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THE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 27, 1908. s PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Poatofflrs a Second-ClaM Jtaiter. Subscription Katrs I variably la Advance. (By Mall ) Dai'y. Sunday Included, on rV J J Dal, v. Sunday included, six "" J I-ally. Sunday Included. ihrM montha.. I Liajjy. Sunday included, on- mmn-..- " Omily. without Sunday, one year. Iwllr. without Sunday. months.... 3 -o I'aJly. without Sunday, ihrta m"ntna. . Iai!y. without Sunday, on month wklr. one year i ' Sunday. on ear f V": Sunday and Wk!y. orie T'r iu (.By Carrier, i DaJhr. Sunday Included, ens year.. " Laily. Sunday included, on month Haw ta Remit Send postnfTlce money order, express order or personal check on your local aenk. S'iinfl. coin or currency are at tht aender's rule. Give postofliee ad j . i.i.i'ti. munlv and alate. Poatace Rat Foetage nam 1' " ' r--. to r-iges. 2 cenia; .' m 44 , pat'f. 4 cents. Foreign poai doiibla ralea. n itfa Fa.lera Bnsiness Office The S. C. Tla-h- wltn Special As-nry New York. tw 0 Tribune building. Chicago, rooma 511) Tribune building- PORTLAND. FRIDAT. NOT. XJ. I. SIGNS A'D FOKTEVrft. .r-i . ir i the intention to J. UVJ m-J push "Statement One" for all It may be worth, for control or ine organisa tion of the Legislature and for direc tion of the legislation of the session. That "would establish fidelity to the Holy Statement as the new basis of division of parties In the state. Perhaps this innovation has gone so far that it will be impossible to arrest It, and all measures proposed in Oregon hereafter will be tried and Judged upon "the new principle." and decided upon the conflicting motives as to party action to which it will give rise. In such case those who Insist on "the new principle," and those who oppose It. will act separately hereafter; old associations will be per manently severed and new combina tions made, for future party action. In the opinion of The Oregonlan the course that shall be pursued during the coming session will determine the future course of political parties in Oregon, and in particular of the Re publican party: also whether the Re publican party in Oregon is to stand for anything hereafter, or be swal lowed up in a "combine" with the Democrats. "They say," further, that the Bourne and Chamberlain forces are working together to control the organization of both branches of the Legislature, in combination for control of the policy and legislation of the session. Prob ably this is true. If so. It Is the next step to the new political alignment. The Bourne forces, such as they are. and the Statement One politicians, hitherto Republicans, will be gathered rapidly into the Democratic fold. Bourne himself would feel more com fortable at Washington, and a more mightv man. with a Democratic Sena tor for his colleague. Thus, he could masquerade as a Republican till the end of Taft's Presidential term, and then might see or suppose a chance to turn with profit to the Democratic party. These simply are forecasts. The forecaster's work rests on signs and probabilities; and the head of the Weather Bureau Is not the only man In the business. It is a function also of atftive and vigilant Journalism. ORK.IN Or THANKSGIVING. Thanksgiving, as we have it, is of New England and Puritan origin. After the years of terrible privation OS:i-l" the Massachusetts exiles In 1823 obtained from the soil and from the rivers and forests of the country an abundance of food. In tho Autumn, then, of 1823 there was thanksgiving; and from this the cus tom spread among the expanding New England colonies. Presently, however, as a day of fes tivity. It was put Into opposition to Christmas. The Puritan soul was scandalized by feasting and revelry on the holy day Christmas which it was felt should be a day of penance and fasting and devotion. New Eng land therefore pushed the festivities of Thanksgiving against the profan ation of Christmas day. This, however, gradually changed. Christmas as a day of festivity and cheer held Its own in the other colo nies, and their customs gradually re acted on New England. Both days held their ground as holidays; but Thanksgiving did not obtain much hold In the South. New England mi gration carried It. however, to the West, whore the two met on equal terms. This gave Thanksgiving strong basis and support; and In 1SS3 Presi dent Lincoln Issued a proclamation In his peculiar and Impressive manner, recommending observance of the last Thursday of November as the day. This has been followed as a custom errr since. Some say It was Sarah Josepha Hale, a woman of note In her cay long time editor of Godey's Lady's Book whose urgency of the matter on President Lincoln moved him to issue the proclamation. It was the year of the crisis of the Civil War. after the victories of Vicksburg, Gettysburg and Chattanooga. PHI LI 1-11 NK !-tCAR IMPORT. It is extremely Improbable that the business of the beet and cane sugar producer? of this country would be very much affected by free admission of Philippine sugar. While necessity for some revenue from imports is plain to all. and it may be advisable to levy a moderate duty on sugar imported from foreign countries, there are clrcum'tsnces In connection with the Philippines which should make these island dependencies ex empt fritn the toll levied on sugnr from olher countries. Aside from certain obligations which we owe the people of the Philippines, there is nothing In the situation to Indicate that the output of sugar In the Islands will very soon reuch proportions that will prove a menace to American susar. On this point, Secretary Wright testified before the ways and means committee that "it was not possible that the Hands could supply the actual increase In demand for sugar year by year In the L'nitcd States." He further said that in his opinion the American markets would not be af fected by the Philippine sugar "until the beet and cane sugar