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Be sides, he Is an advocate of the nomina tion of Mr. Taft. Jn this direction he lias gone further than he ought, as many have thought: but it has been part of his purpose, that he might ihow and prove that he was not play ing a game, to be a candidate himself, possibly there may be such demand Tor Mr. Roosevelt in 193 2 as will call liim out as a candidate then; yet that is but merest conjecture. No one can question his sincerity in his advocacy of the nomination of Mr. Taft now. Of course Mr. Bourne does not question it. Tet Mr. Bourne has be lieved there would arise a condition under which the Republican Conven tion, unable to agree on Mr. Taft, or on Mr. Hughes, or on Mr. Cannon, or on any other person in the list of can didates, would abandon all of them, and with one voice and universal ac claim, call on Mr. Roosevelt; and that called upon in this manner, he would not be able to decline. This Indeed might happen; but it is unlikely. Mem bers of a convention are not likely to nominate a man who persistently de clines and supports another, to whom Ills faith is pledged. Besides, Mr. Iloosevelt knows he would be taxed with insincerity, and of course would not willingly subject himself to such imputation. Kvery one who knows Mr. Bourne Rives him credit for earnestness and fur singleness of purpose. When he engages in an enterprise he "stays with It." It was this purpose or quality that carried him to the Senate. But The Oregonian has always thought he was pursuing a mistaken idea, in push ing Mr. Roosevelt for another term. It has been admitted. Indeed, that this might come about, but only through a spontaneous call. But when a call is "worked up" It is not spontaneous. The Oregonian would support Presi dent Roosevelt for another term, but has felt Itself shut off from advocacy of it hy his repeated declarations. It has taken him at the plain meaning gnd intent of his words. Of course we do not know what de proe of truth there may be In the statement that Mr. Bourne has been notified in some positive manner that the President is displeased by the Sen ator's insistency in other words, that the Senator has been "called down." Yet we can sec how the President, as the time approaches for the election of delegates to the National Republi can Convention, should feel obliged to make it clear that he stands by his declaration that he will not be a can didate, nor accept a nomination, again. One cannot juggle with the people, where so fierce a light blazes on the transaction. Besides. Mr. Roosevelt has encouraged the candidacy of Mr. Taft. He cannot be playing a game with Mr. Taft as one of his pawns. Giving all credit to Mr. Bourne for his devotion to an Idea (which Is charac teristic of html. The Oregonian thinks It. and has thought It, injudicious and impracticable. In the first statements made in the presence of an awful disaster, and t hen excitement runs high and no two witnesses see things the same way, ex-aKK'-rated and contradictory reports are inevitable. ' Thus in the first report of the Colllnwood disaster it was said that the doors to the two exits of the building swuog inward and that one of these was locked against the frantic throng of children that surged toward it, only to meet death. Both of these reports are emphatically denied by the grief-stricken Janitor of the building, who, In addition to suffering the cen sure of a frantic host of parents, was himself bereft by the death of three children. It is scarcely conceivable that the fire was due to the inatten tion to duty of the man whose own children risked and shared the fiery fate that befell their companions. It will be necessary to look elsewhere be fore fixing the blame for this whole sale slaughter of the Innocents. In the meantime the hapless Janitor is under police protection. THE OLD MONETARY ERRORS. Mr. Bryan came Into notice and Na tional fame as an advocate of free coinage of silver. .It was his Impas sioned speech in which he declared "You shall not press down this crown of thorns on the brow of labor, you shall not crucify mankind on the cross of gold," that carried the convention oft its feet, gave him the nomination for the Presidency, and opened the gateway to fame and fortune. But for the stupid economic error that de manded free coinage of silver he would still be unknown. It is almost distressing, however, to observe that nowhere in his long dec larations of principles, as set forth In the platform he has written for his party in Nebraska, does he refer to the one great principle through which he came Into the limelight of publicity and celebrity. Tet labor Is still wear ing that crown of thorns; mankind is still suffering crucifixion on that cross of gold. But In lieu of this "great principle," now abandoned, another error, almost equally fatuous perhaps more so Is proposed. This Is the demand that all currency shall be Issued directly by the Federal Government. It simply means that when "more money" Is wanted more greenbacks shall be printed; and more money is wanted all the time. More greenbacks would simply mean increase and perpetuation of the evils of the present