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Call-rhronlcle Agency. Norfolk. Vs. American News Co. Pine Bench, Va. W. A. Cosgrove. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 11. 1907. THE FLEET FOR THE rACIFIC. Opponents of the Administration, in the Eastern States, are keeping up a continuous roar over the order to send the war vessels to the Pacific. The ground of the objection is not very clear. Some of the critics do say, however, that the departure of the warships will leave the Atlantic Coast practically without protection. But with what European power are we likely to fall into war? More over, the objection comes from those who have been opposing the policy of Increasing the Navy urged by the ' President and by his influence and ad dress carried through Congress. These people were not afraid; they saw no need of any considerable naval-force; It was not necessary for defense, for no nation would attack us. But when a large portion of the naval force is to be sent to the Pacific, for exercise. drill and maneuver, with probability that some of the ships will remain on this Coast, there is a cry of alarm; the President is stripping the Atlantic sea board of its defense and exposing our Atlantic ports to danger. Some have declared that the Presi dent ought to be impeached for this act, since it is no better than treason; others that the people of the Eastern States ought to hold monster mass meetings to protest against the order; still others that Congress, the very day it assembles, ought to pass a joint resolution, asking the President to re call it. If the order shall be carried out, the "Atlantic Coast," cries the , New York World, "will be left unpro tected for at least a year." "If there should be a general belief," exclaims the Sun. "that the fleet never would return, should it leave the, Atlantic Coast, the fleet will not start, for the American Congress will veto the Ex ecutive project." What in the world, and upon a sud den, has made our people there on the Atlantic so timid and fearful? And why Should it be feared that the fleet never will return to tie Atlantic? All of it may not, Indeed, but much of it undoubtedly will. Besides, there will be another President ere long, and he may order the whole fleet back? leav ing the Pacific Coast "unprotected." We suspect factious opposition to the Administration to be the source of this outcry against the movement of the fleet to the Pacific. - President Roosevelt knows, though his critics choose to forget it, that the United States borders on the Pacific as well as on the Atlantic. Our Coun try has the same right to float Its ships on one ocean as on the other. And equal cause. It goes mighty hard with provincial New York to recog nize any bigness but her own. Really our Eastern cities are all centered In themselves, and never strain their at tention to comprehension of the ex tent of the American Republic by land and sea. Perhaps now our people of the Eastern States, forced to recogni tion of the Pacific Ocean, and of our states lying upon its border, hence forth will offer fewer objections to construction 'of a Navy decently ade quate to' the requirements of the whole country and suitable to its po- ' sltlon among the nations of the earth Besides, the Pacific Coast parade, or dered by the President, will be a les son for instruction of our people on both oceans and In the middle of the continent. Especially it will be of use in clearing some of our Eastern people i In particular those of the great cit ies of their provincialism. The financial failure of the James town Fair was almost from the first a foregone conclusion. In the judgment of practical men, the show was planned on a scale out of all proportion to the public interest that it would be possible to arouse in connection witn me event that it was designed to celebrate. The exposition represents a large expendi ture of money, great expectations, and assets in the way of patronage that fali far short of its liabilities.- The Gov ernment) stands to lose the $1,000,000 "loan" made to help the show along, and from present indications the con version of this loan into a gift will be the closing entry in the accounts of the Jamestown Fair. The failure of the Fair is a matter of regret, not alone because of .this loss to the Gov ernment, but chiefly because of the waste In time, energy and materials that it represents. It is one of the en terprises undertaken in good faith and with proper enthusiasm, that in review stand for . ' Hopes abortive, victories, .half blown t And citadels begun reduced to dust. A GARBAOB CREMATORY. We think those- persons are mis taken who Insist that a garbage cre matory should be erected far from the center of the city. A new ana em clent crematory for reduction of gar bage is becoming an absolute neces sity, and one must be provided soon; possibly two or more. It is a mistake, too, to suppose that such crematory will be necessarily offensive to the lo cality where it may be situated. It may be so constructed that the gar bage will be hauled directly to it from all quarters and dumped In and con sumed quickly, while the fumes