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PORTLAND, TUESDAY, FEB. 12.
There Is a. Job of the worst character
in House bill No. 45. It Is a bill to
create in counties of 50,000 or more
inhabitants the office of Public Admin
istrator. The bill Is not for protection
cf estates and heirs, of course, but has
fur Its object the enrichment of grafters
and looters, who intend to prey on es
tates. Under this bill, if, within thirty
days after the death of an Intestate, the
widow or next of kin shall not have ap
plied for letters of administration, this
harpy, to be called the Public Adminis
trator, Is to get in and begin his work
of sucking the estate dry; and there
will be no possibility of getting rid of
him but by paying the full fees of ad
ministration, whether he may have done
anything or not. This is but one feature
of the bill, which has been shrewdly
drawn up by shysters, for the single
purpose of looting estates and TObbing
heirs. When the Public Administrator,
who will lie in wait for every oppor
tunity, shall once succeed In getting his
"flippers" Into an estate, revocation of
his administration "shall not Impair his
right to receive from the estate his
legal charges and disbursements, to be
c 'inputed in the same manner and to
the same extent as the charges and
disbursements, including attorney fees,
as fees of other administrators"; and,
m Teover, such Public Administrator is
tj have the guardianship of all minor
heirs. The Oregonlan dislikes to use
harsh terms, but it is compelled to say
that this Is a scheme of robbery and
Infamj, worked up in the interest of
rascaldom. It begs the Legislature to
reject it. The present law as to ad
ministration and settlement of estates
is good enough. The office of Public
Administrator, whenever it has been
created with considerable powers, has
bourne a synonym for corruption and
sr llatlon; and this -would be equal to
the worst.
"We cannot suppose the Tacoma
Ledger intentionally misrepresents The
Oregonlan. It Is evident, however, that
it has carelessly read The Oregonlan.
Else it would not say that The Ore
gonlan urges that the pledge of inde
pendence to Cuba, given by the United
States, shall be broken. On the con
trary. The Oregonlan has distinctly
said, many times, that the pledge
must be kept. But it has said, many
times, and as plainly as possible, that
it was a pledge that was wholly un
necessary, that it ought never to have
been given, and that it will certainly
invle us in another war. Cuba does
not belong to the United States. By our
Cv venant we renounced the sovereignty,
and by that covenant we are bound.
Cuba is foreign territory, is setting up
as an independent state, and will have
all the rights and powers of a sovereign
nati n. "What then? She will have a
right to make such engagements with
ether nations, to enter Into such rela
tions with other nations, as she pleases.
And Cuba is the key to the Gulf of
Mexico and to isthmus transit. The
time will come when we shall be com
pelled to take measures to check or
remove this menace to our interests,
an I then we shall be compelled to
flght some first-class power with which
Cuba has entered into relations. This
is -what will come of "the extreme
demagogical stupidity" that gave the
pledge by which we now are bound.
S ire nation will acquire influence with
Cuba, get a hold on Cuba, and mould
its policy, which policy will be unfavor
able to the United States. Then what?
The Oregonlan is simply invoking the
I r Idence that is, or should be, watoh
i'ul in a state.
An Interesting inquiry, whose answer
can be furnished by time alone, is,
H w Is community of railroad owner
ship going to work to achieve the exact
details of harmony upon which it has
iresjmably determined? 'Most of us
arc at least distantly acquainted with
these entitles) of the railroad world
cabled "traffic departments" and "oper
ating departments." They have well
J fined characteristics, and most of
their leading figures are men of origin
ality and force. All owners look alike
to them. But even if we admit that Mr.
Traffic Manager and Mr. General Su
perintendent are to be moved about as
rawns upon the chessboard by Messrs.
Morgan, Harriman or Vanderbilt, the
further speculation is pertinent. How
is the shipper himself to be reduced to
a bit of clay in the potter's hands?
For it is an open secret that the tyrant
cf the transportation world is Standard
Oil or the Big Four in beef quite as
often as it is the terror-stricken rail
road, vainly pleading the moral law
and the consent of the governed. That
Is to say, a promoter is not necessar
ily an operator, nor is a financier neces
sarily a railroad man. Mr. Morgan, for
example, is one of the ablest bankers in
the world, but whether he can make
steel as successfully as Mr. Carnegie
did Is not to be admitted without dem
onstration. So In the railroad field.
"Who is going to decide whether the
Northern Pacific shall build into the
Clearwater country or abandon the ter
ritory to the O. R. & N.? If the offi
cers of the road can't decide It, or have
their advice taken, the owners will
shortly be looking for a president at
$2000 or so a year. And if the design
is to abolish discriminative freight
rates so that the humble shipper Is to
get the same figure per ton as his great
rival gets on his thousand carloads, who
is to nullify the acumen of the big
shipper who plays one traffic bureau
against another and gets rates, as it
were, at wholesale? These great stock
operations are easily engineered through
"Wall street, but the actual management
of the roads is yet in the hands of
railroad men. Their part in the mat
ter is yet to be ascertained, and how
great a transformation has come over
them must develop before the commu
nity of ownership has any practical
meaning.
