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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1902)
THE -MOBBING OREGON! AN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16. 1902. j aterea at the. Post office at Portland. Oregon, a? "second-class matter.: REVISED SUBSCRIPTION BATES, By Mall nntnfA nHMM In af-onol iPfJr. with Sunday, per month..., $ S5 l Oally. Sundav exeented. ntr vr. - 7 BO pally, with Sunday, per year 0 00 Sunday; per year 2 00 The Weekly, per year 1 30 The Weeky. 3 months 60 To Citv Ruhrrlhm SaUy' per wek. delivered. Sunday excepted. lSc per weeK. delivered. Sunday mciuaea,suc POSTAGE RATES. - "United RtntM Pnnarin t,rA Xr-p4 tO to 14-page paper.,.. .".......lc J to 2S-page paper...... 2c j-'oreign rates double. News or discussion Intended for publication In The Oregonlan should be addressed lnvarla Mr "Editor The Oregonlan." not to the name at any lndlv!dual. Letters relating: to adver tising:, subscriptions or to any business matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonlan." Eastern Business Office. 43. 44. 45. 47. 48. 49 Tribune building. New Tork City: 810-11-12 Tribune building. 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Colo., by Hamilton & Xendrlck. 006-912 Seventeenth street; Louthan fc Jackson Book & Stationery Co.. Fifteenth and Lawrence street; A. Series. Sixteenth and Curtis streets: TODAY'S "WEATHER Showers, with south to west w!nds. YESTERDAY'S "WEATHER Maximum tem .perature. 62; minimum temperature, 48; pre cipitation. 0.09 inch. r PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 15. MIXERS MUST ACCEPT1. The operators have given up a great peaL The miners must frlVA lirv mm ljthlng. It win be a disastrous mlstni If the mlneworkers repudiate the arbi tration proposed by J. P. Morgan. It is no answer to say that the terms offered exclude recognition of the union as such. Arbitration involves the loss of some ground by each 6lde. A settle- ,(rnent of any kind If it is nothing more , i-iicm an agreement to arbitrate, In volves concessions from both sides'. The ' operators have refused to arbitrate. This same proposal they now make was spurned by them a week ago, when tendered by President Roosevelt Per haps it was a prearranged, affair that Eaer and the rest should refuse, so that Morgan, the chief, might step in and get the glory of the concession. This la a common strategy of business. The managers and superintendents must ad minister the. unpleasant and adiscredlt able duties. Favors and heroics are reserved for the "old man." But .this does not signify. The essen tial thing la that the operators x have consented to arbitration. The unions cannot afford to say to the country that their organization js an end in itself. They must admit. If they are wise, that the organization is only a means to" the supreme ends of hours', pay, weights; etc. All these main1 questions are cov ered in the Morgan proposal. It will be inexcusably ungracious to assume in advance that the appointees will be un favorable to the union. No union man is to be named, it is true; but neither is any operator or railroad president. The appointments are in the hands of President Roosevelt The Philadelphia labor leader who is quoted as dissatis fied with the probable personnel of the commission talks Indiscreetly and dis creditably. The President of the United States Is the friend of honest labor, and his sympathies are with the strikers more than with the operators. It Is an unlovely thing to insinuate that he will make unfair selections for the commis sion. The way to get impartial selec tions is not to Impute unfairness or express distrust at the very outset. "What has given the miners the sym pathy of the public up to this point? Partly, of course, a general belief In the justice of their claim, but far more the disapproval of the arrogant stand made by the operators. In every nook and corner of the United States, from powerful Wall street journals to weakly weeklies in the black belt, the cry has been that the miners' offer to arbitrate and the operators refuse and therefore the miners are right. This Is not logic, but it is public sentiment; and public sentiment is of more account In great struggles of this sort than evidence or reason. If the miners accept the Mor gan proposals, they will keep public opinion with them. If they refuse, they rill throw public opinion out of the window. Acceptance of the proposals will also be a technical victory of no mean pro portions. Arbitration is what the unions have ostensibly been contending for all along. Now they have brought the op erators to their terma The method of arbitration, even, is cne that Mitchell himself proposed. It is In the power of the unions to throw up their hats and " swear they have won a great victory; or, on the other hand, to sulk at the acceptance of terms they themselves proposed and to see their strong posi tion before the people gradually melt away. To this disadvantage will al most certainly be added the humiliation of losing the strike entirely. The oper ators can be driven no farther than their present offer. Numbers of Im partial observers felt that Mitchell should have asked the men to return to work last week at President Roose velt's solicitation. The public will 111 abide a second disappointment on the heels of that one. With the Increased strength a refusal of the district coa--vention would give the operators In a eentlmental way, the operators woul.d be pretty certain to win out. Troops 'will be supplied to protect those who -want lo work, whose numbers- will In crease dsdly. The miners can win if they accept the arbitration plan suggested.