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TOIUTLAXB, TEDXESDAT, SEPT. XI.
REPRESSION' OF AXARCHT.
The first fepllng of alarm and grief
over the Buffalo tragedy has passed
away, and Is succeeded by a universal,
attention to the subject of prevention.
'All Europe as well as America is trying
to think Its way out to a satisfactory
conclusion on this score, but, It must be
confessed, with Indifferent results. Civ
ilization turns with one accord in exe
cration upon the anarchists morally if
not technically responsible for this
crime, and longs for some sure, sharp
method of suppression for their propa
ganda and prevention of their practical
designs. But the task Is one of great
difficulty.
Any weak-minded man or woman, it
is perfectly certain, can go to an an
archist meeting or read an anarchist
"book and be worked up into a murder
ous passion. Resolves of this sort are
not apt to be announced in public the
assassin goes about his work with
stealth and cunning. It is impossible
to know when the anarchistic purpose
takes possession of Its victim's mind, it
is impossible to lay hands upon him
until he stands, as Czolgosz did, face to
face with his victim, revolver In hand
and ready -cheerfully to meet the pen
alty for his crime.
Anarchist meetings can be suppressed
and doubtless should be. Tet there is
no little danger to peace and order in
the violent ebullition of wrath the Buf
falo episode has evoked, in the cry of
excited speakers for lynch law against
the criminal, in the popular demand for
extermination of anarchists, and even
in this wholesale arrest and hustling
off to jail of great numbers who can
obviously never be proved remotely ac
cessory to the act of Czolgosz. These
things do not promote justice or wise
measures. They are far more likely to
move the attacked sect to Increased
rancor; they will tend to create sympa
thy In its behalf, and, most serious of
nil, they tend by their violence to re
lease In a flood of vituperative splutter
the purpose and resolution that should
be conserved in the form of sane and
effective measures.
To this popular rage and sudden de
termination we may be certain that
apathy will succeed. No end of bills
will be introduced in Congress and state
legislatures looking to suppression of
anarchy and prevention of assassina
tion; but most of them at least will per
ish by the wayside as members become
interested in things of more immediate
personal concern. Nor is the inevitable
popular indifference more serious an ob
stacle than the very nature of the case
Itself.
It is not altogether through accident
or inadvertence that the tenets of an
archy have been permitted the mails,
and its assemblies have not been
broken into by armed policemen nor its
devotees rushed off to jail upon every
passing breath of suspicion. We have
rred in this matter, doubtless, and on
the side of leniency; but we have done
so through our passionate English de
votion to the sacred principle of free
thought and free speech. There is no
high procedure of tolerance and be
nignity that does not permit and to
an extent foster opportunity of grave
abuse. Liberty of action implies a
choice of folly and "infamy in their
Jowest depths.
Repression, indeed, has its abuses as
well as toleration. To put power of ar
rest andimprisonment of anarchists into
the hands of secret service or metropoli
tan police is also to put into their hands
the possibility of espionage and tyranny
such as Russian and German annals
are full of. TT can surround our mag
istrates with' cordons of armed guards,
as they do in the Old World, but the
spectacle would be repulsive not only 'to
the populace, but to the protected ones
Themselves. President McKinley knew
his danger, yet he has braved it con
tinuously since his first inauguration,
as, his every predecessor has done, so
dearly does he prize, as they prized,
the precious privilege of going about
unarmed, a plain man among his plain
people. Even European monarchs have
so coveted this manifestation of affec
tion on one side and confidence on the
other that Czar and Emperor have fre
quently mingled unattended among
their subjects, in defiance of official
protest.
The danger of these drastic measures
is practical, moreover, in that they may
easily overshoot the mark. What mul
tiplies the secret conspiracy and the
murderous sedition so fruitfully as offi
cial espionage and violence? Did the
Inquisition put down heresy, or Russian
tortures eradicate nihilism, or German
lese majeste inculcate more respect for
the Hohenzollerns? All the populous
dungeons and well-armed guards of St.
Petersburg could not save Alexander
from nltro-glycerine. All the police in
Lyons could not save Carnot from the
dagger, or those of Monza save Hum
bert from the revolver, nor could all
the repressive power of Spain preserve
Canovas from the assassin in the baths
of Sah Aqueda.
All that can be done must be done;
yet not so much in severity as in pa
tient attention must the remedies be
sought. Assemblies held to rejoice over
the murder of rulers may well be for
bidden, and the New York proposal of
registering every anarchist in the city
is a tievice both scientific and sensible.
More violent measures are apt to defeat
their ends by their very extremity.
FIRST SOURCE OF CORRUPTION.
Readers of The Oregonlan will need
no introduction to the theory that the
source of political corruption is oftener
with the blackmailing politician than
"with the purchasing corporation. The
idea has been developed in these col
umns lor many years. It is well
enough, however, to call attention to an
amplification of the doctrine afforded in
his magazine by Professor George Gun
ton, president of the Institute of Social
Economics. As a defender -of the trusts,
Mr. Gunton seems to us usually too
optimistic, but in his contention that
the control of the Government by cor
porations may easily be exaggerated as
a menace to peace and order, he is ex
ceedingly well fortified.
