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C Kind, 204 Twen-iy-flfth street wkS fl!et SuffaI. K. T in the Oregon ex JilWt at tfao exposition. Pfer sale In Washington. Tj. a. by the Eb ett House news stand. "R-fI le,i- roaver. Colo., by Hamilton & Xeodrfck. 09-oi2 Seventh street. THE MORNING OBEGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST .21; 1901. from the Taxpayers' League, and much has been done by the Circuit Judges particularly by Judge Cleland. These reforms, all of which are reasonable, "were long overdue. JS2f"a2Arfi "R-EATHER-Maximum tem perature. (K; minimum. 52; fair. rT(S5ATHER-:Pr0-,aW" ialr- -?r. northwesterly winds. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 21. . LAW FOR THE TRUSTS. ' ?, ffs uratioa and magnitude, the teel strike has -already made inevitable i?trocIuctln of regulative measures J in Congress, and made probable the t autment of some of ihem to law JT there were no widespread sympathy with the strikers, there is political strength enough in the ranks of organ ized lafeer to insure lively motions in their ostensible behalf from every pro fessional champion of "the toiling masses." We shall have proposals for constitutional amendment fnr- nr,i ory arbitration, for National labor commissions and for prohibition and punishment of monopoly. It is hard to see which of these plans is best, and quite unprofitable to spec ulate as to which will obtain the favor of our disinterested and inscrutable Congress. The worst plan is reason ably certain .not to be the least likely of adoption. To begin with, few schemes are more attractive than com pulsory arbitration. For this there are many reasons, chief of them being that compulsory arbitration is a contradic tion in terms and a thing impossible. Its qualifications are therefore indis putable for approval by those minds that lo. to orevel in such ennobling ideas aaihe salvation nf smoriMr, i bor OfrousK high, tariff, the kind of yreoan Tnat leads to free trade, and lhe enthronement of the gold standard Without "prejudice to silver. Ml constitutional amendments several Exposals are Jn the air. First in status is the one already considprAfl in tno. Fifty-sixth Congress, and voted upon in the House of Representatives on the 1st day of June, 1900. The measure providedr Congress shall have power to define, regu late, prohibit or diwsoive trusts, monopolies or combinations, whether existing in the form of trusts or otherwise. The teveral states ma continue to exercise such power In any manner not in conflict with the laws of the Xnited States. "Cpon the resolution pnm-!n! tiito amendment there were 154 ayes all Bepubllcans, and 132 nays, of which 130 were Democrats and Populists. The resolution lacked the necessary two thirds of the House, and consequently failed to pass. The Republicans made much to d about their heroic assault on the trust, and the Democrats hooted back charges of buncombe as to which were correct it Is unnecessary, at this distance of tlme and in view of the thermometer, tobecome anxious. Among all the plans suggested, per haps no better one has appeared than 6ne offered by Mr. Charles Francis Adams in a letter to the New York Evening Post. He proposes a Federal commission which shall hav nowr tn i summon before it both parties to a labor controversy and require them to present their side of the case in its strongest light Upon the hearing the '-ummission is to render a decision, 4 trusting to public sentiment for enforce ment of the decree. The usual device of applications to be filed by one of the parties to the controversy is aban d hed in favor of a command laid upon me commission to take the initiative it self. We shall be unreasonable enough to stand by this plan of Mr. Adams, not f jr any great achievement it seems to promise, but because of his wise for bearance in avoiding the visionary and impossible, and for his rare apprehen sion at the force of public opinion. There are no grim penalties to be Im posed upon labor or capital, which would be as impossible of enforcement as was the English law prescribing capital punishment for the theft of 15 shillings. Mr. Adams trenchantly says ttat if public sentiment cannot enforce a decree in settlement of a strike, then a Federal commission itself, armed with whatsoever power, cannot He hrlds that the powerful force of public opinion is superior to statutes, and that it is In reality the living, breathing thing that alone makes law, in a pop ular government effective. So h bnld- I 2y offers to throw this decree of his Federal commission upon public opin ion for Its enforcement, and estimates Its power to be great enough to com pel each party to present its case in the first place, and to abide by the decision - the end. The man who talks like this creates unimpeachable presump-t-ve evidence that whatever he pro poses is all right Mr. Adams can have our support for a perpetual motion ma chine or a railroad to Mars. LIGHT OX THE WOOLEN 3IILLS. Fancy the woolen manufacturers advocating a reduction In duties on their wares! Yet just this they are do ing, if one can believe reports from Massachusetts that are accounted trustworthy. This is not what we are accustomed to. The astute manipu lators who had their will with the Dem ocratic tariff tinkers of 1S34 elucidated a highly diverting programme free wool and protected woolens, free lum ber and protected furniture, free hides and protected shoes. Such has hitherto been the philanthropic notions enter tained by the same and kindred inter ests touching tariff reform in the twen tieth century. But a change see.ms to be coming over the woolen miller's dream. He wants free wool so badly that he will undertake to abide free woolens. The way he proposes to go about it Is lu o:a tor tne support of the wool grower. If the farmer and stockman can be persuaded that free wool is good for the grower, the thing Is as