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PORTLAND, MOJVDAY, AUGUST 11.-
AS IXTERESTIXG EXAMPLE.
The -City -of St. Louis, after a long
fcleep, is again coming to the front as
one of the greater American marts.
With the rapid development of. Texas
and the Southwest, over which, by vir
tue of geography, she holds a limited
monopoly, she Is coming .Into a busi
ness great enough to recompense her
for the loss In earlier years of the
Northwestern trade to her Northern
rivals of Chicago, Omaha and Kansas
City. Nor is St. Louis limited wholly
to the Southwestern district trade, for
in several trade lines she is reaching
out ambitiously to reconquer something
of her old-time general prestige. In
he hardware trade, especially in . the
branch of stoves and stove fixtures, she
Is making a pace which even Chicago
finds it not easy to equal, while In the
boot and shoe line she has easily taken
the first place, leaving - Qhlcagq. far-
behind. EvenNorthvvesterh merchants
who make up their general orders at
Chicago, Omaha or Kansas City, - in
three cases out of five come oh to St.
Louis with their boot and shoe orders.
There would seem on the face of l
things no reason why St. Louis should
surpass or even equal her great rival
In a branch of. trade so staple, so lack
ing in the elements of mystery or art
and so independent of special condi
tions in its processes. And there is, in
fact, no reason for it excepting that
St. Louis at a critical time in the busi
ness happened to have men with experi
ence and adequate capital, while the
energies of Chicago were given to other
things. Through this combination of
xnen and capital plus a thorough under
standing of the business and unlimited
faith in it, a lead has been gained and
a reputation established which, with
ordinary prudence and good fortune,
ought not to be lost In a century.
Chicago has always, broadly speak
ing, been a mere jobber In boots and
shoes, and this was the status of the
trade at St. Louis up to a comparatively
5ecent time. The whole supply came
from the New England States, and was
handled by- the Western jobbers on the
usual basis of Jobbers' profits. But
with the evolution of business, under
the conditions which cut down margins,
the New England makers of boots and
Bhoes began reaching out for direct
trade with the "West, to make prices
which put a handsome premium upon
direct trade, leaving nothing for the
mere Intermediate handler of merchan
dise. At this point Chicago lost interest
In the boot and shoe trade as a played
out thing; and this gave to St. Louis
the opportunity which commonly waits
upon commercial alertness when com
bined with resources and the courage to
"venture. As Chicago merchants, under
the new conditions, lost faith In the
trade, the merchants of St Louis gath
ered new courage and resolved to make
the "Western trade their own, by set
ting up at home factories to compete
With the New England factories. Great
energy and large capital were given to
this effort, and one may not pass
through the streets of St. Louis today
Without seeing the' effects of it The
trade of the whole West in boots and
shoes has been brought to St. Louis, and
has become something like a corner
stone of the movement which is pushing
the city into a new era of commercial
life, with more business, more profit
and larger prospects than she enjoyed
even in the day whea .she looked upon
Chicago as impossible in the character
Of a rival.
We give this chapter of trade
history at some length because there
are several lessons in it which may be
useful to Portland. First of all, it em
phasizes the fact that a good time to
take courage in those large depart
ments or Dusiness which rest upon a
fixed demand is when other and rival
communities are losing It and letting up
In thelr energies. It emphasizes, too,
the fact that under the modern tend
ency, which is slowly eliminating the
jobber, a city to command supremacy
In a large branch of trade must make
herself a primary producer, literally a
home of original production. The time
Is past when a strictly crossroads and
middleman's business, such as every
ambitious jobbing town attempted to
do twenty years ago, is able to com
mand a permanent and leading rank,
for under modern conditions it is al
ways in danger of being cut under by
the manufacturers from whom its own
supplies are obtained. Nothing, we
think, in the business life of Portland,
not even the amazing energy which our
wholesalers are putting into the "drum'
ming" system, is eo hopeful as the be
ginnlngs now making in domestic man
ufacture by leading wholesale firms, to
which reference was made a few days
.fcack. It means a good deal that our
Bobbers are seeking to supply them
elves by original manufacture with
vn&ayurtaples for which, la past years
they have depended wholly upon the
general market The beginning and the
"know how" are most Important ele
ments In matters of this sort; and Port
land appears to have bbth of them.
More and more as competition works
out Its natural results and establishes
new conditions, communities on this
Coast as elsewhere will find their chief
success in those lines of trade in which
they are original producers. No city
will be able permanently, as San Fran
cisco and Portland long have been in
connection with the general Jobbing
trade, to hold a trade position of olid
and assured importance on the basis
of a mere handling businesa Hereafter
cities to maintain a commanding posi
tion in trade will have to have some
lines at least in which they are "head
quarters'' and in which they can,
through tthe advantage of original pro
duction, meet and overcome all rivalry,
precisely as St. Louis over-reaches Chi
cago in the boot and shoe trade on the
basis of her boot and shoe factories.
Mere handlers of goods have no such
possible advantage, because any day
there may rise up rivals whose ability
to buy is aa good as their own and
who may sell on equal terms. It Is the
community of original production which
has in Its own hands the assured means
of its own protection in the great and
vital emergencies which now and again
befall every branch of trade.
