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PORTLAND, SATURDAY, JUNE 7. 1002
THE SORDID MOSSDACK.
Attempt to renew a wooden sidewalk
on Sixth street, corner of Alder, In front
of the old schoolhouse section of the
Marquam block, was properly stopped
by the city authorities yesterday.
Properly, indeed. This is one of the
most conspicuous localities in the city.
The lot has an old school building on
it that would be a disgrace to a back
woods town. The block, of which It is
a part, has been taken in by mortgagees
at a rate which gives them an enormous
profit. They would demand for the
block J300.O0Q more than It cost them.
Yet they are too stingy to maintain de
cent sidewalks around It.
Their plea is, we are told, that they
intend to erect a good building there
come day. The millennium is expected
gome day; and it may come about as
peon as these owners will pull out the
rotten old schoolhouse and erect a de
cent building in Its place.
No doubt appeal will be made to the
Common Council to grant in this case
dispensation from the law, and to permit
the cheap wooden sidewalk to be put in
on. the street in front of the old wooden
flretrap. Will the Common Council
have so little regard for the appearance
and welfare of the city as to grant it?
It is no apology for the conditions
there that the half block opposite,
owned by L.. Therkelsen. A. It. Max
well and Li. B. Stearns, Is covered with
old tunfble-down shacks partly rebuilt
from year to year with new lumber, by
fcufferance of the city, with wooden side
walks In front an eyesore to the city,
a danger to it on sanitary as on other
grounds, and a disgrace to it in the
view of every visitor.
Is there no possibility of introducing
anything like civic pride in the minds
of the class of citizens who "hold prop
erty of this kind sordidly, refusing to
improve it, exacting rents to the last
possible dollar, and giving" nothing in
return? At least they should not be al
lowed to repair such shacks with new
lumber, or to put down wooden side
walks in front of them.
PHILIPPINE WAR A MISTAKE.
The Philippine "War, it is said, is th
greatest mistake in our history. Well,
whose mistake Is It? This Government
did not begin war upon the Filipinos.
The Filipinos began war upon us.
It used to be said that we were in
the wrong in the Philippines because
the country belonged to the Filipinos
and we had no rightful title to it But
this fanciful contention has been set
aside by Congress and the Supreme
Court, and has been abandoned by its
promulgators. Whatever fault is found
with the conduct of the war, it cannot
be disputed that the war with Spain,
the treaty of Paris, the decisions of the
Supreme, Court and the acts of Congress
have established our title to the Philip
pine Islands as complete and unassail
able as our title to Florida or Oregon.
What are we to do, then, if we are the
rightful rulers of the 'islands and the
people rebel? Obviously, nothing, If we
have any self-respect left, but put down
the rebellion and establish our sover
eignty. The Islands are American terri
tory, and American sovereignty must be
enforced and respected Just as it was
forty years ago, "when the Southern
States thought themselves fit for self
government and rebelled against gov
ernment without the consent of the gov
erned. "Yes. but we should treat the Phil
ippines as we have treated Cuba." Oh,
but the Philippines have not treated
us as Cuba treated Us. Isn't theshoe
on the wrong foot in this case also?
Does anybody suppose that if the Cu
bans had fired on our troops and sought
to expel us from the island as soon as
Santiago and Havana had been deliv
ered up to us, we should have tamely
submitted to get out and leave them to
themselves?
The men who. are urging that the
United States should run away from
the Philippines because the Filipinos
showed fight are not actuated by a de
sire to sse their country hold Its place
proudly among the nations of the
earth. All they are after is to embar
rass the party in power.
The Philippine War was a sad mis
take on the part of the Filipinos, and
they have about found it out. When
they act like Cuba, maybe they will
get Cuba's limited independence.
The conviction, of Lettson Balliet at
Des Moines for fraudulent use of the
malls will be welcome news to that
meteoric promoter's antagonists at
Baker City, and more welcome to none
than to Colonel Edward Everett Young.
who began the attack on Balliet a
year and more ago and rendered the
authorities considerable service in the
prosecution. The Baker City Republi
can, Young's paper, fell a victim to the
strenuousness of the conflict, but for
that catastrophe the Des Moines ver
dict will afford some mitigation.
ETHICAL PROPERTIES OP LAN
GUAGE. The attorney for the local mlllown
ers, addressing the court the other day,
made very certain that the boycotting
wbrklngmen had entered into a "con
spiracy." The charge was Indignantly
repudiated by the unions. They had
an agreement of some sort about the
sort of treatment which the offending
mills should receive, and which they
were prepared to execute; very likely
they would have admitted frankly in
private that they had a "combination,"
but a conspiracy never! The mlllmen
themselves have now formed a counter
demonstration, which none of them
probably would deny is a combination,
but none would admit to be a conspir
acy. Nothing in language Is more fascinat
ing than the shades of meaning which
grow up around a word and cling to it
and then gradually fall away, making
room for others. No conspirator will
ever plead guilty to conspiracy. Call It
some more acceptable name and he will
not object Words, that is to say, have
a moral character, and the invidious
term Is the one we repudiate with scorn.
