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PORTLAXD, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 22.
A SPECIAL SESSION. (
A special session of the Legislature la
now broached by the Taxpayers'
League a body of such good record and
repute that this hitherto fatherless pro
ject can now count on support that Is
entitled to respectful consideration. "We
congratulate the league upon its temer
ity. The accredited view of Legisla
tures is that they are too much in evi
dence as it is. There are too many laws,
too many sessions. The fewer the bet
ter. To propose an extra one is to court
the most determined possible opposition.
Most persons feel that if the state can't
get laws enough passed at the biennial
cessions already in vogue, it should
make shift somehow to do without them.
It is perfectly clear that no adequate
basis for a special session would exist
If it were not for the complications of
the Senatorial election which will al
most certainly dominate and embarrass
every undertaking at the regular ses
elon. This is not to eay that action in
advance of the regular session is not
desirable on certain subjects. But this
desirability of early action would have
no possible show of popular acceptance
and approval, if it were generally ex
pected that the Legislature would -be
able in January to reach prompt action
on the questions involved, unencum
bered with the operations of Senatorial
aspirants.
We take it, for example, that an act
putting the initiative and referendum
in force and prescribing its mode of pro
cedure, passed January 15, would be as
effective and salutary in practice as
one passed November 15. The enact
ment of the Portland charter January
15 would be as good in every respect as
its enactment November 15. What time
could be gained by the Lewis and Clark
Centennial between November and Jan
uary would not compensate for the cost
of the special session. Promptness In
all these things is desirable; but another
thing equally or surpassingly desirable
is care in use of the public money.
Every member of the Legislature is re
sponsible to the constituency that elect
ed him and to no one of the several in
terests asking for a special session.
We shall not seek, however, to min
imize the dangers in which every legiti
mate concern of legislation stands from
the Senatorial fight, or to blink the seri
ousness of the possibility of failure
which is thereby involved for every one
of the undertakings in question. Little
was done at the session of 1895; nothing
whatever at the session of 1897; the rec
ord of ,1898 is a very thin volume, and at
the session of 1901 scarcely a topic of
real importance to the state had any
careful or conscientious attention. All
these miscarriages of lawmaking were
due to fierce fights over the Senatorship,
and the present outlook is not promising
for anything better.
If there is no special session, we
should not be called upon to confront
yet we can expect to confront nothing
else than a situation bordering upon an
Impasse for every project, meritorious
or otherwise, whose advocates do not
bow the knee to the faction in control of
either house. The Lewis and Clark
Centennial, the Portland charter, the
Portland drydock, the State University,
assessment and taxation laws, the state
institutions at Salem and elsewhere, the
Agricultural College, the Normal
Schools, and every appropriation, every
object of local as well as general con
cern and importance, will be held up at
the dictation of one or other group of
Senatorial manipulators. It is this
most melancholy and humiliating spec
tacle which the Taxpayers League, as
we understand its purposes, desires to
minimize.
It will occur to the most superficial
observer, however, that the special ses
sion, if called, would itself be in grave
peril of running shipwreck upon these
same rocks of political ambltiona The
membership is the same, the ambitions
are as keen now as they will be then,
and it is difficult to conceive any of the
alert and indefatigable gentlemen al
ready In the field as voluntarily fore
going advantages which might accrue
to them from aid or hindrance to any
undertaking whatever. The organiza
tion of each house will instantly be
come the prize of Senatorial combina
tions. A vote on the Lewis and Clark
appropriation can be traded in Novem
ber for repayment in January as readily
as in January for repayment in Febru
ary. If it were possible to hold a spe
cial session entirely dissociated from
Senatorial complications, much good
might come of It. Otherwise, otherwise.
These suggestions are set down here
for the consideration of the Taxpayers'
League, the Legislature itself, and the
Governor, upon whom the final respon
sibility must rest The matter ia one
not for Portland, but for the state at
large, which is concerned in the Lewis
and Clark Centennial, and which is en
titled to a fair and untrammeled vote
in the Legislature upon the appropria
tion for that object A special sssslon
that does all the good expected of it and
avoids the evils feared will be well. A
special session that does the reverse of
this will redound to the perpetual dis
credit of Its participants and its au
SAVED BY GOOD. LUCK.
The recent great strike lasted over
five months, and the estimated general
losses caused amount to $200,000,000.
This great industrial struggle, which
has lifted the price of fuel to over 20,
000,000 of people to $15 to $30 a ton, was
not terminated by the intervention of
law. It was terminated by the inter
vention of a great citizen. President
Roosevelt, who did- not pretend that his
interference was official in any sense,
direct or Indirect; he simply offered hlo
personal good offices as a mediator be
tween the parties to this great contro
versy, for which he was courteously
thanked by the representative of the
strikers and insulted by the mine oper
atora These mine operators yielded
subsequently because J. Pierpont Mor
gan ordered them to do so. Morgan
had brains enough to see that public
opinion was so strongly behind Presi
dent Roosevelt that It .would be bad
public policy for capital to show less
willingness to submit to the arbitration
of the President than labor. In other
words, we are out of a terrible struggle
by good luek.
