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PORTIiAXD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30
REGISTER, OR YOU ARE OUT OP
POLITICS.
But no person shall be entitled to vote a
ticket of any political party or association un
less he resides in the precinct where he offers
to vote. Nhnll have compiled -with the
requirement of the law relating: to
registration of electors and shall be
entitled to voto at the next ensuing general
election.
This is the language of the Lockwood
law regulating primaries. It shows two
things: First, that all who wish to par
ticipate in the primaries must register;
second, that the primaries themselves
are to be an entirely different affair
from what they have hitherto been.
Everybody should register. It Is utter
folly to talk about the Imperfections
and injustice of existing government
and then neglect to prepare for exercis
ing the elective franchise. No man is
free of responsibility for whatever Is in
effect if he fails to vote. The election
may be close. One vote might turn the
Bcale.
It means a great deal for our local
politics that the primaries are to be sub
ject to the Australian ballot law, and
that only registered voters can partici
pate in them. No more swarms of
hobqs keeping business men and work
ingmen away from the polla No more
repeating, no more stuffing ballot boxes,
no more "tampering with the count.
Probably there will hardly be half a
aozen voters at any single precinct who
are not known to one or more of the
judges and clerics on the board. Here is
discouragement for the rounder and
here is encouragement for the citizen.
If you register you can get to the ballot-box
and your vote will be counted.
Another thing. The primary is the
election. This is a matter of supreme
concern to the Republicans. Ordinarily
here a Republican nomination is equiv
alent to an election. In South Caro
lina, when a Democratic candidate car
ries the primaries, the other fellow gives
it up at once. It is going to be a good
deal that way here. Who is to be Gov
ernor, who Congressman, who Mayor,
depends substantially upon what Re
publican ticket wins at the primaries.
Another advantage of the new law,
and therefore an additional Incentive to
the voter to register in time to partici
pate in the primaries, is that the elec
tion on primary day is for delegates,
and under the Australian ballot process
voters can vote their ticket straight or
mixed. Every delegate will stand on
his own merits. If he possesses the
confidence of the community, he may
run strong. If he does not, he may fall
while the rest of his ticket goes through.
The men who scratch him will still be
voting tor a Republican. It will not be
enough for a nominee that he has been
picked out as an acceptable and trusted
instrument of a machine. This fact
alone ought to get some pretty good
names on the lists.
Nobody can participate in the selec
tion of state, county or city officers this
year unless he registers now for the pri
maries. The primaries this year are the
election.
COXCEAL.3IEXT IMPOSSIBLE.
The Oregonlan notes a disposition
on the part of some members of
the Portland Chamber of Commerce and
others to "suppress" or at least to
"deal gently" with the facts which ex
hibit bad conditions at the entrance to
the Columbia River. The theory ap
pears to be that if the Chamber of Com
merce will carry on its deliberations in
whispers and if The Oregonlan will keep
silent, the embarrassing truth will not
be known that the commercial world
and the world in general will not find
out that the bar has of late shoaled
perceptibly even In a way to create
alarm and that the system of pilotage
and towage practiced there has become
careless and inefficient Grown-up men,
it appears, old enough to be past the
simplicities of childhood and with ex
perience enough it would seem to savor
their judgments with some salt of com
mon sense, gravely hold these unspeak
ably foolish deluslona
Now, for the Information of these
worthies and of all men, let it be said
In the plainest terms that neither the
physical condition at the Columbia
River Bar nor its commercial reputation
is subject to modification through the
reserve or the candor of any. Chamber
of Commerce or of any newspaper. The
reason Is, in the first case, that
river sands and Astoria politics, like the
tides, wait upon no man; and the reason
in the second case is that the agencies
which make or mar the fame of a port
do not rely upon Chambers of Com
merce nor upon newspapers as the sole
sources of their information. Long be
fore It was heard in the Portland Cham-
ber of Commerce that there was trouble
at the bar, either from the sands or
from the pilots, the facts were known
in every shipping agency and In every
marine insurance office In the commer
cial world. The men who make up the
Portland Chamber of Commerce ought
to know this; in truth they do know it;
and their timidity at this time is a mere
whimsy.
A policy of suppression of facts re
specting the conditions at the mouth of
the river will deceive nobody fool no
bodybut ourselves; and The Oregonlan
will be no party to such folly. The sit
uation at the bar Is bad, very bad in
deed, and it is In a way to grow worse
If we should fall to stir ourselves about
it We need to be waked up, and the
quicKest way of getting waked up Is to
turn on the light to develop and make
public all the information available.
The situation Is bad, but it is not be
yond remedy; all we need to do is to do
what we have done before and may do
again, namely, to kick politics out of
the pilotage administration and put
business energy and the business spirit
in Its place, and to set in motion the
forces which are pledged to mainte
nance of deep channels at the bar.
