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Tv?r '-J,& THE MORNING OREGONLAN. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1001. 6 Entered at the Postofllee at Portland, Oregon, as second-class matter. TELEPHONES. Editorial Booms 108 Business Office. ..GC7 REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (postage prepaid). In Advance Dally, with Sunday, per month 5 85 Dally. Sunday excepts, per year 7 00 Daily, with Sunday, per year fl 00 Sunday, per year 2 00 The "Weekly, per year 1 50 The "Weekly. 3 months SO To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered. Sundays excepted.lBe Dally, per week, delivered, Sundays lncluJed.20c I'OSTAGE RATES. "United States, Canada and Mexico: 10 to 10-page paper lc 10 to 32-page paper Sic Foreign rates double. News or discussion intended for publication In The Oregonlnn should be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan," not to the namo of any individual. Letters relating to advertis ing, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." 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For eale In New Orleans by Ernest & Co., 115 Royal street. On file In "Washington. D. C, with A. W. Dunn, 500 14th N. "W. For sale in Denver, Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrick. 000-912 Seventh street. TODAY'S WEATHER. Rain: winds shift ing to southerly and Increasing in force to brisk and probably high. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, FED. 20 From twenty-six to twenty-eight Re publicans doubtless "would vote for Mr. Mitchell. .Not all of these, however, would select him for the Senator, if the choice -were left to them; but they -will "stay -with their friends." About one half the number prefer him to anybody else, and their course In the voting has been a "play" for him, from the first. It is only through the assistance of Democratic members that they can hope to elect him, and since so many as eighteen or twenty will be needed, it "will be a hard matter to get them. The effort may possibly succeed, but it appears exceedingly doubtful. Thirty two Republicans a majority of all are pledged to adherence to Mr. Corbett. All that onKnsay about the contest, therefore, IsgM: either Mr. Corbett "will be elected, oFfar. Mitchell -will be elect ed, or it will be a tie-up and no elec tion. This is the present aspect of the contest. All other factors appear to have been eliminated. The voting for McBride, for Williams and for Her mann has been merely perfunctory. The veiled figure In the background, like the ghost in "Hamlet," seen from the first through the fog and mist, must soon become more distinct or disappear alto gether. We hope to hear no protest from any fair-minded man against the proposed delivery of the Portland police and Are departments to the Democrats. Provid ed they are good men, why shouldn't Democrats be appointed on this board? The result of June last was a Demo cratic victory. A dissatisfied faction of Republicans united with the Democrats to beat the Republican Legislative ticket They were successful, and of course they expect the spoils. Now, what justice would there be In demand ing that the Democrats shall forego their portion of the prize? They con tributed the bulk of the vote, theirs is the bulk of the booty. This organiza tion of Democrats and disgruntled Re publicans was indorsed at the polls by the voters of Portland, and now we urge them to take their medicine with out a murmur. What right has any man who supported the Citizens ticket to object to the award of the political plunder thus made available to the ele ments that secured it, in their right ful proportion? On the whole, we should say, the control of the police and fire departments Is not an excessive reward for the Democrats to claim. If Repub licans were wanted in control, there was the Republican ticket That good old Shakespearean phrase, to "outherod Herod," has never had an object for more accurate bestowal than the performances of the anti-Si mon aggregation now representing Multnomah County at Salem. It has been charged in times past against Mr. Simon that he mixed up the Sena torial question with local legislation. He did this, he was guilty, and he had no defense; but he never mixed the two things up so Intimately and shamelessly as has been- done at this session. He was charged with funny business In his charters. It was true; he did it, and he had no defense; but he never manipu lated1 charter provisions to the brazen and underhanded extent now prevail ing at Salem. His critics have outdone him on every count of political trickery and chicanery. The fact is that Mr. Simon's merits as a lawmaker have waited all these years for their demon stration at the hands of his enemies. He never played horse with the vital interests of this city and port, and just that his enemies are now doing. This discovery will explain to many why Mr. Simon, who is not a great statesman or profound thinker, was In demand here for service of the substantial interests of Portland. He knew what they needed and he did it. He has been displaced by persons whose legislative capacity and high-minded statesmanship cut a very poor figure in comparison with the man they ousted. The intense solicitude of Senator Mc Bride for the Interests of Oregon and the commercial ascendency of the port of Portland seem to have been unable to prevail against other motives that have had access to his judgment, so that the enormous concessions Oregon was to get from the Senate in the river and harbor bill are conspicuous by their absence, while Senator Turner, who was on hand, bore away some desirable prizes for Washington. This is bad for our state, but it does not afford ade quate basis for severe censure of Mr. McBride. What he did has been done before by other men, notably by Sena tor Dolph, and very likely will be done