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FV ale In Salt Lake by the Salt Lake News t- 77 West Second South street. , -For ecle In Minneapolis by R. G. Hf arsey & Co.. 24 Third street South. For sale In Washington. D. C by the Ebbett House news stand. For salt in Denver. Colo., by Hamilton & Kendrlck. 000-012 Seventeenth street; Louthan A Jackson Book & Stationery Co.. Fifteenth aad Lawrence street: A. Series. Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TODAY'S WEATHER-Occaslonal rain; cool er; southwesterly winds, shifting to westerly. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature. G2; minimum temperature, 40; pre cipitation, 0.09 inch. POR'fLAXD, TUESDAY, XOV. 11, 1002. The famous case of Molineux in New Tork City has reached its conclusion and been given to the Jury, which will probably bring in a verdict of acquittal cr disagree. The case for the prosecu tion was weak. It did not establish the fact of a satisfactory motive for the. crime. It did not shew that Molineux made the poison or mixed it with the salts. It did not prove that he bought the bottle-holder, and It failed to prove that he roalled the poison package to Cornish. The expert testimony present ed by ibe prosecution in regard to the handwriting is offset by equally respect--able, expert testimony of a contrary na tive. Even if the jury believed that lolineux was probably guilty, they could not convict him on such testimony as that of opposing experts, who are nothing but the highly-paid witnesses of the side that summons them. It la sae to say that so-called expert testi mony has become so generally discred ited that no jury of intelligence is likely to convict the accused without conclu sive evidence entirely outside of the so called scientific judgment of experts. So true is this that it is almost Impossible to convict the accused when the mur der has been wrought by poison, and the .tracing of the poison package up to the prisoner Is sought to be established by so-called experts In handwriting. In the days of Louis XIV the prosecution nad a much more simple way of estab lishing the guilt of the prisoner, which was to put the accused to the torture until confession was made to secure a brief release from agony. The Mar chioness de Brinvilliers, the famous poi soner, was tortured by "the water cure," and so was the famous Francis "Villon, the vagabond French poet. The "water cure" was sure to convict the prisoner, as it was kept up steadily until the victim confessed guilt. , The spectacle of the frenzied Doukh foors marching in the cold without thick 'clothing, without supplies, "to find Jesus," leaving behind their farms and their women and children, explains the fortitude of religious enthusiasts In the flaya of sectarian persecution in the past These Russian fanatics evidently wel- Tome pain, suffering and death, even as religious enthulsasta in all times have welcomed the martyr's grown. It was this kind of insanity that made religious fanatics and murderers like Gerard and Ravaillac smile amid horrible torments; that made the victims of the fires of Smlthfield suffer heroically, whether .imrned as Protestants or Catholics. In a less degree this kind cf enthusiasm has sustained political martyrs in the hour of torture and death. Probably a good many so-called religious or political martyrs who have gone forth seeking trouble until they found it have been not far removed from the insane enthu siasm of the Doukhbors. Today they as tonish us because they are an anachron ism, but they would not have been an anachronism In the Middle Ages or even as late as the seventeenth century, when delicate women were drowned for their faith in. Scotland and noble minded Jesuit missionaries met horrible deaths at the hands of the Iroquois In dians. Some awful criminals have suf fered terrible tortures with unruffled composure,, mangled wolves dying mute at the cruel executioner's hands, which indicates that such miscreants have a certain Insane intensity In their make up. By the new constitution of Alabama only those can vote who can read and write in a manner satisfactory to the. registrars, or who, being unable to read or write, were either legal voters before and up to the end cf the Civil War or are the direct descendants cf such vot ers. The effect of this so-called "grand father clause" is to disfranchise all illit erate negroes while preserving the fran chise to the Ignorant whites. The peti tion of an Alabama negro to compel the local election board to register him as a voter, which the board had refused to do, recently came before Judge T. G. Jones, recently appointed to the United States District Court by President Roosevelt. Judge Jcnes, who as a mem ber of the Alabama constitutional con vention opposed the "grandfather clause," refused to grant the writ of mandamus on the ground cf lack of jur isdiction, but certified the case directly to the Supreme Court cf the United States. It has already been, brought be fore the Supreme Court,, which will probably decide that the "grandfather" provision is not in harmony with the fifteenth amendment of the United States States Constitution, prohibiting the states from denying the elective franchise to anybody on the ground cf race or color. The court of last resDrt cannot afford to treat with any respect a mere device to evade the plain intent of the law. of the land. FJUUIER YS, FISHER3IAX. Fish Commisslcner Kershaw, cf Wash ington, Is credited with the statement that this is the last year in which the Wenatchee and Melhow hatcherier wi'.l be operated unless there shall be legisla tion for the protection of the young fish turned cut . by them. This is a matter cf-vital interest to every one directly cr Indirectly Interested in the fishing indus