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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, JULY' 4.
TRUTH VS. FICTIOX.
The Salem Journal finds mares' nests.
These
We do not state any secret when we say that
Mr. Scott went to Washington early in the
Spring, and made the deal with Mitchell, Han
na and probably Roosevelt, by which Mr. Mat
thews was made Marshal, and by which Scott
Is to have the delegation from Portland for
United States Senator.
It is nothing but personal politics, and poor
Furnish was put up to be bled and slaughtered
after he had served the managers with cash
enough to carry the Multnomah primaries.
It is the way things are done in these days
by the organizers for pelf and the disorganizes
of the Republican party.
First, let us remark that It is pathetic
indeed to witness this solicitude for the
Republican party and this holy zeal
against "disorganlzers" of It, on the
part of qne who deserted it for Bryan,
for silver, for populism, and who put
in many years of frantic and fanatic
effort In trying to destroy it.
"We do not state any secret," says
our sllver-populistlc-Bryanlte -friend.
Indeed, he does v not; nor any truth
either. Mr. Scott has made no "deal,"
is In no "deal," of any kind. He did
not recommend Mr. Matthews for
United States Marshal; never joined In
any request for his appointment; never
spoke to Mr. Mitchell about it; never
in his life saw Mr. Hanna, or had any
communication with him, by letter, tele
graph, messenger, or through any per-
eon or means whatever; never spoke,
wrote or telegraphed to President
Roosevelt about the Marshalshlp. He
is not now nor ever was a party to any
"deal" by which he is to "have the dele
gation from Portland for United States
Senator." He had no part whatever In
the nomination of this delegation, or in
selection of it or any member of it
One-half the members he doesn't know
personally and perhaps never saw them.
He has asked no man to vote for him
for United States Senator, nor ever will;
he is no seeker of the office nor ever
will be. In the newspaper business
there is room for all his energies; it
suffices him, and he has nothing to do
with the details of politics or the dis
tribution of offices. To him no office,
even the highest, is or could be an ob
ject of desire.
As to Mr. Furnish. He was not "put
up to be bled and slaughtered," and
was not "put up" at all, except by his
supporters in Eastern Oregon. He was
not Risked for nor did he supply one
dollar to carry the Multnomah pri
maries. Not one dollar was used In
carrying them. Tliey were carried on
an appeal to the people, made chiefly
through the columns of The Oregonlan.
Mr. Furnish was not inveigled nor se
duced into becoming a candidate. He
pushed himself forward and had sup
port In Eastern Oregon and some in
Western Oregon. He and his friends
wei,? extremely insistent. They were
not disposed to consider any other can
didate; so that Multnomah, wblch vir
tually had to make the decision, had to
choose between him and Geer. After
long deliberation the delegation went
to Furnish. For two reasons. First, it
was known that a terrible fight would
be made against Geer, on grounds
which The Oregonlan will not state, but
which would have been ptated by the
opposition had he been renominated. It
was believed that Furnish would be
the stronger man, and many think so
yet. Again, it was the determination
to oust Mr. Simon completely to put
an end to his domination of the
Republican party. The argument
was 4bat if Mr. Geer were re
nominated, the organization ' of the
part3 the composition of the state com
mittee, the direction of the campaign
and the future action of the party would
remain In Mr Simon's .hands. If Mr.
Furnish were not to be nominated, the
convention would have been organized
by the supporters of Mr. Geer, and that
would have left the direction of the
party largely in Mr. Simon's hands.
These were the circumstances that
caused the nomination of Mr. Furnish
and the rejection of Mr. Geer; these are
the reasons that Jed up to those results.
The vengeance of the Geer and Simon
factions was expected, and warning
was given; but Furnish and hie friends
were willing to take the chances, and
they who had hesitation and mis
giving about Furnish were willing
to accept him as the means of
shaking off Simon's last hold upon
the party. This is the "inside" of that
whole business; and The Oregonlan
prints the statement because it thinks
it may be Interesting, and 'because,
whether interesting or not, it is strictly
true.
Perhdps Superintendent Lee, of the
Oregon State Prison, did not mean It,
but his statement that neither Tracy
rtoreVrill was ever, while in the Pen
itentiary, struck by lash, whip or rod,
and were even spared the humiliation
of discipline by means of the "Brock
way spanker," is, in view of the cir
cumstances, the strongest argument
that could be urged at this time in
favor of corporeal punishment for un
ruly convicts. Many Intelligent and
even humane persomrdoubt the efficacy
of disciplinary methods of the type that
made famous in comic opera "His Maj
esty's Ship Pinafore," as applied to des
perate men doing time for heinous
crimes in the State Prison. The belief
is, indeed, quite prevalent that it Is
necessary to enforce prison rules by
methods that will act as a deterrent to
outlaws, bent upon making trouble and
deperately determined to escape. In
some of the best-regulated punitive in
stitutions of the land the lash Is held
In reserve for criminals otherwise Incor
rigible. Whether a mistake was made
In withholding it from the backs of
Tracy and Merrill Is a matter upon
which opinion is divided. Upon this,
ever, all must agree: Some measures
sufficiently severe to be dreaded by
these men should have been used to
control them in prison, even though
these had consisted In stripes well laid
on. When sentiment comes In conflict
with necessity in such matters, it is
proper that the former should give
place. Desperate criminals on paper are
very different from the same men In
hand. The former can be dealt with
theoretically, to the great satisfaction
of the theorist; the latter must be dealt
with according to methods that have
been found by long experience to be
effective in keeping them in necessary
subjection.
