THE NEW AGE, PORTLAND, OREGON Itortlatti. 5faw &t A. D. dRIPPIN, Mnnnnuf Ofllro, Koom 317, Commonwealth Iltilldlnn Knttreltthpo(.tomctrottUnd,Orfon, M COnd'Clll matter. SUDSCRIPTION. Oa Year, payable In advance 92.00 Our Candidate for President JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER Of Ohio MAYOlt AND COUNCIL. Tho itctlon of tho council In refus ing to nllow tho salary of a chief of pollco to an ofllccr who Is not In fact u chief seems to bo qui to Justifiable. For over a yenr and a half thero has been no actual, only an "acting," chief of pollco, a captain performing temporarily tho duties of chief but not legally responsible ns mich, not holng required to Hlo any bond for tho faithful and lawful porformanco of his duties, as tho law requires n chief to do. To this stato of affairs tho council objects, and declines to malto an appropriation for moro than u captain's salary for tho acting chlof, and to get a chlof'H salary ho will havo to apply to tho courts. It Is not a question of whether Captain (irlt'macher has made a good act ing chlof or not; ho Is considered dependable, though nobody ovor ac cused him of brilliancy; but of his right to draw a chlof'B salary when ho Is not ho in fact. In tho ciiDO of Inspector Druin, it litis been decided by tho court that his appointment wiib lllogal, and that ought to bo sufllclont to insuro his removal, at loitBt temporarily, until "ho qualified himself, If ho can, for tho position ho holds. Ills olllco la ono created by tho mayor, who haB kept him In it, though tho public Ib not tiwnro of any very valuablo serv ices that ho hau performed to oarn I EDITORIAL I his Balary. Tho mayor arbitrarily ', n8 llrothor llndor wnB onthusl romovod n bunch of detectives be- L,tlcny 0Kr088od in tho good worlc cauuo thoy woro worthlosH, but lt.,,0 Bh()nI(, ,mvo ,)00 nbonilly BU). might puzzlo him to And anytlilnKllcil ,, C(mltl not ,)0 bInin0l for Ui- much better In tlio record of his In Hpector. Flrmnoaa reaBonablo wlthhl .bounds Is certainly a vory good qual ity in a mayor, but obstlnncy is not, and tho mayor Hcoma to bo posaousod of an unfortunate iiiiiomit'of obstin acy, of tenacity of opinion and courso of action, whether ho Is right or wrong. That ho nhnuld sometimes disagree with tho council was to bo oxpected, and In somo cases ho may havo been In tho right, but In others ho was not. A while ago ho lectured tho coun cil very Bovoroly and repeatedly for vacating two or three plecos of un used Htreot, for tho bonelH of Indus tries that aro building up tho city, and ono would havo supposed that tho council had been giving away Btrcots by tho wholesale to anybody who asked, but It turned nut that tho mayor had himself approved most of theso measures, and that thero was no reasonablo ground for opposing tho others. Ho seomed simply to want to muck-rako the council, per haps with a vlow of strengthening himself for re-election next summor, hut if bo, It Is to bo doubted it this object wus accomplished, Half tho councilmen will go out of olllco next summer, and tho mayor with them, and It will bo to tho Interest of tho city to olect not only good men to tho council but also u mayor who will work in har mony with them, and uot bo in a porpotual wrangle with them. And while politics should not bo tho main consideration in electing city otllcora, it will bo advisable, since tho council Is suro to bo Hepubllcau lu politics, to elect a mayor of tho wiiiio party, not merely to show that this la a Republican city, but so that tho mayor and council can co-oporato bettor for Its welfare. XKi:i)KI) TIIK MONKV. Urothor Paul Under, who has boon going to nnd fro in tho stuto working tho nntl-anloon racket, has boon ac cused of collecting and upending a lot of tho leaguo'B monoy, or Involv- lng It In debt, and Indulging In vnri- ous Imitations of Annanlas, but Bomo of the brethren aro Inclined to stand by him und find him guiltless, and If m ntmnnrH bo to tho Anti-Saloon League, It Is not much of nnybody ored people havo In theso 42 years' I ,- i... ,. ..!.. . tV,..nr. tulin'lmin rnfnnrlfnlilv wnll. nml Altrll I lin