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Potts A Roeder,. Pine Beach, Va- W. A. Cosgrova. PORTLAND, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1907. WE, TOO, HAVE A RIGHT TO BALL TILE SEAS. ' It la not questioned that our island possessions, both in the Pacific and the Atlantic, make lor us a situation in which defense hereafter will be more difficult in war, should war come, and come some time it will. Cost of neces sary preparation for possible war will also be greatly increased, through pos session of these islands, and through necessity of keeping them in posture of defense. But not, therefore, should It be concluded -that they are a source of weakness to us, or should tie aban doned; for they are stations for com merce and outposts for establishment and maintenance of our commercial in fluence and power. It is so, especially as to our islands in the Pacific; for upon this great ocean the new con test for commercial pre-eminence Is to be waged among the nations, and our country faces the Pacific as well as the Atlantic. We are to contend for the empire of Pacific commerce; the contest has fairly begun, and our naval prepara tions, as well as our commercial ports, must be adjusted to the requirements. Large part of the naval war power of the United States will be kept hence forth in the Pacific; and though there is no sure appearance of war soon to come, yet a beginning must be made for possibilities. These we suppose to be the reasons why so many vessels of our navy are now .to be placed in Pacific waters. We believe it to be mere gratuitous assumption that this order is made in anticipation of serious trouble, perhaps war, with Japan. A row in a Japan ese restaurant in San Francisco is no "teterrima causa." The assumption that there is danger of war from such a cause is merely ludicrous, worthy merely of such treatment as it re ceived through the light chaff blown by Philosopher Dooley. Interests of the United States and Japan are not in conflict. They clash nowhere, and if Japan has ambitions that may clash some time with the interests of the United States, nothing of the sort yet appears. Still, it Is possible. But Japan was exhausted bf the Russian War. To no nation in ex tremity was peace ever a greater boon. Japan would have lost the fight, sim ply through exhaustion, had it contin ued; and now what she needs above all things is rest and recuperation. In a sense, Japan is a protege of the United States. It was by the United States that the door was opened through which Japan entered into the world and into the family of nations. he now has opportunity to become a regenerating and rejuvenating force In the Orient, and ought never to be an enemy of the United States; for the United States can have no wish to check or block any of her legitimate aspirations. Japan needs time to es tablish her Influence In Corea, and to adjust her relations with China., and in the nature of thing the United States and Great Britain will be her friends. There is no ground, then, for a war scare. It is in the newspapers, main ly, which report the sayings of the quid nuncs of conjectural politics. Nevertheless, the new theater of the world's affairs, in which our own coun try now has a special and at all times will have a growing interest, is the Pacific Ocean and the countries that border it. If we are to have a naval force at all, this ocean is the place for large part of it. Our rights and inter ests will bo guaranteed by its pres ence upon ,a theater where diplomacy is less formal and affairs less settled than in Atlantic countries; and our best safeguard against sudden aggres sions will consist in preparations that will have a tendency to discourage them. But this policy is not a menace to Japan, or to any- other nation. We shall not, however, ask Japan or any other nation whether we may Increase our fleet in either of the great oceans that bound our country- As Japan did rot consult us as to what naval force she shouid establish In the Pa neither shall we consult Japan. We certainly are no more threatening her than she threatens us. No nation of the Orient ever may be our enemy; but there is no wisdom in leaving out Pacific States, our Pacific Islands and Pacific commerce, without preparations for protection and de fense. The Pacific Ocean is not our lake, but It Is nobody's more than ours. THE GREED OF SUBSIDY. " The Oregonian has always main tained that much of the misrepresenta tion regarding the ocean carrying trade of the world is due to Ignor ance. The great American public, as a rule, far removed from immediate con tact with the subject, knows, in a gen eral way, that the bulk of our ocean carrying trade is no .longer handled by American ships. The publicity bureau of the ship-subiidy seekers, at an enor mous annual expenditure, endeavors to show that this decline of the American ship is due to lack 'of governmental aid. As facts and figures have repeat edly shown, it is too much Government Interference, Instead of not enough Government aid; that Is responsible for much of the scarcity of American ton nage on the high seas. Despite the frequent publication of these irrefuta ble facts on the subject, misrepresenta tion through ignorance is still in evi dence.