These things, we reneat hnvA hopn
done before, but not through policies of
timidity and silence. The initiative and
the force essential to prompt and ef
fective work lies in an aroused public
opinion, and this can be developed
quickly and surely by full and candid
presentment of all the facts. And It
can be done in no other way. Those
who seek to suppress the facts. would,
if their policies were to prevail, only
multiply the difficulties of the eltuation
and postpone'the deliverance.
WHERE THE HYPOCRISY IS.
- Tillman thrusts the negro into his col
loquy with Spooner and then whines
that the race question has been
broached. Tillman's bowels of compas
sion yearn over the black man in Lu
zon, but he gloats and trlorles nvor fha
burnings of black men in South r.nm.
Una. No one should blame Tillman for
getting mad. It must be deucedly an
noying to have facts brought to your
attention when you are posing as the
disinterested and sympathetic champion
of liberty and equality. Why can't
Spooner take Tillman's word that he
is for equality of races and protection
of the oppressed, and oDno.cpd tn cru
elty and barbarity, apply it to the Phil
ippines, and let It go at that?
The Philippines are a burden. They
cost us money, they cost us trouble,
they cost us lives. But this is not in
itself reason for abandoning the strug
gle. If they are ours and came to us
rightfully, and If our responsibility for
them necessitates exercise of our au
thority over them, what else are we to
do? Is the strength of the insurrec
tion to be the measure of our supine
ness or of our assertion?
There Is no way of knowing how the
Tillman party would govern the Fili
pinos if they were in control of our
Government, except by observing how
they govern the nen-wK Wa i,,..
how South Carolina treats offenses of
rapine and violence, such as the Ba
tanzas Insurrectos nemptrnto h
shoots them on sight, she .burns them
at tne stake. She says that the white
man of brains and character must rule
the ignorant and vicious black, but it
revolts her that so stern a rule should
be enforced in the Phillnnines. Tiiimar.
essays the curious subterfuge that it is
aggression In the one case and self-protection
in the other. It l nothing nr a
sort Our sovereignty is as regular In
Luzon as Tillman's Is in South Caro
lina. The one thing this country will never
do In the Philippines is- what the antls
seem to be groping after. They want
us to maintain the Independence of the
Philippines and let the Filipinos enjoy
it That Is the one thing we" shall never
do. They can be independent, and if
they are we shall exert ourselves no
more on their behalf than we did for
Madagascar or should do for New
Guinea. Theycan remain under our pro
tection, and then they will recognize
and submit to our authority. One of
these two things, and no third. We
shall enforce our sovereignty there and
treat rebellion just as we treat It In
South Carolina or Chicago, or else we
shall sail away. leave them their Inde
pendence and let them maintain it
against the world.
HISTORIC CO.VSTITUTIOXAIi ISSUE.
Senator Cullom In debate yesterday
renewed the old question whether or not
the House has any right to be consid
ered as part of the treaty-making
power. The question was violently dis
cussed when the Jay treaty with Great
Britain came before the Senate for rati
fication In the second term of President
Washington. The Legislatures of cer
tain states where the Jeffer&in in-nc h-t.i
power adopted resolutions disapproving
this treaty.
In Washington's own state, Virginia,
efforts were made to pass resolutions
against it, but they were defeated
through the influence of John Marshall.
In one state it was proposed to amend
the Constitution so as to require the
concurrence of the House of Representa
tives in making treaties, which was the
Jeffersonlan doctrine of Democracy.
When the treaty came before Congress
the point was raised and argued at
some length whether the assent of the
House was essential to the obligation of
a treaty, and whether the President had
a right to negotiate a ireaty of com
merce. A resolution offered by the cele
brated lawyer, Edward Livingston, of
New York, requesting of the President
a copy of his Instructions to Mr. Jay,
the correspondence and other docu
ments relating to the treaty, provoked
further discussion of the right of the
House to refuse the means of carrying
the treaty into effect
The opponents of the treaty adopted
the resolution, but President Washing
ton -firmly refused to grant the request
of the House. Subsequently the House
resisted the appropriation to carry the
treaty into effect It was upon the de
bate in the House growing out of the
Jay treaty that Fisher Ames, of Mas
sachusetts, earned his great reputation
as an orator. The House continued to
discuss the subject to the end of the
session, but finally the Administration
triumphed and the appropriations for
the Jay treaty were made after a sharp
and long-continued discussion, upon an
almost purely sectional vote, but four
members from all the states south of the
Potomac supporting the resolution. Dur
ing the discussion of the Jay treaty the
great questions at stake were argued
in tlie newspapers of the day by Ham
ilton. Jay, Gouvcrneur Morris, Madi
son, Rufus King, John Quincy Adams
and others.
The provisions of the Constitution in
regard to the treaty-making power, the
power to establish postroads and to pro
vide for the common defense, are ques-
tlons upon which public men have dif
fered ever since the adoption of the
Constitution. Northern statesmen have
as j rule taken a latltudinarlan view
of the provisions referred to, but South
ern statesmen have been strict construc
tionists on all questions arising under
sections 8 and 10 of article 1 of the Constitution.
