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THE M0KN1NG . OKEGONIAN, WEDNESDAY,. .ABJHE,., 1302 ISite rsgmxtcm Entered at the Postntncc at Portland, Oregon, as second-olass matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Hall (post ago prepaid, in Advance Dally, with Sunday, per month $ 85 Dally, Sunday excepted, per jear......... 7 50 Dally. wjth Sundaj. per year.. 0 00 Sunday, pr year . 2 00 The "Weekly, per year 1 50 The Weekly. months 00 To City Subscribers Dally, per week, delivered, Sundays cxcepted.lSo Daily, per week, deliveru, Sundays included.20c POSTAGE RATES. United States, Canada and Mexico: 10 to 14-pagg paper 1c 14 to 2S-pocc paper..... 2c 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." Eastern Business Offlce, 43. 44, 45, 47, 48, 49 Tribune building. 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C, by the Ebbett House news stand For alc in Denver, Colo., by Hamilton & tKcndrlck, JKX5-912 Seventeenth street; Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co., 15th and Lawrence streets; A. Series, 1053 Champa street. TODAY'S WEATHER Partly cloudy; slowly rising temperature; wlnd3 mostly northerly. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, 57; minimum temperature, -12; pre cipitation, trace. PORTLAND, WCDXESDAY, APRIL 23. LAUGHTER AXD TEARS. Beyond all question and beyond all comparison the most humorous thing in our local political literature this year, or indeed for many a year, is the manl festoof the "Simon Republicans," who have joined the Democrats In making a ticket. It Is addressed "To the Voters of Multnomah County." They call the address a "statement of motives and principles."" A Simon ticket, prepared In secret executive council of three or four sub-bosses, who attend. In tha ab sence of the chief boss, but under his instructions, to his political interests and their own, is handed out of a slide in the door, accompanied by a protest against "faction," "machine" and "ring!" "Shall we," the Simon sub-bosses plaintively Inquire, "shall we have a government of the people, for the people and by the people, or a government of the machine, for the machine and by the machine?" Isn't that, from Simon, Mackay and Soils Cohen, the moEt re markable bit of humor, in ,a political way, you have witnessed? Wouldn't It jar you? It raises a smile on even the rather heavy, gloomy, satprnine coun tenance of old and older Oregon. "Experience," they proceed to tell us, "has demonstrated that It is idle to expect party or factional organizations to restore voluntarily to the people their right to a free choice of their own candidates for public office." That is the very reason why the primary elec tion law was enacted. Yet this pri mary election law, which has given the only possibility of free choice ever had In Portland, and the only primary elec tion ever held In Portland hat was not a farce, was opposed bitterly In the Legislature by the authors of this mani festo, who resorted also to every means within their reach to defeat it in the courts. In order that they might retain in their hands the power of stuffing primaries, which they had abused for twenty years, and of making tickets without consulting anybody's wishes or Interests but their own. Through this primary law the people have had "free choice," for the first time in the history of Multnomah County. The authors of this address are full of grief because the old method, under which they always had a "dead cinch," has been broken up. The Re publican ticket now before the people is the only one ever nominated through a primary at which all members of the party couW have opportunity to vote, with assurance that their votes would be honestly counted. It was a primary at which a total Republican vote "was thrown as large as that cast for Mc Klnley, and the "machine," though it had all official power and used that power to the utmost, was completely wiped out. Now it says the convention created by this primary didn't repre sent the Republican party. - "We all know who they are whom the Simon junta regard as the party's representa tives, and even as the party itself. "This ticket," they say, "was named and published before any convention of the party or caucus of the faction had convened.'1 It was so.'In part; for The Oregonlan 19 a newspaper, and It busies itself to find the drift of events, through the shadows they cast Eefore them. It found out and published many of the names that were afterwards adopted by the Republican caucus and conven tion. Likewise it ascertained,, named and published, a week beforehand, nearly every name and nomination of the Demo-Simon combine. Including those handed out with thlB addrees. Nearly every name had been printed again and again, long in? advance of their promulgation. This "slate," so published In advance, was made up by a small clique whose members kept out of eight, but whose decrees continually leaked out to the newspapers. The Republican ticket is, as we learn from this address, a ring-made ticket, and a machine-made ticket, though a large majority of the delegates more than one hundred elected upon a full vote at a primary iheld under strict pub lic law, had made it; but here Is a ticket, the bolters' half of it, made in secret by three or four men, leaders of a beaten faction, yet known and pub lished long In advance of lte official promulgation, which comes forth as a crying protest against party organiza tion and mactiine rule. Such-a. protest, and from such a source! It is put forth, too, with sadness and sorrow, with sighs for civic virtue, once .ours, now lost, and with tears of regret for the simple and honest ways of the ancient machine, which the primary law has broken. It is an amusing case and tl sad case; Jt is ludicrous and it 1b pathetic; there i3 laughter and there are tears. But, brethren, consume yourselves no longer with vain regrets. ' This