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ROOSEVELT AXD CLEVELAND.
Unquestionably there is a remarkable
and ominous parallel between the course
marked out for himself and undevlat
ingly followed by President Roosevelt
and a similar line of conduct pursued
some seventeen years ago by Grover
Cleveland. The conditions In the two
problems are so uniform and persistent
that history is reasonably certain to re
peat itself.
The elements in the controversy be
tween President and party are.two, dis
tinct j'et closely Interwoven. One is the
Presidential devotion to ideas, the other
Is the party's devotion to patronage.
Just as Grover Cleveland entered upon
his first administration with the pur
pose to reform the tariff and purify the
civil service and upon his second with
the three-fold purpose tp reform the
tariff, to kill the silver evil and purify
the civil service, so Theodore Roosevelt
is imbued today with a purpose to do all
that can be done for tariff reform, for
restriction of monopoly and for purifi
cation 'of the civil service.
Roosevelt has been President less than
a year, but in that time he has laid
broad and deep the foundation of that
hate and envy within his party which
in Cleveland's case defeated him for
re-election in 1888, and sent him and his
supporters Into exile In 189G and 1900,
where a vengeful faction that includes
Watterson as well as Bryan proposes to
keep them at whatever cost. And he
Is doing it In precisely the same way.
The party cares little what is done in
the way of constructive legislation. It
will agree to almost anything states
manship may devise, save and except
that nothing must interfere with the
support its members of Congress receive
from- powerful interests, or with the dis
pensation of patronage. Cleveland made
the country's welfare as he understood
it. paramount to the dispensation of
the offices and the protection of the cor
porations. How this pleased his party
was seen at once in the sacrifice of the
Wilson bill to the protected corpora
tions, and is still seen in the implacable
hostility to him of men who are both
gold-standard advocates and tariff re
formers but resent his attitude toward
their clamors for patronage.
All the trouble that has been made
for President Roosevelt, and it is not
small, has sprung from the desire to
teach him a lesson a desire whose ful
fillment devolved upon the Republican
Senators and Representatives who are
primarily the exponents of the Repub
lican machines In the various states.
His difficulty Is Mr. .Cleveland's diffi
culty, exactly: and while it Is the part
of healthy optimism to say that the peo
ple will, save him from the vengeance
of the ringsters, It is nevertheless per
tinent to recall Mr. Cleveland's fate.
Nd sincere and candid .person can
maintain that the Republicans are less
amenable to partisan discipline than the
Democrats. It is doubtful if we should
have had as many Gold Republicans In
189C as we had Gold Democrats if the
platforms had been reversed. .It is
doubtful whether Piatt has any higher
civic ideals than Gorman, or Hanna
than Daniel, or Quay than Whitney.
It is doubtful whether the Republican
Congress that just adjourned showed
less subserviency to the protected cor
porations than pervaded the Democratic
Congress that produced the Wilson bill.
Possibly the rank and file of the Re
publican party will force Roosevelt's re
nomlnatlon over the heads of the dis
affected dispensers of patronage. Pos
sibly the rank and file will resist the
blandishments of these same malcon
tents In Novemher, 1904, when their dis
affection In the doubtful states becomes
as menacing as Democratic disaffection
became in 18S8. But he who dismisses
the antagonism of disappointed bosses
as 3. negligible quantity is unacquainted
with "the tremendous power that re
sides in the machinery of "oiir party or
ganizations. A LESSON KROM LIFE.
Charles Gannon, the disreputable, dis
solute and dangerous hobo, who with
others of his class was taken in by the
police Sunday, is the son of a thrif tles3,
easy-going father and a thrifty, hard
working mother the latter now de
ceased who were well known on the
East Side ten or twelve years ago. Go
ing from house to house to wash and
scrub from day to day in all conditions
Of weather; returning at nightfall to
cook .the food she had earned for her
ravenous, ungrateful brood, this poor
woman strove diligently to keep her
children, in school and to provide them
with books and decent clothing, shel
ter, food and fire. Her distress when
this boy developed from a school truant
and street hoodlum into a local prize
fighter and was hailed by his admiring
associates as "Younjr Gannon, the
Tough," Is well remembered by many
kind-hearted women for whom she had
tolled for years In the effort to "make
something of her children." The Influ
ence of the street and its rowdies, and
later of low saloons and thugs, was
more potent than that of her self-denying
mother love and hope, and after a
most strenuous life she finally gave up
the battle against such hopeless odds
and a few years later died.
Her story is, unhappily, a very com
mon one; ltd details are pitifully com
monplace. They represent the struggles
of a mother. ambiti6us In' her lower
station in life, for the advancement of
her children; of efforts, unsupported by
the father's authority or Industrial ex
ample, to keep an obstreperous, idle boy
in school, and, this hope falling, at
work; of final defeat and the forced ca
pitulation of the mother and the sequel
in a lawless, .vicious, worthless man.
"What I ought to have done," said she,
sorrowfully, after her vanqulshment,
"was to have left my husband as soon
as I found out that he could not or
would not make a living and govern
the children, which was long before this
ungovernable boy was born."