The man who prides himself on his
closs-fistcdnees would never admit that
he is mean. Tell the Implacable that
he is resentful and he will plead guilty;
hint that he is vindictive and he will
slam the door behind him. One word
Is Invidious, the other Is not.
Speaking of personalities, by the way,
who ever inveighs against his own be
setting sin as the great crime of the cal
endar? How the moral soul of thePharl- J
see revolts "him at the venial indulgence
ofappetlte;howawful to the open-handed
ne'er-do-well appears the sin of the
miser; how dreadful is passion to the
even-tempered, and debt to the cautious
and long-headed! "I am not a mean
man," boasts the high liver and free
spender, with a show of pride. Just
about equal to the scorn with which the
hardhearted rich man regards the
promising candidate for the poorhouse.
The man who never takes a drink and
for whom alcohol has no temptation
cannot understand the poor drunkard,
who may have come off victor in many
a heroic struggle, and regards him with
pitiless contempt; but the danger of
cruel or Intemperate Judgment has
never occurred to him. Sinfulness of
the sort that has no temptation for us
Is condemned In unsparing terms. For
our own excesses we have terms of
playful condonation.
Human nature is so powerful that It
triumphs even over so vital "a thing as
religious convictions. Kindness Is a
cardinal principle of Confucius, but cru
elty is the commonest of Chinese prac
tices. Nowhere Is usury so condemned
and the rich so uniformly aspersed as
In the sacred writings of the race of
sharp traders and pawnbrokers. The
commercial races of Christendom,
whose founder spoke tenderly to fallen
women, associated with wlneblb"bers
and denounced the rich and great, have
reversed that original estimate. The
chief seats In the synagogue go to the
class which Jesus denounced, and the
sins he readily forgave are marked for
relentless wrath.
Out of all these personal prejudlcesx
and predilections, reduced to a general
average, is derived the character of
words. A term carries a vague mean
ing to us, unless we know what its
utterer has in mind. Religious liberty
meant one thing to the Puritan when
he thought of King George and an
other when he regarded the Quaker or
the suspect accused of witchcraft The
negro gets Justice In the South at the
burning stake, but he may not consent
to the definition. What is a "parlor"
in one man's vocabulary Is a hellhole
In another's. We have "ladles' en
trances," where no ladles go, and "per
'fe'ct gentlemen" In the prlzerlng.
Everything depends upon the point of
view, even definitions. If it were not
so, we should need no dictionaries.
HONORS WELL WON.
Earl Kitchener is worthy of all the
honors and emoluments he has re
ceived from his country, and all the
outspoken admiration of her people. He
adds another great name to the long
roll of English soldiers who have risen
to the highest rank without any ad
ventitious aids of hereditary rank or
political favoritism. He entered the
British service as a subaltern officer of
the engineer corps, as Lord Roberts did
the artillery. Lord Roberts saw over
forty years of service in India before
he crowned his great career by his
victorious campaign against the Boers.
Lord Kitchener came to South Africa
with Lord Rdberts, the famous victor
of the campaign which ended with cap
ture of Khartoum and reconquest of
all Egyptian Soudan that was won by
the Mahdi when Gordon fell. The great
qualities of Lord Kitchener were estab
lished by this Egyptian campaign; his
nerve, his Indomitable patience, his in
flexible, constancy, his mastery over de
tails, his power of organization and ad
ministration and his humanity when
battle was over to the defeated foe.
That Kitchener fully met the expecta
tions of Lord Roberts is attested by
the fact that he recommended him as
the fittest man as a successor to com
plete' the work of conquest The Kitch
ener type .of soldier is the best British
quality; he Is a man of patience, ten
acity, staying power; the sort that are
never unduly exalted by victory or
notably depressed by defeat
This was the characteristic of Crom
well, of Marlborough, of Wellington.
It was the characteristic of Lord CHve
and of Warren Hastings as distin
guished above all other qualities for In
exhaustible patience In the accomplish
ment of his public purpose for "noble
equanimity, tried by both extremes of
fortune and never disturbed by either."
These are the qualities that have been
characteristic of the great English mili
tary commanders and administrators
who have been the standard-bearers of
the British flag in the tropica, to the
frozen zone, who have put a girdle of
English naval and military posts
around the earth so completely that her
morning drumbeat, as Daniel Webster
said, accompanies the sun In its course.
This characteristic of patience and
equanimity under the discipline of dan
gerous responsibility and difficulty is
emphatically an English trait It was
this quality of the English Infantry on
the battle-field that Napoleon dwelt
upon In his conversations at Bt Helena
and which Impelled him to say that
while the French were not "a great
people" under very trying circum
stances, as were the English, the French
would charge as gallantly as any people
In the world, but they could not take
severe punishment with the stern, un
flinching endurance of the English.
This staying power Teally lies at the
bottom of the success of the English
people, and is the salient characteristic
of all her great soldiers and sailors.