try in either Oregon cr Washington, and an earnest and united protest should go up against the abandonment of either cf these stations. The importance of thcai hatcheries isindlcalcd by the Commis sioners' statistics, which shew that out cf a total of 29,503.000 spawn taken at all of the Washington hatcheries, 11,000,000 were taken from the s.a.tior.s at We natchee and. Methcw. The numerical importance the showing alone is suffi cient to demand the- retention of these stations, but there is a still greater rea son why they should net be abandoned. As stated by the Commissioner, these hatcheries take the tpawn cf the big chinock salmon, which enter the river early in the Spring. These big fellows are the finest salmon. In the world, their extraordinary strength and vitality alone enabling them to fight their way hun dreds cf miles inland, while weaker members of the salmon family deposit their spawn in smaller streams nearer the ocean. As like begets like, the off spring of these big chlnook salmcn are vastly superior to those secured from in ferior fish, which were unfitted by na ture to overcome the obstacles encoun tered in the long journey inland. The value cf artificial propagation has been .demonstrated beyond all question. The fry liberated from the hatcheries of Ore gon and Washington return to the Co-, lumbia with the same degree of cer tainty that Spring follows Winter. Such being the case, every effort should be di rected to securing spawn from the hsst fish obtainable, and, for propagating purposes, no finer fish can be secured than those whese big frames and fine constitutiens have enabled them to go the limit in quest of a spawning-ground. The reascn given for the abandonment of the hatcheries is that the fry, when turned loose, nearly all wander into irri gating ditches and perish when low water comes. The only remedy for this lies in screening the intakes of theso ditches. This is opposed by the irriga tion men as causing a heavy expense, but it does net seem reasonable that their objection should be sustained. They are given the right to take water from the river for irrigating purposes, but are not permitted by this' right to take the fish with it. Irrigation is but in its in fancy in Oregon and Washington, and the time Is coming when the waters of the Columbia and tributaries will put life into thousands and hundreds of thou sands of acres where npw but isolated patches feel the magical touch of that stream. If one of the greatest industries in the Northwest is to be jeopardized by the comparatively small amount of Irriga tion now in effect, the .matter will be come too serious to be remedied within a few years. The two hatcheries men tioned should not be abandoned, but Im mediate steps should be taken for secur ing legislation at the coming sesiscn at Olympla to regulate the taking of water from the Columbia and its tributaries by the Irrigating ditches. The thousands cf fishermen who secure a livelihood from the stream are as much entitled to the use of its waters for their business as are the Irrigation men, and if the latter will respect their rights by placing screens at the head of the ditches, the Interests of neither will suffer. This dif ficulty will eventually come up for so lution in Oregon, and will again remind us of the necessity for concurrent legis lation in Oregcn and Washlngctn on all matters pertaining to the Columbia River fishing Interests. VALUED AID TO SHIPPING. With the exception of the lighthouse service along the Oregon and Washing ton coast, no greater aid to shipping bound for the Columbia River has ever been extended than by the recent es tablishment of a reporting statlcn at North Head. While the etation is com paratively new. and the service not yet. at its best, its value was demonstrated In a striking manner In the. case of the British bark L,odore( which was pulled out of the breakers near WIHapa Bay a few days ago. With the aid of a pow erful gloss the Weather Bureau's ob eerver at North Head recognized the plight this vesesi was in almost as soon as It became known to those on board, and immediately summoned assistance from Astorja. The responds to his warning was not as prompt as it should have been, and ssveral hours later the bark was rescued from her perilous po sition by a. passing steam echoqner. The Incld.ent, however. s;rved to show the possibilities for avoiding disasters' simi lar to those which haver left the bones of eo many fine vessels on North Beach, and is a piece of work for which the Weather Bureau is entitled to much credit. While the low "of life and property through wrecks? along the coast is smaller proportionately on vessels bound for the Columbia River than it Is with the fleet bound for Puget Sound, the record for the past twenty-five yeare is not a pleasing one. During that period the property" loss alone by vessels stranding on the Washington coast be tween the mouth of the Columbia and WIHapa harbor has run into millions, and what is of vastly greater im portance, the loss of life has been heavy. Not all of the vrspeln lost on the North Beach in this period could have been saved, even had there been prompt serv ice in summoning help, but in a number of cases, like ihe Abbey Cowper, Dewa Gungadhar, Lammerlaw and others, where the ves&el anchored and dragged into the breakers, prompt service in summoning help would have avoided heavy loa?. Now that the North Head etation has proven its value and given positive aP3urance that a watchful eye is being kept over shipping liable to gel Into trouble on North Beach, an effort should be made to have the service ex tended up the coast. Some of the worst wrecks that have ever happened on the coast have been in the vicinity of Gray's Harbor and Point Granville. Had