- The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, ibecoming confused over the threatened prosecution of the Atlantic shipping trust (organized by J. P. Morgan, American ship-subsidy seeker), says: How strong, far-reaching, and compact Is this organisation can be seen by a re cent experience on this coast. The Port land Oregonian, which is always hostile to American ships and which, ordinarily re fuses to recognise the existence of any Eu ropean combination of shipowners having for an object the defeat of any legislation to aid American shipping, is at the present time rejoicing over the fact that the ship ping trust has abandoned its differentials ra favor of Puget Sound and will charter ves sels to load at Portland at the same rate as is charged Seattle and Tacoma. The International Sailing-Ship Own ers' Union, which is the trust fo which the Seattle paper alludes, has for four years maintained a minimum rate of 27s 6d per ton of 2240 pounds from Portland to Europe. Until recently Puget Sound has been granted a dif ferential of Is 3d per ton. When the trust was formed The Oregonian pre dicted that, while the trust could fix any rate it saw fit, the business would still be subject to the law of supply and demand. As a result of this law, in no season since the organization of the trust has 30 per cent of the wheat shipments of the Pacific Northwest gone forward In vessels owned by the members of the trust. The remainder has been shipped in German, Norwe gian, French, British, Dutch, Russian and Japanese vessels not In the com bine, at rates, from 1 shilling to 6 shill ings under the minimum fixed by the trust. At its June meeting the trust decided to cling to the 27s 6d rat for another season,, but not a single trust vessel has been chartered, and exporters to day can charter ships enough to carry the entire crop of the Pacific North west at rates from Is 3d to 2s 6d under the trust rate. The trust rate on wheat from Seattle to Europe, a distance of 14,000 miles, is' 17.4 cents .per bushel. The American shipowners' rate in the protected coastwise zone from Seattle to San Francisco, a distance of 700 miles, is 10.S cents per , bushel. Thus do our producers suffer at the hands of a foreign trust, which for more than four years has been unable to maintain .rates sufficiently remuner ative to pay for the paint on the ships. Oregon and Washington graingrow- e.Wh Jeall the 40-shilllng and 5H shilling freights which preceded the days of the trust, will rejoice In Its ex istence. They would like, however, to have a proportionately large amount of tonnage and low freights to draw on when shipping to San Francisco. A foreign trust, which carries our prod ucts to markets at less than one- twelfth the rate per ton per mile that is exacted by a "home-market"-pro- tected trust, can never seriously injure the producers of the country. Once more, why complain that' the foreigner carries our freight for less money than we can do it ourselves? It is a question that never has been answered; never will be answered. "The interests," having exhausted, ap parently, the resources of robbery on land, now are looking towards the sea as the best remaining resource. And so persistent, so fierce for prey are they, that It is found as difficult to beat them off or beat them back as to get clear of a pack of pursuing wolves, ravening in a Russian forest. THREE WEAK CASES. Spokane people, who seek ocean ter minal rates, although not favored with an ocean terminal; Puget Sound millers, who seek a joint rate to "en able them to depress wheat prices, and Washington lumbermen, who wish to appropriate Oregon's railroad facilities and equipment for their own use, do not regard with favor The Oregonian's attitude on these questions. In these particular cases, the railroads happen to have right and Justice on their side, and' yet The Oregonian is censured for approving their course in the matter. The Spokane rate case attracted much attention in the East, and as the news papers there were far removed from the scene of the trouble, they could not legitimately be accused of favoritism. Yet writers for those papers do not offer the slightest encouragement of a favorable decision for Spokane. "It Is generally believed," says the New York Journal of Commerce, "that the commission will decide the case against Spokane, giving a great victory to the Hill and Harriman roads and preserving the present rate situation in the mountain and Pacific States from reorganization." The same paper, in an extended comment on the argument of Brooks Adams, the Spokane attor ney, said that Mr. Adams declined to answer questions of a very specific character. ' "He was making an expo sition," says the writer, "of the phil osophy of transportation as he con ceived it, not answering hard ques tions. Mr. Adams' philosophy was ex cellent, but his Information was lim ited." The testimony introduced In the Spokane case was so clear and con vincing and of such unimpeachable nature that it could not be successfully combated. Divested of needless verbl a'ge, this testimony said that Spokane was not entitled to seaport terminal rates because she was not a seaport terminal. As Mr. Adams would not argue that black was white, or that white was black, he simply, ignored the testimony and turned his attention to theory and philosophy. The joint wheat rate case Is another in which the testimony is remarkably plain and clear cut. Puget Sound mill ers, having no railroad it certain por tions of Oregon and Washington, Insist that the road traversing these locall IflcJLties shall, at