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SBJ5l5j5!5 " y Ksf-w- pnpcv Tgni'-vspf i'T '" THE MOKNING- OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JANUAKY 19, 1900. Entered at the Postofflcc at Portland, Oregon, as rocdad-olas matter. TEUBFHOXEa. Editorial Reoras....lCSi Business Office... --OST . REVISJp SqBSOBSON-KATES ' ByWTtfW&al2plepd. ifcSiavaSxce- Dai'j wttfe Sundar, $r month, ...?0 S3 iiailj, Suhdas- excepted, per rear ... 7 5Q, Da ly, witn Sunday, per year.. ........8 00 Sunday, per year ..., 2 Oft The Weekly, per year, 1 G Slie 'Weakly. 3 months . To CJtr Subscribers Daily, per wMk, deUvered, Snndeys excepted 15e I JDaior, per week. deHre-ea. Sundajs lnehided.20e 1 News .gs- discussion Intended for publication la The Oregonlan should bp addressed Invariably "Editor The Qregonian." not to the name of any Individual, letters relating to advertising: Subscriptions or to an? business matter should be addressed simply, The Oregonlan.' The Qregonlas does not bay pottos or stories from individuals, e.n cannot undertake to re turn any ayiuscrJpt5 sent to It without solicits tlon Ko stamps -aboutl be inclosed' for this pur pose. Puget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson. A ftfttfM. ft H11 TmIIa .........la rvwTriQ Tlnv A?TC t Tacoma postofSce. Eastern Business Offlee The Tribune (bunding. New York city; "3"he Rookery," "Chicago the C Seckwah Special agency. TTew Tork. Ear yale la Ban Francisco by J. K, Cooper. 746 Market street, hear the Palaee hoteljand at Goldsmith Bros , J38 Sutter street Pop sale in Chicago by the P. Q. Xewa Co.. 217 Dearborn street. TOOATS WEATHSi. Occasional rain. with J Iresh to bri&c southerly winds. 1 SORT,AXB, FftlXJAT, JAXUAKT 10. CQXFITtafATORX FACTS. Tiie Northern Pacific's road between Moscow and Lewiston, Idaho, has been virtually destroyed by recen floods. From twenty-five to thirty miles of road will have to be rebuilt. Most of It will have to be rebuilt at higher levels, to put it out of the way of future floods. Besides, the grade is so heavy that it is no p&uoeriOEa railway. The Jjewiston4 Trlbunerlias these remarks It )e not Hiiely aaother -winter will find Tjsnr--i iron dependent upon the Botlatch grade for raHwas eonxntindcaiton and for it commerce with the entire country- Th railvror losses and casualttes for wbich ttiis ljeflvy gr&d 13 el-eady responzble are not tho result of aool actrtal or rtpaond4nary oceurrencss, but are iisuai and URa.vtiaiie features of iie physleaV coadiWoag. Ti Potiatcfe corge is not a proper or safe bed. for a. railway line ivith fiKi sohcduls and "large traffic to conduct. It Is not prohabte that tbfe Hue le iaD&sd to fio rnorel ttian serve tb. most teCTRrary commercial jTurnoeess. It Is a. etupendotiE bliin3r and eco nomic sin to attempt to pun the business of the Clearwater cottittrj- through this canyon tip on the Afljacent plateaus and thence asralnst the conformations of the seuhtry to unnatural entrepots The broad and safe n-alleys of the' Clearwater. Snake and Gohimfeia ri-rers were njade for commercial neee, and -until they ore so used the rallwaj-e -Kill be Incumbered -ortth tharg8 that mean nnosasahg: trouble to tfcem 68les aad unfair taxation oa the country. Here 1s matter of'interest to a large section of country. It affects, more o er, the railway traffic of a very great proportion of the valley of the Colum bia. It ate deeply oeacerns Portland, since it furnishes confirmation, from positive experience, of the contention that the traffic of the great interior must follow the water courses to the sea. The Northern Pacific has been erdeavoring to force Ihe transport of the great basin of the Columbia against physical conditions which, If not posi tively insuperable, are practically so. j It is a stupeudous blunder," says the. L.ewlgtoji Tribune, "and an economic sin to attempt to pull the business of the Clearwater -country through this fPotlatch) canyon up on the adjacent plateaus ajid thence against the con formations of the country to unnatural depots." So it is. Here is the vry proposition so often stated by The Ore gonlan. The Oregon Bailrcad has a track from Portland to Riparia, on Snake rier, following he -vyater line the si bole way. A single-engine and crew will carry forty and even sixty loaded cars. Extension of this line from Ri paria to Lewiston, a distance of sev enty miles, will provide an outlet for the whole traffic of the region beyond the mouth of Snake river upon the firade by which the waters flow. Con struction of this section of seventy mfies will complete the stem or trunk of the Oregon Railroad in that direc tion, and will turn nearly everything from Northern Idaho and Eastern "Washington down the Snake river val ley. The section Irom RIparia to X.ew iston is less difficult to build than the line already in operation from "Wallula to Riparla. This last section must be added. It is indeed, an "economic sin" to postpone -it longer. The right of way lias already -been acquired, and no little grading hag been done. But it has been "suspended since August last, under a ' truce" between the Oregon company and the Northern Pacific. The roads are loath -to engage in a war of con struction against each other, and may i yet Tiold off awhile; but this link must be built. The interests of both impera tively demand it. One road along Snake river f ram Waliula to Lewiston is enough for the business, and perhaps the opposing parties may agree upon joint construction and -use; but the road ought to be built and must be built. It ought to be built this year. : This incident in Northern Idaho, as set forth through the Lewiston papery I is a new proof ana. illustration m the relation of the water-iine grades of the great Columbia valley to thfc traffic and development of the whole interior coun try. From physical