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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13
President Hadley's prescription of an
Emperor for the trusts would doubt
less be effective, but it will not be tried
till other means have failed. The
handiest experiment would be disloca
tion of the Republican party from the
trust It has so indifferently discharged.
A trust may be all right and it may
be all wrong. Because It is a trust is
not conclusive evidence of its mischiev
ousness. We must have grounds more
relative. A3 to the merits of the trusts
the country has been disposed to sus
pend judgment, but it will decide
quickly enough if certain existent man
ifestations are suffered to go on un
checked. For pxample, if railroad
trusts are to kill the Nicaragua Canal,
put an end to river and harbor im
provement, annihilate all competition,
including that of waterways, we shall
soon have drastic legislation in nine
tenths of the states that will make life
a burden to every business corporation.
For example, moreover, if our steel
trusts are to own all the mills and
mines as well, control the home market
through tariffs and limitation of out
put, while selling at half-price abroad,
and compel Congress to pile subsidies
on top of protective taxes, there will be
a free-trad majority in the House of
Representatives bigger than stood at
W. L. Wilson's back in 1894. Plerpont
Morgan is a shrewd financier, but he
may not be e very astute politician;
and If he reckons on perpetual license
to do as he likes with combinations,
regardless of the people, he will be sure
to find some early day that the people
will reciprocate with small regard for
his millions or his feelings. The voters
will take a whirl or two at the trusts
before they call in an Emperor.
They say that experience is a dear
school, but fools will learn in no other.
They say that you can't catch a hare
twice in the same trap, and that the
"burnt child dreads the fire. AH this
may be true, but there Is little in the
experience of American heiresses with
worthless foreign husbands from which
Poor Richard's philosophy can derive
support How long and ardently would
the Duke of Manchester or the Count de
Castellane have looked at the Zimmer
man or Gould girls if It had .not been
for a father's millions? Are these
American girls blind, that they cannot
see .how eagerly the broken-down noble
man or aristocrat seeks their hand, for
no love of them at all, but solely to re
trieve their scattered fortunes? Where
is the maidenly modesty that shrinks
from the coarse and impure, where the
gentle reserve of virtue that yields only
to the key of true and unselfish love?
It is humiliating to think that our
American life, with its New World nat
uralness and freedom from aristocratic
convention, should produce young
women without the distinctive qualities
of their sex. And if we suppose the
fault is with the parents, the case is
not helped. There is an old aunt in
"Zaza," and there are mothers in
Ouida's books, who shamelessly sacri
fice young innocence upon the altar of
their own vanity and laziness; but this
degeneracy of a rotting aristocracy
ought not to be paralleled here among
families only a generation away from
the farm, the telegraph office or the
butcher-shop. All example seems lost
upon these wooden-headed and brass
hearted title-hunters. Doubtless we
shall continue to pay the husband's
debts and pension his cast-off mis
tresses. And In one sense we are the
gainers. Among our Increasing exports
let us point with pride to the poor fools
v.'ho go to breed fit progeny for the aris
tocracy of France and England.
Washington correspondents are
threshing over the old straw of the
Congressional session with the result
of some Interesting kernels of gossip
anent the river and harbor bill. Pass
age of the Spooner amendment was pur
chased, it appears, with promises of
appropriations. Cockrell got $5,000,000
for the St. Louis fair, and that bargain
was kept. Tillman got $250,000 for the
Charleston exposition, but that was not
delivered. The Republican and Admin
istration New York Tribune avers that
most of the money in the river and har
bor bill would have gone "to the South
and West in return for the Democratic
'lay-down on the Philippine and Cuban
prepositions." The Chicago Times-Her-
hd, also Republican and Administra
tion, quotes an unnamed Republican
Senator as saying that the river and
harbor bill was "a strong pusher for
the measures which we must get
through In order to carry out our planB.
The St. Louis fair bill has been pur
posely held up as another pusher for
the scheme to put a protectorate over
Cuba and to give the President unlim
ited power In the Phlllpplpes." But the
Democrats, developments showed, had
bought a gold brick. The St. Louis, ap
propriation was the only consideration
delivered. Senator Carter, though In
terested in several items in the river
and harbor bill, took the floor against
It and prevented its passage. Why he
did this nobody knows, except that all
concede he did It under orders from the
"White House or some correspondingly
high party authority. The determina
tion was to defeat the river and harbor
bill and with it condemn the waterways
of the country to neglect and abandon
ment. The only Interest to "be served
by this Is the railroad Interest. Have
the producers and consumers of the
country any representatives In Congress?
Precisely what was foreseen has hap
pened to Oregon's exhibit at Buffalo.
The official estimate of the Oregon com
mission, pared down to the lowest prac
ticable figure, footed up 530,000. In a
spirit of reckless parsimony this was
cut down by the Legislature to $25,000,
and then by a stroke of wanton crazl
ness $5000 of this was set aside for the
Charleston Exposition, and wasted.
