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TODAT'S WEATHER Fair and cooler.-ivlth
winds mostly northerly.
YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem
perature. 7S; minimum temperature. 50; pre
cipitation, none.
PORTLAND, -WTSDXESDAY, OCT. 2.
NONE TOO MANY SOLDIERS.
Throughout the illness and burial of
President McKinley, the photographers
seem to have been in the way. Some
of them earned rebukes at divers times,
for photographers, after all, are part
of our common human nature, not al
ways gifted with perfect taste, and
anxious to make every dollar they can.
The illustrated papers are at hand,
-"however, and in contemplation, of their
views, notably those of Harper's
cWeekly, one is fain to forgive the cam
era all its faults for the sake of the
goo'd it hag done.
Here one sees more plainly than if
lie had been mingling in the crowds
themselves the cortege leaving the Idil
Trarn house at Buffalo with its precious
burden, the funeral train as it sped
along, old Trinity Church on Broad
way, in the five minutes when all
traffic on that congested thoroughfare
ceased utterly, and splendid views of
the scenes in and about the Capitol's
rotunda what time the dead President's
remains lay in state. There are mem
orable street scenes also from Boston
and Chicago, and one from the historic
home at Canton- Few more interest
ing papers have ever been issued than
this number of Harper's "Weekly.
One of the most striking things about
these views in the ubiquitous Army.
Soldiers before the Capitol, soldiers in
the rotunda, soldiers in the city hall
at Buffalo, soldiers at railway stations
everywhere, soldiers in long lines be
side every line of march, soldiers al
ways by the casket, soldiers before the
Milburn. house and the Canton home,
soldiers at the church, the courthouse
and the tomb.
A vivid imagination and a sluggish
liver might combine to form these
armed figures into dread specters of
militarism; but when one remembers
the assassination and the graveyard
ghouls which seem to have visited
"Westlawn cemetery the other night
with, foul designs, the danger may
readily appear in the lack of sufficient
guardianship rather than in any excess.
The measure of military needs is not
in any arbitrary preconceived arrange
ment, but in the work that is to be
done. "We must have protection, order
and safety, whatever force is required,
whatever the cost, whatever the shock
to sentiment.
The quality of the military is not in
its numbers, but in its purpose. If he
is the instrument of oppression, one sol
dier is too many. If they are unequal
to safeguard of life and liberty, battal
ions might be insufficient. Our Amer
ican armies are for law and order,
peace and safety. They override no
citizen in pursuit of lawful ends, arid
they must be strong enough to restrain
all who are bent on unlawful ends.
Our soldiers are patriotic to the core.
They are not -withdrawn, a permanent
military class, from the body politic,
but they come out of the citizenry, to
which they again resolve upon expiry
of their terms. Would there had been
.soldiers enough in the Temple of Music
to have kept Czolgosz from murder
Pray there may be enough about the
receiving vault at "Westlawn to keep
the Nation's dead secure from molesta
tioni A PASSING STORM.
Tie "hue and cry over "yellow jour
nalism" in connection with the Buffalo
tragedy keeps bravely up, though now
transformed from a popular "outcry to
the methodical and sedulous campaign
of business rivals. "Yellow journal
ism" is execrable from every point of
view, hut it is not responsible for the
McKInley assassination, and no amount
of sophistry or denunciation can make
it so.
Perhaps it should also be pointed out
that this fierce war upon the Hearst
papers, for example, will come to noth
ing. It is not an epoch, but an epi
sode, and some morning the world will
wake up and forget all about it Men
do not read their newspapers, nor do
women either, from religious convic
tions. A certain small but respectable
minority read for the purpose of learn
ing 'what is going on in the world, and
among these the yellow journals have
a certain following, for they do fur
nish news of certain kinds, for which
they pay handsomely.
The mass of newspaper readers, how
ever, are such from no higher motive
than to be amused or excited. Every
preacher knows how easy it is to get a
congregation through sensational an
nouncements, and how desirable it be
comes to withhold the titles of plain
old gospel subjects. Gunter and Boss
outsell the novelists of real worth, and
the popular theater safely puts its trust
in horse play or blood and thunder.
So it is with the yellow journal, and
when the present high wind and heavy
precipitation are over, they will be
found doing business at the old stand.
Calamities do not make human nature
over again. The man who wants mur
ders on the first page with ghastly
views of the victim and the bloody
knife, the woman who loves the tale of
escapades and shipwrecked marriages,
will not in a day be transformed into
a rational being with desires for facts
and fondness for sane and honest opin
ions. When yellow journals cease to
disfigure the face of creation we shall
need no penitentiaries, and perhaps no
preachers.
THE OREGON CLIMATE.