good as done. The arguments he offers are at once Ingenious and Impressive. "We have grown familiar here In nrPtmn with the assertion that the' duty on wool hurts the grower, because it nar rows his market throuerh Mieniirn mo ment of shoddy and cotton. It has found readier acceptance here than elsewhere because our Oregon growers have been in the front rank of enlight enment on the tariff. They have al ways resisted the extreme demands of the Ohio protectionists. This encour agement of substitutes for wool falls witn crushing force on the woolen mill because it contracts its sales, while the high cost of raw materials prevents him from exporting to the foreign mar kets. While the average consumption of raw wool from 1&91 to 1805 Inclusive was 402,300,000 pounds a year, from 1896 to 1900 inclusive the average consump tion was only 453,150,000tpounds a year. ICo business Is more densely hidden under a web of technicalities than is tne woolen industry; and in many of these details the tariff on raw w6ol Is said to operate with great disadvan tage. It is said not only to restrict the market but to induce such carelessness on tne part of the grower that he sac rifices most of his advantages. The bulk of the domestic wool supply comes to the mills in very bad "shape, un scoured and filled with dirt This arises, no doubt, from the fact that the scale upon which the sheep industry is carried on in the West and Smith- west, while it does not preclude care of the fleece before and after shearing nr careful breeding for wool, tends to sac rifice quality to quantity. With wool admitted free of duty, the clean and finely grown wools of Australia would force the grower to pay more attention to quality or stand the loss. And In fact the neglect in breedlncr anri in rnr- ing for the fleece has forced th imnnr. tation of much more foreign wool than the tariff rate would iustlfv if . sheepraisers wanted to take full ad vantage of the opportunity and supply the mills with good, clean, home-grown wools. Perhaps the most impressive of all the mill's complaints is its rising am bition for foreign markets and its un rest under its present deprivation. Here, then, is another Infant industry feeling its growing pains, another pnHot nf New World production losing the film from its eyes and growing quill feath ers on Its wings. Giye us free wool, the mills say. and we can nut our tmnrta into Europe just as the locomotive and implement men are doing today, and we won't ask any tariff to nrntont us either. Probably a string of more or less cohesiveness will be found at tached to this offer of free trade in woolens. But if it is made, it michr be well to take the mills at their word. Under present conditions the wool grower is not apt to be seriously afraid that any change in tariffs will be for the worse. But if he gives up protec tion for his wool he doesn't want pro tected woolens. boy or his parents? is a pertinent one just here, and to it there can be but oneanswer. He. fresh from the debas ing Influence of the all-night country dance, dazed with the whisky that he had there imbibed, and perhaps a thirst for another drink, or they who had been sleeping the sleep of the indifferent and irresponsible, while these influences or destruction were at work upon the physical, mental, and moral nature of their boy? There is no effect without) cause, and truly the cause In this in stance is not far to seek. V A RATIONAL REFORM. The establishment of roof gardens is suggested as a rational reform de manded by the fearfullv r?PRtrurH-f heat waves that break over the cities of the Atlantic seaboard and the Mid dle West That is to say, a reform in American architecture Is suggested that will utilize the roofs of city houses for a retreat from the furnace heat of the street and the rooms of the great build ings. "Instead Of bUlldfnir slfv-swan. ers." says a Boston paper, "we should have sky-facers," adding: "Let us put an end by statute to the erection or any building more than six stories high, and require that in all cases the roof be readily reached, so that it may be utilized for recreation and sleep." This probably refers to the tenement district, more especially since it is fur ther said that the women rnuTrf rin oil their work except possibly washing on the housetops; babes "could get fresh air, and the sick escape the torture of rooms where ventilation is impossi ble. It Is evident that the architecture of our great cities was not designed with an outlook toward the comfort of the enormously congested" population of modern municipalities. The commodi ous roofs, surrounded by strong para pets and covered by awnings, which coum oe stored in Winter, 'would do much to solve for the perspiring masses who are hived in tenement buildings xne prooiem of fresh air during the stifling weeks in which it is not possible to secure it in the heated rooms below. It should be beyond the compelling power of philanthropy to compass a. reform of this kind in the construction of hives for housing the working people wt me Hat ciues. .From the first the struggle of man has been with thfe elements. If he has not succeeded in ngnting successfully the discomforts of extreme heat and cold in civilizpfl com munities, this dereliction must be charged against his thoughtlessness or parsimony rather than against his in telligence or ingenuity. Since first of all things human beings must breathe, air space should be provided for them. The development of parks in great cities is in line with this idea, and since there are thousands who cannot reach these retreats from the stifling heat of the down-town or manufacturing dis tricts, the, roof, garden suggests relief for them that may well be designated a rational reform." negro's birthright; the right to vote is not a birthright of any man; It Is a question of social and political ex pediency. The Governor of Illinois was appealed