Lord CHve and Warren Hastings were
of this typo, as we have said, and so
"were the later heroes of England's In
dian Empire Wellesley, Sale, Napier,
Gough, Hardlnge, .Pollock, Outram,
Havelock, Sir John Lawrence, Chamber
lain, Edwards, Nelll, Campbell, Sir
Hugh Rose and Lord Roberts. It Is a
noteworthy fact that not only all of
these men had the Kitchener quality
of splendid patience and equanimity,
but like Kitchener, they were all men
who were obliged to win their way
elowly from a petty officer's place to
that of supreme distinction wholly with
their swords, for they were not heirs
to wealth or important political influ
ence. Neither in statesmanship, ora
tory, letters or law; neither in war or
peace, has the hereditary Engllshiaris
tocracy been a fertile nursery of com
manding talents, for that aristocracy
with very few noteworthy exceptions
has not been able, with all Its leisure
and all Its wealth and education, to
talk, 'fight or write Its way to high
fame. Sir William Napier could not
write a decent English letter when the
Napoleonic wars ended; he educated
himself by five years of severe reading
and study so thoroughly that no other
military filstory compares with his in
deep, pathetic eloquence of expression
when the man or the occasion Is worthy
of It
Even Lord Salisbury was a poor
younger son who for years was a hard
working Journalist In order to win his
bread. Lord Byron was a poor lord,
who was obliged in the start to earn
a decent Income with his pen. In spite
of the artificial ranks and privileges
existing in England, It has generally
been as true there as it is In America
that the hard-working man who was In
youth obllgett to toil for comfortable
existence finally gets nearest to the
front In the public eminence of war or
peace. It was true as long ago as when
a child of the middle classes became
the conqueror of Quebec; It was true
when a poor English curate's son de
stroyed the naval power of France at
Trafalgar; it was true of CHve and
Hastings, both poor boys, ill fed and
ill clad In their youth; It was true of
Roberts and it is true of Kitchener, and
it always will be true under free In
stitutions that the man of ability with
the spur of necessity and ambition In
cessantly flogging his flank will make
better speed for the finish In the race
for distinction than the man of hered
itary wealth and rank, even if he In
herit considerable Intellect
BEFORE AND AFTER.
The acts about the sawmill men's
combination in support of the planing
mills were printed In The Oregonlan
Saturday morning. May 31. They were,
In brief, that the agreement had been
made but would not be announced until
after election, lest Injury might be done
to the cause of R. D. Inman, member
of the firm of Inman, Poulsen & Co.,
parties to the agreement, and Fusion
nominee for Mayor. The full account of
the undertaking and its bearing on the
building trades difficulties did not pre
vent .however, a denial of the facts
from Mx. Inman, couched In these un
equivocal terms:
I am Informed that some persons are cir
culating a report that Inman, Poulsen & Co.
have refused to sell lumber to union planing
mills, and have entered Into an agreement or
combination with other mlllowners to sell their
lumber In a way to discriminate against union
planing mills and not to sell to union planing
mills. I take this method f Informing the
public that such statements are not true In
whole or In part. The Arm of Inman, Poulsen
& Co. have made no such agreement, and have
no Intention to do so. For business reasons.
If for no other, we shall not enter Into any
such combination. R. D. INMAN.
Yet the signature of Inman, Poulsen
& Co. appears attached to the agree
ment of the sawmills pledging that its
signers "will not furnish any materials
in our respective lines to persons par
ticipating In or enforcing said boycott"
Mr, Inman also declared 'over his own
signature that "we have entered Into no
"combination with other mlllowners
against the unions or union planing
mills, and do not Intend to do so." also
that "The Oregonlan's representations
are false and misleading."
It may be as well to remind Mr. In
man and all others whom It may con
cern that The Oregonlan Is not accus
tomed to say the thing that Is not
Some candor and fairness on Bob In
man's part might have enabled him to
win the election.
A PLEASING PROSPECT.
The farmers of the Willamette Valley
will find much satisfaction In the pros
pect that the Uppef Willamette and
Yamhill Rivers will get substantial al
lowances In the river and harbor bill.
Wheatgrowers. especially, are anxious
that these streams be kept in navigable
condition, since they, see in this the as
surance that freight rates to deep water
will not absorb the profits of their la
bor. In a certain degree, loyalty to the
rivers Is a heritage from the early times
wherein the whistle of steamboats first
awoke echoes In the foothills and In
sured relatively quick dispatch to the
freight stored in warehouses along the
river banks, as against the toilsome and
tedious process of a still earlier time.
Involved in the long haul of wheat by
teams to Portland, or in the yet earlier
period of fiat-boating It to Vancouver.
It is said that the first trip of the
first steamboat up the Willamette River
the diminutive "Hoosier" of some
thing like half a century ago created
more enthusiasm than the announce
ment ten years later of the admission of
Oregon Into the Union. This Is very
probable, since the little river craft
represented the fulfillment of a strin
gent need, while the people generally
felt that there was no hurry In the
matter of statehood. The agricultural
and commercial development of the
country were of much greater import
ance at that time than was Its political
development and the echoes that the
shrill scream of the "Hoosier's" whistle
awoke in the Polk County hills created
an interest that the announcement
borne by a solitary horseman over the
muddy roads between Oregon City and
Salem that "Oregon was a state," and
taken up by the few churchbells of the
capital city, -failed to arouse. Later,
when steamboating became lively on
the river, the people's championship of
rival transportation companies and
their pride in river craft generally be
came features of the commercial his
tory and even of the social life of the
Willamette Valley. There stands yet at
Mllwaukle, not far from the site of the
old Standard Mills, a large frame house
"Whose empty windows, bare and stark.
