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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.