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PORTLAXD, THURSDAY, APRIL 21.
EVERY VOTE NEEDED.
It is a matter of relative indifference
to The Oregonlan who occupies the
places on the local tickets of the Re
publican party. So that they are hon
est and competent men, this paper has
no quarrel with their personal predilec
tions. Whether one machine or another
is In the ascendant, the recognized ex
ponents of the Republican party and
of those National principles for which
the Republican party stands are rec
ognized as the men through whom
these results must be attained if they
are to be attained at all. It has been
a long time since The Oregonlan felt
obliged to oppose the local nominations
of the Republican party in a general
election, and it hopes the time will be
long before it has to oppose them again.
Measures are more than men, and prin
ciples than personalities.
In 1890 the struggle for supremacy
between the two factions in Multno
mah County resulted in the victory of
James L-otan, who became chairman of
the Republican State Central Commit
tee, D. P. Thompson, of Portland, being
the nominee for Governor. The Orego
nlan supported the ticket.
In 1892 a compromise was effected
between Simon and Lotan and The Ore
gonlan supported the Republican ticket
against a "Citizens' " ticket growing
out of the campaign for consolidation.
In 1894 the party was united upon the
basis of Lord for Governor and Dolph
for Senator. The whole ticket was sup
ported by The Oregonlan.
In 1896 the Simon ticket was declared
the regular Republican ticket in this
county, and The Oregonlan supported It.
It did not support'the Republican nomi
nee for Congress in the Second District,
a silver man, but tried to elect an inde
pendent Republican nominee who was
pledged to the gold standard.
In 1898 the Simon ticket Was again
recognized as the Republican ticket,
though the Mitchell men forced the
nomination of Geer for Governor, and
The Oregonlan supported it.
before 1900 Mr. Simon had secured his
own election as United States Senator,
an office The Oregonlan never advocated
him for and never desired or approved
his election to. He insisted upon the
ticket that year being named with pri
mary reference to his own succession,
and though this was contrary both to
The Oregonian's judgment and its de
sire, it nevertheless supported the ticket
as vigorously as it could find means
to employ.
This year the opponents of Mr. Simon
have secured control of the party or
ganization, and The Oregonlan sup
ports the ticket, and asks Republicans
to do the same, for the same reasons
and on the same grounds it has ap
pealed to heretofore namely, the need
of indorsement of the position taken by
the Republican party throughout the
Nation.
Men come and go, machines rise and
fall, but the purposes of the Repub
lican party, towards foreign and do
mestic affairs, towards our Industries
and our trade and the National honor,
must be maintained. They can only be
maintained by united and unwavering
support of the Republican nominees.
The welfare of the American people
needs every Republican vote in Oregon
this year for the Republican ticket.
NUMBER 85.
Number 85 was out yesterday to the
joy of hundreds. Whenever it appears
there is a rush for it, and it gjoes on its
way the comfort of Its fellow travelers
and the cynosure of every observing
eye. Every Spring there comes one
bright, warm day when number 85 ap
pears and spreads happiness all about
Old maids sigh for it and children cry
for it What is this prodigy?
Well, Number 85 is simply the finest
street-car in Portland, It is an open
car about 40 feet long. There is a shut
up box for the motorman, where pas
sengers cannot crowd in to step on his
feet or get in the way of the brake.
The seats run- crosswise, so that the
traveler is not jerked against his neigh
bor every time there is a stop or a start.
and through the whole length of the-
car runs a center aisle, so that the con
ductor can collect fares without hav
ing to hang on the sides by his teeth
and toenails. Number 85 is an able
toodied worker that will go .down to First
street and take 150 people up to the top
of Washington street without turning a
hair. The Nob Hillers will miss two
cars to get on Number 85, and it is
crowded to the steps before it has gone
six blocks from the foot of Washington.
It is a pleasure to know that the
street-car company that owns Number
85 is building it a Iqt of companions.
The car is costly, expensive to maintain
and hard to run. It carries ' lights
enough to illuminate a torchlight pro
cession, it makes the motorman sweat
to stop it in a short block on a down
grade, and In the f&ick hours of the
forenoon it makes the manager sick
with its array of empty seats. "There
fore it takes a good deal of nerve to
put more money into such expensive
establishments. But the times are rush
ing, trai-el is increasing, and unless
the road reaches out for business, a
competitor will get it. Number 85 and
those other magnificent new Portland
made concerns on the Third-street line;
the big piles of heavy new rails lying
about the streets ready to be put down;
the new lines projected in all directions,
the increases of wages and shortening
of hours; the more frequent trips and
later cars, are all marks of Portland's
progress and evidences of the faith its
street-car men have in its future.
