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, jjv ijt--Tw- Tf r fT": iT :- J ,. THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY. 'APRIL 2, 1900. Enured at th Postofllca at Portland, Oregon, u second-class matter. TELEPHONES. Editorial Rooro 106 I Buslnaaa Ofllcav ,..eor REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (portage prepaid). In Advance Dally. wltbSunday. per month... . ..40 85 Daily, Sunday excepted, per year .....- 7 80 Dally, with Sunday, per year 9 00 Sunday, per year - ... - "0 The Weekly, per year... j The Weekly. 3 montha... -....-... To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday eieepted.150 Dally, per week. delivered. Sundayi lncludL20 The Oregcnlan does not buy poems' or stories from Indlvlduala, and cannot undertake to r-turc-any manuscripts ent to It without solicita tion. No stampa fthould b inclosed for thli purpose. Puget Sound Bureau Captain A. Thompson. office at 1111 Pacific arcane. Tacoma. Box MS. Tacoroa postoffice. Eastern Bujlmwa Office Tha Tribune bond ing. New York eity: "The Rookery." Chicago: the S. a Beckwlth apectal agency. New York. For sale In San Francisco by J. K. Cooper. 146 Market street, near the Palace hotel, and at Goldsmith Bros., 238 Sutter street. For eale In Chicago by the P. a News Co, 217 Dearborn street. expressed by her favorite daughter, the late Princess Alice, Is "unique," and sets her apart from the common peo ple. The visit can scarcely fall to ac complish good, chiefly along the line of reciprocal feeling, which generous attention and appreciation confers. The politicians of Ireland may scout these results as trifling, but, as already shown "in the enthusiasm kindled by the proposed visit In Dublin, the hearts of the common people will be reached, and that Is a matter of prime Import ance at a time when the nation needs the loyal support of her sons and the willing spirit of sacrifice In her daughters. TODAY'S WEATHER Occasional rain and slightly cooler; westerly winds. PORTLAJfD, MOXDAT, APRIL 2, 1000 OUR GREATEST STAPLE. The details of the movement of the 169S wheat crop, as printed In yester day's Oregonlan, make an excellent showing for Portland. The crop has moved slowly, when the amount pro duced Is considered, but the percent age of .the shipments which have reached tidewater by way of Portland Is greater than that of a year ago, when there was a much freer selling movement. As shown by the figures, which are compiled from official rec ords at the custom-houses, 'the total wheat movement from the Pacific Northwest for the first nine months of the cereal year was 16,115,529 bushels, and of this amount Portland exported 67.19 per cent, compared with 32.81 per cent from Seattle and Tacoma. For the corresponding nine months in 1898-99, the shipments from the same ports were 21,588,963 bushels, of which Portland shipped C2.5 per cent and Ta coma and Seattle 37.5 per cent. This gain of about 5 per cent In Portland's favor would 'have been greatly In creased had there been adequate trans portation facilities for handling all of the flour which was offering for ship ment to the Orient. In actual wheat shipments, Portland handled 76.CS per cent of all that have been moved from the Northwest since the season opened, compared with 62.4 last season, Tacoma and Seattle fall ing back from 37.6 per cent for the first nine months of the season of 189S-99 to 23.32 per' cent for the corresponding period in the current season. This ma terial gain of Portland's Is due to the superior advantages for selling and handling the wheat Portland has the finest wheat docks and warehouses oil the Pacific Ccist, and they are equipped with the very latest Improved machin ery for clerking and preparing wheat for shipment, enabling exporters to pay higher p1ces than can be paid where cruder methods are employed. That Portland will continue to hold her own and add to her prestige. Is 1 certc, and by another season It will no'jger be necessary to divert flour shipments to the Orient to Puget Sound ports, where a heavily subsidized Jap anese steamship line has always had space to spare for shipments which could not be accommodated by the Portland line. Wheat Is king in the Pacific Northwest, as corn and cotton are kings In the Middle "West and South, and the amount of money placed In circulation by the marketing of this one commodity is greater than that produced by any other Industry. This is the greatest factor In Portland's commercial supremacy, and not the least of Us merit Is the fact that It can never be wrested from us. FOR PRIMARY REFORM. In another column Is an Interview with Mr. Ed. "VY". Bingham, to whose Indefatigable efforts our Australian bal lot and registration laws are primarily due, in advocacy of a law for the reg ulation of primaries. We Invite earnest attention to Mr. Bingham's plan; not that we believe It to be a final solu tion of the primary problem or that we suppose he himself so regards It: but because It is of the highest import ance that thought and study should be given to the need of transforming our primary elections from a mere In strument of the political machine to a living expression of public opinion. Mr. Bingham's plan may be adequate, or it may need amendment upon trial, or It may even be superseded before the Legislature by a more practical meth od. But It Is an honest and Intelligent effort at the solution of a pressing problem, and until a better plan is of fered this one deserves the sympathy and support of every right-minded and intelligent citizen. Mr. Bingham proposes that on a day far enough in advance of election a pri mary be held under the auspices of the local government, under the Australian ballot system. Every registered voter will exercise his choice as to nominees for the various offices, and the men receiving the most votes are thereby constituted the party nominees. Coun ty