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PORTLAND, THURSDAY, MARCH It.
While wishing: the John Burroughs
Society for protection of songbirds all
the Joy and success In the world, we
shall express the hope that It will re
frain from emulating the feverish activ
ity of the Audubon Society In its war
fare on plumage as millinery. Kindly
Nature, who ordered that commodious
rivers should be found flowing by large
cities, and mercifully endowed the
hawk with swift, noiseless wing and
powerful beak that its young should
not suffer for lack of fat chickens,
also provided us with elephant tusks
for piano keys and whalebone for dis
guise of our obesity. May she not con
sistently, therefore, have planned' that
the world of feminine headgear should
exist evolutionary through the discern
ing labors of natural selection In build
ing up the ostrich and the peacock?
However this may be, and all must ad
mit the demonstration in Nature's con
nolsseurship afforded by the milliner,
the objection to the plumage reformer
is not so much his theory as the way
In which he adds to the burden of exist
ence through his pernicious activity.
The humble individual who wishes to
carry on a well-ordered career of peace
and propriety is harassed almost to
death by the multiform Don Quixote of
society, with lance in rest and Rozin
ante charging at every convention.
From the cradle to the grave, the fiend
who knows that everything we do Is
all wrong unremittingly pursues us.
The scenery along life's Interesting
pathway is hidden from view by the
reformer's don'ts on signboard, pali
sade and tree. Everything the young
mother's love prompts her to do for her
child must be foregone, and the fond
rites memory leves to pay the dear de
parted are costly and probably unsan
itary. Find out what you like to eat
or drink, and depend upon it all of it is
tinder the anathema of self-appointed
censors of hygiene. For every comfort
there is its sleepless and self-sacrificing
and sacrlflclng-everybody-else antago
nist Feathers make such handsome
hats how can we forbear to destroy
them if possible?
As we are asked to believe that no
bubonic plague exists in San Francisco,
the critical faculty is severely taxed to
explain the need that a strong delega
tion of San Francisco business men
Journey in hot haste to "Washington in
order to keep the Government from
making public the results of investiga
tion in their city. It can hardly be as
sumed that they fear an official denial
of the plague's existence would be per
verted by the Government, and it is
equally incredible that If the report
read against the existence of the plague
San Francisco would rise to protest
against Its promulgation. Assistant
Secretary Spalding's Indorsement is
about as lame an effort to conceal
thought as current diplomacy affords.
The fact is, of course, that bubonic
plague in a mild form and under effi
cient surveillance exists in San Fran
cisco, despite that city's frantic efforts
to cover it up and despite the persecu
tion It visited last year upon the Fed
eral official who did his duty in pro
claiming it. Yet little occasion exists
for alarm, and none for panic. It Is to
be supposed that San Francisco, grave
ly concerned for Its trade, will leave
nothing undone to stay the spread of
the disease and stamp it out in China
town, despite the protests of the Chi
nese. The only difficulty to overcome
is the popular indifference and even op
position to drastic remedial and pre
ventive measures, which alone are ef
ficacious. How greatly the reign of
quacks and popular impatience with
scientific regime menace the public
health is seen in numerous epidemics
of smallpox all over the country. Only
in a less degree than the Calcuttans
and the lower orders of Poles,, we are
restive under the rule of modern sani
tary science. The cause Is different, for
while they are Ignorant, we know bet
ter but are simply perverse. Many of
us take the Immortal Declaration too
literally. Epidemics of contagious dis
eases are merely the fruits of liberty
gone to seed.
Chances of Democratic victory in 1902
and 1904, which the Republicans are so
sedulously augmenting, cannot be
viewed with equanimity, however wel
come such an event would be in Its
aspect of relief from undue influence
of trusts and protected corporations.
Restoration of the Democracy to power
would undoubtedly be disastrous in
many directions. The gold standard
would not be Imperiled, but it would
fee discredited, and the resultant dis
quietude, if joined to fortuitous discov
ery of overcapitalization, fears of forced
liquidation, a low Treasury reserve or
heavy gold exports, might easily harden
into depression If not panic. Certainty
of tariff changes, devised in unfriendly
and predatory spirit, would demoralize
foreign trade Just as It did from 1S93
to 1895. The Investment world would
be perturbed with fears of Income tax
ation, antl-rallroad and anti-trust laws,
shipbuilding would pause at the menace
of free ships, every element of unrest
and rebellion, at home and abroad,
would arouse itself in expectation of
demagogic interference with the Army,
and all departments of the Govern
ment would palpitate in face of threats
of reduced appropriations for objects
alike worthy and unworthy. All these
things the thinking men of the country
are looking squarely in the eye, and
wondering if the price is too high for
rescuing the Government from the
domination of our giant protected man
ufacturing interests, industrial trusts
and railroad "harmonizations." The
only unconcerned are the Republican
leaders, who are reaching over the most
dangerous precipice the party has ever
come upon, to pick the alluring flow
ers of campaign contributions, conces
sions to Treasury raiders and the favor
of the powerful.
BENJAMIN' HARRISON'.