NEGROES AT THE XORTH.
The Boston Herald takes the position
that it Is not yet expedient to admit
colored boys to West Point The Her
ald is right to this extent, that a col
ored boy who entered West Point would
have a dismal life as a cadet, and a
dismal life probably as an Army offi
cer. Every negro who has entered West
Point has been made to feel the power
of the aristocracy of skin, even when
his conduct was without reproach.
There Is but one colored graduate of
West Point In the Army today, and it
Is probable that the color line Is en
forced against him, except In situa
tions where military discipline and gov
ernment forbid it The lot of such an
officer, even when he Is a soldier of
ability and character, cannot be a
happy one. A critic of the Herald has
this to say in the Springfield Republi
can:
If the Harvard college class of J002. with all
that is alleged against that institution as being
the college for rich men, etc.. can set caste
aside, as It were, and select a colored graduate
to nil one of the highest positions when tho
class graduates next June, as It has, I fall to
ceo how any modern newspapers here at tho
North can claim that it is not expedient to
have a section of our population numbering
0.000.000 represented at that home of snobs,
West Point.
It is not pretended, we presume, by
the Herald that there should be any
legal obstacle to a colored boy's becom
ing a West Point cadet It only sug
gests that at present It would not be
wisdom for a colored boy to avail him
self of the privilege. There Is no proper
comparison between Harvard College
and a military school like West Point,
but while that Harvard College class
will elect a negro class-day orator, It
nevertheless enforces the color line In
daily social and business life after it
leaves college. An educated colored
man. Harvard College graduate, can
not get any employment among hl3
white peers in Intelligence and culture.
No mercantile house wants him; no law
yer's office wantshlm; no doctor wants
him as a pupil or prospective partner.
The South with keen sarcasm says
that Boston will applaud the negro
valedictorian at Harvard commence
ment, Is willing to give the colored
graduate of Harvard everything except
the very thing he wants after leaving
Harvard, viz., work. When he wants
a situation on a level with his educa
tion and his culture, the colored Har
vard graduate, is told to go South and
teach a negro school or fill a negro
pulpit, or heal the negro sick.
Unlted States Senator Allison Is 73
years of age. He entered the Senate
in 1873, after having previously served
eight years In the House, and will there
fore have completed thirty-six years of
Senatorial service by the end of the
term for which he has recently been
chosen, and his entire legislative service
at Washington will by that time have
covered forty-four years. The late Jus
tin S. Morrill served over forty-three
consecutive years at Washington, in
cluding twelve years in the House.
Thomas H. Benton served thirty con
secutive years In the Senate. John
Sherman entered Congress in 1S61,
served nearly thirty years in the Sen
ate, but his Senatorial service was
broken one' term by his golnjifinto the
Cabinet of President Hayes. Ex-United
States Senator Dawes, of Massachu
setts, served eighteen years' in the
House and eighteen years in the Senate.
Senator Allison will probably live to
complete his new term. He has always
belonged to the "Don't Worry Club,"
has always been a mere perfunctory
Senator, has taken excellent care of his
health, but he has won no title to the
rank of statesman. He was always a
trimmer on finance; he never tried to
teach the West the gospel of sound
money; he acquiesced In the silver
craze so far as to help frame the first
silver act, known as the Bland-Allison
bill of 1877; he never was for the gold
standard until the whole party had de
clared for it. He has never been a
leader, but a follower. He has been
nothing but a good family horse in the
party corral. Anybody could drive him
without ditching the team. Nobody
could whip him out of a jog trot He
has always been a strict party man;
never a leader, a teacher an agitator,
an Independent' thinker. He has never
been a positive force In National leg
islation; his name has never been iden
tified with any great public measure
of political or financial reform: ho has
not been cbnsricuous even as a vigorous
opponent of vicious party measures. He
has simply sought to take good care of
his personal health and happiness, and
to watch vigilantly his political fences
In Iowa and see that they were kept In
a good state of perernial repair.
The name of Wheatcn I3 honorably
associated with the arduous and dan
gerous service of the American Army
by which the newer West was opened
up to social and political advancement.
The region of Idaho was part of the
territory thus redeemed, and every man
who finds home and fortune there owes
a debt of gratitude, or at least of re
spect, to those who labored and dared
in this hard service. And vet ther i
exposed to the world the spectacle of a
Senator from Idaho so forgetful of the
obligations of his state, of his obliga
tlon as a citizen of that state, and so re-
gardless of common decency, as to sneer
at General Wheaton as a "charity boy."
