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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
BURIAL AXD DEDICATION.
How crowded and how cruel the fort
night that came to an end with last
night's setting sun! First the glad ac
claim of the Nation at its fest in Buf
falo, proud people, President turning
with winning smile to every applicant
for his notice; then the shock of as
sassination, the week of hope, the
mocking blow of death, another week
filled with mourning, then the pall, the
weeping trains of mourners and the
narrow house. The grave at length has
close's, over one of the best-beloved of
American Presidents, who but for the
assassin's hand would doubtless have
died in Nature's course, full of years
and honors, with added laurels to his
fame, with yet greater things on the
roll of his achie-ement
Yefmartyrfiom has its recompense.
The dead man has taken a place in
the hearts of his countrymen far higher
and more venerated than a lifetime of
laborious service could bestow. In the
shock of agony and the deeper trial of
suspense and waiting, and in the su
preme hour of dissolution, his qualities
shone out resplendent. His thoughts
were all of others, there was 110 com
plaint, there was only obedience to the
call. Heroism and patience of this
quality cover every shortcoming as
with a mantle. A nation's tears wash
out every etain of criticism and re
proach. The universality of sorrow has a
deeper meaning. Murder of Presidents,
becoming so common, weighs on the
general heart. What sort of country,
alas, Is it that we are to leave our pos
terity? Is universal confidence and
support to be the mark for the assas
sin's blow? Is our boasted civilization
tmahle to protect its lawful executive
from murder, and preserve the Na
tional name from humiliation and dis
grace? The only answer to these gloomy fore
bodings is to turn from them to the
assurances of patriotism that shine
forth on even' hand: In the outpouring
of sad-eyed thousands in every city
in the land; the lowered flags and
funereal emblems; the universal thought
turning fondly toward the graveyard at
Canton, where all that was mortal of
"William McKinley was borne among
weeping throngs and laid to rest in the
flickering shade of elm and vine. One
is fain to forget the poor wretch await
ing execution at Buffalo, and even, the
horror of the crime and tragedy of
bereavement, to dwell upon the loyal
love and tenderness that xwell from
seventy million hearts, touched with
sympathy and patriotism. In the pres
ence of such assurances, misgiving may
well give place to confidence and fears
be ruled by hope.
Cover the grave of high ambitions
and unrequited hopes with the flowers
of a Nation's prayers and tears, and
come away to the new day of fresh
ened impulses to civic righteousness
and purified resolves of order and law.
Leave him in the high place where
martyrdom has set him beside the
sainted dead who lived before him and
whose paths he sought to tread. Duty
is to the living now. IDuty is to the
land In whose service from boyhood
to the grave he lived and died.
The debt we owe to him and them
is to make sure they did not die in
vain; that from the shock of the crime
and from the nights and days of watch
ing and from the solemn message of
the burial hour the Nation should
pledge itself to be forever worthy of
the best and noblest -in its history.
JBury the dead of sectionalism and un
reasoning passion. Raise again the
standards of patriotic solicitude In
which the colonists sprang to arms, and
the endangered Union was preserved
and the flag was borne up San Juan
heights and on the plains of Malabon.
This is the true mourning, of which
black emblems and solemn dirges are
only symbols. "Without that consecra
tion, forms and shows of grief are but
the actions that a man might play.
A steamship carrying 4,000,000 feet of
lumber crossed out of the Columbia
yesterday, bound for the Orient There
are only one or two other ports In the
world that have shipped larger cargoes
than this, and no other port has shipped
as many large cargoes of lumber as
have been cleared from Portland. Con
siderins that this remarkable showing
has been made within the past four
years, it is reasonable to expect that
this port will soon hold as prominent
a place in the lumber business as it
aow holds in wheat and flour. Loggers
are still on the outer fringe of our big
timber territory, and long before we are
reduced to the necessity of classing pil-
ing as sawlogs the industry will add
thousands to our population and mil
lions to our wealth.
AX IMPLIED PRESCRIPTION.
One of the most impressive passages
in the Medidal Journal's summing up
of the fatal case of President McKin
ley is contained in the reference to the
undoubted effect of the worry of his
exacting office. "His vitality," it says,
"may have been somewhat impaired
by the fearful mental strain to which
the duties of his office and its responsi
bilities and nTwietiPs hurt Innp Riihleeted
him." "With becoming reserve, the doc-
tors offer this suggestion guardedly;
but every one knows 'they understate
the certainty of the theory.
The President's vitality had been im
paired. He was only 58 years old he
had lived a life of practical abstemi
ousness; he had a fine constitution.
Yet not a single move had been made
by Nature in the direction of repair.
He was free from disease, he was in
better condition than the average man
of his mode of life. Even the wounds
produced no shock in the technical
sense. There was no internal hemor
rhage, the operation was performed
promptly and perfectly. The wound
In the kidneys was unimportant.
The President died, then, simply be
cause his vitality had been impaired,
and the only thing that could have im
caired it was the care of his office.
