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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, 'TUESDAY; FEBRUARY, 26, 190H frs rgomcm Entered at the Postofflce at Portland, Oregon, as second-class matter. TELEPHONES. Editorial Booms 100 1 Business Office. ..CC7 REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mail (postage prepaid). In Advance . Sally, with Sunday, per month $ 83 Daily. Sunday excepted, per year Daily, with Sunday, per year 9 00 Sunday, per year - 00 The Weekly, per year..... 1 50 The Weekly. 3 months M To City Subscribers Daily, per week, delivered, Sundays excepted.l5c Dally, per week, delivered, Sundays lncluded.200 POSTAGE RATES. United States. Canada and Mexico: 10 to 16-page paper c 10- to 32-page paper .......o Foreign rates double. News or discussion intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan." not to the name 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, 609 14th N". W. For ualo In Denver, Colo., by Hamilton & Xendrick. 000-012 Seventh street. TODAY'S "WEATHER. Cloudy and threat ening, with occasional showers; southerly winds. PORTLAND, TUESDAY, FEB. 20. The conviction Is widespread that the real object of an extra session of Congress Is not Cuba or the Philippines at all, but the subsidy bill. This view is strongly corroborated by the intense anxiety Republican leaders have shown for the subsidy's enactment. When the absence of legitimate motive for the till is considered, one Is prone to fly to almost any explanation of this feverish activity. The best-Informed Washing ton correspondents of independent newspapers do not rest with the belief that the subsidy is to pay off campaign debts, but are certain this subsidy Is desired as an entering wedge for oth ers, just as the Porto Ttico precedent was desired by our heavily protected interests for help in exploitation of the Philippines. The tariff, with all its in equities, does not .satisfy the appetite of the corporations, which are fain to turn to subsidies in hope of enrichment at public expense. There is little, ob viously, that the Republican party can refuse to these gigantic protected trusts. So if subsidies they want, sub sidies they are apt to get, even if it costs an extra session. It is a far cry from this alliance with protected trusts and corporations to the popular upris ing in favor of Justice and liberty out of whose throes the Republican party was born. There is no need to dilate upon these matters. They are plain to all observers. Equally plain it" Is that the people are only waiting a safe op portunity to hurl the Republican party from power. Elsewhere appears a letter from Mr. J. A. Clemenson, with an. offer of $25 towards establishment of a woolen mill in Portland. Mr. Clemenson has a habit of this sort. His offer is not large, and perhaps it savors somewhat of an edvertlsement for his business, but It may be wished his spirit and prompt ness might be emulated by many oth ers. The striking fact about Mr. Clem enson's subscriptions is that they cost nothing. The money is ready, but no body ever claims It. A while ago we proposed to have a smelter; but noth ing has yet come of it. A month or so ago we had talk of a sugar refinery and Mr. Clemenson bobbed up with an offer, but he has the money yet and nobody has seen the refinery. When the Ne fcalem coal subject was broached, Mr. George Myers offered $25 to start a sub scription for Investigating the deposits, but at last accounts Mr. Myers still had his $25. There is a woolen mill at Dallas that would like to come here, but with Secretary Mclsaac's official hammer out for it and with a bigger mill In the bush, we feel like caution ing Mr. Clemenson not to worry about where he is to get the money he offers for a woolen mill. It is not the most reassuring thing in the world that a man can put up the same old $25 for every good thing that comes within our grasp and get it back every time be cause not enough will cover It. Nature has done a great deal for Portland, and if she will only continue to exert herself sufficiently, we shall get along famously. We trust no applauder of Mrs. Nation will shrink from denunciation of the Kansas Judge who declined to release the prophetess because of the trifling technicality that she refused to furnish ball as by law duly provided. What has so high and holy a mission to do, we should like to know, with such paltry devices of man as forcible detention In default of ball? While husbands, sons and brothers are treading the down ward path, shall we restrain of her lib erty a devout apostle who goes about promoting temperance by means of fe male mobs and consecrated hatchets? The Judge will doubtless plead that so long as the law provides that arrested persons shall be imprisoned In default of bail, he hud nc discretion in the mat ter. If he was to regard his oath of office as binding. In this, however, he merely shows his inability to see and be guided by the "inner light." It is certainly to be regretted that Mrs. Na tion has Anally weakened in her atti tude of superiority to the powers of this world, for persistence would, have brought the inner light and the pow ers of this world Into shape for a test that would have settled their relative positions, and would have compelled the Nation party throughout the coun try to rally to her support in the con tention that If she desired to leave jail without "bonds, then no mere earthly Judge should have the effrontery to re fuse her." No man who advocates the smashing of. saloon, fixtures by a pri vate citizen can object to the private citizen's exercise of the prerogative of choosing whether he will stay In jail or go free. Every session leaves its heartburn ings, which are more or less dissem bled, according to the capacity of the sufferer. . Dr. Smith