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IRRIGATION IX WASHINGTON AND
OREGON.
"Washington was ahead of Oregon in
her attempt to take advantage of the
Carey arid-land apt, but her experience
has not been satisfactory, according to
the account pf ex-Commissioner Hol
comb, printed yesterday. Soon after the
law passed Congress, in 1894, the State
of Washington formally accepted its
terms., and appointed a commissioner to
select the lands subject to irrigation
and available for reserving to the
state. Then It was ascertained that the
original act of Congress was in such
terms as to discourage rather than en
courage Investments of capital In Irri
gation enterprises. Thereupon the State
Legislature amended Its statute so as
to provide for co-operative methods in
the irrigation enterprises, and about
the same time Congress modified its act
in such manner as to encourage in
vestments by authorizing a lien upon
the land for money put Into irrigation
plants. This placed "Washington in an
awkward position, and increased the
S.favAr into which the whole subject
had fallen in that state. vThe next act
was to abolish the office of Arid Land
C mmissioner. As the matter .stands,
the state Is out $12,07i 81 in its effort
t- comply with the Carey law, and It
has 215,000 acres of Irrigable land with
drawn from the public domain but
wholly unavailable under present con
ditions for any useful purpose. The
state has no title to this land, and can
get title only upon completion of ade
quate facilities for watering it.
This unhappy experience is not, how
ever, chargeable against the Carey act.
"Washington might still get whatever
benefit Is to accrue from that law if she
would take the proper steps. Though
her situation may be such that the di
rect benefit might not be great, for
the reasons set forth by Mr. Holcomb,
it is apparent that she could lose noth
ing by untangling ,her own end of the
transaction and giving capitalists a
chance to invest their money. There
is, of course, no absolute assurance that
they would Invest, but the probabilities
are strong that cheapening interest
rates will drive capital into many ven
tures now regarded as unprofitable,
and that irrigation investments secured
by lien on the land benefited would not
long go untaken. Good farming land
in eligible location is becoming too val
uable to be overlooked or neglected,
and water will make fertile any soil in
"Washington.
Oregon has not spent a cent to avail
itself of the benefits of the Carey law,
and she accepted the law only last "Win
ter, but several extensive irrigation
enterprises are already on foot in this
state. Eastern Oregon is as badly cut
up with military wagon road grants as
Eastern "Washington is with the rail
road grant, and the Northern Pacific
Hallway Company is surely not less
enterprising than the proprietors of the
grants in Oregon. The owners of arid
or semi-arid lands cannot fail to recog
nize the advantage to accrue to them
from adequate irrigation, and they are
glad to offer inducements for Irrigation
plants to cover their lands. These in
ducements, while entirely a matter of
private arrangement, are said to be
aliout as advantageous as those offered
by the Government. At any rate, all
the Oregon reclamation projects include
water service for large tracts of land
that have long been segregated from
the public domain. If the Investors In
"these Irrigation works find it profitable
to make arrangements with private
owners, it is not improbable that sim
ilar negotiations would result in sim
ilar success in the State of "Washington.
But as the law now stands there, it is
the Government domain rather than
the private lands that operates to dis
courage irrigation enterprises requiring
considerable capital.
A start has been made in Oregon, and
there is every prospect that operations
in this state under the Carey act will
be successful. In Crook County two or
three irrigation plants are under con
struction, and surveys for another are
in progress in Malheur County. Others
are in process of organization. The pro
moters of these industries are satisfied
with the outlook. They are sure to
open to profitable agriculture large
tracts that are now but little used. It
is to be hoped that Oregon will not
suffer such disappointment as has come
to "Washington, and It is also to be
hoped that "Washington will recover
from her disgruntlement, take a fresh
hold and do something with the privi
leges open to" her through the Carey
act After all this shall be done, there
will still be opportunity for testing the
Interesting theory of regulating river
.discharges by means of storage reser
voirs about the sources to hold water
for irrigation purposes.
PRAYING FOR RAIN.
A noteworthy incident of the terrible
season of drouth which for several
weeks past has prevailed In several
states of the Trans-Mississippi "West are
the meetings held to pray for rain.
Throughout Missouri, ten days ago,
all denominations joined In such sup
plications, and such pressure was
brought to bear upon Governor Dock
ery that he Issued a proclamation set
ting apart a day of prayer. The doc
trine of the propriety of prayers for
rain has undergone considerable modi
fication, for there are orthodox clergy
men in Missouri who do not believe in
the objective efficacy of prayer as
touching the ordering of the universe
in obedience to local human pressure
to satisfy transient agricultural emer
gencies. Some of the Missouri clergymen have
not hesitated to discountenance the
movement "to put God to a physical
test," as they express it. In what re
spect is it any more sensible to resort
to prayer to bring on rain than it is to
rely on prayer to cure a sick child, as
our faith curists not seldom do, at the
cost of arrest and punishment by the
courts? Praying for rain seems a sin
gular performance, even for a strict be
liever in Biblical Christianity, in face
of the declaration of Jesus that the
Father "sendeth rain on the just and
the unjust," which is only saying that
the laws of nature are not diverted
from their operation to reward a saint
or bounce a sinner.