The tourist critic from the extreme
East who visits us at the present sea
son of splendid Autumn weather is
disposed to be incredulous when we tell
him that, despite the far earlier birth
of our Spring, our vegetation in shape
of verdant leaf and lingering flower
lasts quite as long as it does in" the
North Atlantic States. The Spring be
gins to stir in its cerements in Ore
gon by the last week of February, and
in the first week of March there are
as many -wild flowers in blossom as are
found in New England the last week
of April. Measured by the early resur
rection of the wild flowers, the Oregon
Spring is nearly two months in advance
of New England. The Eastern tourist
grants this, but maintains that our ad
vantage is more seeming than real; that
our floral display is over with July;
that our Autumn, so far as disappear
ance of wild blooms and the changing
color of leaves Is concerned, begins with
August; that our August is like the
New England September season; that
by the first of November our Winter
rains have begun, and that New Eng
land's ve'getatlon, which begins later
than that of Oregon in Spring, has a
longer and brighter life through Sep
tember, October and sometimes in No
vember, than is ever seen in Oregon.
We think our Eastern critics are in
error. Yesterday the wild blue forget-me-not,
the water speed-well, the bright
yellow blooms of the hawkweed, -which
had their firtt birth in June, could
have been easily found the first day of
October by any one who knew where
to seek them.
The wealth of asters was quite as
great as can be found at the East at
this season. There was no golden rod,
because there are but few varieties of
that plant in Western Oregon, and these
are the kinds that begin to bloom in
July and are extinct by the middle of
September. There are no fringed gen
tians on this Coast, but to make up for
their absence it is not uncommon to
see the dogwood and the lupine, that
bloom in June, sometimes blooming
again in September, and there is a
variety of pentstemon, whose hand
some pink blossoms can be found grow
ing at Elk Rock far into September.
On the whole, the man who cares to
take a walk through our woodlands to
day would find quite as many belated
flowers as he would in New England.
In New England, beyond the gentians
there Is little left, for the golden rod
is past Its prime and the early frosts
of September, of which -we know noth
ing, have ended the -procession of the
wild flowers in New England; with the
exceptions we noted, save perhaps in a
favored spot a few blue harebells might
be found. It is true that our Winter
may fairly be said to begin with the
first week of November, but these Win
ter rains are never cold enough to end
the reign of the garden flowers, for the
hardy varieties of roses are not seldom
seen blooming in the dooryards in Port
land late in December, and after a
week of bright weather in January
you will find Spring flowers, like the
Claytonla, blooming in the park.
Our Winter rains are not as disagree
able as snow and severe cold of the
early Winter Jn New England. A snow
storm as early as October 15 is not un
common in th- Lake Ontario counties of
Northern New York, and is not un
known in New England. By the 10th
of November the New England Winter
of cold, freezing weather has set In, and
where this is not the case there is as
much rain and mist as is ever seen in
Oregon, and it is. not a warm rain, but
an intensely cold storm that lacks the
quality of merciful warmth which tem
pers the Winter rains of Oregon. At the
worst we have in Oregon but three
months of Winter weather when the
rain makes outdoor life uncomfortable
without an umbrella and overshoes or
waterproof. That is, we can enjoy life
out of doors for about nine months of
our year, and at no time, even in the
Winter months, is there an Intense cold
to endure, the thermometer seldom
dropping lower than 3 degrees above
zero. In this mild climate of short Win
ters, with its long season suitable for
outdoor exercise, it is not remarkable
that the death rate is small; that cases
of longevity are common among the pio
neer settlers of Oregon and Washing
ton. Pneumonia, that is so fearful a
scourge of our North Atlantic seacoast
cities during the Winter and Spring
months, finds few victims here by com
parison. Our drinking water Is not charged
with limestone, and persons of rheu
matic habit are more comfortable here
than at the East It Is easy to make
light of the matter of climate as an
advertisement of the advantages of Ore
gon to the settler, but It counts a great
deal with many people who are past
the meridian of life, have obtained a
competence sufficient to screen them
from hard work. Such persons natur
ally seek a climate of mild Winters and
cool Summers, where their declining
days can easily be spent, where fruit,
meat, vegetables, fish are plenty and
comparatively cheap. An easy but eco
nomical existence is sought by such per
sons. They cannot find it In the long,
cold Winters and hot Summers of the
trans-Mississippi West, and will be
tempted naturally to try the climate of
Oregon. The day will come when this
state will be filled with a large popula
tion, a day when, with the Nicaragua
Canal completed, there will be a mar
ket large enough to secure the multi
plication of manufacturing plants, but
until that day comes, we shall be obliged
to rely on the attractive climate of Ore
gon to increase annually our present
population.
For the present it Is one of the best
If not the best inducement for an In
telligent man, who does not like a flat,
treeless country, but prefers a land of
rivers, lakes, mountains and wooded
hills, to strike his tent In the trans
Mississippi States and pitch it in
Oregon. He escapes the extreme cold
of Winter, the extreme heat of Sum
mer; he finds a soil and climate where
crops never completely fail, and he has
J an inspiring and satisfying environment
of natural scenery that is a radiant and
kindling vision of beauty at its best
that makes life better worth llvig.
EVOLUTION OF THE ItACING MA
CHINE. The New York Evening Post says
that in the opinion of yachting experts
the new- Shamrock is simply "a higher
nowered Columbia bigger sails, greater
beam and draught, and more lead far
down below the surface of the water
to hold her Tip in any kind of a- blow."