are delivered through high chimneys to the upper air, creating no noxious effects whatever. It is done in innu merable cities, and may be done in Portland. In The Oregonian's opinion the proper site for erection of a garbage crematory would be on the river front, on one side or the other, preferably on the West Side, as near as possible to the middle of the city, where the greater portion of the garbage is pro duced. Such site might be selected on the water front on the West Side any where, say from Yamhill street to Ash street. The cremators- should be built at the foot of a street so that the wag ons could drive in, turtt and come out, and a portion of a block on either side, or as much land as might be necessary could be bought for the pur pose or taken by the city and paid for at an appraised value. Then the garbage could be hauled in quickly by night from all sides, by short courses, without trailing it through the streets for long distances. It would be economical, too; and this is a great matter. To haul to the cre matory at the present distance is a great waste of time, effort and money,' and is wholly unnecessary. Easy de livery of fuel, by the river, is another argument. People should get away from the idea that consumption of garbage by fire in a crematory properly prepared for. the purpose will be offensive. It need not be1 so at all. Even those near by would not know what was going on within the place. It could be and would be kept clear of fumes of all kinds. It would be washed or' sluiced out every day, have closed doors dur ing the daj'time, and the smoke car ried off through high chimneys would give no offense to anybody. Later an other crematory could be installed on the East Side, on or near the river, and also near the central portion of the city. Later still other crematories might be required. It sfems to The Oregonian that this Is the only reasonable and efficient way of dealing" with the business. Nothing can be done with it in a satis factory way so long as the people of every locality, in error in their suppo sition that a crematory would be an offense to their neighborhood, object to every place named as a site. The crematory should be located within easy reach of the sources of the gar bage to be consumed. A distant loca tion will make the delivery slow, cost ly and Inefficient; and besides, if there is anything in the objection that a ere matory is necessarily an offense, it will be Just as offensive in any distant lo cality as upon a site near by. SUSS SMITH'S EXPERIENCE. Under the elegant auspices of the La dies' Home Journal. Miss Laura A Smith has been visiting the churches in some of our larger cities to see what sort of a welcome they would give to a lowly stranger. In the September num ber of that great and good -magazine she recounts her adventures in New York, Brookyln and Boston. Thirty seven churches were invaded by Miss Smith In the two former cities. All but five of them received her with chill hauteur. She was permitted to sit down and listen, and when the sermon was over she was permitted to go away. Nobody spoke to her. If anybody looked at her it was only to wonder through their lorgnettes how such a humbly-clad person had happened to Intrude among her social superiors. None of the elect took the trouble to inquire whether Miss Smith was a sclnt or a sinner. Happily, she is a saint; but if her soul had been rushing head long to perdition It would have been all the same to those bespangle-i wor shipers. Evidently they do very little gleaning in the highways and hedges. In the five churches where she was not ignored thirteen members, altogether, spoke to Miss Smith. Three different ministers also addressed her with re marks more or less benedictory. This was the extent of her welcome in the precincts of the metropolitan altars. In Boston Laura fared no better. Trinity Church, where Phillips Brooks used to preach, locked her out from the morning service, which is something far too sacred for the miscellaneous vulgar to witness. She wa admitted In the evening, but there was no re joicing over her as one would naturally have expected, she being a stray Iamb of the flock. If preacher or people were aware of a weary pilgrim in the midst of them, they gave no sign of it. She visited twenty-four different churches in Boston, and five persons, one of them a minister, took the trouble to speak to her. In twenty churches she was treated like a graven or molten image. Does this mean that there are only five Christians in Boston? Tolstoi, we suppose, would thus interpret Miss Smith's experience. Or. rather, he would deny that there are five. In his opin ion the world Is beautified by but one true Christian, and, that one is him self. We are not so narrow. Possibly there were dozens of sincerely devout people In each of those Boston churches. Their failure to welcome Miss Smith does not necessarily stamp them as whited sep ulchers. Perhaps they were shy. Per haps they were deeply meditating on their own sins. Perhaps they thought she was a tourist who came only to see what was to be seen an to write! un pleasant things afterwards. Still, most of these