The old saw that it is not work, but
worry, that kills men, ia, thus given a
most impressive demonstration. The
President was a man peculiarly sus
ceptible to this enfeebling influence. He
was conscientious, anxious to please,
sensitive to criticism. The tentative
character of his policies, and the readi
ness to revise or abandon a course upon
the recommendation of Cabinet or party
leaders, intensified the opportunity for
delay and indecision to rack his sys
tem. He died because Nature could
not restore her losses. He died because
his vitality had been impaired through
heavy responsibilities.
Here Is a warning hint for the men
who are fain to purchase eminence or
sudden wealth through Inordinate la
bors of mind. Tom Potter, of the "Union
Pacific, died a martyr to this same
burden of care. President Schwab, of
the steel trust, is trying to earn his
$SOO,000 a year, and some day he will
break down under the strain. The
strenuous life of the prize-ring makes
the champion age twenty years in five.
The lighthouse-keeper goes insane and
the train dispatcher becomes a mental
wreck. The great man dies of Brlght's
or diabetes or pneumonia, but what
kills him is care. Presidents and ex-r
Presidents die at an alarming rate, and
the average Cabinet officer is sick half
his days.
Laziness is execrable, but a man can
work too hard and worry too much.
More men die of fretting than of conviv
iality. Better a banquet with congenial
spirits than a night of troubled dreams
over business cares. There is no fame
so great as to recompense a man for
harassed days and sleepless nights.
There is no wealth worth having at the
price of lonesome hearths at home and
childhood bereft of father's love and
care. Is not the life more than meat
and the body than raiment? "Who shall
covet the cares of the envious palace
and the gray hairs that come too soon
in anxious heads under the Capitol's
dome and in marble offices at Broad"
and "Wall, and in the directors' room
when the bank has closed without suffi
cient funds for tomorrow's opening?
At moments as by the deathbed and
the open grave, short and far between,
it is profitable to recall that man doth
not live by bread alone, nor grow rich
only In goods and gold, nor get happi
ness only in the stress of overwork. In
every life there should be the quiet
hour of reverie, the fellowship of lov
ing converse while thefire burns low,
the soft touch of children's faces and
the solace of old books. It is a. mis
spent day that is nothing but busy. It
is an empty life that is filled only (with
work and care.
A VANISHING PEOPLE.
Again the census comes to us with a
wail the wail of a "disappearing peo
ple' Revelations are made which
show conclusively that the birth rate
in families which we are accustomed
to look upon as typically "American"
is decreasing at a prodigious ratio at a
ratio, in fact, that bids fair a few gen
erations hence practically to extinguish
the type, and thus substantially abol
ish our free institutions. American
people have, unfortunately, as It is con
tended, adopted the theory that large
families are. from various causes, un
desirable? And to such lengths is this
idea being pushed, so the figures seem
to how, that American parents are not
producing children enough to perpetu
ate the race.
Perhaps there is something in this,
though those who take note of the thou
sands of children who answer the ring
of the school bells in September are not
disposed to take such census figures
seriously. That there is a falling; off In
the birth rate distinctively called
"American" is true, but the fact may
not contain the menace to our institu
tions that is feared. "What, Indeed, are
our public schools good for if not to turn
out "Americans," regardless of the na
tionality of the pupils' parents? Spe
cific declines, however, are demonstra
ble. Take, for example, the Friends or
Quaker population. Constituting a
pure, loyal, intelligent class of people,
whose increase can but add tothe sta
bility of the Nation and the moral
wealth of the community, that the birth
rate among them, sad to say, shows
discouraging decrease; In point of fact,
they are dying out This statement Is
not based upon the reports of the re
ligious body whose tenets they hold,'
but upon the fact that Quakers no
longer raise large families; that fami
lies in the sense of that term half a
century ago have practically disap
peared from among them.
In ten "yearly meetings," as the dis
trict organizations of the Quakers are
called, last year, the number of deaths
was 769 against 537 births an excess of
232 of the former. These "meetings"
are generally located in the Bast
(though they extend in a limited de
gree to the West), hence some allow
ance must be made for the removal of
younger members; but, even after this
is dene, the decrease represents that of
a dying race, which finds a ready paral
lel among the Indian tribes on West
ern reservations. The assertion that
the decrease in the birth rate is due
to increasing mortality of a certain
type among our native population is
refuted by this citation, since the Quak
ers, wherever they are, represent a
sturdy status of morality that is unim
peachable. Xet it is seen thatTttie birth
rate declines among them in a ratio
equal to that shown in any other class.
Hence, it Is but fair to presume tat
in the essentials of morality our native
population has not declined. The other
conclusion must be that it has retro
graded in its conceptions of duty to the
state and the race in the matter of
child-bearing. As a result, the rate of
increase in population, as shown by the
official figures, has dropped to nearly
one-half of th1 point at which it stood
two generations ago. As the Philadel
phia Press puts it, "it Is decreasing by
a steady, fatal decrement." The final
conclusion is that American fathers
and mothers who fill their home3 with
boys and girls are the only hope of the
-Nation.
THREE FAMOUS FUNERALS.
The thirty-six years that have elapsed
since Lincoln's funeral find the heart
of the Nation fuller of his Inspiring
fame than even when all that was
brave and manly North and South bent
over his bier and wept bitterly. Men
of all shades of political opinion; men
of all degrees of Intelligence and social
station, crave themselves up to tears.
