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perature, GO; minimum temperature, 53; pre
cipitation, trace.
PORTLAND, SATURDAY, JUNE 22.
"WATER VERSUS RAIL.
When a tralnload of wheat is on Its
way down the O. R. & N. tracks to
Portland, it is a simple matter for it
to be carried on down to Astoria. When
a ship is to carry grain from the Co
lumbia River, it is a simple matter to
"bring: it up to Portland and load it.
The train can go down over the As
toria road's tracks, or the ship can
clear from Portland. There is no diffi
culty in either case. The question is
merely one of expense; and It so hap
pens that, whereas the ship can be
moved over the 110 miles from Portland
to Flavel, for, say, $300 for a 3000-ton
cargo, it will cost something like $1500
'to haul the 3000 tons of grain down by
rail. These figures are only approxi
mate, but they are fair. Some ships' are
moved at a cos't of C cents per ton in
stead of 10. and under present tariffs
grain would probably pay 51 a ton by
rail instead of 50 cents; but it is evi
dently Idle to talk of hauling grain
cheaper by rail than by water.
Yet the minds of many shrewd rail
road men have become possessed by
the hallucination that rail carriage is
cheaper than water carriage. Their
wish is also father to the thought that
the modern tendency is away from
water to rail. They Incline to the view
expressed by the Chicago Tribune the
other day that cargoes must go sea
ward by rail to meet ships, because
ships are no longer willing to pene
trate landward for cargoes. Of course,
there is a good deal of superstition
about these "modern tendencies."
Tendencies are not always right. There
is a tendency to get drunk and another
tendency to rush to the divorce court.
So there might be a tendency to water
transportation unjustifiable in practice.
Every tendency must be judged by its
circumstances. Now the fact is that
money Is saved by utilizing water
transportation, and not only that, but
by investing enormous sums in improv
ing water channels and even in mak
ing water channels where nature has
provided none.
What is New York going to do with
the Erie Canal abandon it for the
cheaper and more sensible rail trans
portation. Nay, verily. She will spend
millions to improve it and deepen It to
21 feet What does Canada propose to
do with Its water facilities from the
Great Lakes to the sea abandon them
as a useless expense? No; she Is pro
jecting a system 430 miles long. Is
Manchester wanting to give up her
canal, or" Germany hers, or Britain the
Suez. Canal, or French investors the
one at Panama, or the United States
the one at Sault Sainte Marie?
It would probably be difficult to point
to an existing parallel for the Astoria
proposal that the Columbia channel, be
tween Portland and the sea be aban
doned and leave the river's commerce
at the mercy of the railroads.
THE TWEED-RING OF PHILADEL
PHIA. The Tweed ring that New York City
repudiated and ruined in 1871 Is recalled
lay the most recent outrage of the Qua,y
Ting In Philadelphia. The Quay ring
rushed bills .through the Pennsylvania
.Legislature, changing the existing law
about granting of franchises for street
railways. The Governor signed them
at midnight. Next morning the parties
to the plot secured charters from the
Secretary of State before his office was
open to the general public and before
outsiders had any chance to put in ap
plications. The Philadelphia Council
met in special session and adopted four
teen ordinances granting rights of way
as a free gift for railroads upon, under
and over the principal streets of the
cits, whether now occupied by railways
or not. On the day that these ordi
nances came before Mayor Ashbridge
for his signature, John Wanamaker
sent a written proposition to the Mayor
offering to pay the city 52,500,000 for
these franchises that were given away.
The Mayor, when the letter was handed
to him, threw it at the messenger's
head. A duplicate of this proposition
sent to the Mayor's house was avoided
by the Mayor's failure to go home that
evening. The Mayor affixed his signa
ture to the bflls without giving any op
portunity for a public hearing and
without opening a letter which offered
the city $2,500,000 for rights which he
has given away for nothing.
Besides Mr. Wanamaker's offer of
$2,500,000 for thf franchises given away
hy Mayor Ashbridge and the Council,
Albert Johnson, for the same fran
chises, had offered 3-ceht fares and free
transfers, which would have saved the
people $4,000,000 annually over what can
be charged under the franchises grant
ed, and it If charged that $10,000,000
has already been offered for what
Mayor Ashbridge made a present of to
the representatives of the Quay ring.
Every newspaper in the city denounces
the conduct of the Mayor, but he and
his gang laugh and sneeringly inquire,
"What are you going to do about it?"
a query that the Tweed ring put once
too often, for the enraged taxpayers
organized for the dethronement of the
leaders of the ring at the ballot-box,
and routed them completely. But fail
ure to defeat them at the polls would
have been followed by a vigilance com
mittee and a revolution which would
have been "the state" long enough to
hang or send into exile the whole Tam
many ring. The leaders of the Tam
many ring were so cowed by this threat
that they could not be elected. The
control of the Legislature was lost to
"the ring," and legislation was quickly
enacted which brought to justice "the
ring" Judiciary, who were successfully
impeached, and sent to prison or drove
into exile and ultimate bankruptcy the
whole confederacy of municipal rob
bers. From that day to this the meth
ods of the Tweed ring have never been
repeated by Tammany in New York
City, but they have been revived by
the Quay ring in Philadelphia.
