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For tale in Denver, Colo., by Hamilton & ICendrlck. 90C-912 Seventeenth street; Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co., 15th and Lawrence streets; A. Series, 1053 Champa etreet. TODAY'S WEATHER Partly cloudy, with occasional showers: south to west winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER-pMaximum tem perature. 58; minimum temperature, 28; pre cipitation, trace. J PORTLAND, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1002 THE ONE LEADING QUESTION. Can our Pacific Spates afford the pol icy of "scuttle," as to the Philippine Islands? Can Oregon afford to give her voice for that policy? This is the main issue now before the people of Oregon. Our election, to be held a few weeks hence, will be taken by the country as the declaration of Oregon on this subject. In the platforms of the two parties this issue Is distinctly joined. The Republican platform declares, with out equivocation, "against all proposals looking to retirement of the United States from" the Philippine Islan'ds." Equally without equivocation the Dem ocratic platform declares that the United States should "grant them their Independence." Here Is a National Is sue, in the Oregon election, of first mag nitude and highest importance. Democratic success In Oregon would announce to the people of the United States that Oregon had deliberately voted for withdrawal from the Philip pine Islands; that her Senators and Representatives in Congress were ex pected to support the policy of with drawal; that Oregon desires the position gained in the Orient through the Span ish War to be abandoned, regardless of the general advantages which the po sition gives us. Is it for a Pacific State to take the lead in this policy of "scuttle"? Is It for Oregon to take the lead in it? Care we nothing for the vast opportunities which possession of the Philippines opens to us? Is Oregon to declare, and be first to declare, for surrender of that Incomparable station of commerce in the Orient? The assertion or assumption that our sovereignty over the islands is incom patible ''with the principles of human freedom is a libel upon our own devo tion to those principles, of which Amer icans should be ashamed. Already we are introducing self-government there; and the only fear is that we shall go faster with it than the people are pre pared for it. We shall establish and maintain in the islands our familiar sys tem of territorial government, which we have followed In our home territories for a century a system in every way conformable to the principles of free dom. Whether we shall retain the Phil ippines, accepting our opportunities and duties and making the most of both, or Bsuttle the islands, is the National ques tion now before the people of Oregon. NOT THE OREGONIAN'S COMPARISON The Salem Journal says: "The Ore gonlan of last Thursday had an entire column devoted to contrasting Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Furnish person alls', the general tenor of which is that since Mr. Chamberlain is about 50 years old and still a poor man, he is unfit to be Governor, while Mr. Furnish Is an ideal man for the position because he has made money." That was not the tenor of the article at all. There could be no" more complete misrepresentation of Its tenor than this statement presents. The tenor of that article was a pro test against the assumption of the Dem ocratic press that William J. Furnish was unfit to be Governor because he had been untiring in business and fairly successful in it, while George E. Cham berlain was very fit for the office be cause he had not been active or success ful in business, and was still, as his ad mirers said, "a poor man." The Orego nlan said this was "an extraordinary comparison," which it regretted had been made. It added, however, that It did "not think that Mr. Chamberlain's lack of success in whatever private busi ness he may have undertaken Is proof of any special qualification in him for the office of Governor of Oregon." It was the Democratic press that started this comparison, against which The Oregonlan made the protest that the Salem paper now misrepresents. It cannot be Conceded that Mr. Furnish is a worse man for having attended care fully to business and made some suc cess in it, or that Mr. Chamberlain is a better one for the opposite reasona The object of The Oregonian's article was to correct or rebuke the assumptions of the Democratic press on this subject; and such was its "general tenor." Odd Fellowship will tomorrow cele- brate the 82d anniversary of Its found ing. Its history has often been written, but the recital never grows old. -With friendship, love and truth aa Its motto and the three Units symbolical of these Interlaced, the order appeals with pe culiar tenderness to its members and the most stirring chapters of Its record belong to unwritten history. Its work, as exemplified in the building and maintenance of the Orphans' Home to be dedicated tomorrow at "Woodstock, com mends itself to the benevolent people of the state as an earnest of the pur pose of Odd Fellowship to take care of Itsown, as of one family. NO PATRIOTISM THERE. Day after day we read columns of speeches in the Senate and in the anti Imperlalistic" press about the cruelties said to have been practiced by American soldiers upon the poor Filipinos. Enough has been written about the water-cure episode to make the full twenty-eight volumes of the Encyclo pedia Britannlca including the Ameri can additions. It is presented In