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THE MOEKINQ' OBEGONIAN, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1902. to rjegpmcm Kntercd at the Fostofflce at Portland, Orecon, as second-class matter. HEV1SED SUBSCRIPTION HATES. Tiv 'M'nll tnrmtnert rnmMd. !n Advance j Daily, with Sunday, per month $ 3 uany, sunaay excepted, per year Dally, with Sunday, per year JJ" Sunday, per year r J Tk VVW now t.noi- . 1 CO l-fffae "Weekly 3 months I To City Subscribers . , I Dally, per week, delivered, Sundays exceptea.i&c .Daily, per week, delivered. Sundays includedJJOo POSTAGE RATES. United States, Canada and Mexico: 10 to 14-page paper......... ..........1 14 to 28-pace 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 thoulu be addressed nimply ""Tho Oregonlan." 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Second South street. For sale In New Orleans by A. C. Phelps, COO Commercial Alley. For sale in Ogden by C. H. Myrrs. On file at Charleston, S. C, In the Oregon ex hibit at thti exposition. For sale in Washington, D. C, by the Ebbett House news stand. For sale In Denver, Colo., by Hamilton & Xendrlck. 000-012 Seventeenth street; Louthan & Jackson Book & Stationery Co., 15th and Lawrence streets; A. Series, 1C53 Champa street. TOD AT S WEATHER Partly cloudy, with probably occasional showers; variable winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature, J3; minimum temperature 42; pre cipitation, 0,01 inch. FOR.TLASD, MOXDAY, 3IAT 12, 1002. 3 BUSINESS SEXSE WILL WIS. It is to the business sense of the peo ple of Oregon that the Republican po sition particularly appeals in this cam paign. The business policy which Re publicanism now stands for Is of pe culiar importance to Oregon and the Pacific Coast at this time, and a re versal of that policy would bring un pleasant results. Though the issue is not the same In terms that was before the voters in 1896, It appeals to the same interests. And Oregon's voice at this time cannot fall to have great effect upon the course of National affairs that bear on Oregon's prosperity. Oregon looks to the trade of the Pa cific, to the policy of National expan sion, for great gain. Oregon producers and tradesmen know this well. Noth ing else has occurred since Oregon be came a state that so profoundly affects our industrial life as does the recent exploitation of the lands of the Pacific Oregon has already experienced some of the advantages of this new adjust ment of commercial courses, and we have yet to hear that the state has too much benefit from Pacific trade. If Oregon were to go Democratic at the June election, how would the Nation interpret it? A great state at the very threshold of this waking world in the Orient, a state craving markets for its manufactures and natural products and offering an unsurpassed field for indus trial development if such a state should turn its back on a policy that prom ises so much, would it not shake con fidence in the whole scheme of commer cial expansion among those less Inti mate with It? Can the business lnter- ests of Oregon afford to act in .a man ner that is open to this construction? The election will be won or lost through the activity or apathy of busi ness men. Sentimentalists and disgrun tled politicians will count for little vin the total vote. Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, miners stockmen, fish ermen, railroad men, those who labor with their hands and those who employ labor, can stand .together on a platform ior Industrial and commercial growth. for abounding and abiding prosperity. Almost an ideal representative of the business Interests, the business sense, of the state is the Republican candi date for Governor, W. J. Furnish. It Is not necessary to draw the contrast be tween him and Mr. Chamberlain on the business issue. It draws Itself. It ought not to be necessary to call public attention to the far-reaching effect the Oregon eleotion will have on the Na tional policy. It Is plain that Oregon cannot elect a Democratic Governor at this time without giving the Instant impression that the course that has opened the lands of the Pacific to a mighty American commerce is unpop ular and inglorious. Oregon will do no such thing. Her business sense, If noth ing else, will sax-e her from committing such folly. THE LAW AXD USAGE OF WAR. Among the most vehement denuncia tions of the recent events in the Phil ippines are those of Southern Senators, Who resent today any criticism on the conduct of the prison pen at Ander sonvllle, a thing unknown in the Philip pines. These antl-lmperlallsts condemn General Smith because he said he would like "to make a howling wilderness of ,Samar," but forget that General Grant ordered Sheridan to make the Shenan doah "Valley "a barren waste," and Sheridan did it Sheridan in one raid destroyed more than 2000 barns, burned seventy mills, drove off four great herds of stock, after killing and issuing to his men more than 3000 sheep. When Sheridan finished his raid the Shenan doah Valley was a barren waste. When Sherman marched through Georgia he left a track from forty to sixty miles wide devastated. His 65,000 men and J0.000 horses lived "off a state wherein our captives In thousands had died of virtual starvation and kindred agonies because, as was alleged, their captors had been unable to subsist them." This same devastation of the country was repeated on the march from Sa vannah up Into South Carolina. In an order given by 5rant to Sheridan It is distinctly stated-that it was "'in retalia tion for the assistance and sympathy given Mosby and his men by the in habitants of Loudoun Valley," "Virginia, and Grant directed him "to destroy and carry off the crops, animals, negroes and all men under 50 years of age capa ble of bearing arms. All male citizens under EO can fairly be held as prisoners of war. and not as citizen prisoners. If not