The logic of this declaration Is indis
putable. Though presented by an un
lettered, toiling woman, in sorrow and
in humiliation, how far superior in Jus
tice and In wisdom it Is to the strained
logic of a lecturer of marked ability and
erudition recently heard In this city, in
which It was boldly and with bitter af
front to suffering womanhood, outraged
society and shuddering morality, de
clared that all marriage Is sacred, and
that to attempt to escape from the cer
tain consequences of vicious matri
monial bonds is an unpardonable sin!
As an illustration showing how im
measurably personal experience in jthis
matter outweighs the far-fetched logic
of the theorist, this case from the ordi
nary walks of lowly life typical of thou
sandsIs presented, In the belief that It
cannot fall to be convincing on the
negative side of the question: Is It wise
to make, or proclaim, marriage under
all circumstances Indissoluble?
A UNIVERSAL WEAKNESS.
The trouble at Rome seems to con
sist partly of the desire to maintain the
fiction that the Vatican la still a tem
poral power, and yet more of the wish
to concede everything necessary In such
a manner nevertheless as to avoid the
appearance of concession. Every one
knows that the ecclesiastical authori
ties at Rome are utterly powerless to
resist or modify such disposition of the
Philippine lands as the United States
has determined on; and there appears,
in fact, no other purpose, on behalf of
the papacy, so far as results -are con
cerned, but to acquiesce in the Wash
ington proposals. It is not the matter
of the procedure, but the manner of it,
that seems to give concern to the
church and Incidentally to perplex the
American contingent.
All this contains a very forcible re
minder of what was going on at Pekln
a year or so ago. There was no objec
tion on the part of Dowager or court to
the terms made up, but it was strenu
ously insisted that the affair must be so
managed on China's behalf as to "save
her face." Christendom waxed merry
over this inexplicable and excruciating
revelation of the childlike Oriental char
acter. If a Caucasian had been beaten
and brought to humiliating terms, he
would have preferred or at least un
resistingly accepted the plain, blunt
enunciation of his defeat and the pen
alty. China would submit, of course,
but her action muBt be so ordered as to
convey the impression that she did
what she must do merely because It
pleased her. So today the Vatican will
yield, but its dignity must not be ruffled
by the appearance of yielding. The
various governors of the Friar orders
might yield, for example, and the Vati
can consent, but the Vatican yield
never!
Human nature, we can all admit,
therefore, is much alike, whether at Pe
kln or In Rome, where men, manifestly,
are but grown-up children. Here in
America we shall doubtless reserve the
right to laugh Immoderately at these
amiable weaknesses of others, the while
repudiating with scorn the Intimation
that such a display could be duplicated
here. Who ever heard of a New Tork
Senator, for example, openly glorying
In the selection of a Secretary of War
as his work, whenin fact the appoint
ment had been crammed down his un
willing throat? Who could Imagine a
Chicago Mayor, or a Tammany bosB, or
a Cincinnati editor, after being unmer
cifully licked in an attempt to depose
Bryan, shouting in unison that he was
the only man and must be renominated?
A man can learn many things in for
eign lands, and one of the most useful of
them all is the reflection he beholds as
in a mirror of his own foibles.
RURAL FREE DELIVERY.
It rests wholly with the people of Ore
gon whetherwe shall be benefited large
ly or only a little by the rural free mall
service which Is now being Introduced
in all parts of the United States. The
matter is -one which is left to local Initi
ative and local practice; If the free serv
ice Is wanted It can be had; If It Is
patronized by the people it will be main
tained. All that the Government asks
is co-operation on the part of the public
a kind of co-operation which costs lit
tle or nothing In money but this it In
sists upon as an essential condition.
The people, must illustrate their appre
ciation of the service by making use of
It, and .they must maintain their roads
In such shape that the mallcarrier may
be able to make his rounds without dan
ger or serious inconvenience.
Oregon has now thlrty-slx rural mall
routes In active operation. There are
three In the country Immediately east
of Portland, one at Hood River, eight
close about Salem, four Just now being
organized near Albany, four or Ave near
Turner, in Marion County, where the
system wan first experimentally put on
trial In this state, one at Corvallls and
several others scattered about through
the Willamette Valley. Wherever free
delivery has" been instituted the people
are delighted with It. It brings the farm
house into closer touch with the world;
It makes remote markets practically
near; It substitutes the dally paper
with all that this great change implies
for the weekjy; It makes life more hope
ful and more cheerful, and, last but not
least. It makes the business of the
country producer more profitable. As
the modern world goes. It Is an absolute
essential If the most is to be made of
social and business opportunities. Every
ambitious community ought to have It;
and, in truth, no ambitious community
of sufficient population will long be
without It
The main requirement, as above
stated is that the facility once provided
shall be used continuously by the people,
and that the roads shall be kept In
usable condition. The department 'will
not serve a community which makes
only a limited and trifling use of the
service, and it will net make or repair
roads. "Where a route is dangerous for
the carrier, where breaches made by the
weather are not carefully and expedi
tiously repaired, the route Is laid off,
and if the delay is continued for any ex
tended time, the route is permanently
canceled.