Persons of experience in affairs know
that what seems an unimportant reduc
tion very often means just the differ
ence between enough and nothing. If
you can ride te Mount Tabor for 5 cents
and no less, how much will 3 cents help
you to get there? With $30,000 we could
send to Buffalo exhibits of our mines,
forests, fisheries, farms, orchards and
schools. With $20,000 we can send an
exhibit of half of them, or we can send
a one-horse exhibit of all of them. Of
course, no one of these various depart
ments wants to be left out, so a one
horse exhibit all must have, unless
some way can be found to eke. out the
proper amount. What the Legislature
wants is therefore quite plain. It wants
to see at Buffalo second-class speci
mens of ore, tended by a $l-a-day man
and left alone at night to be carried
off. It wants a few boxes of wormy
apples and poorly dried prunes to rep
resent our fruit industry. It doesn't
want a gold medal for its mining ex
hibit, as we got at Omaha and Spokane,
or the blue ribbon for wheat and apples,
as we got at Paris and Chicago. It
wants a cheap exhibit, tended by cheap
men, who will live on six bits a day and
sleep on the floor. If there is a prize at
Buffalo for a Jim Crow exhibit and a
jay outfit of attendants, the joint
.ways and means committee of our late
Legislature will loudly demand It on
behalf of Oregon. It is theirs, hands
down.
DISADVANTAGES OP NOT BUYING.
If official and manufacturing Europe
should succeed in establishing a tariff
wall effectively exclusive of American
products, how would consuming Europe
stand it? Should we have such a re
monstrance as the corn laws once
raised up in England, or would the
masses patriotically bear the burden for
the sake of their "struggling home In
dustries"? To Mr. Charles R. Flint,
who believes in tariffs, subsidies and
no end of impediments in the way of
trade, provided they are erected on
your own side of the boundary line, it
has, incomprehenslvely enough, oc
curred that maybe consuming Europe
would Indulge the fancy that the
American goods It had been buying
were actually of some use to IL In the
current North American Review Mr.
Flint undertakes to show how much
more necessary we are to Europe than
Europe is to us. Illustrating this by
the table of exports and imports, he
says that last year Europe bought of us
$1,111,000,000, worth of goods. During
the same period we bought of Europe
only $449,000,000. This gave us against
Europe alone a balance of trade
amounting to $672,000,000. They bought
from us more than 2 times as much
as we bought of them. For every dollar
Invested by us in European productions
they invested $2 50 in American produc
tions. The New Tork Journal of Commerce,
however, has been at some pains to pick
flaws in Mr. Flint's reasoning. His
apparent Intention being to demonstrate
the impossibility of a tariff alliance
against the United States, It argues
that the British figures should have no
place in the comparison, there being no
pretense of any readiness on the part
of the United Kingdom to Join a Euro
pean zollvereln in order to check the
growing industrial power of the United
States. For the calendar year our ex
ports to Continental Europe amounted
to $514,000,000 and our imports from the
same countries to $290,000,000. The pro
portionate excess of sales over pur
chases Is thus very much less than in
Mr. Flint's statement. Of the exports
to Continental Europe, 47 per cent was
credited directly to Germany and
France, the total being in round
figures, $280,000,000. Considering the
proportion of Imports that find their
way into Germnay by way of Belgium
and the Netherlands, the actual total is
doubtless very much greater than these
figures Indicate.
Another qualification of Mr. Flint's
argument that must be recognized is
the fact that high tariffs are already In
force in French and German ports
against many of our principal products.
The German tariff is frankly prohibi
tory of the Import of some of our iron
and steel products, and the French is
only somewhat less drastic. The United
States Senate has, in its wisdom, de
clined to do anything to break through
these barriers by the approval of the
reciprocity treaties already negotiated,
and the Journal of Commerce makes
the sound observation that unless this
country is ready to buy more of the fin
ished products of other countries it can
not sell to them more of its own. Hap
pily, our good friend Russia is the only
European country that Is capable of the
economic barbarism of taxing raw ma
terials, the Russian tariff on cotton be
ing 4 cents a pound, 'and on copper
ingots 5 cents per pound. These two
items account for a very large share of
our trade with France and Germany,
the total for last fiscal year being about
$131,000,000 out of the total export of
$280,000,000. Add to these items $13,000,000
for lard, $11,000,000 for mineral oil,
$5,000,000 for cottonseed oil, $8,500,000 for
wheat and wheat flour, and $19,500,000
for corn, and there Is accounted for
$187,000,000 out of the total export to
France and Germany of $280,000,000. It
would be extremely difficult, therefore,
for Continental Europe to do without
very many of the goods it is now buy
ing from us without going hungry or
crippling its own manufactures.
In one way and another, therefore,
Mr. Flint's arguments and even errors
go to show the inadvlsabillty of pro-
motlng trade by embargoes or encour
aging commerce by strangulation. Tet
we take it that when It came to the
possibility of the United States Injuring
itself by going without desirable things
from Europe, the Flint school of eco
nomics would look the other way and
say nothing.
