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Newspaper Page TextTHE HORNING OBEGOOTAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1902. Entered at the Pcstofflce at Portland. Oregon, as second-class matter. C3t4? QtfX!QQTtWiXl slightest probability that our Govern ment will place Itself In any such stupid position as that To which it Is Invited by Mr. Bryan. There have been times in the last fifty years -when our own country treated some millions of Its In habitants in such a manner as to extort severe popular criticism from Europe, but there was no official expression of remonstrance, or rebuke, on part of any of the powers of Europe. Mr. Bryan Is at full liberty to express his sympathy for the Boers in public meeting1, but for our Government to do so would be an act of diplomatic Impropriety as gross as It would be for Lord Salisbury to lecture us concerning our present mili tary methods in the Philippines. Mr. Bryan is la the demagogue business, but Mr. Roosevelt Is President of the United States, and not at liberty to play demagogue. Nor, had Mr. Bryan been elected to the Presidency, could he in terpose for the Boers. The rebuff he would get would be such as to leave no alternative but to accept the humilia tion or declare war on Great Britain. ItEYISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (postage prepaid). In Advance Dally, with Sunday, per month $ S3 Dally. Sunday excepted, per year 7 0 Dally, with Sunday, per year 00 Sunday, per year - 00 The Weekly, per year 1 "0 The Weekly. 3 montha To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered, Sundays excepted.l5o Dally, per week, delivered. Sundays included.20c POSTAGE BATES. United States, Canada find Mexico: 10 to 14-page paper ...v Jc 14 to 2S-page paper - Foreign rates double. News or discussion intended for publication In The Oregonian ahould be addressed lnvaria toiy "Editor The Oregonian," not to the name of any Individual. Letters relating to adver tising, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonian." The Oregonian does not buy poems or stories from Individuals, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts sent to It without solici tation. No stamps should be Inclosed for this purpose. Eastern Business Ofllce. 3. 44. 45. 47, 48. 49 Tribune building, New York City; 400 "Tho Rookery." Chicago; the S. C. Beckwlth special agency. Eastern representative. For sale In San Francisco by L. E. Lee, Pal ace Hotel news stand: Goldsmith Bros., 230 Sutter street; F. W. Pitts. 100S Market street; 3. K. Cooper Co.. 746 Market street, near ibe Palace Hotel; Foster & Orear, Ferry news stand. For sale In Lo3 Angeles by B. F. Gardner, 250 So. Spring street, and Oliver & Haines. 100 So. Spring street. For sale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co.. 217 Dearborn street. For sale in Omaha by Barkalow Bros., 1C12 Farnam street. For sale in Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co.. 77 W. Second South street. For sale In Ogden by W. C. Kind. 204 Twenty-fifth .street, and C H. Myers. On file at Charleston, S. C, In the Oregon ex hibit at the exposition. For sale In Washington, D. C-, by the Ebbett House news stand. For sale In Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrick, 006-912 Seventeenth street. TODAY'S WEATHER Rain; brisk to high, squally southerly -a Inds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 58; minimum temperature, 44; pre cipitation. 0.40 inch. PORTLAND, TUESDAY, JAN. 7, 1002. whose harbor would need to be dredged at the cost of several millions of dollars. St. Thomas today has the best harbor in the "West Indies. DItYAX AND THE BOERS. In his speech before the pro-Boer meeting at Cleveland, Mr. Bryan said he thinks it a disgrace that no offi cial expression of sympathy with the Boers has yet been made by this Gov ernment. In this utterance Mr. Bryan, like Mr. Bourke Cockran, Is simply play ing the part of a demagogue. He Is too intelligent a man not to know that our Government has gene as far in the mat ter of the Boer War as It possibly could without violating the decencies of dip lomatic intercourse with a friendly power. At no time in the history of this Republic has our Government offi cially Interfered in behalf of fbrelgn peoples upon sentimental grounds. In the case of Cuba we were 'compelled to interfere as matter of self-Interest and to enforce punishment for the blowing up of the Maine. But In all cases of foreign disturbances we have steadily upheld the conservative policy of non interference. We refused to Interfere in behalf of France when she became a republic in the days of "Washington and Adams, and we refused to become her ally in the Napoleonic wars. We took no step toward intervention in behalf of Greece in 1824. "We treated Kossuth In 1851-52 with distinguished honor, just as England did, but, like England, offi cially our Government treated his plea for intervention as utterly impractica ble and at variance with the most ven erated traditional policy of our Repub lic. George Washington, in his farewell address, solemnly urged this conserva tive policy of non-interference with the affairs of foreign nations upon our peo ple, and John Randolph warned us against imitating the ancient error of England, whom he described as at one time "the gamecock of Europe." In the ca?e of Hungary in 1S48-49 the ap peal to the sympathy of our people was far stronger than In case of the Boers. Hungary had actually won her freedom, had crushed Austria and es tablished a government, when Russia interfered, poured her armies over the frontier, defeated the Hungarians and re-established the Austrian rule over Hungary. Austria abused her victory shamefully. Women were stripped naked and flogged by orders of the Austrian General, and insurgent pris oners were shot in cold blood by hun dreds. Nothing in the history of mod ern Europe since Waterloo has ex ceeded the horrors which followed the defeat of the Hungarian revolution save the military executions which fol lowed Louis Napoleon's coup d'etat of 1851 or those inflicted upon the captured communists of