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6 THE MORNING OBEGONIAN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1903. B?t$imxmt Entered at the Postofflce at Portland. Or., t second-class natter. SUBSCRIPTION KATXS. INVARIABLY. IN ADVANCK. (By Mall or Express.) Dally and Sunday, per year '"'XX Dally and Sunday, six month.. ....... B.OO Sally and Sunday, three months 2.53 Dally and Sunday, per month .85 Dally without Sunday, per year... ...... 7.50 Dally without Sunday, six months.... Dally without Sunday, three months... 1.83 Dally without Sunday, per month .83 Sunday, per year 2.50 Sunday, six months.......... !-; Sunday, three months 05 BY CARRIER. Dally without Sunday, per week .15 Dally, per week. Sunday Included.....: THE "WEEKLY OREOONIAN. (Issued Ererr Thursday.) Weekly, per year 1-30 Weekly, six months -3 Weekly, three months 60 HOW TO REMIT Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, cola or currency are at th sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The S. 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Some will have the advantage. One class or set may pass the burden j anotner; oui mere must De a basis or bottom somewhere. So the burden is passed on from one class to another, till at last it falls on the poorer or more helpless class, who can pass it on no further. So riches are accu mulated, out of the protective tariff. but by the few who are in position to take advantage of it. The few get rich at the expense of the many. But it is a fetich, that is worshiped! and there Is no way of getting rid of it, wholly. So we are compelled to tern porize with it. The worship is a form of syncretism, that penetrates and per moates both parties, through and through. The observers and thinkers of both parties see it and understand it: but on neither side can they clear their party of the false worship. They will, some time, of course, but they can't now. Local interest and personal interest have Insidious ways and argu ments innumerable. The worker Is easily persuaded by the tariff benefi ciary that he, too, is a beneficiary; for it is alleged that he would have no work to do and would get no wages but for protective tariff; the profits of which, however, fall into the pockets of the monopolist. Again, there must be revenue; and from this need it is an easy advance to the demand of tariff distinctly for protection. For in most cases a tariff for revenue yields protection, or ex clusion, also. So It seems .logical. The aim of protection is to exclude foreign goods, and to secure profits on the manufacture of goods at home. But who gets the profits? The fortunes of the steel and copper and sugar kings will tell you- But of course we shall still have "protection." It is supported by the spirit and genius of illusion. In actual conditions, in our own country, there is some ground for-it; and this is the basis from which it is carried to ex tremes. The abuses cannot be correct ed nor abated now; but one day there will be 'a revolt which will upset the basis 'of parties. When, no one can tell. President Roosevelt Is a forceful personality; but even he finds the wor ship of the fetich too powerful at this time to permit an attempt, to check or abate it. To reduce it even within rea sonable ljmits is, for the present, ap parently, Impossible. When the Demo cratic party was last in power it mere ly substituted one protective system for another; and the last 6tate of that tariff was more unjust than the first Inso much that President Cleveland de nounced it and refused to affix his sig nature. It Is impossible, therefore, to turn to the Democratic party for re dress or for amendment. Such result can come only through general en lightenmentthe same as in relation to the silver craze; which Indeed was the more Immoral and irrational of these twin delusions- BE PATIENT WITH HARRIMAN. If Central Oregon will continue to have patience, It may find that It has not been entirely forgotten by the out- siae worm. .air. iytie made a very good start toward the interior by build ing a road from Biggs to Shaniko, and then he quit, for reasons no doubt over which he had no controh Now he wants to get hold of the Great South . ern, 'and penetrate the interior from The Dalles and Dufur. Mr. Lytle has at least tried, and still Is trying, to build,, which is more than can be said of Mr. Harriman, unless we are to ac cept as bona fide recent intimations that something is to 5e done. But there are others. Somebody is talking of bulldlnr from Natron across to On tario. It is said to tie. Mr. Harriman .again. Naturally, everybody is skep tic&L Then Mr. Hammond has a rail ' road running east from Albany, -and there are signs of activity and anxiety on the part of that enterprising- mag nate. It may be remembered, by the way, that Mr. Hammond' has a record as the builder of an Oregon" railroad a distinction almost unique, except for Mr. Lytle, until this year and it may be that he is not disposed to rest on his laurels. So we may look a little hopefully toward Mr. Hammond. The Western Pacific will sooner or later come this way, and even the Southern Pacific, when it goes into the Klamath country, which It eome day may, will doubtless feel obliged to go on north. Thus it appears that Central Oregon Is threatened with Invasion from all sides, and. belief that it will have a railroad is likely any time to develop Into a certainty.. Indeed, the prospect for several railroads is good. The Har riman system Itself may build a few miles of new road when it has added a few million more to the $30,000,000 or more net' earnings taken