there been any facili ties for calling for assistance last Win ter, the fine new bark Ernest Reyer,. which pounded, to pieces north of Gray's .Harbor, would have been saved with but little difficulty. The bark Plnmore was at anchor for days before new of her predicament reached the otide world, and seven lives were lost through no assistance reaching the vessel. The extension of this reporting service Is a "matter in which nil ports from the Co lumbia River north are interested. The marine traffic of the Colunfbia River, Puget Sound, Gray's Harbor and Wil lapa Harbor has reached such propor tions that it id certainly entitled. to all the safeguards which the Government can throw around it. Had it not been for the- unexpected parsing of the steam er Sequoia, the timely warning of the Weather Bureau alone would have saved the Lodore from destruction. The appearance of the Sequela does not de tract from the credit due the North Head reporting station: for, had the steamer not appeared, the warning of the observer had been so:it to the tug boatmen In' ample" time' for them to reach the vessel. The cost of maintaining a reporting station Is insignificant compared -with Its value in cases like that cf Jhe Le dore, for the prorcrty Irs?.' alcre by her destruction would have amounted to a 'um sufficient to makUaln the service at the station for more-, than ten years. The work of the Weather Bureau In this district s'.nce the coming of Mr. Beals has been of great beneli: to the agricultural and shipping interests of this district, but no brancn of the service 1 haa shewn its value more effectively than has the reporting s.atlon at the mouth of the Columbia, t THE HIGH SIDE OF TIip SOUTH. The Rev. Dr. Ingraham, cf the Meth odist Church, in a recent address before the Boston University School of Theol ogy, took a very gloomy view of the future of the country', saying that we had grossly degenerated from cur mcod of humane consideration fcr the negro which existed when Charles Sumner rose in his place In the Senate and eloquent ly greeted the ssatlng cf a negro Sen ator from Mississippi. Dr. Ingraham said that today not only there were no negroes In the Senate, but the negro Is disfranchised, and even the Methodist Church dees ,nct glow with a senss cf ! Chris.ian brotherhood for the negro as it did thirty years ago. It is not as ready to advance him. The negro ig making more friends in the South than among the once enthusiastic humani tarians of the North. This is true In a measure. It is net the fault of the ne gro, but It i3 the fault cf these who assumed to be his political, guides, phil osophers and friends, nnd by a terrible error cf judgment committed a blunder so grievous in its consequences that it deserved to be called a crime. For this blunder nobody was mere responsible than Mr. Sumner, who more than once in his career illustrated the fact that a good man is not always a wise man. Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts, a far abler man than Sumner, warned the Republican party against the mistake it committed when he said in 18G6: "There Is only one ssund way to recon struct the Scuth; trust the natural lead era cf the South at the start; the natural leaders of the South are the late mili tary leaders of the Confederacy; its con spicuous civic leaders." Governor An drew would have consulted with and trusted men like Lee, Johnston, Hamp ton and Bragg; men like Alexander H. Stephens, because he knew that no 'leg islation that Congress could enact could prevent these natural leaders of the South from controlling the fate of their section. If we had followed Andrew's advice we would have given such men a blank sheet cf- paper and bid them write on it tieir solution of the negro prob lem. We may be sure they would have been too humane and thoughtful to confer the gift of universal suffrage upon the negroes lately in slavery. The leaders cf the Republican party were seme cf them too dull and SGme of them too passionately bitter in their partisan ship to rise to the level of Governor Andrew's far-seeing statesmanship, and Sumner enacted his policy, which has been such a complete and terrible fail ure that today there is no negro elec torate in many of the Southern States and the Republican party Is little better than a political tradition In those parts. The obliteration of the negro vote Is nothing cornpared with the far-reaching effect of this terrible political mistake upon the politics cf the country. It cre ated the solid South and perpetuated the solid South. The solid South has been a millstone upon, the neck of the Demo cratic party; it has stunted Its natural spontaneous development, and it has estranged the South from the North by keeping constantly before Its eyes the black bugaboo of negro supremacy. Is there any remedy for this gloomy situa tion? The only remedy is to recur back to Governor Andrew's counsel of 1866 and trust the high side of the Scuth to ultimately d.o justice by the negro, who is not-responsible for all the political and sccial evil he has wrought by being forced into an attitude for which he was not fitted into an attitude he was in no wise ambitious to occupy. There arc some who will think it a far cry to Justice at the South for the npgro, wfio is so frequently the victim of the barbarous court of Judge Lynch. But there Is a high side at the South that will ultimately dominate it, a side that knows that savagery will not cure savagery; that the tiger cannot tame the leopard. The high-minded, thoughtful South knows that no true civilization can ever come of hunting down a law less black beast with an utterly lawless white beast, and some day this high side cf the South will force the hood lums and subterranean white brutes of their section to