all possible aspects, repeated with every enhancement of descriptive and illumin ative embellishment and made the theme of innumerable morals, invec tives, execrations, lamentations and general pessimism. A11 this is well enough, if the object Is to make the most of everything dis creditable to the American name and suppress everything on the other side; but If one were to proceed upon the lines of common justice he would per haps expect something calculated to ex plain or account for these outbreaks, supposing them to have occurred as depicted. But we see nothing In these speeches and editorial appeals about the torture of American soldiers by Filipinos; nothing about the massacre of defenseless women and children by Tagal chlefs-'for their loyalty to Amer ican rule; nothing about murders of our men, perpetrated under flags of truce and professions of friendship; nothing about burials of the living, mutilation of the wounded, desecration of the dead. Plenty about American cruelty to the Filipinos, nothing about Filipino cruelty to Americans. Plenty about water cure administered to Tagal murderers; noth ing about water cure administered to 'American boys far from home and seek ing only to obey a soldier's orders. Plenty about killing of Filipinos 'by Americans, nothing about midnight as sassinations, tortures, burnings, dis memberment, starvation of American soldiers by Filipinos. Sympathy for Tagal murderers of peaceful women and children, punished for their crimes; no sympathy for our sons and brothers who are following the flag against bloodthirsty savages on a foreign shore. Extenuation and praise for the assas sins of our soldiers; persecution and abuse for our boys in blue and the flag they bear. The man who persistently maligns the American soldier in spite of what all the world knows of his bravery, fidel ity and humaneness; who as persist ently exploits every isolated error of judgment or lapse of self-control; who magnifies the soldier's faults and Ig nores extenuating circumstances; who Incessantly excuses the wrongs under which that soldier suffers and even praises the merciless savages who seek through treachery and with torture that soldier's life the man who does all this and then professes he does it from sin cere desire to 6ee the soldier honored and the flag kept spotless is a liar of the first magnitude. His patriotism, if he had any, has been destroyed by the passions of partlsanism he has allowed to run riot in his heart. He is not fit to live In a country he has so outrage ously dishonored and disgraced. These anti-imperialist exploitations of Isolated offenses and studious lgnora tion of the provocation under which our soldiers suffer, rejoicings at American disasters and condonation of Tagal atrocities, are most unworthy exhibits In American statecraft and journalism. They are Infinitely lower In the moral scale than the lapses of enraged and half-starved soldiers. It is well they are not representative of the popular feeling. HI shall fare the land when those who bear its flag abroad are per secuted by such craven hearts at home. Ironical indeed Is fate, that for the benefit of these bitter malignants at home, as for the benefit of us all, the enlisted man leaves his home to brave the swamps and suns of tropic climes and bares his breast to the rude weap ons of wild beasts In human form! DIFFERENT METHODS, SAME RE SULT. The coinplete Impossibility of the Cuban relief bill as passed by the House was pointed out plainly in these col umns at the time of its passage. To the considerations then adduced there are now to be added the technical criti cisms of Senator Spooner. Upon exam ination he finds that under the House bill nothing can be done further than to negotiate treaty, which must be ratified by a two-thirds vote of the Sen ate before It became effective. The House bill, he says, "authorizes" the President to enter Into "negotiations" with the Cuban Government. The word "authorizes" could only mean "re quests," for the President always has the power. The bill several times refers to "agreement." he says, which. In the nature of things, rust be a treaty, as that is the only method of procedure. Which is to say that the House bill If passed by the Senate would not be worth the paper that it is written on. There is nothing strange about this. It has yet to appear that anybody in the House was thinking about the adapta bility of the measure to its putative ends. Nobody cared anything about Cuba. Everybody was seeking the ac complishment of some personal or par tisan ends. Some were figuring on sugar stocks, some on rendering service to Havemeyer, some on rendering serv ice to Oxnard, some 6n holding certain votes in Michigan, some on holding cer tain votes in Louisiana, some on putting the opposite party in a hole. All were pretending to be acting from motives of philanthropy toward Cuba, or fidelity to justice, but all were using Cuba's extremity and the Ideas of mercy and beneficence as mere counters In a des perate and discreditable game of per sonal and partisan politics. They order these things differently in the Senate. Its superior poise and prescience will Insure for Its Cuban re lief bill, when one Is passed, all outward semblance of statesmanship and re spectability. Its tone will be dignified, its phrases polished with grammatical perfection. . The steel which it will drive home to the vitals' of Cuban hone will be sheathed in a scabbard of irreproach able seeming, and Its careful conserva , tlon of Havemeyer and Ornard will be radiantly cloaked