President Roosevelt's action binds
nobody but himself. If he should be
re-elected',"probably there would be no
strike of identical character, because
the operators could not afford It. They
know what to expect of Roosevelt They
have had all the 'intervention they want
from him. But suppose in 1904 the dis
gruntled plutocrats of both parties get
together, and eay to the leaders of the
Democratic party .XMake your platform
what you please; nominate anybody
you think you can elect, and we will
furnish you all the support In shape of
money you need. Democratic platforms
are nothing but transient war cries
that die of exhaustion after election.
Any man you can elect will be prefer
able to Roossvelt, because Roosevelt
means what he says, while nobody that
you can elect can possibly be as intract
able as he. With us It is 'anything to
beat Roosevelt.' "
Suppose Roosevelt is defeated in 1904.
or suppose the defeat of the Republican
party does not come until 1908, or sup
pose the Republican elected Is a man
of equal honesty "but of distinctly differ
ent temperament from Roosevelt, what
then? Why, then a formidable strike
in the anthracite region, for lack of a
man like Roosevelt, able and willing to
deal persuasively with a man like
Mitchell, would be suffered to proceed
to the grimmest possible extremity.
Under the circumstances of the recent
strike we do not believe a Republican
lawyer, like Benjamin Harrison, or a
Democratic lawyer, like Grover Cleve
land, would have taken the Initiative as
Roosevelt did In offering himself as a
mediator between striking labor and its
employers Officially Harrison or Cleve
land would have Interfered promptly if
asked for aid by the Governor or to en
force the Jaws of the United States, but
neither of these men would have de
parted from the limit of their official
duties and powers unofficially to uos
their personal prestige to quell a great
strike. Some great and good men, .from
strict notions concerning the good policy
of such unofficial intervention and me
diation, would not attempt it, and some
equally good men might attempt it and
fall.
It is clear, therefore, that we cannot
afford to trust to a repetition of our
recent good luck to relieve us from peri
odical business distress and political
disturbance that is always consequent
upon a great, strike that is long drawn
out We have learned by experience
what dire distress can be Inflicted upon
twenty millions of people at the East
who are dependent upon anthracite coal
for fuel, by a great strike, and we are
bound in obedience to sound. public pol
icy to protect this great public from a
recurrence of such coal famines. Wo
cannot trust to good luck. We must
Intrench the paramount public weal be
hind the law. Some of the soundest jur
ists in the country fairly plead that
while trades-unions exercise a great
power they ought to be legally Incor
porated; and Carroll D. Wright says
that the official programme of federa
tions of labor favors both State and
National Incorporation of labor organi
zations. Sound jurists say that while
employes are liable, can be sued, can
be compelled to live up to their con
tracts, can be cast in damages, labor
unions are Irresponsible, may violate
their own codes, their own oaths, their
most solemn contracts, yet cannot be
brought into court.
English unions make a practice of In
corporating, and the recent decision of
the Law Lords in the Taff Vale railway
case laid it down that any organization
which can work an injury must be held
for the resulting damages. Trades
unions should be incorporated, and a
compulsory arbitration act should be
passed under which every controversy
between coal miners and coal operators
can be heard and finally decided. The
work goes on until the quarrel has been
adjudicated, and then the men may re
ject it or the operators reject It, but
if the men work they must work accord
ing to the terms of the decision, and if
the operators mine they must respect It
If this sensible mode of preventing ruin
ous strikes does not find favor, we shall
certainly do worse by adopting the rem
edy of National ownership of coal mines
and coal railroads, for the public will
not continue to be severely distressed
every two years or so by a long-drawn-out
struggle between labor and capital
Invested in coal mines. King Coal for
the future will not be permitted to play
the part of a selfish and cruel despot.
The worse than folly of allowing emo
tional young women and girls to engage
in prison and other reform work has
been illustrated many times in blighted
lives and disgraced families. It has
been asserted, no doubt with truth, that
the evils resulting from marriages that
were due to the association In Good
Templars' lodges upon terms of social
equality between young women imbued
with the spirit of reform and men who
professed to have abandoned the drink
habit have much more than overbal
anced the good accomplished by this
temperance order. The disastrous con
sequences In the same line that have
occasionally followed teaching by young
girls in Chinese mission schools, and
even among the Indians, are also In
evidence of folly of this nature, while
prison records abound in instances of a
similar character. The most recent of
these is now before the public in con
nection with the suicide of the noted
outcast, Jim Younger, and a young
woman whose love he won while he was
.wearing prison stripes apd she was en
gaged in prison mission work. His
semi-tragic, semi-IntePtional "good-bye,
lassie," and her impassioned declara
tion, "He is mine, arid mine only," form
a lovesick sequel, to a story that is, un
fortunately, too real to be romantic.
The moral of such a story is not far to
seek.
THE IRISH GRIEVANCE.
