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PORTLAND,' WEDNESDAY, MAY 22,
AN ISSUE IN FORMATION.
Events are conspiring to bring the
tariff issue prominently ..before the
country, and with high tariff the Issue
the Republicans will lose the elections
of 1904.
The two things that are conspiring to
foster tariff agitation are theopera
tions of the trusts and the prpblem
of the dependencies and Cuba.' Mr.
Carnegie's bestowal of $1000,000 in
Scotland, made through protection, will
open the eyes of many to the tariff's
ultimate results, and the notable fact
that nearly ail, jour; great protected
trusts sen their "wares abroad cheaper
than they do at homejcajajot "but pro
duce disaffection 'jwlierev'er it Is dwelt
upon. ThVrecent utterances of Mr.
Schwab, of the steel trust, deprecating
tariff reduction, wlr exert more influ
ence against protection than for it
among the people, whatever weight it
carries with the Republican managers.
The steel trust, representing as it does
a capitalization of $1,100,000,000, without
counting $304000,000 of bonds issued on
top of the immense total of preferred
and common stock, is peculiarly vul
nerable to a demand fbr -withdrawal or
protection.
A trust in protected products is -prima
facie evidence ojrT the disappearance of
all need of protection. The theory of
the protective tariff is that by keeping
out foreign products we make sure of
domestic competition sufficient to 're
duce prices to the home consumer. But
that reduction becomes an impossible
dream the moment' that the trust steps
In to harmonize managements and pre
vent competition. These facts are so
clear that the effort of trust magnates
to retain the duties and the apparent
desire of the Republican managers to
support them are -exceedingly well cal
culated to solidify sentiment in favor
of tariff reform along these lines.
Most ominous, alo is the impending
struggle of our protected Interests to
deny justice to Cuba and the depend
encies. Large numbers have never
fully persuaded themselves that our
policy toward the dependencies is very
far removed from the European sys
tem called .colonialism. They will not
oe reassured tby the rally of highly pro
tected concerns to despoil Cuba,-Porto
HSco and the Philippines by refusing
them tariff concessions. They will, in
fact, be revolted by the whole proced
ure, just as they were by the Porto
Hico performance. The fact is that the
only obstacle at all formidable in the
way of just and even generous treat
ment to Cuba and the dependencies
consists of these immense establish
ments that have waxed fat under fa-
! voritism they bow hate to relinquish.
Their stand is fast crystallizing senti
ment in favor of tariff reform.
There has never been a day since
I the Presidential election of 1888 when
J the Republicans could carry the coun
try on the high-tariff issue. The an
icwer to the McKinley bill was the
heaviest odds (6S to 244) in the
; House of Representatives that the
party has had against it since
I the war. The election of 1892 disclosed
a plurality for Cleveland of nearly 400.-
lOOO. Since then, threats made by the
Democrats against money and business
have subordinated the tariff question.
But it is rapidly coming to the front.
There is yet time for the Republican
I majority in Congress to withdraw un
Idue favors from the protected trusts
land deal out justice to the Spanish
islands. If it 4s not done, dearly will
I the penalty be paid.
"BY THEIR OWN HAND."
It is easy to say that Dr. Babcock
was temporarily insane from Mediter
ranean fever and that General "Kapus
was deranged from la 'grippe. Bui
these are -at best uncertain groplngs
after explanations where we do not
knew. There are things In every life
Ithat are shrouded from the public gaze
svery heart knoweth its own bltter-
iess. There is, when everything else
jas failed to explain, the mysterious
trealm where reason sits on her pre-
ious throne, and where mutinies
latch and revolutions brew among the
rehic forces no eye-has ever seen or
jalance weighed.
Maltble D. Babcock was one of the
lost promising men in the American
3ttlplL He was young, brilliant- studi-
3UB, beloved, high-minded. He left Bal-
lore against the earnest protest of an
fectionate congregation, for the pas-j
borate, last year, of the Brick Presby
terian Church of New Xork City, whose
julplt has always been occupied by
ilstingulshed men. His salary was
12,000 a year. His future 'seemed all
lat highest ambition could desire.
et he died in Naples, by his own hand,
Imost in the presence of his devoted J
"wire, and there is absolutely no evi
dence, except the fond faith and hope
of friends, that the suicide was any
thing but deliberate. "We shall never
know the sad mystery of his taking oft.
There are a hundred misfortunes of
mind and body that might overtake a
finely constituted nature and make life
seem to it no longer worth the living.
Human nature prompts us to declare
and Insist that he was Insane. De mor
tuls nil nisi bonum. Right there we
may ourselves some day be lying, be
yond the reach of remonstrance, In need
of the world-wide charity that thinketh
no evil and remembers only our virtues.
In much the same spirit as this let
us speak of the devoted husband and
father, the courteous gentleman, the
winning friend, who in the basement
of his Portland home yesterday morn
ing took hasty leave of life, its troubles
and disappointments. Its embarrass
ments and failures together. It seemed
to him, when he thought what life con
tained, that for him all the profit in it
had departed. It seemed to him that
what he longer could fight for and hope
to gain was worth less than the strug
gle. So we say In fond extenuation of
his awful deed that he was insane.