out of Oregon In tho past eleven years. All Mr. Har rlman asks before doing anything for Oregon Is all the time there Is and all the surplus money we have. BUMPER WHEAT CROP. In another column The Oregonian to day submits its annual estimate of the 1905 wheat crop in the Pacific North west. As Is explained elsewhere, ab solute accuracy In an estimate of this nature is impossible so early in the season, but at this time indications are favorable for a crop of 50,000.000 bushels in the three North Pacific States. This is about 2,000,000 bushels greater than the record crop of 1901, and is due largely to new acreage, the result being predicted In this column September 3, 1904, as follows: With wheat 75 cents per bushel and run ning 40 to 50 bushels to the acre, as It has In a number of localities in Oregon and Washington, the allurements of diversified farming will be temporarily forgotten, and next year we may expect the largest acre age that has ever been sown to wheat In the Northwest. In the detailed statement printed else where, the State of Oregon makes a small showing In comparison with Washington. There has for years been a most pronounced difference in the size of the crops of the two states, and that difference is greater than ever this year on account of a bumper crop on the Central Washington branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and an ex ceptionally heavy crop along the Spo kane & Palouse branch of the same road. The territory tapped by the Washington Central Is not as rich as that which is not tapped by a branch of the O. R. & N. In Central Oregon, but it has produced this year more wheat than was produced in Sherman, Wasco. Gilliam and Morrow Counties and the Grand Ronde Valley. But, while the Puget Sound ports have more wheat than ever before tributary to them, Portland will secure enough of the Washington wheat crop to swell the shipments from this port up to rec ord proportions. The O. R. & N. Co. does not tap the new acreage districts In Washington very extensively, but it will haul sev eral million bushels of wheat out of the Palouse and Washtucna districts, and will also secure some of the Northern Idaho business. The prices are somewhat lower thui last year, but have not yet declined to a point where the value of this 50,000,000-bushel crop at interior points is much less than $30,000,000. Following as It does so closely on a slightly smaller crop, which last year sold for more than 539,000,000, it is not at all surprising to hear of farmers starting banks, building elec trjc railroads and by other methods re flecting the prosperity which follows such crops. The abnormal movement of the wheat to Eastern points by rail will not be repeated this year, but. Instead, prac tically all the surplus will be marketed at tidewater points on the Pacific Coast. By this return to the natural channels through which the wheat has flowed for years, the railroads will re ceive several million dollars less for freight than they were paid for the long haul across the continent, but the tidewater ports will profit by return to the old route, as It will mean disburse ment of a vast sum of money along ' the water-fronts at Portland, Tacoraa and Seattle. A great many of the most prosperous wheatgrowers have an nounced their objection to determina tion to hold their wheat for higher prices. Whether they hold or sell. It will not stay the progress of the wave of prosperity that will sweep over the Northwest In the wake of a record crop of 50.000,000 bushels of wheat. Any farmer who Is financially situated so that he can refuse 60 cents per bushel for wheat Is not liable to have his pur-i chasing power seriously curtailed for at least one season. WATER SUPPLY FOR CTTTES. Ere long another pipe line must be laid from Bull Run into Portland. It is necessary already, for supply of water to the growing city especially on the East Side, whose large area, rapidly filling up, calls for extension of mains over spaces of many miles. It may not be necessary to lay an addi tional pipe line under the Willamette, to the West Side, for a considerable time; but the increasing demand may be supplied by another line from Bull Run Into the eastern part of the city thus releasing supply enough for the West Side, lor eome years to come. Water rates will carry it. though per haps no reduction of rates will be prac ticable for some time yet. There is a communistic principle in public . supply of water to a city; since the closely- built districts pay the larger propor tion of the rates, which are constantly expended In supplying, or In support ing, the supply to newer and more thin ly-lnhablted districts, which, without such aid, could not supply themselves. But the principle Is a necessary one. and It applies to an extent, greater or less, to nearly all the functions of a. municipality. London, hitherto supplied with water by eight great private companies, has now taken over, or Is preparing to take over, this function to the city or to the metropolitan district, and will greatly reinforce the present supply from new sources. Liverpool will bring In additional supply from distant places in Wales. New York is confronted with the necessity or 6omng a very large problem, of the same kind-; for the sources of sure supply for her future needs are distant, ultimately our American metropolis will go to the central part of the State of New York for Its supply, and will haye the great est system In the world. At present only atoout 60 per cent of the population of New York Is supplied with Croton water. Brooklyn has six sources of supply four of