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ft THE MORNING OREGONIAN, 3IOXDAY, JTJIjT 12, 1909. PORTLAND. ORECOX. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postoftice aa Becond-Claas Matter. Subscription Hates Invarlnbly In Advance. (By Mall ) really. Sunday Included, one year $8 00 Dally, Sunday Included, six months 4 23 Ially. Sunduy Included, three months. .. '2-23 Dally. Sunday included, one month 75 Dally, without Sunday one year 6.00 pally, w ltt.out Sunday. six months 8.25 Dally, without Sunday, three months... 1.75 rally, without Sunday, one month CO weekly, one year 1.50 Sunday, one year 2 50 Eunday and weekly, one year 3.50 By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year .... 0.OO Daily. Sunday Included, one month 75 How to Remit Send postofftce money order, express order or perfnnal check on your local hank. stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postofflce ad dress In full. Including count- and state rontnice llatrs lo to 14 pagrj, l cent; 16 l H P"KM. 2 cents; 30 to 44 jibrcs. 3 cents; 43 to tlo pages. 4 cents. Foreign postage double rates. Faster nuxlnesa Office The S. C. Beck with Special Aa-nry New York, rooms 48 B0 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 510-512 Tribune building. rORTUM), MONDAY, JULY 12, 1909. BRYAN'S KKWIXDER, Bryan's criticism on Taft about the Income tax certainly Is pointed and direct. Bryan wishes to remind the country that the Democratic platform of 1908 contained a demand for in come tax. and for amendment of the Constitution to authorize it, but that Taft in his speech of acceptance said nn income tax amendment .was not necessary. Yet Taft now sends a mes page to Congress proposing the sub mission of an income-tax amendment. In his speech of acceptance Taft didn't assert that an income tax was not necessary or would not be neces sary. What he did say was this: "In my judgment, an amendment to the Con stitution for an income tax is not nec essary. I believe that an income tax, when the protective system of customs and the internal revenue tax shall not furnish income enoush for govern mental needs, can and should be de vised which, under the decisions of the Supreme Court, will conform to the Constitution." That is. he be lieved that an income tax law could he drawn which would be valid, with out first amending- the Constitution; and that such law should be enacted, to supply any deficiency of revenue, should it occur. But President Taft has now made up his mind that amendment of the Constitution will be necessary before tax can be collected on Incomes, and urges the corporation tax instead. His change of attitude seems to be due to the arguments of those who have been juggling the tariff for the purpose of fostering protected monop olies still further; who likewise oppose income tax, and, since more revenue must be had, prefer corporation tax, as less onerous to themselves and more burdensome to large classes of the productive industries of the country. But truth is, when the country voted last November on platforms and can didates, it expected proper revision of the tariff and adequate revenue as a consequence. It expected neither a corporation tax. an inheritance tax, nor an income tax. With proper ad justment of the sehedules'there would 'be no need of either, and relief, more over, would come to consumers and to . the public treasury. But the greed of protected Interests is permitted to mar everything. GERMAN MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION. By the latest census of Berlin, the population of that city was 2.040,148. Growth or Berlin, and Indeed of most German cities, since the consolidation of the present German Empire, has been marvelously rapid; equaled in deed only by cities of the United States. One hundred years ago Berlin had. only 163,000 inhabitants; and Hamburg was the only other city in the present German Empire that had then more than 100,000. There are now In the empire forty-five cities whose population exceeds 100,000 each.- Hamburg has 805.000; Munich Is third, with 540.000. Dresden, Leip zig and Breslau follow In the 500,000 class, while Cologne almost reaches it. The ratio of growth in German cities during the last thirty years has far outstripped that of France, which for merly had a great lead. Latest cen sus csf Paris reported the population of the city to be 2.714,068. The next two cities of France are Marseilles, with 491,161 Inhabitants, and Lyons, with 459.099. France has only sixteen cities with more than 100,000. Professor Fairlie, of the University or .Michigan, in his book on "Munici pal Administration," dwells on the fact that the recent growth of cities in Germany is characterized by two dis tinguishing features. First, the gov ernment of the cities is not on a demo cratic basis, as In other-important ur. ban countries, but continues to be con trolled by the wealthier classes in each community. Second, the active management of municipal affairs Is entrusted chiefly to a special class of technically trained officials, who apply scientific administrative methods to a degree unknown In other countries. Yet, by a seeming paradox, it is. these cities that have advanced farthest In me direction or wnat is known as "municipal socialism," not, however, as the result of any political propa ganda, but as a gradual development from their own experience. In our country such arrangement would be denounced as an oligarchy. and the government would soon be taken out of the competent hands that . direct Its operations and placed in the hands of "representatives of the peo ple." Here we have the reason why "municipal socialism" that works well In German cities wouldn't be success ful In our own. Our free and en lightened electors wouldn't tolerate