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SIX DEADLOCKS.
Yesterday'? ballots in various State
Legislatures reached results in ten in
stances. Six Senators are re-elected
Penrose in Pennsylvania, Fairbanks in
Indiana, Kittredge in South Dakota,
Gallinger In New Hampshire, and the
Platts of New York and Connecticut.
New men chosen are Stone to succeed
Test In Missouri, Hopkins to succeed
Mason in Illinois, Clarke to succeed
Jones In Arkansas, and Smoot to suc
ceed Rawlins in Utah
Other notable re-elections already
held or foregone conclusions afe those
of Perkins in California, 5pooner in
"Wisconsin, Clay In Georgia, Pettus in
Alabama, Allison in Iowa, McEnery in
Louisiana, Hansbrough In North Da
kota, Foraker in Ohio. Mallory in Flor
ida, and Dillingham in Vermont Sub
stitutions in the same category are:
Heyburn for Heitfeld in Idaho, Mc
Cleary for Deboe In Kentucky, Gorman
for Wellington in Maryland, Latimer
for McLaurin In South Carolina, New
lands for Jones in Nevada,
This leaves us with undetermined re
sults in six states: Colorado, Delaware,
Kansas, North. Carolina, Oregon and
Washington. The most strenuous of all
tHe fights is the one in Colorado, where
aspiration for Senator Teller's seat has
almost precipitated open disorder. Next
comes Delaware, which has now no
Senator at all as the result of the
irreconcilable desire of Addicks on the
one hand and the antipathy to Addicks
on the oher. It is in favor of Addicks
that he has 21 votes out of a necessary
27, but it is against him that the minor
ity prefer to see no representation
rather than consent to his election. So
stubborn an opposition must have some
merit in its resistance.
In Oregon and Washington, where, the
deadlock has made its home so often
and so devastatingly, the first ballots
of the Senatorial struggle are far from
reassuring, from the standpoint of quick
results. In each case the leading candi
date has fallen short of his reputed ex
pectations. All experience shows the
extreme difficulty of winning men over
who have once begun balloting1 in op
position to the leading candidate. It is
evident that considerable division exists
among the Republican majority In both
states, and our experience has been that
such contests continue with increasing
stubbornness and bitterness until the
closing hour of the session.
It is, significant that In Colorado,
where the strife Is at the highest, an In
struction has been passed binding the
Senator yet to be elected to favor elec
tion of Senators by popular vote. This
is the only way we can ever get this re
form namely, by constitutional amend
ment The vote at Salem shows how
inoperative every measure must be
which undertakes to bind members of
the Legislature outside the plain pro
visions of the Federal Constitution.
DOES OREGON WANT GOVERNMENT
IRRIGATION T
Sixty days have passed since the
meeting of the Oregon Irrigation Con
gress, and the executive committee has
forwarded to Washington no local
projects to claim the attention of the
Government under the new irrigatiop
law. This is not due to negligence on
the part of the committee. It is due to
the fact that interest in reclamation has
cooled, or that other agencies for at
taining the desired end, are relied upon.
At the time of the congres3lt was sup
posed local projects would be so nu
merous that a time limit would be de
sirable and that limit was fixed at sixty
days. From only one. county Klamath
has the committee heard in this
period.
Oregon will not get Government
money for reclaiming arid land unless
it shall put forth Intelligent effort in
that direction. To call a. meeting and
adopt burning resolutions will not do
the business. Sentiment worked up out
of hostility to certain private enter
prises will not do it The people must
manifest not only a, willingness to pro
mote and aid reclamation works by the
Government hut they must take the
initiative and in a measure prepare the
way for Government activity. They
must show that they have a practica
ble field for such operations, and also
that all lands to be benefited will bear
their proper proportion of the expense.
The law takes care of the Government
domain, but private holdings must be
otherwise arranged for. Assurance that
lands outside of Government control
will voluntarily carry their share of the
cost of irrigation works will go a long
way toward getting the Government to
reclaim districts that need this service.
If it shall be made to appear that Ore
gon has no irrigation sentiment except
that manufactured for special occasions,
we will fare ill in the distribution of
irrigation funds. But it is not to be ad
mitted that the state is so vllstless and
stupid. People of -the semi-arid districts
are as much alive to their needs now as
ever. What they lack is organization,
through which they would gain power
to make their desires known with some
force. They should realize, in the first
place, that there are many demands
upon the Government for irrigation
works; that the Government does not
have to send out engineers to hunt for
places where its money may be spent,
but" may choose from many projects
submitted by those who do prepare the
way. In the second place, there should
be efficient organization in order that
local needs and advantages may be
properly represented and local assur
ance given that the Government will
have fair play. And merely to talk of
these things, or to adopt ringing reso
lutions, will not suffice. Somebody must
put them on a business basis, and the
case will not admit of too much delay.
QUIET LIVES.
So peaceful and unmllltary a body as
a Y'. M. C. A. convention is unable to
restrtUn our strenuous President from
enforcing his familiar philosophy in
vigorous terms. Never did the man of
action have so enthusiastic and con
sistent an apostle.
