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POJfcTLAXD, TUESDAY, NOV. 18, 1002.
In tendering its hearty welcome to the
delegates of the irrigation convention
that asssimblss In Portland this morning
The Oregriilan would call sittention to
the effort It has made to gather from
even- powible source all available infor
mation for the guidance of the gather
ing. Facts end arguments on all sides
of the question have been obtained from
many sources, Including some that have
yielded controversial material of the
most strenuous sort, and several rep
resentatives of the paper have investi
gated the Carey law projects, both on
ike land itself and in the archives of
the state government at Salem. The
'Crook County view, in particular, is
given at some length in today's? issue.
With some difficulty, also, we have ob
tained Illuminative utterance from Pro
fcrror F. H. Newell, Chief Engineer of
the United States Geological Survey, the
latest of which also appears in today's
Ireue It will be seen from Mr. Newell's
Setter that today's convention should hot
degenerate into a mere hair-pulling
match between rival claimants of the
Deschutes region. A list of recommend
ationo must be made up covering many
localities in the state that are thought
desirable for reclamation; and though
the rich Deschutes region might very
properly head this list, subject to subh
conditions ao may develop from an en
gineering point of view and possibly
also to extinguishment of present
claims, every promising arid section In
the state should be included. "We should
have trustworthy representations from
almost every county east of the Cascade
Range-. It will also be the duty of the
convention to apprise itself of the exact
method and probable facility unde
which reclamation would proceed un
ciaie aim unuer r eaerai auspices. VCns
a delicate task to pass judgment upon
the claims of warring private interests,
but the convention confronts an imper
ative duty of just that character. The
permanent officers might profitably In
clude, we should say, an umpire, referee
and able-bodied ssrgeant-at-arms with
authority to impress a posse comitatua.
Foreign distrust of American securi
ties has, unfortunately," many grounds
of justification. The trust era has given
us an enormous valuation of Industrial
and railway plants. Even if we concede
that charges of overcapitalization are
Ignorantly and maliciously exaggerated,
it remains nevertheless that the trust
system is designed and manipulated to
perpetuate present valuations cn prop
erties that normally would decline
through use and the perfection of su
perior implements and processes. Nota
bly in steel and paper, this perpetua
tion of high valuations has gone on sim
ultaneously with the construction of new
plants, within and without the trusts.
The longer these high valuations are
maintained by the power of underwrit
ers and promoters, instead of being re
duced to actual figure in the old com
petitive process, the heavier will be the
crash when it inevitably cornea The
currency situation seems not to have at
tracted much attention as yet, except as
"Wall street Inclines to. look upon the
homing currency as promising relief, but
it is really a most serious element of
danger. The extraordinary Issues re
cently made under Secretary Shaw's
various expedients will soon become re
dundant It is difficult to see any useful
purpose they may serve. Inasmuch as
our rigid system, for all practical pur
pose forbids their retirement. This re
dundant currency may be us2d to bol
ster up speculative undertakings that
might better fail at once, or It may be
pushed out to the stimulation of new
and yet more undeserving schemes, and
in either event it Is reasonably certain
to promote an outflow of gold. The alle
viative features of the situation are two
the automatic liquidation which in
spite of all artificial restraints sets in.
upon every scare, and the determina
tion of very powerful Interests like thosa
of J. P. Morgan to protect the market.
"We have seen these colossal agencies of
constructive financiering win some stu
pendous victories over distrust and
alarm within recent months, and their
resolution and resources are apparently
an strong as ever. They may delay
though they cannot prevent the day of
reckoning for swollen capitalization-? and
defective currencies.
It is the disgrace of the legal profes
sion that It often seeks to accomplish lay
the foul means of baiting and bullyrag
ging what it despairs of reaching by
fair. Here Is "Wayne MacVeagh, a man
of profound education and wide culti
vation, lawyer, publicist, diplomat, al
most 60 years of age, hugging the bar
ren delusion that he can advance the
cause of truth by badgering President
ar
Mitchell, of the Mlneworkers, into some
display of temper. It is a sad com
mentary on the inability of study, and
travel to soften the asperities of -a vin
dictive nature or lift a man out of the
worst traditions of his profession. Few
men of affairs In any community ha'
not at some time or either felt th
blood boil and their s2lf-respect grossly
insulted by the fiendish and ungentle
manly attacks upon their intelligence
and their sincerity by men who would
presumably outside the courtroom scorn
to commit an act of rudeness or injus
tice. These offensas frequently carry
their own punishment, and are certain
to do so if the lawyer's intended victim
is a man of poise and mental resource,
an President Mitchell has abundantly
shown himself to be. It Is perfectly ob
vious .that nothing but the most absorb
ing prepossession in favor of the Baer
view of human labor could earn sym
pathy for Mr. MacVeagh's side of the
controversy in yesterday's encounter at
Scranton. If 'there is any extenuation at
all for Mr. MacVeagh's exhibition, it
must be sought in the extremity where
in he finds bAmcelf and his cause; for It
is the most untenable proposition Imag
inable that the consumers of anthracite
coal in the United States wish to save
a few shillings a ton on its purchase at
the price of underpaid American labor.