again. It would have been more to Mr. McBrlde's credit, and probably it would have been to Mr. Dolph's advan tage, if this running off to look after re-election had been foregone for the service undertaken and paid for. But it would have been a great deal to expect of the ordinary man. Self-preservation Is a consideration of great potency with the best of us. Meanwhile, it would be well if we could remove the cause. If Oregon's Legislature met in Septem ber, for example, as It used to do, our Senators could get back to Washing ton at critical times, and the health of persons obliged to spend six weeks at Salem would be better. Another effect ive remedy would be election of Sena tors by popular vote. It is noteworthy that the righteous Indignation with which Clatsop County views the use of fishwheels appears, over in Washington, as directed at both wheels and traps. The Washington campaign is the more honest, therefore, for the silence in Oregon on the subject of traps is dishonestly assumed for the tactical purpose of concentrating all efforts on the wheels. So long as the gillnetters and their demagogue at torneys attacked both wheels and traps, their purpose was so obvious that Leg islatures repudiated them. Therefore fhey proceed by a flank movement Having annihilated the wheels and con fiscated the 5300,000 or so Invested In them, they hope to turn with decimat ing fire upon the traps two years from now. As for the professed sympathy for the poor fish, it Is the hollowest of mockeries, and the charge that salmon are any deader when killed with a wheel than with a club has been effect ually refuted, not only by the late Mr. McGuire, but by the United States Fish Commission itself. This recrudescence of war on fishing gear is surprising, in view of the cessation of the demagogic demands that used to disfigure all our state party platforms. Its explanation seems to be in the temporary array of trapmen against their former allies. If they are shortsighted enough to imag ine the gillnetters will, spare them the more for this present aid, their unde ceiving will be Inevitable and cruel. They will find they have destroyed the only ally they ever could enlist suc cessfully in self-protection. SOWN IN FOLLY; HEAPED IN IlIOT. Mrs. Carrie Nation is variously termed by her admirers a "Joan of Arc" and a "John Brown." By any other name this poor old monomaniac would smell just as sweet Joan of Arc was finally burned as a witch, and John Brown was finally hanged as a land pirate. Our age Is too enlightened to afford any just hope that Kansas, which does not hesitate to burn a negro at the stake, will burn Mrs. Nation as "a witch" or hang her as a land pirate. Nevertheless, her infatuated admirers and silly sympathizers builded better than they knew when they compared Mrs. Nation to John Brown. She is of the Brown type of folk, who quote Bible texts in defense of their violation of the laws of the land. John Brown decided for himself that because he deemed slavery wrong he would commit murder and theft against slaveholders, despite the fact that under the Government of the United States slavery was legalized and slaves were as much property as cattle. So John Brown, in Missouri, did not hesitate to "run off" a slaveholder's negroes and horses, to "line up" and shoot to death in cold blood a number of Missouri "border ruffians" whom he had taken prisoner, 6r to Invade Vir ginia, seize the United States Arsenal at Harper's Ferry and shoot dead the Mayor and several other citizens who sought to recapture it. He was a mono maniac, an anarchist. He recognized obedience to no law except the law of his peculiar personal conscience, illu minated by his private interpretaticn of the Old Testament Of- course, no hu man government of society would be possible. If such creatures as John Brown were permitted to range to and fro without restraint or punishment Mrs. Nation belongs to the same tribe of Infatuates as John Brown. She has decided that because the prohibitory liquor law Is not enforced in Kansas she will, by riotous assault, destroy the property of all violators of the law. Clothed with no legal powers, she Is a rioter. Because the law was violated Mrs. Nation has proceeded to violate law by breaking the peace and by In citing others to break the peace. To justify her action on the plea of the non-enforcement of the law is absurd, for that plea can be argued for every resort to mob violence. When the "people," that is, the mob, are not satisfied with administration of the law, are displeased with the verdict, or are afraid the verdict will not please them. The moment that this plea Is recognized there is an end of all preservation of order. The real trouble in Kansas is that laws have been enacted which the machinery of justice is not competent to enforce in many communities where there is no public opinion behind it Grand juries will not indict and petit juries will not convict. Witnesses will not testify or will perjure themselves. Maine Is another case In point It has constitutional prohibition, just as has Kansas, but Maine has no Mrs. Nation. Maine Is not neurotic enough to burn negroes at the stake In the presence of women and school children. If It were. It would be quite likely to tolerate a Mrs. Nation and her hatchet There Is constitutional prohibition in Maine, and in Bangor today there are plenty of "open bars"; the liquor-sellers are fined twice a year, and are unmolested the rest of the year. With the exception of Portland, the leading towns and cities of Maine all permit liquor saloons to flourish openly. A practical license sys tem prevails in shape of fines levied twice a year en the saloons. Neither in Maine nor Kansas has pro hibition stopped the open sale of liquor, and comparison of the statistics of Kansas with those of Nebraska and Minnesota appears to prove that prohi