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THE MOftNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1900. Batores at fee Pastcrncc at FertlaBd, Oregon, as rowrt-daa matter. tblkphoxbb. Editorial Beams lot I BaotDoca Office... .GS7 rbtosbd subscription batbs. Br Ketl Qinraagt prepaid), hi Advance Dally. wtfeSaadar. per meath $S S3 Dally, Baaaay excepted, per year.......... 7 SO Daily, wttk Baa any, pryear 9 06 Sunday, per year ..... 2 00 The Weekly, per year 1 50 The Weekly. S meafes CO To CKy Soascrtfeers Dally, per week.aeuere. Saaeays excpted.lSe Dally, per week. delivered. Saaeays lncluded.aea The Oregontaa dees set bar peeme or stories from toarridaete, sad eaaaot undertake to re tarn any manuscripts seat to it without solicita tion. No stamps should fee Inclosed for this purpose. News or atoougsion toteaded far pabUcatloa In The Oregealen should be addressed invariably "Editor The OrecoBten." sot to the same I ay individual. Letters relating to advertising, ubscrtptteaa or to any baatncgo natter should he addressed simply "The OregeaiaB." Paget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson, office at 1111 Pacific avenue, Taeoma. Box 953, Taooma postofliee. Eastern Bustoess Office The Trfbane bulld tog. New York city; "The Rookery," Chicago; "OS. C. Beckwlth special agency. New Tork. For sale In San Franotece by J. K. Cooper. 76 Market street. Bear the Pateee betel, and t Ooldamlth Broa.. SW gatter atreet. ,? "i m CWoo hr the P. O. News Co., f 17 Dearborn atreet. TODA-TS WEATHEat.-OooaaioBal rala; brisk htgfa. somberly winds. PtmrrLAyp, tttbsday, fed. 20, ioou. THIS IS "IMPBRIAXISai." The debate in the house on the Puerto Ittcan tariff is fairly under way. The substance of this bill is. a proposal to remit 76 per cent of the du ties on the principal products of Puerto Rico imported into the United States. Retention of the per cent is a sop offered to protectionists, chiefly those Interested in sugar and tobacco. This la put forward as the administration bill. It is offered ae a favor or "con cession" to Puerto Rico; but The Ore gonian believes it is not all that is due to a people who accept the sovereignty of the United States. TheooRatitutional argument will come later. Should this bill become a law, the question will be raised whether the term "United States" does or does not "cover thts particular portion of the American empire." To quiet the alarm of our "Imperialists," we remark that this expression te from Chief Justice Marshall. What odium may attach to the expression, therefore, does not be long to the present time. But what is surprising is the fact that a great party in the United States favors expansion but shrinks from its logical results. True, the bill before the house proposes to out off three fourths of the duty proposes to admit that the new acauisitions an thr ... quarters "Unite States"; but to quiet the alarm of certain "protected" inter ests, it would have our new possessions held one-fourth alien or foreign. We start out to extend the territory of the United States, and then, fearful of le gitimate and necessary consequences', we maintain or preserve some frag ments of that old rotten wall of pro' tection. This question will have to be fought out. both as to Puerto Bio and the Philippine islands. As the Chicago Journal says, "We have one set of men who want to exploit the islands for their own benefit. And we have an other set who demand that if they be retained there shall be tariff barriers erected against their products so that Importation of such products shall not interfere with their own nice little pro tected home business." This, The Ore gonian holds is "imperialism" in its n orst form. If we refuse to let Puerto Rico and the Philippines trade with the nst of the country on the same terms that Alaska enjoys, we ought to pull down the nag and leave them to their own course. If we are unwilling that their people shall make anything in trade with us, we ought to leave them to seek other connections-. PLAYIXG WITH FIRE. It seems strange that the Louisville & Kashvtlle railroad should have be come involved In politics, and a target for democratic enmity, since its man agers in Kentucky and-its principals in New York are democrats. Possibly the origin of it was their earnestness four jears ago for the gold standard. Goe bfl became especially bitter against the railroad, and during the past two years the Louisville Courier-Journal, seeking reconciliation with the demo cratic party, has attacked it with in creasing violence. It is now asserted at Louisville that the company has de cided to remove its general offices from Louisville to St. Louis, and its great r ac-hine shops to Nashville. It is given out that the road is weary of taking the role of a horrible example, and of King the target for politicians. It is cen charged that the rule in Ken tucky potttice has been, when in doubt, throw a brick at the Louisville & Nash ville. That is the case as officials of the company state it. They have con c uded. therefore, to get out of the state us much of their business as possible. These statements may not be true, but if true, they are important, since this railroad gives employment to more men and pays more money in salaries than an)' other concern in Louisville. It employs between S0M and 09M people, tho have tkaur homes there, and pays in wages to these workers more than $4 000,00 annually. This money is spent with the merchants and prop erty -owners of Louisville, and many 1 isinese establishments draw their roenue from employes. The removal !,' the shops and offices means the loss of at least K.M people to the city and -tate, people who are taxpayers and "ho support taxpayers. Giving the 1 mpanys side of the quarrel, the Iulsville Dispatch declares that demagogues have achieved office and notoriety by making virulent warfare en the corporation; it has been the I unchtng bag