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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1901)
THE HORNIKG OREGOJNIAN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1901. - e -j-8-- "f1' fte x&a0xxwnu Satered at th Postofllce at JPwtland. Oregon, as Beocad-clas xrtf.ittr. t i ' V. f I1EVISED SVpSCZIBpnOX HATES. Br MaU (post&ye prepaViV In Advaace 5! Flth Snsfiaywper inonth..ri.i4.i$ S3 Dally, Sunday excepted. ir year 7 DO Dally, with Sunday, per j-ear 0 00 Sunday, per year .... .. 2 00 2e "Kt1.5" pyxv... 1 M Too Weekly. 3 months... B0 To City Subscribers Dally, per week. flelHerVa. Sundays excepts 15c Dally, pec week, dell veiHlv Sundays lnclea.20c tt . , 70A'fc'ttTES.'X' , . ,? Etate Caovja and Mexico: t -i 1 to ZS-pae-e paper,., , 2c Foreign rates double. i. Xewrf or1 atoewpjfea Intenned Tof publication in Thd Orfgonlan should b addrewsed Invaria bly "EdltorT4ie4-Oreganlpn." not to the nam at any -tnttrlffir letters rchiUnj; lo adier 'tlslnfc aufiscrtoUon of to any business matter somld'bb acdtsed'elniilj "The Oronlan The Orronltn does not buy poena or Btoriea tram IndUldinaa. and -cannot undertake to re turn any manuscript sent'fb iVvrtlnoufsoncU tatlon. No tbimps should be Inclosed for this Jdrpoe. iastern Bjsiness Omee. 43. 44. 43. 47. 4S. 4b Tribute buftdlne. New York city: 4C3 "The Hookcry." C bleary; Jhe. S. C. Bttkwlth opecUl sency. anfn rpi!;efltatlvc. Tor siie la Ban yrnclco by J E. Lee. Pal Ac Hotel nevj aland. Goldsmith Bros.. 2S6 SUt'cr street: P. W. Pitts 100S Market street; J. K. C6ibr Co . 74Q Marktl street near th Talaetf Hotel; Poster & Drear. Ferry news tatk& " "5a'e 'n Los Anirelw by B F. Gardner. 9 Sd Spring street, and Ollxcr & Hotne. 100 so. Srtrlr street. For xalis in Chicago by the P. O. Ner C . -1 TJcerborn street. For sale lnr Omaha by Barkalow Bros.. 1012 Far mm otrfci I orjsalfe In Ea.it Lalt by the Salt Lake News Co . 77 y Scrjj "South street. Tor salP In OttJen'bjr W C. Kind. 204 Twea- sy-r.rjo street, ana by C H. Mjere. On file In the Crcon exhibit at the exposl n Son. Ghorlelon. S C For tAi la rahlneton. D. C. by the 'Ebbett 3ri e news fetand , For cale In ttnrf; Colo, bv ilanuitoa '& XntfWcft. 000-Bl2Sb'velenth Ptet. tD-Lt KATHER-Cloudy and cool; rjti'k nn-'it' northerly. YCSTgRpAys W25ATHER Maximum tem-p-ratn-e. 40. runlmqm "temperature. 30; precip itation, none. 1 -: ' ? ... a tKii3 ser,GSSficK It 5s too carjy yet to jiredict txny ihi ig- with certainty concerning the J"? of ?he new charter at the '-amis rt .the people, or In the Legislature. Tb.2 rtnal 4mft of the document is ,15 Tt far from bdmplelToii, and no single rrovirfoH hi It hhr really reac! Wvs e'age nf rornaal noceptance by tift coni-mi"-Ion. In its ultimate form the char tfv in lo be voted upon by the people 3i"xf June, arid then' gees to the suc-o-cdjns; JegisJatiire, uaacr the -mandate ttl?t it -nust by the Legislature be ap proved or rejected in 1616, iMth6ul amendment. The.rc i souething akin to the .visionary in this proviso, for no Legislature can Llatl Aeucoeeding- -one. 4 une charter we get In. 1503 will bo -what the Legislative session of that year shall take the fancy to give us. Public opinion may torce the adop tion of the comral"Wh,s charter through, if It has been approved by popular vote, but ho would be a raf-h prophet who should undertake to fray what public opinion -will have in Its mind in 1903. This charter, liko every other should. and doubtless vrlll liave some mala rial Improvements over its predeces sors. Por example, "we are io have popular votes on annexation n ds tricts offered Tjenevolent asslnHlat!6r.; Councilmen-at-Large; hold-over Coun cllmen; munlcloal elections separate irom general election-; safeguards con cerning franchises? greater responsibil ity and authority in the Alayor; mfrit system In appointments; atiequate measures ior compelling municipal im provements over the protests of unpro- gressive property-owners, At the same time, the present plan ot limitations on expenditures is wisely retained, and the municipal' bpards whose services hav.e nemonstratea their desirability are ex tended in scope andfpower. The greatest danger, this' 'charter Is building up for itself Is that Qt being tod goes. The nakfcd tijuth lethal the charter will have to run the gauntlet of. the politicians who contrpl the. Leg islature.. 2Cow, oil ideai chaiier Is rerV far removed from the sort of document a party machine icpvets. as a source of 3pwt. History hardly Warrants th'e expectation that the Legislature chosen next JPuee, with its inheritance of hold over .Senators, will be men selected with an eye single to the rescue of the people front the dominion of the bosses. Sorhebboy will be holding Cabinet meet ings at Salem on this chatter in Janu ary, IlKB. He ana his advisers will cold ay 6cau the provisions taking the police and Are departments out of the control of party machlhes. They will IodK with out sentiment upon the .proposal to put city elections at a time when National issues cannot be Invoked to pull through unworthy candidates selected iy the central committee In the Inter ests of- a faction.