To pray for rain Is as absurd and ig
norant as it would be to pray that the
sun may not shine when' we feel too
hot. or that it may shine with fierce
heat when we feel too cold. To thank
God In our prayers for his benevolence,
to praise him with eloquent song, is one
thing, but to ask God to change the
operations of the laws of Nature to
suit our finite notions of what would
be best -for our local human Interests
seems about as absurd as 1t would be
for a short man to pray that a cubit
might be added to his stature, or for a
brunette to pray that she might be
come a blonde in a single night.
George Eliot, in "Middlemarch," de
scribes a man who vowed to lead an
upright life in future if the Lord
would only prosper him in the crime
in which he was then engaged; and a
pious fraud, wlieti arrested for utter
ing forged checks, was greatly puzzled
over his detection, and cotfld not rec
oncile it with his belief lri an over
ruling Providence. "I've been praying
for success in passing these checks,"
he mournfully observed, "and now I'm
arrested."
There was no lack of public prayer
meetings for the recovery of President
Garfield, and while the mood which dic
tated the offering of these prayers
may have exercised a subjective effect
upon the Individual petitioner, the be
lief that such prayers would restore
the mortally wounded President to
health was as utterly superstitious as
to believe that the prayers of a worthy
Christian that his miserable poverty
might be abated would be answered.
Prayers for rain will not avert or
abate a destructive drouth. The most
sensible way to avoid and escape ruin
ous drouth is not to settle in a region
whose history proves thatj drouth, is of
frequent occurrence. Thebest way to
escape a drouth is to avoid 'Western
Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Da
kota and settle in "Western Oregon or
"Western "Washington. In that event
there will be no season of prolonged
drouth and no necessity for "putting
God to a physical test" by praying for
rain.
FOUXD WAXTING BY LIXCOLX.
The Oregonian In a recent review of
Pennypacker's book on "General
Meade," which is an attempt to exalt
the victor of Gettysburg above, all the
great Generals of the Union Army, ex
pressed the opinion that while Meade
was nominally the victor of Gettysburg
Hancock was more than any one man
the hero of Gettysburg. Hancock, after
personal examination of the ground, re
ported to Meade in favor of delivering
battle at Gettysburg; Hancock select
ed the line on which the battle was
fought; Hancock posted the troops as
fast as they arrived; Hancock's, ener
getic protest against retreat the night
of the second day carried the day in
Meade's council of war, when Meade's
own view was to withdraw; Hancock
was really the omnipresent field mar
shal of the fight; Hancock, when he
was wounded, begged Meade in a note
to follow up his advantage before the
enemy recovered from, the shock of
their severe repulse. That the battle
was a battle of very poor generalship
on both sides Is conceded by Impartial
military critics, like the Count de
Paris, but so far as Gettysburg had a
conspicuous hero among its Union
commanders, whose personal abilities
saved the day, General Hancock rather
than General Meade was the hero of
Gettysburg, and this was always the
judgment of General Slocum, who com
manded our right on Culp's Hill.
Charles Leonard Moore has this exag
gerated praise of Pennypacker's book:
In his first paragraph he thus sums up, as
a logical deduction from bis whole story, the
service of Meade: "In the history of tho
wars of the United States it does not appear
that the Nation ever profited by the services
of any other Army Commander who -combined
thorough training with personal energy
and skill on the battlefield as did General
Meade." That is a great verdict, and unless
the whole structure of Mr. Pennypacker's book
con be overthrown It is a true one.
Very well; the whole structure of the
book can be very easily thrown down;
not because Mr. Pennypacker is not a
man of ability and a sincere man, but
because he has undertaken an impos
sible feat; he has undertaken not only
to write General Meade's name at the
top by writing down, through open de
nunciation or Injurious insinuation,
Grant and Sheridan, but by ignoring
the fact that Abraham Lincoln's official
correspondence with General Meade
from September 1 to December 1, 1863,
Is a continuous but vain effort to make
General Meade strike Lee's army while
the roads were good, before "Winter set
in. General Meade commanded the
Army of the Potomac from the last
week of June, 1863, to March, 1864.
From July 4 to December 1. 1863, was
good "military" weather. In these five
months after Gettysburg Meade never
attacked Lee once, although Lee offered
battle July 4, the morning after his se
vere repulse; he offered battle a whole
week at "Williamsport with a swollen
river behind him. but neither at that
nor at any subsequent time did Meade
ever attack Lee. Meade was a skillful
soldier; he showed great ability in
dodging the blows that Lee twice de
livered at his head, but a capacity for
defensive soldiership and the conduct
of a retreat, while among the neces
sary attributes of a sound soldier, do
not give a man reputation as a General (
of first rank; the capacity to take the
offensive against the enemy and main
tain it in a campaign is the test of
superior generalship. General Meade's
defect was not Intellectual; as a sub
ordinate he showed all the great quali
ties of a fine soldier. If he had gone
at Lee, as Lincoln In vain urged him
to do, with the same splendid en
ergy, dash and resolution that he
showed when he led his division at
South Mountain, Antletam, and espe
cially at Fredericksburg, he would
have been ill the first rank of the great
commanders of the Civil War. But
the moment Meade became commander
of the Army of the Potomac he ceased
to exhibit the best traits of Meade the
Brigadier and Dlvlson Commander. He
lost his enterprise, his daring, his reso
lute, aggressive battle tactics.