refers playfully to the Benedict Arnold of the Citizens del egation, and that is what every dele gation has, though perhaps Judas Is cariot would be a happier term. Mr. Corbeit avers he has no regrets to ex press or complaints to make, and ap parently he is the most chipper of all the members of his camp. Mr. Mitch ell, one would think, has no cloud upon his sky, but there is one. He grieves him because he was chosen Instead of McBrlde. In contemplation of Mc Brlde's ability, Industry and prestige at Washington, Mr. Mitchell feels pro found regret That the Legislature set McBrlde aside for himself. This Is a hint of the profound gloom that must pervade those Senatorial circles that were but now ringing the praises of McBrlde. Who is to assuage the grief of official Washington at the loss of so much wit, wisdom and eminence, espe cially after Mr. Mitchell arrives with his Increment of regret and sorrow? In all this medley of misfortune, per haps the deepest note is sounded by President Fulton of the State Senate, whose political career is little short of a series of funeral orations at the graves of his own booms. Upou every one of these occasions he congratulates his successful rival, makes an elo quent speech, and swears eternal, absti nence from future ambition. Then he forgets, and next time builds another castle. Now let the stricken deer go weep. The hart ungalled play; For some must work while Borne must sleep. So thus runs the world away. ENGLISH TOU11IST.S. Frederick Harrison Is the most distin guished Englishman who has visited this country of recent years. He will remain but two months, not time enough to enable him to come to just conclusion concerning the practical workings of our Institutions, of which he Is a theoretical admirer, for, like John Morley, Sir Charles Dllke and a few other noted Englishmen, Mr. Har rison Is a believer In a Republican form of government. Mr. Harrison is con spicuous In England for his open oppo sition to the conquest of the South African Republics, and for the disfavor with which he looks upon what he calls our "starting an empire across the ocean." He Is of the same degree of fine scholarship and literary ability as Goldwin Smith, and entertains similar views upon nearly all the great ques tions, religious and political, of the time. If Mr. Harrison publishes any views concerning America, they will be colored by the broad, generous view of James Bryce and Goldwin Smith rather than by the atrabilious temper and petty criticism of Matthew Arnold, for Mr. Harrison Is a jurist and a man of the world who can differ sharply with out becoming personally disagreeable and offensive In debate. It Is Interesting to recall the names of the Englishmen of distinction who from the foundation of our Government have visited the United States. During the Presidency of Washington no eminent Englishman visited this country, but the French Revolution forced Talley rand, the famous French diplomatist, to seek an asylum in America. Tom Moore, the famous author of "Irish Melodies," visited America during the administration of Jefferson, and his verses on "The Lake of the Dismal Swamp" were written during this jour ney, as was his "Canadian Boat Song." The Napoleonic wars and the War of 1S12-14 broke up pleasure travel between Europe and America, and It was not until 1825-27 that Captain Basil Hall, an English naval officer, visited Amer ica. Captain Hall published a book which was not complimentary to our country, and about the same time ap peared Mrs. Trollope's "Travels in America.'' Mrs. Trollope was an Eng lish woman who came to America ex pecting to establish herself In business in Cincinnati, but was disappointed; returned to England, wrote a lively book which made fun of us, and there fore had a quick and profitable sale. Captain Marryat, a gallant old naval officer, the author of the best sea stories that ever were written, visited us in 1838, and his "Diary," published In 1839, Is not flattering to our pride as a peo ple. The books of these early English tourists made our people unreasonably angry, because, while they were unfair, they really did not reflect the opinion of the most distinguished Englishmen of that day. Sydney Smith, in the Ed inburgh Review, was able to write manly words In praise of America and In defense of the United States, despite the fact that he did not conceal his disgust for having lost some money in the purchase of Pennsylvania bonds. Byron not only apotheosized Washing ton, but he wrote eloquent verses In memory of Daniel Boone and his fellow founders of Kentucky. In 1842 Dickens In the full flush of his early fame came to America, bringing with him. his pretty young wife. He came here in January, and departed in June. He was given an enthusiastic welcome by our people of all classes. At the din ner given to Charles Dickens by the young men of Boston, February 1, 1842, Oliver Wendell Holmes recited a beau tiful lyric In the gifted Englishman's honor. The genuine warmth of feeling and effusive hospitality with which Dickens was received by our people would have moved a man with a. spark of manly feeling to make some gener ous resppnse, but while Dickens had genius, he never had any of that good breeding which has Its root In a manly heart. He accepted all the public hon ors and private hospitality that were offered him, hurried home and wrote his "American Notes," a book so grossly unfair the.t Macaulay denounced It as transparently mean and shallow. He says: "A reader hsd better go to Mrs. Trollope, coarse and malignant as she Is; the book Is vulgar and flippant, and In spite of some gleams of genius, at .once frivolous and dull." If Dickens' book appeared contempt ible to Englishmen, It i. easy to imag ine what Indignation it excited In America. How