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6 TTE MnVTXG OREGOXIAN, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1908. BLB8CKIPTIO.N' BATES. INVARIABLY IK ADTUiCl (Br MalU I'ally. Sunday Included, on yr Dally, tjundty Included. six month!.... Dally. Sunday Included, tnra month. , Dally, Sunday Included. on month., Dailv. without Riindav. ona year....... M 00 .4.25 .79 .0O Dally, without Sunday, alx montha. a 25 Dally, without Sunday, three montha. . 1.7a Dally, without Sunday, one month M Sunday, one year f'Si Weekly, one year (laaued Thursday)... 1SU Sunday and weekly, can yr. ftu B V CARRIES. Dally. Pundav Included, ona year....... JJ Dally. Sunday Included, one month ' HOW TO REMIT Send poatofflc money rder. eipreaa order or peraonal check on your local bank. Staropi. coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postoBIc ad dress la fuli. Including county ana stAl. POST AG K BATES. Entered at Portland. Orecoa. Postoffle as Second-Clasa Matter. . . 10 to 14 Paes 1 ' 1 to 28 Pace ? cen" SO to 44 Pagea to to Pates canta Forelcn postage. douMa rate. . . 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But the Fowler bill does not propose to Invest the banks with the power to issue notes, at their own pleasure and on their own account, without super vision and control of Government and law. Every part of the process, the methods of Issue, and amounts to be issued, are to be under direction of law executed through the Controller of the Currency and the Treasurer of the United States. But the system would be so changed that bank circulation under strict rules would be allowed on current and movable assets and on the general resources of the banks, and no longer be confined to a fixed security of bonds, under which, at frequent inter vals, great part of the currency of the country goes Into hiding, freezes tip, ceases to flow. A bank currency secured on bonds can hide away and wait. Secured on current bills of ex change, which are good as bonds for if any security better than wheat bills and cotton bills and wool bills and to bacco bills and coal bills and oil bills, and bills based on all the staple prod ucts of labor and of production and of commerce has been discovered, nobody yet has reported them. . Of course the direction and super vision of the bank Issues by officers of the Government, under the instruc tion of law. Is necessary. This the Fowler bill fully provides. Our correspondent also objects to the statement that we should follow the course of other civilized nations, derived by them from their experi ence: tecause the masses of the people of those countries are - paupers and have no rights, and if we adopt or fol low their example in money and llnance we shall fall into the same In dustrial and social conditions. The cart here, as In so many other mat ters of ltke discussion, is before the horse. A progressive Industrial civili zation requires a sure and stable mon etary systeml Trewards such condi tions our country is making rapid ad vance. In the parts of our country where the population Is congested the condition of the people is not essen tially different from that in similar districts of the Old World. And the leading principles of commerce are all the same. And since industrial and commercial conditions in our country are rapidly approaching those in older countries, our financial operations and .monetary system . must tend to con form hi general to hose of other countries, adopted by them because found necessary to a progressive in dustriar civilisation. We are forced Into the same course by principles as rompulsory as those of geometry and the laws of gravitation. -Government notes are the very worst form of currency or substitutes for money. The best form, and the only scientific form, is bank notes. Issued under regulation of law. secured first on gold reserves, and moving in ordi nary transactions on the security of hills of exchange representing the sta ple commodities of use and consump tion. First thing, however, is to eradicate from the public mind the notion, that . the Government, by issue of Treasury notes, can create money. That Is the root of every error in our financial and arionetsry system. It was the' root of the greenback craze and nexc'of the silver craze. It atill sends up shoots, as tares sown among wheat; against a rational, stable and effective currency, which must be issued through banks, but remain under Government control. s NEW YORK FOR HUGHES. It has always seemed doubtful, upon any general survey of the field, whether Taft could obtain the nomina tion for the Presidency: for since he Is the leading' candidate, the natural tendency among supporters of all the rest will be to unite on some one against him. Whether any of the great states, save Ohio, will back him zealously and steadfastly, is still prob lematical. What will Pennsylvania do when she gets through with Knox, and Illinois when she gets through' with' Cannon, and Indiana when she gets through with Fairbanks? New York, greatest of all. Is likely to stand for Hughes. A long step in this direction has been taken by the Republican State Committee of New York, which has unanimously pronounced for Hughes and issued an address calling upon the various districts of the state to send Hughes delegates to the Chicago con vention. It is probable that New York In convention will support Hughes with practical unanimity. Question Is whether other states will fall In for him more probably than with Taft. Not a few persons believe Hughes would be a stronger