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PORTLAND, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
J
THEY CAN'T ANSWER THEM.
Governor Cummins' speech at Chi
cago was the utterance of a statesman.
He has put the honest and sensible
view of tariff reform In even more cog
ent and convincing terms than Senator
Dolliver employed . a week ago. "We
would urge every fair-minded man to
jead what Governor Cummins said on
the tariff and on the trusts, and for
convenience we shall here reproduce
two of his best passages:
On tariff:
Now, with a full demand at home, the pro
ducer can and does use excessive duties as a
weapon to enforce more than a reasonable price
for the thing he produces. Protection will
stand as a shield for honest labor, and a mine
for lawful profits, but It shall not be used for a
sword for Industrial piracy, or as a mint for
illegal gain.
On the trusts:
The corporations or combinations to which the
Iowa platform refers are those which havo
been brought together not to outstrip competi
tion in a fair race, but to dtstroy competition
by the actual obliteration of independent estab
lishments, and which accomplish their purpose
either by purchasing or piracy. They are in
variably accompanied by the Issuance of vast
quantities of stocks which have no basis save
the audacity of the promoters, and which serve
two ends equally objectionable; first, to enrich
beyond comprehension the movers for the nefa
rious enterprises, and, second, to cloak the
enormous profits which may be extorted from
their helpless victims.
Every intelligent man in the United
States knows that these assertions are
;rue. Why should a lot of small-souled,
short-sighted, faint-hearted politicians
be recognized when they pay that the
Republican party must stand sponsors
ror the abuses of the tariff and the
abuses of the trusts? Yet Just that is
what the thick-and-thin, hide-bound
protectionists of the party ask us to do.
What shall -we do with the fact that
some few of the tariff schedules shel
ter great corporations and enable them
to wring extortionate prices from the
American people. Honesty says. Admit
it and correct it. Paint heart says,
Deny it What shall we do with the
evils of the trusts? Honesty! says, Re
move them. Paint heart says, Defend
them.
It seems toj be the settled conviction
of some of these people that when the
tariff needs revision and reduction, the
Democratic party alone must do it. It
seems to be their idea that no matter
how Iniquitous and outdated the tariff
on any article may be. It is the duty
of the Republican party to defend it,
and the exclusive province of the Demo
cratic party to remove It If they are
right, and if there are enough of them
to have their -way In Republican coun
cils, the country will take them at their
word. It will entrust the task of tar
iff revision to the Democratic party, and
then perhaps the obstructionists will be
satisfied.
The real beneficiary of this tariff-reform
campaign is the Republican party,
which is being turned with Its face to
the light by men like Spooner and Alli
son, Dolliver and Foes. La Follette and
Cummins. They are more Intelligently
loyal to the Republican party and to the
cause of protection than are the Bour
bons of high tariff, who would keep
both tariff and protective system
chained to a rock at low tide, when the
swell of tariff reform and of trust con
trol Is rolling in. The truth about this
business has been forcibly stated by
Representative .Tongue, of Oregon, in
these words:
Unless tlie Republican party does
remove such tariffs within a reason
able time, wherever they exist, anc
where the indications are that they
are permanent, both Republican sue.
cess and the protective system will
be endangered.
We are sick and tired of hearing that
the dematuTfor tariff reform and trust
regulation' by the Republican party Is
Inimical to that party's Tvelfare. These
timorous souls are substantially the
same as those who trembled In 1S95
lest the Republican party should be
placed upon the solid rock of the gold
standard. - They knew It was right, but
they thought It would pay better to
dally with wrong. The honest course
on tariff and trusts is as just and neces
sary as the honest course was on the
money question.
You cannot win victories before the
American people by swearing to a He
and asking them to believe it. You can
tell them the tariff must be corrected
and the trusts must be controlled, and
they will rally round you. You can" tell
them that the tariff is perfect and the
trusts can do no wrong, and they will
fall upon your neck with a moat
cleaver. And It will serve you right.
Honest tariffs and honest enforce
ment of laws against monopoly will be
as popular in 1901 as the gold standard
Is today. There 13 only one way to deal
with public questions. That is the right
way. There is only one thing to tell
the people abouta great ssue, and that
la the truth.
The champions of the gold standard
did a great service In 1S96. The cham
pions of honest tariffs and of trust con
trol are doing a great service now.
Their position is impregnable. Their
arguments can't be answered.
A SHATTERED ILLUSION.
Those "Western, bankers who assured
two leading New York and Chicago in
stitutions that the West would take cere
of Its own currency needs for this year's
crop-moving made a serious mistake, as
was anticipated In these columns. Even
so careful and observant a man as
President Eckels, of the Commercial Na
tional, of Chicago, was beguiled Into
announcing that "the West will take
care of Itself," and hla Idea was echoed
and. re-echoed in letters received by
Treasury officers at Washington from
small banks In out-of-the-way places,
whose managers perhaps have scarcely
understood the precise nature and ex
tent of the demands for cash resulting
from the movement of the crops. The
"plethora" of -money which has been sup
posed to exist in the Western banks has,
however, not sufficed to prevent them
from making very heavy demands on
the East for money with which to con
duct the necessary business of the sec
tions where they were located.