conditions there Is no escape. Hjuman effort must conform to them, dr Jwork at immense and con stantly increasing less; for the lower the rates the more necessary it is to have easy movement The topography -of the country sends the traffic by the onp natural and easy way. But to make the most of it there Is one thing of -supreme Importance yet necessary, -j That one thing is Improvement of. our V?nJlT rQnd and .first of all, extension of the jetty and a deeper channel at the entrance of the river from the ocean. This chan nel, though greatly improved, is not yet deep ejjQUgh. A forty-foot channel there is a prime necessity. The board of engineers show how it can be made, and they urge iL We must look to oorgfess for it; for this is the single thing of more -importance to the peo ple of three states than any other he fore them. Natural forces take direc tion of the railway traffic of the in terior and control It, with. :in irresisti ble power Bxit thp channel for ship ping we must look after ourselves. Hence the thing of first importance is ftrther improvement of the entrance of the Columbia river. Concentration of main effort upon that object is the Im- perauve demand of our delegation in congress at the present time. If it be true, as It ought to be true that &refi.t Britain has intimated to the United States that the provisions j or tne mayton-jsuiwer ireaty need to j be a. bar no longer to construction of the Nicaragua canal by the United States, a. serious obstacle has been re moved. "We have been bound by treaty hot to proceed with this -work without concurrencei of Great Britain; and ef forts to obtain her assent to rescission of the tseaty have heretofore been -un- t availing. A3? TRRELEJVAVT DEFENSE. Two things are to be said with refer ence to attempts of anti-imperialism to saddle blunders upon the adminis tration aaid force it to furnJah the dem onstration of its own incompetence. First, tlfe president may have made errors; second, if he has, it makes no difference now, either as to cur .course in the Philippines or as to the reputa tion of the anti-Imperialists for intel lectual and patriotic vacuity. That McKlnley has made mistakes enough, there is no occasion to deny. Some of them are obtrusively self-evident, some are susceptible of easy" proof, some are to be inferred. He muddled things fearfully at the star? in Luzon, by forbidding Otis to crush the rebellion. It Is likely that records are Id existence proving vacillating Instruc tions to the Paris commissioners and Imperfect conceptions of the way to carry on. war. However many of these" ;an&klndred accusations cancer jjrpven. nip.wr Tatsaitf nt no rrrrfjvf nrtnm. mi.- i i t.7 m- " " "" "einy on aau-im- pertitiistn, nuu. at cneir worst iney can Gnly afford a modicum of contributory evidence as to the statesmanship of "William McKlnley, whose gauge is al ready uretty .correctly taken, iy every arian w&o is not a hidebound partisan. .The antis are distressed that Mckin ley should be' treated by republicans as a synonym for the United States. Yet they make the same mistake them selea McKInley's errors they inter pret as vitiating the plain duty of the United States in Its new Asiatic re-r sponsibilities, whereas the fact Is they have' ho such effect or "bearing. "We have done Ihe only thing we could do. hold the islands, suppress the Insurrec tion and establish the best possible government with all possible sj)eed. Because, this has, been done does Jiot prove ilcKinley a flawless statesman. as his republican -worshipers try toj make themselves believe. Because hel has actd with faltering and mistakes does not in the least absolve those who have resisted the performance of the duty. NO- mistake that McKlnley has made, no mistake that the antis with or -with-out-reason charge him vwith, can- atone for their bad judgment In demanding- surrender to the Tagals, or theirbad, spirit in praying contusion upon their country's flag. Unreasoning partisan ism is about as ridiculous on one side as on the other. THE TIELI OP GOLO. A Tecent article in the International Economist, published at Berlin, says. that but for the South African trouble the year 1899 would have been a record-breaker in the production of -gold; and probably notwithstanding that drawback it will prove to be the great est. The Economist says that the Wit watersrand win probably produce, af ter peace in Africa, ,000,000 ounces-; the other districts in Africa 250,000 ounces. The United States, Australia and Can ada will also have an increased amount, so that the twentieth century will be gin with a yearly production of about 1,014,116 pounds, valued at $305,864,000, which means that the gold output will exceed by $119,000,DC0 the average pro duction of both gold and silver In the years between 1866 and 1870. This is held as disposing of the fairy tale of the insufficiency of gold,, and, further more, the Economist declares that the present high price of money does not represent an enhancement of the price of gold because of gold deficiency. The same journal estimates the world's totaL production of gold since v 1871, when Germany finally resolved to abandon its silver basis, at 13,420,035 pounds, and the production from the discovery of America to 1871 at 19,087, S2S pounds. So, within the last twenty eight years, the world's production has been two-thirds of that of tbe four cen turies preceding. And yet, up to 1871, no fear of insufficiency existed, while from that time to the present this fear has been growing constantly. From the discovery of America to the end of 1693, statistics will show a production of 32,514,229 pounds, of which 40-per cent, belongs to the years when the cries of distress; were -raised by" the silveristsi It is therefore clear, the Economist holds, that there has been na lack of gold, and