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TH. MORNING OKEGONIAN, TUESDAY, OeT&BEB 29, 11901." n t vzg&txwttL Entered at the Poitofaee at Portland, Oregon, .he second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION KATES. By .Mail (postage prepaid). In Advance Dally, -with Sunday, per month.. $ S5 Dally, Sundaj excepted, per year 7M Dally, with Sundaj, per year 0 00 Sunday, per year ...... ................. 2 O0 The Weekly, per sear-. ....... ............ 1 50 The "Weekly. 3 months.... - 50 To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered, Sundays cxcepted.l3e Daily, per week, delivered, Sundays included.20c POSTAGE HATES. TJnltcd States. Canada and Mexico: 20 to K-pafje paper ...................... ...lc J4 to iS-page paper .......... ...............2c Foreign Tate double. News or discussion Intended for publication in The Oregonlan should be addressed invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan;" not to the nanw of any individual. Letters relating to advertis ing, subscriptions or to any business matter should Tie addressed simply "The Oregonlan." 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For sale in Denver. Colo., by Hamilton Sr Kendrlck. 006-912 'Seventh street. TODAY'S TVEATilER Occasional shn-nrers: south to west wind. YESTERDAY'S "WEATHER-Maximum tem perature. 55; minimum temperature, 4S; pre clntation. 0.1G inch. PORTIAKD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20. "WORKING TOE TIDE." It sterns to the Istemea newspapers of Astoria a great outrage, or at least a subject? f or sarcasm and sneer, that vessels coming and gbing at Portland "work the jtlde," up and down the river. These esteemed critics close their eyes to the fact that there Is scarcely a port in the world, where this "same thing- is not done. It is not possible even to get into or out of the great Columbia River: in other words, to reach the great harbor of Astoria from the sea or to depart from it to thesea, with out taking account jef the tide, so as to get depth of water. And Boston, that makes some pretenslonsv to be a seaport, is In the same case. "Here Is the Boston Herald of October 23, say ing: The Dominion line steamship Commonwealth Is advertised as sailing from her dock this morning at 0 o'clock. This is unquestionably an inconvenient hour, but it is made necessary by the tldt. "When the Commonwealth goes out with a full cargo sho needs about alL the water there is in Boston harbor. This early nailing presents a telling object lesson of the need of a better and deeper channel for. our harbor. At San Francisco similar conditions exist "Vessels heavily laden, going put or coming in, study the tide, so as. to be sure of depth on the outer bar. But our good neighbors at Astoria where loaded vessels, bound out or in, always liave to wait for the tide will not allow that any vessel to or from Port land should "work the tide," and are extremely indignant or sarcastic when "vessels do. On our part, however, we shall excuse Astoria for "working the tide," remembering that the same thing is necessary at Boston, New York, San Francisco, London, Liverpool, and nearly every other great port in the world. LEGISLATION NOT A SAFEGUARD. The assassin of President McKInley has seen the last of earth. He could neither, read nor write, never attended a public or parish school nor a church of any denomination, so that his per sistent declaration that he had no con federates is probably true, for so illit erate and ignorant a man would never he selected by any anarchist conspiracy for an executive. He has b.een pro nounced sane enough to be responsi ble lor his crime. He had the common attribute of his class of degenerates, that of superweening self-esteem. He has- exhibited signs of physical cow ardice, but never of moral dismay or self-reproach. He was doubtless en tirely satisfied with himself, and, so far from suffering any remorse, was proud of his "great crime. Overweening ego tism and morbid selfesteem are the un failing earmarks of homicidal degener ates. There is really nothing mysteri ous about the crimes of such creatures. They are always fellows who are out with the world and hold the world re sponsible for their ill fortune. "When they get weary of life and decide to 3eave it, they naturally desire to "drag some angel down." A President, a King, a notable representative of per sonal good fortune or privilege, is the natural and easy mark for their bolt These degenerates are consumed all their days with a passion for notoriety that they have not had brains enough to satisfy, so when they grow weary of life they slake their thirst for venge ance on society for their ill fortune and gratify their passion to be talked about by murdering a famous man. There are thousands of men who embrace the life of a criminal because they hold a grudge against society. The .honest forces of industry they have not the wit or inclination to -wield. They grow sour over failure, and ultimately be come parasites or robbers because they have failed to become producers. Pushed to its last extreme of sullen hate and despair, you have the type of anarchist that slew the President Such creatures do not need to read about anarchism, or hear its philosophy expounded. They have always existed, and always will exist They cannot be guarded against All that is now pro posed in this country to enact in sup pression of anarchism has existed for a decade in e.very Continental country in Europe without effect In 1898 the European powers called an international conference at Rome to consider this very question of legal suppression of anarchism. It sat a month, defined anarchy as a felony and in no sense a political crime., Its ses sions were succeeded by arrangements for the mutual surrender of anarchists, a bureau of information was estab lished, and Switzerland altered its laws, broke up anarchist clubs and carried out