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THE MORNING OKEGONIAN, THURSDAY, -MARCH 27, 1902. Entered at the rnstofflc at Portland, Oresen, as necond-elars matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mall (postage prepaid. In Advano Dally, with Sunday. per month $ 85 Sally. Sunday excepted, per year 7 50 Sally, with Sunday, per year W Sunday, per year - f Jju The Weekly, per year , The Weekly. 3 month To City Subscriber Sally, per week, delivered. Sundays excepted.lBc Sally, per week, delivered. Sundays InclndecUzOo POSTAGE RATES. United States. Canada and Mexico: " 10 to 14-page paper .............Ic 14 to 2S-page paper c Foreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan," not to the name of any individual. Letters relating to adver tising subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan. The Oregonlan 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 Office. 43. 44. 45, 47. 48, 49 Tribune building. New York City: 409 "TV Rookery." Chicago: the S. C. Beckwltb special agency. Eastern representative. For sale in San Francisco by L. E. Lee. Pal ace Hotel news stand; Goldsmith Bros., 23C Sutter rtreet; F. W. Pitts, 100S Marfcet street: J. K. Cooper Co.. 746 Market street, near the Palace Hotel: Foster & O'rear. Ferry news etand. For eale !n Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner, 259 So. Spring street, and Oliver & Haines, 305 So. Spring street. For sale In Sacramento by Sacramento New Co.. 429 K street. Sacramento. CaL For sale In Chicago by the P. O. News Co., 217 Dearborn street, and Charles MacDonald, 53 Washington street. " "" For sale In Omaha by Barkalow Bros., 1012 Farnam street. , For sale In Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co., 77 W. Second South street. For sale in New Orleans by A. C. rbelps, COO Commercial Alley. For sale In Ogden by W. C. Kind. 204 Twen-ty-lifth rtreet. 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 eale In Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck. 00C-912 Seventeenth street; Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co.. 15th and Lawrence streets; A. Series. 1053 Champa street. TODAY'S WEATHER Partly cloudy, with pocslbly occasional light local rains; westerly winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature. 51; minimum temperature, 39; pre cipitation. 0.01 Inch. PORTLAND, THURSDAY, MARCH 27. BTARM IX MORE WAYS THAN ONE. Pacific University Is looking for a president. It is the common occupation of many small colleges throughout the country and of some Institutions of the age and standing of Amherst and Dart mouth. College presidents' constitute -one of the rare branches of unorganized labor in which the demand always ex ceeds the supply. It Is not a condition to gratify the statesman or moralist, for higher education Is not one of the things we like to think of as Imperfectly equipped with either men or money. "Where are the men who ought to be at the head of these institutions of learning? The output of educators Is large, for every university lo grinding on full blast and the means to afford study and to hire teachers were never so general as now. The answer is that the men needed are filling professor ships in the great universities, attracted by better pay and the opportunities for original research. No teacher, any more than a minister, can be impervious to financial considerations. His family for most of them have families, and very worthy ones, too claims the best support and education he can give to It. But this probably does not move the teacher who is also a student eo much as does the chance which the university gives him for professional growth, and which the small college denlea Neither in science nor In the literary and his torical field can the ambitious student advance in usefulness and reputation without laboratories and libraries. If he is a biologist, chemist, astronomer or natural philosopher, he must haye appliances. If he wants to write books or become an authority in literature, language, history or economics, he must have books all the books on his sub ject. The astronomer must have his lens, the biologist his complete cabi net, the .historian his original manu scripts. Who at Forest Grove or "Walla "Walla is going to discover a star or measure a nebula? "Who will write a history of Oregon that IS new and fresh, unless he can pore over the Lewis and Clark manuscripts at Philadelphia and gain access to the Hudson's Bay records in London and Montreal? The mischief of these great universi ties made over night by questionably acquired fortunes in the hands of Stan ford or Rockefeller lies' in thlB sacrifice of the small college. Great wealth and great ambition lays its hands on these struggling but indispensable institutions and carries off their best men to the ijreat cities, whither the youth must go to find them. The result is multiformly bad. A great city Is not the best place for the young person to be reared, espe cially when he or she Is far from home at the critical formative period of life. Many of our best and brightest men cannot afford the great university. They raustattend the near-by school and they ruffer and the community suffers by every sacrifice that Is made In the qual ity of the men who train them. Educa tionally speaking, the small college is the salt of the earth. There, near his home, the youth must be trained. There, In close contact with his teachers, he 'must imbibe not only the learning but the principles of high thought and hon orable action which constitute the uni versity's true service to society.' There Js nothing harder In thl9 world than to take ni-gotten gains and dis burse them fpr good. The equipment at Chicago, .with which John D. Rockefel ler dazzles the world of college teachers rnd pupils, affords small atonement for the wrongs upon rivals and consumers with which Standard Oil has wrung its millions from the masses, and even In Ills spasms of philanthropy he sets In motion influences of evil to the farthest bounds of the land, where