In any city of decent spirit and in
telligence, Mayor Ashbridge would be
impeached and expelled from office; In
any city of decent spirit, the situation,
if not speedily righted, would lead up to
revolution; but Philadelphia does not
seem to have public spirit enough to
appeal either to its courts or the polls
for effective punishment: Misgovern
ment there has been in New York and
Chicago, but this misgovernment has
been bitterly resisted and antagonized.
But in Pennsylvania, and especially
Philadelphia, the Quay ring not only
rules the roost, but rules it without
serious battle for supremacy. Quay's
nephew, who is Recorder of Scranton,
Is one of the engineers of this fran
chise body-snatching in that city;
Quay's son Is interested in Pittsburg
corporations, while United States Sen
ator Penrose represents the interests
which have obtained by free gift valu
able rights In Philadelphia.
This stupendous steal has been ac
complished with impunity in the great
est city of the state, which is appar
ently without protection in either the
legislative or executive department of
either state or city. The Legislature
enacted Quay's will; the Governor con
firmed it, and the Mayor of Philadel
phia, when he was presented with
Quay & Co.'s demand for the city fran
chises for nothing, promptly hon
ored it The terrible fact Is not the
shameless robbery perpetrated upon
Philadelphia, but the shameless apa
thy of feeling on part of the vast mass
of the people that have been robbed by
high officials, who, chosen to guard the
rights of the people, have become con
spirators to confiscate those rights to
their own advantage.
HOW POPULATIOX GROWS.
It Is uncertain whether the elevation
of Mr. Stubbs to traffic control of the
Southern Pacific and Union Pacific is
occasion for felicitation at Portland or
for its opposite. Mr. Stubbs has never
been definitely hostile to Portland, but
he has always looked upon, San Fran
cisco and California as the proper ob
jects of the Southern Pacific's solici
tude and care. ' ,The common-point
rate for Western- Oregon lumber mills
has had in him its most implacable foe.
On the whole, however, we should say
that Mr. Harrlman's desires toward the
Oregon Short Line and the O. R. & N.
will be more favorable than those that
have hitherto prevailed in .Southern
Pacific councils. Complaints of traffic
discrimination that Portland has hith
erto made In vain should now be as
sured of respectful hearing.
Yet what is needed here Is not so
much tariff concessions, perhaps, as ac
tivity in development and immigration
work, -to which Western Oregon has
been a stranger and from whose lack It
suffers cruelly today in comparison
with Washington and California such
work as the Great Northern and North
ern Pacific have done in their terri
tory, such work as the Southern Pacific
has done for Southern California.
Several newspapers in Oregon, on in
timate terms with the traffic depart
ments of the railroads, have been say
ing of late that the scant Immigration
Oregon receives in comparison with
Washington Is not attributable In any
way to the railroads. They are wrong.
The beginning and end of present-day
Immigration work are In the railroad.
The farmer doesn't know he Is discon
tented until some glib agent informs
him, and then with attractive litera
ture points in glowing terms to some
Eldorado of the West. Railroad men
assert that the "homeseekers' excur
sions" organized by the Great Northern
and the Northern Pacific have been the
means of carrying to Washington and
the country tributary to those roads
60,000 permanent settlers. When the
exaggeration of the emigration
"boomer" and of the newsgatherer is
squeezed out of this assertion, 40,000
would probably be found to be nearer the
truth. But 40,000 persons is a very large
number to be transplanted, and one's
respect for the emigration agent is fur
ther increased by the fact that this
transfer was accomplished in twelve
weeks by means of weekly "excursions"
organized after months of hard and
skillful work. To shake 40,000 persons
from their moorings means the expend
iture of a vast amount of effort.
To bring about this result, means are
accurately shaped to the end in view.
Whenever the emigration department
discovers a county that by reason of
crop failure or any other setback Ib
restless and discontented, an expert Is
Immediately sent to.study the situation
and to turn the discontent to the profit
of the railroad. This expert is always
a good "mixer," able to make friends
and to win their confidence. If the field
looks at all promising, he begins to talk
of the cheap lands and wonderful crops,
of the climate, the resources, and the
commercial possibilities of some par
ticular district along the line of his
road. He talks Washington orchards
to the orchard man, and Washington
wheat to the wheatgrower. But he
takes care to talk only one region in
one locality. Above all, the women are
not neglected; for it has been found
useless to stimulate the imagination of
the head of the house unless the
"woman folks" can be made to share in
his hopes. When Interest has be,en
pretty well aroused, stereoptlcon lec
tures by specialists are given in the
district schoolhouse or some other cen
tral place, and the wonders of the new
country are revealed in an entertaining
way. This usually sets the ball roll
ing. The remaining work of the agent
Is simply to make all arrangements.
He takes everything into his own
hands. He sets the day for the excur-
slon ttfstaVt, attends to the sale of the
farm and house and furniture, combats
the"-objections or the animadversions
of the timid and suspicious, and con
ducts the expedition personally to the
new home. So thoroughly does the
agent' acquire the confidence of his
charges that even the most independ
ent follow him like so many sheep.