He was our most memorable martyr;
he was a grand and complete figure
before he fell; and, evenif he had died
as peacefully as did Washington, like
Washington, his fame would have
grown larger and the fragrance of his
memory sweater with the onward march
of centuries.
There was a long agony and weary
vigil of eleven weeks before President
Garfield's bedy was out of pain and his
soul out of prison. The Nation was ndt
entirely unprepared for the sad result of
his wound, but their hopes had been so
often Jifted above their fears that the
grief of the people was both loud and
deep with disappointment that a giant
like Garfield should die stung to death
by a wretched gnat like Guiteau, a
wretched, witless vagabond, who for
fifteen years had been notorious as a
crank of homicidal tendencies. A man
of "robust outdoor eloquence, of much
personal magnetism, there was sincere
mourning 'for Garfield In all the hard
working homes and humble hearts of
the American yeomanry, from, whose
ranks he sprang. Every battle-battered
soldier who grimly followed Grant
to ultimate victory or marched gaily
with Sherman, singing his way to sea,
rriburned for Garfield, whose splendid
courage was 'a biigle call to rally and
a rock of defense in defeat at Chicka
mauga. The memories of the Civil
War were nearer ahd dearer then than
they are today, and his' stout soldier
ship was the best and brightest page
in the murdered President's short book
of life. Every old mother who is glad
that her boy never thinks her too old
to kiss or too humble to honor mourned
sincerely for Garfield. His exceedingly
cruel fate, his long agony, excited such
deep public sympathy that to this day
the popular memory of Garfield is that
of the grossly idealized figure of a man
who was not the peer of McKinley in
versatile Dolitical talents and greatly
Inferior to him in the virtues that both
adorn and bless domestic life.
Of the funeral of McKinley It may be
said that it is not simply culture that
mourns, as when Sumner was borne to
the tomb. It is the plain people of all
parties, sects and conditions of life.
Archbishop Ireland eloquently laments
the death of this man of Methodist
antecedents, because he found him al
ways hostile to bigotry in religion; al
ways tolerant of honest faith; always
in- Jove with equal religious and polit
ical liberty under law. There was cul
ture enough about McKinley, though
he was not college bred, to command
the sincere respect of the scholar; there
was logic enough about him to hold the
attention of the man of dialectical skill
and profession: there was piety enough
about him to satisfy the clergy; there
was persuasive quality enough In his
tactful speech to extort a favorable
verdict from his audience. But it is
not to these high and various attributes
that the dead man owed the largest
following at his funeral. He owed it to
his possession of the simple humane
qualities that touch all hearts that are
at all sensitive to the spectacle of man
hood in every-day life that is at once
sound and sweet. He was a patriotic
man; he was a valiant soldier; he was
a true and tender husband; he was a
faithful friend, loyal in sunshine and
in storm; he was an exponent of that
unostentatious everv-dav conduct that
belongs to the best days of the Repub
lic. It was these qualities which the
plain people thoroughly appreciate and
admire that made them mourn the
"deep damnation of his taking oft!" as
that of a man and a brother.
Men of greater intellect than McKin
ley have been borne to the tomb in
America, but it is the generous, kindly
and stout heart of the man that binds
all parties, all ages, all sects and all
opinions most strongly to his memory.
The every-day working world of Amer
ica, that cares little lor oratory or so
called culture, or scholarship, or parti
san politics, took off its hat to TVIcKin
ley's coffin chiefly out of respect to him
as one in whose heart the spirit of hu
manity and justice was always upper
most The memory of a man's moral
quality, the memory of him as a man
of 'both light and heat, is the best leg
acy for inspiration he leaves us. It is
only the spectacle of high example,
moral soundness and sweetness that
helps to breed heroes. There was some
thing beautiful in the common prayer
for his recovery all over the land
Catholic, Protestant, Gentile and Jew
and the marked feature of It all was
the total absence of that kind of cant
that sometimes seems to become
chronic in the pulpit. While every
man's sympathy was poured through
the mould of his own belief, yet he
seemed ennobled by his individual out
pouring in the common dove for the
human and common uplifting to the
divine. The old coronach is the dirge
for the hour
The hands of the reapers take ears that aro
hoary,
But the voice of our weepers wails manhood
in glory.
A SENSELESS CUSTOM.
The fact, as developed by expert in
vestigation, that the wretch Czolgosz
had been following President McKin
ley from place to place, hoping to get
near him, and had been hanging -round
several days in Buffalo waiting for
the opportunity furnished by the public
reception. at which anybody was al
lowed to approach and shake hands
with him, ought to put an end to this
imbecile ceremony. Expressive of noth
ing, fatiguing to the last degree, and
dangerous, as has been too clearly
proven, the handshake as a feature "of
an official reception should be abol
ished. The President's time belongs to
the public not to the crowd. In the
early days of the Republic this fact was
recognized, but later, under boastful
expansion of the democratic ideja, there
has been a demand upon his tfrne and
strength by the crowd that is both use
less and unwarrantable, wuatever
may be said in favor of the custom of
wholesale handshaking, it Is an absurd
ity, and withal a barbarous one. The
spectacle presented by the Chief Mag
istrate of over 70,000,000 people, a suf
fering look on his face which the stereo
typed smile does not conceal, standing
with his hand passively extended while
the crowd is railroaded past him, each
one' taking a hurried pull or squeeze
at the .swollen, impassive vmember,
would be ludicrous were it not Tnani
festiy painful. Moreover, it Is an abuse
of privilege to make the President a
public show for sightseers or an ad
vertisement for a display of any sort.
