THE MOBCtfXNG OEEGrOSTIAST, VTEBTESUAT, PEBBTTAST 20, 1895
Entered- at the Fostcfflee at Portland, Oregon,
as second-class matter.
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DAILY METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
PORTLAND. Feb. 19. 8 P. 1L Maximum
temperature, 50: minimum temperature, 49:
height ot river at 11 A. 31.. 2.4; change ia the
past 2 hours, 0.2; precipitation today, T.;
precipitation from September 1. 1894 (wet sea
port), to date, 13.07; average. 32.2S; deficiency.
.32.41; number hours o sunshine Monday, 030;
possible number, 1035.
WEATHER SYNOPSIS.
There Is a storm central north of Montana,
whieh appears to be moving southeastward.
From readings of the barometer in Western
California and on the coast, a condition favora-
Me for fair weather in Oregon and light show
ers in Washington is about to develop. Heavy
rain occurred at Tatoosh and Port Angeles, and
light showers in other portions o Western
Washington.
WEATHER FORECASTS.
Forecasts made at Portland for the i hours
ending at midnight February 20:
For Oregon Fair weather, except light rain.
feHewed by fair weather, in the northwestern
portion; stationary temperature; light northerly
winds.
For Washington Occasional showers: nearly
stationary temperature, with light southerly
winds, becoming westerly.
For Idaho Fair weather and warmer, with
light variable winds.
For Portland Light Showers, followed by fair
weather, and stationary temperature, with light
nertherly winds.
B. S. PAGl'E. Local Forecast Official.
PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20.
THE HALF LOAF.
The people of the city of Portland and
the county of Multnomah want their
taxes reduced. They do not stand on
forms or methods. They want results.
The house has indefinitely postponed
the bill to cut off the enormous ex
cesses of fees in the offices of district
attorney and justices of the peace in
Multnomah. It was proposed to make
the reduction take effect at once; and
this is just what has been demanded
by the Committee of One Hundred and
by our whole people for a long time
past. But since the legislature refuses
this, let us have a till to make the
reduction take place at some future
time. Perhaps the officials would allow
it to take effect in 96, or '9S, or 1900.
Lot us get what we can.
So with the charter. Since official
greed has combined with party faction.
and since the combination is too strong
in the legislature for successful oppo
sition, let us see if we cannot get a
charter that will give the taxpayers
of the city of Portland, so oppressed
that they know not which way to turn,
some hope for the future. Let us have
changes in the charter that will re
duce expenses a little at some futuro
time, if not now. Let us have a char
ter with or without a- board of public
works, so we may get even a little re
lief. It Is Impossible for the4(property
of Portland to continue to pay these
taxes. The case was not overstated in
the speech of Mr. Paxton.
The people of Multnomah county do
not ask much. They ask just a little
relief. They do not stand on theories.
They are not particular about methods.
If they can't get reduction this year
though they have striven hard to get it
now they will take it when they can
get it, and be thankful for it.
The Oregonian, therefore, would be
glad to see the bills modified so that
some reduction might be secured, even
at a remote time. Throw out the board
of public worlds. If that will help; agree
that the caterpillars of today shall feed
till the end of their mortal existence,
since that seems to be necessary; but
let us, if we can, provide against the
next generations of caterpillars
against the Humes and Halls and Ma
lones and Searses and Fleckensteins of
the future day!
It seems that we cannot get the loaf.
Then let us try to get the half loaf, or
even the promise of the half loaf. The
office-holders, fed fat at the expense
of the taxpayers, are our rulers, We
are woful suitors to their majesties.
Let us get what we can, and be thank
ful for it
A SHAMELESS SPECTACLE.
'X crowd of office-holders from Port
land, and of friends and dependents of
office-holders, has been at Salem for
weeks, and is there yet, to defeat the
bills for reduction of salaries, fees,
emoluments and taxes in this city and
county. The gang is supplied with
money, wrung by its system of "work
ing things" from the taxpayers of the
city and county, to defeat the efforts of
the representatives of the people for re
trenchment and reform. It is a shame
less proceeding.
It Is supported by the spirit of fac
tion in the legislature, that has pre
vented the electipn of a senator these
many weeks. Official greed has made
its combination with this spirit of fac
tion, and the result is this successful
conspiracy. It will damn every man
connected with it, now and hereafter.
It may not be made known till 1S9S
how earnest the people are in this de
maud for reduction of their burdens.
But it will be made known then. And
then the question may be whether any
candidate calling himself a republican
will be believed when he says he is In
favor of reduction, economy and retrenchment-
Why, indeed, should such
man be believed after this shameful
betrayal? This time there were the
most positive pledges, attested by the
most earnest vows. Now they are
broken. Perfidy so outrageous may not
expect nepenthe, but Nemesis. From
the oppressed taxpayers is drawn the
money that is distributed at the capi
tal of the state to continue official profli
gacy and. prevent reduction of taxation.
How long can It be supposed the people
.will stand It?
Undoubtedly the buyers of the pres
ent Issue of bonds will make pawn
brokers' profit out of their sale, but
this was to be expected. When a gov-
eminent or an individual allows its af
fairs to fall into such disorder that
there Is no recourse except to usurers,
pawnbrokers profit must be paid. The
statement of Secretary Carlisle, pub
lished yesterday, discovers the straits
the government was In when the bond
syndicate came to its relief for a large
consideration.