with sonorous and prepossessing elegance. Should one prefer to be battered into Insensibility by. the blundering club of the uncouth highwayman or run through with the poniard of the gentleman and scholar? Perhaps it does not greatly matter. The Wilson bill was not the last one to be framed in perfidy and dishonor, but It is some eight years now since those Senatorial qualities were addressed in terms from the "White. House. TARIFF REFORM VS. TARIFF DB , STRUCTIOX. On the tariff question the Indiana Re publicans are in line with the Oregon platform. They "favor such modifica tions of tariff schedules as from time to time are required by changing condi tions." But they stand by the protect ive principle. They want tariffs re formed, but not destroyed. They want protection abandoned where it Is no longer necessary, but they want it re tained where It Is necessary. This Is the true doctrine. It is found nowhere but in Republican platforms. In treatment of the tariff, everything depends upon the point of view. The Republicans are solicitous for the wel fare of American Industry. The Demo crats are solicitous for nothing but the application of their free-trade theories, no matter what it hurts. Tom L. John son expressed the Democratic position exactly the other day, when he rebuked Representative McClellan and ex-Governor Hill for talking about reciprocity and. tariff reform. The Democratic party, he said, can't discriminate be tween various sorts of protective duties. It Is opposed to all of them. The Democrats are not saying much about the tariff nowadays. It suits them better to go before the country on the basis of oppftsitlon to the flag and uniform of the United States. But If they had the power they would de stroy protective duties. They never support the proposals of tariff reform Republicans to remove unnecessary du ties. They cannot do so with any self respect, for their whole contention against the protective system forbids the supposition that there can be any just or necessary duties. AH protective tariffs are to them alike odious, and fit only to be abolished. This historic attitude of the Demo cratic party toward American indus tries is what makes It Impossible for It ever to become a tariff reform party. The tariff reformers, In Congress and In the newspapers, are all Republicans. They stand with the Oregon and Indi ana platforms against unnecessary pro tection and for necessary protection. The manufacturing Interests of the country, whether needing protection or reciprocity for wider markets, under stand this. They will never trust their welfare to the hands of the Democratic party in its present mood. FIGHT GENTLY, MY MASTERS. Peaceful methods are to be tried In Mindanao before we resor't to force. This is the advice of the antis. They intimidated President McKlnley so that the Insurrection in Luzon was permitted to spread when it might have been nipped in the bud, and now they are in timidating President Roosevelt to do the same thing In Mindanao. Chaffee and Wade are right in protesting against our retirement from the Island at this first outbreak. They know well enough that such a suicidal course would only mean-general uprisings. It is ominous and lamentable that the Ad ministration Is disposed to yield the conduct of war to the counsels of cop perheads men who not only want war conducted with all gentleness and ab stention from violence, but also desire most ardently the defeat of their coun try's flag and the triumph of its ene mies. Colonel Baldwin was on his way to punish the cowardly and atrocious mur der of American soldiers. But he has been ordered to stop. He must try con ciliation. He must be diplomatic and friendly. Meanwhile, the Moros con tinue to attack him. A prompt ad vance, he thinks, would settle the mat ter without much bloodshed. Delay and hesitation will be interpreted as it was in Luzon" that Is, as cowardice and indecision. The certain effect will be a blaze of insurrection on Mindanao and elsewhere. It is a most unfortunate proposal, for It can only play into the hands of the allies of the Insurgents In this country, who are seeking by every possible means to prevent pacification of the Islands so as to afford them fresh cause to glory over the continued state of war. The exponents of Antl-Every-thlng demand that the war be prose cuted as Ineffectually as possible, and then they point exultantly to its lack of success. , If the Administration Is going to take the advice of the milksops and copper heads as to how the war should be car ried on, let It bring Chaffee and Wade home and instruct the Army to report to Edward Atkinson and Ervlng Wins low. What is needed to induce the Fili pinos to stop killing American soldiers and peaceful non-combatants Is to or ganize them Into Dante and Browning clubs, read to them the shorter catej chlsm and dlstrlbutevamong them cop ies of the Ladles' Home Journal. The Democrats raised such a howl about officially paid representatives to Edward's coronation that It has been ordered the delegates must pay their way. The result is that popular Cap tain Clark has had to resign, being a poor man, In favor of Admiral Watson, patrician, who has a bank account. It is easy to foresee what howls will now j go up about the favoritism for the rich and the injustice of the Government's requiring the delegates to pay their own way. We shall now await with interest, In connection with Funston. a repetition of the violent diatribes hurled at the Presi dent by antl newspapers for his tyranny In daring to rebuke Miles for