a wholesale expulsion of foreign anarchists. Nevertheless, since these measures have been concerted a Span ish Prime Minister,, an Italian King and an American President have been assassinated. The unexpectedassassln, who may or may not he a formal evan gelist and executive of anarchism, can never be guarded against, for he comes like a bolt of lightning from a clear Summer sky, without warning. To ex pect that any legislation can protect the head of the state from the unex pected anarchist, who takes his life in his hand, is as absurd as it would be to legislate against the fall of a de structive aerolite. TASK FOR TRUE FRIENDSHIP. The tariff, it Is announced, must be revlsed,v if at all, by Its friends. True and tried affection is the pnly thing that can qualify. All who have sworn enmity, therefore, to specific, ad va lorem or free list -will accordingly take notice. As the tariff is an ancient and honorable device of civilization, used of all Nations, over which books have been published and magazine writers have earned many useful checks, and which In this country puts some $200, 000,060 or more of good money into Uncle Sam's coffers annually. Its open antagonists as well as secret foes should be few. Oh, yes, we all love the dear, old tariff, if for nothing more than Its polemical resources. Perish the man who could work It injury In life or limb! Fealty to an inanimate object Is not a new thing to our politics. "We went through the same inspiring experience with silver. In certain Rocky Mountain States it was almost' as much as a man's life was worth, some six years ago or so, to afford presumptive evi dence of imperfect loyalty to "the white metal." No man not a true "friend of silver" could be elected to office, or Judge an oratorical contest, or take a premium at the county fair. The en emy of silver, if caught red-handed, was recognized as an enemy to the human race, and for him life instantly became - .... a thing of fears "Which .Sorrow's tooth doth feast on, day and night. But who are the tariff's true friends? They who would conserve It or they who would lead it to destruction? A tariff we must always have, Just as a party must always have a platform, a society a constitution and a church a creed. But the man who proposes amendments to the constitution is not necessarily its enemy, and creed revis ionists may be as honest and true hearted as -those who cling to .the ex pressions of a -distant day. Those who resisted the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments are not looking for chaplets now, and few conservative Presbyterians would today animadvert upon the "Westminster assembly for its disrespect of older standards. Tariffs, that is to say, have to change in time, in all worlds whose society is not sta tionary. McKInley in his time was a tariff-smasher, and so was Dingley. The best friends of slavery were' not those who tempted the country to de stroy it It is possible, moreover, that a man might carry his friendship for the tariff too far. There are, we -may remind ourselves, as the sedition laws are an nulled, other things. Human beings must make shift to survive In the United States, if they can, synchronous ly with Tariff, and some of their re quirements will have to be taken into consideration. There are consumers In this country, paying high prices for protected products, and worklngmen going on unsatisfactory wages in order that Mr. Carnegi may endow Scotch universities and Mr. Morgan may ac cumulate .art treasures in Europe and leave them there rather than, pay the sacred duty on them, and Mr. Schwab may draw down his $800,000 a year and Mr. Rockefeller give Chicago University a new building. The consumer is noth ing, the wageworker is nothing, pro vided only that the tariff is kept in its own josshouse, where the Incantations of its worshipers may not be disturbed by the profane babble of ordinary hu manity. The tariff must be revised by its friends. That is, it must not be revised at all. The committee on revision will kindly report progress and ask leave to sit again until after the next quadren nial love feast after election day. It is important, however, that the tariff be REVISED by its friends. Otherwise It will have no friends. They who were once its friends will be camping on the headwaters of Salt Creek. Gorman or Carter Harrison will be in the White House, Mr. Richardson will be Speaker with a majority of 100 or so at his hack, and a Democratic ways and means committee In the House and a Democratic finance committee in the Senate will report back favorably a measure that will make the "Wilson bill look in comparison like Goluchowskt or old Henry Carey himself. If Mr. Tariff has any wise friends as well as solicitous, they should counsel him to change his clothes ere he is hung out as a scarecrow. EMPEROR "WILLIAM A GREAT STATESMAN. Henry Noriran, member of the Brit ish Parliament, has a very able article in the current number of Scrlbner's Magazine, whose argjfaient is not only that Emperor "William is a man of strong will and resolute courage, but that as a far-seeing statesman he has not his peer in the world today. The keynote of Bismarck's foreign policy was always to keep on good terms with Russia. To that end he subordinated and sacrificed every other German in terest abroad. "When "William II as cended the throne, hesoon showed that he had no use for the old pilot, for he dropped Bismarck in 1890 and aban doned his distinctively pro-Russian for eign policy. Russia then promptly turned to France and Emperor "Will iam turned to Turkey. Meanwhile, Emperor "William knows that the gen eration which fought the war of 1870-71 is dying out in France. The young generation cares no more about it than the average American stripling does about the generation that fought our Civil "War. Emperor "William gives a distinguished reception to the visiting French officers at