the small college, wrestles with debt and dimin ished faculty. The libraries which Mr. Carnegie scatters ostentatiously about as a iprinceling throws pennies to a crowd of beggars, do not wipe out any one of the sad memories of Homestead or mitigate the injustice of the tribute levied by the tariff on consumer to fill his swollen coffers; and while they set thousands at devouring the latest novel, they discredit and discourage that spirit of independent and zealous poverty. In which Franklin and Lincoln and Stanton and Henry Clay earned their own books and with nothing free and through hard knocks gained strength for the battles of life. It" Is a dangerous thing to cast a shadow on the welfare of the small col lege. Yet It is an incident of the great benefactions with which our million aires hope to atone for the manner .of the acquisition-of their 'enormous for tunes. It a a fitting fruit to gather from such a tree. MANUFACTURERS FOR. TARIFF RE FORM. There Is reason To believe ( that the strenuous efforts made by Republican leaders to keep the tariff unmolested are. not actually In the Interest of the protected manufacturers, as pretended, but are due to a desire on the part of those leaders to perpetuate the threat of free trade as a .means of scaring the manufacturers Into continued support of the Republican- party. This Is the conclusion we draw from a remarka ble symposium of letters frorq manu facturers, obtained by the American Machinist at its own request. The evi dence is the Machinist's, the deduction is purely our own; but it seems to be Justified by the facts, and If It is true, the sacred cause of protection Is cer tainly In a very perilous situation. A certain kind of tariff reform all manufacturers are understood to favor. If they can have reciprocity treaties which will reduce the duties they have to pay at foreign ports, with corre sponding reductions here on Imports that compete with other lines of home manufacture, but not with their own, then they are agreeable to that kind of tariff reform. But when proposed reduction of duties menaces protection on their own products, they rebel. That is, we hav been given to understand that they rebel. Our protectionist statesmen have Incessantly put out the Idea that the tariff must be untouched because of the anxious desires of the American manufacturer. But suppose it should turn out that the American manufacturer is not such a timorous being1, after all, and that "If he can get cheaper raw material through reduction or abolishment of certain duties, he is willing to forego his present protection and compete on equal terms with the foreign manufacturer then what be comes of the plea of the high-tariff high priests that they are tenderly car ing for the American manufacturer and protecting American labor? The American Machinist asked the manufacturers of its acquaintance and clientele what they thought of Presi dent McKlnley's Buffalo speech, whether or not they now need protection, of the desirability of free- raw materials, and the effects of the tariff on foreign trade., Of the fifty-eight replies, thirty-eight unqualifiedly Indorse the passages re garding the necessity of reciprocity treaties taken from President McKln ley's last address at Buffalo, seven, in dorse them qualifiedly, and none disap prove of them. Thirty-four declare they need no tariff on their own prod ucts, and two say they do need it Forty-two would do away with or mod ify the present tariff on machine tools, while three say they would let It alone. Thirty-eight say that It does restrict our foreign trade in machinery, four think It does not. Twenty-four express the opinion that foreign workmen produce no more per wage unit than is. pro duced by American workmen, four de clare that the American workman pro duces more per wage unit, and one that the foreign workman produces most. Twehty-four think that free raw materi als would help foreign trade, seven think they would not.' "We have not the space to print all of the replies, or even those -most sug gestive and Impressive, utterances on the lack of longer need for protection on machinery and other goods now highly, protected. In another column on this page we reproduce extracts from some ofhem, and bespeak their careful read ing. They represent many lines of manufacture and Indicate a widespread conviction that the tariff on the goods represented Is .not only unnecessary, but positively damaging to business in the United Statea The Machinist's returns contain many more such letters, as well as some few from the minority that Is still kept In terror by Republican threats as to the dangers of free trade. It looks as If the American manu facturer had been grievously misrep resented and misjudged. The effort of our high-tariff statesmen is evidently to maintain the whole fabric of protection as a means of working the manufactur ers for support, in order, as they pre tend, to prevent the Democrats from bringing In free trade and ruining our Industries by wholesale. What is this but a species of blackmail? MILES AS A MARPLOT. General Miles' denunciation of the War Department's staff bill as confer ring upon the President the powers, of "a despot" sounds absurd enough when we remember that by the Federal Con stitution the President is' designated as the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy. It Is not remarkable that General Miles sliould have forgotten this fact, for Henry Watterson, In his speech at the Democratic banquet Mon day, appears to have forgotten It too, in his denunciation of the President for his official reprimand of the Lleu-tenant-General of the Army. President Polk, through Secretary of War Marcy, sharply reprimanded General Wlnfield Scott when he had "grown gray in the service." President Lincoln reprimand ed Generals McClellan, Meade, Hooker, Fremont and Hunter. The President, as the final reviewing officer of military courts, was In the strict execution of his constitutional duty when, on the appeal of Admiral Schley, he passed