respect the courts and let the law work Its will. It was but recently that the Mayor cf Atlanta spoke at the funeral of a negro and described him as "my dear, dead friend cf-morc than a third of a century, a model hus band and father, a cood citizen and a Christian gentleman." This negro had been the porter and private servant of Mayor Mlms for many years, and his funeral was attended by a large number of ' whites of 'high character. Here we have the high, fine side cf the South that speaks? the truth frankly by the open grave of a black man who was so faithful a servant that his. employers were proud to describe him as a loyal and devoted friend. During his life Henry Grady, of the Atlanta Constitu tion, paid equally eloquent tribute to the memory of the negro body-servant that accompanied his father, Colonel Grady, to war and was at 'his side In battle when he fell. Louis Lefont, one of the best-known negroes in Louisiana, who died only a week ago, served as a body servant to Captain Maurin, of the Con federate Artillery, through the Civil War, and was treated as a member cf his Captain's company. He was after wards Sheriff and Postmaster in Donald scnvillt. La., and always steed high with the whites. The Columbia (S. C.)-8tate tells, of the trial of a negro for'murder, in whose de fense General Robert Toombs voluntarily appeared, because this negro had been his only brother's body-servant, who rescued him from death on the battle field c Gettysburg and was- dreadfully wcunded by a shell while carrying his bleeding master out of that sheet cf flame find death. .General Tocmbs said: "This man is a nejrro, . but he has. a white soul." To the same type cf hu- I asked to take preliminary steps look mane, high-minded Scuthern men belongs I to the participation of Washington the late General Hampton, "of 'South I J.n h5 Lewis and Clark Exposition " at Carolina, who was beloved by the ne- Portland. Western States whose Legls groes of his state. Hampton, when dy- ! latures meet this Winter will be ap ing, said: "God bless all my people. LProached by the Oregon Commissioners in white and black." To the samfe clas3 be- the Interest of the coming Exposition, and long Governors Lcngino, cf Mississippi, and Aycock, cf North Carolina, and ex Governcr Jcnes, of Alabama, who op posed the "grandfather clause" in the constitutional convention as unjust, and ex-Secretary cf the Navy Herbert. The only hope for better things at the South lies in the -certainty that sooner or later the high side, the fine sice, cf the Scu.h will rule 1 s counsels In every gtate. The Orsgcnlan a few days ago stated that many boys and girls, after having passed through the public schools of this city, aie unable to read unders'apd ingly, spell correctly 'or vj'r'ite legibly. This war- by some thought to be an ex aggerated statement. Bus!ries men, how.cver, know, and have rearcn to know, that it is true. The following ap, pllcaiicns for work were sent to The Gregorian a few days ago ty a promi nent business firm In this el'y as sam- plea of many received from young men . who innocently believe gradvatlon from the High School to be a pas:-port to efll- . c5cnoJr: I hero appply for a Job a tcanster Yours truly in ?UUVT s "uul- ; Pacific Northwest, and enterprising cities nated location, and the signature, first j that have wJtMn a,emseWcs anythln. to wretchedly blurred, was obliterated by . att t stranera mav ,mnriFa thA v5,. r.cixM pen uncs anu rei .. ,tors VIth thf,r partlcular advnntase3 sprawling characters on a s iding srale. quitc as offectIyelv as Portland does. The following is more specific: It ,3 to-bQ a advertisement of Dear Sir ' the Northwest, and the Northwest as a I have had nine month's Hardware experience .u, ..,. . . attnc Hardware Co. I ara a graduate of tho who,e wlU l0? many of the benefits Portland Hlsh School. As I am In n?ed of without incurring any of the risks that work. I make this application for same, hope- have been associated with similar enter ing it will bs received favorably prjfcts. Washington will gain by it. and Tours ResrcctfuUy, nff , . " , - I can afford to act generously in arrang It may be said to the credit of there ing to participate in the Exposition, young men that they want work, not j . . employment, a condition of mind that doea npt always follow graduation from the- High School, with its paltry equip ment In things practical. But what of an educational system that puts on frills in imusic, drawing and painting in water colore, and turns cut boys as shown by the above, untaught In the simple- esysntialy of a common business education? The decision of Judge Hanford award ing 54000 damages to a sailor who was crippled for -life by the cruelty cf the master of the British ship Troop marks a new era in the attitude of the courts to the 'foremast hand. Case after case of this sort has been paraded In all its sickening details, only to be dismissed after feeble prosecution. Thc memory cf the Amos Stone tragedy is still fresh In the minds of Portlanders. The chief instrument in the downfall and anni hilation cf a decent, well-bred boy now sails the seas in command of one of the proudest vessels in the American ma rine. Now that the sailor has won standing in the ccurls, there may bo a cessation of mock trials whose only re sult Is to plssuEt and horrify. They that go down to the sea In ships form a justly respected portion of cur popu lation. It Is time that' these be protect ed from the infamy of brutal associates. Judge Hanford has commended himself to law-abiding citizens. November rains, with the attendant mud and litter of falling leaves on the sidewalks and crossings, somber Bkie3 and shortening twilight, are perhaps not as pleasant as the passing showers that come "while . the