bition during its twenty years of life in Kansas has not lessened crime or increased the health or added to the material welfare of the people. The following figures of crime are taken from the census of 1890: States. Murder. Rape. Arson. Total. Kansas 10? -41 118 320 Nebraska 09 10 53 138 Minnesota 02 20 73 1C3 Mrs. Nation's raid on the liquor sa loons in the large cities of Kansas proves that the attempt to prohibit the sale of liquor has failed. In the cities of both Maine and Kansas the law is a dead letter and the liquor traffic freer than under high license. The prohibi tionists cast only 20S.O00 votes for Woolley for President after boasting that they would poll 500,000; they failed to poll votes enough in any state to J have changed the result, even if their entire strength had been cast in favor of the minority party. The average prohibitionist is an incarnation of self sufficiency, self-righteousness and self glorification, lineal descendants of the Puritan political levelers of Cromwell's day, whom John Morley describes as "Intractable, narrow, dogmatic, prag matic; clever hands at syllogism, lib eral in uncharitable Imputation and malicious construction, honest In their rather questionable way, animated by a Pharisaic love of self-applause, which is in truth not any more meritorious nor any less unsafe than vain love of the world's applause; without a trace of the Instinct for government or a grain of practical common sense." Your prohibitionist always has an attack of mental rickets which keep him Shuffling with superfluous legs A blindfold minuet over addled eggs. INGRATITUDE TO A STATESMAN. Every lover of fair play will regret to see the contumely heaped upon Mr. Walter (alias Jack) Matthews, for his efficient labors in making a charter for the Multnomah delegation. The un adorned truth Is that Mr. Matthews, in point of intellectual acumen, polished address and legislative ability, stands head and shoulders above the nominal members of the delegation. His part in Multnomah County politics has been arduous and comprehensive, running the whole gamut from the brain work of drafting platforms and framing legislation down to the use of his trusty right arm in rustling an ob jectionable chairman off the stage at a county convention. But his labors are most gracelessly requited. The nominal statesmen get him to do the work and then disown him. This time their charter was a mess and they called him in. Always equal to any emergency, and fortified with decision and resources which put the "delegation" to the blush, he assem bled a force of stenographers and jerked that Jumbled charter Into shape In less time than It takes to tell It Well, what Is his reward? Why, the statesmen disown him. "What!" they shriek In well-simulated Indignation; "Jack Matthews making the charter? No, Indeed! What do you take us for?" In the name of common honesty. Is It not about time that justice was done to the brains and muscle, nerve and in dustry, of Mr. Matthews' party? If anybody Is to have the capita! prize, who Is better entitled to It? We re spectfully submit that there is not a man Jack of the Federal brigade who can pack a state convention, handle a primary fight outline a party policy or frame a charter to compare with Wal ter Matthews. Why, then, Is he put off with an assistant postmastershlp when he should be Sheriff or at least Mayor? Nay, why should he stop short of high est honors? If his record for official trustworthiness Isn't equal to Ike's for Collector of the Port, and If he can't make as good a speech In the United States Senate as McBride, we miss our guess. The day may come when Mr. Matthews will get tired of doing all his party's work and then being In dignantly disowned by the statesmen he has made. When he does, look out for trouble. There ought to be honor even among the Federal brigade. AX EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS. It Is reported that President McKln ley will call an extra session of Con gress. He cannot well do otherwise In justice to himself and the country. An extra session is the price the country has to pay for the filibustering of Pet tigrew. Teller, Allen and their associ ate anti-expansionists in the Senate. Through the efforts of these men the Army bill was outrageously delayed at vast cost to the country. The failure to pass this bill has made it impossi ble to recruit men enough to supply promptly the places of those soldiers whose time of service expires by July 1 of this year, and this must greatly re tard the speedy pacification of the islands. There is urgent call for im mediate legislation to develop the re sources of the Philippines and to extend civil government to them. The Spooner amendment, now reported as an amend ment to the Army appropriation bill, Is still denied enactment, despite the fact that it is substantially identical with the similar measure which the eighth Congress enacted in the case of Louisiana Territory, and with that en acted by the sixteenth Congress in th case of Florida Territory. The action of the Demo-Populist ob structionists has been most malignant.. They have denounced the President's policy without stint, and yet they have refused his prayer for action on the part of Congress, both In the matter of the Philippines and Cuba. They will not allow Congress to enact any policy for the President to enforce; they will not endow the President with the pow ers granted by the Spooner amendment. They will not give the President the means necessary to do his full duty efficiently, nor allow Congress to frame a policy for his guidance. The malig nant purpose of these obstructionists has been to make the confusion caused by their hostility two years ago be come "confusion worse confounded." The President, therefore, in calling an extra session, will be safely within sound statesmanship and good