Benjamin Harrison, as a lawyer, stood
In the front rank of his profession in
legal learning, acumen and the faculty
of clear, strong and Impressive forensic
oratory. As a statesman, he belonged
In the second rank with John Qulncy
Adams and Martin Van Buren. Indeed,
Mr. Harrison strongly resembled John
Qulncy Adams In many of his Intellect
ual characteristics and in some of his
infirmities of temper. There was a
strain of the political Presbyterian in
both of these men. They were both
men of considerable culture; men of
pugnacity and resolution. Despite their
irascibility, they were both men of
cold, non-magnetic personality, hyper
critical and gifted with a positive gen
ius for making personal enemies with
out much effort and on comparatively
small provocation. They were men of
influence In so far as they addressed
the brains and understanding of their
countrymen, but were both destitute of
the gift of leadership. They were both
men of correct personal habits, high
Integrity and unsullied patriotism. John
Qulncy Adams, through his diplomatic
service as Minister to Russia and his
residence In Paris and London, had
larger early opportunities than Harri
son had, but the excellence of Mr. Har
rison's state papers on all subjects, both
of domestic and of foreign interest,
during his Presidential term and In his
subsequent career, leave no doubt that
he was as well equipped a statesman,
measured both by native and acquired
ability, as John Qulncy Adams.
It was the misfortune of Mr. Harrison
that after the completion of his term of
office as President no great and noble
cause was at his hand needing service
such as John Qulncy Adams was able
to render during the last sixteen years
of his life upon the floor of Congress.
Mr. Harrison increased 'his fame as a
lawyer of the first rank by his address
before the Venezuela boundary com
mission and by his conduct of Import
ant cases of private litigation. His rep
utation as a very able and attractive
political speaker was greatly enlarged
by his great speech at Cooper Institute,
New York City, In the Presidential
campaign of 1S96. In his Presidential
term, when he visited the Pacific Coast,
in 1891, President Harrison charmed all
hearers by the felicity and versatility
of his extempore speech, but in his
subsequent career he rose to high fame
as a profound and convincing political
speaker. He was not an eloquent man;
for while he thought strongly he did not
feel strongly; and he always addressed
the head rather than the heart or feel
ings of his hearers. But he was a very
impressive and attractive speaker be
cause of his simplicity of language and
the strength of his argument He had
the great excellencies and the Infirmi
ties of his training and his temper. He
was an admirably trained lawyer of
very high ability, and he always spoke
like a lawyer and a well-equipped Jur
ist He not only had a cold temper,
but he was so deficient in social talents
that his manner was not seldom abso
lutely ' repellent to excellent ment who
felt nothing but the highest respect for
his accomplishments and his character
and were naturally disposed to like
him. He was not only a good hater, but
he was easily capable of inspiring hate.
General Harrison made an excellent
President; he would have made an ex
cellent Secretary of State; he certainly
stood high in his profession, and yet he
was not a man of large nature. He
made the best use of his time and op
portunities. He wa3 a sober, energetic,
industrious, ambitious, studious man
all his days. He made as much of a
man of himself as was possible, and his
limitations were moral and social rather
than intellectual. His position on the
questions that have grown out of our
Spanish "War Indicates that he was dis
posed to oppose expansion with more
vigor than consistency for a President
who was the champion of the annexa
tion of Hawaii. His articles in the
North American Review; his speech be
fore Ann Arbor University; indeed, all
his public speeches and printed argu
ments for the last two years, have been
in conspicuous opposition to the policy
of expanslor and to the war In the
Philippines. He has been the strongest
champion that the antl-Imperlallst fac
tion has obtained from the Republican
party, and his complete reversal of his
own former policy In the matter of Ha
waii inspires the suspicion that Mr.
Harrison had something in his temper
of the quality attributed to Themisto
cles, "who could not sleep because he
heard somebody call Arlstides Just"
There was much of this strain In John
Quincy Adams, who, in his diary and
correspondence, praises none of living
Americans and very few even of
the dead; and there Is a strain of it in
Thomas B. Reed, who hated President
Harrison most cordially because he re
jected Reed's nominee for the Collector
ship of the port of Portland, Me., and
who hated President McKlnley with
equal intensity because he captured the
Presidency.
On the whole, Benjamin Harrison's
career is one of solid merit as a states
man who stands high in second rank.
He came of patriotic Virginia Revolu
tionary stock. He was a stout and gal
lant soldier with Sherman In the At
lanta campaign; an able United States
Senator, and a very able and upright
President He achieved all his great
honors through solid merit and no fac
titious aids or opportunities. His suc
cess was won by hard work, ability.
courage and purposeful pertinacity. He
was not a trickster in politics nor in
his profession; he was not a man of
personal charm of manner and temper,
but he was like John Sherman in this,
that his personal worth, his superior
public ability and force, were so con
spicuous, so universally conceded, that
his life was one of remarkable political
success in spite of marked infirmities
of manner and temper.
ANOTHER BLACK BARBECUE.
A negro has been burned to death in
the Courthouse yard at Corsicana, Tex.
