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TARDY TRIBUTE TO ORIGINALITY.
Ever since Dubois of Idaho, on the
floor of the United States -Senate, -characterized
that gallant and veteran vol
unteer soldier of the Civil' War, now
Brigadier-General "Wheaton, aB "a char
ity boy who had been educated at Gov
ernment expense," thereby Inputting
every volunteer as well as every reg
ular officer in the United StatesArmy,
he has been recognized as a man whose
intellectual discernment and magnani
mous nature compel attention tori his
every noteworthy utterance. A few
days ago Dubois made a speech on the
Philippine question, and our only apol
ogy for so long continuance in apparent!
obliviousness of his utterances consists
of the more pressing claims of the Ore
gon election.
Dubois opposes retention of the Phil
ippines, but he displays an originality
of thought equal to that of his reference
t) Wheaton. The beaten path of "anti
imperlallsm," which commiserates the
Philippines for their inevitable sorry fate
in American hands', he eschews, and in
Its stead he blazes out a new and un
tried trail. His objection to the Phil
ippine accession. Is thus epitomized:
The feature of the bill which nermlts cor
porations to take up 5000 acres of land In
the Philippines for agricultural r""mv ought
to be stricken out, because under It the rich
est iapds ultimately will fall into the, hands of
the great syndicates, thus encouraging a tre
mendous production of cane, sugar, cotton and
tobacco. Agricultural development will induce
industrial activity, and manufacturing estab
lishments will spring up and compete with us
.not only for the trade of the Islands, but also
tor China and the Straits Settlements, and
-eventually, owing to cheap labor, would com
pete with our own manufactured goods In all
parts of the world.
The danger that,menaces the islands,
therefore, is that they will be too pros
perous. American capital will open
their mines, work up their timber, de
velop their lands, build railroads, es
tablish factories. The result will be
"tremendous production," "agricultural
development," "Industrial activity,"
"manufacturing establishments." This
Is a doctrine that has been advanced
in favor of the retention of the islands,
but never before, we believe, in favor
of their abandonment. So far as we
can recollect, Mr. Dubois is the sole
patentee of this new brand of anti-lm-periallsm,
and we .urge him to take
steps to protect his rights.
He trembles not so violently for the
Philippines, however, as for the United
States. So prosperous and thriving a
community as Mr. Dubois foresees In the
archipelago must react upon the United
States with stupendous and disastrous
force. We might endure a bankrupt"
colony whence came no profits and
whither we coud send no goods, but we
could never survive the infliction of ter
ritory that paid its own way and actu
ally made a market for our goods. The
same ruin that empire in Canada, Aus
tralia and South Africa has brought to
Great Britain would speedily engulf us.
The farther the Islands went ahead the
farther this country would be set back.
The awful havoc bound up with a
flourishing territory supplying us tropic
goods .and taking flour and manufac
tures must thus be apparent to the .most
indifferent observer. Mr. Dubois, more
over, has established his -intellectual
cousinship to the rancher who opposes
railroads because they will destroy the
market for horses, to the statesman
who fears that the development- of arid
lands, will ruin the Eastern farmer, to
the settler who objects to immigration
for fear somebody will be raising crops
to compete with him. What a pity It is
that Europe was not contented with
the wealth and prosperity it enjoyed
in the fifteenth century instead of ruin
ing its industries by the development
of America and Australia! How sad
that the Atlantic Coast could not have
been satisfied to devour Itself rather
than raise up the ruinous civilization
that now spreads over the Oregon Coun
try and the Louisiana Purchase! Alas
for England, when we reflect upon the
tremendous quantities of flour, cotton,
meat, iron and steel she is now com
pelled annually to consume as the result
of American expansion, when she might
be starving to death in all the abound
ing squalor and splendid isolation of
the Middle Ages!
A" man of the Duboisan depth of In
sight and profound grasp of political
economy and history Is most obviously
out of place,in the United States Senate.
Idaho should promote hlht to 'some
thing more "befitting his talents. Are
there no postholes waiting to be bored
in all that broad commonwealth, or rat
holes that could be filled with sand?
The theme of Superintendent J. H.
Ackcrman's address to the graduating
class of the Albany public schools
Wednesday evening was "The Three
Bs in Education." The revival, of the
course designated by this fheirfe
throughout the public schools of the
state would be hailed with pleasure as
promising to give us boya who, when
they go out Into theworld of industry,
trade or business, can "read, write and
cipher" without having to take a course
In a business college as supplemental to
their instruction in the public schools.
EFFE3IINACY A FALSE ALARM.
The president of Princeton University
has spoken out' orf the dangers of
w.ealth. His Chicago address is upon
this theme, and the specific manifesta
tion of wealth upon which he enlarges
is "the love of ease and luxury." All
will agree as to the dangers of wealth
I and the enervating effects of ease and
luxury; but It seems as if Dr. Patton
has hit upon an Inopportune time lor
emphasizing this phase of the perennial
problem. What he says about the ob
jectionable methods by which many
American fortunes are now obtained Is
right enough; but the trend of aristo
cratic tendencies today Is away from
"the luxury in which past generations
have loved to dwell.
