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DAILY METEOROLOGICAL REPORT
PORTLAND. Jan. 14. 8 P. IT, Maximum
temperature, 41; minimum temperature, 29;
he ght of river at 11 A. M-. laM; change In the
pas 24 hours. 1.5; precipitation today,. 0 00;
precipitation from September 1. 13)4 (wet sea
e m. to date, 1S.79. average, 23.74; deficiency,
4 95 number boars of sunshine Sunday, 4:11;
possible number, 9:03.
WEATHER SYNOPSIS.
A decided depression having occurred In the
barometer today over Washington and Northern
Oregon, it Is evident that a storm Is rapidly ap
proach.ng the Washington coast. Since the
barometric pressure east of the Cascades Is not
cuJnclent to oCer much resistance to the storm,
rain or snow west of the mountains, and snow
east of tbem, will likely result.
WEATHER FORECASTS.
Forecasts made at Portland for the 24 hours
fcn ling at midnight January 15:
F' r Western Oregon and Western Washington
Snrw or rain and warmer; fresh southerly
7ir.ds, with gales on the coast.
Frr Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington and
3f jjtbern Idaho Saow and warmer, with fresh
t Jthrrly winds.
Fjr Southern Idaho Fair weather and sta
tionary temperature, with light variable winds.
I x Portland Snow or rain and warmer, with
fresh southerly winds.
B. S. PAGUE, Local Forecast Official.
PORTLAND, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15.
DEPENDENCE- ON THE STATE.
A conclusive answer was given yes
terday by a correspondent of The Ore
gonian to the assertion of the president
of the state university that the doors
of that institution are open, free of
charge, to all the youth of the state.
Theoretically, indeed, it is so; practi
cally, the statement is a false one.
The state university is little else than
a high school for Eugene, because the
youth of the state at large cannot af
ford the expense of going there to live,
while those who actually live there get
the special advantage of free instruc
tion in higher learning at the cost of
the state.
Both the state university and the ag
ricultural college have been largely en
dowed by the state. The state has
provided grounds and erected buildings
for their use; it has assumed the ad
ministration of their heavy land en
dowments and of the funds arising
therefrom; it has steadily given them
favor and support at the expense of
the whole people; and yet their position
is hardly more than that of local high
Bchools. The agricultural college, in
deed, is supposed to have a special
function as a school of scientific agri
culture and practical mechanics; but
the difficulty of making it useful to the
youth of all parts of the state is the
same as in the case of the school at
Eugene. Neither actually is free, ex
cept to permanent residents, since the
state cannot provide support for those
from a -djstance; and parents who are
able to support their" sons and daugh
ters away from home almost jUivariably
send tEera for higher learning to
Echools in distant states. The state
has done enough for these two favored
schools. They should now be left to the
support of their endowments, aided by
proper charges for tuition. Oregon
has at several places equal colleges
that are not beggars, yet in justice are
as well entitled as these to demand that
the people Qf. the state shall be taxed
to support them.
Another thing written by the corre
spondent In his answer to the presi
dent of the state university deserves
repetition, with emphasis. Stating the
correct system on which to expend
money raised by taxation for educa
tional purposes, he said: "Put every
dollar of this money into the common
schools, affording every child In the
state opportunity of acquiring, free of
cust, such .an. education as will qualify
him for the duties of good citizenship."
That is the true doctrine. Make the
common schools efficient, concentrate
effort on them, but leave the field of
higher learning, with its college or
university courses and ornamental spe
cialties, to private enterprise. If we
maintain good and thorough common
schools "not an intelligent man in
America will hesitate to become a res
ident of Oregon because of inadequate
educational facilities." Here we may
make a statement about a bill recom
mended to the legislature by Portland's
Committee of One Hundred, requiring
the county court of each county to levy
a tax of but 2 mills, instead of 5 mills,
for the schools of each countj. The ob
ject is simply to equalize the tax. At
present the law compels, in effect, cer
tain of the school districts in each coun
ty to support the schools of other dis
tricts. Not a few districts, relying on
the county tax, levy no special or dis
trict tax for their schools. Reduce the
tax from 5 to 2 mills, and all districts
will be obliged to take care of their
schools, In part, by special taxes, and
the system will be more equitable and
efficient throughout.
In his letter published on Sunday,
President Chapman said: "The Ore
gonian has spoken lately with some
favor of measures looking to the in
crease of the army. The causes which
make an army necessary in this coun
try are due to Ignorance; but you would
apparently prefer to pay for soldiers
to shoot down the ignorant man, rather
Than for schools to educate him.
Tastes differ, and it is useless to dispute
about them; but I think that education
is cheaper and more effective in the
long run than guns. Every properly
educated man is & tower of safety to
the state, worth many times as much
as an army officer, while it costs much
less to produce him." This statement
shows that even the president of a
state university may resort to the clap
traps of the political demagogue. The
causes that make an army neces
sary are not at all as much due to ig
norance of art and of letters as to the
spread of that socialistic spirit, that
notion of personal helplessness and de
pendence, that unmanly and abject be
lief that it is the duty of the state to do
everything for the individual, to cod
dle, pamper, educate and support him,
which even the president of the unl
verslty of Oregon fosters In words
whose meaning cannot be mistaken.