very long the rigors of a system under technically trained officials; compell ing obedience of everybody to scien tiflc methods. In the German conception of city government, there Is no limit what ever to municipal functions. But the administration is kept in the hands of men who know their business. Again the local authorities are not depend ent on special legislative grants of enumerated powers, as in our country but are operated on a general grant of power, the exercise of which. In our country; we should call the tyranny of an irresponsible bureaucracy; without which, however, we get slipshod, in efficient and extravagant municipal administration. But a system like this in Germany Is a growth of experience and prog ress. The basis of it Is In the char acter and method and experience of a people. We could not import the sys tern into the United States; for the constitutional, juridical and adminis trative systems of one country cannot be made to tit another. It is useless, therefore, to cite the German munici pal system, with its socialization of the instruments of the city's active life, as examples of what cou'd be done in the cities of our own country, under "municipal socialism." Our po litical system, under the clamor of agitators who would appeal to the people not to submit to "enslavement," would upset everything. We prefer loose, inefficient and costly govern ment, insisting on "liberty," as we conceive it; in whose name also blun ders are overlooked, and even crimes committed and as freely pardoned. DATA FOR JUlXiMENT. Senator Bourne, tribune of the peo ple, enemy of privilege, foe of monop oly, champion of the primary. law and of the holy statement, jet falls in with Senator Aldrich, supports his schemes and schedules, admits that he does so because he knows nothing about these matters himself, and must rely on others. President Taft, Sena tor Bourne finds, has accepted the lews of Senator Aldrich, and that is nough for Senator Bourne; for the power to make appointments remains n the hands of the President, and power of confirmation of appointments the hands of Senator Aldrich. What can Senator Bourne do but to hitch his toy wagon to the tail of the kite? Senator Chamberlain supports the Aldrich tariff schedules; he votes for igh duties, in the preparation of the bill; his voice and his vote go with those who prevent tariff reform and maintain the hold of monopoly. And nally, after having assisted to the ex- ent of his power in loading up the ill and playing into Aldrich's hand, n the side of monopoly, for partisan politics, he turns round and votes gainst the bill on its passage; his ob ject being in the one case to make good with the protectionists of Ore gon; in the other, to stand by his party and preserve his party record. Take the record these two Senators are making, and Judge what degree of sincerity is in their action, and how far each tor either of them has com prehension of the duties and obliga- ions of the position or the require ments of the country- Of course, it is apparent that each man is playing his game. KEEPING OUR PATRIOTS AWAKE. The Arena for August is going to tell about Turgot, the French states man, whose counsels, if followed. would have "saved France" from the turmoil and horrors of the great Rev olution; and the writer, in his pros pectus, intimates that a like crisis now threatens our country, which can be averted only by an awakening of pa triots to the peril, and uniting them to secure the basic principles of free government. Turgot, all will admit, was an able and wise statesman, who gave his King and the court of France good advice, which was refused. But Turgot could not have averted the Revolution. No man could. The abuses that produced it had been planted too deep, and were of too long standing and growth. But -behind us there is no "ancien regime," no ten centuries of wrong and oppression, nothing to produce such an upheaval. In our system there are abuses indeed, but they are all open to debate, and all may be corrected by the active participation of the people in their government. No such volcanic explosion as the Revo lution in France takes place In the absence of the materials and causes necessary to produce it. But it's all right to "keep our pa triots awake." It's no amusement to be asleep. WHEAT PRICES UNCERTAIN. With favorable weather, the coming week will witness the wheat harvest well under way at a number of points south of Snake River. Yield and price are both far enough above the average to make the crop a more powerful factor in the general trade situation than it has ever been. This, of course, is contingent on the crop moving In a normal manner. Already there are some reports from the interior that farmers will not sell for less than -$1 per bushel on the farm, a figure which at the present time is slightly above a parity with the foreign markets. The Oregonian, as, well as all other business interests In the Pacific North west, would like to see the farmers paid $1 per bushel, and as much more as it is possible to get Tor their wheat. It would be unfortunate, however. If this big crop of wheat were held off the market so long that other portions of the world succeeded in marketing their surplus at present high prices, which may be followed by a meterial decline. It is extremely doubtful if this country will ever again see the price of wheat as low as It has been within the past dozen years. It is expecting too much, however, to look for a con tinuation of present prices throughout the present crop year, unless European political complications and poor crops elsewhere should create an abnormal condition. New wheat is already com- Jng into the markets of the southwest. and within the next thirty days the present acute situation