upon the findings of the court over which Ad miral Dewey presided. The folly of General Miles Is under standable, but the bitter denunciation of President Roosevelt by so able and Intelligent a man as Henry Watterson is surprising, for Watterson knows per fectly well that there Is nothing in the action of President Roosevelt In repri manding Miles whlchjs unlawful or un precedented; he knows, too, that the President of the United States In all Important military courts has not sel dom reviewed the findings at length and reversed or confirmed sthem when -they had become subject of bitter pub lic controversy. According to the Wash ington Post, at the time of the great railroad riots of 1894, General Miles, ln- stead of obeying President Cleveland's orders to proceed at once to Chicago, went-to Washington and tried to dis suade the President from doing his duty. He went to the White House and told the President and the Secretary of War that In his opinion United States troops ought not to be employed In the City of Chicago at that time. General Schofield, in his memoirs, says: No reply was made by the President or Sec retary of War to that expression of opinion, but the President approved xny further sug gestion that General Miles should return at once to his command. The General started by the first train, but could not reach Chi cago in time to meet the emergency. President Roosevelt was the first per son to recommend to Congress the adop tion of a general staff in the Army. It is this feature In the bill that General Miles so warmly opposes, so the criti cism by Miles of the purposes of the general staff provision apply directly to the President, whose recommendation Secretary Root followed when he had a general staff scheme drafted, end In corporated In the bill. In the early part of the present month General Miles asked the President to send him to the Philippines to succeed General Chaffee. The President's reply is reported to have been so scathing a rebuke that it makes the official reprimand formerly admin istered seem like a "compliment In com parison." The bill creating a general staff la a most Important measure of military reform, and provides that Gen eral Miles shall be chief of staff as long as he remains on the active list of the Army. TONNAGE AXD "WHEAT PJtICES. A ship was chartered In this port Monday to load wheat for Queenstown or Falmouth for orders at 25 shillings per ton. This vessel will load alongside of one or two other vessels which were chartered several months ago "to ar rive" at 33s 9d to 35s per ton. A year ago any of these ships could have se cured 40 shillings. Yesterday Walla Walla cargoes for prompt shipment were quoted In Liverpool at 28s 3d per quarter, and Walla Walla wheat In Portland at 64c and 65c per bushel. Walla Walla cargoes were quoted at exactly the same figures one year ago, but Walla Walla wheat In Portland a year ago was only 56 cents per bushel. These comparative figures show the ex tent to which, the wheat market is de pendent on ocean freights, and also show the tremendous risks that must be assumed by exporters ho finance the crop of th'ls big territory. Last August, when the crop'was be ing harvested, a Tacoma commercial or ganization passed a resolution demand ing that the exporters secure more tonnage. A Walla Walla paper took up the cry and accused the exporters of "standing In" with the shipowners to force freights up to extravagant figures. The Oregonlan came In for seme un merited criticism for printing both sides of the controversy, In order to show the matter In Its proper light. Rates were then ranging from 38s 9d to 42s 6d, wltfc anything like a free chartering move ment sure to send them well over 40 shillings for early 1902 loading. It was stated In this paper that rates were too high to warrant free chartering, and that' it was almost a certainty that more tonnage would be available than there would be wheat to fill It. The problem has worked out exactly as pre dicted. At no time In the season has there been anything like a shortage of, tonnage, and at no time In the season have the farmers In the Immediate vi cinity of Walla Walla been willing to sell their wheat on the basis warranted by freight rates quoted at the time when the Walla Walla paper was be laboring the exporters for not charter ing big fleets of ships. There Is more wheat held in the vicinity of Walla Walla than in any other section of the Pacific Northwest, and It cannot now be purchased on the basis of 25-shillIng freights. Ocean freights on wheat can never be controlled -by local conditions, but are governed by world-wide conditions. A depression Jn nitrate business on the west coast of South America will send a fleet of ships scurrying north for Wheat cargoes, and there Is an attendant break in wheat freights, A failure of the rice crop In the Orient also throws on the market a big lot of tonnage which must be assimilated by other parts of the world. The failure of the 'corn crop In the MIddJe West last Sum mer produced two factors of benefit for the Pacific Coast graingrowers. It not only left an Immense shortage in coarse grain, which caused a sympathetic rise In wheat, but it also threw on the freight market a big fleet of tramp steamers which in previous years de pended almost exclusively upon corn cargoes to keep them moving. Being crowded from the Atlantic, these, tramps steamed out to the Orient and thence across the Pacific for wheat, flour, lumber, or anything else that was offering. The tramp steamer has never been much of a favorite In Pacific Coast wheat business, and is used as a last resdrt As a freight regulator It Is a great factor, however, and it has forced sailers out of other trades and left them available for wheat business. High freights have played havoc with the profits of the exporters who took ships for late loading, but the man who has wheat to sell for a 33s 9d ship will re ceive the same price as Is paid the man who, sells for "the 25-shilllng ship. Just at present we have a surplus