Here in Portland, for example, it is
known that currency demands have
been so heavy as to cause serious Incon
venience, and Secretary Shaw's order
concerning the use of reserves against
Government deposits was eagerly wel
comed for its relief. And throughout
the country generally the banks have
found It necessary to draw heavily on
their own reserves in order to meet the
needs of their customers. This was
shown in a striking way as soon as the
reports from the Western banks began
to come in to Washington under the re
cent call made by the Controller of the
Currency for the regular bank state
ment. True, the bank .statement was
demanded considerably earlier than
usual, but this, if anything, ought to
have resulted in a more favorable show
ing, because the report came at a time
when it was supposed the banks had
not yet felt the full force of the crop
moving demand. Could the returns be
gathered for the present moment, they
would undoubtedly show a very much
lower state of reserves even than that
represented in the returns actually re
ceived by the Controller of the Cur
rency. One Washington correspondent that of
the New York Journal of Commerce has
made an interesting study of the depos
its made with the Assistant Treasurer
of the United States at New York, for
payment elsewhere, bringing the record
up to October 2. His conclusion Is that
In all $13,981,000 has been transferred
through the Asslgjant Treasurer of the
United States aTiNew.York to Western
and Southern points. To New 'Orleans
6as gone1 $7,831,000, to Chicago 55,400,000,
and to Cincinnati 750,000. Some idea of
what the cash has been chiefly used for
may be gained by considering the way
in which it is classified Into gold coin
and certificates, United States notes and
silver certificates. The largest amount
of (small) sliver certificates paid out has
gone to New Orleans to be used In pay
ing the men employed in r gathering
crops. A large amount has gone to Chi
cago, and has from there been more
widely scattered. How greatly this de
mand has Increased Is shown by com
parison of the insignificant demands
from January to June, averaging $500,-
000 monthly, with those of July. Au
gust, and especially September, in which
latter month $5,098,000 was deposited for
transfer.
The figures leave very little left of the
claim that the "West will take care of
Itself." The same statistics for 1901
show that only $12,005,000 was deposited
with the Assistant Treasurer at New
York for payment elsewhere during the
corresponding period; so that, so far as
this bit of evidence Is concerned, this
year's demands have been noticeably
more urgent than those of last year.
Not only have the Western bank re
serves been allowed to run down and
the transfers through the Assistant
Treasurer been unusually heavy, but
the amount of money sent West -by
the other familiar methods has been as
large as or larger than ever. The fig
ures just quoted are merely a pleceof
evidence showing how things are tend
ing. Moreover, in the rush for relief
from the Treasury which has been in
progress lor the past few days the
Western banks have dropped the cry
of "taking care of themselves" and have
joined with other banks in request for
funds. The West has not "taken care
of itself any better than It usually
does. It has needed money, more in
tensely than usual, and It has obtained
It from precisely the same sources as
In other yeara The opinion advanced
in these columns weeks ago that
the question was one of currency, and
not of wealth, and that Western bank
ers had allowed the growing wealth of
the West to blind them to the certain
needs of an immense amount of circu
lating medium, seems to be fully sus
tained. MACEDONIA'S FORLORX HOPE.
The present revolt in Macedonia
against Turkey resembles that of Bul
garia just before the outbreak of the
Turko-Servian War in 1876, which re
sulted in a terrible war between Rus
sia and"Turkey. The Russians finally
forced their way over the Balkan Moun
tains, under General Gourko, and were
onlyprevented from occupying Con
stantinople by the dispatch "of a Brit
ish fleet to the Dardanelles. The Inter
vention of Great Britain, supported by
the other powers of Europe, forced Rus
sia to halt and make the treaty of San
Stefano, for which was ultimately sub
stituted the famous treaty of Berlin.
In 1876 Turkey left the matter of sup
pressing the Bulgarian Insurrection to
the local authorities, but today she has
called out thirty-eight battalions of her
regular reserves. The rising appears to
be confined to the mountainous part of
Macedonia, between Salonlca and Mo
nastir and the Bulgarian and Servian
frontiers. The Turkish force In Mace
donia is about 100,000 men, but the
Macedonian insurgents are likely to get
some recruits from Bulgaria, from
Greece and from Servla. The Albani
ans and Montenegrins are hereditary
foes of Turkey, and would lose no op
portunity to be a thorn in her flesh, but
the Insurrection Is hopeless, because
neither Austria nor Italy could afford -a
serious war in European Turkey.
The action of the powers In giving
Turkey a free hand to defeat the Greeks
In 1S97 and crush the rising In Crete-
indicates that no serious rising against
Turkey by her European provlncen
would get any outside encouragement
The powers want peace, not war. to
prevail, and Turkey is better able to
crush Macedonia today than she was In
1S76.