The Irish people, as Gladstone con
fessed, when he urged home rule, had
a just cause of complaint against Eng-'
land for years of mlsgovernment, from
the days of Queen Elizabeth to the ac
cession of Victoria, but beginning with
O'Connell, a truly great statesman,
who obtained Catholic emancipation in
1829, the drift of English legislation has
been In the direction of the redress of
the grievances of Ireland. It Is not a
fair Indictment of England today that
she conquered Ireland in the twelfth
century; it Is not fair to hold England
of today responsible for the barbarous
government of Ireland under Elizabeth
and James I, under Cromwell. William
III and George III. There are very
black pages in our own history, like our.
support of negro slavery in the past,
but it would be hardly fair to denounce
us today because of our unlovely treat
ment of both the negro and the Indian.
The trouble with Ireland today is
somewhat of kin to our trouble with the
negro problem. It Is easy to establish
a great wrong in the government of a
subject people, but it is always difficult
rapidly to redress that wrong when you"
become alive to its existence. Now, it.
Is but simple justice to England to say
that if she has not redressed all the
wrongs of Ireland she has made com
mendable progress In that direction
since 1830. O'Connell did a great deal
through constitutional agitation, and it
was not his fault that in his old age and'
Infirmity the antics of "the young Ire
land party" of 1S4S halted the progress
of constitutional agitation for reform.
In 18C8 Gladstone disestablished the
Irish Church, and then followed the rise
of Parnell, the greatest name, save
O'Connell, on the roll of 'the Irish agi
tators for constitutional reform. With
Gladstone as an ally of Parnell, that
Irish land tenure legislation was begun
which is so radical that to American
minds it would' eem revolutionary.
Since. Gladstone's day the movement
for home rule has been a "lost cause,"
but there has been no backward step
taken in the matter of the gradual ex
tension of the scope of the famous land
act of 1S81. Irishmen of high intelli
gence, who have recently visited Ire
land for the very purpose of seeing the
situation for themselves, report that the
condition of things Is excellent com
pared with what existed prior to the
passage of the land act. The schools
are vastly improved, the faces of the
men and women in the streets, at the
fairs and in all places of public resort
wear an expression of physical com
fort and mental serenity. Social hap
pincsa amorfg all classes, high and low,
seemed generally to prevail. The old
hovels on the great estates In which the
tenants formerly lived like pigs and not
seldom with the pigs had been replaced
by well-built and well-kept cottages of
stone. The Intelligent people of all
classes admitted that with the passage
of T. W. Russell's land-purchase bill,
under which the large landlords would
be bought out by the government and
the lands sold to peasant proprietors,
Ireland would have small ground for
just complaint. r
The Irish League orator at Chicago,
ex-Congressman Finerty, when he talks
about the lands in Ireland belonging by
hereditary right to the Irish people,
talks like a visionary. We might as
well talk of the lands of Oregon belong
ing by hereditary right to the American
Indian, or Cuba and Porto Rico to the
Caribs. In our judgment the Irish
party in the English Parliament, with
the exception of T. W. Russell, who Is
an able lawyer and a wise man. Is for
the most part composed of reckfess
demagogues. Tim Healey Is a gifted
man of malicious temper whom Parnell
feared and distrusted as a marplot of
genius. Their policy In Parliament Is
simply to Indulge In noisy abuse and
repulsive vituperation at every oppor
tunity, and not seldom some of them
stoop to personal violence.
The only effect of this kind of behav-;
lor Is to lessen the chances of the pass
age of Russell's land-purchase bill be
fore the present Parliament. If this
bill became a law, the occupation of
the Irish Hon In the British Parliament
would be gone. He would roar, of
course, as loudly as before, but with
the extinction of alien apd absentee
landlords he would be like a dog baying
the moon, and all Ireland would know it
and give him the laugh for his pains.
IRRIGATION LAWS IN OREGON.
A short statement of the facts leading
up to the present Irrigation situation in
Oregon may be of service in getting tie
fore the people a correct understanding
of the subject Two acts of Congress
and one Oregon statute bear on the
matter.
What is known as the Carey law
(having been Introduced by Represent
ative J. M. Carey, of Wyoming) passed
Congress In August, 1894, and author
ized the Secretary of the Interior, with
the approval of the President, to con
tract and agree to patent to each of the
states having desert lands 1,000,000 acres
of such lands, on condition that tha
state provide for the reclamation and
occupation of the area thus donated. A
modification of this act, known as the"
Carter amendment, was passed in June,
1896, authorizing the state to create a
Hen against the reclaimed land for the
actual cost of reclamation, together
with reasonable interest thereon.