produced within the tariff wall increases 1.S00, 000 tons." The Insignificant propor tions of the Philippine sugar imports are shown in the official figures of the Bureau of Statistics for the fiscal year ending June 30. According to this authority, the imports from all porta for the year were 3.371.997.112 pounds, and of this amount the Phil ippines contributed 8S.46S.000 pounds, a scant one per cent of all the im ports. It can readily be understood from these figures that the danger of the ' price of American sugar being im perilled by Philippine competition is very remote. Imports of Cuban sugar, which comes in under a prefer ential duty of 20 per cent lower than the regular rate exacted from foreign countries, last year amounted to 2.30S.189.28S pounds. It is not at all clear that the American sugar indus try Is In danger from any source, but there Is decidedly less excuse for fear ; of Philippine competition than from i any other quarter. I A TRA'iK STORY. What the New York Tribune says about the political situation in Oregon Is said sanely: yet question Is whether the Tribune, saying sanely, is in po sition to Judge of the political situa tion In Oregon. The situation is without parallel. It can be judged from no out-ide stand point. It can be judged only from in side knowledge, possessed by observers In Oregon who have watched the course of It from the beginning. Hitherto the majority In Oregon has been no more sane on thisr' subject than it was on the subject of silver coinage and silver money, down to 1896. when the people began to re cover their senses. On this stibject also they will recover their senses. But when? Perhaps this folly In Oregon is nec essary for enlightenment of the coun try. But it doesn't cheer us to find other states calling Oregon the fool of the family, and jeering at Oregon, as she wears her fool's cap and bells. The poignancy of it Is that such journals as the New York Tribune and the Washington Post, reasoning sanely on the situation in Oregon, and still expecting a sane result out of It, yet may be mistaken. They reason only from their own standpoint oC sanity that Is. from the standpoint of the whole sanity of the country outside a faction of Oregon. Doubtless there are people who like our state to be the laughing stock of the country. It is a distinction for our state that The Oregonian confesses it does not enjoy. After a while a treatise may be written on this subject. The proper title of it will be "A Strange Story." IT STARTLES. DiUEXD. It is a strange story about Judge Mllo A. Root. that, comes from Seattle the story that he has resigned his office for the remainder of his term only, but will take the oath and re sume the duties for the. new term to which he has been elected. His case, his example, as a judge. Is one of the worst that has come to pub lic attention. Undoubtedly he was deeply compromised, or he would not have resigned. Every" one sees and knows there was more than "epistolary indiscretions" in the transactions. But here is the point: What use did Mr. Gordon, attorney of the Great Northern, make of the $30,000? Why should his use of it have forced the resignation of Judge Root? Does a great corporation the Great North ern, for example place In the hands of an attorney (say Gordon) so large a sum, to be expended for its "Inter ests" In ways that involve Judges, yot are not specifically accounted for? And then, when the tongue of fame gets busy, the Judge resigns! It seems hardly probable that this judge will take the oath of office for the new term. 1 Instances like this, which give rea son to fear that the law, and justice which the law is intended to enforce, have been corrupted and bought out. give occasion for real concern, and in deed for alarm. The thought that Jus tice may be debauched In Its very sunctuary Is sufficiently startling. THE Tl KKEY TRUST THAT FAILED. It will be a matter of general rejoic ing that the Portland market men who attempted to hold up the people for, extravagant prices for turkeys were left with large stocks on hand, even after heavy sales at auction prices. This game of "cinching" the public Is worked every year, and at times when there is a small supply of turkeys It has proved highly profitable. But the public has begun to understand the system, and Wednesday In large num bers the buyers either held off for the inevitable break In prices or purchased a less expensive centerpiece for the Thanksgiving dinner. Tho. loss to the dealers who attempted to corner the market, and until the last moment held prices up to nn extravagant figure, will not cease with the sacrillce in price that was necessary In order to make the stock move. Their patrons whom they held up for 30 cents, and in some eases 33 cents, a pound for turkeys, as a rule were not transient customers, and, re gardless of their ability to pay any price that might have bee:i asked, they will not bo pleased with the treatment they have received. The Thanksgiv ing dinner has become one of the es tablished customs of the country, and it is. of course, very unsatisfactory to postpone purchase of the turkey until the hour when the shop closes the night before Thanksgiving. The mar ket men. however, by their policy of the past few seasons, have set this hour as the one most favorable for the purchaser who will not pay extrav agant and unreasonable prices. Having established this custom of selling a portion of the turkeys at much more than they are worth and of working off the remainder at less than they are worth, the market men need not be surprised to find Christmas shoppers holding off until the last minute, or asserting their disapproval of even a turkey "trust" by substitut ing some other kind of Christmas din ner. A TRIO OF rNSFEAKABl.ES. Princess Sagan, erratic and soiled daughter of the late Jay Gould, has made a most complete mess of mar rying foreign titles. Some sympathy Is still felt for her as a mother, who is about to lose the care and custody of