The free rural delivery is especlally
valuable In a country like Western Ore
gon, where Winter travel Is difficult and
tedious. It affords to the people an op
portunity scarcely less 'important in its
relations to public interest and conven
ience than the regular mall service. It
is Inconceivable that a service offering
so many advantages and which only
waits to be Invited can fail very long
of being universally established.
THE THUNDERER'S C03IPLAIXT.
It goes hard with John Bull to see
literary treasures leaving Britain for
America, and the London Times pub
lishes a special article asking whether
nothing can be done to stop the con
tinuous wholesale exportation of rare
and early .printed books and illumi
nated manuscripts to the United States.
The article describes certain fine col
lections of books and manuscripts which
have just been purchased by an Ameri
can gentleman who does not wish his
name disclosed. This library consists of
700 items, each of the highest interest
and value. It was formed to exemplify
the origin and development of early
illustrated books, and Includes thirty
two fine examples from the Caxton
press and the very choicest manuscripts
and printed books from the late William
Morris' library, In addition to hundreds
of other choice examples for which the
collector of the library scoured Europe
for many years.
It is not to be supposed that the
Times speaks from a narrow provincial
prejudice, or that it Is Ignorant of the
time-honored British theory, identified
with such names as Adam Smith, Sir
Robert Peel and Richard Cobden, that
traffic in everything of human produc
tion should be free as air, chiefly In the
Interest of the consumer, who is really
benefited when he gets good British
wares In exchange for. gold and other
securities to be locked up In London
vaults. For a great many years the
outside world has hugged the delusion
that to accumulate capital as the result
of trade, as Great Britain has been do
ing. Is quite worth while, only to be
assured by the economists of England
that the profit In a commercial transac
tion is really In -favor of the man on the
apparently cold outside, but In reality
the much-to-be-deslred inside, who ex
changes mere helpless and unserviceable
gold for such real things as transpor
tation and Invoices, clothes that will
keep him warm and cutlery that will
separate butter. No narrow view of
trade can disturb the learned Times;
and we are confined, therefore, to the
explanation that It supposes the manu
scripts sold hither to be actually lost to
civilization.
What use can America have for rare
books and Illuminated covers? Had
they remained In England, Intelligent
human beings might have admired
their appearance and derived pleasure
and possible profit from their perusal.
But In the wilds of 'North America they
will doubtless-serve only-as substrata
for rag carpets or -fuel for the wigwam
fires. It cannot be that the untutored
Americans will know books when they
see them, or that there the eye ot any
reasoning or reflecting being will ever
light upon their sacred pages. It is sad
to see that American men ot means, In
running amuck through the acquisitions
of the Old World, should thus light by
blind and ignorant haphazard upon
actual treasures of art and literature.
The galleries and libraries and mu
seums of Europe are being rifled of their
priceless possessions with a purpose as
deliberate and unerring as If Americans
actually possessed discernment. Instead
of being, as all civilization knows them,
a race of undlscrlmlnating parvenus.
FAMILY FINANCES.
Much of the. advice on matrimony
that appears in print may be likened
to that of the new drug clerk who wrote
for the county agricultural society an
elaborate essay on "Inhumanity of De
horning' Hydraulic Rams." To borrow
further from the late Bill Nye, those
who write the "nice ldees for the pa
pers" make more out of It than do those
who attempt to put the "ldees" Into
practice. No publication Is too eminent
and no pen too obscure to give sage
advice upon the management of matri
monial partnerships, if, perchance, a
little room.be left after telling how
children should be brought up. The
highly refined Harper's Bazar recently
tackled the question afresh, and, after
solving all but one of the difficulties
that beset the married state, admitted
that It did not have space necessary to
explain and elucidate the problem of
family finances. In this the Bazar will
have the sympathy of all who have
given attention to the subject, for it Is
a spacious one. Not to leave the mat
rimonial world In utter darkness, how
ever, our highly rarefied contemporary
dropped this pregnant hint:
A certain proportion (of the income) Is taken
by each for dress, etc, another part Is put In
the bank against a "rainy day," and the re
mainder should be equally divided between the
two, to spend as he or she wishes.
That's a beautiful Idea, and a com
plete and easy solution of a very vexa
tious matter. It could scarcely be Im
proved upon by the underdone Edward
K. Bok, that tremend-u-oue authority
on maidens' heart-throbs, lingerie and
other feminine delicacies, Including mat
rimony. Let each member of the family
buy all the clothes he or she wishes, put
a wad in the bank, then divide the re
mainder and let the husband and wife
"blow it In." That Is simplicity itself.