Lincoln wrote General Hooker, June
10, 1S63: "I think Lee's Army, not
Richmond, your objective; follow him
on his flank,' and on the inside track,
shortening your lines as he lengthens
his. If he stops, fret him' and fret
him." General Meade was a far abler
soldier and stronger man than General
Hooker, and yet Lincoln was obliged to
send him a letter of strong reproof for
his failure to attack Lee at Williams
port; another strong letter of reproof
for his failure to attack Lee when his
army had been reduced at least 15,000
men by the detachment of Longstreet's
corps to reinforce Bragg In Georgia,
and what was Meade's reply? His re
ply was that, even if he had attacked
and beaten Lee on that line, it would
not have brought him any nearer the
capture of Richmond. Then Lincoln
had to repeat to Meade what he had
written to Hooker, that "Lee's army,
not Richmond, was the true objective
point"; that until Lee's splendid army
was worn down and worn out by the
constant attrition of battle, Richmond
was of small consequence. And Lincoln
was right, and not until he found a
man willing to adopt and enforce his
theory that Confederate armies, not
Richmond, were the true points of at
tack, was any serious impression made
upon the enemy. Lincoln did not ex
pect that Meade would always achieve
a decided .victory, but he knew that
only by fretting and fretting the en
emy, only by attrition could our su
perior resources hope to wear him out.
And Lincoln's common sense was sound
mlltlary economy, too, for Grant lost
fewer men In his successful effort to
wear out Lee's army by the attrition
of Incessant battle than his predeces
sors lost in making the same attempt
and failing. The official table shows
what Richmond cost us from August 20,
1861, when McClellan took command, to
Lee's surrender, and It proves that
Grant in eleven months obtained vic
tory with less loss than his predeces
sors suffered In three years of failure.
Meade was an accomplished soldier,
able, but without moral courage enough
to take the offensive in supreme com
mand. He lacked the temperamental
moral courage and common sense of
Lincoln and Grant, indispensable to a
commander of first rank.
A STROXG MAX THE BEST PLAT
FORM. The Democratic party shows signs of
having been restored to a certain de
gree of sanity by calamity, for the ac
tion of the Ohio Democracy In refusing
to Indorse the Chicago and Kansas City
platforms and its rejection of a resolu
tion of confidence In the leadership "of
that matchless commoner, "William J.
Bryan," obtains considerable approval
from the Democracy in the majority of
the states. The Ohio Democracy was
wise in setting aside silver and empha
sizing instead the issue of private own
ership of monopoly franchises. They
would have been wise, too, had they
gone further and treated anti-imperialism
as a dead issue, for it is just as.
dead as free silver. Nevertheless, the
Ohio Democracy made a fair beginning,
and by the time the National Democ
racy meets to organize for the cam
paign of 1904 anti-Imperialism will not
only be dead, but will have been burled
beyond resurrection by events. The
prospect, therefore, Is that in 1904 the
National Democracy will be no longer
handicapped by either free silver or
anti-imperialism. If it puts the tariff
forward, Bryanlsm, with its socialistic
tendencies, in the background, the
Democracy will have a large popular
strength at the "West, which is dis
gusted with the tariff. The Democratic
opportunity will be excellent under
these circumstances in 1904, but its
greatest need will be the capacity to
see that the strongest platform it can
make will be the nomination of a
strong man. It will not be sufficient
to drop free silver, to turn down Bryan.
It will be necessary to nominate a man
who has never been a thick and thin
advocate of free silver and free riot in
order to command the confidence and
the votes of the country. This will be
necessary, because the Democracy can
not hope to make up for the Populist
votes they will surely lose by their re
pudiation of Bryan without winning
thousands of votes that were cast for
McKinley in 1896 and 1900, because the
Democrats were the champions of free
silver, Bryanlsm and antl-lmperiallsm.
It will not be enough for the next Na
tional Democratic Convention to drop
or dodge silver, to oppose the Adminis
tration's "colonial policy," to dodge
and straddle on everything, and sim
ply seek to sneak into power. The De
mocracy, in order to win, will have to
plant a strong man on the platform,
whose name and record Is such as to
command the confidence and votes of
the conservative forces of the country.
Bryan is essentially a Populist, a party
whose aim and purpose from the be
ginning has been the debasement of the
currency by fresh issues of greenbacks.
Bryan spoke for this financial delusion
while in Congress, and It was this sort
of thing that really gave him the Popu
list nomination in 1896- It was this
Populism of Bryan which made Bry
an's election so odious to men like
President Eliot, Charles Francis Adams,
ex-Secretary Carlisle and other Cleve
landltes, who had no love for McKIn
leylsm. To obtain the support of the
"independents" of Republican and
Democratic antecedents It -will be nec
essary not only to drop Bryan and free
silver, but to drop Bryanlsm to the
extent at least of nominating a candi
date who ,was never a Bryanite that
is, never a Populist who believed in dis
honest money or "free riot" Bryan Is
sure to leave the Democratic party In
1904 if it shall refuse to Indorse the sil
ver plank of the Kansas City platform.