earth is aflush with May." They are fully as welcome, however, from an Industrial standpoint, and in some respects are more valuable. The great wheat fields' cf the Inland Empire are soaking up the moisture, and wiJI make returns with a fine stand of Winter wheat and millions of acres of grazing land as yet beyond the reach of the Irrigation schemes are being pre pared for the crop of grasses which will next year pasture vast herds of sheep, cattle and horses. Nearer at home ris ing streams are bringing down to the Columbia and Willamette millions of feet of logs which the owners can now convert Into cash, which- will promptly be placed in circulation. Think twice before you growl about the rain. The modern steam schooner is demon strating Its value over the sailing craft for the coasting trade in tills era of low freighta With palling craft laid up in every harbor cn the Coast for lack of re munerative employment, there Is still plenty of work for the steamers. The offerings of freight between Portland and San Francisco are so much In ex cess cf the facilities for moving It that the docks at bcth ends of the route are crowded to the limit. Rates are low, but the modern steam coaster is economical of operation and can carry big cargoes, and consequently will stand quite a pro tracted period of congestion in other lines of shipping. A memorial window In the old-new Catholic Church at Oregon City dedi cated to Dr. John McLoughlln presents Ir. striking attitude the vent : able figure and face of the chief factor i the Hud sen's Bay Company in the days when Oregcn was a wilderness, and the later time when Oregon City was Its capital and metropolis. It Is well to commem orate the life and times of Dr. Mc Lcughlin, and this latest tribute Is a most fitting one, being placed in the church where he worshiped in the city in which the closing years of hi long life were spent and where his grav.! was made. Everybody is delighted at the prospect cf gcod streets and improved street-car service as the result cf the present gen eral tear-up of our busiest thoroughfares. But, being prone to grumble as the sparks to fly upward, the dear public. Individually and collectively, would Jike to know why these Improvements were delayed until the November rains set In? Talk about farmers being behind hand with harvesting operations, including apple-picking and potato-digging! Who, we should like to know, ever does any thing at the proper time? The New Ycrk American on last Wednesday announced that "the Demo crats rule In the Congress cf the Na tion." We anxiously await thc coming cf Thursday's issue, to see if the Amer ican found out that it had another gueaa coming. We shall probably know how ill J. P. Morgan is during the -next few days by -feeling' the pulse---of Wall street." . 4 NOT FOR OREGON AtONE. Washington Shnnld Be Geaerons '05 Fair. Spokane Spokesman-Review. Tho next Legislature "wili probably be It is not improbable that there will be a I favorable response from all of them. The World's Fclr at St. Louis will, of course, be of first consideration, but participa tion In this great eyent .will not prevent I an cxcicit or some sort at tne iwis ana Clark Exposition. On the contrary, it will probably enable Western States to do more at the Portland Fair than they i would do if the St. Louis fair were not ' held. ' i Qf .cource. Wafh!ngtqn must be well ' represented nt Portland. The Fair cele brates an cvrnt that had quite as much slsnlflcar.ee for this state ns It had for. ' Oregon, and Washington can afford to i join enthusiastically in making the Ex position., a success. It is to be a Pacific North wes: enterprise .In a crr.tain sense, and the entire Northwest can make no mistake In lending all possible aid for Its advancement. Portland will, cf course, reap many benefits which other cities In the North- west cannot sW but of thc erjeral ca!n resul"tjng ,rom thc Fair aJ an adver. tiscmont tfce entIrP Northwest wH1 navc a part. Visitors from other states who I visit the Lewis and Clark Exposition will inspect all of thc promising places of the SPIRIT OF THE X0RTHWEST PRESS Their Methods Questionable, l Boise News. The people of Boise County are uniting in righcoua protrrt against the grabbing up of their timber resources by the great lumber syndicates of the country, and their petition is worthy of consideration at tho hands of department officials. The methods by which the most valuable land assets of thc country are bclngvcornered by speculators are questionable to say the lerfit, and should be Investigated. Hns Asltntlon Done Any Harmt Albany Democrat. It has been pretty well settled this week that Governor Geer will not call an extra session of the state Legislature. It will be a great relief when It is fully settled and the public Is relieved of an unneces sary agony that has prevailed. The agi tation has been of practically' no benefit to the public. The regular session of the Leglalature la almost an affliction without an extra sideshow to cause a disturbance. Yon Were SIott, 5Ir. Roosevelt. Pendleton East Oregonlan. The Oregonlan throw: a bouquet at Mr. Roosevelt, which should have been thrown at the American people. It gives him the credit for bringing about the coal strike &3ttlemen't, when the facts are Mr. Roosevelt declined for four months to Interfere In thc strike situa tion. Public sentiment became so strong in favor of Interference that he finally undertook the delicate task. He Is to be praised for his part, but not all the flowers In that bouquet belong to htm. Hcvr to Save Oar Forests. Dufur Dispatch. The recommendation of the Commis sioner of the General Land Office to with draw all forest lands, not suitable for other purposes, from settlement, is one of the many movements of