How readily the operators can and will
recoup themselves from the public, re
cent weeks testify. It is a device of
mcst palpable cheapness to seek to por
tray the coal-carrying roads and their
lawyers as the sympathetic champion of
the poor consumer, standing between
him and the cormorant, conscienceless
union. Mr. MacVeagh has dene a bad
day's work, unless what his employers
want principally is an impassioned pre
sentment of their own partisan views.
The New Orleans convention should
make one thing perfectly clear to the
world of currency reformers, and that
Is the exact point where efforts before
Congress should be concentrated. The
Fowler bill Is too comprehensive. It
arouses the antagonism of every class of
conservatives. It drives the scattered
babarians Into one compact mass In op
position to the forces of civilization.
Tactics requires the concentration of ef
fort on the most desirable reform and
the resultant elimination of all possible
opposition. "What that most urgent and
feasible step is can be seen from the
New Orleans deliberations. It Is provis
ion in some form for an emergency cir
culation, immediate of Issue and subject
to such taxation as shall insure its in
stant and automatic withdrawal when
lhe urgency that called it out has
passed. A simple measure of this kind
can be passed at the short session. The
difficulty of disturbing the existing re
gime as to the bond-secured currency,
branch banks,, subtreasury system,
Treasury notes, etc., is apparently as in
surmountable as ever. But the idea of
emergency circulation Is gaining re
cruits everywhere. It will escape the
entagonism of many who could never
agree to the other reforms contemplated
In- the various comprehensive plans
Baltimore, Indianapolis, Fowler. The
accessions to this 'view from Controller
Rldgeley and Mr. Horace "White are sig
nificant. No great difficulty "should be
encountered ln agreeing upon the ma
chinery for the emergency circulation.
Recollection of the heroic campaigns of
Mr. Theodore Gllman prompts a hope
that the measure might Include some of
his attractive suggestions notably the
participation of banks themselves ln
some such authoritative capacity as his
proposed clearing-house associations.
Such an agency in operation in panicky
times would have a most valuable edu
cational effect on the public ln show
ing tne true relation of banks to credit
curre
"THE PURPLE MOTHER."
The case of 3Irs. Katherlne TIngley,
the so-called "Purple Mother" of the
Raja Yoga School, at Point Loma, Cal.,
Is attracting considerable public atten
tion through the detention of eleven Cu
ban children at Ellis Island, New York
harbor, who were on their way to Point
Loma under the charge of an agent of
the high priestess of the Universal
Brotherhood. The Board of Special In
quiry, after hearing testimony, decided
unanimously that the children must be
excluded from the United States.
Henry J. Bqhn, one of the publishers
of the Hotel "World, of Chicago, rescued
his children, which his wife had placed
in the Point Loma School, by writ of
habeas corpus. Judge Shaw, of Califor
nia, giving them to the father on the
testimony of a single witness against
Mrs. TIngley's thirty witness2s, which
she took to Los Angeles to sustain her
side of the case. Louis S. Fitch, a
broker connected with the National Fire
Insurance Company, of Massachusetts,
testified that he became a probationary
member of the Point Loma colony in
June, 1900. Mrs. TIngley told him that
her spaniel "Spots," given her by the
late "William Q. Judge, was Inhabited by
Mr. Judge's spirit, and is now directing
this movement. Mr. Fitch calls the
Point Loma people Tlngleyltes, and not
true theosophista
Mrs. Tingley taught that marriages
as at present made were wrong, and so
were children. Mr. Fitch obtained the
Impression that the ultimate of Tlngley
ism was a sort of free love. Mrs. Ting
ley told Fitch that It was her intention
to separate him from his wife; that he
was a henpecked man; that he was
fitted for higher things, but that his
wife wasn't. White was the highest
ranking color worn at Point Loma, ex
cept purple, and purple was worn only
by Mrs. Tingley, whose name was "Pur
ple." All the Universal Brotherhood
went to Holy Hill to greet the sunrise.
Mrs. TIngley taught the succession of
teachers through Confucius, Buddha,
Jesus Christ, Mohammed, and now the
greatest of all, Katherlne Tingley. She
claims power to stay in the spirit world,
but preferred to come back as the savior
of humanity. Mr. and Mrs. Fitch said
that the Institution was not a fit place
for children or grown persons, as they
were frequently treated with, gross in
humanity. Several witnesses testified
that when Mrs. TIngley lived in New
York, in 1892, she was a clairvoyant; she
was frequently under the Influence of
liquor, and went away leaving all her
bills unpaid. Dr. Hugo Reuthln testi
fied that Mrs. Tingley pretended to be
a hypnotist, and that "her methods were
indecent" A letter was read from Mrs.
Tingley's first husband in which he
stated that his wife had, when a young
woman, been expelled from a Montreal
convent.
' Edward Parker, of Boston, a retired
banker, and a theosophist, testified that
at Newburyport, Mass., Mrs. Tingley
had broken up at least one family, and
that she took young girls to New York
with her and Introduced them to so
called "entertainments" that were
car6usala In Memphis, Tenn., Mrs.
XXV
TIngley was guilty of disreputable con
duct Altogether, "the Purple Mother"
would seem to be little better than ' fee
Scarlet "Woman." '
STORY OP A GREAT FINANCIER.