The fact is that high society, partly
from fa6 and partly from intelligent
choice, is putting ease away for activ
ity. The slogan of the fashionable
world is the strenuous life. Even those
circles wherein mere diversion is the
end and aim pursue not effeminate idle
ness so much as they do exertion. There
may come a time when the American
man of fashion, like "his Greek or Ro
man prototypes, will divide his waking
hours between the bath, the toilet and
the tablq. but that time is nott here
yet- Instead we are pursuing the ideals
held dear in the days of the Coliseum
and the Olympian games. There Is
very little of the sybaritic in yachting,
or polo, or golf, or hunting and fish
ing, or steeple-chasing. So long as so
ciety is running after horses and dogs,
automobiles and bicycles, tennis and
bowling, aquatics, athletics, gymnas-tjcs.-surf
bathing and amateur farm
ing, it is in no danger of extinction
through effeminacy.
In spite of the affectation which runs
riot'ln all grades of society at all times,
there is a very noticeable tendency to
day toward healthful and natural habit
in diet and dress, and work and play.
It has never been such bad form to
drink to excess as it Is today. Doctors
know more than they used to about
food, and even commercialism studies
hygiene for its financial if not moral
value. Hours of work as well as forms
of amusement are ordered more and
more in accordance with ultimate com
fort and less and less In accordance
with self-indulgence. Tight lacing and
murderous shoes are not half so much
affected as they used to be. The gener
ous corset and the broad boot with
heavy projecting sole are sought for
style as well as health. It is no longer
interesting to be delicate, or fascinating
to fear a climb, or a boat, or a bracing
walk, or a tanned complexion at the
""Summer's close.
I The struggle for riches goes merrily
on, but it is not conducted regardless
of those outdoor relaxations which fos
ter health, strengthen constitutions and
prolong life. Our rich men seem to be
imbibing a sort of enlightened selfish
ness which tells them to love them
selves and their families better than
their 'bank -accounts. This is why they
play golf and wander over California
hills. They have seen the results of
too close application and unrestrained
appetites. The effeminacy of ease and
the consuming fever of money-making,
are not numbering their victims as
prosperously as they did fifty years ago.
Dr. Patton should have more faith in
the religion he professes. Does he really
think the world Is rushing past it to
perdition?
"A BIT OF JIXGLE."
The "bit of Jingle" on the days of
the months, written by Richard Graf
ton, no one seems to know how many
years ago, and designated by the" Chi
cago Inter Ocean recently as "the best
known bit of verse in the English lan
guage," though given with many minor
variations, maintains through all, the
strict Intent of the author, which was to
provide an easy method by which the
number of .days in each month could
be remembered. Thousands of men and
women who learned, and perhaps sang
this bit of Jingle in their earliest school
days, now instinctively return to it
when for any reason the question of the
number of days in a certain month re
curs. One of the approved methods of
cultivating the faculty of memory In
children' half a century and more ago
was by jingle of this sort, sometimes
sung as "a round" by pupils as the
closing exercise of the day's work;
.sometimes sung In a sing-song tone
without rhyme or time, and occasionally
given as a theme to some of the -older
pupils upon which to exercise their
ingenuity in rhyme, transposition of
words and composition. As rendered
by a New England schoolma'am of sa
cred memory. Miss Elizabeth Hollister,
who taught a village school In a town
ship of Northern Illinois more than half
'a century ago, and sung as a "round"
with lusty vigor by her score of pupils,
the jingle giving the days of the month
was as follows:
Thirty days are In September.
April, June and dull November;
All the rest have one and thirty.
Save the month of February, i
Twehty-elght are all Its store.
But in leap year one day more.
The school was divided Into three
sections for the purpose of giving voice
to these calendar facts. The first began
to sing to an Improvised tlmeroade to
"fit." When the end of the second line
was reached the second section began
at the first Hnewhen in turn this divis
ion reached the end of the second line
the third began, each keeping its proper
place, and the uproarious exercise was
continued, each section apparently try
ing to drown the other out, but never
succeeding in doing so, until the six
lines had been sung three times, when
the sections dropped off in regular or
der. The little schbolhouse was stoutly
built of hickory and black walnut, and
plastered with "two coats" of mortar, in
he rough, laid on with generous hand.
But it fairly trenVbled as the words
shouted by the lusty voices of twenty
children, each determined to be heard
above the din, impressed Its lesson In
fallibly upon the memory of every par
ticipator In its boisterous, wholesome
rendering.
The capitals of the states, beginning
with Maine and going through In reg
ular order to Texas, were sung with
repetition of the name of each state tb
a sort of sing-song melody twice a week,
as the regular geography lesson, and
it Is safe to say that not one pupil of
that school, whether studying geogra
phy or not at the time, has forgotten
that "AugUBta is on the Kennebec,"
"Concord on the Merrlmac," and so on
through the list of every capital of the
then thirty-four states of the Union.
The multiplication table was impressed
upon the juvenile memory In the same
way. the pupils becoming proficient in
singing It, "forwards and backwards."