MAKIXG SOCIALISTS RAPIDIiY.
. Henry D. Lloyd is not alone among
able and Intelligent men in his conclu
sion that the position of the operators Is
driving thls country. to become social
istic very fast. Mr. Lloyd, whose ar
ticle on the coal strike will appear in
the Atlantic for November, says that
all the agitatora In :a generatlbn could
not have done so much t'o convert the
country to socialism as the last six
week3. " Mr. Bryan, In his Commoner,
takes the same view, and recites an In
terview with a." Republican of large
means and assured income, who con
fesses that he has been converted by
the events of the last six weeks to the
belief that the Government ought to
own and operate the railways and the
coal mines, that are now practically the
property of a monopoly, who not only
are able at any time to create a coai
famine, but do not hesitate to do so.
The terrible coal strikes of France, of
which Zola paints so terrific a picture
in his i- great novel of "Germinal;"
gave a powerful forward Influ
ence to socialism In France, and. in
our strike will probably not be
without effect In this country, with this
difference that the advance o, social
istic theories'- of government will be
shown in the platforms of the two great
parties.
There will be no appreciable growth
to the specific Socialist and Socialist
Labor parties. The drift to socialism
In government will .be seen in the Na
tional platform of one or both of the
great parties. In France, where there
is a vast standing army, great strikes
are not seldom crushed with barbarous j
cruelty on the first provocation by the
military arm, as described in "Germi
nal," and the miners, embittered by the
horrible treatment they receive, are
more ferocious and anarchistic In their
public demonstrations than riotous
strikers In this country. But In this
country we do not employ the military
arm reckies3iy nor with inexcusable
cruelty. Our ballot-box is always open;
reformers are not wanting, nor psaudo
reformers in the shape of able dema
gogues. There will be able statesmen
who will become evangelists of : state
socialism, not as a hard and .fast the
ory of government for society, but as
an efficient and expedient remedy- for
great abuses that otherwise seem in
curable.. There will be no extens.on or
Government ownership and operation
of the business of the country except so
far as seems necessary, and therefore
expedient
Our Government is- today the exclu
sive carrier of the malls, because u
has always seemed expedient; the gov
ernment in Great Britain owns and op
erates the telegraph as well as the
transportation of the malls. In Conti
nental Europe, Germany, France, Bel-
glum, Austria and Italy cwn ana oper
ate the railroads, telegraphs, as well as
the postal system. All this is done be
cause it has been deemed expedient
Because it did not seem necessary and
expedletft for the Government twenty
ars ago to own and operate the rail
roads or the coal mines Is no reason
why, under changed conditions, we
should hesitate to undertake It. The
threat to do so puts these railway des
pots and coal Czars on their good be
havior. The Railroad Gazette, of New
York, some years ago made the state
ment that the New Ttoric & New
Haven road owns all Southern New
England In fee simple. The coal Czars
appear to own both the Senators as
well v) thf Governor and Legislature of
Pennsylvania. Under these 'circum
stances it is not a matter for surprise
that thoughtful, intelligent and patri
otic men seriously propose the exten
sion of the sphere of the postofflce over
the whole business of public transpor
tation, with the application of th
postal principle to the determination of
the tolls needed for providing the nec
essary revenues.
There is nothing alarming In all this.
It is only extending the so-called mu
nicipal socialism, which has obtained
considerable popular sanction In Eng
land, to the administration of our Na
tional Government. If a great city may
own and operate its water works, its
public lighting plant, Its cemeteries,
why may not the National Government,
when the public weal makes It seem
expedient, own and operate railways
and coal mines. which in private hands
are administered to the end of oppress
ing and Impoverishing the public. Liv
erpool, York and Belfast sell municipal
sterilized milk for babies and feeding
bottles. Several towns conduct the
liquor business through municipal man
agers. Hull has opened a public cre
matorium. There are municipal cold
storage and icemaklng plants "ft Brad
ford, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool and
Birmingham. Cardiff has a municipal
fish market. Torquay breeds rabbits
and sheep on city land and sells, them
to reduce taxes. Tunbrldge grows hops
and Liverpool beets on sewage land:
Colchester has municipal oysters, which
are marketed; Brighton, Pontefract and
Doncaster own municipal racetracks,
and . there are municipal theaters in
Brighton. Westham makes Its own
paving-stones and sells them; Manches
ter makes and sells soap, ol?, tallow
and mortar made from city waste, and
employs 2000 men- to do the work. A
number of towns deal In stoves and gas
fittings and electric light supplies. Shef
field has a municipal plumbing depart
ment. Eattersea and Cardiff have mu
nicipal sawmills for city building and
wood pavements. Manchester makes its
own wagons, brushes, etc., for the city
cleaning department. Glasgow has a
municipal telephone system. In the
North of England proposals have been
made that municipalities buy coal
mines. It Is clear that Great Britain has
accepted the Idea of municipal socialism
In government to a considerable extent,
and there are not lacking advocates of
government ownership of the great
English railways.