of every penny politician from tut Big Sandy to the Mississippi; 1" has been tax-burdened and annoyed 1 j meddlesome legislation." This may r may not be true. If It Is not true, then the sequel -shows iust how a great usinees oan be Involved and destroyed t gotag Into politics. If H Is true, it illustrates the danger that is sure to come to any people who permit their politicians to attack and destroy the commerce and business 'of their city and state The Tacoma Ledger In a labored ex planation of the reasons for the St. .rene being sent round to Portland for a. cargo, which she failed to get at Ta ma. says: "Portland still does some uslness In wheat. This 1s undoubt edly true. Figures supplied by the bu reau of statistic; and printed hi an- other column show that Portland ex ported more wheat last monh than was exported from any other port In the United States. The government figures for the Northwestern ports were as follows: Portland, 1,487,497 bushels; Tacoma and Seattle, 262,454 bushels. Yes, Portland still does "some" business In wheat. GEXERAIi KTTCHBXER'S IX)GISTICS. Logistics in military science means the art of moving and supplying troops in campaign!. Skill and knowledge of details of this sort are indispensable to a great, successful commander. Napo leon was a master of this kind of abil ity, which is of kin to the kind of brains that make a great railway man ager of a trunk line with branches and connections radiating In all directions whose various trains are expected to reach their destination and make con nection on time. Napoleon defined sci entific war as the ability to scatter widely for subsistence, and to assemble rapidly for battle. General Kitchener appears to be Justly credited with hav ing exhibited superior knowledge ol logistics in his successful movement of 70,000 troops of all arms and their sup ply in a very difficult country. The difficulty of transport cannot be exaggerated. Oxen have to be em ployed, and in the heat of South Af rica a comparatively short march ut terly exhausts them. The veldt of the Orange Free State 19 deep sand, where progress is slow and stifling dust om nipresent. The Boers burn the grass wherever it is possible, so that fodder for the horses of mounted troops and artillery accompanying them and for the transport animals has to be carried. When we remember that food has to be taken for at least 20,000 men, 10,000 horses and as many or more oxen, through a country denuded of supplies, the success of General Kltchenerin a single week of operations was remark able and deserving of all praise. When we remember the weeks of study" and careful preparation that General SHp man gave to the logistics of his -famous march from Dalton to Atlanta, from Atlanta to the sea and from Sa vannah to Goldsboro, N. C, we can ap preciate the great ability of General Kitchener in moving and supplying on the march 70,000 men of all arms in South Africa at the present season. It is easy to say that General Kitch ener's long experience in the Soudan ese desert taught him all he knew, but the problems In South Africa and the Soudan were not identical. "In his Soudan campaigns General Kitchener built a railway at his leisure and only moved forward with its construction until he crossed the Atbara river, and he kept his railway so close behind all the way that, after his victory of Om- durman, his railway was soon in con nection with Khartoum. His march over the desert was not nearly so difficult or trying as the present campaign' in South Africa, for the camel corps makes an excellent mounted force, and Lord Kitchener's total force did not exceed 10,000 white soldiers and 15,000 Egyptian and Soudanese Arabs. When we consider that the English railway control does not extend beyond Modder River station, De Aar junction, Naauw poort and Queenstown; that the whole movement from Modder River station to Colesberg and Rensberg has been dependent upon land transport, the success of the British army thus far has been remarkable. There was noth ing In our civH war that presented the same difficulty of land transport when an army was compelled to leave the railway; because even when the sea son was inclement and the swamps difficult of passage, as in Sherman's winter march through the Carolinas, he had nothing but the elements to en counter. He had plenty of horses and mules; the climate was not fatal to his transport, and there was no lack of water, while scarcity of water has been a great obstacle both on the advance from Modder river on Kimberley and In Buller's attack on Spionkop. It will not be many days till the Boers will be forced to let go of Storm berg and Colesberg by the flanking movement now in progress from the eastward by Dordrecht and Jamestown In co-operation with the movements of the main column from Modder River station and Jacobsdal. The difficulties of this land transport through the Free State veldt are so great that until the British regain full possession of their railway connections clear to the Orange river from the sea bases of Port Eliz abeth and East London, the progress of the campaign must necessarily be j4ow. The railway from Modder River station to Kimberley once rebuilt, and the possession of the railway lines fully regained up to the line of the Or ange river, "the jig" will be up for the Boers, for they can never hope to re gain this vantage ground, and they will be forced to leave Natal and fight the English army for the salvation of the Orange Free State, for the occu pation of that state means the ultimate occupation of the Transvaal. Of course, Pretoria might endure a hopeless siege, just as Saragossa and Sebastopol did, but if Lord Roberts and Lord Kitch ener once reoccupy the line of the Or ange river, the Boers will have to leave Natal and stake all in a fight for the Orange Free State. ISOLATED TILLAMOOK. The miserably Inadequate provision made to accommodate the Tillamook