Look "blank against the Inward dark.
Thla house was the center for sev-
eral years of the social life of the steam-
boat era. A similar building, but some
what smaller, still stands at Oswego
that also echded not Infrequently in
those days to the merry music of the
"fiddle" and the twinkUng feet of the
dancers, while warehouses all along the
river-banks from Oregon City to Salem
were at times cleared of wheat and used
as ballrooms. A love for the river born
of those days and scenes still survives,
though few of the merry-makers of that
time remain.
The social feature has, however, been
wholly eUminated from the transporta
tion problem. It Is ajl work and no
play now, and, In order to accomplish
the work In hand with the promptness
that present commercial methods and a
widening market demand, the river
must be kept in navigable condition.
No more "lining over the sandbars" by
men knee deep in water. The sandbars
must be dredged or the channel deep
ened by some other device of engineer
ing. No more must the river pilot, year
after year, lay his course to avoid a
sunken rock or a projecting snag In
the channel. The rock must be shat
tered and scattered and the snag
pulled. This Is the part of the Gov
ernment in our transportation problem,
the fulfillment of which Is Insured by
the vigilance of our representatives In
Congress speaking through the river
and harbor bill. Hence the satisfaction
with which the people of the Willam
ette Valley greet the Item in this bill:
"For the Willamette above Portland
and the Yamhill, $68,000," while the resi
dents' of the Eastern section of the state
smile broadly as, reading further down
the line, they find: "Upper Columbia
and Snake Rivers, $53,000."
The waterways are the Nation's com
mercial highways. It Is fitting, there
fore, that the Nation keep them In re
pair. They, are the producers' guaran
tee against railroad monopoly of traffic.
Hence the general gratification that fol
lows the announcement of a suitable
appropriation for keeping these water
ways clear of obstructions to naviga
tion. Of course, the river and harbor
bill may not pass, but the probabili
ties favor Its enactment within a few
weeks. Pending final action upon It, It
Is gratifying to feel that Oregon's In
terests as represented by her navigable
rivers find suitable expression In the
amounts agreed upon as her reasonable
share.
Secretary Shaw has thus early In his
administration of the affairs of the
United States Treasury brought upon
himself the displeasure of certain large
financial Institutions in New York. His.
offense Is that he has selected a num
ber of smaller banks in the West and
South as Government depositories for
the National funds. It Is shown that
by the last Increase, banks In New Or
leans, Baltimore, Columbus, Ga., St.
Johnsbury and Columbus, O., as well
as two New York banks, are to get
$100,000 each, while the remainder Is to
be divided in lots of $50,000 among
more than fifty small banks in the
South and West The safety of these
deposits is not questioned, but criti
cism is based upon the assumption, that
these banks may have the funds so em
ployed that they could not respond to a
sudden demand from the Secretary
without Inconvenience. As long as se
curity In United States bonds Is re
quired for these Government deposits
there will be little disposition on the
part of the people to criticise the man
ner of their disposal. There has been
much complaint of the too close con
nection between the United States
Treasury and the big New York banks.
We may now reasonably expect respite
from this, and a corresponding expres
sion of gratification at the Impartial
distribution of the favors of the Treas
ury. In the meantime It may be well
to realize that the official financiers
of the Government have been trained to
the business, and that It Is to their
interest to safely guard the funds of
the Nation, with the custody of which
they are responsibly charged.
Jefferson was not an agnostic, as he
Is called by the Minneapolis Tribune,
but a deist He did not believe in the
supernatural character of Jesus, but he
regarded him. as a person of supreme
goodness, and held that his ethical
teachings were the loftiest the world
has known. Jefferson was clearly a
Unitarian. The Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune publishes the following auto
graph letter from Jefferson to John Ad
ams, who was an active Unitarian:
'Montlcello. Jan. 18. 1624. I thank you, Mr.
for the copy you have been so kind as to send
me of the Rev. Mr. Bancroft's Unitarian ser
mons. I have "read them with great satisfac
tion, and always rejoice In efforts to restore
us to primitive Christianity. In all the sim
plicity In which It came from the lips of
Jesus. Had It never been sophisticated by the
subtleties of commentators, nor paraphrased
Into meanings totally foreign to Its character,
it would at this day have been the religion of
the whole civilized world. But the metaphysi
cal abstractions of Athanaslus and the maniac
ravings of Calvin, tinctured plentifully with
the foggy dreams of Plato, have so loaded It
with absurdities and Incomprehensibilities as
to drive Into infidelity men who had not time,
patience or opportunity to strip It of Its mere
tricious trappings and to see It In all Its na
tive simplicity and purity. I trust, however,
that the same free exercise of private Judg
ment which gave us our political reforma
tion will extend Its effects to that of religion,
which the present volume Is well calculated to
encourage and promote.
TH. JEFFERSON.