After all the Northern Pacific and
Great Northern have done for Puget
Sound cities in the business of foreign
trade, it is a trifle wearisome to read
in Seattle and Tacoma papers that the
blessings those bumptious towns enjoy
are wholly due to their own physical
and intellectual superiority. The rea
son why trans-Pacific steamships un
load tea and rice and load up cotton
and steel rails at Puget Sound docks
Is simply because the transcontinental
railroads with termini there are deter
mined on that proceeding. Even then
a large part of the outbound cargoes
are derived from Oregon farms, mills
and lumber camps, and a large part
of the inbound cargoes are brought by
rail to Portland consumers. The rail
roads do this work for the benefit of
their Puget Sound terminals and for
the sake of the hauls they get on the
merchandise that goes across the coun
try. The superior wit and environment
of Tacoma and Seattle are not in evi
dence In the matter, or at Issue. So
with Government transport outfitting,
which has made business lively on Pu
get Sound this last year or two. The
Government ships horses and forage
from Seattle, but they are Oregon
horses, hay and oats, which the Gov
ernment, In Its desire to do something
for the railroads, hauls over to Puget
Sound from Portland, or else they are
Eastern supplies, which are also ob
tained through railroad Influence for
the long haul across the country. These
same vessels are frequently In port in
the Columbia River, the Government's
diverting fiction being, first, that the
ships cannot come here, though at times
they are actually chartered while in
Portland harbor and taken elsewhere
to load, and, second, that supplies cost
so much at Portland that the Govern
ment is compelled to buy them here
and reship them to Puget Sound. In
all this unlovely record, the teeming
resources of Puget Sound and the high
business acumen of Its men stand out
as clearly as sunken reef on a dark
night. "We trust the Puget Sound pa
pers will continue to expatiate upon
the prowess of their cities in earning
the prosperity their railroads have
forced upon them. Otherwise, the gaps
that would be left In their instructive
columns might require some Intellectual
exertion to fill.
AVE HAVE TARRIED.
It is evident that Congress will take
no step this session for the Nicaragua
Canal. "We cannot, Indeed, In decency
go forward without first completing
with Great Britain an arrangement for
supercedure of the CJayton-Bulwer
treaty, or giving her formal notice that
we shall consider that treaty at an end,
since the purposes for which it was
negotiated have lapsed and therefore
we must go forward now and construct
the canal ourselves. But we cannot act
abruptly, and the influences in the
Senate that would put the canal off
Indefinitely, or forever, are glad to have
opportunity to hide behind the obsta
cles which the Clayton-Bulwer treaty
presents.
The Oregonian never has thought it
necessary, or even important, that we
should Insist on our right to fortify
the canal. We cannot ignore the rela
tion of the canal to the commerce of
the world, nor overlook the precedent
of the neutralization of the Suez Canal,
nor be indifferent to the fact that au
thorities of our Army and Navy do
not urge the construction of the canal
as a defensive measure or think the
fortlficatloni of it a strategic or military
necessity. The canal would be of small
value In war, difficult of defense and
practically Impossible of protection
against damage. Its value must be al
most exclusively commercial, and the
only efficient protection it can have is
an agreement by all maritime nations
to respect its neutrality. It would be so
easy temporarily to disable the canal
that access to it by all nations at all
times must be conceded In order to pro
tect It. But if we are to depend on
force for its protection the wisest thing
would be to maintain an understand
ing with the nation most powerful at
sea; for protection of it will be a naval
problem.
It seems not to be expected that
Great Britain will accept the amended
Hay-Pauncefote treaty in the form In
which It has been presented to the Brit
ish Government. Counter propositions
undoubtedly will be forthcoming. We
suppose the final outcome will be a dis
solution of the partnership between the
United States and Great Britain for
construction of the isthmian canal, that
has existed more than fifty years; yet
we of the Pacific Coast are tired of
being told that we must yet for an in
definite time sprinkle cool patience on
our desire to have the canal. We know
that he who would have his cake must
tarry the grinding and the baking; but
have not we tarried?
DEMOCRATIC IIARMOXIZATIOX.
In the February North American Re
view Mr. Perry Belmont explains the
desired reorganization of the Demo
cratic party. He goes back to '72 and
76, and it is his idea that from the
demoralization of '72, like that of 1900,
the party should adopt the principles
of 1S76 for a victory In 1904. Now the
platform of 1S76 was for honest money.
That is, it averred "reform is neces
sary to establish a sound currency, re
store the public credit and maintain the
National honor." Speedy resumption of
specie payment was urged, and the Re
publican party was criticised for fall
ing "for all these eleven years of peace
to make good the promise of the legal
tender notes, the non-payment of which
is a disregard of the plighted faith of
the Nation." Such a plank in the plat
form of 1904 would doubtless be accept
able to the Gold Democrats, but it needs
no argument to show that it would not
in itself be sufficient to hold the Bryan
Democrats.