The Columbia is the best racing ma
chine that has thus far been construct
ed in America, and its builder confessed
that he had reached his limit by his
failure to make his new yacht superior
to the Columbia. The English builder,
Watson, in his latest boat, the new
Shamrock, has taken the Defender and
the Columbia as models, and on those
lines has built a racing machine in
which, as in the Columbia everything
like safety or comfort is sacrificed to
speed. The New York yachting experts
are afraid of the new Shamrock be
cause it seems to be constructed after
the model of the Columbia. It Is like a
battle between two skillful soldiers,
armed", drilled and disciplined so much
alike that the battle is sure to turn on
the possession of the strongest battal
ions or the heaviest and most numerous
artillery.
The history of the evolution of the
present racing machine is noteworthy.
The American schooner yacht America
won the cup offered as a prize by the
Royal Yacht Squadron of England, Au
gust 22, 1851; the course was around
the Isle of Wight. The America was
registered at 170 tons, and sailed against
four schooners and one cutter of more
tonnage. The America won this race
with 18 minutes to spare from the sec
ond boat, the little cutter Aurora, of
only 47 tons register. In 1857 the own
ers of the America presented the cup
to the New York Yacht Club as an
International challenge trophy. The
first contest in American waters for the
cup was in 1870, when Mr. James Ash
bury, of the Royal Thames Yacht Club,
sailed his schooner yacht Cambria
against a fleet of twenty-three Ameri
can schooners and was badly beaten,
the center-board schooner Magic coming
in first and the Cambria only tenth.
In 1871 Ashbury sailed a new schooner,
the Livonia, against the American
yachts Columbia and Sappho, and was
beaten four out of the five races. The
Canadian yacht, Countess of Dufferin,
was beaten by the American schooner
Madeline in 187G, and in 1881 another
Canadian boat, the Atalanta, was
beaten by the American schooner, the
Mischief.
In 18S5 began the first really Important
race that had been sailed for the cup
in Airierican , waters. Sir Richard
Sutton, in the cutter Genesta, was
beaten by the Puritan. In 1886 Lieu
tenant Henn, R. N in the Galatea, was,
beaten by the Mayflower. In 1887 James
Bell, of the Royal Clyde Yacht Club,
brought over the Thistle, which was
beaten by the Volunteer. Six years,
later- Lord Dunraven, in Valkyrie II,
was beaten Dy the Vigilant. In 1897
Lord Dunraven made another try for
the cup. The first race was won by the
Defender by 8 minutes 49 seconds, cor
rected time; the second was awarded
to the Defender en a claim of foul; and
the third was abandoned by the Valky
rie on the ground that the course was
not clear.
In 1888 Sir Thomas Llpton was beaten
by the Columbia. The cup that was
originally won when it was a contest
between American center-board yachts
and English keel yachts is now become
a contest between sloop yachts, ninety
feet long, which are mere racing ma
chines in which the American center
board has been supplanted by a big fin
keel. i
AS CLEAR AS MUD.
What was the connection between
Commodore Schley at the battle of
Santiago and the rest of the squadron?
He directed the squadron's move
ments. He did not direct the squadron's
movements; he merely fought his own
ship.
What was the weather on May 25?
It was calm.
It 'was boisterous.
Could a vessel coal safely between
May 24 and May 29?
Yes.
No.
The discerning reader who has fol
lowed the testimony at theSchley in
vestigation can easily fill out several
questions and answers on the lines Of
the foregoing. It is evident that sharp
issues of veracity and Irreconcilable
differences of opinion exist between the
witnesses. They contradict each other,
they contradict their own logs, they
contradict themselves. The maps, made
up from reports of naval officers, are
now by these same officers declared
wrong and worthless. There was a
picket line Inside the blockade at Cien
fuegos, and there was no picket line.
The record shows that the Brooklyn sig
naled the Texas to go alongside the
collier and begin coaling, but the men
on the Texas say no such signal was
given. Some know perfectly- well that
the squadron cruised nearer the harbor
at night than by day, and others
know equally well the contrary.
Was it really, then, the Texas that
made the famous loop, instead of the
Brooklyn?
Did the Brooklyn make the loop or
not?
Was there any loop at all?
CREDIT TO THE DESERVING.
A noteworthy event in journalism is
the "jubilee" number of the New York
Titties, issued September 25, in com
memoration of its fiftieth anniversary.
Although nearly a year younger than
The Oregonlan, the Times has played
a part In politics and affairs so distin
guished that it is difficult to realize
that it has not been at work longer
than half a century. New York has
older papers, but none better. The
Commercial Advertiser is 108 years old;
the present Evening Post, the third of
its name in New York, 100 years old on
November 16; the Sun 68 years, the Her
ald 66 years, the Tribune 60 years, and
the Journal of Commerce 74 years.
To commend a newspaper like the
Times Is, for honest journalism, both
a pleasure and a duty. The pleasure
arises from the knowledge that a paper
clean and humane as well as Incisive
and strong can prosper; and the duty
Is that of holding up such sterling
qualities to public view, and bespeak
ing their emulation.