the nearest Junction pointJLthan the average ags of marriage la jiaasajJL turn over to a Puget Sound road wheat which otherwise would be hauled to tidewater by the line that had. suffi cient enterprise to open up the country. As a ruse to cover the real object, an attempt was made to show that wheat sold at higher prices at Puget Sound ihan at Portland. This, of course, was easily disproved by the buyers' records, as well as by public quotations. The Washington lumbermen's griev ance was the refusal of the O. R. & N. to grant them a Joint rate and supply them with cars for shipping lumber through Portland to territory where Oregon dealers are now shipping. whenever they can get sufficient cars. I As the O. R & N. has neither cars, i locomotives nor trackage sufficient for j beauty and great promise of abun handllng the business offered by the dance. Hop vines are growing luxivl Oregon mills, the -injustice of the de- antiy over hundreds of well-cultivated mand is strikingly apparent. The Ore gonlan "stands in" with the railroads on these three cases for the same rea son that It "stands out" with them on their policy of bottling up certain lo calities in Oregon, of giving poor train service and of general delinquency in other directions. In both cases it Is discharging a duty which it owes the readers. THE BONE OF CONTENTION. A Paris special in yesterday's Orego nian contained a prediction from a well-known French writer of Impend ing war between Japan and Germany. In discussing the belligerent attitude of the Japanese, this French writer states: "Their pride and conoeit and their desire to become the supreme power in Asia will drive the Japanese into risky undertakings,, and, from my long stay among them, I know that the Japanese have no higher desire than to return, crowned with laurels won on European battlefields. The French man's prediction will hardly be fulfilled in the immediate future, for a good many reasons, not the least of which is lack of funds. For, while Japan might be over in Germany, subjugating the Vaterland, the watchful Muscovite or some other neighbor would swoop down on the territorial collateral in the Far East and leave the Mikado without a base of supplies or anything to pledge for them. War between Japan and Germany will probably be deferred, for the rea son that war with the United States Is not imminent. Germany has a strong foothold in the trade of the Far East and is now exploiting the field on a more comprehensive scale than ever. The necessity for a continuation of the open-door policy Is, In her case, of per haps more importance than in that of the United States. Both these coun tries and England, also, have commer cial interests at, stake in territory over which Japan would like to exercise su preme control. The United States and other powers which will insist on the continuation of the open-door policy viewed with mild indifference the Japanning process that has been going on in Corea. Even in the case of that country, it is not clear that we fulfilled our duty, which was to assist in protecting the integrity of the unfortunate country. But the rapidity and thoroughness .with which, according to the glowing reports own use all of the Corean trade has given the United States, Germany and all the rest of the powers an illustra tion of what may happen in Manchuria, which, according to the glowing reports we have received of its wonderful trade possibilities, is really worth fighting over. . The most of the wars that have oc curred since the world began have been in a considerable degree due to trade rivalry and desire for territorial acqul- flltion: The japanese msiy be imbued with a great desire to crown tiiemselves with laurels won on a European battle field, but It will not be their pride and conceit that will afford them an open ing, if there shall be an opening. The cause will be the attempt of Japan to monopolize for her own private exploi tation the vast Manchurian country, which is about to be opened up for de velopment. All of the great powers of the earth wish to share in that trade, and if Japan undertakes to shut any of them out there will be much more trouble than she can stir up with com plaints over the mild Incidents which ha-rfe disturbed her in California. There Is no special harm ' being done while Japan Is doing her little Ajax-defylng-the-lightnlng stunt, but while basking In the limelight she should not forget that the task of conquering some coun tries Is greater than that of .winning victory over others. LOW FEB CENT OF MARRIAGES. Yale men will be interested in an article by Bolacd M. Byrnes, an under graduate, recently published In the Yale Alumni Weekly under the title of "Exhaustive Studies of Ratios of Mar riages, Occupations and Births in Yale Classes of 1867-1886." Heretofore the statistician delving Into these matters has confined himself to data concern ing college women; hence, the findings of Mr. Byrnes are, like his question, unique. He asks, "Does the college graduate tend tb remain single, and does he defer his marriage longer than the average citizen?" He figured the total number of men in the classes from '67 to '86, omitting '79, '80 and '81, for which no accurate data could be ob tained, at 2066, and the number married at 1269. Here he says: "We see that only 61.4 per cent of Yale graduates marry within 20 years after leaving college." In these classes were 699 lawyers, of