A FDXDAMENTAL CONTROVERSY.
The principal contention between the
Union Pacific Railroad and its machin
ists is one of the most baffling and yet
illuminative questions that could arise
out of the complex relations between
organized labor and organized capital.
Difficult to understand and weigh, it
nevertheless uncovers the depth of the
chasm which separates the theory that
a man has the right to run his own
business in his own way and the antag
onistic purpose of organized labor to
stand together subordinating individ
ual advantages for the common good.
The Issue Is piece work a small thing
In Itself, but great In its significance
and bearing. The railroad people say
that they desire to Introduce the system
of piece work throughout their shops,
that It is perfectly just because it is
right that the -more a man does the
more he should be paid, and that upon
the justice of this contention they will
rest their case, whatever loss of time
and business the struggle for its main
tenance may Involve. The workmen's
objection to the proposal Is succinctly
given In the declaration of Vice-President
Wilson, of the Machinists' Union,
given to the press yesterday. "Such a
system," he says, "would tend to bring '
them into competition with sweat-shop
workmen and prevent them from treat
ing as a body with the company."
It Is unnecessary to expand the com
pany's argument. The contention that
a man's pay should be proportioned to
the work he doeo can be understood by
a child. We know, however, that the
pursuit of ideal justice is not the com
pany's reason for adopting piece work.
That reason must be sought in the posi
tion of the men, and it is In that posi
tion that -we come upon one of the most
tremendous facts concerning organized
labor a fact that makes one tremble
as he reflects upon the magnitude of the
struggle that must Inevitably ensr? be
fore the union contention, hostile to
capital's preconceptions and vital to at
least one school of organized labor, it
either established beyond cavil or shat
tered beyond restoration.
Why will piece work tend to prevent
the union treating as a body with the
railroad? Because It tends to bring out
the individuality of the man and sink
his communal or tribal relationship with
his fellows. It brings him In closer
touch with the superintendent and the
office, and lessens the high status of the
union as his representative in all ques
tions of hours, conditions and pay. In
the one case, he is the railroad's; in the
other, he is his union's. It is the theory
of the union that a workman is simply
one of a band. What his union prom
ises for him he will do, what his union
demands for him he will get. The rail
road, on the other hand, will recognize
in him nothing more or less than an
Individual. His , rate of remuneration
is in the hands of himself and the com
pany's representative. Any one can see
the profound bearing of this upon the
life or death of organized labor. It
forms the basis of a colossal struggle.
There Is one thing more to be Bald
about all these manifestations of the
fundamental issue whether a man 1b an
Individual or a component part, and
that Ib that the world of organized labor
itself already betrays in this matter a
thin but distinct line of cleavage. In
some trades piece work Is contended for
by the men and denied by the mastera
The difference In such cases grows out
of the fact that pay on a piece-work
basis commands more aggregate re
muneration than day work. In such
trades, it goes without saying, the
amount of pay is regarded as more Im
portant than the principle involved, for
example, in the machinists' strike. In
such trades, the unions have approxi
mated somewhat to the capitalistic
point of view. They have learned the
interdependence of labor and capital
and the union idea has' been refined into
an instrument of peace and progress.
Roughly speaking, these two schools
of unionism may be described as the
foreign and the American. The for
eign idea prevails in the Coeur d'Alenes.
The mines were willing to pay as much
or even more than the unions de
manded: but they Insisted on a grada
tion of workmen that amounts tojjlece
work. To the union every shoveler was
a shoveler, no more, no less. He must
receive his $3 50 a day, whether effi
cient or inefficient. The mines would
pay a poor shoveler $3 and a good one
$5. The Union Pacific machinists;' ac
cordingly, follow largely the foreign
idea. It is by no means certain but that
we shall see this foreign Idea prevail
throughout many of the coarser tradea
It Is not at all essential that each man's
pay equals his product, so that on the
whole the payroll equals the gross re
sult in output It is rank Injustice that
the man who rides from the City Hall
to Piedmont should pay no more than
the man who gets off at the Postofflce;
but the street-car business goes on
without official censure. The "popular
price" theater rather prides Itself than
otherwise on charging an equal fee for
a good ehow and for the worst of the
season. The largest body of laborers in
the country, farm hands, work for so
much a day or a month all round,
with nobody to protest. It Is significant
that satisfaction with piece work, or
its equivalent Jias gained ground in
those trades where employers have
shown most consideration for their
workmen.