GREAT BRITAIN'S G RAX ART.
The continued sagging of the wheat
market in the face of exceptionally
small reserves of all kinds of grain
emphasizes the remark of a prominent
operator that "this is a great year for
statistics, but a bad year for prices."
The latter as yet have not retreated
to the depths reached a few years ago,
but there has been a steady decline and
weakness for a protracted period, at a
time when statistics warranted the be
lief that better prices would prevail.
Exceptionally favorable weather and at
tendant big crops In sections of Europe
which last year bought American wheat
are prime factors in the existing weak
ness, and even our own country has
been so especially favored with admir
able weather for the past month that
the wheat crop Is now promising to ap
proximate 700,000,000 bushels. This, with
a record-breaking corn crop coming
along under the most favorable circum
stances, and plenty of oats and barley,
offsets to a considerable degree the ef
fect of the abnormally small visible sup
ply of grain In the country.
The wheatgrower of the United
States, however, is now confronted by
a new factor, which Is increasing in
Importance so rapidly that It undoubt
edly has a more potent Influence In the
present weakness than any other single
feature thus far presented. When Sir
Wilfrid Laurler. in a speech at London
a few years ago, alluded to Canada as
"the granary of Great Britain," the
phrase was generally regarded as an
overdrawn figure of speech, conveying
no -serious meaning. Since that time
Canada has exhibited an astounding
effort to live up to the prophecy of her
enthusiastic Premier. Two years ago
an exportable surplus of about 20.000,000
bushels from that country attracted
some attention on the American side
of the line. Last year the surplus
amounted to about 40,000,000 bushels,
and before the end of the season some
of this wheat was brought across the
line and ground by American mills.
This year the outlook Is favorable for
a surplus of 80,000,000 bushels, an
amount which brings Canada well up
toward the Argentine as a factor in the
wheat trade of the world.
The normal importations of wheat
from America by Great Britain are
(flour included) about 00,000,000 bush
els per annum. This demand has been
the regulator of prices of wheat In this
country for many years, in fact since
the inception of the business. England
never bought any wheat from the
United States when she could get It at
the same price elsewhere, and when
other countries have been favored with
big crops our wheat export trade has
been cut down and prices have suffered.
This year, If Canada can spare 80,000,
000 bushels of wheat for her parent
country, that much less wheat will be
needed from the United States, and
prices may suffer somewhat accord
lngly.
The wonderful development of wheat
growing in Canada is due to the Activ
ity of the Canadian Pacific in settling
up vast stretches of land with a thrifty
class of .farmers, who are making the
most of their opportunity. The growth
of the wheat output, considering the
area involved, has been no greater rela
tively than In the Big Bend and some
portions of the Palouse country, in
Washington, but the possibilities are al
most unlimited, and the Canadian
wheatgrower is today the most formld
able rival the American has In the
business. Not only Is the Canadian af
forded plenty of cheap land, but he can
farm that land with American machln
ery, imported, frequently, by way of
England, at about half the cost which
la exacted from the American farmer.
He is a preferred customer in the Brit
ish markets, for he will take British
wares at low prices in return for his
wheat, while the Americans protect
themselves so effectually that they can
not secure the goods they need from
their wheat customers unless . they pay
an exorbitant protective tariff charge.
Great Britain will need some Ameri
can wheat for several years to come,
but when Canada perfects her claim to
the title, "Granary of Great Britain,"
the American grower must be prepared
to accept lower prices for his wheat or
find a new market for it The increas
ing population of wheat consumers in
this country will in time take care of
all of the surplus which Is grown In the
United States, but until that time we
are dependent on Great Britain for a
market, and the new bidder for favor
In that market has a blood relationship
in addition to her other advantages to
help her. ,
It Is reported that General Delarey's
release of Lord Methuen. who had been
wounded In action wherein he suffered
defeat and capture, had much to do
with the offer of terms of peace so
much more generous than those which
had been announced by Lord Kitchener
in August, 1S01. General Delarey sent
General Methuen in his own wagon to
Klerksdorp, because his distinguished
prisoner was suffering from wounds to
which no Boer surgeon could attend.
Lord Kitchener acknowledged the gen
erous conduct of General Delarey; Lord
Roberts eulogized his behavior In "the
House of Lords, and his chivalry' was
warmly commended by the Londoa
press. The terms of peace granted the
Boers would never have been granted
by any Continental pbwer, and the fact
that they were accepted shows that the
Boer leaders put faith la the sincerity
of the British authorities. It4a?learat,
to think that the humanity and knight
ly courtesy of General Delarey was ap
preciated by their British foes, and
served to smooth the way to liberal
terms of peace. Lord Roberts, Lord
Kitchener, General Buller, General Me-
thuen and Lord Mllner are unanimous
in their praise of the Boer leaders as
able, honorable and humane soldiers.
King Edward's first act after his acces
sion to the throne was strongly to urge
the making of peace with the Boers as
an exceedingly gallant people, who by
their valor and humanity were entitled
to peace on mcst generous terms.