When this work is put into opera
tion for the benefit of Western Oregon
the aspect of things hereabouts will
have altered very materially for the
better. More people in Western Oregon
mean more trade and more manufac
tures for Portland, and for the Wil- I
lamette valley such splendid young cit
ies as Walla Walla, Pendleton, Col
fax and North Yakima. The way for
Mr. Harriman to the affections of this
people is through such development
of Western Oregon as he has already
permitted the O. R. & N. management
to do for its territory.
OREGOX CORN.
Perhaps the idea that "corn will not
grow in Oregon," except to be gathered
for "roasting ears," or cut for green
fodder, grew out of the belief preva
lent in early days that any crop cereal,
fruit or vegetable that would grow in
Oregon at all would, after the first
planting or sowing, take care of itself
from year tc year, for an indefinite
period. Corn, not being a plant that
thrives on neglect, flourishes on starved
soil or survives exposure to Winter
weather, was ruled out of the fields In
pioneer times, and preference was given
to crops that required less care and
cultivation. The "volunteer crop" was
Oregon's boast, and in a sense Its ad
vertisement In early days presented an
alluring picture to people who had by
patient toll wrung scanty subsistence
from reluctant soll3. Corn was not and
could not be included Jn this catalogue,
and, as a matter of fact, most other
agricultural products have long since
dropped out of it, leaving behind the
wholesome lesson that here, as else
where, man must work for what he
gets from the soil; andr moreover, that
he must work for it Intelligently.
The fact that corn can be made to
produce and mature a good crop In Ore
gon has been accepted for some years
by persons well informed by experi
ence upon the matter, but in a general
way it is still said and believed that it
Is not profitable, and cannot be made
so, to raise corn In the Willamette Val
ley, except for Summer table consump
tion, and perhaps to a limited extent
for fodder. The experience, therefore,
of Judge T. L. Davidson, of Marion
County, as a successful grower of corn
on his place near Salem for the past
thirty years, as detailed in The Ore
gonlan, will surprise the large number
who had been still of the opinion, that
corn will riot mature in Western Ore
gon. It will be seen from this account
that intelligence in preparing the soil
and selecting the seed; good judgment
in regard to planting time; industry in
cultivation and promptness in harvest
ing and curing the product, are prime
essentials In raising good corn. These
given, a good crop is assured, .unless in
an exceptional season. The only ques
tion now is whether it pays to raise
corn In this state for feeding purposes
and to meet the demand of the home
market for domestic consumption.
Judge Davidson says that it does, and
furnishes the bes. of all evidence that
df experlence-Jn support of the state
ment. The matter of diversified farming be
ing now under careful consideratipn
among the more energetic and progres
sive farmers of the Willamette Valley,
the methods whereby Judge Davidson
has succeeded in raising corn profitably
cannot fall to attract attention. Of
course, Oregon will never become a
"corn state" in the commercial sense
of that term, as applied to Iowa and
other states of the Middle West. But
the time is at hand wherein Oregon
farmers who seek to diversify their
crops on the intelligent basis of "always
something to sell" will add with a rea
sonable certainty of profitable returns
for their endeavor a corn field to their
cultivated lands. Whether turned into
pork or poultry, butter or beef, hominy
or hoecake, experience has demon
strated the value of corn as a food and
feed cereal, while experiment has
proved that It can be raised In Oregon
to any extent that Is profitable, and
hence desirable, by giving proper atten
tion to the Blmple but somewhat exact
lng methods required to insure success.
CHINESE EXCLUSION LAW.
The Chinese residents of this country
have organized a movement against the
extension of the Chinese exclusion law
for another twenty years after its ex
piration in 1902. American sentiment
toward China has been modified so
much the past six months, compared
with the hostility felt during the Boxer
War, that the leading Chinamen in
New York and San Francisco have de
cided to appeal strongly to the Ameri
can people for fair treatment. A me
morial to Congress will be signed by all
the Chinese in this country, and the
signature of as many American citizens
as possible will be secured to a petition
to that body. Minister Wu Ting Fang
will, of course, work zealously in Wash
ington with Senators and Congressmen.
The Chinese will plead that the exclu
sion act is unjust; that their people are
unusually free from crime and pauper
ism; that they are capable, economical
and cheap workers in the field of labor.
Their own country has been forcibly
opened up to all foreigners, including
Americans; their ports are compelled
to welcome our citizens, either as mer
chants and traders or as missionaries;
their fiscal system is controlled by for
eign powers.
The Chinese plead that the demands
of the United States for trade privi
leges in China are not consistent with
Its treatment of Chinese who desire to
come to our shores. The Chinese point
out that American manufacturers
would enjoy a much greater advantage
in the Chinese markets if this stigma
upon the Chinese race were removed;,
The Chinese further say that a plentiful
supply of Chinese labor would enor
mously develop the resources of the
United States, especially those of the
South. The Chinese Consul-General at
New York City, speaking to Southern
planters, says; "Repeal the exclusion
act and the Chinese will turn the great
marshes of the South Into rice lands,
and in other parts they will build great
tea gardens." The negroes could not
long endure competitlpn with Chinese
labor, and there is no doubt that it
would be admirably adapted to the
work of agriculture, horticulture and
frultraising in the South and in Cuba.