The state," he says further, "exists
for the benefit of the citizens, and they
have the-right to make any honest use
of Its machinery which they choose.
Still further, it Is the majority of the
citizens that must in all cases decide to
what use the machinery of the state
shall be put, and the minority are wrong
to complain, so long as the use is not
immoraL" No socialist, driving his
theory to extreme,'" no anarchist, in
deed, ever said more. Their theory
simply is that the state exists for the
benefit of the citizens, and that the
majority have the absolute right to de
termine how its machinery shall be
used, and for what purposes; they
deny, of course, that the use they
would make of it Is immoral, for the
majority is an infallible judge, and It Is
"intolerable that anybody should be
permitted to drink champagne or ride
in a carriage while thousands of hon
est folk are in want of necessaries."
The president of the university of Or
egon may not intend it, but this is the
spirit that his philosophy fosters, and
if his premises are allowed, there is no
stoppage short of results that would
Involve the destruction of civilization.
The worst of anarchists are seldom
Ignorant men. But they have con
ceived, under teaching not essentially
different from that of the president of
the university of Oregon, a totally
wrong theory of the relation of the
citizen and of the mass of citizens to
the state. It cannot even be allowed
as a principle that the majority may
make of the state any use they choose,
provided that use is not Immoral; for
the majority is the judge of the moral
ity of Its own acts, and the record of
the immoral and destructive uses the
majority have made of the state, in the
name always of morality, liberty, jus
tice and popular rights, Is the most
ImpresslVe and instructive of all the
pages of history. The minority there
fore Is not bound to submit without
complaint to any use the majority may
choose to make of the state. Of all
maxims put forth in the name of polit
ical philosophy this is the falsest and
most dangerous, and for the safety of
society and of civilization itself It is
necessary eternally to combat it A
majority might declare for a policy that
would suddenly debase the money of
the country. The act would be most
immoral and most destructive, for it
would violently reverse values, derange
business, annihilate property, and rob
labor. "Would it be the duty of the
minority to acquiesce and submit with
out complaint? That would mean ship
wreck of the state, and the science of
government consists chiefly in check
ing the desires and tendencies of ma
jorities. One further remark. It may be taken
as a general rule, and the rule is fit to
have the weight and currency of a
proverb, that the more the state at
tempts to do for the citizen the more it
pauperizes him.
TWO CALAMITY PARTIES.
The inspiration and character of the
agrarian party in Germany has not
been very well understood in the United
States, except that it was known in a
general Way that it is a protection
party. It would appear, from the plat
form of the party sent to our state de
partment by the American consul-general
at Berlin, that it is very muh
more than this. It demands reorganiza
tion of the grain trade, restriction of
speculation, the building of state gran
aries, and construction of railroad
feeders to all grain-growing districts
of "Prussia, asavell as-ample protection
against foreign grain.
Americans' will be struck by the re
markable similarity between these de
mands and those of the various gran
ger, farmers' alliance and populist
parties' in the United States. Though
the agrarian party of Germany is made
up of the great land-holding nobility
of Prussia, its grievances and devices
of reform are the same as those of
the homesteaders of Nebraska and
Kansas. This is natural, because both
are suffering from the same cause, the
low price of grain, induced by the com
petition of the world. Thus the Ger
man agrarian platform sets out that:
(L) The present price of grain no longer
covers the cost of production, so that
German agriculture, which remains chiefly
concerned with the growing of grain, ap
pears to be threatened in its very exist
ence. The principle current nowadays,
based on an unlimited international ex
change of products, that the price of grain
must be reckoned on the basis of prices
that obtain among people at the lowest
stage of culture, indicates an essential
Interference with the evolution of our
country as a cultivated people. The de
generation and ruin of German grain pro
duction and German agriculture mean a
surrenderor the Fatherland to its external
and internal foes.
The American grain-grower cares
nothing about protection for f his own
product, knowing that this could not
affect the export price. The German
land-owner, who grows grain for the
home market only, makes high protec
tion the first of his demands. But his
secondary plans of reform are all an
alogues of schemes of the American
populist such as the anti-option bill,
the state warehouse project, and state
ownership of railroads. This party of
Prussian noblemen 13 the true calamity
party of Germany. Like our own ca
lamity party, it looks to government
Interference, rather than to the oper
ation of economic laws, aided by in
dividual intelligence and effort in direc
tion of cheapening production and di
versifying agriculture, to remedy evils
which grow out of operation of world
wide causes and Inexorable laws. Thus
the final clause of the platform cited
declares it to be "the duty of the stale
to discover ways and means whereby
prices for grain suited to the produc
ing communities may be reached, to
the end that the most important pro
duction in the country be preserved,
but without damage to the true inter
ests of the consumers."
The fact is, German agriculture is
passing through the crisis that comes
to even people with passage from the
primitive, simple social stage of pro
duction for support of the producer
and domestic exchange to the more
complex civilization, which Is affected
by foreign trade and the Influence of
capital wielded in large masses. Great
Britain surmounted this crisis by di
verting her energies from agriculture
to manufactures and world-wide trade,
through colonial empire. Rome de
ferred it for many centuries by colonial
expansion. The party of the Gracchi
was a true calamity party, inspired
by the ruin of the small-farmer class
by growth of great estates in the sm
atorial and great speculative fortunes
In the equestrian order, and by com
petition of cheap provincial grain. The
series of revolutions it provoked would
have destroyed Rome, but for the ter
ritorial expansion that gave the grow
ing proletariat a world out of Italy to
bustle in and feed npon. The Prussian
land-owners should learn the lesson
of history If they can no longer grow
grain for profit, they should direct
their energies and capital elsewhere.