differently Byron would have behaved under the same circum stances; Byron, who, visiting an Amer ican frigate In an Italian seaport, charmed everybody from the captain down to the sailors by his hearty, grateful response to the enthusiasm with which he was greeted! Since our people gave Dickens In 1S42 their hand with their heart In It, only to be ridi culed by him In his book as soon as he got home, we have been very slow to welcome enthusiastically any famous foreigner to our shores. Kossuth was the only man who subsequently re- ceived as fervent a welcome as Dickens, and we lived to be ashamed of our ar dor In his case. Since the day of Dick ens' first visit, in 1S42, we have had many famous Englishmen included among American tourists; among oth ers, Cobden, Thackeray, Herbert Spen cer, Froude, Huxley, Wilkle Collins, Anthony Trollope, whose mother so bitterly abused us in 1825-27; Thomas Hughes, Matthew Arnold, Dean Stan ley, Lord Rosebery, James Bryce, Jo seph Chamberlain, Chief Justice Coler idge, Chief Justice Russell and Lord Dufferin. The time has long passed since an Englishman asked exultingly, "Who reads an American book?" and the time has long passed since America grew "hot in the collar" over an Eng lish tourist's criticism. Our dudes may still turn up their trousers on Fifth avenue. New York, when they hear that It Is raining on Piccadilly, but the American people no longer worry and wonder what Great Britain thinks of us In literature, business, war or politics. TIIE ANNUAL SCHOOL ELECTION. The acceptance by R. K. Warren of the nomination to succeed himself on the School Board of District No. 1 at the election to be held on Monday, March 11, opens a school campaign that promises to be hotly contested by vot ing taxpayers at the polls. As an nounced some two weeks ago, Mrs. L. W. Sltton Is a candidate for this posi tion, she having entered the race at the earnest solicitation of a large num ber of persons who are not In sympa thy with the cut-and-drled methods by which the public schools are governed; methods by which they have become fixed in pedagogy of a pompous, shal low, tyrannical type, and imbued with politics of the petty, self-seeking order. Among those who desire Mrs. Sittoh's election are many prominent citizens and heavy taxpayers. Mr. Warren, too, has a large and substantial following, including, it is said, a majority at least of the School Board and the principals of all the schools (who alone of the teachers' corps are permitted to have, much less to express, opinions upon educational matters). Hence the con test promises to be an exciting if not a close" one. Mrs. Sltton Is well known in this city, so well known. Indeed, In educa tional, social, charitable and business circles that she needs no Introduction to this public As a teacher for some years In the public schools she was known as a conscientious, capable In structor, an excellent disciplinarian and a person of progressive educational Ideas. There Is a well-defined and well based opinion, somewhat widely dif fused, that of the full School Board of five members one or two should -be women suitable women, of course, whose genius for detail In management is conceded. It is further believed that the Introduction of such an element upon the School Board would place a much-needed check upon the political methods by which the schools are gov erned. To the objection urged in some quarters that women have not sufficient business capacity and experience prop erly to protect the interests of the taxpayers from peculation. It Is only necessary to ' cite that this idea has been thoroughly disproved in many cf 'the great educational centers of the country Boston, Philadelphia, New York and other cities, where wpmen have proved efficient, conscientious, helpful members of Boards of Educa tion. These and other matters, at issue are worthy of the candid, unbiased consideration of the electors to whom the franchise is by law limited in this election the taxpaylng men and women of the district. Of special interest to the class of voters participating, there should be a full vote cast at every polling-place in this city on the afternoon of March 11, 1901, the Initial election of the twentieth century. STATE PHIDE. State pride approached fanaticism in South Carolina and Kentucky before the Civil War. A more self-satisfied, conceited lot of people with little cause for self-congratulation It would be hard to find in. history than the Celt Irish man and the Gascon Frenchman. This pride of blood and birthplace has al ways produced a race of brave brag garts. A childish, provincial people al ways choose a man of bodily superi ority and valor for a hero, which fact prompts Thackeray to say: "I wonder Is It because men are cowards In heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship." There Is another part of the coun try .that does not lack narrow, pro vincial, sectional state pride, and that Is New England. When Wendell Phil lips wa3 shown at Chicago the log house, thirty feet square and twenty feet high, in which the first officer of the United States, the first white man, lived, where were then 250,000 people, he said: "Why not cover It with plate glass and let It stand there forever, the cradle of the great city of the lakes?" But he complained that he could not wake any sentiment In that great city and the ancestral cabin which meas ured the space between 1816 and 1856 passed away. He did not appeal In vain, however, to Boston to save the old South Church, .and there are old graveyards preserved In the heart of Boston. In one of which lie burled the parents of Benjamin Franklin. Phillips, and Webster before Phillips, never lost a chance to touch this pro vincial New England pride, and United States Senator Hoar still continues suc