The negro Is not seldom indolent, in
temperate and thriftless, while theChi
naman is invariably sober, industrious
and economical.
In equity the Chinese have a good
case, but their movement against the
exclusion act will not succeed. Neither
of the great political parties dares open
this country to an unrestricted influx
of cheap Chinese labor. The Pacific
Coast would be a unit against it, and
the whole working class would oppose
it. Representative Kahn, of California,
has already prepared a bill providing
for the extension of the Geary act, and
the Legislatures of the Pacific Coast
States have passed resolutions in sup
port of the continuation of the present
policy of Chinese exclusion. Our policy
of Chinese exclusion would be adopted
by the Dominion of Canada, were it not
that It would be sure to be disapproved
by the home government. The anti
Chinese sentiment is as strong In Brit
ish Columiba and in Australia as it is
in the Pacflc Coast States.
The Czar and Czarina are, under the
circumstances, to be commiserated In
the persistence with which fate seVids
them daughters. Of course there are
much worse things than the coming
Into the home of wealth, honor and po
sition of a bevy of bright and beautiful
daughters, but the much more appre
ciated event In this case would be the
coming of a single son. The Russian
prophecy of "seven daughters to an
heirless Czar," with other details spe
cially pointing to Nicholas as that bit
terly disappointed ruler, is recalled
with each successive birth in the im
perial family of Russia! There might
be some consolation, even to the sorely
tried Czarina, In the thought that more
than half the prophecy had been ful
filled, but for the fact that -no son Is,
even then, promised to this Imperial
couple the death being supposed to
take place soon after the birth of the
seventh Grand Duchess. Since the abil
ity of woman to rule has been thor
oughly demonstrated In Russia, and
there Is no more reason to suppose that
an Empr.ess reared in the light of mod
ern civilization would repeat the coarse
profligacy that characterized the private
life of the great Catharine than that a
son born to Nicholas would repeat thp
cruelties of Ivan the Terrible, It might
be well to so modify the law of suc
cession in that empire as to permit a
woman to succeed her father on the
throne in the event of failure in the
male line, The present Czar, in choos
ing a wife, exercised great good sense
In that the Princess chosen is a woman
of rare mental attainments, great per
sonal beauty and of political sagacity
equal to that of her grandfather, the
Prince Consort of Victoria. It was In
the hope that she would transmit these
distinguished characteristics to a son
who would in. due course of time be
come Emperor of Russia that Nicholas
chose Princess AUx of Hesse-Darmstadt
for his wife, and that his choice
was warmly seconded and his suit per
sistently urged upon a notably unwill
ing damsel by the advisers of the em
pire. Thus far she has brought only
daughters to the imperial house of
Russia. But what If one of these has
Inherited the nobility of character, po
litical sagacity and strong personal
characteristics so ardently hoped for in
an heir to his marriage? If so, events
may be depended, upon to work out
this fact, in utter disregard of all hu
man assumptions to the contrary. In
the meantime, the gentle, high-minded
Czarina, who is said to regard with
self-reproach -her failure to become the
mother ofa-sbft, Is entitled-to sympa
thy in aSdisappointment the' conditions
of whici?f all? so much inbre heavily
upon hefseif than uponher., husband.
And since the empire cannot afford to
lose In a ruler the moral and Intellec
tual strength which she brought into
the imperial family, it may be hoped
that, in further default of a son, she
may live to see one of her daughters
upon the throne of Russia.
Emperor William proclaimed in his
speech on Wednesday last that the
future of Germany lies on the sea. To
day Germany is the fourth naval power
in the world, while the United States Is
the third. Germany will have to in
crease her navy by 253,000 tons to equal
ours. In October she had 235 vessels
afloat, displacing 358,000 tons, and IS
ships building, displacing 88,940 tons.
The United States has built 336,200 tons,
Is building 389,670 tons, a total of 705,870
tons. Of the great naval powers of
the world, the British total is 046 ves
sels, built and building, displacing
1,795,410 tons; the French Is 428' vessels,
with a tonnage displacement of 714,190
tons. Great Britain has 45 fiyst-class
battle-ships; France has 19, and Great
Britain is building 11. Russia last Oc
tober had 294 ships afloat, with a dis
placement of 420,440 tons, and 38 ships
building, to displace 149,140 tons. Rus
sia must increase her navy by 136.0G0
tons to equal the naval strength of the
United Statej. Today the six principal
navies of the world are, in order, Great
Britain, France, the United States,
Russia, Germany and Japan. Japan is
behind us by 460,000 tons."
We find this trenchant comment on
the subsidy scheme in the columns of
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
What Is needed to enable us? to regain qur
supremacy on the peas Is the repeal of our
throttling navigation laws, and permit tho
American shipper to'buy vessels where ho can
buy them cheapest. ". ... It is not to bo
dono by subsidy. The Morgan syndicate has
shown Its polioy by the purchase of a foreign
fleet, Let It have the American flag, as it Is
American property. We will thus expand our
shipping Interest, and, as has been shown In
the case of Germany, this will result In greatly
Increased activity in American shipbuilding.