Th.e Times has not the. piquancy of
the Sun, nor the polished satire of the
Evening Post, nor the pictorial attract
iveness of the Tribune, nor the exten
sive, cable service of the Herald, nor
the comprehensive economic news and
discussion of the Journal of Commerce,
nor the eloquent periods of the Brooklyn
Eagle. But it is prpbably a better news
paper than any of these, because it has
all of their peculiar merits in consider
able degree, and its own excellences
are exceeding many.- It is infinitely
more trustworthy than the Sun, more
newsy than the Eagle or Journal of
Commerce, more powerful than the
Herald or Tribune, and its loss of keen
ness as compared with the Post is abun
dantly atoned for by Its infinitely
greater humanity and universality.
For strength, cleanliness, genial spirit
and versatility it is at the head of the
class, and probably1 comes as near per
fection in the combination of these qual
ities as It Is possible for human nature
to make a newspaper.
If The Oregonlan were forced to
choose some other existence, it would
like to be the Times, and it proposes
now its very good health and wishes
It many happy returns of the day.
A distinguished English Judge re
cently said that the crying weakness
of the administration of American
courts of justice was what he termed
"too much legality." In England the
presiding Judge suppresses all Irrele
vant matter, regulates the proceedings
in the interest of speed, and has no
hesitation In expressing his own views.
Henry E. Howland, in the current num
ber of the Century Magazine, says that
the administration of criminal justice
in New York City is not distinguished
by swiftness or certainty, thus unjustly
obstructing the right of prisoners to a
speedy trial, giving far too much scope
of defense and too long- a reprieve to
the guilty, and bringing the law Into
public disrepute, probably the most evil
consequence of all. The cause assigned
for this evil, says Mr. Howland, is the
reluctance of the Judge presiding over
the trial to permit his own opinion to
become evident, even upon matters
where there is a clear preponderance
of evidence, or to control counsel in
their conduct of a case, or to direct the
trial with a firm hand, all with the
fear of encroaching upon the function
of the jury, which has-been extrava
gantly extended and there maintained
by the courts of appeal. The license of
examination and challenge of jurors
permitted to counsel prolongs the selec
tion of a jury in important cases. Mr.
Howland points out that in its origin
and its essence the jury is a means, not
an end; that it consists of men unfa
miliar with the processes of law and
unskilled in legal reasoning, and that
Its best achievements are obtained
when, as in England, it does not hesi
tate to interfere and take the conduct
of the case out of the hands of counsel
when it becomes "necessary to prevent
the mockery of justice by unnecessary
delays.
Congreve is responsible for the asser
tion that music hath charms to soothe
the savage breast, to soften rocks or
bend the gna-'led oak; but a professor
of music has now gone him several bet
ter and declared that in time music will
prove an effectual remedy for anarchy.
Just how and at what intervals it is to
be taken he doesn't Inform us, but it
is reasonable to suppose he has worked
out the problem to his own satisfaction
and will soon be able td take a few
cases of anarchism into his sanitarium
for experimental purposes. Mark Twain
once wrote in an agricultural paper
that clams would lie quiet If music
were played to them, and it Is well
known that a hand-organ Is a sovereign
cure for the habit of loafing on street
corners. Steam calliopes have often
been successfully used in treating circus
mules for inanition, and church organs
have frequently proved powerful sopo
rifics. With all these precedents to
draw from, the prof essor' will undoubt
edly have but little trouble in adapting
the strains of whatever 'Instrument he
elects to operate with to the cases
under his care. We wish him all suc
cess. If he will permit a suggestion
from a lay observer, however, we would
advise him that he will probably get
better results with an accordion than
any other instrument.
The experience of Spain in governing
the Filipinos is being duplicated under
American rule. The difference between
the methods of the two governments
may dawn upon these people a few
generations hence. Until it does, disas
ters like that upon the Island of Samar
a few days ago will from time to time
occur. This is a part of the price that
civilization pays to savagery, enlight
enment to ignorance, liberty to tyranny,
itt dealing with people fitly character
ized by Kipling as "half devil and half
child." To eliminate the first and bring
the "child" up to years of accountabil
ity is the hard task to which the Na
tion has set itself In the Philippines.
Its accomplishment will take time and
lay heavy tribute upon life and treas
ure. This is expected; therefore, the oc
currence above referred to cannot be
classed as unexpected.
The irate housewife and the voluble
milkman exchanged compliments at the
back doors of the city yesterday morn
ing. The "'latter indignantly repelled
the accusation that he had joined a
"trust," regarding It as an impeach
ment of his honor calculated to lower
him to tne moral grade of the despised
capitalist. The former insisted that the
word "trust," with all of its opprobrium,
real and imaginary, belonged to the
combination organized for the purpose
of putting up prices, and not a few de
clared their determination to put their
families on condensed milk rather than
give in to thf milk dealers' trust by
meeting the advance In prices. The
war is a merry one, with rattling milk
cans and clattering tongues for artil
lery. No casualties are reported.