currency system, with increasing danger of the loss of parity, redemption and the gold stand ard. The basis of all our errors and distresses in finance is the "long green." It leads up to the next error, bond-secured bank notes, with greenbacks Instead of gold as bank re serves. The system "goes off its base" frequently, and always will. But Con gress hasn't knowledge enough to for sake this miserable system for a sound principle; and the Bryan party, that was so utterly irrational about silver, can't be expected to have any real knowledge of banking and currency and use of substitutes for money. It always thinks the substitute money It self, and never bothers about standard or parity or redemption. A 1'IAIX MATTER OF RIGHT AND WRONG. The saloon-keeper who sells liquor to minors or allows minors to visit his saloon is Justly under the ban of the law. There can be, as the law now stands, no exception made in such cases, even though the boy, who is under 21 but in appearance is a year or two older, lies outright when ques tioned by the saloon-Aeeper In regard to his age. The vendor of liquor is manifestly at disadvantage in such a case; the law having been violated, the penalty must follow. But should the boy who is, in ap pearance and self-conceit, a man, and who boldly and deliberately deceives the vendor in order to get and drink liquor, go unpunished? As the law now stands, he goes free, and the prov ince of the courts is to administer the law as it is. But in the interest of simple justice and for the boy's own benefit, should he not be held, ac countable for the mean deception by which he has Induced another to vio late the law in order that he may pander to his own depraved appetite? Personal responsibility, moral re sponsibility, if not developed in a young man. before he Is 21 years old, will probably be a minus quantity In his character through life. If a youth has no regard for his word of honor at 20, or even four years earlier, he is not likely to develop that necessary trait of good citizenship a few years later. THE AMERICAN HUMORIST. Like a hungry starfish clinging to a barnacle-covered piling, long after the tide has run seaward, and left it ex posed to the sunlight, our old friend the American Economist still sticks to the standpat doctrine of the tariff protected trust barnacles. Not all the gods of ancient mythology or modern paganism excited in their worshipers such reverence as the Economist dis plays for the saered tariff. In the mind of the Economist editor no greater calamity could befall the American people than to have them lay profane hands on this sacred Idol. The German tariff agreement has filled the Economist with dire forebodings for the future, and its comments thereon contain much unconscious hu mor; at least the comment Is humor ous to those who have long since dis covered that the tariff Idol was made of a grade of clay so common that it was mostly dried mud and easily shat tered by any argument containing facts and common sense. The Economist has made the start ling discovery that the desire of the Germans "to cultivate amicable tariff relations is simply the desire to cap ture the largest possible share of this great consuming market." Hoch der Kaiser! Tou are discovered, Germany. We thought you wanted "amicable tariff relations" for the purpose of de creasing your trade with this country, or to file away in a pigeonhole for fu ture reference; but, alas and alack, you simply wanted to do business with us. But cheer up, the worst is yet to come, for the Economist gravely con tinues: "They will take from us what they must have, and only that, and they will not give us In return a sin gle advantage that conflicts with their own industrial success." How unkind and unjust in Germany to take from us only "what they must have" instead of everything 'we might want to sell them. The Economist should call the referendum on our Teutonic friends and make them take not only "what they must have," but whatever we want them to have. The greater part of the stuff that we are selling them is foodstuffs. Now. if the Kaiser really believes in fair play, let him get the Reichstag together and pass a law compelling his people to increase the consumption of these American products. Let 'em sit up nights if necessary, to get away with something more than "what they must have." The dreadful tariff agreement, which has set the Economist eye in "a fine frenzy rolling," has been in oper ation since July 1, 1907. Statistics are at hand for the first seven months of that period, and. in view of the discus sion it has provoked, the figures are Interesting. They are supplied by the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and for the seven months ending January 31, 1908. show imports from Germany of J94.223.835, and exports to Germany of a value of $184,607,983. The figures for the same period, be fore we entered into "amicable tariff relations," were: Imports, $96,533, 535, and exports $162,206,410. In other words, the Germans bought $21,000. 