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PORTLAND, SATURDAY, XOV. 22.
If Petje Grant says that the game In
the Portland- Club was merely for
checks good at the bar for drinks, that
is exactly what it was. Peter is not the
man to perjure himself over so small an
affair as a keno game. The further
fact Itf the case appears to be that the
police knew this wag the case and that
they co-operated with the Portland Club
In order to make up what Peter cal!s "a
test case." What was the object of this
arrest and prosecution? Nothing else
than an acquittal, the moral effect of
which should be the discredit of the law
against gambling and the encourage
ment of the real gambling games which
are going on without molestation, and
for whose "protection" somebody lr? re
ceiving blood-money. It Is not strange
that juries refuse to lend themselves to
this palpab'ly dishonest use of the law
by the police authorities, so long as act
ual gambling for valuable stakes Is per
mitted to run. Good juries will convict
fast enough in genuine cases. This
whole business reflects discredit on the
whole city administration, especially on
the Police Department and the City At
torney, whose efforts to shoulder respon
sibility off on the juries are transparent
and vain. The Mayor himself cannot be
excused, either, if he suffers himself to
be deceived by protestations of the Po
lice Department that it is doing all it
can to stop gambling. It is apparently
doing all it can to rehabilitate it Its
tremendous activity In cooking up cases
where convictions are Impossible and
then pointing to public sentiment on a
falre barfs' admits of no other explana
tion. The Police Department is ably
pursuing the Interrupted labors of Mr.
Lord's Law Enforcement League, and
apparently shares that organization's
extravagant estimate of the public's
gullibility.
An almost unobserved incident of the
recent election was the rejection by pop
ular vote in Albany, N. Y, of a prof
fered gift of 1150,000 tendered by Mr.
Andrew Carnegie for a new public
library building. The City Council had
already taken a similar actlon.but the
decision was referred to the people, with
the result of 7000 favorable and 12,000
opposing votes. The only explanation
given for this action is a general an
tipathy to Mr. Carnegie as the possessor
of more money than he knows what to
do with. HIs"lncome- is given in figures
too fabulous to be set (down in cold type",
and the feeling Is that inasmuch as he
amassed his "colossal fortune in a few
years, while thousands of men who con
tributed their efforts to the upbuilding
of his industrial enterprises remained
poor," the less he is favored and'fawned
upon in public ways the better. There
is much In this view. While envy for
the rich simply because they are rich
and we are poor Is to be condemned, the
fact remains that Inordinate wealth is
almost Invariably identified with unjust
discriminations of one sort and another,
which should be disapproved and done
away. Wealth will always be distrib
uted unequally, but the laws should not
promote that inequality. It would be
far better today If the extra millions
Mr. Carnegie made had been distributed
to his poor laborers In the form of wages
instead of piling up to such heights that
he is put to all sorts of devices to gei
rid of it. It is the hardest thing in the
world to dispense enormous fortunes
without weakening the Independence of
their beneficiaries and intensifying so
cial discontent by displays of opulence.
With corporations thus firmly banded
together to perpetuate their swollen In
comes and discipline the Independent
producer, what is the use- of talking
about punishing organized labor the
only force that Is able today to wrest
any concessions from- the "unyielding
grasp of the trusts? - .
Some alarm is being laboriously
worked up over the defeat of Rep
resentative Loud bj the letter-carriers.
The Incident is depicted ao
foreshadowing the oppression we
might expect from Federal employes
In case the -railroads or other cor
porations should be taken over by the
Government. It Is difficult to take the
suggestion seriously or 5h any way at all
except ce a lugubrious effort In sympa
thy with Mr. .Loud or else a measure of
anticipatory opposition from the rail
roads themselves. It is true that the
postal employes are organizing, but it
does not appear that they are more op
pressive and unreasonable than" union
labor generallj. Is there any reason
why the engineer or conductor' brother
hoods should be more dreaded under
Federal than under present control? We
hear muchHhese days about creatures
o corporations who tremble for the llb-
erties of the masses unless the organiza
tion of labor can be headed off. Every
corporation agent and manager that en
Joys the fruit of underpaid labor Is lying
awake nights in dread lest the tolling
masses be prostrated under the foot of
organized labor. Their fears may as
well be quelled. The people will be able
to protect themselves against extortion
ate labor, If they can manage to keep
out from under extortionate capital. In
another form, it Is the old bugbear of
the standing Army, which Macaulay so
ably dissipated. The whole body of the
people can never be terrorized and pau
perized by a minor fraction of them or
ganized in any specific calling or branch
of Industry. Federal, employes, doubt
less, will continue to vote against men
who run counter to their Interests: but
so will other employes. And there Is a
point of reasonableness beyond which
disgruntled labor can never budge the
general consensus of public opinion.
