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8 TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN. THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1906. Entered at the Postofflce at Portland. Or., as Second-Class Matter. SCBSCRIPTION BATES. ty INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. "3 (By Mall or Express.) DAILY. SUNDAY INCLUDED. Twelve months ?"S2 Six tnoaths o Three months One month - Delivered by carrier, per year.........' ) Delivered by carrier, per month....... Less time, per week 20 Sunday, one year 2.30 Weekly, one year (Issued Thursday)... 1.50 Sunday and Weekly, one year S.SO HOW TO KKMIT Bend postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, cola or currency are at the sender's risk. KASTE&N BUSINESS OFFICE. The 8. C. Bnckwlth Special Agency New York, rooms 4J-50, Tribune building. Chi cago, rooms MO-512 Tribune building. KEPT OX SAXE. Chicago Auditorium Annex, Postofflce News Co., 178 Dearborn street. tit. Paul. Minn. N. St. Marie, Commercial Station. Denver Hamilton & Kendrlck, 900-912 Seventeenth street; Pratt Book Store, 121 Fifteenth street; 1. 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Amidon, Federal Judge for the District of North Dakota, says In a recent number of The Outlook that the administration of the criminal law in America has 'broken down; The ma chine, he adds, has become unworkable. If this Is true. It is no more than has happened to every system of jurispru dence known to history. Instead of be ing an orderly evolution, as some imag ine, or pretend to imagine, the law In variably, when left to Itself and the lawyers, falls into chaos. It becomes confusion worse confounded. It resem bles nothing on earth quite so much aa a tropical Jungle, where thorns, toriers and creeping vines Intertwined and en tangled baffle the traveler and shelter the bloodthirsty tiger. Law begins as a plain and simple set of rules which any man can understand and which it takes no especial acuteness of Intellect to apply; but gradually, under the ma nipulation of the lawyers. It accumu lates precedents, distinctions, excep tions, contradictions and Actions, until no human Brain can remember them all and no Intellect can understand them. Gibbon tells how this process went on with the Roman law and how finally Justinian, to bring back the roaring farce of court procedure to something like common sense, set a corps of learned doctors at work sim plifying it. They may have succeeded somewhat in the attempt, but their simplified system occupied the wits of Europe for several centuries and is not too well understood, to this day. , The same thing has happened to our own law. Its rules and principles lie scattered through numberless volumes of statutes, revised and otherwise, re ports of Judicial decisions In endless array, digests, textbooks and codes. It Is beyond the power of any man even to read them all, muh less to master their contents. The state of Jurispru dence is a scandal to civilization. It Is the only product of the human mind which lays claim to the title of science and at the same time discards all the methods of science. Science tends al ways toward simplicity. It aims to sum up great bodies of fact in terse formulas like that of gravitation or Taylor's theorem In mathematics. The law tends toward diffuseness, complex ity and obscurity. Nothing could be lees of a science or present fewer like nesses to a real revolution. A visitor from a world ruled by reason would Instantly decide that our system of criminal Jurisprudence had been pro duced in a madhouse. It is like a horse tangled In a picket rope which kicks, tosses and rears and ends by throwing himself helplessly on the ground. The final outcome of the greater part of our Judicial proceedings Is simply zero, a tumble headlong to the earth and nothing more. Judge Amidon says that as long ago as 1887 some 46 per cent of our criminal cases had to be tried more than once on ac count of error in the proceedings, and since that date matters have gone from bad to worse. Of course a new trial means that the farmer one was pure waste of time, money and effort. It is so much water spilled on the sand of the desert. And the saddest circumstance of the farce is that it is so needless. In England, whose laws are substan tially the same as our own, only a trifle more than 3 per cent of criminal cases are reversed for error. Why cannot our. criminal courts work as surely and economically as those of Britain? The reason lies In a little rule which the lawyers have devised for their own emolument as they have so many other things. This ingenious and fatal rule Is that error In the trial of a case Im plies prejudice. That Is to say, the ad mission of an improper bit of evidence, no matter how trifling, an erroneous In struction to the Jury, no matter how inconsequential, nay, even the refusal of the Judge to read an Instruction which the lawyers demand, no matter how silly It may be It it is only legal any of these things is presumed to prejudice the rights of one party or the other and may be made the ground for a new trial. An instance In point is the case of the convicted packers in Kan sas City, who have filed the regulation "bill of exceptions," not one of