Jay Cooke, the venerable banker, now
81 years old, tells in the current num
ber of the North American Review the
story of the decade of American finance
in which he was the most distinguished
figure. "When our present National
banking law was first proposed it had
few friends outside of John Sherman,
of Ohio, and William Pitt Fes3enden,
of Maine. Among its opponents were
Justin S. Morrill and Senator Collamcr,
of Vermont Morrill was a veteran man
of business, and Collamer a very able
jurist Finally the bill passed Congreso
and became a law February 25, 1S63. By
November of that year 134 National
banks had been organized. The law
was amended June 3, 1864, and by No
vember of that year 453 National banks
were organized, and by November, 1865,
1014 National banks had been organ
ized. The next year only sixty-two
banks were organised, and In 1867 only
ten. It Is an Interesting and singular
fact that while the country banks were
prompt to make the change, the banks
of New York City held back, and all'
her financial institutions treated the new
banking system with indifference.
The First Natioral Bank of New York
was organized with only $200,000 capital,
and the first three National banks in the
first banking city of the United States
had a combined capital of only $700,000.
The banks of all the other great cities
cf the United States had rsadlly adopted
the National system, and Secretary
Chase was mortified at the coldness of
the financial center of the country
toward his pet measure. Finally Mr.
Cooke went to New York City and by
his personal efforts and appeals the
Fourth National Bank was organized,
with a capital of $5,000,000, which Includ
ed $500,000 which Mr. Cooke had ob
tained In Philadelphia. Then Mr. Cooke
quietly intimated to the other New York
banks that while the Government did
nbt wish to antagonize them, it did ex
pect them speedily to conform to the
new order of things, and If it should be
necessary he was prepared to establish
In thirty days a Fifth National Bank of
New York with a capital of $50,000,000,
which would include the subscriptions
of other National banks and the friends
of the Government everywhere. This
pressure brought about the transfer to
the National system of nearly all the
city banks.
At the end of 1S97 there had been or
ganized during thirty-three years 5035
National banks, of which les3 than 7 per
cent had failed without a dollar's loss to
the holders of circulation. Mr. Cooke is
too modest to recite the details of his
own great services to the country at thlu
critical time, which are est forth in a
recent Washington letter to the New
Ycrk Evening Post Among other things
the fact is recorded that Grant sent the
message from Appomattox: "Tell Jay
Cooke that It is to his labfcrs more than
to those of any other mdn that th'e peo
ple of this country owe the continued
life of this Nation." "General Schofleld,
in his "Military Memoirs," says that
when he passed through Washington
with his corps in February, 1865, to take
command of the movement against Wil
mington, N. C, Secretary Stanton told
him that victory, complete victory. In
the Impending campaign against Rich
mond was indispensable, as our Govern
ment w.as near the end of its financial
resources. It was through the efforts of
Jay Cooke that the Lincoln Administra
tion raised its first loan of $50,000,000 to
carry on the war, and under Secretary
Chase he became the agent of the Gov
ernment for placing its bonds.
Chase's successor, Secretary Fessen-
den, dispensed with Mr. Cooke's serv-
ces, preferring to deal directly with the
untry banks, but early in 1865 Mr.
essenden sent for Mr. Cooke, told him
the Treasury was empty, the Army of
the Potomac was howling for its ar
rears of pay, and that capitalists to
whom application had been made for a
loan of $12,000,000 were unwilling to ad
vance any more money. Fessenden con
cluded by saying: "Can you help me to
dispose of thoss bonds?" Cooke an
swered: "I will take them myself." He
gave the Secretary a draft for four of
the twelve millions at once, went to New
York and summoned a group 'of the
leading bankers. He bluntly told them
that the Government had to have more
money or the war would be a failure.
"When the Union is gone, where will
our property Interests be?" The sense
of self-preservation persuaded these
bankers to help Mr. Cooke carry the
twelve millions he had assumed. A few
days later he placed a further loan of
thirty millions for the Gdvernment.
Mr. Cooke ln his own story makes it
plain that he did not approve at all of
the act" of 1873, by which Congress de
monetized sliver. He says: "This apt
left the country 'without a liver dollar
and lessened by about one-half the
money which people used and depended
on to pay their debts with." Mr. Cooke
holds that the' act of 1873 could not have
been passed If Congress had not misunderstood-its
purpose and effect, and
believes that but for the enormous dis
coveries of gold In our country and. in
other parts of the world "the destruction
of the legal-tender character of the sil
ver dollar would have been most disas
trous. Since, however, this country and
other nations have adjusted themselves
to the new condition of things, it would
be impossible to restore the legal-tender
character of silver."
The Philadelphia Inquirer calls atten
tion to the deplorable fact that the
United States Navy is seriously and
dangerously Undermanned. This is not
because American youth are averse to
naval service, but because Congress has
not kept pace with naval construction in
providing men for the ships. According
to the figures presented by Admiral
Taylor in his annual report, the service
absolutely needs 1G00 officers In order
that its present ships may be properly
effective, while the number on the list
is 577 short of this total, which includes
midshipmen whose graduation is lm
pending. This estimate provides seven
teen officers for each battle-ship, a bare
minimum of efficiency. The British bat
tie-ship carries thirty-three officers; the
French allowance is twenty-six, and the
German twenty. Within four years sev
eral new vessels will be ready to place
ln commission. For these 500 additional
officers will be needed. To meet this de
mand 355 cadets will be graduated from
the Naval Academy. The shortage of
officers July 1, 1906, will therefore be
1015. and this does not take into ac
count the officering of auxiliaries which
would be comthissloned in the event of
war. As a partial relief for this some-
wha alarming situation, Admiral Tay
lor recommends that each member of
Congress be authorized to appoint one
1
mode cadet- than at present, that one
morp be appointed from the District of
Columbia, and ten more at large. Some
such provision xs absolutely necessary
if, with all of our naval construction, we
"would have an effective Navy In stress
of sudden war.
