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PORTLAND, WEDXESDAY, OCT. 30.
CHINESE EXCLUSION LEGISLATION.
In the North American Review Mr.
Ho Tow, Chinese Consul-General, writes
against those Jaws of ours which ex
clude his" countrymen from the United
States. He deems these exclusion laws
a continuance of the barbarous cus
toms of former ages; and la a sense
the contention is true. But, if we con
sider the matter from another side, 3t
must be admitted that we have already
race troubles enough in these United
States, and we must conclude that it
is not well to aggravate them further.
Our Chinese publicist argues that
Chinese unskilled labor is largely need
ed in the United States, to develop our
waste lands, to build our roads and to
work on our farms. It Is true enough
that cheap labor for these purposes is
desirable, from the economic side; but
there is another side, which we cannot
afford to ignore. We want to avoid
race antagonisms, caste conditions aad
changes of our social and political sys
tems; and these things certainly would
come about, to some extent, greater
or less, as"" consequences of admission
among us of large .numbers of an alien
race.
The argument is pressed, further,
that through the Chinese who might
live among us and contract the habit of
using our goods, as well as a regard
for our standards of living, we might
and noiloubt should secure markets in
China for our products, on a vast scale.
The American Chinese might and
doubtless would thus prove our best
trade missionaries among their people,
' aad in time obtain for us a standing
ia the commerceof the Orient superior
to that of every other nation.
This again is probably .true. But not
by such arguments, or any arguments,
can the opposition to admission of the
Chinese in large numbers Into the
United States be broken down. Beyond
question there are directions In which
their labor could be employed with
profit. Here in Oregon and Washington
are vast bodies of land, to which
it might be applied, with great ad
vantage. In the absence of the cheap
and patient labor which the Chinese
would furnish, these lands will be
slowly subdued. Again, it would be a
great matter to spread through China
the habit of using our products; and
American Chinese might become effi
cient agents in this behalf. But, after
all, we cannot let the bars down. We
cannot afford it
We can better do without these ad
vantages than to make conditions of
trouble and difficulty among our people.
Immigration of Chinese would produce
Irritation and discontent among large
bodies of our population. We would
better get on more slowlyf with con
tentment, than to have a conflict of
races and a conflict of labor. Of this
sort of difficulties we have enough and
too many, now. Congress, therefore,
will act wisely in continuing the ex
clusion act
NEEDLESSLY IN DOUBT.
The Tacoma News is becoming quite
hysterical over the heavy wheat ship
ments that are going out of Puget
Sound in October. By some peculiar
line of reasoning It has arrived at the
conclusion that increased shipments
from that port must necessarily mean
a decline at other ports. It has figured
out that October shipments from Ta
coma andV Seattle combined will reach a
total of 1,736,137 bushels of wheat and,
with an air of triumph, says:
It remains to be seen what sort of a record
San Francisco and Portland will make In com
parison vilth Puget Sound's record of 1.730.137
bushels of -wheat exported during the customs
month of October. IDOL
If the News had been a little more
familiar with the manner in which the
wheat business of the "Pacific North
west is handled, it would have sent a
man down to the branch offices which
nearly all Portland exporters have es
tablished in Tacoma and learned that
Portland will ship in October something
over 1,600,000 bushels of wheat 300,000
bushels of barley and about 115,000 bar
rels of flour. The News can also learn
Xrom those exporters that Portland's
November shipments of wheat will be
more than twice as large as those from
Tacoma and Seattle combined. One
month does not make a season or a
year, any more than one swallow makes
a Summer.
Except in the matter of minor detail,
it does not "remain to be seen" how
much wheat either Puget Sound or
Portland will export in October, No
vember or for the remainder 'of the
cereal year. The railroads trayersing
the wheat belt and the exporters who
Ixave chartered the ships for moving
the crop already have a pretty accurate
line on the movement. Taking the fig
ures of these authorities, together with
a. personal investigation of the situation
by special representatives. The Orego
nlan. was enabled as far back as Sep
tember 6 to- forecast amovement of ap
proximately 47 per cent of the entire
Northwestern crop by way of Puget
Sound and 52 per cent by way of Port
land. NpthingJias since transpired to
makeany material change in this esti
mate made at that time.
There have been single days In this
.season when Portland shipped over 300,
000 bushels of 'wheat and Tacoma did
not ship any. There have also heen
weeks when this port .shipped five bush
els to Tacoma's one, but thse excep
tional periods cannot be taken as a cri
terion for the importance 'of the" port,
and the returns at the end of the sea
son will show that Tacoma and Seattle
have exported the surplus of wheat that
is tributary to those ports, and no more.
The returns on flour will show that they
secured more than was directly tribu
tary to Puget Sound, for the reason
that Portland was compelled to ship
some heavy consignments to Puget
"Sound when our own steamers were
running so full that they could not han
dle the business. N
PERSISTENT BARBARIS3IS.