whom 398 had married; 182 doctors, of whom 108 had married; 232 educa tors, of whom 163 had married; 155 ministers, of whom 119 had married; 156 merchants, of whom 82 had mar ried; and 431 grouped under the head of miscellaneous occupations, of whom 267 had married. His deduction Is rather , surprising. He says: "As we should expect those who enter the min istry or education are' most prone to marriage, while lawyers and mer chants are more backward about tak ing the leap." Why we should expect this Is not clear, unless It is because men of these professions are considered less practical than their brethren of law and medicine, who, the chronicler finds, defer marriage from two to three years longer on an average than do ministers and teachers. Pursuing the study into the 'realm of posterity, It was found, that the average percentage of children born to the married men in the classes of 1867-86, inclusive, was 2.02. The clergy again lead here, lawyers and educators coming next, while merchants are at the foot of the column. Summing up the subject, this chron icler says: Nearly half the total number of Tale graduates in the classes of 1867-86 have en tered law or education. Over two-thirds of them have entered professions, making the graduate body a distinctly professional classl They marry approximately In their 29th or 30th year, more than two years later chusetts. but somewhat earlier than the average ..age of marriage of the liberal pro fessions In England. Those who enter the mercantile are unique for the fact that, though they marry earliest, they have tne lowest fecundity and the smallest per cent of thr number married within 20 years after graduation of any of the occupational groups. There seem to be more who re main bachelors among college graduates than among the general community, but In comparison with the liberal professions in ether countries thoy do not appear so un favorably. The clergy do. their best teward Increasing the population, but their efforts pale before the results achieved by the fathers of students now or recently in college. The Willamette Valley Is (possessed at thi ,ftaKon of the year of wonderful acres; grain Is rank ana green or tipped with harvest yellow; from the foliage of apple and prune trees the as surance of abundance glistens; hay cocks of clover and timothy dot the meadows,, and the growth of potato vines and gardens proclaim the benefi cence of timely rains. The whole Val ley, indeed, is a garden spot made beautiful by wild growths between cul tivated fields and orchards. Were the railway service what It ought to be a trip from Portland - to the California line, "with stopovers," Just now would be delightful. But with trains from two to twelve hours late, the coaches wretchedly overcrowded and far from clean, the trip Is wanting in the pleas ures of travel, though the smiling abundance Is on every hand. The planet Mars presented Its (Treat red disk to the earth last night at a distance of only 88,000,000 miles or thereabouts. Its advances were met by turning upon Its glorious face the most powerful telescopes, and the most approved stereoptic and photographic apparatus known to science. As Mars is our nearest celestial neighbor on the outside, we would naturally like to learn something definite about its much talked-of inhabitants and their ways of doing. The death of Judge Charles Swayne, of the United States District Court of Florida, recalls the famous attempt to impeach him for "high crimes and misdemeanors" some years ago. After a trial In Jthe United States Senate, which lasted six weeks, Judge Swayne was acquitted by a partisan vote, A significant commentary upon this case and its ending is found in the fact that the trial was the chief event of his long life, that is recalled by . his death. Fairbanks never drinks himself; but at the Roosevelt luncheon he put the bottle to bis neighbor's lips. Prohibi tionists of Indiana say those cocktails will be his political undoing. But per haps his sin may be dealt with more mercifully In Oregon, whose cherries to the number of six millions, for so many cocktails, have been shipped off (se lected stock) to Eastern cities. It is complained that the Japanese of Portland send back to Japan yearly a sum not less than. 120,000, and that this money is lost to the city. That is one view of, it; another is that the Japanese here have created wealth, by their labor, " which other persons couldn't be found to perform. The fruits of the work they do here remain here. There is, we believe, a law upon the statute books of this State, which pro hibits the giving or selling of Intoxi cating liquor to an habitual drunkard. An effort is to be made to supplement this State law toy a city ordinance of like Import. Why not enforce the State law, as in the case of Sunday closing? Compositors and proofreaders of to day cannot be expected to have ac quaintance with local names in our old history; hence the blunder yesterday, which made the name of Delazon Smith, famous in Oregon's early time, and one of the first Senators from Oregon, ap pear as "Delevan Smith." The fatalities and casualties Incident to the celebration of the Fourth of July, eclipse all former records of the day. The death list from tetanus has but Just begun to come in. So much for the "6ane Fourth,' preached and promised. Assessed real estate values, of the City of New York, this year (Greater New York), are $6,240,480,602. That beats Portland, about forty times over; which, however, is about the relative size or proportions in other particu lars. We are having a mighty run of pros perity, with abundant signs that It will continue. The Oregonian is no "knock er," but it trusts that fuel will not al ways be held at present prices. If King Banfield, .of the fuel trust, imagines the demand for protection from organized graft is confined to a L,aor Union committee, he mistakes the temper of this community. How to abolish war seems at The Hague to have resolved itself into an inquiry as to the most effective means of enforcing the peace through engines of destruction. Let us hope that Mark Twain exer cised due restraint at those notable dinners in London. At 70 a man's ca pacity to be entertained is limited. With recollections of the extended ad vance notices, we confess distinct dis appointment over Mr. Rockefeller's per formance on the witness stand. The way things are going, the Co lumbia River salmon hatcheries will never be able to supply the salmon butcheries. Does any one suppose that John D. Is really as Ignorant of his own affairs as he pretends to be? Inability to coal the Pacific Coast fleet because we can't ship fuel in for eign bottoms is a beautiful Illustration of the workings of our system. And yet there were drunks yesterday who Insisted that six days a week are not enough. An army like that in the United States after the Civil War would stop the tongues of many jingoes in Japan. But there could be another. - Speaking of unwritten laws, none has been Invoked against the fuel barons. As in 1898, the country is learning that Uncle Sam has manufactured considerable of & Navy. ' THE FAIRBANKS COCKTAIL. Baa It Killed the Chances of the HooMer Favorite t New York World. ' The story, circumstantially told, that Vice-President Fairbanks served the seductive but Insidiously treacherous cocktail at the luncheon which he gave to President Roosevelt on Decoration Day has set the whole country talking. As Mr. Fairbanks Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which is most bitterly opposed to any form of liquor, the ministers and laymen of that church are especially shocked, while temperance workers and Prohibi tionists of nil creeds or no creed are unsparing in denunciation. The Vice-President has clearly ar rived at the parting of the political ways. Three weeks ago the Fairbanks battle-cry was "Buttermilkl" The Vice-President's thirst for the bucolio beverage had won the approval of every farmer in Indiana. Dairymen were flooding him with invitations to speak at milkmen's picnics and cows nodded fondly when he sped by in his car. Hoosier Methodists figured that it was all over but the shouting and election-night bonfires. Visions of an Indiana man at Washington began to loom up big. Then came the luncheon to President Roosevelt. The guests. 40 in number, were sedately settled on the Fairbanks furniture when some one whispered to the host what the Governor of a certain state conveyed to the Governor of a certain other state on an occasion of similar importance. The telephone and a nearby club made It an easy matter to supply the liquid vacuum. Forty cocktails,, each with a cherry, were soon on the table, one at the plate of each guest. At first the Methodists doubted: then they Investigated. All doubt on the matter was dispelled when Pinkerton men marched into a meeting of the temperance people and deposited 4 J cherry pits on the table. They had been found somewhere around" the Fair banks home. That settled the Vice President's chances of being a dele gate to the quadriennial oonference of the church, as far as the blue-ribbon members of the church were concerned. They are determined that Fairbanks shall not float into the White-HouBe on the crest of a cocktail current. That is why the cocktail bids fair to be a National issue in the Presi dential campaign next year. The fact that Fairbanks has always traveled on the water wagon, and possibly turned down his glass at the famous luncheon avails him not. "I don't think that Fairbanks should be sidetracked on account of this cocktail story." said a well-known Sen ator at the Fifth-Avenue Hotel yester day. "If my memory serves me right, George Washington was the originator of the custom. Washington and cher ries, like cherries and cocktails, are one and inseparable. If you atack one you assail the other. No, sir; I believe that if Charley stands pat on the cock tall Issue he'll take his place In history with the immortal George." "Vice - President Fairbanks always stops here when in town," said the manager of an uptown hotel. "I was surprised when I read the cocktail story. His favorite drink has always been the Fairbanks cocktail a glass of buttermilk with a radish in it." "Any attempt to discredit the cocktail will act as a boomerang," said Humbert, the head waiter at the Cafe Martin, Broadway and Twenty-sixth street. "It's as much a part of Ameri can life as the Declaration of Independ ence." "Cocktails are sent ahead of a course dinner to avert indigestion," said the head waiter at the Hotel Astor. "It would be Just as reasonable to chop the coffee at the other end of the route as to eliminate the cherry float." "What's to become of the cherry In dustry if the cocktail is abolished V This was the point of view of a Forty-second-street fruit dealer. "All this howl about 40 