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PORTLAAD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17
It Is the opinion of The Oregonlan
that the property of the state is not so
much undervalued by the Assessors as
Governor Geer supposes. Our people
have got past the notion and habit of
valutas property at what they suppose
It may be worth some time In the far
distant future; they estimate its value
mere nearly upon their judgment as to
tihat could be got out of it now. Fic
titious values were placed upon prop
erty in Oregon years ago, and an ex
pensive political and social system was
built up on these Actions, which it has
been difficult ever since to carry. It is
on this basis that officials of state,
counties and municipalities are clamor
ing everlastingly for more money. They
must have it, no doubt, and the people
must grub for it, dig It up, rake it to
gether; but they will hardly be per
suaded to believe that their riches are
greater than they actually find them to
be. The Oregonlan does not believe
there Is much disparity in the assessed
aluations of the counties, on the pres
ent basis, If more money must be had
and no doubt . must be had as fair
ft plan tt equalization as any would
be to Increase xthe present valuations
of all the counties, say by 25 per cent
But this could be done only by a state
board. It is strange that Governor
Geer should have said in his message
that "the State of Oregon Is far above
he State of Washington in actual
wealth." We wish it were, but it is
nut; and nothing is ever gained by pro
ceeding ton erroneous assumption.
Washington .has three Important cit
ies; Oregon but one, and the secondary
cities of Washington are larger and
richer than those of Oregon. Washing
ton's population exceeds that of Oregon
by 10G.OOO, and Washington has twice
as many miles of railroad, and more
shipping, more coal and more lumber
mills. These are facts that cannot be
t linked, and Governor Geer would not
hae made a statement so completely
at variance with them, had he stopped
to consider. It is well enough to stand
up for one's own state, yet It is best to
aoid erroneous comparisons.
In default of footnotes and marginal
references, we are lef,t in mystification
as to what Governor Dockery meant
when. In the course of his inaugural,
he addressed these words to the, people
of Missouri:
All sinister efforts to estrange our people by
attempting to array one class against another
should be shunned as the pestilence that walk
oth In darkness.
We taktt it that not even In Missouri
car. the average attendant upon inaug
uration ceremonies Tail to make ,a nat
ural application of Governor Dockery's
w rd At the November electlQn the
most eminent class agitator of modern
times was pat one side by the voters of
this country as a pestilence that walk
eth in darkness. If Governor Dpckery
means anything at all by his words, he
means Bryan. Nobody else has at
tempted to array one class against an
other but the Bryan party in the
Tmted States. The closing weeks' of
the campaign Mr. Bryan confined his
actlit!es to such lofty sentiments as
comparing the poor apple-grower with
the trust magnate, and bemoaning the
fact that wives of the very poor do not
pi ss.ss suck elegant seaside homes as
do the wives of the rich, Efforts were
made by Roosevelt and Hanna to show
that this attempt to "estrange our peo
rle' by "attempting to array class
against class" should be shunned, but
ti r . effect. All Bryandom echoed the
clarrjr of its lord and master. Gov
ernur Dockery, we doubt not, would re
sert the Imputation that he Is a politi
cal shyster without a particle of sincer-
,j in ale make-up, and that he is
merely bandying: words without con
s deration f their meaning. We can
tnlj conclude, therefore, that certain
popular Impressions are Inexact, and
that the history of the past seven
months must be rewritten. That is, it
Is Inconceivable that Dockery, being an
k nest man and an enemy of class agi
tation, could have made the Bryanic
nldross he was believed to make at
Kansas City, or have supported the
Piatform there adopted, or have been
elected Governor od the same ticket
with Bryan and Stevenson. If Mr.
Mockery had any self-respect to lose, he
'right have saved some of it by com
pjslng as Inaugural address without
reference to class hatred and the afore
said pestjlaace.
For thfe Eteaveaworth crime. Gover
nor Stanley, of Kansas, is responsible.