Science has made us familiar with the
traces of his lowly origin man bears
about In his physical franie. There
are the obsolete passages behind the
ears through which we used to breathe
in ouraquatlc existence; there are our
daily and monthly rise and fall of vital
functions relics of our amphibious
ages on the ocean shore; there are our
wonderful clinging muscles which en
able the new-born babe to swing from.
a horizontal bar inheritances from our
arboreal life in African forests; not to
mention a score of brutish, instincts
which ever and anon crop out to our
humiliation and shame.
Yet not more pertinaciously do the
relics of our long ascent adhere to Dur
bodily frame than do the superstitions
of the childhood of the race dominate
our manners. In Mr. Charles Reade's
beautiful story, "The Cloister and the
Hearth," an old "Dusseldorf doctortells
the hero what difficulties medicine had
to contend with in its upward march.
Study of the human frame had been
forbidden, and even investigation of
animals proceeded under great official
opposition.. Only In the old doctor's
time, the closing decades of the fifteenth
century, had experiments upon the hu
man body been permitted, and even
then the governments that "winked at"
these measures of progress were few
and accordingly beloved by the devo
tees of the healing art
Whatever good might have been
drawn from study of President McKtn
ley's body was nullified by sentiment
In the case of Czolgosz a compromise
seems to have been effected, and in
that compromise all concessions that
were made to dread of medical exam
ination were In a degree sacrifices, to
the causes of humanity. There is no
nobler use which the body of a dead
man can serve than to shed light upon
the task of saving living men. As for
Czolgosz, his life and limb were forfeit
to the community. The best use that
could have been made of him would
have been to turn him over,' alive, to
physicians of approved character and
learning, for whatever secrets could be
wrung from his frame, not only as to
the mental make-up of so perverted a
nature and It was all In "his brain in
epitome but also for such experiments
as would show the physicians how to
save life and minimize suffering.
There are sentiments of affection and
reverence that do credit to our im
pulses, but they must be recognized as
superstitions. Whether the poor, life
less body be laid at rest with flowers
and tears, or slid Into the depths of the
sea, or incinerated in conflagration or
crematory fires, or hurled by the mur
derer Into consuming acid,- or left on
desert wild or mountain side, the prey
of devouring beasts or Time can make
no difference either with the soul that
has departed or with those who stay.
The question is not what ministers to
vanity or disordered grief, but what
will "best serve humanity. It is better
to sail on Friday than to miss your
port on time, however conscientious is
the terrified mariner. It is better taj
go back for the forgotten parcel than
to fall In its delivery, no matter how
the devoted beldame may grieve at the
certain 111 consequence. It is better to
have thirteen guests at table than to
Introduce another, uncongenial. It is
better that all these superstitions
should be swept away. They stand
across the path of progress.
At the Yale reception the other day
President Roosevelt and President Had
ley greeted their callers without the
customary shake of the hand. It Is a
noble as well as heroic precedent, and
one can only hope it will be followed
not only at Yale, but at the White
House. If there were no risk of assas
sination or less deadly insolence from
the ill-behaved, the custom is one as
truly barbarous as if we were in the
habit of rubbing noses or pressing
cheek to cheek. Couples in high society
used to walk hand in hand instead of
crooking elbows, and, actual assistance
in walking aside, one practice is as dig
nified and necessary as the other. It is
no more clvllizedto buy your passing
acquaintance a drink than to swap
wampum beads with him or nibble salt
from the same dish. Why should a
lady's hand be gloved and her throat
bare? Why should a man's trousers be
wide one year and narrow the next?
Why should red neckties be at one time
a mark of gentility and at another be
the stamp of vulgarity? Why should
we force down food at which our stom
achs rise, and blush to take a second
portion of a darling dish? There is no
reason for all this but slavish fear of
custom. The fathers wrote the Declar
ation of Independence, but not they nor
others had courage to revolt from the
tyrannies the despots Superstition and
Fashion enforce against our liberty and
pursuit of happiness.
MONDAY'S DECISIONS.
While the decisions of the State. Su
preme Court in the Portland cases re
ported yesterday make clear the next
step to be taken by the city toward
recovery of these delinquent assess
ments for etreet . Improvements, they
are still far from settling the matters
in question. These decisions hardly go
to the merits of the cases, but bear en
tirely upon Ihe form of procedure.
The curative feature of the present
city charter is upheld. This does not
go to the extent of legalizing acts that
were fundamentally lame of legalizing,
for example, a street Improvement of
which It was clear that the City Coun
cil never obtained jurisdiction. But It
is denied to propertjvowners tlfet they
should sit idly by and see an improve
ment made benefiting their property
and then plead some technical viola
tion of law to avoid payment of the
assessments.
The doctrine of equitable estoppel is
applied in this curative section of the
charter. Tov escape assessment the
property-owner must act before the
benefit Is conferred upon his property.
The three cases just decided, though
by no means Identical, leave the same
remedy to the city to proceed under
the curative section ot the city char
ter. It must be confessed that the joriginal
proceedings were defective, but prop
erty that has been benefited by street
Improvements must pay the bill, not
withstanding technical irregularities,
unlers a better defense than has yet ap
peared shall be madef Though-a dis
tinct step in advance has been taken,
the city is by no means out of litiga
tion In the matter of collecting delin
quent street-Improvement assessments.