And yet to be sure his judgment was
at fault we should have to .know all
that he knew, which is impossible. To
know that life would have been kinder
to him than death, we should have to
read the future which no man can
read. To say with certainty that his
mind gave "way under its stress we
should 'heed insight into the things of
mind and spirit before which God has
drawn an impenetrable veil. We only
know that he has gone, and that the
places that have known his struggles
and his ready smile will know him no
more forever. He was a good fellow,
and his was a gallant heart. Peace to
his ashes!
THE FUTURE OF CANADA.
The son of Louis Paplneau, who in
1837 was the leader of the French-Canadian
rebellion against British rule in
Canada, has published a letter denounc
ing the agitation against the proposed
erection of a commemorative tablet to
General Montgomery in the City of
Quebec. Among other things, Mr, Pap
lneau points out that if Canada had
joined the Revolution, when urged to do
so by Benjamin Franklin, instead of re
maining a colony of less than 6,000,000,
it would now number over 20,000,000,
and "the whole trade of the Northern
States would have followed the natural
course of the St, Lawrence; Toronto
would have outstripped Buffalo and
even Chicago; Montreal and Quebec
would have eclipsed Boston and New
Tork." Mr. Paplneau quotes the fact
that the 76.000.000 of the United States
include 1,000,000 English Canadians
and 1,000,000 French Canadians;
he Inquires why the great bulk of the
immigrants from Europe land in the
United States and so few in Canada,
and Insists that as an independent na
tion Canada would get a fair Share
of immigration. The responsibility for
Canada's not being an independent na
tion is placed by 3dr. Paplneau upon
"the united empire loyalists who set
tled in Ontario Tory refugees of the
American Reolutlon an Incubus on
the progress of Canada." But he can
hardly blame the bishop and his priests
of the day of the American Revolution
for using their influence to keep Can
ada loyal to the British crown, for
under the treaty of Paris of 1763 Great
Britain -had kept faith with the hier
archy of Canada and treated the Ro
man Catholic population of Canada
with justice', humanity -and toleration.
The bishop and his priests of that day
did not feel equally sure of good treat
ment at the hands of the united Amer
ican colonies in event of successful re-,
hellion, because the Puritans of New
England and the Scotch Presbyterians
had always been Intensely hostile to
the Catholic Church.
The action of the ancient French
hierarchy of the Roman Catholic
Church of Canada may not haVe been
far-seeing statesmanship, measured by
the issue of events, but measured by
the best outlook for French Catholic
Canada at the time, it was wisdom for
French Canada to stand by Great Brit
ain, against which there was then no
complaint, rather than to risk ruin to
the church at the hands of Great Brit
ain by cancellation of ecclesiastical
privileges, or the curtailment of those
.privileges at the hands or the victori
ous anti-Catholic Americans. So far as
the present outlook for Canada is con
cerned, it is as good as could fairly be
expected, making due allowance for the
fact that Canada is subjected to some
natural limitations of climate and geog
raphy upon her capacity for growth in
population and commercial empire from
which the United States does not suffer.
We do not believe it Is true that if
Canada had joined the Revolution the
whole trade of the Northern States
would have followed the natural' course
of the St. Lawrence; that Toronto
would have outstripped Buffalo and
Chicago; that Montreal and Quebec
would have eclipsed Boston and New
Tork. The people of Canada are a very
able, energetic people, vigorous in body
and mind, of high intelligence and keen
aptitude for trade and commerce; but
the Canadian waterways are closed
through the long Winter, and the great
Canadian railways are obliged during a
large part of the year to forsake the
ice-bound Canadian ports and seek
American terminals. This causes a dis
crimination against Dominion ports, so
that Montreal, the natural outlet both
for the Great Lakes and the Canadian
Pacific, has only 7 per cent of the grain
exporting of the two nations. Can it
be thought that adhesion to the cause
of the American Revolution would have
lpwered the rigor of the Canadian Win
ter? Unless the Canadian ports ceased
to be ice-bound there could be no pos
sibility that Montreal and Quebec could
have eclipsed Boston and New Tork.
The Canadian railways today prefer
Portland (Me.) as a great terminal sea
port to St. John. While the St. Law
rence is geographically the shortest
route to the British ports, It is and must
always remain a dangerous route, as
the high rate of insurance on ships that
pass through the gulf shows beyond
reasonable dispute.