pouring water on the Democratic wheel. Of course, they will see the impropriety of suppressing free speech in the Army. Don't all speak at once. We acknowledge receipt of an extract from the Congressional Record by Sen ator Bacon, of Georgia, entitled "Will the Philippines Pay?" It will malte in teresting reading in connection with the protests the antis will send up at the sordid arguments made by Senator Eev erldge Wednesday at Indianapolis, The electric torch borne aloft by the Statue of Liberty at the entrance of New York harbpr has been relighted at the instapce of the War Department. This Is to say that the light of the goddess will shine continuously from thl3 time forth. UP-RIVER. OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS. (BY A STAFF WRITER.) I have to record the general -observations of a journey which, beginning at Portland, four days ago, has carried me up the Columbia River to Biggs 'Station, 24 miles east of The Dalles; south over the line of the Columbia Southern Railroad through Sherman County to Shanlko in Wasco; and on south by stage through Antelope, past Trout Creek and Hay Creek to Prlnevllle the geographical hub of the State of Oregon. It Is a Journey out of the beaten path very much so and It has served at many points to open my eyes wide. I thought I knew Oregon as well as any man living, but let me con- fess with some humility that here is an empire, here aro a set of large Inter ests, to which I am or was up to four days ago practically a stranger. And let me further confess that I am amazed to find conditions of large development and of established social life whero I expected nothing better than a wilderness of juniper and sage ranged over by countless multitudes of half domesticated cattle, sheep and horses. Truly, one-half of Oregon knows not the other half; and the unknown half Is that vast Inland country, truly an empire, which lies east of the Cascade Mountains and south from the line, of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company. Those of us who live In Western Oregon think we have seen Eastern Oregon when we have stopped off at Tho Dalle3, at Pendle ton and at Baker City. And, in truth, there is much to see and to learn In these splendid communities; but they are merely the outposts the frontier stations, 60 to speak of a country which extends for 2C0 miles one way and 300 miles' the other, and which, at every point, affords some prospect of interest, some distinction of development, some certain promise of a great future. I have eometimes thought the splendid scenery of the Columbia River a practical Injury rather than a benefit to Oregon. It Is so striking, so amazingly fine, it so absorbs the attention and so fills the imag ination as to shut out from notfee things of really more practical account. There Is, for example, a wonderfully fine district, agriculturally considered, directly east of Portland and lying between the Willam ette River and the Cascade Mountains, but the attention of no visitor Is ever called to It We arc always so eager to exploit tho purely show features of the country that we are more likely to apolo gize for the existence of commonplace but really valuable districts like that of the Sandy than to make much of them. Perhaps not one person In 50 right in Port land knows anything more of the Sandy district than that we get our strawberry supply from thereabout and that "Billy" Cotton and "Cap" Brown are making for tunes there In the dairy and potato busi ness. But there Is more to the Sandy coun try than the annual strawberry boom and be It said with all respect neither Cot ton nor "Cap," nor both of them to gether monopolize the enterprise of the district, or, If all the truth Is told, make much of a figure In It. It is a' district very rich in the matter of soil, for it Is a combination of sand from the Upper Columbia and of silt from up the Wil lamette. It lies In the rain belt, and Is therefore bountifully watered; It Is light ly rolling and Is therefore well drained; It lies pleasantly to the sun; there is timber enough. And withal, It Is within hauling distance to the Portland market, and It has what may be found nowhere else In the whole expanse of Oregon, fine roads at all seasons. If the traveler by rail will for once get his mind off the Columbia River gorge, which he has Just seen or Is expecting to see, and If he will keep a careful eye out of the car window as he rides swiftly through the 25 miles of country Immediately east from Portland he will see much to Interest him. Here Is a country more varied, more beau tiful to look upon, more prolific, better fixed for climate than the famous Mo hawk Valley or the equally famous Val ley of Virginia. It Is right under the eaves of the City of Portland; It com mands absolutely a large and unfailing market; it has every advantage and every charm. It is by no means a neglected country. The marks of prosperous life are every where In view. Farmsteads and villages are many, and pleasant thing to see In this overgreen land there Is In many sit uations the red barn, "which speaks of abundance and of the kind of thrift and taste which prevail where schools are kept two full terms a year and where the Republican ticket Is always sure of a ma jority. But with all this, not the tenth acre of the Sandy country Is under the plow. There may be five thousand people In the country; there Is room and work and profit for ten times five thousand. Land Is not high at least not In view of the situation and Its advantages and there are unnumbered chances to