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THE MOKNING- OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JANUAKY 19, 1900.
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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!"
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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.
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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.
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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'
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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.
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