Get out of the old bobtalled horse-car
mossback spirit and organize on the
basis of Number 85. Get your Ideas of
what a city ought to be lengthened QUt
and widened out and raised up. Figure
on a 200,000 population, make your ar
rangements accordingly, and first thing
you know it will be at hand. Don't be
scared out by slack hours now and then,
or heavy grades, or the cost of light
and power. Nobody ever got passen
gers by cutting down equipment and
looking glum. Nobody ever built a
great city by taking despondent views
and preaching gloom. The spirit that
is to make a greater Portland for 1905
is revealed In these hopeful Investments
In street-cars, business blocks, dwell
ings and pavements. Take a hint from
Number 85 and get a onove on. The
town is growing. Portland is all ritrht
BE CHEERFUL, KIND SIRS.
The man who makes a disastrous
mistake is apt to be fertile In invention
of reasons outside his own judgment.
Somebody was ungrateful or perfidious.
As for the party in error, he is the
victim of circumstances. Certain excel
lent gentlemen hereabout made a mis
take relative to a recent political epi
sode in Multnomah County. They had
to choose between Simon and anti
union, and their choice was wrong.
They couldn't guess right They hesi
tated, they took counsel, they debated
and then they took the leap. The se
quel showed that they jumped the
wrong way. They found themselves to
the windward of shelter in a freezing
gale. Against this stroke of fortune
they rebelled mightily, and found vast
quantities pf blame to bestow in every
quarter but upon their own misguided
judgment
Disastrous as were the consequences
of this mistake, they were not more
serious than the nature of the error
justifies, for their miscalculation in this
case betrays an estimate of popular
brains and conscience that is far from
flattering to its authors. These men
knew very well that Mr. Simon had
been a failure in the Senate and that
his failure was universally recognized.
They had the opportunity to join in the
popular movement to unhorse him from
his control of the party throughout the
state, in Marion and Wasco Counties
as well as at the Multnomah County
Courthouse and in the City Hall at
Portland. But they could muster
neither the courage to antagonize his
machine nor the strength Qf vision to
see that upon an appeal to the party at
a fair primary he was certain of defeat
Their confidence In the Simon machine
was supreme, their confidence In the
people was nil.
It Is a serious misadventure in polit
ical me to rate an intelligent and
aroused people as helplessly bound in
the web of a discredited but Indefatiga
ble boss, when a secret ballot and an
honest count Is put into their hands
for their redemption. It is a mistake
"that may well add to the poignancy of
regret over defeat But a mistake al
most equal in magnitude is that of im
puting the result to other than Its real
causes, and of cherishing resentment
against those who had faith in the peo
ple and acted accordingly.
The men who identified themselves
with the Simon machine in the late
struggle for control of the party have
themselves to blame for their defeat
They were their own masters, they ex
ercised their own choice, and bound
themselves to abide by its resulta The
Oregonlan would suggest to them that
they are not helping matters any by
resentment against all who chanced to
be- the humble instruments of Provi
dence in attendance upon the upper and
nether millstones of Its grinding mill.
Anybody may make a mistake: but
few have the hardihood to expect the
same results whether their choice Is
right or wrong.
DANGER IX LEXIEXCY.
When General Chaffee telegraphed the
War Department from Manila that "to
withdraw all our forces from Mindanao
will ruin our prestige; to withdraw part
of our forces will be dangerous," he
proved himself to be the right man for
his place, for the President has replied
directing him to "do nothing that will
impair our prestige," and gives General
Chaffee full discretion to enforce peace
and order in Mindanao. General Chaf
fee is an old Indian fighter who knows
that swift, sure and stern punishment
after peaceful redress has been refused
is the only sound policy In dealing with
a barbarian foe. To temporize, to do
anything that looks like showing the
white feather, Is to Invite contempt and
Insure ferocious warfare. The British,
warned by bitter experience, have
adopted this policy .In dealing with the
wild "Hill tribes" of India. They treat
them justly and kindly, but when de
mand for the surrender of murderers
Is refused, the British Government
sends its soldiers against the contuma
cious tribes and makes- war without
mercy until they submit and surrender
their criminals.
This was always our policy in our
dealings with the Indians. A barbarian
foe must be made to feel at once the
weight and power of the arms of the
government when he begins to rob and
murder, or he will become a chronic
rebel. The Island of Mindanao Is the
largest of the Philippines, with the ex
ceptionof Luzon. It Is inhabited by
Moros, who are Malays, and In the past
have been the most desperate and fero
cious pirates that ever infested the
Eastern seas. They never acknowledged
Spain's, authority, and were never re
duced to subjection by that power.
These Moros, who are Mohammedans,
were sure sooner or later to come Into
collision with our military forces, and
General Chaffee should be allowed to
curb and crush them without any
check on the part of our Government.
These Moros plume themselves on their
ability to stand off Spain, and Imagine
that our American officers and soldiers
are of the same quality in military, skill
and Intelligence.