General Wheaton Is not Injured by this
snarl; men of his kind stand Immune
from the venom of creatures of the
Dubois kind. The latter, by his vulgar
characterization of a gallant soldier,
simply exposes the grossness of his own
mind and manners and puts himself In
universal contempt' Fortunately for
Idaho, Dubois, Senator though he be
through the trlckerles of politics. Is no
fair specimen of her manhood. If he
were, it might reasonably be wished
that the service rendered by the "char
ity boys" of the Army for her redemp
tion had been withheld and that the
country had been left to the siwashes
and the coyotes.
We have already done a good deal for
the Philippines. We have established
supreme and lower courts, and a police
and constabulary force of GOOO; we have
Increased the receipts and decreased the
expenditures; we have enrolled 150,000
children in the public schools: we have
set to work 1000 American and nearly
4000 native school teachers: we haw pr-
tabllshed agricultural and industrial
schools; we have a night school In Ma
nila whose enrollment has reached 25,
900; we are building roads there, one of
them to cost $1,000,000; we are improv
ing Manila Harbor at an expense of
$3,000,000; we are buying the 403.000
acres of land owned by the friars and
reselling It to the people on easy terms;
we have nearly 57,000,000 in the Island
treasury to help meet the outlays for
Improvements. We have 40,000',000 acres
of the most valuable timber lands In
the world. Some day we shall think
we made as good a bargain when we
paid $20,000,000 for the Philippines as
when we bought Alaska for $7,000,000.
' The statement of Bishop Choppln, of
the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, who has Just returned from
an official trip to South Africa, corrobo
rates all recent testimony In regard to
the condition of the Boers and the status-l
of the war that Is being waged in the
Transvaal. The Boers, he says, "are
being gradually wiped off the earth. It
Is no longer war, but a process of slow
extermination." The worst feature in a
situation that Is entirely void of all
conditions which might be termed "bet
ter" Is that the beginning of the end Is
not In sight Pride and power rule the
Briton; stubbornness and fury the Boer.
"Neither," says Bishop Choppln, "will
give up." Extermination of the weaker
force In this bitter contention Is Inev
itable, unless the Boers rearrange their
code of courage In accordance with hu
manity and possible achievement, and
like brave men return to the ways of
peace, cast down, but not destroyed.
It Is a remarkable and not prepossess
ing ruling made by the Postoffice De
partment that Bryan's Commoner is
advertising, if not of merchandise, at
least of a "theory" or. "doctrine." This
far-fetched argument is wide of the
question and conceived in aslnlnlty.
Free copies of newspapers are not mall
able under the law at second-class or
pound rates. The law Is enforced Im
partially upon The Oregonlan and all
other newspapers. The pound rate Is
prescribed for regular subscriptions
only. There is no reason why Bryan's
paper should be made an exception to
the rule. Somebody has gratuitously
given the Nebraska demagogue a fine
opportunity to inveigh against the "ad
vertising" ruling, which he will un
doubtedly Improve, without a particle
of acknowledgment for the free "ad."
thus bestowed upon him In countless
columns of pure reading matter.
The assumption that Dalton Is less
guilty than Wade Is repugnant to every
well-balanced mind. Both the men were
principals In a murder. Dalton Is the
worse of the two, for in addition to the
original crime he exhibited the detest
able qualities of greed, and of perfidy
to his associate. Governor Geer stated
the case properly though he is de
nounced by persons of mental and moral
obliquity as "savagely cruel" for his
statement, and The Oretronian 1r de
nounced as "bloodthirsty" for Its ap
proval of it The number of this class
of minds fortunately is small, or crim
inals would multiply mightily.
The Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, of New York,
City, in his sermon at the Madison
Square Presbyterian Church last Sun
day, held that all souls are not immor
tal; that the soul must be taken care
of In this life, else it will perish utterly,
either at the death of the body or after
a longer or shorter period of the life
beyond the grave. There Is nothing
new in this view. Many thinkers have
expressed It Emerson In more than
one of his poems says that only hearts
that really love in this world ever have
any conscious life beyond the grave.
This is Emerson's thought, though not
his poetic expression.
It Is easy to see why Senator Bacon
wants the Congressional Record printed
in special edition for general circula
tion. This Is the last resource to ge
antl literature Into the hands of the peo
ple. The newspapers have given It up
long ago, and stand for the Govern
ment. His request may be granted, but
it will fall of its purpose. In the hearts
of the masses, resistance to the author
ity of the United States will get small
sympathy.
The usual number of coasting acci
dents, more or less serious, are reported
as a result of this unusual sport In the
Willamette Valley. There have as yet
been no fatalities, but several ampu
tations are In prospect as the result of
broken bones. The young people of this
section enter Into this sport with more
zeal than discretion. They should tem
per their spl?its to meet their lack of
experience In coasting.
The Introduction of manufacturing in
the South is bringing about quite an
immigration from the North, which
goes almost exclusively Into the eitip
and manufacturing villages. The South
Is exhibiting a growth In numbers of
people equal to that of the North, large
ly due to this considerable Northern
migration southward.