Several of the states accepted the pro
visions of the Carey law. Oregon was
the last to act, and it accepted the Na
tional donation in a statute passed a
year ago last Winter. It Is to be ob
served that the Carey law authorizes the
donations to be made to. the state, and
not to contractors who may construct
irrigation works, nor to the settlers who
may occupy the lands. The matter of
getting the land watered and tilled la
left for each state to arrange, but the
arrangement must be satisfactory to the
Secretary of the Interior or he will not
pass patent to the state. If he disap
proves, the land simply remains a part
of the public domain. In Oregon the
diity fit making reclamation contracts
was given the State Land Board, con
sisting of the Governor, Secretary of
State and State Treasurer, but such
contracts do not become operative until
the plans for improvement are approved
by the Secretary of the Interior. Two
contracts for the Deschutes Valley and
two for Harney County have been
signed by the state board, and are now
awaiting the action of the Interior De
partment. After the State Land Board had
signed these contracts, last Spring, Con
gress enacted another reclamation law
under which all moneys received from
the sale of public land in the sixteen
westernmost states and territories
should, with certain small exceptions,
be set aside In a special fund "to be
used in the examination and survey for
and the construction" and maintenance
of irrigation works for the storage, di
version and development of waters for
the reclamation of arid and semi-arid
lands." Entrymen upon lands to which
irrigation Is thus made available are re
quired to comply with the homestead
laws, actually to reclaim half the area
applied for, and to pay in money to the
Government the estimated amount of
the Government's outlay In providing re
clamation facilities. These payments
may be divided Into annual Installments
not exceeding ten In number. This
money goes back into the -reclamation
fund, which is thus made endlessly re
volving. About $8,000,000 is now In the
fund immediately available for Irriga
tion work by the Government under the
new law. Oregon hag contributed at
least $911,000 of this money. ThQ ques
tion that is now up for consideration is,
How may Oregon receive the benefit
she is justly entitled to under the new
plan?
Some take the view that the only
practicable fields for Government opera
tions under the new law have already
been partly appropriated by contractors
under the Carey act, and that to get
those fields free for Government action
under the new law pressure should be
brought to bear to prevent approval by
the "Secretary of the Interior of con
tracts passed up In good faith by the
State Land Board. This might rid
the field of improvements under
the Carey law, but it would pre
cipitate litigation; for those who have
expended considerable sums in surveys
and preliminary operations would surely
do their best to protect their In
vestments made under encourage
ment of the law. And such litigation
would keep the Government out. The
other extreme view is that the Gov
ernment should let projects under
the Carey act severely alone, not coin
ing In contact with them at any point.
The more moderate ones do not nee any
occasion for conflict, however. They
regard as unwise any disposition to Im
pair contracts or to render Investments
in developing enterprises unsafe. From
the interview with Mr. A. M.- Drake,
published yesterday, It Is apparent that
there need not be conflict or friction
between the two methods of land recla
mation, even though the situation be
not one that anybody would- have de
liberately planned. An intelligent con
sideration of all the factors of the case
will go far toward solving the problem.
The "treating" method between capi
tal and labor has been frequently
tried, and as frequently found wanting.
This snould not be confounded with
fair treatment, which is productive of
the most satisfactory results. An ex
ample of the failure of this method Is
cited by a man whose relation to his
employes was .almost fatherly. He for
some time provided the girls with a
luncheon, for which he charged 1 cent,
merely "to save the offense of charity,"
although the food furnished cost him 4
cents. The girls struck for certain
privileges, and later, when they begged
to be taken back, the manufacturer de
cided to charge 5 cents for lunch and
make a profit therefrom, an arrange
ment which the girls prefer to the old
one. This accords with the simple
standard that human nature has set up,
which by an unwritten decree main
tains that that which costs nothing is
lightly valued by the recipient. Break
down this standard and we have pau
perism, with its train of helplessness
and Impertinence; maintain it, and we
have independence founded upon and
supported by self-respect.
President John Chandler, of the Brit
ish Labor Association, takes too seri
ously the idle threat of some American
laborfanatic who declared that strik
ing coal miners of Pennsylvania would
"cut off the ears of every miner who
returned to work." This threat was
probably made, but by a wholly Irre
sponsible person, whose utterances were
not sanctioned by the ruling powers of
the Mlneworkero' Association. There is
not a trades-union In the United States
that would sanction this threat, much
less permit It to be executed, though
possibly many unions contain members
who would not be above making It
Justice requires tljat labor unions,
whether local or National, be judged as
a whole, and-not by the ranting, belli
cose members who, in conformity to the
general purpose, are taken into 'them.
Even churches find it necessary at times
to make this plea.
President Roosevelt Is right. The re
ports of department officials are need
lessly and tlresomely and expensively
long. They can and should be short
ened. If this can be accomplished In no
other way, It might be well to employ
a department report editor whose boll-Ing-down
habit is well established, arm
him with a blue pencil and set him to
work. Practical persons generally will
agree with the President that there Is
too much public printing for the public
good, and that this useless matter is
unnecessary cumbered with expensive
illustrations. Give the condensing edi
tor and his blue pencil a chance. The
country could pay him a princely salary
and then save a vast sum of money by
employing him.
The discovery of the sodden hulk of
the old prison ship Jersey In the ooze
and mire in which it has so long been
submerged off Brooklyn navy-yard is
painfully suggestive of the cruelties and
horror of a long outdated -barbarism.
The historical enthusiasts who would
have the blackened hulk raised and pre
served as a memento of times which
happily no longer exist should abate
their ardor and allow the old craft to
remain In hiding. Nothing that is of
value to humanity can be gained by
bringing to the light of day a relic that
will but serve to recall scenes that
would better be forgotten.