This horror Is nothing new for Corsi
cana, for a negro was burned to death
there some ten years ago, and negroes
have since been burned to death in
Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Louisi
ana, Colorado and Kansas, and It was
only the other day that a negro was
lynched at Terre Haute, Ind., and the
body burned after death. The lynchers
at Terre Haute took pride in their work,
had their picture taken while at their
work, and the Sheriff excuses his fail
ure to do his duty on the ground that
the "leading citizens" advised him not
to resist the mob and approved of the
whole affair. On the 10th lnst. a white
man named Martindale was taken from
Jail and hanged by the mob at Carthage,
N. C. The success of the mob In these
cases is due to the fact that neither
the Sheriff nor the Governor did his
full duty to prevent it Governor Yates,
of Illinois, had no trouble In protecting
from assault the colored man accused
of assault on a white woman at Car
rollton. In that state. Governor Yates
did not wait for an official request for
troops, but, acting on private advices,
he sent four companies of the state
militia to the scene of danger, and un
der the protection given the colored
man was taken safely from jail to
court, tried and convicted and then
placed In prison, where he will serve his
sentence. Had Governor Yates waited
for a cowardly or corrupt Sheriff to
send him official Information, the man
would have been lynched and Illinois
disgraced by an exhibition of mob law.
Lynch law Is anarchy, and there Is no
essential difference In principle between
the American mob that in their con
tempt for law storms a Jail, overpowers
a Sheriff, and, as self-appointed admin
istrators of justice, executes Its victim,
and the European anarchists who exe
cute their idea of justice by the use
of dynamite. A community ruled by a
mob, a state that winks at lynch law.
Is a state that prudent and peaceful
folk avoid or desert The guilt or In
nocence of the victim cuts no figure In
the case; the question Is whether we
are living under a Government of or
ganized society or whether we are at
the mercy of the caprice of a mob.
If a mob may determine that I am
guilty, and, without waiting for the
courts, murder me, the mob may with
equal Justice, without waiting for the
courts, "Jump" my claim and run off
my stock, as a band of ruffians once
did In Kansas, where a man bought
and occupied a farm that some thrift
less Populist had lost on a mortgage.
Lynch law is not recklessly resorted to,
and does not go unpunished except in
communities that are too cowardly or
too stupid to resent or rebuke it, and
such communities, whether cities or
states, will surely repent their ignorant
cruelty and dense stupidity in the sack
cloth and ashes of a backward or bank
rupt civilization.
No valuable peace-loving, property
holding and wealth-winning immigra
tion will stay long In a community
where the machinery of justice is so
corrupt or inefficient that it is displaced
by mob law, or where the machinery
of justice is subordinate to an irrespon
sible mob, and courts and officers of
the law crook the knee to Judge Lynch.
A frightful feature of this mania for
lynching negroes Is that the great ma
jority of lynching cases have been for
other crimes and that more have been
lynched on suspicion than on proof.
This kind of brutal lawlessness and
cruelty grows fat upon what It feeds,
even as the guillotine, which began
under the "Terrorists" its work upon
murderers, ended with the wholesale
execution of "suspects," who were de
nounced and lost their heads, not be
cause they had committed any crime,
but because they were "odious to the
anarchists who had set up the ax.
THE UNITED STATES AND GERMAN!
Germany Is likely before the century
Is half completed to absorb Austria.
This Is the present dr.ead of France,
that Austria will be absorbed into the
German federation. The powerful Ger
man section of the people of Austria
in all probability will ultimately cast
their lot with the great German Em
pire. The pan-Germanic movement in
Austria naturally grows in strength
through the stimulus of the increasing
racial aggressiveness of the Czechs; the
hopelessness of national fusion of the
various peoples under the febble Haps
burgs, and the constant threat of the
collapse of the present constitutional
government When this impending
break-up of the Austro-Hungarlan Em
pire takes place, probably Austria will
be added to the empire of William II.
It would give Germany a seaport and
make her a naval power In the Medit
erranean, and it would add to the Ger
man Army 1,366,000 Infantry, 72,000 cav
alry and 2080 guns. Should this fore
cast ever become realized, France would
be completely overmatched In popula
tion and military strength.
The population of Germany Is in
creasing so rapidly that It Is In danger
of being overcrowded. In her devotion
to manufactures, Germany has ceased
to produce all her own food, and her
soil is not naturally as fertile as that
of France. The pressure at home sends
thousands of Germans to the United
States, who cease at once to be Ger
man subjects, and what Germany
seeks is new fields for the emigrant
where he may still remain part of the
fatherland. That Is, Germany needs
colonies. Neither In South Africa nor
the East is there an Ideal home for the
emigrant but Germany Is now annually
exporting to South America goods to
the value of 550,000,000, and a steadily
Increasing stream of German settlers
Is going to Brazil. When Germany is
kready, she will surely colonize a por
tion of South America, and If Brazil
should take an appeal to the United
States we should bo obliged to modify
President Cleveland's extreme construc
tion of the Monroe Doctrine In the Ven
ezuela case. This South American ques
tion will not come up for decision for
some years yet, but when It does come
up in shape of an appeal from Brazil,
such as Venezuela made to Cleveland,
we shall be obliged to be content with
the American doctrine of National self
interest, self-protection and self-presei
vatlon, which was advocated by Web
ster and Calhoun, and abandon Presi
dent Cleveland's extreme construction
of "the Monroe Doctrine."