work out for wages while the home 13 being made. The country needs people to make the most of It; It will give them welcome, and It will provide them with the nvans of Independent and self-respecting living from the start. To go back to an Idea suggested above, there Is a distinct material disadvantage In being overhandsome. Showy qualities are more than likely to obscure practical qualities. Nobody, for example, ever ex pects a man who can bring tears to one's eyes with a tenor solo to be any good for business; the practical youth fights shy of the girl who plays overwell on the pi ano; there Is always some question If the best-turned hog in "a bunch Is a good breeder. And so, when the traveler passes through the Columbia gorge be keeps his eyes In the clouds and heeds not the sug gestions of material utility which are there for the more practical mind. But, In truth, the practical possibilities of the Columbia gorge are not less Interesting and certainly not less important and worthy of notice than Its towering sum mits, its variety and majesty of form. Its glorious vicissitudes of color and dis tance. Here Is power which fails not In Summer and freezes not In Winter, to grind the mills of the gods. Here, on these mountain slopes, are those varia tions of climate which will enable the Oregonlan of the future to defy the de crees of the seasons. Here are store houses of basalt for all the uses of a hundred generations of men. But It is not until one has gotten further on and fur ther In that the supreme value of the Columbia gorge dawns upon his business conscience. The water-level route, the down-hill haul, have, indeed, been a good deal exploited among us, but I question if those of us who have had most to say about It haVe half comprehended Its tre mendous significance. It means nothing less.'than that for all time the Columbia River gateway Js to command the traf fic of the 'Columbia River basin a coun try as large In area and as potential in all ways as the region which lies immedlately tributary to New Tork City through the system of water levels formed by the great lakes and the Hud son River. It Is not until one gets Into the great interior, until he- sees the mighti ness: of the country and foresees its great future, that he can ever measurably con ceive the significance of this mighty gate, which- opens a way to the sea for the commerce of this rising empire with no waste of energy in conquering mountain barriers. Nature foas created in this great highway a condition which no art of man can ever nullify. It will grow greater year by year; It will make Portland In the fut ure one of the world's larger marts. All this has been told over and over again; but I venture to tell It still again because It has been newly Impressed upon me by fresh observation, whlch'has opened up a new and larger view of the Columbia River Basin and developed new concep tions and emphasized old ones respecting the potentialities and destiny of this great new country of ours.' Time was when The Dalles was pretty much the whole thing In Eastern Oregon, and In Eastern Washington as well. It was the terminus of all lines' of transpor tation East and West; practically It was five times as far from Portland as It Is today; whatever there was of'' business east cf the mountains centered there or paid tribute there. Its early history was a checkered one. It was scourged by smallpox, all but destroyed by fire, drowned by floods; and each of Its re peated disasters seemed but a new start on the road to fortune. But there camera time when it appeared that the town must lose its grip, for other townsvgrew up to share in the trade of the eastern coun try. But in spite of dire prophesies, The Dalles did not 'die, but went right on doing a good business at the old stand. When the trade of the mining regions finally organized Itself within those regions, new forms of business rose to occupy the attention and yield profit to The Dalles. At last there was a time when the railroad came to bring the town close up to Portland, to destroy Its character and to estop its in crement as a terminus. Whereas In former times all lines and kinds of trans portation came to a halt at The Dalles, the railroad train merely blew Its whistle, stopped for two minutes and. rolled on. It did Indeed look dubious for awhile, and with the things of old times In mind It did make one sigh to see grass growing in the cracks In the old wharves. But to the surprise of all outsiders and even of some of The Dalles people, the town went on In much the old way. The wool trade was. left, at least, and somehow at the end of the year things footed up on the right side of the ledger all. round. Of course, .the croakers have said, The Dalles will manage to make a riffle- of It as long as she holds the wool trade, but there will come a day when somebody will build a railroad out Into the grass country; then good-bye Dalles for the last time. Well, the long-expected railroad has been built out toward tha Crook County frontier; Shanlko now makes pretensions as the center of the wool trade; The Dalles will still do something In the wool line, but Shanlko will get the bulk of the range product and will for the present be the terminus of the Central Oregon freight ing business. But as my train passed through The Dalles four days ago, there was the look of life In the streets, people In large numbers were getting on and off; and as the train moved on I counted no less than 11 buildings In course of construction. There was certainly every Indication of