000 worth more goods than they did before the agreement became effective, and for the same period our purchases were more than $2,000,000 less than a year ago. This ratio of Increase and decrease may not continue in evidence every year, but the showing shatters the Economist's pet theory that we are suffering because we extended to a friendly nation fair and honorable trade treatment. - MR. BR VAX AND HIS PLATFORM. The Nebraska Democrats had a magnificent day at Omaha last Thurs day. From morning till night Mr. Bryan walked about m a blaze of glory belauded by rapturous thousands and enjoying to the full the privilege so precious to him of making speeches without end, to say nothing of plat forms. If frantic enthusiasm could make a President of the United States we should all sit down' In the certainty that Mr. Bryan is to be the next one, for it is inconceivable that enthusiasm can ever be more abun dant or more furious than that of the Nebraska Democrats. Probably Mr. Bryan's delight In the occasion was complete. If it was marred at all it must have been by the reflection that in Nebraska Democratic votes are as scarce as enthusiasm is plentiful, but even this chilling thought may have been eluded by an agile imagination such as Mr. Bryan possesses. The platform which he vouchsafed to his shouting worshipers reads a good deal as if it had been copied from that of the Ohio Republicans; though perish the suspicion that we could accuse the peerless one of pla giarism. We fancy rather that the Ideas' which both parties are trying to seize upon and exclusively appropriate are floating about in the air and be long as a matter of fact to the spirit of the times and the American people as a whole. Mr. Bryan claims them by right of discovery and Mr. Roose velt by right of use. The plain citizen is content to concede that both are correct and desires nothing better than to see the two parties engaged in gen erous rivalry to put down special privi lege and exalt the rights of the com mon to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If the time has really come when politicians of all classes and colors find it to their profit' to stand for civilized ideas, the country will rejoice without caring much who first discovered them. Overlooking some idle talk about Thomas Jefferson and his trite max ims, it takes close study to discrimi nate between Republicanism in Ohio and Democracy in Nebraska. Both parties desire tariff reduction. The followers of Bryan would remove all duties from articles controlled by the trusts; those of Taft would like to see duties cut down to a figure that would equalize the cost of production at home and abroad. There is little dif ference between the two demands. Students of economics are aware that In America the actual cost of produc tion of most goods is less than it is in Europe, or it would be If the duties on raw materials were removed. Hence the Taft tariff plank comes to about the same thing as Bryan's. It is the same way with the injunction issue. The Ohio platform asks for such a limitation of the court authority as will prevent-abuses; the Nebraska de mand is more specific. It would per mit no injunction in labor cases to Issue without notice and argument and would grant a Jury trial when breach of the injunction has not occurred In the judge's actual presence. The only difference is that one specifies the abuses while the other speaks of them in general terms. Thus one might go through the two platforms Item by item and easily con vince himself that there Is little essen tial difference between them. Substan tially they declare for the same things and the voter in choosing must look to the men and historic impulses be hind the platforms rather than to the documents themselves. In other words, the choice lies between the personali ties of Mr. Taft and Mr. Bryan and between the respective desires and abilities of the rival parties to make good their promises. Mr. Bryan Is in error, of course, when he asserts that his own party is united upon these subjects while the Republicans are di vided. The fact Is that both parties are divided. In both of them an in ternal struggle is going on between the democratic and plutocratic impulses, and it is no less violent in Mr. Bryan's party than in Mr. Taft's. If the Re publicans have been dominated by plutocratic forces in recent years, their subservience is but a temporary aber ration from the historical trend of the party, while on the other hand the Democratic party was allied with the slaveholding plutocracy at the birth of Republicanism, and. with the sole ex ception of Mr. Bryan, its most promi nent figures belong today to the same faith. Every strong Democratic paper east of the Alleghanles is in close al liance with the pirate syndicates and eevry one of them is bitterly hostile to Mr. Bryan. In such circumstances it takes some resolution to say that the party Is united. The last Democratic President was wholly in sympathy with the oligarchy of wealth, and he is today a paid employe of the worst exponent of criminal finance in the country. But we have no wish to press the subject so far as to appear Impolite. If Mr. Bryan can believe that his party is united upon the issue of overthrowing privilege and destroy ing the trusts, we congratulate him upon his vigorous