AGAIN THE SHADE TREES.
The shade trees of Portland have re
cently furnished text for a discussion
that has waxed warm at both end3 of
the line. At times sentimental, at times
pathetic, now retrospective and again
bristling with indignation, the cham
pions of the shade trees have made vig
orous appeal for their protection from
the woodman's ax. Cold-blooded and
practical to the last degree, the assail
ants of the shade trees have urged their
extirpation in the interest of modern'
improvements cement sidewalks, elec
tric light and telephone wires, and sew
ers. The contention, along these lines
represents the extremes between which,
as in all other questions, there is a
proper mean. Upon this middle ground
it will no doubt be settled. Upon one
point all have come to an agreement
The poplars trees of rampant growth
both above and below ground, unsatis
factory generally as shade trees and
with the reputation as sewer-chokers
clearly established these must .go. As
to the others, the ample maples, his
toric elms, graceful horse chestnuts and
fragrant honey locusts these will for
the most part remain unmolested, ex
cept for necessary pruning, on the resi
dence streets of the city.
As to the trees on the plaza blocks,
few of them fulfill the requirements
either of beauty or. utility. Most of
them have long since been lopped and
trimmed out of all semblance of beauty,
and may be cut down and reduced to
firewood without violating any'senU
ment, pity and Indignation having long
ago been exhausted in their behalf.
These blocks would, however, be most
unsightly without trees, and in the in
terest of beauty it may be necessary to
supply the places of some of these
gnarly old veterans with young trees
and shrubbery of the hardier sort. Why
not plant in the place of some bf the
half-dead cork elms that cumber the
Plaza sturdy, straight dogwoods? Or
now and then an oak or a mountain
ash? And to avoid an effect too um
brageous, why not intersperse these
trees of native growth with wild cur
rant, that makes all our hills aglow
with its dainty pink and red blossoms
in April; or with the fragrant syringa
or the gorgeous rhododendron? These
trees and shrubs would cost nothing
"but the getting and planting. Splendid
specimens of any or all of them could be
procured within an hour's walk of the
Plaza to the.west or south. Indigenous
to the soil, hred to the climate, they
would require no care except to pro
tect them from vandal hands in blos
soming time. Their roots certainly
those of the shrubs would not Interfere
with cement sidewalks nor their
branches with electric wires, yet the
effect In bough, leaf and blossom would
be at different seasons of the -year de
lightful. The solution of the tree problem, as
far as It affects the plaza blocks, could
be easily, cheaply and satisfactorily
reached, by following these suggestions.
As to the shade tree question, as ap
plied to residence streets, property-owners
will settle that to suit themselves,
and we may well believe that their de
cision in regard to the number of trees
spared and planted, as well as the va
rieties chosen, will conduce to the
beauty of the city, the cool delights of
shade In Summer and the sleep of veg
etation in Winter, so suggestive of rest
and resurrection to the meditative
mind.
NERVE BORN OF EGOTISM.
Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer's novel, "A
Strange Story," describes a man who
exhibited signs of what is termed
"moral insanity" long before the brain
had made its disease manifest to the
most familiar kindred. In ordinary con
versation he seemed rational enough,
but he had one hallucination which led
him to glory in any crime committed.
Of course Bulwer only puts into the
mouth of his hero, Dr. Fenwick, the
conclusions and observations of English
medical experts. This type of assassin
is always satisfied with himself, and, so
far from suffering any remorse, sin
cerely rejoices over his crime, as Czol
gosz did in the death chamber yester
day. He was not an Insane man, like
Gulteau, for he talked rationally to the
last, while Gulteau was full of insane
exultation as he sang and shouted.t'Tm
going to the Lordy."
As Dr. McBrlde predicted, the au
topsy revealed a lesion in Gulteau's
brain; It was In a thoroughly diseased
condition, but the brain of McKinley's
assassin was found to be above the nor
mal and perfectly healthy. He was not
an insane man, like Gulteau; he was a
homicidal enthusiast, like Wilkes Booth.
He was far inferior to Booth in natural
endowments and scholastic education
and training, but he was a homicidal
enthusiast, whose crimes were not due
to any brain disease. Allowing for the
vast difference between the high ac
quired intelligence of Booth and the
great ignorance of Czolgosz, the assas
sination of McKlnley was not more
Irrational than the assassination of Lin
coln, andHhe motive which prompted
these crimes was nearly Identical in
both cases.