The proposition of the American Fed
eration Labor, which would prohibit
money fines In court and "put the admin
istration of justice to the rich and poor
upon the same basis" finds some color
of Justification In the conduct of Judces
who do not act with proper discretion In
the matter of the Imposition of fines In
stead of imprisonment when they know
that the Imposition of a fine will en
force, no restraint To illustrate: Rob
ert W. Goelet, a very rich young man of
New York City, was convicted ln New
York City last week of speeding his au
tomobile and fined $50. The fine Is noth
ing to this very rich youth, but a few
days of imprisonment would be unpleas
ant, or .the enforcement of the French
penalty, which prohibits such offenders
for a loncer or shnrfpr tprm frnm iiitnr
an automobile. A fine may be sufficient
restraint or it may not; it should be al
ways left to the discretion of the court
to fine or Imprison the offender. A Po
lice Judge the other day refused to fine
a number of boys for destroying a bar
ricade, on the ground that the parents
would pay It. Very well; let the parents
pay it, and then the parents will teach
their children to know that they have no
business to destroy barricades. If the
parents have to pay for the boys' law
less pranks, they will be more solicitous
as to what their boys do hereafter. If
the parents do not wish to pay, then, let
the boys go to jail. Th public safety
cannot be trifled with because It is not
pleasant to fine or Imprison lawless
boys.
Against the popular belief that edu
cated Indians are sitfply educated vaga
bonds evidence accumulates. The Su
perintendent of the Haskell Indian In
stitute, ln Kansas, Is another who pre
sents an array of facts and figures that
must prove more or less convincing
upon this point In his annual report re
cently m'ade he save that while- the tp-
sults'of education among the Indians do
not satisfy those who are merely super
ficial observers?, those who conduct the
work and are therefore well qualified to
form opinions in regard to it see in the
gradual development of individuals
among Indian pupils excellent reason
for encouragement and for a growing
degree of satisfaction. As base for this
encouragement It Is stated that Of the
ninety-five graduates of this institute
previous to the class of the present year
at least seventy-seven are at work earn
ing their own living and in many cases
aiding needyparents or supporting In a
respectable way little families of their
own. This showing is certainly gratify
ing, and may be regarded as scoring
heavily for environment in its strenuous
contest with heredity. It has been fre
quently said, and with a strong show of
reason, that there is no place, either In
savage or civilized life, for the educated
Indian. If, however, he succeeds in
making a place for himself through self
supporting industry, the answer tothls
objection to Indian education will be
conclusive.
The man who took three shots at King
Leopold of Belgium the other day as he
was on his way to the' cathedral ln
Brussels to attend a te deum in mem
ory of the late Queen, Marie Henrietta,
was not an avenger of the Queen's man
ifold wrongs, but a plain, every-day
Italian anarchist of a type too well
known to be mistaken; a disciple of un
reason who, in the vocabulary of his
class, declared that he was ready to kill
ny monarch If chance presented itself
the King of Italy as readily as the King
of the Belgians because "monarchs are
tyrants who cause the misery of their
peoples." It Is gratifying to note that
this would-be assassin hailed from Eng
land, and not from New Jersey. The
people of the United States being gen
erously inclined, are willing to divide
with other nations the doubtful honor of
giving domicile to anarchists. They
have had to accept the odium that at
tached to the schooling of Guiteau,
Brescl and Czoigosz. Rubino, the latest
addition to the ranks of cowardly assas
sins, had long found safe harbor ln Eng
land, going from thence to the Continent
Intent upon murder. Since capital pun
ishment has been abolished in Belgium,
his fate will doubtless be a repetition of
that of Bressi, to whom a dungeon was
made so intolerable that he died within
a few months after his incarceration for
the assassination of King Humbert.
The improved musket for the use of
the United States Army has been com
pleted and tested, with, as announced
by General Crozier, Chief of the Bureau
of Ordnance, very satisfactory results.
The new piece weighs a little less than
9 pounds. This is considerably lighter
than the German and the Mauser rifles,
yet it has greater velocity and projectile
force. It Is, therefore, regarded as su
perior to the rifles with which it is com
pared, and is fully Indorsed by the Ord
nance Bureau. It was a matter of com
mon knbwledge that our Army rifle was
Inferior to. the Mausers In use by the
Spanish troops in oUr late war. There
was no excuse for this, and it is gratify
ing to learn that the defect, which, had
our opponent been a more powerful na
tion, might have worked disastrously to
our arms, has been corrected, though
necessarily some time must elapse be
fore the Army is equipped with
the new gun. The construction of 5000
of these guns has been ordered as a be
ginning of the prudential policy the
motto of which Is "In time of peace pre
pare for war."