her children, but even this is not well based, since by her last marrage and her conduct Immediately preceding 4hat event, she proved herself unfit to direct the lives and order the edu cation and home associations of her young sons. Truth to tell, the father of the box's 1s no better fit than the mother and step-father for this trust. Grandmother Castellane is a worthy and reputable woman, but she made a sad failure in rearing her own son and it may be questioned whether she can do better by her grandsons. She U anxious, however, to undertake the task with $60,000 a year from the Gould estate to eke along. Under all the circumstances the French court that is called upon to decide who shall be custodian of these - worse than or phaned boys has a most perplexing and unenviable task. Anna Gould was bound to make an erotlcal fool of herself: she was built that way. Large wealth enabled her to go abroad and work out her special bent through two marriages, each of which was viler than the other. Had she been born In poverty and early orphaned, she would have followed her inclinations possibly through mercenary or lil-consldered marriage possibly outside of marriage, but in any event she could not have lived a more unwomanly life than she has lived abroad under the mockery of marriage. The pity is not for her, since her destiny is fixed, but for tho children who, through a mistaken permission of nature, were born to her. As to Count Boni. his reasons for pressing a claim to the custody of the children are plain. Resentment and revenge, not unnatural under the cir cumstances, and a desire to secure a large annuity for the maintenance of the children which, through his doting mother he would be able to manipu late, are ample Incentives to the pres ent suit. It would perhaps do the fellow more than Justice to assign" the first-named as the chief reason, for bringing the claim. The thought that he may be actuated by parential pride and affection is inadmissible. As to the fellow who stands in the shoes that Bonl was shaken out of, he is simply unspeakable, as Indeed are the other parties to this suit. FOOLSCAP PAPER. This is a strange phrase, whose origin has puzzled many. From an old record It appears that Charles I of England granted numerous monopo lies for obtalnment of money for his purposes, Independently of the Parlia mentary grants, among others, the manufacture of paper. The water mark of the best paper of the rime was the royal arms of England. The con sumption of this article was great and large fortunes were made by those who had purchased the exclusive right to vend it. This, among other monopolies, was set aside by the Parliament that brought Charles to the scaffold; and by way of showing contempt for the King they ordered the royal arms to be removed from the paper and a fool with his cap and bells substituted. It Is now more than two hundred and fifty years since the fool's cap was taken from the paper, but still the paper of the size which the Revolu tionary Parliament ordered for their journals boars the name of the water mark placed there as an Indignity to King Charles. THE AUTOMOBILE BOOM. The horseless carriage may not soon displace the intelligent animal which from the earliest ages In war and' peace has borne, a prominent part in the commercial and sporting life of mankind. There are so many places where the horse can be used and where the automobile would be useless that the breeding industry will not suf fer by the invasion of the automobile, and there will always be horse-lovers whose affection for the noblest of the brute creation will never be changed by the mechanical substitute. But for all that, the automobile Is coming with a rush, and for speed and utility Is fill ing a place that nothing else as yet Invented or created can fill so accept ably. The extent of this popularity of the horseless carriage is shown In the enormous crowds in attendance at the big race meets. The Vanderbilt cup race, a few days ago, brought out more people than ever attended a horse race on either side of the ocean, and with a much smaller territory from which to draw a crowd, the attendance at the races at Savannah this week was also far In excess of that which Is attracted by horseraclng. The growth of the automobile craze is all the more won derful when it Is considered that as yet the auto Is used chiefly for pleasure or sport. From an Industrial standpoint It is doubtful if there has ever been anything approaching It in the rapidity of development of the business. The general manager of the Amer ican Motor Car Manufacturers' Associ ation, in a recent statement, gave the amount of automobile sales in 1903 at $S. 000. 000. while last year they were In excess of $105,000,000. There is $200, 000.000 capital invested in the trade, and the number of men employed is In excess of 100,000. At the close of 1907 there were more than 2S0 builders of automobiles in the United States, and this country was still importing foreign cars in considerable numbers, although these importations were probably off set by exports of American machines. With the industrial feature of the automobile making such an astonish ing showing, and the operation of the machines, either for pleasure or profit, creating so much interest, it 4s a cer tainty that we have not yet even ap proached the height of the craze, If craze It may be termed. Reckless speeding of automobiles has created a prejudice that cannot do otherwise than hamper the progress of the move ment, but as the speed maniacs are killed off and reduction In prices places the machines In the hands of a more sensible class of people, their popular ity will Increase. There will also be an Increasing de mand for them for commercial pur poses, for their utility has been demon strated beyond the point where they can be regarded as any such passing fad as tho bicycle proved to be. The automobile has come to stay, and while the big race meets may not prove the best method for