The platform of 1876, moreover, de
clared for free trade. The existing pro
tective system, it said, had "Impover
ished many industries to subsidize a
few." Then it went pn with this ar
raignment: "It prohibits imports that
might purchase the products of Ameri
can labor. It has degraded American
commerce from the first to an inferior
rank on the high seas. It has cut down
the sales of American manufactures at
home and abroad, and depleted the re
turns of American agriculture an in
dustry followed by half our people. It
costs the people five times more than it
produces to the Treasury." But Mr.
Belmont conceives "anti-Imperialism"
as a corollary of tariff reform, whereas
free trade and expansion are entirely
consistent, expansion being, in fact, a
great destroyer of economic Isolation.
Numbers of Democrats, also, are expan
sionists, though they Insist, with inde
pendent Republicans, that the islands
be justly administered. What the Dem
ocratic party needs, evidently, is a
platform about like this;
We demand the maintenance of the gold
standard, the parity of all the currency, and
the Inviolability of the National credit. To
this end we advocate the free and unlimited
coinage of sIKer, unlimited issues of paper,
and payment of bonds In silver.
We are In favor of territorial expansion, and
to this end we demand abandonment of Porto
Rico and the Philippines.
We are in favor of asserting thte National
dignity and honor, and to this end we de
mand the dismemberment of the Army and
the withholding of customary appropriations
for Its support-
W e demand law and order, and to this end
we disapprove all efforts of our National au
thorities to suppress rioting by either police or
Judicial power.
The fact is that Mr. Belmont does
not go far enough back, by some
twenty years, for his precedent. Let
the party adopt the plan in use before
the war on the slavery question, when
it had a free-state policy in the North,
a slave-state, policy in'the South, and let
the territories' Inhabitants fight It out
with knife and musket. If Mr. Belmont
really wants harmonization, there's his
model.
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY.
The birthday of Abraham Lincoln is
a legal holiday In Connecticut, Illinois,
Minnesota, , New Jersey, New York,
North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Wash
ington. Full justice has long ago been
done to the Idealized Lincoln; to Lin
coln, the philanthropist; to Lincoln, the
tender-hearted, who has been pictured
as sinking public justice in private
mercy, but full justice has not been
done to Lincoln, the great conservative
force in the statesmanship that guided
us through the red sea of civil war.
The wooden Lincoln that has been
palmed off upon our school children
Is a creature who was primarily
a soft-hearted man, a philanthropist
whose habit it always was to pardon
deserters, a kind of a wingless angel
of mercy and only incidentally a states
man. The truth is that Lincoln, like
Washington, was primarily a most mas
terful statesman, and only Incidentally
a philanthropist. The greatest los3 the
Nation suffered In the murder of Lin
coln was that In him expired the only
statesman whose influence was suffi
cient to have persuaded the country to
accept a scheme of reconstruction which
did not incorporate the blunder of negro
suffrage.
When Lincoln was elected In I860, he
had disclaimed all intention to bring
about social and political equality be
tween the white and black races. He
believed that by our form of govern
ment the states which had slavery were
to retain it or surrender it at their own
pleasure, and that all others Individ
uals, free states and National Govern
ment were constitutionally bound to
leave them alone about it. He believed
with Henry Clay that Congress had and
should exercise the right to oppose the
incorporation of slavery In our new
free territories. But Lincoln also de
clared that "it does not follow that so
cial and political equality between
whites and blacks must be incorporated
because slavery must not." In his last
Whig speech, -delivered at Urbana, 111.,
October 24, 1854, Lincoln accepted the
fugitive slave law as a finality "to be
as fully and honestly obeyed as any
other," and denies any Intention of
seeking the abolition of slavery in the
District of Columbia. The same speech
foreshadows Lincoln's attitude toward
slavery in the Civil War: "Much as I
hate slavery, I would consent to Its
extension rather than see this Union
dissolved."
Lincoln firmly held to the doctrine of
the inferiority of the negro and his In
ability to live as a free man among
white men. Before and after emanci
pation he was a colonizatlonist. Eman
cipation was a revolutionary alterna
tive which he abhorred, and was forced
upon him as a military necessity. He
was the unwilling Instrument of eman
cipation; he sincerely hated slavery and
he Intensely loved the Union, but he did
not want to emancipate the negro until
he could colonize him in some country
like Brazil. So conservative was Lin
coln In his anti-slavery attitude that
Wendell Phillips more than once In his
public speeches after Lincoln's election
stigmatized him as "the slavehound of
Illinois," because of his submission to
the fugitive slave law. Sumner and
Wade, after a very hard parliamentary
contest, defeated Lincoln's reconstruc
tion plan for the government of Louisi
ana, proposed in February, 1865. If
Lincoln's plan had prevailed for Lou
isiana and the other Insurgent states,
It would have resulted In the permanent
exclusion of the colored people from the
suffrage In all the old slave states. To
the radical, sentimental Charles Sum
ner, and not to the conservative, saga
cious Lincoln, do we owe the fact that
suffrage irrespective of color or race be
came fixed and universal in the Ameri
can system. His last public speech,
made in Washington City April 11, 1865,
shows that Lincoln did not think the
franchise should be at once conferred
upon any negroes except those who
"were very Intelligent or had served our
cause as soldiers," and he .intimated
that, so far as sustaining the new state
government of Louisiana, he would not
keep his promise to uphold It whenever
he became convinced that keeping it
was bad public policy.