"Nothing can be done at the short ses
sion." Oh, yes, a great deal can be done,
if it Is desired to be done. For thor.a
who do not want to do a given thing the
time Is always too short, the occasion
Inopportune, the obstacles utterly dis
heartening. But In the lexicon of reso
lute endeavor there Is no such word as
fail. Revlslonary tariff legislation could
be had this session, and some Initiatory
measure of bank reform, If once the sub
servience to protected corporations and
tender regard for fiat notions of money,
Intrenched in the Senate, could be melt
ed away. It is a mistaken Idea that the
cowardice and circumlocution we have
always been used to must always con
tinue to be our uniform rule of faith
and practice. In nothing do our high
protection obstructionists who want the
tariff revised but not now exhibit their
double-dealing more signally than In
their talk about the dangers of tariff
agitation compelling delay. The danger
of tariff agitation lies in the suspense
to Industry, and this danger would be
reduced to a minimum by the passage
of a simple reformatory bill at the short
session. Instead of a prolongation of the
present uncertainty until next Winter,
or pcaoibly until an extra session in the
Spring. The time is past when tariff
agitation can be treated as a possible
future contingency to be averted. Tariff
agitation is here. It can't be allayed.
It Is growing. The sooner it Is ended by
an alleviators and amendatory act the
better. Such at: act. can be passed In
six weeks simultaneously with consider
ation of the session's other necessary
business. It is reassuring to remember
that equivocation and delay have an un
compromising foe in the White House.
ISOLATIOX BREEDS IGXORAXCB
AND IXDOLEXCB.
Mr. W. J. Lampton, In a recent letter
to the New York Sun, draws a forcible
picture of the prevalence among the
Southern Appalachian mountaineers of
an ignorance of even the rudiments of
common education and the simplest
principles of rlsht living. The melan
choly thing is that all that Mr. Lampton
oij-s' Is not only true, but It falls short
of portraying the dire intellectual dark
ness in which these people live whp are
Americans of old Colonial stock of the
very best original quality. These people
have never crossed their blood with any
strain of foreign immigration. They
are descended from a fine Scotch stock
which has lapsed Into .ignorance and
barbarism through years of Isolation
and clannish environment. Ignorant
and barbarous they are, and yet they
retain the high virtues of courage and
veracity in so marked a degree that
they cannot be justly designated as de
generates. They have halted In their
growth through an old-time environ
ment which made them a class by them
selves. They were too brave and proud
to pay court to the planter class, and
too poor and ignorant to resist his po
litical domination, so they created a civ
ilization of Chinese excluslveness In the
mountains of the South. They perpet
uated the old blood feuds and practice
of the vendetta that came down to them
from their old Scotch and English bor
der clans. They hated and despised
learning, because they associated it with
the knavish subtlety of a lawyer, the
trickery of a merchant and the lmpe
rlousness of a great planter.
It is not at all remarkable that such
conditions should create and perpetuate
so eccentric and Inferior a civilization.
Take the case of Spain, today the limp
ing, footsore, last child In the procession
of "the nations of Europe, of which she
was the first In war If not In peace up
to the seventeenth century. The Span
ish peasants are today a strong, sturdy,
temperate race, men of superior phys
ical strength and courage; and yet Spain
with 18,000,000 of people Is among the
weakest powers cf Europe. She has de
teriorated simply because she- has been
so hidebound in religious superstition
that when the other powers of Europe
felt and responded to the Influence of
the. Renaissance Spain stubbornly re
fused to stir, and was completely left
behind in the march of human progress,
so today she remains an Ignprant people
because she Insisted upon an isolation
and Immobility that has bred Intellect
ual paralysis. The original Spanish
stook was excellent; it Is not degenerate
today In physical courage, strength and
hardihood, but the Spanish civilization
is hopelessly backward because when
England. France and Germany caught
tVio enlr'f rtf flip "Rpnnlotmnon nrwl want
I fnr-rrriT'r? trt omhrapB nnrl jiMUto nnnr n-nrl
strange opportunities, Spain stood aloof
from the spirit of the age and preferred
to perpetuate all the ancient abuses of
eccleslastlcism In the church and abso
lutism ip the state.
Spain Is an example on a large scale
of how a people of excellent stock can
drop behind In the march of civilization
without becoming conspicuous for ani
mal vices or without losing physical
strength or courage. Depressing en
vironment has dene for the fine original
stock of the Southern mountaineer what
a fatal national policy of Isolation, in
tolerance. Ignorance in both church and
state has done for Spain. The Southern
mountaineer is an American whose an
cestors were the splendid pioneers of
white civilization In Tennessee, Ken
tucky, West Virginia, ' Northern Ala
bama, Georgia, Western North and
South Carolina. His ancestors were the
famous "mountain men" who won the
battlo of King's Mountain, who fought
under John Sevier, who helped Jack
son crush, the Creek Indian Confederacy
and win the battle of New Orleans. The
ancestors of these men helped General
George Rogers Clark in his famous
campaign against the British and In
dian allies. For generations they have
led such secluded and Isolated lives
through their environment and the con
ditions of existence that they are today
the most primitive In language and hab
its of any of our American people. They
have been without any intellectual or
social stimulus. At least 50 per cent of
the-people cannot read helr own names
and a greater number cannot write any
thing else. This gross illiteracy is clue
to the Indifference of these people' to the
practical value of even an elementary
education, and something to poverty.
The few schools are poorly organized
and deplorably taught. The average
school term is five months, and the child
rarely attends more than two or three
terms, and then Is taken but to serve a
lifetime In the kitchen or at trie plow.