this Adminis tration in the right direction. It Is the only way to stop the destruction of our forests, and none who have studied the Intentions of those in Washington who would block tho timber speculator, but will say that the sooner this action be takpn the better for this and future gen erations. Had pome such action been taken 10 years ago what a different story Oregon's slaughtered forests would tell. Railroad Taxation Top Law. Pendleton Tribune. Everybody knows that the assessed val uation of railroads la far below actual values. It la not probable that Oregon's present Legislature will do anything. It was not elected on such a platform, and a majority of the' Individual members prefer to be on cordial relations with the railway companies. But the same ques tion that carried the Republican party to victory in Washington will carry some party to as great a victory in Oregon. It is a question that wins thc popular vote, and once presented to the citizens of tha state as a " political issue there is not a shadow of doubt that they will vote 'as did the people of the Evergreen State. o Trouble for Honest Locnter.i. Elgin Recorder. Tho action of the Secretary of the Inte rior In holding up a large number of timber and stone filings in this state for further Investigation by the Depart ment of the Interior should receive the commendation of every citizen of the state who desires to see thc public lands of thc state held for actual settlers. It 19 a fact evident to the most casual ob server that a. very large per cent of the filings made this year in Oregon under the timber and stone act are of a fraudulent nature. Timber syndicates have fur nished the money for perfecting the title to these lands, paying those filing upon the lands a certain sum for their rights. As this is a flagrant violation of the Gov ernment rules and regulations. It Is high time that the authorities were stepping in and calling a halt. Honest locators have nothing to fear from an honest In vestigation and those who have filed upon land with, fraudulent Intent should be exposed and their filings cancelled. How Portland Is Handicapped. Medford Success. Portland aspires to be the market city of Oregon, and all Oregonlans, by, reason of state pride, wish their chief city suc cess In her efforts to control the trade of the state. But good wishes count for little In these days of strenuous commercial nctlvity, and thc city that offers the best inducements gets the trade. Here In South ern Oregon we all would like to see Port land have the livestock trade of this section, but as San Francisco gives the best price nnd has the lowest freight rate, that city gctr the fat hogs, cattle and shfcep of JackBon County, for out of over 100 carloads of stock shipped out of thc county this season not one has been billed to Portland. Along with their other ac tivities, the Portland Chamber of Com merce would find It profitable to thiir city to take up the matter of securing more favorable freight rates from South ern Oregon and of bringing about better market conditions fcr Portland, that Ore gon products might find a market In an Oregon town. Coal Strike Settled in Time. Chicago Tribune, Rep. The opposition would. In all probability, have been successful this year had it not been for President Roosevelt. If the coal strike nad not been settled, Republican majorities In many Eastern States would have suffered. ECHOES OF THE ELECTION. Conditions Are O. K. Washington Times. Ind. If the returns received from the different sections of the Un.on mean anything, they mean that the voters are disposed for the present to accept existing conditions, pre ferring to defer to some more distant period p. change of National policy, with all the Forcible upsets and disturbance which such a change might bring. Eve Eo:?;li for Ttcpnbllcana. Cincinnati Enquirer. Dem. At this writing: the Republican majority in th State ot Ohio tis not apprqxlmately ascertained, bat it is plain that it has larytly exceeded the conservative esti matts of the Republican leaders. It Js" wider than a church door and deeper than a well, and is a great deal more than enough for the Republicans- JftriJpo I .a Hard Hond.' St. Paul Globe. i Dem. Meanwhile" Democrats must keep heart. A fictitious nrospeflty cannot remain tin distinguished from rea.1 prosperity. Wrong has heid right, bitted and bridled, before today In the- world of po'itics: but tho right has none the Jess surely pre vailed. So it will in the National polices of this.people. And the Democrat who has tUe faith of Jefferson Implanted securely in his bosom cannot fear that it will be otherwise. Two Essential lyunes. Baltimore Herald. Ind. Altogether, the election was a sustained effort of public opinion on the tvo essen tial "issues of the campaign. It would ap pear that tariff revision, not free trade, is the wish of the people, nnd that Sec retary Knox's sensible plan for trust con trol has been preferred .to a revolutionary tampering with the Industrial structure of modern traffic. The"'effect of this off-year contest Is s strengthening of Jthe, hands of thc more liberal element of the dominant party headed by Mr. Roolscvc-lt. and a sus taining of the business-like Administration of the present occupant of the Executive mansion. Roosevelt In Sustained. Pittsburg DI;pitch. Kep. The campaign was almost universally foupht on the necessity nnd duty of sus taining President Roosevelt. But the fact could hardly be forgotten by the thought ful voters that the sole National issue of thrsa elections was on the re-election of a Republican Congress which In the' last session had notoriously refused to sustain Roosevelt and Ignored and adefeatcd his t-arnest urging of Cuban reciprocity. This division was neutralized In Itf effect on the election by . the promptitude of the state conventions in indorsing the Presi dent's position and the facility of some of the recalcitrants In recanting when they found that the people did not sus tain them. Snvcd by noosevelt. Kansas City Star, Ind. If the Republican leaders are grateful today for the reduced victories won in yei"tcrday's election, they should return thanks 'i President Rcpscvelt. It Is due to the President's personal popularity nnd his official policies that the party has achieved Its slender majority in the House cf Representatives and sustained so few disastrous -osses in various pars of the country. In spfte of the general reductions made in pluralities.