primary law, by which the old lamented machine has been undone, will stand. The old way, the plain and simple plan, which the authors of this address ro long pursued, and for return of which they sigh, never will be restored. There will be no "more high-class, scientific ballot-boxing at the primaries, after the old fashion; no more control of the primary polls by a faction and its machine. But-there still will 'be rivalry in parties for party control, and as parties are necessary and must be maintained, those who lose will have to stand it and try again. After a while our brethren of the old machine, who so long had it all their Own way, and now are Inconsolable on account of their loss, will see the wis dom of submitting to the inevitable. The primary law is the tomb of the old system. "We may call this lugubrious manifesto the epitaph. xatiowal xox-resistaxce. Against the territorial expansion of the British Nation no less a voice was stoutly lifted up than that of Macau lay. All that could be said against the expansive principle in the Teutonic civ ilization was said by him. Yet Great Britain did not stop with India, against whose acquisition Macaulay inveighed, for Anglo-S&xon aggression, if you pre fer lo call it so, has gone on In British and American hands, undaunted by any ocean, undismayed by deserts, One can understand. If but to reject, the view of those in Great Britain and in the United States who look with aversion and sometimes with shame upon the relentless march of Anglo Saxon dominion, whether it overruns the so-called Boer Republics In Africa or the tribes of the Philippine archi pelago. They Xeel that right does not necessarily mean might; that the strongest battalions do not always have justice on their side, and that in this overthrow of those who cling to political Independence there is an express repu diation of the doctrine which maintains representative government in England and Scotland and which was invoked by the American colonies to sustain their revolt against King and Parlia ment. But no correct conclusion can be formed upon this problem in social morality which does n6t take into ac count all the facts; and the most tre mendous and compelling fact of all Is the Irreslstlbleness with which this march of virile over Inferior goes on. There are only two ways in which the assimilation of the weak by the strong can be arrested. One is by failure of strength In the dominant people, and this Is a phenomenon which so far has Inevitably followed the supreme hour of empire. Rome fell, Athens fell, Ven ice fell, Spain has fallen, France is re laxing her hold. But the stronger force that is to humiliate the English-speaking races has not yet developed its ma ture powers. The Cossack may yet do this, but not yet. The other way In which the strong power may stay Its advance over weaker forces in its way Is by self rellnqulshment It Is an exercise so un precedented that we shall probably be right in treating it as virtually Incon ceivable, a9 wholly and unchangeably so antagonistic to human nature as to be dismissed as the dream of imprac tical enthusiasts. They will take who have the power and they will keep who can. There is a personal doctrine of non-resistance, practiced by the un availing few. There is a political dogma of renunciation, which seems as barren of future as it is of precedent. To in terpose renunciation in the path of Brit ish or American expansion is to offer a proposal which the intended recipient will never accept, f What Is the moral law that comes Into harmony with the aggression of the strong and the submission of the weak? All we know Is that In the main the results make for progress. Upon the ruln9 of every declining material power and social order Nature has erected a higher and better. No one who knows the life and customs of the Boers could judge them higher than the prevailing order in free England. No one who Jearns the degradation of the Philippine tribes could for a mo ment give It a hlgh-er place than the civilization that will in time be trans planted thither from the United States. The social order must be judged by Its average fruits. The Jaw tnat yiems justice to the average man works hard ships on many an exception. The sur vival of the fit is not delectable to the species marked out for extermination. Preconceived notions are not the true solution of the riddle of the universe. We should hive done by this time with the deductive philosophy that once ex plained the origin of species and all lesser problems by the axioms of con sciousness. Yet the anti is your true transcendentalist. What should b, he will determine without any regard to what is. No philosophy of life, individ ual or social, can be adequate which dos not arise inductively from the phe nomena within reach and in ethnic de velopment there Is no phenomenon more pervasive andresistless than that of the expansion of the strong and the elim ination of the weak. It will be easier to form deductions from the evidence than to form history from a chart dog matically laid down. It is best for hu manity as it is inevitable, that such waste ulaces as South Africa and the Philippines afford will be brought under the rule and the stimulus of the English-speaking races, and that their in habitants be formed in the Ideals em bedded in the literature of Shakespeare, Milton, Jiurke, Bacon, Emerson and Spencer, and reflected In the lives of Alfred, Washington and Victoria. SUFPOIIT THE PRESIDENT. President Roosevelt's oft-expressed desire to visit Oregon Is a natural one, for not a state In the Union has fol lowed his career with greater pride or believed more thoroughly in his courage and honesty. One of the first acts of; the Oregon delegation at the National Convention of 1900 was to call upon Governor Roosevelt and inform him that they were for him for Vice-President it he want6d it. They respected his wishes not to be nominated until he consented to run, and then they, threw themselves vigorously into his campaign. An Oregon man was select ed to 'second his nomination. This action of the Oregon Republicans was thoroughly representative of the sentiment of the state. The people out here have read Mr. Roosevelt's books, followed his career as soldier. Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Governor with interest and pride, and have su preme confidence in him as President. They look upon him as a Western man, they recall with pride that Dewey's victor' at Manila wag largely attribu- table to Mr. Roosevelt's Activity in get- tine him ordered there, and they are thoroughly In sympathy with his firm stand concerning Pacific expansion. No one has more fittingly expressed the feeling of Oregon upon the questions growing out of the Spanish War than has President Roosevelt In these stirring words: We stand on the threshold of a new cen tury, a century big with the fate or the great nations of the earth. It rests with us now to decide whether in the opening years of that century we shall march forwarO to fresh tri umphs, or, whether, at the outset, we shall L deliberately cripple ourselves for the contest. Is America a weakling to shrink from the world work that must be done by the world powers? No! No! The young giant of the We"st stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean In either hand. Our Na tion, glorious in youth and strength, looks Into the future with fearless and eager eyes and 'rejoices as a strong man to run a race. We do nof"stand in craven mood, asking to be spared the Jask, cringing as we gaze on the contest,. No. We challenge the proud privilege of doing this work, that Providence allows us, and we face the coming years high of heart and resolute of faith that to our peo ple Is given the right to win such honor and renown as has never yet been granted to the peoples of mankind. It la known that at this time Presi dent Roosevelt looks toward Oregon with no small degree of interest and concern. Here is the first election In a Northern State since he has assumed the reins of the Government. The Re publican vote for Governor and Con gressmen and the Republican majority in the Legislature will be the measure of the confidence felt In his Administra tion by' the people of Oregon. As he has stood for honesty and efficiency in official life, as he has remained firm in favor of Pacific expansion, he naturally looks to this state for approval of his course. The support he looks for he should have. No Republican President In years has deserved a more cordial vote of confidence frpm Oregon than President" Roosevelt deserves In June. The Oregonlan thinks that vote will be given. THE FIRST STEP WOX. While the moral force of Attorney General Stratton's technical victory be fore the United States Supreme Court is undoubtedly very great, and will have a considerable effect on public opinion both on Wall street and else where. It Is nevertheless true that no progress whatever has been made a9 yet In assault upon the Northern Securities merger. All that the Supreme Court has done and all that it says can have no bearing whatever upon the result of the application. The injunction can1 be asked for and it will be argued, but what the decision will be nobody knows now any more than before. Indeed, if a man had to depend upon favorable symptoms in Chief Justice Fuller's opinioil, he would despair at once, for the form of it Is so guarded as to suggest great anxiety to keep the (way open for denial- of the Injunc tion. It Is objected to this application that the case does not involve rights of ownership or contract, but s an effort to assist a stateto enforce Its own laws within Its own jurisdiction. What does Chief Justice Fuller say to this? He says nothing. He offers no objection whatever to a declaration which, If sustained, will throw the in junction out of-court. He merely says that the general rule as it Is laid down in the case of Louisiana vs. Texas in dicates that Cleave to file should be granted in this case also. In yesterday's paper we printed a terse and comprehensive summary of the various actloris now pending against the merger, to which nothing of an ex planatory nature requires to be added. What Mr. Stratton has secured Is sim ply an opportunity to make an effort to establish before the Supreme Court a clahn for relief. The presumption is, however just the popular protest against the merger's theory and prac tice, that he will find his task no easy one, and if he fails it will be nothing remarkable. It must be remembered that the Northern Securities Company was organized for the express purpose of avoiding all these state laws against consolidation. It is not doing business in Minnesota or Washington. It has simply become the owner of a control ling. Interest in the stock of the two Minnesota corporations, precisely as an individual Citizen might have done, and it is doubtful if they can be charged with any acts that are in themselves unlawful. Nor have the two railway companies apparently violated their charters. They have not merged. They have only passed under a common own ership, and whllethey are to be oper ated in harmony, their separate corpo rate existence is maintained. What Mr. -Stratton must now proceed to show is that the merger's control of the roads threatens an impending and irremediable injury to the plaintiff, not to be compensated "by damages, not to be avoided otherwise than by injunc tion. This Is an allegation of fact that must be affirmatively established to gve the State of Washington any re lief. HOW TO BEAT THE TRUST. The advance in the price of meat is not exclusively the work df the so called "meat trust" of Chicago; -for It extends back for some years. The fol lowing is Bradstreet's table of Chicago prices per pound of livestock and dead meats April 1, as far .as and including 1896: 1002. ..7.25 1001. 