Apart from the great risk involved, a
demonstration of which the country is
now sorrowfully witnessing, it is an in
vasion of the public interests to allow
such needless trespass upon the time
and strength of the President of. the
United States. Let demagogues howl
about excluslveness and imperialism if
fthey will, but let this imbecile custom
be abolished.
Much has been said concerning the
devotion of President McKinley to his
invalid wife. It was a very humane
but very natural trait, for every well-
bred, manly man feels strongly drawn
toward an invalid wife, because, in
addition to the affection he bears her,
the weakness and the helplessness of
the woman appeals to his sympathies.
He comes to consider her very much
as he does a sick child. The great ora
tor, Wendell Phillips, in the prime of
his manly strength and beauty, for he
was a notably handsome man in face
and. figure, fell in love with Miss Anne
Green, who had been an invalid all her
life. When he aslced her father's sanc
tion to their marriage, Mr. Green said:
"My daughter not only has always been
an invalid, but she will never be any
better; she will be .an invalid all her
days. She has to be carried up and
down stairs every day, and it would be
a great personal sacrifice for you to
give her the constant care that her
condition will always demand." Mr.
Phillips replied: "It you know of any
body that loves your daughter more
devotedly than I do. j?iva her to him;
but otherwise give her to me at once."
They were married, and while Mrs.
Phillips was always a helpless invalid,
her gifted husband was devoted to her
night and day when he was not busy
in the lecture fieldjor speaking for the
cause that was dearest to both their
hearts. Mr. Phillips died in 1884, aged
73, ind his. invalid wife survived him
several years. Elizabeth Barrett Brown
ing had been an Invalid all her days
when she married Robert Browning,
and was little better than a chronic
invalid the whole of her married life.
Ideal weather for securing the grain
and hop crops ' has been of immense
value to the farmers of the Northwest.
The hon cron is materially less than
that of a year ago, but the favorable
weather has permitted Its being saved
in much better shape than in some for
mer years. The quality of the crop as
a whole is above the average, and while
the price is not as high as It was last
year, the entire crop can be marketed
at a figure which is fairly remunerative
for Ithe grower. The value of the crop
in this state alone is in excess of $1,500,-
000, and this sum, drifting Into the
channels of trade before wheat com
mences to move, has an appreciable ef
fect on nearly all industries.
The entries for the harness races at
the State Pair this year show larger
fields of high-grade animals than have
ever appeared at any previous meeting.
This isthe strongest evidence of the ris
ing fortunes of the horsemen in this
state. Pulling the inanimate throttle
of an automobile can never give the
exhilarating pleasure afforded by a
tight grip on the reins over an animal
that has trotted or paced Into "the list."
For this reason there will always be a
good demand for fast harness horses,
and the prosperity of the country will
be reflected in the large or small fields
of horses that are to be found at the
State Fair. . ,
Richard Lawrence, who attempted to
assassinate President Andrew Jackson
on January 30, 1835, as the President
was.leaving the rotunda of the Capitol,
was by trade a printer, a native of
Washington City, and of previous good
character. Lawrence snapped two
heavily loaded pistols at the President,
but the percussion, caps exploded in
each case without igniting the pow
der. Lawrence was found to be insane.
The President raised his cane and
aimed a blow at the assassin, who wad
at once seized, thrown down, disarmed
and secured.
Every member of tjhe vast crowd that
filled Multnomah field yesterday is a
personal enemy of anarchy. Legisla
tion looking to the suppression, of that
black evil will not be lacking in popu
lar favor.
With six children In the White House
the staid old servants of the establish
ment will get a sure-enough taste of
the strenuous life.
Portland has seated her school chil
dren as they came, and is ready for
more. The record is one of which few
cities can boast.
September ought to be given a longer
term.
Attack on Commissioner Evans.
Chicago Tribune. s
The attack on Pension Commissioner
Evans, made on Thursday by Commander-in-Chief
Leo Rassieur of the Grand Aamy
of the Republic, will be received with
even less sympathy by the general pub
lic than it seems to have been by the
comrades of the Grand Army. The public,
it may be admitted, does not concern it
self with individual cases In which justice
may have been done applicants for pen
sions. It is aware, however, on. the tes
timony df Grand Army men, that the
present pension rolls contain the names
of hundreds of men who are practically
obtaining money under false pretenses.