which remotely touches the merits of their case, though under the rules of Amer ican criminal practice It will probably get a new trial for them. The higher courts do not examine the record to see whether the so-called error actually injured either party; they pre sume that it did without investigation. In England, Judge Amidon states, the practice is never to allow a new trial unless one of the parties has suffered a substantial wrong. Our criminal pro cedure Is a matter of form and cere mony where the merits of the contro versy cut little or no figure. Judge Amidon cites a case In Illinois which had been "on trial for two years and still the lawyers had not permitted the question of the gutlt or Innocence of the accused to come before the court. Criminal trials have degenerated Into a game of fox and geese, where the Judge is the goose and the lawyers are the foxes. If the Judge slips through the trial without making an error he wins the game, though this seldom hap pens. If the lawyers catch him trip ping on any point of law, even the most insignificant, they win. Hence a trial is nothing more than a contest of wits between the Judge and the lawyers. They lay traps for him, ask him all sorts of outlandish questions on ob scure and forgotten points of law, and prepare long lists of eilly "instructions" for falm to read to the Jury. . On the spur of the moment, without delibera tion, he must decide whether the in structions are proper or not; he must answer all the lawyers tricky questions like a schoolboy on examination, and if he fails in the slightest particular the higher court orders a new trial. To such a ridiculous farce has the ad ministration of criminal law descended. Judge Amidon remarks that If a man has plenty of money there is no par ticular reason why he should ever be punished for crime, and we all know that what he says is true. Hence the rule of mobs to this country to supply the defects of the law. In all the do minions of the British crown, which in clude more than one-fifth of the earth's land surface, there has not been a mob execution in the last seventy-five years. In America they grow more common every month with circumstances of In creasing cruelty and horror. For . all this we may thank the lawyers, and it is not the only debt we owe them, by any means. HERE IS THH DEFENSE. The organ of our local. ,pIuto-.rlstoc-racy now pretends to denounce "the secret work of the franchiee-grabbers" its own phrase. And who were these franchise-grabbers, pray? Its own proprietors and publishers, representatives of the first families, who stole the franchises of Portland, made the charter to fit in with the franchises and the franchisee to fit In with the charter; held back the enactment of the charter by the Legis lature till action on the franchises could be completed In the Common Council of. Portland; then went again to the Leg islature and secured an act to validate the sale of the franchises, sold them and put four million dollars into their pockets, as clear profit on the deal. This "secret work of the franchise grabbers," now confessed as such by the organ, was done by the men who have supplied and are supplying the money for publication , of this organ, are Its directors, secretary and treas urer. "But why didn't The Oregonlan pre vent our owners from stealing the franchises?" This is the substance of the organ's present plaint. "It was the business of The Oregonlan to head us off, hold - us up and prevent the steal." The Oregonlan is to blame. "It knew, or ought to have known, about our big steal; it ought to have known that we intended it. Why didn't it frustrate us? The Oregonlan is a traitor!" This is the stuff, or the substance of It, that Ladd, 'Mills, Teal et al. cause their organ to publish from day to day. Though not put quite in this way. here is the real gist of it. "We are the franchise-grabbers. We got away with the goods. Why didn't The Oregonlan stop us? It says it didn't know what we were at. Puerile excuse! It ought to have known us well enough to know that we were out for everything in sight!" THE BOUNDARY DISPUTE. The middle of the channel of a navi gable stream has from earliest days be.en used as a portion of the bound ary line between counties, states and even nations. There are so many water courses throughout the world, so locat ed that the running of a boundary line across them or around them would be awkward and Impracticable. Land lines were unable even to meetv.the re quirements of Great Britain and the United States, and when the 49th paral lel was fixed on as the 'base for a boundary between the two countries in order to avoid taking in an insignifi cant portion of Vancouver Island, it became necessary to change the word ing of the boundary description so that it read "westward along the 49th par allel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the conti nent from Vancouver Island, thence southerly through the middle of said channel and of Fuca Straits to the Pa cific Ocean." The location of the "middle of the channel," which was selected as the boundary line between Oregon and Washington, remained unquestioned for a great many years, and through possession, occupation and custom the people who have property