This latest public deliverance of Lin
coln, uttered three days before his mur
der. Inspires the conviction that he
would have opposed the immediate and
sweeping enfranchisement of the col
ored people, and that plan of recon
struction whose outcome was the carpet-bag
governments. Not only was
Lincoln's attitude regarding negro suf
frage sure to have been marked by con
servatism, but above all other leaders of
the Union cause Lincoln's moderation
of language and his humane temper
had moved the admiration of many in
fluential leaders among the insurgents.
Lincoln had offered the South peace
with full payment for their slaves after
Gettysburg, and again at the famous
Hampton conference, and finally, as
late as February, 1865, before the final
campaign of Grant, Lincoln read a
message to his Cabinet, again urging
upon Congress a renewal of the offer
of peace to the South with payment for
their slaves. As the first and the last
man during the Civil War to lift the
olive branch and offer it to the South
at the eleventh hour when the occupa
tion of Atlanta and Savannah and the
great disaster of Nashville had settled
the fate of the Confederacy, Lincoln
had impressed the strong men among
the leaders of the wrecked Confederacy
with the conviction that they could
safely trust their future to the conser
vatism and humanity of his statesman
ship. His heart had been full of com
passion, and his face had glowed with
kindness, born out of his broad human
sympathy, when other faces had grown
stern through the long vigil of the war.
Lincoln was at once the conservatism
and the courage of his admiration. He
completely rewrites Seward's dis
patch in the Mason and Slidell case
with his own hand. He writes every
llne of the order removing General Mc
Clellan with his Own hand. His letters
of stern rebuke to General Hooker and
his letters of earnest remonstrance to
General Meade are those of a deter
mined, masterful man, whose personal
eye was always on the gun. He checks
Fremont and Hunter upon the prema
ture attempt to force emancipation. He
resolves to attempt the relief of Forts
Sumter and Pickens against the Judg
ment of his Cabinet. He was always a
forceful, independent, conservative,
courageous, masterful Executive, who
did not hesitate to differ with Seward,
Chase and Stanton within his Cabinet,
or Carl Schurz and Greeley without his
Cabinet. He always decided his execu
tive policy if he did not always Imperi
ously dictate It. In all matters of Im
portance he had a distinct policy, and
he enforced It. He held the reins as
firmly and took the responsibility as
promptly and completely as ever did
Andrew Jackson.
Another consumption cure is pro
claimed, this time by a Brooklyn doc
tor, who asserts that he has discov
ered a remedy which, taken by Inhala
tion as a vapor, hypodermlcally or
through the stomach, will kill the
germs of that dreaded malady without
destroying the tissues which they have
Invested. The announcement will in
spire renewed courage In the hearts of
thousands who are flitting hither and
thither in the vain hope of routing the
insidious enemy that is preying upor
their tissues. Beyond this, the promise
of the newly discovered cure does not
as yet extend, though intelligent people
everywhere, unwilling to admit that sci
ence can be altogether baffled by any
disease the germs of which It has dis
covered and the course of which Is so
plainly marked, join the pale host of
sufferers in the hope .that a reliable cure
for this most ccrmmon and dreaded of
all maladies has at last been discov
ered. Spain, rent by. factions," her people
quarrelsome and distrustful of each
other, cannot even be happy and make
merry over the marriage of a Princess
of the reigning dynasty. The most
charming feature of The Hague wed
ding, and withal the one most promis
ing to the peace and stability of the
Dutch kingdom, was the unaffected
pleasure with which the people, high
and low, but now celebrated the nup
tials of their Queen. The trouble brew
ing over the Spanish royal marriage is
strongly suggestive, by contrast, of the
difference between a contented people,
happy in their traditions and condi
tions, and loyal to their government,
and a restless, 'discontented, turbulent
race, dominated by suspicion, and su
perstition, and living constantly upon
the verge of governmental change
through popular uprising.
Milan of Servia has succumbed
to death. Dissolute, incapable except
for evil, an old roue burned out by the
fires of his own vices, he goes to
his grave unwept even by the son
who succeeds him on the Ser
vian throne or by the wife who,
herself unscrupulous in morals, has by
turns execrated and cajoled him
through many scandalous, stormy
years. The time has come when to be
of "honored and blessed memory" a
sovereign must at least preserve the
semblance of decency before the world.