The baseball season is practically
ended. Perhaps no one Is sorry. Cer
tainly we may reasonably suppose that
the players are. not, and as for the gen
eral public, It is willing to takeNa rest
by getting tired In another direction.
Casting s parting glance at the retir
ing heroes of the diamond, it turns ex
pectantly, and even eagerly, ( toward, the
oncoming heroes of the gridiron. The
contortions of the pitcher, the strenu
ous accents of the umpire calling, balls
and strikes, the raucous tones nt the
enthusiastic rooter, the piping cry of
the.ssda-pcp boy, have subsided, to be
resurrected in due time as adjuncts of
Summer amusements. Instead of these
we will hear of touchdowns and tackles,
of rushes and goals, of halfbacks and
quarter-backs and fullbacks, of guards
and centers and kicks, and upon occa
sion see an exhibition of rough-and-tumble
prowes3 on muddy 'fields that
cannot fall to arouse enthusiasm. The
Ill-luck of one team will excite sym
pathy or delight, "according, to the
standpoint of the looker-on, while pro
prietors of broken nosco, dislocated
shoulders, skinned shins and fractured
legs will be regarded with the admira
tion that greets battle-scarred heroes,
regardless of the colors that they -carry
Into the strife. Truly, an amusement
loving public can witness the end of the
baseball season without regret, since
football, with its varied' attractions, Is
already in the field, with the promise
to abide with usf In full strenuousness
until after Thanksgiving.
Bids for the construction of the battle-ship
Louisiana were opened last
week In Washington, and the Depart
ment of Naval Construction has them
under advisement pending the award
of the contract. It is understood, that
the lowest bid was $3,990,000. The cost
of naval construction, like that of
everything else, Is Increasing. This Is
partly, in this instance, due to the im
provements, entailing increased cost,
that are constantly being made, partly
to the increased wages of laborers, and
the ever-present possibility of a demand
for further advance, and partly owing
to the Increased cost of materials. The
Oregon was built less than ten years
ago for about $3,323,000. The Louisiana
will cost over $750,000 more than did "the
valiant and at that time perfectly
equipped namesake of our state. Of
course, the Louisiana will be a more
powerful battle-ship than the Oregon,
but the cost of running her will be
much greater than that of the Ore
gon. Her coal consumption will be
greater, and, while the Oregon carries
a crew of less than 500 men, the Louisi
ana will require at least 700, thus In
creasing materially the cost In labor
and" commissary stores of running the
latter. It will probably require a war
between two high-class naval powers
to fix the limit of naval expenditure.
A test might prove the relative Ineffi
ciency of the costly battle-ship and
cause a reaction In favor of the less
expensive and more easily handled war
vessel. In the meantime nations are
vicing with each other in the production
of formidable engines of War, the limit
to the cost and supposed power of
which Is fixed solely by human ingenu
ity and the competitive element In na
tional pride.
The attempt to "Americanize" the
British Military Sohool at Sandhurst by
placing its discipline on a basis similar
to that of the West Point Academy has
called forth Indignant protest from the
more wealthy cadets, of the British col
lege. Just now they are indignant at
an edict which restricts them to the use
of beeras an alcoholic beverage at their
evening meal. Hitherto such of them as
could afford it haVbeen allowed cham
pagne. clare.t cup and. similar drinks.
Another very unpopular innovation at
Sandhurst with the richer cadets Is a
restriction on the decoration of their
rooms. These changes are ordered with
the Idea of checking the extravagance
of the cadets, which later results In
army officers fixing a scale of living so
luxurious that only those of Independ
ent means can afford to accept commis
sions. These changes will no doubt in
the long run prove salutary, but many
others will have to be Inaugurated be
fore the Napoleonic idea of discipline
that prevails at West Point will be
reached In the Sandhurst school.
The -first professor of Chinese of" Co
lumbia University under the Dean
Lung foundation has arrived from Ger
many. He is Professor Friedrlch Hirth,
ot the University of Munich, who for
the honor of Initiating this chair post
pones a commission from the Russian
government to catalogue the Chinese
books and manuscripts In the Asiatic
museum at St. Petersburg part of the
Russian loot at Pekln. There will be
three courses In the new department
one In the study of Chinese characters,
one on Chinese texts relating to history,
geography, art and literature, and one
for general students on the history of
the Chinese Empire.
One of the serious objections to. the
proposal for receiverships of the coal
mines i9 that Senator Mason, of Illinois,
seems to have been a pioneer In the agi
tation proposed, that the United States
Courts, through action by the Attorney
General, throw into the hands of re
ceivers any coal properties concerned in
a strike, to be operated under direction
of the courts until all differences be
tween employers and employes have
been adjusted. This is essentially a
plan of Government operation of. the
mines pending the settlement 6f a
strike, and It is attracting the attention
of many constitutional lawyers.