already soldiers, they will be made eo the moment the rebel army gets hold of them." There Is nothing that has been done by our troops In the Philippines that is not In accordance with general order No. 100, Issued in 1S63 and prepared by Professor Francis Lieber, then professor of history and political economy in Co lumbia College. Professor Lieber drew up a eet of rules which was submitted to a board of Army officers and ap proved. It was then published to the Army as general orders No. 100 by the Adjutant-General's offlce, and from that day to this has been the rule of conduct for our Army. LET THEM SUBMIT. Undoubtedly there Is grave discontent In the Philippines under the military activity of the United States. But the Insurgents have one remedy within in stant reach. Let them submit. By war and purchase the Philippines are ours. The title gained to them is as unimpeachable in law and morals as our title to Florida, or Louisiana, or California. Ours is the sovereignty, ours Is the authority. This sovereignty will not be successfully disputed. Rec ognition of American authority is the one inevitable end before the people of the Islands. They don't like defeat. They don't like to be killed or impris oned by victorious boys in blue scaling their forts and hunting them down in swamps and jungles. Then there Is a remedy at hand. Let them submit They say they are fighting for self government. So was Florida in 1S61-65. So was Louisiana, Political independ ence Is not permitted to any territory that comes into what Chief Justice Marshall called tho American empire. Political dependence is enforced, but along with it goes the largest possible measure of individual freedom, civil and religious. The South is free today; but it Is not independent. The Philippines will be free, but they will not be inde pendent. Secession is permissible In the one case no more than In the other. The test of secession is not In the resolves of the seceders; It is In the merit of their cause. The colonies se ceded from Great Britain and the rea sons they "submitted to a candid world" had to do with misgovernment It was not so much that they wanted to be independent That was insufficient. They based their appeal to humanity upon their wrongs at the hands of Par liament and the King. What unjusti fied secession comes to we saw in the case of the South, we shall see again In the Philippines, we should see In Ore gon, Florida or Alaska, If the banner of secession, should be unfurled today. Such rank misgovernment as the American colonists complained of to King George cannot be Imputed by the Filipinos to the American people. So far as our Government has been enabled to put in force its authority, the prin ciples of the American Constitution have been extended. All the freedom has been given that can safely be used by the Filipinos, to whom unrestrained liberty means anarchy, and no govern ment at all. We are rightfully In the Philippines, and our obligation Is to stay there and enforce our authority. Whatever In convenience the resistance there occa sions the insurgents Is due to their own fault in rebelling without adequate cause. We shall enforce obedience to our sovereignty at whatever necessary cost. The remedy against death, Im prisonment and military operations Is within their reach. Let them submit. The flag will stay there in spite of their most frenzied efforts. Let them submit. IKSURAXCE ENGINEERING. Mr. Edward Atkinson, president of the Boston Manufacturers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Is a much more practical man than is Mr. Edward At kinson, political reformer. This Is proven by a circular recently sent out In the former capacity to the manu facturers Insured in his company and to a number of others presumably In terested In the matter of intelligent ac tion looking to the prevention of the destruction of property by fire, asking their attention to and co-operation In the work of establishing a school or de partment of Insurance engineering In the Massachusetts Institute of Technol ogy, to the end that the elementary principles of the prevention of loss by fire may form a part of a system of scientific instruction. He takes the ten able ground, based on the experience of sixty years of factory mutual insurance companies, that a large part of the an nual fire loss In this country Is due to remediable causes, and that these can only be reached when what may be termed the science of the prevention of loss by fire much more closely ap proaches perfection than now. Launch ing, out into statistics, Mr. Atkinson states that the "annual ash-heap of the United States" represented a. loss of $150,000,000; that if to this is ad,ded the excess of expense in conducting insur ance companies. In the establishment and maintenance of water works and fire departments, due mainly to the ex istence of avoidable dangers In our large cities, the fire loss of the country In an average year is in his opinion not less and probably more than $250,000,000. That this vast sum may be more read ily comprehended (since, stated In the abstract, Its Immensity tends to confuse rather than enlighten the average mind), he cites that .this sum is equal to the ordinary annual expense of con ducting the United States Government In all of Its branches, omitting Interest and. penslona Putting It in another way, he says that It represents quite one-fifth of the wealth that can be add ed In a good year to the capital of the Nation, and would pay the cost of carry ing on all the common schools In the United States. This much, for the enormous annual waste of fire. For the prevention of this waste "by intelligent means he pre scribes a scientific treatment of the ques tion on the basis of experience in deal ing with men and measures. His pre sentment of the matter Is reinforced by the group of fire Insurance companies with which he is connected. These were organized for the purpose of In suring . textile factories, but In later years they have extended their opera tions, taking In machine shops', metal works, paper mills and the like, writ ing an amount of insurance in a year equal to ?1,200,000,000. The recent expe rience of the older companies of thls class has been phenomenal In the ex emptlon which has come to them from large fire losses. The business.