interests in the territory which is now under dis pute at the mouth of the Columbia would seem to have rights which can not be encroached on for the purpose of adding prestige to the State of Wash ington. The main point on which the claim of Washington is based is that the ship channel has changed since the boundary was established, nearly half a century ago. This fact would hardly seem to Justify re-establishment of boundary lines .and the Jeopardizing of a large number of land titles. The channel first known as the official boundary line was the channel that for years was recognized in. the partition and sale of lands, even the Government of the United States admitting Oregon's rights by accepting from this state a deed to Sand Island, which, under the claim of the Washingtoniane, . would not have 'been under the Jurisdiction of Oregon. The shoaling of the north channel and the attendant deepening of the south channel are due only In small part to natural causes. The driving of flshtraps, dredging and building of breakwaters by the Government, and even the Jetty at the mouth of the river, have all contributed in closing to deep water navigation the old original chan nel. It was first abandoned by vessels for convenience in reaching Astoria, the only port of entry at the mouth of the river, and the Government and the peo ple nave for many years worked to deepen the south channel, while that along the north shore was abandoned. But If the contention of the Washing tonlans were admitted, and the ship channel now in use were officially es tablished as a new boundary line. It is extremely probable that a few years hence another iboundary commission would he engaged in shifting the line back where it was originally estab lished and where It properly belongs. Every one knows that there is under contemplation a Jetty which is to run seaward from the north side of the river. It Is also known that there is more than a slight prospect for a north bank railroad terminating at a point somewhere on the Washington side of the old north channel. There will be little or no difficulty In opening up the north channel above Sand Island muchjin eliminating 11,000.000 bushels of less, in fact, than was encountered In ( wheat that never existed, and a revised shifting the old channel over to the south side of the river. The action of the north Jetty on the Islands and sand spits lying Inside of the river is, of course, problematical, but with a good, strong current sweeping down the north shore from Harrington's Point it is not at all improbable that the river would again cut through the Washing ton side of Sand Island and the own ership or the territory now In dispute would again revert to Oregon, where it originally belonged and quite properly belongs. If the United States Supreme Court, which has Jurisdiction over such inter state disputes, should decide in favor of the Washtngtonians at this time, it is highly probable that the same rea sons which might now seem to demand a decision in Washington's favor would a few years hence be put forward for the purpose of again restoring the land to Oregon. An endless amount of trouble for the two states and for the property-owners will be avoided if the boundary line is permitted to remain where it has been for nearly half a century. MR. BRYAN'S CpLLAPSE. , "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." Mr. Bryan's hopes of the Presidency must be doomed to a third and final destruction, for madness has fallen upon him. What else could have made him commit the absurdity of recurring to his old free-silver doc trine and declaring that he still cher ished it? He believes in bimetallism as much as he ever did, such are his own words, and the plain inference from his remark is that the struggle for hon est money is by no means terminated. It (must all be fought over again, with what result no man knows. The East ern papers without discrimination of party take his words in this sense, and indeed no other is possible. The New York World utters a cry of execration and despair over his consummate folly. The Brooklyn Eagle, which has never loved i Bryan, Joyously shouts "I told you so" and quotes the lamentations of the World in glee. Had Mr. Bryan set out with the dis tinct purpose to turn the coming Con gressional elections in favor of the Re publicans and ruin his own aspirations to the Presidency, he could have de vised nothing more effectual than this London speech reviving the dead and buried heresy of free silver. It has chilled the enthusiasm of his friends. It has heartened his enemies in his own party. It has encouraged the Republi cans with hopes of victory in sections where, up to the publication of his speech, they expected defeat. It more than counterbalances the expected stand-pat article in the forthcoming Republican textbook. The Nation can perhaps endure the exactions of the tariff for a few more years, but the horrors of repudiation it will not en dure. Mr. Bryan's London pronouncement show3 that, contrary to almost uni versal opinion, he has advanced little In wisdom or power of thought during the years of his enforced retirement. With the ample opportunity for reflec tion upon his past follies which he has enjoyed it was reasonable