The members of the Chamber of Com
merce who do not desire their opinions
reported on the pilotage and towage
conditions at the mouth of the Colum
bia River show forth an anomaly sure
ly. Their opinions, If worth the sound
of words, are worth printing. If they
are not worth printing, are they worth
the sound of words?
Executions should be conducted at
state penitentiaries. This Is the rule
In New York, Maryland and Califor
nia. It conduces to decency and moral
ity. Who will be the man to carry this
reform Into law In Oregon? Who in
Washington?
Special policemen are' working the
hobos up for registration. Everybody
knows In what interest thin work 13
done. It Is a mongrel registration
black spirits and white, blue spirits and
gray. There will be a story about It
presently.
The Navy Department has the com
fort of knowing that all this furor over
Schley Is Its own creation. The people
are answering the department's attitude
quite as much as they are lauding
Schley probably a good deal more so.
Mr. Carnegie's remarks on the barbar
ity of killing men In war would be more
complete If they had included his views
on the propriety of killing miners at
Homestead with Pinkertona.
The St Paul Globe has a powerful
article on "The Curse of Railroad Com
petition." The Globe Is one of the mul
tifarious properties of Mr.- James J.
HilL
If you desire to have anything to do
with politics, you must register In time
for the primaries. Register now, for
there will be a rush soon.
THE LAW AT FAULT.
The contention of "Citizen" that the ex
isting municipal charter provides ail that
Is necessary In the way of legal mach
inery for the making of a good street
system Is not confirmed by the testimony
of those who have official authority to
speak in the matter. Whatever doubt
may heretofore have existed as to the
validity of the charter is now removed.
So much has been settled by decision of
the United States Supreme Court, but
that does not wholly cover the case. The
trouble is that the provisions of the char
ter relating to streets are defective In
that they do not put Into the hands of the
municipal authorities a sufficient measure
of positive authority. Authority to Ini
tiate projects of Improvement limited by
the veto power of 50 per cent of the prop
erty directly affected, amounts In many
Instances to just no authority at all. The
sentiment favoring the making and main
taining of good streets Is universal so
long as the work to be done Is around
the corner and the assessment to pay for
It Is upon somebody else, but when the
tax comes home to the individual pocket
there Is protest nine times out of 10. No
body ever heard of a large street project
here without protest and a fight in con
nection with it.
And who shall say there Is no reason or
justice In the objections made by property-holders
to paying for costly street
work which may bo of no special advan
tage to them, or at least not more to
them than to the general public? Take
Washington street, for example, where in
the past 20 years two or more costly im
provements have been made: Who docs
not know that the owners of Washlngton
atreet property have been compelled to
provide a thoroughfare for a large pro
portionprobably 60 per cent of the gen
eral east and west traffic of the whole
city, a traffic which. In large part, belongs
normally to other streets, and which has
been of no value to the owners of Washington-street
property? A general im
provement of east and west streets by
which the traffic would have been divided
naturally and fairly among them would
have been just all round; but when Wasn
Ington alone has been Improved, It has
had the effect of bringing to it all' the
traffic which naturally seeks the best
thoroughfare, and the general effect has
been to overburden the street and speedily
to wear out the pavement for which the
owners of abutting property have paid.
It has come practically to this, that the
owners of property on Washington street
have had to provide a thoroughfare for
the convenience of the whqle city. There
is no justice In this. What Is for the gen
eral public convenience and benefit ought
to be paid for by the public; and there
should be no surprise when the holders of
property which It is proposed to tax for
street construction in which they have
only a community Interest rise up to ob
struct the proceeding.
But whether It be for a good reason or
a bad one, there is certain to be a pro
test more or less strenuously urged in
every case, for, wherever It Is proposed lo
lay a tax, no matter for what purpose,
there will be some who do not wish to
pay. The effect, of course, Is to discour
age the officials and to limit the business
of street improvement Municipal officers
who get their-places by popular election,
and who more than likely are looking to
re-election, are. rarely willing to face con
tention and are naturally much more In
clined to yield the point when protest is
positive than to push ahead in tho gen
eral interest, In spite of opposition and
the enmities which It creates.. The result
Is what we have In the way of streets.
And, under the system which puts the
whole charge for construction and main
tenance upon the owner of abutting
property, and which puts In his hands a
power to veto, we are not likely soon to
get better.
The change In the law proposed by the
makers of the projected charter Is good,
so far as It goes, but it seems doubtful if
It goes far enough to provido an efficient
street system. Summarized, the proposed
law Is as follows:
Council may initiate street improvements,
CO 2-3 per cent remonstranco required to stop
Improvement.
City to keep streets in repair for definite
period (to be stated In ordinance) after once
improved. Council Judge of kind of street
improvement
Amount of levy for street repair fund three
fourths of a mill, and all revenue derived
from licensing vehicles to go to street repair
fund. Council may transfer from general fund.