Canada is prosperous, and counts
justly upon a continuance of her pros
perity, for In her Northwest territories
she has a vast tract of wheatgrowlng
country from which at no distant day
she will have a larger surplus for ex
port than the United States. Her coal
exports have a value of $4,000,000 today,
against $1,000,000 up to 1885. The ex
ports cf Canadian lumber In 1872 were
valued at more than $15,300,851; by 1900
there had been an Increase to $23,607,
058. Canadian exports of cattle have
risen from $1,152.'334 in 1S7S to $9,050,776
in 1900. The exports of Canadian but-
ter in 1896 did not exceed in value $500,-
O00; now they exceed $5,000,000. The
value of bacon and hams exported in
1890 was some $500,000; now they have
a value of $13,000,000. Her cheese ex
ports have risen from between 53,000,-
1 00Q and $4,000,000 to $13,000,000. Canada's
export of fruit Is worth today $3,500,000,
and the export of wood pulp, begun
only a few years ago. Is worth already
$2,000,000 j early. The Dominion began
last year to manufacture pig iron for
export, and Sault Ste. MarIe will soon
become a large producer. There were
at least 12,000 Americans who crossed
the border last year to make homes in
Canada, and in the present year the Ca
nadian Government expects to welcome
at least 20,000 settlers from our side of
the boundary. The inducements which
Canada offers are millions of acres of
arable land in the great, unsettled Ca
nadian Northwest, which the govern
ment Is ready to give away to bona fide
homeseekers. The government not only
offers its land free, but grants subsi
dies for irrigation of arid regions; and
over 200 canals have already been con
structed in various places, bringing a
million of waste acres under cultivation.
WISCONSIN'S NERVY GOVERNOR.
It Is unfortunate for the State of Wis
consin that its campaign for a primary
reform law should have been inter
preted by his friends as a movement in
antagonism to so able and efficient a
statesman as Senator Spooner. Because
this apprehension was Indulged is one
prime reason for the betrayal of direct
primary laws at the present Wisconsin
Legislative session. For the rest, its
defeat is, of course 'accounted for by
the inevitable antipathy of machine
politicians. The fight over the bill, and
Governor La TTollette's ringing rebuke
of the Legislature in his veto message,
are advertising primary reform very
effectively and putting before the coun
try another representative of the sturdy
outspoken type of Governor, whom the
people delight to honor.
Primary reform was a distinct issue
In Wisconsin's election of 1900, as It
was in Oregon. The Republican state
platform, upon which Mr. La Follette
was elected Governor of Wisconsin, con
tained a pledge that a Republican Leg
islature, if chosen, would enact a
sweeping primary election law, by
which all local, state and other candi
dates, save those, of the judiciary,
should be nominated precisely as such
officers are now elected that is, by di
rect popular vote and without the in?
tervention of delegates, conventions or
party caucuses This was the party
promise, and Governor La Follette, in
his message to the Legislature, urged
that it be kept.
This close parallel to the Oregon situ
ation leads us to expect a' still closer"
correspondence, and in this "we are not
disappointed. Machine politicians, there
as here, undertook to defeat the refoi m,
in hope ot perpetuating their own
power of naming candidates. The Wis
consin Republican machine naturally
wanted to perpetuate itself. It did not
want to be snuffed out of existence by
a law which would enable the voters
to select their own candidates without
machine help. Therefore, it substituted
a half-way measure called the Hage
melster bill, -which resembled the pri
mary election law promised in about
the same degree, say, as the doubtful
and conflicting Oregon statutes of 1901
resemble the Bingham bill, to which our
Multnomah delegation was pledged, but
which they threw out In the back yard
without ceremony.
Governor La Follette arose to the
situation without fear. He had insisted
that it was the plain duty of the Wis
consin Legislature to keep the Repub
lican, reform promise, and he did no
think it his plain duty to approve a
primary election law that was trans
parent fraud. Accordingly, he vetoed
the "bill in a ringing message, in which
he charged thatrthe act had been forced
through by the joint efforts of a com
bination of Federal office-holders, cor
poration agents and machine heelers,
who had moved in a body upon the
State Capitol, taken possession of its
corridors, followed members to' hotels,
tempted them with vicious allurements
and brought some of them to the Capi
tol in a state of intoxication to vote for
the worthless measure.
Through its provocation of this
manly veto the Wisconsin Legislature
has done more to advance the cause of
direct primary reform than it would
have done by quiet redemption of its,
pledges. All over the country the press
Is ringing in praise of his sturdy action,
and an Impetus is assured for primary
nominations that will help it along very
materially. Incidentally,1 the episode
may remind us how strofigiy the veto
ing and non-pardoning Executive or
the stern and heavy-sentencing Judge
intrenches himself in the hands of the
people. . The highest qualification for
affectionate and enthusiastic popular
regard in a public official Is that he is
"his own man."
SDATIMEXTAE VERDICTS.
Sentimental juries have been 'made
the subject of reproach to America by
foreign critics, and yet outside Great
Britain the record of t European justice
not only Is not better than our own,
but far worse. No capital punishment
is inflicted for murder or any other
gfeat crime in Italy or Switzerland,
and while capital punishment Is not
prohibited by law in France, Austria,
the German States or Russia, never
theless murderers when convicted do
not Invariably suffer capital punish
ment, as they do in Great Britain. In
France or Spain, when some great
crime is committed under circumstances
of great and revolting atrocity, the as
sassin Is pretty sure to undergo the
guillotine or the garrote. Political as
sassins and anarchist bomb-throwers
suffer the death penalty in France,
Spain, Germany. Austria and Russia;
but in France sentimental juries quite
often acquit a murdered who pretends
that he or she took life because of some
transport of fury born out of love'or
jealousy. Sometimes It is an "injured"
husband who murders his wife because
"he loved her so deeply" that he could
ont refrain from cutting her throat, If
not with neatness, at least with dis
patch. Sometimes It is a "wronged"
wife, or perhaps only a "wronged
woman," who vindictively skills the
slren,that stole her lover.