- - There tvill doubtless be some safe guards 'concerning franchises and other reforms quite worth having from the Legislature ot 1908. Wbula it be possible for once to chodse our delegation to alem without sole or even special ref erence to their Senatorial ptedges? JtETV YORK, AERIAL AXD-SUBTDR-ItAXEAK. Such 1b the craze for concentration that New York is about td Uttlifce' ife eubterranean area for railway tunnels, not only under Hudson and East Rivers, but also under Manhattan Island it self. The -upper air has long been utu lieed by the "elevated" ana the "sky scraper," the immediate underground fcy sewers, wire conduits and street car subways, and now the already popu lous basement is to be underlaid with a sort of sub-basement, where crdwds will hurry to and fro iti the true Man hattan passion t6 get teomewhefe from somewhere else. It becomes a curious problem of spec ulation where this thing will end. Though there is considerable oom be tween the southern end of Manhattan Island and Farmer's bridge, pt West - Two Hundred and Twenty-fourth street, to say nothing of Long Island and a good part of Jersey, New Yorkers all want to do business in the same piape. ., Therefore, when rthey need larger quar ters, they burrow under ground or rise to a height of 300 feet or so in mid air. Telegraph, telephone' and phcu-1 znatlc tubes are vain to arrest the cen tripetal tendency, and there seems no escape from the prospect of an ele vated New York, with glass streets, perchance, and an. independent govern ment, superimposed upon the terrestrial city, and a counterpart metropolis built in successive subterraneantiersslowly but surely approaching the cenfer of the earth. Altogether, New York is enough to J make a man mad. Why should it be so big; be3-and happy,, ayhow, -when otheriaces re tkkig eut -ixtetence, gratefql for a two-sfory poetofllcje,and a new roof on Councilman Tomlmeon's barn? some txasperatlhgiy contented wight once said he -would rather be a lamD-DOEt In th ntv nt TJftw Vnrl- tirn liayor of SkanibKawa. Out upon such measly fcffrontery! What does tmy body really know about New York till he has to live somewhere else? 'MISREPRESDXTATIOV IXDEE. Tinder tire hadini:, "Contkraea to ilsrepretent," the Seattle Post-lntelli-gettctf takes The Df egonTaYi "to TaaR T6f its otp06ltlon to DTngley rales on Phil ippine products ki terms that are them selves gross misrepresentation, nol ily tt "he Oregonian, but al bf the- facts in question, thoigh th Seattle , paper assures its reaaers tnat "xne Oregonian seems hopelessly tsonfirmfed' In its habit of misrepresentation on every suhject connected -with the wotk Ing ot the revenue laws, either -In this country tr In its island possessions." The Oregonian had protested that "the Philippine Islands, but now ringing: DellS in honor of the trade fcreedom given them by the Supreme Court, (con front the almost certain prospect oti onerous duties rfeimposed, and of bekig made to pay tribute to the protected corporations of the stepmother c6mn- try corporations that Vrill mfean-wnilei expect full license from Congress to 1 exploit the -archipelago for their own enIchment.t, The Seattle paper says this! wrong,: oecause uuties at aiftnlia are the same for imports, regardless of their TA-lgln. ' .Now, the "onerous duties reimptSsed,' as the Seattle paper well knotfe are not duties at Manila, but dtrttfe t ur town Pacific ports. No duties at Sin nil have been set aside "by the Su-1 profile Court or are now proposed to be reimposed by CongreaB. The misrepre sentation made by th Seattle japer is plain and conscious. Secondly, the Seattle paper Imputes to The Oregonian the desire to sec the Philippines embraced within the tariff union of the United States, so tha't the Dingley rates -shall apply at Ma nila against all Imports. This 'is the Democratic theory, which has never been espoused, but, on the contrary, has always been antagonized, in these col-J umns. No one Could possibly make such a "misrepresentation Of The-dre-feonlan's "position inh¢ly. -representation No. S: "teic Effect tT ftermirtlne the island rmii4. msht l& etahlith Its own tariffs, eollettlbft at it- own wistoni-hous-s for Its own ntes, vVe- ciseiy ana directly to the contrary at thati falsely assumed toy Thts Oregcnlan; n 9ejmsp tion willfully made to discredit the Republican parts .for a "matter tft which it is acting with the largest rplrlt of liberality, for tfc b1t "in terests cf the pbple Jt the Philippines, a 11b crallty which was ncer dkplhyed in legis lating rot- our ' territories on our owft coa-tinent- VPho makes the tariffs at PhlllppTnS pprsT It is a pitiful perversion ot truth to pretend that the people of the islands make them. They are" framed by the Ta?t Commission, sent over there by the United States, and promul gated, after changes are made, by the "War Department at Washington. .Noth ing of this sort Is, Indeed, permitted the home territories. They are' given Iree trade with the states, -a'l6on that Is withheld the Philippines. Misrepresentation No. ?: The .principal duties collected on Phlllppln: Imports are on nugar and tobacco, both of which duties arc Imposed for revenue, not for protection. They do not operate to protect any large corporation. which will be news principally to Ox nard and Spreckels, who can choose either that theirs are not large corpo rations or that the tariff protects nei ther sugar .nor tobacco. k . It is for the Seattle paper, if it de sires, at a time -When the trade of the Paciflc Cdast with the Orient is meh ace'd by pbwerf ul arid Inimical interests at Washington, to desert that trade and support Its enemies, in deference to the political ambitions of its owner and its slavish veneration for -party regu larity. But when it has made that Ig noble surrender and excused it by mul tiplied perversions of facte. It does vnot He In Its "mobth to accuse of "misrep resentation" those who tell the truth about it and the needs of the section whose tafrertsts it betrays. AS tO TEACHEUS' SALARIES. Teachers of the public schools of this city have formulated a petition asking that their" salaries be increased to meet the Increase In living expenses. Dur ing the industrial depression beginning with 189S and continuing for a term of years salaries of these petitioners -were three times reduced, and, though pros perity .has extended its benefits to every other calling, It has not yet reached them. This they deem a manifest injustice-, especially la View bf the fact that living expenses have increased fully 20 per cent since their wages were re duced the last time. They therefore make a speclfio demand upon thechool 3oard for atl advance of 5 per cent In their salaries. There Is an element 6r Justice in this demand, .without doubt Still,, ah ad vance of orie-fourlh In Ihe Salaries paid would hardly seem to be justified. The expenses of living have sharply ad vanced, but hdrdly