Corporations cannot rob the people if
the people will elect honest men as
their representatives to office. That is
to say. as Mr. Gunton puts it, the dan
ger doestnot lie in the corporations or In
their size, but In the character of the
Legislatures. In fact, he maintains that
as the corporation grows larger and
more able to control production and
distribution In Its particular iine, the
less need It has of legislative assist
ance and the less it will interfere with
the operations of the Legislature. He
undertakes to say, also, that our in
dustrial history proves that as our pro
tected Industries grow, their demand for
protection slackens. We have In the
beginning a vociferous demand for pro
tection and in the days of maturity
entire Indifference. Carnegie, once an
ardent protectionist, in 1894 showed a
practical willingness to have free trade,
because his mills were in a position
where they neither needed Government
aid nor desired Government interfer
ence. Since then the billion-dollar steel
trust, whose possible influence on legis
lation is particularly feared, has
brought the larger part of the steel in
dustry up to the same high level of
efficiency of production as that of the
Carnegie property, and is consequently
in no need of Government aid. As to
the end of need of aid there is no doubt,
but as to the actual slackening of de
mand Mr. Gun ton's argument seems
to be trending on very thin ice. Would
he had offered more positive evidence
of the steel trust's entire willingness
to see free trade in iron and steel prod
ucts! With Mr. Gunton's main contention
relative to the ultimate responsibility
for corporate corruption, we entirely
agree. He admits the fact that cor
porations which do not need legislative
aid often do interfere. But he places
the blame largely on the shoulders of
those who should justly bear It As he
puts it: "The pernicious Influence of
corporations in politics arises not from
the interest of large corporations to
control the Government, but from the
interest of degenerate and corrupt poli
ticians to control large corporations."
When in the days of their weakness
the corporations needed ' aid,- they
helped to develop the "lobby" which
degenerated from a legitimate attempt
to influence legislation for the economic
good of the community to a system of
organized professional bribery and
blackmail. But when the corporations
no longer needed help, the professional
lobbyists, finding their occupation gone,
began introducing measures that would
Injure this or that industry in order to
be bought off. Finally, this system be
came so -intolerable that ,the corpora
tions were glad to contribute liberally
to the "bosses" of both parties in re
turn for protection from legislative
blackmail. Recent changes in the pol
icy of the Southern Pacific Railroad
afford timely and significant evidence of
the willingness of corporations to aban
don these measures when the opportu
nity arises.
The average business man would
rather do business on a business basis,
upright, fair and square, than to make
corrupt profits to be divided with black
mailing politicians. It is a safe predic
tion that if the politicians would let
the railroads, for example, alone, the
railroads would let the politicians alone.
Perhaps the main point, however, is
that these corrupt entanglements have
been made, somehow or other, and
must somehow or other be broken up.
No remedy is so safe and sure as that
of electing good men to office. The St.
Paul Pioneer Press thinks the direct
primary is a necessary preliminary to
the divorce of the corrupt corporation
from thes corrupt party boss; and prob
ably it Is right.
AX iaiPRACTICAIi AND SAVAGE
VIEW.
The question of deportation of South
ern negroes comes up periodically with
great persistence, notwithstanding the
fact that it has been demonstrated time
and again as impractical tand utterly
without basis in political, pecuniary or
physical possibilities. Visionary men
and women who have made superficial
study of the race problem have often
advanced this means of solution, urging,
it in some instances to experiment, but
always with disaster. The scheme is, in
deed, barred from serious consideration
by its mere statement Its latest ad
vocate is Bishop Turner, of the Afri
can Methodist Church. Strange as it
seems, he appears to be sincere in the
belief in its efficacy; more strange still
is his advocacy of branding, ear-cropping
and banishment as the most ef
fective measures for preventing the as
saults of black men upon white
women. Since hanging, shooting and
burning have not operated as deterrent
in these cases, there is clearly no rea
son to suppose that the infliction of
other cruel and unusual punishments
will serve the end sought Like the
colored overseer of the slave era, this
good colored" bishopN probably feels it
incumbent upon him to be unduly se
vre in his dealings with culprits of his
own race in order that such attainder
as attaches to certain members of it
may not reflect too seriously upon all.
Be this as it may, events have clearly
proved that the savages' modes of deal
ing with a certain class of the criminals
of the race has begotten savagery, and
not in anj' sense checked It. Burnings
and other forms of lynching have not
lessened the number of outrages to
which they have been with ghoulish sat
isfaction applied. On the contrary,
they have steadily increased, showing
the reflex power-of savagery in the
multiplication of feavages.
As to deportation, the negro is here;
he came without his own acquiescence
in the transfer. America, and not Af
rica, is the country of the American
negro, whose ancestors two centuries
and a half ago were forcibly brought to
these shores. Being here, all questions
consequent upon his presence must be
solved here. He is heir by legitimate
heritage to all the rights and subject
to all the restrictions that belong to
American citizenship. This, and noth
ing more. It Is not necessary to pro
vide special punishments for his crimes.