U1HU n UUOIllUBa uuivao ui iituau n.. entrusted htm with cash. Somo of his performances are, however, of a llttio public Interest, 'feeling for their further enllghten iwtiociallv that ono wherein he ment and advancement ns citizens worked Mr. Jonathan Uourno now United States senator, for 500 with which to Influcnco tomperanco votes In tho prlniurlcH last spring. And It Is not at all certain that Urothor Hadcr, whatever ho did for tho anti saloon cause, did not fully cam tho money he got from Uourno. It will bo remembered that Uourno received tho nomination by only n slight mar gin, and If Mr. Itndcr's clrculnr let ters to temperance people, urging thorn to voto for Uourno, ns a friend, champion and oxemplnr of temper ance, really Influenced any considera ble number of votes In Uourno'B favor, why, ho owes hla nomination und election to nobody so much as to Itev. Paul Under, and that $C00 was tho best campaign Investment ho mado. It does not follow that Urothcr Itador actually spout nny of tho money In Uourno's behalf, for apparently all ho did was to Bend out Hioho circular letters, which, includ ing stamps, probably cost him noth ing; but it bcoiub ho sent them out signed by' Dr. Clarence Truo Wilson, and coiifloqucntly they woro likely to have had considerable effect. And It Is presumed that Urothor Under also Hpoko a good word for Uourno whenever ho could on hla travels In behalf of tho leaguo. Wo do not seo that anybody was harmed In particu lar by tho transaction not speaking of tho pooplo of tho state ns a wholo and that Urothor Under Is not to bo vory sovorely condomncd for thus picking up $C00 easy monoy, espe cially wlion nt tho samo tlmo ho could help olect to tho somite bo thorough an nntl-Bnloon man ns Mr. Uourno. Ah to othor financial trniiBnctlons, It must bo romomborod that a man traveling about all tho tlmo and liv ing, well needs quite a lot of monoy, .currlng a few dobts. It la charged thai lils report of an aftunult nt Snlom H a fako ,,ut t,,B , u jmr8U jU(lK. niont, oven If it did not occur; ho Ih a man of tremendous Intellect, and na ho wns walking along ho may havo boon struck with a pointed nnd edged Idea no hard that ho thought sovorul thugs woro upon lilin. Ho wo aro Inclined to think that Urothor Itador should bo exonerated and vindicated, and sout on hla ro forming career rejoicing and with an amplo Riipply of cash. AN KltKOXKOUH VIKW. Why do not tho people who, bo cnuso nogroes occasionally commit crimes, fcol llko lynching and ex terminating thorn stop to think how really few crimes, In proportion to population, conditions and all cir cumstances, negrooa of tho country really commit? Inatond of accusing, abusing and anathematizing tho wholo race on account of tho crimes of a few, why not look at tho othor side and consider how many, what a vast majority, aro not hoard of in this way, but go on through llfo pur suing a poacoablo, quiet and com mendable way, Injurlug nobody and bouolUlng bo mo? Do those pooplo over stop to think that thoro aro somo 9,000,000 colored people In this country, about ono-nlnth of tho total population, and that only 42 years ' ago they emerged from slavery, un inugni, iiniruinuu m suu-ruii.w.cu or -... ... ... ..! . I so...rosmw.u. or , mm....,.,.u,i. - norani, aim aimosi noipiessr - slderlng theso things, would It be HtraiiRO If negrooa woro moro In- cllnod to commit offonsoa against tho law than whitest And yet It does not appear thut they aro. It hna boon ropentedly shown that accusa tions against nogroes of assaults on women in tho South woro fnlso or unproved, and asldo from thoso enses ...t. l.. ,ln t..t k..nHnn.i ctiiAtt. .... na WlllirUill UU UIU UCKIVl'I OlIU" "(' " being moro criminal than whlto peo- plo? Accounts of tholr crimes aro noticed moro, and as a rulo glvon moro promlnouco In tho papers, but wo aro not nwaro that tho record Is so black against them as Bomo peo- plo seem to suppose. A fair-minded, broad-viewed man will concede that under nil tho circumstances tho col- uuhw . ...... j .,.., ....u ..... Ww encouraged by tho progress they havo made, and ready with friendly