to the degree indi cated by this aemhnd. It .Will be the dfity of the board later on to adjust tealaries in accordance vlth the facts In the premises, but it cad scarcely be ex- J pected that this adjustment will be made wholly updn.the representations of the teachers. The taxpayers, whb furnish the money to pay thes salaries, Jiave had add are still having to make great sacrifices lh ordef tb meet the de mands upon them, many ot which rep resent the aftermath vi the "hard tln&es' Their Interests should be care fully considered by the School Board, as at leafel of equal Importance with those Of the teachers. Some increase ih teachers salaries' is dotibtless due as & maltef of simple justice tb a class of worthy, painstaking, conscientious la borers. It is for the School' "Board to go over the ground carefully, make such Increase In these salaries as conditions jtistlfy. include this increase in their estimate for school expenses fo? the coming year, state the tax levy that vlll be rehired to meet if, and let the taxpayers pass upon it at the proper time. Our citizens have in the past dealt generously with the schools. Gen erally speaking, the taxes for their maintenance nave "bee'n willlnrclv voted -and cheerf uifyp,ald There is no reason to suppose that they will not continue! in this' framfe of mind, or that they will refuse to meet any just demand made upon them In the interest of, public edu cation. Thoughtful, observant people gener ally are of the opinion that it 4s th6 poorest Kind of economy to scrimp the pay of school teachers. Cheap service certainly Is not desired in our school- rooms, and he is a poor student of hu man natare who does -Hot knew thaf "po6r service is the 'concomitant of poo4 fPV. If the latter is persisted 1b, in the; faqe of earnest, honesty open protest against Its InsufflclefiSy. The-mltKr la fairly before the School Board, and there is every reason to believe that It Will receive the carelul, intelligent con sideration lhat it merits. I TIIE IiATJSST "IMPOSSIBILITY." J There Is no reason for discrediting the1 statement published in yesterday's presi dispatches that William ilarcbh! re ceived a tfilegraphlcsignalent without wire across the Atlantic Ocean from Cornwall, England, to St. John; K !F. a dtt.nfce bf 1700 miles. Mefesasts feave often been sent the patfc year 10 50, 4. 100 Inlles without -wirfe, clearly received iv thk AnitriunMitt nii' rtir.-. rectfy recofded. fy the opeVatoris. If. sumcient impulse can oe given To an electric wave to carry It 1M inlfes, "Why 'cannot enough be given to carry It sev eniem llm ibb mites? LeVa fcclentlnc Met be discovered, and all over the frdrld there wlfl be thousands to apply it and develop it. "RTien Professor Al exander Graham Bell demonstrated fwcnty-nvo years agd that the human volte -could be carried a short distance ovep a stretched wire, he probably would have scoffed at the prediction, of telephonlnef so -as. to be understood a distance of &000 miles. Just the other 'day, It seems now, a lot of skillful me- J chanics began to evolve automobiles, with th6 result that a JjVenchman on a first-rate Country road made a mile within fifty-two isconds. It is certain that Stephenson tlia not picture a fu ture locomotive capable of hauling 150 Hoaded freight cars, dtartlner With a 1 hot-air balloon, a hundred or more aero nauts haw TetT 'up 16 Bant&S-Duinoht. who recently built and operated ti dlri i glble airship. Fifty years ago a steam ship to cross the Atlantic In five days "was lirfposslbhi ot belief, while a vessel capable of sinking to the bottom of the ocean, staying therfr all lfght, and then rising to the turface, raa Inconceivable. Sending four messages and receiving loufr messages at the same time on a single telegraph wire wois not in Mbrse's Vrilflest dreams of the close of the oen turyi The unfolding of inventions seems greater than tbrelt origin. And what is wireless telegraphy? When two stations arrange to commu nicate wlthoujt wires; -each erects a long, vertical insulated condufctorIkf a gs stau. The sending station operator con nects, his vertical wire to a powerful electrical Induction coll. by which he is able to electrify the vertical wire pow erfully in momentary Impulses at suc cessive Intervals, corresponding to iTorse code signals In ordinary telegra phy. The electric impulses communi cated to the vertical wire are project ed radially outward in all directions oyer the earth's surface from the wire as -an axis, in waves which are incapa ble of directly influencing the sight or other human sense. It is known, how ever, that these invisible Impulses are practically waves of what Is ordinarily called light, except that, whereas light usually consists of a nearly steady or continuous train of waves, these im pulses are mere momentary disturb ances or Isolated groups of only a few waves, like those produced on the sur face of water In a lake by the fall of a stowe. Moreover, ordinary light 14 Id waves of. fpttghly. 100.006 to the inch, atd has rates of vibration to which the ee is physiologically tuned to Tespond, but the waves of wireless telegraphy are, roughly, several yards long, and have a correspondingly lower rate of vi bration, to which, the human eye Is In sensitive. The Invisible light wave 3 run out over the surface of the ground at the same speed as ordinary visible light (about ISO miles In the lOCOth part of a second) and are capable of acting upon any suitable responsive apparatus or artificial appa ratus or artificial eye that may be situ ated In any direction, north, south, east or west, within the range from which the response can be obtained; for It is evident that the Impulse becdmes scat tered and enfeebled as the radluB of the wave Increases, just as the ever-widening circle of waves produced in a pond by the falling stone becomes enfeebled as the wave advances. When the wave strikes the enfeebled flagstaff conductor of the receiving station it generates in that conductor a momentary electric Impulse, -which