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PORTLAND, "WEDNESDAY, JUNE IS.
A GOOD DAY'S WORK.
The Oregonlan expressed no opinion
upon the merits of the kindergarten
issue which was adjudicated at the
polls on Monday. It forebore, out of
deference to the earnest desire of many
of our best people, to whom the kin
dergarten as an adjunct of the public
school system has appeared In the garb
of a Cause and almost a Religion. Yet
Its opinion, we doubt not, -was suffi
ciently apprehended by all who have
been familiar with Its columns for any
considerable length of time. No such
person will for a moment question that
The Oregonlan heartily approves the
Terdict of the taxpayers.
Is any one going to resist the tend
ency to saddle upon the state the duties
that devolve upon the man and woman,
the father and mother? Is there any
point whatever in all this long descent
from sturdy self-reliance to social de
pendence where the mad rush to pa
ternalism can be called to halt? Some
times it seems not, but the vote of Mon
day indicates that in Oregon at least,
nhere free text-books and free pencils
have not yet followed free bridges, free
libraries and free baths, a body of tax
payers can sometimes be found who
realize that whatever is called free
costs somebody something, and who
believe some duty and some responsi
bility are left which parents cannot be
permitted .to shoulder off upon the Gov
ernment. If society is going down, It is going by
the way of Individual neglect, slovenli
ness, slackness. A race of men who
earned their own education and their
own books Is giving way to a genera
tion that can. provide nothing for itself,
but must be supported from the cradle
to the grave with public this and public
that, government prosecution of all in
dustry, free everything. Parents have
long since lost ability to educate their
children and train 'them to law-abiding
and mannerly citizenship, and- now they
are fain to ask officialdom to take their
offspring from the cradle, wipe their
noses, wash their dirty faces, put the
simplest of knowledge in their heads
and toys in their hands.
If the state is to be obliged to raise
the children, then it must "have some
thing to say about what children shall
"be born, and what they shall do. Talk
about the state's interest in having its
children educated what is that Inter
est to its interest that the criminal and
hopelessly diseased shall not propagate
their kind? If children are to be un
loaded on the state, then the state will
have something to say in regulation of
the quality and quantity of that load.
If the taxpayers have to shoulder the
burdens of parenthood, they will require
some of its discretion. On a small
scale we can tolerate the habit of
bringing children into the world for
somebody else to take care of; but to
adopt it as the wholesale and uniform
system of perpetuating the race will
not do. Authority must be commensur
ate with responsibility. The taxpayer
will not make an incubator of himself
if he has fair warning and the oppor
tunity to choose.
Many thinkers, we may say most
thinkers, agree with John Stuart Mill
that if the duties of parents are to be
thrown upon the state, then the state
will be compelled to "regulate" the
parents. That is, if the state is to take
care of those who are to be bom Into
the world, then it will be compelled also
to take measures for regulation of the
propagation of the race. If the state
is to establish a general nursery, to re
lieve parents of their duty to their chil
dren and of responsibility for them, it
will not leave to parental impulse the
simple duty of procreation. It will be
compelled to regulate that also though
there are many who evidently think
their responsibility ceases with that one
duty. They get no further than the one
Injunction. "Be fruitful."
A cheerful aggregation of men from
60 to 75 and 80 years young was the
company of Indian War Veterans who,
with their wives, yesterday, as a feat
ure of their annual reunion, partook of
the hospitality of the association known
as Daughters of Indian War Veterans.
The majority of these folk of "ye olden
time" are not well preserved, and most
of them look, "old for their age," as
they frequently assured each other was
the case. The grizzly bearded faces of
the men and the time-furrowed faces of
thi women, the eyes of each and all
spectacled or dim and lusterless, tell
of hard years that are behind and hint
of few years yet remaining. The enact-
ment of the pension bill now awaiting
oQly the signature of the President to
become a law, the specific object of
which Is to remove many of these men
from -want during- the last stage of their
life's pilgrimage, has been long over
due. But "better late than never" say
the veterans, and this estimate the pub
lic cordially indorses.
ANTI-ISM HAS SINS OP ITS OWN.
Secretary Root's manly assumption of
full responsibility for the payments to
General Gomez and his expressed be
lief that unless something of the sort
had been done in Cuba we should have
had the same sort of difficulties in Cuba
that we have had in the Philippines,
will give some of the antis, we may be
sure, a bad quarter of an hour. He
gives them the choice of two alterna
tives, either of which. If they take It,
bids fair to lead them to a point where
they wish they had taken the other.
The first anti-imperialist Impulse, on
reading the Secretary'-s declaration,
will be to jump up and shout on this
wise: "Saved an Insurrection by treat
ing Gomez and his crowd handsomely?
Of course! We ought to have done the
same thing In the Philippines. If we
had only treated Agulnaldo, Mablnl and
the rest as we treated Gomez, Instead
of pursuing them with guns and real
powder, all would have been well.
These diplomatic and financial arrange
ments with deposed chieftains and dis
banded native armies are recognized
and enforced by Great Britain and
other competent powers. This is only
another proof that our Philippine ad
ministration has been 'all wrong' from
the start."