He had bea taught by more than one
terrible object-lesson that the average
Sheriff Is either a coward or a knave
when confronted by a mob The Kan
sas Sheriff, like the Colorado Sheriff
who permitted his prisoner to be roast
ed to death, was probably entirely will
ing that the mob should work Its wliL
What kind of a Sheriff Is a man who
pleads in defense of a mob murder
that the man roasted to death "was
undoubtedly guilty"? Sheriffs are not
courts for the trial and execution of
persons accused of crime, and neither
are mobs. Governor Stanley had every
reason to believe that the mob would
lynch the prisoner if possible; and he
had no reason (to believe that the
Sheriff- was either able or willing to
protect his charge. Had Governor
Stanley been a man of any sound ex
ecutive sense -and courage, he would
have peremptorily ordered the negro to
be held until proper military force
could be sent to protect him from the
mob. The lynching habit grows on
what it feeds. Every case of barbar
ous lynch law Is multiplied by success
and impunity. Governor Sandford, of
Alabama, in a letter to Judge John
Moore, of the Fourth Judicial Circuit,
urges the Judge to use all means in his
power to bring to Justice the perpetrat
ors of two mob murders recently en
acted. In Perry County a negro was
lynched on mere suspicion of having
burned a barn. The case in Henry
County was still worse, where the negro
was tried by a magistrate on the
charge of stealing a bunch of keys and
acquitted, but was taken by a crowd
and shot to death. The Harvard pro
fessor who is reported to have advo
cated the enactment of burning at the
stake of negro criminals at the South
of course spoke with grim irony,
meaning that If the people of those
states at the South or North who per
mit or at least condone the roasting of
negro criminals by slow Are really ap
prove of such punishments, they ought
to be manly enough to enatft their
barbarity. If the people approve of the
ferocious cruelty of mob law, why not
then enact it and burn negroes under
law instead of trampling law under
foot In order to burn them? Either ac
cept legal responsibility for mob venge
ance and cruelty, or defend the law
against the mob by killing the mob that
undertakes to kill and by hanging the
leaders of the mob when they murder a
prisoner. There ought to be manhood
enough in a state to defend 'its laws
against a gang of outlaws.
Representative Tongue gave a good
account of himself Monday in his an
swer to Cushman of Washington, and
reflected credit on his district and state.
His most signal service, however, was
in rebuking the mean-spirited opposi
tion to river and harbor work. Few
men in Congress are more capable in
debate than Is Mr. Tongue, and as he
had right on his side, his effort was
not only creditable, but effective. The
fact is that resistance to legitimate in
ternal improvements springs from two
sources, each of which Is equally dis
creditable to Its originators. Mr. Cush
man represents the spirit of sectional
Jealousy, which is blind as Jealousy
anywhere. It is a pleasant reflection
for the farmers of Eastern Washington,
to whom every fresh facility for water
transportation down the Columbia
means some cents a bushel more for
wheat and some less a barrel on sugar,
that they have sent a man to Congress
who is small enough to resent Improve
ment of the Columbia because every
other Improvement he would like for
Washington's benefit cannot "be had as
soon as he could wish. The error of
his representations and the unworthi
ness of his attitude are well answered
by Mr. Tongue. The other class of ob
jections to this class of wprk will only
serve to show the suspicious and dis
honest nature of the objectors; for to
assume that every public Improvement
is a steal or job of some kind demon
strates that the complainant, from his
own consciousness, can only explain ac
tivity by base motives. These detract
ors have their sufficient answer in the
record of Columbia River Improvement,
in the Mississippi jetties and in the
Sault Ste. Marie Canal, as well as in
the high character and attainments of
the engineer corps. There is more man
hood in General Wilson than In the
whole brood of his indirect defamers
Poor Stanford is giving an impres
sive illustration of the difficulty in per
fecting universities while you wait.
Without entering into the merits of the
controversy over Ross, the Populist, or
Howard, the historian, it is sufficient
to point out that money alone cannot
create a university. That is, It can
erect buildings, buy books, install ap
paratus and assemble instructors from
the ends of the earth; but it cannot
buy time, tradition or an atmosphere.
Professor Howard seems guilty of an
indiscretion in his open aspersion upon
the university's management, and Ross
was an undisguised agitator. Tet it
is impossible to blink the fact that the
Stanford method of acquisitiveness
broods over Palo Alto no less than the
Stanford benevolence. There is a pop
ular superstition that money made in
unworthy ways will never do Its pos
sessor any lasting good. It Is a su
perstition, pure and simple, yet it must
have been derived from cumulative ex
perience with cases where cause and
effect were traceable more closely than
in the checked history of Stanford.
There is homely reason In the fact that
the institution beside whose birth stood
devoted agonlzers in prayer and self
sacrifice inherits vitality different from
the one founded with millions as a mon
ument1 to vast wealth and personal be
reavement. Central Pacific leases, stock
gambling and fast horses whatever in
fluence they have, is not In the direc
tion of wisdom, or grace, or solidity of
character. This is not to reflect upon
President Jordan's administration or
upon Professor Howard's Instruction.
They are doing, let us say, the best
they can. As for Ross, the university
is well rid of him. University chairs
are not the proper places for harle
quins and charlatans and men of the
Bryan order of intellect.