PIIOGRESS OF THE NEGRO.
In an address before the Merchants'
Club, of Chicago, Saturday night,
Booker T. Washington, the colored man
who is leading his race out upon the
higher levels of freedom through the
gospel of work, said: "When we take
a broad view of developments In this
country during the last forty years as
they relate to the negro, I think the
north, the white South and the black
men have no reason to become despond
ent because conditions are no better,
but every reason to congratulate them
selves that the entire situation is so
hopeful and satisfying."
This speech must come as a revela
tion to those who take cognizance of
the negro only through some crime that
one of his race, still groveling upon the
lower levels of animalism, has com
mitted, or turn shudderingly from the
spectacle presented by his violent death
at the hands of men as drunken In one
type of passion as he was in another.
Writing of the tenth annual session
of the Tuskegee Negro Conference, re
cently held, a colored woman whose
heart Is with her race and Its endeavor
related the story of a negro who. In
spired by the gospel of work and Its
correlative doctrine, the ownership of
home and lands, savs: "This mnn
had struggled many years to earn and
save the price of his home. For weeks
together he had not seen It by daylight
except on Sundays, because he left for
his work In the morning before It was
light, and did not return until after
dark. His wife tolled to help him, and
finally he became the owner of forty
acres of land, a two-room house, mules
and cattle." Standing up before the
conference In Tuskegee Institute chapel,
his face glowing with the pride of hon
est achievement, this man said: "Now,
when I go out of my house In the
morning and look around me, the land
I see is mine; the earth under my feet
Is mine as far as I want to dig down
Into It; the air above my head is mine;
even the birds that fly through the air
above me are mine." This Is the true
chant of freedom. It is voiced by a
self-dependent manhood that the Im
mortal Emancipation Proclamation was
powerless to purchase for the negro,
and It rings with the note of individual
ity, without which there is no accumu
lative purpose.
The object of the educational effort
for which the name of Booker T. Wash
ington stands Is to bring the negro up
to a full realization of the value of self
endeavor; to encourage the buying of
land; of getting rid of the one-room
cabin of the old slavery days, and of
the abuse of the mortgage system; the
raising of food supplies, building better
schoolhouses, lengthening the school
term, getting better teachers and
preachers; the doing away with sec
tarian prejudice, the improvement of
the moral condition of the masses, and
the encouragement of friendly relations
between the races. As contemplated in
this-endeavor, the race Is passing from
a political status that was at best un
defined and turbulent to the economic
basis that underlies good citizenship.
If the negro Is to become what he may
become, it will be through work sys
tematically directed toward the owner
ship of land and the building and main
tenance of homes In a sense distinct
from the old-time housing and herding
in plantation quarters. In no sense a
politician, he must eschew politics in an
active sense and strive for recognition
as an economic factor In the commu
nity. With the attainder of thrlftless
ness of the hand-to-mouth order upon
him, he must. If he is to gain a foot
hold, gain it through persistent, pur
poseful industry; with the attainder of
the lawbreaker to overcome, he must
rigidly observe the laws, bearing in
mind that lawlessness begets crime and
hardens and deadens not only the con
science of the lawbreaker, but also the
conscience of the community.
The work of the race must for many
years He along the lower levels that
contribute to self-respect and Individual
prosperity. The young people must be
prepared for trades and for domestic
employment. The attention of the
women Is especially called, by these
promoters of the gospel of work, to the
wealth that lies for them In "the gar
den, the cow, the pig and the poultry
yard." Children In finance, in econ
omy, in responsible Industry, these peo
ple were thrown upon their own re
sources forty years ago and left to
shift for themselves. Freedom to them
was an empty boon. To the vast multi
tude, Indeed, It was not a boon, but a
cross which they knew not how to lift,
much less to carry. That all have
stumbled under the burden Is not
'strange; that many have fallen Is true;
that thousands have been unable even
to stagger to their feet and attempt to
carry it is not surprising. That even a
few, relatively speaking, -under the
wise tutelage of a grand teacher of
their race, have come to recognize the
fact that work lowly, purposeful, per
sistent work must be the salvation of
the race; the only lever that can lift
them out of a bondage the last estate
of which has been to them worse than
the first, Is a source of intelligent hope
to those who are interested in the so
lution of the negro problem.
The railroad has long been known
as -an agent of temperance, Its work
requiring clear heads and steady hands.
It now appears through an order of
the Dubuque superintendent of the Chi
cago & Great Western Railroad Com
pany as a stringent promoter of total
abstinence among its employes. By
this order Its men are forbidden, on
penalty of dismissal from the service,
to enter saloons or to drink at any
time, whether on or off duty, intoxi
cating liquors. A corporation suffi
ciently powerful may enforce a law of
this kind, which, for obvious reasons,
could not be enforced by the state,
though numbers of its men will
doubtless continue to use liquor
sparingly, uncensured anl unobserved.