that the depreciation in the. price of goods has had no connection with changes in the monetary system. It is noted further by the Economist that the oft-pred!cted decrease in the production of silver has not come to pass. The total production for- 189S Was 165,235,575 ounces, aft increase of 1,222,400 over the preceding year. Of this quantity, Mexico produced 56,738, 090 ounces, the United States 54,438,000, Australia 1S,021,$S2. The-nexr largest country in production was Bolivia, with a-"SoSt ;S,2i50OCO; - gpain," "with nearly G,000;000; Germany, with 5,500,000, and Colombia close to the same amount Competent authorities think that the yieia for 1899 will prove to have been more than. 170,000,050 ounces fine. "WORXttJTG FOB KOHOSPSTAIh The opposition of Senator Foster and Representative Cusiman, of Washing ton, to Representative Jones' bill lo cating a permanent general hospital at Vancouver indicates that the members from Tacoma are startirfg out to de stroy what following they have In other parts of the state. Southwestern WaEhl rt1 rvn Vmc ndTroa nnf.ji aftstantta! recognition from the State's delegation in congress, and but for the influence of the Oregon senators and representatives Tt would have- fared badly in the past. With the Washing ton congressmen the geography of the state of Washington has always been held, for political purposes-, to be con fined to Puget sound and -the area sur- l rounding Spokane. Vancouver is the natural analogical location for a large government hos pital. Being the headquarters of the department of the Columbia, it always will be a Tendeivous for troops in gar rison or in preparation for war, and it .should be the place of treatment for sick soldiers. Here the government has one of the finest of its military reser vations. It is on this reservation that r it is proppsed to build the hospital. There is ground enough for all the nec essary buildings, and for a fine park or lawn in addition. Not a foot of land will have to be bought for any pur pose. T,he proposed site is about 100 feet above the Columbia river, and a j mile back. It Is high enough for good drainage and low enough for adequate water pressure for fire protection. Water supply, drainage and transpor tation facilities ar,g perfect. No place in the world has a more equable cli mate. The mean average temperature for twenty-seven years has been 52.7 degrees. "Vancouver escapes the chill ing fos that sweep over the Presidio and threaten the lives of men in hos pital. The best evidence that climatic conditions are favorable at "Vancouver is contained in the official reports- of sickness vand death at the barracks. I The total average force stationed at the barracks in the five years and ten months ended November 1, 1899, was 3514.9, and the mean average strength per year was 585.8. In this period these were but twelve deaths, an average of about two a year. Six of the deaths resulted from sickness which, in two cases, was contracted elsewhere. Six deaths were attributed to accident and suicide. Considerations of economy will defeat Tacoma's designs on the hospital. The government will not maintain a depart ment headquarters at Vancouver and a hospital at Tacoma. It -will not aban don Its valuable reservation at Vancou ver and transfer the department head quarters to Puget sound just to inflate Tacoma real estate. It will not sand henfeebled soldiers returning to "Vancou ver barracks from the wars, over 15Q miles by rail 'to Tacoma for treatment. If the government builds a hospital, it will be at Vancouver. If "Vancouver loses tbe hospital, Senator Foster and Representative Cushman will have to shoulder the responsibility. Southwest ern 'Washington should exert its influ ence and cause the members from Ta coma to change position. In the mean time, the Oregon delegation may be de pended upon to second Representative Jones' efforts in behalf of an Important section of country which has never re ceived its just due. WEBSTEK. Yesterday the city of Washington cel ebrated with appropriate ceremonies the unveiling of a statue of Daniel Webster. Nearly forty-eight years have elapsed since Webster was borne to the tomb years that have included a tremendous civil wan, followed by radical changes in our written consti tution and our social civilization. Web ster died a bitterly disappointed man, wounded"in spirit -by his party and exe crated by the powerful anti-slavery sentiment of New England that had. once fondly hoped and looked forward i to the time when he would lead the "party, which after his death carried the country on the platform of the non-extension of slavery. From 1820 down to 1S48 Webster had generally opposed slavery within the lines of constitu tional resistance to its extension, for he voted for the Wilmot proviso, and in his Plymouth Rock oration of 1824, as well as in his famous campaign speeches from 1844 to ISiS, he had not hesitated to express his personal oppo sition to slavery $nd his determination to resist by all constitutional means its extension into free territory. Even so ardent an anti-slavery evangelist as Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio, believed to the last that Webster would lead the opposition of the North to the pas sage of the compromise of 1850, which inpluded the odious fugitive slave law. The conservative anti-slavery party in New 'England included a very large number of able and upright men who had always admired and trusted Web ster, who spit upon Webster's argu ment of March 7, 1550, and yet in the light of today we think anti-slavery New England was wrong In her judg ment that Webster in 1850 sold himself to the South for the pottage of a prom ised presidential nomination. Probably he grew weak when he saw war loom ing up in gloomy shape before him, just as Seward, Charles Francis