Spelling was taught orally, the. teacher
pronouncing the word to the first, sec
ond and third classes in succession, as
the pupils stood with their toes (bare
In Summer) to a crack in the floor,
their hands behind them, and their bod
ies erect, "going up" when a word that
Bad been missed In the line above was
correctly spelled, and each striving to
secure the greatest number of "head
marks" for the term. This was the
old-fashioned method of learning to
spell, and it is now obsolete. But in
paying tribute to Its memory It may
be said that such as it was It caused
"Webster's Spelling Book" to be -well
thumbed, and turned out from the dis
trict school boys and girls who could
spell.
Old things have passed away. Other
wise progress would not mean advance
ment and growth would not be growth.
New methods are required to meet
changed conditions of life and thought.
But the old schoolhouse, its teachers
and Its methods played a part in Amer
ican civilization that will Insure for it
and them an honored place in history
after the memory of them has sunk
into final eclipse.
THE XEXT CONGRESS.
The Democrats express great confi
dence in thelr"abllity to elect a major
ity of the House? of Representatives In
the Fifty-eighth Congress in November
next. The mid-term elections are re
garded as foreshadowing the outcome
of the Presidential battle two years
later. In such a contest the Democrats
have the advantage, owing to the solid
arity of the South and the divided
politics of the North. Since Grant's sec
ond inauguration the House elected at
the mid-term has been opposite In po
litical faith to the Administration, with
the exception of the first terms of Mc
Kinley and Cleveland. Not since 18S6"
has the party successful at the mid
term failed to carry the next Presi
dential election. There will be 33S Rep
resentatives elected, of which 194 would
be a majority. The South, not includ
ing Maryland or West Virginia, will
elect some 118 Democratic Representa
tives. The thirteen distinctly Southern
States will have under the new appor
tionment 125 seats. The Republicans
now have nine In these states; two each
from Missouri, North Carolina and
Tennessee, and three from Kentucky.
Missouri has been so grossly gerryman
dered by the Democrats that the Re
publican, who polled in the last elec
tion 314,000 votes, will get only one Rep
resentative in Congress, while the Dem
ocrats, who polled 351,000, will get fif
teen. The Republicans of Illinois are
charged with having gerrymandered
that state so effectively that instead of
eleven Democrats and eleven Republi
cans, as at present, there are likely to
be nineteen Republicans and six Demo
crats under the new apportionment.
The Republicans are likely to lose a
member in Missouri, one in Kentucky
and two in North Carolina. But the
Washington correspondent of the New
York Evening Post thinks the gerry
mander In Missouri may result in mak
ing the Democratic majority in some
districts so thin that the Democrats will
,lose theta, and names 118 Democrats
xrum me imrieen boutnern ataies as a
fair prediction. There is no probability
that .the Republicans will lose their two
East Tennessee districts. The corre
spondent of the Post, assuming that the
South will elect to the House of the
Fifty-eighth Congress 118 Democrats,
Inquires where the remaining 75 are to
come from In order to give the Democ
racy control of it. The thirty-two
states not classed as the South are now
represented by fifty Democrats. The
Democrats will have to carry twenty
five more districts than they did two
years ago in the' thirty-two states of
the North. The conclusion of the Post
correspondent Is that while the contest
will he close, It Is by no means clear
that the Democrats have the better of
the present outlook. The Republicans,
are now In control vof nearly every
Northern Legislature, and have gener
ally cut up the states to their own seem
ing advantage. In Massachusetts the
Democrats have a .fighting chance to
carry the fifth district, the third dis
trict and the new Boston district, which
Is not strongly Republican. , There Is
little or no prospect of tbe capture of
a Republican seat by the Democrats In
Connecticut.
In New York State there is small
prospect of any Democratic gains. In
Pennsylvania the Republicans may lose
from one to six districts. In Maryland,
where the Republicans have now a solid
delegation, the Democrats are likely to
gain from two to five districts. The
Democrats in Ohio will probably re
cover the two Democratic districts they
lost in 1900. In Indiana no change Is
probable, while In Illinois the Re
publicans are likely to gain three
and perhaps four seats. If there
Is any bitter fighting between the
Republican faction headed by Gov
ernor La Follette and that headed by
Henry C. Payne and Senator Spooner,
the Republicans may lose from one to
five seats in Wisconsin. In Minnesota
the Democrats are likely to gain a
Congressman, and may lose one In
Michigan. In neither Kansas nor Ne
braska is there any prospect of Demo
cratic gains, but the Democrats will
gain doubtless the additional seat that
falls to Colorado. There is small pros
pect of Democratic gains in California,
or In New Jersey. West Virginia or
Delaware.
The only real Issue of the Democrats
Is that of "Imperialism," and on that
Issue as presented by the Democracy in
Congressional debate the popular senti
ment strongly supports President Roose
velt and the policy of his Administra
tion. The Post, while friendly to Demo
cratic success on this Issue, candidly
confesses that, "viewing the field as a
whole, it appears that a net gain of
twehty-flve seats In the North is. for
the opposition, no small task, though
still among the possibilities." This
honest review and conclusion of an able
champion of "anti-imperialism" cannot
be called hopeful for Democratic suc
cess. It should not be forgotten that
as late as May, 1900, it looked as if the
Democrats stood a good chance of
carrying the House, even though there
was not the slightest chance of Bryan's
election to the Presidency.