The state cannot help them any more
than the corn laws helped English, or
the distribution of the state domains by
Tiberius Gracchus Roman farmers.
OP PRIME IMPORTANCE.
It may be hoped that the senatorial
question will be disposed of at Salem
without unnecessary delay. The eftecis
Lf a long senatorial contest, without re
gard to the outcome, is to fag, distract
and demoralize the legislative "body arid
render it relatively unfit for the earn
est, conscientious attention to the peo
ple's interests that Is required in an
unusual degree at this time. The first
fruits of legislative efforts are, for ob
vious reasons, the soundest. The sen
atorial election is, of course, an im
portant matter so Important that it
should be removed at the earliest pos
sible date from the legislative horizon,
lest it overshadow, as Jt surely will if
kept in the foreground beyond a rea
sonable length of time, questions of
at least equal moment to the people of
the state, but of which the choice of a
United States senator takes precedence
by courtesy, as well as by constitutional
law.
The political history of every state
of the Union is replete with evidence
of the demoralizing tendency of a sen
atorial contest long drawn out, Ore
gon has had at least her share In this
line, considering her age, and can 111
afford at this juncture to add another
chapter to the record.
The legislatures of Oregon have sel
dom been confronted by as grave ques
tions as those which meet those now
assembled at Salem. General matters
of public policy and necessity confront
them at the very threshold of the
session. Questions of retrenchment.
of economy, of reform in governmental
lines made the canvass with them
last June, and these questions have
gathered expression and force during
the trying months that have intervened
between the midsun mer and midwinter
of a most anxious and discouraging
year. Extravagances, some of which
have been indorsed by the loose and
generous legislation of a past era, some
of which have been saddled upon the
state, county and municipal govern
ments by official mismanagement and
corruption, until custom has become
a veritable citadel for their protection,
have come to be intolerable through
depressing financial conditions. These
have grown upon the body politic at
every point where it was possible for
self-interest and official greed to estab
lish a foothold. The demand that they
be cut off is the one upon which men
of all classes and political parties are
united. That the senatorial election
may be accomplished without waste of
time, and the legislative decks be
cleared for action, with retrenchment
as the rallying cry and sound business
judgment at the helm, is the earnest
desire of every intelligent citizen of the
state.
The bond and banking features of
Senator Jones' compromise finance bill
seem to be all that could be desired.
If this bill were to become a law, all
the treasury notes would be retired and
national hank notes substituted. This
would take the government out of the
banking business, and avert the con
stant peril of government responsibil
ity for a large volume of full-credit
money. But the silver features of the
bill would increase the government's
responsibility for maintenance of ex
changeability and redemption of half
credit money by ircreasing indefinitely
the amount of silver coinage. Jones
adopts Yest's plan of coining all the
silver brought to the mints, but re-'
taining the seigniorage for the govern
ment That is, the government would
buy silver at 60 cents per ounce and
coin it at 1 29. This is proceeding
upon a false theory, and undoubtedly
would work badly in practice. If the
silver currency thus increased were to
be kept at par with gold, a gold reserve
would have to be maintained as at
present to redeem it. This could be
done only (unless new bonds were to be
sold from time to time) by making
certain taxes payable in gold. Even
then, as the volume of silver money
increased steadily, distrust of its per
manent value would return, and the
gold would be drained out of the treas
ury on the endless-chaln-of-buckets
principle just as at present, until we
reached the silver basis. It is not wise
for the government to emit any money
which has to be held up artificially
above its real value. This bill is said
not to be satisfactory to the silver peo
ple. It ought not to be satisfactory
to anybody else. The truth is, no bill
satisfactory to the silver states is a safe
bill to pass.
The election of Mr. Dolph would be,
under existing circumstances, useful
to the material interests of the state
and useful to its reputation. Useful to
its material interests, because he is
in position to render special service In
the matter of the Nicaragua canal, the
Improvement of the Columbia river,
which he has always pushed with
energy, and the various -sorts of service
that the state xequlres at "Washington.
Useful to its reputation, because noth
ing could hurt Oregon so much in the
estimation of others as the announce
ment that a senator who had served
the state well had been rejected be
cause he was opposed to debasement
of money and in favor of maintenance
of the best money standard. The great
reason why the republicans of Oregon
won their unexampled victory last June
was the desire of the people to express
their disapproval of base-money
schemes, represented by the candidacy
of Governor Pennoyer for the senate.
Had the people of Oregon wanted a sil
ver senator, they would have elected a
legislature that would send Mr. Pen
noyer to the senate.
The president of the university of
Oregon no doubt has some knowledge
of books; but he writes as one who,
never having made his living with his
hands, doesn't know what labor is;
doesn't know that it is the foundation
of characterand power, and who thinks,
therefore, that the man's resources are
in the state, rather than in himself. It
is a pity that such charlatanry is at the
head of the university of Oregon. It
was not this description of men that
laid the foundations of our states.