- which they have been carrying on that is, the insuring of manufacturing establish ments of all kinds Is commonly con sidered especially hazardous, and yet as the result of the scientific supervision exercised by them, and which Mr. At kinson proposes to extend by special training, their losses by fire have been reduced to the equivalent of about 4 cents each year for each $100 worth of property Insured; or, to state the mat ter In another way, taking the amount they have at risk, these companies have suffered from fire to only about one tenth of the extent that the ordinary fire Insurance companies have suffered, although the risks, generally speaking, of the latter have been much less haz ardous than those of the former. , , This surprising Immunity from loss, Mr. Atkinson insists. Is due to the fact that the companies that he represents have applied to and been able to en force In te conduct of their business what may be termed scientific princi ples of fire prevention. The( object has been to place and fix responsibility in construction and supervision. Thus each risk, or each establishment, al though 'it might represent millions of dollars of insurable property, has been commonly under the control of one dU rectlng head, who could be approached and made responsible for the proper care of it, and, furthermore, those in executive charge of these great estab lishments have been ordinarily men who have realized the value of advice and suggestions given to them by the In spectors of the Insurance companies. In a word, it has been found that by tak ing proper precaution, especially In the matter of building construction, the fire losses may be cut down to a fraction of what they otherwise would be. What Mr. Atkinson asks Is that this Impor tant subject be made a department of scientific instruction, and unless his figures are misleading and the expert ence of the companies with which he Is working Is accidental as well as phe nomenal, a conception not to bex enter tained In a world in which nothing is the result of chance, the proposition de serves the attention and co-operation of practical men, wh6 deem the conserva tion of wealth almost as Important as its production. LIBERAL POLICIES NEEDED. Oregon is a land of magnificent dis tances, and wonderful are the trade possibilities within the confines of the state. Diversified farming, fruit, hops, stock and dairying have brought pros perity to the Willamette Valley and Southern Oregon. The Coast cities and towns have all moved forward with the unparalleled development In the lumber trade. On the Lower Columbia fishing, logging and attendant industries are turning the wheels of trade as they have never turned before. In Eastern Oregon mining, stock, wheat and wool are all adding rapidly to the wealth and prosperity of the population. With all these evidences of great activity on every hand there are still "openings" wherein the earnest application of capi tal and labor can bring forth results fully a8 satisfactory as any that have been achieved by the vanguard. The recently printed observations of an Oregonlan staff correspondent regard ing the wool Industry In Eastern Ore gon set forth the immensity of the field for operations. Nearly 200 miles from Portland is Shanlko, a town as typically "frontier" as any that marked the end of the track when the railroads were pushing West a generation ago. This Journey of a day by rail leads the traveler through the wonderful wheat fields of the Co lumbia River counties, past the fine fruit farms of Eastern Multnomah and the Hood River country, past the big. export lumber mills and flumes which bring timber, down from the adjacent hills In quantities which stagger some of the Eastern lumber men unaccustomed to business on such a tremendous scale, past the sal mon fisheries of the Cascades and Dalles, and on through the rich wheat fields of the river counties. Commercial and Industrial development does not stop with the end of the rail road track, however, for long wagon trains are coming and going over a 250 mile trail which on an alr-llne route would still terminate within the bounds of the state. Stretched along this trail, In most cases over a day's journey by team apart, are little settlements, In none of which are evidences of prosper ity lacking. A few of the settlers are in a measure content with their Isolated life, and like the American Indian dread the ap proach pf the Iron horse and the ad vanced civilization which accompanies It The majority, however, would like to have facilities for doing business under better advantages. Great indeed must be the opportunities for gaining a livelihood and amassing wealth when settlers will live contented In a locality from- which they can reach a market only by a wagon haul of 250 miles. The fact that they are there and have for years prospered under that handicap of distance from the market is Indis putable evidence of the existence of most attractive resources which can be developed to their fullest extent only by railroad communication with the outside world and Its markets. A few narrow minded settlers in that vast region lying south and east of the "front" of P Shanlko maintain that the country should De given over entirely to the grazing Industry, and that it Is no place for small farmers who are content to settle down and raise something besides sheep. This policy, if carried out, would keep thev population of Oregon down to small proportions for a great