There are, as corporations officials well
know, men whose experience, skill and
judgment make them valuable as em
ployes when strictly sober, yet who are
robbed of all sense of responsibility by
"the first glass of whisky." The object
of this order Is to render such men
reliable, and lit some instances it niay
succeed. As a rule, however, men who
have so far allowed their hold upon
their manhood to slip that al self-control
is destroyed by a single drink of
1 liquor, have passed the stage at which
corporation rules can control them. In
a few years, by natural processes of
business elimination, men of this stamp
will disappear from responsible posi
tions, giving place to those who recog
nize the virtue and value of self-dominion
and have never surrendered
their will to self-indulgence. This rule
of the Great Western Railroad will be
more effective in keeping sober men
from acquiring the tippling habit, to the
ruin of those among them who are of
weaker will, than In reclaiming from
fixed habits the victim of periodical ex
cesses. To the extent that It Is influen
tial In this line it will prove an indi
vidual, domestic and public benefaction.
FLEETING ME3IORY OF GREAT
RICHES.
The tearing down of the famous mar
ble mansion of A. T. Stewart, on Fifth
avenue, New York City, recalls the fact
that the memory of great riches is a
short-lived fame. Stewart died in 1876
worth between $40,000,000 and $50,000,
000. He was a bald eagle In business,
feared and hated at-home, despised and
depreciated abroad; he was a tyrannical
employer, a remorseless persecutor and
exterminator of smaller tradesmen than
himself; he ignored the humane maxim,
"live and let live"; he was a grab-all;
an inexorable absorber, an acrid miser
and a mean landlord. When he died
the ministers undertook to assign him
a seat among the seraphs, even as, at
a later date, they whitewashed Jay
Gould when he gave his church a lump
sum of $10,000. Gould was In falling
health; he was a sick devil, who felt
like a monk, and, iike every sick, su
perstitious bandit, he was willing to
pay liberally for masses said for his
soul. Stewart, like Gould, left nothing
behind him to make the world congrat
ulate Itself that he had been born Into
It. He endowed no college, founded no
art museum or great hospital, and es
tablished no great charity. He had no
legitimate children, and his millions
were fought over by distant and doubt
ful kinsmen. His body was stolen from
the grave and held for ransom by ras
cals who were too cowardly to murder
him In life.
The splendid Stewart mansion, which
has Just been torn down, was furnished
by him with everything that could
make It attractive and luxurious. The
house included a splendid art gallery,
on whose walls hung the masterpieces
of Melssonler and other great French
artists. For one single painting Stew
art paid $50,000.
But in the great house there was no
happiness. There were no children, no
grandchildren. There were no festivi
ties in it beyond an occasional dinner
party, when the cynical old merchant
entertained r. few celebrities in shape of
foreign or domestic millionaires or men
of conspicuous political consequence, to
whom Stewart paid court as a matter
of business. He was a man who had
been well educated In his youth, and
yet he had become so completely cor
roded with the rust of sordid living
that his society was never sought by
eminent men of business, by nobody
save those who had something .to sell
that it was possible he would wish to
buy.
The memory that Stewart died worth
$50,000,000 is fading fast; the monument
of his wealth represented by his Fifth
avenue mansion has been torn down. It
is true that nothing) dries so quickly
as tears for the dead, but no tears were
ever, shed for Stewart, and even the
name and fame of his great riches only
serve to recall the difference between
the noble use of extraordinary riches
and the Ignoble abuse" of or neglect of
the opportunity and responsibility of
enormous wealth. We shall not com
pare Stewart with men like Stephen
Glrard, Peter Cooper and Amos Law
rence, men who were primarily phil
anthropists, although endowed with
great talents for business. We are con
tent to compare the miserable fading
memorj' of Stewart with the permanent
esteem and solid fame obtained in our
history by such men'as John Jacob As
tor and the Vanderbilts. These men
were not primarily philanthropists, but
they did great things for our country
In life by their Napoleonic genius for
business expansion and combination,
and did part with some of their money
for public charity. Astor for his means
endowed the library that bears his
name magnificently.
Vanderbllt endowed a university, and
the third and fourth generations of the
Vanderbilts not only have Inherited
much of the ability of the great Com
modore, but they have risen to a nobler
and wiser philosophy of life. They all
believe In mixing benevolence with the
administration of a great business as
a sound Industrial policy, and In the
common-sense charity of giving with
your own hand. The iVanderbilis all
do something, or at least try to do
something, worth doing. One of the
youngest representatives has educated
himself as a mechanical engineer, and
Is already recognized as an inventor of
superior talents. William K. Vander
bllt, who once bunted pleasure In a sea
going yacht, has succeeded to the place
of his brother, the late Cornelius Van
derbllt, at the head 'of the Vanderbllt
railroad system, and Is reported to be
a man of giat business ability. They
aU have an honorable desire to be con
spicuous for something more than just
brains enough to "be permitted to In
herit money.
There is-a flyjn the coyote ointment.