Paris in May, 1871, by the government of the French republic We did not interfere in the case of Hungary, which made the strongest pos sible appeal to our sympathies, simply because no nation could possibly afford to interfere in the affairs of a foreign nation upon any other ground save that of self-interest and self-preservation. On grounds of pure sentiment there never has been a year of our exist ence when there wag not some foreign people able to make a moving appeal. In 1798 there were horrors inflicted upon the insurgent Irish peasantry that com pletely exceeded anything that has hap pened since in the civilized world. As late as 1837-3S the French-Canadian ris ing in Canada was barbarously sup pressed. Nineteen of the insurgents were hanged In Montreal alone, but our Government did not hesitate to arrest all American sympathizers who at tempted to Invade Canada In 1837, and our Government was equally prompt to arrest and punish the Fenian Invaders of Canada in 1SGG and 1870. Under President McKinley our Gov ernment even strained the bounds of international propriety to signify to the British Government our willingness to act as mediator at any time. Lord Sal isbury promptly served notice upon all "kiQUiring friends" that when England desired any mediation they would be duly- notified. Since that date our own military attitude In the Philippines is not so entirely saturated with the rose water of philanthropy and the per fumes of peace that we can afford to bo hypercritical over the British mili tary methods against the Boers. Our efforts to tame the Tagals are as freely denounced -by anti-Imperialist Ameri cans as are the efforts of England to subjugate the Boers by the Irish home rule parly and the Bryanite Democrats. The secret of the sympathy of the Bryanite Democracy, for the Boers is that they hope to embarrass the Ad ministration. If the Administration were foolish enough to exceed diplo matic decency by expressing sympathy officially for the Boers, why, then, the Bryanite Democracy would instantly inquire why our Government didn't "Vo peace wlth? the Tagals on the NO SEA-LEVEL canal. Most of the newspapers of the coun-. try display the same breadth, height and profundity of knowledge concern ing the Isthmian Canal project which they showed in advocating the French reciprocity treaty as a rebuke to the steel trust, in fact its great beneficiary. In exudation of this knowledge, they talk glibly of a sea-level canal at Pan ama, and venture that It would be pref erable to a canal with locks at Nica ragua, Now the fact Is that nobody of responsible or authoritative connection with Isthmian Canal projects proposes a sea-level canal at any place on the Isthmus. " Nor has anybody held to that project since 1S87, when France awoke from the De Lesseps dream, to mourn her vanished francs and think of some thing practical. The only place on earth where a sea-level Isthmian Canal is un der construction is in the hair-trigger minds enthroned In certain American sanctums. If you could get men, money and ma chinery enough together to cut through the Panama mountain range six miles wide and 333 feet high above the sea, it could be done, of course, but it would take many millions of dollars and twenty years of time. The Panama Company has abandoned the sea-level plan, and the American Commission rejects It. The present plan, therefore, contem plates two levels above the sea level, each to be reached bjva flight of two locks. As It is, the summit cut on J.he Pacific or mountain section of the canal is a stupendous affair 7.91 miles leng, and a depth of 2SS feet below the nat ural surface of the'groundi with a bot tom width of 150 feet. The cut alone would take eight years to complete, at a cost of $44,000,000, a concentration of excavation that is without precedent. Yet it Is entirely practicable. Nobody denies that a canal can be cut at either Panama or Nicaragua. A consideration which is likely to have great weight In turning the scale in favor of the Nica ragua route Is the fact that Nicaragua and Costa Rica are within our more Immediate sphere of Influence andlthat the construction and ownership of the canal would increase that Influence. As the report of the Walker Commission puts It, "the intimate business relations that would be established with the peo ple of the United States during the period of construction by the expendi ture of vast sums of money In these states and the use of American prod ucts and manufactures would be likely to continue after the completion of the work, to the benefit of our manufactur ing, agricultural and other Interests." There Is the basis here for great de velopment of thriving communities in the fertile soil and healthy climate of Central America. On the other .hand, as the commission says, "a canal by the Panama route will be simply a means, of communication between the oceans." THE POOR PREACHER. Perhaps the most pathetic story brought frcm the lost Walla Walla is that of the poor preacher, Erickson, who has just arrived at San Francisco, almost dead from exposure and crazed from grief. Mr. Erickson had taken passage on the Walla Walla with his wife and three children. They couldn't all go first cabin, because funds were low, as they always are in the poor preacher's family, so Mrs. Erlclcson went first cabin and the father took the children second-class. When the ship struck they Tound each other for a few moments, but in a short time were separated and the father found himself on a raft In the open sea, accompanied only by the oldest child, a boy. Expos ure proved too muchTfor the little fel low, who soon died in his father's arms, and after the heartbroken man had bowed his head in silent prayer over his dead child the body of the boy was consigned to the wave3 as tenderly as possible, and when the raft was at Itngth picked up the father was a phys ical and almost a mental wreck. These are sorrows which need the con solations of religion, if any do, yet they are hardly heavier then the severe strain of self-denial and privation to which the poor preacher is continually