Is capable 6f being ren dered evident tb the senses by a sensi tive electric receiver or artificial eye connected with IL Consequently, by sending the impulses at the transmit ting stalibh In Manse code, all Of the receiving stations within the range oi effective worklflg will fat influenced bv J the Invisible outgoing light -waves, and win speii out tne message. Tn an article contributed recently to the Satdrday Evening Post, Arthur E. Kennelly, D. Sc.t lately president of the Am6rlcaa Institute .bf Electric Engi neers, says: aThe electric: current car ried ojrer a wire is not really in the wire, but runs through the space BUr rfiunding the wire, and the wire acts only as the guide bF channel directing the waves." Mr. Kchhelly points out what -was probably in Marconi's mihd all the time In this paragraph: Ttie great field for wlreiej telegraphy la the aurfaee or the ocean. Here ho permanent tele graph wires can bf floated, and no jermanent telegraphic communication with raovlrg -vowels can te secured by wire In the ordinary way. atoreover, It Is a curlbu'3 tact that wireless telegraphy can bd carried sueccgsiutty ber a cbhilderably fefenter radluA cr to a Idhjcr dls iancc, over inu sea man oer the land. ThU ifechM td be dtfc lo the fact ihat the fcirfade ot the earth la electrically a poorer condiicl&r tnah thS sUrfaco 8f the ea. Marconi's practical test last week, to which the dispatches refer as "'the most wonderful discovery of modern times.'1 I has demonstrated how efficient a con ductor the surface of the ocean really is. It may be c5fiflaently expected in the future that lighthoUses ahd ships will be equipped with wireless tele graphic apparatus id such manner that each may communicate with the other at great distance in darkness as well as light As was said of Morse's lnven tlon In the flnSt telegraphic massage ever sent, "What hath God wrought!" TAICBl IT HASY; XEtGHBORS. Walter Wejlman serids 0 the Chicago Record-Herala from Washington a rosy picture of Inevitable tariff reform. He la pdsitlve that the demand for tariff re vision hdil compelled the Republicans to sidetrack the programme bf the high protectionists. The necessity for taking Borne action regarding the Cuban and Philippine tariffs has brought the whole tariff question t6 the front, and the In fluential party leaders have determined that the time is opportune for respond ing In a. rrieasUre t6 the popular appeal for a lowering of tb.e tariff .bars that were raised tb protect certain "Infant11 industries that have grown into giants. Commenting upon this report, the Rec- ord-Herald editorially regards the re vision agitatkM as revealing "a stronjr and apparently resistless undercurrent of Republican Congressional sentiment in favor oftarhT revision. Theiemand for a scaling aon ot sometoCthe schedules Is too Insistent to be safely djresardel at the irtseat session." Kot rsthie'Record-Herard''aldBe in its view, for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, a representative Republican newspaper, says: If Congress should refuse to adjust the tariff to existing conditions It will arm the eaemlea of protection with effective arsusnents against the whola--Jm;-wfe4c'WSsbt eislly lead td a popular revulsion ending "in tbr overthrow of the Keftfbftcan 4endajey ila CenbrUB. RepresenUng intelligent 2Tew England sentiment, the Hartford Courant saysf "We shall be tsorry if the ensels of tanwls d6m prevail and the Republfcaas ot Uife Senats atfft HoUolTiac th MrrjrlnMs TTrikltjr Tarn J Ifig their backs Jt3 the BTcKlnley recrjClt5 Z?' The Courant further, adds that "IC Congress commits this folly It will make the election of a Democratic Hose ext November something more than a 'pos blllty.M With all due respect to the sagacity of the three papers mentioned, The Ore feonian Is compelled 16 suggest to them; that the wish in this case Is father to the thought The Republican leaders are not persuaded of the wisdom of tar 1TT revision, and they are moraliy cer tain towhip the malcontenb Into line. Nor Is It at all certain that neglect ot! the tariff -will make the next Souse Democratic. Mr. Hanna is not a states man, but when he banks on "let well enough alone" he-Is a very Shakespeaifej In reading human nature. ' - The trial balance Is the great baroni-i eter of public opinion. Nobody wants' fa change" till he Is In hard luck. ' The NeVr York Kcwfc, Ih which Frank. Munsey recently bought a coatrollm'g: interest, passed In this transfer for the first time' from Us original ownership. The Wdfld has had HVe owners, PullU zer haVlngr held It 16nger than any one of his predecessors. The Tribune has iUso had five, Its brese&t bead being" Whltelaw Held. The Titties has liad' three sets ot owners, and tie Evening P&st and Commercial Advertiser have several times changed hands. The Her ald, hdwever. has been edited by James Gordon Bennett, father and son, Wr a period of trearly seventy years-a fact made conspicuous by the changes In the neV&paper, world that JiaVe gone on all around It. The lime" wben the Tribune was Horace Greeley, and Horace Gree ley was the Trihune, Beema remote, and still the identity of the Herald With the name Of James Gordon Bennett re Walns. Greeley had ho son Vo succeed to hiB energy end talent lit journalism, and his name died with him. having first become obscured by unwise polit ical amllatlons and disassociated from the Tribuhe by the sanie caUse-. His death at the close of his ill-advised at tempt to win tbe Presidency of the Lfoited States ave asylum to the disap pointed Ambition "of a mart prematurely old, though his dearest wish that he might be kfiWK tb posterity as the founder of the New York Tribune will be embalmed In the history of AWerlcan journallstd. We have no sort of doubt that Dun's Review is in error in its celebrated fig ures concerning the increased cost of living. Food is higher, but manufac tured goods are Infinitely cheaper. Ex ports and Imports of merchandise the world over are Increasing In quantity but decreasing in