Rather let the penalties of broken law
as applied to other American citizens
be promptly, justly and inexorably ap
plied to him.
The most stubborn factor to be
evolved from the race problem, look
ing to its solution, is the irresponsibil
ity that was begotten by slavery. Sav
ages brought from the jungle two cen
turies and a half ago; as savages utter
ly devoid of the simplest conception of
womanly purity; held down for genera
tions by the heavy hand of bondage; in
vested suddenly with a liberty that they
did not know, because they had never
been taught how to use, what wonder
that numbers of negroes are bestial,
uncontrolled, savage, in the domain of
anjmalism?
Invested with citizenship hastily and
as an exigency of war, they brought
into it the attainder and curse of slav
eryinherited hatreds, brutalizing
memories and ' a moral nature of low
grade. That under these conditions
foul and abhorrent crimes would follow
personal liberty might easily have been
foreseen. Not through a system of bar
barism, the tendency of which is to
arouse the old instincts of savagery,
with their accompanying reckless dis
regard of life and defiance of death,
will the race be lifted above the abyss
of moral degradation in which the slave
trader found it and the system of
slavery kept and left it, but through
firm, prompt dealings of the law with
those who commit this crime of crimes.
An object-lesson in civilization not in
savagery is what these black men of
the South need. Of lessons in injustice
and all forms of lawlessness they have
had more than enough. They are here
to stay, and no chimera of deportation
will settle the question of their pres
ence; neither will the barbarous mutila
tion of criminals of the race nor the
infliction of death through horrible
means, or by any means, without due
form of law, lift them from the depth's
of brutal animalism to the heights of
moral responsibility. Let good Bishop
Turner try again or remain silent upon
the race problem.
OUR ARMY FARE IX THE TROPICS.
The Oregonian is in Teceiptof the re
port of Colonel Charles A. Woodruff,
U. S. A., Chief Commissary of the di
vision of the Philippines, from August
2, 1900, to May 31 of the present year.
This report of Colonel Woodruff is very
interesting reading, not only for its tes
timony as to the extent and efficiency
of the work of his department, but for
its valuable information concerning the
best diet for the American soldier in
the tropics. During the period covered
by this report the command to be sup
plied extended from Pekin on the north
to Borneo on the south and the Island
of Guam on the East. There were 480
stations to be supplied in the Philip
pines, besides the troops in China and
the prisoners in Guam. In addition to
the 68,000 troops and 3000 officers, the
Subsistence Department supplied the
delicacies for the sick, rations for 4000
prisqners of war,' 1S00 marines, many
of the stores for the Navy, rations for
1000 civilian employes, and sales stores
for the Army, Navy and marine offi
cers, Philippine Commission and at
taches, Federal employes of all descrip
tions, metropolitan police, native police
and scouts, transports, etc.; in other
words, nearly 100,000 persons, occupying
a country almost destitute of meat and
vegetables and other food supplies suit
able for Americans, were supplied from
a single base 7000 miles distant. So ex
cellent has been the service of the Sub
sistence Department that an English
writer, comparing the troops of the al
lied armies, said: "The American com
missary Is undoubtedly far the best of
"jlll, and American soldiers are best
fed, both 'in peace time and in the
field."
The average monthly sale of sub
sistence stores in Manila, notwithstand
ing the restrictions, Is $40,000, and
the stores sold embrace nearly every
article of food found- In .a first-class
grocery store. The sale of subsistence
stores to persons not authorized by the
regulations is constantly increasing.
Every one with a vestige of a claim is
pressing for the privilege of purchase.
The Oregonian observes that the re
cently arrived teachers at Manila are
complaining because they are denied
the privilege of commissary purchase.
Colonel Woodruff In his report says that
"in theory the sale is to enable em
ployes to live upon their salaries, the
price of subsistence stores being from
one-half to one-third the market rates,
but as sales are made to many whose
salaries are based upon extra cost of
living here, the revenues of the insular
government are decreased and the mer
chants deprived of legitimate busi
ness." This was written before the ar
rival of these teachers, and it is prob
able that they have been denied the
privilege of commissary purchase for
the reasons indicated by Colonel Wood
ruff. They belong to a class whose sal-
caries were originally based upon extra
cost of living in the Philippines, but
who are disposed to insist upon a privi
lege which was not originally estab
lished for their benefit, and which the
department cannot suffer, in justice to
the insular revenues and the local
merchants, to be abused.