traffic in the winter time was well illustrated in the statement that a little coaster, brought into port at As toria a few days ago with the timely assistance of a tug, forty wretchedly seasick passengers. When it is under stood that this little craft has berth accommodations for scarcely more than a dozen people, and that the floor space in her cabin will hardly accom modate forty persons packed in heads and points, like sardines, the inade quacy of the transportation facilities between the thrifty port of Tillamook and the outside wor'd may be conjec tured. The people of this isolated but populous and productive coast county are living in hopes of railway connec tion with other portions of the state: but it does not seem that it should be necessary, while waiting, to be' com pelled to tumble over each other In seasick squads during the seven or eight hours necessary to make the dis tance between the ports of Tillamook and Astoria, haunted by the dreadful possibility on the northward trip of having to &tand off the bar for any number of hours, waiting for favorable opportunity to cross In. It is said that the shippers in the Tillamook trade are responsible for this cramped condition of their passenger traffic, as they will not stand by a company that comes to their relief with fair prices when freight rates are cut to run the opposition off. The pity of this, if true, is that upon these short sighted shippers cannot be visited the entire Inconveniences, discomforts and miseries of the passenger traffic in stuffy little tubs during the season in which the mountain roads are impass able for vehicles. At present the moun tains are full of snow, the malls are being carried on horseback, and pas senger traffic is confined to the wholly inadequate coasting service indicated by forty passengers with suitable ac commodations for scarcely one-third of that number. Surely, the citizens of Tillamook should be able to compass their relief from these conditions if they but set themselves intelligently and harmoniously to the task. HIS LEGrnaiATE HARVEST. The populist editor of a St. Helens paper finds fault with settlers of Co lumbia county because they show little inclination to "offer a small subsidy of a few million feet of timber" to secure the construction of a railroad to the Nehalem country, and prints some words of advice as to the wisdom of encouraging the building of the road. .Yet, if this editor will refresh his mem ory with some of the literature scat tered by the "reform forces" in recent years, he may conclude that the disin clination shown by his esteemed fellow citizens is quite natural, and not to be overcome by unsupported statements about the wealth to follow in the wake of the railroad-builder. The populist press has had for one of Its principal articles of faith a belief In the deviltry and rapacity of railroads. It has never spared the "railway mag nate." In its view, every railway owner is -a cormorant, ready to pounce upon the unsuspecting producer, eat out his substance, Impoverish his coun try, and devour his family. Such a thing as fair treatment for non-paying railroads, or even the admission that any railroad was not waxlne: fat on money extorted from its patrons, has been foreign to the calamity creed. In the populist mind, the railroader, like the banker, has come to typify all that Is cruel, grasping- and merciless. No epithet Is too severe to apply to a rail road president, no aspersion1 too mean to be cast upon his name. In these circumstances, it is a waste pf effort to urge "people along the proposed route to tumble over one an other to see who could get in with the first contract for timber," and to de clare that "the little that you may give toward this enterprise will more than quadruple the value of what you Have left, even should you give away one half of it." The PODUlist who talks in this way merely discredits himself. Has he not convinced his hearers and read ers that railways are a device of the devil for transferring the fruits of the poor man's toil into the coffers of the idle and opulent? Then how is he to defend himself against the suspicion that he has become a tool of a rapa cious corporation? Earnest he may be, and have reached a plane of common sense at last, but when he appeals for subsidies to railroads, his listeners are quick to believe be has become a min ion of capitalism. The bare idea of giving money or timber or land to a grinding railroad Is enough to arouse the hatred and com bativeness of every person who marches in the ranks of the people's party. The fog of fear and apprehen sion envelops him. Does he not know the wretchedness and poverty of all the countries that are burdened with railways? Has he not heard that the iron horse eats out the range and is worse on timber than sheep in the Cas cade reserve? A man may not eat his cake and have it. He may not arouse dread of the railroad and then hope to see it welcomed with a generous bounty. He may not convince the simple-minded populist that a scheme will impoverish him and at the same time double his farm's value. 