many years. Had it prevailed to a sufficient extent to prevent the. building of the Colum bia Southern, the prosperous cities and towns like Moro) Wasco, Grass Valley and Shanlko would still be merely stage stations and rendezvous for the sheep and stock men. There are patches of "scab land" In that big country which are not adapted for agricultural pur poses, but there is good land in quan tities sufficient to make thousands of fine farms, which will begin adding to the wealth of the state as soon as a way to market Is provided. Portland Is deeply concerned in this matter; for, as stated In our correspond ent's letters, all of the goods that are sold in that country are sold by Port land merchants, and an effort should be made to have the road pushed south with all possible speed. There Is a large portion of this country which can easily be made accessible to San Fran cisco, and a section that produces wool by the rolllious of pounds, sheep by the hundreds of thousands and cattle and horses by the tens of thousands will not always be overlooked by our lnelghbors on the south. Harper's Weekly calls timely atten tion to the fact that the debate In the United States Senate on the Philippine government bill does not enlighten the country on the character of the meas ure. In the first place, the Intent Is to provide, a temporary, not a perma nent, government for the islands. It approves and confirms the appointment of the Taft Commission, and the plan of administration outlined by McKinley; It also ratifies the Departments of the Interior, of Commerce and Police, of Finance and Justice, and of Public In struction. In a word, the Islands are to continue, for a time, under the execu tive and legislative control of the Taft Commission, but after the passage of the act the Senate is to have the right of confirming or rejecting nominees for Commlssionerships, -while the appoint ment of Judges of the higher courts is transferred from the commission to the President. The next following clauses of the bill provide for the taking of a census of the islanders, after peace has been established, for the purpose of as certaining and giving to the President and Congress Information as to the ca pacity of the islanders for the establish ment and maintenance of popular rep resentative government Other provis ions regulate the cutting of timber, the lease of -public lands, the purchase of ,mlneral lands, and the acquisition by the Government of the lands of the friars. There are also in the bill pro visions regulating the granting of fran chises. These are framed for the pur pope of inviting capital Into the islands, at the same time protecting the islands against exploiters. The bill. It will be seen, as Harper's Weekly points out, contemplates a temporary government of such long existence that it may well be regarded as In reality a measure for the establishment of a permanent gov ernment The recent Instance of Porto Rico by Mr. Havemeyer as affording a prece dent for what we have a right to expect from Cuba if liberal tariff concessions are made suggests farther inquiry Into its trade. Previous to 189S our average exports to that island for Ave years were $2,000,000 a year. For the first eight months of the present fiscal year he exports amounted to $6,887,000, or at the rate of over $10,000,000 a year. Over four-fifths of Porto Rico's imports are from the United States. If the same ratio of Increase would appear under free trade with Cuba, we should have, a market for about $136,000,000 of goods instead of for only $27,000,000, as at present A generous reciprocity ar rangement that will permit Cuba to market her sugar and other crops In this country and that will give this country an advantage in her ports would reap at least part of this harvest It Is also suggestive that Porto Rico's principal takings from the United States are rice, manufactures of cotton, wheat, flour, hog products, machinery, Iron and steel, fish and lumber. In other words, in three of these articles the Pacific Northwest is directly Inter ested, and is bound to benefit by any increase in the demand. If Cuba's prin cipal takings are the same, the Pacific Northwest should benefit proportion ately by generous concessions' to Cuba in return for equal concessions by her. A man's opinions upon public ques tions may safely be judged by his ut terances at a time when he has no rea son to frame his words with a view to pleasing any particular class of people. About a year ago. In addressing an as sembly of teachers at Newport, Judge George H. Williams gave expression to his opinions upon organized labor. He was then a candidate for no offlce never expected .to be a candidate. He handled his subject wisely and consid erately, as he always does. He said: I am not afraid or the agitation now going on between capital and labor. Unhappy out breaks and attendant leases may occur, for liberty and justice are scarred by such Inci dents. Combinations of capital justify com binations of labor, and If the wage-earners of our country will avoid lawlessness and depend upon their united strength and influence, they will succeed In securing a Just compensation for their labors and deserve the support of all those people whose God Is not the almighty dollar. The practical wisdom which Judge Williams shows in his attitude o every public question is admirably Illustrated In this remark. He is a safe man to have at the head of any city govern ment at a critical time, such as the one through which Portland Is about to pass under the new charter. Commenting on an action of the Re publican managers, the St Paul Plo- L neer-Press editor wrote "it was a sensi ble thing." It came out in the paper a "smooth" thing. The Joy with which the Democratic papers greeted this ap parent confession of sharp practice was only equaled by the grief in the offlce of the Pioneer-Press, which has