candidate beforn the electorate than Taft. Hughes has excellent standing on all matters of present Interest to the country. H.s record Is unimpeachable. In his treat ment of the great questions that have arisen in the State of New York he has been as fearless as Roosevelt himself. Taft is handicapped how far no one can tell by the opposition of or ganized labor, and by the resentment of the negroes of the country over the Brownsville affair. To insist that the opposition to him on these grounds has no Just foundation would avail lit tle. But these forces of opposition would not appear against Hughes at all. Good judges of politics deem the chances excellent for the nomination of Hughes. The whole question will be whether the supporters of Knox, Fairbanks, Cannon and La Follette, and various unattached delegations, may not be as likely 'to swing to Hughes as go to Taft. In the present state of the case this appears to be the problem of the Republican nomination. HIP SUBSIDY AND HIGH FREIGHTS. The Oregonlan has frequently called attention to the fact that the greatest sentiment in favor of a ship subsidy exists in interior cities in the United States, where, of course, the opportu nities for close observation of the practical instead of the theoretical workings of the project are not avail able. Proceeding on theory, instead of practice, commercial bodies at Den ver, Wichita and other interior cities have indorsed the ship Subsidy in Un qualified terms. Out here on the 'Pa cific, where it is so easy to get a close range view of the matter. It is surpris ing to note . the Ignorance regarding our maritime commerce. For exam ple, we find in the Tacoma Ledger a statement that "of the $8,056,950 re ceived for.' the wheat' exported from Tacoma "(since July 1, 1907)', J1.557. 600 is paid to foreigners for taking It to market." The Ledger writer con cludes that these figures "serve to show what an opportunity Americans are losing by not having a merchant marine in which to carry the products of this country to the markets across the seas." To begin with, no portion of the $8,056,950 received for the wheat ex ported from Tacoma was paid to for eigners or any one else for carrying it. to market. Foreign buyers paid JS. 056. 950 for the wheat, and the for eigners sent ships for 1t. The price paid the wheatgrower, of course, is al ways the European price, less the cos? of transporting it from the farm to the European buyer, and the wheat that was worth $3,056,950 when It was cleared at Tacoma "was accordingly worth more than $9,613,000 when it reached Europe. This- freight charge was paid by the foreign consumer be cause the handicap of distance pre vents him buying wheat as cheaply as the consumer at Tacoma. But admit ting, for example, that the Ledger was right, instead of wrong, and that the $1,557,600 was deducted from the $8,056,950 received for the wheat, are the Americans "losing by not having a merchant marine in which to carry," etc. 7 - - Would the American merchant ma rine have carried the wheat for the amount paid the foreigners, or would It have exacted the 60 per cent extra which Is being paid for coal carried In American bottoms for the Pacific fleet? One of the vessels clearing from Tacoma this season carried 300. 000 bushels of wheat, the product of about 150 farms. Are the;150 farmers who sold this wheat' so vitally inter ested, in a merchant marine that they are willing to pay'rhe one shipowner that additional 50 per cent which is now demanded by American shipown ers? The great American people are not "losing" any money, through lack of a merchant marine, so long as their freight is handled by foreigners at a lower cost than It can bf handled by Americans. Eventually -we. may be permitted to buy cheap ships and en gage in-, the business on even .terms with the foreigners. When-. that is possible there will be no necessity for a ship subsidy. RIVAL SALMON BILL. Neither of the two fish bills, 'pre sented under the initiative for the Co lumbia River, contains the real reme dies required: instead, each of them, proposed by a selfish fish faction, de signs to smite a rival. The waning salmon Industry needs check of gill nets, seines, traps and "wheels the gear In use by making their size and reach smaller. It needs .also rest from fishing at periods between April 15 and August. 25. In the long attack on the salmon, between those dates, there is practically no restraint on the rapacity of the fisheries. One measure, known as the Asloria bill, abolishes wheels.' Instead, it ought to regulate wheels by-shortening their working season, eliminating them from certain places, cutting down the length of their leads and by otherwise lessening their destructlve ness. At the same time the bill ought to regulate in similar manner gillnets, seines and traps. The other measure, known as The Dalles bill, proposes the closed Sunday, stoppage of bar fishing (both good .remedies).