The constitution framers of New
York supposed they were prohibiting
the use of free passes on railroads by
public officers when they adopted the
clause which says that no such officer
shall accept or receive a pass "for his
own use and benefit." The people who
ratified the clause made a like mistake.
The ease with which courts can dash
such expectations to the ground is wit
nessed In a late decision by Judge
Parker, in which he claims that this
language docs not mean a pass which
is used when the person is traveling
on public business, since it distinctly
prohibits the acceptance of a pass "for
his own -use or benefit." The court of
appeals will be at once called upon to
interpret the meaning of the constitution-makers,
which the latter, in their
simplicity, supposed they were making
so plain that even the railroad commis
sioners would pay for the railroad tick
ets they used without hesitancy or
question.
The pitiful character of the opposi
tion to Mr. Dolph is expressed in the
cheap personalities with which the
literature of the opposition abounds.
He is "cold;" he is "an iceberg;" he
is "a moody aristocrat;" he has "a
stony face," and "an Arctic demeanor;"
as often as otherwise he is alluded to as
"his whiskers,' and other witticisms
as choice and arguments as profound
make up the remainder of the litera
ture. If a cause is to be judged by the
character of its methods, the campaign
for a silver senator in Oregon is en
titled to little respect.
General Lew "Wallace expresses, as his
knowledge of Oriental affairs entitles
him to, a doubt of the reality of the
Armenian horrors, which must have
assailed many minds. Most of these
stories bear the mark of the political
outrage mill. It is none of our business
anyway, in spite hf Mr. Gresham's of
flciousness, but it Is a growing prob
ability that four-fifths of them are
mere romance.
Mr. Fulton's great mistake was his
free-silver interview, drawn out of him
by Jonathan Bourne. It has made it
impossible for the. intelligent conserva
tism of the republican party to support
him. No greater service could have
been rendered to' Mr. Dolph than that
interview afforded. The republican
party must not and will not take a false
step on a matter of so much import
ance. In a letter to a Eugene paper the
president of the state university talks
about "The Oregonian's intense hatred
of public intelligence." The actual'ob
ject of The Oregonian's hatred is pub
lic ignorance. It has no mission in the
world but to combat it. This paper
is intolerant of nothing but Ignorance
and its delusions, shams, fallacies and
humbugs, and all "professors" thereof.
Populist county treasurers-elect In
the state of "Washington are resigning
In shoals because they cannot furnish
the necessary bonds. This is a new in
stance of the ruthless oppression of
honest industry by the iron hand of
capital. After planting and watering
their crop of votes, the populists are
not permitted to harvest the salary.
The governor improved his last op
portunity yesterday by granting two
more pardons, one for a flagrant case
of incest. This, by the way, Is the one
case referred to!, not long ago, in which
the governor was reported to have re
sisted an appeal fop pardon. The re
port, It appears, was a slander.
Inasmuch as! .the present campaign
for a silver' "senator Is made chiefly
against "Dolph's whiskers," the won
der may be expressed whether Mitch
ell's whiskers, quite equal in length
and breadth to Dolph's, will trouble
these fastidious gentlemen two years
hence.
The legislature should be on its guard
against the appeals of those persons
who want to protect their salaries and
emoluments against reduction. Tax
paying is an easy thing, in the estima
tion of those who draw incomes from
the public treasury.
The election of Mr. Simon to the
presidency of the senate and of Mr.
Moores to the speakership of the house
means efficiency in the transaction of
the business of the legislature.
The organization of the two houses
of the legislative assembly having been
effected yesterday, the election of
United States senator will take place a
week from today.
Dolph probably isn't as free and easy
with "the boys" as Mitchell, but all
tastes and all characters are not alike.
"We suspect that after all it is not
so "cold" and "chilly" for Dolph as it
is for his opponents.
PERSONS WORH KNOWING ABOUT.
Miss Ellen Tickle, of Heno, Butler coun
ty, O., is said to be one of the smallest
full-developed women now living. She Is
31 years old. and weighs but 28 pounds.
Colonel John A. Cockenll is about to
leave for Japan, not as a war correspond
ent, but under contract for a term of
years as the resident correspondent of
the New York Herald at Tokio.
C. "W. "WoodhouEe, of Burlington, Vt,
has received from the estate of his father,
the late Dr. Charles Woodhouse, of Rut
land, the original letter written by Ethan
Allen announcing the capture of Fort
Ticonderoga.
The late Hans von Bulow left directions
that the post mortem examination of his
brain should be made to ascertain the
cause of the excrutlating headache, from
which he was a lifelong sufferer. The
autopsy revealed the fact that the end of
the nerves had become imbedded in a scar
cjj an injury to the brain that he had
received In childhood.
It is rumored about the senate that "Sen
ator Manderson will be a candidate for
the position of secretary of the senate
when the fifty-fourth congress meets, and
the reorganization of the senate is direct
ed by the republicans of that body. Ex-Sergeant-at-Arms
Valentine, of Nebras
ka, is a candidate for the position of ser-genat-at-arms
of the senate.
Josef Hofmann, Rubinstein's last pupil,
gave a concert in London just a few hours
before his master died. Some days later
he gave a memorial recital at Cheltenham.