churches display an advertise ment which says that "strangers are cordially welcomed"; and Miss Smith's reception throws a certain light upon the sincerity of the statement. That many churches are indifferent to the stranger, and a few positively unfriendly, must be admitted. They tend to confine their benefits strictly to the circle of their own members, ex cluding the rest of the world, especially that part which does not appeal for recognition through fine clothes and social connections. Tire great work of befriending the friendless and shielding the helpless in the modern city belongs peculiarly to the churches. The spirit of altruism is the breath of their life, In theory at least. Too often the altru- , ism dissipates itself in foreign missions, and mechanical charity, which require ho personal contact with the unfortu nate. Can we discern herein an answer to the anxiously debated question why the churches have lost their hold upon the multitude? POLITICAL INDICATIONS. Many Southern newspapers, oppos ing Government ownership of the rail roads, drag the negro into the discus sion. They say that Government own ership will inevitably lead to negro of ficials here and there throughout the service, and in the South a good many of them. It is one of the reasons of the Southern revolt against Bryan's scheme of Government ownership. They notice also that Bryan is warm ing up towards the colored brother in Northern States where the negro vote Is a considerable factor; and this also excites criticism. The whole country is taking notice of Hearst's "flop" towards conserva tism, and is talking about it. There really seems some reason to bellefe that Hearst is posing towards an ef fort to appear as a "conservative" candidate against Bryan, and by con sequence against any "Roosevelt can didate" on the Republican side, also. The new role for Hearst is somewhat startling; as much so, certainly, as such importance as he posessess could warrant. Nor will it avail to deny that he is a figure of some importance. His capture of the Democratic party in the State of New York last year carried . no . little significance, even though he was not elected. Nobody has attacked organized capital with more virulence; yet there are signs that a great body of "rich malefac tors" may now turn In and support him. He seems to be preparing the way through his newspapers, even if he is not making straight the path, for them to come to him; his utterances are now more conciliatory to plutoc- racy than those of Bryan, . and the groups of trust magnates, rebaters. stock jobbers, wreckers and reorgan izes, whom Roosevelt is pursuing and. who can't expect anything from his Republican successor, may take up with Hearst and throw millions Into the effort to make him President. They would expect, of course, to con trol the Democratic party, and bring In oil descriptions of disgruntled Re publicans. Things even more strange have happened. Think of Greeley as the Democratic candidate for Presi dent in 1872. No one yet can possibly give more than a guess as to the Republican candidate. Taft at present seems most promising, but only to superfi cial view. In- the convention there will be votes for a half dozen others, and some of these candidates will have strong backing. Cannon will have Il linois; Fairbanks will have Indiana; Pennsylvania will present Knox; New York, very probably, will offer Hughes. Should Taft be stronger in votes than any one of , these, that strength very likely would be his weakness; for it is the habit of con ventions, w-hen there are many candi dates, to look to combinations against the stronger one. . Taft's nomination will be opposed 'by all the politicians who wish to take the party away from the influence of the present Adminis tration,' and to prevent the continu ance of that influence in another. A large number of great statesmen are now In the shade, who are very anx ious to emerge from it. , PROHIBITION. Students of sociology find in the growing hostility to the liquor traffic one of the most interesting of current phenomena. This hostility seems to be something entirely different from the anti-llquq,r sentiment of two or three decades ago. Then the Demon Rum was assailed with strenuous de nunciation, with tears, prayers and hysteria. The war was decidedly frenzied and Its results were not marked. Today the opposition to strong drink Is hygienic and economic. Georgia banishes the saloon because It makes the negroes shiftless and increases crime. Railroad hands are forbidden to drink because it lessens their accu racy of thought and action. Alcohol is a foe to earning power. It dimin ishes economic efficiency. Hence eco nomic law tends, rather rapidly as it seems, to eliminate the saloon. In the process as it now goes on there Is little oratory and less sentiment. It appears almost as If the country had simultaneously discovered that strong drink is a handicap in the struggle for existence and determined to get rid of it. . Or, at least, to get rid of places where it is openly bought and sold. ' There are now four states which completely prohibit the liquor traffic, or try to. They are