If General Chaffee Is dyea a free
(
hand with these Moros, he will quickly
tame them by the same methods that
were employed to reduce to submission
the wild tribes of marauding Sioux,
Cheyennes and Apaches. But If a tem
porizing policy is adopted, we shall
have a long and expensive contest If
General Chaffee should withdraw our
forces? from Mindanao or greatly reduce
them, the whole group of the Philip
pines would begin to smoke and steam
with the heat of latent fires of Insur
rection, and In a few months all Luzon
would be In a blaze up to the gates of
Manila, The whole work would have to
be done anew under most difficult and
discouraging circumstances. It should
not be forgotten that General Anderson
ascribed the early success of the Fili
pino Insurrection to President McKIn
iey's mistaken policy In refusing the
military authorities permission to at
tack Aguinaldo's forces promptly after
the surrender of Manila, the moment
he assumed an attitude of hostility.
Mindanao needs to be thoroughly re
duced to a state of peace and order; If
we fall to do It we shall, as General
Chaffee predicts, lose our prestige In the
Philippines so completely that it will be
most difficult ever to regain It No
greater blunder could be made by our
Government than to Impose a temporiz
ing policy upon General Chaffee and tie
his hands at a most critical moment
when he proposes to teach the Moros by
stern punishment that they cannot mur
der American soldiers with impunity.
Our Army in the Philippines has been
shamefully traduced by misrepresenta
tion and exaggeration. This Army of
60,000 men in three years of warfare
against a mest barbarous, treacherous
foe, has behaved with remarkable self
restraint, and en the whole with a hu
manity never surpassed in any con
flict If we are to keep our promise
to enforce peace and order in Mindanao,
we cannot afford to show the white
feather to a nest of Malay pirates.
EXPANSION AS A BUSINESS.
It is well set out In the philosophy of
Antl-Everythlng that In consideration
of expansion It Is proper to urge the
financial cost of the undertaking, but
nisjniy improper to advert upon any
profits that may arise out of It This
one-sided arrangement evidently ap
peals wijh very little force to Senator
Beveridge, whose speech In opening the
Indiana campaign, appears In our news
columns this morning. He has been
travestied by the antls as resting the
whole case for Pacific expansion upon
Its monetary aspects, but that Is a mis
representation, as his speech of yester
day attests. He fully apprehends the
moral and patriotic considerations In
issue, but he Is not blind to the eco
nomic uses of new territory.
The economic necessity of expansion
has been developed by scientific stu
dents of racial and Industrial problems.
In the books of Charles A. Conant and
Josiah Strong and Benjamin KIdd are
set In convincing detail the phenom
enon of congested capital In London and
New--Tork and the necessary employ
ment of it in distant fields now waste
and Idle. The hoarded millions of civ
ilization, earning perhaps 2 per cent in
home Investments, must be put to work
in the development of Asia, Africa,
South America and the Islands of the
sea. Deserts must be watered, swamps
drained, streams bridged, mines opened,
railroads- built. harbors deenened.
All these vast unproductive ex
panses must be covered with busy peo
pie, supplying the tropical products
needed In the temperate zone and buy
ing manufactures In return. These are
the dry bones of the expansion frame
which Senator Beveridge clothes in the
garments of his graceful and Inspiring
speech.
We are wont to think that the pros
perity of five years past has been due
almost wholly to the gold standard. But
oeuaior jaevenages speech suggests
that perhaps we have been too little
observant of the effects of expansion.
We are a world power since Dewey
came to his opportunity, and especially
a Pacific power. They have heard of
us in Asia, they know us and they re
spect us. They have heard of our arms
and our diplomacy In the courts of the
Old World, and they have" a wholesome
fear of our wrath and our labor-saving
machinery. Perhaps the greatness of
our trade and manufacturing Is not to
be sufficiently explained without refer
ence to the Impulse given us by the
Spanish War and the opening of the
Pacific upon our view. The awakening
is not unlike that which followed the
voyages of Columbus 400 years ago.
Perhaps the kindred effects have a kin
dred cause.
At any rate, as Mr. Beveridge says, it'
Is but fair to Judge the venture by the.
record. Despite all the war has cost,
our public debt Is smaller, our Interest
Is less by $7,000,000 a year. All sorts
of business are thriving, and in the
general movement Pacific activity has
no Inconsiderable direct and indirect
share. If times had been hard, we
should have been pointed to the disas
ters Incident to the Philippine policy.
It is equally pertinent to cite our pros
perity as an exhibit In favor of expan
sion. It Is fitting that Indiana's attention
should be thus pointedly directed at
the Philippine question, for It Is the
dominant issue of this campaign. In
passing judgment upon the course pur
sued there, the voter will judge by its
fruits; and he cannot Ignore, even if he
would, the activity and thrift with
which this era of expansion has been
so strongly marked. Upon the material
benefits conferred as well as upon the
principle of loyalty Involved, the Re
publican policy la entitled to approval.