The forests of Switzerland are beauti
ful and clean, without underbrush. Only
large trees are cut down, the young ones
being left carefully untouched. The
same situation is found in Germany, for
the United States Consul at Stettin in a
recent communication to the State De
partment speaks of the German forests
as free from weeds, undergrowth, wash
outs and dead wood. High stumps are
a rarity, that wasteful American way of
cutting the tree off three or four feet
from the ground being unknown there.
Germany cuts much lumber, out for
eyery patch cleared another of ground
worn in cultivation ii planted with
trees. Hence the stability of the Ger
man forest area. Statistics for 1900 show
34.569,926 acres of forest ln the empire
against 34,47296 acres ln 1893.
In addressing a petition to the Gover
nor, remember that the answer Is war
ranted to contain the argument far his
election to the Senate no subject
barred.
An irrigation convention in a pouring
rain is one of. the delights known only to
Oregon.
SPIRIT OF THE XORTBW'EST PRESS
AnotkerXhance to Spend aioney.
Sheridan Sun.
Before the state appropriates $500,000 for
the Lewis and Clark Fair, would It not be
a good Idea to just make it 5250.CCO. and
then appropriate the bthex $250,000 to buy
a state printing office? It seems as
though Oregon has used rented material
about long enough.
Soar. GrnpeB.
Eugene Guard.
There- will be no complaint from the op
position if the House of Representatives
has a Republican majority. They already
have the President and Senate, and it Is
best that there be no divided responsibil
ity between the political parties. There
never has been any difficulty In making
a change when the people desired it.
Conservative Democracy to Front.
Lewis.ton Tribune.
Amons the things shown by the elec
tion are that Tom Johnson won't do and
that the country is not socllliatic or pin
ing for new and strmge ways In govern
ment. Wherever the Democratic party
was most conservative it was strongest
In New Ycrk. Color repudiated the Gov
ernment ownership of ccal mines plank
In the state platrorm. Wherever plain
Democracy was honestly . declared and
taught the two great parties returned
tb an ilmostt normal status, placing Vic
tory hereafter within reach of either and
holding a Damoclean sword over the head
of the victor.
Didn't Need Extra Session, Anyrriiy.
Dufur Dispatch.
The Governor has spoken, and there
will be no extra session of the Legisla
ture. On Tuesday of this week he an
nounced, in a lengthy and windy disser
tation on the subject, that after a care
ful investigation he has concluded that
no extraordinary occasion exists for an
extra session, and therefore he will not
call one. The Governor is correct, and is
to be commended. Of the four reasons
urged by "these who advocated a special
session, two the Portland charter and the
Lewis and Clark Fair were purely local;
a third the initiative and referendum
was hot air, and the fourth flat salaries
was more hot air.
Greatest Opportunity in Onr History.
Sclo News.
The Portland delegation to the coming
session of the Legislature will ask for
an appropriation of $500,000 for the Lewis
and Clark Fair. It is hardly likely that
this amount will be appropriated, although
It will take about that Sum to make the
Fair the success that it should be. The
members of the Legislature, as a rule,
are not ln favor of so large an amount,
but at the pame time they are strongly
.in favor of the Fair, as It would doubtless
be the greatest thing for Oregon that the
state ever had ln -the way of advertising
its resources. The Legislature wlill doubt
less make an appropriation of some
amount, but just what amount Is hard to
figure out at the present time.
Mistaken View of Mr. Corbett.
Yamhill Record.
President Corbett, of the Lewis and
Clark Fair Board, is laboring under a
mistaken idea if he feels the Legislature
can be bulldozed Into making an appro
priation for the 1903 exposition. It is to
be supposed that the legislative body will
be made up of gentlemen of Intelligence
and Independence of character, who will
be able to meet this emergency wisely
and make such appropriation as seems
expedient It is, lndeejd, regrettable that
some of our past sessions have been
measurable by the -standard now appar
ently sought to be used by Mr. Corbett.
But it is hoped that a higher standard
will be applicable to the next body. The
Record, at least, proposes to follow the
old rule of Innocence until proven guilty,
and therefore takes it for granted that
the Legislature will deal with the Expo
sition matter strictly on its merits, and
that no amount of bluffing or threats
will affect Its action In the least. There
will be ample time to convict the law
making body after it .shall or may have
proven itself guilty.
Mr. Hill on Chinese Exclusion.
Spokane Spokesman-Review.
In the Pacific Northwest there will not
be a noticeably enthusiastic echo to James
J. Hill's call to "open the door" to the
Chinese. The Chinaman who desires an
education here may come in and get it.
There is no law preventing his admittance.
He is not driven o"ut, as Mr. Hill intimates.
But the coolies, whom Mr. Hill would let
in at the rate of 2000 or 3000 a year, are
excluded, and the bars will not be lifted
for them If the desires of the people of
the Pacific Coast are respected. Mr. Hill
Is not ln a position to voice the sentiment
of the Coast on this question. He would
like to have Chinamen admitted because
it would give business to his steamship
lines and to the railroads with which he
Is connected. Of course, he thinks this
would be all right, for the greater the
business the lower the rates which the
road may offer the people, and the greater
the share the people will get out of the
partnership ln which Mr. Hill and the
patrons of his roads are interested. Mr.
Hill's argument for the Chinese is "defect
ive. It is hard enough to keep coolies out
of the country with a strict exclusion law.