in this country will be relieved. Meanwhile the Euro pean countries will begin harvesting, and. while their crops are not very good, they will endeavor to tide? over with them, and with what can be sup plied by the United States and Canada, until the turn of the year. After that, "the deluge" of Argentine wheat. which, year by year, shows increasing prominence as a world's price-maker on the premier cereal. Another disturbing feature of the present situation is the impossibility of securing accurate data regarding the size of the American crop. Based on the percentage condition figures of the Department of Agriculture, there is indicated a total yield of both Spring and Winter wheat of about 660,000,000 bushels, compared with 664,600,000 reported by the Government a year ago. It has been demonstrated be yond a doubt that the Government figures last year were many millions too high. This year, they may be many millions too low. The figures on Oregon, Washington and Idaho are not yet announced, but last year the Government placed them at 53,207,000 bushels, which was more than 13,000, 000 bushels In excess of the total out turn for the three states. By its worthless, misleading system of crop reporting, the Government may be as far wrong this year as it was last, but In the opposite direction. Wheat at present prices will show a handsome profit to the grower, but if he wishes to gamble that It will be higher, it would be an economical plan to sell the actual wheat when. It is harvested, and replace it with Chicago Board of Trade wheat, which is not susceptible to the ravages of rain, rats er fire. DOUBTLESS. Timberman Weyerhaeuser disputes with Forester Pinchot, and tells him that the timber of the Northwest is exhaustless. It means that Weyer haeuser thinks his own holdings will not be exhausted these many years. Doubtless. He will protect them. Forester Pinchot has come on the scene too late. It is not his fault. Almost everything had been given away before he appeared. Whether such remnants as he can save are worth saving may be doubtful. It is the usual thing to let the tail go with the hide. It would be mighty hard to convict the Weyerhaeusers and others who have sharked up the timber lands of the country of having done anything that was actually illegal. They have taken advantage of every opportunity. The law has given the lands away, under pretense of favoring the citizen and settler. But the citizen and settler has sold out for anything he could get sacrificing all the future for a little ready money In hand. That comes of laws made by a popular gov ernment ruled by demagogues. However, the Weyerhaeuser timber undoubtedly will hold out a long time. and the longer it holds out the more valuable it will become. We shall have princes and potentates, from a decayed nobility of Europe, trying to marry the usufruct. In years to come. STAXMNO ON OUR RIGHTS. The strenuous objection that Ger man and French bankers are making to American participation in the Chinese loan is not the least of the reasons why this country should in sist on making the loan. A London cable in yesterday's Oregonian indi cated that negotiations are near the breaking point with the Americans standing on their rights. The same cable also brought the comforting news that "It Is certain that the Americans will not recede from their stand taken at the London meeting, and if necessary will insist that China shall not sign the loan agreement un til the American claim is recognized." That the importance of this matter from a diplomatic and commercial standpoint has not been overestimated is further indicated in a Berlin cable in yesterday's Oregonian, which quotes the principal financial paper in Ger many as saying that "the claim of the United States to participate in the loan takes the character of a well considered step of fundamental sig nificance for a change in the country's international policy." The Berlin paper concluded its arti cle with the significant statement that: "President Taft thus for the first time has definitely shown that his opinion differs from that of Roosevelt." The practical experience of President Taft and his willingness to listen to the testimony and advice of business men most vitally interested in commercial matters, have quite naturally given him, on some topics, opinions which are at great variance with those of his predecessor. The right of the United States to participate in the particular Chinese loan, which is causing such anxiety among our foreign friends, is not, however, open to question. It is a plain, clearly defined right set forth in unmistakable terms in an agree ment concluded October 1, 1903, by Sir Ernest Satow, the British Ambas sador, with Prince Ching. The case now at issue was covered by a provision In the agreement which states explicitly that "If China desires to construct a Hankow-Szechuan line and her capital is insufficient, she will obtain all necessary foreign capital from Great Britain or the United States." The agreement further pro vided that this railway should not pass into control of the subjects of a third power. It will be noted in this agree ment that Germany, the principal objector in the present dispute, is not mentioned. Germany's rights in the case were secured by her withdrawal from participation in the Hankow- Canton road, financed some years be fore. Germany surrendered her claim to finance the Canton line in return for Great Britain's transfer of her rights In the Hankow-Szechuan line. As we have said , before, this com paratively small loan, viewed strictly as a financial transaction, has nothing attractive about it. American finan ciers can lend money elsewhere at higher rates of Interest. As a retain ing fee, by which we secure closer business