The Populists will nominate him on a
third ticket; they will easily poll 1,000,
000 votes for him upon the Populist
platforms of 1896 and 1900, and will
surely defeat the National Democracy,
unless that party is wise enough to
nominate a man in 1904 whose name
land record are a platform in them-
selves, as that of Cleveland was in
1892.
The conservative forces of the coi
try in 1892 knew that the Democratic
party was even then poisoned with Pop
ulism arid( free silver. The nomination
of Stevenson, a life-long greenbacker,
proved it, but the sound-money forces
felt sure of Cleveland that he would
never play into the hands of either
the Populism of free silver or the Popu
lism of free riot, and the event proved
that he was worthy of trust. The De
mocracy of 1904 cannot possibly win
against the inevitable defection of
1,000,000 Populists without bidding for
the support of the conservative forces
of the country by making a conspicu
ously strong, sound man the candidate.
Platforms can be turned down or per
verted again as they have been before,
but "the still, strong man" cannot be
turned down nor transfigured from his
natural shape. Bryan Is shrewd enough
not prematurely to revolt today, but
revolt he surely will if the National
Democracy repudiates his platform of
1896 and 1900 in 1904, for he and his
followers are determined to destroy the
Democratic party if they cannot dic
tate its policy, and they will be strong
enough to do it if the National De
mocracy "does ndt rise to its opportunity
by nominating a man whose name and
record are a pledge against Populism
in finance or civic government. Tariff
reform and resistance to privilege and
the abuses and encroachments which
it inspires and fosters will be a very
stroner nlatform for the Democracy In
1904, but It could not win with a thick
and thin Bryanite as a candidate. The
conservative forces of the country wW
sometimes swallow a questionable
platform for the sake of a strong man
like Cleveland upon it, but they will
not accept even a respectable platform
with a hide-bound Populist in finance
and civic government as party color-bearer.
There is no portion of the annual re
port of the Chief Engineer of the United
States Army stationed at Portland In
connection with river and harbor im
provement that is of greater interest to
a large number of our people than that
which treats of the work done during
the year covered by the report upon
the "Willamette River, together with es
timates of the future requirements of
the work. Though river traffic through
the vast agricultural region drained
by the "Willamette above the falls has
been supplemented by railroad traffic,
it has never been superseded, so far as
the shipment of a large bulk of wheat,
hay, hops and some other agricultural
products are concerned. This is equally
true of the Yamhill River and the
traffic of the region that it drains, and
is especially true of the "Willamette
above the mouth of the Yamhill. The
Interest maintained n these rivers as
highways of traffic is due partly to
memories of pioneer times, when the
whistles of steamboats regularly woke
the echoes along their banks and called
the settlers out; but it is due chiefly to
the fact that a navigable stream inter
poses between exorbitant freight rates
and the farmer a people's highway,
which no monopoly can control. It is,
moreover, a source of great satisfac
tion to the farmer and village folk of
the interior to note the consideration
that they have been able to secure
through the magic of political Influence
behind which stands the agricultural
vote, which t,he appropriations made
for the improvement of the rivers from
time to time represent.
The difficulties that follow an ambi
tious attempt to crystallize a matter of
personal opinion into history and the
dangers of attempting to foist it upon
the public In this guise now confront
Mr. E. S. Maclay, author of a "History
of the United States Navy." It Is not
in the province of the historian to de
nounce the actions of men, but to re
cord them; and it is always safer and
more dignified to call the men who fig
ure In the history of recent events by
their accredited names and titles, es
chewing all reference to them as "cow
ards, traitors," etc. Such embellish
ment to a plain, unvarnished tale may
be assailed as libelous rather than ac
cepted as historical, and Indeed they
are very likely to be so assessed if the
man whose title Is thus extended is of
plucky, fighting stuff. Such a man is
Admiral Schley, and it is more than
likely that Historian Maclay will be
brought to book for allegations in his
work bearing the above title that as
perse the honor of the grizzled Admiral.
The "Leaguers" now In this city com
pose a large and Intelligent army of
peaceful Invasion which our people are
glad to have quartered here, even
briefly. Being observing people, they
cannot fall to note the contrast between
what July offers to Oregon in the way
of Summer weather and that which Is
meted out as the portion of the Middle
"West. The advantages of Portland as
a Summer resort cannot fall to present
themselves to these tourists. "We trust
that they will tarry long enough to
become thoroughly Invigorated by our
balmy air, refreshed by our pure moun
tain water, and charmed by the natural
beauty of our surroundings, and carry
hence to their homes in the heated sec
tions delightful impressions of the re
gion "where rolls the Oregon."
The poor fellow who "could not suc
ceed In this world" after prolonged ef
fort covering a period of twenty-two
tedious and toilsome years may be ex
cused for taking passage by the car
bolic acid route for a new country. It
is not in the public, captious as it is, to
dispute the truth of the self-estimate
that makes such an individual as this
declare that "he had better be dead
than alive." He had, apparently at
least, very good reason for thinking so.
Those having In charge the Schley In
quiry are wise in postponing all con
sideration of the matters at issue until
the hot weather Is over. The heat en
gendered by the controversy will be
sufficient to warm the atmosphere in
which the court of inquiry sits, even if
the sitting and sifting is postponed
until December.