them In pri vate hand. The Bronx has three sourcee, Stat en Island three, and vcrl ous districts adjacent to Brooklyn a great number. Most of these are In private ownership. All ultimately, no doubt, will be collected Into a single system, under public service. New York will yet have to spend not less than one hundred millions perhaps much more on her water supply. But this .will be only a bagatelle for the metropolis. Two railway systems the Pennsylvania and the New Tork Cen tralare now spending more than one hundred millions on tunnels and ter minal facilities at New York. It is cer tain that accumulation of wealth at the American metropolis Is more rapid now than at any other city of the world. OUR PEOPLE GOING TO CANADA. A writer in the World's Work shows that the new provinces of Canada on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Moun tains are filling up with immigrants, largely from the United States. We know that numbers have gone thither from Oregon even from "Oregon, where population is yet sparse. The writer In the World's Work says that there are today in Western Canada 190.000 male Americans over 18 years of age. Why they have gone there he explains, by recital of a conversation had with a farmer from Iowa, viz; "I don't ie much difference between living in Canada and living In the States. They're a Utile more for law and order hp here. Why did I come here? Because it seemed to be the only place to go. The old homestead was worth 5100 an acre. It was too praall to divide among the boys, and the neighboring farms were too high-priced to bay." So tho father went 1and-looklng." The -arch for cheap land or the right sort carried blm across the border. Today be is making as much from his $7 land in Manitoba as he was from his $100 land In Iowa. He has a good bank account and the satisfaction of having his eons on farme around him. This man's otory explains how it cornea about that Iowa its losing population. A farmer who had lived long time in Marlon County, Oregon, went to Al berta not long since, for precisely the same reason. He could get cheap land and settle his sons and daughters round about him, and all could make money by growing wheat. A second Canadian settler is reported through the World's Work as saying: Four years ago I lived in Iowa with a $2000 mortgage hanging over me. Taxes and Inter, est were eating me up. I came up here, got 160 acres of land as a gift from the Canadian government and for two years my family and I lived In that shack. Now I own that house, and every board In it Is paid for. Eighty acres of my land are under cultivation. My wife and my children are well fed and well clothed for the first time In year. Do we want to be annexed? I guess not! We have places In the Pacific North west, and especially In Oregon, for mul titudes of this sort of people: but they require railway transportation, or the prospect of it; both of which are denied them, by the do-nothing policy of those who refuse to extend their own rail way system, and who check others who would come into the field. In Can ada it is different. The railways lead the way, and the settlers march with the railways. The contention of The Oregonian is not against the Harriman system of railways, so-called, but against the slow and obstructive policy that prac tically forbids immigration, and sends even our own people off to Canada. CHILDREN IN THE SCHOOLS. The annual statistical report of the public schools of Oregon makes a satis factors showing in regard to the In creasing proportion of the children who are attending school. Comparison shows that the number of children In the state between the ages of 4 and 20 years has increased 3 per cent in the past year, while the enrollment In the public schools has Increased 4 per cent and the average dally attendance has Increased 8 per cent. This means that there is a relative Improvement In the attendance. The figures contained In the report do not form an entirely sat lsfactory basis for an estimate of the patronage the public schools are receiv ing- It is shown that there are in the state 152,930 children between the ages of 4 and 20 years, that 1M.036 are en rolled Jn the public schools, that 37,247 are not attending any school, and that the remainder are attending private schools. The statement that over 37.000 children between the ages of 4 and 20 years are not attending any school is information of uncertain value. Some of these children are too young to go to school, while others have completed the common-school course. The report does not show what number of children were out of school who ought to have been In. But, whatever the actual facts as to attendance, it is evident that condl tions are Improving, for the attendance is increasing faster than the popula tlon. The greater average attendance may probably be attributed to several causes, among them the strong Incent lve held out to children to remain In school until they have completed the eight grades In order that they may pass the uniform examination and se cure a diploma. Oregon's uniform course of study and uniform standards of examination have done much to keep children in school when childhood's de sire for play calls them elsewhere. Doubtless another cause for the in creased attendance may be found In the greater Interest taken In the public schools by parents. This interest Is shown In & substantial manner by the fact that in one year the amount of money raised by district taxes volun tarily voted by the people increased 23 per cent. When the people are sq free In Imposing taxes upon themselves for educational