0.00 5.40 C.20 7.75 7.75 0.00 1000. 0.50 5.75 5.40 7.12 0.02 0.C2 1807. 1890. 4.05 3.80 4.30 3.30 4.00 0.75 7.25 0.00 5.12 4.60 7.75 6.50 Beeves Sheep Hops Beef carcasses .5.40 .7.00 .0.12 .8.00 Hog carcasses Mutton carcaBses.0.75 As the increase has gone on for a number of years, there would have been an Increase in the supply of meat and the number of cattle, if it had not been for this combination between meat packers and meat shippers, which ex tends from Kansas City to Chicago. Through this combination the price paid to farmers has been kept low, so that there has been no increase in" the supply of beef and other meats. This meat trust, by securing special rates on the railroads, has prevented any compe tition In shipping from the two Western centers of products, Kansas City and Chicago. The beef trust has prevented any competition In the retail trade by securing control of the retail trade in every city of the country, forcing butch ers to deal exclusively with members of the "trust" The meat trust, by Its con trol of the supply, of the machinery of transportation and distribution, and of the retail trade, has been able to' fix prices for meat so high that In the great cities of the East many families are forced to restrict their consumption. All this situation has been made pos sible by violation of the anti-trust law and of the interstate commerce act. Under the Interstate commerce act in junction proceedings have been brought against nearly twenty railroads in Kan sas City and Chicago. This meat trust has succeeded in robbing the people all along the line. It reduces prices to producers and Increases them to con sumera. It robs the farmer and it robs the retail butcher. There Is no doubt that the Government, through Attorney-General- Knox, will enforce the law against this combination, for no party in power could afford to allow thfs uii holy combination of meat packers and meat shippers to work their will. The robbed producerp of the West and the robbed consumers of the East .stand for political forces that when combined would unseat by their Insurrection any party that was Indifferent to this law less conspiracy to impose ail exorbitant tax on one of the necessaries of life. Meanwhile the public can set even with this odious beef trust, which has by Illegal arts forced up prices by sim ply resolving to eat less meat. The Hartford Post points out that a general- letting up on beef-eating would bring the monopoly to terms by "hitting it in the cash register." It might be fur ther said that medical men agree In the opinion that as ft people we all, high and low, eat altogether too much: meat; that we would all enjoy better health and spirits If we ate less meat and mere vegetables and fruit. It Is certainly true that the peasantry of Ireland, the most powerful and ath letic race in Europe, in their best days ate very little meat, and lived chiefly upon potatoes. It Is certainly true that the most athletic and muscular 'peas ants and mountaineers of Spain, Italy, Greece and the Balkan States eat very little meat. The Turke, a very strong and athletic race, eat comparatively little meat. It is true that in our Civil War the armies On both sides for many weeks made long marches in heat, cold and rain, anl fought a succession of exhausting battles when their only food was hardtack and coffee. In the Pe ninsular campaign of 18G2 hardtack and coftee, with beans and rice added, was not seldom the diet of the Army even when In camp. With the addition of a few slices of bacon to the diet, We be lieve an army could march and fight all the year round In Canada or the United State? on a dle of hardtack, coffee and white beans. The personal experience Qf any veteran of the Civil War will, we believe, support our statement that when the Union soldiers had a plentiful supply of hardtack and coffee they never worried about iresh beef or "salt horse," for on coffee and crackers, with occasionally a bit of bacon for a relish, they knew that they could march and f)ghi well. The number of vegetarlansMs steadily Increasing every year; every city sup ports at least one such restaurant, and the beef trust will only serve to lessen the number of beet-eaters and Increase ihe number pf those who. If not abso lute vegetarians, will abandon meat for eggs, fish, fruit, milk and vegetables. Wrfen Great Britain imposed a tax on the tea of the New England colonies the patriotic women held meetings and agreed to drink no Imported tea, but substitute for it "Labrador tea," which was made, by steeping the leaves of the ledum, a bushof the heath tribe, com mon in the swamps. In the same spirit the ordinary meat consumer can refuse to eat meat at present prices and sub stitute eggs, fish, milk, .vegetables and fruit. From the present date until Winter aH kinds of wageworkers would be better for abstinence from beef. If meal Is needed, there Is plenty of mut ton, ham and bacon. The beef trust can be beaten by "hitting it in the cash register." Colonel Charles A. Woodmiff, U. S. A.,who appears for the defense In the trial of General Jacob H. Smith, U. S. A., at Manila, is. well known in Port land, as he was stationed several years at Vancouver Barracks. He is a grad uate of West Point, a man of high in telligence, an able and effective speaker. Colonel Woodruff In a recent letter to a friend quoted the fact that a Filipino padre, a man of education and 'intelli gence, had been convicted before a mil itary court of executing native prison ers by burying them alive. General Jacob H. Smith is a native of Ohio, en tered the Union Army in June, 1861, as a Second Lieutenant in the First Kentucky Volunteers; was "breveted for distinguished gallantry at the battle of Shiloh; served, through the war, and was appointed a Captain in the Thir teenth United States Infantry in 1867; became Colonel