cessfully to play on the state-pride string of his cornstalk fiddle. In his Lincoln day address. Senator Hoar says that while the people of Massachusetts are wrong on the Philippine question, nevertheless they are so great a peo ple, so superior to the people of any other state, and have always been so, that they are sure ultimately to face right on this question, and when Mas sachusetts has once headed right, the rest of the country is sure soon to fol low the lead of the Old Bay State. This Is the strain In Webster's elo quence that always gave him the heart of Massachusetts. This is the note in Phillips' most radical speech that al ways extorted the admiration of his au dience, and this Is the taffy that "Daddy" Hoar feeds out to his admir ing audience. No matter whether he agrees with It In opinion on fhe burn ing Issues of the hour, all Hoar has to do Is to halt periodically during hla speech and say, "We will now join In singing 'Hurrah For Old New Eng land.' " That settles It; Hoar Is for given and sure to be re-elected. One of the most pathetic and at the same time the most horrible tragedies that has been chronicled in the North west Is that which took place In Union town, Eastern Washington, a few days ago, in the drowning by an Insane mother of her six young children in a well. Piled in like rats Into a well 30 feet deep, the six, ranging in age from 4 to 12 years, were drowned In a few feet of water, the mother -standing on top of the grewsome heap. Unless the woman's Insanity was of a phenom enally sudden as well as of a violent type. It is strange that she should have been allowed opportunity to commit -a deed so appalling. For very pity's sake It might almost be wished that the wretched, demented creature had been successful In putting an end also to her own miserable existence. There are indications of a series of strikes In the industrial section of which Pittsburg Is the center that, If fulfilled, will Inevitably prove disas trous to all concerned. This, It Is said, can only be prevented by compliance of the master builders and all those allied with the building trades. Includ ing structural Iron and .steel manu facturers, with the demands of the va rious labor organizations auxiliary to and In effect controlling these trades. The magnitude of the threatened strikes Is shown In the statement that between 100,000 and 150,000 men will be affected thereby, upon whom the maintenance of half a million people depends. These strikes, If It comes to that, will be the result of a refusal of manufacturers and employers to make a substantial advance of the wage scale In all branches of the building trades. When the representatives of the Iron and steel workers meet In convention in Milwaukee, the second Tuesday In May, they propose to ad just their wage scale for an advance of about 10 per cent. The puddlers, having suffered a reduction last year, will demand an increase of 75 cents a ton; bricklayers and stone masons are strengthening their lines for an ad vance which will be made April 1; carpenters and joiners of Pittsburg have readjusted their scale providing for an additional 5 cents an hour to their eight-hour day, and plasterers want an addition of 45 cents to their day's wage, when their present scale expires, six weeks hence. There Is justice In some of these demands, no doubt. The injustice in them comes .largely from the Indiscriminate sweep caused by the rating of good workmen with those who are too often grossly Inefficient. It may be hoped that the differences between the disbursing and receiving parties In the great Indus trial problem as represented by the manufacturers and employers on the one hand, and the craftsmen on the dther, who together compose the build ing Industry, will be adjusted with out a strike in any branch of labor. The wastefulness of such contention has been often proven, and even worse than this Is the bitterness that It en genders between Industrial forces, the true interests of which are subserved by amity. When the war revenue act increased the tax on tobacco, but permitted a (eduction in the size of packages, there was little or no discussion of the rea son for the latter provision, But the determined efforts of the Senate to get a substantial reduction of the tobacco tax, or allow the bill to fall, has set some of the members of the House to analyzing the increase of the t,ox and the effects of the proposed reduction. It is found that the smallest package under the old law, eight to the pound, was sold for 5 cents. The reduced package of an ounce and two-thirds was sold at the same price, and by giving the buyer less tobacco for his money the manufacturer, passed the whole of the tax off upon the consumer and did a little more; he got nine and three-fifths packages out of a pound of tobacco and received therefor 48 cents; deducting a tax of 12 cents, he had 2 cents a pound mora than he had when he sold a pound in eight packages for 40 cents and paid a tax of 6 cents. The Senate Is now determined to re duce the tax to 9 cents, but the size of the package would remain unchanged, nnd the manufacturer might still sell nine and three-fifths packages to the pound for 48 cents, subject a 9-cent tax, which would leave him 39 cents, or 5 cents a pound more than he had before the Spanish War. The biennial loot of the legislative chambers at Salem passed as a regular part of the lawmaking picnic. It Is merely a part of the programme to "steal the state blind" that Is enacted a little more openly and with less de corum than some other parts. After all, a few hundred', more or less, lnk standB, pencils, waste paper baskets, spittoons, pen-knives, envelopes, quires of paper, paper weights, etc., make little difference when it comes to audit the accounts of the Legislative