subject. No calling is so brutally ma ligned end so cruelly misunderstood. The average pay of country clergymen In Oregon, In one denomination at least, has been ascertained not to exceed $200 per annum. Yet on this slender sum he ha3 to maintain appearances for himself and his family oh a par with the richest of his congregation. He has to earn his salary and earn It over again collecting It. His family would often go hungry if it were not for the donation party and Inadequately clothed If It were not for the cast-off clothing flung to them by the members of city congregations. There Is veiy little the poor preacher gets Jn this world but the reward of a goooTconscience and the hope of heaven. He Is usually looked down upon by those who have the talent for money making that has been denied him. He is not a meney-maker, he is not a hustler. It is to be feared that he Is frequently deficient In the practice of Poor Richard's philosophy. But he goes on his way rejoicing, in the thought that he has obeyed a heavenly vision, In the hope that what he misses here will be made up hereafter, good meas ure, pressed down and running over. There are those so incompetent to un derstand his nature that they would doubtless grudge him even these re wards, which are, however, beyond the reach of envy or malice. The poor preacher is easily pleased. He has been known to shed tears of joy at the pros pect of attending synod at Portland, where he could hear committee reports an hour long and meet In Intimate converse a lot of preachers as poor and overworked, a3 physically worn and mentally starved as himself. dec and Norway In the first three months of this year carried between Cuban and United States ports nearly $5,000,000 worth of goods, and yet pur chased from Cuba goods worth only $2365. And In the first six months of this year 74 per cent of the sugar ex ported from Clenfuegos was In foreign vessels, though practically all of It came to this country. Nearly 90 per cent of the sugar brought from Cuba to the United States Is brought in for eign vessels. The New York Tribune suggests that the merchandise passing between Cuba and the United" States, In order to enjoy the proposed preferential rates of duty, should be carried in Cu ban or United States vessels, and that only vessels built In Cuba or the United States be admitted to Cuban registry. Thus the mercantile marine of the two countries would receive a fine stimulus, and in a short time the goods would be transported by the countries which produce and consume them. The suggestion Is not a liberal one, but It Is In thorough harmony with the protect ive theory and the practice of our coast ing laws. It is probable that long be fore we can get free ships our coasting regulations will be extended to the Philippines as well as to Cuba. It is the mischief of subsidies that once these maritime arrangements are Inaugu rated they are apt to be permanent. One of the points on which Senator Hanna rests his advocacy of subsidies Is the payment of $200,000,000 annually to the foreign carrying trade a sum which he would doubtless have us un derstand Is a clear gift. But the Ship ping World, of London, easily confutes this Hannalan Idea. "From 85 to 90 per cent," it eays, "of the freight earnings are paid out In cost of navigation, of provisions, coal, repairs, general depre ciation, administration. Insurance and other expenses; about one-half of these payments are made In American porta, and go Into American pockets; not even all the profits go to foreign owners, for In a large number of Important In stances some of the owners, as mana gers and shareholders, reside In Amer ica, and are often American citizens. Senator Hanna is a shipowner, and knows." The Shipping World might also have put In a plea In abatement that the foreign shipowners probably render value received for every penny of the $200,000,000. THE NEW YEAR'S' OREGONIAN. " Astoria Astorlan. The Oregonian published a New Year's edition of exceptional merit, largely in the Interests of the Lewis and piark. Fair, to "be held in 1905. The edition contains many interesting facts concerning Ore gon, her people. Industries, growth and possibilities, and as an advertising med ium will prove especially valuable. Every county is propprly represented. The Ore gonian shows that Oregon is forging rap idly to the front, and that the growth of the state, so long delayed, will soon go on unrestricted. The memorable Lewis and Clark, expedition is given considerable spaco in anticipation of the coming fair. Clatsop's magnificent resources are dealt with, and the showing made for the gate way county Is particularly gratifying. All In all, the edition la one of the bc3t special numbers ever published on the Coast, and reflects great credit on the publishers and contributors. Cottage Grove Nugget. The mammoth New Year Oregonian, 04 pages, splendidly Illustrated and cover ing with minute detail the vast and var ied resources of the whole state, Is an achievement worthy of that great paper. As year succeeds year this great journal excels Its past excellence in the matter of Its annual edition, the ever unfolding resources of OTegon furnishing new and surprising themes. The native and pi oneer have for many years accepted It as their Bible, and now the prospector and the miner are looking to It as their Moses leading out to the financial world. All praise to the enterprise and push of The Oregonian. Union Republican. Of all the great papers Issued In the Pacific Northwest, the New Year's edi tion of The Oregonian Is tho greatest. A perusal of its G4 pages will convince any one that we have in Oregon one of the grandest and most promising countries on earth. Tho state owes much to the enterprise of the publishers of that Jour nal for so generously presenting to the world Its varied resources. Baker City Democrat. The New Year's edition of The Port land Oregonian has the distinction of being tho handsomest paper, typo graphically, ever Issued from the pre33 of The Oregonian Publishing Company, which is noted for flno newspaper work. It Is also more