vitality In the old town; and when a little later I fell Into talk with a Dalles man I soon found confirmation of appearances. Never in recent years, he said, had things been In better shape in The Dalles. Busi ness in every line Is good; bank deposits run high; the Interest rate Is low; there Is more building than In any recent sea son; everybody Is prosperous and hope ful. All of which goes to show that as conditions have changed The Dalles has adjusted herself to each new deal. It affords, too, some measure of the growth of -the Eastern region. Today when The Dalles is practically lllnlted to Its Imme diate home field. It is doing more busi ness and is growing more rapidly than when it monopolized the whole business of Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington and the then unorganized wilderness of Idaho. Local growth has more than mod up for the succession of losses which have followed the Internal organization of the country and the extension of railroad facilities. The Dalles, It is plain even to one who passes through without leav ing his seat In the car, is one of the spir ited, progressive and hopeful cities of the most spirited, progressive and hopeful section of Oregon. In addition to a multitude of local ad vantages The Dalles has a powerful re source In a large accumulated capital, won by enterprise in the days of pioneer prosperity and retained and in creased through business prudence. This resource enables The Dalles to 'do many things which would be Impossible for A community less well provided. Dalles capital and business energy, for example, are organizing the wool trade and other and more general lines of business- In Sherman County, and In the Southern part of Wasco, 'where, under the stimulus ot railroad facilities, development is going rapidly forward. The grain and wool warehouses at Shanlko and at several other places are largely owned by Dalles men; the Shanlko brick hotel, a structure of some pretensions. Is owned by a Dalles corporation. In which the Frenchs hold an Important, If not the leading Interest. Dalles capital, too. Is doing a great work on White River, one of the affluents of the Deschutes in the way of developing electrical power. Works recently set up some 30 or more miles from The Dalles at a cost of about 5300,000 now transmit to that city a current sufficient for its domestic requirements for light and power and capable of .almost unlimited enlargement. " ' This writing was begun with the pur pose of setting forth the conditions of Crook County, but here I am at my space limit, no further away from home than The Dalles. Crook County will have to wait upon another writing. A. H. Prlnevllle, April 22. v Nnture. Henry "Wadsworth Longfellow. As a fond mother, when the day Is o'er. Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And leave his broken playthings on the floor. Still gazing at them, through the open doqr. Nor wholly reassured and comforted By promises of others In their stead. Which, though more splendid, may not please him more, So Nature -deals with, xa, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that, we go Scarce knowing If we wish to go or stay. Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what wo know THE GENTLE FILIPINO. Chicago Inter Ocean. The executive committee of the Alli ance of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches, In session at Pittsburg, heard some Interesting testimony on Thursday I from 4he Rev. George F. Pentecost, ot New Tork. Dr. Pentecost has just re turned from the Philippines, whither he was sent to organize Presbyterian mis sions. Among other things he said: Millions ot the inhabitants of these Islands do not averase up to the standard of hair-clvll-ized people, not a few arc still barbarous, .wholly uncivilized, and totally Isnorant of civilization or government. Just what Dr. Pentecost meant may be gathered from the reporfc-of the Taft Com mission. In the AutuYnn of 1S93 the Tagal Insurgent army had been dispersed and the war had become mere brigandage. The Taft Commission reached the Islands on June 3; 1SO0. and at once began work on plans to replace military with civil gov ernment as rapidly as conditions would permit. In many districts local civil gov ernment had already been established by the Army. Brigandage continued. The commission In December, 1SO0, asked the various mili tary commanders to report Its extent In their districts. Here are the consolidated figures of their reports for the Island of Luzon alone: Municipal officers assassinated for accepting American rule 73 Municipal officers assaulted for accepting American rule 47 Other natives assassinated for accepting Amrlcttn rule 340 Other natives assaulted for accepting Amer ican, rule i. 43'J In the foregoing totals. It must be re membered, are Included only the crimes then known to the American commanders. Hundreds and thousands of such crimes were concealed for months after their commission. The 73 municipal officers and 340 other natives above Indicated did not fall In battle. They were the victims of deliber ate murder, often accompanied with every refinement of cruelty. And scores of Americans were also assassinated tor tured in life and their bodies brutally mutilated after death. Of course, the crimes of lawless Fili pinos against Americans and peaceful na tives do not excuse retaliatory crimes. Yet the foregoing figures show something of the extent of the provocation to re taliate. And it Is certainly only fair not to accept as proved 'the guilt of the sol diers until they can