The gold production in 1900, accord
ing to the Engineering and Mining
Journal, was 5256.462.43S, against $313,
641.534 in 1S39. The war in South Af
rica paralyzed the largest producing
area, otherwise the world's production
would have been some $356,000,000. As
it was, the United States was the larg
est producer, her output being 578.65S,
755. That of Canada was $26,000,000,
Australasia $75,000,000, Rhodesia $1,613,
3SS, British India $9,369,188, and British
Guiana $2,126,964. The United States
and the British Empire produced, it Is
ooservea, mucn me larger part of the
world's gold product Russia produced
$23,090,862, the Transvaal is credited
with $6,845,046. and China with $5,500,
000, but no other country produces as
much as $3,000,000. The Anglo-Saxon
countries .hold evidently the present
sources of the world's yellow money
metal, which Is, of course, greatly to
their discredit. Africa should still be
possessed by the Kaffirs, Canada and
Alaska by the Indians, and Australia
by the Bushmen. Nothing is worse
than occupation without consent of the
governed, unless it is to succeed where
others have failed.
THE MILITARY BOGEY.
Militarism is one of those things
which a group of politicians in Senate
and House profess to view with alarm.
They affect, in their debate on the
Army bill, to be filled with consterna
tion, as they contemplate the menace
of tyranny and despotism, the danger
to liberty, but poorly concealed in this
bill, as the claws of some great mon
ster In the sooth-seeming paw. A car
toon of the late political campaign
showed every American laborer with a
soldier on his back. The regular Army
at the present time comprises 67,500
men. If the total should be brought up
to 100.000, the percentage of regular
soldiers to the whole population would
be about thirteen-hundredths of one per
cent. This is something short of the
proportion of one soldier to the back of
every citizen.
Within the continental limits of the
United States we are not likely to need
for a long time to come a greater num
ber of soldiers than those of the old
Army say 25,000 men. But In the Phil
ippine Islands we shall need a good
many, no doubt, for some time yet.
The number there will, however, be
reduced as soon as resistance shall
cease. Tet it will probably be neces
sary to keep from 60,000 to 75,000 men
In the Philippines for a year or two to
come. The Government, by the vote of
November last, Is under direction from
the people of the United States to quell
the Insurrection. The pretense that we
are trampling liberty under foot there,
or shall undermine liberty at home, is
estimated by people of common sense
at what It Is worth, which is less than
nothing.
If ever there was danger that our
country would fall under the rule of
militarism, it was in the period of the
Civil War, at the close of which there
were more than one million men In
arms. These vast forces melted away
in a few months, without slightest
menace to our political system. Even
with a regular Army of 100,000 today,
the ratio of soldiers to the whole pop
ulation will not be greater than it was
in 1810, and at other times in our Na
tional history. The American people
cannot be terrified at the prospect of
an Army only a fraction as large in
proportion as that of 'peaceful Holland
or Scandinavia, and not even so large
as at several periods of our own former
history, not including the Civil War.
WESLEY AXD BISHOP POTTER.
Bishop Potter finds New York bad,
thinks the whole country is given over
to the materialism of wealth, the Mam
mon of unrighteousness, so he organ
izes a great crusade against vice, and
arraigns the law as responsible for the
failure of the gospel. This was not the
method that John Wesley pursued
when he found all England given over
to. drunkenness and licentiousness. He
did not hold the law responsible or war
on vice in the vain hope to smother
it by statute. He warred on the vi
cious and preached religion into the un
regenerate hart of man. He found the
pulpits of England occupied by deaf
mutes or disgraced by drunken fox
hunting parsons. He held that the only
remedy for the evils bred by the de
pravity of human nature was the spir
itual regeneration of the individual.
He rekindled religious faith. He re
formed society through replacing a
dead with a living pulpit. Wesley
knew that if he could reform the unre
generate hearts of his vast audiences
by rekindling their religious faith, the
evil haunts which had known them
would know them no more. This was
Wesley's way of forcing alehouses and
dramshops into bankruptcy; this was
Wesley's way of warring effectively
against drunkenness and licentious
ness. Wesley knew that while we can edu
cate a man to know the consequences
of putting his hand in the fire. It would
be absurd to pass a law ordering that
all fires be put out because some man
or men, in spite of experience, were
determined to continue the game of
playing with fire. Wesley knew that
the Christian education that lifts the
people up to a determination to live
wisely, soberly and cleanly Is the only
thing that makes the saloon fall into
decay, and closes the doors of gambling-houses
and kindred places of ill
repute. Wesley knew that, do the best
we can with "law, it saves nobody in the
sense of moral reformation or regen
eration. He knew that law seeks to se
cure the largest peace and order and
security for the law-abiding, and to
protect decent society from the incur
sions, violence and turbulence of law
less, indecent, rapacious and piratical
people. John Wesley did not expect to
create a great civilization out of men
and women who cannot be trusted to
walk the streets until all the world's
life had been expurgated of all Its evils,
Its temptations and its vice. He did
not seek to bottle up the possible sinner
by assuming to keep him in ignorance
of evil; but he taught the free choice
between good and evil, between wisdom
and folly, and solemnly warned the
sinner of the consequences of sin.