Booth was a kind of crushed trage
dian, disappointed in his ambition; a
hard drinker, fond of the South because
only in the South had his acting ever
obtained much applause. Booth loved
notoriety in life, and-he- felt sure he
would pbtain it if he killed Lincoln; If
he made good his escape tto the South,
he expected to elude capture long
enough to become a popular hero. In
any events his name was sure of im
mortality, and he would have died
striking down the tyrant President of
the victoripus Union. The creature whe
killed McKlnley as "the enemy of the
working people" was a very Ignorant
man compared with Booth, but his hate
for-the President and his decision to
kill him was not more Irrational than
the crime of Booth. Like Booth, In his
sphere he was a soured, disappointed
man; he wanted to get out and yet to.
go out with a whoop In a blaze of noto
riety. Another ,curious trait lntheman was
that while he had little physical cour-
age, he, possessed enormous nerve. The
dread of being lynched by a mob fright
ened him, "but the moment "he felt se
cure from that danger he regained his
composure and never lost it He never
lost a night's sleep; his appetite was
good to the hour of his execution- This
same kind of nerve has been shown at
executions, eVen when preceded by hor
rible tortures, by the famous assassins
of history. They have seldom been
men of any past reputation for physical
courage; most of them, have been re
puted cowards, but at the hour of exe
cution they have always behaved with
extraordinary nerve. Gerard, Ravail
lac, Damiens, wre" all worthless men,
miserable failures in life; so was
Fieschi, so was St. Regent; they had
never shown the slightest physical cour
age or resolution in their past career,
and yet they all met death with "un
flinching nerve.
Mixed with their devilish depravity
there must have been an enormous ego
tism that served ihe samejpurpose that
pure enthusiasm did to the martyrs of
the church. The "nerve of these creat
ures at execution Is of kin to the savage
pride that enables our Indian captive
to endure torment without flinching;
that makes a negro criminal die in si
lence in the flames to which he has been
committed by a mob. i ,
Still come reports of "activity In ship
building" at all of the shipyards on
the Atlantic Coast, from Bath to New
port News. Twenty-six merchant ships
have already been launched this year at
the various yards, and the yards are
still full. One of the busy points is
Camden, N. J., where four freight
steamers, each of 6000 tons, and four
ocean steamers of like register, are on
the stocks, while within a menth keels
will be laid for two steamers each 620
feet long and 18,000 tons burden, and
contracts for four more of the smaller
register have been let. And yet there
has been no subsidy to encourage Amer
ican shipbuilding, neither is there any
hope of one. Capital is seeking invest
ment In a channel that promises on Its
own merits satisfactory returns. This
Is all. But it accounts for the new birth
of an old industry and the flourishing
growth, with promise of the attainment
of "great vigor, two or three years hence,
of this sturdy offspring of legitimate
enterprise.
That King Edward is seriously
threatened with the royal malady, can
cer of the throat, again comes over
the wires. All Christendom will re
ceive with regret the unwelcome tid
ings, and join all loyal subjects of the
British crown in the hope that science
may rescue him from the fate" to which
recently his sister, the Empress Fred
erick, succumbed. His death within a
few months, as now seemingly fore
shadowed, would repeat the tragedy
which closed her short-lived power
the death from cancer of her husband,
Frederick III of Germany, after a brief
reign, which followed a long life as
Crown Prince of the realm, and her own
following in the same fatal track a few
years later.
It Is clear that Rear-Admiral Schley
will be completely vindicated by the
testimony. It Is evident, too, that the
slanders against him were worked up
by a clique in the Navy. Jealousies
among officers often cause troubles in
the public service, and even disasters,
at critical times. Battles have been lost
in this way, in the history of every na
tion. Fortunately, in this instance the
Spaniards were too weak to profit by
the dissensions among their adversaries.
This business with which the Schley
inquiry is concerned is a disgrace to the
Navy of the United States.
Leon Czolgosz, in his dying state
ment, said that he killed President Mc
Klnley because "McKlnley was the
enemy of the working people." The
miserable assassin got that notion from
the rant of demagogues and anarchists.
There is" no way to shut off the speech
of either class of these agitators; yet
there is danger all the time that the
heads of weak-minded and naturally
vicious persons may be turned to as
sassination by it. ""
President Roosevelt knows, appreci
ates and loves a game of football, but
he was never a player to any great ex
tent In his youth at Harvard, nor was
he a first-class athlete compared with
a number of his classmates. His passion
has always been the pursuit of "big
game" at the West. He has hunted elk,
deer, mountain sheep, and has killed
many cougars in Colorado and bears In
Montana and Idaho.
To Portland boys: Be natural, not
savage, tomorrow night Have all the
fun among yourselves you can get out
of Halloween, but don't smash things.
Refrain from acts that may land you
in the Police Court or bring the blush
of shame to your parents. Wanton de
struction of property Is a crime that
must be punished. Play pranks, but
keep away from lawlessness.
Those who contend that athletics
shorten human life have been asked to
consider the fact that a man who took
part in the first cricket match between
Oxford and Cambridge Universities still
survives at the age of 95 years. Of
course, the retort will be that cricket,
in its leisurely movements, Is not to be
classed as a modern athletic sport.
The educational campaign against
spitting in public places in New York
begins, itls said, to show encouraging
results. Public disapproval concen
trated into a steady stare at the of
fender by all who witness his breach of
public decency has recorded more than
one triumph fn causing him to slink
away in embarrassment
Possibly the notices of The Oregonlan,
by 'the press of the United States, in
connection with the notices of the
Handbook recently published, may af
ford an intimation of the standing of
this newspaper to some of our brethren
in Portland of that cult who will not
allow any prophet honor In his own
country.