politics. He fairly says that it is not just that he should continue to bear the full bur den of a severe responsibility which Congress should have promptly as sumed and taken off his shoulders. He has a right to say to Congress, "Either frame a policy concerning the Philip pines and Cuba for my guidance, or else empower me with full discretion to act and furnish me with all that is necessary to enforce the authority of the United States until you are ready to enact a policy." The anti-expansionists will not suffer the President or Congress "to make a spoon," but Insist themselves on "spoiling the horn." There has been nothing equal in ma lignity to the action of the anti-expansionists in the Senate since the Admin istration of President Hayes (1877-81), when the obstructionists in the House practically tried to starve the Adminis tration into submission by fastening "riders" to the appropriation bills so as to prevent the wheels of the Executive Government from moving. There was some excuse for this conduct at that time, for it followed close upon the seat ing of a President through an electoral commission, when there was great po litical bitterness felt and expressed be tween the parties. The situation today affords no ground for excuse; the Phil ippines ars ours beyond remedy, save retreat or recession. No sane man of intelligence believes that it would be either wise or decent on our part to withdraw from the islands to" allow them to become a breeding nest of Ma lay pirates or to be appropriated by one of the great powers of Europe. The islands are ours for the future, and it Is our duty to make the best of them. To make the best of them promptly, Congress should answer the urgent call on part of the Philippine Commission, approved by the President, for immediate legislation. The population of the State Insane Asylum at Salem has reached high water mark, 1200 inmates being there at present under treatment The ex pense incident to the care of this large number of unfortunates Is at best enor mous. Every Item looking to Increased cost of maintenance should be care fully scrutinized by the Legislature not In a grudging, parsimonious spirit, but to the end that the other and larger class of unfortunates, the taxpayers, may receive the consideration due to their struggling condition. Efforts to keep down the per capita expense of the institution should be toward the reduc tion of salaries and the scanning of the pay-roll, to the end that useless officials may be dropped rather than toward a pinching economy in the quality and variety of the food furnished. It Is, perhaps, too much to expect that Asy lum matters will be ordered on a hu manely economical basis, since it in volves a realization of the futile hope of theorists that the Insane Asylum management will yet be "taken out of politics." The pretense of the partisans of Ad miral Schley that Admiral Sampson had no part in the victory over Cerve ra's squadron and is entitled to no credit for it because he was not pres ent when the battle began is absurd. General Grant gets full credit for the first day's fight at Shiloh, despite the fact that he was absent when the bat tle opened at daylight, and did not arrive until 10 A. M. If the enemy had won the day at Shiloh, Grant, not Sherman, would have been charged with the responsibility. If Cervera's squadron had escaped, Sampson would have had to bear the responsibility. If Sheridan had not finally won at Cedar Creek, he could not have es caped the responsibility by saying that he was not present when the battle began. Sampson placed all the ships In position, and the battle was fought according to his orders. Every Captain fought his ship Independently, with out any orders from Schley, who fought only his own ship. Oregon's increase of population be tween 1S90 and 1900 was from 313,767 to 413,536, or 31.S per cent. The average Increase In the counties through which the O. R. & N. passes was 64.2 per cent Eastern Oregon Is increasing In popula tion faster than Western Oregon, and the great advance In those counties Is largely attributable to the policy of the railroad In promoting the Industrial de velopment of the region, In experiment ing with new crops and discovering and exploiting natural resources. Sugar factories, lumber mills, creameries, frultdrlers, stamp mills, coal measures, brome grass, Hungarian hops, peanuts all things that promise to help the country have the active interest and support of the O. R. & N. in Its terri tory. This incident of railroading Is growing in Importance, and the results are apparent In census figures, Indus trial statistics and the prosperity of the state. Anxiety in England for the troops In South Africa is divided between the danger of a surprise by the Boers and the onslaught of the bubonic plague. Official returns to the War Office In re gard to this latter menace are not given to the public. Still, It Is not doubted that the plague has broken out In the British field forces under Kitchener, and that many deaths reported as due to enteric fever are the result of the more dreaded disease. Facing this new foe, London's view of the war In Africa Is more gloomy than at any time since just prior to the relief of Ladysmlth, nearly a year ago. Happy "Victoria, to have gone quietly through nature's open door out of this trouble; unfortunate Edward, to have succeeded to It as part of an otherwise goodly but still suffi ciently perplexing heritage! Advices from Winfield, Kan., state that the situation there can best be likened to the old days when Indians ran wild on the borders and raids were expected from them at any time. It 13 further said that saloon men in that town are preparing for action, and that the temperance element has purchased at least BOO shotguns and revolvers in order to be ready for "what may hap pen." Thus does state prohibition of