advertising Its merits, until the demand for the ma chine as a luxury for sporting purposes Is filled, the factories will probably cater to that feature of the trade. There Is lack of Its usual discrimina tion on the part of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, In an article in which the "corporation record" of Sec retary Root and Senator Foraker Is said to be identical. Mr. Root's serv ice to the Metropolitan Railway of New York was that of a lawyer, pur suing the business of his profession. He held no public office. Mr. Fora ker's service to Standard Oil was, nom inally, that of a lawyer; but Mr. Fora ker was a Senator of the United States. Root was employed solely because he was a lawyer; Foraker's big "fees" were paid him because he was a Sena tor, and his "Influence" was desired. The Republican's attack on President Roosevelt, because he supports Root for Senator, yet so strongly censured Foraker. is based on failure to ob serve a most necessary distinction. Or is It to become a part of the new ethics that no lawyer shall act or ap pear for a corporation? The exchange of compliments which is now In progress between Count Boni de Castellane and Prince Helie de Sagan is In a fair way to make the contestants In that traditional encoun ter between the pot and the kettle seem white as the driven snow. The public has become so thoroughly dis gusted with the dirty deeds of these contemptible fortune-hunters that It would hail with delight a sudden In fusion of courage which would result in their killing each other. The un American female whose wealth is the cause of the squabble inexcusable only on the grounds of imbecility, for it seems inconceivable that any - sane woman 'Would fall so low as she has fallen. If it be true that the sins of the fathers are vlsitec puon the chil dren, the respectable brothers and sis ters of Anna Gould are certainly suf fering to the limit for all the iniquities that were ever charged up against Jay Gould, and there is also much trouble ahead for the innocent offspring of the Castellanes. Conditions and people alike have changed since Sir Henry Morgan. Cap tain Kldd and others of their kind fared forth under the Jolly Roger. The indiscriminate removal of the heads of -people who disagreed with these pirate kings was not usually at tended with great risk. It is different now in these twentieth-century days. When General Lecomte, Haytian Min ister of the Interior, a few days ago promptly executed the commander of one of the government gunboats and dealt likewise with two prominent citi zens who protested against his action, the people rose up In their might and killed Lecomte. A fiery disposition and a thirst for blood may come natural to the rulers of those "pepper-" lands of the south, but in their enforcement of the law of "might makes right" it would be better for their health to as certain just where the "might" is lo cated. Thanksgiving day was bright and balmy, neither Summer nor Winter weather prevailed, but the compromise between the two was simply delightful. "Unusual weather for the season of the year," said more than one thought less maligner of Oregon s glorious cli mate. "Not at all," answered the man with a memory. It Is easy to recall Thanksgiving days all along the line of fifty years, that were equally favored in the matter of weather. There have been those of the other sort, it is true, but the balance between those and these is about equal, with now and then a "nipper" thrown In, as on Thanksgiving day, 1896, just to make Oregonlans thankful that they do not live where bitter weather Is the rule Instead of the exception. A long-overdue execution Is sched uled to take place at the Oregon Penitentiary January 8. The subject for the noose Is one Math Jancigaj, who indulged In the not uncommon pastime of killing a girl who refused to marry him. There were no ex tenuating circumstances in the case; the fellow was not insane, but just plain devilish. Upon this showing the Jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree, and Judge Mc Brido sentenced him to death. Janci gaj belongs to that class of men whom a woman can neither live with nor get away from. There will be plenty of them left after this man is gone. After generons estimates. Park keeper Mlsche found use for but $20, 968 of the fund of $68,000 appropri ated the first of the year for the sup port of the public parks of the city. He was equal to the emergency, how ever, and asked for "the balance" without designating the use to which It was to be devoted. The trifling "balance" of $47,032 was held up for the present, pending explanation by the members of the Park Board. Of course the Park Commissioners want it all. Why should an unexhausted balance of any appropriation revert to the general fund? Portland to be in two baseball leagues next season? It seems so. No one will doubt the ability of "mag nates" to start in on the experiment, but what about the finish? The busi ness of baseball isn't always profitable; two clubs in rival leagues in a town the size of Portland doesn't look like a sound proposition. Possibly ran dom may divide Interest between two organizations. What then? All inter ested in the subject will learn before the season Is two months old. One thing is reasonably certain: attention will not be equally divided. "If," says the Savannah (Ga.)' News, "Mr. Bryan is nursing an idea that he may be a candidate again, he might as well make up his mind at once that he will never again have the Bolid sup port of the South. Indeed, it is doubt ful if he would have any support at all in the South for the nomination. The vote in Georgia ought to convinco him that this state at least is convinced that there is no use trying further to elect him President." The hearing In the case of Mae L. Otis, for conspiring to kill her mother, was begun in the Chicago Municipal Court Wednesday. The defense will set up a "new disease," i. e.. "moral anaesthesia." in extenuation of