In this, Milan of Servia signally failed,
and any display of grief at his demise
will be for the sake of appearances
only. All things considered, there is no
man on the face of the earth who could
better be spared than this decayed, ex
King of a not over-nice Balkan state.
Sixto Lopez says the Filipinos de
mand an "inalienable right." But what
Is an "Inalienable right"? Does any ex
ist? A right is inalienable only when
It cannot be alienated, when a people
can maintain It. It is the height of pre:
sumption to declare the Filipinos could
maintain an "Inalienable right," be
cause nowhere on earth except with the
Teutonic nations Is a political right in
alienable. However, It Is not credited
that the Filipinos burden their minds
with such subtleties of political phil
osophy. The conclnnous logic wherewith bar
bers argue the Sunday-closing scheme
would have more virtue as such, and
the lubricity of Its polish would be more
immaculate, If there were a corollary
to keep men from shaving themselves
on that day. But when a man- has li
cense to use the razor himself on Sun
day, who should deny him the assist
ance of his friend or brother?
The primary work of woman suffra
gists must be with women, not men.
The only reason women do not have
suffrage is that the majority of them
do not want it. If they wanted it, they
would have It.
Perhaps it is well for the framers of
Portland's new charter that they have
kept Its provisions secret. Otherwise
it might have so many flaws that no
toil and trouble could remedy them.
Cleveland says the United States
will never be the same again. "Very
true. Neither will Grover, nor should
he want to be if he is progressive.
The Boer plans are Teported by Kitch
ener to have miscarried. Then the
British must be In more difficulty.
THE SPIRIT OK CONQUEST.
It Is, In Other Words, the "Ascent
of. Man."
Chicago Inter Ocean.
"If the world powers have any recog
nized creed," says ex-President Harri
son in the current North American Re
view, "It is that it is their duty as 'trus
tees for humanity to take over the terri
tories of all the weak and decaying1 na
tions." He finds that "there has beeD
an attempt to associate the United States
with this programme of civilization, upon
the theory that the 'Anglo-Saxon has a
divine concession that covers the earth."
"The argument," he adds, "runs thus:
Major premise God's purpose is that man
shall make a full and the best use of all
his gifts; minor premise dominion is one
of his gifts, and the Anglo-Saxon makes
a better use of dominion than the Latin,
etc.; conclusion the Anglo-Saxon, there
fore, executes a divine purpose when he
subdues these peoples and takes over their
lands."
Mr. Harrison, of course, meant to be
sarcastic when he formulated the fore
going syllogism, but he Is not the first
who in sarcasm has expressed a funda
mental truth. His protest, although he
does not perceive the fact, 13 really di
rected agalnEt conquest of any kind,
whether material, mental, or moral. We
have but to substitute for "Anglo-Saxon"
In his syllogism "every progressive race,"
and we have a statement which expresses
the central fact of all human history.
Let us make this substitution. His major
premise may stand. His minor then be
comes: "Every progressive race makes
better use of dominion than the unprogres
sive races." The conclusion 13 obvious.
The progressive races do, indeed, execute
a divine purpose when they subdue and
elevate the unprogresslve. This Is what
they always have done.
The truth is, "the ascent of man" is a
continuous history of conquest, phys
ical, mental and moral. These waves of
conquest overlap. Caesar conquered Gaul,
not so much by the sword as by the men
tal superiority of his legionaries. It was
the triumph of mind over matter. Then
moral strength had Its turn, and the de
spised and rejected Jewish teacher led
captive Judea's conquerors. Though made
by persuasion, this was none the less a
conquest. The meek inherited the earth
simply because of their superior moral
strength.
The American people conquered their
continent, and swept aside less pro
gressive races, not so much by their phys
ical as by their mental and moral
strength. They were animated by that
spirit of conquest which springs from the
very conviction of superiority of which
Mr. Harrison complains. The same spirit
animates the Christian missionary. He is
absolutely convinced that his religion Is
better than all others. He wishes others
to have It because it is superior. So he
goes forth upon his persuasive campaigns
of conquest.
We have gone into the Philippines be
cause our duty carried us there. We
believe we can help the Filipinos as well
as ourselves. Why should Mr. Harrison
bewail our conquests for civilization?
Pnbllc Ownership in Vogue.
New York Evening Post.
The notion Is rather generally held,
especially In regard to the railway
"deals," that these large purchases of af
filiated companies are made by the mil
lionaires concerned wholly from their own
resources; arc paid for, so to speak, out
of their own pockets. No Idea could be
more delusive. Purchase of a corpora
tion, involving a dozen or a score of mil
lions, is almost Invariably settled through
the resources of the Investing public.