A great percentage of the children do
not attend school at all. Their food Is
corn bread and baccn, and in season
vegetables cooked In greass. Fresh meat
Is seldom seen on their tables. Sugar
Is a rarity. Their housas are primitive
log cabins; cooking stoves are unknown.
The spinning wheel and hand loom are
still in evidence. Social Intercourse is
stagnant -and sterile. This state of
things Is not necessary, but Is a conse
quence of long isolation from rational
civilization which has bred laziness. In
stead of the spirit of thrift and enter
prise which animates a community that
lives within close sight and hearing of
the marching column of their day and
generation. The country of these people
Is full of splendid water power; the raw
materials for manufacture, such as cot
ton, wool, flax, timber and Iron are at
hand, but these people cfong to wretched
mountain farms instead of turning their
energies to industries other than agri
culture. And this Is the condition of
one of the finest original stocks that
colonized and conquered Tennessee,
Kentucky and the mountain region of
Georgia, Alabama and the Carollnas, a,
race whose courageous eturdlness was
the backbone of the Confederate Army.
There Is no hope of change for the pres
ent generation of these people, but the
spread of manufacturing through the
South will be the redemption of their
children, who are today swelling the
ranks of operatives in the cotton facto
ries and timber mills of the South.
Isolation made their fathers ignorant
and indolent; contact with the larger
world will redeem the children.
INSPIRATION OF C03IMOX INTEREST
The practical side of the irrigation
question has been thoroughly presented
in this city within the past few days by
men competent to Speak for the various
sections of the state and by Congress
men who represent, not only each his
special district, but each presumably
the whole state on any measure of vital
importance to Its development. The
opinions of thess men on a great and
growing Isue have been duly set forth
in resolutions carefully guarded In the
Interest of harmony, but distinctly defi
nite on the main question. The public,
a vitally Interested spectator and lis
tener, has looked on and hearkened, to
Its own pleasure and enlightenment.
Thus "far the work of the Irrigation
Convention la as an open book with
which the public Is familiar. But
there is another and perhaps even more
important feature of this convention.
Thin may be designated as the commer
cial touch, that resulted from the meet
ing of representative men, each pos
sessed of the idea of the development of
his section and all ready to concede that
the 'development of one was of advan
tage to the whole. Behind this, again,
and in a sense inspiring it, was the hu
man touch, to which the social nature
of man so readily responds and which
quickens every impulse for the general
good, by establishing Interest In each
other through personal acquaintance.
This develops what has been called the
"get-together" impulse, the Influence of
which upon the opinions of men, though
a subtle force, is freely acknowledged
If well understood. This Is an influence
In community and state development
the value of which cannot be overesti
mated. Only through It can the great
undertakings that originate with the
few find necessary support from he
many-.
The state is to be congratulated that
those- competent to speak upon the irri
gation question "got togeher" and ex
changed ideas upon the subject and
formulated plans for the furtherance of
the great object In view the reclama
tion of Its arid lands. It has been said
that Oregon is entering upon a new
epoch of which activity and develop
ment are the watchwords. Supporting
and giving Impetus to this Idea," and the
movement that It represents, Is the In
spiration of a common Interest. When
this is awakened men come together for
counsel. Coming together, they develop
strength that Is fertile in expedients, po
tent in action and effective in purpose.
Chinese merchants-and laundrymen In
the United States are asked by the Con
suls of the empire who are located In
large cities of thfs country to contrib
ute to the relief of their suffering coun
trymen In Quong Tong. ' This province
has been sd long without rain that rice
is too dear for the inhabitants to obtain
enough to live on. A rice .depot has
been established in Hong Kdng for the
relief of these wretched starvelings In
the hope that the Chinese In America
will pay for and maintain it. This is
the first intimation that the world has
received that civilized methods of deal
ing with destitution and suffering have
found favor In China. It le probable
that the Idea was caught from the op
erations of the Red Cross Society in
troduced by the stress of war. The
public will be curious to know whether
the Chinese In the United States will
respond to the call made upon their sub
stance for the benefit of their distressed
countrymen.
Belgium Is one of the countries In
which capital punishment has been
abolished. To this, it Is said. Is due
the fact that Rublno, the would-be as
sassin of the King of the Belgians, left
London without attempting to kill King
Edward. He dreaded first the fury of
the English populace, and next the un
bending principle of English justice.
That Belgian laws are not more humane
than these of England or the United
States In dealing with murderer's Is In
dicated In the punishment foreshadowed
for Rubino. It is said he will be de
ported to the Congo Free State, of
which King Leopold Is sovereign,, and
sent to one of the convict rubber camps,
"where his life will probably be shbrt."
The electrical chair, the gallows and
the guillotine stand out as Instruments
of gentle mercy as well as of stem
justice when compared with this method
of dealing with criminals.