and state officers are required to can vass and record the votes and put the names on the ballots to be voted for at the general election. A law like this is already working satisfactorily In Minneapolis, and Is proposed to be extended throughout the State of Min nesota. In one or more Southern states party primaries have long been in operation. At the city of Lincoln. Neb., the Republican party has long made Its nominations through party primaries. The plan works welL vot ers take an Interest in the primaries and turn out, because they know that 'they are actually exercising the power( ostensibly given them, ana not merely registering the will of the party man agers. This Is a cause that appeals to the Judgment and conscience of every hon est and intelligent citizen. A primary should not be a melee, neither should it be a mere piece of formalism de signed simply to register the will of four or five party managers. When we have primaries that will enable the voters' to select the best candidates, we shall have well-attended primaries, we shall have good men put up for office, and the "sacks" will disappear from our political campaigns. Now the only choice the voter has is the privilege of choosing to rebuke the Re publican machine or else to rebuke the Democratic machine. At primaries conducted under the Australian ballot and the registry law the.voter can ex ercise the power to which he Is enti tled both at the primaries and at the succeeding election. We shall have popular government Instead of govern ment by party machines. It is a reform needed nowhere worse than in Oregon. sian Gulf. She Is preparing to build a railway from Orenburg to Samarcand, which Is already connected with Herat by rail, and from Samarcand to Kan dahar. The Russian railway frontier in Turkestan is but 300 miles from Kabul, and Herat Is but 390 miles from Kandahar, and from Kandahar to Ka bul Is but 330 miles. The Russian and Anglo-Indian railways are sure to meet before many years at Kandahar and Kabul, and then Calcutta will be but ten days' Journey from London. In time of peace' this would be a great advantage to England, but In time of war she would have to send her troops to India by water, while Russia would have an all-roll route from St. Peters burg to he frontier of India. The Trans-Siberian system Is now built to Stryetensk. on the Amur River, while the Chinese .Eastern Rail way proceeds to Vladlvostock. with branches to Port Arthur and Peking. Russia contemplates a direct line from Lake Baikal through Mongolia, a Rus sianized province, to Peking. If Rus sia can keep out of war long enough to complete all her projected railways, she will easily control the fate'of near ly all Asia. Today apparently Russia Is In Turkey- as the tacit railway ally of -Germany, and to this is due prob-J ably the extraordinary concessions granted by Turkey. BY Seattlelte could conceive any statement of science, history, economics or navi gation strictly true and complete unless (t contained a phrase advertising Seat tle. This is not an Intentional or con scious act of absurdity or guile. Se attle Is honest about It. It really thinks that all outside King County, Wash ington, to the farthest bounds of the known universe, Ib negligible and. quite Irrelevant. If a man 'In Portland or San Francisco, therefore, passes the time of day with his neighbor or calls his dog In off the neighbor's cat with out remarking parenthetically that Se attle Is the only place that ever hap pened, he must expect the Post-Intelll-gencer to rise up against him at the Judgment day and fasten the Infamous falsehood upon his soul. We have established the general prin ciple in this matter, but the particular case In question cannot be classified un til, some evidence of so unusual a cir cumstance Is submitted. If any piece of news originating at Portland appears In Eastern papers otherwise than un der a Seattle or Tacoma dateline, the phenomenon cannot too soon be brought to the attention of collectors of rare curiosities. The Item should be cut out, framed' In gold and deposited In the archives of the Oregon Historical Society. VICTORIA'S VISIT TO IRELAXD. The aged Queen of England's present Visit to Ireland Is the first in forty years. When last she was In Dublin she wa3 accompanied by the Prince Consort, whose death she has mourned since December, 1861;. the royal family of England then consisted of nine young children and their parents, the group being the pride of all loyal hearts in the kingdom. The Prince Consort died soon after, and "Victoria became one of the most persistent of mourners and disconsolate of widows. Family sorrows have pursued her steadily since then. Her life prior to her last visit to Ireland was one of unbroken hap piness. Hers has been the common lot of mothers separation by death, by marriage and by distance, from her children. Through it all victoria has been a queen, though for many years a sad and secluded one, seemingly unable, perhaps not desiring, so selfish Is per sonal grief, to forget her sorrows In the interest and for the pleasure of others. She had hoped to pass from this se clusion to her tomb, and, indeed, had planned to do so in the mistaken Idea that in this way she honored the mem ory of her husband. The affections of her people finally wore through this morbid reserve, and, upon the occa sion of her Jubilee a few years ago, she appeared, the grand central figure of an occasion the pomp and power of which astonished the world. Lapsing again Into seclusion, she was again aroused to her sense of duty to the empire by the war in South Africa, and recently appeared In London, a gra cious, revered presence. Her Interest In and appreciation for her Irish subjects have been the notable features of this latest emergence of the octogenarian queen from her seclusion. The promulgation of a War Office or der for the Irish regiments