Whenever It i$ possible to plead "the
grand passion" in abatement for assas
sination, the murderer in France has
an excellent chance to escape with
small punishment. Even if convicted
of murder, the death penalty is seldom
inflicted upon these sentimental stab
bers or shooters of either sex. A mur
der committed for purposes of robbery
would be punished with death, but a
murder committed to avenge a real or
fancied social wrong would hardly be
punished with the ax or rope. The
wan ant for execution does not Issue; j
commutation is obtained and pardon
ultimately secured. Xn the 27tfi ult.
Comte de Comulier, who shot and killed
at Paris his beautiful wife, last
November, was acquitted of the charge
of murder, and the verdict was received
with applause. The Countess had been
separated from her nusband some four
years, having left him with the ap
proval of her family, because of his
brutal .and inhuman violence, expressed
by words and blows. The Count, in his
defense, alleged that the Countess'and
her solicitor, M. Leroux, were maintain
ing an intrigue, and that he shot and
killed her in the house of the lawyer.
The friends of the Countess, who was
the daughter of the Count de Vlanney,
said that M. Leroux was simply acting
as her legal adviser In the matter of
her projected suit for divorce from the
brutal husband, whose cruelty' had
forced her to leave him four years be
fore her death. -
According to this French verdict, a
man wjho has" driven his wife to leave
him by abuse has a, right to murder
her on the mere suspicion of an in
trigue with the lawyer she employs tq
press her divorce suit. This French
verdict outdoes in its enormous outrage
on justice the worst of our Sentimental
verdicts. A man who had not lived
with his wife for four years, because
his cruelty had driven her to take to
flight, could not murder her with im
punity in America as" she left the house
of her legal adviser in her suit for di
vorce. And- yet this verdict was Ap
plauded in Paris. An American jury
might acquit a man who made strong
proof that he had in a fit of Tage mur
dered the Invader of his home, but no
American jury Would ever acquit a man
of murder who-confessed that he had
shot his wife, whom he-had driven from
home, to death in a public doorway on
the mere suspicion that her visit to her
legal adviser in her suit for divorce
was merely a mask for an intrigue.
The American jury would say that he
was a most cruel, foul and cowardly
murderer, for whoHe crime there was
no" excuse or extenuation. He mur
dered his wife out of pure vindictlve-
ness, because he knew that the trial I
for divorce wpuld make a legal record
of his marital Inhumanity t and under
the pretext of "wounded honor" he
murdered, not the legal adviser he pre
tended was her paramour, but the poor
woman he had with curses driven from
his home fpur years beforef
The latest report off the Bureau of
Statistics shows that Portland has
shipped .more than one-ninth of all of
the wheat exported' from the United
States for the first ten months of the
current cereal year. There are but
three other ports in the United States
that leaft Portland in prominence as a
wheat exporter New Orleans and Gal
veston by less' than 10 per cent, and
New Tork by about 50 per cent. The
foreign wheatj exports of the metropolis
of the Pacific Northwest, for the cur
rent cereal year, are greater than those
of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Duluth, Mo
bile, Norfolk and Portsmouth combined.
This remarkable showing made by
Portland id a great tribute to the Co
lumbia River as a commercial highway.
While Portland has exported one-ninth
of all of the wheat 'shipped from the
United States, the State of Oregon pro
duced last year only' about 6ne-thirtlelh
of the entire crpp of the cpuntry. It is
thus plain that Portland, through its
admirable locatioij, has handled the;
wheat of a vast territory beyond the
confineaof the State of Oregon. This
wheat has floated seaward ; through
Portland harbor because of a down-hill
haul from the farthermost wheat farm
6f -Idaho, Washington and Oregon to
Portland, and a deep and rapidly im
proving channel to the sea. As with
Wheat, so with other products of the
farm. Portland never has been and
never will be compelled to depend on
the limited territory which must suffice
for less favorably located cities. At
the head of navigation for ocean vessels,-In
the natural gateway of an em
pire of marvelous natural wealth, Port
land has expanded from the "mud
Jandlng between Oregon City and As
toria" to one of the big seaports- of the
country. The Columbia River annually
carries seaward from Portland a com
merce of over $20)000,000, and it 1b stead
ily increasing as the' channel in the
river is Improved. It is not alone Port
land and Oregon that profit by this
highway to the sea, bu as shown by
the wheat exports, this river Is hand
ling the products of an immense area
beyond the state line. Any improve
ments that will facilitate or cheapen
the handling of vessels on the river will
confer relatively the same benefits on
the interior 'farmer that will be enjoyed
by the citizens of Portland.
Andrew Carnegie quits business with
$200,000,000 in cash. How did he get so
vast a sum? Primarily, through the
favor of the Government, which "pro
tected" him against foreign competi
tion during long years, while he used
his opportunity to deny to labor Its just
share and at the same time to extort
from consumers unconscionable prices.
The donation of $10,000,000 which he is
now making so ostentatiously in Scot
land was taken away from those to
whom it rightfully belonged in America
Observe that Carnegie SQt this .money
under pretense of "protecting" the
American worklngman. If is a consist
ent outcome of the whole colossal fraud
that the money now goes to Europe.