Editorially, under date of November
19, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer be
wails the restrictions which It alleges
are placed on American trade through
lack of ships, which, according to the
Post-Intelllgencer theory, cannot be
supplied without the aid of a ubsldy
In the local columns of the same paper
appears an article reciting the fact that
there Is a surplus of tonnage all over
the Pacific Coast, and that idle ships
are so plentiful that there Is no employ
ment for sailors. Thus does theory lose
much of Its force when It is confronted
by facts. Incidentally, it might be
mentioned that a ship can be chartered
today at any port cn the Pacific Coast
for any port in the known world at the
lowest rate on record. To be more- spe-jj
clflc as to the lack or restrictions tnat
are placed on American trade by ton
nage supplies, the Post-Intelligencer's
attention Is called to the fact that two
British ships were chartered in Portland
3csterday to load for Australia at 15s
per ton. Another was taken for United
Kingdom at 17s Gd, and still another for
lumber loading for South Africa at the J
lowest rate ever paid for that business.
In San Francisco yesterday, a vesisol
was chartered to carry wheat to the
United Kingdom at lis 3d, the lowest
rate on record. Actual transactions of
this kind disprove all of the theories
that can be lined up la support of any
measure tending to supplant natural
trade conditions with artificial devices.
The Pennsylvania Railroad and the
Reading Railroad have both recently
made an advance of 10 per cent to all
employes receiving under $200 per
month. Senator Depew not long ago
pointed out that railroad wages have
grown one-half or doubled In 30 years.
In 1899 the average yearly wages of rail
way employes In England, the best paid
In Europe, was $29257. In this country
the annual average was $545. But Amer
ican railroad men are harder worked
than English railroad handa In lfcSo
in the United Kngdom 465,000 British
railroad employes were doing the work
on 20,000 miles of tracks, while In this
country on 177,000 miles, less than twice
as many men, or 785,034, were doing
the work. In Great Britain there are
23 men to the mile. Here there are
five. Our men have tb be more efficient,
and are .therefore better paid. In the
United .Kingdom only four men in 1000"
get over $12 17 a week, while here 7S0
out of every 1000" get iz 4 or over a
week.
Judge R. P. Boise occupies a unique
position in the jurisprudence of Oregon.
He has been a member of the Oregon.
bar two-fifths of a century. His early
asDocIates have dropped away from him
until his name stands as almost the
only one of forty years ago against
which "the fatal asterisk of death" has
not been set. Honored for his endeavor
in the cause of justice, outspoken - for
the right as God has given him to sse
the right, he has earned through long
years of labor In legal lineH? the respect
which Is universally accorded to him by
the members of the Oregon bar. Cer
tainly these members, rank and file,
could do no better than to take to
themselves Individually the advice given
to them generallj by the venerable
head of the "Oregon Bench and Bar" In
the closing words of his Interesting and
comprehensive review of i,ts work for
the past forty years.
The protest of C. L. Parker In regard
to the darkness through which street
car pass?ngers are obliged, to make their
way at night near the condemned bridge
across Montgomery gulch, In Albina, in
making the transfer from car to car Is
well grounded. Lights should be pro
vided for this condemned structure,
since foot passengers are forced to use
it, to the end that unnecessary danger
and annoyance may not bo added to
the inconvenience they suffer in making
a transfer of ssveral hundred feet be
tween cars cn dark and stormy nights.
Some things "cannot be helped; others
can be. A dark bridge In a city is one '
of the latter.
When the Utah Legislature meets It
will doubtless elect Apostle Smoot, of
the Mormcn Church, to the United
States Senate. He is not a polygamist
in practice, like Roberts, who was ex
pelled from the House. Whether he be
lieves in polygamy or not Is of no more
practical consequence than it would be
If he was a Second Adventlst. Men are
not expelled from the United States
Senate because of their ncademlc be
liefs; they may be expelled because of
their morals.- Roberts was an open,
avowed polygamist In practice, while
Smoot Is a polygnmlst only In faith.
Continuing Its Speakership canvass
among Republican editors in the Middle
Western States, the Chicago Tribune
has ascertained that In Michigan and
Wisconsin, out of 146 editors putting
themselves on record, 4S favcr Mr. Can
non, 47 are for Mr. Babcock, and 11 for
William Alden Smith. Of Mr. Babcock's
adherents, 45 were In his own state,
Wisconsin. This is a most impressive
demonstration of tariff revision senti
ment In Republican circles.
t Minister Wu, among other good things
fn his good-bye speech, said that the
age of deception on the- part of the
diplomat is gone. Freely Interpreted,
this means that the modern diplomat is
not sent 'abroad to He for his countrj.
Perhaps a large part of the generous
and friendly estimation in which Min
ister Wu Is held In this country is due
to his practice of this new order of
things in diplomacy.
The organization of a Grange Insti
tute proves that the Patrons of Hus
bandry are abreast of the times. Not
everything can be learned from Individ
ual experience. Besides, the method is
too costly. Wise men in '.hco days of
industrial development are willing to
profit by the experience of others.
Pen Picture of Cannon.
Kansas City Star.