One can well believe that the two
companies of the Seventh infantry that
have been In barracks at Fort Gibbon,
on the Yukon, for the past two years
were glad to bid good-bye to their bleak
quarters and return to Fort Vancouver.
The fatigues of El Caney and the dan
gers of scaling San Juan Hill were
pleasurable pastimes compared with
sitting down in the white silence of the
far north and waiting for the long-delayed
order to return to civilization.
Playing soldier at a lonely post in time
of peace is enly a degree less monot
onous than herding sheep on the vast
ranges of the Interior an occupation
that often reducesmen to babbling im
becility, but from which the soldier on
the lonely outpost is saved by the sound
of human voices.
The fire that destroyed the business
portion of Gresham early yesterday
morning IS disastrous beyond the finan
cial loss that it caused. The center of a
populous and prosperous farming com
munity, the loss will cause much incon
venience until it can be repaired by
rebuilding; which, however, will no
doubt be at once begun.
AMEiNDING BANKRUPTCY, LAW.
New York Journal of Commerce.
We are glad to see that the Dry Goods
Economist has sounded the alarm that
the bankruptcy law is in danger from its
friends. For a dozen years the mercan
tile community tried to obtain it. It has
had it only three years, and for more
than one year past the organized credit
men of the country have been trying to
amend it. We have from the beginning
of their agitation pointed out a double
danger that they were inviting. Any
effort to amend the law while it is still
new, and the opposition which made its
enactment so difficult has not subsided,
endangers the whole law by inviting tho
risk of a repeal. When the question of
amending the law Is pending in a not
very friendly Congress, It would he sin
gular if a proposition to repeal instead
of amend were not .sprung and sup
ported by formidable numbers. If tho
law should escape this danger the fact
remains that the amendment urged by
the credit men would greatly weaken, and
we believe it would practically destroy,
a vital part of the law, and even if the
law remained on the statute book the
very evils it was enacted to prevent
would prevail.
The law was t passed chiefly to pre
vent preferences.' The amendment which
most of the credit men are supporting
would open the door for this very evil,
and we firmly believe that it would open
tho door so wide that the law would have
very slight restraining effect. We are
aware of only two credit men who have
given any attention to this point. One is
Mr. Hugo Kantzler, whose views have
been expressed In the Dry Goods Econo
mist, and who has proposed as a com
promise that the period within which par
tial payments shall be treated as prefer
ences shall be shortened from four months
to two or even one. The other is the
credit man of a large firm in thta city,
not In the dry goods trade, who was
kind enough to write to this paper a few
days ago that he had modified his views
and shared ours regarding the effect of
the amendment urged by the credit men.
The other credit men who have discussed
this matter in public simply ignore the
importance of preventing preferences; they
Ignore the theory of a bankrupt law, that
the estate should be divided as nearly
equally as possible among all the credit
ors, and oppose the law, as the courts
have construed it, because It secures that
approximate equality, and each of them is
confident that If the law were out of the
way he could get a larger share for his
house than the other credit men could,
as to which we have only to say that one
of them would be right and all the oth
ers would be wrong in this matter. If It
is desirable to secure an equitable dis
tribution of the debtor's estate, let the
law alone; or at most take Mr. Kantzler's
amendment; if it be desirable that every
creditor should be free to get as much as
possible of the estate, then the law was a
mistake and should bo repealed.
Our esteemed contemporary the Dry
Goods Economist, says: "The National
bankruptcy law is in danger, not only from
the attacks of its enemies, hut in the
house of Its friends. The former are pre
paring to give the act its coup de grace,
If possible, by moving for its repeal when
the question of amending tho measure -is
brought up at the next. session of Con
gress. The latter some of them, at least
are Inclined to aid this nefarious scheme
by the introduction of amendments eo
varied and numerous as to bewilder and
weary the majority of our Legislators at
Washington."
We commend this to the "merchants who
struggled so long to obtain 'a bankruptcy
law. In regard to amending, however,
the danger does not lie In a perplexing
multiplicity of amendments; it lies in Ju&t
one amendment which would break down
the barrier now erected against prefer
ences. Those who are in favor of prefer
ences are against the law; those who are
opposed to preferences are In favor of tho
law. If the merchants who three years
ago supported the law because they
wished to break up the practice of prefer
ences are of the same opinion they should
lose no time in checking the movement of
tho credit men to amend the vital principle
out of the law.
When Monopoly Is a. Good Thing:.
Chicago Record-Herald.
It Is seldom that we hear a loud, clear
call for monopoly. So common has it be
come for people to cry put against mo
nopolies. Indeed, that even thse who fa
vor business combinations are Inclined to
do so In secret, especially If they happen
to harbor desires for public offices. The
Raleigh (N. G.) News and Observer, a
Democratic paper, and a radical oppon
ent of trusts, has, however, made the
discovery that there may upon occasion
be virtue in consolidation after all. In a
recent burst of righteous indignation the
paper referred to said:
"Raleigh needs and needs very much
somebody who can arrange to convert all
the three unsatisfactory telephone sys
tems into one excellent system. Three
systems are now operating, with the re
sult that the service of neither is what it
ought to be, whereas if there were a sin
gle system with a costly underground
plant, Raleigh would rejoice. The cost of
the telephone service in Raleigh is enor
mous. If a business house has all threo
telephones the cost is heavy and tho
nuisance great. If only two are used
some of the best customers cannot be
reached, and a business house with only
one telephone is two-thirds out of busi
ness so far as "telephoning is concerned.