The Rev. S. B. Dexter, Who. was ohe
of the committee making an investi
gation of drinking among soldiers at
Fort Sheridan, has come out squarely
as an advocate of the restoration of the
Army canteen. "I have talked with
Army officers and enlisted mfen, as well
as the officials and citizens of High
wood," he said, "and I am convinced
that the canteen Is a benefit to the sol
diers. It seems certain that they will
secure drlQk somehow. This being so,
I have become convinced that less phys
ical and moral injury tcomes to them
when the1 canteen Is -open."
The Massachusetts Legislature re
cently voted by the narrow margin of
70 to 71 to sustain the law against fish
ing on Sunday. It used to be a crime
to be found driving on Sunday or rid
ing except "on an errand of mercy or
necessity." ,
The valuation of Multnomah County
Is to be largely increased, on the "as
sessment rolls, this year. It is felt, of
course, that there should be more
money for local officials to spend. The
taxpayer is merely the spoil of officialdom.
The Rev. Percy S. Grant, of the Prot
estant' Episcopal Church; New York
City, in a recent sermon declared that
he beUeved with, 3ohn Wesley and
many other great thinkers that animals
have .souls.
M'KINIEYD: THE ORTRWST
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The entire country wilt" regret the af
fliction which has compelled Mr, Mc
Kinley to cut short his tour at a time
when only about a third of It- was com
pleted. In the case of the Northwest
this sympathy will be mingled with dis
appointment, although, of course, the
disappointment will be lost sight of In
the presence ot the sympathy. Historic
ally, some' of the most interesting por
tions of the country were still ahead of
the President in the circuit which had
been marked out. Mr. McKinley, who is
still In California's metropolis, San Fran
Cisco, has already visited its ancient
capital at Monterey. He has passed
through part of the locality which saw,
back in those memorable Summer days
of 1846, the raising of the flag inscribed
with the star and the bear in that "bear
flag revolt" which was designed to form
the "Republic of California," prepara
tory to its annexation to the United
States. In the region in which he is
stopping at the present moment and In
part of that through which he has
passed, the history was made which ad
vanced the United States' southwest
ern boundary to the Pacific,
Mr. McKinley Is still at an age which
makes him one of the youngest of the
Presidents, yet the things which have
just been mentioned, and many ot the
principal events In the history of the
region which lies just ahead of him on
the route which had been marked out for
blm -to traverse, have occurred within
his own lifetime, The great Northwest
has become United States territory since
his birth. What was called the "Oregon
country" figured on the map for many
decades before Mr. McKinley was bom,
but he was over two years old when. In
the treaty with England in the. 'days of
Polk, it became part of the American
domain. The Tankee skipper, Gray, dis
covered the Columbia in 17S2, and Lewis
and Clark in 1805 sailed, down from
Its headwaters to the Pacific, Astor put
up his little fur-trading factory at the
spot which bears his name as far back
as 1811, which passed out of hlfl hands
during, the War of 1812. Wyeth, Kellej ,
Spalding, Marcus Whitman, the Lees
and many other Americans Whose names
are identified with the early annals of
Oregon were in that country long before
the President was born, but he is almost
old enough to remember the day when
England,' s joint occupation of it ended,
and when, as undisputed American ter
ritory, the StarB and Stripes were first
raised over the regiqn now comprising the
States of Oregon, Washington and Idaho,
and parts of Montana and Wyoming
If tho Prnsident had been permitted to
ipass through the course which had been
marked out before his affliction came, he
would have seen many things which
Would have revived his recollection of
one of the most interesting chapters of
American history. The map of the United
States as It was at his birth 1n 1844 would
look odd if placed beside the map of to
day. Not only did the earlier map not
contain the region between the Rocky
Mountains and the Pacific, but Texas
also was missing from it. Very nearly
1,000,000 square miles of territory in the
far West, in the contiguous part of the
United States, was added to America's do
main In the early days of Mr. MoKin
ley's boyhood. This la about a third of
the present area of the United States, ex
clusive of (Alaska, and the accessions of
1S98. Swinging through r the States of
Oregon, Washlhgton and Montana, on the
line whldh he Was to travel on his course
eastward, he would have passed over ter
ritory ruled by England's Hudson's Bay
Company until a 'time within the recol
lection, of hundreds ot thousands of per
sons still living. Utes, SiOux, Pawness,
Blackfeet and others ot the fiercest war--riors
which civilized men ever encountered
in the wild regions of the world held
sway in the great Northwest and along
the country's northern border through the
tier ot states marked out in his itinerary
as originally arranged, until long after
he reached manhood's years. The names
of Long, Lander, Bonneville, Stansbury,
Fremont and other explorers -would have
risen In his mind as he rode through the
country which they helped to bring to
the world's attention. The names and
personality of Kit Carson, Jim Bridger,
John Colter, Jim. Baker, Chief Josephv
Red Cloud, Sitting Bull and other white
and red plainsmen and mountaineer's would
have gained concreteness and vividness
for hlm'as he swept across the vast ex
panses which they have made classic
ground for all Americans.