So far, so good. But at about this
stage the antl will reflect that Cuba is
the question before the house now, and
that approval of Secretary Root's dec
laration will be a thing of extreme
awkwardness. The War Department Is
now as it ever has been the scapegoat
upon which all vials of wrath and dis
content must be emptied. No, It won't
do to commend Root Something else
must be done.
Nevertheless, the view of every prac
tical mind will be with Secretary Root.
The final arbiter of the complex prob
lems which the Spanish War left with
us is results. There is a wide differ
ence between payments to Washington
lobbies for Influence on legislation and
payments to Cuban soldiers to keep the
peace. One move Is to sway Congress,
the other to create conditions. If rea
sonable compensation to Gomez had the
practical effect of keeping the peace, It
was undoubtedly by far the cheapest
way in which that -end could be
reached. The United States was in
Cuba, the custodian In trust of the
Cuban people. Their Congress makes
haste to pension Gomez. Our action
was therefore justified originally and is
justified now.
It should be pointed out, however,
that Cuba's case and the Philippines
are not on all fours, and Secretary
Root does not say so. He does Inti
mate that stiffness with Gomez would
have caused trouble, but he does not In
timate that payments to Agulnaldo
would have prevented trouble. Gomez
was a soldier and patriot, Agulnaldo a
cheap adventurer and freebooter. We
had insurrection on our hands In Luzon
without Aguinaldo's having any cause
of complaint, and with the memory of
that redoubtable pirate's $400,009 deal
with Spain fresh in mind, the Ameri
can people would never have sanc
tioned a similar financial undertaking.
It Ib true that salaries have kept the
Sulu group contented, but equal appar
ent content and friendship in Samar
and Mindanao changed without any
reason whatever Into malice and treach
ery. The truth lo that hostility In this
country to the Administration's neces
sary course in Cuba and the Philippines
Is soon to reckon with popular disap
proval which will make it ashamed and
apologetic as Rawlins and Carmack
have been In the Senate. The truth
is that the head and front of offending
in our Philippine difficulties have been
the antis themselves, who have not only
hampered prompt and efficient effort at
home, but have fomented rebellion
abroad. The Luzon lnsurnectlon lies,
not at the door of the War Department,
which had no choice but to sustain the
Army and repel assaults on American
sovereignty, but at the door of anti
Imperlallsm. whose pernicious activity
in the Summer, Autumn and Winter of
1898 frlghtenea the amiable McKlnley
from the path of firmness marked out
by our officers at-Manila, and prevented
the complete establishment of American
rule and acquiescence of the Tagals.
It does not He in the mouth of anti
imperlalism, which is to blame for hes
itation at home and secession abroad,
to magnify and gloat over the embar
rassments and difficulties Its own hands
have raised up. Criticism of the War
i Department is not going to be very well
received In this country much longer
Time is attesting the wisdom of our
course, and the antis would do well to
cease their hostility, for their own com
fort now and their place in the verdict
of history.
PIONEER DAY.
The annual reunion of the pioneers of
Oregon will be .held in this city today.
The accustomed programme will be ren
dered In the Exposition building, and at
Its conclusion a banquet furnished by
citizens of Portland will be served by
pioneer women and their daughters,
resident of the city. This announce
ment in substance has been made by
the city press, and through programmes
generally distributed during the past
few daya It explains the appearance
upon our streets of an 'unusually large
number of gray-haired men and women,
whose wistful eyes and timid, uncer
tain movements call kindly attention to
their presence. They are here by Invi
tation of the officers of the Pioneer As
sociation, supplemented by that of
many citizens of Portland, whose cheer
they have so often tasted on similar oc
casions. The Pioneer reunion is, literally speak
ing, an "old subject" so old that there
is nothing new to be said about it.
Yet, so Indulgent Is human nature upon
this theme that The Oregonlan ventures
year after year to rehearse the story of
the long ago, In connection with the
stereotyped welcome to Its associates of
the olden time, confident of a respectful
If a wearied audience.
To the extent that pioneers men and
women enjoy this annual reunion, Tht?l
Oregonlan congratulates them upon
their appearance In the city today.
To the extent that they enjoy life, it
wishes them a continuance of Its tenure.
To the extent that they enjoy the re
hearsal of the incidents of the dear old
times, thinly veiled in the mists of
memory. It rejoices with them In the
onoortunltv ta pnoaJc And. to Union.
This is the one occasion which bids
defiance to the dogmatic declaration
that "old things have passed away,"
Hinging back Into the very face of time
and change a bold denial of the state
ment. The pioneer era can never pass
away beyond at least temporary resur
rection, as leng as actors In the drama
have strength and spirit left with which
to appear upon the stage and- rehearse
its Incidents, recount its dangers and
recite its pleasures. Pioneers, The Ore
gorflah, one of your number, a co-laborer
with you for our common inter
ests in the past, rejoicing with you for
the future of Oregon, again bids you
welcome to Portland.
A HISTORIC OCCASION.