A CHRO.VIC FAULT-FINDER.
The open letter to the President which
was written from the Summer home of
Carl Schurz and Is signed by him
among others will recall the fact that
during the Civil War Carl Schurz. then
a General In the Union Army, addressed
an open letter to President Lincoln
severely criticising his political and
military policy. Lincoln promptly re
plied with a stinging letter, in the course
of which he told Schurz that while his
Administration probably did. not plase
everybody, nevertheless he felt confi
dent that there were quite as many
people in the country dissatisfied with
General Carl Schurz as a statesman
and a soldier as there were with Abra
ham Lincoln. This Is not the text of
Mr. Lincoln's letter, but It Is the essence
of Its thought Carl Schurz Is today
just what he was In the Civil War a
restless, hypercritical creature who has
no use for any policy save that of his
own contriving. It would be hardly
Just to Impeach the sincerity of Mr.
Schurz, who has never been anything
but a thorn in the side of every party
or cause to which he has pretended to
attach himself. He was never so happy
as when he was vexing Lincoln; he was
worthless as a military commander for
the same reason; he was always an
eloquent critic and fault-finder; he did
not lack courage, but he possessed no
executive ability as a soldier. Whether
he served In the Army of the Potomac
or the Army of the West, Schurz won
no laurels except with his pen or
tongue.
A Republican Senator from Missouri,
Schurz soon became a thorn In the side
of Grant's Administration. He was
quieted with a place in the Cabinet
under Hayes, but he labored for
Blaine's defeat In 18S4; he returned to
his old moorings under McKInley until
the antl-Imperlallst craze captured him
and gave him a fresh chance to play
critic and fault-finder. When Mr.
Schurz is not able to find fault with
the state of the country he does not feel
well; he knows that either his political
sense of smell is extinct or his political
vision has lost Its keenness. Fault
finders and critics are common enough,
but Mr. Schurz has degraded fine abili
ties and large learning to unworthy
depreciation of good men and good
causes. He is very much such a man
as was Charles Sumner In his passion
ate fondness for fault-finding early and
late. In season and out of season, some
times with the opposition, but quite as
often with his own friends.
The pretense that Mr. Schurz Is a
competent critic of Army affairs be
cause he was a Brigadier-General dur
ing the Civil War is laughable, when
we remember that fie was an Incompe
tent soldier, was always In camp what
Is meant by "a sea lawyer" on ship
board. His honesty and sincerity per
haps cannot be Impeached; he has been
everything by turns, but nothing long,
chiefly, we presume, because he Is a
slave to his critical tem'per. Mr. Charles
Francis Adams is sympathetic with Mr.
Schurz because he, too, has a strain of
critical temper in him; it is an Adams
trait more agreeably manifested today
by the leading representative of the
family than it was by the founder of
Its distinction, President John Adams.
But Schurz easily leads them all in
ability as a critic and fault-finder; he
brings to his work a subtle Intellect,
a skillful pen and most adroit speech.
He is probably an honest "free lance,"
and so for that matter was Don Quix
ote in his warfare against windmills.
The melancholy thing about Schurz Is
that his great abilities and political
learning have always been wasted in
destructive criticism rather than de
voted to constructive statesmanship.
He seems like a man bom out of his
time. Between 1835 and 1860 Schurz
would have been an admirable coadju
tor to Wendell Phillips, who surpassed
him In nothing save platform eloquence.
But in critical temper, .in polished sar
casm and Incisive wit, in power of
analysis, in cool. Intellectual self-possession,
these men strongly resembled
each other; they were born for the work
of political agitators, not that of con
structive, executive statesmen. Schurz
at 72 Is justwhat he was 40 years ago
a man who. when he could not find
fault with somebody or some cause,
felt low-splrlted. He began life as a
lawyer, then he was a soldier, then a
United States Senator, then an editor.
then a Cabinet Minister, but his bright
est laurels from first to last have been
those he won as a chronic fault-finder.
NO SAIiVATIOJf IX STATUTES.
The incapacity to distinguish between
the function of a sermon and a statute,
between education to upright citizen
ship and punishment and restraint for
public turbulence, is the earmark of the
Incapable enthusiasts who, like a
swarm of wasps, are ceaselessly buzzing
in your ears, that the times are out of
Joint because the laws do not please
the few, but are devised to enact the
public opinion of the many. The Ideal
state to satisfy these bigots would have
to be ruled by an oligarchy of restless
creatures, who, when they- hear the
conundrum read, "Who is the one alto
gether lovely, chief among ten thou
sand?" Jump to their feet and yell with
the battling voices of Babel, each call
ing a different name but singing the
praise of some self-sufficient human
freak who wants his vagaries Incor
porated in the law of the land. Behind
these freaks there is not only no domi
nant public opinion, but there is no
justification of their faith by history,
by philosophy, by logic or by the teach
ings of human experience. Every man
or woman of them is laboriously roll
ing a stone uphill that Is sure ulti
mately to come tumbling down again;
every man or woman of them Is trying
to make bricks without straw; trying
to build a balloon which can be steered.