The utterance, it Is true, is reprinted
from the Pittsburg Post with proper
credit, but In thus using it the Post
Iritehlgencer lets a ray of illumination
in upon Its own desperate champion
ship of subsidies.
The story that comes from Colorado
that Morgan, Harriman, Vanderbllt,
Gould and Rockefeller expect In a few
years to turn over all the railroad lines
of the country to the Government for
$10,000,000,000 is utterly absurd. Gov
ernment ownership that means so enor
mous an increase of our public debt and
so enormous an increase of the number
6f our civil service employes will not
be undertaken within the present cen
tury. The fact that there are several va
cancies in the list of school teachers for
the board to All this year Indicates that
the whisperings of Dan Cupld have
not given offense in the schoolroom.
"Unmerciful disaster follows fast and
follows faster." No sooner do we sink
the grip on the horizon than the Sum
mer vacation looms ominously ahead
of us.
The new third party will, of 'course,
occupy that position at the finish of
the next Presidential race.
Schoolbooks, like the razors in the
poem, seem to be made exclusively to
sell,
THE ASTORIA CUXTK'JVERSY.
O TV TTSiHnn In ttqilv Astorifln.
So far as my alleged fear of antagonlz- j
lng, politically, the Multnomah delegation I
is concerned, the whole state knows I
have continuously antagonized it during
the last 20 years, and during the last 10
years, you, Mr. Editor, it Is equally well
known, have assisted them in all their
political fights. Now, really, were you not
just a little unhappy in introducing poli
tics into this discussion? It was unneces
sary, certainly Just as unnecesary as it
was to become personal or ascribe motives
at all. I had not questioned your mo
tive, but condemned your Judgment In
contending against appropriations for tle
improvement of the Columbia. You say
you have always stood for the common
point. Have you? Always? Well, yes,
sometimes. But, who was discussing the
common point? This Is the charge I
bring against you, that you have com
pletely evaded the Issue.
"You seek to make It appear that I am
opposing the extension of common rates
to Astoria. You say that Mr. Fulton
"scored this paper for Its attitude in de
manding that Astoria be recognized aa
the seaport of Oregon." Is that true?
You knew, and every person who has
read my articles, knows It is not true.
The following are the statements I criti
cised: "The Government of the United States
has no more right to expend money on
the Improvement of the Columbia Rlvei
channel between Astoria and Portland
than It has to expend money to Improve
the streets of Portland." -And, "Govern
ment appropriations to enable sea-going
vessels to ascend the river to Portland
are not only a misuse of public funds
they are at the same time a swindle on
the Government and a fraud upon the
rights of every producer In the Columbia
Basin." And, "the Delaware is a very
deep, wide river, navigable at all seasons
of the year," while, per Inference, "the
Columbia is not," that is, neither wide nor
deep, nor navigable at all seasons of the
year. '
These were the statements I criticised.
I asserted and I repeat that such articles
only create enemies for us throughout
the entire state not alone in Portland.
Eastern Oregon, as well as Portland, if
interested in this matter. When you tell
them that the Columbia Is not "wide nor
deep," and that it is a fraud on the
Government and the producers to im
nrove it. you Justly excite their indigna
tion and invite their enmity. I protested
In the name of our people against such
statements being accepted as representing
the sentiment of this community I re.
Iterate that protest. You answer that 1
am a candidate for office. Even If I
were, It would not, In all probability, make
the Columbia less wide or less deep, or
less a highway for commerce, nor an
axiom any the less a self-evident truth,
nor decency and manliness any the less
admirable. You say, "It would be inter
esting" to know what Mr. Fulton's sources
are for ascertaining the sentiment of this
community."
I answer, by meeting and talking with
our people. Since publishing the two ar
ticles you criticise, I have been assured
by letters from .ill over the county and
by the great majority 0 the people I
have met. that I have'tru'.y expressed the
sentiment of this community.
You say that you "have been demanding
that Astoria be recognized as the seaport
of Oregon." I am with you for that, most
heartily. But Is it necessary to "knock"
some other place in order to advance our
Own interest? We want appropriations
for Improvement of the entrance to the
river and of our harbor. In the name of
common decency, why should we protest
against Congress aiding some other place.
I agree that improvement of the entrance
is of nrst Importance, and I would as
sert (if the order of Importance were un
der discussion), that opening the Upper
Columbia Is next In importance, but I also
contend that It is Important that appro
nrlatlona be marin for lmorovltur the LOW.
ier Columbia. Were the latter, however
(In our Judgment), not of any import
ance, I contend that it would be narrow
minded and selfish to the border of in
dency In us to oppose such appropria
tions, and that, in particular, Is the point
I have sought to make clear.
As for my loyalty to Astoria, which you
seek to Impugn, I have only to say that
I have resided here now over a quarter
of a century. All I have Is Invested here.
I am willing that my fellow-citizens shall
answer whether or not I have been loyal
to our city. I can only hope to prosper
through the growth and prosperity of
Astoria. But If It be disloyalty to decline
to believe that one may properly pull an
other down In order to pull himself up;
that to advance our own locality we must
retard another; that In order to establish
one's own good character, It Is necessary
to slander one's neighbor, and that the
doing of all these Is honorable and decent,
then, sir, I am disloyal.