purposes there is no room for dotfbt that they are deeply inter ested in their district schools. This In terest, manifested In the expenditure of their bard-earned money. Is quite likely to be shown also by the more regular attendance of their children at school. Horticultural Commissioner Park, of the Second District, is making war upon San Jose scale In a manner that seems likely to be effective. He has an Inspector watching the markets for fruit Infected with the pest, and, when ever any Is found, the grower is at once, notified to spray his orchard. When conditions warrant such rigorous action the fruit Is condemned and sale thereof Is forbidden. This brings home to the individual grower the necessity for keeping his orchard free from dis ease. A law having for Its object ex termination of pests of any kind Is of benefit only as It is enforced thoroughly and universally. It Is useless to require all the large growers to spray if the small ones are permitted to neglect their trees. There Is .little good to be accomplished If the owner of a young orchard is ordered to clean his trees when the old. abandoned and moss-covered orchard Is passed by without no tice. The man of progressive Inclina tions soon loses heart when he sprays his trees year after year but sees his neighbors neglecting their orchards and reinfecting the trees he has cleaned at great cost of money and labor. It is only a persistent and widespread en forcement of the law that will stamp out disease and give Oregon fruit and Oregon orchards a reputation for clean liness. Seattle has had an entire week at the Fair, and has shown to the world i. e., the Exposition visitors something of the. quality of her people. It Is some thing to have attracted to Portland the presence of so many people from Puget Sound as have come 'since June 1, and to have heard from one and all that the Exposition is worth while, and that therefore the community that created it and maintains it is all right. We can understand, too, why both Seattle and Tacoma are now more than ever anx ious to make a favorable comparison with. Portland In everything that shows growth and Improvement. For exam ple, we find the Seattle Post-Intelll-gencer pointing with pride to the showing made by the Tacoma banks, which in the past eight months have made a gain over the previous year of 51.8 per cent, while the Portland gain for the same period was 25.6 per cent. 'Let Tacoma grow," cries the Seattle paper- Assuredly. But meanwhile. If there has been any desire on Puget Sound that Portland should stand still. It may be hoped that recent events have shown that there is room for all. No more interesting body of men has yet gathered in Portland than the let ter-carriers, who are to hold their Na tional convention this week. There will be 600 of them, and it Is not the least of their distinctions that these 600 know personally by name more people than any other 600 persons In the United States, unles it Is another 600 letter- carriers. The fact of their wide per sonal acquaintance, made necessary by the character of their vocation, ac counts in large measure for the great popularity of letter-carriers as a class. for they are an Intelligent, industrious. tactful and patriotic lot of men; so to know them Is to esteem and respect them. The National convention has important wonc oeiore it, ana not a great deal of time Is to be given up to pleasure and sightseeing. Nevertheless, the local carriers have made generous preparation to entertain the visitors. and all may be sure that when they return they will have the best possible Impression of Oregon. There seems to be no occasion for alarm over the status of the applica tion of the Deschutes Irrigation & Power Company for a patent to 77,000 acres of the land It Is reclaiming. The application has been held up temporar Ily for correction of a few defects, and will be delayed for a short time while the State Engineer makes an inspection of the irrigation ditches, but there is no reason whatever to believe that the delay will be long. Every, person who has visited the Deschutes country is satisfied from the Immense amount of work done that both the Deschutes Ir rigation & Power Company and the Co lumbia Southern Irrigation Company are prosecuting their enterprise In the utmost good faith. This Is all the Gov ernment asks, and In due time patents will be Issued for all the land for which water has been provided. The War Department continues to re ceive from the officers In charge of mil Itary posts suggestions favoring the re establish me n't of the canteen as a means of checking drunkenness among the soldiers. Brigadier-General Theo dore J. Wlnt, of the Northern Division, offers the latest testimony as to the need of the canteen, and In his report deplores the existence of a large num ber of saloons around the posts. The Government has no control over these saloons when they are outside the mil Itary reservation, and the soldiers are accordingly free to get as drunk as they please, while under the canteen system, which was abolished through the In fluence of well-meaning but Imprac tical temperance workers, it was Im possible for a soldier to secure suffi cient liquor to make him intoxicated. All residents of Portland, as weH as those of Central Oregon, will fervently hope that there Is something more than rumor behind the stop of E. E. Lytle's desire to secure control of the Great Southern Railroad, now headed for the central part of the state. Mr. Lytle Is probably more familiar with possibili ties for development In that neglected portion of the state than any other rail