Climatic influences cause a caprl
ciousness of appetite unknown in the
United States. There is an alternate
longing for sweets and acids, necessi
tating the suppty of a great quantity
of candy, jams, preserves, pickles and
sauer kraut The. fresh meat supply,
owing to- the widespread depletion of
the stock of native cattle by the rin
derpest, has been largely supplemented
by the use of frozen beef of excellent
quality, which is brought from Aus
tralia by naval supply vessels. The
department uses about fifteen tons per
day, and this furnished seven-tenths of
the fresh meat for 34,000 men. A new
Ice and cold-storage plant was expected
to be in operation by the first of July,
which would enable the department to
obtain an ample supply of ice and ren
der the supplying of fresh meat more
certain. The supply of fresh vegetables
has "been ample and of excellent' quality,
and has been brought -from America,
Japan. China, India and Australia.
Colonel Woodruff says that nearly
every report, 'contrary to the idea of
the theorists, indicates that the present
Army ration Is about perfect for service
in the tropics. The recent addition to
the amount of sugar and. the addition
of pickles, leaves little to be desired.
Many competent to express an opinion
desire more fresh meat, and it is a
noteworthy fact that the more abun
dant the issue of beef the less is the
number on the sick report Unless rice
is forced upon them, the troops will
take beans seven-tenths of the time and
thriVe upon them. The native ration,
with its two pounds of rice and a little
meat, did not keep the native prison
ers in as good health as the Army ra
tion. The Army ration was frequently
recommended by the surgeons as a cure
for beri-beri.
A new ration for native troops and
one for prisoners was established, giv
ing a variety better constituted to keep
them in a healthy condition. These ob
servations of Colonel Woodruff and his
fixed conclusion that meat is a highly
necessary and principal factor of
healthy diet in the tropics, are support
ed by the reports of our Army officers
stationed in Cuba and Porto Rico, who
say that all well-to-do people eat meat
eagerly in those islands; that the only
reason why the mass of the people eat
sparingly of It Is because they are too
poor to afford it, even as the old-time
Irish peasant ate many potatoes and
little meat because he could not afford
a meat diet. It is so in China; the
peasantry eat rice because it is cheap
diet, but in this country when a China
man can afford it he has no more use
for a diet that is chiefly rice than has
an American. The latest English tour
ists in China report that the non-use of
alcoholic drinks by the Chinese people
Is only confined to the mass of the
people; that well-to-do Chinese are very
fond of wine, and are not seldom in
temperate in the use of it. The mass
of the Chinese people, like the mass of
the people in ancient Athens and Rome,
do not get drunk because they cannot
afford to pay for the tipple. Socrates
and Pericles used wine because they
could afford to pay for it. Economic
reasons explain the popular non-use of
meat in the tropics. The British soldier
thrives best today in Calcutta on meat
diet, even as he does in the temperate
zone, and so does our American soldier
In the tropics.
The fire record for August showed
an improvement over the preceding
month, and for the same month dur
ing the past three years. The loss in
the United States and Canada was
$8,334,000, as against $10,298,250 in 1900,
and $9,703,700 in August, 1899. In July
of the present year it was $15,740,000, an
increase of more than $2,000,000 over
July of last year, and of more than
twice that sum over the loss of July,
1899. July, 1901, was exceedingly disas
trous in the number and costliness of
fires. It is asserted that a continuance
of the July ratio for three months
would have forced at least half a dozen
fire insurance companies into retire
ment. The record is chiefly discourag
ing in the face of the strenuous efforts
that have been for some years made to
eliminate inflammable materials from
the construction off costly buildings
and the enormous expense attendant
upon the maintenance of fire-fighting
machines, devices and companies in the
large cities. It seems to indicate that
,the fire fiend Is in league with some
force with which the ingenuity of man
is powerless to grapple successfully.
Considerable apprehension is felt that
Sir Thomas Lipton will win the race for
the America's cup, because it is clear
that Shamrock JI is faster than Sham
rock I. It should not be forgotten that
the Columbia, which has been selected
to defend the cup this year, easily beat
the first Shamrock two years ago. It
is reported that the Columbia is faster
this year than in 1899, hence Shamrock
II will need to be very fast to over
come the improvement that the victori
ous American yacht of 1S99 has made
over her old form. Doubtless this year's
race will be closer than any other in
the history of the cup, but there is no
sound ground for the apprehension that
the cup is likely to pass Into English
hands.
"Vice-President Roosevelt has, it is de
clared, "behaved admirably" since the
President was wounded. It certainly
was not expected that he would behave
otherwise. He wants to be President of
the United States, no doubt, and prob
ably expects to be in due time, but no
one supposes, or has any right to sup
pose, that he wants to succeed to it
without an election" in which he heads
the ticket.
George Howard, a wealthy farmer of
Wetumpka, Ala., was recently sen
tenced to life Imprisonment for lynch
ing a colored man who was accused of
stealing chickens. The same jury of his
neighbors has found two other men
guilty of murder in the second degree
for participating in the same crime.
This looks like progress.
.
The Schley-Sampson controversy has
been overshadowed completely during
the past week by the attempt to assas
sinate the President. Decks are being
cleared for action, however, and the
greatest naval battle that has ever been
fought on land will probably open on
schedule time.
Senator Mason doubtless means well
in his characterization of anarchy as
treason, but his proposal for practical
measures along that line is chimerical.