The new bounty law revives the old
method of certification, by which the
man who kills a "varmint" presents the
scalp to the County Clerk, makes affi
davit that he slew the beast in the
county and state aforesaid, and gets his
warrant for the bounty. This is a com
paratively simple process, but It hap
pens that a considerable number of
certificates had been Issued by notaries
or Justices under the former law that
had not been formally canvassed by the
County Courts. How to get the bounty
on these certificates Is a problem, for
the certificates In most cases are in the
hands? of third persons, and it is clearly
Impossible to qualify them under the
new law. This leaves some of the
scalpers of bounty certificates In an un
pleasant position, but it Is not pre
sumed that the scalping industry will
suffer from it
Professor Edward G. Bourne Is right.
The perversion of history cannot honor
a man like Dr. Whitman. A devoted
missionary, self-sacrificing In his en
deavor, faithful to his obligations to
humanity, courageous to recklessness,
he lost his life at the demand of what
he conceived to be his duty. Well, In
deed, may It be said that "the unceas
ing labors of his life, and his- death in
the service of Christian missions in
tile Northwest, deserve every honora-
ble mention." A brave man, but an
Impractical one; humane without the
distrust of humanity necessary for self
protection among savages; too kind to
Impose necessary discipline upon the
Indians, after the masterful but still
kindly manner of Dr. McLoughlln, he
fell at his post In the beautiful wilder
ness, smitten to death by the hands of
those unto whom he had ministered.
These are undisputed facts of history,
and they entitle Dr. Whitman and his
gentle wife, Narclssa, who shared his
life and Its labors and met death and
its horrors with him, to the admiration
and pity ot future generations.
The Legislatures of Idaho and Utah
favor the 1905 fair. There Is no reason,
Indeed, why they should not, and every
reason that loyalty to the great region
explored by Lewis and Clark a cen
tury ago can suggest why they should.
The names of these explorers are
stamped upon all of this great North
west country coast and Inland. The
records they left of It belong in common
to the people that inhabit the then vast
solitudes of the continent. Not "mine"
or "thine," but "ours," is this vast
heritage, and "we" in the widest sense
of the word should join in the Lewis
and Clark centennial.
Chief Justice Marshall, In 1831, when
he was 76 years old, underwent the tor
ture of the operation of lithotomy be
fore the days of ether. Dr. Randall,
who assisted In the operation, records
that Judge Marshall exhibited extraor
dinary fortitude, scarcely uttering a
murmur throughout the whole proced
ure, which, from the peculiar nature of
his complaint, was necessarily tedious.
From the patient over a thousand cal
culi were taken. He had a perfect re
covery; nor did the disorder ever re
turn. President William Henry Harrison,
the grandfather of Benjamin Harrison,
died of bilious pleurisy, April 4, 1841,
when he" was a little past 68 years of
age, having been born February 9, 1773.
Benjamin Harrison was born August
20, 1833. President William Henry Har
rison contracted the disease which
killed him by foolish exposure to the
weather on Inauguration day, when he
headed the procession on horseback.
"Tom" Carter, of Montana, couldn't
let the river and harbor bill pass, be
cause It was "a steal." But he has no
compunction whatever against taking
for himself a salary of $5000 a year for
an Indefinite period out of the United
States Treasury, for a sinecure posi
tion in the St. Louis fair that is, for
no service whatever.
So E. H. Flagg, of Salem, for hl3 vast
political services, gets a chance among
the Eskimo of Alaska, at $1200 a year.
It takes very little to meet the wants
of some of our statesmen.
CALIFORNIA'S USUAL ALERTNESS.
It Will Pnt Its Best Foot Forward In
Immigration Work.
San Francisco Bulletin.
It is well that the local merchants are
making provision, for the Immense Immi
gration which will come to this state
during the next few months. An Infor
mation bureau will be established for the
benefit of colonists, and persons who
come to settle In this state will be ad
vised in regard to the soils, climates,
conditions and possibilities of the various
sections. For years our merchants have
been endeavoring to attract immigration
in this direction. Circumstances now
have turned a great tide of travelers
toward California, and It behooves us
not to elt the golden opportunity slip by.
The low rates from the East, the sev
eral conventions soon to be held in this
state, and the returning regiments from
the Philippines will bring more than 100.
000 strangers to San Francisco before
midsummer. It Is calculated that 20,000
returned soldiers, each with $400 In coin,
will be mustered out In this city. These
are very desirable Immigrants. Most of
them are able-bodled, unmarried men,
and It the greater number of them can
be led to settle on farms in this stats,
California, will be distinctly the gainer.
There is plenty of work for them here.
Last year In certain parts of California
the fruit crop went to waste for lack of
men to handle It. There are fertile dis
tricts In California where good land can
be had for $15 an acre. Intending settlers
should be persuaded to go into the coun
try where they scan better themselves.
Tho Stale of California needs a larger
rural population, and the tendency to
ward the cities is hurtful.