Assem bly. These things scarcely represent the traditional "drop In the bucket." To make off with such "loose stuff" Is not to steal; it is merely to "take things." King Edward, as in "fraternal duty bound, has gone to visit his afflicted sis ter, the Empress Frederick of Germany. This sister is but a year older than His Majesty, and was the constant play mate and companion of his far-away childhood, when Victoria's reign was young and her ways as a monarch of England were new. As shadows In a moving show, this man and woman, bofn amid the acclaim of loyal millions of the British Empire, are passing on, and the-indications are that the latter will soon move out of sight. The obligation between the United States and Cuba seems tc be an en tirely one-sided affair. Does Cuba owe anything to the United States? And can any one prove by abstract logic or otherwise that Cuba Is entitled to more of our solicitude than Porto" Rico? If sentimental criticism is responsible for the trouble Cuba is going to make us, why should not Porto Rico have the privilege of doing the same thing, es pecially since all men are created equal? The British want Kitchener to stay In Pretoria so that the Boers may npt upset his carefully elaborated plans. Evidently his plans are harder to take care of than to carry out. David Hill says he does not want to be President." We might doubt his word, but soft; the meek shall Inherit the earth. The Oregon Legislature might have invited Roosevelt to come West and re pealed the scalp bounty. GREAT TRANSCONTINENTAL SURVEY New York Sun. The Coast and Geodetic Survey has Just Issued a large volume giving the results of the geodetic trlangulation across the continent by which the arc of the 39th parallel of north latitude has been measured. The report swas ready for publication In May last year, two years after the completion of the survey. The reduction of the geodetic data and the preparation of the book of S71 pages In so short a time have In volved unusual rapid work. -It Is not often that the scientific world receives the complete results of a great under taking so soon after the close of the In vestigation. This survey, begun In 1S72 and ended In 1S9S. extended over a period of 27 years. The terminal points of trlangulation are near Cape May, New Jersey, and at Point Arena, California, north of San Ffinclsco. The length of the arc Is 2625 statute miles. It Is the most ex tensive piece of geodetic work ever at tempted by any nation. It passed through 16 states from the Atlantic to the Pacific. No arc of a parallel yet measured on the earth's surface by any single government is comparable with It in length. In a large degree the work has been the history of the science of geodesy during the quarter of a cen tury In which that science has made greit progress. It has enriched the science by the adoption of many im provements, suggested during the pro gress of 'the work. In the Instruments and methods employed in geodetic in vestigation. The volume Is not only a complete record of the result of the sur vey, but also of the methods employed In trlangulation and In securing data for the determination of the figure of the earth along "the arc across the North American continent. The most Important geographical re sult of the survey Is the facilities It pro vides for a more accurate survey and mapping of a large part of the country. The absolute geographical position of many point in 16 states has been as certained and subsequent surveys In all these states may be based upon these fundamental and permanent points. Thus all the surveys In a wide zone across the continent will be completely co-ordinated, beciuse they will rest upon the same scientific basis; and these are all the more valuable because precision In this form of scientific work has been in creased substantially during the progress of this survey and largely through Its efforts and experience. It has been found, as a result of this measurement, that the form and length of the 33th parallel do not conform either with the Clarke or B'sscl spheroid within the United States but He between the two. It Is upon the spheroid deduced by A. R. Clarke, and published In 1B, that all the dimensions of the earth, now commonly In use, depended. The re sults of this survey may be Influential, therefore. In changing, to a small ox tent, the complications as to the dia meter and circumference of the earth; but while the survey has supplied ma terial for a more exact determination of the earth's size and shape, the work will not accomplish its full purpose In this particular till it h, combined with the arc that is now being measured along the SSth mederian. which will ultimately cross Mexico, the United States and Can ada. When the results of these two triangu lations are combined there will be suf ficient data to define the form of the United States with all the precision per mitted by the present state of exact measurements; and a long step will hive been taken toward the more precise determination of the form of the whole earth. i Spoken Like a. Man mid Sailor. New York Times. Moved by the revival in the Senate of the Sampson-Schloy controversy, the ed itor of the Naval Service- Gazette has de cided to make public the details of a con versation which he had with Rear-Ad miral. then Commodore, Schley, on board the Brooklyn the day after Cervera's fleet was destroyed, while the thunders of the conflict v.