Adams and pther old-time anti-slavery leaders grew 'weak when they saw the thunder-cloud of war coml-ng, and were ready to accept the Corwin or Critten den compromise rather than let the cloud burst in the sky. To Webster our civilization was a material struc ture, and for such uman it was impos sible to rise fnt& the thin uppeY air of radical anti-slavery politics. If Web ster quailed In 1850, he did not quail half so miserably as did his then bitter critics, Seward and Adams, when In 1861 they offered to accept a more ab- Iject compromise than the one they cursed Webster fpr consenting, to sup port. Webster's cbmprbmise speech of 1850 i reade today like the eloquent cry of a strong thinker in his agony, and it is instinct with a solemn spirit of the same sincere, patriotic alarm that his critics f6It when, a few years after Webster's death, they saw the same grim specter of civil war as clearly as Webster's prophetic eyes saw it In 1S50. Webster had his personal moral infirmities, "but bis ambition or his In sensibility to the potency of spiritual forces among the people does not ap pear to have betrayed him into grosser errors than the vast majority of the anti-slavery statesmen, like Se.ward, Adams and Chase, who denounced him. It is true that: the nation owes Webster, an enormous debt, because his impres sive eloquence first saturated the peo ple with the' idea that we are a nation. He furnished the North the wnple argument upon which we waged the great civil tvar. Webster's oratory of ,1830.. was in 18fil tiie unanswered and unanswerable argument for the -fight we fought for the flag. 4 It was a kindly" fate that suffered those who execrated "Webster when, he wavered from the old anti-slavery lean ings of his prime to live to see his noblest .statesmanship shine wtth re ne'wed' luster when the people from Maine tC; Oregon, from the Canada line to the Ohio and the Potomac, ratfie3 for the flag and marched to Webster's eloquent music of the Union. Not sd original a pure political thinker as Franklin, or Burke, or Hamilton, not so great or original a legal thinker as Marshall, nevertheless Webster as a jurist", a statesman and an orator K'ould have been a stupendous figujev no matter wbat soil had given him' birth or what circumstances had sur-( rounded him. He was of that tribe of' Titans that control and shape circum stances through the naturaT sweep of their own divinity in action. The Oriental liner Monmouthshire, the best ship of the Portland, fleet; is In quarantine at Victoria with a case of smallpox or bubonic plague aboard. The reason .for a Portland-bound steamship -gOlng to a rival port to enter quarantine is that the negjigence "of the government has left the Columbia river without a quarantine station. The site was purchased .and money ap propriated for commencing work on tbe buildings, but. as usual, as soon as Portland ceased sending in petitions to the representatives In Washington, all work toward Completing the building came to a staadstill, Portland has had a fairly good Oriental steamship ser vice for the past eighteen months, and it is almost a' miracle that some of our steamers have not been held up before. That they have not been is (hie to no precaution on the part of the govern ment to guard against such deplorable circumstances as that we are now com- peiled to face. It Is annpunced that "a Bath parson, the Rev. Valentine Rowe, who, before taking orders, was a colonel in . the Royal engineers, has thrown up his cure to enter the military service again." Bishop Leonidas Polk, of the Episcopal church, a graduate of West Point, abandoned the pulpit for hh original profession of arms, fough as a corps commander at Shiioh, Stone River ana Chickamauga, and was killed by, a Federal shell at Lost Mountain in the Atlanta campaign of 1801. There were a number of clergymen among the officers of both the Union and Confed erate armies, General Pendleton, Lee's chief of artillery, was a- clergyman when the civil war- broke out, but. e sumed the profession of arms for wfilch he had been aduoated at West Point. Brevet Brigadier-General Gran ville Moody, colonel of the Seventy fourth Ohio, was a Methodist minister of such high standing and influence that President Liricoln sent him on a confidential peace fission to Rich mond. Rev. Arthur Fuller, a UUl' Italian clergyman, brother of the fa mous Margaret Fuller Ossoli, was killed fighting in the ranks of the Nineteenth1 Massachusetts regiment at Fredericksburg, Decembi12, 1SG2. In -dew of extettnsr differences, it -would be the part of political aewa to make the June eainpalgn In this state upon local Issues as njjirly as practicable. A l&w days after our election th$ national eom-enon will meet qfld; adopt tho carted oftho party.-J-PortbiHd Dis patch, Signs multiply that the "reform forces" are jceary of attacks on the gold standard and the courts, ana are without hope of: success in Oregon, un less they quiet "existing differences" by having no mind on national issues. A "party of the people," without coh Fictions on . public questions, waiting for a convention, months away, to f manufacture an adjustable collar for the necks of Its heterogeneous constit uent, is a spectacle to put candor to the blusn and repel all reformers of earnest purposes. It Is a poor soft of Citizenship that waits for., a future gathering to "adopt a creed," and it re veals a, cowardice in striking contrast to the boldness with which democrats fought the campaign of 1S96. The de sire to make the campaign in this state this year on local issues is testimony to the strength of the gold standard ana or national expansion la. tne ira cific Northwest. Judge George yesterday decided a matter of vital importance to the Boys' and Girls' Aid Society, because the so ciety has 1400 w ards affected by it. The