'TIs treason to hint that a subsidy may bring "four fold return." Hold on to your timber, citizens of Columbia, rather than let a small part of It go to a railroad, to makp the remainder marketable and valuable. No man may berate railroad companies for years, and then hope to be effective in a sudden appeal for fair treatment for them. Perish the thought that the iron horse bodes anything but disaster to a community! Populism is undone when it concedes that railroads mean wealth, progress and develop ment, instead of crime, misery and de spair. AMERICAN "OUTTANDERS." The record of life in the far north, where a city with all the accompani ments of modern civilization has sprung up literally upon a gold basis is furnished as occasion permits for the transportation of mails by The Oregonian's correspondent at Dawson. To persons accustomed to the activi ties of business, the monotony of the white silence that pervades that re gion during full half the year is more oppressive than real hardship which waits upon endeavor in that in hospitable climate in the winter season. From all indications, the rush to Nome from Dawson will duplicate, in the pellmell scramble for transpor tation, that of the fall rush to Klon dike in the summer and fall of 1896. Besides the attraction that each newly discovered mining district presents to restless goldhunters, there is another reason for this exodus. American mln ers have a just and deep grievance at the Canadian government for the re strictions, taxes and general oppres siveness of the laws enforced upon them. "Each new law from Ottawa," says our correspondent, "makes the lot of the prospector and mlneowner more, arduous." When it Is remembered that these laws have from the first been much more stringent and oppressive against Americans, the "Outlanders" of the Klondike, than those against which the subjects of Great Britain re volted in the Transvaal as unjust, dis criminating and intolerable, another reason for the proposed rush from Dawson to Nome in fhe spring will be apparent. Either the opinion of a prominent business man of Dawson that "unless the Dominion government makes better and more equitable laws for the government of the miners, the owls and the bats will be making nests In the business houses there after the rush to Nome is over," will be verified, or the American "Outlanders" will take a stand for their rights in emulation of the British "Outlanders" who re sented the "get off the earth" attitude of the Transvaal authorities toward them. That there has not been a serious clash between American miners and petty officials of the Canadian govern ment on the basis of the simple equity that demands everywhere a right to live and to work In an orderly, self- respecting way, is due to the ingrained respect for law that underlies the American character, en masse. These outrageously oppressive laws should be made the subject of special inquiry at Washington, with a view to the protec tion of American miners in the fax north in their property and personal rights. The Insolent attitude of the Ca nadian government, as exemplified fn its treatment of American citizens In the Klondike, should have been resisted by our government from the first, in stead of which the abuses have been allowed to grow from month to month, unchallenged and unchecked. Senor Mablnl, tlje "premier" of Agulnaldo's "government," says that when the Spaniards had control in the Philippines there was legal equality, but no way of making: it practical, and that justice could only be obtained through having recourse to vile and underhand means, that race hatred pursued the Filipinos, and their lot was bad. Now come another race of white- men who promise fair things, among them ulti mate self-government, but Mablni fears lest the Immense wealth and business ability of the American syndi cates may reduce the Filipinos to play ing the role of mere servants and vas sals in- their own land. Race prejudice, he may be sure, will not depart; It is alive in full force in India, in Egypt, in Madagascar, in the open ports of China, in Mexico, wherever the white man meets the man of color; and in the United States not less than else where. Now the fact is that the usual method of civilization in the lands of the colored brother is to make condi tions under which he must work or starve. There are schemes of public works, and there are bondholders and educators and reformers, till he stag gers under the burden. In this way the brown, yellow or black brother is pre vented from becoming an absent-minded beggar, for he has to have his wits about him. He must keep up with-the procession, or hew wood and draw water for it. Senor Mablni, we fear, is in for it. with the rest. The establishment of a tannery for sheep pelts at Oregon City is of interest both from the standpoint of furnishing a new resource for labor and of utiliz ing, to the best advantage, a very con siderable product of our ranges. Each manufacturing enterprise, however small, reduces our dependence upon the finished products of other states, en courages labor of the home-building type, and marks a step in progress in our economic life. He is a churl, in deed, who, counting all of these things as value received' and excellent value at that grudges the manufacturer the profits pf his investment. It is said, to the credit of Oregon City enterprise and Industry, that every man In the town and its suburbs has or can get work at wages that permit home-building and the maintenance of a family. This being true, the old pioneer town by the falls is to be congratulated upon its business enterprises, old and new, since the thews and sinews of an en during prosperity are interwoven in the fabric of its community life. What did Watterson mean when he said that "under the operation of the Goebel law the result was not left to chance"? Simply that Goebel would be counted In, under .the Goebel law, and if the commissioners of election should fall, the legislature would not. Mr. Watterson perhaps was justified in regarding it as "a dead thing." Cer tainly Goebel and his partisans so re garded it. They had it so set and fixed that they thought It couldn't miss. This was the source of their "calm confidence." The successor of Goebel, In the conspiracy, doesn't like to be baffled. A few days ago the Goebel senate, in session at Louisville, adopted a series of eulogistic resolutions on Mr. Goe bel, one of which contained this state ment: Aa the Christ life wag sacrificed to class hatred consplrins with Imperial power, so' the life of "William Goebel paid forfeit to a con spiracy of monopolistic power, with modern imperialism. There are many people who, while making every allowance for the lan guage of