This recognizes the Interest of the city
in the streets to an extent, and Its obli
gation In the matter of their maintenance,
but It does nothing toward relieving the
owner from any part of the first cost or
the work. It takes out of his mouth one
argument, as above set forth In relation
to Washington street,, and It goes further
than the old law In limiting privilege or
protest, but It Is hardly calculated to
modify his attitude of fixed opposition to
any project which proposed to go deep
and Immediately Into his pocket. Under
this new plan, as In times past the owner
of abutting property will be not an Ini
tiator and promoter of street work, but a
steady nnd determined obstructionist. Thn
new rule, while better In some respects-
man tne oia, win, like tne old. hold Port
land in the all-Important matter of street
work to a policy of delay and of cheap de
vicesto something better than we have
In the way of streets, but, we fear, not
much better. Well meant as it Is. It Is.
nevertheless, a law poorly calculated to
combat obstruction on the part of property-holders
and Inertia and timidity on
the part of public officials.
Jnnticc to Portland.
Pendleton East Oregonlan.
Again and again It is necessary to remind
people that he who is Just wins in the long
run. In the discussion of the opening .of tho
Columbia River to more extensive navigation,
many newspapers are prone to do Portland In
justice. They are lending themselves to the
u$o of tho enemies of the Columbia River and
aiding those who would prevent the recogni
tion of that great waterway by the Federal
Government
Doubtless In all sincerity, and yet with ap
parent failuro to understand the Issues in
volved, the Dayton Courier-Press prints a col
umn editorial in which Portland Iir accused of
emphasizing too much the improvement of the
mouth of the river, so as to make it carry 40
feet of water for deepest sea-going vessels. It
Is necessary only to read the petition sent out
by the Portland Chamber of Commerce for
signatures throughout this region (It appears
upon page C of this Issue) to convlnco one
that Portland's efforts nre going for the recog
nition of both upper and lower river, and most
students of the problem believe thin to bo the
only plan likely to carry itself through the
dangers of Federal legislation, and effectually
offset the attacks made upon the Columbia by
its persistent enemies.
In Three Syllables.
Providence Journal.
President Roosevelt's name has been
variously pronounced by his fcllow-cltl-zens,
so that It is gratifying to have an
authoritative statement on the subject
Editor Buckley, of the Christian Advo
cate, some time ago wrote Mr. Roosevelt
about It and In due season received the
following reply:
My Dear Sir; My name is pronounced in
three syllables, the first syllable being pro
nounced llko "Rose." the flower.
We should all thereforn tak mm nnt
to say "Rosevelt" "Roosevelt" or "Roo?-e-velt"
"Rose-e-velt" Is right, and the
others are wrong.
KIPLING'S NEW POEM.
Rudyard Kipling's latest poem, which
has ' attracted the attention of the world
because of Its bitter indictment of stay-at-home
Englishmen, is here reprinted
from the London Times In full. It car
ries this Introduction:
Early in January 2000 . . . are to be
enlisted and mobilized. . . . The men are
to be sent to Aldershot in batches of GOO for
eight weeks' training.
So the Cape government asked the
Colonel to come home and secure suitable men
for his regiment
... Any form of compulsory service
being Impossible among a free people.
. . 172S head of game falling to four
guns. Thanks to careful and scientific atten
tion, the moors were never In better con
dition. Dally Press.
My fifteen months out here have
made roe fairly keen on compulsory service for
all England. It Is simply awful that after two
years you send us out men who have to be
taught to shoot and ride. It's like expecting &
board school boy to play In a county eleven.
Private Letter.
Fenced by your careful fathers, ringed by your
leaden seas,
Long did ye wake in quiet, and long lie down
at ease;
Till ye said of Strife: "What is It?" Of the
Sword: "It la far from our ken;"
Till ye made a sport of your shrunken hosts
and u toy of your armed men.
To stopped your ears to tho warning ye would
neither look nor heed
Ye set your leisure before their toll, and your
lusts above their need.
Because of your witless learning and your
beasts of warren and chase
Te grudged your sons for their service and
your fields for their camping place.
Ye forced them glean in the highways the
straw for the bricks they brought;
Ye forced them follow in byways the craft that
ye never taught.
Ye hindered and hampered and crippled; ye
thrust out of sight and away
Those that would serve you for honor and those
that served you for pay.
Then were the Judgments loosened; then was
your shame revealed.
At the hands of a little people, few but apt in
tne neia.
Yet ye were saved by a remnant (and your
land's long-suffering Star),
When your strong men chceered in their mill
ions while your striplings went to the war.
Sons of the sheltered city unmade, unhandled,
unmeet
Ye pushed them raw to the battle as ye picked
them raw from the street.
And what did ye look they should compass?
War craft learned In a breath?
Knowledge unto occasion at the first far view
of Death?
So! And ye train your horses and the dogs ye
feed and prize.