One of his numbers was Chopin's B minor
sonata. "When he reached the funeral
march the entire audience rose as by a
common impulse and remained standing
till the movement came to the end.
Dr. Jas. E. Rhodes, ex-president of Bryn
Mawr college, who died suddenly recent
ly, was its first presiding officer, taking
charge in 1SS3, when the institution was
completed. He resigned the presidency
last summer, and at the time qf his death
occupied the chair of ethics, besides being
president of the board of trustees. He
was a member of the Society of Friends,
and was connected with the Haverford
meeting. Several years ago he was editor
of the Friends Review, and was still a
contributor at the time of his death.
Mr. Croker, the much-invited guest of
the Goff-Lexow tea party, has very con
servative ideas on the bringing up of a
family. His children, who are six in num
ber, have all been taught at home by
private governesses and are not permitted
to go to a public dancing school. The
eldest, Frank, is a handsome boy who
towers head and shoulders over his
father, but who is only 17 years old.
Flossie, aged 7, is a bright little girl who
Inherits her father's diplomatic taciturn
ity and love for horseflesh.
Miss Morrison, the San Francisco girl
who was recently graduated from the
medical department of the university of
California, with the highest honors of
the class, had the pleasure of receiving
ringing applause from the men she had
defeated when her success was announced.
JUST TRIBUTE TO AX EDITOR.
One "Widely Known Throughout the
Pacific States.
San Francisco Bulletin, January 11.
The Bulletin having passed into other
hands, Mr. George K. Fitch, the editor
and one of the proprietors for a third of
a century or more, retires today. His
connection with the press of this coast
embraces a period of about forty years.
For the greater part of that time he was
associated with the late Loring Pickering,
and up to the death of the latter. Mr.
Fitch being the sole survivor of the three
partners, the editorial supervision of the
Call, as well as the Bulletin, greatly in
creased his labors. Few outside of the of
fice know the amount of work that fell to
his lot. He was instant in season and out
of season. The day did not end his tasks,
but he bore them well into the night, spar
ing neither time nor effort in the consci
entious discharge of Increasing duties.
The editorial career of Mr. Fitch began
as a pioneer. It has continued with few
Interruptions to this time. Few men have
contributed more to rightly influence pub
lic opinion than this retiring editor. In
his view there was a right and a wrong
side to every public question. He did not
temporize nor consult personal interests
in his choice. It was never a question
of pouplarlty, but of right. "When he had
settled that in his own mind there was no
wavering; nor did it concern him that he
was a minority against a powerful ma
jority. No ed'tor in this state ever en
countered at times greater opposition. He
was confident that some time the right
w6uld prevail. He waited and worked pa
tiently for that result He saw the com
munity time after time coming over to
his ground. These changes and triumphs
were "the reward of his unflinching cour
age and unceasing labor. They were of
ten gained at great pecuniary sacrifice.
He was ready to stand in the breach
whenever he thought the public good re
quired it.
The Bulletin under his management be
came a power. It had more influence as
an organ of public opinion than any other
newspaper on this coast. It was bold, ag
gressive and true to any cause that it had
espoused. Political parties were vitally
interested in the stand that it might take.
It adhered generally to republican prin
ciples. But It was always independent of
all party dictation. It fought a succession
of battles for clean politics. Through
the Influence of its managing editor and
his associates it broke down gigantic com
binations to rob and despoil, and saved to
this city millions of dollars. The bulk
head scheme was defeated, and a public
park of the present dimensions saved to
the city.
The editor asked nothing for himself.
He was, so far as the public were con
cerned, an impersonal force. He assumed
no particular credit for the work that had
been accomplished. It was satisfaction
enough that his paper had been, under his
guidance, an instrument of public good.
He never counted the cost of any service.
It is well known that he thrust aside,
without discussion, all propositions of
private gain when they touched,, even re
motely, public interests. Had he done
otherwise, the retiring editor might have
run his moderate competence up to mil
lions. These things are fitting to be said of the
veteran edltpr who, has ,Syered his con
nection with the Bulletin". If he had been'
consulted he would probably disclaim any
credit for his public course. It is time
that this tardy justice was done to the
man who for all these years has wrought
with unstinted effort for the support and
defense of public interests. It is the more
fitting because few editors have been
more fiercely assailed or their motives
more unjustly impugned. "What he could
not and would not say for himself, is
left for others who knew him best to
say for him. He severs associations with
men some of whom have worked with him
for a quarter of a century, and many
others for long periods. They recall his
uniform kindness, his consecration to un
remitting labor, and the constant cheer
and inspiration of his presence. There is
today no one in this long association to
voice other than a word of regret at the
separation, and to wish this veteran editor
health and prosperity in his retirement
WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY.
To Be Celebrated by the- Sons of the
American Revolution.
VANCOUVER BARRACKS, Jan. 14.