be heard In their own defense. To condemn unheard even a sol dier Is un-American. Yet m the face of the persistent Filipino barbarity, and of the testimony of every clear-headed American who has been In the islands, many academic talkers amor.g us insist tuat the Filipinos are fit for self government and entirely competent tq take their place among the civilized na tions of the" earth. In the light of the f acts, for any Ameri can to persist In the "gentle-Filipino" de lusion must be regarded as proof of either a desire to deceive the people or a desire to scuttle out of the Philippines, or per haps, both. OREGON AND "SCUTTLE." The Chief of All Denies Between the Parties. Baltimore News. It has been unceasingly evident, ever since Congress met, that the Democratic party Is at the present time more dis tinctly committed to the programme of ultimate Independence for the Philippine Islands than it has been at any previous time. An Instance of this attitude Is fur nished in the platform adopted by the Oregon Democrats a few days ago, the declaration being "that the best policy Is to prepare the people of those Islands for self-government as speedily as possible, and when so prepared to grant them their Independence." Still, this language is strong enough to cause the Philadelphia Press to characterize it as meaning "sim ply the policy of 'scuttle.' " It is direct opposition to the platform of the Oregon Republicans, which declares "against all proposals looking to the retirement of the United States from the Philippine Isl ands." The Press says that the expres sions of both the parties on the subject two years ago were very much the same as they are thfe year. -and that at that time the Republicans carried their state ticket by a plurality over the Democrats of 10,637, and by a clear majority of 6100. But this makes the adherence of the Dem ocrats ot Oregon to their position all tho more significant, especially In view of the sittlatlon of the state, the Pacific Coast being specially partial to the ac quisition of the Pacific Islands. The next Presidential election Is still a long way off, but, for the present, indications point to a pretty sharp division between the two parties on the question of our future relations to the Philippines. The Answer to Cnshmnn. New York Journal of Commerce. There Is nothing new In the denuncia tions of the arbitrary power of the Speaker by Mr. Cushman of Washington, who describes himself as flattened be tween the pressure of 500,000 voters on one side and the resistance of the Speaker and the committee on rules on the other, only Mr. Cushman has nothing like half a million voters behind him, and there are 15,CC&,000 or 16.000.000 voters In the whole country, pretty evenly divided politically. Mr. Cushman Is far from being the first man who has found It Impossible to get his pet measures, and those on whose passage his re-election depends, before the House. But House bill 13,676 and Senate bill 5260 were Introduced on April 15. It Is plainly Impossible for all these bills, or even a very large part of them, to get the consideration of Congress. They are first sifted by committees, but far more get through this sieve than can be con sidered by the House and Senate. They are subjected in the House to the further sifting of the calls of committees, the suspensions of the rules and unanimous consents. The majority of the House, as a political entity, acts in the selection of bills it will -consider through the commit tee on rules and through the speaker, who Is distinctly tho party leader and the representative of the dominant party In the House. Fls Individuality of course counts, as does that of every man, but If the House could get along without vesting extensive powers in him It would have found out the fact before Mr. Cushman was born. , Judge Lowell nmd Mr. Johns. Eugene Register. Stephen A. Lowell, who aspired to be the Republican candidate for Governor, Is out with his "rait" to down Furnish. Mr. Lowell lives In Umatilla County, but his. aspirations had no backing at the hands of Eastern Oregon Republicans. Mr. Johns, of Baker County, had a strong desire to sit In the gubernatorial chair, and, unlike Mr. Lowell, went Into the State Convention with 41 votes behind him. However, Mr. Johns represents the type of citizenship that accepts defeat gracefully and gets right Into the har ness to help the man who won the honor over him. Johns saw that he could not be nominated, and desiring to see East ern Oregon honored, threw his strength to Furnish. Republicans will draw the contrast between Johns and Lowell, and thank their lucky stars that Lowell was not even recognized in convention as a candidate. NOTE AxD COMMENT. " Let us now talk politics a little. Wedding cards always bear the union label. It is raining In Kansas again. Kansas at times acts rationally. There are no bunco men In town. If you don't believe It, ask them. There seems to be a general retrograde movement all along-the fusion line. The next reprimand sent to Funston will probably be accompanied by a muzzle. The mystery of the present century is that no one has yet named a 5-cent cigar for J. P. Morgan. People have to travel all over the East to find the varieties of weather that are dished up in Oregon every day. A minister of the Congregational church says that theatrical performances are not so bad as they mighfbe. He ought to see some of them. Two great corporations have recently been organized under the taxi's of Arizona, Is New Jersey losing her grip on the trust magnates? Puzzle. If