connections with a great Oriental nation, the loan presents a different aspect, and it should not be permitted to pass into the hands of our trade competitors'. WOMAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN. The sympathies Of the public were copiously drawn upon a few days ago by the announcement of the birth of triplets into a home of squalor in New York, w;here there were already seven children, the oldest of whom was -but 12 years of age. Perhaps it would be more truthful to say that the public was shocked at this present ment of Inconsiderate animalism in the midst of destitution or perhaps disgusted would be the better term employed. Be this as It may, tha enormity of the occurrence was not fully realized until the announcement of the birth of triplets into such un propitious surroundings was supple mented by the statement that the "father had collapsed." Proceeding with the story in detail, the chroni cler said that when the father a Rus sian with a small knowledge of Eng lish was first Informed that there were two new babies in his already overcrowded home he did not wait for further tidings of disaster, but "rushed Into the street In a hysterical condition and It took half an hour to calm him. Returning, he was told of the birth of still another' babe, when he collapsed in a faint." This story is manifestly incomplete. It should have gone on to tell that of tho wife who had so inconsiderately thrust such burdens upon her over sensitive lord, had further refused to rise from her 'bed and bathe his face, lift his head upon her knee, assure him that she would at once vacate her place in the bed for his accommoda tion, and further that she was quite sure that she could in a short time get still another place in which she could go out to wash and thus lighten the heavy burdens that she had im posed upon his shrinking shoulders. Poor man! This was clearly the least that this fecund woman could have done to restore the courage of her sorely tried spouse. But did she do it? No. She selfishly kept her bed and allowed a charitable associa tion to send a nurse to wait upon her and look after the triplets for a few days, while the poor father was left to recover such animation as he had. un heeded upon the not overclean floor. e hear a good deal now and aerain of man's inhumanity to man. and. sad to say, there is some basis in fact for the sermons that are delivered upon this harrowing topic. But this is nothing to the exhibit herein made of woman's inhumanity to man. Not content with the awful lapse in wifely consideration, as shown in making her husband the father of triplets, having previously burdened him with seven in the short period of twelve years, this callous-hearted fe male lay in the only bed the tene ment afforded and appropriated to herself the services of the charity nurse, leaving him to moan out his woe upon th floor. We should be glad to note that the nurse took pity on the poor man and deluged his prostrate form copiously with water. So this poor man is not alone in his misery. Other men in his immediate vicinity have wives equally as incon siderate as his own. Deriving com fort from this fact, let us hope that the man in this case speedily rallied such senses as he possessed, lighted his pipe and got off to his dollar-a-day Job in time to stop by the way and reinforce his shattered nerves with a much-needed stimulant while a kind charity put milk to the eager mouths of, his babes and Incidentally gave toast and tea to the selfish woman whose fecundity is fast break ing his once buoyant spirit. Advices from Pekln, per steamer Tosa Maru at Victoria, Friday, are that the Hofer method for securing rain had been successfully tried in China. The Prince Regent 1n his proc lamation advised the use of prayer, not only with all the ancient gods, but he also suggested that those gods found in the Christian missions also be entreated to help the good work along. The response was immediate and a famine was thus averted, with the result that the priests have had their power wonderfully strengthened with their superstitious followers. The Chinese experiment unfortunately complicates the prayer method for securing rain. If the God of the Christians is entitled to the credit for the rain, the heathen god is not en titled to it, and without question the heathen, having his gods before the missionaries had theirs, will insist that to them is due the credit for the rain. For the benefit of all concerned, it is to be hoped that the Chinese can get the "reverse action" on their prayers before the rain cracks all the cherries or spoils the hay along the Yangtse. For a midsummer month, with a double holiday at the beginning and unfavorable weather most of the time since,. July seems to be making a very- good start for a record. During the eight business days of the month, in cluding Saturday, bank clearings were In excess of $10,000,000, real estate transfers $677,881, and building per mits $387,719. This showing as a starter for a midsummer month that is proverbially the worst of the year from a business standpoint, is highly satisfactory and argues well for the future. Nearly all of the building per, mits were for residences or small business structures, and the totals will be materially Increased later in the month by a number of big business structures for which preliminaries are being arranged. If the present lead can be maintained through the Sum mer dullness, Portland will show some phenomenal gains in building per mits, bank clearings and real estate transfers as soon as the returns come In from the big crops in this territory. Kodama Ocomateu, the Japanese explorer, has set sail fox the South Pole, fully confident that he can hang the banner or Nippon on its outer walls, that is, assuming that the South Pole has outer walls.