of the Seventeenth In fantry in 1899, and was made Brigadier General, U. S. A., in March, 1901. He Is about 62 years of age, and was sent by General Chaffee to Samar because of his high reputation as a gallant and energetic soldier. .Violence has not attended strikes thus far this year. This ,may be taken to indicate the lawful and praiseworthy determination of the worklngman to better his condition, as expressed in thorough organization and the selection of competent leaders. The trouble in former years has been largely with the agitator, who was' voluble in proclaim ing the grievances of labor but barren in Intelligent expedients for their abro gation. The demand of labor for its share through reasonable increase of wages, in the prosperity that now pre vails, has the Indorsement of -public opinion. This indorsement its allied hosts cannot afford to forfeit by "vio lence in support of their contention. They understand this fully, and, to the extent that they act In accordance with this knowledge,, basing their contention upon the justice of their cause, strikes will be entered upon guardedly as a last resort. Having been entered upon, they will be conducted without violence, and on the basis of reasonable conces sion, to a successful Issue. Immigrants, who are rolling Into the Pacific Northwest by hundreds daily, have fresh cause to congratulate them selves and each other. A hot wave, borne on the' breath of a "high wind, has swept Kansas. Nebraska and Missouri recently the active, vigorous advance guard of a scorching Summer. Having gotten out df reach of an April tem perature of 95 degrees and into an April temperature of from 50 to 60 degrees, with blossoming trees, luxuriant pas tures and showers of sufficient fre quency to keep the dust down, our homeseekers fram the Middle West cer tainly have cause to feel gratified. Later on, when returns from the cyclone sea son begin to come In, they will have further cause for satisfaction. A company with a capital of $8,000,000 has been organized Under the laws of New Tork to engage in the manufac ture of sugar, glucose, grape sugar and syrup from corn. An Immense plant with a capacity of 20,000 bushels' daily consumption will be established at some central point in the corn belt of the West. It Is thus that King Corn is ex tending his pov?er in the wide realm of Industry, joint heir with cotton, cop per, wheat, wool and coal to the great American throne. STATE POLITICAL DISCUSSION. Pendleton Tribute." The spirits- gt .JryjM5lsm and 'Simon ism have been made one by Oregon Demo crats, and his satanlo majesty has flung, "wide open, the gates of hades and calmly awaits its coming on the 3d of June. Roaeburg Piaindealer. Slmonlsm is exhibiting its peculiarities this year by fusion with Democracy. Si mon la nothing If he is. not fruitful in po litical devices consigned to serve his ends. He could give the slippery Ah Sin valua ble pointers in "ways that are dark." Salem Statesman. The announcement of Stephen A. Lowell that he wUI bolt the Republican nominee for Governor la characteristic of the roan and not at all surprising to the people who know him. This will not be his first bolt, as he is in the habit of employing this kind of tactics when he falls in se curing' what he wants In a convention. Fortunately, his following. If he has any at all, will be very small, and the gen eral result will not bo In the slightest degree affected by his move. Mr. Lowell was a candidate. It will b remembered, for the nomination for Governor, but failed to make any showing "whatever In his race In Umatilla County against Mr. Famish, who won the county convention by almost a unanimous vote. Now Mr. Lowell Is bolting the ticket. Boiso Statesman. The worst-thing that ever happened to the Democrats o Oregon was the adop. tlon of this policy (of scuttle) by their party with -respect to the Philippines. It may be possible that In some Eastern States there is support' for this Demo cratic party, but In the West, and par ticularly among those people whose states are washed by the waves of the Pacific, there Is no toleration for the programme marked out by the Democrats in .Con gress, and followed by the convention of the party in our neighboring state. When the vote shall be taken in Oregon in June, it will be shown what the peoplefthlnk of the flag-furling policy of the Democratic party. Albany Herald. The Herald does not believe tire people of Oregon will vote In June to 'turn the machinery of state over to the Democrats and Indorse their scuttle policy, which would mean untold injury to the state. The business spirit of a business-making administration has made its impress upon the country. The Republican party stands committed to expansion the expansion of civilization, of liberty, trade and com merce, and for wider markets. This Is a matter which directly affects the Pacific Coast States. As a result bf the 'policy of expansion, the eyes of the country are directed toward the Pacific Coast; Peo ple of means, people who know a good thing when they see it, are coming to join In the great activities of the stalwart West This means the development of our resources and the building up of our In dustries. No greater blow could be given Oregon than th'e defeat of this business making policy at the polls In June. HJugene Register. No Republican can afford to stay away from the polls this year. There are Issues at stake in the state and county cam paign in which you are vitally Interested, If you only stop to thlrik of It. The prin ciples of Republicanism are doing great things for the development of Oregon. It Is bringing Us added population with cor responding Increase in the valUe of your lands and property, and spreading pros perity to every nook and cranny of the county. Do we want this policy reversed? If we do, we have only to place admin istration of state and local affairs In the