of tonnage and a shortage of cargo, and until there Is an equalization of these conditions low rates will prevail and the wheat growers profit accordingly. The demoralizing effect of nickel-ln-the-slot machines upon boys is a mat ter of common knowledge,, If not of record, In every city that has been swept by, this species of gambling within a few years past While pro prietors of these devices, and of places where they were operated. In many In stances accumulated large fortunes by running them, boys and youth have re ceived through this means pernicious training In the "get-somethlng-for-nothtng" school. These machines have been abolished by law In some states Montana among them though not with, out .a stubborn struggle which ended In the latter In the Supreme Court. It was shown In the investigation that re sulted In the passage of the law inter dicting them that as much as $50,000 had been made by one man In a city of that state of less than 15,000 Inhab itants, within tvyo years. The returns for the money were Intangible nothing, In fact hence the plea- of legitimate business could not be made to hold In favor of, this method of acquiring wealth. Still, had It not been for the fact that the gambling mania fostered by these machines extended so rapidly to boys and youth, It is doubtful whether legislators would have taken cognizance of the evil. This, according to -one officer of the law In Helena, be came .such a nuisance that It had to be stopped. As an Illustration of its de moralizing Influence, It was cited that some of the boys of that city who "worked and helped support their moth era before the- advent of the slot ma chines came habitually to lose all their earnings In them, while others would get up at 3 or 4 o'clock In the morning to sell papers and go home without a cent. One boy of 10 years lost his whole month's pay within a few hours after receiving It Clearly, the men of any community should protect the boys from a temptation to gamble at once so enticing and so demoralizing. A breeder of mischief, a promoter of vice, a waster of substance, it is inconcelva- J ble that this gambling device known as the slot machine should ever have been permitted to obtain a foothold In any self-respecting, law-abiding community. The subtlety of the device and the spe cious claim set up for it as an adjunct to business furnish the only possible explanation of this fact Officers of the United Mineworkers of America, headed by President Mitchell, are In conference at Shamokln for the purpose of averting. If possible, the threatened miners strike In the coal mines of Pennsylvania. The matter Is one In which large and, Indeed, vital Interests are Involved. The coal mln cra grievances are for the most part real enough, though many things that made their lot unbearable and led to former strikes have been eliminated by organization and legislation. The "com pany store," for example, that once ab sorbed at unconscionable prices the miners' wages from week to week and month to month, and 4eft always a. standing account against them, has been to a certain extent abolished, a weekly system , of payment has been Inaugurated with manifestly good re sults; hours of labor have been materi ally shortened, and methods of weigh ing coal, which formerly Involved more or less loss'to the mine operatives,'' have been to some extent corrected. The coal miner's life Is at best a hard one and his vocation Is a dangerous one. Though much has been done through the regulation and Inspection of mines to abate the dangers, and though the wage scale has been revised In their Interest and the pay system Improved, complaint is still made of hours. This, together with the demand that coal be weighed whenever practicable. Indicates at once the present basis of the miners' discontent and the manner in which the threatened strike can be avoided. The Civic Federation's efforts to settle the controversy deserve ao they will have J the wishes of every right-minded per sonfor their success. Farmers and dairymen who desire to be "In clover" will find profitable and Interesting reading In Dr. WIthycombe's address before the farmers' Institute held at Walker last week. Starting out with the statement that clover Is king of the forage plants, he proceeds to give in detail methods for securing a crop that will Justify all expectations of the royal qualities of this plant: The subject Is suggestive of sweet, golden butter, sleek cattle, busy bees and Sum mer air redolent with delightful odors: of substantial returns that will make the milkmaid's dream of a new gown a charming reality, put money In the farmer's purse and guarantee to his family In due time many of the luxuries as well as all the comforts of rural life. Clover Is a king whose extensive ac quaintance It is wise to cultivate and whese gracious favor It is easy, or at least not difficult, to secure. The eti quette of his court Is common sense and Industry is his servitor. This is flow ers', as becomes a disquisition upon clover. Dr. Wlthycombe Is, however, plain and matter-of-fact, and his pre sentment of methods whereby a clover crop may be assured will bear repeat ing: First Bow on Fall wheat land, not later than March 15, at the rate of six to eight pounds per acre, and not later than April ap ply land plaster at the rate of 50 to GO pounds per acre, sown broadcast. Second Plow the land In the Fall. In the Sprlns: work It up1 flne with a" disc harrow, and sow the seed about May 1, without any associate grain crop. This is undoubtedly tho best method to follow with our "worn-out" wheat lands. A careful count has been made of buffalo In Montana, which shows that, including the twenty-two that are pro tected from slaughter In Yellowstone Park, there Is'but a total of 220 of these animals In the state. The 'eastern part of Montana was, relatively, a few years ago the home of great herds of buffalo, but, with proverbial American waste fulness, they have been exterminated. With the exception of the little herd that ha3 found