- If they don't, they will lose. They will also discredit the cause of organized labor everywhere. Their "al lies in- other trades should demand' wis dom for them at this critical .time. The key to the anthracite situation is that the public wants coal. Not the right of the operators to run their own business, not the right of labor to or ganize; concerns the average man half go much as his own right to the neces saries of life. So far It has appeared that the operators have stopd between the people and coal. Now It will ap pear that the operators are willing but the obstruction lies with the miners. It la incredible that the mlneworkers- and! their leaders should he so infatuated with the machinery and prerogatives of their organization as to be blinded to their true course in this most critical moment In our Industrial annals. . CLEVELAND OX TARIFF REFORM. Mr. Cleveland breaks silence, and with good reason. All that he can do and all that his wing .of the party can do to identify the Democracy with the cause of tariff reform will be needed if the task is to be achieved. Nothing is more aboundlngly absent from the party's present horoscope. The Democrats carried the country for tariff reform In 1892. That Is. they carried It on a platform calling for a tariff "for revenue only." But since that time they have given no sign in National platforms on otherwise that the tariff question Interests tfyem at all.l except as It might remotely touch the general purpose of the party to destroy everything that produces wealth or de sires its conservation. Its tariff reform ers were thrown out of the party at Chicago in 1896 to make room for West ern Populists who were largely protec tionists. A party that demands a pa ternalistic government which shall make the poor rich by coining and printing money has small ground for objection to the paternalistic theory of protection. When the Democrats drove their tariff-reform gold men away to make room for Populist protectionists they took a step that they are apt to find difficult of retraction. The act of 1896 must be reversed, and .whether there Is power enough in the Cleveland wing to accomplish it over the opposi tion of the Bryan wing Is as yet a prob lem. Nor does it add to the ease and prom ise of Mr. Cleveland's undertaking that the Democratic theory of tariff reform has been put in practice. The record is there, available for all eyes. Under Mr. Cleveland's second administration a tariff bill became law and It drew from him the -famous characterization of "perfidy and dishonor" as well as the felicitous adaptation about "blast ing the counsels of the brave In. their hour of might." The Wilson law was not a tariff "for revenue only," but per petuated the protective principle In most, unjust and discreditable fashion. A Democratic Senate, dominated by the 'same men who are now in the way of dominating the Senate if it should be Democratic that is, Gorman, Hill and that school sold qut tariff reform to various protected Interests, of which the sugar trust and the' steel trust are the principal existing beneficiaries. The kind . of tariff reform the coun try does not want is specifically the kind .of tariff reform the Democrats would -give It. That Is to say, the Dem ocratic theory of tariff reform Is free raw materials and protected manufac tures. This was the Wilson bill that Cleveland and Wilson fathered, and It was also the Wilson bill that the Senate finally ordained. If you put the Demo crats in power tomorrow, they will give us free wool, free hides, free iron ore. free lumber, free fruits and wines, and keep the tariff on manufactured wool ens, cottons, Iron and steel, shoes, Im plements and furniture. They did it once, they will do it again. It is Demo cratic doctrine, it Is Democratic prac tice. Now the Republican demand for tariff reform Is diametrically 'oppossd to this. It will hold to necessary duties on raw materials, and It wants, to see protec tion withdrawn from manufactured products made by great corporations that no longer need it This demand comes not from the Democratic the orists of "New England, but from the farming states of the West. Tariff re form in 1902 rises not out of Boston and New York, but in Iowa. Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio. Indiana and the Pacific Coast. It Is an appeal ad dressed by Republicans to Republicans. It will have championship at the White House and in Republican circles In both branches of Congress. Its leaders will be Republicans as its originators and sponsors are Republicans. Mr. Cleve land sees this, and he also sees that no comprehension of the situation Is mani fested in the Democratic party. Hence his interview, for which there Is ample justification. Its effect, however, is an other matter. The thing It is most cer tain to do Is to arouse opposition from his inveterate foes within the Democ racy itself. Mr. Cleveland Is a man of too muph brains and -character to meet with enthusiastic response In the party of W. J. Bryan". SHIPBUILDING XOT DEAD. A San Francisco firm has just let the contract for the largest barkentine ever built on the Pacific Coast The vessel Is to have a carrying capacity of over 2,000,000 feet of lumber, and Is to cost over $85,000. News of this kind is scarce in the present era of low freights and Idle vessels, and the action of the men who are supplying the money for the venture Implies confidence In a return of the prosperity that was so marked up to about eighteen months ago. Taking the history of shipping for the last half century, and this confldence'will hardly be misplaced. Periodically there come long .spells of depression in shipping, and capital which in good times is read ily obtainable -for maritime ventures is withdrawn. Shipbuilding ceases, and in due season fire, flood; wreck and old age have retired all of the surplus ton nage that Is needed, and rates begin to soar, and they continue on the up grade so long as the demand is not overtaken by the enormous production which in variably results when profits are excep tionally alluring. The builders of this proposed record breaker are taking time by the fore lock, and they will have their vessel in the water and reads' for business by the time there is