The Pacific Looming; Up.
'St. LOuIs Globe-Democrat.
In former days only a few scraps of
news came from the region of the world's
greatest ocean. The attention of civilized
nations was centered elsewhere. All that
has been changed within the last four
or five years, especially In the United
States Our western boundary has moved
across the Pacific and the gates 6f the
Orient are at our own doors. This coun
try is happily situated In relation to the
vast body of water leading to the most
populous regions of the earth. At our
Pacific ports a ship of any draft can re
ceive her cargo and go to its destina
tion along a straight line. No conti
nents need be rounded and no canals
traversed It is practically a ferriage
from harbor to harbor, whether in Asia,
Australia, South America or the innu
merable Islands between Alaska and
Cape Horn. No transportation Could be
surer, safer, cheaper or more direct.
Henceforth, it Is clear, the Pacific must
play an important part In American po
litical affairs. It Is to be a main outlet
for the production of this country and
for the expansion of Its commerce. The
Nicaragua Canal, the largest wdrk of
transportation improvement ever Con
templated by tho United States, will be
an arm of the Pacific joining West and
Bast together. That canal and the sys
tem of Pacific railroads will make the
Uhited States the connecting link for
traffic between the two hemispheres.
Any political party that Obstructs the
development of trade in the Pacific will
run against the Americah spirit of en
terprise and be run over by American
destiny. The farmers, manufacturers,
merchants and artisans of this country
need the Pacific, with all that it implies,
Ih their business, and politicians who
attempt to block the way will be taught
a lesson.
No Limit to Our Expansion.
Indianapolis News.
Tbe simple fact Is that this country to
day, with its opportunities and ideals, is
almost as different from what It was when
Bryan first made his appeal for the Presi
dency as it is from the country that ex
isted before the Civil War. We have,
world Ideas where before We had merely
sectional ideas. Our manufacturers are
talking of the markets of India as they
used to talk of the markets of Indiana.
We see no limit to the expansive power
of American enterprise, and we face it
with the full flush of confidence. A revo
lution is taking place in the South, as a
result of these things. Losing somewhat
the traditional fear of race domination,
the South is facing the future as It never
did before.
AM0SEMENTS,
In "Arrah-na-Pogue," the pliy pre
sented Tiy Chirles Erin Terner at Cor
dray's last night, that inimitable Irish
actor proved that he is possessed M
really great talents, tor not only was
his Impersonation of Shaun the Post good
In itself, but it was so good as to
rise superior to very Indifferent support
nd make the evening's entertainment
well worth sitting through. As the simple-hearted,
honest, happy-go-lucky Irish
peasant, Mr. Verner is certainly at his
best, for no character could fit him mora
perfeotly. He has that rare facility of
drawing a very faint boundary line be
tween humor and pathos, and he Is not
more droll as village wit than tender as
a lover. His brogue rolls easily and
naturally from his lips, for It Is the Ian.
gunge they love best, and one does not
hear it In such perfection this sjde of
the boss. Even such a company as he
has selected to support him cannot ruin
the beautiful lines of Beauclcault. and
certainly the playwrlter could have asked
for no better Interpreter of what he in
tended Shaun to say than Mr. Verner,
The support was strengthened last night
by the addition of Ida Maloon. a decided
ly pretty little actress, who in the name
part gaVe evidence of considerable tal
ent. Loul9 Belmour made a good vllllan
of Michael Feeny. and the remainder of
the cast were on hand to assist In mak
ing up the stage pictures. .
"Arrah-na-Pogue" will be repeated tonight.
COMING ATTRACTIONS.
Harry Cora on Clarke at Cordray's.
Harry Corson Clarke, who first became
known to Portland play-goers as the
comedian of the old Frawley company,
and who his since added to his reputation
by starring on his own account, will
begin a week's engagement at Cordray8
next Sunday night In his new comedy,
"What Did Tomkins Do?" This play was
written for Mr. Clarke, and the part he
assumes is the kind that fits him best,
that of an old and rather hilarious gen
tleman. Mr. Clarke is said to have a
strong supporting company, and promises
fine costumes and settings.
Notes of the Stage.
The Frawleys are in their fifth week at
Seattle.
John F. Cordray has returned from a
brief business trip to Seattle.
The Cummlngs stock company Is play
ing a successful engagement In Los An
geles. ' "Sag Harbor" made a decided hit In
San Francisco, even without Mr. Heme
to play Cap'n Dan Marble.
Mrs. Flske recently closed her season
In Detroit. She will play next Winter In
her own theater In New York.
So successful has been the engagement
of the Nelll company In San Francisco
that they are considering an indefinite
stay in that city.
George L. Baker, manager of the Ba
ker City Theater, and formerly assistant
manager of the Marquim, Is spending a
few days In Portland.
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Chlneae Mother-inc-Law Treatment.
Mrs. S. L. Baldwin, of Brooklyn, who
lived for more than -20 years in China, has
completed a translation of the accepted
authority on Chinese etiquette, written by
Lady Tsad, of the Han dynasty, nearly
18 centuries ago. It contains the following
Instructions on the correct behavior of a
wife toward her husband'e mother:
When your mother-in-law sits, you. should re
spectfully fetand.