That class of our fellow-citizens a
small and rapidly dwindling class
known as the "Indian War Veterans,"
or ouch numbers thereof as were per
mitted by their growing Infirmities to
leave their homes and come hither, held
their annual reunion In this city yester
day. These men form the remnant of
a stalwart band who about the middle
of the past century made ready answer
to the call for volunteers to defend the
menaced homes of the border and all
Oregon was then border land, as reck
oned from the meridian of civilization
and went out sturdily against the sav
age foe. What stirring times those
were the months of a Summer now
nearly half a century old! How soon
the muster rolls were full of names!
How the streets of the village rendez
vous rang with the cheers of the men!
How they resounded with the galloping
feet of horses and the clanking spurs
of riders eager to be off to the defense
of the settlers, whose isolated homer
the threat .of torch and massacre shad
owed! All that was long ago; yet in the
memories of the survivors who rode
away to the fray, and of the women
who performed the more trying if less
valiant part of waiting and watching
in pioneer homes, the events of those
times stand out distinctly, hallowed but
undlmmed by the touch of time.
But if the going out of the volun
teers against the Indians Is so well re
membered, what of tnelr homecoming
and what of their hardships and dan
ger and strife that lay between?Of
these we heard something yesterday
from the lips of the veterans who gath
ered at a table spread by their de
scendants in a banquet hall in this
city. The forced march, the chilly biv
ouac, the night surprise, the ambus
cade, the call to battle, the dead left
upon the field, the wounded carried to
the rear, arid later the bearing home
now and then, stark and gory, of a
friend and neighbor, a husband and
father, to waiting ones, cruelly bereft
of these events the veterans spoke.
These were the incidents of our early
Indian wars; they are. Indeed, the In
cidents of all ware, though, when the
civilized soldier meets a savage foe, the,
details of the encounter are often more
harrowing than the fact of death itself,
In the barbarities perpetrated upon the
wounded and the dead. Who that has
read the pathetic story told by Eliza
beth B. Custer, of campaigning on the
plains with her husband, General Cus
ter, who perished with his command in
the battle of the Little Big Horn, in
June, 1876, has not recoiled with added
horror from the picture of that bloody
scene, at the statement that it was
found that "Raln-In-the-Face," the
fiendish ally of Sitting Bull," had "vcut
out the brave heart of that gallant,
loyal and lovable man," Colonel Tom
Custer? And who among the veterans
assembled yesterday did not recall with
a shudder the story of the death of
Captain A. J. Hembree, of Yamhill
County, as told in his mutilated body
found upon a Yakima battle-field In
1855 and later brought back for burial
in the graveyard near his home, a
white bandage around his head telling
that his scalp hung at the belt of a
savage chief? Perhaps it is not well
to recall these Incidents, yet they be
long distinctively to the history of a
time that the reunion of Indian "War
Veterans with thinning ranks touching
ly commemorates year a'fter year.
The reunion of yesterday was, how
ever, made joyful by the announcement
that the Indian War Veteran pension
bill had passed the United States Sen
ate and was now "up to the President,"
Veterans but now weary with hope de
ferred assumed for the time the sprlght
Hnes3 of youth and wrung each other's
hands In effusive congratulation. The
President was eulogized as the friend
of the bill, and Representative Tongue
as an Indefatigable worker In Us In
terest. Past trials and disappointments
were forgotten in present pleasure and
future promise, and the veterans sep
arated in high spirits, feeling that at
last Just recognition for service ren
dered had come to them. The Orego
nlan adds Its congratulations, and sup
plements them with the hope that this
long-delayed bounty of the Government
will be ample for the purpose of Insur
ing against want In their declining
years the men who defended the Infant
settlements of Oregon from the- sav
ages that "menaced their existence.
THE MEAT SUPPLY.
The question of the meat supply is
one of the most prominent and, in a
way, the most interesting of -any now
before the public Recent events, such
as the meat riots In New York and
Chicago, and the groat advance in
prices, point to conditions that certainly
will- tend to decrease of consumption In
the United States. We are the greatest
meat eaters In the world, and have been
from the earliest settlement of America;
but It may be taken as certain that the
consumption of meat in our country
will tend henceforth toward a reduction
to the basis or proportions long ob-
served in older countries. The growth
of population exceeds the growth of
meat supply.
Investigation discloses the fact al
ready that while the crops of cotton,
corn and oats have steadily increased
during the last twenty years, the pro
duction of cattle has 'fallen off. The
World's Work, in its current Issue, cites
in support of this statement that the
production of cattle In 1900 was 5 per
cent less than It "was in 1884, and the
production of hogs was 10 per cent less
in the year first mentioned than It was
In 18S2; and this In spite of the In
creased population and the demands of
the export trade, and asks: "Why this
lessened production, and what, If any
thing, has the so-called beef trust to
do with It?" The following table. Intro
duced at this point, is of Interest:
1SS2. 1800.
Total number of hoes 44,OoeloOO 3S.000.000
Hogs used by Western
packers v 0.000,000 22.000.000
It will be seen that the packing in
dustry made substantial growth during
this period, in spite of the decline In
production. While It Is not necessary to
1 infru: that, ono Julk any thine: to do -with
the other. It Is asked, with the signifi
cance of conviction on the affirmative
side of the question, whether or not the
consolidation of the packing business
has caused lower prices to be paid to
the farmer.