- It might seem para doxical to say that the party has been rebuked while Its official head has beer sustained, but this is true In a certain sense. The verdict of the country shows that but for the influence of Mr. Roosevelt the returns of yesterday's election w;ould have told a very different story. Brynn Hadn't Heard the News. The Commoner. As we go to press Wednesday morning the election returns Indicate a divided vic tory. In some states the Democrats have made gains, but In most places the Repub licans hold their own. and In a few states make gains. The returns will be analyzed and discussed In the next Issue. In the meantime let not the friends of reform be discouraged. The Republicans arc not defending any great principles: they are simply seizing upon and appropriating Im proved Industrial conditions for which they are in no way responsible. Time will prove that their policies are bad for the people, and the voters will then turn for relief to the Democratic party, if that party maintains Its integrity. The party must now establish Its character, and that character will be of avail when the awak ening comes. ClinnrtCH In the Tariff. Rcnver Republican. The elcct'on of a Republican majority In the next House of Representatives gives assurance that the friends and not the enemies pf thc protective system will make whatever changes in the tariff may be needed. The election of a Republican majority is declaration by the American people that the Democratic remedy for the trust evil is not adequate. The policy of the Republican party to correct this evil by legislation directed specifically against it. instead of a policy that would involve tho destruction of Industries in no wise connected with the trusts, has been stamped with approval. This is shown with special clearness by the large plural ity received by, Mr. Birdsall. the Republi can who was nominated in'place of Speak er Henderson In the Third Congressional District of Iowa. No Reaction This Vear. St. Paul Pioneer Press, Rep. Thlo Is a Republican year. The returns from all the Northern States from the Atlantic to thc Pacific show that. The characteristic apathy of the off year Is one of the most familiar phenomena of politics. It might be called thc fallow year, when the weary reaction from the strain and stress of the Presidential elec tio'n takes the form of indolent inactivity. There is almost always a large falling off in the vote. Since the Republican party became dominant in the National Govern ment and In most of the Northern States It has usually succeeded In carrying the Presidential election by large majorities, while two years thereafter in the state and Congressional elections it has been a common occurrence for it to lose some of thc rtate Governors or Legislatures or to elect them by largely reduced majori ties, and to cither lose control of Congress or to retain It by a greatly diminished margin. There off-year tendencies have prevailed ns usual this year. But they have been to a great extent counteracted by the general approval of the policies of the Administration and by the popular appreciation of the importance of sus tainlnK them In order to maintain existing conditions of prosperity. The popularity of President Roosevelt and the desire to stand by him have counted for much in the Republican successes this year. The Bnllot-Box. Josh V'lnk, In Baltimore American. A wonderful thin? Is the ballot-box. For It holds In Its little space The woe and the weal of a nation's heart. The future lot of a race. Into 11b sldss you drop your vote, And none your Intent sees. It holds thc best and the worst for you Take out which one you pie a so. The ballot-box is a little thins. But It has pushed away The rule of the one the right of Kings The yoke of despotic sway. At your will you can pick out freedom or chains. Live oppressed or live at ease. The ballot offers Rood rule or bad j Take out which one you please, j Kconomy wise In public things- Prosperity In the home Waste, that thc family purse must pay All suffering for some This is the choice he ballot gives; Hut remember no choice It frees. It holds the best and the worst for you Take out which one you please. NOTE AND COMMENT. Talflng It easy thegrafter. A street railway does not necessarily imply a street. Tm American woman's voice, like her ideals, is frequently very high.. This is the weather when the girl with naturally curly hair looks with scorn upon her less fortunate sister. And now the college professor rises to exclaim that the rules for amateur stand ing are a relic of snobbery. He contends that every gentleman works for a living. True, but he docsnt (always) work a graft. - The question of thc 13-cent stamp bids fair to become as serious as that of im perlal.sm. It Is understood that the de sign Is to be a rabbit's foot lying at the feet of a symbolic figure of Friday, with a cocn up a tree high and to the loft. The color will be a dark blue. The border will becf coffin nails and the. gum -.ised will be made out of the hoof of a Missouri mule in order to forestall