With the general tenor of Mr. Roose
velt's Washington address, and with
most of Its specific utterances, all good
citizens will be in full accord. He is
especially happy In his appeal for mor
ality on the basis of manliness. Like so
many of the President's utterances, this
thought Is valuable for its suggestive
ness. In the long run, he says, the man
who is decent is apt to make the best
soldier, or the best railroad man. How
true this is, and how many are the illus
trations of the truth which will in
stantly occur to' every thinking mind!
It is along these lines that temperance
and ethics generally have been making
their modern conquests. The appeal is
for clean bodies and clean minds, and
the efficiency that comes through them.
Many a sermon could be preached from
the epigrammatic texts in this address.
As we have frequently remarked,
however, President Roosevelt carries
his enthusiasm for the "strenuous life"
too far. He extols it to the discredit of
the quiet life which is temperamentally
the only one for many persons as good
and useful in their way as the man of
outdoor life and action. The soldier
and the cowboy and the railroad man
have their sphere, but there are other
spheres wherein man is served as faith
fully and well as In camp and on the
battle-field. For example:
I do not care how patriotic the man was, if
he could neither- march nor shoot he was not
any good.
We will strive to make the young men do
cent, ... fearless and strong, able to hold
their own in tbe hurly-burly of the world's
work.
Very much like this also Is the cele
brated quotation from Goethe .which
Secretary Hay employed in his Interest
ing if somewhat singular eulogy of the
President, delivered at New York the
other evening: "Talent develops itself
in solitude; character in the stream of
life." These things are true to an ex
tent, but they are so thoroughly part of
the truth that they come near being an
untruth. Time would fall to tell the
roll of poets, martyrs, inventors, phil
osophers, saints and oven statesmen for
whom1 the "hurly-burly of the world's
work" had an insurmountable repul
sion. They were not "fearless And
strong." They were timid and weak.
But they did their duty and the world
honors them rightfully. They are Ig
nored In the philosophj' of the "strenu
ous life." Their defense was well sung
by one whom chance had driven to their
company John Milton, whose noble
sonnet on hia blindness contained this
immortal line:
They also servo who only stand and wait
And Hezekiah, once the eager young
warrior, came to the same place in his
contemplative period and said: "I shall I
go softly all my years."
THE SYSTE5I AND THE MAN.
It is entirely in keeping that the Lieutenant-Governor
of South Carolina,
nephew and associate of Senator Till
man, member of the Inside governing
ring of South Carolina politicians,
should upon occasion prove himself a
cold-blooded murderer. It takes that
sort of man to "do" the sort of politics
they like in South Carolina; and the sort
of politics they have been "doing" this
twenty years past produces naturally
the character the work requires. They
have always employed the direct
method In South Carolina. When In the
period of the great slavery agitation
they wanted refined and scholarly state
craft they sent Calhoun and men of his
tvoe un to Washington and put men of
he same sort into the executive posts
at home. When later the plot thickened
and the need was for fighting men, they
sent the ruffian Brooks to Congress,
there to make his name- infamoua
When the war was over and when the
purposes of South Carolina called for
the mood and the arts of conciliation,
they sent the patrician Hampton and
the gracious Butler to do courtier serv
ice. ,
Then there came a time when South
Carolina cared nothing for the opinion
of the country; when she organized her
polltlcs'upon the motives of "white-man
rule" by whatever means the work
should require. It was a rough and
cruel business, and It called for rough
and cruel Instruments. It was work In
which patrician and gentlemanly hands
could bear no part at least no "prac
tical" part Their idea was to put the
rough and dirty work of "white-man's
politics" into vulgar hands, themselves
to save the credit of the state by con
tinuing to hold the posts of honor the
Senatorshlps, the Governorships, the
lawmaking power and the general au
thorities of politics. And so for a time
the plan worked under the momentum
of tradition and of aristocratic arro
gance. But there came a time when the ruffi
ans of South Carolina politics, dis
covered that they were doing the work
of. state politics while their aristocratic
associates were merely its orrtamental
attachments. And from the day this
discovery was made South Carolina pol
itics took another turn in its career. The
ruffians, finding themselves the masters
of the situation the real thing, so to
speak promptly put the patrician ele
ment to the rear and took over the high
posts for themselves. In the Governor's
chair. In Congress, In the Senate every
where they intruded themselves by the
right of a powe r which no man dared to
dispute, or at least to resist And there
to this day they have remained, to the
discredit of South. Carolina and to the
shame of the whole country.
Murderer Tillman is a natural out
come of the system. When the policy
of a state calls for intimidation, out
rage, assassination, there must be no
complaint if bullies, thugs and assassins
come to distinction In it They fit the
system; they are its natural product; its
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posts and "honors" naturally belong to
them. But, recalling the noble history
of South Carolina in her better days,
one could weep for the pity of it the
,pity of it!
A STATE SECRET.
Ydung Mr. Hobson replies to those
who criticise his absence from official
duty that he has a private understand
ing with the Secretary of the Navy by
which he is to continue his lecturing
tour, "as that official Is desirous of en
listing the interest of the people, espe
cially those of the Western and South
ern States, in the Navy." Here Is a cat
out of its bag, but with no harm done.