John Wesley succeeded so completely
that, without any change In the law,
the whole moral face of society was
transformed in England and subse
quently by the evangelists of Wesley's
great church at an early day in Amer
ica. Bishop Potter does not follow
Wesley's methods. He does not seek to
remedy human Ills by arousing a pas
sionate religious enthusiasm to organ
ize a "great awakening" of the souls of
the vicious. He Is content to believe
that when he has driven vice to pull
down its shutters, to extinguish its
red light, to drink behind a screen and
gamble behind locked doors, the world
is the better for his labors. It is pos
sible, of course, that if Bishop Potter
and those who agree with him should
attempt to reform the whole moral face
of society by the religious methods of
Wesley, they might fail, for there Is
more philanthropy among the people
today than there is religious faith.
Nevertheless, the American pulpit
would proceed by right lines if It Imi
tated Wesley and appealed directly to
the heads and hearts of its hearers,
and sought to exhort and educate their
flocks to righteousness instead of seek
ing to expurgate the world of all evil
and temptation by legislation for the
benflt of society's "lame ducks" who -j
cannot keep up with the procession.
The pulpit seems to hold the law
responsible for the presence of sin and
temptation, when the truth Is that to
the public moral opinion created by the
parent the school and the church, the
law must look for Its life. We do not
believe that the world Is more vicious or
Bocial life more dissolute or law on the
whole less effective than it was fifty
years ago; but if this indictment drawn
by the pulpit Is sound, the pulpit can
not escape responsibility for it If the
pulpit was as alert, alive to its duty, as
it was when Wesley and Whitfield
preached directly at the heads and
hearts of the vicious instead of con
tenting itself with impeaching the law
for the presence of vice, it la probable
that vicious callings would obtain
fewer followers and a smaller num
ber of victims. The law and the gospel
have their distinct work to do in the
government of society, and a dead or
dull or demoralized or paralyzed pulpit
cannot fairly Indict the law for falling
to do the work of the gospel. Nobody
expects that the pulpit can extirpate
vice, but the pulpit seems to forget
that the public opinion which the pul
pit Is able to create by the education of
its congregation Is the measure of the
power of the law to purify the social
atmosphere.
SERIOUS PHASES OP HAZING.
The New York Independent thought
fully points out that a very serious
phase of the hazing evil, still existent
at West Point, lies in the conflict of
genuine with spurious ethics. These
students, for example, are to be taught
absolute truthfulness. They must not
lie under any circumstances, on penalty
of being ostracized and compelled to
leave the Institution. This Is as It
should be, for a lie is cowardly and
courage is a soldier's prime qualifica
tion. Yet these students, under oath
to obey the rules of the school, are
brought to consider it a higher obliga
tion to conceal each other's disobedi
ence of the nules against hazing. la
other words, because the false senti
ment of the school forbids "telling,"
they, even when suffering to a degree
that makes it Impossible to suppress
hysterical crying, voluntarily stuff the
mouth with cotton rather than betray
the broken oath of their brutal com
rades to the officers who might be with
in earshot. Here, says the Independent,
is falsehood which rises to perjury, of
which these young men are guilty, per
haps all of them, while presumably cul
tivating the virtue of truthfulness.
The cadets probably do not so an
alyze their conduct, but is not this
analysis correct? In the conflict of
duty do they not prefer the spurious
to the genuine? And Is this what the
Nation wants of its military leaders of
the future, whom at large expense it is
educating to uphold its honor, when oc
casion arises before the world?" Only
less pernicious In an ethical sense Is
the general Idea that seems to prevail
among military students of the higher
classes that personal physical humilia
tion Is necessary to eradicate individual
conceit, or. In the students' vernacular,
"freshness." Young men who have
been taught that self-respect is a vir
tue are made to do silly things or pain
ful things in order to take this notion
out of them. Upon this hypothesis It Is
almost unanimously declared that It Is
"good for the new men to be hazed,"
and the Job is delegated to the natural
bullies of the class, who, as some of the
witnesses have reluctantly admitted,
"did not seem to know when a man
had enough." It is sufficient to say of
this defense of hazing that it Is but a
pretense for the practice of what gives
amusement by giving pain the brutal
bully's pastime.
The brutal cruelty of the custom Is
considered the least of the evils that
arise from or are fostered by hazing,
since, relatively considered, few cadets
have been permanently Injured by it
physically. Reduced to its simplest
form of expression, hazing means that
a member of the higher class feels free
to give orders to the newcomer to do
any difficult, disagreeable or silly thing,
and if he refuses he is compelled to
fight. Surely, no just or honorable man
whose judgment has not been warped
by a spurious code of ethics will refuse
to Indorse the sentiment that this Is a
mean, unmanly, un-Chrlstian way oi
treating a younger companion, utterly
wrong In Its Inception, an outgrowth of
that brutality of Instincts which exists
in heedless boys and which It has been
the purpose of true culture through
generations of painstaking endeavor to
eradicate. There can be but one re
sponse to the assertion that "we do not
want brutes in the Army as officers
over enlisted men."