a revival in the trade. The men who are now losing the mo9t money by the world-wide slump In freights are the owners who failed to get their orders for ships In until the boom In freights was on the' wane. Those who had ships In readiness to take advantage of the remarkable era; of prosperity which began in the Fall of 1897 were enabled before the slump came to pile up a. handsome surplus to tide them over the present period of de pression. There Is another advantage which the owners of this latest addition to the' pacific Coast-built' fleet will have over the craft which are already in the trade, and that Is the economy of .operation which has been a distinctive feature of recent productions of Pacific Coast yards. The Amazon, one of the latest productions of this class, finished load ing a cargo of lumber In this city yes terday. She has more cargo on board than could be carried by a square-rigger of 500 tons' greater register, and costing twice as. much money, and is operated by- a crew just one-half the ze ol that required ior. the square luare rigged vessel of the old type. .The ex pense of operating the 2,000,000-foot car rier now projected will be but a trifle greater than that of theAmazon and other vessels of her type, and she will have a carrying capacity one-third greater. ' When money can be secured for in vestment in marine property . -of; this class at a time when freights are Hear ing the lowest mark on. record, there Is apparently less rieed of a subsidy, than ever. The owners of old-style craft, ex pensive to operate and of limited ca pacity, will feel the present dullness in freights worse than any others, and will no doubt continue to clamor for a sub sidy. The up-to-date modern-built craft can float cn her own bottom, however, and the vessels recently built or now" building on this Coast will be first In line for the profits which are bound to accrue as soon as the business Is re stored to a healthy condition. England and Germany lead the world today in shipbuilding for the deep-water trade, but the Pacific Coast will some day be a powerful factor in this line of indus try, and will have this advantage over some other countries, that we cap. not only build our ships, but we can supply them with cargoes after they are built OREGON ROADS GOOD AND OTHER WISE. Men who from careful study of the question know what good roads mean to the social life and productive econ omy of the country are here to Impart to our people the" knowledge they have gained on this very important subject They are here, furthermore, to tell us some things about roadbuilding that we do not know. We of Multnomah County have some miles of road which we re gard wtih considerable pride and satis faction. We do not boast that these are as good roads as can be made, but by comparison with the same stretches of highway ten years ago, before good roads became ja. topic for discussion and experiment, they are excellent. Lim ited progress has been made- in road construction in other sections bf the state, but for the most part the public highways of Oregon are not a credit to the business acumen and general intel ligence of the people. Some Ideas are" hard to be rid of. One of these Is, an old one that has attained the status of a firm belief that it is more difficult to maintain good roads In Oregon than In many other states, on account of the open, rainy Winters that prevail here. A little reflection and some knowledge of the "lay of the land" as regards drainage, the materi als for roadbuilding, etc., are sufficient to convince any reasonable person of the error of this estimate. Two things are essential to good roads in Oregon first, the general desire for them, and second, the Intelligent determination of the people to have them. What, in deed, may not a wide-awake, progres sive people, with the law of "Initiative and referendum" back of them, accom plish in the matter of public Improve ments? Let us have good roads, or let the people who boast their power place their hands upon their mouths and plod along In the" dust or mud, as the case may be, owning themselves vanquished In a game the terms of which they themselves prescribed, or at least that they are mistaken in their ability to compass the things they want by legis lation and otherjvise. As before jSald, we have good roads material in abundance; we have in many sections natural drainage that Is unsurpassed and a climate that favors good roads. K.nowieage or roaa con' structlon, with the help of such confer ences as the one now being held In this city. Is easy to acquire. All thatls needed is appil.ea energy inaccoruance with the light that we have or can get and good roads will In due time become an established fact in Oregon. Isolation. that bane of country life will be over come, and the spirit of nelghborllness will put discontent induced by loneliness to flight. VIEW OF BANK REDEMPTIONS In "Sound Currency" Mr. L. Carroll Root has a timely review of the opera tions of the bank circulation every Au tumn, under the present system of little profit In Issuing nddltlonal notes, and considerable difficulty of getting them retired when they are no longer needed. The present ineffective redemption sys tem could be remedied by the banks themselves, but there would still rc main the legal prohibition of the retire ment of more than $3,000,000 a month, which has some Influence in deterring, banks from fully responding to the needs of additional circulation in the Fall. Mr. Root contrasts our system with that of Canada, where notes are issued against general assets, and where the redemption system promptly retires notes that are no longer needed. At the end of August the Canadian circulation was about 15 per cent greater than at th Pnd of January, and the maximum circulation is cot reached till the end of October. Under a system of asset cur rency, with a really effective system of rpriMnntion. Mr. Root descrmes tne pro cess that