eulogy, will be of the opin ion on reading this, that it may overdo the business. Will Clark be expelled from the sen ate? The only difference between him and most of the other senators is this, that it cost him a large amount of money to get in, while it cost them smaller amounts. He had it, and could pay. But they got In through bribery, the same as he. The only remedy Is the election of senators by direct vote of the people. It is Impossible to con trol any considerable number of them, either with money or with promise of office. But members of the legisla ture If we are not to be permitted to trade with the new possessions, if they are not to be permlted to trade with us, let them go. If the greed of colonial exploiters and home monopolists is to control our policy, let us have no ex pansion. This is the kind of imperial ism we don't want and ought not to have. THE FILIPINO UNDERSTOOD. "Wlilcli One of Our Oregon Boys "Will Recognize Tills Story T New York Tribune, Feb. 14. "While I was in Manila last year," said Leslie Cortright, of San Francisco, at the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday, "I was the witness of many an amusing incident oc casioned by the lack of knowledge o the Spanish language on the part of our men. One day I went Into Major Bell's rooms at the Hotel Oriente, and as soon as I put in an appearance the major's orderly appealed to me to help him out with the waaherman there are no washerwoman In Manila, the work being wholly done by men. The custom there Is to deliver the wash in a week, but this particular wash the major wanted returned in a hurry and had instructed his orderly to impress on the Filipino when he came for the dirty linen, that It must be returned In four days. The orderly, who was an Oregon country boy, knew absolutely no Spanish, save the one word manana, which means tomorrow, and the FIIip.no knew no English at all. The orderly had been trying to explain what he wanted, until he was nearly distraught, and he hailed my advent as having been ex pressly arranged by the fates to help him out. After explaining his difficulty, he begged me to tell the Filipino what he wanted, but I told him the only way he could learn the language was to plunge in headlong, and that for him to extri cate himself from his present difficulty would be better instruction and afford him more confidence In his ability to in struct or talk to a native than would a month's hard study of the Spanish lan guage. 'But,' he pleaded, 'I don't know the meaning of a single word of the bally tongue except manana, and those clothes have got to be back here in four days.' 'Well,' I rejoined, 'manana will do for a beginning. See If you can't raise some glimmering of comprehension in the dago with manana as a lever.' Finding me firm In my refusal to help him. he pondered for a while, and finally striding across the room, grasped the astonished Filipino by the collar and fairly lifting him from the floor, said, 'Manana! Manana! Ma nana! Manana!' accompanying each repe tit'on of the word with a vigorous shake of the Filipino and a rising and emphatic Inflection of the voice. The Filipino nodded his head and gave enthusiastic signs that he at last understood what was wanted, and sure enough In four days Major Bell's clean clothes were re turned to him." THE MINES OF EASTERN OREGON. Many Favorable Notices ly the East ern Press. Many newspapers of the. Eastern states are publishing very favorable articles about the mines of Eastern Ore gon. Following Is from the Chicago Rec ord of February 15. Wo reproduce It, not because it Is news to readers of The Ore gonlan, but for the purpose of showing readers of Tha Oregonlan what the news papers of other states are publishing about the mines of Oregon: Baker City, Or. Spring la opening; in Oregon, and already the flowers aiid peach trees are In bloom in the valleys, and in oome places plow ing has commenced. The winter has been a very mild one eo mild that there has not been enow enough to get the logs out of the forests for the lumber mills. The Baker City chamber of commerce Is mak ing preparations for a great farmera institute to bo held in March, at which the question cf building co-operatKe creameries on the Illinois plan and the erection of one or more flour mills will be discussed and put Into tangible shape. In Juno, also, the chamber of. commerce will hold a mining convention, which will be attended by delegates from every state la tho Union. Even now people are coming in dally by the score and going out into the hills In search of the yellow metal, new strikes of which are being reported almost hourly. There was much excitement throughout the camp today when, It was reported that a vein of very rich ore had been uncovered in the group of claims belonging to an Ohio syndicate and adjoining the celebrated Bed Boy mine and the "W. Waugh group. The ore is filled with streaks of free gold, ami It does not take .a glass to discover Its richness. Another rich strike was that made In the Golconda day before yecrterday. This la the property belonging to the Englishes, of Dan ville, 111., and Is now considered the greatest mine In the whole camp, a big find was made yesterday in the Big Buffalo, Geiser'8 new mine, three miles out from the city. The ore body Is very large, and c&rries splendid valuee. Geieer wafl ttie original owner of the Bonanza mine, which he sold last fall to the Standard Oil Company for ?1,000,000. This afternoon Manager Imhaus, of the Flagstaff mine, seven miles east of the city, a property belonging to a Paris syndicate, reported that his men work ing on the second level had opened a 20-lnch vein of free gold, assaying on an average about $200 a ton. It Is conceded that the rush to this country this eeaeun will rival that to Alaska in 1803. WHEN WILL THEY HAVE ENOUGH? Infant Industries Still Crying Lustily for the Milk of Protection. Chicago Tribune. The