Maine, North Da kota. Kansas and Georgia. The new constitution of Oklahoma also con tains a prohibitory section. But this does not tell the whole story by any manner of means. Local option is striking the most effective blows at the saloon. It works quietly, deter minedly and perpetually; conquering here a precinct, there a village, until the saloons of a whole county are hemmed In with dry territory. Then the final stroke is delivered; the con quered areas are united and the liquor traffic is driven beyond the county lines. It is said that 25,000,000 people in this country live In territory where the sale of liquor Is forbidden either by state action or local option. The de tailed statistics are startling. In Ar kansas, for example, sixty counties out of the seventy-five which the state .contains are dry. In Connecticut, where the town system prevails, there are 96 dry towns to 72 wet ones. Ken tucky, the land of Rare Old Bourbon, has 97 out of its 119 counties dry, wHile only four are wholly wet. Half the population of Indiana lives In dry townships. Maryland prohibits the saloon in fourteen counties out of twenty-three. These figures, with many of the same sort for other states, are signlfl cant of a great National movement. Whether it is permanent or not is un certain. Its wisdom may be debata ble. But the fact is beyond dispute. What is the effect of the movement? Does it really prevent the sale of liquor?- Here we tread In the dark; or, if there Is any light, it is dim. Such rften as Governors Folk and Hoch say emphatically that prohibi tion does prohibit. We read of coun ties in North Dakota and Kansas where there are no Jails and no poor houses. We learn that sterile Maine has savings bank deposits out of all proportion to her population, and that, under prohibition, these deposits have increased faster than those of Ohio, with its rich soil and its minerals. The story runs that a quarter of a million young men in . Kansas have never J tasted strong drink. Whatever these facts may signify, they do not indicate an approaching National victory for the Prohibitoin party. Fate never treated an organ ization so ironically. The more its cause flourishes the more the party dwindles." It seems doomed to expire with the saloon which it has fought so long, and, perhaps, so successfully. Its Ideas, or some of them, have pased into the life of the Nation and become part of our common heritage. They no longer need partisan advocates. If total abstinence gives a man one Jot or tittle of advantage in the struggle for existence, that fact alone is sufficient to decide the fate of the saloon. It Is more eloquent than a dozen Goughs, more convincing than Father Mur phy, more persuasive than Frances Willard. Economic law cannot be evaded; it is enforced without police men or courts; and the slow results of evolution must be accepted whether we like them or not. HOT SEPTEMBER DAYS. The return' of Summer hot . foot upon its traces was as sudden as un expected. Fortunately, grain and hops are probably beyond injury by the hot winds that prevailed Sunday and Monday, reaching from the great wheat fields of the interior even to the coast line. There have been "others" but Sunday and Monday were the hot test September days' for many years, and people Infirm of; memory were not wanting who, harking away back even to early pioneer days, declared it was the "hottest ever" in this month. There are those, however, who re member a brief period in September, 1868, wherein the heat was intense and its oppressiveness was Intensified by heavy, smoke from forest fires that literally flanked the Willamette Val ley. A sky of brass stretched frqm horizon to horizon, and It became so dark that schools In some places were dismissed at 2 o'clock. The unusual weather passed without evil effects, but the memory of It Is still recalled as a period most trying while it lasted. Of course there were enormous quan tities of timber destroyed . that year, but timber was relatively valueless then, and the ' only regret that the great forest fires occasioned was be cause of the general discomfort caused by the smoke. Times have changed, but people are pretty much the same since, now as then, every unusually disagreeable whim of the weather is said to be "the worst ever known in Oregon." Mr. U'Ren's latest great idea is to enact a law under the initiative to "instruct" members of the Oregon Legislature to sign Statement No. 1 ex actly as it is written in the primary law. Now suppose they don't and won't sign it, what is Mr. U'Ren going to do about it? Of course his scheme Is silly and entirely Ineffective, be cause contrary to the Constitution of the United States. Mr. U'Ren seems determined to make a joke of the ini tlative and referendum. It's about time for reports of the rec ord day's work in picking hops. In spection of the various almanacs falls to disclose the world's record In hop- picking so it Is impossible to inform the Oregon picker how high he, or she. must make the report in-order to ex ceed the record. Perhaps one box of hops for each pound that is registered In the ordinary fish-story would be about right. President