to. but refused to inter fere and obliged the Sheriff of Melrose Park to do his duty. The colored men of Ohio, who represent .some 25,000 vot ers, vigorously protested against the ac tion Of the G. A. R of that stntA in attempting to draw the color line on public occasions. The negrophobia of the North is mean and contemptible compared with that of the South, for the Democratic Mnvnr nf tho nttv nf Vicksburg. Miss.,, recently accepted an invitation to preside at a larce meetintr of whites who were addressed by a graduate of Tuskegee (Ala.) Institute on "The White South's Opportunity and the Negro's New Duties," The Mayor, in the speech with which heopened the meeting, said: tx I may say unreservedly that the younS-man who is educated under the tutelage of Booker T. Washington is a man who looks facts m the face as they exist, a man who 13 broad in intellect. Who is not nlfnrtorl hv m ,.:.. j .v, 1-il.JU- A full report of the black man's speech was published in the leading newspaper of the city, which commend ed it to the perusal of all "as. a most creditable mental $. product," and de clared that "ine lessons sought to be taught, the ine of thoueht follow. we deem worthy of the utmost favor ana sympathy WHAT THE TRUST DOES. The Independent. io?r soclallsm about the middle of the utn century began to assume definiteness as an economic and political programme, and to command a measure of popular at tention, Its realization seemed to conserva- uvuimuus to De torbidden by those deep instincts of human nature which crave the utmost freedom for individual enter prise. It did not happen to occur to the conservative minds of 1850 that by 1901 in dividual enterprise, without any help from socialism, would have built a gigantic wall around the vast world of industrial opportunity and locked itself not in but "Uli u"- ioou tne animal that "looks be fore and after" had not looked after very far, nor before to much purpose. Thanks to Mr. Darwin nnrf Vic nntitmno.)or. .u vision backward has been prolonged, but the outlook ahead Is still foreshortened. Perhaps we are as much In the dark to day about the future of Individual oppor tunity as were the men of 1S50. But, even if we are. it is well to ob serve the direction of such tendencies as we can see. The unexpected may head them off. and thn npnin it -moV .rt What if the unexpected this time should be the unhindered flow of the tendencies that just now are bearing business, poll tics and social "swelldom" into new and startling relations? Ono of these tendencies is converting the great middle class, which so long has been regarded as more stable than the everlasting hills, from a class of employ ers Into a class of employes. The middle Cla9S includes farmnrs. trnrlpsTrion nnrl manufacturers on a small scale. All these RATHER SERIOUS, IF TRUE. rni-. o..i. j ij.. wj ...t,j. j.i.c ouuui, uespite '"uiawuiHa uii u. biiuui scaie. ah inese its mob murders, is gradually growing have been regarded, and have regarded more rational and humane in its treat- themselves. as sympathizing on the whole more rational and humane in its treat ment of the race question than its old critic, the North. The credit for the saving of $85,000 a year in the administration of the af fairs of Multnomah County Is distrib utable, properly, among several de scriptions of our citizens. Th hasis nf it If? fllA lAPsllnTJ nf 4T i-noc-U- ; o-- . v. -"G JJGMiUU UJ. yKCiiS, CV1U13UUC SUU1U1CUI. IU UUilVlUt UUU last Winter, carried through by the send them to the penitentiary,, the vicbuuvu .scut, tu cue j-resiBiu.Lure'.irom action or tne superior u:ourty THE CAUSE XOT PAR TO SEEK. The story that comes from Vancouver of a boy of 1G years, who was plied with liquor at a country dance a few miles from that place, Saturday night, and is now in jail chare-pd with hnr. glary of the circumstances of which, as he asserts, he has no recollection, is a tale that arraigns the parents and the citizens of Clark County generally upon a crime of far greater magnitude than mac or wnicn the boy is charged the crime of Indifference to the influence that surrounds their boys and of fail ure to discharge an Important duty oi. ciuzensnip. There is upon the statutes of the State of Washington a law forbidding, under proper penalty, the sale or gift of intoxicating liquors to minors. Why is this lnw - a forced? Simply because public senti ment is lax and parental responsibility is at a low ebb. Why primarily Is a lad of immature years permitted to go to a dance of the type that turns those who attend it out at an early hour Sunday morning, Irresponsible from drink, faticrue and Inss nf ciocn. v. 'moral sense blunted in every way, the jjucKec empty, and the appetite calling for further stimulant? Why but be cause parents are criminally derelict In their duty and fail utterly to throw the common safeguards nf nanannv around their young sons and daugh ters? The writer had occasion tn cn o recent Sunday In one of the river ham lets of Clark County. Utterly disre garding the Sunday-closing law and the law that forbids purveyors of liquors to sell or give drink to minors, or even to allow them to visit their places of juametos. tne saioon in this place was kept open all day, and no doubt the greater portion of the night, the ren dezvous of men and boys of all ages, while toward midnight th Rhrfptc nf a hysterical woman trying to induce her half-drunken husband to go home their little boy a witness of the scene burdened the air for an hour, inciting the derisive laughter and jeers of "the crowd." Is it any wonder that where public sentiment is so dead as to permit the enactment of scenes of this kind, In di rect defiance of law. three hnvs have been arraigned within a year be fore the courts of Vancouver the county seat and trade center of the county ior crimes or grave magni tude, or that one of these youthful of fenders is now doing time