THE SENATE NOTREPRESENTATIVE
It was to be expected that the senate
would pass a bill for free coinage of
silver whenever a vote was had on such
a measure. The senate has been for
free coinage ever since the addition of
twelve members from new states of
scanty population and low intelli
gence in the West. It passed a free
coinage bill five years ago, and the sil
ver strength has increased since then,
though it has diminished in the more
representative popular branch.
Acanvassof thesenateupon thisques
tlon made some time ago showed a ma
jority for free coinage even larger than
that given for the Jones bill. Classified
by states, senators were set down thus:
For free coinage: Alabama, Arkan
sas, California, Colorado, Florida, Geor
gia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri,
Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, North Car
olina, North Dakota. South Carolina,
South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Wash
ington, Wyoming 21.
Againstfreecolnage: Maine, New Hamp
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecti
cut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jer
sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland,
Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota,
Wisconsin 17.
Six states, Kentucky, Louisiana, Ne
braska, Oregon, Texas and West Vir
ginia, were set down as doubtful, inas
much as their senators are, and doubt
less will remain, divided, one for and
one against. The variation of the vote
on the Jones bill from this canvass
probably is due to the fact that it dif
fers from other free-coinage measures
by retaining the seigniorage for the
government.
If the senate were a representative
body, this canvass, confirmed by the
vote on the Jones bill, would be con
clusive, and the supporters of the
world's standard of value might as well
give up the contest, in the certainty
that public opinion was In favor of
change to the silver basis, and that
it would have its way at the next presi
dential election, if not before. But the
senate Is not a representative body.
The forty-eight members who support
free coinage represent less than two
fifths of the population and less than
one-fifth of the property of the country,
and less than three-sevenths of the
electoral college in which presidents are
chosen. The representation in the sen
ate by states makes its action less ex
pressive of the will of the people than
that of any other body or department
in our system of government.
These facts are demonstrated by the
New York Evening Post from the cen
sus returns. The seventeen states
which adhere unequivocally and finally
to the gold standard contain 34,415,000
inhabitants. In the twenty-one oppos
ing states there are but 22,522,000.
Moreover, it is probable that several
millions will be added to the sound-
money side by the next senatorial elec
tions in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and
West Virginia, now divided, while the
silver cause cannot gain half as many
in Texas, Nebraska and Oregon. The
test of wealth shows a-preponderance
still more striking in favor of sound
currency. According to the census re
turns, the seventeen states which stand
for a stable sfandard of value report
capital of all kinds amounting to $5,065,
000,000; the twenty-one opposing states
return but $943,000,000. This preponder
ance, also, will be increased greatly by
the changes certain to be made in the
divided states.
In the long run, the majority rules in
the United States, especially when sus
tained by such an enormous preponder
ance of material interests. The senate
may obstruct the popular will, but it
cannot defeat it. Analysis of the elec
toral college shows how impossible it
will be for the views of the silver party
to prevail there. The seventeen states
firm for the gold standard cast 223 elec
toral votes. The twenty-one others
cast but 167, leaving fifty-four doubt
ful. More than half of these doubtful
votes are in Pennsylvania, which is
grossly misrepresented by Cameron,
and never would support a silver man
for presidont. Moreover, the arrange
ment of parties Is such that neither
could champion the cause of sliver
without losing states without which
a president cannot be elected. What
ever the senate may do, a sound-money
president has a clear majority in the
electoral college, and no other kind of
president can possibly get a majority in
It. This Is the most Important fact in
the present situation.
"DOLLARS VS. EMPTY STOMACHS."
The folly which induces men in the
midwinter season, In a locality in which
the climate is severe and the wants of
life correspondingly many, to quit work
in a body in the hope of making their
employers accede to certain demands, is
in the light of experience an astonish
ing phase of human nature, or an ag
gravated type of industrial fever. Still
its indulgence does not close the doors
of pity against its victims when the
fever has run its course, leaving them
in a weak, helpless and suffering con
dition; it opens these doors rather to
the most generous consideration.
The Brooklyn strike, which began on
the 14th of January, was one of those
ill-advised uprisings of labor against
corporate power which have recoiled
upon the homes and families of work
ingmen so frequently in recent years.
It lasted 34 days. That is to say, 34
days intervened between the time the
employes of the Brooklyn street-car
lines were "called out" by district as
sembly No. 75, of the Knights of Labor,
and the formal "calling off of the
strike by the same body, though the
strikers were practically defeated and
their places filled by new men much
sooner.
The cost of the strike was enormous
and disastrous, considering the weight
with which it fell upon those ill able to
bear it. The district assembly, when it
ordered the strike, considered itself for
tified against the starvation contin
gency while waging the battle under
taken, it having in its treasury be
tween 560,000 and $80,000 as an emer
gency fund. In addition to this, sym
pathy came for a time full-handed to
the support of the strikers, adding 565,
000 to the emergency fund. All of this
has been spent, and when to this sum
is added $350,000 the men would have
earned In the time, the aggregate loss
to labor becomes, under the circum
stances, appalling. Of course, the other
parties to the conflict lost heavily, while
the cost of troops to put down the riot
engendered by the strike, though hon
estly deplored by the better class of
i strikers, will amount to at least $250,-
000, which will fall upon the taxpayers
of the city and county. Of the "indirect
loss to the public In various ways, it
Is Impossible to form an estimate. Like
the humiliation and anxiety suffered by
the strikers, these are intangible factors
in the great sum of consequences, the
effect of which cannot be estimated in
the bill of costs.