On the occasion of hearing a sermon
by William Ellery Channlng, the pio
neer prophet of the Congregational
schism of 1815, which definitely estab
lished In the United States a Unitarian
denomination, Jefferson wrote:
I trust there Is not a young man now In
the United States who will not die a Uni
tarian. Tongue's plurality in 1900 was 3019.
Moody's plurality was 9377. Total, 12,
406. The pluralities for Tongue and
Williamson now will exceed 14,000.
Scuttle was the issue, and how much
of a Democratic victory was It?
Western Oregon gave Mr. Furnish a
strong majority. It was Eastern Ore
gon that defeated the Eastern Oregon
man. .
Good Price In n Bad Market.
London West End.
A statesman who shall remain anony
mous, but whose recent tour In Ireland
caused some speculation In the political
world. Is responsible for this story. He
was strolling along a highroad and over
took an Irish drover with a number of cat
tle procecdlngto a fair in the south. Be
ing a genial soul, he entered into conver
sation with the man, and by 'and by
asked him what he expected to get for his
cattle. "Sure, an if I get 8 the head
I'll not do badly." replied Pat "Ah," said
the politician, "that's a sample of your
country. Now, Mf you were enterprising
enough to take these heifers to England
you would average 14 a head at least"
"Just so, yer Honor," said the drover
simply, "and av ycz take the Lakes. of
KJllarney to purgatory yez get a guinea
th dhron "
MORALITY MUST BE TAUGHT.
Brooklyn Eagle
The great Roman Catholic Church
steadily maintains that our state system
of Instruction Is eo defective on Its ethical
olde that it cannot eubmlt Its children to
Its processes. We believe Rome would be
doing better If it Joined with the state
heartily and brought to It what It eo
desperately needs Instead of holding aloof
from it But It la unquestionably right In
the contention that the whole system as
It now exists Is morally a negation. The
trouble with our whole theory of educa
tion is that it takes for granted that
people know rlgh't and wrong without be
ing taught They do not know. Sinister
symptoms of moral obtuseness show them
selves on every hand. We are foolishly
surprised when we find a gang of toughs
assaulting harmless passengers on a trolley
line or stoning a passing carriage, when
we see a whole populace unmoved at any
extremity of corruption In civic adminis
tration, when we see young men of re
spectable families running about the
streets and their aisters affecting the
manners of the Tenderloin. Why should
we be surprised? It is the literal truth
that they know no better. This Is the de
pressing part of it all. If folk felt them
selves to be doing violence to their sense
of right, there might be hope that the
pain thus caused would work Its own cure.
But they have never learned. They have
never learned because there Is no provis
ion made for teaching them.
The great company of educators and
the whole American community need to
be sternly warned that If morality can
not be specifically taught In the public
schools without admitting religious dogma,
then religious dogma may have to be
taught in them. For righteousness is es
centlal tor a people's very existence. And
righteousness does not come by nature any
more than reading or writing docs. Some
body must teach it Any school whlcn
permits a pupil to be in It for six months
without seeing to It that he has learned
essential morality, and has been taught
wnat it practically means, has shown Its
unfitness to be a place of training of fu
ture citizens. It will not do to say that
this kind of Instruction belongs alone to
the family and the church. This might be
said with some plauslbllty if all citizens
were free to send their children to school
or not as they eee fit But the state
claims, and rightly, the power to compel
the child of every citizen to be sent to
school. It exercises control over the
child's life during the wholo period of its
training. If at the end of that time the
youth does not know the difference be
tween right and wrong, the fault lies at
the state's door. We are within measur
able distance of the time when soclety
may for Its own sake go on Its knees tot
any factor which can bo warranted to"
make education compatible with and In
separable from morality, letting that fac
tor do it on its own terms and teach
therewith whatsoever It lists. If the state
cannot or will not learn how to teach
ethics without dogma, ethics will be
taught, all the same, by a method or
system to which dogma will be allowed
or excused.
BRIBERY OF GOVERNMENT.-
Here Is What the Presnmptlon of
Enonnonn Wealth Lends To.
Kansas City Star.
It Is not at all likely that the United
States Government will encrtaln the
proposition of Andrew Carnegie to ac
cept from him $20,000,000 and give the
Philippines over to the rule of their tur
bulent natives. But the fact that It fos
ters and maintains an economic policy
which enables one of Its citizens to ten
der It abribe of such colossal propor
tions as $20,000,000 is something which
ought to ciuse it to seriously ponder,
mark and Inwardly digest Mr. Carnegie
has displayed excessive ostentation In the
disbursement of the enormous surplus
which he ha accumulated through the
aid of the tariff, whlcn enriches Its ben
eficiaries at the expense of the consum
ers, but It would appear that he had rath
er passed the limit when he presumes to
Influence the policy of the Government
on the question of expansion by the use
of money.
On no account and for no purpose
should the United States ever accept a
farthing df Andrew Carnegie's money.
His prurient desire to place the Govern
ment under obligations to him, as mani
fested by his proposition to establish at
Washington a National University, and
his recent offer of J20.000.000 to insure the
Independence of the Philippines, should
have the effect only of strengthening and
crystallizing public sentiment against the
pecuniary blandishments of the multi
millionaire whose passion for celebrity
is causing him to employ his money in the
establishment of numerous monuments to
his memory.