the maneuvers, and directs the abandonment of the annual military banquet at Metz in celebration of the surrender at Sedan. Emperor William knows that his present aims will surely be opposed by Russia, so to day he spares no effort to secure French neutrality. Emperor William means to transform the map of Europe by a vast extension of the German Empire, and this Is" to be executed through Germany's present j supreme Influence at Constantinople. During the Armenian massacres Ger many declined to speak or act; the Turkish Army was supplied from Ger man factories with cannon and ammu nition; a German General drew up the J plan ofr-campaign when. Turkey took the field against Greece. Emperor Will lam's brother-in-law, the Crown Prince of Greece, was beaten by Turkish troops and German tactics. The Kaiser visited Constantinople and Asia Minor, and then, in December, 1899, came the, concession to -a- German company of the right to build a railway across Asia Minor to Bagdad, whose ultimate ter minus will be on the great harbor of El ICoweit, at the head of the Per sian Gulf. The Russian Minister in vain tried toprevent this concession being given to Germany, and a British syndicate offered to construct the line without any guarantee at all. In this concession Germany won the greatest diplomatic victory over Russia and England of modern, times. England could not afford to protest, for the Boer War was then afflicting her with Its first disasters. The German naval coaling station which is to be built at the head of the great harbor of El Koweit is hut four days' steam from Bombay. From this harbor by rail, Constantinople will be reached in 3 days and Berlin In ten days. The length of the railway will be 1750 miles, and, according to the concession, it is to be finished by 1907. When built, it is expected that this railway will absorb the passenger traffic for India; that Asia Minor will serve for the overflow of the popula tion of the fatherland, while its grain is to render Germany independent of the United States and Russia. Meso potamia, by 'scientific irrigation, will be made to overflow with agricultural wealth, and a German fleet at a naval base four days from Bombay, with a railway to Germany behind it, is ex pected to alter the balance of power in Europe. This scheme of Emperor William, which is already so far advanced, runs counter to the ambition of Russia, which is to secure the control of Persia and a naval and maritime outlet upon the Persian Gulf. Russia is not pre pared to fight Germany, which doubt less has some pledge of neutrality from Great Britain as the price of non-interference in South Africa, and yet if on the death of the present Emperor of Austria there should be annexation of the German-speaking portions of Austria to Germany, with an extension of the German Empire to Trieste on the Adriatic, Russia would probably go to war with Germany rather than see her great rival so vastly aggrandized in territory, population, wealth and sea power. H.OW BEST TO DEFEND OUR COUN TRY. Great Britain's celebration of' the anniversary of Trafalgar reminds us that this great naval victory was really the beginning of the end of Napoleon, for it extinguished the French naval power upon the seas, and from that day England has been the greatest naval power in the world. To her naval supremacy England owes her greatness and her continuance of na tional life. Her Insular situation pro tects her from successful attack so long as her fleets hold the seas. England may well honor Nelson, for to Nelson's naval genius Great Britain owed her immunity from destruction by Napo leon's veteran armies. Suppose In 1805, when Napoleon dared not attempt the passage of the English Channel jn face of Great Britain's fleet, he had only a narrow stream like the- Rhine to have crossed; what could have saved Lon don from the fate of Berlin, Madrid and "Vienna? Her powerful navy and a purse long enough to multiply its ships, not a multitude of soldiers, constitute England's only safety for the future, and it is not unlikely that a powerful navy and elaborate seacoast defenses manned by skilled artillerists will be henceforth relied upon by the United States for her best defense. We shall not Tely largely upon Scientific naval defense for the same reason as Eng land. . "We shall not attempt to organize and maintain a great standing army upon the plea that we are deficient in the number ,of our arms-bearing popu lation, for we are seventy-six millions of people; we shall rely upon a strong arid well-equipped Navy and powerful, sci entifically built coast defenses, because It is foreign to the feelings and habits of our people to tolerate a very large standing Army. Furthermore, the latest experience of modern warfare has shown that the United States, with her present stand ing Army as a school for the soldier in military organization and discipline, could safely rely on picked volunteer levies to repel an Invasion by the most powerful foreign foe. The Boer War has proved that with perfected arms and smokeless powder; with improvised intrenchments and barbed-wire de fenses, courageous farmers who are marksmen can make successful defense against the best trained and most gal lant infantry and artillery that Europe affords. There is no mystery about the successful resistance of the Boers to any Intelligent man. Compared with thousands of Western Americans ac customed to the rifle, the Boers were not exceptionally good shots; they were not good marksmen when shooting from distances greater than those fa miliar to hunters. This was the judg ment of Captain Slocum, U. S. A., our military representative during Lord Roberts' campaign. The British artil lery was excellent, superior to the ar tillerists of the Boers in numbers and power; they were beaten simply be cause of the complete revolution In modern warfare wrought by technical science. The cavalry, save