majority of tbese are apprenticed in homes throughout the state. The society therefore naturally does not desire to be continually dragged into court to answer habeas corpus proceedings brought pursuant to the whims of per sons who have forced their children' upon It by their neglect. The law as -the society understood It to be makes the decision of the county court grant ing the custody of children to the so ciety final, and Judge George has sub stantially so determined, and now only the court of original jurisdiction may be applied to for any modification of the order. Tne guardianship was held not to cease until the minors reach their majority. The questions involved are fully explainedi and the opinion is one of general interest. According to the findings of the com mittee having the investigation of the matter in charge, Biigham H. Roberts, of Utah, is the husband of three wives, and the father, by two of them, of twelve children. Whether to seat him for the righteous purpose of ignomin ious expulsion, or peremptorily to deny him a seat In the house of repre sentatives, is. the question novy under consideration. Either method of pro cedure vrill accomplish a result emi nently satisfactory to the decent, law abiding people of the country, "Who hare good reason to congratulate them selves upon the victory they have won. The power of publlo opinion has been clearly demonstrated in the result of this case, now clearly foreshadowed. Trials in which the evidence is fur nished principally by experts come hlgb. Ii Is estimated that the Moii neux case, which has for weeks held the judicial attention of New York, will cost the state 3250,000. New Yorkers are accustomed to extravagance in the administration of justice, and of gov ernmental affairs generally, but many of them protest that expert "evidence, even we're it certain that justice would be secured by it, la a luxury that they catxnpt afford, The siege of Lucknow lasted 1S8 days. The siege of Ladysmith "has now been ift progress 78 days. Taking into con sideration the fact that the Boera are better fighters and are better equipped i for fighting thanwere the Indian mu tineers, the English people shotfld hot be discouraged nor the world surprised at the delay in relieving the Lady emith garrison. It is a mistake on the part of Sena tor Hbar to assume or suppose that he has a conscience superior to that of the great body of ihe people of the United States. Canada professes to think Irish lmmi- hgratlon desirable. This is, of course, without reference to a" rush of Fenians across the border. The Pennion Bills. Washington Post, inff. It is not necessary to get alarmed or excited over the large number of ponslpn bills that have been or may be introduced In congress, or the peculiar character of some Qf the measures presented. It is a long, hard road that any general pension bill has to travel before it becomes an act. It has been an impossible road to the grpat majority, and, after going through the introductory stage, hey have found permanent repose in pigeon-holes in committee-rooms. Under existing 'condi tions, with an annual outlay of 145,000,000 1 on account of pensions and a strong pros pect that It will be increased to some ex tent by adjudication of claims resulting from the military operations of the last J two years, We can ecarcely conceive of the possibility o the passage of bills add Infr hundreds -of -millions or even tens oi millions, to tha rolls,. U fte 3t?-tracn 1 who offer such measures would follow the Peffcr example, their consistency would be leas questionable, however their repu tation In other respects might be affected. When the much-bewhlskered sage from Kansas proposed to expend a few billions, more or less, be had the grace to accom pany his proposition with a blU providing a simple and cheap plan for manufactur ing all the money called for. and gener ously threw in. a. surplus of a billion or two to -meet any possible, deficit BBYAK, THE IMJPEE.IAIJIST. Eifl Campaign AErainirt Ebtpnnsloc Seems A bo at Over. New York Sun. Evidently Colonel Bryan is getting nerv ous. There are too may democratic ex pansionists, especially In the South, to which both self-interest and the memory Qf the old democratic policy of annexa tion make the colonel's antl-expanslon homilies unwelcome. So the colonel, whose totem Is the eel rather tljan the lion, wriggles away from himself, so to speak. In an interview at Minneapolis ho "asserts- that he Is an expansionist, and gives his present reasons for objecting to the annexation of the Philippines: I am a firm believer In tfc enlargement and, atonslon of tna limits of the republic. I don't mean by that the extension by th add.tt4Sh. of oonttsuouo territory nor to. ilmit myself to that. TVbercv.erT tttere la a, people titeiMgent enough to farm a part of this republic, it la my belief that they ahould be talren in. Whererer there 13 a people who are capable of having volee and a representation In this government, there the limits of the republic may be extended. The Flllplnea are not such peoples The democratic party had ever XaTOted tbe extension of the llnvlts of tSils republic, tout It has never oro cated tbe acquisition of subject territory, to be held under Co'onlal government. These were Colonel Bryan's opinions Wednesday. He may have altered them since. He is retreating nearly as rapidly as his admirer, Agumaldo. Objection to the Philippines because they Were not contiguous territory has been common enough among the democratic anti-imperialists. It is our impression that the colonel has himself urged this objection, but of his speeches there Is no end, and our memory may be at fault. At any rate, he Is now for expansion, contig uous and undontlguous. He wants to "take in" any people intelligent enpugh to form a part of- the