Koosevelt could find no Federal authority for regulating the School Board and certain riotous citl zens of San Francisco. Perhaps King Edward, face to face with Japanese demands for reparation, may be able to point out a Way in the Vancouver, B. C, incident to eliminate interna tional complications. One crowd grooming Hearst as the candidate of "the Interests" and an other starting a boom for Lieutenant Governor Chanler, discloses a woful lack of perception of -motives that govern the plain people of the coun try when it comes to voting for Pres ident. Mr. Bryan again berates Mr. Taft for "postponing" all really live issues to a later time; but when asked to de fine what is the most important issue, he says it is "too early to predict." Bryan has reached thtit doubtful point In his career when he even postpones prophecy. To be sure, the West and South can combine to nominate any man for President, but the trouble, so far as it concerns the Republican party. Is that the South cuts so much larger figure in June than it does In November. , Reports of the riots at Vancouver, B. C., we are semi-ofnclally Informed from Tokio. caused "no excitement" there. Naturally not. England's navy Is about st-x times the size of Japan's. Chicago announces a gigantic Na tional corn exposition ior next month. The city itself is the world's greatest exhibit of the wealth-producing ca pacity of America's indigenous cereal. About the only residents of Oregon who wilj regret a continuation of pre vailing pleasant weather are the hun dred thousand children who start to school next Monday. Mr. Bryan, when pressed, might have answered that the paramount question of the minority party next year will be his availability for a third race. Perhaps Mr. Brltt, following the ex ample of Secretary Root, had trained under Muldoon, the lightweight con test would have had a more satisfac tory result. When correspondents speak of a blast on the North Bank Railroad as the biggest blast ever fired, they over look Concord and Lexington as well as Fort Sumter. Japan Isn't afraid of England, of course. Can't the Yankee of the Ori ent lick all creation? A DISCOURSE OF CANDIDATES. Considerations nnd Conjectures for 1U08. Brooklyn Eagle. There are two personages who al most equally attract political attention In the L'nited States today. These men are President Roosevelt and William J. Brynn. The first has said he is not a candidate for the next Presidency, and the second has refused to say he Is -not. The belief Is that he would like to be such a candidate. In renouncing further candidacy, Mr. Roosevelt has also disavowed any de sire or intention to prescribe who shall be his successor, as the nominee of his party. He has a preference, or he is believed to have, but he has yet done nothing to prescribe that preference. His ' believed preference is Mr. Taft, but he has- not interfered with senti ment in Illinois for Mr. Cannon, or with an organized movement In Indiana for Mr. Fairbanks, or with formulated action in Pennsylvania for Mr. Knox. He has proscribed nobody, and he has prescribed nobody, so far. The belief is that he will continue the even course which he has maintained up to this time. A consequence of this masterly In activity is that Mr. Roosevelt can be quoted ' neither for nor against any body though an Individual .preference of his, Mr. Taft is "making hay" for himself en route across tHe continent on his way. via the Philippines, around the world. The Republican situation is thus in teresting. . The men of that party have state or local favorites, but have shown no hostility to Mr. Roosevelt's purely personal and unofficial preference for Mr. Taft. The President is left free to change or to shift his personal prefer ence, according to the denouments of coming events. Elections in Massachu setts, New Jersey and Maryland this Fall may give to Republicanism a shock that would require the readjust ment of conditions and the recasting of calculations and candidacies. Should that readjustment and recast ing be necessary. Republicanism would find its situation changed from which one,' among several. It might prefer to elect, to the consideration of whom, if any one, it could elect at all. In that case Charles E. Hughes, while he might not be a first or a second choice, would become a final necessltiy, with the chances even of his election dependent upon very close conditions. Mr. Hughes is in the thoughts of men, not as first choice or as a second, but as a last re sort; not as an enthusiastic preference, but as a final necessity; not as an issue maker and an image-breaker, from the start, but as a resultant of the reflection, the apprehension and the extremity, not to say the despair, of his party. Should Republicanism meet with adversity in the state elec tions this Fall, or should the next Congress fail to satisfy the people, Republicanism might be forced to Hughes, as, the first time, it was to Lincoln, as In 1876 to Hayes, as in 1880 to Garfield, as in 1888 to Harrison and as In ls96 to McKlnley. So much for Republicanism. As for Democracy, one may conclude that if it is convinced it can elect nobody, it may