hands of Deniocracy, and the deed will be done. ToUr duty to yourself and your country Is to go to the polls and vote on June 2, and to do this with the least trou ble to yourself you should register before May 15. Don't put It off until the last day. The thing to do la to register to day. Tricky Statesmanship. Chicago Record-Herald. The Senate committee on privileges and elections has probably beaten the resolu tion for the election of United States Senators by the people by adopting tho Depew amendment That amendment pro vides that the .qualincatldns entitling citi zens to vote for Senators shall be uniform throughput the country, and that Con gress shall have charge of the elections. It Is anomalous and irrelevant, and it is condemned by Senator "Depew's own speech In its defense. Consistency should have constrained him to argue for a general "force bill," but In one breath he repudiated the prin ciple and tho objects of such a bill and la the next adopted them for his special measure. There is a manifest lack of good faith In such a course, and It be comes the more marked when It Is under stood that the Senator is opposed to the election of Senators by the people and woUld like to see the resolution defeated. The majority of the committee were evi dently actuated by the same motives, the purpose being to put the Democratic friends, of the resolution In a hole. If they are compelled to vote on the resolution and the amendment together they will naturally prefer that the resolution Itself should fall rather than that there should be any Interference with the election laws In the South. Of the ethics of those laws it Is un necessary to apeak now,, but It Is clear that they have been lugged Into the de bate on the election of Senators by the people without -excuse. The attempt Is being made to defeat a desirable reform by a trick. Conant's Plan the Better. New Tork Evening Post Mr. Conant's plan presupposes the ap plication to the Philippine money ques tion of a higher Intelligence than we have usually bestowed upon the same class of 'questions at home. It requires also the highest character on the part of the offi cials placed In charge of the mint and the redemption bureau. The men intrust ed with these duties will bo far from the scrutinizing gaze of the only public opin ion they fear or care for. They will be appointed under the regime of party poll tics, and there is no certainty that they Wlil be superior In . morale to Neely, Reeves and Rathbone, Yet with all these drawbacks, this, plan Is to be preferred to; that df the silver standard favored by the Senate Philippines committee. By following the example of British India-, the Philippine currency can be sifely anchored on the gold standard within a few years, whereas, if the present oppor tunity Is neglected,, the country will be tied to China, In a monetary sense, 'for an indefinite time to come. Modern BnildlngK in Japan. New Tork Tribune. Japan Is adopting European forms of architecture, particularly in its business buildings and hotels, the old type of do mestic construction not so readily yield ing to the spirit of innovation which per meates nearly everything in that enter prising and interesting country. The Government buildings are all of Euro pean design, their superiority in the mat ter of convenience and accomodation be ing generally recognized. Whatever larye structures are hereafter built, whether for public or private business,- are all sure to be Western type, with up-to-date equipment, including elevators, electric lights and stgnalB, with the occidental type of janitor bosslog the outfit EXPANSION IS NOT TYRANNY. Chicago Tribune, Mr. Franklin MacVeagh rejoices In the new era upon which this country Is en tering. Ho docs not like so many oV the leaders of the Democratic party, dread the era of America as a world nation. He has this abiding faith which they lack In the ability of the democratic Republic to go out In the world and do good without abandoning one of Its demo cratic principles He said in his address at tho Sheridan Club banquet: That a. people profoundly democratic oannot have colonies and cannot go out Into the world and" do good to helpless peoples like the Fili pinos and the Cubans is historically and polit ically and phUanthroplcally absurd. And that they cannot use common sense and necessary methods in rendering this service; that they must make people wholly self-governing whom it is almost Impossible to govern at all is also absurd. And to call such world's work and for that matter such heaven's work Imperial ism, is much worse .than absurd. For Mr. MacVeagh "expansion" has no terror. It does not mean to him merely the expansion of territory. It does not mean tyranny. 1 It means opportunities to perform noble, deeds. Expansion, said he Doesn't mean the exploitation of a weak peo ple for American benefit. Look at our work In Cuba. Does history show another such rec ord of firm, wise, pure, devoted and successful government of a weak people, wholly and ex clusively for their benefit? I tell you that noth ing evpr done within our own borders show the csential greatness of our country as those few yiars of foreign interference and control. AndT say. without hesitation or reserve, that our government of the Philippines will equally bring honor to tho American name. The United States is not forgetting that it Is a Republic based on the broadest democratic principles; Is not Insatiate for land; is not a founder of tyrannous governments; and is not misusing anybody in- the world for the benefit of Americans. For, say whatever the doubt ing may, the entrance of the United States Into her new relations with the world means tho spread of the wiser and nobler Ideas and activities. It means a new and strong current in the general stream of the world's progress. Chicagonlans have long seen In Mr. MacVeagh the manifestations of a