(To the Editor.) Will you permit me
through your columns to call to the mem
bers of our patriotic societies the import
ance of a proper celebration of the birth
day of the Father of his Country? The
Sons of the American Revolution have
selected that day for their annual neet
ing, and will hold one business meeting
in the afternoon and a patriotic banquet
at night All of our members are urged
to attend one or both of these meet
ings. Every effort will be made to make
both assemblies interesting and enjoya
ble. "We have now 133 members and a num
ber of applicants. But there are evi
dently many earnest, patriotic gentlemen
who are eligible who have not yet affili
ated with us. To all such we would say
that, as ours Is a society of patriotic en
deavor, and, if we choose to make it so,
one for the spread and illustration of
American principles, political and social,
all who are eligible should join our asso
ciation. It is evident that all patriotic
societies have now a useful purpose. The
history of the last year shows that we
have a large lawless and discontented ele
ment in our midst. It Is needless to dis
guise the fact that there has been an
alarming spread of anarchical principles
within the last decade. Many of our native-born
and adopted citizens have been
deceived by the gospels of hate and dis
content preached by designing charlatans.
Surely, It is better to instruct than to
punish, to reform than to kill. Let us,
then, worthily celebrate the birthday of
the man who was not only first in war,
but first in peace.
THOMAS M. ANDERSON.
Pres. O. & A. W. Society S. A. R.
NO CHANGE NEEDED.
Dolph's Prestige and Experience
Means Much for Oregon.
Pendleton Tribune.
No good reason can be named why there
should be a change made at this time in
the personnel of Oregon's delegation to
the national legislature at "Washington.
This is a time when Oregon cannot afford
to change horses. She is In the middle
of the stream. The work inaugurated
by her tried and experienced national
legislators is well under way, but It needs
'their continued supervision and active aid.
Oregon cannot safely substitute a new
member for an old one In the present
state of affairs. No new man, however
able, can continue the work already in
progress with the efficiency of the one
now In control of it, nor can he at once
be of much value as an active member;
for it is an unwritten law of the senate
that a new member must occupy his seat
at least one term before he can be heard.
It would not be wise for Oregon to sub
stitute for Mr. Dolph, with the experience,
prestige and Influence which he has gained
in 12 years of service, a new man, no
matter how able he may be or how popu
lar in any locality, or, Indeed, In the state
at large. It would be poor policy for this
state, with her present needs, to drop
a member from the important places which
Mr. Dolph occupies in various commit
tees, and send a senator who would have
to wait at least one term before taking
an active or prominent part in the work.
Oregon canot afford, to lose a term, of
Mr. Dolph's efficient services while wait
ing for a new man to become settled In
his- seat, and In condition to begin his
real labors. It would most decidedly he
for the best interests of the state at this
time to continue Mr. Dolph In his seat.
IN TWELVE STATES.
Republicans Control Where They
Have Been in the Minority.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
With the beginning of this year the
republican party tesumes control over 12
states where for several years it hastbeen
in the minority. The Inauguration of
Governor Upham at Madison yesterday
after four years of democratic rule will
be a day of rejoicing among the "Wiscon
sin republicans. But Wisconsin Is only
one of a dozen states where the repub
licans take control of state governments
to admmister the affairs and assume the
responsibilities for good and economical
government These states are Colorado,
Connecticut, Delaware, Kansas, New
York, North Dakota. Oregon, Pennsyl
vania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Wiscon
sin and Wyoming.
in Delaware, New York and Tennessee
the change is from democratic rule of
long standing, Delaware and Tennessee
having been democratic since the war,
and New York democratic for more than
a dozen years. Pennsylvania and Wiscon
sin have had democratic administrations
for four years, and Rhode Island and Con
necticut were carried by the democrats
two years ago.
In Colorado, Kansas. North Dakota,
Oregon and Wyoming the administration
of affairs is rescued, from the populists.
The wave of populism which swept over
the "West four years ago swept Kansas,
Oregon and Colorado from their repub
lican moorings, and two years ago the
democrats and populists combined in
North Dakota and Wyoming and elected
governors. But Governors Walte, Pen
noyer and Lewelling have made populism
such danger to public peace and pros
perity that in the-elections last Novem
ber every Western state that had a popu
list administration went over to the re
publicans with a clean sweep.
The republicans failed to elect governors
in two Western states that give repub
lican majorities on all the rest of the
ticket. These were Nebraska and Califor
nia. The defeat of Majors in Nebraska
was a personal and not a party defeat,
for the republicans elected a majority of
the legislature and all the congressmen,
and the legislature is about to elect a re
publican, John M. Thurston, to the United
States senate. The defeat of Estee in Cal
ifornia was another personal defeat, and
the republicans elected all the other state
officers and a majority of the legislature.
The democrats of Tennessee are in the
same position as the republicans of Ne
braska and California. They lost the
state ticket and elected the legislature.
That Tennessee legislature has no more
right to deny the certificate of election
to Governor-elect H. Clay Evans than had
the republican legislatures of Nebraska
and California to deny certificates of elec
tion to Governor Holcomb and Governor
Budd.
But the different manner of accepting
the verdict of the people North and South
is illustrated by the different way in
which Tennessee democrats and California
and Nebraska republicans treat the men
who received the highest vote at the polls.
In California and Nebraska, republicans
assisted at the Inauguration of demo
cratic governors who had run ahead of
their tickets and been elected. In Ten
nessee, the democratic legislature is try
ing to concoct some scheme by which it
can prevent a republican governor from
taking his seal as the executive of the
state. This is one of the reasons why Ne
braska and California are more popular
than Tennessee and immigration has been
kept turned toward the West, notwith
standing the efforts of the South to turn
the" stream in that direction. The home-
seekers prefer states where their votes
may be counted as cast, and where the
people once intrusted with power relin
quish it when the majority of the votes
are given to other men.