The United States will some day find
out that President Cleveland bit off
more than we can chew in the future
if we attempt to hold up Germany In
her future attempts to found a great
colonial system In South America. The
German holds that when we took the
Philippines we made the Monroe Doc
trine untenable, and this -pretext would
be as good as any other on;wh!ch to
base a Justification for establishing a
great system of colonies in South Amer
ica. We could not afford to fight all
Europe on this point, and we should be
obliged to recede from the extreme po
sition occupied by President Cleveland.
Germany may never want to establish
colonies In South America, but if she
ever does decide to establish them, she
will not be deterred from her determi
nation by a tefusal of Brazil to sell
territory accompanied by a threat of
appeal to the United States as the
arbiter of the continent.
The shrinkage of Nevada's popula
tion by over 1700 in ten years, as shown
by the census, has attracted little at
tention. In the excitement of the polit
ical campaign it was perhaps over
looked, or possibly the country has be
come so accustomed to Nevada's dwind
ling population that these things are
taken as matters of course, and excite
little if any Interest In point of fact,
Nevada was never, In anything but
Senatorial pretensions and aspirations,
entitled to the rank of a state. Its pop
ulation has dwindled like that of an or
dinary mining town after the mines
were worked out, until now It Is far be
low that of the Congressional ratio of a
single district Yet, along with its
empty statehood goes the right to send
two Senators and one Representative to
Congress, and unless some preventive
measures can be devised It will continue
to hold and exercise this right, despite
the continued shrinkage of Its popula
tion. The worst of It Is, there Is no
clear way out of the difficulty. Annex
ation to another state offers the only
practical way of canceling conditions so
manifestly absurd, and propositions to
this end, though repeatedly made, have
never been pushed to a conclusion.
California, It Is said, would be willing
to take the state and make It over into
counties under Its own jurisdiction. So
also would Utah. But' Nevada has an
area larger than that of Utah, and ap
proaching In magnitude that of Califor
nia. For any one state to annex so
large a territory bodily would be looked
upon with disfavor. The prospect. If
there Is a prospect, of absorbing Ne
vada, Is therefore slight, and the con
dition of the state should be a warn
ing not again to make a state politi
cally, the natural resources of which
are insufficient to make a state indus
trially, financially and numerically.
King Edward has given public assur
ance to the deputations that have
waited upon him for that purpose that
It would be his constant care to main
tain religious liberty In his realm.
Such an assurance is not needed from
a sovereign of England of today. The
King can do no less than maintain re
ligious liberty by not Interfering with
it. The age of religious intolerance by
the state is past, so far as the English
speaking peoples are cpneerned. Cath
olics may discriminate against Protes
tants, and vice versa, and both may
discriminate against Jews, but it must
be as individuals' and in churches and
business merely. The state will none
of It Mary and Elizabeth had their
Innings, and the pages of history are
stained indelibly with the blood that
flowed. All that Is of the past, and Ed
ward's promise cannot make more cer
tain the fact that religious liberty will
be maintained throughout his realm,
so far as any interference of the gov
ernment Is concerned. The world
moves, but alwaj's In one direction.
No man overcomes an attack of acute
pneumonia "by reason of strength."
On the contrary, a man's strength
seems to prove his weakness when
called to combat this disease. Not by
assault, but by insidious investment of
the citadel of life, does this enemy tri
umph, winning quick and easy victory.
After Rudyard Kipling was rescued
from what seemed certain death, a few
years ago, by what Is called the oxygen
treatment it was said that at last med
ical science had found' a remedy for
pneumonia, and that hereafter the phy
sician would be held accountable for the
life of his patient stricken with this
disease. Kipling was, however, rela
tively a young man, and thus far the
experiment that saved his life has not
been successful with men grown old, or
who are growing old, and pneumonia
continues to baffle medical science.
In justice to Oregon coyote-hunters,
there might properly be a law protect
ing them from like craftsmen of Wash
ington, Idaho, Nevada and California.
Then our own dear people might get
the emoluments. Now these craftsmen
may shoot animals that should be al
lowed to cross into Oregon unmolested,
and may even come Into this state to
compete with our own citizens. It is
evident the law Is wofully deficient
In the announcement of a lecture
given last Sunday In New York City,
Mr. Carol Norton, C. S. D., speaks of
"The Divine Mind, Alias God." And in
another place he refers to the "Divine
Principle Alias God." These efforts to
get away from the plain old Anglo
Saxon term always fall to gain any
general following, and probably it is
Just as well.
If .the Senate is disposed to, it can
put a large amount of money into cir
culation In Washington by questioning
the legality of Senator Clark's election.
Admiral Sampson Is writing a book.
He should be warned that his especial
field has already been pretty well cov
ered by the late Ward McAllister.