The favors which Mr. Carnegie has en
Joyed at the hands of the Government
through the maintenance of the tariff
system mean, of course, an outrageous
Injustice to the consumers who' contrib
ute constantly to the enormous surplus
In the hands of the steel baron. But, ad
mitting the evil and the wrong of such
discrimination It fs vastly better that he
should be the undeserving beneficiary of
the Government thin that the Govern
ment should accept largess from him.
Tho piratical system of protection
which has enriched Mr. Carnegie and his
kind can be overthrown. The disgrace
of a National obligation to Carnegie could
never be obliterated.
Never before In the history of the
United States has there been stich an
example of concentrated hardihood as
Andrew Carnegie bas displayed In pre
suming, by the offer of money, to Influ
ence the policy of tho -Government In
the Philippines.
This exaggerated conception of the
power of riches which represent unfair
profits amassed under -an unfair system,
ought to Impress upon the Government
the thoroughly vicious and demoralizing
effects of an economic policy which
causes even a sense of ehame and a
clumsy effort In the way of atonement to
Its beneficiaries.
Illinois Probably Republican.
Chicago Tribune.
If there Is one quality more than an
other which distinguishes Congressman
Hopkins, It 13 his satiguine disposition.
When he informs the President and other
P.epublicans in Washington that Illinois
will be carried by the party by 70,000 or
100.000 majority, he Is taking counsel of his
hopes. There is no good reason to believe
the Republican party in Illinois in this
off year will have any such majority.
If the Democrats nominate a county
ticket mode up of the men they speak of
nominating; If they put forward In Harry
Hall's district such a candidate for the
Senate as Honore Palmer; If they Indorse
for the United States Senate Samuel AI
achuler; If they propose Charles M. Walk
er for Judge, Wlliam D. Kerfoot for
County Treasurer, and Joseph Donners
berger for president of the County Board,
they will give the Republican party all
that It needs to "attend to during the pres
ent campaign. The Republican state and
county tickets, with one or two possible
exceptions, are exceedingly strong, but
the Democrats may make nominations
quite as good, in which case there will be
an opportunity for the revival of some an
cient prejudices, and perhaps the inde
pendent voter will be heard from in a
manner not dreamed of.
Add to this the natural apathy In off
years and the disposition of Republicans
to let matters take their course, and It Is
from our point of view almost ridiculous
to speak of such a majority as 70,000 or
100,000 ln Illinois in 1S02. The Republi
cans will, under certain conceivable con
ditions, be mighty well rattened with 25,000,
20,000, or any majority whatever In Illinois
next November. The sooner they make
up their minds the fight Is to be close
and critical, and that every energy must
be put forth and no efforts ppared to elect
the ticket, the better lt-wlll be for them
and all concerned.
What good citizens should .hope for is
that the Democrats will make proper
nominations, eo that whichever side wins
the public ecrvlce will not suffer.
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM TROUBLES
Minneapolis Tribune.
The country is going to get a good deal
of fun out of Democratic platforms this
year, and the Democratic party a cor
responding amount of misery. With the
Kansas City platform hanging over them
from." behind and the unpatriotic Idea of
opposition to American expansion loom
ing In front, the Democratic party Is go
ing to be hard put to It to make i plat
form on which It can even keep together
Its own .diminished, straggling and dis
couraged membership. It does not seem
possible for any Western convention to
escape the fatal obsession of the Kansas
City platform. The Democrats in Con
gress are doing their best to fix on the
party the odium of opposition to Increase
of American territory and bitter hostil
ity to the American Army This alone
has been enough to wreck two or three.
American parties, without adding advo
cacy of false money and repudiation.
A Democratic state convention has just
been held In Tennessee. It met the issue
boldly. It indorsed the Kansas City plat
form, free silver, free riot and all. It de
nounced the whole policy of the Govern
ment In dealing with the Philippines, de
manded that the islanders should be
promised independence and left to es
tablish Its own government. The Army
is attacked as an instrument of oppres
sion and a menace to the liberties of the
people.
We don't know whether the old or the
new features of this platform are more
likely to give aid and comfort to the
Republicans. There is hardly any re
spect In which it could be bettered to suit
the purposes of the Government and the
Republican party. Yet this is exactly
the kind of platform which the Demo
crats may bo expected to adopt, at least
in all the Western States. There Is no
reason to expect a different platform in
Minnesota, for example. The whole re
maining membership of the party Is com
mitted to Bryan and the Kansas City
platform, and It has no present Issue ex
cept what is called anti-Imperialism. A
poor party must take the materials it has,
even if It Is obliged to make bricks with
out straw.
EASTERN OREGON. '
The "Losf Opportunity" as to State
Affair.
Pendleton Tribune.