Elsewhere we print Mr. Maclay's
strictures on Admiral Schley. It is not
history, and Is beneath the dignity of
magazine writing or the highest news
paper standards. His publishers must
have been dreaming when they permit
ted its publication in this discreditable
form.
Aguinaldo's letter to young Venville's
mother Is couched In very defective
English. This will disqualify him for
further sympathy in Boston, if It is not
all departed already.
Prohibitionists will find campaign
material in a letter from Charles Wll
kins, Indian agent on the Umatilla res
ervation, publishes elsewhere.
POINTS ON BIBLE STUDY.
Letter in New York Times.
The announcement is made that the
work of revising the Bible has been com
pleted, and reference is made to a report
of 300 pages issued by the eminent and
reverend revisers explaining their work.
The revisers say:
With regard to only three passages In the
New Testament has the commission felt called
upon to make any critical note. In these in
stances the commission has simply stated the
fact, now universally recognized, that the
passages in question arc not found In some
of the earliest manuscripts. These three pass
ages are (1) tho verso explaining the healing
virtues of the pool of Bethesda. (St. Jon:.,
v.. 4.) (2) the Ethiopian eunuch's profession
of faith before his baptism, (Acts, vlll, 37.;
and (3) tho doxology at the end of the. Lord's
Prayer, (St. Matthew, vi, 13.) The work done
by tho commission, it may be said, has had
the approval of all its members, so long as
they were able to serve upon It, and the re
port and recommendations now offered are
signed on behalf of all the present members
of the commission.
It is to be feared that greater frankness
may be required to satisfy critical read
ers of the excellent work done by these
reverend gentlemen, as would appear from
something they have overlooked in their
revision of the New Testament.
The first critical edition of the New Tes
tament was written by Johann Jacob
Grlesbach. His method was to compare
all the ancient manuscripts, and. If possi
ble, harmonize them. Like many others,
his researches had a different outcome
than the inquirer imagined or desired.
Taking the oldest' copy of the Scriptures
extant, he became at first startled at the
additions he found in the later manu
scripts, and then enraged at their fre
quency and impudence.
Thus he found in the First Epistle of
John (Chapter 5, verse 7) a defense of the
doctrine of the Trinity, the date of which
shows that its appearance In the sacred
text just fit in as an authoritative argu
ment against the Arians, who bitterly op
posed this new doctrine, which they de
nounced as "dividing the substance" and
"a monstrous heresy." This defense of
the Trinity is in these words: "For there
are three that bear record in heaven, the
Father, tho Word, and the Holy Ghost,
and these three are one." This entire
Verse Grlesbach demonstrated to be not
oniy an interpolation dui a luryeiy twou.
Griesbach's triumphant exposute of this
forgery was printed in 1771; yet every issue
of the (unrevlsed) New Testament since
then has been printed with the forgery,
thus indorsing instead of discrediting it.
"When the revised New Testament was
published, this verse 7 In John, i., again
caused wonder quite equal to that caused
by the persistent retention of a demon
strated forgery in a book for which "ln
errency" is not merely claimed, but in
sisted on.
In general, the revised New Testament
calls the reader's attention to Interpola
tions in a footnote, "not in the oldest
manuscript." For example: All of the
last chapter of the Gospel of St. Mark
from the end of verse 8, the learned revis
ers frankly confess. Is an interpolation in
the latter manuscripts and does not form
a part of the original Gospel, thus sweep
ing away all said about Christ's history
after His resurrection, and also the com
mand, "Go ye into all the world and
preach the Gospel," etc., together with
the damnatory clauses hurled against all
who refuse to believe in the new relig
ion. And another case may be cited. Re
nan, in his "Life of Jesus," eontendlng
that Jesus was not divine, points out a
prevarication a God could not be guilty
of. The unbelieving brothers of Jesus,
being about to go up to Jerusalem to at
tend the feast of the Tabernacles, taunted
Him to go also and publicly exhibit His
pretended powers and miracles among the
learned men of Judea. His answer was,
according to the unrevlsed edition, (Gos
pel of St. John," vll., 8.) "I go not yet unto
this feast." The revisers say in a loot
note: "Many ancient authorities omit
the word 'yet,' " justlfyingKenan by snow
ing that the word "yet" was an interpo
lation Inserted to relieve Jesus of the
charge urged long ago against His di
vinity and repeated now by Renan, for
the Gospel Informs us that soon after the
departure of His brothers Jesus went up
to the feast at Jerusalem.
Returning now to the forgery exposed by
Grlesbach, we find it omitted in the re
vised edition, but not acknowledged to be
a forgery, either In the text or in a foot
note. And this evasion Is more remarka
ble for showing something very like a
trick, for verse 6, In chapter 5 of the First
Epistle of John, has been cut into two
verses, and a portion of this verse 6 is
falsely placed (In the margin of the re
vision) as verse 7! The outcome of this
bit of cowardice and trickery is that the
forgery denounced by Grlesbach a century
ago has been perpetuated until 1831 in an
"Inspired" volume claimed to be without
error; has In the revision issued in 18S1
been abandoned and rejected, but the ter
giversation of cutting verse 6 into two
verses in the revised edition as this chap
ter contained in the older book, has been
resorted to rather than to openly and
manfully confess an error no longer tena
ble. And no footnote warns the reader
of this trickery and disgraceful subterfuge
to escape an open confession of tho
forgery.