NO VIOLATION OP NEUTRALITY. :
The President has decided on reading
the report of Colonel Crowder, IT. S. A.,
that there has been no 'violation of our
neutrality laws at New Orleans. For
many months past mules and horses
have been shipped from that point to
South Africa, and the purchase and
forwarding of the animals has been su
pervised by officers or agents of the
British Army. General Samuel Pearson,
an ex-officer of the Boer Army, and now
a Boer representative In this country,.
demanded the suppression of this traffic,
threatening to "commit a breach of the
peace In New Orleans unless the buy
ing was stopped by state or Federal
authority." Thereupon Governor Heard
of Louisiana, made this stupid, Ignorant
threat of General Pearson a text for
the proclamation of his own views re
garding the Boer War, and appealed to
the Government at Washington to know
If he had any jurisdiction In the matter
or whether the case was solely one for
the Federal authorities. President
Roosevelt requested Attorney-General
Knox for an opinion In .the matter of
this alleged violation of our neutrality
laws. Attorney-General Knox advised
that the complaint against the British
caraD near New Orleans be investi
gated, and k Colonel E. H. Crowder,
U. S. A., was directed to make an in
vestigation. On this report of Colonel
Crowder the President ha9 decided that
there has been nonviolation of our neu
trality laws. Itr -was- found1 that Gen
eral Pearson had not made a correct
statement of the facts, save as to the
shipment of horses and mules.
There was no British post with men
and soldiers established at Port Chal
mette; there was no recruitment of men
for the British service. The Investiga
tion ordered by the President
was
proper and necessary, because General
Pearson specifically alleged a plain vio
lation of the United States statutes re
specting neutrality when he Informed
the President that British officers at
or near New Orleans were making en
listments for the army In South Africa.
This charge is found to be without
foundation. An American citizen can
lawfully enlist In a foreign army when
he Is once without the territory and
jurisdiction of tfie United States, but
under our law a man enlisting on American
soil for service In a foreign army In
time of war Is guilty of a high mis
demeanor, which subjects him to fine
and Imprisonment, and foreign officers
or agents making such enlistments on
our eoiL are also subject to punlshmant
under this statute. The report that the
British Minister, Sir John Crampton,
was privy to an attempt to enlist men
on our soil for service In the Crimean
War of 1854-56 caused our Government
to request his recall. He was at ohce
recalled by the British Government,
but was not disgraced, for he was on
the return of peace sent to Russia as
the English representative at St. Peters
burg. The shipment 'of animals to South
Africa, whether for use by the British
Army or not. Is not a violation of our
neutrality laws The exportation of
mules and horses on unarmed vessels Is
not a military expedition In the sense of
the statutea Attorney-General Knox
said, In his opinion, that "earning on
commerce with the belligerent in the
manner usual before the war Is not
giving such aid. The mere Increased
demand for warlike articles and their
Increased quantity In commerc6 do not
make that commerce cease to be the
same as before the war." Count Sclo
pls, one of the arbitrators under the
treaty of Washington, ruled that "It Is
not a violation of the law3 of nations
to furnish arms to the belligerents."
During our Civil War all the commer
cial countries of Europe sold arms to
both belligerents, and the Boers have
bought arms on all sides; they could
buy horses and mules today and ship
them from New Orleans If they cared
to do so, but do not buy what tfiey can
not hope to deliver. If they had the
same railway line open from Delagoa
Bay to the Transvaal that they had
at the outbreak of the war, they would
be buying arms and horses If they
needed them In America, but the for
tune of war has placed the railway
from Komatlpoort In English hands, so
the Boers do not buy what they cannot
hope to deliver.
The whole matter was taken up by
Governor Heard originally because he
wanted a pretext for swelling the pres
ent party cry of the Democracy con
cerning our policy toward the Boers of
South Africa. He has failed miserably,
because the only charge worth consid
ering for a moment was that there have
been enlistments In Louisiana for serv
ice In the British Army In South Africa.
This charge was socn found to be
utterly uithcmt foundation. The pur
chase and shipment of mules or horses
are legitimate under our neutrality
laws, so the President promptly an
nounces thta the ex-Boer General Pear
son has no case that calls for inter
ference. Colonel Henry L. Turner, of Chicago,
is reporiea in the Chicago Record-Herald
as saying that nothing In the an
nals of our Indian warfare under Sher
idan, Crook or Custer equals In atrocity
the conduct of Major Waller In the
Island of Samar. Did Colonel Turner
ever hear of the massacre of a whole
village of Blackfeet Indians, men,
women and children, by a party of
United States Cavalry under'Major E.
M. Baker? The attack was made on
a Winter night upon a camp of Indians
practically defenseless through the
presence of smallpox, which had pros
traated the majority of the Indians.
Major Baker acted Under orders from
General Sheridan, who held that "the
only good Indian was a dead Indian."
Did Colonel Turner ever hear of Gen
eral Custer's attack on the sleeping
camp df Black Kettle, In which massa
cre the women and children were not
spared? General Custer acted under
orders, from General Sheridan. In the
Indian wars Governor Stevens, of
Washington, a graduate of- West Point,
was so stern and swift in his punish
ment of guilty Indian prisoners that.old
General Wool pretended to believe that
he was too severe, but experience
proved that .Governor Stevens' policy
was the highest wisdom. The prompt
hanging of captured Indian murderers
In Washington and Oregon was ap
proved by the settlers, and military len
ity was always followed by bad results.