Many men In Raleigh refuse to take any
telephone because they cannot afford to
take three."
Here is a case in which monopoly would
undoubtedly be beneficial to the public.
In the City of Cleveland a similar condi
tion exists. Two telephone companies
are doing business there, and whil8 they
have cut prices so that it Is possible for
Cleveland people to be served by one
company or the other at a lower rate
than citizens of Chicago are compelled
to pay for telephones, the Clevelander Is
at a disadvantage because he must either
have both lines or put up with an ab
breviated service. If he pays to have
connections with the lines of both com
panies his telephone accommodations cost
his considerably more than they would
if he did business in Chicago, where a
monopoly exists.
In addition to the cost there is the an
noyance of being compelled to look
through two directories whenever any
one is to bo called up by telephone. Com
petition may in many cases be a good
thing, but the town that, has more than
one telephone company is unfortunate.
Freer Trade Is Imperative.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
It may be assumed that the German
Government intends -to bring strong pres
sure to bear upon countries maintaining
a protective tariff for the purpose of se
curing concessions in the shape of reci
procity. Among these countries the
United States Is, of course, the chief and
the necessity will soon devolve on us
of determining just what we are going
to do about it. This Is the crisis which
the late President, with characteristic
sagacity, perceived to be approaching and
which in his last and greatest speech ho
"advised us how to meet.
Reciprocity.
Indianapolis News.
President Roosevelt and those who
agree with him on this subject will have
no easy task in securing tho adoption
of any Important reciprocity treaties.
However, with courage and determin
ation, and sustained by the last great
utterance of President McKlnley. and
with the consciousness that the American
people favor more liberal trade relations,
they ought to accomplish something.
No Mobs Needed.
New York Press.
The first lesson of the swift conviction
of Leon Czolgosz Is that the fullest jus
tice can be administered in the shortest
triaL If the whole American people will
take the lesson home the -chief excuse
of the mobs which take the law in their
own hand -win be withdrawn from
them.
ALREADY DONE IN OREGON.
Chicago Chronicle.
With characteristic sagacity, President
Harper has secured for the University of
Chicago a series of lectures by men suc
cessfully engaged in practical life. The
subjects to be elucidated during the year
about to open comprehend the broad
range of banking, insurance, railroading,
the Iron industry, steel and kindred topics.
A stubborn tradition has long detached
university ideals from practical life. The
effect has been their mutual injury. Tho
university has been blindly Identified with
abstractions exclusively and its energy
has been too largely retrospective.
The fact that the face of the world has
been always to the future has singularly
escaped the observation of the too often
cloistered spirits who, engrossed with
things spiritual, not unnaturally but de
plorably forget that progress has eman
ated largely from the competitions of
races, the struggles of epochs toward
broader enlightenment and the friction
of Institutions and principles furnishing
fire and light for that persistent advance
of mankind which has been organized into
civilization.
Contemplation of ideals is essential to
execution of their noblest suggestions.
Execution signifies physical as well as in
tellectual power, and the strides of the
human race have been necessarily taken
outside the necessarily narrow precincts
of libraries, laboratories and lecture
rooms. The university tradition has been mon
umentally blind to the debt mankind owe
to what the world has agreed to call
"business." Commercial emulation be
tween Athens and Sparta, rivalry of
Rome. Carthage and Tyre contributed
more to ancient culture than the essays
of stoic and peripatetic, the soliloquies
of tho academy or the professional
achievements of the learned minority.
Until the Greeks went colonizing his
tory was manacled. It was the ships of
Venice returning with argosies from the
Orient that gave potential impetus to that
resplendent and fecund era which man
kind glorify by the name of renascence.
It was the bankers of the Continent of
Europe who first compelled sovereigns to
recognize the rights of naturalized sub
jects. Liberty, the Indispensable of progress,
owes more to commerce than to codlcec.
Insurance has done more to promote and
maintain universal peace than all the ar
bitration courts. The hoards of trade of
tho globe have contributed mightily to
diminution of famines by regulating the
distribution of foods.
Upon the development of processes for
extractng iron from the earth and adapt
ing It to the necessities and luxuries of
society, science and the arts have more
profoundly and profitably depended than
on all the tomes since the Invention of the
alphabet.
The world has shed the ancient illusion
which so long kept the university apart
from the utilitarian. It is not within col
lege walls alone that culture is to be ac
quired. There is no beneficent pursuit
which Is also practical into which the cul
ture of the university cannot be carried
with honor and advantage.
Wisely, therefore, has the University of
Chicago elected to weld university Ideals
and practical life.
Ont of the Dead. Past.