Carnegie Company made B1,000,000 last year, and yet Mr. Carnegie is not sat isfied. He wishes to get possession of Mr. Frick'a interest for less than its value. The Standard Oil Company has just de clared a quarterly dividend of $20,000,000, or at the rate of $80,000,000 for the year, and yet Us directors are not satisfied. They wish congress to pay subsidies to the ocean-going vessels In whose earnings they have a share. If there are any other American cor porations whose profits were $20,000,000 last year or promise to toe $80,000,000 this year, it may be taken for granted that the men at the head of them are no more satisfied than the Carneglee and Rockefellers, and are no more scrupulous as to the methods of adding to their possessions. There seems to be no limits to the ra paolty of corporations which have been built up at the expense of tha public by ex cessive tariff protection, by illegal railroad discriminations or official favoritism. The men who rule those corporations may not "want the earth," but they certainly want the United States and the abundance there of. They and their allies on land and sea are working at the entire subjugation of the government, so that they may add more millions to their present annual revenues of $20,000,000 lu the case of the Carnegie Company, and $80,000,00 In the case of the Standard Oil. They try to put their creatures in all official places which touch their Interests at any pomt. They demand subsidies for their ships. Their demands are usually complied with. "There are three things that are never satisfied; yea, four things say not 'It Is enough.' " That may have been the case In the old Hebrew days. Today there are the Standard OH Com pany, the Carnegie Company, the eugar trust, the International Navigation Com pany, and other colossal corporations which overshadow the government itself and are never satisfied. When will they have enough? a Profits of a Protected Industry. Chicago Record. Evidently the "Infant-Industry" argu ment for high protective duties Is no longer applicable to the steel business. The allegations In the Frlck-Carnegle suit Indicate that what was once regarded as an Infant Is now a mighty giant, with profit-making abilities, that are simply tremendous. Frick's bill, as summarized by his attorney, William McCook, makes these assertions: The business from 1882 to 1000 was enor mously profitable, growing by leaps and Jumps from year to vear, until in 1809 the firm act ually made on low-priced contracts in net prof Its, after paying all expenses of all kinds, $21,000,000. In November, 1899, Carnegie esti mated tho net profits for 1000 at $40,000,000, and Frick then estimated them at $42,000,000. Carnegie valued the entire property at over $250,000,000, and avowed his ability in ordi narily prosperous times to sell the property on the London market for 100,000,000 or $500, 000,000. These enormous profits prove that it Is time to cut down or remove altogether tho high tariff duties on steel products that enable makers of those products to exact excessive prices from American consumers. The high prices for steel, which is used so largely for construction purposes, if continued, must operate as a serious check to the prevailing activity In many lines of business. With the tariff reduced, prices of steel products no doubt would be lower, for the manufac turers, In some Instances- at least, are now selling their products abroad for less money than they exact from customers at home. o A Century of Migration. The New York Sun has been counting up the totals of European migration dur ing the century, and finds that the move ment Is the greatest of the kind record ed In history. In the Qrst 20 years of the century only 250.000 Europeans came to this country, but between 1820 and 18S2 more than 17,000,000 migrated to the Amer- leas. In the last-named year alone the' United States received 800,000 Immigrants. Since 1S82 the European outpouring to various parts of the world has been over 12,000,000 souls. Trustworthy data Indi cate that during the century Europe has been drained of 30,000,000 persons seeking to better their fortunes in other lands. This number is equal to tnree-flfths of the total population of Europe at the time of Augustus Caesar. It represents a third more people than Great Britain and Ire land gained in the flrct 90 years of the century. It is greater than the total num ber of Inhabitants of the United Kingdom in I860, and only a little less than the to tal population1 of the United States In the same year. Yet this tremendous loss seems to have strengthen Europe rather than weakened it. This unpraeedented migration seems to have been a healthy expansion movement on the part of the civilized races. Probably this remark able phase of history will never be re peated, for there remain no more sueh vast and fertile wildernesses in the tem perate zone as the United States was at the beginning of the Century. e The Rich Man's Stomach. New York World. The magnificent Metropolitan Club of this city has been obliged to make the humiliating admission that the patronage of its 1062 members Is aot sufficient to pay its running expenses. The announcement conveys a painful revelation of the sad condition of millionaire existence. The outside world, wanting in wealth. Is prone to consider riches as the source and sum of all "happiness, especially of the enjoyment of the good things ef life. It pictures the fortunate millionaires In an ideal existence of Capuan luxury and Sy- Tmritlc Indulgence. The melancholy truth is that the average millionaire has a dis ordered stomach, a torpid liver or a weak heart, and does not enjoy the society of his fellow plutocrats. Instead of feast ing like Sardanapalus, he carefully lunches on graham crackers and milk. A slngleondulgence In terrapin and cham pagne froukl probably separate him and his millions forever. He Is usually In bed at 