The view of the Governor In the mat
ter of a Reform School for wayward
girls is in line with that of The Ore
gonlan as presented at various times.
In reference to this subject he says:
"Surely no rule of ethics can be cited
in Justification of the process of reform
ing the boys and neglecting the girls
of the state, who In equal number need
the fostering care of a protecting com
monwealth." This Is in full accord with
a statement, presented somewhat differ
ently in The Oregonlan a few days
ago, and this journal supplements, as
it preceded, the hope expressed by His
Excellency that the, Legislature now in
session will give this matter careful
consideration that will , bear practical
results. While It is not probable, as
stated by the Governor, that the num
ber of neglected girls In the state who
heed the fostering care of a protecting
commonwealth Is equal to that of neg
lected boys, the smaller number should
be looked after. Many parents whom
the knowledge that their boys are be
ing educated in vlleness on the streets
does not in the least distress make
more or less strenuous effort to protect
their girls, hence the number of way
ward girls Is not as great as that of
unruly boys. But it is great enough,
and the problem of their neglect is seri
ous enough to cause just apprehension
in regard to their part in the statistics
of crime a few years hence. The Chief
of Police of this city could no doubt
furnish all the data that inquiring leg
islators may need In order to make
their duty clear upon this point
Astronomers are busy with prepara
tions for observing' the total eclipse of
the sun, which will occur on the 19th of
May of this year. An expedition will
be sent by the United States Naval Ob
servatory to Sumatra, where conditions
for securing views of the eclipse will
be excellent Its extreme duration of
six-minutes will render this eclipse of
especial value for purposes of observa
tion. Congress has appropriated $10,000
for the expenses of the expedition, and
the party, under direction of Professor
Skinner, will sail for Manila on a Gov
ernment transport some time In March,
en route to Sumatra. It is confidently
expected that some of the secrets In
regard to the luminous properties of the
sun that have hitherto eluded scien
tific inquiry will be secrets no longer
after this eclipse. A set of magnificent
cameras of gigantic, proportions and
scope are being made in Washington,
by which a series of photographs will
be taken. These are depended upon to
show the structural details of the halo
surrounding the sun with a deflnlte
ness that it hss heretofore been Im
possible to secure.
General Dewet Is reported as very
angry at the success of the burgher
peace commission in distributing Paul
Botha's book. He probably is disgust
ed, too, with the text of the appeal
Issued by the central peace committee
at Kroonstad, which Includes W. D.
Dewet, ex-Assistant Chief Command
ant; three ex-members of the Volks
raad and two Justices. This commit
tee in their appeal say, among other
things:
The country is literally one vast wilderness.
The farmers and their families have lost every
thing. Ruin and starvation stare them in the
face. All this misery Is caused by a small,
obstinate minority, who will not bow to the
Inevitable, and who make the majority suffer.
Any encouragement to men still in command
to continue the hopeless struggle can only in
jure us and cauBe further misery.
The committee denounoe ex-President
Steyn and General Dewet as the only
obstacles to peace, and assert that
Kruger and the late Transvaal Govern
ment have been willing twice to accept
the British terms, but that Steyn re
fused to surrender, continued the war
and encouraged the burghers to hope
for European assistance.
Among recent deaths Is that of ex
United States Senator James W. Brad
bury, at his home in Augusta, Me., in
the 99th year of his age. He was born
in York County, Maine, the 10th of
July, 1802, and was-graduated at Bow
doin College In 1825. Among his college
friends were Longfellow, Hawthorne
and Franklin Pierce. He was elected in
1847 to the United States Senate as a
Democrat, serving until 1853, when he
declined a renominatlon. During his
term he served as chairman of a se
lect committee on French spoliations.
Upon retirement from public life he re
sumed the practice of law, which he
continued until about 10 years ago. To
the end of his days he retained "his
faculties and his interest In the affairs
of the day. Among his political con
temporaries were Webster, Clay, Cal
houn and Jefferson Davis.
Not the least among the perplexities
pointing to grave results that afflict
China just now Is the fact that the only
statesman in the empire the man to
whom the eyes of the nations turned
In the late crisis as being the only
Chinaman able to grapple with the sit
uation, is in his dotage and wholly un
able, from purely natural causes, to rise
to the emergency. There Is no more
pitiful spectacle than that presented by
senility vainly striving to discharge du
ties that tax robust manhood In the
accomplishment. Poor, old Li Hung
Chang! It is unfortunate that his
country needs so sorely the man that
he once was, and doubly unfortunate
that there seems to be no one to take
his place in all the Chinese Empire.