in the peni tentiary at Walla Walla, while the others await in jail, with, as now ap pears, evidence sufficient to convict and IWWISE ECONOMY. The Philadelphia Ledsrer. In nlMdinc- the cause of the privates in the United States Army as that of brave men en gaged in an honorable vocation, says: The War Department, in conducting military operations, should be very careful to do noth ing, which would cause an impression to gee abroad 'that it considers any part of the ser vice inferior front the standpoint of dignity and honor. . . . ,It is to be regretted that a mistake of this character has been made by the officials in discontinuing the cable reports of casualties among the troops serving in the Philippines. Economy is the motive which Is snld tn hnv. ,. .i .,.. -" .... ftUltUJUU liltj ..i department in taking this action, nnd had there been no distinctions made in the matter in all probability there would have been little or no public criticism. But a dis tinction was made. The order discontinuing cabled reports of casualties, it appears, ap plies to privates only: the names of officers who have died of disease, befen killed or wounded, are still sent over the wires. That journal Is right in estimating that a discrimination of this character cannot but be displeasing to the Ameri can people. Whatever distinctions be tween men and officers is made neces sary in life by the requirements of mil itary discipline, it is well said that death Is a leveler of official rank, and it is unjust for the authorities to keep relatives and friends of a nrivnto imnr. ant of his death until a letter can reach them, while those of a commissioned officer are promptly notified hv mniP- There are places in which necessary and commendable ecenomy may be practiced without grating harshly upon the feeling that makes one mother's son as good as another's in death. It may be added that discrimination of this kind will have a tendency to sub due the spirit of patriotism in homes, which It is the dutv and RhmiM v.Q fh pride of the Government to cherish and foster. Hence, the discontinuance of the cable reports of casualties to pri vates and noncommissioned nfflpw in the Philippines cannot be regarded by the American people as a wise or proper exercise of the virtue of economy. Here is the way the United States Investor, a Boston financial publication, puis tne case of the great steel strike: A sound economic policy would dictate that each party to the contract act with the moat scrupulous fairness towards the other party Capital in this particular case. however starts in with tho presumption In all minds that it does not Intend to act fairly. oi instance tho capitalization of the United States Steel Corporation has been so ex cessively inflated that the conviction cannot do avoided that fair hniin.a not bo earned on this capitalization year in "",. i . 7L uunout depriving the labor In voked in the production of steel of its fair and economic proportion of the product. This touches a. vital point. The pro digious quantity of "water" in the cap italization of the steel trust is a men ace not only to labor, but also to hon est capital. lionest capital is as justly entitled to reward as is honest labor, "UL watered" stock is dishonest and iidrmiui in all its relations. It repre sents no assets whatever, yet claims a full share in the proceeds of operation. It rides upon the back of honest in vestment in money and labor. It is made the means by which unscrupu lous schemers take an undue share of ine proceeds of Industry. If it were not for that great offense of the steel trust there would be less sympathy witii Liie amalgamated Association in the present strike. If there be no check to. the greed of organized capital in this objectionable form, we are in a bad way. Newspapers whose sympathies are on the side of the great steel trust make but a sickly effort when they try to moralize against men who have joined the strike, yet had signed an agreement lu juin no union, it Is apparent that no such agreement as this can have any validity in morals or- in law. It was extorted under duress; for no man vol untarily abandons his right to join any association, of to limit his freedom vi action, -rue trusts try to make men their serfs or dependents; aTid so they insist when they can on acceptance by the men of these conditions ofWvitude And then the organs of the trusts ml voke a hypocritical and spurious mor ality for support or enforcement of the claim. It may not heat tho. rian k it is a close imitation of his policy. With Capital. With a hie- r? rathPr hon with Labor, with a big L,. They have been conducting Independent business en terprises which they have owned, and In which they have employed subordinates. What more natural than that they should complacently think of themselves as be longing to the happy pack of upper dogs, at whom the unhappy under dogs might snarl and snan. but would hnrriiv rm tn But now has come the Trust. The small manufacturers it has absorbed, and con verted Into employes pure and simple. The tradesmen and the farmers It Is convert ing into dependents, by practically ab sorbing the economic rent of land and op portunity not less effectually. If less open- i.v, mini me -cngusn or tne Irish landlord absorbed it from his tenants. In the pres ent generation the middle class mav not fully comprehend its changed position but the revolution it is undergoing will be made clear enough to the ambitious bovs as they attempt to make new places in life for themselves. Instead of carving out Independent business careers, as their fathers did before them, they must go into the employ of corporations as sal- aneu dependents. What will be the effect of this mighty revolution upon the attitude of the middle class toward the questions of socialism and of individualism? It is all very well to say that business cannot be conducted "on the town