cocktails,' laughed Tom Sharkey as he threw a lot of loose change to some newsboys, "won't hujt Charley a bit I've talked with all the brewery men and beer ped dlers and they're for him to a hop. And say, don't forget that' the suds vote counts some." "If Fairbanks decides to distribute cocktails during his canvass they'll never get through counting the votes for him," was the comment of a Bowery statesman. "And It won't cost him so much, either. You know he carries his own refrigerating plant," Contagions Honesty. Kansas City Star. The general manager of a traction system of a Western city recently re ceived the following communication, to gether with a 5-cent piece: "I beg to advise you that a week or two ago I rode home on car No. 1999 of your Main-street line. The car was very crowded and the conductor, through no fault of his own, failed to reach me. When I left the car he was too far to the front to enable me to get to him. I therefore now remit you the amount of my fare, and beg to say that I would have done so sooner had it not been that I was out of town." This unusual occurrence was report ed by the general manager to the road's board of directors, with the re sult that, by their Instruction, an annual pass was sent to the honest patron, together with a letter couched In com plimentary terms. The recipient must have recounted his experience to his neighbors, for In a little while the manager received a letter from another patron, reading: "In view of the fact that yesterday I neglected to pay my fare on your line, I herewith Inclose a 6-cent piece. Kindly forward pass to address below." The Coming: Battleship. ' New YorksEvening Mail. We have two coasts, washed by twi oceans, to defend. We are quite as likely to need the ships In one of these oceans, the Pacific, as we are to need them In the other, the Atlantic. We "are treating the Paciflo Ocean exactly as If nothing unpleasant could ever happen there. We are treating the At lantic Ocean, as if an enemy lurked behind every wave. Now, If there Is truth In the report that 16 of our battleships are to be transferred from the Atlantio to the Pacific, we shall see a reversal, for a time, of Uncle Sam's apparent thought about the oceans. The change .will point to a conclusion on his part that his right side needs defense, at present, even a little more than hie left side does. Appreciated. Washington Star. "Why do you insist on returning that man to congress? He never does any thing?" "No," answered Farmer CorntosseL "He never gets into trouble hlseelf. nor starts arguments that tempt folks around here to stop their work an' git excited over politics. He's what we call safe an' sane." Only Twice. Chicago Record-Herald. Lightning struck within a few feet of President Roosevelt a day or two ago. We have Foraker"s word for it, however,' that lightning never strikes three times in the same place. RAP AT "MOUTHPIECE' COTTON Klamath Editor Answers Remark of Harrtmsa's Attorney. Madras Pioneer. W. W. Cotton, mouthpiece for the Har riman Interests in Oregon, reiterates at Washington City the things he said at the Harriman banquet in Portland sev eral years ago, about the general worth lessness of Central Oregon. With a con temptuous wave of his arm, he says "all of it is not worth scrapping about." in reply to the charge that the Harriman roads have been piling up a tremendous surplus of $34,000,000 out of the earnings of the road. Instead of giving transporta tion facilities to Central Oregon and other sections of the state which Harri man has bottled up. Mr. Cotton's statement is not the result of ignorance on his part, for he has been out through Central Oregon and knows that it Is a vast undeveloped empire, with more timber, more Irrigable land, and a larger area of good wheat land than any other section of the state. But Mr. Harriman is not a constructive railroad man l'ke James J. Hill, who has built railroads Into undeveloped regions and made prosperous agricultural districts out of them. Mr. Harriman has em ployed the earnings of his roads in "stock Jobbing," and doubtless made more money out of It than he could have made building railroads. For this reason he has not been ready to give Central Ore gon the railroad It requires, but he keeps a small force busy bottling it up to await his pleasure. And his brilliant mouth piece, Mr. Cotton, earns bis retainer by placing the onus for the delay upon tne general worthlessness of the country. Central Oregon wants a railroad, but it does not care whether Mr. Harriman builds It, or someone else. In fact there is Just a suspicion that the invasion of this territory by some other road would be welcomed. But if Central Oregon is as worthless as Mr. Cotton would have you believe. It Is not worth bottling up to keep for the future, and it would be a distinct relief if Mr. Harriman would draw the cork. The Ambitions Wife. Boston Transcript. The women all denied her charms, Not one her praises sung; Tet suitors came like April swarms. And round the wild Rose hnng; And I, perchance the silliest bee. With scarce a hoDS to win Her favor she she married me! She did. Rosanna Jane. I never guessed the reason why A hobble-de-hoy she chose. And crowned with bliss my boyish sigh But she, Rosanna. knows; For I have come to know not think She does not plan in vain; That wisdom guides the very wink Of my Rosanna Jane. As potter eyes the shapeless clay She -viewed with