It Is impossible to read the address
of the officials of the labor assembly in
calling the strike off without feeling
that there was a' just grievance behind
the action of the men In quitting work.
The lordly attitude assumed by the
street-railway companies toward the
representatives of their employes, their
absolute refusal to discuss the situa
tion, or listen to the protests of the
men against certain regulations that
they claimed worked an unnecessary
hardship upon them, was exasperating,
as any man of independent spirit will
allow. The attempt at coercion was
not the less stupid and ill-advised on
this account, but the more so, rather,
since it foreshadowed the violence that
followed at a certain stage of the strike.
"It has been a fight of dollars against
empty stomachs," say the labor leaders
In summing up the fight and its re
sults, and it is needless to add that
"the former won the victory."
DISCOVERED AT LAST!
The purchasing power of silver in the
commercial world down to a period be
ginning about 25 years ago was, in re
lation to sold, somewhere near 16 oz. to
1 oz. It is now 32 oz. to 1 oz. Our ad
vocates of silver say that, upon the
adoption of free coinage by the United
States, the old ratio will be established.
That is, silver will be at once doubled
in real value, not only in the United
States, but throughout the world. Let
us see what this means.
It means, first, an appreciation of the
value of the whole money of the silver
countries of the world by 100 per cent
in a single day, through a legislative
act of the United States. In our own
and other gold countries silver is kept
at parity, its purchasing power is sus
tained, by restriction of the coinage and
limitation of the tender power. We
maintain by these methods the pur
ehaslngpowerof such silver aswe use at
aboutl6oz.toloz. Butin silver-standard
countries its purchasing power is about
as 32 to 1; and such is its bullion value
with us. Free coinage, therefore, by
the United States Is to double the pur
chasing power of the silver money in
all the countries of the world whose
currency rests on the silver basis.
Where is the great mass of the silver of
the world, and who is to profit by this
doubling of its value and purchasing
power?
India has about 51,000,000.000, whose
value is at once to be doubled; China
has 5S00.000.000, whose value is at once
to be doubled; and Mexico, the states
of Central and South America, and
other countries on the silver basis, have
5500,000,000 more. The silver of the
whole world has a nominal value of
perhaps $3,800,000,000, and of this about
one-sixth part Is in the United States.
Now we are to double the real value
of all this silver in all the countries of
the world, and the money value or pur
chasing power of all the silver or the
silver-currency countries, by an act of
the congress of the United States cre
ating by.such.act of congress a value of
51.000,000.000 in India, $800,000,000 in'
China, and" so on. And then, by
doubling the value of their money,
we are to double the value of their
property, and of property all over the
world; and we are to do it by an act
of our congress whose length need not
exceed ten lines. Here, now, at last, is
certainly The Biggest Thing in the
World!
The most charitable judgment that
can be pronounced upon the man who
died by his own hand in this city re
cently, because certain not unusual
misfortunes of life had fallen to his lot,
leaving his children to the care of a
charitable institution, is that he was of
unsound mind. This door has been
opened so often in extenuation of the
acts of cowards and rascals of the
baser sort, who have been wont to mas
querade in the cloak of decency in the
community, until suddenly startled out
of the disguise by a more than usually
diabolical impulse, that it swings re
luctantly upon its burdened hinges at
times. With a preacher in jail for bank
robbery, a doctor in jail for enticing a
young girl from her home, the body of
a suicide who sneaked out of the com
mon responsibilities of life "because
they were too heavy for him" at the
morgue, and traitorous representatives
in the legislature in league with venal
office-holders to defraud the people who
trusted and honored them, our citizens
may be excused for declining to ac
cept the insanity plea In extenuation
of the various forms of diabolism pre
sented. It is time to call a rascal a
rascal and a villain a villain; to call a
coward, even if dead, a coward, and
transfer sympathy for his "blighted
life" to the dependent ones over whose
lives the black shadow of his weakness
has fallen; to call a knave a knave, and
hold him up to the scorn of reputable,
manly men, leaving the world's weak
lings to escape the penalty of violated
law through the door of alleged insan
ity. Brother Denison is right. The
world has grown too tolerant of crime,
too gentle in its administration of pen
alty. A tremendous effort is making to
combine the populists, the half-shell
populists who call themselves republi
cans, and the democrats, on Lord. This
incubation has been going on for the
last five weeks, with Lord's connivance,
consent and assistance. It is now
thought the period of gestation is
about full. The first actual throes of
the parturition are expected today; and
yet these pains may be but the sooter
kins of the Dutch midwives. But it
has been an effort for Lord ever since
Fulton and Tongue quit the field, and
secretly even before that. It will be
well, if this intrigue shall succeed, that
it be identified with populism. But
Pennoyer would better deserve it. An
outspoken man is entitled to the honor,
every time.
Representatives hesitate to agree to
the senate appropriation of 5500,000 to
begin construction of a cable to Hono
lulu, on the ground that there is no
precedent for construction of ocean
cables at cost of government. But
other nations do not hesitate to spend
public money for cable connection be
tween one part of their dominions and
another, and the Hawaiian islands will
be part of the territory of the United
States within the next two years. Then
this cable will be a political necessity.
It will have to be laid, and, like the
Nicaragua canal, it will be hetter for
the government to build and own
It than to Xurnish the money to
build it by a subsidy and leave
control In a private corporation.