- Almost simul taneously with this announcement comes another that Mene, the Esqulmo boy whom Peary brought to this coun try, will lead an expedition to the North Pole. There has been consid erable Caucausian blood and treasure yielded up in efforts to locate the Poles, and it would be great prestige to the yellow race if one or both of these brown-skinned gentlemen would succeed where so many whites have failed. Neither Kodama nor Mene will use a balloon in his work; so Walter Wellman's annual stunt of reaching the North Pole will be unaffected by these attempts. Thorburn Ross' broken bank is pay ing back some $275,000 to depositors That would endow and equip a fine home for bank wreckers, who have been saved from the penitentiary. Be fore the money goes back to deposi tors, the receiver mrght, wait to see whether Mr. Ross penitentiary con viction in a lower court will hold in the Supreme Court. A Umatilla County woman asked her husband to take her to the Fourth of July celebration at Pendleton and when he refused she was compelled to go alone. The cruel man followed with the cook and the two got home at a very late hour. The wife is asking for a divorce. As a consequence of the removal of General Bingham by Mayor McClellan from the headship of the police office of New York, the Tammany boss ex presses the cheerful opinion that "now there will be no more pander ing to the moral element." The New York Evening Post be lieves that men have been toadying to Aldrich on the tariff In the hope of getting political and official prefer ment for their friends, including judi cial positions. Very probably. , Senator Bourne followed the lead of Senator Aldrich through the tariff manipulations. Probably that was better than trying to do anything him self. Oregon deer hunters will do well to bear in mind that the open season be gins August 1 and not July 15. The law was so amended at the late ses sion. Beat's all how many little fellows think they're fit for a big man's Job There's Cushman's place in Congress, for example. Gresham, not disturbed by the Hofer humidity, is going ahead with arrange ments for Its annual Cherry Fair next Saturday. George Brownell's picture is in the newspapers again. What? Ho! Does George think of ungrateful politics again? Bad weather it's been for persons who- took their vacations early. LIFE IN THE OREGON COUNTRY'. The Wonderful Month of Jane. Testimony From a. Dry County. McMinnvllle Telephone-Register. PhyBicians assert that modern busi ness life is driving men to drink. In some of the Oregon counties they have to drive quite a distance. Real Giveaway on Jimmy. Silver Lake Leader. Jimmy Wakefield must be contem plating matrimony, for among other household goods he purchased of Fred Romlnett was a high chair and baby buggy. Eugene Guard. Dr. J. W. Harris, in his monthly re port as County Health Officer, gives out the information that one man re ports his ninetenth child during the month of June. He is only 47 years of age and his wife is 42. Of these 19 children 16 are still liv:ng. This would certainly please Teddy Roosevelt. The Hon A. B. In Still Smiling. Hlllsboro Argus. ' Hon. A. B. . Flint, who is runnine an embryo hospital .down at Kinton. was in town -Saturday afternoon. A son with a broken leg, another with a broken arm, and a wife with a broken collarbone, all In the family at one and the same time. Is enough to make a pessimist out of almost any one but A. B. still wears the same old smile. "SI" Youngt Record Kill. Medford Southern Oregonian. "Si" Young, ' the expert linotype operator and (between times) ardent nomesteader In the Brownsboro dis trict, has a record in the snake not snakes line. Recently while strinsrine- wire fence on his homestead he met up with a big rattler, which he proceed ed to massacre. It had 16 buttons on the tip of its tail and was over seven feet in length. It Is the .record kill of the season. Hrre'a a Hole Worth Looking; Into. The Dalles Optimist. I was going out threw the countrv the yother day and I seen a feller dig ging a big hole, round like a well, only bigger, and sum fellers up in the hill beyant laying fence posts on the ground and they had a waggon load of DarD wire. Then I asked the feller what was digging the big hole what he was digging and he sed post holes. He sed they was bilding a fence up in the niu out the ground was stoney up ihere, so he would dig one ble hole and cut It up into 200 smal holes and move ip onto the hill where they wanted the fence. Did you ever heer the like? I'll bet a silver 2 bit peace that. the skeem on't work. Ennyhow I'm going out mere in a weak or 2 to see if it did -ork. If it does why I can make big munney here by shipping post holes by express into counties, where wages is nign and the ground hard and stoney. The subject Is shure worth looking Into, Conductor Rtley and the Dog. Corvalll8 Gazette-Times. Conductor Riley is Irish, and on Sat uraay nis lrisn was "up." Result, one viciously-inclined canine gone to dog oeaven. conductor Riley was attacked by said dog as he was walking along Second street. The animal feloniously and maliciously sunk its incisors into Riley's left leg. Harriman's blue-coat ed official got wrathy and decided that any dog tasting his blood had to die. Perhaps the dog would have died any way, but Riley wanted to help him. so he dashed into a store for a gun, then Into another store and finally found a small cannon at J. H. Harris'. Bv that time the dog and his owner were out or town, but Riley was determined to get that dog. He drafted a bicycle into service and sailed away, finally cor raling the animal in front of his owner, down the road across Mary's River. Riley blew the dog into kingdom come and indicated that he