fine spirit of municipal patriotism. They have recognized in him a man always ready to labor without thought of personal re ward to promote the best interests of Chicago. As president of the Municipal Art League and of the Charities Organ ization Society, and as an active member of many other valuable organizations, Mr. MacVeagh has shown his willingness to make personal sacrifices In order that Chicago may become a better city. If he is not careful- his name will be men tioned for the noxt Mayor, as that of a man whom voters of both parties can support because he Is affiliated with neither. He la perhaps more truly Inde pendent as respects both parties, than any other man in Chicago. He seems to divide his vote Impartially hetween them at municipal and National elections. Mr. MacVeagh's address shows that he has the same high faith In the future of his country that he has In the future of his city. His sentiments breathe the spirit of ardent patriotism. He does not stand "with reluctant feet" at the threshold of the new era. "Expansion," said he, "Is accepted. The world nation Is accepted. A permanent enlargement of our National sphere 13 accepted." Therefore, from this time on, says Mr. MacVeagh, "It must be the patriotic work of parties to direct and secure whatever the expanded life of Ihe United States can bring of use and honor to our own people, to other peoples, and to the general progress of mankind." If the Democratic party had sense enough to take this same high ground that Mrn MacVeagh takes as to expan sion In general and the Philippines In particular, It would occupy a better posi tion before the country and would be more likely to win the next campaign. Prob ably before election we will see the neces sity of stepping up where Mr. MacVeagh now stands, for there will be ho Philip pine question on which, that party can make a stand. Practically there will be peace In the Islands, and the only sub jects left to discuss will be those delat ing to matters of civil administration. Denver's Ancient Aristocracy. New Tork Evening Post. According to veracious reports In the Western newspapers, tho leaders of soci ety, wives of the men who had made their fortunes 15 years ago. look with disdain onthe newly rich who have come into their own within the last Ave or 10 years. The ancient aristocracy of Denver Is so the story runs frowning upon a score of recent millionaires, calling them vulgar upstarts and refusing to play ping pong with. them. The wealthy outcasts have had their revenge, for they declare that If they cannot play at ping pong with the nobility, they will in, turn refuse to take part in the most popular game In Denver,, swapping real estate; and will be take themselves and their millions to Butte or Helena. Here is where the vul gar upstarts have the ancient aristocracy on the hip, for If land values fall in Den ver, kind hearts are sure tb be more than title deeds, and simple faith than blood which has been refined by two decades of real estate speculation. Den ver may read its lesson in the history of New Tork society. Aristocracy will soon er or later capitulate to capital, and the daughter of a navvy who made his for tune in the '80s will inevitably bestow her pride of family on the son of a ditcher who struck It rich In the '00s. "Dlaclc Watch" Americanized. Ladies' Home Journal. The climax of all the Americanism we saw In Europe came on the last morning of our etay in Edlnburg, when we went to tho castle at the proper hour to see the famous Black Watch drill. When the soldiers lined up on the east side of the plaza there were Just 300 Scots, while on the west side stood fully 600 AmericaiT tourists to watch" them. Instead of dirks and halberds, which we went to see, we noticed rifles made in Springfield. We watched them drill with tactics adopted from West Point, and when we lopked for bagpipes and listened to be assured that "The Campbells Are Coming," a brass band wearing uniforms cut In New Tork, arid playing on Instruments bought in Chicago struck up one or aousa-s latest marches. -r-1 Innuendo. Chicago Evening Post. When woman talks of woman, then we see her at her worst Not the second, who Is talked of, but the mo3t loquacious first. When" woman talks of woman, there is trouble " in the air. Uncertain in its details, but you may be sure it's there When man would talk of woman, or, indeed, of other men. Why, something that is tangible will find ex pression then. He may not like the person, but he lacks tho art toaay. A harmless thing that has a sting when said a certain way. "Of course, you've tried her cooking," with a quiet little sniff. As if of something dreadful one had Just ob tained a whiff. "You saw hr with young Barker at the dance the other night V , The tone alone would Indicate it was a shame ful sight. "She's always changing servants, and I wonder why they leave!" A meaning shrug of shoulders that mustNmake the angels grieve. "The manners, of her children have you no ticed what they are?" The thought expressed unspoken would do cred it to a. star. However, this is nothing to the exclamation heard , When of the neighbor's husband one may chance to say a word. It gives the chance she's seeking and accords well with her plan The essence of unkindllness is the way she says . "P.oor tnanl" NOTfc AND COMMENT. With the police; everything goes but th bunco man. Some dog" owners still think that there was no show at all for their pets. A medical man Is not the kind of a healer that Is most acceptable to the Simon crowd. -- Sometimes butter combines strength and lightness to. a degree that would make a bicycle famous. It Is to be hoped that Oregon salmon are more welcome In Germany than Ger man carp are In Oregon. The Simon candidates can certainly al lege that they have had a great deal ot experience in that capacity. The prize offered for the airship race Is only $150,000. It will