Paris Pavements.
An agitation has now been organized
against proprietors of shops, and especial
ly of cafes, on the ground that they
monopolize too much space on the sides
of the streets and boulevards, supposed
to exist for the benefit of pedestrians.
By-laws on this very matter were Issued
10 years back, but the persons against
whom these local enactments were di
rected have managed to set them aside.
The encroachments on the footways are
particularly tantalizing to business peo
ple who want to move briskly about
They are accordingly beseeching the mu
nicipal council to interfere in order to
preserve their right of way. Idlers on the
boulevards do, not care if the tables out
side the cafes be two or three deep, nor do
they trouble themselves if a general ar
ticle merchant fills half the asphalt pave
ment with his goods. On the contrary,
the flaneurs enjoy these encroachments,
which give a more lively aspect to the
streets, and they will be the last to join
in any agitation for the curtailment of
space now appropriated by the limonadiers
and the boutiqulers. Far different is the
view taken by those whose minutes are
too precious to enable them to dawdle
along the asphalt, looking at other people
drinking syrups or inspecting the job
lots ranged outside shop windows.
Armenia Only in Name.
Rev. Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, founder of Rob
ert college, Constantinople, and an Amer
ican exceptionally well Informed on Ar
menian matters, writes in the Advance:
"Much is said now about the freedom of
Armenia. There is no Armenia, in the
senes of a territory whre a majority of
the inhabitants are Armenians. There
are some Armenian villages, but there
is not a space ten miles square In all an
cient Armenia, where the Armenians are
not a powerless minority. They have left
the land of ancient Armenia and are
scattered all over the empire. Who can
reconstruct that grand but ruined old em
pire? Who can drive out the present in
habitants, or destroy them, and gather in
the dispersed? Russia can do it, but her
fixed policy is pan-Sla istic. The Ar
menians undar her rule, must adopt the
Russian language in the schools and
churches, and must be finally absorbed in
to the grand Slav empire. They would
prefer to remain under Turkish rule, if
anything like justice and the protection
of life and honor could be accorded them.
The Turkish government has made a
most disastrous move, and the Christian
powers, in the name of God and human
ity, must judge and execute judgment"
Too Much for a Pint.
t Baker City Democrat
Five hundred dollars' expenses for bring
ing a prisoner from Harney county to
Portland In order to try him for selling a
pint of whisky to an Indian seems like
a high price for the punishment of the
offense, but that is what the last case
cost the government The prisoner will
lie in jail until June, and the total cost
of trying him will be about $1000, which is
a big price for a pint of whisky.
Counting the Worms in an Acre.
In old pastures in England the worms
are estimated at 22,000 to the acre, and as
many as 51.000 in richly cultivated gar
dens. Mr. Urquhart estimated the num
ber of worms in the rich pasture lands
near Auckland, New Zealand, at from 400,
000 to S0O,COO to the acre. Were it not for
the earthworms soil would become barren
and half the world would die of starvation.
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Edison's Front Door Bell.
A New York man writes as follows:
"Last evening I had the pleasure of meet
ing some friends from New Jersey, who
live near Mr. Thomas A. Edison, and who
gave me the highly interesting piece of in
formation that Mr. Edison has on his
front door an electric bell which does not
work."
KEWS OF THE NORTHWEST.
OregoB.
Thomas Mulkey, aged 69, an old resi
dent of Lane county, has been committed,
to the Insane asylum.
Captain Hatch says he has cleared the
river of snags and" obstructions from Eu
gene to a point about two miles below;
the mouth of the McKenzIe river.
Union county's members of the leg
islature will use their endeavors to secure
state aid for straightening the Grand
Ronde river and to improve Wallowa
hill.
Mrs. J. M. Cox, mother of Mrs. J. B?.
Laxnson, and a cousin of Mr. James
Blaine and Mrs. W. W. Haines, died Sun
day at'the home of her son, J. M. Cox,
at CrawfordsviHe, aged 73 years, 11
months and 9 days. She and her husband
came to Oregon 21 years ago.
Francis Atkins, of Bridal Veil, in com
pany with others, is building a steamboat:
with which he expects to go to Alaska
about May 1 to explore the Yukon river,
and will be gone about two years. Mr.
Atkin3 has been in Alaska the past 10
months familiarizing himself with the
peculiarities of that country for the pur
pose of this exploration.
The young men of Jacksonville, who
have found it Impossible to get employ
ment, are striking out into the hills with
pick, pan and shovel, and report finding
the venture remunerative. There is al
so one lady who goes out regularly with
her young sons to mine on Rich gulch.
Tnose who are at work report wage3
from 75 cents to 51 50 per day.
Last Wednesday Mrs. Cantiberry, of
Coburg, in attempting to cross a little
slough on a small log, slipped and fell
into the water. She fell on her back and
when found, some time later, by Mr.
Harklns, all but her face was under
water. Had Mr. Harklns been 10 minutes
later, Mrs. Cantiberry would have been
dead. She is now improving as well as an
old lady over 70 years of age could.