-prohibition of night fishing In navigation channels. limitation of nets to 900 feet in length and 25 feet depth, and closing of October and November. As to size of nets and night fishing, this bill goes too far and is too drastic. Both bills. If enacted, will fall to protect salmon; since they do not pro vide for closed season between April 15 and August 25 closed Sunday not being enough. Besides, there Is doubt that they could both be enact ed, since the Astoria bill abolishes wheels and The Dalles bill legalizes them, and under such circumstances the law says the bill receiving the higher number of votes shall be en acted. There Is no doubt, however." that .enforcement of either bill would protect some salmon. The fish now protected are woefully few. Yet it should be borne in mind that either bill' would operate unfairly for other fisheries- than the one which pro poses it. - These-remarks are intended simply for Information of the. many persons who do not know the purposes and shortcomings of the two bills. At the present time, surveyed from the gen eral interest of the state, it does not seem to make-much difference whether either bill is enacted or not. The next Legislature , should , dispose ., of this matter 'and pass proper measures. EXPOSITIONS AND EXPOSITIONS. The New York Sun devotes nearly a column of editorial space to "knock- log" expositions in general,, and that of Seattle in particular. Its apparent inability to recognize merit in any un dertaking that does not' begin or end on, or at least; contribute heavily to, Manhattan Island is a well-recognized characteristic of the-New York press. Jkmestown appears to have coat us about $2,500,000," says the Sun, "yet, undismayed - by that experience, Con gress is now disposed to give Seattle for her Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposi tion next year the sum of $1,175,000." Concluding Its theorizing .as to what the Seattle Exposition may be, the Sun asserts that, "as a matter of fact, whatever the allegations, the Seattle show, like all of its kind, will be first and foremost a boom for Seattle." This is the spirit'which was so much in evidence when the late William H. Seward was ridiculed and even ac cused of mercenary motives in his ef forts to induce the United States Gov ernment to pay about $7,000,000 for the territory of Alaska. The opposi tion to that purchase, of course, all came from the smug, self-satisfied, egotistical individuals who, neither by personal inspection nor mental vision, were in a position to know that any thing of merit could exist west of the Mississippi River. The result of the Seattle Exposition will not differ ma terially from that of the Lewis and Clark. Exposition, held in Portland. Like that of Portland, the Seattle Ex position will attract thousands of peo ple from all parts of the United States as well as from foreign countries. The most of these people will come for the express purpose of learning at first hand of the resources of this compara tively new country. The territory Involved covers several hundred thousand square miles, and. taken mile for mile, it is incomparably richer in natural resources than aly similar area tributary to Manhattan Island. It presents opportunities for the small capitalists as well as the large that cannot be equaled anywhere in the . known world today. James town, which from an exposition stand point the Sun compares to Seattle, is a "finished" town in a "finished" coun try. There is no new territory and no new resources to be developed. It can show nothing new in the way' of at tractions for capital or labor, as this country can do, and as neither capital nor labor attended the exposition It was a fiat failure. Seattle will un doubtedly profit by the exposition, but it will return not only to the Govern ment, but to all of the people who at tend the exposition, value received. Portland profited by the Lewis and Clark Exposition, but there are few if any individuals in any way connected with the big show that profited to any greater extent than have some of the new residents whom it attracted to Oregon, and who, remaining here, made more money in one year than they could make in ten years in the crowded industrial hives of fhe East. The benefits were not all reaped on the Pacific Coast, either. The new capital which found such alluring op portunities here created a demand for more labor, snd the congested labor centers of "the-East were relieved to a certain extent by the thousands that flocked westward. If Seattle had noth ing more to offer in the way of attrac tions of intrinsic value than were available at Jamestown, there would be some excuse for "knocking" the coming show. " If there were no other good resulting from these Far Western expositions, they are worth the money for the purpose of broadening the vis Ion and increasing the knowledge of the provincial Easterners whose ideas of the greatness of their country have been dwarfed by a lifetime spent in a narrow environment. "A DEMON THAT MAY BE EXORCISED." Dr. Woods Hutchinson,' In a long article in a late number of the Satur day Evening Post, treats typhoid fever as "a demon that may be exorcised by an Incantation of one sentence "Keep human excreta out of the drinking water'." Every case of this justly dreaded, wasting and wasteful disease, he asserts, is the result of a previous case. While this disease is now "dis gracefully common," he foresees the time some many years or a few years hence, as the case may be when it will be as Infrequent as typhus, its predecessor, now. practically unknown, but a far more virulent and fatal fever than typhoid. So enthusiastic and hopeful is this optimist in the sanitary realm that he declares that there can be no question but that, with a step higher in the scale of cleanliness and further quickening of the biologic con science, typhoid will disappear as com pletely as has typhus. Typhoid, as it exists today, is de clared to be a disease of the country, not of the city, for the reason that great cities are developing some sort of a sanitary conscience, while deni zens of rural districts have as yet lit tle or none. Plainness of language is one of