It believes with the Grand Army that
the pension roll should be a roll of honor,
and it feels that the men of the Grand
Army should, more than any one else, be
interested in seeing that it Js purged and
purified. The charge against the present
Pension Commissioner seems to be in a
general way that ho has been overstrlct
and harsh In dealing with applicants for
pensions. Heretofore the disposition has
'been to err so greatly in the other direc
tion that the public feels rather inclined
tp sympathize with a man who has the
courage to withstand the begullements
and threats of the pension attorneys who
have so often and so long preyed upon
the Treasury. No country has ever been
so loyal to its veteran soldiers as the
United States. That loyalty has never
abated, and is, perhaps, stronger today
than ever before. At the same time
there is a somewhat general feeling that
the Grand Army should for its own sake
take some step, if such a step be found
practicable, looking toward the cleansing
of the present stuffed and overburdened
pension rolls.
NEEDS OF THE EXPOSITION.
BAKER CITY, Sept. IS. tTo the Edi
torsThat I may answer, according to
my light, the rather severe charge" made
against me in your paper of the 16th Inst,
I will ask space for a few statements.
Jh the local article of that issue is what
purports to be a copy of my -circular let
ter, but two points, as the reproduction
there appears, need correction. One, is
the word "political" has been used Instead
of the word "patriotic" in the request for
"non-partisan, patriotic support in this
move for our great state and the North
west." Your editorial touches nothing in
dicating you were influenced la your state
ments by this slight mistake, but I should
prefer to have your readers know my ap
peal was on "patriotic," not "political"
grounds.
Much more important is the omission of
the 'word "editor" following my signature
of the circular you published. You have
seen fit to reflect severely upon me for
arrogating to myself as a member of the
commission, the privilege of Inaugurating
a movement for an extra session. Had
you not cut off this title following my
name, and had it also been considered
that my circular was on the letter-head
of the Oregon Republican, a newspaper
of which I am the editor and manager,
and that the information I sought in
that circular Is essentially news, I am sure
you would not have accused mu of assum
ing to act in this Instance for the Lewis
and Clark commissioners. My mention in
the letter, of interest because of member
ship on the commission, does not justify
the accusation that I pretended to act
for the commission. My effort was to
secure matter of interest for the news
paper, 'which I may properly do with
out consulting Hon. W. H. Corbett or
Hon. J. M. Long.
I admit that the motlve,Jas a newspaper
publisher was also to create Interest in
a matter to my mind of great importance,
but which X plead the absolute right to
do'withdut consulting either of the gentle
men naneJ, although, personally, I told
both of them in high esteem. I regard
It the duty of every citizen whether mem
ber of the commission or not, to strive
for the success of this great event so im
portant to the state and the Northwest,
and one of the most effective methods of
work at the present time is to generate
such an Interest as will correctly meas
ure the task undertaken, devise 'nays and
means for perfoming the work involved,
and marshal the strength of the entire
people in the mighty task of carrying out
necessary plans, if the exposition is to be
more than, an uneviable reflection upon
the state suggesting it.
I believe an extra session of the Legis
lature necessary if we are to accomplish
anything. It will be impossible to enlist
sufficiently the sympathies of neighboring
states in the brief time that must elapse
between definite action, of our Legislature
at the first regular session and the ad
journment of their Legislatures. If the
matter goes over until their second ses
sion, it is too late for action. Believing
a special session necessary, I sought tho
views of the men constituting the Legis
lature, which X am obtaining rapidly
through the circular letter you have been
disposed to criticise. These letters already
received indicate that a majority of the
two Houses view the matter much as I
do, so far as the time for action is con
cerned. As to the figures, they were merely
suggestions on my part, contained in a
signed article written, for the Evening
Telegram, and were also intended more
to direct attention to the magnitude of the
task in hand than as fixed estimate's.
They may be large for the population of
this region, or they may be smaller than
the sums that will be actually needed to
make of this affair such an event as was
plainly contemplated in the preliminary
steps taken, and as may be demanded to
keep the state from suffering more than
it gains by the effort. These are facts
for careful consideration-, and time Is
flying. I have considered them some, but
have not read of, nor heard of, others
expressing their extensive Interest, and
believe that if Oregon is to give an Inter
national exposition, it Is essential that
something definite be reached soon In this
respect An international exposition is
not a street fair and carnival.
I would emphasize a feature of the ex
position which seems to have been for
gotten in the editorial for my benefit This
exposition was Intended for the better
ment of the Northwest by bringing people
in touch with the virgin and undeveloped
resources here awaiting population. It has
been styled an Investment in advertising
space. It is more properly likened to a
large business enterprise in which money
is advanced to make purchases that have
a supposed future value. Business men
often go heavily in debt with this object
in view. Pertinent Instances could be
cited of large building enterprises In Port
land, with which you are familiar, and
which have In time recompensed the owner
fully for all outlays. This section has
a sparse population; it needs millions of
people. Modern business instincts will
make a long venture to bring these peo
ple, relying upon the sufficiency of the
investment for profitable returns.
Sparsenesa of population here, as com
pared with Missouri, calls attention to the
fact that we shall have to draw from,
long distances. To do this effectively, will
we not have to produce strong attrac
tions? Strong attractions cost money.
It Is my sentiment that this exposition
will redound to our discredit unless a suc
cess Success is a relative term. We
have several conspicuous standards of late
years. People have been educated to ex
pect great things In modern, expositions.