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
In connection with Its jubilee edition the
New York Tlme3 publishes a facsimile of
the first Issue of the paper, which ap
peared September 18, 1S51, about a month
after Commodore Stevens' schooner Amer
ica, at the Isle of Wight, had lifted the
cup which since 1857 has been open as a
prize to the yachts of any nation. One
of the editorial paragraphs of this old
issue, barring an excessive dash of gas
conade, has thu3 far proved to be writ
ten in a prophetic spirit. It reads:
Too Late by Half. The London Times, by
way of a flyer, promises that ere August next
every English yacht will be built and rigged
a la America. If bo. they will Infallibly be
beaten again, for American progression Is aft
er the geometrical order, and we shall double
our speed In a year.
Whether the London Times' forecast as
to the Tigging of English yachts came
true is much to be doubted, but the inti
mation of the New York Times that Eng
land would have to hustle to excel this
country in yachtbulldlng has proved true
10 times since 1S31, and is being put to
the test for the eleventh time. It is only
to be hoped that the present Times has
"touched wood" to exorcise the hoodoo
that is apt to follow the harking back to
old predictions. "I told you so" is a dan
gerous saying before the line Is crossed.
Incidentally it may be remarked that
the boast that American designers would
double the speed of their yachts every
year in geometrical progression has not
been entirely borne out by results. As
this Is the fiftieth year since the America
lifted the cup, the yacht Constitution it
may be mathematically proved ought to
be 1,125.877,533,105,544 faster than the Amer
ica. This would be a very respectable
speed for a yacht. When it Is recalled
that the America, In 1851, sailed fro.u
Sandy Hook to Cowes In 21 days, that that
Still remains as one of the fastest
schooner trips on record, and that even
the fleetest of the ocean greyhounds has
only succeeded in making the trip in a
quarter of that time, we see in the empty
braggadocio of the paragraphist a solemn
warning against pride and haughtiness
and "an exuberance of exaggeration.
Czolgosz' Relation to Socialism.
Aurora Borealis.
Socialists are now kept busy explaining
the difference between socialism and
anarchy. They should" have tho benefit
of the doubt; there is a difference. While
socialism, in one light, Is a primary de
partment, graduates from which enter the
school of anarchy, In another sense it
possesses no relative part of anarchy.
Socialism, it must bo admitted, has a
tendency to make Its advocates, as Czol
gosz states he became, "morose and en
vious," and in this frame of mind one
is very liable, especially If his brain soft
ens somewhat under the Influence of sur
roundings and deep cogitation, to be con
verted to a full-fledged anarchist. Then
'tis but a step; otherwise, It is a much
longer stride. There are many who be
lieve in socialistic ideas as presented by
the orators of that party of the present
day, but they keep up courage and have
faith in gaining their ends. They be
lieve In government In fact, too much
government and only those who are
made despondent with their condition in
life from pursuing socialistic paths are
in danger of seeking a state of lawless
r confusion. Hence we find not a few so
cialists becoming anarchists, but not vice
versa.
A Point to Remember.
Salem Statesman.
A point not generally thought of in
connection with the Lewis and Clark Cen
tennial, and one that will have powerful
Influence In attracting the attention, en
couragement and financial support for
the exposition of 1905. Is that the terri
tory secured through the Lewis and
Clark expedition, is the first and only
territory added to the United States by
right of discovery. Out of that event,
then, has been carved some of the
richest and best portion of the country
and the centennial commemoration of it
Is an occasion of such National Import
ance as to call for the co-operation of all
the individual states, as well as the Gen
eral Government.
Honest Criticism Essential.
New York Sun.
Honest criticism and"opposltion on tho
part of those who arc conscientiously op
posed to Republican policies are not only
welcome, but essential. For the honor
of the American name and in testimony
of the public horror of William McKIn
ley's violent end let Intemperate denun
ciation, calumny of the United States
and of the President, the falsehoods and
the passionate rhetoric of misrepresenta
tion that inflame and mislead the igno
rant and the persecuted be heard no
more.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
However, the Shamrock hasn't won any
races yet.
Perhaps It is just as well to suspend
hurrahing for the Columbia for a few
days.
An assassin who goes after President
Roosevelt will be a quick one It he gets
tho drop.
The Samar affair proves that a Fili
pino who says he is an "amlgo?r ought to
be clapped into irons.
"When the frost is on the punkin', an'
the fodder's in the shock," It usually
happens that the overcoat's in hock.
This month will see the last of Czol
gosz. Taking him for all in all. we hope
wo shall never look upon his like again.
Edgar Stanton Alaclay might get con
siderable material for the revision oC his
history by attending the court of in
quiry. China is trying to sell some of the ves
sels In her navy. She is apparently afraid
to keep them for fear they will be con
verted into loot.
Chess Is going to be played at Monte
Carlo And yet it was supposed that the
frequenters of that resort wanted action
for their money.
"Parson Robinson" says a tall timber
exchange, "says that Siwash Louis Is a
good Indian- We hudn't heard that Loul3
had passed away."