There are no fine flourishes about -Representative
Cannon. His strong points
are conscientious earnestness and con
vincing common sense. He Is unskilled In
sophistry and subterfuge. He is .not an
orator, although he is a good debater. I
need be, he cm put one foot on a chair,
an elbow on his knee, and make as tine a
point as any man ever made In colloquial
argument. He Is a sound reasoner. On
the other hand, he has been known to be
come tremendously earnest, to gesticu
late wildly and ferociously and to mike
merciless assaults on his opponents. In
theso moods he Is the "rough rider" at his
roughest, and some of his attacks have
left wounds that have been slow in heal
ing. He is not popular, in the sense that
certain other members of the House have
been, and for this reason it is a matter of
conjecture whether he will be entirely
successful as a leader of men. However,
his close association with other Speakers
ought to, have served as a good coaching,
Justas It makes him a particularly log
ical man for the plico In the eyes of his
associates. As 'far back as the Samuel
J. Randall regime, Representative Can
non was ona of the most trusted lieuten
ants of the Speaker, and Reed relied upon
him to a very large degree. He wis on the
rules committee that framed the Reed
laws for the government of the House.
With the weighty business before Con
gress for the next session, Mr. Cannon
"ought to be,a thoroughly safe man. He
will certainly command a much higher de
gree of respect and confidence than hi3
Immediate predecessor in. that office enjoyed.
SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS
i
Tlie Generous Spirit That Counti.
Albany Herald.
The Willamette Valley does not need
Irrigation, but our people want to see the
whole state grow, and the waste places In
the remotest corners of Eastern Oregon
to blossom as the rose. Irrigation is
needed in Eastern Oregon, hence we
favor It. .
Watch for Their Discomfiture.
Woodburn Independent.
Governor Geer made a decided hit and
discomfited his enemies when he observed
that there could be no complications on
account of the Senatorial question, as
that had been settled by the voters at the
polls in June. The Governor must have
ins little dry joke without - varying irom
the line of truth and justice.
Danger In the Referendum.
Vancouver Independent.
The referendum, or submission to pop
ular vote of all legislation, which is one of
the changes in our form of government
the Socialists wish to see enacted, would
lessen the power of trained and selected
men. to withstand the impulses and pas
sions of the mass of citizens. The change
would give new potency and new danger
to the gusts of feeling and often short
lived notions or fads of politics.
Doesn't See the Joke.
North Yamhill Record.
The various Senatorial booms of Ore
gon ran upon a new obstacle, which is
somewhat discomfiting to, the promoters;
when Governor Gcer. in declining to call
a special session of the Legislature, said
that since the Senatorial question was
settled by the vote of the people of the
state, in the June election, it would not
stand in the way of the transaction of
other business at the regular session in
January. There is a good bit of sarcasm
In this statement of the Governor, since
he is the supposed beneficiary of the pop
ular vote; and in the face of the belief
that the Legislature will not be bound by
the popular vote.
31itchell on the Stuncl. .
Pendle.ton East Oregonian.
In the midst of a constant shower of
Insults from the attorneys, Mitchell has
not lost his temper. He has stood the or
deal like a man. He has answered venom
with reason. He has. rendered civility of
demeanor in return for the studied
thrusts of his inquisitors. Worn and
haggard? No wonder. For eight months
he has been the soul of 150,000 men. He
has carried their late In his hands. That
fate has beenplaced in the balance and
he. as its keeper, feels the pulsations of
that' host, throbbing like the heart of a
volcano. Only a worklngman! That's all.
Representative of a horde of day labor
ers? Only that. But In the" "simple an
nals of the poor" he will outlive thlse
who have sought to Inflame his passions
and belittle his calling. Worklngman or
king after all the test Is reason plain.
uhaFsumlng reason. He has not shown
nialice while the examiners were pouring
their molten spleen upon him.
Sympathy From Iclnho.
Lewiston Tribune.
The Idaho citizen may well congratu
late himself on the pasaing of the recent
election as a completed and closed trans
action. Elsewhere the controversy seems
now to be just getting Its second wind.
In some state whore Senators are to be
elected the general result was merely a
prelude to the personal and acrimonious
contest to follow.. While unhappy people
elsewhere are In sore straits as to who
may or. may not be a Senator or some
thing else, Idaho has practically forgot all
about the offices and Is again nt work
building and growing and getting to
gether. Yet Idaho made a complete re
versal in Its public life, and hence could
find more to argue over than any state.
But the thing Is done, and now there arc
other things' to do. However, that Is no
reason why we should not extend sym
pathy and Condolences to the unfortunate
people that are not permitted even yet
to have surcease from the troubles and
contentions of the politicians.
PerlclnH and Wilson.
Walla Walla Union.
When the question of Federal patronage
from the State of Washington was be
fore President Roosevelt, the foremost
man In opposition to the wishes of
Senator Foster was ex-Senator John
L. Wilson. Mr. Foster proposed the namo
of B. D. Crocker, of Walla Walla, for
the position of Collector of Customs at
Port Townsend. Mr. Wilson promptly
appeared in Washington City in opposi
tion to the wishes of Senator Foster and
by cunning and misrepresentation suc
ceeded in defeating the wishes of the Re
publican Senator from Pierce County.
One of the strong opponents of Mr. Fos
ter's selection wa3 S. A. Perkins, of the
Tacoma Ledger and the News, who is to
day calling upon Pierce County to be
loyal to Wilson and claiming Wilson was
loyal to Foster. Mr. Perkins, it Is said,
was In Washington working against Mr.