the un natural crime. By way of explanation this disease is said to be "a deadening of the moral perceptions," from which It appears that there is nothing new about It except the name. Now that the holiday Is past with all its football triumphs and defeats, its glory and humiliation, it may be a good plan for the freshmen, seniors and Intermediates to set up an innova tion by suspending activities and going into those things they were sent to college for. June hath her victories as well as November. And they are more important and lasting. Merely as a reminder, compare the aggressive, hopeful, self-confident spirit with which Portland will tackle its manifold business activities this morn ing after a day's rest, 'with the tim idity of one year ago, when financial clouds hung low on the horizon. Re covery is complete. Yesterday, in speaking of Dr. D. K. Pearsons and his work for the small colleges The Oregonian said that he had "accumulated his wealth from rise of real estate values in this city." Read "his city." Dr. Pearsons, a native of Vermont, has resided in Chicago since 1852. Notable fact It is that though the number of "dry" counties in Oregon steadily increases, the revenues of the United States from the liquor traffic in Oregon as steadily grow. Here's the old question again, "Does prohibition prohibit?" Th. fitv Crttinnil nnw turns about and votes to give the Southern Pacific on Fourth street a year longer. But is that long enough to save the Coun cil's face? Having heard from Boni about Sagan and Anna, we shall next learn about the precious Boni. It's a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Dorando's macaroni was too much for Hayes' Manhattan cocktails. IMPORT DUTY OW PAPER AMD PULP Amrrlrna Traat Advance-. Price of Pro duct and Holds Don Wage. John Norris. chairman of committee on paper. American Newspaper Publish ers' Association, has prepared and sub mitted a brief to the tariff revision committee In which he sets forth the conduct of the Paper Trust. He vigor ously protests against "the methods of the dark lantern and the sandbag." Mr. Norris shows that the burden of higher cost has been borne by the newspapers, with no compensation to labor engaged in its making, with de creased revenue to the Government and with disturbance to all interested ex cept the trust. Here are a few of the facts presented: NewVpers have hen made to bear .un due hurdena as a result of the advance In 17 of SI'.! per ton n the price of paper. Approximately 1.2in.nno tons of news print paper are u-ed in the United States anr.u allv. costing consumers in excess of $"0, Ooo.ooo per annum. A a result of the nn justlflHble advaroe nf JOtt". "'it paper, the Baltimore American. m-s taxed s0.Ko per annum. Another pap-r. Ihe JMilladelphia Inquirer, vaa taxed Sl.18.0OO per annum. Preliminarily I call attention to toe fact that because of a labor dispute between the International Paper Company and its employe. covering; a period of three montha. since Ausuat 1. 108. the output of the market was reduced about 105.0OO tons. This curtailment of production has been availed of by paper makers generally to mark up the price of news print paper this week to 1.15 per ton New York, or 20 per ton in exceaa of the price which pre vailed when the waya and meant committee considered this schedule 12 years ago and $15 per ton In exceaa of the time which would prevail under normal conditions. Please note that tha publisher- not tha laborer, nor the paper maker Is aftked to pay thla bill for Industrial warfare. We will enow from Its annual rexorta that the International Paper Company, with all of ita antiquated outfit and Its 5 subsidiary companies that aap Its earnings has made an actual profit of $8.T1) per ton. or 2u per cent upon all the paper it has turned out In ten years and that its cost of production has been SllO.S per ton or SI. 51 per 100 pounds and that Its average price during the ten yeara which have elapsed since the paesage of the Dlngley bill has been S4.1.1H per ton. or $'J.10 per 100 pounds delivered, an Increase of $11.91 per ton over the price at which paper was sold when the Dlngley bill was passed. July 14. 18U7. It will probably be surprising to the general public to learn that labor in paper mills In the United Staets is paid less than in Canada. Mr. Norris says: Paper can be made cheaper at Mlllin ockett. St. Croix and Berlin than In Can ada. Iabor is x-aid less here than in Can ada and we hold that the protective prin ciple provided for in the Republican platform- doea not apply to paper, because of this treatment of labor by paper makers, and becauae of thla cheapness of cost of home production as compared with for eign production. We will show that the Dlngley bill Increased the duty on ground wood 45 per cent and on news print paper 4d per cent and that the outcome of the present policy haa been to Increase Imports of pulp and paper and to. decrease the ex ports. There has been a transformation In the paper situation. Instead of exporting paper, we are Importing pulp. In proof of the charge of low wages, Mr. Norris quotes from the report of the New York Bureau of Ibor which shows that in 1906. paper workers, skilled and unskilled, received $1.92 per day; in Masachusetts, the average wage in 1905 was $1.53 per day; In Wisconsin In 1907, the wage was $1.48 per day: the census report for 1905 shows that 65,694 persons employed re ceived an average of $9.32 per week, or $1.55 per day. Mr. Norris concludes this phase of the subject as follows: Instead of giving to labor the rewards which protection was designed tt; confer, the paper makers have treated their labor worse than any other Induhtry has done. Since the first of August. liMJb. a protracted struggle was carried on between the Inter national Paper Company and its employes over a question of R reduction of 5 per cent In wages the contest entailing a loss In labor and other items exceeding $1,900, 000, all of which raust ultimately be borne by the newspaper publishers, under . the provisions of your tariff schedule. The brief shows wherein American newspapers are at a greac disadvan tage as compared with Canada and with England; yet naturally, the advantage would be on our side. Mr. Norris says: I have eminent authority for the state ment that American milla can make paper cheaper than Canadian mills. 