The ill wind that is blowing between
Senators Pettigrew and Hanna prom
ises to blow good to the people at large
in preventing a vote on the ship sub
sidy bill. While Pettigrew, in a spirit
of personal revenge against Hanna In
opposing this bill, because the latter
went some thousands of miles out of
his way to defeat him last Fall, he has
strong support In opposing the bill on
the basis of the greatest good to the
greatest number. The West Is bringing
strong influence to bear against the
bill, and even Senator Frye, next to
Hanna its strongest champion, admits
that the measure must be amended in
"a spirit of compromise" In order to
give It any chance to get through this
session.
The smallpox scare In New York City
has stimulated the enforcement of com
pulsory vaccination in Kansas City.
The St. Loui3 and Chicago authorities
are making vigorous efforts to save
those cities from epidemics, and in
some Minnesota towns and cities house-to-house
vaccination has been enforced.
Boston is free from the disease, be
cause its health department persistent
ly urges the Importance of vaccination.
The prevalence of the disease is evident
from the fact that from July lv 1900,
to December 28 last there were 7796
cases of smallpox reported to the au
thorities at Washington. During the
same period In the previous year there
were 2487 cases, or less than one-third
as many.
Teller, Towne, Cannon and Petti
grew congratulate Dubois; but can they
suppose that free coinage of sliver Is
nearer fulfillment through Dubois' elec
tion, or that the "great principle" for
which "the old guard" (of silver fools)
stands, and for the sake of which It
congratulates Dubois, is anything more
than the passing craze of a clump of
shallow sciolists, which has been dis
credited, as they have been, forever
though one or two of them may still sit
for a time for benighted constituencies
in the Senate?
Democratic State Senator Owen R.
Washburn, who is bitterly denounced
for having deserted to Quay, is a
preacher and editor of a local weekly
paper In Crawford County. He was
elected to the State Senate of Pennsyl
vania two years ago by a fusion of
Democrats, Populists and Prohibition
ists. The Democratic members of the
Legislature have adopted resolutions
denouncing Washburn, who is a "Ver
monter and ten years ago was a con
ductor on a street railway in Spring
field, Mass.
England Is alarmed when she sees
the progress of the United States, and
thinks she is not getting ahead. . She
need not be. The United States Is go
ing forward at a rapid pace, but if
England will look out of the opposite
car window she will see she is making
some progress.
Li Hung Chang is said to be suffer
ing from Bright's disease. If China
had not discovered the world he would
not know what Is the matter with
him.
The powers ordered China to sign
that joint note once too often.
THEDAllESBJATRAlLWAYPROJECT
Effort "Will Be Made to Have Repeal
lng Clause Stricken Out in Senate.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. Representa
tive Moody had intended offering an
amendment to the river and harbor bill
striking out the clause repealing the boat
railway project, but after a conference
today with the Washington and Idaho
Representatives, concluded, in view of tho
fact that all amendments offered to the
committee's bill had been rejected by a
vote of three or four to one, that It would
be better to allow the bill. to go to the
Senate and there undertake to have the
repealing clause stricken out
If Senator McBrlde returns in time, he
will probably be able, as a member of the
commerce committee, to have this object
accomplished, as he did two years ago.
Representative Moody is of the opinion
that the delegation will be in a better
position in the future to secure the adop
tion of a new project by retaining the
law already authorized by Congress, with
the available balance, than if they have
to begin anew. He also feels that the
improvement at The Dalles is much more
apt under these condition, to receive fa
vorable action by the supervisory board
of five engineers created by the present
bill than it would otherwise. Senator Si
mon has been urging the Quartermaster's
Department to retain the steamer Argyll,
of Portland, as a Government transport
for carrying forage to the Philippines,
but has been told that the Buckingham,
of Seattle, has been offered at $350 per
day, while $600 is asked for the Argyll,
and that only one transport is now need
ed. If in March, when large shipments
will again be made, the Argyll is offered
at a reasonable rate, she may be again
employed as a transport, otherwise, for
age will be shipped from Portland at so
much per ton.
The House public lands committee fa
vorably reported Repreeentatlve Jones'
bill extending the free homestead act to
the opened portion of the Colviile reservation.
Presidential Nominations.