Crocker and incidentally against Mr. Fos
ter. ' All during the contest over the Col
lectorship of Customs the Perkins pap:s
were the bitterest opponents of (Mr.
Crocker, the choice of Pierce County's
United States Senator. .The Perkins pa
pers are clearly out of order.
Bait Welcomed With Avidity.
Forest Grove Times.
The Oregonian, reprinting that item
from the Times in which we spoke of the
disposition of Portland to absorb all the
good offices In sight, sneeringly asks If
Washington County has a candidate for
United States Senator. Well, we cannot
say 'that we have one who is an active
candidate. But wc have one who knows
more about the needs of Oregon and bet
ter how to work ror them than' any other
man In the state. He Is also one of the
best-known and most popular men both
In the state and at Washington, and his
election would please everybody In the
stae except some of the candidates who
want the place themselves. And It would
please each of them better than to have
any one else elected except himself. But
our man, thinks he owes something to
these other gentlemen who are candi
dates, because they are his friends and
have helped him In the past, so be will
not become a candidate for the place In
opposition to them. If the .Legislators
should conclude, however, that the office
should seek the man best qualified to fill
It, -then thej' would vote- for Thomas H.
Tongue, and his home Is In Washington
County.
.' A Travesty on Taxation.
Spokane Spokesman-Review.
The Portland Oregonian squotC3 the
Spokesman-Tievlew to the effect "that
while the B. & O. is assessed at S20.5CO per
mile In Indiana, , the Northern Pacific,
Union Pacific and GreOjt Northern are
assessed at only ?G00O a mile in Washing
ton." The Oregonian assorts that this
"comparison is obviously unfair." It is
mistaken. Mile for mile, the tracks of
the Northern Pacific and Great Northern
are worth more than the tracks of the
B. & O. in Indiana. These Western roads
are bigger profit-payers, as shown by
their official statements of earnings. As
shown by the Investment Guide, the B.
& O. had net earnings, for the fiscal year
ending June SO. 1S0J. of $16,924,1)93. For
the same year the Northern Pacific net
earnings were $16,CC4.626. But the fixed
charges of the B. & O. were J9.4S5.076.
while those of the Northern Pacific were
but $7,450,723. The two systems spent
about the same sums on Improvements
and both paid 4 per cent on their capital
stock. But the Northern Pacific still had
a surplus of.. $1,002,618, while the B. &. O.
surplus was but 540S.9S5. The Northern
Pacific's showing for the fiscal year end
ed June 30, 1902, was far better than that
ofythe preceding year. The truth Is the
Northern Pacific, the Great Northern and
the Union Pacific are at the top of the"
list .of the big profit payers in thi3 coun
try. Their low assessment in this state,
in the face of their remarkable earnings,
Is a travesty on taxation.
HEARST'S CANDIDACY SERIOUS.
T-
Indlanapolis News.
BOSTON, NovJ 14. A Washington spe
cial to the Herald says: ,
William Randolph Hearst, who has
just been elected to Congress from the
EleveMh New York District, is under
stood to be grooming for the Democratic
presidential nomination in 1C04.
He will make his campaign as the can
didate cf the labor forces and all other
forces opposed to trusts. With these ele
ments behind him. he thinks he' can not
only capture the nomination, but defeat
at the election any man whom the Re
publicans may place In the field.
Thj3 information does not come directly '
frcm Mr. Hearst, but from persons who j
bear the closest confidential relations to I
him. Mr. Hearst has been In Washington i
for several days, resting from the cam- J
paign through which he "has Just passed, j
and his aspirations have become a matter '
of interesting po'itlcal gossip. When thl3
talk was mentioned to him today, he
smiled and said:
"I take the same view of a presidential
nomination that mu:t b3 held by eyery
real American that It is not an honor
to be refused by anyone. You say it 13
said that the preposition to name me
as the presidential candidate two years
from now Appears to meet with "favor
among laboring people. If so, L am very
glad of 'it. not only for the reason that
It might help to gratify any ambition
which I may be held to cherish to
ward the presidency, but because it in
dicates that the much I have striven to
do and the little I have accomplished
for American labor has been appreciated
by thoce for whom I sought and still seek
to aid.
"This labor question has not been a
fad with me. As a large employer of
labor for years, I have given the subject
all the consideration I was capable of.
and I think the fact that I have never
had any serious difficulty with my em
ployes is in some degree attributable to
the fact that I have tried to put Into
practice some of the theories I hold."
Mr. Hearst's political friends say that
his coming to Congress presages a mora
active participation than ever on his part
in the deliberations of the National Demo
cratic party. TheS say that but for Ex
Senator Hill's espousal of the cause of
Color, the newspaper proprietor would
have been nominated and elected Gov
ernor of New York. A move in that
direction, they claim, was on the boards.
"And if he had been chosen the party's
nominee." "remarked one of his intimates
today, "he would have won out. He Is
never defeated In anything he under
takes. There Is now no one left of the
Democratic leaders to whom the party
can look to lead It In 1904 except Mr.
Hearst. He Is not onl. an adroit poli
tician, a3 the carrying p'f his district by
71 per. cent- of the total vote Indicates,
but he Is a multi-millionaire, and money
is nqt a thing to be despised in carrying
on a national campaign.