The result of bitter disappointment after
traveling far to see something grand and
new, and finding a mere local exposition
or street carnival, would injure the state
far more than all the efforts would pos
sibly benefit
This exposition must be a success, or
nothing. If it Is to be nothing, I would
urge with all possible sincerity that the
people be informed of the fact, that the
newspapers kindly championing it eo far
be thanked and asked to discontinue their
efforts and all reports of Oregon's pro
gressive purposes be corrected. The longer
the Nation believes that an exposition is
to be given, the keener will be their
ridicule when the admission of failure Is
made.
If It will bankrupt Oregon and the
Northwest to support such an affair, Ore
gon and the Northwest will save them
selves humiliation by withdrawing from
the exposition field early, and ceasing to
talk.
I believe the exposition Is possible, on
a large scale, producing great -advantages
to the Northwest, and without bankrupt
ing the people benefited. This success is
possible, however, only by united, vigor-
ous and immediate action, and all dissen
sions among the workers must be laid
aside. Because of this I keenly regret
that you have seen fit, to take Issue In a
tone indicating unpleasant reflections, and
that It Is the sense of those feeling they
are Invested with authority of action, that
energy on tho part of the press or citizens
in bestirring Interest Is an. encroach
ment upon their exclusive prerogatives.
If it is Impractical for Oregon to pass
an enabling act in the matter of Issuing
bonds and having the act afterwards con
firmed by a popular vote of the people,
as Missouri did; then an adequate tax
can be levied, unless Oregon desires tc
shrink from the enterprise. The greatest
newspaper in the West has said that my
letter to Legislators is calculated to hurt
the fair. Time will tell.
EDWARD EVERETT YOUNG.
New Feature in the Situation.
Indianapolis News.
We could cut such fantastic tricks as
we would with our tariff as long as we'
were sufficient unto ourselves, but having
exploited our own market, created plants
and brought forth Industries vastly great
er than are necessary for the supply of
these markets, it becomes necessary for
us to have an outlet into the markets
of the world or else to suffer a propor
tionate industrial relapse. The situation
has been met thus far to a degree by the
great trusts selling their products abroad
at a much less price than they compel
customers at home to pay. This mani
festly the people will no long endure. ,
CONTINUITY OF, GOVERNMENT.
v. Minneapolis Tribune,
It was fitting that the first utterance or
President Roosevelt should be a declara
tion of his intent to continue the essential
policies of "President McKinley. The whole
character of the man wins prompt con
fidence in the ardent sincerity cf the de
claration. There may be afterthought ot
new circumstances and conditions. There
may be reflection on the uncertain power
ot any man to hold, through three and a
half years of flux and change, to the
letter of a positive pledge dictated by an
impulse of grief and affection. History
affords no warrant for belief in the power
of a Vice-President become President to
shape all his larger policies by the course
of the man chosen by the people to gov
ern. There is no such fundamental char
acter of continuity in our Government as
In a constitutional monarchy. Its very
essence is flexibility to change of policies
through personal change of rulers by the
choice of the people at the ballot box.
Heretofore, every President by the acci
dent of death has interpreted the spirit
of our administrative Constitution to grant
him the same power ot personal initiative,
the same privilege of change of policies
wh!olj an elected President enjoys. Presi
dent Roosevelt has promised to make his
administration an exception to the histori
cal rule in cases of Presidents by fortu
itous succession.
. Though the pledge is a -bold one, no
one doubts its sincerity. Many might doubt
his power to keep It under pressure of
conditions of political life as strenuous and
compelling as those which beset his pre
decessors in this "lamentable responsibil
ity. The forces of American politics are
stronger than the individual will of most
men that become President, either by elec
tion or succession.
It is the rare good fortune of President
Roosevelt that the current of these forces
has been guided to support of his honest
purpose by the political sagacity, adminis
trative tact and amiable personal quali
ties of his predecessor. He falls heir to
no formidable division or mass of fes
tering ill-will. He has been no hostile
or disturbant heir-apparent. He enters no
strange or distrustful environment The
singular skill of President McKinley in
establishing essential unity in govern
ment, harmony In party and good will for
his government , In all parties shines
brightest In the hour of hi3 death. Tho
best fruits of his practical wisdom as
ruler of a Republic by the good will and
continued confidence of a majority of the
people remains to be reaped by his suc
cessor after he is gone. He has rooted his
large and permanent policies so firmly
in public confidence that they tend to con
tinue of their own force. H.e has won
for them such general support within the
party and such large approval outside of
the party that there exists no powerful
body of discontent to tempt hf3 successor
to deviate from them. Indeed, he has car
ried the most vital Issues beyond the
point of change. The money question Is
settled, except as to details not pressing.
The tariff question has been given a new
face by political and commercial expan
sion. Tho new issues grown out of the
late war have been determined in their
larger aspects, and the problem of work
ing out in detail the relations of insular
America Is fairly begun. It will confront
the same Congress under President Roose
velt that would have met It under Presi
dent McKinley. The whole set of forces
and tendencies In political life encour
ages meeting and dealing with It in the
same spirit.