Major Waller had these savages shot
because he knew them to be essentially
land pirates, brigands, robbers. He had
no time for formal military court An
object-lesson was necessary, and he" shot
these savages, who belonged to the
same people that had recently, through
treachery, murdered an unarmed de
tachment of the Ninth Infantry.
The operatives j)t the Oregon City
Woolen Mills, who went out yesterday
on a demand for an Increase in wages,
precipitated. It appears, by a change In
the working rules hat gives one weaver
charge or two looms Instead of one,
without Increase In pay, seem to have
just cause for grievance. These woolen
mills have been run on close business
principles and with a keen oversight of
methods which alone. It Is asserted,
have kept them going, with relatively
slight intermission, as a distributing
industry in a thrifty wage-earning com
munity, for more than a third of a cen
tury. Their operatives have been dur
ing all this period largely' of the Home
building, home-sustaining class Indus
trious, frugal and tractable. With such
an Industrial element it should be easy
to deal, on the basls'of equity and good
will. So far as noted, the present de
mand of the weavers for art increase of.
pay Is the first demand of the kind that
has been made since "hard times" prices
gave place to the higher pchedule of
living expenses. If this Is true, the de
mand can hardly be considered an un
reasonable one, especially as' the mill
Is crowded with orders, Indicating that
the company Is sharing the general
prosperity In business now prevailing,
the proceeds of which It Is merely asked
to share equitably with labor. Public
sympathy in Oregon City being with
the employes, and 'the. managers -being
tii imureu anq just uusinuse mew,
there Is the best of reasons to expect
that all differences between the operat
Ivesand managers of this well-respected
pioneer manufacturing industry will be
speedily and- amicably adjusted." - '
Carnegie's view that "hard work
made Shakespeare the- greatest dra
matic genius" Js absurd. The finest
poetic imagination of modern literature,
which is the foundation of the supreme
and universal excellence of Shakespeare
was not obtained "by "hard work"; It
was a beautiful gift from God.. It would
be quite as reasonable to say that "hard
work" made Homer the greatest poet of
antiquity. The truth Is that Shakespeare
probably gave more "hard work" to his
duties as an actor and a theatrical man
ager than he ever did to his plays. He
wrote with extraordinary rapidity and
often at a kind of fever heat, as dd
Byron and Shelley and Keats. Shakes
peare was sometimes called upon by his
manager or his company en brief notice
to excise passages, rewrite passages and
supply entirely new matter. Such fa
cility of, mind Is the gift of great nat
ural powers, and cannot be created by
"hard work."
. Coos County Is a region wonderful
In resources. Of that no one who Is
reasonably well Informed has the slight
est doubt. It Is less isolated than Tilla
mook County only because of Its greater
shipping facilities and Its nearness to
the fSan Francisco market Its isola
tion fromr the state of which it is a
part Is. at certain seasons of the year,
complete, as far as ordinary means of
communication go toward Its relief.
Yet It Is a state In Itself as far as nat
ural resources, the development of
which lead to prosperity, may be held
to constitute an independent or sover
eign community. The Coast counties of
Oregon well deserve the attention of
Investors and builders -of railroads. It
is marvelous, indeed, that the real
sources of wealth In these sections have
been sa long practically unknown and
undeveloped.
The number of immigrants arriving
at the port of New York In the fourth
quarter of 1901 was 93,623, as compared
with 74,432 for the corresponding period
of the previous year. Of this immigra
tion, 20 per , cent was from Southern
Italy. The Hebrews followed with' 11
per cent, the Germans with 10 per cent,
and the Poles with 9 per cent. The
proportional Increase of the latter since
1900 has been larger than that of any
.other nationality. The significance of
these facts and figures Is only serious
when the Immigration laws are not vig
ilantly enforced. An Inspection that de
tects and turns back from our shores
the pauper, criminal and defective
classes will sufficiently guard American
citizenship from undesirable foreign
material.
The fruit prospects In the state- were
never better than at the present time.
Unless cold! rains prevail during the
blossoming period, preventing polleniza
tlon, or later cause the young fruit to
drop, the yield of all orchard, fruits will
be enormous throughout the fruitgrow
ing districts of the state.
Italy Is Grovrlnfir Fast.
Chicago Chronicle.
Italy Is almost the only Latin country
In Europe which shows a steady growth
of population. France has for years been
on the decline, but latest statistics show It
Is nearly stationary, the death and birth
rates being nearly equal. The returns of
the recent census in Italy are now pub
lished and they show a gratifying though
not extraordinary growth of population In
the peninsula, despite the large emigra
tion and the hard times which have pre
vailed there In late years. In round
umbers the population of Itajy Is now
!,500,000. That Is an Increase of more
than 4,000,000 In the last 20 years. That Is
not a larce Increase, but It Is, on the
whole, satisfactory. It Is not, of course,
the whole increase of the, Italian race.