imagination and add our regret that he did not select the higher literature for his vocation in stead of politics. As to the destruction of the trusts, Mr. Bryan is still wedded to his Idol. His platform demands "such legisla tion as will make private monopolies impossible in the United States." There is one way to destroy private monopo lies, and only one. That way is to make them public monopolies. This subject has been thoroughly threshed out both by reason and experience, and every well-informed man knows that all talk of annihilating trusts or combinations Is worse than futile. Within the last quarter century the structure of soci ety has been reorganized on the foun dation V co-operative industry and trade. Today, in spite of, all opposi tion, the tide sets in the same direc tion more strongly than ever before. The trusts cannot be annihilated, and, if they could, to do so would be crim inal folly. It would be as foolish as to destroy our steam engines and dy namos. The trusts cannot be destroyed but they can be regulated, perhaps. At any rate, regulation is the only ex pedient that stands between trusts owning the Nation and the Nation owning the trusts. Our local educational authorities are conscientious and painstaking in the discharge of the duties that have been delegated to them by the taxpayers of the district. The area of their juris diction is large, the school buildings are many, and the expenditures in keeping those in repair that are al ready built and In meeting the con stantly Increasing demand for new buildings are carefully but not parsi moniously supervised. It Is believed that the school buildings generally are as safe as such structures can be made. The janitors employed are steady, re liable men, and the fire drills that take place once in two weeks, with an oc casional "extra," are conducted ac cording to established rules and with promptness and good discipline. The always possible but wholly unexpected fire is thus provided against with com prehensive intelligence. Most of the buildings are necessarily dry as tinder, but with the vigilance that becomes second nature to the teacher a sort of sixth sense, ever on the alert and the strict rules of the Board which govern the schools down to the small est details, it may be taken for grant ed that provision for the welfare of the children who attend the public schools In this city Is carefully made Second Assistant Postmaster-General McCIeary has joined the ranks of the subsidy-seekers. At a dinner in New York Thursday night he fairly trembled for the safety of the Amer ican fleet passing through the Straits of Magellan, because the auxiliary fleet carrying coal was under a for eign flag. "It is a matter of duty, of high, imperative, duty, to change all this," said he. The latter statement is of course correct, but McCIeary, like the rest of the subsidy-hunters, would not change it by the logical business like method that would be followed by any other nation on earth. If he would, and his companions in graft would consent, the United States could buy an auxiliary fleet ample for all requirements at one-half what it would cost to build and subsidize in this country, and It would be rqady long before there might be any danger of war. The American people are patient and long-suffering. Were they not, that female jawsmith, Emma Gold man, would long ere this have been deported to the land which profited by her emigration to the United States. The woman is apparently morally re sponsible to a certain degree for the death of the addle-pated degenerate who was removed by Chief Snippy in Chicago. The anarchistic mouthings of this creature have been heard from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and the ag gregate amount of trouble that she has stirred up probably exceeds that of that other unwashed Old World ruf fian, Herr Most. It is noticeable that this country, in spite of the ravings of the offscourings of Europe, is so at tractive to them that they fight any attempt to drive them out. In its treatment of certain individuals it is possible that Russia shows superior Intelligence. Forty thousand signatures have been secured to a petition asking President Roosevelt to pardon Captain Van Schaick, who has been sentenced to ten years In the penitentiary for crim inal negligence in connection with the burning of the excursion steamer Gen eral Slocum. It seems hardly right that the death of the thousand inno cent victims of that .tragedy should go unavenged, but as Captain Van Schaick was made a scapegoat for the owners and the venal Inspectors who "passed" the steamer and her equipment objection to his pardon will be less pronounced than it would have been had he alone been responsi ble for the terrible disaster. A fire in a Japanese city inevitably assumes the status of a conflagration in a short time. Fllmslly constructed, of light and inflammable materials, the dwellings of an entire village are often consumed while the chattering Inhabi tants are forming a bucket brigade for the extinguishment of the flames. An auto-maniac at Ormond Beach drove his machine 300 miles at the rate of seventy-seven miles per hour. The