The appropriation is without prece
dent "because the case is without
precedent, the "United States never hav
ing had domains separated from the
main country by sea, except Alaska,
which Is not yet far enough developed
to require telegraphic communication,
though a cable there will be required
some time, and the government prob
ably will have to build it. It will take
some time to lay the cable to Honolulu.
As it will be a necessity in two years,
It is full time to "begin.
The centennial of the birth of George
Peabody, the celebration of which took
place at his native town in Massachu
setts Monday; brought out graceful
acknowledgments of his practical and
lasting philanthropy from two conti
nents. The statement that from the
proceeds of the Peabody fund thousands
of the thrifty, intelligent poor of Lon
don are comfortably housed at rentals
which they can afford to pay is a monu
ment to his generosity which time ren
ders the more conspicuous each year.
In the munificent devisement of this
vast wealth, Mr. Peabody made a not
able exception to the popular belief em
bodied in the declaration:
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
That Cole and Burke should oppose
measures for reduction of taxes in
Multnomah county is to be expected
from their general perfidy. They have
not the interests of the county at heart;
neither is a permanent citizen here, and
each of them smuggled himself on the
ticket by fraudulent representations.
These men are utterly careless of the
welfare of Multnomah county, and they
vote, therefore; to continue the ex
cessive fees, prodigal expenditure and
enormous taxation by which the people
are crushed.
One thing can be stated with absolute
certainty, to-wit: That W.T.Hume, John
H. Hall and the two stinkards, Cole
and Burke, will not hold office again;
nor will a single one of the present
members of the common council. This
is their last "pull." Not one of them
will dare to offer himself for public of
fice again.
By defeat of the bill to reduce ex
cessive fees and official emoluments in
Multnomah county, public office is de
clared to be a private snap. But it is
a private snap that none of these of
ficials will ever know again.
Mr. Lowell, for whom the vote of
"the faction" was thrown yesterday, is
as much a gold-standard man as Mr.
Dolph. These antics of the faction
would make it appear that the sliver
question is not "in it."
Undoubtedly the whole official gang
now leagued together to prevent eco
nomical reforms and reduction of taxes
never expect to hold office again. Their
whole idea is to satisfy present greed.
The office-holders of this city and
county "have the drop" on the tax
payers now. It will.be different on the
first Monday of June, 189S.
It is mighty hard to pulj off the
leeches, shitfe off the parasites and
strangle the" pirates.
NO SPECIAL LAWS.
Game Regulations Should Be for the
' U'eneUt of AH.
PORTLAND? Feb. 19.-(To the Editor.)
I would like fb call attention to a bill in
troduced in the senate by Senator Cogs
well, for thewpurpose of amending the
game law, so .that game can be sold dur
ing the seasons when it is lawful to kill It.
Under the present law, pheasants, quail,
etc., can be killed four months in the fall
by sportsmen, but can be sold in the mar
ket but one month; and ducks, etc., can
be killed all winter, but can be sold only
one month. The purport of Cogswell's
bill Is to permit game to be sold during
the period It Is lawful to kill it. The law
bears only on market dealers, because it
is well known that sportsmen sell their
game to friends, notwithstanding they are
the ones who had the law passed placing
a penalty upon the killing, or having in
possession, game for the purpose of sell
ing it. The object of the present law Is to
prevent any person from shooting game
except the fancy sportsman, and I want
to ask If it is the province of the state
to pass laws and spend money for the
benefit of persons who enjoy a particular
kind of amusement? If so, the state
should maintain a three-ring circus and a
variety theattr, for a hundred prefer
amusement of that kind to one who rigs
himself out in a canvas suit and goes
out with a dog and gun to kill birds for
sport. It take it that there is but one
reason why the state should have game
laws, aad that is for the benefit of the
people; 'not that a few may have some
fun, but that all may have game to eat.
They increase and diversify the food sup
ply of the people. In order to enjoy this
benefit, the people submit to restrictive
regulations necessary to prevent the ex
termination of game, and to stimulate its
Increase; but they do not want to submit
to regulations merely for the amusement
of a few sportsmen. If preservation of
the game requires that it be sold but one
month in the year, let the sportsmen be
restrained also, for it is certainly unfair
that they and their friends should feast
on game while the rest of the people are
denied the privilege. The state should
treat all alike, and not create a favored
class. I know that many a boy on a farm
depends upon game that he shoots and
markets for what little money he has to
buy clothes with and spend for other nec
essaries and books; but this law passed
two years ago cuts him off from this
source of income unless he takes the
chances of violating it and being caught.
Even if he did. he could not send his game
to a town market, and thus residents of
towns and of Portland are cut off from
game on their tables unless they happen
to be intimate with some of the favored
class of sportsmen, who, under the plea
of protecting game, had this law passed
for their own benefit.
Protection of game does not require this
law. Ducks and other water rowi are
transient birds, and it makes no difference
how many of them we kill in Oregon.
The causes of the recent scarcity of water
fowl here are the carp eating the wapato
in the lakes, and the great destruction of
eggs in the Arctic regions by the albumen
collectors, a matter which Senator Mitch
ell has taken up In congress. There is no
earthly reason why ducks could not be
killed for market all winter, except that
the fancy hunters want the sport all to
themselves, and they think the state
I makes laws for sport Instead of for the
welfare of the whole people. As for the
pheasant, it Is well known that the shoot
ing season begins too soon, the birds being
too young, and that these same sportsmen
go out before they may legally do so by
their own law. If the season was made to
open later, when the birds are well grov.Ti,
there is no reason why all that the Ore
gon market demands might not be killed.