If the commercial bodies of San Fran
cisco assist 20,000 or 40,000 immigrants to
settle in the northern part of this state
they ihall have done a very laudable
und Important work for California. The
merchants of Los Angeles have organ
ized for the purpose of taking means to
draw the Immigration southward, but
the merchants of San Francisco have the
doable advantage that this city is the
point of arrival for the Immigrants and
that Northern California offers better
opportunities to settlers.
VIEWS OF THE CHARTER VETO.
It would be interesting to learn how
the Democrats who voted for Senator
Mitchell calculate that they have accom
plished their duty toward the reform they
shouted for last Spring. They have de
nominated Mark Hanna as the Adminis
tration, and now comes the Chronicle, of
The Dalles, a ship subsidy advocate,
praising Senator Mitchell In these words:
"Oregon will now have a Senator whose
power and influence for good to the state
will not be marred and nullified by his op
position to the Administration." Burns
News.
Governor Geer's reasons for vetoing the
Portland charter were entirely sound, one
of the best being that the citizens of
Portland, generally speaking, were Igno
rant of Its provisions. The veto should
make the Governor more friends than en
emies. Toledo Leader.
Word came Wednesday that Governor
Geer had vetoed the Portland emergency
charter bill. This bill was the one on
which the swap was made with the Dem
ocrats whereby Mitchell was elected Sen
ator. The Governor has saved his good
name by showing that he was not a party
to the deal. Wallowa News.
Lyncli Law for Saloon.
New York Tribune.
There are crimes more serious than the
illicit sale and consumption of liquor.
Murder is one of them, and reoutabie
citizens of many places have often taken
It upon themselves to put a murderer to
death, either before or after trial and con
demnation by the courts. In advance,
while their passions are at fever heat,
they always defend the thing they mean
to do on the ground that the wretch does
not deserve the protection of judicial pro
cesses, and even after the event they
sometimes plead the sanction of what
they call the higher law. But Intelligent,
spber-mlnded men and women know that
thl3 Is not a valid justification. It Is
lynch law that Mrs. Nation and her fol
lowers are administering In Kansas, and
their only defense is the defense which
utterly breaks down when a murderer Is
hanged by a mob,
A SOUTHERNER FULLY ANSWERED
Louisville Courier-Journal.
"A Southerner" in Oregon sends the
Courier-Journal an article from The Port
land Oregonlan, with a request which Is
too patriotic to be kept from the public.
"Here Is a paper," he writes, "which
says the South had no literature before
the war. Now, personally, I don't know
anything about Southern literature before
the war, but I do know that this is a He.
Rip it up."
The article is headed "Literary Growth
of the South," and after sketching ante
bellum American literature, says:
The outbreak of the Civil War found us with
a literature highly creditable to so young a
Nation, and yet to this literature the South
may be said to have contributed nothing. The
active genius of the South before the Chi!
War was exclusively devoted to law and pol
itics. No section of the country produced so
many men of brilliant forensic eloquence and
of superior distinction In legal debate. The
atmosphere ot the South, its. soda! habits, so
much favored the cultivation of natural tal
ents for public speech that a Northern-born
and bred man, Sargent S. Prentiss, of Maine,
seemed to rise to a level of eloquence In Mis
sissippi, of which he had not been suspected
in his youth. Able statesmen and lawyers
were found In every Southern State, but to the
American literature of poetry and Action the
South contributed nothing worthy of note until
after the Civil War.
Since the Civil War tlfe Southern mind has
been conspicuous as the most gifted and ver
satile contribution to our new body of prose
and verse. The destruction of slavery "took
the nlsger off the valve" of the Southern na
tive genius for literature. . . . The fine
bralna of the South went Into law and pol
itics exclusively before the war, but since the
war the fine brains of the South have been
devoted, a goodly portion, to the production
of excellent literature, to the pursuit of busi
ness, as well as that of law and politics.
The Courier-Journal fears that it must
disappoint Its appreciated correspondent
who, while saying that he does not know
anything about the assertions which The
Oregonlan makes, yet Insists that they
are lies. Unquestionably we have all
heard much of "Southern literature" be
fore the war, and how could we have
heard of It If there was no such thing?
Many ornate essays have been written
about It; much tribute has been paid to
It in high-sounding adjectives; scores of
its authors have been cited by name; yet
who has read their productions?
Honesty compels the admission by the
Courier-Journal that If there Is any such
thing as an ante-bellum Southern litera
ture it has ben unable to find It. Nor
can we see that this Is any reproach to
the South. The bent of the people In this
region was then In other directions, and
that they won primacy In those directions
Is everywhere conceded. It Is not worth
while to go Into the causes which di
verted the Intellectual energies of the
Southern people In those days Into other
fields than creative literature. The fact
Is all that Is here under consideration,
and It Is a fact which grows the more
obvious the further that period receded
from us.
But surely if the rack of literary activ
ity before the war was any discredit to
the South, it has been more than atoned
for since. The Oregonlan as readily rec
ogntyes one condition as the other. It is
admitted freely In the North that the
greatest literary Impetus in this -country
since the war has been In the South, and
that its real additions to American lit
erature have outweighed those which have
been made by any other section.