In these 20 years more than 2,000,000 Ital
ians have emigrated to other lands. The
actual growth of the race has, therefore,
been more than 6,000,000 In 20 years, or
more than 1 per cent a year.
This does not, however, confirm the
common idea that the Italians are an ex
ceptionally prolific race. The growth of
other nations has been proportionately
more rapid. That of France has not been.
That of Russia has been effected by con
quest and wholesale annexation. That .of
the United States has been due to enorm
ous Immigration, as well as to a high;)
birth rate. But while Italy in the 19th
century Increased from 16,000,000 to 32,500,.
000, or only a little more than doubled,
Great Britain, grow from 36,000,000 to 41,
000.000 and Germany from 24,000.000 to 56,
000,000, and each of these countries suf
fered as great a loss from wars as Italy
and a considerably greater loss through
emigration.
The Answer to Cushmaa.
Minneapolis Tribune.
Before the new rules were adopted it
was Impossible to get legislation through
the House that was opposed by even an
insignificant minority. More than that it
was difficult to enact legislation to whloh
there was no great objection, because
the multitude of it offered clogged the
channels of action. The House had grown
powerless to do what it distinctly wanted
to do. The Legislative machine had grown
too big and unwieldy to do its work. The
first House over which Reed presided
adopted the new rules, which resemble
the organization of society for purposes of
government, in that members surrender
large power of Individual Initiative in
order to arm the whole body wjth power
to do business In the general interest
The new rules have accomplished the
purpose for which they are designed.
They have enabled the House to legis
late. Previous experience proved that
this could not be done without paying
the price of surrender of individual privi
leges. Most members are entirely content
to make this surrender except when Irri
tated by some special case of denial. It is
not probable that even Mr. Cushman
would consent to return to the old rules.
It Is certain that a majority of the House
would not consent, and It is still more
certain that the people of the country
do not desire, it. The House can't do
everything It desires now, but It can do
something. Under the old system it could
do praotlcally nothing.
1 m
Lumber Wealth of Washington.
Chicago Tribune.
Professor Henry Gannett, chief of the
Division of Forestry In the Agricultural
Department, makes the statement that the
forests of Western Washington are the
heaviest and most continuous of any In
the United States excepting the1 redwood
forests of California. iThe timber Is
mainly red or yellow fir, mixed with
spruce, hemlock and cedar, the trees
reaching from 12 to 15 feet In diameter
and 250 feet In height, with clear trunks
for 100 or more feet. The entire area of
Washington is CC.8S0 square miles, and of
this 23,165 square miles are covered with
merchantable timber. The standing tim
ber, by counties, is 114.78S.000.OCO feet, rep
resenting an. approximate value of $650.
000,000. Sixty, per cent of the, standing
timber Is Douglas fir, a strong, durable
wood, superior fq all other varieties. The
immense value of these forests Is shown
by the great number of lumber mills at
Tacoma and elsewhere, which are among
the largest manufacturing plants in the
world.
- - -KEEP.IT IN SIGHT.
CorvaKIs Gazette.
Not to be lost sight of by Oregon Re
publicans is the influence our state -election"
will have not only on Congressional
elections to follow in other states, but
also on the next Presidential campaign.
There Is little doubt that the question
of retaining or ultimately abandoning con
trol of the Philippines will then be the
chief contention between the parties. The
State Democratic platform, the"" attitude
of leading Democrats In Congress, and
the tone of the Democratic press, fore
shadow that this ig to be the issue.
It is true, Oregon Democrats have not
the courage to declare for the policy of
"scuttle and abandon" In clean-cut, con
cise language, yet It is so plain this is
their purpose, that It must be discussed
before the people In our state campaign
and receive their approval or disapproval
at the pollg next June. - A Democratic
victory then would be haralded to the
world as evidence that the people of Ore
gon are In favor of the Democratic pur
pose of abandoning the Philippines to
whatever fate may overtake them. Of
course. In the almost certain event of
Republican victory, the Democrats would
claim their platform preecnted no such
Issue. It Is worded, they hope, to be equal
ly useful In cither event.
We have no thought that the American
people can be Induced to embrace a pollcy
so unpatriotic and cowardly even though
Indorsed by the people of this etate, and
It is equally unthinkable that Oregonians
are less patriotic and courageous than
the mass of American people. Republi
cans of Oregon are not to ba deceived as
to Democratic purpose. It is abandonment
of the Philippines.
Without doubt there are scores of
patriotic Democrats In th atate who will
not follow their party leaders one step In
a course which can only end In National
humiliation and shame to ourselves and
Irretrievable disaster to the Filipinos.
Since the opposition are doing their ut
most to confuse and mislead the people
on this subject, it may clarify the situ
ation if we remember that under Inter
national law we have a clear. Indisputable
right of sovereignty over and title to
the Philippines. The war we waged was
against Spain, not against the Filipinos.