FRANCHISES.
Perhaps a word should be said, before
the Incident is clossd, about the atti
tude of the city towards franchises of
various sorts, in harmonious ' exegesis
upon the conflicting doctrines that have
perplexed the community the past few
weeks. It is true on the one hand that
every possible encouragement should be
extended to semi-public corporations
that are apparently anxious to do busi
ness here; and it is just as true, on the
other hand, that these corporations
should be made to pay roundly for the
privileges they enjoy.
Practically all of the objections to
franchises Involving public Improve
ments can be swept away with one
breath as captious, obstructive and In
sincere. The Hlllsboro electric line, af
ter being badgered and moved about
to a circuitous route through the city.
Is finally censured because it doesn't
move though town on a straight line!
The independent light and power com
panies are opposed for no other reason
than that somebody else is In posses
sion and must be protected. It Is the
Council's business and the Board of Pub
lic Works' business to protect the city.
Its taxpayers and consumers, and not
the holders of lucrative franchises. No
objection has been urged against the
Hlllsboro line's use of streets that could
not be urged with equal pertinence by
property-owners on any and all streets.
This would keep It out of the city en
tirely, just as we have kept the South
ern Pacific off Front street and the
Northern Pacific out of North Port
land. On the other hand, while every en
couragement Bhould be held out that Is
possible, all talk of foregoing taxation
of franchises or earnings Is the most
mischievous sort of folly. The commu
nity contributes enormously to the
wealth of these corporations In grant
ing them their franchises. Here Is the
City k Suburban Railway, with its
$1,250,000 of outstanding stock and new
mortgage of $3,000,000. What could it
sell its cars 'and rails for if It had not
the franchises for1 its lxty-four miles
of track and thirteen different lines?
Here Is the Portland Railway, with its
$700,000 outstanding common stock,
$100,000 preferred and consolidated first
mortgage of $2,500,000. What would Its
stock be worth but for the value of Its
franchises? The city has an Interest In
these valuable and Interest-earning
easements. It is entitled to Its Income
from its property as well as the compa
nies are entitled to theirs. A man got
a franchise for nothlntr in Portland
j once and sold It for $40,000. Nothing
like that should ever bo permitted
again.
Fortunately, the present Issues seem
to have been wisely adjudicated. The
Hlllsboro line's application has been
granted by the Council, virtually ap
proved by the Board of Public Works,
and whether this enacts the "franchise
into law as some contend or not, the
road can undoubtedly be built. As for
the electric light and power companies,
the way has been opened for them to
come in if they wish. The man who
proposes to bring power from 18S miles
away and conduct It under the Colum
bia River can accept the Council's
terms if he likes, pay his reasonable
per cent of earnings, and put up his
forfeit. jA deposit of $25,000 is certainly
not exorbitant on an enterprise Involv
ing the expenditure of $2,000,000 or
$3,000,000. Let him take It or leave It.
THE PEOPLE STAND BY THE SOL
DIER. United States Senator Hanna Is cor
rect in his statement that the attempt
of the Democrats in Congress to manu
facture campaign capital out of the
Philippine question failed the moment It
resolved Itself Into an attack upon the
American Army. .The Invectives lav
ished upon General Wheaton by Sena
tor Dubois; the vile abuse applied to
General Chaffee by Senator Carmack,
have been Democratic arrows that, shot
over the party edifice, have "killed their
granny." The Democracy ought to have
known American political history bet
ter and it would not have committed
this blu.nd.er. From the foundation ol
the Republic the people have always
resentdd assaults upon the Army of the
United Statea In the War of 1812-15
the Federalist party, which included
the best brains and character of the
country, committed political suicide be
cause it wan not content with opposing
the declaration of war, but tried to
cripple the armies of the Republic after
war had absolutely broken out. John
Quincy Adams was among the few
Federalist leaders who had brains
enough to see that the people would
never tolerate a party that was against
the Government when war was actually
In existence.
The Federal party was really a "cop
perhead" party in the War of 1812-15
In New England and New York. In
New England the Governors of all the
states refused to answer the call of
President Madison for troops, and noth
ing but the announcement of peace pre
vented an attempt at secession by the
New England Federalist In New
York State the Federalists refused to
furnish Governor Tompkins with finan
cial support, and he ruined himself by
his personal indorsement of the treas
ury notea Had the Federal party sus
tained the war measures of 1812, Presi
dent Madison would not have succeeded
himself and the Democrats would not
have retained, power In the state and
Nation up to 1824. , Indeed, we might
include the Administration of John
Quincy Adams, for he was, like Rufus
King, a "war" Federalist and was rec
ognized as such when President Mon
roe made him his Secretary of State.
As a matter of fact, the Democracy
owed its unbroken rule of the country
up to 1840 to the unpatriotic attitude of
the Federalist party In 1812-14.