Hon. Charles A. Towne has disap
peared almost as completely as If he
had stayed on the Democratic National
ticket
The Filipino General who offered to
purchase the heads of American sol
diers Is not doing a very lively busi
ness. The steel trust has a capital of
51,100,000,000. Wonder what the extra
5100,000,000 is for?
Mrs. Nation seems to have burled the
hatchet
SHIP SUBSIDY THE MOTIVE.
WASHINGTON. March S. Like most of
,the Senators who were Interested In the
passage of the river and harbor bill. Sen
ator Simon greatly regrets the action of
Senator Carter In talking the bill to death.
In the closing hours of the session, but Is
forced to admit thnt the Senator made his
attack on the bill In a perfectly legitimate
way, and In a way which at least must
warrant general approval for having ex
posed the many unjustified appropriations
carried by that measure. Senator Simon
thinks the failure of the bill will prove
somewhat disastrous to the Improvement
at the mouth of the Columbia, for the
small appropriation made for preparatory
work at the last session, having been
largely expended In the expectation that
a large appropriation would- be made at
the session Just closed, there must soon
be a cessation of work until a new bill
can pass. He admits- the probabilities arc
that in the next bill the Columbia River
will not secure as generous recognition
as In the bill which nearly became a law
at the recent session.
In trying to explain the motive behind
Senator Carter's speech. Senator Simon Is
Inclined to the opinion that the subsidy
bill was at the bottom of the whole affair.
He says that Cuban and Philippine legis
lation having been atttached to the Army
bill, removed the necessity of calling an
extra session on that account. It will be
generally recognized that the failure to
pass the river and harbor bill at this
time means that work on many of the
larger Improvements throughout the
United States, projects that are thorough
ly meritorious, must soon cease. This Is
sure to result in more or less Injury to
the commerce of the ports affected, and
will. Senator Simon thinks. In a short
time give rise to a general demand for a
river and harbor bill before the next reg
ular session. The Senator Is Inclined to
the opinion that within a few months the
cry for river and harbor appropriations
will be so great that the President will
be forced to call an extra session for the
purpose of passing such a bill.
In the event of such a development, he
believes It is probable that the friends of
the ship subsidy bill will manage to call
up their pet measure In the Senate, while
the House Is preparing and passing a
river and harbor bill, and. by mere force,
put the measure through before the river
and harbor bill comes over from the
House. It Is recognized that the promi
ninet objectors to subsidy legislation, Pet
tigrew and Butler, are out of the way
now, and It will be easier to pass the bill
through the Senate than It has been In
the past Senator Simon Is fearful that
If the subsidy bill once passed the Sen
ate In an extra" session. It would go
through the House with comparative ease.
All things considered, he Is Inclined to
the opinion that the subsidy bill was one
of the prime objects considered by many
Senators, who brought pressure to bear
upon the retiring Senator from Montana
to defeat the river and harbor bill.
THE SPLIT INFINITIVE.
Growth of Its Disfavor Amonff the
Mont Careful Writers.
Philadelphia Press.
Brander Matthews contributes an ex
cellent article to Harper's (February) on
"Questions of Usage In Words," In which
he cogently proves that many .of the so
called faults In writing English which
are pointed out In current manuals of
composition and rhetoric nre not errors
at all. But, like all radicals and as a
stylist. Professor Matthews Is a radical
he pushes his argument In some Instances
to mere quibbling. This is In defending
"and which" where there has been no an
tecedent "which," quoting that notorious
offender. Gibbon, and in bolstering up the
much-condemned "split Infinitive." He
says:
What Is called the Split Infinitive Is also a
cause of pain to the purit, who greatly
grieved when he finds George Lewei In the
"Life of Goethe" saying "to completely un
derstand." This Inserting of an adverb be
tween the "to" and the rest of the verb
strikes the verbal critic as pernlolou. and he
denounces It instantly as a novelty to be
stamped out before it permanently contami
nates our speech. Even Professor O. F. Emer
son, who does not object to It, in his "His
tory of the English Language," calls It "a
synthetical combination now establishing it
self; and Professor A. S. Hill, In his "Found
ations of Rhetoric," while admitting its an
tiquity, since It has been in use constantly
from the days of WlcklHTe to the days of Her
bert Spencer, still declares It to be "a com
mon fault," not sanctioned or even condoned
by good authority. The fact Is. I think, that
the Split Infinitive has a most respectable
pedigree, and that it Is rather the protest
against it which is the novelty now establish
ing itself. The Split Infinitive Is to be found
in the pages Of Shakespeare, Masulnger, Sir
Thomas Browne. Defoe. Burke. Coleridge,
Byron, De Qulncey, Macaulay, Matthew Ar
nold, Browning, Motley, Lowell and Holmes.
But the fact is also, I think, that since the
protest has been raised there has been a
tendency among careful writers to eschew the
Split Inflnltlte, or at least employ It only
when there Is a gain In lucidity from its use,
as there is, for example. In Professor Louns
bury's "to more than counterbalance."