had the disoosl tion to blow most anything else there. Teacher In Boston for 65 Yearn. Boston Herald. With the record of having never miss ed even a half day in fifty-seven years' service in teaching school in Boston Charles James Capen, eighty-six years old, senior master in the Boston Latin School, has just retired from active duty. He is the oldest teacher in Boston and probably in the United States. His re tirement is due to the seventy year limit rule, adopted by the Boston school board. Mr. Capen has been a school teacher sixty-five years, but since 1S52 his service in the Latin school has been uninterrrupted. Lifting Grain From Ship by Suction. Youth's Companion. At the Mlllwall Docks, London, a new installation of grain handling and stor ing appliances- has recently been put to work. Including pneumatic elevators, which draw grain out of the hold of ship at the rate of 75 tons an hour for each elevator. Four work simultano- eously, each dipping into a separate hold The grain is lifted through flexible pipes to an elevation of 80 feet. Band con veyors, electrically driven, having total length of 2Y miles, carrying the grain to the granary on the quay. There Wonld Have Been Something Doing. Brooklyn Eagle. Fortunately for Aldrich, Lodge. Smoot and a few others, the Presidency changed hands last March. Had Theo aore Roosevelt been chosen to serve another term, and had he, as candidate, made promises such as those his sue cessor gave to the country, long before this there would have been a "hurry call from the White House for th Senator from Massachusetts. Afte that, explosives. No Crime to "Cuss" With Moderation Des Moines, la.. Dispatch. Swearing over the telephone in a mod erate degree is permissible in Iowa, ac cording to a decision handed down by the Iowa Supreme Court. Because of this ruling the Marcy Telephone Com pany, of Boone, will have to reinstate the telephone of George Huffman. It took it out because It said he cussed" over the wire. The Supreme Court reaches the conclusion that cussing is a relief for a man under business strain. When the Forests Are Gone. Aloysius Oa.ll. In Recreation. How shall the lyric thrushes sing-. On the brink of the silver rain. When all tne hills are bleak and bald. And all the trees are alaln? Where shall they house their babes of brown When leafy copse ana scar And budding green and Autumn brosva Have melted Into the dust of town. And the babel of truck and car? How shall the oriole bubble up. Like a aoraph into th air, When all -the maple trees are gone, And the boughs are stripped and bare? Where shall he hang his allkea nest To cradle the precious youna:. When the last warm feather from his breast Is torn away from Its bower of rest. And the last sad song; is sung? How shall the wild canary woo, When the thistle and the plum Are torn from the orchards on the hills In the years that are to come? When every blooming; cherry lane Is loud with the rattle and gong. What ear shall turn to the birds again ? What hand shall house them from the rain, And feed the moutns ..or song 7 How shall the homing; robins rest. When the trees have melted down? When towering temples lift their heads Of marble above the town? When never an oak or a river rush Shall welcome home again The lark and the bobolink and thrush To the song of, the cloud and the underbrush un tcs sruut ox La auver rami EDITOR WATTERSON HAS NO HOPE The Brilliant Kentucky Journalist Has Nor Republican Professions of Tariff That's Worth Reading. Henry Watterson. editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, who created the "star-eyed goddess of reform" (meaning the tariff), is not enthusiastic nowadays on the subject. He contributes a remarkable three-column editorial to the Courier-Journal, in which he ets forth in characteristic fashion his rea sons for takina- no interest In the tnrlff The reasons appear to be that he has con- ! uueuce neitner in tne Democratic nor Re publican parties, or in any professions that wns mrm wm De revised. The editorial Is in part: The Courier-Journal is, in point of fact. too old a hand at the bellows to waste fuel or elbow grease on grub filings. It 1 nows full well that the only way to I reform the tariff is to begin by tossing I he monster entitled "An Act for the Raising of Revenue and for the Frotee- ion of American Industries" into the flames and so reducing it to cinders. c-very schedule is a masked battery of treacherous banditti pouring hot shot into the consuming public. Every classi fication is a rifle-pit of murderous sub- ldy. Each word that is spoken to such complication of fraud increases the confusion and sinks us deeper in the labyrinths equally of mystery and cor ruption. Not until the whole vast and intri cate scheme of robbery is .thrown aside burnt up and a simple revenue scale s substituted, by which every taxpayer may know what he has to pay for what he uses and wears and eats and drinks, will the country get any adequate re lief from the rapacity and the rascality which masquerade as the protection of American industry and are licensed to pillage the people. ... As to the tariff the Courier-Journal fought, bled and died long ago. It fought from 187R to 1S92.- It bled all the way through 1ST3. 