Governor La Follette, of Wisconsin,
In his opening campaign speech, said
that "There is probably not an impor
tant trust in the United States which
does not have the assistance of railroads
In destroying its competitors In busi
ness. The limitation and control of
these public-service corporations In the
legitimate field as common carriers is
an important element In the practical
solution of the problem with which we
have to deal." The real contestants In
the anthracite strike, on the employing
side, are the railroads.
The Rev. Thomas Scully, a distin
guished Roman Catholic clergyman of
Cambridge, Mas?., and a Hfelcng tem
perance evangelist, Is dead. The Spring
field Republican says of him:
He Is mourned by citizens irrespective of
creed or religious faith. For years the Tiamo of
"Father Scully" figured in the newspapers of
Boston in connection with various good, causes,
especially with those of good government tfnd
moral and temperance reforms. An Irishman
and a Roman Catholic, he beat dewn the nar
row prejudices of tho native Protestant pop
ulation, and in the end even Cambridge was
proud to clalm-him as ber own.
If thes?veral ex-ofilclalsof the city who
have been summoned before the grand
jury have told freely what they know
about matters now supposed to be
under investigation by that body, it Is
more than probable that the vague
charge of "grafting" so often made In
connection with police management and
practice will become more than that
fatherless thing, a rumor. Perhaps they
have done so, and, again, perhaps not.
It is now urged by free-traders, posing as
advocates of "tariff reform," that It is neces
sary to lower our tariff duties in order to en
courage an expansion of our foreign trade.
Seattle'Post-Intclllgencer.
If perchance some of our tariffs are
no longer needed for revenue or to en
tourage and "protect our Industries at
home, why should they not be employed
to extend and promote our markets
abroad? President McXlhley at Buf
falo, September 5, 1901.
Senator Hanna deplores tariff agita
tion. He didn't talk that way in 197,
preliminary to the Dlngleyblll.
SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS
Pity Tls, Tin True. -Lewis
ton Tribune.
All the people cannot live on pulls. Borne
must do the pushing.
People, the Real Trnat Busters.
Lewlston Tribune.
After all, the real trust busters first and
last are-going to be the sovereign peo
ple. . .
Telephones Increase Profanity.
Port Townsend Leader.
&n Mrrrinn.iMnn of the antoundlnfr. spread
of profanity Is found in the census bulletin.
showing that one person in every w uaa
a telephone.
An Ungrateful Lot.
Lewlston Tribune.
. Considering all the American people
have done for the protected Industries,
they are about as thankless a brood as
a mother ever roared.
Something- in a Jfnmc. -Junction
Bulletin..
There is something in a name in the
case of Baer, anthracite magnate, for he j
keeps hell a-bruin and that In time of
a coal famine. He must be. a sort oL
magician.
' Success Lies In the Fcture.
Walla Walla Union.
Present Democracy deals chiefly with
the past; Republicanism with the fu
ture. Looking backward has been dis
astrous ever since Lot's wife turned Into
a pillar of salt.
A Good Example for Baker.
Baker City Democrat.
Portland is reforming its morals In view
of the 1905 fair. It will soon be able to
secure the meetings of all the- national
bodies that believe In tho straight and nar
row road that leads to all good hereafter.
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A Horse of Another .Color.
Whatcom Reveille.
Mr. Hearst Is in favor of confiscating
the anthracite cbal fields. If some ne
were to propose confiscation of Hearst's
newspapers in the Interest of public mor
als there would be a confiscation .not
without virtue.
JVo Misdirected Sympathy.
Baker City Democrat
President Roosevelt Is to be admired for
his efforts in behalf of a settlement .ot
the coal strike. The attitude At tne
barons Is such that little sympathy will be
cue them It more oerious consequences
follow their selfish, and contemptible
methods.
Did They Deal With Them?
Walla Walla Statesman.
In stentorian tones every Republican or
ator of 1900 shouted that "the Republican
party could be depended on to deal with
the tmsts. In the light of more recent
events we are Inclined to think they were
confused In their phraseology. They
should have eald "deal to the trusts."
Plea for Game Law Obedience.
Pendleton East Oregonlan.
Killing game out of season, Is one of
the most iniquitous offenses against the
laws on the statute books. There la
nothing more enjoyable than a good hunt
and If the game laws were obeyed this
pleasure would bo divided up properly,
and within a few years this section would
be the home of game birds.
Public Interest on One Question.
Walla Walla Statesman.
Gradually the economic issues before
the people are tending toward .one cen
tral and all-embracing question: Shall or
shall riot a high protective duty be levied
on trust-made goods sold In the world's
markets? The burden of proof Is upon
those who Insist that such an adjunct of
public plunder Is a necessary factor In
our administrative policy.
Irony of Fate In the Extreme.
Eugene Guard.
Talk about the Irony of fate! It Is not
half expressive enough In the case of the
captain of the British ship who was going
down the Columbia on a river steamer
to Join his ship when the latter all but
stripped the upper works oft the river
boat, and though there were several nar
row escapes of the sleeping passengers
hurt no ono but the British captain. It
was the fault of his vessel, which lay
at anchor in the stream without her
warning lights being displayed.