Drv-Hutchinson's characteris tics. His readers are never left in doubt as to his meaning. In common parlance, he does not "mince matters."' Hear him: Bad a our city water often is. and de fective as our systems of sewerage, they can not for a moment compare in deadlines with that most unheavenly pair of twin?, the shal low well and the vault privy, a more in genious .comnstion for the dissemination of typhoid than this precious couple could hardly have been devised. The innocent householder sallies forth, and, at an appropriate distance from his cot, he digs two holes, on about 30 feet deep, the other about four. - Into, the shallower one he throw) his excreta, while upon -ha surface of th ground he flings abroad his household waste from the - back atoop. Th gentle rain from heaven washea these various products down Into the sou and percolates gradually into the deeper hole. When the interesting solution baa accumu lated to a sufficient depth It ta drawn up by the old oaken bucket or modern pump, and drunk. Is IV any wonder that In this pro gressive and highly-civlllaed country 350,000 cases of typhoid occur every year, with a death penalty of 10 per cent?' Counting half of these aa workers, and the period of illness aa two months, which would be very moderate, estimate, give a loss )f productive working time equivalent to 30.000 - years. Talk of "cheap as dirt!" It la the most ex pensive thing there is. This picture is exceedingly vivid. It calls to mind many- a farmhouse. scourged by typhoid, pinched by the consequent exhaustive drain upon its resources, Its inmates decimated by death and the white-haired preacher of "ye olden time", discoursing to the bereaved ones at many successive fu nerals of the inscrutable will of divine Providence as represented by their grievous afflictions. The puzzled doc tor, as he went his rounds through an afflicted neighborhood, fought the dis ease valiantly when he found it, in the human body, with such remedies as the scant medical knowledge of the time sanctioned, but never thought of tracing or attempting to trace it to its source the old oaken bucket that . Dripping with coolne t' Arose from the well. Other carriers of typhoid are milk placed in vessels that have been washed with contaminated water, and the fly that lights on everything and ''never wipes his feet." The story as told In 'detail is at once alarming and reassuring. Alarming because of the common methods by which this disease is carried reassur ing because, having tracked the mis chief-breeder to his lair, satiitary sci ence has already surrounded him and is waging upon him a war of extermi nation which in the end far or near must prove successful.. The new liners Mauretanla and Lu- sitania, in spite of their great speed, are said to be disappointing in their inability to make proper use of the power generated by the steam turbines. The latter, to attain the maximum de gree of efficiency, must be run at a speed so great that it is Impossible to construct a propeller with the right degree of "pitch" to suit. Engineer ing experts who have followed the course of the turbine hope to overcome this difficulty with an Intervening gear which will admit of the turbine devel oping the maximum power and trans mitting it to the propeller at a speed best suited for the propeller. For a new beginner, the , steam turbine has been a wonder, and it Is reasonable to believe that its advantages have not all been discovered or developed. The old saying that "money' talks" is illustrated in the provision of the state law which requires that the au thors of arguments for or against ini tiative and referendum measures shall pay the cost of publishing the same In the pamphlet for distribution among the voters of the state. It costs a man $50 a page to address the 100,000 vot ers of the state through the medium of this pamphlet. At that rate the voters should feel some assurance that the writers of arguments have not wasted any space and there should be no hesitancy in reading everything they have written. When a man pays $50 a page for the privilege of talking to you, it is a fair assumption that he is in earnest and that, he has "boiled it down." Six years' imprisonment at hard la bor was the sentence for John O'Brien, a representative of the Structural Ironworkers' Union, at Ashtabula, O.; for assault with intent to maim a non union foreman at a labor riot, last month. A few sentences of this kind passed out to the un-American ele ment that elects to say whether a man shall work or remain idle will have a wholesome effect on the country. It will also In the end prove beneficial to respectable unionism of the American brand; "What is it to The Oregonian, any how?" asks the St. Helens Mist. "9hat paper says it is not a party advocate, but "merely a looker-on." Why, yes, indeed. But isn't a looker-on entitled to an opinion, and to a right to make a forecast of the results "of the game? You'll all see where you'll come out. The Oregonian merely foresees it. But it doesn't worry. Why should it? You're all sheep for the Democratic shambles. The Oregonian excuses It self. Prohibition, like politics, of which it is perhaps a part, "makes strange bedfellows." The Kentucky "kernels' who have made mint Juleps and red liquor of the Blue Grass region fa mous, are now threatening to turn Oie state over to the Prohibition hosts in retaliation for the election of Senator Bradley, their contention being that the liquor interests were responsible for Bradley's election and the defeat of Beckham. - - Uncle Joe Cannon, . Representative