After all, however, why insist on draw
ing sectional lines In the literature of
the United States? This is one counuj,
and what Is to Its credit In Georgia or
Virginia Is to Its credit in Vermont or
Maine. Good literature Is good at every
point of the compass. It is In no sense
sectional, and the sectionalism of those
who discuss It can not make It so. It
may be geographical In that It may be
peculiar to local conditions, but Its fidel
ity to those conditions makes It literature
anywhere, and In that broader sense only
can it live.
TABLED IN INDIANA.
Rnde Treatment Which. Can Hardly
Fall to Dlacournpre SnitrnBlsts.
Chicago Times-Herald.
The efforts of the woman suffragists to
break Into the Indiana constitution have
been "table!" once more. The attractive
lobby that has been trying to operate
upon the susceptibilities of the Hoosler
legislator must so home to its hungry
husbands and neglected firesides.
A lot of mean and ungallant lawmakers
seem determined to keep the Indiana con
stitution "for men only." They won t
leave the constitution outdoors over night
for fear the equal suffragists will break
Into it with a Jimmy or crowbar. The
constitution-makers sewed it up tight, so
far as excluding the women is concerned,
and all propositions to strike out the word
"male" have been promptly, aecenuy uu
quietly buried in committees on rights and
privileges.
The Indiana Legislature played the same
old trick of leading the suffragists up to
the top of "an exceeding high mountain"
In one branch and then pushing them off
In the other branch. The customary pro
cedure Is to give the women a majority
in one House, raising their hopes sky
ward, with the quiet understanding that
the other branch of the assembly will re
ject the proposition to give them the
ballot. The Indiana House voted in favor
of a woman suffrage amendment, but
when it came to the Senate It was
promptly referred to the committee on
privileges, which is regarded as a Chris
tian burial for propositions of that kind.
The champion of the suffragists, however,
was not satisfied with the form of the ob
sequies, and very foolishly asked to have
the amendment disinterred. Thereupon
the remains were rudely and unceremoni
ously "tabled."
This continuous tabling process can
hardly fall to discourage even so hopeful
and valiant a band as the woman suf
fragists. Public opinion has apparently
reached the point where legislators are
not disposed to favor further extensions
of suffrage t"o women until they manifest
a more general disposition to use the
privileges already granted them In school
elections.
When In Dnnjcer of Nervous Collapse
American Queen.
A woman who finds herself tiring at
every exertion Is In danger of nervous
collapse. She who falls to sleep soundly
Is especially liable to such a break-down.
To avoid such a possibility, rest Is abso
lutely necessary, but not a rest which
means Idleness; such rest would be the
worst possible thing. What Is necessary,
though, Is to break up the accustomed
routine of work, and to do all things
moderately: take your breakfast In bed,
rise late, retire early, abandon all un
necessary exertions, drink two or three
quarts of rlc'i cocoa a day ... or ute,
this same amount of milk with cereals
or In simple puddings. Eat nourishing
food, the heavy meal preferably in the
middle of the day. Keep out of doors as
much as possible, but do not allow your
self to become exhausted with too much
walking. Occasionally during the day
take 10 minutes rest, on the flat of your
back. If possible, and If you manage
to get tho proverbial "forty winks," so
much the better. Go to bed early, and
go to bed each night at the same time.
Darken your room absolutely, and at
once. Do not try to read, knowing you
cannot sleep, or you will not. Close your
eyes, and, selecting a comfortable posi
tion, with all the muscles and nerves re
laxed, direct your glance upward. In
doing this, avoid the slightest effort; It
may take several nights trial to quit
making the effort, but when you succeed
and you will in a very short time you
will sleep restfully and well; the more
sleep one manages to get while in a nerv
our. collapsible condition, the less will be
the danger of prostration.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
The Duke of Westminster did not learn -the
way to court till after his courtship
was over.
The Boers who stole General Kitchener's
personal baggage may soon have use for
his supply of regret-to-report blanks.
Richard Croker says that New Tork Is
the best governed city In the world. And
without the consent of the governed, at
that.
Silence is golden, and gold is what
counts in a Montana election. But Sen
ator Carter didn't find this out till too
late.
We know that Spring Is coming,
But we will not know It's here
Till we see the advertisement
Of the first bock beer.
Webster Davis says he has sold his
book for $1SO,000. Thus he firmly estab
lishes his reputation as a producer of
fiction.
They are trying to abolish gambling In
Kentucky. If reform. Is allowed to go
much further down there, restrictions will
soon be placed on killing people.
Now doth the gentle maiden
Say, and insist upon It,
That she must have $50
For a modest Easter bonnet.
J. Plerpont Morgan's favorite dish is
corn beef and cabbage. That Is the way of
the world. The man who Is drawing ?6 a
week prefers terrapin and champagne.
If Edwin Markham will take a tour of
the country these Spring days, he will
see his friend, the man with the hoe, rid
ing on a sulky plow and smoking a Ha
vana cigar.
