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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,
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