only tangible result that is no ticeable in the performance is the demonstration that the fool-killer was busy in other localities when the feat was performed. We have explored in vain the varied resources of Statement No. 1, the initi ative and referendum, proportional representation and the recall, and we can find nothing that quite covers the sulphuretted hydrogen outrage. To arms! In limiting by ordinance the height of shade trees to thirty feet, McMinn vllle has taken a step backward. When electric wires interfere with foliage, put them underground. The trees were there first. How sore the bunch of transconti nental tourists must feel when they hear of another foreigner making seventy-seven miles an hour with his au tomobile. Milt Miller tells Bryan that the Ore gon Democrats are for him to a man. They are. But that comes a long way from making Oregon unanimous. From the start It was clear that trouble between Japan and China is inevitable. Seizing a ship is as bad as calling a man a liar. Now the Clackamas County Demo crats come out strong for Statement No. 1. Certainly. It's their pudding. After the action of the Nebraska Democratic Convention, it is useless for Bryan to conceal his candidacy. Not even the chronic kicker may offer protest against the manner of the arrival of March in Oregon. THE STEFFENS TALE. And the Jorta It Getn on lta WlT o Kamr. New York gun. That most emotional and fallacious of ethical professors. Mr. Lincoln Steffens, has an article In the current number of the American Magazine in which, under the pretext of extolling a citizen of Oregon, he gets his somewhat doubtful rake Into the rich political soli of that sovereign state. He draws a curious picture of dis honesty and corruption in the midst of which his hero. William T. U'Ren. pur sues his calling as the lawgiver of Ore gon. This Mr. U'Ren is certainly under the most equivocal obligations to Mr. Steffens, who not only makes him known to us for the first time, but pictures him as the most unmitigated scoundrel in the state. He Is a literary subject after Steffens' own heart, because Steffens Is never so strong or so felicitous as when he is de picting a hero whose mouth is full of moral aspirations and edifying senti ments and whose practices are those of a rogue and a demagogue. There is no knavery or duplicity in politics of which this U'Ren is not a passed master; at least, that is what Steffens sets htm forth to be, and Steffens ought to know & rogue by this time. If any man in the country knows one. It is proper to admit that in accepting Mr. Steffens' portrait of his friend U'Ren one runs a certain danger. Steffens' judgment is not to be implicitly trusted. Any man who knows Dr. Watts' hymns by heart and who can combine active quotation with entire absence of con science can get the better of Steffens. U'Ren, therefore, may be nothing more than a vulgar and commonplace hanger on of Oregon politics Instead of the im mense and minatory figure of Immorality that Steffens draws. There is the more incentive to this reservation when we note how grievously he stumbles when dealing with the leading moral force and article of virtue in all Oregon. Harvey W. Scott, Esq.. editor of The Oregonian. He narrates how during the contest for the United States Senatorship in 1903. on the. last night of the legislative session, Scott, being by way of being a candidate, wrote the agreement below, which was telegraphed from Portland to Salem by William M. Ladd, Portland's leading banker: (Here follows the bogus statement heretofore published.) Steffens' credulity is discreditable. Scott is a man absolutely Incapable of such a thing. For 40 years, more or less, he has proclaimed the implacability of his own Immaculacy. Pay Bourne $25,000 for goods of such tenuity! Not on your life! HIGH EXPENSES AT COLLEGE. Comparison of Averaare Outlay at Yale and Wellesley. Yale Alumni Weekly. A patient investigator has compiled the expenses of the young women who graduated from Wellesley In the class of 19u6, and has computed the average Wellesley expense at from $900 to $1000 a year; practically the same result that has been found at Yale. The lowest and the highest av erage budgets are, however, in each case higher than at Yale. Wellesley girls spend $500 as an average lowest cost of living for a year, as compared with $472 for Yale men. The highest Wellesley average Is $1547, as com pared with $1465 for Yale. On the other hand, Yale carries greater indi vidual extremes than does Wellesley. An economical Yale man can live for a year on a cash outlay of $300. A lavish Yale man can spend $3000 and more. No Wellesley girl goes as far in either direction as these antipodal Yale men. The average poorest Wel lesley girls spend $175 for tuition, $125 for room and board, $95 for clothes, $5 tor laundry, $36 for traveling, $22 for books and $40 for pleasure and inci dentals. The average poorest Yale student will spend $90 for tuition, $186 for room and board, $51 for clothes. $15 for laundry, $30 for traveling. $32 for textbooks and $74 for amusements. The poor Yale man pays more for board, about half as much for clothes, three times as much for laundry, a