People Behind Their President.
Albany Herald. '
The striking miner? have rejected the
proposals of President Roosevelt to end
the strike, and the millionaire mine
owners are as stubborn as ever. In the
meantime coal Is becoming scarce as
Winter approaches. The situation Is
aerlous. The. President Is to be com
mended ..for his vigorous efforts in trying
to effect a settlement Something must
be done, and our strenuous President
may yet be able to accomplish what he
set out to do. He has the support of the
people behind him at any rate.
A Trnst Anions Boodlers.
Astoria Astorlan.
It was a surprise to the outside world
when a fair city like Minneapolis -unearthed
a most systematic and disgraceful
scheme of boodllng. St Louis, has broken
that recprd, and the first conviction proves
what one hone3t prosecutor can do In lay
ing bare the Iniquities of an office-holder
If he desires so to do. The great difficulty
Is that as a general rule, the whole of
the elected politicians work together and
trust each other to an unbuslhess-llkc ex
tent. The victors In a campaign consider
that certain unmentionable emoluments
belong to them, and In taking what Is law
ful they sometimes strain their conscience
to an extent that actually makes them
thieves without knowing It. Of course
that 13 presuming that they have any con
sciences to strain. Also most politicians,
especially near the election' day, are not
staggering under the burden of arf.over
developed conscience.
A Forest Reserve Necessary.
Pendleton Trlbune
Some of tho opposition to a forest re
serve Is becoming unreasonable. Quito a
number of those whd are antagonistic
to the act declare that no reserve of any
dimensions should bo created. Various
arguments are urged agalnst It, some
of which are almost ridlculoU and are
Inspired by selfish motives. Down In
Harney County, where water is needed
moro than any other blessing of nature,
they oppose tho reserve because water
will bo conserved by It. They fear other
people will acquire rights and privileges
through the action of the Commissioner
of the General Land Ofilce that now be
long to them. Tho miners of Baker
County oppose It because It will inter
fere with the progress of mining. Cftt
zens of Grant County oppose It because
It will withdraw a large part of Its land
from settlement Cattlemen oppose It be
cause they think it will aid the sheep
men. In fact the people whoohtefly
favor the movement are sheepmen, and
there Is little doubt that a reserve would
be to their advantage..
The question Is not whether or not a
reserve shall be created. It rests, purely
on the size cf the reserve. A forest re
serve Is necessary, but the dimensions of
the present proposed reserve are too
large. Let the public get at the main
point and something will be accomplished.
BInger Hermann should be supported In
hin de3lre to create a reserve, and he
should be Instructed as to the "lay of
the land" which should be set apart. A
suitable compromise can be effected, and
the Interests of all persons protected, as
well as the Interests of the general public
and the future generations of Eastern
Oregon. Cut down the reserve In the
right placesvbut by all means create a
reserve
A STATE WITH. A RECORD
Chlcngo Chronicle.
The State of Pennsylvania should deal
with the anthrjaclta ccal dispute, but the
State of Pennsylvania is at present con-"trblled-'by
the associated iron, steel and
coal bandits, and the Slate of Pennsylva
nia is therefore but another name for the
criminals who manage the coal roads and
the. coal mines. ",l i
The Governor of Pennsylvania la a
wretched creature of Matthew S; Quay
and his lawless associates. The "Legisla
ture cf Pennsylvania fs an aggregation of
corruptlonists representing. bcth political
.parties,- who are In the pay of tho prefa
tory scoundrels who control tho' state.
Meet of ihe courts cf Pennsylvania are
corrupt or cowardly, many of them mak
ing no attempt to conceal the fact tint
they get their orders from the men who
are masters of the lhdnstry and the poli
tics of the state. Elections In Pennsyl
vania arc conspicuous mockeries cf a free
and enlightened suffrage. Intimidation,
bribery and. falsfe returns are habitual."1
Labor In Pennsylvania is the most im
poverished, degraded and brutalized to be
found anywhere on this hemisphere.
Nothlmr that America hao ever known
equals the hopelessness and the misery of
a large percentage cf the labor of Penn
sylvania. The slavery of the coal mints
has had no counterpart In the United
States slnco the days of negro bondage,
and even that infamy did not anywhere
reduce so many people In one congested
district to such abject penury and woe.
Pennsylvania began Its career as a state
as one of the most mpral, enlightened,
jutrt and -democratic political societies In
the world. As the chief scat of the pro
tective tariff Moloch, the principal altar
of the.high priests. of favoritism, privilege,
monopoly and plunder. It has bsriome po
litically. Industrially and socially the rot
tenest commonwealth on earth.
People who would understand the an
thracite coal problem and people who
would attempt to settle It must compre
hend these facts. -Many years of legalized
crime and Injustice are bearing their le
gitimate fruits.
Republican Tariff Doctrine.