the liquor traffic soothe the troubled breast of the populace and Insure law and order. The Oregonlan sent another man to Salem yesterday. In addition to the three already there, to try to find out what Is going on with reference to the charter and other measures of vital concern to the people of Portland. Never before has It been so impossible to ascertain what the Multnomah dele gation is doing and proposing to do with the substantial Interests of this community. - If the Legislature is going to destroy fixed fishing gear, It should appropriate no money for the salmon Industry. If it sinks the question to an espousal of one side In this discreditable fight be tween rival private concerns. It should at once abandon the pretense of con serving the public good. The 1905 exposition will need an ap propriation from Congress, such as St Louis has just received. The appropri ation will need a Senator of large cali ber and ability. The Senator will need several years of prestige for his pur pose. Therefore Oregon needs a Sena tor elected right away. McBride was not at Washington and Oregon appropriations were cut down. But these two coincidences are not necessarily corollaries of each other, since perhaps his absence did not make any difference. Legislators scarce think about the Governor's veto power, because he is not wont to use it. But he may use It, and that to good purpose. Carnegie's sale of steel holdings makes it plainer than ever that he has no intention of dying a' poor man. Mark Hanna doubtless will take care of such a faithful henchman as McBride. GARDEN OF EDEN IN LUZON. New York Times. The announcement comes from Dr. D. F. Becker, of the United States Geologi cal Survey, who went with our troops to the Philippines, that the original Garden of Eden was located somewhere in that archipelago, probably on Luzon. It ap pears from a study of the geological for mation of the Philippine Archipelago that somewhere in the Tertiary period these Islands were In the midst of a vast area of swamps and shallow seas on the edge of the great Mediterranean Lake, which extended westward to the Atlantic Ocean. Then a good many things happened which it would be difficult to mention in chrono logical order. The earth, as the geolo gists say. "humped Itself," and as the re sult the bottom of the sea changed places with the top. Among other parts of the sea bottom, what are now the Philippines were lifted and became a part of the Con tinent of Asia. This gave the animals and plants a chance to colonize them, of which thoy availed themselves with char acteristic enterprise. Subsequently there were considerable subsidences of land oc cupying what la now the site of the China Sea. which cut oft from the mainland the migratory animals and plants which could not swim. Then began a period of vol canic activity, which disturbed things seriously and made it very uncomfort able for the animals and plants afore said. Thero Is no evidence, we are told, of any connection between, the Philippines and the mainland since the Tertiary peri od. As Islands, therefore, they are re spectably old old enough, some people think, to be entitled to autonomy; but that bu nothing to do with the matter. Regrets have aiflo been expressed by peo ple who think they could Improve upon the economy of nature if the chance was offered them, that the Tagal survived the Silurians, since he would be more interesting aa a fossil than as a potential citizen of the American Republic. How ever, there were ever those who would have things different from what they are, and it is to be feared that they will outlive all other species. It is not clear to the unscientific mind, perhaps, what the geological vicissitudes of the Philippines have to do with the Garden, of Eden, but evidently they have a great deal deal to do with It. Perhaps it ia the fossils In the post-Tertiary formations. The late Professor Marsh, of Yale, Is said to have been the first to reach the conclusion that the original home of man was In the Phil ippines, or very near them, and that, the Wild Man of Borneo was the un doubted representative of the elder branch of the human family. Professor Marsh's conviction rested on. the evidence of the Borneo fossils, which Include the missing link connecting man and the ape. Some people with an undue development of family pride think this no great compli ment to Adam and Eve, who must have stood at least one remove nearer the ape than even the immediate ancestors of the Borneo man, who has developed Into the Tagal of, today. Dr. Becker's theory Id not, therefore, strikingly original, but it derives especial value from the fact that it has been verified on the spot. Dean Hall, of the University of Minnesota, a geologist of National reputation. Is so well convinced that Dr. Becker has put his finger, so to speak, on the very spot where the Garden of Eden must have been. If It was anywhere, that he waxes eloquent and proclaims that, "In. bring ing under our flag the original Garden of Eden, we shall secure a treasure be yond financial or political valuation." It Is a solemn but Immensely comfort ing thousht that the whirligig of time has landed in our lap, as one might say, the Midway Plaisance of the primitive world, where Adam and Eve wandered arm in arm, naming species and sampling fruits. Like many things which find lodgment In one's lap upon occasion timid kitten and bumptious babies, for example It needs a good deal of holding to keep it there; but It Is to be hoped that in time It will become habituated to our embraces, and at least endure them pa tiently, without fruitless and discomfort ing wiggling. Whether we shall ever recognize the original Garden and be able to fence It In as n National park Is, we fear, doubtful. Since Adam's eviction it has been a good deal neglected, and most likely It has become so overgrown that