The reverses that came to the Repub
lican party Monday fall heaviest on East
ern Oregon. It were better that the at
tempt had not been made to secure a
state office for the people of this part of
the state, but it was not believed that
they would be so short-sighted as to vote
against their own interests. The disap
pointment that came to W. J. Furnish
as an Individual should be equaled by the
disappointment every Eastern Oregon cit
izen should feel In his defeat Mr. Fur
nish has accepted the result very man
fully and not a word of complaint has
been heard from him. He Is made of the'
material of which men are made, not
babes, and he is still a Republican and
willing to work for the Interests of his
party and for the people of this county,
and Eastern Oregon, In spite of tho fact
that they "turned down" his candidacy
for the Governorship. He will not allow
his defeat to affect his career as a busi
ness man and a citizen of Umatilla
County, nor his loyalty to Republicanism,
but he cannot prevent It from affecting
the future of Eastern Oregon.
It 13 a safe prediction that this part
of the state will be long without another
such opportunity, and the lesson that
some of the Republicans have essayed to
teach will come home jto them. A prin
ciple of vast Importance to Eastern Ore
gon has been sacrificed on the altar of
personalities, falsehoods and calumnies,
disappointments and Jealousies, and when
the injustice that has been done Is righted
the citizens of Eastern Oregon who con
tributed to its defeat will feel the sharp
nancs of recret and be ashamed of their
lack of foresight and the prejudices that
led them to pursue such a course.
The blow that Eastern Oregon received
was dealt by Its owrt hand.
Growth of the City of Cleveland.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The story of the growth of Cleveland
as-a manufacturing city Is one of absorb
ing Interest. The first available record of
Cleveland Industries, the first directory Is
sued In 1S37, gave but a meager list of
manufacturing establishments, and "these
were mostly small, employing but a few
men each. Now there are nearly 3000 fac
tories of all kinds, making over 100.000
different articles, with a capital estimated
at 5100,000,000 and employing not less than
50,000 persons. The mercantile growth oi
the city has been commensurate with its
manufacturing development, the whole
sale. Jobbing, and retail trade showing
enormous Increase during the past few
years, placed at over J2OO.O0O.O0O a year.
The lake trade of Cleveland has nearly
doubled In 10 years, and with the extensive
development of the harbor and shipping
facilities now In progress, or planned for
early execution, the next few years will
show a still more rapid growth. After
all, perhaps the most convincing evidence
of the city's phenomenal growth is the
increase of its financial facilities. Dur
ing the last 10 years there have been es
tablished 27 new banks and trust com
panies. Eight of these are National banks,
12 trust companies, and seven savings
banks. The Increase of banking capital
has been $23,359,732; of bank deposits, $100,
714.3S9; of bank loans, $51,664,802. All this
increase of bank capital and bank busi
ness is due to the extensive development
of the city's industrial, commercial and
transportation interests.
A Career to Think On.
American Monthly Review of Reviews.
Rear-Admiral Sampson, who died at
Washington on May 6, was the foremost
officer in the American Navy. His merit
lay not so much in what he helped to do
at the battle of Santiago as In the sum
total of a career which had led the Gov
ernment at Washington to know full well
that It had In him an officer equal to any
naval task or responsibility.
Flynn of Virginia.
Bret Harte.
Dldn't know Flynn
Flynn. of Virginia
Long as he's been 'yar?
Look'ee here, stranger,
Whar hev you been?
Here In this tunnel
He was my pardner. .
That same Tom Flynn
"Working together,
In wind and weather.
Day out and In.
Didn't know Flynn I
Well, that ls queer. '
Why, It's a sin.
To think of Tom Flynn
Tom, with his cheer; ,
Tom. without fear
Stranger, look yar.
Thar In the drift.
Back to thevwall,
He, held the timbers
Ready to fall;
Then In the darkness
I heard him call:
"Run for your llfe Jake!
Run for your wife's sake I
Don't wait for me." '
And that was all
Heard In the din.
Heard of Tom Flynn
Flynn of Virginia.
That lets me out
Here in the damp
Out of the sun
That 'ar denied lamp
Makes my eyes run.
Well, there--l'm done.
But. sir, when you'll
Hear the next fool
Asking of Flynn
Flynn of Virginia
Just you chip In,
Say you knew Flynn; . '
Say that you've been 'yar.
NOTE AiD COMMENT.
Now for a glorious Fourth.
Mount Pelee declines to allow any of it3
imitators to eclipse it
President Kruger is pretty old to have
to get out and hunt for a new job.
The successful candidate will be sur
prised to find how many promises he has
made.
The popularity of the water cure In Ore
gon Is shown by the? size of the prohibi
tion vote.
By Monday everybody but the politi
cians will have forgotten that there was
any election at all.
President Palma Ls enjoying himself
now, but wait until the second term bee
gets under his hat
Perhaps Mr. Mansfield will consent to
come back next year and get the rest of
the money in Portland.
The June bnde and the sweet girl grad
uate ought to keep the dry goods stores
running on full time for another 30 days.
King Edward will not allow long ser
mons to be preached before him. There
is some advantage in being a King, after
all
The young King of Spain will have to
do better than he has done if he expects
to be dramatized or to get into a histori
cal novel.
Iowa Is having more water than she
knows what to do with. There Is such a
thing as overdoing the water cure, even "
in a prohibition state.
Wilhclmlna followed the example of Li
Hung Chang and refused to die just to
spite the people, who were going to divide
her possessions after her death.