How are the beasts more worthy than the
eouls you sacrifice?
But ye said. "Their valor shall show them";
but ye said, "The end is close";
And ye sent them comfits and pictures to help
them harry your foes.
And ye vaunted your fathomless power and ya
flaunted your iron pride
Ere yo fawned on the Younger Nations for
the men who could shoot and ride!
Then ye returned to your trinkets; then ye con
tented your souls
With the flanneled fools at the wicket or the
muddled oafs at the goals.
Given to strong delusion, wholly believing a
11a
Ye saw that the land lay fenceless and ye let
the months go by;
Waiting some easy wonder, hoping some sav
ing sign
Idle openly Idle In the lee of the forespent
Line.
Idle except for your boasting, and what Is
your boasting worth
If ye grudge a year of service to the lordliest
life on Earth?
Ancient, effortless, ordered, cycle on cycle set
Life so long untroubled that ye who Inherit
fnrpet
It was not made with the mountains; it la not
one with the deep.
Men, not gods, devised it. Men, not gods, must
keep.
Men. not children, servants or kinsfolk called
from afar,
But each man born in the island broke to the
matter of war.
Soberly and by custom taken and trained for
the same;
Each man born In the Island entered at youth
to the game
As It were almost cricket, not to be mastered
In haste.
But after trial and labor, by temperance, liv
ing chaste.
As It were almost cricket as It were even
your play
Weighed and pondered and worshiped and
practiced day on day.
So ye shall bide sure-guarded when the restless
lightnings wake
In the womb of the blotting war-cloud and the
pallid nation quaice.
So, at the haggard trumpets, Instant your soul
shall leap
Footrlght full-harnessed, accepting alert from
the wells of sleep.
So at the threat ye shall summon so at the
need ye shall send
Men, not children or servants, tempered and
taught to the end;
Cleansed of service panic, slow to dread or de
spise. Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sac
rifice. But ye say: "It will mar our comfort" Ye
say: "It will minlsh our trade."
Do ye wait for the spattered shrapnel ere ye
learn how a run is laid?
For the low red glare to southward when the
raided coast towns burn?
(Light ye shall have on that lesson, but little
time to learn.)
Will ye pitch some white pavilion, and lustily
even'the odds
With nets and hoops and mallets, with racquets
and bats and rods?
Will the rabbit war with your foemen the ret-
deer horn them, for hire?
The kept cock-pheasant keep you? He is mas
ter of many a shire.
Arid, aloof, incurious, unthinking, unthanklng,
gelt
Will. ye loose your schools to flout them till the
browbeat columns melt?
Will ye pray them or preach them or print
them or ballot them back from your
chore?
Will your workmen Isiue a mandate to bid
them strike no more?
Will ye rise and dethrone your rulers? (Be
cause ye were idle both.
Pride by insolence chastened? Indolence purged
by sloth?)
No doubt but ye are the people; who shall
make you afraid?
Also your god3 are manr; no doubt but your
gods shall aid.
Idols of greasy altars built for the spirit's
ease;
Proud little brazen Baals and talking fetishes;
Tcraphs of sept and party and wise wood
pavement gods
These shall come down to the battle and snatch
you from under the rods?
From the gusty flickering gun-roll with view
less salvoes rent,
And the pitted- hall of the bullets that tell not
whence they were sent.
When ye are ringed as with Iron, when ye are
scourged as with whips.
When the meat is yet in your belly and the
noast is yet on your lips;
When ye go forth at morning and the noon be
holds you broke
Ere ye lie down at even, your remnant, under
the yoke.
No doubt but ye are the people absolute,
strong and wise;
Whatever your heart has dssired ye have not
withheld from your eyes.
On your own heads, in your owo-iiands. the sin
and the saving lies!
Morgan Onght to Know.
Louisville -Courier-Journal.
Senator Morgan voices general opinion
when he says that the Panama proposi
tion is intended to delay the construction
of any canal, and that If we should ac
cept It we should simply accept goods
that cannot be delivered. But Senator
Morgan's opinion on this matter Is worth
more than general opinion, for he has
made It a special study for years; his
knowledge of it Is exhaustive, and his
disinterestedness as unquestioned as his
devotion to the consummation of the long
dreamed Idea of an lt3hmlan canal, it
will be a shame If. when everything at
last seemed ripe for the construction of
this great enterprise, the project of the
Panama lobby should be permitted to in
definitely defeat It
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Now, don't you wish you had cleaned
off your walk?
Croker says he wants to be burled in
New York. Wasn't he?
The Senate ought to submit to an opera
tion for the removal of Tillman.
Prince Henry thinks he will see the
country and he Isn't coming to Oregon!
The Weather Department holds out a
cheering promise of three or four days of
slush.
Dr. Parkhurst Is opposed to Mayor Low.
Post election opposition, however, doesn't
count
In the bright lexicon of the civilized In
dians there Is no such expression as "bar
ber us."