The journal above quoted considers
that the most Interesting question that
has been raised by the whole discussion
of the Increased supply of butchers'
meat Is whether, along with the enor
mous benefits that the great packing
houses have conferred on mankind, they
have discouraged the production of the
normal supply, and it goes on to say:
"The Improvements made by the pack
ers In killing, shipping and saving hogs
and cattle, and by the utilization, of the
hy-products of the slaughter-house, de
serve to be reckoned among the most
important practical benefits of modern
organization." The result that ought to
follow is cheaper and not dearer meat.
Any combination that Increases the cost
to the consumer Is at once puton the
defensive. This Is the popular count In
'the Indictment of the packers and the
one to which they will be required to
plead. Their business has grown enor
mously; from their profits have accrued
many large fortunes. Meat Is higher to
the consumer than ever before in the
history of the country; the price of cat
tle on foot has been but slightly ad
vanced. Putting this and that together,
the indictment against the meat trust
will stand, notwithstanding the marked
Increase In production as shown by the
statistics of the livestock business.
The big rush of settlers and miners
at Fort Hall reservation yesterday was
but a repetition of similar "outbreaks"
at various polnta In the West. Every
new mining camp, no matter In what
part of the world it Is located, numbers
among Its Inhabitants a certain number
of restless "sooners." who, like the soul
of the late John Brown, go marching
on. At Thunder Mountain will be found
the men who were with the vanguard
at Cripple Creek, Leadvllle, Rossland,
Nome and Dawson;' and later at Buf
falo Hump. Representatives from Cool
gardle, Johannesburg and other remote
districts are there, and even the griz
zled old veteran who has followed every
stampede since the Golden, Cariboo min
gles with the younger restless spirits.
So with the professional honieseeker.
He Is always a little too late In the rush
to secure Just what be expected, and,
with his settler's right still unimpaired,
he pulls out of the lottery and awaits
the opening of another reservation. The
rush for reservation lands has been a
feature of life In the West and Middle
West for the past fifteen years, and it is
a safe prediction that if some of the
attendants on these periodical rushes
had devoted as much time and energy
to Homebuilding as has been wasted in
homeseeklng, their rewards would have
been greater. Good government land
desirably located Is not as plentiful
as It was. In the West, but Oregon and
Washington still contain some very at
tractive districts where bona fide set
tlers who are willing to work can secure
desirable homes much easier than by a
wild plunge Into a reservation-opening
lottery.
It Is a matter of Tegret that the
passage of the river and harbor bill
was delayed until too late to get in
through it a full Summer's work at the
mouth of the Columbia this year. Work
of this character moves slowly in its
preliminary stages, and If pushed to
the utmost now could only result in a
brief season's work. Hence the ad
vance In jetty and channel Improve
ment hoped for this year will fall far
short of the- legitimate expectations of
the last Winter and early Spring. How
ever, the passage of the bill, though
late, will cause renewed activities lnc
the engineer's office, and many odds
and ends of construction and repairs
will be taken up and gotten out of the
way for next season's larger develop
ments. A French vessel Is coming from Liv
erpool to Portland in ballast to load
wheat at 2Ss 9d, the lowest rate ever
paid for such a long voyage for a single
cargo. The vessel making the trip
would show a loess were it not for the
fact that the French bounty amounts
to several thousand dollars. In other
words, the French Government presents
the shipowner with a sum sufficient to
enable him to take Oregon wheat to
market at a lower rate than can be met
by the owner of an unsubsldlzed ship.
Ao the American farmer is the sole
gainer by the operation, he will prob
ably continue to favor a shipping sub
sidy bill for the French, British. Ger
mans or any other nation which he is
not taxed to support. .
The advance of 3 cents per bushel in
July corn in Chicago yesterday Is prob
ably a mild Introduction to the squeeze
which Is awaiting the men who sold
5,000.000 bushels of corn dnd now have
but 2,000,000 bushels contract grade
with which to fill the orders. The busi
ness of selling something which one
does not possess Has ground the finan
cial life out of hundreds of Chicago
Board of Trade speculators, but the
agriculturist, who at times has suffered
the needless depression of the products
of his farm by the manipulations of
these chronic bears, will not extend the
full measure of sympathy that Is
usually given the under dog In the
fight.
The Illinois Idea Is that the tariff is
the father of the trust and the trust Is
the father .of Imperialism. This ar
raignment of old Grandfather Protec
tion would have done credit to the Chi
cago and Kansas City platform. Bryan
may eye It with jealous envy as a rival
of his cross of gold, etc It will please
our American Cobdenltes to be thus
assured that In tariff reform lies the
solution of the- expansion problem. It
is awkward, however, that the Demo
crats In Congress could not be Induced
to vote for free trade with the Philip
pines: The Spooner compromise is probably
worth while, not so much for the pitiful
20 per cent, concession It glyes to Cutia,
but for the defeat it involves to the
beet-sugar Insurgents. The reduction
will help Cuba just a little and hurt no
one. It would be a fitting rebuke to
the long and ungracious delay of Con
gress if Cuba should reject the whole
proposal and do all the business she
can with Great Britain.