gross valuatlods. lr we can take their monopolistic advan tages away from the trusts, the cheap ening process will be "materially accel erated. The gold standard and im pr6ved processes of transportation, min ing and manufacture afe-Ih Creasing the comforts of the mnsees every year. The Republicans In CongreEs -will hot vote for a Schley-Sampson Investigation because they fear a Schley boom for President oh the Democratic ticket. It is a ridiculods bugbear. Schley for President tfould be worse than Han cocjt, and millions that came to wor ship would leave to jeer. Dewey's real estate transaction should afford Schley a lessbn lb "the precarlousnesa of the hero business. The country still feels grateful for the "inconipute'hcy" Bhown by Sohley at the battle of Santiago. That the Navy De partment does hot share this feeling Is its ml3fortuhe hot the fault of the lal lant Admiral. Why don't the CcUricil now offef to build the Northern Paciflc its tracks and ttialrita'lrt thfcm? That's abodt all there is left to concede, unless Mr. Weid ler will give them his property for nothing. Our African Mlow-ollizens are risihg td the scaleof clvillziitlch. From dia mond robberies and tralnwrecKIng they should soon rise to the full Anglo-Saxon dignity of highway murder. Having cooled dlt from his recent ieAt prostrations, the inhabitant of tbe. fa vored East now lies down and freezes td death. Climate is indeed streriuous everywhere but in Oregon. tf- ?r-- - - - Disheartening: Delay. New York Evening Post. It -is" now tw6 1 bars since" the post office frauds were discovered in Havana, yet Neely, the chief offender, has not been tried, much less .convicted. Both in the United States and In Cuba there haVe beert delays, bUt those Irt Havana are" by rio means' tb be" laid chtifely to" the Spanish law, as some of the many postponements have been HlSfeal. From some ebufeb In the United States, both Neely and Rath bOne. accordlhg to the Havana repoffs, arc rccHvirig large" sums of money for their defense, and skillful lawyers are taking advantage Of every possible technicality, jdst as if their clients were Tammany police captains' before New York courts. Now It is announced from Washington that a fresh reason for delay has been fouhd in the question whether docu mentary evidence secured in the United States, permissible udder Spanish laws, is permissible under the statute under which Neely was extradited. To a lay mind this seems a flne" point. Indeed. At any rate. It Is calculated lo delay mat ters considerably. When the former postmaster of Havana, Thompson, was awaiting trial, the da.t for its opening was set nine times. When the trial finally too'k place, it lasted Just 20" minutes; A similar result in the .Neely case would certainly make up for all reasonable de lays lh bringing him to book. ' s The Wbele? State ShBald Contribute. Tillamook Headlight Now that Portland Is on record as" hav ing contributed liberally for the Lewis and Clark Centennial, the people of that city are casting their optics about and wondering If other sections 6f Oregon will be as liberal banded. They should be, for the Exposition will benefit the wholo state. ' 4 PHILIPPINE BILL BAD POLITICS San Francisco Chronicle. Posiibiy actlvep&litlcai fifo'ls lob aV sorblng' 15 permit the aequlrtbwnt of much real knowledge of social or econom ic questions, but it is a life which Is as sumed to 'make those who lead It ipre ternaturally- acute in forecasting thfc ef fect of policies on approaching elections. While it Is therefore perhaps not sur prising that our Republican statesmen at Washington do not realize that a Phil ippine tariff will make disloyal Filipinos, it is astonishing that they 66 not eeo that snch a tariff enacted by Republicans would furnish the one l?sue upon which all Democrats can unite in the hope of carrying Ihe next Nallopal election, "the course ot thp Democrats In Congress has feat yet been announced, but it 13 not pos sible, cveh in th& light of all recent hUr tory of that party, to anticlpatr- leader ship -so Incotripetp'nt as to fall to s6izb tbe opportunity which some Reoublfcani appear determined to offer them. "Free trade with our -fellow-citizens" would be Ad Issue appealing as strongly to the emo tional nature as to economic truth onrt colnmoh sens, "ana would glvo tb thi Democracy the best chance of winning which- they have hid since the election of Uncnl&i-and- thev have occnlonaUv won upon issues as they were. As good Republicans we do npt'wis'li to see them get that issue! ?The Philippines, were acquired with the approval of the American people, but it is safe to say that nbt one in ten of those who approved that policy Imagined that e were getting, hot American territory, but ah "appurtenance." If It turns out that fe have merely subjected an ont Jyingporu'ori of Asia to our "colonial" rule there Ts .grave danger of such a re uls!on of feeling as will result In our getting rid of he incumbering "appur tfenances" at all hazards, even if we have tb do It by sailing away and leaving the inhabitants tb cbt eaeh other's throats. To maintain theV government of a "col ony" on -the other side of the world to whos'a people wd are bound by no ties of sentiment, and "witli whom we do not even , trade, is too outrageously absurd ro long find support among a people so eminently "practical" as our own: Sec retary Root seems to have had some glimpse dt economic truth when he hoped for some "concessions" to the Filipinos Jn order to promote trade, which will make them friendly by making them prosperous. He will see, however, If he follows out hl'i line of thought, that so long as the vestige of a tariff wail ex ist between u and the Filipinos' thy will remain as "disloyal" lo the United States as the people of the Paciflc Coast would bo under the same conditions. There can be ho real Nation while tar-: Iff walls run through It Let hot our Democratic friends call this free-tradft dqctrihe. It Is sound protection doctrine free trade within the National boun