of tho grent free republic. "POWKIt OFF." Perhaps the high water had somo thing to do with tho power for tho street enrs being "off" moro thnn usual this week, but If it had not been high wntcr It would havo beon something else. Any llttio old thing will stop tho cars, or dclny them bo that peoplo cannot travel as they wish. Early Wednesdny evening, for Instance, many Indies wero wnlt lng alone Morrison street for n long time, but no cars came, and finally they walked homo or wont down to Washington Btrcot, whero Just nt that tlmo tho servlco wns not quite so completely knocked out. Hut on either street, or on any other, high water or low water, nobody Is suro about being nblo to got down town In tho morning, or homo In tho even ing, by means of a cnr. And If ho can, tho chances aro that ho will do so only after dolnys that would ron dor walking a rapid mode of trnvol by comparison. What tho company ought to do Is to have a largo num ber of men travollng along tho princi pal streets nnd by-crosslngB advising pooplo waiting na to what tlmo, with in an hour or so, a car might bo ox pected along but, of courso, tho company enn't afford to hlro anybody to do this, for It can't afford to hlro enough mon to do tho work absolute ly necessary to bo dono, or pay decont wnges to thoso It docs hlro. Tho legislature Is being urged to rovoko tho franchlso of tho gas com pany on tho ground thnt It has not treated tho peoplo fairly, and If this bo a Biilllolent rciiBon tho franchlso of tho railway company ought to bo revoked too, or Homo means taken to compel It to give tho peoplo decont service, .SHOULD 1112 CAHKFUL. Oregon ennnot afford nt this tlmo to enact nny draBtlc nntl-rnilrond leg iBinuou. tnu rauroHUB nro iiuiiik " good donl Just now, nnd thnt with out nny threat or compulsion, to do- k-olop Oregon, and If lot nlono will do a great deal more. They aro building Into Wnllowa valley, ovor to Coob liny, to Tillamook, nnd will hulld extenstvoly In othor parts of Oregon, and, of courso, lu tholr own lutorosts will bupply nil tho nccossnry equipment possible, and na fast as possible. It la vory foollBh under such circumstances to pass n law that will discourage tho railroad builders nnd Investors, and vory like ly will provont thorn from going ahead with contomplntod enterprises. Kxcopt for tho cnr shortage, which tho roads will romody on tholr own motion ns soon ns posslblo, tho peo plo of Orogon havo but llttio com plaint to mnko. A fow cases of frolght overcharges, If thoy exist, aro but a vory alight ovll compared with that which tho railroad ownors could indict upon tho stato If they nro burdened and harassed unrea sonably with hostllo legislation. To nntngonlzo tho railroads now would bo a groat calamity 'to Oregon, and tho legislature ought therefore to bo vory careful of tho measures it enacts, Wo do not moan that tho railroads should not bo subject to any control BU,)ervUjon whatever, or that tho I)eop,0 Bhm,,d tftko no measures to romody ny gr0vou8 abuses, but In g0ng too far and making lawa that will provo dlaastroua to tho railroads, th(J dUn8ter w, inevitably react on tho Btat0 t8ef(. wh!ch neoda nbove )n,moat nnythlng olso to oncourngo rallroad building as tho chief means ot dovoloplng tho stato. TIIK WILLAMETTE LOCKS. Tho substitute for tho Jones bill in nnnrnnrlntn flJOA AAft in linv ttin ! !' " T .ww,ww .- .. ..u locks at Oregon City or construct now ones, by which It Is proposed to ralso 300,000 providing congress will approprlato as much more, or enough more for the purpose, Is far preferable to tho original bill. It Is 'unlikely that tho 1400,000 provided for would havo been nearly enough, and tho Btato might havo had to an- proprlato as much moro boforo get- Htic Mm lnnla wtilnli timiitit li nltn. . ..b ...w .. u, ...w ..v.t.u uv ....u- gethur too much for tho benefits to bo derived, which are, after all, not likely to bo nearly as much as is rep resented by somo nowBpnpcrs. Uut what tho stato and govern ment, If they enn undertake tho Job by a Joint appropriation, ought to do, Is to cnlculato on digging now locks on tho east Bldo of tho