Twenty ycirs ago, the favorite mode of
payment was through the issuing of new
stock or mortgage bonds by the purchas
ing corporation. These securities were
sold to the ouside public; the proceeds of
the sale were used for settlement of the
propertjes acquired. What the million
aire syndicates did, with the assistance
of the banks, was to "finance" the opera
tion, and advance temporarily the needed
capital, between the time when the pur
chase money was paid over and when the
public assumed the resulting Investment
burden. The modus operandi Is almost
precisely the same today. The chief dif
ference is the more liberal use, nowadays,
of the "collateral trust bond" device,
whereby the purchasing company Is en
abled to acquire and hold control without
too Irrevocably pledging its own perpetu
al credit. Whether this contrivance is as
advantageous to the Investor as was the
older practice of Issuing a bond on the
purchaser's whole property, may be an
open question. That it is a safer and
wiser recourse for the purchasing corpora
tion, however, cannot be doubted.
i. Rich Beggar.
Kansas City Star.
Another proof of the needlessness of en
couraging American shipbuilding with
subsidies ib afforded by the action of the
Atlantic Transport Company last week
in putting orders for four more large
freight and passenger steamers with the
New York Shipbuilding Company. These
vessels are to ply from New York, Phila
delphia and Baltimore to London. The
company is an American concern which
owns a large fleet of steamers. It cannot
sail them under the United States flag
because they were built abroad. As At
lantic Transport stock Is quoted at about
300, it Is to be supposed that the com
pany is managed on good business prin
cipals, and that it bought its ships abroad
for reasons of economy. It would presum
ably not be ordering vessels built in the
United States unless conditions had
changed so that the American Shipbuild
ing Company had underbid Its foreign
competitors. Mere sentiment would not
induce a corporation organized to make
money to pay more than the market price
ior steamers simply for the privilege of
sailing them under the Stars and Stripes.
Here Is American Spirit.
There is an American Journal called
"Freedom" published at Manila. It rings
with patriotism and gives forth no uncer
tain sound concerning American policy
in the Philippines. Referring to the rapid
coming over of late Insurgents to take the
oath of allegiance, and to the deportation
of recalcitrant prisoners of war who have
violated their oaths to the Island of
Guam, Freedom wittily says:
To sit In Idleness, unable to attract atten
tion, would be galling. The Filipino knows
that. For him death has no such horror as
oblivion. To him the most comfortable home
in Guam would be a hell if haunted with the
vision of political rivals In Manila basking In
the sunshine of success, gained by taking the
right side and leading their followers to ac
cept American sovereignty.
Agulnaldolsm in the Philippines is deader
than Bryanlsm In the United States. Now is
the time for the Filipino "patriot" to get Into
the band wagon. Better be a ward boss In Ma
nila than a political Napoleon In Guam.
Better than all, to be a prosperous, peace
ful man on the American plan, with family
and friends about you, safe In the possession
of life, liberty and property, a part of the
greatest Nation on earth.
i
For Sport on Sundays.
Wallowa News.
The barbers who are pushing the Sun
day bill through the Legislature are not
doing so on account of any holy rever
ence for the Sabbath, but wish to go
duck-hunting, etc., on that day. In other
words, they wish to make it a day of
sport and recreation, and are afraid they
will lose their custom to their more dili
gent brethren, and so wish to compel
them to close up also, whether they wish
to go fishing or not.
We Should Have Trouble.
Boston Transcript.
A Cuban Government which should run
up an enormous debt; which should fre
quently In the Latin-American manner
constantly Irritate European powers,
would sooner or later probably sooner
be seeking our friendly offices to save it
from the consequences of its acts. To
prevent such resort to us at the very out
set some degree of oversight by us should
be established.
RESTORATION OP EGYPT.
Appropriate Place for the Renewal
of Civilization.
Kansas City Star.
The rehabilitation of Egypt suggests
the possibility of the restoration of the
ancient lands of Babylonia and Palestine
and Assyria. It seems inevitable that
nations and lands shall become degener
ate and dead. Asia Ib filled with the
ruins of extinct empires. In Europe
what was once glorious is now the seat
of decay. Civilization having traveled
Westward, may be expected to turn
Eastward again. Where could the re
vival of activity more properly begin
than in the ancient land of Egypt?
This unique country occupies a curious
position among the governments of the
earth. Its sovereign is a Viceroy of a
declining power, the Sublime Porte. But
the Khedive or Turkish Viceroy of
Egypt occupies a hereditary princely
seat. At the same time everything he
does must be scrutinized and indorsed
by the British agent, who Is Lord
Cromer, a man of great achievements
and the real master in the rejuvenated
land of the Pharaohs.
Beginning as Major Evelyn Baring, a
member of the International Commission
sent in 1S77 to solve the financial puz
zles of the government of Egypt, Lord
Cromer has gradually made himself the
great Egyptian expert. With the power
of England behind him his diplomacy
has worked one of the wonders of modern
times.
To young Major Baring, since created
Lord Cromer, is credited the complete
failure of the powers to counteract
British influence, and certainly he Is the
man who .discovered Kitchener and re
stored the Soudan to Egypt. Now he Is
building a dam across the Nile, at As
souan, to help navigation and prevent
the recurrence of famine. Taxation has
been reformed; life and property are
safe; there is a well-conducted army and
the police of Carlo and Alexandria are
said to be perfect. Twenty years ago
Egypt was regarded as a hopelessly
effete country for which nothing could
be done.