would follow the marketing of the crops as follows: The farmers who withdrew and have been holding this currency are now gradually paying i. ocainnprhans tor Improvements, for ini.rMt nn morteages. for stock to fatten dur lng the Winter, or what not. In any case, the rnrrenev which was withheld Is now returned n tho channels of trade. Those channels, how ever, having been ajready properly supplied, this new stream now turned In is in excess, and finding no use with the local banks, is shipped by them to their New York correspond ents. The New York banks, deslrtng to turn It into legal reserves, would Immediately pre- ' sent It for redemption. Its redemption In legal tenders would actually aaa to me r.ew loric reserves only until the redemption agency would call upon the Issuing banks to make good their respective redemption funds. As this would be done ordinarily by drafts on their New York correspondents, the outcome would be that the net reserves of the New York City banks would be unaffected by the movement. "When $100. 000.000 of bank currency no longer needed had thus gone forward to New York, and been through the process of redemption, there would be no such accumulation of Idle funds as oc curs under the existing system, but the position of the New York banks would be practically unaffected by the movement. The $100,000,000 of bank currency, on the other hand, no longer needed, would have gone home to the Issuing banks to rest In their vaults without cost until the next Increased demand should make It pos sible to issue It and keep it outstanding again. Mr. Farrell's exhortations to hunters to kill all the crows that they- can while In quest of upland birds Is timely. Vora cious, predatory creatures are these feathered scoundrels, so utterly aban doned in, their habits that not even the Rev. William R. Lord, the bird-lover and champion, who has written so en tertainingly about the "Birds of Oregon and Washington," has anything to say In their favor. It Is doubtful, however, If hunters intent upon bagging pheas ants or other toothsome upland birds will waste their ammunition upon Jim Crow, just for the pleasure of hanging him up by the heela Hunters are pro verbially short-sighted. Very few will take a hot at a crow in defense of next .year's .eggs and nestlings, when by so doing a shot might be lost at a beauti ful cock, pheasant, unaware of the fowler's proximity until his gun was discharged. If It becomes necessary to protect pheasants from crows, we shall doubtless have a crow scalp bounty law. It Is as. useless and unreasonable to expect hunters to protect the birds that flourish for their especial benefit as to expect sheepmen to protect their flocks from the predaceous coyote. Among recent deaths Is that of Will- lam W. Grout, for many years Con-; gressman from Vermont He, was born In 1886, was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fifteenth Vermont Regiment of Stan- nard's Brigade at Gettysburg. In 1878 he was nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Third District, but was beaten by Bradley Barlow, Green- backer. In 1880 he was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress from the Third District, and was a candidate for the nomination In the Second District n 1882, but was defeated by Judge Po land. In 1884 General Grout was nomi nated by the Republicans of the Second District and was elected to the Forty ninth Congress by a majority of over 13,000, ' and was re-elected to the Fif tieth, Fifty-first Fifty-second, Fifty- third. Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Con gresses, invariably running ahead of his ticket. He owned and resided upon the old homestead lri Kirby, Vt, where his grandfather settled In 1779. In 1900 Rep resentative Grout retired from Con gress. The Pennsylvania "anthracite miners' license act, passed In July io, bars any Importation of miners. No man can mine coal until he has been examined and licensed by "Miners' Examining Bcfard" of district, made up of nine mln who have worked five years. the his ers No man Is eligible for this examination unless he has "had not les3 than two years' practical experience as a miner or a mine laborer In the mines of this commonwealth." He must answer "at least twelve questions In the English language pertaining to the requirements of a practical miner," and be Identified under oath by a "practical miner hold ing a miner's certificate." This bars from the anthracite mines any miner who has not been two years at work, in a Pennsylvania mine. The Lyttleton (New Zealand) Times of August 1 last contains a dispatch from Auckland telling of the proceed ings of the trades and labor council there on- the previous day. Among other things "It was resolved to forward to the railway employes' union of San Francisco, Cal., a letter congratulating It on the result of the recent strike, and also a copy of the New Zealand labor laws." In the letter it Is stated that the conciliation and arbitration act "has annihilated strikes In New Zealand and that no enactment of the twenty-two instituted, here in the interests of labor Is more cherished by us. We commend it to our fellow-workmen m America as the Magna Charta of labor." The Kansas view of Pension Commis sioner Ware's removal of Medical Ref eree Raub is frankly set forth In the Topeka (Kan.) Capital (Rep.), which says: "Pension Commissioner Ware has responded promptly to the appeal of the Grand Army in the cas of Chief Med ical Referee Raub, has investigated the charges, and without any ado removed that official and appointed another man In his place.' Dr. Raub was the right- hand man of Commissioner Evans, and, according to the Grand Army men, was in his place of head medical referee for the purpose of killing off pension appu cations." The traditional Oregon mist, dear to the hearts of all true Oregonlans, began to fall softly yesterday afternoon. A week or so of Its gentle percolation will send an