. No modern statesman of England has
cost his country so much as Mr. Glad
stone. After Majuba Hill he compro
mised with the Boers Instead of crush
ing them, when to crush them would
have been easy.
It is wealthy men, only, who have
shipyards and build ships. Why should
the country be taxed to Increase their
wealth? vWhy, that is to say,' should
there be a ship subsidy bill?
The face of Hon. Shelby M. Cullom,
of Illinois, Is that of a minister rather
than of a politician. His record, how-
J eyer, squares the account ,
THE SOUTHERN OPINION.
Portland; Oct 2s.-To the'Edftor.j-
Ybur comments on the extract from the
New Orleans Times-Democrat's editorial
on the Roosevelt Washington dinner are
perfectly natural for a person not famil
iar with 'the situation In the South, and
perfectly faulty when the local conditions
there are considered.
The appointment of a Jiegro postmaster
in a countyeat town in the South em
boldens every negro criminal In thtf
county; but this honoring of "Washington
will give courage, to every black devil
South of the Ohio River. It is useless to
say there Is no reason why this should
be the fact. It is the fact, contrary to
reason, and without any regard to the
character of the person honored.
The article in- the New Orleans paper
was evidently intended fDr home consump
tion, and was written with this fact in
mind, addressed to those who, also, have
had. for years to consider the dangers of
their environment in forming judgments
on every public measure and every pub
lic man. L. A, C
The Oregonlan is "familiar with the situ
ation In the South." and that Is why it
said: "The specter of racial and social
equality, conjured up by this writer and
set forth In terms so energetic, Is a mere
figment of! the Imagination; for such
equality never existed, ,nor ever can."
That Is also why It uniformly treats the
negro problem largely from the Southern
instead of the Northern point of view.
The correspondent grievously errs when
he generalizes concerning this paper's at
titude on the question. He further as
sumes that the mass of the negro popula
tion of the South is hopelessly brutal and
Incorrigibly criminal. The Oregonlan" does
not so believe. It believes this race ca
pable of Improvement, and it knows that
improvement is going on all the time. At
the stlme time it knows, and every person
of judgment knows, that social equality
and racial amalgamation of blacks and
whites are Impossible.
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THE NOBLE APPLE.
Remarks Interesting to People in
Our Apple State.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
In speaking of the Immense demand for
fruit of all kinds in Chicago, a South
Water -street commission merchant re
marked recently: "Oranges, bananas,
lemons, and other tropical fruit; peaches,
pears, plums and other domestic fruit, are
very well In their way, but apples out
class them all. They are marketable at
all seasons, of the yean they are as staple
as sugar, cotton, or corn, and the wonder
to me is that the supply is never equal
to the demand."
It appears that to meet the wants of
the apple-eating people of the United
States great quantities of the fruit must
be imported from foreign lands annually,
and although these Imports are growing
year by year, the price of apples Is not
materially affected.
"The truth is," said the commission
merchant quoted above, "if American
farmers and gardeners understand the
wants of the apple trade in the country
they would give a great deal more atten
tion to apple orchards than they do now.
There Is vastly more money In apple
orchards in the (Middle West than there
is in orange groves In California and
Florida."
The present year has been one of short
age in the apple supply of the East as
well as of the Wett, and the prices are
as high In New York and Boston as they
are In Chicago. Of the 453 named vari
eties of apples 60 or 70 find their way into
the New York market. Northern New
York orchards a few years ago supplied
the markets of many of the larger cities
of the country. Now It Is all they can
do to meet part of the supply required
by the chief city of the state. The West
and Southwest always had a surplus up
to a few years ago. Now Chicago must
Import many apples to meet the demand.
From a business point of view apple
raising has been benefited, not only hy
the ever-Increasing demand, but by tho
introduction of cold storage. The pro
ducer need not now be affected by the
rush of the season. The cold-storage
concerns are always ready to pick up the
surplus, thus stiffening prices at a time
when they would be most likely to fall.
It Is certainly anomalous that this profit
able branch of industry should be neglect
ed by so many Western farmers.
The Beauty of It.
Providence Journal.
Hon. Levi P. Morton and J. Pierpont
Morgan recently spent 540.000 for LaFay
ette relics in Paris, intending to give their
purchase to the Congressional Library.
But now the Treasury Department rules
that these gentlemen must pay $10,000
duty on the souvenirs before they can
enter this country. Perhaps a more lib
eral Interpretation ought to have been
placed on the tariff law, but on the whole
it is just as well that It should be shown
up In all Its narrowness and folly. It Is
by the wish of Congress that philan
thropic and public-spirited Americans are
prevented from brining valuable works of
art into the United States. Surely we
must all hope that Mr. Morton and Mr.
Morgan will never submit to such an out
rageous taxation in order to perform a
genuine public service. Tha Library of
Congress deserves no such gifts while
Congressional plg-headedness lsv respon
sible for these disgraceful duties.
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Order Must Prevail.
St Louis Republic (Dem.).