carefully edited and filled with more reliable news and Information of Oregon and the great Northwest than any previous edition of that paper, or any other paper or pamphlet yet published upon tho re sources of Lewis and Clark land. WELL WORTH WHILE. Inasmuch as the United States for bids European powers to acquire Amer can territory that its present owners wish to part from, like the Danish West Indies, for example, we can hardly do less than take over such territory our selves, provided the price Is satisfac tory. The Islands, moreover, have value In themselves and in their strategic position. Santa Cruz, or St. Croix, the largest of the Islands, lies sixty-five miles east-southeast of Porto Rico, and is about twenty miles long from east to west by about five miles broad. Its area Is 110 miles. It is flat, well watered and fertile. Its temperature varies from 54 to 92 degrees. Sugar and rum are Its principal productions, but It raises some cotton, coffee and indigo. Its population In 1890 was about 20,000. St. Thomas is thirty-eight miles east of Porto Rico. Its length Is seventeen miles and Its breadth about four miles. Its capital, St. Thomas, has a popula tion of 13,000, has an excellent harbor and an extenelve trade. St. John has an area of forty-two miles and a popu lation of about 1000. The three islands together cover about 127 square miles, and the present population Is estimated to be about 30,000. In 1866-67 our Gov ernment,' through Secretary of State Seward, agreed to pay $5,000,000 for the Islands of St. Thomas and St. John, but the Senate refused to ratify the treaty. The United States today offers but $3,240,000 for the three islands, of which Captain Mahan said In September last: Tho purchase of the Danish 'West Indies by tho United States places -within the hands of Uncle Sam a Gibraltar which tho navies or tho world would bo powerless to wrest from his grasp, for St. Thomas is the gateway of the Caribbean, and nature has given this half-way house of the sea the choicest of harbors for commercial and naval supremacy. St. Thomas has a fine harbor, large coal wharves and a drydock. There Is no color line drawn between the Danish whites and the blacks. Intermarriage Is not unusual, and all the children, black and white, go to the same schools. In the Colonial Council are black men and white. There Is no color line In business or society, or in the churches. Everybody speaks English on these islands, and, although the official lan guage is Danish, English Is used In the schools as well as in the courts of jus tice. On the Island of St. Croix there are two Masonic lodges, one French and one English, and in each of these there are as many black as white mem bers. One of the deacons of the Dutch Reformed Church is a full-blood negro. The white people and nearly all the sugar producers of the islands are In favor of annexation, but the blacks, who are of a superior class, are opposed to It, because they apprehend that with American ownership will come the es tablishment of a distinct color line In society and business, which has hitherto been unknown. A great naval station can be built at St Thomas -far more cheadr than at San Juan, Por'to Rico, A GREAT PLAY. The play of "Julius Caesar" keeps the stage chiefly because of the three great parts of Antony, Brutus and Casslus. The wonderful speech of Antony over the dead body of Caesar is" a model of that artful eloquence which, playing with the passions, the reason, the imag ination and the tender sympathies of human nature, sweeps its audience In turn from tears to mutiny and rage and then back again to tears. The ora torical contest between Antony and Brutus Is marked by fine contrast. Brutus speaks first with noble simplic ity and sententlousness. His appeal Is to the Judgment, the conscience, the patriotism of his hearers. Then Antony follows with a versatile attack upon all sldeB of human nature; he plays on the hearts of his audience as a great musician does upon a great organ. He makes some of the pipes peal forth the deep bass notes of rage and revenge; he makes others whisper hoarsely In ac cents of horror; he makes others still melodious with the sweet flute notes of tender sentiment and pathos. When that oratorical duel Is over Caesar Is avenged; all Rome has risen behind An tony and Brutus and Casslus are fugi tives. Brutus Is a poetlc-mlnded, captivating dreamer, as imaginative as Macbeth, for he sees Caesar's ghost even as Mac beth does that of Banquo. He is as full of charming courtesy and chivalry with his friends as Hamlet; but he Is the Imaginative dreamer with a conscience like Hamlet, not the Imaginative dreamer and doer without a conscience, like Macbeth. Brutus Is a creature of the Girondist tyre; the fellows that can die for liberty but never have the gift to organize It Into any form of efficient government, like Cromwell. Casslus as a man Is the foil to Brutus, even as Brutus the orator is the foil to the over powering eloquence of Antony. Casslus Is no dreamer; he is your true conspir ator, a lean, critical, saturnine fellow with something of subtlety and crafty persuasiveness about him, and yet he is as true to his flag and his friends as Brutus. He Is a practical man; he reads Antony right and urges his death when Brutus sees nothing in him but a wild and flippant reveller, not danger ous enough to be put to the dagger. Casslus is the better soldier, for the battle is lost at Phlllppl because Brutus gives the word too soon. The brief, fleeting glimpse we get of Caesar shows that Shakespeare cor rectly estimated him as a statesman, a philosopher, a fascinating man of the world, fearless, good-natured, sagacious, easily the foremost man of all the world. The quarrel scene between Brutus and Casslus is justly famous; and yet a finer bit of delicate art Is Brutus' disclosure to Casslus of the news of Portia's death. Portia, the wife of Brutus, briefly but beautifully comes and goes, a phantom of delight, of whom Brutus eloquently says: You are my true and honorable wife. As dear to me aa are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart. Shakespeare's