daries, effective protection of all inter ests within those boundaries, and impar tial trade with the ret of the world. If there Ik a tariff" wall between Us and the Philippines the Islands are foreign. If the Filipinos are foreign, the people of this country will soon tire of Bpending JlW.000,000 per year for their benefit and refuse to pay the bills. If they are in corporated into our body politic they will become loyal, and in time, under our guidance, acquire the art of good citt fcenshlp. They arc now virtually of ur. If Congress thrusts them out, those whd 6r6 responsible for it will live to ruo the day. Buch a policy is bad, economically, socially aha morally; and politically It is imbecile. Oregon's Rare Opportunity. JBseph Herald. The Lewis & Clark Exposition in 1905 will offer it rare Opportunity for Oregon to advertise, ahd fevfery tdwn, city and county ih the state should encodrage and assist in carrying the Exposition to a successful consummation. Of course Portlahd will reap the greatest benefit and should therefore lead off, but there is not a section of Oregon that may not reap much benefit, ahd those sections which make the greatest effort in the" way of exhibits and advertising will reap the greatest benefit People outside of Portland should not rest on their oara until success is assured for the enter prise, but alf should takb a deep Inter est now, and all pull together for Its success. Of Interest to All the World. drc&on City Courier-Herald. The centennial qelebratlon of the visit of Captains Lewis and Clark to the mouth of the Columbia, to tako place In 1S05, will bq one of the most Important events in the history of Oregon. It will bring all the world in touch with tho lusty commonwealth, nestled at the greut Pacific, gateway of the West, and whose future Is crowded with golden promise. The smaller and poorer cities of the state cannot but , heartily commend the energy and public snlrlt which has prompted prominent citizens of Portlmd to put their shoulders to the wheel and fill their hands with 20 pieces, to aid this great enterprise, whoso realization, through their liberality is now assured. If XierVls" aHd Clarlc Were Here. Wallowa News. ,If Lewis and Clark could have looked down thfe vista ot the age and beheld the decades of progress In this once wild West; cpUld they have seen the thousands 6f people flocking to oUr metropolis id celebrate their explorations arid had they given utterance to tho astounding proph ecy, they wduid have been looked upon as dreamers, fit inmdtesof a home pre pared by the .state. Sleepy Portland Is awakening, Not even webfoot showers can aUcnch tho hrdor of nennir. hntif upoh a great fair ih life. It will mean fiiuch td Oregon, and Wallowa will share fn the" prosperity of the state. 1 - - Tltelr Chcnce. Pittsburg Gazette. "I prithee, didst thou hear tHo new3?" asked Mr. Hamlet Ham, the eminent tra gedian! of Mr. Gad Zodks, the comedian. "I dldat not," wa3 the latter's reply. "Reiterate the news io me." "There's a corner In eggs." "Really, truly?" "Truly, really! The price is now 25 cents a dozen, with perpendicular tendency. I need not point out to you, my friend, the Importance oi this fact to our noble art." "Thou naedst not. Eggs are now too costly for missiles. We will sally forth." Then ho one-night stands suffered an invasion. Gratitude to Thoram Jefferson. Garflefd (Wash.) Enterprise. The people Of the Northwest In gen eral ana ot the Inland Emptro in par ticular owe a debt of gratitude to the memory of Thomas Jefferson for send ing out the Eewis and Clark expedition. It was not f eailzed then nor do we fuily appreciate all that expedition meant The City of Portland haTS already raised $500, 000 for the Lewis and .Clark Centennial Exposition. 1905. Haply this Exposition will help us to more fully apfff eciate that event " Portland "Gets a 2idve 6n.M Lakevlew Examiner. The 5300,000 for the Lewis and Clark Exposition was raised Sit In one dav ivith tvery fittle effort There is $159,000 more in sight and they propose to raise the fund to $500,000. Good for Portland, she can get a move on If necessary. If It Is in the interest of the wh61e city. AilDSEilEitrs. It fs nbt often that Portland playgoers are given a chance to see such an actbr as Richard Golden In a drama of the type of "014 Jed Prduly." and-It is not surpris ing, therefore, that the crowd that filled everj seat In Cordra'a Theater last even ing waxed enthusiastic over the produc tion. Few men hive the gift of losing themselves so completely as does Golden In this quaint character; of using such consummate art that the audience Is made to believe that the old Maine tavern-keeper has stepped out bf his road ekle inn and come on the stage for their especial entertainment And the other players la the company have caught tho spirit of the thing, so that to see it is. like being dropped down In a little Maine town and watching the pcoplq,come and go, doing the things that are Interesting from their very simplicity. There is not a great deal of plot to "did Jed Prouty." A little girl, whose worth less father deserted her mother long ago, a scheming old money-lender and a mort gage are made to turn up now and then In a threatening sort of way, but they are all disposed of satisfactorily without cre ating any strong situations, and were it not for the deft way in, -a-hich Golden drifts from humor to pathos and compels a tear now and then when, a laugh has scarcely died on the lips', the play would be nothing more than a series of pictures. But Golden'a acting Infuses all the strength necessary into the piece, and the pictures were eo enjoyable that the audience sat last n'ght through the four acts with more genuine Interest than has been shown In a play produced on that stage for years. After every curtain they communicated their appreciation in a manner which left no doubt of their sin cerity, and Mr. Golden was kept busy an swering curtain calls. The company is almost the same as was seen here last year, and