The learned revisers of the New Testa
ment say In their preface: "Many places
still remain in which for the present it
would not be safe to accept one reading
to the -absolute exclusion of others. In
these cases we have given alternative read
ings in the margin wherever they seem
to be of sufficient importance or interest
to deserve notice. In the introductory
formula the phrases 'many ancient au
thorities,' 'some ancient authorities,'
are used with some latitude to
denote a greater or lesser proportion of
those authorities which have a distinctive
right to be called ancient- The ancient
authorities comprise not only Greek manu
scripts, some of which were written in
the fourth and fifth centuries," but ver
sions of a still earlier date In different
languages, and also quotations from
Christian writers of the second and follow
ing centuries."
This declaration emphasizes the absence
of any foot note calling attention to the
expurgation of the verse forged by the
Trinitarians, exposed by Grlesbach, and
abandoned by the revisers; as well as the
new forgery of cutting verse 6 Into two
verses and then calling one-half of verse
6 verse 7. That this violation of the funda
mental rule, adhered to In all other parts
of tho revision, can have any other pur
pose than to deceive the pious reader re
garding Griesbach's discovery of the forg
ery It seems impossible to Imagine. In
other words, the learned revisers admit
the forgery exposed by Grlesbach, ex
punge it, and add another forgery to hide
both the expunging and the persistent ad
mission of the former one for more than
a century after its exposure.
The men discovered in this questionable
blislness conclude their preface to the
revised New Testament as follows: "We
recognized from the first the responsibil
ity; and through our manifold experience
of its abounding difficulties we have felt,
more and more as we went onward, that
such a work can never be accomplished
by organized efforts of scholarship and
criticism unless assisted by Divine help!"
Seal Harbor, Me., July 18, 1901.
S. F,
B.
The Snbsldy Xot Needed.
Wheeling Register.
Whatever may be the desires of the
shipping and shipbuilding syndicate back
ing the ship subsidy scheme, the needs
of American shipbuilding In that connec
tion are not apparent. This Industry is
Increasing so rapidly even under our pres
ent antiquated shipping laws that the
force of the ship subsidy argument is
much diminished.
What the Tariff Does.
Pittsburg Post.
The gigantic steel trust has a tariff sub
sidy of 40 per cent on its products. This
enables It to sell American-made goods
abroad cheaper than at home. The extor
tion is openly defended and boasted of as
protection to American labor, but in real
ity it taxes American labor to create divi
dends on watered stock.
AMUSEMENTS.
In "D'Arcy of the Guards." the charm
ing comedy of the time nt the Revolution
which Henry Miller and his company pre
sented at the Marquam last nlsht. Mr.
Miller has a better opportunity than has
been hitherto afforded him In Portland.
He Is thoroughly at home In the character
of the lovable Irish soldier, whose devo
tion to the cause of King George does
not prevent him from falling head over
ears in lovo with a pretty little Phila
delphia rebel, and In every scene his com
edy is delightful. The remainder of the
company Is well cast, Miss Rockwell hav
ing the part of the American girl, whom
she makes a dainty and winsome rebel
Indeed. Fred Thome is an excellent doc
tor, ond Arthur Elliot a stern Quaker and
a fine figure of a British Colonel.
"D'Arcy of the Guards" will run the
rest of the week, with a matinee Saturday.
Bernhardt Off the Snare.
At the luncheon given in honor of Mme.
Sarah Bernhardt by the New Vagabond
Club, of London, the actress followed her
almost invariable costume. In a very large
festive assembly, of wearing black. She
was dressed in black voile, quite plainly
made, with a black silk jacket trimmed
with valuable old lace, and wore her
splendid rubles and diamonds, besides the
famous L'Alglon pearls.
"While in London the "divine Sarah" had
her hand read. Here are some of the
predictions of the palmist:
"You will live to a remarkable old age.
"I should say that you will live to be
90 years old.
"You have a most marvelous vitality.
'You are fond of hard work and are de
voted to your profession.
"In whatever environment and circum
stances you may be placed, you will surely
die in the harness."
There doesn't seem to be anything par
ticularly startling in the above prognostic
cations to one who knows anything about
Mme. Bernhardt, but there is certainly a
touch of originality in this prediction:
"You will probably live for a long time
in America, and probably upon a ranch in
that country. I should say that this phase
of existence will possibly come about
nine years hence."
"And shall I die away from my home In
France?" anxiously queried the artist.
"Your line of destiny points the con
clusion that you will die in America."
Note of the Stage.
George Ade, the popular writer, is writ
ing a comic opera book.
Charles Hoyt's last successful play, A
Day and a Night," Is to go on the road.
Rose Brahman will play Tabitha Drink
er In Mary Mannerlng's "Janice Mere
dith" company.
Sarah Truax is spending her vacation In
Spring Lake, N. J., with her husband,
Guy Bates Post.
Mrs. Henry Miner, formerly well known
on the stage as Anne O'Neill, denies the
report that she Is to act again.