keen apprehension of the real noble strength and sincerity that underlie the irritable jealous tem per of Casslus Is well set forth In his speech to the conspirators. Casslus Is not a sweet-tempered, refined Roman gentleman, like Brutus, .but In the ca pacity to die with, courage for his con victions he was the peer of his noble friend. The art of Shakespeare makes Casslus as complete a foil in character and temperament to Brutus a3 Hotspur Is to Prince HaL The importance to the performance of a great work that one human being may be, and In this instance is, Is shown by the suspended, effort on the part of Salvation Army workers incident to the severe Illness of Mrs. Booth-Tucker In San Francisco. Her husband, cancel ing all engagements, hurried to her bed side; all of her own dates, covering a tour of the United States, were can celed, and the National congress of offi cers of the Army In New York will be abandoned. Having so recently ap peared before a Portland audience, there Is a generous local Interest here In this earnest woman and her work, supplemented by sympathy with her in her suffering, and ardent hope that she will live to continue her work for hu manity. Who says that the climate of Oregon has changed; that the gently descend ing mists that wooed the pioneer to dreamy idleness while volunteer crops sprang up and throve luxuriantly in his stubble-fields belong to the early years about which the vague shadows of for getfulness are gathering? Are we not cow In the enjoyment of typical Oregon weather balmy, moist and full of the promise of honest abundance? It is true that latter-day Oregonlans cannot depend upon crops from volunteer or self-sown grain. Too much has been drawn from the soil by the grain yields of half a century to permit this: But "Oregon mist" is still on duty mild mannered, soft-falling and full of promise. The farmers of Yamhill County do not seem to be as loyal to their river as it was supposed they were from the clamor of years that ended In the con struction of locks at the falls of the Yamhill at La Fayette. Owing to lack of paying patronage, the one boat that was put on the McMInnvllle River in the Fall was drawn off after two trips. Another effort will be made to run a boat between this city and McMInnvllle, but shippers have been given to under stand that the only way to keep a boat on the- route Is to make it pay the own ers to run her. This is a plain propo sition, the terms of which must be met if eteamboatlng is kept alive on the Yamhill River. Calamity, bearing the brand of In sanity, disgrace, sorrow and shadows, frequently overtaken members of the royal house of Belgium. The Queen a wretched prisoner by edict of her hus band; his sister, the ex-Empress Car lotta, a hopeless maniac; one daughter, the widow of the profligate suicide. Archduke Rudolph of Austria, and an other lately sequestered as hopelessly Insane after years of sorrow, scandal and disgrace truly this most unhappy family furnishes In the light of history an example wherein the fathers having eaten sour grapes the children's teeth arc set on edge. The Boston papers are weightily im pressed with the Panama route. They have also been Impressed from time Im memorial with the desirability of sacri ficing American railroads in favor of the Canadian Pacific and Its New Eng land connections. Boston Is the cradle of liberty, and also the Incubator of railroad "politics. Commissioner Banfield tell3 what he should do If he were one of the three warring Commissioners of the Port of Portland. He would propose that all three resign, and let the Multnomah delegation fill their places. It Is up to Commissioners Hughes, Swgert and Adams to consider the merits of this rare suggestion. An anomaly of Cuban trade Is that nfost of the island's ocean carrying trade. Is In the hands of foreign coun tries which take only a minor fraction lof Cuba's products. For example, Swe- "One swallow does not make a Sum mer." No more does one failure In the poultry business condemn all efforts in this line to failure. At least, this seems to be the consensus of opinion among men engaged in this business in this vicinity. Perhaps Mr. Hughes, as chairman of tho Port of Portland Commission, might get rid of the members not agreeable to him by a "Pride's Purge," or something df that kind. He might call on the Governor for the troops. Ko Snbnldj- Needed. Philadelphia Times. Franc6 has spent $42,000,000 on ship sub sidies and has received no results. With no subsidies In sight the American ship yards are full of work. The subsidy pro moters are being hit on all aides. Junction City Times. The New Year's Oregonian from an Oregon standpoint is a library within Itself. Her products and resources, her fluctuations and vast concerns are graphically portrayed and Its array of facts and figures cannot bo gainsaid. The Lewis and Clark expedition, Its ef fect on the United States, Is Intelligent ly and Interestingly treated. The Issue consists of 64 pages and handsomely Il lustrated. Every citizen should send a copy to Eastern friends. v . Portland New Age. The New Year's edition of The Ore gonian is a magnificent production in the way of comprehensive data of practical value to Oregon particularly and to the entlro Northwest generally. It Is pre sented In the usual newspaper form. Statistics are given In an attractive and succinct way, concerning the remarkable development of the vast territory con sidered. The great array of details thus carefully compiled, without unnecessary bluster or attempt at sensational head lines, present a volume of evidence of the material growth In Industrial and com mercial Interests of which Oregon es pecially should be Infinitely proud. This great number of The Oregonian should be liberally distributed throughout the over burdened communities of tho East for the immeasurable good It will do In the way of disseminating reliable and much-desired Information concerning our bound less resources and the ease with which thev may be urofltably developed. The historical narrative concerning Lewis and Clark's exploration of the "Oregon Coun try" 13 especially Interesting in view of the proposed commemoration of that not able""expedltIon by a grand centennial celebration in this city In 1905. Weston Leader. The Oregonlan's annual. Issued Jan uary 1, 1202. consists this year of 64 pages. Like everything of this nature The Ore gonian undertakes, the number repre sents a vast amount of careful. Intelli gent effort, and some of the best writers in the state havo contributed to its col umns. Statistical and descriptive matter of great value to Oregon -and the North west Is presented in readable form, with attractive half-tone illustrations. 