its metes and bounds will never be ac curately determined. This Is too bad. To constitute It a "treasure beyond financial or political valuation" we should at least be able to run a trolley line to It and have a chance for a speculation In adja cent building lots. AVe fear the profes sional mind does not take a quite prac tical view of what constitutes a treasure beyond valuation in the real estate line. Foi Mr. Corbett. The Roseburg Plalndealer, which has favored Mr. Hermann for the Senate, In deed has actively supported him. In its issue of this week comes to the support of Mr. Corbett, In remarks which follow: Mr. McBride, finding that Is was Impossible to develop sulllcient strength In the Legisla ture to insure his re-election, very honorably withdrew from the race, and ex-Senator Mitch ell, in casting about tor votes. flnd3 himself short of the required number necessary to elect. Mr. Hermann's friends and supporters find him In about the same position as was Senator McBride prior to his withdrawal. Mr. Corbett from the very first has received the majority vote, making him really the logical candidate, and his supporters, being- in tho majority, naturally do not feel deposed to for cake him for a minority candidate, and their position in this regard Is no doubt a Just and honorable one. Hence, from the above facta. It appears the duty of tho minority to submit to the choice of the majority and elect Mr. Corbett United States Senator, and thus avoid crippling the Interests of our state In the United States Senate by the failure to elect a Senator during the present session. "While Mr. Corbett may not be a universal favorite for this high office, there Is no questioning hla ability. Integrity. Influence and Interest in the welfare of the state and the Pacific Coast, and his capacity to secure much-needed and valu able legislation for the Pacific Coast States, and Oregon in particular. His sound and well known views on all public questions affecting the treat Northwest makes him a safe, con servative and very acceptable candidate for tbe highest ofllce within the gift of our state. A View of Cuban Affair. Chicago Inter Ocean. At the beginning of the War with Spain the United States declared Its purpose to compel Spain to withdraw from the Island of Cuba and leave It free and in dependent. As usual In the case of war, the field enlarged, and the purposes of this Government were necessarily modi fied. At tho close of the war Spain was not willing to surrender her sov ereignty In Cuba to the Cuban revolu tionists, but she was willing to surrender It to the United States. In doing so the Spanish plenipotentiaries Insisted on pledges as to air the Inhabi tants of Cuba, white as well as colored, Spaniards as well as Cubans, and In the treaty of Paris the United States gave the pledge. In the same treaty she se cured not only the relinquishment of Spanish authority In Cuba, but possession of Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands. The status of Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines was not fixed by any prelim inary declaration of Intention, but by the formal pledge of the treaty signed and ratified after the war. To EHcapc Conscription In France. Notes and Queries. The Magistrates of Moissac are engaged In Investigating cases of voluntary muti lation practiced by a band of quacks and sharpers in the district of Quercy on young conscripts. By means of a band ago these quacks produced anchylosis of the toes, causing infirmities that neces sitated the discharge of the young hien, or at any rate their transfer to the aux iliary services. Each of theso operations brought the operator a fee of from 1000 to 1600 francs. POETRY ABOUT VICTORIA. Kansas City Star. The life of a Queen Is an attractive subject for poets. There Is little to be said of a modern King. He has no knights of the round table, he wields no sword excallbur, nothing of the romance of an Arthur or a Richard the Lion Hearted pertains to him. It was natural that Victoria should have been the subject of much verse. Perhaps the poem to her most widely known Is the one written by" Tennyson In 1S51, shortly after his ap pointment as poet laureate. This familiar stanza expresses the hope that her peo ple will say of her: Her court was pure, her life serene; Ood gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed In her as Mother, Wife, and Queen. One of the earliest poems to the Queen was written by Elizabeth Barrett Brown ing 64 years ago, at her accession to the throne. Victoria was proclaimed Queen on Juno 21, 1837, at St. James's Palace, with great pomp. The ceremony proved a se vere ordeal for the young girl. Crowds lined the whole route to the palace, and the Queen was greeted with such cheers that by the time she reached St. James's she was trembling with emotion. She ap peared at a window In the courtyard of the palace dressed In deep mourning, with a white tippet, white cuffs and a border of white lace under her small black bonnet Everybody noticed how pale she was. The Garter Klng-at-Arma made his proclamation according to the quaint old forms. In the presence of the Lord Mayor of London and Sheriffs, the great officers of state and a body of her alds. When his concluding words were followed by a blare of trumpets and the acclamations of a loyal throng, the Queen's fortitude for a moment forsook her. It was In reference to this Incident that Mrs. Browning wrote her lines about the child Queen who "wept to wear a crown"; She saw no purple shine. For tears had dimmed her eyes; She only knew her childhood's flowers Were happier pageantries. And while the heralds played their part. For million shouts to drown "God save the Queen" from hill to mart. She heard, through all, her beating heart; And turned and wept; She wept to wear a crown. ' God save thee, weeping Quen, Thou shalt be well