Opening a loophole for $000 to 3000 a year
Would let in 20,000 or 30,000. Mr. Hill re
flects the wishes of his transportation In
terests, and not those of Coast people.
The barriers have been raised against the
Chinese, and they will stay raised.
Where's the Rest of Itf
Tacoma Ledger.
The Ledger favors the election of Hon.
John L. Wilson for United States Sena
tor. It supported Mr. Foster four years
ago and became a party to those honor
able agreements then made by Mr. Fos
ter and his managers by which the Wil
son forces were Induced to come to Fos
ter's support and elect him Senator. Mr.
Foster was represented as the strongest
candidate to offset the aggressive Humes
Ankeny combination, and Mr. Wilson be
came his ally and friend. The latter
withdrew and hla supporters became Mr.
Foster's supporters. On the night of Mr.
Wilson's withdrawal, and In compromise
of their political fortunes as allies, Mr.
Foster signed a treaty with Mr. Wilson,
both offensive and defensive. In wHIch,
In consideration of Wilson's then sup
port, he agreed to support Wilson next
time. That agreement is ln this lan
guage: Olympla, Jan. 31, 18S0.
Fifth If It shall transpire that John L.
Wilson's friends desire to present his name
four years from now to the Legislature as a
candidate for United States' Senator. It is
agreed that A. G. Foster will contribute the
assistance of himself and friends to Mr. Wil
son's election. (Signed.) A. G. FOSTER.
Witness: JAMES WICKERSHAM.
Mr. Foster now desires to keep that
promise, and desires to have his friends
contribute their assistance to Mr. Wil
son's election. This paper will support
Mr. Wilson for the honor of Mr. Fos
ter and Pierce County. We agreed with
his other friends to do so, and Senator
Foster was elected. We secured an hon
orable consideration for an honorable
promise. We have no other course to
pursue, as friends and supporters cf
Mr. Foster, than to live up to the obl'
gatlon ln good faith. No man who has
the right sense of honor, and of Mr. Fos
ter's obligation, will refuse to assist in
carrying It out. No man who Jcares for
the future Interests of Pierce County will
violate his pledged faith or betray the
man who trusted Its honor. No mart
who cares for the position of Pierce
County In state politics will refuse to
give Mr. Foster's honorable agreement
an nonorame support
Wall-Street Arithmetic.
(Boston Commercial Bulletin.)
Ten mills make one trust
Tn trusts make one combine.
Ten combines make one merger.
Ten mergers make one magnate.
One magbate makes all the money.
ROOSEVELT'S FINE SPEECH.
Chicago Tribune.
As a rule "comparisons are odorous,"
as Dogberry wisely said, but it is some
times impossible to avoid making them.
A comparison between the respective
styles of oratory of ex-President Cleve
land and of President Roosevelt Is forced
upon the reader by the appearance ln the
same paper of their speeches at the New
York Chamber of Commerce celebration.
That comparison Is greatly to President
Roosevelt's advantage. The turgid and
bombastic Cleveland oratory makes Mr.
Roos2vcIt's clear and simple phrases all
the more attractive. The one wearies
with his big words of Latin derivation
and his cumbrous sentences. The other
delights with his "saber cuts of Saxon
speech."
The following sentence, in which the
polysyllable reigns supreme, will serve
as a specimen of Mr. Cleveland's worst
syle:
Such Incidents as these Illustrate the organ
ization's beneficent accompllshmf nts in the ad
vancement of civilization ant in furtherance
of the improvement of humanity.
Compare with this President Roosevelt's
description of the vices the Nation must
shun and the virtues It must practice:
Arrogance, suspicion, brutal envy of the well
to do, brutal indifference toward those who are
not well to do, the hard refusal to consider the
rights of others, the foolish refusal to consider
the limits of beneficent action, the base appeal
to the sDirlt of seliUh greed, whether it take
the form of plunder of the fortunate or of op
pression of the unfortunate from these and
from all kindred vices this Ration must be kept
free if it Is to remain in Us present position in
the forefront of the people of mankind.
On the other hand, good will come even out
of the present evils if we face them armed with
the old homely virtues; if we show that we are
fearless of soul, cool of head, and kindly of
heart; If. without betraying the weakness that
cringes before wronsdolng. we yet 6how bj
deeds and words our knowledge that in such a
government as ours each of us must bo ln
truth his brother's keeper.
Noble thoughts are here clothed in
tew, simple speech which the "plain
man" can understand without the aid of
the dictionary- Again, President Roose
velt says of the good citizen:
The first requisite of a good citizen In this
Republic of ours Is that he shall be able and
willing to- pull his weight that he shall not
be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in
the work that each generation of us finds ready
to hand: and, furthermore, that In doing his
work he shall show not only the capacity for
sturdy self-helf. but 3elf-rcspectlng regard for
the right3 of others.
"Pull his weight" Is, a phrase that Mr.
Cleveland would not allow to flow from
his pen or fall from his lips. Were he
to think the thought he would 3lowly and
carefully translate it into ponderous John
sonese or Clevelandese.
President Roosevelt's definition of the
right and wrong kind of success is ad
mirable. He says:
There are different kinds of success. There
Is the success that brings with It the seared
soul the success which' is achieved by wolfish
greed and vulpine cunning tbo success which
-Kmakes honest men uneasy or Indignant in Its
presence. Then there Is the other kind VI
success the success which comes as the re
ward of keen Insight, of sagacity, of resolution,
of address, combined with unflinching rectitude
of behavidr, public and private.