meeting plan" if you hap pen to be an Independent business man, and prospering well enough to lay by a snug sum every year. But when your business has been remorselessly crushed, and when the combination that lias "walked over you" mafrnanlmouslv elves you a job at so much a month and "mind you obey orders" well, that's an other story! Possibly you would just as soon work for a "town meeting" as to work for a "general manager," who is not at all likely to ask you to drop around to his club, and whose wife, It Is absolutely certain, will never invite you and your y.uu iu dinner. The middle class has never yet voted with Labor, with a big L. But when the "trusts" and the "magnates" have crushed every bu&iness and social ambi tion of the middle class, will the middle oiuss continue to vote with Capital, with a bis C? Another tendency worth observing is that which is changing the relative mag- "iiuu uj. me -Dig- ana tne "small business enterprises and grouping the big ones in a very distinct class by them selves. A business that employs a capi tal of half a million dollars is no longer "big." To be "big" it must grow up to at least 510,000,000, and aspire to $50 000,000 or ?100,000,000. The small business enter prises are still in manv in.dt.onr nnrf may continue to be, conducted by individ uals or partnerships. "Rllf" n Tiv ifn.n Henrv A pa0i ,,! , . s1". tney are no longer Independent In the mna -L !8ffi- adltr 0f the Post- W-ahlonea sense of the word. They office Department, has proceeded far diuumi wun nis annual report to be able to say that the Increase in postal receipts for the present year will ex ceed $7,000,000. Not having yet re ceived all the returns of the last quar ter, the exact amount of the increase is not yet known. Careful estimates, how ever, show that the postal receipts this year will be at least $111,000,000. In 1890 they were only $60,000,000. Thus an increase of nearly 50 per cent in ten years is shown. v if e "c&"-l-"-ilv"" liuu ul me oupenur uouru niblt him from working for a living, accented an inv Multnomah. Suggestions of value came The question, Who has sinned; this j The hght to earn his bread is Sfe openTS address " THE CONTAGIOX OP CRUELTY. Seven years ago, when a negro was burned at Paris, Tex., the whole coun try was moved by the announcement, and it was made the subject of extend ed comment by European journals and magazines; but burnings have become so frequent as to no longer excite more than passing attention. The chief rea son for this disagreeable fact is that tne North has been silenced, so far as the South Is connprnpri nv v. 4. negro-burnings of its own-in Kansas -U1U14UU. an" .inaiana. The recent negro-burnings in Alabama and. Georgia were marked by no more barbarity in details than the Terre Haute burning in Indiana a few months past. The two sections are on a level in the matter of inhuman mob murders; the Northern pot is too black to jeer at the color of the Southern kettle. To speak frankly, in the South there are signs or a growing spirit of tolerance, mod eration and control. in Georgia, the ouutuern people under the most severe provocation controlled their passions and permitted the. law to take its course on two recent. occasions. The most-respected citizens no longer par ticipate In these lawless affairs. But at the North not only is Hip nnnt.iP-inn of cruelty spreading, but there is clear 1 ly in the great states of Illimnis nnct Ohio .an increase of that deadly race prejudice whose worst exhibition is found in the horrible antics of a brutal white mob. The industrial ostracism which the negro faces at the North, as illustrated by the refusal of an Illinois Sheriff to protect colored men entering the state for the purpose of earning their bread, is a far more serious bar to the ad vance of the race than the political ostracism which exists at the South! The South says that the negro is not fit to be a voter, but It does not pro hibit him from working for a living, Naval service, too, it seems, Is being recruited from the ranks of temper ance. Of the 438 men and boys' on the training-ship Monongahela, now in ixew xoric narbor, 291 are total ab stainers. This means a naval equip ment strong in all that goes to make up manly men courage, self-control and physical effectiveness. In full command of themselves, these men will be able to command others, and in com ing years will be found at the head of the list of effective men who man the Nation's ships. The Toronto Globe advises Canada not to accept any gifts of libraries from Carnegie. The Globe says that Canada is a very rich country, where the aver age individual wealth is greater than that In the United States. If libraries are desired there is abundant money to build and support them. Towns that need, libraries should . provide them. Towns which do not see the need of libraries should be above spending Carnegie's money for what seems to tnem a needless and extravagant pur pose. Pay-day at Fort Shwidan ha 14th' Inst., was celebrated by the sol diers with gambling and drinking at the HIghwood saloons. At roll-call In the evening 36 men were missing, and 58 in the gUardhOUSP for rlrnnlrfmnocc A similar condition of drunkenness pre vailed on pay-day at Vancouver Bar racks. Between Vancouver and Port land there was at least one drunken soldier to every mile, and In some places they could be found in groups, like skirmishers. The attempt to establish woman suf frage in Alabama by a clause in the new constitution has failed. The con stitutional convention adopted, by a vote of 65 to 45. a motion to nermit I women residing in cities and paying taxes on $500 worth of real estate to vote on questions of municinalities in curring debt or issuing bonds. But on tne loiiowing day this action was re considered, and the proposal was de feated by an overwhelming vote. Vice-President Roosevelt is adver- are either dependent upon