The popular enthusiasm created by
the Civil War did not much attach to
the naval service. Farragut, Cushing
and Porter were, indeed, for a time
names to conjure with on patriotic and
sentimental occasions, but they bore no
proportionate relation in the popular
mind to the names of corresponding
Army heroes. Somehow the work done
by the Navy was regarded as a matter
of course as a thing in the purely pro
fessional line calling for no special re
ward and creating small Interest In
naval affairs. And following the war
period the country was for many years
dominated by the Inland spirit Ohio and
the other inland Western States fur
nished the political leadership, and with
it the political Ideas of the time. What
the Navy suffered In the way of neglect
during this period need not be recited.
It almost literally went to pieces, for
there was a long time when the annual
appropriations were not sufficient to
maintain in seaworthy condition the
wooden hulks which had survived the
stress of the war.
This was the situation when, nearly
fifteen years ago, the great disaster at
Samoa, with Its incidents of heroic con
duct on the part of American officers
and men, attracted public attention to
the poverty of the naval service. All
at once, it seemed, the country woke up
to the fact that it had neglected a ser
vice associated with the most heroic
traditions of American National life. At
about the same time events at home
and abroad gave emphasis to our need
of a Navy; and the pen of Captain
Mahan began to Instruct the country
and the world In the value of sea
power. The Administration and Con
gress caught the spirit; and straight
way there was begun that movement
for a new Navy which has given us
such fighting machines as the Oregon
and the Olympia and which made pos
sible the glorious events of Manila Bay
and Santiago.
The Navy today Is more popular with
the country than the Army. Its recent
achievements have been of a sort to
strike the Imagination as well as to in
spire patriotic pride and spirit. But Its
more direct appeal is to the seaboard
part of our population. The great in
teriorthe South and West does not
see the ships of the Navy; does not
come much into physical contact with
its men; does not enter fully into the
spirit which is essential to the mainte
nance of the Navy. It was to meet this
condition that traditional sentiment was
cast to the winds and the names of
states and cities savoring not at all of
the sea or of the sea spirit were given to
the vessels of the Navy. It is to con
jure local sentiment in support of the
Navy that we have a battle-ship named
for the prairie state of Iowa and a cut
ter for the inland town of Nashville. It
is for the same purpose that such Junior
"heroes" as can be spared from active
duty are detailed to give their presence
at expositions; and to the same purpose
young Mr. Hobson, by "private under
standing" with the Secretary of the
Navy, Is pexnltted to go about the
country nominally to give lectures, but
In fact to afford the people away from
the seaboard opportunity to see a real
live naval hero in the flesh all to the
end that appropriations in support of
the American Navy shall be popular.
And there Is no cause to complain of the
strategy which thus makes for patriotic
sentiment and for the strength of a
great arm of the National power.
The school tax levy is heavy. Of that
there is no doubt That the sum that
it will produce is necessary properly to
conduct the schools and supply the ab
solute need of additional buildings is
made plain by the estimates submitted
by the School Board to the taxpayers.
Indeed, this sum will be insufficient to
supply glaring deficiencies in school
room accommodations, since It will not
reach the old Atkinson building, the
razing of which has been long overdue
to progress and sanitation. But it was
wisely deemed all that taxpayers would
bear, and the proposition to Increase the
levy to 5 mills was not received with
favor. Some things we must have;
other things can wait For example,
the children who find in the Atkinson
School building such shelter and accom
modations for seating, study and recita
tion as an old, outdated structure can
supply have a better equipment In
school privileges than do the children
In some other portions of the district
who are huddled Into leaky "portables"
or compelled to walk long distances
through the rain to secure admission to
a school building at all, the one that
they should attend being insufferably
overcrowded. Thus it becomes neces
sary for the "oldest school building in
the city" to accept the fate too often
reserved for the aged., and be put on the
waiting list while the demands of the
newer sections are supplied and taxpay
ers catch their breath for another on
slaught The large estimate of this year
was, it was alleged, made necessary by
the insufficient estimate of last year.
This is probable, and Is a familiar
method of dealing with questions of
public finances, Induced perhaps by our
system of rotation in office, which car
ries with it the temptation to leave the
other fellow to meet the charge of ex
travagance. Whatever the cause, the
taxpayers of School District No. 1 are
up against a 4.5-mills levy, and the es
timates that are behind it are clearly
within the requirements of our growing
school population. The wise taxpayer
will accordingly accept the situation
without protest, look pleasant and
rustle up his proportional "share of the
tribute.
Senator Spooner has achieved a nota
ble victory In Wisconsin. "This is not
so much that he has triumphed over
rival candidates as it is that he has the
united support of his party at a time
when factional feeling Is strong In his
state. He laid the foundation for oppo
sition when he announced, nearly three
years ago, that he would not be a can
didate for re-election. The fight be
tween the La Follette following and the
old stalwarts, in which the former won
everything but the ability to carry out
election reforms promised, Involved
Spooner because he had been identified
with the stalwarts and was supposed to
be against the Governor's reforms. The
convention that renominated La Fol
Iette for Governor indorsed Spooner for
Senator, on condition that he should
subscribe to the state Republican plat
form. But Spopner proved himself to
he larger than the state. He took act
ive part in the campaign, did not in
terms express particular allegiance to
the Wisconsin platform, but urged Re
publican doctrine and men, and now
finds himself the unanimous choice of
his party for re-election to the Senate.