Did it ever occur to such writers that
there are families in" the world that do
not have this "remainder" to quarrel
over; that do not have even the bank
account against the "rainy day"? What
proportion of the families In this, the
most prosperous land under the sun,
could .follow the perfumed advice quoted
from Harper's Bazar, which Is a typi
cal specimen of the stuff found float-'
Ing around In various "home" journals
and magazines? Assuredly, the homes
of the Nation are not in that class,
and for two good reasons, namely, lack
of opportunity and the possession, of
better sense. For titled foreign flunkeys
fed on a stated government bounty
through life, this sophomorlc advice
might do;. but for healthy men and
women of flesh and bone, with blood in
their hearts and brains in their heads,
eager to take part in the world's activi
ties. It is puerile. The income of fam
lllesishould be used with regard to the
needs In each case, and business Judg
ment rather than a machine rule should
determine how. All members of the
family have right to benefit from the
family income, and It frequently hap
pens that the right extends to partici
pation In production of the income Itself.
We need not go- among the Improvident
and thriftless for examples; the aver
age American homes supply plenty of
them. It will be a sad day for the coun
try when such advice as the Bazar gives
Is Of general application.
The only unique feature about the re
cent attempt of Mrs. H. D. Green to
smuggle valuable goods In from the Ori
ent through the Custom-House In San
Francisco, free of duty, Is the attempted
smuggler's bland statement of the rea-.
son for her. very careful attempt to
conceal her valuable Imports. There
was but one reason for sewing costly
silks into the linings of her dresses and
tucking these and other valuable arti
cles of merchandise into out-of-the-way
places In her baggage. She hoped by
this means to avoid payment of duty en
them, and she said so -In a manner and
with words at once childlike and bland.
This open and unreserved honesty came
too late, however, to be of practical
benefit. The stony-hearted customs offi
cials will withhold the goods unless the
owner values them "sufficiently as souve
nirs of a very extensive tour of the Ori
ent to pay Into the Treasury of the
United States a sum aggregating three
times their value. The Incident Is but
one of thousands. Illustrating the easy
conscience of an otherwise reputable
person when It comes to defrauding the
Government. Such examples prove that
common honesty Is not always grounded
In the ethics of that basic virtue of
good citizenship. The sequel In this and
similar cases Illustrates plainly and
even painfully the truth of the follow
ing familiar statement that fell repeat
edly from the gray goosequlll of the
schoolmaster of a former generation
upon the copybooks of his pupils: "Hon
esty Is the best policy."
The subject of good health for teach
ers is one too infrequently treated In
teachers' institutes, and. It may be
feared, not sufficiently considered by
appointing boards. It is a settled fact
that a weak, half-sick, extremely ner
vous person can do nothing well. This
Is especially true of the half-sick teach
er. In considering the "True Teacher"
at a convention of County Superintend
ents of Schools in Montana recently,
one of the speakers said:
Tho teacher must keep herself In good phys
ical health. Headaches must be banished
somehow. Nerves I A teacher should never
know that she has a nerve In her body, not
at least until her school work be done, and
then why then she should not be such a
despotic nuisance at home that the family
are yielding this comfort and that because
"Polly'is a teacher, and her nerves are so worn
out that we have to keep still or do this or
that to humor her." No one has a right to get
so worn out. Depend upon it, when one often
does, she is not the true teacher. There la
something wrong somewhereeither she is not
working sufficiently hard (I mean Just that) or
her efforts are poorly directed.
These are sweeping assertions, but
there is much truth In them. A woman
who Is "all nerves" has no business in
the schoolroom. Still less should the
young woman with tuberculous tenden
cies, even slightly developed, be per
mitted to occupy the position of teacher
In the public schools. This latter rule
should be Inexorable, since the seeds of
death are in her presence. This state- I
ment admits of no' argument. In mak
ing It the case Is closed before an In
telllgent public.
The dedication of the magnificent pal
ace Capltoi building of Montant, at
Helena, on the Fourth of July, attract
ed a crowd of patriotic citizens, loyal
to the state as well as, to the Nation.
The event, Indeed, proved to be a "pio
neer reunion," In which the old touched
hands with the new, the camp with
the palace, the advancement of a mighty
state with the Incidents of old terri
torial days. Contributory to the occa
sion was the prosperity exemplified In
the Capitol building itself and In the
smiling faces of farmers and ranchers,
of miners and business men. We con
gratulate the people of a state from
which but now the demand for free sil
ver arose upon the prosperity achieved
by the development of Its resources
upon a "gold basis." This prosperity Is
not of the 16-to-l variety, but It rests
on a hundred cents to the dollar and
the gold standard, against which Bryan
fumed and Montanans voted in 1836.
The sequel proves that people do not
always know what is good for them,
and that a political mountebank is not
a safe adviser.
The manhunt In Western Washington
progresses furiously; now through the
tangled underbrush, now In boats on
the green waters of the "Whulge." The
fleeing quarry still manages to tarry
at farmhouses long enough to eat when
hungry and In barns long enough to
sleep when weary, binding and gagging,
presumably with one hand, as from
all accounts he never lays down his
rifle, his host and all the members of
his family, when he gets ready to leave,
In return for the hospitality enjoyed.
The chase, from the time the Oregon
prison guards failed to shoot the con
victs while scaling the wall on the
morning of their escape, to the chal
lenge of Officer Breece to Tracy to "drop
his gun" who was himself "dropped" for
his courtesy, has been one of bluff and
good marksmanship on one side, cau
tiousness and poor marksmanship on
the other. It has in fact been put upon
tho boards of eight or nine counties in
two states as a bloody farce, billed for
Indefinite continuance.