For whatever of conflict we have had
with them they alone are responsible. Be
fore the treaty of Paris was ratified they
made war on our Army and our flag. We
had a right It was our duty aa well, to
suppress their insurrection. But other
duties are laid upon us. It Is plain there
Is ifnposed upon this nation, as a sacred
trust, the duty of leading thesa people
to a higher and better social and political
life to a civilization of which at present
they have no intelligent conception. No
more oacred trust was laid upon the Is
raelites of old. We dare not falter. Hav
ing accepted the trust and entered upon
our cfuty. and having already made sub
stantial and gratifying progress, shall we
now, or at any time, cower and draw back
and Ignomlnously abandon our duty?
This Is Just what the Democratic party
contemplates doing. After all our expendi
ture of blood and treasure; notwithstand
ing the plainest evidences of our bene
ficent influence upon and rule over these
people, that party would renounce our
sovereignty, haul down the American flag,
declare these Islands foreign territory and
abandon them to the cup.idlty and rapacity
of whatever nation might seize them.
The American people are of a race that
never shirks duty, never abandons its
efforts for the elevation of mankind.
The record of our splendid Second Ore
gon appeals to us. By the memory of its
achievements and Its heroic dead, Oregon
ians cannot accept the cowardly policy
of Philippine abandonment. We are confi
dent this will be the verdict recorded at
the polls In June.
Gloomy for Portland.
Astoria News.
It 'Will require at least Ave years after the
passage of the Jetty appropriation to complete
the Jetty extension. During that period, the
Oriental commerce will have been secured In
Seattle or Everett, so that the natural ad
vantages of the Columbia water levels will not
avail to restore It to its natural channels along
the Columbia. The City of Seattle will havo
become a metropolis of 500.000 people, with
such a volume of incoming- trade that the ocean
charters will be far cheaper tnun they can bo
made on the Columbia River, with only a
small Inward traffic from the marts of Europe.
'The above Is reprinted with glee by
Seattle newspapers. It Is amazing that
anything bearing the name, of a news
paper printed at Astoria should utter such
a statement though Its direct object is
to injure Portland. But If the outlook Is
"gloomy for Portland," what Is It for As
toria? There are Astorians, we. do still
trust and believe, who can see an Inch
beyond their noses; but you wouldn't think
so If vou depended for your Information
on any one of the four or five little news
papers printed there, or on all of them.
But They've Not Warmed Up Yet.
Joseph (Or.) Herald.
In our write-up of candidates several
weeks ago, we intentionally slighted the
Republican candidate for Justice of the
Peace for Joseph District for the very
good reason that we could say nothing
good of him (except that he Is the editor
of this excellent family Journal) and
enough bad Is already known of him.
With our Democratic opponent it is differ
ent We can say nothing bad about him
(except that he Is a candidate for the
same office that we are) and enough good
is already known of him. In fact, he is
about the best man on earth.
To the Skylark.
William Wordsworth.
Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky!
Dost thou despise the earth where cares
abound?
Or -while tho wingB aspire, are heart and eye
Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?
Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will.
Those quivering wings composed, that music
still!
To the last point of vision, and beyond
Mount, daring warbler! that love-prompted
b train
'Twlxt thee and thine a never-falling bond
Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain:
Yet mlghfst thou seem, proud privilege! to
sing
All independent of the leafy Spring.
Leave to the nightingale her shady wood;
A privacy of glorious light Is thine,
Wh.nrn thnii dnqt nniir tinnn tho wn.T1 . rt.,
Of harmony, with Instinct more divine:
Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam
True to the kindred points of Heaven and
Home.
Post Mortem.
William Shakespeare.
If Thou survive my well-contented day
When that churl Death my bones with dust
shall cover.
And shalt by fortune once more re-survey
Theso poor rude lines of thy deceased lover;
Compare them with the bettering of the time.
And though thiy be outstrlpp'd by every neii
Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme
Exceeded by the height of happier men.
Oh then vouchsafe me but this loving thought
"Had my friend's Muse grown with this grow-
lng( age,
A dearer birth than this his love had brought.
To march in ranks of better equipage:
"But since he died, and poets better prove,
Theirs for their style I'll read, his for 'his
lOVOr" T
- NOTE AND COMMENT.
If Santos-Dumont finds a good soft place
to light he ought to notify General Miles.
There still are several good openings
in Portland for countrymen who are anx
ious to be robbed.
A Wisconsin woman values her kisses
at $5000 each. At last accounts she had
not closed out her stock.
I
All the veterans who have written poet
ry will now step forward and demand ln-J
creases In their pensions.
J. P. Morgan seems to have risen from
the rank of captain of industry to that of
lieutenant-general -of industry.
The Democratic candidate for the may
oralty is still sawing wood and saying
nothing about his resignation.
Marconi will have to suspend overland
operations until Santos-Bumont stops
chasing around through the air and short
circuiting his wireless currents.
Senator Simon is probably taking more
interest in what is going on In the Second
and Third Wards in Portland than he is in.
what is going on In Washington.
General Funston has discovered that he
was not made a Major-General because
the War Department wanted to be enter
tained by reading Interviews with him In
the papers.