An Increased boldness and activity on
the part of the Insurgent bands still un
der arms In the Philippines was to have
been expected as the logical result of the
recent surprise and massacre of a com
pany of American soldiers by treacherous
natives in the Island of Saraar. Tha
United States Government cannot afford
to permit the development sot a wide
spread conviction of American inability
to maintain order in the Philippines. It
is Imperative Jo promptly meet and crush
out the lawless sprit The Philippines
are under, American rule and they must
submit to that rule. The sooner they
realize this truth the better. Order must
be preserved and life must be safe while
the United States are responsible for con
ditions in the Philippines.
A Travesty Upon Equality.
New York World, Dem.
One hundred and twenty-five years have
passed since Jefferson wrote our Declara
tion of Independence proclaiming that
"all men are created equal." One hun
dred and twenty-four times since then
our Fourth of July orators have poured
forth their copious eloquence In praise
of that equality. Yet an American named
Washington, one of the most learned,
most eloquent, most brilliant men of tho
day the president of a college Is asked
to dinner by President Roosevelt And
because tho pigment of his skin Is some
shades darker than that of others a large
part of tho United States is convulsed
with Bhame and race.
An Idea of Douglass,
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
It is now. recalled that Abraham Lin
coln, -hen President, once had Frederick
Douglass at the White House to tea.
But that was In war-time. Douglass's
ideas on elevating the race might be
profitably studied just now. The best
way to keep a man out of the mud, he
said, was to black hlB shoes. In other
words, to make a man a man, give him
some self-resjpect and a chance In the
world. Arid that applies all around, to
the white men, the brown men and .the
black men.
Strennoslty of Life.
Philadelphia Press.
Aye! Life 13 a strenuous battle, -"'Wherein
men of every sort
Engage; some emerging as victors
While some Just "regret to report"
AMUSEMENTS.
The only change of bill last night at tho
theaters was at the Metropolitan, where
the Wiedemann Company Interested a
good-sized house with "The Major's
Daughter," the play with which they
opened their engagement. Tho member
of the company were cast in parts they
knew, and the specialties were, as usual,
the hit of the evening. Tonight, Thurs
day and Friday "The Sea of Ice," a play
which Is said not to be as much of a frosi
as its name would indicate, will be the at
traction. "A Texas Steer" will be seen for the
last time at the Marquam tonight. The
company is good and Is deserving of better
patronage than it received last night.
"Rudolph and Adolph," the funny com
edy in which Dan and Charles E. Mason
arestarrlng, Is doing big business at Cor
dray's, which promises to increase all the
week. Tho play is without doubt the best
which has been seen at that theater this
season
COMING ATTRACTIONS.
Sale of Seats for "Tlie Casino Girl"
Will Open. This Morning.
The sale of seats will open at 10 o'clocK
this morning for the New York Casino
success. "The Casino Girl." which will be
given Friday and Saturday nights, with
a matinee Saturday at 2:15 o'clock at the
Marquam Grand Theater. "The Casino
Girl" is a musical extravaganza origin
ally produced two years ago at the Casino
Theater, New York. Manage. Samuel E.
Rork, under whose direction the present
tour Is being made, will present 60 people,
and" the list of principals will Include
Frank Bernard, Ben Grinncll, R. E. War
ren, Harry Short, Miss Clara Palmer, Nel
lie McNaughton, Carrie Reynolds and
Hattle Arnold. In the incidental features
the famous Pony ballet, of London, will
disport Itself. The book of the gayety Is
by Harry B. Smith, and the score by Lud-
wig Englander.-
"Hunting: for EnTTklns."
"Hunting for Hawkins," which will be
presented at Cordray's Theater next week.
Is said to be one of the cleverest come
dies that has been seen in the "West this
season. "Huntlns: for Hawkins" was writ
ten by Guy F. Steely and la considered hid I
best effort. The author 9ays his sole od
ject was to create laughter, and his ob
ject has evidently been accomplished, for
his new comedy Is said to be a most pro
lific laughmaker. Many specialties are In
troduced during the performance, includ
ing the songs, dances and various other
vaudeville dlvertlsements, all said to be in
keeping with the play.
The presenting company Is composed of
well-known people, principal among whom
are John L. Kearney, last seen here at
the Marquam as the stranger In A Stran
ger in New York": Frank C. Young and
Bessie De "Vole, who are considered Amer
ica's best dancers; Alf Grant, Donald
Harold, George D. Melville, Frank Ely,
May Thompson, Effle F. Kamman, Mamie
Conway, Bertie Conway and others.
WHY BUFFALO FAILED.
Accidents That Are No Criterion for
Portland.
New York Evening Post.