The Astorlan's reply:
Stripped of the sarcasm and abuse, Mr
Fulton's communication resolves Itself
Into a futile effort to straddle a fenc
and dangle one leg In Portland's front
yard and the other In Astoria. The edi
torial utterances of the Astorlan, which
aroused the Ire of Mr. Fulton, sought to
show that so long as large appropriations
were expended In keeping open the chan
nel to Portland; under existing conditions,
Astoria would n'ver be the commercial"
seaport of the Columbia Basin and of
Oregon. The Injustice was pointed out of
maintaining an Inland seaport, inaccess
ible to the largest cargo carriers of the
seas, and of spending the public money
to benefit a coterie of railroad magnates.
It was shown that these vast expenditures
had In them no element of benefit to the
farmers of Oregon; that It was a wanton
waste of public money when we have
here, almost at the mouth of the Colum
bia, one of the finest harbors on the Pa
cific Coast. Mr. Fulton declares that If
the sentiments expressed In these columns
be allowed to go forth unchallenged, It
will result In making enemies 'for Astoria,
not alone In Portland, but In Eastern Ore
gon, in fact, in the entire state. He ac
cuses the Astorlan of begging the ques
tion, and says that the ccmmon-polnt rat
problem Is in no way involved In the
controversy. If the common-point rate
Is not the pivotal point of the discussion.
then wha. is? The Astorlan has stated
that it does not oppose the maintenance
of a channel to Portland providing it re
dounds to the benefit of the entire state.
It Is not the channel that has been In
volved, but the men who are back of
the pressure on the Government to secure
the appropriations, and their motives. Is
not the question of equitable rates to the
seaboard and the deepening of the river
from here to Portland so Inseparably in
terwoven that one cannot be discussed
without the other being Involved?
How About Portland' r
Philadelphia Times.
Buffalo's big fair Is swinging gayly Into
the busy season. The crowds are going
and most of the editors have been there,
and altogether the tide Is on the flood.
I Is a good thing worth seeing and every
one who can should go, but If unkind
fortune should keep anybody away Char
leston will have a show next year and St.
Louis will beat all previous records in 1303.
or break something In trying. And after
that we should not be surprised if Cuba
has its try at a world's exposition. Surely
the prosperous Island has a plenty of an
niversary daCes for the purpose!
And Everything: In Lovely.
J. Sterling Morton's Conservative.
The fertile fields of Nebraska are now
saturated with June showers. The sun Is
smiling upon them by day, and the dews
are soothing them by night. The corn
Is growing so swiftly that the plowmen
must hurry to get through it a third
time without being lost and suffocated
among the stalks. The wheat Is assured.
Oats are not very good. But clover and
alfalfa are magnificent, and forage Is
to be plentiful for the next Winter. The
gold standard Is the creed of this people
land prosperity is persistent.
VALUE OF MVERS.
St Louis Globe-Democrat.
In a recent Issue the New York Marine
Journal remarks that "the present cen
tury seems destined to bring the steam
boat as -a means of transportation to an
equality with the railroad train." That
paper says that, great as is the volume
of traffic on the lakes, a greater busi
ness is conducted on American rivers,
amounting to 100.000.000 tons a year, ex
clusive of boats plying on arms, of the
ccean reaching inland. At least half the
interior commerce of the United States
is transacted by boats. Though almost
every navigable river in this country is
paralleled by a railway, the business for
both increases. The two great systems
of inland waterways in the United States,
the Marine Journal remarks, are the
Great Lakes and the Valley of the Mis
sissippi, and of the two the latter is fore
most. An attache of the Government engi
neering service has lately taken for a
text the possibilities of the Tennessee
River, which from source to mouth is 650
miles long, and navigable by steamboats
all the way. Its principal tributaries can
be navigated for 750 miles, and 1000 miles
more can be used for rafts and flatboats,
making a total of 2400 miles of navigable
waters, and free from Ice. The total
amount expended on the Tennessee River
by the Government has been $6,000,000,
most of which was used in the Muscle
Shoals canal. The Tennessee River is in
touch with St. Louis and with tidewater.
It reaches far Into a gieat mineral re- I
glon, but, as the engineering corps views
the case, Its possibilities seem to be de
spised. Of course, the day will come, as
it has already come for the lakes, when
the unequalcd rivers of the Mississippi
Valley will receive business-like consid
eration. EVILS OF "BRIDGE" IX LONDON.
Women Gambler Driven Into Prac
tice's Worse Than Death.
London Cable to Chicago Record-Herald.
One of the most lurid pictures of the
sorrows and evils for which the gambling
mania has been responsible among wom
en appears this week in Clement Scott's
little paper, the Free Lance, in which
the writer, who sems to know all about It,
describes how women drag themselves
out after all-night sittings at bridge at
their own and other people's houses, to
play bridge at the clubs, and fill in the
hours between meals playing bridge, so
great is the fascination of the game when
once the craze seizes a firm hold of the
gambler.
As bridge has taught many women the
perilous delights of gaming. It has also
shown many socisty women tho way to
the pawnshop who never thought to see
the inside of the doors.