any kicks com ing from purchasers. The brisk, energetic business men who rustled around Saturday to collect a sub scription for entertaining members of the Irrigation convention to meet here on the ISth and IDth were glad to see. the sun shlnlr.g yesterday forenoon, and admitted that many people looked strangely at them when asked for a subscription. With the ground flooded from a week's rain, many had lost Interest in irrigation schemes. It Is to be hoped" that there will be fine weather when 'the convention meets. Little Johnnie had been falling behind in his studies at school, and it was a bad beginning fcr thc new term. His father was Irate and determined to reprove him. "Johnnie, why don't you do better at school?" he asked. "I dunno," replied, the boy. "Well, let me tell vou this." thundered the father, "that you'll never be the Presi dent of thc United States if you don't study. That's urc." "Oh. that's no difference. I can t never be President, anyway." "Why not?" "Coz I'm a Democrat." A woman in one of the local theaters was very much excited the other night because the aisle was filled up with chaire. She was silent till the offending blockade extended to the door. Then she turned to her husband and said audibly: :Well. vhat shall we do If the baby Is taken sick? The maid might try to reach us and we couldn't get out." The man gazed remlnisccntly at the drop curtain and said: "Well. Maria, If the baby's real sick Josie don't dare leave her. So we are just as well oft If we can't set out." "But the house might burn down." "No danger of that," he reassured her. "And if I should faint how would you get me out?" "Throw ycu out," was the savage re sponse. According to a Buffalo paper Oregon Is not wholly without representation of a kind. As unsophisticated a mortal as ever entered within the precincts of Buffalo, says this journal, kept a group of railroad men at thc Central station convulsed with mirth for over 15 minutes this noon. He said he came from Portland. Or., on a pass given him by the president of a rail road. He wore a visor hat of the vintage of 1S76, a coat that was once black and entire, but now brown with age and full cf holes; a blue shirt, woolen: a pair of trousers of mongrel hue, held up by a single suspender; u pair of rawhide boots, which he wore inside of his trousers legs. His hair was long and matted, his beard long end unkempt. In his hand he car ried an old cotton umbreHa. which, like hiy ccat. had faded to a dingy brown. In his hand he carried a round-trip ticket to Niagara Fails. "I'm a-goln tu take in them Niagara Falls, an' don't fergit It." he was saying. "I want tu hear the waters roar an' shoot down over that thar bank. That's what I came all this way for." All during thc service he moved un easily In his seat. His eye grew wilder and his cheek was flushed fever ishly. Every now and then he cast a shivering look over his shoulder, only to relapse again into restless attention to the sermon. Before long sympathetic glances were fixed upon him, and grad ually there arose a feeling In the breasts of those near by that here, within the sanctuary, a sinner was seeking surcease from the crimes of ' his life. As if In harmony with his wild mood, the rain beat ceaselessly outside, and the Winter wind shrieked and groaned In the dank trees. Thc presence of this storm-tossed pilgrim, this burdened child cf misery, became an obsession. Pity changed to horror. Surely his was a crime-stained soul. As thc services drew to a close, he seemed unable to keep his eyes from the door: his piercing glance read tfie very hearts of the ushers standing In the rear. Was he awaiting the min ions of the law? Had he found no refuge from his past? The benediction seemed to bear no message for his heart. At the last words he rushed out from his pew and dashed toward thc door. The wor shipers stood aside aghast- When he dis appeared. It was as though a pollution had been taken from their midst. But out in the lobby a man was clutch ing to his breast that which he had never hoped to see, that which, in a moment of madness, he had abandoned recklessly. Now it was returned to him; a miracle had been consummated. He had found his umbrella just where he left It. PfcEASAXTUIES OF PARAGRAPIIERS "Don't you get tired of crossing the Atlantic on thesp ocean steamers?" "Well. I've never tried any other way." Brooklyn Life. Politician Congratulations, Sarah; I've been nominated. Sarah (with delight) Honestly? Politician What difference does that make? Detroit Free Press. Fudge There goes a man with a great mind. Judge He don't look It. In what way? "He minds his own business and that's a great mind." Baltimore Herald. "Tes; she admits that she had Implicit faith In him when she married him." "Well?" "Well, she insists now that marriage Is a faith cure." Chicago Evening Post. "I may be rather dense." remarked the fish, r.s he struggled to rree himself from the hook that held him by the gills, "but I can't see where the sport of angling comes In." Boston Transcript Spacer Have you noticed that the New York Whirled steals a lot of our humorous para graphs, sir. without crediting them to us? Editor Yes; It certainly knows how to take a joke. Detroit Free Prc. Mrs. Gotham Isn't your husband awfully tired when he gets home at night? Mrs. Church No. "Why, he has to stand up, doesn't he?" "Oh, yos; he never gets a seat In the cars, but he's a Christian Scientist, and he Imagines he does." Yonkcro Statesman. "Swardle Is rather flighty In his notions, isn't he? Can't stick to any one thing long enough to make a success of it?" "Well, that's what we used to say about him when he was a poor devil, but he's rich now. and everybody speaks of him as a man of extraordinary ver satility." Chicago Tribune,