The Oregonian desires to commend to
the people of Portland In the heartiest
possible way Mr. Stoddart's production
of "The Bonnie Brier Bush." No finer
exemplification of the actor's art has
been given here for many a day. The
piece itself, based on Rev. John Wat
son's immortal story, Is one to enchain
the listener's Interest and sympathy
from rise to fall of curtain. The rep
resentation of the Scotch people Is accu
rate and Instructive, and the moral les
sons of the story are such that no one
can see this play without receiving im
pulses toward juster thinking and
higher living.
As long as both sldes-in the coal
strike claim the victory, the country
Is safe. If each won out and is satisfied,
everybody else is, or should be.
HIGH TARIFF IN GERMANY.
Chicago Post, Rep.
Just when the sentiment for tariff re
duction in the United States is revealing
Itself more and more unmistakably, Ger
many is at the height of Its own tariff con-
te3t. The situation there Is not urilnstruc-
uvo 10 uoerai-rmnaea Americans.
Last year the government made some
overtures to the agrarian interests by of
fering a scheme of tariff advance, not be
cause more revenue was needed, but sim
ply to gain agrarian support. The com
mission appointed to revise the Minis
terial bill had a clear majority of
agrarians." The result was a general rais
ing of Import duties, and especially on
foodstuffs. The tax on wheat was ad
vanced from 3 cents a kilo to $1 79, or
56 cents a bushel; that on barley) from 4S
cents a kilo to $2 14, or approximately 70
cents a bushel, and so on through prac
tically all grains the commission put a
prohibitive tax. Pork, which had been
free, was taxed about 50 cents a hundred.
The full iniquity of this policy is real
ized only when It Is explained that the na
tive supply of meat Is hot sufficient for
Germany, and that livestock Is practically
excluded. As a result the heavy burden
of the tax has fallen heavily upon the
German consumer, who finds that the
price of meat has risen steadily and con
siderably. It Is the necessities of life that the
agrarian class Is taxing for its own nar
row, short-sighted and selfish advantage,
and no one with a friendly Interest in
the prosperity of the German people will
fall to await the Issue of the struggle now
proceeding. Immediate prosperity as well
as -progress Is involved, and the greed and
bigotry of the feudal class cannot be grati
fied without Industrial disaster as the
consequence. It is hardly conceivable
that Germany will not put herself against
the current of her own commercial ad
vance. And while blaming and denouncing
the rapacious and sordid German agrari
ans, let U3 not lose sight of our own mili
tant and fanatical high-protectionists, the
opponents of revision, reciprocity and an
enlightened trade policy.
Sir. ManKflcId Explain.
The Chicago Tribune is in receipt of the
following letter and the note following the
letter:
"Editor of the Tribune My attention
has been called to the continued refer
ences to Miss Margaret Anglln and the
usual innuendoes a3 to why she severed
her connection with my company. The
facts are well known to Mr. A. M. Palmer,
Mr. Paul Wilstach and others. Miss Ang
lin, who played Roxane In "Cyrano de
Bergorac" charmingly. Immediately after
her marked success In this role received
an offer of twice the sum I had con
tracted to pay her for her services, and
Miss Anglln accepted the offer.
"RICHARD MANSFIELD."
"Note. I am sorry that the facts are so
simple and uninteresting nay, almost sor
didbut 'tis true. It would have been
more exciting, and no doubt more agree
able, to have been able to relate how the
poor creature was taken by the hair and
dragged about the stage, or how she was,
after a stormy rehearsal, kidnaped and
confined In a dark room where the mon
ster squirted Ink at her through the key
hole punctually every 15 minutes, or how
she was sandwiched between two boards
(like the baby In Tolstoi's rustic tragedy)
whilst the beast sat upon her and read
his prayer-bqok. And then how she es
caped, but ever after refused to reveal
the mystery of her sufferings for fear, of
the .vengeance of the bloodthirsty tyrant!
"R. M."
England and America.
Spectator.
We must conclude by a statement of the
causes that we believe are drawing Eng
land, and America together. We do not
think, as Mr. Adams seem to think, that
It Is chiefly due to English admiration for
"the wealthy, the successful, the master
ful." Thoughtful Englishmen do not ad
mire certain aspects of American life, and
those aspects are peculiarly the outcome
of wealth, success and masterfulness. We
believe that the approach Is- due to the
fact that the two nations, by the Inter
change of literature and art, and by the
frequent Intercourse of personalities, are
realizing that by joint effort those ideals
will be attained and that by contrary ef
forts they will be wrecked. It Is a suffi
cient explanation.
If proof Is asked for, we think we can
prove our point. Who Is the American
best known In England, most respected,
most loved? Unquestionably Abraham
Lincoln. Take any great popular gather
ing of Englishmen and speak to. them of
Mr. Lincoln, and a response. Intelligent
and sympathetic. Is certain. But will Mr.
Adams tell us that this typical American,
who Is so universally Tespected In Eng
land, represents "the wealthy, the suc
cessful, the masterful"? If so, the people
of England have strangely misread the
life and character of Mr. Lincoln.
Rcpcnl the Conl Dntlcn.
St. Paul Pioneer Press, Rep.