feel like nominating Mr. Bryan. One can also conclude that if Repub licanism, losing Its confidence in any of a line of regulation candidates, goes to Mr. Hughes for its own salvation, then Democracy will look for somebody who can be possibly elected, instead of certainly defeated, and will quickly canvass the long list of able, but not apparently at present of available men among Its number. We advise political observers to con- slder the list or available men. The contingency is, very likely to occur that will make such a list most valuable. If Republicanism be unwillingly forced to Hughes, Democracy will almost In evitably be freed from Bryan, and then an unhandicapped party would be able to confront affrighted Re publicanism with heart and with hope. There will be those who may say that. In the contingency suggested, Re publicanism would he forced to re nominate Mr. Roosevelt. It might be, but there are those who believe that a candidate for a third term, whether Mr. Roosevelt or another man, would be endangered by the antl-thlrd term sentiment, and that Mr. Roosevelt him self would escape with difficulty charges of Inveracity and of insincer ity, based upon his renunciation of such a nomination long in advance of any necessity for him to speak. If Republicanism should be smitten with an apprehension of defeat and forced to' an Investment in uncommon strength, it would almost certainly have to name Hughes. If It had to name Hutches. Demoeracv murht well ( thereby be inspired to renounce Bryan. and hopefully to canvass its potencies, not Its impotencies,.. In the challenge that would then be addressed to its leaders and to its masses. All Act Like Millionaires. Utica (N. Y.) Press. An American who has been spending the summer In Europe declared that his countrymen and countrywomen have spent more money abroad this year than In any season before, and that they are continually discovering new methods by which it can be spent. "Europe has never seen as many American millionaires as she is seeing today." he adds, "and they are ail using the lavish hand." This li reaiiy an oia story, it is repeated year after year. Probably there .are today more American millionaires than ever before, and probably more of them have been seen in Europe, but they have not been missed at home. Nobody notices tneir absence. They are welcome In Europe, where everybody needs their money, and where they have time to devise ways in which they can spend it. All Americans who go to Europe, how ever, are not millionaires, though Euro peans are apt to suspect that people who cross the Atlantic just to look around are of the capitalistic class. The Ameri can millionaires abroad are really but a small fragment of the great army of American tourists who though having slender purses spend their money with a freedom that foreigners regard as reck less. Watterson After the Fire. Louisville Courier-Journal. Really one only needs to have disaster to know how good the world Is; every body rushed to the rescue of the Courier- Journal yesterday; the meaning of this is that the old lady at the corner even in her bombazine skirts and sunbonnet In trouble has everybody's sympathy. It is positively bewildering! By a nat ural process of evolution and reform, the Courier-Journal loves everybody; we love Mayor Bingham for the enemies he has made; we love prospective Mayor Tyler for the friends he thinks he has made; we even love the Evening Post, which has done the square thing anJ that means that we love everybody. The Indebtedness of the Courier-Journal to the Louisville Herald goes without say ing; and this means that politics is not war. and Dartv lines are not lines of battle. Let us all praise God and love one an other: the one blessed thing Is that, al though there might have been a holocaust, nobody was hurt or. lost his life. Keep It From Teddy. Indianapolis News. Whether Mr. Harrlman did or did not catch a, 20-pound trout, let us hope, for sake of the peace and tranquillity of the country and the valuable space of the magazines, that the report that he did will not reach Sagamore HIU. WHAT PHILIPPINES HAVE COST Something- Like 95,000.000 a Year, Not Counting; Naval Expenditure. Washington Herald. In the absence of exact data, one man's guess is as good as another's when it comes to figuring the cost of the Philip pines to date. The guesses range from $200,000,000 to $1,500,000,000. The New York j Herald, which has been inquiring into the subject, estimates that it has cost the United States $400,000,000 to acquire and hold the Philippine Islands. In this huge sum It includes their initial cost,, the ex pense of putting down the Aguinaldo re volt, and the cost of maintaining the islands since that time, which the Her ald puts at $W,000,000 a year. That paper, however, quotes an Army officer as say ing that the whole Philippine enterprise has cost us about $200,000,000. The last-mentioned figures correspond closely to those given by Secretary Taft. who places the cost of the Aguinaldo rev olution at $170,000,000, which, with the price paid for the islands, brings the total up to $190,000,000. To this must be added the