Otis Skinner is to make an elaborate
production of "Francesca da Rimini" in
Chicago, in the latter part of next month.
Jane Kennark and Charles Lothian have
been re-engaged for the "Woodward stock
company, In Kansas City, for next season.
Virginia Earle has resumed her place
In "The Girl From Up There," In Lon
don, having recovered from her recent Ill
ness. Mrs. McKee Rankin has been engaged
by Louis Nethersole for a character part
In Sadie Martlnot's Fitch play, "The
Marriage Game."
H. S. Northrup, of Henry 'Miller's com
pany, who has been supporting E. H.
Sothern for tho past two seasons, will
visit the Coast this Winter with Mary
Mannerlng, playing the vlllian In "Janice
Meredith."
Uncle Sam na a Business Mnn.
National Review.
The United States Is jumping with enor
mous strides into the world's affairs and
has become itcognlzed as a factor which
must be reckoned with In all matters con
cerning the nations. Brother Jonathan has
become tho business man of the world,
and his European cousins no longer laugh
nt his dollars, but realize that his dollars
and what they represent are coming to
rule the world. The rapidity with which
this cou'ntry has been taking the markets
of the world Is one of the surprises, of the
day, and J. Plerpont Morgan has greater
power In his hand than any monarch. Not
only In commerce is the United States
coming to be a recognized force, but inter
national problems can no longer be settled
by Ignoring the opinions of this country,
and the time has now come when the voic
of the United States In influencing a de
cision which rules the world politics Is re
garded as second to none. No one Is more
surprised at this than we ourselves. The
Republic which for years has been com
placently ignored as a child on the Eu
ropean Continent has suddenly become a
grown giant, and is respected and feared.
Brother Jonathan, who has been looked
down upon as interested only In the al
mighty dollar, has come to be feared as
the force that is to dominate the history
of the 20th century.
A Ilemedy for Sectionalism.
M'MINNVILLE, Or., July 25. (To the
Editor) I have read The Oregonian for
10 years and I have got some grand
thoughts from the editorial page; but I
will now acknowledge that the first edi
torial of the 24th inst. (yesterday) "Futile
Sympathy," for depth of thought and
real sound logls caps the climax. If that
editorial will be used as a basis for deal
ing with the negro question by Republi
can papers throughout this country, we
will have no more sectional strife politic
ally. There will be no solid South or
solid North, but a united people, eager
to cater to that which is best in politics
and the welfare of all the people. Accept
my most loyal commendation and
cemented devotion for The Oregonian.
N. E. KEGG.
The Horse Doesn't Know It.
New York Times.
It Is gravely stated In the columns of
one of our esteemed contemporaries that a
Booton banker has cured his horse of in
fluenza by means of Christian Science.
There is no doubt that the Boston banker
knows that his horse is cured, and that
all other Christian Scientists know It.
But nevertheless this seems to be the
right time to recall Mr. David Warfield's
touching story of the dog which would not
bite and whore owner assured him that
he knew this. "Yes," said Mr. War
field, "you know It and I know it, but
the dog he doesn't know it."
How to Oust a Corrupt Gang.
Washington Post.
It ought to be easy for honest, self
respecting Democrats and Republicans to
combine In the Independent movement
for reform in Philadelphia. In the elec
tions of a municipality the most loyal
party men should understand that party
has no claim upon them. When a corrupt
gang Is despoiling a municipal corporation
It Is the duty of good citizens, regardless
of party, to unite In putting the looters
out. This condition exists in New York
and Philadelphia, and in each case the
controlling party subsidizes the opposition
by a. partition of spoils.
Reciprocity Merely a Makeshift.
Kansas City -rimes.
So long as the political complexion of
the Senate remains as it is now it will
be a perfectly safe proposition for the
high protectionists to have reciprocity
dangled before the eyes of the people.
Commissioner Kasson was so disgusted
with the transparent fraud in the re
ciprocity game that he threw up his job
In disgust. Reciprocity has proven to be
a barren makeshift and this is why Con
gressman Babcock and a number of Re
publican leaders and newspapers are
pushing tariff reform to the front.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
The steel workers decline to be har
monized. We all have our troubles, but the water
melon Is considerable of a consolation.
The tamale is at present out of favor as
an article of diet in the cities of the
East.
At all events. Gunner Morgan escaped
being taught that Admiral Schley was a
caitiff.
It appears from the personnel of the
Schley court of inquiry that there is an
Admiral In the Navy named Dewey.
After all, the case of Admiral Schley J
not so bad as It might' be. No one has
made him the hero of a historical novel.
Even the builders of the Constitution do
not believe that she will meet the re
quirements of a hundred and more years
from now.
Sir Thomas Llpton has been telling a
joke on King Edward. Lese majeste seems
to be a safer pastime in England than
in Germany.
People who are dissatisfied with this
kind of weather should provide thomselves
with round-trip tickets when they jour
ney to paradise.
The man who comes home from a fishing
trip and says he caught no fish makes
Washington's utterance at th cherry tree
look like a news dispatch from Albany
N. Y.
There is some cause for congratulation
In the statement that mosqultos carry
yellow fever germs, for the fever must
get In Its work on a certain number of tha
mosqultos.