as the eyes of an army, is extinct as a formidable weapon of modern warfare. Colonel Henderson of Lord. Roberts' staff, says that "cavalry Is as obsolete as the Cru saders," referring to cavalry armed, trained and equipped as is the splendid horsemen of the standing armies of France, Germany and Russia. The small-bore magazine militai'y rifle and smokeless powder have destroyed the ancient importance of cavalry in war. The experience of the Boer War proved, too, that artillery against an intrenched enemy never caused heavy losses, never flushed the enemy from his position or shook his morale, with the single excep tion of Spionkop, where the British were not Intrenched, but crowded together on a small hilltop without protection, and consequently suffered greatly from the Boer shrapnel. The experience of the Boer War in the opinion of a military observer of high Intelligence, like Dr. Conan Doyle, has reduced greatly the importance of tac tical training compared with the qual ity of individual courage joined to marksmanship. Dr. Doyle believes that an army of raw volunteers, who were men of pluck and skilled in, the use of the rifle, could successfully resist the invasion of the most powerful standing army in Europe, whose operations were conducted according to the present bat tle tactics of France, Germany or Rus sia. If Great Britain, with 40,000,000 of people; could rely on the principle of voluntary service for military defense against fpreign invasion, surely t the United States, with 76,000,000, woult be Impregnable. If Great Britain out of her 40,000,000 could obtain 1.000.00C volunteers, who could shoot straight and fast with magazine rifles from be hind hedges, woods and farmsteads, the United States could raise 1,500,000 marksmen efficient for the same pur pose, In the Boer War, at Paarde berg, the regular troops were driven back with terrible losses and the vic tory was won by the final attack of the Canadian volunteers. lOmberley and Mafeklng were defended chiefly by civil ians against forces greater than those that attacked Dadysmith, defended by regulars. The picked volunteers, who are marksmen and individually cour ageous, will be found ample for the military defense of this country against invasion by a great foreign power, sup plemented by our highly trained regu lar Army, with Its skilled artillerists, and by a powerful Navy and scientific ally constructed, armed and manned seacoast defenses. 'We do not expect to become invaders, but to resist inva sion the preparation named would be sufficient. The advantages of a down-hill haul from the wheat fields to tidewater were probably never illustrated so forcibly as during the present car shortage on Puget Sound. One-half of the wheat fleet now in port at Tacoma is on de murrage, and quite a number of the ships which were cleared within the past fortnight were held at heavy ex pense long after their lay days expired. At non-competitive points in the in terior loaded cars have 'been held up for weeks through lack of engines to move them. That conditions are so much worse on Puget Sound than at Portland is due to the fact that one engine can haul three times as many cars.from the wheat fields to tidewater at Portland as can be hauled by a sin gle engine from interior points to Ta coma or Seattle. As a result of this car shortage, or rather shortage of mo tive power, grain ships clearing from Portland in October have received an average of two weeks' better dispatch than has been given vessels on Puget Sound.' Some day Northern Pacific en gines will haul just as heavy wheat trains as are now hauled by the O. R. & N. engines, but they will not haul them over the tremendous grades of the Cascade Mountains. It is now intimated by New York newspapers that J. P. Morgan, having returned to New York, will make one more effort to patch up a settlement for control of the Northern Pacific Rail road, which never has been brought to an end, despite all reports to the con trary. The amount of It seems to be that if Hill and 'Morgan will drop Bur lington & QuiiKy, the Harrlman and Rockefeller crowd will let go of North ern Pacific. If Morgan and Hill deter mine to hold the Burlington & Quincy system, there may be some big head lines in the newspapers one of these days, which will tell of surprising events in the financial world. There is to be summary action In Samar. Murderous work has been done through treachery, and the abettors are to be held to responsibility for It. No severities can be too great. The na tives had been treated with all consid eration and kindness. They professed friendship. Yet they rose ifl fury and murdered our people. No wonder the exasperation of our soldiers Is extreme. The leaders, who connived at the mur derous outbreak, are to be deported to Guam, unless all the persons who took part In the massacre are given up, and the island is to be laid waste. That's the way to do the business. Czolgosz, the elder, has awakened such respect as the father of the cow ardly assassin may by the attitude of pitying condemnation which he has from first to last held toward his son. "He alone is responsible for his unfor tunate situation, and he must meet his punishment" These words concluded the last message of the wretphed father to the doomed son. The lesson con veyed by the words has a wide signifi cance, andshould have wide applica tion. Responsibility and self-control these are virtues which above all oth ers require cultivation and insure per sonal" and public safety. The assassin of President McKInley Is reported to have said some days ago that he shot McKInley because he was talking about prosperity and he (the assassin) was tired of It. No pros perity had come to him, and he was irritated by the President's remarks. Fortunately, all who are worthless as this assassin are not so vicious. This wretch never learned to read and write, in this land of free