There is good reason for believing that
If the Democratic party of the North
had given a hearty support to the War
for the Union, Mr. Lincoln might not
have been his own successor in 1864, not
because of any fault on the part of Mr.
Lincoln, but because of the many, severe
disasters to our arms almost up to the
eve of the Presidential election of 1EG4.
The Democratic party threw away Its
chances for success by its senseless de
sertion to the slave power and the
"solid South," just as the Federal party
was dragged into bankruptcy and
ruined by its frantic dislike of Jefferson
and Madison. The Federal party of
1812-14 staked Its fortunes on opposi
tion to the war, and was ruined. The
Democratic party of 1861-61, staked its
fortunes on opposition to the war, and
was ruined; was out of power for
twenty-five yeara Its ablest men, like
Tilden, Thurman, Seymour,, Pendleton,
Hendricks, were discredited In any large
popular Infiuenpe for years because they
had been 'branded as "copperheads" by
their conduct during the Nation's strug
gle for life. Lesser men, like "Voor
hees, who had stooped to vulgar per
sonal abuse of the Union soldier, were
victims of public contempt outside
their own narrow, provincial field. As
late as the Presidential campaign of
1876, more than ten years after the war,
Robert G. Ingerooll's most powerful
campaign speech was based upon Tll-
den's unpatriotic attitude during thel
Civil War. The same feeling of devo
tion to the fiag.was evident In England
during the Boer War, when the Liber
als, who had not fomented. Its outbreak,
nevertheless stood firmly by the British
flag. It is a case where blopd Is thicker
than water. There were thousands of
Southern Unionists, like Early and
Wlckham, who became bitter fighters
on the Confederate side the moment
Virginia seceded.
The soldier who fights and dies under
our flag is always a pathetic personal
ity. He preserves and defends the
state which politicians misrule; he pro
tects from destruction the wealth gath
ered by the trader. There Is not a mer
chant In Portland today whose prop
erty is not safer because of the growing
education of the youth of the land to
the sentiment of broad patriotism and
abounding nationality. It is because- of
this education to patriotism and nation
ality that we do not do as they do in
Germany, France and Russia and make
a standing army in time of peace whose
bayonets are as numerous as the wheat
stalks In the harvest field. We stand
jealously by our Army and Its soldiers
for the same reason that we pay an
nual honors; to our patriot dead and
teach our children on all public occa
sions that it Is far better for a boy to
be educated to honor his grandfather
for his devotion to home and duty In
the hour of danger and death than It is
to teach him to worship the golden calf.
War has its coincident vices, but they
are nqt worse than the -cankers of a
calm world and 'a long peace. So long
as our armies are chiefly composed of
officers and men who love the flag, for
whose idea they expect to fight and, if
need be, to die, we can afford to feel
proud that the American people as a
whole, from President down, stood
nobly by the henor of he American
Army, that Is ready cheerfully to fight
and -fall for the American flag.
OREGON'S DRIGHT OUTLOOK.
The Pacific Northwest fared well In
the river and harbor bill, and the news
printed in yesterday's Oregonlan, that
a board of engineers had already been
appointed to visit this state and pas3
on the merits or the plans fori the dis
bursement of the appropriations, will
be hailed with delight by every one In
terested In an open river. The demands
of business backed up by a public sen
timent which "could not longer be ig
nored, and the strenuous activity of our
men in Congress, have at last resulted
in the Inland Empire receiving a por
tion of the recognition to which It is
entitled. The waterways of the coun
try are the only roads to market which
cannot b? controlled and manipulated
by combinations of capital. 'The Colum
bia River and Its tributaries offer- oyer
a thousand miles of free trackage and
right of way to any man who cares to
operate a boat on its watera On this
grand ' commercial highway the ba
teau of the trader has equal rights
with the palatial steamers of the Cana
dian Pacific on the upper reaches of the
river, or the big freight and passenger
boats on the Lower Columbia.
The Government spent millions In
building the canal and locks at the Cas
cades, and the people above The Dalles
aided the project to the fullest extent.
An open river to The Dalles, however",
did not offer a water outlet to th'e vast
territory lying above that point. It was
the wonderful resources of the upper
country that made Portland rich and
prosperous; therefore, In this city as
well as above The Dalles, there hat
always been a strong desire for the
completion of the work which would
give this city direct communication by
water with the fields of trade which
are still susceptible of great develop
ment. Considering the immensity of
the project. It Is but a wise precaution
that the plans suggested for the Im
provement should be thoroughly exam
ined and approved by the best experts
In the Government service. Continual
changes of plans wasted many years
and some millions of dollars when the
Cascade locks were under construction,
and in the, case of the Celllo improve
ment there should be no such delay or
waste of money.