army of plowmen afield turn ing furrows that will "laugh Into nlenty." as Hamlin Garland has It, next Summer. From -now on until Spring we will hear a good deal from the dull witted about the "thirteen mo'nths in the vear In which it rains in Oregon Sensible people have become used to this sort of drivel and sejdom honor it with a reply. The most important fact revealed by the recent English census returns is the relatively small Increase of children, under 15. From 1881 to 1891 there was an Increase In such children of 7.4 per cent, while from 1891 to 1901 there was an Increase of but 3.5 per cent, a cen sus specialist, writing to the Times, de Hnrps "the number of children (In Eng nlonel would have been 2,092,000 greater had the ratio of 1881 been main tained." . A. ChllllMB Welcome. Boston Herald. The New York Evening Post evidently in vinvo nothine to do with Bird S. Coler, the Democratic nominee for Gov nt Mow York. It used to think r.T-tt-r favorably of Mr. Coler. but is con slderably out of conceit with him now. It describes him as having "a most unpleao- lng eagerness iur jjuwuciu icnmu continues its objections by saying: "Am I to, be a reformer for naught?" was his tacit, almost his open, question. He estab lished a "literary bureau." and of all bad vmntnms In a oubllc man this Is one of the most alarming. He set about making himself known not only known, but cheaply notorious, No renorter aDDlIed to him for an Interview in vain. No sensational editor but could command a contribution from his pen. No Tammany pic nlc. no county fair, got a refusal when it In him. And In all his public appearances and utterances there wa3 a note of overweening desire for political advancement. Thf Evenlnff Post concludes Its unufiU' iiv fnrmidjfble list of objections to Mr. Coler by saying: "He has long been, In short, that most undesirable of candidates thp' uncommonly anxious one." We opine that with this exponent in the press of Independence, uovernor uueu simma batter than the man tnus aescriDea. Coler on Tammany Corruption, ntpw York Commercial Advertiser. Mr Coler as a Tammany candidate Is in much the same fix that Mr. Shepard. was in when he ran for Mayor, ne nas talked of Tammany rascality with the same truth and freedom that Shepard used, and which came home to plague hlra when he accepted a Tammany nom ination. When he was Controller of the nitv in the Spring of 1900, Mr. Coler said among other like observations regarding the way In which Tammany statesmen were conducting the municipal govern ment: The citv has been robbed outrageously in the nurchase of supplies. Yv'e have held up many hills, and In some cases the partJeB have ac cepted large reductions because their claims were so fraudulent they dared not go Into court. The latQ William M. Tweed was caught because he did not know how to. steal In a respectable way. Legalized robbery of the city seems to bo quite respectable. It Is worse than anything attempted by Tweed. Of course,, he swallowed all this later, as Shepard did, but Shepard was not helped in public estimation by that pro ceedlng, and Coler will not be. SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS A Debt He Can't Sedge. Bolso News. The Sultan of Turkey is about to pay the debt of nature. It will be the nrst time he ever" paid anything. A SagrgrestioB Uram. EsgeBC. Eugene Register. Portland Is srettlne aulte up to date. Telephone wires are to be placed under ground. A few Portland ponuciapa ohould be laid alongside. Gri.dt.roa Replaces tbe Diamond. Albany Democrat This week the baseball has been tossed aside all over the- country for the larger ball of the gridiron. The finest game ever played will give place to the rough est A Hint That May Be Accepted. Newport News. Since we are there with the Navy and the marines, why not stay there until the Panama canal Is finished and then for ever? Thero Is more than ono way of se curing a perpetual lease. Democratic Hop en of Froat. Baker City Democrat. The full dinner pail is being succeeded by the empty coal bin, and thereat the Eastern Republicans are fearful lest a change in the political coloring of Con gress takes place In November. v Salt en Their Tails. Medford Southern Oregonlan. Senator Morgan thinks the way to get even with, the trusts Is to tax them. That sounds well. Perhaps the Senator knows of some way to catch them and mao them stand till the taxes can be laid on them. The Bast Not So Eete. Olympla Recorder. Governor Odell. of New York, has' called out the mllltla to protect the property of the Hudson Valley Railroad Company. With New York and Pennsylvania under martial law, what about the "wild ana woolly West"? By Far the Lesser Evil. Pendlaton East Oregonlan. The new forest reserve has caused a whole lot o comment, but it has caused not so much Inconvenience as .the land grabber and timber shark. They were gobbling it as rapidly as they couia nna henchmen to act and swear with them. Does It Include Jordan f Whatcom Reveille. Mrs. Stanford recently delivered an ad- flrpss tn tho hoard of trustees of tne university, In which she said that political activity on tho part of professors win not be tolerated.