been busy ever since in explaining the error and damning the intelligent compositor. A campaign being on in Oregon, also, the joke borders on the painful, but elsewhere It ought to prove a source of unmitigated mirth. "One more bit of evidence that the G. O. P. Is going to carry everything before it In the' Fall elections" is the sarcastic comment made by the Hart ford Times, Democratic, upon the fu sion efforts In Oregon. This Is an earn est of the Democratic rejoicing over rebuke to expansion which would follow Democratic gains In our June election. A vote for Chamberlain Is a vote to stifle Pacific development Eastern papers that oppose Govern ment aia for irrigation applaud the President for his stand against range leases and in favor of the settler. What good will reservation of the Western ranges do the settler, we should like to have some of these acute observers ex plain, If he Is not enabled to get water on them? Governor Taft's mission to the Vati can Is sensible and proper in every way, and It is humiliating that the Ad ministration should feel it necessary to. explain the errand in apologetic terms. We are living in the twentieth century, but superstition is not: dead. "Shall Stay Pat." Washington Star. The President used a homely and ex pressive vernacular -phrase last night when, In his speech before tho Sons of the American Revolution, he said it was evi dent that they intended that the flag shall "stay put" where It now floats. He has, indeed, supplied a new political ral lying cry. The policy of "scuttle" has Its distinctive phrase. Opposed to it now are those whp are determined that the flag shall "stay put" COSTS TO KEEP T FLAG UP. New York Journal of Commerce. The cost of war is a momentous fact, and it Is one of the reasons why peace should bo preferred, but It Is only a sub ordinate reason, and everything that Is best In men revolts at the Idea of trying to determine by an expense account whether a war is worth while or not Probably no war of modern times, even the most In excusable, has been undertaken for profit, and no people of any spirit would refrain from a Just war on the ground of Its expense. Whether war shall be under taken or not must be determined by other than monetary considerations, and if the decision is in favor of war the bill must be paid as pieacsntly as possible, and the length of that bill cannot for a moment be recognized as a reason for impugning the judgment that decided on war. The opposition party in Congress is mak ing a strenuous effort to ascertain just how much the military operations In the Philippines have, cost from the time of Dewey's attack on the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. To what end? We are in the Philippines rightfully or not It we are, wo shall defend our rights there and assert our sovereignty and establish our peace without regard to expense. If we are not the cost of war is the smallest of all reasons for abandoning the struggle and evacuating the Islands. It is difficult to put one's self in the place of the men. Senators and Repre sentatives of reputed ability, many of them from a part of-the country pre-eminent for Its production of statesmen, who imagine that the Administration can be attacked and its Philippine policy over thrown on account of the number of dol lars Involved in asserting the National au thority in the Islands. Did It ever occur- to anyone to raise the question of expense in connection with any suppression of Indian hostilities? What would have been done to any man who had ciphered out the cost of enforcing the National au thority in the South as L reason for sub mitting to the division of the Nation into two nations? In the Philippine matter there are ques tions of politics of the higher sort, that is, of statesmanship and National self-interest, besides National obligation, and there are questions of private and public morals. But wo should have supposed it impossible that any man in the United States Congress would think so meanly of his own constituents, and of his fellow countrymen generally, as to 'think it worth while to attack the occupation 'of tho islands as an unprofitable Investment For ourselves, we opposed the efforts to hurry this country Into war with Spain, but being in the war, we from the first regarded the acquisition of the' Philip pines as an inevitable sequence. And we believe it is inlso for the commercial inter ests of the United States to oocupy these islands. But no commercial advantages would have lod anyone to advocate the war, and wo are surprised that financial burdens should lead anyone to propose the abandonment of the Islands. If we are not rightfully there let our title be attaoked, but let no man urge that the flag should be hauled down because it costs too much to keep it flying. THE ISSUES IN OREGON. Boise Statcfiman. There should be a vote of confidence in the Roosevelt administration at tho Ore gon election. The ticket nominated by the Republicans Is thoroughly friendly to the administration, and the belief Is expressed by the Morning "Oregonlan that the people will show their confidence in It and in the administration of President Roosevelt by casting an overwhelming Republican majority. There should be no doubt on that point Oregon has always shown up bravely when such Important questions have been submitted to its people for their verdict and it will not fail now when the policy of the past and present administrations is ao bitterly attacked by the opposition. The issue of expansion and retention. of the Philippines was In the case when Ore gon last voted and gave tha Republican ticket 10,000 majority. Since then nothing has occurred to justify the defection of a single Republican voter; nor is there any evidence that any one who voted the ticket two years ago has since left the party. In Multnomah County there is lo cal defection, a fusion legislative