Today the ancient cities of Cairo and
Alexandria teem with life, commerce and
gaiety. The bonds of Egypt, quoted 20
years ago at 43 cents on the dollar, are
now above par. Trade has expanded
to such a degree that the land of the
pyramids is enjoying the biggest boom
in its history. A modern society Is grow
ing up upon the ruins of ancient Egypt.
A Cape to Calrio railway would be the
final guarantee of the old land's trans
formation into the leading commercial
district of the Levant.
Century Dispute in Advertisement.
Pall Mall Gazette.
It Is all to the good that whatever con
troversy still remains with regard to the
new century should be banished to the
advertisement columns. Here are two
from today's Times:
TO the ENGLISH PUBLIC and the PUBLIC
ABKOAD.
A widespread haziness about the beginning
of the Century should be dispelled. A Cen
tury Is a series of one hundred consecutive
years and must therefore begin with a year
and end with a year. The 20th Century could
not begin on thtc 1st of January, 1001, because
the tenth decade ended with the 31st of De
cember, 1S99, and bo terminated the 10th Cen
tury, and Its first birthday will be on the first
of next month, Dec. 28, 1900.
A widespread haziness about the beginning
of a street should be dispelled. A street may
be a series of one hundred houses, and must
therefore becln with a house and end with a
house. The twentieth house could not be Num
ber 20. because the tenth house la Number 0,
and so terminates the 1st decade. Number 0 Is
the first house, and the second house Is Num
ber 1.
This advertisement is dated 23-12-00. which
means the 27th day of the elevennt month of
the ninety-ninth year of the century.
Could any greater evidence of national
wealth be Imagined than that two con
troversialists should In this way pay the
price of their emotions?
Lincoln's Favorite Hymn.
Lincoln's favorite hymn has been de
termined by Secretary John Hay, who as
his private -secretary might konw, and
who says that "there was one which he
particularly liked." It was that begin
ning "Father, whate'er of earthly bliss."
The religious poem, rather than hymn,
which Lincoln most often repeated was
the melancholy strain of William Knox,
"Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be
proud!" v
The hymn which remains in Mr. Hay's
memory is Anne Steele's, and is always
sung to Lowell Mason's tune "Naomi."
The verses are but a small part of the
whole hymn as Miss Steele wrote it. As
used, it is as follows:
Father, whate'er of earthly bliss
Thy sovereign will denies,
Accepted at thy throne, let this.
My humble prayer, arise.
Give me a calm, a thankful heart,
From every murmur free;
The blessings of thy grace Impart,
And let me live to thee.
Let the sweet hope that thou art mlno
My life and death attend;
Thy presence through my Journey shine.
And crown my Journey's end.
"Something Too Much of This."
Pendleton East Oregonian.
To establishe several Institutions that
are not needed and that could accomplish
no good, with the aid of state money in
Eastern Oregon, as has been proposed in
the Legislature, would not abate or equal
ize one jot or title the burden on the peo
ple's back, placed there by the establish
ment of these instituions in other parts
of the state. An industrial school in East
ern Oregon would accomplish nothing for
the people of the state. It would pro
vide several soft places for a few of the
army who clamor for such jobs, and give
a kind of free education to a few son3 and
daughters who should be educated at the
expense of their own parents. The insti
tutions of this character now being sup
ported with a liberal supply of state
money are too numerous by far, and un
able to do a work that can be better
done by private institutions. The state Is
undertaking too much in the educational
line, while doing nothing well.
Mr. Rosewnter's Megaphone.
Chicago Tribune.
The people of Nebraska, speaking
through the esteemed Omaha Bee, are
sternly demanding the election of Mr.
Rosewater to the United States Senate.
My Captain.
"Walt Whitman's lament for Lincoln.
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is
done;
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize
we sought Is -non;
The port Is near, the bells I hear, the people
all exulting.
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel
grim and daring.
But, O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
"Where on the deck my Captain lies.
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the
bells;
Rise up for you the flag Is flung for you the
bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths for
you the shores a-crowdlng;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their
eager faces turning.
Here, Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head.
It Is some dream that on the deck
You're fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale
and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no
pulse nor will;
The ship is anchored safe and sound, Its voy
age closed and done;
Fiom fearful trip the victor ship comes in
with object won.
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I with mournful tread
Walk the deck my Captain lies
Fallen cold and dead.
XOTB AND. C0MME:T.
And yet come people are praying -for
rain!
The first robin of Spring is now due to
appear In large numbers.
In spite of legislative assaults upon it,
the glorious free lunch still stands.
Of course, Bryan, Altgeld, Towne, Hill
and the other patriots will celebrate to
day. .
Today's Senatorial forecast Severe frost
In the region occupied by the McBrlda
camp.
Ignatius Donnelly Is dead, and Hon.
Charles A. Towne Is about the same,
thank you.