Senator Spooner succeeded in putting
our Philippine affairs in the hands of
the President; he advocated the same
course for the Isthmian canal, and how
he seems lit a fair way to carry through
a similar scheme for Cuban reciprocity
If there were such a thing, as militant
Imperialism, Spooner wotifd be Its chlof
exponent.
GREAT DESPAIR AND GREAT HOPE
Harper's Weekly.
It must have been with a pang, self-hid
or self-owned, that most readers of Mr.
Herbert Spencer's latest and perhaps last
word to the world came upon his avowal
of disbelief in a life hereafter. It Is made
with nothing of that arrogance of the
elder: scepticism which the elder credence
used so rudely to call Infidelity. But
thinking carefully over the claims of rev
elation, and collating them with the facts
of experience and observation, he has
found no real grounds for expecting that
if a man dies, he shall live again, and he
says so without apparent regret.
The regret and the emotion are the
reader's, ttnd they form together the pang
which he has to reason away before he
can realize that Mr. Spencer's conclusion
Is for himself alone, and has nothing
whatever to do with the truth of the mat
ter. In a certain measure he speaks as
one having authority; his eminent serv
ices In behalf of the higher civilization
entitle him to the most reverent atten
tion. - When such an agnostic declares
that he knows no sufficient cause for
faith In the things unseen, on which "the
fainting soul relies" more than on all
the visible and tangible realities of this
world, he commands ourdeference so Im
peratively that for the moment the breath
of our dissent Is taken away, and we de
spondently humble ourselves to his opin
ion. In like manner, though in less measure,
the wise and good and helpful woman
who was laid to what she believed her
everlasting rest, the other day in Massa
chusetts, and who in the words Bhe her
self had written for her funeral spoke thc
same unfaith from her open grave In
flicted the same pang. Through a long
life she had fought the good fight; she
had kept the faith In humanity; but in
what she had learned, and In what she
had lived, the physician Zakschcwski had
found no more reason to think she should
live again than the philosopher Spencer
uve again man me pnuusupjit:: diremu.
Neither of these great spirits bade us J
doubt, far less entreated us to renounce
any hope that comforted or sustained us;
they simply bore their testimony to the
unbelief where the soul abides.
Still the other day, about the time that
the philosopher was speaking from his
book to the reader, and the physician to
the hearer at her grave, those words
that weigh upon the heart, certain poor
men slowly perishing in the foul air of
a coal-mine in Tennessee were affirming
the hope denied by the sages. To those
they should not see again on earth they
scribbled with pencil on such scraps of
paper as they could find or chanced to
have at hand a few brief, simple mes
sages which have an august solemnity as
well as an inexpressible pathos:
We are shut up in the head ot the entry with
a little air. and bad air coming pn us fast.
It Is now about 12 o'clock. Now. dear wife,
put your trust In the Lord to help you and my
little children. . . . Woods says that he Is
safe In heaven, and If he never sees the outside
again he will meet his mother In heaven.
. . . Elbert (his son) said for you all to meet
him In heaven. Tell all the children to meet
with us both. . . . Ellen. I want you to live
right and com to heaven. J. 1. VOWELL.
Dear Wife and Baby: I want to go back
home and kiss the baby, but cannot; so good
bye. I am going to"beaven. Meet me there.
, JAMES A. BROOKS.
To George I. Hudson's "Wife: If I don't see
you any more ... I want you to meet me
in heaven. Good-bye. Do as you wish.
GEORGE HUDSON.
Dear, Darling Mother and Sister: I am going
to heaven. I want you all to meet me In
heaven. Tell all your friends to meet me there,
and tell the church I have gone to heaven.
. . . I have not suffered much. Tour boy,
your friend, JOHN HENDON.
It would be a wrong to the faith which
dictated these words to claim for them
greater authority than Is due to the de
spair of the philosopher and the physi
cian; but It would be an equal wrong not
to claim as much. This Is an affair that
belongs to the whole of humanity, and
every one that lives Is equally authorized
to utter himself upon it. Whatever any
one says Is of the same weight as any
thing that another says, if we put aside
the prophets of the religions. Because
we can hardly read the messages of those
dying men without tears is no proof that
thoy knew more than those who deny the
faith that they affirm. But we must not
forget. In our reverence for the piety that
despairs, the reverence, due to the piety
that hopes.
The miners suffocating In the pit where
each breath drawn poisons the little air
that Is left to breathe are all going to
heaven. They are sure of it; they call
.with all the love In their hearts to those
they must part from here to meet them
there. They have no slightest fear of not
meeting their friends there; pne of them
is already in heaven. If 13 an exaltation
whose sublimity Is lost in Its passionate
certainty. In its presence the martyrs
live and triumph again; again the blood
stained arena, the raclc the block, the
manifold tortures and deaths bear testi
mony to the deathless rapture of tho Im
memorial trust that became religion and
civilization In Christianity. We shall
never have palpable assurance of Its
truth, but on the other hand all the think
ing and all the learning will not disprove
it.