General Lee's orders. Issued when he
took his Confederate Army Into Penn
sylvania, In 1S63, are quoted admiringly
as a model by the anti-Imperialist press
and in contrast with the theory of sub
sisting on the country. Under this
"model order" of General Lee, General
Early's division of General Ewell's
Corpa'levied a contribution on the City
of York, Pa., of $100,000 cash, 200 bar
rels of flour, 30,000 bushels 'of corn and
1000 pairs of shoes. This same General
Early In July, 1864, sent two brigades
of cavalry on a raid Into Maryland and
Pennsylvania, with orders to burn cer
tain town unless they procured their
safety by large ransom. The Confeder
ate General McCausland announced to
the town of Chambersburg, Pa., that he
would burn It unless 5500,000 In currency
or $100,000 In gold should be paid him.
this being tbe ransom fixed by Early's
written order. Gold was out of the
question, and there was not $50,000 In
currency at hand. Thereupon General
McCausland burned the town of Cham
bersburg. In Early's advance on Wash
ington, early In July, 1864, he burned
the beautiful private residence of Fran
cis P. Blair, Sr., and he burned In
Pennsylvania the Iron works belonging
to Thad Stevena We are not finding
any fault with General Early In partic
ular; we only quote these facts to show
that under Lee's "model orders" his
corps and division cpmmanders man
aged to make war support war about
as effectively as Grant did In the Vlcks
burg campaign, or Sherman In the
Carollnas, or any of our commanders In
the Philippines.
Is Portland too prosperous to take In
terest In celebration of Independence
day? We think not. In these days of
strenuous commercial life we are prone
to forset that we have obligations that
cannot be expressed by the dollar sign. ;
But our citizenship Is not so cheap. As
civil liberty Is precious. It must be pre
served, and one of the ways to keep
It alive as a sentiment and an Ideal is
to put It before the young in ways that
will appeal to them. Who forgets the
Fourth of July of his youth? Who for
gets the lessons In patriotism that came
with the martial displays of this Na
tional holiday? Who would drop those
memories from hln life without feeling
poorer and weaker? The country looks
to Portland to lead In observance of
this great day, and it should not be
disappointed. . There should be a char
acteristic celebration. The committee
that has the matter in charge should re
ceive general and generous support of
the citizens, that Portland need not fall.
In this reat American duty. Let those
withdraw who find no joy In a live
Fourth of July celebration; there are
plenty who can. and In them we find
the eternal vigilance that secures lib
erty. Kansas farmers are rejoicing In a
heavier rainfall than has visited that
state "before in the past three years.
The temper is taken out of their
thanksgiving to some extent, however,
by the freshet3 Induced by the down
pour, and which have damaged crops
in lowlands very heavily. The climate
of the Sunflower state is one of ex
tremes, and of it it may be truly said:
"It never rains but it pours." A drouth
Is perhaps the most discouraging cli
matic condition with which agricultur
ists have tc contend, unless It be a
freshet that washes out their growing
crops or a cyclone that in an hour de
stroys crops, stock and buildings. In a
country of 'climatic extremes people ex
pect these things, though, of course, so
stubborn or so hopeful is human nature
they are never prepared for them. The
remedy Is to seek a more equable cli
mate that of Oregon, for example
where drouth and cyclones are un
known.. The death at Forest Grove a few days
ago of Mrs. S. A. Sloan chronicles the
passing of a familiar presence from the
old university town. Students who
were bonnle lassies and buoyant youths
when Mrs. Sloan first hung the sign of
her hotel from a moss-grown branch
of one of the ancient oaks that sur
round her home have passed on and out
Into the world, and their children and
children's children have returned to
the student life of the town, passing on
In their turn. Her peaceful, uneventful
life came to a fitting close without
warning or suffering at the age of 72,
In the hoihe where forty of Its active,
useful, unostentatious years had been
spent. Nature thus dealt with her
kindly; the friends of a lifetime will
today follow her to her final rest In the
village graveyard, and a chapter In the
chronicles of the every-day life of the
village will be ended.
After many days of perilous Investi
gation of Mount Pelee, scientists have
concluded that its work of destruction
Is ended for the present though the
most sanguine of geologists admits In
connection with this opinion "that it Is
not safe to make predictions about vol
canoes." Experience indeed has proved
that the only safe thing In regard to
volcanoes consists In keeping at a safe
distance from them. At best they are
but sleeping demons, subject to the call
of "cold, moist and heat, four cham
pions fierce," who strive for mastery in'
the depths of the planet and come at
times to the surface spouting flames.
It la a far .cry from Pompeii to Pelee,
but each heralds a holocaust of death
and destruction that should be sufficient
warning against building a city at the
base of a volcano.
The net result for the Democratic
party from the combination with the
Simon machine In Multnomah hat been
the loss of Robert Inman from the State
Senate and the substitution of George
T. Myers for him; and the election of
two Republican fusionists to little
clerkships In the county and city. Dem
ocrats will decide whether these are
achievements worthy of a great party
of which they may Justly be proud.