third more for textbooks, and nearly twice as much fop amusement as does his equally restricted Wellesley cousin. In the same computation the cost of living of the average wealthiest Wel lesley and Yale students Is worked out. The Wellesley girl who is in the most expensive class spends $275 for room and board, as against $344 for the av erage wealthiest Yale man; $447 for clothes, as compared with the Yale man's $226; $173 for traveling to $112 for the Yale man; $47 for books, as against $63; and $341 for pleasure, as compared with $511 for the Yale man. Upon two equally expensive offspring who come into the highest class his daughter at Wellesley and his son at Yale the fond parent will spend $1547 on the girl and $1465 on the boy (the averages). The boy's room and board will cost a fourth more than the girl's, his clothes will cost about half as much, his traveling will be a third less, his books over twice as much, and his expenses half as much again. Europe's Way of I' sing Carfender. Technical World Maeazine. Projecting carfenders hav met with little favor in Europe, either from com panies or from public authorities, be cause they have been found to do more harm than good by tripping people up and injuring them. The best protec tion appears to be afforded by cover ing the dasher with some flexible guard, which will cover up sharp cor ners and afford something to grasp, as In Berlin, and, if one Is knocked down, to depend on the Liverpool plow-wheel guard to push the person to one side off the rails. This Liverpool fender Is an unpatented device, adopted six years ago by the late tramway man ager. Mr. Bellamy, and since its intro duction 415 persons have been pushed off the track without a single failure and seldom with any injury. It con sists imply of boards completely box ing in the truck, with belting below the bottom edge, and rubber hose on the rounded ends of the long plows. Yonnar Gates Bays Texas Ranch, New York Press. Charles Gates, son of John W. Gates, has bought a ranch of 61,000 acres In Texas for $610,000. Canned Sxrlteinent. Nashville American. ' Llkt) to ee a melodrama. Something- doing all the time, Loot and plunder, blood and thunder And a medley of crime; There' the hero In distraction. With hie fortune running- slow. And the killing of the villain To the music soft and low. Out the heroine steps lightly To the center of the stage. Sweet sixteen, or the demeanor Of a maiden of that aire. Then the plot beglna to thicken As the villain s&lla In view. Under cover of her lover He begins the girl to woo. Nothing doing for the hero At this section of the plot. His intention have dimensions. But ther do not take the pot. For the villain does a murder. Burns a will he doesn't need. And he nearly prove It clearly That the hero did the deed. Ah. but right turns up triumphant. And the wrong is put to rout, JuM ss certain as the curtain. And the villain loses out. And the hero takes the lady BT the dainty little mitt. And the audience In raptur lsea up and throw a fit. BREAKING IX ON FUTON'S DINNER Senator Clap) Scatter Rlster at Ore atonlam'a Saltnos Repast. WASHINGTON', Feb. 25. Senator Fulton came near to breaking up the session of the United States Senate today. He gave his annual dinner of Oregon salmon. Senator Clapp, chained to his seat by duty, took revenge on the Senator from Oregon. As a re sult he broke up the Fulton fish dinner. Senator Fulton had scarcely entered the chamber today, when he began tiptoeing from seat to seat. . He whispered here and there, and almost to a man those In whose ears . he breathed his confidences brightened perceptibly. He was inviting them to the annual salmon dinner, which even then was spread In the Senate Testaurant. There were two ' exceptions. One was Senator Clapp, the other was Senator Teller, whose devotion to duty no salmon could shake. Down In the restaurant all was merriment. Senator Depew was hold ing out his plate for a second helping and at the same time telling one of his jokes to Senator Aldrich. The latter was discussing a bit of celery in the way of a change from the Currency bill, when a white-faced courier dashed In. "Pardon me." he gasped, "but Sena tor Clapp -has raised the point of 'no quorum." A roll call is about to be or dered." An was confusion. It would never do to have their constituents learn ttat Senators could so unblusuingly substi tute dinner for duty. Senator Guggen heim rose so hastily that he tipped over his chair, and collided with Sena tor Heyburn. The race was on. Down the corri dors the dignified members raced, scattering exclamations and napkins as they went. It was nip and tuck to the private elevator, where the crowd Jammed. When the roll was announced It was found that 46 Senators were present. This was one more 4han a quorum, there being 82 seats in the Senate, with one vacancy, caused by the re cent death of Senator Latimer. When the few unabashed spirits returned to the fish feast the dishes were cold. Clapp Is not nearly so popular as he was. VARIETY OF VIEWS ON ROOSEVELT Tboae Who Like Hlin, Like Hlmt Those Who Don't, U,s t. Brooklyn Eagle. Up to the hour of going to press today, President Roosevelt, In