The Constitution defines treason, and
the definition does not fit Goldmanlsm.
France has done a great deal of bluff
ing, but it is noticed that she has sent
no treasure-ship to Constantinople to
carry home the money the Sultan must
pay if he doesn't want to fight
Portland never before manifested so
great and widespread interest in its
welfare as it does today. This ,fact
alone is augury of no inconsiderable
achievement.
If the secret service detectives shall
prove as successful as the surgeons,
anarchy will soon be due to receive a
second shock. '
In the last few days the Vice-President
has added to his refutation for
valor an even more enviable one for
discretion.
The dangers of aerial navigation are
greatly Overestimated. The majority of
the flying machines never leave the
earth.
Our old friend the thermometer will
now take a vacation till along about
the holidays.
WHAT OF CONSPIRATORS? s
Sajt Lake Tribune.
The brute who shot the President said
that he was influenced by the writings of
one unsexed, unnatural woman. We be
lieve that he lied. The indications all
point to the fact that there is a conspir
acy of scoundrels located in this country
and across the sea; that the deviltry
meditated in this country is planned be
yond the sea, so that only one victim will
be punished, and that that planned for
Europe is on this side. In the fairest
gardens are noxious weeds. Some are
easily eradicated; some, when torn from
the ground, leave fibers which, with re
newed life, spring up and their extermi
nation is almost impossible. It is so In
"the advancement of man. There are
noxious weeds in the garden of civiliza
tion, and to exterminate them seems al
most an impossibility. Under our insti
tutions those weeds have just as much
protection as the plants which bring forth
flowers or fruit. The question is whether
It is not time to restrain the liberties of
certain classes; whether it is not a duty
ol the Government, when men are known
to preach or to indorse the preaching of
assassination or of treason, whether as a
just self-defense, it is not proper and
right to put such men In places where
they can do no more harm. Under the
theory of our Government all men have
a r'ght to personal liberty, freedom of
thought, freedom of expression, but that
law contemplated that no matter how de
praved a man might be, his very de
pravity would neutralize his preaching,
and that it was not right, no matter what
a man's opinions might be, to interfere
with him unless he commits some overt
act. The trouble is that when such a
man does commit an overt act, a wrong
has been perpetrated that the lives of ten
thousand such men cannot make resti
tution for.
This man that shot the President was a
healthy man, capable of going out and
earning -wages which in two or three
years would have made him independent;
which would have given him a start with
which, and his work, he could have carved
out a full independence for him and for
those who m!ght be dependent upon him.
Tnrough some perverted aberration of his
mind, and probably through a hatred from
the first for honest work, he began to take
on tht idea tLfat" the world owed him a
living; and a little later that the world
had got to give him a living; a Jittle later
that because the world did not bring to
him a living, tho world was wrong, and
so he dr.fted down and down and down
until, in his laziness, his hearrlessness
and through an indefinable vanity which
always possessed him, he was brought
to the point of attacking tho man most
necessary to all the people of tho United
States, a life compared with which mil
lions like his would not weigh a grain in
the balance. It is useless o speculate
now on the degrees down which Tie has
traveled to reach his present state; but
tho point which Interests every one is
what can be done to restrain that class
of wretches and insure safety to men in
authority and respectable men every
where? "We believe that as we quaran
tine cUes against disease, as we abate
nuisances everywhere, as we take ad
vantage in advance of means to suppress
threatened danger, to either the morals
or the well-being of men, so wo have a
right to assume that when men preach
the Justification of murder in order to do
away with tyrants, they are engaged in
an unlawful conspiracy, and that it Is not
proper to permit them to judge who are
tyrants, but to restrain them in such a
way that the evil thoughts in their brains
cannot find expression, as did tho evil
thought in that wretch's brain in Buffalo
last Friday.
Russia's New Port.
San Francisco Call.
While the world has been watching Rus
sian efforts In the direction of obtaining
a port on the Pacific better fitted for com.
merce than "Vladivostock, and has been
noting carefully her movements to effect
a ledgmen in Manchuria, the Russians
themselves have turned a portion of their
energies westward and are now preparing
for the construction of a deep-water ca
nal from the Baltic to the Arctic Ocean,
so that in case of European complications
their fleets and merchant vessels could
get into the Atlantic without having to
run the gauntlet of the Baltic.
The Arctic terminus of the canal is to be
at Alexandrovsk, a port which has been
recently constructed .at Kola Bay,-xin the
Marman coast. It is said the Russian au
thorities have found the port to be almost
free from ice, and that they have con
structed there a safe harbor for the
largest war vessels, with ample accommo
dations for a considerable fleet. The ter
minus of the canal in the White Sea will
be at Sorozkaja. By the routes of the
canal the distance from St. Petersburg
to Sorozkaja will be very nearly 600 miles,
and to Alexandrovsk. 1090 miles, while the
present route around the Scandinavian Pe
ninsula is 2S70.