Kentucky hasn't had its name in the
papers for a good while. They have gone
back to the old-fashioned way of lynch
ing people one at a time down ther.e.
Between the man-who-rocks-the-boat
and the strawberry shortcake, the fool
killer hasn't much need to give his per
sonal attention to business this Summer.
On the night of the coronation and on
the night after two crowns of flame will
dominate the region of Westminster from
the eminence of the great tower of the
new Roman Catholic Cathedral in London.
The last bricks will bo In position by then,
and the completion of the outer fabric of
the great fane will Indirectly be cele
brated by the two circles of light lifted
on its topmost pinnacle in honor of the
crowning of the King and the Queen. Tho
idea 1st that of the Duke of Norfolk, who
ls president of the Catholic Union, and
who will have as his guest during coro
nation week the envoy of Pope Leo XIII.
The member of Parliament who has al
ways a complaint to make about the way
in which he is reported, has a brother in
affliction in Sydney, N. S. W. The re
porters became tired of being found fault
with there, so they took down the fol
lowing gem from the lips of one of the
members, and, worse, they published It as
follows
"The reporters ought not to the re
porters ought not to be the ones to judge
of what Is Important not to say what
should be left out but the member can
only 'Judge of what is important. As I as
my speeches as the reports as what I
say ls reported sometimes, no one no
body can understand from the reports
what it Is what I mean. So it strikes
me It has struck me certain matters
things that appear of Importance aro
sometimes loft out omitted. The report
ersthe papers points are reported I
mean to make a brief statement what
tho paper thinks of interest is reported."
Even should Tammany be beaten again
at the next municipal election the real
leaders In New York will not have to go
to work. Others besides Richard Croker
have made millions of dollars by following
politics as a business. Hugh McLaughlin,
of Brooklyn, ls the richest Democratic
politician in New York state. He has
.$3,000,000 and two daughters who will get
It McLaughlin has not held office In 20
years, but his influence enabled him to
get in on the ground floor In the owner
ship of stocks In corporations that re
quired franchises from the Board of Ald
ermen. He is a heavy holder of Tele
phone. Gas, Electric Light and Rapid
Transit stock. He Is the largest owner of
real estate In Brooklyn. His first lieuten
ant, James Shevlin, has $2,000,000 to his
credit. "Bob" Furey can draw on $1,000,
000, and John McCarty's fortune long ago
passed the million mark. These are only
a few of the Wllloughby-street Democrats
who have big bank accounts. In Tam
many John F. Carroll is rated a million
aire. Patrick Keenan is a $200,000 man.
"Charlie" Murphy long ago passed the
$300,000 mark. Thomas F. Gilroy has real
estate and stocks that run well Into six
figures. No one rates John Whalen un
der $SO0,C0O. James P. Keating has blocks
of real estate. So has Senator Plunkitt
Tim Sullivan has theaters, a racing sta
ble, uptown property and a big bank ac
count These are only a few, and yet not
one of them had $10,000 10 years ago.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
Soliloquy. "This 13 a hard world," said T)?a
con Flapp. as he stepped off the car back
ward. Chicago Dally News.
"He's a kind-hearted automobllist. Isn't he?"
"Exceptionally so. I never knew him to run
over even a child, unless he was in a hurry."
Life.
A Pretty Sure Sign. "Does she sing as If
she had had her voice cultivated?" "Oh. yes,
I couldn't understand a word she said." Phil
adelphia Bulletin.
A Come-Down for Her. "Did I understand
you to say that she lowered herself when she
married him?" "Yes. She slid down from a
third-story window, using a rope made of bed
clothes." Chicago Record-Herald.
Shingled. "Harold, I must have your hair
shingled." observed the fond mother as she
curled the little fellow's golden tresses. "Ain't
my sailor hat a good enuf roof?" asked the
youngster. Innocently. Ohio State Journal.
Doubtful Recommendation. "Can you make
mo a set of teeth that will look natural?"
asked the patient. "My dear sir." replied tho
tooth-carpenter, "the teeth I make are so nat
ural that they fairly ache." Chicago Dally
News.
The Chickens' Heads. Mrs. Youngwife I
want to get some salad. Dealer Yes'm. How
many heads? Mrs. Youngwife Gracious! I
thought you always took the heads off. I waut
Just plain chicken salad. Philadelphia Press..
Good One. Brother, don't you know if you
swear at those mules you won't get to Para
dise? Bad One Yes. pawson; but if I don't
swear at them I won't get to the end of tho
row, and that's the Important thing at pres
ept. Philadelphia Record.
"And does your dolly close its eyes?" said
the minister, visiting at the house of a parish
ioner. "No. sir." replied the little thintr; "but
I'm going to take her to church soma day,
and see if she will; papa says nearly every
body goes to sleep there!" Yonkers Statesman.
"I'm afraid "it won't do at all," said tha
magazine editor, as he tossed the story aside.
"It's a magnificent story, hut" The expect
ant author stood trembling as he hung on tha
words. "But It's at least three pages long,
and I fear It will distract attention from tha
A advertisements!" Baltimore News.