the opinion of all Republicans, was doing "as well as could be expected." By those Republicans who worship him that was perfectly well. By those Republicans who hate him, that was infernally ill. By those Republicans who now fear him that was about half-and-half. By those Republicans who Just analyze him, that waa a still con jectural quantity, the scale being evenly swayed between goodness of intent and irritability of temperamenr. The alienated Republicans, who are ab solutely against Mr. Roosevelt, are for even Mr. Bryan as against Mr. Roose velt, not because they like or trust Mr. Bryan, but because they believe that a Republican Senate would hopple him or hamstring him for four years and Mr. Roosevelt would be down and out, any way. We state these points of view, not to Indorse any of them, but only to note the variety of conclusions with which the President inspires or afflicts his be wildered party. He may or may not be a versatile man. He is certainly the cause of versatility of feeling among other Republicans. We sometimes think that Mr. Roosevelt has. a great deal of fun. In contemplating the effect of himself on his fellow-Republicans. The effect of some of them on him is not disguised, when they Incense or inspire him to one of those brief and pithy messages, 23 columns long. The. type is minion. The enemies are always minions or even worse. WATTERSOX OFFERS TO BET. Has Confidence In Bryan's Ability to Brat Tart In lrcldenlnl Race. Louisville Courier-Journal. This promises to be a hard year. If Mr. Taft be the Republican nominee and it seems likely that in this the President will have his way we believe Mr. Bryan will beat him. The Forakr schism makes Ohio a debatable state. The colored vote of the North, which, lost to the Republicans, will mean the loss of the great states of the Middle West, with New- York thrown in, can scarcely be united on the Secretary of War. There is every rea son to believe he will lose the larger part of the organized labor vote. But there rises before him a greater factor still to be reckoned with; and that is the silent, business end of it the money end of It even predatory wealth which will see in Taft the continuation of Roosevelt, with a Republican Senate reduced to obedi ence, but in Bryan no danger whatever, a Republican Senate, justified in Its re calcitrancy, to stand a stone wall be tween Bryan and the success of any of th Bryanized Roosevelt policies. At most and worst, they will rightly conceive that they only take chances with Bryan. With Taft, triumphant and backed by Roose velt, they will have no chance at all. The Courier-Journal. therefore. In creases that bet of half a dollar to a dollar and a half that Bryan will be the next President of the United States. Here's to Mayor I.ne. Western Oregon (Cottage Grove.) Mayor Lane, of Portland, has been vindicated. The outcome of the case is certainly a warning to those brutal wom en who are going about the country making criminal attack upon delicate and unprotected men. The idea that in the City of Portland; the city of reform, under a reform administration, the very head and front of the reform administra tion should be attacked by one of those cruel, designing women! For days and days, no doubt, this monstrous, base, de signing woman had deliberately plotted the gentle Mayor's undoing and the filching of his virtue. Think of it. None of us know what moment some lustful female may dash into our office, where we have retired all by our lone, for a moment's rest, being worn with the cares of strenuous reform life, turn the key in the door, throw It out of the window, and then. In fiendish and brutal glee molest our person. Alas, "nothing can we call our own, but death." No PrlvIleKeM. Chicago Tribune. The business agent stuck his head inside the shop door. A solitary man waa at work. "What are you doing here?" he de manded. "Don't you know this Is a holiday?" "Not for me." answered the solitary man, without looking up from his work. "I'm the boss." Popular Appeal. Washington Star. "Isn't your speech a little ungrammat lcal here and there?" "Perhaps." answered Senator Sorghum; "but, you see. I've got to keep It from being too severely grammatical. Some of my constituents might think I was trying to put on airs." There's Many a Slip, Etc. Woodburn Independent. Marshal Riddle relieved two men Sun day of a full bottle of whisky just as they were about to place it to their parched Hps. An arrest will probably be made. SILHOUETTES BY NANCY L.EK. Mother Gooae ModrrsUrd. Little Misa Muffct "W ent to a buffet And ordered a cafe au lait; A lobster espied her And sat down beside hpr. Bo she changed to a champagne frappe. Don't censure the lettercarrlcr for his delay in delivering the mall. Remenvber how many interesting postal cards he has to look at and read. Of all sad words of tongue or pen.. The saddest are these; "fm stung again." The baseball season is approaching and we may shortly expect to hear of fright ful mortality among office boys' grand mothers. More Mother Gooie to Date. A diller, a dollar, A scream and a holler. Oh! what can be amiss? " A dear little maid Is sorely afraid. For she's getting