Buffalo Bill is also going to cut oft his
hair. Now let the patent medicine doc
tors fall in line.
Schley Is going to Kentucky, and poets
will have to suspend rhyming his name
with do for a time.
If the mouth of the Columbia did not use
so much water, one or two bartenders
might help It along a little.
Whenever Englishmen get chesty, one
of Kitchener's reports Is worth three "Re
cesslonals" to get their eyes open.
If 'Maclay had made his accusations In
a historical novel, no one would have
thought of expecting them to be accurate.
The Boers say they can end the war at
any time. So do the British, but neither
seem to want to.
Spain Is talking of having a revolution.
Perhaps one side or the other would llko
to borrow Funston and Dewey.
As soon as Admiral Schley gets to tho
osculation stage It will be time for hl3
managers to cancel the rest of his dates.
It Is to be hoped that William Allen
White did not take to his bed because of
the unkind things Senator Piatt said
about him.
Some say Dalton has sore throat and
somo say he has pneumonia. But hang
ing, deserved as In this case, will prove
a sure cure for either.
Of course, Prince Henry will want to go
out on Broadway and shoot into a herd
of buffalo, and kill an Indian or two be
fore breakfast every morning.
The manager of a Berlin cafe recently
engaged some 14 or 15 waiters on condition
that they shaved off their mustaches. On
being paid off, however, the waiters In a
body demanded some equivalent for their
sacrificed hirsute adornment, and after a
long discussion the manager consented to
allow a couple of dollars for each claim
ant America leads in the matter of women
practicing medicine. The first was Eliza
beth Blackwell, who graduated as physi
cian In 1S49. Three years later there
were six In Philadelphia. In 18S9 there
were 3000 women doctors In the United
States; in ISStJ there were 4555, and now
there are probably 6000, some of whom
have a very lucrative practice.
In Prussian towns of over 50,000 Inhab
itants the millionaires were distributed as
follows, according to tho 1899 assessment:
Berlin, 1306; Frankfort-on-the-Maln, 447;
Cologne, 217; Charlottenburg, 191; Dussel
dorf, 151; Wiesbaden, 143; Breslau, 101;
Hanover, 95; Alx la Chapelle, 92; Magde
burg. 89; Elberfeld, SO; Halle, 50; Crefold,
44; Dortmund, 41; Essen, 34; Cassel, 34;
Konlgsberg, 30. The millions are of marks,
so that it takes only ?23O,O0O to be a Prus
sian millionaire.
'Mrs. Benjamin Harrison has taken her
place as the unquestioned leader of society
In Indiana. Her home in Indianapolis
Is the gathering place of the wits, the
brains and the Influence of the Hoosler
state. Her library, collected by General
Harrison during hl3 illustrious career of
more than 40 years In public life, is the
most complete and valuable private col
lection west of the Hudson River. At her
death It Is to be divided among General
Harrison's children. Mrs. Harrison is a
patron of music and literature.
They'll Take Em Into Court.
(Indians hero will pay no attention to the
order that they must cut off their hair and
cease wearing variegated blankets. If the au
thorities attempt to enforce the order the In
dians will take case into the courts. News
dispatch from Pendleton, Or.)
No more the red man
flourishes
His torch and toma
hawk And paints his skin and
sallies forth
To slay both men and
stock.
He's found such way
too crude by far
And it too oft aborts;
Hereafter all bis griev
ances He'll take into the
courts.
When greedy white men
grab his lands
And drive his game
away.
Mny It Plciie anti Drcak his laws
the Court. The inaian wju SAyl
"I shall proceed against youjn
Assumpsit, trover, tort.
Or any old way you may choose
To argue it in court.
"The way we once considered meet
To punish such as you
13 quite without efflclency
In nineteen hundred two.
Our savage hearts wera bent upon
Revenge of cruel sort.
But e could never harry folks
As does your legal court.
"Our right to blankets and to hair.
To topees or to tents.
To dogs, papooses, squaws and land.
With hereditament?,
. We shall assert, proclaim, defend,
Until our breath gets short.
Weil do the worst we can to you
Weil get you into court."
The war whoop and tne scalping knife
Are rusting in ropo3e.
No war paint Is in evidence
Save on the red man's nose.
He is a fellow citizen
Of very captious sort.
And if you bat an eye at him
He'll take It into court. J. M. I.
Winter Drenm..
(Frank Dempster Sherman, In February At
lantic.) Deep lies the snow on wood and fields;
Gray stretches overhead the sky;
The streams, their lips of laughter sealed.
In silence wander slowly by.
Earth slumbers, and her. dreams who knowa
But they may sometimes be Ilka ours?
Lyrics of Spring in Winter's prose
That sing of buds and leaves and flowers,
Dreams of that day when from the South
Comes April, as at first she came.
To hold the bare twig to her mouth
And blow it Into fragrant flame.
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