road man in the country, and. If he can repeat his Columbia Southern success with the Great Southern, It will mean a great deal for Portland as well as for Lytic There were no years of delay when Mr. Lytle was "going to build' the Columbia Southern, and in this re spect his methods are radically at varl ance with those of some other railroad men with whom we have come In con tact in the -past few years. The Ladd organ has this, in relation we suppose, to the Upton-RIddell mat ter: It is only fair to the public and the court that this whole probate matter be investi gated clear to the bottom eo a to punish thest demrvlng of It and at the same time to place It upon a cleaner cut and more bus! sessllke basis. . We can hardly suppose this Is Intend ed as a reference to the administra tion of the Johnson estate. Jerome could again be elected Dis trict Attorney of New York. He could hardly be elected Mayor against Me Clellan. Therefore, if he shall run for Mayor. New York will merely lose very efficient District Attorney. The Mikado's prime purpose In mak Ing a trip around the world is to show the difference between a real Japanese Emperor whom nobody has seen and the comic opera Mikado that everybody has seen. We might be able ro agree with Judge Hanford that the way to solve the Chinese exclusion question Is to place a head tax on coolie Immigrants, if assured that the tax would be high enough. President Roosevelt went down to the bottom In a submarine boat and re mained three hours; and now Emperor William thinks he must do likewise. All for example to future generations. Portland doctors don't think much of the new consumption cure. Yet onion Juice tastes as If It ought toTbe first rate medicine. Foh De Land's Salk! New York Mali. ; Twenty-three million acres of the pub lic domain stolen In 1SC3. Land, land! 0REG0NJ3Z0NE Tho Human Vise. Of all the vices known to man I think the meanest and the worst. The most depraved, the most accurst. The one on which the public ban Should fall, is this: The vise-like grasp That closes on the friendly clasp. Why should a man. in shaking hands With one who holds him as a friend. Exert a squeeze the bones to bend? Hath friendship any such demands? ' I Have you not known the grizzly grasp That meets your modest, friendly clasp? God save us from our friends, say L If they on such a squeeze insist! I think they never will be missed If on the other side passed by; For who desires a vise to grasp Responsive to a friendly clasp? A magazine writer has hit upon a sug gestion altogether new, in this era of ad vice to young women as to careers. The suggestion Is positively startling. It runs thus, in big black type: MARRIAGE IS THE BEST CAREER FOR WOMEN." This Is the day on which people quit work. It Is called Labor day. If you hear any extraordinary noise emanating from the Lewis and- Clark Ex position during the next few days, don't worry. It will be merely the hilarity es caping from the 3274 "yells" submitted to Secretary Reed in competition for the prize of 525 that was. offered for the best Portland yell. A Pennsylvania preacher is to deliver a sermon In Portland next Sunday on tho topic, "To Hell and Back; Who Are There and Why; Hope for the Return of Many." This unusual subject for a sarmon savors of an optimism not embraced in the teachings of orthodoxy. We have been taught to believe that "while there Is life there Is hope." but It has been un derstood pretty generally that the flame of hope goes out when tho fires of Hades begin to burn. Knabenshue. the Toledo airship man. has accepted an offer to go on the stage. If he takes his airship on. the stage car penter will have to enlarge the flie3. Jokes of a Century Ago. A kind friend has submitted to The Ore gonian some Jokes taken from the files of almanacs dated a hundred and more years ago. At that time the almanac was the chief vehicle of the Joke. Then, as now, the average Joke appeared in various places and times under different names and with different clothing on, but it was always recognizable as the same old Joke. Here is one from the almanac of 179S, which appears twice more In modifica tions, before 1816: Two men were riding from Sluptcn to Bur- ford. Seeing a miller riding in front of them. ob hla s&cko, they went forward, one on each ride of the miller. One asked him: "Miller. which art thou, a knave or a fool?" "Really," replied the miller, "I don't know which I am tho most, but I think I am between both." Says the almanac of 1799: An Englishman and an Irishman were con demned for piracy. For that crime they are generally executed near some river. The Eng lishman was to suffer first, but by some acci dent the rope slipped and he fell Into the water. The Irishman begged that the rope be tied fast to him. "far," he said. "If It ohould el!p I would surely drown, for I cannot swim." The foregoing Joke, in disguise, you will meet frequently nowadays. An an cient Justice of the Peace Joke, vintage of 18S. follows: A young man. lately made a Justice of the Peace, was asked by another what he would do with a man who committed suicide. The 'Squire answered with much magisterial grav ity: "He must be confined to the State Prison at hard labor for life." Here is a weak brother from the warlike days of 1S14: A soldier lately come over with General Moore was asked if be had met with much hospitality la Holland. "Oh. yes," he re plied. "I met with far too much of It. I was In the hospital nearly all the time I was there." From the 1S13 almanac this Irish bull is taken: An Irish ptudent was once asked what was meant by posthumous works. "They are such