It is estimated that the cost of the canal
will not be great when the length of the
route and the advantages to be gained
are taken into consideration. Between
St. Petersburg and Sorozkaja the route
will traverse rivers and lakes for almost
the whole distance, so that little will have
to be done on that part of the line fur
ther than to deepen and regulate the
natural waterways. The remainder of the
route will also be easy of construction,
for the surveys have disclosed the fact
that at a former age there was a natural
waterway connecting the northern end of
the Baltic with the Arctic, and a belt of
shallow lakes situated among low hills
still marks Its former course.
The strategic value of the route In case
of a war with Germany or Great Britain
will be great, for at present either of
those 'powers could virtually cork Russia
up In the Baltic and prevent her fleets
from operating on the ocean. When tho
canal has been opened a different situa
tion will present Itself. Russia will have
two avenues to the ocean, and it is not
likely both could be closed against her.
It does not appear that the Russians ex
pect much of the canal in the way of com
mercial advantage, but of course some
thing will be gained in that direction
also. It will be seen that the great in
land empire is rapidly making Its way to
the seas. It has now an ample frontage
on the Pacific. By the recent treaty with
Persia It obtains a virtual control of the
best ports on the Persian Gulf, and has
thus gained admission to the Indian
Ocean. When the new canal to the Arctic
has been opened there will remain but one
avenue more to bo provided, that of ad
mission to the Mediterranean, and even
that may be acquired mch soooner than
now seems likely or even possible.
Come to the Paciflc Northwest.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A region larger than Europe is still un
occupied west of the Mississippi River.
Tho thousands who rushed to Oklahoma
and were disappointed in the land allot
ment have still an Immense field for selec
tion. Ills Promise.
S. B. Klscr, In Chicago Record-Herald.
When she was twenty-one or so
And he was forty-three, '
She placed fier hand In his, and they
Went laughing down a flowery way,
From all forebodings free.
"I'll guide' your footsteps, dear," he said,
And you shall lean on me."
They started forth with hearts aglow.
When she was twenty-one or so,
And he was forty-three.
I saw them passing yesterday, ' "
And she. once slim and fair,
No longer stepped with airy tread,
And he nor guided her norvled ,
Her leaning on him there.
The youthful charm of long ago
Alas! was hers no more.
But with a CTardian, angel's care
She wheeled him, doddering. In his chair,
, To whom she clung before. f
A DERELICT HUSBAND.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
If Mrs. August Simmons, of Hodgenman
County, Kansas, tells the truth about her
husband that gentleman's reputation will
never be of much value hereafter.
Mrs. Simmons, in a petition for divorce,
alleges that her husband, since their mar
riage two years ago, has failed and re
fused to pet, kiss or caress her, and that
once when she attempted to steal a kiss
from him he slapped her and spat In her
face.
Mr. Simmons, we may presume, has not
made a formal answer, but the nature or
his derense is outlined, doubtless, on the
strength of what he has said out of court.
He holds to the theory that kissing Is not
conducive to health, and intends to intro
duce expert evidence to prove it. It is
said that he will be able to get the testi
mony of physicians to support the theory
that kissing Is unwholesome.
We naturally suspect a man who de
fends himself against the charge that
he has refused to kiss his wife on the
ground that It is not conducive to
health. The male person who get3 mar
ried is estopped from interposing such
a defense. A well-advised court, we
think, would decide that it is wholly im
material whether kissing is wholesome
or not. Certainly that is the mental at
titude of most married men and of prac
tically all the unmarried. Whoever Is
unwilling to Incur any slight danger that
may result has not courage enough to
enter Into the estate of matrimony. There
are many other perils attending marriage
more serious than a mere possibility that
contact of the lips may transmit some
malady.
If Mrs. Simmons states the case fairly
her husband's plan is Insincere. In spite
cf his refusal to caress her. she alleges
that he has frequently kissed other
women, and that once he kissed a
woman in her presence. If these facts be
established it will show clearly enough
that the delinquent husband Is not really
so much impressed with the danger of
kissing as he pretends. Such conduct is
altogether In keeping with the character
of a man who will slap his wife for try
ing to steal a kiss.
If, however, Mrs. Simmons "'took the
risk of going to the altar without find
ing out whether her prospective husband
could be relied on to bestow marital car
esses. It might be a grave question
whether she was not guilty of contribu
tory negligence. On the other hand, ir
It should appear that Mr. Simmons had
kissed her before marriage, his conduct
after the wedding would seem to bo a
clear case of false pretense.
A Desrndiiipr Snectoale.
New York World.
With a brutality little In accord with
what should be the spirit of the city and
tho times, certain managers are exploit
ing in and about New York an unfortu
nately notorious woman of Kansas. Carrie
Nation is the irresponsible victim of her
own violent fanaticism and of the unen
viable publicity into which her mistaken
zeaKhas brought her. She should be re
strained, not as a criminal, but as one
not realizing the mischief, disorder and
humiliation attendant upon her course.