Payne and a few more of the most eminent standpatters have at last de cided that the tarifT is in need of re vision, and the matter will be taken up at an extra session next Spring. This decision is some years overdue, but if the subject shall be properly handled and early relief shall be af forded, it will make amends in a de gree for the dilatory tactics of the past. - There is just a suspicion that the Rev. Mr. Cook might have been ant mated by a desire to share in the glare of the spot light that has been play ing around Dr. Day since he assumed the role of apologist for the "predatory rich." This suspicion is heightened by the statement that he will insist on a public trial of the charges against Df. Day. If the tariff revision committee really want the inside facts relative to benefits of protection, let them sum mon our distinguished fellow-citizen, Andrew Carnegie. After all, Widow McGrath was lncky to get $300 from Mr. CRen. And Mr. CRen thinks so. too. The season is on when the Spring poet should lay in a supply of stamps for return postage. Maybe Kaiser Wilhelm wrote the letter to advertise his new battleship. . JCRIST PLOTS RTCV-E'fGK. "Isnmanlty Bath" Judge Alleged to Be Aa Active Caanoa Warker. Springfield (111.) Dispatch to Chicago Record-Herald. A dramatic phase of the attempt to put Illinois in the anti-Taft lists came to light when It was discovered that Judge J. Otis Humphrey, of the United States District Court, was one of the Instigators of the "porch climbers' convention" at Litchfield. Judge Humphrey is the jurist whose decision giving the "Im munity bath" to the packers in the beef suits in 1906 brought a special message to Congress from President Roosevelt, declaring that the Humphrey finding made the outcome of the trial & "mis carriage of Justice," and that it came' "measurably near making the law a farce." No rejoinder was made by Judge Hum phrey. Smarting under the" President's reproofs, however, the jurist is said by his friends to have been quietly mapfing out a plan of retaliation, and -when "Uncle Joe" Cannon first began ' to scheme to deliver Illinois to the reaction aries in the National convention the Judge was quick to join the movement. The "porch climbers' convention at Litchfield, at which a programme was rigged up that would allow the sage of Danville two delegates from this district who would be absolutely under his thumb, was the outcome of weeks" of work on the part of Federal officials In Sangamon County. Judge Humphrey did not participate In the work of button holing the Congressional committeemen. leaving that to coarser spirits. But It Is generally understood that throughout he was chief of the instigators behind the scenes, . Republicans who have been Dusy tne past two days trying to map out a way of circumventing the effort to drag two vestpocket delegates out of this district for. "Uncle Joe" have dug up indlspyta ble evidence that Judge Humphrey not only sanctioned the schedule to throw Illinois to an anti-Roosevelt candidate. but that the scheme itself was largely based on his advice and suggestion. MR. GROAT'S DAY' FOR BEAR Didn't Need a Dog. bnt He Gat Five Victim In Two Tree. Cottage Grove Leader. The bear story of the season comes from the Coast Fork Valley, a dozen miles south of this city. Last Sunday Mr. Groat, who .lives on the Thackrah place, Informed some neighbors that he was going bear-hunting. He was reminded that no varmint dogs were at hand, when Mr. Groat replied that he did not need any dogs to hunt bear, so he took his gun and alone proceeded about three miles up Wilson Creek. He soon located a great hollow cedar tree and while Investigating it a big black bear peered out of a hole and was promptly shot. Groat, being satis fied that more - bears were inside, stopped up the hole in the tree ami went back home for help. George Taylor returned "to the bear haunts with him. and two more black bears were located and killed In the tree." A little farther up the creek another hol low tree was located. In which was found two big brown bears, and they were both killed. Mr. Groat thus made good, and at one swoop came near rid ding that part of the country of 'the troublesome bruins. President Roose velt will please take notice and surren der the bear-huntens' persimmon to Mr. Groat. Mighty Good Theology. Philadelphia Record. "I never discuss marriage," said the late General .Fitzhugh Lee, "without thinking of an old colored preacher in my state who was addressing his dark-skinned congregation, when a white man rose up in the back of the building. " 'Mr. Preacher,' said the white man. " 'Sir, to you,' said the parson. " 'Mr. Preacher, you are talking about Cain and you say he got married in the land of Nod after he killed Abel. But the Bible only mentions Adam and Eve as being on the earth at that time. Who, then, did Cain -marry? ' "The colored preacher snorted with unfeigned contempt.- "Huh!" he said. 