Professor Matthews is not frank in cit
ing the names of eminent authors to jus
tify the blunders of Lewes and Louns
bury. In no writer of the English lan
guage of standard authority can he find a
split Infinitive corresponding to his own
description of that soleclsmi "The Insert
ing of an adverb between the to
and the rest of the verb." He will find In
the authors he has named that usage per
mits the inserting of an adverb between
the first and second verb, as, for Instance,
"It Is to be greatly deplored"; never such
a bad locution as, "It Is to greatly be de
plored." Lewes may have made a slip of
the pen, but there Is no such excuse for
Professor Lounsbury, and Professor Mat
thews Is not wholly Ingenuous in trying
to find one for his friend. The split Infini
tive is grammatically and historically
wrong, and when examined on philologi
cal grounds is indefensible.
How Canteen "Reform" "Works.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
If the estimable ladles and gentlemen
who Induced Congress to abolish the Army
canteen could have visited Hlghwood and
Fort Sheridan Thursday night their Ideas
on the subject of temperance reform would
have been considerably altered. At High
wood they would have found all the old
and several new saloons filled with sol
diers drinking and gambling In the com
pany of vile characters of both sexes.
Later In the night they would have found
in the Fort Sheridan barracks more drunk
en sleepers and more men absent without
leave than have been recorded for years.
Thursday was the first pay day at Fort
Sheridan since the canteen was abolished.
For some years the difference between
pay day and other days has not been vis
ible to the ordinary visitor. Soldiers who
liked beer were able to get it In reasonable
quantities at the canteen at any time,
and few celebrated pay day with a de
bauch. On Thursday, however, such men
flocked to the Hlghwood saloons, .and
many of them spent their month's pay In
a night. Disorder was general and fights
were frequent.
The abolition of the canteen injures both
the soldiers who drink and the soldiers
who do not drink. It deprives the latter
of the additions to their rations and the
public amusements provided by the can
teen's profits. By depriving the former of
the chance to obtain a reasonable amount
of pure beer In decent surroundings it
leads them to squander their pay for vile
whisky in the worst company. Only those
who prey upon the vices of their fellow
men profit by the abolition of the can
teen. Yet thousands of well-meaning women
and men really think they accomplished
"a great reform" when they Induced.Con
gress to suppress the canteen. What they
really accomplished was to lower health
and discipline in the Army and fill the
pockets of a few hundred saloon-keepers.
If they doubt this, they have only to visit
any military post on the night of pay day
to be convinced. Then they will see how
their "reform" works, and will learn how
they have promoted intemperance.
NAMES FOR THE 1905 FAIR.
One contributor makes a specific dis
tinction between the Lewis and Clark and
the Oregon centennial, and would con
vince us that our purpose Is to celebrate
the latter Instead of the other. Here Is
an Innovation, of which, perhaps, few
have thought, but elnce there are all
kinds of people In the world. It Is well
that all kinds of Ideas should be reflected.
If the suggestion has no other virtue It
will act as a balance upon many who have
overconfldence In their own preference.
The correspondent says:
"We have heard much lately about the
'Lewis and Clark expedition.' There
was no Lewis and Clark expedition. There
was an 'Oregon expedition,' conducted
by two brave men named Lewis and
Clark. The 'Oregon expedition' did not
originate with Lewis or Clark; neither did
they furnish the means with which to pay
the expense of the expedition. It is
called the 'Lewis and Clark expedition
to distinguish it from other Oregon expe
ditions, and not because Lewis and Clark
deserve special mention above other paid
adventurers. Before the expedition start
ed it was called the 'Oregon expedition.'
In the pres3 of the day it was called the
'Oregon expedition.' In all public rec
ords It was written 'Oregon expedition.'
"If any man deserves to have his name
glorified in connection with the expe
dition it is Thomas Jefferson. This ar
gument la to show that Lewis and Clark
should not be mentioned In the name of
the 1003 celebration.
"We are about to celebrate the anni
versary of the successful termination of
the 'Oregon expedition' of 1S05. To do
this properly, we must show the value of
what was gained by the 'Oregon expe
dition.' "Three of thegreatest states of the Union
and an outlet to the trade and commerce
of the Orient for the whole United
States are the most Important prizes.
Next In Importance to securing this vast
territory la the advantage gained over
other countries In the Oriental trade. A
name that does not Include In Its scope
this Oriental business would be too nar
row to fit the case. 'Oregon expedition
would cover the historical and local feat
ure. 'Oriental would show the Import
ance of Its foreign relations, and 'expo
sition' would show the business side. My
name, is, therefore,
OREGON EXPEDITION CENTENNIAL AND
ORIENTAL FAIR.
Other names proposed are:
NORTHWESTERN COLUMBIAN EXPOSI
TION. CENTENARY EXPOSITION OF THE PA
CIFIC COAST.
LEWIS AND CLARK CENTURT EXPOSI
TION. ORIENT FAIR AND PATHFINDERS .OVA
TION. By A. J. Langworthy
OREGON CONTINENTAL EXPOSITION.
By W. H. Brltts
PACIFIC STATES AND ORIENTAL EXPO
SITION. By McKlnley Mitchell, Gervals, Or.