1854 and 1S95. It died in 1S96. Never again will It consider a tariff schedule. Never again will it look at a tariff classification. Never again will it discuss any tariff proposition that does not begin by denouncing protec tion in all forms and pretenses in all Its ramifications as robbery, and end by proposing to make a bonfire of all that has gone before, wiping out and begin ning over on a bit of paper no bigger than a funeral notice. On this question if ever we come to life again we propose to out-Tillmanize Ben Tillman; to make the Carolinian look like an angel of light and combination Chesterfield and Turveydrop, by the side of us; using only language demurrable for its repugnancy and unfit for publi cation! Have one. Senator, "for the sake of old times!" The cohesive power of the party label. hardly less than that of the public plun der they seem indeed one and insep arable serves, and has for five and twenty years served, to keep two groups of unprincipled public men alive and in line, the one group calling themselves Republicans and the other group calling themselves Democrats. It will be seen that when the Courier- Journal has described the Democratic party as a Monster without a Head, and an Empty Bottle with a label, it had warrant for its ascription long before the final proof furnished so copiously during the sitting of the present extra session of Congress. But. if the Demo cratic party be an omnium gatherum of discordant nobodies rattling around in National affairs as local politicians, what may we truly describe the Repub lican party to be? It has been reduced to one of two men; Taft, or Aldrich; which? Knocked both . hell-west and crooked LO, THE POOR PltTOCKAT. When the Assessor Comes He Hasut Much Personal Property. New York Special. Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. Russell Sage are assessed as each possessing $5, 000,000 worth of personal property in New York City on the rolls presented to the Board of Aldermen recently. John 1). Rockefeller's personal property assessment is .$2,500,000, and that of seven members of the Vanderbllt fam ily aggregates over $1,300,000. J. Pierpont Morgan is down for $400,- 000, while the late H. H. Rogers and William Rockefeller are each assessed $300,000. The increase for the year In the gen eral assessment of real and personal property is about $100,000,000. This is $400,000,000 less than the average in crease for several years past. The to tal assessed valuation this year Is $7,250,000, 559, of which $6,807,179,704 Is in real estate. The rise in the tax rate will be nine points, or to $1.70, the unusual advance being due to a falling off in the in crease of assessed value. The normal increase is about $500,000,000 a year, but this year it is only $100,000,000. The tax, rolls will be placed in the City Hall Library for 15 days for pub lic inspection, after which a special meeting of the Aldermen will be held to adopt them. Timothy P. Sullivan, vice- chairman of the board, presided during the day. Fresldent McGowan being the acting Mayor. Among the personal property assess ments are: George Wlokersham $ 25.OO0 Jacob H. Schiff 200.1)00 Isaac W. Seligman 75.OO0 Thomas F. Ryan lOO.fiOO M. McK. Twomblv 200.000 Alfred G. Vanderbllt 250.01M1 Alice G. Vanderbilt 4:i0.00 Cornelius Vanderbllt 250.OOO George W. Vanderbllt 50.000 Frederick W. Vanderbllt 250.000 William IC. Vanderbllt 10O.O00 Grace Q. Vanderbllt 10.000 Near-Beer in Eugene. Eugene Register. A citizen of Portland has discovered what he terms an entirely new species of snake. The discovery coming so soon after celebration of the glorious Fourth seems but a natural consequence when we consider the new brand of snake bite remedy being concocted in Oregon these days under the dry regime. And "B-Ivy" Appointments. Echo Register. Let the candidates for Congress hold an "assembly" in Eastern Oregon and recommended a candidate for the Repub lican party. Why should anybody else chip in? There are enough of them to fill a hall. A FEW SQCIBS. "I thought you and Mrs. Brown were the best of friends." "We were until we rent ed a Summer cottage together." Detroit Free Press. Blox Blxby claims that he always tells the truth. Knox Yes: he seems to have a mania for stirring up trouble. Chicago Daily Jfews. Dealer Here's a very pretty chair, ma'am. Shopper Yes. It Is odd. Louis XVI. Is it not? Dealer Mm. 2.16. Cleveland Leader. Mother (telling the history of our first parents) And Eve ate of the fruit and she gave some to Adam. Dolly Oh, mummy! how kind of her! Punch. Blobbs The girl to marry Is the girl who believes In love In a cottage. Slobbs Yes if a girl believes that, you could stuff her with airy old thing. Philadelphia Record-Philanthropic Visitor Cat County Jail) Satan, you know, finds mischief for idle hands to do. Prisoner Yes, sir; and some times he finds mischief for busy hands. I'm here for counterfeiting. Chicago Tribune. Farmer Foddershucks Haow Mo them Summer boarders of yourn keep busy? Reuben Robblns They play golf. F. F. What'n Sam Hill's thatT R. . R. 'S near's I kin flggex. It's solltarie shinny. Cleveland .Leader, .. Confidence Neither In Democratic Reform or Revision Here Is Stuff by Theodore Rosevelt, the Republicans took to harlotting with the tariff. They found themselves in a. hole and had to w-orkr out. So they put up a man of straw on a platform of imposture. The people, who wanted a rest, discounted the Imposture In favor of the man of traw truth to say the straw was clean and in turning down Bryan, they turned down Roosevelt. They wanted none of Bryan and no more of Roose velt. The man of straw is now in the White House. The imposture has ben sufficiently exposed in the Senate. But. if the Republican party is to o more tlrn mark time, which leads it. Taft. or Aldrich? At bottom and between the two, taking the tnan-of-straw candidate for a flesh-and-blood President, there yawns an irrepressible conflict- Well, we shall see. Meanwhile the ancient adage holds. All the world is governed, man alone too much. Each section of living things has its spe cial autonomy, its system of laws and customs, suited to its needs: the ani mals preferring a limited monarchy and hailing the lion as king, the feathered ones a republic, with its babel of twit tering oratory,, whilst the barnyard clings