United States. This- is rather vague, but shows a generous ramd. The colonel is willing to annex Intelligence anywhere from Greenland to Guinea, but the Filipinos' are not intel ligent enough to be taken- In. Very well, colonel. Then why have you heen making such a pother about self-government for the Filipinos? If they are not Intelligent enough to be capable of becoming a part of a self-governing republic, how can they be Intelligent enough to be an Independent, self-governing republic? Is intelligence necessary to self-government here and unneces sary in the Philippines? The colonel's bosom expands for ex pansion, but he will not consent to 1 old Ing the' Philippines as subject territory under a colonial government. Phrases, mere words, colonel! Why, the District of Columbia isv subject territory and not unhappy at its lot; and "colonial govern ment" defines absolutely nothing. Alaska would be governed no differently If it weiHi called a colony. A colony may have as mucll of apparatus of self-government as it can carry. But who tells the colonel that the Phil ippines, are to be held under a colonial gOYernm'ent? He had bettor watt until congres9,dtermInies what form of govern ment they shall have. Whatever that form may be. it cannot be less republican than were the beginnings of American' ftnle in the Louisiana territory. The colonel's campaign against expan sion seems about over. We shall not be at all surprised to find him saying, In a few months, "while originally qpposed to the rstentlon of the Philippines. I bow to the will of the. majority." And in a few months more he -will be asseverating that he. annexed them himself. A very mobile man, the colonel. o MAINE'S BOSS rOiTnilS REVOITS. Ii. O. Batemnn, Populist Condi date for Governor la ISUtl, an ExjMimdoaial. Magnolia (Me.) Indicator. "There has neyer heen a moment since Dewey destroyed the. Spanish fleet that we could haye gotten orrt of tiKtea islands without making ourselves the laughing stock of the worlp-. "Had we sailed out of Manila bay the. day after the battle, the fleets of Germany and France would have immediately sailed in. The moment the Filipinos, under Agulnaldo, fired on ovif troops it was im possible to leave without positive disgrace. We hadHo whip them or turn tail and run from a pack of savages. Their treatment of us showed that they were unfit for in dependence. "I do not believe In opposing a thing br no other reason than the republicans hap pen to support It. This Is the democratic dog-lib-the-manger policy. "I have noticed that nearly all our par pers that are supporting h democratic policy and position talk about our trying to 'tyrannise' the Filipino. To my mind, this Is pure rot. "If I have written strongly, it is because I feel strongly. If the Philippine question Is of the hour, then we must choose be tween democracy and republicanism. If thia Is to be the final result of 25 years of agitation for financial reform, then yen can go to the democrats, and 1 will go with the republicans." The Wiclsed Nnilonal Banter. Salem Statesman. John P. Robertson writes of the terrible national banks. Why doesn't John P. and his. friends organize a national" bank and reapihe manifold benefits .which he claims the pther national banks are enjoying? Any five or sis men, with a Irfctlts capital, can organize a national bank. The field Is open. The fact Is, that the restrictions are so many, and the incidental expenses so great, that few national banks are now Selng organized. One national bank at Salem recently went out of business, though the private institutions here have been increasing their business. In this f city there is more capital engaged In pri vate banking than in national banks. We- belleye the same is true of Portland. It is true of tne cities of this country gener ally. i 0- How Roberts Heard of Vila ons Dcntli. London Doily Nwb. Lord Roberts learned the news of hla son's death at the Travelefrs Club. He was talking" to a distinguished general at a little distance from the tape, round which was formed a circle of members. Some one, who did not know he was pres ent, exclaimed: "Good, heavens! Bobs' eon is killed.1' '''What? what?" cried Lord Roberts, olbowfnc his wav to tit "'tape. 'He :reua the fatal intelligence, and theft walked out of the club without a wbTd. I fl 0" ' III! Kelps Alonsr ilte Xary. Louisville Courier-Journal. It is saf to guess that there is not as much indignation in official and journal istic German bosoms oyer the seizure of vessels by England as is represented. Nothing has ever before done so much to help along the plan for a big navy, and the kaiser and his followers, while Willing that "the plain people" shall be indignant, are, no doubt, secretly delight ed. W ft' Their Single ThouBht. . Chicago Tims-HeraK. They were two souls with but a single thought; She rouged her checks, supposing no on knew; He dyea his whttkors, thinking She kne not; In secret, both eald: "Wliat a fool aye you!" i o ' ' la tiie ex-3Inyor Playing 'Poos-am? Eugene Guard. Ex-Governor Pennoyer announces that he Is- out of polltics.