With the law prohibiting the shipping of
game out of the state, so that there will
be no occasion .for the wasteful slaughter
of a few yearsago, it Is perfectly safe to
permit the people of Oregon to eat all the
pheasants theywant during three months
in the fall, and only during those months
should the fancy sportsman be allowed to
shoos them. I write this to protest against
the theory of the present law that game !
should be protected in order to permit a
few men to have some fun, instead of to
supply a new and abundant food for the
whole people. F. C. BARNES.
SENSE IN EASTERN OREGON.
And It Is Delivered in. a. Plain, Down
right Way.
Prineville Review.
If the United States could, by enact
ing laws for the free and unlimited coin
age of all silver at the ratio of 16 to 1,
raise the value of the world's supply of
silver up to that ratio, then the sooner
such laws are enacted, the more money
there will be to lock up in the vaults of
New York and other places of safe-keeping.
But would such legislation do it?
It appears at the present time to require
very nearly or quite twice that amount
of silver to be worth 1 of gold, or 32 to 1.
If the United States has caused this In
crease in the price of gold, or decrease
In the price of silver, then it would look
as if, by a reversal of past legislation
upon these metals, the old ratio might
be re-established. But is the value of
these substances a matter for this' gov
ernment to settle by legislative action?
If such Is the case, which our friend
"Populist," in his letter last week,
claimed, why does not our congress, with
one swoop, enact a law doing entirely away
with both, and stop these brain-destroy-
Ing questions of "ratio," "parity," etc.,
and substitute paper payable in nothing
and at no time? These two substances,
gold and silver, are not matters to be
legislated up and down by the United
States, any more, under present condi
tions at least, than the air we breathe.
They are mediums of exchange which
have value, such value as the world at
large places upon them, not the United
States alone. When the aggregated com
merce of the world says 16 of one Is
worth 1 of the other, then such a relation
really exists between them. When the
verdict of this combined earth is that it
takes 32 of one to make 1 of the other,
then that Is the real ratio existing.
We desire our readers to remember that
we, at all times, fully realize our incom
petency to grasp this subject in all Us
phases; but we believe the above propo
sition to be correct. That being the case,
we fail to see how, by legal enactment,
this government Jalone can double the
value of one of these metals. It it should
enact such a law, and proceed to estab
lish unlimited sliver as one of its coins,
at the ratio of 16 to 1, it would immediate
ly devolve upon this government to see
to it that silver was doubled in value,
else it would have one coin in circulation
worth less than it claimed to be; and If
such inferior coin were made a legal
tender for debts, gold would be Immediate
ly driven out of circulation, save at a
premium. Would we be benefited by such
an operation? If so, where, how and
why?
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MISCELLANEOUS CRITICIS3I.
POPTLAND, Feb. 19. (To the Editor.)
Dr. Roland D. Grant, in his remarks be
fore the Ministerial Association yester
day, is reported as denouncing the press,
and also the editor of The Oregonian in
no very complimentary terms. What Dr.
Grant is reported as having said is as
follows:
Dr. Grant denounced the press generally, and
The Oregonian in particular, and is said to have
asserted that its editor was an open enemy to
Christianity, and that he had sworn to do all in
his power to overthrow church doctrines.
Of this, however, I have nothing to say
more than to remark, in passing, that If
"Christianity" and "church doctrines," to
which Dr. Grant alludes, teach the ascrib
ing of epithets, in discourse, such as that
of "no gentleman" or "ungentlemanly
speech" to a fellow mortal (not to say a
fellow minister), then Is the editor of The
Oregonian justified in seeking the over
throw of such "doctrines," and of being
an "open enemy of Christianity," which I
do not understand he is. Sinners deal in
this kind of language and in this sort of
tactics, and if saints adopt their methods
and their practices, and make use of in
elegant, ungentlemanly and discourteous
language to their fellows, how are they
different from sinners? But The Orego
nian is entirely able to handle this chargo
of Dr. Grant's without outside help, and I
therefore pass on to what I was about to
say, which is this: Dr. Grant is reported
further to have said in effect:
The methods adopted by some ministers to ad
vertise themselves and attract numbers to their
churches were altogether contemptible; that ha
was not compelled to resort to sensational at
tempts to attain notoriety in order to get any
body to come and listen to him.
Now, while this would seem to savor a
little upon the order of boasting and self
glorification, if not of bravado (a trait not
generally considered in keeping with
Christian self-abnegation), I am heartily
in accord with Dr. Grant's views upon
this point, and would that ministers would
take his words of wisdom more generally
to heart. There Is too much of this cheap
advertising upon the part of the clergy
too much of this attempt to create a sen
sation for the purpose of drawing houses.
It should be abandoned. The clergy
should have brains enough to draw con
gregations without seeking sensational
subjects, and without resorting to these
extraneous outside means and appliances
to attract congregations.
But, unfortunately, in too many in
stances, the "drawing card" lies in the
very influences which Dr. Grant con
demns. S. J. RHODES.
A CUBAN REVOLUTION.
Preparations lor It Have Beeu Prac
tically Completed.