beloved! The tyrant's scepter cannot move As those pure tears have moved. The nature In thine eyes we see. Which tyrants cannot own. The love that guardeth liberties; Great blessing on the nation lies Whose sovereign wept. Yes, wept to wear a crown. Another notable poem of the earlier part of the reign was written by Thackeray. It was a May Day ode and was printed In the London Times for April 30, 1S51. At this time Victoria was 32 years old. Two of the stanzas run: Behold her In her royal place; A gentle lady and the hand That sways the scepter of this land How frail and weak! Soft Is the voice and fair the face; She breathes amen to prayer and hymn. No wonder that her eyes are dim. And pale her cheek. This moment round her empire's shores Tho wlnd3 of Austral Winter sweep. And thousands He In midnight sleep At rest today. O! awful Is that crown of yours. Queen of innumerable realms, Sitting beneath the budding elms Of Ensllsh May! On June 20. 1SS7, Victoria celebrated the 50th anniversary of her accession. The day was observed In London with much pomp. The Queen went in state to West minster Abbey, surrounded by a brilliant escort. Among them were the Crown Prince Frederick, afterward Emperor of Germany, and his son, Emperor William. In a letter to the nation she said that the kind reception given her at this time had touched her deeply. The jubilee was the occasion of a poem by Tennyson which began: Fifty times the rose has flowered and faded. Fifty times the golden harvest fallen Since our Queen assumed the globe, the scep ter. She beloved ior a kindliness Rare In fable or history. Queen, and Empress of India. Crown'd so long with a diadem Never worn by a worthier. Now with prosperous auguries Comes at last to the bounteous Crowning year of her Jubilee. Of an entirely different sort is the rough verse of Rudyard Kipling, called "Sons of the Widow." written at about the same time. It is intended to express the feeling of Tommy Atkins towards his sovereign. The Queen is reported to have been pleased by Its unconventlonallty. The soldier says: "Ave you eard o the Widow at Windsor, With a heary gold crown on 'er head? She 'as ships on the foam she 'as millions at 'orne, An' she pays us poor beggars In red. Walk wide o the Widow at Windsor, For 'alf o creation she owns; We 'ave bousht 'er the same with tho sword an' the flame. An we salted It down with our bones. (Poor beggars! It's blue with our bones.) Hands ofT o' the sons of the Widow. Hands off o' the goods In 'er shop. For the Kings must come down an' the Em perors frown When the Widow at Windsor says "Stop!" Alfred Austin, the present laureate, wrote the ode for the diamond Jubilee four years ago, but It was not particular ly striking. More effective was his birthday anniversary poem of 1S99 in which he said: Long may the Indian Summer of your days Yet linger In the land you love so well; And long may we. who no less love you, dwell In the reposeful radiance of your gaze, A golden sunset seen through Autumn's sil very haze. The last illness of the Queen was so short that her death came with a shock to her people. It had been expected that she would live for years. The rejoicings of the diamond jubilee were still fresh In mind when Albert Edward telegraphed from the Isle of Wight that the end had come. The next day a long ode by the poet laureate appeared In the London Times, beginning: "Dead! And the world feels widowed!" The poem Is a review of the reign. After telling of her happy mar riage and the death of her husband, it goes on: And lonr and late this happy season wore. This mellow, gracious Autumn of her days. This sweet, grave Indian Summer, till wo grew To deem it limitless and half forgot Mortality's decree. And now there falls A sudden sadness on our lives, and we Can only bow disconsolate head3 and weep. And look out from our lonely hearths and see The homeless drifting of the Winter mist. And hear the requiem of the Winter wind. There Is some respectable poetry In this collection, but there is hardly a stanza that will live of Its own merit. It Is a striking fact that the most cultured poets of Great Britain could not write a line about their sovereign. Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land, Defender of the Faith and Empress of India, that compares with a score of stanzas that the Scotch plowman Rob ert Burns, wrote to the Highland lassies who caught his fancy. It "Wns a Poser. Chicago Chronicle. Decidedly pertinent and pointed was tho question of the Individual who interrupted Mrs. Nation's Wlllard Hall oration last Wednesday. "Will you temperance peo ple pay the taxes when you shut up all the saloons?" Mrs. Nation side-stepped the question, as well she might For it Is quite clear that if the saloons ari "smashed" the revenue from licenses will cease. Who will supply the deficiency? Certainly It will not be the prominent citizen with "reform" tendencies. His reluctance to pay even his present taxes Is well known. Where will tho money come from when Sister Nation & Co. have pulverized the rum power? The question Is worth considering. NOTE AND COMMENT The Morrison-street bridge must have been born with a horseshoe in its mouth. The accident to the Almond Branch be longs under the heading of current events. Mrs. Nation seems to be taking her place with the poor, the war In the Trans vaal and hope. J. Pierpont Morgan is having a cash reg ister built which takes cognizance of no sum under $1,000,000. Another man Is going to voyage across the Atlantic In an open boat. The fool klller Is looking hopefully expectant again. Carnegie advises young men to fall in love with ladies 30 years older than them selves. Are there any such still unmar ried? Cuba's proximity to the South exposes her to the danger of having her franchise restricted, even after she Is granted her Independence. Pingree eays he will