the great cor poratlons, or in some way tributary to mum. xne great corporations are neces sarily managed by agents. All that in tensely personal motive which formerly went into the building up of business rep utations and "old-established houses" has disappeared. Here, then, is a possible line of division between a field for individual ism and a field for socialism. A genera tion ago. When there was nrarMnnllv nr. such thing as a business worth more than ?l,00O,CO0, the social ownership of cap ital would necessarily have meant tho extinction of individual business. But to day, If all the capital of the great corpo rationsyclept the trusts should bo "so cialized," there could still be left to the Individual a field of opportunity as big as individualism has ever enjoyed in its most flourishing days. What, then, If some- I body should propose a compromise be tween socialism and individualism, per mitting the individual to accomplish what ever he can with a canitnl of snv not more than $5,000,000, and converting Into social enterprises all undertakings employ ing capital In greater amounts? "Ah, yes; but," the conservative man will say, "look at the rottenness of our city governments, at the Imbecility of our state governments, and at the slow, clumsy pottering of our National Adminl Istratlon. Can the great business of the world be done by any such machinery?" And the answer, of course, Is that it can not be. But right here appears the sig nificance of the third present tendency to wnicn we would call attention. Every where tho people are waking up as never before in the history of the human race to me imperativeness and the Immeasur able Importance of civic duty. The re form of state and municipal administra tion has not yet progressed far, but tho universal interest In its possibilities, and the magnificent work that is being accom- pusnea Dy tnose wno are marshaling tho forces, give certain promise of great achievements in the future. In these re forms lies the whole question of the prac ticability of a juster and nobler social system than that which we enjoy today. Tho municipal problem is the practical problem of the whole human race at this moment. It contains within itself every possibility of a more Just distribution of wealth, of a wider ODDortunitv for ovorv ambitious individual. If the municipal problem can be solved the problem of a relative economic equality and the prob lem of a relative social equality can be solved also. If the municipal nrnhipm i insoluble, republics are a failure and "lib erty, equality and fraternity" will never be attained by the humtin race. Wake up then and be a Citizen, In order that you also may be a Man! San Francisco Bulletin. Vflmr nnuli t.. !.- !-. - - J v-.jr tonj m uiB uiaivry ol ins uuraiu- i 4auiiuon oi ine omce ot president ot tno ( ing.rain. wumtwi jrauiit company inaries .At. Hays was made the recipient of a banquet at the hands of the Manufacturers' and r-roaucers' Association, of San Francisco. Each of the speakers on the occasion alluded to Mr. Hays in flattering terms, and a pleasing, harmonious atmosphere of cord!al welcome pervaded the conviv ialities. The last speaker of the evening was General W. H. L. Barnes, who In" thoughtful mood imitated the Roman who walked at the chariot wheel of a conqueror, who had been accorded by the Senate a triumphal entry Into Rome, with the admonition, "Remember that tnou art mortal." General Barnes cautioned the new pres ident of the Southern Pacific Company not to be too far deceived with the demonstrative good-will which had been so manifest since his arrival In the city of San Francisco. The Demosthenes of the Pacific took occasion to say: "It gratifies me, gentlemen, to observe iuul iux. xiays- coming has calmed all the storms in our commercial and Indus trial atmosphere. He has been received with a cordiality creditable to us and gratifying, if not flattering, to him. But. men and brethren hnw tr.no- io hi, ., dition to last? The prophet of evil per forms an ungracious task; but I will not resist the temptation of admonishing the new president of the Southern Pacific Company that the dead calm which sur rounds us may be the precursor of a storm which may ultimately break upon his devoted head. It is all serene now, because his administration Is too young lu "ve Deen guilty of any acts of dis obedience to the commands of the San Francisco press. "Whiip ho iistpno tn nil suggestions, gives hospitable welcome to all Instructions, accords polite acquies cence to all interference in his policy, he will be praised as a very prince of good fellows and as a veritable Napoleon, in railroad administration: but the time will come and It is not far distant. I fear wnen he may find It necessary to draw the bold outlines of an Independent pol icy. Let me warn him that this self respecting and Independent nollcv win h resented as an impeachment of the judg ment of all those who have advised him. and as treason to the flattering proffer of friendship on the part of all those who have extended him the glad hand of wel come. Then the heavens will he hnmr in black. There will be blood on the moon; and if he does not arrive at that unfor tunate mental condition In which he will naturally wish he had not been born, he will at least reach that condition in which he will have reason to wish that the achievement of tho nrostrtonnv nr tha Southern Pacific Company had not been ono of the decrees of his unfortunate des tiny." There Is no reason to doubt that these expressions wero thp rocnn- nt o -i-oy-,. high prevision on the pan of the orator who delivered them. The morning press of this city has declared that he is dis satisfied with his position, and whether this be true or not. he certainly has rea son to be dissatisfied with the constant, persistent and malignant spirit of med dlesomeness which has beset his admin istration from tho day