The State of New Jersey expended for
roadmaklng In 1901 5500,000, and the ap
propriation this year will reach nearly
twice that amount. Since the good
roads movement started, the value of
the taxable property In New Jersey has
Increased $27,000,000. The State Com
missioner of Roads authorizes the state
ment that there are several regions un
der his supervision to which Improved
roads have been, primarily, the means
of attracting wealth to the extent of
from 51,000,000 to 54.000,000. For the four
years preceding 1902 the State of New
Tork, under the Higble-Armstrong law,
has appropriated 5670,000 annually to
highway Construction, and the advo
cates of good roads have been equally
zealous In Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kentucky, Ten
nessee. Mississippi and Louisiana.
The strike of the Texas & Pacific ma
chinists at Marshall, Tex., has been set
tled. According to the record, "both
1 sides made concessions." This proced
ure Is cordially commended to the op
posing forces In the mlllmen's strike,
the Oregon City trolley railway strike,
the marine engineers' strike, the wood
haulers' strike and the managers gen
erally of the strikes, lockouts and. boy
cotts that have taken Industry by the
throat in this city and are holding on
with the unreasoning grip of the bulldog.
THE BLOODHOUND.
The experiences of the Tracy and Mer
rill chase have xrot-eerved to Increase the
reputation of the bloodhound as a man
finder. Again and again the dogs from
Walla Walla were put upon the trail only
to pursue It with loud outcry for s. little
while and then to lose it altogether.
Wherever it crossed water or wet ground
It was certain to be lost; and In Western
Oregon, where water or wet ground Is en
countered every few rods, the bloodhound
la not likely ever to be a certain or val
uable resource. He may serve a good
purpose in a dry country like Eastern
Oregon or Eastern Washington, but ef
forts to work with him here Is likely to
prove effort wasted.
A writer in the Century deals at length
with the bloodhound In America, and cor
rects some general Impressions concerning
his character, among other things, the
notion that he Is a brute of savage and
ferocious Instinct and habit. His eager
ness in the chare, this writer declares,
proceeds from no brual or savage dis
position, for when he overtakes his quarry
he does not assault it, but fawns upon it
in the greatest apparent delight. He Is,
in truth, a most amiable animal, so much
so that breeders recommend him as a pet
and companion for young children where
docility and klndpesa are essential quali
ties. The bad name of the bloodhound Is due
to his connection with search for crimi
nals. In which he Is everywhere employed,
and especially to his use in the South in
times past in the business of hunting
down runaway slaves. The old Southern
"nigger dog" was a brute of great feroc
ity, but he was not rightly speaking a
bloodhound. It was found that a cross of
the bloodhound with the Great Dane and
with some one of the' very savage fami
lies of dogs produced a brute In which the
trailing power was bust slightly impaired,
but with a savage Instinct and habit to
which the genuine bloodhound is a
stranger. This terrible creature was a
great ally to the slave hunter because he
Inspired the negroes with terror, serving
not merely to find those who had abscond
ed, but to prevent others from following
their example.
So great had become the popular hatred
of the animal which in the South went
by the name of "nigger dog" and in the
North by bloodhound that when the
Northern armies marched South special
orders were Issued to kill every such dog
that was found. The greatest breeding
pack of these dogs was on the plantation
of Jefferson Davis, in Mississippi, and it is
hardly necessary to say that the boya of
Grant's army specially detailed to search
out and destroy bloodhounds took especial
delight In doing a thorough Job when they
came to the Davis kennels. George 8.
Meeker, of Beatrice, Neb., personally
killed 47 dogs at the Davis place.
It is believed that the bloodhound in the
United States was absolutely extinct at
the close of tho Civil War; and he was
not again noted until 18SS, when the breed
made Its reappearance at a New York
bench show, the three Individuals then
exhibited being Imported dogs brought
over by the principal breeder of such dogs
In England. With these three animals a
breeding establishment was set up in Ver
mont and sinco that time others have been
established in Massachusetts, Kentucky
and Nebraska. There is a great demand
for the dogs from prisons. AM that can
bo produced find ready sales at prices
which make, a -well-bred bloodhound a
much better piece of property than the
average horse.
Several packs of bloodhound are kept
in a constant state of training in the
Middle West, and employed by their own
ers for hunting down criminals, the best
known being that of a Dr. Fulton, who
devotes himself exclusively to the busi
ness. His pack consists of 13 animals all
trained by himself and always employed
under his own Immediate direction. They
have become celebrated all over the coun
try and they are in frequent employment.
They have brought many a criminal to
justice and have never failed to run down
their man when placed on the trail within
a reasqnable time. Of course, these dog3
are kept In condition all the time and in
perfect training under one man whose
word they obey implicitly. Effective as
they have proved themselves to be In
unnumbered cases It is doubtful If sepa
rated from their companions and In the
hands of strangers or by men unaccus
tomed to the work, they would be of much
practical account.
It Is doubtful If the bloodhound will ever
be found very serviceable In a country
like our own, broken by streams and
abounding in patches of damp meadow.