it took the Democrats rix weeks to find one candidate for Senator, how can they find another before t close of the campaign? President Rossevclt Is hardly entitled to criticism for letting American Generals In the Philippines know that Spnln is no longer the dominant power over there. If Southern Senators keep up their rec ord they will soon be followed by a cordon of police and a crowd of war cor- 1 respondents whenever they go across the street Considering the fact that Mr. Money Is from the South, the street-car conductor can feel thankful that it was a penknife and not a six-shooter that was Hashed on him. Andrew Carnegie Is going to give a li brary to Stratford for the enlightenment of the citizens. Yet one resident of tiio place managed to do fairly well In liter ature without any library. It is now possible to. Insure In London against the risk of smallpox breaking out In the contiguous houses, the idea being, of course, to protect the assured against expense Incurred by temporary removal, the rate Js a minimum of 10 shillings per cent for the year, the risk, of course, ex tending over an indefinite number of peo ple. One broker, who was in this busi ness from the start, has been doing hardly anything else for several days, and many who at first laughed at the whole thing are now coming into the market. A Kansas editor recently contradicted a report that a young woman in his county was about to abandon school teaching In order to get married, adding, "She Is not that kind of a girl" where by he meant that she would not break a contract. But the girl interpreted the phrase differently, and wrote to the edi tor to give him "a piece of her mind." "I don't know," she said, "that it Is any of your business, but I give you to under stand that I am not the kind of a girl you say. I can get married If I want to." "Private" John Allen told this story In Washington the other day: "There Is an East St. Louis citizen named Zellerbaum. Zellerbaum saw little service during tho Civil War, but Insists that he was In the greatest battles. To his hearers one night at a Grand Army campfire Zellerbaum was telling of his prowess In two battles. A little man In the back of the hall arose. Both those battles were fought on the same day and 1500 miles apart." he said. 'My friend,' shouted Zellerbaum, 'there Is a traitor among us! Throw the rebel out!" And they did." Some years ago Prince (then Count) Munster, with Count Beust and Count Schouvaloff, was attending a Foreign Of fice reception In London. Their names af forded no slight difficulty to the thorough ly English footman, who announced tho guests by shouting their names up tho great staircase. Count Schouvaloff ar rived first, and the footman dujy an nounced him as "Count Shufileoff." Then came Count Beust, whose name In tho servitor's mouth became "Count Beast." Lastly, Count Munster appeared, and tho footman, evidently feeling that a supremo effort was required, finished off by calling out "Count Monster." PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGKAPHERS "An orphan? Poor dear. Are you all alono In the world, then?" "Shucks, no. I've got more fellers than jou kin shake a stick at!" Life. Works Both Ways. Welles Did Christian Science cure you of rheumatism? Syckley No; but rheumatism cured me of Christian Science. Judge. Prow n Don't you think that music has charm to soothe the savage beast? Jon s Yes. That's why I hnve put a brass banl round my dog Tluto's neck. runch. Condoned. Mamma Did you tell God how naughty you were? Ethel Yes, and I gue-ss I wasn't so naughty attr all, 'cause he didn't make any fuss about it. Philadelphia Press. The Wanderings of UlysseH. "If 'Ulysses is to be produced in this country, why wouldn't It be appropriate to have the initial perform ance in Ithaca?" "Then it could be taken to Troy." Cleveland Plain Dealer. He Had Troubles. "I am going to marry your daughter, sir," said the positive youn;r man to the Tether. "Well. ou don't need to come to me for sympathy." replied the father; "I have troubles of my own." Ohio State Journal. Necessities. "Farmers pretty hard up?" "Pooty hard up." "But none actually suffer ing for the necessities of life, I hope?" "Well, I dur.no! They's farmers out in my section 'at hain't hed their wives' plcters 'nlarged In crayon fer more 'n four ye"ars, now!" Puck. On the Safe Side. SHmson I hear you have been fighting that little boy next dcor. and that he whipped you. How did that happen? Willie Well, he's going to give a party next week, and I was afraid it I licked him ho wouldn't Invite me. Harper's Bazar. The True Test. Louise What makes you think that you love him? Hester Well, really, I shouldn't have believed it of myself, but while I was looking in at those lovely new hats In the milliner's window. I kept thinking of him Instead of the hats. Chicago News. The Street-Car Strike. San Franclscb Bulletin. Adown the silent thoroughfare No clanging cable goes; The sad commuter hikes along. And grumbles of his woes; He Jars hl3 spinal column and He stubs hl3 tender toes. No shrieking, grinding Juggernaut Goes rattling through the town To seize the 'wlldered countryman. And ruthless run him down; The truckman has no motorman To blast him with a frown. Uron the now deserted tracks Tho happy children play; Adown the quiet cables lit The cobweb spiders stray; The carman's gone a-fishing, for It is his holiday. Why grumble, O Pedestrian? Why all those bitter sighs? Go dash the angry teardrops from Your most indignant eyes; Reflect! You now are getting- Much-needed exercise