LEWIS AND CLARK PACIFIC NORTH
WEST CENTENNIAL.
By Samuel Collyer, Tacoma
PATHFINDERS CENTENNIAL
TION.
EXPOSI-
A Xeljchbor's Advice.
Tacoma News.
The Portland newspapers want to hit
upon a suitable name for the proposed
exposition of 1003. The Lewis and Clark
exposition does not suit the Portland Idea
because It Is admitted that there are
some people who never heard of Lewis
and Clark. Why it should be called the
"Oriental Exposition" does not appear.
The "Occidental Exposition" would be a
more fitting title for an exposition held at
the extreme border of the Occident. The
News suggests the "Occidental" or the
"Occidental and Oriental" if the union
of the Pacific Slope and the Orient Is to
be emphasized in the title to the Oregon
exposition. "Occidental and Oriental Ex
position of Oregon" would bo a good
triple O title. Take your choice of one,
two or three Os, gentlemen.
The Negro as a. Laborer.
Atlanta Constitution.
The negro as a laborer has fallen under
the displeasure of Dr. W. C. Stubbs, di
rector of the experimental farm of Louis
iana, who says that he is even more shift
less and unreliable than ever.
As Dr. Stubbs occupies a place bringing
him into close relationship with the soil,
what he says must attract attention. He
declares that In consequence of negro
shlftlessness efforts have been made to
attract white Immigration Into that state.
Large numbers of Italians have arrived
direct via New Orleans and overland from
New York. The satisfactory work done
by these men has led to a desire for more,
and as they come In the negro will be
shoved out
Among the causes leading to the demor
alization of negro labor. Dr. Stubbs re
fers to the tendency of the colored people
moving toward the cities, railroads, saw
mills, etc, the same as is noticed in other
parts of the South. These he attributes
largely to two facts; one, the gradual re
duction in the price of cotton, which has
discouraged to a large extent the growing
of crops upon the share, or the cropping
and renting system; and to the fact that
negro youth Is exceedingly anxious to
"see the world" and to mix and mingle
with the strife and excitement of city
life. In this respect Dr. Stubbs views the
future rather gloomily, and considers the
question as exceedingly serious, and will
require the wisdom and patience of our
best statesmen to bring out of It a satis
factory solution.
It Is Inevitable that white men should
appropriate more and more occupations
hitherto given over to negroes. When
ever such a change Is once made It be
comes permanent. "In many sections of
the South white girls serve In hotels, and
even the barber's trade, once considered
the negro's position, has been taken up
by white men, who find It to be profit
able employment Still It will be a long
time. If ever, before the negro can be
dispensed with; but It Is Incumbent on
him to know that he must Improve his
capacity or he will have to stand aside.
Twlstlngr the Lion's Tnll.
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
When Morgan grabs the lion's tall
Spectators stand in awe.
All fearing that the beast will turn,
And Its tormentor claw.
Of course they've heard that human gaze
Will make a lion quail.
But Morean Isn't at that end
He's busy wlih the tall.
But no alarm the twister feels.
For he is strong and bold;
He Just makes sure of footing firm.
And gets a tighter hold.
Thus fixed he settles down to biz.
And gives a hetfy twist.
And every one can see the strain
On muscles In his wrist.
The perspiration stands In drops
Upon the twister's face.
But still the lion doesn't roar,
Nor show of oaln a trace.
Then Morgan gets a stronger grip.
At least that's what he thinks,
And twists the tall the other way
Until It's full of kinks.
Though Morgan does his very best
To twist the blamed tall out.
The lion doesn't even ask
What all the row's about.
And when at last the twister sees
That he has tolled In vain.
He drops the tail, resumes his seat.
And wears a look of pain.
The reason why tho Morgan twist
Is thus of no avail
Is, that he always falls to get
The right hitch on the tail.
The proper way to do the trick
Is known to only one
If Morgan watches Uncle Sam
He'll seo Just bow 'tis dono.
NOTE ANDXOMMENT.
Thus far the varancy in the office of
Prince of Wales hai failed to attract any
appllcants. It's a rood job, too.
King Edward's accession has bad tho
effect of crowding the Boer War out of
the magazines, if only temporarily.
J. Pierpont Morganlls going to take tho
rest he needs. Theri Is some reason to
believe that this Is tie rest of the earth.
It looks as If the oily thing to do was
to suspend the rules and let Sampson and
Schley settle It in thebood old Kentucky
fashlon.
Miss Portia Knight tV1 confer a last
ing favor on the membet: of her profes
sion If she will disclose th. name and ad
dress of her press agent.
When "Citizen" and "Fio Bono Pub
licum" get to telling Bryab-how to run
his paper, perhaps he will nt be so lib
eral with directions for the conduct of
the Government.
The respective marine report rs of two
Astoria papers have been going if ter each
other, saying hard words and charging
each other with incompetency. Neither
owes the other any apologies.
Speaking of the failure of Confess to
appropriate J2W.0CO for the Oharloson ex
position, the Charleston News and fourier
says: "We are disappointed at the action
of Congress, but In no way cast lown.