-ere still ringing in the cars of that vessel's officers and me,n. When con gratulated on the thoroughness of his achievement, as evidenced by the smok ing wrecks along the Cuban coast, the Commodore disclaimed his right to any special credit for what he called simply the performance of his duty, but ho did not hesitate to express his joy at the chance which had brought him the oppor tunity to fight and win a great battle. "I am thankful." he added, "that It found us prepared, and that we did our work so well that there can be no dispute as to where the victory lies." A moment later the visitor said: "You'll get a sub stantial reward for yesterday's work." and then inquired, "If you could name your own reward, what would you have from the President and Congress?" After the Commodore had declared that It was not for him to measure the value of what had been done, he continued: "I would suggest this as a good and sufficient re ward: Let the President or Congrees. have struck off bronze medals commemmorat lng the victory. Let one be given to eyery officer and man who participated in the battle, one of these medals to go to me. I would value It highly. You know, 1 don't believe in special medals of gold and silver. Just plain bronze medals for til alike. Then there Is one more reward which I would like. It would mean much to me. It is the thanks of Congress" 07 name. That's all I expect; all I hope for. With It, and my own consciousness of duty done. I shall be satisfied." The ed itor of the Naval Service Gazette asserts that Admiral Schley'fl views have not changed since that day, and that the Sen-. ate, if It chooses, can give him all he wants without Injuring any other officer. New York Our Representative City. J. K. Paulding In the Atlantic. New York is still be It said gently and with due regard for the tender suscepti bilities of sister cities the center, the In tellectual and social, no less than the commercial center of the United States. Chicago may be destined to take her place, but the change- will not occur, as so many of the Inhabitants of the Western city seem to think, upon the day when she surpasses New York upon the popu lation Hats. Chicago. It may be admit ted. Is In some respects, even more repre sentative of the American spirit of prog ress than Is New York, but she requires time In which to grow a tradition capable of attracting to her the finest flower of the National life; as yet she Is too much the creature of chance, the product of forces gigantic but blind. Boston has succeeded in creating for herself an at mosphere of culture superior to that In which New York swelters: and she en Joys, to some degree, the aspects of an In dependent caDltal, Philadelphia, on tho other hand, while -more American than either Boston or New York, seems never to have parted with the Colonial stam, and consequently falls to Impress one as a capital at all. Neither city occupies in the public eye the position ascribed to New York. A Great Economic Change. Boston Transcript. Almost every day brings some new an nouncement with regard to the absorp tion of one railroad or another by some other railroad. It Is noteworthy that tho same group of capitalists always has these transactions In charge. Nor do these rich men confine their actlvty to railroads. A dozen men have become sud denly the leading Influence In the coun try, while people have been thinking that they saw the National drift In. Imperial ism, in corrupt municipal politics, In me chanical Inventions. In broadening of re ligious beliefs or In extravagant living; the concentration of power In a few hands, to an extent which dwarfs to insignificance the most giantic of the modern transactions, has become tho cen- tral and basic fact. PROTECTORATE OVER CUBA. New York Tribune. Webster began his famous speech In reply to Hayne wjth an appeal to the Senate to "take its bearings" and to ob serve the actual facts of the case before 't. The principle Is a sound one, and may well be applied, for example, to the case of Cuba, now about to come, under consid eration. It is well to review the record and ascertain what has been the long-es tablished policy of theUnlted States Gov ernment toward that Island, and what Is Its present position In relation to it. The record is a long one, dating back more than three-quarters of a century. In the Administration of President Mo.nroe. this formal declaration was mnde by John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State (April 2S, 1S23): Cuba has become an object bf transcendent Importance to the commercial and political In terests of our Union ... an Importance little Inferior to that -which binds the different members of this Union together- ... It Is scarcely possible to resist the conviction that1 the annexation of Cuba to our Federal Republic will ba indispensable , to the contlnu anco and Integrity of the Union Itself. Continuing, Mr. Adams referred, In plain terms, to rumors of British acquisition of Cuba, declaring that such transfer of the Island would be "an event unpropitious to the interests of this Union," and he raised the question "both of our right and of our power to prevent It, If necessary, by force." A,few weeks later (June 11, 1S23), Thomas Jefferson, In a letter to President Monroe, expressed similar sentiments, and declared that the possession of Cuba by Great Britain "would be a great calamity to us." Again, in the Administration of John Quincy, Adams, the Secretary of State, Henry Clay, under the President's Instructions announced to the chief European governments (October 1", 1S25) "that the United Stages could not with indifference see It" Cuba "passing from Spain to any other European power." To this Mr. Clay added (October 25) "that we could hot con sent to the occupation of those Islands" Cuba and Porto Rico "by any .other European power than Spain under any contingency whatever." How well this policy of the United States was known by other governments appears in the di ary cf Lord Ellenborough. a member of the British Cabinet, under date of Feb ruary S, 1S30, In which the writer says: Th American declared that they could not Fee with Indifference any other state than Syaln In possession of Cuba. and. further, their disposition to Interpol tnelr power should war be conducted In Cuba In a devastating manner. When "Old Hickory" was President the United States Government, through Mar tin Van Buren, Secretary of State, ex pressed a strong desire that the posses sion of Cuba "should not be transferred from the Spanish crown to anv other power" (October 2, 1S29). In the Van Bu ren Administration the Secretary of State. Mr. Forsyth, declared that "the United States will rc!st at every hazard an nt temnt of any foreign power to wret Cuba from Spain" . (July 15, 1S49). and under the Presidency of John Tyler, the Secretary of State. Daniel Webster, made this note worthy utterance (January 14. 