schools. His parents, of course, never felt their re sponsibility nor did their duty. If pes simism have any place in the thought of this country, It is in the incorrigible worthlessness of parents. The late General James A. Walker, who commanded a brigade under Gen eral "Stonewall" Jackson, was twice elected to Congress on the Republican ticket from the Ninth Virginia District A good many hard-flghtlng Confeder. ate soldiers have becomeRepublicans, and a good many hard-flghting "Union veterans became quite bitter Democrats. Colonel Mosby is an earnest Republi can today, while scores of Union vet erans that he fought Incessantly In Vir ginia have become Democrats. An American traveler in Sweden con veys a hint to his Government by stat ing in a carefully written letter that the saloons In that country are cldsed on Saturday pay day while the savings banks are kept open until midnight. The" Government cannot, of course, force a man to save his money; but it must be admitted that this Swedish system encourages those easily tempt ed to deposit it where it will do good instead of harm to the worker, his fam ily and his employer. Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, says, of the Booker Washington in cident: "The action of the President in entertaining that nigger will necessi tate our killing a thousand negroes in the South before they will learn to keep their places again." Are there not peo ple In Oregon who are ashamed that they ever went to hear Tillman speak, when he was in their state? Of course the Filipinos cannot govern themselves. The men of no tropical race can govern themselves and make any progress, in the line of civilization. None ever did. The civilized world can neither give up the tropics nor leave the-'men of the tropics to themselves. DID GIBBONS WJRTO IT? ST. LOUIS, Or., Oct 7. (To the Edi tor.) On Friday, October 25, 1901, The Oregonlan published an article, the title of which was, "Prayers: for r President McKInley," as from Cardinal Gibbons, In the Independent permit me to state that every officer or representative of the Catholic church treats the subject of prayer according to the spirit of Chriot exclusively. In a previous article I have explained when and how the Catholic church as such can and does pray for the living and the dead. The effect of this last article In The Oregonlan must not be misunderstood. The prayers of the Catholic church are not to be confounded, mixed up, put at par, or compared with the so-called prayers of various sects, political fraternities and associations, which on special occasions, through a sudden and, unforeseen cause, must ap pear praying to suit the occasion, while at other times they denounce those who pray as lunatics of old times. But such are the daily fluctuations "in the political market Cardinal Gibbons is not known to write flying articles fitllng the pur pose for every paper's fancy. His arti cles are of one and high caliber, and do not lit the .guns of rebels. Besides, the article in The Oregonlan Is not consistent 1n its philosophy; the illustrations are below the common; words are Ill-selected; the spirit of some sentences is not strict ly dogmatic, and- the sense of the article Is leading to political views. Such errors cannot be attributed to Cardinal Gibbons. Moreover, it is not possible that any arti cle, after having passed through the hands of one or more editors, can be at tributed or traced to Its original author. JOSEPH SCHKLL. It is reassuring tb find that upon com paring the excerpt printed In The Ore gonlan with the otiglnal text in the In dependent, no errors are found. The ex tract was correctly given, and is here re produced, as follows: Wo have prayed for the President's life. But it did not please God to grant our petition. Let no one Infer from this that our prayers were in vain. No fervent prayer ascending to the throne of heaven remains unanswered. Let no one say what a lady remantcd to me on the occasion of President Garfield's death. "I have prayed," she said, "for the President's life. My family have prayed for hlra, our congregation prayed for him, the city prayed for him, tho state rrayed for him, the Nation prayed for him, and yet he died. What, then, Is tho u"3e of prayer?" God an swers our petitions cither directly or Indirect ly. If he does not grant us what wo ask, he gives us something equivalent or better. If he has not saved the life of the President, ha preserves the life of the Nation, which Is of more Importance than the Hfo of an lndl Udual. He has Infused Into tho hearts of tho American peoplo a greater reverence for the head of the Nation, and a greater abhor rence of assassination. He has intensified and energized our love oU country and our devo tion to our political Institutions. What a beautiful spectacle to behold prayers ascend ing from tens of thousands of temples through out the land to the throne o mercy! 13 not this universal uplifting of minds and hearts to God a sublime profession of our faith and trust in him? Is not this National appeal to heaven a most eloquent recognition of God's superintending provldenco over us? And such earnest and. united prayer will not fall to draw down uponua the blessings of the Al mighty. Ifj Father Schell's letter means anything at all, it means that Cardinal Gibbons has been Incorrectly quoted. He objects to the sentiments attributed to the car dinal and he prefaces his objections by the assertion that "every officer or repre sentative of the Catholic church treats the subject of prayer according to the spirit of Christ exclusively." If it was impossible for the cardinal to err, the article errs; therefore, the cardinal did not write it. The grounds of complaint are specific .The article attributed to Cardinal Gib bons is inconsistent in its philosophy, in ferior in Illustration, imperfect in rhetoric, nott dogmatic enough and reprehenslbly political. Besides