Not one penny of the appropriation .sked
of the Government would have been avail
able for the general expenses of the ex
position, but could only have been Tsed
for the erection of the Government buld
ing and the Installation and maintenaice
of the Government exhibit."
Chief Justice Webster Street, of Arlzom,
was the orator at the dedication of th
territory's new Capitol in Phoenix Feb
ruary 25, the 3Sth anniversary of the esu
tabllshment of a territorial government
there. The Capitol Is built entirely of
Arizona products, and the people say that
It Is the best public building in the Unltid
States for the money. The first Legisla
ture of Arizona held Its sessions In a leg
cabin In Prescott. The territory now
claims a population of 120,000. i
Congressman Brick, of Indiana, has &
constituent who thinks he should have a
pension because he sent a substitute to
the Civil War. "I am old and feeble." 'ho
wrote to Mr. Brick, "and I don't suppose
I shall live a great while, but I heed
money while I do live. I think the Gov
ernment owes me something. I paid a
man $300 to take my place In the war
when I was drafted, and he was killed
In action. Now, I think I am entitled to a
pension or should get 'the ?300 back. Will
you please see that I do?"
The Walla Wnlla Statesman works Itself
Into an Inordinate frenzy over an Innocent
comment In The Oregonlan about tha
moral wave In that city. But, really. The
Oregonlan meant no offense. It may have
reason to be surly, as the esteemed paper
intimates, because Jason won the golden
fleece, or Hercules outwitted Atlas. How
ever, The Oregonlan will follow the suc
cessful example of the Statesman's ablo
morning contemporary, which scorns to
enter the lists with such a critl;. Just as
the morning contemporary elec:s to print
the news rather than to fill an.achlng void
of pages with trash and senseless stuff,
so does The Oregonlan, and In this In
stance more than ever.
A young man and woman got on a Phila
delphia street-car the other day, and as
there were no vacant seats) the young
man said In a loud tone of voice to a
negro, "Will you have the civility to give
this lady a seat?" The negio did so, sa
luting the young woman. 7he next seat
to her becoming vacant, tha young man
hurriedly appropriated It without offering
It to the negro. Just then tho car stopped
and a stout negro washerwoman entered
the car. As no one offered her a seat, the
negro, with a smile, said to the young
man, "Will you have the civility to give
this lady a seat?" For a moment he hesi
tated, but at last concluded to comply
with the request, very much to the indig
nation of the young lady.
The Topeka State Journal'publlshes this
curious information: Something scandal
ous Is always coming out about the State
house. The latest complaint Is that the
custodian some time ago removed two
carloads of fertilizer from a Kansas City
packing-house and stored It In a vacant
room In the basement of the Capitol. All
the members of the Legislature and stato
officers have been suffering from the un
speakable odor. It Is also made known
that Topeka thieves have been stripping
the copper from the roof. The other day
some boys were found tearing up the cop
per, and It was seen that sheets of that
metal had been carried away. Is It Im
possible to take proper care of the main
public building of the state?
PLEASANTRIES OF PAItAGRAPHERS
A Difficulty Removed. "Dickie, when you di
vided thoie five caramels with little sister, did
you give her three?" 'No. ma. I guessed
they wouldn't come out cen so I ct one 'fora
I begun to divide." Puck.
Noble Child. "It was very noble of you.
Willie, to plead that your brother be spared a
whipping." "I guess I know my business.
Every time he gets licked he turns around
and licks me." Philadelphia Tress.
"Oh, I suppose George sowed his wild oats
before I married him, and made a fool of
himself generally, like other men, but I al
ways trust him!" "What a delightfully new
sensation it must be to hlmt" Life. .
The Point of View. Weller DJd you ever
notice how quickly a woman forsakes her
piano practice after she is married? Tuttle
Oh. yes; there are such things as happy mar
riages. Boston Transcript.
Cause for Regret. Lady I don't like this
picture so well as I did the last one you took
of me. Photographer Ah, madame, I have not
the artistic taste that I had when I was
young; and, besides, my camera Is getting old.
New York Weekly.
i
A Dlfllculty.
Washington Star.
There's one fault In human nature; it's the
worst that I have found.
It's what makes this old world wabble so as
It keepr going rourd.
When a man has tolled and striven and ac
complished what he could
We look him over careless and we murmur,
"Purty good."
But when he kind o" stumbles ar.4 we tell
him hat he lacks
We reach out for a carvln' knife or maybo
take an ax.
Of all our sorrows, this la what upsets our
feel In' s most.
We're lukewarm when we, "jolly," but we're
clever when we "roast."
We love to grab our fellow-man and hold him
in the air
And slam htm down promiscuous. Thafl
what drives away dull care.
The soothing touch of kindness is exceeding
commonplace;
It's the art of castlgatlon that reveals athletic
grace.
We mo3t enjoy to tackle one who's made of
rugged stuff
Because he stands up longer ere he yields and
says "Enough!"
Excepting on his tombstone, when he's given
up the ghost.
We are lukewarm when we "jolly," but we're
clever when we "roast."