- We are glad to hear it; for now we know that we are to hear ni more of President Jordan's references to Agulnaldo as the -George Washington of the .Filipinos' cause. Ay, There's the Rub. Salem Statesman. Two unnecessary normal schools In Oregon are, the reeult of "1 11 scratch your back lfA you'll scratch mine." Pen dleton Tribune. Which ones are they? Js the Normal School at Weston one 6f them? Or are they both located In South ern Oregon? But Southern Oregon Is growing, and bound to 'grow. The schools at Ashland and Drain will have plenty of grist for their mills within a few years, though they may not be over burdened with students now. Nor, for the master of 'that. Is the one at Weston, Political Insratltude. Eugene Guard. The stjectacle of Senators Quay, Piatt and Penrose, and Governor Odell, of New York, threatening J. P. Morgan ana his 111 brood of -coal-trust operators is 4an edifyingone. No wonder Morgan Is angry at the lack of political gratitude. Trusts and tariffs contributed largely to tne making of the political fortunes of these men. Whv should they show Ingratitude in dealing with their political maker? Mnrran can't understand It. Tney are afraid of the eommon people. That the sufficient explanation. Sentiment With the Miners. , Astoria Astorlan. All over the country contributions are beinsr made for the assistance or tne struggling coal miners of the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania. Astoria has been amoealed to for aid and the local Federation of Labor will receive contribu tions. Every fair-minded man should lend some assistance, for the cause for which the miners are fighting Is a worthy one. They should be given every possible encouragement In the effort to success fully combat the sentiment that labor has no right to organize for Its own pro tection. Either Is Good for. Senator. Lewlston Tribune. If the Democrats of the state are some what confused over muddled politics the ReDubllcans are no better. Judge Hey burn, a leading candidate for the United States Senats. announces from the ros trum that he stands upon the state plat form as far as It coincides with the Na tional platform. In state convention it is understood Judge Heyburn opposed the tariff reform nlank then adopted, and it he is still opposing it: In other words. Judge Heyburn appears to oe serving timely notice on the people that If elected he will do what they do not want done and will not do things they want done. Irrigation Fund. 6alem Btatesman. The fact is probably not generally un derstood that the money received upon the sales of Government lands in each state Is set aside, under the new lrriga tlon act. for the payment of the cost of building irrigation works In that states This" nrovlsion was Inserted in tne diu before Its passage after a very vigorous and nrotracted fight made Dy uongresa man Tongue. So every dollar paid for timber land, or other public land In Ore con. wilkeo towards the reclamation or arid land In this state. Once the ball is otnrtPfi rnillnir. there -will be a lot or land for new settlers In the arid districts, There will be room for thousands of new homes, and the new homes will be eatan lished as fast as they are ready for the occunants. The sales of the Irrigated lands will also yield large sums of money and this In turn will be made available for other Irrigation works. British Trusts. Bradstreefs. Trusts do not escape criticism In the United Kingdom any more than In the United States, though their development there has not been o'n anything like the .mnl that has been witnessed here. We notice that the Trades Union Congress a London has passed a resolution declaring that "the growth of gigantic capitalistic trusts, with their enormous power of controlling production. Is injurious to the advancement of the working classes, as by such combinations the prices of com moditles are raised, the standard of com fort of the1, people can be reduced, the workmen's freedom endangered and na tlonal prosperity menaced." Before the adoption of this resolution the congress voted down a proposal tor the establish mont of a court of arbitration for labor disputes which It was assumed would arise In cbnsequence of the growth of trusts. Some of the delegates opposed this proposal on the ground that under the system suggested the unions would not only lose many of the advantages they had wrung from the employers, but would die of inanition, since the need of their, survival would no longer exist. The proposition was defeated by a vote of more than three-fourths. C0ALR0ADS"BABLTUALCR1MINALS" Chicago Tribune. The constitution ,of Pennsylvania pro vides that "no Incorporated company do ing the business of a common carrier shall, directly or Indirectly, prosecute or engage In mining or manufacturing ar ticles for transportation over Its road." The interstate commerce law prohibits combinations between common carriers: Tho common law forbids agreements In restraint of trade, especially when the supply or the price of necessities of life Is affected by the agreements. These provisions are salutary. They t the greed of unscrupulous men. They "are all violated, openly and persistently, by the coal-carylng roads. They nullify the constitution of the state which gave them charters. They violate the National laws governing Interstate commerce. They defy the common law, which is, rooted In fundamental principles, which experience has proved are essential to the welfare of the people and to the growth and main tenance of human liberty: The coal-carrying roads are engaged In an unlawful conspiracy, yet their manag ers complain of breaches of the law In the anthracite coal regions. They are the most fligrant and impudent lawbreakers in that part of Pennsylvania. They make no concealment of their contempt for laws and constitutions. The managers of the coal-carrying roads admit that they are In a conspiracy whenever there is occa sion for them to speak or act concerning the coal question. When they responded to an Invitation from the President by In solently rejecting his reasonable requests they did so as one man. Whenever a coal road mines coal it openly violates the constitution of Penn sylvania. Every meeting of the repre sentatives of the roads to fix the price of coal or the rate- charged for- carrying it to market is an open violation of the laws or the Nation and the state. There Is no law designed to protect the consumers of coal against extortion which the coal- carrylng roads have not persistently and puuiiciy violated. The roads are "habitual criminals." Bv their reiterated offenses they have nut themselves out of court. They are en titled to no consideration or compassion. They have worn out the patience of the