Annual expenditure on the Army and Navy in excess of that which would have been expended If we had kept out of the Phil ippines. No one seems to know Just what amount of our naval a'nd military ex penditure should be apportioned the Philip pines. Mr. Taft admits that the Philip pine military establishment costs $5,000,- 000 more yearly than It would if. there vere no Philippine scouts and were tne army housed at home. .The Philippine govern ment, of course, pays its own expenses, exclusive of expenditures for defense. The islands, then, are costing us $5, 000.000 a year to hold, without counting the naval expenditure fr their defense, which will be vastly Increased by the proposed transfer of the fleet to the Pa cific. But even that Is not all. for Con gress has authorized a beginning in the work of fortifying the Islands, to com plete which will require the expenditure of $11,000,000. The Navy is demanding the equipment of a strong naval base, which will cost yet other millions. So that what our New York contemporary refers to as the "stream of gold that goes pouring In to the Islands" Is not yet at its flood. Comment on Harrlman Visit. . .' Vale Orlano. Harriman's report from the Interior does not sound much" like building through the interior. He stated, one has to travel long distances before coming to a cultivated district, then travel an other long distance before coming to an other. Between these points there is nothing. ' Grant's Pass Courier. Harrlman, the great 8. P. magnate passed through in his private car, Tues day, making a tour of the state. He did not tell the Courier that the road to Crescent City from Grant's Pass would soon be constructed,, but it Is understood that 'he Is seriously considering this very proposition. Pendleton Tribune. Mr. Harlman saw a long stretch of country without any railroad In Crook and other Inland counties. To be sure, he did. Sometimes we have seen long stretches of track without a train for hours after it was due. Both trains and tracks get woefully behind time In Ore gon. Big Meadows Corr. Bend Bulletin. The great little Eddie has come and gone, and, as far as I can learn, left nothing behind him but plain old com mon dust a whole lot of it and our people are wondering more than ever what his views are on the railroad question. To be sure. The Oregonian tells us of a pleasant interview It had with him, but he makes no promises, and his railroad Is still a thing of the future. Now, if Redmond had not been so busy handing lemons to the Deschutes Irrigation & Power Company and had gone in with Bend and had a good, live mind-reader here, we might now know something definite of the great man's real thoughts, for certainly this wor rying over a railroad Is making some of us look old, to say nothing of the Jolts and Jars we get from reading all sorts of stuff about tt. Let Jim Hill come next, for after Jim, Harrlman is first. Silver Lake Leader. Harrlman has come and gone. He Bklrted along the Deschutes and has no more Idea or conception (from ac tual observation) of the great Inland Empire, lying within the boundaries of Lake and Harney Counties, than he had before he came into the state this time. We have lived in hopes for years that Harrlman would build a road into these counties, but we are beginning to lose all such hopes in him. But mayhap he will yet. We need a road, and that bad. Let some one build It, and the people will fur nish the products to load the cars down to the guards. We are satisfied a road will come sometime, but good ness, hurry up that time. We are bot tled up, with the cork tightly driven in. If Harrlman won t pull the cork let Hill or someone else come and twist their corkscrew and give us re lief. We are like the old maid, "any body. Lord, anybody!" Red-Hendeil Journalism. (Gant's Pass Mining Journal). A Portland dally announces In a seven- column red Ink scare-head that prosecu tlon of Oregon land-froud cases Is at an end; that District Attorney Bristol is to be dropped overboard with a political cob ble-stone tied to his neck: that Francis J. Heney is to be forced to abandon his work in Oregon through the withdrawal of fin ancial support from Washington, and the 100 defendants who stand in the shadow of the law will never be brought to the bar of Justice. As to the authenticity of all these statements, we have no word to utter only that we would like to be shown. THERE'S SOME SUBLIME MOUNTAIN SCENERY UP IN THE OREGON COUNTRY 9 A From "PRIOR USERS" OUT ON" THE RANGE. How Many Central Oregon People Re- v (tnrri Government's Forest Policy. JOHN DAY, Or.. Sept. 8. (To the Edi tor.) In a recent editorial The Oregonian declares that Department ignorance at Washington is responsible for great damage to Portland, referring to the" Department's unwillingness to under stand Portland's shipping facilities. If this is true, as Is undoubtedly the case, why should not The Oregmian concede that ignorance at Washington is respon sible for- discrimination here against local stockmen in the control of Na tional forest grazing? Certainly opportunities- for enlightenment are much better in Portland than here. If the Washington War