that, no editor can re produce an article honestly and hence It Is, doubtless, that the article In question "fits the guns of rebels." It does this by recognizing a capacity of prayer in the Nation at large. The Oregonian's skirts are clear in this matter, as the extract is faithfully re produced. The question now is, Did the Independent have the hardihood to get the article up itself, and palm It off as the cardinal's? And if so, why has the imposition escaped detection before this? Eulogy of a Good Prizefighter, Chicago Record-Herald. An old prizefighter died in Boston the other day, and the preacher wire officiated at the funeral said of him: He died a Christian man. His hand never struck an unfair blow, and he might have said, as many do, that ho had always been square and honest with his fellow men, that he had never done any one a wrong, and now, that he wa3 about to die, It would therefore bo well with him; but ho dldnot depend upon that. He did not s3y, as he might have said truthfully, that ho was better than most of the class with which he was associated, that he did not destroy his manhood with Intox icants, that he spoke against the saloon, worked against it and voted against It, and that ho always gave his earnings to his fam ily. This, we are assured by a Boston con temporary, was not a mere empty eulogy of one who was no more. Every word the preacher said was. true. The man- had been temperate, honest and respectable, if it is possible for a prizenghtev to be respectable. It is gratifying to know that there was one boxer who didn't keep a saloon, who never beat his wife, who did not consort with lewd people, who did not seek to gain notoriety by jawing other boxers through the sporting pages of tolerant newspapers, who did not degrade the stage by posing as an actor, whose name was not a hissing and a reproach. Let us honor the good prizefighter. Let us give him the tribute that he earned. Let us be thankful that he was a product of our thrice glorious land. We can afford to do this. We can safely give him our praise. The good prizefighter, like the good Indian, is dead. 0 Lapse of "The Thunderer." New Tork Times. We notice, with a surprise that is deeply tinged with grief, in the columns of the greatest, of our homonymous con temporaries of course we refer to the London Times this statement: "South Africa is doubtless a bad school, but we expect tho sons oil England to retain what Matthew Arnold has finely called 'tho ancient and inbred Integrity of the Eng lish people.' " Alack and alasl and that in a paper that does or did, according to tradition offer a reward to anybody who would catch it tripping. For though Matthew did use' the words credited to him, ho frankly credited them to another to one whose words are now, perhaps, more familiar In America than in, Eng landin short, to the bold and eloquent Burke. It is just possible that our trans Atlantic cousins read Arnold too much, nowadays, and Burke too little. B The Country Is Opposed to It. Minneapolis Journal. Senator Frye has announced his pur pose to Introduce the old Hanni ship sub sidy bill in a different form, which he thinks will make it acceptable. In no form will that bill be acdeptable, unless it proposes to allow American ships proper compensation for carrying the malls or for fendering any other really useful service. The sentiment of the country is Increasingly against such un just discrimination. The public is in creasingly aware that there has never been such activity in shipbuilding In this country as at the; present, time, not only In the construction of vessels for the lake and coasting trade, but merchant vessels for ocean freighting, some of them the largest kind of freighting steamers .for the Pacific trade. , AMUSEMENTS Of the many comedies written by Charles H. Hoyt, "A Texas Steer" will probably live the longest, for it depends on satire rather than on singing and danc ing, and its wit and cleverness will out last the fad for vaudeville entertainment in the gulso of a play. It was presented to a well-filled house at the Marquam last night, and its fun was apparently just as much appreciated as ever. Whether in Texas or In Washington, whether making his characters court on shoot, Hoyt was always thoroughly master of what he was doing, and he never labored with bet ter results than in this brilliant carica ture of politics. The unwillingness of Maverick Brander to accept the office of Congressman until he was persuaded by the six-shooters of his constituents 13 no less funny than the ease with which he takes on the Congressional manner once he arrives in Washington, or than the shifting of his point of view on the rail road bill. A touch of pathos I3 Inter woven by the efforts of the candidate for the office of Minister to Dahomey to secure a place firing the boilers in the Capitol, and the love story dealing with Brander's daughter, Bossie, and her Army lover is one of Hoyt's most artistic strokes. The company is better than most of those which have lately fallen heir to the Hoyt farces. James It. McCann has been playing Maverick Brander so long that he seems to be the rough old Con gressman. He is best m the more serious scenes, for his voice is ono which lends itself readily to pathos, but his comedy is always natural and easy, and he makes the most of all his opportunities. Lydia Dickson makes a pretty Bossie. She is better suited to the later acts, when that young lady has, become accustomed to Washington society, than as the unpol ished ranch girl. Miss Dickson ha1? a trick of talking too fast to be intelligible at all times, which she could cure with profit to herself, but her fulfillment of the requirements of the role was such as to leae little room for real criticism. Will Chatterton Is admirable as the Minister "to Dahomey; James A. Devlin makes an excellent Brassey Gall, the lobbyist; Gus tave Neville is a