-.The unwary chick en gets caught by the fox that simulates sloeD. THE 0RE50NIAN'S ANNUAL- Oregon Financially Independent. St. Paul Pioneer Press. The "annual number" of The Portland Oregonlan this year consists of 2s full pages, crammed full of statistical and other Information concerning the Indus trial growth of Oregon, with a superb supplement of 31 pages filled with half tone illustrations. The latter afford some surprising revelations as to the progress of civilization in the state, as exemplified 4 in the architecture of lbs towns; also pic tures, illustrative of the shipping interests of Portland, which are prophetic of the "vast future awaiting that city and other coast towns In the development of the commerce of the Pacific; while the land scape views explain the witchery which draws so -many tourists across a conti nent to feast on the- matchless scenery. Oregon claims now a population close to 4S;O0O-. of which about 100,000 Is centered In Portland. The excellent crops of several successive seasons hav6 made the state financially independent of the East; and probably the rise of a new generation, and the influx of a different class to take the place of the nonprogressive pioneering ele mentwhich latter Usually deems its whole duty done when It has whipped tha In dians, made some clearings, built some trading towns, adopted a constitution and "added another star to the galaxy of states" will soon develop the manufactur ing enterprises In which Oregon Is as ye so lamentably deficient. That a rich and prosperous people should long con tinue to send hpss. -wool aad fine lumber to the East, to be converted into hams, cloth and furniture and shipped back across the breadth of a continent, is something 'unthinkable. Read "WW "Wonder and Amazement. Hyde Park (Massi) Gazette. One of the great journalistic enterprises of the Northwest is The Portland (Or. Oregonlan, and recently it issued from Its magnificent office building Its annual New Year's number, which shows at once Its great facilities as well as the growth and enterprise of the city in which It is printed. Mr. Edward Noble, of this town, kindly gave us a copy of this number, and we have gone over its pages with wonder and amazement. The illustrations are not con fined wholly to the city of Portland, bnt take in all the great enterprises of the state, supplemented by views of magnifi cent scenery, river and railroad routes, and pictures of the men who have con tributed to make Oregon prominent in the, sisterhood of States. Oregon's Enehnntlnsr Scenery. Chatfleld (Minn.) pemoerat. The Chatfleld Democrat Is Indebted to Mr. F. M. French, of Albasny, Or., for the New Year's edition of The Oregonian's annual number, a handsome Illustrated sheet, giving fine sketches of the enchant ing scenery m Oregon. It was also ac companied by a copy of the regular Is sue of The Oregonlan for January L It is, a newspaper that would do credit to any town in tha United States. This il lustrated and descriptive paper was entic ing enough to make one wish to visit the beautiful and flourishing country de scribed. Qn Monliattan Island. New York Times. The Portland Oregonlan, always an ex cellent newspaper, Issued on New Year's day a special and handsomely Illustrated number qf 60 pages, containing a large ameunt of statistical and historical mat ter, proving very satisfactorily that the year just closed was the most prosperous In the history of the state of Oregon. i i B P Willing o Try It. Chicago Times-Herald. 4T suppose," she said, "that you had an ancestor in the celebrated little party that 'came over with William the Con queror?" .'Perhaps," he replied, "but I have never looked the matter up. "Of course, you are a lineal descendant of some one who came over In the May flower?" T don't know- It is possible that I am. but I "have never hunted up the records." "Well," she went on, "you are descend ed from an officer of the Revolutionary war, aren't you?" Finding himself cornered, he broke down and confessed. "My father's name," he said, "was Szfohserskendowskl, which he changed to Dows, with the sanction of the court." She sat fOr a moment, almost crushed. Then hope seemed to return to her and she asked: "How much did you say you expected 'your father to leave you?" "I figure that my share of the estate will be about 12,000,000." he said. "All right." she answered briskly, "we can worry along without the lineage and still be happy, dear." e TSot to Be Tbonsht Of. Philadelphia Inquirer. Great Britain cannot afford to accept mediation at the present stage of the conflict, and she will not do so, no matter what exertions she may be obliged to make of what sacrifices she may have to endure. Yet, so small is the degree of sense with wblch some men are endowed that there is before the senate at this time a resolution which proposes an offer of mediation by the United Slates. It Is hardly necessary to say that it was of fered hy Mr. Peftlgrew, and It may be farther superfluous to remark that it won't be adopted. CanH Fool OSm Again. New York Press. Most of the men who spend good hard money for "Coin" Harvey's last book, know two or three things this year that they and their wives think they need more than they do his new one. ii iQ ' Slalzes BTcnlrfnst Pheasant. CThlcagd News. New Cook What does your husband like for his breakfast, ma'am? Mrs. Growefls-Oh, he llkea anything we haven't get. When He Is Gone. g. H. KlBer in. Chicago Timeu-Herald. "TPhn i am gone," lie sighed, "the ban "Win rtrfre on In the efcy; The tlnkllnp rivulets will run. And flowers will bud and dial When I m gone th breeze will blow Across fc meadow eifil. And treos will bloom and grain, will grow TJpon th distant hill! When 1 am gone the waves will break Upon the olcplng strand. And happy children etlll wiU maka Their castlea In tha sandl "When I am gena the birds will eing As blithely as today-, And men and maidens; ljx tha spring'. "Will Hvo lo lov awyl" "When you an gone," she said", "the rcse "Wifi blow itseH in Jono; The winding broeklct, a.3 it flows. "Will aing tho same olH trow! When you are gone tbe duraa will quack Jest as they tfiiaek today. And e,very planet. In its track, xvili swing through, space away! TVhn jou are gene the bumble bee "Will bumble as tafora. And ealle will gleam upOn the a. Ai-id waves will shake tlje shore! "Wfccn yen are gone, tte gentle breaze "Will blow as now It blows. But, oh, my friend, tome brevfrjea X2X t coro?