"I could lay my hands," says the writ
er, "at church parade, at Ranelagh, at
Hurllngham, at the opera, on a dozen
women of unassalled rank and high title,
whose best jewels are reposing safe In the
hands of some pawnbroker or money
lender. They have good paste substitutes,
and few people are the wiser. Some day,
when luck turns, they will pay ruinous
interest to release the precious stones
from bondage.
"But if luck does not turn, what then?
Oftener than not these diamonds, pearls,
and rubles are family helrloo'ms. The hus
band Is the one person In the world who
must not know of their fate. The eas
iest way out Is to confide In the 'other
man' the rich 'pal that many a so
ciety woman possesses. He is amused,
soothing, generous; she is under a deep
obligation to him henceforth. The veriest
tyro realizes to what end such obligations
tend."
If proof positive of the truth of this
statement is needed, it is easy to recall
Instances In Sir Francis Jeune's court
in the last month.
SENATOR FULTON'S ACTION.
Commended as Liberal and Wise In
Knntcrn Oregon.
East Oregonlan (Pendleton).
Senator Charles W. Fulton, of Astoria,
has strengthened himself by writing and
publishing the letter that appears In
another column on this page. His views
are broad, comprehensive, liberal. He is
loyal to his own town, yet not antago
nistic to Portland. He would see Astoria
the great pert her position warrants, yet
would not detract from the commercial
and financial supremacy that must al
was stamp Portland as the strongest city
on the North Coast, if her citizens be up
and doing.
His letter will be efficient and suffi
cient means of obviating a disgraceful
quarrel beween Portland and Astoria dur
ing the visit of Chairman Burton and tho
national house committee on rivers and
harbors.
Senator Fulton acted, not only In good
taste, but with fine political sagacity.
He retains the support of the stronger
elements of Astoria influence, while at the
same time placing himself In a position to
command commendation from Portland.
That letter, indicative as it is of a
statesmanlike conception of the relations
towards the Columbia River that should
be born by Astoria and Portland, and ap
pealing, as It certainly will, to the people
of Eastern Oregon and the Willamette
Valley, Is no obstacle in the way of his
progress to the day when he can pre
fix to the title, "Senator," he now bears,
the letters, "U. S."
A VENAL PRESS.
An Affliction of Western Washing
ton. Spokane Spokesman-Review.
The self-seeking politicians who have
gained control of some of the leading
dally papers of Western Washington have
not gained the ownership. They are but
the cringing creatures of gigantic trusts
and big transportation systems having
selfish designs on the state's commerce
and Industry The real owners have
bought these papers In expectation that
through their influence, and the willing
manipulation" of the tricky politicians they
have also purchased, they will control
the State Legislature and elect United
States Senators and Representatives who
will do their bidding in the broader realm
of national legislation. But they will not
succeed, or. if they do succeed, their In
fluence will be short-lived. An indepen
dent press the people will have. A sheet
that becomes the mere attorney of de
signing Interests not only will lose its in
fluence with the people, but will exert a
contrary Influence. Men and measures by
it put forward will be marked for defeat.
The Weather Pessimist.
B. B. Klser, In Chicago Record-Herald.
Shivering or sweltering.
Cursed with cold or heat;
Never any place between
When the seasons meet;
Yesterday an overcoat.
Wilted cuffs today
Never any happy state
Jurt about midway.
Shivering or sweltering.
Fire In the grate.
Or the doors all open arJ
Fans to operate:
Fiost upon the windows or
Sighing for a breeze;
Never any medium
Suffocate or freeze.
Shivering or sweltering.
Always the extreme;
Hurry with the coqllng draught;
Or put on the steam:
Klther muffled up or else
Hunting for the shade.
Never comes a day that's Just
As we'd have It made.
Shivering or sweltering,
Crying out for ice.
Or to hava the furnace start
Up at any price';
Never any happy time
To sit down and say
That the weather's perfect, or
Near it, anyway.
NOTE AX 1) COMMENT.! f '
Oregon only regrets that she has but
one name to give to her country's bat--tle-shlps.
f
At this rate certain members of the Y
M. C. A. will blush every time they tell
the naked truth.
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy has certainly
heeded the Scriptural Injunction which,
says: Physician, heel thyself.
We note that all the babies whose first
names are William Jennings are now
more than seven months old.
The June bride is so numerous that It
begins to look as if she would have to
apply for an extension of time.
He loved the maid full ardently.
When one said he did not.
To prove It he a pistol drew
And slew hr on the spot.
After the Santa Fe Railroad has stock
ed its territory with Italians, the mar
chants thereabout will profit as the dagos
buy.
They go too far in the South. If burn
ing a barn is a capital offense, what can.
they do to a negro who burns a dis
tillery? The troops in South Africa are still so
busy that thfy will not even have a
chance to come home to colebrato the
Fourth of July.
The Boston Globe and the Atlanta Con
stitution still continue to be not only
witty themselves, but the cause of that
wit Is In each other.
HIi saving bank held 30 ct.
Which sum seemed to him so Immts.
That he said. "A big trust
I'll establish or bust."
And he hastily hurried him hts.
Aiid did It ever occur to anyone that
the doctors and the Coroner ought to
contribute liberally to the Fourth of July
celebration fund?