to wear the shamrock on St, Patrick's Day In commemoration of the gallantry of Irish soldiers In the recent battles in South Africa, tuoched. as It was ex pected to do, the warm hear'- f the Irish people, as they have n . been touched for years. Following closely upon this was the announcemnt that the Queen had abandoned her yearly trip to the Continent, and Instead would visit Ireland. - The act of putting aside her personal feelings for the sake of giving pleas ure to others will be regarded as a most gracious one by the Queen's subjects first, because she Is their Queen, ar.d royalty yet holds first place In the hearts of the British people; sec ond, because she is an old woman to whom the fatigues and discomforts of a trip across rough water will be great; and again, because she has sunk her private griefs In the equally distressful woes of her people and no longer poses as a solitary mourner, whose grief, as RUSSIA'S RAILWAY OCCUPATION OF ASIA, The announcement that the Sultan has yielded In all essential particulars to Russian demands respecting railway concessions In Asia Minor means that Turkey Is denied by Russia any share In the construction, ownership and con trol of railroads In her own territory. If Great Britain or France or Germany should demand an exclusive right of .railroad construction In any portion of tne territory oi tne united mates, Americans would think all modern Eu rope was ruled by bedlamites. And yet Turkey Is a country of large military strength that could put an army of 800,000 to 1,000,000 soldiers into the field; a well-appointed army, furnished with modern magazine rifles and cannon: an army whose artillery has been brought to a high standard of excellence by Ger man officers. When Turkey stood oft Russia in the campaign of Plevna in 1877. she had a brave army: but it did not compare in military training and efficiency with the army that in recent years quickly crushed Greece. The Sul tan's surrender to Russia's demands Is probably due to the fact that Germany Is disposed to let Russia work her will. Germany will not help Russia while Great Britain's whole army available for foreign service Is fully occupied with the war against the South African Republics. Russia has anticipated all the other great powers of Europe In making the most of every opportunity to extend her railway system over Asia. Russia has unbroken railway connection between Moscow and Baku, on the Caspian Sea, and today her Armenian railroad Is be ing surveyed from Batoum on to Trebl zond and along the shores of the Black Sea to Constantinople, within easy pro tection of her fleet- With this railroad completed, Russia, using the fortress of Batum as a sea base, will be sure at no distant day to reach out her military and naval hand and capture Constan tinople, unless Germany should inter fere to prevent It. Germany has se cured a concession to build a railroad from Konlch to the Persian Gulf, at the mouth of the Euphrates. This, when completed, would give a through railway line from Paris to Bassora, and, with the completion of the rail way now building from Beirut, on the Mediterranean, to Urfu, Germany would not need to force the Darda nelles In order to enter Turkey as an enemy. It is quite possible that Ger many and Austria and Russia may at no very distant day agree to divide Turkey, even as Austria, Russia and Prussia in the last century executed the partition of Poland. In Persia, too, Russia Is preparing to extend the ever-Increasing web of her railway advance, so that St. Petersburg and Teheran will soon be connected by rails. From Teheran one branch of this, projected Russian railway will be extended to the Persian Gulf, while the other will proceed eastward" to a con nection with the Trans-Caspian Rail way at Herat. Russia means to get control of the Dardanelles. She means I. to establish a naval base on the Per- MAXCFACTURDtG MORALITY STATUTE. There are persons with a mania for reform, who are always. In season and out of season, "as busy as a bee In a tar bucket." They are when sincere generally persons whose souls are peri odically subject to hysterical excite ment and spasms of moral agitation because the world is reputed to be greatly given over to the flesh and the devlL These reformatory paranolacs are always seeking to stamp out vice with a statute, and are always trying to root out by law evils that have never yielded to anything but the enlarged and enlarging gospel of human experi ence. Intelligence, spiritual culture and restraint. No law or enforcement of law can prevent gambling, or extirpate alcoholic Intemperance and the social evil. In the 13th century the magis trates of a great city of France under took to stamp out the social evil by drowning 800 women of the town In the Seine. The modern paranoiac prohibi tionist would today approve an edict ordering the drowning In the Willam ette of all the keepers of drinking sa loons If he thought It had any chance of legal execution; for his philosophy of social reform Is not a whit less absurd than that of the medieval French mag istrates, who attempted literally to drown out the social evil. The social reform paranolacs do not seem to com prehend that while the heart of man remains unregenerate under religion It cannot be conquered and changed by statute. Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis, who Is urg ing the passage of the new anti-canteen law by Congress, seems to believe that legal prohibition at Army posts, which turns soldiers over Jo tippling places and dives without- Army posts, will secure Increased sobriety. The leading officers of the Army who have lived with soldiers for forty years founded the canteen to obtain increased sobriety, and testify with substantial unanimity that it has more than real ized their highest hopes and predic tions. This testimony counts for noth ing with this woman, who Is sincerely unable to understand that, while tem perance Is a cause, prohibition Is only one of several theoretical methods to abate the evils of intemperance. She is clearly one of those good people who are always dodging the healthful doc trine of Individual responsibility for evil and folly and transferring the bur den and the blame to the saloon, the gambling-house, the wine and the women. That Is, extirpate temptation and secure a saint; extinguish folly and all our fools will perforce become wise men. In this Utopia the erring brother would not lust after anything but right eousness, because there; wouldn't be anything else to lust after. The poor, erring brother's occupation would be gone, because in this woman's Utopia there would be no opportunity to grat ify evil aspirations. There would be no gross material temptations. A life of mechanical moral peace would be forced on the erring brother, because in this Utopia everybody would be ab solutely cut oft from all access to deviltry. Men who cannot stay sober except on the condition that nobody will ever sell them liquor when they can pay for It are beyond legal aid, tor, outside of a prison, a hospital or an Inebriate asy lum, the man who cannot stay sober so long as he has the price of a drink Is as hopeless of reform as a sheep-killing dog who cannot reform until the world stops keeping sheep. Such creatures need to be bottled up, the bottle tight ly corked and hermetically sealed. And this, we suppose, would be virtue, this man an unwilling angel in spite of himself. As well pretend that you can change a Hen's or a tiger's heart by extracting his teeth and cutting oft his claws. This false philosophy of social reform is responsible for the pernicious doc trine that the road to reformation lies. not through the conquest of self-indulgence by Belf-restralnt; not through the stern insistence of individual respon sibility for evil habits, but through the prohibition and abolishment of the temptations to which the man disin genuously ascribes his fall. Every man In law Is held to responsibility for his own personal acts, and this legal doc trine rests on sound moral justice. It is law that ought to be part of the sane temperance reformer's gospel. Not to hold men to this doctrine of Individ ual responsibility and the certainty of social retribution and ruin for failure to work out their own salvation, would be to create a civilization that would not stand for men but for a whimpering world qf pouting, pleading children. Governor Steunenberg, of Idaho, has completely dlscomfltted Lentz and Sul zer, movers of the Coeur d'Alene in quiry. He has shown that his course was necessary, in order to break up a criminal conspiracy, under which murder and destruction of property had continued during seven years; and, moreover, that his course had and still has the approval of all the law-abiding people of the district, who even yet ask the Government not to remove the troops. Governor Steunenberg, himself a trades-union man, turned a corner very neatly on the agitators the other day, when his attention was called to the bad bread which had been served In the "Bull Pen." Upon one count af ter another the Governor had met the charges made against that hostelry, but when It came to this bread, over which the high-minded Mr. Lentz ex hibited so much concern, the Governor acknowledged that It was very bad. "Tou see," he went on to say, "the min ers' union forbade the bakeries to sell any bread to the state commissariat. and so we had to set up a bakery of our own with poor equipment and am ateur workers. I know the bread was poor." Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio, makes an attempt to reconstruct the, argument for the ship-bounty bill. Throughout, his effort Is specious and misleading. The main object is not to assist the domestic producer to a mar ket, but to put money, drawn from all the people of the country. Into the pock ets of shipbuilders. The Indianapolis Journal, one of the old stand-by Re publican newspapers of the country. says: At a time when every shipyard In the country hao more orders than It can fill, the Journal ue no pretslng call for a shipping subsidy. The millions to toe given in bounties wilt go to enrich still mere men who are already rich. The pretense that we cannot compete with foreign coun tries In shipbuilding Is sufficiently an swered by th" fact, which every one knows to be true, that our builders are constructing warships for foreign coun tries. The people of the United States arc not disposed to submit to additional taxation for such purposes. cabinet. His book. If adequately written, should give an Inner history of the ex ecutive transactions of the Davla govern ment of rare value. His publlo life did not end there. He was at his home In Texas during the period In which recon struction was begun In that state, and after Its control passed again Into Demo cratic hands he was elected to the United States Senate and sent once more to Washington. Mr. Reagan served some years In Congress at this period of his life, but. being old and poor, resigned bis seat later to acept a lucrative state office fn Texas. It is doubtful If any man now living combines In his career so much ex perience in Confederate and National af fairs. e BISHOP POTTER'S OFFEXSE. lie Shows Sincerity and Courage, and for This lie Hast Sailer. New York Times. In the opinion of the true friends of Agulnaldo a man who takes; pains to In form himself about the foundation beliefs of antl-lmperlalism and forthwith changes his mind disgraces himself and becomes a moral outcast. The Indispensable qualifi cation of an antl-lmperlallst Is his ability to defy time and change. He must shut all his windows against the light of knowledge, and be ever on his guard against the Insidious assaults of Informa tion, which might come In a tract. In the letter