of his induction miu me oiuce no noius. The provincialism of the San Francisco press has been strongly manifested In its treatment of the affairs of the Southern Pacific Company. It has manufactured rumors concerning the relations between tho president of the company and his staff, comprising the heads of depart ments, which could have no other result than to produce in the mind of the new president of the Southern Pacific Com pany the utmost disgust for this species ot journalism. Mr. Hays declared that he had come to the Pacific Coast for tho purpose or managing Its system of transportation with due respect to both the rights of the shipper and carrier; with a proper regard for tho rights of all. and the conserva tion of the revenues of the corporation by which he was employed. But he was not to be permitted to mnintnin thi (.nm mendable, manly and dignified position. The road was not to be permitted to as sume a normal relation to the industrial and commercial Interests of the people of tne estate ot California. The busybodles of the press vied with each other in flat tering Mr. Hays, but accompanied that flattery with Idle and Injurious gossip concerning the affairs of the company, a great deal of which related to inconsid erable things. Their unoriginal and un- invenuva malevolence moves on the low plane of the village busybody, and could have no other effect than that of pro ducing in the mind of the new executlvo the utmost feeling of aversion and dis gust. After a long and most persistent season of prediction as to the annolntmont .? removal of officers, matters in which the public has no concern whatever, these tattling rumors have reached up to the president himself, and their reiteration is accompanied by a spirit so wanting in respectful consideration as to be fitly characterized as brutal. If the people of California are indulging the belief that these wldo departures from the legitimate standards of honor able journalism are not Interfering with tne growth and development of the Clty of San Francisco and the State of Califor nia, they are self-deceived. It Is a fair presumption that no self respecting man of first-class ability will seek or accept any administration in any field of commercial activity In this state. The brutality of metropolitan journalism has driven self-resrectlncr mon nut nf the field of politics. When it accomplishes a like result for the commercial Inter ests of tho state, it -cannot do otherwise than inflict an injury upon the prosperity of the state. These are matters of serious import to every man who owns a dollar of property in the commonwealth. X0TE AND COMMENT. Captain Bob Evans perhaps went too far in using his sailors' log for a batter- Pugilist Fltzsimmorra, who is on the lec ture platform, will no doubt make a very striking talk. King Edward is said to be badly In need of rest, but there Is no ground for the rumor that he 13 going to resign. Now that J. P. Morgan has a new grandchild, he will iarn what It Is to go up against something ha cannot manage. Let us hope that after all thesw speed trials, the yachtsmen do not become so up-to-date as to pull off a breezeless cup race. Governor Odell is demonstrating that the Colonel Is not the only man who is fit to be on deck during a strenuous I squall. j The City of New York might apply to the Standard Oil Company foir a supply of kerosene sufficient to exterminate Its city government. There are still one or two eminent law yers who have not been engaged as coun sel by Admiral Schley, but their ranks are rapidly thinning. A mail bag containing two shells has been sent from Panama. PeopU at their destination are advised not to bet their money on either of them. The fact that J. P. Morgan is going to San Francisco as a delegate to the Eolsco- pal convention Insures harmony to tho deliberations of that body. The time-honored custom of flipping a quarter seems to be the only way satis factorily to settle the conUst between tho Columbia and the Constitution. The Massachusetts cats, who eat cu cumbers, are merely endeavoring to ac quire manners as cdol as those of the rest of the poDulatlon of tho state. Tho new town of Lawton. in Oklahoma, begins life with 60 saloons and threo banks. The list of banks. howsYsr. would' I be largely Increased by counting- irr the faro variety. Before any of the seething- Central American states offer any affront to this country It is likely that they wl!l gazo at our fleet In the offing and bethink them of the Maine. Ah. well for old Demosthenes That ho orates no mora; Ah. well for Burke ana Chatham that Their speaking days are o'er. And Wendell PhUllpa. Henry Clay And Daniel Webster, too. If they were here today would feel A bright and gaudy blue The best and Rreatest orator Of this or any ag We'll hear when Bob Fitzelmmona goes Upon the lecture stage. The pastor of an African Methodist church in Centerville, O., is credited with a most remarkable and original Idea con cerning the future life. Sunday night in his sermon he flew directly in the face of common belief as to tho part heat enacts In the next world, and asserted that tho temperature of heaven was S2C degraes above zero, quoting the Bible to prove his statement. He added that angels are flames of fire, and saints will ba made living fire, so they can live In the grat heat. "By the shining Lake of Klamath. On theGrande Itonde Reservation, In the Land of Umatilla, la the County or the Slwaah. In a hundred other countries. Where the unwashed noble red man Bask3 serenely in the sunshine. There the lovely Indian maidens. Gentle creatures of some ninety Or a hundred Springs and Summers. Spend Ions houri weaving baskets. Of all sizes, Hhapes and colors And degrees of laclc ot beauty. For their eager paleface sisters, "Who will pay therefor large prices. Prices very, very fancy. Breaking husbands up in business, Hocking diamonds and