Who shall say that there Is nothing
new under the sun? The bread riot Is
old an established fact of history. But
in Chicago a meat riot Is on, the causes,
details, extent and effects of which are
still to be written. In the significant
language of Mayor Harrison: "These
are no picnic times" in Chicago. The
sandwich Is likely to be eliminated from
the bill of fare for a time, and what Is
a picnic without the sandwich?
A most Inspiring, patriotic and at the
same time pathetic spectacle Is that
presented by the veterans of the G. A.
R. 1000 strong in camp at Astoria.
White-haired, bent with the weight of
yearsj these men are the connecting
link between a strenuous past and 'a
prosperous present.
The value of walking as a constitu
tional is now to be tested in the cities
of Rhode Island, the street-car lines In
the most of them having been tied up
by a strike. The next thing will be an
advance In shoe leather to meet the
Increased demand for footwear.
On Tuesday and Wednesday there
was reason to suppose that Chamber
lain had a- plurality of 2000 to 3000. He
has, as it now appears, a plurality of
200 to 300.
A GREAT SPEECH.
A Tribute on the President Decotn
ilon Day Address.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The splendor of the address Is the
splendor of illuminated manhood. The
strength of it Is the strength of manifest
right. Not, we think, since Lincoln's
words at Gettysburg has the constitu
tional Commander-in-Chief of the Army
and of the Nary of the United States
said that which will be longer remem
bered, or which more deserves always
to be kept in mind. Truly, the baptism
of duty and the touch of destiny have
made or revealed this President to be
a thinker and a leader who can carry
his countrymen, with him in all things
In which he is Just himself, forgetful of
party, compact of patriotism, resolute
for the right and as scornful of political
cunning as of personal consequences.
The address Ls in all parts patriotic
and eloquent, but In none merely rhetori
cal. It sums the past, portrays the pres
ent and faces the future. Its sum
mary of the past ls accurate to nicety
and discriminating to tho very shade or.
justice. Its portraiture of the present
not only glorifies the Army and the Navy
as a whole, but scarifies those of their
number who have yielded to the tempta.
tion to retaliate on savages the outrages
of savages on our men. It also classes
and characterizes the wholesale con.
temners of the Army In words that wfll
neither down nor Jle. The President
likewise meets the propositions not mere
ly of the hour but of the far future
with regard to the Philippines In a way
to show that ordered liberty, graduated
government, regulated right, taught truth
and trained purpose of fittedness for free
dom enter Into the veritable missionary
movement of our Army in the archipelago.
The programme is and looms so large
as to appall some. The details are ao
many as to fatigue others. Both the
magnitude of the project and the multi
tude of the particulars Invite pessimism,
stimulate apprehension and lately did
give apparent Immunity to partisan defa
mation. But the work of contemporary
copperheadlsm has been overdone. Those
who resorted to It are running away from
it, and denying their responsibility for It.
The Nation never did desert, decry, defame
or fall to honor Its Army or its Navy.
The Nation never will. It has set them to
no tasks of which it is ashamed; to none
by which the world has not been made
better; to none which has not made the
bounds of ordered freedom wider yet.
The liberated thought, the stored states
manship and the luminous and pulsing
power of the President's words today
lift the occasion of the address to a high
importance, and make and mark an event
'of long and shaping significance In our
history.
Onr Chance In the Tropics.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
A glance at Government reports shows
that there has been in the last 30 years
great increase in our consumption of the
products of tropical countries. Mr. O. P.
Austin, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics,
In an article in the Forum for June, es
timates that the Importations Into the
United States of goods from tropical coun
tries amounted fn 1901 to $400,000,000. or
more than $1,000,000 for every day In the
year. Thirty years ago we brought from
the tropics not more than $143,000,000 of
products a year, or less than $400,000 a
day.
Our imports from Asia, Africa, Oceanlca
and America, south of the United States,
reached a total. In 1S70, of $157,000,000: In
1S75. of $234,000,000; in 1850. of $265,000,000; in
1S00, of $29S.000.009; in 1S95, of $C10,000,CCO;
and In 1901, of $414,000,000. In 1S70 the popu
lation of the United States was 3S,OGO,0Ct;
in 1501, 76,000,000 an increase of 100 per
cent. In the same years our importations
from tropical countries increased 165 per
cent, while the Importations from other
parts of the world, chiefly nontropical. In
creased only 65 per cent.
Mr. Austin's figures show that our Im
portations of sugar have increased from
$75,000,000 in .value in 1S70 to $11J.OOO.COO In
1901; coffee, from $24,000,000 In 1870 to $70.
000.000 in 1901: silk, from $3,000,000 In 1870
to J40.000.000 in lSOr: India rubber, from
$3,500,000 In 1S70 to $23,000,000 In 1901; fibers
grown in the tropics, from $6,000,000 in
1870 to $25,000,000 in 1901; fruits and nuts,
from $7,500,000 in 1S70 to $20,000,000 In 1901;
tobacco, from $4,000,000 in 1S70 to $20,000,000
In 1901. Tea in the meantime has fallen
from $14,000,000 In 1S70 to less than $9,000,
000 In 1901.
The most noticeable Increases is In ar
ticles used in manufactures, rubber im
ports being seven times as great In value
as In 1S70, and fibers four times as great.
The inference is that our tropical imports
will continue to grow, because we have
not the climate with which to produce
such articles.