ticket having been placed in the field by a de feated faction, but it will not command much support and will not Influence the result in the state at large. The same issue that rallied the people to the Republican standard at the last election is again raised by a desperate opposition; the same sentiment prevails In Oregon on that subject, and the vote should be equally heavy in support of the policy of the Government Indeed, It should be much heavier, for there are multitudes of men still calling themselves Democrats who have no sympathy with the flag-furling policy of scuttle pursued by their party. They desire to have the flag kept where it has been planted they desire this country to receive all tne ben efit that will flow from retention of our foothold In tho Far East; they desire to see the position of the Nation maintained; they dislike the wanton attacks on the character of the Army, and they should be ready to vote with the Republicans in rebuking the reckless partisans who have raised up the issue' that is now before the people. In many an election Oregon has led the van, casting majorities in June that have inspired friends of good government and lovers of the flag in every part of the country, and the Statesman believes it can be depended on to maintain its record this year when the policy of retaining our ad vanced position in the famljy of nation? is so viciously assailed by a reckless minority. Our sister state has an oppor tunity that It will not fall to improve. It is an honor to be in a position to deliver the first blow. The Fins "Will Stay There. Chicago Inter Ocean. "The Republic has put Its flag in those islands, and the flag will stay there. The flag will stay put!" Such is Theodore Roosevelt's answer to the successors and imitators of Clem ent L. Vallandlgham In the United States Senate and out, and it is a true American answer. If any of our soldiers, In dealing -with barbarous Malays, has exceeded the le gitimate usages of warfare with savages, he will be punished. The Republic's jus tice and the Government's power will take care of him. But the flag will stay there. The Pattersons, the Rawlinses, the Carmacks, the Duboises, and their like assume that the American people ca-e more for low-browed Malay savages than for their own kinsmen. The assumption is false. Argument with those who make that assumption Is vain. But the flag will stay there. The President did well to voice the feel ing of the Nation before a gathering of men who take pride in their descent from those who fought to make this Republic. His words are filled with the spirit of '76 and of '6L In every National crisis In the past there have been men who counseled cow ardice In the name of humanity and sub- mission in the name of peace. But in every case the American people rose and said: "But the flag will stay there." And the flag did stay there, victorious at Yorktown, triumphant at Appomattox. The flag Is In the Philippines. The Amer ican people sent It there, and they well keep It there. Child, Laughter. ' Philander Johnson. In the Washington Star. A laugh rippled out through a window One day as the twilight fell; 'Twas gay and light as a sunbeam's flight And sweet as a fairy bell. And It gave the He to the cynic ' Who says that the world Is bad; J There were love and bliss In a mother's kiss And a little child was zl&d. NO FEARS OF "AFTER-CLAP." Charleston News and Courier. Those of our citizens who are concerned about the effects of the exposition on Charleston, or who fear, at any rate, that there will be a painful "reaction" in busi ness after it closes, will find matter for their encouragement in the statement by one of the Buffalo papers, the Enquirer, o the conditions in that City in such cir cumstances. The "predictions of disaster to the busi ness interests of Buffalo as a result of the Pan-American," it is remarked, which were for a while the stock In trade of note particularly "many Ingrained pessi mists," arc being forcibly answered by the present "unprecedented demand for houses in the city." The demand appears. Indeed, to be not only unprecedented, but really remarkable. "Not within 10 years, and perhaps not within 25 years, has real estate been as active as It Is this Spring" that is, after the exposition closed, and when the contractors are hauling off the wrecks of the buildings from the ground they occupied. Moreover, the development is "not thq result of manipulations of speculators." It is not brought about by sensational ap peals or other illegitimate business meth ods. "It is in every respect a perfectly normal and healthy one. It is a pure case of supply being ribeded to meet urgent demand." "All sections of the city are sharing in the general prosperity. Not a day passes without the Issuance of build ing permits; the offices of real estate men are thronged with seekers of houses to rent; the sale of residences is going on extensively and dwellings cannot be erect ed and finished fast enough to meet the needs of occupants." This gratifying state of .things, it Is con ceded, may be attributed In part to the influx of new residents caused by the re cent establishment of large manufactur ing interests. "But," and this is the point of the story which is of interest to "in grained pessimists" in our own city, "but a deeper cause is the fact that the exposi tion turned the eyes of the country on Buffalo enterprise, and the natural advan tages of Its situation, and it is now reap ing a harvest which is destined to Increase as time goes on." Charleston is highly favored in respect of its position for business purposes, and its natural advantages and attractions as a place to work In and to live in. No place In the country is more favored on these accounts. The exposition has cer tainly made this fact more widely known than it has ever been known befpre. It has literally "turned the eyes of the