Por the profit of conscienceless men a
helpless, blinded woman is dragged before
morbid, jeering crowds. In the act her
whole sex is Insulted and an affront is put
upon the decent sense of the community.
The miserable business should be stopped
at once.
The Bouses Are Absolute.
Pittsburg Post.
Nothing is more Incomprehensible to the
uninitiated outsider than the absolute
supremacy of Croker and Piatt In New
York city politics. The people of New
York go on year after year paying homage
to those two men, and now, when there
is a Ilfe-and-death struggle In progress,
the people dare not move without consult
ing tho nonresident Republican boss. And
when Mr. Piatt questions the right of
Croker to say who shall be Mayor of New
York, the anbwer is that Croker has quite
vs good a right as Platt has.
The Growing: Pension List.
New York Journal.
The annual report of the Commissioner
of Pensions shows that S6 years after the
close ,of the war there are more pension
ers on the rolls than ever before in our
history. There are more people drawing
pensions from the Government today than
there were men under arms when our
armies were mustered out at the close of
the war. And there I no sign of any
slackening of the current. The farther
we get away from the war In which these
pensions are alleged to have been earned
the bigger grows the bill.
Grave DniiRer.
Chicago Chronicle.
A learned contemporary states that Chl
cagoans are signing a petition which re
clares that if the Boer war continues
South Africa will be "depopulized." If
South Africa is populized it cannofc be de
populized too soon or too completely.
The same is true of the Democratic party
in this country. If it had never been pop
ulized most likely a Democratic adminis
tration would now be in power and n
whole lot of dreadful "problems" would
not be worrying us.
Unrelieved Calamity.
Kansas City Journal.
"Mr. Bryan's Labor day speech at Kan
sas City," says the Topeka Capital, "was
pure, old-fasnioned calamity, unrelieved
by a single ray of hope or good cheer."
What can you expect of a man who has
suffered two overwhelming defeats for the
Presidency and is given to understand by
his party that it wants no more of him?
Hope and good cheer do not spring from
blasted ambitions.
Welcome to Him.
Baltimore American.
Richard Croker, it is said, wants to be
an Engl sh subject. Great Britain is quite
welcome to this notable addition to Jier
population, though the gentleman himself
may hrid more difficulty than he antici
pates in English politics in the congenial
occupation of "working for his own pocket
all the time."
To England.
Alfred Austin, In the London Times.
I.
Heed not those voices, whether hoarsely borne
Through leagues of mist from lands where
Envy growls
At unassailable greatness and your scorn
Of powerless snarls and scowls,
n.
Or hissed out, nearer home, from foul-fanged
throat
Of treason, eager to besmirch and slay
Our far-off hero-brother, and to vote
An emplre'3 weal away.
III.
But hearken only to the Imperative voice
Of your owp. conscience, purified from lust
Of victory or vengeants, and rejoice
Solely la what Is Just.
IV.
And, as a firm-willed steadfast-steering bark
'Gainst buffeting winds and tempest-tattered
spray,
"Mid Jarring clamor, on through day, through
dark,
Cleaves Its appointed way,
V. '
And while keels feebler toss, the shivering
sport
Of multitudinous billows, drenched and
drowned.
Then derelict thinks only of the port
To which Its chart 13 bound,
I VI.
So keep male mind and unreproachful soul
- Set to your purpose. free from dread or Ire,
Until you sight and gain unto the goal
Of duty and desiro:
Vll.
Forgetful never that the strong still must.
If cherishing freedom, keepher flag un
furled Long as fGod wills to give to them In trust
Tho welfare of the world. -
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Czolgosz did more to eradfeate anarchj
than to destroy government
Soma minstrel jokes are older than oth
ers. That's the only difference.
Perhaps we shall have that free swim
ming bath in. time for the 1S05 Exposition.
The purpose of the Colorado beetle which
has invaded the English gardens Is mere
ly benevolent assimilation.
Lyceum bureaus are now looking for
the men who are going in search of the
BaJdwin-Zeigler exploration party.
If the effort to suppress fictitious titles
shall succeed, how Is a traveler going
to know when he is in Kentucky?
Now Canada has a job-lot of Islands
to dispose of. Uncle Sam, however, has
about all he can use for the present
It now aevelops that Senator Depew's
resolution to be interviewed no more was
only one of his well-known witticisms.
The vacation season is drawing to a
close, and the small boy and the Sum
mer hotel-keepers are the chief mourners.
Mr. Hsrreschoft must have got the years
mixed up when he built Constltutlon'and
Columbia, and turned out the wrong boat
first.
Millionaires say that money is a great
deal of trouble. Perhaps that is why
some people are always ready to bor
row It.
Over 200Q dogs In Baltimore have been
found rearing bogus licenses. And yet
Byron and other poets have referred to
dogs as honestl
Richard Croker, It is said, desires to be
come a British subject. If Great Britain
has an eye to her welfare he will bo
alone in his desire.
A Denver physician has discovered that
the vermiform appendix has a use. It has
probably been instrumetal In enabling-him,
to purchase a new electric runabout.