to suppose that he had discerned some of his more flagrant errors and resolved to dis card them. But nothing of the kind has happened. The most flagrant and patent of them all he still hugs to his bosom like a beloved infant and doubt less he will continue to hug It till the end of his days. In his method of dealing with the money question Mr. Bryan shows that he cannot distinguish between pighead ed obstinacy and consistency. What ever opinions he has once expressed, right or wrong, have thereby become sacred to him, and he will always hold them. In his own estimation, he can make no mistakes. His views must never change. He aspires to imitate tVm Almieihtv in hpfne-'the same ves- terday, today and forever; what he at tains is a perpetuity- of folly. Those who hoped that the Democratic party had at last found in Mr. Bryan a leader with a resolute patriotism, a power of thought and a determined will which would make him a worthy rival of the best men in the Republican party must now confess to disappointment; and the disappointment is serious, for the wel fare of the country is safest when the range of ability in both parties is high. Whom will the Democrats find' now to replace their idol 60 quickly and irre trievably fallen? THE CROP-DAMAGE BUGABOO. The crop-damage scares, which have been put in circulation in the Pacific Northwest in the last three weeks, are perhaps no worse than those of a num ber of seasons in the past. Neither is the damage actually done to the wheat crop by the hot weather of more serious proportions than that of 'a number of former seasons. But the effect of this general disposition to make a bad mat ter worse is more serious than in any former season, for the reason that there are hundreds of new homeseekers com ing Into the country and they are likely to get the impression that we are sub ject to crop failures, and some of them will return to their old homes, while others will go to Canada, where land Is cheaper and crop damage Just as great and much more frequent. It Is still too early to determine the exact amount of damage caused by the excessively hot weather. This much is knonVn, however: There has been no damage to the Winter wheat, which, as every one knows, is the important crop of the Pacific Northwest. The Willam ette Valley will harvest the largest wheat crop that It has had since 1901, and there is a large amount of early- sown Spring grain that has been shriv- eled so that it will make a poor crop, while a few fields of late-sown Spring grain will, as usual, be cut for hay, Even with the hottest weather we have ever had, accompanied fey hot winds, there Is no possibility of cutting the total crop down to anywhere near the crop of 1896, which was the nearest ap proach to a crop failure that we have had In more than fifteen years. The tendency to overestimate crop damage is proverbial. Some of It is due to the Inability of the estimators to take any but a pessimistic view of lthe situation. Another cause, and one largely responsible for the spread of crop-damage news of the sesational type, is a desire to make the crop' fit the wild guesses and estimates put out early in the season by crop experts who never care to be hampered by facts. One of this class figured out a few weeks ago and printed an estimate of 60,000,000 bushels of wheat for the 1906 crop In Oregon, Washington and Idaho, As there has never been a possibility that this year's crop for the three states, both Spring and Winter wheat. would exceed oo.uoo.ooo bushels, even under the . most . favorable . clrcum stances, the hot wave was quite useful estimate appeared placing the crop at 49,000,000 bushels. Even this figure was found to be too high; so, in order to give some semblance of accuracy to these wild "guesses," another wave of Journal istic crop damage swept over the Northwest. If It creates the same havoc as that which eradicated, elim inated and obliterated 11,000.000 bushels at one "swipe," the next estimate wHl be almost too small. With the Win ter wheat safe, a big crop In the Valley and much of the early-sown Spring wheat only slightly damaged, and the late-sown Spring grain not a total loss, the 1906 wheat crop In the three states Is anything but a failure, and will not fall much more than 15 per cent behind that of last year. It is noticeable that the Summer park concerts are growing in favor among the class of people for whose pleasure they were chiefly planned. The home element is largely represented in the crowds that flock to these concerts. This Is perhaps especially true of the East Side and other small parks that are surrounded by the homes of the indus trial or middle class. At Hawthorne Park, for example, on Tuesday even ing several thousand people assembled. They were of the orderly class, well dressed, cheerful and Intent upon en Joying the companionship of friends and neighbors not less than upon lis tening to the music of the band. The showing in Intelligence, in sociability. in thrift, in all that goes to make up good citizenship with the home as Its basis and children as its guarantee for the future, was one of which the resi dents of any city or section might well be proud. The safeguard of these park gatherings is In the fact that parents