pianos. That they may possess some dozen Of these fabrics of the Indians. Which the same are neither pretty. Rare nor curious, nor ancient. Simply being Indian baskets. Which sufliceth for their buyers." Thus mused Henry Smith, the paleface On his ranch by Klamath water. By the shining Klamath water. And so musing forth he wandered. Gathered willow roots and tules. Took his seven little children, v Set them all to weaving baskets, Which next month he carted And now, Henry Smith, the paleface, Owns a yacht and eke an auto, And 13 thinking some ot going Next election to the Senate. McKInley Knows AH About Him. Louisville Courier-Journal. Sapp began openly violating the civil service laws soon after his appointment to the collectorshlp, but he has never been in any danger of removal on that score. If the President Is contemplating the Col lector's removal now it is not because ot nis old sins against the civil service, but uecause ne nas set the Kepubllcans of Kentucky by tho ears and has destroyed the Republican party In Louisville. tlsed In the Minnesota countrv nanprs as the chief attraction at the coming state fair. One of the advertisements says: "Teddy, the idol alike of New Tork reformers and Western plainsmen, and one of the most-loved men in the country, without respect to party, has accepted an Invitation to make the About Time. New Tork 'journal. The American people were taxed a cent and a half a pound to establish a tin plate industry for the benefit of American labor. Then the manufacturers brought over welsh workmen to make the tin plate, on the ground that American work men did not know how. Now the Welsh workmen are out on strllrp thr mtlia nro closed and the Steel Trust, which has ab sorbed the Tinplate Trust, is importing plates from Wales to fill its orders. Is it not about time for that duty to come off? Farmer Doing: Rlgrht "Well. Chicago Post. . In the larcre whpnt cmn tho TTnft-ol States sees compensation for the partial iuuure in corn, it may not oe much com fort to the farmer who has grown little or no wheat and planted largely of corn to know that wheat is likely to bring a good price; but the general effect will be gratifying. Taken as a whole the year Is not likely to prove bad for the farmer in the United States. A Mistake In Bnbcoclr. Kalamazoo Gazette. Congressman Babcock maintains that it Is "'a part of the policy of protection to protect the consumers.'. A grave mis take has been made in Congressman Bab cock.;. He is not a statesman. He is a humorist- Old lssti.es All Dead. Omaha Bee. Every Democratic state convention held so far this year has either actually repu diated the heresies of the past two Na tional platforms or Ignored those fulmlna tions entirely. In most Instances they have elected to conduct the fight on state Issues, leaving themselves In position, as uouo.1, iu iu iu wun temporary expe dients which have served Democracy in tho place of a creed for several cam paigns. Bribery Docs Not "Work. Washington Star. If there ever was any Idea of quieting the Filipinos by bribing their leaders its impracticability Is now demonstrated. Ev idently every time one leader was dis posed of another would be certain to ap pear with open palm. TliEASAXTIHES OF PARAGRAPHED "Don't you think Dachslc likes his new cel lar. John?" "How tho deuce do you expeet me to tell from here? Go out in the kitchen and see if his tall Is wagging." Life. "What is a fort?" asked a teacher. "A place to put men In." was the answer. "What Is a fortress, then?" Tho answer was prompt: "A place to put women in." Tit-Bits. His Usual Fate. Getthere Did you ever at- tend any of Miss Budd's 'at-homes'? De Bore (sadly) N-o. but I've attended a goodr many of her not-at-homes. New Tork Weekly Springs of Mis-Conduct. "Tou haven't any manners. Jack: why didn't you offer to escort that young woman home?' ,,Oh. I have man ners all rignt; but I didn't have street-cas? fare." Chicago Record-Herald. Her First Voyage. Walter (knocking) Mfsa Jenkins, don't you feel like a little eald chicken? Miss Jenkins (from within) I don't know how a little cold chicken feels, but .I'm feeling pretty ugh, queer. Brooklyn Life.' Wife (with determined air) I want to seo that letter. Husband What letter? Wife That ono you Just opened. I know by thu handwriting that it Is from a woman, and you turned pale when you read it. I will seo it. GIvo it. to me. sir. Husband Hero it is. It's your milliner's bill. Fun. Secret of It. "Why do you go away for tho Summer? You have a nice home near tho lake with a big porch and everything possible to make you cool and comfortable." "That's Just the trouble. In the Summer wo must have soma hardship and discomforts in order to make us think we are having a good time. And. besides, they are necessary to make us appreclato home at Its true value In the Fall." Chicago Post. Boorish. "Talk about your boorish audi ences!" exclaimed the manager of grand oppra. Just back from touring the provinces. "In one city, and a city of more than one hundred thousand people, too. we had aetu ally to ring down tho curtain In the mlddlo of an act on account ot the silence of tho boxes. The singers were completely confused by It. The name of the place? Oh. Bless me. no! They simply didn't know any better-" Puck. In Ansmxi. William Dean Ilowells. All the long August afternoon. The little drowsy stream Whispers a melancholy tune. As If It dreamed of Juno And whispered In Its dream. The thistles show beyond the brcs!r: Dust on their down and bloom. And out of many a weed-grown nooc Tho aster-flowers look With eyes of tender gloom. The silent orchard aisles are sweet With smell ot ripening fruit. Through the sere grass. In shy retreat, Flutter, at coming feet. The robins strange and mute. There Is no wind to stir the leaves. Tho harsh leaves overhead: Only the querulous cricket grieves. And shrilling locust weaves A song of Summer dead. .X