Many a shrewd politician would have
fallen where he, almost wholly devoid
of the wiles of the professional politi
cian, has achieved signal success.' The
man who placed him In nomination in
the Republican caucus the other day
was the same who nominated him six
years ago, and there was significance
in the hope he expressed that he might
In 190S place him in nomination for
President of the United States.
The story of a sturdy, self-reliant peo
ple in the sharp grip of famine comes
from Northern Sweden. About 30,000
persons are affected by conditlonswhich
resulted from the simultaneous failure
of the crops and the scarcity of fish.
Pino bark, dried, ground to powder,
mixed with stewed Iceland moss and
made into a kind of famine bread, is
the diet of thousands. To add to their
distress, typhoid fever follows the use
of this food, and a repetition of the ter
rible experience of 1S77, when thou
sands succumbed to this combination of
ills, is threatened. The fortunate fellow
countrymen of this starving people, who
have found homes and plenty in the
United States, have subscribed liberally
to a fund for their relief, but, unless
the Swedish government takes prompt
and active measures to prevent it, the
population of a large area will be deci
mated and the hardy Northern cattle,
so essential to the people's prosperity
even under the most favorable condi
tions, will be exterminated! National
self-interest, if no higher motive, should
prevent a calamity of the extent fore
shadowed, since the strength of the
country lies in its hardy, self-reliant
sons.
The divorce colony of South Dakota
has doubtless been set In a flutter by
the decision of thfe United States Su
preme Court that divorces procured
after six months' residence in that
state for the purpose are not valid. Jus
tice White rendered the judgment of
the court upon this point, holding that
legal domicile is not established in this
manner; that a resident of another state
In this instance that of Massachusetts
could not establish change of resi
dence or of citizenship by a temporary
sojourn for that purpose in another
state. This decision is in strict accord
with the protective Intent of the law.
That this Intent has been evaded by a
large number of more or less wealthy
and Influential men and women, who
found themselves chafing from one
cause or another under the bonds of
matrimony, and whose desire was
chiefly to secure release from one mat
rimonial contract in order that they
might enter into another, is a fact
known to all the world. This decision
places such people in an unenviable po
sition, to say the least and may pro-?e
a disturbing element in matters of prop
erty inheritance for someyears to come.
Testimony accumulates showing that
the bubonic plague has found a favor
able and officially concealed breeding
place In San Francisco. This testimony,
or much of it, is of the most positive,
alarming and disgusting nature. Rats,
dead and alive, have been found to be
Infected "with the disease; Chinese and
Japs to the number of eighty-seven, to
gether with six white persons, have had
it in less than three years, or, to-be
exact, since March, 1900, and still the
health authorities of the city and state
palter, with and endeavor to conceal It
A. quarantine against San Francisco
sufficiently rigid to bring the Governor
of California and the city authorities
to terms should be established, to the
end that the United States Marine Hos
pital ' Service might be called upon to
handle the situation and stamp out this
Asiatic scourge.
"The way of the transgressor" is
being trodden by a large number of
boya Naturally, they find it hard. It
may be feared, however, that their feet
will all too soon become accustomed to
the penalties that beset the way; that
having gotten used to the forbidden
path, they will not care to tread any
other. This Is the possibility that makes
the sight of beardless youth with hand
cuffs on, en route as military prisoners
to Alcatraz, and that of boyish faces
peering through bars in jails, an appall
ing one. The lesson Illustrated by these
faces is to parents, and its opening sen
tence is, "Beware of beginnings of
crime, which are too often rooted in
parental neglect and childish disobedi
ence." The Seattle grand jury Is getting
down to Its work in the indictment of
gamblers in a way that promises some
good results. The pursuit of the Irre
sponsible, wholly discredited dlvekeeper
has been abandoned and that of the
gentlemonly, Influential, highly respect
ed keeper of a high-class, exclusive hotel
was taken up, with the result that he ia
now under bonds to answer to the
charge of conducting a swindling gam
bling game in the clubrooms of his hos
telry. It seems that this grand jury
really means business.
There are indications of a purpose at
Manila to mako Major Edward P.
Glenn, of the Army, the scapegoat of a
situation in which he appears at least
not more blameable than others. And
it Is a proceeding which ought not to be
looked upon in silence. Major Glenn
served a long time in this department
with entire credit to the service, and to
himself, and his friends here will not
easily be convinced that he Is the mon
ster of cruelty which certain sensational
reports would have him appear.
The campaign for the Lewis and
Clark bill in the House at Salem was
evidently handled with unusual judg
ment, prudence and skill by Represent
ative Malarkey. The measure in the
beginning had' some opposition, but it
fell away before the well-matured and
well-directed tactics of Its friends. If
we may judge from the verdict of the
House, the entire state Is Interested in
the Fair and Is willing to do Its full
share toward its success.
Murderer Tillman has made a mistake
In resigning His office Just as his charac
ter as a hero under the South Carolina
political "system has been established.