works." said Faddy, "as a man would write after he Is dead." Here is another from 1813. which Is sufficiently classical and caustic to serve as a closer for the series: The father of Crebllllon one day told to him In a passion: "There are two things I heartily wish were not mine my tragedy of Catsllne and yo." He answered: ''Don't' fret yourself, father, for they say neither of ua Is yours. " The Loom of Dreams. Do not Bay we Idly dream! Dreams are deeper than we deem; Oceans vaster than the vast Void of waters are they; past, ? Present, future, all in one. Gloom of midnight, gleam of sun. Moan of winds on maundering '" seas. Lilt of swallows all of these. Aye, and more that we know not. Of our dreams are part and plot. Hope and fear and love and scorn Out of waking dreams are born; Sealed within their magic cells Life's tomorrow ever dwells. Like a dewdrop at repose In the bosom of a rose; And upon their winding ways Falls the light of yesterdays. As a Jeweled coronet Or a halo of regret. Down their vistas we can see All the glories yet to be. And, with fleeting footsteps fast. - Musing memories of the past. ) Thus with threads of many hues Poets do tholr fancies fuse, All that is and all that seems Weaving in the loom of dreams. ROBERTUS LOVE. Fighting the Fever. Discussing yellow fever conditions in Its city, the New Orleans Times-Demo crat says: It Is because Kew Orleans Is one of the few cities where tho above-ground open cistern still pravallA, and possibly the only one where these cisterns are not screened, that It is In the greatest danger from yellow fever when It Is 'introduced. It Is probable that wa shall conclude to screen the cisterns In future. All the work done In that direction now will de crease the extent of the fever and help the work of crushing It out. Every citizen should see to his own clotern. The Board of Health Is organizing a corps of oilers, but it will take & long time to get around to all bouses. New York's Idol Factory. Bangkok Times. Probably the -only idol factory In the world Is now located in the City of New York, where the Idols of all countries are reproduced and new ones manufactured. India gets the largest shipment, but from some countries even farther east comes an ever-lncreaslnz demand. The average foreign shipment varies from & couple of hundred to a thousand Images every. ,30 cays, ur iar ue largest numoer ol. tools are made of plaster, coated, oiled and polished to resemble old bronae. ONLY HOPE 0F DEMOCRACY. An Able Newspaper Says It Lies in Conservatism. Washington CD. C) Post. Congress will assemble a few weeks hence; and in the meantime It would be well enough for the Democratic party to "stand by," as Capt. Cuttle would say, and "take an observation." Where Is it at? Is It a radical or a conservative? Is it Bucephalus or Dobbin? Will It be a of Oregon's "first families' ; they seem "Roosevelt Democrat," as It pretended to to think that they inherited Oregon and be last session, or will It return to the ' that so long as a scion of a "first fam paths its elders trod when Democratic . ily" is in existence they are entitled principles were triumphant and Demo- to rule the roost. Many of these scion3 cratic policies prevailed? have their abiding places In Portland It is time for" the Democratic party to and anything not directly In the inter gropo about and see If it cannot find a e3t of Oregon's metropolis, therefore way out of the outer darkness of defeat , not n tne interest of these metropoli and disrepute Into which it voluntarily, tan "flrst families" must not only recklessly, and culpably plunged twelve Drave disapproval, but be condemn-, years aso. when It fled from a victory It throttied and left lifeless. This is one 5 hleved by b elng Democratic. Since i reas0n for tne ea3y pace we are trav- 1S93 the party has been illogical as a ; troubled dream has mistaken hysteria fqr energy and confounded heresy and patriotism. lonrago Itms lT One lesson that everybody else learned Democratic party to profit by-that this ' . ' . . . - . . ' country is not big enough for two radical parties. Whenever the American people want a piece of radicalism they know where to get it; they will apply to an expert for it; they will set the Republican party to fashion it. and they are not go ing to take any second-hand, warmed over stuff from the Democratic party that the Democratic leaders insist la "just as good" or a little better. The Demo cratic party is not going c gain another National victory until It learns that fact, that everybody else already knows. Tho Democratic par. le nothing If not conservative- Whenever it has. attempted to play the radical. It has blundered. When the country demands radicalism, the place for the Democratic party is in the tabernacle, and Its duty Is to lay hold on both horns of the altar. Instead of that, it Is become a pitiful, abject, mis erable "me, too," whenever the Repub lican party sets about a particularly odious piece of unconstitutionality. No victory has ever yet been gained that way; no victory ever will be gained that way. A time will come when the country will tire of radicalism. Not even such a magnificent country as ours can stand the political Dxs. Sangrado all the time. If the Democratic party will only return to the teachings of its great leaders, from Jefferson and Jackson to Tllden and Thurman, a time will come. and not far distant, when the country will turn to It as the debauched prodigal re turned to his father's house. The Democratic word Is conservatism. conservatism, conservatism. The Japanese at Portsmouth. R. Li. Brldgman in the Christian