1 refer to Sir William Van Home, the resident of the Laurentlde Paper Company, of Canada, which produces 3 60 tons of news print paper per day. or double the quantity that all Canada uses. He said the advantage of tho American mills over the Canadian mills was as follows: A supply of skilled labor. Cheaper coal. Adequate home market. Cheaper mill supplies. Cheaper first coat of machinery. Cheaper repairs and maintenance. Lower ocean rates for exuort. Lower marine Insurance on. exports. He omitted, hower, the most important advantage which the American mills ht-.ve. Canada Is handicapped by excessive cold Winters. In the north country, it costs 2.1 per cent more to operate in Winter than In other seasons. Mr. Norris presents a mass of evi dence of combinations and other Ille galities which will certainly make the tariff commission sit up and take notice. The Self-Iatereat of Bryan. Baltimore News. Mr. Bryan is in an embarrassing po sition. Although he has run for the Presidency three times, he is a young man, comparatively speaking, and so far as the question of age Is concerned he might be a candidate for the honor anytime within the next 20 years. That being the fact. It must be an exceed ingly difficult thing for him to say something that 'will absolutely elimi nate himself from all future considera lon for the Presidency and at the same time announce that he will continue to keep up his Interest in politics and in the reforms for which he and his party stand. This would come particularly hard at a time when he has just seen his party fairly well united behind his candidacy and apparently giving htm cordial support. Politics is Mr. Bryan's business. He is the editor of a news paper that lives on political support. To cut loose from ever being the party leader again, therefore, entails upon him a heavy pecuniary sacrifice, for the reason that no one will care as much about the Commoner If it is the organ of a candidate who has been finally disposed of. Moreover, Mr. Bry an may wish to go to the Senate from Nebraska. There again an Irrevocable decision not to be a candidate for a fourth term might be embarrassing and leave him shorn of much of the politi cal power he now wields. Fate and the Gould Family. Detroit (Mich.) Free Press. What Nemesis is on the trail of the children of Jay Gould? The maritlal Infelicities of one are the sport of two continents. Those of another entertain his fellow-country men unceasingly. In the scene of the father's victories the oldest son's fi nancial prestige is in eclipse. Only the one daughter redeems the Gould name. Her pieties smack of penance for the inherited or acquired faults of the others. The name of Gould, once whispered In awe. has become a joke and -a by word in the market and in the social hall. Why? Are the sins of the father being vis ited upon the children of the first gen eration? The Jay Gould fortune was sown In dishonor. Its up-piling marked the dawn of high finance In this coun try. Methods, then new, now widely copied. placed In Its architect's hands the savings of the multitude. It was ill-gotten wealth but it lasted the life time of its getter and seemed to dis prove ancient maxims. Does fate exist after an? js mere a oower that sits grimly watching our doings and waiting to enforce the pen- lty for our mlsdeeds7 SOUTHER?! DEMOCRATIC OPIJflOX Tbe South Ongat to Take Dlrertloa of the Democratic Party. Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser. It Is useless to be timid or evasive In the discussion of political affairs, past, present 'or future. The party must rid Itself of Bryan leadership, or drag on, a hopeless and useless exist ence until annihilation ends It. Mr. Bryan has for 12 years been a drag on the Democracy and an insuperable bar to its success. He is a dreamer, a vagarist and a time-server who has tried to be all things to all men. who has juggled with Democracy for his own purposes and dallied with the false doctrines of other parties with the hope of winning votes for himself. Thous ands and hundreds of thousands of life-long Democrats have supported him in three campaigns when they had no confidence in his political steadfast ness, no faith in his political wisdom and no hope of wlnnimr. They sup ported him because of their loyalty lo their party and not through confidence in him or hope of success. Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. That the Nebraskan was defeated the third time Is no fault of The Tele graph's, as the earnest fight made in these columns for Democracy under him testifies. In neither his second nor his third race did he make the showing that he did in the first one. He ran behind the state Democratic ticket in every Northern state, and as much as 170,000 votes In one of them, and nearly that much in others. What reason for a fourth candidacy can be set against these facts? He is simply down and out. The thing for the Southern Democrats to do now is to assume an aggressive leadership with in the National Democracy, not out side of it. It must resurrect the old principles, which can never die as long as liberty lives, and apply them to modern conditions, and with them smoke the rascals out. The next President of the United States must be a Democrat. Savannah (Ga.) News. The South has remained true to the party through many discouraging years. Durinis this time the South has asked little and received less. It has de ferred to the East and the West, and seen written into the platform planks that it disapproved and nominations made that it would have preferred not made. Having abundantly demonstra ted its loyalty and patriotism in losing campaigns in which it had no directing voice, it seems only fair and right that the South should be given the oppor tunity to direct a campaign of unquali fied Democracy. EASY DIVORCE ENDS IN DAKOTA One Year's Residence by Applicant aad Trial In Open Court. New York Sun. A moral Issue was submitted to the people of South Dakota November 3, when they were called upon to consider the new divorce law enacted on March 16. 