1S43): The Spanish Government has long been In po?ef!on of the rollcy and wishes of thin Government In regard to Cuba, which hav nver chanscd. and has repeatedly been told that the United States never would permit the occupation of that Island by British agents or forces upon any rretext whatever; and that In cn of any attempt to wrest It from her rfie might securely rely upon the whole naval and military resources of thlf country to aid her In preserving or recovering It. Similar declarations were made by Mr. Gallatin, when Minister to England; by Mr. A. H. Everett: by Mr. Upshur. Sec retary of State; by James Buchanan, Sec retary of State: by Mr. Crittenden, Acting Secretary of State: by Edward Everett. Secretary of State: by Mr. Marcy, Secretary of State "the United States will never consent to Its transfer to any other foreign state" by President Grant, and bv various other authoritative members of the Government of the United States, in substantially unbroken line from the time of Monroe to the present. If any policy be established by precedent and pract'ee. then this one Is, that the United States shall exercise a virtual protecto rate over tho Island of Cuha, at least to the extent of determining Its form of gov ernment and Its relationship to the powers of Europe. For the maintenance of that policy the United States more than once declared Its readiness to go to war. " need be. with the most powerful nations of the world. And now, having sealed that policy with a costly foreign war. it is not to be believed that It will lightly abandon It. A Tillamook View. Tillamook Headlight. There Is something radically wrong with the Republican party in Oregon, and. if we mistake not, there will continue to be something radically wrong with the party as long as the Portland ring will persist In dictating and wanting to control. When the Republicans, with a magnanimous spirit, voted for Simon for United States Senator, It looked as though the end of the factional fight was In sight. Not so, however, for instead of the Simon faction reciprocating the concessions made by the opposition in Mr. Simon's behalf two years ago, the whip hand is held over them with more persistency than ever. This Is a wrong state of affairs, and as long as a few Individuals persist in dominating the Republican party for the purpose of dictating Federal patronage, we can scarcely expect harmony to prevail until that element la eliminated. Tho fact of the matter is a large number of Infiuen tlal Republicans have been restless for a number of years because the tall Is wag ging the dog In the Republican party of this state. ' sic-nlflcnnt Cereal Flxrure. New York Journal of Commerce. It is not gratifying to observe that while the export of wheat frQm this .country In the past seven months in creased over 3.C0O.00O bushels. the amount that went out of this port went 6l about 4.500,000 bushels. But the fig ures for corn are reversed. The total exports fell off 15,000.000 bushels and New York gained 5.000,000. Tho value of all exported breadstuffs decreased a little over W.000.000. and the decrease at this port was nearly $4,000,000. Boston gained nearly S3.000.COO, Philadelphia gained $2, 000,000, Baltimore lost nearly a mllion and a half. Newport News two and a half, Norfolk half a million, Galveston 13.000, 000. and New Orleans a little. San Fran cisco experienced almost no change, and Portland gained over a million and a quarter. ' Victoria Favorite Bit of Verse. (The foIloA-lng quaint verses appeared anony mously In an obscure Scotch paper, and It Is said that of,all the panegyrics and tributes In prose or verse ever written of her they pleased her most.) , SHE NODDIT TO ME. I'm but an auld body Llvin' up In Deeslde In c. twovroomed bit hooalo Wi a toofa' beside; Wl my coi an my grumphy I'm as hippy's a bee. But I'm far prooder noo Since she roddlt to met I'm nae saa far past wl't I'm gey trig an hale, Can plant twi-three taw'tles. An look afier my kale; An' when oor Queen passes I rln oot to see Gin by luck sbemlcht notice. An' nod oot to me! But I've been unUicky, An' the blinds -vre aye doon. Till last week the time O' her veeslt carij' roun'; I waved my bit apron As brisk' a I could dee. An' the Queen lauched fu' kindly. An noddlt to me I v My eon sleeps In Egypt It's nae ease to frelt An yet when I think o't I'm salr like to greet; She may feel for my sorrow. She's a mlther, ye see; An' may be she kent o't When she noddlt to met NOTE AND COMMENT. Mrs. Nation will never miss the bars ln Kansas. She is too dead a shot. What Spain seems to be most In need of is a public funeral with Weyler as the principal. Of course Governor Roosevelt will ex pect to be mountaln-ilonlzed on his re turn to Washington. If Miss Clara Barton is looking for employment she can find plenty of work In her line in Kansas. Few critics of the holder of a fat office can be accused of not being willing to put themselves in his place. The dark horses for the United States Senatorship are now bobbing up as can didates for Chief of