out of all the broken bubbles of the
past
Sometimes the incapable enthusiast
gravely proposes, like Henry George,
to abolish poverty by legislation; some
times the Incapable enthusiast is a Bel
lamyite, who would exterminate the
poverty that is incidental to individual-
Ism by the erection of the Utopian ma
chlnery of communism which, reduced
to practice, would mean a state of social
JLtyr&nai; a dismal snd. 3eitructiYe-
all spiritual growth or free, lndepend-
ent manhood as that of Sparta under
Lycurgus, when everybody who was
not a soldier was a slave. Sometimes
the incapable enthusiast Is a "third
party" prohibitionist, who Is sometimes
nothing better than a prohibition dema
gogue, a temperance charlatan, merely
flippant when he Is not absolutely fool
ish and shallow, a pettifogger in argu
ment, a scatterbraln that makes the
Judicial-minded grieve, since the third
party prohibitionist holds that "every
minister and teacher who refuses to
vote for prohibition Is ruled by the
liquor Interest" Clubs are always"
trumps with these persons, who. If they
had. the power, would be constantly
stamping out the liberties of the people
whenever the indulgence of the liberties
of the people did not meet their ap
proval. Sometimes an able, sincere but Im
practicable enthusiast Joins their ranks
and helps to reform their manners
while assenting to their methods, but
as a rule their speech Is the harsh cry
of political and social peacocks shriek
ing from one end of the country to the
other bald, disjointed chat under the
sounding phrase and sign of reform.
Scratch one of these professional re
formers and you find a mossbacked, In
domitable egotist, a persecutor, a social
incendiary, a tyrant and an Inchoate
anarchist masquerading In the sheep's
clothing of philosophy, morality, phil
anthropy and statesmanship. These
creatures are all threshers of very old
and very musty straw. If they knew
anything about history or cared any
thing about Its teachings, they would
know prohibitory liquor laws were tried
as long ago as the reign of George H
under the ministry of Sir Robert Wal
pole, and were a failure even In those
days of military force and arbitrary
government But the teachings of his
tory, the wisdom of the courts, the
teachings of eminent social philoso
phers, are nothing to the crank with
whom clubs are always trumps. When
they are sincere. It Is the insane sin
cerity of Don Quixote, who could not
tell a barber with his brass basin on his
head from a helmeted knight; when
they are insincere, it Is the Insincerity
of a bankrupt demagogue, who, like
a drowning man, snatches at every
straw.
These shrieking peacocks and wauling
tabby cats of reform are not content
with free speech for their fancies and
dreams and freaks, but they want to
weld them Into a legal club of coercion
with which to scourge society into sub
mission and surrender, but society gives
them a good-natured hearing and then
promptly shows them the door. The
world today Is very much of the same
mind as it was in Shakespeare's day,
when he makes Sir Toby Belch inti
mate that while the world admires vir
tue, It does not mistake mere abstinence
from cakes and ale as virtue.
Divorces are the consequent of bad
marriages, just as the saloon Is not the
cause but the consequent of the alcohol
habit, and therefore to the education
of the family, the church, the school,
the press and the physician, and not
to law, we must look to make our chil
dren grow up to lives of temperance
and virtue. Neither prohibition will
keep them sober nor denial of free di
vorce make their married life moral
and content You can educate a man
to the habit and practice of self-restraint,
but you cannot eliminate temp
tation from the world; you can teach
him to abstain from evil If he will; you
cannot save a man by prohibiting temp
tation. You can only- save him by
teaching him to save himself. If he will
not save himself, the law cannot save
him, for the law cannot do the work of
education; the sermon stands for edu
cation to righteousness, while the stat
ute stands for retribution rather than
reform.
The August weather thus far could
not have suited the farmers of the Wil
lamette Valley better if It had been
made to their order. True, the wind
has caused pastures to turn brown and
potato vines to look languid, as If pin
ing for some'thlng that the, breezes have
not Drougnt Jut wheat ana oats, corn
and hops, have been drinking their fill
of sunshine and give In return promise
of ah early and abundant harvest As
for the people of the city, or as many
of them as can afford to do so, they
have beaten a retreat to seashore and
mountains, hoping to decrease the sum
total of their discomfort while quad
rupling their expenses. Those who can
not get away make the best of the situ
ation by eschewing Ice water and highly
seasoned foods, courting shade and
quiet, and really getting more comfort
out of the Summer than the flitters,
albeit they are fain to exclaim:
Oh, for a lodge In soma vast wilderness.
Some boundless continuity of shade!
The fourteenth week of the great coal
miners' strike has begun, and the men
still stand together and refuse to work
on the terms named by the companies.
The strike has been unusually free from
violence. The men profess to be able
to hold out for a considerable time yet,
though they are manifestly uncomfort
able. The loss to both capital and la
bor Is enormous, and society In general
must pay the bill. If this shall make
both sides more willing In future to
adjust grievances before they reach the
strike stage, there will be some recom
pense to society; otherwise, we suppose
there will be. repetitions of this expert
ence and the progress of civilization
will halt and misery will overtake com
fort while the two mighty forces of In
dustry glare- at each other with bared
teeth. There will come an end to all
this some time, but when?