to old Ideas of feudality, with Chanticleer for its autocrat. One may surmise whether there be not some where an empire of reptiles, where the boaconstrictor lords It over the vermin, having the rattler and the cobra for satraps In distant colonial regions. Who shall say that after man has ful filled his destiny as a mortal, he is not by the transmlgration-of -souls process put through a purgatorial period of pains and penalties, Caesar doing time as a rooster and Napoleon condemned to strut about as a turkey gobbler, as Blaine and Conkling did? Or is Aldrich, . with the Protectionist Democrats of the Senate at his heels, the avant courier of a brand-new philosophy teaching how to' commit burglary with the knowledge and consent of the owner? To the children, Teddy continues on the warpath, still a miracle of prowess and valor; to the star-gazing reformer, Theodore Roosevelt was the apotheosis of sagacity and courage; to the lawleM rich, who remember him at all, a refined bandit. It makes a difference whose ox is gored. All the while Cleveland and Na poleon and Roosevelt were Just plain men of good parts visited by extraordinary opportunities; each having his limitation; at his best no one of them deserving more than the confidence and respect of those who might judge him aright as a chance leader, raised up for a cause or "purpose, only to be laid low at last. He fought, and half the world was his; He died without a rood his own. And "borrowed from his enemies Six feet of ground to lie uton. The lines of the satirist tell, more or less, the etory of the bunch. According to Goethe it is easier to de tect error than to discover truth; but we do not need Goethe, or anybody, to tell Us that the thinness often of a hair's line marks the difference between suc cess and failure. Suppose "Hache or Mar ceau had lived and got back to Paris? Suppose Slocum, who, the night before the state convention of 1SS3. had. or seemed to have, everything in his own hands, had been nominated for Governor of New York instead of Cleveland? Sup-" pose a Spaniard had hit Teddy on the head with the butt-end of a musket on San Juan Hill, or Yellow Jack had laid him low down in the slums of Sihoney? "Suppose," say Old Hunks derisively, "suppose your grandmother had been your sister-in-law?" DOCTORS' EARNINGS TAKE A DROP General Practitioners Chief Victims, Due to Rise of New Specialists. American Medicine. The economic problems of the practic ing physician are becoming more serious day by day. The average income has shrunk to proportions that make the average weekly wage of many mechan ics decidedly attractive, but still the de mands for special equipment and appa ratus have gone steadily forward. It is probably true that 50 to 60 per cent of the physicians in New York City and in many other large cities as well are not earning $1500 a year. When one stops to consider the modern cost of living in any large city, and the special drains on a physician's income, the hardships that are being encountered by a considerable portion of the profession can readily be seen. Many different reasons have been sug gested for existing conditions. Every one who has given the matter serious thought sees in some one evil or particular con dition the exact cause of the present low ebb of medical Incomes. To one the growth of free hospitals and dispensaries is at fault; to another it is the growth of new "schools" and "pathies"; and to still another it is the development of state and preventive medicine. In a sententious letter to the writer. Dr. Beverly Robinson, one of the most thoughtful and capable physicians in America, says: "To my mind the whole trouble hinges or depends upon one thing essentially, and it is the greatly exaggerated value of specialism and the sad depreciation of the general practitioner. "Specialism has come to stay, you and others may say, and that is true. But the specialist in his own eyes and in that of the discerning public should be made subservient in proper and just degree to the general practitioner. "So soon as his advice is sought and followed, he- should henceforth place the general practitioner In the role of con sultant, and should by his behavior and statements make it. clear to the patient and friends that, while he is filling a place, and properly, his duties and func tions are primarily of far less real value than those of the family adviser. "It is up to the medical profession to teach the Ignorant and thoughtless pub lic the truth of this again and again, by precept and example, and later, perhaps the medical profession will again get its own, its right and commanding position of lone authority and independence." Not Really Wanted. Philadelphia Ledger. The appearance of unanimity with which the corporation tax was adopted in the Senate is really an evidence of its weakness. For Senator Aldrich him self, the accredited leader who engi neered Its passage, frankly admits that he does not like it, and that he took it up for parliamentay purposes only. Many of the Senators who voted for It had opposed it in debate, and the very absence of concerted opposition may in dicate only that it was not thought necessary or worth while to oppose it at this stage. Heresy ! Heresy ! Santiam News. The press of the state is inclined to ridicule Colonel Hofer's . prayers for rain. But as. we have had a two-days' downpour, tho Colonel .can justly claim his prayers were answered. But, then. It might have rained if the Colonel had never proposed the plan. Who knows? Appointed in 1S97, Serves 16 Years. Gervals Star. William J. Clarke has been continued as postmaster at Gervais. He sent his bonds away this week. When he com pletes his term in office he will have been postmaster 16 years, 'having been appointed first In 1S97.