and Navy officials choose to consider the metropolis of the Northwest as. situated on a little brook which flows into a shallow fish-pond, your citizens might Shanghai them and take them forcibly into port. This would convince them. Besides, you have rail and wire lines that connect you directly with the capital. Hence, the opportunities for. enlightening the de partments are much better there thai here in a remote "National Finest.'' absolutely devoid of your rail, steamship and wire service. Many high officials from all the de partments, and even the chief execu tive himself, often go to and through Portland. There Is every opportunity to "show them." On the other hand, here only the pretty and often preju diced officials ever come, and then gen erally make but a flying visit, and draw their deductions while being driven at break-neck speed along the bush-hung highways through the National forests. Their determining information, or rather misinformation. Is gained from non-residents,- whose policy and interests it is to misrepresent. If departmental views of Portland are Ignorant of these re serve ranges, they are Irrational and ugly. As a glaring example of that irra tional and unjust v'-w, leading to a corresponding treatment. their, "prior user" policy is a case in point. Early settlers here were running about TO.iXK) head of sheep on the John Day River be tween Prairie City and Mount Vernon. Armed camptenders and .herders came from the depleted Columbia River ranges and crowded their herds over the valley ranges. In some cases force wag met with force and bloody sheep killings' followed. In which Grant County stock suffered the most. The more peaceable and valuable citizens withdrew, and when their neighbors objected to closer herding, disposed of the bulk of their sheep. Now, where owners and prior users of the range held 70,000 sheep, a scant 10,000 can be found, belonging to all local stockmen. And when the Govern ment took over the control of the sage bush ranges, which it exalted by the title of "National Forests." it found the erswhile belligerent Columbia River sheepmen on the range and conferred the title "Prior Users." Residents of this section know these to be the facts, and the unjust discrimi nations. The title to the range precari ously held by force, has been legally con firmed by the Department at Washing ton. All herds were reduced and a threat of further reduction hangs over the growers. Locnl stockmen insist that an Investigation of these facts be made, and that the reduction should not apply to them, the original settlers and users of the hills and valleys of John Day. Once for all. The Oregonian should un derstand that the opposition Is not ap plied here to forest land, but to range that has been taken over by the forest department under the guise of forests and turned over to roving sheepmen. And if the legitimate claimants to the use of the range could have the sup port of The Oregonian In making their claims good at Washington, they would consider that they had what was justly due them from The Oregonian. J. McINTOSH. Want Miss Gould's Aid. Washington Herald. Few women In the country are assailed with stranger or more requests for aid than Miss Helen Gould, who, it is de clared, receives requests for gifts and loans that call for an outlay of nearly $2,000,000 a week. These requests range from a set of false teeth lor $15 to $1,000,000 with which to start a colony in Cuba. A recent list of requests received during one typical week was itemized. There were 231 requests for money out right. Of these, 119 left the amount to be donated to her good taste and discre tion, more than 90 wanted cash loans, and 16 did not specify any exact amount, but Just wanted to borrow. Eleven per sons wanted pianos, and 12 people wanted Miss Gould to buy their inventions. One person offered Miss Gould a chance to buy a ring for $1200 which was worth four times that amount. Another girl wanted to sell a brooch' for $400, and an other one had a Sevres vase which Miss Gould, "beln' as 'twas her," might have for $500. One son wrote, wanting to erect a monument to his father, and suggested that Miss Gould might like to contribute $500 toward that worthy end. A New York View of It. New York Herald. Taft against the field means Taft plus) Roosevelt against the field. But It means Cannon against Taft, Hughes against Taft. Foraker against Taft. Cortelyois against Taft. Knox against Taft, La Fol lette against Taft, Fairbanks against Taft, Crane against Taft, and Cummins and Shaw against Taft. Thus it means a combination of favorite sons against the Secretary of War lrx seven great states, all of them now with republican governors New York, Penn sylvania, Massachusetts, Illinois. Indiana. Wisconsin and Iowa. Back of that It means a fight for every delegate in the southern states, where an anti-Taft propaganda Is under way. The strategy of the Taft opposition Is to keep him from getting any delegates In the follow ing states: New York, 78; Pennsylvania, fiS; Mas-esx-hnsetts. 22: Illinois. 54: Indiana. 30: I Wisconsin. 26: Iowa. 26: total. 304. the Kansas City Implement Trade Journal. I