An evangelist of great pathos and
power recently declared before an audi
ence of 5090 people at a campmeetlng In
Simpson Grove, Pa,, that "a great tide
of righteousness is sweeping over the
country." And yet the publishers say
that the demand for the "Story of Mary
MacLane" Is steadily Increasing, while
those who have bought the book assert
that "there never was such a book for
borrowers," thus showing that for every
copy accounted for to the publishers
there are many (who knows how
many?) readers.
Oldest Skip In the World.
London Shipping World.
What Is stated to be the oldest ship In
the world has recently been sold at Tene
rlffo to be broken up. This Is the Italian
ship Anita, registered at the Port of Ge
noa. The Anita, which resembled Chris
topher Columbus' ship, the Santa Maria-
was built in Genoa in IMS, and effected
her last voyage at the end of March. 1902,
from Naples to Tenerlffe, several weeks
ago. The Anita was of tremendously
stout build, and had weathered countless
storms and tornadoes in all parts of the
world, but It was also the slowest ship
afloat taking 206 days on one voyage from
of J,Ea4Utaore toRlo d Janeiro,
THE IOWA IDEA.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The platform pronouncements of the i
Iowa Republicans on the subject of the
tariff and the trusts confirm the opinion
concerning the tariff sentiment of West
ern Republicans which was printed in
these columns recently.
A perfect loyalty to protection is mani
fested, but real protection Is meant not
protection plus a premium. With this
Idea In mind the delegatos approved the
following utterance:
"We favor such changes in the tariff
from time Jo time as become advisable
through the progress of our industries
and their changing relations to the com
merce of the world. We Indorse the pol
icy of reciprocity as the natural comple
ment of protection, and urge Its develop
ment as necessaryi to the realisation of
our highest commercial possibilities."
This Is very different from the stone
wall Idea which has blocked the way of
the reciprocity treaties and led to pro
tests against any changes In the sched
ules of the Dlngley law. And it Is
strengthened by what is said later, as
follows:
"We favor such amendment to the inter
state commerce act as will more fully
carry out Its prohibition of discrimina
tions in rate-making, and any modifica
tion of the tariff schedules that may bo
required to prevent their affording shel
ter to monopoly."
Substantially the same views are held
by the Republicans of Minnesota, and the
National leaders of the Republican party
should think carefully -over the situation,
which Is as clearly prophetic as anything
merely human can be. On the one hand
there are the Democrats, who are nearly
united in the demand for tariff revision
and for the denial of a tariff for the ben
efit of monopoly. Of the other are those
Western Republicans who are equally In
sistent on the same points, though their
method of revision would not be so dras
tic Now If "no revision" should bo the
continuing decree of a Republican Con
gress under a Republican Administra
tion, how will the sentiment for revision
that has been cultivated in both parties
work out? Manifestly through Republi
can defections to a Democratic success
The demands of Western Republicans
must be recognized and granted as a con
dltlon essential to the supremacy of that
party.
The Post Coining: Round.
New York Evening Post.
President Schunnan Is performing an
Invaluable nubile service In discussing on
all proper occasions our National policy
In the Philippine archipelago. His aa
dress last Saturday "before the Chautau
qua Assembly should bo carefully read
by those who carelessly believe that the
Phlllppino problem is settled; Its temper
In refusing to dwell too long upon tne
blunders of the past may ajso be com
mended. President scnurman ngnuy
maintains that American sovereignty in
the Philippines Is an established fact and
that the duty next at hand is to Inaugu
rate such measure of self-government for
the Filipinos as the present condition of
the islands justifies. So far we agree with
President Schurman, but we find In his
notable address a somewhat too amiable
willingness to clean the Philippine elate.
It Is true that the past is the past and
that mere recriminations should now fall
under some political statute of limita
tions; but has the past no lesson for
President Roosevelt, in whose hands the
future of the Islands largely lies, has It
no counsel for those who wish to see i
great mistake and a great injustice re
paired? We believe It has lessons which
every patriotic American should take to
heart Chief among those lessons is this,
that no step must be taken without con
sulting the temper of the people whom
that step affects. It was the failure to
recognize the Filipinos as men of like pas
slons, suspicions and ambitions with our
selves, that let us slip light-heartedly
Into a heart-breaking war. Only recently
Senor Buencamlno. whose sincerity in
this matter, at least, cannot be ques
tloned. wrote In these columns that Presi
dent McKInley, had he merely kept the
leading Filipinos Informed of his lnten
tlons, mlrjht have had sovereignty with
peace.
Mr. III11 and the Shippers.
Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Hill's public conference with the
shippers of Washington is an innovation
in the railroad methods as welcome as It
Is unprecedented. The public has had
good reason to believe that In the past
there have been private conferences be
tween the biggest shippers and the rail
road magnates to. the benefit of the pro
ferred shippers, but to the Injury of small
shippers and of the railroad guilty of
favoritism. The Invitation extended to
the Washington wheatrateers to confer in
public with Mr. Hill and the heads of two
railroad lines besides his own shows that
Mr. Hill still maintains his position In the
forefront of his business. Railroad legls
latlon to which Mr. Hill objects Is chief
ly aimed at discrimination In favor of the
larger shippers. If the public conferences
mean that that discrimination Is to be
abolished there will be much less lncllna
tlon to enact legislation unfavorable to
the railroads, and the relations of the
public and tho roads will be mutually
profitable.
Mr. Hill has had a happy thought Ho
thinks railroad managers and the people
whose produce they ship to market will
get along better together after mey have
met face to face and had heart to heart
talks. So they will no doubt and tho
precedent Mr. Hill has set may well be
Imitated by other railroad men. The rail
road manager should be what politicians
call "a good mixer." He should got out
among tho people and take them Into hla
confidence. He should discuss rates with
them openly instead of discussing them
Drlvately with the favored fow. The
more publicity there is about the manage
ment of a railroad the better.
Bryan Telia a Joke on Brynn.
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Washington. William Jennings Bryan
made a flying visit to Washington last
night The leader of tho Western Democ
racy was In a buoyant and witty irame
of mind, and told many good stories on
himself. He said that not long ago
n. Western town he hod occasion to get
shaved. The barber, a colored man, felt
highly complimented by the opportunity
of shaving a man who nad oeen a canai
date for the Presidency, .and when the
operation was over Mr. Bryan gave him
a silver dollar, some weeKs afterward
traveling that way, he met an old friend
in the same town, who told him he had
got the barber In trouble.
"How's that?" 6ald Mr. Bryan.
"Why. ho ha3 been up before the bar
ber's union, had charges preferred against
him. and was then put on trial for shav
ing you."
"I don't understand that" replied Mr.
Bryan. "I paid him all right"
"Oh, yes, you paid him all right, but the
other .barbers said that he was cutting
under and should have charged S3 for
shaving a dead man."
Photographing; for Posterity.
Sketch.
London is being pulled to pieces so rap-
Idly that the snapshot of the amateur in
the streets has a chance of acquiring
historic Immortality. In a few years time
a panotaralc photograph of the north sld
of the Strand, from the Gaiety Theater
eastward, will have a sensational value
for those of ua who loved the "roaring
Strand" at the end: of the last century,
while for the generation which will know
only the modern buildings on the famous
site it will be an absolute curiosity.
The Merry Larlc.
Charles Klngsley.
Tb merry, merry lark was up and staging:.
AnQ the hare was out and feeding: on the lea.
And the merry, merry hells below were ringing
When my child's laugh rang through me.
Now the hare is snared and dead beside the
snowy ard.
And the lark beside the dreary Winter sea.
And my baby in his cradle In the churchyard
W<eth there until tb 1m 11a torts saa,
HANNA TO RETIRE.
Washington Special In Chicago Trlbtine.
It Is now certain that Senator Hanna will
not manage the Republican campaign of
lOOi. when In all likelihood President
Roosevelt will be the Republican candidate
for the Presidency.
Mr. Hanna ha3 acted as chairman of the
National Republican Committee since 1836. I
largely because of his personal interest I
in the late President McKInley s welfare.
The death of McKInley has removed this
ncentrve to active political management.
besides which Mr. Hanna's health will not
permit him to undergo any more physical
and mental strain than is absolutely neces
sary.
More important than these two reasons,
however, will be the feeling on the part of
President Roosevelt that he hught to have
his personal representative as chairman
of the National Republican Committee.
Although the Presidential campaign Is
still two years dlstanct, there Is consider
able gossip in political circles as to Sen
ator Hanna's successor. Prominence is
given to the name of Governor William
Murray Crane, of Massachusetts, and
there is much plausibility in the sugges
tlon that he will be selected. President
Roosevelt has a high opinion of his po
litical sagacity. It was his confidence In
his judgment as well as in his executive
and financial ability, that led the President
to Invite him into the Cabinet, and it Is
not unreasonable to suppose that the
President should wish him to assume the
management of the campaign two years
hence.
With Mr. Hanna's retirement there is
really nobody except Governor Crane who
fits all the requirements of the situation.
Postmaster-General Payne, who Is the
vice-chairman of the National committee.
would be a strong possibility were it not
that his position In the Cabinet forbids his
election. Governor Crane In 1S04. will be
out of office, but he will not be out of poll
tics. He has the confidence of the great
business Interests, he Is a consummate
manager, and he is popular. He Is young.
energetic and resourceful.
The chairman of the National committee
In each campaign is selected by the can
dldate, and is usually chosen from outside
the committee. This was the case in
1S84, 1SSS, 1S32 and 1S36, neither Jones,
Quay, Carter nor Hanna holding any mem
bership in the committee at the time of
their selection. Should Governor Crane
be chosen, it would be following the old
practice.
It Is hardly likely, of course, that the
President has yet consulted with him
about the matter, although when asked
whether there was any foundation for the
talk, Governor Crane has declined to say
anything for publication.