The country has been given such a
severe lesson In the meaning of a coal
famine that It would without doubt favor
the repeal of all duties on coal of what
ever grade. What has happened In the
anthracite fields might happen In the bi
tuminous fields, and. In fact, more than
once during this strike the tying up of
the principal bituminous mines has been
threatened, and actually has occurred In
the case of some Southern mines. Should
there be a general tie-up, no one could
measure the extent of the calamity, and
It is only prudent to remove every bar
rier that would stand In the way of re
lief from abroad. Neither anthracite nor
bituminous needs any protection in ordi
nary times, and in case of a shut-off of the
domestic supply the only beneficiary of the
tariff would be the Government Treasury.
The entire tax would come' out of the
pockets of consumers already bearing the
grievous burden of famine prices. Fur
thermore, a coal tariff has no rightful
place In our protective system. It cannot,
from the very nature of things, encourage
the opening of a single mine. The cost of
transportation Is barrier enough against
foreign competition. .
Power In Great Minds.
Minneapolis Tribune.
The interesting thing about it Is that the
three men who have settled the strike
have done so without either legal or prop
erty right to Interfere. The President was
advised by his Attorney-General that ho
had no Constitutional power whatever In
the matten. He has simply used, with the
utmost vigor, patience and determination,
his personal Influence and the popular
power of his high station. Mr. Morgan Is
not an owner of the coal roads and had no
property right to dictate to the railway
presidents. He has simply used his great
Influence In the world of finance, commerce
and Industry with reason and patience and
firmness. Mr. Mitchell had neither legal
nor property Interest In the matter. He
had won his Influence over the miners, as
Morgan had won his over the mineowners,
and as the President has won his over the
public by earning their confidence. All
three men had a power to save the situa
tion In a perilous crisis, which neither law
nor property can give. This is a rather re
markable demonstration of the power of
the American people to work directly for
results demanded by the highest public In
terest. The Tariff on Conl.
Philadelphia Ledger.
This Indefensible tax was not smuggled
in, as Secretary Moody thinks, but was
deliberately incorporated In the . tariff,
after full debate, as an understood and
consistent part of the system of class leg
islation embodied In our revenue laws.
It cannot be pretended that such a tax,
which has promoted combinations to con
trol the supply of one of the prime neces
saries of life, has afforded protection to
American labor. It clearly has been no
protection to the public. Whether or not
Its absence would have averted the pres
ent difficulty, its retention certainly has
been made Impossible; and Congress will
be compelled to heed the demand for free
fuel, at whatever cost to the crumbling
fabric of tariff favorltlsm.
SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS
The Trusts and Socialism.
Walla Walla Union.
An Eastern writer of some note tells us
that "the trusts are getting things ready
for socialism," and endeavors to prove
this assertion by the following analysis
of commercial evolution: "The Individual
work, the partnership, the corporation and
the trust which is simply a partnership
of corporations!"
It must be borne In mind, however, that
while this state of affairs will naturally
appeal to our sense of justice, human
nature Is still Imbued with that desire of
self-aggrandizement which will not sur
render itself unconditionally to the public
weal. Altruism Is a theory, personified, to
be sure, in some, but foreign to the ma
jority of great men. Will such financial
geniuses as J. Pierpont Morgan be will
ing tp work on a salary, even If It would
be as high as that of the President of the
United States? There Is no doubt that the
far-sightedness and the business Judgment
of such men lie at the rcot of their suc
cessful enterprises and would they not
3hun their duty or lose enthusiasm In
thinking out big schemes. If they were
salaried managers, instead of sharers In
their own success? Then, too. It Is to bo
remembered that the Government so far
has not made a buslners proposition even
of the mall system, the fiscal year clos
ing with a deficit of over $2,C0O,0CO. Social
ism may be the next thing on the pro
gramme, but the road Is by no mean3
clear.
More Railroads .for Oregon.
Eugene Register.
Just now there Is considerable stir In
Pacific Coast transportation circles over
the statement that the Oregon Short Line
Is to put on a steamer service from Port
land to the Orient. Since this line Is sup
posed to belong to""the Harrlman system,
which operates O. R. & N. steamers on
the Pacific, the move Is not fully un
derstood among Portland rallrcad men.
The statement with reference to the
ocean transportation comes from Salt
Lake, a point of considerable interest to
the West In view of Its connection with"
the proposed Coos Bay road. It has been
frequently rumored that the Short Line
Is Interested in the proposed line to Coos
Bay, but with equal posltlvcnesn It has
been stated that at least a half dozen
other different lines have each been put
down as the one that Is bound for the
bay aa Its western terminus. Some day
Oregon will awaken to find several trans
continental lines peeping across the Cas
cades toward the old Pacific In conjunc
tion with the morning sun. When more
belt lines of commerce thread our valleys
and climb our mountains Oregon will
bound ahead with gigantic strides like to
which our present progress Is as the child
learning Its first faltering footsteps. Mark
our prophecy.
A Hnrlior-Improvement Loxnon,
Astoria Astorlan.
Whether or not the sea dredge will
solve the great problem that confronts
the Government engineers In the improve
ment of the bar, the experiment about to
be tried there will prove a valuable les
son in harbor improvements of magnitude.