The Referendum In Oregon.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Aside from National matters, the Ore-
rgon election was Interesting because of
the triumphant success or a new legislat
ive system submitted to the people the
adoption of the Swiss Idea' of referendum
and Initiative. This was submitted In the
form of a .constitutional amendment,
which declares that, while the legislative
power is vested In a Legislative Assem
bly, consisting of a Senate and House of
Representatives, yet "the peoplo reserve
to themselves power to propose laws and
amendments to the constitution Independ
ent of the Legislative Assembly, and also
reserve power at their own option to ap
prove or reject at the polls any act ot the
Legislative Assembly"; and it Is conse
quently provided that, whenever 8 per cent
of the legal voters petition for specific
legislation, the same shall be submitted
to popular vote, and shall become law if
approved by a majority voting thereon;
that any enactment of the Legislative
Assembly may be submitted to popular
vote by such Assembly, acting voluntar
ily, and must be submitted when request
ed by 5 per cent of the voters; and that
the veto power of the Governor shall not
extend to enactments voted on with ap
proval by the people.
This Is a remarkable advance In popular
legislation, but the proposition was so
strong that only one vote was cast against
It In the Legislature; that both the Demo
cratic and the Republican conventions
hastdned to approve It, and that it was
carried Monday by practically the unani
mous vote of the state.
Waller "Will Have Support.
Minneapolis Tribune.
Major Waller has returned to the
United States. He talks like a soldier
and a man. When his marines started In
to discipline Samar, they had "seen their
dead." in Kipling's phrase. The state In
which they found the bodies of slain
Americans was Indescribable and mad
dening. Major Waller had orders from
General Smith to kill all insurgents that
would not surrender. He killed about
500, all men, and all slain in battle but
the 11 traitors. The' natives of Samar
started out to exterminate the Ameri
cans. All that would not give- up the Idea
were exterminated themselves. Waller
says he left Samar a howling wilderness,
and we think he did welL We suspect
the American people will agree with him.
We more than suspect that they will like
the way he talks. Now he is going to
Washington to give some personal atten
tion to the coffee-coolers of the marine
staff, who got him court-martialed to
prevent his well-earned promotion to com
mand of the corps, and save a soft bed for
the fat body and lazy bones of one of
their number. We suspect that, the Amer
ican people will sympathize with him In
this mission as much as they did in -his
Samar performance.
OREGON'S OFFICIAL RESULT.
St Louis Globe-Democrat.
The official figures In the vote on Con
gressmen In Oregon tell a story which the
country will be Interested In reading. Of
course. It la known that the result on
Governor In that state Is of no partisan
significance. A bolting faction ot the Re
publican party took away enough votes
from the Governorship candidate to let
the Democratic nominee get ahead of him.
The Democratic candidate, out of a total
vote of about 71.CO0. has a lead In the
neghborhood of 300. If there had been no
wrangle among the Republicans their candidate-
for Governor would have been
elected by a plurality ranging anywhere
from 10.000 to 15.000. All the rest of the
Republican state ticket was elected by.
long leads. The Republican margin In tne
Legislature is greater as a result of the
late election than it was in the recent
body.
It Is the contest on Congressmen, how
ever, which Is of the greatest Interest and
significance. In 1S0S, the preceding off
year, the margin for the two Republican
candidates for Congress In Oregon was
994. It was 12.C9S in the canvass of 1900.
when the Presidential excitement ran the
vote up to high figures. It was 15.221 In
last week's election. These figures tell
the 6tory. Usually a party's lead In a
Presidential year, m the states In which It
has a lead, is greater than It Is In any
canvass until the succeeding Presidential
campaign. The canvass this year In Ore
gon made a sharp departure from that
rule. The majorities In last week's elec
tion were far ahead of those of two years
ago, when there was ah especial Incen
tive, on account of the Presidential cam
paign, to get out a large vote.
This rise in the Republican wave means
something. It means that on the Issue of
National expansion, 'which will be dom
inant In the Congressional canvass
throughout the country this year, the Re
publican party Is Invincible. The voice of
Oregon on this question Is the voice of
the entire Pacific Coast and of the en-
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"re "West. It is .the voice of the United
States as a whole. National expansion, as
expressed In the question of the retention
of the Philippines, Is a winning iseue. The
Republican party Is committed to expan
sion by the voice of President Roosevelt
and by the expression of the Republican
majority in Congress. The flag In the
Philippines will stay up. On this Issue the
Republican party will sweep the country
In the Congressional canvass of 1902.
German Humor of the Real Brand.
Sonn und Montags Zeltung (Vienna).
The diligent newspaper reader has lat
terly been considerably embarrassed. He
has read the spirited toast which the
Czar and President of the French Repub
lic have exchanged, and he hears of noth
ing else but hymns of peace and assur
ances that the alliance between Russia
and France has no other object In view
than the tranquillity of Europe. In pres
ence of the toasts of the Czar and M.