Never until now was his fitness for offi
cial life in South Carolina, so entirely
manifest But it is probably a mere po
litical play he probably anticipates the
honors of a triumphant re-election by a
loyal and admiring constituency.
SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS
Their Thirst for Notoriety.
Eugene Register.
The Tlllmans continue to agitate the
country. One shoots an editor and the
other fires blank cartridges at Congress.
Protection FIrt, Consistency After
vrnrd. Medford Southern Oregonian.
Our new policy of imperialism Is respon
sible for any lessened force the Monroe
Doctrine may have. If we acquire ter
ritory in another hemisphere foreign
powers do not see why we should object
to acquisition by them in this hemisphere.
But even at the risk of being thought in
consistent we cannot afford to alter the
doctrine and let down the bars to Europe.
About i35,0OO Too IIIrIi.
Eugene Guard.
The State Board estimates that the
general expenses of the State of Oregon
for 1903 will require $760,000. Of this Lane
County will pay J35.112. Portland wants
the Legislature to appropriate $1,000,000
.for the Lewis and Clark Fair. Now figure
a little. To raise a million extra Lane
County would pay for her proportion $47,
000 in round numbers. That is what a
Lewis and Clark Fair would cost our
people. j
Use n Forceful Leadership.
Salem Journal.
In Iowa Governor Cummins has taken
tho stand for a reasonable revision of the
tariff. He has definite Ideas and convic
tions. The Iowa Governor Is not satisfied
with maudlin generalities, such as favors
tariff revision in some indefinite way and
at some unknown time. He is a man with
a definite programme of procedure, and
he makes specific propositions that the
common people enn understand. "Without
such men to lend off. a party becomes
a mere aggravation of pot-wrestling pol
iticians, incapable of progress a burden
of nothingness.
Nepjro n eh I ml the Fence.
Albany Democrat
An Oregon official this week has been
dismissed, and the reason Is that he has
been in the haoit of getting drunk. For
Uncle Sam to discharge a servant for
this Is somewhat of an innovation, but
no doubt the proper thing and a good ex
ample. In view of the fact that Sam
has some bars of his own this sounds
rather odd and some people may declare
that It is inconsistent, but there is no
more reason why a United States official
should not be put out of office when he
gets intoxicated and keeps it up than
anyone else. If a railroad man is better
for being eober certainly an official In any
capacity is better off. The probability,
though, is that there is something back
of the drink habit a negro behind the
fence somewhere.
Mlprht Be Some Excuse, Then.
Weston Leader.
If Oregon were a bankrupt state instead
of a prosperous commonwealth, whose
coffers are bursting with idle gold, then a
great advertising project such as the
Lewis and Clark Centennial would be in
expedient and unwise. As it Is, we can
well afford to "let our light shine" bril
liantly, and thus attract new people to
the grand region "where rolls the Ore
gon" and hears many sounds save Its own
dashing. We can spare the money; lets
spare enough to have a great, big show,
and encourage neighboring states to aid
us In the undertaking. The Northwest
has never had a fair, and the time will
never be so opportune as In 1905, a cen
tury after tho hardy explorers, Lewis and
Clark, blazed a pathway for the Star of
Empire. Meanwhile it would bo a wise
plan to arrange for a fitting preliminary
advertisement say $50,000 worth at the
St. Louis Exposition.
A Movement for Progrcju.
Heppner Gazette.
The Gazette is of the opinion that the
Lewis and Clark Fair appropriation will
have a hard struggle In the Legislature,
that is, If the appropriation reaches $500.
000, as recommended by the Fair commit
tee. The fact that the Fair will not be
held until 1905, is a long ways off, which
will magnify tho appropriation before any
results can be obtained. Anyway let tho
appropriation be liberal, for a stingy dis
position Is bad business in either public
or private life. Representative Phelps, of
Morrow County, Is In favor of representa
tion in each county. This Is a good idea,
for each county ought to have a fair and
equal representation. This appropriation,
It Is true, will bo somewhat of a burden,
but it is for a progressive and forward
movement We cannot keep up with the
march of progress without costing some
thing. It will give the state a great
amount of advertising, and good advertis
ing Is a sound business proposition.
A Duty of Portland.
Moro Observer.
The term "Inland Empire" was original
ly applied to regions tributary to the Co
lumbia and Snake in the 70s, by the O.
Man in the Astorian, in his contention
for an open river from Lewlston to the
sea. Catching the right Idea, Tom B.
Merry named hi3 Dalles City paper the
Inland Empire. The paper was short lived
but the term has lived, and although
yet bottled up, expands with wonderful
facility regardless of any assistance from
Portland the "Fat Duck. Sitting upon
the Pearly Edges of Prosperity." A sen
timent expressed at the same time, when
the commercial conditions in Oregon were
much the same as at present We've long
since ceased to write about An Open
River but still trust that old moss-covered,
selfish and conservative Portland
may yet do something for themselves,
and the Inland Empire, In the matter of
aiding our Little Short Line the Colum
bia Southern Railway extension to Bend.
Itlplinp; Revenls Ills Character.
Astoria Astorian.