0 Democrats Rebuked by a Democrat. Chicago Chronicle. Three-fourths of the Democratic vote of th country Is at the North. Outside of two or three large cities, where It is sometimes debauched by corrupt leader ship, this vote Is thrown for principle and without expectation of Individual gain. This vote Is practically nullified by the conditions which prevail at the South. It Is betrayed as1 In Louisiana. It Is sac rificed In National affairs to serve the lo cal Interests In the South. It Is made the fag-end of a Southern party which ac cepts offices, tariffs and subaldles from a trading opposition, and now It Is likely, through the connivance of the Adminis tration with vote suppression in the black belt, to find itself more than ever the victim of betrayal even In its own con ventions. There can be no triumphant Democracy while tho true Democratic party is thus made the sport of a huck stering and vote-suppressing oligarchy at the South. Relief from this Intolerable condition of affairs is of as much im portance to the true Democrats of the South and border states as It Is to the great mass of the party at the North. 0 The Cromer-Belmont Flsnt. Boston Herald. The controversy that has come between Richard Croker and. Perry Belmont over the Democratic nomination to Congress In the Seventh New York district wouia seem to afford a favorable opportunity for Republican success In that quarter. The district voted In Its election of a Con gressman in 1900: Democratic. 13,654; Re publican. 9322. This Is only a little over 4000 Democratic majority, which, it would seem, Croker should be able to overcome In case Belmont Is declared to be the Democratic nominee, as Is the prospect at present. The fight is an ugly one be tween tho two men. Croker has the su perior power In the Democratic ranks, but Belmont has a good deal of money. There Is a fine opening for the Republicans to slip in a member of Congress between the two. Thcgaln of a Republican member will not be Important In the present com position of the House of Representatives. as the Republicans nave neany bu ma jority already. Immortality In PennIons. New York Times. The chairman of the Confederate Pen sion Board in one of the largest counties of "Virginia tells the Richmond (Va.) Times, as that paper says, that he has determined to hand In his resignation solely because the board Is unable to shut out an unworthy class of professional Confederates who are clamoring more loudly for pensions. "A class of men have com before us," he says, "who were on the reserve list, and never had been, except on stated occasions, called out. Many of them were working In machine shops and drawing wages during the war. and wer never In the regular army. I think I mfeht say that at least 50 per cent of the pension money disbursed by my board went to people who did not 3eem to need it or deserve it." The Times says that under the new Virginia state penHlon law the number of pensioners has Increased about fourfold. AMUSEMENTS. Frederick Warde, always welcome in Portland, reappeared at the Marquam last night, and, warm as have been the greet ings accorded him year after year, none has been more enthusiastic than that of the large audience which gathered to ee him in "The Mountebank." Curtain calls followed every act so fast that they were hard to count, and nothing but the speech the- audience felt sure they ought to have would check their ardor after the scene In which the long-persecuted mountebank finally gains an advantage over the man who has wronged him. Mr. Warde Is supported by an unusually good .company this year, ana never De- fore has he presented his plays so admirably in point of costumes and scenery. In the part of Belphegon the Mountebank, he has a fine chanoe to prove himself the master of his art that he la, and he Improves it first, last and all the time. Whether "barking" on the street In the endeavor to extract coins from the spectators, paying loving attentions to his wife or voicing his despair at her deser tion, he Is always the artist, and not a scene in the play fails to yield all of In terest or pathos there Is In it at his skill ful touch. The finest thing he did last night was In the last act, when, in the guise of Laverennes, .the persecutor, the mountebank pours the tale of hia long suffering into the tortured ear of his wife. So real. In fact, does the sorrow of the husband, the hunger of the child and tho distress that has fallen on the household become that Its duration might be con siderably curtailed In several Instances to the gain of tho play. Strong medicine should be given In small doses, and It is necessary to harrow up the feelings of an audience "but for a little space In order to teach them the lesson of trouble that is so readily learned. Of the support, Mr. Charles D. Herman, as Laverennes, the spurious Count who brings so much woe into the suffering of the mountebank, had the best opportunity last night, and he made much of it, in his usual even and admirable style of act ing. Barry Johnstone, who never does anything carelessly, devoted much atten tion to the part of the Due de Montra zon, and won for himself a generous meas ure of applause. John E. Hayne3 extract ed much comedy from the part or a clown. Miss Antoinette Ashton, a young woman possessed of a good voice and con siderable talent, made an excellent Made lalne; Miss Virginia Drew Treecott did a great deal with two small parts, Miss May Warde