The accountants' estimates of the prob
able financial outcome of the Pan-American
Exposition may be somewhat dis
couraging to promoters of similar under
takings in the future. The total loss, it
Is calculated, -will exceed J 1.000,000. Not
only will the $2,500,000 contributed by
stockholders be a total loss, but the con
tractors will suffer to the extent of
$1,000,000, and 20 per cent of the first mort
gage bonds, as well as the whole of the
second mortgage, will be defaulted. The
determination of the contractors to push
their clams before the courts, notwith
standing that the provisions of the act
incorporating the stockholders specific
ally exempt them from liability, gives
promise that the closing of the Exposi
tion may be succeeded by a long period
of litigation. Almost from the very out
set the Buffalo- Exposition has had to
struggle against circumstance. Not only
was the railway situation such as prac
tically to prevent the giving of low ex
cursion rate3 through the Summer; but
the fair has had to suffer from various
causes which could never have been fore
seen. The failure of several Buffalo
banks disturbed business, and indirectly
Injured the prospects of a large attend
ance, while the methods employed by
some institutions In pushing the Exposi
tion securities before the public had an
exceedingly Injurious effect upon their
standing. Worst of all. the assassination
of Mr. McKlnley not only destroyed the
chance of increased profit from the Pres
ident's visit, but necessitated closing the
gates for some days, and, besides, un
doubtedly deterred many from visiting
Buffalo in the latter part of September
and during October.
Suspicions Sugar Flgnres.
New York Journal of Commerce.
The sugar crops, estimated by Wlllettl
& Gray in their little tabular statement
to show how much of tho tax on sugar
goes to the producers and how little goes
to the Treasury, assumes a rapid increase
of production iff the Immediate future.
Porto Rico is set down for 150,000 tons
and one of the residents of the Island
very promptly replies, that the present
year's crop does not exceed 75,000 tons
and the next one will not exceed 100.000.
Wlllett & Gray's statement of this year's
Porto Rico crop in their table of the
sugar crops of the world is only 80.000
tons. In the table designed to show the
Incidence of taxation the Hawaiian crop
is set down as 350,000 tons. In tho state
ment of sugar crops of the world it Is
placed at 296.000 tons, and that is much
In excess of the production of the three
preceding years. The Louisiana crop, in
the statement regarding theuariff. is also
given as 350,000 tons; In $he statement of
sugar crops of the world for four years it
is given as 270,000, which is double what
It was the year before. In 1S37-8 It
reached 310,000 tons. Tho three cane pro
ducing regions under the American flag
produced this year 646,000 tons, and the
estimate credits them next year with
800,000 tons. The Porto Rlcan production
will increase on account of the removal
of the duty, but conditions in Louisiana
and Hawaii have not been changed. Do
mestic beet-sugar production this year is
but little larger than last year, but the
estlmato for next year in the table refer
ring to tho tariff Is double this year's
production.
This Is Different.
PORTLAND, Or.. Oct. 22. (To the Ed
itor.) It is -to be hoped that the letter
of the Rev. Joseph Schell In this morn
ing's Oregonlan shall not be accepted as
the views of "every officer and repre
sentative of the Catholic Church." I
have today -spoken with several of the
priests of Portland and will say re
spectfully that the Rev. Joseph Schell
does not represent me nor them, nor. In
my opinion, any one outside the rectory
at St. Louis.
The excerpt from the Independent is
If I remember correctly a part of the
sermon delivered by the cardinal on the
occasion of the burial of President Mc-
KKinley. I believe it Is genuine. The
saintly Integrity of Cardinal Gibbons and
the conspicuous mention you make of
the letter In question constrains us to
repudiate hl3 criticism as puerile and un
necessary. WILLIAM DALY.
The T"lrst Voyage of John Cabot.
Katherlne Lee Bates In Youth's Companion.
"He chases shadows," sneered the Bristol tars.
"As well fllns nets to catch the golden stars
As climb the surges of earth's utmost sea."
But for the Venice pilot, meager, wan.
His swarthy son beside him, life began
With that sllpt cable, when his dream went
free.
And Henry, on his battle-wrested throne.
The councils done, would speak In musing tone
Of Cabot, not the cargo he mlgh bring.
"Mans heart, though morsel scant for hungry
crow.
"Cannot be filled with half a world, and so
Fair fall the shadow-seekers'.' quoth "the Kins.
X0TE AND COMMENT.
"The gates have "but two more days to
swing.
A mothers congress has one great ad-
r vantage. It Is free from lobbyists.
The Buffalo Exposition was not a finan
cial success, and Niagara is roaring
The poem we corapoaed yesterday en-
I titled "After ths Rain." will .appear on
! or about June 1, 12d2.
The last Louisiana race riot nly c03t
H lives. They do these thing) more
thoroughly In Kentucky.
Several shade trees are stilt standing.
Are the city offlefcte derelict in their
duty, or are their axes dull?
Schley might well hovs quailed before
Santiago If he had foresaen the trouble
his presence there was gqing to get him
into.
Now wouldjbe aTpopr time to go to war.
All tho officers in, the Army and Navy
are on duty on court-martials or courts
of Inquiry.
When the secret servfee men find a cut
price postage stamp stora they had bet
ter pull their guns and get ready to do
some arresting.
Another great steel corporation Is to bo
organized. With the forming of a few
more of them, things will begin, to get
back to first' principles.
Richard Croker'a son was recently hurt
in a football game. He hasn't tho old.
man's knack of taking all kinds of
chances and coming out unscathed.
Among the prominent Southerners wno
have made no criticism of Roosevelt's ac
tion In Inviting a "nigger" to dine with
him Is Hon. Booker T. Washington.