Gonzales de Quesada, secretary of the
Cuban revolutionary party in this coun
try, who has been engaged during the
past six months In raising money for -that
cause, arrived in Tampa, FJa last week
from Key West, and was met at the
station here by nearly 50 prominent Cuban
uatrlots and escorted to the house of
Fernando FIgueredo, where he Is still a
guest, says a correspondent of the Boston
Herald. A reception had been planned
for him last night, but the intense cold
made a postponement necessary. He was
given a serenade, however, and was
called upon by hundreds of patriots at
Figueredo's residence.
He said today: "A revolution in Cuba
Is imminent. It is bound to come within
six months. Everybody is ripe for it.
We have plenty of money already raised
In this country to carry on a successful
war against Spain, and we can double it
before July 1. Why, the cigarmakers of
Tampa have already given me $60,000 for
the cause, and are ready to raise $100,000
more It necessary. The response to my
appeal for aid was even more generous
in Key West than in Tampa, which is all
the more wonderful since the Cubans in
Key West are suffering from financial
depression.
"From here I go to arouse the patriot
Ism of the Cuban colonies In Jackson
ville, Osceola, Philadelphia and New York,
and then to the Cuban colonies in South
America. We shall have several million
dollars in hand before the summer is
over, and we mean to strike hard for
Cuban liberty and independence.
"This scheme of revolution Is being
very discreetly managed. Every reliable
Cuban in the United States and on the
island as well knows the plan of opera
tion, and yet nothing important to the
Spanish authorities has leaked out yet.
We shall have our feet on the neck of
Spain in about 12 months. The Island Is
certainly very near revolution.
"The home rule party is almost dead.
One of its most powerful committees in
Santiago has "dissolved. Half of Its rep
resentatives have not even gone to the
cortez in Madrid, and those who have
gone are contending simply for the re
forms of Maura. Even the most loyal
Spaniards on the island recognize the
fact, at last, that their commercial in
terests are threatened by Spain, and they
want a change of government in order
to save their sugar, cigar and cattle in
dustries. If a revolution Is begun these
Spaniards will join the Cubans or remain
neutral.
The sugar Industry is dead so far as
any profit to the planter is concerned,
and In the Interior the covernment
is so weak that the ranchmen cannot
protect their stock or themselves.
"For these economic and political rea
sons the unrest on the Island ia greater
than ever before, and Spain has just
sent four more men-of-war to Cuba, mak
ing a fleet of eight warships, to patrol
her coasts. Some political arrests have
recently been made, but have been given
out as arrests of bandits.
"Spain is bankrupt, and she bleeds
Cuba to death to support her army and
navy. Of the $30,000,000 tax levied upon
Cuba, only $2,000,000 or $3,000,000 are spent
on the island. When this revolution
comes, as come it must, it will be simul
taneous in every part of the-Island, and
it will be successful."
FOLLY AT THE HEIGHT.
An English View of the American, Fi
nancial Situation.
, London Times.
It is probable that Mr. Cleveland and
his cabinet perfectly understand the grav
ity of the crisis; but they have, at all
events, demonstrated beyond dispute the I
absurdity of attempting to maintain the
gold reserve and the credit of the paper
money by sales of bonds. These sales only
cause events to travel in a vicious circle,
whose center is the maelstrom of discredit
and bankruptcy. By pursuing the course
followed in the past year, the funded interest-bearing
debt of the Union might
very soon be Increased one hundred mil
lion pounds; and when that had been bor
rowed and lost, the nation would be a few
steps nearer 'he condition of Brazil and
Argentina than it Is now. With each fresh
dose of stimulant in the shape of bor
rowed gold, the rate at which the depletion
goes on is accelerated, partly because the
distrust is Jeepened. The last loan was
all paid up by the 6th of December; there
fore, the whole $58,500,000 which the bonds
yielded has been dispersed In less than two
months. It took about six months to ex
haust the proceeds of the previous sale.
The next one may go in three weeks, so
striking Is the lesson which the states are
receiving of the power of the "Gresham
law." A debased currency always dis
places a good one, and by ho possible ex
pedient can the two be made to live to
gether. On ihe present lines, therefore,
the United States are likely, at ho very
distant date, to find themselves over head
and ears in debt, their currency depreci
ated to any Imaginable discount, and all
the Industries of the country In a state
of collapse. All this Mr. Cleveland and a
few of his supporters know well enough;
but the chosen representatives of the na
tion appear to be ignorant of the peril. It
seems hopeless, therefore, to expect any
consistent or statesmanlike attempt to de
vise a cure for this imminent danger from
the present congress. That body is domi
nated by factions devoted to "silver," to
paper money based on "national credit,"
and assigns the mandate of the house of
representatives, passed by the vote of
last November, to Its successor. Add to
this legislative impotence the fact that
the export trade of the Union Is depressed
to a degree wnlch throws the debtor In
dividual, corporate or national back upon
bullion when obligations due abroad
have to be met; and the further circum
stance that the prevailing uncertainty as
to whether the future is to give creditors
of the states here payment in "rag"
money, in sllvar, or in gold, stops the
usual flow of English capital into Ameri
can Investments, and we have altogether
as pretty a coll of untoward coincidences
as It Is possible to imagine.
A PARADISE LOST.
The Passing of Don Dickinson and
His Whisker.
New York Press.