good Major Yell, and the remainder of the company are er&ual to their parts. The colored quartet made a large hit In the first act, being recalled again and again, until It began to look as if they would have to furnish all the entertainment "A Texas Steer" will be repeated to night and tomorrow night. "In the Rorael, Gallery." "In the Rogues' Gallery" was the title of the play presented by the Wiedemann company at the Metropolitan last night to an audience that filled the house. The specialty bill has been changed, and made the usual hit. Tonight, "The Major's Daughter" will be repeated. COMING ATTRACTIONS. "The Casino Girl." Tomorrow (Wednesday) morning, at 10 o'clock, the sale of seats will open for "The Casino Girl," which will be the at traction at the Marquam Grand Theater next Friday and Saturday nights, with a special matinee Saturday at 2:15 o'clock. The action of the play is located in the present day at Cairo, Egypt. Tiring of the life of the stage, a Casino prima donna retreats to Cairo and becomes a modest milliner. In New York a young American doctor was an ardent suitor for her heart and hand. He discovers her hiding-place, and seeks her, arriving in the city only to be mistaken for a noted robber and arrested. He is taken before Pilsener Pasha, a newly installed ruler, who has won his title by the introduction of beer into the country. The real brigand, who is a rogue of much jokcry, and his lieutenant bob up at the trial, as does Gaggs, a comic opera tenor, who has been stranded with a lot of chorus girls on tho banks of the Nile. Pilsener, Jn ac cordance with the customs of the country, had taken all of the stranded choru3 girls to be his wives, and, of course, they are at the trial. The Casino girl comes to free her lover, and the Pasha wants her to be wife 101. The comics are sustained by tho Pasha, the two bandits, the oper atic Impressarlo, the wives, a St. Louis society leader and her daughter, an heir ess in search of a title. Through all a sweet love tale is carried by the erstwhile comedienne and her young sweetheart from the Western Continent Where Protection Has Done Its Work. Washington Star. But it will be a mistake if discussion is confined to reciprocity. That is a very important topic, but not the only one. It was not the only topic referred to by Mr. McKInley In hl3 Buffalo speech. He laid great stress on reciprocity, but he has also suggested that there were Indus tries for which protection had done its perfect work, and that the tariff could well be revised with respect to them. Now, which Industries may be so cata logued? Those selling their products in foreign markets at lower rates than In the home markets? If so, what I the remedy? Protection has a very strong hold on the American people as it applies to building up Industries from small be ginnings, but as applied to Industries which are full-grown and gigantic, and able to hold their own at home and abroad against all comers, is it a new proposition. The people are thlnklnk se riously on that subject, and there is a widespread sentiment throughout the West and Northwest in fivor of action on it by the Incoming Congress. A New England Opinion. Boston Herald. Ind. There has been no Incident in politics for a score of years that ha3 so united the men. who originally comprised the Re publican party in opinion with regard to a subject as the attack upon President Roosevelt for calling Booker Washington to his dining table. Incidents which In duced a lower tone as regards public affairs have notoriously parted many men of character and ability from that party assoclation during that time; but the rais ing of the color issue In this way has been to, them like a rallying note to the old Btandard. Here Is genuine Republicanism of better days. They stand by the Presi dent in being true to it No men indorsed his action In this matter more promptly and unreservedly than those who have felt compelled to separate from the Re publican organization because Its course has been objectionable in other respects. Feared Executive Disapproval. Hartford Times. Senator Frye, of Maine, let a large-sized cat out of the bag when he made known tho fact that one principal reason why he Is getting up a new ship subsidy scheme Is that President Roosevelt would not "stand for" the Hanna bill of last Win ter. . In Ebctremls. The late Thomas Drifllll In The Independent "When the face ofthe dying turns gray. And the time ha3 come "When the soul must wend Its way To lta last long home. Who is it bends over the dying Of all that are human Last Seen by the- sufferer helpless lying? 'TIs the form of a woman. Mother, or sister, or wife. Or some sweet daughter. Nurses the ebbing life, "T Wets the 'parched lips wlthwater,, JPlIca every loving art ' To comfort the one that Is going,. Frdm her own half-broken, aching' heart A last sad smile bestowing. O women of all the lands. In the future aa in the past. To -yotnr pltylnc hearts and tender hands We all must come at last:. We may trifle, neglect, disdain, But to you and to none other We turn In our sore distress and pain "Wife, slater, daughter, mother. , , K0TE AND COMMENT Chrysanthemums show which way the money coes. A sign of Winter GREAT SAXjE OF SEALSKIN SAQUES. The warden will press the. button, and Czolgoss will do the rest It Is a pretty safe gus that the verdict of the court of Inquiry will not b "caitiff as" charged." A Detroit dialect poet has been ar rested In Holland. This is smrly a ease of poetic justice. One thing, at, least Is certain. Neither Captain Clark or the Oregon Willi receive a vote of censure from the eourt of In quiry. If Roosevelt only had Jobs onough at his disposal, he could soon silence all the Southern editors who are eating fire on his account. Tho number of letters written by Pat Crowe lead to tho suspicion that he In tends to have them, published for tho holiday trade. This is the time