played the part of a danseuse in a fashion which showed that she has improved a great deal since her last ap pearance here, and Miss Alleen Bertelle did a bit of splendid wofk with the role of Henry, the" son of the mountebank. The remainder of the company, which is very large, was all that could be desired. Tonight, "Julius Caesar." "The Burgomaster." The sale of seats will open tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock for "The Burgo master," which comes to the Marquam Grand Theater next Friday and Saturday nights with a matinee Saturday. Its eprigbtly musical score Is not all that commends "The Burgomaster" to public favor. The book is said to be genuinely funny. It has made Its author. Frank PIxley, all but famous. His subsequent success with "King Dodo" has ruily borne out the promises he made and ful filled with "The Burgomaster." The ca reer of "Tho Burgomaster" la such as to leave no" doubt of Its merit, for It has enjoyed "runs" of 150 performances in Chicago. 100 In New York, 100 In Phila delphia, and 100 in Boston. Good Man for the Coronation. Chicago Inter Ocean. The suggestion that ex-President Cleveland be appointed to represent the United States at the coronation of King Edward VII is a good one. The occasion calls for an envoy who ha3 been or Is closely associated with our Government. Other nations will be rep resented by sovereigns, or by personal representatives of soverpigns. The United States, where eovereicnty rests with the people, should be represented by a man of the people, by one who bears the sig net of popular approval or indorsement. Mr. Cleveland Is such a man our only living ex-President. He was twice elect ed to tho highest office within the gift of the people. Whatever may be said of his policies or of his partisanship, It must also be said that when he retired from ofllce he carried with him the respect not only of the American people; but of all the countries that had, during his admin istration, dealings with this Nation. No President went further In asserting our traditional policy against England than Mr. Cleveland, and probably no man In this country Is more highly respected In England than the President who inter vened in the case of Venezuela. i In the Venezuela case Mr. Cleveland unmistakably represented American senti ment and conviction. His courageous ac tion, his rea'diness to assume all tho re sponsibilities of such action, won him the favor of his bitterest political opponents at homeland the Tegard of the masters ot diplomacy abroad. If he should go to England In a representative capacity he would represent a distinctive American Ism a well-defined policy, which, while It was his policy, is also that of President Roosevelt. Other public men. In special equipment, may be better qualified for the place than Mr. Cleveland, but no other man wlli be, under tho circumstances, so fit a repre sentative of the American Government and the American people. Thessfore Pres ident Roosevelt will do well ta name the ex-President special envoy to repre sent the sovereignty of the largest repub lic in the worta at the coronation cere monies of the sovereign of the largest em pire In tho world. 9 Cut Off the War Taxes. Detroit Journal. It is stated that It was tho immense and constantly growing Treasury surplus that overwhelmed Secretary Gage, and that Secretary Shaw will be confronted with a similar problem. Practically, how ever, the problem 13 one for Congress, and It seems likely that It could easily legis late to prevent the accretion In the Treas ury of the money of the people In an amount dangerous to the .commercial in terests of the country and onerous on the taxpayers as welL At the last session of Congress tho press of the country was nearly a unit In demanding the removal of the war revenue schedule. The response was a partial revision of the schedule under tho mistaken Impression that the revenues of the Government would there by be brought into close relation to its expenditures. But still the surplus has continued to grow, so that during the first six months of the current fiscal year the Government will have received from the people nearly $45,000,000 more than the .ex penses during the same period. What Congress should do, then. Is to cut off the war schedule bodily and trim the special tax list, and it should do this be fore it begins to hack at tho rich red meat of tho present surplus. NOTE AND COMMENT. Why don't you take that 1901 calendar down? The sun's New Year's' call Is getlng long overdue. Secretary Long Is saying things to Sen ator Nelson, but Nelson can talk back. White called Piatt a poet. Piatt thought of Alfred Austin, and brought suit for libel. The Venezuelan Navy has only one ship, unless you count tho bad seamanship of her crew. We have received no seed for our 1002 flower garden. (Congressional Record, please copy.) New Year's resolutions have not mate rially increased the receipts of the water committee. A toy trust has been organized, b'ut it can't do anything unless it makes terms with Santa Claus. Great Britain has sent 1452 stoves to South Africa. Christmas dinner partly are organizing early this year. Melbourne MacDowell says he waa drugged and. married. Here is a sugges tion for impatient spinsters. South Carolina having made -00,000 out of the saloon business In a year, her Gov ernor has nothing whatever to say to the Governor of North Carolina. A Virginia woman placed ,13 buckshot into a man who stood beside the target at which she was practicing. But perhaps the gun went off by accident. Come, gentlemen, now antf Join all In the vow That one habit, at least, you will quit: That you'll Und It is wise to do what I advise, I think you will quickly admit. For a Frenchman has found that not only sound. But sight for a mile can be thrown. And Invented a plan by which any man Can see through the telephone. And now do you think, when you stand on tha brink Of madness and wildly "HMlo," And get no reply you can savagely cry, "What makes you so all-flred slow?" When a telephone girl, with a fluffcty curl, A peach, and a pearl, and a