There are two ways to deepen great har
bor entrances one by building jetties and
the other by dredging. The jetty has
been tried here, and, while the suspen
sion of work at the critical time made the
test rather an unsatisfactory one, fairly
good results were obtained. Now the de
partment will try out the dredging plan,
and when this shall have been done, full
knowledge of the mdrlts of each will be
secured. If the sea dredge will scour out
a 'channel that will remain, the General
Government will have accomplished a
wonderful step In harbor Improvement; If
the new plan falls, then jetties must be
depended upon to secure the desired depth.
It Is Indeed gratifying to note that the de
partment has . urged the utmost haste in
this important matter. There has been
altogether too much delay In the past,
which accounts for the unsatisfactory re
sults obtained.
Irrigation Needs More Attention.
Pendleton East Oregonian.
Oregon is put at the foot of the class
among the "arid" states in the irrigation
column. It Is not because Oregon has not
the best arid lands of thom all, nor be
cause she has the poorest Irrigation facili
ties. Shehas all of these. Her lands are
the best, her rivers are accessible to many
wide scopes of country, and she has hun
dreds of reservoir sites In the mountains
for storing water. Besides, her facilities
for artesian wells in the way of a natural
supply at a short depth give her advan
tage over many points. The trouble
seems to He In the failure of Oregon peo
ple or Oregon representatives to push the
matter as they should. There has been
too much attention paid to Government
buildings and the waste of money on
river Improvements and building jetties
for the good of Eastern Oregon. There has
been too much public Interest taken In
obtaining money through handling rock
and mud In the water Instead of sending
water through the rich loamy lands of
Eastern Oregon that are Idle from thirst
and only need water to make them pro
duce the marvel crops of the age.
Time for Just Conditions.
Bandon Recorder.
Competition, which Is synonymous with
contention. Is producing Its fruit and the
harvest Is advancing apace. There is
revolution In Turkey, Morocco, Acre, Co
lumbia, Venezuela, Hayti and China;
strikes In Switzerland, France, Spain,
Mexico and many other places, besides
those of this country, which cap those of
foreign lands In their magnitude. Added
to the Ills already enumerated, there are
many others of a like disquieting nature,
and all speak of unrest and turmoil. Tak
ing a candid look at the situation, we are
led to "believe that if there ever was a
time when the devil rejoiced at his handi
work and looked forward to the fruition of
his hopes and the culmination of his pow
er, that time is now. It Is time that na
tions and men turn to Just conditions be
fore the rod of correction descends.
New Oregon Weather Remark.
Whatcom Reveille.
The Oregonian says we will now ""hear
a great deal from the dull-witted about
the 13 months in the year in which It
rains In Oregon." The Oregonian correct
ly designates them as dull-witted. The
only really capital remark we ever heard
on Oregon weather was made by a lady
of our acquaintance, who. said: "We have
the rainy season, and then we have Au
gust." Democratic Thunder Gone.
Walla Walla Union.
With the coal strike ended, the Army
reduced to Its minimum and Filipinos
prospering and happy pray, what's left
for the Democratic campaign?
Not on the Small Boy This Time.
Whatcom Reveille.
Thre Is one gratifying thing about the
Mount Pelee eruptions. The fire was not
started by careless boy3 with cigarettes.
Songr.
Aubrev De Vere.
Seek not the tree of silkiest bark
And balmiest bud.
To carve her name while yet 'tis dark
Upon the wood.
The world Is full of noble tasks,
And wreaths hard won:
Each work demands strong hearts, strong
hands.
Till day Is done.
Sing not that violet-veined skin.
That cheek's pale roses.
The lily of that form wherein
Her soul reposes:
Forth to the fight, true man, true knight;
The clash of arms
Shall more prevail than whispered tale
To win her charms.
The warrior for the True, the Right,
Fights in Lore's name:
The love that lures thee from that fight
Lures thee to shame:
The love which lifts the heart, yet leaves
The spirit free,
That love, or none. Is fit for one
Man-shaped, like thee.
... Aubrey De Vere
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Nevertheless, Mr. Bryan knows jusv
how he'd a done It.
The full coal-scuttle also Involves prob
lems of toll and trouble.
Anyhow. Mr. Lord is getting an un
usual lot of got-next-to-pure-readlng-mat-ter-top-o'-collum
advertising-
Possibly the President and Hon. John
Mitchell may be prevailed upon to unite
forces in tackling the servant-girl prob
lem. President Hill can be dead sure of full
and appreciative accounts of his merger
testimony In the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
1 We suppose the President will be justi
fied in referring to late Pennsylvania un
pleasantness in his Thanksgiving proc
lamation. The Taxpayers League has called an
extra session of the Legislature, but.
through some oversight, hss neglected to
name the date.
Possibly the Portland team would have
come out of It a little better If Third
Baseman Harris had landed in jail earlier
in the season.
Tacoma papers proudly declare that one
"Captain Kidd. now in this port, .says
Tacoma ha3 the finest harbor in the
.world." Captain Kldd'n famous ancestor
was also a mighty jollier.