10 o'clock, with a pill box dosa at hand, a hot-water bag at his' feet and a flannel nightcap on his bald head. The average wage-earner In New York may earn from $12 to $20 a week, but he has to keep his stomach in good order to earn his money, and with his health of body and of conscience he certainly gets more fun out of life than the average mil llonalre clubman. a Money-Giving-. Andrew Carnegie. Let a multimillionaire take his millions to the slums and call the people together, saying: "There Is a wrong distribution of wealth In the world. You have not got your share. I give to each ono of you his 3hare of my millions." Let that be done in the morning, and let the mil llonalre return at night to see what good his action has done, and he will not find happiness, but pandemonium. Let him distribute another million and another million every day for a month, and pau perism will increase every day. At the end of. tho month, seeing the result, he will wish that he could crawl and ask pardon for the harm he has done. He has done more injury In a month than he will do good in all the rest of his life. He has taught the hitherto self-respecting working family that Industry leading to self-support and Independence has no re ward beyond almstaking, idleness and de bauchery. It was this class of charities, and tho sums rich men give to applicants and to socitles in order to be relieved of the trouble of investigation, of which I ventured to say that of every $1000 so be stowed $900 had better bo thrown into the sea. My preference for free libraries a3 a means of helping the swimming tenth Is that libraries give nothing for nothing. In order to get benefit there the man must himself read and study. You cannot boost a man. up a ladder if he does not do a little climbing himself. As for money given to beggars of whose needs and hab its we are Ignorant, I can conceive of no use of money so well calculated to increase pauperism and demoralize the public. a The Case in a Nutshell. New York Commercial Advertiser. Julian Ralph has seen clearly and puts eplgrammatlcally .the great military fact discovered by the experience of the Boer war, with which all military science must reckon hereafter. This Is that stout men in firm natural or artificial entrenchments are Invulnerable to frontal attack by any present means of war, without slaughter of the attacking force too frightful for human endurance. This seems a mili tary impasse. Strategy must escape from it for the moment with flanking and en veloping, siege and starvation; but the permanent problem invites solution by In vention of new and more powerful and searching artillery. The defense has out run the attack with Invention of the mag azine rifle. Invention is now called upon to restore the equation with some form of field piece or shell that shall destroy men in entrenchments from a point out of range of rifles that fill the air with death for a mile before them. a The Usual Exaggeration. New York World. Tho wealth of John I. Blair, living, wa3 reckoned at from $40,000,000 to $100,000,000. Now that he Is dead and the assets are gathered together, It Is found to be about $3,000,000. This is a familiar story. It re flects in- part that species of vanity which makes men revel in the mouthing of large figures and to that end exaggerate the fortunes of the very rich. Extremely Charitable. Chicago Post. "Do you work for the poor?" asked the philanthropist. "Oh, yes, Indeed; indefatlgably," replied the society bud with enthusiasm. "Why, I make it a point to go to every charity ball that Is given." n Held It in His Own Name. Yonkers Statesman. Crimsonbeak Who was the first man mentioned in the Bible to have real es tate in his own name? Yeast I'm sure I don't know. "Why, Lot." o Has Hla Advantages. Columbus (Ohio) State Journal. Pllson I don't believe there Is much dif ference between genius and insanity. Dllson Oh, yes, there is a heap.' Tho lunatic Is sure of his board and clothes. c Appreciation. Roanoke. Collegian. Dr. Fox What sensation arises from the contemplation of self? " Bushong The sense of the beautiful. m o The Dying Filipino' Message. S. E. Kiser In Chicago Times-Herald. A weary Filipino lay dying la the brusn; He had followed Aguinakto till exhausted in the rush. But a comrade stood beside him while he faintly gasped away, And lingered for a moment to heae what he might say; The panting Filipino took his comrade by the band. And said: "I've got through kiting like a rab bit o'er the land, But I have a little message for some friends of mine, and you May .have heard of Hoar and Mason and, the gruesome Pettlgrew. "Go to dear old Hoar and tell him while the tears flow from his eyes How his speeches used ta eheer me when the clouds obsoured the skies; Tell. him how I kept his picture always very near tot heart. How when I was weary it would nerve me to another start; Go and tell poor Billy Mason net to mourn too much forme; Try to hunt up other outlets fer bts floods of sympathy; Let him weep upon your shoulder, let aim sfc- ber on your vest He must, somehow, be delivered the feeling In his breast! "Go to Atkinson and Bryan; tell them, how they gave me hope; But for them I might be working ay! perhaps be using soap! But for what they've done te cheer me, I in stead of dyiag now As a run-down, breathless martyr, might be following a plow! And when, you have seen the ethers who will mourn me over there. And have wept with them and soothed them, take this little lock of hair Unto Pettlgrew, the gruesome, as a taken, as a balm, And assure him that, In dying, I awarded him the pahn!" NOTE JlND COMMENT. Puerto Rise, It is ats Is an island abounding m tea pfftrtK Perhaps altar att the 'tost prsstdsntial team wouM so Barrsat ana Marum. The hnprsBetoa that JRrism. is a slip pery statoaman jusiiiL ts se ssnnimoiL The Utah soagrsssman sacry the expan sion business teto their views ss matri Same day