Rudyard Kipling has declined to. permit
the Ladies' Relief Society of Oakland,
Cat, to publish a calendar containing ex
cerpts from his works. The calendar was
to have been sold for the benefit of the
Old Ladles' Home at Alden. The relief
society is made up of many prominent
people, who forwarded the request to
Kipling. The British author cabled back
a curt refusal, and the ladles of the soci
ety are very much annoyed in conse
quence. This churlish display on Kip
ling's part reveals a trait in his character
that had not heretofore cdme to public
notice In America. His works have been
liberally purchased by the people of the
United States, but henceforth the name
of the author on the cover of a book
should suffice to condemn It with fair
minded people. The well-to-do man who
will not assist a charitable undertaking
of the kind in question is not entitled to
the respect of the people of this or any
other country, and it is sincerely to be
hoped Kipling will be made to realize that
he has made of himself a confounded ass.
The Day Will Surely Come.
Corvallls Times.
As it has been with the coal trust so
in time will it be with the steel and other
combinations. When a man or a body of
men have tho power, natural selfishness
will lead. them to exact tribute to the last
limit Wo have all seen It exemplified In
the widespread misery the coal combina
tion has just wrought. It is going on In
the same way In the case of the steel
trust Standard Oil and scores of other
combinations. Men cannot resist the
temptations of innate greed. The trusts'
will exact and exact, will turn the thumb
screws tighter and tighter, until by and
by people will discern., as they have in the
case of the coal trust, that prohibitive
tariff tin monopoly goods Is the Implement
by means' of which the multitude Is
robbed, and then, one by one, tho tariffs
will go. It raiy not happen today or to
morrow, but It will happen. At one time,
the tariff may have been sincerely de
signed as an aid for labor. Time has
shown that the labor organization Is the
sure and only protection of workingmen's
wages. Congress sees it, acknowledges
It, and seals it with a complete and un
restricted removal of tho duty from coat
THE TREATY WITH CUBA.
New York Times.
Now that the text of the treaty. with
Cuba has reached the public, it is easy
to estimate at it3 true value the opposi
tion to fit which is shown by the extreme
protectionists in the Senate and which
the sugar-beet lobby threaten to aid.
From the point of view of the protec
tionist the treaty Is as one-sided as the
traditional Jug handle, and the United
States gets much the better of the bar
gain with its new sister republic The
only thing the United States promises to
do for Cuba is to reduce the duties on
Import's from the Island by 20 per cent
In return for this beggarly concession the
Cuban government makes reductions
ranging from 20 per cent to 40 per cent
The least of these reductions is as great
as that we offer. The largest is twice as
great Our advantage is even greater
than here appears from the fact that the
Cuban tariff, which was practically made
in Washington during the military occu
pation, .Is already considerably lower on
the average than our own. Some Idea of
what we offer to give to the Cubans in
the way of access to our markets can be
seen from the fact that the present duty
on sugar from Cuba Is, for the grade of
SG degrees, about 94 per cent. The only
exceptlon to the lowering of the barriers
to the Cuban ports Is the duty on tobacco,
which is retained, but this Is much like
a duty on American coals exported to
Newcastle.
As we have said. It would seem that a
treaty of this sort would escape the hos
tility of even the most hardened and
greedy protectionist Its benefits, how
ever, are still greater when we consider
the reductions of 23 per cent, 30 per
cent, and 40 per cent, and the classes
of American exports to which they re
late. The concession of 25 per cent is
made on all machinery of copper, on all
Iron, cast or wrought, and s'teel and all
manufactures thereof, on various sorts
of cotton goods (most sorts of which
are reduced 40 per cent), on salted, pickled
and preserved fish, and on a number
of minor commodities, the trade in which,
however, may easily reach a considerable
total. The reduction of 40 per cent Is
made on all cotton goods not mentioned,
on wool and its manufactures, and on
silk and fts manufactures, besides a num
ber of other articles. The duties fixed In
the treaty as granted by each county to
the other are made expressly preferential
as compared with duties on imports from
all other countries.
As our readers are well aware, we do
not ourselves regard these reductions on
either side as for the advantage solely
of the other side. On the contrary, we
are confident that they will be for the
decided profit of the country making them;
that they will help the consumer, and
promote trade and prosperity. It Is even
more for our good than for that of the
Cubans that we should urge the nearest
practicable approach to the complete
emancipation of commerce between us
and them. The figures show that our
commerce with them certainly needs stlm
ulatlon. The following table shows the
ratio qf exports and Imports for the
United States, Germany, Spain, France
and England for the first six months of
each of the last four years:
Imports.
Country. 1S99. P. C. 1900. P. C.
United States.. ..$19,929,900 55 $17,503,200 47
Rermany ivn.mi 2 1,313.00 3
Spain 5,173.200 14 5.437.400 14
France 1.303.S00 4 1.77S.S00 3
England .. 3,816.000 11 5.939.200 16
Country. 1901. P. C. 1902. if. C.
United States.... $13,867,300 41 $14,035,500 44
Germany 1.733.500 3 1.694.C0O 5
Spain 5,554,100 17 5.014.100 16
France 1.432.000 4 1.542.500 5
England -4,755,800 14 4,777,500 15
Exports.