Loubet the German Emperor cannot keep
silent. He also delivers a speech, which
he addresses to the Alsatians, whom he
has Just gratified by the repeal of the
"dictatorship paragraph." What Is It he
says? It amounts to a psalm to the peace
of Europe, of which Germany is lauded
as the guardian. We read a report of pro
ceedings In the Italian Parliament. What
is It we find? That the agreement be
tween France and Italy is a guarantee of
peace, implying the maintenance of the
balance of power In the Mediterranean
and the Adriatic. England, France, Ger
many, Russia, Austria-Hungary', Italy In
a word, all the principal European pow
ersdeclare themselves unconditional de
fenders of peace. This Is calculated to
muddle the attentive newspaper reader.
He aska himself who It Is that threatens
peace, as so many and such mighty pow
ers are exhausting themselves In assur
ances that they are its protectors. Ho
carefully studies the map of Europe, and
It Is not surprising If he finally suspects
that there must be a secret danger to
peace, perhaps from a new triple alliance,
for Instance, between the principality of
Llchtensteln, Switzerland and the Republic
of San Marino, for all the other European
States are engaged In the great peace con
cert organized by the dual and the triple
alliances and constantly proclaiming that
circumstance with alarming expllcltness.
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WoodrOTT Wilson's Four Points.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Dr. Wilson unites four qualities which
In combination are unusual. He Is, in the
first place, a scholar of real eminence.
His two most serious works, "Congres
sional Government" and "The State."
have, since their first appearance, been
regarded as authorities by European stu
dents of political science. He possesses
exceptional literary gifts, his style being
lucid, philosophical and strong, finding
Its best exemplification In his two books,
"Divslon and Reunion" and "Mere Litera
ture." As a speaker, too. he is very pleas
ing, saying what he has .to say In a
straightforward, convincing fashion and
with much the same grace of expression
that Is found In what he writes. That he
Is an able administrator and one of a
very practical turn of mind, sane, judicious
and efficient. Is also thoroughly well
known, and might, in any case, be as
sumed from the fact that he has been
unanimously selected for this Important
administrative office. Finally and this is
by no means to be Ignored he Is im
mensely popular with the whole student
body, who admire him as a man and will
make his task of government by just so
much the easier.
Republican View of Tariff Revision.
The Republican Congressional Conven
tion of the Eleventh Wisconsin District
adopted the following as one of the planks
of Its platform:
"That many of tho industries of thl3
"country have outgrown the need of a pro
tective tariff is made evident by the fact
that the American manufacturer has en
tered the markets of the world and Is
successfully competing with the manufac
turers of all other countries. Many of the
tariff schedules adopted to foster Infant
industries have fully served that purpose
and have now become a means of aiding
and building up powerful trusts and com
binations, and enabled these to exact from
the American purchasers the payment of
higher prices than they exact for the same
class of goods sold in foreign countries.
We therefore favor a revision of the tariff,
without unreasonable delay, which will
place, upon the free list every article and
product controlled by any monopoly, and
Buch other articles and products as are
beyond the need of protection."
FarcTTellt If Ever Fondest Prayer;
Lord Byron.
Farewell! If ever fondest Drayer
For other's weal availed on high,
Mine will not all be lost In air.
But waft thy name beyond the sky.
'Twere vain to ype&k. to weep, to sigh;
Oh! more than tears of blood can tell,
"When wrung from guilt's expiring eye.
Are In that word Farewell! farewell!
These lips are mute, these eyes are dry.
But In my breast and In my brain
Awake the pangs that pass not by.
The thought that ne'er shall sleep again.
My soul nor deigns nor dares complain.
Though grief and passion there rebel;
I only know we loved In vain
I only feel Farewell! farewell!
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The Last Word.
Matthew Arnold.
Creep into thy narrow bed.
Creep, and let no more be said!
Vain thy onset! all stands fast;
Thou thyself must break at last.
Let the long contention cease!
Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
Let them have It how they will!
Thou art tired, best be still.
They outtalked thee, hissed thee, tore thee?
Better men fared thus before thee;
Fired their ringing shot and passed.
Hotly charged and sank at last.
Charge once more. then, and be dumb!
Let the victors, when they come.
When the forts of folly fall.
Find thy. body by the walll
NOTE AND COMMENT.
June seems to be repentant.
This is not a job for amateur blood
hounds. Panama hats tell which way the money
Is blown.
Mr. Beach is to be congratulated on hla
handsome majority.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of convicts
don't always go together.
One Mohr railroad on the Columbia
makes a good deal of difference.
Posses may come and posses may go,
but Tracy and Merrill go on forever.
Some dentists would rather writG ads
of the profession than make Its code of
ethics.
We arc going to have a new treaty with
Spain. This one will be cheaper than that
now in use.
The impression is growing that the Boer
War is really over. jThe Boers them
selves have begun to believe It.
J. P. Morgan is to dine with King Ed
ward, and the servants are worrying
about which to call "your majesty."
And meanwhile have the guards at the
Penitentiary been given better rifles or
taught to shoot the ones they have?
The President has made a few mistakes,
but with a fresh crop of graduates to
set him right he will have no excuse for
repeating them.
A good many people are trying to per
suade themselves that a two-room shack
at the seaside Is more luxurious than &
comfortable house at home.