Obey quickly her commands.
In the morning' early rise
And quietly- open the doors,
Making no noise to awaken her.
Her toilet articles hasten to prepare;
Her washbowl and tfiwei.
Her toothbrush and- powder.
All bring: together.
Let not the Water be too cold or too hot
when the motheT-uvlaw awakens: t-.
All these things respectfully present to her,
Then Immediately retire to an side,
Until her toilet Is Completed. "
Then approach and present the morning saluta
tions. Again retire and prepare her tea.
Quickly and cheerfully carry it to her;
After which the breakfast table arrange,
tlace the spoons and chopsticks straight.
The rice cooked solt, and
Let the meat be thoroughly done.
From ancient days until now
Old people have had sick teeth;
Therefore let not the food be so- dry
That your mother-in-law
-JVith labor vainly eata.
Dally the three meals
Thus carefully prepare.
When darkness comes.
And your great one (mother-in-law) desires to
sleep,
Carefully for her spread the bed,'
When she' may peacefully rest.
And you may retire to your room.
Following these instructions.
All your superiors will praise ou,
All that know you will esteem you as good.
Belated, out Valuable.
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Commissioner Schurman's statement I
that the collapse of the Filipino Insur
rection was due to the re-electfon of
President McKinley, though belated, is
valuable, as coming from one more thor
oughly conversant with the ' situation In
Luzon, both before and since the elec
tion, than can be supposed of the news
paper writers who made the same dec
laration a long time previously. Mr.
Schurman's evidence carries with it the
clinching of the Indictment brought
against the Bryanite anti-Imperialists,
which accused them of being the real
backbone of the Insurrection. What a
delicious memory for Bryanltei to ru
minate upon!
Yonng Men to the Front.
Boston Journal.
It is a far cry to 1901, but this fact
now seems certain that the Republican
Presidential nomination three years hence
will bo to a younger man (than Senator
Hanna), to a representative of the newer
type of Republicanism. The forward and
expanding policies of the Republican
party have drawn to it in the past few
years the younfe men of the Nation, and
the Republican party of today is more
distinctively a yoUng men's party than
ever before in its existence.
Another J.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Has It occurred to jou that the intlal
letter J played a not inconspicuous part
in the recent game of pitch and toss ih
Wart street? In former times of storm
and stress we had J. Gould and J. Fisk.
Now we have J. Plerpont Morgan, J. R.
Kefene, J. J. Hill, J. Stlllman, J. Schlff,
J. H. Moore, J, W. Gates. J. Loeb and
George J. Gould.' New YOrk Press.
Why omit the J public?
Telling the Bee.
BUgene. Field.
Out of the house where the slumberer lay.
Grandfather came one Summer day,
And under the pleasant orchard trees
He spako thla wise to the. murmuring bees:
"The clOver bloom that kissed her feet
And the posy bed where she used to play.
Have honey store, but none so sweet
As ere obr little one -nent away.
O bees, sing soft, and bees, slag low;
For she Is gone Who loVed you bo."
A wonder fell on the listening bees,
fJnder those pleasant orchard trees.
And in their toll that Summer day
Even their murmuring seemed to sayi
"Child, O child. he grasa is cooi.
And Ihe posies are waking to hear the song
Of the bird that swings by the shaded pool.
Waiting for one that tarrieth long."
Twas so they called to. the little one then.
As If to Call her back again.
O gentle bees. I ha-ve, come to say.
That grandfather felt asleep today.
And we know by the smile on grandfather's
face
Re has found his dear one's biding place
So. bees, alng soft, tfnd.bees, sing low.
As over the honey fields you swwp
To- the trees- abloom and the flowers ablow
Sing ot grandfather fast asleep;
And ever beneath these orchard trees
Find cheer and shelter-, gentfe bes.
NOTE AN11 C0MME8L n.
Mr. Morgan seems to have bought every
thing In Europe except the throne.
Pettigrew isn't talking about the strike.
He is one of the bloated himself now-
The Congressional Record has not yet
printed a line about ths Washington, xnur
der. . .
Did It ever occur to any one'thnt. per
haps that Philadelphia doctor who -manded
$K0,COO fee needed the menrrt
Jfo twitter ho-w we cwt. the trout
AVIU not bite as thejr ought.
A circumstanca mott hard to bar.
Jfow that they can't bo bought.
The Dowager Empress has now con
cluded to take a back seat. The old
lady Is nearly strenuous enough to take
it In the New Tork stock exchange.
"I don't care." Upton Ud. "if my yacht
Was beat, for another I've gachC"
But theisecaad was bulU
And it caused hta to wullt
"When the first beat her out a whole lachu
Carter Harrison Is said to have aband-5,
oned his ambition to be President. It
Is understood that Adlal E. Stevenson
has done the same thing.
Te need not feel to great. O trees.
Because je leave In, Spring.
For floes not every servant girl
Do that same very thins?
A reader contributed the following:
She was returning from the links on,.
foot along a shaddy by-street, but the
April sun was golden, she was wearing;
a new dress. She was young, and. best,
of all. He was with her. She was rad
iant. He suggested taking a car.