Of equal Interest to the City of Port
land will be the visit of the engineering
board to the mouth of the "Columbia
River. It will be of no benefit to the
producers of the Upper Columbia and
Snake River countries to have an open
river above Portland or Astoria so long
as the-Bar at the entrance to the river
causes detentions to shipping and at
tendant higher freight rates are de
manded 6y ehipownera Previous work
of the Jetty has demonstrated beyond
all doubt that there is a sufficient vol
ume of water pouring out of the Co
lumbia to admit of a thirty or forty
foot channel at low tide. This depth
of water cannot be secured unless the
Jetty Is so constructed as to confine the
water in certain limits. As mentioned
In The Oregonlan yesterday, the board
of engineers will consider the advisabil
ity of building a jetty out from the
Washington shore. Heretofore It was
expected that the rocky shores of the
north side of the entrance to the river
would have the same effect as a Jetty,
provided the Oregon Jetty followed a
course which would throw the current
against the3e rocks. Sands are report
ed to be forming beyond the Cape, how
ever, and to prevent trouble from that
source it may be necessary to provide
artificial barriers on the north as well
as the south side of the river.
Thanks to the efficient work of the
old Port of Portland Commission, but
little w6rk remains to be done on the
river .channel from Portland to the sea
until the channel Is deepened at the
mouth to admit the passage of larger
ships than can now enter with safety.
Oregon's greatest interests at the pres
ent time He in a deeper channel in the
Columbia between Astoria and the sea,
and the opening of the river above The
Dalles. Both of these projects are now
In a fair way to Becure good treatment
from the Government, and the benefits
to the producers of the Inland Empire
will apply with equal force to the resi
dents of this city.
One position after another has been
abandoned by anti-imperialism, from
the unconstitutionality of expansion it
self to the project of an immediate pro
tectorate. At last the-Journals of the
cult and the expiring voice of anti-Ism
la the Congressional session just ad-
Journed. expressed by Carmack, .settle
upon one last and unalterable resolve
which they will maintain to the death.
It is the demand for another Investi
gation! Investigation has followed in
quiry and testimony by wholesale be
fore committees has supplemented
voluminous reports from Army and
Navy and commissions; the country has
been flooded with reports by independ
ent investigators of every shade of the
ory and practice,, and yet the antls now
take their last and desperate stand in
favor of Information. The reason Is
that the exhaustive inquiries already
made, from McKlnley's proclamations
to Dewey's evidence the other day,
have put them in the wrong. Informa.
tlon has put them hors du combat, yet
they fancy what they need Is more In
formation. There is Information enough.
The only need now Is for the creation
of some perceptive faculty In the antl
ranks.
Newspapers published In the area af
fected by the Union Pacific strike call
loudly and bravely for a settlement.
The strike Is Injurious to every Indus
try, and the peqple must and will have
the dispute put to an end and work
resumed. It Is noteworthy, however,
that an exact balance Is maintained
between the two sides In the contro
versy. The easy way to settle a strike,
of course, would be to array public sen
timent on one side or the other at once
and overwhelmingly, and force the un
popular, that Is, the unjustifiable, side
to terms. This Is impracticable for two
reasons. One Is, the papers hesitate to
rfrray themselves openly against either
the company or the men, and the other
and more effective reason is that the
merits of the controversy are hard to
get at There is a hint here for arbi
tration schemes based" on moral Influ
ence and support. If Independent news
papers cannot learn the merits of these
controversies and bring enough pres
sure to bear upon the erring contestant
to settle them, what Is to be expected
of public men like Senator Hanna, for
example, whose future and even pres
ent depends upon popular support?
The British Navy, formidable as It Is,
is not. according to Rear-Admiral Sir
Charles Beresford, without many and
glaring deftclenclea The proof of the
efficiency of a navy Is, as every one
knows. In actual trial. Great Britain
certainly has an enormous fleet of heavy
fighting machines, of which the world
stands In wholesome awe. The possibil
ities of destruction that He In this fleet
In action are sureties of peace. How far
these would develop into certainties can
only be a matter of surmise until some
day, unfortunate in the world's history,
the test of battle is applied to them.
That the British Admiralty system, as
lately charged by Sir Charles, leads to
great extravagance Is no- doubt true, but
that the navy as a whole or in part lc
Inefficient can only be proved or dis
proved by a war the like of which the
world has never known, and which, 'It
may Justly be hoped. It never will know.
Surmise In the matter Is vastly cheaper
and more comfortable.
Jefferson, In his authorship of the
Declaration of Independence, has been
charged with having derived his polit
ical philosophy from Rousseau. The
Springfield Republican takes Issue with
this view, and thinks Jefferson was a
disciple of the great English political
philosopher, John Locke, rather than of
Rousseau. It Is known that as a young
man Jefferson had a copy of Locke's
writings, but It Is not known that Jef
ferson, prior to 1776, the year of the
Declaration, was a student of Rousseau.
Locke, whom Jefferson did study,
taught all the principles embodied in
the preamble of the Declaration of In
dependence, and Locke, the Republican
thinks, was his Inspiration.