Oh! why does the poet sing of Spring.
Of the birds that their way to the northward
wing?
Because, forsooth, he is forced to roam
Out of doors, for they're cleaning house at
home.
Wind that howl and whistles.
Frost that stings and bites.
Misty, clammy mornings.
Clear and starry night".
Warm and genial sunshine.
Almost hot at noon.
Red and glowing twilights.
Shining, radiant moon.
Bain and sleet and hailstorms
Then the sky's blue arch.
Every kind of weather.
Mixed to make a March.
The three society men of the Senate
Depew, Kean and Wetmore who are so
popular that they never dine at home ex
cept when they give dinners to their
friends, stole quietly Into the Senate res
taurant the other day, a Washington cor
respondent says. Each Senator looked
at the menu card listlessly. "I'm very
tired of terrapin and game," said Senator
Kean. "So am I," said Senator Wetmore.
"So am I," echoed Senator Depew"and
I am going to eat some bacon and
greens." Kean and. Wetmore almost
shouted for Joy. "That's what we want,"
they said, and in five minutes three Sen
ate society men could have been seen eat
ing bacon and greens as If thy had never
tasted anything one-half so good in their
lives.
The Wallowa News chronicles a case of
touching gratitude on the part of the
citizens of Sodavllle, who. In convention
assembled, passed a resolution thanking
the Legislature for appropriating $1000 for
the mineral springs at that settlement.
This Is only fair. It was exceedingly kind
of the Legislature to make this appropria
tion, particularly as there was no reason
for It except that the springs needed the
money. If every community favored by
the Legislature would thus express its
gratitude, how much happier It would
make the legislators; how it would Influ
ence them, to do as much for other springs,
of which there are several thousand in
the state. The people of Sodavllle are a
bright and shining example for other
communities. For example, the Legisla
ture did several things for Portland, such
as passing a fine, new charter bill, and
yet It has not occurred to a single mass
meeting to return thanks.
FLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
Not to Be Expected. "Yls, Mike has a
stlddy Job, but 'tis har-rd wor-ruk." "Oh,
well, lvery man can't be oa the polace foorcet"
Puck.
Aristocracy. "And she is reckoned one of
the aristocracy in Kentucky?" "Oh. decldedlyl
Her family feuds with the very best peopla
there!" Detroit JournaJ.
Little Elsie Sister, do you know what Lent
is? "I'm not so sure, Elsie, but I think it's
forty days set apart In the year for people to
be sorry for being Episcopalians." Life.
"Mamma, will heaven be as beautiful as
they say in the books?" Mother Certainly,
my dear; why do you ask? "Places we go to
In4 the Summer are neer as nice as the cir
culars. Life.
Lenten Meditation. "Oh, where are you go
ing, my pretty maid?" "I am going to church,
kind sir." she said. "What do jou there. I
would ask, pretty maid?" "I pray and I
think up new hats," ehe said. Detroit Frea
Press.
Sir William Sampson.
S. E. KIser in Chicago Tlme-Herald.
When I was a lad with my strong right arm
I pulled up weeds on my father's farm:
I plowed, I sowed, and I mowed the hay
And I carried swill to the pigs each day
Oh, I carried the swill so successfullee
That now I'm the ruler of our great navee!
As a farmer boy I made such a hit
That they sent me to school, where I dona
better y It;
I learned to read and I learned to write
And I earned my board doing chores at night
I done the chores so admlrablee
That I'm Admiral now In our great navee!
I made my name such a powerful name
That a naval cadet I soon became:
I wore white shirts and I brushed my hair
And I soon had the other bojs beaten there
Oh, the rest were thrown In the shade by
me.
And now I'm the boss of our great navee!
I polished myself from tip to tip
And I cut a dash on our training ship;
I learned to dance and I learned to bow
And forgot all about how to milk a cow
I forgot my farming so thoroughlee
That now I'm the hero of our great navee!
I grew so great that they picked me out
To bottle up and put the Dona to rout.
And I smashed their fleet on that glorious
day.
Though I chanced to be a dozen miles away
Yes, all their ships were riddled by me
I'm the only hero In our great navee!
Now sailors all. whoever you may be.
There are lines we must always draw, you
see:
You must stick to your guns, you must stay
below,
For you haven't the right to presume, you
know
Just stand at a distance and admire me.
The greatest thing In our great navee!
Divine Immanence.
Alexander Pope.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole.
Whose body Nature Is, and God the soul;
That, changed through all, end yet In all tho
same.
Great In the earth, as In tha ethereal frame.
Warms In the sun, refreshes In the breexe.
Glows In the stars, and blossoms In the trees;
Llvs through all life, extends through all ex
tent. Spreads undivided, operates unspent:
Breathes in our soul. Informs our mortal part.
As full, as perfect. In a hair as heart:
As full, as perfect. In vile Man that mourns,
As the rapt Seraph, that adores and burns;
To Him. no high, no low, no great, no small;
I He fills. He bounds, connects, and equals all.