'You hear dat. brederen and sisters? You hear dat fool question I am axed? Cain, he went to de land o' Nod, just as de Good Book tells us. an' In de land O' Nod Cain gits so lazy an' so shiftless dat he up an' marries a gal o' one o' dem no 'count pore white trash families dat de Inspired apostle didn't consider flttin' to mention in de Holy Word.' " Apotheosta." Chinook Observer. Th apotheosis of W. S. U'Ren, by Lincoln Steffens. in the March number of the American Magazine, is the most? striking and remarkable revelation in the political muck-raking that has been directed and conducted for the past three years in the State of Oregon. Those who are familiar with the political and Legis lative career of U'Ren, and who were eye wltnessess of his movements, conduct and acts at the famous hold-np session of 1597. and who are- posted On the facts and true inwardness of the politics of that session, learned all they desire to know about U'Ren. his character his in terests, and professed honesty. They need no magazine article or half-tones to make U'Ren a saint or sinner. These in formed persons, in making comparisons, will look with composure and admiration upon the career, confessions, conviction and restoration of the rogues. Puter and McKinley. by - executive clemency to the ranks of citizenship: but the deification of U'Ren. a cheap, trick politician, will strike their Imaginations as the apotheosis of a rat, or a chunk of embalmed beef, with Lincoln Steffens as the only worshipper. A Marrying Woman. Louisville Courier-Journal. Mrs. Sophronia Gleason, of Indiana who wants a divorce from her eighth husband, says she will continue to marry until she finds her affinity. The center of population . is somewhere near Mrs. Gleason's zone, but it will doubtless shift as a result of the stam pede of eligible men. - WILL, BRm'A "lTMf HIS YOB V For Norr Minnesota's Y'on Toasos la .After Him. Detroit Free Press. Ton Tonson, him wan silent man. Ay hear wan day heem run For president;- ma heart it go Lak wan beeg gatllng gtm. Ay say Ay now ekol wait an' hear What Yonson have to say; Ay bet ma life when Yonson speaks Bal Bryan run away. Ay waited now tree weeks or four. Or maybe five or sax: Ay tank me soon Ay bear hi voice, Ay swing no more ma ax. Bay Ylminy! Ay tank it queer, Yon Yonson mak no noise; But all the time Bal Bryan, he Kap talking to the boy. Ay no can mak it out at all. Ay tank an' tank all day; Ay wonder why Yon Tonson don't Gat u an' have his say. Bay Yimlny! It makes me mad. Ay wan t to fight an' swear. Ay wait to hear Yon Tonson talk. An' see dat Bryan scare. Ay tal ma Gretehen she's ma wife Ay tal her only wait, . Dat Yonson some day he gat mad An' speak, as sure a fate. An' Ay skol bat ma life dat when Yon Yonson gat his say. Dat Bryan feller yump his yob --. Ay bat he run away. s BILLBOARD A PUBLIC NT1SANCB Considered aa Bad Advertising ana Detriment to Property, Rochester (N. Y.) Herald. Judge Welch, of the California Supreme Court, has decided that a billboard under certain conditions is a public nuisance, ex plaining his stand on that question in the following language: "A" glaring billboard advertising, for In stance, a popular beer, set opposite a man's house in a vacant lot, bordering upon a public highway in a country town devoted to homes, is just as offensive to the immediate residents as would be the maintenance of a pigsty giving forth of fensive odors, or the maintenance of a stonebreaking machine, or a chime of hoarse bells. In principle, there is no difference between them. It would be a singular result of our law If relief could not be had against the maintenance, for purely advertising purposes, of an un couth billboard erected opposite my house, having painted upon H grotesque adver tisements of wines, beers and whiskies, and constantly, hourly and daily a detri ment to my property, and a serious in jury to the feelings of myself and my family. Happily, there is a strong cru sade in full swing all over this country against the further maintenance of bill and signboards, a crusade that can only- end, as all crusades have ended, looking to the betterment of mankind, in the final downfall of this damaging kind of busi ness." . Aesthetic Boston has long waged a war on the billboard nuisance, where lawyers have contended that under the common law they could not be Interfered with. But the Park Commission has been given certain powers of restraint, and the public parks are not now fenced in with board walls containing glaring advertisements. Possibly Judge Welch's frank opinion will reawaken the nearly somnolent authori ties, and hearten the anti-billboard cru saders into renewed activity. It seems a pity that something cannot be done to restrain this continued deface ment of the landscape. Someone has gone up and down our beautiful Genesee River painting on every available rock the name of a commodity of daily use. Along our railroads fair landscapes are bellt tered with signboards which offend the senses seeking a change from the con stant evidences of commercialism visible In the cities. The vandal penetrates to remotest solitudes wherever he finds a path trodden by buman foot, or likely to come within range of human vision. A there Is a bit of picturesque scenery there the signboard man is sure to be found. It is wrong In principle and practice, and from every consideration o propriety ought to be discouraged. Political Diasolntlon. Chinook Observer. ' The political condition in Oregon at this time Is that of a political wreck. Statement No. 1 is fast destroying and moralizing Its parties. The initiative and referendum is being used as a child would use a razor. All the great leaders of the Republican party have been killed or so badly crippled that no reorganiza tion along party lines is possible. The Republicans who are worthy and able will not seek election or appointment to place. The mediocre in talent and ca pacity are now in the front rank' for promotion and elevation, U'Ren and bis crowd of agitators and obstructionists are In the saddle, and they will con tinue there till the taxpayers and Re publicans of Oregon begin to realize that they are congratulating