o" year to sort over your last year's Christmas presents and see how many of them are in condition to be used as gifts again. Mr. Croker has given $580 to the City of Cork. This will well ptease the na tives of that city who are in his employ on the New Yjork police force. Hereafter every time Mrs. Roosevelt is seen buying 'possum in tho markets tho correspondents of Southern papers will send dispatches home to the effect that tho President Is about to be guilty of fresh Infamy. Since tho discovery of the relation be tween mosquitoes and the 3pread of ma laria, the Italian Government has been taking vigorous measures for tho reclaim ing of the extensive fever-stricken regions of the country, and the scheme is now re garded very hopefully. One expedient has been to supply all the worklngmen'a nouses in such districts with mtsquito nctting for the windows and drainage Is being undertaken on a large scalo. Ma laria has been a great plague to Italy. In Mr. Cleveland's first administration the late Frederick Douglass was invited to one of the Congressional receptions, to gether with his Caucasian wife, then his bride. And John C. Brown, the Demo cratic Governor of Tennessee, as far back as 1S73, when he gave a banquet at the Maxwell House. Nashville, had among the invited guests on that occasion the Hon. Sampson Keeble, u, black negro Repre sentative from Davidson County, who not only attended the banquet, but responded to a toast. j Considerable talk io heard in New York regarding the extent to which so ciety women carry flasks of liquor while attending the International yacht races. One very nautical young woman is eald to have made herself particularly conspic uous on every trip of a certain excursion boat by the public fashions in which she lugged her liquor along. Her tktsk was suspended from a strap over her shoulder and hung on ono side, while a heavy pair of field glasses hung in the same fashion on the other side. She wore a man's felt hat and boots that looked suspiciously mannish, and It she had produced a cigar ette and smoked It none of the people who found much entertainment in watching her would have been surprised She was with a party of about a dozen, every one of whom, male and female, carried a more or less generous supply of stimulant AH belonged to what Is called good society. "To be a critic of Oriental rugs," said a prominent Eastern dealer, "Is as difllcult as to be a critic of painting, or of music, or of wine. I know men who can tell In fallibly the province In which a rug was made; It Is the knotting of the threads that they go by. These men earn a good deal of money, for their servles are In frequent demand, and the fees they get for their expert opinions are high. We have a number of millionaires who are assidu ous rug collectors. They hang their walla with rugs, and certainly those draperlej are no leas beautiful than costly. Tho most valuable rug in the world is in tho South Kensington museum. I think that it is worth ?30,C0O. Age improves thto beautiful things, softening their colors and giving a kind of blur, a kind of atmos phere to their design, ilany of the no table ones are hundreds of years old. They did not wear out in the palae3 and the mosques where they were laid be cause no one walked upon them with shoes on; they were praer rugs, ard were stepped on, revenently, with shoe less feet, the devotee then kneeling. Of course, with such sentle usag. any sort of rug would last a long time. Thesv, made of the purest wools and dyed with the finest and costliest dyes, became mora charming as the yeara passed. I don t know why it is, but moths wilt not attack a good, old Persian rug." PLEASANTRIES OF PAKAGRAPIIERS Wise Suggestion. St. Louis Han It's an awful thing to bo burled alive. Chleago Man Well, why don't you move to some other town? Chicago News. Taking No Chances. Wool When you were robbed of the ?20, why didn't you jell for tho police? Van Pelt Don't bo silly" I had $S left. Puck. "How Is ycur brother. Tommy?" "Ill In bed, miss.. He's hurt himself." "Haw did ho do that?" "We wero playing at who could lean farthest out of the window, and he won." Tlt-Blts. Friend Why. Pat. not learned to ride that bicycle yet? Pat (who has been.practielng for a week) Sorra a bit. sorr. Shure Ot can't aven balance mesllf standln still, let alone rldlrt' I Glasgow Evening Times. In the Far North. "Hit" yelled the walrus, "look out for that pot-hunter, he's after youl' "I don't give a wrap." replied tho humorous seal, as he disappeared below the waves Just In time. Philadelphia Press. Too Much of a Strain. "Is Bnmbr!ck'3 mind permanently affected?' "No, they think not. Tou see, he had been trying to understand the New York Yacht Club's rules for calculating time allowances." Cleveland Plain-Dealer BIlllng3 He called me several things that I didn't mind so much; but whan he eallerl mo an anthropoid ape. I must eonfess It was a wrench to my feelings. TwllHngsr I see, a sort of monkey wrench, I suppose? Boston Transcript. Too Technical. "I alwajs make money oft that musician," observed the marketman. "I thought you made money off everybody," said the helpless customer. "Well, of course. I try to, but jou see he Insists that I give him only four beet3 to the measure." Baltimore American. An Appetising Resort. "Well, how did you and your family spend tho Summer?" asked Mrs. Miller. "Have a pleasant time?" "Oh. yea," replied Mrs. Moth, "we spent the Sum mer together In an all-wool overcoat, and you ju?t ought to have seen us eatt" Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Her Gentle Hint. "Yes; I proposed to her by letter." "And what was her reply?" "Sha simply referred me to a. certain chapter and page In 'The Life of Paul Jones.' " "And whnt did you And?" "It says: "After fruitlessly applying tor command of the ship by letter, "he went In person to sco about It: and then J he secured It." Life, V