"We will at the next corner," she said.
"I always wait for the car at that corner.
There is a little grocery store there, kept
by a funny German family, a rolyrpoly" ,
papa and mamma and two little flaxen-
haired boys. The children amuse me
Immensely. I want you to see them. '
I am quite Intimate With them. They
have christened me 'The Picture Lady,
because one day I brought my kodak
and photographed them on the grocery
steps. I must show you the picture; Just
too cute, with their little fat elbows and
knees' poking out through the holes In
their clothes. See. there Is one of them
now, the elder, and my special conquest.
I have accepted all sorts of gifts from
him sour oranges, stale candy, dried
apples, and even a dead mouse that he had
caught In a trap. Dear little chapl Isn't
he picturesque, now?"
Then the dear little chap caught sight
of her and shouted:
"Hello, Picture Lady!" and dropping his
bread and molasses he ran after hef'to
the corner. "Say. I've got a horse!" he
announced With much Importance. "Didr
you know that I've got a horse?"
"Why no. Ricard, I don't know," sh,
answered sweetly. "Is it a rocking
horse?"
"Naw," contemptuously; "it's a 'live'
horse, one that can eat hay, an trot, an'
go 'he-he-he I"
"Oh my!" gasped she, endeavoring to
appear suitably Impressed, and In an
evil moment she added; "la It a big
horse, Ricard?"
"Yes, Sir," with emphasis. "It's as'
big as as "Ricard looked vainly around ,
for a suitable object of comparison.
"Well. It's head Is blgger'n your head,"
fie asserted. "Did you knoW its head is
blgger'n your head?"
."NoVI didn't know."
VlPslots 'bigger; arid Its earab big-
ieir'n your ears,, loo!" ,
"Mercy, what a giant horse it must
he," she said.
"And Its feet "Here Ricard stopped to
peep under the hem of her golf dress
"Oh, its feet's even so much blgger'n
jour feet."
A faint tinge of pink stoje into her
cheeks at this, and he saw itand smlted
mischievously; but Ricard was oblivious
f of everything except the necessity of
impressing her with tha enormous slao
of his horse. "Say," he Iterated "did
you know its feet's ever an ever so
much blgger'n your feet?"
"No," faintly.
"Well they are; an" its le "
"Ricard!" The word cut the golden
sunshine like a knife, and Rlcard'a In
nocent eyes were lifted to hers In amaze
ment, "I was only tellln' you that my horse's
le" with flaming face she darted at him
and seized his dirty little hand. "Good
bye, Ricard, good-bye, dear; the car Is s
coming." She precipitated herself into
the middle of the street so recklessly that
the motorman rang the alarm bell", yet,
as she lifted her foot to the step Rlcard's ,
keen little eyes were making notes, and
he shouted after her, triumphantly:
"There, I knowed my horse's le "
The car door slammed, and she
breathed. He sat down beside her. but
looked dreamily back toward the grocery
store. t
"Dear, picturesque little chap," he .
murmured.
PLEASANTRIES OF PABAGIIAPHBRS
Short Term Usually. Tourist How long does
the Sheriff hold ofllce In this county? Native'
(of Bloody Gulch Just as long as he eofltlnuea
to draw first. Iuck.
Bifklna (who is giving a party) What do
you get an evening for waiting at entertain
ments f Waiter SfUo shillings, sir; but if
there Is to be singing I must aslc sir. air.
Tit-Bits.
And Now Look at Him! "See that magnate
over there?" "Yes. What of him?" "Well.
20 years ago that man arrived in New York
City with only & million dollars in his pock
et." Lire. '
The Difficulty. Manager I am sorry that
you wish to resign. What ! he trouble? Star
It la too- much of a strain on me to try to
live up to the salary your press agent says I
get. Baltimore American.
Greening (shopping with hto wife) Here la
something- that will make you a nice dres.
ifrs. Greenlng-Oh. nobody is wearing that this
season Greening Well, what's the matwr
With this piece? Mrt. GreeningOh. that's too
common. Everybody is wearing It -Chicago
News. .
In Hallelnia Town. -
Frank L- 8tanton in Atlanta Constitution.
The namln o' the settlement wus hard to t
bring about;
Each feller made suggestions, an still we wus
In 4ntlhtr
So, we belt a big town meetin', an' 'peansd
like Providence
We named her "Hallelula," an we've aU been
happy sence! .
They ain't no growlers In it on every plane,
an1 slope
The sure Is shinin brightly the Stirs airwhis
perin' hope; k 4
An' alt the fplks ll tell you, fer miles an
miles aroun
They ain't no thorns along the road to Hal
lelula Town!
'Twua Insplratloa in it that Hallelula- namefj
t brur.g about good feelln', it sot our soula
aflame!
An' what to ua air mansions in cities of re
nown. So Idng as we at: happy in Hallelula Town?
For there the "birds air singin'. the fields air
flowerin' fine;
The sun Jest don't know nothln but how"' to
rise- an' shine! - - .
An' what a blessed world 'twould be without
a care or frown.
If folks' would only emigrate to Hallelula ,
' Town!