1907, which provided for a year's residence by the applicant and trial in the open court at a regualr term. The petition for the referendum was signed by 5 per cent of the qualified electors, as the code required. The petitioners must have regarded the old lax divorce law permitting construc tive service, six months residence and dark closet proceedings as a good thing for South Dakota; and it was not astonishing that Sioux Falls, which notoriously profited by its divorce mill, was strongly represented. In default of the filing of such a petition the new law would have stood as enacted. Chal lenged by the petitioners and their parasites, it now has the sanction of the people and the example set by South Dakota is likely to be followed In spirit of self-reproach by other States which have not been In a po-" sltlon to cast a stone at her. Causes for divorce are Immorally nu merous In several of the states. Per haps unmorally would be the apt word to use, for some of the causes for which divorce is granted may be re garded as mere fictions prompting conspiracy between the parties to the suit and their lawyers to sever the marriage relation. Divorce reform aims to eliminate the flimsy pretexts for separation and freedom, but as in those states where they are stamped with validity transient residence and secret hearlnge are allowed, the first step In divorce reform is to prohibit such abuse of procedure. Publicity discourages applications to the courts for divorce on fictitious and merely frivolous grounds, and In a state that Insists upon an adequate term of resi dence divorce colonies cannot be fos tered. Tha action of the people of South Dakota will make a s.tlr in every state of the Union that Is cursed by bad divorce laws, and reformers will be emboldened to renew their attack upon the evil In the Legislatures. Death Vindicates Naturally Lazy Man. Philadelphia Record. Death has just ended the career of Richard Slimmer, long known as the laziest man In Millville, N. J., but with his death comes the announcement from physicians who attended him that the unfortunate man had been grossly misrepresented. Slimmer could not be induced to work. He said he felt too tired. .Efforts to have him do some thing for the support of his wife and five small children were unavailing. His little ones went out to beg and the authorities caused his arrest- It was no use. He simply could not be induced to reform, and he was sent to jail. That accomplished nothing, for when the man emerged the situa tion was not improved. Once not long ago charitably-inclined residents who wished to do something for the fam ily sent Slimmer a load of wood. He refused to accept it because it was not 'cut. Nobody had a good word for the man, but when the dootors were called to attend him in his last illness they found that he had been suffering for a long time with an organic disease which sapped all his vitality and left him weak and practically helpless. They said he had never merited his unpieasant notoriety for laziness. Balsac's "Little Fortress" House. London Telegraph. Admirers of Balzac who come to Paris will hereafter have an oppor tunity of visiting a museum specially devoted to souvenirs of the writer. It consists of the quaint old house and garden in the Rue Raynouard. at No. 47. which he inhabited many years and where he wrote a number of his best works. Curiously enough, the house recalls one of the most difficult periods of his life, when. It Is said, he was hunted and persecuted by debtors to an alarming extent. He selected the house, it is stated, purposely as a sort of harbor of refuge from duns. It has no direct entrance from che Rue Raynouard, and one has first to pass through the hall of another house and go down two flights of stairs to a courtyard below. The house, which is a small building and which the French would only call a "pavilion." is en tered from this courtyard, and has a little garden at the back. At one side of the garden there is a steep wall down the side of the hill, giving the place the appearance of a little fort ress. Of Elastic Origin. Providence (R. I.) Bulletin. The death is announced of the in ventor of the gas meter. The idea of the gas meter is supposed to have been suggested by a curious device which archaeologists identify as the emblem of the original Ananias Club. THESE VARIOUS FOLLD3S The Situation In Orrgoa and the Situa tion In Kansas. Kansas City Journal. Oregon has a law tif an admittedly unconstitutional act of the Legislature may be called a law) providing for the election of United States Senators by a vote of the people at large. The members of the Legislature are pledged to disregard their oath to support the Constitution of the United States and to voice the selection of a Senator made by the people, instead of them selves selecting a Senator as that Con- . stitution requires them to do. This arrangement has led to a Strang complication. The people elected a Re publican Legislature and a Democratic Senator. Now the question with the Republican Legislators is whether the most popular thing will be to follow the so-called law and elect a Demo cratic l'nitcd States Senator, or for sake the law and stick to the party anil elect a Republican Senator. The situation in Kansas is little less ridiculous. The Republican party chose Mr. Bristow for Senator, but elected to the Legislature only 32 Bristow men out of a total of 118 Re publican members. Eighty-six of the 118 were not Bristow men. It is gen erally believed that today Mr. Bristow would fall to carry