All things combine to make It easy for
President Roosevelt to keep his pledge.
Not the least of the forces in his favor
is the fruit of the new spirit in which tho
late President regarded and dealt with
the Vice-Presidency. For the first time in
the memory of living men, that function
ary has been treated as a dignified and
responsible member of the Government,
made the repository of confidence and
called into council In deciding on poli
cies. The traditional Vice-President, like
the royal heir-apparent, has been a mem
ber of the opposition, chosen Yorthtr emfity
conciliation of a nomination and then
pushed Into an obscure convent for four
years. President McKinley changed all
that. Even when his nomination was con
tested In 1896, he Influenced his support
ers to choose one of themselves for Vice
President and they lifted Mr. Hobart
from traditional obscurity to a station of
honor and Influence. It was a change of
unwritten law nearly as great as the Con
stitutional change that made President
and Vice-President of the same party. It
was as If McKinley had a fateful pre
monition and sought to train a successor
to take his place. The nomination of
Vice-President In 1S00 was made in the
same spirit Popular favor drove unwil
lingly towards the Vice-Presidency a man
of different type from the President but
one with him on all essential Issues of
practical, present-day politics. The Presi
dent accepted him In the same spirit that
he chose Mr. Hobart. There has not been
time for establishment of the same public
relation, but every personal contact of the
men, up to the last in the hour of death,
has testified to their mutual confidence
and essential oneness of public purpose.
For nearly the first time, the spirit of the
Constitutional provision for succession in
case of a President's death is by way of
being" realized.
A Sample Trout Operation. '
Philadelphia Times.
The most astonishing revelation In the
grand art of promoting is mado public
by stockholders In Trlpler's Liquid Air
Company. This Inventor of what seems
actually to be very Ingenious machinery
made a lecture tour of the country ex
hibiting liquid air to the populace as a
curious novelty. Tho tour was antece
dent to the formation of a stock com
pany. The inventor allowed himself to
fall Into the hands of promoters, and his
machine was Incorporated with a capital
of $10,000,000 In the distant Territory
of Arizona. Mr. Trlpler accepting the
presidency of the company for $2,500,000
worth of' the stock and a salary of
$12,000 a year. Half of the stock was dis
tributed to the directors as a douceur for
the use of such names as those of Sena
tor Jones?, of Nevada, and "Steve" Dor
sey, while what remained was put in the
hands of a firm of brokers to be sold to
the public at liberal rates of commission.
Liquid air was to be the motive power
of the future, the propeller of locomo
tives and automobiles and the legitimate
heir to all the titles and honors now en
joyed by Ice. It Is said that about 52,
000 shares of the stock were sdld at
prices well below par, bringing in about
$250,0000 in cash. A large part of this
amount was used in advertising the stock
and for paying commissions to the bro
kers. Nearly all the rest was appro
priated in paying the salaries of officers
and in installing a large exhibit at the
Paris Exposition, where .crowds assem
bled to see the feats in legerdemain which
the attendants performed with frozen
atmosphere, but they blockaked the aisles
without buying any of the stock. Here
is another case of capitalizing hopes, and
they turn out to have "been false hopes.
Ite Slissa Est.
Springfield Republican.
Tho Mason's hands are folded; but the breach
Within thy alls. Columbia, gapes ns more;
He healed thy wounds, though deep and old
and sore;
His own he could not heal. Thus God doth
teach
Once more, that we must sacrifice our best
Upon His altar. "Iter mlssa est."
His -work is finished; coupled once again
By his deft hands they race along tho road
Of empire. North and South, in one through
train f
That bears the wealth of nations for Its
load.
The Swlthchman's task Is ended; let bim
rest
On Earth's calm bosom. "Ite mlssa est."
Thy will be done, or God. Nearer to Theo
That strong, true heart shall beat so loud
and clear.
That peoples yet unborn shall pause to
hear
Those throbblngs which have made mankind
more free.
His part is done, trust God to do the rest.
Hush, "World, he sleepeth. "Ite nilssa. est."
NOTE AND COMMENT.
The exposition begins today. Let the
weather beware.
Aguinaldo's press agent appears still
to be enjoying a well-earned vacation.
Why this talk of repavtas Fourth
street? Why not dredge. It oat tor a ship
channel?
Nikola Teste. Is staking- into' ofeeeurlty.
Cannot some one patent a Invention for
him to claim?
Senator Mason wants to knew now a
United States Senator earn his salary.
Does he, always?
The great future ahad of totukl air
seems to have just about as mh of a
lead as it did at the start
Even the Baltimore Amertean cannot
make the Schley eourt o inquiry look
like the Dreyfus court-martial.
Season of mist a and mallow IraKfatneee.
Close-bosomed friend ot the matttrtatg sun.
This gait is pretty swift, and so I kimiw
We'll close this parody ere yet begtiH.
In Paris an emergency hospital is con
nected with a library. Readers of some
of the late historical navels are usually
much In need of treatment
A Texas prophet predicts the destruc
tion of the world at an early date, but
if all cities are like Galveston the destruc
tion wilt be merely a temporary aTfauv
A Pittsburg man had to have an opera
tion performed on his feet before he could
enlist in the Army. The operation prob
ably consisted merely in injecting- a little
caloric into them.