General Miles has not yet succeeded In
getting far enough back to suit the Ad
ministration. When he does he will ba
allowed to remain seated.
Chicago physicians are puzzled over tho
case of a man whoso heart beat after
death. Yet dead beats are no rarity In
other parts of the country.
A New York police captain is going to
visit Prince Henry. The Prince's con
duct while in thic country certainly en
titles him to such an honor.
President Henry Smith Pritchett, of tha
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
who responded to the toast, "Science."
at the Columbia alumni dinner recently at
Sherry's Illustrated his subject with one
Incident that was very much appreciated.
"Science," he said, "is now a word to
conjure with. In a Boston school tho
other day a teacher said to a small boy:
" 'Who won the battle of New Or
leans?' " 'Why, Jim Corbett, of course,' was
the answer.
" 'How did that happen?' asked the
teacher, not placing Corbett's name and
thinking to set the boy right.
" 'He won,' was the prompt reply, 'be
cause he had more science than the other
guy.' "
President John Henry Barrows, of Ob
erlln College, is a recent Interview, tells
how Mrs. Barrows had been convinced
that Insurance Is something more than a
"matter of paying premiums." Mrs. Bar
rows, the professor said, had scoffed so
frequently at the Insurance business that
he permitted his insurance policies to
lapse. One day. however, he was per
suaded by an energetic agent to take out
a new policy. That very afternoon Ober
lln was thrown into the greatest excite
ment by the appearance of clouds of
smoke pouring from the windows of the
president's residence. After the chemical
extinguishers had done their work It was
found that a whole closetful of Mrs. Bar-"
rows' best gowns had fed the flames start
ed from." an overheated chafing dish. The
loss was promptly paid and Dr. Barrows
said he got keen enjoyment from Mrs.
Barrows' change of heart. An additional
twinkle came Into his eye when he read
this letter: ,
John Henry Barrows, D. D.. President Ober
lln College Dear Sir: Inclosed And draft for
$300. We note that this policy went Into effect
at noon ar-d lire did not occur until 4 a dock.
Why this delay?
Charles H. Cramp, the veteran ship
builder of Philadelphia, told the other
day of his visit to Czar Alexander of Rus
sia, the father of the present ruler, when
he received the first order for constructng
in his yards a warship for the great em
pire of Northern Europe.
"The Czar received me standing among
some dozen or more of his naval digni
taries," he said, "and while he was gra
clousness itself I was none the less embar
rassed. You sec, I was not used to that
sort ot thing, and really was wondering
every minute just what would happen and
what I would be expected to do. The '
Czar stood rather close to me as we
talked, and I found myself wishing I were
a bigger man, as he towered above me.
Then, all of a sudden-, he asked:
" 'Mr. Cramp, in what school of naval
architecture were you educated?'
" 'Your Highness, I answered, T was
educated In my father's yards. He was
educated In his father's yards. We found
ed a school of naval architecture."
"What put that Into my head I will
never know," continued Mr. Cramp,, "but
It took the trick. The Czar caught mo
by the hand and said: 'Mr. Cramp, you
were educated in the school that I am
glad to have build ships for my navy.'-"
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
Mike Say, Pat. phwat Is a wather-spanlel?
Pat Sure, he must be some rllltlv av thlm
grayhounds we read about. Harvard Lampoon.
Blonde Bridesmaid The ushers haven't seated
your Aunt Maria wltn the family. Other
Bridesmaid (sister to tho bride) Xo; she sent
only a pickle fork! Life.
Mother I am surprised. Ethel, that you should
talk so Impertinently to papa. I'm suro you
never heard mc talk that way to him. Ethel
Well, you choosed him, and I didn't. Detroit
Free Press.
First Newsboy I'll bet you tuppence to a
penny'orth" o' nuts that Skcptar wins, the Dur
by. Second Newsboy Done. Third Newsboy
I'll hold the stakes. First Newsboy Yes, but
who's a-goln to 'old you? Punch.
At the Menagerie. "What does the tiger re
mind you of?" asked the mother of little Doro
thy, expecting, of course, she would say a kit
ty. "Why," replied Dorothy, seriously, "he
reminds me of a barber pole." Ohio State
Journal.
Counting Them. "Mr. Woodby WItte says
that there are only eight Jokes In the world."
"I should never have suspected from his ef
forts to amuse." answered Miss Cayenne, lan
guidly, "that ho had found so many." Wash
ington Star.
Brlggs Funny about Harry. He was saying
only a few weeks ago he wouldn't have Maude
If there wasn't another woman In the world,
and now their cards are out. Griggs That's
all -right- There Is another woman In tho
world. Boston Transcript.
Another Wild Exaggeration. "I understand,"
said the owner of the Blue Devil, "that you
ran over a man yesterday." "Nothing of the
kind." replied the little man. who Is winning
fame with his Bed Flash. "It was only a 10-
year-old girl." Chicago Record-Herald.
Sure Market. "This picture Is very much
below the average," said the art connoisseur.
"I hope you are not going to offer It for salo
here. In Paris." "Oh, no," responded the art
ist, "I am going to save that for some of those
1 American millionaires." Chicago Daily News.
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