It Is Senator Lodge's opinion that the
matter has not been dlscusesd officially,
and he does not believe that any decision
will be made for some time. Mr. Lodge
is confident, however, that there will be
a new chairman of the committee, and ha
adds that President Roosevelt and Gov
ernor Crane are close personal friends.
There has also been some talk to the
effect that Roosevelt's campaign would
be managed by Senator Cjuay. This gos
sip undoubtedly has its origin in the fact
that Senator Quay personally wrote the
resolution adopted by the Pennsylvania
Republican state convention Indorsing
Roosevelt, that state being the pioneer In
advocating Mr. Roosevelt's nomination in
1904.
Mr. Quay has fcr some time been con
vinced that Roosevelt would necessarily
be the candidate of the party two years
hence, and there Is a perfect understand
lng between him and Senator Piatt, of
New York, upon this point Mr. Quay,
;dnce his victory In securing the nomina'
tlon of Judge Pennypacker as the Repub
Ucan Gubernatorial candidate In Penn
sylvania, has been supreme In the party
organization In that state, and he Is now
the chairman of the state committee. Even
if he should not be the chairman of the
National committee, he will undoubtedly
be a potent factor in the campaign which
President Roosevelt will make for re
election.
Foreign Notes ot Interest.
It is said that tho flint which forms the
substratum of London U nothing but petri
fied sponges. An examination of the fos
sil spor.ge or flint shows Its structure.
Several Kruger sovereigns, the last Is
sued by tho ex-President of the Transvaal,
and struck In his train near Machadodorp
In 1900, are now on view In Lausanne.
John Philip Sousa has sent to King Ed
ward a copy of his march. "Imperial Ed
ward," beautifully illuminated upon vel
lum In antlaue fashion and Inclosed in a
gold-mounted morocco case.
The statue of tho late Governor Roswell
P. Flower Is to be unveiled In Watertown
on Labor day, September 1. The statue Is
the work of St Gaudens, one of the
world's most famous sculptors.
Ernest Seton-Thompson has completed-
his now home at Cos Cob. Tho land was
originally part of an Indian reservation,
and much of its picturesque wildness Is
said to have been retained.
Father Hartmann, the young Austrian
monk who composed In his monastery cell
an oration which European critics pro
nounce a masterpiece, has been feted
in Rome and St. Petersburg, and is now
the lion of the hour la Vienna.
Sir George White, who would. In the or
dinary course, have been retired from the
British Army thl3 month, has been given
an extension, and will retain the Govern
orship and the Commander-ln-Chlefshlp at
Gibraltar until July 6, 1305.
Fourteen advertisements offering re
wards amounting In the aggregate to 33
for the recovery of lost jewelry, includ
lng 10 diamond brooches, appeared recent
ly In. one London newspaper.
Rev. Peter C. Torko, of San Francisco,
who Is considered one of the best-known
Gaelic scholars In America, said the other
day that there were 500,000 people In this
country who were able to speak Gaelic,
and that there were as many more who
were studying that tongue.
The announcement that King Oscar of
Sweden Is wrltnig his memoirs hardly
comes as a surprise, for the reason that
he has so frequently and so successfully
ventured into literature that ho might rea
sonably be expected to try his hand at
state chronicles and personal remlnls
cences.
William Blair, of River Edge, N. J.,
celebrated his 90th birthday on July 4. He
was an Intimate friend of General -Wlnfield
Jbcott for whom he made a hammock to
be used on his trip to Mexico, and paid
Commodoro Vanderbilt 25 cents to row him
across the Hudson whon the latter was a
ferryman.
Song.
Arthur O'Shaughnessy.
Has Summer come without the rose,
Or left th bird behind? -Is
the blue chanred above thee,
O world I or am I blind?
Will you change every flower that grows.
Or only change this spot.
Where she who said, 1 love thee.
Now says, I love thee not?
"The skies aeem'd true above theo.
The rose true on the tree;
The bird seem'd true the Summer through.
But all proved false to me.
World! Is there one good thing In you,
Life, love or death or what?
Since Hps that sang, I lovo thee.
Have said. I love thee not?
I think the evn'B kiss will scarce fall
Into one flower's gold cup;
I think the bird will miss me.
And give the Summer up.
O. sweet place! desolate In tail '
Wild graea. have you forgot
How her lips loved to kiss me,
Now that they kiss me not?
Be false or fair above nve.
Come back with, any face.
Summer! do I care what you do?
Tou cannot change one place
The jrraas, the leaves, the earth, the dew,
The grave I make the spot
Here, where ehe used to love me.
Hero, where aha lores bib not
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Tracy rests from his labors.
Time moves faster than the 1905 Fair.
Lewis and Clark board: "You'll have to
hurry."
Easier
lies the head that wears the
crown.
If the Democratic party has no Issue,
what is it doing with all of them?
And the coronation came off just the
same as if Whitclaw Reid had been there.
When Hanna says trusts are here to
stay, it moat be a great satisfaction to-
him.
The Coos Bay Railroad shows us that
it Is a wise railroad that knows its own
promoters.