of a returned traveler, or In a re port of a General. Hence, any man who falls to denounce the American soldiers In the Philippines and makes no mention of the saint-like meekness and deathless enthusiasm for liberty of Agulnaldo Is In stantly blacklisted as a person to ba shunned. This misfortune has overtaken Bishop Potter. His recent observations concern ing our work and our duty In the Philip pines have set the antl-lmpcrlallst caldron to boiling furiously and much scum of abuse rises to the top. The Bishop's as sertion that the standard of conduct among our soldiers out there was very high gave deeper offense than anything else he has raid since his return from Ma nila. The Atkmsonlans have Insisted that our troops are wallowing In Innocent blcod and debauchery. They become very un happy when evidence to the contrary Is adduced. The statement that the Filipi nos are Incapable of maintaining a stable government of their own they denounce as a coarse slander, apparently on the ground that the Bishop does not submit affidavits that he personally examined every native of the Islands 'before mak ing up his mind. The results of his care ful observation and inquiries on the spot will never convince American Agulnal dlsts. who, to be fure, have never visited the Philippines, but who have been told by Atkinson and Wlnslow that the Fili pinos -are simply the wisest and most peaceable people on earth. There Is evidently a good deal of anx iety as to the effect of Bishop Potter's profligate behavior In ab indomng the antl Imperialists. One pad being who writes to the Evening Post says, "Episcopalians have Indeed received a shock," but not hav".ng wholly abandoned hope, he con tinues: "It will be well, and cause for thankfulness. If many cersons do not be come Infidels owing to the unchristian conduct of professors of religion and o ministers of the Go-"pel." - On the whole It would appear that no event since the triumph of our land and sea forces In the war with Spain has so deeply d'sgvsted the ontl-lmperlalists as the Bishop's avowal that ne nas suc cumbed lo the light of knowledge and rea son and become a supporter of tho policy of maintaining order In the Philippines. There are those who still Insist that the United States should intervene be tween the belligerents in the South Af rican War. How intervene? Intima tion already has been given that the United States would act as intermedi ary or arbitrator, if Its services were desired. What more can be done? Declaration of war against Great Brit ain would be the only further resource. Are we prepared for that? If not. we may as well mind our own business. For, whatever we may say, or any other nation may say. Great Britain is going on with this affair in her own way and to the end upon which she Is determined. Just as we should do if we were engaged in any similar conflict. President McKlnley has his limitations, but he Isn't a fool. But If a fool were President of the United States and should be Intrusive In this affair, the country would get a notice to mind Its own business that It wouldn't be proud of. BECAUSE IT IS RIGHT. Statement !- the Lenujnjr The ugly fact that gives everybody pause is the certainty that the Demo cratic National platform of 1900 will be as Popullstlc as that of 1896 was, with all the tendencies to anarchistic socialism that the platform of 1896 con tained, and perhaps more. It will con tain' an attack again on the money standard, and moreover a declaration for removal of the National flag from the Islands we have received from Spain. Can all the faults and errors of Republican policy match these? The Senate splits with laughter when Fettus taunts Galllnger with quoting parts of a Supreme Court decision. In stead of reproducing the whole decis ion. The Idea that discussion of prece dents Invariably requires quotation of the full opinion of the 'courts is about on a par with the tenets of antl-lmpe-rlallsm generally. That is. there is no sense In It and no honesty In Its advo cacy. Pettus knows better and the Senate knows better. The only thing to laugh at is the Senate's Idiocy. UNACCOUNTABLE INJUSTICE. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an interesting and instructive grievance. A recent press dispatch from Portland, sent out over the country. Is said to have stated that 14,000 people have en gaged passage "from Pacific Coast ports to Cape Nome." This dispatch the Post-Intelligencer characterizes as "Intended to mislead," because "some thing has Intentionally been left un said." What is It that has thus Inten tionally and with malice been left un said? Why, simply 'that nearly all these people will sail from Seattle, or If they don't they ought to, and that Seattle Is really the only town on earth whence a man can depart for Alaska. We trust no one will accuse the Se attle paper of Intentional unfairness in this matter, for It Is sincere. No loyal It Is, of course, scandalous that Im proper motives should be ascribed to advocates of free trade for Puerto Rico, but when Speaker Henderson writes letters broadcast branding the Inde pendent Senators as cowards and at tributing their actions to the influence of "corporate interests." it is all right. That Is high-minded and honorable. Mr. Pcnnoyer has a substratum of good sense. He sees that Mr. Bryan talks too much for Mb own good, and that his greatest enemy Is his own fatal facility of speech. " Lord Roberts Is moving from Bloem fontcln towards Kroonstad. The dis tance is 127 miles. From Kroonstad to Pretoria it is 163 miles, directly on. A Veteran Secessionist. Boston Herald. The fact that John H- Reagan, of Texas, la still living, is called to mind by the an nouncement that In his advanced ago he Is to write out for publication his recollec tions of what he has seen In public life. He had a remarkably varied experience there. Mr. Reagan was a member of the National