them selves, with inconsiderate enthusiasm, on the downfall of their leaders, who. Judged, by the common standard of politicians and men, were as fair in politics and no worse in character and methods than those who hounded them out of public life. i Spain In America. New York Herald. Not to know the history of Spain. i not .to know the history of America. The discoveries of thp early explorers and colonizers are deeply imbedded in the records of the Spanish Empire at its mightiest period. The language they brought to this hemisphere still prevails through an area on this side . of the Atlantic almost four times that of the United States. Our coast line bristles 'witlv Spanish names from Florida to the Straits of Vancouver. Even today in our own Southwest several hundred -thousand of our citizens use the. Spanish tongue. The barrier of language has been the great obstacle to a better knowledge of and sympathy with people and things of Spanish origin. Only lately has the Spanish language been included in our school courses. Few Americans among the hosts of annual tourists have been Induced to see Spain with their own eyes and know its people. Depends on the Cabana. New York Sun. The transfer of Cuba's government de pends upon the force of our obligation to get out in accordance with conditional pledges In comparison with our obliga tion to continue American control for the purpose of maintaining peace and in suring the safety of life and property. The issue is in. the hands of the Cubans themselves. Another Mltle Tranitaetlon. Sherman County Observer. While attempting to explain that financial deal with the Oregon widow, Mr. U'Ren might elucidate that $80 graft in the assembly a few years ago, which scared him so bad when detected. ' A raw "What Started th Quarrel Tounj Wife (at hornet "Hello, dearest:" Tounir hus band (at office) "Hello: Who is this?" Puck. "Maude wu afraid the girls wouldn't no tice her engagement ring." "Did they ?" "Did they? Six of them recognised it at once." Cleveland. Plain Dealer. "Are you a valetudinarian, ir?" "No. air. I ain't no such thing, sir; I'm an out-and-out Prohibitionist." Baltimore Ameri can. She "Don't you think he' clever? He "Well, he aeeros to make people think, ao." "Well, don't yon conaider that clever?' Tonkera Statesman. - " "I want to tell you, air, that this panic don't affect the farmers." "Don't, eh? Well, you Jest oughter see the prodigal sons thet'a been thrown back on us." Judge. Office ' Boy "Plase, sir. my grand mother's dead, and I must get off early to go to the funeral -match I mean the foot ball ceremony that is " ( Exit In con fusion.) Punch Musical Manager "Now. candidly, talk ing of the performance of Wagnerian opera, what do you think of our -company's execu tion ?" Candid Critic "It is not execu tion, my friend; it is assassination." Balti more American. Mrs. Hayfix (reading) "This paper says th doctors nev oiscoverea anotner w dis ease, Hiram." Hayrlx "Huh! I wish th pesky critters would stop lookin' fer new diseases long enuff tew hunt up a cure fer th' rrtumatlz, by grass y Chicago Daily New. "How do you like the committee to which you were assigned?" asked one member of the House of Representatives. I suppose I ought to feel flattered," answered the other. "I never heard of it before. It seems tff have been discovered for my per sonal benefit." Washington 6tar. "Here's a piece In dts paper," said Weary Walker, "what saya it's better to He to a woman if de truth would make her un happy." "Dat's de way I feel," replied Thiraty Tanks, "an wen a lady sex to me: You won't buy; liquor wid dis?f I always ay, 'No, ma'am " Philadelphia Press. Gwendolen (much embarrassed) "I have to apologize to you this evening, Mr. Whackster. The girl has been cooking on ions in the kitchen, and the odor fills the house." The Young Man (not at all embar rassed) "I don't mind that a bit. Miss Gwendolen. I've Just been eating onions myself." . (Dense silence.) Chicago Tribune. NATIONAL GUARD THE first requisition of new Sprm?; field rifles to be issued to any Guard organization in the United States was re ceived at the Portland Armory from ti.e War Department last week and will be distributed at once among the Infantry companies of Oregon. It will be 6everat weeks yet before any other state troops receive the guns. This initial shipment is a small one. the total being only 100 guns. But 1400 similar weapons are already on the way here f rtm the Ordnance Department at Washington. D. C., and the entire Guard will be equipped with the modern arm b" the time the outdoor rifle season opens. The 100 guns have, been apportioned, by direction of Adjutant-General Flnzer, so as to giva five rifles to each company of infantry in the state. . The best marksmen in the various companies will be the ones to re ceive the weapons at this time. The new aJpringfield. mooVl i!i, is nu excellent appearing rifle and" it takes only a casual examination to convince the ex? perienced marksman that the gun is all that has been claimed o it. It is better made than the Krag, being much in the nature of a Krag but including many im provements in minor' details which have been suggested out of long experience with the now discarded gun. One important change has been -.nade since the Springfield was amiounred ' several years ago. This change 1 in the type of bayonet. Originally the War De partment set out a slender rod bayonet, i little thicker than a pencil. 