There Is a vacant space upon the politi
cal horizon. Don Dickinson has disap
peared. One day he stood erect, every
feather radiant, with heart of hope and.
brow of cheer, basking in the sunlight, aj
gracious tmng ana fair; tne next, ne was
gone. Like a flower' that fades in the
night, like a dream that perishes with
the day, like a sunset that thrills the
world and then deadens, he sank from
view. The daisies will bloom again and
the birds come mating In the spring, but
the daisy of daisies, the bird of birds,
may come no more. Yet the memory of.
Don Dickinson cannot disappear. It will
grow fonder with the days, and more ten
der. Even should all else fade, the beau
teous Image of those whiskers would still
remain. They were not born to die. They
were In the world, but not of it. They
were pastels in hair, hirsute poems, hispid
elegies. They spoke to you of romance
and of love. The soughing of the wind
through them was like the gladsome peal
of wedding bells. They kept your face
turned toward the rising sun, your
thoughts among the clouds.
To look upon those whiskers was always
edifying. They were something tangible,
yet evanescent; something a Praxiteles
might worship, a Titian strive to paint.
What her foot was to Trilby, his whis
kers were to Don Dickinson. In them per
fection was improved. Compared with
them, the rosy glimmer of the dawn was
coarse and grewsome. While the rivers
run Into the sea; while the shadows tra
verse the mountain sides, those whiskers
will live and breathe forth inspiration. On
the scroll of fame they are traced in in
delible ink. If he does not come back to
turn our mourning into rapture; if that
ray of human sunshine is gone forever,
we shall all be better; the world will be
nobler for having seen Don Dickinson's
whiskers. Whatever happens to Don, art
and poetry should preserve his whiskers.
Perhaps it Is too much to hope that he
will be seen again, but the world cannot
but keep its anxious, expectant eyes upon
that vacant spot in the horizon.
THIS ALONE WILL NOT HELP.
PORTLAND. Feb. 18.-(To the Editors
Referring to Mr. H. W. Corbett's letter
in yesterday's Oregonian, I like to ask:
How can it help the treasury to have
duties made payable In gold? The person
who is to pay duty could simply draw gold
from the treasury first (with greenbacks
or silver) and then give the same gold
back to the treasury in payment of du
ties. As long as uncertainty of the stand
ard of money exists. It seems to me, It
would help nothing; and If the uncertainty
of the .standard is removed it would not
be needed. SINGLE STANDARD.
It will not help to collect duties in gold
unless the excess of treasury notes with
which gold Is drawn out of the treasury
be retired. Gold Is not drawn out di
rectly with silver dollars or certificates.
Parity can be maintained without this by
keeping gold on hand to redeem all un
specified obligations. The silver certifi
cates call., specifically for silver
.. .
All Talking: Oregon.
Eugene Guard.
George T. Hall informs us that he has
received a letter from Mr. King, who
spent one summer up the McKenzle with
his family, that a party of about 40 will
leave Bearfield. Wis., Including himself
and family, for Eugene, In a few days
and will make their home In this vicin
ity. He says the times are very hard In
Wisconsin, and the weather has been bit
ter cold, and that everybody Is talking
Oregon now. This entire party is com
posed of well-to-do farmers, and theyWlll
prosper here.
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Practical but Illegal.
Walla Walla Statesman.
The best thing the county can do In the
Edmiston case Is to figure out how much
more it will cost in prosecuting him, and
pay the amount to the children who de
posited their little savings in the bank.
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The emperor of Germany has been scold
ing his officers for ill-treating their sub
ordinates. It takes a good deal of mental
activity to keep up with William's changes
from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde and back
agalq.
SEWS JJF THE NORTHWEST.
' - " Oregon. v
The dog-poisoner has made his appear
ance In Salem.
C. C McConkle's cigar store has been
closed at Salem by attachment.
Chincoks is the name of an alleged.
humorous paper now published at Pendle
ton twice a month.
Henry Bust, at Philomath, lost hi
Darn oy nre last wees because of an I
old hen knocking over a lantern.
F. B. Francisco, a veteran of the Thirty-third
Wisconsin volunteers, died at
Corvallls Friday; aged 55 years.
The sliding door at the O. R. & N. Co.'s
wharf at Corvallls, weighing 600 pounds,
fell upon Alba Schmidt Friday, badly
bruising his foot.
A sturgeon weighing 900 pounds was
caught near Crate's point last Saturday.
This is one of the largest sturgeon that
was ever caught in the Columbia river,
and, as this fish will bring S cents &
pound, the day's work brought the fisher
man $72.
Six wagons left Eugene on Saturday
leaded with about 10 tons of potatoes, by
George T. Hall & Son, for Corvallls. The
spuds will be shipped from that point to
San Francisco via the Oregon Pacific rail
road. The teams will return with 10 tons
of sugar consigned to the same firm. The
teamsters receive 12" cents per 100 pounds
for transporting the potatoes, and 20
cents per 100 for the sugar. The railroad
rata on sugar from Albany is 23 cents.
Washington.
Rltzville has subscribed the capital for
a creamery-
Arthur LeClair Damon, who once plead
ed guilty to a charge of forgery, and then!
changed his plea, was acquited" by a jury
at Tacoma Monday. He is said to be a
son of the postmaster at Melbourne. Aus
tralia. Bernard Rellly, wife and daughter, of
Mountain View, drove into New Whatcom
Saturday to take Mrs. Reilly to the hos
pital. The horses ran away in the street,
and all three were taken to the hospital
together. Injuries u ere not serious.