cost more than that to get the starters up to the judge's stand. The Morgan merger controlling steam ships will of course be followed by a sub merger controlling the Holland torpedo- boats. Look out for the man who comes back and says he didn't catch any trout He Is either Insane, or trying to keep all hla fish to himself. Prince Henry has been riding his bi cycle on the sidewalk. He seems to have, acquired a few Americanisms while he was over here. The hurry of preparations for the cor onation do not prevent King Edward from, having three or four new photographs taken every day. . Captain Coghlan has not made public; any dispatches from the Kaiser congrat ulating him on his promotion to the ranla of Rear-Admlral. A New Jersey man has been made a Mandarin by the Sultan of Mindanao. Th. Sultan probably wants to put his govern ment on a trust basis. Sir Cha-rles Narcone, who has been an nounced as commander df the reguiaS forces in Canada, has been acting as as sistant Inspector-General of the lines oC communication in South Africa. He 13 47 years old, and has seen service in Egypt and South Africa, being mentioned for gallantry during the early battles of the present war. Ping-pong has arrived In Paris, and so ciety men cannot go anywhere without being lassoed Into a game of ping-pong, so they have formed an anti-ping-pong league. The members wear a distinctive button, so that" the ladles' cannot feel of fended when members refuse to play, since they have sworn never to partici pate in "this foolish, unmanly English pasrtlme." The sale of a copy pf the first edition of Browning's "Pauline" in New Tork for $720, has brought out the statement that only 13 copies are now known to be in existence, so that it Is one of the rnrs hooks of the 19th century. No first editions of modern books have commanded such prices, with the exception of Poe's "Tamerlane." "Al Aaraaf." and "Mur ders In the Rue Morgue." which brought, respectively, J2050, J1300 and $1000. James Pinnock. the English explorer and traveler, who is visiting Honolulu, says: "When one remembers that It Is only some three years since the country was taken over by the UnUed States, the great strides that have been made In so short a time are simply marvelous. The number of banks, merchants' offlces, public schools and colleges give me. as an Eng lishman, a most exalted idea of what Americans can do when they 'mean If and put their minds, money and hands to it with a will:" The rush of Immigrants to Oregon and. Washington Is remarkable, and the South Dakota papers report that not since the early 80s has there been such an Immi gration Into that state. The newcomers are largely farmers from Illinois, Iowa and contiguous states of the Mississippi Valley. Lands in South Dakota that sold at $10 to $25 an acre two years ago aro now commanding $25 to $50. The South Dakota papers estimate that there ara 50,000 more people In the state than were present a year ago. There is a bill now before the House! committee on Interstate and foreign com merce which has already passed the Sen ate raising the compensation for district superintendents in the live-saving service to $2000 a year, with an additional $500 for the hire of a clerk In cases where tha Secretary of the Treasury deems It neces sary for any superintendent to employ one. There is another bill now before the same committee which has not yet passed either house, providing for pensions In the life-saving service, corresponding to those in the military and naval service. One reason for this bill may be fount, In the recent disaster at Monomoy, Mass., where all but one of the brave fellows who went to the rescue of the wrecked mariners were lost. PLEASANTRIES OFPABAGMPHBR Ef Gabrul wuz ter blow his trumpet termor rer. some er de fault-unders would r se en tell Mm dat his musical education had been .,iw.tHi Atlanta Constitution. Cause for Worry.-Aunt Sadie-I fear Robert is an awfully careless fellow: I heard him say that he dropped $S00O in the street yesterday -Brooklyn Life. The Landlady-It pains me to speak about your board bill. The Boarder-Then don t do it. my good woman; I can't bear to see any one suffer. Tlt-Blts. The Old Story. Harold And so their mar riage turned out unhappily? Mildred-Yes. She was a hard Ice-cream-soda drinker, and ho married her to reform her. Judge. Lenten Penance. Bess-Is it sure that you have broken your engagement with young Soft loigh Nell Yes. I only took him on as' a penance during Lent, you know.-Chlcago Dally News. Real Fun. Lieutenant Lovett (sentimentally) I've come to say "good-bye." I've been or dered to, the Philippines. Miss Giddy-How Jol ly! It'll bo so Interesting now to read the lists of the killed and wounded. Philadelphia Pres-i. A Slight Misunderstanding. Landlady I hope you slept well, sir? New Boarder No. I didn't. I've been troubled with insomnia. Landlady Look here, young man. I'll gUe you a sover eign for every one you find In that bed! Punch. Bertha I can't say that wo are positively en gaged; but It amounts to that. Last evening. Charles asked me If I was golntr to make him the happiest man In tho world. Mercy But how do you know, dear, he didn't mean he wanted you to release him altogether? Boston Transcript OdIou3 Comparisons. There Is a certain Scot tish minister In a West Highland parish "A ho ha3 never yet been known to permit a stranger to occupy hU pulpit. Lately, however, an Ed inburgh divinity student was spending a few days in the parish, and on the Saturday ho called at the rcanso and asked the minister to be allowed to preach the following day. "My dcarVoung man." said the minister. laying a hand gently on the young man's shoulder, "gin I lat ye preach the morn, and ye gle a better sermon than me, my'fowk wadnever again bo satisfied wi" my preaching, and gin ye're nae a IDeiter preacner man me, ye ru iiu nuuu tiaicu lng tae I" London Dally News.