shelter In Yellowstone Park, none of the few now remaining roam at will, but all are kept In lnclos ures to protect them from uuntera While the passing of the buffalo was perhaps scheduled by Nature, 'It was pushed "to an untimely conclusion first by the Insane desire of a certain type of men to kill every wild creature that they can overtake, and latterly by the occupation of tho great plains by set tlers and stockralsers. After all, It Is but another demonstration of the sur vival of the fittest, which in this In stance may be rendered the "survival of the most useful." The managers of the Charleston Fair announce that April 9 will be "Presi dent's day" at the Ivory City, and that a feature of the occasion will be the presentation of a beautiful sword to Major Jenkins by hl3 fornfer chief of the Rough Riders, from the people of South Carolina. From this It appears that the Tillman Invitation affair is a closed Incident, and that the Tillmans Senator and Lieutenant-Governor have been properly though discreetly snubbed. Mr. Bryan's tt Single Issue. New York Sun. It may not be true, as now reported, that Colonel Bryan is advising Democrat ic leaders at Washington and elsewhere to concentrate their efforts upon a single campaign issue, namely, the election o Senators by popular vote. Anyway this is no recent Idea of Colonel Bryan's. In the Spring of 1826, before his name and fame as a political philosopher had blossomed, he recorded his profound thoughts on the subject In the columns of the Nebraska Literary Magazine, then edited by Miss Esther Smoyer, with the assistanco of Miss Katherlne Melick, Miss Anna Broady and others. Mr. Bryan-wrote, six years ago. "for the consideration of these who are going forth from college prepared to give to society the advantage of their knowledge and mental discipline": The present method of electing United States Senators is not in harmony with our theory of popular government. Whatever may have been the reasons for its adoption we have reached a. time when the selection of United States Senator! should.be placed In the hands Of the people. When this Li done the electors will be able to choose the public servant whom they desire, and also to punish him If he betrays his truHt. At present corporate influences are able to dictate the selection of Senators. The popular election of Senators, besides being, more responsive to public ter.tlment. would do away with srotracted deadlocks and leave the Legislature to deal with state matters. At the same time Mr. Bryan communi cated to MIs3 Snoyer, Miss Melick and Miss Broady a number of other ideas on tho reform of our political institutions and the revision of our constitutional methodt. Through the Literary Magazine he suggested the abolition of the Presi dent's veto power, the election of all Fed eral Judges by popular vote, and limited terms Instead of life tenure for the Su preme Court and the establishment of the Initiative and referendum. Here are several more single-'iseues. If the first one proposed by Mr. Bryan doesn't suit AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS WHO - Horizontal Boring Machines. Macalac Tools. Blnssc Machine Co., Newark, N. J. B. T. Barnes Company, Rockfprd, 111. Before me I have prices on some sizes In our own particular trade (machine of steel, ranging from 3 to 4 cents per tools) we do not need a protective tariff, pound. To my certain knowledge this ... A tariff as high as the one now material can be produced and sold at good In force la not only necessary, but i profit for 1 cent per pound. Hence come a- hindrance to the extension o our Carnegie and the numberless minor Car- foreign trade. , . . The industrial de negics. That Is to say, the Dlngley bill velopment of this country has reached was designed not to protect American N that point where our manufactured prod manufacturers in general, but, by the sup- ucts cannot be wholly absorbed by our presslon of outside competition, it was in- own people, consequently we must find tended to protect extortion; to enable a foreign markets for a portion of our out few jrreat Interests to overcharge our Na- put if our manufacturing industries are to tlon. and to amass enormous wealth in a very short time. For example, there Is a little article which enters Into almost every detail of the household. In Eng land It sells for a price which I shall designate by 3, and at that price pays an enormous profit. The English com- panics making this article pay about 40 per cent dividends yearly. In our land, where is grown the raw material for tnli manufacture, it sells at a relative price of 5. That Is, every household in this country is taxed to enrich the lucky pro ducers of this little article. I am sup pressing names to avoid personalities. This is the truth about the tariff. It Is an Instrument of oppression and extortion, not of protection. We are prosperous not by It, but In spite of It; and our prosper ity, were the tariff reduced, would be such as the world has never seen before. Air Compressors, Rock Drills, Etc. Ingersoll-Sargeant Drill Co., New York, The alarm about the tariff is an in- herltance which became rooted at a time when conditions were almost directly the reverse of what ithey are today. Pro- fesslonal politicians and professional pro- tectionlsts are the alarmists who control the situation today at Washington. . . . A protective tariff does not benefit the mlnlng-machlnery trade. Few In this business know what the duties are on our products, and If they were taken oft en tlrely no harm could result, because American made mining machinery is bet ter and cheaper than any other. Tho tar iff acts only to Increase the cost of our product by increasing the" cost of raw materials. It puts an obstacle In our way f when we go out to develop foreign busi ness, as we are met by retaliatory du ties, by criticism of our prices, which we are told are upheld by high tariff laws, and by the stigma of unpopularity which follows the product of a country which maintains the bars of protection against Its neighbors, and at the same time seeks business abroad. . Pneamatlc Tools. Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Co., Cleveland. We do not believe that we need a pro tective tariff in our particular trade, it is our judgment that the present high tariff has a tendency to retard foreign trade in some particulars; or, in other words, quite a number of commodities could stand a considerable reduction of tariff rates without any injury to the manufacturer. . . . The late President McKInley said In 1S& that the time would come when the tariff duties would have the case at the present time In many in to be lowered on a great many lines qX dustrles. and their claim to protection manufacture, and, we believe that time is now has become an evIJ, which in the at hand. The great inventive genius of common interest should be removed. . . ". the American people is such that we be- The- American Gas Furnace Company lleve we will be able to produce any kind needs no protection, except what It may of machinery now made, at a much lower be entitled to under our patent laws, and actual cost than It can be produced by even this fs of doubtful value, and not .other nations. Borlna: and Tnrnlng Hills and Lathes Bullard Machine Tool Co., Bridgeport, Conn. You ask if we need a protective tariff in our business, to which I answer most emphatically, no. Our present high tar iff Is, In my judgment, a serious barrier to larger trade relations with peoples whose friendship we could cultivate to mutual advantage. "The period of ex cluslveness Is past" The times are ripe for pressing this great truth to the front bo impressively that men's minds shall grasp Its full force and meaning. If this Is done intelligently and persistently the results must be a loosening of the bonds that now restrain our industrial ac tivities. Plrmers. ' Cincinnati Planer Co.. Cincinnati. We are of the opinion that the machine tool trade of America does not require a high protective tariff, and believe that foreign countries in framing their tariff laws discriminate against American-made machinery by reason of our present high duties. The time has certainly come when a few stones removed from our tariff wall factor In the building up of American In would be beneficial; the fortified position dustrles; I equally believe that we have which we occupy today Is displeasing to our neighbors: If we wish them to buy our goods, then business courtesy de mands a like opportunity for them. Engine and Tarret Lathes. Rohn, Mayer & Carpenter, Cincinnati. We have reached a period In the ma chinery line whereVwe do not require any protective tariff duties whatsoever. Through our up-to-date methods and ma chinery and the tireless energy and in ventiveness of our working class we can produce machinery cheaper and better than that of foreign manufacturers, hence have nothing to. fear In fair competition with them. To sum it all up, we must buy irom tnem it we expect to sen to xnem, and a policy of "get together" should be encouraged. Mechanics Tools. Goodell-Prate Co., Greenfield, Mass. As far as our business is concerned, we need no protection. We can go Into the markets of the world and compete, not always In price, but every time on qual ity A reduction of the present tariff upon raw materials would help us, and we believe would stimulate a good feeling among other countries which would more man maice up ior wnat lime traae mignt possibly be affected here. Upright Drills. Cincinnati Machine Tool. Co Cincinnati. We do not think that a tariff in our partlcular trade is necessary, and natur ally believe that tho high tariff at the present time has a tendency to hold back foreign traae. Poorly Paid Life-Stivers. Philadelphia Record. t In a few brief lines from the rock-bound Massachusetts coast is condensed a pitiful tragedy of the sea. A distressed barge In the offing; a lifeboat with a crew of seven to the rescue: a rush of angry waters en gulfing the little vessel, and" then swift death for six hardy lifesavers. Npt even on the high seas when hurricanes rage is maritime adventure so dangerous as the oft-repeated experiences of the Govern ment llfesavlng crews. And these he roes, who value not their own lives and take no heed of fame, are paid starvation wages by the Government for ten months In each year, and are laid off without pay during the remaining two months! Southern Disappointment, New Orleans Picayune. The solid body of the territory of the Union north of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers and east of the Mississippi is all of the Republic that It Is worth while to show strangers who come consigned to the high functionaries of the Government, which means the Republican party. Therefore, Prince Henry has seen all of the American Republic that counts , for anything politically, and that Is all that was required. It Is hopedthat he enjoyed his visit and that It will strengthen rela tions of frendship between hlo nation and ours. A Permlcloas Notion. Cincinnati Enquirer. Perhaps the worst results of our political system arise from the foolish notion that It lowers the standard of our best men to take an active part In political discus sion at the primaries and at the polls when vital questions call for an Intelligent ver dict at the hands of the voters. That notion should be speedily and permanently eradicated. SAY THEY" D0N'TNEED- PROTECTION run at their full capacity. It is therefore necessary that we should cultivate friend ly business relations with other countries, particularly with those whose purchas ing ability is the greatest and .whose wants are the most diversified. Our Na tional legislation should not seek to erect barriers against our dealings with other countries, but to lower existing barriers as much as possible. If it Is profitable for men In Illinois to trade with men In Massachusetts or California, there Is no reason why it should not be equally ad vantageous for men In Illinois to trade with men In England. France, or any other part