that It Is equal to the demands of the play Is saying a great deal, for It is no easy task to give a faithful picture of characters like those of Zeb Hardy, played by H. M. Morse; Zack Wilcox, the crier, by Robert Craig; Joe Stover, by Maurice Pike, and John Todd, by Hcraee "Rushby. MeMIle 3. Colllhs made an excellent drUmmer, his breezy city Ways being In strong contrast to the $ulet manner of the country folk. Mies liiite Mcdlnger did some good cairactiflr Work as Tribulation Prouty, and Katherihe, Klttieman, Ruth Royal and Graca McLeod played the three principal female parts acceptably. Little Leote Sinclair &b Tretty made a deserved hit, fot .j3he is one of the cleverest child actresses ever seen In Porliand "The re mainder of the company was all that was ncctsafy. The play is well mounted and costumed, and the hundred and one minor details which niakc It such a perfect production have beeri carefully looked after. It will be repeated all the week, with a matinee Saturday! "THE GRiVXD DUCHESS." brl&ht Opera Weli GIcn by Wll-bur-Klrvrin Company. The Wilbur-Klrwlh Opera Company be gan the last week of Its engagement at the Baker Theater yesterday afternoon, openlhg in "The Grand Ducfiess," which pleased a big house, and was repeated in the evening to a better one. The opera is one which abounds In strong dramatic situations, all of -nhlch were, well cared for. Miss Klrwln has In tho tltld role a part which suits her bet ter than any she has yet played in Port land, and easily carried off the honors of the play, although Forest Huff ad Baton Puck, and W. H. Kohnle as General Eoom, arid J. F. Abbott as Fritz, each" came in for a liberal share of the ap plause. The specialty bill was Unusually strong, the largest hit being scored bv four chorus glrla In the song, "The Pride of Newspaper Row.1' "The Grand Duchess" will be repeated tonight, and will be followed by Balfe's great opera. "The Bohemian Girl," nn un usually elaborate production of which Is promised. Gratr Opera Company. The sale of seats will open tomorrow morning for the Jules Grau Opera Com pany, which ccmes to the Marquam Grand Theater, Thursday, Friday, Sat urday matinee and night bf this week. When "El Capltan" will be presented In this city the public Is promised a gorgeous seewrc and costumed production. In the company aro Miss Mary Parringtort, Bes sie TaUnchlll; Mamie Scott, Mattie Martz, Harry Davles, Robert Dunbdr, Rbnert Kane, A. E. Arnold, Stanley Felch and Ed Eagleton, and the best chorus ever heard In comic opera. "'Tvrixt Cnp anil tip." Baltimore Sun. Senator Depew, of New York, is a man or affairs, formerly a successful railroad magnate and now a statesman, but, judg ing from the autobiographical eketch which appears In the latest Congression al Directory, he has still something to learn In the way of worldly wisdom. The Senator, as is well known. Is" soon to be married in Paris to an American lady. Evidently upon tho assumption that wom an never changes her mind, the Senator, in preparing the brief sketch of his dis tinguished career, which appears in the latest Directory ot Congress, made tho premature announcement. "Married In December, 1001, to Miss May Palmer." Senator Depcw is sdeh a genial gentle man and such a sincere admirer of the fair sex that It Is hoped Cupid will not play him any tricks and that he will be married according to the programme. Tho , New York statesman Is old enough to know, however, that women are fre quently as capricious as they are charming-, and that It Is net safe for any man. however sure he may be of realizing con nubial felicity, to make a wedding 1 an nouncement before the lady is enmeshed In the tolls of matrimony. Of course no one would drenm of Intimating that so gallant a lover and so persuasive a wooer as the Senator from New York would get the mitten at the last moment from tho lady of his choice. Mr. Depew- Is alto gether too Irresistible to be made the victim of such a calamity. At the same time It is never safe to conclude that a woman's decisions are Immutable and Ir revocable. It 13 the prerogative of wom an to change her mind whenever she pleases, it -would be a terrible mortifi cation for the New York statesman to go to Paris and find that there was no foun dation for the announcement that he was "married In December, 1901." There is many a slip 'twlxt cup and Up. as other would-be Benedicts have found to their sorrow. As all the world loves a lover. It Is hoped that Senator Depew will be Under no necessity to revise his prema ture marriage notice in the Congression al Directory. 0 Portland Sets an Example. Dalles Chronicle. What has come over Portland, anyway? The executive committee of the solicit ing committee of the Lewis and Clark Exposition has found it necessary to noti fy Portlanders that notwithstanding the .fact that a call has been Issued for a meeting Of the stockholders no subscrip tions will be refused until $300,000 Is sub scribed. It Is said that a nUmber of soliciting committees have scarcely yet begun their labors. Portland Is certain ly "doing herself proud" in thd way of a liberality that will surely be an example to the rest of the state. Portland In Alert. Eugene Register. Portland Is on the alert to secUre as many meetings as possible of National associations In that city during the Lewis and Clark Centennial. These are the things that will help to bring Easterners to Oregon by the thousands during the greatest event jn: Northwest history. OtherK Are Also Wakfag Up. Ellcnsburg Capital. The Portland people subscribed .