Congress when the Civil War broke out. He went Into the rebellion to become ft member of Jefferson Pavir Stronsr Rcpubllcun Journal of Indiana. Indianapolis Journal. The statement which has been made In Washington that the Journal has In any manner changed Its attitude toward the Puerto Rican tariff bill Is false, and those who made such a statement knew It wns false when they made It. Those rx-n hc read the Journal from day to day at home know that there has been no chango In Its attitude concerning that measure. The Journal believes that the President was right when he declared In his message In December that it was our "plain duty" to give the Puerto Ri cacs free trade with the United States. At that time the Journal approved the freo-trade Dolicy between Its recently ac quired Islands and the United States be cause it seemed to be the right thing to. do. ar.d It has yet to see the first reason to cnuso any one to change this opinion, nlthough nil that has been said on the other side has been considered. . . . it Is hoped that Republicans In' Congress will come to understand that It Is better to accept the general Republican opinion in the Northwest, as expressed by tho papers, than to pass a bill which violates the promise made by General Miles to the Puerto Rlcans and establishes the hateful theory that one portion of tho people who are under the sovereignty of tho United States shall receive dif ferent treatment In our tariff laws from, that which Is established for the rest of the country. Here It may be added that, whatever may be the action of Con gress, the Journal will hold the views It has expressed, because It believes them to be right. i s Our Railroads Arc Safer. New York Sun. One effect of the more general use of uniform slgrals has been the steady re duction of the number of fatalities on American railroads, the total number of which Is now considerably less than it was 10 years ago, though In the mean time railroad travel has Increased enor mously. The total number of passensers carried on American railroads In a year Is not far from COd.000.OM. and the num ber of fatalities to passengers averages less than SO, or less than 1-2000 of 1 per cant. 'While the number of passengers carried Is Increasing, the number of acci dents Is diminishing In consequence of the fact that while some railroad accidents appear to be absolutely unavoidable, seri ous accidents entailing the wrecking or trains and wholesale disasters are very much less frequent than formerly. Tho adoption and maintenance of a complete system of railroad signals en tails a considerable expense upon railroad companies, but it Is much more than made up by the advantages attained, wnicn m cludo greater security in travel, a high rate of speed for passenger trams, a much-diminished danger of track obstruc tion and a practical diminution In the number and success of suits brought for damages. The work of making travel sae on American railroads is going ahead even faster than Is the work of railroad building, actively resumed since 1S97. i t The Republican Revolt. Springfield Republican. The Senato Republican harmony commit tee Is unable to report progress after a week or more of effort, and will disband. The majority party is evidently as far at sea as ever in the Puerto Rico muddle- Both of the Congressional factions are ob durate. Compromise plana lie around as thick as leaves. Senator Davis has a new one. Other Senators have ono or more, new and old. None of them are satisfac tory, for the reason, apparently, that plain duty docs not admit of compromise. Meantime the storm of Republican protest from the West exhibits no sign of abate ment. Representative Crumpacker, of In diana, one of the five Republicans who voted against the tariff bill in the House, wes given an ovation by bis constituents In a b'g mans meeting on Saturday. The Portland (Or.) Chamber of Commerce Mas commended Senator Simon for his ex pressed opposition to the bill. A Republi can Judge In Iowa reports that In all the. counties where he hao been holding court he has met but one Republican who sus tains the tariff Congressmen. The edltoi of the stoutest Administration expansion organ In Chicago, In alarm over the situ ation, hastens to Washington, and ex presses himself vigorously over the situa tion .as he found it tbera- The editor ojt another Chicago administration organ, the personal friend of the. President, writes that "the situation Is ominous of disaster to tbe Republicans who have betrayed the confidence of their constituents." i THIS COEUR D'ALENE CRIMES. Proper Answer to the Principal Bryan Newspaper of Nebraska. Salt Lake Tribune. .Speaking of the investigation which is going on of the Coeur d'Alene trouble, the Omaha World-Herald, it seems, is exceed ingly anxlouB to Justify any crime so that It looks as though it would result In a. few more Democratic votes, and says: The mlneowners were In the saddle. They had paid for protection and "were enUtled to It under the code now In vogue la Washington. The rolneownera ahowed llerrlam that they had the right to demand certain things. Mer rtan complied with- th demands and reported to Waahlngton. The Secretary ot War reported back: "I hare referred jour report to the President and bo approves." The responsibility, therefore, rests upon the Administration, not upon Merrlara. Tbe Administration was mere ly giving the mlneowners what they paid for when they responded to the touch for campaign tuner. It Is a lasting pity that tbe man who wrote that la the World-Herald cannot be sent to the Coeur d'Alene region and be compelled to earn a living for a year. He does not know whether the mlneowners up there are Democrats or Republicans. He does know, If he has investigated the mat ter at all. that tbe Government was notl cauea upon unui a great properly aau ucra destroyed and a murder committed by an