Thursday a little son of Rice Hllligoss
at Aberdeen, was kicked in the head by
a horse, the frontal bone being broken
and pressed into the brain. A portion of
the skull had to be cut away, and the
depressed bone raised. Recovery is doubt
ful. Saturday two little boys at the same
place were playing with a hatchet, with
the result that Floyd Stuart lost the in
dex finger of his right hand. Sunday
Alex Payette chopped oft three fingers
while splitting kindling.
PERSONS WORTH KNOWING ABOUT.
Octave Thanet, the popular story writer,
says that if necessary she could support
herself as a cook.
Miss Julia Hardesty. of St. Louis, whe
was born in 1811, claims to be the oldest"
"old maid" In that city. Thus far no one
has come forward to dispute her claim.
Mrs. Deborah Hayr.es Doty, who lives
at Frewsburg, Chautauqua county, with
her son, Asa H. Doty, who Is 76 years old,
was born at Amsterdam, N. Y., March 6,
1793.
Sir Alexander Mackenzie, president of
the Royal Academy of Music, who received
knighthood on New Year's day. is the 16th
musician whom the queen has knighted.
The first was Sir Henry Bishop, In 1S42.
Aaron Burnham, of Essex, has aston
ished the people of that town by his won
derful feats on skates. Mr. Burnham was
born in Essex, March 5, 1797. Politically
he Is a democrat, and has voted for everyl
presidential candidate of that party since
the election oC James Madison.
Alexandre Dumas says that he has out
lived the taste for' most things that money
can procure. The chief pleasure of his
-life now is meditation, which he indulges
by taking long walks in the forest of
Marly. M. Dumas is now a white-haired
old, man, but vigorous. He lives with his
invalid wife, at his country place, near
Marly . -
J. Takasusa, a- Japanese- A. B of Ox
ford, has translated into English a de
scription of India and the Malay islands,
written 1200 years ago by I. Tslng, a
Chinese Buddhist priest. The book de
scribes the monastic life observed by the
author in India, and contains a great deal
of Information about geography, chronol
ogy and literature.
Paul Sorg, who is the richest man in
congress, in name and fortune at least,
would make a good type for the father of
a "Lavinla Hunks." Mr. Sorg represents
the third Ohio district, which lies north
of Cincinnati. He Is said to be worth $15.
000,000, and to have an income of more
than $1,000,000 a year, all of which he made
himself In the manufacture of plug to
bacco. The empress of Austria has been lead
ing a lonely life at Algiers. During her
stay there she breakfasted at 6:30 and
dined at 5, taking all her meals alone.
Six hours of the day she spent in walking.
Frequently she would linger among the
srraves in the Mohammedan cemetery.
watching the old women seated near -them,
and the Friday gifts of milk and bread
placed on the graves. Except the bishop
of Algiers and tne ArcnauKe iiouis oai
iator, who came from Majorca to visit
her, she received no one.
William S. Tipton, who has been the
personal campaign manager of Governor
Evans, of Tennessee, is the proprietor
and editor of the Cleveland (Tenn.) Her
ald. He was cne of the famous "306"
who voted for General Grant in. the na
tional republican convention of 1SS0, and
was United States marshal for East Ten
nessee In the Harrison administration.
Miss Elizabeth Coleridge, who died a
few weeks ago at Ottery St. Mary, in
Devonshire, where she had passed the
whole of her life, was a niece of Samuel
rn..inM "lii,-lf1irrt finil a pnnml nrmsin nf
? England's late loru chief justice. Miss
Coleridge, who was an accomplished artist
and a vary clever woman, had the culture
and literary tastes for which nearly all
the members of her family have been
noted. She well remembered Thackeray,
when he was living as a young man
with his mother and stepfather at Ottery.
which Is the -irlglnal of the Claverlng of
Peadennis."
PARAGRAPHERS' PLEASANTRIES.
Watts Did you ever know of any one
dying for love? Potts Once. I knew a
fellow who starved to death after being
refused by an. heiress. Indianapolis Jour
nal. If Mary's lamb was white as snow,
This fact then please jot down,
That Mary's lambie's little coat
Was just a good, dark brown.
"Oh, pshaw! You're trying to make a
fool of me, now." "Indeed, I am not. I
have conscientious scruples which prevent
me from accepting a sinecure." New
York Recorder.
Floorwalker How many women do you
suppose there have been today to look at
our bargains? Superintendent How should
I know? I am not a bargain counter.
Boston Transcript.
Visitor (in gallery) Congressmen, as a
rule, are college men, aren't they? Guide
Oh, no, not at all. Visitor I see seven
men there trying to part two of them.
Cleveland Plaindealer.
A Load off his mind: "There Is one thing
that has preyed heavily on my mind ever
since we were engaged, and I am almost
afraid to tell you about it," he said, nerv
ously. "What is it, Charlie? Speak out."
"I am a somnambulist." "Oh, is that all?"
she exclaimed, with a sigh of relief; "I
hive alwavs been a Universallst myself,
hut. of course, when we are made one I"
shall expect to attend your church."
Texas Sittings.
Josh Grayneck (the hired man) Wal,
good-by, Mr. Flintrock! Farmer Fllnt
rock What! You ain't a-going to leave,
are you, Josh? "Yes, I'm goin. I don't
mind economy, but you are a leetle mite
too savin for me. When the calf died
last month we had to eat her to save her,
and when the pig choked to death, t'other
dav. we had to eat him, and now your
gran'pa's jest died, and wal, I've con-
Truth.