$306,000 In one day for their Exposition. Tney have been a long time waking up, but they seem to mean it this time. J X0TE ANi) COIME&T. Dewey got a share of the glory. The weather is preserving an armed neutrality! '5 The court could have dono no more for Schley if It had vindicated him. 1 r The Baltimore American will get out a number In the purple of rage. Let us hope that no one feels called upon to take an appeal to Congress. Th'e dark faces ot those diamond thieves are no match for their-light fingers. From all accounts the coronation will look like a big production of comic op era. Maclay will look In vain for the word "caitiff" in the report of the court of Inquiry. Hereafter it will be -well to suspend the laying of ocean cables until more is heard from Jlarconi. A Pennsylvania -woman has a cat which smokes cigars and drinks beer. This Is but to be expected of a creature which keeps such late hours. Chile and Argentina have decided not to fight Fighting is so common in South America that it Is going out Ot voguo as a pastime worthy ot nations. Nothing has been heard from Prince Henry lately, but the Dakota correspond ents have been Instructed to keep an eye out for him. Senator Wellington I3 still In Congress, but he would riot be surprised to see his name In the list of anarchists who are to be elected for deportation. The Christmas number of the Com moner is going to contain a discussion of the President's message. Un to dato rSnhta Cla'us has received no applications for copies of it Professor Syle, of the State Unlerslty of California, chnnot tolerate snobblncss on the part of his scholars, and any"such offense is sure to call forth some sar castic comment The other day, while calling the roll of one of his classes, he came upon the name of a Mis3 Greene. He paused and expressed his disapproval of the final "fe" in her name by saying: "G-r-e-e-n-e; does that spell Green or Greenlo?" Miss Greene promptly re plied: "S-y-l-e; does that spell Sjle or Slllle?" The Church Times, of London. Is very mUch disturbed at the report that tho King Will riot be anointed at his coron ation. The anointing. It sajs, "13 the one distinctive sacred act by which the King Is set apart for his holy office." But Truth somewhat cynically re marks that a British monarch has noth ing beyond a Parliamentary title to his throne. He Is not set apart for a holy office. The title would neither be smaller nor greater were no oil poured on him by an archbishop, or were he bathed in Oil by the entire bench of bishops. An English clergyman was addressing a congregation ot fishermen, and In or der to appeal the more to his hearers he Introduced a number of nautical simi les. He pictured a captain navigating his craft through a dangerous passage, surrounded with rocks and currents, and he described the voyage in detail. At last he reached his climax, when it seemed inevitable that the ship should bo lost. "And what shall we do now?" he made his captain cry. "Bless your soul, Guvnor!" replied a voice at the back, "that captain o yours can't do nothln. He's sallln his ship starri fore most." A Chicago doctor who enjoys a large practice has what the Chronicle charac terizes as a brutal way of putting an end to alleged attacks of hysteria among his female patients. He has been In prac tice for over 25 years, but only dlscov eted his plan recently. He was called to see a wealthy young married woman, who he found apparently llng unconscious. Brief examlnatloh convinced him that the wom an was shamming. Ho called for a pair of scissors and announced with every ap pearance of regret that he would have to cut all the patient's hair off In order to make application to her head. There was a wonderfully sudden recovery. "I stacked up agalhst a new one tho other evenlrg." said a Philadelphia man recently, "i dropped In on an old friend of mine who always smokes good cigars, and, of course, he produced a box. There were only about a dozen cigars left, but In the box I noticed a lot of Coins, nickels, flmee, quarters and halves. 'What's this?' 1 said. 'Do I pay for my smoke?' 'Not a bit of it,' he said. That's Just my own Pttle syspni. Every morning before I Iea-o home I empty the contents of my trdU3Prs pocket Into the cigar box, reserv ing only the price ot car fare. Thus I get rid of an accumulation of "chicken feed." and at the same time, when my cigar box Is empty, there Is a fund all ready to replenish It " A Credit to the Paciflc Coast. Grant's Pass Courier. Appearahces are all to the effect that the Lewis and Clark Exposition to be held In Portland lri 1905 will be a grand affair Already $310,000 has been pledged, and riow the mark aimed at Is $500,000. Tho amount Is sufficient If properly handled to Insure a fair that will be a credit to the Paciflc Coast The Exposition is not for Portland or even Oregon alone, but for all the state3 carved out of the orig inal Oregon territory. Washington and Idaho were fully included, as were parts of Montpna", Utah and Wyoming. The Exposition will be of great value In mak ing the Pacific Coast better known to the United States. Vast numbers of peo ple will come to the Exposition and may see for themselves the many advantages and pleasant features of the Western country and get a real idea of it which they could not get by a lifetime of reid Ing. The smaller towns ot the state will be given an opportunity to contribute to the fund, and assist In making the event a grand success. t Where 1 ,'5iolbacl'IKm,, XotvT Hlllsboro Argus. The contention thdt Portland was not big enough to successfully promote an Exposition National IA importance has been exploded, and the resources and pos sibilities of the Northwest are no longer to be hidden from the world's Inspec tion. All that it wanted was public spirit instead of talk. The Argus is pleased to see that Portlands Is no longer in the 'mc3sback class," and now that the money has been raised, and In sufficiency to show the people of the Northwest that thfc business men of that city are pro gfessUe, let the people of thd state and the arlous states of the Northwest show a willingness to help the Lewis and Clark Centennial to a grind finale. The Expo sition will help every stat6 west ot tha Rocky Mountains; If will be ot Immense benefit to Oregon and if Oregon shall not aid the affair financially the City cm the Willamette should petition Itself Into the state across the river and Washing ton County will try and go along with It ' A I