The chief of the Weather Bureau scoffs
at the Idea that cannonading can brins
rain, but what has" he to say about otravr
hats and Sunday school picnics?
It takes the golden sunhlnc
And silver rain together
To keep us always well supplied
With much change In the weather.
Judging from the deep and heavy sllenca
In which Hon. G. Cleveland Is steeped,
we may take It for granted that he has
found a hole where they are biting a lit
tle better.
Florence May Wright, of Salem, is the
latest Oregon poet to publish a volumo
of verse. "When Love Is New" is tho
title of a modest little pamphlet which
contains some 20 or 30 of her poems, and!
among them are many very pretty little
bits of verse, those which reflect Nature
being especially good. Miss Wright's
work has been seen In The Oregonlan,
and in other publications, and has at
tracted attention, and her many friends
will be glad that some of it Is now in
permanent form.
Shady little garden.
Pretty iittje tree.
Loads and loads of apples.
Green aa green can be.
Hungry little urchin.
Dressed in pinafore.
Picks and eats an apple.
Picks and cats some mor
Shades of' evening settle.
From the fading sky,
Urohln In his cradle.
Wipes a weeping eye,
Mother brings hot water,
, Soaldlnr glasr, toe .,
Father lies In bed and
Tells herSvhat to dd.
Doctor comks a driving.
Help belated brings.
Urchin on the midnight
Spreads bin angel wings.
Tree Keeps on a growing
'Way up toward the sky.
More kids will be wanting
Apples by and by.
The manuscript of various successful
books has been declined by publishers be
fore finally reaching a resting place; but
when one considers the natural fallibility
of judgment regarding any matter of pop
ular taste and liking It is really not ex
traordinary that new writers should quite
often make a success in one publisher's
hands even although others have hesi
tated to make the i.enture, soys the Lit
erary Era. A short time since a young
author, whose book has just been ac
cepted, was talking to his publisher, and
Mr. John Habberton, the genial author
of "Helen's Babies," happened to bo
present. The publisher finally turned to
the young, writer, saying: "Your book
has one great elemett of weakness, which,
however, I hope may not be fatal."
"What is that?'" replied the startled
youth, with almost a gasp of consterna
tion. "Well, it has. not been rejected by
enough publishers; i: takes at least four
or Ave rejections to nake a phenomenally
successful book." Tie puzzled luok of
dismay on the yourg man's face gavo
way to a smile as 5 critic turned to
the veteran author at his side and asked:
"Wasn't that the cas with 'Helen's Ba
bies'?" Mr. Habberton, with the courtly
bow which his friends know so well, and
which is only one of his many charms,
promptly responded: '".t was rejected 21
times."
PLEASANTRIES OF P1RAGRAPHERS
Warm Weather Arrangenynti. "Do you take
your cook away with you, in the Summer?"
"No, oh no; we can't aJfort to go to the kind
of place that would cattty her." Chleagu
ltecord-Hcrald.
Patience She says her face is her fortune.
Patrice Well, I'm thankfu. I'm not In nr
family. "Why?" "I wouldi't like to come In
for any part of a fortune life that." Yonkers
Statesman.
Housekeeper You needn't lask me for any
cold victuals, for I haven't my. Weary Wil
lie All right, ma'am a coule o" soft-boiled
eggs, a broiled steak and a cip of coffee '11 do.
Philadelphia Kecord.
"Mamma, I don't think the people who make
dolls are very pious people," aid a little girl
to her mother one day. "Whj not, my child?"
"Becauso you can never mak them kneel. I
have always to lay my doll dovn on her stom
ach to say her prayers." Glasgow Evening
Tim.
Papa (severely) JDld you atk mamma If you
could have that app'c? Flvi-year-old Yes,
papa. Papa Be careful now.' I'll ask mam
ma, and if she says you dldr't ask her I'll
whip you for .oiling a story Did you ask
mamma? Five-year-old rapa. I asked her.
(A paute.) She said I couldn have It. Tlt
Blts. What He had Overlooked. t have a most
uncomfortable feeling," said tht Ice man. "It
seem, to me as If I had overlooked something
today." "It Isn't possible thatyou have for
gotten to raise the price, Is t?" asked his
wife. "By George! that's Just hat It Is!" he
exclaimed. "I knew I had nedectcd one ot
my dally duties." Chicago Posv
Order Countermanded. Foremai (job office)
What aie you working at now? Hoy Runnln
oft some business cards of a younj woman who
wants to do mending for gents ind families.
Foreman Gee whizz! Didn't you'tet word not
to print 'em? The order is cointermanded.
Quick as tho boss saw that girl's ca-d he rushed
off and married her. New York Veekly.
Prsumptlve Kinship Katie, the romping 6-year-old,
came lancing and single? into the
parlor. Then, seeing a strange ta)lcr. she
stopped, abashed. "This Is my lltle daugh
ter, ' said her mother. "Katie, ths Is Mrs.
Baggs." "How do you do, Mrs. Bares?" said
Katie, anxious to remove any unfavorable Im
pression the visitor might have forned. "I
know a little girl at school named Sax, is ah
4 any relation of yours?" Chicago Trbunc
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