Carolina probably Incurred the displeas
ure of Senator Tillman by, making the
President welcome, but there Is not a
great deal of evidence to show that South
Carolina cares.
That Chicago professor who says the
wedding ring is a relic of barbarism has
attracted so little attention that he la
about due for some observation to the ef
fect that bridal trousseaus are out-of-date.
The Orthodox Church of Russia has la
its elementary schools 1,500,000 children,
about 40 pupils in each school, and the av
erage sum for a school is about $105 a
year. Of the teachers, 94 per cent are
uneducated, and they are paid next to
nothing. The schoolhouses are huts, and
there are no books, pens or ink furnished.
Dr. Solomon S. Schechter, lately elected
president of the faculty of the Jewish
Theological Seminary, has arrived In New
York with hi3 wife and family. He re
signed from the faculty of Cambridge Uni
versity to take this place, which is se
cured by a fund of $200,000 provided by
Jacob H. Schiff, the late Leonard Lewl
sohn and the Messrs. Guggenheim.
When William K. Chandler was Secre
tary of the Navy he issued an order that
officers should not permit their wives to
reside at the foreign stations to which
their husbands were attached. The order
was promptly rescinded upon the receipt
by the Secretary of the following from
Commodore Fyfle, in command of the Asi
atic squadron: "It becomes my painful
duty to report that my wife, Eliza Fyffe,
has, in disobedience to my orders, and in
the face of regulations of the- department,
taken up her residence on the station and
persistently refuses to leave."
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy had a
curious adventure the other day in an
automobile tour in the Roman province.
At Conflgut his car was stopped, and a
summons for furious driving was served
upon his chauffeur, Giuseppe Farulli. At
the famous falls, near Terni, the King
after admiring the scene, distributed a
quantity of newly minted silver pieces
among the peasants. The people, who
had never seen the new coinage, angrily
gathered around the King, shouting that
the money was counterfeit "Well," said
the King, "If the coins are false, so is
your King. Do you not recognize your
King?" Thereupon an ex-soldier, who had
served in Rome, stepped to the front, and
after a good look at the young sovereign
took off his ragged cap and called for three
cheers for Victor Emmanuel, which wero
given with much enthusiasm. Some pa
pers In telling the story express displeas
ure at the King's Imprudence In thus mix
ing with the people. As a matter of fact
the- poflce charged with safeguarding hl3
royal person are sometimes driven to the
verge of despair by the King's reckless
ness. He Is continually giving his special
police the slip, for, next to books and his
wife and child, his greatest delight is to
mix unrecognized in the crowd of his sub
jects. This story is told to illustrate the pope's
dislike of spending money on himself:
The other day PIo Centra, his old and
tried personal attendant, opened the dis
cussion, while dressing him in the morn
ing, by remarking that his gown was not
as new as It might be. "I suppose I have
your hollness's permission to order your
gowns for the jubilee?" he added. "What
gowns for the jubilee?" replied Leo XIII,
sharply; "I have three sets already, and
certainly Require no more. Why should
I spend .good money for what I do not
want?" "But. Holy Father," protested
Centra, who knows his master's weak
ness, "supposing some one of the great
personages who are received by your
holiness should notice a defect such aa
this" pointing to an Invisible spot on one
sleeve "he might think you had put on
your old clothes, not considering him
worthy the best" After a pause Leo
XIII said, with a sigh: '"Well, perhaps
you are right Order them but only one,
mind you: and my poor people will have
to go without so much bread. How dread
ful it Is to be obliged to spend so much on
one's clothes."
PLEASANTRIES OF FARAGRAPHERS
Sympathy. Dudely I'm really hardly myself
since my valet left me. Miss Cutting Yes, I
should think you'd feel lost without a man in
the house. Chicago Dally News.
A Back Number. Helen Is that the latest
book you are reading, dear? Mis" Reeder Oh,
dear, no! "Why. this book has been out since
noon yesterday. Ohio State Journal.
First Actor Boothby had a tremendous audi
ence last night, and they were very enthu
siastic. Second Actor Yes. at the box office,
trying to get their money back. Detroit Free
Press.
"Why will you women persist in shop
ping until you are completely exhausted?" "It
isn't the shopping that tlre3 one. dear; it Is
taking the things back and changing them."
Harper's Bazar.
High Praise. "Marie has a wonderful knack
for grayles and dressings." "Han't she? I
really believe that mayonnaise of hrs would
make a doormat palatable." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Saw the Mourning. "Mamma, here's a letter
from the dead-letter oHlce." said intelligent
little Clarence. "How do you know, dear?"
"It has a black border all around the en
velope." Judge.
Next. "Yes," said the funny barber, "we're
up to date here. We shave you while you
wait." "Indeed!" replied Pepprey, "I've usu
ally found that you shave several other fellows
while I watt." Philadelphia Press.
He The last time I played football, I remem
ber my face got so knocked about wasn't like
a face at all in fact I thought It never would
get better; She And did It? I mean er of
course. I see It didn't erer I mean"
Punch.