"Wc believe that, with the labor vote,
he would carry New York. Connecticut,
New Jersey, Illinois and California, to
start with, and If he should do that, there
would bo enough electoral votes from the
other States forthcoming to make him a
winner."
Agreements Must Be Kept Invlolnte.
Chicago Tribune.
A year and a half ago President Shaf
fer, of the Amalgamated Association, or
dered some of Its members to. quit work
in violation of an agreement which they
had entered Into 'with their employers.
He told the men whom he ordered out
that loyalty to the association outranked
loyalty to contracts. Some of the men
who were bound by contracts obeyed Pres
ident Shaffer. Others won public respect
and approval by remaining loyal to their
agreements at the cost of expulsion from
the association. Last week President
Mitchell said to the arbitration commis
sion: "'In states where we have trade
agreements. If any of our local unions
were to attempt to violate agreements we
would put them out of the union. Our
agreements take precedence over our own
law. The agreements must be kept In
violate." This is real progress. Presi
dent Mitchell is a shrewder man than
President Shaffer. He is able to perceive
that the relations between employers and
organised labor never will be satisfactory
so long as the labor unions do not recog
nize the binding force of contracts. When
the policy of President Mitchell becomes
the policy of all the chiefs of organized
labor, no employer will give as an excuse
for refusing to enter into a trade agree
ment his belief that it will not be lived
up to by the union any longer than It
suits its convenience.
Lnbor SIn.it Have Itn Share.
President Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania.
The country is passing through an un
exampled period of prosperity, and. as far
as the Pennsylvania is concerned, this
prosperity Is bound to continue for at
least two years. If contracts are kept. It
Is time that our employes be given a
share in this prosperity. All the railroads
in the United States and all employers of
labor arc contemplating an advance In
wages. The cost of living has Increased
20 to 25 per cent, but wages have not In
creased accordingly. This movement Is
bound to come, and the Pennsylvania
may as well lead as follow. We have
more business offered than we can han
dle, and can't see our way out of the
trouble unless we keep our men loyal to
the company and help them while they
help us. I, therefore, recommend a flat
increase of 10 per cent in wages, and ad
vise that this announcement be mado to
the employes first and to the public later.
The Solid West.
Boston Herald.
Another practically solid section of the
country is that part of it included in the
15 states west of the Mississippi River.
Four years ago the Republicans carried
eight of these fitates and the Democrats
and Populists seven. In the elccticr.3 of
last week the Republicans carried them all.
except the rotten borough of Nevada, by
majoritles aggregating about 27S.O0O votes
Of the 5S Congressmen chosen In these
trans-'MlsslFsippl States the Republicans
appear to have elected 49 and the Demo
crats nine. The change from the condi
tions existing in tnat section of the coun
try, where Bryanism was more cr less
rampant, is something remarkable, and
is not readily accounted for unless it can
be said to be due to the general prosperity
of the people there, and the personal pop
ularity of President Roosevelt in the
Rocky Mountain regions, as well as In
tljose of the cowboy.
Coal Tariff Mast lie ncjicalcd.
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Something must be done at the present
session of Congress to rectify some of the
provisions of the Dingley tariff. The duty
on all kinds of coal should. If possible,
be repealed during the first week of the
-session. This repeal would be hailed with
joy all over the country, for any tax upon
fuel, food, light or air is instinctively of
fensive to a freedom-loving people.
ParoiUeH.
Barry Pain.
(TEN'N'TSON.)
I think that I am drawing to an end;
For on a sudden came a gasp for breath.
And stretching of the hands, and blinded eyes.
And a great darkness falling oh my soul.
O hallelujah! . . . Kindly pass the milk.
(SWINBL'P.XE.)
As the sin that was'swe-t In the stnnlnff
Is foul' in the. ending thereof.
As the heat of the Summer's beginning
Is past In the "Winter of love;
O pur'ty. painful and pleading!
O coldness. Ineffably gray!
O hear; us, our handmaid unheeding.
And take It away!
(BROWNING.)
Tut! Bah! We take as another case
Pass the bills on the pills on the wlndow-stll;
notice the capsule
(A sick man's fancy, no doubt but I pjace
Reliance on trade-marks, sir) so perhaps
, you'll
(Excuse the "digression this cup which I hold
Light-poised Bah! It's spilt In the bed!
well, let's on gu
IIoM Bohca and sugar, sir; If you were told
Te surar was salt, would tho Bohea. be
Congo?'
NOTE AtfD COMMENT.
Can a front door step?
The top of the morning is covered wltS
frost tkesa days.
The young man who Is worth a million
hften't always got It. ,
John Alexander Dowie ecem3 to feel
that he Is being slighted. Let him to
Kansas forthwith.
The man who eats his breakfast In 10
minutes always manages to find time to
complain of the cook.
Carrie Nation was one of the attractions
at the horre show in New York. If she
can only get some horse sense everybody
will rejoice.
When one 'considers the fact that the
wedding march from "Lohengrin" Is the
usual tune to which people are married it
stems natural that they should also fol
low out Ua omen and later get a divorce.
A consistent marriage naturally develops
the opening motif.