Wash lngton.
Solomon Alberts was drowned In th3
SkokOmish Friday by a canoe upsetting.
The Prosser mills ire grinding corn
which is said to be of excellent quality,
for making bread.
County Attorney Newman, of Whatcom,
has filed a written opinion that the bond
of his se:cessor, Mr. Alexander, 's fatally,
defective.
A statement of Pierce county's financial
condition January 1, showed that her interest-bearing
debt was $33,725, and her
non-interest-bearing debt $60,227.
The semi-annual report of the police de
partment of Tacoraa for the last sis
months of 1S94 shows that 237 "drunks"
were arrested and 3S1 "drunk and dis
orderly." Chester Edwards and Frank Holedger,
editor and proprietor of the Sunday Sun,
of Spokane, have been arrested on the
charge of criminal libel on complaint of,
Edgar A Oliver.
Captain Tozier, of the revenue cutter
Grant, has written a letter to the light
house commission, calling attention to the
urgent need of buoys at several locali
ties in the straits of Fuea.
Adolph Selheim, of Spokane, has pre
sented to T. C. Griffiths, the lawyer who
defended and acquitted him, the pistol
with which Selheim killed William Smith.
Griffiths has a collection of such weapons.
The woman who deserted C. F. Kees
ling, at one time a member of the board?
of commissioners of Whatcom county,
for the sake of her mulatto coachman,
has just been married for the fifth time
at Albany, N. Y.
It Is Just 41 years since the first legis
lature of Washington territory assem
bled in Olympia and held its session in
the upper story of the Gold Bar restau
rant, adjoining Young's hotel, at the cor
ner of Main and Second streets.
Irving P. McComb, who was the agent
of the relief committee, arter the blgr
Seattle fire in 18S9, and who has been, serv
ing a sentence of five years In the Wallai
Walla penitentiary for frauds In connec
tion with his office, was released last
Friday.
The dry kiln of D. H. McCan's shingle
mill, at New Whatcom, was blown down
last Friday. The building contained about
1,000,000 shingles, which were set afloat
and washed ashore and now line the
beach for several blocks. An engine that
was stored in the kiln is at the bottom o
the bay, while the building, piling and
shingles were washed Inland about 10
rod3 from the spot where the building
originally stood.
Two years ago the United States In
vestor, of Boston, offered three prizes,
aggregating 11000, for the three best es
says upon the cities of the United State3
having the best advantages for future
greatness. All told 767 replies were re
ceived. Las'; week the award was made.
The essay for which the first prize of
$500 was awarded was written upon Ta
coma. The writer was F. R. Wall, one
of the telegraph editors of The Oregonian.
Mr. Wall has received a personal letter
from the editor of the Investor, notify
ing him of his good luck.
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PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
She I'm sorry I married, you. He You
ought to be. You cut some nice girl out
of a mighty nice husband. Life.
"Here comes your old enemy, the ma
jor!" "Is he loaded?" "I think so."
"Jug or shotgan?" Atlanta Constitution.
MotherWhy. Marie, what's the mat
ter? Marie (sobbing) Nothing mother
only my bloomers bag at the knees.
Exchange.
Sparrow How nice and warm this tele
phone wire is! Swallow Yes; there must
be a prizefight or a football game some
where. Puck.
Tammany's arithmetic, as brought down
to date: Addition, division and silence;
subtraction, Investigation, incarceration.
Chicago Tribune.
"Who is the author of the phrase, 'make
haste slowly ' ?" "I don't know. It was
probably somebody who was engineering
a contract to build a new postoffice."
Washington Star.
"There's a train of thought passing
through my nead at this moment," said
tho lecturer. "I thought you talked as if;
you had wheels In your head," murmured
the dissatisfied listener. Harper's Bazar.
"If I had your voice," said the ventrilo
quist, apostrophizing the donkey whose
braying in a neighboring alley had waked
him out of a sound sleep at 3 A. M., "I'd
throw it back at you, you long-eared
beast!" Chicago Tribune.
As the train drew up at a country sta
tion on the South Eastern railway, a
pleasant-looking gentleman stepped out
on the platform, and, inhaling the fresh
air, enthusiastically observed to the
guard: "Isn't this Invigorating?" "No,
sir; It's 'Caterham, " replied the guard.
Wonder.
Bats (500 Feet Beneath the Surface.
I find the following remarkable story
in a copy of the Centerville (la.) Citizen,
for April, 1SSS: "From a depth of nearly
600 feet down into the bowels of the earth
the workmen of the city, artesian well on
Thursday tapped a nest of bats and drew
about 25 of them to the surface alive
and kicking. They were very large and
seemingly well fed, and had every ap
pearance of being of the common gray
variety of that species. The question is,
how did they get so far down Into the
earth?"
Some Brief Epitaphs.
The following are among the brief and
chrious epitaphs seen in European cem
eteries: At Worcester, England, the slab
erected over a departed auctioneer Is In
scribed with a single word, "Gone." At
Sussex the initials and date of the death
of the deceased are followed by two word3,
"He Was." On the monument of Charles
the Great of Germany the brief inscrip
tion Is "Caralo Magno." The most re
markable Is at Cane Hill cemetery, Bel
fast Ireland, where the inscription says:
"Left till called for."