run for Governor again unless certain reforms are inaugu rated. The prospects for the reforms seem to be bright. The New York Journal Is getting slow. Here It Is two weeks since Quoen Wll helmlna was married, and it has not yet printed the list of the wedding presents. Carnegie's abject fear of dying rich 13 well Illustrated by his taking only 522,000, 000 for his" steel plant. He might have got another million If he had chosen to hold out The Almond Branch, which wrecked tho steamer Vulcan and a span of the Morrison-street bridge, yesterday, was loaded with a lumber cargo at Pennoyer's mllL Were the Iniquitous gold standard not blasting the country, the mill would not be working, and the damage of yesterday would not have been wrought The Gov ernor, who Is gifted with Apollonian prophecy, foretold the havoc of the gold standard, and has lived to see it. Was the loading of the ship at the Governor's mill a greater crime against silver than that of '73? J. Peripont Morgan has made a great many successes out of the men under him, notes Victor Smith. Phil Armour had a similar way with him. He, like Morgan, would not pay a salary of less than 51000 a year to a clerk in his office. One day a young chap applied for a clerkship, backed up with most excellent letters from per sonal acquaintances of the packer. "Well, sir. how little do you want for your ser vices?" said Phil. "You must understand that times are hard. We are killing only S.000,000 hogs and 5,000,000 beeves a year." The youngster thought It over, then said: "Mr. Armour, I wouldn't be here If I didn't know times are hard, and I'll be easy on you. I'll set In at S10 a week it you'll agree to increase my wages 51 for every 100,000 beeves that you don't kill under 5,000,000 and 51 for every 200.000 hogs ou don't kill under 8,000,000." With his little, shrewd eyes Phil looked clear through him, then said abruptly: "As a rule I dislike precocious youngsters. They don't last But I'll let you start In at 525 a week, without conditions. I do It, too. with some fear that in a few years you will own the business." PLEASANTRIES OF PAIIAGKAFHEIIS He Looked It. Fond Father Now, when I was a boy I didn't have the advantages you have. Smart Offspring And you look it, too, guv'nor. Ohio State Journal. In This Age of Combines. "How do you think Mr. Simpson proposed?" "I'll never guess." "He nsked me if I fell favorably dis posed to a unification of interests." Chicago Record. Mosher Gargel say3 he ha lota of acquaint ances, but hardly any -friends. Tilbury I should suppose that the more acquaintance a man like Gargel had the fewer would be hla friends. Boston Transcript. Xot He. "I must confess I'm rather super stitious." "Well. I'm not. I wouldn't be that way." "You wouldn't eh?" "No, it's a suro sign that you're going to have bad luck when you begin to get superstitious." Philadelphia Press. Infantile Pessimism. Aunt Emma Well. Mary. I haven't seen you for a long time. I hear that you have a little sister at your house. I suppose she crjes sometimes. Little Mary Cries? Well, I should say she does! Why. I never saw any one that appeared to look on the dark side of things as she does! Puck. Maurice Thompson's Poem on Abra ham Lincoln. Meseems I feel his presence. Is he dead? Death Is a word. He lives and grander grows. At Gettysburg he bows his bleeding head. He spreads his arms whero Chlckamauga flows. As If to clasp old soldiers to his breast. Of South or North, no matter wi.lch they be, Not thinking of what uniform they wore His heart the palimpsest. P.ecord on record of humanity. Where love is first and last forevermore. His humor, born of virile opulence. Stung like a pungent sap or wild fruit zest, And satisfied a universal sense Of manliness, the strongest and the best; A soft Kentucky strain was In his voice. And the Ohio's deeper boom was there. With some wild accents of old Wabash days. And winds of Illinois; And when ho spoke he took up unawares, With his high courage and unselfish ways. He was the North, the South, the East, tho West, The thrall, the master, all of us in one; There was no section that he held the best; His love shone as impartial as the sun; And so revenge appealed to him In vain. He smiled at It as a thing forlorn. And gently put It from him, rose and stood A moment's space In pain. Remembering the prairies and the corn And the glad voices of the field and wood. Annealed In white-hot fire, he bore the test Of every strain temptation could invent Hard points of slander, shivered on hl3 breast, Fell at his foot, and envy's blades were bent In his bare hands and lightly cast aside; He would not wear a shield; no selfish aim Guided one thought of all those trying- hoiw No breath of pride. No pompous striving tor the pose of fame Weakened one stroke of all his noble powers. Recessional. . Rudyard Kipling. God of our fathers, known of old Lord of our far-flung battle-line Beneath Whose awful Hand we hold Dominion ovir palm and pine Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet. Lest we forget lest we forget! The tumult and the shouting dies The Captains and the Kings depart; Still stands Thine ancient Sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with U3 yet. Lest we forget lest we forget! Far-called our navies melt away On dune and headlands slnk3 the flre- ix. all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet. Lost we forget lest we forget! If drunk with .light of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee In awe Such boasting as the Gentiles uso Or lesser breeds without the Law Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet. Lest we forget lest we forget! For heathen heart that puts her trust In reeking tube and Iron shard All valiant dust that builds on dust. And guarding calls not Thee to guard For frantic boast and foolish word, Thy mercy on Thy People, Lord I Amen.