The President's Chamber of Commerce
speech was delivered ln the great stock
gambling city of the country. That lends
force to his epigrammatic remark as to
The reckless gambling which Is so often bred
by and which so inevitably puts an end to pros
perity. President Roosevelt's speech was ex
cellent In inatter and ln manner. It
needs no foil to set it off, but if one were
needed It would be found In the stilted re
marks of his predecessor ln the White
House. Mr. Cleveland is a great and
good man, but he cannot talk the peo
ple's English to Engllsh:speaking people.
Mexico and the Gold Standard.
New York Journal of Commerce.
Having referred lately to the possible
future adoption of the gold standard by
Mexico in terms of approval, we are
asked by two gentlemen from that re
public to explain what advantage it would
be to Mexico to adopt the gold standard.
The same advantage it was to the United
States to resume specie payments. The
same advantage that it was to France
to preserve, and to Russia and Austria
and India and Japan to adopt the gold
standard: the same advantage that has
moved Chile, Peru and Ecuador to estab
lish, or at least to endeavor to establish,
the gold standard. As the Mexican dollar
declines all Imported goods become more
expensive, more slowly the prices of do
mestic goods rise, and most slowly of all
the wages of labor rise and the work
ing population suffers ln the meantime.
A good deal of the Mexican debt is held
abroad, and the more silver drops the
more dollars are required to meet the
foreign obligations. A fluctuating rate of
exchange Introduces additional risk in
foreign business. The Manila Chamber of
Commerce has asked for the gold stand
ard, and It is now under consideration
for the Straits Settlements. As a large
producer of sliver, Mexico has a reason
for clinging to the silver standard some
of the other countries had not, but her
merchants have asked for the gold stand
ard, and her President and Minister of
Finance have been studying Its practi
cability. Silver Is a declining metal, and
an it is not the standard in the com
mercial world generally Its use Involves
uncertainties' and fluctuations.
Impolitic Optimism.
Chicago Evening Post.
Is not a display of Cuban optimism Ill
advised and Imprudent at this tlm1? What
inference will the beet-sugar Senators and
Congressmen draw from the Palma mes
sage? A little restraint at this time would
improve the chances of Cuban reciprocity.
If she is so comfortable and contented,
why, the beet-sugar Interests will ask,
should any American Industry be asked
to surrender even a fifth of the protec
tion erjoyed by it? President Palma has
not thought of this, yet the lesson of the
struggle for reciprocity at the late ses
sion was plain enough.
No one expects Cuba to put on sack
cloth and ashes and indulge ln calamity
howling, but "overconfidende" will not
promote reciprocity. Unduly optimistic
Presidential messages may read well, buA
they arc not good politics.
An Ofllcinl Outrage.
Baltimore News.
The prisoner stood within the dock,
A copper by his side
The Judge, all in a somber frock.
The wretch full sternly eyed.
"This Is the hundredth time. I ween,
That you have been in here.
And now 'tis well you choose between
Sobriety and beer."
Up looked the prisoner in surprise
"Why. Judge." he said, "I think
Tou've Jumped to an ill-timed surmise
That I have had a drink;
Which. Judge, is not the case.
As you can plainly see
I only wet my parching face
That's all that's wrong with me.
"I'm tight, perhaps perhaps I'm Jagged
For I've been on a toot;
It may be that I'm slightly scragged.
With rattlers in my boot;
Or. maybe, three sheets in the wind
Would diagnose my fall;
I'm. lushy. too. but you will find
I'm boozy. Judge that's all.
"Ah, Judgp, perhaps I'm bleary yes.
And loaded, too, but that's
Xo crime; and. Judge. I rather guess
My belfry's full of bats;
I'm woozy, and I'm liquored, too
I'm dotty, and I'm soaked.
But when this man brought me to you
For being drunk he joked!"
Then spoke the Judge: "Is this all true?"
"It Is." the 'copper said.
"For when I brought dls man to you,
De guy was dotty, dead!"
"I'm shocked." the Judge said. In distress,
"At your official gall.
To pinch a man for drunkennes
Who wasn't drunk at alii"
JCOTE AND COMMENT.
A revenue cutter high license.
A high wind bring3 umbrellas down:
Mascagni threatens to score American
airs in his next opera. '
Two earthquake shocks in Utah stopped
all the clocks in Salt Lake City. What a
time they must have had.
The man who got out his umbrella yes
terday sometimes discovered that he had
gone to far and got it inside out.
The Butte 'Miner calls the Seattle P.-I.
"our ignorant Western contemporary-"
Does thi; mean the P.-I. Is behind the
times?
The attorneys for the mine operators
are finding John Mitchell more of a man
than they were led to believe by their
employers.
The Denver Times, under a sworn
statement of circulation has an editorial
with the heading "What Would We Do
Without Fools?"
During a stage duel in Philadelphia a
girl in the audience got so excited that
she died later. This Is an odd example
of stage fright.
The "Purple Mother" says mother-love
breeds selfishness. Maybe it does, but a
mother's selfishness is more .divine than
the virtue of thousands.