Country. 1S93. P. C. 1900. P. C.
United States.. ..$22,900,000 73 S22.8M.S0O 83
Germany 836,900 3 941.900 3
Spain 2.749,200 - 8 575.S00 2
France SO6.30O 3 2.1U.200 7
England 2.994.500 9 2.466.400 8
Country. 1901. P. C. 1902. P. C.
United States.... $35,163,700 82 $22,787,000 74
Germany 2.118.600 5 1,817,000 6
Spain 142,100 .. 753.000 2
France 974.700 2 949.700 3
England 2,919,400 7 2,971.700 10
It will be seen that every country ex
cept Spain and the United States has
gained in the proportion of Its exports,
and the advance of Germany is particu
larly to be noted. The figures of the Im
ports from the. various countries Into
Cuba are still more striking. Our sales to
Cuba have steadily declined, both In
amount and In relative Importance, while
tho share of every other country, not ex
cepting Spain, has Increased, that of
Germany again In the largest propor
tion. And this has happened In the
teeth of the fact that our markets are
much nearer and more varied. Why Is
It? It is due to the fact that our mar
kets are barred by our absurd tariff taxes
to a people who ought to be among our
beet customers.
YAWNING AND THE HIGHER LIFE
Kansas City Star.
A new prophet has arisen In Chicago
Mr. Tomllns Mr. William L. Tomllns.
formerly director of the Apollo Club and
"expert In musical training." Yesterday
Mr. Tomllns addressed 104 school teachers
In Handel Hall. His subject Is not given
in the too brief, account of his lecture.
Presumably It was on "The Higher Life."
That is a topic which has a perennial in
terest for Chicago. It's a dull month
when a little band of pilgrims does not
start out from the city by the lake for
tho Delectable Mountains under the guid
ance of some devoted soul like Tomllns.
It is not given to the sluggish outside
world to know all the bright hope which
Mr. Tomllns held out before the 104. But
one gem escaped. "You stretch when you
yawn," asserted tho speaker, while his
audience nodded in rapturous approvaL
A simple and self-evident proposition,
does some one say? But the most mo
mentous consequences flow from It
"Such stretching, relaxation and expan
sion," continued the lecturer to his en
raptured hearers, "belong to the higher
life." The teachers had supposed that
yawning was simply a sign of drowsiness.
"Don't suppress yawns." continued Tom
llns; "they send you toward the life, the
real life of the spirit. the,higher life." At
the climax, it may be imagined, the speak
er yawned vigorously. Possibly the
teachers did. toot
As to. Just what Mr. Tomllns meant no
body outside of Chicago can fully divine.
It sounds suspiciously as if he had caught
some of his hearers In the act and with
consummate tact had proceeded to relieve
their embarrassment But this explana
tion 13 too obvious. It might do for Mil
waukee, but not for. Chicago. It Is more
reasonable to suppose that he regards
Nirvana as the ultimate gocd. Yawns
certainly lead toward sleep, of which Nir
vana Is supposed to be the final form.
The country will wait patiently for Chi
cago to form Tomllns clubs to discuss his
dictum and to furnish an authoritative
interpretation of its meaning. Meanwhile
the only agitation will be as to the doc
trine's authorship. How did Professor
Triggs and Dr. Starr come to overlook It?
Expansion of American Capital.
Philadelphia Record.
American capital Is not yet adequate
for the country's Industrial opportunities
and needs, and. a good deal of foreign cap
ital will long be Invested here. But In
tho last few years we have taken up a
good part of our obligations to Europe,
and the amount of American capital now
seeking investment abroad Is an im
portant item in the world's finance. Con
sular reports have directed attention to
the Investment of $500,000,000 or more
United States capital In Mexico, a large
majority of whose railroads are controlled
In this country, and to the Imposing list
of American Investments In Canada.
American capital Is developing Cuba and
our insular acquisitions, seeking gas
works in Japan and Paris and contest
ing with Itself for the control of London
rapid transit-.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Did you get a vote?
Those independent coal operators aro
becoming just a trifle too independent.
Apparently nothing is left for that Na
tional postmistress except the - lecture
field.
The nlaeue that worries San Francisco
meet Is the attention which the bubonic
scare has attracted to it
Thos coal barons who have money to
burn are about the luckiest men the pub
lic has Its eye on these days.
If Mr. Brvan wishes to study the money
nuestinn nnv further, we advise him to
delve Into the Delaware Senatorial con
test.
Kinir Alfonso may be bored to death.
as a recent dispatch says, but this should
not be taken as news that he has gone
up against a garrote.
It Is only a level-headed man who looks
well In this new brand of hat that the
heartless manufacturers are trying to
make Portland wear.
Thf current financial rerjorts advise that
railroad stocks.
Most of us would like a chance to exercise
our grip In th!s way, but the material to
lacklnc
Oregon has more baseball clubs, moro
candidates for the United States Senaf,
and 117 more kinds of weather than Colo
rado, but in tho matter of Legislatures
we are beaten by one.
Rev. C. F. Sprinkling, of Des Moines,
says he may accept a call to Portland.
We hope ho will. There is something
about his name which makes one think he
will get along well here.