Possibly a highly trained pack like that
of Dr. Fulton might do something, but
the conditions are not such as to promote
the creation of such a pack. It Is only
in centers like the Mississippi Valley,
where there Is a great deal of work In
the line of criminal hunting, that there Is
employment enough toNJustlfy the main
tenance of a pack of hounds In effective
training. Good work may sometimes be
done by isolated pairs of dogs like those
lent to tho" Tracy and Merrill hunt by the
Walla Walla Penitentiary, but as a rule
and especially In this wet country they
will be found to be practically useless.
It was Intended to say yesterday In
this column that the cost ot a duplicate
pipe line from Bull Run Itlver to Port
land would be "abouj; 51.200,000 to 51.250.
000," and that the area of the Bull Run
reservation was "approximately 222 square
miles." Somehow these figures in the
process of getting Into print were enor
mously and unreasonably exaggerated.
The "Sport of President."
Chicago Tribune.
The annual Yale-Harvard boat race has
been stamped with Presidential approval.
There will be some who will lament the
decay of the old college spirit when young
men dropped faint from burning the mid
night oil and not after four miles gruell
ing, gasping fight to see who should first
force the bow of a small boat over a
given line. The critics are fewer than
they were. It Is not long since people
were shocked to read of a Justice of the
Supreme Court and a Senator profanely
batting a little ball round a golf course.
Before the war statesmen patronized the
track, and one Chief Magistrate Is said
to have admired a battle between game
cocks beyond any sport. The change Is
for the better. In those days they betted
more and sweated less. Men were con
tent to watch beasts exercise, while now
they exercise themselves. There never
was such an outpouring of people at a
university boat race as on Thursday,
when many .came to see Roosevelt see
the race. It has long been the custom
Of royalty to grace the Derby with its
presence. If Theodore Roosevelt will
make an annual pilgrimage to New Lon
don, he may live to hear It said that the
sport of Presidents serves the race bet
ter than the sport of Kings. Certainly It
costs the participants and the public
less.
'
Philippines SInnt Keep the nascaln.
Philadelphia Record.
Should universal Philippine amnesty be
decreed, Manila might suffer for a season;
but no Neclys and Rathboncs would be
unloaded and dumped upon the United
States. Tho archipelago must keep its
own rascals- -
DEWEY AND THE- SENATORS.
Chicago Tribune.
It is not astonishing that Admiral Dewey
was annoyed at the questions put .him by
Senators Carmack and Patterson, of the
Philippine committee. They were, in ef
fect, if not by Intention, insulting. The
two defenders of the "second George
Washington" sought to put a construc
tion on the Admiral's answers that would
be to his discredit. Not content with vili
fying the Army, they had begun an attack
on the Navy, through its head. By their
own statement, they prefer to accept the
word of Slxto Lopez, who has not been in
the archipelago for 12 years, to that of
Admiral Dewey. The Admiral confessed
that he had blundered In arming the fol
lowers of Agulnaldo, whom he believed
to be in search of loot, not liberty. He
blamed himself because he armed an en
emy, when he thought he was hurting
the Spaniards, not because, under the spur
of necessity, he lent assistance to a seeker
after spoils. He had no troops of his own,
and the pressure of the Filipinos from
without was his only areurance that the
city would capitulate without further
bloodshed, i
Admiral Dewey will doubtless reflect on
the mutability of politics. He has not for
gotten by whom he was Inveigled Into al
lowing himself to be considered a Presi
dential candidate. Only a little time ago
the gentlemen to whose Insinuations he
listened on Saturday wero boiling with
wrath over the Administration's alleged
slight tn fhn hprn rT WnnWa TYto. rwniitn-
tlon which the two Senatoro have earned I
as the apologists of the insurgents will J
against the honor of the Admiral of the
Navy. As between Patterson, Carmack,
and Agulnaldo and George Dewey, the
country -nlll not have to hesitate In its
decision as to the truth. It has learned
authoritatively from Admiral Dewey that
he never held out hopes of Independence
to the Filipinos, that he never considered
them as "allies," or treated them as such;
and that Agulnaldo was not a "patriot."
but a fellow who was after "loot and
money."
Admiral Dewey has also cleared up an
other matter. He made the statement
while at Manila that "the native Filipinos
were more capable of self-government
than the Cubans." Those words the men
who call themselves antl-lmperiallsts have
harped on exultantly for three years. Ad
miral Dewey was unkind enough to say
day before yesterday that he docs not
think either Cubans or Filipinos are fit for
self-government. He entertained so low
an opinion of the capacity of the Cubans
In that direction that when he said the
Filipinos were more capable than the Cu
bans he merely expressed a contemptuous
opinion that they were a little more capa
ble than men whom he looked on as alto
gether unfit to govern themselves.
The Public Debt.
Kansas City Star.
The Treasury statement for the fiscal
year that ended Monday calls attention to
the satisfactory progress In the reduction
of the public debt. On June 20 the interest
bearing debt amounted to 5931.000.000
against a debt of 5087.000000, November 1.