ycupje. me severesi treatment tney are likely to receive will not be harsher than they deserve. However harsh it may be It will not make them suffer, as they ha e often made the people suffer. They have been hard masters. They have shown no mercy for others. They would have no just cadse bf complaint If no mercy were to ne shown them. A Loose .Expression. New York Evening Post.. We speak the natural language of commerce," said Secretary Shawlyester- day at the ceremonies attending the lay ing of the corner-stone of the new Cus-tom-House. So a Phoenician might have said In the fifth century B. C. a Greek two centuries later, a Roman In the early centuries of the Christian era, a Saracen In the Middle Ages, a Frenchman or Dutchman later and longer, a Spaniard In the 16th century. The tongues of all these people have been languages of com merce, and are so no longer. Chinese Is the "natural language of commerce" for a considerable portion of .the world's "In habitants, Hindustani for another, Rus sian for some millions of diverse nation ality. All these things go -to show that there Is no such thing as a "natural lan guage of commerce." There are simply great trading nations which" impose their language upon their customers, be It Eng lish, Arabic or Chinese. The present and prospective predominance of English In the marts of the world was a legitimate subject of felicitation at the dedication of an American Custom-House. But this gratifying fact was rather an opportunity to preach the gospel of commercial effi ciencydoctrine which, so far as export trade Is concerned. Is badly understood among us than to. fall back upon the "naturalness"' of the English language .as a medium bf commerce. Surely commerce" should eschew the platitudes and the cant of politics. Concerning "Violators of the Law." Detroit Free Press. "You cannot expect ue to treat with outlaws and violators of the law!" sneered the coal operators to President Roose velt. J. Plerpont Morgan and his associ ates have been accused of violating the interstate commerce law in relation to the Northern Pacific merger. Suppose Mr. Mitchell had declared that the men could not consent to arbitrate until Mr. Mor gan could show clean hands? Mr. Mitch ell would have been hooted out of the con ference, and the cause of the United Mine workers would have been discredited everywhere. Yet because there have been conflicts between individual union men and individual nonunion men the operat ors Insist that the entire union must be Indicted for murder, and that they can not conscientiously enter Into any nego tiations with criminals. President Roose velt's Indignation Is easy to understand, and his .conduct in the face of the Insults that were showered on .him and Mr. Mitchell by the operators was a. most mas terful exhibition of self-control on the part of a man that must have been sore ly tempted to drive the entire aggrega tion Into the street. Mr. Grosvenor's Plight. Congressman Charles H. Grosvenor, of Ohio, has telegraphed from Chicago to Clement A. Griscom as follows: "Public sentiment in this section bittr against coal operators beyond description. If continued will assure Democratic Con gress and financial ruin. Mr. Morgan, if he will interfere and effect settlement now, would establish himself In a position stronger than any living American. "The result would react favorably upon all his real enterprises. It would be bet ter from a mere selfish standpoint than all the anthracite coal In the country Is worth, but from the humanitarian stand point be a benefaction. "I go home tomorrow to face 9000 mad coal miners, with a miner candidate against me." Reasoning by Analogy. Philadelphia Ledger. Formerly the country papers called the President's wife the "first, lady of the land." Now the yellow journals speak of the President's daughter as the "first maiden of the land," and the nest thing the President's son knows he will be called the "first urchin of the land." Better Than Libraries. Kansas City Star. It must be admitted that Mr. Carnegie's proposition to provide cheap and deslr able tenements for the poor of London Is a better form of philanthropy than hl3 ample effusion of public libraries. Books can stand coal and exposure with much less suffering than people. Work to Do at Home. Indianapolis Sentinel.' Senator Beverldge talks grandiloquent ly about this being a "world power." Just think of a world power that has not got the nerve to grapple and control a gang of law-defying trust magnates at home. Republican Tariff Doctrine. The principle that the tariff Insures I adequate competition from domestic I sources, a principal which never failed to Justify the doctrine of protection In J any period of the past. Is today passing T through an ordeal hardly even antlcl- pated when the tariff law of 1807 was placed upon the statute-books. If one t field of production after another passes J under the control of speculators in the interest of notorious schemes to engross the whole market, the protection lltera- T ture of a hundred year? Decomes obso- f lete. Senator Dolllver, of Iowa. J NOTE AND COMMENT. . It takes one to strike, but two to arbi trate. . Editor Bryan appears to be devoting himself, to a heavy-weight thinking part. After all, it couldn't have been a comet we saw. It must have been the" moral wave. John Bull butts in occasionally to re mind us that he is in the friendly alliance business at the same old stand., If the Council can't do anything else with the streets, it seems at least to have hit upon a plan to give 'em away. . On sober second thought. It has occurred to Seattle that it was Portland that lost the pennant, and the Sound City feels better. The baseball season Is over, and now the Fall rains have set in. There's a Providence that shapes the end3 of our baseball seasons, etc. Of course, Mr. Hanna'3 approaching joint debate with Tom Johnson had noth ing to do with his sickness. Air. Hanna has been