coun try" for halt a year to our conditions and opportunities, and to our "enterprise" as well, and we may well expect with con fidence that It will be as beneficial to our city in the near future, possibly at once, as the "Pan-American" has. been to Buf falo. Be Fair to Brave Men. Chicago Inter Ocean. There come times when the only way to stop war is to make it hell to those who persist in waging it Sheridan was con fronted with such a necessity, and met it by desolating the Shenandoah Valley. Crook and Miles were confronted with it in the Southwest, and met it with orders that no quarter be given to an armed Apache. It is a dreadful necessity, but it will sometimes arise so long as lawless men wage war. There are, of course, limits to retali ation even against treacherous bandits. The laws passed by Congress for the government of the Army, and the rules agreed upon by all nations in the Geneva and other conventions, define those limits. It may be that General Smith went be yond them. But It is neither fair nor American to assume that he did and to condemn him unheard. That Is neurotic and' hysterical. Yet the Honorable Joseph Croker Sib ley and others of his kind stand up in their places In. Congress and revile the President for not stripping General Smith of his uniform before the sun goes down. That is, these honorable gentlemen ask the President to play the dictator, to violate the laws by condemning General Smith unheard. They call General Smith a disgrace to the Army. Perhaps he is. That is to be proved. But those who would condemn him unheard are beyond question a disgrace to American man hood. The President has acted vigorously and promptly and according to the law. He haB brought General Smith before a court-martial, where his conduct will be fully Investigated, and his guilt or inno cence determined. If found guilty, he will be severely punished. Neither his distinguished services In the war that saved the Nation's life, nor his manuesc success In putting down the fiends in human form who massacred our soldiers at Balangiga, will save him. Meanwhile every right-thinking Ameri can prays that the Congressmen and others who, while sitting safely at home, knowing nothing of war and its necessi ties, condemn unheard our sorely tried soldiers in the Philippines, may receive just a little inspiration of common de cency and American fairness. The Army Honors Us. Brooklyn Eagle. The Army is its own best apologist. It has done more than well. In the Phil ippines and in China It has splendidly maintained the war record of this gen eration begun In Cuba. The fighting in tho islands of the farther Pacific has been of a sort to try even the metal of the seasoned veterans trained In the warfare of the plains. A resource ful, evasive, malignant, unscrupulous and desperate foe has been encountered and practically subdued. If at times he has been suppressed with a severity as un usual as it was necessary, whb can blame the suppressors? War is not an exem plification of the Golden Rule. Soldiers when smitten upon the cheek do not turn the other to the smlter. While blood is being spilled retaliation is wiser than forgiveness. In fact the infliction of one hastens the extension of the other. "Ours," said Senator Lodge "is not a Republican Army; it Is not a Democratic Army; It Is the Army of- the United States. Their honor is our honor. If they have done wrong let us punish them; do not let us condone a single proved offense; do not let a single man proved guilty escape; but let us, oh. let us, be just at least to our own. Let us remember, when we judge, we, living here in sheltered homes, far from the sounds and trials of war let us remem ber not only their sufferings, but their temptations, their provocations, their trials." And in remembering these we cannot fall to recognize that duty has been worthily done. The President and the Trusts. Chicago Record-Herald. As a matter of fact, however, the Presi dent has made" the first political strike of his administration by seeking to enforce the statutes against the great meat and railway combines. His peculiar popularity with the people wa"s in danger of dry rot and was pal pably on the wane before the order came for the suit against the Northern Securi ties Company. The President seemed more intent on catering to the powers that run the Republican organization than following the bent of his own will as chief magistrate. Ho was accused of playing politics and playing them abom inablyfor no one ever fancied that he would be a favorite with the politicians and he was losing with the people, who alone could force the leaders to accept him for a second term. But the suits against the railway and meat combinations meet popular expec tancy of Theodore Roosevelt They have the courage, the rashness of honesty that the people have been led to look for and admire In him. It matters not what may become of these suits in the courts in the larger field of national politics they have tightened the relaxing hold of President Roosevelt on the confidence and imagina tion of the people things that count more than the favor and millions of nrrjora- I tlons in national conventions. NOTE AND COMMENT. To hear Judge Williams is to resolve to vote for him. The coal miners are financially able to stand a. strike, but so are the coal barons. The coal miners ought to be ableo ac cumulate as much dust as their employ ers. As yet no enterprising theatrical man ager has though't to put on "Faust" with two devils. This is the open season for floods, and the hard luck prophets are making the most of It. Careful readers of the news will agrea that Oregon is not such a bad place to live In, after all. If Britannia desires to continue to rule, the waves, she had better apply Immedi ately for the Job to J. P. Morgan & Co., New York. The sudden termination of the sawmill strike has deprived the public of