China's difficulties with the payment
of her Indemnity afford a most striking
lesson on the dangers and losses inci
dent to an unstable money standard.
She Is required to pay In the gold values
of civilization, but her Incomes are in
the sliver values of barbarism. The de
cline in silver has given to the nominal
figures of the indemnity an oppressive
ly high equivalent In silver currency,
with which the empire must pay or buy
gold. Just this cruel and chaotic con
dition has been contended for in the
United States by Bryan and his Infat
uated followers for six yeara Six mil
lion men never before adhered to so pre
posterous a proposal In the history of
the civilized world.
The Minnesota Republican platform
Is remarkable for Its clear escape from
anything like dictation by the railroad
trusts; for Its Indorsement of reci
procity with Cuba, notwithstanding the
affiliation of Minnesota men with the
Congressional "Insurgents"; for Its
sturdy protest against the copperheads
of 1902, and for its advocay of Presi
dent Roosevelt's renomlnation. Roose
velt Is evidently going to be strong Just
where Cleveland was strong In the
virile young commonwealths of the
great Northwest. The group of states
that center about Chicago and the Up
per Mississippi can and will defeat the
machinations of rlngsters like Hanna,
Piatt and Quay.
Senor Buencamlno left the White
House Wednesday with the remark that
the Philippine bill establishes self-government
In the islands. This is per
fectly true, though not In accord with
the tenets of antl-lsm. Oregon has self
government, and so has Hawaii, though
neither Is an Independent nation. There
will be no more Federal tyranny In "the
Philippines than there Is In the City of
Washington Itself, and It Is certain that
the Federal Commission there will give
the islands far more just, orderly and
efficient local government than could
possibly be given them by native war
riors or polltlciana
The man who Is always In duty bound
to print in his paper every morning
what is going to happen that day Is
always taking big chancea An ambi
tious Chicago paper, the morning of- the
conference on the Philippine bill, de
duced from a column editorial that "In
the light of these facts, the House and
Senate conferees may well and fairly
compromise on the House money plan
and the Senate legislative plan." Then
the compromise went ahead and reject
ed both the House money plan and the
Senate legislative plan. It Is almost
better to be right than to be up to date.
They have some men at Seattle, ap
parently, who realize that an armed
desperado will not be taken without :
battle In which some one other than
himself will get hurt. The realization
of this fact was originally due at" Salem,
Or.
WILLIAMS FOR BETTER STREETS.
It is gratifying to learn, from Judge
Williams' first official utterance that the
movement for better streets is to have
friend In the Mayor's chair. It is a, move,
ment which needs all the help it can get
If our streets are to be put In fair condi
tion in time for the Lewis and Clark Fair
In 1905; and if they are not, then we
would better not have a fair. Portland
gains nothing from visitors now, for the
most lasting impression made upon every
stranger who spends a day here is that we
have the most disorderly, the dirtiest, the
most unwholesome and the most unpros
perous looking streets of any city of our
pretensions in the country. Until we can
get our streets in a condition that will not
discredit us on the points of taste, de
cency and sanitation we would better have
as few people here as possible. If we are
to live in the midst of disorder and filth
we would better do It alone and not in
vite the world to behold our lack of sen
sibility and of civic enterprise.
Every city that has held an exposition
has made it a point to get itself into the
best possible condition, for it was learned
long ago that the most Important exhibit
of any fair Is the city in which it is- held.
Philadelphia did not understand this and
was a great sufferer in consequence, for
the city itself made an' unpleasant Im
pression upon nearly everybody who vis
ited it in 1S76. The water was Insufficient
In quantity and bad in quality; the hotels
were overcrowded, badly administered and
high In price: the carriage system was In
sufficient and villainous, and the streets,
in spite of some superficial efforts to make
them presentable, were disorderly and un
sightly. The Centennial Exposition was
Indeed a great success. It brought un
numbered thousands of people to Phila
delphia, but it gave most of them an
opinion unfavorable to the city, and was,
therefore, rather an injury than a benefit
to it.
Other cities In which expositions have
since been given have taken warning from
this experience and have made it a point
to get themselves up In presentable shape.
Chicago, notoriously the dlrtlett place In
the country, made a tremendous effort to
"perk up" for company, and actually did
for the several months of the exposition
period maintain herself In fairly decent
condition. The streets at least the gen
eral thoroughfares were put In good con
dition all round, and for the first and only
time In her history the street-cleaning
department was maintained upon an en
ergetic and efficient basis. And even in
New Orleans, where the forces of nature
combine with the forces of tradition and
practice to give the city celebrity for dirt
iness, there was during the exposition pe
riod a fairly successful effort to make a
good showing. Surface sewers can never
be made other than hideous to the sight,
but they were kept flushed and clean,
and the streets- even in the French quar
ter were clean as they never were before,
except When Butler's bo-3 did the job
with Yankee thoroughness.