inoculated against stage-fright. .With hops hovering around the 25-cent mark. It Is ahout time for the hold-your-hops prophet, who demands SI 2a, to break Into print. The difference between the Puget Sound bank clearances and the Portland bank clearances is that the latter are bank clearances. A Santa Fe conductor on a Los Angela train told a reporter of" the San Bernardi no Sun that his grandfather remembered a sign which was erected at a point ou a double track railroad in Ireland, to the effect that, "When two trains meet here they must come to a standstill until they have passed each other.V A novel cause for divorce is that alleged by Joseph Madison, of Hoboken. His com plaint sets forth that his wife has become a "matinee tiend." She is d young and beautiful graduate of the Hoboken HJgn School. Her husband states that thfy llved happily .together for three years, until, in the Winter of 130!). she contracted the matinee habit. She would go to the theater five or six times a week, devoting her attention chleily tQ continuous per formances and vaudeville. The husband does not charge her with selecting any particular Idol for histrionic worship, but merely with neglecting her home for the footlights. The current - number of Poet Lore con tains some jottings of Poe's from the manuscript collections of Airs. Anne Gris wold on the subject of versification. Very amusing is his parody, duly scanned, of the "dactylic hexameter" of Evangeline: "Evangeline Du tell when shall we 1 make common sense men out of the pundits Out of the stupid old God-born 1 Pundits who 1 lost In a J los bank Strut about all along shore thero some where close by the Down East Frog Pond munching of peanuts and pumpklnc and burled in I lilg-wlgs? Why ask who ever yet saw money made out of a fat old Jew or downright! upflght 1 nutmegs out of a plneknot." Perhaps the J150.C0O spent by General Mc Cullough in his quest for the Governor ship of Vermont will not be all that he will have to pay. A cattle drover named L. C. Sturtevant, of Addison County, has Ju3t entered suit against him to recover for services and disbursements on,.hls be half in. the canvass for . delegates to the Renublican state convention. Mr. Stur tevant accompanies his suit with bills and letters showing Itemized expendi tures in which cigars and drinks occur with much frequency. The disclosure has attracted considerable attention, espe cially as to the Items for rum. General McCullough says that the whole thing a political trick. A sergeant of a company of British in fantry quartered In a Dacolt-infested part of'Burrnah a few years ago was a firm believer In destiny. No amount of argument with his more skeptical com rades could shake his belief in the slight est, he. Invariably closing the controver sies with the rather illogical assertion that "When a man's "last day comes. It comes." One evening, when dressing preparatory to taking a stroll In the jun gle, he was noticed by a corporal, a per sistent opponent of the destiny theory, to quietly slip a revolver into his pocket. "Halloa!" shouted the corporal, who saw a chance of ridiculing the sergeant, "what are you taking the revolver with you for? That won't save you if your time has come." "No." replied the ser geant, without a moment's hesitation; "but, you eee, I may happen to run acrosa a Dacoit whose last day has come." Thomas B. Reed's name is not often mentioned In the public prints nowadays, says Tip n the New York Press, but among the courts dne blast of his nasal twang Is worth $10,000. more or less. Ag senior partner of the firm of Reed, Simp- . son, Thacher & Barnum. the ex-speaker Is making between $20,000 and $50,000 a year, the most money he has ever earned In his life: and it is said that He Is quite happy in his new estate. Carlisle, another ex-speaker, is also doing famously at the law in this city. Ex-Speaker Joseph War ren Kelfcr Is president of the Lagonda National Bank, of Springfield. O. 'lie ia, also a lawyer. Galusha Aaron Grow Is a lawyer and railroad man. as well as an object lesson in the proposed election of United States Senators by popular vote, for he Is a Co'ngressman-at-Large, an honor second to none In the National Leg islature. There are only five living ex speakers. PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS Church What's the big crowd down the street? Gotham Oh. some millionaire getting In a ton of coal Yonkers Statesman. A unique political announcement 13 as- fol lows: "If my creditors will elect me to the office; and keep me in It. I'll pay the last blamed one of 'em!" Atlanta Constltuolon. Tho Father I suppose you realize that thl3 young man hasn't anything? The Daughter But father, he will have. Why. In two years now he has saved up nearly $150. Detroit Free Press. "How would you define 'exercise' as dis tinguished from 'work'?" asked the teacher. "Exercise." answered Johnny. "Is fork you like to do. and work Is exercise you don't like to do." Chicago Tribune. "Maria." said Mr. Henpeck, "you'll never know how I appreciated your kindness to me when you thought I was going to die." "Well." she replied. "I'm glad to know that my kindness was entirely wasted, after all." Chicago Record-Herald. Rev. Dr. Van Boren Ah. dear madam. I am persuaded that you. at least, are striving ever against the flesh. Mrs. Bulger Indeed, yes. Doctor! And you'll be glad to learn that since I took up tennis I'w o3t ten pounds. Brook lyn Life. Uncle George Loot to the bee, who Im proves each shining lour. Thriftless Xephew That's all the bee's i;ood for. If It amounted to anything. It woulj Improve "some nt tho cloudy hours. The .lining hours don't need Improving. Boston Transcript. "That young woman has some very original Ideas," said tho fusceptlble young man. "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne, "she must have. Otherwise she couldn't possibly derive so much enjoyment from listening to her own, plano-piaylng." Washington Star.