river, for there Is no likelihood thnt tho General Electric company will soil Its locks for anything llko their rent value unless it knows thnt othcrwlso new locks will bo built, and It will tnke somo chances that they will not bo built. It sets its price nt $1,200, 000, which Is probably about thrco times what ought to bo paid. U un der condemnation proceedings tho locks can bo had for half a million or less, It might pny to buy them, but tho electric compuny'will try to get doublo their value, nt least, and so new nnd competing locks would bo best, und then let tho electric company keep Its locks and get what It could out of thorn. It would Borvo tho company JuBt right to render tho lockB compara tively valueless to thorn for Its ex actions of theso many years, and Its hoggluhncss in asking thrco prices for tho property. It. A. Preston, whom tho voters of tho First ward honored with nn elec tion to tho city council two years ngo, will not, wo undorstnnd, bo a candldato for ro-elcctlon this spring. Mr. Preston has probably had hla cnr to tho ground and hoard things thnt woro not encouraging to hla futuro political asplrntlons. Tho vot ers of tho First wnrd should got to gether and Induco Bomo ono of tho numerous old and popular residents to stand na n candldato for tho pri mary nomination on tho Republican ticket. At any rnto, thoy want no moro of Proston. Supt. Gardner, of tho Boys nnd Girls' Aid society, has beon down to Salem, presumably lu tho interest of nu appropriation for his Institution. Mr. Gardner secured somo $8,000 from tho BOHB,01 of 1905 to mnko cortnIn Im,)rovomontB and oxtonBlons. ti, nm,ln wnni.i llim rnnw whothor theso Improvements havo been mndo or not, nnd If not what ,m8 l)ecomo of thIs mo0y. Councilman H. A. Boldlng, tho popular roprcBontntlvo in tho city council from tho Sixth ward, has tho reputation of bolng ono of tho most vigilant members of thnt body. Mr. Boldlng has mndo n splendid coun cilman and tho peoplo appreclato his efforts to Borvo thorn well nnd faith fully. If somo of tho legislators had to run a railroad up along tho Columbia theso days thoy might not think it qulto bo easy and choap n Job as thoy had imagined. Hon. W. C. Bristol, tho offlclont Unltod States attornoy for Oregon, has gono to San Francisco to nrguo n caso boforo tho Unltod States court of appeals. Tho legislature ia nearly two thirds out and not much dono yet. But thero has beon n good deal ot gelling ready to do something. Peoplo who havo tlmo to walk and don't mind doing so aro, in luck; It is an aggravation to try to get a ride on tho street cars. Quito a lot of bills havo beon prop- ni.lv klllnri. nnd nn harm would hnvo l"'l ' " boon dono ,f a fow that passed had mot tho same fato. Mr. Bristol Is indeod tho most ac tive and competont man who ovor served as United States district at torney In Oregon. Of course tho out a lot moro. lights havo been But tho electric company collects tho bills Just tho gjjjjjfl. No use for Brothor Paul to strike Brother Jonathan again now. Brother Jonathan has dono got thero. Who is tho Republican that Is go ing to bent Mayor Lano for thero Isn't nny doubt he'll run ngain? Tho Bnlloy proposed amendment to tho primary election law is sensi ble and reasonable. Bettor bo moderato with that rall road legislation, gentlemen. It might bo n bomcrang. Senator Fulton ennnot afford defent District Attorney Bristol. to CCd OUR CHICAGO LETTER ttHtSCCtM (Special to Portland Now Age.) Lhwycr 13. H. Morris has roturned from Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. McDowell, n prominent physi cian of St. Louis, tins located In Chi cago. Tho Nntonnl. DofenBO Lcnguo of tho United Stntcs will meet nt Ann Arbor, Mich., July 5, 1907. Mr." George W. Murrey, former member of congress of South Cnro llnn, has permanently located In Chi cago. MIbs Blnncho Wright, public sten ographer' and court reporter, Is now to bo found nt nor office, 171 Well ington Btrcet, room 708. And tho National Conforonco of oral colored men in Chkngo to meet at Ann Arbor, Mien., July u, 1907. inuru la u movement un ioui in thin c.llv in nrin