The newest plan for attracting people
to church Is to deliver the sermon by
means of a phonograph. The eredit for
the idea belongs to Rev. T. Selby Hen
rey, incumbent of St George's, Old Brent
ford, who has Introduced It with consid
erable success. Men from the gas works
women from a laundry in" the neighbor
hood and many others attended the first
service In their working clothes which Is
precisely what wa3 desired. '
Our friend and constant reader. Mr.
Oleson, of the Snntiam, sends us the fol
lowing, with a hint that he will be alovg
in a weeK or two witn a norae, pistol tij
inquire whether or not It has been pub
lished:
There'- a lot o fust Rate pleazur
2 b had w ithouc no dout
In a sttin hi a river
An' a ketchln mownten trout;
There ain't Nothin matks a-Jeller
Feal So hapy. you kin bat.
As a shootin Chinee phezaarrte
When the same is on the Set.
But of all the things yure tlnkel
2 Enjoy dees moat Admire
Is a bi? presarvhV kittel
"When she's htesln on the Fire.
All barbers, but few others, know of tho
occupation of "razor swapper." They
make their Irving by trading razors not
selling, just trading. Their profit comes
in on the "boot" money given with each
trade. The uncertain and finicky nature
of razors is at the bottom of the business.
As every shaver knows, razors sometimes
act In the most unaccountable manner
Moreover, one razor may be entirely suit
ed to one man and totally unfit fur an
other or a good razor may net fit a par
ticular hone. For this reason barbers ar
continually experimenting with their
tbsls,-. changWgyWMk Ua4iK-JoflfrtiIn,.
those which suit them. The razor trader
goes from place to place with, a stock of
second-hand blades, which he offers for
trade. He usually charges from 2$ to 50
cents boot, but will compromise on 10
cents. He never gives boot, and there
fore the boot money is always olear. It
will be seen that if a man makes a score
of trades a day, as many do, the profits
are fair.
PLEASANTRIES OP PARAGItAPHERS
Sir Thomas feels full confident
He'll lift the good cup from us;
Whatever else this man may be,.
He'3 not a doubting Thomas.
Brooklyn Ufe.
Not a Flattering Attention. "Who te
that strange looking man who stares at mo
so much?" "Why, that's Von Humperdinck.
the eminent insanity expert." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Little Ethel Mamma, I know why It ten't
safe to count jour chickens before they're
hatched. Mother Why, dear? Little Ethel
Coz sum ot 'em might be ducks. Ohio Stato
Journal.
A True Hero. She I shall marry no man
who Is not a hero. He Sey you'll be mine,
and I'll prove that I am one. She Oh, Adol
phus, how? He I'll go right in and "ask
papa." Philadelphia Bulletin.
She You tell me I am the sweetest, pret
tiest girl you ever saw. Now, tell me true.
How many other girls have you told the same
thing? He Oh, welt; I suppose I have told
It to quite a lot; but. then, you know, you
are the first one who ever believed me.
Boston Transcript.
In Tatters. Backlots Are you going" to tho
fancy-dress ball? Subbuba Yes. I'm. going ns
a tramp. Backlots Have you got your cosr,.
mine ail ready? Subbubs Tee, I'll wear m '
dress-suit. My wife forgot to put tt oet of
thv. way of the moths last Spring. Philadel
phia Press,
Unpleasant localities. "One of the Loula
ville paper? speaks ot a. local character who
was 'shot .n the brawl.' " "He ought to com
pare notes with that New Zork theatrical
man who was shot in the rathskeller." Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
Histrionic Ability. Manager "It's a wonder
Roadsley didn't give you an engagement ia
his company. He thinks you're a goad actor.
Actor Does he? Manager Tee; he says you
can ask for a big salary as i you expected
to jfet It. Puck.
Upward Tendency of the Race. "People
have got a heap more aease than they used to
have," observed Mr. Graynes. "Yes?" "Yes.
I went on 'Change with a. bad eold the other
day. I must ha a met 4000 men, and eut of all
that number there were only eleven by actual
count that told me what to take to cure It."
Chicago Tribune.
"O Captain, My Captain.'
Walt Whitman on the Death of Llneeln.
O Captain! my Captain! our tearfuls, trip ia
done,
The ship has weathered every rack, the r!zo
we sought is won;
The port la near, 'the bells I hear, the people
all exulting.
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel
grim and darlnc;
But, O heart! heart! heart!
Ob, the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear, the
beHs;
Rise up for you the flag Is flung Ser yeu the
bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribboned wreathe fer
you the shores a-erowding.
For you they call, the swaying mase their
eager faees turning;
Hear, Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath yor head.
It is some dream that on the deck
xoure lanon, ceia ana aeau.
My Captain does not answer, his Mpa are pale
and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no
puke nor will;
The ship is anchored safe and sound. Ita voy
age closed and don.
From fearful trip the victor ship comes In
with object won;
Exult. O shores, and ring, O bells.
But I. with mournful tread.
Walk the deck my Captain lies
Fallen cold and dead.
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