furtive glee Behind the blushing boy that day The man she's made of ma; And gazing on from year to year - She' built no towers In Bpain, There never Uved a shrewder seer Than my Rosanna Jane Not all at once did her great gifts Their radiance reveal: Like sunbeams through far clouded rifts I watched their beauty steal To light, to cheer, to lead, to bless What could I not attain? Her worth to me will ne'er be guessed. Dearest Rosanna Jane! She baked. fcTha brewed. She sewed. She swept No hour from care was free; And yet Just how, heaven knows she kept Always abreast with me. Tea, oft I was a bit behind I own the fact with pain; , If Shakespeare had a "myriad mlnd,,, What had Rosanna Jane? She set ambition's' torch afire, And-fanned it in the dark; I studied law at her desire. And soon I made my mark. She spurred me en. She stirred me up. I ran with might and main. In every race I won the cup For my Rosanna Jane. From law I passed to politics It was by her advical Ere I suspected half the tricks, She'd learned them In a trice. She dimpled here; was there demure Exhaustless was her brain. Whate'er she touched, the touch was sure- Unerring Anna Jane. For "Woman's Wrongs" sha hath a smile. Amid the suffrage stir Strong-minded dames cannot beguile No "Women's Rights" for her! To have one'a way without ado. And noiselessly to reign, I think Is far mora wise. Don't you? So holds Rosanna Jane. My friends she makes more stanchly true, Of enemies makes friends; Amazement sweeps my soul to view The way she gains her ends. 6he-wins the world to think 'tis I Who lays each subtle train: Unselfish to sublimity Is my Rosanna Jane. My thirst for greatness long ego Was sated. I' am tired. " By proud ambition's lofty glow Rosanna still Is. fired. No pent up State could feed its sest; Her seal has grown- my bane; On to the Capitol she pressed With me Rosanna Jane. And now we are at Washington, I know Just how 'twill be: Will she repose on honors won, In calm content? Not she! I still must toll with painful sighs, A priest at glory's fane. What next the prize that lures her eyes?- Go ask Rosanna Jane. , Officers of the Army. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Down in 189S, less than ten years ago. General Wood was an Army doc tor. General Grant had spent his life In civil pursnlts, and General Funston was utterly without military experi ence or education, except that of the bushwhacking sort In Cuba. Funston was made an officer of brigadier rank because he kidnaped Agulnaldo; Grant because of his family name; Vvuod be cause of his administration of a peace ful and contented Cuba and his friend ship with Mr. Roosevelt. Distinguished as the special gifts of these three offi cers were, still they were not gifts that pointed to high military command; nor were their special claims such as to merit lofty military station. Enforcement of Train Schedules. Aberdeen Bulletin. Down in Oregon they are going to make the trains run on schedule time or bring them into court. This is not such a bad scheme. Let the roads fix their schedule to the run. Instead of trying to adjust their run to their schedule. There Is probably one-fourth of the time of the traveling publio spent loafing round depots waiting for the trains. If schedules were made which could be followed, then a man could go on with his business until time for the train, and then go to the depot with reasonable assurance that the train would not keep him waiting; but with the schedule faster than the time that can be made, the traveler must be at the depot at the time the train is advertised, as it might come in on time, and then he must wait. This will be vouched for by commercial travelers, at least. The Strenuous Life. Lippincott's Magazine. Teacher How long had Washington been dead when Roosevelt was Inaug urated? Scholar I dunno, but It hasn't been very dead since Teddy has been there. Political Earthquake Pending. Frank B. Sanborn, In the Springfield Republican. Under the surface, there is going for ward a fierce strife among the warring Republican Presidential candidates, which may break out at any moment Into factions very hard to reconcile. THE ACQUITTAL OF JUDGE LOVING Strong- Newspaper Protests Against the Precedent Established. (After deliberating as minutes, a Jury at Houston. Va., returned a verdict 1 of not guilty In the case of ex-.Iudge William G. Loving, on trial for having shot and killed Theodore Estes. Judge Loving's daughter, Elizabeth, had previously told her father that during .a buggy ride Estes had drugged and assaulted her.) Need for Public Arraignment. Baltimore American. There Is need for the strongest public arraignment of the unwritten law, which, while professing to protect the honigi gives warrant for the foulest crimes of passion and blood. Time to Chunge the Law. Roanoke Times. It is not for laymen to question the correctness of Judge Barksdale's ruling, but it Is permissible to say that if this is law In Virginia, it is high time that steps be taken to change it. Courts Might as Well Cease. New York Times. If this ruling becomes general, and with it goes the new theory of a "psychic epilepsy," which permits murderous as saults without any punishment whatever, the courts might as well go out of busi ness so far as crimes of violence are concerned. Helps the Man with a Grudge. .'' Savannah News. How easy it would be for a man. hav ing a grudge against another, to bring