attend them with their children and that young people of the self-respecting class find In them social attractions which are void of excitement, whole some and rational. "Big fleas have little fleas to bite 'em, and so on down ad Infinitum." Thus twanged some one on his tuneful lyre, putting more point than poetry in the couplet, and now the system of which he sang is working Just over the line In Canada. When the little brown men began swarming Into the province a few years ago they ousted the white' laborers from the sawmills and even from the shipyards. Now comes the story that the Hindoos are coming over in such numbers that the Mikado's men are in a fair way t6 meet the same fate which they Inflicted on the whites. If that ancient world in the East whose civilization was centuries old when ours began has any more offscourings which it is desirous of working off on this Western world, it might be well to hurry them along, for the time is ap proaching when the bars will go up with a rush and there will be no cracks through which even a Hindoo could crawl. The competition of Southern pine in the lumber markets of the West is fre quently given by the Pacific Coast lum bermen as a reason for lower railroad rates. The supposition has always been that the Southerners were favored by rates more advantageous than those ot tered Western shippers. A dispatch from Pensacola, Fla., however, discloses another reason why the Southern lum berman can undersell his Northern competitor. According to this dispatch the Jackson Lumber Company, the largest Institution in the South, makes slaves of its employes, pays them but tl per day, and when the underpaid and underfed men object they are flogged by the good, old method of ante-bellum days. A dollar a day with a flogging thrown in would hardly attract a large force to a Portland lumber mill. The Pacific Coast Company, which operates a line of steamers between San Francisco and Seattle, launched another big 400-foot passenger ship at an Eastern yard a few days ago. The company's .passenger steamers are now making Tegular trips and are taking care of the business offered. The Har- riman line Is operating fewer steamers and poorer steamers and at less fre quent intervals than twenty years ago, The advent of the Hill lines will be a blessing to Portland in this respect, if in no other, for Mr. Hill will not over look the opportunity to reap the golden harvest that Is now available for every ancient tub that can pass inspection. but that seems to be calmly Ignored by the Harrlman system. John Sharp Williams Insists that Mr. Bryan shall give tap his notion about public ownership of railroads if the Solid South Is to support him; and the Northern Democracy insists that he shall give up free silver and a few other theories. Bryan would make a great run if he would only make It on a plat form repudiating Bryanism. Having involuntarily Joined the grow ing. Oregon Order of U. I.s, there are many gentlemen who would like to withdraw. Ten dissatisfied members yesterday filed with Judge Hunt mo tions to dissolve their membership. It Is needless to say that the talismanic U. I. stands for Under Indictment. According to a London cablegram Mr. Bryan was lunched Tuesday. We may expect to hear that he was boot blacked the next day or was automo biled to one of the suburbs or was slept at the Hotel Cecil. In corrupting the language England keeps quite as busy as the United States. The law treats all alike. The poor must pay taxes as well as the rich. So the Supreme Court knocks out the $300 exemption. Possibly a way will now open up for the poor to dodge taxes as well as the rich; and then everybody will be happy everyibody but the rich. The Inter-Parliamentary Union is wasting a lot of valuable time and en, ergy talking about a permanent peace tribunal, when this country has already established one in the person of Theo dore Roosevelt. Possibly under the laws of Washing ton first cousins cannot marry. But, In the case of Mr. Tarpley, he did marry his cousin. Now what is the law going to do about it? Milkmen outside of the trust are cut ting the price two bits a quart a month. This is well, but what Portland1 demands in the present warm season is clean milk. The English have let out the terrible secret that the Dreadnaught Is the greatest fighting machine in the world. The navy's press agent did it. It would appear to be proper for the great order of U. I s to establish a sick benefit fund. MR. BRYAN'S FATAL MISTAKE. Alarms the Conservative Democracy With Hla Old-Time Views. New York World (Dam.) Bryan and "Republican luck." Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soul from trouble," said the wisest of wise men. Llkewtea he may keep the souls of others from trouble. The words of Salomon are re spectfully, commended to the considera tion of William Jennings Bryan. A week ago the Democrats of the coun try were looking forward with enthusiasm to a new order of things. After ten years of internecine warfare. In which the party sustained three defeats each more disastrous than the other, the tac tions seemed at last to have been united. By tacit agreement the old Issues were to be Ignored and the old quarrels for- gotten. The slate was sponged off. Mr. Bryan was accepted as the leader of the party and the Inevitable nominee for President in 1908. Elaborate preparations had been made for his reception when he arrived in New York. Half a dozen Democratic state conventions had for mally Indorsed him. The lower house of the Louisiana Legislature had demanded his nomination. Distinguished Democrat ic leaders gold, silver and otherwise j had acclaimed him as the logical candi date. Some of them, like John Sharp Williams, did not hesitate to predict his election. Mr. Bryan, with a proper regard for the proprieties, had refused to announce his candidacy and had protested against being placed in the attitude of a candi date. To use his own words, "I pre fer to be in a position to say what I think ought to be said, to write what I think ought to be written, and to do what I think ought to be done." As It would be two years before the conven tion met, he was unwilling "to sit on a stool and look pre' ty that long." e Mr Bryan succeeded In sitting on a stool and looking pretty for about a week. Then without any particular reason or Justification he unexpectedly Issued a statement that did not define his posi tion on the probable issues of 1908, but defended his position upon the issues of 19S. "I am more radical than I was In 1896," he declares, "and have nothing to withdraw on economic questions which have been under discussion." He still be lieves in "bimetallism," and as in 1696 he proclaimed himself a bimetalllst rather than a sliver monometallism it is inferred that he still believes in the heaven-born ratio and the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1. He is confident that "the restora tion of silver would bring Btlll further prosperity," but admits that the increased production of gold "has for the present removed the silver question as an Is sue." see But 'for the present" Is a vague and disquieting expression. Does it mean for a year, or for two years, or for five years, or whenever there is another failure of crops? When hard times come again, as they will, does Mr. Bryan expect to in augurate another campaign to make us all prosperous by cutting the dollar in two? vHls language warrants almost any Inference that anybody cares to draw from It, and the Republican press of the country has enthusiastically welcomed his statement under the headline "Same Old Bryan." Even It is at a loss to un derstand how a candidate who wished to tear down the whole financial foundation of. a nation's business, commerce and in dustry ten years ago can now accom plish the feat of being still more radical. The dismay produced in Democratic cir cles by Mr. Bryan's statement is hardly less noticeable than the delight mani fested among Republicans. Nobody de manded that Mr. Bryan apologize for his former attitude on the money question or publicly recant or beat his breast and cry "Mea culpa!" All that anybody asked of him was a moderate recognition of the principle, much as he himself once laid down, that "changing conditions make new issues." Instead Mr. Bryan has seen fit to drag the corpse of free silver out of Its grave and assure the country that It Is not dead but sleeping. When he' de clares that he Is In fact more radical than he was in 1896, It Is to be presumed that he has changed in no way for the better and has learned nothing. It is perhaps unfair, but nevertheless possible, to as sume that he will stan by all his issues of ten years ago, including the threat to "reorganize" the Supreme Court of the United States and the attack upon "gov ernment by injunction." It is needless to say that Mr. Bryan In mistaking stubbornness for consistency is practically turning the Presidency over to the Republican party again, giving It a walkover in 1908, as it had in 1S96, 1900 and 1904. His statement has already dis tinctly clouded Democratic prospects In the Congressional campaign next Fall and has helped to make possible so large a Republican majority in the House that Mr. Roosevelt's re-election will become a certainty, even against his own will. True, there may be a reaction and a re turn of Democratic sense after there has been an opportunity to reflect on the re sults of the state and Congressional elec tions next Fall and the off-year elections in the Fall of 1907. But the situation, nev ertheless, demonstrates the advisability of taking Mr. Bryan at his word and not forcing a nomination upon him two years in advance of the National Convention, His remarkable popularity among demo crats must be conceded. In spite of his mistakes, but the election Is not going to be held until the Fall of 1908. Much may happen within the next . two years, as much hag happened within the last two years. The real issues of the next Na tional campaign are yet to be defined. The results of this year's and next year's elections, the results of the last session of the Fifty-ninth Congress and the first session of the Sixtieth Congress, may play strange pranks .with men and with meas ures. e e It will be nearly two years before the public sentiment that manes Presidential issues can be prepared to make the wisest nomination of a Presidential candidate. But as matters now stand and In view of Mr. Bryan's carefully, prepared state ment, could