A wliiD critic has now decided that
Lamb's essay on "Koast Pig" is based on
a fallacy. Ke says that the Chinese are
not fond of roast pig and wouldn't eat It
under any circumstances. If this be true
Chinese exclusion has worked like a
charm. The denizens of the so-called
, Chindie quarters arc simply Mongolians,
let us suppose.
It Is an observation of the leisurely
curious that a woman's voice always fol
lows her eyes. Endowed with all the
charmii that divinity could bestow she yet
must yield to a subtle impulse that for
bids her to speak falsely eye to eye. Were
this not true, man In his density would
be In continuous though unconscious sub
servience. Let him be thankful for the
one simplicity of woman.
Grandma Munra will find more sym
pathizers than she is aware of. Possibly
more men delivered their hearts Into her
keeping nt Meacham than ever will tell.
Her quaint log-cabin with its cheery dining-room
was a scene of delicious and sat
isfying enjoyment. There is no bliss com
parable to good eating, and Mrs. Munra
proved that the surest and quickest way
to the affections is through the alimentary
canrs.1.
The frosty weather is come and Ore
gonlans feel the chill from that North so
really close that our climate is a mys
tery. The Willamette Valley Is, as It
were, sunk below the level of the roaring
gales that blow out of the Arctic. Only
tho mountain peaks that rise Into the
sky catch the snows that pass over and
beyond. Favored" by Nature, blessed by
tho arts of peace, we go about the work
of the day with but faint reminder that
all around Winter Is raging.
Three women, weighing about 200
pounds each, walked down Morrison street
the other day and each passer-by stopped
to admire. An Easterner from the thin
and chilly lands that are frozen to the
hem of the Atlantic was so overcome that
he Instantly decided to settle in Oregon.
"I shall send for my wife n.nd daughters,"
he announced, "and we shall all have fair
round faces and double chins Inside of a
year. Heavens, how I shall rejoice In
fat! J. am so thin now that my marrow
goes up and down within my shanks like
mercury in a thermometer." And he be
took himself to a telegraph bffice.
. Here Is a piece of Siamese journalism
that puts, some of our contemporaries
quite in the shade in the matter of word
painting, says a Yokohama paper. It Is
an account of a shooting outrage, and
runs as follows:
"Shooting Outrage. O! Fearful Agony.
Khoon Tong, one of Phya Son's staff,
was orf a mission to Lampoon, and on
his return Instantly ehot dead by soma
miscreants scoundrels. O! untimely
death. O! fearful. O! Hell. All frlend3
expressed .their morneY The cowardice
dogs Is still at large. 6 soldiers and elx
policemen were at once dispatched."
If six policemen were dispatched every
time a murder was committed in London,
we fear the supply would soon fall be
low the demand. 'Orrible!
Can no one feel the crudeness of the at
mosphere of some of the present day
comic operas? Witty Jest and lovely song
are the gilding to a picture so deadly full
of all that Is low and cheap that one 13
amazed, ashamed, at the applause won
from self-respecting people by these pur
veyors of the vile. It is generally impos
sible to lay the finger of criticism on a
flagrant indecency. But no man can
emerge from the three hours of this
wretched, tawdry exposure of "life" with
out a feeling that he has been polluted.
The legitimate stage stands for all that
Is noblest and best. But the ordinary
comic opera, beautiful with the shimmer
ing loveliness of death, is the greatest
impulse imaginable to dreams that end in
black despair. Life is not that of tho
demi-monde, and emotion and passion are
not tho foul emanations of bosoms seeth
ing with the brutalities of fecund sin.
The thrifty man with a family, a bank
account and an office with real clerks is
fond of quoting the old adage about a
rolling stone. This weather gives him a
text, and his horrible example is the wide
eyed individual who saunters in looking
for a job. But there is a far more
wretched, more pitiable object, if not so
despicable, that bears the brand of "the
rolling stone." This Is the man of decent
attainment, of good breeding, of high
tates, whom the fate that looks after in
competents spurns around the world. You
meet them everywhere. Thc concrete
specimen is able to do almost anything
well, endowed with a capacity for hard
work that puts to shame his more fortu
nate associates. But his activity leads
to nothing: on the eve of success he
dreams. Rather than shatter the film of
his elaborate vision he forgets the price
of foo3. Discharge comes and he wearily
takes up the burden laid upon him. New
scenes waken in him once more the vague
desirs to do something worth while. But
the drudgery palls. Late In life the de
sire tc do something fails from out of
his blood and he who scorned riches ac
cepts thankfully the pittance of compas
sion. Such are the men who fill the
streets. They bear with them fond mem
ories and flushing hopes. The memories
shine m a gloom of commonplace and the
hopes are barren. Nemesis avenges the
wasting of opportunity. These are the
haggard, blood-guilty, pursued across a
trodden world by the furies of futile de
sire. Before their Eden flames the
sword of society which will not endure
that home and friends and happiness be
the lot of outcasts. Death whitens Hps
that have not stayed for love and palsies
hands that could not clasp for long. Only
ln the grave do they discover a resting
place with thejr fellows. Even In the
last sleep fancy paints them as dreaming
1 restlessly of long - gone opportunity
, dreaming as prisoners dream.