the state at an ordinary election at which all voters had the right to vote. The question with these 86 members now is whether to vote according to their own con victions as the United States Consti tution requires them to do or be whipped into line by the primary elec tion law. Laws providing for the popular elec tion of Senators depend for their effl cacv upon the suposed cowardice of politicians. In Kansas, members of the Legislature are compelled under penalty of party censure to surrender the right to elect Senators a right guaranteed and .a duty imposed by the Constitution. In Alabama even the Governor Is compelled to surrender his constitutional right to appoint a Sena tor In case a vacancy occurs. He is compelled to appoint one of two "Sena torial pallbearers" elected by the peo ple. All this is accomplished by party tyranny made effective by political cowardice. The Republicans of Oregon are re sorting to all sorts of expedients to get themselves out of their difficult:-. The latest Is the circulation of peti tions among their constituents releas ing them from their pledges. Evident ly the one thing that has not occurred to them is to do right to do their duty to do as they are commanded to do by the Constitution they have sworn to support. . SARCASTIC HENNESSY MURPHY Marvels at the Tributes Paid to a Catholic Patriot's Memory. PORTLAND, Nov. 26. (To the Edi tor.) I see by your Washington dis patches that, with military pomp and splendor, an heroic statue of -e"eral Philip Henry Sheridan was unveiled in that city yesterday. The President of the United States and members of the Cabinet, the diplomatic corps, Juce8 of the Supreme Court of the United States. Senators. Representatives in Congress, veterans of the Civil War, and many others prominent In official life as well as a large concourse of citizens, were assembled as a tribute to the dashing soldier of the Civil Sar, whose effigy was displayed to the pub lic gaze for the first time. What, are my ears deaf? Was not this man Sheridan a Catholic? By what authority was 50.000 of tha peo ple's money squandered for the apo theosis of a Catholic? What kind of days have come upon us, with Salem ecclesiastically on the bum, Eugene so dry that the cows and horses are drink ing booze, and back there at the Na tional capital the minions of the Pope cast in bronze and their praises sung by the Nation's chiefs? But harken to the President of the United States'. In all history we have no greater Instance of aubordlnation of self, of the exalting of a lofty Ideal over merely material well-belnK amo'ng the people of a great nation than was shown by our own people in the ,ivu War. But wait. Does not Historian Henry Cabot Lodge state that those most sig nallv honored in our Civil War. were not only Catholics bad enough in it selfbut Irish? I tell you, sir, the. country is going to the taradiddles' And again from President Roosevelt in the same address: We should keep steadily before our minds the fact that Americanism is a question ot principle, of purpose, of Idealism, of char acter; that it is not a matter ot birthplace, or creed or line of descent. What creed does not enter into the genius of our patriotism? Well, by flapjacks! Is not this treason to the bill of rights? What keeps our zeal from going to seed, if not Mongerlng a solemn creed with solemn leer. Attuned to the music of the creed-hawks aud graveyard? What is the matter with the sheep walkers, those bucolic sorrespondcni.s who never get off the beaten track and think as their ancestors thunk before the flood? They must know that a wallop at the Catholics is very popular with pious men of moderate under-..o,T-,icr nnd helns a return of pros perity to the collection plate. Happy were we an oorn Duii-oiamca sectarians, all born with a Christian . . . J I I nn nmaf 1,1 tt. talent to uisMipm -" v brother's face, and Mr. Editor, as Sena tor Killfeather says, "is it not time ia clean out the Oxygen stables?" J. HENNESSY MURPHY. Can't Stampede Georgia. Savannah Morning News. Mr. Roosevelt thinks that if he had run for President he would have car-i-min "tf are ouicklv said. lieu . . - even when they don't mean much. Georgia likes Mr. ftooscveu; mere is n doubt about that. As a wild-cat killer and writer for the magazines he is re garded as a leader of his class. But Georgia isn't in the least attracted by ki. mi The vote in the recent election doesn't show so much of Re- Dublican gains as it aoes uhuuui. T v.-n..-i-, ixirtlfferenne. It may losses ..ii. i. r " . please Mr. Roosevelt to think he Could have carriea ueuir,'. better, but it doesn't hurt any to have him think so. Only. a Question of Time New Bedford (Mass.) Standard. anrlnrnnno nf thft second DCts on i" - Cuban republic are already being made in Havana. it i umj o, -.i cha In certain to become a part of the big American Republic MEREST TRIFLES. ' . ...... a BCCIlfted Of .now, my mti num. striking another boy and knocking out one of his teeth Scuse me. Jedge, two ol his teeth." Life. m i. im.rii-, comoris- - rne average tarnity es 4 persons." "I guess I'm the . of t his , family. murmured Paw Hoptoad a trine acridly. Louisville Courier-Journal. No Danger Excited woman Are you going to ruR .way with me? BeckleM driv er (slightly Intoxicated) Sorrj.mun but but I can't oblige you. I'm mar-married already. Judge. "Before we were married you said you'd lav down your life for me. she sobbed. I know it." he returned, solemnly: hut this confounded flat ta so tiny there a no , place to lay anything down." Harper a Baiac. The Dominie Why r 'ou "'Y,ti,ou tor me to dine with you on Thanksgiving, my voung friend? Freddie 'Cause dad said he Wouldn't go to the expense of a turkey un less some one should come to dinner. Puck. Vicar of Poppleton I hear you have been over to Ippleton Church the lat two Sun days Bates. How would you like It if your cattle atraved into somebody else's field 7 Bates I shouldn't object, if so be the pas ture was batter! Punch,