Reg ister. It is due to the Japanese to say, as far as the bearing of their representa tives In the Portsmouth party Is con cerned, that they exhibit a wonderful modesty in view of what they have ac tually done against the supposedly powerful antagonist who was to apply the steam roller process to Japan as soon as the war was begun, flattening out all opposition and dictate terms of peace at Tokio. Had Russia reached Tokio victorious. It Is safe to say that it is not In the nature of any white race on the face of tho earth to bear Itself as modestly asythe Japanese bear themselves today. rot a word has been said or heard from within the Japanese circle, as far as known, lij praise of the Japanese gen erals or admirals or soldiers or admin istration. Perfectly excusable as strong exultation would be In view of the prodigious valor at Port Arthur, the annihilation of the Russian flee, or the brilliant Intellectual as well as military accomplishment at Mukden In fighting along a battle front of 100 miles with wonderful combinations of forces, yet these men are as silent a the grave upon one and all of these matters. They neither Draisa them selves nor seem to expect others to praise them. They have fought and won, and are here In the most quiet and undemonstrative manner to secure tne fruits of their victories. Allowances of College Men. Harper's Weekly. A letter that seems likely to cause dis cussion is contributed by a college stu dent who makes an earnest plea for some regulation of the allowances Dennltted college men. The writer, he savs. la n. junior at one of the larger universities. wno is working nis way throusrh colleee. and whose spending allowance Is, of course, exceedingly small. "I have made friends." he says, "with a lot of fellows whose fathers are wealthy, and who have as mucn to spend idly in a month or so as I have to defray my entire expenses tor the year. One thing or another In creases my expenses in a small way every time l am with them or Join any of their expeditions. Nor could I endure their companionship on any other terms. You will sayrWhy not eschew their company? That la Inevitably my duty, but is there no other way? There are schools where the extravagances of students are arbi trarily limited, and they are trained to economic- methods while they are impres sionable; why should colleges refrain from giving their students the benefit of simi lar discipline?" Trifles for the Curious. The following sentence contains all the letters of the alphabet: John P. Brady gave me a black walnut box of quite small size. Ezra vii:21. contains all the letters of the alphabet excet "J": And I, even I, Artaxerxes, the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are be yond the river, that whatsoever Szra. the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven shall require of you, It be dene speed Ily. And the entire alphabet Is in these lines, viz: God gives the grazing ox his meat. He quickly hears the sheep's low cry: But man, who tastes His finest wheat. Should Joy to lift His praises high. Senatorial Courtesy in tho Way? Hood River Glacier. A Weston newspaper mourns the loss of 'the normal school In that city, and says that the town Is now without a high school. The Oregonian takes this opportunity to again remind the people of Oregon that the various normal schools and small colleges about the state are too frequently local high schools main talned at state expense. The Portland paper 'thinks there should be - one good normal school as an adjunct to the state university. Well and good, but do you presume the legislators with a local graft up their sleeves can be made to see this? Senatorial courtesy will hardly permit them. Let the Croakers Brighten. Up. Newberg Graphic. As Is the case everywhere, there are a few citizens in Newberg who won't need "colored grasses to protect their eyes from the glare of the buildings" when they visit the Fair. Their optics are already so generously smoked that noth lng looks bright to them and they do their best to make their neighbors look through the same glasses. In short, they are "grouchers." Don't put on the gog. .gles. It's better to squint a little in the sunshine than to see everything in the dark shadows. When the croaker begins his gloomy forecast. Just tell him to take off his extra pair of eyes. In a Bad Way. Boston Christian Review. It was a Now England parson who an nounced to his congregation one Sunday, "You'll be sorry to hear that the little church of Jonesvllle is once more tossed upon the waves, as sheep without a she'p- iherd." BLIGHT OF FIRST FAMILIES, Corvallls Cazr.e. Many people wonder vhy it Iz that Oregon does not orqe ahead f filer. There are many reasons why we are laggards In the march of progress. In spite of unfavorable conditions our state is going forward, but not so rap idly as some of her Western slstevs. One reason why we are running a slow race' Is on-account of the policy eling'. When the capitalists of Portland awaken to the fact that they would prosper more were they to adopt a dif- Tard flfdl o- ""7 nt .Vial. .4lunnvartsI Vlt- TUlttfnr Intf of their discoveries by putting Into practice the policies said truths de mand, then, and then only, will we go ahead with a bound. The disposition of every business man in Corvallls is to assist all worthy enterprises started within the County of Benton, for they realize that a con tinuance of such a policy will eventu ally prove beneficial to them. Now Portland stands In the same relation to the State of Oregon that Corvallls docs to Benton County, and she should take a pattern from us