This-raises the question of the future of
the tropical countries that have recently
ccrne Into our possession. The products
of Hawaii have increased twenty fold
since the reciprocity treaty of 1876 an
nexed those Islands, commercially, to the
United States. Porto Rico sent three
times as many products to our markets In
1901 as In 1900. Our exports to the Ha
waiian Islands have grown twenty fold
since 1S76, while our exports to Porto
Rico are five times as large as In the
years Immediately preceding the war with
Spain. Even the Philippines supplied lrt
1901 more than twice the amount of trop
ical products furnished in 1839.
If American capital and American meth
ods have done so much for Hawaii, what
may they not do for the Philippines? It
is known that the latter Islands produce
all of the fibers, tropical fruits, nuts,
spices, rice. Indigo, tobacco, and sugar,
and !f it should be found that they
can produce coffee, tea and rubber, they
will prove a new source of supply for
tropical products, and lead to a trade of
mntual benefit to the Islands and the home
country.
Filipinos like Buencamlno.who have vis
ited the Hawaiian Islands, look forward
to as great changes in the Philippines as
have taken place In Hawaii, and to a more
rapid development of resources. There ls
no reason why these hopes should not
be realized, except In the failure of the
Democrats in Congress to understand the
situation.
Hisses for Senator Carmack.
Chicago Tribune.
When the audience In the Senate gal
leries hissed Senator Carmack day be
fore yesterday it represented the Ameri
can people. It hissed for them. There
was an unusual breach of tbe rules of the
Senate, but it was provoked by a most un
usual violation of common decency by the
amazing Ecnator from Tennessee. There
are limits to the tolerance of even the
best-bred audience. A soldier 13 alleged
to have said that 1000 Filipinos were forced
to dig their own graves. Senator Lodge
said the War Department had caused an
Investigation to be made by questioning
the soldier himself. Senator Carmack was
movtd to reply that "no doubt In this In
stance the eoldler will repudiate it, as
every eoldler in the Philippines has been
requested to do." This Is an attempted
Impeachment of the honor of tho War
Department officials and of the soldiers.
It Is an assumption that the Secretary of
War and his subordinates -suggest to sol
diers to He, and they consent. This ls
not the language of a courteous and digni
fied Senator. It is not the language of a
gentleman. Itv is language which would
provoke hisses If uttered at any
public meeting In Tennessee or elsewhere.
The Senator is the man whom William J.
Bryan recently spoke of in the warmest
terms as Democratic candidate for the
Presidency. Where will the delegate come
from who will be bold enough to put
Senator Carmack In nomination?
But Georjre Will Talcc It.
Eugene Register.
Going on the supposition that George E.
Chamberlain Is our next Governor, we ex
pect to see the Governor's salary con
fined to $1500 a year. But, will he stand
for' that. It Is highly probable that
Chamberlain contemplates drawing the
customary $4250.
PORTLAND'S WORLD'S FAIR.
Minneapolis Tribune.
Undoubtedly the managers of the St.
Louis Fan- would have been glad, while
they were talking of postponement, to
put it over until 1905, and thus escape the
handicap of the Presidential election,
which" will come off In 1904; hut unfor
tunately for them, Oregon had already
pre-empted 1905" for Its contemplated
Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition.
This will commemorate the 100th anni
versary of the arrival of those explorers
at the mouth of the Columbia, which is
a big event In the annals of the Far
West. They were the first to make known
to the world the Interior of the great
country which Jefferson had just bought
from Bonaparte, and their voyage along
the river gave the United States the
second of its claims to the Oregon coun
try, Gray's discovery of the Columbia In
1792 being the first,
It ls quite possible that the Lewis and
Clark Centennial Exposition, being pro
jected on a much smaller scale than the
St. Louis Fair, and being so distant,
would not Interfere much with it; but
St. Louis evidently feared that a post
ponement of her exposition to 1905 would
array the whole Pacific Slope against her.
Of the two expositions, the Oregon fair
will doubtless stand the better chance
of proving a financial success. In the
first place it will cost much less money;
in the second place, the exposition Idea
has not been so much overworked on the
Pacific Slope;- in the third place, the
Presidential election will be out of the
way; and In the fourth place, the trip to
the Pacific Coast will have greater at
tractions for people who can afford to
spend money liberally than will a trip
to St. Louis. And the Pacific Coast now
has a population of Its own large enough
to Insure a paying attendance. The Ore
gon fair promises to be unique and. high
ly Instructive and entertaining.
'A Skyscraper of 1500 Feet.
New' York World.
Elsewhere in the World today is re
called in brief form the astounding pos
sibility bf a skyscraplng building 1500 feet
high more than a quarter of a mile of
lofty architecture, 500 feet higher than
the Eiffel Tower. The suggestion Is from
Architect Bruce Price, one of the fore
most authorities on the construction of
tall buildings. It first appeared as a fea
ture In the World of Sunday. January
2S. 1900, and was then accompanied by an
Ideal picture of the 125-story structure.