WASHINGTON, Jan. l.-The President
sent the following nominations to the
Senate today:
Naval Constructor Francis B. Bowles to
be Chief Constructor and Chief of the
Bureau of Construction and Repair in the
Navy; Lyle F. Bellinger, of Georgia, to be
a civil engineer In the Navy. Volunteer
Army promotions First Lieutenants to be
Captains: W. H. Butler, Forty-ninth In
fantry; H. F. McFeely, Forty-second In
fantry: Second Lieutenant to be First
Lieutenant, W. Huffman, Forty-ninth
Infantry; E. E. Hackett, Jr., Forty-second
Infantry: Sergeants to be Second
Lieutenants: H. F. Sykea, Forty-second
Infantry: C. W. Stewart, Thirtieth In
fantry; H. H. Goodyear, Twenty-eighth
Infantry. Regulars Second Lieutenant
F. Dallman, Eighth Cavalry, to be First
Lieutenant: Edward P. Rockhlll, of Penn
sylvania, to be Assistant Surgeon, with
rank of First Lieutenant
Morgan's Canal Resolution.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. Senator Mor
gan has introduced a resolution declara
tory of the non-effect of the Clayton
Bulwer treaty upon the right of the
United States to construct the Nicaragua
Canal. The resolution recites the proto
col with Nicaragua and Costa Rica as
a preamble, and then proceeds as fol
lows: "Resolved, That the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty of July 4, 1850, gives no right to
Great Britain to demand that the Con
gress of the United States shall with
hold Its ratification of said agreements
or shall abstain from legislation to pro
vide for their prompt execution.
"That the ratification by Great Britain
of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty of Febru
ary 5, 1900, as the same has been amended
by the Senate, is not a condition prece
dent to -legislation by Congress in pro
viding for the execution of said agree
ments with Costa Rica and Nicaragua:
nor are the principles or provisions of
the Clayton-Bulwer treaty any Just or
admissible ground of objection on the
part of the Government of Her Britannic?
Majesty to enactment of a law by Con
gress providing for the execution of such
agreements with Costa Rica and Nicar
agua." Salt and Minlnf? Larrs.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. The House
committee on public lands today decided
against reconsidering the favorable action
previously taken to Include salt mines un
der the placer mining laws.
Good-by, Senator Chandler.
Chicago Times-Herald.
Life in the United States Senate will be
pleasanter for the enforced retirement of
Senator William E. Chandler. It is doubt
ful if a single sincere tear is shed over
the departure of the incorrigible wasp
from New Hampshire who for 30 years
has been buzzzing and stinging about in
the political life of Washington. With
undoubted ability, Mr. Chandler's nature
was so overstocked with gall and worm
wood that it is difficult to comprehend
how he ever succeeded In public life.
His crushing defeat shows how little
sympathy the people of New Hampshire
had for the quixotic Ideas of Senator
Chandler on bimetallsm and anti-expansion.
It also demonstrates how complete
ly he had estranged the constituency that
thrice elected him to the Senate.
His career proves that a man can make
his mark but not enduring friends with
a rasp.
.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
Poor Stuff. Do Reader Is Scribbler a great
poet? Do Booker I guess not. He had an ode
accepted by a celebration committee. New
York Weekly.
A Point In Ethics. "What Is the law of
compensation?" "Well, here's how It Is: Tho
things we don't want are given us to console
us for our lack of tho things we want." Chi
cago Record,
Benevolent Party My man. don't you think
fishing Is a cruel sport? Angler Cruel ? Well,
I should say so. I have sat here six hours,
have not had a bite, and am nearly frozen to
death. Tlt-Blts.
Mr. Selfmade Remember, children, when I
was a boy I often went to bed hungry, and
seldom had a square meal. Little Tommy who
Is tired of hearins about it) Well, that Just
shows how much better off you are since
you've known us. Life.
Not Over Yet. "Dear me! This Is really ex
asperating," sighed Agulnaldo, after reading
the dispatch. "What's the matter, lover in
quired his wife, anxiously. "Why, small bands
of Americans still continue to annoy our
troops." replied the stepfather of his country.
Puck.
A Bit of Philosophy.
Josh Wink in Baltimore American.
Though men may heap the dollars up .
In golden, gleaming plies.
Though they may bask beneath the light
Of fickle Fortune's smiles.
Yet. when Death beckons unto them.
And murmurs, "Come with mo,"
They're Just as dead that day, my boy,
As you and I will be.
The dollars, and the Joy they bring.
The Jewels and the wine.
Must linger ever on this side
They cannot cross the line.
The poorest, meekest of us all,
And he who Is most proud.
Are on a level, for there are
No pockets in a shroud.
No pockets for the shrouded has
No need of pockets more
But all his deeds the good and bad
They all have gone before.
' And when he fares to Heaven's gate
His future fate to seek,
'TIs well. If haply there may bo
A tear stain on his cheek.
Tis well for on our balance sheet
No dollars have a line,
But every one of sorrow's tears
Like gleaming Jewels shine.
And all the smiles that we have coaxed
To drive cut misery
Weigh in our favor when we're dead,
As you and I will be.
NOTE AND COMMENT
Wanted Somebody who will Pat Crowo
Agulnaldo for $25,000.
Good morning: have you sent your grip
remedy to the President?
Certainly the Supremo Court needs re
lief. Will lawyers grant it?
We trust it 13 Mars signaling to us, and
not Venus trying to work up a flirtation.
Hoke Smith says that free silver is dead
in the South. This makes Its decease
unanimous.