Mr. E. O. Spltzner asks The Oregonian,
for the name of a poem, entitled "Ber
beries Aquifollum," which appeared in
these columns December 8, 1S09, over tho
nom de plume. "The Sweet Singer Qt
Clackamas." The name of the author has
been lost, and if ho will come forth from
his obscurity and "own up" he will con
fer a favor on Mr. Spltzner.
Among recent deaths is that of tho
Duke of Leuchfenberg, at St Petersburg.
The Duke of Leuchtenberg was a General
of infantry in the Russian Army, and
was a descendant in the direct line of Eu
gene Beauharnais, who was Josephine's
son, an adopted son of Napoleon I, and a
"Viceroy of Italy. Eugene Beauharnais'
son married a daughter of Czar Nicho
las I.
M. Paderewski, like other mortals of
less note, has his hobby name, billiards.
He plays nearly every day when he can
spare time from practicing and compos
ing, and is a very fair cueist. "I think
I like billiards," he says, "because It not
only exercises my eye and hand, and
keeps them in. training even when I am
amusing myself, but It also produces to
me the delicate and refined artistic feel
ings which I have often to express on
the piano, and when, for Instance, I play
my favorite Chopin."
GATES AJAR, Or., Sept. 10. (To the
Editor.) I see by your paper that some
of my Scandinavian, neighbors along the
Santlam have been, dropping into verse.
I don't blame them living where the birds
and the streams and the winds as they
sway the tall fir trees make melody all
the year round the wonder 1 that our
people do not speak as well as write in
rhyme. Now, without attempting to dis
parage the poetical effusions of my Scan
dinavian, friends, I beg to submit that
theirs are not to be compared with the
works of Thomas Moore, Oliver Gold
smith, Bartholomew Dowling; Samuel
Lover or many other Irish bard3 because
they are not the heirs of the ages of
sad but romantic history that has in
spired. THE POETRY OP IRELAND.
Old Ireland Is the home, sure, o poetry and
song;
Say bravery and beauty, too, and then you'll
not be wrong.
There, poetry just bubbles up like water from
a spring
Twould warm the cockles of your heart to
hear our poets sing.
Our Irish lads and colleens are true to home
and God,
And heroes' blood enriches the dear old Irish
sod, -For
Ireland's sons have well been taught both
pen and sword to wield.
And bones of Irish patriots bleach on many a
hard-fought Held.
From Fontenoy to Fredericksburg In many a
bloody iray, -
eir fiery Celtic charge has changed tho
TS
In Freedom's cause, in many lands, the ty
rant's sway they've checked.
And fVlend and foe alike have learned their
vdlor to respect.
With such memories to cherish, where'er we
chance to rove, "
What wonder we should stories tell of glory
and of love:
With the memories of Ireland'3 wrong3 inspir
ing heart and brain.
What wonder that our numbers often glide In
mournful strain. ?
The poetry of other lands may tell their story
well.
But the poetry of Ireland o'er us casts a
magic spell.
The poetry of other lands compiles with ruloi
of art.
But the poetry of Ireland Is the throbbing of
her hear- -O'TOOLE.
PLEASANTRIES OP PARAGRAPHERS
Quite Recent. Sirs. Porkchops Bah I They're
mere parvenu"?. Mr. Porkchops Er got thplr
money since we did? Mrs. Porkchops Why.
yes. They Just struck oil In Texa3. Brooklyn
Life.
"When I get to heaven." said a woman to
her Baconian husband. "I am going- to ask
Shakespeare If he wrote thoe plays." "Maybe
he won't be there." "Then you ask him."
said his wife. Tlt-BIts.
Not Unusual. "A problem noveli? What's
the problem?" "There are several, but tho
one that arrest3 the attention of the thought
ful reader is 'How in the world did the author
eer manage to get a publisher.' "Life.
Un-Arnerlean. "She keeps a strictly Amer
ican boardInghouse, doesn't she? Yes, and
that makes It seem all the more out of place
that so many of her boarders should take
French leave." Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
His Characteristics. Visitor Whom do you
take after Bobby, your papa or mamma?
Bobby JonesThat depends; when Aunt Sarah's
here ma says I take after her folks, and'when.
Uncle Silas Jones Is here ma says I'm a regu
lar Jones. They're both r-r-rlch! Lesllo'3
Weekly.
An Oversight. Th visiting team came to bat
for the last time and made eisht runs. Just
enough to win. "Yah!" shouted the victorious
captain, "I thought you said you eould see our
finish at th beginning." "So I did," replied
the other, dolefully, "but I couldn't see your
big Inning at the finish!" Philadelphia Press.
Unreasonable. "Look here!" angrily ex
claimed the householder, pointing to- a cigar
stump that lay on the floor of the baqk porch.
'That was In the lump of Ice you left here
yesterday morning!" "Well," belligerently re
plied the leexhan, "what did you expect to get
for IJ cents? A. box of perfectosT Chicago
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