Slang Is defended because It alda flu
ency of speech. Why then condemn
swearing?
We don't believe they are so busy fight
ing down in Panama, else where should
we get all these hats?
Colonel Hawkins thinks only the Lewis
and Clark board should choose the site.
What and run the risk of not getting
any site?
Bryan has not been offered the leader
ship of the Democratic party, but he has
refused It He must be In a hurry; for
fear it will not be offered.
Although Bryan would not make him
self King, he would be the power behind
the throne. If this doesn't smack of Im
perialism, we don't know what does.
Another boy has been playing with
matches and is now In that elyslum where
abide the man who thawed the dynamite
and the fool who rocked the boat
Attorney-General Knox had a fiat-fight
with some trust sympathizers. He
wouldn't have succeeded so well it he
had stopped to get out an injunction.
Wonder if what the Czar of Russia,
said to the Emperor of Germany was any
thing like what the Governor of North
Carolina said to th Governor of South
Carolina?
The 1905 Fair board perhaps has great
admiration for Lewis and Clark, who first
explored fair sites In this country. Do
we need men like Lewis and Clark to ex
plore the country all over again?
The government forces of Haytl are
said to be much agitated by the arrival
of a quantity of contraband or warfrom
the United States which the rebels have
secured. It consists of ping pong balls.
The good people of the United States
who denied reciprocity to Cuba now see
the result of their selfishness in the
Cuban loan. The final outcome is an
nexation. They will pay for their failure
to give reciprocity by having to give free
trade.
Are we getting ready to postpone the
Lewis and Clark Fair until 1906? If so,
Portland may hold the celebration that
year with as much propriety as the other.
Lewis and Clark spent the Winter of 1505-$
at Fort Clatsop, near Astoria, and left
that place late In March, 1S06. On April
3, l06.Captaln Clark discovered the site ot
Portland. Ho came up the TVlliametto ,
River to a place where It was 500 yards
wide. Many people believe this piaca
was where the Steel Bridge now Is. Sen
timent at Portland might, therefore, be
served better to hold the fair in 1906 rath
er than in 1905.
LONDON. Aug. 9. (By a belated corre
spondent) King Edward was crowned
today, but like a bridegroom at a wed
ding, he was the little potatoes of tho
ceremonies. The Duchesses of Portland.
Westminster and Marlborough and their
diamonds commanded all the attention.
The Duchess of Westminster had a dia
mond the eizo of a hen's egg, which so
blinded the Archbishop of Canterbury
that he almost made a contretemps in
crowning His Majesty.
All the ladles of distinction struggled to
outshine each other. They had on all kinds
of rich finery and there was so much of it
that His Majesty could get a peep out
only once in a while. He recognized, how
ever, that it was an affair of the ladles,
and looked pleased although bored.
Lady Chesterfield's coronet was too
large for her head at first, but during tho
exercises her head swelled until there f
was a perfect fit
The Duchess of Marlborough (nee Van
derbilt) showed much aristocratic taste,
although the other blue-blooded ladles
whispered disdainfully about her behind
their fans.
The coronation was marred by the fact
that the Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strcllts
stood Just one-half an Inch to the left of
the spot she occupied when Victoria was
crowned. She was In hysterics about it
afterward.
Another blemish occurred when all the
peeresses put on their coronets. The whis
per, "Is it on straight?" became so loud
that It greatly disturbed the aged Arch
bishop of Canterbury. Such confusion
was never seen. The only peeress who
did not contribute to the confusion was
Lady Strafford, who didn't care whether
her coronet was on straight or not She
is said to believe in woman suffrage.
Old Bobs was there and received much
honor. He was glad he was alive, for It
reminded him of the days when he was a
hero.
Lord Kitchener was there, too. but he
was so afraid he would say something for
publication that he didn't look liko a
hero at all.
The only peers who went forward to
pay homage to the King were the Duke
of Norfolk and the Earl of Shrewsbury,,
who have the best calves In the kingdom.
Tour correspondent cannot find any
body who saw the King crowned, but Is
assured on good authority that the event
took place.
. -U,
Uncle Allen.
"No," observed Uncle Allen Sparks, "I
don't allow myself to worry about any
thing these days. When prices are as
high as they are now a man can't afford
to go around beefing."
To Perilla.
Robert Herrlck. r
Ah. my Perlllat dost thou grieve to ee
Me! day by day. to steal away from thee?
Age calls me hence, and my gray hairs bid
come.
And haste away to mine eternal home;
Twill not be long. Perilla, after this
That I must give thee the supremest kiss.
Dead when I am. first cast in salt, and bring
Part of the cream from that religious spring.
With which, Perilla, wash my hands and feet;
That done, then wind me In that very aheet
Which wrapp'd thy smooth limbs when thou
didst Implore
The gods' protection, but the night before;
Follow me weeping to my turf, and there
Let fall a primrose, and with It a tear.
Then lastly, let some weekly strewlngs be
Devoted to the memory of me;
Then shall my ghost not walk about, but keep
i Still in the cool and silent shades ot sleep.