organized band of incendiaries and mur derers. If he knows anything, he knows that that bad been going on for seven years; that It began with the destruction of about J1.000.COO wortn of property, and because of the triumph achieved on that day, those scoundrels hod changed the date of celebration from the Fourth of July to the 11th of July. He knows that they had driven Innocent men out of that country on a few hours' notice. He knows that they had murdered other men; that they were there as enemies of the state and of the country; there for the purpose ot establishing a reign ot anarchy and chaos, because all of this Is of record. But tbe World-Herald, In Its desire to make capital for the oncoming campaign. Is willing to treat those devils as martyrs, and to assail the President of the United States because, on the requisition of the Governor of Idaho, he had placed some companies of soldiers under the direction of that Governor for the purpose of re storing order and protecting property. The most discouraging feature of the par tisan press of this country Is that It is In tho hands of a great many men who are entirely willing to pervert tne trusn. to Inud murderers, to abuse law-abiding men. if beMnd'It there Is a hope of getting some ruffian votes. i m ' The Madness at "Wnhlnjrton. Chicago Record. Washington Senator Fairbanks told the Republican caucus that Indiana would go Democratic If Congress did -not give free trade to Puerto Rico. Mason said the same of Illinois; Simon of Oregon, Senator Wellington of Maryland and Da vis of Minnesota all declared that the electoral vote of Minnesota and the entire Northwest, at least four Republican Con gressmen and the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, would bo lost If the 15 per cent tariff bill passed by the House should become a law. Bur rows admitted that Michigan was In doubt; Kyle warned the Republicans that they could not expect to carry either of the Da-kotas. S0TE AND COMMENT. The fool-killer took a day off yesterday. The fruit of "Cyclone" Davis' visit was borne by the Democratic convention Sat urday. If McKlnley has his ear to the ground these days, Hanna must have insulated the ground. It looks as It the Mikado would have to postpone his bear hunt until the garaa comes his way. Hanna's unquestioned ability as a cam paign manager Is directed Just now In the) interests ot Bryan. A native Filipino band is going to tou the United States. The wily Agulnaldo U beginning to adopt effective tactics. It Is said that there are 90.000 feeble minded persons In the United States. Bryan has already figured on them. Personal. Mr. Weary Wraggles left yes terday over the O. R. & N. for a. Sum mer's pedestrian tour In Eastern Oregon. ' i When Oom Paul spoke of a price that would stagger humanity, he must have expected to get paid In Kentucky bourbon. Maude Adams Is going to have a gold statue of herself made. This will be th heaviest character in which she ha3 ever been cast. Having investigated everything else la sight, Pettlgrew would better turn his at tention to investigating his chances for re election. A Boston paper says that General Lew Wallace has at last Ben Hur'd from. E. Atkinson will do. well to do a little reform ing near home. A Boston poet announces that he caa write six sonnets a day. The Boston pub lic, however, has made no guarantee of Its ability to read them. It Is said that Bryan was worn out when he made his speech at Yakima. The con dition of his hearers was evidently beyond the descriptive powers of the correspond ent. "What was it made Charley so wild after dinner?" "Oh, he criticised the salad dressing made by his wife, and told her she had no Judgment, and rtie Just looked him over critically from head to foot and told him she was Just beginning to realize It." Tho father of several grown-up sons at tended church yesterday and listened to a discourse on the prodigal son. When aked what he thought of the sermon, ho said It was all right, but the trouble with prodigal sons In Oregon is that they ara not satisfied with the fatted calf. They want the whole farm. "Plain Dnty" on Eloquence. Baltimore Sun. Of the "deep damnation" ot this shut ting up the mouth of Indiana's oratorical Lochlnvnr. It Is nlmost Impossible to write with moderation. He was so yaung and fair and gifted that he deserved a better fate. But under an imperial ad ministration, free trade in eloquence Is as helpless as free trade with Puerto Rico. No orator who cannot sing the old songs will be allowed to warble new tunes unless they are composed by the administration and approved by the censor, Mr. Hanna. The agony Mr. Beveridge endured when the edict went forth from the Whita House was indescribable and enough to make strong men weep. The United States Mints. Chicago Chronicle. There Is only one mint that Is In Phila delphia. The present branch mints are In New Orleans and San Francisco. Be fore tho war there were branch mints at Charlotte, N. C; Dahlonega, N. C: New Orleans and San Fran cisco, and during the war mints were started at Carson City. New. and Dalles City, Or. The mints .t Charlotte and Dah lonega stopped work In 1SGL. the mint at Carson City closed In 1S65, and that at Dalles City in 18T5. e Prcaa Practlcnlly Unanimous. Manchester (N. H.) Mirror and American. There is now and then a Republican paper owned or controlled by a Congress man which flops from tariff to free trade and from free trade to tariff as Its master deems advisable, but the party press, which speaks the Judgment and conscience of the country, is practically unanimous agalnrt the act of perfidy and dishonor which is contemplated by the House bill for a tariff on Puerto Rico. Will Sena tors represent the people or the Sugar and Tobacco trusts? o Adverse Sentiment Grovrlna;. Waterbury (Conn.) American. The Providence Journal has been can vassing the situation and finds that "there Is apparently not a newspaper in the New England States that Is defending the Re publican attempt to burden little Puerto Rico with a tariff on trade with the rest of the United States." And yet New England has been regarded as the friend liest part of the country to a tariff. e Till Is Fundamental Truth. Philadelphia Record. The Republican party, strive fts it may against the tide, must either abandon protection or abandon expansion. The two policies are incompatible. In the endeavor to reconcile Individual greed with national growth, the party Is making it self the mock of the world. a Explanations Xot Satisfactory. Minneapolis Journal, Rep. Five of the Minnesota Representatives vdted clearly against the wishes of their constituents In the matter of the Puerto Ricon tariff, and their votes give no more satisfaction now than they did when they were cast. Their explanations have not satisfied their constituents. a The Man "With the Kodnlt. Indianapolis Sun. O what a great dllTrence In history. What a rich absolution from myatery. We moderns -would know Of events Ion? ago. If only a man with a kodak had been At th following events. Just to anap-ahot the scene: When the Red Sea was divided. When tbe bald-head man derided Called out bears to eat tbe children: When tbe brazen rerpent healed them. When the Gorgon's head congealed them. When HoraUo held tbe crossing; When Bt. Patrick drove the snakes out. (There are many list such tikes out). When young Jeanne d'Arc led the army: When old Barb'ra Frietchle dare them Shoot her gray hairs, and they spared them When King Arthur's knights rat ring-style; When Columbus struck our borders Bearing Isabella's orders. When the Pilgrim Fathers landed O If some good man with & kodak had been On band with hli dinky to picture the scene, O what a very great difference In history I What a, full abaoluUon, rom xsoiertl Queen Victoria starts on a visit to Ire land today. It is announced that her visit will extend over about two weeks. Great preparations have been made at Dublin to receive her, and there is no question as to tho popular delight that will be manifested at her presence on Irish soil. In connection with this visit. It will in terest many to learn thnt since the Nor man Conquest only sir other English Sov ereigns hae been in Ireland. Henry IT went to Ireland In 1171. and remained till tho next year. John was in Ireland in 121ft. After the lapse of nearly two centuries an other English monarch, Richard II. vis ited Ireland In 1IS1. and again in 1339. For nearly SCO years subsequently Ireland was unvislted by any English King till 1GSS. when James II arrived In Ireland, from which he was expelled by William III in 1CS0. Then, after the lapse of 130 years, royalty came to Ireland In the person ot George IV. whose visit lasted from Au gust 5 to September 3. 1821. The Queen has on three other occaslors paid short visits to Ireland from August 5 till August 10, 1S1D; from August 2) till September 3, 1K0; and from August 21 till. August 29. 1S61. The Queen, with the sole exception of Richard II, who was In Ireland twice, is the only English monarch who has paid more than one visit to that country. A communication publlsbed Saturday complains of the dirty condition of the streets of Portland, owing to "tho sweep ings ot store's, bad eggs, dead rats, refuso sausage, washlnss of cuspidors." etc, being thrown Into the gutters. The writer of this communication, "Observer," asks, "Why Is this permitted!" and goes on to say that In many cities there Is a law, and It Is enforced, requiring sweepings and other refuse mentioned to be placed in barrels or boxes on the outer edge of the sidewalk, the city cleaning department collecting the same between 1 and S A. M., and the storekeepers immediately there after removing the receptacles to the rear of their premises. "Oliservcr" concludes by suggesting that "If our City Council would pass an ordinance of this character, and the police see that said ordlnanc wai enforced, our streets would be "in a more healthy condition." He might hnvo suggested that If storekeepers and others would cease violating the law by throwing refuse into the streets, tho nuisance com plained of would not exist. There is ar.d has been in effect for years a city ordi nance making it an offense to throw, de podt or sweep into or upon any street, sidewalk or footpath of the City of Port land any paper or other substance what ever, except snow or the dirt resulting from travel, and a penalty Is provided for Infraction of this law by fine of from JS to tZO. rt is. however, one thing to make laws, and another thing to get them en forced. "Observer," like most people who undertake to find fault with the existing condition of things, overshoots the mark and makes out the condition of the streets to be much worse than it really is, and it Is bad enough. The paved streets aro swept clean every night, and rubbish ts awept Into them every morning In viola tion of tho law. If "Observer" will mako complaint- to the police in regard to vio lations of the law, he may accomplish some good, but suggesting the enactment of laws which have been In force, if not enforced, for years subserves no useful purpose. i it The Game of Life. St. Loulfl POHt-Dlspatch. Ufa's a game of poker, euchre. Hearts or crltbage what you will. IJfe'o a game ot love and lucre And the loser's charxe Is nlL For a -while on beds of ron-s. We rosy He. It luck abide. But If tickle chance opposes. Where's the power can turn the tide? Men may staae their all and win It; Action Is their only creed. Life's a game, and three who're In It Find the betting fleroe. Indeed. Up today and down tomorrow I Speculation rules us all: Laughing cow. combating sorrow, Later on we rise or fall! Every day's a new beginning. But though men may do and dar Honors heaping, wagers winning Woman's gam? is aolltalra. d