Roberts does not want to receive any
more honors until Kitchener has won
them for hlra.
All the powers admit the influence of
tho United States in China, but node
seems to feel it
At last the British have a good chance
at the Boers, but it doesn't seem to do
them much good.
Bryan, our Minister to Brazil, has made
a mess of diplomatic etiquette. He seems
worthy to wear his name.
Hon. Blnger Hermann has no 'distant
relatives. They are all at Washington on
tho Government payroll.
If Governor Geer"s message were an
annual document Instead of a biennial,
would it be only half as long?
Another man has set out to reach the
pole, and if he gets a long enough start
on the foolkiller ho may succeed.
That negro thief who was arrested yes
terday may not be a good man, but ho
certainly has the right ring about him.
General Grant chased a band of Fili
pinos out of his district One of these
days, when he least expects ,lt, he may
equal his father.
The W. C. T. U. has shown it Is against
temperance because It has not demon
strated that the Army canteen was any
thing but temperate.
Max Nordau says that one day the yel
low civilization will overcome the white.
What a great day that will bo for Joseph
Pulitzer and W. R. Hearstl
Hanna must crack the whip if he wants
the old stagers of the South to dance
Atlanta Constitution. What's the matter
with patting a little ragtime?
A Chicago man who tried to save his
bank book from Are was burned to death.
Let us be thankful that so few of us will
ever be placed in the same peril.
If the Martians are like the god for
whom their planet was named, it seems
probable they gave tho Czar the tip on
which he called that peace conference.
Alvord, tho defaulting New York bank
teller, stole JTO.OOO, and only got 13 years
In the Penitentiary. This Is another blow
at the superstition that 13 Is an unlucky
number.
There seems to be a profound secret
somewhere about Agulnaldo's death from
the fact that he is keeping so quiet
about it. But maybe he is not dead, only
Pat Crowed.
F. Hopklnson Smith Is making war on
the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" shows. Perhaps
his wrath would be abated if he was al
lowed to plant lighthouses along the pivth
of Eliza when she crosses the Ice.
With a tobasco sauce diet at West Pqlnt
and embalmed beef in the camps, the
Army officer must occasionally pine lor
the fare of a private citizen, who eats
things like his mother used to make.
The Chamber of Commerce has appoint
ed a committee to report upon the need
of a flreboat We know all about the
need of a flreboat What we are shy on
are ways and means for getting o. flre
boat "Posterity," says the Philadelphia In
quirer, "Is to be congratulated on tho fact
that Mr. Markham will never write an
other poem on tho opening of the cen
tury." If it were possible to amend by
striking out the last six words, tho cause
for congratulation would bo greater.
Women need not lament that manhood
Is depraved, despicable and oppressive,
and that It forgets Its proper sphere.
Fact is, their own fathers were men and
were sons of women, and were the best
people who ever lived. If their fathers
were otherwise how did they beget so
perfectly?
Young women alumna of the High
School cannot be blamed for wanting to
keep away "outside girls." In a matrimo
nial market, where the feminine stock far
exceeds the masculine.iny addition to the
former naturally would hazard, to an In
ordinate degree, the equilibrium of supply
and demand which even now is sadly dis
turbed. (
Do be careful, Mr. Teslo, or it's likely you will
find
You will do some dreadful damage with your
scientific mind.
You can listen all you want to for a message
from the stars.
And can fly your klto to gather what the peo
ple say in Mars,
But you mustn't get to fooling with conditions
here below.
For there's much to bo discovered on this
planet yet, you know;
And if you're not very careful you will find
without a doubt
You've Invented something useful.
If
you
b don't
t watch.
r out
January Sanahlne.
Oh! the sunshine's mighty pleasant In the early
days of Spring,
When the breakln up of Winter sort of bright
ens everything.
When the buds Is all a-swellln' an the robin's
here again
Come to sing his cheerln gospel to the thirst
In' hearts of men
When the cricks is brimmln' over an' the
grass Is gettin' green.
An' the season seems the gladdest an tho best
you've ever seen.
An' the sunshine's bright an cheerln when
the Summer days is here;
When the fields are growln yellow an the
harvestln' is near;
When there's not a cloud or shadow In the
heavens overhead.
An the western sky at sunset Is a glowln
flame of red;
When the twilight likes to linger till the gol
den Bummer day ,
Seems to last till nearly midnight 'foje It
gently fades away.
But the sunshine in the Winter that's tho
time it seems the best
When the weary clouds retire for a badly
needed rest.
When the mountains we last saw them such
a dreary while ago
Still are there, an' now are wearin' Winter
coats o' shining snow;
When a bracln. stlrrtn' feelin' seems to thrill
the very air.
An' ole Nature is astonished Into smillh'
everywhere, '
That's the time we're needln' of it though It's
good In Spring an' Fall
Still the January sunshine la the vary best of
alt
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