At Buffalo the situation was naturally
better and there was a better element to
deal with. Three year's before the exposi
tion gates were opened it was determined
to make the city the 'Cleanest and most
perfectly paved on the American Conti
nent. There was a good start already,
but the work went fin continuously
for threes years In wholesale fashion,
and at the beginning of the expo
sition period the aggregate of the
asphalt pavements In the city was some
thing upwards of 140 miles, with side
walks and curbings to match. Wherever
one wept In the city it was the same
thing perfect streets perfectly kept. It
was in every way a comfort and a de
light. Every visitor took notice of It,
everybody commended it, and long be
fore the exposition came to Its end the
fame of Buffalo as the superlatively clean
American city was permanently estab
lished. And In the end Buffalo will gain
through this fair repute more than she
lost through the circumstances which
made her fair in a financial sense a fail
ure. In Omaha the exposition project was
the means of stirring up the city as It
had never, been stirred before in the mat
ter of street betterment. Omaha was origi
nally laid out on a liberal scale. The
streets are very wide, and this fact, with
the trying climatic conditions, make street
improvement and street maintenance a
very costly thing. When the exposition
was proposed the city had grown rapidly,
the commercial rather than the domestic
Idea made its spirit, and it had failed nat
urally Into careless ways. But from the
beginning of tha exposition agitation It
was recognized that something must be
done to give the streets a better charac
ter. There was neither time nor money
for wholesale Improvements, but enough
was accomplished to make the city fairly
presentable. The spirit of Improvement
once aroused had not been allowed to
sleep, afid the work of making Omaha a
model city In the matter of streets goes
steadily on. A visitor of a month ago
noted that far out in the suburbs, several
miles from the business district, solid
streets of vitrified brick were being laid
with stone sidewalks to match. In every
direction the progress of street Improve
ment has outrun building enterprise, and
It Is found to be a good thing for outlying
districts, since nothing aids suburban
growth so much as good streets. "We
owe the universal enthusiasm for good
streets," said an Omaha banker to an Ore
gonlan representative recently, "to our
exposition. Before the exposition we
had the worst streets In the West, and
now we are pretty close to having the
best. It has added amazingly to the com
fort and attractiveness of the town, and
it Is the best business Investment any
community ever made."
The Southern exposition cities except
ing of course Atlanta, which is a strictly
modern town are on a different basis,
but in each of them a great effort was
made to make a good impression upon
visitors. In Nashville, where there 13 a
wealth of beautiful trees, there was rea
sonable success: and the city, always pic
turesque and Interesting, was at its best
during the exposition period. At Charles
ton the problem was a hard one. The
city is very old and Its buildings repre
sentative of many schools and types of
architecture, are huddled close together
for economy of space, since there is no
room to spare on the narrow tongue of
land between the Ashley and Cooper Riv
ers upon which the City of Charleston
stands. The streets are narrow, badly
flagged and bordered with sidewalks at
once too ill-laid and worn for comfort
able use, and too good to be discarded.
Something had to be done and a good
deal was done. The city was put in per
fect sanitary condition, and if the
"humps" were still permitted to remain
in the streets and sidewalks. It was be
cause their removal was clearly Imprac
ticable. And now it Is "up to Portland." Clearly
there Is no point in Inviting the world to
come to us If we are not going to make
our city worth seeing. If the conditions
are to be as they are now, when the first
and last Impression of every visitor Is of
dirty streets and uncomfortable side
walks, and when admiration of the sur
roundings of the city Is offset by con
tempt for its want of spirit and enter
prise as manifested In the ill-made and ill
kept streets, we have made a mistake In
getting up a fair, for It will yield us
nothing. There Is, in truth, but one course
for us and that Is to make our town pre
sentable. There Is neither time nor means
of making our street system what It
should be, but we can at least make every
street clean and can enforce the relaying
of every broken and decaying sidewalk
With concrete. This alone, while not all
that could be desired, will at least make
a very great improvement and will en
able a citizen of Portland to show a visitor
through ..the city without blushing at
every" turn for Its shocking violation of
the rules of common cleanliness and decency.
NOTE AND COMMENT. : J
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Bang! I jL
Ktep the gardenhose handy. r
We have out-shot the chutes.
Good morning. Did you hear it? j
Let It rain; we all have umbrellas.
Never mind; the youngsters are enjoying
It. . '
.Even the game will turn. If followed too
long.
Mr. Merrill IsJceepIng pretty quiet. If he
Is alive.
, !.
The man hunt seems to be working
backwards.
Better look at your fire alarm card early
and often.
Would that George Washington could
see us now!
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Keep perfectly quiet, so the children can
hear the crackers.
Perhaps Tracy was only firing hl3 rifle
In honor of the day.
There will be other things loaded besides
firearms before night.
At any rate Tracy has removed all
doubts as to his Identity.
The celebration ought to be postponed
until the diving suits arrive.