about a combination of circumstances similar to those In the Thaw and Loving cases, kill his enemy and escape the pen alty of his crime on the ground of tem porary insanity! , Verdict. a Travesty On Justice. Bristol (Tenn.) Herald-Courier. We cannot escape the unpleasant con viction that this verdict of acquittal is a travesty on justice. It must he plain to all that If one man is justified in killing another on the strength of a woman's story, without regard to the truth or falsity of the story, the law should be" so amended as that it wlll no longer cheapen human life by placing a premium on de liberate murder. All to Save His Own Keck. Kansas City Star. Purely arbitrary and strained rules of evidence keep from the jury facts whiett would permit them to make up an intelli gent verdict facts that would permit them to understand that the attacks on "the honor and purity of American womanhood" lie not, in many cases, with the dead man, but with the wretch who would degrade the reputation of a kins woman in order to ave his own neck from the consequences of his vicious pas sions.. Murder and Perjury Rncouraajed. New York Tribune. Not only is murder encouraged by the decision of the Virginia jury, but perjury is properly encouraged along with it. If private vengeance is to be recognized it will be extremely handy to explain an act of vengeance upon the ground that somo woman in whom the avenger had a nat ural Interest told him a story which made him grow "extremely pale" and ream for the shotgun. No man of hne sensibil ities will doubt a woman's word: to mur der is much more honorable: and no jury of fine sensibilities will doubt it either. The story may in some cases be an after thought to make the homicide justifiable under the unwritten law, but It must not be open to question. Should Check a Perilous Tendency. Philadelphia Ledger. It ought never to have been in the power of the defense in a murder trial to put in such tales as were told by young Mrs. Thaw to refer only to the most conspicuous of the recent instance and then deprive the state of the priv ilege of questioning their truthfulness. True or false, the fundamental principle will remain untouched, that this is a land of law and order, and that society has substituted other methods of punish ing crimes than those of private ven geance. The precedent that has been set, and the increasing talk of the fiction of an "unwritten law" that overrides that of the state, both indicate a perilous ten dency that needs to be sharply checked. Frame New Statutes of Snfety. Baltimore Sun. There should be statutes in fevery state providing for the admissibility of evidence tending to demonstrate the truth or falsity of statements which incite persons suffering from "brain storms" or emotional insanity to homicide. Every state owes this simple measure of pro tection to Its citizens. If such statutes were enacted It Is probable there would be fewer applications in the future of the "unwritten law." Defense Should Be Impeached. . Richmond Times-Dispatch. The acquittal of Judge - Loving is enough to alarm the state. If this trial and verdict establish a precedent in Vir ginia, hereafter when a woman charges a man with an ofTense against her honor, and relates It to a male member of the family and so Inflames his passion as ta cause a "brain storm," such a man will be justified in slaying the person accused. It will matter not whether the woman's story be true or false; whether it be an exaggeration or a pure invention. Not a word of testimony can be introduced in court to impeach the witness. The only thing necessary will be to make the Jury believe that she told such a story to the prisoner at the bar and that the shock of it deprived him of his reason for the moment. Can any doctrine -more dangerous than this be imagined? It Is simply astounding. We have the South ern instinct. We understand why a Vir ginia Jury will not convict a man who has slain another, if that other has de bauched his home. But we balk at this new version of the "unwritten law," which is the worst form of lynch law. This must not be the practice in Vir ginia, We are carrying the "unwritten law" and the doctrine of irresponsibility to absurd and dangerous extremes. Pub lic sentiment must be aroused and crys tallized, and there must be a radical re vision of the criminal law by the next Legislature. "Expansion" of Seattle. Seattle Argus.' Now that West Seattle has decided to join hands with Seattle, is it not about time to take something for this annexa tion craze? It has been suggested that we have a separate county for Seattle, and if we keep on we will have It. We have not gotten to the point where Seat tle embraces all of King County not yet. But we are rapidly getting there. We could boast a few years ago that we had a lot of suburban towns. Now we scarce ly have one within a reasonable distance of the city proper. We have reached out and taken them all In. Yes, literally, that is what we have done. Disappointed. Baltimore Sun. "That Professor BlinK fooled me bad." "How?" iie told me ethnology was the sci ence of the races, and when I went to the library and asked for a book on ethnology there wasn't a word from cover to cover on how to pick win ners." Louisiana Waspa for French Files. Washington ,(D. C.) Star. A cargo of Louisiana wasps has been sent to F'rance by the Louisiana Crop Pest Commission to exterminate horse flies. t