-!tfJ fa SKSSi' J NOTE AND COMMENT. Joe Wheeler cpuldn't get any fighting In Luzon, so he fs going back to congress. Buller certainly cannot be charged by bis impatient countrymen with refusing to move on. Of course Nicholas won't mind about that warship of his going- aground. He is going to, disarm, anyway. The British army has discovered that surer gains can be made around the end than by bucking the center. The actress who shot her manager has been acquitted. She proved that the man ager accused her of- acting like an ama teur. Just at the present time. Tom Reed can serve his coantry better pouring forth philosophy than la tho house, where ha would be engaged in throwing down tha canal bill. Unless Count Bon! de Castallane shall drop his habit of inciting riot, he wut spend most of his visit in America as tha guest of the commonwealth ha hap pens to be In, with clothes and meala thrown In. V A -correspondent asks the meaning and origin of tbe name "Owyhee," which ii attached to a river and county in Idaho. The name was applied to the river by two kanaka trappers who operated there foe the Hudson's Bay Company, in tha early days. They found the river lying around out doora without a name, and gave It one that they had brought with them, from tbe Hawaiian Islands, one of- tho Isl ands being named Owhyhoe. On account of the Hudson's Bay Company's ships, touching at Honolulu while on their way to the Nqrthwest. they brought many kanakas, here In the service of the com- pany. A horsebuyer for the British government is reported in Lake connty, purchasing all animals that are desirable. Tha Lakevlew Examiner gives th's Incident to Illustrate the gent's readiness to make purchases; "Among the number bought by him was the beautiful UtUe gray pacer kept by F. M. Green as a private saddle horse. When asked the price for this animal.. Green placed the figure so high that he thought the buyer would laugh at It, but, Instead, he snapped It up and closed the trade so quickly that It almost took the seller's breath away. The handsome little animal was purchased for an English captain In. the Transvaal war." A sample of a self-lighting gas burner just received from tho East was tested at the courthouse yesterday, and was found to work well. AH that Is necessary is to turn on the gas and it lights. If tho gas is blown out. It Immediately relights, and tha only way to extinguish It la to turn It off. The new scheme will render the attempts of country jays to blow out the gas when they remain over night at a city hotel 'utile, and may have numer ous other advantages yet to be ascer tained. Had the self-lighter been in operation at the time Dr. MulHnnix went to Chicago to nominate our Pennoyer for president. MulHnnix could not hae been overcome with gas and made groggy, and Sylvester might have made it and be now settling the Philippine question, instead of McKlnley, and' have disposed of tha accursed gold standard. The go fernment has advertised for pro posals fcr the purchase of a lofe of S- and 10-lnch. guns and several 200-pound Parrott guns, which have long been mounted at Forts Canby and Stevens for the defense of the entrance of the Columbia. As they Will probably be sold for their value as old iron, Tho Oregonlan has been re quested to suggest that the various cities and towns in the state which love to show their patriotism on the Fourth of July take steps to secure one of these guns for firing salutes. J.t would be a flue thing for these towns to be abje to make a great noise on the Fourth, and the places possessing such gurs would be able to de fend themselves when renuired. The citi zens would all take an interest Jn the cannon, and acquire some knowledge of artillery practice, which might be useful. It might be that occasionally some care less cltlren would get blown, away from the muzzle of one of them, but accidents epuld be avo'ded by training men in ar tillery practice. The suggestion la offered for what'It is worth. Mater Severn- Stephen Gwynn. in the Spectator. "Where the huge Atlantic swings heavy water eastward. Ireland, square to meet It, shoulders off tha seas; Wild are all her coasts with stress of cliff and billow. On her northern moorland la little sheltered trace. TVell 13 with the salmon, ranger ot her riveraj Well 13 with the mackerel ahoalln in each bay. Dear fs all the Ia3 to the lonely enlpo and curlew: Ay. but for ltd manfolk a bltier lot nova they. Thankless: Is the soil; men trench, and delve, and labor. Black and" spongy peat amid barren knowca of stoner Then io win a Bring- over seas they travel. And their women gather. If God pleases, what was sown. Harvesters, arhcmiag from thai goldea tilth of BnglantJ, Tvhre tlwg- sweat to cope with increase & teeming yeart. Ffoi too oft returnlES". side with others plenty, tfntcs3 autUoui dartk upon green and; spied 11m? ears. Or a -tainted soufl wind brings upon tS root crop Stench of rotting fiber aitd green leaf turning black; parotoe. nevr distant, stalks nearer now, and nearer, B1& thent rake like crows assTd mussel bedq and wrack. Bleak and gray to man la tho counteranca c Xaiure; Bleak hex eoil below hlra, bleak her efiaj above; Wherefore, tren. by ma la her rara anulo as cherished? Paia her niggard bounty with so lavish? love? 3Col die- slopes o Rhine whh such, yeamlns are remembered; Not your Kentiah orchards, cot your Devon faflcsv Tig as though her seas for that unffentlfl irarffcRr Knew a mother's tendercezs, felt a mother'a paina CUfcsy an outwarcVboarjd. as the flhip bttads un der Tors, Clings with anguished eyes to tha barren Fanad shore. Iftny a homewnrd-bound", as tey lift tb frowning Foreland. Panto to leap the loagua to hla desolata Gwsedcre. Tkero about tha ways God air is free and. spa ctcus: Warm are chimney corners there, warm. th kindly heart; TSxra the soul of roan takes root, and through Its travail Grips the rocky aashorase till the Ilfe-strlnga fart. k