WheVe tariffs upen productions are
not needed for either revenue or pro
tection, where the Industries producing
these goods are capable of with 'landing-
all foreign competition, are out
stripping all foreign competitors in their
jwn domain and rapidly capturing the
markets of the world, and the tariffs
rve no purpose but enabling the cor
porations controlling the productions to
extort unreasonable prices from the J
home conoumer, while celling cheaper I
abroad than this, tariffs shoulO be re-
pealed at once. This should be' done $
not to destroy, but to rave protection.
K Such tariffs are tha enemlsg. not the I
the friends, of protection. Rspresccta-
tive Tongue, of Oregon.' f
Fallen in Their Own Pit. '
Brooklyn1. Eagle.
The worst and largest proportion of tlje
strikers committing violence are Hunga
rians, Lithuanians and Slavs, who can
neither read nor write and who are not
American citizens.
But they were imported by the opera
tors years ago to cheaper, labor and to
crowd out native miners. They brought
their ignorance and anarchy with them
and have sharpened th'elr qualities on the
whetstone of American opportunity.
ThoEe who Imported them have no cause
for surprise at what they havo become.
The very operators who now declare
that recognition of the unions would be
tho control of the mines as property and
their management by miners, informally
recognized the unions, oh the request of
Hahni and .Quaytwo'-years ago, to avert
consequence' adverse to Republican suc
cess In the Presidential election. What
they then did for politics they will not
do now for humanity. They may have
been wrong then. They must be right
now.
But they are Inconsistent at a time of
great public exigency. And their claim
that recognition of the unions would be
surrender of the properties would better
be supported by detail proofs than by
declaration or declamation only. Union
Ism Is oppressive and may become In
tolerable. But there are too many great
unionized Industries In the United States
vexed probably, hoppled possibly, but
surviving and thriving to sustain the ex
treme assertion that recognition Is ruin,
surrender or abandonment of the mine:?.
The operators. -themselves conceded recog
nition two years ago. They are in busi
ness still.
Their skirts are not clear from blame.
Their hands are not clean from wrong.
They arc largely reaping what they lib
erally soved. Their fight for Individual
Ism In labor would be equipped with a
better case If they had a. better record.
Let Them Have Their Dond.
Chicago Chronicle.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
reported after a thorough Investigation
that these coal barons in their capacity
of railroad officials engaged in Interstate
commerce were plainly and Habitually vio
lating the Interstate commerce law.
The IndustrlalCommisslon reported after
a thorough Investigation that these coal
barons in their double capacity of rail
road managers and mine operators were
continually violating the antl-truet law.
When these organized criminals, who
deserve to be In prison, demanded of the
President that he send troops Into Penn
sylvania to "squelch" the miners as crim
inals they demanded that he should do a
lawlero act.
Had Mr. Mitchell demanded In return
that the President put the coal baronn In
prison for violating laws of the United
States he would have come much nearer
to demanding not only something that
ought to be done but something that the
President can do without overriding the
law himself.
The coal barons demand that the laws
be executed. By all means let their de
mand be complied with. Let steps be
taken at once which will probably vlndlr
cate the law by planting the coal barons
behind the bars.
Becoming More Intelligent.
Baltimore Sun.
The conditions of employment nowadaj's
discourage Ignorance. Intelligence and
some degree of education areTlndlspensablo
In almost every Industry. This Is well
understood by representative worklngmen,
and If thev were not so fortunate as to
enjoy educational ' advantages In their
youth they are not withholding these ad
vantages from their children. The work
lngman of the future will not be "brother
.to the ox," as the American poet repre
sents the toller of other days. He will not
be content to let others do his thinking
" for him. He will have his own Ideas about
economics and social conditions. Knowl
edge will bring power to him, and the
question then will be, How will he use
triis uqwer?
He Mont, and Agin He Mont'nt.
PORTLAND, Oct 10. (To the Editor.)
Apropos of the line that might, could,
would or should divide District Attorney
Chamberlain from Governor Chamberlain,
does anybody suppose that the D!ctrlct
Attorney will not select his successor,
whether he resign tomorrow or the 1st of
January? Does anybody suppose that
Governdr Geer would appoint a District
Attorney that would bo obnoxious to the
man who beat Furnloh for Governor?
DOUBTING THOMAS.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Daniel on the Trnst.
At the time of the evening oblation.
As I stood 'neath the sycamore' tree.
A small, still voice came to me. saying:
"Behold, lift thine eyes up and see."
Obedient then, to the summons, .
I. Daniel, uplifted mine eyes,.
Ahd I saw In a vision an Image
That towered aloft to the skies.
Its head wan of gold and of silver.
Its arms were of iron and steeJ.
Its chest was of Standard Oil common.
Its beily of beef, pork and veal.
Itath!ghs were of Harriman merger.
Its legs of Hill-Morgan control.
Its ankles of salt and of paper.
Its feet were of anthracite coal.
And I saw in my dream that the Image
Waxed great in its height and its girth.
And Its lcgsr spread out o'or all creation.
And Its arms reached around the whole
-earth.