Police. The commotion created by the Lincoln Commoner is not so great as to Interfere with public business in Nebraska. New York owes $200,000,000. That Is a sum which might even worry J. Pierpont Morgan a little on the day it fell due. The former leader of the Alabama Pop ulists has become a Republican. He has probably fallen heir to a little property. Richard Croker sends word from Want age that he is a new man, but his oppo nents still have him listed as an old fox. The Belgian Parliament has passed a law prohibiting all games of chance. Is the Belgian hare included in this prohibi tion? lie put a stick of dynamite Inside a stove to heat, lie didn't dream at all that night. Ills sleep was calm and sweet. Some of him slept upon the hill. Some of him In tho vale. And some beside the twinkling rill That bubbles through the dale. King EKward will wat&.i the Solent yacht races from the shore next Summer, while the Emperor of Germany steers one of the boats. Edward evidently believes that a King in 'the hand is worth two on the deck. Julian Ralph explains the philosophy of the latest gorgeous pageant In London by remarking that the English people aro so suffocated and chilled by fogs and de pressing climatic conditions that they hunger for relief In color and merriment. That Is why they have the most gor geous army In Europe; that Is why they drink more than any two nations on earth; that is why htey wear more red on tho streets and keep up their medieval pageants longer than their ne!ghborst and aro the greatest patrons of the theater, the most ardent lovers of pantomime and ballet on earth. The hlshfalutlrr" eloquence that stirred th halls o stats The dignified an" n'cOle band that come to leg islate. The smooth an sllpp'ry lobbyist, who whis pered in your ear' "Good mornln " s If he felt afraid soma candydate was near. They all hev scattered to the winds, tho mat ley crowd has fled. An 'round: the state house you can sea that politics Is dead. The gang that gathered every day to pull for this or that. Until the members scarcely know the placa where they was at: The fallow with the little bill that had to pass, you know. It didn't matter if it took a barrel full of dough; The fellers that was blcedln and the others that was bled. They all hcv flew the coop at last, an politics Is dead. The Janitor Is sweepln In the halls "where yes terday The mighty makers of the laws was havln' of their say. Hla work was mostly done fur him, fur every thing worth while Was taken by the members, lest, remalnln'. It . would spile. There nln't no sign o leaders nor no track o .them they led. The place Is quiet as the grave, fur politics la dead. PLEASANTRIES OF PAIIAGKAPIIEUS "So the poet Is financially embarrassed?" "I should say ao. Why, he actually has to eat breakfast foods for dinner." Philadelphia Rec ord. "How delightfully your dear daughter plays Wagner." "I'm afraid you've made a mis take; that'a the servant girl down stairs working the clothes-wringer." Tlt-Blts. "There's a lesson In that would-be Western epicure who died after eating six pigs' feet." "What Is it?" "That four fcot aro enough for any pig." Philadelphia Times. Small Customer (to general storekeeper) Mother says as would you mind wrapping up the kipper in a hlllustrated paper, as her walls are getting very bare. Punch. Better Late Than Never. "You may recall me, sir. ns the man who eloped with your daughter about a year ago." "Well, sir, what can I do for you?" "I may be a little bit tardy, but I have cornc to offer you my con gratulations." Harper's Bazar. Facta In the Case. "And," the sociologist asked, "do I understand you to say they hanged this cousin of youra on circumstantial evidence?" "Oh, no, boss, no; dey hanged him on a big cottonwood down In Awkensaw." Chicago Times-Herald. He Cissle, I've heard It said that a klsa without a mustache la like an egg without salt. Is that so? She Well, really, I don't know I can't tell, for you see I've never He Ah! Now! She Never ate an egg with out salt. Glasgow Evening Times. He Wanted to Know. Undo Geehaw (from Hay Corners, at grand opera) What's that man got over there? City Nephew Why, that la the score. Uncle Geehaw (brightening up) The "score"? Well, by gum! I wish you'd ask him who's ahead! Puck. JIlnne-Towne-Towne. Illlnolan-Star. Then arose the gifted Charley, Charley Townc of Minnesota, Towne, the accidental statesman. Statesman from the Zenith City, Minnesota's Boanerges. Champion of Agulnaldo, Full of seal- to earn his mileage. Towne. tall-ender, tall and talky. Opened all his vocal flood-sates. Churned himself Into a fever. Shook his little bag of brimstone. Pointed with a scornful Anger At tho country's "lust for slaughter," At the man within the White House, At the whole gum-dasted business From the battle of Manila To tho Philippine -Commission. And he thundered and he snorted. And he snorted and he thundered. Sang fortissimo his swan song. Bellowed It In mighty volume. Split the ear drums of the groundlings. Ramped and roared and whooped regardlea. Till the pale, affrighted hearers Shook and shivered to their marrows. And in agitated whispers Asked the question, "Why In thunder Can't he stop? He's earned his mlleagol Then the fiery, untamed statesman, Minnesota's Boanerges, Champion of Agulnaldo, Booster for the Filipinos, Howling dervteh of the Aunties. Wearing Cushman Davis toga Like a beanopla In a clothes-bag; Vocalist of non-expansion. Towne, the statesman accidental. From Duluth, the Zenith City, City of the seas unsalted. Feeling his last hour approaching. Bellowed out his peroration. Lifted up his voice and shouted. Sounded forth his eolemn warning. Gave the world his farewell message, Laid aside his misfit toga, Wiped his chin, pulled down his waistcoat. And mado way for his successor.