of the world. Wood-Working Machinery. Fay-Egan Company.. Cincinnati. O. There is scarcely an article which can not today be produced better and cheaper in thl3 country than abroad. As Americans go to foreign countries and sell their products in the face of home manufacturers there, paying the long freight and duty, why should they be afraid to let those manufacturers come here and try to get an order once In a while. Foreigners will not permit Amer. leans longer to usurp their markets with- out receiving some privileges in return. Why, for Instance, should England ad- mit American wood and metal working machinery fiec of duty, when we charge 45 por cent duty on anything in those lines that she chances to offer us? If she can produce it better or cheaper than we can, her example, as exemplified by the im ports, will sooner or later stimulate some of our restless, enterprising spirits to de- vise a way or means of manufacturing it even better and cheaper; not cheaper be cause of lower wages for labor, but by de vising better methods or better machines to do the work. Gnu Fnrnnces. American Gas Furnace Co., New York Any Industry developed to a point where It sucessfully competes with the whole world while paying American wages to American workmen, should at once be de clared master of the art, and Its product placed on the free list. If this Is ndt dpnc, protection becomes a fraud upon the whole people, a false pretense and means of making the people pay arbl trary prices, regardless of intrinsic value. which are Imposed by the makers of goods who combine and fix prices any where up to the limit where foreign com. petition can pay duty and still compete. This we know as a matter of fact to be absolutely necessary for Its prosperity. Metal-Working Tools. Belts Machine Co., Wilmington, Del. In -our line of manufacture we do not need the protective tariff, and to have it removed would probably resylt in an in creased trade for us in foreign markets, most especially with those nations whose goods being now. kept out of this coun try by the duty cause their people to have feelings of resentment against us. While we are thorough believers In the policy of protection for such industries as need it, yet Is It entirely safe to rest in the 'fancied security which thi3 policy has brought us, and which today sees every American Industry teeming with business? Is It not better, even In the most prosperous times, to look a little ahead, and not be satisfied with the let , well-enough-alone policy? For the day may come (and It has been here before) when we will welcome any outlet for our country's product. Yale Locks and Builders' Hardware. Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., New York. While I firmly believe that our policy of protection has heretofore been a chief largely outgrown the need of It that It is already beginning to hamper and Injure our industries by retarding the growth of our foreign trade, and that unless re medhU action Is taken soon and effec tively our present tariff may become the direct cause of an Industrial disturb ance which may easily become a disas ter. Milling;, Drilling and Borlna- Ma chines. A. D. Quint, Hartford, Conn. We believe that if all tariff on machln. ery was abolished It would result In an increase In our foreign trade, and think a tariff, for revenue or an exclusively reve- nue-proaucing amy on most articles man ufactured in this country, sold in free competition in the markets of the world, would add greatly to our country's for eign trade and give stability to manufac turing. Machine Tools. Potter & Johnston Co., Pawtucket, R. I. Tho present protective tariff Is of no value In our line of business, and we be- lleve. that It la an important factor in preventing the sale of our goods In i number of foreign countries where a re. uiuaiory tanrt nas oeen placed upon goods of American manufacture. Forges and Blowers. Buffalo Forge Co.. Buffalo. N. Y. Our business has grown and been per- fected to such an extent that we no longer need protective tariff. We not onlv mm. pete favorably in domestic markets but successfully in foreign markets as well Something- In This. San Francisco Chronicle. It must be quite obvious that If the Imports can be differentiated In the man ner proposed by this treasury regulation, those of Spain Into tho Islands could be taken care of in the same way. The more experience we are having with the archipelago as both foreign and domestic territory the more complicated and in consistent our relations with It are be coming. Perhaps these Incongruities will ultimately serve th'e good purpose of driving us Into the adoption of reason able methods and the absorption of the Islands as an Integral part of the United States. There 13 Certainly no hope for relief in any other dlrectfon. Good Times Likely to Last. St. Louis Republic. This hopefulness of even better times than have been the rule for the past few years Is good Spring medicine. This is no time for business pessimism. The en ergies of the country are still operating at full tilt and getting results which surprise other nations. As long as present condi tions continue the hum of the factories and crowded stores must be considered as accurate barometers of business, and not mere incidents of a boom. "Will Accelerate Philanthropy. Kansas City Star. If the ship subsidy grab wins out in Congress the good Mr. Rockefeller, who will be one of the chief beneficiaries of this raid on the public treasury, will be able to endow several more colleges and churches. The steel trust will also be benefited, and the benignant Mr. Carne gie, who makes a dissipation of philan thropy, will devote himself to the crea tion ' Uhraries with an accelerated passion. NOTE AND COMMEiNT. Today will settle a good deal of It To the victors belong the vanquished. This Is the day when the delegate la the real thinsr. Trains are running to Washington, D. C, every day now. -General Kitchener has not caught Dela rey for the third time. A New York restaurant sells a