her very first kiss Nearly. ItultatiuMw Mother What are you doing to that pretty doll, my dear? Child I' ja just going to put her to bed.! mamma. I've taken oft her hair, but I: can't get her teeth out. -Iove"o Hybla. My thoughts fly to thee, as the bees. To find their favorite flower; Then home with honeyed memorle Of many a fragrant hour. For with thee la the, place apart, Where sunshine ever dwells. The Hybla where my hoarding heart ! "Would fill its Wintry cells. At the railroad station of an Oregon town, on a brilliant sunshiny day, sat a dog howling vociferously. As a west bound train steamed up, the howling still' continued as a number of passengers alighted. Annoyed toy the barking, an Eastern woman Inquired of an old farmer, "What In the world Is that dog howling about?" "Oh," replied the Oregon tiller, of the soil, "it's the first time he's seen1 the sun; he's only three months old." , Centenarians are by no means rare, and we frequently hear of Oregon i an s reach ing the age of 110 and 130 years. The. obituary announcements are invariably: accompanied by eulogistic, mention of the exemplary lives they have led. But, considering the longevity, one Is forced to suspect they have lived a double life. Mr. Bogus Have a cigar, old man? They're good ones; two for a quarter. Friend (after having smoked for a min ute) Sorry, Bogus, that I didn't draw the twenty-cent one. - A love letter is a legal document you refuse to identify when you are place a on a witness stand. These are days of ideal weather, re minding one of mid-Spring. Let us hope that meters for the gas heaters are not failing to take cognizance of the fact. .r ' 'Ex-President James J. Hill, of the Great Northern, was always a most exact man in matters of detail connected with hi road, but he also found time to be a practical farmer and liked to talk farm ing with his friends from the country who came to call. One day the. talk, drifted to the relative merits of wet and dry mash, food for pigs, his friend con-, tending that the best results were ob tained by feeding dry mash, but that it took the pigs a longer time to eat it than the wet mash. Mr. Hill thought for: a minute and then asked, pertinently,' 'What's the pig's time worth? "Do you believe It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven?" "Why not? My wife is an unusually large woman, but every night she goes throich, my pockets. . OCR FOREIGA POSSESSIONS. And Their Poanlhle Influence In the Republican National Convention. From Washington Letter to the Boston Herald. Some Washington politicians of the leisure class are speculating whether Hawaii or the Philippines or Porto Rico or all of them together will make the next President of the United States. As these Insular accessions to the flag have nary a vote at the November elections, the prospect, at first blush, might seem IH-founded. However, there is another way to look at the proposition, which is the angle the leisure politicians are tak ing. With a legion of contesting delegations from the South, the nearly evenly matched Taft and antl-Taft factions of the Republican National committee would come very close ,,to deciding whether the Secretary of War or some other shall be' nominated. For if the anti-Taft members control the committee, the contesting Taft delegates from the South will have treat ment -hardly less soothing than a swift kick and vice-versa. Hawaii has Na tional committeeman, with just as much voting power as has New York or Mas sachusetts. Ditto the Philippines and Porto Rico. No three votes are apt to be dcaplsed when a coterie of very eminent Government officials and likewise a co terie of eminent anti-Tafters ajre gum shoeing around strengthening their posi tions with that committee. It could easily happen that the insular committeemen would turn the balance of power one way or the other, which might mean Taft or some other, or which might result in the nomination of a Republican, whether it be Taft or a rival, who could not be elected. The Democracy was subjected to a somewhat similar predicament at Kansas City in 1900 when Prince David, of the royal Hawaiian line of dusky kings and queens, held the balance in the resolutions committee and committPd the party to a reiteration of -the Bryanite silver plank. Then and Now. St. Tuis Globe-Democrat. I might have ben a "bard sublime." Cake-walking- down the hails of time, If I had lived In that (Treat age When poets took to write a pajre At least a year; another spent Correcting proof pot what they meant "Set up" and upelled as they intended, Bo that their thoimhts sublime and splendid. Were not marred by that modern terror The bane of poets printer's error. No wonder those old poets shame us. No wonder they are great and famous! They had the talent and the time . To polish even" bit of rhyme; perfect It. send it down the ajpes As It should be. But then thIr wajsea! Alas! They'd cents where we have dollars. Wore rags and went without their collart perhaps we're better off than they At lea?t we do net better pay. Our verse may limp on crippled feet. But then we get enough to eat. Let printers spoil our chance fnr fame, We get the money, just the same.