the cruiser 9C Louis wW coma sailing up the CMeaeo drataag canal and close It by fores of anas. Had Croaje baas a Brtttefc general, we would hear not that ha had. soaped, but that he retired m good order. "I have the honor to mform you" has succeeded "I report with ragrfrt" to tha despatches to tba British war stneo. The wise and thrifty ferstr Is amah jawwaitea aaw He giK, ta tats motet tlanula, Ta eaMtva! fee aaw. Congress is going to hurry up and gftt through, not because H has any pity oa the country, hut aaeauoo K thinks it has done enough work Jor its salary. There now aoamo to be soma ehaaoo for the Bngltsh. posts, who manufactured a lot of "Victory" poems for the early spring trade, to dispose of their wares. A number of persons, among them a raUkmaa, who had gathered around the stove in a Front-street commission house Saturday, when the thermometer was hokw tho freezing point, after dis cussing everything they could think of, tackled the muie. Some one remarked that the bona Jr a mate's lag was solid, and that started a dtocuooioa which last ed for an hour and b&oama so warm that the snow on the roof moHed. There being no Mkonaeod of aar decision on this Important subject, and one of tho diplomats having ventured the assertion that the bone in another's head was solid, it became desirabie that the discussion should be stepped. The milkman, there fore, stated that he must go home, as, on account of the cold, he would have to carry drinking water to his cows in their stalls, and he had some M cows to wait on. One asked how much a cow would drink, and a Boer sympathiser said about five gallons would do a oow lor one day. The milkman had soma Bngtish in him and "had it in" for the friend of tho Boers, so he said the idea that a cow could live with only Ave gallons of water per day was idiotic nonsense. He said an average cow would. arink 39 gallons of water per day. One word brought on another, and nnany tha friend of tho Boers told the milkman that be must measure tho water he gave Ms cows in the same measure with which he sold his milk. An hnmsdials adjournment of the crowd was necessary to prevent bloodshed-. Any one who has ever attempted to extract the meat front a pecan nut or walnut and has only sueceadod nine times out of M te Inextricably mixing the frag ments of the shell and meat, despite every precaution taken, cannot fall, on see ing a confectioner's window filled with piles of the moat of 9008009 and other nuts, to wonder how tbsy are extracted wholesale in aofc psrfast condition. The dealer will tell one that it is done by machinery, but this only makes one anx ious to know what kind of machines are used .nd how they do the work so well. The human hand, since "man grew a thumb, for that he had need of It," has been considered tha most wonderful of machines, and it may be so, as it makes so many other and move deMeate and ex act machines, hut who with his bands was ever able to got the meats out of a dozen pecan nuts in succession Whole or with bands aided by teeth could suc ceed in getting the meat out of ba the number of pinenuts ne undertook t eat without at tho same time sating halt the shell? In eating tho plebeian "goobsV' most people will lose about half tha meats, which elude the fingers and teeth in seme way, but tho machines turn out in perfect condition and by the bushel the meats of pecans, wainuts, pinenuts; peanuts, almonds, filberts, Brazil nuts, etc It may be stated that there is no evidence that the armor-plated hickory nut or shasrbark has as yet been suc cessfully negotiated by the machine, and) the human hand, aided by nutcrackers and nut picks, have still somatinna- left to do In tho way of, extracting the meataj from these hardest of nuts'. . in I An Example. New York Journal. If you want to know the dttterence be-, tween expansion and Iraperianinn. look at Puerto Rico. It was expansion when we welcomed that Island, less than two years ago, as a part of the United States, and promised its people a share in our liberty and prosperity. It is imperialism when tha republicans in congress propose to repudi ate those promises, shut the Puerto Rleans out of our markets and tax thena without their consent. a That Parle Seheel Principal. The mighty "professor" sat saog m Ms dea. White the soaeel ma'asw ware patiently teaafe teg; His lateHect thrasaed with the proMem of when. And how he eaak get ia a proaoatag. He bad been to each room and a jefee perpeo t rated; He had aired Msweif down m fee hail; His spirits were low wife dowghto he wa sated: Na victim appeared for Ma gaM- He bad glanced throws fee test-books and made bis seieetioa Of new rlddfee to soring fee next day; He bad canvassed again fee aanjuo at election. Should Frtead Klgler gt eat ef fee way. He bad fetched eat fete keek aad registered where And when he had tries fee last gag, And ptaeed a Mae mark to eaah teaeaer nana there --Whom he doomed It essential ta nag. But pleasure may oy. ami pawar may pall, Eves tyrants from oaaut may aaaTer. Professors may somothnou have nee t. a. haul, Like a coauaoaplaca, awetaga outer. So when the petition to ask mr rutin nn From lessons came la to tarn Tttaa, This "thouentrftr promMor4 It greatly did His wit bow had something- to Mte on. Te deenae the reaaast as a gaattamaa should, With a kindly regret, was la saasea, Bat to teachers or cMMma fefcs priaetoal would Seera to render pontoaees ar wasaa. Aad the msuatats, to tomutt at tost was deliv ered. And fee msase was a haatnroun gam. 'Twas t we, hears fetor fee pustla aJtsMvered At fee peer paltry Ja of A. M." Ose would fetok feat a pedagogue eaert as to heart Would at least have a beec wifeeat flaw; Bat the paptls and puMto observed wife a start That his "aatfear" was toltowad by r". Wheo next he exerts fete amttasvagaat hwmer, la fee paaer he'll mat advaaStas; And We grammar ha mnaas, K we credit the rumor. Seme puptt to get to revise. A Taxpayr