Up to the present time Lieutenant
Tno'rxr rino 1-trtfr j-t.a.1m'v1i-ifl -wr Aiinnrtltn ' E
Ity to give the lecture-attending public
the absent treatment.
Aguinaldo's body guard has surrendered,
probably as a delicate courtesy to Funs
ton, who Is now on the sick list, and
could not go out and get them.
It is noticed that Emma Goldman hasn't
employed any of her liberty in making In
cendiary speeches lately. Emma learned
a few things while in that Chicago jail.
Among the characteristics of tho Jap
anese an American at once notices their
love for children. It la doubtful if any
Japanese child ever got a whipping. An
American woman who became acquaint
ed with a Japanese matron noticed that
she allowed her little children to ramblo
through the streets at will, and one day
commented on it. "Why," said the Jap
anese lady, "what harm con come of it?
Our children never quarrel and no grown
person would harm a child." "But,"
said the American, "the child might get
lost." "That would make no troubl-,"
was the smiling reply. And then she
showed how In little children's apparel
there were Inserted cards containing their
name and address and explaining that,
should they stray, any person, finding
them will first give them a full meal and
then bring them home.
The City of Grmnell. la., has Just
adopted a drastic liquor law It Is-, under
the ordinance, a crime for two or more
citizens to get together and taka a drink
of beer or liquor, no matter where they
meet, even if it is in their own homes
and they are members of the same fam
ily. Under this ordinance it Is a crime to
set a glass of beer on the table at the
dinner hour, provided the family con
sists of more than one person. The exact
wording of the ordinance Is:
"That it shall be unlawful for two or
more persons to congregate within the
limits of the City of Grm
nell on any street or vacant
or unoccupied property on or about
tho college campus or buildings. In or
about any lumber yard. In any car, or on
or about any railroad grounds, or stock
yards. In or about any barn, stable or
corncrib, storehouse, elevator or depot,
or in any other place, for the purpose of
drinking beer or any kind of intoxicating
liquor, or for the purpose of creating a
disturbance or doing or committing any
disorderly act."
PLEASANTRIES OP PARAGItAPHERS
After tho Ball. Ida Tho JacDougaIs gavo
a ball that cost $10,000. May Ah, a Scotch,
high ball. Chicago News.
Imperative. Jnggles Why do they start tho
organ as soon as the sermon la over? Wag
glesTo wake up the congregation. Judge.
His Ecason. She You played a very care
less game. Jack. Why don't you keep your
eye on the ball? He I can't keep It on both
of you. Brooklyn Life.
A placard posted throughout a country towi
announced the opening of a theater as "un
der the management of Miss Blank, newly dec
orated and painted." Tlt-Btts.
The Present Pace. Servant A publisher at
tho door to see you, sir. Modern Author
Have him come In and wait; tell him I just
began writing a book and won't have It fin
ished for 15 minutes. Ohio State Journal.
Took tho Hint. "I thought you were goins
to spend a week with your cousins over In
Michigan." "No. I didn't go. When I wrote
to them about it they said for mo to come
right along and make myself at home they
wouldn't consider me company." Chicago
Tribune.
Philosophic "Poor byel" exclaimed O'Hara,
condoling with Cassldy, who had been In
jured by a blast. " 'Tls tough tuck teh hev
ycr hand blowed off." "Och! Faith, It molght
'nva bin wurse." replied Caasldy- "Suppose
Ol'd had me week's wages In It at tho tolme."
Philadelphia Press.
Aggrieved. "It was an outrage!" exclaimed
the excitable young man with the very foreign,
accent. "The father of the young lady offered
a marriage settlement of $100,000." "It Isn't
much of a dowry." "My dear friend; It 13
not a dowry at all. It Is a tip." Washlngtoa
Star.
The Fallen Star.
S. E. Klser In Chicago Record-HertlA
Her father was a millionaire
Who made his money honestly.
And pleasing perfumes floated where
He had his big soap factory.
Her lover was a humble clerk
Who loved her for herself alone;
He had his day dream3, while at work
Of Joys when she should be his own.
She didn't like her father's trade
Though soap should not be cause for shame
She liked the money that ho made.
But not the channel whence It came.
Her lover, at tho 'phono one day
Exclaimed: "You are my star of Iiopel"
The maiden thought she heard him say
The wretchl "You are my bar of soap."
ENVOY.
The daushter of a millionaire
Has turned away an honest clerkr
To her the world's a bleak affair.
And all he see3 ahead te work.
Ills Hopeful Sonpr.
Frank L. Stanton In Atlanta Constitution.
I.
Don't be sorry, mo'neni, w'en de sun don't
shine;
Worl Is full o' trouble en complalnln';
But still dey is a blossom what's a-growln'
on de vine;
De storm 13 blowln over, an de weather's
lookln fine
En de fields is smellln sweeter fer do
rainin'l
II.
Don't be sorry, mo'ner. w'en da night comes
down;
Worl' Is mighty full o sin an sorrcr;
But a ll'l star's a-pecpln' des a peepln' all
eroun',
Somewhar da dav's a-brealcln en de bells 1ft,
music soun
En de birds' II all be aingln' on tomorrer.