Reports from Kentucky Indicate that
there will be no failure of the whisky
crop, and the railroads are going right on
with arrangements for excursion trains
for fishermen.
Mr. Dooley's observation that the most
attractive Summer resort is tho one thai
is handiest to watermelons, t Ice carts,
soda fountains and roof gardens is art
allopathic dose of philosophy.
A Chicago man has rigged up a travel
ing van propelled by a 40-horse powep
gasoline motor, which is intended for a,
homo for its owner and hl3 wifa during
their wanderings about tho country. An
old street-car has been rebuilt for tha
body of tho house, to which are added an
observation and operating platform at tho
front end, surrounded by large windows,
and a porch In the rear. Tho machinery
is mounted on a heavy steel frame, tho
whole weighing about four tons.
An advertisement recently appeared In
tho London Times, offering for sale "the
best authenticated residence of George
Washington, near Banbury, England,
containing seven bedrooms, three reception-rooms,
kitchen, offices, with stabling
and outbuildings, and 210 acres of land,
which produced 153 worth of produce
last year." As George Washington was
never In England, this probably refers to
one of tho houses formerly occupied by
his ancestors in the town of Sulgrave,
near Banbury.
A new poet, a woman. has arisen in
Kansas, who has consecrated her muse
to the better observanco of the Sabbath.
This Is one of her flights:
Oh. friends, do not make a mistake.
Do not jour Sabbath breaks
We do not want to see an earthquake.
If In those lines -the truth you find,
I think you had better change jour mind;
Then work six days and rest, my friend,
And Gcd the rain will surely send.
Composed this first day of July.
When everything is so hot and dry;
I fear the crops will take wings and fly away,
Then let us do good on the Sabbath day.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGUAPHEUS
The Don And what part did you take in
this disgraceful proceeding of holding Mr.
Waters under the pump? Undergrad (modesuy)
His left leg, sir. Tlt-Blta.
Marrlago a Failure. 'Poor Matlo. her mar
rage was a disappointment." "Was it?"
"Oh. ye3; she didn't get half tho nice pres
ents she counted on." Boston Traveler.
Frequent Happenings. "Tho Pan-American,
Exposition is ready," remarked the Observ
ant Boarder. "What, again?" asked the Cross
Eyed Boarder. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
After tho Dinner. Dumlelgh It was an
awful trial for me to mako that speech to
night. Mlldmay Don't mention it, old boyi
Just think what tho rest, of us suffered.-"
Boston Transcript.
Kat at All Common. "I should think tha
I Spink girls would feel their disgrace. Their
Nu.. v..... Kaon nrnvAil n. rnmmon thief."
"Nothing of tho sort. Why, he appropriated
nearly a quarter of a million!" Philadel
phia Bulletin.
Rather Busy. Breaker That young man
j-otn introduced mo to must bo a millionaire
the way he spends money. Surfton Not at
all: but you seo he has to get rid of hi
year's salary at ?8 a week in Ave days' vaca
tion. Ohio State Journal.
A Youthful Casuist. "Harold, what are yott
and Reginald quarreling about7" called tha
Fond Papa. "Why Reginald swallowed tho
pennies out of bis bank," answered Harold,!
"and now ho saj-s he has more cents than II
have." Baltimore American.
Borrowers. "It strikes me,' sho remarked,,
"that those new neighbors of ours are verj
much given to borrowing trouble." "Well,"
answered her husband, "I don't see why not.
They seem to havo been borrowing everything
else." Washington Star.
In tho Tlmo to Come. "Unless there Is a
change," said the cook, "I will have to leave
j'ou." , "Change!" oxclalmed the mistress.
"What do j'ou mean?'' "Our union," said
tho cook, "has declared a boycott on Mrs;
Smith In tho next block." "But how does
that affect me?" "She Is on your calling list,
and a sympathetic strike has been declared
against all who associate with her." Chi
cago Post.
No Room for Anj- Ono Else. Upson I think
I will make a trip to the Pan-American Ex
position about August. Downton Oh. don't
go in that month: Buffalo will bo crowded.
Jammed. There won't bo room enough to
turn around. "My stars! Why?" "That's ths
month appointed for tho grand reunion of tho
'Ancient and Honorable Order of Actresses
Who Wero Asked to Poso for the Goddess of
Liberty Statue Made Out of Montana Sil
ver.' "New York Weekly.
The Home LlsJit'
Chicago Times-Herald.
I see the dear home light ahead.
There where it used to glow
Before Ambition came and led
Me from It, long ago.
I see the light, the glorious light.
Upon the distant hill!
Thank heaven for tho welcome sight.
Thank heaven they are there tonight.
To keep it burning still.
I faintly see the fields that He
Upon the distant slopes.
And oh, my heart Is beating high
With freshly kindled hopes!
I seo the light which tells me they
Are waiting for me still
Tho boj they lost Is turning gray.
But here he flings his cares away
The light burns on the hill!
The light of homo! Oh, shall I faro
Up. up, alone, some night.
Upon a star-lit way and thero
Behold another light?
On that last night, oh, shall there b
A light upon tho hill
Oh, shall there come a thrill to me.
As, faring up the slope I see
The home light burning still?
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