1S01. A reduction of 556,000,000 has been
made in eight months. In two years the
debt has been diminished by 5113.000.000.
It is now within 5S0.00O.0CO of what it wag
Just prior to the Spanish War.
The success of the refunding scheme has
been so great that Che Interest charges
now are lower than at any time since 1SU3,
and the interest per capita, is almost as
low as at that period In the early 'DOs,
when the debt was at the minimum. In
1S99 the country was paying 540.000.000 a
year in interest. Last. November it was
paying only 529,750,000.owlng to the refund
ing of a large part of the debt In 2 per
cent bonds The Interest per capita,
which was 54 20 in 1S65. went down to 33
cents in 1892, rose to 51 cents in 1S99, and
now has fallen to 38 cents.
In 1865 the interest-bearing debt was at
Its maximum, of. 52,381,000,000, and the total
debt, less cash in the Treasury, amounted
to 578 for every man. woman and child.
The process of reduction went steadily on
until 1S93, when the Interest-bearing debt
had fallen to 5553,000,000. and the total
debt was only 512 64 per capita. The ne
cessity for the issue of bonds by the
Cleveland Administration brought the
debt up again, and it was further in
creased by the Issue of the war loan. But
now the process of reduction has set In
again with every prospect of continuance.
The country has the satisfaction of hav
ing seen an Interest-bearing debt of near
ly 52.500,000,000 reduced to J931.000.000, and
Interest charges of 5151,000,000 a year cut
to less than 530.000.000, in a period of 35
years, which has Included a small but
costly war.
Co-Education.
Philadelphia Record.
Co-education has met a distinct reac
tion in this country- No doubt can exist
that as rapidly as any state or city or
those attending any college at which '-his
education exists reach a certain standard
of social development opposition to the co
education of the .sexes during college years
grows. Whether this is right or wrong. It
Is a social fact, which must bo reckoned
with. A separate education for women,
separate classrooms, and, In a measure, a
separate Institution, while both sexes are
educated in the same place, along lines
not unlike those of Barnard and Rad
cllffo In connection with Columbia and
Harvard, seems likely to "be the imme
diate solution of this problem. If civili
zation continues, and our system does
not, like all that have preceded It. carry
within Itself the seeds of Its own decay,
Jt is certain that women will In time have
all the advantages which men have had In
the same field, under the same competi
tion and without check or ohallenge to
the fundamental principle that liberty
and education are universal rights, lrre
apective of sex.
Tlie End of "Militarism."
New York Mall and Express.
While the European nations are stagger
ing under the tax burden of their arma
ments. Uncle Sam reduces his Philippine
Army to a mere handful and tosses back
to the people 570,000.000 annual income
from the war tax. That militarism which
was to wreck our Institutions has prpved
to be not even "a good enough bogy man
until after the election."
Alas, Poor Roorback!
New York Mall and Express.
"Alas, poor Roorback! I knew him well.
He was an Issue of Infinite pomlsea.',
And, with a sigh. Hamlet Democracy
tossed to the grave dug by public qpln
lcn( the dry bones of anti-Imperialism.
4
One "Way of Love.
Robert Browning-.
All June I bound the rose In sheaves;
Now, rose by rose. I strip the leaves.
And strew them where Pauline may pass.
She will not turn aside; Alas!
Let them lie. Suppose they die?
The chance was they might take her eye.
How many a month I strove to suit
These stubborn fingers to the lute!
Today I venture all I know.
She will not hear my music? So!
Break the string fold music's wine.
Suppose Pauline had bade me sing!
My whole life long I learn'd to love;
This hour my utmost art I prove.
And speak my passion. Heaven or hell?
She will not give me heaven? 'Tls well
Lose who may I still can say.
Those who win heaven, blest are they.
t
,It "Was Not In tjie Wlater.
Thomas Hood.
It was not In the Winter
Our loving lot was cast;
It was the time ot roses, '
Wo pluck'd them as we pass'd!
That churlish season never frown'd , -
On early lovers yet!
Oh no, the world was newly crown'd
With flowers when first we met.
'Twas twilight, and I bade you go.
But still you held me fast;
It was the time ot roses. .
We pluck'd them as we pass'd I
1 NOTE AND COMMENT. '
The weather seems to have undergone
a change of heart
Senator Bailey Is apparently In training
for the Presidency.
"What shall we do with our ex-Insurgents?"
Is now the question of the hour.
As a rule, vacations are the most thor
oughly disguised blessings known to man
kind. The fires of patriotism usually go out
with the eyes of the over enthusiastic
celebrator.
Now that a site has been found for(the
fair we shall begin to Ibng to secure a
sight of it.
We shall now turn our expectant qyes
toward Thanksgiving Day, unices a cir
cus Intervenes.
All Tracy needs to complete his fame
is to give his name to a dime novel and
a 5-cent cigar.
The fire In the Chicago stockyards has
seriously marred the well-known scenic
beauty of that city.
If the other teams continue to play
yellow ball, Portland may yet finldh In the
place she now occupies.
The open season for convicts is still
on In Washington, but the hunters are
not making large bags.