The sunriso gun has apparently multi
plied by about a half a million.
Already enough powder has been burned
to fight two or three middle-sized wars.
We are ahead of Seattle. She has the
Sound In front of her. It 13 all around
us.
If Seattle wants to make a showing in
the next census she had better keep Tracy
out of town.
They may have made more noise in Rev
olutionary days, but they spread It over
seven years.
What have the engineers to say about
Tracy's running a boat down Puget Sound
without any license?
A casual visitor from the other world
might have thought wexwere shooting a
convict here in Portland.
If this hasn't waked up King Geprge IV
It Is because he is sleeping more easily
than Americans are ready to believe.
Let us hope that somebody will kill
Tracy His crimes are now beyond any
adequate punishment that the law can In
flict. The telephone numbers of the Good Sa
maritan and St. Vincent's Hospitals are
Main 329 and 163 respectively. You can
choose your own doctor.
Be gentle with your little boy.
And if he wants to kill you
By shooting at you with his toy
Revolver, let him. Will you?
Tracy confesses to having killed Merrill
In Washington. Perhaps there will be
rivalry as to which state shall hang him.
But first let us catch our Tracy.
The residents of the mountains along
the west fork . of Dairy Creek, in the
northern part of Washington County,
wanted a road up the creek, and asked
the Commissioners to build It. The Com
missioners, who had other calls of the
same character, didn't see the immediate
necessity of a road up Dairy Creek, but
finally ordered the construction of an
apology for one, which served In dry
weather, but, owing to Its innocence of
bridges, was not available when the
clouds that blow over the Coast Range
got to pouring down water in bucketf uls.
So the mountaineers banded together,
built the bridge, and that those who run
may read, posted upon it the following
notice.
: BUILT BY THE MOUNTAIN- :
: EERS. :
: THE COUNTY WAS TOO POOR. :
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Let the booming-, banging crackers fill the air
with Joyous noise;
Let a dozen bands of music stir the souls of,
scores of boys;
Let the Dlayful, happy children tamper with
explosive toys,
Which blow up without a sound or flash oj
warning;
Let toy pistols do tho errands of a grim and
certain fate;
Let Dewey chaser scoot along where peopla
congregate:
Let nothing Interrupt us on the day- we cele
brate; There'll be time to think it over in the morn
ing. Banish every thought of Jockjaw, do not think
of blinding burn.
Till your reason with tho morning and tho
aftermath returns.
Tou will need your whole attention for tha
present day's concerns.
While the bunting cv'ry highway 13 adorning;
Dodgo the cracker, shy the cannon, give the
plitol right-of-way.
Keep within your left hip pocket half a. pint
of arnicay.
Never mind singed hair or whlskera, on tho
Nation's natal day.
There'll be time for due reflection in tho
morning.
Oh! we love the land we live in and the glories
that are its.
And we're glad to have the racket frighten U3
beyond our wits.
We are willing on occasion to be shattered Into
bits.
For a oatriot all thought of fear is scorninjr.
Let them shoot and bang and blow up all the
powder they can And,
Let them fling the grand old banner to tho
fond, caressing wind.
Let them deafen us and burn us. but we 11 Just
say, "Neer mind!"
There'll be time to think about it in the
morn Inn
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PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
As They Beckon Time. "How long has she
been on the stare?" "Only about three di
vorces." Chicago Record-Herald.
"Who made God?" "Ah. Blliy! Tou would
not have asked that question in your sopho
more year. Tou'd have known." Life.
"I can arely say that no man ever attempt
ed to bribe me. gentlemen." Voice in the
Crowd Don't be down-hearted, old chap; your
luck may change. Tit-Bits.
Sunday School Teacher And so Lot's wife
was turned to salt. Can any one tell why?
Wicked Willy (from the rear) She was too
fresh! Harvard Lampoon.
He Knew. She I never saw a married couple
who Kot on so ;ell together as Mr. and Mrs.
Rigby. He Humph! I know! Each of them
does exactly as ehe likes. Brooklyn Life.
Doolan (to the village doctor, who Is a sports
man, and Is met with his gun) Shure. doctor,
you are a careful man. for if yer physic misses
em yer always carry yer gun. Glasgow Even
ing Times.
Involving a Surgical Operation. Cholly I'm
going to spend my vacation on the broad plains
of the West. I want to give my mind a chance
to exDand. Birdie Going to have something
done to your head? Chicago Tribune.
"Yes, Count. In all the park there Is no place
I like so well as under this old, old tree."
' (Sighing sentimentally.) "There are tender as
sociations, you see." "Aha. I comprehend,
mam'sell'e. Tou have yourself planted the
tree!" Punch.
They Knew Him. Towne Judging from what
D'Auber says, all his acquaintances must be
very shrewd people. Browne-rWhy. has he been
boasting about It? Towne Yes. indirectly; I
heard him bragging that he didn't owe anybody
a. dollar. Philadelphia Press.