In the course of a talk the other day
President Eliot gave Harvard freshmen
this advice: "There Is one rule to bear
In mind whether in company or alona
don't think about yourself. Many a fel
low popular in college turns Out to be a
man whose energies arc concentrated
wholly on self-advancement. Give up
thdsc thoughts of self. You no longer
belong to yourself: you belong to a so
ciety and must live up to Its traditions."
J. F. C. Talbott and William Tyler
Page are respectively Democratic and
Republican candidates for Congress In
the Second Maryland District. One fea
ture of the contest makes It unique
among all the 3S6 Congressional cam
paigns. Twenty years ago Mr. Page was
a page in the House of Representatives
of which Mr. Talbott was a member.
The district Is a close one. Mr. Talbott
Is a veteran politician, having repre
sented the district in the 16th, 4Sth and
53d Congresses.
One of the most Interesting passengers
among those brought to New York by
the American liner St. Paul on her latest
trip from Southampton was Miss Graco
Nallor, 16 years old and a full-blooded
Indian. After the battle of Wounded
Knee, which was fought in South Da
kota io years ago, a soldier found a baby
girl on the battlefield and took her to
Captain Nillor. Mrs. Nallor adopted her,
educated her, took her abroad and now
Miss Grace Is a Washington favorite.
Captain and Mrs. Nallor accompanied
their adopted daughter from Europe.
The late Lord Chanes Russell of Kilt
owen had a wonderful memory for faces.
On one occasion he visited a theater In
Manchester and between acts went be
hind the scenes to see an old friend.
While they were chatting an actor passed
and Lord Charles said to his friend: "I
remember that man. He was the orig
inal Father Tom In the 'Colleen Bawn.'
I saw him in that character the 7iiht
the play was produced 20 years ago."
Though Russell had not seen the actor
In all that time he remembered him at
once.
Frank J. Gould's mother-in-law, Mrs.
Edward Kelly, Is called "the youngest
looking grandmother in America." She
does not look a day over 20 and with her
perfect figure, heivy dark hair and plnk-and-whlte
complexion Is the envy of all
her female friends. This Is her own ex
planation: "I never worry. I never fret
I never argue. I never talk scandal. I
ne'ver go without nine hours' sleep. I take
care of my complexion. My hair Is
brushed for 10 minutes a day. I don't
flit from tea to reception and from ap
pointments with dressmakers to tiresome
dinners with the rush and bustle of a
Wall-street man."
Nature His Hired Man.
Chicago News.
It was In the far South.
"How's times?" asked the tourist
"Pretty tolerable, stranger," responded
the old man. who was sitting on a stump.
"I had some trees to cut down, but tho
cyclone leveled them and saved me the
trouble."
"That was good."
"Yes; and then the lightning set fire to
the brush pile and saved me the trouble
of burning it."
"Remarkable! 'But what are you doing
now?"
"Waiting for an earthquake1 to como
clong and shake the potatoes out of the
ground."
Something Doinpr Every Day.
Detroit Free Press.
On Tuesdays, Thursday and Saturdays
the foreign correspondents have the Brit
ish ministry tottering. On Mondays
Wednesdays and Fridays the French
ministry Is tottering. On Sundays the
situation . In Austro-Hungary is becom
ing critical.
A Wntchful Nurse.
The Interne.
Doctor Aha! Glad tq see you doing bet
ter. So you slept well last night, did you!
Patient Who slept?
' Doctor Here's the record: "Slept, slept,
slept"
Patient Pi'haw! That was the nurse.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPIIERS
"Ye-. "Wllklns has struck ray dirt." "Eh!
Mlnlns?" "No. he wrote a problem play."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Patience I would never squeeze my feet out
of shape. Patrice-Oh. yes. you would, if you
were in my shoes. Tonkcrs statesman.
"She bvs she believes In evolution." "On
wha't grounds?" "Well, she married a dude,
and he has turned Into a real sensible hus
band." Philadelphia Bulletin.
Judge You do not seem to realize the
enormity of the chance against you. Prisoner
No, I ain't got my lawyer's bill yet. but
I'm expectln the eharge'H be enormous, all
right. Philadelphia Record.
Inducement- Life Insurance Agent Why,
Just look at that list. I've insured I!l men In
the last six months and IT of them are serious
ly 111 at the present moment! Chicago Daily
News.
"What luxury is It," asked the teacher,
"that everybody wants to buy during tho
months that have an R In thMr names?"
"Coal." answered the little Wise boy. from
the foot of the class. Baltimore American.
Clerk I'm sorry, sir. but I cannot sell you
morphine. Homely Customer Why, do I look
like a man who would kill himself? Clerk
I don't know, but If I looked like you I should
be tempted. Detroit Free Press.
"There's no doubt that colored men often
make good soldiers." "Course dey does,"
answered Mr. Erastus Pinklcy. "You put
a cullud man along of a puccssion an he3
gwlne to foller It to dc finish, no matter whut
de danger "is. "Washington Star.
"See here." remarked the guest to the new
waiter, "there doesn't seem to be any soup
on this menu card." "Oh, no, sir," replied
the waiter, nervously, "I didn't spill it at this
table It was the one on the other side of the
room." Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.