prize. With all maidenly grace and a picture-book face. Is looking right Into your eyes? Do you think you will dare to splutter or swear When your number Is busy all day. "When a girl looks at you with a glance that goes through Ycur soul In an Impudent way. Do you think you will yell. "This service is t I'll talk to the boss about you." As you often have done since the early year one. When tho girl is right there In full view? You'd better prepare such rough talk to for swear And tntee what you get silently. For you can't be so gay. with your browbeat ing way. To a telephone girl you can see. It Is her turn to crow, and she'll hand you, you know. The worst of It right straight along. If you think, you're deuce high when you look In her eye. "Why that, my dear friend's where youro wrong. Death. William Ellery Channlng. O Death! thou art the palace of our hopes, The storehouse of our Joys great labor's end; Thou art the bronzed key which swiftly opes Tho coffors of the Past; and thou shalt send Such trophies to our hearts as sunny days. When Life upon Its golden harpstrtnga plays. And when a nation mourns a silent voice That long entranced its ear with melody. How must thou In thy Inmo3t soul rejoice To wrap such treasures In thy boundless seat And thou wert dignified If but one soul Had been enfolded in thy twilight stole. Jeans. O Jesus! If thy spirit haunts this vale. When sweetly on the air the church-bells wall If to some lonely soul thy memory brings The healing of thy beauty on Its wings. And to that gentle heart its truth does say That thou wert mild and gentle pure alway And promises a rest In sacred camps. Where holy angels tend unfailing lamps; Where all that here that lowly heart did love Dwells In the sunshine ot that sphere above Then thou, serenest Jesus! art to him As liutrous, mild-eyed, blissful Seraphim. PUZZLES THE SPANIARDS. Result of Schley Inquiry Compared With. Praise for Cervera. The Sun, Havana, Cuba. What few Spanish officers or ex-offlcer3 remain In Havana have been greatly in terested in the reports regarding the Schley Inquiry. An old ex-Colonel of Spanish artillery asked ns-wme qu-tiona concerning the trial. "Doubtless the Americans are great people," he said, "but why should they condemn Admiral Schley for destroying Cervera's squad ron? I think It Is more absurd than tho verdict given at Admiral Cervera's trial after he had lost his fleet. "No wonder that Spaniards and Ameri cans do not understand each other. In Spain the Admiral who loses a battle 13 praised and In the United States the Ad miral who annihilates the enemy's naval power Is condemned." Too Good to Be True. Des Moines Leader. It Is related that oix the last tour of President McKinley In the South Andrew Carnegie was in the party, and all were asked to attend a negro church In Thom asvllle, Ga.. where a very fervid colored minister otllclated. It Is said that whenever a lull came In tho services the deacons took up a col lection, but through hospitable motives avoided passing the box to the white visitors. The old pastor arose at la?t and preached a sermon that was at the same time eloquent, earnest and ridicu louspreaching right at the white folks, and his description of th.e poverty of the church woe so Impressive that when the deacons passed the contribution-boxes around for tho third time Mr. Carnegie Intercepted one and dropped a 530 bill in the box. The old preacher counted their con tents. When he had finished he placed a handful of small change on one side and a crisp greenback on the other. Clear ing his throat, he said: "Breddren. we has been greatly blessed by dish yer conterbutlon. We has heah fo' dollahs tin fo'ty cents; dab Is cood; an' if de flfty-ollah bill put In by dc white gemman wld do gray whiskers Is also good, we is blessed a whole lot moah," and he looked suspiciously at tho giver of libraries anu campamn iuuus. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS Probably His First. He Aftah all. I aw think second thought ah best, donchoo know. She Oh. have you had a second one? Chicago Record-Herald. A Sinecure. Mrs. Flynn An phwat's yer Bon Molke doln' now Mrs. Casey? Mrs. Casey Shurc, Molke ain't doln' annything. Mw. Flynn. ' He's got a Government Job. Leslie's Weekly. How He Spoiled It. He I thought you looked charming last night. She-Oh. now! Did you. really? He Yes. Why. I could hardly believe it was you. Philadelphia Bulletin. Mr Cahey Y' lead me a cat and a dog lolfc. y' do. Mrs. Cahey Ach. It's that werry thing Oi do You lavln' an loafln' aroun the housa and me workln' hard th' wholle f feed ye. Harlem Life. A Malicious Exposure. Emellne How I should love to overhear the conversation of several highly Intellectual men. Edgar Pooh! I've been with them: they alwaj-3 begin on books, but soon get to talking about something good to eat. Detroit Free Press. The Main Point. Mrs. Gatterson You will come to dinner anyway.. Mr. Tutter. will you not. though I am afraid there will not be many Interesting people present. Tutter (gallantly) What difference does thafc make? One U al ways sure of a good square meal at your house. Brooklyn Life. No Thoughts. "The postman has Just brought me Aunt Jane's present." said the poet's wife. "What do you think It la?" "I don't know," replied the poet, disturbed ai work. "But can't you think?" "Gee whlzzl How do you expect me to think now? I'm writing something for the magazines." Phila delphia Press. Pertinent. Mn. Doguld (president ot the So ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) My dear children, I love all animals. I never under any circumstances hurt one. I even have a family of pet toads. I lovo them so that I catch flies to feed them. Small boy Please, missus, ain't fllea animals? Town and Country. A Pretty Custom. "Don't you think that tha writing of letters to Santa Clau Is a pretty custom for children?" "I do." answered Sen ator Sorghum. "It is very much like the prac tlca of introducing bills In Congress. In tho majority of cases there are no practical re sults. But the author is gratified and there is no harm done." Washington Star.