Admirers of Dumas "Three Musketeers'"
will learn with pleasure that the descend
ants of their old friend D"Artagnariaro
still flourishing. The young Comte d'Ar
tagnan. who Is a direct descendant of tho
gentleman who wrote the memoirs from
which Dumas compiled his famous novel,
figured as correspondent for a leading
Parisian journal at the .recent military dis
play at Reims.
Once in the Zulu war General Tucker
came upon a man who had been seized by
that unreasoning fear which may attack
even the bravest, and who was hiding be
hind a rock while his comrades fought
their way ahead. Tucker looked at hlnx
and then observed: "Oh. why didn't you
send your poor, dear mother out instead
of you!" The man jumped up with a yell,
plunged into tho thick of the fight, and
fought bravely the rest of the day.
Miss Ellen M. Stone, the kidnaped mis
sionary, has had experience with brigands
before, although the previous occasion
was without any serious consequences.
She was traveling with three missionaries
when a band of Kurds overtook them, and
proceeded to annex tho horses, leaving
them, however, with two on- which to
continue their journey. "What." said ono
of the missionaries to the leader, "aren't
you ashamed to rob defenseless women '"
"No." replied the man calmly; "besides,
aren't two big horses enough to carry four
little women?"
In his Inaugural address at the meeting
of the Pharmaceutical Society In London
the other day Dr. Luff deprecated the too
general use of powerful drugs. In cSro
pre3sed forms now so easily obtained by
the public a facility which, he remarked,
was responsible to some extent for the
Increased practice of self-drugging This
was how the cocaine habit came about.
It was to be regretted that the manu
facturer was largely taking the place of
the prescriber, which was on a par with
the dosing on board ship, where there
was an ample medicine chest, but no
doctor. The bottles were all duly num
bered, and the captain carried a book de
scribing the various symptoms which
would be abated by particular medicines.
It happened once that a sailor showed in
dications which required a dose of No.
9 mixture. But the bottle was empty.
"That does not matter," said the captain,
"give him equal parts of No. 4 and No. 5."
Years ago beer, usually sour, was served
to the British sailors, but as the amount
of rum allowed for a man occupied less
bulk In the storeroom It gradually super
seded the typical heavy British drink in
the years immediately preceding Queen
"Victoria's reign. "When first occasionally
served In the middle of the 18th century
the men had the rum undiluted. A naial
officer, famous in his day 15Q years ago,
came to the conclusion that If the rums
half a pint wine measure to each man at
that time, and drunk half at midday and
half at night were diluted, probably tho
men would be rendered less sleepy and
quarrelsome by their dally "tot." which
to this day they call "mutiny." He In
stituted the reform of mixing water with
the rum before giving it out. As tho Ad
miral was nicknamed "Old Grog." from
the fact that he wore a cloak of grogram.
a coarse mixture of silk and mohair
In foul weather, this mixture of rum
and water has always been known in tho
navy as- grog. But the word has passed
into the landsman's vocabulary with a
much wider Interpretation, and Is applied
to almost any spirituous drink on occa
sions. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPIIERS
Not Possible. Visitor Your dollie seems to
be very happy. A Tiny Girt of Today Well,
auntie, m sure she Isn't, because she has
only one dress, and that Isn't stylish. Town
and Country.
A Wise Pledge. "The new freshman class Is
the huskiest and best organized that e er came
into the college." "Well. I fancied It could
take care of itself when I heard that the tip
per classmen had pledged themselves to do no
hazing." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Backbone of Popularity Mrs. Dash
The managers of the Juvenllo Society of Pa
triots hae given up havlnp cake and Ice cream
at the meeting. Mra. Rash Merey me' That
was all that held the thins together. Now I
can't get Bcbby to go at all. Detroit Frco
Press.
Young Protnisemuch (whose salary Is ?3CO0)
Don't you think If a girl really loved she'd be
wllllns to marry without expecting every lux
ury? Romantic Maiden I'd rather marry a
man with an income of $10,000 a jear than a
millionaire I didn't love Harper's Bazar.
Well Connected. "And Is the young man
you are golnff to marry well connected. Eliza'"
"Oh. yes, mum; ho belongs t' one o' the be"t
ristocratlc fam'lies. mum." "Indeed Docs
he. really?" "Oh. yea, mum. He's be'n with
'em right along for over four years now. as
coachman, mum." Philadelphia. Evening Bul
letin. Balerul Ignorance. little Willie Paw. whera
Is th' Isthmus uv Panama? Father Th Isth
mus of Panama? Willie, do you mean to tell
me that you've been studying grammar two
years and don't know -whero the Isthmus of
Panama isl If you ain't able to conjugate tho
Isthmus of Panama for me by tomorrow night
I'll make you go to bed at 6 o'clock !" Ohio
State Journal.
It Got There Just the Same. Mabel Such
a joke on Mr. Gajboy. We wer out on tho
balcony between tho dances, and he got tho
sleeve of his dres3coat all over red paint from
one of the post3. that were just painted. Mau'I
And did you go near tho post? Mabel No.
Why? Maud Because you have, ret paint all
over the back of your waist. Harlem Llfo.