A sea captain has solved the servant
problem. "Organize a servant aririy," ho
says, "and make 'em enlist" To- mako
'em; that Is the question.
Now theatrical managers want Molln
cux to go as a star.v As an old English
knight said centuries ago, 'tis but a step
from the scaffold to the stage.
A Jersey pastor believes In teaching his
boy parishioners to box. Possibly' the
parents will have something to say about
this later, after some boy has boxed the
minister and sent him packing.
The New York Sun suggests that an
actress mUst be having a hard time to
be compelled to swallow a watch foF ad
vertising purposes. This is a bitter truth.
Hard times make many a poor soul live
on tick.
Millionaire Walsh, of Colorado, has
built a private theater for his ll-ycar-old
son, who is thought to have displayed
great talent as an actor. There's noth
ing so new in a boy's having a playhouse
of his 'own. '
While the New York Journal is devoting
itself to the divorce question, a good- anti
dote may be found ln looking at friends.
One doesn't have to go far to see con
jugal hapiness. Of course, the couple
happily married keep quiet, while the un
fortunate ones speak aloud through the
courts. Divorce would not be so much
sought after did not mavriages bo often
mean the union of a woman with a future
to a man of tainted past
Woodrow Wilson, the new president of
Princeton, is famous for his ability to
down the youth with a good excuse.
Tradition tells of but one undergraduate
who ever got ahead of him. President
Wilson was on the committee on ab
sences, and his whole duty was to keep
the young men up to their chap,el obliga
tions. The "hero of the story was so de
linquent ln his attendance on the daily
services at S'lo'cfock that he was giKfeh
a choice between giving a valid excuse or
leaving the college. "Well, professor," ha
said, Innocently, "I have a doctor's per
mission. You see I have heart disease
and am compelled to sleep on my left
side." Here "Woodrow" interrupted
sternly. "No nonsense, Mr. T. Get to
the point."
"The point is," continued the defend
ant amicably, "that when I sleep on my
left side I can't hear the chapel bell, be
cause I'm deaf In my right ear. See?"
And Woodrow Wilson saw and silently
marked his name "excused from attend
ance on chapel exercises."
The story of the old artist who de
stroyed the work of years in New .York
the other day because he had foiled In
putting oft the final touches, carries a sad
lesson. For half his life hte dream had
been of a fair woman with subtle eyes.
Nowhere could he discover the requlslto
pigment to depict her ethereal grace.
Finally, In the region of the Nile, he
fpund it. When at last his masterpieco
took on the final glory of his dream,
he was mad. Only the tatters of a can
vas speak of the vision. Too many, in
the continuous effort to achieve their
ambition. lose the saving sense of humor
Disappointment and failure gnaw at thcl?
very heart, and without a smile they go
down into the pit Providence has given
mortals the greatest boon that foresight
could desire the ability to laugh frankly
and genially at what co3t blood. Twenty
years, forty years are not too much to
pay for one jest Had Oscar Ferling
turned his face upon his work and known
the supremcroccasion fcr a smile he would
now be alive and dwelling peaceably In
commonplace wisdom. Instead, he must
die under the unsatisfying effect of his
worshiped Ideal. He was a poor fool, and
his mental alienation is the punishment
awarded to those who think that their
work bears any vital relation to the uni
verse. PLEASANTRIES OF PAUAGRAPHERS
One critic says that the historical novel is
dying out. That's good news; and many tired
readers of It will be glad to assist at Its
funeral. Atlanta Constitution.
Doctor's Little GIrl-Your papa owes toy papa
money. Lawyer's Little uir--
papa said he was glad to net off with his life.
Baltimore American.
"I hear your son Is reading law." "No, sir.
It's a mistake. My son is sitting in the back,
office with his feet on a desk, smoking cigar
ettes." Chicago Record-Herald.
BlBEYos sir. Sad case'. Man who built
this house of mine Just got it finished when
he died. Wlgg Well, it might have been
worse. Ho might have had to live ln it
Brooklyn Life.
Mrs. K.orseley I don't see your lady friend
with you any more. Miss CUnnen No. but
you may have noticed my lady friend's gentle
man friend with me; so she's my lady enemy
now. Philadelphia rress.
"Some actors arc very egotistical." "They
are," answered Mr. Stormlngton Barns sad
ly. ' "I know a number of them who undertake
to" play 'Hamlet' without having seen me In
the part." Washington Star.
Servant There's a gentleman at the door
who says he knew you when you were a boy.
Master Tell him he was very kind to call.
Should I ever happen to be a boy again, I'll
let llm know! Boston Transcript.
The Bride (after the elopement) Oh. papa,
can you ever forgive us? Papa Sure. By
eloping you save me the ?300 1 had Intended
to blow ln on a swell wedding when you and
Tom got married. Chicago Dally N'cwa.
Miss Cincinnati There is that ex-football
player who married my friend Jeanette.
Doesn't he .look happyl Miss St. Louis Tes;
but you can't always tell. That's the same
chap who played all through the Yale-Harvard
game with two broken ribs. Judge.
"So you are convinced that your boy la go
ing to be a musical inventor?" "I am. In
deed." "And what leads you to that conclu
sion?" "Well, merely the trifling incident
'.hat I caught him yesterday pouring a pitcher
of water into the piano to produce the liquid
notes ho had read about" Baltimore News.