and every other county seat .in tho state. Her duty la plain. Taxes and Public Ownership. Rochdale (Eng.) Letter In New York Tribune. Bolton, with a DODUlatlon of 175,000, and almost as many Iron foundries and engine works as cotton mills, has ac complished more favorable results than Rochdale In the conduct of its munici pal Industries. From markets, water, gas, electric light, tramways and cor poration estates there Is a total profit of $187,500, which is equivalent to the reduction of the rates by over 13 pence in the pound. Although there is a debt of over $16,500,000, with corporation property of an estimated value of over $18,000,000 to show for It, the munici pal services are managed so economi cally that the total rate is reduced to shilllnKS In the pound. There was so much opposition to the extension of the administrative area to a dozen neighboring districts seven years ago that the council has been forced to Jus tify annexation by balancing as many accounts as possible on the right side. The net surplus from gas is $100,000 a noiaDie result or a .aisirict ol considerable an area; and not only are the tramways remunerative, but elec tric lighting and power as well. The Bolton corporation has organized a series of municipal undertakings with business-like efficiency, and is steadily Increasing its surplus earnings from them. At the same time it has a fine series of public pleasure grounds, ex cellent libraries and technical schools. three museums and other municipal Institutions. In this way a Lancashire town.v which began with the memory of Crompton, the Inventor of the spin ning mule, as Its chief title to fame, as Blackburn did with Its legend of Har- greaves, the Inventor of the spinning Jenny, has become conspicuous as one of the best governed communities In the Lancashire belt. Women Buy Their Own Cigarettes. London Letter to New York World. Nothing shocked Congressman T. D. Sullivan more In London than seeing woman smoking in restaurants. The prev alence oT smoking among wxmen of the fashionable world, even sirla. Is attested by the fact that cigarette j.aX3 are nov frequently given as wedding presents to brides. One recently had seven. A few year3 ago, said a prominent West End tobacconist, "a gentleman used to buy especially mild cigarettes manu factured for ladles, for ladles were too bashful to come themseH'es. Nowadays ladies have no scruples In the matter; they Just come in themselves and buy. Moreover, we no longer manufacture a special brand for them, as they prefer those which men smoke. Several women have standing orders with me for 200 a week." Where Hebrew Is an Innovation. London Globe. Yiddish is an archaic and corrupt form of German extensively spoken by Jews in many countries besides Germany Itself. A startling Instance of Its popularity is given by the writer in The Jewish Chron icle. In Jerusalem he met "a worthy mart who denounced me for being unable to converse with him in Yiddish. 'You aro no Jew,' he protested, 'for you do not know the Jewish language. I answered that Hebrew was the Jewish language. and that I was quite willing to try to speak to him In it. His rejoinder was. T have no patience with this new-fangleci idea of speaking Hebrew In Jerusalem.' " Debt Owed the Trolley. Philadelphia Ledger. How much we owe to the trolley lines extending so freely into even remote sec tions! At an expenditure which must seem modest even to the poor, they givo the pent-up dwellers In towns and villages the freedom of the woods and fields, and to the denizens of hitherto inaccessible country places they offer the strange al lurements of busy streets and shops. In our great cities rural visitors take tho place of those who are seeking the very pleasures the countryman temporarily forsakes. It is the change we need tho new ways, even when they are less at tractive than tho old. Bryan and Prosperity. Sioux City Journal. "I am 43, fat, hearty, 'and prosperous," was the report of Mr. Bryan of himself In Des Moines the other day. About 5000 people listened to him at Washington, this state, on Saturday, and the estimate Is that Mr. Bryan's compensation amount ed to $500. His contracts provide that he Is to have the first $250 taken In and one-half of all above that amount. Mr. Bryan is not only prosperous, but he is thrifty. Bits and Skits. Judge I fine you ten dollars! Prisoner All right, Jedge now if you'll Jest endorse dls ..1. r- mn T t' Ink; T kin raise de mcnev! Puck. "De man dat starts In to drown his sor rows," said Uncle Eben. "glnerally throws em a life-preserver an goes Under hlase'f." Washington Star. Parson Primrose Arts you eorry you went In tha pantry and stole the cake? Freddie Sure, I am. Ma said she'd have given It to me. anyhow. Judge. The peace of Washington? The pace of Portsmouth? The peace of Kittery? The peace of the Piscataqua? Perhaps It will bo called the peace of Oyster Bay. Boston Globe. Teacher Now. Tommy, If your father had 20 dozen eggs In his store and found that IS of them were bad, how much wortd ha lose? Tommy Nothln'. I guess you don't know pa. Cleveland leader. Auntie How smart you look this afternoon, dearie I Dolly (who has been forbidden to ask If she may stay to tea) Well, ybu see. I put on this costume, so that If anybody did ask ma to tea I could stop. (Conscience stricken) I haven't asked, have I? Punch. "Is any one walUng on you" finally asked the haughty saleslady, condescending at last to notice the chopping person. "I'm. afraid not." replied the latter. "My husband was I left him outside but I'm afraid, he's becoma disgusted and jone home." Philadelphia, , Press.