his renomlnation for Presi dent In 1908 prevent another fight over free silver and the dead Issues of two pre vious . campaigns, with the Inevitable re sult? "It is not well to be wiser than events, said Samuel J. Tilden to Martin Van Buren. Whenever the Democratic party attempts it, a new chapter is opened In the record of "Republican luck." The tesgwertlM Going: to Twicer. Pittsburg Dispatch. Mr. and Mrs. Longwortb are going to Constantinople. The Sultan Is reported to be anxious to show honor to Presi dent Roosevelt s daughter. He has or dered a dinner in honor of her and her husband at the Summer palace, and there will be an Illuminated regatta oa the Golden Horn. A RUDE BUT USEFUL, MAN. Wo One Ever Aeenaed Senator Tillman of Shirking; Trouble. New York World. Colonel W. W. Lumpkin having decided not to be a candidate for United States Senator In South Carolina, there will probably be no opposition in the State Legislature to the re-election of Mr. Till man. There should be none. To the person who esteems dignity above other qualities in a Senator Mr. Tillman leaves much to be desired. The gentleman from South Carolina is not dignified. His manners are often un couth and his behavior turbulent. He to "a rude man," as he himself once ad mitted in debate. But there are so many gentlemen of exquisite courtesy In the Senate that one rude man Is invaluable. He can tell the unpleasant truths which ought to be told at times, but which other members hesitate to tell. Mr. Till man 1b not only morally, but intellectually honest. And he has not only fidelity, but courage. He fights not only with his brain and tongue, but sometimes, unfor tunately, with his fists. Nobody ever ac cused him of shirking trouble, whether it was the championship of an unpopular cause or the choking of a colleague who had ventured to give him the lie. He Is the embodiment of freedom of debate. It cannot be said that Mr. Tillman's Judgment" Is very trustworthy, or that be is profoundly learned, or that he is a master of statecraft, but he does not pretend to be. He is satisfied to be a cornfield lawyer," with the courage of his convictions and a readiness to cham pion them at any time. A Senate com posed entirely of Tillmans would never transact much business, although It would make plenty of work for the ser-geant-at-arms, but one such man is a vital necessity to offset the Aldriches, the Platts, the Penroses and the Dicks. PEARY IS NOW GONE A YEAR. No Word Front Him Since He Van ished In Arctic Ice. v Brooklyn Times. Commander Robert L. Peary left New York on the Rooi evelt for the Far North Just one year ago, and no word has come from him since he dis appeared into the frozen wilderness of the Arctic zone. Friends have anx iously awaited news from him. They confidently expected a message of some kind in May or June. But it did not come, and not a few of the intrepid explorer's admirers are worried at his long absence. This worry, however, is not shared by the members of the American Geo graphical Society, who have stated all along that no word could be expected from Peary until this Fall. The Peary Arctic Club also does not feel uneasy at the absence of news from Its head. H. D. Bridgman, secretary of the club. stated that word could hardly come from the commander until September of this year. "And even then," he continued, -will be somewhat early. If he discovers the pole he might get free of the ice In August, and we would get news oi his triumph soon afterward. But if he failed we would) know nothing until November, when the whalers would sail back into Dundee with news of hi3 expedition." Peary planned to have his headquar ters 350 miles north of Cape Sabine. From that point he said he would make his Journey to the pole, a dis tance of 600 miles across a desert of ice and snow,' with the cutting winds howling over it. The final dash he ex pected to make in a month or six weeks. Making his observations, he would return to his headquarters, await the breaking up of the ice and then make for New York. Grent-Grandson of "Davy" Crockett. John Wesley Crockett, Deputy Sec retary of State in Arkansas and can didate for president of the State Rail road Commission, is a great-grandBon of "Davy" Crockett, hero of the Alamo. Among his most cherished possessions are the gold watch and the "rifle gun" of his illustrious ancestor. The rifle was the gift of 500 young Whigs, his admirers, in Philadelphia. The Deadheads Weren't Counted. New York Press. There were 34,000 paying visitors to Shakespeare's house, at Stratford-on-Avon, last' year, many more than in any previous year. Seventy national ities were represented. More than 18, 00D persons visited on payment Anne Hathaway's cottage. About 10,000 of these visitors came from the United States. Who Bides His Time. James Whltcomb Riley. Who bides his time, and day by day Faces defeat full patiently: And lifts a mirthful roundelay, However poor his fortunes be He will not fall In any qualm Of poverty the paltry dime It will grow golden In his palm. Who bides his time. Who bides his time he tastes the sweet Of honey In the saltest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet, Joy runs to meet htm, drawing near. The birds are heralds of his cause; And, like a never-ending rhyme. The roadsides bloom in his applause. Who bides his time. Who bides his time, and fevers not In the hot race that none achieves. Shall wear cool-wreathen laurel, wrought With crimson berries In the leaves; And he shall reign a goodly king. And sway his hand o'er every clime With peace writ on his signet-ring. Who bides his time. HOW MUCH LONGER mi .ijij'irji ' MAKEUP OF RUSSIAN DOVMA. Twenty-two Distinct reoples Are Rep. reaented in It. St. Petersburg Cable Dispatch. Twenty-two dhstinct peoples are repre sented in that remarkable body, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, as fol lows; Oreat Russians, 265; Little Russians. 