12 inches long and blunt at f.he thrusting point. It 1 was the mwt harmless contrivance ever attached to any weapon; The War De partment authorities had agreed that bayonet fighting was a thing of the past. Official reports of several important hat ties of the Russo-Japanese War revealed, however, that bayonet fighting had been the decisive point not in one engagement but in manyy The War Department very ; quickly called in the rods and ordered a bayonet that went to the other Extreme of being the most serviceable blade ever in use by United States troops. This weapon, a knife bayonet, accompanies the new rifles jmst received. It has a thrust of 18 inches and a four-inch hilt; and the Krag bayonet looks very much like a penknife by comparison. With such a bayonet. American troops would never be at a disadvantage in close quarters. The rifle itself is of far greater ac couracy than its predecessor and drives with greater velocity. While the sights are patterned after the Krag sishts. many minor improvements are apparent which will at once appeal to riflemen. The load ing arrangement is different, the shells being inserted with a clip. Loading and firing, otherwise, is controlled by a holt similar to that of the Krag. The pro-, jectile is 30-30 caliber and tapers to a fine point offering less surface for atmo spheric resistance than the blunt pro jectile heretofore In use. Just exactly how this pointed mlssle will be affected by high wind is a matter yet to be seen. Just why the War Department has not sent out more printed matter on the new Springfield is a matter not easily un derstood. The giins are here but the varoius little problems as to how they act at different stages of range .work is left for practical experience to solve. As eoon as the first shipment of ammunition arrives the gun will be taken on the. range and the requisite "dope" worked out by local experts. Fifty thousands rounds are now on the way. . March 27 has been set as the date for the annual inspection and review, by Governor Chamberlain, of the troops, stationed in Portland. Colonel C. E. Mc-' Donell, of the Third Oregon Infantry, and. Captain H. U. Welch, of the field bat tery, have issued the necessary orders for the event. The companies are now re cruited well up to their maximum strength and the turnout for this event will doubtless be the largest on record. Within the next CO days the campaign for a favorable vote on the 5100.000 ap propriation for new "Armories will be taken up. Information has been secured that grange organizations are coming tn see the need of the new structures and are withdrawing, in part, from the at tack on the appropriation. The campaign will be essentially one of education, as the Guard does not intend to play in the game of politics any further than is necessary. Efforts will be made to bring the voter of the state to an intelligent understanding of the matter and militia men believe that then there will he no. further question about approval of the appropriation. There is just a possibility that th?i American Lake joint nfaneuvers will have to be called off this Summer. The bill appropriating $1,200,000 for joint maneuvers in various parts of the United States was favorably reported hy the House com mittee lately. But when it Rot before the House, breakers were encountered. 1 1. passed by a narrow margin and then a raw Congressman from Illinois arose to oppose the expenditure of so much mony for military training and asked a roll call vote. The result of this was that the appropriation was lost by Just one vote. The Senate, however, has taken the; matter up again and will seek to have It. reconsidered and passed. Tremendous In fluence is being brought to bear to havp the appropriation put through - without reduction and at lat accounts the bi!I seemed to have gotten clear of the break ers. Extensive joint maneuver for regulars and National Guard troops have been planned by the "War Department for Chlckamaufca Park, Georgia; fort Benjamin Harrison. Indiana: Fort 'Rily, Kansas: Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming: Leon Springs. Texas: American Lake, Washington, and Maclemento Ranch. California. The ultimate fate of the ap propriation bill for these maneuvers .will be watched with wide interest. The schedule of events for the National" shoot this Summer is announced. Th: matches will be held at Ca'mp Perry, Ohio, again. Three great programmes are included. The shoot will open with fh matches of the National Rifle Assoeiatiun, August 17 to 30.. The Ohio State Rifle As sociation will sandwich in its events Nt intervals between August 1? and -3'. . The big National matches, team and indivi dual, will be held from August 21 to 20. That Oregon will send a team is al ready assured. New mn will have a better chance of qualifying in view- of the change of rifle and "he competition for places on the team gives promise "f being more heated than ever before. Prohibition In the .South. New York Times. . Already every barroom in Georgia has gone o-at of business, and for the first time In 40 years the Atlanta Journal came out and said that not a single black man was in the city prison. Booker Washington at the People's Forum in New Rochelle. The temperance movement is well but tressed by racial'sentiment in the South.. Prohibition for white men failed to pro hibit. Prohibition administered by blacks would certainly not prohibit. But imposed upon the blacks by the superior race in the South it may become effective for both through sufference on the part of the inferior race, and because of an extraordinary motive for self-denial re inforcing the good resolutions of fhe whites