper that he does
not approve, and read a number of
others that he does approve. His
neighbor may approve the article that
he condemns and condemn the article
that he approves. It is impossible for
any newspaper, either religious or sv
ular. to please everyone. Even Christ
when he was upon earth did not teach
doctrines that met with the approval
of everyone. A minister can not preach
a sermon, no matter how eloquent and
how honest and si near e he may b
that will meet with the approval ot
everyone.
The criticisms in The Oregonian were
just anh reflected the sentiment of .
larger number of people than aitond
the churches or revival meetings. .W
cannot or will not be Chrhttat. All
will not be Republicans or Democrat?
Very fe"w men agree upon a certain or
given proposition, but everyR in en
titled to his opinion and his belief.
Rev. Andreas
Bond.
Walla Walla
Union.
When Thp Oregonian and traveling re
vivalists enter into a discussion of reli
gion. It is certain that the public will re
ceive more heat than light on the sub
ject. One only needs to bear in mind th
radical difference which exists btwert
the viewpoint of the agnostic on the our
hand and that of tho tn-anf-elfctk? prche
on the other to realize how utterly impos
sible it is to arrive by mean of words
or reasoning at any sat'sfrfotory oencW
sion. This is true, at least to a doRrf.
in any religious controversy. We take It
for granted that Robert InersolU Mr.
Gladstone. Bishop Potter or Lyman Ab
bott arc perfectly sincere in their pro
fessions and yet in spite of il tbt ha-
been said and done, the great iemne re
mains unchanged by their differing argu
ments. Logic does not seem to be tl-.e
only factor in discussions ot this kind.
or. If it is. it surely is a fluctuating ar
ticle rather than an infallible bfis. It
Is quite certain that when the evawli-
tic extreme meets with the extreme o'
agnosticism wc are witnessing a concus
sion rather than a' discussion. The revi
valist holds that without Christ tnre U
no salvation, that this erth. if not a.
purgatory following Paradise Lot. I at
best a means to an end. a school pre
paring for the "far-off divine ovent." The
Oregonian, on the other hand, leaves
heaven to the clouds, care nothing about
any scheme of salvation and swoffs'at con
versions. This being the cns what can
revivals mean to Editor Scott? What will
he think of thousands of strong men shed
ding tears at the sight of the crosa and
professing the ideals of the Nazareae m
preference to those of their pasr lives?
But if The Oregonian has erred by b
Ing too authoritative in its claim, the re
vivalists have positively blundered with
their unreasonable and unehristtan atti
tude toward the public press. The ditor
of the great Portland dally simply ex
pressed his view concerning preachers
who tell of their past dehoucberk fn
the purpose of deterring the young. A-
cording to his idea, such preaching wiU
J rather lead attention to than creat re-
pulsion from th fleUs of vice. This 1
a matter of opinion. It is a question o"
judgment and to forbid the public press
from expressing its candid comment on
such a topic would be dangerous Inter
ference with liberty of thought. But
it not also unchristian to pass resolutions
against such freedom of opinion, to
threaten a boycott? That a large num
bor of Protestant clergymen of Portland
should so far forget themselves must
deplored by all who have the progress !
Christianity at heart.
But even in this feature ot tho argu
ment we can recognize two sides. Dr.
Toy evolves from a sport into a revival
ist? Does it not seem that this very fa -t
gave him power to impross hl Audlftnc
Would plain common sense have done a
much? Would the word of a eonsena
tlve clergyman who had kept close to tr
straight path have counted so much f T
the multitude? Has the religions com
ment of The Oregonian reached any d
graded character and turned his fa e
toward the light? The fact most be a l
mitten' that the pew likes sensations. If
a man of unbroken good behavior a-I
dresses his audience, there are a larg
number who say: "He knows nothing c'
our joys and temptation: if a man Hk"
Dr. Toy talks. The Oregonian demand
that he be silent on his past caroer. Whom
shall we please?
ODD BITS OF NORTHWEST LIFE.
Keeping Tab on Joseph.
Cleveland Cor. Bickloton News.
Jos. Gaddeberg, from near Dot. is ;n
town patronizing the blacksmith. His
lady accompanied him.
Otherwise All's Xve II In Freewater,
Freewator Times.
Marshal Campbell is kept quite busy
cutting moat, feeding and tending an
hundred odd chicks and catching th
unlicensed dogs.
Sad Mishap to a True Lover.
Munkers Murmurs In Santiam News.,
Walter Fuller while cn route to vis.t
his best girl last weak, fall into a
slough near Mr. Kuthe's last Swndai
hjiit after a hard struggle he managed
to get out.
Try Him Out on Some One Else's
Sister.
Beaver Corr. Tillamook Herald.
A certain young man being ques
tioned as to why he didn't visit h
sister as frequently as usual said, "the,
river is too high." We suspect he i?
too tuckered to attompt the trip.
Pernicious Curiosity of a Federal
Official.
Pilot Rock Record.
Maud, daughter of "Columbia Joe."
a resident of McKay Crcok. returned
from the mountains Wednesday auri
was interviewed by Postmaster Ma
thews. "You look as if you had been up
against old borcas," said the gallant
postmaster, as he gently brushed a
snowflake from Maud's shoulder.
"Yes," said Maud. "Heap snow, high
mountains. Good year huckleberry,
me thinks.' and Maud smiled, exhibit
ing a wealth of ivory.
The postmaster returned the smile
In a most gracious manner, and then
said: "Maud, do you know I honestly
believe you are the doggondest best
looking squaw I have ever seen."
With a Pocahontas smile Maud gave
a twitch at her bright-colored blanket
revealing a pair of pigeon-toed xaoc
casined feet, and replied: "Heap snow
mountains. Good year blackberries
"Well, how deep is the snow?" asked
Postmaster Mathews.
"It Is It is up to my my knees.
answered Maud.
A brilliant thought then occurred in
the postmaster. "Maudy, just wait a
minute." pleaded the postmaster, while i
he scurried across the street to bor
row Owen Carnes tapemeasurc But
Maudy didn't wait.
Old, Old Story.
Chicago News.
She What arc you reading?
He A novel entitled "One Woman s
Love."
She Is It Interesting?
He Oh, it's interesting enough, but
it lacks originality. Thero is one hero
ine in it. and Ave consecutive heroes.