full meal for a cent That Is too much money for some meals. The calendar 'proclaims the Spring. Cut somehow, at thl3 date We feel that It has not yet sot It's weather on quite straight. , J. P. Morgan has got a mortgage on Chile. Other capitalists will not envy him the job of foreclosing it. Sins a song o' politics Let's bcjjln the race. Four and twenty candidates After every place. When tho pie's divided, Isn't any more. Three and twenty candidates Will feil mighty sore. According to John G. Carlisle, the De mocracy can win in 1904. But it will de pend upon what kind of"Democracy i-o put up at that time. There- was a man In our town Who wanted oRlce bad. And made to all the delegates What arguments ho had; But when they found that he had held No offices before. They said. "No man we'll nominate Who's not held three or more." The daughter of E. H. Harrlman has had a bad five minutes with a bucklnir broncho. Your broncho Is no worshiper of wealth. r A Philadelphia Judge was trying a caao when an old man who, it was plain, had never been in a courtroom before was called to the witness-stand to testify. He came forward and went straight up the. steps to the bench, instead of turn ing off and going into the witness box. One of the court ofilcials promptly brought the man down and showed him the proper place. The Judge smiled at the man's mis take and asked: "Did you want to coma up on the bench and be a Judge, sir?" "I don't know. Your Honor," answered tho man; "I'm getting old now, and I guess that's all I'm fit for." Mrs. Willis Balem Is the wife of a well-to-do property-owner In Amityvllle, N. Y., and lives In a handsome house. Some weeks ago she suggested to her husband that the house would look all the better if painted outside. Balem was quite busy at the time, and said he could not attend to the matter, so his better half determined to do the work herself. She procured the paint and then dressed herself In her son's overalls and jumper. "With a wide straw hat on her head, she mounted a ladder and began at the eaves. Town Marshal Strat ton, who was passing, mistook Mrs. Balem for her son and called out: "Don't leave any brush marks. Will." Mrs. Balem waved her hand, but did hot answer, and the Marshal proceeded to the postofilce, where he met the son. Then he made some inquiries, and soon the youth was at home helping his mother. Mr. Balem says he will pay his wife ?20 a day for her work. SOKG OF THE BUNCO MAN. I Journey forth In broad daylight To hunt the festive stranger. Although I'm always in plain sight From cops I'm In no danger. A score of Joints around the town I keep "squared up" to work In, A hundred corners up and down Are handy by to lurk In. Authority to me bows low Because I'm so dead clever. For cops may come and cops may go But I graft on forever. My victim may attempt to squeal. But only let him try it The cops will talk to him so he'll Wish that he'd kept It quiet. In all the towns along the Coast I'm usually rejected. But here In Portland I am most Looked up to and respected. Authority to mo bows low. Because I'm so dead clever. For coppera come and coppers go. But I graft on forever. Comln Throngh the Rye. Gin a body meet a body Comln' through the rye, Gin a' body kiss a body. Need a body cry? Even lassie has her laddie, Ne'er a xine hae I; Yet a' the lads tbey smile at me When comln' through tho rye. Amang the train there is a swain I dearly lo'e mysel'; But whaur his hame, or what his nam, I dlnna care to tell. Gin a body meet a body Comln' frae the town. Gin a body greet a body. Need a body frown? Every lassie has her laddie. Ne'er a ane hae I: Yet a the lads they pmll" at m When comln through tho rye. Amang the train there Is a swain I dearly lo'e mysel': But whaur his hame. or what his name, I dlnna care to tell. Anonymous. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS New to Her. "Do you play ping-pong, Miss Doodle?" "No, but I can. give you 'Tho Maiden's Prayer.'' Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Customer This steak Is the toughest thing I've ever had here, waiter. Walter (confi dentially) Then you ain't tried our roast chicken, sir. Tlt-Blts. Had Them Pat. Manager (of the automo bile company) Do you know the rules of the road? The Would-Be Chauffeur Sure! When you run over a guy, get away! Puck. Lady (to bird fancier) I must get you to change that parrot. Mr. Chlckweed. I've only had him a week, but quite half a dozen times he has shocked my visitors with his horrible language! Bird Fancier I thought you wanted one that was quick to learn, ma'am! Punch. Lady I have made Inquiries at your last place, and your former mistress doesn't speak very flatteringly of you. Applicant No. I don't suppose she thinks any more of me than I do of her; but I hope I'm lady enough to keep my opinion of her to myself. Boston Transcript. "What soulful eyes you have!" she said to the Innocent youth. "Have I?" he smilingly asked. "Yes." she murmured. In her gush ing way. "Especially the left one. I could look Into Its liquid depths for hours. "I mlsht lcav it with you over Sunday," said the youth. "It's glass." Tit-Bits. Reasoning. Mr. Markley You don't mean to say you've ordered that expensive gown, after my promising to do without a Spring o-er-coat? How selfish! Mrs. Markley The Idea! I think It's very unselfish of me to let you have all the credit of posing as the unselfish one Philadelphia Press. Generosity. Mamma (to Edith, who has been spending the afternoon with a little friend nnd has brought home a pretty toy) Wasn't It sweet of Dorothy, dearest? Now, when sho come3 to see you can't you give her something? Edith (eagerly) Oh, yes. mamma; I'll give her baby's doll. Brooklyn Life. By Ear. Mother Well. Marjorle, how did you like Sunday school? Marjorle Oh. all right, only some of the songs were a llttlo foolish. Mother Foolish! Why? Marjorle Oh, because first they sang about "sewing In the morning." and then about "sewing In tho evening." and then nbout "bringing In the sheets." Chicago Dally News. -II