62; White Russians, 12: Polesi 51: Lithu anians, 10; Letts. 6; Germans, 4; Tatars. 8: Bashkirs. 4: Klrghts, 1: Circassian. 1; Mordvanians (Finnish tribe on the Vol ga), ; Votiak (also Finnish tribe). 2; Jews, 13; Bulgarians, 1; Chuvas (Finnish tribe). 1; Roumanian. 1; Kalmuk, 1; Georgians, 5; Armenians, 4; Ossetines, 1; Buriats, 2. By religions the members are divided as follows: 'Russians, orthodox, 33); Catholics. 63: Protestants. 13: Old Believ ers, 4: -Baptists, 1; Jews, 11; Mohamme dan, 14: Buddhists, 1: no religion, 1. By classes the membership consists of 164 noblemen, 204 peasants. 14 clergymen. 20 merchants, 12 Cossacks, 21 burghers, 14 scattered. With regard to education a large pro portion 1S4 in number never attended any kind of schools. 111 went through the lower grade, 61 through the middle, and 1S9 either finished or partly finished uni versity courses. In spite of the large number that never attended school, only two are unable to read or write. By parties the members are classified as follows: Constitutional Democrats, 153; Group of Toil. 107: Autonomous, 63; Party of Democratic Reforms, 4: Octo- berists, 13; Moderates, 2; Trade and In dustry, 1; unclassified, lOo. The averajse age of the members is 39. When the elections In Siberia and Cen tral Asia are completed the Douma will consist of 624 members. Confusing- Advice On Marring. New York World. Police Magistrate Luke J. Connorton says that "to be single is hell." This is very confusing. A high Western author ity has said that to be married In St. Joe, Mich., is hell. Meaning, presumably, that hasty marriages are often impru dent. But let Mr. connorton develop his Idea: "Of ten men more than 30 years old who come before me, nine are unmar ried. "All men who wish to succeed should marry; there are few single men who are truly great. My advice to men is, marry young. My advice to any girl Is, If you are certain a young man loes you and he hesitates to pop the question, help him along to it. Talk to him about the advantages of marriage and he will pro pose and be grateful all his life." Judge Connorton's sociological statis tics about the relative 111 behavior of married and single men agree with the higher authorities and will not be re versed. Married men do behave better than single ones not always cheerfully; they have to. As to men who succeed there is no rule. Kipling says: "He travels far thest who travels alone." The Connor ton rule of moderate success is correct no doubt. Unusual or remarkable suc cess follows no rule: It is the exception. A Gift of Hose to Show Gratitude. New York Press. Striving to show her gratitude for aid in her search for her lost daughter, a Swedish woman has sent to A. A. Adee, Assistant Secretary of State, a gift of hosiery. The stockings are long and of the native wool, about an Inch thick, but Adee appreciates the gift. He says that with the feet cut off they will make ideal bicycle hose, and he is one of the few ardent wheel men left in public life. Adee spends his Summer cycling through Europe, and his outlay in woolen hose is heavy. Such knitting as the Swedish matron put Into her gift is not to be matched in hOFe bought in shops; In fact, Adee says, knitting is a lost art on this con tinent. Made a Living; Tasting- Tea. New York Sun. Albert P. Rose, one of the most ex pert tea-tastess in the West, is dead at San Francisco, after a long illness. Rose was born in Chatham, O., and became famous there as a specialist In tea. On one occasion 200 varieties of tea were steeped and placed before him, and by taste he was able to tell name, quality and value of each. A Mary Window by Marys. London Mall. A stained-glass window Is to be erected in St. Mary's Church, Bulphan, Essex, England, to be known as the "Mary" window. It will be subscribed for entirely by women bearing the name of Mary. Where Is the Center of America? Richmond Times-Dispatch. Central America is only a geographi cal name, the real center of Amerioa being Oyster Bay. Desire Singra. T. Sturge Moore In the Outlook. If only I were the Sky, What days would be thine! No more than .thou wouldst of a kind. Whether sunshine, or shower, or wind! If the Heavens above thee were I, How the stars would shine! What a friend the moon would be To guard or companion thee! Thy days then sheuldst fill like a rill That has fotrnd the best Of seaward paths, and gay Tpkea redded In flowers Its way. Were mine but the life of a hm But were I the West, Thou shouldst sink all beauty and light Home to my heart every nlgnt. WILL HE HOLD ON ? -From the New Tork American.