And I saw Gog and Magog in terror.
And Egypt and Tyre In retreat.
And Zioh and Baal and Edom
Bowed low at the Image's feet
And I cried: Is there none to deliver t
And I cried: Is there none that caa
save?
What David will meet this Goliath;
What Moses lt3 tyranny brave? .
It's oh. for a Joab or Gideon!
It's oh. for a Joshua or Saul,
To deliver the land from the tyrant
At the corner of Broad street and Wall.
And I looked, and upon the horizon
I saw where a Rough Rider rode;
He was clad In sombrero and buckskin
And a broncho of Texas bestrode.
He swung his lassoo and slxshooter.
And dashed at . the Image supreme
I am offering a farm in New Hampshire
Per a man to Interpret my dream.
Brer Bryan, .still he lay low.
Maybe there Isn't any comet
Speech Is silver; silence Is golden. Seats
were SI.
The trombone should be abolished. It
sadly disturbs conversation during a Soasa
concer..
Somebody ought to take up a subscrip
tion and give Seattle a pennant. It never
had one
It seems to have settled down to a tug-qf-war
between the coal operators and
everybody else. '
Some of the ladles thought It most Im
polite In Mr. Sousa to turn his back while
they were talking.
The New Orleans strike is too email an
affair just now to be permitted to emerge
from the back pages.
It was a .mistake to mark any of the
numbers as solos. There was a full chorus
in the back of the house.
Souja invented the soft passage just tc
give the Old Hen with the cachinnatory
cackle a chance; and she rose to it yest
terday.
Brer Baer is getting along toward the
"finally" In his discourses on the trucu
lence and contumacy of the miners who
will not mine.
It Is a matter of universal observation
that good-looking women never disturb a
public concert by noisy chatter. Some
of the others have to attract attention
somehow.
Great delight was expressed by some
of the talkative men when 'Mr. 3ousa
made. It pla.In that there would bo no long
waits between the numbers. ' "There's riot
a moment without something to talk
about." was their sentiment.
'A guidebook is generally regarded as
harmless. Not so in Turkey, as a Ger
man treveler has learned to his grief.
Ofilcials found in his "trunk "a guide
tnrough Turkey" and confiscated It Tho
nex't morning the book was returned to
the German, but with moro than 100
pages containing a description of Con
stantinople torn out. The traveler went
to the censor's office to complain of this
Inexplicable treatment of his book. But
the censor explained to him with irre
sistible logic that an accurate description
of Constantinople could not be suffered,
since a knowledge of the locality was
calculated to facilitate an attempt on tho
Sultan's life.
"Mr. Sousa 13 so magnetic and so"
"Isn't that a beautiful piano passage?"
"Yes; but that brasses simply"
"Isn't it? Oh! what a lovely bow."
"What In the world is that encore?
Isn't it"
"It rfmply can't be anything else. Why,
we had that at our last"
"Liu you? Why. what's the matter?
Theyre's all coming to the front"
(10 seconds Intermission;)
"What was It you ju.st said?"
"They play It so loud nobody can say
anything."
"Yes, the building is entirely too small.
I was Just raying"
"Yes? I was just thinking"
Man behind "Dn I"
A young man In Kmlra, N. Y., recently
proposed to the girl of his choice, making
his declaration by mair, because ho
thought that In that way he could do
himself better justice. He -was In hla
ofilce a day or two later when a messen
ger boy arrived with this englmatlcal
telegram: "Isle of "tfiew. E wers." He
was convinced that the message had
something to do with his proposal, but he
could not decipher it. He went to consult
hlo mother. She read the telegram over
once or twice, shook her head and then
read it aloud. But what she-said sounded
like: "I love you yours." The son
snatched the message out of his mother's
hand nnd read It once more. Then he
shouted: "It's all right, mother." and
dashed for the telegraph office, where he
sent a return message.
Yontb.
Philip James Bailey.
I speak unto the young, for I am of them
And always shall be. What are years to me?
Oh for the young heart like a fountain playing!
Flinging Its brht fresh feelings up to tha
skits , , .
It loves and strives to reach-strives, loves In
vain: .
It is of earth and never meant for Heaven.
"We laugh at love, and make a Jest of Hell.
While we fear each, and seek. The sphinx
like heart.
Consistent in its inconsistency.
Loathes life tho moment that life's riddle ix
read : -The
knot of our existence is untied
And we He loose and useless. Life Is had;
And then wo sigh and say. Can this be all?
It Is not what we thought it Is very well
But we want something more there is but
death!
And to die young Is youth's dlvinest gift
To pass from world fresh Into another
Ere change hath lost the charm of soft regret
And feel the Immortal Impulse from within
Which makes the coming, life cry always, on!
And follow It, while strong is Heaven's last
mercy.
The firefly only shines when on the wing;
So Is it with the mind: when once we rest
We darken. On! said God unto the soul
As to the earth for ever. On it goes,
A rejoicing native of the infinite
As is a bird of air an orb of heaven.