Ambassador Joseph H. Choate had his
drere clothes stolen while traveling on a
train from Dover to London, We extend
our condolences, but It Is with .some sat
isfaction that we recall how few suits Mr.
Choate has lost.
xrini.tni- Rr.tvpn -will have no reason to be dis
appointed over the welcome that is awaiting j
him at Washington. It Is up to mm to ten us
Just what Castro means to do. Pittsburg Ga
zette.
It would be interesting, doubtlese. but
Minister Bowen cannot afford to take the
vear or two oft that would be required to
tell all that President Castro means to do.
rmi v tt Jan. 15. Representative
Winston Churchill, tho novelist, Introduced aj
bill in the Legislature yesterday requiring mat
tho constitution of the state anu nauon im;
read In the public schools of New Hampshire
oncn each vear. News dispatch. I
Tho school children of Concord have
probably been snowballing Winston, but
he is takins a pretty mean way to get
square.
"Away back in the Dark Ages." said the
Kohack philosopher in Puck, "a baked!
toad in a silken bag- was Dreecribed fori
rheumatism. In the enlightened present!
we resort to the faith cure, magnetic neai
inc the mud bath, electricity and one son
orous sounding opathy or another. About!
the onlv advance I can detect in our pres
ent method beyond, those of other days isj
that they ain't as tough on tne toaa.
Stirred by Gabriels D'AnnunzIo's good
prnmnle. Mark Twain announces that he
is rfvinjr hia skull to Cornell University,
where it can be studied for the enllghten-j
ment of future generations. "I am gettinj
nrettr old." said Mr. Clemens, speamnj
on thla subject "and shall probably not
need the skull after next Christmas. But
if I should I will pay rent" He modestly!
declined to state what rental ho thougnfl
a ekull like his ought to bring In tho opei
literary market
The Dutch who founded New York werd
not the lazy folk Washington Irving dej
scribed for us In his Knickerbocker hi
torv- Mr. Thomas A Janvier gives jusj
due to this thrifty and energetic race Iij
his "The Dutch Founding of New "iork.
which opens In the February number oj
Haroer's MaKazIne. Incidentally air
Janvier explains how the Dutch Wcej
India Company was primarily Intended
for use as a weapon agalnet the power oj
Spain, and only secondarily as a coml
mcrcial exnerlment. The plan was tJ
utilize this small but well-equipped comj
pany of ships in harrying Spanish vessels
and sacking remote Spanish colonies.
Hueh O. Pentecost who fell out of or
thodoxy several years ago, and sincj
then has been climbing laboriously ar
not very effectually back again, told
a storv that was sent to his Twentietj
Century by a contributor. Although thj
point was against his atheistic opmion4
Pentecost was sufficiently "liberal to sc
Its force.
It seems that a certain Parson Goodlo J
of Kentucky, was detained one wet niglj
at a small tavern in the wilds of tt
West Among those who gathered aboil
the stove was a youth who greatly rail
clpd himself." and when the talk turnc
upon matters of religion, gave utteranc
tr some verv heretical views.
"Why Is it," said he pompously, "wl
Is it that Jesus didn't answer somo of til
honest, brainy fellows of his time sonl
vounsr thinker like me?"
"My friend," said the dominie, quletlj
"you seem to have read the Bible to littj
nuroosa."
"How so?" Interrupted the young lntld
"I've read the Bible and there's nothiij
in it like that."
"Oh, yes, there Is," answered the parsoj
"you'll find the quotation In John, twell
chaDter. fourteenth verse.
"And what does It say?" asked tj
youth, scornfully.
"It says." replied Goodloe, calmly.
" 'And Jesjis, when he found a you
ass, sat thereon. "
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHED
THora Somehow. Jack cannot eeem to get
couraee to propoce to me. Dora Perhaps hi
afraid you'd say "yes." Philadelphia Even!!
Record.
"I see that a blizzard wrecked a West'
Statehouse Just after the Legislators ha-1 ij
Journed for the day." "I wonder what
layed it?" Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Mr. C. Rank Why do you persist in puttii
water in your milk, my good man? Mr. CfcivJ
lett Well, do you know of anything cheap
Chicago Daily News.
- Jane Charley Snow a dangerous chararti
Why, he wouldn't look at a woman. LydiJ
Not In the street-car. if he had a seat ana
didn't have one. Boston Transcript.
He I'm lookins for my slippers, dear.
there any place where you're sure you
nut them? She What do you mean? lit1
want to look there for them first. Philadelpj
Press.
"I suppose you have some scheme for
nlhllating the trusts?" "Great Srott. nj
answered Senator Sorghum: "do you supposl
want to kill the goose that lays the gal
eggs?" Washington Star.
Union Rates. Mother Now. Bobby, if yol
be good for 10 minutes 111 give you a nlcw
Bobby Can t do It, mamma. uur do
"Be-Good Union" nas nxea xne amalgams
scale at a cent a minute. Judge.
Judge Your wife has shown her bruises I
the Jury. "What have you to say that sentej
shall not be pronounced upon youz Prisoned
can prove that for the last three weeks
has been doing her holiday shopping. Life.