Were the building thus drawn from
Imagination to be really erected It would
contain 6000 rooms, would hold 30.000 ten
ants, would require tho service of 50 ele
vators, and would cost $30,000 000. Its
10.000 windows would present 200.000 square
feet of glass to the light. Yet the edifice
as planned need occupy only one city
block. The architect's proposition ls that
with the modern steel frame a building
can be carried to a height equal to seven
and a half times the diameter of the base.
Thl3 $20,000,000 structure laid upon Its
side In Broadway would reach from Twenty-third
street to Twenty-ninth. Inclusive,
and 60 feet beyond. Its floor space would
be more than the area of Black-well's Is
land. Its 30.000 tenants, otherwise located,
would form a city ranking Just under the
100 largest cities in the country larger
than Atlantic City, Austin (Tex.). Cedar
Rapids, Forth Worth, Jollet. Oshkosh.
and many other towns nationally well
known.
It Is a marvelous dream of construc
tion. Fullflllment Is fir off. Yet these
are days of miracles and of miraculous
land values in Manhattan. Who can tell
where ambition and wealth will draw
the building limit?
Sneers for Religion and Patriotism.
New York Evening Post.
Reassuring news about the attitude of
the Mores of Mindanao toward'Amerlcans
we find in the" Manila Times. Mr. William
D. Potter, who ls superintendent of schools
In tho province of Mlsamls, Northern
Mindanao, told a reporter for that news
paper that he did not think a war with
tbe Mores Imminent, for the reason that
he had found them exceedingly friendly to
Americans. He explained this by saying,
"They do not regard us as Christians."
If they had made the lamentable mistake
of thinking us Christian, why then, said
Mr. Potter, they would have expended
upon us "their fanatical hatred for all
things Christian." But after narrowly ob
serving the conduct of our soldiers in gar
rison, they found plenty of "evidence that
we do not come from a representative
Christian nation," and thus were ready
for pleasant relations as with fellow-pagans.
Some of them were a little troubled
by the foollwh attempt of one American
school teacher to Introduce a little relig
ious instruction In his school, but Super
intendent Potter promptly put an end to
that, and so redeemed and vindicated the
American reputation as consistently
heathen.
A FIrst-CInss Retraction.
Chicago Chronicle.
Senator Dolllver writes to the Chronicle
that he did not allege on hl3 own re
sponsibility that Macaulay declared Ed
mund Burke always on the wrong side
of every question. Senator Dolllver says
that he only read in his speech a quota
tion from a Tennessee newspaper which
purports to quote Lord Macaulay's opin
ion of Burke. The complete text of Sen
ator Dolllver's speech of May 8 shows
this to be true.
The Chronicle regrets that an imperfect
report misled It Into attributing to Sen
ator Dolllver the error of a Tennessee
newspaper. Macaulay pronounced Burke
the greatest man of his time.
The Chronicle also regrets that Senator
Dolllver did not correct the error of the
Tennessee newspaper instead of adopt
ing and reiterating It.
Eastern Oregon Failed.
, Eugene Register.
It was confidently expected that East
ern Oregon, which has clamored loud
and long for a candidate for Governor
that since that honor had Been granted
them they would make the most of the
opportunity to pull down the highest
honor within the gift of the state. Re
sults, however, indicate that they mis
counted on their vote-carrying qualities.
Factional differences, the fact that Fur
nish Is a banker, and the other fact that
he was a business man Instead of an
orator, are factors that contributed to
his defeat, to say nothing of the dissat
isfaction caused over his recent accession
to tho Republican ranks.
The Toys.
Coventry Patmore.
My little Son, who look'd from thoughtful
eyes '
And moved and spoke In quiet grown-up wise.
Having my law the seventh time dlsobey'd.
I struck him. and dismlsa'd
With hard words and unkUs'd.
His Mother, who was patient, being dead.
Then, fearing lest his grief should hinder sleep,
I visited hi3 bed.
But found him slumbering deep.
With darken'd eyelids, and their lashes yet
From his late sobbing wet.
And I. with moan.
Kissing away his tears, left others of my own;
For, on a table drawn beside his head.
He had put. within hla reach,
A box of counters and a red-veln'd etone,
A piece of glass abraded by the beach ,
And six or seven shells.
A bottle with bluebells
And two French copper coins, ranged there
with careful art.
To comfort his Bad heart.
So when that night I pray'd
To God. I wept, and said:
Ah. when at last we lie with tranced breath,
Not vexing Thee in death.
And Thou rememberest of what toys
We made our Joys,
How weakly understood
Thy great commanded good,
Then, fatherly not less
Than I whom Thou hast moulded from the
clay,
Thou'lt leave Thy wrath, and say,
T will be sorry for their childishness."
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Never too old to run, apparently.
They may" yet have to toss up for It.
The voters didn't care to monkey- with
the buzz-saw.
Now Russia has a -volcano. Kansas,
you're next.
Agulnaldo has had more news of tho
great Democratic party.
Kruger may go to Parliament or be
made Earl of something or other.
And there- arc still a few Democrat!
who are wondering how it happened.
When uncertainty comes in relapses,
the strain on betting men gets pretty
near the limit.
Now that the election and strike 13
over, let us have the free baths. It la
already getting colder.
A new Consul- to Martinique has been
appointed, and will no doubt be provided
with an asbestos wardrobe.