Prince Henry has turned composer. He
must have got some valuable Ideas In
rag time on his trip over here.
With the friends of Luna in the Phil
ippines and Funston over here. Agulnaldo
has not all the world before him where
to flee.
It Is surprising that some life insuranco
agent doesn't overtake Tracy and write
him a policy. He is certainly a gift
edged risk.
Agulnaldo should be supplied with a
portable all into which he could be
clapped whenever any of the ghosts of
his victims began to camp on his trail.
Many complaints have been made re
cently to Mr. Vreeland, who manngos tho
New York street-car system, of Insolence
and carelessness on the part of conduc
tors and other employes. Mr. Vreeland
now makes the surprising statement that
on an average he dismisses 200 men a
month for the causes mentioned. He also
claims that all the conductors who have
been In the company's employ for a few
years are polite and well-behaved.
When the Carpegle Company at Pitts
burg, Pa., unexpectedly raised the pay of
15,000 workmen 10 per cent on the 26th
ult., the men were astonished. The low
est wage paid hitherto by the Carnegie
Company was 51 50 per day to common
laborers.
The Increase Includes the laborers,
machinists, engineers and many men
earning as high as 51 a day. On their
respective pay days the men employed 'at
the Pittsburg, Homestead. Dunuesne and
Rankin furnaces and mills of the Carne
gie Company will find the additional
money in their envelopes.
Mr. James Bryce", M. P., in his recent ad
dress before Oxford University, said: "I
have been struck by hearing men in the
Rocky Mountains, who would have con
cealed any infusion of negro blood, men
tion that their mothers or grandmothers
had been Indians." A difference between
the Teutonic and the South European
races was here noted, the latter feeling
far less repulsion to Intermarriage with
a colored race. "Where Americans, Eng
lishmen and Germans rule." he said,
"there Is no Intermarriage with .the col
ored races, and consequently no prospect
of race-fusion."
Young Cornelius Vanderbllt Is keeping
his shoulder to the municipal wheel In true
workmanlike fashion. As a member of.
the New York Civil Service Commission.
he has just been appointed chairman of
the committee on pay rolls, an office that
calls for a vast amount of work. One of
his duties will be to pass upon the entire
pay schedule of thousands of city em
ployes, and to adjust all matters relating
to salaries, his decision being regarded as
final. In a short time Mr. Vanderbllt will,
by order of rotation- of office, be com
pelled to take the place of chairman on
the committee on appeals. Young Van
derbllt Is a quiet worker, but very thor
ough and painstaking.
The most modest man of millions in New
York Is Anthony Nll-desperandum Brady,
a member of at least 43 corporations and
owner of Eome 550,000,000, which he mado
by the sweat of his brow. He hates to
see his name In print, and never sat for
a photograph In his life. Everything he
touches turns to diamonds. Not since ho
quit the cashier's place In the barber
shop of the old Delavan House. In Albany,
has he made a mistake. As a tea and
china broker he established a fortune. He
dined and wined the J- Pierpont Morgan
of the 'Flowery Kingdom, and he Is not
a man given to doing that sort of thing
for mere fun. Brady is like John D.
Rockefeller-he looks 7000 miles and 40
years ahead.
1
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGItAPHERS
She What did they give you at the Temper
ance Club dinner? He Water courses. Har
vard Lampoon.
Stern Parent (Interviewing his son during the
holidays) Why. sir. they have taught you
nothing, simply nothing. Xow, tell me at .once
who drowned whom In a butt of what? Tlt
Blts. Why N'ot. Magistrate Ten dollare and costs!
This is at least the 10th time I've had to fine
you this year, and Inebriate Well, say,
Judse, ouzhtn't I set wholesale rates? Phila
delphia Press.
Two Misfortunes. "Tou have killed my hus
band." walled the woman as the chauffeur
brought his automobile to a stop. "Yes, and
tho Jolt has broken the front axle of ray auto,"
said the chaffeur Indignantly, as he climbed
out." Ohio State Journal.
Bargain Glamour. Edgar Well, Ethel, what
dkl you find at that wonderful fire sale? Ethel
Oh. Edgar. I got some lovely silk stockings
at 17 cents a pair! There Is not a thing the
matter with them except tlie feet are burned
oft. Detroit Free Press.
Mr. Goodman I understand you were at that
prize-fight last night. I'm surprised to hear of
you attending such a disgraceful affair. Sportl
boy It was disgraceful, sure enough. Why,
neither ohe of those dig dubs could hit hard
enough to dent butter. Philadelphia Record.
An Unfortunate Habit. "The full dlnner-pall
doesn't seem to figure as a political argument
among you people." "So." answered the obsti
nate Filipino. "For jears we have Been ac
customed to pay attention to nothing except the
full water-bucket.'- Washington Star.
A Sad Case. "They say his father disinher
ited him because he married beneath him.'
"Tes. Her people were nothing but college
professors and preachers. His father owned
three sawmills In Michigan and Wisconsin, and
besides I believe had larre railroad Interests.
Isn't it Queer how badly the sons of most of
our great men turn out?" Chicago Record-Herald.'