Hereafter Kansas people will be obliged
to drink their liquor out of tin cups, or
else tip the bar'l.
The Sangerfest prize fight still deprives
Kruger of the place In the news columns
he will need for a fitting demise.
The moral wave should not be allowed
to subside without a law to prevent sal
mon from spawning on Sunday.
The British have at last resigned them
selves to, sending soldiers to South Africa,
instead of peace commissioners.
Personal. After a brief sojourn In Colo
rado and Kansas, Judge Lynch has re
turned to his home In Kentucky.
The remarks of Hon. Samuel L. Clemens
on imperialism will not be taken seriously.
And perhaps they were not meant to be.
Since little has been heard of the war
veterans who went to Washington, it Is
presumed they have encountered Mark
Hanna.
Mrs. Nation will never see herself In a
Topeka saloon again at all events until
the joint-keepers can lay in a fresh stock
of mirrors.
Inasmuch as Tennyson did not write a
thanatopsls on Victoria, Austin labors un
der a kinder opportunity than has ever
oppressed him. before.
Sing Sing prison has been declared un
healthful. The death rate there might be
lowered, however, by modification of somer
of the electrical appliances.
The Atlanta Constitution wants to know
why a native of Cuba should not be called
a Cube. Has the Constitution observed
that the natives of Cuba, are built that
way?
Idaho legislators will visit Oregon's dis
tinguished solons at Salem, Perhaps what
the Governor of North Carolina said to
the Governor of South Carolina will bear
repetition.
Cat's claws have been- discovered in Vir
ginia sausage. The supply of man's faith
ful friend in -that state must have been
consumed by a phenomenally industrious
poundmaster.
Maybe if the state did not own 620 acres
of land at Union, there would not be so
much argument for an agricultural col
lege at that place. The state might sell
tne property If overburdened with argu
ment. Several aspirants will be candidates for
the Oregon Senatorshlp at the proper
time. It Is solacing to note that tomor
row always is- the preper time, -even
though today changes to tomorrow every4
21 hours.
The Tragedy of the Cherry Tree.
It was only a little cherry tree.
It had lived but a year or two
And so it couldn't be blamed, yei sea,
For the terrible, terrible tragedy
That blasted it where it grew. 2.
When Autumn came it went to sJeep, .
And the season of cold and snow
Disturbed it not, for a tree can kuep
Safe, snug and warm, in its slumber deep.
Though the blizzards howl and blow.
And the sharp frost fell, and the chill wind
blew.
And the light of the sun was sone.
And the weather colder and colder grew.
And the rivers were frozen through and'
through.
But the little tree slumbered on.
But then there came a suddn thaw.
And a burst of the beaming sun.
And the tree peeped out and beheld, with awe,
The snowdrifts melting away, and aaw
Them vanishing, one by one;
And there came from the south a balmy;
breeze,
"With a breath that was soft and warm.
And, it whispered to all the little trees,
"Wake up, wake up, for we're done, with thesa
Chill days of snow and storm."
Yet something within its bosom said:
"Sleep on for a little while.
For there's biting frost in the days ahead.
And the bright sun's rays wilt soon be fled.
Though they now so kindly amlle."
BUt tho warm breeze flattered tho little tree.
And the sky looked kind and blue.
And the sunshine bright was good to see.
So it said: "These friends have been kind to
me.
And I'll sec what they mean to do."
I
And it roused Itself from Its long, long nap.
And Its buds began to swell.
While Its veins all filled with the flowing sap.
And that very night, like a thunder clap,
A killing frost there fell!
And when In the Spring, through tho orchard
wide.
Grew a filmy lace of green.
It was seen that the little tree had died.
Though the warm wind 'round It sighed and
sighed,
Yet never a leaf was seen.
1,
This story shows that the little boys
"Who" like to get up too soon,
And bang around with their drums and toys
And waken the house with their fearful noise.
Should stay in their beds till noon. "
Ahrphnm Lincoln. 1(J
Extol the name
Of one whose fame v
The tongue of scandal ne'er can mar.
Our country's pride.
For her he died,
Grandest figure of the Civil War. '
Bern as lowly - ".
As the holy
Son of God. the Savior of the world.' . -
Ambition's zeal
He did not feel ,
Till slavery's war-flag was unfurled..
Strong and fearless.
Never tearless
While his Southern foes his will defied;
Unbounded power,
Was his dower
Ne'er abused except on mercy's side.
Kind and cheerful.
Never fearful
Of the final triumph of his causa;
A navy brave.
Crowned evry wave;
Men in arms who won the world's ap-'
plause.
Prleeless treasure, . '
Is the measure
Of the Nation's estimate of thee; i r
Great peacemaker, "
Shackle-breaker
Of the many millions who went free.
History's pages
Through the ages
With the theme of Lincoln's fame shall
shine.
And the story
Of his glory
Shall resound until the end of time.
J. H. Fletcher.
Salem, Or., Feb. S, 1201.