Chamberlain cannot reward all his sup
porters. He doesn't have the appointing
of a State Coroner, for example.
It ls announced that Mr. D. Soils Cohen
expects to retire from the office of Po'Iro
Commissioner after the expiration of hl3
term.
An Infant can now be born Into tha
Presbyterian church and stand some
chance If death beats the minister to it3
bedside.
Naval Constructor Hobson Is going Into
politics. His experience with sinking
ships ought to accustom him to what h
has to expect.
After four days the absence of a con
tradiction leads us to believe that there
is some truth in the announcement that
the Boer War in ended.
General Kitchener has been rewarded
with $250,000, which ought to salve some of
the bruises made by t-vo years of abuse,
from, the press in his loving country.
The trouble about getting goods Into
the new Custom House will be obviated
some fine June day, when steamers will
be able to run right up to the back porch
and unload.
Ex-Govetpor Boutwell's "Grant Remin
iscences" Include a liorse story. Presi
dent Grant was attracted by a horse own
ed by a Washington butcher, and ha
bought It for $500. Subsequently he took
Senator Conklln out to ride behind hla
new acquisition, and the President asked
the Senator what he thought of the ani
mal. "It strikes me." said the Senator,
"that I would rather have tho SZQO"
"Well, that's what the butcher said," re
marked the President.
The first practical trial of a new system
of the single-rail railroad Is to be made at
the Crystal Palace, London. The line,
which is to be one and a half mlle3 In
length, will be worked by electricity. The
difference between this system and the
prevalent type of monorail to that the line
Is on the ground and large wheels project
ing from the middle of the carriage run
on It, while on each side of the carriage
there are safety rollers upon guide rails.
In the monorail the line Is elevated, with
the carriages overhanging on each side.
When Mark Twain was beginning his
career as a humorous lecturer he one day
arranged with a charming female ac
quaintance that she should sit In a box
and start the applause when he stroked
his mustache. The lecturer started off so
well that he did not need any such help,
however, for he caught the audience from
the first. By and by, when not saying
anything of particular notice, he hap
pened to pull his mustache, and his anx
ious ally in the box at once broke Into
furious applause. Mark was all but brok
en up by the misadventure, and ever af
terward carefully avoided employing such
help to success.
Ambassador Horace Porter, home on a
short leave trom Parle, regaled his com
panions at n dinner In New York tho
other night with a description of how
the Americans In Paris celebrate the
Fourth of July when they set about It.
At the last anniversary of the immortal
Declaration, somebody proposed that the
American flag be run up on top of tho
Eiffel tower. This was considered a rath
er rash proposition at first, but the en
thusiastic Yankee who made it wou.dn't
be discouraged. He made the necessary
arrangements with the Eiffel tower man
agement, and the Stars and Stripes float
ed from the top of the tower all day. "It
reminded me," said Ambassador Porter,
"of the small boy when they said to him
on the Fourth of July to stop wiping his
ncse. He said: 'It Is the Fourth of July
and It Is my noee, and I am going to wipe
It off the face bf the earth. "
Chicago tc De a Chnrcli Center.
Chicago Tribune.
"Chicago will be the ecclesiastical center
of the United States, and its seminaries
must become the center of theological
learning In the Western world," said tho
Kev. F. J. Hall in presenting the annual
report of the standing committee on ed
ucation to the convention of the dlocesa
of Chicago.
Seventeen hundred families were re
ported as joining the church during tne 12
months ending May 1. The increase in
Sunday school membership was given as
600, and there were 56 more baptisms than
in the previous year.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHEUS
His Answer. Teacher Tommy, what ls a
Jail bird? Tommy A robin, mum. Town and
Country.
At Riverside. Mary Lamb Hark, how the
river roars! Charley Slam It must be suffer
ing the tortures of the dammed! Harvard
Lampoon.
Parson Tut! tut! my little boy, you mustn't
cry over split milk. Boy Aw go on. mister;
this ain't milk It's beer. Philadelphia Record.
Another View. He But she spends too much
money. His "Wife No-o, I don't think so. but
her husband doesn't make enough. Brooklyn
Life.
How Things "Work. Helen So your sister
Julia ls married? Herbert Yes. Helen
Which one of those men she used to make fun
of did she marry? Puck.
Just Like a Boy. "YvIH I hav' a harp when
I die an' go hevvun?" asked little Bobble.
"I hope so," replied his mother. "Aw," said
Bobbt. Impatiently, "I'd ruther hav' a drum."
Chicago Dally News. . I
Rare Specimen. He It Isn't always safe to
Judge by appearances, you know. She Quito
true. I once knew a young man who wore a.
yachting cap and who really owned a boat.
Chicago Dally News.
A New One. "Oh, yes." said the chauffeur,
'T am a member of the S.. P. C A." "I
shouldn't think you would be so Interested In
horses or other animals." "You misunderstand
me, evidently. This Is the 'Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Automobillsts.' "Phila
delphia Press.
Not In It, Mrs. Crawford We couldn't get
anywhere near the bargain-counter today. Mrs.
Crabshaw How was that? Mrs. Crawford
There were a lot of Brooklyn women present,
and they were so used to traveling on the
bridge that we were altogether outclassed la
tbe rush. Judge.