many Iong-lcoked-for quotations from the Acta of the Apostles. The fusionlsts are enjoying brilliant prospects for another row. A candidate must be selected for Mr. Inman's seat In the Senate. J. P. Morgan made $12,000,000 during the first week of his vacation. If thfe keeps on he will not be able to afford to go back to work. The State Department is soon to an nounce officially the bjrth of the new Cu ban Republic. Madrid papers will demand extra rates for Inserting the notice. Senator Bailey does not want an em bassy sent to the coronation. According to the Texan's theory, if Edward wants American patronage for the affair he should give It over here. Wanted candidate for Senator on the fusion ticket. Must be active, popular, equipped with the 6lnews of war, friendly to Senator Simon and a rank anti-imperialist, an elrfquent speaker and a loyal Democrat, as well as a true and faithful Republican. Apply at once to Fusion Committee. Worcester block, city. An interesting study of the conditions of leprosy In South Africa has been made by Dr. Hutchinson, of London, a surgeon and physician, whose reputation among prac titioners all over the world is excellent He now believes that the primary cause of the disease in that part of the world is in a great many cases the eating of badly cured salt fish. Similar conclusions have been announced by medical men of distinction after leprosy Investigations in other countries. The leper almost every where Is the victim of poisonous food or of the virus conveyed by a sufferer already infected. Long and careful Inquiries by German doctors indicate that cancer is not proba bly hereditary, but that it Is perniciously contagious. In certain districts the num ber of sufferers In proportion to popula tion is much larger every year than in other areas. Dogs and cats in many In stances become cancerous, but few horses and cattle are attacked. Men and women are stricken on the average earlier In life in this generation than In those which pre ceded It It is hoped that these German investigations of .this frightful curse, which are to be kept up persistently and upon a scale both liberal and extensive, may result in the discovery of some rem edy for cancer. But, of course, that can be only a matter of conjecture. The English colony in Valparaiso, Chile, has a cricket club, the officers of which recently sent to England for a large con signment of bats and a few stumps. On arrival they were liable to a duty of 30 per cent, but it occurred to the captain, who had had a good deal of experience in Custom-House business, that it would be a good move to enter the goods as "utiles para agricultural' i. e., agricul tural Implements, which were allowed to enter free of duty. This was done, and it was pointed out to the vista (the Custom House official who examined the goods) that with the end of the stump a hole was made in the ground, in which the seed was placed, till, by the aid of the bat, It was securely located therein. This ex planation was considered satisfactory, and the entry paper marked "libre" (free). The Susrar Beet In Colorado. Denver Republican. No one interested in the beet-sugar in dustry in this state should become uneasy on account of the agreement by some of the Republican members of the House of Representatives to reduce the tariff on Imports from Cuba by 20 per cent The reduction. If It should be made which Is by no means certain will leave the greater part of the tariff wall still standing, and the conditions here are so favorable for the production of beet sugar that the difference between the present and the proposed new tariff will not im perii the business. Professor Wiley, the famous sugar-beet expert of the Depart ment of Agriculture, expressed the opinion a long time ago that the irrigated val leys of the Southwest would be able to compete in the production of sugar with Hawaii and Cuba. There seems to be no reason to depart from the position at that time taken. Experience Justifies the belief that sugar can be made here from beet3 under more favorable conditions than . almost any where else in the world. Under the cir cumstances, there, should be no hesita tion about embarking1 upon enterprises for the erection cf factories and the produc tion of more sugar. rLEASAXTRIES OF PARAGIUFHEP.S The Right One. "Here's a book that tells about the best method of gettlwr accepted." "What Is it a bank-book?" Detroit Free Press. A Passport to Office. "The old man's been wrltln poetry Steady for six days." "Why what'a he doln that fer?" "Wants a Gov ernment office." Atlanta Constitution. Great Learning. Kind Lady (horrified) My child, I hope you don't swear! Small Boy Naw, not much; but I'm learnln. Say, youso otter hear my paw! Ohio State Journal. "Pore Sam was very xood to me." cobbed the weeplne widow. "With all the beatln's he gimme he never hit me where the marks would show ao the neighbors could see 'em.' Tlt-Btts. He Wouldn't Do. "Why didn't your church call that eloquent young preacher, after all?" asked Mildred. "Oh. It turned out that he knew nothiuff of ping-ponjf," answered Amy. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. He Got Another. Willie Papa, if I was twins would you buy the other boy a banana, too? Papa Certainly, my son. Willie Well, papa, you surely ain't going to cheat me out of another banana Just because I'm all in one piece? Judge. Why Shouldn't It Go? "No," said the mag azine editor, "we can't use this article of yours. It would be sure to fall flat You see it is eo clear and uneqlvocal that there would be no opportunity for later discussion as to what you meant." Chicago Evening Post The Limit. Mr. Van Albert Great Scotti Why are not all these dishes washed? Mrs. Van Albert Because the cook Is using the kitchen table. Mr. Van Albert In what way? Mrs. Van Albert She Is playing a game? ot 4 plnc-po'ng with the policeman. Brooklyn Life.