Rnv. .Tonsn Wnniln -"- w-. . .. . c- ,.,. .,., . . VWU, pastor of tho St. John's A. M. B. church, to bo n condidnto for bishop at tho next general conforonco. Tho Grand Commnndory of Knights Tcmplnr of tho stato of Illi nois met last week nnd elected of ficers. Tho nnmcB of tho officers will bo glvon In tho next issue of tho paper. Tho National Federation of Frlondly Society nmong tho colored peoplo In tho Unltod Stntcs hold a special mooting hero last week, and tho next meeting will bo hold July 8, 1007, nt Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, editor of tho Chicago Broad Ax, secured a Judg ment of $18,000 in tho circuit court of this county against Mr. Ponoy Mooro on tho chnrgo of falso Im prisonment. Mrs. Wnltor M. Farmer addressed tho ovenlng sorvlco of Bcthosda Baptist church nt tholr sacred con cert last Sunday ovonlng on "Ideal ism." Tho Biibject was woll han dled by Mrs. Farmer, and alio has proven her reputation of being a bril liant woman and speaker. Chicago Lodgo of A. F. & A. MiiBons .meets in rogulnr mooting on tho second Monday ovonlng of each month at Sixteenth und Stnto streets. Mr. S. Clay Is tho worshipful master. Brother Clay Is a brilliant Mnson nnd ono pf tho grand officers of tho St. John's Grand Lodgo of A. F. & A. Masons of Illinois. Chicago, III., Jan. 28. Tho Mount Zlon Baptist church at 1-137 Stato streot Is doing n splendid work. Tho Itev. S. W. Whulon, tho pastor, Is to bo congratulated upon tho oxcollont work which ho Is accomplishing for tho boneflt nnd ndvancemont or hla rnco. Ho la ably assisted along thoso lines by Mrs. Molllo Hart and sovernl othor prominent mombors of tho church. Mrs. Molllo Hnrt la n groat worker In church work. Judgo Max Eborhnrdt, ono or tho Judges of tho municipal court In Chi cago, Ib a modol Judgo, und la re garded ns ono of tho vory best Judges ot tho municipal court in Chicago, nnd whon tho Ropublcnn party nom inated him and the people In Chi cngo elected him to bo ono of tho Judges of tho municipal courts In Chicago, thoy did not mnko any mlstako; thoy solected tho right man for tho right placo. Judgo Eber hnrdt Is a man thnt has no prejudlcos against peoplo on account of nation ality or color, and every person who comes boforo him, whether thoy aro black or whlto, rich or poor, aro all treated tho samo and nllko. Judgo Eborhardt Is a man who la lenrned In tho law, and plonsant and cour teous to n)l persona who conio boforo him. Ho la now presiding ns ono or tho Judges or tho municipal court on tho cornor or Harrison nnd Grlswold streets, and tho peoplo in Chicago, without regard to party, havo mndo up tholr minds to re-elect him to that position as Judgo or the munici pal court as long as Judgo Eborhardt wishes to stay. Relative to tho Order of Elks among colored mon In tho Unltod States, that so much has been said of lato In roferonco to them being clandestine nnd having no legitimate origin, your correspondent wishes to stato that ho Ib not In any senso whatever prejudiced ror or against any society, but wishes to atato tho facts as ho knows them and finds them. Ono faction of tho spurious order or Elks ia led by Mr. Howard, or Kentucky, nnd last year a num ber or the members of his faction wero expelled out of the order and they met nt New York City nnd or ganized a body of their own, of which I beltevo Mr. Watkins is at tho head. So it will be seen that neither one of them havo any legitimate origin whatever, und if nny person has any doubts about It, these statements can be verified beyond any posslblo doubt or excuse, because your correspond ent wna right in Cincinnati when Mr. Bigg round tho ritual of the Order or Elks, and Boon afterward con ferred the degrees upon some other colored men nnd that is the way the Order ot Elks among the colored men started In this country, which stamps them as being illegitimate and self-constituted. i .Tho Anheuser. Henry M. Williams, proprietor. 2S4 Morrison street, corner Second. Portland, Ore. Telephone Mala 1517. $XSXS)$Xfi)&w L j DELL'S GARB Choice Wines, Mquor and ClRftm. 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